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Christian  Cynosure 


"in  aSORBT   HAVa  1  8AID  If 0 THING.  "—Jesus  OhrUt. 


Vol.  XX.,  No.   1. 


CHICAGO,  THURSDAY,  SEPTEMBER  22,  1887. 


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BB.  O.  2r.  W.  WALTHER. 

The  most  conspicuous  object  in  the  southern  part 
of  the  city,  as  one  passes  down  the  Mississippi  from 
St.  Louis,  is  Concordia  Seminary,  the  great  theolog- 
ical school  of  the  German  Lutheran  churches  asso- 
ciated in  the  Synod  of  Missouri  and  other  States. 
This  great  building,  completed  and  dedicated  within 
a  few  years,  was  the  workshop  of  one  of  the  greatest 
of  modern  German  theologians,  Carl  Ferdinand  Wil- 
helm  Walther,  ia  whose  portrait  appear  some  feat- 
ures of  strong  resemblance  to  the  late  Dr.  J.  F. 
Walker,  the  eminent  author  of  "The  Philosophy  of 
the  Plan  of  Salvation." 

Dr.  Walther  was  a  Saxon,  born  in  1811  into  the 
family  of  s  Lutheran  pastor.  He  received  the  usual 
classical  education,  studied  theology  at  the  Univer- 
sity of  Leipsic,  and  was  ordained  in  1837.  His 
mind  was  of  a  grave,  perhaps  austere  cast,  and  the 
influence  of  the  learned  Dr.  Rudelbach,  a  determined 
opponent  of  the  rationalism,  liberalism  and  neology, 
the  Andover  new  departures  of  his  day,  had  a  de- 
cided influence  upon  his  mind  while  pursuing  his 
theological  studies.  During  these  studies  he  also 
began  to  read  the  writings  of  Luther  with  profound 
attention.  The  logical  force,  originality,  scholar- 
ship and  spiritual  depth  and  power  of  Luther's 
works,  which  left  their  indelible  impression  upon 
German  literature  and  thought,  had  a  powerful  effect 
upon  the  mind  of  young  Walther,  and  remained  in 
the  result  of  his  work  in  re-establishing  the  princi- 
ples of  the  Lutheran  reformation  in  the  Mississippi 
valley.  The  exercises  of  his  mind,  indeed,  were  in 
some  degree  resembling  those  of  Luther  before  his 
full  acceptance  Of  the  doctrine  of  salvation  by  faith; 
and  as  Luther  was  aided  by  Staupitz,  Walther  was 
led  into  clearer  light  by  a  Bohemian  pastor,  Martin 
Stephan  of  ])resden. 

Stephan,  Walther  and  others,  desiring  larger  lib- 
erty than  was  allowed  at  that  time  by  the  state 
church  in  Germany,  emigrated  to  this  country  in  a 
body  of  about  750  souls,  includins;  seven  clergymen, 
theological  students,  professionaji  teachers,  lawyers, 
physicians,  and  others  who  left  comfortable  homes 
and  profitable  business  in  order,  like  the  Pilgrim 
Fathers,  to  find  full  freedom  to  worship  God  in  a 
new  country.  They  sailed  in  five  vessels,  one  of 
which  was  lost  at  sea;  the  others  reached  New  Or- 
leans in  the  winter  of  1838-9.  Soon  after  their  ar- 
rival Mr.  ^Valther  was  put  in  charge  of  the  affairs  of 
the  colonist^  as  their  leading  spirit.  Some  settled 
in  St.  Louis,  others  in  Perry  county,  half  way  down 
the  river  to  Cairo.  They  immediately.notwithstanding 
many  privations,  established  several  churches,  and  a 
theological  seminary  with  preparatory  schools.  Their 
churches  wero  and  are  conducted  strictly  on  the 
congregational  principle  of  the  independence  of  the 
local  church,  the  power  of  synods  being  only  advis- 
ory. 

In  1841  Dr.  Walther  removed  from  Perry  county 
to  St.  Louis,  to  take  charge  of  Trinity  Church,which 
has  now  grown  to  five  or  six  congregations.  The 
theological  school  which  he  founded  and  taught  in  a 
log  house  followed  him.  One  of  his  biographers 
speaks  of  the  great  care  used  in  the  preparation  of 
his  sermons.     "He  would  often  spend  a  whole  week 


and  digest  whole  volumes  for  a  single  sermon.  Be- 
ing a  most  scholarly  man  and  having  good  taste  as 
well  as  excellent  judgment,  the  aim  of  his  sermons 
was  to  reach  the  perfection  of  lucid  simplicity.  His 
language  is  not  only  correct  but  also  elegant,  yet 

always  popular Dr.  Walther  has  published 

more  than  three  hundred  sermons.  His  favorite 
themes  are  the  forgiveness,  the  grace  and  the  peace 
in  Jesus,  the  spirituality  of  the  church,  the  absolute 
guilt  of  all  sin,  the  absolute  certainty  of  the  Chris- 
tian religion,  and  the  glorious  freedom  of  the  Chris- 
tian. Instead  of  preaching  right  conduct  and  good 
works  Dr.  Walther  sought  to  change  and  sanctify 


DR.  C.  F.  W.  WALTHER. 

the  source  from  which  all  individual  conduct  flows." 
The  growth  of  these  German  churches  demanded 
an  organ  and  the  fortnightly  Lutheraner  was  begun  in 
1844.  Some  seven  years  ago  a  journal  representing 
the  Missouri  Synod  and  devoted  to  secular  news,  the 
RundschauyWaa  started,  and  has  lately  been  removed 
to  Chicago,  where  it  has  greatly  increased  its  circu- 
lation.  In  the  Lutheraner  Dr.  Walther  wrote  largely 
of  theological  topics,  though  often  upon  subjects  of 
practical  Christian  life.  He  published  many  theo- 
logical essays  and  a  treatise  on  practical  theology. 
He  entered  heartily  into  doctrinal  controversies, 
maintaining  his  convictions  with  great  ability  and 
uncompromising  firmness.  When  he  began  his  work 
in  this  country  in  1839  the  Lutheran  church  had 
barely  an  existence.  At  the  time  of  his  death  in 
May,  1887,  it  had  become  one  of  the  largest  of  the 
evangelical  denominations. 

The  churches  which  grew  out  of  the  emigration 
of  1838  and  those  associated  with  them  are  joined 
in  what  is  commonly  known  as  the  Missouri  Synod, 
and  is  the  largest  body  of  the  kind  in  America. 
This  is  also  associated  with  other  smaller  synods  in 
the  Synodical  Conference  which  is  the  largest  of  the 
three  divisions  of  the  Lutheran  church  in  our  coun- 
try. It  is  one  of  the  crowning  glories  of  Dr.  Walth- 
er's  life  that  this  great  body  of  churches  numbering 
some  500,000  members,  makes  no  compromise  with 
the  secret  lodge,  but  also  stands  firmest  of  all  against 
the  insinuating  power  of  secretism.  While  the  Gen- 
eral Council,  as  such,  merely  gives  advice  against 
the  lodge,  and  is  in  some  sections  overrun  with  the 
orders,  the  Synodical  Conference  declares  that  this 
evil  is  so  plainly  contrary  to  the  spirit  and  teaching 
of  the  Word  of  God  as  not  to  be  allowed  among 
Christians.  Members  of  churches  connected  with 
the  Conference  are  therefore  required  to  dissolve 
their  lodge  relations,  if  they  have  any. 

This  firm  and   righteous   decision   was  brought 


about  under  God  by  Dr.  Walther  some  twenty.five 
years  ago;  and  the  fact  that  this  great  body  of 
churches  maintains  this  position  amid  the  swarming 
multitude  of  secret  orders  is  a  noble  proof  of  his 
power  as  a  leader,  and  the  force  and  clearness  with 
which  he  established  this  principle  of  separation. 
From  time  to  time,  as  occasion  demanded.  Dr. 
Walther  resumed  this  subject  in  his  sermons  and 
other  public  addresses  and  a  collection  of  the  Con- 
ference documents  on  the  secret  orders  would  fill  a 
volume.  About  ten  years  ago  the  Lutheran  congre- 
gations of  St.  Louis  and  vicinity  held  a  convention 
on  the  lodge.  Dr.  Walther  made  a  memorable  ad- 
dress on  the  occasion  which  was  reported  in  short- 
hand and  published  in  German.  The  Cynosure  will 
endeavor  in  the  near  future  to  place  some  of  his  ar- 
guments before  its  readers. 

Not  only  is  this  body  of  Christian  churches  a  wall 
against  the  lodge  storm,  but  in  its  congregational 
principle,  is  thoroughly  American.  The  Lutheran 
church  in  some  countries  of  the  old  world  is  episco- 
pal in  government,  and  some  branches  in  this  coun- 
try incline  to  that  theory,  but  Dr.  Walther  taught 
local  church  independence,  and  made  the  synodb 
advisory.  He  also  abhorred  intemperance  and  pro- 
claimed the  Gospel  as  the  true  way  of  deliverance 
from  this  evil;  so,  too,  with  dancing  and  such  like 
evils,  against  which  he  preached  with  great  power, 
yet  enforcing  his  views  only  with  arguments  ad- 
dressed to  the  conscience  and  with  the  authority  of 
the  Word  of  God.  While  his  German  countrymen 
are  too  often  recognized  in  this  country  as  advocates 
of  infidelity  and  rationalism,  he  represented  exactly 
opposite  views,  and  his  disciples  claim  for  him  the 
distinguished  honor  of  being  the  father  of  Lutheran 
orthodoxy  in  America. 

It  is  to  be  regretted  that  the  work  of  this  great 
man  was  solely  in  the  German  language.  For  this 
reason  he  was  comparatively  little  known,  outside 
his  church  circles,  and  the  American  churches  gen- 
erally were  not  influenced  by  his  vigorous  and  elo- 
quent discourses.  The  principles  to  establish  which 
his  life  was  devoted  will  live,  however,  in  the  church 
and  will  be  more  and  more  widely  diffused.  He 
preferred,  says  one  of  his  biographers,  "ideas  to  or- 
ganization, the  Gospel  to  institutions,  the  truth  to 
numbers,  and  obscurity  to  worldly  fame;"  and  these 
are  among  the  eternal  things  of  truth. 

^  9  m. 

jsaua  cHBiaT,  tbbtbrdat.  to-day  and 

FOREVER. 


BY   RKV.   J.   M.    FOSTER. 


The  poet  Tennyson  was  fully  persuaded  that 

"Through  the  ages  one  Increasing  purpose  runs." 

Jesus  Christ  is  that  purpose.  Prof.  Schaff  says, 
"Take  away  Jesus  Christ  and  the  human  race  is  left 
without  an  animating  soul,  without  a  purpose,  an 
inexplicable  enigma."  Jesus  Christ,  "the  light  and 
life  of  men,"  sheds  light  and  life  back  upon  the 
night  of  heathenism  and  the  twilight  of  Judaism, 
and  forward  through  all  the  ages  of  subsequent  de- 
velopment. 

In  what  respects  do  the  events  preceding  the  in- 
carnation of  Jesus  Christ  appear  preparatory  there- 
to? Both  heathenism  and  Judaism  had  a  distinct 
and  efficient  part  to  act  in  paving  the  way  for  this 
event,  and  each  in  its  two-fold  aspect  of  positive  and 
negative  results.  Heathenism  demonstrated  that  "a 
salvation  devised  by  man,  with  the  means  at  his 
command,  was  impossible,  and  that  neither  nature 
nor  art,  neither  worldly  wisdom  nor  culture,  neither 
oracles  nor  mysteries,  neither  philosophy  nor  theos- 
ophy,  neither  political  institutions  nor  industry, 
neither  sensual  indulgence  nor  luxurj-,  could  satisfy 
the  cravings  of  the  soul  or  restore  to  man  the  in- 
ward peace  he  had  lost.  Thus  humbling  their  pride 
and  awakening  in  nobler  spirits  a  sense  of  need, 
heathenism  prepared  mankind  for  salvation." 

Judaism,  on  the  other  hand,  protluced  the  con>io- 
tion  that  "the  weak  and  beggarly  elements"  "could 
not  make  the  comers  thereunto  perfect"  Heathen- 
ism also  yielded  positive  results.  "It  had  produced 
great  and  im^^erishablc  results,"  says  Kurt/.,  "in  the 
domains  of  science,  art  and  human  culture,  which 
became  handmaid  to  religion,  when  brought  to  own 


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the  power  of  that  truth  which  the  Lord  had  re- 
vealed. It  furnished  forms  which,  from  their  depth, 
distinctness  and  correctness,  their  ready  adapta- 
tion and  general  suitableness,  proved  most  fit  for 
presenting  and  developing  the  new  truths  which 
were  to  issue  from  Judah's  land.  It  also  produced 
contemplation  and  study  both  of  nature  and  of 
mind,  of  history  and  of  life,  which  in  many  respects 
even  opened  the  way  and  prepared  a  soil  for  the 
great  realities  of  salvation.  Socrates  gave  faint 
echoes  of  Christian  doctrine  and  life  in  tracing  his 
deepest  thoughts  and  motives  to  divine  suggestions, 
and  in  willingly  surrendering  the  enjoyments  of  this 
world  in  the  confident  hope  of  gaining  that  which  is 
spiritual  and  eternal."  "The  speculations  of  Plato 
even  more  closely  and  fully  approximated  Christian 
views.  That  philosopher  collected  the  scattered 
germs  of  his  great  predecessor's  teachings.  In  his 
profound,  speculative  and  poetic  mind  they  sprung 
up  and  unfolded  to  a  new  mode  of  contemplating 
the  world,  which  came  nearer  that  of  Christianity 
than  any  outside  of  revelation.  The  philosophy  of 
Plato  spake  of  man  as  claiming  kindred  with  the 
Deity,  and  led  him  beyond  what  is  seen  and  sensu- 
ous to  the  eternal  prototypes  of  the  beautiful,  the 
true  and  the  good,  from  which  mankind  had  fallen, 
thus  awakening  in  him  a  deep  longing  for  the  bless- 
ings he  had  lost."  "These  two  philosophers  have 
been  of  incalculable  advantage  to  Christianity,  in 
that  their  systems  were  presented  in  such  a  form  as 
to  be  available  to  Christian  science  in  its  inquiries 
and  dogmatic  statements." 

But  this  heathenish  preparation  is  still  more  clear- 
ly seen  when  viewed  from  a  political  standpoint. 
"As  they  had  refused  allegiance  to  the  personal  and 
living  God,  they  were  impelled  by  a  sort  of  inward 
necessity  to  concentrate  the  mental  and  physical 
powers  of  mankind,  and  through  them  all  the  powers 
of  nature,  and  the  products  of  the  various  zones  and 
continent8,and  subject  them  to  one  man— the  acknowl- 
edged representative  of  Deity."This  gave  rise  to  those 
bloody  conquests  of  Cyrus,  Alexander  and  Ciesar, 
which  resulted  in  the  overthrow  of  the  Chaldean.the 
Medo-Persian  and  the  Macedonian  empires  succes- 
sively, and  which  culminated  in  the  Roman  Dynas- 
ty— the  goal  of  universal  empire.  This  was  the 
greatest  and  strongest  monarchy — Satan's  visible 
kingdom  in  the  world,  and  it  was  permitted  to  at- 
tain the  summit  of  power  and  glory,  that  the  Sav- 
iour in  visibly  overcoming  Satan's  kingdom  in  its 
greatest  strength  and  excellence  might  obtain  a 
more  complete  and  ostensible  triumph  over  Satan 
himself.  When  Satan  tempted  Christ  he  no  doubt 
argued  thus:  "See  this  great  Roman  empire  which 
embraces  all  the  kingdoms  of  the  world.  See  its 
unity,  its  wealth  and  its  power.  See  the  glory  of 
its  capital  on  the  seven  hills.  See  these  great  Ro- 
man roads,  stretching  from  Britain  on  the  north  to 
Palestine  on  the  south;  and  from  the  Straits  of  Gib- 
raltar on  the  west  to  the  river  Euphrates  on  the  east. 
See  how  the  Greek  language  has  been  introduced  in 
every  province,  thus  suspending  the  judgment  by 
which  the  languages  were  confounded.  All  this  is 
mine.  I  am  the  controlling  power.  My  will  is  su- 
preme. All  this  will  I  give  thee  if  thou  wilt  fall 
down  and  worship  me."  Thus  we  see  that  empire 
united  in  one  universal  civilization,  which  "rendered 
it  comparatively  easy  to  circulate  the  fresh  blood 
poured  by  the  church  into  the  veins  of  nations." 

Still  another  fact.  About  250  B.  C,  Ptolemy 
Phiiadelphus  had  the  Old  Testament  Scriptures 
translated  into  Greek,  and  the  Jews  in  the  disper- 
sion carried  the  Scriptures  with  them  into  every 
country,  erected  synagogues,  and  had  them  read 
every  Sabbath.  As  James  said  in  the  council  at 
Jerusalem,  "Moses  of  old  time  hath  in  every  city 
them  that  preached  Him  (Jesus),  being  read  in  the 
synagogues  every  Sabbath  day."  So  that  all  the 
world  was  on  tip-toe  of  expectation  when  Christ 
came,  and  when  Paul  sounded  the  Gospel  trumpet 
at  Rome  its  notes  went  reverberating  through  the 
whole  world. 

On  the  other  hand,  Judaism  was  the  chosen  in- 
strument in  "preparing  and  maturing  a  salvation," 
the  benefits  of  which  were  to  be  shared  by  all  na- 
tions. "Every  thing  connected  with  the  history  of 
this  people  bears  reference  to  the  coming  salvation. 
Each  revelation  and  dispensation,  all  discipline  and 
punishment,  every  promise  and  threatening;  their 
constitution,  laws  and  worship;  every  political,  civil 
and  religious  institution,all  tended  toward  this  goal. 
In  one  sentence:  Judaism  has  supplied  to  the  church 
the  substance,  the  Divine  reality;  heathenism,  the 
human  form  and  the  outward  means  for  developing 
and  carrying  forward  the  great  work." 

It  thus  appears  that  during  the  first  forty  cen- 
turies God  was  working  toward  an  atonement.  It 
is  just  as  plain  that  the  last  eighteen  hundred  years 
have  been  occupied  in  establishing  and  enlarging 
Christ's  kingdom  in  the  earth.     And  it  will  go  on 


until  "the  kingdoms  of  this  world  become  the  king- 
doms of  our  Lord  and  of  his  Christ," 

"Not  in  vain  the  distance  beacons ; 

Forward,  forward,  let  us  range. 
Let  the  great  world  spin  forever 

Down  the  ringing  grooves  of  change. 
Thro'  the  shadow  of  the  globe 

We  sweep  into  brighter  day ; 
Better  fifty  years  in  Europe 

Than  a  cycle  in  Cathay." 
Cincinnati. 


WET  18  THE  LODGE  SECRET  f 


BY  OLD  AMERICAN. 


The  lodge  claims  to  be  founded  upon  the  Golden 
rule  to  do  to  others  as  we  would  have  them  do  to 
us.  At  least  it  is  charitable  to  view  its  origin  in 
this  light — the  "light  of  other  days."  It  had,  os- 
tensibly, another  object,  to  give  light  to  the  novices, 
and  when  they  saw  it,  amid  the  fiddle-faddle  of  the 
rituals,  it  was  found  to  proceed  from  three  candles 
forming  a  triangle.  But  in  the  light  of  the  Golden 
Rule,  had  they  clung  to  that,  and  lived  up  to  it  in 
its  broad  spirit,  the  lodge  would  have  been,  even 
now,  only  half  a  Christian  institution,  recognizing 
the  Saviour's  lesson  on  the  relation  of  man  to  man, 
and  nothing  further. 

But  if  it  started  out  on  this  principle,  it  must 
have  lost  it  some  decades  ago,  for  to  day,  and  since 
my  knowledge  of  it  began,  it  has,  in  its  best  feat- 
ures, been  a  clannish,  selfish,  money-making  insur- 
ance company,  I  think  there  is  not  now  a  secret 
society  in  existence — and  the  age  swarms  with 
them  from  the  Vatican  at  Rome  to  the  humblest 
village,  from  the  Pope  to  the  butcher-boy — that  can 
consistently  claim  for  the  lodge  tbat  it  is  anything 
more  than  an  insurance  medium,  with  extraordinary 
powers  and  processes  ramifying  all  its  machinery. 

If  this  is  so,  the  plea  that  secrecy  is  a  necessity 
for  the  better  maintenance  of  the  order  is  puerile; 
for  the  insurance  business  is  honorable  if  justly 
conducted,  and  there  can  be  no  harm  in  my  neigh- 
bor knowing  that  if  I  am  sick  I  can  draw  $10  a 
week  until  I  recover,  or  that  I  may  call  for  $30 
from  the  lodge  to  aid  in  burying  my  wife  should  I 
survive  her,  or  that  the  lodge  will  donate  a  sixth 
part  of  my  own  funeral  expenses.  Certainly,  no 
one  would  think  any  worse  of  me  for  receiving 
these  benefits,  for  nearly  all  men  know  that  I  pay 
the  lodge  handsomely  from  year  to  year,  for  the 
relief  and  comfort  of  those  who  also  pay  to  help 
me.  It  is  simply  a  quid  pro  quo — not  always  evenly 
balanced,  because  my  "degree"  may  be  less  profita- 
ble and  less  exacting  than  my  neighbor's.  Besides, 
he  may  be  sick  more  weeks  in  a  year  than  I  am,  and 
if  so  I  certainly  ought  not  to  envy  him  his  increased 
stipend. 

What  need  of  secrecy  in  the  lodge  really  exists? 
I  once  belonged  to  it,  and  held  my  membership  for 
many  years,  and  there  I  saw  nothing  of  any  value 
to  myself  or  others  that  might  not  be  exhibited  like 
a  Punch-and-Judy  show  at  the  street-corners,  and 
with  about  as  much  edification.  Why  was  I  bound, 
by  useless  solemnities,  to  do  that  which  Christ 
openly  commanded — to  love  my  neighbor  as  my- 
self? All  the  concomitants  of  the  initiation — the 
paraphernalia,  the  regalia,  the  varied  rites,  the  lec- 
tures, or  the  penalties  suggested,  could  not  make 
my  obligation  to  do  good  to  all  men  any  stronger 
than  that  which  the  Bible  openly  declares. 

Nothing  in  the  lodge  or  its  ceremonies  bound  me 
to  love  God  with  all  my  heart,  mind  and  strength, 
or  to  trust  in  his  Son  for  my  salvation.  Seemingly 
no  one  there  cared  for  these  requirements  of  the 
Bible;  and  I  think  I  never  saw  a  confirmed  lodge- 
man  who  (outside  of  his  ministerial  functions  in  the 
church)  spoke  to  me  upon  these  important  topics. 

The  secrecy  was  confined  to  the  lodge-work — the 
dramatic  exhibitions  and  the  recognition  by-play. 
Honest  men,  imbued  with  the  spirit  of  Christianity, 
have  no  need  of  either.  They  say  "Yea,  yea,"  when 
necessary  for  the  transaction  of  everyday  business, 
or  "nay,  nay,"  if  they  cannot  endorse  some  specific 
proposition,  believing  that  any  further  expression 
of  assent  or  dissent  might  lead  to  evil  speaking. 

Is  secrecy  necessary  for  purposes  of  lodge  recog- 
nition? No  more  than  the  lodge  itself;  and  men 
who  love  God  and  their  neighbors  as  themselves, 
despise  the  one  and  hate  the  other.  The  ratio  of 
dishonesty,  I  estimate,  in  these  institutions,  is  ecjual 
to  the  secrecy  required  concerning  the  work  per- 
formed. They  do  not  let  their  right  hand  know 
what  their  left  is  doing,  even  if  it  is  abstracting  the 
contents  of  some  one  else's  pocket;  and  if  by  acci- 
dent the  right  hand  discovers  what  is  being  done,  it 
dare  not  whisper  it  to  a  living  soul,  under  penalty 
in  such  case  made  and  provided.  The  system  is 
acute — the  lodge  training  is  excellent — quite  as  per- 


fect as  that  of  the  Jew  Fagin,  in  "Oliver  Twist," 
when  educating  his  pupils  in  the  mysteries  of  street 
robbery. 

Secrecy  becomes  such  men  as  Fagin,  Guy  Fawkes, 
anarchists,  and  scoundrels  of  every  degree,  but  no 
other  class,  outside  of  family,  business  and  neigh- 
borly affairs.  That  which  prefers  a  claim  to  be 
considered  a  public  benefit  need  hide  nothing  from 
the  public;  and  that  which,  perforce,  destroys  confi- 
dence between  men  and  their  wives  and  children, 
like  a  lodge  obligation^  borders  on  criminality. 
That  which  shuts  the  mouth  of  a  witness  who  can 
disclose  matters  that  would  fulfill  the  aim  and  end 
of  justice  when  criine  lays  waste  the  lives  and  prop- 
erty of  victimized  lutizens,  ie  itself  criminal — as 
unrighteous  as  withboldirig  stolen  goods  from  their 
owner,  knowing  they  are  ^  his.  That  which  will 
strive  by  the  lowest  subterfuges- to  luin  an  honest 
man's  reputation  and  bu^mess  because  he  fiees  from 
the  lodge  for  his  soul's  iHHfction,  is  also  criminal — 
as  foul  and  indecent  as  t^Hissassin  in  his  midnight 
work.  And  yet  all  these,  it  has  been  proven,  time 
and  again,  are  in  the  spirit,  if  not  the  practice,  of 
the  lodge. 

Will  the  lodge  ever  be  abolished,  or  disappear? 

Ad  referendum. 


MASONRY  UNDER   THE  MAGNIFIER. 


BY   M.    N.    BUTLER. 


A  talented  young  man  of  a  prominent  and  influ- 
ential family  in  the  village  called  u5on  a  leading 
business  man  and  said: 

"Mr.  Harper,  I  have  just  complete:!  my  college 
course.  My  ambition  is  to  succeed  in  business  and 
become  a  useful  member  of  society.  You  are  the 
Master  of  the  Masonic  lodge  in  this  place.  For  some 
time  I  have  been  thinking  of  joining  your  'ancient 
and  honorable'  order;  but  before  applying  for  ad- 
mission thought  it  best  to  call  upon  you  and  see  if 
there  are  any  works  I  could  read  or  information  you 
could  impart  that  is  proper  and  right  for  me  to 
know." 

"Yes,  there  are  plenty  of  publications  explaining 
the  well  known  principles  of  the  society.  They 
contain  none  of  the  secrets,  but  are  perfectly  reli- 
able. Here  are  our  monitors,  rituals,  lexicons,  his- 
tories, works  on  jurisprudence,  digests  of  Masonic 
law.  Grand  Lodge  reports,  and  other  legitimate 
publications  that  any  Mason  will  loan  you  or  that 
any  Masonic  publisher  will  sell  you.  AIL  you  have 
to  do  while  reading  is  to  compare  these  authorities 
with  the  general  character  and  make-up  of  the  fra- 
ternity and  you  will  find  them  absolutely  correct  in 
every  particular.  You  can  read,  here  at  my  private 
office  or  at  your  own  room  as  you  like.  My  partner 
is  an  officer  of  the  lodge,  a  better  scholar  than  my- 
self,and  will  give  you  any  information  that  is  prop- 
er and  right.  So  just  make  yourself  comfortable 
and  I  will  be  back  at  supper  time  when  you  will 
break  bread  with  us.  There  are  some  good  cigars, 
and  if  you  like  a  sip  of  champagne,  help  yourself. 
But  then  I  believe  your  people  don't  approve  of  such 
things.  Your  father  is  a  prohibitionist,  and  I  my- 
self admire  steady,  moral  young  men.  Must  use 
these  things  temperately,  you  know.  Will  see  you 
later." 

{Young  man  alone.)  "Well,  here's  a  go.  Guess  I'm 
in  for  it.  Temperate  in  all  things!  He's  half  full 
now,  and  smokes  and  chews  all  the  year  round — a 
perfect  slave.  Wonder  if  he  did  just  right  in  letting 
me  read  these  books?  I  always  thought  Freemason- 
ry a  profound  secret.  Guess  I'll  just  send  word 
down  to  my  folks  that  I  won't  be  home  till  late  and 
they'll  think  I've  gone  out  of  town.  Old  Harper 
has  money,  but  his  morals  are  not  at  a  premium. 
However,  if  I  join  the  lodge  I'll  have  to  get  used  to 
his  ilk.  Here  is  my  pencil  and  book;  I'll  Just  put 
d6wn  in  shorthand  the  cream  of  this  business  as  I 
proceed.  Let  me  see— Webb's  Freemason's  Moni- 
tor, by  Morris,  page  10:  'It  is  a  duty  incumbent  on 
every  Master  of  a  lodge,  before  the  ceremony  of  in-  . 
itiation  takes  place,  to  inform  the  candidate  of  the 
purposes  and  designs  of  the  institution,'  etc. 

"That's  part  of  his  business,  then,  to  pflSt  me  up 
before  I  join.  But  this  Thomas  Smith  Webb,  who 
is  he?  Here  is  a  written  note:  'The  author  of  this 
book  was  the  first  standard  writer  on  Freemasonry 
in  this  country.  He  is  the  father  of  American  Mason- 
ry.' All  right,  father  Webb,  we'll  see  if  these  other 
works  agree  with  you.  Freemason's  Monitor,  by 
Daniel  Sickels,  33  © ,  Secretary  General  of  the  Su- 
preme Counciil  of  the  Northern  jurisdiction  of  the 
Masons  of  the  \  Inited  States,  page  31 :  'It  is  the 
duty  of  the  Master  of  the  lodge,  as  one  of  the  pre- 
cautionary measures  of  initiation,  to  explain  to  the 
candidate  the  nature  and  design  of  the  institution; 
and  while  he  informs  him  that  it  is  founded  on  the 
purest  principles  of  virtue,  that  it  possesses  great 


SsPTBMBBft  22,  188? 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYTSTOSXTKE. 


and  invaluable  privileges.and  that,in  order  to  secure 
those  privileges  to  worthy  men,  and  worthy  men 
alone,  voluntary  pledges  of  fidelity  are  required;  he 
will  at  the  same  time  assure  him  that  nothing  will 
be  expected  of  him  incompatible  with  his  civil,moral 
or  religious  duties.' 

"Who  would  want  any  better  assuraiice  than  that? 
Guess  I'll  take  that  home  to  father.  You  see,  fath- 
er is  a  lawyer  and  mother  is  a  Methodist.  Heard  him 
tell  mother  one  night  that  he  had  read  Morgan  once 
and  tested  it  pretty  thoroughly.  He  don't  take 
much  stock  in  Masonry  from  the  way  he  speaks  of 
it  sometimes  when  he  has  a  bi^  suit  on  hand.  'Great 
and  invaluable  privileges f  What  are  they?  O,  yes, 
here  it  is,  on  page  (J2  ofr  same  book,  'Masonry  in- 
cludes within  its  circle  almosfevery  branch  of  polite 
learning.  Under  the  vai^of  its  mysteries  is  compre- 
hended a  regular  system  of  science.  Many  of  its  il- 
lustrations to  the  confined  genius  may  appear  unim- 
portant, but  the  man  of  more  enlarged  faculties  will 
perceive  them  to  be  in  thft  highest  degree  useful  and 
interesting.  To  please  tEe  accomplished  scholar  and 
the  ingenious  artist,  Masonry  is  wisely  planned,  and 
in  the  investigation  of  its  latent  doctrines  the  phi- 
losopher and  the  mathematician  may  experience 
equal  delight  and  satisfaction.' 

"Now  don't  that  beat  you !  Here  I've  been  seven 
long  years  in  school, and.lo  and  behold !  it  is  all  right 
up  stairs  in  the  Masonic  lodge.  Wonder  if  old  Har- 
per teaches  all  that?  Suppose  he  must  for  he's 
'Worshipful  Master.'  Worshipful!  now  that's  a  nice 
note — swears  like  a  born  pirate,  butchers  the  king's 
English  at  every  breath  and  don't  know  a  noun  from 
a  preposition.  Guess  I'll  look  this  matter  up  a  lit- 
tie." 

{To  be  Continved.) 


TEMPBRANGB  FARMING   WITH  WORN-OUT 
MAGHINBRY. 


A  downright  common  sense  way  of  dealing  with 
the  temperance  orders  Captain  Wood  has  adopted 
in  the  following  from  an  editorial  in  the  Los  Angel- 
es Censor.  He  has  labored  long  and  earnestly  with 
the  Good  Templars  in  his  State  for  straight  tem- 
perance, but  is  not  perhaps  aware  that  Rev.  ])r. 
Marsh  and  Dr.  Charles  Jewett,  who  were  among  the 
noblest  names  in  our  temperance  ranks,  condemned 
the  secret  orders  as  a  hindrance  to  the  work,  which 
might  to-day  have  been  victorious  in  the  nation  but 
for  them.     The  Cewsor  says: 

The  temperance  methods  and  machinery  have  also 
evoluted  and  improved  in  this  half  century.  The 
old  moderation  societies  and  then  the  total  absti- 
nence societies  did  a  grand  work.  They  employed 
the  very  best  weapons  of  the  day,  the  best  and  tru- 
est patriots  of  that  time  were  the  workers;  they  did 
all  the  work  that  was  done  in  their  day.  Those  old 
pioneers,  groping  in  comparative  darkness,  deserve 
to  stand  in  the  first  rank  of  heroes,  patriots,  philan- 
thropists and  martyrs  for  the  truth. 

Then  the  Washingtonian  movement  burst  forth 
like  a  new  sun,  conquered  wherever  it  went,  pledged 
its  thousands  all  over  the  land,  absorbed  all  the  old 
societies  and  seemed  about  to  close  up  the  liquor 
traffic  summarily.  But  it  used  faulty  methods;  it 
made  old  drunkards,  libertines  and  conscienceless 
men  its  priests  and  prophets;  it  had  no  organization 
but  a  pledge  and  it  knew  no  God,  so  in  about  three 
years  it  went  out  like  an  extinguished  torch.  It 
did  a  good  work,but  with  better  machinery  and  lead- 
ers and  methods,  it  could  have  led  the  world  to  vic- 
tory. 

Then  a  tidal  wave  of  secret  societies  swept  over 
the  land  and  the  Sons,  Rechabites,  Temples  of  Hon- 
or, Good  Templars  and  many  others  sprang  up. 
They  were  an  improvement  on  all  that  had  gone  be- 
fore. They  adopted  better  methods  than  most  that 
had  been  used;  they  recognized  a  (Jod;  they  organ- 
ized and  set  into  activity  most  of  the  patriotic,  ag- 
gressive Christianity  and  benevolence  of  this  coun- 
try and  they  also  attracted  a'^ood  deal  of  unworthy 
and  ungodly  material. 

They  did  very  nearly  all  the  temperance  work  that 
was  done  for  about  thirty  years,  but  still  thp  liquor 
traffic  was  all  the  time  growing  and  increasing  tre- 
mendously in  power.  The  ^  methods  and  ma- 
chinery of  these  societies  weiitJ  incompetent  to  sub- 
due the  monster.  And  these  orders  have  become  as 
they  grow  older  less  efficient  and  of  less  numbers 
and  inlluence.  And  every  year  they  have  contin- 
ued to  lose  in  the  aggregate  more  members  than 
they  recruited. 

In  the  year  ISC!)  the'Prohibition  party  was  form- 
ed, a  Christian,  patriotic,  open  organization  aiming 
at  the  root  of  the  evil  and  the  legal  arrest  of  the 
business  of  drunkard  making,  its  methods  may  not 
yet  be  perfect  but  it  is  improving.  It  keeps  all 
Ht  wins  and  it  has  always  been  recruiting  and  en- 
listing for  life  the^ery  best  men  and  women.     It 


has  not  gone  backward  in  anything,  but  is  taking 
always  higher  and  better  ground. 

In  the  last  days  of  1873  the  Woman's  Crusade 
broke  out.  It  was  an  effort  of  prayer  and  moral 
suasion.  It  did  a  great  work,  but  the  national  legal- 
ized rum  traflic  and  inhuman  pagan  laws  undid 
their  successes.  Then  the  W.  C.  T.  U.  organized 
into  a  Christian,  patriotic,  open  society,  not  only 
to  put  down  the  dramshop  but  to  reform  our  laws, 
uproot  all  our  vicious  systems  and  evangelize  the 
world. 

This  society  holds  all  it  gains  and  gains  all  the 
time.  It  is  also  every  month  adapting  new  methods 
to  new  needs  and  enlarging  its  sphere  of  operations. 
It  labors  in  every  field  and  is  belting  the  world  with 
Christian  influences.  If  it  knows  any  course  to  be 
right  it  pursues  it,  be  it  in  politics  or  in  any  direc- 
tion. 

The  W.  C.  T.  U.  is  sending  its  missionaries  and 
its  literature  all  over  our  country  and  the  world. 
It  is  building  a  $600,000  headquarters  and  enlist- 
ing in  its  work  the  noblest  men  and  women  in 
the  world.  We  have  now  the  W.  C.  T.  U.,  the  V. 
W.  C.  T.  IJ.,  the  Loyal  Legion,  the  Band  of  Hope 
and  the  Prohibition  (Home  Protection)  party. 
All  of  them  progressive,  prosperous  societies  and 
sufficient  with  the  Christian  churches,  the  Y.  M.  C. 
A.  and  the  Sunday-school  to  destroy  the  kingdom 
of  rum  and  Satan  and  reform  the  world. 

Now  the  I.  O.  G.  T., after  collecting  and  expend- 
ing perhaps  ten  times  as  much  money  in  the  year 
as  the  W.  C.  T.  U.  and  J^rohibition  party  did,  re- 
ported in  January,  1885,  in  the  United  States  209,- 
70H  members.  It  received  that  year  106,975  mem- 
bers and  lost  122,591,  leaving  only  193,087,  a  loss 
of  16,616  as  the  result  a  year's  work.  And  this 
was  about  a  fair  average  year  of  the  past  twenty 
for  them.  Should  the  W.  C.  T.  U.  or  Prohibition 
party  ever  have  such  an  experience  we  should  say 
it  is  wasted  effort  and  wasted  money.  But  we  have 
no  fault  to  find  with  the  many  good  people  in  the 
United  States  who  think  they  can  resuscitate  an  in- 
stitution which  has  made  no  progress  but  backward 
for  twenty  years  past  save  in  some  spasmodic  local 
successes. 

None  of  these  temperance  societies,  new  or  old,  is 
worth  a  penny  unless  as  it  is  destroying  the  rum- 
fiend.  The  friends  of  temperance  should  everywhere 
and  always  be  found  using  their  time,  labor  and 
money  to  produce  the  greatest  results  for  prohibi- 
tion and  for  the  general  safety  of  our  country. 


A  BLOT  UPON  OUR  STATUTE  BOORS. 


A  recent  event  has  directed  our  attention  to  the 
operation  of  the  Chinese  immigration  laws  in  a  man- 
ner that  is  not  particularly  flattering  to  our  pride  as 
citizens  of  the  greatest  and  freest  republic  in  the 
world.  The  circumstances,  when  briefly  related, 
are  these:  Two  tea-carrying  steamers,  the  Mon- 
mouthshire and  the  Glenshiel,  started  from  Amoy 
nearly  the  same  time,  for  New  York.  They  raced 
with  each  other  over  a  whole  hemisphere,  with  the 
Glenshiel  coming  into  port  several  days  ahead,  hav- 
ing made  the  trip  in  forty-two  days  and  thirteen 
hours — the  fastest  time  on  record. 

It  seems  that  the  crew  of  the  Glenshiel  consisted 
of  Chinamen.  As  soon  as  she  arrived,  an  inspector 
of  customs  was  placed  in  charge  of  the  vessel,  "in 
order,"  as  one  daily  paper  stated,  "to  prevent  any 
of  them  landing  to  degrade  American  labor." 

Now,  observe  that  the  men  thus  watched  and 
guarded  by  the  argus-eyed  inspector  of  customs  were 
not  criminals,  nor  paupers,  nor  even  workmen  com- 
peting with  Americans  in  the  labor  market,  but  sim- 
ply sailors  who  desired  to  recreate  on  land  after  the 
toil  and  hardships  of  a  long  ocean  voyage.  To  for- 
bid the  landing  of  sailors  ordinarily  would  be  the 
refinement  of  cruelty;  but  in  the  present  case  it  was 
an  exhibition  of  barbarism  hardly  to  be  expected 
from  the  most  enlightened  nation  on  the  globe. 

Imagine  the  feelings  of  those  gallant  and  plucky 
seamen  on  being  told  that  they  were  forbidden  to 
land,  lest  they  degraded  American  labor!  that  Amer- 
ica, free  to  the  rest  of  the  world,  including  the  wild 
men  of  Borneo  and  the  degenerate  Hottentots,  was 
not  free  to  them,  simply  because  they  were  Chinese, 
and  that  they  must  content  themselves  with  a  sight 
of  the  land  flowing  with  milk  and  honey,  but  were 
not  to  enter  it.  Imagine  their  disappointment  and 
disgust  with  the  loud  pretensions  of  this  country  to 
be  a  land  of  refuge  I  What  must  they  have  thought 
of  the  mockery  of  Bedloe's  Island — Liberty  enlight- 
ening the  world?  The  irony  of  the  French  sculp 
tor  is  net  the  less  keen  because  unintentional. 

Suppose  our  American  sailors,  the  bravest  and 
pluckiest  of  all  that  plow  the  high  seas,  were  for- 
bidden by  Chinese  law  to  land  on  the  Chinese  coast! 
How  indignant  we  would  be,  and  how  eloquently  we 
would  declaim  on  Chinese  heathenism  and  exclus- 


iveness!  And  yet,  under  our  very  noses,  the  laws 
against  Chinese  immigration  are  so  enforced  as  to 
perpetrate  the  grossest  injustice  and  inhumanitj'. 

Every  day  we  meet  with  cases  where  the  mis- 
chievous operation  of  the  anti-Chinese  laws  can  be 
plainly  seen.  But  while  we  can  trace  many  evils  di- 
rectly to  the  enforcement  of  these  laws,  the  evils 
that  result  indirectly  are  neither  to  be  traced  nor  to 
be  adequately  calculated.  The  persecution,  distress, 
and  wrongs  to  which  the  Chinese  in  this  country  are 
subject  in  consequence  of  those  laws  and  their  harsh 
execution  are  unknown  quantities;  but  it  does  not 
require  much  intelligence  for  any  one  to  understand 
that  when  our  Government  refuses  to  acknowledge 
the  rights  of  these  poor  strangers,  and  shows  itself 
reluctant  even  to  accord  them  the  protection  of  the 
laws,  this  will  be  taken  advantage  of  by  their  mor- 
tal enemies,  the  foreign  miner,  the  sand  lotter,  the 
hoodlum,  and  the  saloon  politician.  We  quote  the 
following  from  Fire  and  Water,  to  show  that  we  are 
not  talking  at  random: 

"When  calling  attention  last  week  to  the  danger 
of  a  destructive  conflagration  at  Los  Angeles,  Cal., 
we  might  have  added  to  the  other  hazards  that  con- 
tributed by  the  presence  of  a  large  and  extremely 
unpopular  Chinese  element.  It  seems  that  barely  a 
fortnight  ago  the  agents  of  most  of  the  insurance 
companies  canceled  their  policies  on  buildings  occu- 
pied by  Chinamen,  upon  the  ground  that  the  exist- 
ing feeling  against  them  made  the  hazard  too  great 
They  have  reason  to  congratulate  themselves  upon 
their  foresight,  for  early  on  last  Sunday  morning  a 
fire  of  unknown  origin,  which  started  in  a  gambling 
den  in  the  Chinese  quarter,  consumed  twenty  five 
buildings,  in  which  about  1,000  of  the  'almond-eyed' 
had  been  housed,  the  losses  being  estimated  at  $100,- 
000;  and  the  press  dispatches  mention  significantly 
that,  although  the  fire  companies  came  promptly  to 
the  spot,  the  slow  and  deliberate  way  in  which  they 
went  to  work  'seemed  to  indicate  that  they  were  not 
over-anxious  to  save  the  buildings.'  " 

It  is  true  that  the  fire  started  in  a  gambling  den, 
but  the  majority  of  those  who  were  burned  out  of 
house  an  I  home  were,  doubtless,  industrious  and 
peaceable  men — not  addicted  to  gambling.  Could 
there  be  a  meaner  exhibition  of  depravity  than  that 
shown  by  those  firemen?  They  did  not  put  out  the 
fire,  but  they  extinguished  every  spark  of  honor 
and  humanity  in  their  own  breasts. 

As  Americans,  we  are  ashamed  to  own  that  such 
things  are  possible  within  our  boundaries.  We  are 
not  proud  of  the  position  we  occupy  of  being  the 
only  nation  that  carries  out  the  policy  of  exclusion, 
and  we  denounce  the  ill-treatment  of  the  Chinese  as 
unchristian,  barbarous,  and  inhuman. — Scientific 
American. 

We  heard  a  minister  remark  the  other  day  that 
the  colored  people  of  the  South  had  spent,since  the 
war,  no  less  than  one  hundred  million  dollars  on  se- 
cret societies.  We  are  not  prepared  to  deay  or  dis- 
prove this  startling  statement.  It  would  amount  to 
about  twenty  dollars  to  each  colored  person  in  the 
South,  or  about  five  million  a  year  for  the  last  twen- 
ty years.  This  may  be  all  considered  as  just  so 
much  clear  loss,  for  which  the  colored  people  have 
nothing  to  show.  Had  the  money  been  sunk  In 
the  depths  of  the  sea  the  colored  people  would  to- 
day  be  as  well  off  financially  and  a  great  deal  better 
off  morally  and  spiritually.  Secret  societies  are  bad 
enough  among  white  people  in  dragging  them  down 
and  must  needs  be  much  more  deleterious  in  their  in- 
fluence on  the  poor  and  ignorant  colored  people  of 
the  South.  So  long  as  the  ex-slaves  patronize  these 
dark  lantern,  midnight  associations  and  fritter  away 
on  them  their  thoughts,  time  and  money  they  will 
remain  in  a  low  moral, intellectual  and  spiritual  con- 
dition. What  would  our  country  not  be  were  the 
whole  brood  of  secret  organizations  swept  out  of  ex- 
istence. They  are  a  menace  to  the  best  interests  of 
churc-h  and  state.begetting  suspicion  to  fellow  mem- 
bers of  the  church  and  destroying  that  candor  and 
confidence  which  should  ever  exist  among  Christian 
brethren.  They  undermine  the  foundations  of  civil 
society  and  are  ever  a  source  of  dread  to  patriots. — 
Sdiiili/  Lake  Xiws. 

Judge  Valiant,  of  the  Circuit  Court  of  St  Louis, 
has  handed  down  his  opinion  regarding  the  closing 
of  saloons  in  St  Louis  on  Sunday.  The  opinion 
virtually  reversed  the  opinion  of  Judge  Noonan, 
given  alK)ut  two  months  ago,  and  holds  that  the  law 
of  1857  did  not  legally  permit  the  sale  of  wine  and 
beer  in  this  city  on  Sunday,  and  that  the  Sunday 
law  as  applied  to  the  other  parts  of  the  State  has 
always  been  applicable  here.  The  case  will  now  go 
to  the  Supreme  Court,  with  a  request  that  it  be  ad- 
vanced on  tlic  docket,  and  it  is  not  likely  that  any 
effort  will  be  made  to  indorse  the  Sunday  law  until 
that  court  renders  its  decision. 


THE  CHKISTIAI^  ClTNOSirRfi. 


September  22, 1887 


OUB  CINCINNATI  LETTER. 


Cincinnati,  O.,  Sept.  14,  '87. 
Ebitok  Christian  Cynosure: — In  one  of  Na- 
poleon's colossal  battles,  at  a  certain  stage  the  cav- 
alry was  ordered  to  charge.  But  Junot  could  not 
get  them  to  move.  Again  and  again  the  command 
was  repeated,  but  they  would  not  stir.  Marshal 
Murat,  recognizing  the  situation,  put  spurs  to  his 
horse  and  came  galloping  down  the  lines,  brandish- 
ing his  sword  and  waving  his  plumed  hat.  Then, 
without  saying  a  word,  he  turned  his  beautifully 
caparisoned  steed  and  started  with  all  possible 
speed  for  the  enemy's  ranks.  The  soldiers  caught 
his  spirit,  and  with  one  accord  followed  him  and 
ere  he  reached  the  enemy  were  at  his  heels.  The 
enemy  flew  before  them.  A  signal  victory  was  won. 
0,  for  a  minister  to  awaken  such  a  spirit  in  the 
sacramental  host!  A  ministry  in  "blood  earnest" is 
the  need  of  the  church;  a  ministry  filled  with  "the 
irrepres3ible;"a  ministry  that  will  rush  forward  upon 
the  fortifications  of  Satan,  shouting,  "The  sword  of 
the  Lord  and  of  Gideon;"  a  ministry  that  will  "cry 
aloud  and  spare  not,"  until  judgment  has  been 
brought  forth  to  victory. 

Last  Sabbath  morning  I  preached  in  the  Cedar- 
ville  United  Presbyterian  church,Kev.  A.  Campbell, 
pastor.  This  is  an  old  and  substantial  congregation 
of  187  members.  The  first  preaching  service  I  re- 
member of  attending  was  in  their  house.  It  was  like 
getting  home  to  go  there.  Almost  all  were  person- 
al acquaintances,a  great  many  were  old  schoolmates, 
several  were  my  pupils  in  the  Cedarville  High  School 
for  two  years,  and  not  a  few  have  the  misfortune  to 
be  relatives  of  mine.  Rev.  Sproull  being  away  in 
Adams  county,  the  Covenanter  brethren  came  out. 
There  was  an  audience  of  300.  At  3  p.  M.  I  preach- 
ed in  the  Oak  Grove  school  house,  five  miles  out. 
After  the  sermon  Rev.  W.  A.  Robb  took  charge  of 
the  services  and  I  returned  to  Cedarville  where  I 
preached  at  5  p.  m.  in  the  town  hall.  Notwithstand- 
ing the  rain  there  were  over  500  out. 

I  talked  on  the  "Mediatorial  Dominion."  The 
text  was  from  the  18th  Psalm.v.  43:  "Head  over  the 
heathen."  This  Psalm  is  Messianic.  There  are  two 
marks  by  which  a  Psalm  is  known  to  be  such. 

1.  Where  there  is  a  description  of  a  perfection  of 
character  and  conduct,  a  depth  of  humiliation,  a 
number,  variety  and  severity  of  suffering,  a  sudden- 
ness and  completeness  of  delivery,  a  heighth  of  ex- 
altation and  a  permanence  and  universality  of  do- 
minion which  can  be  true  only  of  the  Lord  Jesus 
Christ. 

2.  Where  the  Psalm  is  quoted  in  the  New  Testa- 
ment and  applied  to  Christ.  The  18th  Psalm  bears 
both  marks.  The  theme  is,  "The  sufferings  of 
Christ  and  the  glory  which  followed."  The  author 
divides  it  into  six  parts:  1.  The  prelude  or  proem 
in  which  the  Messiah  appeals  to  the  Father  as  his 
Rock,  high  tower,  shield,  etc.,  indicating  that  God 
will  preserve  him  in  the  midst  of  and  ultimately  de- 
liver him  from  all  enemies  and  dangers,  vs.  1-3. 

2.  The  sufferings  of  the  Messiah,  his  exercises 
under  those  sufferings  and  the  results  of  those  ex- 
ercises, vs.  4-6.  He  is  overwhelmed  with  the  floods, 
bound  with  cords,  entangled  in  the  snares  of  death. 
Hp  cries  to  God;  God  heard  and  answered  him. 

3.  His  preternatural  deliverance,  vs.  7-19.  God 
entered  his  chariot  and  came  down.  The  moment 
it  touched  the  earth  it  quaked.  Thick  clouds  en- 
swathed  the  earth.  The  lightnings  flash,  the  burn- 
ing coals  beneath  his  feet,  the  smoke  of  his  nostrils. 
His  enemies  are  arrayed  against  him.  He  shoots 
out  his  arrows  and  discomfits  them.  A  great  revo- 
lution follows.  The  sea  becomes  dry  land  and  the 
land  becomes  sea;  the  channels  of  the  waters  were 
discovered.  He  drew  the  Messiah  out  of  deep  wa- 
ters. He  took  him  from  prison  and  gave  him  large 
liberty  because  he  delighted  in  him. 

4.  His  prayer  of  thanksgiving  for  this  deliver- 
ance, vs.  20-31.  "The  Lord  rewarded  me  according 
to  my  righteousness."  "With  the  merciful  thou 
wilt  show  thyself  merciful." 

5.  The  Messiah's  conquest  of  the  nations,  vs.  31- 
41.  He  pursues  them  and  overtakes.  He  leaps 
over  the  wall.  He  casts  them  out  like  dirt  that  lies 
upon  the  streets. 

6.  His  universal  and  permanent  dominion,  vs.42- 
50.  "Thou  hast  made  me  the  head  of  the  heathen; 
a  people  whom  I  have  not  known  shall  serve  me." 
And  he  shall  reign  forever  and  ever.  This  last  is 
what  the  National  Reform  Association  seeks  to  re- 
alize. 

I  spent  Saturday  night  with  Uncle  R.  Kyle, whose 
daughter  Agnes  is  an  accomplished  teacher  in  the 
Cedarville  schools,  Mr.  David  Krvin,  one  of  Cedar- 
ville's  most  substantial  reformers.drove  with  me  out 
to  the  afternoon  meeting.  We  spent  the  evening  at 
the  home  of  Dr.  Winter.  He  was  raised  in  South 
Carolina,  where  he  lived  until  he  was  forty,  and  was 


I  a  consistent  member  of  the  Presbyterian  church.  He 
had  an  extensive  practice  as  physician  and  an  inter- 
est in  iron  and  steel  works.  When  Sumter  was  fired 
upon  he  left  and  joined  the  Union  army  and  all  his 
property,  amounting  to  $150,000  was  confiscated. 
They  were  glad  of  the  opportunity  to  do  that,becau8e 
frequently  he  had  bought  slaves  to  save  them  from 
being  sold  and  sent  away  from  their  families,  and 
given  .them  the  freedom  of  his  farm.  They  hated 
him  for  this  and  seized  his  property  at  once.  He 
served  through  the  war,  and  lost  his  health  through 
exposure.  The  government  gives  him  a  small  pen- 
sion— shamefully  small,  but  he  recovered  none  of 
his  property.  Since  the  war  he  has  been  quietly  fol- 
lowing his  profession  as  he  is  able.  Providence  has 
a  purpose  in  such  a  career.     It  is  an  object  lesson. 

J.  M.  Foster. 


OUR  BOSTON  LETTER. 


AN   ADVENTDRK  AMONG   THE    SPIRITS. 


were  doing.     He  expressed  his  satisfaction  with  the 
explanation,  with  a  sob-like  chuckle. 

The  next  materialization  was  considered  by  the 
spiritists  present,  as  the  most  wonderful  of  the  even- 
ing— that  of  a  child,  perhaps  six  or  ^seven  years  of 
age.  This  was  heralded  by  the  big  reception  com- 
mittee of  one,  (who,  without  doubt,  was  equal  to  a 
dozen),  with  dearest  and  sweetest  epithets,  which  I 
did  not  hesitate  to  adulterate  with  a  few  acrid  ex- 
pressions which  I  am  satisfied  lessened  the  relish  of 
that  audience,  at  least. 

"That,"  said  I,  in  the  most  distinct  tones  I  could 
command,  as  the  rfim-inutive  form,  designated  as 
that  of  a  child,  appeared,  "that  is  none  other  than 
the  medium  herself,  crawling  out  on  her  knees." 

Judging  from  omin^s,  but  subdued  mutterings 
all  about  me,  I  began  to  realize  that  my  candid,  and 
logical  criticisms  were  hitting  harder  than  was  com- 
patible with  my  environm^ftt      D.  P.  Mathews. 
\_Continue^^mmt  week.'] 


[^Continued  from  last  week.] 

As  the  lights  went  down,  somebody  began  to  play 
a  piece  of  melancholy  music,  just  as  though  some 
one  was  dying  instead  of  coming  to  life.  After  the 
music  ceased,  all  were  as  silent  as  the  dead — no,  not 
as  silent  as  the  dead,  for  were  they  not  about  to  be 
proven  otherwise?     We  must  find  a  new  simile. 

Suddenly  the  curtains  of  the  cabinet  were  parted, 
and  something  white  rushed  out  into  the  middle  of 
the  room.  This  apparition,  it  was  announced,  was 
an  Indian  girl,  and  that  it  would  shake  hands  with 
the  audience.  After  this  introduction,  the  dusky 
daughter  of  Lo,  who  was  very  talkative,  shook  hands 
with  all  disposed  to  allow  her.  As  she  passed 
around,  she,  also,  very  generously  gave  each  person 
a  handful  of  confections,  my  portion  consisting  of 
wintergreen  wafers,  some  of  which  I  carried  in  my 
pocket  for  months,  as  a  sort  of  memento,  daily  ex- 
pecting them  to  dematerialize. 

Now,  I  really  dislike  to  accuse  any  one  wrong- 
fully, but  I  believe  that  this  Indian  girl  was  none 
other  than  the  silly  girl  whom  I  have  mentioned. 
The  glistening  substance  with  which  her  garments 
were  covered,  outlined  her  form  very  clearly,  show- 
ing similar  proportions;  besides  this,  the  tones  of 
voice  were  the  same.  I  am  confident  that  I  saw  a 
head  dressed  in  the  same  peculiar  style  as  the  so- 
called  silly  girl's,  pass  in  the  range  of  the  faint  light 
from  the  lamp  on  the  organ  over  to  the  cabinet,  and 
it  didn't  return  until  after  a  long  time.  In  fact,  1 
saw  enough  to  convince  me  that,  at  least,  half  a 
dozen  of  that  audience  were  dematerialized  into 
spirits,  which  I  think  is  an  easier  thing  to  do  than 
vice  versa.  After  greeting  and  supplying  the  whole 
company  with  sugar  plums,  the  little  aborigine  re- 
tired, when  other  shining  incarnations  darted  out 
and  in  the  cabinet. 

Meanwhile,  the  pompous  female,  who  had  taken 
possession  of  the  chair  next  the  cabinet,  kept  up  a 
continual  expression  of  praise  of  the  merits  of  the 
spirits. 

"Just  see  what  a  magnificent  haler,"  she  would 
exclaim,  as  the  brilliantly  clad  forms  appeared. 

On  the  impulse  of  the  moment,  thoroughly  dis- 
gusted by  the  sham,  and  evident  gullibility  of  the 
audience,  I  said,  loud  enough  for  all  in  my  immedi- 
ate neighborhood  to  hear,  "That  shining  stuff  is 
nothing  more  nor  less  than  solution,  or  preparation 
of  phosphorous,  which  may  be  obtained  of  almost 
any  chemist."  I  noticed  that  this  gratuitous  inform- 
ation seemed  to  offend  some  persons  on  my  right. 

"Did  you  see  that  beautiful  disappearance?  How 
splendidly  it  dissolved,"  cried  the  big  woman,  as  a 
spirit  near  the  cabinet  fell  back  and  vanished. 

Now,  I  am  naturally  of  an  impulsive  temperament, 
and  anything  like  deception  inflates  me  with  "right- 
eous indignation,"  to  which  I  must  give  vent  or  ex- 
plode, and  to  avoid  such  a  catastrophe  on  this  occa- 
sion, I  chose  the  lesser  evil.  The  valve  having  been 
opened  by  my  first  remark,  fearless  as  to  the  result, 
I  continued  to  define  the  situation. 

"Anybody  could  do  that,"  said  I.  "All  that  is  to 
be  done  is  to  squat  gradually,  and  then  quickly  fall 
back  on  the  floor  behind  the  curtain,  or  sink  slowly 
in  the  middle  of  the  room,  and  draw  some  dark  ma- 
terial over  the  white  clothing." 

"Shut  up,"  growled  an  old  chap  on  my  right,  who 
had  just  seen  a  daughter  that  had  a  mole  on  her 
face,  whereby  he  had  identified  her. 

I  refused  to  "shut  up"  my  valve,  however,  and 
said,  if  they  would  allow  me,  I  would  duplicate  all 
that  had  been  done  so  far. 

"How'd  yer  do  it?"  asked  a  young  fellow  at  my 

left,  who  had  informed  me  that  he  was  investigating 

the  "phenomena,"  in  tones  which  half  convinced  me 

that  his  credulity  was  more  than  half  phenomenated. 

I  replied  that  I  would  manipulate  after  the  same 


Reform  News. 


IN  TEE  MOUNTAINS   OF  EAST  TENNESSEE. 

In  and  about  Joneaboro — Alongside  the  State  line — A  re- 
gion untrodden  by  slaves — Freemason's  happy  valley — 
The  birthplace  of  Abolitionism — Now  a  theme  for  Gold- 
smith's melancholy  must— Awful  effect  of  the  tobaccft- 
habit — The  BretJir en  and  theik  simple  rites.  ,    ',  .i 

JoNESBORO,  Tenn.,  Sept.  12,  '87. 
Dear  Cynosure: — My  stay  in  this  vicinity  has 
been  much  longer  than  I  expected  but  has  not  been 
uninteresting  and  I  think  not  unprofitable.  Sep*^. 
2nd  I  spoke  in  Jonesboro;  on  the  3rd  at  Uriel  M.E. 
church,  a  few  miles  east.  On  Sabbath  I  spoke  once 
each  in  a  Presbyterian,  an  M.  E.,  and  a  Dunker 
church.  On  the  5th  i  lectured  on  prohibition  at  the 
Bethesda  church  near  Garber's  Mills  and  had  an  ex-* 
cellent  hearing,  the  congregation  voting  without  dis- 
sent for  the  Amendment. 

On  Tuesday,  the  6th,  I  went  to  Erwin,  the  county- 
seat  of  Unicoi  county,  which  is  in  the  mountains 
and  only  three  or  foar  miles  from  the  dividing 
ridge  which  separates  this  State  from  North  Caroli- 
na. I  had  expected  to  lecture  there  on  Tuesday 
night,  but  found  that  the  announcement  had  not 
been  made  and  that  I  was  too  unwell  to  have  spok- 
en. I  remained  and  lectured  on  Wednesday  eve- 
ning to  a  good  audience.  On  Thursday  I  hired  a 
a  conveyance  to  Embreyville,in  Washinston  county, 
and  lectured  at  night  in  a  Southern  M.  E.  church  to 
a  full  and  attentive  audience.  On  Friday  I  walked 
to  Garber's  Mills  and  was  taken  to  Dry  Creek  in  the 
mountains  where  I  spoke  to  a  small  congregation. 
On  Saturday  I  attended  the  Brethren's  (Dunker's) 
yearly  meeting  and  was  invited  to  preach  to  them  on 
the  subject  of  secret  societies. 

All  of  these  were  white  congregations.  I  have  not 
seen  five  colored  persons  outside  of  Jonesboro. 
There  were  never  more  than  a  handful  of  slaves  in 
this  mountain  region.  Most  of  the  people  were  loy- 
al during  the  war,  and  are,  and  have  been  since,  Re- 
publicans. The  whole  country  is  rich  in  varied  and 
romantic  scenery  and  in  historic  incidents.  The 
Chuckey  river  is  a  considerable  and  rapid  stream 
that  sweeps  along  the  western  base  of  the  Blue 
Ridge  and  unites  with  the  French  Broad  above 
Knoxville  to  form  the  Tennessee  river.  It  has  a 
narrow,  fertile  valley  and  considerable  mountains  on 
either  side. 

Unicoi  has  within  a  few  years  been  cut  off  from 
Washington  and  Carter  counties,  and  is  a  narrow 
strip  of  valley  and  mountain.  Erwin,  the  county- 
seat,  is  at  the  foot  of  Unica  mountain  and  three  or 
four  miles  from  the  top, which  is  the  State  line.  It  is 
a  little  hamlet  of  175  inhabitants  with  a  small  butde- 
cent  court-house, with  no  church  and  no  school-house, 
but  has  a  small  brick  building  erected  and  owned  by 
the  Masons,  the  upper  part  being  used  for  the  lodge, 
and  the  lower  room  graciously  granted  to  the  peo- 
ple for  school  and  religious  purposes.  Here  relig- 
ious meetings  are  jointly  held  by  the  different  sects 
who  seem  to  vie  in  their  devotion  to  the  lodge  pow- 
er. About  the  only  religious  man  I  found  in  the 
place  is  a  devoted  Mason,  fully  persuaded  of  the  an- 
tiquity of  the  order  and  of  its  divine  character.  He 
told  me  that  there  was  abundant  evidence  of  its  ex- 
istence and  divine  approval  to  be  found  in  the  Bi- 
ble, but  failed  to  point  out  the  passages.  He  de- 
clined to  have  any  argument  on  the  subject  as  it 
was  contrary  to  the  principles  of  the  order.  He  told 
me,  however,  that  the  Masons  there  were  such  a 
worthless,  drunken  set  that  he  would  have  nothing 
to  do  with  them,  and  that  they  met  in  the  lodge  to 
drink  whisky.  I  spoke  in  their  temple  of  Baal,  and 
had  less  than  my  usual  freedom.  The  air  was  op- 
pressive. This  town  is  older  than  Chicago,  and  has 
been  a  county-seat  ten  years,  but  its  streets  are  in 


manner  I  had  just  explained  the  so-called    spirit  part  a  frog-pond,    i  found  a  bright  little  schoolmas 


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September  22, 1887 


THE  CimiSTIAN  CYNOSUKE. 


I 


ter  doing  a  most  needed  work,  and  another  young 
man  printing  a  little  paper,  one  page  at  a  time,  on  a 
little  hand  press.     There  is  hope  even  for  Erwin. 

Four  miles  from  here  at  the  end  of  all  roads  is 
Unica  Springs,  a  summer  resort.  Five  miles  down 
the  valley  is  Embreyville.  It  was  once  a  consider- 
ble  place,  with  a  blast  furnace,  rolling  mill  and  nail 
factory,  the  first  in  the  State.  It  is  now  nearly  de- 
serted— one  small  store  and  small  corn  mill  only 
left.  The  Embreys  started  and  carried  on  the  bus- 
iness, and  Mr.  Peter  Grisham  of  Washington,  who 
is  known  to  the  readers  of  the  Cynosure,  was  their 
clerk.  The  Embreys  inaugurated  the  first  anti- 
slavery  movement,  anticipating  by  a  year  or  two 
Benjamin  Lundy  and  W,  L.  Garrison.  This  was 
more  than  '  xty  years  ago.  Their  paper  was  called 
the  Emancipator,  and  was  published  at  Jonesboro, 
the  oldest  town  and  the  first  capital  of  the  State. 
The  Embreys  were  Quakers  and  were  moral  heroes. 
Ilr  would  seem  that  "cherewere  giants  in  those  days" 
and  that  the  race  has  become  extinct. 

It  is  the  opinion  of  Bro.  J.  Augustus  Cole  that 
there  have  been  cities  in  the  interior  of  Africa  that 
were  once  highly  civilized,and  that  they  have  great- 
ly declined.  I  do  not  know  how  this  may  be,  but  I 
am  convinced  that  these  East  Tennessee  villages 
have,  under  the  joint  influence  of  slavery,  war, whis- 
ky and  tobacco,  greatly  deteriorated.  The  war  put 
everything  back,  but  there  fe  a  growing  recuperation 
within  the  last  few  yejrs.  The  discussion  of  the 
•  Amendment  question'is  doing  great  good.  It  is 
about  the  first  live  issue  that  has  been  presented. 
It  is  the  first  since  the  war  that  has  appealed  to  their 
moral  sense.  I  can  see  no  reason  for  the  ignorance, 
indolence  and  poverty  of  these  mountain  people 
except  tlie  excessive  use  of  tobacco.  The  children 
seem  to  be  born  with  an  insatiable  craving  for  it, 
and  beg  for  it  from  passers-by. 

On  Saturday  I  attended  the  annual  business 
meeting  of  the  "Brethren"  and  witnessed  the  set- 
ting apart  of  two  young  men  to  the  second  degree 
in  the  ministry.  In  this  degree  they  may  admin- 
ister the  ordinances  and  solemnize  marriage,  but 
are  not  yet  elders.  I  was  greatly  pleased  with 
the  apparent  piety,  simplicity,  and  intelligence  of 
the  young  men.  After  an  examination  the  mind 
of  each  person  present  was  separately  taken  and 
they  were  welcomed  by  a  kiss  from  each  of  the 
brethren  present  and  a  clasp  of  hand  from  each 
sister.  This  congregation  has  been  very  faithful 
in  their  testimonies  and  their  discipline.  They 
took  no  part  in  the  late  war.  They  have  never 
received  any  members  of  secret  societies  and  have 
always  opposed  slavery. 

In  the  year  1854  Elder  Samuel  Garber  came 
here  from  Illinois.  By  special  request  he  preach- 
ed a  sermon  against  slavery.  He  was  at  once  ar- 
rested, tried  and  bound  over  to  the  court  under 
$2,000  bonds.  He  expressed  his  entire  willingness 
to  go  to  prison,  but  the  Brethren  insisted  that  he 
should  leave.  He  did  not  appear  at  the  trial  and 
the  Brethren  paid  his  bonds.  They  have  eight  or 
ten  churches  in  this  part  of  the  State,  A  few  are 
opposed  to  prohibition  and  most  of  them  use  to- 
bacco, but  they  are,  oh  the  whole,  the  most  consis- 
tent and  best  people  I  have  seen  here.  I  leave  in  a 
few  minutes  for  Knoxville.     Yours  in  Christ, 

H.   H.    HiNMAN. 


former  now  seemingly  near  the  gates.  Josiah  Lee 
of  Albion  will,  if  spared,  be  91  years  old  next 
month.  Though  his  natural  vision  is  clouded,  his 
spiritual  and  intellectual  sight  seems  clear.  He  has 
always  abhorred  underhandedness,  and  of  course  the 
lodge.  He  endeavors  to  use  every  opportunity  to 
bear  his  testimony.  But  recently  a  Methodist  min- 
ister called  on  him  for  some  money  to  repair  the 
church.  Knowing  him  to  be  a  Mason  he  did  not  neg- 
lect the  opportunity  to  impart  some  sound  words 
of  warning. 

I  have  just  been  talking  with  Secretary  George 
about  ways  and  plans  of  carrying  forward  our  work. 
We  should  hold  the  State  convention  soon  at  some 
suitable  point.  New  Concord,  Muskingum  county, 
is  suggested.  As  soon  as  w»  hear  froin  the  Gener- 
al Agent  when  it  will  suit  his  convenience'  'o  be  with 
us,  the  time  and  place  can  be  fixed.  Pres.  0.  A. 
Blanchard  expressed  a  willingness  to  be  with  us.  I 
am  sure  from  what  I  have  heard  that  the  friends  in 
Eastern  Ohio  will  not  fail  of  an  opportunity  of  lis- 
tening to  the  President. 

No  general  appeal  to  the  friends  in  this  State  for 
financial  support  has  been  made  for  more  than  a 
year.  Some  forty  dollars  have  been  handed  me  dur- 
ing the  the  past  month;  much  more  will  be  needed 
to  carry  on  our  work  successfully.  I  feel  confident 
that  the  friei  ds  will  do  what  they  can  in  this  matter. 
Please  do  not  delay  but  write  Rev.  S.  A.  George, 
Mansfield,  Ohio,  what  you  can  give  during  the  year. 
There  are  some  pledges  of  last  year  unredeemed. 
We  trust  this  also  will  be  looked  after.  I  remain 
in  this  section  over  Sabbath.working  as  the  way  may 
open.  W.  B.  Stoddard. 


COBBESPONDENCE. 


INTO  TJIJC  FIHU  WITU  IT. 


RECORD  OF  WISCONSIN  WORK. 


PLANS   FOR  OHIO. 


Mansfield,  O.,  Sept.  15th,  '87. 

Dear  Cynoscre: — Since  my  last  I  have  spoken 

twice  in  each  of  the  following  places,  Mesopotamia, 

Middlefield  and  Northfield.      Friends  have  received 

cordially  and  no  serious  obstacles  have  been 


me 

encountered.  At  Northfield  two  lodgers  spoke  a  few 
words  in  defence  of  their  institution.  Their  so- 
called  arguments  were  illogical  and  not  worth  re- 
peating. We  could  only  pity  their  ignorance  and 
wish  them  more  light.  As  usual.  Cynosure  subscrip- 
tions have  been  obtained,  a  few  books  sold  and 
tracts  distributed. 

On  the  way  to  this  place  I  stopped  at  several 
points.  Last  Saturday  I  visited  what  is  known  as 
Stowe  United  Presbyterian  congregation  near  Hud- 
son. After  a  tramp  of  some  five  miles  through  the 
dust,  arrangements  were  made,  as  I  supposed,  for  a 
lecture  on  the  following  Tuesday  evening.  But  I  re- 
ceived a  letter  on  Monday  stating  that  my  request 
had  been  reconsidered,  and  that  it  was  not  thought 
best  to  have  the  lecture.  The  reason  given  was  that 
there  were  certain  grangers  who  might  be  offended. 
It  was  thought  by  a  Rev.  Wallace  who  had  labored 
succesfuUy  among  the  friends  here  that  the  best 
way  to  kill  the  grange  was  to  let  it  alone. 

Had  I  time  and  space  I  should  like  to  mention 
many  friends  who  have  shown  me  kindness  and  as- 
sisted-our  work.  I  must  not  pass  without  men- 
tioning my  brief  call  at  the  home  of  a  veteran  re- 


TIIE    manifestation   of   toe    spirit  in  the  ARKAN- 
SAS BAI'TIST  convention  CASTS  OUT  TBE 
TOBAGOO  FIKND. 


Ed^r  { 


MiLTON,  Wis. 
Dear  Cynosure: — The  evening  of  Sept.  2nd 
found  me  whirling  toward  the  great  State  of  Wis- 
consin. Night  found  me  at  the  home  of  Bro.  M.  R. 
Hoard  in  Sharon.  In  the  morning  he  drove  with 
me  over  to  Bro.  Jas.  W.  Suidter's.  It  rained  till 
noon  and  we  held  a  council  of  war  on  the  Secret  Em- 
pire. In  the  afternoon  we  began  announcing  a  meet- 
ing for  the  Free  Methodist  church  and  put  1,300 
pages  of  literature  in  130  dwellings.  The  audience  was 
small,but  no  less  than  was  anticipated.  Sunday  night 
I  spoke  on  Masonic  religion  to  a  good  and  enthusi- 
astic audience  at  South  Grove  three  miles  out. 

Clinton  Junction  was  reached  in  the  rain  and  after 
a  short  stop  I  went  on  to  Janesville.  Here  I  was 
hospitably  entertained  by  Bro.  Andrew  Stevens,  an 
old  time  Anti-mason.  Notwithstanding  the  mud,on 
the  6th  4,800  pages  of  literature  were  put  into  more 
than  four  hundred  homes  in  Janesville.  The  city 
has  some  sixty  saloons,  it  is  said,  and  Rock  county 
is  lodge  ridden.  Prompted  by  curiosity  a  visit  was 
paid  to  the  old  Willard  farm  and  that  vicinity  salt- 
ed with  literature. 

On  the  7th  I  stepped  from  the  train  at  Milton 
Junction  and  sought  Elder  Nathan  Wardner,  the 
only  man  I  knew  and  a  warm  friend  of  the  cause. 
He  bade  me  a  hearty  welcome  and  counseled  as  to 
the  best  method  of  moving  on  the  enemy's  works. 
Some  four  miles  west  at  East  Fulton,  where  Mr.  Rc- 
nayne  once  worked  the  degrees  amid  wild  commo- 
tion, I  broke  bread  with  H.  Harvey,  a  venerable 
brother  who  has  been  a  staunch  Anti-mason  for  lo, 
these  many  years  and  whose  daughter  is  noted  for 
her  zeal  for  reform.  There  are  a  number  therea- 
bouts who  will  be  in  attendance  at  the  coming  meet- 
ing at  East  Milton.  Several  days  of  personal  effort 
and  search  have  secured  the  names  of  many  who 
are  in  sympathy  with  the  cause. 

The  9th  found  me  interviewing  men  and  scatter- 
ing literature  at  Albion  and  Edgarton.  The  friends 
at  the  latter  place  were  fearful,  yet  a  hearing  was 
secured  in  the  church  Saturday  night  and  I  got  the 
promise  of  quite  a  number  who  expect  to  be 
with  us. 

Last  night  was  spent  with  Bro.  David  Smith,  who 
has  taken  the  Cynosure  since  it  was  a  little  4-pago 
paper.  M.  N.  Butler. 

[The  last  few  lines  of  Bro.  Butler's  letter  were  on 
a  small  scrap  of  paper  which  was  unaccountably 
lost.— Ed.  J 

IOWA  HEARTILY  RESPONDS  TO  HER  AOBNT. 


Dear  Cynosure: — From  Henry  county  I  went  to 
Birmingham,  \^an  Buren  county,  and  began  the  can- 
vass for  a  renewal  of  subscriptions  to  the  State 
Association  to  continue  the  reform  work  through 
another  year. 

The  subscriptions  taken  during  the  summer  and 

fall  of  188(5  and  the  winter  of  86-87,  to  pay  a  certain 

amount  monthly  for  one  year,  beginning  July  13, 

1886,  are  past  due  now;  and  what  has  not  been  paid 

(Continued  on  ISth  page.) 


Portland,  Ark.,  Sept.  12,  1887. 
Cynosure: — 1  am  sure  hu  «.il  interest  you 
an«tjour  many  readers  to  glean  some  tew  facts,  now 
and  ttisn,  of  the  reform  that  is  steadily  moving  on 
among  the  colored  people  of  the  South.  "The  peo- 
ple that  walked  in  darkness  have  seen  a  great  light" 
Every  form  of  popular  intemperance  is  turned  upon 
by  representatives  of  clergy  and  laity  everj' where. 
Indeed,  the  secret  empire  is  fast  losing  mortar  and 
stone  from  its  very  foundation,  and  the  church  is 
doing  its  "first  works." 

The  "Arkans:  a  Japtist  State  Convention"  met  at 
Camden,  Ark.,  on  the  23d  ult,  continuing  in  session 
four  days.  When  the  committee  on  temperance  re- 
ported and  dealt  out  such  strong  blows  at  the  tobacco 
cud,  the  cigar  stump  and  the  bottle,  it  seemed  that 
a  temperance  revival  broke  out  anew,  "begianing,  of 
course,  at  the  house  of  God" — the  birthplace  of  all 
successful  revivals  and  the  origin  of  all  true  reforms. 
Live  speeches  were  made  by  the  advocates  of  tem- 
perance and  moderate  confessions  were  made  by 
those  who  had  so  long  been  slaves  to  the  dirty  habit 
of  smoking.  The  president,  secretary  and  other 
officials,  as  well  as  many  other  members  of  the  con- 
vention, gave  their  tobacco  as  fuel  for  an  eventful 
bonfire.  Nothing  but  conviction  made  them  do  this. 
They  made  their  own  confessions,  signed  their  own 
pledges,  and  threw  away  their  own  tobacco — or  gave 
it  away — without  a  song  or  traveling  reformer. 

It  is  remarkable,  too,  to  know  that  it  was  not 
necessary  to  refer  to  dram-drinking  among  the  breth- 
ren, for  this  custom  has  also  long  become  odious 
to  every  leading  preacher  of  the  State.  It  used  to 
be  that  the  brethren  could  not  preach  well  (?),  could 
not  act  well  their  part  in  religious  or  political  delib- 
eration until  they  got  a  "drink  or  two  ahead."  "And 
there  were  giants  in  those  days."  The  man  that 
spoke  against  strong  drink  was  nothing  more  than 
one  pigmy  among  manj'  giants.  But  every  condi- 
tion of  those  times  stands  now  in  a  reversed  order. 
It  is  no  longer  unsafe  or  unpopular  to  speak  against 
I  any  of  these  subtle  delusions. 

I  am  hoping  and  praying  that  the  "good  work  be- 
gun in  us  will  continue  until  that  day."  Why  not? 
"If  God  be  for  us  who  can  be  against  us?"  It  will 
take  such  work  to  make  the  "kingdoms  of  this 
world  become  the  kingdoms  of  our  Lord  and  of  his 
Christ" 

Next  month  I  go  to  the  capital  city  of  the  State 
(Little  Rock)  to  grasp  the  reins  of  a  young  institu- 
tion known  as  the  "Arkansas  Baptist  College."  It 
is  under  the  auspices  of  the  Convention,  which  it- 
self has  begun  to  love  and  cherish  every  true  reform. 
Hence  the  reformatory  and  Christian  character  of 
the  institution.  Whatever  your  readers  can  do  for 
us  in  our  well-begun  work  will  be  gladly  received. 
We  shall  need  books  to  build  up  a  wholesome  libra- 
ry. We  shall  need  money  to  help  us  in  the  erection 
of  ample  buildings.  These  we  are  obliged  to  ask  at 
the  hands  of  those  that  are  in  sympathy  with  our 
class  of  institutions.  Please  place  the  Cynosure  on 
file  with  us.     Yours  very  truly,     Jos.  A.  Book kb. 

EXPERIENCES  WITHIN  AND  WITHOUT. 

Luther,  Micb. 

Editor  Cynosure: — For  many  years  I  have  been 
in  sympathy  with  the  N.  C.  A.  I  vas  seven  years 
an  active  Good  Templar.  The  temperance  pledge  I 
took  in  initiation  June  14,  1869,  I  have  conscien- 
tiously observed  and  always  expect  to.  I  would 
have  done  so  if  I  had  never  joined  that  or  any  other 
temperance  organization. 

By  knowledge  gr.atuilously  proffered  by  an  Odd- 
fellow on  the  honored  principles  of  Odd-fellowship, 
I  united  with  them  in  1875,  to  reform  and  purity 
the  order.  The  rules  were  set  aside  to  confer  two 
degrees  each  week  upon  me.  Through  a  blunder  iu 
initiation  I  entered  the  upi)er  hall  with  my  eyes 
open,  beholding  the  blind-folded  lodge,  a  fit  type  of 
the  spiritual  blindness  resting  upon  them.  I  was 
more  than  ever  anxious  to  see  the  devil's  tail  as  well 
as  his  horns,  and  receiving  the  charges  on  my  fett 
and  remembering  what  thoy  told  me,  I  receivetl  the 
degrees  as  re.ndily  as  they  were  confj^rred.  Quoting 
Scripture  from  the  ritual  or  the  \\^?rd  was  alike  of- 
fensive and  incurred  censure.  One  sentence  of 
Scripture  was  all  they  could  l>ear  at  one  time,  and  I 
found  that  must  be  the  last  sentence  I  uttere<l.  The 
whole  lodge  was  ready  to  cut  off  any  Scripture  by 
calling  me  to  order.  So  pronouncing  lodge  reform 
a  failure  after  seven  months'  experience  1  witlidrew. 


6 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CTNOSUHlii. 


September  22, 1887 


In  receiving  eleven  initiations  and  degrees  in 
secret  orders,  1  would  only  pledge  my  honor,  yet 
with  a  little  study  of  Masonic  signs  and  experience 
in  using  them,  I  was  pronounced  by  the  craft  (as 
the  secret  afterwards  leaked  out>)  a  regularly  ini- 
tiated Freemason  deserter.  At  last  becoming  con- 
vinced it  was  sin  to  use  the  devil's  tools  (secret  or- 
der signs)  in  the  Lord's  work,  I  sought  and  found 
grace,  to  forget  all  unwritten,  but  really  "housetop- 
proclaimed"  work. 

As  a  converted  infidel  who  had  proclaimed  skep- 
ticism and  the  doctrine  of  demons  during  four  years' 
travel  in  twenty- two  States,  I  refused  God's  call  to 
publish  glad  tidings  for  thirteen  years  before  enter- 
ing the  ministry,  which  I  then  did  to  declare  the 
Gospel  in  apostolic  simplicity,  compromising  with 
no  error,  and  openly  opposing  all  sin,  never  to 
preach  the  Gospel  on  a  salary,  or  ask  a  living  soul 
for  a  dollar  for  support,  but  accept  all  free-will  of- 
ferings and  live  on  them  or  starve.  Penurious, 
soul-starved  believers  are  satisfied  with  the  arrange- 
ment, receiving  no  duns  for  over-due  salary.  Nearly 
a  year  in  the  north  woods  of  Michigan,  exposed  to 
its  rigorous  climate,  supporting  a  wife  and  three 
children  on  $34  cash  and  $89  in  trade  at  high  prices, 
from  the  field  for  ten  months,  has  not  improved  my 
health,  but  hindered  my  pastoral  work.  Seeing  only 
scores  accept  Jesus  where  I  looked  for  a  host  has 
not  lessened  my  cares.  I  regard  it  important  that  I 
leave  here  by  Oct.  17  to  go  to  a  milder  yet  healthy 
climate. 

While  I  have  not  made  a  specialty  of  fighting  se- 
cret orders  more  than  other  sins,  yet  secrecy  always 
strives  to  destroy  my  influence  and  support.  I 
would  prefer  to  settle  with  a  Baptist  church  not 
afraid  to  reject  secret  orders. 

I  am  convinced  that  secret  orders  are  the  most 
destructive  errors  entertained  by  the  church  and 
government.  The  insidious  poison  is  palsying  the 
heart  life  of  its  votaries.  With  charters  drawn  from 
pandemonium  what  else  can  we  expect?  When  the 
prayers  of  believers  before  fallen  men  are  consistent 
with  their  plea  to  God  in  the  hour  of  need,  and  they 
vote  as  they  pray,  satisfied  to  receive  heaven's 
choicest  gifts  with  persecutions,  we  may  expect  to 
see  the  Redeemer's  kingdom  come  with  power,  and 
living  temples  erected  as  monuments  of  skill  in  Je- 
hovah's master-building. 

Suffering  purifies.  Our  imminent  peril  brings 
God  nearest.  Man's  need  is  God's  opportunity. 
The  grandest  triumphs  of  grace  I  have  witnessed 
were  when  I  was  so  physically  fatigued  as  to  be 
barely  capable  of  knowing  what  I  was  doing,  yet 
strengthened  by  seeing  sin  and  infidelity  totter  and 
fall.     Ever  yours  in  overcoming  grace, 

(Rev.)  W,  H,  Gardner. 


we  are  your  friends."  But  many  Baptist  ministers  say 
to  me,  "Get  your  school  up  and  we  will  work  for  it  and 
give  you  our  support,  and  attend  your  school."  If  we 
have  necessary  agencies  given  we  will  find  sentiment 
changing  in  a  short  time.  I  hope  you  can  see  your  way 
clear  to  heartily  request  aid  for  our  school  house. — Lewis 
Johnston,  Pine  Bluff,  Ark. 

AN   EriTAl'H. 

I  suggest  as  an  epitaph  for  an  active,  fervent  opposer 
of  popular  evils:  ffe  lived  up  to  his  convictions. — R.  D. 
Nichols. 

a   glaring   inconsistency. 

Christians,  heirs  of  God,  joint  heirs  with  Christ,  are 
you  asleep  ?  Can  any  thing  be  more  preposterous,  that 
is,  "utterly  and  glaringly  foolish,  contrary  to  nature  and 
reason"  (see  Webster),  than  for  the  many  professedly 
enlightened  Christians  in  our  country  to  be  so  basily 
engaged  in  doing  the  very  opposite  of  the  works  of 
Christ  by  the  most  absurd  delusion;  that  is,  hiding  their 
light  in  the  light  (darkness)  of  lodgery?  Do  they  not 
see  that  thus  they  side  with  those  who  would  prove  their 
Lord  wrong?  How  can  they  think  it  wise  to  bind  them- 
selves by  oaths  or  promises  which  are  contrary  to  the 
will  of  God?  None  such  were  ever  authorized  by  him 
in  the  Old  or  New  Testament. — t.  h. 

LIGHT   BREAKING. 

I  do  not  let  the  Cynosure  sleep,  but  hand  it  to  others. 
I  will  take  more  interest  hereafter;!  want  to  see  the  paper 
taken  throughout  the  land,  and  enlightening  the  world. 
Would  that  men  would  read  and  lay  aside  prejudice; 
they  would  become  more  earnest  in  doing  to  others  as 
they  would  be  done  by,  and  ministers  of  the  Gospel 
would  not  seek  the  secret  orders.  At  present  those  are 
pointed  at  with  the  finger  of  scorn,  who  dare  say  a  word 
against  the  secret  orders  in  this  place,  but  I  will  fight  on 
for  right.  I  begin  to  see  light. — J.  B.  Woolsby,  Bloom- 
field,  Iowa. 

MORTGAGES   AND   MASONRY. 

I  will  try  and  do  something  for  you  this  fall,  with  the 
help  of  God.  The  farmers  here  are  hard  up.  They  all 
plow  too  much  and  run  in  debt  for  machinery,  and  then 
mortgage  and  pay  ten  per  cent  interest;  some  pay  as 
high  as  fifty  per  cent.  Masonry  is  increasing  here  fast. 
I  do  wish  some  of  your  best  men  could  come  here  and 
show  our  young  men  the  evil  of  the  lodges;  they  should 
be  exposed  here.  If  I  had  the  means  I  would  write  them 
and  pay  all  expenses. — Harvey  Trusdbll,  Eemma, 
Nebraska, 


Bible  lesson. 


TBE  SPIRIT  CLEANSE TH. 


Seymour  Lake,  Mich. 
Dear  Cynosure: — I  should  almost  ask  pardon 
for  my  long  silence  the  last  few  months.  The  Lord 
has  wonderfully  delivered  me  from  the  powers  of 
the  enemy.  I  am  still  saved  from  the  powers  of 
Masonry  and  secret  societies.  If  I  can  do  nothing 
more,  I  will  from  time  to  time  give  the  readers  of 
the  Cynosure  my  testimony  against  Masonry.  Praise 
God,  I  still  have  the  same  undying  hatred  for  Ma- 
sonry I  did  when  I  was  taken  from  the  lodge.  Still 
I  love  and  pity  its  poor  duped  followers;  love  them 
enough  to  warn  them  of  their  awful  condition;  yet 
I  know  if  they  are  ever  redeemed  it  will  be  by  the 
mighty  hand  of  God.  Well  do  1  remember  how 
those  blasphemous  oaths  held  me  in  bondage  until 
my  soul  was  well  nigh  lost  forever.  Dear  reader, 
there  is  nothing  that  will  bind  a  man's  soul  down  to 
hell  like  Masonry.  There  are  some  diseases  that 
are  incurable  by  man,  and  nothing  but  God  can  cure 
them.  Nothing  but  the  blood  of  Christ  cleansing 
the  heart  can  ever  wash  away  this  terrible  scourge 
of  Satan.  A  man  may  try  to  throw  it  off  some 
other  way,  but  mark  the  result;  it  still  clings  to  him 
like  an  incurable  disease.  Praise  God,  one  breath  of 
the  Holy  Gbost  will  drive  it  all  away.  Drive  what 
away?  Masonry?  Yes.  Drive  away  the  whole 
catalogue  of  sins.  When  Christ  is  formed  within  a 
man  he  is  a  new  creature.  Though  1  stand  alone,  I 
must  stand  for  prohibition  and  Christ. 

Dewitt  Ben.iamin. 


PITB  AND  POINT. 


KUKTHER   KROM    THE  ARKANSAS    COLORED    RAPTISTS. 

The  action  of  the  St.  Marion  District  Association  i*^ 
causing  much  discussion  o  n  the  streets,  and  of  course 
am  accused  as  the  ring  leader.  A  deputation  of  society 
folks  went  to  Rev.  J.  H.  FJagg,  who  would  not  admit 
secret  society  members  to  bis  church,  and  said,  "You  are 
trying  to  follow  .Johnston.  Now.  you  must  let  up  on 
your  talk  on  societies  and  let  us  help  you.  Johnston 
wlI  do  you  little  good;  when  you  need  bread  and  meat. 


STUDIES  IN  THE  NEW  TESTAMENT. 
LESSON  I.— Oct.  2.    The  Centurion's  Faith.— Matt.  8 :  .5-13. 
GOLDEN  TEXT.— I  have  not  found  so  great  faith,  no,  not  in 
Israel.— Matt.  8:  10. 

yOpen  the  BibU  and  read  the  lesson.^ 
COMMENTS   ON   THE  LESSON   BY  E.  E.  FLAGG. 

1.  The  Humility  of  True  Faith,  vs.  5-8.  This  name- 
less centurion  has  come  down  to  us  through  the  ages  like 
the  Syrophonician  woman,  famous  for  her  great  faith. 
But  his  humility  is  no  less  wonderful.  Do  we  consider 
as  frequently  as  we  should  that  humility  is  always  a  con- 
dition of  true  faith,  and  therefore  of  all  true  prayer. 
Both  are  based  on  and  proportionate  to  the  strength  of 
our  desires  and  the  greatness  of  the  blessing  we  seek. 
The  centurion  knew  that  he  was  seeking  at  the  hands  of 
Jesus  superhuman  aid  for  his  sick  servant,  and  that  the 
being  to  whom  he  applied  must  be  superhuman  in  order 
to  give  it.  There  is  a  method  very  common  at  the  pres- 
ent time  of  trying  to  reduce  everything  in  the  Bible  that 
we  cannot  understand  to  the  plane  of  a  natural  law. 
Such  a  habit  of  minds  kills  humility  and  stifles  faith. 
The  habit  of  trust  in  a  higher  power  brings  us  into  com- 
munion with  that  power,  makes  us  feel  ourselves  a  part 
of  it,  so  that  we  gather  courage  to  battle  with  difficulties 
which  would  appall  a  soul  lacking  this  sense  of  divine 
aid.  The  more  faith  a  man  has  in  God,  the  more  faith 
he  will  have  in  himself. 

2.  The  Infinite  Ruler,  v.  9.  A  whole  library  of  treat- 
ises on  the  nature  and  laws  of  prayer  might  be  written 
and  yet  the  centurion's  simple  but  grandly  logical  illus- 
tration would  outweigh  them  all.  Many  passages  in  the 
Bible  speak  of  Jehovah  under  martial  terms  as  a  "man 
of  war,"  and  "mighty  in  battle."  Even  Christ  is  depicted 
in  one  of  the  sublimest  chapters  of  Revelation  as  the 
Commander  in  Chief  of  the  armies  of  Heaven;  and  in  the 
hosts  over  which  he  is  Captain  we  must  place  natural 
law,  not  only  that  part  of  it  whose  workings  we  partially 
understand,  but  all  those  tremendous  physical  and  psychic 
forces  that  we  do  not  understand  at  all.  The  only  ground 
of  discouragement  in  Christian  work,  lies  with  the  work- 
ers themselves.  The  stars  in  their  courses  obey  his  voice 
with  prompt  uncjuestioning  obedience,  while  the  false 
modesty  of  a  Moses  pleads,  "I  am  slow  of  speech,"  or  a 
cowardly  Jonah  may  flee  to  Tarshish,  or  even  the  lion- 
hearted  Tishbite  have  to  be  asked  the  question,  "What 
doest  thou  here,  Elijah?"  A  Christian  who  says  that  the 
liquor  tralHo  is  a  terrible  evil,  a  crime  against  humanity, 
yet  baUevea  in  liceasiag  it  beciuse  "prohibition  is  im 


practicable,"  is  far  from  having  the  faith  of  this  Roman 
centurion.  The  same  reasoning  is  applied  to  the  lodge. 
Many  Christians  are  willing  to  confess  that  secret  organ- 
izations are  ruinous  to  the  church,  subversive  of  justice 
and  a  foe  to  the  family,  while  they  cannot  be  brought  to 
do  any  active  service  for  their  overthrow,  "because,"  as 
they  say,  "Masonry  is  too  ancient  and  formidable  an  in- 
stitution ever  to  be  attacked  with  success ."  While  such 
men  may  be  possessed  of  a  little  faith,  it  is  not  of  the 
kind  which  removes  mountains.  It  is  not  the  centurion's 
faith. 

3.  The  Wideness  of  Ood's  Purposes  of  Mercy,  vs.  10- 
13.  We  have  here  a  divine  promise  that  many  will  be 
saved  from  heathen  lands,  who  live  up  to  the  light  they 
have.  This  so  far  from  checking  our  enthusiasm  for  for- 
eign missions,  should  be  our  highest  incentive  to  the 
work.  If  men  can  be  found  like  Cornelius  and  this  cen- 
turion who,  reared  in  the  darkness  of  heathenism  still 
practice  righteousness  and  mercy,  how  many  might  they 
bring  to  Christ  under  fuller  light?  What  streams  of 
beneficence  might  they  set  in  motion  that  would  event- 
ually reach  and  bless  all  humanity?  They  are  pearls  too 
precious  to  be  lost  to  the  church  and  the  world,  and  read 
aright  the  story  of  the  Roman  centurion  ought  to  be  the 
most  inspiring  of  missionary  lessons. 

From  Peloubet's  Notes. 

"I  am  not  worthy  that  thou  shouldest  come  under  my 
roof."  Observe  three  estimates  of  the  centurion's  char- 
acter: first,  his  own,  not  worthy,  because  a  Gentile,  and 
because  a  sinner;  second,  the  Jewish  estimate,  worthy, 
because  he  had  built  a  Jewish  synagogue,  the  highest 
encomium  on  character  which  a  Jewish  elder  could  pass 
on  a  Gentile  outcast  (Luke  7:  4,  5);  third,  Jesus's  estimate, 
worthy,  because  of  his  faith,  and  needing  no  commenda- 
tion from  Jewish  elders,  but  himself  an  example  and  a 
rebuke  to  them.— Abbott. 

"For  I  (also)  am  a  man  under  authority."  The  also  is 
very  necessary,  and  is  translated  in  Luke  7:8.  The  cen- 
turion draws  a  comparison  between  our  Lord's  position 
and  his  own.  He  was  a  man  under  authority.  He  had 
power,  indeed,  but  it  was  authorized  and  delegated  power, 
power  derived  from  the  powers  above  him,  such  as  the 
tribunes  or  chief  captains  (Acts  31:31)  of  the  legion. 
The  position  of  Christ  was  somewhat  corresponding. 
He  was  sent  from  above.  He  held  a  commission.  "All 
power — all  authority — was  given  unto  him"  (Matt.  38:18). 
He  was  the  Lord  High  Commissioner  of  the  Sovereign 
of  the  Universe,  the  Chief  Captain  of  Salvation. — Mor- 
ison. 

"And  I  say  to  this  man.  Go,  and  he  goeth,"  etc.  He 
leaves  it  to  our  Lord  to  understand  that  he  recognizes  in 
him  an  authority  beyond  all,  expecting  the  powers  of 
nature  to  obey  their  Master,  just  as  his  soldiers  or  his 
servants  obey  him.  It  is  not  probable  that  he  recog- 
nized such  divine  power  in  Jesus,  but  power  delegated  to 
him  by  God,  as  the  centurion's  power  from  the  emperor, 
so  that  he  could,  without  going  to  the  house,  say  to  the 
disease.  Go,  and  it  would  go,  and  to  health,  Come,  and 
it  would  come.  How  grandly  he  must  have  believed  in 
him!  And  it  is  to  be  well  heeded  that  the  Lord  went  no 
farther — turned  at  once. — McDonald.  , 

"Many  shall  come  from  the  east  and  west."  From  f  ar- 
ofiE  nations,  from  peoples  who  had  then  not  even  heard 
of  the  true  God  and  his  salvation.  This  centurion  was 
an  example  from  Rome,  and  it  was  but  a  few  years  after 
this  before  there  were  converts  to  the  true  faith  in  almost 
every  nation  of  that  age. 

"But  the  children  of  the  kingdom."  The  Jews,  the 
natural  heirs  of  the  pratriarchs,  to  whom  were  committed 
the  oracles  of  God,  whose  were  the  adoption,  the  cove- 
nants, and  the  promises,  and  who  could  not  be  disinher- 
ited but  in  consequence  of  their  own  willful  misconduct 
and  unbelief  (Rom.  3:  2;  4:  11,  13, 16;  9:  4,  31,  33;  11: 
7-10,  30). 

Applications. — Like  the  centurion  in  this  chapter,  we 
have  many  needs,  both  for  ourselves  and  others,  which 
only  Jesiis  can  supply.  We  have  sins  and  sorrows  and 
burdens  beyond  our  power  to  remove. 

Jesus  has  proved  himself  able  and  willing  to  help,  by 
having  already  bestowed  upon  others  the  very  blessings 
we  need.  He  i3  a  tried  and  proved  Saviour.  He  has 
sustained  others  in  trials  and  needs  like  ours;  therefore, 
he  will  sustain  us.  He  has  forgiven  others'  sins;  there- 
fore, he  will  forgive  ours.  He  has  heard  others'  prayers; 
therefore,  he  will  hear  ours.  He  has  healed  others;  he 
will  heal  us.  His  words  calmed  the  sea  that  raged  and 
stormed  like  the  one  that  is  tossing  us;  therefore,  when 
we  see  him  walking  on  the  waters,,  we  know  that  the 
winds  and  the  waves  will  again  obey  his  "Peace,  be  still." 
The  history  of  God's  people  is  full  of  monuments  of  his 
promises. 

We  must  go  to  him  with  faith  that  he  is  able  and  will- 
ing to  help. 

Our  faith  should  be  generous,  reaching  out  to  others, 
humble,  strong,  confident,  persevering. 

Such  faith  is  sure  of  its  reward.  God  never  disap- 
points those  who  put  their  trust  in  him. 

We  see  more  clearly  the  nature  of  this  faith  by  consid- 
ering how  we  are  saved  by  faith.  (1)  Faith  is  a  yielding 
of  ourselves  to  God,  a  committing  of  ourselves  to  him  as 
cur  God.  (2)  It  is  an  act  of  acceptance  of  his  ofEers 
and  conditions  of  salvation.  It  takes  what  he  has  so 
freely  given.  (3)  It  implies  a  choice  of  Jesus  as  our 
Lord  and  Saviour.  We  believe  in  him  so  as  to  obey  his 
commands  and  follow  in  his  footsteps.  (4)  A  faith  that 
realizes  whait  Jesus  has  done  for  us,  awakens  love  and 
devotion  in  our  hearts  for  him  and  his  cause. 


September  22, 1887 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSUKJB. 


OBITTJARY. 


Died  at  Grundy  Center,  Iowa,  on  the 
11th  of  September,  1887,  Mrs.  Cordelia 
A.  Barlow,  wife  of  Elder  J.  L.  Barlow, 
after  many  years  of  almost  constant  suf- 
fering, aged  75  years.  Beloved  in  life, 
and  sincerely  mourned  in  death,  by  her 
surviving  husband,  children,  and  numer- 
ous friends. 

Eliza  Tuttlk  was  born  in  Connecti- 
cut, June  3,  1811,  and  died  at  Mt.  Tabor, 
Vernon  county,  Wisconsin,  August  29, 
1887,  aged  76  years.  She  was  married  to 
Rev.  B.  S.  Tuttle  of  the  Baptist  chi:rch, 
August  29,  1831.  They  lived  in  York 
State  and  in  Ohio ;  they  came  to  Ontario, 
Wisconsin,  where  he  died  some  years  ago. 
She  suffered  long  with  paralysis,  but 
died  in  great  peace.  In  her  last  days  her 
joy  was  equal  to  her  suffering.  She 
wished  it  to  be  said  through  the  Cynosure 
that  she  was  an  ardent  lover  of  the  cause 
it  is  advocating.  "How  blessed  the 
righteous  when  they  die."    J.W.  Rkkd. 


In  BRIEF; 


Uncle  Sam  now  has  much  more  than 
100,000,000  silver  dollars  stored  away  in 
subterranean  vaults. 

There  is  a  watch  in  a  Swiss  museum 
only  three-sixteenths  of  an  inch  in  diam- 
eter, inserted  in  the  top  of  a  pencil  case. 
Its  little  dial  indicates  not  only  hours, 
minutes,  and  seconds,  but  also  days  of 
the  month. 

A  foolish  woman  at  Niagara  Palls  in- 
sisted, in  spite  of  the  objections  of  at- 
tendants, on  taking  her  three-months-old 
child  through  the  Cave  of  the  Winds. 
When  she  came  out  the  child  was  dead, 
having  been  suffocated  by  the  spray. 

Probably  the  biggest  yoke  of  oxen  in 
the  world  are  on  exhibition  at  the  East- 
ern Maine  State  Fair  this  week.  They 
were  raised  in  Vermont,  and  measure  ten 
feet  in  girth  and  actually  weigh  7,000 
pounds.  It  cost  to  raise  them  up  to  their 
great  weight  over  $1,000. 

A  most  remarkable  recovery  from  a 
supposed  fatal  injury  has  just  occurred 
at  Tolono,  111.  Frank  McCann,  an  eight- 
year-old  boy,  was  accidentally  struck  on 
the  forehead  with  a  ball  bat,  Aug.  13. 
His  skull  was  fractured  just  below  the 
hair  line  and  a  considerable  quantity  of 
the  brain  escaped  -through  the  opening. 
Leading  physicians  of  the  county  pro- 
nounced the  injury  almost  necessarily 
fatal.  They  desired  to  perform  an  oper- 
ation on  the  boy's  head,  but  his  parents 
objected.  The  little  fellow  rallied,  how- 
ever, within  a  day  or  two,  and  is  now  to 
all  appearances  fully  recovered. 

llie-  Sunday  base  ball  players  were 
again  in  the  municipal  court  Tuesday, 
nineteen  of  them,  including  the  Minne- 
apolis and  Duluth  clubs,  with  the  umpire. 
The  case  was  continued  to  Sept.  20  and 
each  man  placed  under  $200  bonds,  for 
his  appearance  in  court  at  that  time. 
Men  who  will  deliberately  and  wilfully 
violate  the  law  of  the  State,  thereby  mak- 
ing themselves  criminals,  cannot  enter- 
tain a  very  exalted  opinion  of  themselves. 
If  they  expect  to  shield  themselves  under 
the  city  ordinance  they  will  find  that  like 
leaning  on  a  broken  reed,  as  the  city  has 
no  power  to  abrogate  or  nullify  a  State 
law. — Review,  Minneapolis. 

The  Pennsylvania  oil  regions  that  have 
produced  petroleum  worth  many  millions 
of  dollars  are  today  in  a  pitiable  condi- 
tion. The  owners  of  the  wells  are  gen- 
erally bankrupt,  and  in  a  few  days  the 
once  active  oil  fields  will  be  virtually  idle.  I 
The  only  hope  of  the  producers  is  to  close 
the  wells,  stop  the  supply,  and  hope  for 
the  dawn  of  better  times.  The  hand  of 
monopoly  has  fallen  heavily  on  the  erst- 
while rich  region,  and  to-day  it  is  only  a 
sad  ruin  of  what  it  was  but  a  few  years 
ago.  Thousands  and  thousands  of  men 
have  come  to  poverty  who  looked  forward 
to  wealth.  Even  speculation  is  dead. 
Tool-dressers,  pumpers,  drillers  and  other 
mechanics  are  out  of  work,  for  no  new 
wells  are  being  sunk,  and  those  now  run- 
ning are  being  worked  as  economically  as 
possible.  Men  who  once  had  incomes  of 
from  $100  to  $200  a  day  from  their  wells 
are  now  getting  a  laborer's  pay.  The 
fine  residences,  built  by  the  lucky  ones 
in  their  palmy  days,  have  become  neg- 
lected, and  the  once  palatial  rooms  are 
let  out  to  lodgers.  The  producers  and 
the  consumers  have  both  enriched  the 
great  Standard  Oil  Company,  but  the 
consumer,  who  pays  only  a  few  cents 
extra  each  week,  has  hardly  felt  the  hand 


that  has  crushed  the  life  out  of  the  pro- 
ducer. On  the  principle  that  little  drops 
of  water  make  the  mighty  ocean,  so  the 
few  pennies  from  each  consumer  have 
made  millions  of  dollars  for  the  Standard 
Company.  If  it  saw  fit  the  Standard 
Company  could  advance  the  price  of  oil 
to  50  cents  a  gallon,  and  it  would  take 
six  months  for  competition  to  affect  the 
market.  It  rules  the  home  and  foreign 
trade,  and  is  one  of  the  greatest  monop- 
olies in  the  history  of  the  world. 


The  American  Party. 


FiKST  Nomination  for  President  at  Oberhn, 
Ohio,  May  23,  1872. 

Platform  Auoptku  at  Chicago,  June  28, 
1872. 

Name  Adoptbd  at  Syracuse,  N.  Y.,  Juue  3, 
1874. 

PRBSIDENTAL    CANDIDATES: 

1873— Charles  Francis  Adams  and  Joseph  L. 
Barlow. 

1876— James  B.  Walker  and  Donald  Kirkpat- 
rick. 

1880— J.  W.  Phelps  and  Samuel  C.  Pomeroy. 

1884— J .  Blanchard  and  J.  A  .  Conant  nomi- 
nated; the  former  withdrawing,  Samuel  C. 
Pomeroy  was  nominated.  Both  nominees  with- 
drawing, the  support  of  the  party  was  generally 
given  to  John  P.  St.  John  and  William  Daniel, 
candidates  of  the  Prohibition  narty. 

NATIONAL  committee 

District  of  Columbia,  E.  D.  Bailey;  Ala- 
bama, Jesse  Ward ;  Arkansas,  Charles  Paget ; 
Connecticut,  Phillip  Bacon;  Dakota,  A.  F. 
Dempsey;  Florida,  J.  F.  Galloway;  Illinois,  Q. 
N.  Stratton ;  Indiana,  Israel  Hess ;  Iowa,  J.  N. 
Norris ;  Kansas,  H.  Curtis ;  Maine,  J.  8.  Rice ; 
Massachusetts,  8  A.  Pratt;  Michigan,  H.  A. 
Day;  Minnesota,  E.  J.  Payne;  Mississippi,  E. 
Tapley ;  Nebraska,  E.  B.  Graham ;  New  York, 
F.  W.  Capwell;  New  Jersey,  Robert  Arm- 
strong; New  Hampshire,  8.  C.  Kimball;  Ohio, 
J.  M.  Scott;  Pennsylvania,  N.  Callender; 
Rhode  Island,  A.  M,  Paull ;  Tennessee,  R.  N. 
Countee;  Vermont,  F.  F.  French;  Wisconsin, 
M.  R.  Britten. 


AMERICAN  PLATFORM. 


ADOPTED  AT  CHICAGO,  JUNE  30,  1884 


1.  That  ours  is  a  Christian  and  not  a  heathen 
nation,  and  that  the  God  of  the  Christian  Scrip' 
tures  Is  the  author  of  civil  government. 

2.  That  the  Bible  should  be  associated  with 
books  of  science  and  literature  In  all  our  edu- 
cational institutions. 

3.  That  God  requires,  and  man  needs  a  Sab- 
bath. 

4.  We  demand  the  prohibition  of  the  Impor 
tation,  manufacture,  and  sale  of  intoxicating 
drinks. 

5.  We  hold  that  the  charters  of  all  secret 
lodges  granted  by  our  Federal  and  State  Legis- 
latures should  be  withdrawn,  and  their  oaths 
prohibited  by  law. 

6.  We  are  opposed  to  putting  prison  labor  or 
depreciated  contract  labor  from  foreign  coun- 
tries in  competition  with  free  labor  to  benefit 
manufacturers,  corporations  or  Speculators. 

7.  We  are  In  favor  of  a  revision  and  enforce- 
ment of  the  laws  concerning  patents  and  inven- 
tions ;  for  the  prevention  and  punishment  of 
frauds  either  upon  inventors  or  the  general 
public. 

8.  We  hold  to  and  will  vote  for  woman  suf- 
frage. 

9.  That  the  civil  equality  secured  to  all 
American  ci'Jzens  by  Articles  13, 14  and  15  of 
our  amended  National  Constitution  should  be 
preserved  inviolate,  and  the  same  equality 
should  be  extended  to  Indians  and  Chinamen. 

10.  ThatiDtematlonal  differences  should  be 
settled  by  arbitration. 

1 1.  That  land  and  other  monopoUei  should 
be  discouraged. 

12.  Th»ttne  general  government  should  fur- 

13.  Tiat  It  should  be  the  settled  policy  of  the 
government  to  reduce  tariffs  and  taxes  as  rap- 
idly as  the  necessities  of  revenue  and  vested 
bu.sinc^ss interests  will  allow. 

14.  That  polygamy  should  be  Immediately 
suppressed  by  law,  and  that  the  Republican 
party  is  censurable  for  the  long  neglect  of  its 
dut_y  in  respect  to  this  evil. 

1.5.  And,  finally,  we  demand  for  the  Ameri- 
can peonle  the  abolition  of  electoral  colleges, 
and  a  direct  vote  for  President  and  Vice  Presl 
-lento'  ♦•<•  linitA.^  Stjites. 


Five  Dollar 


"The  Broken  StaX." 
■    "The  Master's  Carjxt," 

"In  the  Coih,  or  The  Coming  Conjliet." 

"The  Character,  Claims  ana  Practical  Work 
itws  of  Freemusonrji,''  by  Pres.  C.  G.  Finney. 

"Jieiiiscd  Odd-fellowship;"  the  secret*,  to- 
gether with  a  discussion  of  the  character  ol 
the  order. 

"  Frtfiivisonn/  III ii.it rated;"  the  secrets  i 
first  seven  degrees,  together  with  a  dlscuseiA. 
of  their  character. 

"Scniuttui  and  Addresses  on  Secret  Societie.s;" 
a  valuable  collection  of  the  best  arguments 
against  secret  orders  from  Revs.  Cross,  Wil- 
liams, McNary^  Dow,  Sarver,  Drury,  Prof.  J. 
G.  Carson,  ana  Presto.  Georsf*  and  Blanchard 

ITational  Christian  Association. 

B81  -W.  Madlacxili..  CXU&m.  UL 


ANTI-MASONIO  LB0TURBR8. 

Gbnbbal  AesNT  and  Lbctubbb,  J.  P. 
Stoddard,  221  W.  Madison  St.,  Chicago, 

H.  H.  Hmman,  Cynosure  oflJce. 
Agent  for  Southern  States. 
Stats  Aobnta. 

Iowa,  C.  F,  Hawley,  Wayne,  Henry 
Co.     Care  Rev.  Geo.  Pry. 

Missouri,  Eld.  Rufus  Smith,  Maryville. 

New  Hampshire,  Eld.  S.  C.  Kimball, 
New  Market. 

Ohio,  W.  B.  Stoddard,  Columbus. 

Kansas,  Robert  Loggan,  Clifton. 

Alabama,  Rev.  G.  M.  Elliott,  Selma. 

Dbobbb  WoBKBBa. — [Seceders.l 
J.  K.  Glassford,  Carthage,  Mo. 

OtHBB  liBCTXTBBBB. 

C.  A.  Blanchard,  Wheaton,  111. 
N.  CaUender,  Thompson,  Pa. 

J ,  H.  Tlmmons,  Tarentum,  Pa 

T.  B.  McCormlck,  Princeton,  Ind. 

E.  Johnson,  Dayton,  Ind. 

H.  A.  Day,  Williamstown,  Mich. 

J.  M.  Bishop,  Chanlbersburg,  Pa. 

A.  Mayn,  Bloomlngton,  Ind. 

J.  B.  Cresslnger,  SuUlvan,  O. 

W.  M.  Love,  Osceola,  Mo. 

J.  L.  Barlow,  Grundy  Center,  Iowa. 

A.  D.  Freeman,  Downers  Grove,  111 

Wm.  FentoD .  St  Paul,  Minn. 

E.  I.  GrlnneU,  Blalrsburg,  Iowa. 

Warren  Taylor,  South  Salem,  O. 

J.  8.  Perry,  Thompson,  Conn. 

J.  T.  Michael,  New  WUmlngton,  Pa. 

8.  G.  Barton,  Breckinridge,  Mo. 

E.  Bametson.  Hasklnville,  Steuben  Co,  N.  Y 

Wm.  R.  Roach,  Pickering,  Ont. 

D.  A.  Richards,  Brighton,  Mich. 

THE   CHURCHES    YB.    LODeVRT. 

The  following  denominations  are  com- 
mitted by  vote  of  their  legislative  assem- 
blies or  by  constitution  to  a  separation 
from  secret  lodge  worship: 

Adventists  (Seventh-day.) 

Baptists — Primitive,  Seventh-day  and 
Scandinavian. 

Brethren  (Bunkers  or  German  Bap- 
tists.) 

Christian  Reformed  Church. 

Church  of  God  ^Northern  Indiana  El- 
dership.) 

Congregational — The  State  Associations 
of  Illinois  and  Iowa  have  adopted  resolu- 
tions against  the  lodge. 

Disciples  (in  part.) 

Friends. 

Lutherans — Norwegian,  Danislt,  S>i?»i- 
ish  and  Synodical  Conferences. 

Mennonites. 

Methodists — Free  and  Wesley  an. 

Methodist  Protestant  (Minnesota  Con 
ference.) 

Moravians. 

Plymouth  Brethren. 

Presbyterian — Associate,  Refonne.1  aad 
United. 

Reformed  Church  (Holland  Brsnch.) 

United  Brethren  in  Christ. 

Individual  churches  in  some  of  these 
denominations  should  be  excepted,  in  part 
of  them  even  a  considerable  portion. 

The  following  local  churches  have,  as  a 
pleiige  to  disfellowship  and  oppose  lodge 
worsliip,  given  their  names  to  the  follow- 
ing list  as 

THK    ASSOCIATED   CHURCHK8    OF  CHRlSt. 

New    Ruharaah  Cong.  Hamilton,  Miss. 

Pleasant  Ridge  Cor.g.   Sandford  Co.  Ala. 

New  Hope  Alethodist,  Lowndes  Co.,  Miss. 

Congregational,  College  Springs,  Iowa. 

Colloge^Church  of  Christ.  VVheaton,  111. 

First  CoMgrcgiitional,  Lcland,  Mich. 

Sug'T  (J rove  Church,  Green  county.  Pa. 

Military  Chapel,  M.  E.,  Lowndes  county, 
Miss. 

Hopewell  MUsionary  Baptist,  Lowndes  Co., 
Miss. 

Cedar  Grove  Miss.  Baptist,  Lowndes  Co., 
Miss. 

8iiuon''.s  Chapel,   M.   E.,  Lowndes  Co.,  Miss. 

Pieasuut  Ridge  Misa.  Baptist,  Lowndes  Co., 
Miss.  • 

BrovkTnlec  Church,  Caledonia,  Miss. 

Salem  Church,  Lowndes  Co.,  Miss. 

>Ve6t  Preston  Bantlst  Church.  Wayne  Co..P». 

OTHBR  LOCAL  CHTTRCHBa 

adopting  the  same  principle  are — 

Baptist  churches :  N.  Ablngton,  Pa. ;  Meno- 
monle,  Mondovi,  Waubeck  and  Spring  Prairie, 
Wis. ;  Wheaton,  HI. ;  Perry,  N.  Y. ;  Spring 
Creek,  near  Burlington,  Iowa ;  Lima,  Ind. ; 
Constablevllle,  N.  Y.  The  "Good  Will  Assocl- 
ton"of  Mobile,  Ala.,  comprising  some  twenty- 
five  colored  Baptist  churches;  Bridgewat^'r 
Baptist  Association,  Pa.;  Old  Tebo  Baptist, 
near  Locsvillc,  Henry  Co.,  Mo. ;  Hoopeston,  111; 
Esraen,  111. ;  Strykersvillc,  N.  Y. 

Congregational  churches :  1st  of  Oberlin,  O. ; 
Tonlca,  Crystal  Lake,  Union  and  Big  Woods, 
111. ;  Solsbury,  Ind. ;  Congregational  Methodist 
Maplewood,  Mass. 

Independent  churches  in  Lowell,  Country- 
man school  house  near  Llndenwood,  Martingo 
and  Streator,  111. ;  Bereaand  Camp  Nelson,  Ky ; 
Ustlck,  111. ;  Clarksburg,  Kansas;  8Ut«  Associ- 
ation of  Minister*  and  Chorchet  of  Christ  Is 
KaBtnckr. 


N.  C.  A.  BUILDING  AND  OFTIC*  01 
THE  CHRISTIAN   CYNOSURE, 
S81  WEST  MADISON  STREET,  CHICAGO 


NA  "riONAL  CRRIB  TIAN  AS  800 1  A  TIOE 

PRESiDBirr.— H.  H.  George,  D.  D.,  Gen- 
eva College ,  Pa. 

VicB-PBBSiDBNT — Rcv.  M.  A.  Oaolt, 
Blanchard,  Iowa. 

CoB.  Sbc't  and  Gbitbbal  AeBNT.— J 
P.  Stoddard,  221 W.  Madiaonst.,  Chicago. 

RbC.     880*7.  AND    TBBAfllJBBB.— W.   I. 

Phillips,  221  W.  Madison  St,   Chicago. 

DmBCTOBB. — Alexander  Thomson,  Mi 
R.  Britten,  John  Gardner,  J.  L.  Barlow, 
L.  N.  Stratton,  Thos.  H.  Gault,  0.  A. 
Blanchard,  J.  E.  Roy,  E.  R.  Worrell,  H. 
A.  Piflcher.  W.  R.  Hench. 


The  object  of  this  Association  is: 
"To  expose,  withstand  and  remove  secrel 
societies,  Freemasonry  In  particular,  and  othes 
anti-Christian  novemeuts,  in  order  to  save  tha 
churches  of  Christ  from  being  uepraved,  to  re- 
deem the"  admlnlstr*  ^on  of  justice  from  per- 
version, and  our  r?p  ibUcan  government  from 
corruption." 

To  carry  on  this  work  contributions  are 
solicited  from  every  friend  of  tne  reform. 

Form  of  Bequest. — J  give  and  bequeath  to 
the  National  Christian  Association,  Incorpa 
rated  and  existing  under  the  laws  of  the  State 

of   Illinois,  the  sum  of dollars  for  the 

purposes  of  said  Association,  and  for  which 
me  receipt  of  its  Treasurer  for  the  time  being 
'■UH  be  sufficient  discharse. 

THB  NATIONAL  CONTBNTION. 

Pbbsidbnt.— Rev.  J.  8.  McCuUoch, 
D.  D. 

Skcbetaby.— Rev.  Lewis  Johnson. 
BTATB  axthliabt  assoclationb 

Alabama.— Pre«.,  Prof.  Pickens;  Sec,  B. 
M.  EUlott;  Treas.,  Rev.  C.  B.  Curtis,  all  of 
Selma. 

California.- Pres^  L.  B.  Lathrop,  Hollla- 
ter;  Cor.  Sec,  Mrs.  U.  P.  Merrill,  Woodland; 
Treaa.,  C.  Ruddock,  Woodland. 

CoNNBCTicuT.— Pre*..  J.  A.  Conant,  WUll 
mantle;  Sec,  Geo.  Smith,  Wllllmantle;  Treaa., 
C.  T.  ColUns,  Windsor. 

Ilunois. — Pres.,  J.  L.  Barlow,  Wheaton; 
Sec,  H.  L.  Kellogg;  Treas.,  W.  L  PhllUp* 
Cvnosure  office. 

Indiana.— Pres.,  William  H.  FIgg,  Reno 
Sec,  8.  L.  Cook,  Albion;  Treas.,  Senj.  Ulah 
Silver  Lake. 

Iowa.— Pres.,  Geo.    Warrington,  Blnnln* 
ham;  Cor  Sec,  C.  D.  Trumbull,  Morning  8nn ; 
Treas.,  James  Harvey,  Pleasant  Plain,  Jeffer- 
son Co. 

Kansas.— Pres.,  J.  P.  Richards,  Ft.  Scott; 
8ec^  W.  W.  McMillan,  Olathe;  Treas.,  J. 
A.  "rcrrence,  N.  Cedar. 

Massachttbbtts.— Pres.,  8..A.  Pratt;  Sec, 
Mrs.  E.  D.  Bailey;  Treas., David  Mannlng.Br., 
Worcester.  „   .   „.  ,      ,    „ 

Michigan.— Pres.,  D.  A.  Rlchanls,  Brighton ; 
Sec'y,  H.  A.  Day,  WUllamston;  Treaa. 
Geo.  Bwanson,  Jr.,  Bedfoiu. 

Minnbsota.— Pres.,  E.  G.  Paine,  Waaloja; 
Cor  Sec,  W.  H.  McChesney,  Fairmont;  Rec 
Boc'y,  Thos.  Hartley,  Richland;  Treas.,  Wm. 
H.  Morrill,  St.  Chariea. 

MissouBi.-Pres.,  B.  F.  Miller,  EaglevlUe; 
Xrea6.iWllllam Beanchamp,  Avalon ;  Cor.  8f c., 
A.  D.  Thomas,  Avalou. 

Nbb&aska.— Pres.,  8.  Austin,  Falrmooit; 
Cor.  Bee,  W.  Bpooner,  Kearney;  Treas., 
J.  C.  Fve.  „         ,  „ 

Nbw  Hampshirb.— Pres.,  Isaac  Hyatt,  Gil 
ford  Village ;  Sec,  8.  C  Kimball,  New  Market  • 
Treas.,  James  F.  French,  Canterbury. 

Naw  York.— Free.,  F.  W.  CapweU,  Dale; 
Boc'y,  John  Wallace,  Syracuse;  Treas.,  M. 
Merrick,  Syracuse. 

OHia-Pres.,  Rev.  R.  M.  Smith,  Pagetown: 
Rec  Sec,  Rev.  Coleman,  Utica;  Cor.  Sec  and 
Trca.*;.,  Rpv.  S.  A.  George,  Mansfield;  Agent, 
W    B.'stwldanl,  Columbus. 

Pbnnstlvania.— Pres.,  A.  L.  Poet,  Moc 
trose;  Cor.  bee,  N.  CaUender,  ThompMn; 
Traaa^.W.  B.  Bertels.  WUkesbarre. 

VMiiiOHT.-Pres..  W.  R.  Laird,  St.  Johns- 
bury;  Bee,  C.  W  Potter.       „     .   „      . 

Wi»ooNiiH.-Pre..,J.  W.  Wood,  Baraboo, 
Sec.,  W.  W.  Amet,  MeaonMmle; TreM   M.  & 


8 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYHOSUBE, 


September  22, 1881 


The  Christian  Cynosure. 


J.  BLANCHARD. 


iDnOBS. 


HENRY  L.  KXLLOQG. 


CHICAeO.   THUBSDAY,    SEPTEMBER   22,   1887. 


CONTENTS. 


Bditokial  : 

Dr.  C.  F.  W.  Walther 1 

Sunrise  in  the  South 8 

The  Lodge  in  War  His- 
tory     8 

Shall  we  Write  Louisiana 

at  the  Head  of  the  List?    8 
Notes  and  Comments 9 

CONTBIBUTIONS  : 

Jesus  Christ,  Yesterday, 
To-day  at  d  Forever 1 

Why  is  the  Lodge  Secret?    2 

Masonry  under  the  Mag- 
nifier      2 

Selected : 

Temperance  Farming  with 
worn-out  Machinery 3 

A  Blot  upon  our  Statute 

Books 3 

CiNciSNATi  Letter 4 

Reform  News  : 

In  the  Mountains  of  East 
Tennessee ;  Plans  for 
Ohio;  Record  of  Wis- 
consin Work ;  Iowa 
Heartily  Responds  to 
her  Agent 4,5 


COBBB3PONDBNCB : 

Into  the  Fire  with  it ;  Ex- 
periences  Within  and 
Without  the  Lodge ;  The 
Spirit  Cleanseth;    Pith 

and  Point 5,6 

Boston  Letter 4 

Bible  Lbsson 6 

Obituary 7 

Thoughts  on  National  Re- 
form     9 

Notices 9 

ThbHoub 10 

Tbmperancb 11 

In  Brief 7 

The  N.  C.  a 7 

Lbctdre  List 7 

Church  vs.  Lodge 7 

American  Party 7 

Religious  Nbws 12 

Literature 12 

Lodge  Notes 13 

Home  AND  Health 14 

Farm  Notes 15 

News  of  the  Wbbk 16 

Business 13 

Markets , 13 


Sunrise  in  the  South. — We  hope  our  readers  will 
notice  elsewhere  that  an  entire  Baptist  State  asso- 
ciation (colored)  of  Louisiana,  has  voted  unani- 
mously to  exterminate  and  exclude  secret  societies 
from  their  churches.  This,  so  soon  following  the 
St.  Marion  Association  of  Arkansas,  is  surely  moral 
sunrise  in  the  South.  Dickens,  in  his  letter  to  Mrs. 
Stowe,  excepted  to  her  suggestion  in  "Uncle  Tom's 
Cabin,"  that  the  colored  race  might  yet  come  to  the 
front  and  get  the  ascendant  over  the  whites,  and  so 
"the  last"  literally  become  "the  first."  However 
this  may  prove,  we  know  that  the  white  faces  are  a 
small  minority  of  mankind,  though  they  now  lead 
and  control  them.  But  if  God  means  to  save  and 
exalt,  morally,  the  whole  people  on  this  globe,  great 
and  mighty  revolutions  must  come,  and  they  surely 
seem  to  be  coming.  Will  not  all  our  readers  turn 
their  eyes  South;  and  all  who  can  send  us  sugges- 
tions about  the  proposed  National  Convention  in 
New  Orleans  next  winter. 


THE  LODGE  IN  WAR  HISTORY. 


SEWARD'S    DEFEAT    AND    LINCOLN'S    NOMINATION    IN 

THE  CHICAGO  CONVENTION,  MAY  16,  1860. — 

OTHER  SECRET  LODGE  EXPLOITS. 


The  thrilling  "History  of  Lincoln,"  by  Nicolay 
and  Hay,  now  in  process  of  publication  in  the  C'enr- 
tury,  while  searching  the  United  States  as  with  can- 
dles, to  bring  out  the  hidden  causes  of  the  Great 
Rebellion,  makes  too  little  account  of  one  chief 
agent  in  the  mighty  melee,  to- wit,  the  lodge.  And 
yet,  can  any  rational  man  suppose  for  a  moment 
that  the  thousands  of  Freemasons,  dispersed  through- 
out the  Union,  especially  through  the  South,  meet- 
ing in  temples  and  halls  nightly,  were  idle  lookers- 
on  in  the  thirty  years  which  preceded  and  prepared 
for  the  war? 

In  1860  ten  thousand  men  crowded  the  Chicago 
wigwam  to  make  the  first  Republican  nomination 
which  was  to  succeed.  No  man  in  the  United  States 
had  anything  like  the  prospect  for  the  nomination 
as  Gov.  William  H.  Seward.  No  one  so  fully  rep- 
resented the  Republican  party  as  he  did.  He  re- 
ceived on  the  first  ballot  72  more  votes  than  any 
other  candidate.  This  was  so  well  understood,  that 
Horace  Greeley  telegraphed  to  the  New  York  Tribune 
the  evening  before,  that  '  Seward  would  be  nom- 
inated," though  Mr.  Greeley  was  one  of  his  strongest 
opponents. 

The  city  of  Chicago  was  in  a  quiver  of  excite- 
ment, and  everywhere  candidates  were  discussed  on 
the  evening  previous  to  the  nomination.  Mr.  Philo 
Carpenter  heard  two  Freemasons  talking  on  the 
sidewalk,  who  made  no  secret  of  their  views. 

"Well,"  said  one,  "I  suppose  we  are  to  have  that 
Anti-mason  Seward  as  our  Republican  candidate  to- 
morrow morning." 

"Not  a  bit  of  it,"  replied  the  other.  "The  lodge 
has  seen  to  that  Seward  will  have  a  large  compli- 
mentary vote,  to  satisfy  his  friends;  but  he  will  not 
receive  the  nomination,  and  never  will  be  President." 

So  it  turned  out.  Mr.  Seward  received  173^ 
votes,  and  Mr.  Lincoln  102  at  the  first  ballot.  At 
the  third  ballot  Lincoln  was  nominated.  Judge 
David  Davis  and  Leonard  Swett,  knowing  that  Thur- 
low  Weed  was  chagrined  and  disappointed  at  the 
failure  to  nominate  Seward,  saw  and  urged  Mr. 
Weed  to  return  by  Springfield  to  see  and  converse 
with  Mr.  Lincoln,  to  which  Weed  consented.  He 
went  from  Chicago  to  the  Mississippi,  thence  down 


to  Rock  Island,  and  across  to  Springfield.  On  the 
boat  he  fell  in  with  members  of  the  Virginia  dele- 
gation returning  home,  who,  before  the  convention, 
had  promised  Mr.  Weed  to  suoport  Seward.  These 
gentlemen  said  to  Mr.  Weed,  that  an  explanation 
was  due  him,  because  after  pledging  themselves  to 
support  Seward  they  had  gone  against  him.  "The 
fact  is,"  said  they,  "we  did  not  know  till  we  reached 
the  Convention  that  that  was  the  Wm.  H.  Seward 
who  was  so  busy  about  Anti-masonry  in  Morgan 
times." 

If  there  was  no  mistake  in  the  above  statements, 
which  rested  at  the  time  on  what  seemed  good  au- 
thority, the  nomination  of  Seward  was  defeated  by 
Freemasons  on  account  of  his  Anti-masonry. 

The  history  of  Lincoln  in  the  September  number 
of  the  Century  has  the  following,  page  664: 

"One  of  the  earliest  symptoms  among  the  delegates  at 
Chicago  was  a  strong  under  current  of  opposition  to  his 
(Seward's)  nomination.  This  opposition  was  as  yet  la- 
tent, and  scattered  here  and  there  among  many  State  del- 
egations, but  very  intense,  silently  watching  its  opportu- 
nity and  ready  to  combine  on  any  of  the  other  candi- 
dates." 

If  Messrs.  Nicolay  and  Hay  had  wished  to  de- 
scribe Masonic  opposition,  the  above  are  the  precise 
terms  they  would  have  used.  It  was  neither  polit- 
ical or  partisan,  Northern  or  Southern.  It  was  an 
"under-current,"  "latent,"  "scattered  here  and  there," 
"very  intense,"  "silently  watching," — in  one  word, 
Masonic.  Then,  on  page  681,  speaking  of  the  early 
"agencies  which  organized  the  rebellion,"  these  writ- 
ers say:  "Since  conspiracies  work  in  secret,  only 
fragmentary  proofs  of  their  efforts  ever  come  to 
light."  But  further  on,  page  684,  it  is  said  explic- 
itly: "Two  agencies  have  thus  far  been  described 
as  engaged  in  fomenting  the  rebellion:  the  first,  se- 
cret societies  of  individuals,  like  'The  1860  Associa- 
tion,' designed  to  excite  the  masses  and  create  pub- 
lic sentiment;  the  second,  a  secret  league  of  South- 
ern governors,"  etc.,  etc.  True,  those  Southern  se- 
cret lodges  commonly  took  new  names.  They  could 
not  trust  a  whole  Masonic  lodge,  as  some  of  them 
might  be  Union  men,  and  not  rebels.  But  they  were 
all  Mason  lodges  with  an  alias.  Gen.  Howard  in- 
formed the  writer  that  even  the  butcherly,  night- 
riding  Ku-klux  "kept  their  disguises  in  the  Masonic 
halls!"  Thus  the  White  Leagues,  Knights  of  the 
Golden  Circle,  the  secret  societies  which  defeated 
St.  John  in  Kansas,  with  the  whole  tribe  of  ante- 
bellum clubs  of  conspirators,  just  assumed  new 
names,  adopted  a  stop  degree  and  new  tokens  of 
recognition,  but  swore  the  same  secret  oaths  varied 
to  meet  the  particular  scheme  on  foot,  and  used  the 
same  lodge-rooms,  and  sheltered  each  other  as  dif- 
ferent branches  of  the  same  dark  family  of  conspira- 
tors. The  Blue  Lodges  of  Missouri  did  not  even 
change  their  names  or  vary  their  ritual,  but  as  sim- 
ple Masons,  eo  nomine,  raised,  enlisted,  and  armed 
the  bloody  raids  on  Kansas,  and  informed  Senator 
Pomeroy  that  if  he  would  join  the  Masons  they 
would  protect  him,  but  if  not,  "if  he  attempted  to 
go  up  the  Kaw  River,  he  would  be  killed !"  And 
when  Senators  Pomeroy  and  Lane  reached  Washing- 
ton, Mr.  Ferguson,  who  was  secretary  of  Federal 
Lodge  No.  1,  and  aided  to  initiate  Pike's  Indians, 
informed  the  writer  that  the  ten  lodges  of  the  Dis- 
trict all  went  for  secession,  and  Lincoln's  assassina- 
tion was  one  of  the  Masonic  exploits  of  that  District. 


SHALL  WE  WRITE  LOUISIANA  AT  THE  HEAD 
OF  THE  LIST? 


HER   BAPTIST  STATE  CONVENTION  AFTER  A  REMARK- 
ABLE  DEBATE    VOTES   OUT   THE    LODGE. 


Rev.  Mr.  Hall,  an  intelligent  colored  pastor  of  one 
of  the  Congregational  churches  of  New  Orleans, 
called  at  the  Cynosure  oflSce  a  few  days  since  with  a 
most  remarkable  account  of  the  victory  won  for 
Christ  and  truth  in  the  late  meeting  of  the  State 
Convention  of  the  colored  Baptist  churches  of  Lou- 
isiana. 

This  meeting  was  held  at  Opelousas  and  was  at- 
tended by  large  delegations.  The  subject  of  secret 
societies,  an  ever- pressing  one  among  the  colored 
churches,  was  up  for  discussion,  and  numerous 
speakers  spoke  of  having  received  the  Cynosure 
through  the  kindness  of  unknown  friends;  that  they 
had  read  with  astonishment  and  avidity,  and  had 
become  convinced  that ,  the  secret  orders,  now  over- 
running their  churches,  wtre  actually  practicing  re- 
ligious rites  that  were  a  false  and  forbidden  worship. 
Many  of  the  speakers  had  preached  on  the  subject, 
using  the  facts  and  arguments  gained  from  the  paper 
with  great  effect.  The  unanimous  vote  of  the  Con- 
vention was  that  the  lodges  could  not  live  in  the 
churches,  and  that  the  latter  should  purge  out  the 
secret- society  leaven  from  their  membership. 

This  is  glorious  I    And  following  so  soon  after 


the  St.  Marion  Conference  decision  in  Arkansas, 
gives  us  joy  we  can  hardly  express.  Surely  the  day 
of  God  is  dawning  upon  the  churches,  but  the 
blessed  light  of  Christ  strikes  the  foot  of  these 
mountains  first.  These  lowly  churches  are  reading 
us  at  the  North  a  blessed  lesson;  and  deeply  de- 
served will  be  our  condemnation  if  we  do  not  heed 
it.  In  them  the  Lord  is  again  ordaining  praise,  as 
once  he  did  from  the  mouths  of  babes. 

Bro.  Hall  also  gave  a  happy  testimony  to  the  ex- 
cellence of  Miss  Flagg's  work  on  the  Sabbath-school 
lesson.  Her  notes  are  used  regularly  in  some  of  the 
churches,  and  the  applications  of  the  Word  of  God 
to  the  lodge  evil  are  seed  in  good  soil,  which  shall 
appear  duly  in  an  abundant  harvest. 

These  repeated  testimonies  to  the  value  of  the 
Cynosure  in  the  Southern  work  should  cause  us  to 
redouble  our  efforts  for  its  circulation  there.  The 
colored  pastors  are  unable  generally  to  pay  for  it, 
but  welcome  the  gift  of  Northern  friends.  It  is  a 
small  thing  to  ask  this  year  for  A  thousand  dol- 
lars for  this  fund.  Five  times  that  amount  would 
not  be  too  much.  This  is  a  great,  a  blessed  work. 
Let  brethren  at  the  North  who  have  means  send  on 
the  paper,  and  follow  it  with  their  prayers. 


— Bro.  Peter  D.  Miller  of  Wright's  Corners  in 
western  New  York  is  in  favor  of  a  State  convention 
and  hopes  the  Ohio  agent  can  be  spared  to  work 
for  it. 

— Secretary  Stoddard  wrote  Saturday  very  hope- 
fully of  the  prospect  for  the  Illinois  State  meeting  at 
Belvidere.  Good  meetings  have  been  held  in  the 
vicinity  of  Belvidere.  Bro.  Butler  is  assisting.  He 
is  a  great  tract  distributor,  and  has  judiciously  scat- 
tered 6,000  pages  in  Boone  county. 

— Rev.  J.  Augustus  Cole,  who  is  now  visiting  the 
Wesleyan  State  conferences  in  Illinois  and  Iowa, 
visited  Wheaton  on  the  Sabbath,  preaching  in  the 
College  Chapel  in  the  evening.  A  collection  of  over 
$26  was  taken  for  his  African  mission.  He  has  a 
company  of  seven  already  engaged  to  go  with  him 
to  that  work,  two  or  whom  have  been  students  at 
Wheaton. 

— Our  reform  bard,  George  W.  Clark  of  Detroit, 
is  in  feeble  health.  He  fears  the  effect  of  the  South- 
ern trip  last  winter  yet  remains  in  his  system  in  a 
low  malarial  fever;  but  he  hopes  to  wear  it  out  and 
have  strength  to  sing  and  speak  for  pure  and  holy 
living  to  yet  many  thousands  of  his  fellow  men. 

— Rev.  M.  A.  Gault  gave  two  lectures  last  week 
before  the  students  of  Milton  .College,  Wis.  He 
also  lectured  twice  in  the  Seventh-day  Baptist 
church  at  Milton  Junction.  The  week  before  he 
gave  three  lectures  in  the  Buffalo  U.  P.  church  in 
Marquette  county.  He  also  lectured  the  same  week 
in  Columbia  county  at  Caledonia,  DeKorra,  Arling- 
ton and  Paynette.  He  preached  in  two  of  the  lead- 
ing Janesville  churches  last  Sabbath. 

— Bro.  Wm.  F.  Davis,  of  Chelsea,Mass.,  the  evan- 
gelist of  Boston  Common,sent  the  other  day  a  sharp 
rebuke  to  the  Chelsea  Record  of  the  leading  mem- 
bers of  the  Y.  M.  C.  A.  of  that  city  for  their  world- 
liness  and  sinful  example  as  active  members  of  Ma- 
sonic and  Odd-fellow  lodges.  They  are  plainly  told 
that  they  are  not  fit  to  be  trusted  with  the  direction 
of  Gospel  work  and  impugn  their  own  intelligence 
and  honesty  by  ministering  at  the  false  altars  of  the 
lodge. 

— The  sad  word  had  but  just  come  from  Elder 
Barlow  of  the  death  of  his  beloved  wife,  a  long  and 
patient  sufferer,  when  a  letter  from  Rev.  C.  E.Walk- 
er, of  Grey  Eagle,  Minnesota,  a  freqent  contributor 
to  the  Cynosure  and  pastor  of  the  United  Brethren 
church,  tells  of  the  brief  and  fatal  illness  of  his 
young  wife,Sept.  12.  To  both  these  bereaved  breth- 
ren we  give  our  sincerest  sympathy,  with  the  prayer 
that  the  Divine  Comforter  may  graciously  sustain 
them  in  this  greatest  of  life's  trials. 

— Bro.  6.  H.  Gregorian,  an  Armenian  from  Cjes- 
area  in  Cilicia,  completed  his  studies  at  Wheaton 
College  and  Chicago  Theological  Seminary  last 
spring,  and  is  now  on  his  return  to  take  charge  of 
an  important  church  and  school  at  Yczgat,  Asia 
Minor,  under  engagement  to  the  American  Board. 
He  writes  from  Great  Barrington,  Mass., where  he  is 
visiting  the  aged  missionary  and  great  friend  of  the 
Armenians,  Rev.  H.  T.  VanLennep.  Before  his  de- 
parture from  this  country  he  is  lecturing  in  New 
England  and  raising  funds  for  a  small  outfit  to  be 
used  in  Armenia.  His  work  there  will  be  partially 
self-supporting,  the  Board  supplying  deficiencies. 
Bro.  Gregorian  is  well  known  to  many  readers  of  the 
Cynosure  and  will  write  occasionally  for  them.  The 
action  of  the  American  Board  in  engaging  this  na- 
tive Armenian  brother  for  labor  among  his  own  peo- 
ple is  cheering,  and  indicates  a  more  liberal  man- 
agement    among     the     Armenians     which     will 


September  22,  1887 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


be  hailed  by  the  American  churches.  A  few  years- 
since  Armenians  seeking  an  education  in  this  coun 
try  for  missionary  service  were  hampered  and  per- 
plexed greatly. 

— In  our  brief  notice  last  week  of  the  Farm,  Field 
and  JStocJcman,  the  able  farmers'  journal  conducted 
by  Gen.  C.  H.  Howard  in  this  city,  there  was  not 
room  to  speak  of  a  singular  experience  that  paper 
is  having.  Mr.  "Wilson,  one  of  the  publishers,  is 
an  experienced  seedsman,  and  in  following  up  a 
business  in  which  he  had  delight,  he  made  the  offer 
of  seed  premiums  a  profitable  one  for  the  paper. 
But  it  seems  that  the  American  Seed  Trade  Associ- 
ation, a  secret  society  of  seed  dealers,  consider  that 
this  business  is  trespassing  upon  its  privileges,  in 
giving  away  that  for  which  they  are  accustomed  to 
charge  very  high  prices.  At  their  last  meeting  at 
Philadelphia,  the  Association,  therefore,  passed  a 
resolution  boycotting  the  paper  and  binding  all  its 
members  to  withdraw  their  advertising  and  other 
patronage  from  it  unless  its  publishers  shall  discon- 
tinue their  free  seed  distribution.  As  this  resolu- 
tion is  inspired  by  purely  selfish  motives,  and  the 
paper  is  engaged  in  a  generous  and  commendable 
work,  the  boycott,  as  is  usually  the  case  when  this 
vulgar  weapon  is  used,is  likely  to  prove  a  boomerang 
to  the  seedsmen.  The  publishers  of  the  paper  not 
only  propose  to  go  right  along  supplying  its  sub- 
scribers with  new  varieties  of  seed  free,  but  has 
also,  as  an  answer  to  the  boycott,  made  arrangements 
to  supply  them  with  such  seeds  as  they  want  to  buy, 
at  wholesale  prices. 

^  •  *■ 

N0TB8AND  G0MMBNT8. 


We  can  not  have  Gladstone  and  Bright,  but  in 
October  an  English  deputation  will  reach  Washing- 
ton to  present  a  memorial  on  international  arbitra- 
tion to  President  Cleveland  and  Congress,  Andrew 
Carnegie,  the  iron  manufacturer  of  Pittsburgh,  will 
introduce  them,  and  Lord  Herschel,  late  Lord  Chan- 
cellor under  Gladstone,  will  join  them  here.  Our 
Presidents  have  in  several  annual  messages  called 
upon  Congress  to  act  in  this  matter,  and  it  will  make 
any  administration  illustrious  which  can  secure  a 
definite  action  and  permanent  results.  It  is  a  noble 
reform,  but  it  is  pitiful  that  our  law  makers  turn 
from  it  to  proposals  for  big  ships,  guns  and  forts  on 
which  they  can  spend  an  immense  treasury  surplus. 


The  trial  of  Munchrath  for  complicity  in  the  mur- 
dier  of  Haddock  at  Sioux  City  is  over.  The  jury  re- 
tired Saturday  evening  and  next  day  reported  a  ver- 
dict of  manslaughter.  An  appeal  will  be  taken,  but 
the  verdict  will  probably  stand.  It  is  received  with 
satisfaction  by  the  people,  who  saw  with  alarm  the 
former  triumph  of  the  murderous  saloon  in  the 
Arensdorf  case.  This  conviction  re-opens  the  whole 
case,  puts  the  prosecution  upon  the  vantage  ground, 
as  evidence  valuable  to  the  prosecution  has  been 
established,  contradicting  the  defense  set  up  by 
Arensdorf.  The  latter  is  fast  losing  the  ill-deserved 
sympathy  he  has  enjoyed;  the  saloons  are  all  closed; 
the  resources  of  the  indicted  conspirators  are  van- 
ishing, and  a  far  different  result  awaits  the  chief 
actor  in  the  great  targedy  when  he  shall  be  again  put 
on  trial. 


Rev.  Mr.  Goss,  pastor  of  Chicago  Avenue 
church,  in  this  city,  is  preaching  a  series  of  six  sec- 
ular sermons  on  consecutive  Thursday  evenings, 
commencing  with  the  subject,  "The  Dignity  of  a 
Servant  Girl's  Position."  His  other  themes  are: 
"A  Clerk's  Temptations,"  "Poor  People  and  Good 
Clothes,"  "The  Manufacture  of  Paupers,"  "The 
Homes  of  the  Poor,"  and  "The  Nineteenth  Century 
Taskmasters."  Mr.  Goss's  recent  sermon  in  the  in- 
terest of  tailoring  girls  was  the  subject  of  general 
comment,  and  his  known  interest  in  the  welfare  of 
all  classes  of  workingmen  and  women  is  drawing 
large  and  attentive  audiences.  The  Inter  Ocean  pub- 
lishes an  abstract  of  each  discourse.  A  false  and 
evil  report  has  gone  out  that  the  recent  trouble  in 
the  church  which  called  Mr.  Moody  from  the  East 
came  from  the  anger  of  wealthy  manufacturers  in 
the  church.  There  are  no  such  members.  The  ob- 
jection was  for  an  altogether  different  reason,  and  the 
young  pastor  by  using  a  mid-week  evening  for  these 
discourses  is  harmonizing  all  conflicting  interests. 


The  decision  of  the  Illinois  Supreme  Court  a  (firm- 
ing the  judgment  of  the  lower  court  was  given  to 
the  world  last  Wednesday.  The  solemn  sentence 
again  sent  a  thrill  of  awe  through  all  hearts,  and 
seven  men  are  to  be  hung  on  the  11th  of  November 
next,  if  their  sentence  is  not  commuted.  Talk  of  an 
appeal  to  the  Supreme  Court  of  the  United  States, 
and  the  engagement  of  eminent  lawyers  is  nearly 
subsided,  and   the  anarchists  within  and  without 


Cook  County  jail  are  giving  every  energy  of 
thought  and  action  to  move  Governor  Oglesby  to  use 
his  clemency.  It  cannot  be  denied  that  there  is  an 
ill-concealed  sentiment  in  favor  of  commuting  the 
sentences  of  Fielden  and  Schwab;  but  it  is  not 
likely  to  affect  the  Governor.  The  Knights  of  La- 
bor and  labor  union  lodges  quite  generally  in  Chi- 
cago and  New  York  are  declaring  against  the  ver- 
dict in  spite  of  Powderly's  declaration  that  his  order 
is  not  anarchistic.  The  verdict  is  received  gener- 
ally, however,  with  the  belief  that  the  courts  have 
done  their  duty  well,  and*  the  decision,  though 
reached  through  unusual  ditliculties,  is  just  and  must 
be  maintained. 


THOUGHTS  ON  NATIONAL  RBFORM. 


IT  IS  HAND   IN   HAND   WITH   THE    N.  0.  A.  WORK, 


W.  L.  Wright,  of  Waukesha,  Wis.,  said  to  me  re- 
cently— and  he  is  among  the  most  intelligent  and 
liberal  supporters  of  all  reforms — "I  am  now  con- 
vinced that  you  can't  carry  the  National  Reform  and 
anti-secret  ideas  separately,  though  I  once  thought 
that  this  could  be  done."  He  is  now  satisfied  that 
the  National  Reform  plow  must  be  put  in  so  deep 
that  it  will  tear  up  by  the  roots  the  upas  of  secret 
societies. 

Rev.  J.  D.  Smith,  pastor  of  the  United  Presbyte- 
rian church  at  ]jodi,  Wis.,  is  desirous  of  working  in 
the  anti-secret  reform,  but  cannot  leave  home  on  ac- 
count of  an  invalid  wife.  He  has  helped  me  more 
in  National  Reform  work  than  any  minister  in  the 
State.  He  told  me  that  true  loyalty  to  Christ  would 
never  permit  a  National  Reformer  to  dodge  the  anti- 
secret  issue.  The  law  of  God  is  a  unit,  and  Divine 
truth  is  a  unit,  and  you  cannot  separate  it,  or  ignore 
any  part  of  it. 

But  still  there  is  reason  and  good  sense,  as  Bro. 
Smith  says,  in  each  movement  giving  its  main 
strength  to  its  special  department  of  reform.  Let 
the  anti-secret  movement  direct  its  main  strength  to 
prove  the  danger  that  comes  to  state  and  church 
from  secret  societies;  and  showing  how  they  obstruct 
all  reforms;  and  putting  some  other  reform  to  the 
front  if  necessary,  as  a  sugar  coating  to  the  pill. 
Also  let  the  National  Reformer,  while  showing  the 
danger  of  leaving  God  out  of  government,  not  shun 
to  declare  when  it  comes  in  his  way — and  there  are 
few  places  where  it  will  not  come  in  his  way — that 
secret  societies,  especially  Freemasonry,  commits 
the  same  sin  as  the  government,  in  putting  another 
supreme  above  God  and  the  Bible.  But  the  advo- 
cates of  each  movement  must  confine  their  strength 
mainly  to  their  distinct  issues.  A  lecturer  "will  get 
mighty  thin  if  he  spreads  himself  over  all  reform 
questions."  On  the  principle  of  division  of  labor, 
let  us  be  mainly  specialists. 

A  generation  ago,  the  National  Reform  idea,  or 
the  idea  of  God  in  government,  was  heralded  by  a 
somewhat  eccentric  but  powerful  preacher  named 
Dr.  James  Renwick  Willson,  His  dust  for  nearly 
fifty  years  has  been  sleeping  in  Coldenham  church- 
yard. Orange  Co,,  N.  Y.  Dr.  John  Mason  said  in 
his  day,  that  Dr.  Willson  was  the  most  eloquent 
preacher  in  the  United  States.  Prof.  J,  R,  W, 
Sloane  and  Dr,  A,  M.  Milligan  were  students  under 
Dr,  Willson,  and  I  have  heard  them  both  declare 
that  they  got  their  main  inspiration  on  this  question 
from  him, 

Sloane  and  Milligan  were  men  such  as  the  centu- 
ries seldom  produce,  Sloane  was  a  power  in  argu- 
ment and  debate,  and  Milligan  was  the  eloquent  ora- 
tor, I  have  heard  Talmage  and  Beecher,  but  their 
words  have  never  stirred  my  soul  like  the  words  of 
Dr,  Milligan,  But  while  these  men  by  their  popu- 
lar addresses  in  conventions  and  meetings,  were  the 
chief  instruments  in  arousing  a  sentiment  on  the 
National  Reform  question,  and  popularizing  the 
movement,  yet  they  lacked  the  ability  to  organize 
that  sentiment.  This  was  left  for  two  men  who  were 
students  under  Dr.  Sloane.  They  were  Dr,  David 
McAllister,  and  Dr,  T,  P,  Stevenson,  the  editors  of 
the  Chrittian  IStatetman,  who  have  given  the  best 
strength  of  their  lives  to  this  movement.  Its  per- 
fect organization,  and  judicious  management,  are 
due  mainly  to  their  iDtluence,  They  have  made  this 
question  a  life  study,  and  are  perhaps  better  author- 
ities on  all  (questions  relating  to  government  and 
God  than  any  men  in  the  nation. 

Recently  at  the  liake  Side  convention  where  Dr. 
McAllister  made  an  address,  and  presided  at  a  quep- 
tion  drawer,  a  large  variety  of  questions  were 
handed  in,  and  the  Doctor  answered  them  so  satis- 
factorily that  the  people  could  not  help  expressing 
their  admiration.  When  the  question  in  reference 
to  secret  srtieties  came  up,  Dr,  McAllister  disposed 
of  it  in  much  the  same  style  as  Dr.  Blanchard  would 
have  done.  M.  A.  Qault. 


NOTICES. 


WISCONSIN. 


The  annual  meeting  of  the  Wisconsin  Christian  Aseo- 
ciation  will  be  held  at  Milton,  Rock  county,  on  the  line 
of  the  Chicago  and  North  Western  railroad,  also  on  the 
Chicago,  Milwaukee  and  St.  Paul  railroad,  September 
28th  and  20th,  comnoencing  at  9  a.  m.  od  the  2Sth  ioBt. 
This  convention  will  be  preceded  by  a  four  days'  meet- 
ing conducted  by  I.  R.  B.  Arnold  and  his  eight  associ- 
ates, in  a  large  tent  pitched  for  that  purpose,  There 
should  be  a  general  rally  of  friends  from  all  parts  of  the 
State,  and  all  who  can  should  be  present  to  attend  Bro, 
Arnold's  illustrated  lecture  on  the  lodge  on  the  evening 
of  the  27lh.  J.  W.  Wood,   i'm, 

W.  W.  Ames,  Secy. 


HOI   MlNNESOTlANSa 


The  "Minnesota  Christian  Association"  will  meet  in 
convention  in  Minneapolis?  Tue'^day,  Wednesday  and 
Thursday,  Oct.  4,  5  and  0,  1887,  The  church  or  hall  will 
be  announced  later. 

The  convention  will  open  Tuesday  evening  with  an 
address  by  Rev.  J.  P.  Stoddard,  Secretary  of  the  N.  C.  A, 

Rev.  C.  F.  Hawley,  lecturer  for  the  Iowa  Christian 
Association,  will  be  present. 

If  any  friend  of  the  cause,  man  or  woman,  in  Miuue- 
sota,  Iowa,  or  Wisconsin,  has  aught  to  say  on  any  phase 
of  this  great  reform,  he  is  hereby  invited  to  be  present 
and  speak.  Prepare  yourselves  well  enough  to  speak 
briefly,  and  reporc  to  the  undersigned  at  the  convention. 

The  afternoon  sessions  will  be  devoted  to  these 
speeches,  the  morning  sessions  to  business.  The  even- 
ing sessions  will  be  occupied  by  brethren  Stoddard  and 
Hawley. 

The  local  committee  of  arrangements,  Bro.  Elwood 
Hanson,  says  that  either  free  or  very  cheap  homes  will 
be  provided  for  all  who  come  and  report  at  his  office,  15 
Fourth  Street,  South. 

Buy  the  excursion  ticket  to  Minneapolis  which  the 
railroads  are  now  offering  at  reduced  rates.  Come  up, 
brethren  and  sisters,  in  the  name  and  spirit  of  Christ,  to 
do  your  best  for  the  cause.     E.  Q.  Paine,  Pres.  M.  C.  A. 

N.  B. — Will  friendly  pastors  please  announce  to  their 
congregations. 

^  •  » 

ANNUAL   MEETING  OF   THE  N.  H.  C.  A. 


The  Eleventh  Annual  Meeting  of  the  New  Hampshire 
Christian  Association  will  be  held  in  Arcanum  Hall,  No. 
939  Elm  street,  Manchester,  October  29,  30,  31,  1887, 
commencing  Saturday  at  2  o'clock  p,  m.,  and  closing 
Monday  evening;  entertainment  free.  Reduced  railroad 
fare  expected  from  the  following  stations:  Rochester, 
Dover,  Newmarket  Junction,  Portsmouth,  North  Weare, 
Laconia,  and  Concord.  Horse  cars  from  depot  to  hall. 
Addresses,  sermons  and  essays  are  expected  from  the  fol- 
lowing persons:  Rev.  J.  Blanchard  of  Illinois,  Rev.  E, 
W.  Oakes,  Manchester,  Elders  A.  Kidder,  C.  L.  Baker, 
Isaac  Hyatt,  8.  C.  Kimball,  Mrs.  C.  W.  Bixby,  Miss  Annie 
M.  Ray,  Miss  E.  E.  Flagg.  and  Miss  I.  D.  Haines,  evan- 
gelist of  Maine.  Miss  Haines  will  preach  the  annual 
sermon   and  direct  the  devotional  services. 


A  GALL  FOR  A  SABBATH  CONVENTION. 


The  undersigned,  ministers  and  members  of  churches, 
feeling  that  the  prevalent  desecration  of  the  Sabbath  is 
injuring  the  churches,  promoting  infidelity  and  provok- 
ing the  just  anger  of  God,  unite  in  calling  a  convention 
of  Christian  people  who  sympathize  with  us  in  this  feel- 
ing to  meet  in  Elgin.  Illinois,  November  8th,  1887,  at 
7:30  r.  M  ;  to  continue  in  session  through  the  following 
day.  The  purpose  of  this  convention  is  to  consider  and 
pray  and  act  in  reference  to  this  matter  as  (}od  shall  di- 
rect. The  place  of  meeting  will  b6  subsequently  an- 
nounced. 
A.  H.   Bali.,  IIknry  Wilson, 

Elgin  Cong'l  Ch.  Carpcnterville  Cong'l  Cb. 

H.  H.  MoNROK,  E.  F.  Wruiht, 

Malta  Cong'l  Ch.  Crystal  Lake  Cong'l  Ch. 

W.  L.  Fkbris,  Frank  W.  Smith. 

Dundee  Cong'l  Ch.  (.iarden  Prairie  Cong'l  Ch. 

C.  E.  Chapell,  Del,         W.  I.  Phillips, 

Malta  Cong'l  Ch.  Pub.  Christinn  Cynwirrt. 

J.  F.  Robert,  H.  W.  HAKnAUon, 

Wayne  Cong'l  Ch.  Genoa  Junct.  Cong'l  Ch. 

H.    M.    SkKHLS,  .TnO.   MlTtllELL, 

Evsngilist.  Sycamore  Cong'l  Ch. 

CtiAS.  H.  Abbott,  E.  C.  Giild,  M.  D.,  Mem., 

Geneva  Congl'  Ch.  Bartlett  Cong'l  Cb. 

E.  W.  FisiiKii,  Del., 
Wheat  on  Cong'l  Ch. 

The  above  call,  agreed  upon  by  the  brethren 
named,  is  now  sent  out  with  the  earnest  request  that 
all  Christians,  especially  all  Christian  ministers.will 
aid  in  making  the  convention  a  success.  To  this 
end,  Ist  Let  every  one  approving  of  the  meelicg 
cut  out  the  call. paste  it  upon  a  sheet  of  foolscap  pa- 
per, api)end  his  own  name  and  secure  others.  2nd. 
Present  it  to  churches  and  other  religious  bodies 
and  ask  its  endoreemont  3rd.  When  this  work  is 
done,  forward  the  call  with  its  signatures  and  en- 
dorsements to  Ucv.  John  Mitchell,  Sycamore,  Ills. 
He  will  combine  the  signatures  from  all  quarters. 
4th.  Plan  to  be  at  the  cnnvenlion  with  your  friends. 
Let  us  rally  for  the  Sabbath. 


10 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


September  22, 188T 


THE  HOME. 


THE  F0R8AEEN  FARM-H0V8B. 


AgaiDEt  the  wooded  hills  it  stands, 
Ghost  of  a  dead  home,  staring  through 

Its  broken  lights  on  wasted  lands 
Where  old-time  harvests  grew. 

I'nplowed,  unsown,  by  scythe  uushoru, 

The  poor  forsaken  farm-fields  He, 
(Ince  rich  and  rife  with  golden  corn. 

And  pale  green  breadths  of  rye. 

<Jf  healthful  herb  and  flower  bereft, 
The  garden  plot  no  housewife  keeps ; 

Through  weeds  and  tangle  only  left. 
The  snake,  its  tenant,  creeps. 

A  lilac  spray,  once  blossom-clad. 

Sways  bare  before  the  empty  rooms ; 
Beside  the  roofless  porch,  a  sad. 

Pathetic  red  rose  blooms. 

His  track,  in  mold  and  dust  of  drouth. 
On  floor  and  hearth  the  squirrel  leaves. 

And  in  the  fireless  chimney's  mouth 
His  web  the  spider  weaves. 

The  leaning  barn,  about  to  fall. 

Resounds  no  more  on  husking  eves; 
No  cattle  low  in  yard  or  stall. 

No  thresher  beats  his  sheaves. 

So  sad,  80  drear !    It  seems  almost 
Some  haunting  presence  makes  its  sign ; 

That  down  yon  shadowy  lane  some  ghost. 
Might  drive  his  spectral  kine. 

—John  Oveerihaf  Whittier. 


ONB  WAY  TO  LOOK  AT  IT 


Mrs.  Barnes,  with  her  friend  Mrs.  Preston,  stood 
before  a  counter  doing  some  morning  shopping. 

"I  have  a  consignment  of  muslin  underwear  that 
I  would  like  to  show  you,"  said  the  proprietor. 
"They  are  much  finer  and  cheaper  than  anything  I 
have  had  heretofore." 

The  ladies  exclaimed  as  box  after  box  was  opened 
before  them. 

"How  pretty,  and  how  well  made!"  said  Mrs. 
Barnes. 

"Good  work  and  good  material,"  said  Mrs.  Pres- 
ton, examining  with  critical  eyes. 

"And  the  embroidery  is  so  fine  and  put  on  so 
tastefully,"  said  her  friend. 

"They  are  much  cheaper  than  you  could  get  them 
by  buying  the  material  and  having  them  made," 
said  the  proprietor,  and  his  customers  fully  agreed 
with  him. 

"How  is  it  possible  to  sell  them  so  cheap,  and 
make  any  profit?"  asked  Mrs.  Barnes. 

"Well,  you  see,"  said  the  gentleman,  "the  muslin 
is  bought  from  the  mills  and  the  embroidery  from 
the  factories,  by  the  million  yards.  The  cutting  is 
done  by  machines  which  cut  thousands  at  one  move- 
ment. And  the  sewing  machines  which  make  up 
the  garments  are  run  by  water  or  steam  power." 

"Still,"  said  Mrs.  Preston,  "there  must  be  a  good 
deal  of  human  power  expended  on  the  putting  to- 
gether, the  guiding  of  these  dainty  tucks  and  ruf- 
fles. I  wonder,"  looking  thoughtfully  at  one  of  the 
pretty  garments,  "how  many  backs  and  eyes  have 
ached  over  these." 

"I  suppose  that's  a  consideration  which  has  to 
enter  in,"  said  the  proprietor.  "It  is  very  likely 
that  those  who  have  the  most  work  in  these  things 
have  the  least  profit." 

"You  needn't,  however,  try  to  make  me  feel  sol- 
eipn  over  them,"  said  Mrs.  Barnes,  laughing.  "I'm 
going  to  buy  them,  and  take  all  the  comfort  I  can 
out  of  their  goodness  and  cheapness,  without  having 
it  spoiled  by  your  dismal  reflections.' 

"It  is  very  likely  I  shall  buy,  too,"  said  Mrs. 
Preston,  with  a  smile,  "as  I  do  not  see  my  way  to 
the  correcting  of  whatever  abuse  may  lie  in  the  mat- 
ter." 

Mrs!  Barnes  bought  largely;  Mrs.  Preston  took  a 
few  articles,  remarking,  "I  must  take  measurements 
of  my  growing  girls  before  1  get  any  more." 

The  ladies  separated  as  they  left  the  store,  Mrs. 
I'reston  taking  Mie  streetcars  which  led  into  the 
neighborhood  of  the  bouse  of  her  washwoman. 

She  found  Mrs.  McFinn  in  the  full  tide  of  wring- 
ing, boiling,  rinsing,  and  starching,  but  not  too  busy 
to  sit  down  for  a  short  time  to  enjoy  the  visit,  made 
half  for  business,  but  half,  she  well  knew,  for  friend- 
liness. 

A  girl  with  a  slender  form,  and  a  face  whose  pale- 
ness and  expression  of  wistful  depression  appealed 
strongly  to  Mrs.  Preston's  sympathies,  was  cowering 
over  the  stove  as  she  came  in,  but  soon  after  left  the 
room. 

"Who  is  she?"  asked  Mrs.  Preston. 

"O,  it's  a  slip  av  a  gurrel  that'g  got  niver  the   bit 


av  a  father  or  mother,  God  help  the  crathur!  She 
come  up  from  the  counthry  lasht  fall,  to  take  a  place 
in  wan  o'  thim  big  shtores.  An'  they  worked  her 
very  hard — she  shtandin'  on  the  two  feet  of  her 
sometimes  till  'livin  o'clock  o'nights  whin  the 
Christhmas  thrade  was  doin'.  An'  whin  that  was 
over,  they  give  her  short  notice  to  quit;  an'  she's 
been  thryin'  to  sew  since  thin.  But  it's  the  shtarv- 
in'  prices  they  pays  for  shop  work.  An'  the  poor 
bit  av  a  thing  comes  m  here  to  get  warm,  for  it's  no 
fire  she  has  in  her  own  room." 

The  steamy  air  of  the  room,  heavy  with  the  vile 
odors  of  soiled  linen,  together  with  other  odors 
which  belong  to  crowded  living  and  lack  of  ventila- 
tion, were  already  making  Mrs.  Preston  long  for  a 
breath  of  the  outside  air.  Mrs.  McFinn's  buxom 
figure  seemed  to  thrive  on  the  familiar  atmosphere, 
but  her  visitor's  heart  ached  with  the  thought  of  the 
pale  girl,  and  her  mind  wandered  to  her  own  bloom- 
ing daughters.  How  could  she  bear  to  have  them 
breathe  such  air  for  a  moment?  Had  the  mother  of 
this  girl,  in  dying,  looked  forward  with  sad  forebod- 
ing to  the  possibilities  which  might  await  her  child? 

"Couldn't  she  take  a  place  at  housework?"  she 
asked — she  had  small  sympathy  for  the  sentiment, 
whatever  it  might  be,  which  would  keep  a  person 
from  seeking  the  comforts  of  such  a  situation. 

"Well,  ma'am,  it's  a  wake  back  she's  got,  an'  it's 
no  heavy  work  she  could  be  doin'." 

Mrs.  Preston  considered  for  a  moment. 

"Tell  her  to  come  around  to  see  me,"  she  said, 
"and  1  will  give  her  some  sewing." 

"Indeed,  ma'am,  it'll  be  the  blessed  thing  for  her. 
She's  thryin'  with  all  her  might  to  help  somebody 
belonging  to  her,  an'  it's  my  belafe  she  don't  get  a 
dacent  bit  to  ate  from  wan  month's  ehd  to  another." 

Mrs.  Preston  considered  again,  then  asked  to  see 
the  girl,  and  engaged  her  to  come  to  her  house  and 
do  sewing  by  the  day. 

"Have  you  bought  your  underwear?"  asked  Mrs. 
Barnes  of  her  friend  as  she  stepped  in  for  a  morn- 
ing chat  two  or  three  weeks  later. 

"No,  I  am  hiring  it  made." 

Mrs.  Barnes  held  up  her  hands  in  astonishment. 

"Why,  Margaret,  don't  you  know  it's  the  most  ex- 
travagant and  thriftless  thing  in  the  world  to  hire 
such  work  done?" 

"Oh,  I  think  not,"  said  Mrs.  Preston,  smiling  at 
her  friend's  vigorous  way  of  expressing  herself.  "I 
am  inclined  to  believe  it  about  the  most  economical 
arrangement  I  have  ever  made." 

"Then  you  must  be  getting  it  done  cheaply,  won- 
derfully so.  Now,  begging  your  pardon,  Margaret, 
I  have  my  doubts  about  its  being  right  to  pay  these 
very  low  prices.  Doesn't  it  seem  a  little  like  grind- 
ing the  faces  of  the  poor?" 

"I  hope  I  shall  not  do  that,"  said  Mrs.  Preston, 
smiling  now  at  Mrs.  Barnes's  virtuous  air  and  words. 
"I  am  not  putting  the  work  out,  but  having  it  done 
in  the  house." 

"Margaret!  It  will  cost  you  a  small  fortune!  It's 
bad  enough  by  the  piece,  but  the  idea  of  having 
plain  sewing  done  by  the  day !  Why,  I  thought  you 
had  very  sensible  ideas  on  the  subject  of  economy!" 

"Did  you?"  said  Mrs.  Prfeston,  a  sober  look  tak- 
ing the  place  of  the  smile.  "I  chanced  to  meet  with 
a  young  girl  who  stood  sorely  in  need  of  the  com- 
forts of  a  home,  a  warm  room  to  work  in,  and  plenty 
of  good,  nourishing  food,  and  I  have  taken  so  much 
pleasure  in  seeing  the  color  and  the  roundness  com- 
ing into  her  cheeks,  and  the  forlorn,  discouraged 
look  going  out  of  her  eyes,  that  I  feel  as  though  I 
had  made  a  very  good  bargain." 

'.'But  it  will  take  her  weeks,  or  months,  to  do  your 
plain  sewing." 

"Probably.  And  she  is  nice  and  quick  in  her 
ways  about  other  things;  so,  if  nothing  better  offers 
for  her,  I  may  decide  to  keep  her  all  the  time." 

"Very  nice  for  people  that  can  afford  it,"  said 
Mrs.  Barnes.  "You  see,  it  is  simply  adding  one 
more  to  j'our  family.  You  are  at  the  expense  of 
her  entire  support." 

"Yes,  and  in  view  of  the  fact  that  I  do  not  really 
need,  all  the  time,  exactly  such  help  as  she  can  give, 
it  may  look  like  an  extravagance.  But  I  have  been 
thinking  more  about  such  things  lately,  Ruth,  and  I 
am  not  sure  that  our  best  economies  are  those  in 
which  we  save  the  most  money.  To  get  right  at  the 
root  of  my  idea — if  I  don't  bore  you?" — 

"No;  go  on.     I  like  to  hear  you  talk." 

"Well,  when  a  man  is  able  to  marry  and  support 
a  family — a  decent  Christian  family,  I  mean — he  is 
doing  a  great  deal  more  good  in  the  world  than  if 
he  lived"  only  to  himself,  isn't  he?" 

"Of  course." 

"And  if  they  keep  one  or  more  servants  who  be- 
come partakers  of  the  comforts  and  good  influences 
of  the  home,  it  is  doing  just  so  much  more,  isn't  it?" 

"Yes." 

"Well,  now,  it  has  become  impressed   upon  me 


that  when  such  a  family  is  blessed  with  a  fair  share 
of  prosperity,  the  best  use  they  can  make  of  it  is  to 
extend  these  benefits  a  little  farther.  Suppose,  for 
instance,  a  friendless  girl  has  a  share  of  the  com- 
forts under  their  roof,  doing  what  lies  in  her  power 
to  earn  them?  Now,  if  in  giving  her  the  chance  of 
doing  so,  my  sewing  costs  me  a  little  more  than  it 
otherwise  might,  I  am  quite  willing  to  let  the  bal- 
ance go  over  to  my  gifts,  feeling  sure  that  the  Lord 
will  see  that  it  is  counted  up  fairly." 

"You  are  right,"  said  Mrs.  Barnes  as  she  took  her 
leave. 

She  walked  home,  musing  on  her  friend  and  her 
friend's  words  and  ways:  "  'I  was  an  hungered,  and 
ye  gave  me  meat;  I  was  thirsty,  and  ye  gave  me 
drink;  I  was  a  stranger,  and  ye  took  me  in.'  Yes, 
yes;  she  is  doing  it  in  the  very  letter  and  the  spirit." 
— Sidney  Day  re,  in  Congregationalist. 


'I'M  HANDLING  TRU8T  FUNDS." 


Stepping  into  the  store  of  a  Christian  business 
man  one  day,  I  noticed  that  he  was  standing  at  his 
desk  with  his  hands  full  of  bills  which  he  was  care- 
fully counting  as  he  laid  them  down  one  by  one. 

After  a  brief  silence  I  said: 

"Mr.  Henry,  just  count  out  $50  from  that  pile  of 
bills  and  make  yourself  or  some  other  person  a  life 
member  of  the  Christian  Giving  Society." 

He  finished  his  count  and  quickly  replied,  "I'm 
handling  trust  funds  now." 

His  answer  instantly  flashed  a  light  on  the  entire 
work  and  life  of  a  Christian,  and  I  replied  to  his 
statement  with  the  question: 

"Do  you  ever  handle  anything  but  trust  funds?" 

If  Christians  would  only  realize  that  all  that  God 
giv^es  us  is  "in  trust,"  what  a  change  would  come 
over  our  use  of  money.  "I'm  handling  trust  funds 
now!" 

Let  the  merchant  write  the  motto  over  his  desk; 
the  farmer  over  the  income  of  his  farm;  the  labor- 
er over  his  wages;  the  professional  man  over  his 
salary;  the  banker  over  his  income;  the  housekeep- 
er over  her  house  expense  purse;  the  boy  and  girl 
over  "pocket  money" — and  what  a  change  would  be 
made  in  our  business! 

A  business  man  who  had  made  a  donation  of 
$100,000  to  a  Christian  enterprise  once  said  in  the 
hearing  of  the  writer: 

"I  hold  that  a  man  is  accountable  for  every  six- 
pence he  gets." 

There  is  the  Gospel  idea  of  "trust  funds." 

Let  parents  instruct  and  train  their  children  to 
to  "handle  trust  funds"  as  the  stewards  of  God's 
bounty,  and  there  will  be  a  new  generation  of  Chris- 
tians. 

Thanks  to  Mr.  Henry  for  the  suggestive  remark: 
"I'm  handling  trust  funds  now."  It  will  help  us  to 
do  more  as  the  stewards  of  Gk)d.  May  it  help  others. 
—  Christian   Giver. 


B7B8  OPBN. 


Rachie  went  oQ.  to  school  wondering  if  Aunt  Amy 
could  be  right. 

"I  will  keep  my  eyes  open,"  she  said  to  herself. 

She  stopped  a  moment  to  watch  old  Mrs.Bert.who 
sat  inside  her  door  binding  shoes.  She  was  just 
now  trying  to  thread  a  needle,  but  it  was  hard  work 
for  her  dim  eyes. 

"Why,  if  here  isn't  work  for  me!"  exclaimed  Ra- 
chie. "I  never  should  have  thought  of  it  if  it  hadn't 
been  for  Aunt  Amy.  Stop,  Mrs.  Bert,  let  me  do  that 
for  you." 

"Thank  you,  my  little  lassie.  My  poor  old  eyes 
are  worn  out,  you  see.  I  can  get  along  with  the 
coarse  work  yet,but  sometimes  it  takes  me  five  min- 
utes to  thread  my  needle.  And  the  day  will  come 
when  I  can't  work,  and  then  what  will  become  of  a 
poor  old  woman?" 

"Mamma  would  say  the  Lord  would  take  care  of 
you,"8aid  Rachie  very  softly,  for  she  felt  she  was 
too  little  to  be  saying  such  things. 

"And  you  can  say  it  too,  dearie.  Goon  to  school 
now.  You've  given  me  your  bit  of  help  and  your 
comfort  too." 

But  Rachie  had  got  hold  of  the  needle-book,  and 
was  bending  over  it  with  busy  fingers. 

"See,"  she  presently  said, "I've  threaded  six  need- 
les for  you  to  go  on  with.  And  when  I  come  bapk 
I'll  thread  some  more." 

"May  the  sunlight  be  bright  to  your  eyes,  little 
one,"  said  the  old  woman  as  Rachie  skipped  away. 

"Come  and  play,  Rachie,"  cried  many  voices  as 
she  drew  near  the  play-ground.  "Which  side  will 
you  be  on?" 

But  there  was  a  little  girl  with  a  very  downcast 
face  sitting  on  the  porch. 

"What  is  the  matter,  Jennie?"  said  Rachie,  going 
to  her. 


Septekber  22, 1887 


THE  CHRISIIAN  CYNOSURE. 


11 


"I  can't  make  these  add  ap,"  said  Jennie  in  a  dis- 
couraged tone,  pointing  to  a  few  smeary  figures  on 
her  slate. 

"Let  me  see — I  did  that  example  at  home  last 
night.     Oh,  you  forgot  to  carry  ten — see?" 

"So  I  did."  The  example  was  finished  and  Jennie 
was  soon  at  play  with  the  others. 

Rachie  kept  her  eyes  open  all  day,  and  was  sur- 
prised to  find  how  many  ways  there  were  of  doing 
kindnesses,  which  went  far  toward  making  the  day 
happier.  Try  it,  little  girls  and  boys,  and  you  will 
see  for  yourselves. 

"Will  you  look  here.  Miss  llachie?" 

Bridget  was  sitting  in  the  back  porch,looking  dole- 
fully at  a  bit  of  paper  which  lay  on  the  kitchen  ta- 
ble she  had  carried  out  there. 

"It's  a  letther  I'm  afther  writin'  to  me  mothcr,an' 
it's  fearin'  I  am  she'll  niver  be  able  to  rade  it,  be- 
cause I  can't  rade  it  mesilf.  Can  you  rade  it  all. 
Miss  Rachie?  It's  all  the  afternoon  I've  been  at 
it." 

Rachie  tried  with  all  her  might  to  read  poor 
Bridget's  queer  scrawl  but  was  obliged  to  give  it  up. 

"I'll  write  one  for  you  some  day,  Bridget,"  she 
said.  "I'm  going  over  to  Jennie's  to  play  'I  spy' 
now." 

The  fresh  air  and  the  bird  songs  and  the  soft  wind 
made  it  very  pleasant  to  be  out  of  doors  after  being 
in  school  all  day.  And  her  limbs  fairly  ached  for 
a  good  run.  But  she  turned  at  the  gate  for  another 
look  at  Bridget's  woebegone  face. 

"I'll  do  it  for  you  now.  Bridget,"  she  said,  going 
back. 

It  was  not  an  easy  task,for  writing  was  slow  work 
with  her;  but  she  formed  each  letter  with  painstak- 
ing little  finger8,and  when  she  had  finished" felt  well 
repaid  by  Bridget's  warm  thanks  and  a  satisfied  feel- 
ing of  duty  well  done. 

"Our  Master  has  takeu  his  journey 
To  a  country  that's  far  away . " 

Aunt  Amy  beard  the  cheery  notes  floating  up  the 
stairs,  telling  of  the  approach  of  the  little  worker. 

"I've  been  keeping  my  eyes  open,  Aunt  Amy,and 
there's  plenty  and  plenty  to  do." — (SW. 


GRANDMOTHER  READING  TEE  BIBLE. 


Hush,  little  fee£l  go  softly 

Over  the  echoiDg  floor, 
Grandmother's  readinc;  the  Bible 

There  by  the  open  door. 
All  of  Its  pages  are  dearer  still, 
Now  she  is  almost  down  the  hill . 

The  golden  summer  sunshine 

Round  her  is  gently  shed, 
Gold  and  silver  together 

Crowning  her  bending  head, 
While  she  follows  where  saints  have  trod, 
Reading  the  blessed  Book  of  God. 

Grandmother's  |)a8t  the  morning, 

Past  the  noonday  suu  , 
And  she  Is  reading  and  resting 

After  her  work  is  done ; 
Now  in  the  (juiet  autumn  eves 
She  has  only  to  bind  her  sheaves. 

Almost  through  with  trial. 

Almost  done  with  care 
And  the  discipline  of  sorrow 

Hallowed  by  trust  and  prayer, 
Waiting  to  lay  her  armor  down, 
To  go  up  higher  and  take  the  crown. 

No  little  feet  to  foUow 

Over  this  weary  road, 
No  little  hand  to  lighten 

Of  many  a  weary  load ; 
Children  standing  in  honored  prime 
Bless  her  now  in  her  evening  time. 

Grandmother  has  closed  the  volume, 

And  by  her  saintly  look, 
I'cace  I  know  she  has  gathered 

Out  of  the  sacred  Book ; 
Maybe  she  catches  through  the  door 
GlirapBCB  of  heaven's  eternal  shore. 

—  V/irixtian    MVcW//. 


A    WONDURFl  L   BCBO. 


There  is,  near  Boston,  in  that  i)art  of  Newton 
known  as  the  Upper  Fall,  a  most  remarkable  and 
magnificent  structure  justly  called  "Kcho  Bridge." 
People  from  a  distance  visit  it  as  one  of  the  won- 
ders of  New  Kngland.  The  bridge  is  about  .500 
feet  long,  and  has  seventeen  arches.  Six  of  these 
have  spans  of  thirty-seven  feet  each,  but  the  seventh 
is  130  feet,  the  second  in  size  on  this  continent,  and 
one  of  the  largest  stone  arches  in  the  world.  But 
the  most  wonderful  feature  of  this  structure  is  the 
"echo,"  from  which  it  derives  its  name.  An  ordin- 
ary shout  will  be  repeateti  from  fifteen  to  twenty 
times,  and  it  is  said  that  a  pistol-shot  will  cre- 
ate upward  of  twenty-five  Bc-hoes.    A  party  of  visitr 


ors  shouted  the  word  "Ha!"  and  such  a  merry  peal 
of  laughter  resounded,  that  they  were  forced  to  join 
it  in  spite  of  themselves.  The  word  "echo"  (with 
the  accent  on  the  last  syllable)  was  spoken  in  a  sharp, 
full  tone,  and  the  voice  of  the  "cow-boy"  was  heard 
in  the  surrounding  woods,  calling,  "co — co — co — co 
— CO,"  growing  fainter  and  fainter,  as,  in  imagina- 
tion, the  boy  with  his  cows  left  the  party  in  tlie  rear. 
—  Congregationnlitt, 


Temperance. 


THE  MIUHIOAN  PROHIBITION  VOTE. 


BY   OEOBGE   W.    CLARK. 


What  mean  those  one  hundred  and  seventy-eight 
thousand  ballots  for  the  amendment?  They  were 
cast  by  the  most  intelligent,  virtuous,  loyal  and  pat- 
riotic citizens,  and  the  heaviest  tax  payers  of  the 
State.  These  votes  certainly  did  not  mean  mere 
"restriction"  or  "regulation."  They  did  not  mean 
high  or  low  license.  Nor  did  they  mean  "high  tax" 
or  "local  option,"  nor  any  scheme  which  implies  li- 
cense— thus  making  the  people  guilty  and  responsi- 
ble for  the  crimes  and  wretchedness  caused  by  the 
traffic.  All  these  schemes  are  cunningly  devised 
evasions,  shirks,  to  stave  off  the  duty  and  responsi- 
bility of  the  real  issue,  to  head  off  the  Prohibition- 
ists and  so  keep  the  "G.  O.  P."  in  good  favor  with 
the  liquor  interest,  and  secure  for  it  the  liquor  sup- 
port. All  this  tampering  with  the  enemy  favors, 
fattens,  strengthens  and  emboldens  the  monster  and 
prolongs  the  struggle  for  his  destruction.  1 1  keeps 
the  old  wolf  upon  its  legs,  hungry,  voracious  and 
prowling  for  its  prey.  No,  gentlemen,  that  4th  of 
April  vote  has  no  doubtful,  no  uncertain,  no  ecjuiv- 
ocal  significance.  It  means  death  to  the  li<jUor  traf- 
fic. It  means  straight  out  prohibition  and  nothing 
else.  It  means  prohibition,  "rooted  and  grounded, 
sure  and  steadfast"  in  the  constitution;  prohibition 
firmly  imbedded  in  the  fundamental  law  of  the 
land. 

And  now  when  the  good  people  demand  bread  will 
you  give  thena  stones?  When  they  demand  fish  will 
you  continue  to  give  them  scorpions?  When  they 
ask  relief  and  protection  from  this  Satanic  traffic  by 
prohibition  will  you  open  the  flood  gates  of  crime 
and  woe  upon  them  by  license?  Under  this  Satan- 
ic license  or  tax  system  the  liquor  mongers  have 
grown  to  be  a  bloated,  insolent  and  menacing  oli- 
garchy, setting  at  defiance  the  laws  of  both  God  and 
man.  Their  traffic,  like  the  slave  traffic,is  a  piracy, 
and,  like  that  inhuman  traffic,  has  no  rights  but  to 
die!  Its  saloon  rows,  riots,  outrages.  Sabbath  dese- 
crations and  bloody  murders  are  the  order  of  the 
day;  and  every  newspaper  teems  with  its  revolting 
deeds.  Its  control,  not  only  of  votes  but  of  courts, 
its  manipulations  of  juries  and  evasion  of  convic- 
tions and  of  penalties,  its  thwarting  of  justice  and 
escape  from  deserved  punishment  for  its  cold-blood- 
ed and  atrocious  crimes,  are  notorious  and  alarming 
to  all  lovers  of  law  and  order,  of  home  and  country. 

The  old  political  parties  have  courted  and  coddled 
and  licensed  this  bloated,  beastly  power  until  it  has 
grown  into  a  huge  monster  anaconda,  under  the  in- 
fluence and  power  of  whose  crushing  coils  they  are 
now  writhing  and  beginning  to  cry  out,"The  saloons 
must  go!"  But  the  saloons  won't  go,  gentlemen,  so 
long  as  they  are  upheld  and  sanctified  by  your  li- 
cense, tax  or  local  option  laws.  They  will  continue 
to  murder  our  sons,  beggar  and  break  the  hearts  of 
our  daughters,  and  fill  our  prisons  and  poor-houses 
and  mad-houses  just  so  long  as  they  can  subordinate 
your  parties  to  their  base,  selfish  and  devilish  pur- 
poses. This  monster  will  only  loosen  his  terrible 
coils  and  yield  his  deadly  grip  by  the  ixjwer  of  en- 
tire prohibition.  All  monkeying  around,  all  clap- 
trap legislation, all  tampering  with  this  excrescence, 
this  moral  putridity,  will  utterly  fail  to  eradicate  it. 

Detroit,  Mich, 


TEMPERANCE  TEACUINU. 


1  wonder  if  any  other  mother  has  two  l)oys  who 
are  such  walking  interrogation  points  as  mine  are. 
They  come  home  from  school  bubbling  over  with 
information,  which  they  proceed  to  impart  to  me  in 
the  Socratic  fashion. 

"Mamma,  who  killed  the  Gorgon?"  said  Arthur— 
who  is  reading  Charles  Kingley's  "Greek  Heroes" 
— one  day  last  week,  when  I  was  busy  making  a 
cottage  pudding  for  dinner.  I  tried  to  remember 
whether  it  was  Perseus  or  Theseus,  and,  on  the 
Irishman's  principle  that  if  it  was  not  one  it  was 
the  other,  managed  to  answer  it  right 

The  next  question  proved  not  so  easy.  "Mam- 
ma, where  are  the  Kastern  Highlands?" 

"Oh,  a  part  of  Boston,  I  Buppose."  J  answered. 


absently,  trying  to  remember  whether  I  had  put  any 
salt  into  the  pudding  sauce. 

"Not  right!"  said  my  young  mentor;  "the  Kastern 
Highlands  extend  from  the  Appalachian  system  to 
the  Great  Atlantic  Plain." 

"Well,"  I  said,  "you  can  see  the  great  Atlantic 
plain  in  Boston;  that  is,  if  you  stand  on  high  enough 
ground  and  use  your  eyes." 

"Oh,  you  mean  the  great  Atlantic  Ocean;  that 
isn't  it  at  all,"  said  my  disgusted  young  teacher. 

The  new  temi)erance  textrbooks  have  just  l)C€n 
introduced  into  our  schools,  so,  now,  my  teaching  is 
all  on  the  line  of  the  physical  effects  of  alcohol  on 
the  human  system. 

"Mamma,  what  does  alcohol  do  to  the  muscles?" 
said  Kddie,  the  younger  and  more  fervid  apostle  of 
temperance,  the  other  day. 

"I  suppose  it  weakens  them,"  I  said,  doubtfully. 

"No,  it  don't;  it  changes  the  muscles  into  fat," 
said  Master  Eddie,  and  both  boys  looked  suspi- 
ciously  at  my  plump  self. 

"Oh,  well,"  I  answered,  quickly,  in  self-defense, 
"it  doesn't  make  gootl,  solid  fat,  but  soft  and  flabby." 

Both  boys  gave  my  arm  a  reassuring  pinch,  and 
confidence  was  restored  to  their  young  bosoms. 

"What  does  alcohol  do  to  the  human  stomach?" 
was  the  next  question. 

"It  causes  dys[)ep3ia,"  said  I,  taking  refuge  in  a 
long  word. 

"Worse  than  that,"  said  both  boys  in  chorus;  "it 
takes  the  coat  all  off  a  man's  stomach." 

"I  have  known  it  to  take  the  coat  off  bis  back, 
too,"  I  answered,  jocosely;  but  they  were  in  no  jok- 
ing mood. 

"That  is  nothing,  mamma;  a  man  might  stop 
drinking,  and  earn  money  and  buy  a  new  coat  for 
his  back,  but  he  could  never  get  his  coat  for  his 
stomach  back  again." 

Another  time,  when  we  had  boiled  eggs  for  break- 
fast, the  boys  took  occasion  to  explain  how  the 
brain  becomes  cooked  in  alcohol  until  it  is  almost 
like  the  bard-boiled  egg,  till,  at  last,  I  said: 
-  "Well,  boys,  how  do  you  suppose  a  man  feels 
with  his  muscles  turned  to  fat,  the  coat  of  his  stom- 
ach all  gone,  and  his  head  full  of  hard-boiled  eggs 
instead  of  brains?" 

"I  think  he  didn't  know  what  it  was  going  to  do 
to  him,  or  he  wouldn't  have  used  it,"  said  Eddie. 
"You  won't  get  any  of  the  school-boys  to  use  it,  not 
if  they  was  a-dying,"  he  protested,  forgetting  his 
grammar  in  his  earnestness. 

After  the  boys  had  gone  to  school  I  kept  think- 
ing of  Eddie's  words,  and  thanking  God  for  scien- 
tific  temperance   teaching   in   the   schools. — Zion't 

Herald. 

«  »  > 

PROHIBITIONISTS  IN  MASSACHUSETTS. 


The  State  I'rohibition  convention  met  in  Worces- 
ter September  7.  It  was  composed  of  857  delegates, 
representing  190  cities  and  towns.  Three  thousand 
five  hundred  dollars  was  raised  for  campaign  pur- 
poses. A  telegram  was  sent  to  Neal  Dow  stating 
the  number  present  and  saying:  "Cheer  up,  old 
man;  your  children  are  growing  to  a  mighty  height" 
W.  H.  Earle  of  Worcester  was  nominated  for  Gov- 
ernor; Dr.  John  Blackmer  of  Springfield  for  Jiieu- 
tenant  Governor;  Amos  E.  Hall  of  Chelsea  for  Sec- 
retary of  State;  J.  H.  Kilborn  of  Lee  for  State  Treas- 
urer; E.  M.  Stowe  for  Auditor,  and  Allen  Collin  of 
Nantucket  for  Attorney  General.  The  platform  ac- 
cuses the  liquor  men  of  bribing  legislatures  and 
murdering  its  opponents;  declares  against  licensing 
and  local  options;  insists  on  the  necessity  of  a  thinl 
party;  declares  that  the  DemoiTatic  party  makes  no 
pretensions  in  the  direction  of  prohibition,  and  that 
the  Republican  party  does  nothing  else,  and,  in  con- 
clusion, it  demands  the  immediate  repeal  of  all  li- 
cense laws  and  the  submission  of  a  constitutional 
prohibition  amendment  to  the  i)eoplc. 
-^  ^-^ 

The  new  law  in  New  York  against  Ihc  adultera- 
tion of  wine  has  just  gone  into  effetrt  It  ptohibits 
among  other  things  the  "carbonating"  process  for 
making  champagne.  The  dealers  arc  preparing  to 
fight  the  law. 

The  late  Iowa  Republican  convention  put  this 
plank  in  their  platform:  "Iowa  has  no  compromise  to 
hold  with  the  salmon.  We  declare  in  favor  of  the  faith- 
ful and  vigorous  enforcement  in  all  parts  of  the 
State  of  the  pn">hibitory  law.  The  pharmacy  law  and 
the  county  jwrmil  law  should  be  so  amended  as  to  pre- 
vent the  drugstore  or  wholesale  liquor  law  from  lie- 
coming  in  any  manner  the  auhsiituto  or  sucit'ssorof 
the  saloon."  This  is  the  emphatic  i>oaition  that 
should  be  everywhere  taken  by  the  KepublicaLs. 
Such  a  course  is  the  only  salvation  of  the  party.  A 
large  botly  of  the  party  in  Iowa,  however,  have  se- 
ceded, and  are  working  up  an  independent  move- 
ment with  the  hope  of  keeping  it  alive  on  litjuor. 


12 


TKE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSTTRK. 


September  22, 1887 


REFORM  NBW8  {Continued  from  5th  page). 

can  be  used  when  sent  to  the  treasurer  of  the  State 
Association,  James  Harvey  of  Pleasant  Plain,  Jef- 
ferson county,  Iowa,  in  paying  what  is  behind  of 
the  expenses'  of  last  year's  work.  But  now  the  ef- 
fort is  to  raise  a  subscription  to  meet  the  expenses 
of  a  second  year.  Why  should  the  work  cease? 
Who  will  help  financially  to  carry  the  reform  for- 
ward in  the  State  of  Iowa? 

Dr.  J.  N.  Norris,  the  veteran  of  the  anti-lodge  re- 
form in  Iowa,  was  gone  on  a  visit  to  his  children  in 
Nebraska.  They  miss  him  at  home,  and  I  was  sorry 
to  find  him  away.  He  headed  the  subscription  with 
$1  per  month  for  the  last  year.  Dr.  W.  Pitt  Nor- 
ris promptly  subscribed  $1  per  month  for  the  sec- 
ond year.  Henry  McCausland  followed  with  the 
same.  Bro.  J.  Graham,  a  pillar  in  the  Free  Meth- 
odist church  of  Birmingham,  subscribed  50  cts.  a 
month,  as  did  Dr.  J.  C.  Norris  and  Bro.  C.  M.  Thomp- 
son of  the  Christian  church.  Each  of  these  gave 
the  same  subscription  they  gave  last  year,  except 
Dr.  J.  C.  Norris,  who  doubled  his.  Wm.  Miser,  who 
is  also  a  pillar  in  the  F.  M.  church  and  a  seceded 
Mason,  subscribed  $5  for  the  second  year. 

There  is  an  unchartered,  clandestine  Masonic 
lodge  in  Birmingham,  and  Bro.  Miser  assured  me 
that  they  do  as  perfect  work  as  any  of  the  "lawfully 
constituted  lodges"  in  that  or  the  adjoining  counties. 
A  number  more  subscribed  so  that  on  Saturday  I 
booked  $53  in  subscriptions  to  the  State  Association. 
At  1 1  A.  M.  on  the  Sabbath  I  preached  in  the 
U.  P.  church  for  Rev.  George  Warrington,  the  pas- 
tor, who  is  president  of  the  Iowa  Association  and 
editor  of  the  Birmingham  Free  Press  and  also  of  the 
Psalm  Singer,  an  able  monthly  fast  coming  into  fa- 
vor with  the  Psalm-singing  churches.  In  the  even- 
ing I  preached  in  the  Free  Methodist  church. 

On  Monday  1  took  subscriptions  to  the  amount  of 
$29,  and  Tuesday  night  I  lectured  in  the  U.  P. 
church.  Dr.  W.  Pitt  Norris  assured  me  that  his 
father  and  himself  would  secure  what  additional 
subscriptions  they  could  in  their  county.  The  re- 
formers of  Iowa  are  determined  to  push  on  the 
work  until  God,  in  his  good  providence,  shall  give 
the  victory.  If  the  same  indomitable  spirit,  that 
many  have  manifested,  is  in  the  hearts  of  the 
friends  of  reform  throughout  the  State,  we  shall  be 
able  to  go  forward  through  the  year  to  come  despite 
the  obstacles  in  our  way  because  of  the  prevailing 
drouth.  Let  friends  of  the  anti-secret  reform,  all 
over  Iowa,  send  in  their  subscriptions  or  cash  do- 
nations to  James  Harvey,  State  treasurer.  You  will 
find  his  name  and  address  among  the  officers  of  the 
Iowa  State  Associatipn  published  every  week  in  the 
Cynosure. 

From  Birmingham  I  came  to  Pleasant  Plain  and 
stopped  with  James  Harvey.  Here  I  lectured  Sat- 
urday evening  and  preached  in  the  Friends  meeting 
house  Sabbath  morning  and  in  the  Presbyterian 
church  at  night.  James  Harvey,  Aaron  Burgess,  J. 
C.  Paxton,  Milton  Paxton  and  John  Lena  subscrib- 
ed to  carry  forward  the  reform  work  another  year, 
and  Mrs.  Dr.  Smith  gave  a  cash  donation  of  $5. 

From  Pleasant  Plain  I  went  to  Washington  and 
called  upon  Dr.  Crawford.  I  was  encouraged  to 
find  the  last  year's  subscription  so  nearly  paid,  and 
to  be  assured  that  those  who  had  not  already  paid 
were  staunch  men  whose  pledge  was  as  good  as 
money  in  bank.  I  had  only  time  to  begin  the  work 
of  securing  a  renewal  of  subscriptions  at  Washing- 
ton for  another  year. 

I  cut  short  my  work  at  Washington  to  go  to  Os- 
kaloosa  to  attend  the  Friends'  Yearly  Meeting,  to 
secure  the  enlarged  co-operation  of  Friends  repre- 
sented in  that  body. 

I  hope  that  the  annual  meeting  of  the  Iowa  Chris- 
tian Association,  to  be  held  at  College  Springs,Page 
county,  Oct.  18,  will  be  largely  attended  by  the 
friends  of  reform.  The  outlook  at  the  Oskaloosa 
Yearly  Meeting  will  be  given  in  my  next. 

C.  F.  Hawley. 


Religiotjs  News. 


— Evangelist  Moody  does  not  intend  going  to  In- 
dia. His  reasons  are  that  the  work  of  the  mission- 
aries is  more  successful  than  his  meetings.  He  will 
fiuite  likely  labor  this  fall  in  the  Southwest,  possibly 
beginning  in  Kentucky. 

—  I).  W.  Whittle  begins  a  series  of  meetings  at 
Ottumwa,  Iowa,  Sept.  15.  From  thence  he  goes  to 
Dubuque,  Iowa,  and  after  that  to  Keokuk,  reaching 
the  latter  place  by  Nov.  15.  It  is  understood  that 
some  concerted  ofTort  is  being  made  to  keep  him  in 
Iowa  this  season. 

— Eight  or  ten  of  the  churches  in  the  central  part 
of  the  city  of  Toronto,  Canada,  have  secured  the 
services  of  the  noted  evangelist.  Dr.  L.  W.  Munhall, 
for  a  series  of  evangelistic  meetings  to  begin  on 


September  18,  Dr.  Munhall  will  be  accompanied 
by  Professor  and  Mrs.  Towner,  so  well  and  widely 
known  for  their  services  in  Gospel  song.  The  serv- 
ices are  to  be  entirely  undenominational,  and  will  be 
held  in  one  of  the  largest  rinks  in  the  city.  Dr. 
Munhall  spent  a  portion  of  August  conducting  the 
night  meetings  at  Lakeside,  Ohio.  August  24  he 
began  a  two  weeks'  campaign  at  Bowdoin  Square 
Baptist  church,  Boston. 

— Bev.  Geo.  F.  Pentecost,  D.  D.,  plans  to  begin  in 
Stamford,  Conn.,  or  Amesbury,  Mass.  In  Novem- 
ber he  goes  to  Augusta,  Me. ;  in  December,  to  Law- 
rence, Mass.;  thence  to  Gloversville,  Utica,  Schenec- 
tady and  Rochester,  N.  Y.,  to  June  1st,  1888. 

— Charles  Herald  begins  evangelical  work  in  early 
September  at  Geneseo,  111.  He  is  also  urged  to  go 
to  Ft.  Wayne,  Ind.,  from  Geneseo.  On  Sunday, 
Oct.  9th,  he  begins  a  series  of  meetings  in  Hartford, 
Conn.  Nov.  1st  he  enters  upon  work  in  the  Cooper 
Union,  N.  Y.,  for  six  months. 

— The  Secretary  of  the  American  Board  of  For- 
eign Missions  has  lately  received  letters  depicting  a 
terrible  condition  of  affairs  among  the  famine- 
stricken  people  of  the  Cicilian  plain,  Asia  Minor. 
The  inhabitants  are  literally  starving,  and  the  mis- 
sionaries at  Adana  are  furnishing  bread  to  1,500 
families.  The  American  Board  has  made  an  ap- 
peal for  funds  with  which  to  alleviate  the  distress. 
Contributions  for  that  purpose  should  be  forwarded 
to  the  treasurer,  Langdon  S.  Ward,  No.  1  Somerset 
street,  Boston. 

— A  deputation  from  the  Edinburgh  Medical  Stu- 
dents' Missionary  Association  is  to  visit  America  in 
the  interests  of  evangelistic  work.  The  deputation 
consists  of  Professors  Simpson  and  Greenfield,  of 
the  Edinburgh  University,  and  Professor  Drum- 
mond,  whose  name  has  become  a  household  word 
all  over  the  world.  The  deputation  is  also  to  con- 
sist of  a  number  of  students.  This  deputation  has 
already  visited  most  of  the  universities  in  Scotland 
and  England. 

— At  the  last  meeting  of  the  American  Bible  So- 
ciety in  New  York  the  attention  of  the  Board  was 
called  to  the  recent  official  order  prohibiting  the  use 
of  the  Dakota  language  in  certain  schools  in  Monta- 
na and  Dakota  Territory,  and  a  committee  consist- 
ing of  Dr.  Fancher,  the  Hon.  John  Jay  and  Secreta- 
ry Gilman  was  appointed  to  consider  this  matter  in 
its  relation  to  the  circulation  of  the  Scriptures  print- 
ed by  the  Society  in  the  Indian  languages. 

— Over  two  million  dollars  is  the  sum  to  be  dis- 
tributed under  the  will  of  the  late  Cornelius  B.  Ir- 
win, of  New  Britain, Conn.,  President  of  the  Russell 
and  Irwin  Manufacturing  Company.  Among  the  be- 
quests are  $10,000  each  to  the  American  Home  Mis- 
sionary Society,  American  Missionary  Association, 
American  Baptist  Home  Missionary  Society,  and  the 
Connecticut  Industrial  School  for  girls;  $30,000  for 
Mariette  College,  Ohio,  and  $25,000  for  Oliver  Col- 
lege, Michigan. 

— The  religious  statistics  of  Prussia,  taken  in  De- 
cember, 1885,  have  been  published.  According  to 
these  the  Protestants  number  18,243,587,  or  64.42 
per  cent  of  the  total  population;  the  Catholics,  9,- 
621,624,  or  33.07  per  cent;  366,543,  or  1,30  per  cent 
are  Jews. 

— The  New  Testament,  which  was  translated  into 
Hebrew  by  the  late  Rev.  Isaac  Salkinson,  mission- 
ary among  the  Jews  of  Vienna,  has  been  reprinted 
there  in  a  second  edition  of  120,000  copies.  By 
means  of  the  subscription  of  one  generous  Scotch 
donor,  100,000  copies  are  at  his  request  to  be  dis- 
tributed among  the  Hebrew-reading  Jews  all  over 
the  continent. 

— Rev.  Mr.  Tong,  a  Chinese  Baptist  preacher,  de- 
livers exhortations  in  front  of  a  large  pagan  temple 
in  Chinatown,  San  Francisco,  every  Sunday. 

— The  Telugu  Mission  of  the  (English)  Church 
Missionary  Society  received  330  members  by  bap- 
tism last  year.  There  are  now  5,707  baptized  Chris- 
tians in  connection  with  this  prosperous  mission. 

— Dr.  Horatius  Bonar,  of  Edinborough,  Scotland, 
has  been  in  the  ministry  for  fifty  years,  and  is  now 
making  arrangements  to  retire  from  active  work. 
He  is  an  able  and  earnest  preacher,  a  somewhat  vol- 
uminous writer,  and  the  author  of  some  of  the  most 
beautiful  Christian  hymns  in  our  language. 

— There  are  now  upon  the  upper  Congo  seven 
steamers,  four  owned  by  the  Free  State,  one  by 
France,  and  two  by  missionary  societies.  The  fleet 
will  soon  be  doubled  by  the  addition  of  another 
Free  State  steamer,  one  for  Bishop  Taylor's  mission, 
and  those  belonging  to  the  Compagnie  Beige  du 
Congo,  and  the  American,  Dutch  and  French  trad- 
ing companies. 

— Bishop    Tattle    of    the    Protestant  Episcopal 


Missions,  twenty  years  after  his  first  arrival  there, 
says:  "I  have  lived  to  see  the  imperious  arrogance 
of  Mormonism  bite  the  dust,  although  deep-seated, 
obstinate  rebelliousness  remains."  During  his  one 
month's  visit  he  had  confirmed  fifty  persons,  of 
whom  twenty-five  came  out  of  Mormonism. 

— In  the  First  Baptist  church,  San  Francisco,  Sun- 
day, Aug.  21,  nearly  a  thousand  dollars  were  raised 
for  a  Chinese  mission  building  in  that  city.  This 
was  a  good  thing  to  do  in  the  city  where  the  cry  was 
first  heard,  "The  Chinese  must  go." 

— According  to  the  statistical  report  of  the  Sun- 
day-schools in  the  United  States,  rendered  at  the 
late  International  Congress  held  in  Chicago,  there 
has  been  an  increase  in  the  scholar  membership  of 
all  the  Sunday-schools  in  the  United  States  since 
1884,  of  365,645. 

— The  Moravian  Society  for  Propagating  the  Gos- 
pel among  the  Heathen  (American),  will  celebrate 
its  centennial  anniversary  November  Ist. 


LITERATURE. 


Pp.  112.    Price,  25  cents. 


Utopia.     By  Sir  Thomas  More. 
Jolin  B.  Alden,  New  York. 

Every  reader  of  English  has  heard  of  the  fanciful 
region  born  in  the  imagination  of  Sir  Thomas  More, 
the  learned  and  justly  celebrated  chancellor  of 
Henry  VlII.  of  England,  but  comparatively  few 
have  ever  seen  the  book  that  gave  a  new  word  to 
our  language.  It  was  a  happy  thought  of  Mr.  Al- 
den, now  that  questions  of  political  and  social  econ- 
omy are  leading  all  others,  to  reprint  this  celebrated 
book  in  a  pleasing  style  and  at  such  a  price  that  its 
sale  should  at  least  equal  Henry  George's  volumes. 
Utopia  describes  an  imaginary  model  country  and 
people,  and,  like  the  "Atlantis"  of  Plato,  is  an  at- 
tempt, after  the  best  ideas  of  the  age  in  which  it 
was  written,  to  "construct  a  community  whose  social, 
religious  and  political  relations  shall  approximate 
perfection.  There  are  not  a  few  suggestions  in  the 
theory  of  this  old  statesman  which  might  be  wisely 
followed  in  our  time.  Not  the  least  charm  of  this 
little  volume  is  in  the  learned  and  elegant  style  in 
which  it  is  written. 

Entire  Sanctification,  a  second  work  of  Grace.  By  Rev. 
C.  B.  Whitaker.  Pp.  165.  8.  B.  Shaw,  Holiness  Record  office. 
Grand  Rapids,  Mich. 

We  believe  that  all  sincere  efforts  to  help  the 
Christian  church  to  understand  the  mission  of  the 
Holy  Spirit,  and  to  bring  individual  Christians  to  ac- 
cept him  fully  as  Comforter,  Guide,  Sanctifier,  the 
present  Immanuel,  God  with  us,  should  be  encour- 
aged. The  church  of  God  is  deplorably  weak  be- 
cause the  Scripture  teaching  is  either  not  believed 
or  understood,  or  at  least  not  practiced  in  its  reve- 
lation of  the  Divine  Comforter.  This  little  volume 
teaches  the  necessity  of  personal  consecration  and 
the  sealing  of  the  Spirit  in  sanctification,  rather 
by  example  than  precept.  The  author's  personal 
experience  is  first  given,  an  arrangement  which 
might  be  sharply  criticized,then  follow  the  relations 
of  Carvosso,  Finney,  Bishop  David  Edwards  and 
others,  some  of  which  have  become  almost  hack- 
neyed. An  interesting  chapter,  which  might  well 
have  been  first,  is  that  of  Bible  characters  who  have 
walked  with  God  on  the  earth.  There  is  always 
something  repulsive  and  irreverent  in  the  frequent 
use  of  the  term  "second  work"  in  speaking  of  the 
work  of  the  Holy  Spirit.  It  is  nowhere  used  in 
Scripture,  and  it  discredits  his  'first  work  and  third 
work  and  fourth  work.  "The  wind  bloweth  where 
it  listeth,  ...  so  is  he  that  is  born  of  the  Spirit," 
says  Christ.  He  does  not  work  according  to  the 
mathematics  or  regulations  of  theologians  or  specu- 
lators, wise  men  though  they  may  be.  In  this  let 
us  not  dishonor  him. 

The  Lincoln  history  in  the  Century,  by  the  private  sec- 
retaries of  Mr.  Lincoln,  Messrs.  Nicolay  and  Hay,  will 
deal  during  the  coming  year  with  the  political  and  mili- 
tary history  of  the  early  period  of  the  war.  New  light 
will  be  thrown  upon  certain  events  of  that  period  by  the 
publication  of  correspondence  and  other  documents 
never  before  printed,  and  unknown  to  but  a  small  circle. 
Tbe  failure  of  crompromise  will  be  described  and  ex- 
plained, as  well  as  Lincoln's  policy,  conduct  and  confiden- 
tial correspondence  after  his  election  and  previous  to  his 
inauguration.  The  historians  now  enter  upon  a  more 
personal  part  of  their  narrative. 

The  September  number  of  the  Cosmopolitan  opens  with 
an  interesting  illustrated  article  on  "How  the  Persians 
Live,"  by  Wolf  von  Schierbrand,  the  private  secretary 
of  Minister  Winston,  while  the  latter  was  the  American 
representative  at  the  Persian  court.  "The  Hurricane 
Island"  by  Herbert  H.  Smith,  the  distinguished  natural- 
ist, describes  St.  Thomas,  famous  for  its  destructive  hur- 
ricanes and  its  picturepque  scenery.  The  second  install- 
ment of  Arnold  Burges  Johnson's  recollections  of  Charles 
Sumner  contains  many  facts  in  regard  to  the  great  states- 
man that  are  now  published  for  tbe  first  time.  It  is  ac- 
companied by  a  fine  portrait  of  Sumner  by  Tietze;  the 
church,  writing  from  Salt  Lake  City  to  the  Spirit  of  frontispiece  of  the  number  is  a  fine  pitcture  of  "Sumner 


i) 


September  22,  1887 


THE  CHRISTIAjr  CYNOStrBE. 


13 


land  Longfellow."  "Shall  America  have 
Ambassadors?"  is  a  question  thatMoncure 
D.Conway  answers  in  the  negative, show- 
ing how  useless  they  are,  and  how  unfavor- 
able is  the  influence  of  court  life  upon  them. 


Lodge  Notes. 

Twenty-four  lodges  advertised  their 
meetings  in  a  late  Sunday  paper  of  Chi- 
cago. 

Rev.  Charles  Conklin,  a  Universalist 
minister  on  the  West  Side,  Chicago,  on  a 
late  Sabbath  evening  preached  on  "The 
Church  and  Secret  Societies." 

Powderly  publishes  in  response  to  the 
German  Catholic  convention  lately  held 
in  Chicago:  "The  Knights  of  Labor  are 
neither  anarchists,  socialists  nor  prohibi- 
tionists." 

,     Prominent  Fenians  have  been  accusing 
'  O'Donovan  Rossa  of  giving  away  the  se- 
Wets  of  their  order  in  an  exposition  pub- 
iished  in  a  New  York  daily  last  month, 
^ossa  denies  the  charge. 
Ij  An  order  for  the  annual  church  parade 
pf  the  Uniform  Rank,  Knights  of  Pythias, 
Is  issued.     Several  Generals,  Colonels,  Ad- 
jutant   Generals,  etc.,   of  this  lodge  are 
Ebsent  from  Chicago,  and  there  is  a  gen- 
ral  suspense  until  they  return. 
;'     General  Fairchild  states  that  he  is  not 
J  a  candidate  for  re-election  as  Commander- 
in-Chief  of  the  G.  A.  R.      The  Depart- 
'    ments  of  Idaho   and  Arizona  have  been 
organized,  making    now  forty    depart- 
ments of  the  G.  A.  R.  in  the  country. 

The  uoper  floor  or  the  new  Hay  market 
Theater  Building,  going  up  on  West  Mad- 
ison street,  Chicago,  is  being  built  ex- 
pressly for  secret  societies,  and  the  rooms 
will  to  ready  about  Jan.  1.  This  is  a 
happy  combination — theater  and  lodge. 

I  The  "Patriotic  Order  Sons  of  Ameri- 
ica"  announces  with  swelling  pride  at  the 
privilege  of  protecting  the  nation:  "One 
of  the  objects  of  the  Sons  of  America  is 
the  advancement  of  the  free  public  school 
system,  and  should  any  sectarian  body 
attempt  its  destruction,  it  will  be  met 
with  by  opposition  from  100,000  sworn 
Sons  of  America." 

Charles  S.  Crane,  a   Chicago  business 
man,   was  buried  on  the  Sabbath,  Sept. 
I   11,  with  great  Masonic  parade,  Dr.  Thom- 
as and  BishopFallows  doing  the  religious 
i  rites.     Mr.   Crane  was  prominent  in  Ma- 
I  sonic  circles,    being  a  member  of  Cleve- 
[  land  Lodge,  Siloam  Council,  Washington 
I  Commandery,      Chicago     Commandery, 
I  Oriental  Consistory,  and  St.  John's  Con- 
^clave  of  the  Red  Knights  of  Rome   and 
,    Constantine.      He  was  also  one   of  the 
founders  and  president  of  the  Masonic 
Benevolent  Association. 

A  large  meeting  of  the  county  board  of 
the  Ancient  Order  of  Hibernians  was  held 
on  a  late  Sabbath  afternoon  in  Chicago, 
to  hear  the  report  of  the  State  ofBcers 
and  board  of  insurance  trustees.  John 
O'Callagban,  State  Treasurer,  made  a 
report  showing  that  since  the  adoption  of 
the  pro  rata  plan  of  the  assignment  fif- 
teen deaths  had  occurred  which  had  been 
paid  with  $15,000.  The  yearly  cost  of 
insurance  was  shown  to  be  less  than  that 
of  similar  organizations,  while  the  mor- 
tality was  very  much  less. 

At  the  National  Brewers'  Union  meet- 
ing in  Detroit  last  week,  the  following 
resolutions  were  unanimously  adopted: 

Whkkeas,  T.  V.  Powderly,  General 
Master  Workman  of  the  Knights  of  La- 
bor, has  recently  in  his  speeches  proved 
himself  opposed  to  the  sale  of  intoxicat- 
ing beverages,  and, 

Wheiibas,  The  General  Executive 
Board  of  the  Kinghts  of  Labor  has  sus- 
tained him  in  his  views,  and, 

Whbkeab,    The    constitution   of   the 
Knights  of  Labor  contains  a  provision 
N   prohibiting  the  admission   of  organiza- 
tions whose  members  are  identified  with 
'   the  manufacture  or  sale  of  intoxicating 

beverages,  and, 
/        WnEKEAs,  The  order  of  the  Knights 
I    of  Labor  has  not  given  us  any  assistance 
1    whatever  in  our  struggle  against  capital, 
\  and, 

I  Whereas,  Laws  which  would  prohibit 
\  I  the  manufacture  of  intoxicating  bever- 
\  ages  would  be  detrimental  to  several  thou- 
isands  of  brewery  employes  and  their  fam- 
jilies,  and  would  cut  ofC  a  revenue  of 
(millions  of  dollars  from  the  Government's 
income,  be  it 

Resolved,  That  we,  the  National  Asso- 
ciation of  the  United  Brewery  Employes, 
Icondemn  the  action  of  General  Master 
Workman  Powderly  as  detrimental  to  our 
emancipation. 


BUSINESS. 

SUBSCRIPTION  LETTBRB. 

The  following  have  made  remittancea 
of  money  to  the  Gtjnoaure  from  Sept.  12 
to  17  inclusive. 

Mrs  S  C  Upton,  W  P  Davis,  W  Fenton, 
J  Kirkpatrick,  G  0  Baker,  J  W  Reed,  W 
8  McClanahan,  Rev  H  B  Wolcott,  J 
McLeod,  N  Connet,  B  A  Brittingham,  L 
W  Krahl.  C  Kennicott,  Rev  H  C  Ross, 
Mrs  L  H  Hull,  Rev  P  Bacon,  J  H  Clark, 
F  A  Armstrong,  J  D  Wood,  A  K  Martin. 
B  T  Pettengill,  J  T  Stevenson,  Mrs  F 
Patton,  R  Miller.  Mrs  A  Floyd.  Mrs  M 
A  Gamble,  W  R  Chase,  MOB  Wagar,  P 
Baldwin,  C  Kommissaris. 


FREE  THACTS 


Will  be  furnished  to  those  who  desire  in- 
formation or  who  will  distribute  them 
where  they  will  do  the  most  good. 

There  are  in  stock  now  a  large  number 
of 

"freemasonky  in  thb  family." 

This  is  especially  interesting  to  ladies. 
"to  the  boys  who  hope  to  be  men." 

It  is  illustrated  and  will  please  the 
school  children. 

"selling  dead  horses." 

You  can  always  get  the  attention  of 
farmers  or  men  who  are  interested  in 
horses  with  this  tract. 

"moody  on   secret  societies" 
leads  Christians  to  separation. 

A  limited  number  of  two   new  tracts 
will  be  sent  to  any  who  need  them. 
"the  sons  of  veterans." 
"in   which   army  are    you?" 

Remember  these  tracts  will  be  sent  you 
freely.  But  any  who  wish  to  contribute 
to  this  Free  Tract  Fund  are  earnestly  re- 
quested to  do  so. 

Ought  you  not,  once  a  year  at  least,  to 
put  a  tract  into  each  one  of  your  neigh- 
bor's houses?  Will  you  send  for  a  supply 
soon? 

National  Christian  Association, 
821  W.  Madison  St.,  Chicago. 


MARKET  RS PORTS. 

CHICAGO. 

Wheat-No.  a 6~X@     68 

No.  3 65 

Winter  No  a 70^ 

Com— No.  a 40^a     415^ 

Oat»-No.a «^ 85  ®      27K 

Rye— No.  2 47 

Branperton US'* 

Hay— Timothy 9  .50  @14  75 

Butter,  medium  to  best 16  @     24 

Cheeee 07  @     15 

Beans 1  2.5  @  2  40 

Seeifr^Ttaiothy .'  ".*.'.'.'  !!!!.'.'.*.'  2  05  a  2  2S 

Flax 117 

Broomcora 02>^@     07 

PotatocB  per  bus 75  @      80 

Hides— Green  to  dry  flint 07>^@     13 

Lumber— Common 1100  ^18  00 

Wool 10  @      34 

Cattle— Choice  to  extra 4  70  @  ,'>  30 

Common  to  good 1  20  a  4  M 

Hogs 8  50  @  5  30 

Sheep 8  75  ®  4  35 

NEW  YORK. 

Flour 320  @560 

Wheat— Winter 78  @      82 

Spring 78 

Com 49  @     5"«; 

Oats 32  ^      41 

Eggs 16 

Butter 16  @     2.'") 

Wool , 09  37 

KANSAS  CITT. 

CatUe^^^ ^  1  30  a  4  50 

Hogs.^.^ .^ 2  2.'.  3  5  (K) 

•k«m  ^^ .-™-.^200  O  3  50 


KNIGHTS    OF    i^YTHIAH    IL- 
LUSTRATED. 

By  K  Past  Chancellor.  A  full  lIlnmrHtort  (•xniwUhm 
of  llic  llirfo  rnnkn  of  ilu>  onliT,  witli  tlio  mlilltli.ii  of 
.he  "Amondoil.  rrrfpotoil  niiil  Ainpllilrri  Tlilnl 
Kiink."  Tho  lodgi-rooni,  8l(nm,  count  itiiIriiii.  ifrlpii, 
etc.,  lire  oliown  l>y  ciiirrBvliiK».  ■acontii  •ach;  nor 
d«son,r2.(l)l.    AiIdrcDH  llio 

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The  coUectlon  Is  Dedicated  to  HUMANITY 
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HAPPY  HOMES,  against  the  CRIME  and 
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BY  J.  AUGUSTUS  COLE,  OF  SHAINQAY, 
WEST  AFRICA. 


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pure  negro  blood.  He  has  given  much  time 
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cieties and  heathen  customs  of  Western  Afri- 
ca. He  joined  several  of  the  secret  orders  for 
the  purpose  of  obtaining  full  and  correct  In- 
formation regarding  their  nature  and  opera- 
tion. His  culture  and  superior  powers  of  dis- 
crimination render  what  he  has  written  most 
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BY  OSCAB  F.  LUUBY,  PH.  D. 

Prof.  Lumry's  book,  "National  Suicide  and 
Its  Remedy,"  will  be  read  with  profit  even  by 
those  who  do  not  accept  its  doctrine,  that  tak 
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IMPURE  WATER. 

If  a  man  were  to  go  abroad  in  his  gar- 
den and  fields  and  scatter  Paris-green  or 
any  other  deadly  poison  over  the  cabbages 
and  other  vegetables,  on  the  strawberries 
and  fruits;  and  in  the  closets  in  the  house 
were  to  dust  the  bread  and  other  food 
with  some  such  virulent  poison,  he  would 
be  counted  a  lunatic  or  a  most  reckless 
criminal.  If  he  did  not  know  what  he 
was  doing,  he  might  be  acquitted  of  crim- 
inality, but  the  results  of  his  ignorance 
would  be  no  less  disastrous  and  deadly. 

But  thousands,  nay,  tens  of  thousands, 
of  persons  are  daily  and  hourly  scattering 
abroad  equally  virulent  poison,  without 
knowing,  and  some,  alas!  with  full  knowl- 
edge, but  most  amazing  carelessness,  and 
infecting  themselves  and  their  most  loved 
ones  with  deadly  diseases.  It  is  at  this 
season  that  this  ever-present  and  ever- 
increasing  danger  is  most  imminent,  and 
this  danger  exists  in  the  worst  form  in 
which  it  can  come,  viz.,  in  the  water  we 
drink.  Decaying  organic  matter  is  one 
of  the  worst  of  poisons;  it  reeks  with 
germs  whose  office  in  nature  is  to  disor- 
ganize and  destroy  all  matter.  As  regards 
dead  and  waste  matter,  these  germs,  like 
animals  which  are  carrion  consumers, 
serve  a  useful  purpose;  but  as  regards 
living  creatures,  they  are  most  injurious 
and  destructive.  Strangely,  too,  they  are 
most  abundant  and  deadly  in  rural  local- 
ities, where  purity  and  health  are  most 
expected.  When  taken  into  the  animal 
system  they  attack  the  blood,  being 
carried  there  most  easily,  and  produce 
various  fevers,  diarrhea,  dysentery  (the 
commonly  called  summer  complaint,  and 
typical  of  the  prevailingdanger  described), 
and  in  thousands  of  cases  these  disorders 
are  fatal.  Friends  wonder  why  in  so 
healthful  a  locality,  where  pure  air 
abounds,  these  diseases  should  be  so 
frequent,  and  honestly  believe  that  these 
sad  deaths  were  unavoidable — "providen- 
tial" is  the  term  used.  Surely  in  many 
cases  the  sins  and  neglects  of  the  parents 
are  visited  upon  the  children  who  are  the 
first  to  suffer. 

Impure  water  is  the  prevailing  cause, 
and  the  centers  of  infections  are  the  wells. 
Water  is  a  large  part  of  the  subsistence 
of  a  person.  The  human  body  consists 
mainly  of  water,  seventy  five  per  cent  of 
it  being  thus  composed.  All  this  part  of 
the  system  is  absorbed  in  the  water  we 
drink,  and  if  the  Bource  of  all  this  part 
of  our  body  is  impure,  how  can  we  exist? 
It  is  amazing, considering  the  vast  amount 
of  impurity  taken  into  the  stomach  and 
absorbed  by  the  blood,  that  pestilences 
are  not  prevailing  every  year,  when  the 
heat  contributes  very  much  to  the  rapid 
decomposition  of  the  household  wastes 
which  are  cast  out  and  accumulate  in  the 
cesspools,  slush  pools,  open  drains,  sinks, 
stables,  yards,  pig  pens,  and  various  other 
centers  of  foulness.  Where  does  it  all  go  ? 
The  rains  wash  it  into  the  soil,and  it  sinks 
gradually  deeper  and  deeper,  spreading 
laterally  all  the  while  until  it  finds  an 
outlet  with  the  soil  water  into  the  well  or 
a  spring  from  which  the  household  supply 
may  be  taken.  It  is  only  a  question  of 
time  when  a  new-made  cesspool,  a  new 
slop  hole,  a  leaking  drain,  will  discharge 
its  dangerous  and  deadly  contents  into 
the  new-made  well.  An  expert,  examin- 
ing the  ground  and  the  soil  and  figuring 
the  rainfall,  can  tell  you,  within  a  few 
months,  when  the  danger  will  culminate 
and  the  deadly  poison  How  into  the  well. 

But  you  say  the  soil  will  filter  the  water 
and  keep  back  the  impurity,  or  its  ap- 
proach may  be  known  by  sight,  taste  or 
smell.  No  such  thing.  A  filter  cannot 
always  act  and  will  become  foul  in  time, 
and  the  stream  of  filth,  like  slow  moving 
time,  is  always  going  to  the  outlet.  The 
soil  oxidizes  decayrng  organic  matter,  but 
this  action  makes  the  poison  more  active 
and  fatal 

What  is  the  remedy?  Abandon  the 
dangerous  system  and  go  back— forward 
is  the  better  word— to  that  inculcated  by 
the  philosopher  of  ancient  times,  Moses. 
Read  the  Mosaic  laws  pertaining  to  clean- 
liness, hygiene  and  health.  Cleanliness 
with  Moses  was  a  prevailing  and  para- 
mount law  and  a  part  of  the  Jews'  relig- 
ion. It  ought  to  be  still  more  so  among 
Christians,  and  in  this  age  of  intelligence 
and  newspapers  and  books.  There  is  an 
easy  remedy.  Abandon  the  poisonous 
cesspool  and  use  the  dry  earth -closet, 
which  was  the  system  prevailing  in  the 
Mosaic  time,  and  is  no  new  thing.  Dry 
earth  is  the  most  effective  deodori/.er  and 
disinfectant.     Ita  porosity  favors  a  most 


complete  oxidation  of  organic  matter, 
and  in  practice  this  action  is  so  complete 
that  the  earth  taken  from  a  closet  has 
been  used  over  and  over  again  after  short 
intervals  for  rest  for  ten  times,  and  still 
fully  exerted  the  desired  effect.  The  same 
method  should  be  employed  for  the  house 
and  kitchen  waste.  The  outlet  of  the 
drain  should  be  made  in  a  tight,  shallow 
box,  which  is  kept  well  supplied  with  dry 
earth.  The  earth  from  these  may  be  used 
as  a  top  dressing  for  grass  land;  and  a 
lawn  may  be  kept  in  the  finest  condition 
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and  especially  for  onions,  which  delight 
in  such  a  fertilizer,  — Eenry  Stewart  in 
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15 


Fa»m  Notes. 


SEPTEMBER  IN  THE  GARDEN. 

It  may  be  well  to  consider  how  the  dry 
weather,  if  it  should  continue,  may  affect 
some  kinds  of  fall  work.  As  to  strawberry 
plants,  unless  they  can  be  watered  and 
mulched,  it  would  be  inadvisable  to  put 
them  out  in  great  numbers ;  better  defer  the 
work  till  spring.  A  garden  supply  can  easi- 
ly be  taken  care  of,  so  the  earlier  they  are 
got  in  the  better  it  will  be  for  them,  for 
they  can  make  a  strong  growth  this  fall, 
if  properly  tended.  As  the  ground  is 
very  warm  vegetation  will  be  quick  if  the 
fall  rains  should  be  plentiful;  for  this 
reason  we  think  it  will  be  advisable  in 
the  Northern  States  to  defer  sowing 
Spinach  seed  until  late  in  the  month, 
after  which  it  will  make  all  the  growth 
needed  before  cold  weather  sets  in.  Cut- 
tings of  currents  and  gooseberries 
planted  this  month  will  root  quickly, 
'  especially  if  they  can  be  watered  and 
'  mulched:  they  will  make  a  much  stronger 
.  growth  next  season  than  if  left  to  be  put 
out  in  the  spring.  Transplanting  opera- 
(  tions  will  not  take  place  until  next 
i  month,  and  by  that  time  the  rains  may 
be  general  and  allow  all  kinds  of  work  to 
'■  proceed  as  usual.  Should  they  not  come 
sufficiently  early,  however,  the  labor  of 
digging,  many  kinds  of  nursery  trees  will 
be  very  heavy,  and  a  good  degree  of 
caution  and  self-control  will  be  necessary 
to  take  out  the  roots  and  not  cut  them 
off. 

Lawn  seeding  can  go  on  all  through 
the  month,  with  the  chance  that  the  grass, 
even  on  late  sown  pieces,  will  be  strong 
before  winter  sets  in. 
During  this  month  it  will  be  necessary 
J  to  give  attention  to  the  potting  of  those 
'  plants  intended  for  winter  blooming,  that 
)  have  been  summered  over  in  the  open 
garden.  The  calla,  or  Ethiopian  lily,  is 
one  of  the  most  important  as  it  is  a  gen- 
eral favorite.  Use  light  and  rich  soil, 
giving  it  good  drainage  that  the  water 
which  it  needs  in  abundance  may  pass 
off  rapidly.  If  the  plants  are  wanted  to 
bloom  early,  use  only  five  or  six-inch 
pots,  and  give  them  no  shift,  while  those 
for  later  blooming  can  be  shifted  into 
pots  of  larger  size  when  the  roots  reach 
the  outside  of  the  ball  of  soil,  and  can  be 
kept  on  growing.  A  week  or  ten  days 
before  removing  from  the  ground  such 
plants  as  geraniums,  begonia,  chrysan- 
themums, bouvardias,  and  the  like,  it  is 
a  good  plan  to  cut  around  the  roots, 
leaving  a  ball  of  soil  somewhat  smaller 
than  the  pot  the  plant  is  to  occupy ;  the 
result  is  that  a  great  quantity  of  fine 
roots  are  formed  in  a  short  time,  and 
when  the  plant  is  potted  these  roots  are 
ready  to  feed  immediately  on  the  new 
soil  that  will  be  placed  between  them 
and  the  sides  of  the  pot.  Seeds  of  per- 
ennials, such  as  pansy,  sweet  william, 
canterbury  bell,  snapdragon,  a()uilegia, 
and  hollyhock  should  be  sown  early. — 
Vifk's  Magazine. 

The  Hon  Miles  C.  Moore,  a  well-known 
capitalist  of  Walla  Walla,  confirms  the 
reports  we  have  published,  and  says  that 
Eastern  Oregon  will  this  year  have  the 
largest  wheat  yield  ever  known,  and  adds: 
"The  largest  yield  that  I  ever  knew  of 
personally  was  seventy  one  bushels  per 
acre  for  a  field  of  thirty  two  acres  The 
grower  made  aflldavit  before  me  as  to 
these  figures,  after  the  grain  had  been 
thrashed  and  the  field  measured  by  com- 
petent surveyors.  They  tell  of  bigger 
yields  along  Snake  River,  and  I  have  no 
doubt  the  statements  are  true,  but  seven- 
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16 


THE  CHBJBTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


September  22, 1887 


NFWS  OF  THE  WEEK. 

CUICAGO. 

In  the  anarchist  cases  Wednesday,  the 
Supreme  Court  of  Illinois  affirmed  the 
decision  of  the  Criminal  Court  of  Cook 
county,  that  Spies,  Schwab,  Lingg,  Field- 
en,  Parsons,  Fischer,  and  Engel  be  hanged, 
and  Neebe  be  confined  in  the  penitentiary 
for  fifteen  years.  The  date  of  the  execu- 
tion of  the  sentence  is  fixed  for  Nov.  11. 

The  anarchists  have  sent  one  of  their 
representatives  to  New  York  to  retain  a 
lawyer  as  associate  counsel  with  Captain 
Black,  to  conduct  the  proposed  proceed- 
ings before  the  United  States  Supreme 
Court.  Colonel  IngersoU,  General  Butler 
and  General  Roger  A.  Pryor  are  spoken  of 
as  among  the  lawyers  who  will  be  asked 
to  defend  the  anarchist  appeal  in  the  Fed- 
eral Supreme  Court. 

The  receipts  of  peaches  in  this  city 
Wednesday  amounted  to  70.000  baskets. 
This  is  much  the  largest  record  of  any 
one  day  in  the  history  of  the  Chicago 
market,  and  probably  of  any  city  in  the 
world,  not  excepting  London. 

The  drivers  and  conductors  of  the  West 
Side  system  of  street  railways  held  an  all- 
night  session  on  Saturday,  and  decided 
that  unless  the  companies  grant  the  in- 
crease demanded,  to  22  cents  an  hour, 
before  Wednesday  evening  a  strike  will 
begin  on  Thursday  morning. 

COUNTRY. 

The  chief  clerk  of  the  Supreme  Court 
of  New  York  Monday  rejected  the  appli- 
cation of  Johann  Most,  the  anarchist,  to 
become  a  citizen.  Most  said  he  would 
appeal  to  the  courts. 

A  conference  of  representatives  of  the 
Standard  Oil  Company  and  independent 
producers  was  held  Monday,  to  consider 
the  advisability  of  shutting  down  all  the 
wells  iu  the  country  for  the  purpose  of 
restricting  the  production.  Many  of  the 
best  known  oil  men  in  the  country  were 
in  attendance. 

Col.  Fred  Grant  was  Wednesday  nom- 
inated for  Secretary  of  State  by  the  Re- 
publicans of  New  York. 

A  meteoric  mass  as  large  as  a  railway 
car,  fell  Thursday  night  in  New  Bruns- 
wick, six  miles  from  Vanceboro,  Me.  Its 
heat  was  so  intense  Friday  that  people 
who  flocked  to  the  scene  were  unable  to 
approach  within  several  feet  pf  the  celes- 
tial vagrant. 

For  some  weeks  forged  checks  have 
been  successfully  passed  in  Madison,  Wis. 
Friday  Frank  Swettmore,  the  15  year  old 
son  of  respectable  parents,  was  caught  in 
the  act  of  passing  a  check,  and  confessed 
himself  guilty  of  all  the  forgeries. 

The  wreck  of  the  missing  whaler  Am- 
ethyst was  found  recently  on  Castle  Rock 
Island,  in  the  Northern  Pacific  Ocean. 
Beside  her  crew  of  thirty  eight  men,  she 
had  on  board  five  of  the  crew  of  the  miss- 
ing bark  Rainbow,  and  the  fate  of  the 
forty-three  men  remains  a  mystery. 

At  Syracuse,  N.  Y.,  Thursday  was  be- 
gun the  construction  of  the  library  build- 
ing of  the  Syracuse  University,  to  hold 
the  Von  Ranke  collection  of  books.  The 
cost  will  be  $40,000. 

At  an  early  hour  Friday  morning  an 
explosion  of  gunpowder  fired  the  grocery 
of  D.  M.  Messina,  at  New  Orleans,  the 
spread  of  the  flames  preventing  the  res- 
cue of  the  inmates,  Messina  and  his  wife 
and  four  children  being  burned  to  death. 
The  children — two  boys  and  two  girls — 
were  between  3  and  9  years  of  age. 

George  Smith,  a  farmer  living  near 
Logansport,  Ind.,  threw  a  club  at  a  cow, 
but  missed  his  aim,  the  missile  striking 
his  little  4  year  old  daughter  a  terrific 
blow  on  the  head,  tearing  off  a  large  por- 
tion of  the  scalp.  The  suffering  of  the 
little  victim  is  intense. 

The  anarchists  in  New  York  are  indulg- 
ing in  ravings  at  the  decision  of  the  Su- 
preme Court  of  Illinois,  and  have  flooded 
the  city  with  circulars  calling  on  their 
sympathizers  to  rise  in  their  might  and 
prevent  the  execution. 

The  ceremonies  connected  with  the 
great  constitutional  centennial  celebra- 
tion at  Philadelphia  were  brought  to  a 
close  on  Saturday.  President  and  Mrs. 
Cleveland  were  heartily  received,and  the 
President,  Justice  Miller,  and  Mr.Kasson 
delivered  addresses.  A  reception  was 
given  Bubsetjuently  to  Mrs. Cleveland, and 
Mr.  Childs  drove  the  Presidential  party 
out  to  his  residence,  where  Mrs.  Cleve- 
land planted  a  tree   and  was  given  the 


choice  of  eight  thoroughbred  Jerseys  as 
a  present.  A  banquet  was  given  by  the 
Hibernian  Society,  which  was  attended 
by  President  Cleveland,  and  in  the  eve- 
ning a  grand  banquet  was  given  by  the 
literary  societies  of  Philadelphia  to  Pres- 
ident Cleveland.  There  was  a  brilliant 
gathering  at  the  Academy  of  Music  on 
the  occasion,  and  it  is  proposed  to  erect 
a  memorial  monument  to  commemorate 
the  celebration. 

FOREIGN. 

i^ueen  Victoria  on  Friday,  in  an  ad- 
dress prorogued  the  British  Parliament, 
which  will  meet  again  Nov.  11. 

It  is  reported  that  a  Russian  engineer 
has  discovered  a  new  explosive  which  is 
destined  to  drive  all  existing  ammunition 
out  of  use,  being  equal  in  strength  to 
pyroxyline.  It  is  said  that  the  Russian 
War  Office  will  build  a  special  factory  for 
its  manufacture. 

Berlin  dispatches  announce  that  Prince 
Bismarck's  policy  has  dispelled  the  idea 
entertained  by  the  Czar  that  Germany 
would  indorse  Russia's  policy  regarding 
Bulgaria,  and  consequently  the  relations 
between  Germany  and  Russia  have  be- 
come colder  than  ever,  while  Austria  feels 
she  can  rely  on  the  permanent  strength 
of  the  alliance  with  Germany.  The  in- 
terview between  Bismarck  and  Count 
Kalnoky  at  Friedrichsruhe  means  a  check 
on  Russian  intervention  in  Bulgaria 
and  the  neutrality  of  Europe  toward 
Prince  Ferdinand,  leaving  him  to  his  own 
resources  and  freedom  of  action  for  the 
Bulgarians. 

Independence  Day  was  celebrated  in 
the  City  of  Mexico  Friday,  with  extraor- 
dinary enthusiasm.  The  city  is  finely 
decorated  and  the  illuminations  magnifi- 
cent. At  11  o'cock  A.  M.  President  Diaz 
made  his  apperance  in  front  of  the  na- 
tional palace  and  read  to  the  great  crowd 
the  historic  Declaration  of  Independence. 
The  American  colony  took  an  active  part 
in  the  celebration.  The  American  alle- 
gorical cars  in  the  grand  procession  which 
occurred  later  in  the  forenoon  were  great- 
ly applauded.  They  represented  the  land- 
ing of  Columbus,  Hidalgo  and  Washing- 
ton, and  Columbia,  or  the  Goddess  of 
Liberty.  The  Americans  lavished  great 
care  and  expense  on  these  cars,  and  they 
were  acknowledged  among  the  finest  in 
the  procession. 

A  dreadful  collision  occurred  Friday 
on  the  Midland  railway,  England.  A 
train  filled  with  excursionists  who  were 
going  to  Doncaster  to  witness  the  races 
at  that  place  collided  with  another  train 
and  was  wrecked.  The  Midland  train 
was  standing  on  a  crossing  one  mile  from 
Doncaster  while  tickets  were  being  col- 
lected, when  the  Liverpool  express  dashed 
into  it.  The  guard  box  was  smashed  to 
atoms,  and  the  first  carriage  of  the  Liv- 
erpool train  telescoped  by  the  next  and 
broken  into  splinters.  It  was  a  long  time 
before  the  injured  and  dying  who  were 
wedged  in  the  ruins  could  be  rescued. 
Twenty-three  persons  were  killed  and 
sixty  injured.  Many  of  the  injured  can- 
not recover.  The  disaster  was  caused  by 
defective  signalling. 


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It  is  reported  of  the  late  Bishop  Harris  that  in 
his  early  days  he  was  prominent  in  the  Masonic 
lodge,  and  was  even  at  the  head  of  a  Knight  Tem- 
plar commandery  in  Toledo.  Doubtless  in  the  secret 
of  his  heart  he  long  since  renounced  the  blasphe- 
mies of  these  early  days;  at  least  there  seemed  to 
be  no  thought  of  the  lodge  about  his  funeral  obse- 
quies. 


The  Chicago  anarchists  and  their  friends  are 
crowding  their  old  haunts  at  Greif's  and  Floras 
Halls  on  West  Lake  Street,  but  the  police  are 
equally  busy,  watching  every  movement.  There  are 
not  a  few  people,  especially  among  the  labor  socie- 
ties, who  denounce  the  decision  of  the  courts  as 
sanctioning  murder.  They  are  unanimous  in  the 
decision  that  the  judgment  of  the  shabbiest  anarch- 
ist, who  has  not  yet  worn  out  his  old-country 
clothes,  is  much  better  law  than  can  be  given  by 
the  best  courts  of  the  country.  Roger  A.  Pryor 
and  lawyer  Black  are  seeking  some  means  to  get 
the  ear  of  the  Supreme  Court,  and  petitions  to  the 
Governor  are  circulated.  The  last  order  for  the 
fatal  November  11th  is  in  the  hands  of  the  sheriff; 
and,  dreadful  as  is  the  sentence,  it  is  just  that  the 
order  should  be  faithfully  carried  out. 


The  Chicago  Times  thinks  that  "Brother  Blanch- 
ard  and  other  Anti-mason  fanatics"  ought  to  be 
convinced  by  this  time  that  Masonry  does  not  pro- 
tect its  members  when  guilty  of  crimes.  The  Cyno- 
sur  will  be  glad  to  accept  the  Times  hypothesis  if  its 
learned  editor  will  convince  us  that  the  dealing  of 
of  the  Freemasons  with  McGarigle  and  the  other 
"boodlers"  is  not  the  exception  and  not  the  rule. 
It  is  very  well  for  the  lodge  to  put  on  the  mask  of 
reform  when  its  rascalities  have  been  found  out. 
How  long  since,  can  the  Times  inform  us,  have  Free- 
masons begun  to  weed  out  the  thieves  from  their 
number.  It  was  not  thought  of  twelve  years  ago 
for  whisky-ring  thieves,  plenty  of  whom  were  Ma- 


sons. Boss  Tweed  was  a  Mason;  will  the  2\me«  tell 
us  if  his  Masonic  standing  was  vitiated  by  his 
knavery?  But  we  have  attacked  the  lodge  as  a  shel- 
ter for  thieves,  because  it  has  been  so,  and  because 
it  will  be  so,  as  long  as  its  principles  are  unchanged. 


Joseph  Buchanan,  the  editor  of  the  Labor  Trib- 
une, has  become  one  of  the  strongest  endorsers  for 
the  condemned  anarchists.  His  paper  says:  "The  case 
will  be  laid  before  the  Supreme  Court.  Justice  and 
love  of  our  country's  institutions,  which  are  being 
used  by  one  class  to  oppress  another  class,  demand 
that  the  workers,  whose  sweat  has  made  us  'great,' 
and  whose  blood  has  sealed  the  declaration  of  our 
freedom  and  equality,shall  go  to  the  highest  tribun- 
al on  earth  ere  surrendering  in  his  struggle  for  fair 
play.  The  voice  of  the  people  must  be  heard  in  this 
case.  The  right  of  labor  to  protest  against  being 
robbed  and  beaten  must  be  demonstrated,  or  we  are 
indeed  ready  for  the  American  empire,  the  aristoc- 
racy of  wealth,  and  the  subjection  of  the  toiler." 
To  talk  of  the  condemned  murderers  as  the  "work- 
ingmen"  is  nonsense.  Their  most  industrious  mo- 
ments were  spent  in  making  bombs,  or  haunting  sa- 
loons, or  howling  their  tirades  and  threats  to  any 
crowd  who  would  listen.  There  was  not  an  honest 
workingman  in  the  whole  circle  of  secret  groups 
which  nursed  their  hateful  conspiracy.  The  empire 
they  wished  to  construct  would  have  been  as  fatal 
to  honest  labor  ae  their  bombs  were  to  the  police. 


The  proposition  of  Captain  Pratt  of  the  Carlisle 
Indian  Training  School  to  furnish  an  object  lesson 
at  the  Centennial,  which  the  Cynosure  lately  noticed, 
was  very  successfully  carried  out.  The  Indians 
were  cheered  along  the  whole  route  and  formed  the 
most  striking  features  of  the  parade.  The  Phila- 
delphia Press  says  of  their  performance:  "The 
scenes  of  life  on  the  plains,  the  wild,  uncivilized 
garb  and  painted  faces  of  the  braves  were  noted 
with  great  interest  by  the  crowds,  but  the  represent- 
ations of  the  same  Indians,  robed  and  in  their  right 
minds,  called  forth  long  and  steady  applause.  It 
was,  however,  the  lads  from  Capt.  Pratt's  Carlisle 
School,  marching  in  uniform  with  the  firm  step  of 
veterans,  which  wrought  the  people  up  to  the  great- 
est pitch  of  enthusiasm.  Handkerchiefs  waved  and 
the  gloved  hands  in  the  Bellevue's  boxes  clapped 
tumultuously  as  the  dark-skinned,  bright-eyed  sons 
of  the  prairies  marched  past  with  heads  erect  and 
shoulders  squared." 


The  press  reports  tell  of  "small  audiences"  and 
"empty  benches"  in  the  St.  Louis  churches  last 
Sabbath.  Some  of  their  pastors  have  lately  preached 
faithfully  against  the  sacrilegous  folly  of  the  annual 
carnival.  They  cannot  afford  to  be  silent  at  the 
Sabbath  violation  by  the  Grand  Army.  Trains  and 
streets  full  of  shouting  men  marching  to  and  fro 
do  not  recommend  the  moral  character  of  the  lodge 
to  whom  such  honors  are  paid.  One  of  the  most 
important  questions  before  this  meeting  will  be  the 
pensions.  It  is  a  standing  order  and  about  the  first 
on  the  list.  The  proposition  which  will  have  most 
attention  will  be  a  universal  pension — every  soldier 
who  served  more  than  two  months  to  be  a  tax  upon 
the  Treasury.  Ben.  Butler's  speech  the  other  day 
urging  this  "service"  pension,  and  the  immediate 
distribution  of  the  Treasury  surplus  in  pensions  to 
both  Union  and  rebel  soldiers,  may  yet  prove  to  be 
prophetiv..  The  increasing  demands  of  the  Grand 
Army  ui>on  the  Treasury  will  soon  be  met  by  a  coun- 
ter demand  from  the  South,  and  soon  the  question 
will  be.  Who  will  pension  the  tax-payer? 


Next  Saturday  and  Sabbath  Chicago  will  be  filled 
with  tramping  militia  and  blaring  bands.  The  "In- 
ternational Military  Encampment"  begins  October 
1st,  continuing  until  the  20th  or  later,  and  the  weeks 
between  will  be  filled  with  the 

"Pride  and  pomp  and  circumstance  of  glorious  war." 
Drills,  parades,  sham  battles,  and  prize  contests 
will  draw  the  multitudes  and  make  the  enterprise  a 
profitable  one  if  possible;  and  it  is  difficult  to  con- 
ceive any  other  object  worth  such  a  demand  upon 
time   and   energies  of  thousands  of  men.      If  the 


managers  did  not  hope  to  make  money  they  would 
not  engage  in  the  speculation.  We  believe  in  pray- 
ing for  their  disappointment,  because  the  whole  af- 
fair will  be  a  source  of  demoralization.  Sabbath- 
breaking,  the  love  of  parade,  vain  competition,  and 
unreal  views  of  war's  horrors  will  be  promoted, 
and  the  people  will  be  urged  by  every  possible  con- 
sideration to  spend  their  money  for  these  follies  and 
falsehoods. 


As  an  antidote  for  these  mercenary  revivals  of 
war  spirit,  it  is  good  to  read  the  brief  address  of 
ex-President  Hayes  at  the  Centennial  banquet  in 
Philadelphia.  Aside  from  its  vigorous  moral  tone 
it  is  accounted  one  of  the  best  speeches  made  dur- 
ing the  celebration.  Mr.  Hayes  was  not  on  the  pro- 
gramme,but  he  was  forced  to  respond  to  a  unanimous 
call  from  the  guests  at  the  banquet.  No  sentences 
uttered  on  that  occasion  are  more  worthy  of  pres- 
ervation than  these:  "We  hear  of  such  a  nation 
being  the  great  war  power  of  a  continent,  and  of 
such  another  as  the  ruler  in  diplomacy.  It  is  the 
glory  of  America,  under  the  Constitution,  to  be  the 
great  pacific  power  of  the  globe — able  without  an 
army  or  navy  to  keep  peace  at  home  and  to  com- 
mand respect  and  consideration  abroad.  I  thank 
the  general  of  the  army,  that  gallant  soldier  whom 
we  all  admire  so  much,  for  the  remarks  he  has  made. 
He  has  foreseen  the  position  which  this  country  is 
to  occupy  in  the  future  in  favor  of  arbitration  as  a 
means  of  settling  international  difficulties.  Our  po- 
sition is  such  that  we  can  command  a  hearing  by  the 
world."  This  is  a  sentiment  worthy  of  the  states- 
man, patriot  and  philanthropist  who  uttered  it  Our 
wise  men  in  Washington,  and  warlike  editors  all 
over  the  country  who  clamor  for  coast  defenses  and 
frowning  navies,  though  the  revenues  of  the  nation 
be  poured  out  like  water  for  them,  are  blind  with 
stupidity  and  pride,  or  they  would  see  that  the  best 
defense  of  a  nation  is  a  loyal  citizenship,  a  treasury 
without  debt,  and  a  land  enriched  by  years  of  peace. 
Beside,  a  tithe  of  the  sums  spent  in  vain  prepara- 
tions for  war  would  secure  universal  arbitration 
and  a  practical  exemption  from  the  dread  evils  of 
international  strife. 


LINCOLN  AND  THB  COVBNANTBRa. 


BY     RKV.    M.    A.     GAULT. 

The  following  anecdote  of  Abra)  n  Lincoln  has 
never  been  in  print  It  shows  his  estimate  of  the 
old  Scotch  Covenanters  and  their  descendants.  Dr. 
Sloane  used  to  relate  it  in  the  seminary  at  Alleghe- 
ny City.  During  the  war  the  Covenanters  decided 
to  send  some  missionaries  to  the  Freedmen;  but 
there  was  a  difficulty  because  the  Covenanters  would 
not  take  an  oath  to  the  Constitution.  In  their  view 
it  recognized  another  supreme  than  one  Jesus.  And 
in  those  days  the  Government  required  such  an  oath 
before  any  one  could  pass  our  lines  to  the  front 
Dr.  Sloane  was  sent  to  Mr.  Lincoln  at  Washington 
to  request  that  our  missionaries  be  passed  with  a 
modified  oath. 

When  he  had  presented  the  case  to  Mr.  Lincoln, 
the  President  turned  to  one  of  his  secretaries  and 
said,  "Whitehead,  do  you  know  those  hard-shell 
Covenanters?" 

"Yes,"  replied  Whitehead. 

"Well,  write  them  out  just  such  a  modified  oath 
as  they  request,  for  you  know  there  is  not  a  disloy- 
al hair  in  their  heads." 

Whitehead,  at  Dr.  Sloane's  dictation,  then  wrote 
out  a  form  of  oath;  but  insisted  on  inserting  a  clause 
binding  to  loyalty  to  the  Constitution.  Then  bring- 
ing it  to  Lincoln,  he  read  it  over  slowly;  when 
coming  to  this  clause,  the  President  said,  "White- 
head, what  did  j'ou  put  that  clause  in  for?" 

Whitehead  replieti,  "I  thought  our  officers  would 
not  honor  it  without  such  a  clause." 

"The  devil  they  won't,"  replied  the  President; 
and  drawing  his  pen  across  the  clause,  he  signed 
his  own  name  to  it  with  a  tlourish,  saying,  as  he 
handed  it  to  Dr.  Sloane,  "There,  they  will  honor 
that" 

Waukesha,  Wis. 


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THE  CHRISTIAN  CTSTNOSURE. 


September  29, 1887 


TEE  LITTLE  FOXES  OF  L0DGBB7. 


BY  MRS.  M,  A.  BLANCHARD. 


Visiting  a  fine  collection  of  animals  my  five-year- 
old  boy  is  delighted  with  some  young  tigers,  and  he 
begs  me  to  buy  one  of  those  pretty  kittens  for  him 
to  play  with.  "Oh  no,"  I  reply,  "though  now  so 
beautiful  and  harmless  apparently,  when  they  are 
older,  gladly  would  they  feast  on  your  flesh,  and 
drink  your  heart's  blood." 

Musing  on  this  incident,  such  I  thought  in  spirit- 
ual things  are  the  lesser  or  minor  secret  orders  of 
to-day.  Drawn  largely  from  our  youth  "who  want 
a  good  time,"  and  those  who  really  desire  to  "do 
good,"  the  Good  Templar  and  kindred  societies 
seem  to  oflfer  them  an  open  door  to  attain  their 
wishes.  Like  the  lad  who  saw  only  a  beautiful  kit- 
ten in  a  young  Bengal  tiger,  they  see  not  the  dark, 
moving,  pervading  spirit  of  the  lodge  they  join; 
nor  the  ghosts  of  murdered  souls  hid  in  or  behind 
its  shadow. 

Generally  speaking,  they  do  not  know  that  men 
originated  those  orders  who  had  been  the  members 
of  a  blood-stained  order,  on  which  the  brand  of  Cain 
is  so  set  that  forty-five  out  of  every  fifty  of  its  mem- 
bers left  never  to  return.  They  do  not  realize  that 
they  have  entered  a  vast  training  school,  the  natural 
course  of  which  is  onward  and  downward,  through 
unquestioning  obedience,  and  blind  secrecy,  away 
from  Jesus,  and  so  away  from  God  and  heaven. 


DIBBBMBLINO  FOR  THE  SALOON. 


THE    DETROIT    FREE    PRESS,    8ANF0RD    H.    COBB    AND 
JEFFERSON   DAVIS    VS.    PROHIBITION. 

A  REVIEW  BY  GEO.  W.  OLARK. 


I  read  with  curious  interest  from  time  to  time  the 
extraordinary  and  persistent  efforts  of  the  old  polit- 
ical party  organs  to  belie,  malign,  and  misrepresent 
Prohibitionists,  and  make  their  readers  believe  "pro- 
hibition is  a  failure!"  Has  the  rum  god  totally 
blinded  their  eyes,  or  totally  depraved  their  hearts? 
or  both?  It  does  seem  these  organs  must  know 
there  never  was  a  time  when  the  prohibition  cause 
stood  as  strong,  when  it  polled  as  many  votes,  when 
as  high  and  unquestioned  testimony  proves  its  suc- 
cess and  good  results  where  adopted  and  enforced, 
or  when  the  old  pro-license  parties  stood  as  much 
in  fear  of  the  great  prohibition  uprising,  or  the  liq- 
our  dealers  were  as  much  alarmed  for  the  safety  of 
the  wicked  "craft  by  which  they  get  their  gains,"  as 
now.  Think  of  180,000  votes  so  recently  given  for 
the  amendment  in  Michigan,  and  now  91,000  voters 
in  "Grod-forsaken  Texas,"  facing  the  vilest  and  most 
powerful  opposition  including  Jeff.  Davis,  and  vot- 
ing for  prohibition  against  his  autocratic  ipse  dixit! 

The  Free  Press  of  this  city,  after  writing  down  pro- 
hibition, and  professing  willingness  to  hear  both 
sides,  refused  a  reply.  So  much  for  the  fairness  of 
the  opposition.  It  is  said,  "Great  minds  run  in  the 
same  groove."  You  have,  Mr.  Free  Press,  on  this 
question  the  sympathy  and  support  of  the  liquor 
men,  not  only,  but  such  furtive  brains  as  Mr.  San- 
ford  H.  Cobb,  and  that  great  patriot-statesman  and 
generalissimo  who  has  done  so  much  for  his  coun- 
try and  mankind,  Mr.  Jefferson  Davis  I  But  really 
it  don't  look  as  though  prohibition  was  such  a  fail- 
ure as  you  would  make  it — when  its  loudly  increas- 
ing thunders  have  awakened  such  Rip  Van  Winkle 
fogies  from  their  slumbers  to  reiterate  such  stale 
and  oft- repeated  and  oft-refuted  sophisms  I  I  do 
not  see  how  you,  Mr.  Editor  of  the  Free  Press,  prove 
your  claim  to  "an  earnest  desire  for  temperance  and 
the  extinction  of  the  drink  evil;"  nor  how  you  can 
conserve  the  interests  of  good  society,  a  noble  man- 
hood, good  government,  and  happy  homes,  by  sup- 
porting the  liquor  license  system,  and  continually 
and  persistently  opposing  prohibition.  Your  posi- 
tion is  paradoxical,  like  the  man  who  "was  as  much 
opposed  to  slavery  as  anybody,  and  just  as  much 
opposed  to  abolition  I"  And  it  seems  to  me  you  are 
not  even  serving  the  liquor  interest  as  effectively  as 
you  imagine,  or  as  you  might,  if  that  is  the  animus 
of  your  writing.  You  are  firing  a  gun  that  may  do 
execution  at  the  wrong  end. 

If  you  could  prove  that  the  common,  everyday 
rowdjism,  riotings,  fightings.  Sabbath  desecrations, 
wife-beatings,  shocking  casualties,  savage  murders, 
attributed  to  the  liquor  business,  were  purely  imag- 
inary; could  show  that  the  statistics  of  the  country 
which  prove  eight-tenths  of  all  these  revolting  con- 
sequences to  be  caused  by  liquor  are  false;  could 
show  that  grog  shops  were  demanded  by  any  want 
of  the  people,  a  necessary  factor  to  their  nrosperity, 
industry,  economy,  good  order  or  happy  homes,  you 
might  indeed  do  the  liquor  fraternity  a  good  turn 
•nd  secure  their  good  will  and  lupport.     Bat  iup- 


pose  you  show  that  the  combined  efforts  of  Chris- 
tians, philanthropists  and  statesmen,  by  moral  sua- 
sion and  by  prohibitory  laws  have  failed  to  stay  the 
tide  or  mitigate  the  liquor  curse,  what  then?  You 
have  unconsciously  presented  a  terrible  indictment 
against  the  liquor  crime.  You  have  given  the 
strongest  argument  for  immediate  and  universal 
prohibition!  You  have  shown  a  state  of  things  that 
should  alarm  and  startle  every  good  citizen,  namely, 
that  we  have  suffered  to  take  root  and  grow  up,  have 
actually  environed  and  fostered  by  our  laws,  a 
deadly  foe  to  manhood,  morality,  religion,  educa- 
tion, industry,  economy,  law  and  order,  and  all  we 
hold  sacred  in  human  society — a  brazen-faced  foe 
that  contemptuously  tramples  under  its  feet  both 
the  laws  of  God  and  the  laws  of  the  State.  By  your 
own  showing,  therefore,  you  have  proven  that  this 
defiant  power  for  evil  should  be  prohibited  and 
crushed  out  ere  it  has  completely  undermined  the 
foundations  of  society. 

Is  it  not  strange  the  Free  Press,  or  any  other  pub- 
lic journal,  should  pour  out  its  vials  of  wrath  against 
so  good  and  a  so  much  needed  law,  instead  of  upon 
the  guilty  violators  of  the  law?  Or  on  the  guilty 
political  parties  and  their  recreant  oflScials  who  neg- 
lect or  refuse  to  enforce  the  laws?  Why  condemn 
prohibition  for  the  crimes  committed  by  the  lawless 
in  spite  of  prohibition,  and  accuse  the  law  of  "fail- 
ure" instead  of  the  guilty  oflicers  who  fail  to  exe- 
cute it? 

You  procure  the  most  perfect  and  complete  print- 
ing press  for  your  business  that  art  and  skill  can 
produce.  It  is  set  up  ready  for  action.  The  time 
comes  to  run  off  the  great  edition  of  the  paper,  but 
no  engineer  comes  near,  no  word  of  command  is 
given  to  start  the  press,  no  sound  of  machinery  is 
heard,  no  printed  sheets  fly  away  to  their  expectant 
subscribers.  What  is  the  matter?  Is  the  press  at 
fault?  O  no!  the  press  is  all  right,  but  no  one  puts 
its  powers  into  action.  No  one  sets  it  to  work,  and 
it  will  not  run  itself!  Will  you  publish  the  next 
day  a  column  or  more  of  rhetoric  to  prove  your  new 
press  a  "failure"  and  its  constructor  a  "fanatic"  and 
"crank?"    I  trow  not. 

I  marvel  that  you  profound  and  astute  editors 
have  not  discovered  and  dilated  upon  the  short- 
sighted policy  of  the  Almighty  in  prohibiting  in- 
stead of  "licensing"  crime  and  wrong;  that  he  did 
not  adopt  our  modern  "license"  or  "tax"  scheme 
with  Adam  and  Eve  in  regard  to  the  forbidden 
fruit,  and  so  "license"  the  crimes  forbidden  in  the 
Decalogue  instead  of  prohibiting  them!  And  why 
do  you  not  on  the  same  principle  expatiate  on  the 
"failure"  of  the  whole  Divine  and  human  economy 
of  penal  laws  and  declare  the  civil  codes  of  all  na- 
tions miserable  abortions,  total  "failures;"  for  there 
is  not  a  crime  or  wrong  prohibited  by  the  penal 
laws  of  any  nation  that  is  not  committed  daily,  not- 
withstanding the  fines,  imprisonments  and  death 
penalties  imposed. 

Why  not  be  consistent,  and  on  the  same  principle 
denounce  the  "license"  system  as  a  failure?  It  de- 
serves double  damnation.  It  sanctions,  for  money, 
the  devilish  traffic  it  pretends  to  "control"  and  "reg- 
ulate," and  then  suffers  its  licensed,  toddy-stick 
gentry  to  violate  with  impunity  and  set  at  defiance 
every  restraining  or  prohibitory  clause  in  it!  selling 
to  drunkards,  minors,  Indians,  and  on  Sundays, 
election  days  and  forbidden  hours  of  the  night!  It 
is  worse  than  a  failure,  so  far  as  checking  or  remov- 
ing the  evil  is  concerned,  or  in  educating  the  people 
in  temperance  principles  and  habits;  while  it  gives 
legal  status  and  respectability  to  the  traffic  and 
fastens  its  ghastly  crimes  and  miseries  upon  society 
by  law  and  takes  a  bribe  for  its  share  in  the  deadly 
business. 

And  now  the  Free  Press  calls  to  its  aid  Mr.  San- 
ford  H.  "Cobb"  of  the  new  Princeton  Review,  who 
repeats  the  stale  aphorism,  "You  cannot  make  men 
virtuous  by  compulsion!"  Far  fetched!  No  Prohi- 
bitionist dreams  of  any  such  thing.  But  would  you, 
therefore,  have  no  laws  to  prevent  or  punish  vice 
and  crime,  but  rather  license  the  most  prolific  cause 
of  wrong  doing  and  wretchedness?  Has  not  God 
ordained  penal  laws  as  a  "terror  to  evil  doers,"  "and 
a  praise  to  them  that  do  well?"  Should  we  not  re- 
move as  far  as  possible  every  temptation  calculated 
to  lead  men,  especially  our  youth,  astray?  Do  you 
pray,  "Lead  us  not  into  temptation,"  and  then  license 
grogshops  all  along  their  pathway?  Mr.  Cobb  reit- 
erates the  trite  old  saying,  "Self-control  is  a  manly 
virtue!"  Yes;  and  then  would  he  legalize  the  use 
of  that  which  of  all  else  most  completely  takes  away 
and  destroys  all  power  of  self-control,  and  makes 
the  emasculated  dupe  the  pliant  victim  and  slave  of 
bis  wicked  tempter  and  destroyer? 

Mr.  Cobb  dilates  in  real,  old-fashioned  style  on 
the  "excessive  use"  or  "abuse"  of  alcoholic  or  intox- 
icating drinks,  as  though  any  use  of  them  as  drinks 
was  not  an  "abuse,"  an  abuse  of  the  liquor,  and  an 


abuse  of  the  drinker!  "Wine  is  a  mocker,  strong 
drink  is  raging,  and  whosoever  is  deceived  thereby 
is  not  wise."  Such  talk  is  a  virtual  justification  of 
the  so-called  "moderate  drinking,"  the  old  Satanic 
and  fatal  snare  which  has  ever  led  and  whelmed 
men  in  the  awful  maelstrom  of  intemperance  and  its 
dreadful  ruin.  Did  the  All-wise  Father  and  law- 
giver talk  to  our  first  parents  after  that  fashion,  and 
gingerly  warn  them  against  the  "abuse"  or  "exces- 
sive use"  of  the  forbidden  fruit?  Did  he  talk  to  the 
people  through  that  immortal  Decalogue  about  the 
"excessive  use"  or  "abuse"  of  stealing,  swearing, 
adultery,  murder?  No.  Total  abstinence  from  the 
wrong  and  the  hurtful  was  the  first  doctrine  ever 
taught  to  man,  and  prohibition  was  the  first  law 
ever  announced  to  the  world.  "Abstain  from  all 
appearance  of  evil"  is  the  Divine  injunction.  Any 
amount  of  alcohol  used  as  a  drink  is  an  abuse;  is 
just  as  much  a  violation  of  the  physical  laws  as  any 
amount  of  theft  is  a  violation  of  the  moral  and 
statute  law!  One  drop  of  alcohol  in  contact  with 
the  mucous  membrane  of  the  stomach  produces  an 
unnatural  and  injurious  irritation  of  that  delicate 
and  sensitive  organ,  as  one-hundredth  part  of  a  drop 
on  the  corner  of  the  eye  irritates  and  inflames  that 
sensitive  organ. 

But  Mr.  Cobb  seems  to  have  reached  his  climax 
when  he  charges  Prohibitionists  with  demanding, 
"because  intoxicants  are  abused  by  some  to  drunk- 
enness, that  there  shall  be  no  intoxicants  at  all!" 
He  then  answers  to  this,  "that  because  the  sexual 
instinct  is  abused  by  some,  therefore  all  union  of 
the  sexes  shall  be  forbidden."  Who  cannot  see  the 
sophism  and  absurdity  of  this  postulate?  Compar- 
ing or  assuming  for  the  drinking  of  intoxicants  the 
same  demand  and  justification  in  nature  as  for  the 
use  of  the  sexual  instinct!  Any  man  of  intelligence 
knows  there  is  no  normal  or  natural  demand  for  in- 
toxicants, and  consequently  no  natural  supply  of  in- 
toxicants in  nature.  The  demand  and  the  supply 
are  wholly  artificial  or  factitious.  They  are  illegiti- 
mate and  hellish.  They  are  of  their  "father  the  devil, 
and  his  works  they  do!"  Shakespeare  well  said  of 
the  "invisible  spirit  of  wine:" 

"If  thou  hadst  no  name  by  which  to  know  thee, 
We  would  call  thee  devil !" 
God  never  made  man  for  intoxicants,  nor  intoxi- 
cants for  man.  But  he  did  create  the  sexual  rela- 
tion and  the  sexual  instinct  for  the  procreation  aod 
perpetuation  of  the  human  race.  The  relation  of  in- 
toxicants and  their  effects  upon  humanity  are  of  the 
devil:  the  relation  of  the  sexes  to  humanity  is  of 
God;  and  the  consequent  reproduction  and  continued 
identity  of  the  human  race  through  all  these  inter- 
vening ages  is  not  only  a  profound  mystery,  but  a 
justification  of  this  relation — a  wonder  and  a  glory, 
the  matchless  glory  of  the  Eternal  Infiaite! 

As  to  Mr.  Jefferson  Davis,  it  seems  he  is  still 
"hanging  on  a  sour-apple  tree,"  and  seems  not  to 
sweeten  with  age,  though  certainly  old  enough  to 
mellow;  and  one  would  suppose  the  sufferance  which 
has  allowed  him  to  live  these  long  years,  and  given 
him  opportunity  to  meditate  on  the  bloodshed  and 
suffering  his  great  unatoned  crime  has  cost  the  re- 
public, would  ere  this  have  softened  his  heart  and 
led  him  to  do  something  to  redeem  his  name  and 
make  amends  for  the  great  wrong  he  wrought  and 
the  terrible  calamity  he  brought  upon  the  nation. 
A  great  opportunity  was  offered  him  in  Texas  to  use 
his  influence  for  the  good  of  the  people,  but  he 
showed  himself  still  a  rebel,  and  with  all  his  influ- 
ence aided  the  whisky  rebellion. 

But  what  other  could  we  expect  from  a  man  who 
could  cover  up  and  shield  his  determination  to  per- 
petrate and  perpetuate  the  heinous  crime  of  human 
slavery  under  the  specious  guise  of  "States  rights" 
or  "State  sovereignty,"  and  involve  a  great  nation 
in  a  fratricidal  and  bloody  war  for  such  an  inhuman 
system,  but  that  he  would  be  ready  also  to  cover  and 
shield  the  murderous  liquor  traffic  under  the  same 
false  and  spurious  plea! 


AN  ALARM  AND  WARNING. 


An  apt  illustration  of  the  spirit  of  Romanism  in 
our  country  is  found  in  the  report  of  the  Central 
Union  of  German  Romanists  lately  meeting  in  Chi- 
cago. Dr.  Augustus  Kaiser  said:  "A  single  head 
is  necessary  for  the  church.  .  .  .  Gregory  XVI. 
used  to  say  he  was  nowhere  completely  the  pope  ex- 
cept in  North  America.  The  Catholics  should  sup- 
pori  the  pope  by  strict  obedience,  and,  if  necessary 
by  resistance,  compel  the  temporal  authorities  to 
make  the  required  concessions." 

These  are  the  true  sentiments  of  the  faithful  Ro- 
manists. What  are  the  true  sentiments  of  the  faith- 
ful Protestants?  The  one  deliberately  and  boldly 
avows  supreme  allegiance,  politically  and  religious- 
ly, to  the  pope.  Read  the  words  again,  reader!  All 
politics  are  ased  to  serve  him  and  cor  liberalism 


September  29, 1887 


THE  CHBISTIAN  CTNOSURE. 


smiles  complacently  at  their  speeches  and  at  their 
success;  at  the  imprisonment  of  preachers  in  Bos- 
ton, and  at  the  outrages  against  them  in  Chicago. 

The  above  statement  derives  vastly  greater  im- 
portance from  the  fact  that  it  is  not  an  ebullition 
of  Irish  zeal,  but  the  deliberate  words  at  the  Cen- 
tral Union  of  German  American  Catholics!  We 
are  fast  arriving  at  the  place  where  "boodler"  poli- 
tics will  be  for  or  against  municipal,  State  and  na- 
tional support  of  Romanism. 

Another  speaker  at  this  meeting  said,  "The  Cath- 
olics wanted  to  influence  the  school  system  of  this 
country  in  accordance  with  their  principles."  This 
is  done  under  the  claim  of  "equal  rights,"  by  which 
they  mean  that,  as  Catholics,  they  should  have  the 
right  to  preserve  the  German  tongue  and  Catholic 
religion  in  the  education  of  their  families.  Priests 
and  laymen  were  to  be  a  committee,  with  power  to 
add  other  nationalities  and  non-Catholics  who 
agreed  with  them.  Another  referred  to  our  public 
schools  as  "impious,  irreligious,  and  of  injurious  in- 
fluence." 

Another  straw  shows  how  the  wind  blows.  At 
the  great  celebration  of  our  National  Constitution 
in  Philadelphia  the  opportunity  was  taken  advan- 
tage of  to  have  President  Cleveland,  the  head  of  the 
nation.and  the  prince  of  the  Roman  Catholic  church 
in  the  United  States,  brought  together;  and  they 
grasped  each  other's  hands  in  the  sight  of  the  great 
gathering,  and  the  record  tells  of  the  hearty  wel- 
come and  applause  which  followed. 

Well  may  the  Pope  say  that  nowhere  is  he  so 
much  the  pope  as  he  is  to-day  in  the  United  States! 
But  what  shall  be  the  fruit  from  such  seed?  Popish 
supremacy  is  as  truly  the  animus  of  Rome  to-day  as 
it  ever  has  been,  and  this  is  as  incompatible  with 
the  supremacy  of  the  will  of  the  people  as  slavery 
was  to  liberty,  and  the  fruit  must  be  the  same. 

A  Soot. 


religion  it  is  the  next  thing  to  it,  for  it  has  on  re- 
ligious clothes,  father  says  "sheep's  clothing,"  but  I 
suppose  he  refers  to  their  "sheep  skins,  or  white 
aprops."  Of  course  it  is  a  religion,  with  its  odes, 
chants,  prayers,  and  funeral  dirges;  its  chaplains, 
stewards,  deacons,  worshipful  masters,  priests  and 
most  excellent  grand  high  priests. 

Let  us  consult  General  Grand  High  Priest  Albert 
G.  Mackey  again.  Well,  as  for  titles,  what  can  com- 
pare with  theological  dignity  like  that.  On  page  95 
of  his  great  book  of  Masonic  Jurisprudence,  he 
says:  "The  truth  is  that  Masonry  is  undoubtedly  a 
religious  institution — its  religion  being  of  that  uni- 
versal kind  in  which  all  men  agree;" — Hold  on.  Sir 
High  Priest  Mackey.  That's  not  my  mother's  relig- 
ion, the  religion  of  the  Bible,  the  religion  of  the 
church  that  holds  me  on  probation.  All  men  do  not 
agree  in  the  Christian  religion.  What  are  the  tenets 
of  this  peculiar  religion?  Perhaps  it  will  all  be  ex- 
plained as  we  proceed. 

[To  be  Continued.'] 


SOME  ABPECTB  OF  THE  IMMIGRATION 
QUESTION. 


MASONRY  UNDER  THE  MAGNIFIER. 


IS   IT   A    RELIGION? — SOLILOQUY     CONTINUED. 


BY   M.    N.   BUTLER. 


Is  Freemasonry  a  religious  or  irreligious,  moral 
or  immoral  institution?  We  will  start  with  Webb 
every  time  and  finish  up  with  these  later  authors. 
Webb's  Masonic  Monitor,  by  Morris,  page  13:  "No 
lodge  can  be  regularly  opened  or  closed  without  re- 
ligious services  of  some  sort." 

''Some  sort."  Perhaps  they  just  render  a  chant, 
sing  a  hymn,  or,  as  father  says,  take  up  a  collection. 
Bur,  on  page284of  this  same  lodge  monitor  it  say s :  "No 
lodge  or  Masonic  assembly  can  be  regularly  opened 
or  closed  without  prayer. "  Then  that  "religious  serv- 
ice" must  be  prayer.  When  a  man  prays  he  is  sup- 
posed to  be  standing  face  to  face  with  Almighty 
God.  Why  do  Masons  always  pray?  Here  is  a 
Lexicon  of  Freemasonry,  by  Albert  G.  Mackey,  Past 
General  Grand  High  Priest  of  the  General  Grand 
Chapter  of  the  Masons  of  the  United  States,  page 
369:  "Prayer.  All  the  ceremonies  of  our  order 
are  prefaced  and  terminated  with  prayer,  because 
Masonry  is  a  religious  institution,  and  because  we 
thereby  show  our  dependence  on,  and  our  faith  and 
trust  in,  God." 

That  is  the  reason  why  every  devout,  pious  per- 
son should  pray,  if  they  offer  a  consistent  petition. 
That  is  the  reason  my  mother  prays,  and  father  says 
she  prays  enough  for  the  whole  family,  and  she's 
right,  too,  for  the  Bible  says  to  pray  without  ceas- 
ing. When  they  got  married  father  was  an  Aboli- 
tionist and  mother  was  a  Wesleyan  Methodist.  He 
don't  like  our  M.  E.  preacher  because  he  is  a  Mason, 
and  mother  don't  like  that  either,  and  as  for  me, 
well,  I'm  in  on  probation,  and  I'm  going  to  sift  this 
question.  Pierson's  Traditions  of  Freemasonry,  by 
A.  T.  C.  Pierson,  Past  Grand  High  Priest  and  Grand 
Captain  General  of  the  Grand  Encampment  of  the 
Masons  of  the  United  States,  page  14:  "But  the 
order  of  Freemasonry  goes  further  than  did  the  an- 
cient mysteries;  while  it  embodies  all  that  is  valu- 
able in  the  institutions  of  the  past,  it  embraces  all 
that  is  good  and  true  of  the  present,  and  thus  be- 
comes a  conservator  as  well  as  a  depository  of  re- 
ligion, science  and  art." 

Again,  we  listen  to  33  ©  Sovereign  Grand  Inspect- 
or General  Dan  Sickels,  in  his  "Ahiman  Rezon"  or 
Freemasons' Guide,  page  57:  "And,  finally,  we  shall 
discover  that  our  rites  embrace  all  the  possible  cir- 
cumstances of  man — moral,  spiritual  and  social — 
and  have  a  meaning  high  as  the  heavens,  broad  rs 
the  universe,  and  profound  as  eternity." 

Beat  that  if  you  can!  I'll  have  to  post  father  and 
mother  up  a  little  so  they  won't  oppose  "all  that 
is  valuable,"  and  "all  that  is  good  and  true."  What 
a  grand  and  comprehensive  system!    If  that  is  not 


The  problem  of  immigration  has  suddenly  become 
one  of  the  foremost  issues  of  the  day,  and  is  likely 
to  remain  as  such  until  some  practical  measures  are 
adopted  by  Congress  for  remedying  the  evils  which 
are  believed  to  result  from  an  unrestricted  flow  of 
foreign  populations  into  this  country.  It  is  not  ex- 
pected, however,  that  this  question  will  be  settled  at 
once,  or  without  a  stout  conflict  among  the  friends 
and  opponents  of  a  restrictive  policy.  There  are 
manv  arguments  to  be  urged  on  both  sides.  The 
difllculty  on  the  side  of  restriction  is  to  know  where 
to  draw  the  line  between  objectionable  and  unob- 
jectionable immigrants.  We  already  have  laws  de- 
signed to  exclude  actual  paupers  and  laborers  brought 
out  under  contract,  but  these  laws  are  imperfect  in 
their  operations,  and  really  help  the  situation  but 
very  little.  The  classes  of  foreigners  against  which 
the  country  is  revolting  are  the  multitudes  of  igno- 
rant, vicious,  degraded  outcasts  of  European  coun- 
tries,who  crowd  into  our  cities  and  swell  the  popula- 
tion of  our  asylums  and  prisons.  For  the  sober, 
industrious  and  self-respecting  foreigner  who  comes 
here  with  an  honest  purpose  to  better  his  condition, 
and  a  real  desire  to  identify  himself  with  the  coun- 
try, there  is  still  an  abundance  of  room  and  a  hearty 
welcome.  But  it  is  easier  to  set  up  a  standard  of 
qualification  for  these  new  comers  than  it  is  to  en- 
force any  discriminations.  The  trouble  is  to  know 
where  and  how  to  apply  the  tests  which  shall  distin- 
guish the  future  anarchists,  desperadoes,  lunatics 
and  vagabonds  from  the  honest,  frugal,  ambitious, 
home-seekers  and  worthy  citizens  of  the  future. 
What  process  can  be  devised  which  shall  separate 
the  dross  of  immgration  from  the  solid  ore  as  the 
whole  mass  comes  rushing  in  together  through  our 
seaboard  gates?  This  is  a  problem  which  will  tax 
our  ablest  economists  and  our  wisest  statesmen  to 
solve. 

A  vast  amount  of  valuable  information  on  this 
emigration  question  has  lately  been  furnished 
through  the  medium  of  the  Government  printing  of- 
fice at  Washington.  About  a  year  ago  a  circular 
was  sent  out  by  our  Department  of  State  to  consu- 
lar officers  of  the  United  States  in  Europe,  with  in- 
structions to  investigate  and  report  to  the  Depart- 
ment on  the  statistics  of  emigration  in  each  consu- 
lar district,  the  causes  of  emigration,  the  classes 
which  supply  the  greatest  number  of  emigrants,  and 
the  social  and  moral  condition  of  the  people.  The 
reports  received  in  accordance  with  these  instruc- 
tions are  now  published  in  a  form  for  public  distri- 
bution. 

The  tabulated  results  of  the  investigations  made 
by  the  consuls  afford  some  interesting  and  suggest- 
ive statistics.  For  example,  in  a  classification  by 
occupation,  it  is  shown  that  the  total  emigration  for 
the  years  1873-86  was  5,396,416,  and  of  this  num- 
ber 2,596,188  are  set  down  as  without  occupation, 
587,349  as  skilled,  and  31,803  as  professional.  In 
other  words,  over  forty-eight  per  cent,  or  nearly  half, 
of  the  immigrants  coming  in  that  time  had  no  stated 
means  of  obtaining  a  livelihood,  and  only  about  ten 
per  cent  were  skilled  workmen.  The  records  of  em- 
igration from  Scotland  show  the  largest  per  cent  of 
skilled  labor,  the  average  indicated  being  about 
twenty-five  per  cent.  France,  Belgium  and  Switzer- 
land maintain  about  an  equal  average  of  fifteen  and 
eighteen  per  cent.  Ireland  stands  the  lowest,  with 
an  average  of  less  than  seven  per  cent  of  skilled 
laborers  in  a  total  of  over  700,000.  The  average  in 
Sweden,  Italy  and  Russia  is  also  very  low.  In  a 
circular  diagram,  showing  the  proportion  of  agricul- 
culturists  among  the  emigrants  of  1886,  Germany 
has  nearly  as  much  space  as  all  the  other  countries 
put  together.  Italy  has  the  next  largest  space,and  the 


Netherlands  the  smallest  of  all.  This  is  as  they 
stand  before  coming  to  this  country.  Very  few  of 
the  Italians  engage  in  farming  after  arriving  here. 
In  a  chart  of  the  emigration  of  certain  occupations 
in  1886,  showing  the  relative  number  from  each 
country,  Germany  is  found  to  send  the  largest  pro- 
portion of  carpenters,  tailors,  shoemakers  and  black- 
smiths; the  United  Kingdom  of  Great  Britain  the 
largest  number  of  miners,  masons,  spinners,  print- 
ers, mechanics  and  artisans.  In  general  the  Ger- 
mans represent  those  industries  that  depend  upon 
hand  labor,  or  the  requirements  of  every-day  life, 
while  the  English  supply  the  mechanical  element. 

Turning  to  the  reports  of  particular  countries,  we 
find  that  Austria-Hungary  makes  the  worst  showing 
of  all.     The  emigrants  from  Hungary  are  chiefly  of 
the  Slovack  tribe,  and  at  home  are  counted  among 
the  poorest,   lowest,  most  degraded  and   hopeless 
class  of  the  population.     They  are  greatly  given  to 
the  vice  of  drunkenness,  and  their  family  and  social 
life  is  of  the  lowest  order.     Very  few  of  them  come 
to   America  with  any  intention  of  remaining,  and 
while   here  remain  herded  together  in  thefr  filthy 
huts  with  no  apparent  desire  to  profit  by  the   new 
conditions  of  life  around  them.      The  present  emi- 
gration from  Italy  is  shown  to  be  but  little  better  in 
character  than  that  from  Hungary.      Particularly 
objectionable  are  the  emigrants  from  the  southern 
districts  and  from  Sicily.      These  are  the  most  illit- 
erate parts  of  Italy,  and  in  these  districts  brigand- 
age has   been  for  many  years  extremely  prevalent 
The  general  causes  of  emigration  are  stated  as  over- 
population and  high  taxes.     The  cost  of  living  has 
increased  immensely  in  Italy  in  the  last  few  years 
with  the  great  increase  in  taxes.     Rents  are  higher, 
while  the  value  of  the  produce  of  the  land   is  kept 
down  by  foreign  competition.     TIm  consul  who  re- 
ports the  district  of  Milan  expresses   the  opinion 
that  emigration  from  Italy  will  be  greatly  increased 
during  the  next  few  years.     There  is  but  little  emi- 
gration from  Russia,  more  perhaps  to  the  United 
States  than  to  any  other  country.     The  Government 
of  Russia    does  not  encourage  emigration;  on   the 
contrary  it  prohibits  all  Russian  subjects  from  leav- 
ing the  Empire  of  Russia,  except  Poles  and  Jews. 
It  does  not  encourage   these  in  any  tangible  form, 
but  allows  them  to  leave  with  written  permission. 
The  Mennonites  have  emigrated,  perhaps,  more  ex- 
tensively than  any  other  class  of  Russian  subjects. 
The  Mennonites  are  an  industrious,  thrifty  people, 
and  are  desirable  emigrants.     The  consuls  in  Switzer- 
land present  a  flattering  report  of  the  character  of 
the  emigration  from  that  country.      The  number  of 
emigrants   from  Switzerland  to  the  United   States 
from  1873  to  1885,  both  inclusive,  was  65,332;  emi- 
gration to  all  other  countries  for  the  same  period, 
15,242;  total,   80,574—80   per    cent  going  to  the 
United  States.      Previous  to  1881  there  was  much 
complaint  in  Switzerland  of  objectionable  and  "as- 
sisted" emigration  to  the  United  States,  but  in  April, 
1881,   there  went  into  effect  a  law,  passed  by   the 
Swiss  Government,  forbidding  "agents  to  forward 
persons  to  whom  the  laws  of  the  country  to  which 
they  emigrate  prohibit  the  entry."     Mr.  Boyd  Win- 
chester,  who  reports  for  the  iSerne  district,   says 
pauperism,  as  an -institution,  is  unknown  in  Switzer- 
land. 

In  none  of  these  consular  reports  is  any  mention 
made  of  "assistetl  emigration,"  the  deportation  of 
criminals  and  incapables.  The  consuls  are  quite 
unanimous  in  saying  that  nothing  of  this  kind  has 
come  within  their  knowledge.  The  general  opinion 
also  seems  to  be  that  emigration  ought  to  be  en- 
couraged rather  than  restricted.  The  statements 
and  statistics  given  by  many  of  the  consuls  cer- 
tainly favor  this  view. — N.  F.  Ob$erver. 


Chrysostom  beautifully  says,  for  our  comfort:  "I 
have  a  pledge  from  Christ — have  his  note  of  hand — 
which  is  my  support,  my  refuge,  and  heaven;  and 
though  the  world  should  rage,  to  this  security  I 
cling.  How  reads  it?  'Lo,  I  am  with  you  always, 
even  unto  the  end  of  the  world.'  If  Christ  be  with 
me,  what  shall  I  fear?  If  he  is  mine,  all  the  pow- 
ers of  earth  to  me  are  nothing  more  than  a  spider's 
web." 

The  first  saloon  case  was  settled  at  Council  Bluffs, 
Sept.  3,  when  Judge  Deemer  ruled  in  the  District 
Court  that  the  temporary  writ  of  injunction  granted 
against  the  keeper  of  a  saloon  and  owner  of  the 
building  should  bo  made  permanent,  and  the  bar 
fixtures  sold  and  lien  filed  against  the  building  to 
pay  the  costs  of  prosecuting  the  case.  It  is  the  first 
permanent  writ  granteti  and  is  one  of  over  fifty 
cases  to  be  heard.  It  is  also  the  first  victory  for 
the  prosecutors,  and  is  illy  received  by  the  saloon 
men.  The  case  has  been  appealed  to  the  Supreme 
Court.  Brown,  the  owner,  is*  one  of  the  wealthiest 
and  most  influential  men  of  the  city. 


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1H£  CHKISTIAir  CYKOBURB. 


September  2d,  18S9 


rS^  CENTENNIAL  OF    THE  CONSTITUTION. 


The  immense  procession  and  crowd. — The  Carlisle  School 
exhibit.  —  The  unheard  addresses. — Rom^  arrogant 
and  dominant. —  The  National  Reform  Association's 
request. —  Granted  and  withdrawn  at  the  demand  of 
infidelity. 

Philadelphia,  Sept.  20,  1887. 
Editor  Christian  Cynosure: — The  Centennial 
Celebration  of  the  framing  of  our  National  Consti- 
tution has  come  and  gone.  It  was  successful  beyond 
the  most  sanguine  expectations  of  the  managers. 
The  Industrial  Display  on  Thursday,  the  15th,  was 
witnessed  by  more  than  1,000,000  people,  including 
the  Governors  and  other  officers  from  twenty-four 
States.  The  procession  was  ten  miles  long.  Perhaps 
21,000  men  were  in  the  line  of  march,  2,000  horses, 
500  wagons  and  floats,  and  2, 100  musicians.  Colonel 
Snowden  was  commander  of  the  day. 

A  noticeable  feature  was  the  Indian  lads  from 
Captain  Pratt's  Carlisle  school,  marching  in  uniform 
with  slrftes  under  their  arms.  They  were  preceded 
by  a  company  of  wild,  uncivilized  Indians  from  the 
plains,  with  the  garb  and  painted  faces  of  their  na- 
tive state.  The  contrast  between  them,  and  those 
who  were  clothed  and  in  their  right  mind,  was  an 
object  lesson  for  the  American  people  as  to  the 
power  of  education  and  the  Christian  religion  in 
transforming  the  Indian.  The  Military  Display  on 
Friday  under  the  command  of  Lieutenant  Greneral 
Sheridan,  with  20,000  uniformed  men  in  line,  was 
an  unusual  occurrence  in  this  country  in  times  of 
peace. 

But  Saturday  was  the  great  day  of  the  National 
feast.  A  platform  erected  at  the  rear  of  Independ- 
ence Hall  accommodated  10,000  people.  Behind 
this  gathered  at  least  40,000.  Hon.  John  A.  Kas- 
son.  President  of  the  Constitutional  Commission, 
introduced  the  speakers.  On  the  stage  were  Presi- 
dent Cleveland  and  his  wife,  ex-President  Hayes 
and  ex-Vice  President  Hannibal  Hamlin,  Secretary 
Bayard,  ex-Secrelary  Evarts,  Chief  Justice  Waite 
and  Justices  Miller,  Blatchford  and  Harlan  of  the 
United  States  Supreme  Court,  Bishop  Potter  and 
Cardinal  Gibbons,  Governors  of  several  States,  Con- 
gressmen and  military  officers.  The  address  of 
President  Cleveland  was  heard  by  most  on  the  stage, 
but  the  oration  of  Justice  Miller  could  not  be  heard 
twenty  feet  away.  He  read  closely  and  his  voice 
was  weak.  It  was  my  good  fortune  to  have  a  seat 
among  the  reporters,  and  not  a  word  could  be  heard 
there.  The  occasion,  subject  and  man  were  there, 
but  not  the  voice.  The  plan  of  this  performance 
was  poorly  conceived.  They  should  have  secured 
Music  Hall  and  issued  tickets  for  National  and  State 
officers,  clergymen,  lawyers,  editors  and  professors, 
and  selected  an  orator  who  could  be  heard  distinctly, 
and  then  there  would  have  been  some  satisfaction 
and  profit  in  it. 

It  was  noticeable  that  on  the  stage  the  church  of 
Rome  was  well  represented,  a  church  which  is  the 
ancient  foe  of  civil  and  religious  liberty;  but  the 
great  Presbyterian  church,  which  has  done  so  much 
to  make  this  country  what  it  is  to-day,  was  not  rep- 
resented at  all.  Modest  worth  takes  a  back  seat 
now-a-days,  but  impudent  treachery  goes  to  the 
front.  The  music  by  the  Marine  Band  and  the  cho- 
rus of  2,000  children  and  200  male  voices  was  grand. 
But  all  might  have  sung. 

At  a  reform  meeting  in  the  First  Reformed  Pres- 
byterian church  last  evening,  Rev.  J.  H.  Leiper 
stated  that  an  application  had  been  made  to  the 
Centennial  Commission,  on  behalf  of  the  National 
Reform  Association,  to  allow  a  carriage  in  Thurs- 
day's procession  bearing  a  banner  with  the  inscrip- 
tion, "  Christ  the  King  of  Nations  and  the  Bible  the 
tSupreme  Law;"  also  another  banner  with  this  in- 
scription, "TAe  Fifteenth  Amendment  secures  the  rights 
of  man.  Let  us  have  another  securing  the  rights  of 
God. "  The  Commission  cordially  granted  the  request 
and  it  was  so  published  in  the  local  papers.  But  it 
brought  down  upon  them  such  a  shower  of  protests 
that  the  Commission  revoked  the  order  and  notified 
the  Association  that  they  could  not  allow  them  in 
the  procession,  as  it  would  provoke  discussion.  They 
could  allow  Cardinal  Gibbons  on  the  stand  with  his 
red  hat,  but  no  banner  for  Christ  in  the  procession. 
Perhaps  it  was  well  enough,  for  it  would  not  have 
looked  well  for  such  a  banner  to  follow  Gambrinus 
and  the  Beer  Barrel. 

The  Government  gives  character  to  the  people 
over  whom  it  presides.  Twenty-three  times  it  is 
mentioned  that  Jeroboam,  the  son  of  Nebat, 
caused  Israel  to  sin  by  setting  up  idols.  The  nation 
became  idolatrous  and  was  finally  carried  captive  to 
Babylon  and  kept  in  the  furnace  of  slavery  for  sev- 
enty years,  until  the  dross  of  slavery  was  removed, 
and  they  were  made  forever  free  from  that  sin. 
Philip  II.  of  Spain  was  a  rank  papist  and  Spain  has 
been  Roman  Catholic  to  this  day.     France  revoked 


the  Edict  of  Nantes  and  expelled  400,000  Hugue- 
nots. She  reaped  the  bitter  fruits  of  that  crime  in 
the  Reign  of  Terror,  and  to-day  she  is  a  nation  of 
skeptics.  Henry  VIII.  repudiated  the  papal  author- 
ity and  made  himself  the  head  of  the  church  of 
England  in  1532,  and  to-day  Queen  Victoria  enjoys 
that  unworthy  eminence.  Our  nation  has  a  secular 
Constitution;  it  is  rapidly  secularizing  the  nation. 
It  is  only  a  question  of  time  when  the  nation  will 
be  like  the  Constitution. 

On  the  other  hand  the  godly  governments  of  Da- 
vid and  Solomon,  of  Asa,  Josiah  and  Hezekiah, 
made  the  piety  and  religion  of  their  reigns  possible. 
The  Switzerland  Republic  became  Christian  in  Cal- 
vin's day,  and  Protestantism  reigns  in  every  canton 
to-day.  William  the  Silent  and  the  Reformers  in 
Holland  set  up  the  Dutch  Republic,  establishing  it 
in  Christian  principles,  and  they  are  a  free  people. 
In  the  English  Revolution  of  1688  William,  Prince 
of  Orange,  established  civil  and  religious  liberty, 
and  it  is  so  to-day.  Let  our  Constitution  be  Chris- 
tianized and  the  nation  will  be  led  up  to  God. 

J.  M.  Foster. 


Befoem  News. 


TSB  ILLINOIS  STATE  CONVENTION. 

The  place  chosen  for  the  Illinois  State  Convention 
for  1887  was  historic  ground.  Thirty-six  years  ago 
Belvidere  was  the  scene  of  a  pitiful  tragedy,  whose 
guilty  agents  were  shielded  by  the  lodge  from  jus- 
tice. The  building  occupied  by  the  Masonic  lodge 
at  that  day  is  still  pointed  out  on  the  main  street  of 
the  city.  There  Ellen  Slade  was  confined  by  her 
murderers.  The  old  Keith  house  where  she  was 
ruined  is  on  a  corner  not  far  away;  and  yet  further 
are  the  houses  in  that  day  occupied  by  Dr.  Wood- 
ward where  she  died,  and  by  Judge  Whitney,  the 
master  of  the  lodge,  whose  love  of  justice  was 
stronger  than  the  villainous  bonds  of  Masonry.  The 
startling  events  of  that  day  are  vividly  remembered 
by  some  old  residents  of  Belvidere,  but  to  most  who 
live  in  the  beautiful  town  they  are  probably  un- 
known. The  lodge  is  strong,  too,  but  more  subdued 
than  when  it  threatened  Starry  and  made  a  fumbling 
arrest  of  W.  B.  Stoddard  for  selling  a  20-cent  pam- 
phlet exposing  its  wickedness. 

Here  in  a  central  place,  hard  by  the  postofflce  I. 
R,  B.  Arnold  had  pitched  his  great  tent,  and  for  sev- 
eral nights  had  drawn  in  hundreds  to  his  illustrated 
lectures.  Tuesday  evening  of  last  week  he  gave  to 
a  comparison  of  ancient  and  modern  heathenism. 
Some  700  people  were  listening,  and  he  had  pro- 
ceeded some  fifteen  minutes  when  alarm  whistles 
and  bells  and  a  cry  of  "fire"  stampeded  the  people. 
Most  of  them  returned,  however,  in  a  short  time, 
having  satisfied  themselves  that  their  own  homes 
were  safe.  A  cider  mill  and  canning  factory  which 
did  business  every  day  in  the  week  was  burned. 
Good  announcements  were  made  of  the  State  Con- 
vention to  open  next  day  in  the  tent,  but  the  friends 
who  gathered  next  day  were  disappointed  that  so 
few  came  in  at  the  appointed  hour.  Other  officers 
were  absent  and  the  recording  secretary  nominated 
J.  P.  Stoddard  as  temporary  chairman.  The  fore- 
noon was  occupied  in  religious  exercises  and  brief 
addresses,  and  the  time  was  full  of  profit.  Among 
the  speakers  was  Rev.  W.  L.  Walker  of  the  Evan- 
gelical Association,  and  Rev.  J.  T.  Hurry,  delegate 
from  the  Illinois  Wesleyan  conference. 

The  report  of  the  Treasurer  was  read  and  ap- 
proved, showing  the  receipts  from  all  sources  to 
have  been  $1,295.56;  the  expenses  $1,246.22,  leav- 
ing $49.34  in  the  treasury.  The  Executive  Commit- 
tee report  which  appears  elsewhere,  was  by  a  mis- 
understanding not  forwarded  by  the  secretary.  Its 
substance  was  given  from  memory  with  a  supple- 
mental report  of  work  done  in  the  State  outside  the 
operations  of  the  State  society.  A  verbal  report  was 
also  made  of  the  changes  recommended  by  the  Ex- 
ecutive Committee.  The  most  important  of  these 
was  the  formation  of  the  Executive  Committee. 
This  was  to  be  of  seven  persons  and  the  three  execu- 
tive officers  of  the  body  ex-officio.  Vice-presidents 
were  to  be  selected  one  from  each  Congressional 
district,  who  are  expected  to  form  a  co-operative 
committee.     The  reports  were  approved. 

A  Bible  reading  on  secretism  was  conducted  by 
M.  N.  Butler  for  an  hour  in  the  afternoon,  and  in 
the  evening  able  addresses  were  made  by  brethren 
Stoddard  and  Gault,  followed  by  a  brief  talk  by  I. 
R.  B.  Arnold  with  his  lantern  to  help.  The  day  and 
evening  were  rainy.  At  times  the  roar  of  falling 
water  prevented  the  speaking.  The  attendance  was 
therefore  small  but  the  interest  was  good. 

Thursday  morning  the  nominating  committee's  re- 
port was  accepted,  making  Secretary  Stoddard  presi- 
dent; Revs.  William  Wishart  and  L.  N.  Stratton, 
vice-presidents  at  large;   M.  N.  Butler,  secretary; 


and  W.  I.  Phillips,  treasurer;  Executive  Committee: 
Rev.  Joseph  Travis,  Evanston;  Prof.  Elliott  Whip- 
ple, Rev.  A.  W.  Parry  and  Mrs.  L.  N.  Stratton, 
Wheaton;  Mrs.  E.  A.  Cook  and  H.  L.  Kellogg,  Chi- 
cago; and  Prof.  Brodt,  Elmhurst.  The  selection  of 
other  vice-presidents  was  referred  to  the  Executive 
Committee.  The  recommendation  of  this  last  item 
by  the  nominating  committee  suggested  some  meth- 
ods of  carrying  on  the  work  in  the  State  that  aroused 
a  spirited  debate.  Pastor  Harris  of  the  Congrega- 
tional church,  Byron,  who  was  present  with  a  dele- 
gation of  strong  men  from  his  church,  took  an- active 
part  in  it,  and  spoke  in  denunciation  of  the  Ma- 
sonic lodge  into  which  he  had  been  inveigled  by 
T.  T.  Gurney  and  others.  Mrs.  Cronk,  Mrs.  M.  A. 
Blanchard,  Mrs.  J.  P.  Stoddard,  and  Messrs.  Gault, 
Hurry,  Kellogg,  Reynolds,  Butler,  Grinnell  and  oth- 
ers took  part  until  the  forenoon  was  gone. 

In  the  afternoon  the  resolutions  were  passed  upon; 
a  committee  of  five,  C.  A.  Blanchard,  L.  N.  Stratton, 
Jerome  Howe,  Mrs.  L.  H.  Plumb,  and  E.  B.Worrell, 
were  appointed  to  represent  the  convention  in  the 
Prohibition  Conference  in  Chicago,  Nov.  30;  and  a 
Bible  Reading  by  H.  L.  Kellogg  on  "The  Two  Baby- 
Ions"  closed  an  interesting  and  profitable  day.  The 
heavy  rains  having  made  the  tent  unfit  for  use,  a 
church  room  was  occupied. 

In  the  evening  some  600  people  gathered  again  in 
the  tent  and  listened  to  one  of  Pres.  C.  A.  Blanch- 
ard's  stirring  and  eloquent  addresses,  followed  by  a 
brief  calcium  light  exhibition  by  I.  R.  B.  Arnold. 

Although  the  convention  was  small,  barely  fifty 
delegates  being  enrolled,  yet  all  felt  it  to  be  a  very 
profitable  meeting,  and  if  its  plans  and  hopes  for 
carrying  on  the  work  during  the  year  are  fulfilled, 
we  shall  have  grown  to  an  host  by  the  time  the  next 
anniversary  comes  round. 

RBPOKT   OP   COMMITTBB   ON   RESOLUTIONS. 

Your  committee  would  report  the  following  resolu- 
tions ; 

Whereas,  The  pulpit,  the  platform  and  the  press  are 
the  most  e£Eectual  instrumentalities  to  move  public  senti- 
ment on  the  lodge  question;  therefore  resolved: 

1.  That  we  will  redouble  our  efforts  to  maintain  a 
State  lecturer  who  will  diligently  seek  every  opportuni- 
ty for  preaching,  lecturing  and  circulating  literature  on 
this  issue. 

2.  That  the  organization  of  a  Lecture  Bureau  would 
greatly  facilitate  the  agitation  by  planning  and  arrang- 
ing lecture  campaigns,  so  as  very  much  to  economize  the 
time,  labors  and  expenses  of  the  lecturer. 

3.  TTAereas, The  prohibition  of  the  liquor  traffic  has  been 
a  prominent  plank  in  our  platform  of  principles  from  the 
first,  and  we  believe  the  eventual  success  of  prohibition 
depends  on  the  destruction  of  the  secret  lodge  system  and 
its  oath-bound  favoritism  and  sworn  affiliation  with  li- 
quor men;  therefore 

Resolved,  That  as  American  prohibitionists  our  rule  in 
voting  shall  be  to  refuse  to  support  lodge  members  for 
office. 

4.  That  we  highly  commend  the  W.  C.  T .  Unions  for 
the  good  they  have  done  and  congratulate  them  on  their 
success  under  God  in  the  promotion  of  open  Christian 
work  in  all  their  lines  of  endeavor,  but  we  would  ur^e 
upon  them,  as  a  kindred  Christian  association,  the  im- 
portance of  bearing  a  clear  testimony  against  the  secrecy 
feature  of  the  orders  which  seek  to  gain  their  co-opera- 
tion, but  at  the  same  time  put  their  light  under  a  bushel 
contrary  to  the  command  of  the  Word  of  God. 

5.  That  the  time  and  money  consumed  in  the  working 
of  the  secret  order8,thoughagreatloss,is  the"least  of  the 
evils"  attending  their  operation;  as  those  orders  prove  to 
be  immense  training  schools  for  the  higher  irreligious  or- 
ders, controlled  and  often  started  by  Masons  and  mem- 
bers of  those  older  secret  organizations. 

6.  Greater  effort  should  be  put  forth  the  present  year 
to  secure  united  and  earnest  prayer  for  the  downfall  of 
all  secret  orders  and  the  use  of  only  open  methods  in  pro- 
moting benevolent  works.  To  this  end  we  commend 
concerts  of  prayer,  where  two  or  three  will  agree  regular- 
ly to  meet  and  pray  for  this  object. 

7.  Fully  believing  in  the  power  of  the  press  and  realiz- 
ing the  growing  importance  of  the  use  of  proper  litera- 
ture, both  as  to  papers  and  tracts,  we  therefore  most 
heartily  approve  and  endorse  the  free  distribution  of  the 
same  to  every  home  possible;  and  we  especially  commend 
the  Christian  Cynosure  as  the  efficient  and  able  organ  of 
the  movement  and  gratefully  recognize  its  influence  in 
the  enlargement  and  spread  of  our  reform;  and  we  do  re- 
joice to  see  the  influence  of  the  paper  in  the  remarkable 
movements  among  the  colored  churches  of  the  South,  and 
we  believe  it  the  duty  of  Christians  throughout  the  State 
to  aid  in  continuing  the  circulation  of  the  paper  among 
the  colored  pastors  to  the  utmost  extent. 

8.  The  sincerest  thanks  of  this  convention  are  given 
to  Bro.  I.  R.  B.  Arnold  and  his  family  for  the  use  of  their 
commodious  tent  and  assistance  in  making  our  evening 
sessions  more  interesting.  Our  than'ts  are  also  heartily 
given  to  the  friends  of  the  reform  in  Belvidere  who  have 
hospitably  opened  their  homes  for  our  entertainment. 

9.  Resolved,  That  we  tender  to  Elder  J.  L.  Barlow,our 
former  president,  who  has  removed  to  Iowa,  an  express- 
ion of  our  sorrow  and  sympathy  with  him  in  the  recent 
loss  of  his  beloved  wife,  and  we  pray  that  the  Divine 
Comforter  may  bring  to  him  that  heavenly  consolation 
which  only  God  can  give. 

10.  Resolved,  That  we  enter  our  protest  agamst  the 
growing  Sunday  desecration  by  the  Government  Mail  ser 


September  29, 188T 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


vice  and  by  railroad  corporations,  as  well  as  by  secret  so- 
cieties in  their  Sunday  street  parades  and  excursion 
trains. 

REPORT   OF   THE   ILLINOIS   S.    C.    A.    EXEODTIVE    COM- 
MITTEE. 

It  is  often  with  fear  and  trembling  that  we  enter 
upon  the  work  of  a  new  year.  Sometimes  our  ef- 
forts, looking  at  them  from  our  standpoint,  seem 
productive  of  little  good,  but  the  All-seeing  eye  has 
seen  the  seed  dropped  even  in  stony  places,  or  per- 
haps on  the  rocks,  and  we  comfort  ourselves  with 
the  thought  that  in  heaven  we  are  rewarded  for 
what  we  tried  to  do.  We  are  not  working  for  the 
plaudits  of  men. 

At  the  beginning  of  this  year,  188G-7,  we  felt 
greatly  encouraged  in  the  prospect  of  having  as 
State  agent,  Bro.  I.  R.  B.  Arnold.  He  was  engaged 
and  began  his  work  at  once.  In  the  strength  of  the 
Lord  and  in  his  own  judicious  way,  he  was  exceed- 
ingly blest  and  prospered  in  his  work.  He  won  the 
hearts  of  the  people  with  his  historic  views;  and  in 
his  reasonable  and  calm  way,  with  illustrations  he 
clearly  proved  the  ancient  origin  of  Freemasonry  and 
traced  it  back  to  the  sun  and  idol  worship.  Of  Bro. 
Arnold's  marked  success  you  will  learn  by  his  report. 

Near  the  beginning  of  the  year,  Bro.  Barlow,  our 
state  President,  expressed  his  great  anxiety  to  have 
this  State  a  banner  State  for  organization.  He 
wanted  our  State  Convention  to  be  a  representative 
body.  It  was  found  the  constitution  would  have  to 
be  changed,  and  the  committee  was  instructed  to 
report  upon  it  in  a  year.  H.  L.  Kellogg  was  ap- 
pointed by  the  committee  to  prepare  the  changes  of 
constitution  which  is  submitted  with  this  report. 

The  sub'ect  was  frequently  discussed  of  sending 
out  another  agent  to  follow  Bro.  Arnold,  and  secure 
Vynoiure  subscriptions  and  organize  wherever  prac- 
ticable. Only  a  lack  of  funds  prevented  this  being 
done.  Would  not  some  action  taken  by  the  State 
Convention,  regarding  a  financial  plan  for  the  com- 
ing year,  assist  the  Executive  Committee  very  ma- 
terially? 

The  Secretary  was  appointed  to  correspond  with 
the  colleges,  medical  institutions  and  theological 
seminaries  of  the  State,  which  was  done,  inclosing  a 
circular  and  recommendations  of  Bro.  Arnold's 
work,  asking  them  the  privilege  of  allowing  him  to 
come  to  their  schools,  in  connection  with  a  lecture 
course,  or  otherwise.  Although  written  to  early  in 
the  season,  only  two  or  three  favorable  answers  were 
received  in  response  to  the  twenty-five  written  letters 
sent,  oaaost  of  these  saying  their  programmes  were 
full  for  the  season;  but  their  answers  were  very 
courteous.  Bro.  Arnold  agreed  to  secure  subscrip- 
tions for  the  Cynosure,  also  to  distribute  our  tracts. 

With  gratitude  in  our  hearts  we  again  recognize 
the  Master's  hand  in  sending  into  our  State  work 
Bro.  W.  B.  Stoddard  for  a  month,  and  Bro.  C.  A. 
Conrad  for  a  couple  of  months.  Their  reports  show 
with  what  earnestness  they  went  forth,  and  the  good 
work  accomplished. 

Many  prayers  have  been  offered  and  many  efforts 
put  forth  which  have  availed  little,  but  we  are  not 
discouraged.  Well  do  we  know  that  much  valuable 
sentiment  has  been  created  in  our  favor,  the  Masons 
themselves  being  judges.  With  a  hope  and  a  prayer 
that  the  next  committee  may  do  more  and  better 
work,  we  respectfully  submit  this  brief  report. 

Mrs.  M.  L.  Stratton,  Sec'y. 


THE  AMENDMENT  CAMPAIGN  IN  TEN- 
NEBUBE. 


A  momentous  election. — Knoxville   crowdn  to  Iiear  Price 
and  Bain. — Athena  and  its  schools. 

Athens,  Tenn.,  Sept  16,  1887. 

Dear  Cynosure: — Abraham  Lincoln's  adage, 
that  "it  is  not  worth  while  to  swap  horses  when 
crossing  a  river,"  seems  applicable  to  Tennessee. 
She  is  in  the  throes  of  a  great  moral  revolution.  No 
one  can  predict  the  result,  but  nearly  all  feel  that 
great  interests  are  at  stake. 

I  reached  Knoxville  Monday,  the  12th,  at  1:25  \\ 
M.,  and  found  all  our  friends  absorbed  in  the  amend- 
ment. Prof.  J.  C.  Price,  the  distinguished  colored 
orator  of  Livingston  College,  Salisbury,  North  Car- 
olina, had  addressed  a  crowded  audience  at  the  Opera 
House  on  Sunday  night.  A  colored  preacher  of 
considerable  ability,  by  the  name  of  Bryant,  was 
also  speaking  against  the  amendment,  and  the  Hon. 
(?)  Mr.  Butler  of  the  northeast  district  was  in  town 
seeking  to  repel  the  imputation  of  bribery,  which,  in 
spite  of  all  his  efforts,  seems  to  stick  to  him. 

On  Monday  night  I  listened  to  an  open-air  ad- 
dress from  Prof.  Price.  He  had,  it  was  estimated, 
5,000  auditors,  of  whom,  perhaps,  one-third  were 
colored.  There  was  good  order  and  excellent  atten- 
tion, and  all  were  held  spell-bound  by  his  eloquence. 
The.  address  was  especially  to  the  colored  people, 
bat  was  applicable  to  all.    It  was  replete  with  Mid 


argument,  telling  illustrations  and  touching  appeals. 

On  Tuesday  night  Col.  Bain  of  Kentucky  ad- 
dressed an  even  larger  audience  at  the  same  place. 
Mr.  Bain  is  called  the  "silver-tongued,"  and  well 
deserves  it,  for  he  is  an  orator  of  high  rank,  but  he 
lacks  the  fascination  of  Prof.  Price.  It  was  in  some 
respects,  however,  the  abler  address,  and  was  es- 
pecially rich  in  the  presentation  of  authorities.  On 
the  same  night  from  2,000  to  3,000  people  were  ad- 
dressed by  the  colored  preacher  Bryant,  in  an  open- 
air  meeting.  It  is  believed  that  Kast  Tennessee, 
with  the  exception  of  Chattanooga,  will  give  a  ma- 
jority for  the  amendment. 

Wednesday  I  came  to  this  place,  the  county  seat 
of  McMinn  county.  It  has  a  population  of  about 
1200.  Like  most  of  the  towns  in  Kast  Tennessee 
it  has  had  a  long  period  of  stagnation.  Now,  there 
is  a  promise  of  railroads  and  iron  furnaces  that 
will,  it  is  hoped,  bring  prosperity.  I  visited  to-day 
the  colored  school  in  a  long,  rickety  room,  with  more 
than  100  pupils  under  the  care  of  a  young  man. 
Prof,  llichards,  late  a  clerk  in  the  government  serv- 
ice at  Washington,  with  a  salary  of  $1200  per  year. 
Now  he  gets  $35  per  month.  He  is  a  young  man 
of  excellent  promise. 

Among  the  many  institutions  of  learning  in  East 
Tennessee  is  Grant  Memorial  University.  It  was 
chartered  in  1867  as  East  Tennessee  Wesleyan  Uni- 
versity, and  last  year  its  name  was  changed.  It  has 
collegiate,  theological,  and  legal  departments.  Last 
year's  catalogue  contains  the  names  of  303  students, 
with  100  in  the  college  classes  and  twenty  in  the 
graduating  class.  I  attended  the  chapel  exercises 
and  some  of  the  recitations,  and  was  much  pleased 
with  the  young  ladies  and  gentlemen  that  compose 
the  classes.  The  institution  is  under  the  auspices 
of  the  M.  E.  church.  Its  president  cheerfully  ac- 
cepted the  anti-secrecy  literature  that  I  gave  him. 
He  had  paid  but  little  attention  to  the  subject,  is  a 
prominent  Mason,  but  favors  free  discussion.  There 
is  a  Masonic  temple  here  which  in  a  great  measure 
overshadows  the  churches.  The  colored  people  have 
about  their  usual  quota  of  secret  societies.  I  have 
arranged  to  lecture  to-night  on  prohibition  in  the  A.M. 
E.  Zion  church,  and  preach  twice  for  them  on  the  Sab- 
bath. I  then  expect  togotoKome,Ga.,andthenSouth. 

H.    H.    HiNMAN. 


MARCHING    AGAIN   THROUGH  GEORGIA. 


King  Cotton — Prohibition  notes  from  Tennessee — Also 
in  Georgia — Atlanta  may  yet  have  time  to  repent  of  the 
Glenn  Bill. 

Dear  Cynosure: — I  cannot  say  that  "I've  reached 
the  land  of  corn  and  wine,"  for  I  am  not  sure  that 
"Beulah  Land"  is  in  Georgia;  but  I  am  quite  sure 
that  I've  reached  the  land  of  corn  and  cotton.  I 
left  Athens,  Tennessee,  on  the  morning  of  the  19  th 
inst,  and  we  had  gotten  but  little  way  from  Chat 
tanooga  before  we  struck  the  cotton  fields  which  are 
an  almost  continuous  succession  to  this  place.  The 
crop  is  about  average,  has  suffered  somewhat  from 
drought,  and  is  being  picked  earlier  than  usual. 
Large  quantities  are  coming  into  the  market,  and 
there  is  a  constant  roar  of  the  steam  cotton  com- 
press which  flattens  the  bales  for  foreign  shipment 

I  lectured  on  prohibition  in  the  A.  M.  K.  church 
at  Athens,  Tennessee,  on  Friday,  the  17th.  On  Sat- 
urday the  18th  I  went  with  the  editor  of  the  Athe- 
nian to  Riceville,  seven  miles,  where  we  each  spoke 
in  the  evening,  and  returned  to  Athens  next  morn- 
ing. This  paper,  which  is  Republican  and  prohibi- 
tion, is  the  best  of  all  the  rural  papers  I  have  seen 
in  Tennessee.  Its  editor,  Prof.  McCaron,  is  a  hard- 
working, cultured.  Christian  gentleman,  formerly 
from  Iowa.  Like  other  ambitious  men  he  has  seen 
the  inside  of  the  lodge,  but  has  neither  time  nor  in- 
clination to  attend  to  its  follies.  We  had  a  good 
meeting  at  Riceville,  where  they  had  just  concluded 
a  joint  debate  on  the  pending  qaestion,  and  we  got 
back  in  time  for  sevice. 

At  11  A.  M.  I  preached  in  the  A.  M.  E.  Zion  church 
to  a  good  congregation.  At  3:30  p.  m.  1  listened  to 
a  most  able  discourse  in  the  same  place  from  Pres. 
Bachman  of  Sweetwater  College,  who  is  the  acting 
pastor  of  the  (white)  Presbyterian  church  of  Athens. 
He  was  an  officer  in  the  Confe<ierate  service,  educat- 
ed at  Hamilton  College,  New  York,  after  the  war, 
and  has  been  for  some  years  the  president  of  this 
college.  He  is  an  able  preacher,  labors  for  and  fa- 
vors the  education  of  the  colored,  people,  but  thinks 
mixed  schools  are  impolitic.  He  expresseii  his 
hearty  sympathy  with  the  work  in  which  I  am  en- 
gaged, and  thought  secret  societies  a  great  obstacle 
to  the  cause  of  Christianity. 

At  7:30  I  had  a  full  house  in  the  same  church, 
and  lectured  on  Africa  and  its  missions.  The  col- 
ored people  in  Tennessee  are  divided  on  the  ques- 
tion of  the  amendment  The  more  intelligent  heart- 
ily approve  of  it,  but  the  ignorant  are  led  to  think 


that  it  is  a  plan  to  break  up  the  Republican  party. 
They  think  it  a  part  of  the  St  John  movement,  and 
that  it  is  responsible  for  the  defeat  of  Mr.  Blaine. 
Some  acknowledged  their  mistake  and  promise*!  to 
support  the  amendment  The  Chattanooga  Times, 
the  ablest  of  the  anti-prohibition  organs,  seems  to 
weaken,  and  is  apologetic  instead  of  aggressive  as 
at  first  Col.  Bain  has  done  some  excellent  work 
in  that  city. 

Here-4n  Rome,  where  local  option  was  carried  by 
a  mighty  effort,  there  is  a  deep  interest  felt  in  the 
election  in  Tennessee.  Some  of  the  saloons,  which 
were  remarkably  numerous  last  spring,  have  disap- 
peared. Enough  remain,  but  they  will  gradually 
drop  out  as  their  licenses  expire.  The  colored  pas- 
tors all  worked  hard  for  prohibition. 

Much  interest  is  now  felt  in  the  approaching  con- 
test in  Atlanta,  which  will  again  have  to  vote  on 
local  option.  The  law  provides  for  a  vote  once  in 
two  years.  Rev.  Dr.  Ganes,  the  distinguished  col- 
ored preacher  of  that  city  who  did  so  much  to  se- 
cure prohibition,  is  now  here.  He  feels  fearful  of 
the  result,  and  mainly  because  the  promises  made 
to  the  colored  people  have  not  been  kept,  and  the 
extreme  friendliness  has  been  followed  by  marked 
discourtesies.  "The  Glenn  Bill"  and  the  newspaper 
discussion  it  has  provoked  has  greatly  increased  the 
spirit  of  race  antagonism,  which  so  greatly  hinders 
the  progress  of  all  that  is  good. 

Our  meetings  here  last  spring  had  an  excellent 
effect  The  colored  ministers  have  been  much 
pleased  with  the  Cynosure,  and  feel  much  interest  in 
our  movement  Rev.  Dr.  Watson  of  Cave  Springs, 
and  Dr.  Ganes  of  Atlanta,  both  Masons,  expressed 
a  warm  interest  in  my  work.  They  are  now  all  hold- 
ing protracted  meetings.  I  heard  Dr.  Ganes  Tues- 
day night  in  the  A.  M.  K.  church,  and  was  greatly 
interested.  Last  night  I  lectured  to  a  small  audi- 
ence in  the  same  place,  and  to-day  go  to  Cave 
Springs,  Georgia.     May  the  Lord  help. 

H.    H.    HiNMAN. 


THE  ASSOCIATED  CHURCHES  IN  MISSISSIPPI. 


Rome,  Ga.,  Sept  19,  1887. 
Dear  Cynosure: — The  following  proceedings  of 
the  seventeenth  session  of  the  Associatetl  Churches 
of  Christ  of  Mississippi  was  sent  to  me  at  Chicago, 
followed  me  to  Georgia,  and  at  this  late  day  are 
sent  for  publication.  H.  H.  Hinman. 

The  Associated  Churches  convened  at  Cedar 
Grove,  Loundis  Co.,  Miss.,  on  the  last  Friday  in 
July.  There  was  a  full  attendance,  much  interest, 
and  some  excellent  speeches.  The  Divine  presence 
was  in  a  good  degree  manifested.  Much  interest 
was  expressed  in  the  proceedings  of  the  Congress  of 
Churches  held  in  Chicago  last  spring.  The  best 
means  of  opposing  secret  societies  were  considered. 
Some  spoke  from  sad  experience  of  the  injury  they 
had  sustained  in  the  loss  of  money,  time,  etc.,  by 
their  connection  with  the  lodge.  Other  obstructions 
to  the  kingdom  of  Christ  were  considered, — such  as 
want  of  brotherly  love  amongst  the  members  of  dif- 
ferent sects;  an  evil  that  this  Association  w.<i3  well 
calculated  to  remove.  It  was  beheveii  that  we  are 
not  only  taking  the  stumbling-blocks  out  of  the  way, 
but  are  casting  up  a  highway  for  the  coming  of  the 
Divine  kingdom.  Others  spoke  of  the  duties  of 
parents,  how  to  keep  their  children  out  of  prison 
and  chain  gangs,  and  also  what  could  be  done  to 
mitigate  the  sufferings  of  such  as  were  treated  with 
cruelty. 

The  following  resolutions  were  adoptetl: 

WiiKHKAs.It  has  pleased  Almighty  God  to  remove  from 
our  convention  (some  two  and  a  half  years  since)  our 
first  secretary.  .leptha  M.  Feemster,  who  so  faithfully 
served  us  in  his  otlice  for  several  sessions,  and  who.when 
our  existence  was  threatened,  had  the  courage  and  skill 
to  avert  the  danger;  and  ^  , .  .       ... 

Wheukas,  After  his  removal  to  another  field  he  aid 
not  cease  to  labor,  pray  and  contribute  to  our  sucoeM; 
therefore 

Resolvfd.  That  we  as  a  convention  express  our  high 
appreciation  of  his  character  and  his  work,  and  while  wb 
humbly  ask  for  grace  to  say.  "Thy  will  bo  done."  we 
also  pray  that  other  laborers  may  be  raised  up  of  like 
zeal  and  cftlciency. 

Besotted.  That  we  also  tender  our  thanks  to  our  pres- 
ent secrewry,  M  A.  Tapley,  (who  is  unavoidably  absent) 
who  has  for  nine  sessions  been  faithful  in  the  same  of- 
fice. 

Resolved.  That  in  this.the  seventh  year  of  our  conven- 
tion,we  ihank  God  and  take  courage, praying  him  to  make 
it  a  .Jubilee  to  us  by  freeing  us  from  all  thai  obslrucUthe 
kingdom  of  God  in  our  hearts  and  by  eftablishing  the 
work  of  our  hands.  I.  D-  FsKMeTRn. 

8»e'j/  pro  tern. 


In  one  division  of  Liverpool  there  is  a  population 
of  over  60.(100,  but  not  a  single  saloon.  In  all  the 
building  leases  the  sale  of  liquor  is  alwwlutely  pro- 
hibited. 


6 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURB, 


September  29, 1887 


LBTTEB8  FROM  SUB  OPS. 


ARTIST   TRAMPS   IN   THE   TYROL. 


The  Scenery  of  the  Bavarian  EigJilanda — Notes  of  a  trazy 
king  and  rash  young  men — Tyrolean  Costumes  and 
filth — Companions  afoot — Innsbruck  inconveniences — 
Priest  craft  and  business — An  Alpine  experience. 

"The  Hermit"  on  Walchen  See.  ] 
Bavarian  Highlands,  July  29th,  1887.  f 

I  have  been  out  of  Munich  since  last  Tuesday. 
Walchen  See  is  a  lake  somewhat  larger  than  our 
Devil's  Lake  [Wis.]  and  in  some  respects  like  it. 
The  mountains  around  are  really  mountains,  instead 
of  hills,  but  are  not  nearly  so  wild-looking  as  those 
around  Devil's  Lake.  We  were  the  first  two  days 
at  "The  Hunter's"  hotel  in  Urfield  on  this  same 
lake,  but  there  were  too  many  people  there.  The 
view  from  Urfield  is  &  beautiful  one  and  I  must 
bring  a  sketch  home,  though  it  is  not  easy  to  find 
a  place  for  sketching  in  a  hotel  full  of  people  who 
all  want  to  look  on.  Urfield  is  only  three  houses 
and  two  hotels,  and  the  buildings  fill  all  the  space 
between  the  foot  of  the  mountains  and  the  lake  so 
that  there  is  hardly  room  for  any  tramps  like  us 
with  our  sketching  materials.  Across  the  lake  from 
there  are  six  ranges  of  mountains  to  be  seen,  one 
beyond  the  other.  The  further  range  is  almost  en- 
tirely a  very  light  colored  stone  and  looks  in  the  dis- 
tance precisely  like  snow. 

Here  we  are  really  in  a  kind  of  a  hermitage  where 
only  a  few  people  live,  but  many  travelers  stop  for 
dinner  and  occasionally  over  night.  On  a  moun- 
tain near,  the  "Heryogstand,"  is  one  of  the  last 
king's  many  palaces,  through  which  he  helped  make 
Bavaria  bankrupt.  The  view  is  said  to  be  very  fine 
from  the  mountain  top  and  we  intend  to  go  up  there 
on  the  first  day  when  it  is  not  too  warm. 

Did  you  read  about  the  six  tourists  who  tried  to 
ascend  the  "Jungfrau"  Alp  in  Switzerland  without  a 
guide  and  were  all  blown  over  a  precipice  in  a  sud- 
den snow  storm  that  came  up  unexpectedly?  Munich 
was  very  much  excited  over  it.  There  has  been  an- 
other similar  accident  since  where  several  lives  were 
lost;  but  the  young  men  still  continue  to  go  upon 
the  glaciers  and  mountains  where  it  is  dangerous 
without  guides. 


MiTTENWALD,  Bavarian  Highlands. 
We  have  made  quite  a  long  trip  on  foot,  from 
Walchen  See  here  through  a  beatiful  part  of  the 
country.  The  road  is  perfectly  level  and  hard  as  a 
floor,  but  on  all  sides  of  us  are  high  mountains  of 
stone  and  almost  entirely  bare.  We  are  to-day  ex- 
actly opposite  the  highest  of  the  mountains,  Mt. 
Rarwendel.  It  has  a  beautiful  shape  and  color  and 
in  the  foreground  are  old  houses  and  an  old  bridge. 
I  am  only  sorry  that  I  shall  have  no  time  to  make  a 
sketch  of  it.  We  have  engaged  a  room  in  Gossen- 
sass  in  the  Tyrol  for  next  Saturday,  and  unless  we 
go  early  to-morrow  morning  we  will  not  get  so  far 
on  foot.  From  here  we  have  nine  hours  to  walk  to 
Yierl,  where  we  come  first  in  the  Tyrol;  from  there 
two  hours  to  Innsbruck,  where  we  take  the  train  to 
Oetythal.  From  there  we  will  go  again  four  days 
through  the  Oety  valley  on  foot  to  Grossensass. 

In  the  Oety  valley  are  said  to  be  many  of  the  Ty- 
rolese  costumes  and  customs,  which  are  generally 
nearly  or  quite  laid  aside  in  other  places.  I  have 
yet  seen  nothing  very  interesting  in  the  way  of  dress 
except  the  hunter's  suit  that  we  often  meet  The 
women  wear  just  such  clothes  as  our  German  wash- 
erwomen at  home  do,  with  only  the  addition  of  a 
silk  handkerchief  over  the  shoulders,and  on  Sundays 
a  peculiar  felt  hat  with  silver  braid  and  tassels.  The 
men  wear  hats  of  the  same  shape  but  always  dark 
green  and  with  a  bouquet  of  bright  colored  flowers 
on  the  side. 

We  had  bad  weather  nearly  all  the  time  in  Wal- 
chen See  and  I  only  had  a  chance  to  make  four 
sketches.  The  old  houses  that  are  so  picturesque 
for  sketching  are  generally  too  filthy  inside  to  be  en- 
dured, and  every  one  has  an  indescribable  heap  be- 
fore it,  nicely  squared  off  and  surrounded  by  a  pool 
of  water.     The  further  away  we  keep  the  better. 


GossENSAss,  Tyrol. 

Since  I  wrote  last  from  Mittenwald  we  have  made 
a  long  trip  on  foot  and  a  short  one  by  rail.  From 
Mittenwald  in  the  Bavarian  Alps  we  walked  to  Yierl 
on  the  boundary  of  Austria,  fifteen  or  sixteen  miles, 
I  think,  and  the  last  three  miles  on  a  perpetual  in- 
clined plane  with  no  break  at  all  in  the  descent  but 
only  a  sort  of  zigzag  in  another  direction.  It  had 
not  rained  for  some  time  and  the  white  lime  dust 
from  the  road  covered  us  from  head  to  foot  until  we 
looked  like  a  pair  of  female  millers. 

About  half  way  we  were  joined  by  another  party 
on  foot — a  German  minister  and  his  wife  and  daugh- 
ter.      The  "Frau^Minister"  was  rather  weighty  and  withal  to  array  ourselves 


out  of  breath  with  the  descent  and  had  given  all  her 
extra  clothing  to  her  husband  who  promenaded 
down  the  mountain  with  her  ulster  attached  conven- 
iently behind  and  looking  like  an  "old  clothes"  man. 
We  went  together  through  Yierl,  where  the  hotels 
looked  very  unattractive,  and  where  every  house  had 
the  unnameable  heap  before  the  door,  to  a  hotel  at 
the  foot  of  a  mountain  a  mile  further  on.  We  were 
met  at  the  door  with  the  statement  that  every  room 
was  full  and  we  must  go  back  to  the  village;  but 
after  considerable  coaxing  from  Miss  B.  we  were 
allowed  to  have  the  use  of  the  great  dining  saloon 
for  the  night  while  the  poor  minister  and  his  wife 
went  sadly  back  to  town.  The  scenery  between 
Yierl  and  Mittenwald  is  very  beautiful.  It  is  like  a 
great  panorama  rather  than  a  single  picture. 

The  next  day  we  went  by  rail  to  Innsbruck — a 
city  which  is  beautiful  in  its  location  and  buildings, 
but  in  which  nothing  I  can  imagine  would  compel 
me  to  live.  At  the  end  of  the  principal  street  one 
sees  mountains  covered  much  of  the  time  with  snow, 
but  at  the  same  time  the  city  is  burning  hot  and 
dusty.  When  the  south  wind  blows — often  in  win- 
ter, too — the  heat  and  dust  become  unendurable. 
Every  window  and  door  must  be  closed  tightly  and 
no  one  attempts  going  to  his  business.  We  were  so 
nearly  suff'ocated  that  we  did  not  at  all  enjoy  the 
sights,  except  in  one  great  church  where  it  had  not 
yet  become  quite  an  oven.  In  this  church  were 
twenty-eight  bronze  statues,  more  than  life  size,  of 
various  celebrated  personages,  mostly  kings  and 
queens,  among  them  King  Arthur  of  England.  They 
were  arranged  in  a  double  row  through  the  center 
passage  and  gave  the  church  a  solemn  and  rather 
fantistical  appearance.  The  whole  collection  was 
from  the  hands  of  the  great  German  artist  in  bronze, 
Peter  Fischer. 

From  Innsbruck  we  went  by  rail  a  short  distance 
to  Oetythal  and  again  were  given  the  dining  sa- 
loon as  a  chamber,  an  arrangement  which  suits  us 
both  very  well  because  we  are  sure  of  fresh  beds. 

From  Oetythal  we  went  on  foot  through  the  Oety 
valley  to  Ober  Gurgle,  the  highest  inhabited  land  in 
the  Tyrol,  and  the  headquarters  of  tourists  and 
guides  who  are  bound  for  the  glaciers  and  highest 
mountains  around.  They  say  that  for  thirty  years 
between  1882  and  1852  no  marriage  was  allowed 
there  on  account  of  the  scarcity  of  food.  It  is  so 
cold  that  no  potatoes,  grain  or  fruit  will  ripen.  Ex- 
cept a  few  garden  vegetables  and  milk  all  food  must 
be  brought  over  the  mountains  upon  women's  shoul- 
ders, as  we  saw  it  done.  The  priest  is  also  the  hotel 
keeper  and  makes  it  profitable.  The  rooms  are  bare 
boards  with  one  chair  and  a  washstand  and  two  or 
three  beds  each — but  the  prices  are  first-class.  A 
gentleman  who  spent  several  weeks  there  says  thiit 
this  priest  preaches  every  Sunday  in  the  year  the 
same  sermon,  the  substance  of  which  is  this:  "My 
beloved  hearersi!!  What  is  the  best  prayer?  Our 
Father  in  heaven.  What  is  the  best  book?  The 
Bible."  And  so  further — all  very  true  but  not  par- 
ticularly edifying.  We  two  did  not  think  it  would 
benefit  us  to  hear  the  old  fraud  preach. 

We  went  Saturday  to  the  edge  of  a  glacier  (the 
Gaisberg),  but  a  thick  fog  came  on  so  that  we  did 
not  dare  venture  on  it,  but  bought  from  a  boy,  who 
had  been  and  was  returning,  some  Edelweiss  and 
pyrites  which  were  from  there.  By  the  way,  every 
child  in  the  Oety  valley  begs,  and  half  the  grown 
people.  Some  of  them  make  themselves  very  disa- 
greeable if  refused. 

From  the  Oety  valley  we  were  obliged  to  cross 
over  the  mountains  with  a  guide  in  order  to  reach 
Gossensass  or  any  other  railway  station.  We  came 
over  a  high  mountain  called  the  Timbler  Joch  and 
over  the  Snow  Mountain.  Timbler  Joch  is  8,440 
feet  high  and  Snow  Mountain  7,950  feet.  We 
started  with  a  clear  sky,  but  half  way  up  the  mount- 
ain came  fog,  then  rain,  and  when  we  came  into  the 
snow  part  it  thundered  and  lightened,  hailed  and 
blew  a  hurricane.  It  was  so  cold  too  that  we  could 
not  stop  t»  rest  or  eat.  Without  a  guide  1  can  im- 
agine that  we  would  not  have  come  through  safely. 
As  it  was  we  were  drenched  through  and  nearly 
frozen  and  had  to  go  to  bed  in  the  first  tavern  at 
three  in  the  afternoon,  after  climbing  six  hours 
without  a  single  pause.  Our  dresses  were  in  a  fine 
condition  though  we  both  had  waterproofs  and 
jackets;  and  our  hats! — mine  had  acluster  of  poppies 
for  trimming  with^ white  lace.  The  last  hour  of  our 
trip  I  had  a  stream  of  fiery  red  dye  dripping  over 
my  face  and  a  second  over  my  shoulders.  The  hat 
is  now  a  lovely  pink.  Miss  E.'s  was  trimmed  with 
black  lace  and  yellow  flowers  and  presents  now  a 
most  entertaining  appearance,  something  like  a  tat- 
tooed Indian.  To  finish  off  the  pleasures  of  mount- 
ain climbing  we  found  that  our  beds  had  other  oc- 
cupants enough  to  make  us  nearly  wild  and  we 
could   not  get  up  because  we  had  nothing  where- 

I  remember  hearing  it 


mentioned  that  the  Tyrol  "abounds  in  fleas"  taut  it 
makes  a  stronger  impression  when  one  makes  so 
near  an  acquaintance. 

I  have  made  one  sketch  of  a  peasant  family  room 
and  am  making  another  in  a  house  said  by  the  vil- 
lage priest  to  be  2,000  years  old.  The  other  author- 
ities put  it  800  or  900  years.  The  house  was  owned 
by  a  princely  family  in  the  ages  gone  by  and  is  very 
quaint  and  curious.  Its  present  occupants  are  a 
pair  of  old  women  who  speak  such  barbarous  Ger- 
man that  Miss  E.  herself  can  scarcely  understand 
them.  They  invited  us  to  spend  the  night,  but  we 
declined  with  thanks.  r. 


Bible  Lesson. 


STUDIES  IN  THE  NEW  TESTAMENT. 
LESSON  II.— Oct.  9.    The  Tempest  StlUed .  — Matt.  8:  18-37. 
GOLDEN  TEXT.— Why  are  ye  fearful,  O  je  of  little  faith  1— 
Matt.  8:26. 

[Open  the  Bible  and  read  the  lesson.] 
COMMENTS  ON  THE  LESSON  BY  E.  E.  FLAGG. 
1.  What  is  involved.in  a  true  following  of  Christ.  vs.lS 
-22.  The  scribes  belonged  to  the  privileged  caste.  They 
sat  in  Moses'  seat.  The  people  looked  up  to  them  as  in- 
fallible guides.  Under  these  circumstances  we  see  in 
our  Saviour's  reply  a  sharp  probe.  Was  his  devotion  a 
mere  passing  flame?  he  who  was  now  proposing  to  fol- 
low one  practically  an  outcast,  who  was  poorer  even  than 
beast  or  bird,  not  having  where  to  lay  his  head.  If  so  it 
would  flicker  and  go  out  at  the  first  breath  of  the  world's 
scorn.  If  it  was  a  real  love  to  Christ  and  his  cause,  all 
the  world's  obloquy  and  reproach  would  only  fan  it  to  a 
whiter  heat.  Another  asks  that  he  may  first  fulfill  the 
last  duties  to  his  aged  father  before  he  takes  up  the  call- 
ing of  a  disciple.  The  answer  is  an  implicit  command , 
"Follow  me."  Yet  we  are  not  to  suppose  that  our  Lord, 
whose  last  human  thought  on  the  cross  was  about  his 
mother,  would  speak  lightly  of  the  most  sacred  of  earth- 
ly ties.  We  are  not  sure  that  the  excuse  was  entirely  an 
honest  one,  that  there  was  in  it  no  spirit  of  evasion,  no 
clinging  to  the  world  while  flattering  himself  that  he  was 
only  doing  a  duty.  His  first  duty  plainly  was  to  perform 
Christ's  bidding;.    The  "oughts"  of  life  never  clash. 

2.  Peril  in  following  Christ,  vs.  23-27.  The  disciples 
were  in  the  way  of  obedience  when  the  storm  met  them. 
The  way  of  duty  is  sometimes  a  very  perilous  one,  but 
whether  it  be  smooth  or  rough,  peaceful  or  full  of  dan- 
gers, should  be  with  us  no  matter  for  concern.  The  bil- 
lows covered  the  ship.  So  there  are  times  when  the 
Christian  can  say  with  David,  "All  thy  waves  and  thy  bil- 
lows are  gone  over  me. "And  worst  of  all  the  Divine  Help- 
er often  seems  to  be  sleeping.  The  Church  passed  through 
a  terrible  tempest  at  the  time  of  the  Reformation,  but 
only  by  passing  through  it  could  she  reach  the  calm  wa- 
ters of  religious  freedom.  Luther  preached  his  doctrine 
of  justification  by  faith  because  he  knew  it  was  God's 
truth  for  which  souls  were  starving.  He  preached  it  too 
with  full  knowledge  of  what  it  would  entail — a  storm 
that  would  shake  the  papacy  to  its  foundations  and  con- 
vulse all  Europe.  Yet  with  our  free  institutions  and 
open  Bible  who  among  us  is  not  thankful  that  he  obeyed 
the  call  of  God  and  let  the  storm  of  papal  fury  do  its 
worst.  But  at  the  present  day  a  pastor  who  preaches 
against  the  false  religion  of  Masonry,  a  religion  which 
has  much  in  common  with  popery  only  that  it  goes  a 
step  farther  and  denies  Christ  and  his  work  altogether,  is 
stigmatized  as  a  disturber  of  Zion,  and  so  many  who  are 
convinced  of  the  evil  it  is  doing  are  afraid  of  the  storm  a 
public  discussion  of  it  in  the  pulpit  would  raise,  and  are 
silent  to  the  detriment  of  their  own  spiritual  power  and 
the  destruction  of  souls  they  are  set  to  watch  over.  For 
a  similar  reason  some  are  afraid  to  boldly  preach  prohi- 
bition doctrines,  yet  to  be  fearful  is  of  itself  a  proof  of 
little  faith.  What  right  had  the  disciples  to  be  fearful 
while  Christ  was  with  them?  No  matter  how  fiercely  the 
billows  of  worldly  opposition  may  dash  around  us,  in 
heaven  if  not  on  earth  we  shall  come  into  the  place  of 
still  waters;  while  so  far  as  spiritual  peace  is  concerned 
the  Christian's  soul  should  be  like  the  calm  center  at  the 
heart  of  a  whirlwind.  The  disciples  marveled,  another 
proof  of  little  faith.  Why  are  we  surprised  at  answers 
to  our  prayers,  surprised  when  God  keeps  his  word  with 
us,  surprised  when  he  interposes  to  deliver  us?  Let  us 
have  at  least  as  much  faith  as  the  Roman  centurion  and 
believe  that  the  Ruler  of  earth  and  heaven  can  command 
all  natural  and  spiritual  forces  and  they  will  obey  Lim. 
From  Peloubet's  Notes. 

"And  Jesus  saith  unto  him."      He  would  never  seek 
to  obtain  disciples  by  hiding  the  truth.      He  would  have 
him  "count  the  cost,"  go  forward  with  open  eyes  that  hi 
choice  might  be  sincere  and  from  the  heart.      The  scrib 
was  welcome  and  more  than  welcome  if  he  came  truly  t 


Sbptembkr  29, 1887 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSUKK. 


the  Lord  as  his  master  and  teacher. — P. 

"Hath  not  where  to  lay  his  head."  Has 
no  settled  home,  no  earthly  property. 
Some  one  always,  doubtless,  gave  him  a 
place  to  lodge,  but  he  owned  none  by 
earthly  tenure.  The  Son  of  Qod.the  King 
of  kings,  the  Creator  of  all  things, volun- 
tarily gave  up  all  in  order  that  he  might 
thus  best  save  men. 

We  do  not  know  whether  the  scribe  ac- 
cepted Jesus  as  his  teacher  when  he 
learned  what  his  act  meant,  or  whether 
he  turned  away  sorrowfully. — P.  Many 
a  man  begins  a  religious  life  full  of 
warmth  and  zeal  and  by  and  by  loses  all 
his  first  love  and  turns  back  again  to  the 
world.  He  liked  the  new  uniform  and 
the  bounty  money  and  the  name  of  a 
Christian  soldier,  but  he  never  considered 
the  watching  and  warring  and  wounds 
and  conflicts  which  Christian  soldiers 
must  endure. — Byle. 

"And  let  the  dead  bury  their  dead." 
Let  the  higher  duties^  take  precedence 
over  the  lower.  He  should  not  spend 
time  in  useless  mourning,  as  the  worldly 
do ;  but  the  best  cure  of  his  sorrow  was 
earnest  work  for  the  Master. — P.  It  does 
not  follow  that  we  are  to  neglect  what 
are  called  secular  duties  for  those  that  are 
termed  religious.  Nevertheless  life  pre- 
sents many  occasions  in  which  duty  to 
the  living  is  supreme  over  respect  for  the 
dead. — Abbott. 

Teachings. — (l)That  no  office  of  love 
and  service  to  man  must  be  preferred  be- 
fore our  duty  to  God, unto  whom  we  owe 
our  first  obedience.  (2)  That  lawful  and 
decent  offices  become  sinful  when  they 
hinder  greater  duties.  (3)  That  such  as 
are  called  to  the  work  and  employment 
of  the  ministry  must  mind  that  alone,  and 
leave  inferior  duties  to  inferior  persons. 
— Burkitt. 

The  Trial  of  Faith. — He  lets  the 
storm  rage  on  unrebuked  until  he  has  re- 
buked the  agitation  of  their  souls.  And 
now  they  perceive  that  a  most  precious 
opportunity  of  signalizing  their  faith  in 
Christ  had  been  given  and  given  in  vain. 
The  elements  had  been  let  loose  that  their 
faith  might  gain  a  victory  and  go  on  to 
perfection.  The  progress  of  ordinary 
months  might  have  been  made  in  an  hour 
had  they  been  watchful.  When  will  they 
understand  that  this  matter  of  the  educa- 
tion of  faith  is  the  most  important  thing 
going  on  under  the  sun? — Reo.  Geo, 
Bowen. 


OBITTTAEY. 


Maktha  Qunn  Walkkk,  wife  of  Rev. 
C.  E.  Walker  .pastor  of  the  United  Breth- 
ren church  of  Grey  Eagle,  Minn.,  died  at 
her  home,  Monday, September  12th,1887, 
after  a  few  days'  severe  illness  from  ty- 
phoid fever.  Mrs.  Walker  was  at  the 
time  of  her  death  somewhat  more  than 
31  years  and  8  months  old.  She  was 
converted 'o  Christ  in  Indiana  early  in 
the  year  1884  and  united  with  the  Unit- 
ed Brethren  church  of  Twin  Brooks,  Da- 
kota, in  December  of  the  same  year.  In 
February,  1886,  she  was  married,  and 
leaves  in  the  arms  of  her  stricken  hus- 
band a  little  son  nine  months  old.  Delir- 
ium locked  her  senses  during  most  of  her 
sickness,  but  among  her  last  intelligent 
words  was  the  name  of  her  precious  Sav- 
iour, on  whom  her  soul  was  leaning  for 
help  and  victory  in  the  last  struggle  with 
death.  She  was  a  woman  of  sweet  spirit, 
a  loving  wife  and  a  careful,  thoughtful 
mother.  Rev.  Peter  Scott  officiated  at 
the  funeral  services,  and  voiced  the  sym- 
pathy of  many  friends  to  the  bereaved 
husband. 


"A  THRILLING  WARNING." 

THE 

Man  Traps  of  the  City. 

BT  THOS.  B.  OKKBN. 

Motberi— place  tbli  book  In  the  bandi  of  yoar  lona 
It  treat!  of 

The  Tiger  and  HU  D«n. 

Oups  of  FlAuie. 

Th«  Scarlet  Sin. 
KmbeEzlement. 

The  UevH's  Printing  Preas. 

Kto.,  Etc.,  Kto.,  Ktc. 

A  book  that  U  Beneatlonal.  not  from  excited  rhe- 
toric or  tlorld  flKureB  of  spiiooh,  but  from  thu  fiict» 
that  How  like  niollfd  lovn  from  the  pen  of  the  wrltor 
It  Is  ft  book  of  llniKly  warnlnK«,  whore  nln  timl  crime 
are  shorn  of  their  mn»k,  rohlicd  of  the  K'ftmour  with 
wblch  they  luivo  been  piirrouiulcd  by  the  prurient 
literature  of  the  day,  and  pulnted  In  HtroiiK.  true  col- 
ors. The  life  of  the  nrolUnate  U  here  shown  In  Its 
true  llKht,  not  as  a  life  tlmt,  IhouKh  wicked,  has  Its 
delights,  but  89  a  thlngof  death,  now  and  In  future 
life  to  be  Bbuorred.— WK8TBBII  Cubibtian  Advo 

OATB. 

Prioe.  pontpald.   Cloth   hound,   78   oenti. 
Paper  bound,  80  ceuta. 

AddreiB,  W.  I.  PUILLIFB.  _ 

231  W.  M»<ll«oi>  St..  CJJicago. 


The  American  Party. 


First  Nomination  for  President  at  Oberlln, 
Ohio;  May  23,  ISTi. 

Platform  Adoi'ted  at  Cblcaeo,  June  28. 
1S72. 

Namb  Adovtxd  at  Syracuse,  N.  T.,  June  3, 
1874. 

PRESIDENTAl.    CANDIDATES: 

1872— Charles  Francis  Adams  and  Joseph  L. 
Barlow. 

lS7ft— James  B.  Walker  and  Donald  Kirkpatr 
rick. 

1880— J.  W.  Phelps  and  Samuel  C.  Pomeroy. 

18S4 — J .  Blaucbard  and  J.  A  .  Conant  nomi- 
nated; the  former  withdrawing,  Samuel  C. 
Pomeroy  was  nominated.  Both  nominees  with- 
drawing, the  support  of  the  party  was  generally 
given  to  John  P.  8t  John  and  William  Daniel, 
candidates  of  the  Prohibition  narty. 

NATIONAL  COMMITTBB 

District  of  Columbia,  E.  D.  Bailey;  Ala- 
bama, Jesse  Ward ;  Arkansas,  Charles  Paget ; 
Connecticut,  Phillip  Bacon;  Dakota,  A.  F. 
Dempsey;  Florida,  J.  F.  Galloway;  Illinois,  H. 
N.  Stratton;  Indiana,  Israel  Hess;  Iowa,  J.  N. 
Norris;  Kansas,  H.  Curtis;  Maine,  J.  8.  Rice; 
Massachusetts,  8  A.  Pratt;  Michigan,  H.  A. 
Day;  Minnesota,  E.  J.  Payne;  Mississippi,  E. 
Tapley;  Nebraska,  E.  B.  Graham;  New  York, 
F.  W.  Capwell;  New  Jersey,  Robert  Arm- 
strong ;  New  Hampshire,  S.  C.  Kimball ;  Ohio, 
J.  MT  Scott;  Pennsylvania,  N.  Callender; 
Rhode  Island,  A.  M,  Paull;  Tennessee,  R.  N. 
Countee ;  Vermont,  P.  F.  French ;  Wisconsin, 
M.  R.  Britten. 


AMERICAN  PLATFORM. 


ADOPTED  AT  CHICAGO,  JfTJNB  30,  1884 

1.  That  ours  is  a  Christian  and  not  a  heathen 
nation,  and  that  the  God  of  the  Christian  Scrip- 
tures  is  the  author  of  civil  government. 

2.  That  the  Bible  should  be  associated  with 
books  of  science  and  literature  in  all  our  edu- 
cational institutions. 

3.  That  God  requires,  and  man  needs  a  Sab- 
bath. 

4.  We  demand  the  prohibition  of  the  impor 
tation,  manufacture,  and  sale  of  intoxicating 
drinks. 

5.  We  hold  that  the  charters  of  all  secret 
lodges  granted  by  our  Federal  and  State  Legis- 
latures should  be  withdrawn,  and  their  oaths 
prohibited  by  law. 

6.  We  are  opposed  to  putting  prison  labor  or 
depreciated  contract  labor  from  foreign  coun- 
tries in  competition  with  free  labor  to  benefit 
manufacturers,  corporations  or  speculators. 

7.  We  are  in  favor  of  a  revision  and  enforce- 
ment of  the  laws  concerning  patents  and  inven- 
tions; for  the  prevention  and  punishment  o* 
frauds  either  upon  ioventors  or  the  general 
public. 

8.  We  hold  to  and  will  vote  for  woman  suf- 
frage. 

9.  That  the  civil  equality  secured  to  all 
American  citizens  by  Articles  13,  14  and  15  of 
our  amended  National  Constitution  should  be 
preserved  Inviolate,  and  the  same  equality 
should  be  extended  to  Indians  and  Chinamen. 

10.  That  international  differences  should  be 
settled  by  arbitration. 

11.  That  land  and  other  monopoUes  should 
be  discouraged. 

12.  That  Uie  general  government  should  f  ur- 
pJsb  th«  p«t)pA«  w'i,\i  «n  iMiiBi*  VrW  waad  •oj^- 

13.  That  It  should  be  the  settled  policy  of  the 
government  to  reduce  tariffs  and  taxes  as  rap- 
idly as  the  necessities  of  revenue  and  vested 
business  interests  will  allow. 

14.  That  polygamy  should  be  immediately 
suppressed  by  law,  and  that  the  Republican 
party  is  censurable  for  the  long  neglect  of  its 
duty  in  respect  to  this  evil. 

15.  And,  finally,  we  demand  for  the  Ameri- 
can peoolc  the  abolition  of  electoral  colleges, 
and  a  direct  vote  for  President  and  Vice  Presi 
■lent  of  *^'  nnit/>■^  StAtes. 


MASONIC  OUTRAGES. 

BT  KEY.  H.  H.  HINUAN. 

The  character  of  this  valuable  pamphlet  Is 
seen  from  its  chapter  headings :  I.— Masonic 
Attempts  on  the  Lives  of  Seceders.  II.— Ma- 
sonic Slander.  III.— Masonic  Assault  on  Free 
Speech.  IV.— Freemasonry  Among  the  Col- 
ored People,  v.— Masonic  Interference  with 
the  Punlsument  of  Criminals.  VI.— The  Fruits 
of  the  Masonic  Institution  as  seen  In  the  Con- 
spiracies and  Outrages  of  Other  Secret  Orders. 
Vll.— The  Relation  of  the  Secret  Lodge  Sys- 
tem to  the  Foregoing  and  Similar  Outrages. 

PKICK,  PO  STPAID,  20  CKNTH. 

National  Chrietian  Association. 


FKEEMASONBY 

BY 

I'UNt    Miisior    of   lirj'stoue  Lotl^r^ 

No.  0:i»,  <'liiraeo. 

lUnxtrateA  every  siim,  grip  nii.l  cpr<»inrinj  of  the 
I. odKe  anil  sivex  n  brief  explniiiii  ion  of  each.  This 
w.rik  ."houm  be  aoaltiri'd  lil»>i  leaves  ull  oi«r  the 
'imiitry.  It  K  xo  .-he,<p  thai  It  oau  be  iiwd  tm 
'nul->.  aud  mouey  thux  •'Xpeuiled  will  briuit  a  Ixiun- 
Mfu)  hnrvem.  Si  putiuit.  Pilov.  postpaid,  6  oenta. 
I'er  lUi'.  ViM.    Address. 

National  Christian    Association, 

HSl  WaataiMliMB  St.,  ClU«ii«i>.  Uli 


ANTIMA80NIO  LBOTJJBBBB. 

Gbnkbal  AesNT  akd  Lbctubbb,  J.  P. 
Stoddard,  221  W.  Madison  St.,  Chicago. 

H.  H.  Hmman,  Cynosure  office. 
Agent  for  Southern  States. 
Statb  AeBHTB. 

Iowa,  C.  P.   Hawley,  Wayne,   Henry 
Co.     Care  Rev.  Geo.  Fry. 

Missouri,  Eld.  Rufus  Smith,  Maryville. 

New  Hampshire,   Kid.  S.  C.  Kimball, 
New  Market. 

Ohio,  W.  B.  Stoddard,  Columbus. 

Kansas,  Robert  Loggan.  Clifton. 

Alabama,  Rev.  G.  M.  Elliott,  Selma. 

Degrbb  Wobksbs. — [Secedera.l 
J.  K.  Glassford,  Carthage,  Mo. 

OTHBB  LBCTTTBSBa. 

C.  A.  Blanchard,  Wheaton,  HI. 
N.  Callender,  Thompson,  Pa. 

J ,  H.  Tlmmons,  Tarentum,  Pa 

T.  B.  McConnlck,  Princeton,  Ind. 

E.  Johnson,  Dayton,  Ind. 

H.  A.  Day,  Wllliamstown,  Mich. 

J.  M.  Bishop,  Chambersburg,  Pa. 

A.  Mayn,  Bloomington,  Ind. 

J.  B.  Cressinger,  Sullivan,  O. 

W.  M.  Love,  Osceola,  Mo. 

J.  L.  Barlow,  Grundy  Center,  Iowa. 

A.  D.Freeman,  Downers  Grove,  111 

Wm.  FentoD .  St  Paul,  Minn. 

E.  I.  Grlnneli,  Blalrsburg,  Iowa. 

Warren  Taylor,  South  Salem,  O. 

J.  8.  Perry,  Thompson,  Conn. 

J.  T.  Michael,  New  Wilmington,  Pa. 

8.  G.  Barton,  Breckinridge,  Mo. 

E.  Bametson.  Haskinvllle,  Steuben  Co,'N.  Y 

Wm.  R.  Roach,  Pickering,  Ont. 

D.  A.  Richards,  Brighton,  Mich. 


THB   OHUBCHB8    VB.   LODeBRY. 

The  following  denominations  are  com- 
mitted by  vote  of  their  legislative  assem- 
blies or  by  constitution  to  a  separation 
from  secret  lodge  worship: 

Adventists  (Seventh-day.) 

Baptists — Primitive,  Seventh-day  and 
Scandinavian. 

Brethren  (Dunkers  or  German  Bap- 
tists.) » 

Christian  Reformed  Church. 

Church  of  God  Northern  Indiana  El- 
dership.) 

Congregational — The  State  Associations 
of  Illinois  and  Iowa  have  adopted  resolu- 
tions against  the  lodge. 

Disciples  (in  part.) 

Friends. 

Lutherans — Norwegian,  Danisk.  S  «/?•»!• 
ish  and  Synodical  Conferences. 

Jlennonites. 

Methodists — Free  and  Wesleyan. 

Methodist  Protestant  (Minnesota  Con 
ference.) 

Moravians. 

Plymouth  Brethren. 

Presbyterian — Associate,  Reforme<l  and 
United. 

Reformed  Church  (Holland  Brsnch-) 

United  Brethren  in  Christ. 

Individual  churches  in  some  of  these 
denominations  should  be  excepted,  in  part 
of  them  even  a  considerable  portion. 

The  following  lOcal  churches  have,  as  a 
pledge  to  disfeUowshlp  and  oppose  lodge 
worship,  given  their  names  to  the  foUow- 
ing  list  as 

THK    ASSOCIATED   CEURCHSB    OF  CHRIST. 

New   Ruhamah  Cong.  Hamilton,  Miss. 

Pleasant  Ridge  Cong.  Sandford  Co.  Ala. 

New  Hope  ^lcthodl8t,  Lowndes  Co.,  Miss. 

Congroffatlonal,  College  Springs,  Iowa. 

Colk-go  Church  of  ChriiiiL  \Mieaton,  111. 

First  Ciiiigrogutional,  Lolaiid,  Mich. 

Sugnr  (irove  Church,  Ore  a  county,  Pa. 

Military  Chapel,  M.  E.,  Lowndes  county, 
Miss. 

Hopewell  Missionary  Baptist,  Lowndes  Co., 
Miss. 

Cedar  Grove  Miss.  Baptist,  Lowndes  Ca, 
Miss. 

Simon's  Chapel,  M.   K.,  Lowndes  Co.,  Mlat. 

Pleasant  Kidge  Miss.  Baptist,  Lowndes  Go., 
Miss. 

Brownloe  Church,  Caledonia,  Mlaa. 

Salem  Church,  Lowndes  Co.,  Miss. 

"Vest  Preston  Baotlat  Chnrch.  Wayno  Co.,Pa. 

OTHBB   LOCAL  CHTJBCHBB 


adopting  the  same  principle  — 

Baptist  churches:  N.  Abington,  P».;Meno- 
monie,  Mondovl,  Waubeck  and  Spring  Prairie, 
Wis. ;  WhoAton,  HI. ;  Perry,  N.  Y. ;  Soring 
Crock,  near  Burlington,  Iowa;  Lima,  Ind.; 
Constahlevllle,  N.  Y.  T^e  "Gixxl  Will  .\8»ocl- 
ton"  of  Mobile,  Ala.,  comprising  some  twenty- 
flve  colored  Baiitiet  churches;  Brldgewater 
Baptist  Acsoclfttlon,  Pa.;  Old  Tebo  Baptist, 
near  Loesvillf,  Henry  Co.,  Mo. ;  Hoopeston,  111; 
Ksmen,  111.;  StrvkersvlUc,  N.  Y. 

Congregational  churches :  Ist  of  Oberlln,  O. ; 
Tonlciv,  (."o'stAl  Lake,  I'nlon  and  Big  Wooda, 
111. ;  Soleburj-,  Ind. ;  CongT<>{fatlonal  Methodist 
MaplewiKvl.  Mass. 

In  ' 1  ...?   churchen  In   Lowell,  Country- 

mai  i8«  near  Llndenwood,  Marengo 

ami  11. :  Berca  and  Camp  Nelson,  Ky; 

Ustlck,  111  ;  L  isrkeburg,  Kansas;  8Ute  Associ- 
ation of  Mlnlstfln  andOharehM  ot  ChriitlB 
Kamtnekr. 


W.  C.  A.  BUILDING  AND  OFFICE  OT 
THB  CHRIBTLAN   CYNOSURE, 
an  WEST  MADISON  STREET,  CHICAQO 


NA'TIONALOB&IBTIAy  AaSOCIATIOa 

Presidbht.— H.  H.  George,  D.  D.,  Gen- 
eva College,  Pa. 

ViCB-PREBiDBHT — ReT.  M.  A.  Oaolt, 
Blanchard,  Iowa. 

Cob.  Sbc't  and  Gbkbral  AesHT. — J 
P.  Stoddard,  221 W.  Madison  St.,  Chicago. 

Rbc.  Sbc't.  ajo)  Tbbabubbb. — W.  I. 
Phillips,  221  W.  Madison  St.,   Chicago. 

Dirbctobs. — Alexander  Thomson,  M» 
R.  Britten,  John  clardner,  J.  L.  Barlow, 
L.  N.  Stratton,  Thos.  H.  Gault,  C.  A. 
Blanchard,  J.  E.  Roy,  E.  R.  Worrell,  H. 
A.  Fischer,  W.  R.  Hench. 


The  object  of  this  Association  Is: 
"To  expose,  withstand  and  remove  secret 
societies,  Freemasonry  in  pa;tlcular,  and  otbef 
anti-Christian  novements,  in  order  to  save  tba 
churches  of  Cliri6t  from  being  cepraved,  to>»- 
deem  the  admlnlstr*  Uon  of  justice  from  per- 
version, and  our  r?p  iblican  government  from 
corruption." 

To  carry  on  this  work  contributions  are 
solicited  from  every  friend  of  tne  reform. 

Form  op  Beqcbst. — J  give  and  bequeath  to 
the  National  Christian  Association,  Incorpo- 
rHted  aud  existing  under  the  laws  of  the  State 

of    Illinois,  the  siun  of dollars  for  the 

purposes  of  said  Association,  and  for  which 
me  receipt  of  Its  Treasurer  for  the  time  behof 
1)«11  be  sufficient  discharge. 

THB  NATIONAL  CONTBirnOH. 

Pbbqidbkt. — Rev.    J.    8.  McCulloch, 
D.  D. 
Skcrktabt.— Rev.  Lewis  Johnson. 

BTATB   AUZILLABT  AB8OOIATION0 

AXABAMA.— Prea.,  Prof.  Pickens;  Sot,  9. 
M.  Elliott;  Treaa.,  Rev.  C.  B.  Curtis,  all  of 
Selma. 

Cautobnia.— Pres.,  L.  B.  Lathrop,  HoUU- 
ter;  Cor.  Sec,  Mrs.  U.  P.  Merrill,  Woodland: 
Treas.,  C.  Ruddock,  Woodland. 

CoNNBCTicuT.— Pres..  J.  A.  Conant,  WllU. 
mantle;  Sec.,  Geo.  Smith,  Wlllimantlc;  Treas.. 
C.  T.  Colllna,  Whndsor. 

Illinois.— Pres.,  J.  L.  Barlow,  Wheaton; 
Sec.,  H.  L.  Kellogg;  Treaa.,  W.  L  Phllllpa 
Cynotwr*  office. 

iNDiAHA.— Prea..  William  H.  Flgg,  Reno 
Sec,  8.  L.  Cook,  Albion;  Treas.,  BenJ.  Ulah 
Sliver  Lake. 

Iowa.— Pres.,  Geo.    Warrington,  Btrminn 
ham;  Cor  Sec,  C.  D.  Trumbull.  Morning  gun; 
Treas.,  James  Harvey,  Pleasant  Plain,  Jeffer- 
son Co. 

Kassas.— Pros..  J.  P.  Richards,  Ft.  Scott; 
Sec,  W.  W.  McMillan,  Olatho;  Treas.,  J. 
A.  Torrence,  N.  Cedar. 

Massachusbtts.— Prea.,  8..A.  Pratt;  Sec, 
Mrs.  B.  D.  Bailey;  Treas., David  Mannlng,8r., 
Worcester. 

M10HI8AB.— Pre*.,  D.  A.  Richards,  Brighton ; 
Bec'y,    H.    A.     Day,     Wllllamaton;    Treaa. 
Geo.  Bwanson,  Jr.,  Bedfoiu. 

MiNNMOTA.— Prea.,  E.  G.  Paine,  Waaloja; 
Cor.  Soc.,W.  H.  McCheeney,  Fairmont;  Ric 
Bec'v,  Thoe.  Hartley,  Richland;  Treaa.,  Wd. 
H.  Morrtll,  St.  Charles. 

MiaaouKi.— Pre*..  B.  F.  Miller,  EaplevlUe; 
Treas.^Ullam  Beauchamp,  Avalon ;  Cor.  8f c, 
A.  D.  Tbomaa,  Avalon. 

Nbb&abka.— Free.,  S.  Austin,  Falrmonit; 
Cor.  Sec,  W.  Bpooner,  Xeamey;  Treaa., 
J.  C.  Fye. 

Niw  Hampshirb.— Pres.,  Isaac  Hyatt,  GU 
fonl  Village;  Sec,  8.  C.  Kimball,  New  Market - 
Treas.,  James  F.  French,  Canterbury. 

Niw  York.— Prea.,  F.  W.  Capwell,  Dale; 
Bec'y,  John  Wallace,  Syracuse;  Treas.,  M. 
Merrick,  Svracuse.  ,     ^ 

C)Huv— Pres.,  Rev.  R.  M.  Smith,  Pa^etown: 
Rec.  Sec.  Hev.  Coleman,  Utica;  Cor.  sec  and 
TreAS.,  Rev.  8.  A.  George,  Manaflcld;  Acent, 
W.  B.  Stoildard,  Columbus. 

P1HN8TLVA.JIIA.— Prea.,  A.  L.  Poet,  Mob 
trose;  Cor.  ttec,  N.  Cullender,  Thompeoo) 
Treaa.,  W.B.  Bertela/WUkosbane. 

VBRMOirr  —Pre*..  W.  R.  Laird,  St.  *ohn»- 
burj;  Sec,  C  W  Potter.       „    ,   _      , 

WreooHsis.-Prea.,  J.  W.  Wood,  Baraboo, 
Bee.,  W.  W.  A]aea,MaBOiBonto;TT«M  ILSi 
li(<».vi**Ba 


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THE  CHEISTIAN  CTYTSTOSUKE. 


September  29,'1887 


The  Christian  Cynosure. 


Kditobb. 


i.  BLANCHARD. 


HENRY  L.  KELLOGG. 


CHICAGO,    THTJK8DAY,    SEPTEMBER   29,    1887. 


The  Cynosure  editor  has  promised  to  attend  the 
New  Hampshire  State  meeting  at  Manchester,  Octo- 
ber 29th,  30th  and  Slst.  Prof.  Kimball  is  full  of 
hope;  Rev.  W.  F.  Davis  is  out  of  Boston  jail,  and 
will  be  present;  Miss  Flagg,  the  popular  and  agree- 
able writer,  has  promised  to  speak.  St.  Johnsbury, 
Vt,  is  some  100  miles  from  Manchester;  will  Kev. 
W.  R.  Laird  write  us  at  once  whether  he  and  Secre- 
tary Stoddard  intend  to  kold  meetings  in  north  Ver- 
mont, so  that  we  can  attend  them  the  first  week  in  No- 
vember? Please  write  to  the  Cynosure  at  once.  And  why 
do  we  not  hear  from  Solon  Burroughs  of  Yergennes, 
Vermont? 


STBANQB  DOCTRINE. 


The  Religious  Telescope  for  Sept.  21st  inst.,  gives 
its  readers  the  following  strange  doctrine  on  "Law 
and  Government,"  by  a  correspondent  who  frankly 
preaches  what  the  United  Brethren  leaders  practice. 
He  says:  "The  church  cannot  be  cumbered  with 
our  rule  on  secrecy,  and  have  a  clear  sky  and  a  suc- 
cessful sail."  "Our  efforts  should  be  to  focalize  the 
rays  of  faith  in  a  body  of  divinity  such  as  the  Bible 
produces,  and  make  this  church  a  power  in  the 
world."  "Every  church  that  is  progressive  must 
adapt  itself  to  a  universal  equipment  of  mankind." 

When  Paul  "waited  at  Athens,"  there  were  in  that 
city  30,000  gods,  with  each  his  mode  of  worship; 
and,  at  least,  one  altar  "to  the  unknown  God."  In- 
stead of  "focalizing  his  faith  in  a  body  of  divinity," 
he  met  them  squarely  on  their  errors,  disputed  daily 
with  such  as  met  him  in  the  market,  and  told  them 
they  ought  not  to  think  God  was  like  their  idols  of 
silver  and  gold;  and  he  preached  to  them  the  Sav- 
iour whose  name  and  person  they  had  left  out  of 
their  worship,  as  do  the  Masons  and  other  secretists, 
to  brother  with  his  enemies.  The  great  majority  of 
Americans  are  now  worshiping  at  altars  of  unknown 
gods.  Every  secret  altar  is  such;  and  to  go  to 
teaching  a  "body  of  divinity"  and  let  these  worships 
alone  is  to  depart  from  the  methods  of  Paul  and  of 
Christ. 


SATAN'S  "STRONGHOLDS.' 


"The  Christian  religion  goes  forth  against  all  the 
combined  and  concentrated  powers  of  resistance  of 
the  whole  world :  the  warfare  is  to  be  waged  against 
every  strongly  fortified  place  of  error  and  of  sin." — 
Albert  Barnes  on  2  Cor.  10:  4.. 

In  this  age,  and  in  the  United  States,  there  were 
three  such  "strongholds"  or  forts  which  devils  gar- 
risoned, viz.,  Slavery,  Lodge  and  Liquor.  The  cruel- 
ties, over- whipping,  under-feeding,  murders,  etc.,  etc., 
of  slavery,  which  appealed  strongest  to  popular  sym- 
pathy, were  the  least  of  its  evils.  The  property- 
ownership  of  men  and  women,  twelve  hundred  mill- 
ions of  dollars  invested  in  human  beings,  was  fatal 
to  every  principle  of  morals  and  religion.  The  sys- 
tem was  inhabited  by  legions  of  unclean  spirits,  and 
was  indeed  a  "stronghold"  against  every  good  move- 
ment in  church  or  state.  It  kept  the  slaves  who 
tilled  the  soil  from  schools,  prayer  meetings,  Christ, 
and  God.     It  was  indeed  a  "stronghold," 

But  the  secret  lodge  is  a  stronger  hold  than  slav- 
ery or  the  saloon.  When  Satan  met  Christ,  entering 
on  his  mission  to  set  up  his  kingdom  and  overthrow 
Satan's,  he  proposed  that  Christ  should  worship  him: 
not  purchase  slaves,  or  take  a  glass  of  grog  with 
him,  lie  knew  these  would  follow.  Every  moral 
evil  follows  devil  worship,  as  seen  around  the  globe. 

Liquor,  it  is  settled,  produces  ninety  per  cent,  of 
our  poverty  and  crimes.  But  its  chief  evil,  the 
master-mischief  of  liquor,  is,  it  keeps  men  from 
Christ.  A  single  glass  of  brandy  will  take  a  man 
out  of  the  hands  of  the  Holy  Spirit,  and  stop  his 
religious  convictions;  and  a  keg  of  whisky  drunk  in 
a  revival  will  stop  it.  Satan  knew  the  relative 
strength  of  his  forts,  and  seeing  Christ  had  come  "to 
destroy  the  works  of  the  devil,"  he  entered  into  his 
strongest  hold.  "All  these,"  i.  e.,  all  the  rest  in  the 
world,  "will  I  give  thee  if  thou  wilt  fall  down  and 
worship  me."  Satan  was  sure  of  everything  else  if 
he  got  this.  He  knew  that  the  Christian  religion 
underlies  everything  else.  If  he  could  fill  the  world 
with  devil  worship,  which  is  Gentile  or  Christless 
religion,  he  knew  that  whoever  had  the  semblance 
of  power  he  would  have  the  substance.  Tn  1832-7, 
when  1,500  lodges  sunk  before  the  truth  in  popular 
discussion,  Satan  gave  up  slavery  and  took  up  the 
lodge.  He  even  turned  Abolitionist,  and  the  Gar- 
riBonians  cursed  the  church,  ministry,  Sabbath,  eve- 


rything  but  anti-slavery.  This  one  article  with  him 
and  his  followers  swallowed  all  creeds.  And  to-day 
the  Garrisonians  in  New  England  worship  the  spirits. 
His  "N.  B.  Anti-slavery  Society"  in  Boston  started 
in  1832,  the  year  that  280,000  votes  were  cast  by 
Anti-masons.  The  Anti-masonic  party  which  "went 
up  like  a  rocket,"  "went  down  like  a  stick,"  and  the 
slavery  question  took  the  field;  and  the  fallen  lodge 
went  South  and  took  charge  of  secession  and  rebel- 
lion. 

Satan  is  now  attempting  the  same  game  with  liq- 
uor that  he  did  with  slavery.  The  South  is  going 
for  prohibition  and  secret  societies.  And  even  good 
men  say,  "Let  us  down  liquor  and  then  attack  the 
lodge."  But  you  can  no  more  destroy  the  saloon  with 
lodgery,  than  Lincoln  could  save  the  Union  with  slavery! 
Men  sworn  to  have  their  throats  cut  or  keep  secret 
oaths,  will  shield  distillers  and  brewers  who  admin- 
istered those  oaths  to  them,  while  they  regard  the 
oaths,  and  keep  the  secret;  as  McClellan,  McDowell 
and  others  shielded  the  slave-holders  and  prolonged 
the  war,  till  Grant  took  command.  Let  us  not  be 
humbugged  by  the  devil  twice. 


THE  GA  THOLIO  RE  VIE  W. 


This  able  paper  reminds  us  of  the  council  of 
heaven  in  which  "a  lying  spirit"  was  permitted  to 
mingle,  in  the  days  of  Micaiah  the  son  of  Imlah. 
The  number  for  September  24  gives  columns  to  the 
Pittsburgh  Catholic  Total  Abstinence  societies,  in 
which  is  given  the  Pope's  "Satisfaction  with  the 
rapid  growth  of  the  Catholic  Total  Abstinence  soci- 
eties," and  states  that  Pope  Leo  XIII.  has  several 
times  given  his  apostolic  benediction  "to  the  Catho- 
lic Total  Abstinence  Union  of  America,"  and  sent  a 
brief  to  Bishop  Ireland  commanding  opposition  to 
"the  monster  evil  of  intemperance,  which  is  a  great 
source  of  crime,  poverty  and  inhumanity." 

The  Pittsburg  gathering  was  a  great  one.  It  re- 
quired four  heavy  trains  to  carry  away  the  conven- 
tion from  Pittsburgh  and  Allegheny.  Some  of  the 
speaking  done  by  priests  was  good;  and  some  very 
bad.  Father  McTighe  said,  "I  don't  want  you  to 
think  I  am  a  prohibition  crank."  "I  believe  prohi- 
bition an  absurdity  and  a  useless  thing.  The  ideas 
of  the  Prohibitionists  I  believe  to  be  heretical;  and 
the  principles  they  teach  contain  false  doctrines." 

At  a  late  meeting  of  the  Catholic  Total  Abstinence 
societies  in  Boston,  Father  Byrne  said,  "I  am  a  be- 
liever in  total  abstinence  for  a  large  number  of  our 
people,  I  might  say  a  majority  of  our  people,  al- 
though do  not  understand  me  that  I  mean  to  include 
all."  Such  priests  no  doubt  drink  liquor  habitually. 
We  know  one  such  in  a  prohibition  town  who  drinks 
and  makes  no  secret  of  it.  He  also  carries  his  sign 
in  his  face.  Such  priests  confirm  the  statements  of 
the  ex-priests  who  have  come  out  from  Rome,  all  of 
whom  testify  to  the  drinking  and  debauchery  of 
many  priests  when  met  in  their  secret  places. 

It  is  painful  to  suspect  that  the  mass  of  Romish 
priests  are  hypocrites,  including  their  head;  and 
that  they  go  for  temperance  as  a  sheer  matter  of 
policy,  and  lest  their  church  should  sink  in  the 
esteem  of  enlightened  American  Catholics,  But  we 
know  that  while  Christ  was  here,  he  denounced  in 
the  mass  as  "hypocrites"  those  church  leaders  who 
preferred  the  "mint,  anise  and  cummin"  of  their 
church  to  the  welfare  of  the  people.  Let  us  rejoice 
that  there  has  been  a  Father  Matthew,  and  that  his 
spirit  still  lives  in  this  strange  mixture  of  truth  and 
falsehood,  light  and  darkness,  good  and  evil — the 
Roman  Catholic  church. 


THE  PHILADELPHIA  PARTY. 


We  are  not  yet  willing  Dr.  Kirby  and  company 
should  rob  us  of  our  American  name  and  wave  it 
over  a  platform  that  but  half  expresses  the  real  is- 
sues that  should  interest  the  American  voter. 

The  convention  at  Philadelphia  was  well-timed. 
The  16th  and  17th  ult.  was  the  high  tide  of  the  Cen- 
tennial celebration,  and  Philadelphia  was  crowded 
by  scores  of  thousands  of  strangers.  About  150 
were  enrolled  and  Hepburn  and  Munyon,  officers  of 
the  committee  which  developed  the  movement,  were 
quickly  elected  chairman  and  secretary.  A  gag-rule 
was  adopted  for  the  resolutions  which  began  a  split, 
but  the  objector  being  out-voted  he  was  alone  in 
leaving  the  meeting. 

The  platform  reported  on  the  second  day  attacks, 
in  the  preamble,  the  present  immigration  system,  as 
multitudes  who  have  come  to  us  from  Europe  are 
unfit  subjects  for  American  citizenship,  "becoming 
the  political  and  social  agitators  of  every  cause  look- 
ing to  the  destruction  of  private  rights,  heading  and 
encouraging  all  disturbance  of  labor,  seeking  to  ar- 
ray labor  against  capital,  setting  themselves  up  as 
the  judges  of  the  rights  of  the  American  people, 


committing  murder,  arson,  and  other  crimes  ^y 
means  of  secret  organizations,  thrusting  aside  the 
American  citizen  and  wage- worker  to  make  place  for 
themselves,  preventing  by  threats  the  children  of 
American  citizens  from  apprenticeship  to  trades — 
the  enemies  of  all  free  government  by  the  people." 
The  sentiment  "America  for  Americans"  must  be 
perpetuated;  a  pledge  is  taken  to  the  restriction  and 
regulation  of  immigration;  a  department  of  immi- 
gration demanded  with  a  Cabinet  oflScer  at  its  head; 
also  fourteen  years'  residence  for  naturalization,  all 
communists,  socialists,  paupers,  criminals,  etc,  to 
be  excluded;  free  schools  to  be  protected;  American 
lands  for  our  own  citizens,  and  landed  monopolies 
condemned;  the  treasury  surplus  to  be  squandered 
in  navies,  fortifications,  etc.,  freedom  of  worship, 
separation  of  church  and  state;  the  organization  of 
labor  endorsed;  a  vigorous  foreign  policy  and  reas- 
sertion  of  the  "Monroe  doctrine;"  "no  North,  no 
South,  no  East,  no  West," 

The  effort  of  a  few  for  a  prohibition  plank  was 
promptly  voted  down.  Senator  Pomeroy  was  pres- 
ent the  first  day  and  made  a  speech  which  was  round- 
ly applauded,  but  we  fear  made  no  deep  impression, 
as  his  views  are  ignored  in  the  platform.  It  was 
promised,  however,  that  his  address  should  be  print- 
ed, which  will  be  partial  atonement,  since  thinking 
men  will  find  the  platform  to  compare  unfavorably 
with  the  fundamental  principles  which  he  main- 
tained. 

Without  a  particular  review  of  the  platform, 
which  does  not  rise  to  the  dignity  of  a  great  moral 
principle,  but  grovels  in  selfishness,  it  is  yet  to  be 
said  that  good  may  grow  out  of  this,  and  other  like 
movements.  They  will  help  to  disintegrate  the  old 
and  worn-out  party  systems  that  seem  determined  to 
prevent  moral  issues  coming  to  the  front,  and  will 
thus  serve  as  ladders  by  which  prohibition,  the  na- 
tional recognition  of  God,  and  rejection  of  the  lodge, 
may  yet  be  made  successful  issues. 


A  NEEDED   ADMONITION. 


The  Michigan  Wesleyan  Conference,  lately  met  at 
Rives  Junction,  adopted  the  following  minute 
respecting  the  late  efforts  to  draw  the  W,  C.  T.  U. 
and  Prohibition  party  into  complicity  with  the  lodge. 
The  Michigan  Conference  is  one  of  the  largest  and 
most  influential  of  the  annual  conferences  of  that 
church,  and  its  wise  and  Christian  reproof  indicates 
the  judgment  of  the  whole  denomination.  There 
are  thousands  of  Prohibition  voters  connected  with 
the  churches  which  abjure  secret  societies.  They 
know  well  enough  the  iniquity  of  secretism,  and 
cannot  easily  be  persuaded  that  it  is  necessary  to 
embrace  a  greater  evil  that  a  less  may  be  cured. 
The  Michigan  brethren  deserve  the  thanks  of  all 
true-hearted  temperance  people  for  their  protest: 

Since  the  cause  of  temperance  is  of  great  and  growing 
interest,  and  woman  a  principal  sufferer  from  the  effects 
or  intemperance,  we  hail  with  delight  her  rising  abilities 
and  spreading  power  as  displaayed  in -her  work  through 
the  W.  C.  T.  U.s  which  have  spread  through  the  centers 
of  population  and  influence  in  every  State  and  Territory 
of  the  American  Union,  in  Mexico,  Canada,  Alaska  and 
every  civilized  nation  on  the  globe. 

We  as  a  conference  and  as  individuals  feel  called  upon 
to  go  to  the  extent  ot  our  abilities  in  strengthening  the 
hands  and  supplying  from  our  mean8"the  sinews  of  war" 
to  the  Woman's  Christian  Temperance  Unions  within  our 
reach. 

We  deplore  the  fact  that  the  saintly,  eloquent  and 
queenly  Frances  E.  Willard  should  give  her  voice  and 
influence  in  favor  of  the  secret  labor  unions  of  the  coun- 
try; they  not  making  temperance  an  issue,  the  personal 
habits  of  many  of  their  number  being  opposed  to  the 
principles  of  temperance,  she  is  thus,  as  president  of  the 
noble  Woman's  Christian  Temperance  Union,  degrading 
the  high  mission  of  her  society  to  a  lower  grade  of  mor- 
als and  manners  than  belongs  by  nature  or  grace  to  the 
grand  host  of  women  of  which  she  is  a  leader  and  presi- 
dent. 


— After  the  Belvidere  convention  Secretary  Stod- 
dard with  his  wife  spent  the  Sabbath  at  Kingston, 
where  he  spoke  several  times,  and  relumed  home  to 
Wheatoh  Monday.  Bro.  Stoddard  is  this  week  at 
the  Wisconsin  meeting. 

— Bro.  M.  N.  Butler  has  ably  assisted  Secretary 
Stoddard  during  the  past  few  weeks.  He  is  this 
week  making  the  Wisconsin  meeting  a  success  by 
every  efllort,  and  after  the  State  convention  season  is 
over  some  of  the  Illinois  friends  hope  to  give  him  a 
call  to  their  State  lecture  work. 

— Special  Sunday  trains  for  the  G.  A.  R.  meeting 
in  St.  Louis  were  run  by  every  road  leading  to  that 
cit3%  The  G.  A.  R.  is  a  religious  order,  as  is  proved 
by  its  chaplains  and  various  religious  services:  but 
of  what  nature  is  that  religion?  Would  these  roads 
run  Sunday  specials  for  a  missionary  conference  or 
a  W.  C.  T.  U.  meeting? 


jy*T 


SX7TEHBER  29,  1887 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


-"■7 

—Our  friend  Clark  the  singer  once  sent  out  his  son 
as  cavalry  lieutenant  after  Jeff.  Davis.  He  was  suc- 
cessful, for  he  was  one  of  the  officers  of  the  Michi- 
gan r»giment  that  gathered  in  the  rebel  chief.  But 
when  it  comes  to  a  moral  conflict  like  the  prohibi- 
tion issue  Father  Clark  takes  up  the  battle-axe  him- 
self. Every  reader  of  his  article  on  another  page 
will  confess  that  ho  is  yet  a  champion. 

— Rev.  J.  F.  Avery,  pastor  of  the  Baptist  Mission 
in  Halifax,  Nova  Scotia,  and  editor  of  the  excellent 
home  monthly,  Bvd»  and  Blossoms,  has  accepted  a 
call  to  a  wider  field  in  New  York  City,  at  the  Tem- 
ple Mission,  corner  Henry  and  Oliver  streets,  near 
Chatham  Square.  He  begins  this  new  work  Octo- 
ber Ist,  and  the  prayers  of  many  readers  of  the  Cy- 
nosure who  have  been  profited  by  his  contributions 
in  these  columns  will  follow  him. 

—The  Ohio  agent  in  the  midst  of  a  busy  week 
finds  only  time  to  add  a  word  to  a  business  letter 
enclosing  fifteen  names  for  the  Cynosure  list.  Rev. 
C.  H.  Rohe  of  one  of  the  Lutheran  churches  of  Co- 
lumbus has  projected  a  meeting  of  all  the  churches 
of  that  denomination  in  the  city,  whom  Bro.  Stod- 
dard is  to  address.  This  proposition  shows  a  very 
hopeful  improvement  in  the  work  in  Ohio.  The 
State  convention  will  probably ,  be  held  during  the 
last  week  of  the  present  month. 

— The  expulsion  of  McGarigle,  Ochs  and  Bipper, 
three  of  the  Chicago  "boodlers,"  by  St.  Bernard 
Knight  Templar  Commandery,  was  reported  last 
Wednesday  by  the  Chicago  dailies.  The  details  of 
the  case  we  have  not  very  complete,  however,  and 
hope  to  give  them  at  length  next  week.  It  is  a  sat- 
isfaction to  know  that  Masonry  has  begun  to  turn  out 
its  base  characters.  When  through,  we  can  count 
those  that  are  left  in  a  few  minutes.  It  will  be  a 
fine  thing  to  see  the  majority  voted  out  of  the  lodge. 

— Bro.  I.  R.  B.  Arnold  closed  his  illustrated  lec- 
tures at  Belvidere  Friday  night,  and  this  week  ac- 
cepts an  urgent  invitation  to  visit  Milton,  Wiscon- 
sin, and  give  one  or  two  evenings  to  the  State  Con- 
vention there.  The  big  tent  will  fold  its  broad 
wings  for  the  season  and  hibernate  in  the  new  bam 
of  Bro.  M.  L.  Worcester  at  Kingston,  the  biggest  in 
DeKalb  county.  Bro.  Arnold  and  his  interesting 
family  will  continue  their  good  work  in  halls  for  a 
few  weeks  longer,  when  they  return  to  Wheaton  and 
he  will  continue  alone. 


WB8TBRN  aOUDAN  MISSION  AND  INDUS 
TRIAL  SCHOOL. 


Dear  Bro.  Kellogg: — Having  received  contri- 
butions through  the  Cynosure,  and  letters  from 
friends  wishing  to  know  our  movements  about  the 
Western  Soudan  Mission,  I  deem  it  necessary  to 
write  this  for  their  information.  The  whole  arrange- 
ment of  the  work  is  now  in  the  hands  of  the  Mis- 
sionary Board  of  the  Wesleyan  Methodist  church. 
We  have  obtained  seven  missionaries  who  have 
offered  to  start  fqj:  the  field  the  coming  spring.  Two 
of  these  were  formerly  students  of  Wheaton  College; 
one  is  a  graduate  of  a  medical  college  in  Cleveland, 
Ohio;  one  is  from  the  Training  School  in  Philadel- 
phia; one  a  blacksmith  from  Fillmore,  N.  Y.,  and 
one  a  farmer  from  Hillsboro,  Penn.  We  made  no 
appeal  for  these  men  who  have  so  willingly  joined 
their  lot  with  us.  "This  is  the  Lord's  doing,  and  it 
is  marvelous  in  our  eyes." 

I  have  had  much  encouragement  in  all  places  that 
I  have  visited.  I  believe  God  can  touch  both  hearts 
and  purses.  My  two  addresses  in  Wheaton  amount- 
ed to  $57.  I  am  greatly  indebted  to  our  Wheaton 
friends;  may  the  Lord  prosper  their  efforts. 

We  have  secured  the  co-operation  of  all  the  Wes- 
leyan Methodist  conferences,  and  each  has  given 
liberally  and  according  to  their  abilities.  Still  we 
need  more  means.  As  some  of  our  friends  in  the 
last  Congress  of  Churches  promised  me  their  assist- 
ance from  their  congregations,  I  shall  be  glad  to 
hear  from  them  now  that  the  work  is  being  started. 
A  contribution  forwarded  to  the  Cynosure,  or  an  in- 
vitation to  lecture  and  receive  donations  from  their 
people,  will  be  cordially  welcomed.  I  will  be  happy 
to  hear  from  them  early,  as  I  have  to  sail  for  Eng- 
land on  my  way  to  Africa  in  a  few  months  more,  to 
start  our  work.  Friends  sending  invitations  will 
please  address  me  care  Wesleyan  Methodist,  52  and 
64  East  Onondaga  St,  Syracuse,  New  York.  Your 
Jjrotber  in  Christ,  J.  Augustus  Cole. 


OUR  WASHINGTON  LB TTBR. 


Washington,  Sept.  V.\  1887. 
It  was  a  singular  coincidence  that  the  two  sister 
republics  of  North  America  should  both  be  jubilat- 
ing at  the  same  moment  over  great  events  in  their 
history — the  Unite<l  States  celebrating  the  centen- 
nial of  the  Constitution,  and  Mexico  wmmcmorat 


ing  the  anniversary  of  her  independence  and  the 
birthday  of  her  present  President,  Diaz.  What  more 
is  needed  to  demonstrate  the  fatherhood  of  God  and 
the  brotherhood  of  man,  or  that  the  New  World,  at 
least,  is  the  permanent  abode  and  the  strong,  safe 
guardian  of  the  blessed  boon  of  freedom  so  glori- 
ously won  by  the  blood  and  brawn  of  the  fathers  of 
the  republic?  The  great  pageant  at  Philadelphia 
marks  an  important  milestone  in  our  country's  his- 
tory and  progress,  that  will  only  be  less  memorable 
in  the  annals  of  the  republic  than  the  celebration  of 
the  centennial  of  the  Declaration  of  Independence. 
As  educators  of  the  people  such  events  are  as  wor- 
thy of  consideration  as  in  the  light  of  the  patriotic 
sentiments  that  hallow  them,  for,  during  several 
weeks  past  those  who  are  familiar  with  the  circulat- 
ing literature  of  our  public  libraries  have  observed 
the  great  and  growing  demand  for  works  upon  both 
the  history  and  the  Constitution  of  the  United  States. 

There  was  an  occurrence  in  the  Treasury  a  day  or 
two  since  that  illustrated  the  practical  working  and 
benefit  of  true  civil  service  reform — the  discovery 
by  paying-teller  Gibson  of  a  fraudulent  check  that 
had  been  raised  from  $2  to  $2,450,  which  had  passed 
unchallenged  through  the  hands  of  several  banks — 
having  been  issued  two  years  ago.  If  this  trained 
expert  had  been  turned  out  for  political  reasons,  the 
probability  is  that  the  United  States  Treasurer  would 
be  out  over  $2,000. 

The  Senate  select  committee,  whose  duty  it  is  to 
investigate  the  methods  of  conducting  the  depart- 
mental business  of  the  Government,  has  received 
the  desired  information,  together  with  much  other 
useful  and  interesting  matter,  from  the  Interior  and 
Postoffice  Departments.  The  report  shows  that 
there  are  a  little  over  9,000  employes  of  the  former 
department,  of  which  number  the  Secretary  appoints 
3,189,  the  remainder  being  Presidential  appointees; 
that  94,790  persons  are  employed  in  the  postal  serv- 
ice, divided  as  follows:  600  are  employed  in  the 
Postoffice  Department  proper,  75  are  postmasters  of 
the  first  class,  400  of  the  second  class,  1,884  of  the 
third  class,  and  52,415  of  the  fourth  class;  the  rail- 
way mail  clerks  number  4,744;  and  the  inland  mail 
routes  27,264 — covering  370,854  miles.  The  former 
report  makes  460  pages  of  closely  printed  matter  in 
octavo  form — the  latter  412  pages,  and  both  volumes 
will  be  very  valuable  as  books  of  reference. 

It  is  thought  that  Secretary  Bayard  desires  an 
Eastern  man  to  fill  the  vacancy  in  the  oflic^e  of  his 
First  Assistant,  and  among  those  prominently  dis- 
cussed for  the  position  is  the  Hon.  Perry  Belmont, 
the  young  Congressman  from  New  York,  who  was 
Chairman  of  the  Committee  on  Foreign  Affairs  in 
the  last  Congress;  but  I  hardly  think  it  probable 
that,  great  as  is  the  Empire  State,  it  is  entitled  to  a 
third  place — in  the  Cabinet,  I  had  almost  said, 
though  it  is  nearly  as  important  as  that.  Such  an 
appointment  would  be  sure  to  increase  the  prejudice 
of  the  Southern  States  against  the  commercial  mo- 
nopoly of  New  York,  which  influence  is  selfish  and 
partial  as  they  believe,  and  hostile  to  the  growing 
trade  of  the  Gulf.  The  lately  published  interviews 
of  Senator  Pomeroy  present  clearly  what  are  likely 
to  be  some  effects  of  this  growing  complaint  in  re- 
spect to  the  old  parties. 

The  project  to  connect  the  capital  with  the  tomb 
of  Washington  by  means  of  a  great  roadway,  to  be 
called  Mt.  Vernon  Avenue,  is  assuming  definite 
shape — a  public  meeting  having  taken  all  the  neces- 
sary preliminary  steps  to  put  the  enterprise  on  a 
successful  footing,  and  it  is  quite  probable  that  the 
work  will  be  ultimately  pushed  to  completion,  as  it 
has  excited  widespread  interest  that  will  materialize 
in  a  substantial  manner. 

It  is  intimated  that  President  Cleveland's  visit  to 
the  Western  and  Southern  States  will  cost  him  more 
than  $10,000.  He  has  engaged  a  special  train  for 
the  entire  distance,  consisting  of  an  engine,  a  bag- 
gage and  supply  car  and  two  palace  cars.  This  train 
will  convey  him  for  about  forty-five  hundred  miles 
in  stages  divided  a  follows:  Washington  to  Balti- 
more, Baltimore  to  Harrisburg,  Harrisburg  to  Pitts- 
burg, Pittsburg  to  Indianapolis,  Indianapolis  to  St 
Louis,  St.  Louis  to  Chicago,  Chicago  to  Milwaukee, 
Milwaukee  to  Madison,  Madison  to  St.  Paul,  St  Paul 
to  Minneapolis,  Minneapolis  to  Omaha,  Omaha  to 
Kansas  City,  Kansas  City  to  Memphis,  Memphis  to 
Nashville,  Nashville  to  Atlanta,  Atlanta  to  Montr 
gomery,  Montgomery  to  Morristown,  Morristown  to 
Salisbury,  Salisbury  to  Danville,  Danville  to  Wash- 
ington, total,  4,436  miles.  The  journey  will  occupy 
twenty-two  days,  and  during  this  time  Mr.  Cleveland 
will  have  to  meet  a  demand  for  at  least  fifty  speech- 
es. As  he  is  attended  by  his  wife  we  do  not  fear 
such  scenes  of  drunkenness  as  attended  Johnson's 
swing  around  the  circle,  or  as  were  charged  to  Gen. 
Grant's  account  during  his  first  term.  Neither  must 
we  expect  the  versatility  of  Blaine  or  the  good  moral 
sense  of  Hayes  in  like  circumstanoep,  * 


JSOTICES. 


IOWA. 


Delegates  to  the  Iowa  Stite  Christian  Association,  to 
convene  in  College  Springs  on  the  third  Tues.lay  of  Oc- 
tober, will  be  met  at  Coin  on  Tuesday  and  Wednesday 
mornings. 

Those  coming  over  the  C.  B.  &  Q  from  the  East  will 
leave  the  main  line  at  ViUisca  and  change  at  Clarinda  for 
Coin.  West  of  Villisca  they  can  leave  the  main  line  at 
Red  Oak  and  connect  at  Shenandoah  with  a  morning 
freight  on  the  Wabash  for  Coin. 

All  who  expect  to  attend  the  convention  will  please 
drop  a  card  to  the  undersigned  as  soon  as  possible,  spec- 
ifying whether  they  wish  to  be  met  on  Tuesday  or  Wed- 
nesday morning.  There  are  only  morning  trains  to  Coin 
over  the  branch  lines  of  the  C.  B.  &  Q  If  any  one  wish- 
es to  be  met  at  any  other  point,  let  it  ue  made  known. 

Don't  forget  to  drop  the  card,  that  transportation  and 
entertainment  may  be  duly  provided  for. 

Wm  .  JOHMSTOM. 


HO/   MlNNBSOTIANSa 


The  "Minnesota  Christian  Association"  will  meet  in 
convention  in  Minneapolis,  Tuesday,  Wednesday  and 
Thursday,  Oct.  4,  ."Jand  6,  1887,  in  Chestnut  Hall. 

The  convention  will  open  Tuesday  evening  with  an 
address  by  Rev.  J.  P.  Stoddard,  Secretary  of  the  N.  C.  A. 

Rev.  C.  F.  Hawley,  lecturer  for  the  Iowa  Christian 
Association,  will  be  present. 

If  any  friend  of  the  cause,  man  or  woman,  in  Miaae- 
sota,  Iowa,  or  Wisconsin,  has  aught  to  say  on  any  phase 
of  this  great  reform,  he  is  hereby  invited  to  be  present 
and  speak.  Prepare  yourselves  well  enough  to  speak 
briefly,  and  report,  to  the  undersigned  at  the  convention. 

The  afternoon  sessions  will  be  devoted  to  these 
speeches,  the  morning  sessions  to  business.  The  even- 
ing sessions  will  be  occupied  by  brethren  Stoddard  and 
Hawley. 

The  local  committee  of  arrangements,  Bro.  Elwood 
Hanson,  says  that  either  free  or  very  cheap  homes  will 
be  provided  for  all  who  come  and  report  at  his  office,  15 
Fourth  Street,  South. 

Buy  the  excursion  ticket  to  Minneapolis  which  the 
railroads  are  now  offering  at  reduced  rates.  Come  up, 
brethren  and  sisters,  in  the  name  and  spirit  of  Christ,  to 
do  your  beat  for  the  cause.     E.  G.  Paine,  Pres.  M.  C.  A. 

N.  B. — Will  friendly  pastors  please  announce  to  their 
congregations. 

.*  ■  ^1 

ANNUAL   MBETINQ  OF   TEE  N.  H.  C.  A. 


The  Eleventh  Annual  Meeting  of  the  New  Hampshire 
Christian  Association  will  be  held  in  Arcanum  Hall,  No. 
939  Elm  street,  Manchester,  October  29,  30,  31,  1887, 
commencing  Saturday  at  2  o'clock  r.  m.,  and  closing 
Monday  evening;  entertainment  free.  Reduced  railroad 
fare  expected  from  the  following  stations:  Rochester, 
Dover,  Newmarket  Junction,  Portsmouth,  North  Weare, 
Laconia,  and  Concord.  Horse  cars  from  depot  to  haH. 
Addresses,  sermons  and  essays  are  expected  from  the  fol- 
lowing persons:  Rev.  J.  Blanchard  of  Illinois,  Rev.  E. 
W.  Oakes,  Manchester,  Elders  A.  Kidder,  C.  L.  Baker, 
Isaac  Hyatt,  S.  C.  Kimball,  Mrs.  C.  W.  Bixby.  Miss  Annie 
M.  Ray,  Miss  E.  E.  Flagg,  and  Mips  I.  D.  Haines,  evan- 
gelist of  Maine.  Miss  Haines  will  preach  the  annual 
sermon  and  direct  the  devotional  services.  Holiness, 
Divine  Healing,  the  Near  Coming  of  our  Lord,  Temper- 
ance, the  Evils  of  Organized  Secrecy,  and  other  impor- 
tant topics  will  be  prayerfully  considered,  and  explained 
by  consecrated  speakers.  We  look  for  a  large  attendance 
and  a  special  blessing  from  the  Lord.  Isolated  toilers  in 
the  vineyard  need  the  help  and  encouragement  which 
such  meetings  afford.  Let  us  plan  to  attend,  and  pray 
for  the  blessing  we  so  much  need. 

8.  C.  KiMiiALL,  £ee'y  N.  B.  C.  A. 


Who  will  preach  a  revival  among  the  Episcopal- 
ians of  New  York  and  turn  their  thoughts  away 
from  their  cathedral  project?  The  idea  of  spend- 
ing $10,000,000  in  such  a  building  in  this  day  of 
missions  and  charities  is  like  giving  up  our  railroads 
for  sedan  chairs  and  the  saddle.  A  chuah  profess- 
ing to  be  of  Christ  that  has  no  nobler  work,  is  nigh 
to  the  cursings  which  of  old  fell  in  woes  from  the 
lips  of  the  prophets.  A  thousand  years  ago  men 
knew  no  better  than  to  spend  themselves,  by  gener- 
ations, ui)on  such  buildings,  attractive  and  noble  to 
be  sure,  but  for  what  value  to  those  who  look  for 
the  coming  of  the  Lord? 


Mrs.  Angle  F.  Newman,  at  Lincoln,  Neb.,  Fri- 
day, was  unanimously  elected  a  delegate  to  the  Gen- 
eral Conference  of  the  M.  E.  church,  to  he  held  at 
Brooklyn,  N.  Y.,  next  May.  She  is  the  first  lady  on 
whom  that  honor  has  been  conferred. 

One  of  the  most  spiritually  minded  Christians 
whom  we  have  ever  known  was  in  the  habit  of  say- 
ing: "I  am  willing  to  be  governed  by  Goil's  law8,and 
to  be  saved  by  hia  grace. "  This  is  a  most  excel- 
lent statement  of  the  condition  of  a  truly  Christian 
heart 

All  the  American  missions  in  Burmah  have  incor- 
porated total  abstinence  in  their  work. 


10 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


September  29, 1887 


The  Home. 


FOOTPRINTS  OF  JE8U8. 


Look  not  for  the  Saviour's  footprints 

Near  the  royal  palace  gate ; 
Seek  them  not  in  halls  of  grandeur. 

Gilded  domes,  and  regal  state; 
Seek  them  not  in  grand  cathedrals, 

Nor  in  learning's  temple  fair, 
Where  proud  piety,  on  cushions, 

Seeks  repose  from  every  cnre. 

Seek  them  by  the  humble  dwelling, 

Seek  them  by  the  widow's  cot. 
Seek  them  In  the  prison  dungeons. 

Where  misfortune  mourns  her  lot 
Down  beneath  the  lowest  strata 

Of  degraded  human  woe, 
Marked  with  blood,  and  wet  with  teardrops, 

Trace  them  onward  as  they  go ! 

Here  he  paused  to  feed  the  hungry. 

Here  forgave  a  woman's  sin ; 
Here  a  blind  man's  eyes  were  opened, 

Here  the  lame  came  bounding  in ; 
Here  in  gory  perspiration 

Wept  o'er  Juda's  holy  hill; 
Here  poured  out  his  blood  and  Spirit 

To  redeem— "Whoever  wiU  I" 

There  is  not  one  human  being 

Sunk  so  low  in  dark  despair, 
But  beneath  its  tears  and  anguish, 

Jesus  left  his  footprints  there. 
And  if  I  would  be  a  Christian, 

I  must  follow  where  he  led ; 
Raise  the  fallen,  clothe  the  naked, 

Cause  the  hungry  to  be  fed. 

Fearing  no  contamination. 

Swerving  not  for  scorn  or  pride. 
Where  a  soul  may  yet  be  ransomed, 

If  the  labor  be  applied ; 
Down  beneath  all  human  wanderings, 

Down  beneath  al)  woe  and  care. 
There  I'll  find  my  Saviour's  footprints. 

Fresh  as  when  he  placed  them  there. 

Jesus,  I  will  trace  thy  pathway 

Down  among  the  lost  of  earth. 
And  rehearse  the  glad,  glad  tidings 

Of  thy  boundless  love  and  worth ; 
1  have  not  the  gift  of  healing, 

I  may  not  forgive  their  sins, 
1  can  point  them  to  thy  kingdom. 

Bid  them  cleanse,  and  enter  in. 


— iSelected. 


8WEETNEa8.1N  THE  HOME. 


BY  REV.  H.  A.  DAY. 


Probably  one  of  the  most  difficult  places  in  which 
to  exemplify  the  Christian  religion  "day  in  and  day 
out,"  as  the  expression  goes,  is  in  the  home  life, 
with  its  multitudinous  vexations  and  annoyances. 
It  may  not  be  so  in  every  instance.  There  may  be 
some  who  have  their  severest  tests  entirely  outside 
of  home  life.  But  we  are  speaking  now  of  the 
everyday  troubles  and  trials  which  come  to  all  who 
have  a  place  they  call  home;  not  of  the  occasional 
and  very  severe  tests  which  come  in  business  affairs, 
or  in  contact  with  society  outside  of  the  home.  All 
persons  have  these  bitter  outside  trials  and  perplex- 
ities, and  under  those  peculiar  circumstances  home 
becomes  an  asylum  of  refuge  and  peace.  But  is  it 
not  true  that  there  is  no  home  in  which  there  is  not, 
every  day,  more  or  less  friction  in  the  running  of 
its  machinery,  more  or  less  grating  among  the  cogo 
and  pinions,  which  go  to  make  the  iiome  the  effect- 
ual working  power  that  it  is?  Blessed  be  that  per- 
son, whether  it  be  father,  with  his  mind  and  hand 
in  active  exercise  for  the  well-being  of  his  family, 
or  mother,  with  anxious  face  and  loving  heart,  or 
brother  or  sister,  with  all  their  brotherly  or  sisterly 
feeling  for  each  other,  and  their  undying  love  for 
father  and  mother.  Blessed,  thrice  blessed,  I  say, 
be  that  one  who  can  and  does,  each  day,under  every 
circumstance,  and  to  every  one  in  that  home,  bear  a 
constant  love,  and  preserve  a  cheerful  demeanor, 
and  exercise  a  constant  patience,  remaining  un- 
moved, and  preserving  a  steady  sweetness  under  the 
most  trying  circumstances.  And  blessed  they  are. 
From  such  a  home  inlluence,  a  child  thrown  out  up- 
on *.be  world  will  not  go  far  astray.  A  demon  could 
not  sin  very  deeply  trained  in  such  an  atmosphere, 
wiinout  an  effort. 

We  are  well  aware  that  the  picture,  as  presented 
here,  is  drawn  in  very  bright  colors.  But  are  such 
homes  impossibilities?  Can  we  not,  at  least,  come 
a  little  nearer  to  this  ideal  home?  How  touching 
are  the  words  of  the  song,  "There's  no  place  like 
home."  And  of  8uch  a  home  as  is  here  presented 
we  may  say,  there  is  no  better,  no  grander,  no  pleas- 
nter,  no  more  glorious  place  this  side  of  heaven 
self.    We  are  painfully  aware  of  the  multitade  of 


real  or  imaginary  hindrances  which  will  throng  the 
mind  at  this  point.  But  while  one  may  present  this 
barrier,  and  another  that,  as  obstacles  in  our  way, 
let  us  ever  remember  the  abounding  grace  of  G-od, 
and  the  power  of  a  trained  will,  as  forces  in  the  ac- 
complishment of  this  grand  work  in  all  our  homes. 
Who  can  not  now  see  some  place  where,  in  the  fu- 
ture, a  great  advance  can  be  made  in  making  our 
individual  homes  more  healthful,  more  pleasant, 
more  cheerful,  and  more  glorious  than  heretofore. 
Smooth  out  that  frown,  wipe  away  those  wrinkles, 
take  off  that  sad  expression,  and  plant  in  its  place 
with  God's  help  a  smile.  Choke  back  that  harsh 
expression,  and  speak  a  word  of  cheer. 

In  how  many  ways  may  we  improve  our  homes  by 
care  in  what  is  generally  termed  "little  things."  It 
may  cost  an  effort.  When  a  feeling  of  irritation 
comes  over  us,  it  will  be  by  a  mighty  effort,  not  un- 
aided by  the  grace  of  God,  to  hold  it  back  from  be- 
ing manifested  in  any  degree  in  the  home.  Yet  it 
will  be  best.  Of  all  places  the  home  circle  will  re- 
ceive the  greatest  blessing  by  this  restraint,  and  it 
is  equally  true,  probably,  that  there  is  no  place 
where  indulgence  in  an  irritation  of  temper  would 
do  more  real  harm  than  at  home.  For  Jesus'  sake, 
and  for  our  family's  sake,  and  for  the  whole  world's 
sake,  let  us  keep  the  home  sweet.  Solomon  said: 
"It  is  better  to  dwell  in  a  corner  of  the  housetop, 
than  with  a  brawling  woman  in  a  wide  house."  Let 
us  think  this  matter  over  as  individuals,  and  begin 
at  once  with  ourselves,  to  sweeten  and  beautify  our 
homes. 

WilUamston,  Mich. 

.*  •  ^ 

FAMILY  RELIGION. 


We  must  not  be  allowed  to  forget  that  the  family 
is  the  school  and  nurture  of  piety;  that  the  young 
lives  born  in  the  family  are  to  be  molded  by  home 
influence  for  Christ;  that  if  we  are  not  religious  at 
home,  we  are  not  religious  anywhere. 

The  influence  of  the  Christian  should  be  posi- 
tively pious — dubiety  in  religion  is  not  only  feeble, 
but  positively  vicious.  The  religious  life  which  is 
uncertain  and  tepid  has  no  efficacy,  like  the  salt 
which  has  lost  its  savor — tasteless  and  hurtful. 
Happy  and  sunny  the  Christian  home-life  should  be, 
but  the  tincture  and  colorings  of  strong  religious 
principle  should  tinge  and  blend  with  all  its  rays  of 
happiness.  The  chief  interest,  the  reigning  purpose 
of  the  home  should  be  religion,  not  in  drapery  or 
cypress,  but  in  sunlight  and  fragrance;  the  light 
coming  from  the  Son  of  Righteousness,  the  fragrance 
distilled  from  the  Rose  of  Sharon  and  the  Lily  of  the 
Valley. 

To  make  up  this  religious  home  influence  the  pa- 
rents must  be  distinctly  religious.  This  is  the  main 
element.  Religion  in  them  should  be  authoritative 
and  conspicuous — not  in  name  but  in  reality.  Relig- 
ion must  be  to  them  a  real  thing,  a  thing  of  experi- 
ence,practice  and  of  transcendent  importance; first  in 
importance,  in  interest  and  obligation.  With  them 
it  must  be  more  than  religion  in  the  way  of  church 
membership,  church  activity,  church  devotion — a 
mere  tincture  of  Christ  and  the  world  and  business 
in  solid  form.  Parents  must  have  much  of  trueness 
to  God,  not  only  for  themselves,  but  of  profound 
and  ceaseless  interest  that  their  children  should 
have  Christ  formed  within  them.  One  of  the  crying 
needs  of  the  day  is  religious  fathers  and  mothers — 
fathers  who  will  not  sell  their  sons  to  mammon, 
mothers  who  prefer  God  for  their  daughters  to  the 
world;  parents  who  have  a  conscience,  and  a  pur- 
pose, and  a  business,  to  bring  up  their  children  in 
the  nurture  and  admonition  of  the  Lord. 

The  Christian  home  must  be  a  training  school,  not 
only  by  the  silent  forces  of  example  and  faith,  but 
positive  instruction,  instilling  and  fixing  the  facts 
and  truths  of  religion  in  the  memory  and  hearts  of 
the  children,  here  a  little  and  there  a  little,  by  all 
arts  and  methods,  until  the  young  minds  are  filled 
and  impregnated  with  revealed  truth — that  it  may 
grow  with  their  growth  and  strengthen  with  their 
strength.  This  soil  is  not  filled  with  the  heavenly 
seed  by  chance;  there  must  be  application  and  set 
purpose;  occasions  must  be  sought  and  made;  the 
lessons  must  be  put  in  the  young  mind;  'tis  their 
salvation.  Time,  patience,  conviction,  application, 
are  requisite  to  implant  the  imperishable  seed  which 
liveth  and  abideth  forever  in  young  hearts.  The 
world,  the  flesh,  and  the  devil  are  sowing  their  seed 
with  sly  and  diligent  hands  by  day  and  by  night. 
Shall  we  not  be  as  earnest  to  save  as  they  are  to 
ruin?  as  industrious  for  heaven  as  they  are  for 
hell? 

A  well-selected  library  is  helpful  in  this  training; 
one  book  helps  to  form  and  shape  character;  one 
book  had  much  to  do  with  shaping  the  religious 
characters  of  John  Bunyan  and  John  Wesley.  Many 
a  young  mind   has  received  its  virtuous  impulses 


from  a  good  book.  Parents  are  guilty  of  a  grievous 
wrong  who  do  not  have  some  good  books  for  their 
children.  They  pre-occupy,  keep  out  bad  tenants, 
save  from  idleness,  form  taste,  instruct  and  inspire. 
A  library  is  a  great  help  in  the  religious  training  of 
a  family. 

Family  worship  is  a  potent  agent  in  impressing 
religiously  the  home — the  stated  season,  the  reading 
and  singing,  the  prayer,  are  all  disciplinary  and 
sanctifying.  The  worship  should  be  an  institution 
night  and  morning;  attended  by  all,  strictly  enjoined, 
no  excuses  allowed;  performed  in  the  spirit  of 
Christ,  not  loosely,  irregularly,  hastily,  but  with 
promptness,  regularity  and  devotion.  The  servants 
should  be  present;  these  are  shamefully  neglected. 

Our  homes  must  become  more  distinctly  schools 
for  Christ,  not  schools  to  nurture  family  pride — to 
promote  worldliness;  but  sanctuaries  into  which  the 
children  are  born  with  the  sweet,  fresh  air  of  a  joy- 
ous holiness  pressing  in  upon  their  young  lives  at 
every  pore,  as .  gentle,  as  light,  as  ponderous  and 
penetrating  as  the  air — as  attractive,  as  beautiful,  as 
searching  as  the  light.  Our  children  for  Christ!  let 
this  be  the  motto,  the  inspiration,  the  aim,  the  end 
of  every  home. — Southern  Advocate. 


HOME  HAPFINE88. 


Probably  nineteen-twentieths  of  the  happiness 
you  will  ever  have  you  will  get  at  home.  The  inde- 
pendence that  comes  to  a  man  when  his  work  is 
over,  and  he  feels  that  he  has  run  out  of  the  storm 
into  the  quiet  harbor  of  home,  where  he  can  rest 
in  peace  with  his  family,  is  something  real.  It  does 
not  make  much  difference  whether  you  own  your 
house,  or  have  one  little  room  in  that  house,  you 
can  make  that  Utile  room  a  true  home  to  you.  You 
can  people  it  with  such  moods,  you  can  turn  to  it 
with  such  sweet  fancies,  that  it  will  be  fairly  lumi- 
nous with  their  presence,  and  will  be  to  you  the 
very  perfection  of  a  home.  Against  this  home  none 
of  you  should  ever  transgress.  You  should  always 
treat  each  other  with  courtesy.  It  is  often  not  so 
difficult  to  love  a  person  as  it  is  to  be  courteous  to 
him.  Courtesy  is  of  greater  value  and  a  more  royal 
grace  than  some  people  seem  to  think.  If  you  will 
but  be  courteous  to  each  other  you  will  soon  learn 
to  love  each  other  more  wisely,  profoundly,  not  to 
say  lastingly,   than  you  ever  did  before. — Selected. 


THE    TRUE8T  HOMES. 


The  truest  homes  are  often  in  houses  not  espe- 
cially well  kept,  according  to  the  ideas  of  the  very 
fastidious,  where  the  comfort  and  happiness  of  the 
inmates  rather  than  the  preservation  of  the  furniture 
are  first  considered.  They  are  not  like  the  home 
where  the  father  and  sons  were  obliged  to  always 
come  in  by  the  kitchen  door,  and  then  had  to  take  off 
their  boots  and  walk  in  their  stocking  feet.  That 
home  is  a  thing  of  the  past;  the  Sons  did  not  stay 
any  longer  than  they  could  help  under  that  roof. — 
Atlanta  Constitution. 


DISHONESTY  BEGINS  AT  HOME. 


The  crying  sin  of  the  day  is  dishonesty.  One 
hears  so  much  of  it  in  public  life;  but  as  we  have 
said,  there  is  too  much  of  it  altogether  in  private 
life.  And  its  cause  is  to  be  found  in  the  want  of 
self-control  in  the  indulgence  of  tastes  and  appetites. 
Reckless,  extravagant  living  is  at  the  bottom  of  it 
all.  If  this  living  had  any  true  foundation  in  any 
hearty  desire  for  any  desirable  things,  there  would 
be  more  hope  of  amendment.  But  when  one  comes 
to  see  what  things  ill-gotten  gains  are  spent  upon, 
the  outlook  is  a  sad  one.  Dress,  display,  amuse- 
ment, costly  things  bought  just  because  they  are  cost- 
ly; wealth  won  evilly,  merely  that  it  may  be  wasted 
foolishly;  these  are  the  signs  of  a  time  which  is  not 
a  pleasant  time  to  contemplate.  If  a  man  loves  any 
one  thing,  say  rare  books,  or  pictures,  or  objects  of 
art  of  any  kind,  or  music  or  science,  so  well  that  for 
the  sake  of  the  one  thing  in  which  he  would 
be  rich,  he  is  willing  to  be  poor  in  every  thing 
else,  no  matter  though  his  choice  be  an  unwise  one 
according  to  the  best  standards  of  choice,  he  will 
yet  have  a  motive  which  will  help  to  keep  him  up- 
right. But  for  those  who  love  none  of  these  things, 
but  simply  desire  them  because  it  is  the  habit  of 
the  time;  because  like  pampered  children  they  must 
needs  cry  for  whatsoever  they  see  just  out  of  their 
reach,  for  them  is  needed  the  wholesome  self-disci- 
pline which  shall  teach  them  to  let  alone  whatever 
is  not  theirs. 

And  the  beginning  of  this  self-discipline  is  in  the 
home.  Parents  must  teach  their  boys  and  girls  the 
great  lesson  of  doing  without  whatever  cannot  be  fitly 
theirs.  There  need  be  no  niggardly  restraint,  b\it  in 


Sbftembeb  29, 1887 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


11 


some  way  the  first  lesson  for  childhood  should  be 
that  of  earning  its  pleasure.  To  get  whatever  it 
craves  as  soon  as  it  asks  for  it,  is  the  worst  training 
a  child  can  have. —  Churchman. 


THE  8 TORY  OF  A  WEEK. 


Little  battles  thon  hast  won ; 
Little  niaeterlee  achieved ; 
Little  wants  with  care  relieved; 
Little  words  in  love  expressed; 
Little  wrongs  at  once  confessed ; 
Little  favors  kindly  done; 
Little  toils  thou  didst  not  shun ; 
Little  graces  meekly  worn ; 
Little  slights  with  patience  borne  ;— 
These  shall  crown  thy  pillowed  head, 
Holy  light  upon  thee  shed ; 
These  are  treasures  that  shall  rise 
Far  beyond  the  smiling  skies. 


—Stlected. 


HOW  BBSS  MANAGED  TOM. 

Tom's  sister  Nell  was  pretty,  and  being  a  year 
older  than  Tom,  wanted  to  show  her  authority  over 
him.  Tom  was  rough  and  awkward,  and  just  at 
the  age  when  a  boy  resents  all  meddling  with  his 
"rights."  He  would  put  his  hands  in  his  pockets, 
his  chair  on  Nell's  dress,  and  his  feet  on  the  window- 
sill.     Of  course  they  often  quarreled. 

"For  pity's  sake,  Tom,  do  take  your  hands  out  of 
your  pockets,"  Nell  would  say  in  her  most  vexing 
manner. 

"What  are  pockets  for,  I'd  like  to  know,  if  not  to 
put  one's  hands  in?"  And  Tom  would  whistle  and 
march  off. 

"Tom,  I  don't  believe  you've  combed  your  hair  for 
a  week!" 

"Well,  what's  the  use?  It  would  be  all  roughed 
up  again  in  less  than  an  hour." 

"I  do  wish,  Tom,  you  would  take  your  great  boots 
off  from  the  window-sill!" 

"Oh,  don't  bother  me,  I'm  reading,"  Tom  would 
say,  and  the  boots  refused  to  stir  an  inch,  which,  of 
course,  was  very  naughty.  And  so  it  would  go  on 
from  morning  till  night. 

But  little  Bess  had  a  different  way  with  somewhat 
stubborn  Tom.  Bess  seemed  to  understand  that 
coaxing  was  better  than  driving;  and  sometimes 
when  he  sat  with  both  hands  in  his  pockets,  she,  with  a 
book  or  picture,  would  nestle  down  beside  him,  and 
almost  before  he  knew  it,  one  hand  would  be  pat- 
ting her  curls,  while  the  Other  turned  the  leaves  or 
held  the  pictures.  If  she  chanced  to  see  his  feet  on 
the  window-sill,  she  would  say, — 

"Just  try  my  ottomon,  Tom,  dear,  and  see  how 
comfortable  it  is  to  the  feet;"  and  though  Tom  oc- 
casionally growled  in  a  "good-natured  way  about  its 
being  too  low,  the  boots  always  came  down.  •  When- 
ever his  hair  looked  rough,  she  would  steal  behind 
him  and  smootB  it  out  in  a  way  Tom  liked  so  well 
that  it  was  a  temptation  to  let  it  go  rough,  just  for 
the  pleasure  of  having  her  comb  it.  Yet,  for  the 
next  three  days  at  least,  he  would  take  special  pains 
to  keep  every  hair  in  its  place  simply  to  please  little 
Bess. 

As  they  grew  older,  Bess,  in  the  same  quiet,  lov- 
ing way,  helped  him  to  grow  wise  and  manly.  If 
she  had  an  interesting  book,  she  always  wanted  Tom 
to  enjoy  it  with  her;  if  she  were  going  to  call  on 
any  of  her  young  friends,  Tom  was  alwaya  invited 
to  go  with  her. 

"I  can't  understand,"  said  lady  Nell,  "why  you 
should  always  want  that  boy  forever  at  your  heels. 
He's  rough  and  awkward   as  a  bear." 

"Some  bears  are  as  gentle  as  kittens,"  said  Bess, 
slipping  her  arm  through  his,  with  a  loving  hug, 
while  the  "bear"  felt  a  great  warm  glow  at  his  heart 
as  he  walked  away  with  Bess,  and  determined  to  try 
harder  to  be  "gentle  as  a  kitten,"  for  her  sake. — The 
Advance. 


shelter  under  the  tree,  looking  up  at  the  clear  sky, 
and  wondering  whence  such  a  shower  could  come. 
Immediately  afterward,  however,  they  would  see  the 
elephant  rising  slowly  from  his  bath,  evincing,  as  it 
seemed,  an  awkward  joy  at  the  trick  he  had  piayed. 

In  the  course  of  time  his  amusement  became 
generally  known,  and  the  moment  the  water  began 
to  rise  from  his  trunk,  the  spectators  would  take 
flight,  at  which  he  appeared  exceedingly  delighted, 
getting  up  as  fast  as  he  could  to  see  the  bustle  be 
had  caused. 

Strange  as  it  may  seem,  a  huge  animal  like  the  ele- 
phant has  a  ridiculous  fear  of  certain  small  objects. 
The  keeper  of  the  Zo-ological  Garden  in  Philadel- 
phia says  that  he  has  seen  an  elephant  nearly  scared 
into  a  fit  at  the  sight  of  a  mouse.  And  one  warm 
day,  for  the  amusement  of  the  spectators,  a  dozen 
inflated  bladders  were  thrown  into  the  pond  when 
the  animals  went  in  to  sw'm.  At  first  they  were 
greatly  frightened.  Then  Empress  struck  at  one 
with  her  trunk,  and  when  it  bounded  into  the  air, 
both  she  and  her*  companion  trumpeted  and  scram- 
bled out  of  the  pond.  Finally,  she  gently  fished 
one  of  the  bladders  out  of  the  water  and  kicked  at  it 
with  her  hind  feet.  No  serious  results  following, 
the  sport  was  continued  until  Empress  happened  to 
step  on  the  bladder.  It  exploded  with  a  loud  re 
port,  and  the  elephants  scampered  home. — ISel. 


AN  ELEPHANT'S   TRIGS. 


The  elephant  of  the  Jardin  de»  Plantes,  at  Paris, 
used  to  play  his  visitors  a  trick  which  could  not 
have  been  thought  of  but  by  an  animal  of  much  in- 
telligence. His  house  opened  upon  an  enclosure 
called  the  elephant's  park,  containing  a  pond,  in 
which  he  would  lay  himself  under  the  water,  con- 
cealing every  part  of  him  except  the  very  end  of 
his  trunk — a  mere  speck  that  would  hardly  be  no- 
ticed by  a  stranger  to  the  animal's  habits.  A  crowd 
would  often  assemble  around  the  enclosure,  and,  not 
seeing  him  in  it,  would  watch  in  expectation  that  he 
would  soon  issue  from  the  house.  But,  while  they 
were  gazing  about,  a  copious  sprinkling  of  water 
would  fall  upon  them;  and  ladies  and  gentlemen, 
with   their  fine  bonnets  and  coats,  would  run   for 


A  LETTER  FROM  JEFF  DA  VIS. 


New  Orlkams,  La.,  Sept.  U.— [Special.] — To- 
morrow's papers  will  contain  an  open  letter  from 
Jfcflerson  Davis  to  Bishop  Charles  B.  Galloway  of 
the  Methodist  church  South.  The  Confederate  chief- 
tain is  very  severe  in  his  handling  of  the  prohibi- 
tion bishop.  He  says:  "I  grieve  that  a  dignitary 
of  the  Methodist  church  South  should  have  left  the 
pulpit  and  Bible  to  mount  the  political  rostrum  and 
plead  the  law  of  prohibitionism,  the  substitution  of 
force  for  free-will  moral  responsibilities,  the  obliga- 
tion to  do  unto  others  as  we  would  be  done  by,  and 
the  brotherly  love  taught  by  the  meek  and  lowly 
Jesus  whom  we  adore.  In  this  I  see  the  forbidden 
union  of  church  and  state,  and  my  grief  is  real  and 
relates  to  both.  This  reply,  it  may  be  pro|>er  here 
to  renark,  is  not  made  to  you  in  your  character  of 
a  dignitary  of  the  church,  but  in  that  which  for  that 
occasion  you  have  assumed — as  a  political  partisan. 
I  regret  that  you  did  not  acknowledge  that  your 
strictures  were  appropriate  to  what  others  had  said 
or  done,  and  were  not  justified  by  the  text  of  my 
letter  for  which  you  arraign  me." 


Temfesance. 


THE   DIRECT  ROUTE. 


"You  can't  make  a  man  sober  by  act  of  Parlia- 
ment." So  they  said.  I  thought  it  over.  It  didn't 
seem  to  me  a  self-evident  proposition. 

"Why  not?"  said  I.     Then  came  a  crusher. 

"You  might  as  well  try  to  cure  the  toothache  by 
act  of  Parliament." 

This  made  me  reflect.  I  had  been  troubled  with 
the  toothache;  worried  by  it;  maddened  by  it;  kept 
off  work,  my  meals,  my  happiness  by  it.  My  health 
was  failing  in  consequence.  My  temper  was  gone. 
My  mind  was  going.  I  was  invited  to  try  various 
remedies. 

"Stop  it,"  said  some. 

"But  how?"  I  inquired. 

"Fill  the  tooth  with  gold,"  they  explained.  The 
tooth  was  thus  primed,  but  the  toothache  went  on. 

"Clear  it  out,''  said  others. 

"How — how?"  was  my  agonized  exclamation. 

"Cleanse  the  blessed  thing  out,"  they  told  me.  I 
did.  I  got  it  inspected,  illuminated,  syringed,  fumi- 
gated, made  beautiful  with  camphorated  chalk,  bath 
brick,  late  powder,  and  floriline.     No  good. 

"Give  it  a  rest  on  Sunday,"  said  a  clerical  friend. 
I  tried  this.  Even  on  Sundays  there  were  some 
bona  fide  twinges;  on  Monday  it  w^s  a  bad  as  ever. 
What  was  I  to  do? 

•  "Be  extra  careful  what  you  let  into  it,"  said  a 
civic  functionary.  Nothing  could  exceed  my  care. 
Three  magistrates  certified  the  good,  harmless,  ex- 
cellent character  of  all  I  put  into  my  tooth.  1  felt 
safe.  Not  for  long.  I  soon  felt  sold.  The  results 
were  disappointing,  distressing,  excrutiating.  Some- 
how the  certified  application  lost  its  virtue  the  mo- 
ment it  got  inside. 

"Hold  a  drink  of  water  in  your  mouth  and  sit  on 
the  fire  till  it  boils,"  urged  a  knowing  one.  I  began 
to  think  this  was  the  only  remedy.  At  last  I  took 
counsel  of  a  fanatic. 

"Try  the  parliamentary  cure,"  said  he. 

"What's  that?"  said  I. 

"Have  the  tooth  out;  a  short  act  will  do  it."  This 
seemed  drastic.  It  would  leave  a  gap  in  my  social 
system.  I  should  miss  an  old  friend.  The  tooth 
had  a  vested  interest.     I  took  courage. 

"Let  the  operation  cost  what  it  may,  it  must 
come,"  I  cried.    So  I  summoned  the  dentist 

"I  am  ready  for  the   parliamentary  cure,"  said  I. 

It  took  a  strong  pull.  It  was  done.  The  tooth 
was  gone.     So  was  the  toothache.     I  was  happy. 

Once  more  I  reflected.  Extraction  cures  tooth- 
ache. I  had  never  realized  this  before.  No  tooth, 
no  toothache.  This  is  strange,  but  true.  And  yet 
you  can't  make  a  man  sober  by  let  of  Parlia- 
ment? 

Let  us  see.  No  tooth,  no  toothache.  Granted. 
No  drink  traffic,  no  drink.  Eh.  what!  Is  that  a 
fact?  No  drink  tralllc,  no  drink?  I  never  thought 
of  that.  No  drink,  no  drunkenress.  I  see.  A 
mule  with  no  hind  legs  doesn't  kick.  He  is  qniet. 
If  a  man  can  get  nothing  to  drink,  he  doesn't  drink. 
He  is  sober.  An  act  of  Parliament  can  make  him 
so.  By  white-washing  the  public  house?  Not  quite. 
Sanctifying  it  on  Sundays,  in  big  places  only? 
What,  then,  do  you  want  Parliament  to  enact?  Pro- 
hibition.— Jrith  Timptrance  Lf.agite  Journal, 


One  hundred  and  eighty  million  dollars'  worth  of 
five-cent  cigars  were  smoked  in  this  country  last 
year,  and  still  thousands  cry  hard  times. 

Eighteen  thousand  dollars  is  an  enormous  price 
to  pay  for  a  small  peach-blow  vase,  that's  a  fact;  but 
look  at  the  man  who  squanders  $30,000  on  the  flow- 
ing bowl,  and  all  he  has  to  show  for  it  is  a  peach- 
blow  nose,  not  one-fourth  the  size  of  the  vase  afore- 
said. 

Texas  may  vote  for  whisky  by  100,000  majority, 
but  it  will  not  fatten  their  starving  cattle  or  bring 
peace  into  Texas  homes.  Texas  may  not  like  "to 
go  dry,"  but  wetting  down  with  whisky  by  such  a 
majority  will  keep  thousands  of  the  best  class  of 
people  from  making  the  State  their  home.  Men  and 
women  who  raise  families  prefer  school-houses  to 
saloons. — Inter  Ocean. 

In  the  Supreme  Court  at  Des  Moines,  Iowa,  Sept. 
10,  the  opinion  was  filed  in  the  case  of  Pearson  and 
Linghran  against  the  International  Distillery,  in 
which  the  lower  courts  of  this  county  held  thai  the 
sale  of  intoxicating  liquors  for  export  for  general 
purposes  was  illegal,  and  closed  the  distillery  as  a 
nuisance.     The  court  affirms  this  decision. 

The  people  of  Atlanta,  Ga.,  do  not  seem  to  have 
become  dissatisfied  with  their  prohibition  ordinance, 
though  there  are  those  who  would  have  us  believe 
that  all  kinds  of  evils  resulted  therefrom.  A  few 
days  ago  an  election  for  judge  in  a  place  of  him 
who  has  been  foremost  and  most  thorough  in  the  ex- 
ecution of  the  law,  resulted  in  his  re-election  by  a 
large  majority.  The  people  want  the  law  enforced, 
and  are  ready  to  sustain  the  man  who  does  most  for 
its  enforcement. 

Dalton  county,  Ga.,  is  one  of  many  counties  in 
the  South  that  have  freed  themselves  from  the  curse 
of  alcohol.  Before  prohibition  was  secured  the  Su- 
perior Court  sat  twice  a  year,  and  four  or  five  weeks 
at  each  session  at  a  cost  of  $7,560  per  annum.  Since 
prohibition  it  takes  but  two  weeks  to  dispatch  all 
the  business  of  the  court,  and  the  attendant  expense 
is  $1,980.  Before  prohibition  the  jail  fees  averaged 
over  $150  per  month;  now  they  are  less  than  $25  per 
month,  and  for  months  the  jail  has  been  empty. 

A  volume  of  interesting  statistics  in  regard  to  the 
liquor  traffic  in  the  United  States  is  contained  in  a 
recent  report  from  the  Chief  of  the  Bureau  of  Sta- 
tistics at  Washington.  In  round  numbers  the  con- 
sumption of  distilled  spirits,  domestic  and  imported, 
in  this  country  is  shown  to  have  increased  from  43,- 
000,000  gallons  in  1840  to  72,000,000  in  1886;  of 
wines,  from  4,800,000  gallons  to  22  000,000;  and  of 
malt  liquors,  from  23,000.000  to  «42,000  i»00.  A 
statement  made  by  the  editor  of  the  American  Gro- 
cer is  given  which  sets  forth,  among  other  things, 
that  the  present  average  expenditure  in  this  country 
per  annum  for  malt  and  spirituous  liijuors  and  l>eeV 
at  retail  is  $700,000,000.  The  drinking  population 
is  estimated  to  he  un  18St>)  14,025,417.  making  the 
average  ex|>enditure  per  capita  $45  !)0.  On  the 
same  authority  it  is  sbown  by  tallies,  i-overing  the 
five  years  from  1882  to  1 S86,  inclusive,  that  thecon- 
sumption  of  spirits  is  decreasing  while  that  of  beer 
is  increasing,  and  that  there  is  a  reduced  use  of  wine 
as  a  beverage.  It  is  added  that  the  wholesale  cost 
of  the  liquors  for  which  the  retailers  receive  $700,- 
000.000  is  not  more  than  $3()0,(i00.000.  leaving  400,- 
000,000  as  the  retailers'  share  or"  profits.  A  statement  is 
macie  to  the  ctlect  that  only  ten  per  ifnt  of  the  dis- 
tilled spirits  consumed  in  this  conntrv  are  used  for 
medicine  and  manufacturing  pfi  ^nety  per 

ceot  being  used  as  a  beverage. — .'>  nervrr 


12 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


Skptbmber  29, 1887 


Religious  News. 


The  Veiled  Prophets'  parade  at  St.  Louis  this 

year  will  represent  prominent  events  and  scenes 
taken  from  the  Bible.  This  has  stirred  up  a  good 
deal  of  feeling  among  the  Protestant  ministers,  and 
Rev.  Dr.  Nichols  has  made  a  somewhat  sweeping 
condemnation  of  the  whole  affair  from  his  pulpit 
He  took  special  exception  to  the  invitation  to  the 
ball,  which  is  contained  in  a  miniature  representa- 
tion of  the  ark  of  the  covenant  and  is  written  side 
by  side  with  the  Ten  Commandments.  He  thought 
this  a  sacrilegious  blunder  and  a  shocking  prostitu- 
tion of  things  sacred.  He  especially  denounced  the 
floats  which  will  appear,  one  representing  Moses  re- 
ceiving the  law  and  the  other  the  transfiguration  of 
Elijah.  Several  other  ministers  sustain  Dr.  Nichols, 
and  the  matter  has  produced  something  of  a  sensa- 
tion, but  it  is  said  on  the  authority  of  prominent 
prophets  that  the  parade  will  not  be  changed,  and 
that  no  floats  will  be  taken  from  the  procession. 

— At  the  Lutheran  General  Council  meeting  in 
Greenville,  Penn.,  the  report  of  the  Swedish  home 
missionaries  was  heard  with  much  interest.  The 
large  and  important  mission  of  Pastor  Telleen  on 
Mission  Street,  between  Eighth  and  Ninth,  has,  after 
much  struggle  on  his  part,  been  made  self-support- 
ing. There  has  been  great  pressure  of  the  lodge 
against  Pastor  Telleen's  work,  and  his  success  is 
very  encouraging. 

— The  statistical  report  of  the  General  Synod  of 
the  Lutheran  church  shows  the  body  to  be  com- 
posed of  twenty-three  synods,  1,246  churches,  134,- 
710  communicant  members,  1,248  Sunday-schools 
with  129,370  scholars;  its  total  benevolence  amount- 
ed during  the  last  year  to  $146,312.98.  The  Augus- 
tana  Synod  of  Swedish  churches  is  connected  with 
this  body,  and  reports  some  70,000  members. 

— At  the  thirty-third  convention  of  this  General 
Synod  at  Omaha,  June  1-13,  1887,  they  adopted 
the  following:  '■'■Resohed,  That  the  right,  and  there- 
fore the  wisest  and  most  efficient  method  in  dealing 
with  the  traffic  in  alcoholic  liquors  for  drinking  pur- 
poses, is  its  suppression,  and  that  we  therefore  also 
urge  those  who  comprise  the  church  which  we  rep- 
resent to  endeavor  to  secure  in  every  State  the  abso- 
lute prohibition  of  the  manufacture  and  sale  of  in- 
toxicating liquors  as  a  beverage." 

— The  committee  of  the  Evangelical  Missionary 
Society  of  Paris  has  declined  the  invitation  of  the 
Government  to  send  missionaries  to  Madagascar.  It 
finds  the  field  already  occupied  by  the  London  So- 
ciety, and  will  not  introduce  division  into  it.  Hence 
it  answers,  that  French  Evangelical  missionaries  will 
be  sent  to  Madagascar  only  when  the  churches  there 
invite  them. 

— The  Bremen  Mission  on  the  Slave  coast  returned 
more  than  a  hundred  baptisms  of  natives  during 
1886,  sixty-nine  of  which  were  of  adults.  In  the 
ten  years  from  1876  to  1886  the  number  of  Chris- 
tians has  risen  from  175  to  556,  The  Directory  of 
the  Deaconesses'  House  at  Hamburg  has  decided  to 
send  deaconesses  to  this  mission. 

— Reports  from  the  Western  Indiana  yearly  meet- 
ing of  Friends  at  Plainfield,  state  that  action  was 
taken  on  the  use  of  tobacco  by  members,  and  also 
against  the  secret  orders.  The  General  Conference  of 
Friends  called  to  meet  in  Richmond,  Indiana,  gath- 
ered last  Friday.  Among  the  delegates  is  Calvin 
W.  Pritchard,  editor  of  the  Christian  Worlcer  of  this 
city,  and  member  of  the  N.  C.  A.  Board. 

— The  bishop's  address  at  the  opening  of  the 
nineteenth  General  Conference  of  the  Evangeligal 
Association,  recently  in  session  at  Buffalo,  N.  Y., 
contains  the  following  interesting  statistics:  Mem- 
bership, 138,130;  churches,  1,8.39;  Sunday-schools, 
2,306;  scholars,  182,037.  The  receipts  of  the  mis- 
sionary society  increased  in  the  past  four  years  $99,- 
978.43,  the  total  receipts  for  the  last  quadrennium 
being  1484,065.10,  as  against  $384,086.67  for  the 
four  years  ending  in  1883.  The  debt  of  the  society 
amounts  to  $44,000.  The  publishing  house  of  the 
denomination  is  at  Cleveland,  Ohio,  and  is  reported 
to  be  worth  $500,000.     It  has  no  debt. 

— The  fortieth  anniversary  of  the  settlement  of 
Hollanders  at  I'ella,  Iowa,  was  celebrated  on  Au- 
gust 31st,  and  was  a  grand  success.  Rev.  Wm. 
Motrdyk,  well  known  for  his  efforts  to  instruct  the 
Hollanders  upon  the  lodge,  is  pastor  here.  Henry 
Hospers,  Esq.,  of  Orange  City,  Iowa,  among  others, 
delivered  an  eloquent  address;  Rev.  E.  Winter,  of 
Grand  Rapids.  Mich.,  who  was  for  eighteen  years 
pastor  of  the  I'irst  Church  of  Pella,  sent  a  letter  of 
congratulation;  J.  Van  't  Lindenhout,  of  the  or- 
phanage at  NeerboBch,Netherland8,  sent  a  cablegram 
of  kind  wishes.    There  are  six  Reformed  churches  iq 


the  settlement  of  Pella.  From  this  settlement  the 
colony  of  Hollanders  in  Sioux  county,  Iowa,  went 
out,  where  they  have  nine  churches.  From  Sioux 
county,  Iowa,  went  forth  the  colony  of  Douglas 
county,  Dakota,  where  they  have  two  churches. 

— Dr.  R.  R.  Meredith  of  Boston,  who  succeeds 
Dr.  Pentecost  in  the  pastorate  of  the  Tompkins  Ave- 
nue Congregational  church,  Brooklyn,  is  a  native  of 
Ireland,  was  educated  in  this  country,  was  a  captain 
in  the  war,  and  was  in  the  Methodist  ministry  until 
1878,  when  he  accepted  a  call  to  the  Phillips  Con- 
gregational church  of  Boston,  which  he  left  in  1883 
for  the  pastorate  of  the  Union  church  in  the  same 
city.  He  received  a  salary  of  $7,000  from  this 
church  and  $2,500  from  his  famous  Bible  class. 
His  salary  in  Brooklyn  will  be  $7,000. 

— The  colored  Baptists  of  Georgia  will  celebrate 
in  June,  1888,  the  centenary  of  the  founding  of 
their  first  church,  January  20,  1787,  in  that  State. 
The  celebration  is  postponed  till  June  in  order,  we 
suppose,  that  it  may  be  held  in  a  tent.  It  is  to  last 
two  weeks,  and  will  take  place  in  Savannah.  A  his- 
torical volume  is  to  be  issued.  There  are,  as  the  re- 
sult of  the  century's  work,  1,400  colored  Baptist 
churches,  500  ministers,  2,000  licentiates,  and  160,- 
000  members. 

— The  immigration  of  Finns  has  been  unusually 
large  the  past  summer.  They  have  settled  in  vari- 
ous places  in  New  England,  the  West  and  the  North- 
west. A  new  Finnish  church  (Lutheran)  was  recent- 
ly dedicated  for  these  people  in  Ishpeming,  Mich. 
At  the  dedicatory  service  selections  of  Scripture 
were  read  in  Finnish,  Norwegian,  Swedish,  German, 
English  and  Syrio-Chaldaic.  The  sermon  was  in 
English. 

— William  Taylor,  who  is  determined  to  establish 
a  line  of  mission  posts  clear  across  Africa,  from  west 
to  east,  has  established  a  new  line  of  missions  ex- 
tending seventy  miles  from  the  coast  on  the  Cavalla 
River.  They  are  seventeen  in  number,  and  the 
principal  ones  are  at  Eulileky,  Yawki,  Beaboo;  Tobo, 
Tatepa,  Gerrobo,  Wamleka,  Nahleky,  Baraka,  Gara- 
way,  and  Grand  Sess.  White  men  and  women  are 
asked  by  the  natives  as  teachers  in  preference  to 
natives.  He  has  negotiated  with  the  inland  kings 
and  chiefs  for  the  establishment  of  industrial 
schools  and  missions  along  the  banks  of  this  river, 
and  calls  for  workers  to  aid  him.  To  each  mission- 
ary and  his  wife  a  good-sized  dwelling,  ground  and 
agricultural  implements  will  be  given.  The  mis- 
sionaries have  been  well  received,  and  many  requests 
for  missions  have  been  set  aside  for  want  of  work- 
ers. 

— The  Thirty-fourth  annual  report  of  the  Board 
Missions  of  the  American  branch  of  the  United 
Brethren  in  Christ  (Moravians),  shows  that  in  1886 
more  than  $18,000  was  expended  on  missions  at 
home  and  in  Africa  and  Europe.  The  collections 
were  greater  than  in  the  year  before,  and  an  effort  is 
to  be  made  to  raise  $60,000  during  the  present  ye&r. 
Among  the  gifts  in  1886  was  one  of  $5,000  from 
Mr.  Rufus  Clark  of  Denver,  Colorado,  to  build  a 
theological  training  school  at  Shaingay,  in  Africa, 
to  be  named  after  him  and  his  wife.  The  school 
was  opened  last  February  with  three  students,  be- 
sides five  boys  in  the  primary  department.  The 
African  work  has  proceeded  to  the  satisfaction  of 
the  secretary,  the  net  increase  in  members  at  the 
sixteen  stations  having  been  1,311  for  the  year  mak- 
ing 3,940  in  all.  As  compared  with  the  results  re- 
ported by  the  missionary  societies  of  far  more  nu- 
merous communions,  these  are  certainly  very  re- 
markable. 

— On  the  7th  of  August,  in  Ahuacuatilan,  State 
of  Guerrero,  Mexico,  Rev.  Abraham  Gomez,  Miguel 
Cipriano  and  the  wife  of  Felipe  Zaragoza,  all  Pres- 
byterian missionaries,  were  cruelly  murdered  by  a 
Roman  Catholic  mob,  at  the  instigation  of  a  rabid 
priest,  and  with  the  tacit  permission  of  the  authori- 
ties. 

— During  the  eight  years  closing  March  1,  1887, 
the  American  Sabbath-school  Union  established  173 
Sabbath-schools  in  the  Indian  Territory,  containing 
973  teachers  and  6,931  scholars.  One  missionary 
reports  his  work  last  year  as  having  been  among 
eleven  tribes,  speaking  as  many  different  dialects; 
namely,  Choctaws,  Chickasaws,  Cherokees,  Creeks, 
Seminoles,  Pottawotomies,  Caddoes,  Wichitas,  Kio- 
was,  Comanches,  and  Apaches. 

— The  Spanish  governor  came  to  Ponape,the  largest 
of  the  Canary  Islands,  last  March  with  fifty  soldiers, 
six  priests,  and  twenty-five  convicts,  and  almost  im- 
mediately began  to  encroach  upon  the  premises  and 
interfere  with  the  missionrry  work.  Mr.  Doane, 
American  Missionary,  after  several  ineffectual  inter- 
views, sent  him  a  written  protest  copiplainiog  of  this 


action,  and  describing  it  as  arbitrary.  At  this  the 
governor  took  offense,  arrested  Doane,  and  put  him 
in  close  confinement  on  board  a  Spanish  man-of-war 
in  the  harbor.  All  this  was  within  a  month  of  the 
arrival  of  the  Spaniards.  After  three  days  the  gov- 
ernor came  to  Mr.  Doane,  and,  without  the  form  of 
a  trial,  sentenced  him  to  fifteen  days'  imprisonment 
because  of  the  protest.  At  the  end  of  fifteen  days 
the  governor  informed  him  that  he  was  to  remain  in 
confinement  on  other  charges,  but  did  not  state  what 
they  were.  For  six  weeks  the  governor  paid  no  at- 
tention to  the  inquiries  of  Mr.  Doane  or  of  his 
American  associates  on  the  island  as  to  the  cause  of 
such  treatment.  Then  he  sent  word  to  Mr.  Doane 
that  within  three  days  he  was  to  be  sent  to  Manilla, 
2,000  miles  away,  to  be  tried,  but  gave  him  no  op- 
portunity to  look  after  his  personal  property  on 
shore,  to  find  witnesses,  or  to  confer  with  his  asso- 
ciates. Dr.  Smith,  the  Secretary  of  the  American 
Board,  says:  "It  seems  this  is  Spanish  justice  to 
an  American  citizen.  But  this  fact,  with  other  things 
that  have  happened  since  the  Spanish  came  to  Ponape, 
the  closing  of  some  of  the  churches,  and  of  all  but 
one  of  the  fifteen  or  twenty  schools  on  the  island, 
the  silencing  of  some  of  the  native  preachers,  the 
stealing  and  abuse  of  the  native  girls,  the  free  flow 
of  intoxicants,  and  we  begin  to  see  what  the  Spanish 
occupation  of  the  Caroline  Islands  means  for  Chris- 
tianity and  civilization  there." 


LITERATITRE. 


Entering  on  Life.  A  book  for  young  men.  By  Cunningham 
Glekie,  D.  D.,  author  of  the  "Life  and  Words  of  Christ," 
'•Hours  with  the  Bible," etc.  Pp.  224.  Price  40  cts.  John  B. 
Alden,  New  York. 

It  is  long  since  we  have  taken  up  a  volume  dedi- 
cated to  young  men  and  noted  with  such  pleasure 
its  purpose  and  execution.  Dr.  Giekie  is  one  of  the 
very  ablest  writers  on  Bible  history,  and  naturally 
he  has  put  the  chapter  on  Christianity  in  the  very 
center  of  the  volume.  Chapters  on  "Youth,"  "Char- 
acter," "Companions,"  "Success,"  lead  up  to  it;  and 
the  titles  "Helps,"  "Reading,"  "Dreams,"  "Farewell" 
follow.  Unlike  some  American  volumes,  attract- 
ively written  yet  of  little  depth  and  merit,  this  vol- 
ume does  not  boast  that  it  gives  the  rules  for  suc- 
cess in  life;  yet  it  gives  them  most  reliably.  The 
style  is  peculiar  and  a  study.  It  is  rare  to  find  a 
work  of  such  epigrammatic  character.  Each  sen- 
tence may  be  taken  out  of  its  setting  and  studied  like 
an  axiom.     In  the  chapter  on  "Character"  we  read: 

"Character,  if  well-nigh  alone,  still  commands  our 
respect  and  love,  in  spite  of  many  defects  or  weak- 
nesses. Intellect,  like  ice,  is  colorless;  no  one  has 
more  of  it  than  the  devil.  Power,  eloquence,  exact 
morals,  so  far  as  the  world  sees,  knowledge,  and 
Ahithophel's  wisdom,  may  dazzle  or  awe,  but  may 
after  all  count  for  little  in  our  estimate  of  their 
possessors;  but  goodness  has  our  homage  and  our 
hearts.  It  makes  up  for  many  wants.  All  the 
world  loves  my  Uncle  Toby;  and  what  is  it  that 
makes  us  reverence  little  children?  The  image  of 
God  is  the  same  whatever  reflects  it,  and  nothing  can 
make  up  for  its  absence. 

"A  good  name  is  one  of  the  few  honors  which  all 
men  alike  desire.  Flattery  cannot  court  a  monarch 
with  anything  beyond  it,  and  the  humblest  think 
themselves  still  rich  if  they  retain  it.  Hypocrisy  is 
the  homage  that  worthlessness  pays  it.  Vice  makes 
a  mask  of  the  skin  of  Virtue,  and  whitens  its  sep- 
ulchres laboriously.  There  is  no  sin  but  seeks  to 
cheat  the  world  by  an  alias,  and  hardly  a  sinner  who 
does  not  cheat  himself  by  apologies  and  mitiga- 
tions. We  are  all  saints  by  daylight  and  in  public. 
Men  who  seem  insensible  to  shame  in  youth,  often 
affect  severity  in  later  life;  meanness  often  gives 
way  in  age  to  the  love  of  praise,  and  seeks,  if  not 
sooner,  at  least  in  dying,  to  gain  the  poor  consola- 
tion of  a  posthumous  character. 

The  book  is  full  of  beauties  and  excellencies.  We 
most  heartily  recommend  our  young  readers  to  fore- 
go some  trifling  luxury  and  buy  this  book.  Read  it 
again  and  again. 

In  the  October  number  of  Scrihner's  Hagazine  Profes- 
sor N  S.  Shaler  contributes  another  paper  in  his  series 
relating  to  the  surface  of  the  earth  and  allied  topics  en- 
titled "Caverns  and  Cavern  Life."  Professor  Shaler  de- 
scribes the  various  groups  of  caverns,  clearly  explaining 
how  each  variety  has  been  produced.  He  also  gives  some 
useful  hints  about  explorations,  and  discusses  the  modifi- 
cations of  animal  structure  produced  by  living  in  caves. 
The  many  illustrations  show  picturesque  views  of  noted 
caverns,  grottos,  lava  caves,  and  sea  chasms.  The  num- 
ber contains  a  timely  and  thoughtful  paper  on  "Munici- 
pal Governments,"  by  Gamaliel  Bradford,  which  traces 
the  causes  of  existing  evils  in  the  government  of  our  cit- 
ies, and  suggests  some  remedies  "The  Paris  School  of 
Fine  Arts"  is  the  most  richly  illustrated  article;  and  a 
paper  describing  the  additions  which  are  being  all  the 
while  unconsciously  made  to  our  colloquial  language 
from  the  r^npbmen's  dialect  closes  the  number. 


September  2d,  IBSi 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CTNOSUKBl, 


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Lodge  Notes. 

The  grand  sepRion  of  the  SelectEnights 
Ancient  Order  United  Workmen  met  in 
Springfield,  111.  A  "military"  bill  was 
adopted  by  a  majority  of  three  votes  after 
a  heated  debate.  It  provides  that  the  en- 
tire military  authority  shall  be  vested  in 
the  Supreme  Legion. 

A  meeting  under  the  auspices  of  the 
Sons  of  Ireland,  a  new  dynamite  society, 
was  held  at  Cooper  Union  Sept.  21. 
About  400  people  were  present.  Violent 
speeches  were  made  by  Professor  Mezze- 
roff,  the  Russian  nihilist,  and  others,  and 
an  address  was  circulated  declaring  con- 
stitutional agitation  and  appealing  for 
funds  to  support  Mezzeroff's  Dynamite 
College, whose  object  is  to  prepare  young 
Irishmen  to  free  Ireland  by  blowing  up 
London  and  other  English  cities. 

The  Supreme  Legion  of  the  A. 
O.  U.  W.  of  the  world  convened  in 
biennial  session  in  Knights  of  Py- 
thias hall,  St.  Paul.  This  body  represents 
the  military  branch  of  the  order  of  Unit- 
ed Workmen,  and  extends  over  the  great- 
er part  of  the  United  States  and  Canada. 
All  members  of  this  branch  of  the  order 
are  eligible  to  sit  in  the  deliberations  of 
the  body.though  the  business  is  transact- 
ed by  the  Supreme  Legion  proper,  which 
consists  of  the  supreme  officers.  During 
the  year  the  order  has  been  extended  into 
Utah,  Idaho,  Wyoming,  Tennessee,  and 
Florida.  The  twenty-three  new  legions 
added  539  members.  The  total  number 
of  legions  July,  1887.  was  473.  The  to- 
tal membership  was  12,317. 

The  Chinese  residents  of  San  Francis- 
co, Cal.,  had  a  remarkable  pnrade  Friday 
in  honor  of  their  idol.  Tan  Wong,recent- 
ly  brought  from  China  The  parade  was 
of  oriental  magnificence,  but  was  con- 
fined to  the  streets  and  alleys  of  China- 
town. The  costumes,  banners  and  orient- 
al weapons  incident  to  the  march  were 
brought  from  China  especially  for  this 
occasion.  There  were  1,000  Chinamen 
and  numerous  Chinese  women  on  richly 
caparisoned  horses  in  line.  The  women 
wore  long  silken  gowns,  and  at  their  side 
walked  attendants,  holding  high  over 
their  heads  banners  of  gold.  The  men 
in  the  procession  carried  antique  war  im 
plements,  long  gilt  maces  elaborately 
carved,  and  swords  or  spears,  around 
whose  points  were  coiled  gilt  lizards, 
snakes  and  flaming  dragons.  A  number 
of  tall  banners  that  floated  twenty  feet  in 
the  air  preceded  another  heavily  armed 
battalion  of  Celestials  attired  in  brightest 
yellow  and  carrying  weapons,  no  two  of 
which  were  alike.  Immediately  preced- 
ing the  mighty  Joss,  Tan  Wong,  was  a 
band  of  musicians  sounding  huge  gongs 
and  kettle  drums,  while  a  body  of  can- 
noniers  kept  up  a  constant  fusilade  of 
fire  crackers.  Twelve  worshipers  clad  in 
light  yellow  carried  Tan  Wong  in  a  huge 
ohair.  About  the  idol  and  behind  trod 
attendant  priests  in  long  black  satin 
robes.  They  were  accompanied  by  bear- 
ers, whose  censers  were  hung  from  the 
ends  of  long  red  poles.  Following  Tan 
Wong  was  a  dragon  175  feet  long,  the 
most  gorgeous  ever  seen  in  America.This 
was  supported  by  sixty  worshipers.  The 
monster  opened  its  mouth,  writhed  its 
body,  and,  by  appliances  known  only  to 
Chinese,  kept  "p  an  appearance  of  life. 
The  idol  was  placed  in  the  joss  house  to- 
day to  be  worshiped. 

CATAUKU  CUKKD. 

A  clergyman,  after  years  of  suffering 
from  that  loathsome  disease,  catarrh,  and 
vainly  trying  every  known  remedv,  at 
last  found  a  prescription  which  complete- 
ly cured  and  saved  him  from  death.  Any 
sufferer  from  this  dreadful  disease  send- 
ing a  self  addressed  stamped  envelope  to 
Prof.  J.  A.  Lawrence,  212  East  9th  St., 
New  York,  will  receive  the  recipe  free  of 
charge. 

Any  one  wanting  fine  guns  of  best  make 
and  material  should  send  and  obtain  cat- 
alogue of  specialties  from  the  old  and  re- 
liable firm,  Schoverling,  Daly  &  Qale8,84 
Chambers  St.,  New  York  City. 


"THE  WHOLE  IS  BETTER  THAN  A  PABT," 

AND    YOU  HAVE   IT    HERE  IN  A 

"NUT-SHELL." 


SECRET 


SOeiKTIKS 


ILLVS- 


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(tri-coftlu'  Vorkrllf).  Atlopllvc  M.i»i>iiry.  lirvlscd 
~         ■   -■" —     I  hi-  To 


BITSINESS. 


0<\il-f<-llow«lifp.    Ocx'O  TempliirTuni. 


I'dllpll'   of 


Honor,  ttic  Unltpd  .Sonn  of  Inilimlry.  Knfirliin  of  I'yih 
lainndflio  OratinP.wltli  iiffldnvlm.  olc.  I>\  tT'i"<)riilH, 
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tlon,  at  Head-quarter*  for  Antl-8e  .eoj 
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BUBBORIPTION  LBTTERB. 

The  following  have  made  remittances 
of  money  to  the  Cynosure  from  Sept.  19 
to  24  inclusive. 

W  M  Boyd,  W  Williams.  I  P  Bennett. 
M  G  Strong,  D  D  Heal.  B  Williams,  M 
Plummer,  G  Clayton,  P  Kribs,  W  P  Nor- 
ris,  Th  Helvig,  T  W  Palmer,  J  Ball,  L 
Davis.  J  Hodges,  J  T  Buckley.S  A  Finch, 
H  H  Blakelv,  H  H  Medgorden,  A  EUis.D 
McKee,  J  H  Canfield.J  Powars,  G  Swan- 
son,  Jr.  A  A  Hauser,  W  B  Guild,  B  L 
Read,  A  Lent,  R  Mansfield,  T  Freeman. 


The  time  is  near  for  buying  holiday 
presents.  If  you  preserve  the  Cynosure 
of  Sept.  8th  you  will  have  The  Literary 
Revolution  list  of  Jno.  B.  Alden's  books 
to  select  from.  Well  printed, well  bound 
and  cheap  are  valuable  qualities. 


For  the  next  four  weeks  a  sample 
number  of  the  Cynosure  will  be  sent  to 
any  address  FREE.  In  sending  in  a  list 
of  names  of  those  to  whom  you  wish  the 
paper  sent,  be  careful  to  write  name, 
postoffice,  county  and  State,  so  that  it 
can  be  read  easily  and  correctly. 


FREE  TRACTS 


Will  be  furnished  to  those  who  desire  in- 
formation or  who  will  distribute  them 
where  they  will  do  the  most  good. 

There  are  in  stock  now  a  large  number 
of 

"FREEMA80NBY   IN    THE   FAMILY." 

This  is  especially  interesting  to  ladies. 
"to  the  boys  who  hope  to  be  men." 

It  is  illustrated  and  will  please  the 
school  children. 

"SELLING  DEAD   HORSES." 

You  can  always  get  the  attention  of 
farmers  or  men  who  are  interested  in 
horses  with  this  tract. 

"MOODY   ON     SECRET    SOCIETIES" 

leads  Christians  to  separation. 

A  limited  number  of  two  new  tracts 
will  be  sent  to  any  who  need  them. 

"THE   SONS    OF   VETERANS." 
"IN     WHICH     ARMY    ARE     YOU?" 

Remember  these  tracts  will  be  sent  you 
freely.  But  any  who  wish  to  contribute 
to  this  Free  Tract  Fund  are  earnestly  re- 
quested to  do  so. 

Ought  you  not,  once  a  year  at  least,  to 
put  a  tract  into  each  one  of  your  neigh- 
bor's houses?  Will  you  send  for  a  supply 
soon? 

National  Christian  Association, 
221  W.  Madison  St.,  Chicago. 


MARKET  RBP0RT8. 

CHICAGO. 

Wheatr-No.  a 69)i@      70)^ 

No.  3 6«  69 

Winter  No  8 71    @      715^ 

Corn-No.  a 40Xa      A\% 

Oats— No.a 35    O      27% 

Rye^No.  a 47 

Branperton 11  ."JO 

Hay— Timothy 9  .50    @14  7.5 

Butter,  medium  to  best 16    &     34 

Cheese 07    @      \5 

Beans 125    g  3  40 

Bee^TlmoOiy.  ".'.*.'.' !!.'.'.".'.'!  3  05    Q  3  2.s 

Flax 1  "7 

Broomcom —    ^H®     07 

Potatoee  per  bus 75    ^      80 

Hides— Green  to  dry  flint 07>i@      13 

Lumber— Conunon 11  00    Q18  00 

Wool 10    @      34 

Cattle— Choice  to  extra 4  60    @  5  25 

Common  to  good 1  20    a  4  50 

HoKB 3  75    &  5  15 

Sheep 8  50    ^  4  40 

NEW  YORK. 

Flour 380  a660 

Wheat— Winter 77  @     &S>^ 

Spring 70 

Com 60X@     61?; 

Oats 32  <a      <0 

Igga. .»«.•..••• * Ifi 

Butter 1«  ®     25 

Wool 0»  87 

KANSAS  CITT. 

Cattle.^«Hi..^^.iH...^^..^^  1  30  a  4  SO 

Hogt ,-,r-, 8  35  a  5  00 

Vffn .     -- 8  00  #3  50 


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PIANOS. 


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bv  Mm-nn  Jb  Hamlin  in  1)401. 
Other  DiiikiTH  followed  In 
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InHtniraentii,  hot  the  Mason  &  Hsinliii  Orfpinii  have 
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Maxon  Jfc  Ilamlin  offer.  a/<  demonKtration  of  the 
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14 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSTJKB. 


September  29, 1887 


Fasm  Notes. 


CARE  IN  FEEDING  HORSES. 

The  study  of  the  subject  of  food  ele- 
ments, and  their  relation  to  the  animal 
system  has  been  greatly  neglected.  Of 
late  years  science  has  been  doing  much  in 
this  line  of  work,  but  there  is  a  great 
deal  to  be  done  yet.  Although  the  ani- 
mal body  is  so  complex  in  structure,  yet 
chemistry  has  divided  it  in  a  general  way 
into  nitrogenous,  non- nitrogenous  and 
mineral  matters.  Since  these  substances 
are  continually  being  destroyed  in  the 
body  in  forming  materials  for  growth,  in 
generating  heat  and  in  producing  force, 
it  is  necessary  that  the  animal  should  re- 
ceive substances  similar  to  those  destroy- 
ed, so  that  these  may  be  assimilated  by 
the  tissues  and  fluids  of  the  body  to  re 
place  those  lost  and  to  enable  the  vital 
actions  to  continue. 

Relatively  to  size, the  horse  has  a  small- 
er stomach  than  any  other  of  our  domes- 
tic animals.  This  makes  it  necessary  that 
he  must  feed  frequently.digest  promptly, 
and  have  a  rich  material  in  a  small  bulk, 
thus  adapting  him  especially  to  perform 
rapid  work.  In  a  state  of  nature  he  is 
under  no  necessity  of  eating  too  much  at 
any  one  time.but  replenishes  the  stomach 
lightly  and  at  frequent  intervals  through- 
out the  day.  There  is  no  overloading, 
nor  overtasking  the  organ,  and  no  ex- 
treme exertion  upon  a  full  stomach 
which  so  often  takes  place  in  the  domes- 
ticated condition.  Even  in  domestication 
a  horse  will  maintain  excellent  health  on 
the  natural  grasses,  fresh  or  made  into 
hay;  but  when  he  ia  placed  under  the 
saddle  or  in  the  harness  and  subjected  to 
work,  we  take  him  from  his  natural  state 
and  the  same  feeding  will  not  longer 
meet  the  demands  of  the  system. — Amer- 
ican Agriculturist. 

BE  KIND  TO  TOUR  HORSE, 

Kindness  with  the  family  horse  is  of  the 
utmost  importance.  Always  cultivate  an 
acquaintance,  and  be  on  social  and  friend- 
ly terms  with  him.  If  he  is  tired  and 
worn  out  it  is  astonishing  how  these  little 
attentions  will.encourage  and  cheer  him 
up.  When  not  in  use  he  should  be  given 
a  reasonable  amount  of  daily  exercise. 
No  animal  will  do,  well  without  exercise. 
It  promotes  a  good  action  of  their  limbs, 
and  assists  digestion.  The  harness  should 
be  made  to  fit,  thus  avoiding  chafes  and 
bruises.  Iq  cold  weather  the  lips  and 
tongue  of  the  horse  may  be  made  very 
sore  by  contact  with  the  frozen  bit.  The 
bit  should  always  be  warmed  before  be- 
ing placed  in  the  horse's  mouth.  Flies 
are  very  annoying  to  horses,  and  the  use 
of  the  net  or  some  preparation  that  will 
keep  flies  away  is  well  repaid. 

Care  in  driving  is  of  the  greatest  im- 
portance. How  often  do  we  see  an  ani- 
mal driven  until  wet  with  perspiration 
and  dotted  with  foam  standing  without 
blanket  or  protection  of  any  kind  from 
the  cold  northern  winds.  When  in  such 
condition,  he  evidently  sufliers  intensely; 
besides  the  danger  of  contracting  diseas- 
es, from  which  he  will  never  recover.  If 
any  law  on  our  statute  book  should  be 
more  rigidly  enforced  than  another,  it  is 
the  one  against  fast  driving.  When  in 
use  blankets  should  always  be  provided 
in  cold  weather,  so  that  they  will  dry 
without  chilling.  Protect  them  from 
drafta  when  warm,  and  either  rub  down 
or  let  them  stand  in  a  stable  where  cold 
air  cannot  strike  them. — American  Ag- 
rieullurist. 

A  HORSE  THAT  WEARS  GOGGLES. 

A  horse  with  goggles  was  one  of  the 
attractions  of  the  CJinton  Square  market 
place  Saturday  afternoon.  The  Manlius 
farmer  who  owned  him  said  he  discover- 
ed recently  that  the  animal  was  near- 
sighted, and  an  oculist  took  the  necessa- 
ry measurements,  and  sending  to  New 
York,  had  a  pair  of  concave  spectacles 
made  expressly  for  Dobbin.  When  the 
farmer  tried  them  for  the  first  time  the 
horse  appeared  to  be  startled,  but  recov- 
ering from  his  surprise  manifested  every 
symptom  of  pleasure.  They  are  made  so 
as  to  be  firmly  fastened  in  the  headstall, 
and  cin  not  be  worn  without  that  piece 
of  harness.  "When  I  turn  him  out  to  pas- 
ture," said  the  farmer,  "ho  feels  uneasy 
and  uncomfortable  without  his  giggles, 
and  last  Sunday  he  hung  around  the 
barn  and  whinnied  so  plaintive  like  that 
I  took  out  the  bit  and  put  the  headstall 
and  goggles  on  him,  and  he  was  so  glad 
that  he  rubbed  my  shoulder  with  his 
nose.  Then  ho  kicked  up  his  heels  and 
danced  down  to  the  pasture.    You  ought 


to  have  seen  him.  I  hate  to  let  him  wear 
specs  all  the  time  though,for  fear  he  will 
break  them." — Bridgeport  /Standard. 

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in  any  way,  then  the  law  at  once  steps  in 
and  says  that  this  must  not  be,  nor  is  it 
fair  to  expect  that  it  should  be  so.  Poul- 
try keeping  in  towns  is  a  luxury,  and 
even  if  the  law  permits  the  carrying  on  of 
a  business  though  it  is  annoying  to  neigh- 
bors, it  does  not  go  so  far  as  to  defend 
luxuries  in  this  way.  Therefore  we  may 
only  keep  fowls  so  long  as  our  doing  so 
does  not  intrude  upon  the  comfort  or 
rights  of  our  neighbors,  and  if  it  can  be 
be  proved  that  by  our  doing  so  either  one 
or  the  other  is  infringed,  then  if  they  like 
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them.  In  a  country  district  this  would 
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THE  CHRISTIAN"  CYNOSURE. 


15 


Home  and  Health. 


SLEEP  A  PREVENTIVE  OF  HEADACHE. 

Sleep,  if  taken  at  the  right  moment, 
will  prevent  an  attack  of  nervous  head- 
will  prevent  an  attack  of  nervous  head- 
ache. If  the  subjects  of  such  headaches 
will  watch  the  symptoms  of  its  coming 
they  will  notice  it  begins  with  a  feeling 
of  weariness  or  heaviness.  This  is  the 
time  when  a  sleep  of  an  hour,  or  even 
two.as  nature  guides,  will  effectually  pre- 
vent headache.  If  not  taken  just  then  it 
will  be  too  late;  for  after  the  attack  is 
fairly  under  way,  it  is  impossible  to  get 
to  sleep  till  far  into  the  night,  perhaps. 
It  has  become  so  common  in  these  days 
for  doctors  to  object  to  their  patients  be- 
ing awakened  to  take  medicine  if  they 
are  asleep  when  the  hour  comes  around, 
that  people  have  learnt  the  lesson  pretty 
well,  and  they  generally  know  that  sleep 
is  better  than  medicine.  Sleep  is  also  a 
wonderful  preventive  of  disease — better 
than  tonic  regulators  and  stimulants- 

ANTIDOTES  FOR  POISON. 

"More  than  two-thirds  of  the  deaths 
from  poison  could  be  avoided  if  men  and 
women  would  only  acquaint  themselves 
with  the  simple  remedies  always  at  hand 
in  every  well  regulated  household  " 

The  speaker  was  a  house  surgeon  at  a 
city  hospital.  "I  see  the  names  of  six  per- 
sons on  this  record  of  mine  whom  I  know 
might  have  been  saved  had  their  friends 
or  the  police  known  what  to  do, "he  con- 
tinued. "All  six  died  because  too  much 
time  was  lost  in  notifying  the  police,call- 
ing  an  ambulance,  and  in  getting  the  suf- 
ferers to  the  hospital.  Paris  green, rough 
on  rats  and  laudanum  seem  to  be  the  fav- 
orite poisons  for  suicide.  For  each  of 
these  poisons  an  antidote  can  be  found  in 
almost  every  household.  The  chief  points 
in  cases  of  poisoning  are  to  encourage 
vomiting  and  thus  get  rid  of  the  sub- 
stance; to  counteract  the  poisons  by  an- 
tidotes, and  to  check  death  by  the  use  of 
stimulants  and  artificial  respiration. 

"Rough  on  rats  is  simply  arsenic. 
Hardly  a  day  passes  but  some  one  sui- 
cides by  its  use.  If  on  discovering  that 
this  poison  has  been  taken  the  sufferer  is 
given  one  or  two  raw  eggs,  and  the  eggs 
are  followed  up  with  large  draughts  of 
tepid  water  into  which  a  tablespoonful 
of  salt  or  mustard  has  been  thrown,  the 
stomach  will  usually  throw  the  poison 
off.  These,  supplemented  by  a  dose  of 
castor  oil,  sweet  oil  or  milk  to  offset  the 
action  of  the  poison,  will  usually  save 
the  life  of  the  patient.  The  same  treat- 
ment is  the  one  to  be  followed  when  Par- 
is green,  opium,  morphine,  paregoric  or 
laudanum  is  the  poison  used.  When 
opium,  morphine,  paregoric  or  laudanum 
is  swallowed  it  is  well  to  give  a  cup  of 
strong  black  coffee  after  the  emetic,  to 
apply  cold  water  to  the  head  and  neck, 
and  lo  prevent  sleep.  These  poisons  rep- 
resent the  majority  of  those  taken  by  ac- 
cident or  by  persons  intent  on  suicide. 
When  tartar  emetic  is  taken,  after  en- 
couraging vomiting.it  is  well  to  give  milk 
and  strong  tea  to  drink.  When  poisons 
like  mineral  acids  are  used — such  as  aqua 
fortis  and  oil  of  vitrol — after  an  emetic 
solutions  of  soda,  magnesia,  and  even  of 
plaster  scraped  from  the  wall  can  be  used 
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of  an  egg,  or  castor  oil  in  order  to  protect 
the  gullet  and  walls  of  the  stomach. 
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must  not  be  used.  For  corrosive  subli- 
mate administer  the  white  of  an  egg, Hour 
and  water,  or  milk,  and  then  the  emetic. 
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"All  of  these  antidotes  are,  as  a  rule, 
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THE  CHRISTIAN  CYKOSURE. 


BKPTBMfiER  29, 1887 


Nfws  of  The  week 

CHICAGO. 

The  committee  appointed  to  prepare 
for  the  reception  of  President  Cleveland 
have  agreed  that  the  reviewing  stand  be 
erected  at  the  new  Auditorium  building 
and  that  after  the  review  the  President 
should  be  invited  to  lay  the  corner-stone 
of  the  new  building. 

Hon.  E.  B.  Washburne,  former  minis- 
ter to  France,  was  taken  with  congestion 
of  the  brain  Wednesday  afternoon  at  the 
home  of  his  son.  His  right  side  was  par- 
tially paralyzed,  and  it  is  thought  he  may 
have  had  a  touch  of  apoplexy.  It  is  not 
believed  that  he  can  recover. 

Justice  Miller,  of  the  Supreme  Court  of 
the  United  States,  in  an  interview  last 
week  in  this  city, intimated  that  the  coun- 
sel for  the  anarchists  would  have  to  make 
out  a  strong  case  before  the  United  States 
Court  would  intervene. 

The  death  order  in  the  anarchists'  cases 
was  handed  down  by  the  Supreme  Court 
at  Ottawa  Saturday  morning  and  immed- 
iately dispatched  to  Sheriff  Matson. 

COTJNTKT. 

Natural  gas  has  been  discovered  at 
Hemdon,  Guthrie  County,  Iowa,  which  is 
the  only  place  in  that  State  where  it  is 
known  to  exist  in  considerable  quanti- 
ties. The  place  is  situated  in  a  fertile 
prairie  country  some  miles  northwest  of 
Des  Moines  at  a  crossing  of  the  C.  M.  & 
St.  P.  and  the  Wabash  narrow  guage 
lines.  The  remarkable  thing  about  the 
discovery  is  that  the  gas  pours  forth  in 
powerful  currents  without  visible  diminu- 
tion of  volume  from  wells  only  120  to  165 
feet  in  depth. 

The  Georgia  Senate  has  passed  its  sub- 
stitute for  the  Glenn  bill  by  a  vote  of  23 
to  13.  The  bill  merely  withdraws  the 
State  money  from  educational  institutions 
where  races  are  mixed  and  makes  gradu- 
ates ineligible  for  teachers'  places. 

A  wind  and  rain-storm  of  great  fury 
swept  Brownsville  and  adjacent  country 
in  Texas  late  Wednesday,  creating  havoc. 
The  Rio  Grande  River  rose  rapidly  and 
raged  like  a  sea  over  the  fertile  fields,  The 
loss  is  very  great. 

Near  Key  West  Tuesday  a  cart  load  of 
dynamite  was  found  hidden  among  some 
woods.  There  was  enough  of  it  to  blow 
a  half  dozen  cities  into  the  air,  and  ap- 
pears to  prove  the  plot  against  Cuba  is 
more  formidable  than  was  at  first  sup- 
posed. 

At  Haverhill,  Mass.,  Friday  night.J.H. 
Abbott,  while  drunk,  shot  and  killed  his 
daughter,  Mrs.  Mamie  E.  Cummings,and 
then  shot  himself,  dying  instantly. 

The  steamship  Alesia,  which  arrived 
at  New  York  Friday  from  Marseilles  and 
Naples,  had  Asiatic  cholera  on  board. 
Eight  persons  died  on  the  passage,  and 
on  her  arrival  at  quarantine  the  health 
officer  found  four  cases.  No  fears  are  en- 
tertained of  the  spread  of  the  disease. 

The  tax  on  whisky  decreased  from  $69,- 
092.266  in  1885-6  to  $65,829,321  in  1886- 
7,  while  the  tax  on  beer  increased  from 
$19,676,731  in  1885-6  to  $21,922,187  in 
1886-7.  Much  of  the  beer  sold  is  said  to 
be  bad,  and  a  goverixment  chemist  will 
analyze  it. 

An  oil  fire  is  re  ported  in  the  field  near 
Cygnet,  Ohio.  Two  employes  are  be- 
lieved to  have  lost  their  lives,  and  the 
property  loss  is  estimated  at  $100,000. 

Five  men  from  Harvard,  111., who  were 
boating  on  Lake  Geneva,  Wisconsin,  were 
drowned  Monday.  The  steamer  Leman 
collided  with  their  craft. 

Leading  members  of  the  Sioux  nation 
in  Dakota  have  petitioned  the  President 
to  revoke  the  order  of  the  commissioner 
of  Indian  affairs  forbidding  instruction 
in  the  Indian  schools  in  any  but  the  Eng- 
lish language. 

RAILBOAD  ACCIDBMTS. 

Part  of  a  frieght  train  being  switched 
near  In  wood,  Iowa,  Tuesday,  broke  away 
and  tore  down  the  grade  toward  Canton, 
D.  T.,  and  crashed  into  a  passenger  train 
that  was  on  the  point  of  crossing  abridge 
at  that  point.  Five  persons  were  instant- 
ly killed. 

A  collision  occurred  on  the  Pittsburg, 
Fort  Wayne  and  Chicago  road  near  For- 
est, Ohio,  Monday,  that  resulted  in  the 
death  of  one  man  and  the  fatal  wounding 
of  two  others.  The  train  caught  fire  and 
a  can  of  dynamite  exploded.  The  track 
was  torn  up  for  a  great  distance. 


At  Pern,  Md.,  Monday  night  the  en- 
gine of  the  Bee  Line  limited  express  left 
the  track,  turning  completely  over  and 
killing  the  engineer  and  his  son  the  fire- 
man. 

Two  passenger  trains  collided  Monday 
morning  on  the  River  Division  of  the 
Chicago,  Milwaukee  &  St.  Paul  road,  near 
Dubuque,  Iowa.  One  fireman  and  con- 
ductor were  killed  outright  and  many 
passengers  were  injured. 

Express  trains  on  the  Pittsburg,  Port 
Wayne  and  Chicago  road  collided  Thurs- 
day morning  near  Lima,  Ohio.  There 
were  many  narrow  escapes,  but  the  engi- 
neer, who  jumped  from  his  cab,  was  the 
only  person  seriously  injured.  • 

Near  Hollidaysburg,  Pa.,  an  accommo- 
dation train  was  thrown  from  the  track 
by  cows.  The  engineer  was  instantly 
killed  and  the  fireman  painfully  injured. 

FOBEION. 

During  Tuesday's  festival  four  bombs 
were  thrown  in  front  of  the  Vatican  at 
Rome.      One  entered  the  papal  barracks. 

The  Cologne  Oazette  says  that  Germa- 
ny will  henceforth  be  independent  of 
Russia.  Unless  the  latter  country  makes 
fresh  approaches,  the  paper  says,  the  firm 
of  the  three  emperors  will  be  dissolved, 
and  the  dissolution  will  not  be  followed 
by  a  RussoGerman  alliance . 

A  detachment  of  hussars  and  artillery 
have  arrived  at  Mitchellstown,  Ireland.to 
disperse  any  public  meetings  that  may  be 
held  during  the  sitting  of  the  police 
court  in  which  the  preliminary  trials  of 
persons  involved  in  recent  disturbances 
will  be  held. 

A  letter  from  Henry  M.  Stanley,  the 
African  explorer,  dated  June  23,  has  been 
received  in  London. 

An  earthquake  was  felt  in  Malaga, 
Spain .  The  shock  caused  a  panic  among 
the  people  but  did  no  damage. 

A  disastrous  wreck  occurred  on  the 
Gulf  Division  of  the  Southern  Kansas 
Railroad  at  Guthrie,  Indian  Territory.  A 
light  engine  and  construction  train  collid- 
ed, both  moving  at  a  high  rate  of 
speed.  The  two  engines  and  twelve 
freight  cars  were  piled  in  a  heap  and  the 
list  of  killed  and  wounded  is  large .  It  is 
rumored  that  a  large  number  of  the  work- 
men were  killed,  but  details  are  meager. 

An  ironclad  of  11,940  tons  and  12,000 
horse  power,  the  largest  ever  con- 
structed, was  launched  Tuesday  at  Ports- 
mouth, England.  She  is  called  the  Tra- 
falgar. 

Bishop  Healy.coadjutor  of  the  Catholic 
Bishop  of  Galway,  and  a  well-known 
Unionist,  was  boycotted  Sunday.  He 
went  to  Glencoe  to  administer  the  sacra- 
ment of  confirmation,  but  only  the  chil- 
dren were  present  to  participate.  Their 
parents  and  friends  remained  outside  the 
church. 

Advices  from  the  Guatemalian  govern- 
ment to  their  minister  at  Washington  say 
that  the  Catholic  Archbishop  and  some 
of  his  friends  who  are  opposed  to  the 
present  government  have  left  for  San 
Francisco  to  raise  funds  to  bring  about  a 
revolution. 


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which  originated  in  their  own  factory. 
The  strings  are  secured  by  metallic  fas- 
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set  in  wood  as  has  been  the  case,  and  the 
advantages  resulting  are  numerous  and 
highly  important.  Among  them  are  the 
following;  Wonderful  beauty  and  music- 
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The  C  YNOS  VME  represents  the  Christian  movement  against 
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various  movements  of  the  lodge  as  they  appear  to  public  view, 
and  reveals  the  secret  machinery  of  corruption  in  politics, 
courts,  and  social  and  religious  circles. 

There  are  in  the  United  States 

Some  200  different  Lodges, 
With  2,000  'OOO  members. 
Costing  $20,000,000  yearly. 

This  mighty  world  power  confronts  the  church  and  seeks  to 
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down  before  he  could  tell  the  public  any  further  of 
the  connivance  of  the  sheriff  with  the  McGarigle 
runaway.  The  lodge  claims  that  the  boodler  vio- 
lated his  word  of  honor  to  Matson.  Is  it  the  custom 
of  the  Sheriff  to  pledge  or  swear  his  prisoners  that 
they  will  not  run  off?  Or  is  it  necessary  for  him  to 
do  so  with  his  Masonic  charges,  to  thereby  prevent 
their  throwing  him  a  sign  of  distress  which  he  has 
sworn  in  the  lodge  to  heed? 


CONTENT  ti. 


Bditobial: 

NoteB  aDd  Comments 1 

The  Chicago  "Tlme8"and 

Masonry 8 

The  Great  Question 8 

Secret  Societies  In  China 

and  America 8 

CONTBIBI'TIONS  : 

The  Overgrown  Hedge  at 

Gettysburg 1 

Georgia  Barbarism 2 

Weelj-day  Bermon 2 

A  Solllt  quy  on  the  Mason- 
ic Creed 2 

Two     Juggernauts     o  f 

Death 3 

Selected : 
An  Important  Society  for- 
gotten    3 

Errors   In    the    Holiness 

Work 3 

Not  a  eecret  Society.   ...  3 
The  Northup  Murder  and 

the  G.  A   R 3 

Masonic  Harmony 3 

Notices 4 

BiBLB  Lbsson 6 

The  City  Foui  ded  by  Penn .  9 

Boston  Letter 9 


RaroRM  News  : 
From  the  General  Agent ; 
Iowa  Friends  Discuss 
a  Masonic  Outrage ;The 
Wisconsin  Meetlnn;  Dp 
and  down  in  Alabama; 
Notes  of  a  National  Re- 
former; W.  B.  S'oddard 
at  Manf field,  Ohio;  Bro. 
Butler's  Bible  Reading.  4,5 

CORRBSPON  DBN  OB 

Masonic  Fruit;  Shall  we 
do  Evil  that  Good  may 
Come;  The  New  Iberia 

School  6 

Thb  Bomb 10 

Temperance 11 

The  N.  C.  A 7 

<  HURCH  vs  Lodge 7 

American  Party 7 

In  Brief 7 

Religious  Nbws 12 

Literature 12 

L.0DGE  Notes 13 

Farm  Notes 14 

Bomb  AND  Health 15 

News  of  thb  Wbbk 16 

Business 13 

Markets , 13 


The  lower  house  of  the  Georgia  legislature  has 
anticipated  Bro.  Hinman's  argument  on  the  Glenn 
bill,  and  voted  last  week  to  fine  Atlanta  University 
at  the  rate  of  $8, 000  per  year,  by  refusing  to  appropriate 
the  usual  sum  so  long  as  white  and  colored  students  are 
taught  together.  This  providential  defeat  of  theSenate 
substitute  will  keep  the  matter  under  agitation  until 
its  authors  themselves  are  ashamed  of  their  work. 
If  the  Senate  should  agree,  it  will  yet  be  a  blessing 
to  the  institution,  making  it  independent  of  a  polit- 
ical body  of  low  principles,  and  giving  it  an  oppor- 
tunity to  "live  by  faith."  Doubtless  the  loss  will  be 
made  up  to  it  thrice  over,  and  the  principle  for 
which  it  stands  will  be  more  firmly  established,  un- 
til the  vicious  rule  of  caste  shall  be  overthrown. 


Lieutenant  Governor.  In  the  meantime  he  has  been 
holding  several  of  the  highest  offijes  among  the 
Odd-fellows  of  Illinois,and  has  been  "strengthening 
his  political  fences"  by  organizing  lodges  of  this 
order  and  of  their  military  "Patriarch's  Militant;" 
he  has  been  Koight  Templar  "Grand  Commander," 
and  is  now,  we  believe,  "Deputy  Grand  Master"  of 
Illinois  Freemasons,  and  as  Alexander  T.  Darrah  ia 
now  completing  his  second  term,  Smith  will  proba- 
succeed  him  according  to  custom.  Thus  the  people 
of  Illinois  have  before  them  the  interesting  possibil- 
ity of  a  Grand  Master  for  governor.  God  forbid 
they  should  ever  be  so  derelict  as  to  allow  such  a 
lodge  plot  to  succeed. 


THE  OVERGROWN HEDOB  AT  OBTTTSBVRG. 


The  exclusion  of  thirty-three  secret  society  mem- 
bers from  the  United  Brethren  church  at  Hicksville, 
Ohio,  is  so  unusual  an  event  that  it  excites  wonder 
from  some  and  enrages  more.  It  is  not  denied  that 
these  members  were  violating  the  discipline  of  the 
church,  which  they  had  vowed  before  God  to  main- 
tain in  righteousness;  and  if  the  rule  of  the  church 
is  right,  their  condemnation  stands.  The  popular 
view  is,  that  the  next  General  Conference  will  prac- 
tically abolish  the  rule,  which  the  treachery  of  the 
leaders  has  already  made  almost  a  dead  letter,  and, 
therefore,  there  was  no  good  reason  for  this  unusual 
and  apparently  severe  action.  Had  the  United 
Brethren  been  honest  before  God  they  would  have 
followed  the  example  of  the  godly  fathers  of  the 
church,  and  would  have  condemned  lodge  member- 
ship as  a  wicked  complicity  with  the  world  which 
must  not  be  allowed  in  the  church.  Such  disci- 
pline would  then  have  been  unusual  because  it 
would  seldom  be  called  for. 


The  apt  imitation  of  the  whites  by  the  colored 
lodges  does  not  stop  with  titles,  degrees,  funerals, 
oaths  and  ceremonies.  They  have  learned  that  un- 
der the  cloak  of  secretism  darkest  infamy  may  be 
plotted  and  concealed.  A  dispatch  the  other  day 
from  Greenwood,  Mississippi,  says  that  some  two 
months  ago  a  black  man  named  Taylor  killed  anoth- 
er black,  and  colored  Masons  attempted  to  lynch 
him,  but  were  prevented  by  a  Mr.  Scancil,  who  took 
Taylor  home  for  a  time.  Since  then  both  he  and  his 
wife  have  disappeared.  His  body  was  found  a  few 
days  since  in  the  Tallahatchee  river  and  the  belief 
of  the  people  is  that  a  Masonic  murder  has  been  com- 
mitted. On  duly  27th  at  Greenwood  another  negro 
was  found  lynched  by  a  blacky  mob,  and  it  is  under- 
stood that  colored  Masons  thus  avenged  the  death 
of  one  of  their  order.  The  belief  is  strong  in  that 
neighborhood  that  the  colored  Masons  take  an  oath 
in  their  secret  organizations  to  avenge  the  death  of 
a  brother  member. 


BY   JOBL    SWaRTZ,    D.    D. 


St.  Bernard  Knight  Templar  Commandery  of  this 
city  expelled  three  of  its  boodler  members  Sept.  2l8t 
and  gave  two  others  a  respite.  McGarigle,  Ochs, 
and  Bipper  were  the  culprits.  Van  Pelt  was  shortly 
before  brought  before  his  lodge,  with  probably  the 
same  result.  The  final  decision  goes  of  course  to 
the  Grand  Lodge  which  meets  in  this  city  this  week. 
A  funny  incident  took  plhce  in  the  meeting  of  the 
County  Commissioners  the  other  day — the  body  to 
which  the  chief  boodlers  once  belonged.  Commis- 
sioner Hemmelgarn  in  a  warm  attack  on  Sheriff 
Matson  for  improperly  feeding  prsoners  in  the  jail 
said,  vehemently:  "You  have  a  sheriff,  who  allowed 
a  prisoner  [McGarigle]  to  sit  in  Fisher's  Garden 
without  a  deputy,  after  I  had  notified  him  not  to  do 
so,-  He  is  either  a  fool  or  a  knave — "  "Hold  on  I" 
"Out  of  order  I"  were  the  cries  that  choke  i  the  rest 


Bishop  Ireland,   popish  prelate   in  the   district 
where  the  Kuights  of  Labor  are  meeting  this  week, 
was  lately  interviewed  in  Washington  and  thus  ex- 
pressed his  view  of  the  relation   between  the  order 
and  the  Romish  church:  "The  church  has  withdrawn 
its  disapproval  of  the  organization,  holding  that  its 
secret  work  is  harmless  so  long  as  it  does  not  fo- 
ment riots,  immorality  or  irreligion.       While  the 
church  is  opposed  to  secret  societies  of  all  kinds,  it 
holds  that  the  society  of  the  Knights  of  Labor  is  of 
a  political  and  business  nature  such  as  all  men  are 
entitled  to  have  regarding  their  business  affairs.  The 
organization  has  shown  no  disposition  to  foment  ri- 
ots, and  under  the  management  of  Powderly  I  do 
not  think  it  is  likely  to,  although  we  can   not  tell 
what  would  happen  should  any  other  man  be  elected 
to  Powderly 's  place.     Under  these  circumstances  the 
church  has  tolerated  the  association."     The  shrew  I 
bishop    does    not   conjecture   what   would  happen 
should  a  devoted  son  of  Rome  be  lost  from  the  lead- 
ership of  the  order.     Should  a  non-Ca'holic  succeed 
him  it  would  soon  be  seen  whether  the  Knights  of 
Labor  were  an  order  to  be  prohibited  or  no.       It8 
principles,   objects   and   constitution  would  hardly 
bave  it. 


A  dispatch  from  the  capital  of  the  State  to  the 
Daily  News  of  this  city  tells  of  the  activity  of  the 
political  hacks  in  that  city  with  reference  to  the  elec- 
tion for  governor  next  year.  It  is  generally  admit- 
ted, says  this  authority,  that  John  C.  Smith,  present 
Lieutenant  Governor,  is  the  strongest  candidate  "by 
reason  of  his  wide  acquaintance  and  great  populari- 
ty." This  is  but  another  case  of  lotlge  boosting 
Aside  from  his  activity  as  a  Freemason  and  Odd-fel- 
low he  has  nothing  to  recommend  him  to  populari- 
ty. He  has  no  record  for  any  great  action  or  wis- 
dom in  public  afftirs.     Outside  the  lodge  circles  he 


Among  the  many  charming  beauties  which  elicit 
expressions  of  admiration  from  the  visitors  to  the 
National  Cemetery  at  Gett}8burg,  not  the  least  is 
the  smoothly-shaven  hedge  separating  it  from  the 
"Evergreen  Cemetery"  (citizens  )  on  the  east.  The 
watchful  and  competent  wounded  soldier,  who,  with 
his  veteran  subordinates,haa  charge  of  the  cemetery 
and  keeps  everything  in  such  cuarmiug  order  and 
loveliness,  explained  to  the  writer  the  reason,  in 
answer  to  his  question,  why  the  hedge  fence  was  so 
exceedingly  high,  that  it  was  owing  lo  the  mistaken 
notion  ol  letting  it  grow  too  much  before  it  was 
shorn.  He  said  the  hedge  is  now  so  large  and  strong 
in  stock  that  it  is  not  possible  to  cut  it  down  and 
Oack  so  as  to  reduce  it  to  a  proper  height  As  it  is, 
It  cuts  off  the  view  between  the  two  cemeteries,  and, 
when  standing  close,  the  more  distant  landscape  and 
far-off  horizon.  It  is  a  fine  fence,  impenetrable  and 
imperishable,  but  it  is  too  high  for  beauty,  utility  or 
intercommunication.  But  mere  it  is,  with  roots  as 
densely  interlaced  underground  as  its  matted  branch- 
es are  above.  To  reduce  it  or  remove  it,  were  the 
latter  found  necessary,  would  be  nearly  equally  dif- 
ficult. But  as  it  runs  between  two  cemeteries,  and 
as  the  village  is  never  likely,  as  is  often  the  c^se 
with  growing  cities,to^encroach  upon  the  quiet  sleep, 
ers  in  these  two  apartments,  it  is  not  ever,  probably, 
to  become  a  prac'ical  question.  What  shall  we  do 
with  the  hedge? 

Some  hundreds  of  years  ago  our  fathers  planted 
hedge  rows  between  the  churches.  Long,  deep  root- 
ed and  closely  matted  are  the  fences  wuich  run  be- 
tween Geneva  and  Wittenburg  and  Oxford  and  the 
rest.  Nor  is  the  hedge  beiween  the  churches  al- 
ways like  the  one  here  oetweea  the  two  cemeteries, 
ihurnless;  nor  are  the  thorns  always  turned  in  or 
clipc  back.  If  the  churches  were  cemeteries  for  the 
quiet  and  protection  of  the  Lord's  sainted  dead,  and 
lue  entombment  of  their  books  and  deeds  and  other 
evidences  of  their  wisdom  and  valor,  it  need  not  be 
much  regretted  that  the  hedge  were  matted  and 
thorny  and  high  which  separates  the  different 
apartments  of  tUe  sleepers.  But  what  if  its  apart- 
ments are  the  Good  Suepherd  s  green  pastures  for 
the  one  flock,  shepherdtd,  in  his  wisdom  tor  the 
while,  in  different  lolds,  }et  all  haviug  one  Suep- 
lierd?  Is  it  well  to  have  the  hedge  loo  higti,  or 
barbed  with  untrimmed,  sharp  lliorns  to  ward  off 
or  punish  too  near  approach?  Blood  stains  and 
torn  fleeces  mark  the  long  green  lines  as  history 
turns  her  optics  down  the  denominational  hedge- 
rows of  the  paat.  She  finds  sad  proof  that  the  sep- 
arating lines  are  neither  ihornless  nor  safely  pass- 
at)le  for  the  too  simple  and  unsuspecting  sheep. 

Or  suppose  the  field  ttius  divided  is  the  world,  and 
that  the  many  laborers  in  it  are  servants  of  the  one 
Master,  to  whom  each  one  stands  or  falls,  is  it  well 
for  these  servants  to  divide  themselves  and  their 
work  by  thorny,  high  grown  and  impenetrable  hedge- 
rowb?  Of  if  the  hedge-row  l)e  necessary  for  some 
inscrutable  reason,  ia  it  not  desireable  that  it  shall 
be  low  enough  to  see  over,  talk  over,  and  sUake 
hands  over?  At  all  events  and  in  any  case,  is  it 
worth  while  to  spend  all  one's  lime,  or  any  consid- 
erable part  of  it,  in  an  attempt  to  thicken,  heighten 
or  sharpen  the  old  ancestral  Uedge-lines?  Many  a 
fruitful  furrow  might  be  drawn   where  they  eucum- 


, was  indeed  almost  unkown  when  a  few  years  ago  the 

of  the  sentence,  and  the  chairman  put  the  speaker  Republicans  made  him  State  Treasurer  and   then   ber,  and  the  time  spent  in  strengthening  tnese  lines 


THE  CHRISTIAN  OYKOSUKE. 


OCTOBEE  6, 1887 


N" 


might,  if  devoted  directly  to  the  culture  of  the  field, 
yield  many  a  golden  sheaf  for  the  Master's  garner. 
Well,  when  the  promised  time  shall  come  that,  "In- 
stead of  the  thorn  shall  come  up  the  fir  tree,  and 
instead  of  the  briar  shall  come  up  the  myrtle  tree, 
and  it  shall  be  to  the  Lord  for  a  name,  for  an  ever- 
lasting sign  that  shall  not  be  cut  off,"  then  the  hedge 
shall  yield  to  the  furrow  and  the  thorn  to  the  sheaf. 
The  Lord  hasten  the  day! 

But  why  not  go  to  work  and  dig  up  or  burn  away 
the  hedge-rows  at  once?  That  were  easier  than  to 
grow  the  fir  tree  and  myrtle  tree  instead.  Destruc- 
tion is  the  easier  and  inferior  part.  It  is  also  well 
to  remember  that  as  the  matter  now  stands,  much 
that  is  lovely  and  of  good  report  is  interlaced  with, 
and  supported  by,  these  very  hedge-rows.  How 
many  institutions,  boards,  fellowships,  etc..  full  of 
mercy  and  good  fruits,  would  be  disorganized  if  not 
destroyed,  and  all  their  benefactions  lost,  if  the  old 
lines  were  too  rudely  and  suddenly  destroyed! 
Growth  must  keep  pace  with  destruction;  conserva- 
tism and  reproduction  must  replace  the  changes  of 
radicalism  and  revolution,  or  the  last  state  shall  be 
worse  than  the  first. 

Let  the  living,  growing  church  crowd  upon  the 
cemeteries  of  dead  and  buried  issues,  and  the  hedge 
will  have  to  yield  to  the  furrow  and  the  thorn  to  the 
sheaf. 

Gettsyhurg,  Pa. 

■  I  m 

GEORGIA  BARBARISM. 


bribe  it  will  be  powerless.  An  institution  that  for 
the  sake  of  $8,000  would  yield  to  un-christian  de- 
mands would  justly  forfeit  the  confidence  of  those 
benevolent  contributions  that  have  been  far  greater. 
It  would  be  the  worst  possible  policy  for  Atlanta 
University  to  cheerfully  obey  the  unholy  edict. 

The  third  section  comes  with  crushing  weight  on 
the  students  of  Atlanta  and  Clark  Universities.  It 
proposes  to  punish  them  for  obeying  their  parents 
in  getting  the  best  possible  education  at  the  small- 
est possible  expense.  The  commendable  efforts  of 
both  parents  and  children,  who,  amidst  abounding 
diificulties,  have  sought  and  obtained  the  advantag- 
es of  these  schools  is  regarded  and  treated  as  a  mis- 
demeanor, and  the  source  of  supply  for  the  best 
teachers  the  State  ever  had  is  cut  off.  Should  the 
substitute  bill  become  a  law  it  will  practically 
offer  a  premium  on  ignorance  and  inefficiency.  It 
will  alienate  the  sympathies  of  the  warmest  and 
best  friends  the  South  has  ever  had,  and  do  much 
to  raise  sectional  and  race  animosities. 

And  all  this  was  merely  for  "buncomb."  Practi- 
cally there  was  no  co-education.  No  negro  had  ap- 
plied for  admission  into  a  white  school  and  the  white 
children  in  colored  schools  could  be  counted  on  one's 
fingers.  It  is  an  ebullition  of  barbarism — the  last 
expiring  kick  of  the  spirit  of  slavery. 


religion.  It  cannot  be  otherwise,  since  secret  socie- 
ties are  not  of  divine  origin  but  belong  to  the  cate- 
gory of  human  institutions.  But  there  are  two  kinds 
of  human  institutions:  in  the  first  place,  such  as  are 
in  harmony  with  God's  Word,  which  is  the  case,  for 
instance,  with  organized  Christian  congregations; 
and  secondly,  such  as  are  purely  human  and  at  vari- 
ance with  divine  revelation,  which  two  things  char- 
acterize secret  societies.  For,  talk  piously  as  they 
will  concerning  God,  he,  nevertheless,  has  no  more 
to  do  with  them  than  he  had  to  do  with  Grecian  or 
Koman  mythology. — Denver  Correspondence  Luther- 
an Witness. 


A  SOLILOQUY  ON  THE  MASONIC  CREED. 


BY   M.   N.   BUTLER. 


WEEK  DAT  SERMON. 


BY   E.   E.    FLAGG, 


BY   H.    H.   HINMAN. 

"The  agony  is  over.  The  Senate  on  yesterday 
passed  the  substitute  for  what  is  known  as  the  Glenn 
bill." — Atlanta  Constitution,  Sept.  23d. 

No;  the  agony  has  but  just  beguu.  The  horrible 
proposal  to  send  Christian  women  to  the  chain-gang 
for  teaching  their  own  children  in  their  own  schools 
has  been  withdrawn,  for  even  Georgia  can  be  made 
to  feel  the  power  of  the  outraged  moral  sense  of 
mankind.  But  the  act  as  it  has  passed  the  Senate 
is  even  meaner  and  more  cruel  than  the  original  bill. 
Meaner,  because  its  victims  are  not  to  be  the  well-to- 
do,  cultured,  college  professors, who  could  command 
money  and  influence  for  their  defence,but  is,in8tead, 
the  poor  colored  students  who  have  had  the  fortune 
to  be  educated  in  a  Christian  college  that  offers  in- 
struction to  all.  More  cruel  because  it  is  easy  of 
execution  and  because  it  deprives  a  great  multitude 
of  excellent  young  men  and  women  of  their  almost 
only  means  of  making  a  livelihood.  The  following 
is  the  full  text  of  the  bill: 

To  be  entitled  an  act  to  regulate  the  manner  of  con- 
ducting public  educational  institutions  in  this  State,  and 
to  protect  the  rights  of  colored  and  white  people,  and  for 
other  purposes. 

Section  1  Be  it  enacted  by  \he  general  assembly  of 
Georgia,  That  from  and  after  the  passage  of  this  act,  that 
no  school,  college  or  educational  institution  in  this  State 
that  is  now,  or  may  hereafter  be  supported  in  whole  or 
in  part  by  the  public  funds  of  the  State  or  public  funds 
of  any  county,  municipality  or  any  other  subdivision  of 
this  State,  shall  matriculate  or  receive  under  any  pretext 
whatever,  as  pupils,  both  white  and  colored  persons — 
such  white  and  colored  persons  shall  be  taught  in  sepa- 
rate schools. 

Sec  2  Be  it  further  enacted,  That  any  school,  college 
or  educational  institution,  or  teacher,  manager  or  con- 
troller thereof,  who  shall  violate  the  provisions  of  the 
preceding  section  shall  not  be  entitled  to  participate, 
directly  or  indirectly,  in  the  distribution  of  any  public 
funds  now  appropriated,  or  hereafter  to  be  appropriated, 
for  educational  purposes  in  this  State,  either  by  the  Stated 
the  several  counties  thereof,  the  municipalities  or  other 
subdivisions  in  this  State. 

Sec  3  Be  it  further  enacted  by  the  authority  afore- 
said, That  no  person  who  hereafter  becomes  a  pupil  in 
any  college,  school  or  educational  institution  where  the 
CO  education  of  the  races  is  permitted  or  allowed  shall 
hereafter  be  competent  to  teach  in  any  school,  college,  or 
educational  institution  of  this  State,  that  is  supported  in 
whole  or  in  part  by  the  public  funds  of  the  State,  or  the 
several  counties  thereof,  municipalities  or  other  subdi- 
visions of  this  State. 

Sec  4  Repeals  conflicting  laws. 
The  first  section,  except  as  an  explanatory  clause 
will  be  of  no  force  whatever.  It  simply  affirms  that 
people  shall  not  do  what  they  may  know  to  be  not 
only  a  natural  right  but  a  moral  obligation.  But  as 
it  provides  no  penalty  it  will  be  regarded  as  simply 
an  ebullition  of  the  spirit  of  race  prejudice  and  will 
be  treated  accordingly. 

The  second  section,  which  proposes  to  withdraw 
all  State  aid  from  those  institutions  that  have  been 
planted  and  sustained  by  Christian  benevolence, 
which  have  contributed  greatly  to  the  cause  of  edu- 
cation, good  government  and  the  prosperity  of  the 
State,  and  which  are  so  important  for  the  supply  of 
the  teachers  of  which  Georgia  has  most  pressing 
need,  was  most  unjust  and  most  suicidal. 

Considered  either  as  a  threat  or  an  attempted 


One  of  the  sublimest  answers  ever  made  by  hu- 
man lips,  always  seemed  to  me  to  be  that  of  Martin 
Luther  when  he  replied  to  the  papal  emissary,  Serra 
Longa,  who  asked  him  where  he  should  take  refuge 
in  the  event  of  being  forsaken  by  the  elector  and 
all  his  earthly  friends:  "Under  heaven."  The  whole 
wide  universe  he  could  claim  for  his  city  of  refuge, 
and  in  the  weariest  desert  land  he  could  never  go 
where  the  shadow  of  a  protecting  sanctuary  did  not 
fall. 

I  believe  that  the  human  mind  naturally  responds 
to  the  heroic,  and  the  Bible  in  nothing  shows  its  in- 
spiration more  than  by  its  constant  appeals  to  cast 
away  unmanly  fears.  I  believe,  too,  that  Christians 
are  by  far  the  bravest  men  and  women  in  the  world; 
and  they  ought  to  be, — they,  the  symbol  of  whose 
Captain  and  Redeemer  is  the  Rock,  the  constant, 
age-enduring  Rock,  clothed  with  strength  and  beauty 
as  with  a  garment;  the  tender  grace  of  the  wind- 
flower,  the  emerald  green  of  the  lichen.  And  not 
only  the  everlasting  Rock,  but  the  living  Rock,  for 
so  close  did  the  old  Hebrew  poet  and  seer  come  to 
the  heart  of  Nature  that  she  whispered  to  him  the 
secret  which  modern  science  has  but  lately  discov- 
ered, that  by  some  mysterious  aggregation  of  their 
crystalline  particles,  rocks  actually  grow. 

I  admit  all  this,  gladly,  joyfully,  even  in  the  face 
of  one  fact  which  would  seem  to  contradict  it;  that 
spell  of  fear  which  falls  on  religious  meetings  and 
makes  the  clergy  but  "dumb  dogs"  as  soon  as  any 
mention  is  made  of  the  secret  empire.  Nobody  im- 
pugns the  courage  of  the  bee — less  than  half  a  sec- 
ond would  suffice  to  change  their  opinion  if  they 
did — but  there  is  a  species  of  gigantic  moth,  a  soft, 
harmless  thing,  formidable  in  no  respect,  which 
sometimes  gains  entrance  into  a  hive;  but  instead 
of  striking  their  sharp  stings  into  the  intruder  at 
once,  as  they  could  easily  do,  it  is  said  that  its  pres- 
ence will  inspire  a  whole  colony  with  a  strange,  name- 
less terror,  so  that  they  will  even  leave  their  home, 
as  tenants  leave  a  haunted  house.  And  when  I 
hear  it  asked.  Why  are  ministers  who  hate  Masonry 
so  afraid  to  speak  their  minds  about  it?  I  am  re- 
minded of  this  curious  fact  in  natural  history.  Now 
there  was  reason  why  men  should  fear  Rome.  She 
was  a  palpable  enemy,  and  she  made  war  on  the 
saints  with  such  very  palpable  engines  as  the  dun- 
geon, the  stake  and  the  torture  chambers  of  the  in- 
quisition; but  why  should  that  which  is  but  her  im- 
age, a  shadowy,  unsubstantial,  spectral  image,  voic- 
ing obscure  threats  out  of  its  cloudy  curtain  of 
mystery,  have  such  power  to  dismay?  Why,  it  takes 
a  thousand  times  more  courage,  and  courage  of  a 
finer  and  higher  kind,  too,  to  fight  a  ghost  than  to 
fight  an  army. 


What  these  evil  and  perilous  times  need  is  a  bold 
and  fearless  setting  forth  of  the  everlasting  truths 
of  the  Bible  in  opposition  to  the  prevailing  corrup- 
tion in  social,  political  and  religious  circles,  to  se- 
cret societyism,  and  to  the  rapidly  increasing  influ- 
ence of  Romanism  in  this  great  republic  of  ours,the 
latter  two  of  which  are  the  chief  weapons  employed 
by  Satan  in  his  warfare  against  the  Son  of  God,  our 
dear  Lord  and  Saviour  Jesus  Christ.  The  influence 
which  secret  societies  of  all  descriptions  are  exert- 
ing on  the  present  generation  throughout  this  broad 
land  are  detrimental  to  the  cause  of  the  Christian 


Webb's  Monitor,  page  284:  "The  religious  tenets 
of  Masonrj'  are  few,  simple,  but  fundamental.  The 
candidate  must  profess  a  belief  in  deity  before  in- 
itiation." Mackey's  Lexicon  of  Freemasonry,  page 
100:  "Creed  of  a  Mason.  The  creed  of  a  Mason 
is  brief,  unentangled  with  scholastic  subtleties,  or 
with  theological  diflficulties.  It  is  a  creed  that  de- 
mands and  receives  the  universal  consent  of  all  men, 
which  admits  of  no  doubt,  and  defies  schism." 

Is  this  the  sum  and  substance  of  the  Masonic 
faith?  Mackey's  Masonic  Ritualist,  page  44:  "A 
Belief  in  God.  This  constitutes  the  sole  creed  of 
a  Mason — at  least,  the  only  creed  that  he  is  required 
to  profess."  Also  Mackey's  Jurisprudence,  page  94: 
"Though  in  ancient  times  Masons  were  charged  in 
every  country  to  be  of  the  religion  of  that  country 
or  nation,  whatever  it  was,  yet  it  is  now  thought 
more  expedient  only  to  oblige  them  to  that  religion 
in  which  all  men  agree,  leaving  their  particular  opin- 
ions to  themselves." — Charges  of  1722,  No.  1. 

Then  to  simply  profess  a  belief  in  God  is  the  test 
of  Masonic  fellowship,  and  they  oblige  every  Mason 
to  that  religion  in  which  all  men  agree,  and  in  so 
doing  oblige  them  from  those  religions  in  which  all 
do  not  agree.  That  is  logical,  but  there  may  be 
cases  where  a  closer  test  is  applied  than  a  bare  be- 
lief in  a  God.  We  turn  to  the  great  book  of  decis- 
ions. Chase's  Digest  of  Masonic  Law,  in  which  every 
Masonic  Grand  Lodge  in  America  is  represented, 
and  there  read  once  for  all,  on  page  206:  "It  is  an- 
ti-masonic to  require  any  religious  test  other  than 
the  candidate  should  believe  in  a  God,  the  Creator 
and  Governor  of  the  Universe."  And  on  the  same 
page:  "In  our  opinion,  any  other  religious  test  is 
not  necessary;  and  to  require  that  a  candidate  pro- 
fess a  belief  in  the  divine  authenticity  of  the  Bible, 
or  in  a  state  of  future  rewards  and  punishments,  is 
a  serious  innovation  in  the  very  body  of  Masonry." 
That  certainly  is  a  new  theology,  at  least  a  new  theo- 
ry. "Ye  believe  in  God.  Ye  do  well;  the  devils 
also  believe  and  tremble." 

Mackey's  Jurisprudence  of  Masonry,  page  95, 
explains:  "Under  the  shelter  of  this  wise  provision, 
the  Christian  and  the  Jew,  the  Mohammedan  and 
the  Brahmin,  are  permitted  to  unite  around  our  com- 
mon altar,  and  Masonry  becomes,  in  practice  as  well 
as  in  theory,  universal."  Then  Webb's  Freemasons' 
Monitor,  page  285,  declares:  "So  broad  is  the  religion 
of  Masonry,  and  so  carefully  are  all  sectarian  tenets 
excluded  from  the  system,  that  the  Christian,  the 
Jew,  and  the  Mohammedan,  in  all  their  numberless 
sects  and  divisions,  may  and  do  harmoniously  com- 
bine in  its  moral  and  intellectual  work,  with  the 
Buddhist,  the  Parsee,  the  Confucian,  and  the  wor- 
shiper of  Deity  under  every  form."  The  devil  could 
subscribe  to  that  test;  so  could  the  heathen  that 
worship  deity  in  the  form  of  a  loathsome  snake,  a 
stock  or  a  stone.  We  read  of  a  broad  religion  in 
an  old  book  that  mother  keeps  on  her  table  at  home, 
which  has  our  family  record  in  it.  Why,  this  strange 
religion,  and  what  do  Masons  mean  by  "morality?" 
It  would  trouble  friend  Harper,  the  Mason,  to  define 
morality.  If  he  knows  the  rudiments  he  never 
confesses  it.  He  never  speaks  of  the  church,  or 
anything  good,  except  with  a  scoff  and  a  sneer. 
Father  says.  If  you  don't  believe  in  total  depravity, 
just  study  old  Harper  awhile.  Pages  502  and  503 
of  Mackey's  Jurisprudence  defines:  "Every  Mason, 
says  the  old  charges  of  1722,  is  obliged,  by  his  ten- 
ure, to  obey  the  moral  law.  Now  this  moral  law  is 
not  to  be  considered  as  confined  to  the  Decalogue  of 
Moses,  within  which  narrow  limits  the  ecclesiastical 
writers  technically  restrain  it,  but  rather  as  allud- 
ing to  what  is  called  the  lex  naturor,  or  the  law  of 
nature."  Father  says  old  Joe  Harper  is  a  "rough 
diamond."  It  would  be  rather  hard  to  narrow  his 
proclivities  and  propensities  down  to  the  Ten  Com- 
mandments. 

We  further  read:  "This  is  the  moral  law,  to  which 
the  old  charge  already  cited  refers,  and  which  it  de- 
clares to  be  the  law  of  Masonry.  And  this  was 
wisely  done,  for  it  is  evident  that  no  law  less   uni- 


I 


October  6, 1887 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSUKE. 


versal  could  have  been  appropriately  selected  for 
the  government  of  an  institution  whose  prominent 
characteristic  is  its  universality.  The  precepts  of 
Jesus  could  not  have  been  obligatory  on  a  Jew;  a 
Christian  would  have  denied  the  sanctions  of  the 
Koran;  a  Mohammedan  must  have  rejected  the  law 
of  Moses;  and  a  disciple  of  Zoroaster  would  have 
turned  from  all  to  the  teachings  of  his  Zend  Avesta. 
The  universal  law  of  nature,  which  the  authors  of 
the  ancient  charges  have  properly  called  the  moral 
law,  because  it  is,  as  Conybeare  remarks,  'a  perfect 
collection  of  all  those  moral  doctrines  and  precepts 
which  have  a  foundation  in  the  nature  and  reason 
of  things,'  is,  therefore,  the  only  law  suited,  in  every 
respect,  to  be  adopted  as  the  Masonic  code." 

Why,  then,  do  they  carry  -the  Bible?  I  thought 
Masonry  was  founded  on  the  Bible.  Chase's  Digest 
of  Masonic  Law,  pages  207-8:  "The  Jews,  the  Chi- 
nese, the  Turks,  each  reject  either  the  New  Testa- 
ment or  the  Old,  or  both,  and  yet  we  see  no  good 
reason  why  they  should  not  be  made  Masons.  In 
fact.  Blue  Lodge  Masonry  has  nothing  whatever  to 
do  with  the  Bible.  It  is  not  founded  on  the  Bible; 
if  it  was  it  would  not  be  Masonry,  it  would  be  some- 
thing else." 

Christianity  and  the  Bible  do  not  seera,  then,  to 
harmonize  theoretically  or  practically  with  Masonic 
religion.  It  cuts  the  Bible  in  two  to  please  the  Jew, 
and  rejects  it  altogether  to  please  the  Mohammedan. 
What  is  Masonic  religion?  Let  the  Masonic  Gen- 
eral Grand  High  Priest,  Albert  G.  Mackey,  name  it. 
Lexicon  of  Freemasonry,  page  402:  "The  religion, 
then,  of  Freemasonry,  is  pure  theism,  on  which  its 
diflFerent  members  engraft  their  own  peculiar  opin- 
ions; but  they  are  not  permitted  to  introduce  them 
into  the  lodge,  or  to  connect  their  truth  or  falsehood 
with  the  truth  of  Masonry." 

If  I  join  the  lodge,  then,  I  must  subscribe  topwre 
theism.  That  settles  it.  That  cuts  Christ  out,  and 
no  man  can  approach  God  without  a  Mediator.  "I 
am  the  way,  the  truth,  and  the  life;  no  man  cometh 
unto  the  Father  but  by  me."  "He  that  climbeth  up 
any  other  way,  the  same  is  a  thief  and  a  robber." 
I'll  trust  to  the  religion  that  holds  to  the  Bible  and 
to  Christ,  and  I  hope  to  be  a  better  man. 


TWO  JUGOERNAUTa  OF  DEATH. 


Before  subjugation  by  the  British,  and  under 
sanction  of  custom  and  government,  an  idol  of  In- 
dia was  borne  in  procession  in  a  huge  vehicle,  called 
the  car  of  Juggernaut,  to  impress  idolaters  with  the 
grandeur  of  their  god.  Impelled  by  fanaticism  mis- 
guided devotees  cast  themselves  beneath  its  wheels, 
and  were  crushed  into  indistinguishable  masses. 
The  humanity  of  the  conqueror  suppressed  the  sac- 
rifice of  adults  beneath  Juggernaut,  of  widows  on 
the  pyre  and  of  infants  in  the  Ganges,  and  thou- 
sands of  lives  are  annually  saved,and  unblunted  sensi- 
bilities spared  from  the  horror  of  incessant  blood- 
shed. 

Also  under  sanction  of  government  in  a  Christian 
land,  we  have  our  Juggernaut  of  death,  but  unlike 
the  first  it  shuns  the  day  and  seeks  the  night — a 
seventh  plague  in  manner  and  effect.  Like  the  first 
its  victims  are  numbered  by  thousands,  though  not 
a  willing  sacrifice  to  superstition,  but  an  exacted 
pledge  for  the  security  of  wrong.  Our  Juggernaut 
is  Freemasonry,  a  science  of  crime  and  iniquity  cop- 
ied from  the  sun-worship  of  Eleusis  and  Baal-peor, 
protected  and  disseminated,  veiled  and  popularized 
with  the  condensed  chicanery  of  ages,  that,  as  an 
example  of  subterfuges,  first  feigned  and  proclaimed 
itself  a  charitable  institution  in  1788  (Dictionary  of 
Dates,  Hayden,  who  deplores  the  Masonic  origin  of 
its  history),  according  to  creditable  writers  71,  ac- 
cording to  others  5792  years  after  inception,  but 
still  retains  the  prejudice  against  cripples  of  Egypt 
(Josephus  on  Apion),  and  against  the  poorer  class 
of  Greece  (Rollins);  therefore,  an  unchangeable  land- 
mark— a  charity  and  humanity  for  self  and  a  prec- 
edent for  thieves. 

Our  country  runs  with  its  secret  bloodshed,  is  be- 
set with  its  bidden  graves.  If  any  doubt,  let  them 
read,  "My  Experiences  with  Secret  Societies  by  a 
Traveler,"  advertised  in  the  Cynosure,  a  demonstra- 
tion by  actual  occurrences  of  the  prevalence  and 
cause  of  murder,  illustrated  from  real  life,  corrobo- 
rated by  historical  sketches,  and  supplemented  by 
satires  in  verse,  original  in  matter  and  treatment, 
and  combined  to  interest  and  convince  every  class 
as  book  or  tract.  * 


AN  IMPORTANT  SOCIETY  FORGOTTEN. 


"I  have  the  Royal  Arcanum,  and  you  know — " 

"What  about  Wednesday  evening?" 

"Oh,  the  Odd-fellows  meet  that  night;  on  Thurs- 
day I  have  a  meeting  of  the  Knights  of  Labor  to 
attend;  on  Friday  the  Royal  Templars  of  Temper- 
ance; on  Saturday  there  is  a  special  meeting  of  the 
Masonic  lodge,  and  I  couldn't  miss  that;  and  then 
Sunday  night — let  me  see — what  is  there  on  Sunday 
night,  my  dear?" 

"The  Grand  and  Ancient  Order  of  Christian  Fel- 
lowship." 

"Why,  I  had  forgotten.  Am  I  a  member  of  that? 
— let  me  see — " 

"But  you  have  forgotten  another  society,  John,  of 
which  you  used  to  be  a  member." 

"What's  that?" 

"Your  wife's."— 7%€  Candidate. 


"John,  I  would  like  to  invite  my  friend,  Mrs. 
Smalley,  this  evening.     Will  you  be  able  to  be  in?" 

"No,  my  dear,  I  must  attend  the  meeting  of  the 
Ancient  Order  of  Foresters  to-night." 

"Well,  to-morrow  evening?" 


SOME  ERRORS  GONNBGTED  WITH  THE  HOLI- 
NESS WORK. 

It  is  an  error  to  undertake  to  sever  holiness  from 
the  practical  work  of  a  Christian  life.  Holiness 
that  does  not  visit  the  sick,  feed  the  hungry,  clothe 
the  naked,  and  preach  the  Gospel  to  the  poor  is  a 
sham.  It  is  an  error  to  confound  holiness  with 
moral  cowardice.  Holiness  that  does  nothing  to 
stay  the  flood  of  intemperance,  that  is  afraid  to  vote, 
that  is  afraid  to  name  the  worst  popular  sins  lest  the 
devil's  boycott  hinder  sheckles  from  falling  into  the 
sacred  till,  is  not  akin  to  that  of  Stephen  who  was 
"full  of  the  Holy  Ghost."  It  is  an  error  to  cover 
up  certain  sins  because  some  holiness  professors 
have  been  guilty  .of  them,  and  have  not  confessed. 
At  one  of  the  largest  New  England  Holiness  Con- 
ventions of  the  season  the  question  was  asked, 
"Can  a  Freemason  enjoy  sanctification?"  The  an- 
swer was,  "I  don't  know."  Another  searching  ques- 
tion to  find  out  the  position  of  the  holiness  teacher 
on  lodgism  was  dodged  by  the  reply,  that  each  per- 
son must  follow  the  light  he  has.  Such  dissimula- 
tion and  cowardice  seems  to  us  a  disgrace  to  the  ho- 
liness cause,  and  tending  to  bring  it  into  contempt. 
Not  thus  did  Paul  teach  in  reference  to  the  secret 
societies  of  his  day.  That  Christian  giant  did  not 
whine  out,  "I  don'tknow  anything  about  them,"  but 
said  with  a  ring  that  shall  sound  to  the  end  of  the 
world,  "Have  no  fellowship  with  the  unfruitful 
works  of  darkness,  but  rather  reprove  them." 


NOT  A  SEGRET  SOCIETY. 


The  distinguishing  features  of  a  secret  society  are 
ritualistic  worship,  an  obligation  of  secrecy ,  a  prom- 
ise to  assist  brethren  socially,  publicly,  and  finan- 
cially, regalia  and  trappings,  a  fettered  conscience, 
and  a  burial  service. 

Occasionally  the  devil  throws  out  a  mild  form  of 
secrecy  as  a  bait,  and  to  make  it  take,  be  labels  it 
"not  secret,"  just  as  the  saloonist  sets  out  his  light 
drinks  to  bait  the  innocent  and  unwary,  and  labels 
it  "not  intoxicating."  In  such  cases  the  chemist 
subjects  the  mixture  to  a  chemical  test  to  see  if  there 
is  any  alcohol  in  it.  If  he  finds  alcohol,  the  drink 
is  branded  intoxicating. 

Now,  we  propose  to  show  you  why  we  have  un- 
hesitatingly pronounced  the  G.  A.  R.  a  secret  socie- 
ty. First,  the  G,  A.  R.  resembles  all  secret  societies 
in  the  fact  that  it  has  a  ritual  of  worship,  not  very 
much,  yet  just  a  little  to  give  it  tone — chaplain, 
prayers,  and  the  like.  Second,  it  has  an  obligation 
of  secrecy.  Some  have  disputed  this  in  an  indef- 
inite manner,  but  any  sane  man  knows  that  they 
would  not  open  their  doors  to  an  old  soldier,  be  he 
the  bravest  his  country  ever  knew,  without  a  pledge 
of  secrecy  from  him.  Here  we  make  a  challenge 
to  any  who  may  read  this  who  are  not  persuaded 
we  are  right.  Bring  us  a  member  of  the  G.  A.  R, 
who  will  go  before  a  magistrate  and  swear,  1st.  That 
the  G.  A.  R.  have  no  oath.  2nd.  That  that  oath  has 
not  been  published.  3rd.  That  they  have  no  obli- 
gation of  secrecy  whatever,  and  we  will  undertake 
the  task  of  proving  that  man  a  perjurer. 

That  they  promise  to  help  each  other  politically 
and  financially;  that  they  have  regalia  and  trap- 
pings and  a  burial  service,  all  know.  It  only  re- 
mains to  be  shown  that  it  fetters  the  conscience  in 
order  to  settle  the  fact  that  it  partakes  of  the  spirit 
of  Masonry. 

A  minister  being  asked  to  join  the  G.  A.  R.,  re- 
plied that  he  was  opposed  to  secret  societies.  "But 
the  G.  A.  R.  is  not  a  secret  society,"  they  replied. 
"We  only  have  a  password,"  etc.  Thsi minister  was 
most  persuaded  to  join,  but  asked  again,  "If  your 
order  is  not  a  secret  society  I  suppose  that  I  can 
join,  and  if  at  any  time  I  find  anything  in  your  or- 
der that  I  cannot  conscientiously  indorse,  I  am  at 
liberty  to  speak  freely  concerning  it  to  my  church?" 
The  reply  was  an  emphatic  "no."  Freedom  of  con- 
science could  not  be  tolerated  even  in  the  G.  A.  R. 


Ritualistic  worship  and  the  binding  of  the  con- 
science being  the  principal  ingredients  of  the  Baal- 
istic  lodge,  and  these  ingredients  being  found  not 
only  in  the  G.  A.  R.,  but  also  in  the  Good  Templars 
and  other  minor  lodges,  we  fight  as  decidedly  the 
introducing  of  these  baits  as  snares  into  the  com- 
munity, as  we  would  the  baiting  of  men  with  light 
wines,  beer,  and  also  under  the  plea  that  they  are 
not  intoxicating. —  Western  Crank. 

m  I  ■ 

THE  NORTHUP  MURDER  AND  THE  G.A.  R. 


The  following  special  correspondence  to  the  daily 
Ohio  State  Journal  of  August  3d,  1887,  shows  how 
secret  societies  that  are  professedly  patriotic  may  be 
used  by  bad  men  to  pervert  justice. 

Dr.  Northup,  of  Portsmouth,  Ohio,  was  deliberate- 
ly murdered  by  a  8aloon-keeper,by  the  name  of  Alf. 
McCoy,  because  he  was  active  in  prosecuting  saloon- 
keepers. The  murder  was  malicious  and  coldblood- 
ed.  The  jury  before  which  he  was  tried  brought  in 
a  verdict  of  murder  in  the  second  degree.  This  ver- 
dict has  been  severely  condemned  by  the  press  of 
the  State.  The  following  statement  explains  how 
the  prisoner  escaped  a  verdict  of  hanging: 

"Special  to  the  Ohio  State  Journal: 

"Portsmouth,  O.,  Aug.  2.— Since  the  discharge 
of  the  jury  which  tried  Alf  McCoy,for  the  murder  of 
Dr.  Northup,  there  has  been  considerable  specula- 
tion as  to  the  causes  which  prompted  the  finding  of 
a  verdict  so  totally  incommensurate  with  the  crime. 
There  seems  now  to  be  an  easy  solution  of  the  per- 
plexing question.  Seven  of  the  jurymen  who  tried 
McCoy  are  members  of  the  G.  A.  R.  McCoy  is  also 
a  member  of  that  organization,  and,during  his  trial, 
wore  a  new  G.  A.  R.  uniform,  kept  his  eyes  closely 
upon  the  jury,  and  whenever  he  could  do  so,  as  he 
thought,  with  safety  to  himself  and  them,  threw  out 
G.  A.  R.  signals  of  distress.  It  is  also  learned  that 
two  of  the  jurymen,  although  admitting  that  the  ev- 
idence pointed  to  a  deliberate  murder,  yet  for  politi- 
cal reasons  would  agree  to  nothing  but  a  verdict  for 
manslaughter.  Of  the  seven  who  stood  out  for  hang- 
ing five  are  Democrats,  and  McCoy  himself  is  a  Dem- 
ocrat. The  people,  after  summing  up  all  these 
things,  think  they  smell  a  very  large-sized  rat,  and 
protest  that  the  verdict  was  anything  but  an  honest 
one." — JT.  R.  Smith  in  the   Wesley  an  Methodist. 


MASONIG  HARMONY. 


The  writer,  in  a  Masonic  experience  of  twenty-six 
years,  has  sat  in  lodges  and  chapters  in  the  States 
of  Ohio,  Pennsylvania,  New  York,  Wisconsin,  New 
Jersey,  Minnesota,  Iowa,  Illinois  and  Missouri,  and 
in  Canada,  and  has  never  yet  seen  the  work  of 
"Blue  Lodge"  or  "Chapter"  given  in  the  same  man- 
ner in  any  of  these  States.  This  fact  needs  no  sub- 
stantiation, as  any  craftsman  or  companion  can 
fully  corroborate  it  True,  the  Ancient  Landmarks 
are  the  same  in  all,  but  the  wording  of  the  "lec- 
tures" and  much  of  the  "unwritten  work"  is  in  each 
case  vastly  dissimilar. 

In  musing  over  this  "confusion  among  the  work- 
men," one  is  led  to  ask,  Why  this  unaccountable 
diversity  of  ritualistic  work?  The  reply  is  found 
in  what  may  be  termed  "Masonic  egotism."  The 
teachings  of  Masonry  all  tend  to  a  careful  con- 
servation in  strictly  following  the  tenets  of  the 
craft,  especially  where  the  lectures  and  unwritten 
work  is  concerned.  Thus  each  Grand  Lodge  in 
America  has  a  separate  work,  and  each  stands  ready 
to  swear  by  the  "three  great  lights"  that  their  "work" 
is  the  only  true  and  original  "Simon  pure,"  handed 
down  from  the  "three,"  when  the  temple  approached 
completion,  and  to  fully  establish  the  superiority  of 
their  "work"  over  that  of  all  others,  each  stands 
ready  to  sneer  at  the  "work"  of  the  others  as  being 
composed  of  interpolations  and  innovations  upon 
the  ritual  of  Masonry. 

Thus,  our  Michigan  work  is  termed  "skeleton  Ma- 
sonry," and  to  "work  his  way,"  a  Michigan  Mason 
has  frequently  not  only  to  show  his  right  angles, 
perpendiculars  and  horizontals,  but  also  his  "papers." 
Now  the  writer  stands  ready  to  admit  that  much  of 
the  above  stands  true  concerning  Michigan  "work," 
and  where  the  framers  of  our  ritual  found  their  au- 
thority for  the  changes  so  noticeable  is  a  question. 
We  are  charge<l  with  having  "cut,  carved  and  hewn" 
at  the  original  ashlar  till  we  have  left  but  little  of 
what  came  up  from  the  ancient  quarry,  "bearing  the 
mark  of  the  craft  upon  it"  Any  traveled  Michi- 
gan Mason  knows  my  statement  to  be  a  fact,  and 
while  we  can  "work  our  way,"  we  find  a  vast  dissim 
ilarity  between  our  work  and  that  of  foreign  lodges 
and  chapters.  And  yet  our  grand  otticers  and  lec- 
turers tell  us  that  "ours  is  the  only  true  work.  No 
two  States  work  alike,  and  each  insists  upon  its 
work  being  correct. — ./.  W.  Fitzinaurice  in  the  Detroit 
Freemason. 


THE  CHRLSTIAir  CYNOSURE. 


OoToBKR  6, 1887 


NOTICES. 


IOWA  CERI8TIAN  ASSOCIATION. 


The  annual  convention  of  the  Iowa  Christian  Associa- 
tion will  meet  in  College  Springs,  Iowa,  Tuesday,  Oct. 
18,  7pm,  and  continue  in  session  two  days.  The  Revs. 
J.  P.  Stoddard,  Gen'l  Sec'y  N.  C.  A.,  and  C.  F.  Hawley, 
lecturer  for  Iowa,  and  other  able  speakers  are  expected 
to  address  the  convention.  The  lovers  of  light  as  op- 
posed to  darkness,  and  of  our  free  institutions  in  all  parts 
of  the  State,  are  urged  to  attend  in  person  or  by  repre- 
sentation. Friends  of  the  cause  in  neighboring  States 
are  heartily  invited  to  meet  with  us. 

C.  D.  Trumbull,  Cor.  Sec'y. 

Delegates  to  the  Iowa  State  Christian  Association,  to 
convene  in  College  Springs  on  the  third  Tuesday  of  Oc- 
tober, will  be  met  at  Coin  on  Tuesday  and  Wednesday 
mornings. 

Those  coming  over  the  C.  B.  &  Q.  from  the  East  will 
leave  the  main  line  at  Villisca  and  change  at  Clarindafor 
Coin.  West  of  Villisca  they  can  leave  the  main  line  at 
Red  Oak  and  connect  at  Shenandoah  with  a  morning 
freight  on  the  Wabash  for  Coin. 

All  who  expect  to  attend  the  convention  will  please 
drop  a  card  to  the  undersigned  as  soon  as  possible,  spec- 
ifying whether  they  wish  to  be  met  on  Tuesday  or  Wed- 
nesday morning.  There  are  only  morning  trains  to  Coin 
over  the  branch  lines  of  the  C.  B  &  Q  If  any  one  wish- 
es to  be  met  at  any  other  point,  let  it  oe  made  known . 

Don't  forget  to  drop  the  card,  that  transportation  and 
entertainment  may  be  duly  provided  for. 

Wm.  Johnston. 


ANNUAL   MEETING  OF   TEE  N.  H.  C.  A. 


The  Eleventh  Annual  Meeting  of  the  New  Hampshire 
Christian  Association  will  be  held  in  Arcanum  Hall,  No . 
939  Elm  street,  Manchester,  October  29,  30,  31,  1887, 
commencing  Saturday  at  2  o'clock  p.  m.,  and  closing 
Monday  evening;  entertainment  free.  Reduced  railroad 
fare  expected  from  the  following  stations:  Rochester, 
Dover,  Newmarket  Junction,  Portsmouth,  North  Weare, 
Laconia,  and  Concord.  Horse  cars  from  depot  to  hall. 
Addresses,  sermons  and  essays  are  expected  from  the  fol- 
lowing persons:  Rev.  J.  Blanchard  of  Illinois,  R-v.  E. 
W.  Oakes,  Manchester,  Elders  A.  Kidder,  C.  L  Baker, 
Isaac  Hyatt,  8.  C  Kimball,  Mrs.  C  W.  Bixby,  Miss  Annie 
M.  Ray,  Miss  E.  E.  Flsgg,  and  Mips  I.  D.  Haines,  evan- 
gelist of  Maine.  S.C.  Kimball,  tec'y  N.  S.  C.  A. 


ing,  which  I  did  not  hear,  but  was  told  that  his  re- 
marks were  largely  personal,  and  not  very  compli- 
mentary to  me. 

On  Saturday  I  preached  for  the  Adventist  breth- 
ren in  Belvidere,  who  keep  the  seventh  day,  and  was 
glad  to  find  them  a  spiritual  and,  apparently,  a  very 
devoted  people.  Sabbath  morning  we  attended  at 
the  M.  E.  church,  and  listened  to  a  most  radical  and 
excellent  discourse  by  the  pastor,  Bro.  Swartz,  who 
is  opposed  to  all  shams  in  religion,  and  not  afraid  to 
say  so  in  his  pulpit,  and  is  of  course  an  Anti-mason. 
The  evening  was  occupied  with  a  Gospel  meeting 
"in  the  big  tent."  Monday  was  devoted  to  visita- 
tion, as  was  also  Tuesday,  with  meetings  in  the  tent 
at  night.  Wednesday  morning  the  convention 
proper  opened,  which  has  already  been  reported. 

Our  stay  in  Belvidere  was  rendered  doubly  pleas- 
ant by  the  free  hospitality  of  brother  and  sister 
Reynolds,  who  could  not  have  shown  more  solici- 
tude for  our  comfort  had  we  been  their  own  chil- 
dren. 

On  Friday  we  returned  to  Bro.  White's,  near 
Kingston,  where  no  pains  were  spared  to  make  us 
feel  at  home.  On  Saturday  sister  White  accompa- 
nied Mrs.  S.  to  visit  two  outlying  districts,  where 
arrangements  were  made  for  Sabbath  services  with 
the  children.  On  the  25th  Mrs.  Stoddard,  assisted 
by  Mrs.  White,  addressed  the  Sabbath-school  at  the 
Evangelical  Association  church  in  the  morning,  and 
a  like  gathering  at  the  Davis  school- house  in  the 
afternoon,  on  the  subject  of  prohibition.  I  preached 
at  the  M.  E.  church  in  the  morning,  and  at  the  Bap- 
tist hall  in  Kingston  in  the  afternoon.  On  Monday, 
the  26th,  we  started  homeward,  and  after  a  long  and 
steady  pull  of  over  fifty  miles,  reached  that  bright- 
est, dearest  spot  on  earth,  about  7  r.  m.  in  a  drench- 
ing rain.  Tuesday  was  a  rainy  and  busy  day  in  the 
city,  and  a  night  ride  to  this  city  of  Janesville  was 
a  weariness  to  the  flesh,  but  I  remember  the  admo- 
nition, "whoso  putteth  his  hand  to  the  plow  and  look- 
eth  back  is  not  fit  for  the  kingdom  of  heaven." 

J.  P.  Stoddard. 


Refobm  News. 


FBOM  THE    GENERAL  AGENT. 


THE  IOWA  FRIENDS    YEARLY  MEETING 
DISCUSS  A  MASONIC    OUTRAGE. 


In  labors  oft— Before  and  after  the  lUinoia  Convention 
Friends  by  the  way. 

Janesville,  Wis.,  Sept.  28,  1887. 
Dear  Cynosure: — A  brief  sketch  of  our  trip  to 
DeKalb  and  Boone  counties  in  Illinois  may  interest 
your  readers.  Mrs.  S.  and  myself  left  home  with 
our  horse  and  carriage  on  the  afternoon  of  the  9  th 
inst,  and  made  our  first  stop  at  the  Patrol  office  in 
Geneva.  Bro.  Wheeler  was  absent,  but  his  compe- 
tent lady  assistant  gave  us  a  cordial  greeting,  and 
looking  over  the  appointments  we  decided  that  Bro. 
W.  was  entitled  to  his  claim  of  having  a  model 
newspaper  "plant." 

At"Grey  Willow"we  were  entertained  at  the  commo- 
dious farm-house  of  Ansel  Lake,  who  is  familiar  with 
Batavia,  N.  Y.,  and  the  regions  round  about,  and 
who  has  long  been  known  as  a  warm  and  liberal  sup- 
porter of  the  anti-secrecy  cause.  That  region  has 
suffered  seriously  from  drouth,  and  the  father  was 
absent  in  Iowa  in  search  of  hay  to  fill  the  empty 
barn  and  feed  the  scores  of  blooded  horses  and  cat- 
tle with  which  his  large  farm  is  stocked;  but  noth- 
ing was  lacking  on  the  part  of  his  son  and  family 
to  make  our  stay  every  way  enjoyable. 

We  reached  Kingston  at  12  m.  on  the  10th,  and 
were  met  by  Bro.  M.  L.  Worcester,  and,  after  din- 
ner with  Dr.  Cowell  and  wife,  we  drove  out  three 
miles  in  the  country  to  Bro.  Worcester's,  where  every 
true  reformer  is  sure  not  only  of  a  hearty  welcome 
but  of  "a  helping  hand."  Sabbath,  the  11th,  I 
preached  in  the  morning  in  the  M.  E.  church,  after- 
noon to  the  Baptists,  and  in  the  evening  at  an  Evan- 
gelical Association  church  four  miles  north  of  town. 
Monday,  the  12th,  we  drove  eleven  miles  to  Cher- 
ry Valley  to  call  on  pastor  St.  Clair,  and  if  practi- 
cable arrange  for  meetings  there.  We  found  Bro. 
St.  Clair  in  hearty  sympathy,  but  three-fifths  of  his 
male  members  were  secret-order  men,  and  he  felt 
hampered  under  the  circumstances.  Returning,  we 
were  favored  with  a  fair  audience  in  the  Associate 
church  on  Monday  and  Tuesday  evenings. 

On  the  14th  we  visited  Belvidere,  where  we  met 
Bro.  Arnold  and  Bro.  Butler,  and  arranged  local 
details  about  the  State  convention.  Thursday  and 
Friday  evenings  I  lectured  to  fair  audiences  in  the 
hall  at  Kingston,  where  we  were  the  guests  of  Dr. 
Cowell  and  wife,  who  are  fearless  and  firm  for  the 
truth.  My  remarks  called  out  a  reply  from  a  Mr. 
Scott,  chaplain  of  the  lodge,  on  the  following  even- 


The  Iowa  Agent  at  the  Yearly  Meeting — .471  urgent  mes- 
sage from  Dakota — A  shameful  scene  at  a  funeral — 
The  Mosons  routed— Friends  and  subscribers— Jubelum 
exemplifies  the  Masonic  use  of  a  dictionary. 

Dear  Cynosure: — I  went  to  Oskaloosa  to  attend 
the  Iowa  Yearly  Meeting  of  the  Friends  church. 
A  Dakota  quarterly  meeting  had  sent  up  a  min- 
ute of  their  action,  which  led  to  the  appointment  of 
a  large  committee  on  secret  societies,  i  was  invited 
by  one  of  the  committee  to  meet  with  them  at  their 
first  session.  There  was  a  general  expression  of 
sentiment  in  the  form  of  a  conference  meeting,  by 
the  members  of  the  committee,  and  all  but  two  were 
radical  anti-secret  society  men.  One  of  them,  John 
F.  Hanson,  a  minister  in  the  Dakota  quarterly  meet- 
ing, spoke  of  an  audacious  effort  on  the  part  of 
some  Masons  to  capture  a  funeral  service  he  was 
conducting  and  turn  it  into  a  Masonic  parade. 

A  man  had  died  who  was  a  Mason,  but  had  ex- 
pressed no  desire  to  be  buried  with  Masonic  honors. 
His  widow  applied  to  Friend  Hanson  to  give  her 
deceased  husband  a  Christian  burial.  Bro.  Hanson 
consented  to  do  so,  provided  there  should  be  no  Ma- 
sonic ceremonies  at  the  funeral.  The  widow  said 
she  did  not  wish  any,  but  wanted  her  husband  to 
liave  a  Christian  burial.  Acordingly  they  proceed- 
ed with  the  funeral,  as  the  Friends  custom  is,  when 
a  company  of  Masons,  from  outside  of  the  commu- 
nity, appeared,  and  insisted  upon  taking  charge  of 
the  funeral  and  turning  what  was  meant  to  be  a 
Christian,  into  a  heathen  burial  service. 

Bro.  Hanson  remonstrated,  and  appealed  to  the 
widow.  She  reaffirmed  her  desire  that  her  husband 
should  have  a  strictly  Christian  burial, and  that  all  Ma- 
sonic ceremonies  should  be  excluded.  But  the  Masons 
insisted  that  the  deceased  was  their  "brother,"  and 
that  it  was  their  right  and  privilege  to  bury  him 
with  Masonic  honors. 

But  Friend  Hanson  was  equal  to  the  emergency. 
With  a  courage  born  of  conscientious  convictions, 
which  characterize  the  honest  Quaker,  he  said,  "Gen- 
tlemen, if  you  insist  upon  intermeddling  with  this 
burial  service,  I  will  send  men  to  fill  up  the  grave, 
and  there  will  be  no  burial  here  to-day."  Quiet, 
Quaker  grit,  bom  of  conscientious  scruples,  against 
mixing  Christian  with  Baal  worship,  triumphed  over 
Masonic  bluster,  and  the  deceased  received  a  Chris- 
tian burial,  as  his  widow  desired. 

The  report  of  the  committee  was  followed  by  a 
lively  discussion,  in  which  Friends  H  anson,  Douglas, 
and  Pres.  Trueblood,  of  Penn  College,  were  the 
principal  speakers.  Friend  Hanson  urged  that  more 
determined   effort  should  be  made  to  withstand 


that  the  church  should  more  actively  labor  to  with- 
stand and  remove  the  secret  lodge  system.  Friend 
Douglas  thought  that  much  had  been  done  to  resist 
the  encroachments  of  the  lodge  upon  the  church. 
Pres.  Trueblood  said  that  for  two  hundred  years  the 
Friends  had  stood  opposed  to  secret  societies.  That 
opposition  was  an  established  principle  of  the 
Friends  church.  That  the  policy  of  the  church 
towards  secret  societies  was  not  an  open  question  to 
be  discussed  and  determined,  but  a  question  that 
had  been  settled,  and  a  policy  that  had  been  estab- 
lished. 

It  was  refreshing  to  hear  Pres.  Trueblood's  re- 
marks; and  I  think  we  may  look  for  a  rising  tide 
of  Christian  zeal  and  effort  in  the  Friends  church, 
to  withstand  and  counteract  the  conspiracy  of  Sa- 
tan to  revive  heathenism  and  spread  infidelity  through 
the  secret  lodge  system. 

A  vast  multitude  gathered  on  the  Sabbath  at  the 
yearly  meeting;  as  many  as  eight  or  ten  thousand 
persons  were  there.    In  the  evening,  meetings  were 
held  in  most,  if  not  all  of  the  city  churches,  by  the 
Friends.  I  was  appointed.in  company  with  one  of  their 
ministers,  to  the  Free  Methodist  church  of  Oskaloosa. 
I  distributed  some  literature  among  the  Friends, 
and  conferred  with  Bro.  Hanson  in  regard  to  the 
outlook  in  Dakota.      I  think  the  way  will  open  for 
Secretary  Stoddard  to  hold  a  convention  in  Dakota, 
and  revive  the  Dakota  State  auxiliary  to  the  N.  C.  A. 
I  conferred  with  the  Friends  in  regard  to  future 
reform  work  in  their  localities,  and  as  to  how  we 
could  best   spread  reform  literature   through  the 
State,and  took  my  departure  before  the  annual  meet- 
ing adjourned,  and  came  to  Henry  county.  I  went  to 
Wyman  and  called  on  Mr.  Dodds,  a  staunch  reform- 
er of  the  Covenanter  church.      He  subscribed  for  a 
second  year's  reform  work,  and  furnished  me  a  horse 
to  ride.     He  also  paid  me  $7.50  that  he  had  collect- 
ed on  last  year's  subscription  to  the  State  Associa- 
tion.    I  called  upon  Rev.  Mr.  Black,  the  pastor  of 
the  Covenanter  church  of  Wyman.     Here  I  met  Rev. 
Acheson,  pastor  of  the  Covenanter  church  of  Hop- 
kinton,  Delaware  county,  and  enjoyed  a  very  pleas- 
ant interview.     Rev.  Black  renewed  his  subscription 
to  the    Cynosure;  and   he  and  Rev.   Acheson  ex- 
pressed their  sympathy  with  the  reform  work.     T. 
G.  Dunn,  J.  H.  Graham,  T.  G.  Graham,  J.  K.  Can- 
on, L  M.   Sampson,  and  0.  L.  Sampson  gave  sub- 
scriptions or  donations  to  the  Iowa  work. 

Saturday  and  Sabbath  I  spent  with  Rev.  Geo.  Fry, 
assisting  him  in  his  quarterly  meeting  services.  On 
Monday  I  went  to  Swedesburgh,  and  on  my  return 
I  found  Mr.  John  Robison  of  the  Ainsworth  United 
Presbyterian  congregation.  By  invitation  I  went 
home  with  him,  two  miles  south  of  Ainsworth,  and 
spent  the  night.  The  next  morning  he  took  me  to 
Ainsworth,  and  introduced  me  to  several  of  the 
brethren  of  the  church.  The  question  of  having  a 
lecture  against  the  secret  society  system  in  the  future 
was  favorably  considered.  Among  the  rest  he  intro- 
duced me  to  Mr.  Thompson,  a  seceding  Mason  of 
three  degrees.  He  manifested  a  warm  interest  in 
having  the  lodge  system  discussed  in  Ainsworth. 
I  asked  him  if  he  had  examined  the  revelations  of 
Freemasonry.  He  said  he  had  carefully  examined 
Mr.  Ronayne's  Handbook,  and  he  found  it  very  ac- 
curate. He  said  he  had  witnessed  some  thrilling 
scenes  in  the  lodge.  He  spoke  of  one  candidate 
who,  alarmed  and  angered  by  the  savage  threats  of 
the  three  ruffians,  determined  to  defend  himself 
against  their  attempts  to  take  his  life.  But  in  vain 
did  the  poor  blind  candidate  struggle  to  avert  his 
coming  doom.  The  ruffian,  Jubelum,  had  broken 
his  setting  maul,  so  that  his  declaration,  "I  hold  in 
my  hand  an  instrument  of  death,"  seemed  an  idle 
threat.  But,  alas,  the  poor,  blind  candidate  could 
not,  therefore,  escape  his  vengeance.  Instead  of 
his  setting  maul,  the  ruffian  grasped  an  unabridged 
dictionary  and  struck  the  candidate  in  the  forehead, 
and  if  he  did  not  literally  break  his  skull,  he  did 
knock  him  senseless  into  the  canvas.  But  he  was 
not  killed,  as  the  man  in  the  Geneva  Lodge  was, 
and  so  after  he  had  been  in  the  canvas,  or  been  Ma- 
sonically  buried,  long  enough  to  revive,  they  cjould 
play  at  resurrecting  him. 

But  will  Christians  play  at  MURDER,  and  then  blas- 
phemously assume  to  resurrect  their  victims?  Will 
Christians  submit  to,  and  join  in,  the  ceremonies  of 
ancient  craft  Masonry,  when  they  know  that  they 
are  a  revival  of  the  ceremonies  of  the  ancient  hea- 
then Baal  worship?  Will  Christians  join  in  these 
ceremonies,  when  they  know  that  they  are  processes 
of  regeneration  according  to  the  religion  of  Free- 
masonry, as  taught  by  the  authority  of  the  Grand 
Lodges?  Will  Christians,  I  repeat,  endorse  and 
sanction  a  religion  that  assumes  to  regenerate  by 
heathen  ceremonies,  and  to  sanctify  by  the  strict  ob- 
servance of  obligations  that  bind  to  sin,  and  that 
practices  a  deistical  worship?      Can  a  man  practice 


the  ^ . 

encroachments  of  the  lodge  upon  the  church;  and   a  religion  that  binds  to  sin,  that  ignores  Christ,  and 


OoTOBEa  6, 188» 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSTIRE. 


that  is  pagan  in  its  ceremonies,  and  not  be  a  friend, 
yea,  a  worshiper  of  Satan?  And  can  u  man  be  a 
friend  of  Christ  who  is  also  a  friend  of  Satan?  One 
query  more:  Will  Christ  accept  the  worship  of  that 
man  who  is  also  a  worshiper  of  devils? 

May  the  omnipotent  Christ,  by  the  power  of  the 
Holy  Ghost,  break  the  mesmeric  spell  of  Satan,  and 
give  these  lodge  worshipers  to  see  that  they  cannot 
drink  the  cup  of  the  Lord  and  the  cup  of  devils; 
that  they  cannot  be  partakers  of  the  Lord's  table 
and  the  table  of  devils.  Oh,  my  brethren,  what  con- 
cord hath  Christ  with  Belial?  and  What  part  hath  he 
that  believeth  with  an  infidel?  Will  you  not,  then, 
come  out  and  be  separate?  .Will  you  not  so  heart- 
ily renounce  this  abomination  as  not  to  touch  the 
unclean  thing?     Yours  in  Jesus,     C.  F.  Hawlky. 


THE  WIBGOHaiN  MEBTINQ. 


Milton,  Wis.,  Sept.  30,  1887. 

The  annual  convention  of  the  Wisconsin  State 
Christian  Association  for  1887  is  an  event  of  the 
past,  and  those  attending  pronounced  it  a  time  of 
refreshing  and  inspiration  for  renewed  effjrt.  In 
the  absence  of  the  president,  J.  W.  Wood,  vice-pres- 
ident Rev.  Isaiah  Faris  took  the  chair,  and  Mrs.  W. 
W.  Ames  ably  and  acceptably  performed  the  duties 
of  her  husband  as  secretary.  Bro.  Arnold's  illus- 
trated lectures  on  the  two  evenings  preceding  had 
awakened  a  good  deal  of  interest,  and  assured  a  full 
house  and  attentive  evening  audience.  The  day  ses- 
sions were  largely  devotional,  interspersed  with  per- 
sonal experiences,  brief  speeches  and  necessary  bus- 
iness. Bro.  Faris's  address  on  secrecy  as  a  basis 
of  organization  was  able,  original,  and  justly  deserv- 
ing of  the  undivided  attention  it  received  from  every 
thoughtful  person  present.  Bro.  F.  has  promised 
the  substance  of  his  address  for  the  readers  of  the 
Cynosure,  and  I  am  confident  that  it  will  be  read 
with  marked  interest  and  profit  by  all.  A  Bible 
reading  lead  by  Bro.  Butler  occupied  most  of  the 
forenoon  of  the  second  day,  and  as  this  is  a  com- 
munity of  Bible  readers,  the  exercises  were  intelli- 
gent and  characterized  by  great  thoroughness. 

Bro.  Faris  was  obliged  to  leave  on  the  1  o'clock 
p.  M.  train  to  meet  previous  engagements,  and  vice- 
president  Elder  N.  Wardner  took  the  chair.  The 
minor  secret  orders  were  discussed  at  some  length, 
and  several  instances  given  showing  the  identity  of 
the  whole  system  of  secretism.  Delegates  were  ap- 
pointed to  the  National  Prohibition  Conference  in 
Chicago,and  appropriate  resolutions  reported  by  the 
committee  considered  and  adopted,  all  of  which  will 
be  reported  with  the  proceedings  of  the  convention 
by  the  secretary.  J.  P.  Stoddard. 


UP  AND  DOWN  IN  ALABAMA. 


Dear  Cynosure:— I  left  Rome,  Ga.,  on  the  22nd 
and  came  South  to  Cave  Springs,  Ga.,  a  pleasant, 
quiet  village  of  1,000  inhabitants  and  the  seat  of  the 
Deaf  Mute  Schools  for  the  State.  The  town  owes 
its  name  to  a  magnificent  spring  and  is  in  the  midst 
of  beautiful  hills  and  a  fair  farming  country.  It  has 
two  hotels  and  no  saloon.  The  school  building  for 
white  mutes  is  commodious  and  surrounded  with 
beautiful  grounds.  That  for  the  colored  is  newer 
and  there  have  been  no  pains  taken  for  adornment. 
It  illustrates  the  power  of  Southern  prejudice  that 
these  mutes,  who  work  together  in  the  same  shops, 
should  have  to  be,  at  great  additional  expense,  edu- 
cated separately.  These  schools  can  only  include 
but  a  fraction  of  this  unfortunate  class.  There  are 
but  eighteen  colored  and  about  thirty -six  white  pu- 
pils, though  I  was  told  that  later  in  the  season  the 
number  would  be  increased. 

The  superintendent  of  the  colored  school,  Rev.  M. 
M.  Alston,  gave  me  much  information  and  showed 
me  much  kindness.  He,  with  three  other  colored 
ministers,  has  been  caught  in  the  lodge  net.  They 
are  all  Freemasons,  Odd-fellows,  or  both.  All  ad- 
mitted that  the  lodges  worked  much  evil  to  the 
churches,  but  the  Baptist  brother  was  strongly  in  the 
belief  that  Masonry  was  founded  on  the  Bible  and 
was  fully  recognized  and  endorsed  by  it,  though,  as 
usual,  he  failed  to  find  the  passages.  Others  had 
never  heard  that  there  were  any  objections  to  the 
system,  but  all  treated  me  most  kindly  and  gladly 
received  our  literature. 

From  there  I  came  to  Anniston,  Ala.  This,  like 
Cave  Springs,  is  a  "dry  town."  In  both  cases  the 
absence  of  the  dram  shops  is  most  noticeable.  But 
Anniston  is  essentially  a  New  England  village. 
Large  factories  keep  up  a  constant  bum  and  roar. 
Long'  rows  of  tenement  houses  exactly  alike  show 
where  are  thfi  homes  of  the  operatives,  while  great 
quantities  of  pig  and  rolled  iron  and  bales  oi  cotton 
and  cotton  goods  tell  what  is  being  accomplished. 
One'  of  the  largest  and  finest  hotels  of  the  Souih  is 
known  as  "The  Inn." 


all  seem  well  patronized.  New  blocks  of  buildings 
are  going  up  in  every  direction.  They  are  all  large 
and  substantial  brick  structures  and  this  town  prom- 
ises to  rival  Birmingham  as  a  manufacturing  city. 

The  Congregational  church  (colored)  has  a  large 
new  house  of  worship,  about  the  finest  in  the  city. 
Its  pastor  was  holding  a  series  of  meetings,  assisted 
by  Rev.  Snell  of  Birmingham.  The  Knights  of  La- 
bor, both  white  and  colored,  are  numerous  and 
strong,  but  other  secret  societies  seem  not  to  have 
obtained  much  foothold. 

The  field  was  not  promising  and  I  left  Saturday, 
the  24th,  on  the  narrow-guage  road  for  Talladega, 
where  I  found  the  school  had  not  yet  opened.  The 
term  commences  Oct.  Ist.  Pres.  DeForest  is  still 
North,  though  his  family  are  here  I  was  most 
kindly  received  by  the  treasurer.  Prof.  Silsber,  and 
was  assigned  a  most  pleasant  room  at  Stone  Hall, 
and  I  take  my  meals  at  Foster  Hall,  which  is  under 
the  care  of  the  new  matron.  Miss  Topping,  from  Ol- 
ivet, Mich.  Every  one  connected  with  this  school 
that  I  have  met  is  thoroughly  in  sympathy  with 
our  reform,  and  nowhere  have  I  received  greater 
personal  kindness.  The  past  year  was  a  good  one 
and  the  prospects  of  the  school  are  excellent.  A 
large  addition  is  being  made  to  the  primary  depart- 
ment. The  new  bull  ing  is  not  yet  completed.  The 
sleepy  old  town  is  waking  and  putting  on  new  life. 
The  corn  and  cotton  crops  have  been  fairly  good  and 
there  is  not  so  much  want  and  distress  among  the 
poor.  The  college  farm  under  the  management  of 
Mr.  Bishop,  who  is  enthusiastic  in  his  profession,  is 
fairly  successful  and  a  good  object  lesson  to  the 
old-time  farmers  around. 

Yesterday  forenoon  I  listened  to  a  carefully  pre- 
pared sermon  from  Bro.  Sims,  a  theological  student. 
At  3  p.  M.  I  preached  to  a  full  house  in  the  Second 
Baptist  church  (colored)  and  at  night  in  the  A.  M.  E. 
Zion  church.  In  both  cases  I  dwelt  at  some  length 
on  the  unchristian  character  of  the  lodge,  and  I 
think  had  the  sympathies  of  most  that  heard  me. 
The  pastors  of  these  two  churches  were  formerly 
students  in  this  school,  and  are  in  sympathy  with 
its  objects  and  teachings.  Rev.  Barton,  the  Baptist 
pastor,  told  me  six  years  ago  that  he  was  a  Mason 
and  saw  no  evil  in  Masonry.  Now  he  says  he  has 
long  been  suspended  for  non-payment  of  dues  and 
has  no  desire  ever  to  see  the  inside  again.  Rev. 
Carter  has  never  joined  any  lodge,  though  he  says 
his  bishop  has  often  urged  him  to  become  a  Mason. 
Both  gladly  accepted  tracts  and  papers  and  heartily 
endorsed  what  I  said  to  their  people. 

I  expect  to  go  from  here  to  Selma,  Ala.,  and  to 
remain  some  time  in  that  part  of  the  State.  The 
cool  northern  winds  are  bringing  back  the  energy 
that  was  well  nigh  exhausted  by  the  long  summer 
heat.  The  mountains  loom  up  grandly  in  the  dis- 
tance and  I  feel  like  singing, 

"Thus  tar  the  Lord  hath  led  me  on, 
Thus  far  his  power  prolongs  my  days, 
And  every  evening  shall  make  known 
Some  fresh  memorial  of  his  grace." 

H.    H.    HiNMAN. 


ran  down  to  Belvidere,  111.,  to  meet  with  the  State 
anti-secret  convention.     Though  the  rain  fell  all  af- 
ternoon and  evening,  yet  the  attendance  was  en- 
couraging.    It  was  pleasant  to  meet  so  many  of  the 
veterans  in  the  war  with  secrecy.     The  church  most 
strongly  represented  was  the  Wesleyan  Methodist. 
I  am  satisfied  that  this  denomination  stands  more 
squarely  on  the  anti-secret  issue  than  any  church  in 
the  United  States.     There  are  few  of  their  ministers 
who  do  not  read  the  Cynosure.     They  are  also  a  unit 
on  the  National  Reform  question.       I  have  often 
thought   if  the  old   Covenanter  church  ever  cuts 
loose  and  drifts  with  the  tide,  I   will  apply  for  a 
ticket  on  board  the  old  Wesleyan  Methodist.      Bro. 
John  Harper,  of  the  U.  P.  church,  Smiihville,  111., 
who  is  as  much  interested  in  the  anti-secret  reform 
as  any  pastor,  in  his  denomination,told  me  once  that 
if  the  old  U.  P.  church  ever  drifted  from  its  moor- 
ings, and  the  gang  plank  of  the  Covenanter  church 
was  out,  he  would  embark  on  it;  if  not,  he  would  try 
for  a  passage  on   board  the   Wesleyan   Methodist 
The  Covenanters,  next  to  the  Wesleyans,  are  the 
most  interested  in  thej  anti-secret  work,  but  I  was 
sorry  that  neither  they  nor  the  United  Presbyteri- 
ans were  represented  at  this  convention  except  bv 
the  writer.     I  know  that  Dr.  Kennedy  of  the  U.  P. 
church  at  Somonauk.and  Bro.  Harper  of  Smithville, 
and  Bro.  White  of  Hanover  are  deeply  interested  in 
this    reform.       Bro.    Harper    once   purchased  $40 
worth  of  N.  C.  A.  literature  at  his  own  expense  to 
distribute  among  his  people.       But  these  brethren 
are  so  educated  as   to  regard  the  truth  as  a  unit; 
they  can't  maintain  one  part  at  the  expense  of  put- 
ting down  another.     Thev  have  so  strongly  imbibed 
Dr.  Blanchard's  idea  of  the  tremendous  seducing 
power  of  false  worships  that  they  will  not  counte- 
nance the  singing  of  anything  in  worship  but  the 
divinely-inspired  Psalms.      They  believe  it  matters 
little  who  makes   the   laws   of   a  church,  if  "Tom, 
Dick  and  Harr^-"  make  their  songs.       Now  I  verily 
believe  these  good  brethren  do  not  feel  at  home  in 
N.  C.  A.  meetings,  because  none  of  their  inspired 
Bible  Psalms  are  sung.       Bro.  J.  D.  Smith  of  Lodi, 
Wis.,  is  at  work  selecting  a  dozen  or  more  of  the 
best  National  Reform  and  anti-secret  Psalms,  in  or- 
der to  have  them  printed  on  slips  to  be  used  in  re- 
form meetings.       And  who  would  object  to  giving 
them  a  trial,selecting  some  of  the  old  familiar  tunes 
that  all  may  sing?  M.  A.  Gault. 


NOTES  OF  A  NATIONAL  REFORMER. 

On  the  bank  of  the  Fox  river,  nine  miles  north  of 
Portage,  Wis.,  I  found  a  psalm-singing  U  P.  min- 
ister's family,  who  take  the  Cynosure,  Statesman, 
Voice,  Prohibitionist  and  InUrxictor.  His  four  boys, 
Thurlow,  Everett,  John  and  Willie,  and  the  mother 
are  good  singers  and  make  the  house  ring  with  the 
melody  of  the  old  Psalms  at  morning  and  evening 
worship.  They  are  saturated  with  the  ideas  of  these 
reform  papers,  and  the  boys,  with  their  old  reform 
horse  "Prince,"  took  me  out  to  three  meetings  and 
around  the  congregation,  talking  up  our  work.  The 
father,  Bro  R.  G.  Campl)ell,  was  away  preaching  in 
Iowa.  He  says  the  great  danger  threatening  the 
destruction  of  the  church  as  well  as  the  nation  is  the 
influence  of  secret  organizations.  In  most  towns  he 
visits  these  secret  orders  lead  young  men  away  from 
the  church  and  absorb  their  interest;  they  educate 
them  to  desecrate  the  Sabbath  by  their  Sunday  pa- 
rades and  excursions. 

At  Janesville  I  preached  in  two  of  the  leading 
churches  on  Sabbath,  and  ftmud  a  pleasant  home 
with  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Stevens,  the  only  (}yuo»ure  read- 
ers in  town.  Those  Cytuisure  people  always  have 
their  latch  strings  out  for  nform  pilgrims.  Bro. 
W.  F.  Brown,  the  scholarly  pastor  of  tho  Presbyter- 
ian church,  took  me  home  for  dinner.  He  never  saw 
the  C^/nosure  or  hoard  the  Blanchards.  How  true 
that  half  the  world  know  not  how  the  other  hnlf 
live.  I  said  to  an  intelligent  Janesville  lady,  "D> 
you  know  where  the  early  home  of  Frances  K  Wil- 
lard  was?  Sue  replied,  "Francis  E.  VVilUrU?  Who 
was  ho?" 

After  two  days  spent  in  riding  over  Rock  Prairie 
There  are  several  others  and  and  addressing  two  tneetings  in  the  U.  P.  church,  I 


W.  B.  STODDARD  AT  MANSFIELD,  0. 

A  few  evenings  ago  we  had  the  pleasure  of  hear- 
ing W.  B.  Stoddard,  the  State  agent  of  the  Ohio 
Christian  Association.  About  two  hundred  persons 
assembled  in  the  United  Presbyterian  church  at  the 
appointed  time.  This  was  Mr  Stoddard's  first  ap- 
pearance before  a  Mansfield  audience,  but  as  he  is 
not  particularly  timid,that  did  not  seem  to  atlect  him 
any,  and  for  an  hour  and  a  half  he  spoke  with  ease 
and  power,  showing  the  anti-Christian  character  of 
the  lodge,and  pleading  with  the  young  men  to  weigh 
well  his  words  and  closely  examine  from  the  out- 
side before  they  sought  entrance  into  the  dark 
places. 

As  usual  there  were  some  who  said  the  speaker 
did  not  know  what  he  was  talking  about,  and  tried 
to  turn  it  ofl  with  a  jest;  otherwise  his  lecture  was 
well  received.  Mr.  Stoddard  is  an  indefatigable 
worker  and  is  sowing  the  seed  throughout  the  State 
in  a  lively  manner.  He  is  doing  a  good  work  and 
we  are  glad  to  encourage  him  on  bis  way.  He  is 
now  working  up  the  State  meeting,  which  will  con- 
vene in  a  month  or  six  weeks.  We  ask  for  him  the 
support  of  all  who  love  this  cause. 

S.  A.  Gkobqb. 


BRO.  BUTLERS   BIBLE  READING. 


Milton  Junction,  Wis.,  Sept  26,  1887. 

Dear  Cynosure: — Yesterday  morning  Mr.  M.  N. 
Butler  put  in  an  Appearance  at  the  regular  church 
services  at  East  Fulton.  He  gave  a  short  account 
of  the  Belvidere  meeting,  also  the  notice  of  the  com- 
ing State  convention  and  requested  the  privilege  of 
holding  a  Bible  reading  in  the  evening,  which  was 
readily  granted,  I  am  told.  I  don't  ka'>w  wis'-  kiud 
Sf  a  punishment  he  is  deserving  of,  for  he  di  J  not 
bk*v)rm  the  audience  what  the  subject  would  bt>,  and 
of  course  the  unsusppcting,  innocent,  Bible-loviog 
people  of  Eist  Fulton  did  not  dream  that  any  hirm 
could  come  from  a  Bible-reading;  but  how  thoy  were 
disappointed  I 

The  first  part  of  his  reading  boing  on  temp  — ince 
was  plensing  and  highly  appricititt-d.asfar  a-«  I  •  u'd 
judge;  but  the  last  p  irt  r-  minded  me  very  sKingly 
of  the  old  d«rke\'8  revival  meeting,  when  h  '»r  tri.T 
minister  came  to  see  him  and  Wiis  invittMl  t<>  p  ach 
with  the  injunction  that  be  "mustn't  sayaa^tniog 
about  stealin'  as  it  would  throw  a  ooldueM  osvx  Ibe 


IMEl  CHRISTIAir  CTHTOSUREi. 


October  6, 1887 


meetin'."  So  when  Mr.  Butler  read  the  words,  "In 
secret  have  I  said  nothing,"  so  severe  a  chill  seized 
upon  a  part  of  the  congregation  that  even  a  very 
large  dose  of  quinine  could  not  have  removed  it. 

Now  we  do  not  want  the  Cynosure  to  get  a  wrong 
impression  of  the  East  Fulton  anti-secrecy  workers. 
They  are  very  strongly  opposed  to  secrecy,but  don't 
believe  in  talking  about  it  all  the  time,  and  as  it  has 
only  been  nine  years  since  we  had  a  lecture  on  the 
subject,  they  consider  Mr.  Butler's  talk  entirely  out 
of  place.  The  people  of  this  place  have  been  warn- 
ed enough,  and  if  they  choose  to  go  on  in  the  wrong 
way  we  should  throw  no  stumbling  stones  in  their 
path.  It  is  distinctly  understood  that  we  are  an 
anti-secrecy  people,  and  that  is  all  that  is  sufficient. 
So  say  some.  However.there  are  anti-secrecy  people 
here  that  can't  be  killed.  Praise  the  Lord,  0  my 
soul. 

Some  of  us  enjoyed  Mr.  Butler's  talk  very  much 
for  it  came  in  answer  to  the  prayers  of  years,  and 
from  the  very  depths  of  our  hearts  we  sang:"Praise 
God  from  whom  all  blessings  flow,"  that  once 
more  on  the  shore  of  time  and  in  that  dear  old 
church  we  were  permitted  to  hear,  flashing  from  the 
earnest  mind  of  one  standing  on  the  rock  Christ 
Jesu8,the  words  of  God's  eternal  truth  on  one  of  the 
eading  topics  of  the  day. 

On  looking  the  ground  over  and  hearing  the  re- 
marks made  by  different  ones  1  am  convinced  that 
Mr.  Butler's  reading  has  done  good  and  that  the 
anti-secrecy  cause  is  in  a  more  favorable  condition 
in  our  place  than  ever  before.  If  this  proves  to  be 
true  we  must  follow  it  up  in  some  way. 

And  now  we  are  standing  on  the  eve  of  our  annual 
meeting  and  our  hearts  are  lifted  to  God  as  never 
before  for  success  in  our  work.  Oh,  may  we  all  be 
united  and  lay  firm  hold  on  the  promises  that  never 
fail,  is  the  earnest  prayer  of  your  co-laborer  in  the 
vineyard  of  the  Master,         Mattie  S.  Iiarvey. 


COREESPONDENCE. 


MASONIC  FRUIT. 


DeKalb,  Iowa. 

Many  of  the  Cynomre  readers  will  doubtless  re- 
member of  a  Dr.  Quigley,  who  tried  to  burn  up  a 
dead  body  along  with  his  office  in  Redding,  Iowa,  to 
procure  life  insurance  money.  He  absconded,  but 
was  captured  and  brought  back  to  Ringgold  county 
for  trial,  when  he  took  a  change  to  Decatur  county, 
where  he  was  convicted  and  sentenced  to  a  term  in 
the  penitentiary.  I  am  informed  by  a  man  who  has 
taken  twenty-two  degrees  in  Freemasonry  that  the 
money  of  the  lodges  caused  the  sheriff  to  sleep  while 
on  the  cars  guarding  the  prisoner  to  his  supposed 
and  lawful  destination;  the  train  also  ran  slow  while 
the  conductor  turned  his  back,and  the  doctor  stepped 
off  the  cars  and  made  good  his  escape.  He  never 
arrived  at  the  prison. 

This  summer  there  was  a  crime  committed  on  the 
person,  I  am  informed,  of  a  Mason's  wife.  The  sup- 
posed criminal  was  easily  captured  and  lodged  in 
jail  at  Leon.  The  man  was  taken  from  prison  in  the 
night  and  hanged  without  judge  or  jury,  because  he 
could  not  give  the  grand  hailing  sign.  It  is  claimed 
by  many,  and  I  think  generally  believed,  that  the 
mob  that  performed  the  lynching  was  composed  of 
Masons  and  Odd-fellows.  Public  opinion  is  divided 
as  to  the  man's  innocence  or  guilt.  If  the  man  was 
guilty  or  innocent  he  would  get  justice  in  the  courts 
and  the  law  vindicated,  if  it  was  not  for  lodgery.  It 
is  time  that  the  voters  of  this  country  should  wake 
up  to  the  fact  that  "something  rotten"is  holding  the 
offices  of  trust  and  honor,  for  "Justice  is  turned 
away  back  and  Equity  has  fallen  in  our  streets." 

Cybds  Smith. 


HHALL  WE  DO  EVIL  THAT  GOOD  MAY 
COMET 

Beloit,  Kans. 

In  reading  different  reports  from  Lake  Bluff,  as 
well  as  other  instances  where  the  right  hand  of  fel- 
lowship has  been  given  by  the  leaders  of  the  W.  C. 
T.  U.  to  organizations  that  savor  so  much  of  a  mix- 
ture of  evil  with  the  good,  I  have  been  so  filled  with 
fear  lest  great  harm  might  come  to  our  dear  Union 
through  afiiliation  with  these  associations  that  I  shall 
not  be  uncondemned  unless  I  speak  out  on  the  sub- 
ject 

From  quite  a  retired  standjwint  I  have  been  look- 
ing out  upon  the  great  moral  battlefield,  and  watch- 
ing with  a  very  jealous  eye  the  wooings  of  artful 
enemies.  The  cunning  of  the  arch  fiend  forbids  any 
bold  attack  on  the  White  Ribbon  Army,  therefore 
lie  transforms  himself  into  an  angel  of  light,  and 
with  fawning  advances  seeks  to  decoy  this  enemy 
of  bis  into  a  snare  that  will  surely  bring  defeat  It 
will  not  do  foi  the  W.  C.  T.  U.  to  lay  her  head  in 


the  lap  of  the  Delilah  of  secretism  in  any  form,  nor 
her  hand  in  the  paw  of  papacy,  or  nod  gracefully  to 
that  institution  that  has  "no  prayers  nor  religious 
services."  The  chief  end  of  man  is  to  glorify  God, 
and  we  have  no  right  to  any  "business"  that  is  not 
religious  service  and  needs  prayer  without  ceasing. 
God  help  us  to  watch  as  well  as  pray. 

Mrs.  L.  T.  McKune. 


TBE  NSW  IBERIA  SCHOOL. 


New  Iberia,  La.,  Sept,  24th,  1887. 

Dear  Editor: — Since  I  wrote  you  last  Mr.  Peter 
Howe  sent  word  to  Mr.  Gunner  to  have  the  school 
building  put  in  good  repair  and  furnished  with 
proper  seats  and  desks,  stating  that  he  would  pay 
the  bills.  Mr.  G.  went  right  to  work  and  ordered 
material  and  set  carpenters  and  painters  to 
work,  and  the  place  is  now  undergoing  a  rapid  trans- 
formation. Books  and  papers  for  a  library  and  a 
piano  are  among  the  things  very  much  needed  for 
present  use.     School  will  open  in  October. 

This  community  has  met  with  a  great  loss  in  the 
death  of  Miss  Kate  Gunner,  sister  of  Rev.  Byron 
Gunner.  She  was  an  intelligent  young  lady,  and  a 
graduate  of  Straight  University,  New  Orleans.  She 
had  taught  a  private  school  here  for  a  year,and  did  a 
great  amount  of  good  by  her  teaching  and  quiet 
Christian  example,  and  was  to  be  one  of  the  teach- 
ers in  "Howe  Institute."  She  went  home  to  Marion, 
Ala.,thi8  summer  to  see  her  father  and  other  friends, 
and  after  a  pleasant  visit  of  three  or  four  weeks  she 
took  sick,and  after  suffering  very  patiently  for  about 
a  month  with  heart  disease  she  died  on  the  3rd  of 
this  month.  She  is  greatly  lamented  by  old  and 
young.  Sarah  A.  Farley. 


Bible  Lesson. 


STUDIES  IN  THE  NEW  TESTAMENT. 

LESSON  III.— Oct.  16.— Power  to  Forgive  Sins.— Matt.  9 : 1-8. 

GOLDEN  TEXT.— The  Son  of  man  hath  power  on  earth  to 
forgive  sins.'— Matt.  9 :  6. 

[Open  the  Bible  and  read  the  les8on.^ 

COMMENTS   ON   THE  LESSON   BY  E.  E.  ELAGG. 

1.  Jesus,  the  Great  Physician,  vs.  1-8.  This  case  is 
unique  in  the  fact  that  reference  is  made  entirely,  not  to 
the  faith  of  the  sick  man,  but  to  the  faith  of  those  who 
brought  him.  We  are  told  by  Mark  and  Luke  that  una 
ble  to  make  a  passage  through  the  crowd,  they  uncovered 
the  roof  where  he  was  and  let  him  down  into  the  midst 
before  Jesus .  They  were  not  to  be  turned  back  in  this 
purpose  by  any  difficulty  or  any  obstacle.  Theirs  was 
the  kind  of  faith  which  removes  mountains.  That  is  not 
faith  which  always  sees  its  path  clear,  which  no  walls  of 
Jericho  stretch  before,  no  lion  in  the  way  seeks  to  daunt, 
We  are  not  told  that  the  sick  man  had  no  faith,  but 
unquestionably  it  was  that  exercised  by  his  four  friends 
which  brought  him  the  blessing.  We  may  not  limit  the 
Lord's  power,  or  say  how  far  faith  must  be  personal  and 
individual.  He  who  has  taught  us  to  pray  for  others 
will  surely  honor  faith  for  others.  The  risk  is  always  in 
exercising  too  little,  not  too  much.  Christ  began  the 
work  of  cure  by  forgiving  his  sins.  Bodily  healing  must 
follow  soul  healing.  The  whole  man  must  be  changed, 
made  one  with  God,  and  then  he  will  keep  those  divine 
laws  of  health  which  are  written  in  his  being.  A  great 
physiologist  has  said,  "Nature  is  kind;  she  always  meets 
the  repentant  half  way."  And  when  a  man  is  made  spir 
itually  whole,  natural  law  and  spiritual  law  work  together 
for  his  healing.  In  forgiveness  of  sins  we  have  the 
guarantee  of  all  lesser  blessings.  That  the  power  of 
Christ  can  make  a  drunken  sot,  pure  and  honored  and 
respected;  that  he  can  make  a  frivolous,  ease-loving  soul 
earnest  and  self-sacrificing,  is  the  real  test  of  his  divinity, 
And  at  the  same  time  let  us  not  lose  sight  of  one  of  the 
most  important  lessons  which  the  story  of  this  miracle  is 
intended  to  convey:  not  to  divorce  what  the  Psalmist  so 
beautifully  joins  together,  "Who  forgiveth  all  thy  sins, 
who  healeth  all  thy  diseases." 

2.  The  Calling  of  Matthew,  v.  D.  Matthew  is  careful 
to  mention  what  the  other  evangelists  omit — his  obnox- 
ious calling,  as  if  to  give  special  prominence  to  the  fact 
that  his  Lord  was  no  respecter  of  persons.  There  is  a 
sense  in  which  all  who  are  not  following  Christ  are  like 
Matthew,  sitting  at  the  receipt  of  custom.  They  are 
looking  out  for  all  the  world  cau  give  them,  whether  of 
pleasure  or  gain.  They  are  trying  to  make  the  world 
tributary  to  their  own  selfishness.  No  Christian  ever 
says,  "The  world  owes  me  a  living."  The  world  is  not 
his  master  and  there  cannot  be  between  them  any  account 
either  of  debt  or  credit. 

;{.  Dijferencex  hetteeen  ChHst'a  religion  and  the  Phari- 
seeti'.  vs.  10-18.  Doctrines  so  now  would  naturally 
arouse  caviling;  and  when  Christ  went  publicly  to  dine 


with  the  publican,  Matthew,  the  offended  Pharisees  ask 
the  disciples,  "Why  eateth  your  Master  with  publicans 
and  sinners?" — a  question  which  was  probably  at  this 
early  stage  of  their  discipleship  too  hard  for  them.  But 
it  is  not  them  that  are  whole  or  who  think  themselves 
whole  that  need  a  physician,  but  they  who  are  sick.  To 
think  one's  self  good  enough  already  is  to  stand  outside  the 
pale  of  Christ's  mission.  This  is  the  .great  evil  of  the 
lodge  system  taken  at  its  best.  It  teaches  that  the  prac- 
tice of  certain  virtues,  certain  duties,  have  in  themselves 
a  saving  power,  and  thus  inculcate  a  selfish,  utterly 
Christless  morality  that  keeps  its  deluded  votaries  from 
ever  seeking  the  true  Light.  The  disciples  of  the  ascetic 
John  have  another  question  to  ask,  why  Christ's  disciples 
neglect  fasting.  They  did  not  understand  that  the  whole 
genus  of  the  new  dispensation  is  opposed  to  the  old;  that 
one  was  narrow,  the  other  broad  as  the  universe;  that  one 
made  much  of  the  Spirit,  the  other  of  the  mere  letter. 
While  religion  always  remains  the  same,  the  forms  of 
religion  vary  with  human  needs.  The  monastic,  mystical 
type  of  Kempis  and  Madame  Guyon  have  passed  away, 
with  what  we  may  call  the  theological  type  of  the  last 
century.  We  have  instead  an  era  when  religion  takes 
the  form  of  great  personal  activity.  Mission,  evangelical 
and  reform  work  have  taken  the  place  of  abstract  medi- 
tation and  theological  subtleties.  It  is  not  so  much  lit- 
eral fasting  as  plain  and  abstemious  living  which  is  now 
the  duty  of  Christian  laborers.     In  the  words  of  Lowell . 

"New  occasions  teach  new  duties;  Time  makes  ancient  good 

uncouth ; 
They  must  upward  still  and  onward  who  would  keep  abreast  of 

Truth." 

From  Peloubet's  Notes. 

"Thy  sins  be  forgiven  thee."  This  forgiveness  was 
doubtless  the  very  boon  which,  above  all  others,  the 
young  man  needed  and  desired.  Jesus  was  reading  his 
heart.  His  affliction  had  been  blessed  to  him.  It  had 
led  him  first  to  thoughtfulness;  then  to  repentance;  and 
now  to  the  Saviour  of  sinners,  who  assured  him  of  the 
forgiveness  of  his  sins.  Possibly,  too,  there  may  have 
been  in  this  case  a  peculiar  connection  between  the 
youth's  sins  and  his  sickness.  The  one  may  have  been 
cause,  the  other  effect.  If  so,  his  penitence  would  proba- 
bly be  all  the  deeper;  and  his  joy  would  be  all  the  greater, 
when  the  loving  Saviour  looked  into  his  eyes,  »nd  said 
into  his  ears,  and  to  his  heart,  Thy  sins  are  forgiven. 
Take  ncte,  says  Luther,  of  the  thy. — Morison. 

"Wherefore  think  ye  evil  in  your  hearts?"  Your 
minds.  Why  do  you  judge  me  thus  unkindly?  Why  do 
you  charge  me  with  blasphemy?  (1)  Their  thoughts 
were  evil  in  themselves,  because  they  regarded  the  high- 
est life  as  a  blasphemy,  and  also,  (2)  because  they  ex- 
pressed not  openly  their  scruples. — Lange.  And  (3) 
because  they  exercised  a  malevolent  spirit  and  unkind 
judgment.  Chrysostom  notes  the  gentleness  of  Christ's 
rebuke:  "He  said  not,  O  accursed  and  sorcerers,  as  ye 
are;  O  ye  envious  and  enemies  of  men's  salvation,  but. 
Wherefore  think  ye  evil  in  your  hearts?"  And  he  applies 
Christ's  example  to  the  modern  teacher:  "We  must,  you 
see,  use  gentleness,  to  eradicate  the  disease;  since  he  who 
has  become  better  through  the  fear  of  man,  will  quickly 
return  to  wickedness  again." — Abbott. 

"For  whether  is  easier  to  say,"  etc.  In  our  Lord's  ar- 
gument it  must  be  carefully  noted  that  he  does  not  ask 
which  is  easier,  to  forgive  sins,  or  to  raise  a  sick  man — 
for  it  could  not  be  affirmed  that  that  of  forgiving  was 
easier  than  this  of  healing — but,  which  is  easier,  to  claim 
this  power  w  that;  to  say,  Thy  sins  be  forgiven  thee,  or  to 
say.  Arise  and  walk?  "That  {i.e.,  the  former)  is  easier; 
and  I  will  now  prove  my  right  to  say  it  by  saying  it  with 
effect,  and  with  an  outward  consequence  setting  its  seal 
to  my  truth,  the  harder  word,  Arise  and  walk.  By  doing 
that  which  is  capable  of  being  put  to  the  proof,  I  will 
vindicate  my  right  and  power  to  do  that  which  in  its 
very  nature  is  incapable  of  being  proved.  It  would  be 
easier  for  a  man  equally  ignorant  of  the  French  and  Chi- 
nese languages  to  claim  to  know  the  last  than  the  first. 
Not  that  the  language  itself  is  easier,  but  that  in  the  one 
case  multitudes  could  disprove  his  claim,  in  the  other 
hardly  a  scholar  or  two  in  the  land. —  Trench. 

Hbaling  of  the  Body. — 1.  Christ  came  to  undo  the 
evil  which  Satan  had  done,  to  counteract  all  the  works 
of  the  devil.  2 .  Diseases  of  the  body  are  the  result  of 
the  diseases  of  the  soul,  and  must  be  cured.  3.  Christ 
proved  that  he  could  heal  the  soul  of  sin,  by  healing  the 
body  of  disease.  4.  He  proved  that  he  could  heal  all  the 
evils  of  mankind.  His  healings  foreshadowed  the  effect 
of  his  religion  upon  the  world.  He  makes  the  dead  in 
sin  to  be  alive,  and  reveals  the  resurrection  and  the  life. 
He  opens  the  eyes  of  the  spiritually  blind :  he  is  the  light 
of  the  world.  He  casts  out  the  devils  of  sin  from  the 
heart  and  from  the  community.  He  calms  the  tempest 
of  sorrow  with  his  '  Peace,  be  still."  He  delivers  the 
soul  from  all  its  imperfections.  5  He  heals  the  body 
usually  by  the  means  he  has  prepared  in  nature,  bv  the 
general  influences  for  good  in  the  Christian  religion,  just 
as  he  usually  heals  men's  souls  by  the  ordinary  means  of 
grace  — P. 

A  Parable  of  Redemption. — This  miracle  may  be 
regarded  as  an  enacted  parable  of  sin  and  redemption. 
The  paralytic  typifies  (1)  the  sinner  by  his  original  help- 
lessness (Isa.  40:  30;  John  6:  44);  (2)  faith,  by  his  ear- 
nestness to  come  to  Christ  in  spite  of  obstacles  (Ps.  25 : 
15;  86:  2,  7);  (3)  a  common  Christian  experience,  by  the 
delay  he  suffers  between  his  repentance  and  faith  a7id 
AtV  cure  (Jas.  5:  7,  8);  and  (4)  the  power  of  divine  grace, 
in  the  ability  to  obey  Christ's  command,  reooivod  in  the 
very  attempt  to  comply  with  it  (Phil.  4:  13).— Abbott. 


October  6, 1887 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSITRE. 


In  Brief. 

The  estimated  number  of  acres  restored 
to  the  public  domain  during  August  is 
21,323,600,  exclusive  of  1,513,000  acres 
within  the  limits  of  the  Indian  reserva- 
tions. 

A  ship  has  brought  intelligence  to  San 
Francisco  that  the  population  of  Pitcairn 
Island  has  increased  to  107,  of  whom  57 
are  women,  and  that  but  three  deaths 
have  occurred  in  the  past  three  years. 
This  is  the  island  on  which  the  mutinous 
crew  of  the  ship  Bounty  took  refuge  in 
1789. 

A  granite  shaft  recently  quarried  by 
the  Bodwell  Granite  company  in  Vinal- 
haven.  Me.,  is  the  largest  piece  of  stone 
ever  quarried  on  earth,  and  if  erected  will 
be  the  highest,  largest,  and  heaviest  sin- 
gle piece  of  stone  now  standing  or  that 
ever  stood,  so  far  as  there  is  any  record. 
It  considerably  exjeeds  in  length  any  of 
the  Egyptian  obelisks.  The  shaft  is  115 
feet  long.  10  feet  square  at  the  base,  and 
weighs  850  tons. 

Miss  Alice  Fletcher,  the  student  of  In- 
dian household  customs,  says  that  among 
the  Sioux,  when  one  family  borrows  a 
kettle  from  another,  it  is  expected  that 
when  the  kettle  is  returned  a  small  por- 
tion of  the  food  that  has  been  cooked  in 
it  will  be  left  in  the  bottom.  The  lan- 
guage has  a  particular  word  to  designate 
this  remnant.  "Should  this  custom  be 
disregarded  by  any  one,  that  person 
would  never  be  able  to  borrow  again,  as 
the  owner  must  always  know  what  was 
cooked  in  her  kettle."  A  white  woman, 
on  one.  occasion,  returned  a  scoured  ket- 
tle, intended  to  teach  a  lesson  in  cleanli- 
ness; but  her  act  became  the  talk  of  the 
camp  as  a  fresh  example  of  the  meanness 
of  the  whites. 

"While  practicing  law  a  number  of 
years  ago,"  said  Judge  Tourgee,  "T  had  a 
peculiar  will  case.  An  old  lady  who  was 
a  slave  holder,  dying,  bequeathed  her 
colored  man,  John,  and  her  dusky  maid, 
Jane,  who  sustained  to  each  other  the 
relation  of  husband  and  wife,  to  the  trus- 
tees of  the  church,  'to  be  used  as  far  as 
possible  for  the  glory  of  God.'  I  was 
curious  to  know  what  course  was  taken, 
and  upon  investigation  found  that  after 
meditation  and  prayer,  the  trustees  sold 
their  legacy  at  auction,  and  with  the  pro- 
ceeds sent  a  missionary  to  China." 

The  public  school  system  of  East  St. 
Louis  is  said  to  be  the  most  thoroughly 
demoralized  system  in  the  State.  Owing 
to  the  plundering  of  the  municipal  treas- 
ury for  the  last  five  years  the  county 
could  not  find  the  means  to  build  school- 
houses,  and  therefore  four  of  the  large 
schools  are  held  in  buildings  controlled 
by  as  many  denominations  of  the  Chris- 
tian religion.  These  are  the  Lutheran, 
Catholic,  Methodist,  and  German  Catho- 
lic. Heretofore  the  School  Board  has 
appointed  the  teachers  to  these  schools 
at  the  dictation  of  the  pastors  of  these 
churches.  The  teachers  in  the  building 
owned  by  the  Lutherans  would  be  teach- 
ing that  religion  in  the  public  school,  the 
same  with  the  Catholics  and  the  others, 
until  the  schools  became. almost  wholly 
secUrian.  Monday,  however,  the  board 
did  not  consult  the  pastors,  and  this  so 
enraged  them  that  they  locked  up  the 
rooms  and  refused  to  allow  the  schools 
to  open  unless  they  could  name  the  teach- 
ers. The  board  says  it  will  not  be  dic- 
tated to,  and  is  looking  for  other  quar- 
ters. 

A  y  year-old  son  of  Hiram  Taylor  of 
Wilmington,  O.,  mystericuiely  disappeared 
about  thirteen  months  ago.  He  was  an 
unusually  bright  child,  not  worse  than 
the  average  boy.  He  hoarded  up  his 
money,  read  books  of  travel,  and  was 
passionately  fond  of  horses.  Search  was 
made,  but  all  traces  of  the  child  appeared 
lost.  One  day  last  week  a  letter  was  re- 
received  by  Mr.  Taylor  from  the  lost  boy. 
It  bore  the  date  of  Cape  Town,  Africa, 
and  recited  that,  having  |;30,  the  boy  had 
resolved  to  "go  around  the  world."  He 
had  left  Wilmington  on  a  freight  train, 
stolen  his  way  to  Columbus,  paid  his  fare 
to  Philadelphia  and  beat  his  passtge  to 
New  York,  where  he  found  no  ditliculty 
in  getting  on  board  of  a  ship.  He  said 
he  was  in  fine  health,  had  been  well 
treated,  and  was  about  to  sail  for  Hong 
Kong.  Thence  he  would  go  to  San  Fran- 
cisco, then  come  home.  He  neglected, 
purposely  perhaps,  to  give  the  names  of 
the  vessels  on  which  he  had  sailed.  Mr. 
Taylor  is  a  conlractinir  painter  and  well 
known.— .»r.  Y.  World. 


The  American  Party. 

FiKST  Nomination  for  President  at  Oberlin, 
Oliio,  May  23,  ISW. 
Platform  Adopted  at  Chicago,  June  28, 

1872. 

Name  Adopted  at  Syracuse,  N.  Y.,  June  3, 
1874.  .»  -.  •  "1 

PKESIDENTAX.    CANDIDATES: 

1872 — Charles  Francis  Adams  and  Joseph  L. 
Barlow. 

1876— James  B.  Walker  and  Donald  Kirkpat- 
rick. 

1880— J.  W.  Phelps  and  Samuel  C.  Pomcroy. 

1884— J .  Blanchard  and  J.  A.Conant  nomi- 
nated; the  former  witLdrawing,  Samuel  C. 
Pomcroy  was  nominated.  Both  nominees  with- 
drawing, the  support  of  the  party  was  generally 
given  to  John  P.  St.  John  and  William  Daniel, 
candidates  of  the  Prohibition  party. 

NATIONAL  COMMITTEE 

District  of  Columbia,  E.  D.  Bailey;  Ala- 
bama, Jesse  Ward ;  Arkansas,  Charles  Paget ; 
Connecticut,  Phillip  Bacon;  Dakota,  A.  F. 
Dempsey;  Florida,  J.  F.  Galloway;  Illinois,  C. 
N.  Stratton;  Indiana,  Israel  Hess;  Iowa,  J.  N. 
Norrls;  Kansas,  H.  Curtis;  Maine,  J.  8.  Rice; 
Massachusetts,  8  A.  Pratt;  Michigan,  H.  A. 
Day;  Minnesota,  E.  J.  Payne;  Mississippi,  E. 
Tapley ;  Nebraska,  E.  B.  Graham ;  New  York, 
F.  W;  Capwell;  New  Jersey,  Robert  Arm- 
strong; New  Hampshire,  S.  C.  Kimball;  Ohio, 
J.  M.  Scott;  Pennsylvania,  N.  Callender; 
Rhode  Island,  A.  M,  Paull;  Tennessee,  R.  N. 
Countee ;  Vermont,  F.  F.  French ;  Wisconsin, 
M.  R.  Britten. 


AMERICAN  PLATFORM. 


ADOPTED  AT  CHICAGO,  ;fUNE  30,  1884 

1.  That  ours  is  a  Christian  and  not  a  heathen 
nation,  and  that  the  God  of  the  Christian  Scrip- 
tures is  the  author  of  civil  government. 

2.  That  the  Bible  should  be  associated  with 
books  of  science  and  literature  in  all  our  edu- 
cational institutions. 

3.  That  God  requires,  and  man  needs  a  Sab- 
bath. 

4.  We  demand  the  prohibition  of  the  Impor 
tation,  manufacture,  and  sale  of  intoxicating 
drinks. 

5.  We  hold  that  the  charters  of  all  secret 
lodges  granted  by  our  Federal  and  State  Legis- 
latures should  be  withdrawn,  and  their  oaths 
prohibited  by  law. 

6.  We  are  opposed  to  putting  prison  labor  or 
depreciated  contract  labor  from  foreign  coun- 
tries in  competition  with  free  labor  to  benefit 
manufacturers,  corporations  or  speculators. 

7.  We  are  In  favor  of  a  revision  and  enforce- 
ment of  the  laws  concerning  patents  and  Inven- 
tions; for  the  prevention  and  punishment  of 
frauds  either  upon  inventors  or  the  general 
public. 

8.  We  hold  to  and  wUl  vote  lor  woman  suf- 
frage. 

9.  That  the  civil  equality  secured  to  all 
American  ci'izens  by  Articles  13, 14  and  15  of 
our  amended  National  Constitution  should  be 
preserved  inviolate,  and  the  same  equality 
should  be  extended  to  Indians  and  Chinamen. 

10.  That  international  differences  should  be 
settled  by  arbitration. 

11.  That  land  and  other  monopolies  should 
be  discouraged. 

12.  That  the  general  govermnent  thould  fur- 
nish tha  peoni*  wOit  mm  A.iwnl«  <ui4  mwud  aor- 

13.  That  It  should  be  the  settled  policy  of  the 
government  to  reduce  tariffs  and  taxes  as  rap- 
idly as  the  necessities  of  revenue  and  vested 
business  interests  will  allow. 

14.  That  polygamy  should  be  Immediately 
suppressed  uy  law,  and  that  the  Republican 
party  is  censurable  for  the  long  neglect  of  its 
duty  in  respect  to  this  evil. 

15.  And,  finally,  we  demand  for  the  Ameri- 
can people  the  abolition  of  electoral  colleges, 
and  a  direct  vote  for  President  and  Vice  Presi 


A    WOMAN'S     VICTORY; 

OB 

THE  QUERY  OF  THE  LODGBVILLB 
CHURCH, 


BT  JBNNIB  L.  HABOIB. 

This  simple  and  touching  story  which 
was  lately  published  in  the  Cyno- 
sun  is  now  ready  for  orders  in  a  beautiful 
pamphlet.  It  is  worth  reading  by  every 
Anti-mason  -and  especially  by  his  wifb. 
9et  it  and  take  it  home  to  cheer  the  heart 
of  your  companion  who  may  desire  to  do 
something  for  Christ  against  great  evils, 
but  is  discouraged  from  making  any  pub- 
lic effort.  Pbicb,  riirrBBN  cbntb.  Tt» 
for  a  doHnr 

ITational  Christian  Association. 

UAVt:  lOir  KXAMINKD 

TbB  URt  tif  nookimnil  Trai'lgfur  Kalr  by  rhi'  Natmi 
AL  CUKiKTiAN  .\».sniM*TioN.  r,inikll  oviT  cnrffnlly 
kud  art)  1(  lUorol»  nolnonu'ihlng  you  w»nl  for  yimr 
•elf  or  for  your  friend.    Band  (or  tnW  oatAlMraa  (o 

*U  W.  llADUOa  WtWMMt.  CXIOA*. 


ANTI-MA80NIO  LB0TVRSB8. 

Obnbbal  AeBNT  AKD  Lbctubbb,  J.  p. 
Stoddard,  221  W.  Madison  St.,  Chicago. 

H.  H.  Hinman,  Cynosure  office. 
Agent  for  Southern  States. 
Statb  Aobntb. 

Iowa,  C.  F.  Hawley,  Wayne,  Henry 
Co.     Care  Rev.  Geo.  Fry. 

Missouri,  Eld.  Rufus  Smith,  Maryville. 

New  Hampshire,  Kid.  S.  C.  Kimball, 
New  Market. 

Ohio,  W.  B.  Stoddard,  Columbus. 

Kansas,  Robert  Loggan,  Clifton. 

Alabama,  Rev.  G.  M.  Elliott,  Selma. 

Dborbb  Wobkbbs. — LSeceders.l 
J.  K.  Glassford,  Carthage,  Mo. 
Otheb  Lbctttbbbs. 

C.  A.  Blanchard,  Wheaton,  111. 
N.  Callender,  Thompson,  Pa. 

J  H.  Tlmmons,  Tarentum,  Pa 

T.  B.  McCormlck,  Princeton,  Ind. 

E.  Johnson,  Dayton,  Ind. 

H.  A.  Day,  Wllllamstown,  Mich. 

J.  M.  Bishop,  Chambersburg,  Pa. 

A.  Mayn,  Bloomlngton,  Ind. 

J.  B.  Cresslnger,  Sullivan,  O. 

W.  M.  Love,  Osceola,  Mo. 

J.  L.  Barlow,  Grundy  Center,  Iowa. 

A.  D.  Freeman,  Downers  Grove,  111 

Wm.  FentoD  St  Paul,  Minn. 

E.  I.  Grinnell,  Blalrsburg,  Iowa. 

Warren  Taylor,  South  Salem,  O. 

J.  S.  Perry,  Thompson,  Conn. 

J.  T.  Michael,  New  Wilmington,  Ba. 

8.  G.  Barton,  Breckinridge,  Mo. 

E.  Bametson,  HasklnviUe,  Steuben  Co,!N.  Y 

Wm.  R.  Roach,  Pickering,  Ont. 

D.  A.  Rlchard^  Brighton,  Mich, 

THB   CHUROHSS    V8.    LOD€^SRT. 

The  following  denominations  are  com- 
mitted by  vote  of  their  legislative  assem- 
blies or  by  constitution  to  a  separation 
from  secret  lodge  worship: 

Adventists  (Seventh-day.) 

Baptists — Primitive,  Seventh-day  and 
Scandinavian. 

Brethren  (Dunkers  or  German  Bap- 
tists.) 

Christian  Reformed  Church. 

Church  of  God  Northern  Indiana  El- 
dership.) 

Congregational — The  State  Associations 
of  Illinois  and  Iowa  have  adopted  resolu- 
tions against  the  lodge. 

Disciples  (in  part.) 

Friends. 

Lutherans — Norwegian,  Danieli,  S#^«d- 
ish  and  Synodical  Conferences. 

jVIennonites. 

Methodists — Free  and  Wesleyan. 

Methodist  Protestant  (Minnesota  Con 
ference.) 

Moravians. 

Plymouth  Brethren. 

Presbyterian — Associate,  Reforme,!  and 
United. 

Reformed  Church  (Holland  Branch-) 

United  Brethren  in  Christ. 

Individual  churches  in  some  of  these 
denominations  should  be  excepted,  in  part 
of  them  even  a  considerable  portion. 

The  following  lOcal  churches  have,  as  a 
pledge  to  disfellowship  and  oppose  lodge 
worship,  given  their  names  to  the  follow- 
ing list  as 

THE   ASSOCIATBD   CHUKCHK8    OF  CHRIST. 

New    Ruhamah  Cong.  Hamilton,  Miss. 

Pleasant  Riilge  Cong.   Sandford  Co.  Ala. 

New  Hope  >ieth(xiist,   Lowndes  Co.,  Miss. 

Congregational,  College  Springs,  Iowa. 

College  Church  of  Christ.  WTieaton,  111. 

First  Congregational,  Leiand,  Mich. 

Sug"r  Grove  Church,  Green  county.  Pa. 

Military  Chapel,  M.  E.,  Lowndes  county, 
Miss. 

Hopewell  MlMlonary  Baptist,  Lowndes  Co., 
Miss. 

Cedar  Grove  Miss,  Baptist,  Lowndes  Ca, 
Miss. 

Simon's  Chapel,   M.   E.,  Lowndes  Co.,  Miss. 

Pleasant  Ridge  Miss.  Baptist,  Lowndes  Co., 
VIlss. 

Brownlpc  Church,  Caledonia,  Mis*. 

Salem  Churi-h,  Lowndes  Co.,  Mlsa. 

West  Prcpton  Baotlst  Church.  Wayne  Co., Pa. 

OTHER  LOCAL  CHnBCHBB 

adopting  the  same  orinciple  are — 

Baptist  churchefl :  N.  Abington,  Pa.:Meno- 
monie,  Mondovi,  Waubeck  and  Spring  Prairie, 
Wis. ;  Wheaton,  HI. ;  Perry,  N.  Y. ;  Spring 
Creek,  near  Burlington.  Iowa ;  Lima,  Ind. ; 
Constablevllle,  N.  Y.  The  "Good  WIU  Aseod- 
ton"  of  Mobile,  Ala.,  comprising  some  twenty- 
five  colored  Baptist  churches;  Bridgewater 
Baptist  Association,  Pa.;  Old  Tebo  Baptist, 
near  LecsvUle,  Henry  Co.,  Mo. ;  Hoopeeton,  lU ; 
Esmen,  111. ;  Slrvkersvlllc,  N.  Y. 

Congregational  churches :  1st  of  Oberlin,  O. ; 
Tonlca.  Crystal  Lake,  Union  and  Big  Wooda. 
III. ;  Solsburr,  Ind. ;  Congregational  Methodist 
Maplewood,  Mass. 

Independent  churches  In  Lowell,  Country- 
man school  house  near  Llndenwood,  Mtwngo 
and  Streator,  111. ;  Bor«>aand  CArap  Nelson,  Ky ; 
Ustlck,  III. ;  Clarkshurg,  Kansas;  State  Associ- 
ation of  Ministers  and  Chorchea  of  Chrlit  1h 
Kntaekr. 


N.  C.  A.  BUILDING  AND  OFTICX  Of 
THE  CHRISTIAN   CYNOSURE, 
«ai  WEST  MADISON  STREET,  CHICAGO 


NA  flOSAL  CH&iaTIAN  A880CIA  TIOM 

Presldbht.— H.  H.  George,  D.  D.,  Gen- 
eva College ,  Pa. 

VlCB-PRESIDBNT — RCY.     M.    A     Gftolt, 

Blanchard,  Iowa. 

CoB.  Sec'v  and  Gknbral  Asbnt. — J 
P.  Stoddard,  221  W.  Madison st.,  Chicago. 

Reg.  Sec'v.  a»d  Treasurbb. — W.  I. 
Phillips,  221  W.  Madison  St.,   Chicago. 

Directobs. — Alexander  Thomson,  Mi 
R.  Britten,  John  Gardner,  J.  L.  Barlow, 
L.  N.  Stratton.  Thos.  H.  Gault,  C.  A. 
Blanchard,  J.  E-  Roy,  E.  R.  WorreU,  H. 
A.  Fischer,  W.  R.  Hench. 

The  object  of  this  Association  Is: 
"To  expose,  withstand  and  remove  secrel 
societies.  Freemasonry  in  particular,  and  other 
anti-Christian  r^ovements,  in  order  to  save  tha 
churches  of  Christ  from  being  uepraved,  to  re- 
deem the  adiuinlstry  Uon  of  justice  from  pei^ 
version,  and  our  rep  jbUcan  government  from 
corruption." 

To  carry  on  this  work  contributions  are 
solicited  from  every  friend  of  toe  reform. 

Form  of  Beqcest. — J  give  and  bequeath  to 
the  National  Chri.stian  Association,  Incorpo 
rated  and  existing  under  the  laws  of  the  Stat« 

of    Illinois,  the  s'lun  of dollars  for  the 

purposes  of  said  Association,  and  for  which 
the  receipt  of  its  Treasurer  for  the  time  being 
^lall  be  sufficient  dlscharoe. 

THE  HATIOHAL  OONVBITTIOR. 

Prbbidbwt.— Rev.  J.  8.  McCulloch, 
D.  D. 

Secretaby.— Rev.  Lewis  Johnson. 

8TATB   AUZILLABT   ABSOCIATIONB 

Alabama.— Pres.,  Prof.  Pickens;  Sec,  U. 
M.  Elliott;  Treae.,  Rev.  C.  B.  Curtis,  all  of 
Selma. 

California.- Pres.,  L.  B.  Lathrop,  Hollta- 
ter;  Cor.  Sec.  Mrs.  L.  P.  Merrill,  Woodland; 
Treas.,  C.  Ruddock,  Woodland. 

CoNNBCTicrr.— Pres..  J.  A.  Conant,  Willi- 
mantle ;  Sec,  Geo.  Smith,  WllUmantlc ;  Treaa.. 
C.  T.  Collins,  Windsor. 

Illinois.- Pres.,  J.  L.  Barlow,  Wheaton; 
Sec,  H.  L.  KeUogg;  Treae.,  W.  I.  Phllllpa 
Cvnosuri  office. 

INDIANA.— Pres.,  William  H.  Fleg,  Reno 
Sec,  S.  L.  Cook,  Albion;  Treas.,  Benj.  Ulah 
BUver  Lake. 

Iowa.— Pres.,  Geo.    Warrington,  Blrmlnit 
ham;  Cor  Sec,  C.  D.  Trumbull.  Mornlni-  Sun: 
Trea«.,  James  Harvey,  Pleasant  Plain,  Jeffer- 
son Co. 

Kansas.— Pre*.,  J.  P.  Richards,  Ft.  Scott; 
Bee.  W.  W.  McMillan,  Olathe;  Treaa.,  J. 
A.  Torrence,  N.  Cedar. 

Massachosktts.- Free.,  8.. A.  Pratt;  Sec, 
Mrs.  E.  D.  BaUey ;  Treas.,  David  Manning  8r., 
Worcester. 

Michigan.— Free..  D.  A.  Richards,  Brighton ; 
Bec'y,  H.  A.  Day,  WlUlamston ;  Treaa. 
Geo.  Dwanaon,  Jr.,  Bedfuiu. 

Minnbsota.- Prea.,  E.  Q.  Paine,  Wasloja; 
Cor.  Sec,  W.  H.  McCheeney,  Fairmont;  Rec 
Bec'y,  Thoe.  Hartley,  RlchUnd;  Treaa.,  Wd. 
H.  Morrill,  St.  Charles. 

MissoUBi.— Pre*.,  B.  F.  Miller,  BaffleTlPe; 
Treae.,  WUllani  Beaucbamp,  Avalon ;  Gor.  8*c., 
A.  D.  Thomae,  Avalon. 

Nmbbasba.— Free.,  8.  Austin,  Falnnomt; 
Cor.  ftec,  W.  Bpooner,  Kearney;  Treae., 
J.  C.  Fye. 

NbwHampskibi — Free.,  Isaac  Hyatt,  oil 
ford  Village;  Bee,  8.  C.  Kimball,  New  Market 
Treas.,  James  F.  French,  Canterbury. 

Nbw  York.— Pres.,  F.  W.  Capwoll,  Dale; 
Bec'y,  John  Wallace,  Syracuse;  Treas.,  M. 
Merrick,  Syracuse. 

Ohio.— Free.,  Rev.  R.  M.  Smith,  PaKetowo: 
Rec  Soc^  Rev.  Coleman,  Utlca;  Cor.  Sec  and 
Treae.,  Rev.  S.  A.  Gtvrge,  Manafleld;  Agmt, 
W.  B.  Stoddard,  Columboa. 

Fbnnstlvania.— Frea.,  A.  L.  Po«t,  Mob 
troec;  Cor.  bee,  M.  Callesder,  TboapMOt 
Xreaft.,W.  B.  BertalfliWUkoeh»n«. 

Vbbmont.- Free..  W.  R.  Laird,  8t  Johns 
bury;  8«.,  C.  W  Pottw. ,     ,   „      , 

WiBoojreni.-Prefcj  J.  W.  Wood,  Bwaboo. 
B«e.,  W.  W-  Aaaa.MuoiBonle;TTaM   ILK. 


8 


XBE  CHRISllAN  CYITOSURE. 


OcroBER  6,  1887 


The  Christian  Cynosure. 


i.  BLANCHARD. 


Sx>rraaB. 


HKNKY  L.  KELLOGG. 


CEICASO,    THTTFBDAV     OCTOBER    6.    1887 


The  Iowa  State  Christian  Association  met  at 
College  Springs,  October  18-20.  The  Free  Meth- 
odist Conference  has  appointed  its  delegates  and 
provided  for  their  expenses  by  assessing  the  amount 
in  trifling  sums  to  each  local  conference.  This  is  a 
charming  plan,  and  worthy  of  being  followed  by 
other  Christian  denominations.  Will  not  this  prac- 
tically tfficient  conference  take  in  hand  to  establish, 
for  once  a  month,  a  special  concert  of  prayer  for  the 
overthrow  of  the  lodge?  or  else  cause  it  to  be  un- 
derstood that  this  is  a  leading  object  in  every 
prayer  meeting? 


A  Sabbath  Convention. — This  convention  is  to 
meet  in  the  large  and  beautiful  Baptist  church  in 
Elgin,  111.,  November  Slh  and  9.h.  The  convention 
has  been  called  by  a  committee  appointed  at  a  spe- 
cial meeting  of  Elgin  Association,  called  for  another 
purpose,  but  seemingly  led  to  this  work  by  the 
Spirit  and  providence  of  God. 

Palestine  was  once  a  populous  grain-growing,  graz- 
ing country,  but  now  it  '-lieth  desolate"  according 
to  the  word  of  God,  Lev.  26:  34-43:  "Then  shall 
the  land  enjoy  her  Sdbbaths  as  long  as  it  lieth  deso- 
late, because  it  rested  not  while  ye  were  upon  it." 
It  takes  but  one  generation  to  turn  a  Christian  into 
a  heathen  nation  when  it  has  no  Sabbath,  which  is 
the  only  teschiog  day  for  the  other  commandments 
of  God.  The  various  denominations  unite  In  this 
Sabbath  convention;  the  speaking  will  be  good  and 
the  meeting  interesting  and  very  profitable  if  made 
the  objtct  of  continuous,  fervent  prayer. 


Ooa  EXCEiLiNT  Mk.  Callender,  with  seven  as- 
sociates in  Northern  PeDns}lvania,  has  addressed 
a  printed  circular  to  the  Pennsylvania  State  Baptist 
Convention,  asking  a  discussion  of  secret  societies, 
and  giving  sound  reasons  for  such  a  discussion. 
The  Northern  Baptists  have  been  called  on  by  their 
leading  clergymen,  and  have  paid  immense  sums  of 
money  to  benefit  the  colored  population  of  the 
South,  where  there  are  now  800,000  colored  Bap- 
tists. Within  a  few  weeks  past  the  St.  Marion 
(local)  Baptist  Association  in  Arkansas,  and  the  en- 
tire State  colored  Baptist  Association  in  Louisiana, 
have  voted  unanimously  against  secret  societies  in 
their  churches,  and  the  subject  is  being  discussed 
in  other  States  and  localities.  If  the  Northern  Bap- 
tist Associations  refuse  then  to  consider  the  subject 
when  requested  by  their  respectable  ministers  and 
members,  they  will  bring  reproach  on  the  entire  de- 
nomination. The  spirits  of  their  holy  dead,  Ber- 
nard, Colver,  Stearns  and  others,  will  refuse  to  be 
"ministering  spirits"  to  men  so  recreant  to  their 
duty  as  ministers  of  Christ. 


THE    CEIGAOO   "TIMES"  AND  MASONRY. 


Last  week  we  noticed  briefly  that  the  Chicago 
Times  thinks  that  the  expulsion  of  McGarigle,  who 
is  a  Mason,  by  his  lodge,  is  proof  that  Masons  do 
not  shield  each  other  from  penalties  due  to  their 
crimes.  As  this  opinion  is  not  peculiar  to  the  times, 
it  is  worth  considering  more  at  length. 

We  have  heretofore  entertained  a  better  opinion 
of  the  Timet  than  that  its  editor  would  call  his  fel- 
low citizens,who  support  the  Oynoture,  "fanatics,"  un- 
less he  believed  them  to  be  so;  and  yet  we  cannot 
reconcile  the  idea  that  he  is  ignorant  that  Masonic 
oaths  bind  Masons  to  conceal  each  other's  crimes, 
with  either  common  honesty  or  intelligence.  If  he 
publishes  us  "fanatics"  for  the  favor  of  the  lodges, 
he  is  not  honest;  if  because  he  does  not  know  that 
Masons  do  swear  to  conceal  each  other's  crimes,  he 
is  ignorant  and  unfit  to  conduct  an  American  jour- 
nal.    And  concealing  crime  is  protecting  criminals. 

The  Grand  Lodge  of  Missouri,  without  pretend- 
ing to  abstinence  from  liquor,  has  lately  threatened 
saloon  keepers  with  expulsion  for  selling  it.  The 
obvious  explanation  is,  that  saloon  keepers  are  un- 
popular, and  are  making  the  lodge  so.  Romish 
priests,  who  drink  liquor  freely,  attend  Catholic  to- 
tal abstinence  meetings  and  protest  against  their 
people  keeping  saloons.  The  reason  is  the  same; 
saloon  keeping  makes  their  church  unpopular. 
When,  as  is  now  the  case,  the  State  of  Arkansas  has 
no  saloons  in  forty  of  its  seventy-five  counties,  the 
priests  are  stung  with  the  fact  that  a  vast  majority 
of  grog  shops  in  the  United  States  are  kept  by  men 
who  go  to  their  confessionals  and  obtain  absolution. 

Now,  the  fact  that  Masonry,  as  it  is  now  prac- 
ticed in  America  and  Europe  in  the  Scottish  Rite, 


is  priestism,  originally  invented  by  Jesuits  and  their  I  ing  story  of  Chinese  secretism  in  this  country,  which 

instruments,  may  be  known  by  any  one  who  will  ^''  ^-•i-._„  .-_i_--^_  _:i.u  ^u.  /^uj 

read  any  respectable  Masonic  writer,  as  Mackey's  or 

McCoy's   cyclopedia,  or  even   by  glancing   at  the 

names  of  the  higher  lodges,  or  at  the  names  of  their 

officers;  and  priests  excommunicate  those  members 

who  injure  their  craft. 

But  if  expelling  McGarigle,  an  escaped  convict, 
proves  that  Masons  do  not  protect  their  criminals, 
what  is  proved  by  the  Masonic  sheriff  letting  him 
go?  and  that  under  circumstances  which  prove  com- 
plicitv,  as  the  heifer  being  dead  and  the  butcher 
standing  by  with  his  knife  bloody,  proves  that  the 
butcher  killed  the  heifer.  So  of  the  prosecuting 
attorney  and  other  Masonic  court  officers.  Masons 
do  not  protect  Masonic  criminals,  as  priests  do  not 
burn  heretics,  when  they  know  they  will  lose  more 
that  they  will  gain  by  it. 

There  is  no  candid  man  who  has  read  the  history 
of  the  Morgan  trials,  but  knows  that  Masonry  re- 
quires the  protection  of  its  criminals  against  the 
law.  If  there  were  any  good  men  in  the  twelve 
counties  of  Western  New  York,  there  were  good  men 
in  the  Masonic  lodges.  In  large  numbers  they  swore 
in  the  civil  court  that  their  Masonic  oath  forbade 
them  to  swear  to  facts  which  would  convict  Masons 
of  crime.  They  were  fined  and  imprisoned  for  re- 
fusing to  answer,  till  Special  Justice  William 
L.  Marcy  exclaimed  from  the  bench,  where 
he  sat  to  try  well-known  kidnappers,  "if  men 
will  defy  heaven  and  earth  what  can  human 
courts  do?"  Was  Marcy  a  fanatic?  If  the 
Chicago  Times  will  give  the  use  of  its  columns  to 
the  editors  of  the  Cynosure,  to  a  reasonable  extent, 
and  we  do  not  satisfy  the  great  mass  of  its  read- 
ers that  Masonry  does  in  theory  and  practice  protect 
Masonic  criminals  against  the  laws,  we  will  consent 
in  silence  to  wear  the  odious  epithets  which  that 
paper  sees  tit  to  apply  to  us.  But  if  that  large  sheet 
refuses  to  give  its  readers  the  benefit  of  a  fair  and 
respectful  discussion  of  a  subject  so  momentous, 
but  confines  its  discussion  of  a  system  which  covers 
this  country  and  Europe  to  a  few  brief,  contempt- 
uous slurs  upon  gentlemen  who  are  not  his  inferi- 
ors in  intelligence  or  patriotism,  we  shall  submit  to 
the  inevitable,  and  appeal  for  justice  to  the  Ameri- 
can public,  which  has  wiped  off  similar  indignities 
from  those  who  were  called  "fanatics"  for  opposing 
American  slavery,  while  that  institution  ruled  both 
church  and  state. 


TEE  GREAT  QUESTION. 


The  Independent  of  late  reminds  us  of  the  Lon- 
don Times  years  ago,  when  men  spontaneously  called 
it  the  Thunderer.  Its  handling  of  the  Andover  "New 
Departure"  from  reason  and  the  Word  of  God,  of 
the  responsibility  of  men,  of  the  case  of  the  Chicago 
anarchists,  the  saloon  pestilence  and  the  Mormon 
leprosy,  sounds  like  the  clear  ringing  of  the  old  bell 
on  Independence  Hall,  when  the  ringer  fell  dead 
with  overjoy  at  the  Declaration  of  Independence. 

There  is  another  question  which  underlies  all 
these,  viz.,  the  Secret  Lodge  system,  which  is  bring- 
ing into  the  United  States  the  religions  with  which 
the  American  Board  is  grappling  in  the  East;  the 
lodge  theology,  which  is  organized  deism;  the  oaths 
of  the  Endowment  House  into  our  court-houses;  the 
anarchy  in  the  church  and  state,  which  must  follow 
dispensing  with  Christ  and  the  Lord's  day,  as  the 
lodge  does  both  in  theory  and  practice;— the  one 
grand  question  whether  Christ  or  Satan,  God  or 
Baal,  shall  be  worshiped.  The  Independent,  which 
careened  for  a  time  under  the  weight  of  the  genius 
of  Mr.  Beecher,  seems  now  to  be  thoroughly  right- 
ed up;  and  there  is  no  force  on  earth  so  fit  to  deal 
with  the  lodge  question,  as  the  galaxy  of  mind  now 
beaming  from  that  wonderful  paper.  And  if  the 
Tappans,  who  forsook  and  abhorred  the  lodge  when 
it  was  imperfectly  understood,  as  ministering  spirits 
now  watch  the  fortunes  of  Mr.  Bowen  and  the  Inde- 
pendent, we  hope  that  paper  will  soon  turn  its  bat- 
teries on  that  dark  system  which  is  now  seeking  to 
bewitch  and  becraze  the  colored  people,  whom  the 
Tappans  and  their  young  clerks  did  so  much  to  eman- 
cipate and  enfranchise. 


presents  some  striking  contrasts  with  the  Chinese 
method,  which  stamps  out  lodgery  as  we  do  the  glan- 
ders. 

In  June,  among  seven  Chinese  converts  received 
to  the  mission  church,  was  one  girl  of  fifteen.  She 
was  beautiful  in  her  person  and  interesting  in  her 
character.  Her  father  was  in  China;  her  mother 
had  pawned  the  girl  for  $250,  but  had  partly  paid 
the  debt.  Little  Ah  Yung  was  being  harshly  treat- 
ed, and  a  benevolent  Chinaman  paid  the  rest  of  the 
debt,  took  possession  of  the  girl,  and  placed  her  in 
the  charge  of  the  mission  helper.  She  was  convert- 
ed and  wished  to  be  placed  in  a  safe  American  fam- 
ily where  she  would  be  secure  from  her  mother  who 
might  at  any  time  sell  her  for  the  basest  purposes. 
The  Chinese  guardian  dared  not  violate  the  customs 
of  his  people,  and  Miss  Worley,  principal  of  one  of 
the  mission  schools,  had  herself  appointed  legal 
guardian  of  the  child,  and  so  put  her  out  of  the 
mother's  control,  but  with  what  result,  on  the  ap- 
pearnce  of  the  mother,  we  leave  Mr.  Pond  to  say: 

"Last  Saturday  the  Chinaman  who  had  befriended  Ah 
Yung  appeared  at  my  study.  It  was  with  great  difficulty 
that  he  could  maintain  his  self-control,  though  he  is  a 
man  of  strong  and  steady  nerves  His  lips  quivered  as  he 
talked  and  his  athletic  frame  often  trembled.  The  moth- 
er had  appealed  to  the  Six  Companies,  and  his  life  was 
at  stake.  Since  then,  as  I  have  been  informed;  a  meeting 
of  the  representatives  of  the  Six  Companies,  has  been 
held,  and  our  friend  was  summoned  to  appear  before 
them.  He  was  given  till  to-day  (June  17th)  to  restore 
the  girl  to  her  mo 'her — an  act  entirely  beyond  his  pow- 
er. Meanwhile,  the  High-Binders  were  already  on  his 
track,  and  he  scarcely  feels  safe  even  in  Oakland  and  in 
his  own  employer's  house.  He  will  probably  be  obliged 
to  flee,  perhaps  to  some  point  far  east,  for  he  will  not  be 
able,  even  if  disposed,  to  surrender  the  dear  child  to  the 
fate  to  which,  in  her  mother's  hands,  she  would  be 
doomed. 

"This  brought  closer  home  to  me  than  ever  before  the 
fact  of  an  imperitim  in  imperio  in  our  Chinese  commun- 
ities. It  stirs  one's  blood  to  think  that  this  young  man 
can  make  no  effective  appeal  to  our  Government  against 
this  secret  tyranny.  It  may  very  likely  be  that  if  he  should 
be  murdered,  his  murderer,  if  convicted,  would  be  hung; 
but  this  is  at  best  a  cold  and  shadowy  comfort  in  the 
present  emergency." 

But  Mr.  Pond,  who  almost  apologized  for  the 
lodge  in  the  Congregational  ministers'  meeting  in 
the  Palace  Hotel  on  the  24  th  of  May  last  year,  is 
disingenuous  in  his  application  of  this  burning 
story.  Instead  of  applying  it  to  the  infamous  lodge 
system,  which  is  a  night  school  of  assassination  to 
white,  black  and  yellow  races  alike,  be  turns  it  upon 
the  exclusion  of  the  Chinese  from  the  country.  This 
people  have  come  to  a  land  where  similar  murders 
have  been  again  and  again  unpunished.  Shall  we 
expect  them  to  better  observe  the  laws  than  we? 
How  much  better  to  abolish  the  lodge  and  its  oaths 
and  assassinations! 


SECRET  SOCIETIES  IN  CHINA  AND  AMERICA. 


The  report  has  been  circulated  that  eighty-eight 
persons  were  not  long  since  executed  in  a  summary 
manner  near  Shanghai,  China,  for  belonging  to  se- 
cret societies.  The  Cynosure  does  not  advise  the 
suppression  of  the  lodges  in  this  country  after  that 
manner,  but  holds  that  the  conscience  of  the  people 
should  be  aroused  to  cast  out  the  iniquitous  system 
from  among  men. 

Rev.  W.  C.  Pond,  manager  of  the  Chinese  mission 
of  the  American  Missionary  Association  in  San  Fran- 
cisco, sends  to  the  magazine  of  that  society  a  thrill. 


— Rev.  Robert  Loggan,  the  Kansas  State  lecturer, 
has  returned  to  Clifton,  Kansas,  where  he  may  in 
the  future  be  addressed. 

— Secretary  Stoddard  went  on  from  the  Wisconsin 
Convention  to  Minneapolis,  hoping  to  leave  behind 
him  damp  weather  and  to  find  in  the  north  more 
encouragement  and  enthusiasm. 

— Bro.  M.  N.  Butler  returned  from  Wisconsin  last 
Saturday  morning  in  time  to  attend  a  meeting  of  the 
Illinois  State  Executive  committee.  The  committee 
desire  to  secure  his  services  for  the  year,  and  voted 
to  make  a  temporary  arrangement  until  former  en- 
gagements with  the  N.  C.  A.  are  adjusted. 

— Elder  Rufus  Smith  and  wife  of  Maryville,  Mo,, 
did  effectual  work  last  summer  holding  temperance 
meetings  in  their  county.  She  led  a  band  of  women 
at  the  polls  at  Maryville  and  at  Barnard,  and  the 
Elder  had  the  Salvation  Army  to  help  him  on  the 
street  on  election  day.  Their  county  said  the  sa- 
loons must  go  by  a  majority  of  over  1,800. 

— Bro.  M.  A.  Gault  gave  two  lectures  week  before 
last  in  the  United  Presbyterian  church  of  Janes- 
ville,  Wis.  He  occupied  the  Presbyterian  pulpit  at 
Rochelle,  111.,  the  following  Sabbath;  and  lectured 
last  week  at  Byron,  and  in  Bro.  E,  I.  Grinnell's 
church,  near  Kishwaukee.  His  next  work  is  a  series 
of  lectures  between  Baraboo,  Wis.,  and  St.  Paul. 

— The  readers  of  this  number  of  the  Cynosure 
will  note  with  pleasure  that  Rsv.  Dr.  Swartz  has  re- 
covered from  the  effects  of  a  painful  accident  which 
for  some  time  prevented  the  use  of  his  right  hand, 
and  has  begun  again  to  write  for  us.  After  some 
absence  he  has  returned  to  the  historic  city  of  Gettys- 
burg, and  draws  an  excellent  lesson  from  a  familiar 
object  at  the  National  Cemetery. 

— Rev.  A.  W.  Parry,  last  year  pastor  of  the  Free 
Methodist  churches  at  Prospect  Park  and  Melrose, 
was  at  the  late  Illinois  conference  appointed  agent 
for  the  seminary  at  Evansville,  Wisconsin,  which 
has  urgently  applied  for  hia  services  for  some  time. 


OCTOBEB  6,  1887 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


His  postofflce  will  be  at  Wheaton,  and  during  his 
visitation  of  the  churches  of  Illinois  and  Wisconsin 
he  hopes  to  lecture  frequently  on  temperance  and 
against  the  lodge. 

— Dr.  Kennedy  of  Sandwich  and  Dr.  William 
Wishart  of  Monmouth  could  not  attend  the  Illinois 
meeting.  The  former  had  a  previous  appointment 
which  prevented  his  making  any  preparation.  The 
latter  was  closing  up  a  temporary  engagement  with 
the  United  Presbyterian  church  at  Hoopeston,  and 
the  special  labors  involved,  particularly  the  com- 
munion service  and  its  preparatory  meetings,  were 
of  more  urgency  and  kept  him  away. 

— The  absence  of  Rev.  John  Harper  from  the  Il- 
linois Convention  he  explains  in  a  letter.  He  was 
ready  to  start  tor  Belvidere  when  an  urgent  call 
came  for  his  presence  at  the  bedside  of  a  sick  mem- 
ber of  his  church,  which  he  could  not  disregard.  By 
taking  the  next  train  he  would  have  arrived  quite 
late  at  the  meeting,  and  so  reluctantly  gave  it  up. 
He  had  prepared  an  address  on  the  "Bible  and  Se- 
cret Societies,"  showing  them  to  be  in  opposition. 
There  should  be  a  good  meeting  somewhere  in  Peo- 
ria county  to  which  this  address  can  be  given. 

—John  Shallcross,  P.  G.  W.  P.  of  the  Sons  of 
Temperance, writes  of  that  lodge  to  the  Quill  ot  Phil- 
adelphia: "Although  neither  sectarian  nor  denomi- 
national, the  order  is  nevertheless  a  religious  body, 
composed  largely  of  earnest  Christian  men  and  wo- 
men from  all  the  evangelical  churches."  The  ques- 
tion Mr.  Shallcross  and  his  companions  should  first 
answer  is.  What  kind  of  religion  do  these  earnest 
Christian  men  and  women  practice  in  which  an  un- 
limited number  of  ungodly  men  and  women  are  ex- 
pected by  the  constitution  of  the  society  to  join? 

— Kev.  John  Boyes,  the  English  correspondent  of 
the  Cynosure,  has  lately  removed  from  Grimsby  to 
Huddersfield,  a  more  favorable  locality  for  his  pas- 
toral labors  and  for  the  health  of  himself  and  fami- 
ly. The  past  two  years  in  the  east  of  England  have 
brought  much  personal  and  domestic  jitlliction  upon 
his  household.  Huddersfield  is  regarded  as  a 
healthy  city.  It  is  located  about  twenty-five  miles 
northeast  of  Manchester  in  a  rich  coal  district,  and 
is  regarded  as  the  chief  seat  of  the  trade  in  fine 
woolen  in  the  north  of  England.  Its  population 
numbers  some  75,000  and  it  contains  several  note- 
worthy churches. 

— An  inquiry  from  S.  G.  Thomas  of  Olathe,  Kan- 
sas, is  of  an  unusual  nature.  He  asks  if  Mi- s  Pran- 
ces A.  Willard  is  a  member  of  the  Knights  of  La- 
bor. Such  a  question  can  have  a  positive  answer 
only  from  the  lady  herself.  Her  opinion  respect- 
ing secret  societies  has  several  times  been  given  in 
the  Cynosure.  She  "has  always  expressed  herself  as 
averse  to  secret  societies,  and  always  refusing  their 
solicitations  to  join.  But  her  circular  to  prohibi- 
tionists, to  join  the  Knights  of  Labor  last  spring, 
was  a  contradiction  of  this  principle.  In  spite  of 
this  bad  advice,  and  her  apparent  favor  of  this  or- 
der and  the  Good  Templars  at  Lake  Bluff,  we  can- 
not conceive  how  she  could  stifle  the  convictions  of 
her  lif^  and  join  any  one  of  these  societies. 

— Rev,  J.  D.  Gehring  of  Parkville,  Missouri,  has 
for  some  time  been  compelled  to  omit  his  able  con- 
tributions to  the  Cynosure  because  of  prolonged  ill 
health.  He  has  been  seeking  the  benefit  of  a  change 
in  Texas,  but  is  again  at  home,  and  hopes  to  resume 
writing  if  his  strength  will  permit.  His  scanty  in- 
come from  a  pension  he  helps  out  by  the  sale  of 
orchard  and  vineyard  products.  He  has  this  year 
been  putting  up  the  pure  and  unfermented  grape 
juice  which  he  sells  in  quart  bottles  at  the  rate  of 
$1  each  or  six  for  $4.  As  every  one  knows,  this 
unfermented  wine  is  most  beneficial  in  many  cases 
of  sickness,  and  for  communion  purposes  it  is  un- 
surpassed. We  shall  be  glad  if  this  notice  brings 
patrons  to  Bro.  Gehring.     Address  him  as  above. 

— When  two  plump  envelopes  from  brethren  Hin- 
man  and  W.  B.  Stoddard  came  in  Saturday,  we  be- 
gan to  ponder  Tennyson's  familiar  lines: 

Too  late !  too  late ! 
Ye  cannot  enter  now. 

Nevertheless,  though  our  space  is  well  filled,  we 
can  hardly  stop  for  regrets  when  there  are  two  pag- 
es of  letters  from  the  workers.  It  is  the  most  hope- 
ful indication  of  the  year  when  from  every  quarter 
these  reports  come  in.  We  doubt  if  the  church  in 
Jerusalem  had  many  more  profitable  meetings  than 
when  Paul  and  Barnabas  and  the  others  brought  in 
reports  of  the  work  of  the  Lord  through  their  minis- 
try in  turning  the  hearts  of  men  from  their  idola- 
tries and  religious  superstitions  to  Christ.  Such 
work  our  lecturers  are  doing.  Let  us  thank  God  for 
their  efforts  and  successes.  Let  us  encourage  them 
in  every  way,  but  especially  in  our  prayers.  The 
repeated  advice  of  the  Illinois  State   Association 


THE  CITY  FOUNDED  BT  PENN. 


Editor  Christian  Ctnosurb: — A  week  spent  in 
the  ''City  of  Brotherly  Love"  has  given  us  an  op- 
portunity to  "take  in"  some  of  its  points  of  interest 
The  City  Building  on  Broad  and  Market  Streets  is 
an  imposing  structure,  occupying  four  squares.  The 
foundation  was  begun  in  1872.  No  date  is  set  for 
its  completion.  Already  $13,000,000  have  been 
spent  upon  it.  It  will  not  likely  cost  less  than  $25,- 
000,000  when  finished.  It  is  built  of  marble.  The 
tower  will  be  500  feet  high,  surmounted  by  a  statue 
of  Franklin  thirty-two  feet  high.  The  Mercantile 
Library,  on  10  th  street  near  Market,  is  worth  see- 
ing. They  have  162,000  volumes,  the  largest  num- 
ber of  any  in  the  State.  The  librarian,  Mr.  Fogg, 
has  relatives  in  Cincinnati,  and  took  a  great  interest 
in  giving  us  the  information  desired.  The  Penn- 
sylvania Library,  on  Locust  street  near  Broad,  is 
elegant,  but  not  so  large. 

Girard  College,  a  training  school  for  orphans, 
must  not  be  missed.  There  are  forty-five  acres  in 
the  lot,  enclosed  by  a  stone  wall  ten  feet  high.  The 
trees,  flower-beds,  and  green  sward  make  it  a  per- 
fect paradise.  Work  on  the  buildings  bpgan  in 
1833  and  ended  in  1847,  at  a  cost  of  $3,500,000. 
The  main  building  cost  $2,500,000.  It  is  a  perfect 
Grecian  temple,  built  of  marble.  The  roof  is  of 
marble,  and  supported  by  thirty-four  columns,  each 
six  feet  in  diameter  and  fifty-five  feet  high,  weigh- 
ing 103  tons  and  costing  $12,994.  In  1831,  when 
Steven  Girard  died,  the  property  left  to  support  the 
school  amounted  to  $7,500,000.  It  is  worth  perhaps 
$25  000,000  now.  Boys  are  admitted  who  are  over 
six  and  under  ten  years  of  age.  They  are  allowed 
to  remain  until  they  are  eighteen.  All  their  ex- 
penses are  met  while  there,  even  their  streetcar  fare 
is  paid.  They  have  1,380  boys  there  at  present. 
There  are  fifty-five  professors  and  teachers.  The 
heirs  of  the  Girard  estate  are  trying  hard  to  break 
his  will.  Hence,  the  following  provision  is  strictly 
entorced  of  late:  "I  enjoin  and  require  that  no  ec- 
clesiastic, missionary,  or  minister  of  any  sect  what- 
soever, shall  ever  hold  or  exercise  any  station  or 
duty  whatever  in  the  said  college;  nor  shall  any 
such  person  ever  be  admitted  for  any  purpose,  or  as 
a  visitor,  within  the  premises  appropriated  to  the 
purpose  of  said  college," 

The  Eastern  Pennsylvania  Penitentiary  is  near 
by,  on  Fairmount  Avenue  and  2l8t  Street.  It,  too, 
is  surrounded  by  a  wall  great  and  high.  That  wall 
is  to  keep  in  the  bad  and  protect  society.  They 
have  about  1,380  persons  behind  those  walls.  But 
the  walls  around  Girard  College  are  to  keep  out  the 
good.  The  lowest  whoremonger  in  the  land  can  go 
in;  he  will  not  harm  the  boys.  But  a  minister  of 
the  Gospel  cannot  go  in;  he  might  disturb  "the  ten- 
der minds  of  the  orphans"  with  "clashing  doctrines 
and  sectarian  controversy."  How  Mr.  Girard  ex- 
pected "to  instill  into  the  minds  of  the  scholars  the 
purest  principles  of  morality"  while  divorcing  the 
institution  from  the  church,  the  custodian  of  moral- 
ity and  religion,  is  a  mystery.  It  is  said  his  object 
in  this  provision  was  to  keep  out  the  Jesuits.  If 
that  is  true  he  ought  to  have  said  so,  and  not  made 
a  clean  sweep  of  all. 

The  University  of  Pennsylvania,  on  Woodland 
Avenue,  bHtween  34th  and  37th  streets,  was  char- 
tered in  1791.  The  original  charter  was  given  by 
'George  II ,  king  of  Great  Britain,  France  and  Ire- 
land," in  1753.  The  campus  is  laid  off  in  walks. 
The  buildings  are  of  stone,  in  Gothic  style  of  archi- 
tecture, with  heavy  towers.  The  College  depart- 
ment has  thirty-one  professors,  thirteen  instructors, 
and  361  students.  The  Department  of  Medicine 
has  sixty-five  professors,  lecturers  and  demonstrat- 
ors, and  406  students.  The  Department  of  Dentist- 
ry, twent)-two  professors  and  demonstrators,  and 
111  students.  The  Department  of  Law,  seven  pro- 
fessors and  129  students.  There  are  also  Depart- 
ments of  Philosophy,  Biology  and  A'eterinary  Medi- 
cine. The  library  is  an  important  item,  made  up  of 
the  Colwell,  McCalmont,  Carev,  Rogers,  Wetherill 
and  Allen  libraries.  William  Pepper,  M.D.,  L.L  D., 
is  Provost,  and  E.  Otis  Kendall,  L.L.  D.,  Vice  Provost 
The  Zjological  Garden,  the  Park,  with  its  long 
and  romantic  drive.  Music  Hall,  the  U.  S.  mint,  the 
Postollice,  the  Custom  House,  the  benevolent  insti- 
tutions, and  Independence  llall  are  other  places  of 
note. 

Philadelphia  has  over  1,000,000  inhabitants. 
Larger  ships  can  enter  her  harl)or  on  the  Delaware 
than  can  get  into  New  York  harbor.  The  streets 
cross  at  right  angles.  Market  Street  divides  the 
city  into  the  North  and  South  divisions.  From 
Front  Street  on  the  Delaware  the  streets  are  desig 
nated  by  the  ordinals  westward  to  Sixtieth  and  on. 
Each   st^uare   has    100   numbers   allotted  to  it,  no 


given  place  at  once.  For  example,  2,102  Race 
Street  is  just  west  of  Twenty-first  Street,  or  706 
North  Twenty-first  Street  is  seven  squares  north  of 
Market.  This  is  a  city  of  churches,  and  they  make 
themselves  felt.  The  saloons  are  closed  on  the 
Sabbath. 

It  was  my  privilege  to  meet  with  the  ministers' 
union  Monday  noon  at  the  Presbyterian  rooms.  It 
convenes  once  every  three  months.  It  is  composed 
of  men  from  all  the  evangelical  bodies.  There  were 
perhaps  two  hundred  present  Rev,  W.  R.  Taylor, 
D  D.,  read  the  paper.  The  subject  was,  '-City  Evan- 
gelistic Work."  It  was  an  able  production.  The 
work  can  be  done  only  by  contact  of  soul  with  soul. 
There  has  been  too  much  stress  laid  upon  method. 
There  must  be  soul  travail.  There  is  no  method  of 
incubation  by  which  Christians  can  be  hatched  out 
wholesale.  "My  little  children  of  whom  I  travail 
in  birth  until  Christ  be  formed  in  your  hearts." 
When  the  church  is  willing  to  suffer  this  soul  agony 
for  sinners  they  will  be  converte '.  "When  Zion 
travailed  she  brought  forth  children."  Several 
members  spoke  of  the  work  of  house  to  house  visit- 
ing carried  on  here  last  winter.  Many  congrega- 
tions were  blessed  by  it  with  large  additions,  and 
all  engaged  in  it  experienced  a  reflex  influence  of 
unspeakable  value. 

The  writer  had  said,  "We  had  too  much  machin- 
ery. No  one  can  estimate  the  results.  But  after 
all  we  did  not  move  forward.  Our  sails  did  not  fill." 
This  was  questioned,  and  by  many  repudiated.  A 
committee  was  appointed,  however,  to  prepare  a 
plan  for  a  vigorous  campaign  during  the  coming 
winter.  It  was  our  privilege  to  meet  Rev,  A,  T. 
Pierson,  D  D,,  in  the  Statesman  office.  He  is  pastor 
of  the  Bethany  Presbyterian  church,  and  perhaps 
the  most  popular  speaker  in  the  city,  Saturday 
afternoon  he  expounds  the  Sabbath-school  lesson  in 
the  Y,  M.  C,  A,  Hall,  and  it  is  always  crowded. 
He  was  called  to  Bethany  church  at  a  salary  of 
$5,000.  When  he  learned  that  $2  000  had  been 
subscribed  by  Mr,  Wanamaker,  he  refused  to  take 
it.  He  would  put  himself  under  obligation  to  no 
man.  He  believes  in  the  freedom  of  the  pulpit 
Si  he  accepted  the  call  at  $3  000,  They  pive  him  a 
collection  once  a  month  in  addition.    J.  M.  Fostxr. 


OUR  BG8T0H  LETTER. 


AN   AUVENTCRS  AMONG    THB    SPIRITS. 


about  reform  prayer  meetings  is  good  enough  to  be- !  matter  whether  there   are    one-fourth    that  many 
gin  to  put  in  practice.  houses  or  not;  so  that  you  can  tell  the  location  of  a 


[  Concluded  ] 

It  ever  has  been  my  intention  to  conduct  myself 
with  decorum  due  any  place  or  position  in  which  I 
might  be.  Persons  who  cannot  behave  themselves 
in  any  sanctuary  wherein  doctrines  contrary  to  their 
views  are  expounded,  had  better  rimain  away,  I 
am  conscious  that  my  expressions  at  this  spirit 
stance  may  be  criticized.  Be  that  as  it  may,  the 
incidents  which  I  am  narrating  are  facts,  and  any 
lack  of  etiquette  on  my  part  cannot  depreciate  the 
logic  of  my  remarks,  nor  off-et  the  manifest  decep- 
tions of  the  occasion,  I  had  not  thrust  my  presence 
upon  them,  nor  entered  their  domicile  with  the  in- 
tention of  controverting  anything  in  any  way.  In- 
deed, my  attendance  was  rather  compulsory.  At 
the  earnest  solictati(  n  of  one  of  their  strongest  dev- 
otees, my  uncle,  and  as  an  act  of  courtesy  to  him,  I 
had  reluctantly  consented  to  go  and  "see  for  myself 
whether  the  manifestations  were  false  or  not"  It 
had  been  represented  that  I  should  witness  for  the 
sum  of  one  dollar,  paid  in  advance,  genuine  phe- 
nomena. A  glance  at  this  "phenomena"  convinced 
me  that  it  was  not  genuine,  and  that  consequently  I 
was  being  imposed  upon. 

The  next  phenomena  on  the  programme,  it  was 
announced,  would  be  one  of  industry,  the  manufao- 
lure  of  lace  from  spirit  material,  in  full  view  of  the 
audience.  There  were  sepulchral  squeaks  from  fifty 
chairs  as  their  semi  spiritized  cijupants  bent  curi- 
ously forward.  The  lace  maker,  who  resembled  in 
form  and  motion  the  medium  so  generous  in  the 
loaning  of  her  fleshly  sulistance  to  her  impoverished 
spirit  acquaintanceb,  conppicunus  in  phosphorescent 
effulgence,  stepped  into  the  middle  of  the  room,  and 
began  the  process  of  manufacturing  a  piece  of  laoe 
about  two  yartls  in  length.  How,  or  what,  others 
present  saw  I  cannot  say,  but  I  believe  that,  at 
least,  most  of  that  audience  saw  just  what  I  did — 
the  spirit  fumble  about  its  waist  and  finally  put  out 
something  white,  and  after  turning  or  twisting  it 
several  times  cast  it  upon  the  lugubrious  atmos- 
phere, where  it  gr*cefully  floated  a  second,  and  then 
fell  softly  to  the  floor,  when  it  was  carefully  exam- 
ined and  pronounced  a  piece  of  genuine  lace,  I, 
also,  agreed  that  it  was  genuine.  What  provoked 
me  was  the  assertion  that  it  had  been  something 
else  before  we  saw  it  made  as  claimed.  It  was 
without  a  doubt  a  piece  of  real  lace.  The  ejacula- 
{Coniinued  on  Iftkpage.) 


10 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


October  6, 1887 


The  Home. 


'LO,  I  AM  WITH  TOV  ALWATB.' 


BY   MBS.   H.   A     BLiLNCHABO . 

The  summer  winds  are  sighing; 

The  trees,  with  verdure  crowned, 
The  flowers,  in  fragrance  vieina;. 

Shed  sweetness  all  around. 

Storms  in  their  wrath  alarm  us ; 

The  thunder  crash  we  hear; 
But  fear  not  aught  will  harm  us ; 

Jesus,  our  Saviour's  near. 

In  the  cold  dark  hour  of  sorrow, 
Beneath  a  threat'ning  sky, 

His  word  dispels  all  terror ; 
'  'Fear  not,  for  it  is  1 . " 

Then  let  our  souls  embrace  him 
Each  day  with  deeper  love, 

Till,  in  his  likeness  waking. 
We  reign  with  him  above. 


ENSNARED. 


BY   I.    N.    KANAQA. 

Satan  sets  many  traps  and  snares  to  take  our  wan- 
dering feet.  And  none  so  liable  to  be  ensnared  as 
those  who  are  unsuspecting.  It  is,  therefore,  of  the 
highest  importance  that  we  should  ever  be  found 
watching.  Thus  judgment  and  prudence  would  dic- 
tate that  we  should  use  all  caution  and  wisdom 
where  there  is  danger.  "Id  vain  is  the  snare  set  in 
the  sight  of  any  bird."  Oh,  that  the  children  of 
men  were  wise  and  wary  as  they! 

Now,  Satan  not  only  goeth  about  "seeking  whom 
he  may  devour,"  as  a  lion  does  his  prey,  but  he 
goeth  hither  and  thither  in  the  earth,  walking  up 
and  down  in  it,  so  that  haply  he  may  find  the  child 
of  God  oft  his  watch  tower.  Then  when  he  suc- 
ceeds in  finding  any  of  God's  little  ones  asleep  or 
careless,  how  easy  is  it  then  for  him  to  gather  their 
feet  in  his  hellish  snares,  and  then  such  fall  a  ready 
prey  to  his  Satanic  power. 

Seeing  then  we  are  encompassed  about  by  such  a 
wily  foe,  and  treading  along  a  way  beset  with  hid- 
den snares,  especially  for  a  moment  when  we  wan- 
der from  the  path  of  life,  how  greatly  wise  is  it 
in  us  to  accept  evermore  the  guidance  of  One 
"mighty  to  save  and  strong  to  deliver."  In  him  we 
find  a  faithful  friend,  wise  to  direct,  and  infinite  in 
his  power  and  resources,  for  our  succor  and  our 
safety.  "Surely  he  shall  deliver  thee  from  the  snare 
of  the  fowler,"  while  thus  trusting  in  him.  Yea, 
never  while  thou  art  wholly  his,  will  he  "suffer  thy 
feet  to  be  taken."  If,  however,  dearly  beloved, 
your  soul  should  ever  unwarily  be  ensnared,  flee  im- 
mediately to  God  for  deliverance.  Then  will  you 
be  constrained  to  cry  out — "My  soul  is  as  a  bird 
escaped  from  the  snare  of  the  fowler;  the  snare  is 
broken  and  my  soul  is  escaped!"  Hallelujah  for 
such  a  Friend  and  Helper! 

Newark,  N.  J. 


TRUE  RICHES. 


The  best  and  surest  way  to  have  any  outward 
mercy  is  to  be  content  to  want  it.  When  men's  de- 
sires are  over  eager  after  the  world — they  must  have 
thus  much  a  year,  and  a  house  well  furnished,  and 
wife  and  children  thus  and  thus  qualified,  or  else 
they  will  not  be  content — God  doth  usually  break 
their  wills  by  denying  them  ae  one  would  cross  a 
froward  child  of  his  stubborn  humor;  or  else  puts  a 
sting  into  them, that  a  man  had  been  as  good  he  had 
been  without  them,a8  a  man  would  give  a  thing  to  a 
froppish  child,  but  it  may  be  with  a  knock  on  his 
fingers  and  a  frown  to  boot. 

The  best  way  to  get  riches  is  out  of  doubt  to  set 
them  lowest  in  one's  desires.  Solomon  found  it  so. 
He  did  not  ask  riches,  but  wisdom  and  ability  to 
discharge  his  great  trust;  but  God  was  so  pleased 
with  his  prayer  that  he  threw  them  into  the  bargain. 

If  we  seek  the  kingdom  of  God  and  his  righteous- 
ness in  the  first  place,and  leave  other  things  to  him, 
God  will  not  stand  with  us  for  these  outwards;  though 
we  never  ask  them, we  shall  have  them  as  over  meas- 
ure; God  will  throw  them  in  as  the  vantage.  Cer- 
tainly God  will  never  be  behindhand  with  us.  Let 
our  care  he  to  build  his  house  and  let  him  alone  to 
build  ours. 

None  ever  was  or  ever  shall  be  a  loser  by  Jesus 
Christ.  Many  have  lost  much  for  him,  but  never 
did,  never  shall  any  lose  by  hinc.  Take  this  for  a 
certainty:  whatsoever  of  outward  comforts  we  leave, 
whatsoever  outward  advantages  we  balk,that  we  may 
glorify  him  in  our  services  and  enjoy  l)im  in  his  or- 
dinanccB  more  llian  otIirrH  wliero  wo  rould,  we  shall 
receive  an  hundredfold  iu  this  life. 


'Tis  a  sad  thing  to  see  how  IHtle  Christ  is  trusted 
or  believed  in  the  world;  men  will  trust  him  no  fur- 
ther than  they  can  see  him,  and  will  leave  no  work 
for  faith.  Hath  he  not  a  thousand  way8,both  out- 
ward and  inward,  to  make  up  a  little  outward  dis- 
advantage to  us?  What  doth  our  faith  serve  for? 
Have  any  ventured  themselves  upon  him  in  his  way 
but  he  made  good  every  word  of  the  promise  to 
them?  Let  us  therefore  exercise  our  faith,  and  stay 
ourselves  upon  the  promise,  and  see  if  ever  we  are 
ashamed  of  our  hope. 

What  is  wanting  in  the  means  God  will  make  up 
in  the  blessing.  This  I  take  for  a  certain  truth, 
while  a  man  commits  himself  and  his  affairs  to  God 
and  is  in  a  way  that  God  put  him  into,  now  if  a  man 
have  but  little  income,  if  he  have  a  great  blessing, 
that's  enough  to  make  it  up.  We  must  not  account 
mercies  by  the  bulk.  What  if  another  have  a  pound 
to  my  ounce;  if  mine  be  gold  for  his  silver  I  will 
never  change  with  him. 

As  'tis  not  bread  that  keeps  men  alive,  but  the 
word  of  blessing  that  proceedeth  out  of  the  mouth 
of  God,80  'tis  not  the  largeness  of  the  mean8,but  the 
blessing  of  the  Lord  that  maketh  rich.  Oh!  if  men 
did  but  believe  this  they  would  not  grasp  so  much 
of  the  world  as  they  do. 

Well,  let  others  take  their  course,  and  we  will 
take  ours — to  wait  upon  God  by  faith  and  prayer, 
and  rest  in  his  promise;  and  I  am  confident  that  is 
the  way  to  be  provided  for.  Let  others  toil  to  en- 
large their  income  (but  alas!  they  will  find  they  go 
not  the  right  way  to  work),  we  will  bless  God  to  en- 
large our  blessing,and  I  doubt  not  but  we  shall  prove 
the  gainers. — Joseph  Alleine  {1655), 

m  I  m 

QOD'8  MEDICINE. 


Labor  is  God's  medicine  for  human  pride  and  re- 
bellion. When  man  had  sinned,  in  order  to  prevent 
the  utter  demoralization  of  the  race  the  Lord  sent  him 
forth  out  of  Eden  to  till  the  ground,  saying,  "In  the 
sweat  of  thy  face  shalt  thou  eat  bread  till  thou  re- 
turn unto  the  ground;  for  out  of  it  thou  wast  taken: 
for  dust  thou  art  and  unto  dust  shalt  thou  return." 

It  is  the  ambition  of  many  to"live  without  work;" 
but  such  a  life  is  ruinous.  "Pride,  fulness  of  bread, 
and  abundance  of  idleness,"were  the  chief  causes  of 
Sodom's  sin  and  Sodom's  overthrow.  Many  a  man 
who  has  gone  headlong  to  perdition  might  have 
been  living  in  health  and  decency  to-day  if  he  had 
been  well  employed  in  good,  honest  work.  Under 
all  judicious  administration,  human  and  divine,hard 
labor  has  been  a  means  of  grace  and  reformation  to 
those  who  without  it  go  far  astray  from  truth  and 
righteousness.  Let  persons  live  in  luxury  with 
nothing  to  do  and  they  are  very  likely  to  become 
conceited,  rebellious  and  ungodly.  Let  them  be 
placed  where  they  must  work  or  starve,  and  let  their 
hearts  be  brought  down  with  labor  and  they  speedi- 
ly learn  lessons  of  humility,  sympathy,  and  integri- 
ty, which  can  never  be  learned  in  idleness  and  lux- 
ury. 

More  men  die  of  laziness  than  of  work;  more  of 
gluttony  than  of  starvation.  Hence  the  primal  curse 
was  a  real  blessing,  and  those  who  try  to  evade  the 
divine  command  only  multiply  sorrows  to  them- 
selves.    Hence  the  apostle  says: 

"Now  we  command  you,  brethren,  in  the  name  of 
our  Lord  Jesus  Christ,  that  ye  withdraw  yourselves 
from  every  brother  that  walketh  disorderly,  and  not 
after  the  tradition  which  they  received  of  us.  For 
yourselves  know  how  ye  ought  to  imitate  us:  for  we 
behaved  not  ourselves  disorderly  among  you;  neith- 
er did  we  eat  bread  for  nought  at  any  man's  hand, 
but  in  labor  and  travail,  working  night  and  day, 
that  we  might  not  burden  any  of  you;  not  be- 
cause we  have  not  the  right,  but  to  make  ourselves 
an  ensample  unto  you  that  ye  should  imitate  us. 
For  even  when  we  were  with  you,  this  we  command- 
ed you,  that  if  any  will  not  work  neither  let  him 
eat.  For  we  hear  of  some  that  walk  among  you  dis- 
orderly, that  work  not  at  all  but  are  busy-bodies. 
Now  them  that  are  such  we  command  and  exhort  in 
the  Lord  Jesus  Christ  that  with  quietness  they  work 
and  eat  their  own  bread.  But  ye,  brethren,  be  not 
weary  in  well  doing.  And  if  any  man  obeyeth  not 
our  word  by  this  epistle,  note  that  man  that  ye  have 
no  company  with  him,  to  the  end  that  he  may  be 
ashamed.  And  yet  count  him  not  as  an  enemy,  but 
admonish  him  as  a  brother."  2  Thess.  3:6-13. — Ar- 
mory. 


If  we  duly  join  faith  and  works  in  all  our  preach- 
ing, we  shall  not  fail  of  a  blessing.  But  of  all 
preaching,  what  is  usually  called  "Gospel  preach- 
ing," is  the  most  useless,  if  not  the  most  mischiev- 
ous; a  dull,  yea,  or  lively  harangue  on  the  sufferings 
of  Christ,  or  salvation  iiy  faith,  without  strongly  in- 
culcating holiness.  I  see,  more  and  more,  that  this 
naturally  tends  to  drive  holiness  out  of  the  world. 


BAMUBL,   THE    CHILD  MINiaTBB. 

A   SHORT   SERMON   FOR   THE    OHILDBEN  BY   RKV. 
MARK  GPY   PEARSB. 


I  am  going  to  talk  to  you,  boys  and  girls,  about 
this  little  minister;  and  1  pray  that  the  Lord  may 
help  me  to  speak  so  wisely  that  some  of  you,  like 
Samuel,  may  begin  to  serve  him. 

First,  let  us  think  about  the  child  minister. 
Samuel  ministered  before  the  Lord,  being  a  child. 
No  doubt  Eli  saw  that  the  child  was  called  of  God. 
But  even  then  he  must  have  been  a  very  kind  and 
a  very  wise  old  man  to  let  this  little  fellow  come  to 
help  him  in  the  house  of  the  Lord  when  he  was  so 
young.  Most  people  would  have  said,  "What  is  the 
good  of  a  little  lad  like  that?  What  help  can  he 
be?  He  is  not  strong  enough  or  big  enough  or  wise 
enough  to  do  anything.  Let  him  stay  at  home,  and 
let  his  mother  take  care  of  him  till  he  is  grown  up. 
Then  he  will  be  of  some  good.  But  this  child,  he 
is  too  little  to  know  anything  about  it."  I  think 
this  story  is  put  in  the  Bible  to  teach  us  that  it  is 
very  foolish  and  very  wrong  to  talk  in  this  way. 
The  child  Samuel  ministered  unto  the  Lord,  and  so 
can  you.  Your  little  hands  can  serve  him,  and  your 
young  hearts  can  love  him.  Let  nobody  say  you 
are  too  young.  Jesus  said  something  very  different 
from  that.  He  said,  "Suffer  the  little  children  to 
come  unto  me,  and  forbid  them  not,  for  of  such  is 
the  kingdom  of  heaven,"  And  at  another  time  Je- 
sus said,  "I  thank  thee,  0  Father,  Lord  of  heaven 
and  earth,because  thou  hast  hid  these  things  from  the 
wise  and  prudent,  and  hast  revealed  them  unto  babes. 
Even  so,  Father,  for  so  it  seemed  good  in  thy  sight," 
So  you  see,  Jesus  would  have  you  to  love  him  now 
and  serve  him  now.  He  would  not  have  you  wait 
till  you  are  grown  up.  He  wants  children  to  minis- 
ter to  him.  Samuel,  though  a  child,  was  not  too 
young  to  love  Jesus. 

"But  what  could  this  little  child  minister  do?" 
you  ask.  "It  was  all  very  well  for  him  to  be  with 
the  old  man,  Eli,  learning  good  lessons,  and  hearing 
God's  Word,  but  of  course  he  could  not  do  any- 
thing." Oh,  but  he  could.  He  did  many  things 
that  were  helpful,  as  we  shall  see  by  and  by. 

Little  folks  can  do  very  many  things.  To  begin 
with,  nobody  doubts  that  children  can  do  much 
harm. 

The  other  day  there  was  a  robbery  near  London. 
The  people  who  lived  in  the  house  thought  that  they 
had  guarded  it  securely;  there  were  bolts  on  the 
doors  and  bars  on  the  windows.  But  one  morning 
the  servants  came  down  and  found  that  all  the  sil- 
ver things  were  gone.  How  had  .the  thieves  got  in? 
Why,  there  was  just  one  little  tiny  window,  so  small 
that  they  thought  there  was  no  danger  in  that;  but 
in  through  that  window  the  thieves  had  sent  a  little 
boy,  and  when  he  got  inside  he  could  open  the  door 
for  the  rest,  and  so  all  the  mischief  was  done.  They 
found  then  what  harm  little  folks  could  do. 

And  then,  too,  people  know  that  little  things  can 
do  much  good.  Those  of  you  who  keep  your  eyes 
open — and  I  hope  you  all  do — must  have  seen  at 
the  railway  stations  and  at  other  places,  a  pict- 
ure of  a  lion  in  a  net,  and  a  little  mouse  gnawing 
at  the  rope.  And  this  is  the  story  that  it  represents. 
A  lion  who  was  the  great  king  of  the  forest  had 
somehow  got  into  a  net, — I  don't  know  how,  but  so 
it  was.  All  the  animals  when  they  heard  of  it  came 
to  his  majesty's  help.  The  elephant  came  and 
walked  round  and  round  as -majestically  as  it  could, 
and  looked  very  sad.  The  bear  came  and  danced 
all  about.  The  tiger  came  and  roared  very  loudly 
indeed.  But  all  that  did  not  bring  the  king  out  of 
his  trouble.  Then  came  the  hyienas  an  jackals  and 
wolves,  and  they  shook  their  heads  very  wisely,  and 
said  if  only  this  were  done,  and  that.  But  as  no 
one  could  possibly  do  what  they  talked  about,  that 
didn't  help  very  much.  So  it  seemed  that  the  great 
king  of  the  forest  must  die  thus  miserably  in  a  net. 
Then  as  the  lion  was  sadly  bemoaning  his  fate  there 
came  a  little  mouse,  and  said  that  if  he  might  make 
so  bold  he  thought  he  could  set  his  majesty  at  lib- 
erty. It  was  very  absurd  in  such  a  little  thing  to 
and  do  what  the  elephant  and  the  great  animals 
could  not  do.  But  the  lion  thought  there  could  be 
no  harm  in  his  trying.  So  he  crept  up  to  the  rope 
and  began  to  gnaw  at  it.  Strand  after  strand  of  the 
rope  was  bitten  through  by  the  sharp  little  teeth.  It 
was  a  long  and  wearisome  task,  but  the  little  teeth 
worked  on.  At  last  the  rope  was  loosed,  and  when 
once  it  gave  way  it  was  an  easy  thing  for  the  lion 
to  get  out,  and  the  king  of  the  forest  was  set  at  lib- 
erty bv  a  little  mouse.  Such  good  little  things  can 
do. 

But  best  of  all  is  this,  that  little  hands  can  do 
something  for  Jesus.  Do  not  he  wishing  that  you 
bad  this  or  that.  Do  not  lie  waiting  until  you  .nre 
grown  up  to  be  men  and  women.     The  child  Samuel 


October  6, 1887 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSUKEL 


11  ^ 


ministered  unto  the  Lord.  There  were  many  little 
things  that  he  could  do.  He  could  pour  the  oil  into 
the  lamp,  he  could  keep  the  wick  trimmed,  he  could 
keep  the  golden  candlestick  clean,  and  his  little 
hands  could  put  out  the  lights  in  it  every  night, 
and  all  day  long  he  could  wait  upon  the  old  man  Eli, 
and  he  could  think  what  he  would  want,  and  could 
help  him  in  many  ways.  Are  you  thinking  now, 
"What  can  I  do  for  Jesus?"  Well,  you  nan  always 
be  kind  for  Jesus — gentle  and  loving.  Kneel  down 
to-day  and  ask  Jesus  to  help  you.  Each  one  of  us 
can  always  be  brave  and  truthful  and  generous  for 
him;  and  we  can  keep  clean  thoughts  and  truthful 
words  and  right  ways  for  him.  At  sunrise  Samuel 
perhaps  had  to  draw  aside  the  covering  of  the  skins, 
and  the  sunlight  came  in  flooding  all  the  place  with 
radiant  light.  So  you  can  let  joy  and  sunshine  come 
into  your  house  by  trying  to  make  those  about  you 
happy.  And  in  doing  that,  you,  like  the  child  Sam- 
uel, will  minister  unto  the  Lord. 

Here  is  a  story  of  a  child  minister  that  will  show 
you  how  very  much  children  can  do  for  Jesus.  Lit- 
tle Annie  Gale  had  given  her  heart  to  Jesus,  and 
now  all  day  long  she  wanted  to  be  doing  his  will 
and  pleasing  him.  But  one  morning  her  heart  was 
very  much  grieved.  A  gentleman  had  called  at  her 
father's  house,  and  he  laughed  at  the  notion  of  little 
Annie  being  converted.  "She  was  always  so  good 
that  she  did  not  need  it  to  make  her  any  better,"  he 
said.  "If  old  Dan  Hunter  began  to  love  Jesus, 
now,  I  should  think  that  there  was  something  in  it." 
Poor  little  Annie  was  very  grieved;  and  going  away 
to  her  room,  she  knelt  down  and  said,  "0  Jesus, 
they  won't  believe  that  thou  dost  love  me,  because 
I  am  so  little.  0  Jesus,  help  me  to  get  poor  old 
Dan  Hunter  to  love  thee,  and  they  will  believe  that 
thou  dost  love  me,  too."  Then  little  Annie  set  out 
for  old  Dan  Hunter's  house. 

Now,  there  was  no  mistake  about  it,  that  old  Dan 
was  the  very  crossest  and  most  disagreeable  man  in 
the  village.  He  worked  away  in  his  wheelwright's 
yard,  grumbling  and  growling  all  day  long.  No 
poor  woman  ever  came  into  his  yard  to  get  some 
shavings  for  the  fire,  and  no  boy  ever  crept  in  there 
for  a  basket  of  chips.  Nobody  who  could  help  it 
ever  came  to  see  old  Dan.  This  morning  he  was  at 
work  bending  at  his  saw,  when  a  very  pleasant  lit- 
tle voice  said,  "Good  morning,  Dan." 

The  voice  was  so  pleasant  that  Dan  looked  round 
and  forgot  to  scowl.  "Please,  Dan,"  said  little 
Annie,  "I  want  to  speak  to  you,  and  I'm  sure  you 
won't  mind  me,  will  you?" 

Now  it  was  so  long  since  anybody  had  cared  to 
speak  to  Dan  at  all  that  he  couldn't  understand  what 
this  little  maiden  could  have  to  say,  so  he  sat  down 
his  saw  and  rolled  his  apron  round  his  waist,  and  sat 
down  on  the  trunk  of  a  tree.  Really,  for  old  Dan, 
he  was  looking  quite  pleased. 

"Well,  whatever  do  you  want  to  say  to  me,  little 
one,"  He  spoke  grullly — he  always  did,  but  it  was 
a  good  deal  for  old  Dan  to  speak  at  all,  for  he  gen- 
erally only  gruntf.d. 

Little  Annie  sat  down  by  his  side  and  looking 
up  into  his  ragged,  wrinkled  face,  she  said,  "Well, 
Dan,  you  know  Jesus  does  love  me,  and  I  do  love 
him.  But  the  gentleman  at  home  says  that  I  am 
so  little,  and  that  I  am  so  good,  that  he  does  not 
believe  1  know  anything  about  it.  But  he  says 
that  if  you  would  begin  to  love  Jesus,  then  he  would 
believe  in  it.  Now,  Dan,  you  will,  won't  you?  be- 
cause Jesus  does  love  you,  you  know;" — and  little 
Annie  took  hold  of  Dan's  great  rough  hand.  "He 
loves  you  very,  very  much,  Dan.  Vou  know  he  died 
upon  the  cross  for  all  of  us." 

Poor  old  Dan !  Nobody  had  ever  talked  to  him 
like  that  for  years  and  years — never  since  his  mother 
had  gone  to  heaven.  And  down  those  wrinkled 
cheeks  the  tears  began  to  come,  very  big  and  very 
fast.  "Don't  cry,  Dan,  because  God  loves  us  though 
we  have  sinned,  and  he  has  sent  Jesus  into  the 
world  to  save  us."  Dan's  heart  was  broken.  He 
could  only  say,  "God  be  merciful  to  me — the  worst 
of  sinners."  As  little  Annie  talked  with  him,  he 
came  to  see  it  all, — how  that  Jesus  had  died  for 
him,  and  was  able  to  give  him  a  clean  heart  and  a 
right  spirit.  Little  Annie  left  him  praising  God 
his  heavenly  Father  for  such  wonderful  love,  and 
went  away  to  tell  the  gentleman  at  her  home. 

"Now,  sir,"  said  she,  "you  must  believe  that  Je- 
sus loves  me,  because  old  Dan  Hunter  has  really  be- 
gun to  love  him,  and  he  has  got  converted." 

"Nonsense,"  laughed  the  gentleman.  "Why,  An- 
nie, whoever  told  you  that?" 

"Well,  you'll  see."  And  he  did,and  so  did  every- 
body else  in  the  place.  They  saw  that  old  nipped, 
frowning  face  turned  into  joy  and  gladness.  They 
srtw  the  ill-tempered  old  Dan  be(«mo  so  kind  that 
everybody  had  a  friend  in  him.  And  when  he  passed 
the  yard  you  might  be  sure  to  hear  a  happy  old  man. 


as  he  worked  with  hammer  and  saw,  cheerily  sing- 
ing about  the  wondrous  love  of  Jesus. 

So  little  Annie  ministered  unto  the  Lord. — ikr 
lected. 


A  TAP  AT  THS  DOOR. 


A  band  tapped  at  tii;  door,  low  down,  low  down. 
1  opened  it  and  saw  two  eyes  of  brown, 

Two  lips  of  cberry  red, 

A  little  curly  bead, 
A  bonny,  fairy  sprite,  in  drees  of  wblte, 
Who  said,  with  lifted  face:  "Papa,  good  night!" 

She  climbed  upon  my  knee,  and  kneeling  there, 
Lisped  softly,  solemnly,  her  little  prayer; 

Her  meeting  linger  tips, 

Her  pure,  sweet  baby  lips. 
Carried  my  soul  with  hera,  half  unaware, 
into  some  clearer  and  diviner  air. 

I  tried  to  lift  again,  but  all  in  vain, 
Of  scientific  thought  the  subtle  chain ; 

So  small,  BO  small, 

My  learning  all ; 
Though  I  could  call  each  star,  and  tell  its  place, 
My  child's  "Our  Father"  bridged  the  gulf  of  space. 

I  sat  with  folded  hands,  at  rest,  at  rest, 
Turning  this  solemn  thought  within  my  breast : 

How  faith  would  fade 

if  tiod  had  made 
No  children  in  this  world— no  baby  age — 
Only  the  prudent  man  or  thoughtful  sage ; 

Only  the  woman  wise :  no  little  arms 

To  clasp  around  our  neck;  no  baby  charms. 

No  loving  care, 

No  sinless  prayer, 
No  thrill  of  lisping  song,  no  pattering  feet, 
No  infant  heart  against  our  heart  to  beat. 

Then,  if  a  tiny  hand,  low  down, 

Tap  at  thy  heart  or  door,  ah  !  do  not  frown ; 

Bend  low  to  meet 

The  little  feet; 
To  clasp  the  clinging  band;  the  child  will  be 
Nearer  to  heaven  than  thee— nearer  than  thee. 

—Lillie  E.  JJarr. 


TEMPERANCE. 


FOREIGN  INTEMFBRANCB  IN  INDIA. 


Miss  Maria  White,  M.  D.,  a  medical  missionary  of 
the  United  Presbyterian  church  in  India,  sister  of 
the  famous  temperance  worker,Mis8Nftrcissa  White, 
writes  an  entertaining  lecture  to  the  Union  lSignal,\n 
which  she  gives  this  incident: 

"A  prominent  Methodist  missionary  has  said,  'If 
the  English  speaking  people  were  removed  from  In- 
dia to-day,  the  most  palpable  indication  of  their  ex- 
istence in  India  would  be  the  excessive  drunkenness 
fastened  upon  the  nation.'  So  many  of  the  English 
officers  and  residents  and  English  speaking  travelers 
use  liquor  that  a  constant  bad  example  is  before  the 
natives;this,added  to  the  legalized  liquor  shops  opened 
by  the  English  government.can  well  account  for  the  in- 
creased drunkenness  of  the  people.  A  rather  amus- 
ing incident  occurred  not  long  ago  in  connection 
with  the  service  of  an  English  missionary;  or  rath- 
er, it  would  be  amusing  were  it  not  so  painfully  sug- 
gestive. 

"The  English  missionary  had  been  holding  a  very 
earnest  service  for  the  conversion  of  the  heathen 
natives,  and  in  the  evening  he  decided  to  hold  a 
special  pra5'er  service  among  the  Christian  people. 
But  at  the  hour  of  service  he  discovered  they  had 
forgotten  to  bring  with  them  their  candle-8ticks,and 
as  a  substitute  the  missionary  put  the  lighted  candle 
in  an  empty  beer  bottle.  The  missionary  stood  back 
of  the  candle  and  read  the  prayer,  while  the  people 
knelt  facing  him  and  the  beer  bottle  and  gave  the 
responses.  At  the  conclusion  it  was  noticed  that  a 
lot  of  the  natives  had  gathered  about  the  door  and 
were  much  excited  about  something.  The  next  day 
when  the  missionary  attempted  to  speak  to  them 
about  putting  away  their  idols  and  worshiping  God, 
the  natives  triumphiintly  replied:  'Last  nii^ht  we 
saw  you  worshiping  a  brer  holtlf,  with  lighted  can- 
dles, just  as  we  worship  our  gods.  Then  why  ask  us 
to  forsake  our  gotls  and  our  form  of  worship?'  And  1 
fear  it  would  be  a  ditlicult  matter  to  convince  those 
natives  that,  even  if  the  Knglisb  do  not  worship  the 
beer  bottle,  some  of  the  so-called  Christian  people  do 
— worship  its  contents. 


yiRMNBm  OF  8BNA  Z'OiJ   WILSON. 

Senator  Henry  Wilson  was  a  self-control  led  as 
well  as  self-made  man.  He  left  his  New  Hampshire 
home  early  in  life,  and  changed  his  name  in  order 
to  get  out  from  under  the  baleful  shadow  of  intem- 
perance. He  began  on  the  lowest  round  of  the  8o 
cial  ladder,  and  climlHid  up,  rung  by  rung,  until  he 
became  a  political  power  in  the  nation. 


The  first  step  he  took  in  the  ascent  placed  him  on 
the  pledge  never  to  drink  intoxicating  liijuors.  The 
second  step  he  took  made  him  an  industrious  labor- 
er, the  third  a  diligent  reader. 

He  was  sent  to  Washington  to  carry  a  petition 
against  the  admission  of  Texas  into  the  Union.  John 
Quincy  Adams  asked  him  to  a  dinner  party,where  he 
met  with  some  of  the  great  men  of  the  nation.  He 
was  asked  to  drink  wine.  The  temptation  to  lay  aside 
his  temperance  principle  for  amomeni:,inordernotto 
seem  singular,  was  a  strong  one.  But  he  resisted 
and  declined  the  glass  of  wine.  Mr.  Adams  com- 
mended him  for  his  adherence  to  his  conviction. 

After  Mr.  Wilson  was  elected  to  the  United  States 
Senate  he  gave  his  friends  a  dinner  at  a  noted  Bos- 
ton hotel.  The  table  was  set  with  not  a  wine-glaas 
upon  it 

"Where  are  the  wine-glasses?"  asked  several,loud 
enough  to  remind  their  host  that  some  of  his  guests 
did  not  like  sitting  down  to  a  wineless  dinner. 

"Gentlemen,"  said  Mr.  Wilson,  rising  and  speak- 
ing with  a  great  deal  of  feeling,  "j-ou  know  my 
friendship  for  you  and  my  obligations  to  you.  Great 
as  they  are,  they  are  not  great  enough  to  make  me 
forget  'the  rock  whence  I  was  hewn  and  the  pit  from 
whence  I  was  dug.'  Some  of  you  know  how  the 
curse  of  intemperance  overshadowed  my  }-outh. 
That  I  might  escape  I  fled  from  my  early  surround- 
ings and  changed  my  name.  For  what  I  am,  I  am 
indebted  under  God  to  my  temperance  vow  and  my 
adherence  to  it. 

"Call  for  what  you  want  to  eat,  and  if  this  hotel 
can  provide  it,  it  shall  be  forthcoming.  But  wines 
and  liquors  cannot  come  to  this  table  with  my  con- 
sent because  I  will  not  spread  in  the  path  of  anoth- 
er the  snare  from  which  I  escaped." 

Three  rousing  cheers  showed  the  brave  Senator 
that  men  admired  the  man  who  has  the  courage  of 
his  convictions. — The  Chrittian. 


Mrs.  Lucas,  of  London,  Miss  Willard,  of  Chicago, 
and  Mrs.  Hannah  Whitall  Smith,  of  Philadelphia, 
have  issued  a  circular  asking  Christian  women  every- 
where to  observe  Nov.  12  and  13  as  days  of  prayer 
for  a  divine  blessing  on  every  form  of  temperance 
work  in  the  world. 

The  National  Bureau  of  Statistics  shows  that  on 
the  $700,000,000  which  annually  passes  into  the  tills 
of  the  retailers  of  intoxicating  liquors  in  this  coun- 
try, there  is  a  profit  of  133.1  P^^  cent  If  poor  peo- 
ple had  to  pay  such  a  tax  as  that  on  bread  there 
would  be  a  rebellion.  But  when  a  man  tosses  ot!  a 
glass  of  whisky,  and  pays  five  cents  for  the  drink 
and  seven  or  eight  cents  to  the  bar-kee|)er  for  the 
trouble  of  handing  it  to  him,  he  generally  thinks  the 
bar-keeper  is  an  awfully  good  fellow. — Springfield 
Union. 

Judge  Agnew,  of  Pennsylvania,  in  a  letter  on  the 
subject  of  liquor  compensation,  writes:  "I  am  per- 
sonally opposed  to  a  compensation  clause.  When 
canals  superseded  turnpikes,  and  railroads  supersed- 
ed canals,  and  hotel  warehouses  and  other  places  of 
business  on  their  routes  were  destroyed,  no  compen- 
sation has  ever  been  made.  When  inventions  and 
new  modes  of  business  have  destroyed  old  trades 
and  modes,  compensation  was  not  made.  When  a 
curse  is  destroyed  it  is  ditticult  to  perceive  the  jus- 
tice of  society's  paying  for  it 

Switzerland  has  recently  adopted  by  popular  vote 
a  new  law  placing  the  entire  control  of  the  manufac- 
ture and  sale  of  intoxicating  lii^uors  in  the  hands  of 
the  government  This  measure  was  necessitate*!  on 
account  of  extensive  adulteration  of  spirits  and  the 
prevalence  of  intemperate  habits  among  the  people. 
The  eflect  of  the  new  law  will  be  the  production  of  a 
pure  article,  and,  better  yet,  the  restriction  of  its 
sale  to  those  who  will  not  use  it  to  excess.  Hereto- 
fore the  production  of  artificial  wines  had  been  ex- 
tensively carried  on,  and  all  forms  of  alcoholic  spir- 
its were  adulterated.  The  result  was  the  cheap- 
ening of  liciuors  and  widespread  habits  of  intoxica- 
tion among  the  poorer  classes.  The  etlecls  of  the 
new  law  will  be  watched  with  great  inteitsL 

The  New  York  brewers  have  dotormined  to  pre- 
vent, if  possible,  says  the  N.  Y.  Tiihuut,  the  renom- 
ination  of  all  such  legislators,  either  by  having  an 
opiX)8ition  Uepublicau  favorable  to  the  saloons  nom- 
inated or  by  buying  votes  for  the  Democratic  candi- 
date. Particular  ctlorls,  of  course,  will  Ihj  made  to 
carry  out  this  scheme  here  in  Now  York,  and  :i8{iec- 
ial  cfllort  is  to  be  made  to  defeat  Assemblyman 
Crosby,  whose  .course  at  Albany  has  made  him  an 
object  of  fear  and  hatred  to  the  l)eer  and  rum  sell- 
ers. The  money  is  to  l)e  raised  by  imjxwing.  a  tax 
on  every  barrel  of  beer  and  ale  sold  in  this  State 
from  May  1,  1SS6,  to  May  1,  1887;  on  every  bushel 
of  mall  and  bale  of  bo|)8  sold  within  thcsainr  perio<l 
and  »  gcucrjil  tnx  of  $100  on  all  brewers'  supply  uieu 
and  kiudvcd  trades. 


12 


THE  CHRISTIAN  OYNOSUKK. 


October  6, 1881 


BOSTON  LETTER  (Continued  from  9th  page) , 
tions  of   surprise  from  the  majority  of  the  deluded 


occupants  of  the  room  were  at  the  same  time,  to  say 
the  least,  pitiable  and  disgusting.  As  I  witnessed 
the  amazing  credulity  of  the  poor  souls,  I  could  not 
resist  giving  (what  1  considered  was  my  duty  to  do) 
a  rational  explanation  of  the  pretended  modm  oper- 
andi in  the  making  of  that  lace,  whereupon  one 
woman  declared  that  she  had  seen  them  materialize 
a  coat. 

"Then,"  said  I,  "they  would  do  well  to  make  a 
lot  of  them  for  freezing  children  about  the  city." 

She  immediately  collapsed,  but  the  old  man  on 
my  right,  as  a  sort  of  reinforcement,  savagely  ac- 
cused me  of  being  a  medium  possessed  with  the 
spirit  of  a  devil,  who  had  come  in  to  disturb  the 
meeting. 

"Yes,"  I  humbly  replied,  "I  am  a  medium,  but," 
laying  on  all  the  emphasis  I  could  command,  "I  am 
a  medium  of  common  sense." 

Devil  or  no  devil,  my  remark  was  responded  to 
by  half-suppressed  laughter  from  diflerent  parts  of 
the  room,  and  the  investigating  chap,  who  seemed 
to  be  seriously  concerned  about  my  safety,  asked  in 
low  tones: 

"Do  you  expect  to  get  out  of  here  alive?" 
I  replied  that  I  didn't  know  as  I  should.  If  they 
couldn't  make  me  a  spiritist,  there  was  a  possibility 
of  their  making  me  a  spirit,  and  of  the  two  I  would 
prefer  to  be  the  latter,  although  I  was  not  at  all 
anxious  for  an  opportunity  of  experimentally  testing 
materialization. 

The  remarkable  patience  which  my  uncle  mani- 
fested during  the  first  part  of  the  seance,  at  length 
began  to  abate.  Doubtless  the  intervals  between 
his  inquiries  concerning  the  presence  of  his  wife 
grew  annoyingly  brief  to  the  management.  Finally, 
a  spirit  named  A (his  wife's  name)  was  an- 
nounced, and  in  an  instant  he  was  on  his  feet,  strid- 
ing towards  the  cabinet.  He  was  doomed  to  disap- 
pointment.    It  was  not  his  A ,  Taut  a  friend  of 

other  parties  in  the  room.  Without  a  word,  he  qui- 
etly returned  to  his  seat. 

This  incident,  like  a  flash  of  lightning  in  the 
blackness  of  night,  revealed  the  whole  circumstance 
of  my  uncle  meeting  his  wife  at  this  place;  and  later, 
dumb  acknowledgment  on  his  part  confirmed  my 
suspicion.  He  had  gone  there  with  the  sincere  hope 
of  meeting  her,  and  was  in  that  frame  of  mind 
which  would  lead  him  to  foster  and  encourage  the 
slightest  evidence  or  indication  of  her  presence.  The 
first  time  he  called  at  this  place  a  spirit  bearing  the 
same  name  as  his  wife  appeared.  On  hearing  the 
name,  in  his  impulsive  way,  probably,  he  claimed 
its  owner  as  his  wife,  and  the  medium  was  shrewd 
enough  to  allow  him  to  thus  deceive  himself  and  the 
audience  even  at  the  expense  of  disappointment  to 
the  real  friends  of  the  spirit. 

At  last,my  aunt  was  announced  as  being  present. 
This  time  my  uncle  remained  in  his  seat,  while  the 
spirit  of  his  wife  advanced  slowly  toward  him.  She 
stopped  just  in  front  of  him,  and  placed  both  hands 
on  his  shoulders,  when  he  arose,  embraced  and  ca- 
ressed her.  The  next  moment  both  vanished  in  the 
darkness. 

When  the  spirit  stopped  before  my  uncle,  I  rose, 
and  bending  slightly  forward,  surveyed  it  from  head 
to  foot.  There  was  no  sign  of  recognition  on  her 
part  of  either  my  mother  or  myself.  There  was  not 
the  slightest  resemblance  between  this  spirit  and  my 
aunt.  The  difference,  however,  in  every  respect 
was  marked.  The  spirit  was  tall  and  slender  (very 
much  like  the  medium)  while  my  aunt,  when  living, 
had  been  short,  under  five  feet,  and  exceeding 
heavy,  tipping  the  scales  at  nearly  two  hundred 
pounds.  This  undeniable  contrast  was  admitted  by 
my  uncle,  who  declared  that  we  could  not  expect  to 
recognize  spirits  by  their  bodies. 

I  replied  that  if  it  was  possible  for  them  to  retain 
in  the  spirit  body  the  bltmishes  of  the  natural,  such 
as  moles,  etc.,  an  instance  of  which  we  had  just  wit- 
nessed in  the  case  of  the  old  gentleman's  daughter,I 
could  not  understand  why  they  should  change  so 
greatly  in  siza  and  height.  He  impatiently  retorted 
that  he  didn't  care  whether  the  spirit  looked  like  his 
wife  or  not,  so  long  as  it  was  her.  Alas,  no  wonder 
that  these  mediums  are  so  successful  in  their  "phe- 
nomena," when  their  patrons  are  so  anxious  to  see 
their  spirit  friends  that  they  are  willing  to  recognize 
anything.  Indeed,  any  attempt  of  the  spirit,  even, 
to  deny  identity  would  meet  resentment. 

After  the  ecstasy  and  excitement  of  meeting  with 
his  wife  had  somewhat  subsided, he  remembered  that 
he  had  noticed  that  the  spirit  had  fatled  to  recog- 
nize his  sister,  who  had  been  her  closest  friend.  He 
returned  with  the  spirit  on  his  arm  and  introduced  it 
to  my  mother,  or  rather,  mother  to  it,  who,failingof 
course  to  identify  a  single  feature  or  motion,received 
it  somewhat  coldly.       The  spirit  intimated  that  it 


wished  to  converse  with  her  nearer  the  cabinet.  Per- 
haps it  is  important  to  add  just  here  that  the  closer 
a  spirit  keeps  to  the  medium  the  more  strength  it 
receives.  A  spirit  which  can  cross  an  ordinary  room 
is  considered  very  strong. 

Half  pulled  along  by  the  spirit,  mother  disap- 
peared in  the  blackness  surrounding  the  cabinet.  In 
a  few  seconds  she  hurriedly  reappeared  alone,  and 
at  the  same  time  it  was  suddenly  announced  by  the 
big  female  that  the  medium  was  prostrated  because 
the  lady  (my  mother)  had  refused  to  recognize  her 
sister;  that  the  current  was  broken,aTid  the  medium 
rendered  unable  to  continue  the  seance. 

Had  a  bomb  exploded  in  our  midst,  ex- 
citement would  only  have  been  a  few  degrees  great- 
er. Expressions  of  chagrin  and  anger  poured  forth 
from  every  side.  In  the  midst  of  it  I  stood  up 
and  said:  "It  is  no  wonder  that  the  lady  refused  to 
recognize  the  spirit  as  her  sister.       It  was  about  as 

much  like  her  as " 

At  this  point  I  was  compelled  to  stop,  for  my 
voice  was  completely  drowned  by  the  most  unearth- 
ly hissing  I  ever  heard.  It  seemed  as  though  all 
the  dead  serpents  in  the  universe  were  present.  I 
was  determined,  however,  to  finish  my  speech. 
Waiting  until  there  was  a  lull,  I  interjected: 

"She  looked  about  as  much  like  my  aunt  as  a 
stick  of  wood.  Besides,  she  wouldn't  come  into 
such  a  place;  she  despised  spiritism  as  she  did  pois- 
on.    It  was  the  means  of  her  death,  I  believe." 

The  bissicg  continued,  intermingled  with  threats, 
but  I  held  my  ground  and  kept  on,  fearless,  or  rath- 
er heedless,  of  the  result,  and  I  guess  they  got  about 
all  they  wanted,  at  least  the  medium  did,  for  she 
cried  out: 

"He  means  right!  he  means  right!" 
Having  obtained  this  correct  acknowledgment  of 
my  intentions  from  headquarters,  I  concluded  to  sit 
down,  when  the  hissing  lulled  and  finally  ceased. 
The  lights  were  turned  up,  and  the  seance  declared 
ended. 

Without  heeding  the  sullen  and  sharp  looks  of  the 
company,with  a  few  remarks  of  regret  that  the  meet- 
ing had  so  suddenly  terminated,f  oUowed  by  my  com- 
panions, I  departed. 

As  we  walked  homeward,  my  mother  related  what 
had  occurred  between  her  and  the  spirit,  which  had 
so  shocked  the  medium  and  shattered  the  connect- 
ing current.  When  they  were  enveloped  in  the  dark- 
ness the  spirit  stopped,  and  putting  its  hands  up  to 
her  face  attempted  to  kiss  her.  She,  however,  de- 
clined to  receive  this  expression  of  endearment,  and 
said  sharply,  with  her  mouth  close  to  the  spirit's 
ear: 

"You  are  not  my  sister.     You  are  a  humbug!" 
In  an  instant  the  spirit  vanished,  and  almost  the 
next  the  big  woman  announced  the  prostration  of 
the  medium. 

Instead  of  expressing  anger  at  my  spirited  partic- 
ipation in  the  seance,  my  uncle  in  really  sad  tones 
asserted  that  I  had  broken  up  the  meeting.  This 
charge  I  denied.  The  sensitiveness  of  the  spirit  or 
the  weakness  of  the  medium  was  really  the  cause. 
There  had  been  so  many  exposures  made  about  that 
time  that,  doubtless,  they  suspected  danger  of  be- 
coming victims. 

It  may  be  that  some  ceased  with  the  first  install- 
ment to  read  this  article,  because  its  subject  was 
seemingly  somewhat  foreign  to  the  character  of  the 
Cynosure.  Spiritism,  like  secretism,  is  a  fruit  of  the 
works  of  darkness,  and  in  its  sphere  is  doing  as 
much  harm.  Its  sittings,  etc.,  are  as  paganistic  as 
any  secret  society  initiation.  They  are  conducted  on 
the  principle  of  secrecy,  and  the  Cynosure  would  not 
deviate  far  from  its  legitimate  course  in  showing  up 
their  deceptions  occasionally.  Fearing  I  might  be 
crowding  out  more  valuable  matter  each  week  from 
the  Cynosure's  columns,  I  have  contributed  this" Ad- 
venture among  the  Spirits"  in  small  installments, 
thus,  much  against  my  desire,  prolonging  it  bevond 
the  editor's  patience,  I  fear.        D.  P.  Mathews. 


gate  to  the  G-eneral  Assembly,  over  D.  M.  Fowler 
of  Chicago.  The  Chicago  delegates,  it  is  said,  were 
not  pleased  at  the  result,  and  state  that  the  election 
is  not  legal,  as  Miss  Willard  is  not  a  layman.  The 
government  for  the  church  does  not  say  laity,  but 
laymen.  It  is  stated  that  the  General  Conference 
will  not  admit  her  to  a  seat  in  that  body.  When 
the  conference  met  Friday,  it  was  announced  that 
Rev,  William  Augustus  Smith,  D.  D.,  was  dead.  He 
was  one  of  the  best  known  preachers  in  the  confer- 
ence. He  was  pastor  of  Rockford  Centennial 
church.  His  death  was  very  sudden,  and  was 
caused  by  heart  disease. 

— The  General  Conference  of  the  Swedish  Evan- 
gelical Mission  Church  of  North  America  met  last 
week  in  Des  Moines,  Iowa,  and  was  attended  by 
about  fifty  pastors  and  representatives  from  all 
parts  of  the  country.  Among  the  prominent  mem- 
bers were  Rev.  C.  A.  Bjork  of  Chicago,  President 
of  the  conference;  E  G.  Hjerpe  of  Galesburg,  Secre- 
tary; P.  Peterson,  Emigrant  Missionary  of  New 
York.  The  secretary  reported  twenty-five  ministers 
engaged  in  work,  over  150  congregations,  and  twen- 
ty-six theological  students  in  the  Swedish  Depart- 
ment of  the  Chicago  Theological  Seminary. 

— Rev.  Wm.  McDonald,  the  President  of  the  Na- 
tional Holiness  Association,  has  declined  the  honor 
of  the  title  of  Doctor  of  Divinity  tendered  to  him  by 
the  Upper  Iowa  University.  His  chief  reason  is, 
as  he  conceives,  its  unscriptural  character  as  seen 
by  reference  to  Christ's  injunction:  "Be  ye  not  call- 
ed Rabbi,"  or  Doctor,  as  scholars  say. 

— Mrs.  Mary  Clement  Leavitt  writes  that  all  the 
American  missions  in  Burmah  have  incorporated 
total  abstinence  in  their  work, 

— Last  year  the  Eoglish  Methodists  spent  nearly 
$200,000  on  church  property. 

— The  home  Sunday-school  of  Mr,  Spurgeon's 
church  has  108  teachers,  all  members  of  the  church, 
and  1,428  scholars.  In  all  the  schools  connected 
with  the  Tabernacle,  there  are  7,677  scholars, 

— The  friends  of  Bishop  Taylor's  African  missions» 
which  are  not  supported  by  any  missionary  society, 
have,  in  the  past  eighteen  months,  contributed  near- 
ly $46,000  to  maintain  them,beside8  supplying  $25,- 
000  to  build  the  Bishop's  steel  Congo  steamer,  which 
has  cost  $30,000,  Many  of  the  stations  in  Angola 
are  now  raising  much  of  their  food  supplies  and  are 
thus  largely  self  supporting.  Seven  missionaries 
have  died.but  seventy  remain  in  active  service.  This 
does  not  include  the  children,  of  whom  a  considera- 
ble number  are  with  their  parents.  Bishop  Taylor 
is  supposed  to  have  joined  the  last  party  that  left 
this  country  in  Liberia,  and  to  be  now  with  them  on 
the  Congo,  which  they  will  leave  before  long  to  trav- 
el hundreds  of  miles  up  the  Kassa  affluent  to  the  rich 
Baluba  country. 


LITERATURE. 


Mbchanical  Massage.  Principles  and  practice  of  remedial 
treatment  by  imparted  motion.  By  Geo.  H  Taylor,  M  D.,  au- 
thor of  'Health  by  Exercise,"  etc.  Pp.  173.  Price  75  cts.  John 
B.  Alden,  New  York. 

This  work  by  the  physician  who  has  become  justly 
celebrated  as  the  first  to  introduce  the  Swedish 
Movement  cure  in  this  country  shows  how  to  use 
common  mechanical  power,  which  is  abundant  and 
cheap  and  everywhere  attainable, to  remedy  the  most 
difficult  chronic  diseases  after  other  remedies  have 
proved  insufficient.  Its  chapters  describe  the  adap- 
tation of  this  remedial  agent  to  indigestion  in  its 
worst  forms,  including  obstinate  constipation;  to 
nervous  diseases,  neuralgia  and  paralysis;  to  rheum- 
atism and  to  joint  affections;  to  diseases  of  the  kid- 
neys; and  the  unrivalled  remedial  power  it  exercis- 
es in  all  forms  of  enfeebled  vitality  in  persons  of  all 
ages.  The  work  is  written  in  plain  language,though 
philosophical  in  thought,and  is  illustrated  with  cuts, 
rendering  its  subject  clear  and  practical. 

The  American  Magazine  for  October  is  a  popular  num- 
ber, openiog  with  an  account  of  the  ascent  of  Popocata- 
petl  in  Mt:-xico,wbich  is  full  of  well-told  incident  and  is 
happily  illustrated.  Of  equal  interest  is  "American  Ex- 
The  committee  on  temperance,  in  its  report  to  perienccs  in  China"  by  C.  B.  Adams,  which  without  be- 
the  Indiana  Yearly  Meeting  of  Orthodox  Friends,  at  i°K  profound  is  sketchy,  entertaining  and  puts  us  in  the 
Richmond,  referred  to  the  fact  that  the  liquor  sell- 1  company  with  a  quick  and  careful  observer  of  the  Chi- 
ers  throughout  the  country  had  become  greatly  dis- !  "^se  people.  "The  Washington  Nationa  Monument  is 
j„  .^^  .  °.,  .  .  J  ,  •',  ^,  "~^"'"'=  6"='*";'J  "'"  an  illustrated  history  of  the  erection  of  the  highest  arti- 
turbed  in  their  minds  about  the  active  operations  of  ^^M  structure  in  the  world,  without  any  notice  of  the 
temperance  workers.  A  circular  had  been  issued  Masonic  clap  trap  which  was  attempted  at  its  beginning 
by  the  committee  calling  upon  every  friend  of  tem-  and  completion.  "Some  Factors  in  Social  Evolution" 
perance  to  cast  his  vote  for  prohibition.  It  appear-  tells  of  the  work  of  woman's  clubs  in  Boston;  Grant  Al- 
ed  that  134  Friends  had  used  intoxicating  beverages  ^^^  describes  the  contents  of  his  h' use  with  collections  of 
during  the  past  year,  one  had  sold  liquors,  fortv-six  "J.'^*'^  *°!^  }'^^^^JJ,   I^^^f;  *°<*  ^  ^-  "^^'*®  '''^^«''  °' 


Religious  News. 


sold  tobacco,  1,009  had  used  it,  and  $9,000  had  been 
spent  by  them  for  tobacco. 

— At  the  meeting  of  the  lay  delegates  of  the  Rock 

River  Methodist  Conference  at  Rockford,  III.,  Fri- 

'  day.  Miss  Frances  E.  Willard  was  elected  a  dele- 


Pittsburg's  Invisible  Fuel.' 

In  the  October  Words  and  Weapons  Dr.  A.rthurT.  Pier- 
son  writes  an  inspiring  sketch  of  John  Eoox,  the  Scot- 
tish reformer.  A  searchirg  sermon  by  Dr.  Pentecost  on 
"Actual  Sin,"  is  a  feature  of  the  number.  Dr.  Pentecost 
addresses  a  special  request  to  the  readers  of  the  magazine 


OoTOBSR  6, 1887 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CrNOSUKE. 


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for  their  prayers,  thus.  "The  lime  is  at 
hand  when  the  fall  and  winter  work  is  to 
begin.  I  venture,  therefore,  to  ask  an 
especial  interest  in  the  prayers  of  all  my 
readers  for  the  blessing  of  God  upon  my 
labors  this  winter.  Even  while  you  are 
reading  these  lines  I  shall  have  begun  a 
series  of  union  Gospel  meetings  under 
the  auspices  of  the  churches  in  Amesbury, 
Mass.,  where  I  expect  to  remain  for  six 
weeks.  Thence  I  shall  (D.  V  )  go  to 
Augusta,  Me  ;  thence  to  Lawrence,  Mass. 
It  will  be  a  comfort  to  know  that  many 
Christians  will  be  praying  for  the  success 
of  the  work.  My  old  friend,  brother,  and 
fellow  laborer,  Mr.  Stebbins,  also  surren- 
ders his  position  as  chorister  of  my  late 
church  to  go  with  me  into  this  blessed 
work.  For  more  than  ten  years  we  have 
wrought  together,  preaching  Christ  and 
singing  the  Gospel.  I  ask  for  him  the 
same  measure  of  Christian  fellowship  and 
prayers  that  I  do  for  myself." 

The  American  edition  of  the  Hhistrated 
London  ^ews  for  Oct.  1  contaios  a  full 
page  illustration  of  Miss  Mary  Anderson 
as  Hermoine  in  "A  Winter's  Tale,"  pic- 
tures of  the  new  Chinese  naval  squadron, 
and  an  illustrated  article  on  English  Ex- 
ploration in  Egypt,  besides  other  articles 
of  interest  and  pictures  of  merit.  Deal- 
ers now  furnish  this  noted  periodical  for 
ten  cents  a  copy,  and  at  the  oflflce  of  pub- 
lication, 237  Potter  Building,  New  York, 
subscriptions  are  received  at  very  favora- 
ble rates. 


Lodge  Notes. 

The  Veteran  Union  League  has  de 
clined  the  invitation  to  parade  at  the  re- 
ception of  President  Cleveland  in  Chicago. 

A  poem  by  Maurice  Thompson,  pre- 
senting an  Address  by  an  ex  Rebel  to  the 
Grand  Army  of  the  Republic,  is  one  of 
the  features  of  the  October  American 
Magazine. 

General  Master  Workman  Powderly 
one  year  ago  announced  that  the  Knights 
of  Labor  had  a  grand  total  membership 
of  800,000.  From  a"  recent  estimate 
about  one  half  that  number  is  reckoned 
as  their  actual  strength. — Inter  Ocean. 

The  latest  compiled  statistics  of  the 
Order  of  the  Templar  in  the  world  show 
770  subordinates,  with  a  membership  of 
77,394  in  the  United  States;  and  in  Can- 
ada, England,  Ireland,  and  Scotland  188 
subordinates,  with  a  membership  of 
5,530,  or  a  grand  total  of  77,924  Knights 
Templar. 

District  Assembly  No.  49,  Knights  of 
Labor,  passed  a  resolution  lately  asking 
Governor  Oglesby,  of  Illinois,  to  com- 
mute the  sentence  of  the  seven  Chicago 
anarchists.  They  ordered  the  committee 
appointed  some  weeks  ago  to  get  names 
of  sympathizers  with  the  anarchists  to 
hurry  up,  and  also  to  pick  up  all  the 
money  they  could  get  to  aid  the  con- 
demned men. 

A  gentleman  from  New  Jersey  has  or- 
ganized a  temperance  order  of  King's 
Sons,  and  calls  upon  all  men,  commercial 
travelers  in  particular,  to  show  their  col- 
ors and  declare  for  King  Manhood  and 
against  King  Alcohol.  It  is  formed  on 
the  "ten  times  one  is  ten"  principle,  and 
each  member  pledges  himself  "to  drink 
no  intoxicating  liquors,  and  to  try  to  get 
ten  others  to  join  the  army." 

The  night  of  July  30  J.  B.  Wilson,  a 
farmer  of  Henry  county.  111.,  fifteen  miles 
east  of  Moline,  mysteriously  disappeared. 
Hie  clothes,  shoes,  hat,  watch  and  a  small 
sum  of  money  were  found  on  the  bank 
of  Rock  river,  near  Colona.  The  report 
was  circulated  that  Wilson  had  been 
drowned,  and  application  was  made  for 
the  amount  of  his  insurance— $3,000— in 
the  Orion  Lodge  of  the  Modern  Wood- 
men. By  means  of  photographs  detec- 
tives have  traced  Wilson  to  Canada, 
where  he  is  now  living  under  an  alias. 

John  G.  Jones  is  a  lawyer  of  good  re- 
pute, an  estimable  gentleman  and  a  schol- 
ar, and  up  to  Sept.  3  was  an  honored 
member  of  a  number  of  Masonic  lodges 
and  orders.  He  was  also  exalted  to  the 
position  of  Grand  Inspector  General  of 
the  Thirty  third  Degree  of  the  Supreme 
Council  of  Ancient  and  Accepted  Scottish 
Rite  Masons  This  was  all  prior  to  Sept. 
3.  He  is  now  only  plain  John  Jnnes, 
without  any  degree,  and  the  cause  of  his 
beiog'shorn  of  his  long  and  honorable 
title  of  G.  I  G.  of  the  T.  T.  D.  of  the 
8.  C.  of  A  AS  R.  M  was,  he  says,  Jo- 
sephW.  Moore.  Mr.  Moore  had  a  longer 
title  even  than    dc.  Jones,  being  the  Moat 


Worshipful  Grand  Master  of  the  State 
Worshipful  Grand  Lodge  of  Ancient  Free 
and  Accepted  Masons  for  the  State  of 
Illinois.  He  was,  besides,  the  Right 
Worshipful  Grand  Secretary  of  the  etc., 
etc.  The  ex  Grand  Inspector  General, 
etc,  claims  that  the  Most  Worshipful 
Grand  Master,  etc.,  wrongfully  suspended 
him  from  his  oflace  in  the  lodge,  and  yes- 
terday he  went  into  the  courts  to  seek 
reparation  for  his  wounded  honor.  He 
instituted  an  action  in  the  Circuit  Court 
against  Mr.  Moore  to  recover  $10,000 
damages  for  the  alleged  uncalled  for  af- 
front [The  above  is  from  the  Chicago 
Berald  of  Monday.  It  is  probably  part 
of  the  history  of  colored  Masonry.] 


BUSINESS. 


8VB80RIPT10N  LBTTSR8. 

The  following  have  made  remittances 
of  money  to  the  Cynosure  from  Sept.  26 
to  Oct.  1  inclusive. 

R  Bark,  J  Hawkins,  C  K  Green,  C  N 
Fox,  H  8  Boyd,  D  P  Mathews,  J  R 
Johnson,  B  Loveless,  W  B  Walthall,  O 
C  Lindley,  R  Kraut,  W  Machemer,  O  W 
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October  6, 188) 


Farm  Notes. 


cows  AND  WHAT  T3EY  GIVE  US. 

Our  American  dairy  interests  are  start- 
lingly  enormous.  They  represent  an 
investment  of  nearly  five  times  as  much 
as  the  entire  bank  capital  of  the  country 
— that  is  to  say,  the  bank  capital  is  a  little 
less  than  $671,000,000,  while  the  dairy 
interests  amount  to  more  than  $3,000,- 
000,000.  Of  course  our  readers  cannot 
swallow  such  frightful  figures  in  a  lump, 
and  we  will  therefore  arrange  them  in 
several  smaller  but  still  heroic  doses. 
The  number  of  milch  cows  is  estimated 
at  21,000,000.  They  give  each  an  average 
of  350  gallons  of  milk  annually.  This 
would  make  an  aggregate  milk  produc- 
tion of  7,350,000,000  gallons,  a  miniature 
ocean,  a  fair-sized  Niagara.  Four  thou- 
sand million  gallons  are  used  for  butter, 
700,000,000  for  cheese,  and  the  remaining 
2,480,000,000  pass  through  the  adulter- 
ating hands  of  the  milkman  and  grocer, 
and  down  the  throats  of  60,000.000  men, 
women,  and  babies  in  this  land  of  free- 
dom. The  quantity  of  butter  manufac- 
tured and  used  is  about  1,350,000,000 
pounds,  and  of  cheese  6,5f^0,000  pounds. 
The  value  of  our  dairy  products  lor  the 
last  twelve  months  was  nearly  $500,000,- 
000.  This  is  $20,000,000  more  than  the 
value  of  our  annual  wheat  yield,  while  it 
closely  approximates  that  of  our  corn 
crop,  which  is  the  most  valuable  of  our 
farm  products.  To  support  this  immense 
dairy  herd  100,000,000  acres  of  pasture 
land  are  required,  worth  $2,500,000,000. 
It  is  easy  enough  to  see,  therefore,  that 
the  400,000,000  farmers  in  this  country 
are  an  important  element  of  our  national 
welfare  and  prosperity. — New  York  Her- 
ald. 

A  NEW  DEPARTURE. 

The  Vanderbilt  University,  of  Nash- 
ville, Tenn  ,  announces  a  new  departure 
that  other  colleges  of  the  country  would 
do  well  to  follow.  The  Dean  of  the 
engineering  department,  Mr.  Landreth, 
has  issued  circulars  announcing  that  a 
class  in  highway  construction  is  to  be 
opened  free  of  charge  to  one  principal  or 
deputy  highway  commissioner  or  other 
oflScial  from  each  county,  the  beneficiary 
to  be  appointed  by  the  County  Judge. 
The  course  of  instruction  will  extend 
from  Feb .  1  to  April  1  and  will  consist 
of  lectures  and  work  on  the  economical 
location  of  highways  to  conform  to  con- 
ditions of  topography  and  traffic,  princi- 
ples of  construction  of  new  and  recon- 
struction of  old  roads,  methods  of  drain- 
age, simple  highway  structures,  retaining 
walls,  culverts,  simple  bridges;  also  prac- 
tice in  field  sketching,  platting,  draught- 
ing, and  computing  estimates  of  cost. 
Tuition  in  manual  technology  at  the 
Vanderbilt  is  free  to  all  students;  and 
now  the  opening  of  the  class  in  road 
engineering  to  public  officials  charged 
with  oversight  of  the  highways  is  a  step 
that  is  highly  to  be  commended.  The 
offer  is  not  restricted  to  State  lines,  but 
limited  only  by  the  capacity  of  the  insti- 
tution. 

The  question  of  improved  public  roads 
is  one  of  the  most  important  in  the  entire 
realm  of  public  economy.  Road  making 
is  a  science;  and  though  not  abstruse,  yet 
some  measure  of  study  and  practical 
training  are  essential  to  the  thorough 
comprehension  of  the  principles  of  con- 
struction that  have  been  found  by  expe- 
rience to  be  most  economical  and  service- 
a1>le. 

There  is  no  country  in  the  world, 
wherein  the  people  are  equally  wealthy 
and  intelligent,  that  has  such  abominably 
bad  public  roads  as  are  found  in  the 
United  States,  and  especially  in  the  West- 
ern States.  One  reason  is  we  have  so 
much  greater  mileage  to  construct;  but 
the  principal  trouble  is  cultivated  brains 
and  practical  skill  are  not  applied  to  the 
business  of  road  making. 

In  some  of  the  European  countries  the 
superintendence  of  public  highways  is 
intrusted  only  to  specially  trained  expert 
government  engineers.  The  roads  arc 
laid  out,  graded,  and  worked  on  a  system 
based  on  well  established  scientific  prin- 
ciples. We  shall  have  to  adopt  in  this 
country  some  system  of  official  oversight 
of  the  highways  if  we  ever  improve  upon 
our  present  execrable  wagon  tracks. — 
Inter  Ocean. 

Stakt  Incubators  Early. — A  con- 
temporary advises  those  wno  are  to  use 
incubators  next  spring  to  purchase  and 
put  them  in  operation  this  fall.  One 
cannot  learn  the  methods  of  operating 
too  soon.    Nothing  but  e.\  perience  will 


teach  one  to  run  them  successfully,  and 
experience  comes  much  cheaper  in  Sep- 
tember and  October  than  five  or  six 
months  later.  If  you  do  not  care  to  raise 
a  lot  of  fall  chicks  give  them  to  some  one 
who  will  care  for  them. 

Rene-wing  Old  Trees.— According  to 
the  late  Ben.  Perley  Poore — to  whom 
was  awarded  a  prize  of  $1,000  for  the 
best  plantation  forest  in  Massachusetts — 
old  fruit  and  forest  trees  can  be  renovated 
by  digging  a  trench  four  feet  in  width 
and  three  feet  deep  around  the  tree.  A 
ball  of  earth  is  left  directly  around  the 
trunk  of  the  tree,  containing  the  main 
roots.  In  this  trench  put  soil,  with  lib- 
eral allowances  of  manure,  refuse  from  a 
blacksmith's  forge  and  some  potash,  and 
have  them  all  well  mixed  together.  The 
effect  will  be  to  clothe  the  tree  with  the 
luxuriance  and  vigor  of  a  young  tree. 

Dry  the  Potatoes. — Among  the  sea- 
sonable hints  is  that,  after  digging  pota- 
toes they  should  be  allowed  to  dry  thor- 
oughly before  removing  to  the  storage 
bins.  If  dried  in  the  shade  it  will  be 
better  than  exposing  them  to  the  direct 
rays  of  the  sun,  and  they  should  not  be 
stored  too  soon  after  digging  them,  but 
be  kept  spread  out  for  a  few  days. 

Cleaning  Wells. — Many  farmers  are 
almost  criminally  careless  about  cleaning 
wells,  and  their  families  often  suffer  in 
consequence  from  disease  caused  by  the 
use  of  impure  water.  Some  one  has 
truly  said  that  it  is  fortunate  for  many 
that  the  house  well  sometimes  becomes 
dry,  because  it  gives  an  opportunity  for 
cleaning  it  thoroughly.  If  it  has  not 
been  cleaned  for  two  or  three  years, 
pump  it  dry  and  go  at  it.  Any  one  will 
be  surprised  how  much  sediment  a  well 
accumulates  even  when  its  top  is  care- 
fully guarded.  Bad  water  is  a  great 
enemy  to  health  and  longevity. 


FREE  TRACTS 


Will  be  furnished  to  those  who  desire  in- 
formation or  who  will  distribute  them 
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There  are  in  stock  now  a  large  number 
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"freemasonry  in  the  family." 

This  is  especially  interesting  to  ladies. 
"to  the  boys  who  hope  to  be  men." 

It  is  illustrated  and  will  please  the 
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"moody  on   secret  societies" 
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"the  sons  of  veterans." 
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quested to  do  so. 

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Sing  the  Reform 
Into  the   Hearts  of  the  People 

One  of  the  most  popular  books  against 
lodgery  is  the  latest  compilation  of 

George  W.  Clark, 

The  IWCinStrel  of  Reformi 

A  forty-page  book  of  soul-stirring,  conscience- 
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conventions  and  the  home  circle.  What  can 
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HOW  TO  ACT  AT  A  FIRE. 

In  a  lecture  before  the  Society  of  Arts, 
London,  Mr.  A.  W.  C.  Ghean  gave  the 
following  concise  and  simple  directions 
how  to  act  on  the  occurrence  of  fires. 
Fire  requires  air;  therefore,  on  its  appear- 
ance every  effort  should  be  made  to 
exclude  air — shut  all  doors  and  windows. 
By  this  means  fire  may  be  confined  to  a 
single  room  for  a  sufficient  period  to 
enable  all  the  inmates  to  be  aroused  and 
escape;  but  if  the  doors  and  windows  are 
thrown  open,  the  fanning  of  the  wind  and 
the  draught  will  instantly  cause  the  flames 
to  increase  with  extraordinary  rapidity. 
It  must  never  be  forgotten  that  the  most 
precious  moments  are  at  the  commence- 
ment of  a  fire,  and  not  a  single  second  of 
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room,  a  table  cloth  can  be  so  used  as  to 
smother  a  large  sheet  of  flame,  and  a 
cushion  may  serve  to  beat  it  out;  a  coat 
or  anything  similar  may  be  used  with  an 
equally  successful  result.  The  great  point 
is  presence  of  mind— calmness  in  danger, 
action  guided  by  reason  and  thought.  In 
all  large  houses,  buckets  of  water  should 
be  placed  on  every  landing,  a  little  salt 
being  put  into  the  water.  Always  en- 
deavor to  attack  the  bed  of  a  fire;  if  you 
cannot  extinguish  a  fire,  shut  the  win- 
dow, and  be  sure  to  shut  the  door  when 
making  good  your  retreat.  A  wet  silk 
handkerchief  tied  over  the  eyes  and  nose 
will  make  breathing  possible  in  the  midst 
of  much  smoke,  and  a  blanket  wetted 
and  wrapped  around  the  body  will  enable 
a  person  to  pass  through  a  sheet  of  flame 
in  comparative  safety.  Should  a  lady's 
dress  catch  flre,  let  the  wearer  at  once  lie 
down.  Rolling  may  extinguish  the  flre, 
but  if  not,  anything  (woolen  preferred) 
wrapped  tightly  round  will  effect  the 
desired  purpose  A  burn  becomes  less 
painful  the  moment  air  is  excluded  from 
it.  For  simple  burns,  oil  or  the  white  of 
an  egg  can  be  used.  One  part  of  carbolic 
acid  to  six  parts  of  olive  oil  is  found  to 
be  invaluable  in  most  cases,  slight  or 
severe,  and  the  first  layer  of  lint  should 
not  be  removed  till  the  cure  is  complete, 
but  saturated  by  the  application  of  fresh 
outer  layers  from  time  to  time.  Linen 
rag  soaked  in  a  mixture  of  equal  parts  of 
lime  water  and  linseed  oil  aldo  forms  a 
good  dressing.  Common  whiting  is  very 
good,  applied  wet  and  continually  damp- 
ened with  a  sponge. 

Every  one  has  a  cure  for  sore  throat, 
but  simple  remedies  appear  to  be  most 
effectual.  Salt  and  water  is  used  by 
many  as  a  gargle,  but  a  little  alum  and 
honey  dissolved  in  sage  tea  is  better.  An 
application  of  cloths  wrung  out  of  hot 
water  and  applied  to  the  neck,  changing 
as  often  as  they  begin  to  cool,  has  the 
most  potency  for  removing  inflammation 
of  anything  we  ever  tried.  It  should  be 
kept  up  for  a  number  of  hours;  during 
the  evening  is  the  usually  most  conve- 
nient time  for  applying  this  remedy. 

PASTE  THAT  WILL  KEEP  A  YEAR. 

Dissolve  a  teaspoonful  of  alum  in  a 
quart  of  warm  water.  When  cold  stir  in 
as  much  flour  as  will  make  it  the  con- 
sistency of  thick  cream,  being  particular 
to  beat  up  all  the  lumps;  stir  in  as  much 
powdered  resin  as  will  stand  on  a  dime, 
and  add  a  few  drops  of  oil  of  cloves  to 
give  it  a  pleasant  odor.  Have  on  the  fire 
a  teacupful  of  boiling  water;  pour  the 
flour  mixture  into  it,  stirring  well  all  the 
time.  In  a  few  minutes  it  will  be  like 
mush.  Pour  it  into  an  earthen  dish;  let 
cool,  and  keep  it  in  a  cool  place.  When 
needed  for  use,  take  out  a  portion  and 
soften  with  warm  water. — Selerted. 

HINTS  FOR  THE  HOUSEWIFE. 

Willow  chairs  and  other  furniture  of 
that  kind  can  be  cleaned  by  scrubbing 
carefully  with  salt  water,  rinsing  and 
rubbing  dry. 

A  bag  of  hot  salt  or  sand  applied  to  an 
aching  face  or  limb,  is  often  a  great  re- 
lief. The  rubber  bags  that  can  be  filled 
with  hot  water  and  then  the  neck  screwed 
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Oil  cloths  will  retain  their  freshness 
and  last  much  longer  if  washed  in  tepid 
milk  and  water  than  if  scoured  with  hot 
water  and  soap.  A  thin  coat  of  varnish 
once  or  twice  a  year  will  make  them  more 
durable. 

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of  it,  the  general  tendency  is  to  make 
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THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURES. 


October'6,  188  7 


NFws  OF  The  "Week 

CHICAGO . 

C  T  Yerkes  has  practically  completed 
the  purchase  of  the  West  Division  Rail- 
roads for  the  Philadelphia  syndicate,  and 
the  deeds  were  signed  Saturday.  They 
purchased  the  North  Side  lines  a  year  ago. 

Francis  Murphy  addressed  Gospel  tem- 
perance workers  at  the  Madison  Street 
Theater  Friday  night.  Some  Prohibi- 
tionists present  asked  some  pointed  ques- 
tions which  disturbed  the  meeting. 

On  Saturday  Sept.  24  five  courts,  ex- 
clusively occupied  with  divorce  cases, 
were  working  simultaneously,  and  over 
100  default  cases  alone — said  to  be  the 
largest  number  on  record  for  one  day — 
were  disposed  of. 

COUNTRY. 

In  the  Georgia  Legislature  the  Senate 
substitute  for  the  Glenn  educational  bill 
was  killed  Wednesday  in  the  House, 
which  b')dy  adopted  a  resolution  that  the 
$8  000  annual  appropriation  to  the  At- 
lanta University  be  withheld  unless  that 
institution  shall  forever  cease  co-educa- 
tion of  the  races. 

Latest  returns  indicate  that  the  major- 
ity against  prohibition  in  Tennessee  will 
be  between  12  000  and  15  000.  The  vote 
exceeds  that  cast  at  the  last  Gubernatorial 
election. 

The  Grand  Jury  at  Logansport,  Ind.,  is 
investigating  the  playing  of  base  ball 
Sundays.  The  law  has  been  evaded  by 
the  management  giving  free  admission, 
but  charging  for  score  cards. 

In  the  case  of  John  Lemley  and  the 
Golden  Censer  Religious  Newspaper 
Company  at  R^ckford,  III,  Judge  Brown 
granted  an  injunction  restraining  Lem- 
ley's  trustee  from  selling  the  property. 

The  strike  in  the  woolen  mills  at  Louis- 
ville, inaugurated  two  months  ago,  has 
proved  a  failure,  and  the  weavers  are  re- 
turning to  work  at  employers'  terms.  It 
is  said  to  be  a  severe  defeat  for  the 
Knights  of  Labor. 

Articles  were  filed  Tuesday  at  Harris- 
burg,  Pa.,  consolidating  the  New  York, 
Chicago  and  St.  Louis  and  the  Fort 
Wayne  and  Illinois  Railways,  the  new 
corporation  to  be  known  as  the  New 
York,  Chicago  and  St.  Louis  Railroad 
Company.  Daniel  W  Caldwell  is  Presi- 
dent, and  the  capital  stock  is  $30,000,000. 

Knapp,  Stout  &  Co.,  of  Menomonie, 
Wis  ,  of  which  Capt.  William  Wilson  is 
a  member,  Tuesday,  sold  their  sawmills, 
pine  lands,  and  lumber  interests  along 
the  Red  Cedar  River  to  the  Mississippi 
Logging  Co.  for  $6,700,000. 

At  Lake  Mohawk,  N.  Y.,  Wednesday, 
the  friends  of  the  Indians  opened  their 
annual  conference  General  Clinton  B. 
Pisk  was  chosen  President  for  the  fifth 
consecutive  year. 

Three  children  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Frank 
Hood,  of  Muskegon,  Mich.,  were  left 
alone  in  the  house  Tuesday  night.  When 
the  parents  returned  they  found  their 
babes  burned  to  death  and  their  home  in 
ruins. 

The  failure  is  announced  of  the  Enter- 
prise Brewing  Company,  of  "Philadelphia, 
with  $350,000  asseU  and  $203,000  liabili- 
ties. The  Brewers'  Association  is  charged 
with  causing  the  disaster  by  organizing 
against  the  company. 

The  fall  of  a  derrick  at  a  St.  Louis 
brewery  caused  six  men  to  fall  sixty  feet. 
One  was  killed,  a  second  fatally  injured, 
and  the  other  four  were  seriously  injured. 

The  Illinois  Protective  Association, 
representing  the  saloon  interest,  held  its 
eighth  annual  convention  Tuesday  at 
Ruck  Island.  Bloomington  was  chosen 
as  the  next  place  of  meeting,  and  Charles 
A.  Wacker,  of  Chicago,  was  re  elected 
president,  and  B.  F  Maloney,  of  Chicago, 
secretary.  The  address  of  the  President 
cautioned  the  society  not  to  be  over  con- 
fident touching  the  passage  of  a  prohib- 
itory law  by  the  Legislature. 

The  vendetta  in  Bell  County,  Ky. ,  has 
resulted  in  another  death.  Howard  Mon- 
roe was  sitting  a  room  with  Miss  Edith 
Turner,  when  two  shots  were  fired  through 
a  window,  both  entering  the  young  man's 
body,  and  killing  him  instantly.  He  was 
opposed  to  the  faction  headed  by  Jack 
Turner,  the  detperado,  recently  killed. 
The  young  ladj  was  Turnfr's  daughter, 
and  it  is  alleged  she  lured  Monroe  to  his 
death. 

Excitement  prevails  in  Central  Dakota 
over  the  recent  Land  Department  order 


touching  withdrawal  of  lands  granted  to 
railroads  in  the  ten  mile  indemnity  limit. 
Big  farmers,  quarter  section  purchasers, 
and  even  "squatters"  are  affected,  and  it 
is  feared  that  bloodshed  may  result  if  the 
order  is  enforced. 

The  New  York  State  Democratic  Con- 
vention Wednesday  nominated  Frederick 
Cook  for  Secretary  of  State,  Lawrence  J. 
Fitzgerald  for  State  Treasurer,  Charles 
E  Tabor  for  Attorney  General,  and  Ed- 
ward Wemple  for  Comptroller.  The  res- 
olutions demand  that  Federal  taxation 
be  reduced  $100,000  000  a  year,  and  that 
hundreds  of  articles  be  placed  on  the  free 
list.     They  oppose  sumptuary  laws. 

Work  was  commenced  Friday  on  the 
record  of  the  anarchists'  case  by  the  clerk 
of  the  Illinois  Supreme  Court,  pursuant 
to  an  order  of  counsel  for  the  convicted 
men. 

Fred  Munchrath,  Jr.,  found  guilty  two 
weeks  ago  at  Sioux  City,  Iowa,  on  an 
indictment  for  the  murder  of  Rev.  George 
Haddock,  was  sentenced  Friday  to  four 
years  in  the  penitentiary.  Pending  an 
appeal  to  the  Supreme  Court,  he  was  re- 
leased on  $7,000  bonds. 

Burglars  entered  the  Farmers'  Bank  at 
New  Castle,  Del.,  Thursday  nigh^,  and 
meeting  William  J.  Black,  United  States 
Consul  at  Nuremburg,  who  was  visiting 
the  cashier  of  the  bank,  Richard  G. 
Cooper,  bound  and  gagged  him.  Mr. 
Cooper  next  appeared,  when  one  of  the 
robbers  covered  him  with  a  revolver,  at 
the  same  time  commanding  him  to  keep 
silent.  Cooper  at  once  fired,  wounding 
the  burglar,  who  returned  the  shot,  but  it 
was  aimed  badly.  The  robbers  hastily 
retired,  carrying  off  their  wounded  com- 
rade, but  left  behind  a  kit  of  tools,  a 
ladder  and  a  wheelbarrow. 

The  steamer  T.  B.  Sims,  with  a  cargo 
of  cotton,  flour,  and  meal,  burned  Thurs- 
day night  on  the  Mississippi,  sixteen 
miles  above  Memphis.  A  young  white 
man  and  a  negro  roustabout  perished  in 
the  flames. 

Near  Jackson,  Tenn.,  Tuesday  morning 
all  the  cars  of  a  Mobile  and  Ohio  passen- 
ger train  ran  off  a  trestle  forty  feet  high, 
the  engine  alone  remaining  on  the  track. 
Over  thirty  persons  were  wounded,  two 
or  three  of  whom  may  not  recover. 

FOBBIGN. 

Berlin  dispatches  announce  a  coming 
conference  between  Prince  Bismarck  and 
Signer  Crispi,  the  Italian  Prime  Minister. 
The  interview  is  regarded  of  supreme  im- 
portance. It  has  especial  reference  to  a 
renewal  of  the  military  convention  be- 
tween Italy,  Austria  and  Germany.  The 
alliance  of  the  central  powers  with  Italy 
on  general  policy  was  renewed  for  five 
years,  but  the  military  convention,  for 
offensive  and  defensive  purposes,  covered 
only  six  months,  from  March  last  to  Sep- 
tember. Another  question  of  special  in- 
terest to  the  Italian  Govprnment  will  be 
the  negotiations  with  the  Vatican  on  the 
terms  of  a  reconciliation.  The  interviews 
are  diplomatic  successes  of  Prince  Bis- 
marck, and  must  gall  the  French  and 
Russian  government. 

The  socialists  and  anarchists  of  London 
are  arranging  to  hold  a  mass  meeting  to 
protest  against  the  execution  of  the  con- 
demned anarchists  in  Chicago. 

A  dense  smoke  from  forest  fires  envel- 
opes the  cities  of  Quebec,  Montreal,  Ot- 
tawa, Pembroke,  and  other  towns  in 
Canada  Navigation  is  suspended  be- 
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various  movements  of  the  lodge  as  they  appear  to  public  view, 
and  reveals  the  secret  machinery  of  corruption  in  politics, 
courts,  and  social  and  religious  circles. 

There  are  in  the  United  States 

Some  200  different  Lodges, 
With  2,000  000  members. 
Costing  $20,000  000  yearly. 

This  mighty  world  power  confronts  the  church  and  seeks  to 
rule  and  ruin  every  Christian  Reform. 

No  Christian  Reform  Movement  of  tlie  day  is  so  necessary, 
yet  so  unpopular  aod  beset  with  difficulties,  as  that  which  would 
remove  tbe  dark  pall  of  oaths,  dark-lantern  meetings,  secret 
siens,  mysterious  and  pagan  worship  about  altars  condemned 
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Editorial  : 

Notes  and  Comments 1 

The  American  Board 8 

The  Indians 8 

Personal  Notes 8 

Contributions  : 
Religious  Activity  In  Brlt- 

•  ain 1 

Organized    and    Pledged 

Secrecy  Wrong 2 

DoesFreemasonry  Propose 

to  Save  Men? 2 

Auricular    Confeselon....     3 
Sklectbd : 

Stride  (Poetry) 3 

The  Bald  Knobbers 3 

The  Knglish  only  In  Indi- 
an Schools 9 

Rbfobm  News: 
The  Wisconsin  Meeting; 
From  thcGeneral Agent; 
The  Minnesota  Conven- 
tion; Gird  up,  Ohio;  Up 
and  Down  in  Alabama.  4,5 


CORRBSPONDBNOB  : 

Washington's  Old  Head- 
quarters; Memphis  Let- 
ter; After  many  Days; 
A  Glorious  Camp  Meet- 
ing   5,6 

Bible  Lbsson 6 

Washington  Letter. 9 

The  Home 10 

Temperance 11 

Thb  N.C.  A 7 

Church  vs.  Lodge 7 

Ohio  Financial  Report 7 

Lecture  List 7 

Notices 12 

Religious  Nbws 12 

Literature 12 

Lodge  Notes 13 

Donations 13 

Farm  Notes 15 

Home  AND  Health 14 

News  of  thb  Wbbk 16 

Business 13 

Markets 13 


The  total  vote  for  prohibition  in  Tennessee  will 
probably  reach  125,000,  the  opposition  reaching 
140,000 — much  the  largest  vote  ever  polled  in  the 
State.  The  official  count  may  slightly  change  these 
figures.  In  Texas  also  an  immense  vote  was  polled. 
The  total  figure  is  351,207,  129,273  for,  and  221,- 
934  against  the  amendment.  Add  to  the  above  pro- 
hibitory vote  Michigan's  178,000,  and  we  have  a 
grand  total  of  432,000  voters  in  the  three  States 
who  have  declared  for  the  absolute  and  perpetual 
prohibition  of  the  liquor  traffic.  Ohio's  vote  a  few 
years  ago  would  put  the  figure  well  up  toward  800,- 
000.  Oregon  will  decide  the  question  in  a  few  days, 
and  though  the  result  in  three  States  this  year  will 
be  a  discouragement,  let  us  hope  for  a  triumph  for 
the  right.  The  work  in  Ohio  has  seemed  to  be 
checked  by  the  failure  of  the  amendment  campaign. 
Let  the  States  which  have  just  voted  learn  a  lesson, 
and  never  slacken  their  effort.  In  two  years  with  de- 
termination and  energy  prohibition  may  again  be 
taken  up  and  grandly  prevail  in  every  one. 


Some  months  ago,  in  some  notice  of  the  profit- 
sharing  system  and  its  success  in  this  country  and 
Europe,  it  was  noticed  that  the  firm  of  Proctor  & 
Gamble  of  Cincinnati,  extensive  manufacturers  of 
fioap  and  perfumery,  had  just  adopted  the  plan.  Last 
Thursday  the  firm  paid  its  first  semi-annual  share  of 
profits.  It  was  a  great  day  for  the  more  than  200 
employes.  They  received  a  13^  per  cent  dividend 
of  some  $13,200.  But  they  are  probably  not  better 
pleased  with  the  result  than  the  firm  itself. 


The  progress  of  President  Cleveland  from  Wash- 
ington to  St.  Paul  has  been  an  ovation  of  which  a 
man  of  nobler  record  in  private  life  and  for  great 
public  services  might  well  be  proud.  Were  it  not 
for  a  few  leaders  in  the  G.  A.  R.,  who  have  a  repu- 
tation to  maintain  as  political  partisans,  we  should 
hardly  know  that  there  were  Republicans  or  Demo- 
crats in  the  great  crowds  that  have  everywhere 
greeted  the  President's  train.  St.  Louis  may  have 
surpassed  in  enthusiasm,  but  few  cities  in  the  world 
could  have  turned  out  upon  their  streets  so  many 
hundred  thousand  people  as  welcomed  Mr.  Cleve- 
land in  Chicago.  The  young  mistress  of  the  White 
House  has  everywhere  been  the  chief  attraction, 
though  the  crowd  has  several  times  been  disappoint- 
ed by  the  good  sense  which  kept  her  off  the  streets. 
The  President  has  undertaken  a  large  task  in  this 
trip,  and  his  views  of  the  nation  which  has  chosen 
him  to  high  office  should  be  dignified  and  enlarged 
by  his  contact  with  its  people. 


John  B.  Finch,  chairman  of  the  National  Prohibi- 
tion Committee,  and  head  of  the  Good  Templar 
lodges,  died  suddenly  from  heart  disease  last  week 
Monday  in  Boston.  He  was  accounted  by  his 
friends  among  the  ablest  speakers  for  prohibition, 
and  was  constantly  engaged,  his  income  from  this 
source  alone  amounting  to  some  $7,000  yearly.  His 
body  was  brought  to  Evanston  near  this  city  and 
buried  last  Sabbath  with  Good  Templar  ceremonies. 
The  meeting  of  the  National  Committee  on  the  30th 
of  November  next  will  have  a  new  interest  from  this 
unexpected  stroke  of  God,  and  should,  along  with 
the  conference  of  the  day  following,  be  a  constant 
subject  of  prayer,  that  heaven  may  overrule  in  the 
appointment  of  a  successor,  and  rescue  the  reform 
now  thrust  into  foremost  place  from  the  control  of 
unholy  and  despotic  methods  of  the  lodge. 


Conventions,  clubs  and  bar  associations  of  all 
parties  in  Chicago  have  one  voice  in  asking  for  the 
re-election  of  Judge  Joseph  E.  Gary,  who  presided 
last  year  in  the  trial  of  the  anarchists.  The  Knights 
of  Labor  and  other  workmen's  lodges  have  spok- 
en only  indirectly;  but  they  are  unanimous  in  de- 
nouncing the  trial  as  unfair  whether  under  Judge 
Gary  or  the  Supreme  Court.  After  this  assumption 
of  superior  intelligence  in  the  law,  and  of  stricter 
integrity  in  their  principles  of  justice,  they  will  nave 
in  the  future  as  in  the  past  only  condemnation  for 
the  just  judge  who  presided  so  ably  in  the  most  re- 
nowned trial  the  world  has  for  a  long  time  known. 
The  unanimous  wish  of  all  other  classes  for  his  re- 
election indicates  sufficiently  where  the  line  should 
be  drawn  between  the  anarchists  and  their  sympa- 
thizers. 


The  election  of  Rev.  Edward  Anderson  as  chap- 
lain of  the  Grand  Army  of  the  Republic  at  St. 
Louis  does  not  suggest  that  the  power  of  secret- 
ism  is  waning  in  the  order.  Anderson  is  a  high 
Mason  who,  a  few  years  ago,  as  pastor  of  a  Congre- 
gational church  in  Quincy,  preached  in  favor  of  this 
lodge  and  also  attempted  a  halting  eulogy  of  its 
three-ruflian  theology  in  the  State  Congregational 
Association    meeting   at   Princeton.      The  reports 


The  Knights  of  Labor  Convention  in  St.  Paul  last 
week  excluded  Joseph  R.  Buchanan,  editor  of  the 
Labor  Enquirer  of  this  city.  The  reason  given  to 
the  public  was  that  he  belonged  to  an  assembly  of 
the  order  which  had  not  paid  its  dues.  This  is  prob- 
ably a  reason  for  convenience.  Buchanan  has  been 
one  of  the  most  determined  abettors  of  the  con- 
demned anarchists.  When  in  Denver  a  year  or  so 
ago  it  was  said  of  him  by  the  press  there:  "Bu- 
chanan is  one  of  the  worst  enemies  the  laboring 
men  of  the  West  have  ever  known.  His  bad  ad- 
vice and  selfish  greed  have  cost  the  Knights  of  La- 
bor of  this  State  upwards  of  a  million  dollars  in  lost 
wages.  He  has  openly  advocated  the  use  of  dyna- 
mite as  an  agent  for  the  coercion  or  destruction  of 
capital,  and  of  late  he  has  in  person  and  in  his  paper 
preached  the  disastrous  doctrine  of  anarchy.  There 
is  no  perceptible  difference  between  him  and  such 
evil  advisers  and  professional  workingmen  as  Most, 
Spies,  Fielden,  Parsons  and  Schwab." 


The  Rock  River  Conference  of  the  Methodist 
Episcopal  church  includes  the  northern  part  of  Illi- 
nois, and  is  always  an  important  meeting.  Last 
year  the  Conference,  after  some  struggle,  acJopted  a 
prohibitory  resolution  on  the  liquor  question.  The 
reporj  of  the  committee  on  temperance  this  year 
shows  a  cheering  progress,  and  a  resolution  was 
even  adopted  recommending  the  summission  of  a 
constitutional  amendment  to  the  people.  With  the 
late  experience  of  Michigan,  Texas  and  Tennessee 
before  us  let  there  be  no  hasty  or  rash  advice  fol- 
lowed in  this  matter.  Illinois  is  not  yet  Kansas  or 
Iowa  in  respect  to  the  saloon.  The  conference  had 
an  animated  discussion  on  the  observance  of  the 
Sabbath,  and  adopted  a  resolution,  expressing  strong 
opposition  to  the  running  of  Sunday  trains  and  the 
publishing  of  Sunday  newspapers.  They  are  also 
against  having  Sunday  notices  published  in  such 
papers  by  the  pastors  and  laymen  who  are  Method- 
ists, or  advertising  in  them. 


RELIGIOUS  ACTIVITY  IN  BRITAIN. 


BY   REV.   JOHN   BOTES. 


Dr.  Stowe  of  the  Methodist  Book  Concern,  during 
the  session  of  a  conference  at  Des  Moines,  Iowa, 
made  a  statement  of  the  financial  condition  of  the 
publishing  house  and  mentioned  some  of  the  diffi- 
culties which  they  had  to  meet  and  overcome.  One 
of  these  was  the  labor  lodges.  "The  printers,"  said 
he,  "have  a  faculty  of  raising  the  price  of  composi- 
tion occasionally,  and  when  they  do  get  ready  to  do 
so  they  simply  send  a  note  to  the  manager  stating 
that  they  have  concluded  to  make  a  raise  on  such  a 
datc,and  hope  it  will  be  satisfactory  to  all  concerned. 
No  tyranny,  no  autocrat  on  the  face  of  the  earth, 
holds  the  grip  that  the  printers'  unions  do."  Dr. 
Stowe  and  all  the  Methodist  leaders  know  that  the 
printers'  union  and  other  secret  orders  of  the  same 
class  get  their  inspiration  from  Freemasonry,  and  if 
the  despotism  of  one  is  to 


The  various  denominations  of  this  country  have 
concluded  their  annual  meetings  and  the  prevailing 
feeling  is  one  of  hopefulness  respecting  the  future. 
The  tabulated  results  are  not  all  that  is  desirable, 
but  there  is  a  vast  amount  of  quiet,  unostentatious, 
untabulated  Christian  work  which  is  continu- 
ally going  on,  the  extent  of  which  cannot  be  ex- 
pressed by  figures.  There  is  work  done  in  the  Sab- 
bath-school,by  the  temperance  and  educational  insti- 
tutions of  the  churches,  together  with  a  vast  number 
of  other  agencies,  which  eludes  the  skill  of  the  stat- 
istician, but  which  is  of  an  important  and  enduring 
character.  The  results  of  true  work  must  be  weighed 
as  well  as  counted  before  a  correct  estimate  can  be 
made.  No  religious  organization  can  be  said  to 
have  failed  in  the  great  purpose  of  its  existence,  if 
by  means  of  its  varied  agencies  it  has  intensified  the 
faith,  deepenetl  the  character  and  won  human  souls 
to  a  higher  life. 

One  source  of  perplexity  in  this  country  is  seen 
in  the  working  of  the  home  agencies,  which  are  so 
numerous  that  they  crowd  upon  the  heels  of  each 
other  and  can  hardly  be  sustained  without  interfer- 
ing with  each  other's  prosperity,  and  so  fostering  a 
spirit  of  proselytism.  This  is  to  be  deplored,  but 
cannot  be  helped  till  a  closer  bond  of  union  exists 
between  the  different  governing  bodies.  This  evil 
has  been  repeatedly  pointed  out  and  lamented.  We 
hope  that  steps  will  speedily  be  taken  to  remedy  this 
state  of  things. 

In  foreign  missions,  where  the  agents  have  room 
for  freedom  of  action,  the  work  has  been  wonderful- 
ly successful,  and  the  tabulated  results  are  of  a  most 
encouraging  kind. 

Conventions  are  now  being  held  for  the  purpose 
of  making  arrangements  for  the  winter's  work  of 
the  churches,  and  for  the  promotion  of  a  fuller  con- 
secration to  Gotl's  service.  Prayer  is  being  offered 
that  the  spirit  of  wisdom  and  of  hallowed  enthusi- 
asm may  rest  upon  the  promoters  and  upon  the 
bands  of  workers  who  shall  engage  in  the  contlicts 
of  winning  men  from  the  degradation  of  sin  to  as- 


be  broken  up  the  Meth- 
odist churches  must  begin  to  cleanse  their  altars  of  I  pirations  after  purity  and  nobility  of  life, 
the  other.  Huddertfield,  England,  Sept.,  1S87. 


2 


TBOB  CHRISHIAN  CYKOSUKE. 


October  13  1887 


ORGANIZED 


AND    PLEDGED 
WRONG. 


8BCRECT, 


PROM  THE  ADDRESS  OF  ISAIAH  FABIS,  PASTOR  OF  RE- 
FORMED PRESBTTERIAN  CHURCH  OF  VERNON,  WIS. 


I  Delivered  at  the  State  Association  at  Milton,  Wisi,  Sept.  28, 
18S7,  and  published  by  request.) 

God  has  endowed  man  with  a  capacity  for  keep- 
ing what  he  knows  a  secret  within  his  own  breast; 
and  some  things  that  we  learn  are  better  kept  se- 
cret. We  ought  to  exercise  our  reason  and  our  con- 
science before  we  speak  that  we  may  tell  only  what 
will  be  for  the  good  of  others. 

But  to  single  out  this  faculty  of  concealing  any 
part  of  our  knowledge,  and  to  cultivate  it  specially, 
is  of  dangerous  tendency,  just  as  it  is  to  single  out 
the  principle  of  economy  and  cultivate  that  until  it 
develops  into  the  character  of  the  miser;  or  that  of 
self-protection  until  it  transforms  a  man  into  a  war- 
like savage.  We  need  rather  to  cultivate  openness, 
candor  and  honesty. 

Cultivated  secrecy  gives  the  advantage  to  the 
worse  elements  of  our  natures.  Organized  secrecy 
gives  the  advantage  to  the  worse  class  of  men,  and 
is  inconsistent  with  the  Christian  duty  of  "walking 
in  the  light." 

Besides,  no  one  has  a  right  to  pledge  himself  to 
keep  an  unknown  secret.  Yet  the  very  purpose  for 
which,  and  the  principle  on  which,  all  secret  socie- 
ties are  organized,  requires  that  the  pledge  to  keep 
their  secrets  should  be  given  before  the  secrets  are 
divulged. 

This  may  be  illustrated  in  respect  to  the  frater- 
nity of  Freemasons,  by  what  they  publish  to  the 
world  in  their  own  books: 

"Declarations  to  be  assented  to  by  a  candidate  in  an 

adjoining  apartment,  previous  to  initiation 

Do  you  seriously  declare,  upon  your  honor,  before  these 
gentlemen,  that  you  will  cbeerfully  conform  to  all  the 
ancient  established  usages  and  customs  of  the  fraternity? 
I  do." — Webb's  Monitor. 

John  C.  W.  Bailey's  "Dictionary  of  Freemasonry," 
under  the  heading  of  "Affirmation,"  to  prove  that 
an  affirmation  may  not  be  admitted  instead  of  an 
oath  "in  the  workings  of  the  lodge,"  uses  this  lan- 
guage: 

"The  Masonic  society  has  no  use  of  persons,  who,  at 
the  very  outset,  falsify  their  declaration  made  in  the  ante 
roam,  'that  they  will  cheerfully  conform  to  all  the  an- 
cient established  usages  and  customs  of  the  fraternity.' 
A  candidate  thus  false  to  his  own  declarations  presents 
no  foundation  upon  which  the  society  can  build  'its  fu- 
ture moral  and  Masonic  edifices . ' " 

It  will  be  seen  that  this  promise  must  precede  all 
knowledge  of  the  secrets,  or  even  of  the  character  of 
the  oath  to  be  taken.  How  can  a  conscientious 
person  pledge  himself  to  what,  for  all  he  knows, 
may  be  unlawful  in  itself?  So  much  for  Freema- 
sonry in  particular. 

But  the  same  principle  is  found  in  all  secret  so- 
cieties. What  condemns  this  principle  is  that  it 
gives  the  control  of  one  man's  conscience  into  the 
power  of  another.  We  are  personally  accountable 
to  God  for  all  that  we  do.  We  must,  therefore,  ex- 
ercise our  individual  judgment  as  to  the  moral  char- 
acter of  everything  we  propose  to  do;  and  we  have 
no  right  to  allow  others  to  judge  for  us,  and  blindly 
follow  their  judgment.  Yet,  this  we  do,  when  we 
promise  to  keep  a  secret,  of  the  lawfulness  of  keep- 
ing which  we  can  have  no  other  proof  than  what  is 
derived  from  our  confidence  in  the  person  to  whom 
the  promise  is  made. 

This  objection  is  not  obviated  by  the  assurance 
usually  given  in  such  cases,  that,  in  the  obligation 
to  be  assumed,  "there  is  nothing  that  will  conflict 
with  the  duties  that  you  owe  to  your  God,  your 
country,  your  neighbor,  or  yourself."  The  person 
who  gives  such  assurance  presumes  to  judge  for  the 
other,  as  much  as  if  he  were  to  say,  in  so  many 
words:  "I  know  that,  as  an  honest  man,  you  may 
hesitate  to  assume  an  obligation  whose  moral  char- 
acter you  have  no  opportunity  to  examine,  but  I 
will  relieve  you  of  the  necessity  of  exercisiog  your 
conscience  in  this  case;  I  decide  for  you  that  the 
obligation  you  are  about  to  assume  is  proper." 

This  objection  holds  against  all  secret  societies, 
whether  oath-bound  or  not.  We  have  no  light  to 
promise  to  keep  a  secret  which,  for  all  we  know,  it 
may  not  be  proper  to  keep,  much  less  to  swear  to 
keep  it. 

It  is  no  justification  of  such  pledges  that,  in  many 
cases,  the  secrets  are  found,  when  divulged,  to  be 
harmless  in  themselves,  for  this  cannot  be  known 
till  it  is  too  late. 

Again,  the  pledge  of  permanent  secrecy  debauches 
the  conscience,  and  weakens  the  moral  character. 
This  must  be  evident  in  ri>gard  to  the  worse  class 
of  secret  societies,  where  the  fraternal  feeling  that 
grows  out  of  the  obligation  to  protect  each  other. 


prevents  "good  men"  from  exposing  the  crimes  of 
their  bad  "brothers." 

Not  to  dwell  on  the  corrupting  power  of  an  obli- 
gation which,  in  many  cases,  compels  a  man  to  lie 
in  order  to  avoid  divulging  the  secrets,  the  follow- 
ing consideration  will  show  the  corrupting  tendency 
of  all  such  obligations:  a  properly  trained  con- 
science always  inquires  into  the  propriety  and  law- 
fulness of  any  course  before  entering  on  it;  and  will 
therefore  hesitate  about  taking  a  pledge  in  any 
form,  the  full  meaning  and  force  of  which  is  not 
understood  at  the  time;  but,  if  this  hesitancy  is  once 
overcome,  the  moral  character  must  be  just  so  far 
weakened;  and,  in  place  of  a  good  conscience,  comes 
a  false  sense  of  honor,  such  as  we  see  in  Herod, 
who,  "for  his  oath's  sake,  and  for  their  sakes  who 
sat  with  him,"  gave  the  order  for  the  murder  of 
John  Baptist. 

The  less  objectionable  secret  orders  are  a  part  of 
the  system;  and  they  are  an  essential  part,  to  give 
the  system  efficiency  as  a  power  for  debauching  the 
consciences  of  men;  for  many  tender  consciences 
would  be  shocked  by  the  obligations  of  some  of  the 
worse  orders;  but  those  associations  which  are  or- 
ganized for  ends  that  are  laudable  in  themselves, 
and  that  have  only  a  little  more  than  the  name  of 
secrecy,  simply  serve  to  grade  down  the  evil,  and 
make  it  practicable  to  draw  into  the  secret  methods, 
and  hence  to  secure  in  the  defense  of  the  principle 
of  organized  secrecy  men  of  such  high  character  as 
could  never  be  reached  by  the  more  objectionable 
orders.  Thus  the  edge  of  the  wedge  is  made  very 
thin,  but  the  wedge  is  there,  and  it  is  the  same 
wedge  in  all  secret  organizations;  and  the  person 
who  has  relaxed  his  conscientious  scruples  so  far  as 
to  enter  the  least  of  them,  finds  himself  logically 
bound  to  defend  the  whole  system. 

Thus  conscience  is  debauched  by  degrees.  If  a 
person  can  only  be  prevailed  on  to  take  the  first 
step  by  entering  the  least  objectionable  of  the  secret 
orders,  finding  that  the  secret  amounts  to  nothing, 
he  is  led  to  say  to  himself,  "How  foolish  T  was  to 
object  to  pledging  myself  to  keep  so  harmless  a  se- 
cret!" He  is  then  prepared  to  take  another  step; 
and  if,  in  the  second  instance,  he  finds  the  secret 
not  just  so  harmless  as  in  the  first,  his  conscience  is 
much  less  shocked  than  it  would  have  been  if  he  had 
taken  the  second  step  first.  By  degrees  his  con- 
science becomes  so  lax  that  he  does  not  hesitate  to 
make  any  promise,  or  to  take  any  oath,  accompa- 
nied by  any  penalty  which  the  spirit  of  lodgery  may 
devise. 

It  is  the  natural  tendency  of  the  system  to  in- 
crease the  objectionable  features  at  every  step. 

We  can  keep  a  secret  ourselves,  but  cannot  be 
sure  that  another  will.  Hence,  if  we  reveal  it,  we 
want  to  bind  others  to  keep  it.  For  this  reason  the 
promise  of  secrecy  is  exacted;  and,  because  a  prom- 
ise is  not  strong  enough,  the  next  step  is  to  confirm 
it  by  an  oath;  and,  then,  the  oath  must  be  fortified 
by  a  penalty,  which  must  be  increased  in  every  new 
degree,  as  the  obligation  is  supposed  to  be  strong  in 
proportion  as  the  penalty  is  severe.  The  effect  of 
the  whole  system,  beginning  as  it  does  with  the 
barest  promise  to  keep  some  trifling  secret,  and  de- 
veloping into  an  oath-bound  order,  "protected"  by 
terrible  penalties,  is  to  familiarize  the  mind  with 
what  is  horrible,  and  thus  to  breed  crime,  as  it  af- 
fords the  opportunity  also  to  conceal  it.  Human 
depravity  needs  no  such  incentives  to  criminality, 
and  a  system  that  furnishes  them  ought  not  to  have 
the  encouragement  that  the  fellowship  of  respecta- 
ble men  gives  to  secret  societies. 

There  is  a  remarkable  analogy  between  secretism 
in  the  moral  world,  and  the  alcoholic  principle  in 
the  physical.  Each  has  a  certain  basis  in  the  na- 
ture of  things  as  constituted  by  the  Creator,  and  yet 
each  has  some  relation  to  possible  evil.  Alcohol  is 
a  natural  development  of  a  process  in  nature,  but  it 
is  connected  with  decay,  and  seems  intended  to  ar- 
rest its  progress  at  a  certain  stage,  and  prevent  its 
going  too  far,  or  proceeding  too  rapidly.  So  God 
has  endowed  the  human  mind  with  a  capacity  for 
secrecy,  which  would  seem  to  be  unnecessary  except 
in  view  of  possible  moral  evil,  as  a  means  of  pre- 
venting it,  or  of  arresting  its  progress.  But  this 
principle  is  perverted  when,  instead  of  keeping  in 
our  own  breast  things  that  are  calculated  to  do  harm 
if  known,  we  organize  a  society  for  the  sake  of 
keeping  things  secret  under  pledge,  instead  of  leav- 
ing every  man  to  his  God-given  right  of  conscien- 
tiously deciding  for  himself  what  he  ought  to  con- 
ceal, and  what  he  may  reveal;  just  as  the  alcoholic 
principle  in  nature  is  perverted  when  this  substance, 
that  the  Creator  has  provided  to  arrest  the  progress 
of  decay  at  a  certain  point,  is  introduced  into  the 
stomach  so  as  to  cultivate  a  taste  for  it,  which  taste, 
when  once  acquired,  becomes  stronger  and  stronger 
and  finally  swallows  up  all  natural  appetite,  and 
becomes  the  controlling  principle  in  both  body  and 


mind.  So  the  principle  of  secrecy,  if  cultivated, 
becomes  stronger  and  stronger,  and  instead  of  being 
a  prevention  of  moral  evil,  or  a  means  of  keeping  it 
in  check,  becomes,  on  the  contrary,  a  most  powerful 
means  of  promoting  and  fostering  all  kinds  of  evil, 
and  an  engine  of  Satan  for  defending  all  wicked- 
ness. How  strange  it  is  that  men  who  are  anxious 
to  put  down  the  liquor  traffic  should  be  so  blind  as 
to  undertake  to  do  so  by  fostering  a  principle  that 
is  so  nearly  akin  to  the  evil  they  wish  to  abolish! 

The  Scripture  texts  that  are  relied  on  to  justify 
secrecy  will  be  found,  upon  examination,  to  fail  en- 
tirely for  that  purpose  when  applied  to  any  organ- 
ization based  on  a  pledge  of  permanent  secrecy. 
The  usual  argument  from  the  "secrets"  of  the  fam- 
ily" is  alike  unfounded,  since  the  family  is  not  or- 
ganized as  a  secret  society,  nor  is  any  pledge  neces- 
sary to  keeping  the  secrets  of  a  decent  family. 

Christians  should  remember  that  Christ  says  of 
them,  "Ye  are  the  light  of  the  world,"  and  of  him- 
self, "In  secret  have  I  said  nothing."  And,  if 
Christ  seemed  to  tell  to  his  disciples  secrets  that  he 
kept  from  the  world,  the  effect  of  this  as  an  argu- 
ment for  secrecy  on  our  part  is  entirely  neutralized 
by  his  direction  to  them  not  to  keep  them  as  secrets. 
Matt.  10:  27:  "What  I  tell  you  in  darkness,  that 
speak  ye  in  light;  and  what  ye  hear  in  the  ear,  that 
preach  ye  upon  the  house-tops." 


DOBS  FREEMASONRY  PROPOSE  TO  SAVE 
MEN? 


BY  M.  N.  BUTLER. 


Does  Masonry,  without  any  Bible,  without  any 
Christ,  propose  to  save  men?  If  it  does,  then  it  is 
a  dangerous  foe  of  Christianity.  We  may  begin 
with  Sickel's  Ahiman  Rezon  or  Freemason's  Guide, 
page  71.  It  says:  "Masons  are  called  moral  build- 
ers. In  their  rituals  they  declare  emphatically,  that 
a  more  noble  and  glorious  purpose  than  squaring 
stones  and  hewing  timbers  is  their's — fitting  immortal  • 
nature  foj  that  spiritual  building  not  made  with 
hands,  eternal  in  the  heavens." 

Then  the  mission  of  Masonry  seems  to  be  to  save 
its  votaries.  Mackey's  Manual  of  the  Lodge,  page 
88:  "In  the  investigation  of  the  true  meaning  of 
every  Masonic  symbol  and  allegory,  we  must  be 
governed  by  the  single  principle  that  the  whole  de- 
sign of  Freemasonry  as  a  speculative  science  is  the 
investigation  of  divine  truth.  To  this  great  object 
everything  is  subsidiary.  The  Mason  is,  from  the 
moment  of  his  initiation  as  an  Entered  Apprentice, 
to  the  time  at  which  he  receives  the  full  fruition  of 
Masonic  light,  an  investigator — a  laborer  in  the 
quarry  and  the  Temple — whose  reward  is  to  be 
Truth,  and  all  the  ceremonies  and  traditions  of  the 
order  tend  to  this  ultimate  design." 

Does  Masonry  claim  a  regeneration  or  a  new 
birth?  On  pages  22-24  of  Mackey's  Masonic  Ritu- 
alist, we  read  of  the  candidate:  "There  he  stands 
without  our  portals  on  the  threshold  of  this  new 
Masonic  life,  in  darkness,  helplessness,  and  ignor- 
ance. Having  been  wandering  amid  the  errors  and 
covered  over  with  the  pollutions  of  the  outer  and 
profane  world,  he  comes  inquiringly  to  our  doors, 
seeking  the  new  birth,  and  asking  a  withdrawal  of 
the  vail  which  conceals  divine  truth  from  his  unin- 
itiated sight.  The  world  is  left  behind — the  chains 
of  error  and  ignorance  which  had  previously  re- 
strained the  candidate  in  moral  and  intellectual  cap- 
tivity are  to  be  broken — the  portal  of  the  Temple 
has  been  thrown  widely  open,  and  Masonry  stands 
before  the  neophyte  in  all  the  glory  of  its  form  and 
beauty,  to  be  fully  revealed  to  him,  however,  only 
when  the  new  birth  has  been  completely  accom- 
plished. The  shock  of  entrance  is,  then,  the  symbol 
of  the  disruption  of  the  candidate  from  the  ties  of 
the  world,  and  his  introduction  into  the  life  of  Ma- 
sonry. It  is  the  symbol  of  the  agonies  of  the  first 
death  and  the  throes  of  the  new  birth." 

How  does  Freemasonry  propose  to  do  all  of  that? 
We  can  see  how  the  atoning  power  of  the  Lord  Je- 
sus Christ  can  wash  away  our  sins  and  bring  us  into 
favor  with  God  but  how  does  this  system  save  souls? 
Webb's  Monitor,  page  21:  "The  Common  Gavel  is 
an  instrument  made  use  of  by  operative  Masons,  to 
break  ofl[  the  corners  of  rough  stones,  the  better  to 
fit  them  for  the  builder's  use;  but  we,  as  free  and 
accepted  Masons,  are  taught  to  make  use  of  it  for 
the  more  noble  and  glorious  purpose  of  divesting 
our  minds  and  consciences  of  all  the  vices  and  su- 
perfluities of  life,  thereby  fitting  our  bodies,  as  liv- 
ing stones,  for  that  spiritual  building,  that  house 
not  made  with  hands,  eternal  in  the  heavens."  Also 
see  Sickel's  Ahiman  Bczon,  page  70;  Sickel's  Moni- 
tor, pages  34  and  35;  Mackey's  Ritualist,  page  39; 
Manual  of  the  Lodge,  page  35;  and  many  other 
works. 

The  lodge  is  governed  by  the  gavel,  therefore,  if 


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THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSUKE. 


you  obey  the  behests  of  Masonry  it  will  land  you 
safe  in  heaven;  is  that  it?  Oliver's  Signs  and  Sym- 
bols of  Freemasonry,  by  Dr.  Oliver,  the  great  Eng- 
lish writer,  page  41 :  "But  in  the  third  degree,  the 
veil  is  removed;  we  are  admitted  into  the  Holy  of 
Holies;  we  view  the  cherubim  in  all  their  bright- 
ness; and  are  blessed  with  a  foretaste  of  heaven, 
through  the  resurrection  of  the  dead."  And  again, 
on  pages  97  and  98  of  Sickel's  Lodge  Monitor:  "We 
now  find  man  complete  in  morality  and  intelligence, 
with  the  stay  of  religion  added  to  ensure  him  of  the 
protection  of  Deity;  and  guard  him  against  ever  go- 
ing astray.  These  three  degrees  thus  form  a  per- 
fect and  harmonious  whole;  nor  can  we  conceive 
that  anything  can  be  suggested  more,  which  the  soul 
of  man  requires."  Then  on  page  16  of  Mackey's 
Masonic  Lexicon :  "Acacian:  A  term  derived  from 
'innocence,'  and  signifying  a  Mason,  who,  by  living 
in  strict  obedience  to  the  obligations  and  precepts 
of  the  fraternity,  is  free  from  sin." 

Does  Christianity  or  the  Bible  promise  any  more 
than  this  system?  Thus  Freemasonry  not  only  pro- 
poses to  save  a  man  from  sin  and  save  him  com- 
pletely, but  it  proposes  to  keep  him  saved.  No 
Christ,  no  Bible,  anything  for  a  god;  was  there  ever 
such  a  mock  at  Bible  religion  or  travesty  on  human 
redemption?  Our  preacher  is  a  consistent  Mason, 
then,  when  he  says  he  will  leave  the  church  before 
he  will  leave  the  lodge. 


AURICULAR  CONFESSION. 


"John,  my  son,  early  this  week  I  gave  you  spec- 
ial instructions  not  to  bathe  in  the  river,  believing 
that  you  would  obey  me;  but  I  knew  that  peculiar 
temptations  would  urge  you  to  disobey  me — such  as 
the"  natural  frailty  of  humanity,  your  inclination  to 
avail  yourself  of  a  healthful  and  refreshing  recrea- 
tion, the  persuasions  of  your  playmates,  the  short- 
ness of  your  memory,  and  your  hatred  of  restraint; 
and  I  have  hesitated  to  ask  whether  you  have  been 
able  to  obey  me  or  not." 

"Your  fears,father,were  well-founded;  but  I  claim 
exemption  from  any  further  consideration  of  the 
subject.  It  is  a  disagreeable  one,  and  I  prefer  to 
say  no  more  about  it." 

"But,  John,  in  disobeying  my  orders  you  have 
not  only  grieved  and  offended  me,but  have  rendered 
yourself  liable  to  severe  punishment.  Have  you  no 
fear  of  my  anger  or  respect  for  my  authority?" 

"Why  should  I  fear  your  anger?  I  certainly  re- 
spect you  as  your  child;  but  with  all  your  sense  of 
my  wrong-doing,  you  will  be  unjust  and  cruel  if 
you  punish  me,  although  you  have  the  power  to 
do  it." 

"John,  you  astonish  me  I  Fir3t,you  disobey  a  pos- 
itive command,  either  willfully  or  thoughtlessly,and 
when  I  would  rebuke  you  for  it,  you  deny  my  right 
to  investigate  your  act  and  your  motives  for  disobed- 
ience, or  to  punish  you.  Have  you  no  filial  affection, 
no  sense  of  right  and  wrong,  no  dread  of  doing  evil, 
no  fear  of  my  authority,  that  you  thus  defy  me?" 

"Father,  you  mistake  my  position  in  this  matter. 
I  have  the  utmost  respect  for  you — I  honor  you  at 
all  times,  in  all  places,  and  under  all  circumstances, 
except  in  this  instance,  about  which  no  more  need  be 
said." 

" Well,well !  This  is  the  strangest  doctrine  I  ever 
heard;  and  I  heartily  wish  that  you  may  satisfacto- 
rily explain  your  motives  and  the  basis  upon  which 
your  remarkable  conduct  is  founded." 

"I  will.  Overcome  by  one  or  more  of  the  temp- 
tations to  which  I  was  exposed,  I  did  bathe  in  the 
river.  My  conscience  troubled  me,  for  I  remem- 
bered your  orders  after  I  had  broken  them.  What 
could  I  do?  I  knew  not  where  to  find  you.  So  I 
went  to  Billy,  the  coachman,  told  him  how  I  had 
disobeyed  you,  and  asked  him  to  forgive  me,  in 
your  name,  for  my  wrong-doing.  lie  said  he  did 
forgive  me,  for  you,  and  demanded  twenty-five  cents 
for  his  trouble;  so  you  see,  father,  there  need  be 
nothing  further  said  upon  the  subject.  The  whole 
affair  is  settled." 

"Is  it,  wicked  boy?  I  know  it  is  well  to  confess 
our  faults  one  to  another,  but  by  what  authority 
could  the  coachman  absolve  you  for  sinning  against 
me?  Had  you  come  tome  as  promptly  as  you  went 
to  him,  and  made  your  confession  in  humility  and 
penitence,  I  should,  probably,  have  forgiven  you; 
and  that  would  have  canceled  the  wrong  so  far  as 
you  and  I  are  concerned.  You  would  have  had  to 
settle  it  with  your  Creator,  as  you  will  now,  but  he, 
too,  is  merciful  to  the  penitent.  You  would,in  pur- 
suing the  course  I  have  outlined,  have  saved  your 
peace  of  mind,  your  money,  and  the  whipping  you 
are  now  to  receive  for  disobedience  and  defying  my 
right  to  correct  you.     Retire  to  your  room." 


This  conversation  will  serve  to  illustrate  the  folly 
and  wickedness  of  auricular  confession.     "Billy, the 


coachman,"  occupies  too  important  a  place  in  an  af- 
fair with  which  he  has  no  connection.  lie  undertakes 
too  much.  It  was  easy  to  say  to  John,  "I  absolve 
you,"and  take  his  quarter-dollar,  but  Billy  had  noth- 
ing to  forgive,  either  for  himself  or  John's  father. 
He  had  not  been  wronged.  He  had  no  authority  to 
forgive  the  wrong  done  to  the  boy's  parent.  He  had 
been  guilty,  himself,  of  wronging  his  master  that 
very  day,  by  selling  a  peck  of  his  oats  and  retaining 
the  money  he  received.  What  could  he  forgive, with 
that  sin  upon  his  conscience?  In  the  Catholic 
church  both  John  and  Billy  might  have  gone  to  a 
priest,  confessed  their  respective  misdeeds,  and  for 
a  little  money  have  bought  pardon  and  silence.  John 
might  then  have  gone  again  and  bathed  in  the  riv- 
er; Billy  could  have  stolen  more  of  his  master's 
oats,  and  both  could  have  gone  again  to  the  priest 
for  absolution,  receiving  it  on  the  usual  terms.  This 
is  the  regular  routine  prescribed  for  the  devout  Cath- 
olic. 

This  system  of  auricular  confession  and  absolu- 
tion by  a  person  who  has  no  interest  in  the  misde- 
meanor beyond  his  fees,  is  absurd,  but  not  a  farce. 
It  is  a  crime.  It  is  obtaining  monej'  under  false  pre- 
tenses; robbing  the  poor,  and  cheating  them  out  of 
their  souls  by  exciting  in  them  false  hopes  of  salva- 
tion without  repentance;  instigating  them  to  go  on 
in  sin  in  the  expectation  of  further  forgiveness.upon 
the  payment  of  more  money  to  the  priest,  and  en- 
couraging crime  by  the  obligatory  silence  of  the  fa- 
ther confessor. 

The  tendency  of  the  system  is  to  aggrandize  the 
priesthood,  by  making  it  a  substitute  for  God,  who 
only  has  power  to  forgive  sin.  The  truly  penitent  is 
taught  that  it  is  enough  to  confess  his  sin  to  a  priest 
and  do  penance;  that  direct  confession  to  God, with- 
out the  intervention  of  a  priest, would  be  U8eles8;and 
thus  the  glorious  invitation  of  the  Gospel:  "Whoso- 
ever will,  let  him  come  and  take  of  the  water  of  life 
freely,"  is  sullied  with  a  lie  and  priestly  extortion. 

Under  this  pernicious  system  the  ends  of  justice 
are  practically  thwarted.  The  devout  Catholic  may 
rob  and  murder  his  victim,  then  go  and  make  a  con- 
fidant of  the  priest,  pay  his  fee,  do  his  penance,  and 
go  away  joyful  tiecause  he  is  absolved  and  shielded 
by  the  secrecy  of  the  confessional.  In  the  breast  of 
every  father  confessor  in  every  land  are  secret  clues 
to  crime  for  which  detectives  would  liberally  pay. 
The  hiding  of  these  "pointers"  by  the  priesthood 
makes  it  a  participator  in  crime,  with  the  advantage 
ol  escaping  molestation,  though  the  perpetrator  be 
strangled. 

In  all  the  Bible  there  is  one  instance  only  of  a 
sinner  going  to  confess  his  sin  to  priests,  and  he 
hardly  expected  absolution  from  them  for  his  terri- 
ble crime  against  the  Lord.  He  dared  not  go  to  the 
Lord  for  forgiveness,and  the  priests  knew  that  they 
were  as  guilty  as  this  unhappy  man.  They  did  not 
offer  to  forgive  him,  although  they  took  his  money 
and  appropriated  it  to  a  work  of  charity.  This  sin- 
ner was  Judas  Iscariot,  and  the  whole  account  is 
given  us  in  Matthew's  Gospel — the  saddest  story  of 
human  weakness  in  the  records  of  our  race. 

I  had  written  thus  far  when  I  received  a  letter 
from  a  well-known  reformed  Roman  Catholic  priest 
— the  best  authority  in  the  world: 

"The  main  part  of  the  absolution  priestly  formula 
consists  in  the  following:  'In  quantum  possum  et 
tu  indiges.  Ego  te  absolvo  a  peccatis  tuis,  in  nomine 
Patris,  and  Filii,  and  Spiritus  Sancti.  Amen.'  Then 
he  (priest)  prays  that  the  merits  of  the  Virgin  Mary 
and  of  all  the  saints  be  applied  to  the  penitent's 
soul.  What  a  blasphemy!  What  an  insult  to  Christ's 
sacrifice,  which  was  offered  'once  for  all,'as  is  plain- 
ly declared  by  Paul  to  the  Hebrews!  ...  I  am 
glad  I  am  out  of  the  devilish  system  of  Rome." 
Amen!  Old  American. 


The  Germans  of  Philadelphia  have  formed  an  or- 
ganization for  the  purpose  of  securing  the  repeal  of 
all  laws  in  this  State  relating  to  the  Sabbath.  They 
propose  sending  men  to  the  Legislature  who  will, 
when  elected,  pass  laws  to  repeal  our  Sabbath  laws. 
They  claim  a  membership  of  from  30,000  to  40,000 
in  this  anti- Sabbath  organization.  Friends  of  the 
Sabbath  will  do  well  to  know  the  views  of  candidates 
for  legislative  honors  on  this  vital  issue  before  vot- 
ing at  the  next  State  election.  They  wilfneed  to  be 
watchful  against  these  enemies  of  Sabbath  sanctifi- 
cation.  Let  the  present  excellent  laws  respecting 
the  Sabbath  be  repealed  through  the  votes  of  our 
Legislature  and  it  would  be  hard  to  have  them  re- 
enacted.  If  Germans  do  not  like  our  institutions, 
and  among  the  most  potent  for  good,  our  Sabbath 
laws,  they  are  free  to  go  back  to  Fatherland.  So 
long  as  they  remain  here  they  should  be  taught  that 
to  the  Sabbath  we  owe  much  of  our  moral  and  ma 
terial  wealth  and  prosperity  in  Pennsylvania.  They 
have  no  right  to  come  here  and  overthrow  that 
Christian  institution,  the  Sabbath,  or  anything  else 


to  which  we  owe  our  rapid  growth  as  a  nation  in 
wealth,  virtue  and  intelligence. — Sandy  Lake,  Pa., 

Newt. 


8TRIEB. 

Up  the  hillside,  down  the  glen, 
Rouse  the  sleeping  cltlcen ; 
Summon  oat  the  might  of  men  I 

Like  a  Hon  growling  low,— 
Like  a  night-storm  rlslog  slow,— 
Like  the  tread  of  unseen  foe,— 

It  Is  coming,— It  Is  nigh  ! 
Stand  your  homes  and  altars  by ; 
On  your  own  free  thresholds  die. 

Clang  the  bells  in  all  your  spires ; 
On  the  grey  hills  of  your  sires 
Fling  to  heaven  your  signal  flres. 

O  for  God  and  duty  stand, 
Heart  to  heart  and  hand  to  band, 
Round  the  old  graves  of  the  land. 

Perish  party— perish  clan; 
Strike  together  while  ye  can, 
Like  the  arm  of  one  strong  man. 


—  WhUlier. 


THB  "BALD  RNOBBERS." 


We  have  been  having  most  troublesome  times  in 
our  county  of  late.  The  members  of  the  secret  or- 
ganization known  as  "Bald  Knobbers"  have  been 
busy  trying  to  enforce  the  law!  With  this  end  in 
view  they  have  met  from  time  to  time  in  the  woods 
after  dark  to  decide  upon  future  action.  They  have 
been  known  to  go  to  homes  at  the  dead  of  night, 
and  take  from  their  beds  those  who  by  act  or  testi- 
mony had  opposed  them  in  any  way.  This  had 
been  done  so  often  that  the  settlers  living  south  of 
us  a  few  miles  were  in  constant  dread  of  these  devils 
in  human  shape.  The  organization  was  secret  and 
bound  together  under  a  fearful  obligation  or  oath. 
Many  who  were  members  had  joined  without 
thought  as  to  its  ultimate  aim.  Others  were  mem- 
bers for  self-protection.  Their  work  culminated  a 
short  time  ago  in  a  terrible  murder.  A  number  of 
the  band  met  one  dark  night,  and  after  a  full  discus- 
sion of  the  matter,  decided  they  would  visit  a  family 
who  had  lately  moved  into  our  county  from  the 
north,  whose  outspoken  condemnation  of  their 
course  aroused  their  spite.  About  eighteen  of  the 
band  made  the  raid.  Surrounding  the  house  in 
which  the  family  resided,  they  entered  from  both 
sides,  shooting  down  two  of  the  young  men,  also 
striking  the  old  gray-headed  father  with  an  ax  and 
leaving  him  for  dead.  This  last  act  roused  the  peo- 
ple to  action.  Twenty-four  of  those  thought  to 
have  been  engaged  in  the  murder  were  promptly  ar- 
rested. These  are  held  for  the  action  of  a  special 
Grand  Jury. 

The  jury  are  now  in  session.  I  was  told  this  af- 
ternoon thatlhey  had  already  found  300  indictments, 
eighteen  of  these  for  murder  in  the  first  degree. 
This  will  now,  we  hope,  put  a  stop  to  this  dreadful 
work  and  counteract  to  some  extent  the  influence 
they  have  had  for  evil. 

Many  young  men  who  were  in  the  organization, 
and  were  present  on  the  night  of  the  murder,  were 
led  ignorantly  to  the  crime  for  which  they  are  now 
held.     Among  those  under  arrest  is  a  preacher  of 

church;  several  of  them  are  church  members. 

The  whole  matter  has  caused  quite  a  sensation. 
This  trouble  proves  to  us  that  this  people  need  the 
Gospel  of  our  Lord  Jesus  Christ  preached  to  them. 
It  is  the  only  true  remedy  for  ignorance  and  sin 
here  in  the  country,  as  also  in  Chicago  and  other 
large  cities  of  our  land.  May  fellow-Christians  of 
our  churches  feel  their  obligations  to  those  who  are 
at  work  on  such  fields.  It  is  our  glorious  privilege 
to  preach  Christ  to  such,  and  if  we  live  up  to  our 
calling  in  Christ,  we  must  preach  or  send  by  our 
means  a  sulistitute.  How  can  this  better  be  done 
than  by  giving  the  needed  means  to  the  American 
Home  Missionary  Society,  which  will  commission 
willing  and  earnest  workers  for  such  fields. — J.  D. 
WherlaTid,  Ozarh,  Mo.,  in  the  Home  Mutionary. 


JuDOK  Black  on  Girarp's  Will.— The  late  Judge 
J.  S.  Black,  says  the  Prethyterxan,  had  an  emphatic 
way  of  expressing  his  sentiments  which  left  no 
doubt  for  what  he  meant  He  once  put  on  record 
his  views  on  the  unchristian  feature  in  the  will  of 
Stephen  Girard.  The  letter  which  was  addressed  to 
Rev.  Dr.  Niles,  of  York,  Pa.,  has  lately  been  made 
public  and  here  are  a  few  sentences:  "Girard  ex- 
cluded Christianity  to  a  fundamental  statute— made 
it  an  offence  for  one  of  its  ministers  to  come  within 
the  walls,  or  even  on  the  grounds  of  his  college.  It 
is  a  monumental  dcelar.-ition  that  the  religion  of  the 
New  Testament,  as  taught  by  its  professors,  is  per- 


THE  CfHRISTIAN  CTNOSUKEi. 


OOTOBBE  13, 1887 


nicious  in  its  influence  on  the  minds  of  men.  To 
proclaim  this  falsehood  the  accumulated  millions  of 
his  thrifty  life  were  expended  on  a  building  which, 
by  its  magnitude  and  the  pomp  of  its  architecture, 
overshadows  all  that  is  near  it.  The  enormous 
structure,  'like  a  tall  bully,  lifts  its  head  and  lies.' " 


Reform  News. 


THB  WISCONSIN  MSB  TING. 


REPORT  FROM  THE  SECRBTARY. 

Milton,  Wis.,  9-30-'87. 

Dkar  Cynosure: — The  Wisconsin  Christian  An- 
ti-secret Association  assembled  for  the  fifteenth  an- 
nual convention  in  Goodrich  Hall  in  this  place, 
Sept.  28th.  We  have  had  an  interesting  meeting 
and  many  feel  that  they  have  been  instructed  great- 
ly to  their  benefit. 

I.  R.  B.  Arnold's  lectures  and  pictorial  illustra- 
tions on  ancient  mythology,  showing  the  relation  of 
Masonry  to  ancient  sun-worship  and  Baalism,  drew 
full  houses  and  aided  much  in  making  the  reasons 
for  the  existence  ot  the  N.  C.  A.  and  auxiliaries  bet- 
ter understood,and  the  importance  of  their  work  was 
conceded  by  those  Christians  present  who  had  no 
very  clear  conception  of  the  justice  of  our  cause. 

The  relation  of  secret  societies  to  the  temperance 
reform  was  discussed  at  one  of  the  sessions  with 
true  Christian  concern  for  the  cause  of  prohibition, 
and  resulted  in  the  unanimous  and  hearty  adoption 
of  the  following  resolution,  with  instruction  to  the 
secretary  to  send  a  copy  to  Miss  Willard: 

Resolved,  That  we  heartily  indorse  the  W.  C.  T.  U.  in 
its  work  of  education  and  reform,  and  approve  of  the 
open  and  Christian  methods  hitherto  employed,  and  that 
we  should  deeply  regret  any  concession  of  its  open,  hon- 
orable methods  to  secure  the  favor,  or  form  an  alliance 
with  the  Knights  of  L^bor,  Good  Templars,  or  any  other 
department  of  the  secret  lodge  system. 

Also  a  committee  of  five  was  appointed  to  attend 
the  meeting  of  the  National  Prohibition  committee, 
called  by  John  B.  Finch  to  assemble  in  Chicago 
Dec.  Ist;  said  delegation  instructed  to  work  for  the 
nomination  of  candidates  who  are  free  from  all  con- 
nection with  secret  societies. 

Also  the  following  with  reference  to  the  minor  se- 
cret orders  was  discussed  with  much  interest  and 
unanimously  approved: 

Resolved,  That  we  regard  the  Good  Templars,  Sons  of 
Temperance,  Knights  of  Labor,  G.  A.  R.,  and  other  so- 
called  minor  secret  orders,  as  feeders  and  stepping  stones 
to  the  greater  and  graver  oath-bound  fraternities,  such 
as  Masonry,  Odd-fellowship,  etc  ,  and  hence  they  should 
be  dispensed  with  in  moral  and  political  work. 

Resolutions  reaffirming  our  confidence  and  faith 
in  the  Christian  Cynosure  and  N.  C.  Association  plat- 
form of  principles  were  also  passed  and  we  separat- 
ed feeling  that  the  anti-secret  reform  is  of  God  and 
therefore  it  cannot  fail,  but  triumph  it  surely  will. 

Mus.  M.  M.  Ames, 
Secretary  pro  tern. 
^  •  *■ 

FROM  THB   OBNERAL  AGBNT. 


and  Pres.  J.  Blanchard  in  Wheaton  College,  and  his 
ecclesiastical  connections,  and  of  the  crafty  monkey, 
the  hot  chestnuts  and  the  tortured  cat  in  the  fable.    } 

It  was  my  first  meeting  with  Bro.  Hanson,  but 
every  impression  was   favorable  and  I  hope  to  see 
him  a  power  for  good  in  the  cause  of  reform.     He  , 
related  his  experience  in  a  very  simple,  touching ' 
way,  and  stated  his  conviction  that  God  had  called  j 
him  to  give  a  portion  of  his  time  to  the  work  of 
warning  his  fellows  against  what  he  believed  to  be 
"evil,  and  only  evil,  and  that  continually."     The 
convention  most  heartily  concurred  with  him  in  this 
conviction  and  the  matter  of  his  employment  as  lec- 
turer by  the  Minnesota  State  Christian  Association 
was  referred  to  the  executive  committee  with  favor- 
able recommendations. 

I  do  not  wish  to  supersede  a  full  report  by  the 
secretary,  but  am  constrained  to  mention  an  inci- 
dent to  show  how  prompt  and  firmly  Bro.  Hanson 
met  the  opposition.  There  was  liberty  given  for 
questions  and  remarks  during  the  last  session.  The 
old  question  of  "perjury"  was  raised  by  a  Royal 
Arch  Mason,  and  Bro.  H.  replied,  saying,  "We  have 
taken  the  same  obligations,"  etc.,  and  then  demon- 
strated that  the  violation  of  such  an  oath  could  be 
neither  legal  or  moral  perjury.  The  city  papers 
took  note  of  the  fact  and  of  Bro.  Hanson's  lodge 
relations  and  in  the  usual  style  classed  him  with 
"long-haired  cranks,"  "impracticable  fanatics,"  etc. 

In  looking  back  over  the  record  of  the  meeting  I 
am  constrained  to  offer  thanksgiving  to  God  for  his 
blessing  and  to  take  new  courage  for  the  future. 
The  attendance  was  not  all  that  it  should  have  been, 
and  preliminary  advertisement  was  defective,  but 
the  brethren  did  what  they  could  and  resolved  on 
better  and  more  thorough  work  in  this  than  in  any 
previous  year.  J.  P.  Stoddard. 


incidents   of   the   good   meeting  at  MINNEAPOLIS. 


The  State  meeting  just  closed  in  Minneapolis  may 
be  called  the  revival  of  anti-lodge  work  and  interest 
in  Minnesota.  It  was  a  convention  strong  in  prayer, 
Christian  experience  and  council.  Professor  E.  g! 
Paine  presided  with  his  accustomed  deliberation 
and  fairness,  and  the  discussions  took  in  a  wide 
range  of  reform  topics,  calling  out  brief  and  spirited 
speeches  from  Revs.  M.  A.  Gault,  A.  C.  Hand,  C.  F. 
Hawley,  Wm.  Fenton,  W.  W.  Ames,  C.  F.  Trabert, 
R.  J.  Williams,  Porter,  W.  W.  Satteriee,  and  El- 
wood  Hansen,  Bro.  Morrell  and  others,  more  nota- 
bly on  prohibition  and  the  secret  lodge  system. 
Rev.  P.  Sjoblom  and  some  others  were  obliged  to 
leave  before  the  last  session,  but  the  interest  was  so 
great  that  a  necessity  to  get  street  car  accommoda- 
tions only  secured  an  adjournment  at  10:30  p.  m. 

Bro.  E.  Hanson,  who  had  acted  with  Bro.  Fenton 
on  local  committee  of  arrangements,  has  seen  twelve 
degrees  of  the  inside  iniquities  of  Freemasonry,  and 
when  enlightend  by  the  Spirit  felt  constrained  to 
^  allude  to  the  subject  in  a  sermon  in  a  way  that  was 
distasteful  to  his  brethren  of  the  mystic  order.  It 
scon  transpired  that  accusations  were  brought 
against  him,  and  his  ministerial  standing  attacked 
through  the  instrumentality  of  the  Society  of 
Friends,  to  which  he  belonged;  and,  as  I  under- 
stand, the  case  is  still  pending  under  an  appeal 
from  the  local  to  the  yearly  meeting  of  Friends  to 
which  Bro.  Hanson  belongs.  I  do  not  profess  to 
know  the  full  merits  of  this  case,  but  as  I  gathered 
up  some  of  the  details  I  was  reminded  of  the  case 
of  President  White  in  Perdue  University,  Indiana, 


THB  MINNB80TA  8TATB  CONVENTION. 


The  light  almost  under  the  bushel— Some  happy  surprises 
—  Ihe  men  of  the  meeting — A  d/ream  that  should  not  be 
all  a  dream. 

After  giving  four  lectures  at  ^Knapp,  Wis.,  I  ran 
up  Wednesday  a.  m.  to  look  in  upon  the  Minnesota 
anti- secret  convention  at  Minneapolis.  I  had  for- 
gotten where  it  was  to  meet,  and  after  looking 
over  the  daily  papers  and  failing  to  find  any 
notice  of  it,  I  inquired  at  different  hotels 
and  of  policemen,  but  no  one  had  heard  of 
it.  I  scrutinized  bulletin  boards  and  places  where 
posters  were  put  up,  but  could  get  no  clue.  Being 
a  stranger  in  the  city,  I  began  to  feel  alarmed  lest  I 
might  fail  to  find  the  brethren.  I  went  at  last  to  the 
Y.  M.  C.  A.  Rooms,and  was  gratified  to  find  the  As- 
sistant Secretary  to  be  F.  E.  Harrington,from  whom 
I  had  once  received  a  letter  inquiring  about  our 
National  Reform  literature.  He  was  quite  surprised 
to  hear  that  the  State  convention  of  the  Minnesota 
Christian  Association  was  in  session  somewhere  in 
the  city — a  work  in  which  he  would  gladly  have  co- 
operated, and  yet  he  had  heard  nothing  of  it.  He 
had  the  Cynosure  on  file,  but  had  not  noticed  the 
announcement.  We  hunted  up  the  Cynosure,  and 
were  glad  to  find  where  the  good  brethren  were  as- 
sembled. 

Getting  on  board  the  motor  cars, we  rode  two  miles, 
getting  out  at  Chestnut  Hall,  corner  26th  street  and 
Nicollet  avenue.  In  the  chair  was  the  dignified  and 
scholarly  Prof.  E.  G.  Paine,  of  Wasioja  Wesleyan 
Methodist  Seminary.  The  secretary  was  a  man  of 
fine  intellectual  mould,  Rev.  W.  W.  Ames,  of  Mo- 
nomonie.  Wis.  There  was  the  familiar  form  of  Sec- 
retary J.  P.  Stoddard,  his  shoulders  somewhat  bent 
under  the  weight  of  seventeen  years  constant  toil  in 
the  work.  Near  him  sat  the  Iowa  State  lecturer,  Bro. 
C.  F.  Hawley,  in  excellent  physical  condition.  I  was 
agreeably  surprised  to  see  and  hear  again  the  Rev. 
W.  W.  Satteriee,  who  impressed  us  at  Lake  Bluff 
last  summer  with  his  fine  speech  in  defense  of  the 
Jericho  Robbers.  He  is  a  strong  M.  E.  pastor,  and 
was  in  sympathy  with  the  convention.  Rev.  Wm. 
Fenton  of  St.  Paul,  a  Baptist  minister,  was  also  a 
power  in  the  convention;  so  was  an  aged  Wesleyan 
minister  and  his  wife,  bowed  under  the  weight  of 
many  battle^  for  reform,  but  whose  names  I  have  for- 
gotten. Bro.  Elwood  Hanson,  who  was  active  in 
arranging  for  the  convention,  impressed  us  as  a  truly 
devoted  man,  and  sacrificed  much  for  our  comfort. 

The  hall  was  neat  and  comfortable;  a  fine  picture 
of  John  P.  St.  John  hung  over  the  rostrum.  It  was 
the  place  where  a  Prohibition  club,  headed  by  Bro. 
W.  W.  Satteriee,  held  regular  meetings.  One  of  the 
city  pastors,  C,  H.  Trabert,  of  the  Evangelical  Lu- 
theran church,  took  much  interest.  But  as  might 
be  expected  the  attendnnce  was  small,  little  or  no 
effort  being  made  to  reach  the  people. 

In  sleeping  over  the  matter  last  night  I  had  this 
dream,  and  was  sorry  that  it  was  only  a  dream.     I 


thought  Bro,  Hawley  spent  several  weeks  in  work- 
ing up  this  convention,  securing  notices  of  it  in  all 
the  local  papers,  and  in  all  the  church  papers  favor- 
able to  the  reform,  speaking  at  all  surrounding 
points  where  he  could  find  an  open  door,  and  keep- 
ing the  convention  before  the  people.  I  thought  he 
had  a  nicely  arranged  programme  which  he  had 
mailed  two  weeks  before  the  convention  to  all  the 
pastors  in  Minneapolis  and  St.  Paul,  and  to  all  the 
Wesleyan,  United  Presbyterian,  and  Covenanter  pas- 
tors in  the  State.  The  programme  covered  all  the 
relations  which  the  secret  lodge  system  has  to  the 
Sabbath  reform,  temperance  reform,  and  divorce  re- 
form. The  leaders  in  these  discussions  gave  short, 
pointed  speeches,  containing  their  best  thoughts. 
A  well  digested  series  of  resolutions  were  published 
beforehand,  and  put  into  the  hands  of  each  one  in 
the  audience.  The  greater  part  of  the  time  was  de- 
voted to  general  discussion,  in  which  all  had  an  op- 
portunity of  giving  their  best  thoughts.  The  whole 
business  was  carefully  planned  beforehand.  There 
were  no  long-winded  speeches,  occupying  an  hour  or 
an  hour  and  a  half,  when  the  speaker  could  have 
said  all  he  did  say  in  one-third  of  the  time  if  his 
thoughts  had  been  boiled  down.  There  were  no 
good  brethren  aching  to  give  some  words  of  testi- 
mony or  experience,  but  denied  the  opportunity,  as 
at  the  Chicago  Congress  last  spring.  The  whole 
convention  was  a  closely-packed,  varied,  pointed, 
soul-stirring  argument  against  the  lodge  system,  at 
which  one  could  have  filled  a  note  book  with  brist- 
ling points.  Of  course  in  my  dream  1  saw  a  large 
audience  packing  a  hall,  and  adjourning  with  diffi- 
culty at  the  noon  hour.  How  could  such  instrumen- 
talities fail  to  secure  a  large  audience? 

As  I  once  heard  Prof.  C.  A.  Blanchard  remark, 
this  convention  work  is  like  University  work.  It 
has  a  wonderfully  educating  power;  but,  oh !  what  wis- 
dom and  thoughtful  planning  are  necessary  to  prop- 
erly utilize  its  forces,  and  bring  out  its  possibilities. 
There  was  force  enough  at  the  Minneapolis  Conven- 
tion to  have  rocked  the  entire  city,  if  it  could  have 
properly  been  brought  to  bear.  M.  A.  Gault. 


GIRD   UP,  OHIO. 


STATE   CONVENTION   TIME   COMES    ON. 


Columbus,  Ohio,  Sept.  29,  1887. 

Dear  Cynosure — I  once  heard  of  an  old  lady 
who  had  lived  none  too  good  a  life,  on  coming  as 
she  supposed  to  her  death-bed,  exclaiming  in  a  very 
excited  manner,  "Good  Lord;  good  devil.  Good 
Lord;  good  devil."  Being  asked  her  reason  for  this 
strange  procedure,  she  replied,  "I  do  not  know  into 
whose  hands  I  will  fall  and  I  wish  to  be  on  good 
terms  with  both  parties." 

Every  reformer  who  has  been  at  all  observant 
knows  that  the  world  is  burdened  with  a  class  of 
individuals  who,  while  not  adopting  the  language  of 
the  old  lady,  act  on  the  same  principle.  The  prohi- 
bition orator  describes  such  as  lacking  in  the  moral 
vertebrae.  They  generally  have  good  intentions, 
but  are  wanting  in  moral  or  any  other  kind  of  force, 
their  seeming  goodness  frequently  causing  them  to 
yield  their  better  judgment.  Such  hinder  the  ad- 
vancement of  Christ's  kingdom  more  than  any  other 
class.  The  individual  or  the  church  that  lives  a 
spiritual  life  must  advance.  Their  warfare  on  sin 
must  not  be  simply  defensive  but  aggressive.  It  is 
not  enough  for  me  to  take  a  stand  for  the  right,  but 
I  should  give  my  neighbors  my  reasons  for  taking 
such  a  stand. 

Why  do  I  write  thus? 

Because  we  are  soon  to  have  a  State  convention, 
in  which  we  desire  the  united  force  of  every  church, 
and  every  man  and  woman  who  are  at  heart  opposed 
to  the  Christ-excluding,  man-debasing  lodge;  in  fa- 
vor of  the  perpetuation  of  our  free  government  and 
the  exaltation  of  Christ  to  his  right  position  in  the 
hearts  and  governments  of  men. 

To-day  the  United  Brethren  church  is  going 
through  a  struggle  which  threatens  to  rend  it  from 
center  to  circumference;  and  why?  Because  a  large 
number  had  not  the  moral  courage  to  be  aggressive 
in  reform.  The  founders  of  that  body  as  men  of 
God  did  not  simply  "preach  Christ"  in  a  general 
kind  of  a  way,  hut  endeavored  to  make  the  divine 
teachings  practical  to  the  age.  Seeing  the  lodge 
was  evil  in  its  nature  and  tendencies,  they  did  not 
adopt  a  system  of  license  or  taxation,  but  the  God- 
given  "Thou  Shalt  not."  In  their  constitution  they 
said,  "There  shall  be  no  connection  with  secret  soci- 
eties." For  this  principle  with  others  they  labored 
and  prayed;  gave  their  money  and  energies  to  con- 
vert sinners,  build  churches  and  schools  for  those 
converted.  God  blessed  his  truth.  The  church 
prospered.  The  fathers  died  rejoicing  in  the  fruit 
ot  their  labor.     The  children  take  their  places.     Do 


^?i" 


OOTOBBB  13.  1887 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


they  build  on  the  foundations  which  their  fathers 
laid?  Ah,  no!  Many,  alas,  rejoice  in  tbe  fruit  of 
their  fathers'  labor.  "Cs  not  this  great  Babylon  on 
which  I  have  builded,"  said  one.  They  covet  the 
world,  and  are  taking  the  flesh  and  the  devil  toget 
it.  Where  did  their  trouble  commence?  I  reply: 
In  not  aggressively  advocating  their  principles. 
Many  of  the  preachers,  instead  of  giving  the  people 
reasons  for  their  position  as  a  church,  would  preach 
from  one  year's  end  to  the  other  without  mentioning 
the  lodge,  unless  it  was  to  sympathize  with  some 
one  seemingly  converted  at  their  altar;  telling 
them  they  were  a  poor  dear  brother  and  they  wished 
very  much  they  could  take  them  in,  but  their  rule 
was  against  it.  I  speak  from  personal  knowledge. 
Instead  of  informing  themselves  and  their  people  as 
to  the  evils  of  the  lodge,  they  began  in  a  cowardly 
way  to  make  excuses  for  the  position  they  had 
taken.  I  thoroughly  believe  that  many  a  man  could 
have  been  saved  to  God  and  to  this  church,  had  the 
lodge  been  shown  by  the  watchman  on  the  walls  of 
Zion,  in  its  proper  light. 

Friends  in  the  United  Brethren,  United  Presby- 
terian, Covenanter,  Lutheran,  Quaker,  Wesleyan 
and  Free  Methodist,  German  Baptist,  Mennonite 
and  other  reform  churches  in  the  State  of  Ohio,  I 
appeal  to  you.  Do  you  believe  the  position  your 
fathers  have  taken  against  the  lodge  to  be  right? 
Do  you  believe  that  this  rule  should  be  sustained? 
Do  you  wish  to  exclude  from  your  communion  table, 
Ku  Klux,  Anarchists,  Molly  Maguires,  Freemasons, 
Socialists,  etc.,  etc.?  There  is  only  one  way  you 
can  successfully  do  it,  and  that  is  by  aggression. 
If  you  are  simply  on  the  defensive  they  will  out-wit 
you,  and  will  be  at  your  communion  table  before 
you  know  it.  They  do  not  at  first  boldly  assert 
their  purposes,  but  like  the  snake  in  the  grass,  strike 
you  when  you  are  unaware.  In  the  name  of  our 
Captain  I  ask  you  to  meet  with  the  many  reform- 
ers who  will  come  to  our  approaching  State  conven- 
tion. Will  not  every  man  reading  this  who  belongs 
to  a  church  opposed  to  the  lodge  see  to  it  that  their 
pastor  and  as  many  delegates  as  possible  attend? 

As  has  been  already  announced,  we  expect  to  have 
President  C.  A.  Blanchard  and  the  N.  C.  A,  General 
Agent.  Rev.  J.  W.  Coleman,  State  Recording  Secre- 
tary, and  for  many  years  National  Reform  lecturer, 
will  be  with  us  and  has  agreed  to  speak  to  us  if,  as 
he  says,  "we  cannot  do  better."  We  can  answer 
that  question  better  after  hearing  him.  We  shall 
try  and  get  some  able  insurance  agent  to  address  us 
on  the  relative  advantages  of  open  and  secret  insur- 
ance. We  partially  have  the  promise  of  one  now. 
I  am  corresponding  with  other  parties  and  will  re- 
port in  due  time.  Since  my  last  report  I  have  ad- 
dressed three  audiences:  the  Wesleyan  and  United 
Presbyterian  in  Mansfield  and  the  United  Brethren 
here.  I  have  also  secured  readers  for  the  Cynosure 
and  some  support  for  the  State  work.  Among  the 
pledges  is  one  from  Caleb  Lyons  for  thirty  dollars. 
Bro.  Lyons  has  been  a  liberal  contributor,  as  many 
know,  to  our  State  work  in  the  past.  Time  and 
space  forbid  my  writing  more  now. 

W.  B.  Stoddard. 


UP  AND  DOWN  IN  ALABAMA. 


The  Attractions  of  Belma — Its   Schools  and  Churches  — 

Tv)o  Kinds  of  Congregationalism  in  the  South — The 

Alabama    W,  O.  -T.   U. — Jv junction  against    colored 
schooli. 

Montgomery,  Ala.,  Sept.  29,  '87. 

Dear  Cynosure:— I  left  Talladega  Sept.  26  at 
3:30  p.  Ji.,  and  at  9  o'clock  was  at  Selma,  where  I 
always  find  so  many  warm  and  sympathetic  friends. 
I  can  never  cease  to  admire  this  typical  Southern 
city.  Its  broad  streets  are  thoroughly  shaded  by 
great  evergreen  oaks  and  have  an  air  of  quietness 
and  seclusion  that  we  do  not  find  in  our  Northern 
towns.  The  electric  lights  make  strange,  wierd 
shadows  as  they  shine  through  the  tree  tops.  Many 
artesian  wells  supply  the  city  abundantly  with  ex- 
cellent water.  Within  the  last  seven  years  Selma 
has  more  than  doubled  in  population  and  wealth. 
It  now  claims  over  12,000.  The  crops  of  the  past 
season  have  been  fairly  good,and  mucb  of  the  cotton 
has  already  been  picked.  There  is  a  gradual  im- 
provement in  the  condition  of  the  colored  people. 
Many  of  them  are  acquiring  homes  and  all  are  edu- 
cating their  children.  It  is  believed  that  the  tone 
of  morals  and  the  prevailing  type  of  religion  is  be- 
ing elevated.  There  is  need  of  it  among  both  races. 
The  long  and  hot  summer  is  indicated  by  banana 
plants  growing  in  the  open  air  to  the  highth  of  ten 
or  twelve  feet,  which  is  very  rare  so  far  north  as 
this.     Of  course  they  cannot  form  any  fruit. 

The  colored  churches  and  schools  have  had  a 
'prosperous  year.  The  latter  are  just  opening.  Knox 
Institute  is  under  the  care  of  Rev.  Mr.  Reed,  while 
pastor  G.  M.  Elliott  devotes  himself  to  ministerial 


and  editorial  work.      His  little  paper,  the  Guiding 
Star,  is  now  a  weekly  and  attaining  a  hopeful  de- 
gree of  success.     If  the  colored  people  are  wise  they 
{Continued  on  9lh  page.) 


COREESPONDENCE. 


WASHINGTON'S    OLD   BBADQUARTER8  AND 
ITS  BVQ0E8T10N8. 


Newburcj,  N.  Y.,  Oct.  5,  1887. 

Editor  Christian  Cynosure: — Newburg  is  a 
beautiful  city  of  25,000,  on  the  Hudson,  sixty  miles 
north  of  New  York  City.  It  is  noted  chiefly  for  its 
elegant  homes.  The  "Hasbronck  House,"  used  as 
Washington's  headquarters  in  the  Revolution,  is  an 
interesting  place.  The  grounds  bristling  with  can- 
non, the  antiquated  armor,  the  mammoth  Hessian 
boot,  the  room  with  seven  doors  and  one  window  in 
which  Washington  refused  the  crown,  the  tattered 
battle  flags, — all  carry  back  our  thoughts  to  days 
more  than  a  century  old.  This  place  is  dishonored, 
however,  with  two  hundred  saloons.  Satan  evident- 
ly feels  that  he  is  playing  his  last  card  with  the  sa- 
loon system. 

The  following  from  the  New  York  Witness  on  "That 
Silver  Dollar  Saloon"  is  suggestive:'  "Charley  Smith, 
who  has  been  a  Republican  Assemblyman  from  this 
city  for  several  terms,  had  a  grand  opening  of  his 
new  saloon  last  week,  which  was  honored  (?)  by  the 
presence  of  three  Congressmen,  one  State  Senator, 
three  Assemblymen,  one  Civil  Justice  and  several 
Aldermen.  The  Sun's  description  of  this  palatial 
ginmill  shows  that  Mr.  Smith  understands  how  to 
advertise  his  new  venture  by  making  it  an  object  of 
curiosity:  'In  every  stone  in  the  white  marble  floor 
are  two  silver  dollars  bearing  the  date  of  1887,  and 
in  the  center  of  the  floor,  in  front  of  the  bar,  is  a 
black  marble  stone  with  a  twenty  dollar  gold  piece 
in  the  center  and  nineteen  one  dollar  silver  pieces 
around  it.  Over  head  in  the  ceiling  are  three  me- 
dallions, serving  as  centers  of  three  chandeliers, 
made  of  ground  glass  and  representing  silver  dol- 
lars. On  the  back  bar  is  a  chandelier  which  has 
$500  worth  of  silver  dollars  on  it.  There  is,  be- 
sides, on  the  back  bar  a  star  and  crescent  a  foot 
high,  covered  with  silver  pieces  from  a  dime  to  a 
dollar.  The  wine  decanters  are  in  the  shape  of  sil- 
ver dollars.  On  the  wall  are  pictures  of  the  mem- 
bers of  the  Assembly  when  ex-Assemblyman 
Smith  was  a  member  of  the  Legislature  himself.'  " 
The  Witness  properly  designates  it,  "this  new  and 
ornamental  gateway  into  the  kingdom  of  darkness." 
When  Mohammed  returned  to  Mtcca,  six  years  after 
the  Hegira,  he  saw  the  360  idols  set  up  through  the 
city,  and,  pointing  to  them  with  his  sword,  he  said: 
"Truth  has  come;  let  this  iniquity  go  down."  So 
our  Government  should  point  to  the  200,000  saloons 
in  this  land  and  say:  "Truth  and  righteousness  have 
come  to  this  land;  let  these  abominations  go  down 
forever." 

West  Point  Military  Academy  is  about  six  miles 
down  the  Hudson,  amid  the  grandest  scenery  of  the 
State.  Its  library,  museum,  and  the  drill  of  the 800 
cadets  are  well  worth  seeing.  Standing  there  by 
that  school  for  war,  we  thought  of  Alexander  the 
Great  driving  the  enemy  before  him  until  he  reached 
the  summit  of  power,  and  then  sitting  down  and 
weeping  because  he  had  no  more  worlds  to  conquer. 
We  thought  of  Caisar  carrying  his  conquests  north, 
south,  east  and  west,  until  the  Roman  eagles  over- 
shadowed every  land  and  every  sea.  We  thought  of 
Hannibal  crossing  the  Alps,  descending  upon  Italy 
like  a  vulture  with  its  cycloidal  swoop  upon  its  prey, 
and  carrying  devastation  and  ruin  even  to  the  gates 
of  the  Eternal  City.  We  thought  of  Cortez  with 
his  conquering  companions  in  Mexico,  burning  the 
ships  that  had  brought  him  over  the  seas  that  there 
might  be  no  hope  of  retreat,  and  playing  the  game 
of  war  with  human  lives  for  dice.  We  thought  of 
Pizarro  in  Peru,  challenging  his  men  to  fidelity  by 
drawing  a  line  with  his  sword  in  the  sand,  and  say- 
ing: "On  this  side  are  poverty,  misery  and  disgrace; 
on  that  side  honor,  wealth  and  peace;  as  for  me  ancl 
the  faithful,  we  will  cross  the  line."  We  thought 
of  Napoleon  holding  the  reins  of  destruction  until 
his  war  horse  had  trampleil  on  all  the  kingdoms  of 
Europe,  and  the  very  mention  of  his  name  caused 
the  cheeks  of  popes  and  emperors  to  grow  pale  with 
fear.  We  thought  of  General  Grant,  with  his  "boys 
in  blue,"  seizing  that  great  red  dragon  of  States 
rights  that  had  grown  up  in  the  South,  animated  by 
that  Satanic  spirit  of  slavery;  throttling  it  in 
those  four  years  of  bloody  strife,  and  casting  out 
the  evil  spirit  into  the  seas,  never  more  to  rise  again. 
The  history  of  nations  has  been  written  in  blood. 
It  is  to  be  hoped  that  the  day  is  near  at  hand  when 
"wars  shall  cease,"  when  there  will  be  a  "Congress 
of  Nations"  to  which  all  will  submit,  and  when  the 
prophecy  shall  be  fulfilled,  "nations  shall  beat  their 


swords  into  plowshares,  and  their  spears  into  prun- 
ing hooks." 

On  Monday  night  I  lectured  in  Rev.  J.  R.Thomp- 
son's church  of  this  place.  The  house  was  filled, 
and  a  more  attentive  audience  I  never  addressed, 
Bro.  Thompson  is  wide-awake  pastor.  He  has  a 
strong  and  active  congregation.  He  is  a  leader  of 
thought  in  th's  city.  On  Tuesday  evening  I  lectured 
in  the  M.  K.  church  in  Fostertown,  four  miles  out 
This  meeting  was  a  success.  This  week  I  was  called 
to  converse  with  an  elder  who  has  had  cancer  in  the 
throat.  The  surgeons  removed  it,  and  in  doing  it, 
cut  out  the  larynx  and  inserted  a  silver  tube.  It  is 
the  only  operation  of  the  kind  ever  performed  in 
this  country.  He  can  be  understood  quite  welL 
I  was  led  to  talk  of  the  evidences  of  our  being  in 
Christ.  To  love  Christ  signifies  to  delight  in  his 
excellency  and  to  desire  to  please  him.  There  are 
several  marks  by  which  it  may  be  known. 

1.  The  thought  of  Christ  is  the  predominating 
thought  in  the  believing  mind.  There  are  times 
when  he  does  not  think  of  Christ;  while  his  mind 
is  occupied  with  business  he  is  not  conscious  of  the 
presence  of  the  thought  of  Christ;  but  as  soon  as  the 
mind  is  released  the  thought  of  Christ  comes  to  the 
surface,  just  as  a  cork  held  under  the  water  will  rise 
to  the  top  when  let  loose.  "I  sleep  but  my  heart 
waketh." 

2.  The  believer  delights  in  the  word  of  Christ 
"His  lips  are  like  lilies  dropping  with  sweet-smell- 
ing myrrh."  "O  how  love  I  thy  law,  it  is  my  study 
all  the  day." 

3.  He  loves  Christ's  children.  As  it  is  unnatural 
for  a  son  to  hate  his  brothers  and  sisters,  so  it  is 
unchristian  for  a  professed  follower  of  Christ  to  dis- 
like the  the  children  of  the  covenant.  "If  a  man 
says  I  love  God,  and  hateth  his  brother,  he  is  a 
liar;  for  he  that  loveth  not  his  brother  whom  he 
hath  seen,  how  can  he  love  God  whom  he  hath 
not  seen?  and  this  commandment  we  have  from  him, 
that  he  that  loveth  God,  love  his  brother  also." 

4.  He  seeks  frequent  communion  with  Christ 
"Like  as  the  hart  panteth  after  the  water  brooks, 
so  pinteth  my  soul  after  thee,  O  God." 

5.  He  is  drawn  to  Christ  by  an  irresistible  im- 
pulse. "The  love  of  Christ  constraineth  me."  "For 
me  to  live  is  Christ"  "Entreat  me  not  to  leave 
thee,  nor  to  turn  back  from  following  after  thee." 

6.  He  is  jealous  for  the  honor  of  Christ  It 
pains  him  to  see  Christ  dishonored. 

7.  He  strives  to  obey  ull  Christ's  commands.  "Ye 
are  my  friends,  if  ye  diO  ■whatso(^)er  I  command  you." 
"Oh  that  my  ways  were  directed  to  keep  thy  stat- 
utes; then  shall  I  not  be  ashamed  when  I  have  re- 
spect to  all  thy  commandments." 

8.  He  makes  an  entire  consecration  to  Christ 
"Thine  are  we,  David,"  consecration  to  Christ's  per- 
son; "and  on  thy  side,  thou  son  of  Jesse,"  consecra- 
tion to  Christ's  cause.  All  that  I  am,  all  that  I 
have,  and  all  that  I  can  be  are  devoted  to  him. 

9.  He  patiently  endures  all  trials.  He  regards 
them  as  coming  from  the  hand  of  his  Father:  "Whom 
the  Lord  loveth  he  chasteneth.  What  son  is  he 
whom  the  Father  chasteneth  not"  They  are  a  bless- 
ing to  him.  "No  chastisement  for  the  present  seem- 
eth  to  be  joyous,  but  grievous;  nevertheless,  it 
worketh  the  peaceable  fruits  of  righteousness  in 
them  that  are  exercised  thereby."  As  he  partici- 
pates with  Christ  in  suffering  here,  so  he  will  share 
with  him  in  glory  hereafter.  .^ 

"Beloved,  think  it  not  strange  concerning  the  fiery 
trial  that  is  to  try  you,  as  though  some  strange  thing 
had  happened  unto  you,  but  rather  rt  joice,  inasmuch 
as  ye  are  partakers  of  the  suff'erings  of  Christ,  that 
when  his  glory  shall  be  revealed,  ye  may  be  glad 
also,  with  exceeding  joy.''  The  reward  is  great 
"These  light  atllictions,  which  are  but  for  a  moment, 
will  work  out  for  us  a  far  more  exceeding  and  etern- 
al weight  of  glory."  The  atUiction  is  light,  the 
glory  is  a  weight  The  atUiction  is  temporary,  the 
glcry  is  eternal.  So  he  looks  up  and  says,  "Lord, 
what  thou  wilt  and  when  thou  wilt  and  how  thou 
wilt"  "Though  he  slay. me,  yet  will  I  trust  in  him." 
Yours,  J.  M.  Fostkeu 

^  ■  * 

MBMPmS  LBTTSR. 


another    baptist    brigade    wheels    into    line 
against  the  lodge — the  prohibition  vote. 


Dear  Cynosure: — Since  I  last  wrote  you  we  have 
been  marching  along  steadily  on  the  line  of  reform. 
A  few  things  have  happened  that  will  be  of  some 
interest  to  your  readers,  and  may  perhaps  spur  some 
one  to  take  a  positive  stand  at  all  limes  for  God  and 
the  right  My  position  against  the  lodge  is  not  de- 
void of  effect,  and  many  are  realizing  it;  the  most 
positive  evidence  of  the  same  was  manifested  in  a 
Baptist  Convention  held  in  our  city  on  the  19lh  ult. 
There  were  nearly  seventy-two  persons  in  attend- 


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6 


IHE  CHRISTIAN  OYTSTOSURJl*. 


October  13,  1887 


ance,  and  eight  associations  were  represented.  The 
meeting  was  an  educational  one,  and  the  committee 
who  was  sent  out  to  report  plans  made  the  following 
report: 

That  as  the  object  of  the  school  is  to  train  leaders  for 
the  homes,  churches  and  schools,  it  should,  in  its  faculty, 
organization  and  management,  magnify  the  church,  be  a 
standing  protest  against  Sabbath  breaking,  intemperance 
in  all  forms,  the  raising  of  money  by  worldly  instead  of 
Bible  methods,  the  union  of  church  members  with  the 
worldly  and  ungodly  in  secret  societies  and  otherwise, 
and  in  all  forms  of  worldliness  so  prevalent  at  the  pres- 
ent time;  and  that  the  school  should  also  in  the  character 
of  its  teachers,  its  spirit,  aims  and  work  set  forth  the 
true  principles  of  Christian  morality,  and  Christian  en- 
terprise in  all  benevolent,  reform  and  missionary  work . 

In  the  report  of  the  Committee  on  By-Laws  we 
had  the  following: 

FACULTY . 

As  it  is  the  aim  of  the  founders  of  this  school  to  train 
true  Christian  leaders,  and  also  to  make  the  school  as  far 
as  possible  a  standing  protest  against  the  prevailing 
worldliness  and  immorality  in  many  churches  as  well  as 
in  society,  and  also  a  pattern,  as  much  as  possible,  ia  its 
faculty  and  students  in  the  matter  of  separation  from 
the  world,  purity  in  life  and  habits,  consecration  to 
Christ,  no  one  shall  be  eligible  for  election  as  a  member 
of  the  faculty  who  is  not  a  person  of  undoubted  Chris- 
tian character  and  a  member  in  good  standing  in  a  Bap- 
tist church,  or  who  uses  intoxicating  liquors  as  a  bever- 
age, or  tobacco,  or  opium,  or  who  is  a  member  of  any 
secret  society  or  fraternity. 

This  rule,  however,  is  not  intended  to  prevent  the  em- 
ployment of  persons  of  unblemished  Christian  character, 
who  may  not  be  Baptists,  to  give  special  instruction  for 
a  time  in  the  industrial  or  other  departments  of  the 
school,  when  it  may  be  necessary  or  desirable. 

The  adoption  of  the  above  created  no  small  stir, 
and  a  heated  debate  ensued,  lasting  nearly  the  en- 
tire day,  but  God  who  always  'triumphs  did  so  in 
this  case.  There  were  thirty-six  to  vote,  represent- 
ing as  I  have  already  stated  eight  associations,  and 
the  majority  of  them  were  adhering  secret  society 
men.  There  had  never  been  such  an  opportunity  in 
Tennessee  to  magnify  the  name  of  the  Lord  and  his 
church,  and  it  was  improved. 

The  allies  of  the  lodge,  in  every  speech  they  made 
they  drove  their  brethren  from  them,  and  when  the 
vote  was  put  to  adopt  the  plan  and  the  by-law  gov- 
erning the  faculty,  they  were  carried  31  to  5.  This 
we  call  a  grand  triumph  for  God  and  the  right. 

Another  event  has  transpired  of  which  of  course 
you  are  aware,  viz.,  our  struggle  for  prohibition. 
We  do  not  as  yet  know  what  the  result  will  be,  but 
indications  point  to  the  defeat  of  the  amendment. 
I  am  glad  to  say  that  the  men  of  my  church  voted 
for  the  amendment  to  a  man,  and  the  church  had 
previously  declared  that  any  member  who  voted 
against  the  same,  should  be  excluded  from  the 
church.  Another  church  in  the  city,  Beale  Street 
Baptist,  excluded  eight  last  night  (Friday)  for  voting 
against  the  amendment.  We  expect  by  the  grace 
of  God  to  continue  the  fight.  We  are  now  out  for  a 
new  third  party,  and  many  Democrats  and  Repub 
licans  are  to-day  loud  in  their  determination  to  vote 
for  no  man  unless  he  be  a  Prohibitionist.  The  elec- 
tion is  over  and  we  expect  to  write  oftener.  God 
bless  all  of  the  friends  of  reform.     R.  N.  Codntee. 


AFTER  MANY  DATS. 


While  lecturing  at  Rochelle,  Illinois,  I  was  kindly 
entertained  at  the  home  of  Harvey  Countryman.  He 
has  been  quite  successful  in  business,  and  has  a 
palatial  residence.  What  is  better,  he  is  a  pillar  in 
the  Presbyterian  church,  and  is  among  the  leading 
Christian  workers  in  the  community.  It  is  interest- 
iog  to  spend  an  evening  with  him,  and  hear  him  re- 
late his  personal  efforts  in  winning  souls  for  Christ. 

Once  while  on  a  train  in  Indiana,  after  putting  up 
the  prayer,  "Lord,  what  wilt  thou  have  me  to  do?" 
he  saw  a  young  lady  in  a  seat  before  him,  and 
thought,  perhaps  the  Lord  wants  me  to  speak  to  her. 
Ho  leaned  over  and  kindly  inquired,  "May  I  ask  if 
you  reside  in  Indiana?" 

She  replied,  "Yes,  sir." 

"Do  your  parents  live  in  this  State?" 

She  replied,  "My  father  does,  but  my  mother  is 
dead." 

Again  he  asked,  "Was  your  mother  a  Christian?" 

She  said,  "0  yes." 

"May  I  inquire,"  said  he,  "if  you  are  a  Christian?" 

"No,  sir." 

"May  I  ask  if  your  mother  before  her  death  did 
not  request  you  to  give  your  heart  to  Jesus?" 

She  replied,  "Yee,  sir." 

"Did  you  not  promise  your  dying  mother  that  you 
would?"  . 

"Yes,  sir." 

"Do  you  not  think,"  he  said,  "that  such  a  prom- 
ise is  one  that  you  are  under  solemn  obligation  to 
fulfill?" 


"Yes,  sir,"  she  said,  trembling  with  emotion.  She 
wept  while  he  tenderly  urged  upon  her  the  duty  of 
being  a  Christian.  She  arose  when  the  train  stopped 
at  her  station,  too  much  affected  to  speak.  Then 
coming  back  into  the  car,  she  said  with  tears  cours- 
ing down  her  cheeks,  "Please,  sir,  I  would  like  to 
know  your  name;"  and  shaking  hands  said,  "I 
promise  you  that  I  will  be  a  Christian." 

Mr.  Countryman's  life  is  rich  in  experiences  of 
this  kind.  His  eyes  filled  with  tears  as  he  told  me 
of  his  conversion  March  4, 1861,  at  the  hour  of  6:30 
in  the  evening,  in  a  meeting  at  Oak  Flatts,  Herki- 
mer Co.,  N.  Y.,  conducted  by  Elder  Rufus  Smith,  of 
Maryville,  Mo.  It  was  a  meeting  he  can  never  for- 
get. Elder  Smith  said,  "Harvey,  do  you  not  think 
it  is  time  for  you  to  confess  Christ?" 

He  replied,  "Yes,  sir." 

"Then,"  said  the  Elder,  "Are  you  willing  to  start 
to-night?" 

He  said,  "Yes,  sir,"  and  he  did;  and  never  has  re- 
gretted that  decision.  M.  A.  Gault. 


A  GLORIOUS  GAMP  MEETING. 


OaiON,  Richland  Co.,  Wis.,  Sept.  15,  '87. 

Dear  Christian  Cynosure: — We  have  just  had 
one  of  the  grandest  camp  meetings  ever  held  in  this 
part  of  the  country.  Brother  John  Willan,  our 
pastor  and  something  of  an  evangelist,  after  engag- 
ing a  very  fine  and  suitable  grove  on  my  farm  near 
Orion  for  the  meeting,  invited  evangelist  J,  E.  Wolfe 
of  Pennsylvania,  as  preacher,  and  Bro.  Swayne  from 
New  York,  as  singer  of  the  Gospel,  who  began  the 
meetings  on  the  25th  of  August. 

The  meetings  continued  without  intermission  for 
three  weeks,  with  three  services  each  day,  preaching 
and  singing  the  glad  tidings  of  a  perfect  and  ever- 
lasting salvation  in  Christ;  with  Bible  readings, 
prayer  meetings,  and  song  services  interspersed. 
The  three  Sabbath  services  were  very  numerously 
attended,  whole  families  coming  from  long  distan- 
ces; 1,500  to  2,000  persons  were  in  attendance  on 
these  Sabbath  services.  Messrs.  Wolfe,  Swayne, 
Willan,  and  pastor  Lewis  of  the  Methodist  church, 
Orion,  camped  on  the  ground,  so  as  to  be  at  hand 
at  all  times  to  talk  with  inquirers.  A  number  of 
camps  were  hired  from  Madison,  which  were  rented 
to  such  as  wished.  The  whole  affair  was  strictly 
undenominational,  and  neighboring  preachers  of 
the  Gospel  of  various  sects  came  in  to  help.  From 
first  to  last  quiet  and  good  order  prevailed.  It  was 
indeed  a  time  of  great  blessing;  and  it  was  mani- 
fest that  the  Spirit  of  God  was  with  us  of  a  truth- 
convincing  sinners  of  their  state  of  condemnation 
out  of  Christ,  and  in  subduing  and  humbling  both 
saints  and  sinners.  The  truths  of  the  Word  of  God 
were  very  clearly,  pungently  and  faithfully  stated. 
And  God  gave  the  increase  to  the  labors  of  his  serv- 
ants, in  the  conversion  of  about  a  hundred  and  fifty 
souls.  Several  renounced  their  lodge  membership; 
one  brewer  renounced  his  business  and  said,  "I 
brew  no  more.  I  gets  more  as  two  million  dollars 
wort'  in  dis  grove." 

For  the  first  ten  days,  or  so,  brother  Wolfe  direct- 
ed his  discourses  mainly  to  the  professing  church  of 
God,  denouncing  dishonesty  in  trading,  tobacco, 
gaudy  and  expensive  clothing  and  ornaments,  secret 
societies,  dancing,  yoking  themselves  with  the  world 
in  marriage  and  business  partnerships,  gluttony,  ob- 
scene and  smutty  stories  and  talk  among  men,  skat- 
ing rinks,  joining  the  world  in  their  amusements, 
and  so  forth, — exhorting  Christians  to  flee  all  such 
things,  and  be  a  separate  and  holy  people,  and  shine 
as  lights  in  the  world.  Also  showing  Christians 
their  duties  to  each  other — to  be  kind,  courteous, 
loving,  gentle,  forgiving.  Afterwards  he  preached 
to  those  who  as  yet  were  not  reconciled  to  God,  and, 
therefore,  in  a  state  of  danger  and  condemnation, — 
exhorting  them  not  to  neglect  and  despise  so  great 
a  salvation.  Mr.  Wolfe  also  gave  several  interest- 
ing prophetical  discourses,  carefully  distinguishing 
the  several  judgments  and  dispensations,  and  the 
respective  places  and  future  destinies  of  the  Jew, 
the  Gentile,  and  the  church  of  God  in  the  purposes 
and  government  of  God. 

And  now  we  have  decided  to  have  a  yearly  camp 
meeting  in  this  grove  for  the  next  ten  years,  or  as 
long  as  the  Lord  will  shower  down  such  blessings  as 
we  have  just  received.  Brethren  Wolfe  and  Swayne 
have  offered  to  come  with  their  families  and  preach 
and  sing  for  the  Lord  one  month  with  us  every  sum- 
mer. So  come,  you  city  people,  come  to  our  pleas- 
ant, well-watered  and  well-sheltered  grove  with  your 
tents,  your  families,  and  your  friends,  and  get  your 
health,  both  of  body  and  soul,  strengthened  and  re- 
newed. I  will  give  notice  through  the  Gynomire  be- 
fore the  1888  summer  meeting.  Brethren  Wolf  and 
Swayne  are  now  fighting  the  devil  in  Richland  Cen- 
ter, our  coulity  seat.     Yours  for  reform, 

Wm,  H.  Dawson. 


Bible  Lesson. 


STUDIES  IN  THE  NEW  TESTAMENT. 
LESSON  IV.— Oct.  23.— Three  Miracles -Matt.  9: 18-31. 
GOLDEN  TEXT.— According  to  your  faith  be  It  unto  you.— 
Matt.  9:29. 

{Open  the  BiMe  and  read  the  Us»(m.\ 
COMMENTS  ON  THE  LESSON  BY  E.  E.  FLAGQ. 
1.  The  Saving  Toueh.  ya.\Q-2,2,.  In  the  crowd  which 
followed  Jesus  to  the  house  of  Jairus  was  a  woman  af- 
flicted with  an  incurable  disease  for  twelve  years.  If  he 
could  lay  his  hand  on  the  forehead  of  death  and  bring 
back  the  warmth  of  life,  surely  even  to  touch  the  hem  of 
his  garment  might  suffice  for  her.  Her  timid,  shrinking 
nature,  and  the  character  of  her  disease,  which  rendered 
her  ceremonially  unclean,  made  her  desire  to  keep  the 
fact  of  her  touching  him  secret.  Many  who  are  anxious 
for  a  blessing  are  very  shy  of  letting  even  Christians 
know  that  they  are  seeking  it,  but  when  the  blessing 
comes,  whether  to  soul  or  body,  they  must  say  with  Da- 
vid, "I  have  declared  thy  faithfulness  and  thy  salvation. 
I  have  not  concealed  thy  loving  kindness  and  thy  truth 
from  the  great  congregation."  The  very  act  of  telling 
what  has  been  done  for  us  raises  us  to  a  higher  plane  of 
self-consecration,  and  fills  us  with  a  new  and  divine 
shame  for  our  past  unbelief  of  his  word;  our  past  ingrat- 
itude and  unfaithfulness.  There  is  too  little  of  this  kind 
of  confessing  the  Lord  among  Christians.  It  is  true  that 
the  best  of  us  are  "miserable  sinners,"  but  often  it  is  less 
helpful  to  ourselves  and  the  world  to  dwell  upon  our 
own  short-comings,  than  to  confess  the  power  of  Christ 
over  them.  There  is  healing  only  in  the  touch  of  per- 
sonal faith,  but  if  the  faith  be  there  a  touch  is  enough. 
How  much  real  faith  there  may  be  among  the  most  igno- 
rant and  superstitious  is  not  for  us  to  judge,  but  the 
story  of  this  poor  woman  may  well  encourage  us  to  hope 
that  many  a  sin-burdened  heart,  bowing  before  a  crucifix 
or  a  Madonna,  has  really  touched  the  hem  of  his  garment 
and  been  healed.  For  Christ  honors  faith  and  treats  it 
as  a  most  precions  plant  wherever  found. 

2.  The  Raising  of  the  Ruler's  Daughter,  vs.  23-26. 
The  ancient  Greeks  and  Romans  buried  their  dead  in 
gloom  and  despair,  and  even  Judaism  had  so  far  lost 
sight  of  the  truth  taught  by  her  patriarchs  and  prophets, 
that  when  Jesus,  as  in  the  case  of  Lazarus,  spoke  of 
death  as  a  sleep,  he  was  misunderstood  even  by  his  own 
disciples.  But  is  there  no  danger  that  we  as  Christians 
may  forget  the  blessed  truth  that  our  dead  are  only 
asleep  in  Jesus?  We  forget  it  when  we  mourn  unduly  as 
if  of  those  without  hope.  We  forget  it  when,  at  the  dic- 
tates of  fashion,  we  array  ourselves  in  heaviest  black. 
The  wearing  of  mourning  has  no  higher  authority  than 
ancient  heathen  custom.  If  the  Jews  were  forbidden  to 
follow  heathen  fashions,  surely  Christians  ought  to  feel 
themselves  prohibited  from  doing  so.  We  give  the  lie 
to  our  belief  that  Christ  has  appeared  and  "brought  life 
and  immortality  to  light  through  the  Gospel,"  when  we 
invest  death  with  images  of  gloom  and  terror,  rather 
than  of  hope  and  joy. 

3.  The  Healing  of  the  two  Blind  Men.  vs.  27-31.  Here 
also  the  blessing  is  according  to  the  faith.  These  blind 
men  were  anxious  to  see.  If  they  hadn't  been  they  would 
have  continued  blind  The  reason  why  so  many  con- 
tinue spiritually  blind  is  because  they  do  not  want  to  see. 
What  would  be  the  effect  if  we  all  sought  Jesus  to  have 
the  eyes  of  our  mind  enlightened,  half  so  persistently  as 
these  men  sought  him?  Suppose  every  Christian  before 
he  votes  for  license  should  ask  Christ  for  light,  as  well 
as  every  lodge  Christian  who  thinks  he  can  enter  into  the 
closest  bonds  of  union  with  men  who  hate  his  Saviour, 
and  yet  not  dishonor  and  grieve  that  Saviour  by  such  an 
action.  I  have  yet  to  hear  of  a  high  license  Christian, 
who,  before  making  up  his  mind  on  the  subject,  "in- 
quired first  at  the  mouth  of  theLord,"or  of  one  who  became 
a  Mason  or  an  Odd  fellow  after  special  and  earnest 
prayer  to  learn  his  Saviour's  will  in  tbe  matter.  Spirit- 
ual blindness  causes  most  of  the  inconsistency  which  men 
blame  on  the  church.  To  walk  straight  requires  a  clear 
vision,  and  when  we  sec  Christians  going  in  crooked  and 
deviating  ways,  we  know  that  they  need  to  go  where 
these  blind  men  went, — to  him  who  alone  can  open  the 
eyes  of  the  blind. 

From  Peloubet'8  Notes. 

Jairus's  Faith.  1 .  It  was  a  strong  faith,  expecting 
Jesus  to  raise  to  life  one  already  dead,  or  as  good  as  dead. 
2.  It  was  an  earnest  faith.  3.  It  was  a  benevolent  faith, 
seeking  blessings  for  others.  4.  It  was  an  intelligent 
faith  founded  on  a  knowledge  of  what  Jesus  had  already 
done.  5.  It  was  a  tried  and  tested  faith,  by  means  of 
the  scorn  of  those  who  were  in  the  house  (ver.  24).  6. 
It  was  a  successful  faith,  for  Jesus  immediately  went  to 
the  ruler's  house  (ver.  23). 

Pbatbb  fob  Tbmpobal  Blessings.      I  have  often 


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IBE  CHRmriAN  Crrj^OBXHiiE.. 


Baid  that  in  prayer  we  are  to  express  to 
God  every  want  that  we  feel,  temporal, 
spiritual,  or  eternal .  It  is  not  your  part 
to  discriminate,  and  say,  "I  will  not  pray 
for  this  blessing,  lest  it  be  not  for  my 
good."  It  is  the  prerogative  of  him  who 
gives  the  blessing  to  determine  what  is 
for  your  good,  and  what  is  not.  You 
pray  for  the  blessing  that  you  feel  you 
most  need,  and  leave  God  to  give  when 
and  how  he  pleases. — Gumming. 

The  Capernaum  Woman's  Faith.  1. 
It  was  intelligent,  founded  on  facts.  2. 
It  was  imperfect.  3  it  was  strong,  over- 
coming obstacles.  4  It  was  active;  it  led 
her  to  seek  Jesus  and  embody  her  faith 
in  an  outward  act.  5.  It  led  her  to  con- 
fession of  Christ's  power.  6.  It  was  suc- 
cessful. 

The  Faith  Touch  and  the  World 
Touch.  The  crowd  touched  Jesus  and 
received  no  healing  influence.  The  wo- 
man touched  him  in  faith,  and  was  made 
whole .  Christ  has  untold  blessings  for 
all;  but  what  men  receive  from  him  de- 
pends on  the  faith  and  love  with  which 
they  come  to  him .  It  is  the  common  ex- 
perience. We  receive  from  nature  ac- 
cording to  what  we  bring  to  nature .  Mul- 
titudes of  men  have  seen  apples  fall,  but 
only  Newton  received  from  the  falling 
apple  the  law  of  gravitation .  Men  still 
go  through  the  world  with  "eyes  and  no 
eyes,"  and  one  writes  a  book  where  anoth- 
er sees  nothing.  Arthur  Helps  compares 
some  men  to  the  birds  on  a  telegraph  wire, 
who  are  utterly  unconscious  of  the  mes- 
sages of  sorrow  and  joy,  of  business  and 
friendship, — messages  sometimes  affect- 
ing whole  nations, — which  are  passing 
right  under  their  feet .  It  needs  the  bat- 
tery and  connecting  instruments  in  order 
to  read  what  passes  on  the  wire .  It  needs 
hearts  of  love  and  faith,  longings  for  ho- 
liness, and  the  spirit  of  prayer,  if  we 
would  receive  the  blessings  which  Christ 
has  for  us  all . 

Blessings  according  to  our  Faith. 
1 .  The  greatest  benefit  of  healings  and 
earthly  helps  from  God  is  moral,  is  their 
effect  upon  the  soul  and  the  spiritu^  life. 
All  Christ's  miracles  are  illustrations  of 
spiritual  truths .  2.  It  is  necessary,  there- 
fore, in  conferring  these  healings  and 
earthly  blessings,  that  the  soul  recognize 
God  as  the  giver,  and  be  drawn  toward 
God  in  love  and  trust.  Faith  in  God  is 
thus  the  means  by  which  the  spiritual 
blessings  are  made  to  flaw  from  the  tem- 
poral .  3 .  This  union  makes  every  earth- 
ly gift  of  God  doubly  blessed.  4.  By 
insisting  on  faith  as  the  condition  of  re- 
ceiving, we  are  pointed  to  the  natural 
and  necessary  effect  of  true  faith .  Faith 
is  an  essential  to  the  greatest  success. 
Credulity,  superstition,  and  unwarranted 
expectations  are  often  the  ruin  of  men  in 
worldly  things;  but  true  faith  that  leads  to 
courage,  activity,  undaunted  perseverance 
and  a  stuady,  calm  mind,  is  one  of  the  es- 
sential conditions  of  the  longest  earthly 
life.  And  the  same  principle  applies  to 
the  spiritual  world. — P. 

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BY  GREAT  MEN  IN  THE  CHURCH. 

Albert  Barnes,  1849: — Any  good 
cause,  I  think,  can  be  promoted  openly; 
any  secret  association  is  liable,  at  least, 
to  abuse  and  danger. 

Rev.  Justin  Edwaud.s,  D  D.,  author 
and  head  of  Andover  I'eminary: — When- 
ever the  cause  of  tomperaaco  is  veiled  in 
darkness  and  secr.-cy,  it,  must  lose  its  hold 
on  the  public  coufiienco  aud  sympathy. 

Rev.  M.  Bennett,  long  presiding  el 
der  M.  B.  c/iwrcA  —  I  am  pleased  to  be 
counted  in  for  the  moveoitnt  which  is  be 
ing  inaugurated  against  tyrannical  organ 
izations  and  factitious  distinctions  in  so- 
ciety. 

Dr.  Thomas  Scott,  the  great  commevr- 
tator: — Rash  oaths  are  above  all  things  to 
be  avoided;  but  if  mtn  are  entangled  by 
them,  they  ought  rather  to  infringe  the 
sinful  oaths  than  to  add  sin  to  sin  and 
ruin  to  their  own  souls. 

Rev.  J.  C.  K  Milligan,  editor  of  "Our 
Banner:" — Through  such  silence,  secret 
connivance  and  horiid  oaths  "ever  to 
conceal  and  never  reveal,"  the  state  of 
our  country  is  rupidly  becoming  such  as 
to  alarm  every  Christian  philanthropist. 

Rev.  B.  T.  Roberts,  editor  of  the  Free 
Methodist:  —For  us  t )  keep  bilent  respect- 
in(<  Misonry,  and  thus  tacitly  endorse  the 
idea  that  a  man  can  both  accept  Christ 
and  deny  him— that  is,  be  a  good  Mason 
and  a  good  Christian  at  the  same  time, 
would  be  treason  to  Christ. 

John  G.  Fee,  Brea  Gollege,  1868. — 
It  is  Freemasonry,  Odd-ftllowship  and 
kindred  associations  that  have  spawned 
and  now  lend  respectability  to  'Regulat 
ors,"  "Ku  Klux  Klans,"  and  other  bands 
of  midnight  assassins  now  ranging 
through  Kentucky  and  other  portions  of 
the  South. 

Rev.  J.  p.  Lytle,  D.  D.  : — Masonry  has 
damned  all  who  ever  trusted  in  it  for  sal- 
vation. It  is  now  leading  away  thou- 
sands from  the  church,  and  from  patLs  of 
virtue  by  association  with  the  intemper- 
ate, unclean  and  profane,  and  is  dragging 
them  down  the  road  which  leads  to  the 
chambers  of  eternal  death. 

Rev.  Edward  Beecher,  D.D.  : — If  on 
such  anti- Christian  grounds,  prayers  are 
framed,  rites  established  and  chaplains 
appointed,  ignoring  Christ  and  his  inter- 
cession, God  regards  it  as  a  mockery  and 
an  insult  to  himself  and  his  church.  In 
it  is  revealed  the  hatred  of  Satan  to 
Christ.  By  it  Christ  is  dethroned  and 
Satan  exalted. 

Rev.  W.  W.  Patton,  D.  D.,  1869:— 
However  secret  societies  may  differ  among 
themselves,  yet  they  are  all  anti-republi- 
can in  their  tendencies;  and  are  all  lead- 
ing to  the  same  results,  viz.,  a  substitution 
of  worldly  and  selfish  innovations  for 
moral  and  religious  influences,  and,  ulti- 
mately, to  the  theoretical  and  practical 
neutralization  of  Christianity. 

Rev.  James H.  FAincHiLo,  D.D.,  Pitta- 
burg  (uidreKs:— The  point  is  not  that  the 
working  of  a  secret  organization  may  be 
perveric-d  to  selfish  ends,  but  that  in  its 
very  nature  it  strongly  tends  to  such  per- 
version. A  worthy  institution  may  be 
perverted,  but  an  institution  in  which  the 
tendency  to  perversion  is  inherent  and 
constitutional,  is  not  a  good  institution. 

Rev.  Dr.  Jamks.  B.  ^VAl.KFA^,aut7lor 
of  "Philosophy  of  (he  Plan  of  tialvation." 
— There  is  probably  not  one  in  a  thous- 
and who  enter  the  lodge,who  know, when 
blindfolded  theytake  the  terribleoaths,  that 
Masonry  is  an  anti-Chriot  and  one  of  the 
most  powerful  enemies  of  Christ  that  ex- 
ists. But  this  is  put  beyond  the  possi- 
bility of  a  doubt  by  the  highest  Masonic 
authorities. 

Rev.  Nathan  Brown,  Bditor  "Am. 
Baptist"  and  missionary  to  Japan. — If 
Freemasonry  had  existed  in  the  days  of 
Christ,  and  in  the  same  form  that  it  ex- 
ists with  us.he  could  not  have  condemmd 
it  more  distinctly  than  he  did  in  his  Scr 
mon  on  the  Mount:  "If  yo  do  good  to 
them  that  do  good  to  you,  what  do  ye 
more  than  others?  Do  not  even  the  pub- 
licans the  same?"  The  Gospel  is  at  war 
with  every  system  of  clique  or  clan,  caste 
or  combination  that  seeks  to  create  difi- 
tinctioDB  in  the  human  family. 


ANTIMABONIO  LBCTURBRB. 

Gbnbral  AesNT  and  Lbctubbb,  J.  P. 
Stoddard,  221  W.  Madison  St.,  Chicago. 

H.  H.  Hinman,  Cynosure  ofllce. 
Agent  for  Southern  States. 
Statb  AeBNTfl. 

Iowa,  C.  F.   Hawley,  Wayne,   Henry 
Co.     Care  Rev.  Geo.  Fry. 

Missouri,  Eld.  Rufus  Smith,  Maryville. 

New  Hampshire,   Eld.  S.  C.  Bamball, 
New  Market. 

Ohio,  W.  B.  Stoddard,  Columbus. 

Kansas,  Robert  Loggan,  Clifton. 

Alabama,  Rev.  G.  M.  Elliott,  Selma. 

Dbgrsb  WoRKKBa. — [Seceders.l 
J.  K.  Glassford,  Carthage,  Mo. 
Othbb  Lbcturbbs. 

C.  A.  Blanchftrd,  Whealon,  111. 
N.  Callender,  Thompson,  Pa. 

J  H.  Tlmmons,  Tarentum,  Pa 

T.  B.  McCormlck,  Princeton,  Ind. 

E.  Johnson,  Dayton,  Ind. 

H.  A.  Day,  Wllllamstown,  Mich. 

J.  M.  Bishop,  Chambereburg,  Pa 

A.  Mayn,  Bloomlngton,  Ind. 

J.  B.  CreBslnger,  Sullivan,  O. 

W.  M.  Love,  Osceola,  Mo. 

J.  L.  Barlow,  Grundy  Center,  Iowa. 

A.   D.Freeman,  Downers  Grove,  Hi 

Wm.  FentoD  St  Paul,  Minn. 

E.  I.  Grlnneli,  Blalrsburg,  Iowa. 

Warren  Taylor,  South  Salem,  O. 

J.  S.  Perry,  Thompson,  Conn. 

J.  T.  Michael,  New  Wilmington,  Pa. 

8.  G.  Barton,  Breckinridge,  Mo. 

E.  Bametaon,  HaeklnvUle,  Steuben  Co,  N.  Y 

Wm.  R.  Roach,  Pickering,  Ont. 

D.  A.  Richards,  Brighton,  Mich. 


THS  cmmoHBa  vb.  lod*^^R7. 

The  following  denominations  are  com- 
mitted by  vote  of  their  legislative  assem- 
blies or  by  constitution  to  a  separation 
from  secret  lodge  worship: 

Adventists  (Seventh-day.) 

Baptists — Primitive,  Seventh-day  and 
Scandinavian. 

Brethren  (Dunkera  or  German  Bap- 
tists.) 

Christian  Reformed  Church. 

Church  of  God  ^Northern  Indiana  El- 
dership.) 

Congregational — The  State  Associations 
of  Illinois  and  Iowa  have  adopted  resolu- 
tions against  the  lodge. 

Disciples  (in  part.) 

Friends. 

Lutherans — Norwegian,  Danisk,  Si^feJ- 
ish  and  Synodical  Conferences. 

Mennonites. 

Methodists — Free  and  Wesleyan. 

Methodist  Protestant  (Minnesota  Con 
ference.) 

Moravians. 

Plymouth  Brethren. 

Presbyterian — Associate,  Reforme,!  aad 
United. 

Reformed  Church  (Holland  Branch.) 

United  Brethren  in  Christ. 

Individual  chiu'ches  in  some  of  these 
denominations  should  be  excepted,  in  part 
of  them  even  a  considerable  portion. 

The  following  local  churches  have,  as  a 
pledge  to  disfellowship  and  oppose  lodge 
worship,  given  their  names  to  the  follow- 
ing list  as 

THE    associated   CHURCHES    OF  CHRTSl. 

Now    Ruhamah  Cong.  Hamilton,  Mls». 

Pleasant  Ridge  Cong.   Ssndford  Co.  Ala. 

New  Hope  Afcthodlst,  LowudeeCo.,  Miss. 

Congregational,  College  Sprlugn,  Iowa. 

College  Church  of  Christ,  YVTicaton,  lU. 

Flret  Congregational,  Leland,  Mich. 

Sugnr  Grove  Church,  Green  county,  Pa. 

Military  Chapel,  M.  E.,  Lowndes  county, 
Miss. 

Hopewell  Misalonary  Bapti«t,  Lowndes  Ca, 
Miss. 

Cedar  Grove  Miss.  Baptist,  Lowndes    Co., 
Miss. 
i       Simon's  Chapel,   M.    E.,  Lowndes  Co.,  Miss. 

Pleasant  Kidge  Mts*.  Baptist,  Lowndes  Co., 
Vliss. 

Brownlec  Church,  Caledonia,  Miss. 

Salem  Church,  Lowndes  Co.,  Miss. 

\Vest  Preston  Bantlst  Church.  Wayne  Co.,Pa. 

OTHER  LOCAL  CHUBCHBB 

adopting  the  same  principle  are — 

Baptist  churches :  N.  Abfugton,  Pa. ;  Meno- 
monle,  Mondovl,  Waubeck  and  Spring  Prairie, 
Wis. ;  Wbeaton,  111. ;  Perry,  N.  Y. ;  Soring 
Creek,  near  Burlington,  Iowa;  Lima,  Ind.; 
ConstablevlUe,  N.  Y.  TTie  "Good  WUl  Assocl- 
ton"of  Mobile,  Ala.,  comprising  some  twenty- 
flve  colored  Baptist  churches;  Bridgewater 
Baptist  ABSOclatlon,  Pa.;  Old  Tebo  Baptist, 
near  Leesvllle,  Henry  Co.,  Mo. ;  Hoopeston,  111 ; 
Esmen,  111. ;  StrykersvlUe,  N.  Y. 

Congregational  churches :  Ist  of  Oberlln,  O. ; 
Tonlca,  Crystal  Lake,  Union  and  Big  Woods. 
111. ;  Sol8bur>-,  Ind. ;  Congregational  Methodist 
Maplewood,  Mass.  ,        „    „       . 

Independent  churches  In  Lowell,  Country- 
man BWiool  house  near  Llndenwood,  Mar«ngo 
and  Streator,  111. :  Bereaand  Camp  Nelson,  Ky ; 
Uetlck,  111. ;  Clarkflburg,  Kansaa ;  SUte  Aflood- 
atlonof  Minlatera  and  ChnichM  of  Christ  Ix 
Kaxtneky. 


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NA  'TIONAL  CBIII8  TIAN  ASHOCIA  TlOJf 

Pbesidbht.— H.  H.  George,  D.  D.,  Gen- 
eva College ,  Pa. 

ViCB-PRBSiDBHT — Rcv.  M.  A.  Gault, 
Blanchard,  Iowa. 

Cob.  880*7  and  Gbhbral  Aobht. — J 
P.  Stoddard,  221 W.  Madison  St.,  Chicago. 

Rbc.  Sec'y.  and  Thbasurbb. — W.  I. 
Phillips,  221  W.  Madison  St.,   Chicago. 

DtBBGTOBS. — Alexander  Thomson,  Hi 
R.  Britten,  John  clardner,  J.  L.  Barlow, 
L.  N.  Stratton.  Thos.  H.  Gault,  C.  A. 
Blanchard,  J.  E.  Roy,  E.  R.  WorreU,  H. 
A.  Fischer,  W.  R.  Hench. 

The  object  of  this  Association  Is: 

"To  expose,  withstand  and  remove  secret 
societies,  Freemasonry  in  panicular,  and  othcl 
anti-Christian  movenients,  in  order  to  save  tha 
churches  of  Christ  from  being  uepraved,  to  re- 
deem the  adniini6tr»tion  of  )ustice  from  per- 
version, and  our  r?p  ibUcau  government  fix>is 
corruption." 

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solicited  from  every  friend  of  tne  reform. 

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the  National  Christian  Association,  iiicorpa 
rated  aud  existing  under  the  laws  of  the  State 

of    Illinois,  the  sum  of dollars  for  the 

purposes  of  said  Association,  and  for  which 
toe  receipt  of  its  Treasurer  for  the  rime  being 
'^all  be  Bufflcient  dlschaixe. 

THB  national  COKTBNTION. 

PBBSiDBirr. — Rev.  J.  8.  McCullodx, 
D.  D. 

Secretaby. — Rev.  Lewis  Johnson. 

BTATB   AUXrUABT   ASSOCIATIONS 

Alabama.— Pres.,  Prof.  Pickens;  Sec,  Q. 
M.  Elliott;  Treas.,  Rev.  C.  B.  Curtis,  all  of 
Selma. 

Caltfornta.— Pres.,  L.  B.  Lathrop,  HoUlt- 
t«r;  Cor.  Sec.  Mrs.  U.  P.  Merrill,  Woodland: 
Treas.,  C.  Ruddock,  Woodland. 

Connbcticitt.— Free..  J.  A.  Conant,  Willi, 
mantle;  Sec,  Geo.  Smith,  Wllllmantlc ;  Treas,, 
C.  T.  Collins,  Windsor. 

LujNOis.— Pres.,  J.  L.  Barlow,  Wbeaton; 
Sec,  H.  L.  KeUogg;  Treas.,  W.  I.  Phillip* 
Cvfiorure  oflSce. 

Indiana.— Pres.,  William  H.  Figg,  Reno 
Sec,  8.  L.  Cook,  Albion;  Treas.,  BenJ.  Ulah 
Silver  Lake. 

Iowa.— Pres.,  Geo.    Warrington,  Birmlns 
ham ;  Cor  Sec,  C.  D.  Trumbull,  Morning  Sun ; 
Treas.,  James  Harvey,  Pleasant  Plain,  Jeffer- 
son Co. 

Kansas.- Pres..  J.  P.  Richards,  Ft  Scott; 
Bee.  W.  W.  McMillan,  Olathe;  Treas.,  J. 
A.  'Torrence,  N.  Cedar. 

MASSACHDSBTre.— Free.,  8..A.  Pratt;  Sec, 
Mrs.  E.  D.  Bailey;  Treaa., David  Mannlng,8r., 
Worcester. 

Michigan.— Pres.,  D.  A.  Richards,  Brighton ; 
Sec'y,  H.  A.  Day,  Wllllamston;  Treaa. 
Geo.  Swanson,  Jr.,  Bedfoiu. 

MiNHBSOTA.— Pre*.,  E.  G.  Paine,  Waaloja; 
Cor.  Sec,  W.  H.  McChesney,  Fairmont;  Ric. 
Bec'y,  Thoe.  Hartley,  Richland;  Treas.,  Wo. 
H.  Morrill,  St.  Charlea. 

MiasODBi.— Pre*.,  B.  F.  MlUer,  EMrlevlUe; 
Treaa.^Ullam  Beauchamp,  Avalon ;  Cor.  Sf  c, 
A.  D.  Thomas,  Avalon. 

Nbbbaska.- Pres.,  S.  Austin,  Falnnonit; 
Cor.  Sec,  W.  Spooner,  Seamey;  Treas., 
J.  C.  Fye. 

N»w  EAMpauiM.— Free.,  Isaac  Hyatt,  GU 
ford  Village;  Sec,  8.  C.  Kimball,  New  Market 
Treas.,  James  F.  French,  Canterbury. 

Niw  YOKK.— Pres.,  F.  W.  Capwell,  Dale; 
Sec'y,  John  Wallace,  Syracuse;  Treas.,  M. 
Merrick,  Syracuse. 

Ohio.— Pres.,  Rev.  R.  M.  Smith,  Pagetown: 
Rec  Sec^  Rev.  Coleman,  Utlca;  Cor.  Sec  and 
Treas.,  Kev.  8.  A.  George,  Mansfield;  Agent, 
W.  B.  Stoddard,  Columbus. 

Pbnnstlvania.— Free.,  A.  L.  Port,  Mob 
trose;  Cor.  Sec,  N.  Callender,  Thompaont 
Treas.,  W.B.  BertelsLWUkeebarre. 

ViBMOHT.— Free.,  W.  R.  Laird,  8U  Johns- 
bury;  Sec,  C.  W  Potter.  _    ^ 

WiBOONSiN— Pre*.,  J.  W.  Wood,  Baraboo 
See.,  W.  W.  Amah  M.0»oiBoiile ;  Tnaa  M.  K 
lllltaa  TIsiBI 


8 


THE  CEmSTlAK  CYIN^OSUKE. 


October  13,  1887 


The  Christian  Cynosure. 


}.  BLANCHARD. 


Kdrobs. 


HENRY  L.  KELLOGG. 


CEQCieO,   THUa80A.Y,    OCTOBKK   13.   1887. 


We  are  glad  to  see  delegates  appointed  to  attend 
the  meeting  of  the  Prohibition  Conference  to  be  held 
in  this  city  December  1st;  and  hope  our  meeting,  if 
one  is  held,  in  New  Orleans  next  winter,  will  be  a 
focus  to  draw  together  the  light  now  beaming  so 
magnificently  against  the  lodge  and  saloon  in  Ar- 
kansas, Louisiana,  Texas,Tennessee  and  Florida,into 
one  united  biaze  which  shall  illumine  the  whole 
Southern  heavens.  The  unanimous  votes  of  St. 
Marion,  Arkansas,  Association,  and  of  the  Louisi- 
ana State  Association  of  colored  Baptists  to  divorce 
lodgeism  from  Christianity,  show  what  power  the 
anti-lodge  reform  has  to  move  the  popular  mind. 
"To  this  complexion  it  must  come  at  last." 


THB  AMERICAN  BOARD. 


This  oldest  American  Missionary  society  dates 
from  1810,  and  so  is  seventy-seven  years  old.  Its 
annual  meeting  this  year  opened  in  Springfield, 
Mass.,  October  4th  inst.  The  venerable  president, 
Hopkins,  being  dead,  Mr.  Blatchford  of  Chicago 
presided. 

This  Board,  which  sprang  from  a  prayer  meeting  of 
four  college  students.in  a  8tack-yard,has  been  conduct- 
ed with  such  ability,  and  sustained  with  such  devotion 
by  intelligent  Christian8,that  its  orders  have  been  pre- 
ferred to  the  bank  paper  of  London  or  New  York 
by  money  centers  in  the  Eastern  nations.  This 
Board,  with  the  mission  societies  which  have  sprung 
up  under  its  shadow,  have  long  represented  the  pop- 
ular Christianity  of  the  United  States.  The  Rev. 
Dr.  Noble  of  Chicago,  this  year,  preached  the  open- 
ing sermon,  and  the  audience  filled  the  largest  of 
the  city  churches  so  that  the  overflow  met  for  preach- 
ing in  another  church.  The  annual  income  of  this 
great  Board  averages  over  half  a  million  dollars, 
and  the  withdrawal  of  the  Presbyterians,  who  for 
years  cooperated  with  Congregationalists  in  for- 
eign missions,  has  not  materially  diminished  its  rev- 
enue, or  retarded  its  growth;  though  the  Presbyte- 
rian Board  is  now  a  very  strong  body. 

The  readers  of  the  Cynogure  are  interested  to  know 
the  relation  of  these  bodies  to  reform.  The  Amer- 
ican Board's  chief  secretary,  Clark,  does  not,  and, 
indeed,  few,  if  any,  secretaries  of  the  leading  soci- 
eties belong  to  secret  lodges.  The  old  ministerial 
members,  Drs.  Woods,  Worcester,  Emerson,  etc., 
were  opposed  to  Masonic  lodges.  But  Hon.  Linus 
Childs  (Whig)  and  Chancellor  Walworth  (Democrat) 
were  Masons;  and  the  latter  saved  the  New  York 
Grand  Lodge  from  dissolution  by  the  Morgan  dis- 
cussions. Both  these  men  were  corporate  members, 
and  both  pro-slavery.  A.  H.  Quint,  a  life-long  op- 
ponent of  Abolition  till  the  war  converted  him  into 
a  political  chaplain;  a  Freemason  who,  in  the  Bos- 
ton Congregationalist,  boasted  of  favors  obtained  of 
a  grog-selling  inn-keeper,  by  Masonic  grips,  while  at 
the  South;  now  a  retired  clergyman  and  New  Hamp- 
shire politician;  with  his  college  President  Bartlett, 
whom  he  saved  from  dismission  by  the  Dartmouth 
Board  of  trustees,  of  which  he  is  a  member — this  ex- 
Grand  Chaplain,  somewhat  known  to  our  readers,  is 
a  member  of  the  conservative  caucus  on  Andover 
matters,  in  the  present  meeting  at  Springfield.  His 
presence,  with  that  of  a  few  others,  prepares  us  for 
the  rumor  that  an  effort  will  be  made  to  compromise 
the  difficulty  of  the  Board,  removing  Egbert  C. 
Sjnyth  for  teaching  "probation  after  death;"  and 
also  removing  Secretary  Alden  for  opposing  it. 
This  action,  if  taken,  will,  of  course,  have  no  refer- 
ence to  the  teachings  of  the  Bible,  duty,  or  right. 

There  is  not  an  element  in  heathenism  which  the 
Board  is  created  and  supported  to  oppose,  which  is 
not  found  in  the  secret  lodge  system  of  the  United 
States;  and  as  the  life  and  usefulness  of  the  Board 
once  depended  on  the  anti-slavery  reform,  so  now  its 
life  depends  on  the  overthrow  of  the  lodge. 

Thirty-eight  years  ago  the  senior  editor  of  the 
Oynoture,  in  the  Tremont  Temple,  Boston,  moved 
the  American  Board,  "That  slavebolding  is  not  to 
be  continued  in  the  churches  of  Christ,"  The  Board 
voted  the  resolution  down,  then  reconsidered,  and 
voted  to  print  the  resolution  in  the  minutes,  where  it 
may  be  seen  for  the  year  1849.  A  Masonic  lodge  is 
worse  than  a  slave-plantation.  Satan  did  not  pro- 
pose to  the  Saviour  a  joint  attempt  to  make  men 
slaves  and  slaveholders,  but  to  worship  him.  That 
done,  he  knew  all  human  ills  and  vices  would  follow 
as  effects.  For  devil  or  lodge-worship,  includes  the 
spirit  of  murder  and  every  crime  this  side.  We 
must  pull  down   these  strongholds  of    Satan,  or 


churches,  mission  boards,  states  and  armies,  will 
bear  on  the  masses  of  mankind  as  they  now  do  in 
Asia  and  Africa,  whose  religions  are  now  lodge  re- 
ligions. And  "the  weapons  of  our  warfare,"  "mighty 
through  God,"  are  capable  of  this  mighty  achieve- 
ment. 


Since  the  above  was  written  further  and  decided 
action  was  taken  by  the  Board  on  the  "Andover 
heresy."  On  Thursday  the  Board  decided  by  a  vote 
of  nearly  two  to  one  to  sustain  the  action  of  the 
Presidential  committee  in  deciding  on  the  qualifica- 
tions of  missionaries  employed  by  the  Board  and 
re-elected  Dr.  Alden,  against  whom  the  Andover 
men  were  most  vindictive.  Dr.  Boardman  of  Chi- 
cago made  the  opening  speech  for  the  orthodox  ma- 
jority and  was  followed  by  Dr.  Wm.  Taylor  of  New 
York,  Dr.  Goodwin  of  Chicago  and  others.  Piof. 
Geo.  P.  Fisher  led  the  other  wing.  Again  on  Fri- 
day the  debate  was  resumed,  but  with  no  result  fur- 
ther than  to  widen  the  breach  which  seems  to  have 
been  permanently  made.  .The  pastors  of  one  or  two 
Boston  churches  attacked  the  action  of  the  Board 
with  some  severity  in  their  Sabbath  discourses  and 
threaten  to  withdraw  their  contributions. 


OUR  INDIANS. 


The  country  is  beginning  to  understand  and  pro- 
test against  the  late  extraordinary  orders  from  the 
Indian  Bureau  of  the  Interior  Department  that  "in 
all  schools  conducted  by  missionary  organizations,it 
is  required  that  all  instruction  shall  be  given  in  the 
English  language.  Instruction  in  the  Dakota  lan- 
guage will  not  be  permitted."  Dr.  J.  E.  Roy,  secre- 
tary of  the  American  Missionary  Association,  has 
been  most  active  in  arousing  this  popular  interest 
and  protest;  and  we  quote  elsewhere  from  an  able 
letter  of  his  in  the  Interior,  which  shows  clearly  the 
situation  among  the  Dakota  Indians. 

It  is  now  sixty  years  since  the  senior  editor  be- 
came acquainted  with  Dr.  Williamson  and  the  elder 
Mr.  Riggs.  Both  gentlemen  have  since  had  sons 
who  were  pupils  at  Wheaton.  The  present  head  qf 
the  Santee  Agency  School,  Rev.  A.  L.  Riggs,  was  a 
graduate  during  our  Presidency  at  Knox  College, 
Both  these  families,  fathers  and  sons,  have,  for  the 
entire  sixty  years  since  our  first  acquaintance,  de- 
voted their  lives  to  the  welfare  of  these  tribes  with 
a  singleness  of  purpose  as  admirable  as  rare.  A 
small  portion  of  these  Indians  are  civilized  and 
Christianized.  Dropping  the  Dakota  language  and 
books  will  cut  the  rope  by  which  the  wild  Indians 
are  to  be  lassoed  and  brought  in.  It  will  operate 
like  forbidding  German  to  be  taught  in  the  German 
districts  of  the  United  States.  They  will  learn  both 
languages  quicker  than  English  alone.  But  we  need 
not  argue  what  Dr.  Roy  makes  clear. 

We  only  regret  that,  knowing  as  Dr.  Roy  does, 
the  agency  of  the  secret  lodges  in  perpetuating  and 
intensifying  the  heathenism  of  the  Indian  tribes,  he 
does  not  mention  it.  Even  good  father  Gleason, 
one  of  the  earliest  missionaries  to  the  Cherokees 
and  Choctaws,  after  their  removal  West,  was  a  Free- 
mason. The  Pueblo  Indians  practice  devilish  initia- 
tions, and  our  Government  agents  go  through  them 
to  acquire  influence  over  the  tribe,  Albert  Pike  in- 
itiated a  large  body  of  the  Cherokees  and  Choctaws 
in  Federal  Lodge  No.  1,  at  Washington,  before  en- 
listing them  in  the  war  of  the  rebellion  against  our 
flag.  Pike  obtained  by  fraud  and  drew  from  the 
U.  S.  treasury  money  appropriated  to  the  Indian 
schools,  as  Senator  Pomeroy  has  learned,  and  paid 
the  expenses  of  his  Indian  regiments.  The  Govern- 
ment has  prohibited  dramshops  to  the  Indians.  It 
must  also  prohibit  secret  lodges,  or  they  will  hea- 
thenize faster  than  government  can  civilize. 


The  Memphis  School, — The  Living  Way  gives  a 
more  particular  account  of  the  educational  meeting 
in  Memphis,  which  is  reported  in  Bro.  Countee's 
letter  elsewhere.  Rev.  A.  0.  Kenney  of  Ripley, 
Tenn.,  was  president  of  the  meeting,  and  Rev.  T. 
Nightingale  of  the  Beale  Street  Baptist  church  was 
on  one  of  the  committees.  This  pastor  is  also  an 
editor,  and  has  been  most  bitter  in  his  attacks  on 
Bro.  Countee  for  leaving  the  lodge.  We  trust  that 
he  is  now  converted  to  Christ  in  respect  to  the  lodge. 
Among  those  elected  by  the  meeting  to  incorporate 
the  new  school  are  Elder  W.  A.  Brinkley,  Bro.  Coun- 
tee's associate  on  the  Living  Way,  and  our  Bro.  Jer- 
ome Howe  of  Illinois.  Put  these  facts  along  with 
our  "Memphis  Letter"  and  we  find  this  new  move- 
ment to  be  truly  a  cheering  one  in  its  promise  of  a 
thoroughly  evangelical  institution  in  Memphis,  to 
stand  with  the  "Howe  Institute"  at  New  Iberia, 
Louisiana.  May  the  most  abundant  blessings  at- 
tend these  efforts. 


The  American  in  its  new  form  and  dress  is  great- 
ly improved  in  appearance  and  its  contents  are  ex- 
cellent. According  to  promise  enlarged  space  is  giv- 
en to  city  mission  work;  over  two  pages  are  thus 
filled.  Prohibition  has  a  page,  anti-secrecy  one,and 
National  Reform  one.  While  it  might  be  regretted 
that  opposition  to  the  lodge  evil  may  not  be  made  so 
prominent  an  issue  as  heretofore,  yet  the  change 
will,  doubtless,  work  to  increase  the  influence  of  the 
paper  and  enlarge  its  circulation  among  those  who 
have  not  co-operated  in  the  special  work  of  Chris- 
tian reform. 


The  meeting  of  the  Evangelical  Alliance  in  Wash- 
ington, for  which  we  print  the  call  elsewhere,  prom- 
ises to  be  a  meeting  of  greatest  importance  to  the 
churches  of  America.  The  idea  of  co-operation 
among  them  instead  of  competition,  which  will  be 
perhaps  the  keynote  of  the  meeting  suggests  at  once 
a  vast  field  for  counsel  and  for  such  an  increase  of 
religious  activity  that  the  imagination  is  lost  in  its 
possibilities.  As  Mr.  Dodge,  president  of  the  Alli- 
ance, said  the  other  day  in  an  address  in  Bo8ton,"It 
has  been  said  that  there  never  has  been  less  sectar- 
ianism than  now,  but  there  never  has  been  more  de- 
nominationalism."  Can  the  Alliance  turn  this  wast- 
ed energy  into  its  proper  channel?  Dr.  Strong,  in 
the  convention  for  city  missions  in  New  York,  said 
that  the  greatest  dangers  threatening  the  United 
States  to-day  were  the  organizations  for  offensive 
warfare  of  the  powers  of  darkness.  His  definition 
well  describes  the  secret  lodge  system,  which  like 
the  Revelation  dragon  floods  the  earth  to  drown  the 
church  of  God.  But  in  the  presence  of  this  enemy 
the  Christian  church  is  divided  into  a  multiplicity  of 
puerile  factions. 


— The  unhappy  contrast  presented  in  Bro,  Hin- 
man's  letter  between  the  churches  of  the  A.M.  A,  and 
the  Home  Missionary  Society  (Congregational)  in  the 
South  has  been  observed  by  others.  The  Mome  Mis- 
sionary magazine  has  a  long  article  on  the  organiza- 
tion of  "The  First  Church  in  the  State,"  The  State 
is  Louisiana,  in  which  there  have  long  been  many 
churches.  So  we  understand  the  First  Congregation- 
al church  is  meant;  but  there  are  already  twenty 
churches  of  that  name.  The  explanation  comes  at 
the  end  of  the  article  that  it  is  the  first  white  Con- 
gregational church!  May  it  be  the  last  to  put  up  the 
bar  of  caste. 


PERSONAL  NOTES. 


— Rev.  T.  P.  Robb,  pastor  at  Linton,  Iowa,  has 
spent  the  summer  at  Dr.  Jackson's  Health  Institute, 
at  Dansville,  N.  Y.,  taking  treatment  for  a  chronic 
throat  trouble. 

— ^^Rev.  M.  A.  Gault  is  at  present  lecturing  in 
Wisconsin  at  Eau  Claire,  Menominie  and  Waupacca 
and  vicinity.  His  next  campaign  will  be  through 
Northern  Illinois. 

— Miss  Anna  Milligan,  daughter  of  Rev.  J,  S.  T. 
Milligan,  has  accepted  a  professor's  chair  in  Camp- 
bell University  at  Holton,  Kansas,  She  is  na^ 
taking  a  course  in  Cornell  University,  N.  Y. 

— John  Alexander,  of  Philadelphia,  one  of  the 
most  influential  members  of  the  United  Presbyterian 
church,  has  given  to  the  National  Reform  Associa- 
tion the  munificent  contribution  of  $1,000. 

— The  Wisconsin  brethren  were  disappointed  in 
not  greeting  Rev.  J.  B.  Galloway  at  the  Milton  con- 
vention. He  also  was  much  disappointed,  having 
fully  intended  to  be  present,  but  was  detained  by 
sickness. 

— About  a  year  ago  Bro.  G.  M.  Elliott,  at  the 
head  of  the  Reformed  Presbyterian  mission  at  Sel- 
ma,  Alabama,  began  a  paper  for  colored  readers. 
The  Guiding  Star  has  now  taken  a  change  from 
monthly  to  weekly.  We  are  glad  to  see  this  token 
of  usefulness  and  appreciation. 

— Bro.  M,  N.  Butler,  who  has  been  for  a  week 
aiding  the  Illinois  Executive  committee  in  their 
State  work  returned  to  his  home  in  Darlington,  Mis- 
souri, Saturday.expecting  to  open  a  very  lively  cam- 
paign in  that  State  and  hold  two  conventions,  one 
north  and  one  south  of  the  river,in  the  western  part 
of  the  State.  In  a  few  weeks  the  Illinois  committee 
hope  for  his  return  for  a  year's  work  in  this  State. 

— We  regret  to  learn  from  Prof.  J.  A.  Edgren,whp 
has  been  compelled  on  account  of  his  health  to  give 
up  his  work  at  the  Swedish  Baptist  "Seminary,  at 
Stromsburg,  Nebraska.  He  writes  from  Monrovia, 
California,  that  the  physicians  prescribe  a  long  sea 
voyage  for  the  healing  of  his  lungs.  We  pray  that 
his  labors  which  have  promised  mudh  for  the  Swed- 
ish people  of  America  may  not  be  thus  early  cut 
off. 


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THE  CHRISTIAN  CTNOSUKE. 


BE  FORM  NE  W8  (Continued  from  5ih  page). 
will  give  it  their  patronage  rather  than  some  others 


that  they  now  support.     It  is  an  able  and  thorough- 
ly Christian  publication. 

Pastor  Curtis  is  slowly  building  up  a  good,  heal- 
thy, vigorous  church  representing  correct  Christian 
principles.  He  has  never  been  afraid  of  any  real 
Christian  truth,  and  has  not  sought  to  hide  it  from 
his  people.  A  branch  church  has  been  organized 
and  is  fairly  prosperous.  He  is  purchasing  land 
where  it  is  practicable  and  settling  Christian  fami- 
lies on  it,  and  hopes  in  that  way  to  do  much  for 
the  people,  both  morally  and  pecuniarily.  On  sev- 
eral occasions  during  the  year  past  he  has  prepared 
and  read  papers  on  the  secrecy  question.  Once  at 
Shelby  Iron  Works  (where  I  was  warned  off  and  did 
not  dare  remain  over  Sabbath)  he  read  a  carefully 
prepared  argument  beforo  the  Congregational  Asso- 
ciation of  Alabama,  and  it  was  cordially  received. 

Tt  is  somewhat  remarkable  that  Congregational 
ministers  who  come  South  as  the  representatives  of 
the  American  Home  Missionary  Society  are  (or  at 
least  become)  quite  different  from  those  who  repre- 
sent the  A.  M.  A.  While  the  latter  are  in  sympathy 
with  our  anti-secrecy  reform,  and  earnestly  repudi- 
ate the  spirit  of  caste,  the  former  are  very  conserva- 
tive and  are  practically  acquiescent  in  the  diabolism 
of  lodgery  and  negrophobia.  The  result  is  that 
there  are  two  kinds  of  Congregationalism  in  the 
South.  I  trust  this  has  not  escaped  the  attention 
of  the  good  men  who  are  at  the  head  of  these  two 
great  missionary  organizations. 

During  Tuesday,  the  27th,  it  rained   incessantly, 
and  on  Wednesday  morning  I  went  with  a  delega- 
tion of  the  colored  ladies  of  Selma  who  represent 
the  State  colored  W.  C.  T.  U.  to  attend  a  State  con- 
vention at  Montgomery.       I  was  glad  to  note  that 
while  these  ladies  were  assigned  a  car  by  themselves 
it  was  a  neat  one  and  in  every  respect  like  the  oth- 
ers.    A  man  who  came  ia  to  smoke  was  at  once  told 
by  the  conductor  to  leave.       The  ladies,  who  were 
mostly  the  wives  of  ministers,were  pleased  with  their 
accommodations.       Montgomery  is  also  a  growing 
city.     It  partakes  of  the  general  prosperity  of  the 
State.      I  was  agreeably  surprised  at  the  extension 
of  the  street  railways  and  especially  by  the  fact  that 
all  are  run  by  electricity.       I  was  not  prepared  to 
see  cars  going  up  long  steep  grades  at  a  fair  rate  of 
speed  and  propelled  by  simple  contact  with  a  wire 
overhead.     Surely  the  cruelly  abused  car  horses  and 
mules  in  all  our  cities  are,  by  and  by,  to  have  a  re- 
lease.    The  W.  C.  T.  U.  met  in  a  large  A.  M.  E.  Zion 
church  known  as  the  "Old  Ship."      It  was  called  to 
order  by  the  president,  Mrs.  Boothe,  of  Selma,  and 
prayer   was  offered  by  the  pastor.  Rev.  J.  W.  Al- 
stock.     An  address  of  welcome  was  given  by  Mrs. 
Cook  of  the  Montgomery  Union  and  was  responded 
to  by  the  president.     A  number  of  able  papers  were 
read  by  the  ladies,  and  brief  addresses  were  made 
by  several  brethren,  including  the  writer.      It  was 
then  announced  that  Rev.  Atticus  Haygood,  author 
of  "Our  Brother  in  Black,"  was  present  and  he  was 
called  for.       He  came  forward  and  made  a  most  in- 
teresting and  eloquent  address.      He  told  them  that 
he  went  through  the  campaign  in  Texas,  and  that  he 
did  not  find  a  single  colored  man  of  education  and 
piety  who  opposed  the  amendment.       His  address 
was  highly  appreciated  by  the  congregation.      Prof. 
Patterson  of  the  Lincoln  Normal  School  at  Marion 
was  also  present,  and  it  was  announced  that  he  would 
open  the  colored  State  University  in  this  city  next 
week. 

During  the  last  year  there  has  been  a  terrible  out- 
break of  negrophobia,  and  the  Normal  School  at 
Marion  was  given  up.  The  legislature,  however.char- 
tered  a  State  University  for  colored  people  and  they 
(the  colored)  oledged  $5,000  to  have  it  in  this  city. 
Since  then  an  injunction  has  been  gotten  out  to  pre- 
vent its  establishment  None  can  tell  the  result.but 
the  school  will,  in  any  case,  be  started.  The  white 
people  of  this  city  are  pursuing  a  most  suicidal  as 
well  as  wicked  policy.  Most  of  the  colored  pastors 
of  the  city  belong  to  one  or  more  of  the  secret  or- 
ders, but  I  find  that  they  all  admit  the  objections  to 
the  orders  and  do  not  oppose  discussion.  I  am  in- 
vited to  speak  on  the  lodge  question  in  the  Dexter 
Ave.  Baptist  church  on  Friday  night,  the  30th,  and 
expect  to  preach  three  times  on  Sabbath  in  Selma. 

The  meetings  of  the  W.  C.  T.  U.  still  continue 
and  are  of  much  interest.  Some  able  pajDers  have 
been  read.  Such  a  convention  of  colored  women 
would  have  been  impossible  ten  years  ago.  They 
hava  all  been  educated  in  the  schools  established  by 
Northern  benevolence,  and  are  either  pastor's  wives 
or  teachers.  Not  one  has  grey  hairs.  A  number  of 
them  have  expressed  their  sympathy  with  our  anti- 
secrecy  reform.  We  expect  to  have  a  meeting  of 
the  Solma  Christian  Association  and  to  choose  dele- 
gates to  the  New  Orleans  convention. 

H.    H.    HiMMAN. 


TEB  ENGLISH  ONLY  IN  INDIAN  8GH00L8. 


As  I  have  recently  attended  the  annual  meeting 
of  the  Dakota  Indian  Conference  at  the  Santee 
agency,  your  readers  may  be  interested  to  know 
how  the  Christian  Indians  themselves  regard  the 
absolute  command  of  the  Indian  Commissioner  At- 
kins that  in  all  Indian  schools  only  the  English 
shall  be  taught  or  used,  upon  penalty  of  being  closed 
by  the  police  or  the  soldiery,  if  necessary.  About 
three  hundred  had  come  in  from  abroad,  and  at  the 
communion  season  I  counted  five  hundred  and 
thirty.  This  conference  embraces  all  the  Presbyte- 
rian and  Congregational  ministers  and  churches 
among  the  Dakotas.  Their  discussion  of  the  "order" 
was  in  a  calm  and  dignified  way,  though  with  ear- 
nestness. As  the  rebult  they  adopted  a  memorial 
to  the  President  in  their  own  language,  but  trans- 
lated for  the  use  of  Mr.  Cleveland,  asking  for  an 
•abolishing  of  the  order,  which  chey  say  is  very 
grievous  to  them.  They  present  that,  "Because  the 
whole  of  the  holy  Bible  is  translated  into  the  lan- 
guage of  the  Dakotas,  by  learning  it  a  good  many 
have  been  quieted  down  in  Christian  homes  and  in 
civilized  ways."  They  claim  that  the  Dakota  helps 
to  understand  and  to  learn  the  English,  and  that  the 
Indians  who  have  come  to  responsible  positions  at 
the  different  agencies  are  those  who  have  thus  been 
trained.  They  aver  that  the  English  is  good  and 
beneficial,  but  that  it  is  better  to  have  instruction  in 
both. 

The  missionaries  agree  with  the  Indian  depart- 
ment that  the  people  must  be  brought  along  into 
the  English  as  fast  as  possible.  The  only  question 
is  as  to  the  best  method.  The  splendid  Santee  Nor- 
mal and  Training  School,  with  its  seven  white  teach- 
ers and  three  native  assistants,  and  with  its  one 
hundred  and  ninety-five  scholars,  and  with  its  an- 
nual theological  institute,  is  conducted  almost  ex- 
clusively in  the  English. 

But  the  two  denominations  have  some  eighteen, 
schools  back  among  the  wild  Indians  taught  only  by 
natives  in  the  vernacular.  These  Christian  teachers 
are  thus  way-wising  their  pupils  to  civilized  ideas 
and  thus  preparing  them  to  go  forward  to  the  larger 
schools  where  the  English  is  mainly  taught.  By 
the  "order"  these  schools  are  all  to  be  closed  up, 
and  so  the  very  object  desired  is  to  be  defeated. 
In  one  of  these  the  devoted  Miss  Collins  is  leading 
the  scholars  out  into  English,  while  the  native  as- 
sistant brings  them  under  her  influence.  One  of 
these  native  schools  is  taught  by  Elizabeth  Winyan, 
a  woman  of  remarkable  gifts  and  of  high  character, 
though  she  cannot  speak  a  word  of  English.  It 
was  this  woman  who,  during  the  massacre  of  1862, 
when  the  seniors  Williamson  and  Riggs,  with  their 
families,  fleeing  from  their  burning  mission  prem- 
ises, had  taken  to  a  hiding  place  on  an  island  in  the 
Minnesota  River,  carried  food  to  them,  at  the  risk 
of  her  life. 

Besides  the  memorial  of  the  Dakota  Indians,  sim- 
ilar petitions  were  also  adopted  by  the  Congrega- 
tionalists  of  Minnesota  and  South  Dakota  to  be  sent 
to  the  President,  the  one  by  United  States  Senator 
Sabin,  and  the  other  by  Rev.  Dr.  Joseph  Ward, pres- 
ident of  Yankton  College.  The  semi-official  answer 
of  the  department  was,  that  these  papers  had  been 
inspired  by  a  certain  member  who  wished  to  contin- 
ue the  sale  of  two  of  his  Dakota  books.  The  fact 
was  that  neither  of  the  Riggs  brothers  was  present, 
and  that  neither  had  anything  to  do  with  the  action. 
Moreover,  it  has  already  been  shown  that  the  books 
had  been  devised  as  an  expedient  for  teaching  Eng- 
lish. It  is  also  true  that  their  money  interest  in 
these  little  books  is  just  nothing  at  all. 

Recently,  Acting  Commissioner  Upshaw  decided 
that  these  Sintee  Indians,  holding  land  and  paying 
taxes,  were  voting  citizens.  Accordingly,  they  did 
vote  at  a  late  election  for  county  seat.  Yet  the  per- 
sonal liberty  of  these  voting  citizens  to  send  their 
children  to  any  mission  school  they  may  prefer,  and 
in  it  to  have  them  learn  to  read  in  their  own  lan- 
guage, this  same  commissioner  overrides  in  his  or- 
der of  July  16,  in  which  he  also  says,  "The  educa- 
tion of  Indians  in  the  vernacular  is  not  only  no  use 
to  them,  but  is  detrimental  to  their  education  and 
civilization,"  the  grammar  being  his  own. 

The  Lake  Mohawk  gathering,  the  last  week,of  the 
friends  of  the  Indians,  testified  against  this  order, 
and  will  probably  make  known  their  views  to  the 
President,  as  the  Chrhtinn  Union  announces  that  a 
conference  is  proposed  between  the  representatives 
of  the  various  missionary  organizations  and  the  In- 
dian commissioner.  As  the  Legislature  of  Georgia 
found  itself  obliged  to  pay  a  decent  respect  to  the 
opinions  of  mankind  in  the  matter  of  its  infamous 
Glenn  bill,  so  it  is  hoped  that  the  government  au- 
thorities will  give  heed  to  the  rising  public  senti- 
ment, and  will  not  continue  to  set  up  its  two-year- 


old  hyix)thesis  against  the  experience  of  all  mission- 
ary boards  of  every  denomination  for  a  hundred 
years. — Rev.  Dr.  J.  E.  Roy  in  Interior. 


OUR  WABHINOTON  LETTER. 


The  latest  sensation  in  the  capital  was  the  depart- 
ure of  the  President's  party  for  the  West  in  their 
palatial  train,  which  was  the  cynosure  of  all  eyes 
and  an  object  of  universal  admiration  to  all  who  had 
the  coveted  privilege  of  inspecting  the  splendid 
special  as  it  stood  at  the  Baltimore  and  Potomac 
depot  awaiting  the  arrival  of  its  honored  passengers, 
who  were  accompanied  thither  by  several  members 
of  the  Cabinet,  while  hundreds  of  citizens  had  gath- 
ered near  to  take  a  farewell  look  at  the  President 
and  his  handsome  wife.  The  three  coaches  consti- 
tuting the  train  are  a  marvel  of  magnificence  and 
artistic  genius,  and  cost  the  princely  sum  of  $200,- 
000.  Everything  that  could  contribute  to  the  com- 
fort and  convenience  of  the  party  was  pro\ided  and 
arranged  in  the  most  elegant  style,  even  to  lighting 
the  cars  with  electricity  and  heating  them  with 
steam. 

And  just  here,  I  will  make  the  pertinent  inquiry 
why  the  railway  corporations  of  the  country  furnish 
the  President  with  these  safeguards  against  a  terri- 
ble and  violent  death,  while  the  general  public  are 
still  exposed  to  the  peril  of  being  roasted  or  scalded 
to  death.  It  occurs  to  our  correspondent  that  here 
is  an  object  lesson  to  our  national  legislators  if  they 
really  wish  to  regulate  railway  affairs  in  tCe  interest 
of  the  people. 

A  day  before  leaving  the  President  summoned  his 
Cabinet  to  a  very  important  state  council  to  consider 
the  state  of  the  finances,  and  to  appoint  Commis- 
sioners to  arbitrate  the  existing  differences  with 
Canada  and  New  Foundland  in  regard  to  the  fisher- 
ies question.  There  being  a  diversity  of  views  as 
to  the  legality  of  a  further  purchase  of  bonds  by  the 
Secretary  of  the  Treasury,  in  the  event  that  the 
financial  exigencies  of  the  country  demand  such  a 
course,  it  was  concluded,  should  such  an  exigency 
occur,  to  refer  the  matter  to  the  decision  of  the  At- 
torney General.  The  other  matter  was  disposed  of 
by  the  appointment  of  a  Commission,  to  meet  the 
representatives  of  Great  Britain  to  settle  the  fisher- 
ies dispute.  It  consists  of  Secretary  Bayard,  and 
Messrs.  Wm.  L.  Putnam,  of  Maine,  and  Jas.  B.  An- 
gell,  of  Michigan,  and  as  all  three  gentlemen  are 
profoundly  versed  in  the  arts  and  wiles  of  diploma- 
cy, it  is  believed  by  many  that  their  deliberations 
with  the  Canadian  Commissioners  will  reach  a  suc- 
cessful issue. 

The  capital  is  indebted  to  Civil  Service  Commis- 
sioner Oberley  for  its  latest  political  sensation, 
which  came  about  in  this  way.  The  Illinois  Demo- 
cratic Association,  which,  as  its  name  implies,  is  a 
political,  as  well  as  a  semi-social  organization,  in- 
vited the  Commissioner  to  deliver  an  address  to 
them,  whereupon  that  gentleman  wrote  a  lengthy 
communication,  declining  the  proffered  honor,  and 
at  the  same  time  ic forming  the  Illinoians  that  it  is 
a  violation  of  the  civil  service  law  for  Federal  em- 
ployes in  the  classified  service  to  belong  to  such  so- 
cieties— the  offenders  being  subject  to  dismissal, 
fine,  and  imprisonment  for  such  uncivil  conduct. 
There  are  about  eight  such  State  associations  in  this 
city,  and  as  you  may  believe  the  Oberley  manifest 
fell  like  a  dynamite  bomb  in  their  ranks,  producing, 
however,  no  immediately  fatal  results.  But  the  A'ir- 
ginia  Association  is  an  exception,  and  defies  Com- 
missioner Oberley  to  do  his  worst — heaping  multi- 
plied  maledictions   upon    his    devoted    head. 

Washington  is  so  rapidlj'  growing  in  popular  fa- 
vor in  that  respect  that  at  no  distant  dpy  it  may  be 
known  as  the  City  of  Conventions.  The  latest  body 
to  meet  here  was  the  International  Medical  Con- 
gress, and  the  next  will  be  the  American  Section  of 
the  Evangelical  Alliance,  composed  of  2,000  dele- 
gates and  constituting  one  of  the  most  important 
and  influential  religious  ojganizatlons  in  the  world. 
It  is  hoped  the  meeting  ot  the  Alliance  will  be  an 
occasion  of  spiritual  growth  and  blessing  and  of 
pleasant  social  intercourse.  In  a  few  weeks  50,000 
programmes  ot  the  meeting  will  be  printed  and  dis- 
tributed throughout  the  United  States.  The  Execu- 
tive Committee  of  the  Evangelical  Alliance  of  this 
city,  arranged  for  the  general  meeting  to  be  held  in 
this  city  has  December  7,  8  and  9.  The  free  use  of 
several  churches  was  tenderctl.  The  Mount  Vernon 
Place  Methodist  church  was  selected  for  the  prelim- 
inary meeting  to  be  held  in  October,  to  be  addressed 
hy  President  Dodge  and  Secretary  Strong,  and  the 
Congregational  for  the  general  meeting  in  Decem- 
ber. The  specially  invited  speakers  will  be  enter- 
taineil  by  the  Washington  branch.  Dr.  Strong,  the 
general  secretary,  preached  morning  and  evening  at 
the  Central  Presbvterian  church  and  made  a  great 
impression  on  his  hearers.  * 


10 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSUKE. 


October  13, 1887 


The  Home. 


EE  18  COMING. 


Thou  art  coming,  O  my  Saviour ! 

Thou  art  coming,  O  my  King! 
In  thy  beauty  all  resplendent, 
In  thy  glory  all  transcendent ; 

Well  may  we  rejoice  and  sing  1 
Coming !  in  the  opening  East, 

Herald  brightness  slowly  swells ; 
Coming !  O  my  glorious  Priest, 

Hear  we  not  thy  golden  bells? 

Thou  art  coming,  thou  art  coming! 

We  shall  meet  thee  on  the  way , 
We  shall  see  thee,  we  shall  know  thee. 
We  shall  bless  thee,  we  shall  show  thee 

All  our  hearts  could  never  say. 
What  an  anthem  that  will  be. 
Ringing  out  our  love  to  thee, 
Pouring  out  our  rapture  sweet. 
At  thine  own  all-glorious  feet ! 

Thou  art  coming !    Rays  of  glory 
Through  the  vail  thy  death  has  rent. 

Touch  the  mountains  and  the  river. 

With  a  golden-glowing  quiver. 
Thrill  of  light  and  music  blent. 

Earth  is  brightened  when  this  gleam 

Falls  on  flower  and  rock  and  stream ; 

Life  is  brightened  when  this  ray 

Falls  upon  its  darkest  day. 

Not  a  cloud  and  not  a  shadow, 
*  Not  a  mist  and  not  a  tear, 
Not  a  sin  and  not  a  sorrow. 
Not  a  dim  and  veiled  to-morrow 

For  that  sunrise  grand  and  clear  1 
Jesus,  Saviour,  once  with  thee, 

Nothing  else  seems  worth  a  thought ! 
Oh,  how  marvelous  will  be 

All  the  bliss  thy  pain  hath  bought !  ~ 

Thou  art  coming  I    At  thy  table 

We  are  witnesses  for  this. 
While  remembering  hearts  thou  meetest 
In  communion,  clearest,  sweetest, 

Earnest  of  our  coming  bliss. 
Showing  not  thy  death  alone. 

And  thy  love  exceeding  great. 
But  thy  coming  and  thy  throne, 

All  for  which  we  long  and  wait. 

Thou  art  coming !     We  are  waiting 

With  a  hope  that  cannot  fall ; 
Asking  not  the  day  or  hour, 
Resting  on  thy  word  of  power, 

Anchored  safe  within  the  vail. 
Time  appointed  may  be  long. 

But  the  vision  must  be  sure ; 
Certainty  shall  make  us  strong, 

Joyful  patience  can  endure. 

Oh,  the  joy  to  see  thee  reigning , 

Thee,  my  own  beloved  Lord  1 
Every  tongue  thy  name  confessing, 
Worship,  honor,  glory,  blessing. 

Brought  to  thee  with  glad  accord  1 
Thee,  my  Master  and  my  Friend, 

Vindicated  and  enthroned  I 
Unto  earth's  remotest  end 

Glorified,  adored  and  owned  I 

— Francis  Ridley  Haver  gal. 


TEE  SECOND  COMING  OF  CERI8T. 


BT   J.  LEE   GAMBLE. 


refute  rather  than  fulfill  the  Scripture.     Luke  18:8; 
and  many  passages. 

8.  That  the  world  is  growing  more  wicked  and 
Christendom  more  corrupt  and  apostate,ripening  for 
the  awful  days  of  Anti-chri8t,both  the  Word  and  the 
facts  plainly  declare.  Matt.  24:12;  2  Tim.  3:1-5;  4: 
3,4;  Rev.  13:7,8,16,17. 

9.  While  evil  men  and  imposters  "wax  worse  and 
worse"  and  "the  love  of  the  many  (majority)  waxes 
cold,"  Christ's  true  followers,  few  in  number,  (Matt. 
7:14)  are  coming  out  more  and  more  from  the  world 
and  from  worldly  churches,  and  are  making  them- 
selves ready  to  meet  their  coming  Lord  and  escape 
"the  great  tribulation." 

10.  There  will  be  two  resurrections,  a  thousand 
years  apart;  the  saved  rise  at  the  beginning  of  the 
millennium,  the  unsaved  at  its  close.  Rev.  20:4. 

11.  The  Jews,  restored  to  their  own  land,  will  be 
the  chief  nation  during  the  millennium,  and  Jerusa- 
lem will  be  the  metropolis  of  the  earth;  all  the 
prophecies  concerning  Israel  will  then  be  literally 
fulfilled.  Isa.  11:11;  60:21,22;  Ezek.  37:21-28;  Joel 
3:20:  Amos  9:14,15;  Rom.  11:25-27. 

12.  At  his  second  coming,  the  Lord  Jesus  Christ 
will  reign  on  the  earth  with  his  "bride"  for  a  thou- 
sand years.  Then  will  be  fulfilled  all  the  glorious 
Old  Testament  promises  of  his  reign  which  many 
have  vainly  tried  to  spiritualize  and  apply  to  Gospel 
times;  but  the  Gospel  period  is  everywhere  in  the 
New  Testament  represented  as  an  age  of  suffering 
and  humiliation  and  persecution  and  self-denial  in- 
stead of  one  of  glory  and  exaltation.  Suffering  first, 
then  glory.  1  Peter  1:11.  As  the  Head  suffered, 
so  also  must  the  "body,"  until  the  Head  and  the 
"body"  are  visibly  united.  2  Tim.  2:12. 

Let  us  read  Matt.  25:1-13  and  see  to  which  class 
we  belong.  May  all  the  dear  disciples  of  Jesus 
awake  out  of  sleep,  supply  themselves  with  "oil," 
get  on  the  "wedding  garment,"  and  be  prepared  to 
meet  their  Lord. 


TEE  EOPE  OF  ElS  COMING. 


The  personal  return  of  Jesus  to  this  earth  is  one 
of  the  special  messages  for  the  hour;  this  was  the 
theme  of  apostolic  preaching  and  the  daily  hope  and 
expectation  of  the  early  disciples.  It  should  be 
much  more  so  now,  "for  now  is  our  salvation  nearer 
than  when  we  believed." 

The  Thessalonians  were  as  much  converted  to 
"wait  for  the  Son  of  God  from  heaven"  as  they  were 
"turned  from  idols  to  serve  the  living  God." 

1.  This  is  a  personal  coming;  the- coming  of  the 
heavenly  King,  and  not  the  "king  of  terrors." 

2.  It  is  an  event  to  be  expected  any  moment,  and 
one  for  which  we  are  to  be  constantly  watching  and 
waiting.  Mark  13:32-37;  Luke  12:35-40. 

3.  He  comes  first  for  his  saints,  his  "body"  and 
"bride."  This  is  a  coming  in  the  air.  1  Thes.  4:17; 
Luke  17:34-3(5. 

4.  Afterwards  he  comes  with  his  saints.  This  is  a 
coming  to  the  earth.  Zech.  14:4;  Jude  14. 

5.  Between  these  two  stages  of  his  coming  will 
occur  "the  great  tribulation"  and  the  reign  of  Anti- 
christ. Watchful  saints  escape  these.  Luke  21:36; 
Rev.  3:10. 

6.  The  signs  which  his  Word  declares  should  her- 
ald his  near  approach  are  already  fulfilled. 

7.  The  "conversion  of  the  world"  within  this  dis- 
pensation through  the  use  of  existing  agencies  is  a 
fiction  without  the  least  sanction  in  the  Word  of 
God.     If  such  a  thing  should  come  to  pass  it  would 


king,  "I  have  been  a  great  sinner  against  God,  and 
know  not  how  to  die,  or  how  to  appear  before  God 
in  judgment!"  His  brother,  making  a  jest  of  it, 
said,  "These  are  but  melancholy  thoughts."  The 
king  made  no  reply;  but  it  was  the  custom  of  the 
country,  that  if  the  executioner  came  and  sounded 
a  trumpet  before  any  man's  door,  he  was  presently 
led  to  execution.  The  king,  in  the  dead  of  the 
night,  sent  the  executioner  to  sound  the  trumpet  be- 
fore his  brother's  door;  who  hearing  it  and  seeing 
the  messenger  of  death,  sprang  into  the  king's  pres- 
ence, beseeching  to  know  in  what  he  had  offended. 
"Alas!  brother,"  said  the  king,  "you  have  never  of- 
fended me.  And  is  the  sight  of  my  executioner  so 
dreadful,  and  shall  not  I,  who  have  greatly  offended, 
fear  to  be  brought  before  the  judgment  seat  of 
Chrisc?"— >SeZ. 


TEE  BURDEN  LIFTED. 


Remember,  you  have  the  hope  of  the  second  ad- 
vent; if  Jesus  comes  before  you  die  you  will  meet 
him — gladly  meet  and  welcome  the  Son  of  God  upon 
this  earth.  You  shall  be  changed  so  that  you  shall 
be  fit  to  inherit  the  incorruptible  glories  of  the  skies. 
You  shall  see  your  Redeemer  when  he  stands  in  the 
latter  day  upon  the  earth.  As  Job  said,  "In  my 
flesh  shall  I  see  God,  whom  my  eyes  shall  see  for 
myself,  and  not  another."  Have  joy,  then,  at  every 
thought  of  your  Master's  coming.  Do  not  put  it 
among  dark  prophecies  or  doubtful  dreams.  It  is  a 
clearly  revealed  truth  that  Jesus  will  come  again  and 
take  his  people  up  to  their  eternal  home;  "Where- 
fore comfort  one  another  with  these  words,"  and  be 
not  moved  away  from  that  hope  of  the  Gospel,  which 
lies  so  sweetly  in  the  second  advent  of  our  Lord  Je- 
sus Christ. 

And,  once  more,  we  have  this  hope — that  when  we 
have  passed  through  all  that  concerns  time  and  are 
in  eternity,  that  shoreless,  bottomless  sea,  there  re- 
mains for  us  no  fear  or  dread;  but  we  shall  be  "for- 
ever with  the  Lord."  Be  not  dismayed  as  though 
there  would  be  an  after-probation,  or  a  purgatory, 
or  a  limhus  patrum,  or  any  of  those  pretty  places 
that  have  filled  priests'pockets  so  long,and  are  now  be- 
ing newly  vamped  and  produced  by  our  proud  thinkers 
as  an  aid  to  their  pretty  speculations.  We  will  have 
no  purgatory  under  any  form;  it  is  the  larder  of 
priests,  and  the  refuge  of  heresy-mongers;  but  there 
is  not  a  word  of  it  in  God's  book.  We  stand  to  the 
text — "So  shall  we  be  forever  with  the  Lord." 

Jonathan  Edwards,  in  one  of  his  treatises,  speaks 
somewhat  to  this  effect:  "If  any  man  can  prove  this 
form  of  the  Gospel  to  be  untrue  and  a  mere  dream, 
the  very  best  thing  that  he  can  do  is  to  sit  down  and 
weep  forever  to  think  that  he  has  disproved  the 
brightest  hope  that  ever  shone  upon  the  eyes  of  men." 
And  the  long  separated  loved  ones  will  then  meet  to 
part  no  more.  Home  will  then  be  reached.  O  be- 
loved, let  us  wait  in  patience,  and  stand  with  the 
wedding  garment  on  constantly.  Oh,  to  be  ready 
to  exclaim,  as  the  opening  heavens  reveal  his  fair 
form  "coming  in  the  clouds  of  heaven,"  "Lo,  this 
is  our  God,  we  have  waited  for  him;  this  is  the  Lord, 
we  have  waited  for  him,  we  will  be  glad  and  rejoice 
in  his  salvation."     Isa.  25:  9. — Spurgeon. 

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TEB  EXECUTIONER'S  TRUMPET. 


"Whatsoever  ye  do,  do  it  heartily  as  unto  the 
Lord  and  not  unto  men."  Thinking  of  the  disagree- 
able duty  of  mending  stockings  brought  these  words 
80  forcibly  to  mind,  I  want  to  tell  others  of  the  rev- 
ery  to  which  they  led.  This  work  I  do  not  like;  I 
would  much  rather  make  the  new  tidy  for  the  easy 
chair  or  transplant  my  lovely  heliotrope.  But  as  I 
plied  the  needle  I  thought,  "Weil,  God  does  care  for 
me  even  in  this."  His  own  word  that  he  has  num- 
bered the  hairs  of  our  head  forbids  a  doubt  of  his 
loving  thoughtfulness  for  the  least  of  our  concerns; 
and  what  a  well-spring  of  thankfulness  would  abide 
in  our  hearts  if  we  would  only  remember  this!  The 
money  saved  by  mending  may  be  used,  perhaps,  to 
help  save  a  fallen  sister  from  utter  despair  or  lead 
a  heathen  child  to  Christ,  who  will  in  time  make  a 
Christian  home  to  shine  with  a  holy  radiance  in  the 
surrounding  darkness.  How  full  of  meaning  is  that 
word  heartily;  and  that  whatsoever,  how  comprehen- 
sive! All  things  that  touch  our  lives,  touch  God's 
heart  of  love,  and  when  our  hearts  and  will  are 
fully  yielded  to  him  we  can  look  up  and  say,  "  What- 
soever thou  sayest.  Lord,  we  will  do."  Then  the 
blessed  power  of  himself  within  raises  the  mind 
above  unpleasant  tasks,  and  makes  all  a  hearty  ser- 
vice for  Jesus's  sake.  Burdened  mothers,  weary 
with  the  strain  of  daily  duties,  lift  up  your  eyes  to 
see  his  word  for  you,  and  cast  all  your  care  on  him 
— why?  "for  he  careth  for  you." — Christian  Witness. 


TEB  SPARROW'S  WARNING. 


Jerome  used  to  say,  that  it  seemed  to  him  as  if 
the  trumpet  of  the  last  day  was  alwajs  sounding  in 
his  ears,  saying,  "Arise,  ye  dead,  and  come  lo  judg- 
ment." The  generality,  however,  think  but  little  of 
this  awful  and  important  period.  A  Christian  king 
of  Hungary,  being  very  sad  and  pensive,  his  broth- 
er, who  was  a  gay  courtier,  was  desirous  of  knowing 
the  cause  of  his  sadness.     "Ob,   brother,"  said   the 


An  English  farmer  writes  to  the  Leisure  Hour,  of 
London,  his  experience  with  sparrows,  as  follows: 
About  six  years  ago  the  small  birds  were  very  de- 
structive in  the  gardens — here  especially — in  de- 
stroying the  crops  of  green  peas.  A  friend  urged 
me  to  use  poison,  and,  although  I  was  reluctant  to 
listen  to  him,  he  sent  me  a  packet  with  instructions 
how  to  use  it.  I  locked  it  safe  in  the  cupboard  in 
my  seed  room  for  that  season,  willing  to  suffer  rath- 
er than  destroy  the  little  creatures  whose  services  I 
well  knew  and  whose  cheerful  songs  I  enjoyed.  The 
following  year  they  again  became  troublesome,  and 
one  morning  the  kitchen  gardener  came  to  me  and 
complained: 

"If  you  don't  do  something  to  keep  off  the  spar- 
rows and  tom-tits,  we  shall  not  have  a  pea  left,  sir." 
'  Oh,  is  that  it,  John?"  I  said.  "Well,  after  break- 
fast get  two  Dutch  hoes,  and  I  will  come  and  help 
you  for  an  hour  to  destroy  the  natives  (weeds)  near 
the  peas." 

I  brought  some  bread  and  butter,  spread  the  pois- 
on it  and  placed  it  in  crumbs  on  a  large  tiling  slate 
between  the  ranks  of  peas,  and  began  to  work  with 
John  among  the  natives.  About  five  minutes  after 
my  little  girl  came  into  the  garden. 

"Father,"  she  said,  "there  is  a  little  bird  fluttering 
among  the  peas." 

It  was  a  sparrow.  I  picked  it  up,and  it  gave  a  few 
convulsive  clutches  with  its  little  feet  and  died. 
"There  is  another,"  said  she. 
I  saw  it,  and  said:  "You  go  home,  dear,"  not 
wishing  her  to  see  more,  and  in  less  than  three  min- 
utes I  picked  up  six  sparrows  and  two  greenfinches; 
several  more  were  found  a  little  distance  from  the 
peas.  Now  all  was  quiet;  not  a  bird  could  I  see  near 
the  spot.  I  returned  to  John  and  stayed  an  hour 
with  him,  but  not  a  bird  came  near  the  place. 

I  took  up  the  poison,  for  fear  the  peafowls  should 
come  that  way,  and  for  some  two  or  three  weeks  we 
were  quite  free  from  any  annoyance  from  small 
birds;  but  when  John  again  began  to  complain  that 
"the  birds  had  begun  on  the  marrowfat  peas,  I  took 
out  the  slate  with  the  poison  on  it,  just  as  it  was 
left  from  the  last  time,  and  placed  it  between  the 
ranks  of  peas  again.  One  rank  of  dwarf  peas  had 
gone  up  only  about  half-way  the  sticks,  and  beside 
this  rank  I  placed  it — for  the  better  view,  as  I 
thought.     I  bad  hardly  taken  my  hoe  in  hand  when 


OOTOBBR  13,  1887 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


11 


a  fine  "cock-sparrow"  perched  on  the  top  of  the 
sticks  above  the  slate  and  began  to  make  a  loud 
noise,  and  about  every  two  or  three  seconds  sounded 
a  loud,  peculiar  bell-like  note.  Birds  began  to  gath- 
er thick  and  fast  on  the  rank  of  sticks — all  kinds  of 
small  birds,  sparrows,  finches,  linnets,  tom-tits  (two 
or  three  sorts)  and  white-throats — till  it  was  literal- 
ly covered  with  them,  and  this  captain  cock-sparrow 
kept  on  with  his  loud  notes,  all  the  rest  beiug  as 
quiet  as  possible,  and  every  one  with  its  little  head 
turned  toward  the  slate  with  the  poison.  John  and 
I  looked  on  in  blank  amazement,  when  all  at  once 
the  sparrow,  pluming  himself  out  larger  than  usual 
and  making  a  louder  note,  took  wing,  all  the  rest 
following.  And  now  I  began  to  breathe  freely 
again,  for  I  found  I  had  been  involuntarily  holding 
my  breath  while  this  interesting  scene  was  going  on. 

"Well,  John,"  I  said,  "that  fellow  preached  to  a 
purpose." 

"I  was  thinking  sir,"  he  answered,  "how  attentive 
all  the  rest  were." 

For  the  rest  of  the  season  not  a  bird  came  near 
the  garden,  nor  had  I  need  again  of  resorting  to  my 
slate  and  poisoned  bread  and   butter. 

And  shall  men  be  less  wise  than  sparrows?  Shall 
boys?  Yet  the  boys  and  the  men  who  see  their  fel- 
lows betrayed,  ruined, poisoned  by  strong  drink,take 
no  heed  of  the  danger,  listen  not  to  the  voice  of 
warning.  They  go  recklessly  on  to  taste,  to  fall,  to 
perish. — JSel. 


BO 78  AND  PISTOLS. 


Little  Fred  McMahon,  15  years  old,  living  in  Chi- 
cago, was  to  have  had  a  visit  in  the  country  awhile 
since,  and  for  that  purpose  would  have  started  for 
Manistee,Mich.,had  he  not  owned  a  revolver  against 
his  father's  wishes.  The  boy  had  packed  his  trunk, 
kissed  the  baby,  and  was  ready  to  start,  when  he 
thought  of  his  precious  22-caliber  pistol,  and  went 
back  to  his  room  to  get  it,  carrying  it  out  carefully 
wrapped  up  in  a  paper,80  that  his  mother  would  not 
see  what  it  was.  On  the  way  he  stooped  down  to 
kiss  his  little  1-year  old  brother  again.  The  baby 
saw  the  gleam  of  the  nickel  plate,  and  reached  out 
its  little  hands  to  see  what  it  was.  In  taking  it 
away  the  weapon  was  discharged,  the  ball  entering 
the  baby's  forehead  and  lodging  in  the  base  of  his 
brain.  At  the  time  the  baby  was  being  held  by  an- 
other 4-year-old  brother,  no  one  else  being  in  the 
room,  but  the  discharge  brought  the  mother  from 
below  and  neighbors  from  the  street.  Doctors  were 
sent  for,  but  their  efforts  were  unavailing,  the  baby 
dying  in  less  than  two  hours.  The  boy's  father, 
Frederick  J.  McMahon,  had  warned  him  time  and 
again  to  have  nothing  whatever  to  do  with  fire- 
arms, but  without  his  knowledge  he  bought  one  for 
4th  of  July  purposes  and  kept  it  hidden  in  his  room. 
The  little  fellow  was  almost  frantic  with  grief,  and 
for  a  time  it  was  feared  his  reason  was  affected.  This 
is  but  one  of  many  instances  where  the  needless  pos 
session  of  fire-arms  has  had  a  fatal  result. 


LOOKING  UP. 


It  would  be  well  for  all  liars  like  Ananias  and 
Gehazi  to  remember  a  remark  once  made  by  a  little 
boy  to  his  father  who  was  meditating  a  theft  of  po- 
tatoes out  of  a  field.  The  father  looked  east,  west, 
north  and  south,  and  seeing  no  one,  began  to  pull 
up  the  roots. 

"Father,"  said  the  lad,  "there  is  one  way  you  for- 
got to  look." — /Selected. 

Divisions  of  the  Day. — The  Chaldeans,  Syrians, 
Persians  and  Indians  began  the  day  at  sunrise,  and 
divided  both  the  day  and  night  into  four  parts.  This 
division  of  the  day  into  quarters  was  in  use  long  be- 
fore the  division  into  hours.  The  Chinese,  who  be- 
gin their  day  at  midnight  and  reckon  to  the  mid- 
night following,  divide  this  interval  into  twelve 
hours,  each  equal  to  two  of  ours,  and  known  by  a 
name  and  particular  figure.  In  Egypt,  the  day  was 
divided  into  unequal  hours.  The  "clock"  invented 
by  Ctesibus,  of  Alexandria,  B.  C.  250,  was  so  con- 
trived as  to  lengthen  or  shorten  the  hours  by  the 
flowing  of  water.  The  Greeks  divided  the  natural 
day  into  twelve  hours— a  practice  derived  from  the 
Babylonians.  The  Romans  called  the  time  between 
the  rising  and  setting  sun  the  natural  day,  and  the 
time  in  the  twenty-four  hours  the  civil  day.  They 
began  and  ended  their  civil  day  at  midnight,  and 
took  this  practice  from  their  ancient  laws  and  cus- 
toms and  rites  of  religion,  in  use  long  before  they 
had  any  idea  of  the  division  into  hours.  The  first 
sun  dial  seen  at  Home  was  brought  from  Catania,  in 
Sicily,  in. the  first  Punic  War.as  part  of  the  spoils  of 
that  city;  and,  after  this  period,  they  divided  the 
day  into  twenty-four  hours.  An  officer,  called  Ac- 
oensus,  used  to  proclaim  the  hours,  and  at  the  bench 


of  justice  gave  notice  every  three  hours  what  o'clock 
it  was.  In  the  Turkish  Empire,time  is  reckoned  by 
certain  portions  of  the  natural  day  resembling  the 
"watches"  of  the  ancient  Jews  and  Romans.  Pub- 
lic clocks  not  being  in  use,  these  divisions  of  time 
are  proclaimed  from  the  minarets. 


Temperance. 


A  G08TLY  LUXURY. 


Statistics  are  often  presented  showing  the  enor- 
mous size  of  the  nation's  liquor  bill,  but  few  per- 
sons, comparatively,  are  aware  how  much  is  spent 
annually  on  another  luxury — tobacco.  The  Amer- 
ican Grocer  has  made  a  careful  estimate  of  the  na- 
tion's tobacco  bill  for  1886,  and  places  it  at  |256,- 
500,000 — about  $3.44  per  capita.  As  not  more  than 
one-fifth  of  the  population,  probably,  make  use  of 
the  weed,  the  average  expenditure  of  each  user  is 
about  117  per  year,  an  amount  that  put  at  compound 
interest  for  fifty  years  at  six  per  cent  would  buy  a 
house  and  lot. 

Of  course  this  amount  is  nothing  like  so  large  as 
that  spent  for  liquor — only  a  little  over  one-third,  in 
fact,  for  the  nation's  annual  liquor  bill  is  about  $700,- 
000,000 — but  still  it  is  a  sufficiently  formidable  sum 
for  an  article  that  is,  to  say  the  least,  not  a  necessi- 
ty of  life.  More  money  is  spent  for  tobacco  than 
for  sugar;  almost  twice  as  much  as  for  those  other 
luxuries,  tea  and  coffee;  and  two  and  a  half  times 
as  much  as  is  sppnt  upon  schools. 

For  cigarettes  alone  the  sum  of  $6,500,000  is 
spent — and  wasted;  for,  of  all  the  ways  of  using 
tobacco,  cigarette  smoking  is  the  most  injurious,  the 
most  insidious,  the  most  disgusting  and  offensive. 
Twenty  million  dollars  are  spent  upon  smoking  to- 
bacco, $50,000,000  upon  chewing  tobacco — so  the 
chewers  have  more  to  answer  for  than  the  pipe  smok- 
ers. Of  course  the  largest  item  in  the  list  is  for 
cigars.  More  money  is  burned  up  in  the  shape  of 
tobacco  than  is  consumed  by  all  the  accidental  fires 
in  the  United  States,  and  tobacco  costs  almost  as 
much  as  fuel. — Selected. 


ANTI-PRORIBITION  MOB  IN  MICHIGAN. 


At  Sutton's  Bay,  in  Leelanaw  county,  Sept.  17, 
Wm.  A.  Taylor,  State  Organizer  of  the  Prohibition 
party,  with  other  Prohibitionists,  were  attacked  with 
intent  to  kill  by  a  gang  of  saloon  men.  Mr.  Taylor 
is  one  of  the  most  active  Prohibitionists  in  the  whole 
State,  and  has  rendered  brilliant  services  to  the  Pro- 
hibition cause. 

In  the  course  of  his  organizing  work  for  the  party 
he  made  an  engagement  to  speak  at  Sutton's  Bay  on 
Sept  17.  The  local  workers  billed  the  meeting  ex- 
tensively. H  and  J.  Deuster,  who  keep  a  saloon 
that  has  a  most  unsavory  reputation — a  Norwegian 
having  been  killed  in  it  some  time  ago — began  to 
make  threats  that  they  would  break  up  the  meeting 
and  "do  up"  Taylor  if  he  attempted  to  speak.  On 
the  night  of  the  meeting  they  paraded  the  streets 
with  guns  and  tin  pans. 

Gathering  about  the  door  of  the  school  house  as 
the  meeting  closed,  they  waited  for  Taylor  to  ap- 
pear. He  came  out  of  the  building  in  the  company 
of  some  friends,  one  of  whom,  Mr.  Cadham,  was 
promptly  knocked  down  and  then  kicked  in  the 
head.  Mr.  Cozart  came  to  Cadham's  assistance  and 
was  severely  whipped  and  kicked,  sustaining  inju- 
ries which  may  prove  serious.  Mr.  Palmer,  another 
Prohibitionist,  was  slightly  wounded.  Mr.  Taylor 
escaped  without  injury.  During  the  fight  the  Deus- 
ters  and  their  confederates  several  times  cried  out: 
"Kill  him!" 


DONT  HELP  THB  8NAKB. 


As  I  was  returning  home  a  few  days  since  1  heard 
the  piteous  cry  of  a  young  rabbit  in  the  grsss  by 
the  road8ide;and  well  might  it  cry  for  when  I  looked 
I  saw  it  was  in  the  coils  of  a  huge  bull  snake  seven 
or  eight  feet  long. 

At  once  my  sympath}'  for  the  rabbit  was  aroused 
and  I  sent  my  hired  man  for  a  club  with  which  to 
kill  the  reptile,  but  before  he  returned  a  large  old 
rabbit  appeared  upon  the  scene;  she  skipped  around 
for  a  moment  in  apparent  great  excitement  while  the 
cry  for  help  still  continued. 

All  of  a  sudden  the  mother's  instinct  (the  strong- 
est impulse  in  nature)  seemed  to  overcome  all  fear 
and  she  sprang  like  a  wild  cat  upon  the  captor  of 
her  young  and  planted  her  teeth  deep  into  the  back 
of  his  neck.aud  plied  the  claws  of  her  hind  feet  with 
lightning  rapidity  to  the  back  and  sides  of  the  ser- 
pent, producing  a  very  peculiar  sound,  meanwhile 
the  blood  flowed  freely  from  his  wounds. 

This  was  the  liveliest  tussle  I  had  ever  witnessed, 


but  it  did  not  continue  long,  for  the  snake  rolled  it- 
self up  into  a  ball  and  tried  hard  to  encircle  its  tor- 
mentor in  the  coils. 

The  rabbit  seemed  to  realize  its  danger,  for  at  the 
end  of  perhaps  a  half  a  minute  she  loosed  her  hold 
and  sprang  two  or  three  feet  into  the  air,  alighting 
at  least  eight  feet  from  the  scene  of  the  conflict  and 
beat  a  hasty  retreat  with  the  snake  in  hot  pursuit, 
and  before  I  could  bring  to  bear  my  weapon  he  had 
disappeared  in  the  hedge. 

After  the  smoke  of  this  sanguinary  battle  had 
blown  aside,  I  was  forcibly  reminded  of  another 
conflict  that  has  been  going  on  in  this  country  for 
ages  past.  I  remember  that  the  old  serpent  of  the 
still,  party  of  the  first  part,  has  encircled  our  belov- 
ed country  in  its  dreadful  coils  and  has  annually 
crushed  the  life  out  of  more  than  60,000  of  our  men, 
women  and  children,  parties  of  the  second  part;  I 
also  remembered  that  about  the  year  1873  the  cry 
from  the  innocent  victims  having  become  as  the  roar 
of  a  great  storm  mingled  with  the  wailings  of  perdi- 
tion, the  mothers  and  wives  of  the  land  became  so 
wrought  up  as  to  forget  all  (heretofore)  rules  of  pro- 
priety and  made  a  fierce  attack  for  the  rescue  of  their 
loved  ones. 

This  is  and  has  been  a  death  struggle,  and  judg- 
ing from  the  writhings  of  the  serpent  it  is  bound  to 
yield  up  the  ghost  in  due  time  if  we  faint  not. 

The  question  now  is,  will  the  voters  (parties  of 
the  third  part)  come  to  the  rescue,or  will  they  stand 
idly  by  and  see  the  old  serpent  come  off  victorious. 
— H.  A.  Myers  in  Bloomington  paper. 

Henry  George  was  asked  the  other .  day  in  one  of 
his  meetings,"How  do  you  stand  on  the  liquor  ques- 
tion?" The  papers  report  him  to  have  answered,"! 
am  all  right  on  this  question."  What  does  Mr. 
George  mean  by  "All  right"?  The  platform  of  his 
party  adopted  at  Syracuse  says  not  one  word  on 
that  question.  That  is  all  wrong.  Over  and  over 
again,  both  privately  and  publicly,  we  have  heard 
Mr.  George  say  that  he  does  not  believe  in  prohibi- 
tion, but  that  he  believes  it  would  be  better  to  have 
free  liquor,  that  is,  everybody  have  the  right  to  sell 
liquor  without  any  restriction  whatever.  Dr.  Mc- 
Glynn  was  asked  as  to  whether  his  party  would  take 
any  stand  on  the  question.  He  said,  "No!  we  will 
not!  We  have  too  many  men  with  us  who  love  their 
drink."  What  think  temperance  labor  men  of  all 
this?  Is  it  right?  Is  such  language  true  to  the 
interests  of  the  workingmen?  Is  it  brave  to  be  si- 
lent about  a  question  so  vital  to  the  workingman's 
interest — silent  in  order  to  secure  votes?  Henry 
George  and  Dr.  McGlynn  have  gone  fishing  for  tem- 
perance gudgeons  with  base  hooks. —  Voice, 

One  of  the  most  rMrolting  instances  of  rum's 
"deadly  doings"  recently  occurred  in  Hoboken,  N.  J., 
where  a  young  man  voluntarily  gave  himself  up  for 
arrest,  stating  that  he  had  quarreled  with  his  wife 
and  hurt  her  so  that  she  might  die.  The  police 
hastened  to  his  rooms,  where  they  found  the  wife 
lying  on  the  floor  quite  dead,  her  throat  being  cut 
across.  By  her  side  sat  her  baby  boy,  five  months 
old,  dipping  his  fingers  in  his  mother's  blood  and 
smearing  his  face  with  it,  innocent  of  the  great  trag- 
edy about  him.  The  neighbors  bear  witness  to  the 
industrious  character  of  his  wife,  and  that  she  was 
not  given  to  quarreling.  The  husband  had  been 
drinking  heavily,  and  was  filled  with  maddened  rage 
when  he  did  the  awful  deed. 

In  a  temperance  speech  at  Plattsburg,  Mo.,  Rev. 
Samuel  Small  said:  "You  Republicans  need  not 
build  yourselves  up  and  say  the  Democratic  party  is 
the  whisky  party.  You  had  absolute  control  of  the 
Government  for  twenty-four  years,  and  when  you 
left  it  the  country  was  drenched  and  doomed  and 
damned  with  liquor  from  Maine  to  California.  I  am 
a  Mugwump,  and  the  difference  between  me  and  you 
is  that  you  are  a  jugwump." 

"Woe  to  him  that  buildeth  a  town  with  blood,  and 
establisheth  a  city  with  iniquity." 

No  amount  of  revenue  can  compensate  for  the 
suffering  and  crime  which  the  legalized  liquor  traffic 
engenders. 

The  great  revenues  for  high  license,  the  enormous 
taxes  on  inlixicating  drinks,  are  wrung  from  the 
wretchedness  of  worse  than  widowed  wives,  and 
worse  than  orphaned  children. — Fretuitnt  Seelye^ 

Methotiist  conferences  in  Wisconsin  have  declared 
their  belief  that  Christian  men  ought  not  to  raise  or 
sell  tobacco.  Thirty  thousand  acres  of  the  plant 
were  under  cultivation  in  the  State  this  year,  and 
the  action  of  these  religious  bodies  has  aroused 
much  comment. 

Montreal  advices  say  that  the  wholesale  liquor 
merchants  make  no  secret  that  their  business  is  suf- 
fering to  a  great  extent  by  the  enforcement  of  the 
Scott  Act 


12 


THE  CHRISTIAN  OYNOSTTKE. 


October  13, 1881 


Religioxts  News. 

TEE    WASHINGTON   CONFERENCE    OF    THE 
EVANGELICAL  ALLIANCE. 


A  SPECIAL  BIBLE  CONFERENCE. 


The  call  for  this  important  meetlDg  to  be  held 
Dec.  7-9,  1887,  says:  "Thoughtful  men  are  con- 
vinced that  the  closing  years  of  the  nineteenth  cen- 
tury constitute  a  momentous  crisis  in  the  history  of 
the  nation.  There  is  a  march  of  events  which  will 
not  tarry.  The  necessity  of  planting  Christian  in- 
stitutions in  the  formative  West,  and  of  strengthen- 
ing them  in  the  older  States,  the  duty  of  overtaking 
the  rapid  growth  of  our  cities  with  adequate  church 
provision,  the  importance  of  closing  the  widening 
chasm  between  the  church  and  the  multitude,  and  of 
bringing  the  regenerative  power  of  the  Gospel  to 
bear  upon  every  character  and  life,  demand  the  in- 
stant attention  of  the  Christian  Church  and  the  full 
exercise  of  all  its  energies. 

Popular  education  has  multiplied  wants  and 
created  tastes  which  wealth  has  not  been  suflSciently 
distributed  to  gratify;  hence  a  growing  discontent 
among  working-men,  which  in  prosperous  times  is 
an  ill  omen,  suggesting  grave  questions  concerning 
the  next  financial  panic  and  the  consequent  indus- 
trial depression.  The  conflict  with  the  saloon  draw- 
ing to  a  crisis,  and  the  manifest  determination  of 
the  liquor  power  to  accomplish  its  ends  by  fraud, 
corruption,  or  violence;  a  wide-spread  spirit  of  law- 
lessness; the  apathy  of  the  popular  conscience;  the 
alienation  of  the  masses  from  the  churches,  and  in- 
creasing immigration — all  these  point  to  growing 
complications  in  the  near  future. 

Under  monarchical  governments,  men  have 
thought  that  if  power  could  be  popularized  the  ills 
of  life  would  mostly  disappear.  In  this  country, 
until  recently,  by  reason  of  abundant  public  lands, 
a  sparse  and  substantially  homogeneous  population, 
and  an  almost  limitless  demand  for  labor,  we  have 
been  exempt  from  many  of  the  evils  suffered  by 
European  peoples.  But  we  are  now  beginning  to 
approximate  European  conditions  of  society.  The 
existence  of  great  cities,  severe  competition,  an  un- 
employed class,  increasing  pauperism  and  crime, 
are  the  occasion  and  evidence  of  a  widespread  dis- 
content, for  which  the  ballot  affords  no  remedy. 
Has  not  the  time  come  for  us  to  make  demonstra- 
tion of  the  truth  that  the  Gospel  can  do  what  popu- 
lar suffrage  cannot  do?  Is  not  this  the  nation,  and 
is  not  this  the  generation,  providentially  called  to 
make  such  application  of  the  Gospel  to  the  life  of 
the  people  as  has  never  yet  been  made?  Will  not 
those  who  have  enjoyed  "government  of  the  people, 
by  the  people,  and  for  the  people,"  be  the  first  to 
learn  that  the  essential  evils  of  society  are  caused, 
not  by  misrule,  but  by  sin,  and  that  the  Gospel, 
therefore,  must  furnish  the  solution  of  the  great  so- 
cial problems? 

"The  Christian  church  has  not  yet  fully  recog- 
nized its  relations  to  the  entire  life  of  the  commu- 
nity and  the  nation.  Even  Christian  men,  pre-occu- 
pied  with  private  concerns  and  overburdened  by  the 
demands  on  their  time,  are  prone  to  neglect  the  pub- 
lic welfare,  and  are  loath  to  accept  any  responsibility 
existing  evils. 

"Denominations  and  local  churches,  each  intent 
on  its  own  good  work,  have  fallen  into  a  harmful 
competition  instead  of  engaging  in  an  intelligent 
and  comprehensive  cooperation. 

"Our  marvelous  material  growth  and  the  progress 
of  invention  have  produced  new  conditions  to  which 
business  has  been  quick  to  adapt  its  methods.  Do 
not  important  changes  in  population  and  in  the  hab- 
its and  temper  of  the  people  require  some  changes 
in  the  methods  of  Christian  work? 

"The  undersigned,  therefore,  unite  in  calling  a 
General  Conference  of  all  Evangelical  Christians  in 
the  United  States,  to  be  held  under  the  auspices  and 
direction  of  the  Evangelical  Alliance  for  the  United 
States,  in  the  city  of  Washington,  December  the  7th, 
8th  and  9th,  1887,  to  study  in  effect  the  following 
questions: 

"1.  What  are  the  present  perils  and  opportunities 
of  the  Christian  church  and  of  the  country? 

"2.  Can  any  of  them  be  met  best  by  a  hearty  co- 
operation of  all  Evangelical  Christians,  which,  with- 
out detriment  to  any  denominational  interests,  will 
serve  the  welfare  of  the  whole  church? 

"3.  What  are  the  best  means  to  secure  such  co- 
operation, and  to  waken  the  whole  church  to  its  re- 
sponsibility?" 

Among  the  signers  are  Dra.  Schaff,  Strong,  Mc- 
Cosh,  Brooks,  Hopkins,  R.  S.  Storrs,  Hurst,  Dwight, 
Haygood,  Crosby,  T.  P.  Stevenson,  W.  H.  French, 
and  Errett,  Gen.  O.  0.  Howard,  Geo.  W.  Cable,  and 
E.  W.  Blatchford. 


A  Conference  will  be  held  in  Philadelphia,  Nov. 
15-20,  which  will  aim  to  emphasize  and  make  prom- 
inent the  full  inspiration  of  God's  Holy  Word. 

While  irreverent  skeptics  openly  blaspheme  the 
Bible,  some  of  its  professed  friends,  consciously  or 
otherwise,  have  assailed  its  divine  origin,  and  ques- 
tioned its  infallible  teaching.  The  plenary  inspira- 
tion of  the  complete  canon  of  Scripture  has  been 
both  ridiculed  and  repudiated,  and  the  heresies 
growing  out  of  such  antagonism  have  both  infected 
and  affected  the  spiritual  life  of  the  church.  Young 
disciples  have  been  intimidated  from  avowing  their 
faith;  the  army  of  doubters  has  increased,  while  un- 
believers have  grown  bold  in  their  opposition  to  the 
Word,  and  Words  of  the  living  God, 

The  Conference,  in  its  distinctive  testimony,  will, 
therefore,  be  of  incalculable  value.  The  topics  to 
be  presented  by  God-fearing  men,  who  are  of  note 
in  the  church  of  God,  will  confirm  the  faith  of  Chris- 
tian believers  in  the  Holy  Scriptures,  as  given  to  us 
by  the  Holy  Spirit  in  their  original  languages,  in  all 
their  parts  and  terms.  Rev.  George  C.  Needham, 
who  managed  so  successfully  the  Prophetic  Confer- 
ence in  Chicago  last  year,  is  secretary  of  this  con- 
ference.   His  address  is  Manchester-by-the-sea,  Mass. 


— The  Rev.  George  R.  Rogers,  of  Brook's  Station, 
Ky.,  though  ninety-six  years  old,  frequently  rides 
his  horse  to  Louisville  and  back,  a  distance  of 
twenty-six  miles,  and  he  still  preaches  and  marries 
folks.  He  served  throughout  the  war  of  1812,  and 
draws  a  pension  for  that  service. 

— If  to-morrow  there  were  to  be  one  school  to 
every  million  of  women  in  India,  269  lady  teachers 
additional  must  land  on  its  shores  to-morrow.  Chi- 
na's women  are  far  more  destitute;  and  Ethiopia  is 
stretching  out  her  hands  as  never  before  to  God — 
and  to  us. 


T^OTICES. 


IOWA  CHRISTIAN  ASSOCIATION. 


— Since    18.52,  seventy-five    Sandwich   Islanders 
have  gone  as  foreign  missionaries. 


— The  Iowa  Synod  of  the  United  Presbyterian 
church  adopted  resolutions  approving  the  prohibi- 
tory liquor  law. 

— Nine  young  Norwegian  missionaries  who  have 
been  studying  at  the  mission  school  at  Stavanger 
for  six  years,  and  also  have  medical  training,  are 
about  to  leave  for  fields  in  Africa  and  Madagascar. 

— While  the  church  of  Christ  has  been  gathering 
in  not  more  than  three  millions  of  converts  from  the 
heathen  world,  the  natural  increase  of  that  world 
has  been  twenty  millions!  Must  not  a  tremendous 
advance  be  made  somewhere  along  our  lines  of 
work? 

— There  are  some  Sunday-school  classes  in  Bos- 
ton, composed  chiefly  of  young  people  from  wealthy 
and  cultured  families,  whose  teachers  make  it  a  con- 
dition of  membership  that  each  scholar  shall  choose 
some  person  in  sickness  or  need,  for  whom  he  or 
she  agrees  to  spend  some  part  of  the  time  each 
week.  One  young  lady  reads  aloud  to  a  poor  boy 
confined  by  an  accident  in  the  hospital.  Another  is 
teaching  a  servant  to  read.  Another  makes  gar- 
ments for  some  poor  children. 

— The  American  Bible  Society,  now  in  its  seven- 
ty-first year,  has  agencies  in  Turkey,  China,  Japan, 
Brazil,  Mexico,  Cuba,  Persia,  and  Uruguay;  and  as- 
sists missionary  agencies  in  Austria,  Ceylon.Gilbert 
Islands,  India,  Spain,  Germany,  Bulgaria,  Sweden, 
Finland,  Siam,  France,  Switzerland,  Italy  and  Libe- 
ria. In  1885  its  expenditures  in  these  countries 
were  $137,357.98.  During  its  existence  it  has  ex- 
pended more  than  $22,000,000;  and  there  are  now 
versions  of  the  Bible  in  circulation  in  over  200  lan- 
guages and  dialects. 

— Pastor  Schneller,who  for  more  than  twenty-five 
years  has  been  at  the  head  of  the  Syrian  Orphan's 
Home  in  Jerusalem,  reports  that  during  the  season 
just  closed  there  have  been  more  tourists  and  pil- 
grims in  Jerusalem  than  in  any  single  year  in  his 
life  in  the  Holy  City.  There  were  nearly  30,000  pil- 
grims. Russia  is  erecting  a  tower  on  Mount  Olivet 
one  hundred  metres  high.  It  will  be  the  highest 
building  in  the  East. 

— The  India  Witness,  of  Calcutta,  says:  The  prime 
minister  of  Indore,  a  cultured  yet  orthodox  Hindu, 
has  been  talking  of  infant  marriage.  He  bemoans 
the  backwardness  of  many  educated  natives  "to 
emancipate  their  sisters,"  and  this  gives  him  "keen 
disappointment."  He  holds  that  Hindu  civilization 
is  doomed,  unless  the  women  are  lifted  out  of  their 
"present  bondage  of  ignorance  and  superstition." 
He  says,  "child  marriage  is  no  marriage  at  all,  and 
that  the  existence  of  the  child  widow  is  one  of  the 
darkest  blots  that  ever  defaced  the  civilization  of 
any  people,  and  it  is  the  necessary  consequence  of 
the  system  of  infant  marriage,  a  system  which  is  a 
gross  libel  on  the  pure  laws  of  the  Aryans,"  He 
concludes  by  saying,  "Let  us  give  ap  our  debasing, 
infernal  and  abominable  customs."  This  scholar 
does  not  think  the  present  social  customs  of  Hindus 
are  anything  less  than  an  infernal  caricature  of  pure 
Aryan  habits  and  life.  This  view  may  be  correct, 
and  it  is  certain  that  infant  marriage  will  soon  be 
classed  as  a  Hiodu  heresy.  Not  only  have  Hindus 
made  void  the  commandments  of  God  by  their  tra- 
ditions, but  all  the  dictates  of  reason,  and  all  the 
rights  of  woman  besides.  The  priest-ridden,  para- 
lyzed millions  of  India  will  soon  be  emancipated  by 
the  truth  which  makes  free. 


The  annual  convention  of  the  Iowa  Christian  Associa- 
tion will  meet  in  College  Springs,  Iowa,  Tuesday,  Oct, 
18,  7  p.  M  ,  and  continue  in  session  two  days.  The  Revs. 
J.  P.  Stoddard,  Gen'l  Sec'y  N.  C.  A.,  and  C.  F.  Hawley, 
lecturer  for  Iowa,  and  other  able  speakers  are  expected 
to  address  the  -convention.  The  lovers  of  light  as  op- 
posed to  darkness,  and  of  our  free  institutions  in  all  parts 
of  the  State,  are  urged  to  attend  in  person  or  hy  repre- 
sentation. Friends  of  the  cause  in  neighboring  States 
are  heartily  invited  to  meet  with  us. 

C.  D.  Trumbull,  Cor.  Sec'y. 

Delegates  to  the  Iowa  State  Christian  Association,  to 
convene  in  College  Springs  on  the  third  Tuesday  of  Oc- 
tober, will  be  met  at  Coin  on  Tuesday  and  Wednesday 
mornings. 

Those  coming  over  the  C.  B.  &  Q  from  the  East  will 
leave  the  main  line  at  Villisca  and  change  at  Clarinda  for 
Coin.  West  of  Villisca  they  can  leave  the  main  line  at 
Red  Oak  and  connect  at  Shenandoah  with  a  morning 
freight  on  the  Wabash  for  Coin. 

All  who  expect  to  attend  the  convention  will  please 
drop  a  card  to  the  undersigned  as  soon  as  possible,  spec- 
ifying whether  they  wish  to  be  met  on  Tuesday  or  Wed- 
nesday morning.  There  are  only  morning  trains  to  Coin 
over  the  branch  lines  of  the  C.  B.  &  Q  If  any  one  wish- 
es to  be  met  at  any  other  point,  let  it  be  made  known. 

Don't  forget  to  drop  the  card,  that  transportation  and 
entertainment  may  be  duly  provided  for. 

Wm.  Johnston. 


ANNUAL   MEETING  OF   TEE  N.  E.  C.  A. 


The  Eleventh  Annual  Meeting  of  the  New  Hampshire 
Christian  Association  will  be  held  in  Arcanum  Hall,  No. 
939  Elm  street,  Manchester,  October  29,  30,  31,  1887, 
commencing  Saturday  at  2  o'clock  p.  m.,  and  closing 
Monday  evening;  entertainment  free.  Reduced  railroad 
fare  expected  from  the  following  stations:  Rochester, 
Dover,  Newmarket  Junction,  Portsmouth,  North  Weare, 
Laconia,  and  Concord.  Horse  cars  from  depot  to  hall. 
Addresses,  sermons  and  essays  are  expected  from  the  fol- 
lowing persons:  Rev.  J.  Blanchard  of  Illinois,  Rev.  E. 
W.  Oakes,  Manchester,  Elders  A.  Kidder,  C.  L  Baker, 
Isaac  Hyatt,  S.  C.  Kimball,  Mrs.  C.  W.  Bixby,  Miss  Annie 
M.  Ray,  Miss  E.  E.  Flagg,  and  Mips  I.  D.  Haiues,  evan- 
gelist of  Maine.  S.C.  Kimball,  Hec'y  N.  E.  G.  A. 


LlTERATimE. 


The  Lincoln  History,  in  the  October  CeniuTy,  consists 
of  a  concise  recital  of  the  secession  movement  as  ex- 
hibited in  Congress,  in  the  Cabinet  of  Buchanan,  and  in 
the  correspondence  of  certain  of  the  Southern  leaders. 
A  chapter  is  devoted  to  the  secession  of  South  Carolina 
and  to  afEairs  in  Charleston  Harbor.  The  papers  in  the 
War  Series  consist  of  "Marching  Through  Georgia  and 
the  Carolinas;"  "Sherman's  March  from  'Savannah  to 
Bentonville,"  by  General  Henry  W  Slocum;  and  "The 
Batile  of  Bentonville,"  by  General  Wade  Hampton;  these 
papers  presenting  a  graphic  view  of  Sherman's  opera- 
tions after  Atlanta.  The  battle  series  will  close  in  the 
November  number  with  the  "Appomattox  Campaign," 
other  war  articles  ofa  genera)  or  untechnical  nature,includ- 
ing  GeneralSherman's  "Grand  Strategy  of  theWar,"  being 
left  over  for  future  occasional  publication.  The  frontis- 
piece of  the  number  is  a  striking  portrait  of  Harriet 
Beecher  Stowe,  engraved  by  T.  Johnson  from  a  photo- 
graph by  Sarony.  This  portrait  is  apropos  of  a  paper 
by  James  Lane  Allen,  entitled  "Mrs.  Stowe's  'Uncle  Tom' 
at  Home  in  Kentucky,"  which  recounts  the  life  of  the 
Kentucky  slave  of  the  old  time,  in  a  series  of  typical 
scenes,  pointing  out  some  considerations  which  it  is 
thought  should  qualify  Mrs.  Stowe's  point  of  view.  Mr. 
Stedman  contributes  a  paper  of  criticism,  entitled  "Twelve 
Years  of  British  Song."  The  later  work  of  Tennyson, 
Browning,  Swinburne,  and  the  younger  English  poets 
here  receives  critical  attention.  The  paper  in  the  series 
on  "English  Cathedrals"  is  this  month  devoted  to  Ely, 
which  is  called  by  Mrs.  van  Rensselaer  "the  great  queen 
of  the  fen  lands.  . .  always  imposing,  always  superb,  al- 
ways tremendous.  . .  .Nowhere,"  she  says,  "is  there  a  more 
magnificent  piece  of  handiwork." 

The  Missionary  Review  rebukes  the  worldly  and  selfish 
methods  which  often  prevail  in  mission  work,  especially 
in  our  cities.  Too  often  men  are  urged,  not  to  repent- 
ance and  faith  for  the  salvation  of  their  souls,  but,  by 
motives  of  worldly  advantage,  to  identify  themselves 
with  the  church.  Dr.  Wilder's  "Answer  to  the  Presbyte- 
rian Board"  is  continued,  and  with  great  force  and  judg- 
ment urges  missionary  autonomy,  gratuitous  service  and 
self-sacrifice.    The  reports  from  foreign  missionary  socL- 


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OOTOBEB  13, 1887 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSUKE. 


13 


eties  is  interestiDg,  though  not  bo  fruitful 
in  rcBults  aa  could  be  wished. 

Miss  Olive  Risley  Seward,  the  adopted 
daughter  of  the  ex-Secretary,  will  tell  in 
the  November  number  of  Scribner's  Mag- 
azine a  hitherto  unwritten  chapter  of  the 
diplomatic  history  of  our  country,  re- 
garding the  abortive  treaty  with  Denmark 
for  the  purchase  of  the  island  of  St. 
Thomas. 

Babyhood  for  October  will  be  read  by 
careful  mothers  with  much  interest.  Such 
articles  as  Dr.  C.  L.  Dana's  on  "Preco- 
cious Children,"  Dr.  Yale's  on  "The  Prop- 
er Shoe  for  Little  Children,"  and  Dr. 
Kitchen's  on  "Baby's  Nose,"  will  help 
many  parents  to  better  understand  and 
provide  for  the  comfort  and  health  of 
the  little  ones.  Other  articles,  some  fully 
illustrated,  and  all  helpful  and  suggestive, 
fill  the  number. 

8t  Nicholas  for  October  is  the  last  but 
not  the  least  excellent  number  of  the  cur- 
rent volume.  Frank  R  Stockton  con- 
tributes one  of  his  capital  "Personally 
Conducted"  papers,  on  "The  Low  Coun- 
tries and  the  Rhine,"  with  abundant  illus- 
trations of  the  many  interesting  scenes 
described.  "General  Grant  at  Vicksburg" 
is  the  title  of  General  Adam  Badeau's 
war  story,  which  is  pleasantly  supple 
mented  by  a  very  clever  Southern  sketch, 
— "O'e  Mammy  Prissy."  John  R.  Coryell 
tells  about  the  curious  habits  of  an  ab- 
surd bird  with  the  queer  name  of  Kiwi- 
Kiwi;  and  Mary  J.  BafEord  writes  about 
a  self  respecting  and  knowing  dog  that 
stopped  a  mutiny.  George  J.  Manson 
tells  ambitious  youths  how  they  may  be- 
come successful  dry  goods  merchants; 
while  boys  of  a  more  literary  turn  may 
gain  encouragement  from  "The  Boyhood 
of  John  Greenleaf  Whittier,"  as  told  by 
W.  H.  Rideing. 


Lodge  Notes. 

At  Sioux  City,  Iowa,  Friday,  the  cor- 
ner stone  of  the  new  Chamber  of  Com- 
merce was  laid  with  Masonic  ceremonies. 

The  membership  of  the  Grand  Army 
of  the  Republic  aggregates  372,674. 
Judge  John  P.  Rhea  of  Minnesota  was 
elected  commander  in  chief  at  the  St- 
Louis  meeting. 

General  Secretary  Litchman,  of  the 
Knights  of  Labor,  reported  at  Minneap- 
olis Friday,  that  there  were  485,000  mem- 
bers in  good  and  regular  standing  in  the 
order.  The  money  on  hand  amounted  to 
$508,647. 

Three  hundred  miners,  employed  by  the 
McLean  County  Coal  Company  at  Bloom- 
ington,  111  ,  have  agreed  to  strike  because 
the  company  had  discharged  the  presi- 
dent and  two  secretaries  of  the  local  body 
of  the  National  Federation  of  Miners. 

The  Grand  Lodge  of  Ireland  has  three 
hundred  and  eighty  one  lodges  on  its  roll, 
numbering  from  1  to  1014,  and  the  Grand 
Masters'  Lodge,  at  the  head,  without  any 
number.  There  are  seven  regimental 
lodges.  The  largest  province  is  Antrim, 
with  eighty-seven  lodges. 

The  Mormon  missionaries  who  are  pros- 
elyting in  Great  Britain  held  a  meeting 
in  London  recently,  and  reported  that 
their  greatest  success  had  been  in  Scot- 
land and  Wales.  In  London  their  mis- 
sion had  been  an  entire  failure,  for  which 
they  adopted  a  resolution  invoking  the 
curse  of  God  on  that  city. 

Gen.  Lucius  Fairchild,  recently  com- 
mander in  chief  of  the-  Grand  Army  of 
Republic,  will  give,  in  the  November 
number  of  the  American  Magazine,  an 
account  of  the  origin,  aims  and  work  of 
the  order.  He  will  endeavor  to  make 
people  believe  that  the  Q  A.  R.  is  essen- 
tially a  great  benevolent  society. 

A  secret  conference  of  German  Social- 
ists, lasting  three  days,  has  been  held  at 
St.  Gall,  Switzerland.  Eighty  delegates 
were  present.  The  police  had  no  knowl- 
edge of  the  meeting  until  after  adjourn- 
ment. The  Socialist  leaders,  Singer  and 
Hasinclever,  acted  as  presidents  at  differ- 
ent sessions.  The  speakers  bitterly  de- 
nounced the  course  pursued  by  the  Social- 
ist deputies  in  the  Reichstag.  Reports 
were  read  showing  that  since  the  previ- 
ous conference  the  Socialists  of  Germany 
had  spent  170,000  marks,  of  which  100,- 
000  were  used  for  election  expenses,  and 
60,000  for  defending  members  who  have 
been  prosecuted. 

— - —    » • » 

Advertifiem  who  wish  to  iecure  tho  ai 
^entice  cf  the  b«0t  cl«M  «f  purchasers, 
will  find  it  to  their  adTaatage  to  secure 
ipMe  fa  tlM  asaUSTIAMOTNOaUBM. 


DONATIONS 

To  Cynosure  Ministers'  Fund: 

Jno.  Kloosterboer |3  50 

J.  F.  Brooks 4  00 

E.  Wentworth 50 

A  friend 35 

Mrs.  M  G.  Strong 1  5 ) 

B.  Williams 50 

M.  Plummer 50 

D.   Reynolds 1  50 

H.  M.  Whittemore 1  00 

R.  D.  Nichols 1  00 

Mrs.  Jno.  J.    Cox 3  55 

To  N.  C.  A.  Foreign  Fund: 

Mrs.  H.  L.   Kellogg $     50 

Jas    Brandt /or  i^eo.  C.  B.    Ward, 

India 3  00 

W.  O  Percival  for  Africa 3  50 

R.  D  Nichols /or  Rev.  D.  Z.  Sakel- 

larios,  Qreece 1  50 


BUSINESS. 
Those  500  Agents. 


Several  have  responded  to  the  adver- 
tisement. And  it  is  expected  that  every 
subscriber  to  the  Cynosure  who  has  the 
cause  at  heart  and  can  spend  some  time 
during  the  next  three  months  in  advanc- 
ing the  reform,  will  write  the  Publisher 
of  the  Cynosure. 


ROLL    ON  THE  CYNOSURE  LIST. 


FROM   KNOXVILLB,    TENN. 

'If  you  can  'get  up'  sufficient  enthusi- 
asm in  100  to  1,000  agents  to  secure  at 
least  100,000  subscribers  to  the  Cynosure, 
I  shall  get  my  share  of  them.  You  could 
then  pay  your  editors  and  contributors 
sufficient  to  justify  their  giving  their  time 
and  very  best  attention  to  it,  and  the  cause 
would  forge  ahead  rapidly  to  complete 
victory." 

We  hereby  thank  those  who  have  re- 
sponded so  promptly;  now  let  others 
keep  the  ball  rolling. 

S  UBSOBIPTION  LE  TTER8. 

The  following  have  made  remittances 
of  money  to  the  Cynosure  from  Oct.  3 
to  8  inclusive. 

L  I  Wicker,  W  D  Lowry,  R  D  Nichols, 
L  D  Hollingsworth,  R  Smith,  B  Periine, 
G  Pallister,  J  W  Riner,  A  C  Pratt,  A 
Fenton,  Mrs  M  B  Sherburne,  A  Mayne, 
J  Brandt,  C  C  Corss,  D  K  Lawrence,  N 
Countryman,  J  N  Gould,  G  M  Clark,  W 
O  Percival,  W  J  Haine,  Rav  A  C  Hand, 
A  Wakeman,  J  Gage,  S  Graham,  A  Tay- 
lor. 


BIRNEY. 

The  sketch  of  JAMES  Q.  BIRNEY, 
candidate  of  the  Liberty  Party  for  Presi- 
dent, in  pamnhlet  for  35  cents.  A  limit- 
ed number  of  copies  of  this  handsome 
pannohlet  for  sale  at  the  N.  0.  A.  oOce 


MARKET  REPORTS. 

CHICAGO. 

Wheatr-No.  8 69W 

No.  3 ee 

Winter  No  2 73^ 

Com— No.  a 42%®     43^ 

Oatft-No.a 26  @     2S>^ 

Rye— No.  2 49 

Branperton 1150 

Hay— Timothy 9  50  @13  .50 

Butter,  medium  to  best 16  @     24 

Cheese 04  @     igi./- 

Beans. 1  25  @  2  50 

Eggs 17  18 

Seedfl— Thnothy, 2  05  ©2  25 

Flax 1  07 

Broomcom...     02>^@|     07 

Potatoes  per  bus 60  @     65 

Hides— Green  to  dry  flint 07j,^@     13 

Lumber— Common 11  00  (tJlS  00 

Wool 10  &      34 

Cattle— Choice  to  extra 4  70  (cj  5  40 

Common  to  good 1  75  (d  4  ,'iO 

Hogs 4  20  @  4  71 

Sheep 2  50  ®  3  »5 

NEW  YORK. 

Flour 320  @560 

Wheat— Winter 78  (^     87 

Spring 82V 

Com 63  @     54 

Oats 32  Cot      40 

Kggs 15  @      21 

Butter 16  (^     35 

Wool 00  37 

KANSAS  CITT. 

GtX&t..^,.^^^..^^..^^  1  SO  a  4  65 

Hogl..^^ ►^.^ 8  75  2  4  60 

Vkun -.^ 8  00  e  8  60 


FREE  TRACTS 


Will  be  furnished  to  those  who  desire  in- 
formation or  who  will  distribute  them 
where  they  will  do  the  most  good. 

There  are  in  stock  now  a  large  number 
of 

"FKEBMA8ONBT   EN    THB   FAMILY." 

This  is  especially  interesting  to  ladies. 
"to  the  boyb  who  hopb  to  be  men." 

It  is  illustrated  and  will  please  the 
school  children. 

"SELLING  DEAD   HORSES." 

You  can  always  get  the  attention  of 
farmers  or  men  who  are  interested  in 
horses  with  this  tract. 

"MOODY   ON     SECRET    SOCIETIES" 

leads  Christians  to  separation. 

A  limited  number  of  two  new  tracts 
will  be  sent  to  any  who  need  them. 

"the   SONS   OF   VETERANS." 

"in  which  army  are    you?" 
Remember  these  tracts  will  be  sent  you 
freely.     But  any  who  wish  to  contribute 
to  this  Free  Tract  Fund  are  earnestly  re- 
quested to  do  so. 

Ought  you  not,  once  a  year  at  least,  to 
put  a  tract  into  each  one  of  your  neigh- 
bor's houses?  Will  you  send  for  a  supply 
soon? 
National  Christian  Association, 
221  W.  Madison  St.,  Chicago. 


The  time  is  near  for  buying  holiday 
presents.  If  you  preserve  the  Cynosure 
of  Sept.  8th  you  will  have  The  Literary 
Revolution  list  of  Jno.  B.  Alden's  books 
to  select  from.  Well  printed, well  bound 
and  cheap  are  valuable  qualities. 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE 

still  remains  at  |2.00  per  year,  but  the 
N.  C  A.  at  its  annual  meeting  continued 
the  offer  for  another  year  of  the  special 
rate  of  one  dollar  and  fifty  cents  per 
year  in  advance. 

One  month..  $  .15  One  year. ..  .$1.50 
Two  months.  .25  *Two  years . .  3 . 00 
Four  months .  .  50  *Three  years .  4.50 
Six  months  . .  .75  *Four  years..  6.00 
Eight  months  1.00  *Five  years..  7.50 
Specimen  Numbers. — For  ten  cents 
we  will  send  the  Christian  Cynosure  for 
three  weeks  to  any  address,  thus  giving 
them  a  chance  to  examine  the  paper  and 
subscribe  if  they  think  best.  Could  you 
make  better  use  of  a  dollar  of  the  Lord's 
money  than  to  send  to  ten  of  your  friends 
three  copies  of  the  Cynosure? 


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TBCE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSTTRE. 


October  13,  188? 


Home  and  Health. 

NO  NEED  OF  CATCHING  COLDS. 

Speaking  of  colds,  I  have  a  theory  that 
no  one  ever  need  have  one  unless  he 
chooses;  in  other  words,  that  it  is  quite 
possible  80  to  train  the  skin,  that  won- 
derful organ  which  is  generally  looked 
upon  as  the  paper  wrapper  to  our  human 
bundle,  as  to  render  it  non  susceptible  to 
sudden  changes  of  temperature  or  at- 
mospheric moisture,  whence  colds  come. 

And  as  this  is  exactly  the  season  to 
commence  such  a  system  of  peliar  edu- 
cation, as  it  has  proved  effective  in  many 
instances  within  my  own  knowledge,  and 
as  it  is  within  easy  reach  of  every  one  to 
try,  I  write  it  here.  The  theory  is  that 
no  skin  that  has  been  exposed  freely  for 
half  an  hour  at  the  beginning  of  a  day 
to  a  temperature  lower  than  it  will  en- 
counter through  the  day,  will  note  small 
changes  or  be  affiiCted  thereby. 

A  cold  is  simply  a  nervous  shock,  re- 
ceived by  the  myriads  of  minute  nerve 
terminals  that  bristle  over  the  surface  of 
the  human  body,  transmitted  to  the  cen- 
ters and  so  back  again  to  mucous  mem- 
brane, the  peculiar  seat  of  this  special 
irritation.  Let  us  then  so  train  these  sen- 
sitive fibres  that  they  will  pass  by.  unno- 
ticed, changes  of  atmospheric  condition, 
and  the  matter  is  accomplished. — Amer- 
ican Magazine. 

Good  Bread. — Among  many  kinds  of 
bread  which  are  good,  there  is  only  one 
for  which  I  will  give  the  rule.  This  is 
rye  and  Indian-meal  bread,  which  I  value 
very  highly,  and  is  made  as  follows:  One 
coffee  cup  of  yellow  oorn  meal;  one  cof- 
fee cup  of  rye  flour;  one  half  coffee-cup 
of  white  or  entire  wheat  flour;  one  half 
teaspoonful  of  baking  soda;  one  and  one- 
half  cups  of  sweet  milk;  one-half  cup 
molasses;  and  half  a  teaspoonful  of  salt. 
Sift  all  the  meal  and  flour  and  soda  to- 
gether, then  add  the  molasses  and  milk, 
beat  well,  and  steam  two  hours.  The 
steaming  should  be  continuous,  as  the 
bread  is  likely  to  be  heavy  if  it  is  not. 
This  bread,  with  milk,  makes  a  very 
healthful  supper  for  many  old  folks  and 
children.  If  stale  it  can  be  freshened  by  re- 
steaming,  or  moistening  and  placing  in 
the  oven  for  a  few  minutes. 

The  bread  made  from  entire  wheat 
flour  is  far  more  wholesome  than  that 
made  from  white  flour.  The  entire  wheat 
furnishes  the  elements  of  -bone,  which  are 
removed  from  fine  white  flour.  Old- 
fashioned  Graham  flour  does  not  easily 
digest  on  account  of  its  coarseness  and 
the  admixture  of  silicious  bark.  Entire 
wheat  flour  makes  better  breakfast  cakes 
than  any  other,  and  can  be  used  for  any 
kind  of  cake  that  is  necessary  It  pre- 
vents constipation.  Oatmeal  or  some 
mush  should  be  on  every  breakfast  table. 
Fruit  is  also  more  desirable  there  than  at 
other  meals 

Coffee  acts  upon  the  brain  as  a  stimu- 
lant, inciting  it  to  increased  activity  and 
producing  sleeplessness;  hence  it  is  of 
great  value  as  an  antidote  to  narcotic 
poisons  It  is  also  supposed  to  prevent 
too  rapid  waste  in  the  tissues  of  the  body, 
and  in  that  way  enables  it  to  support  life 
on  less  food.  These  effects  are  due  to  the 
volatile  oil  and  also  to  a  peculiar  crys- 
tallizable  nitrogenous  principle,  termed 
caffeine.  The  leaves  of  the  plant  like 
wise  contain  the  same  principle,  and  the 
inhabitants  of  the  island  of  Sumatra  pre- 
fer an  infusion  of  the  leaves  to  that  of 
the  berries.  Its  essential  qualities  are  also 
greatly  changefl,  the  heal  causing  the  de- 
velopment of  the  volatilB  oil  and  pecul- 
iar acid  which  gives  aroma  and  flavor. 

A  piece  of  zinc  placed  on  the  live  coals 
in  a  hot  stove  will  effectually  clean  out  a 
stove  pipe,  th"!  vapors  produced  carrying 
off  soot  by  chemical  decomposition. 

It  is  claimed  that  the  juice  of  lemon 
squeezed  into  a  cup  of  strong  coffee  will 
afford  immediate  relief  in  neuralgic  head- 
ache. 

A  few  leaves  of  green  wormwood  scat- 
tered where  black  ants  congregate  is  said 
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PERMANENT  SWARD -THE  BEST 

GRASSES. 


The  basis  of   stock  breeding  and  the 
dairy  should  be  permanent  pastures  and 
meadows.     How  to  obtain  these  and  re- 
tain them  is  the  question.  In  some  places, 
on  alluvial  lands,  the  answer  is  easy— by 
letting  them  alone,  and  occasionally  sow- 
ing a  little  se^d  in  thinned  out  places,  or 
scattering  a  little  horse  manure  over  such 
spots.     In  such  soils  it  is  natural  for  the 
grass  to  be  retaiued,  and  it  may  list  for  a 
lifetime  or  a  century.      On  uplands  it  is 
more  difficult  to  keep  land  in  grass  with- 
out its  killing  out  in  the  winter.    This  in- 
clination is  more    common  with  some 
kinds  of  grasses  than  with  others.     Here 
is  JQSt  where  study  should  be  made,  and 
all  the  best  means  employed  to  do  the  best 
and  to  get  the  best  results.     I  do  not 
make  it  a  rule  to  seed  with  oats,  as  the 
risks  are  too  great  of  the  seed  catching 
well,  and  the  cost  is  too  much  to  admit  of 
its  waste.     Large  sums  of  money  are  lost 
in  this  way  by  the  careless  and  unwise 
methods  of  seeding       Spring  wheat  is 
the  best  spring  crop  to  seed  with,  and 
barley  next.     The  farmer  makes  a  mis- 
take when  he  sows  the  grain  as  thickly 
with  the  seeding  as  he  would  without  it. 
It  is  absurd  to  expect  two  good  crops  at^ 
the  same  time  on  the  same  ground    Cio 
ver  and  timothy  will  often  do  well,  es-         , 
pecially  if  the  season  is  a  wet  one,  when"?"^^  "/  unregis- 
put  in  with  a  spring  crop  of  grain.     Th("*^g  *«  change 
other  grasses,  more  delicate  in  their  start 
will  never  do  well  with  an  oat  crop,  an condClase matter.  1 
not  as  well  with  any  grain  as  when  put  i 
alone.     In  order  to  get  a  sure  seeding 
and  not  run  the  risks  of  loss  of  labor  an-usNOB : 
seed,  all  seeding  should  be  done  with  wiiReform  in  East- 
ter  grain,  and  the  seed  put  ou  both  way  York ;  Evangel- 

as  early  in  the  spring  as  it  is  possible  S  ^5"°  °?*'  ^^^ 

M.  ♦!,     «  ij       T  1-  1      Pandemonium  at 

walk  over  the  field.     I  have  sown  clov.^g .fjjg  j^ame  of 

and  timothy  onthe  topof  bigsnowbanbTabooed  by  the 
and  it  did  finely.  The  seed  finds  its  wi_- ;  For  Canadian 
right  down  to  the  earth  through  the  sno  w " 
and  ice,  and  gets  bedded  in  the  soil  ready 
to  start  with  the  first  growing  weather, 
and  to  get  a  good  root  before  any  dry 
weather  comes.  These  grasses  are  not 
suited  for  either  a  permanent  pasture  or 
meadow,  and  never  should  be  put  in  with 
any  such  expectation.  Clover  may  pos- 
sibly linger  in  rich  spots  for  three  years, 
but  it  generally  follows  its  nature  (bien- 
nial) and  dies  out  in  two  years  Timo- 
thy, under  favorable  conditions,  when 
not  pastured  after  mowing  or  left  to  get 
a  good  start  in  the  autumn,  may  last  a 
few  years,  but  as  a  pasture  grass  it  is  very 
poor,  and  about  the  last  grass  to  be  sown. 
Notwithstanding  the  inefficiency  of  tim- 
othy as  a  grass  for  pasture,  it  is  sown 
more  commonly  than  any  other.  This  is 
because  of  its  cheapness  and  the  little 
care  most  people  think  is  necessary  to  put 
it  in.  It  does  better  for  a  meadow  and 
fills  a  place  as  a  grass  for  hay  no  other 
can  fill. 

For  a  lasting  grass  and  to  endure  all  the 
changes  of  weather  and  climate,  I  con- 
sider red  top  the  best.  All  kinds  of  stock 
relish  the  hay,  and  also  the  pasture  from 
it.  It  will  outlive  all  other  grasses,  and 
afford  twice  as  much  pasture  as  timothy. 
Orchard  grass  I  like  for  a  pasture,  on  ac 
count  of  its  earliness  and  constant  gro  wth. 
On  good  land  it  will  furnish  a  new  bite  in 
three  or  four  da7S  after  being  eaten  off. 
It  is  not  so  good  for  hay,  as  the  stems  are 
not  thick  enough,  and  unless  'cut  just 
right  it  becomes  woody.  For  an  after- 
math no  grass  is  equal  to  it.  It  must 
never  be  pastured  later  than  September, 
or  mown  later  than  this,  for  it  will  winter 
kill.  This  has  been  my  experience,  but 
undoubtedly  in  a  warmer  climate,  where 
the  ground  does  not  freezQ  so  hard,  it 
might  go  through  the  winter  with  the 
crowns  exposed.  Such  is  not  the  case  in 
latitude  43  °  .  Our  native  blue  grass 
(^Poa  pratenaU)  is  valuable  for  pasture, 
as  it  is  very  early  in  starting,  and  grows 
all  through  the  season.  It  is,  however, 
80  natural  to  the  soil,  that  it  will  make 
its  appearance  in  abundance  if  not  sown. 
Red  top  is  also  indigenous  on  some  farms. 
It  may  be  a  now  idea,  but  it  is  a  pr.scti- 
cal  one,  to  fit  land  designed  for  pasture 
or  meadow  in  the  fall,  and  to  sow  the 
seed.  Wh'-n  this  can  be  done  in  August, 
it  is  an  excellent  plan,  ar.d  it  may  be  done 
after  the  crop  of  spring  grain  has  been 
taken  off.  This  will  ensure  a  successful 
catch.  When  not  done  by  rhe  first  of 
September,  it  can  be  done  so  late  that  the 
seed  will  not  germinate  until  spring,  or 
the  land  may  be  fitted  in  the  autumn,  and 
the  seed  sown  on  top  of  the  ground  so 
u  to  be  ready  to  start  with  the  first  warm 


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far  more  productive  than  under  the  hap- 
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THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


October  13, 1887 


Nfws  of  The  Week 

WASHINGTON. 

It  is  estimated  that  the  reduction  of 
the  public  debt  for  September  will  amount 
to  $16,500,000. 

The  annual  report  of  the  Commissioner 
of  Pensions  shows  that  there  were  at  the 
close  of  the  year  407,007  pensioners  on 
the  rolls.  The  amount  paid  was  $73,- 
367.581. 

The  Treasury  Department  has  refused 
to  audit  the  wine  and  cigar  bills  which 
were  contracted  at  the  Annapolis  Naval 
Academy  by  Secretary  Whitney  and  the 
board  of  visitors  who  accompanied  him 
there.  The  bill,  amounting  to  $352.12, 
was  paid  by  Secretary  Whitney  himself. 
A  statement  prepared  at  the  Treasury 
Department  shows  that  during  the  month 
of  September  there  was  a  net  increase  of 
$32,350,375  in  circulation,  and  a  net  in- 
crease of  $7,264,136  in  the  cash  in  the 
Treasury. 

The  Interior  Department  has  decided 
to  adhere  to  the  rule  already  in  force,  not 
to  issue  permits  to  persons  to  enter  the 
Indian  Territory  for  hunting,  fishing,  etc., 
and  has  recently  refused  to  issue  permits 
on  several  requests.  The  action  of  the 
department  is  influenced  by  the  objections 
of  the  Indians.  Persons  having  impor- 
tant business  in  the  Territory  can  pro- 
cure permits  as  heretofore. 

The  special  report  of  Commissioner 
Okie  in  regard  to  the  Emigration  Com- 
mission at  New  York  City  is  said  to  rec- 
ommend a  radical  change  in  the  methods 
of  conducting  immigration  affairs  at  Cas- 
tle Garden.  Secretary  Fairchild  has  the 
matter  under  consideration  and  will  act 
upon  it  in  a  few  days.  There  is  said  to 
be  great  dissatisfaction  over  the  present 
state  of  affairs,  and  the  Treasury  De 
partment  is  disposed  to  abrogate  the  con- 
tract with  the  present  commissioners. 

CHICAGO . 

An  ordinance  has  been  drafted  for  pre- 
sentation to  the  City  Council,  permitting 
suburban  trains  to  run  at  increased  speed 
through  the  city,  providing  the  railway 
companies  construct  suitable  viaducts, 
gates  and  guards  for  their  tracks. 

Dr.  Leonard  St.  John,  Levi  Dell,  Cap- 
tain John  Freer,  and  Captain  John  Irwin, 
charged  with  conspiracy  to  illegally  res- 
cue William  J.  McGarigle,  were  called  the 
other  day  before  Judge  Williamson  in 
the  Criminal  Court.  A  temporary  post- 
ponement was  made  of  their  trial. 

COtlNTBT. 

At  Cincinnati,  Ohio,  Friday,  Congress- 
men Butterworth  and  Erastus  Winan 
addressed  the  merchants  on  the  proposed 
commercial  union  between  the  United 
States  and  Canada.  Both  gentlemen  fa- 
vored it.  No  measure  since  the  war,  it 
was  urged,  was  of  so  much  importance 
to  the  country  as  this  was. 

A  very  successful  exhibition  was  given 
of  telegraphing  to  and  from  a  train  on 
the  Lehigh  Valley  road,  where  the  sys- 
tem is  in  operation.  With  the  train  go- 
ing a  mile  a  minute  messages  were  sent 
and  news  and  stock  quotations  were  hand- 
led perfectly,  and  the  conductor  was  in- 
structed as  to  the  running  of  his  train. 

The  first  snow  of  the  season  in  the 
valley  commenced  falling  Thursday  at 
Livingston,  Montana.  The  ground  was 
covered  three  inches  deep.  Snow  fell  on 
the  mountains  and  the  high  peaks  were 
coated  while. 

Three  intelligent,  bright  looking  Swed- 
ish women,  just  arrived  from  the  old 
country,  took  out  their  naturalization 
papers  at  Glidden,  Wis.,  a  few  days  ago. 
They  were  the  first  ever  naturalized  in 
this  section.  They  have  selected  home- 
steads, and  will  engage  in  agricultural 
pursuits  independent  of  masculines. 

Two  cases  of  yellow  fever  were  discov- 
ered Friday  at  Tampa,  Fla.,  and  one 
death  from  the  disease  is  reported.  Panic- 
stricken  people  are  leaving  the  city  hur- 
ridly.  Later  intelligence  is  that  there 
are  thirty  cases,  and  that  four  deaths 
have  occurred.  Even  the  physicians,  it 
Ib  said,  are  seeking  safety  in  flight. 

Ofllcers  of  the  Western  Union  Tele- 
graph Company  announce  that  the  Balti- 
more andOhioTelegraph  property  has  been 
bought  by  the  former  corporation,  the 
consideration  being  $5,000,000,  to  be  paid 
in  Western  Union  stock. 

Mr.  Robert  Garrett,  it  is  said,  is  angry 
at  the  sale  of  the  B  and  O.  Telegraph 
by  the  syndicate  to  the  Western   Union, 


and  will  fight  the  matter  in  the  courts. 
He  is  credited  with  declaring  that,  before 
Mr.  Gould  secures  legal  possession  of  the 
lines,  he  will  have  to  pay  a  much  larger 
sum  than  $5,000,000. 

A  decision  was  rendered  by  the  Su- 
preme Court  at  Pittsburg,  Pa  ,  Monday, 
declaring  that  dealing  in  differences  in 
the  price  of  petroleum  is  gambling  and 
illegal,  and  cannot  be  sustained  in  a  court 
of  justice. 

Sioux  City's  Corn  Palace  was  formally 
opened  Monday  night.  The  structure  is 
composed  entirely  of  products  of  the  field, 
and  is  both  beautiful  and  unique.  The 
jubilee  festival  will  continue  all  the  week. 

An  accommodation  train  on  the  Louis- 
ville, New  Albany  and  Chicago  road  was 
wrecked  by  a  cow  Monday  morning  at 
Salem,  Ind ,  all  the  passengers  being 
more  or  less  hurt.  It  is  believed  that  two 
persons  are  fatally  hurt. 

The  rush  of  water  through  a  hole  dug 
by  a  muskrat  in  a  canal  bank  near  Nash- 
ua, N.  H.,  swept  away  a  portion  of  the 
the  embankment, resulting  in  a  flood  that 
swept  away  trees,  fences,  etc.  The  mills 
were  compelled  to  shut  down,  and  3,000 
persons  will  be  out  of  work  until  repairs 
can  be  made. 

The  remains  of  thirteen  infants  were 
found  Thursday  at  Toledo,  Ohio,   in  a 
cistern  on  piemises  formerly  occupied  b^^ 
a  midwife,  who  has  been  arrested.     Tl^ 
police  are  investigating  the  matter.         i — 

Ephraim  Howe's  diatillery  at  New  Yor 
was  destroyed  by  fire  Thursday  morninj 
the  loss  reaching  $175,000.  The  greate^ 
excitement  prevailed  among  the  occij 
pants  of  a  hotel  and  a  tenament  adjoi^ 
ing  the  blazing  building,  but  no  persOks 
was  injured. 

The  boiler  in  the  engine  room  of  t^^  g. 
George  P.  Plant  Milling  Company's  flos'. 
mill  at  St.  Louis  exploded  Monday,  kil 
ing  four  men  and  a  woman  and  dangei^ie^ 
ously  wounding  the  engineer  and  a  little 
girl.     Pieces  of  the  flying  boiler  wrecked 
a  two  story  dwelling  and  a  livery  stable. 

Fire  Wednesday  forenoon  destroyed 
the  great  oat  meal  mill  of  Douglas  and 
Stuart  at  Cedar  Rapids,  Iowa.  An  ex- 
plosion in  the  elevator  in  the  third  story, 
which  riddled  it  as  if  struck  by  lightning, 
was  followed  by  a  fire  that  went  to  all 
parts  of  the  mill  quickly.  It  is  believed 
the  fire  was  caused  by  electricity,  result- 
ing from  friction  in  the  elevator  leg. 

The  propeller  California,  laden  with 
24,000  bushels  of  corn  and  800  barrels  of 
pork,  ran  aground  Wednesday  morning 
just  ofE  St.  Helena's  Island .  There  were 
twenty  seven  people  on  board;  fourteen 
were  saved  and  thirteen  lost.  The  boat 
is  a  total  wreck. 

FOBBIGN. 

Berlin  dispatches  announce  that  the 
triple  alliance,  so  long  desired  by  Italy, 
has  been  consummated,  by  which  Rus- 
sia's ambitious  schemes  have  been  frus- 
trated, and  Italy  has  gained  a  prestige  she 
has  always  lacked.  The  London  dis- 
patches represent  that  consternation  was 
caused  at  St.  Petersburg  when  the  alli- 
ance became  known.  The  alliance  is  re- 
garded as  a  menace  to  Russia,  and  the 
peace  of  Europe  is  assured  for  the  pres- 
ent. 

The  Nautical  Society  of  Hamburg  has 
offered  a  prize  of  500  marks  for  the  best 
essay  on  the  subject  of  calming  the  sea 
by  the  use  of  oil. 

The  Gaulois  states  that  the  Grand 
Duke  Nicholas  of  Russia  declared  recent- 
ly that  when  the  occasion  arose  he  and  a 
number  of  other  Russians  would  join  the 
French  army. 

Owing  to  the  almost  daily  shocks  of 
earthquake  at  Santiago  de  Cuba,  a  panic 
has  seized  the  inhabitants,  and  business 
is  almost  completely  suspended. 


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Bditobial  : 

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Dr.  Howard  Crosby 8 

The  Powderly  Meeting. . .  8 

CONTKIBUTIONS  : 

Moral  Heroes— Elijah  P. 

Lovejoy 1 

Bundo 2 

Secret   Societies  vs.   the 

Church 2 

Sblbcted : 

New  York  Anarchists 3 

Press  Comment 9 

Rbtobm  Nbws  : 
Missouri    Meetings ;    Up 
and  Down  In  Alabama ; 
The     Minnesota     State 

Meeting 4,5 

BiBLB  Lbsson 6 

Boston  Lbtteb 9 

Unearthing    Secret  Society 
Murders  in  MiBsisslppl...     9 

In  Bbibf 7 

The  N.  C.  A 7 


Cobbbspondbnob : 
National  Reform  In  East- 
ern New  York ;  Evangel- 
ists who  Shun  not  the 
Truth ;  Pandemonium  at 
Columbus  ;The  Name  of 
Christ  Tabooed  by  the 
G.  A.  R. ;  For  Canadian 
Methodists ;   Pith     and 

Point 5,6 

Chubch  vs.  Lodge 7 

Seokbt    Societies     Con- 
demned      7 

Lecture  List 7 

The  Home 10 

Temperance 11 

Religious  News 12 

Literature 12 

Lodge  Notes 13 

Business 13 

Markets 13 

Home  and  Health 14 

Farm  Notes 15 

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The  Attorney  General  of  Kansas  lets  the  part  of 
bis  business  relating  to  prohibition  care  for  itself. 
Two  cases  against  saloon-keepers  which  had  been 
decided  in  their  favor  by  State  courts  had  been  car- 
ried up  to  the  United  States  Supreme  court.  The 
Kansas  officer  read  the  other  day  in  the  papers  that 
the  case  had  been  called  and  Senator  Vest  of  Mis- 
souri and  a  New  York  lawyer  named  Choate  had 
argued  for  the  saloons  and  the  case  had  been  sub- 
mitted in  this  one-sided  maimer.  Attorney  General 
Bradford  claims  that  he  did  not  know,  etc.,  but  it 
would  be  well  for  Kansas  prohibitionists  to  find  out 
whether  he  is  a  Freemason  or  is  incompetent. 


The  Crown  Prince  Frederick  of  Germany  has 
been  an  inveterate  smoker,  and  for  months  he  has 
been  suffering  from  a  throat  disease  similar  to  that 
which  killed  General  Grant.  The  best  physicians  of 
Europe  have  assisted  to  prevent  its  progress,  but 
the  latest  report  indicates  a  fatal  result,  as  it  is  ad- 
mitted that  the  disease  is  tobacco  cancer,  and  incur- 
able. This  report  gives  alarm.  The  aged  Emperor 
must  soon  yield  to  his  first  conqueror  as  well  as 
last,  and  a  peaceful  successor  was  promised  in 
Prince  Frederick;  but  if  he,  too,  is  cut  off  his  eldest 
son  William,  a  young  man  of  28,  known  to  be  of  an 
impetuous,  bold  and  fiery  temper,  whose  ambition 
cast  into  the  trembling  balance  of  European  affairs, 
would  plunge  again  the  world  in  mourning  for  the 
wastes  of  war. 


George  W.  Cable,  the  eloquent  and  brave  South- 
erner, whose  lectures  and  novels  are  only  surpassed 
by  his  magazine  articles  which  have  contributed  so 
much  to  the  overthrow  of  the  caste  spirit  in  the 
South,  has  since  his  removal  from  New  Orleans  to 
Northampton,  Mass.,  been  a  successful  teacher  of  a 
Bible  class.  He  has  just  taken  charge  of  the  great 
Bible  study  in  Tremont  Temple,  Boston.  This 
Union  Bible  class  is  one  of  the  unique  features  of 
that  city.  Some  yjears  ago  Dr.  R.  R.  Meredith,  pas- 
tor of  the  Union  Congregational  church,  began  a 
Saturday  afternoon  Bible  study  in  his  own  church. 
His  gifts  seemed  to  be  exceptional  and  the  class 
grew  till  it  filled  Tremont  Temple  with  3,000  mem- 
bers, and  a  salary  of  $10,000  it  is  reported  was  made 
up  by  subscription.     Dr.  Meredith  lately  accepted 


a  call  to  the  Tompkins  Avenue  pulpit,  Brooklyn, 
made  vacant  by  the  re-entering  upon  the  work  of 
an  evangelist  by  Dr.  George  F.  Pentecost,  and  the 
big  class  has  been  at  a  loss  for  a  teacher.  Brilliant 
and  versatile  as  Mr,  Cable  is  in  literature,  the  new 
work  is  yet  an  experiment  with  him,  and  he  will 
find  it  a  tax  upon  all  his  resources  of  Biblical  in- 
formation, enthusiasm  and  devotion  such  as  few 
men  can  endure  and  succeed.  The  establishment  of 
such  classes  in  all  our  cities,  led  by  godly  men  who 
stand  with  Christ  against  all  the  world's  evils, 
would  mark  a  blessed  era  in  the  Christian  church. 


DR.    HOWARD    CROSBY. 
(See  page  8.]   " 

The  code  of  Illinois  allowing  the  marriage  bond 
to  be  annulled  by  a  single  judge,  for  many  reasons 
unknown  in  the  moral  law,  Chicago  courts  are  noto- 
rious divorce  mills.  But  if  divorce  is  often  easy,  it 
is  sometimes  a  thorny  and  dangerous  way  out  of 
wedlock.  Sabbath  noon  as  Dr.  Withrow's  congre- 
gation was  leaving  the  Third  Presbyterian  church 
on  Ashland  and  Ogden  Avenues,  the  swelling  organ 
notes  were  stopped  by  the  sharp  crack  of  a  revolver, 
five  times  discharged  into  the  body  of  Mr.  S.  W. 
Rawson,  a  well-known  and  reputable  banker,  presi- 
dent of  the  Union  Trust  Company.  More  than  a 
year  ago  Mr.  Rawson  began  suit  for  divorce  from 
his  third  wife  whom  he  claims  is  an  adventuress  and 
perhaps  worse.  She  is  at  least  a  fighting  female, 
and  has  succeeded  in  defeating  Rawson's  efforts  so 
far.  She  had  a  grown-up  son  by  a  former  marriage, 
and  whether  she  persuaded  him  to  the  deed  or  not, 
he  at  least  appeared  before  the  church  and  as  Raw- 
son  stepped  upon  the  street  shot  him  down.  He 
meant  -to  kill;  and  has  probably  succeeded.  His 
death  will  settle  the  suit  and  secure  a  widow's  por- 
tion to  a  seemingly  unworthy  woman. 


The  clamor  of  labor  societies  gave  us  a  law  against 
"contract  laborers,  which  it  seems  reaches  farther 
than  its  framers  intended.  Some  time  ago  the 
Collector  at  New  York  obliged  a  Scotch  gar- 
dener who  had  been  engaged  in  Scotland  to 
come  over  and  work  for  a  gentleman  in  this 
country,  to  go  back  to  Scotland,  because  he 
came  under  the  provision  of  the  law  of  Congress 
prohibiting  the  importation  of  "contract  laborers." 
J.  S.  Kennedy,  president  of  the  St.  Andrews  Soci- 
ety, endeavored  in  vain  to  get  the  man  ashore. 
Chinese  and  others  have  also  been  sent  back  under 
this  law.  But  now  there  is  a  new  application  of  the 
law.       Rev.    E.    Walpole    Warren    has    been    en- 


gaged in  England  to  come  over  and  become  rector 
of  the  Holy  Trinity  Episcopal  church  in  New  York, 
of  which  Rev.  Stephen  H.  Tyng,  Jr.,  was  formerly 
pastor.  Mr.  Kennedy  wants  the  law  enforced  against 
Mr.  Warren,  because  he,  too,  was  brought  over  under 
a  contract  to  serve  the  church  mentioned.  On 
his  appeal  U.  S.  District  Attorney  Walker  has  de- 
cided that  Mr.  Warren's  case  comes  under  the  ob- 
noxious law,  and  it  is  his  duty  to  bring  suit  against 
the  church  and  the  captain  of  the  vessel  on  which 
the  clergyman  sailed.  This  is  a  beautiful  law.  The  hye- 
nas of  anarchy  have  no  check  to  their  landing,  nor 
do  any  of  the  lazzaroni  class,  but  men  who  come  to 
work,  and  paupers  who  are  able  and  willing  to  work 
are,  as  it  were,  kicked  off  the  docks.  Such  disgrace 
comes  of  blindly  following  a  popular  clamor  raised 
by  secret  orders. 


MORAL  HBBOBS. 


NO.  IX. — LOVEJOY,  THE    MARTYR, 


BT  BEV.  0.  C.  FOOTE. 


Late  in  the  autumn  of  1837  appalling  tidings 
swept  through  the  country,  from  the  Mississippi  to 
the  Atlantic,  that  caused  men  to  hold  their  breath, 
and  their  hearts  to  stop  beating,  as  if  suddenly  ar- 
rested by  an  earthquake.  Across  tbe  broad  prairies 
and  over  the  mountains  the  terrible  tidings  were 
borne  that  Liberty,  liberty  of  the  press,  the  plat- 
form and  pulpit,  so  sweet  to  the  American  people, 
whose  praises  had  been  sung  by  the  million;  for  the 
security  of  which  our  fathers  had  plunged  into  the 
horrors  of  a  seven  years'  war;  the  liberty  purchased 
at  such  a  cost  had  been  ruthlessly  stricken  down 
and  silenced  in  the  person  of  one  of  her  chief  stand- 
ard-bearers and  defenders. 

Rev.  Elijah  P.  Lovejoy,  knowing  that  an  assault 
was  about  to  be  made  by  the  enemies  of  freedom, 
sprang  into  the  deadly  breach.  There  be  lay — the 
martyr  in  his  blood — cold,  still,  dead,  on  the  bank 
of  the  Father  of  waters,  at  Alton,  Illinois.  All  over 
the  North  men  were  transfixed  with  horror!  It  was 
an  epoch  in  the  annals  of  the  nation,  and  to  this  day 
the  force  of  that  shock  is  not  allayed  by  those  who 
felt  it.  As  I  rehearse  the  record,  the  same  anguish 
rushes  over  me:  the  tears  start  to  my  eyes  again, 
and  I  sit  stunned  at  the  recital  as  I  did  fifty  years 
ago.  It  was  the  crime  of  the  South  against  liberty. 
Heaven  held  back  the  avenging  blow  for  a  little 
space  to  make  the  descent  surer. 

A  score  of  editorials  in  the  Observer,  of  which  Mr. 
Lovejoy  was  editor,  lie  before  me.  I  have  read 
them  with  the  profoundest  interest,  not  onl}'  be- 
cause of  the  martyrdom  of  the  writer,  but  because 
of  their  power  to  arouse  the  emotions  into  conflagra- 
tion. No  doubt  the  terrible  charges  against  the  fla- 
grant wrongs  in  these  articles  against  Southern  slav- 
ery were  the  occasion  of  the  deadly  hate  that  noth- 
ing but  his  blood  could  appease.  Surely  the  man 
that  God  raised  up  to  warn  the  nation  of  coming 
judgment,  and  to  be  a  swift  witness  against  it,  must 
have  been  clothed  with  tremendous  energy  and  fear- 
lessness from  above. 

The  history  of  this  blessed  martyr,  from  his  child- 
hood to  his  death,  furnishes  ample  demonstration 
that  the  minions  of  oppression  selected  no  ordinary 
victim  in  whose  blood  to  imbue  their  murderous 
hands. 

Elijah  P.  Lovejoy  was  born  1802,  at  Albion,  in 
the  eastern  part  of  Massachusetts,  which  in  1820 
became  the  State  of  Maine.  At  an  early  age  he  ex- 
hibited in  a  marked  degree  the  qu-ilities  of  his 
Scotch  descent  of  courage,  firmness  and  persever- 
ance. He  had  a  memory  of  marvelous  retention. 
By  one  hearing  of  the  letters  of  the  alphabet,  from 
his  mother,  he  memorized  them  all.  At  four  years 
there  shone  out  his  remarkable  passion  for  knowl- 
edge. Before  he  was  five  years  old  he  was  a  fluent 
reader  of  the  Bible.  He  could  repeat  many  of  the 
Psalms  of  David,  and  Watts's  hymns  almost  with- 
out number.  Through  the  whole  of  his  youth  he 
was  a  diligent  reader  of  books.  His  remarkable 
physical  powers  were  shown  in  his  having  no  equal 
in  his  neighborhood  for  distance  in  swimming  and 
depths  in  diving. 


2 


THE  CHRISTIAJNT  CYNOSURE. 


OcroBBR  20,  1887 


He  graduated  at  Waterville  College  in  1826  with 
the  highest  honors  of  his  class.  One  year  later  he 
turned  his  eyes  and  steps  towards  the  new  West, 
and  paused  not  till  he  had  placed  2,000  miles  be- 
tween "his  lone  heart  and  the  fondly  cherished 
home  of  his  childhood."  At  St.  Louis  he  took 
charge  of  a  school,  in  which  he  continued  until  an 
editor's  chair  was  offered  him,  which  he  accepted 
and  entered  upon  what  he  regarded  as  the  highway 
to  political  elevation.  But  Providence  had  proposed 
a  life  very  unlike  to  that  for  this  child  of  many 
prayers,  who  in  his  infancy  had  been  consecrated 
by  his  parents  to  the  service  of  the  "covenant-keep- 
ing God." 

In  1832  St,  Louis  was  visited  by  an  extensive  re- 
vival of  religion,  during  which  a  fundamental 
change  was  wrought  in  the  character  and  purposes 
of  our  subject.  It  would  be  a  dull  sensibility  in- 
deed that  could  read  the  letters  that  passed  between 
the  son  and  his  parents  during  and  after  this  great 
change,  without  their  emotions  rising  beyond  con- 
trol. From  one  of  these  letters  I  make  a  single  ex- 
tract: 

"I  wrote  you  four  weeks  since,  and  as  you  will  have 
learned  from  that  letter,  was  in  a  state  of  deep  distress . 
Sorrow  had  taken  hold  upon  me,  and  a  sense  of  my  long 
career  in  sin  and  rebellion  against  God  lay  heavy  upon 
my  soul.  But  it  pleased  God,  and  blessed  be  his  holy 
name,  to  grant  me, as  I  humbly  hope,  that  very  night  joy 
and  peace  in  believiog.  I  was,  by  divine  grace,  enabled 
to  bring  all  my  sins  and  all  my  sorrows  and  lay  them  at 
the  feet  of  Jesus,  and  to  receive  the  blessed  assurance  that 
he  had  accepted  me.all  sinful  and  polluted  as  I  was.  And 
surely  you  may  well  join  with  me  in  saying  that  nothing 
but  a  miracle  of  sovereign  mercy  could  have  arrested  and 
saved  me  from  eternal  perdition. 

"My  dear  parents,  I  can  see  you  now,  after  having 
read  thus  far,  shedding  tears  of  joy  over  the  return  of 
your  prodigal  son." 

liere  is  a  specimen  of  an  exquisite  poem  of  four 
pages: 

"MT  MOTHEE. 
"There  Is  a  fire  that  bums  on  earth, 
A  pure  and  holy  flame ; 
It  came  to  men  from  heavenly  birth. 
And  Btill  It  Is  the  same. 
As  when  It  bnrned  the  chords  along, 
That  bare  the  first  born  seraph's  song- 
Sweet  as  the  hymn  of  gratitude 
That  swelled  to  heaven  when  'all  was  good.' 
No  passion  in  the  choirs  above 
Is  purer  than  a  mother's  love." 

Soon  after  Mr.  Lovejoy  entered  upon  this  new  and 
divine  life,  he  left  the  editorial  sanctum  for  a  place 
in  a  theological  seminary,  where  he  remained  until 
the  spring  of  1833,  when  he  spent  a  few  months 
preaching  in  Rhode  Island  and  New  York  city.  By 
the  urgent  request  of  friends  in  St.  Louis,  he  once 
more  set  his  face  for  the  West,  to  take  charge  of  a 
religious  paper,  the  St.  Louis  Observer. 

"I  came  not"  said  the  great  Teacher,  "to  send 
peace  upon  the  earth,  but  a  sword."  Here  is  a 
Christian  editor,  who  had  seen  with  his  own  eyes 
the  horrors  and  wrongs  of  the  bondman,  and  the 
aggressive  spirit  of  a  false  religion,  seeking  not 
only  the  overthrow  of  Protestantism,  but  its  own 
national  supremacy;  and  into  his  very  nature  was 
ingrained  the  law  and  spirit  of  justice  and  equity. 
How  could  he  but  unsheathe  the  sword  of  the  Lord, 
and  strike  home  upon  these  enemies  of  Q-od  and 
men.  Of  course  these  blows  aroused  the  deadly 
hate  of  evil-doers  and  the  purpose  to  destroy  the 
disturber  of  their  peace.  The  war  thus  inaugurated 
raged  with  relentless  fury  for  about  three  years. 

The  productions  of  his  pen  during  these  years 
would  fill  volumes.  I  insert  here  only  a  few  sen- 
tences: 

"I  im  accused  of  being  an  Abolitionist  and  threatened 
with  violence.  /  expeet  it.  1  expect  to  be  lynchtd  or 
tarred  and  feathered,  or  it  may  be  hung  up.  There  is  a 
burning  hatred  on  the  part  of  the  popish  priests  and 
their  minions,  which  would  delii?ht  in  quenching  itself 
in  my  blood.  And  nothing  would  be  more  convenient  for 
it  than  lo  execute  its  purposes  under  the  mask  of  opposi 
lion  to  abolition.  I  have  known  for  some  months  that  I 
was  in  danger  from  the  hand  of  violence,  but  the  matter 
is  now  about  to  come  to  a  crisis.  In  the  Observer  I  shall 
come  out  openly  and  fearlessly,  and,  as  I  hope,  in  pucb  a 
manner  as  becomes  a  servant  of  Jesus  Christ  when  de- 
fending his  cauje.  Whatever  may  be  the  consequences, 
I  trust  that  through  the  grace  of  God  I  am  prepared  to 
meet  them,  even  unto  death  itself.  My  enemies  are  open 
and  fierce  in  their  threats,  but  I  can  truly  say  I  was  never 
more  calm.  I  have  fa£t*d  and  prayed.  I  am  sure  I  have 
found  the  path  of  duty,  and  I  am  determined  that  all  the 
fury  of  men  and  devils  shall  not  drive  me  from  it.  Under 
a  deep  sense  of  my  obligations  to  my  country,  my  church, 
and  my  God  I  declare  it  to  he  my  fixed  purpose  to  sub- 
mit to  no  dictation,  and  I  am  prepared  to  abide  (he  conse- 
quences. I  can  die  at  my  pout,  but  I  cannot  desert  It.  I 
▲PFSAL  TO  God." 

About  this  time  a  friend   wrote   him,  "It  does 
seem  as  though  the  devil,  knowing  that  his  time  is 


Nelson,  G-eorge  B.  Cheever,  and  Elijah  P.  Lovejoy." 
Three  times,  in  the  latter  part  of  these  years,  his 
press  had  either  been  destroyed  or  thrown  into  the 
river.  Driven  from  St.  Louis,  he  went,  by  request, 
to  Alton.  Passing  many  events  that  transpired 
here,  we  hasten  to  the  finale  of  the  awful  tragedy 
which  soon  took  place. 

His  enemies  were  stung  to  madness,  and  driven 
to  desperation  by  the  terrors  of  the  printing-press; 
and  blinded  by  their  fears  and  passions,  tiiey  could 
see  nothing  in  the  lofty  patriotism  or  benevolence 
that  burned  in  the  soul  of  their  intended  victim, 
either  to  admire  or  to  turn  them  back  from  their 
deadly  purpose.  The  Missouri  Republican  and  other 
papers  did  all  in  their  power  to  intensify  this  mur- 
derous hate,  and  to  consummate  the  purpose  of 
Lovejoy's  death.  The  mob,  not  content  with  de- 
stroying several  of  his  presses,  sacked  his  office  and 
destroyed  his  household  furniture. 

Here  we  must  drop  the  order  of  events,  to  say 
that  in  March,  1835,  Mr.  Lovejoy  married  a  lady, 
who,  in  every  qualification,  was  not  only  worthy  of 
him,  but  that  fitted  her  for  the  fearful  ordeal  through 
which  they  were  both  to  pass.  With  a  love  that  was 
supreme,  and  the  heart  of  a  martyr,  she  stood  by 
her  husband  like  a  rock,  through  all  the  conflict. 
And  when  the  air  was  heavy  with  threats  of  assas- 
sination, when  he  was  spurned,  hated  and  reviled, 
she  clung  to  him  the  more  closely  and  devotedly. 
And  never  by  a  single  word  did  she  attempt  to  turn 
him  from  the  scene  of  warfare  and  danger.  But 
the  day  of  greater  trial  was  near  at  hand. 

In  October,  1837,  Mr.  Lovejoy  preached  morning 
and  evening  in  the  Presbyterian  pulpit  at  St.  Charles, 
the  home  of  Mrs.  Lovejoy's  mother.  Before  leaving 
the  church  a  young  man  slipped  this  note  into  his 
hand: 
"Be  watchful  as  you  leave  the  church  to-night." 
The  pastor  of  the  church,  and  a  few  friends  ac- 
companied him  to  the  home  of  his  mother-in-law. 
About  10  o'clock,  as  they  were  conversing,  the  mob 
rushed  up  the  outside  stairs,  and  into  the  room, 
seized  Mr.  Lovejoy,  and  "with  oaths  and  blood-chill- 
ing imprecations,  swore  they  would  have  his  heart 
out."  The  noise  brought  Mrs.  Lovejoy  from  an  ad- 
Joining  room,  where  she  was  caring  for  her  sick 
child.  I 

She  rushed  through  the  mob,  and  clasping  her ' 
husband,  while  they  were  endeavoring  to  drag  him 
from  the  room,  she  smote  them  in  the  face  right  and 
left,  telling  them  they  must  first  take  her  before 
they  could  have  her  husband.  Her  mother  and  sis- 
ter came  to  her  aid,  and  succeeded  in  driving  the 
mob  out  of  the  house. 

Before  the  month  passed,  the  fourth  press  was 
secured  and  shipped  to  Alton,  and  stored  in  a  ware- 
house. The  leaders  of  the  St.  Charles  mob  hearing 
of  this,  came  to  Alton  and  gathered  another  mob  to 
destroy  the  press.  Learning  this,  Mr.  Lovejoy  and 
a  few  friends  went  to  the  place  to  guard  the  press. 
In  vain  he  declared  his  right,  secured  by  the  solemn 
sanction  of  the  constitution — "a  right  I  do  not  ex- 
pect to  relinquish  so  long  as  life  lasts."  "I  can 
make  no  concessions,  even  though  my  life  be  the 
alternative." 

He  was  delivering  his  last  speech  on  earth.  It 
was  solemn  and  pathetic.  One  who  was  present 
said,  "I  cannot  describe  his  manner.  It  was  firm 
and  decided.  He  knew  he  was  in  the  midst  of  those 
who  were  seeking  his  blood.  He  had  been  all  day 
communing  with  God.  His  whole  appearance  indi- 
cated a  mind  in  a  peculiarly  heavenly  frame.  He 
presented  a  spectacle  of  moral  sublimity  such  as  I 
had  never  before  witnessed." 

An  anti-slavery  convention,  called  by  260  leading 
citizens  of  Illinois,  had  unanimously  said  that  the 
Observer  should  be  maintained  at  Alton.  But  these 
blood-thirsty  minions  could  bo  satisfied  with  nothing 
but  the  life  of  the  man  of  God,  whom  they  hated. 
The  shivering  earth,  the  bursting  tombs,  the  rent 
vail,  and  the  darkened  sun  were  not  enough  to 
soften  the  hearts  of  the  reprobates  who  murdered 
God's  Messiah.  Nor  could  any  power  on  earth  ap- 
pease the  rage  of  these  legitimate  children  of  the 
devil.  Unable  to  drive  the  defenders  of  the  press 
out,  they  fired  the  building.  Those  from  within 
went  out  and  drove  them  away. 

The  mob  then  went  to  a  rum-shop  to  nerve  their 
courage  with  liquor.  But  evil  doers  are  cowards; 
they  therefore  hid  behind  a  pile  of  lumber,  and  like 
savage  beasta  waited  for  their  victim  to  come  out. 
Mr.  Lovejoy,  thinking  they  had  dispersed,  opened 
the  door  and  was  instantly  fired  upon  from  a  two- 
barrel  gun.  Seven  balls  struck  him,  three  In  his 
breast,  two  in  his  left,  and  one  in  his  right  side,  and 
one  in  his  abdomen.  He  retreated  into  the  room 
and  fell,  exclaiming,  "Oh  God,  I  am  shot;"  and  in  a 
few  momenta  expired. 
To  the  eternal  disgrace  of  Alton,  it  must  be 


ble  citizens  were  passive  witnesses  of  the  doings  of 
that  mob  of  murderers. 

"The  awful  tidings  fell  upon  Mrs.  Lovejoy  like 
an  arrow  piercing  her  heart."  She  remained  in  a 
swoon  several  days.  On  her  recovery  she  was  calm 
but  wept  much.  She  said  she  hoped  she  might  live 
to  train  up  her  infant  son,  Edward  Payson,  to  imi- 
tate his  father. 

Just  thirty-five  years  from  the  day  of  his  birth, 
the  martyr  was  buried  by  a  few  friends,  between 
two  large  oak  trees,  one  at  his  head  and  one  at  his 
feet.  Many  of  the  Northern  papers  condemned  the 
murder  in  tones  of  thunder,  but  the  South  gloried 
in  her  shame. 

Detroit. 


BUD  DO. 


BT  H.  H.  HINMAN. 


The  first  case  which  was  tried  at  the  opening  of 
the  present  sessions  (Sierra  Leone)  was  .one  of  as- 
sault by  eight  female  defendants — Bundo  women — 
on  one  Jane  Davis,  a  girl  of  fourteen  years  of  age, 
whom  they  seduced  and  partly  initiated  into  the 
mysteries  of  their  craft  against  her  will,  as  alleged: 
and  occupied  nearly  two  days,  resulting  in  a  verdict 
of  guilty  against  four  of  the  defendants,  two  of 
whom  were  sentenced  to  one  month's  and  the  others 
to  two  months'  imprisonment. — Artizan. 

The  above  is  from  a  Sierra  Leone  paper  and 
shows  at  once  the  power  of  African  secret  societies, 
and  how  they  are  regarded  by  civilized  government. 
It  would  be  an  excellent  thing  if  those  who  initiate 
men  in  Freemasonry,  who  pretend  to  kill  men  and 
raise  them  to  a  "living  perpendicular,"  could  be 
brought  before  courts  of  Justice  and  treated  in  like 
manner.  It  is  greatly  to  be  hoped  that  there  will  be 
speedily  such  cases  before  our  courts  and  that 
heathenism  in  America  may  have  the  same  respect 
as  it  does  in  Africa. 


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■hort,  had  come  down  In  great  wrath  to  afflict  David  pa««ed  down  to  pc»t«rity  that  hundr«d^  of  reipeota-  fo  oon»tructGd  that  their  liagtb  WM  directed  towurd 


8E0RST  aOOlBTIBa  V8.  THE  CEUROH. 

FROM   A   SISCOTTRSE   B7   RBY.   J.    B.    LATIMEK, 
IDANA,   KANSAS. 

"And  he  brought  me  Into  the  Inner  court  of  the  Lord's  honse, 
and  behold  at  the  door  of  the  temple  of  the  Lord,  between  the 
porch  and  the  altar,  were  about  five  and  twenty  men,  with  their 
backs  toward  the  temple  of  the  Lord  and  their  faces  toward  the 
east;  and  they  worshiped  the  sun  toward  the  east."  Ezra  8 :  16. 

A  request  was  recently  made  in  the  Christian 
Cynosure  that  all  anti-secret  pulpits  would  present 
the  influence  of  secret  societies  on  the  church.  1 
shall  endeavor  to  comply  with  that  request. 

If  we  examine  the  ancient  heathen  religions  we 
find  that  secrecy  formed  a  leading  element  in  them. 
They  had  what  they  termed  the  mysteries,  which 
were  revealed  to  none  save  the  fully  initiated.  In 
fact,  in  those  religions  we  have  the  root  of  modern 
secretism. 

We  shall  speak  more  particularly  of  Masonrj',  be- 
cause it  is  the  mother  of  the  secret  societies  of  to- 
day. The  main  parts  of  its  ritual  are  taken  from 
the  ancient  sun  worship.  We  lay  down  this  propo- 
sition: Masonry  directly  antagonizes  the  church  of 
Christ, 

1.  It  claims  to  be  a  religion.  This  can  be  proved 
from  its  own  accepted  authorities.  Let  us  call 
Mackey,  one  of  the  highest  of  these,  to  the  stand. 
In  his  Masonic  Ritualist,  or  Monitorial  Instructions 
in  the  degrees  from  Entered  Apprentice  to  Select 
Master,  we  find  that  Masonry  has  its  stated  prayers. 
Mackey  gives  a  great  many  of  them.  Then  we  find 
that  it  has  hymns;  also  that  it  has  funeral  ceremo- 
nies. It  buries  its  dead  with  religious  rites.  lu 
Christian  lands  they  introduce  Scripture  readinga 
into  their  ceremonies. 

The  lodge  has  three  movable  Jewels,  the  Hough 
Ashlar,  the  Perfect  Ashlar,  and  the  Trestle  Board, 
Mackey  gives  an  explanation  of  these,  of  which  the 
following  is  a  part;  "By  the  Rough  Ashlar  we  artj 
reminded  of  our  rude  and  imperfect  state  by  nature, 
by  the  Perfect  Ashlar,  that  state  of  perfection  at 
which  we  hope  to  arrive  by  a  virtuous  education,  our 
own  endeavors,  and  the  blessing  of  God."  Again, 
Mackey  says,  "Although  Freemasonry  is  indebted 
for  its  origin  to  its  religious  and  philosophic  char- 
acter," etc.  "As  Masons  we  are  taught  never  to 
commence  any  great  or  important  undertaking  with 
out  first  invoking  the  blessing  and  protection  of  De- 
ity, and  this  is  because  Masonry  Is  a  religious  Insti- 
tution". ...  In  one  of  their  hymns  they  sing, 
"Hail  Masonry  divine."  Masonry  has  more  than 
once  administered  the  sacrament  of  baptism. 

Its  worship  is  sun  worship.  Mackey  says,  "The 
orientation  of  lodges,  as  their  position  due  east  and 
west,  is  derived  from  the  universal  custom  of  antiq- 

says  Dudley,  'were 


OOTOBBB  20, 1887 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


3 


the  east,  and  the  entrance  was  by  a  portico  at  the 
■western  front,  where  the  altar  stood,  so  that  the  vo- 
taries, approaching  for  the  performance  of  religious 
rites,  directed  their  faces  toward  the  east,  the  quar- 
ter of  sunrise.'  The  primitive  reason  of  this  cus- 
tom undoubtedly  is  to  be  found  in  the  early  preva- 
lence of  sun  worship."  Mackey  says  that  learned 
Masons  have  been  "always  disposed  to  go  beyond 
the  mere  technicalities  and  stereotyped  phrases  of 
the  lectures,  and  to  look  in  the  history  and  the  phi- 
losophy of  the  ancient  religions,  and  the  organiza- 
tion of  the  ancient  mysteries,  for  a  true  explanation 
of  most  of  the  symbols  of  Masonry,  and  there  they 
have  always  been  enabled  to  find  this  true  interpret- 
ation." 

In  the  Entered  Apprentice  degree  they  have  what 
is  called  the  Rite  of  Circumambulation.  Mackey 
says  by  way  of  explanation,  "Among  the  Hindoos 
the  rite  of  circumambulation  was  always  practiced 
as  a  religious  ceremony;  and  a  Brahmin,  on  rising 
from  his  bed  in  the  morning,  having  first  adored  the 
sun,  while  directing  his  face  to  the  east,  then  pro- 
ceeds by  the  way  of  the  south  to  the  west,  exclaim- 
ing at  the  same  time,  'I  follow  the  course  of  the 
sun.'" 

He  then  refers  to  the  ceremony  as  practiced  by 
the  Druids,  and  then  adds,  "Hence  we  find  in  the 
universal  prevalence  of  this  ceremony,  and  in  the 
invariable  mode  of  passing  from  the  east  to  the 
west  by  the  way  of  the  south, a  pregnant  evi- 
dence of  the  common  source  of  all  these  rites  from 
some  primitive  origin,  to  which  Freemasonry  is  also 
indebted  for  its  existence.  The  circumambulation 
among,  the  pagan  nations  was  referred  to  the  great 
doctrine  of  Sabaism,  or  sun  worship.  Freemasonry 
alone  has  preserved  the  primitive  meaning.". . . . 

Let  the  reader  carefully  consider  these  declara- 
tions of  Mackey  (we  could  give  many  more),  and 
then  say  whether  it  be  true  that  Freemasonry  Is  a 
religious  institution,  and  its  worship  sun  worship? 

2.  It  claims  to  regenerate  and  save  men.  In  this 
it  makes  a  higher  claim  than  the  true  church  has 
ever  made.  Christ  did  not  establish  the  church  as 
a  regenerating  institution.  He  has  not  taught  us  to 
depend  upon  it  as  such.  He  has  taught  us  that  re- 
generation is  a  purely  divine  act,  the  act  of  the  Holy 
Spirit 

Let  us  see  what  Masonry  claims  according  to 
Mackey.  I  can  give  only  one  quotation.  He  says: 
"The  lodge  is,  then,  at  the  time  of  the  reception  of  an 
Entered  Apprentice,  a  symbol  of  the  world,  and  the 
initiation  is  a  type  of  the  new  life  upon  which  the 
candidate  is  about  to  enter.  There  he  stands  with- 
out our  portals,  on  the  threshold  of  this  new  Ma- 
sonic life,  in  darkness,  helplessness  and  ignorance. 
Having  been  wandering  amid  the  errors  and  covered 
over  with  the  pollutions  of  the  outer  and  profane 
world,  he  comes  inquiringly  to  our  doors,  seeking 
the  new  truth,  and  asking  a  withdrawal  of  the  vail 
which  conceals  divine  truth  from  his  uninitiated 
sight." 

Can  a  Christian  knowingly  submit  to  such  degra- 
dation? 

"There  is  to  be,  not  simply  a  change  for  the 
future,  but  also  an  extinction  of  the  past,  for  initia- 
tion is,  as  it  were,  a  death  to  the  world  and  a  res- 
urrection to  anew  life."  "Now  this  new  birth  should 
be  accompanied  with  some  ceremony  to  indicate 
symbolically,  and  to  impress  upon  the  mind  this 
disruption  of  old  ties  and  formation  of  new  ones. 
Hence  the  impression  of  this  idea  is  made  by  the 
symbolism  of  the  shock  at  the  entrance.  The  world 
is  left  behind — the  chains  of  error  and  ignorance 
which  had  previously  retained  the  candidate  in  moral 
Intellectual  captivity  are  to  be  broken — the  portal  of 
the  temple  has  been  thrown  widely  open,  and  Masonry 
stands  before  the  neophyte  in  alltheglory  of  its  form 
and  beauty,  to  be  fully  revealed  to  him,  however,  only 
when  the  new  birth  has  been  completely  accom- 
plished. Shall  this  momentous  occasion  be  passed 
unnoticed?  Shall  this  great  event— the  birth  in  the 
Masonic  life  of  the  aspirant— ha\e  no  visible  or 
audible  record?  Shall  the  entrance  for  the  first 
time  into  the  lodge — the  birth,  as  it  has  Justly  been 
called  into  Masonry — be  symbolized  by  no  outward 
sign?. . .  .Or,  rather,  shall  not  all  the  Sons  of  Light 
who  witness  the  impressive  scene  feel  like  the  chil- 
dren of  Korah,  who,  when  released  from  the  captiv- 
ity of  Babylon,  and  once  more  returning  to  the  'Tem- 
ple, exclaimed,  in  the  outburst  of  their  grateful  ]oy,'0 
clap  your  hands,  all  ye  people;  shout  unto  God  with 
the  voice  of  triumph.'  The  snocK  oF  entranok  is, 
then,  the  symbol  of  the  disruption  of  the  candidate 
from  the  ties  of  the  world,  and  his  introduction  into 
the  life  of  Masonry.  It  it  the  tymbol  of  the,  agoniet 
of  the  fi,rtt  death  and  of  the  throe*  of  the  new  birth." 

Reader,  can  anything  be  clearer  than  that,  to  show 
its  olaims? 

8.  It  endeavors  to  lilence  the  testimony  of  the 
ohnroh  against  it      Macksy  calls    these    outslds 


"cowans,"  to  intimate  that  they  belong  to  the  pro- 
face.  Many  a  pastor  who  desired  to  be  faithful  in 
declaring  the  whole  counsel  of  God  has  been  com- 
pelled to  leave  his  pulpit  by  Masonry.  The  weapons 
which  Christ  has  put  in  the  hands  of  bis  followers 
"are  not  carnal,  but  spiritual."  The  weapons  of  the 
lodge  are  not  spiritual,  but  carnal,  exceedingly  car- 
carnal.  Hence  it  is  evident  whence  comes  the  in- 
spiration of  the  lodge;  not  from  above,  but  from 
beneath;  not  from  Christ,  but  from  the  devil.  "By 
their  fruits  ye  shall  know  them." 

4.  It  renders  church  members,  over  whom  it  gains 
control,  very  careless  and  indifferent  as  to  their 
Christian  duties.  A  "bright  Mason"  is  never  an 
active,  working  member  of  the  church.  Such  has 
been  my  observation;  and  I  have  yet  to  hear  of 
the  first  case  to  the  contrary.  I  know  a  congregation 
that  is  very  lifeless.  A  pastor  who  labored  hard  to 
awaken  an  earnest  Christian  spirit  in  it,  for  six  or 
eight  years,  left  it,  despairing  of  any  good  from  it. 
What  Is  the  trouble?  Simply  this,  it  is  completely 
lodge  ridden.  The  lodge  rules.  No  man  can  serve 
two  masters. 

6.  It  rejects  the  Head  of  the  church,  the  Author 
of  Christianity.  None  of  its  prayers  given  by 
Mackey  are  in  the  name  of  Christ  It  leaves  his 
name  out  of  the  Scripture  passages  that  are  used  in 
the  lodge.  Mackey  says  that  "the  ornaments  of  the 
lodge  are  the  Mosaic  Pavement,  the  Indented  Tres- 
sel  and  the  Blazing  Star."  He  gives  the  following 
explanation:  "The  Blading  Star  is  said  by  Webb  to 
be  'commemorative  of  the  star  which  appeared  to 
guide  the  wise  men  of  the  East  to  the  place  of  our 
Saviour's  nativity.'  This,  which  is  one  of  the  an- 
cient interpretations  of  the  symbol,  being  consid- 
ered as  too  sectarian  in  its  character,  and  unsuitable 
to  the  universal  religion  of  Masonry,  has  been  omit- 
ted since  the  meeting  of  Grand  Lecturers  at  Balti- 
more in  1842."  I  confess  that  I  never  knew  before 
that  anything  that  pointed  to  the  Saviour  was  sec- 
tarian I 

So  careful  are  they  to  keep  the  Lord  Jesus  Christ 
out  of  the  lodge  that,  in  at  least  one  degree,  as 
Mackey  tells  us,  they  date  their  documents  "A.  L." 
{Anno  Luds,  in  the  year  of  light);  or  "A.  Inv." 
{Anno  Inventionit,  in  the  year  of  the  discovery). 

What  must  the  influence  of  such  an  institution  be 
on  the  church?  Have  we  not  proved  our  proposi- 
tion that  Masonry  directly  antagonizes  the  church  f 


2fBW  TORE  ANAROHiaTS. 


THIIR   STRENGTH   AND   PRIKCIPLES. 


Henry  Guy  Carleton  having  volunteered  to  inves- 
tigate anarchism  in  New  York,  the  World  sent  him 
forth  in  the  dead  of  night  seeking  whom  he  might 
devour.  Aided  by  disguises  and  the  like  diabolical 
arts,  he  ingratiated  himself  upon  a  select  circle  of 
these  gentry  and  brought  away  a  story  which  In- 
spector Byrne  pronounced  tolerably  accurate.  Af- 
ter midnight  Thursday  morning  a  week  ago,  says 
Mr.  Carleton,  speaking  of  one  of  his  newly  found 
blood-drinking  friends,  I  accompanied  him  to  his 
lodgings  on  Eldridge  Street,  near  Houston.  It  was 
in  a  tenement  house,  and  he  lived  on  the  third  floor, 
back.  The  filth  of  the  place,  the  damp,  unwhole- 
some smell,  the  dingy  walls,  the  squalling  of  hungry 
babies,  the  querulous  voices  of  women  and  the  curses 
of  drunken  men  stumbling  up  the  creaking  stair- 
way were  the  accompanimonts  of  the  story.  I  gave 
him  a  quarter  to  buy  a  bucket  of  beer,  and  with 
that  and  a  solitary  candle  between  us  he  gave  me 
his  first  lesson  in  the  principles  of  anarchism.  We 
had  many  talks  afterward.  Much  I  drew  out  of 
him  by  questions,  and  some  things  he  gave  in  full 
of  which  I  only  give  part,  for  reasons  which  will  be 
found  below. 

"We  Anarchs  come  from  the  organisation  which 
had  its  real  beginning  in  Europe  some  twenty  years 
ago.  A  general  dissatisfaction  existed  among  the 
working  classes,  and  under  La  Salle  and  Karl  Marx 
secret  organizations  were  formed  condemnlug  the 
lukewarm  measures  employed  by  the  social  democ- 
racy and  advising  the  use  of  force.  We  were  then 
called  the  'National  German  Workingmen's  Union,' 
but  in  secret  we  were  not  for  government  but  for 
nongovernment,  and  soon  were  called  'Anarchists.' 

"Among  our  theories  we  claimed  that  Christ  was 
an  Anarchist,  as  he  opposed  and  disapproved  of  the 
rulings  and  dictation  of  the  Roman  kings.  La  Salle, 
after  starting  the  movement,  became  appalled  at  the 
methods  advised  by  the  Anarchists,  and  finally 
drifted  back  to  the  Social  Democrat  movement  He 
was  killed  afterward  in  a  duel  about  a  woman. 
About  this  time  Herr  Moat,  and  others  since  de- 
deased  or  executed,  took  the  lead  in  all  our  con- 
gresses and  meetings,  which  were  usually  held  in 
secret,  in  Switserland.     We  were  finally  routed  out 


of  existence  by  the  German  Government  Most, 
after  being  repeatedly  imprisoned,  was  forced  to 
emigrate.  Others  who  had  attempted  to  execute 
measures  of  force  were  tried  and  executed,  so  that 
while  there  are  in  this  city  larger  or  small  numbers 
of  Anarchists  we  have  no  real  organization.  We 
have  learned  to  know  there  Is  a  Judas  In  every 
twelve,  hence  each  of  us  acts  for  himself  and  we 
never  act  in  a  body.  To  do  so  would  be  fatal  to 
our  cause. 

"In  this  city  there  are  three  Anarchist  groups. 
No.  1  we  call  "The  International  Workingmen's  As- 
sociation;' No.  2,  'The  Workingmen's  Confedera- 
tion,' and  No.  3  Is  'The  Machinists'  R'fla  Corps.' 

"Group  No.  1  is  composed  of  about  flftv  men  who 
are  trustworthy.  It  was  organized  in  1883  by  Herr 
Johann  Most  and  Justus  Schwab.  We  meet  every 
Saturday  night  where  we  had  our  talk,  at  Kraemer's 
beer  saloon,  on  Seventh  Street,  near  Avenue  A. 
There  we  have  lectures.  At  each  of  these  lectures 
a  new  chairman  is  selected  and  we  discuss  anarchism 
and  general  topics.  We  admit  no  one  except  by 
card.  The  notices  of  meetings  are  published  In  the 
Fiethfit,  Herr  Most's  paper.  Our  principal  men  are 
Herr  Most,  William  Hasselman — he  is  a  chemist — 
M.  Wetzken,  who  Is  a  machinist,  Charles  Woelke, 
Moritz   Schultz,  Robert   Schlag,  R.  Helbig  and  his 

three  brothers,  Joseph  Miaury,  Henry  Ho'ze, 

Schwlehlin,  Paul  Wissig,  Clement  and  H.  Schnetz. 

"In  addition  to  these  lectures,  we  have  secret 
meetings,  at  which  only  the  chosen  are  invited. 
The  word  is  conveyed  personally  and  not  by  any  cir- 
cular or  letter.  We  used  to  drill  at  these  secret 
meetings,  but  since  that  affair  in  Chicago  we  have 
had  no  drills  and  the  muskets  have  been  put  away. 

"We  are  carefully  taught  the  use  of  dynamite. 
In  good  hands  It  is  a  safe  weapon  to  our  friends  and 
deadly  to  our  enemies.  One  pound  did  all  that 
work  in  Chicago.  One  hundred  pounds,  well  used, 
would  give  us  control  of  New  York.  Ah,  It  Is  a 
great  invention — so  easily  carried.  It  makes  each 
man  a  hero.     It  makes  him  strong  against  an  army. 

''Two  years  ago  we  had  a  school,  and  Hasselman 
used  to  teach  us  how  to  make  It  and  how  to  use  it 
It  is  good  stuff.  It  looks  like  sawdust  and  oil — so 
innocent — but  when  it  explodes — poof  I  a  whole 
army  goes  down.  The  school  is  now  broken  up,  but 
Hasselman  is  here  yet  He  is  a  clerk  In  a  wine 
house. 

"We  have  no  storehouse  for  dynamite  and  bombs. 
That  would  be  dangerous.  We  cin  get  all  we  should 
want  at  the  factory,  and  it  is  cheap.  Bombs?  An 
oyster  can  Is  good  enough.  Give  me  dynamite,  a 
cap,  a  little  fuse  and  I  will  make  a  bomb  in  ten  min- 
utes with  a  can,  a  bottle,  a  cigar-box,  anything. 

"Mezzeroff  is  a  fool  and  a  rascal.  Why,  he  said 
he  would  sell  dynamite  for  $1  a  pound.  Of  course. 
No.  2  dynamite  can  be  purchased  for  30  cents  a 
pound,  fuse  for  3  cents  a  yard  and  caps  for  2  cents 
apiece.  I  can  make  two  pound  bombs  for  $1  and 
have  money  to  spare. 

"The  Machinist  Rifie  Corps  are  the  only  armed 
body.  They  practice  shooting  in  beer  gardens  in 
Hoboken,  Newark,  etc.  Most  of  them  are  marks- 
men, and  will  count  their  men  when  the  day  comes. 

"What  do  we  seek  to  accomplish?  This.  These 
are  our  principles: 

"1.  The  total  destruction  of  class  rule  as  at  pres- 
ent in  existence.  We  will  accomplish  this  by  any 
means  which  may  be  necessary.  We  will  accom- 
plish It  by  revolution  and  by  energy. 

''2.  The  founding  of  a  new  order  in  society,  based 
upon  a  free  and  communistic  oaganization  of  the 
productive  classes. 

"3.  A  free  exchange  of  products,  equal  in  value, 
by  the  productive  organisations  themselves,  or  rath- 
er by  the  producers,  without  go-betweens  and  profit- 
makers. 

"4  The  organization  of  a  system  of  education 
free  from  religion  and  on  a  soientiflj  basis  for  both 
sexes  alike. 

"5.  Equal  rights  for  all  without  distinotion  as  to 
race  and  color. 

"6.  The  regulation  of  all  public  Interests  by  free 
social  agreements  between  the  lndep3ndent  commu- 
nities and  groups. 

"We  believe  this  world  should  be  without  rulers 
or  servants.  All  service  is  to  be  voluntary,  and  all 
agreements  and  restrictions  are  voluntary.  We  will 
have  no  marrying.  Men  and  women  can  live  to- 
gether and  support  each  other  as  long  as  they  like, 
and  no  longer.  We  will  have  no  master  law  but  our 
own  win  and  our  own  Individual  sense  of  right  and 
wrong.  Our  only  restraint  shall  be  our  moral 
strength.  No  one  shall  become  rich,  for  the  excess 
of  his  production  over  his  own  needs  shall  go  to  the 
general  fund  and  for  the  general  good. 

"To  become  a  member  o'  any  group,  a  m-^n  must 
be  recommended  by  a  member,  and  must  be  identi- 
fied with  the  workingmen's  cause.     He   must  be 


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'SS^  CSBJaTIAN  CT^rOBUlUB^. 


October  20, 188t 


vouched  for  as  trustworthy  or  must  have  performed 
some  great  deed. 

"When  I  say  the  workingmen,  I  mean  our  work- 
ingmen.  The  Labor  party  is  divorced  from  us.  The 
time  will  come  when  it  will  see  its  error.  Legisla- 
tion will  not  accomplish  what  we  can  do  with  force. 
Capital  laughs  at  the  ballot  box,  but  it  trembles  at 
the  bomb. 

"We  are  not  many,  but  we  have  power.  Some 
day  the  country  will  shake,  and  men  who  sneer  at 
us  will  see  and  learn. 

"We  look  to  Herr  Most  as  our  leader.  He  is  a 
good  writer.  He  talks  well.  He  is  not  a  fighter 
and  we  do  not  expect  him  to  lead  us  in  action. 
There  are  many  Anarchs  in  whom  we  would  have 
no  confidence  if  a  fight  came. 

"There  is  no  Anarchist  headquarters.  Chicago 
used  to  be  the  center,  but  the  leaders  are  now  mar- 
tyrs. The  center  is  now  in  New  York.  Group  No. 
1  is  the  informing  bureau,  to  which  all  groups  or 
members  apply  for  information.  No  person  in  any 
group  has  the  right  to  order  or  dictate.  We  have 
no  grips,  signs,  or  pass-words.  It  any  call  or  in- 
formation is  required  it  is  given  by  word  of  mouth. 
That  is  safe. 

"Herr  Most  says  we  are  increasing,  but  I  fear  he 
is  wrong.  Excitement  brings  us  recruits.  Quiet 
kills  our  strength.  I  think  we  were  much  stronger 
four  years  ago. 

"We  are  not  in  favor  of  Socialists.  They  are  too 
lukewarm.  They  call  us  fanatics.  It  may  be  so. 
They  talk;  we  act. 

"We  conduct  our  secret  meetings  in  this  way: 
Those  chosen  are  notified  orally.  When  assembled 
any  one  takes  the  chair  and  moves  to  nominate  a 
chairman.  He  can  only  serve  at  one  meeting  and 
no  more.  Upon  taking  the  chair  the  elected  chair- 
man then  asks  those  present  if  there  is  any  new 
business  or  suggestions  in  the  interest  of  the  cause. 
Such  as  choose  write  these  suggestions  on  slips  of 
paper  and  band  them  to  the  chairman.  He  mixes 
up  the  slips,  making  it  impossible  to  identify  them, 
and  then  reads  them  in  detail.  A  discussion  of 
each  then  follows.  Should  any  one  volunteer  to 
carry  out  any  violent  measure  proposed  he  does  so 
without  announcing  his  intention  or  taking  into  his 
confidence  any  but  those  in  whom  he  has  the  great- 
est reliance.  Thus  no  one  present  will  know  more 
than  the  public  at  large. 

"To  be  a  good  Anarch  you  must  be  daring  and 
^•esolute.  Trust  no  one  but  the  men  you  know.  If 
you  are  going  to  do  any  great  act  for  the  cause,  con- 
fide only  in  those  whom  you  need  to  help  you  in  the 
scheme.  We  are  few,  but  we  can  wield  a  terrible 
power.  The  revolution  is  coming.  There  will  be 
thousands  wanting  to  act  then  and  not  know  how. 
We  will  teach  them  and  provide  the  means.  Our 
argument  is  Force,  and  that  is  unanswerable.  Wait 
till  the  day  of  the  red  flag  comes  and  you  shall  hear 
our  thunder.  But  be  patient.  Work  in  the  dark. 
Work  slowly  and  carefully.  Look  out  for  spies. 
They  are  everywhere.  Get  your  dearest  friends. 
They  will  be  few.  They  will  get  their  dearest 
friends,  and  thus  it  will  grow.  Better  a  few  good 
men  than  many  indifferent  ones.  We  are  a  school 
for  leaders.  When  the  mob  comes  we  will  leap  in 
with  the  red  flag  and  lead  it." 

Such  was  the  story  of  the  Anarchist.  It  covered 
several  interviews.  It  represented  many  hours  of 
talk — and  beer.  Icy  as  was  his  early  reserve,  he 
thawed  under  free  lager  as  March  snows  under  April 
showers.  "The  red  flag,"  "dynamite,"  "the  revolu- 
tion"— each  time  tie  mentioned  these  his  eyes  flashed 
and  his  teeth  gnashed  in  a  savage  smile.  He  said 
one  thing  which  I  remembered  well: 

"I  say,  damn  the  newspapers.  They  are  the  cap- 
italistic hounds  on  our  trail.  Look  at  the  World. 
It  has  often  been  on  our  track.  I  would  like  to  see 
a  reporter  talk  to  me.  I'd  choke  him  to  death  and 
throw  him  in  the  river." 

The  number  of  Anarchists  in  this  city  is  about 
one  thousand.  Of  these  not  over  five  hundred  are 
professed  and  admitted  to  the  "groups,"  and  of 
these,  again,  not  more  than  two  hundred  and  fifty 
could  be  relied  upon  to  do  any  "work."  They  are  a 
shiftless,  needy,  pitiful  lot,  without  money  or  influ- 
ence, full  of  beer  and  talk,  ready  to  prompt  others 
to  desperate  acts  and  to  crawl  under  beds  while  the 
work  is  being  done.  They  rank  with  the  rattle- 
snake, more  to  be  feared  in  the  undergrowth  than  in 
the  open,  full  of  deadly  venom  and  malice,  yet 
easily  controlled  and  destroyed  by  a  rod  when  seen. 
What  they  are  can  best  be  judged  by  the  doctrines 
they  preach — universal  lawlessness  among  men,  uni- 
versal concubinage  among  women.  The  tree  is 
licensed  passion  and  unbridled  lust,  the  fruit  is  the 
most  vicious,  cowardly  and  brutal  degeneration  of 
which  humanity  is  capable — the  Anarchist. — Chica^ 
go  Herald, 


Befoem  News. 


ANNUAL   MEETING  OF   THE  N.  H.  C.  A. 


The  Eleventh  Annual  Meeting  of  the  New  Hampshire 
Christian  Association  will  be  held  in  Arcanum  Hall,  No . 
939  Elm  street,  Manchester,  October  29,  30,  31,  1887, 
commencing  Saturday  at  2  o'clock  p.  m.,  and  closing 
Monday  evening;  entertainment  free.  Reduced  railroad 
fare  expected  from  the  following  stations:  Rochester, 
Dover,  Newmarket  Junction,  Portsmouth,  North  Weare, 
Laconia,  and  Concord.      Horse  cars  from  depot  to  hall. 

Reduced  railroad  fare  may  be  had  from  the  foJlowing 
stations:  Portsmouth,  Newmarket  Junction,  West  Ep- 
ping,  Candia,  Concord,  North  Weare,  Laconia,  Canter- 
bury and  Cantoocook. 

Rochester  and  Dover  will  ticket  to  Newmarket  Junc- 
tion. 

Barrington  to  Eppitg  Junction. 

Buy  round  trip  tickets  to  theN  H.  C.  A.  convention. 
The  following  speakers  are  expected:  Rev.  J.  Blanchard, 
Rev.  E  W  Oakes, Elders  A  Kidder, C- L  B aker, Isaac  Hy- 
att, Wm  F  Davis.S.C  Kimball,Mrs.  C  W  Bixby.Miss  An- 
nie M  Ray,Mi88  E,  E.  Flagg,Miss  I.  D.  Haines  and  Hon. 
J.  A.  Conant.  8.  C.  Kimball, 

/Secretary  N.  H.  G.  A. 


MISSOURI   MEET  IN  OS. 


It  is  time  for  a  general  rally  in  old  Missouri.  To 
this  end  it  has  been  thought  best  to  hold  two  dis- 
trict meetings,  one  in  north  and  the  other  in  south 
Missouri.  The  first  will  convene  at  Princeton,  Mer- 
cer county,  beginning  the  night  of  Oct.  25,  and  con- 
tinuing over  the  following  day  and  night.  Let  every 
friend  of  reform  resolve  to  be  at  this  meeting.  It 
will  do  us  all  good  to  have  a  hand  shake  all  around 
with  old  friends  and  new  ones,  and  pledge  anew  our 
devotion  to  the  great  reforms  that  are  spreading  and 
widening  and  deepening  so  rapidly.  Other  States 
are  moving  ahead  and  Missouri  must  not  be  idle. 
She  has  as  brave  and  noble  Christians  and  patriots 
as  any  State  in  the  Union.  Already  thirty  counties 
are  under  local  option,  and  others  soon  will  be. 
Kepublican  States  may  yet  learn  a  lesson  from  old 
Missouri  and  far-away  Georgia  with  just  three  wet 
counties  left.  Never  was  the  movement  against  the 
lodge,  twin  evil  of  the  saloon,  so  aggressive  and  pros- 
perous as  now,  and  Missouri  must  keep  abreast  with 
other  States.  While  so  many  thousands  are  giving 
time  and  money  so  freely  to  boom  secret  despotism 
and  Grand  Army  parades,  let  true  Americans  and 
Christians  do  as  much  for  pure  religion  and  good 
government.  And  again  we  urge  all  friends  of 
truth  and  right  to  be  at  Princeton. 

The  Southern  district  meeting  will  be  announced 
later.  There  is  a  strong  element  in  south  Missouri  op- 
posed to  the  secret  lodges,  and  it  is  very  desirable  to 
unite  the  forces  and  become  better  acquainted.  And 
no  w  j  ust  a  word  more.  Let  every  Cynosure  reader  drop 
us  a  line  as  to  the  outlook.  Yours  for  civil  and  religious 
liberty,  M.  N.  Butlbk,  Agent  N.  (J.  A. 


UP  AND  DOWN  IN  ALABAMA. 


The  Alabama  W.  G.  T.  U.  Endorses  t7ie  N.  G.  A.  Agent 
and  Declares  for  "Open  Work"  —  The  Alabama  State 
Association  to  Meet  in  Mobile  —  A  Welcome  at  Marion — 
A  liable  Minded  Bx-Gonfederate  —  The  Literary  Insti- 
tutions of  the  Gity  and  their  Trials. 

Dear  Cynosure: — The  Second  Alabama  W.  C.  T. 
U.,  before  the  adjournment  of  the  Montgomery  Con- 
vention, passed  some  excellent  resolutions.  They 
endorse  woman  suflfrage  as  "rendered  necessary  by 
the  supreme  need  of  the  hour."  They  promised  to 
carefully  consider  the  claims  of  the  Prohibition 
party  and  to  everywhere  urge  the  duty  of  yielding 
party  preferences  for  the  sake  of  principle.  They 
demanded  that  all  political  parties  shall  favor  pro- 
hibition. One  resolution  thanked  Dr.  Atticus  Hay- 
good  for  his  brave  and  faithful  advocacy  of  the 
rights  of  the  colored  man  and  for  his  able  and  elo- 
quent address;  another  expressed  thanks  to  your 
correspondent  for  his  attendance  and  words  of  cheer. 
It  expressed  sympathy  with  the  special  line  of  work 
in  which  I  am  engaged  and  declared  "in  favor  of 
open  work  in  the  temperance  movement."  An  able 
address  was  made  by  pastor  Alstock  on  the  last 
night  of  the  convention  and  several  ministers  and 
ladies  from  the  North  expressed  their  sympathy 
with  the  organization  and  their  work. 

On  Friday  night  I  preached  in  the  Dexter  Avenue 
Baptist  church.  I  was  most  hospitably  entertained 
by  Mr.  H.  A.  Loveless,  a  colored  man  who  has 
achieved  wealth  by  enterprise  and  diligent  industry. 
He  has  never  joined  any  secret  society  but  strongly 
opposed  them.  He  got  his  education  and  imbibed 
his  principles  when  under  the  instruction  of  Rev.  H. 
Woodsmall  at  Selma.  On  Saturday,  Oct.  1,  I  re- 
turned to  Selma  and  on  Sabbath  preached  in  the 
morning  in  the  Congregational  church.  Rev.  C.  B. 
Curtis  pastor,  and  at  4  p.  m.  in  the  Reformed  Pres- 


byterian church,  Rev.  G.  M.  Elliott  pastor,  and  at 
7:30  in  the  St.  Phillips  Street  Baptist  church,  Rev. 
Booth  pastor.  In  the  first  two  there  was  a  fair  at- 
tendance and  in  the  last  it  was  large.  In  each  case 
I  dwelt  to  some  extent  on  the  evils  of  the  secret 
lodge  system  and  the  duty  of  separation.  In  the 
first  two  there  was  entire  unanimity  of  sentiment  on 
this  question  and  in  the  last  I  had  the  sympathy  of 
the  pastor  and  the  leading  members.  One  leading 
member  of  the  Congregational  church,  who  was  an 
Odd-fellow,  on  a  previous  occasion  withstood  me 
stoutly,  but  soon  after  withdrew  from  the  order,  and 
now  expressed  his  approval  of  my  remarks. 

On  Monday  night,  Oct  3,  we  held  a  meeting  of 
such  members  of  the  Alabama  Christian  Association 
as  reside  in  Selma,  at  the  Reformed  Presbyterian 
church.  At  this  meeting  it  was  voted  to  instruct 
the  Executive  committee  to  call  the  next  annual 
meeting  at  Mobile  at  some  time  during  the  winter. 
The  following  named  brethren  were  chosen  delegates 
to  the  New  Orleans  meeting  of  the  N.  C  A.:  Rev. 
G.  M.  Elliott,  Rev.  C.  B.  Curtis,  Prof.  H.  W.  Reed 
and  Prof.  A.  A.  Peters.  Several  names  were  added 
to  the  roll  of  members  and  the  progress  of  the  re- 
form was  regarded  as  hopeful. 

A  call  at  the  large  new  and  beautiful  rooms  of 
the  Y.  M.  C.  A.  developed  the  fact  that  the  presi- 
dent and  leading  members  were  Masons.  The  sec- 
retary, a  Connecticut  man,  was  much  in  f?,vor  of  se- 
cret "societies.  He  saw  no  harm  in  excluding  the 
name  of  Christ  from  prayers  and  Scripture  readings 
and  was  doubtful  whether  their  committee  would  be 
willing  to  have  the  Cynosure  put  on  their  list  of  pa- 
pers. He  was  very  polite,  and  confessed  that  so  far 
as  Masonry  is  concerned,  my  points  were  well  taken. 

On  Tuesday  at  4  p.  m.  I  left  for  Marion,  once 
called  "the  Athens  of  Alabama."  I  was  met  at  the 
station  by  Rev.  A.  W.  Curtis  and  taken  to  his  pleas- 
ant and  hospitable  home.  I  found  that  a  lecture 
had  been  announced  for  the  evening  and  at  7:30  we 
repaired  to  the  neat  Congregational  church,  where 
we  met  a  good  congregation.  The  first  business 
was  to  listen  to  a  report  from  Miss  R.  Mickle,  the 
delegate  from  the  local  W.  C.  T.  U.  to  the  State 
convention,  after  which  I  spoke  for  nearly  an  hour 
on  the  secret  society  system  and  its  relations  to  the 
colored  people.  There  was  excellent  attention  and 
a  good  many  secret  society  people  in  attendance. 
On  Wednesday  the  5th,  together  with  Bro.  Curtis, 
we  called  on  pastors,  teachers  and  business  men, 
and  at  night  met  a  congregation  in  the  same  church. 
Among  those  present  were  Capt.  C.  W.  Lovelace,  a 
prosperous  planter  and  merchant.  He,  by  request, 
offered  prayer  at  the  opening  of  the  meeting  and  at 
the  conclusion  of  my  lecture  made  some  excellent  re- 
marks, saying  that  the  Christian  church  was  the 
only  society  that  he  cared  to  be  connected  with,  or 
that  is  at  all  necessary  for  the  well-being  of  the 
country.  Capt.  Lovelace  is  a  remarkable  man.  He 
was  an  oflScer  in  the  Confederate  army,  has  been  for 
years  an  elder  in  the  Presbyterian  church,  is  a  life 
member  of  the  American  Missionary  Association,  a 
man  of  great  practical  benevolence,  and  a  thorough 
Christian  gentleman.  Like  most  men  in  his  station 
in  life  he  has  been  lured  into  the  lodge,  but  has  long 
since  abandoned  it,  and  is  a  subscriber  for  the  Cyno- 
sure. Such  men  as  Dr.  Haygood  and  Capt.  Lovelace, 
like  the  Centurion  who  sent  to  Christ  to  heal  his 
servant,  and  yet  felt  that  he  was  not  worthy  to  re- 
ceive him  under  his  roof,  are  an  honor  to  any  people. 

I  have  said  that  Marion  has  been  called  "the 
Athens  of  Alabama."  It  is  to  be  feared  that  its 
glory  is  departing.  Formerly  it  had  five  flourishing 
institutions  of  learning  and  the  town  was  distin- 
guished for  the  absence  of  the  drink  traflic,  and  the 
excellent  state  of  society.  Now  the  two  largest 
schools  are  removed,  two  saloons  have  been  licensed 
instead,  and  the  town  is  not  flourishing.  The  causes 
that  have  brought  about  this  change  are  as  sad  as 
they  are  remarkable.  Howard  was  one  of  the  oldest 
and  best  sustained  of  the  Baptist  male  colleges  of 
the  State.  It  was  under  the  patronage  and  control 
of  the  white  Baptists  of  Alabama.  The  Lincoln 
State  Normal  school  was  chartered  and  located  here 
some  years  since  for  the  education  of  colored  teach- 
ers. It  occupied  a  building  erected  by  the  A.  M.  A. 
and  the  colored  people,  and  which  was  relinquished 
to  the  State.  The  school  prospered  under  the  care 
of  President  W.  B.  Paterson  and  had  last  year  about 
400  students  with  regular  college  classes.  Both 
schools  moved  on  harmoniously,  and  were  the  just 
pride  of  the  people.  Unfortunately  a  difficulty 
arose  between  a  student  of  the  Normal  and  several 
students  of  Howard,  in  which  one  of  the  latter  was 
severely  cut.  I  will  not  attempt  to  speak  of  the 
merits  of  the  controversy.  At  once  a  great  outcry 
was  raised  against  the  Normal  School.  The  h  gisla- 
ture  was  petitioned  to  take  away  its  charter  and  did 
so,  at  the  same  time  chartering  the  Alabama  State 
University,  now  at  Montgomery,  to  take  its  place. 


OOTOBBR  20,  1887 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSUKK. 


Meanwhile  Howard,  which  it  was  hoped  would  be 
more  prosperous  if  the  Normal  was  removed,  has 
been  also  removed  to  Birmingham.  The  people  of 
that  flourishing  city  desired  better  educational  ad- 
vantages and  subscribed  $75,000  and  a  considerable 
tract  of  land  to  be  given  to  the  college  in  case  it  was 
removed  to  that  place.  It  has  just  been  opened  at 
Birmingham  under  favorable  auspices.  Many  of  the 
colored  people  are  moving  away  because  of  the  loss 
of  the  Normal  School.  This  seriously  depletes  the 
colored  churches. 

Among  the  schools  that  remain  are  two  flourish- 
ing female  seminaries,  viz.,  Marion  Female  Semina- 
ry (Presbyterian  and  Methodist)  and  Judson  Insti- 
tute (Baptist).  This  latter  was  founded  in  1839. 
Its  last  catalogue  says:  "For  nearly  half  a  century 
the  Judson  has  been  a  leading  factor  in  the  civiliza- 
tion of  the  South;  and  for  the  character  of  its  work 
can  point  with  confidence  and  pride  to  the  hundreds 
of  noble  women  who  have  come  under  its  training." 
The  location  js  beautiful  and  the  buildings  large 
and  fine.  I  was  most  kindly  received  by  Pres. 
Avarett,  who  was  glad  to  have  the  Cynosure  placed 
in  their  reading  room.  I  did  not  visit  the  other 
seminary,  but  heard  good  reports  of  it.  I  cannot 
but  think  that  there  is  a  future  for  Marion  and  that 
in  the  future  as  in  the  past  it  will  take  the  lead  in 
the  work  of  Christian  education,  and  I  sincerely  hope 
that  the  A.  M.  A.  will  be  able  to  take  up  the  work 
discontinued  by  the  State  Normal  school.  The 
Christian  education  of  the  colored  people  of  the 
South  will  injure  no  one  but  be  an  inestimable  bless- 
ing to  all.  I  expect  to  go  to  Tuscaloosa  and  Bir- 
mingham and  then  to  Selma  and  Mobile. 

H.  H.  HiNMAN. 


TEB  MINNESOTA  STATE  MEETING. 


THE    SEOBETARY'S    BEPORT. 


St.  Charles,  Minn.,  Oct.  11,  1887. 
Editor  Cynosure: — The  Minnesota  Christian  As- 
sociation, opposed  to  secret  societies,  met  in  con- 
vention Oct.  4,  5,  and  6,  1887,  in  Chestnut  Hall, 
Minneapolis.  President  E.  G.  Paine  was  on  hand, 
and  Rev.  W.  W.  Ames  of  Menominee,  Wis.,  was 
chosen  secretary  pro  tern.  Revs.  J.  P.  Stoddard's 
and  C.  F.  Hawley's  lectures  were  rousing  and  very 
impressive. 

Wednesday  afternoon  Rev.  Wm.  Fenton  of  St. 
Paul  gave  us  a  very  instructive  address  on  the  Bible 
view  of  Freemasonry,  followed  by  short  and  enthu- 
siastic speeches  by  Rev.  W.W.Satterlee  of  Minneapolis, 
Bros.  Ames,  Stoddard  and  others. 

Thursday  afternoon  Rev.  W.  W.  Ames  gave  us  a 
spirited  address  of  encouragement.  Revs.  A.  C. 
Hand  of  Chain  Lake  Center,  Minn.,  S.  F.  Porter  of 
Donnelly,  Minn.,  and  M.  A.  Gault,  of  the  National 
Reform  Association,  made  some  short  speeches  which 
were  filled  with  the  Spirit  of  God.  Father  Hand 
and  wife  seemed  not  to  lose  a  moment  of  the  conven- 
tion, and  are  full  of  the  spirit  of  enthusiasm  for  this 
Christian  work;  as  also  Mrs.  B.  N.  Cravath  of  St. 
Charles,  Minn.,  who  was  present  with  her  usual  read- 
iness to  work  for  our  cause.  Our  godly  brother. 
Rev.  R.  J.  Williams  of  Moose  Lake,  Minn.,  was 
there,  ever  ready  with  an  earnest  testimony  for  the 
truth  in  the  cause.  The  last  evening  a  Mason  asked 
a  question  or  two,  which  were  very  readily  answered 
by  Bro.  Stoddard. 

Our  numbers  during  tbe  convention  were  not 
large,  but  what  was  lacking  in  numbers  was  made 
up  in  enthusiasm,  and  all  feel  more  earnest  for  the 
work.     The  following  resolutions  were  adopted: 

Whereas,  The  secret  lodge  system  has  become  a  pow- 
er in  this  and  other  countries  which  influences  and  modi- 
fies social,  commercial,  civil  and  ecclesiastical  relations 
in  society,  trade,  civil  adraii^istration  and  the  church,  re- 
sulting in  unnatural  and  unscriptural  separations  in  the 
family,  unwarranted  favoritism  and  proscription  in  trade, 
perversions  of  justice  in  our  courts,  and  desecration  and 
dissension  in  the  church;  therefore. 

Resolved,  1 .  That  it  is  the  duty  of  every  citizen,  espec- 
ially in  a  republican  stale,  to  investigate  and  familiarize 
himself  with  the  principles,  teachings  and  influences  of 
the  secret  orders. 

2.  That  since  we  find  the  worship  of  the  Masonic  and 
Odd-fellow  lodges, as  shown  by  their  accredited  standards, 
to  bo  a  revival  of  Baalism  and  ancient  pagan  worship, we 
are  compelled  in  fidelity  to  Christ  and  the  truth  to  de- 
nounce their  secret  religions  as  anti-Christian,  and  those 
who  practice  those  rites  as  departing  from  the  law  and 
commandments  of  God. 

3.  That  we  find  the  covenants  of  Freemasonry  and 
kindred  orders  incompatible  with  the  equal  rights  of  men 
before  the  civil  law  and  prejudicial  to  justice  in  our 
courts,  morality  in  our  citizens  and  the  cause  of  temper- 
ance and  good  order  in  the  community. 

4.  That  we  reaffirm  our  purpose  to  expose,  withstand, 
and  seek  by  every  lawful  and  Christian  means  the  remov- 
al of  all  secret  orders  as  the  enemies  of  righteousness  and 
truth  in  the  earth;  and  recommend  that  they  be  prohibited 
by  both  church  and  state. 


5.  That  we  heartily  commend  the  W.  C.  T.  U.  in  its 
work,  and  sincerely  hope  that  it  will  avoid  all  entangling 
alliances  with  secret  orders  and  tolerate  only  such  hon- 
orable methods  in  its  work  as  require  no  cloak  of  con- 
cealment from  an  interested  public. 

Resolved,  That  we  heartily  congratulate  the  Evangeli- 
cal Swedish  Lutheran  church  of  the  Augustana  Synod 
for  the  noble  stand  they  have  taken  against  the  secret 
lodge  system,  and  that  we  learn  with  satisfaction  that 
the  acti-lodge  sentiment  is  so  generally  shared  by  the  en- 
tire Scandinavian  population. 

Resolved,  fiu'ther.  That  we  recogn'/.e  the  mighty  hand 
of  God  in  the  wonderful  work  of  the  Salvation  Army, 
and  we  are  glad  to  know  that  the  leaders  in  that  move- 
ment set  their  faces  against  the  secret  lodge  system  so 
far  as  they  are  intelligently  informed  in  regard  to  the  na- 
ture and  character  of  the  secret  lodges. 

A  resolution  was  passed  that  a  delegation  of  five 
be  appointed  to  attend  the  National  Prohibition  Con- 
ference in  Chicago,  Dec.  1,  1887.  The  following 
were  appointed:  El  wood  Hanson  of  Minneapolis, 
Prof.  E.  G.  Paine  of  Wasioja,  G.  P.  Hall  of  Minne- 
apolis, and  Rev.  A.  C.  Hand  of  Chain  Lake  Center. 
Voted  that  the  fifth  member  be  appointed  by  these 
four,  and  that  credentials  be  given  to  each  of  the 
delegates,  signed  by  the  president  and  secretary. 

The  officers  elected  were:  Prof.  p].  G.  Paine,  Was- 
ioja, president;  Rev.  Prof.  Brainard,  Ist  vice-presi- 
dent; Rev.  P.  Fuller,  Utica,  2nd  vice-president:  Rev. 
Wm.  Fenton,  St.  Paul,  corresponding  secretary;  Mrs. 
M.  F.  Morrill,  St.  Charles,  recording  secretary;  Wm. 
H.  Morrill,  treasurer. 

At  a  meeting  of  the  executive  committee,  Oct.  7, 
1887,  it  was  decided  to  employ  Bro.  Elwood  Han- 
son of  Minneapolis  for  three  months  as  State  lec- 
turer. M.  F.  Morrill,  Sec'y. 


GORBESFONDENCE. 


NATIONAL  REFORM  IN  EASTERN  NEW  TORE. 


Newburg,  N.  Y.,  Oct.  12,  1887. 

Editor  Christian  Cynosure: — Iri  the  battle  of 
Lodi,  May  10,  1790,  Napoleon  drove  the  Austrians 
over  the  Adda.  Their  batteries,  however,  still  com- 
manded the  bridge  which  spanned  the  river.  In  the 
face  of  the  cannon  Napoleon  ordered  his  columns  to 
cross  the  bridge.  Marshal  McDonald  said;  "It  is 
impossible."  "Impossible  is  only  in  the  dictionary 
of  fools,"  replied  Napoleon;  and  seizing  a  French 
banner  he  rushed  upon  the  bridge.  His  men  fol- 
lowed with  a  shout,  and  a  victory  was  won  which  se- 
cured him  the  possession  of  Lombardy.  Such  cour- 
ageous leaders  are  needed  in  the  sacramental  host. 
One  man  filled  with  such  invincible  enthusiasm  could 
chase  a  thousand,  and  two  put  ten  thousand  to  flight. 

Sabbath  morning  I  preached  in  the  Union  Presby- 
terian church,  Rev.  F.  B.  Savage,  D.  D.,  pastor. 
This  congregation  has  507  members.  Their  Sab- 
bath-school numbers  520.  The  audience  was  large, 
and  they  listened  with  the  closest  attention.  I  am 
satisfied  their  sympathies  were  with  us  throughout. 
Every  time  1  enter  a  strange  pulpit  the  question  of 
an  earnest  saint  recurs:  "Bernard,  for  what  purpose 
art  thou  here?"  Our  purpose  is  single:  to  bear  wit- 
ness to  the  crown  rights  and  royal  prerogatives  of 
the  Lord  Jesus  Christ. 

In  the  evening  I  preached  in  the  First  Reformed 
Presbyterian  church,  of  which  Rev.  S.  Carlisle  had 
been  pastor  for  nearly  thirty-eight  years.  His  death 
last  July  left  them  vacant.  Rev.  Summerville  said 
at  his  funeral,  "Bro.  Carlisle  needs  no  more  encomi- 
um than  the  fact  that  he  was  pastor  of  this  congre- 
gation for  thirty-eight  years."  Educated  in  Belfast, 
Ireland,  under  Drs.  Cook,  Dick  and  Symington,  and 
an  intimate  friend  of  Rev.  J.  R.  Willson,  D.  D.,  and 
Rev.  Andrew  Stevenson,  D.  D.,  hence  he  was  an  old 
side  Covenanter  of  the  first  order.  A  Newburg 
lawyer,  Mr.  L.  S.  Sterritt,  in  a  memorial  paper  says, 
"Perhaps  nothing  would  give  a  better  idea  of  his 
power  in  public  discourse  than  his  thoughtful  paper 
on  the  history  of  the  Reformed  Presbyterian,  or 
Covenanter  church,  in  the  vicinity  of  Newburg,  and 
on  the  life  of  Rev.  James  R.  Willson,  D.  D.,  which 
he  delivered  before  the  Newburg  Historical  Society 
in  February,  1885,  and  which  was  afterwards  pub- 
lished in  pamphlet  form;  or  his  Centennial  Sermon, 
delivered  at  Washington's  headquarters  in  Newburg, 
July  3,  1876,  which  was  also  published  and  widely 
circulated."  A  local  daily  said,  "In  Newburg  no 
citizen  was  more  esteemed  than  be;  no  Christian 
more  consistent;  no  preacher  more  elO(iuent  and  pro- 
found. He  has  left  a  name  which  is  honored  in  the 
community." 

On  Tuesday  evening  I  lectured  in  the  Coldeuham 
Reformed  Presbyterian  church,  Kev.  K.  H.  McCready, 
pastor.  This  is  an  old  congregation.  Rev.  J.  W. 
Shaw  ministered  to  them  for  fifty  years.  He  was 
preceded  by  Rev.  J.  R.  Willson,  D.  D.,  the  greatest 
pulpit  orator  of  his  day.  He  made  an  oration  in 
\be  open  air  in  the  presence  of  10,000  people  on  the 


occasion  of  reinterring  the  remains  of  a  company 
of  soldiers,  and  every  one  heard  him  distinctlv.  Bro. 
McCready  is  organizing  a  New  York  State  Iteform 
Association.  He  hopes  to  enlist  the  leading  men  of 
the  commonwealth. 

On  Friday  evening  I  lectured  in  Gardenertown 
M.  K.  church.  I  am  trying  to  impress  upon  the  peo- 
ple the  necessity  of  taking  the  Bible  as  the  supreme 
standard.  When  an  Indian  prince,  who  had  spent 
five  years  in  England,  was  asked  what  he  thought 
of  the  Bible,  he  replied:  "I  think  it  is  a  Vjook  from 
God,  for  I  see  all  the  good  people  believe  it,  and  all 
the  bad  disbelieve  it"  When  the  Queen  of  England 
was  asked  the  secret  of  England's  greatness,  point- 
ing to  the  Bible,  she  replied,  "That  Book."  It  is  to 
be  feared  that  it  is  not  always  wisely  used.  That 
sometimes  gloomy  writer,  Mr.  Foster  beyond  the 
seas,  tells  us  of  an  enemy  boarding  a  ship  and  con- 
cealing a  piece  of  loadstone  near  the  compass,  and 
the  captain,  ignorantly  following  the  misguiding 
needle,  entered  the  enemy's  port  and  was  captured. 
The  man  who  buys  and  reads  the  Sunday  newspaper 
on  Sabbath,  who  holds  stock  in  Sabbath-breaking 
corporations,  or  who  is,  directly  or  indirectly,  en- 
gaged in  the  liquor  traffic,  has  placed  such  a  load- 
stone near  the  compass  of  his  conscience;  and  if  it 
remains  there,  in  the  end  he  may  be  surprised  to 
find  that  he  has  entered,  not  the  haven  of  rest  above, 
but  the  harbor  of  woe  below,  where  he  will  be  Sa- 
tan's captive  forever.  The  Scotch  woman's  advice 
to  the  young  minister  was  cogent:  "Preach  the  law, 
then  the  Gospel,  and  then  the  law  again."  That  is 
the  sum  of  all.  Preach  the  law  to  awaken  the  sin- 
ner; then  preach  the  Gospel  to  bring  him  to  Christ; 
and  then  preach  the  law  as  his  rule  of  life.  The 
Bible  must  be  studied.  Chalmers  said:  "Some  peo- 
ple's Bibles  are  left  lying  on  the  shelf  so  long  that 
you  could  write  damnation  in  the  dust  that  has  col- 
lected." The  study  of  the  Bible  through  the  Inter- 
national Sabbath-school  lessons  makes  the  outlook 
for  the  coming  generation  very  hopeful. 

J.  M.  Foster. 


EVANGELISTS  WHO  SHUN  NOT  THE  TRUTH. 


Orion,  Wis.,  Oct.  8th,  '87. 

Dear  Christian  Cynosure: — When  brothers 
'Wolfe  and  Swayne  were  through  with  our  camp- 
meeting  [reported  last  week]  they  went  to  Richland 
Center,  a  hard  nest  of  lodgery.  You  will  see  from 
this  little  slip  from  the  county  paper  how  the  preach- 
ers there  receive  them.  The  lodges  are  trying  to 
make  a  cats  paw  of  the  board  of  health  to  oust  them. 
They  say  it  is  not  healthy  in  the  rink  without  fire. 
No,  I  guess  it  is  not  healthy  for  lodgery.  Pastor 
Williams  of  the  Baptist  church  writes  in  the  local 
press: 

The  interest  is  increasing  daily  in  the  meetings 
at  the  skating  rink.  Cold,  indifferent  and  backslid- 
den Christians  are  returning  to  their  first  love.  Sev- 
eral have  been  hopefully  converted.  Hardened  old 
sinners  that  hav^e  been  serving  the  devil  so  faithful- 
ly all  their  lives  are  disturbed  and  angered  because 
the  Holy  Spirit  applies  the  truth  to  their  guilty  con- 
sciences. Mr.  Wolfe  has  presched  with  wonderful 
force  and  clearness  on  the  "Refuges  of  Lies,"  "Pow- 
er of  the  Holy  Spirit,"  "How  to  receive  this  Anoint- 
ing for  Service,"  "Full  Assurance,"  "Regeneration," 
"Quack  Doctors,"  Text,  Job  13:4,"l8  Hell  a  Myth  or 
a  Reality?"  All  his  preaching  is  founded  on  the 
unfailing  Word  of  God.  He  is  especially  successful 
in  exposing  false  beliefs  and  worldly  securities,  and 
he  is  unique  in  ridiculing  all  half- hearted, go-as-you- 
please,  hand-in-hand-with-the-world  professors  of  re- 
ligion. Much  good  is  being  done  by  the  simple, 
plain  presentations  of  God's  truth.  Christians  can 
not  afford  to  lose  iha  Bible  readings  held  every  af- 
ternoon excepting  Mondaj's.  No  services  Mondays. 
Many  people  are  loud  in  their  praise  of  Mr.Swayne's 
clear  and  forcible  manner  of  singing  the  Gospel.  He 
does  not  obscure  the  words  by  the  music,as  is  so  of- 
ten the  case.  We  bless  the  Lord  for  sending  his 
servants  here.  Yours,  W.  H.  Dawson. 


PANDEMONIUM  AT  COLUMBUS. 


CoLUMuus,  O.,  Oct.,  12,  1887. 
Dear  Cynosi  re: — The  citizens  here  are  being 
treated  to  a  very  strange  entertainment  for  an  en- 
lightened people.  A  number  of  men  are  here  from 
different  parts  of  our  State,  whose  ostensible  object, 
so  far  as  we  can  learn  from  the  papers,  is  to  feast, 
strut  and  dance.  Last  Friday  night  the  Park  Hotel 
was  profusely  decorated  with  flags  of  different  c^' 
ors,  bearing  different  inscriptions.  "  Welcome  KnighU" 
was  printed  on  some;  others  had  a  represent? tier  '** 
a  man  clad  in  armor,  with  a  sword  in  one  hand  ana 
a  black  Hag  in  the  other.  The  crosses  which  s,, 
peared  were  all  painted  red.  As  we  learn  these 
men   are  great  for  symbols,  we  take  it  that  the  r«rt 


'JOSE  CEOEUSTIAN  CYNOSUKB!. 


OOTOBKB  20, 1887 


is  to  symbolize  blood,  the  sword  the  way  it  is  ob- 
tained, and  the  black  flag  the  time.  On  Monday 
the  saloons  and  some  of  the  business  places  were 
also  decorated.  Tuesday  the  Knights  arrived.  There 
was  a  general  hurrah.  The  small  boys  ran  up  and 
down  the  streets  following  the  tall  men  (T)  with  glit- 
tering swords  and  feathers  in  their  caps.  Susan 
was  there  with  the  baby  crying  on  one  arm,  trying 
to  lead  two  or  three  infants  with  the  other.  Sambo 
had  got  a  "day  cflf,*'  and  was  standing  on  the  corner 
hurrahing  to  see  his  master  strut,  and  wishiog  he 
had  as  much  money  so  he  could  strut  too.  "What  a 
time  they  did  have  I  A  refreshing  rain  came  early 
in  the  afternoon  and  continued  by  spells  till  even- 
ing. As  the  feathered  fellows  were  not  very  good 
water  birds,  they  frequently  went  from  labor  to  re- 
freshments. Coming  forth  between  showers  they 
would  march  up  and  down  through  the  mud,  doubt- 
less very  much  admired.  Last  night  they  had  a 
supper  and  ball  in  the  Park  skating  rink,  which  this 
morning's  paper  states  cost  $2,000.  This  was  prob- 
ably for  the  widows  and  orphans  they  are  tupporting 
in  such  vast  numbers.  The  paper  goes  on  to  state 
that  many  eminent  ladies  were  there.  The  P.  G.  G. 
P.  E.  C.  from  Lancaster  and  other  places  was  there, 
and  we  rather  suspect  that  the  great  high-pan-tan- 
drum,  old  Satan  himself,  was  there.  This  morning 
I  drove  down  town,  thinking  these  men  would  be 
through  with  their  strut,  but  found  I  was  mistaken. 
While  many  had  gone,  there  were  quite  a  number 
marching  up  and  down  High  street,  which  was  crowd- 
ed with  teams,  scaring  many  horses  with  their  brass 
band,  sword  and  feathers. 

Query. — Would  it  not  be  well  for  some  citizen  to 
mention  to  these  fellows  that  it  would  be  well  for 
them  to  stop  before  they  strutted  themselves  to  death? 

w.  B.  s. 


THE  NAME   OF  CBRIST  TABOOED   BY    TBE 
O.  A.  B. 


Chariton,  Iowa,  Oct  10,  1887. 

Editor  Ctnosube: — Iseminger  Post,  No  18,  De- 
partment of  Iowa,  is  located  in  this  place.  Kev. 
John  H.  Uughey,  pastor  of  the  Presbyterian  church 
of  Chariton,  was  elected  its  chaplain  for  the  year  1887. 

As  the  chaplain's  card,  containing  the  prayer  at 
the  opening  of  the  post  meetings,  did  not  mention 
Christ's  name,  Mr.  Hughey  added  at  the  close,  "For 
Christ's  sake."  The  commander  of  the  post,  Col. 
0.  A.  Bartholomew,  ordered  the  chaplain  to  cease 
saying  "for  (  hrist's  sake,"  and  to  read  nothing  but 
the  prayer  on  the  card.  Mr.  Hughey  replied  that  he 
would  resign  if  not  permitted  to  use  the  name  of 
Christ  in  prayer.  Col.  Bartholomew,  who  is  a  mar- 
tinet, refused  to  allow  the  name  of  Christ  to  be 
used,  so  the  chaplain  resigned.  Since  then  Dr. 
Perry,  a  Methodist,  and  Mr.  Best,  a  United  Presby- 
terian, have  been  conducting  the  devotions  of  the 
post,  without  using  the  name  of  Christ,  which  is  so 
objectionable  to  Col.  Bartholomew.     Yours  truly, 

E.  Thompson  Baibd. 


FOR  CANADIAN  MBTH0DI8T8. 

Galt,  Ontario. 

Allow  me  heartily  to  commend  to  the  readers  of 
the  Christian  Cynosure  in  Canada,  who  are  members 
of  the  Methodist  church,  the  example  of  that  minis- 
ter of  Pine  Bluff,  who  was  moderator  of  the  colored 
Baptist  Association  in  Arkansas  that  voted  seventy- 
six  for  the  resolution  condemning  secret  societies, 
and  four  for  them.  That  was  as  it  ought  to  be. 
We  most  heartily  commend  this  example  to  the 
Guelph  Conference  and  Canada  Methodist  General 
Conference,  that  a  similar  result  may  be  had 
throughout  the  entire  body  in  British  America. 

That  they  need  a  cleansing  and  reforming  very 
much,  I  learned  from  a  young  man  who  had  been 
three  terms  consecutively  master  of  the  Blue  Lodge 
in  the  commercial  capital  of  British  America.  He 
said  "that  a  corresponding  member  from  Ontario 
had  visited  their  lodge  one  evening  and  told  them 
that  a  minister  in  bis  conference  bad  asked  his  de- 
mit from  the  lodges  for  reasons,  and  obtained  it. 
He  rose  in  conference  and  begged  leave  to  move 
that  all  members  of  secret  deislic  lodges  be  disci- 
plined. The  president  of  conference,  who  was  a 
jolly  good  fellow,  put  the  motion  to  the  house  and 
said,  <I  myself  am  a  Freemason,  and  mean  to  live 
and  die  one.  You  may  all  do  as  you  like.  All  in 
favor  of  the  motion  stand  up.'  Ten  stood  up.  'AH 
opposed,  show  it  by  the  same  sign.'  The  whole 
conference  stood  up.  There  were  more  than  a  hun- 
dred who  stood  up.  The  motion  was  lost"  In  or- 
der to  show  me  that  his  statement  was  true,  he 
showed  me  his  jewtl  and  certificate. 

This  was  certainly  'lawful  information  had,"  I 
bought  that  if  there  had  been  as  many  righteous 
irsons  in  Sodom  it  would  not  have  been  destroyed. 


May  God  give  grace  to  the  Methodist  ohorch  in 
Canada  to  tarn  away  from  all  Masonic  idols  to  wor- 
ship the  only  living  and  true  God  and  serve  him 
alone,  that  he  may  not  destroy  them  from  earth. 

J.  Donaldson. 


PITS  AND  POINT. 


thanes  to  friends  in  thb  north. 

Will  you  and  the  kind  friends  who  have  sent  the  Cy- 
nosure to  a  few  poor  colored  ministers  in  the  South  ac- 
cept my  sincere  thanks  for  sending  it  to  me  for  one  year. 
May  the  gnod  Lord  bless  the  paper  and  all  the  good  peo- 
ple of  the  North  for  all  they  have  done  for  the  poor  col- 
ored people  of  the  South.  I  believe  the  Cynosure  is  the 
best  reform  paper  published  in  the  United  States.  It 
ought  to  be  in  the  Lands  of  every  colored  minister  and 
reading  family  in  the  South,  and  in  ten  years  we  would 
have  a  genuine  "New  South"  and  a  "people  whose  God 
is  the  Lord." — J.  A.  Jones,  Kymulga,  Ala, 

HATING  THE  LODGE  AT  HOME. 

How  I  deplore  the  fact  that  Pennsylvania  can't  raise 
m<?an8  enough  to  hire  somebody  to  draw  out  the  latent 
opposition  or  hate  of  secret  shams.  I  have  found  two 
ladies  lately  where  I  least  expected  who  abhor  the  lodge. 
One  of  them  told  me  that  her  poor  old  father  trusted  to 
Masonic  salvation  till  nearly  90  years  old,  but  two  years 
before  he  died  bad  to  give  it  up  as  useless  and  fly  to  Je- 
sus. Bless  the  Lord  for  such  testimony. — J.  C.  Young, 
Custer  City, 

"llASONIC  MENAGERIE." 

That  article  (Sept.  15)  out  to  be  issued  as  a  tract  and 
distributed  in  tens  of  thousands.  What  a  commentary  on 
enlightened  Boston!  Are  we  to  believe  that  she  is  al- 
ready doomed  as  a  slave  to  superstition  and  vice  under  the 
cloak  of  refinement  and  pleasure?  Is  that  city,  once 
"the  cradle  of  liberty,"  to  be  the  cradle  of  local  despo- 
tism? Is  her  city  council  already  the  tool  of  lodgery  or 
Romanism,  or  both,  against  the  free  Christianity  which  is 
the  true  bulwark  of  our  liberties?  t.  h. 


Bible  lesson. 


STUDIES  IN  THE  NEW  TESTAMENT. 

LESSON  v.— Oct.  80.— The  Harveet  and  the  Laborers. —Matt. 
9:35-88;  10:1-8. 

GOLDEN  TEXT.—Freely  ye  have  received,  freely  give.— 
Matt.  10:  8. 

{Open  the  BibU  and  read  the  lesson.} 
COMMENTS   ON   THE  LESSON   BY  E.  E.  FLAGG. 

1.  The  Divine  Compassion,  VB,  95-38,  Christ  was  ev- 
er at  work.  He  did  not  wait  as  so  many  of  his  professed 
followers  do  in  slothful  inaction  for  opportunities  to  do 
good  to  come  to  him,  but  he  sought  them  out.  To  do 
his  Father's  will  was  his  meat  and  drink,  and  if  we  are 
like  him  we  shall  be  all  the  time  hungry,  as  it  were,  for 
something  to  do  for  God.  He  was  moved  with  compas- 
sion on  the  multitude;  nor  can  we  if  we  have  his  spirit 
fail  to  be  moved  in  like  manner.  Ignorance,  poverty  and 
vice  prey  on  the  larger  half  of  mankind.  Still,  they  are 
as  sheep  not  having  a  shepherd.  The  saloon  traps  them 
by  the  thousands,  and  still  by  thousands  they  walk  into 
its  gilded  snare.  I  once  heard  a  dear  W.  C.  T.  U.  sister 
allude  to  Isaiah  42  23  as  an  exact  description  of  the  poor 
drunkard's  condition;  "This  is  a  people  robbed  and 
spoiled;  they  are  all  of  them  snared  in  dens,  and  they 
are  hid  in  prison  houses:  they  are  for  a  prey  and  none 
delivereth;  for  a  spoil,  and'  none  saith.  Restore."  The 
Lord  of  the  harvest  needs  more  laborers  in  the  temper- 
ance work  who  with  the  love  of  Jesus  in  their  hearts 
will  seek  out  and  try  to  save  these  poor  victims  of  drink. 
How  many  scattered  sheep  for  whom  Christ  died  are 
looking  to  the  lodge  for  salvation.  The  time  will  come 
when  their  feet  will  stumble  upon  the  dark  mountains, 
and  tbey  will  be  beyond  the  reach  of  instruction  or  warn- 
ing. That  instruction  and  that  warning  tbey  need  now. 
In  this  field  the  laborers  are  indeed  few.  All  Christian 
hearts  which  feel  and  deplore  the  mischief  that  Masonry 
is  working  in  church  and  state,cheating  souls  with  a  false 
hope  of  salvation  and  blocking  the  wheels  of  every  right- 
eous reform,  must  surely  pray  for  more  laborers  in  this 
cause;  more  consecrated  men  and  women  willing  to  give 
themselves  to  the  work  of  teaching  the  people  the  true 
nature  of  this  great  foe  to  Christianity. 

2.  TTie  Apostles  sent  out.  vs  1-8.  He  gave  them  power 
over  unclean  spirits  to  c&et  them  out.  The  subject  of 
demoniac  possession  is  not  very  well  understood.  Many 
commentators  think  that  during  Christ's  stay  on  earth 
devils  were  allowed  a  peculiar  license  to  afflict  mankind 
which  has  not  been  exercised  since.  Leaving  this  point 
undecided  we  are  sure  that  the  condition  of  the  Bible  de- 
moniacs could  not  have  been  more  wretched  than  that  of 
the  poor  victim  of  delirium  tremens,  or  more  manifest- 
ly a  proof  of  Satan's  malignant  power.  This  unclean 
spirit  of  the  saloon  every  Christian  man  and  woman  has 
received  a  divine  commission  to  cast  out.    Unclean  spir- 


its are  rife  not  only  in  the  polluting  print  but  the  sensa- 
tional weekly  and  the  Sunday  newspaper  which  cater  to 
the  depraved  tastes  cf  their  readers.  There  is  no  cru- 
sade more  important  than  the  one  against  bad  literature. 
Spiritualism  can  be  nothing  else  than  the  work  of  unclean 
spirits,  for  John  tells  us  that  every  spirit  which  is  of  God 
confesses  Christ,  and  every  spirit  which  is  not  of  God  de 
nies  him.  What  is  not  of  God  must  be  of  Satan,  and 
spiritualism  as  we  all  know  rejects  the  Bible  and  of 
course  rejects  Christ.  By  the  same  rule  we  know  that 
every  Masonic  lodge  is  the  abode  of  unclean  spirits. 
Pres.  J.  Blanchard  says:  "The  terrible  uniformity  of 
these  dark  systems  show  their  rise  from  one  common 
source."  In  America  or  Europe,  Asia  or  Africa,  we  find 
the  same  impure  symbols,  the  same  appeal  to  physical 
fear,  the  same  paralyzing  spell  over  the  will  and  con- 
science— and  no  Christ.  It  is  time  that  Christians  every- 
where should  hear  his  call  to  cast  out  the  unclean  spirit 
of  the  lodge  from  their  midst.  They  were  given  the 
mission  of  healing.  Even  if  he  cannot  wield  the  power 
of  a  Dr.  Cullis  or  a  Dorothea  Trudell  over  the  physical 
evils  which  afflict  the  body.every  Christian  is  bound  both 
by  example  and  precept  to  be  a  health  missionary.  With 
plain  living  and  strict  obedience  to  the  laws  of  hygiene 
the  sum  of  human  disease  and  suffering  would  be  greatly 
diminished.  They  were  to  preach  the  new  order  of  things 
— that  the  kingdom  was  not  only  coming*  but  at  hand. 
So  we  are  to  preach — not  a  Saviour  far  off  but  one  who 
is  standing  at  the  very  doors  waiting  to  bless .  As  we 
have  freely  received,  so  freely  should  we  give  out.  The 
measure  of  the  Lord's  grace  to  ua  is  the  measure  of  what 
we  should  try  to  do  to  bless  others. 

From  Peloubet's  Notes. 

The  Motive  for  Missions.  (1)  The  love  of  Jesus  our 
Lord.  (2)  The  love  we  bear  to  our  fellow  men.  (8) 
The  needs  of  our  fellow  men;  their  suffering  and  lost 
condition .  All  of  these  need  to  be  joined  together  in 
one  mighty  motive .  For  if  we  do  not  love  Jesus  and  our 
fellow  men,  then  the  view  of  their  needs  will  not  lead  us 
to  go  to  their  rescue.  And  on  the  other  hand  it  is  the 
lost  condition  of  men  that  directs  love  to  their  help.  The 
greater  we  see  their  need  and  danger  to  be,  the  more  ear- 
nest will  love  be  to  seek  and  to  save  them.  One  will  not 
risk  his  life  to  save  another  from  a  slight  wetting,  but  he 
would  to  save  him  from  drowning.  (4)  The  greater  our 
experience  of  the  change  the  Gospel  produces  the  more 
shall  we  desire  that  others  enjoy  the  same  experience,  (6) 
The  more  we  love  Jesus,  the  stronger  will  be  our  desire 
to  hasten  the  coming  of  his  kingdom,  to  see  him  upon 
the  throne  of  every  heart,  and  of  the  world. — P. 

"Now  the  names  of  the  twelve  apostles  are  these  "  Of 
the  twelve  apostles  there  are  four  lists,  the  other  three 
being  found  in  Mark  8:18;  Luke  6:14;  and  Acts  1:13. 
They  differ  in  the  following  particulars.  Luke  in  the 
book  of  Acts  does  not  insert  the  name  of  Judas  Iscariot, 
who  was  then  dead;  both  in  his  Gospel  and  in  Acts  he 
entitles  the  Simon  who  is  here  and  in  Mark  called  the 
Canaanite,  Simon  Zelotes;  Matthew  gives  as  the  tenth 
disciple  Lebbeus;  Mark  calls  him  Thaddeus;  Luke  and 
Acts  Judas  of  James,  i.  e.,  son  or  brother  of  James;  and 
Mark  says  that  James  and  John  were  surnamed  by  Christ 
Boanerges,  i.  e.,  the  sons  of  thunder.  In  other  respects 
the  four  list?  are  identical,except  that  the  names  are  given 
in  a  slightly  different  order  by  the  different  writers.  They 
all  agree.however,  in  putting  Simon  Peter  first  and  Judas 
Iscariot  last.  There  are  three  pairs  of  brothers  among 
them,  Andrew  and  Peter,James  and  John,James  the  less, 
and  Judas  or  Thaddeus.  James  and  John  I  believe  to 
have  been  own  cousins  of  our  Lord.  With  the  exception 
of  Judas  Iscariot  all  were  Galileans;  several  of  them  were 
by  trade  fishermen,  a  laborious  and  profitable  calling; 
they  were  all  laymen,  that  is,  there  was  neither  priest  nor 
scribe  among  them.  They  have  generally  been  regard- 
ed as  illiterate  men  (Acts  4.18) ;  but  by  this  must  be  un- 
derstood, not  that  they  were  specially  ignorant,  but  that 
they  were  not  versed  in  the  rabbinical  literature, the  scho 
lastic  theology  of  their  age.  Phillip  and  Peter  both  ap- 
pear to  have  been  acquainted  with  the  Greek.  This  is 
indicated  by  the  application  of  the  Greeks  to  PhilHp 
(John  12:20,21)  and  by  the  fact  that  the  epistles  of  Pe- 
ter were  written  in  Greek.  Matthew  was  a  ready  and 
methodical  writer;  John  evidently  was  a  man  of 
culture,  as  his  writings  show,  and  his  social  position 
was  such  as  gave  him  ready  access  to  the  high  priest's 
palace  during  the  trial  of  Jesus  (John  18:16). — Abbott. 

Note  (1)  The  apostles  were  to  go  in  pairs  (Mark  6:7) 
"for  they  were  to  be  accustomed  to  work  in  brotherly 
fellowship,  and  when  diffijulties  arose,  one  was  to  have 
the  counsel  and  aid  of  the  other." — Schenckels  Character 
of  Jesus.  (2)  They  were  to  minister  to  both  body  and 
soul  (vers.  7  and  8) ;  (3)  were  to  preach  in  the  towns  and 
villages,  while  Cbrist  continued  his  ministry  in  the  cities 
(compare  Luke  9:6  with  Matt.  11:1);  (4)  were  to  preach 
only  to  the  Jews  (vers.  5,  6) ;  and  (5)  in  their  ministry 
were  to  follow  the  example  and  adopt  the  habits  of  the 
ancient  prophets. — Abbott. 

(2)  Warnings  of  Obstacles  and  Persecutions  (vers.  16- 
23).  So  that  they  would  not  be  discouraged,  and  wrong 
and  sel6sh  motives  would  be  sifted  out.  "These  apply  to 
the  Christian  ministry  in  all  times  of  religious  persecu- 
tion . " 

(8)  Promises  and  encouragements  (ves.  24-42),  part 
of  which  are  included  in  our  next  lesson.and  "appear  to 
be  universally  applicable  to  all  followers  of  Christ,  wheth- 
er engaged  directly  in  the  work  of  preaching  the  Gospel 
or  not." 


OOTOBBR  20, 1887 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


In  Brief. 


It  is  not  generally  known  that  camels, 
both  wild  and  tame,  are  found  in  Texas, 
yet  such  is  the  fact, and  some  of  them  will 
be  on  exhibition  at  the  State  Fair  at  Dal- 
las this  fall.  The  first  of  these  animals 
were  brought  to  the  State  by  the  govern- 
ment in  1852  to  test  their  usefulness  in 
crossing  the  American  desert  to  Califor- 
nia. They  came  from  Arabia  and  were 
the  ancestors  of  those  now  in  the  State. 

Another  test  was  made  of  Zalinski's 
dynamite  gun  in  New  York  bay  last  week. 
Two  or  three  effective  shots  utterly  de- 
molished the  hulk  of  a  large  old  schoon- 
er anchored  for  the  purpose  at  a  distance 
of  a  mile  Military  experts  are  inclined 
to  think  that  this  new  engine  of  destruc- 
tion puts  an  end  to  war,  and  enables  us 
to  laugh  at  the  iron  clad  navies  of  the 
world.  One  shot  from  this  gun  would 
sink  the  largest  ironclad  ever  built. 

The  demand  for  reindeer  skins  is  like- 
ly to  largely  increase,  and  the  Norsemen 
and  Laps  may  find  the  rearing  of  deer  a 
more  profitable  business  than  it  has  hith- 
erto proved.  Reindeer  skins  are  more 
buoyant  than  cork,  and  persons  wearing 
a  waistcoat  or  belt  made  from  this  mater- 
ial there  is  no  fear  of  their  sinking  in  the 
water.  Considering  the  innumerable 
drowning  accidents  which  are  daily  re- 
corded, it  is  gratifying  to  think  these  may 
be  avoided  by  substituting  for  a  portion 
of  our  ordinary  clothing  a  garment  made 
of  reindeer  skin.  With  the  fear  of  drown; 
ing  removed,  the  pastime  of  boating 
would  quadruple  its  devotees. 

The  Shah  of  Persia  w  ill  shortly  visit 
London,  Paris  and  St.  Petersburg.  Our 
readers  will  remember  that  when  Nassar 
ed  Deen  last  visited  Europe  the  public 
were  amazed  at  the  brilliancy  of  his  own 
and  his  courtiers'  uniforms,  which  were 
resplendent  with  diamonds.  The  wily 
Shah  came  for  the  purpose  of  negotiating 
a  loan  of  money,  and  being  the  possessor 
of  such  a  large  amount  of  visible  wealth, 
there  was  no  difliculty  in  floating  the  Per- 
sian bonds  It  was  not  until  he  had  re- 
turned to  Teheran  that  it  leaked  out  that 
his  precious  stones  had  been  expressly 
manufactured  for  him  by  a  company  of 
paste  diamond  makers  in  Paris. 

The  Cincinnati  rrict  Current  gives  its 
annual  statement,  from  special  investiga- 
tions, in  regard  to  the  corn  crop  of  1887, 
in  which  it  is  shown  that  the  aggre- 
gate crop  is  estimated  at  1,510,000  000 
bushels  against  last  year's  crop  of  1.655,- 
000  OOO.indicating  a  shortage  of  155,000,- 
000  bushels  compared  with  1886.  In  the 
seven  Western  surplus  States  the  shortage 
is  161,000  000  bushels,  and  adding  six 
other  corn  growing  States  the  shortage  is 
203,000,000  bushels  for  the  thirteen 
States.  Compared  with  an  annual  aver- 
age for  five  years — 1881  to  1885  inclusive 
—the  crop  shortage  is  108  000  000  bush- 
els, the  thirteen  States  being  deficient 
186,000,000  bushels  in  this  comparison. 


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BY    KMINBNT  TESTIMONY. 

Prks.  a.  a.  Smith,  Northweatern  Col- 
lege:— There  can  be  no  doubt  that  when 
secrecy  is  adopted  as  a  rule  of  action,  it 
has  a  demoralizing  tendency. 

Matilda   J.   Oag£,   a  leader    m    the 
Woman  tvffrage  movement:  —  Masonry 
excludes  women,  not  for  any  great  se- 
crets it  may  have,  but  because  of  shame 
for  its  indecent  ceremonies. 

Rev.  T.  D,  Post,  D.  D.,of  St.  Louis, 
in  an  address  before  the  Pilgrim  Memorial 
Convention,  Chicago,  1870,  spoke  of  the 
lodge  as  setting  up  the  hollow  forms  and 
titles  of  king-craft  and  priestcraft,  that 
those  hated  foes  of  humanity  might  creep 
back  into  their  shells. 

Prof.  Robison. — "But  not  only  are 
secret  societies  dangerous,  but  all  socie- 
ties whose  effect  is  mysterious.  The 
whole  history  of  man  is  proof  of  this  po- 
sition; in  no  age  or  country  has  there 
ever  appeared  a  mysterious  association 
which  did  not  in  time  become  a  public 
nuisance."    Proofs  of  a  Conspiracy. 

Bishop  Stevens,  (Protestant  Bpisco 
pal)  in  an  ar^dress  before  Pennsylvania 
diocese,  1874,  said  he  "had  refused 
•to  receive  at  the  holy  communion 
young  men  who  belonged  to  secret  soci- 
eties existing  within  the  church,  as  the 
machinery  of  these  organizations  was 
used  to  advance  the  interests  of  ritualism 
and  Romanism." 

Rev  .  Dr  .  Kratjth,  President  of  Luth- 
eran General  Council: — They  strike  at 
the  root  of  the  three  divine  institutions. 
They  bring  disturbance  into  the  family, 
the  church  and  the  state,  claiming  for 
themselves  what  God  has  conferred  on 
these  alone.  If  the  church  cannot  break 
down,  by  the  truth,  the  oath-bound  se- 
cret societies,  they  will  break  her  down 
everywhere . 

Mrs  .  C  .  B  .  Miller,  Syracuse,  N.  T. , 
daicghter  of  Victory  Birdseye,  Esq.: — 
My  father  died  in  1853 .  Had  he  lived 
to  see  the  rebellion  of  1861,  I  have  no 
doubt  that  he  would  have  said  that  Free- 
pjas'onry  in  common  with  slavery  should 
bear  the  responsibility  of  that  terrible 
war;  for  by  undermining  Southern  loyal- 
ty it  brought  about  a  state  of  things 
without  which  the  rebellion  would  have 
been  impossible. 

Pkes.  H  .  a  .  Thompson,  Otterbein  Uni- 
vejsity.—Wh&i  a  farce  to  think  of  Christ 
organizing  an  oath-bound  association, 
admitting  meml)ers  by  a  solemn  pledge, 
in  a  secluded  room,  in  some  lonely  place, 
with  sentinels  outside  and  inside  to  pro- 
tect from  the  vulgar  gaze,  in  order  to 
help  men  to  a  purer  life;  to  induce  them 
to  reform  and  forget  their  past  misdeeds 
and  begin  anew.  If  this  is  the  best 
method  of  saving  men,  why  did  he  not 
adopt  it  instead  of,  or  make  it  a  part  of 
the  Christian  church  which  he  himself 
instituted 

Da.  Adam  Clarke :-"Have  no  fellow- 
ship" means  have  no  religious  connec- 
tion with  heathens  or  their  worship.  The 
"unfruitful  works  of  darkness"  probably 
alludes  to  the  mysteries  among  the  heath- 
ens and  the  differing  lustrations  (symbols) 
and  rites  through  which  the  initiated 
went  in  the  caves  and  dark  recesses  where 
these  mysteries  were  celebrated;  all  of 
which  he  (the  apostle)  denominates 
"works  of  darkness,"  because  they  were 
destitute  of  true  wisdom;  and  "unfruit- 
ful works"  because  they  were  of  no  use 
to  mankind;  the  initiated  being  obliged 
on  pain  of  death  to  keep  secret  what  they 
had  seen  and  heard  and  done. — Commen- 
tary, Bph  5th  chap. 

How  then  could  they  keep  up  the 
profession  of  Christianity  or  pretend  to 
be  under  its  infiuonce  while  they  had 
communion  with  darkness,  concord  with 
Belial,  and  partook  with  infidels?— Com. 
Cor.  62. 

KNiaiTT  TEMPLAR  ISM   IL  LUS- 
TRA TED. 

A  full  llluKtruted  ritual  of  thr  rIx  di'tir>-i'«  of  the 
Cniin.-n  HD(1  Coiiiniandury.  cnrnprlHlnK  tlic  di'irriM-a  of 
tiiyiil  Miimur, Si'li'Ct  Miislpr.  HupiT  Kvci-lliMil  MiiHlrr. 
Knitfht  of  llio  lied  t'ronK,  Kiilwlit  Trtnpluriind  KnlRlit 
.•f  M»ll«.  A  Irook  of  ;t.|l  llBgl'i.  liicloili,»t.Ui):  ^V 
•itr  daxitn.    Paper  covera,  SOr  \  t4.(X)  ppr  doioo. 

'i  r»t»b«i  1"  i.ny  nnantUloe  «t 

KmCrHTS    OF    jy  Till  AS    IL- 
LUSTRATED. 

fiy  u  I'aat  Chani-ellor.    A  full  Ulumraicrt  oxpoaliU.n 
of  Ihetlirci' runkH  ct   tin'  onlor.  wllli  the  addition  of 
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•t.—- 


ANTLMABONIO  LEOTUMEMS. 

Obnbbal  AexNT  and  Lsctubkb,  J.  P. 
Stoddard,  321  W.  Madison  St.,  Chicago. 

H.  H.  Hmman,  Cynosure  office. 
Agent  for  Southern  States. 
Statb  AesNTS. 

Iowa,  C.  F,  Hawley,  Wayne,  Henry 
Co.     Care  Rev.  Geo.  Fry. 

Missouri,  Eld.  Rufua  Smith,  Maryville. 

New  Hampshire,  Kid.  S.  0.  Kimball, 
New  Market. 

Ohio,  W.  B.  Stoddard,  ColumbuB. 

Kansas,  Robert  Loggan,  Clifton. 

Alabama,  Rev.  G.  M.  Elliott,  Selma. 

Drobbb  WoBKBBfl.— [Seceders.l 
J.  K.  Glassford,  Carthage.  Mo. 
Other  Lbctiibbbs. 

C.  A.  Blanchard,  Wheaton,  DL 
N.  Callender,  Thompeon,  Pa. 

J  E.  Tlnunons,  Tarentum,  Pa 

T.  B.  McCormIck,  PriDceton,  Ind. 

E.  Johnson,  Dayton,  Ind. 

H.  A.  Day,  WllllaiDstown,  Mich. 

J.  H.  Bishop,  Chambereburg,  Fa. 

A.  Mayn,  Bloomlngton,  InoT 

J.  B.  CresBlnger,  Sullivan,  0. 

W.  M.  Love,  Osceola,  Mo. 

J.  L.  Barlow,  Grundy  Center,  Iowa. 

A.   D. Freeman,  Downers  Qrovei  111 

Wm.  FentoD  8t  Paul,  Minn. 

K.  I.  Qrlnnell,  Blalreburg,  Iowa. 

Warren  Taylor,  South  Salem,  O. 

J.  8.  Perry,  Thompson,  Conn. 

J.  T.  Michael,  New  Wllmlnjfton,  Pa. 

8.  G.  Barton,  Breckinridge,  Mo. 

E.  Bametson,  HaakinviUe,  Steuben  Co,!N.  7 

Wm.  R.  Roach,  Pickering,  Ont 

D.  A.  Richards,  Brighton,  Mich. 

TEE   CmmOEBS    V8.    L0D€^9RT. 

The  following  denominations  are  com- 
mitted by  vote  of  their  legislative  assem- 
blies or  by  constitution  to  a  separation 
from  secret  lodge  worship: 

Adventists  (Seventh-day.) 

Baptists — Primitive,  Seventh-day  and 
Scandinavian. 

Brethren  (Dunkers  ot  (Serm&n  Bap- 
tists.) 

Christian  Reformed  Church. 

Church  of  God  ^Northern  Indiana  El- 
dership.) 

Congregational — The  State  Associations 
of  Illinois  and  Iowa  have  adopted  resolu- 
tious  against  the  lodge. 

Disciples  (in  part.) 

Friends. 

Lutherans — Norwegian,  Danisk,  Swed- 
ish and  Synodical  Conferences. 

jVIcnnonitcs. 

Methodists — Free  and  Wesley  an. 

Methodist  Protestant  (Minnesota  Con- 
ference.) 

Moravians. 

Plymouth  Brethren. 

Presbyterian — Associate,  Reformetl  &ad 
United. 

Reformed  Church  (Holland  Brsnch.) 

United  Brethren  in  Christ. 

Individual  churches  in  some  of  these 
denominations  should  bo  excepted,  in  part 
of  them  even  a  considerable  portion. 

The  following  local  churches  have,  as  a 
pledge  to  disfeUowship  and  oppose  lodge 
woi-ship,  given  their  names  to  the  follow- 
ing list  as 

THE    ASSOCIATED   OHXniCHES    OF  CHRIST. 

New   Ruhamah  Cong.  Hamilton,  Miss. 

Pleasant  Ridee  Cong.  Sandlord  Co.  Ala. 

New  Hope  \ietbodi8t,  Lowndes  Co.,  M1b». 

Congregational,  CoUege  Springs,  Iowa. 

Collfiffo  Church  of  Christ,  VVTieaton,  111. 

First  Congregational,  Lcland,  Mich. 

Sugar  Grove  Church,  Green  county.  Pa. 

Military  Chapd,  M.  E.,  Lowndea  county, 
Miss. 

Ilopowell  Mifisiooary  Baptist,  Lowndes  Ca, 
MlsP. 

Cedar  Grove  Miss.  Baptist,  Lowndea  Co., 
Mi&8. 

Simon's  Chapfil,  M.  E.,  Lowndes  Co.,  Miss. 

Pleasant  Ridge  Miss.  Baptist,  Lowndes  Co., 
Miss. 

Brownlco  Church,  Caledonia,  Miss. 

Salem  Church,  Lowndes  Ca,  Miss. 

*Ve8t  Preston  Baotlst  Church,  Wayne  Ca.Fa. 

OTHER  LOCAL  CHUBCHSB 

adopting  the  same  principle  are — 

Baptist  churches :  N.  Ablngton,  Pa.;Meno- 
monie,  Mondovl,  Waubeck  and  Spring  Prairie, 
Wis. ;  Wheaton,  HI. ;  Perry,  N.  Y. ;  Spring 
Creek,  near  BurUnglon,  Iowa;  Lima,  Ind.; 
ConsUblevllle,  N.  Y.  Tho  "Oo«>d  Will  Assocl- 
ton"  of  Mobile,  Ala.,  comprising  some  twenty- 
five  colored  Baptist  churches;  Bridgewater 
Baptist  Association,  Pa.;  Old  Tebo  Baptist, 
near  Leesvlllc,  Henry  Co.,  Mo. ;  Hoopeston,  111 ; 
Esmen,  lU. ;  Strykersvlllc,  N.  Y. 

Congregational  churches :  Ist  of  Ol)«rlln,  O. ; 
Tonlca,  Crystal  Lake,  Union  and  Big  Woods, 
111. ;  Solebury,  Ind. ;  Congregational  Methodist 
Maplewo<vl,  Maaa. 

Independent  churches  In  Lowell,  Country- 
man school  house  near  Llndenwood^  M«T«ngo 
a  "  ~  lU. ;  Bere*  and  Camp  Nelson,  Ky; 

Uitlck,  IlL ;  Clarksbnrg,  Kansu;  Bute  Aaaod- 
•tioa^  MlBlatan  tod  C2:iuo)>m  sf  COtrUtl* 
SmtMkT, 


N.  C.  A.  BUILDING  AND  OFTICK  01 
THK  CHRI8TLAJI   CYN08URK, 
aSl  WEST  MADISON  STREET,  CHICAGO 


If  A  TIOHAL  OBRIH  TIANA8S0CIA  TJOJf 

Prbsidbnt.— H.  H.  Q«orge,  D.  D.,  G«ii- 
eva  College ,  Pa. 

VlCB-PRBSIDBHT — RoT.  M.  A.  Gatilt, 
Blanchard,  Iowa. 

Cob.  Sbc't  and  Gbnbral  Asbnt. — J 
P.  Stoddard,  221 W.  Madisonst.,  Chicago. 

Rbo.  Sb^y.  and  Tbbabuebb.— W.  I. 
Phillips,  221  W.  Madison  St.,   Chicago. 

DiBBCTOBe. — Alexander  Thomson,  Mi 
R.  Britten,  John  Gardner,  J.  L.  Barlow, 
L.  N.  Stratton.  Thos.  H.  Gault,  0.  A. 
Blanchard,  J.  E.  Roy,  E.  R.  Worrell,  H. 
A.  Fischer,  W.  R.  Hench. 

The  object  of  this  Association  Is: 
"To  expose,  withstand  and  remove  secret 
societies,  Freemasonry  in  particular,  and  otbel 
antl-Christlan  movements.  In  order  to  save  the 
churches  of  Christ  from  being  uepraved,  to  i»- 
deem  the  administrr  'ion  of  justice  from  per- 
version, and  our  r^p  ibUcan  government  m>m 
corruption." 

To  carry  on  tliis  work  contributions  ar« 
solicited  from  every  friend  of  tne  reform. 

Form  of  Bequest.— J  give  and  bequeath  to 
the  National  Christian  Association,  incorpo- 
rated and  existing  under  the  laws  of  the  8tat« 

ol    Illinois,  the  sum  of dollars  for  the 

purposes  of  said  Aseoclatlon,  and  for  which 
the  receipt  of  its  Treasurer  for  the  time  l>clDg 
^>aU  be  sufficient  dlschacse. 

TEB  NATIONAL  OONTBNTION. 

PKB8IDHNT.— Rev.    J.    8.  McCulloch, 
D.  D. 
Skcbbtaby.— Rev.  Lewis  Johnson. 

BTATB   AUZnJABT  ABSOCIATIONa 

AX.ABAMA.— Pres.,  Prof.  Pickens;  Sec,  G. 
M.Elliott;  Treas.,  Rev.  C.  B.  Curtis,  aU  of 
Selma. 

CaliK)bhia.— Presy^  L.  B.  Lathrop,  HoUis- 
ter ;  Cor.  Sec,  Mrs.  U.  P.  Merrill,  Woodland ; 
Treas.,  C.  Ruddock,  Woodland. 

CoNKBCTicrrr.— Pres..  J.  A.  Conant,  Willi 
mantle;  Sec,  Geo.  Smith,  Willlman tic ;  Treas. 
C.  T.  Collins.  Windsor.  ' 

Ilutjois.— Pres.,  J.  P.  Stoddard;  Sec,  M. 
N.  Butl.-r;  Treas.,  W.  L  Phillip*,  all  at  Oy 
notur*  office. 

Indiana.— Pres.,  William  H.  Flgg,  Reno 
Sec,  S.  L.  Cook,  Albion;  Treas.,  BenJ.  JJUh 
Silver  Lake. 

Iowa.— Pres.,  Geo.    Warrington,  Birmin« 
ham ;  Cor  Sec,  C.  D.  Trumbull,  .Mornlne  Sun ; 
Treas.,  James  Harvey,  Pleasant  Plain,  Jeffer- 
son Co. 

Kansas.— Pre*.,  J.  P.  Richards,  Ft  Scott; 
Sec,  W.  W.  McMillan,  Olathe;  Treas.,  j! 
A.  Torrence,  N.  Cedar. 

Massaohtjsbttb.— Pre*.,  S.; A.  Pratt;  Sec, 
Mrs.  E.  D.  Bailey;  Treas., David  Manning, Sr., 
Worcester. 

MiOHiOAN.— Pree.,  D.  A.  Richards,  Brighton ; 
Bec'y,  H.  A.  Day,  Williamston ;  Trwa. 
Geo.  Bwanson,  Jr.,  Bedfuiu. 

MrNNasoTA.- Prea.,  E.  Q.  Pahie,  Waaloja; 
Cor.  Sec,  W.  H.  McCheeney,  Fairmont;  Rec 
Sec'y,  Thos.  Hartley,  Richland;  Treaa.,  Wd. 
H.  Morrill,  St.  Charles. 

Missouri.— Pre*.,  B.  F.  Miller,  EaglevlDe; 
Treaa.2Wllllam  Beanchamp,  Avalon ;  (x>r.  Sf  c, 
A.  D.  Thomas,  Avalon. 

Nibraska.— Pres.,  S.  Austin,  Fainnonit; 
Cor.  Sec,  W.  Spooner,  Keamev;  Treas., 
J.  C.  Fyo. 

Niw  Hampshirb.— Prec,  Isaac  Hyatt,  QU 
ford  VlUage;  Sec,  8.  C.  Khnhall,  New  Market* 
Treas.,  James  F.  French,  Canterbury. 

Nbw  York.— Pre*.,  F.  W.  Capwell,  Dale; 
Sec'y,  John  Wallace,  Syracuse;  Treiks.,  M. 
Merrick,  Svracose. 

Ouio.— Pres.,  Rev.  R.  M.  Smith,  Paf etown ; 
Rec  Sec^  Rev.  Coleman,  L'tica;  Cor.  Sec  and 
Treas.,  Kev.  8.  A.  George,  Mansfield;  Agent, 
W.  B.  Stoddard,  Columbus. 

Pbhnstlvamia.— Free.,  A.  L.  Post,  Mob 
troee;  Cor.  6ec,  N.  Callender,  Thompaoni 
Treaa.,  W.  B.  Bertels/Wllkeebarre. 

ViBMONT.— Pres.,  W.  R.  Laird,  St  Johns- 
bnrj ;  8«c,  C  W  Potter. 

Wi80088:s.— Pr^,  J.  W.  Wood,  Baraboo 
B«r^  W.  w.  Ames,  Uimtmcnie',  Treaa  IL  I 
lr<Hn  Vt4iB» 


8 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CTSTNOSUKE. 


OcTOBSR  20,  1887 


The  Christian  Cynosure. 

Xditosus. 
J.  BLANCHARD.  HENRY  L.  KSLLOGG. 


OHICAeO,   THUBaDAT,    OCTOBER  20,  1887. 


The  New  Orleans  Meeting. — Secretary  Stod- 
dard is  at  work  on  the  programme  for  the  proposed 
National  meeting  in  New  Orleans  next  winter. 
Prominent  clergymen  of  various  denominations  are 
being  written  to,  and  no  rational  means  will  be 
unemployed.  The  Chicago  Congress  of  Churches 
was  endorsed,  in  its  call,  by  the  first  envangelical 
minds  in  the  United  States;  by  many  who  dared  not 
to  attend  it;  and  one  (Talmage)  under  Masonic  pres- 
sure went  back.  But  the  meeting  broke  ice,  and 
did  vast  good.  We  hope  to  see  and  hear  some  of 
these  men  at  New  Orleans.  This  meeting  should 
be  borne  on  the  wings  of  prayer  continually.  And 
we  hope  every  paper  which  is  opposed  to  lodgery, 
will  devise  and  discuss  methods. 


The  tone  of  both  the  Conservator  and  Telescope  in- 
dicates that  the  church  of  the  United  Brethren  in 
Christ  must  be  rent  by  the  evil  spirit  of  the  lodge. 
Since  Christ  was  on  earth  Satan  has  always  rent  be- 
fore being  cast  out;  as  cast  out  he  certainly  will  be. 
The  Telescope  seems  to  be  governed  by  a  strictly 
worldly  policy  on  the  question  of  secret  societies; 
and  indeed  its  whole  spirit  is  that  of  a  paper  pub- 
lished for  its  market.  It  looks  at  Presbyterian, 
Baptist,  Methodist  and  Congregational  churches, 
filled  with  Masons,  and  longs  to  have  the  United 
Brethren  church  like  them.  The  Conservator  pleads, 
agonizes,  and  asks  in  substance  the  pertinent  ques- 
tion, "When  you  have  driven  out  of  the  conferences 
all  who  will  not  fellowship  Masons,  and  taken  lodge- 
men  in  their  places,  what  sort  of  a  church  will  you 
have  then?"  It  will  not  be  like  those  churches  out 
of  whom  the  lodge-god  has  never  been  cast;  but  like 
him  into  whom  seven  other  spirits  enter  more  wicked'- 
than  the  one  which  was  cast  out,  and  the  last  state' 
of  that  church  will  be  worse  than  the  other  churches 
whi'-'h  sin  against  less  light.  It  is  simply  dreadful 
to  think  what  the  United  Brethren  church  is  com- 
ing to! 

DR.  HOWARD  CR08B7. 

We  give  the  readers  of  the  Cynosure,  in  this  num- 
ber, the  face  of  an  extraordinary  man,  even  among 
extraordinary  Americans.  He  was  born  in  New  York 
city,  1826,  and  is  now  sixty-one  years  old.  A  grad- 
uate from  New'  York  University  at  eighteen;  pro- 
fessor of  Greek  in  the  same  in  1859,  when  thirty- 
three;  and  two  years  after  in  Rutgers  College;  when 
he  was  ordained  by  New  Brunswick  Presbytery. 
Two  years  later  he  became  pastor  of  the  Fourth  Av- 
enue church  in  New  York,  where  he  still  is.  In 
1870  he  became  Chancellor  of  New  York  Qniver- 
sity,  where  his  predecessor.  Dr.  Ferris,  said,  "as 
lecturer  and  teacher  he  has  no  superior."  He  was 
chosen  moderator  of  the  General  Assembly  in  1873. 
As  a  traveler,  author  of  commentaries  on  the  Greek 
poets,  Bible  commentaries,  and  for  more  than  thirty 
years  a  writer  for  reviews,  he  has  filled  up  a  life  of 
amazing  activity  without  a  failure,  except  as  an  ad- 
vocate of  temperance. 

While  Chancellor  of  New  York  University  he 
wrote  for  the  Boston  Covgregationalist  a  powerful 
article  against  secret  societies  in  colleges,  in  which 
he  took  strong  ground  against  these  pests.  Though 
he  knew  that  there  was  scarcely  a  prominent  college 
in  the  United  States,  except  Princeton  and  a  few 
smaller  institutions,  which  were  not  virtually  able  to 
defy  their  faculties,  Chancellor  Crosby  wrote  with 
as  much  savg  froul  as  though  the  vast  majority 
were  with  him.  And  while  he  speaks  against  col- 
lege secret  societies  from  personal  experience,  hav- 
ing years  ago  been  in  one,  as  "at  war  with  truth, 
candor  and  manliness,"  shams  in  short,  and  breed- 
ers and  protectors  of  immoralities,  he  writes  down 
his  judgment  of  secret  societies,  in  colleges  and  out- 
side, in  these  scathing  words: 

"We  have  no  hesilation  in  writing  secret  societies 
among  the  quackeries  of  this  earth;  a  part  of  the  great 
system  by  which  the  mud  begotten  try  to  pass  themselves 
off  as  Jove-born." 

When  the  proposition  for  a  national  conference  of 
all  churches  upon  the  lodge  question  was  proposed. 
Dr.  Crosby  put  down  his  name  in  approval  of  the 
meeting  without  hesitation,  and  in  letters  of  repret 
that  he  could  not  attend  and  speak,  addressed  to  Dr. 
W.  C.  Gray  of  the  Interwr  and  Pres  L.  N.  Stratton, 
he  said,  "The  secret  lodge  system  belongs  to  des- 
potisms and  not  to  democracies.  Whatever  in  it  is 
not  babyish  is  dangerous." 

There  are  two  classes  of  distinguished  teachers 


of  religion:  those  who  seek  to  please  God,  and  those 
who  seek  to  please  man.  To  which  class  Dr.  Crosby 
endeavors  to  belong  may  be  seen  from  his  comment 
on  Christ's  beatitudes  on  the  Mount,  which  he  treats 
thus: 

"If  we  ask  the  average  man  to  write  eight  beatitudes, 
they  would  run  somewhat  this  way:  'Blessed  are  the  rich, 
for  they  can  buy  everything  they  please.  Blessed  are  the 
jolly  ones,  for  they  have  a  good  time.  Blessed  are  the 
powerful,  for  they  have  their  own  way.  Blessed  are  the 
smart  fellows,  for  they  come  it  over  the  greenhorns. 
Blessed  are  the  unfeeling,  for  they  have  no  sentimental 
qualm.  Blessed  are  the  liberal-minded,  for  they  can  en- 
joy little  sins.  Blessed  are  the  strong  for  they  can  knock 
down  opposition.  Blessed  are  they  that  get  the  world's 
praise,  for  they  have  an  easy  life.'  I  think  that  the  great 
majority  of  men  would  sign  these  beatitudes  and  then 
show  their  sincerity  by  doing  their  best  to  occupy  the 
position  of  these  blessed  ones.  The  Christian  recognizes 
the  fact  that  he  has  nothing  in  himself  to  present  before 
God.  Here  is  the  foundation  of  true  religion.  The 
Christian  is  a  'mourner,'  one  who  weeps  in  secret  over 
his  sins.  The  Christian  is  'meek.'  What  is  that?  It  is 
the  quality  of  Christ,  who  was  to  come  as  Zion's  king, 
meek,  and,  as  a  token  of  it,  lowly.  The  Christian  'hun- 
gers and  thirsts  after  righteousness.'  The  soul  that 
simply  wants  to  get  to  heaven  at  last  is  not  a  Christian. 
It  is  the  soul  that  wants  to  be  holy  that  is  a  Christian. 
The  Christian  is  'merciful.'  Again  we  trace  this  charac- 
teristic to  his  sense  of  sin.  The  Christian  is  'pure 
in  heart.'  He  does  not  profess  to  love  purity  and  then, 
with  the  excuse  of  art  or  fashion,  nurse  the  impurity  of 
his  imagination.  The  Christian  is  a  'peacemaker.'  He 
shrinks  from  personal  strife,  and  he  promotes  peace  in 
others.  Last  of  all.the  Christian  is  'persecuted  for  right- 
eousness sake.'  The  world  will  always  hate  a  true  Chris- 
tian. They  will  leave  him  alone,  as  long  as  he  favors 
their  theatres  and  balls  and  Sunday  newspapers,  but  the 
moment  he  opposes  these  Satanic  devices  they  will  at- 
tack him  in  motive,  mind  and  manner, and  show  the  ven- 
om of  the  old  serpent.  Alas  for  the  Christian  who  is 
never  persecuted!    He  must  be  a  dumb  dog." 

It  is  well  known  that  the  Cynosure  differs,  decid- 
edly differs,  from  Crosby's  views  on  temperance. 
We  are  for  total  abstinence  and  prohibition.  We 
believe  Dr.  Crosby  will  vote  prohibition,  but  he  op- 
poses total  abstinence.  We  once  said  to  Prof.  Agas- 
siz:  "We  are  shocked  at  your  teaching  diverse  ori- 
gins of  the  human  family,  and  making  the  Bible 
account  of  Eden  a  myth." 

"Well,"  said  the  great  and  pleasant  man  and 
scholar,  "well;  if  I  teach  many  truths,  and  but  one 
error,  still  it  is  worth  looking  at." 

Th^  editor  of  the  prose  works  of  John  Milton 
says  of  him:  "He  was  the  greatest  of  all  human 
beings."  But  circumstances  warped  his  powerful 
argument  on  "the  doctrine  of  divorce,"  so  that  he 
wrote:  "What  a  cruel  thing  it  is  to  force  the  con- 
tinuing of  those  together  whom  God  and  nature  in 
the  gentlest  end  of  marriage  (mutual  love)  never 
joined."  He  was  blind  and  his  wife  went  to  her 
parents,  so  Milton  advocates  the  right  of  divorce 
for  one  "who  misses  by  chancing  on  a  mute  and 
spiritless  mate."  That  is,  he  advocated  divorce  for 
incompatibility,  against  the  words  of  Christ,  the  au- 
thor of  marriage.  He  was  blind,  and  wished  to  write 
Paradise  Lost.  She  wished  him  to  continue  Latin 
secretary  to  Cromwell,  and  furnish  her  a  carriage. 

Dr.  Crosby  was  born  in  New  York  city  among  the 
wealthy  and  has  wealth.  When  he  was  a  youth, 
Dr.  Woods  of  Andover  and  Dr.  Sprague  of  Albany 
were  on  one  side  of  the  wine  question,  and  Prof. 
Stuart  and  Delavan  on  the  other.  Polygamy  and 
wine-drinking  were  both  practiced  by  Bible  saints. 
As  Moody  says,  "Noah,  the  best  and  greatest  man 
of  his  age,  got  drunk  on  wine."  Samson  was  a  to- 
tal abstinence  temperance  man;  but  practiced  worse 
vice  than  drunkenness.  Abraham  and  Jacob  had 
more  wives  than  one,  before  that  question  was  up. 
And  Dr.  Crosby  still  lives  among  Christians  where 
wine  is  on  their  tables. 

The  late  John  B.  Finch  was  Grand  Chief  Templar 
of  the  world's  Grand  Lodge,  which  prohibits  sweet 
cider  as  it  does  whisky.  Crosby  loathed  secret 
lodges  and  false  science;  and  prefers  Spurgeon,  spite 
of  his  ale,  and  possibly  his  cigar,  to  his  near  neigh- 
bor, the  Secretary  of  the  National  Temperance  Soci- 
ety, who  is  sworn  to  stand  by  Masons,  and  conceal 
their  crimes  "whether  they  be  right  or  wrong." 
And,  meeting  the  temperance  question  amid  such 
circumstances  and  surroundings;  met  and  assailed 
by  minds  inferior  to  his  own;  accustomed  as  he  was 
to  shirk  nothing,  it  is  no  more  wonderful  that  he 
should  err  in  this  one  point,  than  that  Washington 
should  hold  slaves;  and,  being  assailed  rudely,  that 
he  should  answer  in  kind;  and  having  based  his 
opinions  on  scholarship  rather  than  fact,  that  he 
should  go  to  Boston  and  utter  his  views  in  Tremont 
Temple.  "For  even  his  failings  leaned  to  virtue's 
side,"  and  flinching  and  cringing  before  popular 
sentiment  are  no  part  of  his  nature. 

The  temperance  question  is  one  of  fact.  "Was 
'  Noah  stronger  than  Samson?  Do  the  saloons  bene- 
fit or  carse  the  nation?"    If  both  these  questions 


must  be  answered  No!  then  total  abstinence  and 
prohibition  are  right.  Jeremy  Bentham  says,  "To 
a  wise  statesman  the  known  and  certain  conse- 
quences of  a  thing  are  part  of  the  thing  itself." 
And  it  is  not  worth  while  for  us  to  inquire  whether 
the  "groves"  which  God  forbade  near  his  altar  were 
upas  trees  or  cedars;  since  it  was  as  certain  if  they 
stood  there  they  would  breed  idolatry  as  moderate 
drinking  is  to  breed  drunkards,  and  saloons  to 
breed  rows  and  crimes.  • 


The  Powdsrly  Meeting. — The  Knight  of  Labor 
convention  in  Minneapolis  has  been  already  two 
weeks  in  "secret"  session,  except  what  the  press  is 
able  to  steal  from  them,  according  to  Mr.  Finch's 
code.  It  may  hold  a  week  more,  when  we  shall  en- 
deavor to  review  its  actions.  Last  week  there  were 
two  critical  days  for  Mr.  Powderly,  without  whom 
the  order  would  long  since  have  gone  to  .pieces. 
The  first  was  Monday  when  a  resolution  in  favor  of 
commuting  the  sentence  of  the  Chicago  anarchists 
was  presented  and  defeated  by  an  impassioned 
speech  by  Powderly.  The  other  was  on  Friday 
when  an  attempt  to  get  rid  of  two  hostile  members 
on  the  executive  committee  precipitated  a  quarrel 
which  threatens  to  split  the  order.  In  all  the  time 
so  far  spent  by  this  meeting  we  do  not  remember 
yet  one  honest,  sensible  proposition  for  the  benefit 
of  the  working  classes.  Perhaps  there  are  plenty  of 
them  kept  secret! 


— Secretary  Stoddard,  desiring  to  attend  the  Wes- 
leyan  General  Conference  at  La  Otto,  Indiana,  this 
week,  has  sent  Bro.  W.  I.  Phillips  as  his  deputy  to  the 
Iowa  State  Convention  at  College  Springs,  where 
having  been  an  esteemed  pastor  for  several  years  he 
will  be  doubly  welcome. 

— Friends  in  Missouri  will  cheer  for  Bro.  Butler's 
proclamation  for  a  rally  at  Princeton  next  week 
Tuesday  and  Wednesday.  If  they  have  the  best 
meeting  of  the  season  we  shall  not  be  disappointed, 
nor  will  it  cause  jealousy  in  other  States.  There 
has  been  a  healthy  emulation  between  Ohio,  Illinois 
and  Iowa  for  two  or  three  years;  and  it  is  well  to 
have  a  godly  emulation  in  such  a  cause. 

— Pres.  J.  Blanchard  expects  to  spend  next  Lord's 
day  in  Detroit  with  brethren  Foote  and  Clark,  on 
his  way  to'  New  England.  He  expects  to  visit  first 
the  meeting  of  the  American  Missionary  Associa- 
tion at  Portland,  of  which  society  he  was  one  of  the 
founders;  then  the  New  Hampshire  convention  and 
other  meetings  in  Vermont,  Massachusetts  and  pos- 
sibly Connecticut.  He  can  be  addressed  at  Man- 
chester, N.  H.,  until  the  29th  of  this  month. 

— In  the  Cynosure  of  September  1st  we  published 
a  number  of  extracts  on  Eomanism.  One  was  from 
the  Boston  Pilot  which  attributed  to  that  paper  the 
sentiment:  "There  can  be  no  religion  without  the 
Inquisition,  which  is  wisely  designed  for  the  promo- 
tion of  the  true  faith."  Mr.  John  Boyle  O'Reilly, 
editor  of  the  Pilot,  says  such  a  sentiment  never 
found  place  in  his  columns.  We  are  glad  to  make 
this  correction  on  such  authority.  The  collection  of 
extracts  was  sent  us  in  print  from  New  England, 
and  from  what  paper  we  cannot  now  ascertain. 

— Rev.  George  Warrington,  president  of  the  Iowa 
State  Association,  not  satisfied  with  the  burden  of 
two  excellent  papers,  the  Psalm  Singer  and  the  Bir- 
mingham Free  Press,  proposes  another,  to  be  called 
the  Freed-mason.  He  promises  to  begin  with  Janu- 
ary if  500  subscribers  are  pledged  by  that  time.  It 
will  be  a  handsome  8-page  monthly  at  60  cents  a 
year,  and  we  can  promise  that  it  will  be  worth  double 
the  cost.  The  Cy»M>«urc  wishes  success  to  the  project. 

— Rev.  W.  W.  Satterlee,  of  Minneapolis,  whose 
presence  and  aid  were  so  generously  given  and  heart- 
ily appreciated  at  the  late  State  Convention,  has  just 
been  appointed  by  his  conference  to  a  professorship 
in  Grant  Memorial  College  at  Athens,  Tennessee. 
The  chair  to  which  Mr.  Satterlee  is  called  will  be  the 
first  of  the  kind  in  any  institution  in  the  world.  It 
is  to  be  called  the  chair  of  "Political  Economy  and 
Scientific  Temperance,"  and  the  name  indicates  the 
scope  of  the  teaching.  Mr.  Satterlee's  career  as  an 
educator  and  a  temperance  worker  seems  especially 
to  qualify  him  for  the  important  position.  His 
lectures  will  be  to  the  advanced  classes  of  the  insti- 
tution, and  will  cover  a  period  from  November  to 
May  of  each  year.  The  balance  of  the  year  he  will 
live  in  Minnesota.  His  duties  at  the  institution  be- 
gin one  year  from  this  date. 

— The  telegraph  reports  the  dangerous  illness  of 
Rev.  Dr.  David  R.  Kerr,  editor  of  the  United  Pres- 
byterian, Pittsburg.  Dr.  Kerr  has  for  many  years, 
as  editor  of  its  leading  paper,  exercised  a  powerful 
influence  in  the  denomination,  and  if  the  disease 
proves  fatal  his  loss  will  be  deeply  felt. 

— Since  writing  the  above,  word  comes  that  Dr 


OoTOBSR  20, 188? 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


Kerr  died  Friday  morning.  He  was  in  his  70th 
year,  and  had  filled  up  a  life  of  eminent  service  for 
the  Christian  church.  He  was  for  many  years  pres- 
ident of  the  faculty  of  Western  University,  and  af- 
terward president  of  Westminster  College.  In  1866 
he  served  as  Moderator  of  the  United  Presbyterian 
General  Assembly,  and  in  1880  was  a  delegate  to 
the  Presbyterian  Pan  Presbyterian  Council.  As 
editor  of  the  United  Presbyterian  he  has  been  con- 
servative in  respect  to  Christian  reform  movements, 
yet  was  always  true  to  the  principle  of  his  church 
in  condemning  secret  societies.  He  took  an  active 
part  in  the  first  national  meeting  when  the  National 
Christian  Association  was  organized  in  Pittsburgh 
in  1868,  and  seven  years  later,  when  again  the  na- 
tional convention  met  in  that  city,  he  was  elected  its 
president. 

— Some  two  years  ago,  as  the  result  of  the  valued 
labors  of  the  colored  evangelist,  Rev.  Lewis  John- 
ston, a  colored  church  was  or2;anized  in  Pine  Bluff, 
Arkansas.  Since  that  time  this  church  has  been 
worshiping  in  a  hall  rented  for  them  by  the  white 
Presbyterian  church  part  of  the  time,  and  part  by 
themselves,  to  which  they  have  access  only  on  the 
Sabbath  day.  This  colored  church  is  composed  of 
a  very  worthy  element,  though  few  in  numbers  and 
weak  in  resources,  and  the  efficiency  of  the  work  is 
seriously  retarded  for  want  of  a  house  of  worship. 
An  effort  is  being  made  by  Bro.  Johnston  to  raise 
money  and  build  a  church. 


OUR  BOBTON  LBTTSR. 


REV.  DR.  JUSTIN  D.  FULTON  AND  THE  ROMAN  CHURCH. 


Rev.  Dr.  Justin  D.  Fulton,  who  is  on  a  crusade 
against  Romanism,  has  entrenched  himself  on  the 
lecture  platform  in  Music  Hall,  where  he  stands 
Sabbath  after  Sabbath  hurling  denunciations  against 
the  papal  beast,  and  in  return  receiving  volley  after 
volley  of  hetereogenous  criticisms  from  nearly  every 
(luarter,  and  strangely  enough  the  hottest  fire  comes 
not  from  Rome,  but  his  own  Protestant  ranks.  Met- 
aphorically, he  is  riddled  from  head  to  foot  with 
bullets  of  reproof,  even  from  his  own  denomination, 
for  the  campaign  be  has  undertaken  at  the  risk  of 
his  life.  Let  them  sneeringly  designate  his  ringing 
speeches,  teeming  with  warnings  and  admonitions 
concerning  the  encroachments  of  the  papacy,  by 
synonymous  appellations  as  Fultonics,  etc.,  if  they 
will.  There  is  "more  truth  than  poetry"  in  his  ut- 
terances which  his  shallow-brained  and  short-sighted 
critics  may  discover  to  their  surprise  one  of  these 
days,  even  as  the  fickle  Athenians,  though  faithfully 
forewarned  by  the  intrepid  and  patriotic  Desmos- 
thenes. 

Fultonics!  There  is  a  great  deal  of  meaning  sug- 
gested in  that  word.  Full-of-tonic  those  brave 
speeches  doubtless  are,  which  will  not  fail  to  tone 
up  the  weak,  lethargic  Protestant  stomach  for  the 
great  work  it  sooner  or  later  must  digest. 

It  is  with  some  timerity  that  I  venture  to  present 
the  readers  of  the  Cynosure  an  impression  of  my 
view,  and  an  expression  of  my  candid  opinion  of 
the  prodigious  work  Dr.  Fulton  has  undertaken  al- 
most "single-handed  and  alone,"  lest  I  be  considered 
as  "enthusiastic."  Nevertheless,  if  a  critical  pre- 
sentation of  an  honest  conclusion,  after  impartial  in- 
vestigation of  a  subject,  can  be  termed  "enthusi- 
asm," then  I  must  plead  guilty  of  being  an  enthusi- 
ast, and  will  humbly  receive  my  sentence. 

First,  then,  I  believe,  and  in  many  instances 
know,  that  Dr.  Fulton  is  telling  the  truth  in  regard 
to  the  character  of  the  papacy,  and  I  am  not  led  to 
believe  and  know  because  I  am  partial.  I  am  as 
ready  to  receive  truth  from  Rome  as  from  any  other 
source,  knowing  that  truth  is  truth  no  matter  in 
what  garb  it  may  appear.  I  know  according  to  his 
own  acknowledgment  that  the  Roman  pontiff  claims 
and  seeks  absolute  supremacy  of  both  the  religious 
and  political  worlds.  I  am  conscious  of  the  neces- 
sity of  keeping  church  and  state  as  far  apart  as  the 
east  is  from  the  west  I  know  Romanism  is  doing 
its  utmost  to  amalgamate  the  two  factions  under  its 
own  religious  formula  and  political  regime.  I  feel, 
I  know  that  at  this  present  crisis  of  affairs  we  need 
a  man  of  backbone,  one  who  cannot  be  bought  nor 
sold,  nor  intimidated,  nor  scoffed  from  a  faithful, 
truthful  presentation  of  Rome's  machinations 
against  a  nation  whose  institutions  are  the  grandest 
ever  known  to  this  world,  and  on  whose  escutcheon 
is  written  in  the  blood  of  the  Revolution  and  the 
Southern  Rebellion,"Liberty,""Ileligious  Toleration" 
and  "Public  Instruction."  I  say  these  sacred  in- 
scriptions must  never  be  effaced  by  the  muddy  water 
of  the  Tiber.  We  need  some  one  like  a  burning 
meteor,  patriot  enough — aye!  humanitarian  enough, 
self-sacrificing  enough  to  dash  o'er  the  land  and 
say  to! 

I  believe  we  have  that  man  in  Justin  D.  Fulton, 


who  has  given  up  his  pulpit,  left  his  home  and  gone 
forth  fearless,  yet,  nevertheless,  taking  his  life  in 
his  hands,  to  proclaim  the  danger  threatening  our 
beloved  land. 

Well,  say  it  right  out  "Now,  Bro.  Mathews,that 
was  a  perfect  volcanic  eruption  of  enthusiasm."  1 
don't  deny  it,  nor  can  you,  dear  reader,  deny  that  it 
is  a  perfect  volcanic  eruption  of  truth.  Alas!  we 
Americans  lack  just  that  one  almost  disreputable 
thing — enthusiasm.  We  are  so  afraid  it  will  sub- 
vert our  keen  reasoning  faculties.  I  tell  you,  my 
friend,  it  is  because  we  lack  enthusiasm  that  we,  as 
a  nation,  are  becoming  so  dormant,  allowing  our 
dearly-earned  rights — liberty,  everything  enhancing 
true  civilization — to  be  usurped  by  an  element  that 
is  not  only  antagonistic  to  us  but  to  themselves  as 
well.  In  protecting  ourselves  from  the  inroads  of 
superstition  and  religious  dominition  we  protect 
them  also,  and  one  day  they  will  bless  God  for  our 
faithfulness.     Stand  by  Fulton  and  his  Fultonics! 

I  had  almost  signed  myself  "Enthusiasm,"  but 
enthusiastic  as  it  may  be,  I'm  not  ashamed  to  ac- 
knowledge the  foregoing  article,  whether  it  pleases 
or  displeases.  D.  P.  Mathews. 


UNEARTHING    8B0RBT   800JBTT   MURDBRS 
IN  MISSISSIPPI. 

At  Greenwood,  Miss.,  the  jury  of  inquest  in  the 
case  of  Harry  Taylor,  recently  killed  there,  after 
taking  testimony,  found  as  their  verdict  that  Taylor 
was  murdered  by  members  of  the  Dry  Bayou  and 
Shell  Mound  Masons,  naming  fifteen  members  of 
those  organizations.  Warrants  have  been  issued 
for  the  persons  accused,  one  of  whom  has  already 
been  arrested.  The  testimony  given  at  the  inquest 
shows  that  the  societies  mentioned  are  bound  by 
oath  to  avenge  the  death  of  a  brother  member.  A 
Negro  from  Vicksburg  named  "Doc"  Stringer  or- 
ganized these  two  lodges,  getting  about  $180  from 
them  on  a  promise  to  send  them  charters,  which 
they  have  never  received.  A  subpoena  was  issued 
for  the  books  of  these  lodges,  but  none  could  be 
found.  There  is  no  doubt  that  there  existed  a  se- 
cret organization  among  the  Negroes  in  that  county, 
bound  by  oath  to  do  murderous  acts.  Officers  of 
the  law  are  on  the  track  of  those  implicated,  and  the 
members  of  this  secret  and  murderous  order  will  be 
brought  to  justice. 

A  dispatch  from  Greenwood  on  the  10th  inst, 
says  that  nine  Negro  Freemasons  have  been  arrested 
for  this  murder,  and  in  the  preliminary  trial  it  was 
discovered  that  a  resolution  to  kill  Mr.  Kerney,  a 
white  man  who  had  a  fight  with  one  of  their  broth- 
ers, whose  arm  he  had  broken,  was  passed  during 
one  of  their  meetings,  but  the  time  appointed  for 
the  deed  had  not  yet  come.  Two  days  were  con- 
sumed in  taking  testimony,  and  many  other  Negroes 
have  been  implicated.  There  is  no  doubt  that  a 
colored  man,  a  member  of  the  Dry  Bayou  Lodge  of 
Negro  Masons,  was  killed  by  Harry  Taylor,  and  that 
both  Harry  Taylor  and  his  wife  had  disappeared,  a 
body  answering  to  Taylor's  being  found  in  the  river 
with  marks  of  violence  upon  it.  The  body  had  been 
weighted  down. 

The  lodges  in  this  county  were  organized  by  a 
Negro  who  claims  to  be  working  under  the  author- 
ity of  the  Grand  Orient  of  France.  Their  lodge 
was  founded  in  1882.  Several  other  lodges  have 
been  founded  in  the  section.  The  colored  Masons 
are  not  recognized  by  the  white  Masons. 

It  would  appear  that  these  simple-minded  Masons 
have  taken  their  oaths  to  mean  what  they  say,  just 
as  did  the  Morgan  killers  and  their  comrades 
throughout  the  country  in  1826.  But  Masonry  is 
not  so  bad  now,  they  say.  The  throat-cutting, 
bowel-burning,  head-splitting,  etc.,  is  all  for  fun,  you 
know.  Masons  no  longer  say  Morgan  deserved  his 
fate;  they  no  longer  claim  that  it  is  impossible  that 
their  oaths  should  be  revealed  because  of  the  pen 
alty.  O  no!  they  are  now  a  very  innocent  debating 
society,  which  meets  to  discuss  politics  and  how 
churches  should  be  managed. 


PRESS  COMMENTS. 

Labor  unions  organized  for  the  mutual  protection 
of  members  become,  inevitably,  in  the  course  of 
time,  the  masters  of  workmen,  and  most  cruel  and 
tyrannous  masters  they  have  proved  themselves  at 
times.  If  these  unions  continue  to  increase  in  num- 
bers and  grow  in  power  they  will  tend  more  and 
more  to  centralization,  will  come  more  and  more  un- 
der control  of  a  small  number  of  rulers,  and  the  ul- 
timate result  will  be  that  choice  of  employment  will 
be  withdrawn.  The  strengh  of  the  laboring  man  is 
in  his  freedom  to  make  the  best  use  of  his  low- 
ers, as  an  individual,  and  no  other  system  will  ad- 
vance his  interests  permanently, or  be  to  tho.'greatest 
good  of  the  greatest  number. — Inter- Ocean, 


The  Knights  Templar  are  trying  to  change  their 
ritual,  but  some  of  the  more  conservative  and  less 
conscientious  are  using  their  efforts  to  prevent  it. 
We  are  surprised  that  they  did  not  make  some  al- 
terations long  ago,  and  eliminate  the  more  barba- 
rous features.  It  seems  strange  that  one  portion 
should  have  been  retained  so  long,  that  of  drinking 
wine  out  of  the  top  of  a  human  skull,  and  taking 
an  obligation  that  is  sufficiently  awful  to  make  "each 
particular  hair  stand  on  end  like  ({uills  upon  the 
back  of  the  fretful  porcupine."  One  of  the  high 
dignitaries  at  the  recent  meeting  at  Oskaloosa  spoke 
against  the  change,  according  to  the  newspaper  re- 
port, which  is  as  follows:  "Grand  Commander  A. 
R.  Dewey  took  a  strong  stand  against  the  adoption 
of  the  new  ritual  and  gave  cogent  reasons  therefor." 
— Birminffham,  Free  Frets. 

The  Pope  is  a  king.  He  says  so  himself.  And 
doesn't  that  prove  it?  for  isn't  he  infallible?  In 
view  of  his  approaching  jubilee  Leo  XIII.  has  had 
struck  a  number  of  medals  bearing  the  inscription: 
"Pope  Leo  XIII.,  Pontifex  et  rex."  Now  rfxis  Latin 
for  king,and  that  inscription  means  Pope  Leo  XIIL, 
Pontiff  and  king.  The  Roman  police  found  some  of 
these  medals  on  sale  in  a  shop  in  the  city  and 
promptly  confiscated  them.  At  this  the  Vatican 
makes  a  decided  protest,  and  argues  that  the  "law  of 
guaranties"recognizes  the  Pope's  right  to  the  title  of 
sovereign;  and  supports  this  argument  with  the  fact 
that  Bismarck  in  his  letter  to  the  Pope  about  two 
years  ago  plainly  addressed  him  as  "sire."  Now  in 
the  language  of  courts,  "sire"  means  "sovereign;" 
and  as  a  king  is  a  sovereign,  and  as  Bismarck  called 
the  Pope  "sire,"  therefore  the  Pope  is  king. — iSigru 
of  the  Times. 

Herr  Johann  Most,  Anarchist  at  large,  has  com- 
mitted the  curious  stupidity  of  applying  for  natural- 
ization as  a  citizen  of  the  United  States.  In  mak- 
ing such  an  application  Herr  Most  turned  his  back 
on  his  own  professions  most  shamefully.  An  An- 
archist is  one  who  holds  it  to  be  the  right  and  duty 
of  the  people  to  break  up  the  state  and  abolish  its 
government.  How  then  can  he  offer  to  assume  the 
obligations  and  duties  of  membership  in  a  state? 
As  well  an  Orangeman  apply  for  admission  to  the 
Roman  Catholic  church.  As  Herr  Most  would  not 
promise  to  obey  the  laws  of  the  United  States,  but 
only  such  of  them  as  he  thought  good  laws,  his  ap- 
plication was  rejected.  More  vigilance  in  this  di- 
rection would  exclude  from  citizenship  Mormons, 
Socialists  and  some  other  undesirable  sorts  of  immi- 
grants. But  we  observe  that  the  Socialists,  imita- 
ting the  Labor  party,  are  beginning  to  draw  the  line 
so  as  to  exclude  Anarchists  like  Herr  Most  from 
their  fellowship.  As  Socialism  and  Anarchism  are 
at  the  distance  of  the  poles  from  each  other,  this  is 
even  a  more  logical  proceeding  than  for  the  Labor 
party  to  exclude  the  Socialists. — American,  Phila- 
delphia. 

Never  were  the  complications  between  the  church 
and  the  world  more  perilous  than  now.  Once  the 
case  was  simple.  The  old-time  citizen  who  was 
asked  to  state  his  position  at  a  town  meeting,  in  an- 
ticipation of  a  possible  nomination  for  a  place  of 
trust,  when  he  arose  and  said:  "My  religion  is  the 
Methodist,  and  my  politics  is  Whig,"  represented  a 
large  class.  It  was  Whig  or  Democrat,  and  some 
church.  To-day  knights,  orders,  clubs,  brother- 
hoods, lodges,  leagues,  unions,  and  societies  of  all 
sorts,  for  mutual  protection,  for  benevolence,  for  di- 
version, and  for  reform,  present  their  claims.  A 
very  large  part  of  the  male  members  of  all  our 
churches  are  connected  with  from  two  to  half  a 
dozen  of  such  organizations.  The  object  of  these 
societies  is,  in  many  cases,  highly  important,  and 
ranks  next  in  aim  to  the  work  of  the  Christian 
church.  At  the  same  time  these  societies  for  the 
most  part  not  only  fail  to  recogni/.e  the  spiritual 
need  of  those  connected  with  them,  but  are  of  such 
a  nature  as  that,  at  some  point  or  other,  a  compro- 
mise of  principle  and  conviction  is  inevitable.  The 
experience  of  Christian  pastors  will  show  that  where 
the  claims  of  church  membership  and  those  of  out- 
side societies  cross  each  other,  the  tendency,  for  va- 
rious reasons,  is  to  give  the  world  the  right  of  way, 
and  this  in  view  of  assumed  obligations,  imposed 
penalties,  and  supposetl  immediate  advantages. 
The  tendencies  within  the  church  to-day  are  of 
greater  concern  even  than  the  possible  truth,  that, 
for  the  greater  part,  the  very  miscellaneous  compo- 
nent parts  of  the  labor  parade  are  beyond  the  reac  h 
of  the  church.  Let  Christian  men  give  this  intricate 
problem  their  best  thought — A>u?  York  Christian 
Advocate. 


—The  Haddock  Memorial  church,  at  Sioux  City, 
Iowa,  was  dedicated  with  deeply  interesting  services 
on  the  2d  inst,  by  the  Rev.  Arthur  Kdwards,  of  tho 
Northvoeetem  Advocate, 


10 


TBE  CEBISTIAK  CYNOSITl^. 


OoTOBXR  20, 1887 


The  Home. 


AN  AUTUMNAL   8EBAF. 


The  sammer'B  throbbing  chant  ie  done, 
And  mute  the  choral  antlphon ; 
The  birds  have  left  the  shivering  pines 
To  flit  among  the  trelllsed  vines, 
Or  fan  the  air  with  scented  plumes 
Among  the  love-sick  orange  blooms, 
And  thoa  art  here  alone— alone- 
Sing,  little  bird  I  the  rest  have  flown. 

— Oliver  WendfU  Holmes . 

How  time  is  flying  1    We  October  meet 
Flinglne;  around  bright  leaves  of  gold  and  red ; 
Pausing  to  make  a  crown  of  bitter-sweet 
And  immortelles,  to  place  upon  her  head  1 
While  nuts  from  opening  burrs  fall  thick  and  fast, 
As  gay  October  brushes  swiftly  past ! 

— a.  L.  Hchenek. 


As  the  last  wave  upon  the  beach  breaks  loudest, 
As  djing  day  puts  her  best  bravery  on ; 

While  yet  the  earth  in  your  array  Is  proudest- 
Through  the  gay  masks  I  mark  the  summer  gone! 

—  W.  C.  mchanls 


There  sounds  a  rustling  in  the  standing  corn ; 

There  hangs  a  bright-cheeked  apple  on  the  bough, 
And  later  lingers  now  the  tardy  morn. 

And  evening  shadows  gather  sooner  now. 

One  crimson  branch  Uames  'mid  the  maple  wood. 
One  red  leaf  hides  amid  the  woodbine's  green. 

And  clean  raked  fields  lie  bare  where  lately  stood 
The  tawny  grain  amid  the  summer  scene. 

— Anonymous. 


Crimson  and  scarlet  and  yellow. 

Emerald  turning  to  gold, 
Shimmering  there  in  the  sunbeams, 

Shivering  here  in  the  cold ; 
Waving  farewells  as  the  tempest 

Ruthlessly  tears  them  apart, 
Fluttering:,  dancing  and  rustling 

As  hither  and  thither  they  dart ; 
Recklessly  sailing  the  rapids. 

Lazily  swimming  the  pools. 
Playing  "I  spy!"  with  each  other 

Under  the  puffy  toadstools. 
Wreathes  for  the  walls  of  her  dwelling 

Each  neat  little  housekeeper  weaves. 
And  there,  amid  delicate  fern  sprays, 

Nestle  the  bright  autumn  leaves. 

—Harper's   Young  People. 
m  *  m 

THE  NSW  QIBL. 


"You  couldn't  spare  me  a  very  little  money,  could 
you,  father?"  Janet  leaned  over  him  as  he  counted 
some  bills. 

"If  it  is  for  something  positively  necessary,  my 
daughter." 

"I  can't  say  it  is  exactly  that;  but  I  never  get  a 
cent  of  pocket  money  now,  father." 

He  sighed  heavily  as  he  answered:  "I  know  it, 
and  I'm  sorry;  but  the  pressure  seems  harder  and 
harder  every  year.  Wants  seem  to  increase  faster 
than  the  means  of  supplying  them.  Hand  this  to 
your  mother,  Janet." 

"Forgive  me  for  worrying  you,  father.  I  ought 
to  be  making  my  own  spending  money,  but  there 
are  so  few  ways  of  doing  that  unless  I  go  away  from 
home." 

"We  can't  let  you  do  that.  There's  enough  for 
all,  if  we  are  careful," 

"Take  it  out  to  Bridget,"  said  her  mother,  as 
Janet  gave  her  the  money  from  her  father. 

"Twelve  dollars.  Dear  me  I"  said  Janet  to  her- 
self, rather  fretfully,  as  she  walked  slowly  to  the 
feitchen.  "Bridget  has  earned  it,  and  I  don't  grudge 
it  to  her,  but  how  I  wish  I  could  earn  twelve  dol- 
lars." 

"Wirra,  wirra!"  Bridget  sat  on  the  floor,  holding 
an  open  letter  and  rocking  herself  backward  and 
forward  with  dismal  groans.  Pots,  pans  and  kettles 
were  around  in  their  usual  confusion.  "It's  meself 
must  be  lavin'  ycz  the  day.  Miss  Janet." 

Servants  were  hard  to  find,  and  Janet's  face 
wore  the  accustomed  expression  of  dismay  with 
which  such  notices  were  always  received,  as  she 
asked:     "What's  the  matter,  Bridget?" 

"It's  me  sister's  got  the  fayver,  bad,  and  it's  me- 
self must  be  going  to  her.  An'  it's  six  weeks  en- 
tirely I'll  be  shtayin'  when  it's  so  far  to  be  goin'." 

As  Janet  handed  her  the  money,  a  sudden  thought 
came  to  her. 

"I'm  sorry  for  you,  Bridget.  Of  course  you  must 
go  if  you  must.  Perhaps  we  can  get  along  without 
any  one,  till  you  are  ready  to  come  back." 

"Mother,"  she  said,  turning  to  her,  "Bridget's  go- 
ing away  for  a  few  weeks."  Mother's  face  grew  as 
dismayed  as  Janet's  had,  for  9b©  WftS  .pot  strong, 
»Dd  there  were  fowr  boytt, 


"An'  plase  ye,  ma'am,  it's  afther  coming  to  try  to 
get  the  place  I  am." 

"What  do  you  mean,  Janet?  said  her  mother, 
laughing  as  the  young  girl  courtesied  low. 
"You  can't  do  it  all,  Janet." 
"What  I  can't  do,  I'll  hire.  I  want  to  do  some- 
thing, and  I  want  to  get  a  little  money  I  can  feel  is 
my  own,  and  that  I  have  a  right  to  spend  if  I  want 
a  new  book  or  a  bit  of  music  or  anything  else.  I 
can't  get  a  school — there  are  forty  applications 
where  there  is  one  vacancy.  I  can't  dispose  of 
fancy  work  or  painting,  and  if  I  could,  I  might 
dabble  over  them  for  a  month  and  not  clear  more 
than  Bridget  does  in  a  week,  there  are  so  many 
waiting  to  do  that  kind  of  work.  Kitchen  work  is 
the  only  work  there  appears  to  be  plenty  of  for 
girls." 

"You  may  try  it,  but  I  think  you  will  get  tired 
of  it." 

Janet  spent  a  good  share  of  her  first  week's  wages 
in  buying  gingham  aprons,  rubber  gloves,  and  pay- 
ing a  stout  woman  to  come  for  half  a  day  to  scrub 
and  scour  until  the  last  traces  of  good-natured,  slov- 
enly Bridget's  presence  were  removed.  Then,  with 
clean  kitchen,  clean  utensils,  and  clean  towels,  Janet 
took  hold  of  her  work  with  a  right  good  will. 

"We'll  all  co-operate,"  said  father,  when  he  heard 
of  her  intention. 

"We'll  all  co-operate,"  cried  the  boys;  and  they 
kept  their  word  well  in  bringing  wood  and  water 
and  sweeping  the  walks.  And  after  the  first  morn- 
ing, she  found  that  Tom  had  made  the  fire  and 
ground  the  coflee  before  she  came  down. 

"There's  great  satisfaction  in  doing  things  thor- 
oughly," said  Janet  to  her  mother,  after  the  first 
day  or  two.  "Before,  when  we  have  been  without  a 
girl,  I  have  always  hated  it  because  I  tried  hOAv 
much  I  could  shove  out  of  the  way.  Now  that  I 
am  making  a  business  of  it,  I  don't  feel  that  way. 
And,  mother,  you  would  be  astonished  to  see  how 
little  cleaning  there  is  to  be  done  when  nobody 
makes  any  unnecessary  dirt,  or  how  much  work  can 
be  saved  by  using  your  wits  to  save  it" 

She  never  told  her  mother  how  her  back  ached 
during  those  first  days  of  unusual  exercise.  This 
wore  ofl'  as  she  became  accustomed  to  it.  Every 
day  she  learned  more  and  more  to  simplify  her 
work.  A  few  minutes  in  the  kitchen  just  before 
bed  time  she  arranged  things  so  exactly  to  her  hand 
that  there  was  no  hurrying  or  crowding  at  the  busy 
time  in  the  morning.  Careful  handling  of  table 
linen  and  other  things  made  the  wash  smaller,  so 
that  the  stout  woman  could  do  two  weeks'  wash  in 
one.  Janet  found  that  there  were  few  days  in  which 
she  could  not  sit  down  when  the  dinner  work  was 
over.    Other  surprising  things  came  to  light. 

"What's  the  matter  that  you  don't  burn  any  wood 
now-a-days?"  said  Tom;  "I  have  so  little  splitting  to 
do."  Bridget,  like  so  many  of  her  sisterhood,  had 
always  seemed  to  consider  it  her  bounden  duty  to 
keep  up  a  roaring  fire  all  day,  regardless  of  whether 
there  was  need  of  it  or  not,  and  father  always  looked 
blank  over  the  fuel  bill.  One-half  the  quantity  was 
now  found  amply  sufficient,  and  a  difference  was 
soon  apparent  in  many  other  things.  The  food  for 
one  person  is  always  noticeable  in  a  small  family 
where  a  rigid  hand  must  be  kept  on  expenses,  be- 
side which,  Janet  was  not  slow  in  perceiving  how 
many  thiugs  went  further  than  before.  Odds  and 
ends  were  utilized  which  had  been  thrown  away  or 
had  counted  for  nothing,  for  no  one  felt  afraid  of 
scraps  done  over  by  Janet's  hands. 

"We  never  were  so  comfortable  before,"  said 
father.  '  ,^ 

"We  never  had  such  good  things  to  eat,"  declared 
the  boys,  who  had  highly  appreciated  the  dainty, 
though  plain  cookery,  as  contrasted  with  Bridget's 
greasy  preparations;  for  Janet,  full  of  an  honest  de- 
termination to  earn  her  wages,  had  given  much  at- 
tention to  the  getting  up  of  palatable,  inexpensive 
dishes,  seeking  a  variety,  where  Bridget  had  moved 
in  one  groove. 

"I  almost  dread  having  Bridget  come  back,"  said 
mother. 

But  the  time  came  when  she  was  hourly  expected. 
Mother  sighed  as  she  took  note  of  the  spotless 
kitchen,  in  which  it  was  now  pleasant  to  come  and 
lend  a  hand  at  cookery,  or  sit  with  her  knitting, 
while  Janet  moved  briskly  about. 

"It's  time  I  was  settling  with  you,  Janet,"  she 
said.     "Six  weeks — 1  owe  you  $18." 

"No;  six  off  for  hiring  Mrs.  Holt  and  a  few  other 
things." 

"Not  a  bit  off,  dear;  I've  been  looking  over  the 
bills  for  the  month,  and  I  find  (juite  a  difference; 
more  than  pays  all  your  extras.  Not  only  in  meat 
and  groceries  and  fuel,  but  I  notice  it  in  the  wear 
and  tear  and  breakage — dear  me  I  I  don't  think  $5 
a  week  covers  the  expense  of  Bridget  being  here." 


delight;  "then  you  are  not  tired  of  your  new  girl 
and  anxious  to  have  Bridget  back?" 

"No,  indeed,"  said  mother,  fervently. 

"Then  she  isn't  coming  back.  I've  found  my  way 
of  earning,  and  am  going  to  stick  to  it  for  awhile. 
It  isn't  all  pleasant  to  be  sure,  but  I  don't  know 
any  kind  of  business  that  is.  Only,"  she  said, 
laughing,  "I  shall  insist  upon  having  my  wages  reg- 
ularly paid  as  if  I  were  Bridget.  I  shall  clothe  my- 
self out  of  them,  and  so  be  saving  dear  old  over- 
worked father  about  $5  a  week,  if  you  are  right  in 
your  calculations,  mother." 

"What  will  you  do  with  Bridget  when  she  comes?" 

"Mrs.  Whitcomb  wants  a  girl,  so  she  can  go 
there.  O  mother,  dear!  it's  a  real  comfort  to  feel  as 
if  I  were  supporting  myself.  And  I  wonder  why  1 
never  thought  before  how  pleasant  a  way  it  is,  this 
doing  kind  and  pleasant  things  for  you  all." 

And  Janet  worked  on,  ffeeling  sure  she  had  found 
her  best  way  of  securing  her  pocket  money  in  this 
expending  of  her  energies  for  those  she  loved.  How 
many  daughters,  restless  and  fretful  for  something 
to  do,  might  find  the  same  way  blessed  to  them- 
selves and  to  others  in  homes  made  bright  and 
sweet  by  their  faithful  ministration. — Sel. 


A  NOBLE  LIFE  FOR  DAUQETBBS. 


The  lives  of  Christian  young  ladies  are  too  often 
deprived  of  all  interest  by  a  false  and  foolish  pa- 
rental affection.  I  once  knew  a  mother  of  two  of 
the  finest  little  girls  I  ever  saw,  who  was  insanely 
anxious  about  their  health.  The  wind  was  never 
suflfered  to  blow  on  their  rosy  cheeks;  they  were 
kept  in  bed  for  days  if  they  chanced  to  sneeze;  and 
their  mother's  life  was  one  long  misery  for  fear  they 
should  be  ill.  She  succeeded  at  last  in  making  them 
ill,  and  soon  after  she  died  of  over -anxiety.  Then 
the  girls,  left  to  themselves,  got  well.  Now  few 
mothers  are  so  foolish  as  to  the  bodies  of  their  chil- 
dren; but  the  characters  of  too  many  are  developed 
under  similarly  unnatural  shelter  and  protection.  It 
is  not  natural  for  a  woman  grown  to  be  an  object  of 
tender  parental  care.  The  fully-fledged  nestling 
leaves  the  nest,  and  cares  for  itself,  and  soon  for 
its  young.  If  a  young  woman  does  not  marry,  and 
no  special  demand  for  her  presence  exists  at  home, 
she  should  be  allowed,  yea,  encouraged  to  devote 
her  life  to  some  worthy  object,  not  thwarted  and  op- 
posed and  restricted  by  petty  conventionalities,  per- 
plexed by  finding  her  Bible  teach  self-sacrifice,  and 
her  parents  self-preservation;herBible  teaches  her  to 
despise  the  world  and  earthly  interests,  and  her  par- 
ents teach  her  to  put  them  in  the  first  place. 

Alas!  my  friends,  my  heart  aches  when  I  think  of 
the  buried  talents  that  exist  in  the  shape  of  loving, 
well-educated,  gifted  daughters,  pining  in  Christian 
families  for  lack  of  an  object  worth  living  for;  and 
then  think  of  the  miserable  millions  of  their  own  sex 
pining  elsewhere,  and  perishing  for  the  lack  of  the 
knowledge  these  could  impart.  Again  I  ask,  whose 
is  the  fault?  Dear  fathers  and  mothers,  does  it  not 
lie  at  your  doors?  Say  not,  "We  cannot  make  our 
children  missionaries;  God  must  call  them."  I  well 
know  that.  But  do  ye  your  part,  and  be  very  sure 
God  will  do  his.  Lay  your  children  on  his  altar 
from  their  very  birth;  and  just  as  you  trust  him  to 
bless  your  efforts  for  their  conversion,  so  trust  him 
to  accept  your  dedication  of  them  to  his  service, 
and  to  bless  your  endeavors  to  fit  them  for  it.  You 
know  you  can  make  them  almost  what  you  will. 
You  know  they  are  this  day  very  much  what  you 
have  made  them.  You  know  they  come  into  your 
hands  plastic  as  potter's  clay,  blank  as  white  paper, 
till  you  trace  the  lines  that  cannot  be  effaced.  Train 
them  for  missionaries  from  their  conversion  on- 
wards, and  it  will  be  a  wonder,  indeed,  if  a  large 
Christian  family  grow  up  without  at  least  one  mis- 
sionary in  it. 

And  train  those  who  are  not  fit  for  missiouaries 
to  support  those  that  are.  Put  before  them  a  holy 
object  for  money-making.  Let  the  brother  that 
stays  at  home  labor  for  the  brother  that  goes  forth 
as  a  missionary;  or  you,  father,  ere  you  die,  render 
your  missionary  son  or  daughter  independent  if  you 
can.  We  want,  the  world  wants,  Christ  wants,  not 
a  few  hundred  paid  agents,  but  a  whole  host  of  vol- 
untary missionaries — an  army  of  volunteers,  to  in- 
vade the  realms  of  heathendom.  And  say  not,  dear 
mother,  "I  cannot  part  with  my  daughter."  Would 
you  not  give  her  up  willingly  if  a  suitable  offer  of 
marriage  presented  itself,  even  though  it  involved 
going  to  India  or  China?  Will  you  give  her  to  man, 
and  not  give  her  to  Christ?  Say  not,  "We  cannot 
expose  her  to  a  bad  climate,  and  all  the  risks  and 
hardships  of  a  mission  life."  What!  will  you  de- 
prive your  child  of  suffering  with  Christ,  that  she 
may  reign  with  him?  Will  you  rob  her  of  the  op- 
j  portunity  of  learning  practically  tti  ve\y  on  Gcd' 


'•ypw  do,i?'t  ffiptber,  dear?"  wld  jAnet,  In  gr©»t  ^D-sumdencj?    Will  you  preFeQt  her  heftring  tb« 


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THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSimK. 


11 


"Weil  done,  good  and  faithful  servant,"  by-and-by? 
This  were  to  act  an3thing  but  a  parent's  part. 

Far  be  it  from  me  to  say  one  word  to  grieve  Chris- 
tian parents  who  have  done  their  best  to  train  their 
children  for  God.  Many  such  have  nobly  succeed- 
ed; and  some  who  have  failed  have  perhaps  been 
more  to  be  pitied  than  blamed.  And  far  be  it  from 
me  to  diiparage  the  urgent  claims  of  home  mission 
work.  They  lie  before  our  very  eyes,  however,  and 
can  in  a  sense  plead  their  own  cause;  and  we  have 
a  hundred  homo  missionaries,  not  to  say  a  thousand, 
for  every  single  laborer  in  heathen  lands.  And  far 
be  it  from  me  to  think  lightly  of  the  sacred  de- 
mands of  filial  duty.  But  where  parents  have  many 
children,  can  they  not  spare  one  for  Christ's  work? 
For  mere  worldly  motives  how  many  a  worldly  par- 
ent spares  all  I  I  only  plead  with  Christian  parents 
that  they  may  consider  their  ways  in  this  thing.  If 
in  this  year  1887  say,  one  thousand  Christian  par- 
ents of  converted  boys  and  girls,  now  in  the  school- 
room, resolved  to  devote  one  son  or  one  daughter 
(if  not  more)  to  missionary  work,  to  train  them  with 
a  view  to  it,  to  endow  them  with  money  enough  to 
provide  them  with  food  and  raiment,  and  to  send 
them  forth  as  soon  as  they  reach  a  suitable  age,  how 
glorious  would  be  the  result  in  ten  years'  time.  A 
thousand  well-educated,  enthusiastic,  and  independ- 
ent young  missionaries  going  forth  to  preach  Christ 
where  he  is  not  yet  named.  And  in  twenty  years' 
time  what  fruit  of  their  labor  should  gladden  the 
heart  of  the  great  Husbandman.  And  in  fifty  years* 
time,  when  the  laborers  may  all  have  gone  into  the 
harvest  home,  what  self-multiplying  native  churches 
in  Africa,  China  and  Japan  might  be  praising  God 
for  the  lives  and  deaths  of  their  founders;  and  in 
eternity,  what  multitudes  might  be  added  to  the 
white-robed  throng  redeemed  from  the  earth;  and 
what  bright  crowns  of  rejoicing  might  forever  grace 
the  brows  of  the  sons  and  daughters  thus  consecrat- 
ed by  their  parents  to  missionary  service. 

And  if  one  thousand  fathers  so  acted,  the  result 
would  be  that  ten  thousand  would  follow  their  ex- 
ample; for  a  good  example  is  contagious.  Robert 
Raikes  founded  one  Sabbath-school,  and  the  world 
is  full  of  them  noy/.  Oh,  may  the  day  come,  when 
universally  and  naturally.  Christian  parents  shall 
regard  it  as  one  of  their  greatest  privileges  and  most 
solemn  duties,  to  train  one  or  more  of  their  Chris- 
tian children  thu3  to  serve  Christ. — Mrt.  H.  Grat- 
tan  Guinnes,  in  Missionary  Review, 

TBS  GIRLS  TEAT  ABB  WANTBD. 


The  girls  thtt  are  wanted  are  good  girls- 
Good  Klrls  from  the  heart  to  the  lips; 

Fare  as  the  Illy  Is  white  and  pure, 
From  its  heart  to  Its  sweet  leaf-tips. 

The  girls  that  are  wanted  are  home  girls— 

01r!s  that  are  mother's  right  hand, 
The  fathers  and  brothers  can  trust  to, 

And  the  little  ones  uoderstand; 

Girls  that  are  fair  on  the  hearthstone, 

And  pleasant  when  nobody  sees, 
And  kind  and  sweet  to  their  own  folks, 

Ready  and  anxious  to  please. 

The  girls  that  are  wanted  are  wise  girls, 

That  k  now  what  to  do  and  to  say ; 
That  drive  with  a  emlle  or  a  soft  word 

The  wrath  of  the  household  away. 

The  girls  that  are  wanted  are  the  girls  of  sense, 

Whom  fashion  can  never  deceive; 
Who  can  follow  whatever  Is  pretty, 

And  dare  what  Is  silly  to  leave. 

The  girls  that  are  wanted  are  careful  girls, 

Wbo  count  what  a  thing  will  cost; 
Who  use  with  a  prudent,  generous  hand, 

But  see  that  nothing  Is  lost. 

The  girls  that  are  wanted  are  girls  with  hearts ; 

They  are  wanted  for  mothers  and  wl  ves. 
Wanted  to  cradle  in  loving  arms 

The  strongest  and  frailest  of  lives. 

The  clever,  the  witty,  the  brilliant  girls. 

They  are  very  few,  understand; 
But  oh  I  for  the  wise,  loving,  home  girls. 

There's  a  constant  and  steady  demand- 

—  SeltcUd. 


A  fashionably  dressed  young  woman  came  along, 
saw  the  man's  situation,  and,  without  looking  to  the 
right  or  left,  stepped  into  the  gutter,  picked  up  the 
hook  with  her  dainty  gloved  fingers,  and  handed  it 
to  the  man  with  a  pleasant  smile. 

The  idlers  looked  at  each  other,  and  at  the  fair 
young  woman.  The  old  truckman,  in  a  violent  effort 
to  express  his  thanks  politely,  lost  his  hat;  it  rolled 
into  the  gutter  where  the  hook  had  been.  The 
young  lady  was  equal  to  the  occasion.  Into  the 
gutter  she  tripped  again,  and  got  the  soiled  hat. 

"God  bless  ye,  miss!"  the  old  man  said,  as  the 
fair  maiden  turned  her  back  and  went  on  her  way. 
—Sel. 


GOOD  OOUNBSL  FOR  GIRLS. 


To  one  of   bis  daughters  at  school  Bishop  Mcll- 
vaine  gave  the  following  counsel:     "Don't  cultivate, 

dear  N ,  with  any  companion,  that  sort  of  vio 

lent  friendship  which  leads  to  a  sort  of  confidential 
communication  which  cannot  be  made  known  to 
your  parents.  Be  very  particular  as  to  whom  you 
allow  to  be  very  familiar  with  you,  as  your  near 
companions  and  friends.  First,  know  well  the  per- 
son, before  you  allow  a  close  intimacy;  and  the  mo- 
ment you  see  anything  wrong  in  a  companion,  think 
what  effect  it  should  have  on  your  intimacy.  Learn 
to  say  No,  decisively,  to  any  request  or  proposal 
which  your  judgment  tells  you  is  not  right.  It  is  a 
great  thing  in  a  child  to  learn  to  say  No,  when  it  is 
right  to  do  so.  Make  it  a  rule  to  hear  nothing  from 
any  girl  which  you  may  not  be  allowed,  and  would 
not  be  willing,  to  tell  your  dear  mother.  Be  care- 
ful to  let  nothing  interfere  with  your  regular  private 
prayers  and  reading  of  the  Scriptures;  and  labor  to 
give  your  whole  heart  and  life  to  God." 


NBGBSSARY  GIRLISH  QVALITIB8. 

Patience  and  gentleness  are  necessary  qualities  in 
every  girl's  life.  Patience  aids  in  extinguishing 
envy,  overcoming  anger  and  crushing  pride.  How 
much  good  may  be  done  and  joy  brought  by  a  gen- 
tle word  or  look.  Truly  "a  soft  answer  turneth 
away  wrath."  Girls  are  not  called  upon  to  do  great 
things,  except  in  rare  instances;  but  the  everyday 
trials  of  life  in  the  ordinary  and  appointed  exercise 
of  the  Christian  graces  afford  ample  scope  for  prac- 
ticing that  virtue  of  mankind  which  has  become 
proverbial.  The  best  exercises  of  patience  and  self- 
denial — and  the  latter  because  not  chosen  by  our- 
selves— are  those  in  which  we  have  to  bear  with  the 
failings  of  those  about  us,  to  endure  neglect  when 
we  feel  deserved  attention,  and  ingratitude  when  we 
expected  thanks;  to  bear  with  disappointment  in 
our  expectations,  with  interruptions  of  our  retire- 
ment, with  folly,  intrusion  or  disturbance — in  short, 
with  whatever  opposes  our  will  or  contradicts  our 
humor. — Sel 


Temfebance. 


TBMPBRANOE   PLATFORM  OF    WISCONSIN 
CONGRBGA  TI0NALI8T8. 


A  SBNSIBLB  GIRL. 


One  of  the  chief  objects  lor  which  women  were 
created  was  doubtless  to  set  a  good  example  to  the 
men;  and  some  of  them  answer  the  purpose  most 
admirably,  as,  for  instance,  in  the  following  case, 
reported  by  the  New  York  Tribune: 

An  aged  truckman  bent  under  the  weight  of  a 
big  roll  of  carpet.  His  bale-hook  fell  from  his  hand 
and  bounded  iuto  the  gutter  out  of  reach.  Twenty 
idle  clerks  and  salesmen  saw  the  old  man's  predica- 
ment and  smiled  at  his  look  of  bewildermoDt,  Not 
one  o/lered  to  help  him, 


Prohibition. — Thirty-five  years  ago  this  conven- 
tion declared  its  bearing  toward  the  principle  of  pro- 
hibition by  adopting  resolutions  approving  of  the 
Maine  liquor  law,  and  recommending  a  similar  law 
in  this  State.      To-day  we  reaffirm,  with  the  empha- 
sis that  comes  from  thirty-five  years  of  trial  and  fail- 
ure of  other  legal  methods,  our  unqualified   adher- 
ence to  tbff|)rinciple.     This  gigantic  evil  can  never 
be  satisfactorily  dealt  with  by  any  method  of  mere 
regulation  or  restriction.      It  overleaps  all  bounds 
and  mocks  at  all  restraints.     In  spite  of  a  century 
of  the  license  system  the  liquor  traffic  has  grown 
three  times  more  rapidly  than  the  population.    Not- 
withstanding license  has  often  been  used  by  the  State 
with   the   intent  of  so  burdening  the  tralfic  that  it 
should  be  diminished  and  its  evils  alleviated,  it  has 
not  stayed  the  tide  of  death.      It  has  l^en  under- 
stood by  the  dealers  in  liquor  to  extend  to  them  the 
sanction  and  support  of  the  State.      This  must  not 
be  allowed.     It  is  the  duty  of  the  State  to  recognize 
this   tratlic  as  the  most  dangerous  menace  to  the 
public  order  and  the  (orrupter  of  the  people — to 
brand  it  as  dangerous  business  and  to  move  steadily 
forward   to   its  complete  abolition.     This  traflic  is 
not  a  business  to  be  sanctioned,  neither  is  it  a  natu- 
ral evil  to  be  temporarily  che(*ked  and  confined,  but 
it  is  a  moral  evil,  a  stupendous  crime  to  be  out- 
lawed and  extirpated.     On  the  platform  of  prohibi- 
tion, then,  we  stand.      As  a  church,  we  can  do  no 
other.     We  cannot  be  frightened  or  silenced  by  any 
facts  that  may  come  concerning  the  relation  of  this 
principle  to  public  sentiment,  finance,  politics,  par- 
ties or  (government.     If  these  endorse  our  principle, 


those  who  believe  God's  truth  is  marching  on,  we 
must  say — our  principle  is  Just  and  righteous  and 
will  win,  for  "No  question  is  ever  settled  in  this 
world  till  it  is  settled  right" 

Redemption  of  the  Nation  from  the  Traffic. — We 
believe  the  nation  to  be  the  consummation  of  a  Di- 
vine plan  for  men;  that  it  has  a  moral  mission;  that 
to  live,  it  must  meet  aright  the  moral  issues  before 
it.  We  recognize  it  as  a  law  of  moral  progress  that 
the  nation  does  not  grapple  with  all  moral  ques- 
tions at  once,  but  bares  its  arm  for  a  struggle  with 
the  evil  gnawing  nearest  its  heart;  and  that  out  of 
a  righteous  verdict  on  one  wrong,  comes  wisdom  and 
strength  to  meet  another.  As  Christian  citizens, 
then,  in  behalf  of  the  moral  life  of  the  nation,  we 
insist  on  the  abolition  of  the  traffic.  This  trafiBc 
checks  the  nation's  moral  progress;  it  corrupts  its 
moral  instincts;  it  aims  a  blow  at  its  moral  life. 
But,  beyond  this,  the  traffic  fetters  and  crushes  our 
work  as  Christians.  There  is  a  distillery  in  Massa- 
chusetts, the  largest  in  the  world.  Tne  greater  part 
of  its  products  are  exported  to  the  coast  of  Africa. 
Our  nation  receives  as  a  tax  upon  that  distillery 
$3,483  per  day !  Christianity  sends  its  missionaries 
to  Africa,  but  with  them  goes  our  rum,  and  the  work 
of  the  missionary  is  many-fold  counteracted  by  the 
liquor  that  goes  from  our  Christian  nation.  Well 
has  it  been  said,  "The  curse  of  Cain  was  not  so 
deep  as  shall  be  God's  curse  upon  the  nation  that, 
in  the  light  of  Christ's  Gospel,  curses  the  barbari- 
ans of  Congo  with  the  crazy  drinks."  Against  this 
national  disgrace  we  protest  in  the  name  of  all  hon- 
or and  justice,  all  morality  and  Christianity. 

In  closing  our  report  we  wish  to  thank  God  and 
take  courage.  Much  remains  to  be  done,  but  much 
has  been  done.  We  believe  unity  of  action  will 
come  through  awakened  conscience,  roused  thought, 
earnest  work  and  prayerful  inquiry.  We  greet  as 
fellow  workers  all  who  are  casting  out  this  demon, 
whether  in  our  name  or  not.  We  rejoice  in  the 
stand  many  of  our  sister  churches  have  taken.  We 
hail  every  helping  force,  from  the  prayers  of  saint« 
to  the  ballots  of  citizens. 


MB  THODIST  RBSOL  UTIONB. 

Resolved,  1.  That  we  are  convinced  that  intempe- 
rance is  actually  and  historically  the  cause  of  hu- 
manity's most  numerous  and  aggravated  disorders, 
sorrows  and  crimes;  a  constant  menace  to  the  social 
peace,  and  one  of  the  most  stubborn  obstacles  that 
hinder  the  progress  of  Christianity  and  civilization. 

2.  That  the  traffic  in  alcoholic  beverages,  which 
creates,  fosters,  and  perpetuates  intemperance,  is 
crime  against  humanity,  and  therefore  its  legal  li- 
cense cannot  have  moral  sanction  and  support 

3.  That,  as  an  enormous  license  fee  does  not  les- 
sen the  enormity  of  the  evil  licensed,  we  cannot  give 
our  support  to  the  delusion  and  false  notion  that  the 
drink  traffic  is  to  be  licensed  out  of  existence  by  any 
tax  short  of  that  which  is  equivalent  to  absolute  pro- 
hibition. 

4.  That  loyal  to  the  temperance  principles  which 
have  been  advocated  and  defended  by  the  Methodist 
church  from  its  origin  to  the  present  time,  and  re- 
joicing in  the  advancement  of  temperanca  convic- 
tions and  of  prohibition  legislation  already  achieved, 
we  pledge  our  infiuence  as  Methodist  ministers  to 
the  cause  of  total  abstinence  and  of  legal  prohibi- 
tion. 


well;  we  bid  them  Qod-speed;  if  they  do  not,   as  engaged. 


Mrs.  John  Greenway  of  Syracuse,  N.  Y.,  wife  of 
the  late  millionaire  brewer,  has  been  adjudged  a 
habitual  drunkard  by  a  jury,  and  unable  to  take 
care  of  her  vast  property. 

By  order  of  Governor  Ames  and  council,  no 
wines,  malt,  or  spirituous  liquors  were  furnished  b}' 
the  State  to  the  Massachusetts  delegation  to  the 
Constitutional  centennial  celebration  at  Philadel- 
phia. 

Elk  Presbytery,  Tennessee,  took  a  firm  position 
in  regard  to  temperance,  declaring  that  church  mem- 
bers should  not  use  liquors  as  a  beverage  in  any 
form,  neither  sell  their  fruit  or  grain  to  the  distill- 
eries. 

The  temperance  people  of  Missouri  City,  Mo., 
bought  up  all  the  liquor  in  the  vicinitv  and  had  a 
grand  mass-meeting  and  bon-fire  on  a  recent  eve- 
ning. 

The  president  of  the  World's  W.C.T.U.,  Mrs.  Mar- 
garet Bright  Luca8,of  London,  and  Miss  Frances  K. 
Willard,  vice-president  for  the  I'niled  States,  and 
Mrs.  Hannah  Whitall  Smith,  of  Philadelphia,  Secre- 
tary, have  sent  out  a  call  to  Christian  women  in 
every  land  and  of  every  denomination  who  are  in- 
terested in  the  temperance  reform  to  observe  the 
12th  and  13th  of  November  next  as  days  of  prayer 
for  the  succena  of  the  greftt  work  in  which  they  arf 


12 


THE  CHKESTIAK  CYNOSXTKE. 


October  20, 1881 


Religious  News. 


A  CALL  FOR  A  SABBATH  GONVBNTION. 

The  undersigned,  ministers  and  members  of  churches, 
feeling  that  the  prevalent  desecration  of  the  Sabbath  is 
injuring  the  churches,  promoting  infidelity  and  provok- 
ing the  just  anger  of  God,  unite  in  calling  a  convention 
of  Christian  people  who  sympathize  with  us  in  this  feel- 
ing to  meet  in  Elgin,  Illinois,  November  8th,  1887,  at 
7:30  I'.M.;  to  continue  in  session  through  the  following 
day.  The  purpose  of  this  convention  is  to  consider  and 
pray  and  act  in  reference  to  this  matter  as  (3od  shall  di- 
rect. The  place  of  meeting  will  be  subsequently  an- 
nounced . 
A.  H.  Ball,  Henry  Wilson, 

Elgin  Cong'l  Ch.  Carpenterville  Cong'l  Ch. 

H.  H.  Monroe,  E.  F.  Wright, 

Malta  Cong'l  Ch.  Crystal  Lake  Cong'l  Ch. 

W.  L.  Fbbris,  Frank  W.  Smith, 

Dundee  Cong'l  Ch.  Garden  Prairie  Cong'l  Ch. 

C.  E.  Chapell,  Del,,        W.  I.  PniLLirs, 

Malta  Cong'l  Ch.  Pub.  Christian  Cynosure. 

J.  P.  Robert,  H.  W.  Harbaugh, 

Wayne  Cong'l  Ch.  Genoa  Junct  Cong'l  Ch. 

H.  M.  Skeels,  Jno  Mitchell, 

Evangelist.  Sycamore  Cong'l  Ch. 

Cha8.  H.  Abbott.  E.  C.  Guild,  M.  D.,  Mem., 

Geneva  Congl'  Ch.  Bartlett  Cong'l  Ch. 

E.  W.  Fisher,  Del., 
Wheaton  Cong'l  Ch. 

The  above  call,  agreed  upon  by  the  brethren 
named,  is  now  sent  out  with  the  earnest  request  that 
all  Christians,  especially  all  Christian  minister8,will 
aid  in  making  the  convention  a  success.  To  this 
end,  Ist.  Let  every  one  approving  of  the  meeting 
cut  out  the  calljpaste  it  upon  a  sheet  of  foolscap  pa- 
per, append  his  own  name  and  secure  others,  2nd. 
Present  it  to  churches  and  other  religious  bodies 
and  ask  its  endorsement.  3rd.  When  this  work  is 
done,  forward  the  call  with  its  signatures  and  en- 
dorsements to  Rev.  John  Mitchell,  Sycamore,  Ills. 
He  will  combine  the  signatures  from  all  quarters. 
4th.  Plan  to  be  at  the  convention  with  your  friends. 
Let  us  rally  for  the  Sabbath. 

— Rev.  J.  W.  Dill  of  Mediapoli8,Iowa,  has  preach- 
ed his  farewell  sermon  at  Liod  Grove,  and  with  his 
family  have  gone  to  teach  at  Selma,  Alabama. 

— The  evangelist  Moody  is  now  laboring  in  To- 
ronto, Canada,  where  his  appeals  to  the  unconverted 
are  having  their  usual  effect,  under  God,  and  many 
are  pressing  into  the  kingdom. 

— Lyman  Abbott,  editor  of  the  Christian  Union, 
has  been  engaged  as  a  pulpit  supply  for  Plymouth 
church,  pending  the  selection  of  a  permanent  pas- 
tor; and  he  will  begin  his  duties  in  November. 

— The  Chicago  Evangelization  Society,  of  which 
D.  L.  Moody  is  president,  is  doing  grand  temper- 
ance work  in  the  worst  localities  on  the  North  Side, 
with  its  Gospel  tent.  The  tent  is  now  pitched  in 
the  Sixteenth  Ward,  the  most  destitute,  spiritually, 
of  any  ward  in  the  city,  there  being  but  one  evan- 
gelical church  to  each  18,000  souls.  Its  population 
is  36,000,  of  whom  25,000  are  Germans.  One  Sat- 
urday night  131  signed  the  pledge,  thirty  taking  the 
iron-clad  triple  pledge,  among  them  three  police- 
men. During  the  month  there  have  been  hundreds 
of  conversions,  and  the  work  still  goes  on. 

— The  Wesleyan  Methodist  General  Conference 
meets  at  La  Otto,  Indiana,  October  19.  This  is  the 
twelfth  meeting  of  this  body,  which  convenes  but 
once  in  four  years. 

— Consul  General  Card  well,  of  Cairo,  Egypt,  in  a 
report  to  the  Department  of  State,  calls  special  at- 
tention to  the  successful  labors  of  American  mis- 
sionaries in  the  valley  of  the  Nile.  Nearly  6,000 
native  pupils  are  in  attendance  at  the  schools  that 
have  been  established. 

— Messrs.  Clagett  and  Birch  have  been  holding  a 
series  of  evangelistic  meetings  in  Hamilton,  Canada, 
and  as  a  result  many  profess  to  have  found  the  Sav- 
iour. A  number  of  the  converts  have  expressed 
their  determination  to  connect  themselves  with  the 
churches  of  their  choice. 

— The  Forty-tirst  Annual  Meeting  of  the  Ameri- 
can Missionary  Association  will  be  held  at  Portland, 
Maine,  on  October  25.  The  Kev.  A.  J.  F.  Behrends, 
D.D.,  will  preach  the  sermon. 

— The  revival  still  continues  in  the  Reformed 
church  of  (Jlennville,  N.  Y.  Between  fifty  and  sixty 
have  openly  professed  their  interest  in  Christ 

—  Our  foreign  visiting  yachtsmen  put  our  Ameri- 
can yachtsmen  to  shame  by  their  observance  of  the 
Christian  Sabbath,  says  an  exchange.  Lieutenant 
Henn  of  the  Galatea  made  an  enviable  impression 
by  his  observance  of  the  day  of  rest  in  all  that  re- 
lated to  the  work  and  sailing  of  his  yacht.  Captain 
Ban-,  of  the  Thistle,  attended  service  at  the  Dutch 
Reformed  church,  on  Sabbath,  while  bis  vessel  lay 


all  day  at  anchor.  His  antagonist,  the  Volunteer, 
spent  the  morning  in  sailing  down  the  Bay,  accom- 
panied by  a  fleet  of  admirers.  This  is  the  nobler 
victory  won  by  the  Scotch  yacht. 

— In  Kochi,  Japan,  the  city  occupied  by  the  mis- 
sionaries of  the  United  States  Southern  Presbyterian 
church,  work  was  begun  only  two  years  ago.  Now 
there  is  a  Presbyterian  church  of  over  two  hundred 
members.  The  gain  in  the  whole  of  Japan  for  the 
last  two  years  has  been  seventy-seven  per  cent. 

— The  sacraments  of  baptism  and  the  Lord's  Sup- 
per were  administered  recently  in  the  Japanese 
Presbyterian  church  of  San  Francisco,  Cal.  A  large 
company  of  young  men  were  present  on  the  occa- 
sion. Two  young  men  were  baptized,  having  been 
received  into  the  church  from  heathenism  on  con- 
fession of  their  faith  in  Christ,  and  two  others  were 
received  by  letter.  The  church  now  numbers  fifty- 
six  members. 

— The  presence  of  four  young  missionaries  on 
their  way  to  Japan  brought  together  an  unusual 
number  at  a  late  weekly  missionary  meeting  in  the 
Presbyterian  rooms  in  this  city.  Rev.  Messrs. 
Hayes  and  Haworth,  graduates  of  McCormick  The- 
ological Seminary,  with  their  wives  and  the  sister  of 
Mr.  Haworth,  will  sail  from  San  Francisco,  Oct.  20, 
on  the  Oceanic,  to  be  stationed  at  Kanazawa,  on  the 
western  coast  of  Japan.  Rev.  G.  W.  Knox,  who 
has  been  for  the  past  ten  years  connected  with  the 
mission  at  Tokio,  made  a  vigorous  address,  showing 
the  importance  of  reinforcing  the  Japan  mission 
promptly,  fully,  and  suitably.  While  no  missionary 
should  be  sent  to  any  field  who  has  not  moral,  intel- 
lectual, and  physical  force  of  a  high  order,  it  seemed 
to  him  that  the  present  state  of  Japan  made  it  more 
necessary  than  in  any  other  country,  that  all  mis- 
sionaries should  be  picked  men,  chosen  with  as  great 
care  as  is  used  in  the  calling  of  pastors  for  Amer- 
ican churches.  The  Presbyterian  and  Congrega- 
tional churches  of  Japan,  lately  united,  numbers  10,- 
000  communicants,  and  of  the  over  100  congrega- 
tions more  than  half  are  entirely  self-supporting. 
He  predicted  that  within  fifteen  years  that  empire 
would  cease  to  be  a  foreign  mission  field. 

— The  Presbyterian  church  has  twelve  theological 
seminaries — Princeton,  Auburn,  Allegheny,  Lane, 
Union,  Danville,  McCormick,  San  Francisco,  Ger- 
man, Dubuque;  German,  Newark;  Lincon,  Biddle — 
which  had  last  year  705  students  against  499  ten 
years  ago,  and  437  in  1870.  Princeton  leads  with 
161;  then  comes  Union  with  134,  and  McCormick 
with  113;  Allegheny  is  next  with  68.  The  total  of 
graduates  last  year  was  198 — 57  from  Princeton  and 
50  from  Union. 

— The  Presbyterian  church  is  said  to  be  the  most 
numerous  body  in  Protestant  Christendom.  Ac- 
cording to  Dr.  McCosh,  in  an  historical  paper  read 
at  the  tri-centenary  celebration  in  Philadelphia,  in 
1872,  the  total  number  of  Presbyterians  then  in  the 
world  was  34,351,387.  According  to  Rev.  Mr.  Kerr, 
in  his  admirable  little  book,  entitled  "Presbyterian- 
ism  for  the  people,"  the  total  number  now  in  the 
world  is  about  40,000,000. 

— Dr.  Barnardo,  a  somewhat  distinguished  philan- 
thropist and  physician  of  London,  has  carried  out  a 
pet  benevolent  scheme  by  purchasing  5,000  acres  of 
land  in  the  northwestern  part  of  the  Dominion  of 
Canada,  and  proposes  to  make  of  the  tract  an  "in- 
dustrial farm"  where  homeless  lads  of  London  may 
be  sent.  Dr.  Bernardo  has  been  singularly  success- 
ful in  reclaiming  the  little  waifs  of  the'Critish  Me- 
tropolis, and  giving  them  practical,  moral  and  intel- 
lectual educations. 

— The  Reformed  Presbyterians,  or  Old  Side  Cov- 
enanters, in  this  country  have  eleven  presbyteries, 
119  congregations,  103  ministers,  10,833  members, 
and  12,102  attendants  at  the  Sabbath-schools.  Last 
year  they  contributed  to  foreign  missions,  $14,735; 
home  missions,  $2,607;  Southern  missions,  $3,548; 
Chinese  missions,  $1,736;  Theological  Seminary, 
$3,034;  education,  $15,839;  sustentation,  $2,380; 
church  erection,  $17,817;  pastors'  salaries,  $83,900; 
miscellaneous,  $65,304;  total,  $201,201.  The  in- 
crease in  membership  for  the  year  over  the  previous 
year  was  111. 

-The  revision  of  the  Kaffir  Bible  has  at  length 
been  brought  to  completion.  For  nearly  twenty 
years  the  Board  of  Revisers  have  faithfully  carried 
on  this  great  work.  Several  of  the  brethren  who 
were  associated  with  them,  among  whom  were  Rev. 
John  W.  Appleyard  and  Rev.  Tiyo  Soga,  have  been 
called  to  higher  service,  but  the  word  went  steadily 
forward.  The  work  of  revision  has  been  carefully, 
minutely  and  prayerfully  carried  on.  The  first  ses- 
sion was  held  on  the  4th  of  November,  IRfiH.and  the 
fifty-sixth  session  saw  the  completion. 


LITERATTTKE. 


Eminknt  ANfERicANs.  Brief  biogn^aphles  of  men  and  women 
who  have  been  eminent  in  American  history.  By  Benson  J. 
Lossing,  LL.  D.  -5  .5  pages,  cloth,  75c,  half  morocco,  $1.00; 
postage,  13c.     New  Tork,  John  B.  Alden. 

Thirty -two  years  ago  Dr.  Lossing,  who  had  already 
made  good  his  place  as  an  eminent  chronicler  of 
American  history,  put  forth  a  volume  of  biographi- 
cal sketches  of  the  "Leading  Statesmen,  Patriots,  Or- 
ators and  others,  Men  and  Women,  who  have  made 
American  History."  He  has  from  time  to  time 
made  additions  to  this  work,so  as  to  keep  it  abreast 
of  the  time.  The  latest  edition  brings  the  scenes 
down  to  this  present  year,  1887.  It  forms  a  com- 
pact volume  of  more  than  500  pages,  containing 
about  two-thirds  as  much  matter  as  a  volume  of  Ap- 
pleton's  Cyclopedia.  There  are  also  about  125  por- 
traits, with  facsimiles  of  the  signatures  of  the  sub- 
jects of  the  biographies. 

"Such  persons  have  been  selected,  as  examples," 
Mr.  Lossing  says,"who  seemed  to  illustrate  by  their 
lives  some  special  phase  in  the  political,  religious, 
and  social  life  of  our  country  during  its  wonderful 
progress  from  its  earliest  settlement  until  the  pres- 
ent time.  I  have  endeavord  to  present  such  promi- 
nent points  of  character  and  deeds  in  their  lives  as 
would  give  the  reader  a  general  idea  of  their  relative 
position  in  the  history  of  their  times;  and  have  also 
aimed  to  make  the  brief  sketches  so  attractive  and 
suggestive  as  to  excite  a  desire  in  the  young  to 
know  more  of  these  characters,  and  their  historical 
relations,  and  thus  to  persuade  them  to  enter  upon 
the  pleasant  and  profitable  employment  of  studying 
the  prominent  persons  and  events  of  our  Republic." 

The  biographies  are  arranged  in  chronological  or- 
der,beginning  with  John  Winthrop,  the  second  gov- 
ernor of  Plymouth  colony,  who  died  in  1649,  and 
ending  with  Capt.  Eads,  who  died  in  1887.  The  por- 
traits are  a  very  valuable  feature  of  the  work.  Mr. 
Lossing,  artist  as  well  as  author,  has  himself  drawn 
many  of  them,  and  they  have  all  been  engraved  un- 
der his  special  supervision.  The  extended  circula- 
tion of  such  a  work  as  this  must  have  a  great  and 
healthy  influence  on  the  rising  generation,  and  it  is 
fortunate  that  it  is  published  at  a  price  so  wonder- 
fully low,  considering  especially  that  it  is  a  copy- 
right work,  as  to  be  within  the  reach  of  every  one. 
It  well  deserves  a  place  in  every  home  library. 

Zenobia,  or  the  Fall  of  Palmyra.    By  William  Ware. 
Vathek.    By  William  Beckford. 

Out  of  a  Besbiged  City,  a  tale  of  the  Revolution.  By  Prof. 
Charles  W.  Hutson. 

These  three  small  volumes  from  the  enterprising 
and  popular  publisher  John  B.  Alden,  of  New  York, 
are  issued  by  him  with  the  purpose  to  supplant  the 
cheap  trashy  modern  novel  with  imaginative  litera- 
ture of  a  higher  class.  William  Ware  was  the  son 
of  Dr.  Henry  W^are,  professor  of  divinity  at  Har- 
vard and  a  champion  of  Unitarian  doctrine  with  Dr. 
Channing.  William  Ware  was  for  years  pastor  of 
Unitarian  churches  and  also  for  some  time  editor  of 
the  Christian  Examiner.  Zenobia  was  published 
first  in  1837  in  the  Knickeihocher  Magazine.  It  is  a 
fine  example  of  classical  style  and  is  especially  in- 
structive in  its  descriptions  of  Roman  and  Oriental 
society  during  the  reign  of  Aurelian  in  the  third 
century.  Vathth  is  termed  by  Christopher  North 
the  "finest^  of  Oriental  romances  as  Lalla  Rookh  is 
the  finest  of  Oriental  poems."  It  is  surpassing  in 
beauty  of  description  and  power  of  imagination  and 
the  final  chapter  is  worthy  the  pen  of  Dante.  Aside 
from  its  literary  character,  however,  the  book  has 
little  worth  above  similar  Oriental  fancies.  Its  au- 
thor was  a  most  remarkable  character  and  literary 
genius.  The  last-named  work  is  a  story  of  the 
Revolutionary  war,  based,  we  understand,  on  actual 
events  in  and  about  Charleston.  It  is  not  our  rule 
to  approve  of  ordinary  novels,  but  there  are  features 
of  more  than  ordinary  interest  in  the  above. 

"Self-deception,  Its  Nature,  Evils  and  Remedy" 
is  the  title  of  a  neat  pamphlet  by  Rev.  Jacob  Helf- 
fenstein,  and  published  by  Rev.  A.  Sims,  of  Ux- 
bridge,  Ontario,  Canada.  It  very  clearly  sets  forth 
the  nature  and  forms  of  this  evil  condition  of  the 
soul,  its  danger,  consequences  and  remedy,  and  is 
an  excellent  book  for  all,  but  especially  for  those 
alllicted  with  this  grave  form  of  spiritual  malady. 
Such  cannot  fail  to  profit  eternally  by  a  careful 
reading.     The  price  is  15  cents. 

The  Bnglish  Illustrated  Magazine  opens  a  new  volume 
with  the  October  number.  A  charming'Portrait  Study" 
forms  the  frontispiece.and  old  English  scenes  are  happily 
reproduced  in  "Coaching  Days  and  Coaching  Ways." 
But  more  happily  are  English  views  prepented  in  "Sum- 
mer in  Somerset."  "The  Mediation  of  Ralph  Hardelot" 
is  a  story  of  five  centuries  ago  in  England  which  will  at- 
tract many  readers. 

The  October  number  of  the  Cosmopolitan  opens  with  a 
beautifully  illustrated  article  entitled,  "The  Passing  of  the 


OdTOBBR  20,  1887 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURJB. 


13 


Buffalo."by  William  T.  Hornaday.giving 
a  graphic  account  of  his  recent  buffalo 
hunt,  and  showing  how  the  buffalo  have 
been  reqklesaly  exterminated.  Another 
timely  article  is  "The  Pigmy  Kingdom  of 
a  Debauchee."  The  author  describes  the 
present  condition  of  the  Hawaiian  Isl- 
ands, the  causes  of  the  recent  revolution 
and  the  character  of  the  drunken  Free- 
mason, King  Kalakaua,  and  his  subjects. 
The  third  illustrated  article  is  the  last  of 
the  series  by  Arnold  Burges  Johnson  on 
"Charles  Sumner."  Two  new  portraits  of 
the  great  statesman  and  many  striking 
and  characteristic  anecdotes  regarding 
him  are  given.  The  article  that  will, per- 
haps, attract  the  most  attention  is  that  by 
J.  Henry  Hagar  on  "The  Second  Wife  of 
Napoleon  I."  It  is  based  upon  new  ma- 
terials just  published  in  Europe,  and 
shows  tnat  she  was  in  every  way  un 
worthy  of  her  husband,  being  narrow- 
minded,  vain  and  unfaithful  to  her  mar- 
riage vows.  Prank  G  Carpenter,in  an  ar- 
ticle on  "The  Tours  of  the  Pr<'8ideBt8," 
presents  much  interesting  information 
apropos  of  President  Cleveland's  Western 
trip. 

The  JUustrated  London  News  in  its 
American  edition  of  October  15  th  fur- 
nishes as  usual  many  pictures  upon  a  va- 
riety of  subjects, including  a  double-page 
picture,  "Deer  Stalking  in  the  Highlands," 
three  pages  devoted  to  the  British  mis- 
sion to  Morocco,  a  most  pleasing  and  in- 
structive picture  entitled  "A  Sad  Dog's 
Day,"  "Sketches  of  Life  on  Board  a  Man 
of  War,"  "The  Home  of  Florence  Night- 
ingale," etc.  The  supply  of  reading  mat- 
ter is  also  abundant  and  interesting  while 
the  number  complete  costs  at  retail  only 
10  cents.  The  oflace  of  publication  is  237 
Potter  building.  New  York. 

The  unusual  interest  in  the  discussions 
of  the  late  American  Board  meeting  at 
Springfield,  Mass.,  has  led  the  Republi- 
can of  that  city  to  print  a  full  report  of 
all  documents.reports,  speeches,  etc., with 
portraits  of  prominent  members.  Our 
thJEinks  are  due  for  a  copy.  The  Inde- 
pendent of  New  York,  which  has  been  a 
champion  of  the  old  faith  against  the 
probation  theories  of  Andover,ha3  also  a 
very  full  and  excellent  report  in  its  last 
two  numbers. 

The  Oct.  14  number  of  Science  has  a 
carefully  prepared  article  on  the  Nica- 
ragua ship  canal  accompanied  by  maps, 
which  give  a  ready  view  of  the  general 
plan  of  the  canal  with  its  seven  locks. 
Since  it  is  becoming  more  certain  that  the 
Panama  scheme  must  fail,  the  Nicaragua 
route  is  again  receiving  attention  as 
when  General  Grant  became  president  of 
the  company  in  charge  of  its  interests. 


Lodge  Notes. 

The  Masonic  Grand  Lodge  of  Missouri, 
in  session  at  St.  Louis  Thursday,  sus- 
tained the  law  forbidding  lodges  to  accept 
as  members  any  person  engaged  in  the 
saloon  business.  There  are  at  present  a 
number  of  liquor  dealers  in  the  ranks. 

A  Grand  Army  celebration  will  be  held 
at  Cincinnati,  Oct.  26-28.  Representa- 
tives of  all  the  posts  in  Ohio,  Indiana, 
and  Kentucky  are  expected,  and  Grand 
Army  men  from  other  States  are  invited 
to  participate.  General  Hickenlooper 
will  be  commander  of  the  gathering. 

Taber  Skinner,  formerly  a  Kniuht  of 
Labor,  has  brought  suit  against  Grand 
Master  Workman  Powderly  and  the  gen- 
eral executive  board  of  the  Knight  of  La- 
bor to  recover  $460  24,  his  bill  for  work 
done  in  repairs  and  alterations  upon  the 
new  Knights  of  Labor  palace  in  Philadel- 
phia. 

Knights  of  Labor  at  Erie,  Pa.,  have 
commenced  a  crusade  against  Sunday 
work.  They  commenced  suit  against 
several  employes  of  the  Northwestern 
Transportation  Company  Monday,charg- 
ing  them  with  unloading  a  boat  in  viola- 
tion of  the  act  of  1794,  prohibiting  all  la- 
bor on  Sunday  except  that  of  charity  or 
necessity. 

It  is  reported  that  on  last  Wednesday 
night,  after  Michael  Davitt,  the  Irish  ag- 
itator, had  addressed  the  Knights  of  La- 
bor convention  at  Minneapolis,  a  secret 
meeting  of  the  leading  officials  was  held. 
Mr.  Davitt  was  made  a  member  of  the 
order  and  a  Knight  of  Labor  organizer,it 
being  proposed  to  have  him  organize  the 
members  of  the  Irish  Land  League  into  a 
special  district  of  the  Knights  of  Labor. 
Much  opposition  is  expected  to  this  proj- 
ect from  English  and  Scotch  knights,  and 


it  has  been  kept  a  profound  secret  by  the 
leaders  up  to  this  time. 

Knights  of  Labor,  Dubu(jue  county, 
Iowa,  have  nominated  a  full  county  tick- 
et. A  strong  effort  is  being  made  by  the 
Knights  to  secure  a  union  with  the  Re- 
publicans in  order  to  defeat  the  Democ- 
racy, but  they  insist  on  the  Republicans 
endorsing  their  nominations.  A  few  Re- 
publicans are  in  favor  of  the  movement, 
but  a  large  majority  violently  oppose  it. 
It  is  regarded  as  a  scheme  to  further  the 
interests  of  the  Knights,  who  ha"e  been 
iu  control  of  the  city  affairs  for  the  past 
few  months,  and  who  have  excited  the 
antagonism  of  the  business  interests  of 
the  city. 

The  Knights  Templar  Grand  Command- 
ery  of  Ohio  met  at  Columbus  last  Tues- 
day. The  parade  was  prevented  by  rain. 
At  the  meeting  of  the  Grand  Command- 
ery  reports  were  submitted  showing  that 
456  new  members  were  made  during  the 
year.  The  "Eminent  Commander"  con- 
demned illegitimate  Masonry,  and  cau- 
tioned the  "Templars  to  distinguish  be- 
tween the  true  and  false.  Total  receipts 
for  the  year  were  $16,158  27;  disburse- 
ments, $3,775.87;  membership  Aug  1,  5,- 
487.  Newark  Commandery  has  died  out, 
leaving  the  present  membership  5,643. 
The  charter  of  Cyprus  Commandery,  of 
Zanesville,  was  revoked  and  the  Eminent 
Commander  expelled.  A  banquet  and 
ball  were  given  to  close. 


FOR    TOUR  CONVBNIENGB  AND 
COMFORT. 

The  through  train  of  the  Burlington 
Route,  C.  B.  &  Q  R  R., leaving  Chicago 
in  the  evening  for  St.  Paul  and  Minneap- 
olis, makes  connection  with  through 
trains  from  ihe  East  at  Chicago,  and  at 
St.  Paul  and  Minneapolis  with  through 
trains  for  Manitoba,Portland,Tacomaand 
all  points  in  the  Northwest.  This  night 
train  is  equipped  with  Pullman  Sleeping 
Cars  and  C  B.  &  Q  passenger  coaches 
through  to  St.  Paul  and  Minneapolis, din- 
ing car  en  route.  To  the  day  train  ser- 
vice has  recently  been  added  Pullman 
Parlor  cars  through  to  St  Paul  and  Min- 
neapolis, in  addition  to  through  C.B.&  Q. 
passenger  coaches,  and  dining  car  en 
route.  Delightful  scenery,  smooth  track 
and  road  bed,  and  as  quick  time  as  by  any 
other  line  if  you  make  your  journey  to 
Sl.Panl  and  Minneapolis  via  the  Burling- 
ton. 

Tickets  can  be  obtained  of  any  coup- 
on ticket  agent  of  the  C.  B  «&  Q.  R  R.  or 
connecting  lines,  or  by  addressing  Paul 
Morton,  Gen'l.  Passenger  and  Ticket 
Agent,  Chicago. 


8  VBSORIPTION  LB  TTBRB. 

The  following  have  made  remittances 
of  money  to  the  Cynosure  from  Oct.  10 
to  15  inclusive. 

M  W  Griffin,  S  H  Phillips,  Mrs  R 
Schneilbacker,  H  Johnson,  B  Harper,  L 
Taft,  W  Schmitt,  W  J  White.  Mr  E  M 
Livesay,  Mrs  E  Lewis,  A  H  Bennett,  R 
Gunn,  A  Lundquist,  H  Preston,  R  Kant, 
W  Atkinson,  I  Meltler. 


MARKET  EBP0RT8. 

CHICAGO. 

Wheat— No.  8 69}^ 

No.  3 6.5  @     67 

Winter  No  8 70i<@      73 

Com— No.  a 41  (a     42 

oat»-No.a — ^►♦^^^    26  @    arv 

Rye-No.  2 49 

Branperton 11  75  12  75 

Hay— Timothy 9  50  (313  '  0 

Butter,  medium  to  best 16  &     24 

Cheese 04  &     \2».' 

Beans 1  2.5  @  2  50 

Eggs 17 

geeOa— Timothy 3  17  O  2  22 

Flax 1  0<)  1  '6 

Broomcom...     "^1^®     07 

Potatoes  per  bus 50  @     72 

Htdee— Green  to  dry  flint 07>^(a      13 

Luml)er— Common 11  00  (^18  00 

Wool 10  @     .S.-> 

Cattle— Choice  to  extra 4  90  @  5  .50 

Common  to  good 1  25  £>  4  75 

Hogs 3  50  O  4  75 

Sheep 3  00  @  4  15 

NEW  YORK. 

Flour 320  (3560 

Wheat— Winter 78  @     87 

Spring 83 

Corn bi 

Oats 32  (^      40 

Kggi 16  @      21 

Butter 16  ^     25 

Wool..^..»- 09  37 

KANSAS  CITY. 

Cattle 130  a  4  75 

Hogf„.„  .^^  ....-.._*.  „,« 2  75  8  4  35 

■kMn ..♦^,^.«^,,^  3  00  0  3  60 


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THE  CHRISTIAK  GYNOSTTRB. 


October  20, 188? 


Home  and  Health. 

LIFE  ON  A  PLAGUE  SHIP. 

The  Rev.  Dr.  Maynard.the  lecturer, was 
one  of  the  passengers  on  the  plague- 
stricken  steamer  Alesia,  which  arrived  in 
New  York  a  couple  of  weeks  ago.  He 
was  seen  by  a  reporter  recently,  and  told 
the  following  story  of  the  sad  voyage: 

"I  do  not  know  the  exact  number  of 
emigrants  who  were  taken  on  board  at 
Naples,  but  it  must  have  been  about  600. 
Among  them  was  a  party  of  forty  from 
Palermo,  a  plague-stricken  city.  None 
of  the  few  cabin  passengers  were,  of 
course,  aware  of  the  occurrence  at  the 
time,  and  yet  a  circumstance  which  oc- 
curred before  we  started  aroused  in  my 
mind  an  undefined  suspicion  that  every- 
thing was  not  all  right.  The  day  before 
we  left  the  steamship  people  gave  a  re- 
ception on  board  the  Alesia  to  the  Nea- 
politan municipal  authorities,  who  at- 
tended in  grand  state.  It  was  a  delight- 
ful occasion,  and  I  am  convinced  now 
that  it  was  intended  to  mollify  the  au- 
thorities on  account  of  the  company's  ac- 
tion in  taking  tne  Palermo  passengers. 

"During  the  earlier  part  of  the  passage 
all  circumstances  seemed  to  conspire  to 
produce  pleasure  to  all  on  board.  For  a 
couple  of  days  a  sirocco  came  across  the 
Mediterranean  from  Africa,  but  did  not 
make  the  temperature  unbearably  hot. 
We  were  a  gay  company,  the  Italian  emi- 
grants particularly  so.  The  discomforts 
attending  an  emigrant  voyage  seemed  to 
have  no  effect  upon  their  spirits.  They 
chatted  and  laughed  and  sang  and  danced 
all  day  long  and  well  into  the  nights, 
which  were  made  more  pleasant  by  moon- 
light. Among  the  emigrants  were  many 
of  the  better  class  of  Italians,  and  their 
really  beautiful  singing  added  greatly  to 
the  charm  of  these  delightful  evenings. 

"We  were  about  twelve  days  out  when 
the  plague  broke  out.  A  young  Neapol- 
itan died.  It  was  given  out  that  heart 
disease  was  the  cause,  and  there  was  at 
the  time  no  ground  for  supposing  other- 
wise, and  yet,  in  some  unaccountable 
way,  all  on  board  of  ship  became  seized 
with  a  misgiving.  Nothing  on  the  part 
of  the  captain,  who  was  a  particularly 
jolly  fellow.orthedoctor  or  other  officers, 
indicated  that  the  Neapolitan's  death  was 
out  of  the  ordinary  run  of  such  misfor- 
tunes, yet  it  caused  a  sudden  fear  to  fall 
upon  the  emigrants,  the  like  of  which  I 
never  before,  in  a  very  long  and  very 
varied  experience  of  travel,  met  with. 
From  that  time  not  a  sound  of  mirth  was 
beard;  the  dancing  was  ended;  not  a  note 
was  sung. 

"The  funeral  of  the  Neapolitan  was  a 
sad  and  impressive  sight,  and,  if  it  was 
possible,  it  increased  the  general  dejec- 
tion. 1  have  no  doubt  that  the  condition 
of  mind  of  these  people  had  a  good  deal 
to  do  with  the  swift  headway  which  the 
disease  made  after  it  began  its  work.  I 
never  saw  such  a  complete  surrender  to 
misfortune  as  these  people  made,  and  it 
presented  all  the  more  startling  appear- 
ance on  account  of  the  light  heartedness 
which  they  had  at  first  displayed.  They 
seemed  aa  limp  as  rags.  They  made  no 
struggle  with  fate,  but  sat  or  moved  about 
listlessly  and  lifelessly,  and  seemed  actu  - 
ally  to  invite  death  by  their  dread  of  it. 

"I  can  not  give  any  particulars  regard- 
ing the  progress  of  the  disease  or  the 
number  of  the  victims.  Strange  to  say, 
the  disease  first  struck  the  Neapolitans, 
and  the  proportion  of  the  stricken  among 
them  was  greater  than  among  those  from 
Palermo, who  imported  the  disease.  The 
discipline  on  board  was  perfect,  and  the 
doctor  and  his  aesistants  were  untiring 
in  their  efforts.  The  captain  maintained 
bis  jollity  of  dememor  throughout  the 
entire  trial  in  a  manner  which  I  now 
confess  was  inspiring.  There  were  no 
more  funerals  after  the  first  Conceal- 
ment of  the  true  state  of  affairs  lasted  but 
a  short  time,  and  the  victims  were  given 
to  the  deep,  one  after  another.  I  believe 
that  no  one  really  knows  how  many  died 
on  board.  Every  day  brought  Its  fatal- 
ities " 

HOW  TO  PROMOTE  HEALTH. 

After  all  that  has  been  stated  of  the 
effects  of  the  atmosphere  in  high  alti- 
tudes or  at  the  level  of  the  sea,  the  infiu- 
ence  of  forests  and  ocean,  of  sea  coasts 
and  interior  places, humidity  and  dryness, 
cold  and  heat,  the  winds,  electricity,  and 
ozone,  and  no  matter  what  of  other  con- 
ditions, the  paramount  considerations  for 
the  promotion  of  health  are  an  abundance 
of  pure  air  and  sunshine  and  out  door 
exercise.  Without  these,  no  climate  is 
promotiy*  of  haalth,  or  propitious  for  tht 


cure  of  disease;  and  with  them,  it  is  safe 
to  say,  the  human  powers  of  accommoda- 
tion are  such  that  it  is  difficult  to  distin- 
guish the  peculiarities  of  any  climate  by 
their  joint  results  on  the  health  and  lon- 
gevity of  its  subjects. — Bell's  "Climatol- 
ogy." 

If  you  keep  your  feet  warm  it  is  almost 
impossible  to  take  cold. 

The  most  healthful  form  of  exercise  is 
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activities. 

Will  the  coming  girl  breakfast  at  8  a. 
M.  in  bed,  while  the  mother  is  busying 
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taste.  Their  presence  is  evinced  by  the 
fact  that  these  portions  of  an  animal  are 
always  the  parts  first  subject  to  decompo- 
sition .  They  make  very  good  food  for 
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THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


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Faem  Notes. 


FARMING  BY  GASLIGHT. 
Howard  county  farmers  residing  in  the 
vicinity  of  the  great  Shrader  gas  well, 
near  Eokomo,  Indiana,  go  on  record  as 
harvesting  the  first  wheat  by  natural  gas 
light.  A  dozen  self  binders  and  men 
shocking  wheat  was  a  truly  novel  scene, 
which  was  witnessed  by  hundreds  of  peo 
pie,  who  surrounded  the  fields  of  grain  in 
carriages.  The  constant  roar  of  the  Shra 
der  well  can  be  distinctly  heard  eight 
miles  away,  while  the  light  can  be  plain- 
ly seen  at  Burlington,  fifteen  miles  weet 
of  here.  The  estimated  flow  of  gas  from 
this  well  is  15,000,000  cubic  feet  every 
twenty-four  hours. — Indianapolia  Jour- 
nal. 

Thirty  years  successful  use  of  salt  upon 
all  kinds  of  crops  has  proved  its  value  to 
me.  It  should  not  be  used  on  cold, heavy 
or  moist  soils, and  if  any  one  does  he  will 
be  disappointed  in  the  result,  as  its  ten- 
dency is  to  keep  the  ground  cool  and 
moist .  It  will  do  such  soil  more  harm 
than  good.  It  should  not  be  cast  upon 
very  young  or  tender  plants  of  any  kind, 
as  It  will  be  very  sure  to  kill  them. 
.Judgment  should  be  employed  in  using 
so  strong  an  agent.  I  had  a  friend  who 
heard  me  recommend  salt  on  onion  beds, 
when  I  strictly  urged  that  it  should  be 
dragged  or  worked  in  before  the  seed  was 
sown;  but,  forgetting  what  I  said,  he  did 
not  salt  until  the  onions  were  about  two 
inches  high,  and  it  killed  them  all;  but, 
sowing  another  crop  properly,  it  turned 
out  spendidly .  Had  he  waited  until  the 
tops  were  as  big  as  a  large  pipe  stem,  he 
might  have  covered  the  ground  an  inch 
deep,  and  his  onions  would  have  done 
finely.  Onions  should  be  sown  on  the 
same  ground  year  after  year,  as  they  con- 
tinue to  improve.  There  are  yards  a  hun- 
drd  years  old,  and  their  yield  would  as- 
tonish the  common  grower.  The  tops 
wheni  cut  off  should  be  scattered  over  the 
ground  (do  not  leave  them  in  lumps)  as 
they  make  the  best  food  for  the  growing 
onions;  then  sow  salt,  and  put  on  a  coat 
of  manure .  Salt  is  not  much  of  a  fertil- 
izer in  itself,  though  plants  take  it  up,  as 
yoa  can  tell  by  tasting  and  by  the  stiff 
ening  and  glazing  of  straw  of  a  plant 
grown  in  a  salted  ground.  I  think  it 
acts  upon  and  assimilates  the  gross  mat- 
ter in  the  soil,  so  as  to  make  it  available 
food.  It  should  be  in  every  garden. — 
Cor.  London  Horticultural  Times. 

Poultry  need  lime  in  some  form;unles8 
it  is  provided  there  will  be  shelless  eggs 
and  weak  legs.  In  the  summer,  when  hens 
have  a  free  range,  they  will  be  able  to  pick 
up  a  generous  supply  in  their  rambles, but 
in  winter, when  the  ground  is  frozen  and 
covered  with  snow.lime  must  be  supplied. 
Shells,  bones  and  mortar  are  favorite 
foroDB  for  feeding  lime.  Some  farmers 
throw  a  great  mass  of  shells  into  the  road 
and  depend  upon  passing  teams  to  crush 
them.  Others  bake  the  shells  in  a  hot 
oven  and  then  crush;  when  thus  treated 
they  crush  easily,  and  seem  to  be  pre- 
ferred by  the  hens.  Old  plastering  or 
mortar  of  any  kind,  when  crushed,  will 
please  the  hens. 

One  of  the  first  things  to  do  at  this 
time  of  year  is  to  clear  from  the  grounds 
all  the  scattered  weeds,  some  of  which 
have  already  reached  a  foot  or  more  in 
height  and  are  beginning  to  form  seeds . 
By  promptly  eradicating  them,  a  numer- 
ous crop  another  year  may  bo  prevented. 
Single  plants  of  some  of  our  common 
weeds,  when  they  have  full  scope,  ripen 
several  thousand  seeds,  and  it  is  economy 
to  prevent  it  The  true  way  is  to  destroy 
weeds  before  they  reach  the  light,  when 
the  labor  is  small,  or  in  other  words,keep 
the  ground  always  perfectly  clean — it  is 
much  the  cheapest  in  the  end.  —  Country 
Gentleman . 

During  the  fall,  especially  when  ralna 
prevent  outdoor  work,  is  a  good  time  to 
overhaul  the  stables  to  see  that  cracks  are 
stopped,  BO  as  to  keep  out  the  cold  of 
coming  winter.  Oows  cannot  do  well  in 
cold  stables,  particularly  when  exposed 
to  draughts.  The  mangers,  ties,  box 
stalls  for  calving  cows  and  calves,  and 
the  bull  pens  should  be  put  in  order.  It 
is  also  a  good  plan  to  give  the  entire  sta- 
ble a  thorough  coat  of  whitewash, adding  a 
little  carbolic  acid  te  kill  any  vermin  that 
may  be  about. 

Small,  sound  potatoes  fed  to  horses  in 
connection  with  other  feed  will  be  found 
very  beneficial,  and  will  be  thankfully 
reAelted  bj  them.— .Form  JoimuU. 


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THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


OCTOBBR  20, 1887 


nfws  of  The  week 

THK   I'RKSIDENTIAL  JCNKKT. 

The  Presidential  party  left  Madison, 
Wis.,  Monday  morning,  and  arrived  at 
St.  Paul  at  5 :30  o'clock  in  the  afternoon. 
Along  the  route  they  were  welcomed  en- 
thusiastically by  the  citizens.  The  recep- 
tion given  them  by  the  city  of  St.  Paul 
was  very  cordial.but  was  rivalled  by  Min- 
neapolis. 

The  party  expressed  much  surprise  at 
the  beauty  and  magnitude  of  the  West 
as  observed  Wednesday  from  the  win- 
dows of  their  special  train.  Short  stops 
were  made  at  Sioux  City,  Omaha,  St.  Jo- 
seph and  elsewhere.  At  Kansas  City  a 
reception  was  held  and  in  the  evening 
there  was  a  procession  of  "the  priests  of 
Pallas"  and  a  ball. 

Qreat  preparations  were  made  at  Moun- 
tain Grove,  Mo  ,  to  salute  the  President's 
train.  Just  before  the  arrival  of  the  train 
a  fruit  jar  filled  with  powder  exploded, 
fatally  Injuring  two  young  men.  The 
train  did  not  stop,  and  the  party  passed 
on,  ignorant  of  the  sad  accident.  The 
President  and  party  reached  Memphis, 
Tenn.,  Friday  evening.  The  reception 
they  received  in  the  South  was  very  hear- 
ty. At  the  stations  on  the  way  from 
Kansas  City,  crowds  gathered  to  cheer  the 
visitors,  and,  if  possible,  to  grasp  the 
Presidential  hand. 

At  Memphis  Saturday  forenoon  Presi- 
dent Cleveland  was  formally  welcomed 
by  Judge  Ellett,  an  aged  gentleman. 
While  the  President  was  replying  Mr.El- 
lett  sank  down  in  his  place  and  expired. 
Three  men  were  also  drowned  in  the  riv- 
er during  the  display  of  fireworks  the  eve- 
ning before.  The  President's  party  went 
on  to  Nashville  and  spent  a  quiet  Sab- 
bath with  Gen.  W.  H.  Jackson  on  the 
celebrated  Belle  Meade  farm. 

CHICAGO . 

The  Chicago  Stock  Yards'  Company,  of 
Chicago,  filed  articles  of  incorporation 
with  the  Secretary  of  State  at  Springfield, 
HI .,  Friday.  The  obj  ect  is  *o  establish 
and  maintain  stock  yards,  etc,,  and  the 
capital  stock  is  $10, 500,000.  Robert  D. 
McFadden  and  William  A .  and  James  P. 
Gardner  are  the  incorporators. 

An  old  man  and  hie  wife  were  suffocat- 
ed and  burned  by  a  small  fire  caused  by 
the  breaking  of  a  kerosene  lamp. 

Cteorge  Francis  Train,  who  came  to  re- 
lease the  anarchists,  entertained  several 
audiences  with  his  crazy  babblings  until 
the  city  officers  perceived  the  anarchists 
preparing  to  follow  him,  when  their  meet- 
ings were  suppressed,  and  will  not  be  per- 
mitted until  after  Nov.  11th. 

The  International  Encampment  has 
been  attended  by  about  2,500  troops  and 
musicians  of  all  kinds,  and  four  sham 
battles  have  drawn  large  crowds;  but  the 
affair  has  been  in  large  degree  a  failure. 
Many  of  the  companies  have  gone  home 
and  hardly  any  will  remain  to  the  end. 

COUNTBY. 

The  Attorney  General  of  Texas  has 
rendered  a  decision  against  granting  a 
charter  to  the  Matador  Land  and  Cattle 
Company,  organized  in  Scotland  with  a 
capital  of  $2,000,000,  and  having  for  its 
object  the  securing  and  improving  of 
land  in  Texas. 

The  cotton  crop  of  the  United  States 
this  year  is  estimated  at  6,550,000  bales, 
against  6,505,000  bales  last  season. 

The  Greenback  nomination  for  Secre- 
tary of  State  of  New  York  has  been  ac- 
accepted  by  Thomas  K.  Beecher. 

The  funeral  services  over  the  remains 
of  Minister  Manning  were  held  in  Trinity 
Chapel,  New  York,  Friday  morning. 
Among  the  pall-bearers  were  Generals 
Sherman  and  Beauregard.  The  body  was 
sent  to  New  Orleans, where  the  interment 
will  take  place. 

Superintendent  Luckey  began  at  Pitts- 
burg Friday  the  examination  of  eleven 
Sisters  of  Charily,  who  have  petitioned 
for  certificates  to  teach  in  the  public 
schools.  The  afflalr  causes  much  com- 
ment in  religious  circles. 

Randolph  J.  Tucker,  of  Virginia,  has 
been  retained  in  the  case  of  the  Chicago 
anarchists.  It  is  the  general  opinion 
that  the  selection  of  the  able  Virginian 
as  an  associate  of  General  Pryor  was  ftn 
excellent  one,  as  Mr.  Tucker's  long  ser- 
vice aa  chairman  of  the  Judiciary  Com- 
mittee of  the  lower  House  of  Congress 
adds  weight  to  the  cause  he  is  to  advo- 
cate.     Black  and  Salomon,  the  Chicago 


lawyers,  were  last  week  consulting  with 
Pryor  and  Tucker  in  New  York  expect' 
ing  to  appeal  to  the  Supreme  Court  this 
week. 

ACCIDENTS,  BTC. 

Fire  broke  out  in  the  Northern  Ohio 
Insane  Asylum  at  Newburgh,  near  Cleve- 
land, Wednesday  evening.  A  high  wind 
prevailed  and  the  fiames  spread  with 
great  rapidity,  so  that  with  difficulty  the 
fire  was  prevented  from  reaching  the 
main  building,  where  675  patients  were 
confined.  The  greatest  consternation 
prevailed.and  a  great  horror  was  narrow- 
ly averted.  As  it  was  part  of  the  build- 
ing was  destroyed  and  six  incurable  in- 
mates lost  their  lives,  besides  two  others 
employed  in  the  asylum. 

The  Bryn  Mawr  Hotel,  a  great  Phila- 
delphia resort,  was  burned  Tuesday  morn- 
ing. All  the  guests  escaped, and  the  bag- 
gage was  also  saved. 

An  accommodation  train  on  the  Mis- 
souri Pacific  Railroad,  consisting  of  four 
passenger  coaches,  left  Independence, 
Mo.,  Thursday  morning  crowded  with 
passengers  for  Kansas  City.  Near  Rock 
Creek  station  the  accommodation  was 
telescoped  in  the  rear  by  the  Wichita  ex- 
press, consisting  of  eighteen  coaches,  all 
heavily  loaded.  A  lady  standing  on  the 
platform  of  the  station  was  killed  by  the 
debris  and  a  number  on  the  train  were 
severely  injured. 

At Kouts,  Ind, Monday  night, a  freight 
crashed  into  a  passenger  train  on  the 
Chicago  and  Atlantic  Road,  and  thirty 
persons  were  killed  or  burned  to  death . 
The  coaches  took  fire  and  the  unfortu- 
nates buried  in  the  debris  were  burned  up 
before  the  eyes  of  their  friends,  who 
could  do  nothing  for  them.  The  scenes 
were  heartrending.  An  entire  family  of 
six  persons  lost  their  lives.  A  rigid  exam- 
ination will  be  made. 

The  Pacific  Express  safe,  on  the  Iron 
Mountain  road,  was  robbed  between  Lit- 
tle Rock  and  the  Texas  line  of  about  $60,- 
000  An  old  and  trusted  messenger,  J. 
B.  Owens,  is  reported  missing,  and  de- 
tectives, it  is  said,  are  unable  to  trace 
him. 

Train-robbers  attacked  the  mail  car  at- 
tached to  the  Galveston,  Harrisburg  and 
San  Antonio  express,  near  El  Paso,  Tex- 
as, Friday  night,  with  dynamite  bombs. 
The  car  was  broken  to  pieces,  and  the 
agent  stunned.  His  senses  returned,  how- 
ever, and  he  filled  one  of  the  robbers  with 
bullets,  killing  him  instantly.  The  oth- 
ers of  the  gang  fled. 

Five  bandits  who  recently  abducted 
Senor  Berrera  in  Starr  county,  Texas,  and 
held  him  until  ransomed  by  the  payment 
of  $15,000,  are  reported  to  have  been 
caught  and  lynched. 

A  portable  saw-mill  exploded  Wednes- 
day eight  miles  from  Jackson,  Ohio  Two 
men  were  blown  to  pieces,  and  the  en- 
gine and  mill  were  utterly  ruined. 

FOBEION. 

At  a  meeting  of  anarchists  in  London, 
England,Friday  night,Prince  Krapotkine 
said  that  if  the  Chicago  anarchists  were 
executed  their  comrades  would  be  justi- 
fied in  avenging  their  death.  Stepniak, 
the  author  of  "Underground  Russia,"also 
made  a  speech. 

Quelito,  a  town  on  the  southern'  coast 
of  Mexico,  is  reported  to  have  been  de- 
stroyed by  a  storm,  during  which  many 
lives  were  lost.  The  entire  coffee  and 
orange  crops  in  Sinaloa  are  also  said  to 
have  been  destroyed. 

It  is  supposed  that  the  cities  of  San 
Bias  and  Mazatlan,  in  Mexico, were  part- 
ly or  wholly  destroyed  by  the  recent  hur- 
ricane and  tidal  wave,  which  are  said  to 
have  been  the  most  severe  ever  known. 
Thousands  of  people  at  Guaymas  are 
anxiously  awaiting  tidings  from  the  fated 
towns. 

The  relations  between  Germany  and 
Russia  are  becoming  more  embittered.  No 
mask  is  now  worn  on  either  side .  The 
press  of  St.  Petersburg  and  Moscow  is 
now  permitted  to  indulge  in  its  natural 
disposition  to  abuse  the  Germans.  The 
inspired  press  is  not  backward  in  respond- 
ing in  kind.  Diplomatic  intercourse  be- 
tween the  two  governments  is  limited  to 
unavoidable  communications,  which  are 
exchanged  with  frigid  civilities.  The 
C/ar  will  return  to  St.  Petersburg  on  the 
18ih  inst.,  and  will  go  thence  to  Moscow. 
The  official  expectance  is  that  he  will  de- 
nounce the  Berlin  treaty,  claiming  entire 
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A  New  Anti-masonic 
League 8 

Preaching  on  Boston  Com- 
mon      8 

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vention      8 

Personal  Mention 8 

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VacclDatlDs;  Acalnst  the 
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A  Missionary  H^mn  (Po- 
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The  Lord's  Day  8abbath.     2 

Sab  bath- breaking     by 

Train  and  Camp 3 

Sblectbd : 

Christ  Shut  Out 8 

Rbfokm  Nbws: 

Fmm  the  General  Agent; 
Up  and  Down  in  Ala- 
bama; From  the  Field; 
The  Iowa  State  Conven- 
tion  4,5 

Biblb  Lbsson 6 


Cobkb9pot»dwwob  : 
The  W.  C  T  U.  and  Good 
TemplarlROi;  National 
Reform  Work  in  East- 
ern New  York;  Brother 
Gault  and  National  Re- 
form; The  Old  Masonic 
Argument  in  Southern 
Callf.jrniH;  Standlogfor 
Christ:  Pith  and  foint..5« 

Washington  Lkttbb 9 

Boston  Lbttbb 9 

Notices 9 

Farm  Notes 7 

The  N.  U.  A 7 

Church  vs.  LoDGB 7 

i.bctubb  list 7 

Tbb  Home 10 

Temperance 11 

Religious  Nbws 12 

Literature 12 

lodge  Notes 18 

Home  and  Health 14 

In  Brief    15 

Mews  Oir  THB  Wbbk 1ft 

Markets 13 


The  suit  brought  by  the  United  States  in  the  Su- 
preme Court  of  Utah  to  appoint  a  receiver  for  the 
property  of  the  Mormon  church  was  argued  last 
week,  and  the  country  eagerly  waits  for  the  result. 
The  District  Attorney  is  assisted  by  theU.  S.  Attor- 
ney of  Colorado,  and  a  strong  case  is  made  against 
the  Mormons  under  the  statute  of  1862,  which  pro- 
vided that  the  property  of  the  church  should  be  lim- 
ited to  $50,000.  Governor  West  in  his  annual  re- 
port attacks  the  late  constitutional  convention  as 
promising  nothing  against  the  institutions  of  Mor- 
monism. 


The  Good  Templars  are  unwilling  to  let  go  the  ad- 
vantage they  had  in  the  Prohibition  party  through 
John  B.  Finch,  and  are  making  all  possible  use  of 
his  memory.  They  proclaim  a  three  months'  mourn- 
ing season,  wherein  all  members  of  the  order  are  to 
wear  crape  on  their  sleeves — "duHng  the  whole  of 
that  time,"  reads  the  order.  They  have  arranged  a 
memorial  service  in  Chicago  on  the  evening  of  No- 
vember 30lh,  following  the  meeting  of  the  National 
Prohibition  Committee  and  preceding  the  general 
conference.  Dr.  Talmage.who  has  proved  himself  a 
suppliant  agent  of  the  lodge.has  been  asked  to  make 
the  address.  But,  most  unhappy  stroke  of  all,  Miss 
Willard  has  been  persuaded  to  issue  a  call  to  all  the 
local  W.  C.  T.  Unions  in  her  great  army  of  women 
that  they  all  hold  memorial  services  and  fill  the 
land  with  mourning  for  a  man  whom  their  cause 
had  much  reason  to  dread. 


The  negligence  of  Attorney-General  Bradford  of 
Kansas  to  attend  to  cases  involving  the  legality  of 
the  prohibitory  laws  of  his  State,  which  we  noticed 
last  week,  has  a  very  serious  side.  Should  the  case 
go  by  default,  and  a  Judgment  be  entered  for  the 
saloons,  it  would  saddle  upon  prohibition  the  bur- 


den of  paying  for  the  distilleries,  breweries  and  sa- 
loon stock.  Mr.  Samuel  W.  Packard,  an  able  law- 
yer and  prohibitionist,and  Anti-mason  also,  marked 
the  danger  and  hastened  immediately  to  Washing- 
ton hoping  to  postpone  the  judgment  on  the  Kansas 
case  until  one  could  also  be  brought  up  from  Iowa 
and  the  two  argued  on  their  merits.  Mr.  Bradford 
will  perhaps  be  given  another  chance,as  the  Supreme 
Court  is  unwilling  so  important  a  case  should  be  de- 
cided until  all  the  arguments  are  heard.  It  is  ru- 
mored that  the  opinions  are  already  written  revers 
ing  the  decisions  of  the  State  courts  and  unfavora- 
ble to  prohibition. 


The  Illinois  Masonic  Grand  Lodge  met  a  few  days 
since  in  Central  Music  Hall  in  this  city.  Several 
years  ago  when  they  met  in  the  same  hall  there  was 
great  indignation  on  the  part  of  the  managers  at 
the  filthy  and  disgusting  condition  of  their  premi- 
ses when  the  Masons  were  gone.  The  same  tobacco- 
saturated  crowd  filled  thecorroders  this  year.  Rev. 
H.  W,  Thomas,  D.  D.,  ejected  some  years  since  from 
the  Rock  River  Conference  for  heresy,  did  the  relig- 
ous  part  of  the  meeting,  and  was  reappointed  Grand 
Chaplain.  The  Grand  Master  in  his  report  ap- 
proved the  expulsion  of  McGarigle  and  his  fellow- 
boodlers.  Tne  ekctiou  resulted  in  putting  Gen. 
John  C.  Smith  in  the  East  as  Grand  Master.  Some 
weeks  ago  the  Cynosure  called  attention  to  his  prob- 
able election  and  its  bearing  on  his  well-known  aspi- 
rations to  succeed  Gov.  Oglesby.  The  people  of 
Illinois  have  had  enough  of  these  lodge-made  poli- 
ticians, and  they  should  say  so  with  emphasis. 


The  interest  4aken  by  the  public  in  the  matter  of 
international  arbitration  has  had  some  impetus  from 
the  visit  of  Mr.  Jones,  M,  P  ,  to  President  Cleveland 
and  by  his  addresses  in  sevpral  of  our  large  cities. 
His  visit  to  Chicago  was  ill-managed.  The  press 
reports  of  his  address  were  liberal  but  the  audience 
was  small.  If,  however,  there  was  little  positive  in- 
terest in  the  noble  cause  he  represented,  there  was 
some  in  the  wretched  picture  of  war  which  some 
respectable  citizens  of  Chicago  attempted  to  paint 
in  a  West  Side  driving  park,  where  the  remnants  of 
the  much  advertised  International  Encampment  were 
being  turned  over  to  a  receiver,  so  as  to  save  a  few 
shillings  to  divide  among  the  mad  creditors.  The 
aflfiir  was  run  on  wind  until  it  fairly  blew  out.  A 
subscription  guaranteeing  all  payments  was  made 
up  on  the  poorest  kind  of  promises,  and  the  business 
men  whose  names  were  down  refuse  to  pay  because 
false  pretenses  were  employed.  The  whole  affair 
was  a  notorious  and  beautiful  lailure,  and  it  will  be 
many  a  day  before  Chicago  men  attempt  to  raise 
money  by  sham  battles  and  sham  camps. 


The  labor  party  labors  like  the  mountain  to  pro- 
duce a  political  "boom,"  but  has  yet  brought  forth 
nothing  but  mice.  At  Springfield,  Illinois,  a  few 
people  met  a  few  days  since  as  a  National  Industri- 
al Reform  convention  and  adopted  a  platform  which 
included  prohibition,  woman  suffrage,  national  own- 
ership of  railways  and  telegraphs,  arbitration, heavy 
taxation  of  unused  land.direct  vote  of  the  people  for 
ail  public  offices,  the  distribution  of  one  cent  per 
month  for  each  inhabitant  from  the  U.  S.  treasury 
to  be  used  for  internal  improvements,  the  printing 
of  $1,200,000,000  to  redeem  outstanding  U  S  bonds, 
ihat  all  laws  be  ratified  by  the  people,  and  that  the 
Government  provide  a  home  for  all  homeless  and 
worthy  families.  Mrs,  Belva  Lockwood  of  Wash- 
ington presided  over  the  committee  which  formulat- 
ed this  remarkable  document,  and  the  inevitable  Dr. 
Kirby  turned  up  in  time  to  be  made  chairman  of  the 
meeting,  while  two  of  the  four  names  with  which  we 
are  acquainted  are  B.  G.  Haskell,  an  anarchist,  late 
of  San  Francisco,  now  running  a  revolutionary  sheet 
in  Denver,  and  old  mother  Emiline  B.  Wells,  the 
high  priestess  of  Mormonism  and  editor  of  the  wo- 
man's organ  of  that  infamous  system,  whose  two 
daughters  with  the  young  reprobate  John  Cannon 
are  famous  examples  of  Mormon  piety.  This  pie- 
bald convention  closed  with  a  ranting,  ridiculous 
speech  by  the  crazy  George  Francis  Train.  Any 
cause  would  make  itself  scandalous  by  such  a  meet- 


ing. Another  labor  party  meeting  is  incubating  at 
St.  Louis  to  be  held  in  December,  and  to  harmonize 
all  the  conflicting  elements  under  a  new  name  which 
may  be  National  Free  Soil  party.  Labor  is  true  no- 
bility, but  most  of  our  labor  agitators,  so-called,  are 
ignorant  and  blind  followers  of  self-interest. 

The  Chicago  anarchist  case  was  argued  in  the 
United  States  Supreme  Court  last  Friday.  Roger 
A.  Pryor,  Randolph  Tucker,  Ben,  Butler  and  two 
Chicago  lawyers  appeared  before  Justice  Harlan, 
who  informed  them  that  to  save  time  the  whole  couit 
would  hear  their  argument.  Pryor  spoke  while  the 
others  assisted  by  suggestions.  It  is  not  the  cus- 
tom to  admit  the  public  to  hearings  in  the  chambers; 
but  when  Justice  Harlan  arrived  at  his  room  and 
was  informed  that  parties  had  asked  leave  to  be 
present,  he  replied:  "Certainly,  let  them  all  come  in 
if  they  can  get  in.  The  Supreme  Court  has  no  se- 
crets. The  Chief  Justice  limited  the  lawyers  to  a 
single  point.  "The  only  question  for  this  court," 
said  he,  "is  whether  the  Illinois  statute  was  consti- 
tutional. If  the  lower  court  erred  in  its  administra- 
tion of  the  statute  that  is  a  question  for  the  State 
courts."  The  State  court  has  already  affirmed  the 
judgment  of  Judge  Gary,  and  the  case  is  brought 
within  a  narrow  limit.  Having  presented  their  case 
the  lawyers  were  dismissed  until  Monday;  but  At- 
torney General  Hunt  of  Illinois  havingbeen  sum- 
moned that  the  argument  of  the  State  may  be  heard 
the  decision  is  not  expected  until  the  last  of  the 
week.  The  opinion  prevails  that  the  decisions  of 
the  courts  here  will  not  be  disturbed,  and  the  law  will 
take  its  course.  Large  ncass  meetings  were  held 
last  week  in  this  city,  New  York  and  Boston,  but  no 
public  sympathy  hss  been  aroused  outside  of  well- 
known  anarchist  circles. 


VACOINATINO  AGAINST   THE  SMALL-POX 
OF  8E0HICT1SM. 


BT  JOBL   8WABTZ,   D.    D. 


A  recent  number  of  The  Forum  contains  a  brill- 
iant and  spicy  argument  from  ex-President  Andrew 
D.  White  on  College  Fraternities,  reviewing  some 
of  the  objections  which  many  of  the  wisest  educa- 
tors have  alleged  against  their  feature  of  secretism. 
The  ex  President  is  no  apologist,  as  I  understand, 
for  secret  organizations  in  general  and  on  principle. 
He  rather  deplores  them,  and  admits  that  a  bitter 
enemy  hit  the  point  when  he  likened  secretism  to 
smallpox. 

But  President  White  seems  to  me  to  miss  his 
point  when  he  allows  the  secretism  of  the  College 
Fraternity  as  a  prophylactic  against  the  grosser  in- 
fection of  lodgery.  He  says  the  Fraternity  "might 
perhaps  be  considered  as  a  vaccination."  Were  it 
not  nearer  the  truth  to  regard  it  as  an  inoculation  f 

The  ex-President's  remedy  seems  to  me  to  be  like 
the  vaccinating  against  drunkenness  which  those 
"true  temperance,"  "personal-liberty"  men,  the 
brewers  and  vintners,  are  pleading  for,  who  want  to 
flood  the  country  with  beer  and  wine  so  as  to  wash 
out  the  uncleanness  of  the  brandy  and  whisky  de- 
bauch. They  are  terribly  down  on  the  stronger 
drinks  because  they  provide  and  want  to  sell  the  so- 
called  milder  ones.  Some  have  been  deluded  by 
the  sophistry,  as  plausible  as  Mr.  W'lite'a,  but  when 
confronted  with  the  facts,  many,  like  the  distin- 
guished Dr.  Holland  (Timothy  Titcomh),  have  aban- 
doned the  theory  as  vicious  and  deluding. 

If  it  is  really  desired  to  protect  our  young  men 
against  the  abominations  of  the  oath-bound  organ- 
izations, it  is  not  well  to  attach  to  the  inceptive 
steps  which  tend  that  way  the  powerful  and  seduc- 
tive influences  which  the  aid  and  prestige  of  great 
educational  institutions  certainly  atf  jrd.  What  is 
the  chief  fascination  of  the  lodge  anyhow  but  the 
glamour  of  its  grandiloquent  titles?  Why.  a  plain, 
simple  soul  who  has  never  borne  a  more  distinguish- 
ing name  among  his  fellows  than  John  or  Tom 
Smith,  swells  with  an  intumescent  consequence  nigh 
to  bursting  when  he  finds  himself  haikd  as  "Most 
Worshipful,"  "Most  Sublime,"  "Past  Grand"  and 
the  reat. 


2 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYWOSUKE. 


October  27,  188t 


Now  add  to  this  the  dizzying  idea  that  he  is  stand- 
ing on  the  "Pinnacle  of  the  Temple"  of  learning, 
away  up  among  the  graduates  and  faculties,  and  he 
imagines  his  head  is  among  the  stars.  Church, 
chapel,  prayer  hall — why  these  are  common-place 
vulgarities  compared  with  his  eminence.  Vaccina- 
tion! It  is  the  first  step  on  the  glorious  ladder  that 
leads  up  among  those  nobilities  of  the  lodge,  the 
Grands,  the  Worshipfuls,  and  those  in  the  seventh 
heaven  still  above.  As  well  might  our  peace-loving 
Quakers  expect  to  eliminate  the  martial  spirit,  seem- 
ingly inherent  in  our  blood,  by  furnishing  our  chil- 
dren with  gaudy  paper  caps,  crimson  plumes,  drums 
and  cornstalk  rifles,  as  for  college  presidents  and 
other  teachers  of  youth  to  extirpate  the  rage  for 
lodgery  by  fostering  fraternities  in  connection  with 
their  education.  Like  inoculation,  the  remedy  is 
better  calculated  to  produce  the  disease  than  like 
vaccination  to  prevent  or  moderate  it. 

Gettythurg,  Pa. 

A  ilI88I01^AR7  HYMN. 


BY  THOMAS  HODGE. 


Put  on  the  whole  armor  of  God.— Eph.  6: 12-18. 
Fight  the  good  fight  of  faith.— 1  Tim  6:  12. 

Souls  who  have  to  Jesus  fled,  Heb.  6 :  18-20. 

Souls  who  are  by  Jesus  led,  Rom.  8 :  14. 

Welcome  to  death's  likeness  bed,  Rom.  6:  3-5. 

And  rise  to  victory !  1  Cor.  15 :  55-57. 

Now's  the  day  and  now's  the  hour,  2  Cor.  6 :  2. 

Gospel  blessings  freely  shower,  Eph,  1 :  3. 

March,  defy  Apollyon's  power.  Rev.  9: 11. 

Charge,  your  Captain  leads !  Heb  2 :  10. 

Who  would  be  a  traitor  knave?  Matt.  26:  48. 

Who  would  fill  a  hopeless  grave?  Acts  1:  18, 19. 

Who  of  sin  would  be  the  slave?  John  8:  34. 

In  darkness  and  despair.  Luke  13:  27,88. 

Who  for  God's  dear  Son  and  law,       Mark  9 :  7. 
The  Spirit's  sword  will  strongly  draw,Eph.  6 :  17. 
Free  man  in  Christ  to  stand  or  fa',     Phil.  1 :  21. 
Soldier  of  Christ,  come  on  1       Rom.  8 :  37. 

By  Satanic  woes  and  pains,  1  Cor.  6 :  9, 10. 

By  our  world  in  rebel  chains,  Eph.  2:  2,  3. 

Christ's  own  banners  each  maintains.  Matt.  28 :  19,  20. 
Mankind  must  be  free !  1  Cor.  15:  25. 


Lay  the  false  impostors  low. 
Trophies  of  grace  win  as  you  go. 
Salvation  is  in  every  blow. 

The  risen  Christ  is  King ! 


Gal.  1:7,8. 
Mark  16:  16. 
Rom.  1 :  16. 
Rev.  19:16. 


TEB  LORD'S  DAT  SABBATH. 


TWELVE   ARGUMENTS  FOR   THE  CHANGE  OF  THE  DAY. 


BY   REV.   J.    S.    T.   MILLIOAN. 


1.    Tlie  change  was  possible. 

The  strength  of  the  Sabbatarian  (or  Seventh-day) 
argument  is  that  Divine  law  is  unchangeable.  This 
is  the  main  reliance.  It  is  true  that  some  laws  are 
of  such  a  nature  and  character,  and  so  in  harmony 
with  the  nature  of  God  and  the  nature  of  things 
that  they  are  called  "moral  natural,"  and  are  consid- 
ered unchangeable.  But  many  other  laws  are  so 
related  to  changeable  things  that  they  are  called 
"moral  positive"  and  may  be  changed  in  form  or 
abolished  altogether.  The  whole  ceremonial  and 
typical  system  was  of  this  character,  and  has  passed 
away  or  has  been  adjusted  to  the  new  dispensation. 
Circumcision  has  been  changed  into  baptism  and  the 
Passover  into  the  Lord's  Supper. 

The  admission  is  freely  made  that  the  great  body 
of  the  Decalogue  is  "moral  natural"  law  and  un- 
changeable. But  the  precise  time  of  the  Sabbath 
is  so  manifestly  changeable  that  it  changes  with 
eirery  degree  of  longitude  in  its  hours,  and  the  day 
itself  is  changed  in  the  circumference  of  the  earth. 
There  is  no  man  living  that  knows  when  the  law  was 
first  enunciated,  or  what  precise  time  corresponds  to 
the  time  of  the  first  Sabbath.  The  first  day  maybe 
nearer  than  the  seventh,  and  the  second  nearer  than 
the  first.  Hence  a  change  may  be  made  in  Ihe  rela- 
tive matter  of  Sabbath  time,  without  any  violence 
done  to  the  absolute  obligation  of  Sabbath  service. 
The  change  is  also  possible  in  the  addition  of  a 
more  important  creation  work.  This  possibility 
may  have  its  development  in  the  material  earth,  or 
in  man's  body  or  spirit  or  both,  and  the  luster  and 
value  of  the  new  may — not  tosay  must — be  a  warrant 
for  some  change  of  time  and  method  suited  to  that 
"which  exceeds  in  glory." 

2.  The  change  was  necessary.  To  this  we  are 
brought  by  the  presumption  of  the  prior  argument. 
The  original  dispensation  of  nature  allowed  a  fall 
that  made  "the  whole  creation  groan  and  travail  in 
pain."  The  stars  have  been  turned  into  darkness 
and  the  moon  into  blood.     "The  gold  in  man's  char- 


acter has  become  dim  and  the  most  fine  gold 
changed."  Sin  has  brought  death  and  all  our  woes 
into  the  world.  Man  has  become  dead  in  trespasses 
and  sins,  and  the  ground  is  cursed  for  man's  sake — 
and  all  this  that  there  might  be  a  new  and  grander 
display  of  the  Creator's  power  and  wisdom  and  grace. 
The  new  heavens  and  new  earth;  the  new  creature 
in  man  himself,  made  of  "incorruptible  seed  that 
liveth  and  abideth  forever,"  "the  life  more  abun- 
dant"— "the  far  more  exceeding,"  even  the  "eternal 
weight  of  glory"  that  shall  be  revealed  in  us,  that 
shall  change  all  time  and  eternity  itself  into  an  un- 
ceasing Sabbath,  should  be  considered,  and  is  con- 
sidered worthy  of  Sabbattic  recognition  and  celebra- 
tion. Hence  Paul  in  Hebrews  4:  10,  says,  in  most 
unquestioned  reference  to  Christ  und  his  work:  "For 
he  that  is  entered  into  his  rest,  he  also  hath  ceased 
from  his  own  works  as  God  did  from  his."  Eleventh 
verse:  "Let  us  labor,  therefore,  to  enter  into  that 
rest."  This  last,  grandest,  even  saving  work  of  Christ 
is  here  certainly  urged  as  an  obligation  to  enter  into 
his  rest.  This  work  and  glory  is  all-comprehending, 
and  while  it  fulfills  the  law  in  one  sense,  becomes  a 
law  in  another,  "so  that  we  are  not  without  law  to 
God,  but  under  the  law  to  Christ." 

3.  Christ  was  competent  to  m.ake  the  change.  This 
is  by  the  Saviour  himself  claimed  in  his  language, 
Mark  2:  28:  "Therefore,  the  Son  of  man  is  Lord  also 
of  the  Sabbath." 

Having  in  the  preceding  verse  asserted  that  Sab- 
bath law  was,  in  its  earliest  and  strongest  form,  so 
subordinated  to  man's  interest.for  whom  it  was  made, 
as  well  as  for  the  glory  of  God,  that  its  operation 
might  be  suspended  in  cases  of  necessity  and  mercy, 
in  this  verse  Christ  declares  its  subordination  to 
himself  as  the  Mediator  and  Saviour.  This  involves 
a  true  principle  of  Christian  philosophy  that 
Christ,  who  satisfied  the  law  or  fufilled  it  on 
our  behalf,  can  not  only  free  us  from  some  of  its  jots 
and  tittles,  but  from  the  burden  of  its  obligation 
and  penalty.  He,  then,  who  "is  the  end  (fulfillment) 
of  the  law  for  righteousness  to  those  that  believe," 
authorized  his  apostle  to  say  to  believers:  "Ye  are 
not  under  the  law,  but  under  grace."  This  must  needs 
be  exhibited  in  some  form  of  our  moral  obligations, 
that  it  might  be  evident  we  "are  under  the  law  to 
Christ."  The  "moral  positive,"  or  relative  feature 
of  the  Fourth  Commandment  in  reference  to  the  day 
was  the  salient  point  for  the  em  phasing  of  the  fact 
that  Christ  is  Lord  of  the  Sabbath  day.  His  char- 
acter, then,  both  as  Lord  and  Lawgiver,  make  him 
entirely  competent  to  the  change. 

4.  The  change  was  predicted. 

In  this  matter  we  have  one  of  the  few  instances 
in  which  we  have  interpretation  of  prophecy  that  is 
inspired.  Paul  in  Heb.  4:  7,  after  having  spoken  of 
the  seventh  day  in  the  fourth  verse  as  the  creation 
Sabbath  and  in  the  fifth  verse  of  the  Jewish  Sab- 
bath by  quoting  from  Psa.  95:  11,  says  the  Spirit  of 
God  spoke  by  David  of  another  day  in  Psa.  95:  7, 
in  the  language,  "to-day,  if  ye  will  hear  his  voice." 
Paul  not  only  quotes  this  language  in  Heb.  3:  15  as 
a  test  of  being  partakers  with  Christ,  but  twice  in 
this  verse  to  make  it  emphatic  that  the  prediction 
by  David  was  fulfilled  by  a  new  Sabbath  day. 

It  is  important  in  this  connection  to  note  that 
there  are  three  Sabbath  dispensations  alluded  to  by 
Paul  in  this  chapter:  the  creation  Sabbath  as  a  cov- 
enant of  works  on  the  seventh  day;  the  Jewish  Sab- 
bath given  on  Sinai,  introduced  by  Joshua  in  Ca- 
naan, Heb.  4:8;  then  the  Christian  Sabbath  as 
Christ's  rest,  Heb  4:  10,  predicted  by  David,  Psa. 
95:7,  quoted  and  explained  by  Paul,  Heb.  4:  7. 
This  was  in  each  instance  a  sign  of  the  covenant, 
the  first  two  using  the  seventh  day,  the  last  having, 
as  Paul  says,  "another  day." 

We  have  also  in  the  118th  Psalm,  24th  verse,  a 
clear  historico-prophetic  allusion  to  a  Sabbath  day 
which  he  identifies  with  the  stone  (Christ)  being 
made  head  of  the  comer.  "This  is  the  day  the  Lord 
hath  made;  we  will  rejoice  and  be  glad  in  it."  Here 
is  not  merely  the  rest  but  the  day  alluded  to.  In 
Kzek.  43:  27,  the  prophet  sums  up  the  New  Testa- 
ment features  of  Divine  ordinances  by  saying,  "And 
when  these  days  are  expired,  it  shall  be  that  on  the 
eighth  day  and  so  forward  the  priests  shall  make 
your  burnt  offerings  upon  the  altar  .  .  .  and  I  will 
accept  you,  saith  the  Lord  God."  This  three-fold 
cord  of  prophecy  cannot  be  broken. 

5.  The  change  it  recorded  and  the  third  Sabbath  in- 
troduced by  name. 

The  argument  that  the  first  day  is  never  so  much 
as  called  Sabbath  is  very  plausible,  and  with  many 
conclusive.  The  defect  of  our  English  version  is 
very  injurious  in  this  matter.  But  if  the  idiom  of 
the  Greek  language  had  been  properly  understood 
and  rendered  into  English,  there  had  been  no  Sab- 
bath question  and  controversy. 

In  Matt.  28:  1,  the  Spirit  of  God  by  Matthew 
teaches  an  end  of  Sabbaths,  by  the  words  "'opse  d 


Sahhatoon,  the  word  Sabbatoon  being  in  the  genitive 
plural,  must  either  be  rendered  "weeks"  or  "Sab- 
baths." But  Sabbaths  is  the  original  and  essential 
idea  of  the  term,  and  where  used  even  in  the  sense 
of  weeks  (which  it  never  is  in  the  plural  either  in 
Septuagint  or  New  Testament  Greek)  it  refers  to 
that  which  is  marked  by  Sabbath  and  begins  and 
ends  with  rest  on  the  Sabbattic  idea.  Thus  the  pri- 
mary, natural  and  almost  universal  meaning  is  Sab- 
baths. 

Then  the  fact  that  there  was  a  creation  Sabbath 
and  a  Jewish  Sabbath,  as  Paul  shows  in  Heb.  4, 
makes  the  statement  clear  and  unmistakable.  It 
was  the  end  or  fulfillment  of  the  covenant  of  works 
and  the  typico-gracious  fovenant  of  Sinai,  with 
their  "signs,"  in  a  Sabbath.  These  covenants  Christ 
came  to  fulfill  and  terminate  in  the  interest  of  sal- 
vation, and  if  he  did  what  he  came  to  do,  viz.,  "ful- 
fill all  righteousness,  he  fulfilled  these  Sabbaths  or 
signs  of  these  covenants.  Then  we  have  the  state- 
ment, "as  it  began  to  dawn"  {eis  mian  Sabbatoon) 
toward  "the  one  of  Sabbaths."  This  may  be  pecul- 
iar language,  but  it  is  very  emphatic;  the  numeral 
being  cardinal  (one)  and  not  ordinal  (first),  the 
noun  being,  in  every  case  of  the  seven  it  is  em- 
ployed, omitted,  the  adjective  virtually  becomes  a 
substantive  and  should  be  rendered  "the  one."  Then 
we  have  "Sabbatoon,"  the  very  same  word  used  in 
the  preceding  clause,  and  always  with  two  excep- 
tions rendered  Sabbath  in  the  New  Testament  and 
always  in  the  Septuagint;  those  in  the  New  Testa- 
ment being  in  the  singular  and  translated  "week." 

Then  the  conclusion  becomes  most  clear  that  we 
have  in  this  verse  the  record  of  the  termination  of 
the  two  prece  ing  Sabbath  institutions,  and  the  in- 
troduction of  a  third,  which  is  not  only  Sabbattic  in 
its  nature  but  in  its  name:  and  this  is  rendered  even 
more  certain  from  the  general  use  of  Sabbatoon  to 
indicate  this  day. 

6.  Our  sixth  argument  is,  the  day  was  observed 
by  the  apostles  as  a  Sabbath  day.  They  met  upon 
it  and  used  it  for  orayer,  preaching  and  sacramental 
purposes  (Acts  20:  7).  "This  course  was  followed 
by  most  of  the  early  Christians,  some  observing  it 
exclusively,  others  observing  it  with  the  seventh 
day,  until  the  minds  of  Christians  became  so  con- 
vinced of  the  propriety  of  its  observance  that  it  be- 
came substantially  universal;  and  we  only  wonder 
that  any  one  with  the  Spirit  of  Christ  and  in  the 
mind  of  Christ  can  fail  of  esteeming  and  using  this 
day  as  the  most  precious  of  all  time,  and  the  guar- 
antee and  pledge  of  the  future  life. 

7.  It  was  blessed  as  a  Sabbath. 

(1)  By  the  presence  of  Christ  with  his  disciples. 
How  uniformly  he  made  his  appearance  to  them  on 
this  day  is  one  of  the  most  important  facts  of  the 
Gospel  narrative.  Their  eyes  were  sure  to  be  greet- 
ed with  this  blessed  vision  as  they  met  to  observe 
this  Holy  day;  and  how  often  has  the  eye  of  faith 
beheld  the  crucified  one  in  sanctuary  service  on  this, 
"the  one  of  Sabbaths." 

(2)  By  the  gift  of  his  Spirit.  For  this  they  waited, 
and  did  not  wait  in  vain.  For  forty-nine  days  they 
watched  and  prayed  for  "power  from  on  high,"  and 
the  Pentecostal  shower  at  length  came.  The  fiery 
baptism  was  an  event  most  anxiously  awaited,  most 
graciously  vouchsafed,  and  most  thankfully  enjoyed. 
Who  can  fail  to  see  that  the  grant  of  such  a  boon 
would  make  the  day  as  memorable  as  the  grace  of 
God  itself.  This  Lord's  day,  made  so  precious  to 
John  on  Patmos  by  his  being  "much  in  the  Spirit," 
has  been  ever  since  a  day  of  gracious  bestowments, 
and  "the  day  of  all  the  week  the  best"  on  that  ac- 
count. 

8.  Its  privileges  are  guaranteed. 

Paul  in  Col.  11:  16  says,  "Let  no  man  judge  you 

in  respect  to  the  Sabbaths."     If  here  we  were 

to  be  limited  by  Judaizing  teachers;  if  the  consum- 
mated work  of  our  precious  Saviour  was  not  allowed 
to  be  magnified  in  our  view,  and  celebrated  on  our 
Sabbath,  the  zest  of  our  joy  would  be  taken  away, 
and  the  zeal  of  our  service  much  diminished.  Chris- 
tian liberty  and  service  both  need  and  are  secured 
the  felicity  of  triumphant  joy  in  the  Saviour  and  his 
work.  We  then  feel  sure  that  however  men  may 
judge  in  this  matter,  and  of  us  concerning  it,  the 
Judge  of  all  the  earth  will  judge  favorably  those 
who  by  Sabbattic  rest  honor  him  and  his  day. 

9.  The  duty  to  enter  into  Christ's  rest  is  commanded. 
In  Heb.  4:  11  the  great  Apostle  of  the  Gentiles, 

in  the  form  of  entreaty,  but  with  all  the  force  of 
command,  requires  us  to  "labor  to  enter  into  that 
rest,"  referring,  doubtless,  to  the  rest  into  which 
Christ  has  entered,  "having  ceased  from  his  own 
work  as  God  did  from  his." 

The  last  clause  here  makes  it  evident  that  the 
analogy  is  designed  between  the  creation  and  the  re- 
demption Sabbaths.  True,  our  critics  may  say  it  is 
hatapausin  in  the  Greek,  and  not  Sabbatoon.  But 
^hey  gain  nothing,  for  this  word  involves  the  princi 


October  27,  1887 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSUKE3. 


j)le  of  Sabbath  observance,  and  the  form  is  alluded 
to  in  the  preceding  verse  (9th),  when  the  word  ren- 
dered rest  is  sahhatumos,  a  sabbath-keeping  (see  mar- 
gin). True,  these  passages  have  been  understood 
and  explained  in  reference  to  heaven,  but  the  use 
of  either  of  these  terms  gives  no  warrant,  nor  does 
the  context,  and  the  fourth  and  tenth  verses  un- 
doubtedly refer  to  the  Sabbath. 

10.  The  acceptance  of  this  day  is  urged,  Heb.  4: 
1:  "Let  us,  therefore,  fear  lest  a  promise  being  left 
us  of  entering  into  his  rest,  any  of  you  should  seem 
to  come  short  of  it."  The  term,  "His  rest,"  must, 
in  the  light  of  Heb.  3:  14,  be  understood  of  Christ's 
rest,  for  we  are  made  partakers  with  him  in  this,  as 
in  all  other  matters.  TAe  promise  alluded  to  is  con- 
tained in  the  prophecies  already  quoted.  The  main 
one  in  the  95th  Psalm  being  quoted  in  both  chapters. 
The  failure  of  unbelieving  Jews,  to  enter  under 
Joshua  into  the  Jewish  dispensation  and  Sabbath  in 
Canaan,  being  used  as  a  warning. 

11.  The  very  general  acceptance  of  the  change. 
This  should  carry  with  it  very  great  weight.     We 

would  not  despise  the  views  of  a  very  small  minor- 
ity. But  when  the  majority  is  so  overwhelming, 
eminent  men,  reformers,  churches  and  nations  with 
one  accord,  their  views  are  not  to  be  despised. 

12.  The  providences  of  God,  with  thunder  tone, 
have  made  the  observance  of  the  first  day  a  bless- 
ing and  its  violation  a  curse. 

It  would  certainly  be  passing  strange  if  the  God 
of  the  Sabbath  would  not  make  his  voice  to  be  heard 
and  his  will  to  be  known,  by  providential  tokens  in 
the  eighteen  centuries  of  the  Christian  Era.  How 
does  it  come  that  men  have  been,  and  communities 
have  been  so  blessed  in  temporal  and  spiritual 
things  with  the  load  of  guilt  upon  their  heads  which 
the  views  of  the  Sabbatarian  would  imply?  And, 
then,  it  has  been  noted  that  the  desecration  of  the 
Christian  Sabbath  has  been  followed  by  the  terrible 
judgment  of  fire  pronounced  in  Jer.  17:  27 — the 
great  London  fire  and  the  great  New  York  fire  of 
1836  following  the  repeal  of  Sabbath  laws.  The 
Chicago  fire,  the  Portland  and  the  Boston  fires  of 
more  recent  date,  and  commencing  on  the  Sabbath, 
emphasize  God's  displeasure  at  the  violation  of  this 
precious  day  of  Sabbattic  rest  to  the  Christian  be- 
livers  and  the  ruling  Saviour. 

I  will  conclude  with  an  answer  to  a  few  objections. 

1.  "The  seventh  day  is  frequently  called  the  Sab- 
bath." This  no  one  denies.  It  was  so  called  be- 
cause it  was  the  Sabbath  during  the  whole  Jewish 
economy. 

2.  "The  first  day  is  never  called  Sabbath."  This 
is  the  mistake  of  our  translators.  It  is  called  Sab- 
bath seven  times  in  the  Greek  of  the  New  Testa- 
ment. 

3.  "The  seventh  is  still  called  Sabbath  under  the 
New  Testament."  This  is  because  it  is  still  a  legal 
Sabbath  to  the  Jew,  who  "is  a  debtor  to  keep  the 
whole  law,"  because  circumcised.  But  "we  are  not 
under  the  law  but  under  grace." 

4.  "The  command  was  to  keep  the  Sabbath  holy." 
This  we  obey  when  we  properly  observe  the  Chris- 
tian Sabbath. 

5.  "God  did  not  rest  the  first  day  as  he  did  the 
seventh."  True;  but  Christ  '^ceased  from  his  ovon 
work  as  God  did.  from  his."  Heb.  4:  10. 

6.  Christ  is  three  times  called  Lord  of  the  Sab- 
bath, to  show  his  right  to  alter  it. 

7.  "In  Matt.  28:  1,  they  are  referred  to  as  differ- 
ent days."  This  is  so  only  in  the  English  transla- 
tion. In  the  original  Greek  it  is  by  precisely  the 
same  word. 

8.  "The  meeting  of  the  disciples  on  the  first  day 
was  for  fear  of  the  Jews."  True,  because  the  keep- 
ing of  that  Sabbath  was  peculiarly  offensive  to  the 
Jews.     They,  therefore,  met  in  private. 

9.  "Breaking  bread,  Acts  20:  7,  does  not  mean 
the  Lord's  Supper."  It  does  when  associated  with 
preaching  and  prayer. 

10.  "Paul  kept  the  seventh  day."  He  only  made 
use  of  it  to  reach  the  Jews  in  synagogue  service. 
He  also  kept  the  first  day  by  preaching  to  Chris- 
tians. 

11.  "The  women  following  Jesus  kept  the  seventh 
day."     This  was  before  the  change. 

12.  "Christ  kept  the  seventh  day."  True,  it  was 
thus  he  fulfilled  the  law.  He  also  met  with  and 
blessed  his  disciples  on  the  first  day. 

13.  "There  is  no  special  command  to  keep  the  first 
day."  The  example  of  the  disciples  is  equivalent 
to  a  command,  but  the  command  is  made  specific  in 
Heb.  4:  1  and  11. 

14.  "The  Romish  church  changed  the  day."  This 
is  mere  assumption.  They  have  sense  enough  to 
keep  it,  as  they  do  many  other  New  Testament  or- 
dinances 


true,  but  we  obey  God  when  we  honor  Christ,  and 
follow  Christ's  example  and  enter  into  his  rest. 
North  Cedar,  Kansas. 


SABBATH  BREAKING  BY  TRAIN  AND  CAMP. 


BT   A    RAILWAY   AGENT. 


I  have  read  from  time  to  time  the  criticisms  in 
the  Cynosure  on  the  inconsistency  of  temperance 
and  other  reform  societies  in  the  matter  of  Sabbath- 
breaking  and  the  baneful  influence  this  has  on  soci- 
ety. I  am  surprised  to  find  any  difference  of  opin- 
ion among  earnest  Christian  people,  and  wish  to  tell 
you  what  I  know  on  this  subject,  from  an  outsider's 
observation. 

First,  I  will  say  that  I  was  always  a  strong  tem- 
perance min  and  observer  of  the  Sabbath,  from  edu- 
cation and  practice,  and  believe  it  unwise  to  make 
any  compromise  with  the  world,  which  is  always  so 
ready  to  take  advantage  of  the  least  encouragement 
in  these  matters.  In  the  capacity  of  railroad  agent 
I  have  been  in  a  position  to  quietly  weigh  these  in- 
consistencies, which  I  am  sure  count  more  for  evil 
than  good. 

As  a  matter  of  policy  railroad  companies  pretend 
to  observe  the  Sabbath;  and  do,  as  far  as  possible, 
stop  all  work,  except  the  running  of  through  trains 
and  excursions  to  satisfy  a  public  demand.       This 
demand  comes  mostly  through  churches  and  temper- 
ance organizations.      In  my  position  as  manager  of 
excursion  business  my  company  accepted  my  opin- 
ion and  abolished  all  excursion  business  except  of  a 
religious  character.    I  truly  believed  said  excursions 
were  productive  of  good,until  an  experience  of  three 
years  taught  me  otherwise.    I  was  surprised  and  dis- 
gusted.    Our  camp  grounds  and  park  were  in  use 
every  day  for  two  months  some  seasons;  and  I  say 
truthfully,  out  of  all  the  different  classes  of  people  I 
handled  (on  some  days  over  two  thousand)  the  relig- 
ious excursions  gave  us  the  most  trouble  and  annoy- 
ance.    This  may  have  come  in  part  from  the  fact 
that  we  relied  upon  their  moral  character  to  insure 
order.       But  there  is  a  reckless  class  in  every  com- 
munity who  are  sure  to  be  on  every  excursion  and 
at  every  camp-meeting.       These  are  the  "mashers," 
hucksters,   patrons  of  games  of  chance,  curiosity 
seekers  and  others,  all  of  whom  are  earnestly  look- 
ing out  for  prey  in  their  several  occupations,  and 
never  impressed  by  the  exercises,  of  whatever  fame 
the  speaker  may  be.       It  required  the  greatest  vigi- 
lance to  keep  down  this  element.     The  reputation  of 
the  company  was  at  stake,  to  say  nothing  of  the  im- 
position many  good  people  were  exposed  to.       One 
example  will  illustrate  it  better  than  anything  I  can 
say. 

On  the  Sabbath  J.  Ellen  Foster  spoke  to  three 
thousand  people.  We  noticed  drunken  men  here 
and  there,and  supposed  it  the  work  of  pocket  flasks; 
but  later  on  the  thing  became  too  general  for  such 
a  source  to  supply,  and,  watching  the  tide  of  a  cer- 
tain element  I  was  able  to  scent  it  near  a  water  mel- 
on pile,  and  there  lost  the  trail;  but  after  a  time  by 
the  aid  of  winks  and  nods  I  located  the  saloon  in- 
side of  the  melons,  sold  by  a  man  who  had  been 
keeping  lunch  stand  for  years  at  similar  meetings. 

Of  course  it  is  hard  to  control  such  things,  but, 
don't  the  occasion  furnish  greater  license  and  oppor- 
tunity to  such,  and  lessen  the  respect  for  the  day? 
While  much  good  may  be  done  in  the  way  of  reun- 
ions and  inspiring  discourses,  at  the  same  time  it 
is  necessary  to  have  a  mcmey-making  wing  to  the 
business  in  order  to  defray  necessary  expenses,  as 
they  say.  This  gives  an  air  of  business  to  the  occa- 
sion, which  in  the  eyes  of  the  world  lessens  its  re- 
spect, and  turns  the  day  into  a  day  of  frolic  for  the 
young.  Are  such  meetings  necessary  when  you  take 
into  consideration  the  character  they  give  to  the 
Sabbath? 

In  the  second  place,  it  is  my  candid  opinion,  if  it 
were  not  for  the  profits  the  occasion  offers,  there 
would  never  be  such  Sabbath-breaking.  I  have  been 
in  a  position  to  observe  all  tho  inside  workings  of 
these  meetings.  There  seems  to  be  one  object  with 
all  kinds  of  people — namely,  money.  The  same  is 
true  of  all  the  speakers,  from  those  of  greatest  na- 
tional reputation  down.  They  must  have  from  fifty 
to  one  hundred  dollars  a  speech.  To  raise  this  mon- 
ey and  make  a  good  profit  for  themselves,  the  man- 
agers, who  are  often  persons  of  elastic  consciences, 
will  resort  to  unscrupulous  methods  to  make  the 
money.  I  have  seen  them  advertise  "strictly  relig- 
ious services — everything  free — no  money-making 
scheme."  Ministers  and  speakers  make  wonderful 
appeals   for  the  Lord's  Day  and  against  Sabbath- 


company  makes,  and  thus  get  the  same  thing.  Oth- 
ers add  to  the  rates  and  charge  gate  fee  also;  sell 
stands  and  other  privileges,often  violating  the  rules, 
which  forbade  anything  but  lunch  stands  on  Sab- 
bath. Some  fellow  will  offer  half  he  makes  to  ran  a 
swing;  and  I  have  known  managers  to  get  mad  be- 
cause we  refused.  On  the  following  day,  when  the 
returns  are  in  from  all  stations  and  the  managers 
come  to  the  General  Office  to  receive  their  rebate, 
then  their  true  character  stands  out.  Like  so  many 
sharks.they  are  grabbing  at  every  thing  in  sight,and 
ready  to  swallow  each  other, — such  back-biting  and 
abuse  of  each  other  as  one  seldom  hears,  especitilly 
if  they  don't  make  as  much  as  expected.  They  al- 
lege a  dozen  reasons  for  failure,  lest  the  company 
think  them  not  a  success  in  the  business. 

Then  I  have  been  present  in  the  making  up  of  the 
programme,  and  reviewed  the  correspondence  of 
very  many  prominent  temperance  speakers  in  the 
country,  and  I  must  say,  with  a  few  exceptions,  the 
chief  consideration  seemed  to  be  the  ducats,  and 
nothing  moved  them  but  a  guarantee  of  a  good  fee; 
it  matters  not  how  urgent  the  occasion  be,  or  wheth- 
er it  be  local  or  National.  But  those  same  speakers 
invariably  proclaimed  that  they  were  working  for 
the  Lord  and  humanity. 

But  these  managers  say  they  must  have  the  Sab- 
bath for  the  benefit  of  laboring  classes.       I   think 
rather  it  is  because  they  can  get  the  largest  crowds 
on  that  day.       When  I  applied  to  my  superiors  for 
favors  for  this  class  of  business  on  account  of  its  re- 
ligious character,  they  told  me  I  would  find  them 
just  like  all  others.      I  thought  it  prejudice  against 
temperance  ideas,  and  insisted;  but  I  soon  found 
that  they  had  given  each  other  this  reputation;  and 
it  is  the  reputation  the  world  has  of  them  generally. 
What  has  been  my  experience  I  find  true  in  a 
greater  or  less  degree  of  all   the  temperance  and 
camp  meetings  I  have  attended, — and  I  have  been 
to  many  in  Ohio,  Indiana  and  Kentucky.       On  the 
whole,  their  influence  is  against  the  Bible  Sabbath, 
and  had  better  be  dispensed  with  entirely.      In  all 
of  our  large  cities  as  soon  as  the  Sabbath  day  is 
fairly  open  the  city  begins  to  empty  itself  of  its 
population, — horse  cars  and  steam  cars,  all  crowded 
with  human  freight;  beer  gardens,dancing  halls,base 
ball,  camp  meetings — each  place  gets  its  thousands. 
First  the  car  fare,  then  the  gate  fee,  and  the  many 
other  fees  on  the  inside.       It  looks  pretty  much  as 
though  all  make  the  same  use  of  the  Sabbath  day. 
Is  not  the  tendency  to  weaken  the  influence   for 
good  with  the  world?      It  matters  not  what  the  ob- 
ject of  the  enterprise,  the  world  takes  advantage  of 
the  example  set  before  it  by  men  who  profess  high 
moral  and  religious  convictions. 
Louisville,  Ky. 

CHRIST  SHUT  OUT. 


Christ  is  not  included  in  various  religions  of  the 
earth,  hence  he  is  excluded.     This  is  peculiar  to  the 
Masonic  lodge,  for  in  their  oaths  and  obligations 
and  prayers  they  do  not  use  the  name  of  Cbrist.and 
so  exclude  and  set  him  aside  as  the  author  of  moral 
and  religious  obligation,  which  proves  Masonry  to 
be  one  of  the  many  anti-Christian  worships  now  in 
the  world.     The  Christian  religion  is  found  only  in 
the  Christian  church,  and,  as  in  theory  the  lodge  ex- 
cludes Christ,  so  in  practice;   thus  subverting  the 
authority  of  the  church.     The   Masonic   building 
is  considered   a  temple,  and   the   master  Mason's 
room  the  Holy  of  holies.     The  first  prayer,  in  open- 
ing the  lodge,  proclaims  that  they  have  met  in  the 
name  of  God,  or  deity,  and  desire  to  do  all  in  his 
name  that  they  do  while  together.     Their  prayer 
asks  admittance  for  lodge  men  to  the  temple  eter- 
nally in  the  heavens,  as  a  result  of  their  discordant 
passions  being  subdued  by  the  sublime  principles  of 
Freemasonry,   which   was   invented   by   man,   and 
based  upon  a  religion  of   theism.     Hence,  in  their 
openings  there  is  a  careful  exclusion  of  the  name  of 
Jesus  Christ,  the  only  Mediator  and  way  of  access 
for  a  human  being  to  his  God.     As  the  lodge  is  to 
divorce  men  from  any  higher  obligation  than  that 
which  it  enjoins,  there  is  a  propelling,  underlying 
motive  which  keeps  the  lodge  together,  in  whose 
realm  there  is  none  other  than  terror  to  bind.     This 
is  strictly  a  heathen  motive,  and  not  a  Christian; 
is  not  terror,  but  love.     Hence,  all  who  continue 
to  engage  in   lodge   rites   are   thereby  thrown  off 
their  guard,  their  natures  defiled,  their  conscience 
somewhat  debauched,  their  minds  slowly  blinded, 
and  their  hearts  gradually  hardened  and  sealed  to 
the  god  of  this  world.     See  2  Cor.  4:4:  "In  whom 
the  god  of  this  world  hath  blinded  the  minds  of 
them  which  believe  not" — John  Harshbirger  in  Gos- 


There  is  no  historic  proof  of  its  change  breaking,  at  the  same  time  receiving  a  commission  pel  Messenger. 

by  them,  but  there  is  that  the  first  day  was  kept  or  rebate  on  every  ticket  sold  by  the  railroad  com-  •"*"* 

long  before  there  was  a  Romish  church.                      pany.     To  appear  consistent  some  shut  off  the  gate  Seven  of  the  eight  pioueer  wine-makers  of  Napa 

15.  "It  is  better  to  obey  God  than  man."      Very  fees  and  refreshment  stands,  but  add  to  the  rate  the  Valley,  Cal.,  died  of  drunkenness. 


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"SSSi  CKRISTIAN  CYNOSUK&. 


OoTOBBK  27, 1887 


Befoem  News. 


FSOM  THE   GENERAL  AOENT. 


BBIBF   NOUS   OP   THE     WESLEYAN    OINEEAL   OON- 
FJKRENCE. 

Chicago,  Oct.  22,  1887. 

My  brief  stay  at  the  General  Conference  of  the 
Wesley  an  Methodist  Convention  at  La  Otto,  Tnd., 
was  in  every  way  agreeable.  Arriving  on  the  morn- 
ing of  the  19ih  I  found  friends  in  waiting  at  the 
depot,  who  assigned  me  to  excellent  quarters  very 
near  the  church. 

Ooe  session  of  the  brethren,  preliminary  to  organ- 
iZEition,  had  been  held  the  day  previous,  and  Presi- 
dent N.  Wardner  took  the  chair  and  promptly  called 
to  order  at  10  o'clock  a.  m.  Most  of  the  morning 
session  was  occupied  in  perfecting  organization, 
and  constituting  committees.  Sixty-two  responded 
to  the  first  roll  call,  and  the  number  steadily  in- 
creased by  fresh  arrivals.  To  look  in  the  faces  of 
these  noble  and  devoted  servants  of  Christ,  who 
have  convictions  and  dare  to  assert  and  maintain 
them,  was  itself  an  inspiration.  Some  of  the  vet- 
erans of  other  days  were  gone,  but  there  were 
enough  of  the  patriarchs  lett  to  give  dignity  and 
stability  to  the  body,  and  guide  the  younger  mem- 
bers in  their  deliberations. 

I  left  before  the  bulk  of  the  real  business  of  the 
conference  was  entered  upon  and  while  it  was  being 
prepared  for  submission  by  proper  committees,  but 
some  matters  of  great  importance  were  considered 
and  acted  upon.  The  reports  from  the  work  on  the 
Pacific  Coast  were  deeply  interesting,  and  the  ap- 
pointment of  Rev.  D.  P.  Shaperdson  as  evangelist 
and  organizer  upon  that  field  was  one  of  the  most 
important  acts  of  this  conference.  One  reason 
urged  for  this  step  was  that  there  were  many  Chris- 
tians in  those  regions  who  would  not  unite  with 
churches  fellowshiping  the  lodge,  who  were  asking 
for  a  church  home.  They  had  been  shown  the  way 
more  perfectly  by  the  holiness  association,  which 
does  not  organize  churches,  and  having  come  to  the 
light  they  wanted  to  find  sympathy,  shelter,  and  a 
home  with  others  like-minded  on  these  great  and 
living  questions. 

The  conference  accorded  to  me  as  representative 
of  the  N.  C.  A.  ample  opportunity  to  present  its 
work,  and  appointed  Rev.  L.  N.  Stratton  to  represent 
the  Wesleyan  Methodist  connection,  of  over  17  000 
members,  at  its  next  anniversary  convention  at  New 
Orleans  in  February  next.  The  committees  on  or- 
der of  religious  exercises  assigned  me  an  evening, 
and  I  spoke  to  a  large  and  appreciative  audience  as 
God  gave  me  utterance,  and  noticed  that  allusions 
to  the  lodge  and  to  prohibition  were  received  with 
"Amens"  ttiat  evidently  came  from  the  heart.  It 
would  give  me  great  pleasure  to  mention  the  names 
of  many  friends  with  whom  I  have  labored  and 
praye'i  in  other  days,  but  the  list  which  is  written 
in  heaven  would  be  too  long  for  insertion  here. 
Other  engagements  compelled  me  to  say  "Farewell," 
and  I  departed  leaving  only  pleasant  recollections, 
and  with  a  new  inspiration  for  the  work  to  which  I 
feel  called  of  God.  J.  P.  Stoddard. 


UP  AND  DOWN  IN  ALABAMA. 

An  old  Alabama  town— lis  welcome  of  the  N.  O.  A.  agent 
— A  souther n  Chicago  —A  good  field  — The  Baptist  pas- 
torn— A  comrade  of  African  memory . 

MoNTooMEay,  Ala.,  Oct.  13,  1887. 

Dear  Cynosdhe:  —  From  Marion,  Alabama,  to 
Tuscaloosa,  the  old  capital  of  the  State,  the  road 
runs  through  a  country  in  the  main  quite  produc- 
tive and  witli  large  cotton  plantations.  Rural  villa- 
ges in  Alabama  are  generally  not  cilculated  to  in- 
spire admiration  and  it  is  only  as  you  get  into  the 
mining  and  manufacturing  regions  that  you  see 
signs  of  prosperity.  Tuscaloosa,  however,  is  having 
a  renewed  growth.  Its  broad,  shaded  streets  have 
been  invaded  by  the  street  car,  and  the  sound  of  the 
steam  whistle  is  arousing  the  Rip  VanWinkles  from 
their  long  slumber.  New  buildings  are  going  up 
and  the  lown  is  having  a  moderate  "boom." 

I  found  my  old  friend,  Rev.  P.  Musell,  who  was 
forty  years  a  minister  in  the  colored  Baplistchurch, 
still  vigorous  and  still  at  work.  He  had  not  abated 
one  jot  of  opposition  to  the  lodge  system,  in  which 
he  has  bad  much  experience.  The  present  pastor 
of  tLe  Biplist  church,  Rev.  Jas.  Mason,  also  ex- 
pressed his  hearty  sympathy  in  my  work.  The 
Presbyterian  Theological  ticliool  is  not  largely  at- 
tended. The  president  and  professors  were  away 
at  presbytery,  but  they  are  doing  a  good  work,  and 
aim  at  thoroughness  rather  than  to  make  a  show  of 
numbers. 

Ad  my  time  was  limited  1  die  >»<.■<.  s*4y  to  lecture, 
but  went  on  to  Birmingham,  "the  Chicago  of  the 


South."  I  had  heard  much  of  this  new  and  wonder- 
ful city,and  was  not  surprised  to  find  great  business 
activity  and  many  fine  buildings  in  process  of  con- 
struction. I  was  surprised  to  see  large  fine  residen- 
ces and  handsome  streets,  separated  from  the  rest  of 
the  city  by  a  long  interval  of  primitive  forest.which 
is  being  held  too  high  for  improvement.  I  was  sur- 
prised at  the  excellence  and  speed  of  their  steam 
railway  system.  The  broad  streets  admit  of  two 
tracks  with  dummy  trains  which  equal  in  celerity 
and  convenience  the  cable  cars  of  Chicago. 

I  preached  Sabbath  morning  in  the  Congregation- 
al church,  Rev.  Mr.  Schnell,  pastor,  a  graduate  of 
Talladega  and  late  pastor  at  Loui8ville,Ky.  Like  all 
those  who  have  received  their  education  at  that  in- 
stitution he  is  in  full  accord  with  our  reform  and 
was  glad  of  my  aid  in  the  conflict  with  the  lorige 
system,  which  here,  perhaps,  more  than  in  almost 
any  other  city  in  the  State,  is  the  rival  and  adversa- 
ry of  the  church.  His  congregation  is  increasing 
and  the  church  is  exerting  an  excellent  influence  in 
the  place. 

At  3:30  p.  M.  I  preached  in  the  large  new  African 
M.  E.  church.  Rev.  J.  M.  Goodloe,  pastor.  This 
brother,  having  seen  the  inside  of  the  lodge  and 
known  its  practical  influence  on  the  church,  has 
learned  to  abhor  and  oppose  it.  He  said  that  he  re- 
garded it  as  one  of  the  greatest  hindrances  to  the 
Gospel,  and  heartily  thanked  me  for  my  earnest  ad- 
monitions. Another  brother  who  heard  me  and 
whose  pastor  is  a  Mason  besought  me  to  come 
and  preach  the  same  sermon  in  his  church.  He  said 
it  was  just  what  they  most  needed  to  hear. 

Sabbath  night  I  attended  Episcopal  service  with 
the  gentleman  with  whom  I  stayed,  who  is  an  ar- 
dent churchman  and  a  devoted  Mason.  Monday 
forenoon  I  attended  ministers'  meeting  in  the  First 
Baptist  church.  Rev.  W.  R.  Pettiford,  pastor.  They 
have  a  large,  new  and  beautiful  house  of  worship. 
The  pastor  has  been  a  student  of  and  co-worker  with 
Bro.  Woodsmall.as  well  as  a  reader  of  the  Cynosure. 
He  expressed  a  most  hearty  sympathy  with  my  work 
and  invited  me  to  occupy  the  time  in  addressing  the 
meeting,  which  embraced  most  of  the  colored  pas- 
lors  of  the  citv  and  a  number  from  neighboring 
towns.  Although  several  wore  the  emblems  of  their 
orders,  all  listened  attentively  and  a  majority  ex- 
prtsjed  approval.  The  chairman  and  others  thanked 
me  for  my  remarks  and  thought  the  time  of  the 
meeting  had  been  well  spent. 

It  was  my  great  pleasure  to  meet  in  Birmingham 
my  brother  and  co-laborer  in  Africa,  Rev.  J.  K.Bill- 
heimer,  for  a  number  of  years  missionary  of  the 
United  Brethren  and  American  Missionary  Associa- 
tion boards.  For  a  good  many  years  he  was  treas- 
urer of  the  United  Brethren  Board  of  Missions, 
while  Mrs.  Billheimer,  now  in  Ohio, was  president  of 
the  Woman's  Board.  It  was  no  small  satisfaction 
to  recall  the  scenes  and  incidents  of  our  African  life 
and  to  compare  notes  as  to  the  outlook  for  the  race 
for  which  we  have  labored. 

Monday  night  I  came  down  to  Selma  and  for  two 
days  enjoyed  needed  rest  at  the  pleasant  and  hospi- 
table home  of  Rev.  C.  B.  Curtis,  who  with  his  excel- 
lent and  talented  wife  are  doing  much,  both  for  the 
spiritual  and  temporal  interests  of  the  people.  On 
Wednesday  I  addressed  the  students  of  the  Selma 
University.  This  is  the  school  formerly  under  the 
care  of  Rev.  H.  Woodsmall.  Rev.  Pierce  is  now 
president.  There  are  already  in  attendance  165  stu- 
dents and  the  prospect  of  a  considerable  increase.  I 
spoke  on  the  evils  of  the  lodge  system,  and  received 
the  thanks  of  the  president  and  the  professors. 

At  night  I  attended  a  pleasant  prayer-meeting  at 
the  Congregational  church  and  to  day  came  to  Mont- 
gomery, where  I  addressed  the  students  of  the  new  un 
iversiiy,  which  has  just  opened  under  the  care  of 
Pres.  Patison,  formerly  of  Marion.  In  spite  of  all 
opposition  the  school  opens  favorably,  occupying  a 
large  Baptist  churcb,anold  store,  and  an  abandoned 
saloon.     To-morrow  morning  (D.  V  )  I  go  to  Mobile. 

H.  H.  HlNMAN. 


FROM  THE  FIELD. 


A  KIND  OJf  a£FORAl  OEOP  REPORT  fROM   BRO.  BCXLER 

— THE  CONVENTION  APPOINTED  FOR  SODTH- 

WESTERN    MldSOUai. 

R^v.  John  Stahl,  writing  from  Augusta,  111.,  says: 
"1  am  inclined  to  think  favorably  of  the  work  done 
at  the  late  meeting  of  the  Illinois  Christian  Associa- 
tion. Money  and  agency  are  both  doubtless  indis- 
pensable in  the  prosecution  of  the  work.  In  the 
arrangement  of  meetings,  take  us  in  at  least  locally, 
we  Will  do  something  financially.  You  are  doubt- 
less aware  that  a  part  of  us  United  Brethren  church 
people  are  engaged  in  a  trying  warfare  with  the 
Otflcial  and  moneyed  power  of  said  church,  who  are 
actively  engaged  in  trying  to  break  down  our  con- 


stitutional law  and  testimony  against  secret  socie- 
ties. While  this  conflict  continues  moral  and  finan- 
cial aid  would  seem  to  be  our  only  weapons.  When 
or  how  this  trial  will  end  is  alone  known  to  God." 

Bro.  Alexander  Thompson,  of  Bartlett,  III,  also 
writes:  "Shoulder  to  shoulder  I  stand  by  you  for  a 
kind  and  clear  expression  of  the  truth  in  regard  to 
the  lodge.  Should  you  desire  to  come  to  Bartlett  I 
will  notify  you  of  a  suitable  time  and  co-operate 
with  you  with  all  my  strength" 

A  few  words  from  Bro.  S.  Blanchard,  of  Oregon, 
Mo ,  will  doubtless  be  read  with  interest.  He  says: 
"I  would  like  much  to  be  at  the  Princeton  meeting, 
but  cannot.  I  do  hope,  however,  that  you  may  be 
prospered  greatly  in  all  yo^  labors  against  secret 
societies,  for  I  regard  them  as  a  curse  to  America." 
This  friend  also  informs  us  that  his  part  of  the 
country  has  never  had  any  lectures,  and  refers  to 
others  in  Holt  county  who  would  perhaps  be  inter- 
ested in  an  agitation. 

Marshall  Jones,  Esq.,  of  Jamesport,  Mo.,  writes; 
"I  would  like  to  attend  your  meeting  at  Princeton, 
Oct.  25.  Would  like  to  see  Blanchard,  Stoddard, 
and  all  who  take  an  interest  in  something  higher 
than  cruel  Masonry."  This  man  speaks  whereof  he 
knows,  for  he  has  been  through  the  Blue  Lodge. 

Rev.  Ira  B.  Ryan  of  Leon,  Iowa,  indites:  "I  am 
glad  to  hear  from  you,  aho  that  the  cause  of  the 
Redeemer  is  prospered  against  the  Baal  worshipers, 
but  my  health  and  circumstances  are  such  that  I 
can't  be  with  you  at  Princeton.  It  would  please  me 
to  be  with  you  and  to  help  the  cause  of  God  against 
the  Christ-rejecting  devil- worshipers.  I  have  been 
doing  some  good  in  the  cause  at  a  meeting  where 
there  were  five  of  Baal's  members,  and  one  of  them 
a  Royal  Arch.  I  told  them  that  it  was  a  God-for- 
saking and  Christ-rejecting  institution,  and  that  no 
man  could  be  a  Christian  and  reject  Christ  in  his 
prayers.  Three  of  the  five  acknowledged  it."  The 
above  writer  has  been  a  lodge  high  priest,  and,  if  we 
remember  aright,  organized  .the  first  U.  B.  church 
west  of  the  Mississippi. 

N.  F.  Murray  of  Elm  Grove,  vice-president  of  the 
Missouri  State  Horticultural  Society,  and  formerly 
an  active  worker  in  our  reform,  replies:  "It  will  be 
impossible  for  me  to  attend  your  meeting.  While  I 
still  endorse  most  of  the  American  party  platform, 
there  are  two  planks  in  it  I  could  not  endorse,  to 
wit:  extending  the  franchise  to  Indians  and  China- 
men, or  any  other  class  that  does  not  at  present  en- 
joy that  right,  except  women,  who  should  be  allowed 
to  vote;  the  other  classes,  only  when  they  can  read 
and  write.  Our  local  option  ciuse  has  just  been  de- 
feated in  our  county  [Holt]  by  ignorance  and  whis- 
ky. Hope  you  will  have  a  good  meeting,  and  that 
you  may  be  blessed  and  prospered  in  the  cause  of 
reform." 

Rev.  J.  K.  Glassford,  the  veteran  reformer  and 
seceder,  of  Carthage,  Mo.,  is  very  busy  in  his  mam- 
moth apple  orchard  just  now,  but  heartily  endorses 
a  district  meeting  for  south  Missouri  any  time  in 
November.  He  favors  Carthage,  but  will  try  to  at- 
tend elsewhere.  He  says:  "I  wish  you  and  Bro. 
Stoddard  to  code  here  and  hold  a  meeting  anyhow. 
We  can  give  you  a  good  hearing  for  there  are  quite 
a  number  of  Antis  here.  I  wish  you  to  come  and 
spend  a  week.  It  needs  a  good  revival  here,  and 
we  can  have  it  if  you  will  come." 

Elder  Wm.  M.  Love  of  Osceola,  Mo.,  writes:  "I 
am  glad  the  meetings  are  to  be  held,  and  shall  pray 
and  work  for  their  success.  From  what  I  can  learn 
in  the  short  time  since  notice  of  intention  to  hold  a 
meeting  in  southwest  Missouri  has  been  received,  I 
believe  we  are  all  decided  as  to  time  and  place:  time 
Nov.  1  and  2,  and  place,  Greenfield,  Dade  county. 
I  do  not  know  of  a  better  place.  It  is  central  and 
accessible,  and  a  stronghold  of  the  lodge." 

I  received  a  letter  from  Bro.  J.  W.  Thompson  of 
Dadeville,  fully  approving  time  and  place  as  above 
for  holding  a  district  meeting  below  the  Missouri 
river.  Other  letters  should  be  mentioned,  but 
enough  for  this  time. 

Have  been  speaking  through  Gentry  county;  good 
audiences  and  good  meetings;  and  now  I  am  ofl  for 
Princeton  to  complete  local  arrangements.  Crops 
are  short  and  times  are  close  in  north  Missouri,  yet 
we  work  and  pray  for  a  revival  and  a  new  impetus 
for  the  cause  at  the  coming  meeting.  Yours  in  the 
cause,  M.  N.  BoTi-Jea. 


THE  IOWA  STATE  CONVENTION. 


A    MEETINO   OK   UREAT   POWER   AND   INTEREST. 

The  State  Convention  opened  in  College  Springs 
on  Tuesday  evening,  October  18,  with  a  large  audi- 
ence in  attendance. 

The  presiding  otflcersof  the  Iowa  Christian  Asso- 
ciation not  being  present.  Rev.  Wm.  Johnston,  D.D., 
was  chosen  temporary  chairman,   and  Rev.  J.  H. 


October  27, 1887 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURK. 


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Wilson,  secretary.  The  third  chanter  of  John  was 
read.the  praise  of  God  sung.and  Rev.Dr.  Brown  of  Coin 
led  in  prayen  The  large  audience  was  gathered  in 
the  United  Presbyterian  church,  of  which  Dr.  Johns- 
ton is  pastor. 

After  a  few  remarks  by  the  chairman.  Rev.  J.  S. 
T.  Milligan  of  Kansas  was  introduced  and  spoke  on 
the  "Relation  of  Secret  Societies  to  the  Church  of 
Christ;"  after  which  Rev.  J,  A.  Cole  of  West  Af- 
rica told  how  he  was  made  a  member  of  the  Kofong 
lodge  in  Africa. 

One  of  the  pleasant  incidents  of  the  convention 
was  the  attendance  of  the  delegates  on  the  morning 
exercises  of  Amity  College,  whcre_  between  one  and 
two  hundred  students  were  gathered  in  the  new  and 
commodious  chapel.  They  listened  to  a  short  talk 
from  Bro.  C.  F.  Hawley,  who  responded  to  Presi- 
dent Kennedy's  invitation  in  a  brief  but  very  happy 
speech  on  the  great  topic  which  the  convention  had 
gathered  to  discuss. 

The  morning  session  which  immediately  followed 
this  visit  was  opened  by  devotional  exercises;  after 
which  much  of  the  routine  business  of  the  annual 
meeting  was  transacted.  There  was  an  attendance 
of  about  fifty  in  the  morning  and  some  150  in  the 
afternoon,  and  400  or  500  at  the  evening  sessions. 

Among  the  items  of  this  business  was  the  elec- 
tion of  Rev.  W.  C.  Williamson,  D.  D.,  of  Keokuk, 
as  delegate,  and  Elder  Samuel  Smith  of  Beacons- 
field,  as  alternate,  to  the  Sabbath  convention  to  be 
held  at  Elgin,  Illinois,  November  8th  and  9th,  It 
was  voted  that  Rev.  Dr.  Johnston  represent  the  State 
Association  in  the  N.  C.  A.  convention  to  be  held  in 
New  Orleans  during  the  winter,  and  that  a  fund  be 
raised  by  the  State  Agent  to  defray  the  expenses  of 
his  journey.  It  was  also  voted,  after  some  discuss- 
ion, to  send  a  delegation  to  the  Prohibition  confer- 
ence to  be  held  in  Chicago  December  1st;  and  Revs. 
C.  F.  Hawley,  C.  D.  Trumbull,  C.  E.  Harroun,  Jr., 
and  Dr.  J.  N.  Norris  and  C.  T.  McCann  were  ap- 
pointed to  represent  the  Association  in  that  capac- 
ity. 

The  following  officers  were  chosen  for  the  year: 
President,  Rev.  William  Johnston,  D.  D.,  College 
Springs;  Vice-president,  Rev.  George  Fry,  Wayne; 
Corresponding  Sfcretary,  Rev.  C.  D.  Trumbull,  Morn- 
ing Sun;  Recording  /Secretary,  Rev.  J,  H.  Wilson, 
Collpge  Springs;  Irecunrer,  James  Harvey,  Pleas- 
ant Plain. 

The  resolutions  were  adopted  as  follows: 

Whereas,  The  secret  society  system  belts  the  world, 
and  paganism,  infidelity  and  selfishness  are  found  in- 
trenched therein;  therefore, 

Resolved:  1,  That  as  the  religion  of  Christ  is  opposed 
to  all  secret  associations  that  unite  the  followers  with  the 
openly  profane  and  impious,  it  is  inconsistent  for  his 
followers  to  unite  with  such  associations. 

2.  That  the  profane  and  horrid  oaths  and  promises  of 
such  institutions  are  contrary  to  the  teachings  of  God's 
Word,  a  prcfdnation  of  God's  ordinance  of  the  oath,  and 
destitute  of  all  binding  obligation.  The  taking  of  them 
is  a  sin— not  the  breaking  of  them. 

3.  That  the  religi  in  of  these  societies,  professing  as 
they  do  to  save  Christian,  Jew,  Mohammedan  and  Parsee, 
without  any  regard  to  the  atonement  of  Christ  or  the  work 
of  the  Holy  Spirit,  are  subverRive  of  the  Christian  relig- 
ion, which  teaches  that  there  is  no  other  name  under 
heaven  or  given  among  men  whereby  we  must  be  saved, 
but  by  the  name  of  Christ  Jesus. 

4    That  they  enslave  the  individual,  destroy  the  unity 
of  the  family,  are  antagonistic  to  the  church,  and  sub- 
versive of  justice  in  the  state;  and  the  safety  and  pros- 
{Contiiiued  on  12lh  page.) 


ly  people,  whose  chief  object  is  recreation  and  social 
enjoyment.  The  one  is  exerting  an  ever-deepening 
and  widening  influence  for  good,  and  will  continue 
until  the  last  enemy  to  the  home  surrenders;  the 
other  is  even  now  being  deserted  by  the  better  class, 
and  many  of  their  lodges  are  dying  out  because  of 
the  sensuous,  godless  spirit  that  ruled  them. 

Elder  Thos.  Barland  of  the  Congregational  church, 
Eau  ( laire,  says  that  John  B.  Finch,  when  he  lec- 
tured there  a  few  years  ago,  admitted  that  he  could 
do  very  little  for  the  cause  of  Good  Templarism  in 
and  around  Chicago  because  of  the  influence  of  the 
National  Christian  Association.  It  is  cheering  to 
have  such  testimony  from  Mr.  Finch. 

I  find  at  Eau  Claire  and  Chippewa  Falls  strong, 
wideawake  Young  Men's  Christian  Associations, 
with  comfortable  parlors  and  reading  rooms,  well 
supplied  with  prohibition  and  other  reform  papers. 
In  both  their  reading  rooms  I  find  the  Cynosure  on 
the  rack,  and  kept  in  a  conspicuous  place.  It  re- 
lieves a  lonely  hour  to  drop  in  and  read  over  its 
pages.  Any  one  to  whom  God  has  given  wealth 
could  not  invest  it  better  for  the  cause  than  to  put 
the  Cynosure  in  all  such  reading  rooms.  It  would 
be  a  good  way  of  laying  up  treasure  in  heaven. 

Good  Templars  universally  say  that  if  Mr.  Finch 
had  lived  he  would  have  been  their  candidate  for 
•President  in  1893.  But  God  has  ordered  it  other- 
wise. He  has  done  much  for  the  prohibition  cause. 
Few  of  our  platform  speakers  were  more  accom- 
plished, and  have  published  more  convincing  argu- 
ments. But  we  believe  his  life  work  was  greatly 
marred  by  his  connection  and  leadership  in  a  dark, 
scheming,  wire-pulling  organization,  employing  in  a 
good  cause  the  secret  tactics  of  those  whose  deeds 
are  evil.  M.  A.  Gault. 


NATIONAL  REFORM  WORK  IN   EASTERN 
NEW  TORE. 


on  them  on  the  liquor  question.  One  thing  he  was 
sure  of.they  could  never  spike  his  gun.  He  would 
keep  close  around  the  end  where  the  touch- hole  is. 
At  the  close  a  collection  was  lifted  for  a  colored 
school  near  Atlanta  in  which  he  is  interested. 

Cornwall-on-Hudson,  three  miles  below  here,i9  the 
home  of  E.  P.  Roe,  the  celebrated  author,  and  R»v. 
Lyman  Abbott,  D.  D.,  editor  of  the  Chrintian.  On- 
ion. This  is  a  great  summer  resort  for  New  York- 
ers. But  those  who  can  live  amid  the  glories  of 
creation  are  not  released  from  the  responsibilities  of 
life.  The  wise  and  holy  St.  Edmund  of  Canterbury 
said,  "Work  as  though  you  would  live  forever;  live 
as  though  you  would  die  to-day." 

J.    M.    F08T2R. 


BRO.    GAULT  AND  NATIONAL  REFORM. 


GOEIIESFOXDENCE. 


THE  W.  C.   T.   V.  AND   GOOD   TEMPLARISM. 


Chippewa  Falls,  Wis.,  Oct.  20,  '87. 

A  prominent  Good  Templar  at  Colfax,  Wis.,  says, 
"I  shall  always  esteem  the  order,  because  it  was  in 
it  I  first  met  my  wife."  This  accords  with  what  I 
have  heard  so  many  remark  about  the  Good  Tem- 
plars, that  the  one  distinguishing  feature  of  the  or- 
der is  the  courting  fecilities  it  affords  young  people. 
A  minister  at  Eau  Claire  remarked  that  he  had  of- 
ten heard  it  said  that  "Matches  were  made  in  heav- 
en," but  he  was  disposed  to  believe  that  many  of 
them  were  made  in  Good  Templar  lodges. 

How  much  grander  has  been  the  life  of  Frances 
E.  Willard,  in  building  up  such  an  organi/.ition  as 
the  W.  C.  T.  tl.,  compared  with  that  of  John  B. 
Finch,  in  devoting  so  much  of  his  life  to  the  cause 
of  Good  Templarism.  The  one  is  the  offspring  of 
prayer  and  Christian  consecration;  the  other  is  the 
development  of  the  selfisli  and  dividing  spirit  of  se- 
cretism.  The  one  unifies  the  best  Christian  senti- 
ment in  defense  of  God,  home  and  native  land;  the 
other  creates  jealous  and  harmful  divisions  in  the 
ranks  of  reformers.  The  one  has  attracted  to  it  the 
most  devoted  Christian  workers  of  the  age;  the  oth- 
er has  drawn  to  it  the  giddy,  pleasure-loving,  world-  Christ. 


Newburgh,  N.  Y.,  Oct.  18,  1887. 
Editor  Christian  Cynosure: — Last  Friday  I 
visited  Goshen  and  Middletown  in  the  interests  of 
National  Reform.  The  first  has  perhaps  4,000,  the 
second  12,000  people.  In  the  former  I  interviewed 
Rev.  R.  B.  Clark,  Presbyterian  pastor.  He  is  in  the 
fullest  accord  with  our  work  and  stands  ready  to 
open  his  church  for  a  meeting.  In  the  latter  I 
talked  with  Rev.  Gordon,  Presbyterian  pastor.  He 
was  raised  in  the  Free  Church  of  Scotland,  accepts 
our  reformation  principles  in  toto,  and  was  perfectly 
willing  to  do  all  he  could  toward  having  a  successful 
meeting  in  their  city. 

On  Sabbath  evening  I  preached  in  the  American 
Reformed  church  of  Newburgh,  Rev.  H.  V.  S.  My- 
ers, D.  D.,  pastor.  This  is  a  large  congregation. 
There  was  an  audience  of  500.  Rev.  Finley,  the 
United  Presbyterian  pastor,  and  Rev.  Thomp3on,the 
Covenanter  pastor,  and  also  Hon.  Benj.  B.  O  Iwell, 
mayor  of  the  city,  were  present.  The  people  lis- 
tened as  though  they  regarded  that  as  an  entirely 
new  message.  We  do  not  yet  see  the  fruit  of  this 
work;  but  we  are  reminded  that  success  in  God's 
sight  is  something  very  different  from  what  it  is  in 
man's  sight.  "What  the  world  has  regarded  as  the 
bitterest  failure,"  writes  Farrar,  "has  often  been  in 
the  sight  of  heaven  the  most  magnificent  success. 
When  the  cap,  painted  with  devils,  was  placed  on 
the  brows  of  John  Huss,  and  he  sank  dying  amid 
the  embers  of  the  flame,  was  that  failure?  When 
St.  Francis  Xavier  died  cold  and  lonely  on  the  bleak 
and  desolate  shore  of  a  heathen  land,  was  that  fail- 
ure? When  the  frail  worn  body  of  the  Apostle  of 
the  Gentiles  was  dragged  by  a  hook  from  the  arena 
and  the  white  sand  scattered  over  the  crimson  life 
blood  of  the  victim  whom  the  dense  ampitheatre  de- 
spised as  some  obscure  and  nameless  Jew,  was  that 
failure?  And  when,  after  thirty  obscure,  toilsome, 
unrecorded  years  in  the  shop  of  the  village  carpen- 
ter. One  came  forth  to  be  pre-eminently  the  'Man  of 
Sorrows,'  to  wander  from  city  to  city  in  homeless 
labors  and  to  expire  in  lonely  agony  upon  the  shame- 
ful cross,  was  that  failure?  Nay,  my  brethren,  it 
was  the  life;  it  was  the  death  of  Him  who  lived  that 
we  might  follow  in  his  steps.  It  was  the  life;  it  was 
the  death  of  the  Son  of  God." 

Samuel  Small,  the  evangelist.lectured  in  the  Trin- 
ity M.  E.  church  Monday  night  The  house  was 
filled,  the  standing  room  being  taken.  He  gave  an 
account  of  his  own  career.  The  drink  habit  which 
he  had  acquired  grew  upon  him.  He  heard  Sam 
Jones  on  "Conscience  Record  and  the  Judgment." 
He  was  convicted  and  at  last  gave  himself  up  to 
Christ.  He  felt  that  his  sin  h:id  been  public  and 
his  confession  must  be  so  too.  He  sent  out  posters 
announcing  that  he  would  preach  that  evening  in  the 
public  square  of  Atlanta.  Thousands  came  out  to 
hear  the  story  of  his  conversion.  And  ever  since, 
two  years  and  one  month,  he  has  been  preaching 
He  thought  too  many  pulpits  had  p^dlocke 


Meno.monie,  Wis.,  Oct.  14,  1887. 
Dear  Ctnosure: — Bro.  M.  A.  Gault  lectured  here 
in  Menomonie  in  the  court  house  (the  10th  and  11th) 
Monday  and  Tuesday  of  this  week.  The  attendance 
was  rather  small,  but  the  lectures  were  truly  excel- 
lent. It  is  a  sad  pity,  yet  a  fact,  that  audiences,  es- 
pecially in  cities  and  large  towns,  are  apt  to  be  in 
inverse  ratio  to  the  excellence  or  worthlessness  of 
the  subject  and  the  speaker,  unless  some  world-wide 
celebrity,  like  Beecher  or  Talmage,  is  announced; 
no  matter  how  many  papers  condescend  to  give  no- 
tice, or  how  many  bulletins  are  displayed  at  places 
of  public  resort,  or  how  much  time,  muscle,  and 
shoe  leather  are  invested  in  advertising  the  good 
things  to  be  heard.  The  champions  of  reform  work 
know  all  about  this,  and  often  their  endurance  and 
pluck  are  put  to  a  severe  strain;  but  they  are  not 
easily  discouraged,  for  they  know  that  "God  and 
truth  are  marching  on"  to  victory,  not  death;  and 
every  well-meant  effort  shall  have  its  due  reward. 

Bro.  Gault  is  not,  as  he  told  us,  a  circus.  His 
vast  and  expensive  perambulations  woa't  make  one 
of  him,  or  any  other  reformer.  If  they  did,  then 
he  might  come  to  Menomonie  and  carry  away  more 
money  than  it  takes  to  support  all  our  pastors  and 
run  our  churches.  But  Bro.  Gault  and  the  rest  can 
afl!'jrd  to  take  their  chances  in  the  long  run.  Fade- 
less crowns,  substantial  honors,  and  everlasting  hab- 
itations await  them. 

Monday  evening  Bro.  Gault  presented  the  points 
of  parallel  and  of  contrast  between  the  government 
of  the  United  States  and  the  republic,  or  united 
states,  of  ancient  Israel.  He  holds,  with  the  Bible, 
that  the  "powers  that  be  are  ordained  of  God,"  and 
hence  bound  to  act  in  accordance  with  his  law,  and 
must  do  so  or  fail;  hence,  also,  the  propriety  and 
duty  of  a  recognition  of  God  in  the  Constitution. 

Bro.  Gault  strongly  advocates  woman  8uffrage,and 
declares  that  the  nation  of  Israel  was  thousands  of 
years  ahead  of  ours  in  this  matter.  Deborah  judged 
Israel  forty  years.  The  women  hurrahed  for  Div- 
id,  shouting,  "Saul  has  slnin  his  thousands  but  Dav- 
id his  ten  thousands."  Woman  suffrage  prevails  in 
the  family,  why  not  in  the  state?  In  settling  the 
question  which  young  men  find  it  so  diflficult  to  ask, 
woman  has  a  voice  and  throws  the  casting  vote.  And 
I  would  like  to  say  in  passing  that  it  should  be  em- 
phasized every  day  in  the  week  that  the  women  of 
our  land,  with  the  ballot  in  their  hands,  would  "fix 
things"  and  sweep  the  country  of  beer  and  whisky, 
and  secret  societies  into  the  bareain. 

(>n  Tuesday  evening  Bro.  Gault  advocated  the 
Bitile  as  the  text  book  for  the  schools.  There  is  no 
other.  The  government  owes  it  to  itself  that  the 
teachers  have  an  authoritative  book  of  instruction  as 
to  moral  conductjust  as  much  as  a  dictionary  for  the 
pronunciation  and  definition  of  words.  Teaching 
without  moral  instruction  makes  educated  rascals, 
giants  in  iniquity,  and  enemies  to  the  welfare  of 
society  and  the  state.  The  government  must  pro- 
tect itself,  therefore,  by  the  moral  instruction  of  the 
young  in  the  public  scaools;  for  the  Sunday-schools 
have  scarcely  one-third  of  the  children,  and  they 
only  about  an  hour  once  a  week.  Sectarian  or  de- 
nominational instruction  is  not  asked  for,  but  the 
moral  precepts  of  God's  law.  The  republics  of 
Switzerland  and  Holland  were  cited  as  the  most 
peaceful  and  prosperous  on  the  globe.  In  their 
school  systems  the  Bible  has  a  prominent  place. 

Sabbath  observance  would  naturally  follow.  No 
government  or  people  can  permanently  prosper  that 
disregards  it.  Oar  government  and  government  o'- 
ficials  are  Sabbath  breakers.  Bro.  Gault  was  very 
much  exercised  with  regard  to  the  course  of  Presi- 
dent Cleveland  last  Sunday  at  Madison.  He,  to- 
gether with  Postmaster  General  Vilas,  was  expect- 
ed to  attend  a  certain  church.  Pdws  were  reserved 
and  decorated,  and  ushers  were  waiting;  services 
were  delayed  a  long  time,  but  no  President  and  no 
Postmaster  General  appeared.  The  fact  was  that 
when  the  bells  were  ringing  for  church  Grover  was 
still  in  lied,  and  at  11  o'clock  be  was  taking  break- 


^ajtsToBSlSTlA:^  CYNOSURS^. 


October  27, 1887 


fast.  He  should  have  risen  early,  Bro.  Gault  thinks, 
and  studied  the  Sunday-school  lesson  for  one  hour 
before  breakfast,  and  then  after  breakfast  sallied 
forth  to[.Sabbath-school  and  addressed  the  school. 
Then  after  dinner  he  should  have  visited  and  ad- 
dressed the  Y.  M.  C.  A.,  and  in  the  evening  gone  to 
some  church.  Instead  of  this  he  spent  several  hours 
of  the  afternoon  dictating  official  correspondence; 
and  doubtless  a  good  many  besides  Bro.  Gault  and 
myself  will  not  vote  for  Grover  Cleveland;  albeit  I 
would,  with  Bro.  G., sooner  vote  for  him  than  for  that 
Presidential  aspirant  who  would  not,  when  he  had 
the  chance,  vote  to  banish  the  liquor  curse  from  his 
own  State.  Such  public  functionaries  set  a  bad  ex- 
ample, and  the  people  should  demand,  as  God  de- 
mands, a  reform  in  this  matter,  not  by  enforcing,  or 
trying  to  enforce  Sabbath  observance,  but  by  creat- 
ing a  public  sentiment  that  will  induce  a  cheerful 
recognition  of  God's  day,  and  the  proper  observance 
of  the  same. 

Friends  of  reform,  if  you  want  to  hear  an  able 
discussion  of  National  Keform  questions,  invite  Bro. 
Gault  and  give  him  a  good  congregation,  and  if  pos- 
sible, money  enough  to  pay  expenses. 

W.  W.  Ames. 


TBB   OLD  MASONIC  ABQVMBNT  IN  SOUTH- 
ERN CALIFORNIA. 

El  Monti,  Cal. 

We  are  glad  to  report  some  falling  off  in  the  sub- 
scription of  our  little  paper  Fire  and  Hammer  on 
account  of  the  sketch  of  John  Brown's  family  and 
some  other  matter  copied  from  the  dear  Cynosure, 
and  this  too  from  some  so-called  holiness  (?)  people. 
We  welcome  all  such,  with  slander  and  over-ripe 
eggs,  which  have  been  our  portion  in  this  notorious 
place  to  which  we  have  been  called  to  assist  Wm. 
Shepard  in  holding  a  holiness  meeting. 

This  is  a  small  town  twelve  miles  out  from  Los 
Angeles  on  the  Southern  Pacific  Railroad.  It  has 
some  three  or  four  hundred  inhabitants  and  is  ruled 
by  a  Freemason  lodge  and  three  whisky  saloons. 
It  is  said  that  more  murders  have  been  committed 
here  than  in  any  other  place  in  Southern  California. 
The  leading  men  of  this  moral  cancer  of  course  are 
Freemasons.  Drunkenness  and  crime  abounds. 
We  have  by  the  grace  of  God  exposed  and  de- 
nounced the  worship  of  Baal  in  the  lodge  and  of 
Bacchus  in  the  saloon.  These  institutions  have 
sent  upon  us  a  horde  of  backsliders  from  the  dead 
churches  that  belong  to,  support  and  uphold  them. 
Crowds  of  drunken  hoodlums  make  night  hideous 
by  their  blood-curdling  oaths.  The  Justice  of  the 
Peace  (?),  an  accidental  lustice,  was  one  night  in 
with  the  drunken  mob  and  threatened  to  have  us 
arrested  if  we  did  not  cease  denouncing  sin  in  the 
bold  manner  we  were  doing.  Last  night  the  preach- 
ers were  treated  to  the  Freemason  and  saloonites' 
very  best  argument  which  so  fully  represents  in  the 
strongest  point  their  morals  and  principles,  a  free 
delivery  of  principles,  to-wit,  a  shower  of  rotton  eggs. 
We  do  not  feel  bad  towards  them  in  the  least  for 
considering  the  mental  and  moral  imbecility  to 
which  sin  has  reduced  them.  They  did  the  very 
sweetest  and  best  thing  they  could.  Two  churches 
in  the  vicinity,  the  Christian  and  the  Methodist, 
dominated  over  by  Freemasons,  holiness-fighting 
demagogues,  have  had  quarrels  among  themselves, 
and  the  church  buildings  were  soon  in  ashes. 

The  Baptist  church  of  this  place  is  too  dead  to 
have  the  sign  of  a  prayer-meeting,  but  the  Freema- 
sons have  their  hall  over  the  church,  which  is  said 
to  be  one  of  the  oldest  Protestant  church  houses  in 
California.  This  is  truly  symbolical,  as  the  "square 
and  compass"  and  letter  G  stands  out  in  brazen  gilt 
aflrontery  over  the  church  of  God.  The  curse  of 
God  rests  in  desolation  upon  the  whole  concern. 

The  Lord  is  with  us  in  power  and  he  has  a  few 
true  saints  here  that  are  walking  with  him  in  white. 
Some  have  been  seeking  the  Lord  in  our  meetings. 
Old  residents  say  they  never  saw  the  lodge-ridden, 
rum-sodden  sink-hole  of  iniquity  so  shaken  before. 
Bro.  Shepherd,  though  a  young  man,  is  an  unflinch- 
ing Timothy  that  boldly  stands  for  the  faith  of  the 
Gospel  and  unsparingly  deals  out  the  truth.  You 
will  be  glad  to  know  that  God  is  raising  up  many 
Buch  "valiant-for-truth"  soldiers  on  this  coast. 
Pray  for  us,  and  God  bless  more  and  more  the 
prayers  of  the  blessed  Cynogure  and  its  band  of 
martyr-spirit  contributors.     Amen.     W.  T.  Ellis. 


BTANDINO    FuR    0ER18T. 


A   CONOBBOATIONAL   CHURCH    PEONODNCKS    AOAIN6T 
THE    LOIX>£. 


New  Ibkria,  La.,  Oct  14,  1887. 
Dbar  Editor: — A  very  interesting  meeting  was 
ueld  in  the  Congregational  church  of  this  place  last 


Tuesday  night,  at  which  the  subject  of  secret  soci- 
eties was  brought  up  by  the  pastor.  Rev.  Byron 
Gunner.  He  has  often  spoken  against  them  from 
the  pulpit  and  platform  during  his  three  years' 
ministry  here,  and  has  induced  many  of  his  mem- 
bers to  withdraw  from  those  they  were  in,  and 
persuaded  others,  who  expressed  an  intention  to  join 
them,  not  to  do  so. 

But  at  the  meeting  referred  to  he  spoke  of  intro- 
ducing a  resolution  at  some  future  meeting,  that 
would  make  it  a  violation  of  the  rules  of  the  church 
for  a  church  member  to  belong  to  a  secret  society; 
saying  that  he  would  prefer  a  membership  of  fifty 
that  were  pure  and  living  according  to  the  teach- 
ings of  the  Bible,  than  two  hundred  who  were  in- 
dulging in  anything  that  was  contrary  to  the  princi- 
ples of  Christianity.  He  regarded  secret  societies 
as  opposed  to  the  teachings  of  Scripture,  and  invited 
those  present  to  express  their  opinion  on  the  sub- 
ject.    Many  spoke,  and  quite  intelligently. 

One  man  said  he  had  belonged  to  three:  the  Tab- 
ernacle, Odd-fellows,  and  Freemasons,  and  he  found 
them  all  bad  and  left  them;  for  he  had  determined 
to  belong  to  nothing  that  would  interfere  with  his 
religion,  and  he  thought  no  one  could  belong  to 
any  of  those  societies  and  be  a  good  Christian  at 
the  same  time. 

Another  said,  though  they  promised  to  put  a  peiv 
son  in  a  nice  coffin  wnen  he  died,  and  give  one  a  re- 
spectable funeral,  he  would  not  belong  to  a  secret 
society  if  they  promised  to  bury  him  in  a  coffin  of  gold, 
for  he  believed  it  was  wrong,  and  he  meant  to  save 
his  soul  no  matter  what  they  did  with  his  body.  He 
said  many  had  tried  to  persuade  him  lately  to  join 
the  Knights  of  Labor,  and  his  employer  threatened 
to  discharge  him  if  he  did  not;  but  he  said  it  was 
against  his  religion  and  he  couldn't  do  it. 

Another  said  many  Joined  them  just  to  hear  the 
wonderful  secret  that  they  expected  to  hear,  but  he 
said  "it  wasn't  nothin'"  when  it  was  told.  Others 
who  could  not  read,  said  as  they  understood  the  Bi- 
ble as  it  was  read  and  explained  to  them  by  their 
minister,  they  believed  it  wrong  to  belong  to  secret 
societies,  and  they  would  be  glad  to  have  it  made  a 
rule  that  no  church  member  should  belong  to  one. 

Sarah  A.  Farlet. 


Bible  Lesson. 


PITH  AND  POINT. 


THE   YORK   CENTENNIAL. 

The  United  States  have  had  four  capitals:  Philadelphia, 
York,  New  York,  and  Washington.  York,  Pa.,  was  the 
capital  for  nine  months  in  1777  and  '78  Here  the  "Ar- 
ticles of  Confederation"  were  considered  and  adopted. 
York  is  one  of  the  most  famous  old  cities  in  the  United 
States.  It  raised  the  first  troops  south  of  the  Hudson 
River.  Next  week  I  will  send  you  a  report  of  the  late 
centennial  here  written  from  the  anti-secret  standpoint. 
Let  us  push  things  this  winter. — E.  J.  Chalfant,  Tork, 
Pa. 

west   VIRGINIA   GRANGES  SINK  UNDER  DISCUSSION. 

There  were  once  a  great  many  grange  organizations  in 
this  region  of  country.  Now  there  are  only  two  or  three 
in  two  counties.  The  grange  at  Sink's  Grove,  Monroe 
county,  broke  up  with  a  discussion  on  the  merits  and 
demerits  of  the  system.  Some  of  the  members  became 
convinced  that  it  is  morally  wrong  and  proposed  to  with 
draw.  Those  who  were  strong  in  the  faith  of  granger- 
ism  asked  them  to  attend  one  more  meeting  and  discuss 
the  question.  They  did  so,  and  that  grange  has  never 
had  a  meeting  since,  though  eighteen  months  have 
elapsed. — J.  W.  Claypool,  Qreen  Brier  Co.,  W.  Va. 

THE   PINE    bluff   SCHOOL. 

I  find  I  can  do  a  great  deal  among  the  ministers  in 
traveling  around,  and  as  I  happen  to  know  many  of  the 
ministers  personally,  I  can  urge  on  the  fray,  direct  the 
battle  and  shout  with  the  victors.  I  will  try  and  be  at 
Camden  to  the  State  Convention  (Baptist)  and  do  what 
I  can.  Our  Presbytery  gives  me  liberty  to  visit  any 
points  I  choose,  and  solicit  aid  for  our  church  and  school 
At  present  we  are  bending  every  efiEort  to  build  a  school- 
house.  Our  prospects  for  success  are  good.  We  need  a 
place  where  there  can  be  free  discussion. — Lewis  John- 
ston, Pine  Bluff,  Ark. 

A  GOOD  reason  FOR  LEAVING. 

I  am  well  pleased  with  the  sample  of  the  Christian 
Cynosure.  I  have  read  it  over  and  over  again.  I  am 
glad  that  I  have  found  such  a  paper.  I  withdrew  from 
Chillicothe  Lodge,  No.  115,  I.  O  O.  F..  about  two  years 
ago,  on  account  of  their  rottenness.  They  played  cards 
in  the  hall  on  Lord's  day.  They  had  frequent  dances  of 
the  very  lowest  character,  together  with  low-down 
drunken  rows. — Jos.  Ball,  Chillicothe,  Iowa. 

AN   OLD   man's   blessing. 

I  feel  a  deep  interest  in  the  good  old  Cynosure.  It  is 
my  best  paper.  I  think  it  is  doing  a  noble  work.  It 
strikes  at  the  root  of  infidelity  showing  up  the  anti  Christ 
of  the  secret  systems  whose  devotees  bow  and  worship  at 
an  altar  and  worship  an  unknown  god,  without  a  Christ. 
It  is  truly  a  light  that  shines  in  a  dark  place.  I  would 
that  it  could  be  sent  through  all  the  land. — B.  Wti.i-iams, 
Warren,  III. 


STUDIES  IN  THE  NEW  TESTAMENT. 
LESSON  VI.— Nov.  6.— ConfesBing  Christ.— Matt.  10:  62-42. 
GOLDEN  TEXT.— Whosoever  therefore  shall  confess  me  be 
fore  men,  him  will  I  confess  also  before  my  Father  which  is  In 
heaven.— Matt.  10 :  32. 

\_Open  the  Bible  and  read  the  le»son.'\ 

COMMENTS   ON   THE  LESSON   BY  E.  E.  FLAGQ. 

1.  The  Duty  of  Confessing  Christ,  vs.  32-33.  Con- 
fession in  the  Greek  means  speaking  one  language,  hence 
a  oneness,  an  agreement,  as  of  two  people  in  such  perfect 
concord  that  they,  are  literally  like  one  person.  Now  it 
is  plain  that  this  is  the  kind  of  confession  required  of  us 
by  Christ.  It  is  a  kind  that  nobody  can  mistake.  The 
testimony  of  the  lips  may  be  contradicted  by  the  life,  but 
the  testimony  of  the  life  admits  of  no  contradiction. 
We  are  not  obliged  to  suppose  that  he  will  need  to  con- 
fess or  deny  us  in  so  many  words  before  the  assembled 
powers  of  heaven .  He  himself,  his  whole  divine  char- 
acter, will  bear  witness  whether  or  not  we  are  one  with 
him. 

S.  T7i^  Trials  to  be  Expected,  vs.  34-39.  In  the  lapse 
of  eighteen  centuries  men  have  not  learned  that  to  preach 
Christ  faithfully  will  always  bring  division — that  kind  of 
division  which  separates  the  wheat  from  the  chaff.  So 
they  try  to  suppress  God's  truth  about  popular  sins, 
thinking  thus  to  have  peace,  but  it  is  the  peace  of  the 
stagnant  pool  spreading  miasma  and  death  wherever  its 
foul  exhalations  rise.  In  all  civilized  lands  the  era  of 
religious  persecution  is  now  over.  No  Christian  fears 
that  his  dearest  friend  will  turn  informer  and  deliver  him 
up  to  the  civil  magistrate .  But  the  dividing  line  be- 
tween those  who  accept  Christ  and  those  who  reject  him 
is  just  as  closely  drawn  now  as  it  was  then.  There  can 
be  no  more  soul  union  between  the  household  of  God 
and  the  children  of  Satan  than  in  the  days  of  Nero  and 
Domitian.  Truth  never  changes,  and  if  Christ  were  on 
earth  to  day  his  preaching  would  be  in  substance  the 
same  to  us  that  it  was  to  the  Jews.  The  Gospel  cannot 
be  taught  or  lived  in  its  entirety  without  causing  offence 
to  some.  Here  the  modern  American  pulpit  makes  its 
great  mistake  in  failing  to  preach  practical  righteous- 
ness. The  converts  made  in  this  way  will  not  bear  the 
stress  and  strain  of  temptation  but  will  fall  away.  This 
has  been  abundantly  proved  in  many  a  so-called  "great 
revival"  which  left  the  standard  of  public  honesty  no 
higher  than  it  found  it,  and  the  altars  of  secret  false  wor- 
ships undisturbed  and  flourishing.  This  should  not  be. 
The  influence  of  a  true  revival  will  extend  to  the  count- 
ing room  and  the  ballot  box,  and  it  will  either  convert 
Masons  "from  the  lodge  to  Christ,"  as  Finney  puts  it,  or 
make  them  antagonistic.  God's  seal  on  a  work  of  grace 
that  it  is  indeed  of  him  is  in  this  very  point — that  it  sifts 
and  divides,  showing  who  are  on  the  Lord's  side  and  who 
prefer  the  enemy's.  Christians  must  expect  cross-bear- 
ing. "Life"  is  expressed  both  in  Greek  and  English  by 
the  same  word,  but  it  is  used  in  different  senses.  There 
is  the  life  of  this  world  which  dies  with  the  body— a 
fleeting  dream,  a  tale  that  is  told;  and  there  is  the  real 
life  which  we  live  unto  God,  which  shall  endure  eternally, 
the  life  of  self  sacrifice  and  self-denial.  To  lose  self  is 
to  find  God,  and  that  is  to  find  the  very  fountain  of  life. 
We  need  a  stronger  grasp  on  this  truth.  He  that  makes 
this  lower  life  his  all  must  miss  forever  the  true  life.  In 
Robert  Browning's  poem,  'Easter  Day,"  a  man  dreams 
that  the  judgment  has  come,  but  the  only  judgment 
which  befalls  him  is  to  stay  forever  on  the  earth,  en- 
grossed in  his  chosen  pursuit,  and  he  finds  it  the  worst  of 
imagined  hells.  The  life  of  the  senses  is  the  mere  husk 
which  wraps  the  life  of  ihe  spurit.  Who  would  choose 
the  useless  husk  and  throw  away  the  life-giving  ear  of 
corn  within? 

..'.  The  Reward  of  Humble  Service,  vs.  40-42.  He 
who  receives  the  Son  receives  the  Father;  so  he  who  re- 
ceives the  lowliest  of  Christ's  messengers  receives  Christ 
himself .  All  cannot  preach  or  go  as  missionaries,  but 
he  who  denies  himself  to  help  support  those  who  can,  or 
who  ministers  to  the  wants  of  needy  saints,  though  the 
service  he  is  able  to  render  be  only  a  cup  of  cold  water, 
shares  in  their  divine  reward.  In  the  heavenly  kingdom 
love  holds  the  scales,  and  every  deed  is  golden  that  is 
done  for  Christ. 

From  Peloubet'8  Notes. 

"I  came  not  to  send  peace,  but  a  sword."  There  can 
be  no  peace  between  truth  and  error,  light  and  darkness. 
The  mission  of  Christ  was  aggressive,  and  so  also  is  the 
Gospel  aggressive.  It  has  for  its  object  the  overthrow 
of  the  kingdom  of  darkness,  and  the  rescuing  of  men 
from  the  power  of  sin  and  Satan.  The  truth,  the  Word 
of  God,  is  indeed  a  sword,  a  spiritual  weapon,  sharper 
than  any  two-edged  sword  (Heb.  4:  12),  and  wherever 
proclaimed  will  separate  and  cause  divisions,  conquering 


October  27, 188T 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOStTBE. 


and  making  friends  or  arousing  the  hos- 
tility of  obstinate  foes,  a  savor  of  life 
unto  life  to  the  one,  and  a  savor  of  death 
unto  death  to  the  other  (2  Cor.  3:16). 
The  ultimate  object  of  the  <5o8pel  is 
peace,  peace  witn  God,  and  then  peace 
among  men.  But  in  a  world  of  sin,  like 
ours,  this  can  only  be  attained  through 
conflict.  Strifes  and  divisions  are,  there- 
fore, necessary  results,  arising  from  the 
cruel  and  rebellious  nature  of  evil. — O. 
W.  Clark.  A.  sword  is  the  symbol  of 
war.  The  first  coming  of  Christ  always 
brings  war,  whether  to  the  individual 
soul  or  to  the  community.  War  is  the 
stalk,  peace  the  ripened  grain.  Rom.  7: 
28  depicts  the  sword;  7:  25  and  chap.  8, 
the  peace. — Abbott. 

"He  that  loveth  f  ather ....  more  than 
me,  is  not  worthy  of  me."  The  test  of 
love,  according  to  Christ,  is  not  emotional 
experience,  but  obedience  (John  14.  21); 
hence  this  declaration  is  substantially 
embodied  in  Matt  6:24.  No  man  can 
serve  two  masters.  For  illustration  of 
loving  Christ  more  than  father  or  mother, 
see  Matt.  4:  21,  22.  For  para'lel  and 
illustrative  teachings,  John  21:  15;  2  Cor. 
5:  14,  15;  Phil.  3:  7-9  We  are  not  asked 
to  love  parents  and  children  and  friends 
less,  but  to  love  Christ  more.  Indeed 
"supreme  love  to  Christ  never  diminishes 
and  eviscerates;  it  invariably  exalts  and 
intensifies,  all  other  legitimate  loves." 
The  more  we  love  parents,  children,  and 
friends,  the  better,  if  only  that  love  is 
sanctified  aud  purified  by  a  love  to  Jesus 
which  is  supreme  above  all.  This  su- 
preme love  transfigures  the  other  affec- 
tions into  that  perfect  love  which  the 
saints  and  angels  feel  in  heaven. 

"He  that  taketh  not  his  cross."  1.  We 
take  up  our  f ross  when  we  mortify  the 
deeds  of  the  flesh  for  the  sake  of  the 
Spirit  (Col.  3:  5),  or  when  we  gladly  suf- 
fer the  loss  of  all  things  that  we  may  be 
found  in  Christ  (Phil.  3:  8-10).  or  share 
his  sufferings  and  self-sacrifices  that  we 
may  minister  to  his  suffering  ones  (Matt. 
25:  35,  S&).— Abbott.  2.  All  self-denials 
for  Jesus'  sake  are  a  taking  up  the  cross. 
The  cross  is  the  symbol  of  death,  and  the 
spirit  of  taking  up  the  cross  implies  the 
willingness  to  suffer  for  Jesus  even  unto 
death  But  often  many  small  self  denials, 
a  continual  enduring  of  little  crosses,  are 
more  difficult  to  bear  than  martyrdom, 
and  are  as  real  a  sacrifice  of  the  life  to 
Jesus.  3.  Each  one  must  take  up  his 
own  cross;  the  one  the  good  Father  lays 
upon  him.  4  He  must  take  it  up  volun- 
tarily .  5  He  must  bear  it  after  Christ,  in 
Christ's  cpirit,  in  his  way,  in  doing  his 
work.  6.  Every  person  needs  a  cross  to 
make  him  better  in  this  world  and  fit  him 
for  heaven.  No  true  life  is  lived  without 
some  cross.  7.  There  is  always  a  crown 
surmounting  the  cross. 


Farm  Notes. 


WHEAT  IN  AMERICA. 

Concerning  the  introduction  of  wheat 
into  America,  reliable  information  is 
obtainable.  It  may  be  difiBcult  in  the 
present  day  to  realize  the  fact  that  wheat 
was  at  one  time  unknown  in  America; 
yet  prior  to  the  discovery  of  this  conti- 
nent by  Columbus,  there  was  no  cereal 
in  America  approaching  in  nature  to  the 
wheat  plant.  It  was  not  until  1530  that 
wheat  found  its  way  into  Mexico,  and 
then  only  by  chance.  A  slave  of  Cortez 
found  a  few  grains  of  wheat  in  a  parcel 
of  rice  and  showed  them  to  his  master, 
who  ordered  them  to  be  planted  The 
result  showed  that  wheat  would  thrive 
well  on  Mexican  soil,  and  to  day  one  of 
the  finest  wheat  valleys  in  the  world  is 
near  the  Mexican  capital.  From  Mexico 
the  cereal  found  its  way  to  Peru.  Marie 
D'Escobar,  wife  of  Don  Diego  de 
Chauves,  carried  a  few  grains  to  Lima, 
which  were  planted,  the  entire  product 
being  used  for  seed  for  several  successive 
crops.  At  (Juito,  Ecuador,  a  monk  of 
the  order  ot  St.  Francis,  named  Fra 
Jodosi  Bixi,  introduced  a  new  cereal;  and 
it  is  said  that  the  jar  which  contained  the 
peed  is  still  preserved  by  the  monks  of 
Quito.  Wheat  was  introduced  into  the 
present  limits  of  the  United  States  con- 
temporaneously with  the  settlement  of 
the  country  by  the  English  and  other 
European  settlers.  —  Milling  World. 

MANURING  CANNOT  BE  OVERDt)!^. 
The  venerable  Peter  Henderson  thinks 
manuring  cannot  be  overdone,  and  says: 
It  is  a  great  blunder  to  a'.,tempt  to  grow 
vegetable  crops  without  the  use  of  ma- 
nures of  the  various  kinds.  I  never  yet 
saw  Boils  of  any  kind  that  had  borne  a 
crop  of  vegetables  tliat  would  produce  aa 


good  a  crop  the  next  season  without  the 
use  of  manure,  no  matter  how  rich  the 
soil  may  be  thought  to  be.  An  illustra- 
tion of  this  came  under  my  observation 
last  season.  One  of  my  neighbors,  a 
market  gardener  of  twenty  years'  experi- 
ence, and  whose  grounds  have  always 
been  a  perfect  model  of  productiveness, 
had  it  in  prospect  to  run  a  sixty  foot 
street  through  his  grounds.  Thinking 
his  land  sufliciently  rich  to  carry  through 
a  crop  of  cabbages  without  manure,  he 
thought  it  useless  to  waste  money  by 
using  guano  on  that  portion  on  which 
the  street  was  to  be,  but  on  each  side  he 
sowed  guano  at  the  rate  of  12,000  pounds 
to  the  acre,  and  planted  the  whole  with 
early  cabbages.  The  effect  was  the  most 
marked  I  ever  saw.  That  portion  on 
which  the  guano  had  been  used  sold  off 
readily  at  $12  per  hundred,  or  about  $1,- 
400  per  acre,  both  price  and  crop  being 
more  than  the  average;  but  the  portion 
from  which  the  guano  had  been  withheld 
hardly  averaged  $3  per  hundred.  The 
street  occupied  fully  an  acre  of  ground, 
so  that  my  friend  actually  lost  over  .$!,- 
050  in  crop  by  withholding  $60  for  ma- 
nure. Another  neighbor,  with  a  lease 
only  one  year  to  run.  unwisely  concluded 
it  would  be  foolish  to  waste  manure  on 
his  last  crop,  and  so  planted  and  sowed 
all  without .  The  result  was,  as  his  ex- 
perience should  have  taught  him,  a  crop 
of  inferior  quality  in  every  article  grown 
and  loss  on  his  eight  acres  of  probably 
$2,000  for  that  season. — National  Stock- 
man. 

Orchards  should  be  top  dressed  with 
manure  every  autumn,  or  at  least  bien- 
nially. Let  the  top  -dressing  cover  the 
whole  surface,  avoiding  the  common 
mistake  of  spreading  the  manure  a  few 
feet  only  on  each  side  of  the  tree .  This 
treatment  will  not  only  give  the  trees 
more  vigor,  but  will  add  to  their  fruitful- 
ness;  and  not  only  add  to  their  fruitful- 
ness,  but  produce  larger,  fairer  and  better 
fruit. 

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Daniel  Webster,  Richard  Rush.  John 
Hancock,  Millard  Fillmore,  Chief  Justice 
Marshall,  Seth  M.  Gates,  Nathaniel  Col- 
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Bishop  FllcklnRer  of  the  U.  B.  church  says 
that,  "This  volume  will  well  repay  a  care- 
ful reading  not  only  for  Its  discuBsloQ  and  ex- 
position or  these  socletles.but  because  It  gives 
much  valuable  Information  respecting  other 
Institutions  of  that  great  continent." 

J.  Augustus  Cole,  the  author  of  this  pam- 
phlet is  a  native  of  Western  Africa,  and  is  of 
pure  negro  blood .  He  has  given  much  time 
and  care  to  the  investigation  of  the  secret  so- 
cieties and  heathen  customs  of  Western  Afri- 
ca. He  joined  several  of  the  secret  orders  for 
the  purpost  of  obtalnins;  full  and  correct  in- 
formation regarding  tljf  Ir  nature  and  opera- 
tion. His  culture  and  superior  powers  oi  dlb- 
crimlnation  render  what  he  has  written  most 
complete  and  reliable. 

90  pages,  paper,  postpaid,  26  oenti. 

National  Christian  Association. 

f  21  Xir.  MadiionSt..  Chloaco.   111. 

MASONIC  OATHS. 

BY 

Pa^t    lUaNtor    oT  K<>j  Htoiie   I.,o«l(c, 

No.   41.10.  Chivnico. 

A  mniiterly  diicuMlou  of  tho  Ontbn  of  the  Hs*ouln 
'-•i'Iki'.Io  which  Ik  nppntuli'd  "FrePiiioonnry  nt  • 
(Jlauoe."  tllunlratlni;  evorj  nlmi,  Brlp  and  cpre- 
ino'iy  of  the  Mnsoiilc  L"><lL,'e.  Thlo  won  m  blirbly 
or>muieudeil  by  Iva«>lDi;  Invtiirars  as  tumlKblim  tb* 
^^»t  arKuraeuta  ou  the  naturu  and  arac- 

t«rof  MododIc  cbllRiitlouii  of  any  book  in  priuu 
P»per  cover,  'JOT  paii(><i.    Hrli'e,  40  oontK, 

National  Christian  Association, 

^»l  WeatniMUa*!!  St.  OU«ii«o,  UL 


ANTJMABONIO  LB0TURBR8. 

Qknbral  AeBHT  AND  Lbctubbb,  J.  p. 
Stoddard,  221  W.  Madison  St.,  Chicago. 

H.  H.  Hinman,  Cynosure  office. 
Agent  for  Southern  States. 
Statb  AeBMTB. 

Iowa,  C.  F,   Hawley,  Wayne,   Henry 
Co.     Care  Rev.  Geo.  Fry. 

Missouri,  Eld.  Rufua  Smith,  Maryville. 

New  Hampshire,   Kid.  S.  C.  Kimball, 
New  Market. 

Ohio,  W.  B.  Stoddard,  Columbus. 

Kansas,  Robert  Loggan,  Clifton. 

Alabama,  Rev.  G.  M.  Elliott,  Selma. 

Dbobbb  Workbbb. — LSeceders.l 
J.  K.  Glassford,  Carthage,  Mo. 
Othbb  Lbctttbbbs. 

C.  A.  Blanchard,  Wheaton,  111. 
N.  Callender,  Thompson,  Pa. 

J  H.  Tlmmons,  Tarentum,  Pa 

T.  B.  McCormlck,  Princeton,  Ind. 

E.  Johnson,  Dayton,  Ind. 

H.  A.  Day,  WiUiamfltown,  Mich. 

J.  M.  Bishop,  Chambersburg,  Pa. 

A.  Mayn,  Bloomln^on,  Ind. 

J.  B.  Cresslnger,  Sullivan,  O. 

W.  M.  Love,  Osceola,  Mo. 

J.  L.  Barlow,  Grundy  Center,  Iowa. 

A.   D.  Freeman,  Downers  Grove,  111 

Wm.  FentoD  8t  Paul,  Minn. 

E.  I.  Grlnnell,  Blalrsburg,  Iowa. 

Warren  Taylor,  South  Salem,  O. 

J.  S.  Perry,  Thompson,  Conn. 

J.  T.  Michael,  New  Wllmlnrton,  Pa. 

8.  G.  Barton,  Breckinridge,  Mo. 

E.  Bametson.  EasklnvUle,  Steuben  Co,|N.  T 

Wm.  R.  Roach,  Pickering,  Ont. 

D.  A.  Richards,  Brighton,  Mich. 


THE   GHURCHE8    V8.    LODeSBY. 

The  following  denominations  are  com- 
mitted by  vote  of  their  legislative  assem- 
blies or  by  constitution  to  a  separation 
from  secret  lodge  worship: 

Adventists  (Seventh-day.) 

Baptists — Primitive,  Seventh-day  and 
Scandinavian. 

Brethren  (Dunkera  or  German  Bap- 
tists.) 

Christian  Reformed  Church. 

Church  of  God  Northern  Indiana  El- 
dership.) 

Congregational — The  State  Associations 
of  Illinois  and  Iowa  have  adopted  resolu- 
tions against  the  lodge. 

Disciples  (in  part.) 

Friends. 

Lutherans — Norwegian,  Danish,  Swed- 
ish and  Synodical  Conferences. 

Mennonites. 

Methodists — Free  and  Wesleyan. 

Methodist  Protestant  (Minnesota  Con- 
ference.) 

Moravians. 

Plymouth  Brethren. 

Presbyterian — Associate,  Reformetl  and 
United. 

Reformed  Church  (Holland  Branch.) 

United  Brethren  in  Christ. 

Individual  churches  in  some  of  these 
denominations  should  be  excepted,  in  part 
of  them  even  a  considerable  portion. 

The  following  lOcal  churches  have,  aa  a 
pledge  to  disfellowship  and  oppose  lodge 
worship,  given  their  names  to  the  follow- 
ing list  as 

THE    ASSOCIATED   CHUKCHE8    OF  CHRIST, 

New    Ruhamah  Cong.  Hamilton,  Miss. 

Pleasant  Ridge  Cong.   Sandford  Co.  Ala. 

New  Hope  Jiethodist,   Lowndes  Co.,  Miss. 

Congregational,  College  Springs,  Iowa. 

College  Church  of  Christ.  Wicaton,  HI. 

First  Congregational,  Leland,  Mich. 

Sugnr  Grove  Church,  Green  county,  Pa. 

Military  Chapel,  M.  £.,  Lowndes  county, 
'*'Iiss. 

Hopewell  Miwionaty  Baptist.,  Lowndes  Co., 
Miss. 

Cedar  Grove  Miss.  Baptist,  Lowndes  Co., 
Mis.*. 

Simon's  Chapel,  M.   E.,  Lowndes  Co.,  Miss. 

Pleasant  Ridge  Miea.  Baptist,  Lowndes  Co., 
Vllss. 

Bnwnlec  Church,  Caledonia,  Misa. 

Salem  Church,  Lowndes  Co.,  Miss. 

^Vcst  Preston  Baptist  Church,  Wayne  Co.,P». 

OTHBR  LOCAL  CHITBCHB8 

adopting  the  same  principle  are — 

Baptist  churchea :  N.  Abfngton,  Pa.  :Meno- 
monie,  Mondovi,  Waubeck  and  Spring  Prairie, 
Wis. ;  Wheaton,  111. ;  Perry,  N.  T7;  Spring 
Creek,  near  Burlington,  Iowa;  Lima,  Ind.; 
Constableville,  N.  "T.  Tlie  "Good  WUl  Assocl- 
ton"of  Mobile,  Ala.,  comprising  some  twenty- 
flve  colored  Baptist  churches;  Bridgewatcr 
Baptist  Association,  Pa.;  Old  Tebo  Baptist, 
near  LeeeviUc.  Henry  Co.,  Mo. ;  Hoopeaton,  111 ; 
Esmen,  111. ;  Strykersvllle,  N.  Y. 

Congregational  churches :  let  of  Oberlln,  O. ; 
Tonica,  CtrysUl  Lake,  Union  and  Big  Woods, 
111. ;  Solebury,  Ind. ;  Congregational  Methodist 
Maplewood,  Maes. 

Independent  churches  in  Lowell,  Conntry- 
man  euiool  bouse  near  Llndenwood,  Marengo 
and  Btroator,  111. :  Boreaand  Camp  Nelson,  Ky ; 
TTntirk,  111. ;  Clarksburg,  Kansas;  BUte  Associ- 
ation of  Ministers  and  Cborches  of  Ohrlst  !■ 
KsmUwkT. 


N.  C.  A.  BUILDraO  AND  OFFICE  OF 
THE  CHRISTIAN   CYNOSURE, 
131  WEST  MADISON  STREET,  CmCAOO 


yA  "TIONAL  CERI8TIAN  A8S0CIA  TIOJI 

Pkbsidbht.— H.  H.  George,  D.  D.,  Gen- 
eva College,  Pa. 

VlCB-PRBSIDBNT — RcV.     M.    A.    Osult, 

Blanchard  Iowa. 

Cob.  Sbc^y  and  Gbnbral  Aesirr. — J 
P.  Stoddard,  221 W.  Madison  St.,  Chicago. 

Rbc.  Sbc'y.  and  Tbkasubbb. — W.  I. 
Phillips,  221  W.  Madison  St.,    Chicago. 

Dibbctobs. — Alexander  Thomson,  M, 
R.  Britten,  John  Gardner,  J.  L.  Barlow, 
L.  N.  Stratton,  Thos.  H.  Gault,  C.  A. 
Blanchard,  J.  E.  Roy,  E.  R.  Worrell,  H. 
A.  Fischer,  W.  R.  Hench. 

The  object  of  this  Association  Is: 
"To  expose,  withstand  and  remove  secret 
societies.  Freemasonry  in  particular,  and  othet 
anti-Christian  movements,  in  order  to  save  the 
churches  of  Christ  from  being  cepraved,  to  re- 
deem the  adminl6tr»  yon  of  lustlce  from  per- 
version, and  our  rsp  iblican  government  fix>m 
corruption." 

To  carry  on  this  work  contributions  are 
solicited  from  every  friend  of  tne  reform. 

Form  op  Bequbst. — J  give  and  bequeath  to 
the  National  Cliristian  Association,  incorpo- 
rated and  existing  under  the  laws  of  the  State 

of    Illinois,  the  sum  of dollars  for  the 

piUTOses  of  said  Association,  and  for  which 
tte  receipt  of  its  Treasurer  for  the  time  being 
^aU  be  sufficient  dlscharse. 

THB  KATIONAL  CONVBKTIOH. 

Pbbbidbkt. — Rev.  J.  8.  McCulloch, 
D.  D. 

Skcbbtabt.— Rev.  Lewis  Johnson. 

BTATB  AUZILIABT  ASSOCIATIOKB 

Alabama.— Pres.,  Prof.  Pickens;  Sec.,  Q. 
M.  Elliott;  Treas.,  Rev.  C.  B.  Curtis,  all  of 
Selma. 

Cautoknia.— Pres.,  L.  B.  Lathrop,  Hollls- 
ter;  Cor.  Sec,  Mrs.  U.  P.  Merrill,  Woodland: 
Treas.,  C.  Ruddock,  Woodland. 

CoNNBCTicuT.— Pres..  J.  A.  Conant,  Willi- 
mantle;  Sec,  Geo.  Smith,  Wllllman tic;  Treas., 
C.  T.  Collins,  Windsor. 

Ii.Tjnoi8.— Pres.,  J.  P.  Stodd.^rd;  Bee.,  M. 
N.  Butler;  Treae.,  W.  I.  Phllllpi.  all  at  Cy 
noture  office. 

Indiana.— Pres..  WUllam  H.  Flgg,  Reno 
Sec,  8.  L.  Cook,  Albion;  Treas.,  BenJ.  U>h 
Silver  Lake. 

Iowa.— Pres.,  Geo.    Warrington,  Birmli^ 
ham;  Cor  Sec.,  C.  D.  Trumbull,  Momin*  Bun; 
Treas.,  James  Harvey,  Pleasant  Plain,  Jeffer- 
son Co. 

Kansas.— Pres.,  J.  P.  Richards,  Ft  Scott: 
Secj  W.  W.  McMillan,  Olathe;  Treas.,  J. 
A.  Tcrrence,  N.  Cedar. 

Massaohdsbtts.— Pres.,  S.. A.  Pratt;  Sec, 
Mrs.  E.  D.  Bailey;  Treas., David  Mannlng.Sr., 
Worcester. 

Michigan.— Pres.,  D.  A.  Richards,  Brighton ; 
Bec'y,  H.  A.  Day,  WUllamston;  Treaa. 
Geo.  Swanson,  Jr.,  Bedloni. 

MrNNBSOTjt.— Free.,  E.  Q.  Paine,  Wasloja; 
Cor.  Sec.,  W.  H.  McChesney,  Fairmont;  Rec, 
Bec'y,  Thoe.  Hartley,  Richland ;  Treas,,  Wm. 
H.  Morrill,  St.  Charles. 

Missouri.— Fren.,  B.  F.  Miller,  KaglevIIJe; 
Treas-^WllUam  Beauchamp,  Avalon ;  (jor.  8#c., 
A.  D.  Thoma*,  Avalou. 

NsBaABKA.- Pres.,  S.  Austin,  Fairmooit; 
Cor.  Bee.,  W.  Spoonor,  Xeamey;  Treas., 
J.  C.  Fye. 

NiwHjimpshirb.— Pre*.,  Isaac  Hyatt,  Oil 
ford  Village;  Sec.,  S.  C.  Kimball,  New  Market- 
Treas.,  James  F.  French,  Canterbury. 

Nbw  York.— Pres.,  F.  W.  Capwell,  Dale; 
Bec'y,  John  Wallace,  Syracuse;  Treas.,  M. 
Merrick,  Syracuse. 

Ohio.— Pres.,  Rev.  R.  M.  Smith,  Pacetown ; 
Rec.  SeCv  Rev.  Coleman,  Utlca;  Cor.  8ec  and 
Treas.,  Rev.  S.  A.  George,  Mansfield;  Agent, 
W.  B.  Stoddard,  Columbus. 

PiNNSTLVAHiA.- Pre*.,  A.  L  Post,  Moi 
trose;  Cor.  Bee.,  N.  Callender,  Tbompsoiit 
Treas.,  W.B.  Bertels,  WUkesbarrs. 

VmBMONT.— Pre*.,  W.  R.  Latrd,  St.  Johns- 
burv;  Sec,  C.W  Potter., ,   „      w 

WiBOOHsra— Pre«., J.  W.  Wood,  B»i»bo« 
8«e.,  W.  W.  Ames.  lievonMBts ;  Tt«m    M.  K 


8 


THE  CHRISTIAN  GYNOSURS. 


OoTOBSK  27, 1887 


The  Christian  Cynosure. 


XOROBB. 


J.  BLANCHARD. 


HENBT  L.  KSLLOGG. 


CHIOAeO.    THUB8DAY.    OCTOBER   27.    1887. 


A  J^ICW  AJUTl-MAtiONlG  LEAGUE. 


PBBAOHINO  ON  BOSTON  COMMON. 


"Manual  of  the  Antirmsonic  Lfague.  Marshall, 
III,  Church-Progress  Printing  House.  1887." 

The  above  is  the  imprint  on  the  title  page  of  a 
pamphlet  of  35  pages,  just  received.  It  strikes  us 
as  a  sign  of  the  times  of  no  ordinary  magnitude. 
We  have  but  just  glanced  at  it.  We  shall  read  it 
with  care  and  then  the  readers  of  the  Cynosure  shall 
have  our  mature  thoughts  and  advice  concerning  it, 
and  our  duty  in  relation  to  this  Boman  Catholic 
Anti-masonic  League. 

This  pamphlet  informs  us  that  a  Jesuit  priest, 
Father  Regnault,  was  about  to  start  for  Rome,  and 
the  aulhor  of  "The  Manual  of  the  Anti-masonic 
League"  requested  him  to  hand  a  copy  to  the  Pope 
and  get  his  judgment  on  it.  Father  Regnault  did 
so,  and  the  Pope  read  it  and  wrote  his  warmest  ap- 
probation and  most  earnest  advice  in  favor  of  the 
league,  urging  the  circulation  of  the  Manual  among 
the  masses.taking  pledges  of  all  who  can  be  brought 
to  sign.  The  pledges  bind  the  signers  never  to  vote 
for  a  Fi-eemason,  and  never  to  taJee  a  newspaper  edited 
hy  one!" 

It  is  intended  to  form  these  leagues  not  only  in 
our  country  but  in  all  others  wherever  there  are  Ro- 
man Catholics.  Mr.  Ezra  A.  Cook,  our  former  pub- 
lisher of  the  Cynosure,  has  now  under  way  and  will 
soon  issue  a  book  on  "The  Ancient  and  Accepted 
Scottish  Rite,"  which  rite  now  owns  the  Masonic 
temples  and  rules  the  Masonry  of  the  world.  This 
book  will  show  that  this  ruling  rite  of  the  Masonic 
world  originated  in  the  Jesuit  College  of  Clermont, 
Pari8,but  was,  by  the  addition  of  eight  degrees.mod- 
ified  and  increased  to  thirty-three  degrees,the  present 
number,by  Morin, Mitchell  and  Dalcho,in  Charleston, 
South  Carolira.  Count  de  Grras8e,who  aided  Wash- 
ington in  the  taking  of  Cornwallis,was  initiated  and 
took  this  Americanized  degree  back  to  Europe 
where  it  now  prevails.  The  Supreme  Council  was 
formed  in  Charleston  in  1801.  There  is  abun- 
dant historic  proof  that  Ramsay  and  the  Jesuits  or- 
iginated this  rite  and  used  it  in  their  endeavor  to 
replace  the  Stuarts  and  popery  on  the  British  throne. 
And  now.  behold,  a  Jesuit  is  organizing  an  "Anti- 
masonic  League"  and  the  Pope  (Leo  Xlll.)  endors- 
es and  sanctions  it  I 

The  first  impression  which '^ this  news  will  make 
on  our  readers  is  that  which  the  wooden  horse  made 
on  the  Trojans:  '^Timeo  Danaos  et  donaque  ferentes." 
"I  fear  the  Greeks  even  bringing  gifts.'  But  we 
must  not  be  of  thosCwho  will  not  do  good  even  if  the 
devil  bids"  us  do  it.  Dr.  Lyman  Beecher  used  to 
say  to  us,  "The  Roman  Catholics  hold  to  the  Fath- 
er, Son  and  Holy  Ghost.  They  furnished  the  Bible 
by  which  Luther,  under  God,produced  the  Reforma- 
tion; and  God  may  yet  bring  a  blessing  to  the  world 
out  of  that  apostate  communion." 

This  Roman  Catholic  Anti-masonic  pamphlet  not 
only  opposes  lodges  but  "godless  schools,"  And 
this  may  be  the  cat  hid  under  this  good  meal.  But, 
taking  the  terms  literally,  we  are  as  much  opposed 
to  godless  schools  as  they  are.  Then  a  considerable 
minoiityof  the  American  Board  at  Springfield, Mass., 
voted  to  send  missionaries  to  the  heathen  who  hold 
to  a  qualified  purgatory  for  some  heathen  after 
death,  and  the  Andover  Seminary  is,  virtually,  in 
favor  of  founding  churches  on  their  hypothesis  that 
there  may  be  such  a  post-mortem  probation  or  pur- 
gatory, and  if  there  is  there  should  be  prayers  for 
the  dead;  and  Andover,  the  old  mother  Protestant 
seminary,  is  now  a  half-way  house  to  popery  and 
prayers  for  the  dead. 

We  hope  this  Roman  Catholic  "Anti-masonic 
League"  pamphlet  will  be  circulated  extensively,and 
read  by  the  opponents  of  the  lodge.  And  when  this 
great  and  significant  movement  shall  have  been  stud- 
ied and  sifted  by  our  anti-secret  presses,  and  such 
men  as  the  late  Dr.  Kerr  of  Pittsburgh,  of  whom  we 
have  many  still  living,  we  are  in  favor  of  hailing 
this  movement  as  we  hailed  the  good  Father  Mat- 
thew, the  apostle  of  temperance  who  moved  thous- 
ands on  thousands  against  the  saloon. 

— Two  State  meetings  have  recommended  to  anti- 
secrecy  friends  the  holding  of  meetings  after  the 
pattern  of  concerts  of  prayer  for  missions  and 
against  slavery  in  the  struggle  wUh  that  sin.  Some 
are  now  starting  out  on  this  suggestion,  and  we 
trust  it  will  become  general.  We  need  help  from 
above  in  this  contest  with  principalities  and  powers, 
and  it  is  ready  wherever  two  or  three  shall  agree  in 
asking  for  it  in  faith. 


A  note  from  Charles  street  jail,  Roston,  states 
that  an  additional  $100  is  needed  to  properly  set  the 
case  of  Bro.  William  F  Davis,the  evangelist,before  the 
people  of  Massachusetts  and  arouse  them  to  the  fact 
that  their  most  precious  rights  under  their  own  con- 
stitution and  of  the  United  States  are  set  aside 
by  a  city  council.  Our  Boston  letter  describes  an 
inspiring  scene  in  Music  Hall  when  Dr.  Fulton's 
audience  gave  their  protest  against  the  outrage. 

The  trial  for  which  Mr.  Davis  has  waited  all  sum- 
mer, being  vexatiously  postpooed  from  time  to  time, 
at  last  took  place  September  26th  before  Judge  Sta- 
ples of  the  Superior  Criminal  Court.  The  Judge, 
while  commending  Bro.  Davis  for  his  integrity  and 
as  a  man  entitled  to  general  respect,  was  yet  con- 
strained to  interpret  the  law  as  already  decided  in 
the  Supreme  Court  of  the  State  maintaining  the  va- 
lidity of  the  city  ordinance.  The  argument  in  brief 
is  that  the  Council  must  in  some  manner  control  the 
Common,  else  it  will  have  no  power  to  prevent  the 
speeches  of  anarchists,  socialists,  and  other  disturb- 
ers of  the  peace.  The  mayor  is  therefore  given  au- 
thority to  allow  or  forbid  speaking  of  whatever  na- 
ture. The  fallacy  of  this  law  is  that  it  makes  it 
possible  to  forbid  all  speaking,  whereas  it  is  intend- 
ed to  restrain  only  a  part;  and  advantage  is  taken 
of  this  very  evident  defect.  A  petition  for  the  priv- 
ilege of  preaching  on  the  Common  signed  by  eight 
reputable  citizens  was  ignored  a  while  since  by  the 
Boston  officials. 

Bro.  Davis  argues  thus  with  great  force  and  clear- 
ness: 

"The  second  article  of  the  Bill  of  Rights  of  Mas- 
sachusetts says: 

'It  is  the  right  as  well  as  the  duty  of  all  men  in  socie- 
ty, publicly  and  at  stated  seasnns.to  worship  the  Supreme 
Being,  the  great  Creator  and  Preserver  of  the  universe. 
And  no  subject  shall  be  hurt,  moleEted  or  restrained,  in 
his  person,  liberty,  or  estate,  for  worshiping  God  in  the 
manner  and  season  most  agreeable  to  the  dictates  of  his 
own  conscience;  or  for  his  religious  profession  or  senti- 
ments, provided  he  doth  not  disturb  the  public  peace,  or 
obstruct  others  in  their  religious  worship . ' 

"Now  the  right  so  granted  is  a  general  right  and 
it  is  limited  only  by  two  considerations,  the  public 
peace  and  the  same  right  of  others  to  freedom  of  re- 
ligious worship.  Section  2,  Chapter  42,  Revised 
Ordinances  of  the  City  of  Boston,  1885,  under  which 
these  complaints  are  brought,  is  a  general  prohibi- 
tion of  the  public  and  free  exercise  of  religious  wor- 
ship on  Boston  Common,  subject  to  only  one  limita- 
tion, the  will  of  the  mayor,  and  that  is  ecclesiasti- 
cal dictatorship,  a  form  of  religious  administration 
which  is  fundamentally  antagonistic  to  the  whole 
spirit  and  letter  of  our  institutions  touching  relig- 
ion. The  justification  which  is  oflTered  for  this  or- 
dinance is  the  city  charter,  but  the  city  charter  only 
authorizes  the  city  council  to  pass  such  ordinances 
or  by-laws  as  are  not  repugnant  to  the  laws  of  the 
Commonwealth. 

"The  theory  of  liberty,  as  it  has  been  laid  down 
by  our  jurists,  is  that  it  means  liberty  from  prior 
restraint,  that  is  from  restraint  previous  to  action. 
For  instance,  this  theory  of  liberty  obliges  the  city 
government  to  allow  all  kinds  of  people  to  go  upon 
Boston  Common.  If  a  man  goes  there  and  abuses 
that  liberty  by  committing  an  assault  or  picking 
pockets,  or  by  disturbing  the  peace  by  outrageous 
behavior,  then  the  law  steps  in  and  arrests  him  un- 
der the  particular  statute  provided  for  dealing  with 
that  particular  offence;  but  under  our  theory  of  the 
functions  of  the  government,  I  hold  that  the  city 
council  cannot  pass  a  law  or  ordinance  for  the  pur- 
pose of  prohibiting  these  criminal  acts  which  shall 
forbid  the  liberty  to  go  upon  the  Common  excepting 
in  such  cases  where  the  man  who  goes  gets  a  special 
permit  from  the  mayor.  The  city  council  has  at- 
tempted to  restrict  the  liberty  of  the  tongue  uncon- 
stitutionally, and  in  a  manner  different  front  that 
which  has  been  attempted  with  reference  to  any  oth- 
er member  of  the  body — a  restraint  which  is  not 
even  applied  to  the  carrying  of  deadly  weapons." 


railway  lines.  Sabbath  pleasuring,  and  the  Sabbath 
newspaper.  The  prepared  addresses  will  be  brief, 
affording  time  for  all  those  who  wish  to  present  their 
views,  to  do  so. 

Every  minister,  every  church,  every  seminary, 
every  college,  every  Christian  who  desires  to  pre- 
serve the  Sabbath  should  be  present,  or  represented 
at  this  meeting  if  possible. 


THS  ELGIN  SABBATH  CONVENTION. 


The  pastors  of  the  Elgin  churches  say  that  the 
Christian  people  of  that  city  will  receive  as  guests 
those  who  attend  the  Sabbath  Convention  in  the 
First  Baptist  church  of  that  city,  Nov.  8th  and  9ih. 

Rev.  P.  S.  Henson,  D.  D.,  Rev.  C.  E.  Mandeville, 
D.  D.,  Prof.  S.  L  Curtis,  D.  D.,  Rev.  Henry  Wilson, 
and  other  speakers  are  expected.  The  four  Theolog- 
ical Seminaries  in  and  near  Chicago  have  been 
especially  invited,  and  it  is  hoped  that  others  beside 
the  Chicago  Seminary,  which  has  delegated  Prof. 
Curtis,  will  be  represented. 

Four  principal  topics  will  he  presented:  The  Sab- 
bath  business  enterprises,  the    Sabbath   travel  o 


The  Sabbath  Argument. — A  few  friendly  read- 
ers of  the  Cynomre  have  doubted  the  propriety  of 
publishing  articles  on  the  change  of  the  Sabbath, 
but  as  we  mentioned  some  weeks  ago  it  seemed  just 
to  many  who  have  heartily  sustained  the  reform 
that  their  reasons  for  the  seventh-day  be  fairly 
given.  It  was  also  noticed  that  the  firstday  argu- 
ment would  follow,  and  a  sermon  by  Rev.  J.  M. 
Foster  of  Cincinnati  on  Sabbath  observance  would 
close.  The  final  argument  for  the  change  of  day  by 
Rev.  J.  S.  T.  Milligan  of  Kansas  was  mailed  during 
the  first  days  of  September  and  lost  probably  in  the 
Chicago  office.  Two  other  letters  from  him  imme- 
diately following  were  also  lost  here  by  some 
wretched  official  carelessness,  but  were  recovered. 
Bro.  Milligan  has  kindly  reproduced  the  lost  article 
and  it  appears  in  this  number.  Whatever  may  be 
the  opinions  of  our  readers  they  will  confess  it  one 
of  the  ablest  arguments  ever  written  for  the  first- 
day  Sabbath.  While  the  long  delay  must  be  re- 
gretted, yet  the  publication  of  these  articles  season- 
ably for  the  Elgin  Sabbath  convention  will  give 
them  additional  interest  and  value.  It  has  long 
been  one  of  our  strong  reasons  for  protest  against 
the  secret  lodges  that  they,  while  professing  moral- 
ity, are  yet  among  the  most  potent  agencies  for 
breaking  down  the  authority  and  violating  the  sanc- 
tity of  the  holy  day.  The  subject  is  therefore  a 
legitimate  part  of  the  lodge  discussion. 


— The  Knights  of  Labor  Convention  at  Minneap- 
olis broke  up  last  week,  but  we  are  under  the  ne- 
cessity of  postponing  a  report  of  it  till  next  number. 

— Secretary  Stoddard  returned  from  LaOtto  Sat- 
urday morning  and  hastened  to  Bro.  Butler's  aid  in 
Missouri  Monday  evening.  He  was  greatly  cheered 
with  the  enthusiasm  of  the  Wesleyan  General  Con- 
ference for  reform. 

— The  success  of  the  glorious  Iowa  meeting  is 
largely  due  to  the  wise  prevision  of  Rev.  Dr.  Wil- 
liam Johnson,  whose  counsel  prevailed  largely  in 
selecting  the  speakers  and  placing  them  where  their 
batteries  would  do  the  most  execution.  Dr.Wishart 
of  Illinois  and  Rev.  J.  S.  T.  Milligan  of  Kansas  were 
among  the  effective  speakers,  and  it  is  a  unanimous 
opinion  that  some  means  should  be  adopted  to  give 
them  more  frequent  opportunities  of  exercising  their 
gifts  for  the  benefit  of  the  reform. 

— Pres.  J.  Blanchard  left  Chicago  Saturday  morn- 
ing for  the  annual  meeting  of  the  American  Mis- 
sionary Association  this  week  at  Portland,  Maine. 
He  stopped  over  the  Sabbath  at  Detroit  with  breth- 
ren Clark  and  Foote.  He  hopes  to  encourage  the 
Association  in  their  efforts  to  rid  their  churches  and 
schools  in  the  South  of  the  lodge  curse,  so  that  they 
may  all  follow  the  excellent  example  of  Bro.  Gun- 
ner of  New  Iberia,  Louisiana,  reported  on  the  6ch 
page  of  this  paper.  He  speaks  also  at  the  New 
Hampshire  Convention. 

— A  note  from  Bro.  Butler  in  Missouri  regrets 
that  the  editor  of  the  Cynosure  could  not  attend  the 
meetings  in  that  State  where  he  would  be  welcomed 
by  many  friends.  But  meetings  in  New  England 
seem  to  have  a  prior  claim.  Bro.  Butler  finds  the 
local  option  fight  a  well-contested  one  in  old  Gentry 
county.  He  addressed  one  night  a  crowd  that  over- 
flowed the  house  and  filled  the  windows,  a  few  miles 
east  of  Albany.  He  spoke  near  Mr.  Needels'  place 
last  week  Monday.  After  a  few  days'  more  work 
in  Gentry  he  goes  to  Hamilton  and  Mercer  counties. 
In  this  part  of  the  State  he  is  at  home,  and  speaker 
and  hearers  are  full  of  enthusiasm. 


PERSONAL  MENTION. 


— Rev.  Henry  Avery  of  the  Congregational  church 
of  College  Spring8,Iowa,has  been  gone  three  months 
in  Colorado  for  his  health,  and  his  people  fear  he 
will  not  return  to  them.  He  has  for  sometime  been 
partially  disabled. 

— Rev.  T.  B.  Arnold,  publisher  of  the  Free  Metho- 
dist in  this  city,  wws  lately  wedded  to  Miss  Tressa 
Richardson  of  Emporia,  Kans.  Our  warmest  con- 
gratulations to  Bro.  Arnold,  who  has,  we  trust,  re- 
ceived a  wife  from  the  Lord. 

— Miss  Anna  Milligan,  daughter  of  Rev.  J.S.T.  Mil- 
ligan,  the  able  defender  of  the  Lord's  day  in  the  pres- 
ent   Cynosure,  has  accepted  a   professor's  chair   in 


OOTOBEE  27, 1887 


THE  CHRESTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


Campbell  University,  at  Holton,  Kansas.  She  is 
now  taking  a  course  in  Cornell  University,  N.  Y. 

— Not  only  was  Elder  Barlow  disappointed  in  not 
being  able  to  attend  the  Iowa  State  convention,  bat 
Rev.  C.  D.  Trumbull  of  Morning  Sun,  who  has  per- 
haps done  more  than  any  other  single  man  for  the 
success  of  the  State  Association  in  late  years.  Bro. 
Trumbull  was  taken  sick  the  night  before  he  was  to 
start  for  College  Springs. 

— Bro.  J.  Augustus  Cole  made  a  short  call  at  the 
Cynonure  cfl5oe  on  his  way  to  the  General  Conference 
at  LaOtto,  Indiana.  In  the  vicinity  of  College 
Springs  ia  southwestern  Iowa  he  addressed  a  num- 
ber of  meetings  and  raised  $300  for  his  African  Mis- 
sion. He  also  secured  another  volunteer  for  his  mis- 
sionary band,  Rev.  Geo.  H.  Hemingway  of  College 
Springs,  so  the  company  now  numbers  eight.  Bro. 
Cole  leaves  for  England  early  in  December. 

— Elder  J.  L.  Barlow  returning  from  a  visit  to 
friends  in  Kansas,  came  by  Chicago  to  take  part  in 
the  ordination  of  his  successor,  Rev.  Mr.  Waterman, 
at  Wheaton  on  Thursday  of  this  week.  His  recent 
loss  in  the  death  of  his  wife,  together  with  her  long 
sickness,  has  had  its  effect  on  Bro.  Barlow  from 
which  he  will  not  soon  recover.  He  is  hopeful  in 
regard  to  his  work  in  Grundy  Center,  Iowa,  though 
the  diflSculties  are  not  few  or  small.  He  greatly  re- 
gretted his  inability  to  be  at  the  State  meeting  at 
College  Springs. 

— Bro.  A.  D.  Zaraphonithes,  our  correspondent  in 
Greece,  with  his  family,  left  home  in  Andros, 
Greece,  in  September,  for  a  visit  to  this  country. 
Letters  from  Terragona  and  Valencia,  Spain,  state 
that  they  are  on  board  the  steamer  Mississippi 
bound  for  Montreal,  which  port  they  do  not  hope  to 
reach  before  November  1st,  as  their  vessel  is  pick- 
ing up  a  large  cargo  in  Spanish  ports.  Their  many 
friends  will  await  their  arrival  with  eager  anticipa- 
tion. Mrs.  Zaraphonithes's  immediate  relatives  live 
in  Peoria  county,  Illinois. 


I^OTICES. 


THE  BOVTH-WSBT  MISSOURI  MSB  TING. 


Prom  Bro.  Butler's  field  report  elsewhere  it  will  be 
seen  that  the  friends  in  Southwest  Missouri  select  Green- 
field, the  county  seat  of  Dade  county,  as  the  place,  and 
N  )V.  1  and  2  as  the  time  for  their  convention  against  the 
lodge.  Bro.  Butler  has  written  as  follows  to  a  number 
of  friends  in  that  section:  "There  will  be  a  district 
.meeting  of  the  American  cause  at  Greenfield,  Dade  Co. 
Mo.,  beginning  on  the  evening  of  Nov.  1  next  and  con- 
tinuing through  the  following  day  and  evening.  Able 
speakers  are  expected.  Try  and  attend  and  urge  others 
to.  The  harvest  is  ripe.  The  people  are  ready  for  thf 
light.  The  cause  is  moving  on.  Other  States  are  up 
and  doing  and  old  Missouri  must  be  in  the  forefront 
May  God  give  us  faith  and  courage  for^he  right." 


THB    OHIO   CONVENTION. 


TIME,    PLAOB,     AND    GENERAL   PROGRAMME. 

Columbus,  O.,  Oct.  20,  1887. 

Dear  Cynosure: — I  am  glad  to  report  definitely 
the  time  of  our  State  Convention,  and  trust  every 
possible  energy  of  the  friends  interested  will  be 
given  to  make  it  a  success.  The  time  is  November 
16. h  and  17th;  the  place,  New  Concord,  Muskingum 
county.  The  programme  is  not  fully  arranged,  but 
will  be  somewhat  as  follows: 

Convention  to  open  at  9  A.  M.  Wednesday,  with 
Devotional  Exercises;  10  A.  M.,  Address  of  Welcome 
by  one  of  the  pastors  (Rev.  J.  M.  Faris  is  always 
ready  on  that  line);  Response  by  President  Smith; 
Reading  of  Minutes  and  Appointmentof  Committees; 
2  p.  M.,  Short  Addresses  by  Revs.  W.  J.  Coleman, 
Wm.  Dillon,  and  others;  also  Reports  of  Committees; 
7  P.  M.,  Address  by  the  Secretary  and  General 
Agent  J.  P.  Stoddard. 

Thursday,  9  A.  M.,  Devotional;  10  A.  M.,  Short  Ad 
dress  by  President  C.  A.  Blancbard,  and  Question 
Box;  2  p.  M.,  A  Discussion,  opened  with  a  paper  by 
the  State  Agent,  subject.  Wherein  Lies  the  Pow- 
er of  the  Secret  Lodge  and  How  may  it  be 
Overcome?  The  closing  address  will  be  given  by 
President  Charles  A.  Blancbard.  Entertainment  as 
asual  will  be  provided  those  coming  from  a  distance. 
It  is  especially  desired  that  all  churches  in  sympa- 
thy eppoint  at  once  as  large  a  delegation  as  they 
may  tbink  best  to  represent  them  at  this  convention. 

1  am  requested  by  the  State  offlcers  to  send  this 
call,  as  they  are  too  busy  to  attend  to  details  just 
now.  I  shall  try  as  far  as  possible  to  visit  friends 
in  Muskingum  county  previous  to  the  convention. 
Do  not  wait,  friends,  but  commence  to  make  your 
arrangements  at  once,  and  come  praying  that  the 
Lord  may  give  us  a  glorious  blessing,  that  we  may 
go  forth  stronger  to  work  for  him  in  the  future. 

W.  B«  Stoddard. 


OUR  WASHINOTON  LETTER. 


William  Jones,  the  Secretary  of  the  English  Peace 
Society,  was  granted,  on  September  23rd,  an  inter- 
view with  President  Cleveland  with  the  object  of 
conveying  to  the  United  States  Government  the 
strong  desire  felt  by  the  friends  of  p«ace  in  general, 
on  both  sides  of  the  Atlantic,  for  the  negotiation  of 
an  arbitration  treaty  between  Great  Britain  and  the 
United  States,  dtfioitely  stipulating  that  any  and 
every  dispute  which  may  henceforth  arise  between 
the  two  nations  shall  be  submitted  to  the  decision 
of  an  impartial  body  of  arbitrators,  or  to  some  per- 
manent court  of  international  reference,  to  be  con- 
stituted for  the  purpose. 

Mr.  Jones  presented  letters  of  introduction  and 
of  support  of  the  object  in  view  by  the  Hon.  John 
Bright,  John  Greenleaf  Whittier,  and  George  W. 
Childs,  proprietor  of  the  Philadelphia  Public  Ldger, 
and  ventured  to  express  his  personal  hope  that  the 
President  would  show  himself  no  less  favorable  to 
the  principle  of  arbitration  as  a  substitute  for  war, 
at  least  in  many  cases  if  not  in  all,  than  some  of  his 
distinguished  predecessors  in  office,  including  Pres- 
idents Grant,  Hayes,  and  Garfield,  each  of  whom 
had  taken  a  most  satisfactory  position  in  relation  to 
this  great  question. 

The  President,  in  reply,  stated  that  the  subject 
thus  brought  before  him  was  one  with  which  he 
might  confess  himself  to  have  been  but  little  ac- 
quainted hitherto;  and  further,  it  was  a  matter  re- 
specting which  it  behooved  him  to  speak  cautiously, 
He  was,  however,  glad  to  be  furnished  with  the  in- 
formation upon  it  which  Mr.  Jones  had  placed  in 
his  hands.  But  he  might  acknowledge  that  he  had 
been  impressed  by  the  stiitement,  made  by  General 
Sheridan  at  the  Centennial  Banquet  of  the  previous 
week,  that  the  tendency  of  modern  warfare  is  to  be- 
come less  and  less  a  test  of  skill,  strategy,  and  cour- 
age, and  more  and  more  a  system  of  sheer  organized 
murder.  The  President  said  that  he  regarded  this 
tendency  and  the  collateral  growth  of  public  opin- 
ion in  favor  of  arbitration  as  two  kindred  move- 
ments converging  towards  one  end — namely,  the  ab- 
olition of  war  among  civilized  people,  and  the  es- 
tablishment of  some  form  of  a  High  Court  of  In- 
ternational Reference  for  Arbitration  as  a  substitute 
for  the  decision  of  the  sword.  He  added  that  as  to 
himself  personally  he  was  most  averse  to  war,  in 
common  with  every  right-minded  man. 

Active  preparations  are  already  in  progress  for 
the  long  session  of  Congress,  which  will  meet  on 
the  first  Monday  of  December.  Many  Congressmen 
from  the  neighboridg  States  can  be  almost  daily 
seen  on  the  thoroughfares  of  the  Federal  City,  seek- 
ing out  their  winter  quarters,  and  looking  after  the 
immediate  wants  of  their  constituents.  It  is  the 
general  opinion  of  well-posted  politicians  that  the 
Fiftieth  Congress  will  be  a  busy  and  stormy  body, 
as  much  important  legislation  will  be  considered, 
especially  in  regard  to  the  surplus,  the  tariff,  and 
pensions  (seven  of  the  latter  bills  already  being  in 
course  of  incubation),  to  say  nothing  of  projected 
legislation  on  the  labor  and  railroad  questions.  And 
then,  each  of  the  great  parties  believes  that  it  is 
possible  to  practically  decide  the  next  Presidential 
election  by  its  course  next  winter.  Another  indica- 
tion of  the  near  advent  of  Congress  is  the  stir  and 
bustle  in  the  various  Federal  Departments  incident 
to  the  preparation  of  the  annual  reports — some  of 
which  have  already  been  submitted  to  the  Secreta- 
ries. 

The  report  of  the  Commissioner  of  the  General 
Land  Office  is  of  special  interest  on  account  of.  the 
wide-spread  and  far-reaching  frauds  that  have  been 
uncovered  in  the  acquisition  of  the  public  lands  by 
soulless  syndicates  and  reckless  adventurers.  It  is 
shown  that  within  the  past  two  and  a  half  years 
more  than  thirty-one  njillion  acres  of  land  have  been 
reclaimed  by  the  Government;  that  about  five  thou- 
sand land  entries  were  secured  by  means  of  perjury, 
and  that  many  other  disreputable  and  irregular  meth- 
ods were  employed  by  these  swindlers  to  defraud  the 
United  States. 

Civil  Service  Commissioner  Oberly's  aggressive 
and  progressive  sentiments,  lately  promulgated,  find 
no  favor  with  partisan  spoilsmen,  but  meet  with 
the  cordial  endorsement  of  all  who  would  purify  the 
public  service  of  political  influence  and  manipula- 
tion. It  is  hoped  that  the  conservative  views  of  Mr. 
Oberly  will  be  adopted  as  the  pronounced  policy  of 
the  Civil  Service  Commission,  for  such  a  course 
would  undoubtedly  be  a  substantial  gain  for  the 
cause  of  reform  that  would  meet  popular  approval. 

Mr.  Graves,  Chief  of  the  Bureau  of  Engraving 
and  Printing,  is  having  trouble  with  the  Kuigbts  of 
Labor  order.  He  claims  that  better  w(  rk  can  be 
done  with  other  machines  than  with  band  presses, 
in  the  printing  of  Treasury  drafts,  bonds,  stamps, 
and  silver  oertiQcatea,      The  Knights  say  they  will 


bring  tUe  controversy  to  the  attention  of  Congress 
—  having  already  framed  a  bill  embodying  their 
grievance. 

An  interesting  case  that  will  be  presented  before 
the  Supreme  Court  this  week  is  the  appeal  of  the 
Chicago  Anarchists.  It  will  be  argued  before  Jus- 
tice Harlan  by  Gen.  B.  F.  Butler,  Gen.  Roger  A. 
Pryor,  and  Hon.  Randolph  Tucker.  One  of  our 
Washington  judges  has  a  decidedly  original  way  of 
disposing  of  a  "boycott,"  our  country's  troublesome 
importation  from  the  Emerald  Isle.  He  decides  it 
to  be  a  common  conspiracy, — "only  that  and  noth- 
ing more." 

The  movement  to  have  the  next  National  Demo- 
cratic Cimvention  meet  in  Washington  has  material- 
ized into  a  call  for  a  public  meeting  to  consider  the 
project.  As  a  means  to  the  desired  end  it  is  the 
purpose  of  the  Washingtonians  to  give  the  Demo- 
cratic Committee  a  grand  entertainment  at  its  ses- 
sion here  next  winter,  in  the  tffort  to  capture  that 
organization.  * 
*  •  »i 

OUR  BOSTON  LETTER 


EVANGELIST     WM.    F.    DAVIS   IN   JAIL. 


Stopping  almost  in  the  middle  of  his  discourse 
on  Romanism  last  Sunday  afternoon  in  Music  Hall, 
which  was  thronged  mostly  by  Protestants,  with 
here  and  there  a  sprinkling  of  the  opposite  element. 
Rev.  Dr.  Justin  D.  Fulton  ?aid:  "I  read  in  last  night's 
paper  that  Rev  Mr.  Davis  had  been  imprisoned  for 
preaching  the  Gospel  on  the  Common  (a  voice:  'By 
Catholics  !')•  As  many  present  that  desire  a  peti- 
tion sent  to  the  mayor.  Catholic  as  he  is,  for  his  re- 
lease, please  raise  their  hands." 

Nearly  four  thousand  hands  ascended  heaven- 
ward. 

This  act  was  a  decided  expression  of  the  senti- 
ments of  the  Protestant  element  of  Boston  concern- 
ing the  arrest  and  subsequent  imprisonment  of  the 
plucky  Mr.  Davis.  There  are  some,  however,  who 
are  inclined  to  consider  Mr.  Davis's  attitude  as  Si- 
mon-pure stubbornness  rather  than  pluck.  Those 
who  have  interested  themselves  enough  in  the  mat- 
ter to  investigate,  or  rather,  read  the  statements  of 
both  sides,  are  confident  that  Mr.  Davis  stands  for 
principle;  that  he  believes  his  case  a  precedent  in 
the  constitutional  prerogative  of  preaching  the  Gos- 
pel untrammeled. 

No  doubt  efforts  will  be  made  by  the  friends  of 
justice,  free  speech,  etc.,  for  the  release  of  the  in- 
carcerated preacher.  Free  tracts  on  what  tbey  term 
the  outrage  on  the  lights  of  honest  citizens  are  being 
circulated.  One  which  lies  before  me  contains  the 
following  extract  from  the  Qidll  of  Philadelphia: 

"The  Hub'  will  be  better  known  hereafter  as  the  "Plug," 
since  the  mayor  and  some  of  the  mtmbers  of  the  council 
of  that  great  city  (Boston)  grsced  with  tbcir  mesence  the 
presentHtion  of  that  $10  000  belt  to  John  L.  Sullivan, 
the  lawless,  plug-ugly  prize-fighter,  wife  bcattr.  drunk- 
ard, and  rum  seller.  These  are  the  pentlemen  who  pro- 
hibit the  reading  of  the  Bible  on  the  Boston  Common  on 
Sunday,  for  fear  of  disturbing  the  peace;  sent  to  jail  the 
roan  who  attfmpted  to  do  it;  ytt standing  by  and  tDC<-ur- 
aging  a  fugitive  from  justice,  one  of  the  worst  criminals 
in  America,  whose  whole  life  and  business  are  unlawful, 
cruel  and  brutish.  These  are  the  politicians  who  govern 
the  refined,  cultured,  fastidious,  bean  eating  Bostonians." 

There  will  also  shortly  appear  in  print,  for  distri- 
bution, a  pamphlet  reviewing  the  charge  made  by 
the  Judge  of  the  Superior  Criminal  Court,  showing 
it  to  be  insufficient  to  demonstrate  the  validity  of 
the  ordinance  prohibiting  free  preaching. 

On  the  most  conspicuous  bill  boards  thronghont 
the  city  a  Aiming  bill  is  posted,  bearing  the  follow- 
ing indignant  composition: 

FREKMKN!      CnRTSTTANS!      AWAKE ! 

It  is  high  time  to  awakt!  In  this  heathen  city— this 
Christ-hating,  misgoverned  city — a  man  of  God,  an  or- 
dained minister  of  Christ, 

WM     F     DAVIS, 

tS   IN  JAIL   for   PnEACHlNO   THE   QOSFKL 

ON    BOSTON    COMMON, 

and  may  be  kept  there  a  year,  wiih  the  probability  of 
returning  thither  when  liberaed,  unW^s  you,  honorable 
men  and  voters,  replace  the  p-etent  iflS-iala  with  good 
men,  and  repeal  the  iniquitous  ordinance  that  is  but 
a  trap  to  make  criminals  of  good  citizenc;  irstead  of  a 
lawful,  wholefcme  rule  of  government.  Please  commu- 
nicate with  the  undersigned  for  concerted  action  to  re- 
strain, if  pofsiblo  to  convert,  the  bad  governors  of  this 
city,  and  to  do  away  with  the  present  intolerable  ordin- 
ance and  dfspotifm.  A  pamphlet,  free,  treating  on  the 
above  subject,  will  be  given  to  applicant*. 

W.  Kkllawat,  .7"  Eichartgt  ft. 

Although  it  is  claimed  that  the  presiding  judge  in 
Mr  Davis's  case  was  exceeding  lenient,  yettiuelothe 
rcqnirementsof  hisffflco,  therearppxpressions  of  dis- 
satisfaction Against  his  decision.  Howevi  r.let  us  hope; 
let  us  remember  that  "all  things  work  together  for  the 
good  of  them  that  love  God."       D.  P.  Mathews. 


10 


THE  CHHISTIAK'  CYNOSUBE. 


October  27, 1887 


The  Home. 


OCTOBER. 

The  months  have  had  wings,  not  feet,  this  year, 

The  beautiful  summer  has  sped  away, 
And  brown  October  has  hurried  here ; 
Oh,  things  were  fair  If  they  would  but  stay, 
And  If  life  were  long 
It  were  full  of  song ! 

Yet,  'tis  far  to  look  back  to  the  primrose  spring, 
To  the  nightingale's  lay  and  the  cuckoo's  call : 
The  promise  Is  now  a  forgotten  thing, 
For  the  gifts  foretold  are  bestowed  on  us  all. 
And  the  blossoms  of  May 
Are  the  fruit  of  to-day. 

We  have  had  our  summer  of  light  and  song. 

And  our  fields  and  orchards  filled  with  food ; 
If  the  days  are  shortened  they  have  been  long ; 
And  God  has  covered  the  land  with  good. 
O,  give  him  praise 
For  the  summer  days ! 

And  the  beautiful  things  are  not  wholly  gone ! 
Some  roses  there  are  on  the  generous  trees, 
The  sun  II  its  splendor  still  shines  on. 
Though  some  flowers  are  kissed  to  death  by  the  breeze. 
And  the  leaves  in  the  town 
Are  faded  and  brown. 

My  life  is  like  the  October  time  1 

The  prodigal  season  is  past  and  gone. 
And  over  forever  the  wealth  and  prime 
Of  the  long,  glad  day  when  high  deeds  were  done. 
And  quiet  and  rest 
Are  for  me  ihe  best. 

And  I  cannot  afford  to  lose  an  hour 

Of  the  shorter  day  that  is  left  to  me. 
Nor  carelessly  fritter  away  the  power 
Of  head  or  of  hand,  since  there  soon  shall  be 
No  moments  here 
Of  my  life's  short  year. 

But  I  thank  my  God  for  that  which  has  been. 

Of  strength  and  sunshine,  of  flower  and  song ; 
And  I  will  not  shrink  from  the  wintry  scene, 
Though  the  days  are  short  and  the  nights  are  long. 
Let  the  shadows  fall. 
For  this  life  is  not  all ! 
—Jfarianite  Fandnyham,  in  Christian  World. 


HONORABLE  LABOR. 


A  PLEA  FOR  THE  HARP. 


Gently  the  youth  drew  the  harp  of  his  fathers 
from  its  resting-place.  The  dust  of  years  lay  heav- 
ily upon  it. 

Though  it  had  slept  mutely  and  ingloriously  in 
obscurity,  its  very  existence  almost  forgotten,  he 
strove  to  waken  it  to  life  again. 

He  touched  its  strings  with  a  careless  hand,  and 
from  its  rising  cloud  of  dust  there  issued  a  quaint 
melody  that  charmed  his  soul  and  filled  it  with 
dreams  of  rambles  beside  the  rivers  of  Elysium. 

Again  he  swept  his  hand  across  its  strings,  and 
the  past  lost  the  harshness  that  embittered  its  mem- 
ories; the  present  was  radiant  with  joy,  and  before 
him  beamed  the  future,  teeming  with  love  and  hap- 
piness. 

He  heard  the  strains  that  floated  heavenward  from 
David's  harp  when  it  soothed  the  troubled  breast  of 
Saul,  and  when  it  sounded  praises  to  his  God  in  the 
perfection  of  love  and  adoration.  And  the  youth 
saw  that  its  symphony  found  entrance  into  the  Di- 
vine heart  and  called  down  blessings  from  the  Giver 
of  every  good  and  perfect  gift  upon  the  worshiper. 

He  heard  the  harps  of  the  harpers  in  the  holy  Tem- 
ple service,  as  in  unison  they  praised  the  Almighty 
and  gave  utterance  to  the  worship  of  a  great  and 
favored  nation — the  "peculiar  people"  of  God — in 
the  house  that  David  and  Solomon  had  reared  for 
the  glory  of  the  Lord. 

He  saw  also,  in  his  dreams,  the  one  hundred  and 
forty-four  thousand  saints  sealed  of  God  gathered 
about  the  Lamb  on  Mount  Zion,  and  heard  voices 
from  heaven  as  of  many  waters,  and  the  harpers 
harping  with  their  harps  as  they  sang  the  New  Song 
before  the  throne — that  grandest  of  melodies,  which 
none  but  the  redeemed  may  sing. 

Again,  he  heard  the  harps  of  the  harpers  on  the 
great  sea  of  glass,  as  they  raised  the  song  of  Moses 
and  the  Lamb  to  heaven's  highest  arches — the  song 
of  the  redeemed  of  all  ages,  tribes,  and  tongues — 
and  ascribed  honor,  and  power  and  glory  to  the 
Bridegroom  and  to  Him  wholiveth  and  reigneth  for- 
ever. 

Then  he  felt  in  his  soul  that  the  harp,  above  all 
other  instruments  of  man's  invention,has  been  most 
honored;  blessed  in  the  sacred  devotions  of  the  He- 
brews and  the  wild  minstrelsy  of  the  Gaelic  nations 
of  the  North;  while  throughout  the  globe  its  music, 
never-dying,  pervades  all  realms  of  melody,  carrying 
joy  and  consolation  to  many  a  weary  heart,  and  in- 
spiring the  purest  of  thoughts  and  aspirations. 

Old  American. 


There  are  some  people  who  seem  to  regard  labor 
as  dishonorable  and  beneath  their  proper  dignity. 
They  are  mistaken  in  this  estimate,  for  God  has 
ordered  that  men  should  labor.  A  Puritan  minister, 
named  Carter,  coming  upon  a  Christian  brother  who 
was  busily  employed  in  his  work  as  a  tanner,  clad 
in  the  begrimed  and  filthy  garments  appropriate  to 
his  calling,  gave  him  with  his  salutation  a  friendly 
slap  upon  the  shoulder.  The  tanner  looked  back  and 
said  to  the  minister, 

"Oh,  sir,  I  am  ashamed  that  you  should  find  me 
employed  in  this  way." 

"My  friend,"  said  the  minister,  "may  the  Saviour, 
when  he  comes,  find  me  doing  just  so." 

"What,"  said  the  tanner,  "doing  such  dirty  work?" 

"Yes;"  said  the  minister,  "faithfully  perfoirming 
the  duties  of  my  calling." 

Dirty  work  sometimes  makes  clean  money,  and 
no  man  has  a  right  to  be  ashamed  of  faithfully  fol- 
lowing an  honest  calling. 

Years  ago  a  student  from  one  of  the  Southern 
States  came  to  attend  the  Theological  Seminary  at 
Andover.  When  winter  set  in  he  purchased  a  cord 
of  wood  for  his  stove.  But  how  to  prepare  it  for 
his  fire  was  the  difficulty.  He  could  find  no  extra 
hand  to  chop  it  for  him.  There  were  no  circular 
saws  and  steam  wood-splitting  works  going  then. 
In  his  perplexity  he  went  to  Professor  Stuart  to  ad- 
vise him.  The  learned  professor,  who  knew  how  to 
use  his  hands  as  well  as  his  head,  made  short  work 
of  the  matter. 

"Young  man,"  said  he,  "I  am  in  want  of  a  job 
myself;  and,  if  you  have  no  objections,  I  will  saw 
the  wood  for  you,  and  split  it  up." 

The  student  concluded  that  he  would  not  trouble 
Professor  Stuart  to  saw  the  wood  for  him,  but  pre- 
ferred to  do  it  himself. 

A  story  is  told  of  a  young  gentleman  who  pur- 
chased some  provisions  in  a  Boston  market,  and 
when  looking  around  for  some  one  to  carry  home 
his  purchase,  at  last  found  a  quiet  man  who  was 
willing  to  do  it,  and  he  was  so  pleased  with  his  con- 
versation and  appearance,  that  thinking  he  might 
be  glad  to  employ  him  again,  he  asked  him  his 
name.  After  some  questioning  he  found  out  that 
the  man  who  had  served  him  so  satisfactorily  was 
"Billy  Gray,"  the  merchant  prince  of  Boston,  the 
sails  of  whose  ships  whitened  every  sea,  and  who, 
perhaps,  could  have  bought  out  a  hundred  such  men 
as  the  one  whom  he  had  consented  to  serve. 

Are  there  other  examples?  Yes,  "for  the  Son  of 
man  came  not  to  be  ministered, unto  but  to  minister, 
and  to  give  his  life  a  ransom  for  many."  Let  him  be 
our  pattern  and  example. — Common  People. 


BUILBINQ  MEETING  HOUSES. 


told  us  a  story  of  a  snail  who  got  sick  of  his  old 
shell  and  had  a  new  one  made  of  alabaster,  and  froze 
to  death  the  first  night  after  he  got  into  it! 

No  doubt  there  are  many  men  who  have  great 
talent  in  the  way  of  meeting-house  building  and 
money  raising,  but  it  may  be  there  are  others  who 
could  in  due  time  accomplish  the  same  work  quite 
as  effectively,  but  who  have  never  been  called  of 
God  to  the  ministry  of  his  Word.  It  was  a  good 
thing  to  serve  tables  and  care  for  widows  in  apos- 
tolic times,  but  it  was  not  needful  that  the  men 
whom  the  Lord  had  endowed  with  the  Holy  Ghost 
that  they  might  preach  the  Gospel,  should  leave  the 
labor  which  they  were  especially  charged  to  perform, 
and  attend  to  work  which  other  people  were  both 
able  and  willing  to  do.  Sometimes  the  word  of  the 
Lord  comes  to  a  prophet,  saying,  "Arise  and  build." 
But  in  many  instances  the  inward  desolations  are 
greater  than  the  external,  and  the  servant  of  Christ 
will  best  fulfill  his  ministry  by  preaching  the  glori- 
ous Gospel  of  the  blessed  God,  and  keeping  stead- 
ily to  his  work,  and  leaving  other  duties  in  the  hands 
of  those  whom  God  may  call  to  perform  them.  "To 
every  man  his  work." — Christian. 


'HE  CANNOT  SIN." 
1  John  3: 9. 


Does  this  text  teach  that  it  is  impossible  for  a 
true  Christian  to  commit  sin?  That  were  to  contra- 
dict observation,  experience  and  Scripture.  A  mis- 
understanding of  the  word  "cannot"  lies  at  the  basis 
of  such  an  interpretation.  When  Nehemiah  was  en- 
gaged in  rebuilding  the  walls  of  Jerusalem  his  ene- 
mies sought  to  allure  him  to  a  conference.  He  re- 
plied, "I  am  doing  a  great  work,  so  that  I  cannot 
come  down,"  Neh.  6:3;  which  language,  of  course, 
means  that  he  was  not  physically  but  morally  unable 
to  do  so.  In  1  Cor.  10:21  we  read,  "Ye  cannot 
drink  the  cup  of  the  Lord  and  the  cup  of  devils." 
!Ho  far  as  physical  ability  was  concerned  these  per- 
sons could  do  both.  The  idea  intended  to  be  ex- 
pressed is  obviously  that  Christian  consistency 
placed  them  under  moral  constraint  not  to  do  so.  In 
like  manner  if  I,  a  total  abstainer,  were  asked  to 
take  wine  with  a  friend,  I  might  reply,  "I  cannot  do 
so."  He  and  every  one  would  understand  me  as 
meaning,  "My  principles  do  not  allow  me  to  do  so, 
and  therefore  I  will  not." 

I  submit  that  it  is  in  this  sense  that  the  word 
"cannot"  is  used  in  the  passage  under  considera- 
tion. 

So  explaining  it,  whilst  it  does  not  teach  that  it  is 
impossible  for  a  Christian  to  sin,  it  does  teach  that 
he  is  under  the  strongest  possible  obligation  to  avoid 
sin,and  that  so  long  as  acting  in  character,  he  avails 
himself  of  the  strength  which  is  in  Christ  Jesus,  he 
will  not  sin. — Holiness  Advocate. 


A  preacher  in  a  New  England  city  started  out  one 
day  with  a  subscription  paper,  full  of  zeal,  to  secure 
money  to  build  a  new  meeting  house.     Presently  he 
met  a  wise  old  minister,  to  whom  he  confided  his 
plans,  telling  him  of  the  encouragement  he  had,  and 
how  sure  he  was  that  the  work  could  be  done.    The 
aged  man  listened  attentively,  and  then  a  conversa- 
tion occurred  somewhat  as  follows: 
"Do  you  like  your  church?" 
"Certainly  I  do." 
"Of  course  I  do." 

"Then  you  had  better  go  home  and  put  up  that 
paper.  I  have  known  many  instances  where  minis- 
ters have  built  meeting  houses,  and  when  they  were 
done  they  had  to  leave  them.  The  people  did  not 
want  to  hear  them  preach  any  longer. 

The  man  pondered  on  the  counsel  given,  went 
home  and  hid  his  subscription  paper,  and  for  many 
years  preached  on  at  the  old  church  as  before. 

The  lesson  is  well  worth  considering  by  those  who 
are  full  of  enterprise  and  ze^,  and  anxious  to  push 
and  drive  and  accomplish  great  things.  Frequently 
when  doing  this  they  lose  spiritual  life,  and  while 
building  meeting  houses,  fail  to  build  up  the  people 
in  their  most  holy  faith,  and  so  when  people  have 
built  a  new  meeting  house  they  then  want  a  new  min- 
ister. 

There  are  times,  it  is  true,  when  meeting  houses 
need  to  built  or  repaired,  but  frequently  there  is  not 
half  as  much  need  of  a  new  meeting  house,  as  there 
is  of  a  new  church  inside  of  the  old  one;  and  the 
best  builder  is  he  who,  on  the  One  Foundation, 
builds  with  living  stones  the  temple  of  the  Lord. 
And  it  will  not  be  easy  to  discover  a  poorer  way  for 
a  minister  to  invest  his  own  money,  if  he  has  any, 
than  in  a  meeting  house,  where  he  can  be  monarch 
of  all  he  surveys,  and  manage  matters  to  suit  him- 
self. Did  any  one  ever  know  a  church  or  a  minister 
to  prosper  under  such  circumstances?  Almost  any 
snail  can  provide  himself  with  a  shell  if  he  iB  not 
too  particular  alxjiit  it;  though  William  Taylor  once 


THE  PLAN  THEY  TRIEB. 


A   TRUE   STORY. 


Two  such  woe-begone,draggled  little  figures!  They 
came  back  to  the  house,  one  behind  the  other,  as 
slowly  as  if  they  were  going  to  their  great-grand- 
mother's funeral,  and  indeed  they  looked  like  chief 
mourners. 

The  nurse  had  caught  them  playing  in  the  brook, 
an  amusement  strictly  forbidden  at  this  time  of  the 
year,  and  a  whipping  was  inevitable. 

The'  whippings  didn't  come  very  often  in  this  fam- 
ily, but  for  direct  disobedience  they  were  as  sure  as 
fate. 

"Letty,"  said  the  older  of  the  two  little  sisters, 
"I'll  tell  you  what  let's  do." 

"Well,  what  let's  do?"  asked  Letty,in  a  depressed 
tone. 

"Why,  the  first  lick  mamma  gives,  let's  holler  like 
we  were  bein'  killed,"whispered  Sue,"then  she  won't 
whip  much." 

This  naughty  plan  seemed  to  work  well.  •  Both  lit- 
tle girls  yelled  so  loud  that  mamma  was  scared. 

"My  switch  must  be  too  keen,"  she  said,  and  left 
off. 

"It  didn't  hardly  hurt  me  a  bit,"  said  one  little 
girl  gleefully  when  mamma  was  out  of  hearing. 
"Me  neither,"  said  the  other. 
Just  then  they  heard  a  rustle  of  a  newspaper  in 
the  librarj',  and  peeping  through  the  half-opened 
door,  they  saw  papa.  After  that  the  children  went 
about  like  culprits  with  a  rope  round  their  necks,ex- 
pecting  another  whipping.  But  mamma  was  trying 
a  new  plan. 

"Mamma,  please  take  this  splinter  out  of  my 
hand,"  said  Letty,  "it  hurts  me." 

"O,  no!"  said  mamma,  quietly.  "You  are  holler- 
ing before  you  are  hurt;"  and  the  poor  little  finger 
festered  and  got  soru. 


OoTOBiR  27, 1887 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSUKB. 


11 


"Please  give  me  a  drink  of  water,"  said  Sue,  "I'm 
so  thirsty." 

"I  reckon  not,"  said  mamma.  "You  always  hol- 
ler before  you  are  hurt,  you  know;"  and  Sue  had  to 
go  to  the  kitchen  for  water. 

Every  petition  was  treated  in  the  same  way,  until 
they  could  stand  it  no  longer. 

"We  most  haven't  got  any  mamma,"  sniffed  Sue. 

Then  they  took  courage,  and  made  a  clean  breast 
of  their  misery: 

"Is  is  'cause  papa  told  you  what  we  did  'bout  bein' 
whipped?"  asked  Letty. 

"Yes,"  said  mamma  gravely,  "that's  the  reason  I 
treat  you  as  if  you  never  told  the  truth." 

"O,  mamma,"  they  both  cried,  we'd  rather  be 
whipped  I" 

"But  this  is  God's  plan  with  his  big  children,"an- 
swered  mamma.  "Ananias  and  Sapphira  were  pun- 
ished quick  and  sharp  like  a  whipping,  but  mostly 
God  leaves  liars  to  get  their  punishment  by  degrees. 
And  it  always  comes:  as  soon  as  people  find  out  that 
you  have  told  a  lie  they  quit  believing  anything  you 
say;  and  I've  just  been  showing  you  how  uncom- 
fortable that  is." 

"But,  mamma,"  said  Letty,  "if  we  say  we  are  sor- 
ry, and  won't  do  so  no  more,  won't  you  believe  us 
then?" 

"Yes,"  said  mamma,  with  her  brightest  smile. 
"That's  God's  way,  too;  as  soon  as  anybody  is  sorry 
and  wants  to  do  better,  he  says  he  is  'slow  to  anger, 
and  plenteous  in  mercy.'  " 

I  never  knew  Letty  or  Sue  to  act  another  lie. — JS. 
iS.  Times. 


"I  would  advise  you,  too,  if  I  were  your  school 
master,  to  add  up  all  the  figures  given  in  books  and 
newspapers,  to  see  if  the  writers  have  made  any 
mistakes;  and  it  is  a  good  plan,  too,  to  go  at  once 
to  the  dictionary  when  you  meet  a  word  you  do  not 
quite  comprehend,  or  to  the  encyclopedia  or  history, 
or  whatever  else  is  handy,  whenever  you  read  about 
anything,  and  would  like  to  know  more  about  it" 
— Exchange. 

Tempeeance. 


DBVIL  AND  LIGBN8E 


VBRSU8   ODD   AltD   PROHLBITION. 


DOES  JB8V8  0EBI8T  LIVE  HERE? 


A  lady  was  sitting  on  her  verandah  in  India  read- 
ing. She  heard  the  tramp  of  some  one  running  very 
fast,  and  presently  a  boy  bounded  into  her  presence 
all  out  of  breath. 

"Does  Jesus  Christ  live  here?"  was  his  cry. 

The  lad  was  about  twelve  years  old.  His  hair 
was  coarse  and  matted  with  filth.  His  clothes  were 
dirty.  Flying  up  the  steps  and  crouching  at  the 
lady's  feet,  he  again  inquired,  "Do  Jesus  Christ 
live  here?" 

*'What  do  you  want  of  Jesus  Christ?"  she  asked. 

"I  want  to  see  him.  I  want  to  confess  to  him," 
was  the  reply. 

"Why,  what  have  you  been  doing  that  you  want 
to  confess?" 

With  great  earnestness  the  boy  said,  "Does  he 
live  here?  I  want  to  know  that.  Doing?  Why,  I 
tell  lies.  I  steal.  I  do  everything  bad.  I  am  afraid 
of  going  to  hell,  and  I  want  to  see  Jesus.  I  heard 
one  of  the  teachers  say  he  can  save  from  hell. 
Does  he  live  here?  Oh,  tell  me  where  I  can  find 
Jesus  Christ." 

"But  Jesus  Christ  will  not  save  people  who  do 
wickedly,"  said  the  lady. 

"I  want  to  stop  doing  wickedly,  but  I  cannot 
stop,"  said  the  boy.  "I  don't  know  how  to  stop. 
The  evil  thoughts  are  in  me,  and  the  bad  deeds 
come  of  evil  thoughts.     What  can  I  do?" 

He  was  told  he  could  do  nothing  but  go  to  Christ, 
but  that  he  could  not  see  Christ  as  he  evidently  ex- 
pected to  see  him.  He  was  no  longer  on  the  earth 
in  bodily  form. 

As  he  heard  this  he  gave  a  quick  sharp  cry  of 
despair.  But  he  brightened  up  when  the  good  mis- 
sionary lady  told  him  she  was  a  follower  of  Jesus, 
and  that  she  bad  come  to  India  on  purpose  to  tell 
people  how  to  be  saved. 

"Tell  me,  oh,  tell  me  about  him!"  was  his  eager 
cry.  "Only  ask  your  Master,  the  Lord  Jesus,  to 
save  me,  and  I  will  be  your  servant,  your  slave  for 
life.  Do  not  be  angry;  do  not  send  me  away.  I 
want  to  be  saved,  saved  from  hell." 

We  may  be  sure  the  simple  story  of  the  cross  was 
soon  told  this  poor  Hindu  lad,  and  he  was  easily 
led  to  trust  with  all  his  heart  in  Him  who  came 
hither  to  save  lost  sinners. — Buds  and  Blossoms. 


BY  8.  CALVIN  HABT. 

Liquor  dealers,  human  vampires, 

Death-dispensing  host; 
Price  of  blood  to  heaven  crying, 

Is  the  wealth  they  boast. 

Lol  the  weepini;  wives  and  children 
And  the  loved  ones  slain ; 

Priceless  eacritice  to  Bacchus, 
Fruit  of  rum's  dread  reign. 

License  laws,  vile  man,  will  never, 

Quench  this  fiery  dart. 
On  it  speeds  to  ev'ry  victim, 

Through  some  woman's  heart. 

Rally,  then,  throughout  the  nation, 
With  your  voice  and  vote  I 

Victory  for  prohibition 
Sound  in  clarion  note. 

"God  and  home  and  native  land," 

Our  inspiration  be ; 
Then  united  heart  and  hand, 

We'll  set  the  nation  free. 

O !  thou  God  of  prohibition. 

Unto  thee  we  call  1 
For  we  know  thou  dost  not  license 

Any  sin  at  all. 


TEMPERANCE  G0N8I8TENG1E8. 


LOOK  IT   UP. 


Mr.  Kiggleston  gives  his  readers  good  advice  in 
telling  them  to  look  up  the  location  of  all  places  of 
which  they  read,  and  to  test  the  accuracy  of  all  state- 
ments that  involve  calculations.  Such  a  practice 
tends  to  cultivate  the  habit  of  exactness,  and  will 
give  to  reading  much  additional  enjoyment.  In  his 
book,  "The  Big  Brother,"  ho  says: 

"It  will  not  hurt  you,  boys  and  girls,  to  learn  a 
little  accurate  geography,  by  looking  up  these  places 
before  going  on  with  the  story;  and  if  I  were  your 
school  master,  instead  of  your  story  teller,  I  should 
stop  here  to  advise  you  always  to  look  on  the  map 
for  every  town,  river,  lake,  mountain,  or  other  geo- 
graphicftl  thing  mentioned  in  any  book  or  paper  you 
read. 


In  church  and  state  the  question  of  temperance  is 
the  all-engrossing  one.  Every  one  who  is  interested 
in  the  cause  is  doing  what  he  can  to  help  it  along. 
This  is  my  excuse  for  writing — I  want  to  do  what  I 
can;  and,  at  the  risk  of  repeating  commonplaces  on 
a  well-ventilated  subject,  1  would  like  to  call  atten- 
tion to  a  study  that  has  greatly  amused  and  inter- 
ested me,  and  may  afford  that  pleasure  and  profit  to 
others.  It  consists  in  gathering  the  daily  remarks 
and  actions  we  hear  and  see  on  the  temperance  ques- 
tion, and  fitting  them  to  each  other.  I  will  group 
some  of  these,  by  way  of  illustration,  under  the 
head  of   TemjjeraTice  Consistencies: 

1.  License  the  traffic  as  respectable,  then  disci- 
pline a  church  member  for  engaging  in  it. 

2.  Advocate  keeping  temperance  out  of  politics, 
and  thus  help  rummies  to  keep  rum  in  politics. 

3.  Confess  temperance  to  be  the  broadest  and 
most  urgent  of  questions;  decry  the  only  party  that 
adopts  it  as  narrow  and  hot-headed. 

4.  Urge  speedy  education  of  popular  sentiment  in 
this  direction,  and  refuse  to  use  the  most  powerful 
means  to  that  end — viz. :  the  ballot. 

5.  Urge  the  doing  of  "something  practicable," 
and  refuse  to  do  the  most  practicable  thing — vote. 

6.  Declare  that  the  "third  party"  has  done  noth- 
ing; then  admit  that  it  has  created  the  present  health- 
ful public  seniment,  which  all  claim  is  the  first  and 
most  necessary  thing  to  be  created,  thus  laying  the 
best  possible  foundation  for  its  prohibitory  laws. 

7.  Claim  loudly  that  "license"  means  "taxing  an 
evil,"  then  word  it  so  as  to  "foster"  and  "protect"  a 
"respectable  business." 

8.  Acknowledge  that  liquor  drinking  has  alarm- 
ingly increased  under  license,  and  that  there  is  noth- 
ing inherent  in  the  system  to  check  this  rapid  in- 
crease, and  yet  claim  stoutly  that  it  "restricts."  Re- 
stricts what?  Possibly  the  number  of  saloons,  but 
not  the  drinking. 

J).  Roundly  exhort  action  for  the  best  interests  of 
the  tokole  nation,  then  instantly  seek  local  relief  (?) 
at  the  expense  oi  the  cause  and  the  entire  land;  or, 
stated  in  another  way,  snatch  half  a  loaf  at  home, 
and  rob  the  country  at  large  of  all  bread. 

10.  Assert  serenely  that  half  a  loaf  is  better  than 
none,  when  you  know  that  the  whole  is  necessary  to 
save  the  life. 

11.  Take  ))ainB  to  ix)int  out  that  local  and  State 
action  are  defective  because  of  governmental  inter- 
ference, then  rake  a  man  for  half  a  day  for  his  folly 
in  wanting  to  make  it  a  national  issue. 

12.  Prove  light  wines  and  beer  to  be  non-intoxi- 
cants, then  get  dnink  on  them. 

13.  (a)  South,  declare  Prohibitionists  in  league 
with  Republicans;  ^b)  North,  declare  Prohibitionists 


in  league  with  Democrats;  and,  as  the  only  consist- 
ent way  of  reconciling  these  seemingly  conflicting 
statements  (c)  declare  that  Prohibitionists  are  in  al- 
liance with  "rum  power"  and  for  "free  rum;"  then 
cap  the  climax  and  (d)  confess  that  liquor  men  would 
rather  see  the  devil  than  a  red-hot  Prohibitionist. 

14.  Finally,  shout  yourself  hoarse  for  "reform," 
then  turn  the  reform  over  to  politicians  bound  hand 
and  foot,  and  sold,  body  and  soul,  to  the  evil  that  is 
to  be  reformed. 

Each  one  can  multiply  examples  for  himself,  and 
in  such  a  study  get  curious  insights  into  human  na- 
ture. A  closing  word — high  license  is  a  narcotic, 
a  poisonous  soporific.  It  sets  the  community  asleep, 
imagining  great  good  is  being  done  and  much  health 
and  strength  being  gained,  until  the  miserable  poison 
is  too  deeply  imbedded  to  be  removed,  and  has 
reached  the  life  center.  But  we  are  gravely  in- 
formed that  "the  people"  are  not  yet  "educated  up" 
to  anything  better.  The  rum  seller  belongs  to  the 
most  ignorant  class,  and  yet  he  has  education 
enough  to  know  what  prohibition  means  and  can  do, 
so  that  he  will  fairly  froth  at  the  mouth  when  it  is 
broached.  The  trouble  is  we  have  failed  to  realize 
the  extent  of  popular  education  on  this  point.  The 
diflBculty  with  the  Christian  church  and  community 
is  not  lack  of  education,  but  lack  of  action.  The 
only  way  to  get  all  to  act  is  for  each  one  to  act  If 
we  would  learn  to  trust  the  average  intelligence  on 
the  temperance  question,  and  push  straight  out  and 
on  for  principle  and  right,  ceasing  to  belabor  and 
bemoan  the  "ignorant  public,"  we  would  do  more, 
and  find  that  they  know  more,  than  we  ever  suspect- 
ed. The  quickest  way  to  get  them  to  know  some- 
thing by  experience  is  to  actively  take  the  field. 
McClellan-like,  we  are  afraid  our  troops  need  a  little 
more  drilling  and  educating  and  shielding  and  hous- 
ing, till  the  mischief  has  been  done,  and  then  we 
lead  out  the  few  we  have  so  finely  educated  to  find 
that  the  practical  power  and  influence  and  the  strat- 
egic positions  are  all  in  the  hands  of  ihe  enemy. — 
Rev.  W.  W.  Scudder.  Jr.,  of  Alameda,  Cal.,  in  the 
Pacific. 


8HE  WA8  TOO  POPULAR. 


THE  FALL  OF  MR.  BLAINE  8  PaiVATE  SECRETARY. 

A  Haverhill,  Mass.,  dispatch  to  the  N.  Y.  Herald 
says:  Years  ago  a  bright,open-hearted  and  honest  girl 
was  private  secretary  to  James  G.  Blaine.  To-day 
a  physical  wreck,  broken  down  mentally,  with  no 
social  standing,  she  earns  her  daily  bread  by  wash- 
ing dishes  and  doing  other  work  in  a  Haverhill  res- 
taurant 

Born  in  the  pretty  village  of  Gardiner,  Me.,on  the 
bank  of  the  swift  flowing  Kennebec,  she  passed  the 
days  of  her  childhood.  The  public  schools  of  her 
native  town  furnished  her  early  education,  and  later 
she  was  sent  to  a  seminary,  where  she  was  graduat- 
ed with  honors.  Her  parents  were  wealthy  and  held 
a  high  social  position.  She  was  the  belle  of  the  vil- 
lage, and  a  bright  future  opened  up  before  her. 
When  she  was  twenty-three  years  of  age  she  became 
private  secretary  to  the"Plumed  Knight,"  James  G. 
Blaine.  As  such  she  became  a  general  fav  orite  in 
society,  and  there  are  many  people  in  Washington 
to-day,  who,  should  I  mention  her  name,  would  at 
once  recognize  this  once  brilliant  woman.  At  one 
time  her  name  frequently  appeared  in  society  jour- 
nals as  a  leader  at  fashionable  watering  places,  and 
on  many  well  known  occasions  of  national  import- 
ance she  was  present  as  a  special  guest 

But  society  was  her  ruin.  In  her  early  days  she 
had  one  lover,  a  bright  and  promising  young  man 
who  now  lives  across  the  river  in  Bradford  and  fills 
an  important  position  in  the  manufacturing  world. 
Their  engagement  was  announced  about  the  time 
she  became  secretary  to  Mr.  Blaine.  But  the  de- 
mands of  society  led  her  away  from  her  l)oy  lover, 
and  it  was  not  long  ere  the  engagement  was  broken 
by  her.  That  was  many  years  ago,  and  now  comes 
the  dark  side  of  the  story. 

One  night  last  winter  a  well  known  gentleman  of 
Bradford  was  on  his  homeward  journey;  his  way  led 
along  near  the  river  road;  the  wind  was  blowing  a 
gale,and  the  storm  was  increasing  every  minute.  lie 
saw  an  object  down  near  the  river  bank,  and  on  in- 
vestigation it  proved  to  be  a  woman.who.thinly  clad 
and  apparently  the  worse  for  liquor,  was  wander- 
ing aimlessly  about  The  man  took  her  home  and 
his  wife  cared  for  her.  This  woman  was  the  bright 
and  fascinating  private  secretary  of  former  times. 
As  soon  as  she  was  in  condition  to  do  so  she  told  her 
story. 

Why  had  she  come  to  Haverhill?  Simply  to  see 
once  more  the  boy  lover  whom  she  had  jilud  in  the 
Pine  Tree  State.  In  her  pocket  she  had  one  of  his 
love  letters  written  years  ago,  and  it  aorms  she  bad 
carried  it  with  her  (or  many  years.       When  private 


12 


TME  CHRIBTIiJ?  CYNOBHTBE, 


October  27, 1881 


secretary  she  acquired  the  habit  of  drinkirg  wines 
at  receptions  and  other  social  events.  Wine  led  to 
something  stronger.and  finally  she  gave  up  her  situ- 
ation with  Mr.  Blaine.  The  habit  of  drink  was 
strong  and  she  soon  lell  from  her  position  in  socie- 
ty. Of  late  years  she  has  supported  herself  as  best 
she  could  doing  housework  and  the  like. 


REFORM  NEWS  {Continued  from  6th  page.) 

perity  of  civil  and  religious  institutions  of  the  country 
demand  the  abolition  of  all  such  institutions. 

5.  That  if  the  osiensible  o\  jtcts  they  propose  to  accom- 
plish are  the  real  ohjecis  sought,  they  can  be  better  pro- 
moted by  open  than  secret  methods. 

6.  That  all  secrecy  is  damaging  to  a  good  cause,  as  it 
always  leads  men  to  conclude  ihalthere  is  something  con 
cealed  that  will  not  bear  the  light.  Christ  says,  "Men  love 
darkness  rather  than  light  because  their  deeds  are  evii." 

7 .  That  they  are  gigan  tic  conspiracies  agiinst  the  Lord 
and  his  anointed,  "sajing.  Let  us  break  their  bands  as- 
sunder.  and  cast  away  their  cords  from  us." 

8.  That  the  only  way  to  enlighten  the  world  is  to  bring 
it  to  Christ  "who  is  the  true  light  that  lighteth  every  man 
that  cometh  into  the  world." 

9.  Mttolxed,  That  we  heartily  endorse  the  W.  C.  T.  TJ. 
in  the  work  of  education  and  reform,  and  especially  ap- 
prove of  the  open  Christian  methods  employed,  and  that 
we  should  regret  any  concession  of  its  open,  honorable 
methods  to  secure  favor,  or  form  an  alliance  with  the 
Koights  of  Libor,  Good  Templars,  or  any  other  depart- 
ment of  the  secret  lodge  system. 

10  Resolved,  That  Rev.  C.  P.  Hawley  be  continued 
financial  agent  and  State  lecturer  for  one  year  from  date; 
and  that  he  be  author)  Z3d  to  receive  nubscriptions,  dona- 
tions and  collections  to  pay  his  salary  and  expenses:  and 
that  the  friends  of  the  cause,  and  especially  pastors,  are 
urged  to  aid  him  in  his  work . 

The  ninth  resolution  was  unanimously  adopted  by 
rising  vote,  the  convention  thus  manifesting  their 
deep  interest  in  the  Woman's  Christian  Temperance 
Union,  and  their  reprobation  of  the  methods  of  some 
leaders  in  that  noble  organization,  to  degrade  it  by 
covert  lodge  sfBliation.  The  resolutions  were  dis- 
cufcsed  with  great  ability  by  Dr.  Wishart  of  Illinois, 
Revs.  J.  S.  T.  Milligan  of  North  Cedar,  Kansas, 
Stannard  of  Shenandoah,  McKee  of  Clarinda,  Smith 
of  Beaconsfield,  Brown  of  Coin,  Coe,  of  West  Union, 
W.  I.  Phillips  of  Chicago,  Rev.  P.  H.  Wylieof  Kan- 
sas, and  others. 

It  was  voted  on  motion  of  Rev.  J.  S.  T.  Milligan 
that  the  delegates  from  this  convention  to  the  na- 
tional mass  convention  of  prohibitionists  to  be  held 
in  Chicago  be  instructed  to  urge  the  continued  rec- 
ognition of  God's  authority  in  government,  and  the 
Bible  standard  of  legislation,  in  the  platform  of  the 
Prohibition  party,  and  to  add  thereto  the  recognition 
of  the  Lord  Jesus  Christ  as  the  Ruler  of  nations. 

The  audience  room  of  the  large  United  Presby- 
terian church  was  well  filled  on  the  second  and  last 
evening  of  the  convention,  and  after  the  usual  de- 
votional exercises,  a  few  brief  business  items  were 
attended  to.  The  chairman  then  requested  W.  I. 
Phillips  to  Epeak  of  the  organization,  work,  and 
present  outlook  of  the  N.  C.  A.  Then  followed,  for 
half  an  hour,  a  very  interesting  address  in  which 
Rev.  Dr.  Wm.  Wishart  of  Monmouth,  Illinois,  gave 
reasons  for  objecting  to  secret  societies.  The  chair- 
man introduced  as  the  next  speaker  Rev.  B.  W.  Coe, 
a  seceded  Mason,  as  one  who  knew  what  Freemason- 
ry was.  He  not  only  spoke  of  how  he  came  to  join 
and  was  made  a  Mason,  but  of  the  long  struggle 
through  which  he  passed  to  reach  his  present  posi- 
tion of  freedom.  What  he  supposed  to  be  the  bind- 
ing character  of  the  oath,  and  the  fear  that  the  pen- 
ally would  be  exacted  should  he  renounce,  kept  him 
in  bondage  for  some  years,  after  he  was  convinced 
of  the  evil  character  of  the  lodge.  The  convention 
closed  with  an  address  by  Bro.  J.  S.  T.  Milligan, 
which  summed  up  the  whole  matter  in  »  few  words' 
which  being  brilliant,  eloquent  atd  forcible,  fittingly 
closed  this  very  pleasant  and  successful  State  con- 
vention. 

Mr.  Fred.  Nelson,  the  well  known  friend  of  re- 
forms, was  at  the  train  for  delegates,  and  the  writer 
is  under  great  obligation  to  him  for  the  use  of  his 
team  and  the  pleasure  of  his  company  whenever  a 
team  was  needed,  during  the  three  days'  stay  at 
College  Springs. 

The  weather  was  perfect.  The  number  of  dele- 
gates enrolled  was  one  hundred  and  thirty-five.  It 
more  attention  had  been  given  by  the  speakers  to 
such  minor  orders  as  the  G.  A.  R  and  K.  of  L.,  it 
would  have  been  more  profitable  to  the  cause. 

The  attendance  of  ministers  from  different  parts 
of  the  State  was  very  good  considering  the  cost  of 
getting  to  the  convention;  and  several  from  outside 
the  Slate  were  present  W.  I.  PaiLUPa. 


—  During  the  prevalence  of  scarlet  fever  in  Plain- 
well,  Mich.,  all  the  churches  were  closed.  The  Bap- 
tist minister  sent  bis  sermon  in  a  printed  sheet  to 
all  bis  members. 


Religiotts  News. 


A  GALL  FOR  A  SABBATH  CONVENTION. 


The  undersigned,  ministers  and  members  ot  churches, 
feeling  that  the  prevalent  desecration  of  the  Sabbath  is 
injuring  the  churches,  promoting  infidelity  and  provok- 
ing the  jast  anger  of  God,  unite  in  calling  a  convention 
of  Christian  people  who  sympathize  with  us  in  this  feel- 
ing to  mtet  in  Elgin,  lllinoia,  November  8lh,  1887.  at 
7:30  p  M. ;  to  continue  in  session  through  the  following 
day.  The  purpose  of  this  convention  is  to  consider  and 
pray  and  act  in  reference  to  this  matter  as  God  shall  di 
rect.  The  place  of  meeting  will  be  subsequently  an- 
nounced. 
A.  H  Ball,  Henry  Wilson, 

Elgin  Cong'l  Ch.  Carpenterville,  Cong'l  Ch 

H.  H  MoNBOE,  E  F.  Weight, 

M^ilta  Cong'l  Ch.  Crystal  Lake  Cong'l  Ch. 

W  L.  Febkis,  Frank  W.  Smith, 

Dundee  iJ^ng'l  Ch.  G-irden  Prairie  Cong'l  Ch. 

C.  E.  Chapell,  Del.,        W.  I.  Phillips, 

Malta  Cong'l  Ch.  Pub.  Christian  Cynosure. 

•T.  F   Robert,  H.  W.  Harbatjgh, 

Wayne  Cong'l  Ch.  Genoa  Junct.  Cong'l  Ch. 

H.  M.  Skeels,  .Ino.  Mitchell, 

Evangelist,  Sycamore  Cong'l  Ch. 

Chas  H.  Abbott,  E.  C.  Guild,  M.D  ,  Mem., 

Geneva  Cong'l  Ch.  Bartlett  Cong'l  Ch. 

E.  W.  Fisher.  Del., 
Wheaton  Cong'l  Ch. 


— Pres.  L.  N.  Stratton,  who  has  been  attending 
the  western  Wesleyan  conferences,  mentions,  in  his 
report  to  Syracuse  headquarters,  the  names  of  sev- 
eral old  friends  whose  names  often  appeared  on  con- 
ventioE  rolls  of  our  reform  in  years  past.  Among 
these  are  J.  BI.  Kent  and  J.  W.  Snyder,  whose  good 
deeds  are  yet  fragrant  in  Iowa  and  Illinois. 

— At  a  recent  meeting  of  the  Brooklyn  Presby- 
tery, the  Rev.  Samuel  T.  Spear,  D.  D.,  the  oldest 
member  of  the  Presbytery,  made  a  personal  state- 
ment of  his  religious  experience  and  relations  to 
that  body,  of  which  he  said  he  could  no  longer  be 
an  active  participant.  His  remarks  were  received 
with  the  aeepest  sympathy  and  affection. 

— In  New  York  "Prisoners'  Sunday"  will  be  Oc- 
tober .30.  The  committee  who  have  had  the  matter 
in  charge  earnestly  recommend  that  on  that  day  the 
churches  throughout  the  State,  in  their  services  and 
sermops,  give  prayerful  consideration  to  the  duty  of 
Christian  people  towards  the  criminal  classes;  both 
to  those  who  are  in  and  those  who  are  out  of  prison. 

— Professor  Henry  Drummond  and  his  co-Iabor- 
er3  have  induced  a  band  of  athletic  young  Christian 
men  to  devote  themselves  to  work  among  the  tene- 
ment houses  of  London.  The  professor  thinks  that 
this  spectacle  will  do  more  to  inspire  a  belief  in 
Christianity  than  a  whole  library  full  of  books  on 
dogmatic  theology. 

— The  largest  Baptist  church  in  this  country,  says 
an  exchange,  is  to  be  built  in  Philadelphia.  "It  will 
seat  4,600  persons  and  costs  $100,000.  A  thousand 
scholars  will  be  accommodated  in  ihe  Sunday-school 
room,  five  hundred  more  in  the  infant  department. 
A  dining  room,  kitchen,  parlors,  and  a  large  enter- 
tainment room  will  also  be  provided.  All  this  is  to 
give  room  and  scope  enough  for  the  ministry  of  Rev. 
Russell  H.  Conwell,  Tale  College  student,  soldier, 
Kwyer,  emigration  agent,  special  correspondent  in 
Europe  for  American  papers,  traveler,  lecturer,  au- 
thor, theological  student.  Baptist  minister."  Let 
him  take  one  more  roll  of  the  stone  and  become  an 
apostle  of  holy,  Christian  living,  and  clean  out  the 
money-catchers  and  world- worshipers  from  his 
church,  and  he  will  give  good  proof  of  his  ministry. 

— The  American  Missionary  Association  holds  its 
forty-first  annual  meeting  in  Portland,  Maine,  this 
week.  This  missionary  body  is  a  national  organiza- 
tion and  draws  its  support  from  Christian  people  in 
in  every  State  and  Territory  in  the  Union.  Its  mis- 
sionary labors,  which  are  both  evangelistic  and  ed- 
ucational.are  devoted  especially  to  the  poor  and  neg- 
lected classes.  Its  missionaries  number  445,  of 
of  whom  355  are  in  the  South,56  among  the  Indians 
and  34  among  the  Chinese.  In  its  schools  are  10,- 
717  pupils.  Its  range  of  teaching  includes  the  in- 
dustrial. At  the  South  its  work  is  chiefly  among 
the  colored  people. 

— Mr.  Moody  has  arranged  to  have  Ying  Lee,pro- 
prietor  of  a  Chinese  laundry  at  Hartford, Conn,, enter 
his  Mount  Hermon  School  at  Northfield,  Mass.,  to 
prepare  himself  for  the  ministry.  He  is  a  remark- 
ably bright  Chinaman,  far  in  advance  of  the  great 
mass  of  his  race. 

— A  snd  church  in  Nebraska  is  described  in  Our 
Chu-'cK  WojU.  Its  dimensions  are  20x36  outside, 
14x30  inside,  walls  3  feet  thick,  built  of  sod,  except 
the  doors  and  windows;  the  floor  is  the  natural  soil; 
a  tree  serves  the  purpose  of  a  coupling  pole;the  pews 
have  backs  when  some  one  sits  in  them;  the  interior 


is  plastered  and  white-washed,  and  the  ceiling  is 
made  of  mosquito  netting.  At  the  dedication  of  this 
church  not  a  few  walked  fifteen  miles. 

— Chaplain  McCabe  reports  encouraging  progress 
toward  the  million  mark  for  the  Methodist  Mission 
fund.  He  telegraphs  from  Saginaw  City,Mich.:"Des 
Moines  Conference,  increase,  $6,000;  Detroit  Con- 
ference, increase,  $2,000. 

— A  union  meeting  was  recently  held  at  Oak 
Grove,  Ky.,  by  J.  B.  Lowry  and  W.  H.  Archey.  It 
continued  twelve  days.  The  visible  results  are,  the 
church  greatly  revived  and  encouraged,  and  sinners 
awakened.  Sixty  professed  faith  in  Christ,  and 
forty-eight  united  with  the  churches. 

— With  but  a  single  exception,  says  the  Independ- 
ent, every  Evangelical  religious  newspaper  in  the 
country  sustains,  most  heartily,  the  policy  and  recent 
action  of  the  American  Board,  and,  what  is  very  im- 
portant now  to  consider,  every  such  paper  would 
instantly  and  firmly  condemn  that  institution  if  it 
should  permit  its  missionaries  to  teach  the  "dogma" 
of  future  probation. 

— By  appointment  of  the  International  Conven- 
tions of  Young  Men's  Christian  Associations,  the 
second  Sunday  in  November  has  been  observed  each 
year  since  1866,  as  a  Day  of  Prayer  for  Young  Men 
and  Young  Men's  Christian  Associations.  In  1875 
this  season  of  prayer  was  extended  to  cover  an  en- 
tire week.  The  blessing  attending  the  observance 
of  this  season  has  been  very  marked  in  many  places, 
and  in  numerous  instances  the  churches  which  have 
united  in  the  keeping  of  this  week,  or  a  part  of  it, 
have  received  an  impulse  in  their  work  which  has 
been  felt  throughout  the  winter.  This  week  ot  prayer 
begins  this  year  on  Sabbath,  Nov.  13.  Pastors  are 
requested  to  preach  sermons  intended  to  increase  an 
interest  in  special  effort  for  the  salvation  of  young 
men. 

— In  Philadelphia  the  various  congregations  of 
"Christians,"  Disciples  and  Free  Baptists  have 
formed  a  practical  Christian  Union.  Some  months 
ago  the  pastors  of  these  churches  came  together  and 
decided  that  all  interests  would  be  furthered  by  im- 
mediate consolidation.  Upon  the  basis  adopted  each 
congregation  was  left  in  perfect  liberty  as  to  the 
management  of  its  own  aflairs,all  distinctive  denonSin- 
ational  appellations  were  discarded  for  the  one  name 
C'hrisiian^&nd  the  whole  body  given  the  title  of  theU  nit- 
ed  Christian  Cburchesof  Philadelphia,  of  which  there 
are  ten  or  eleven  already  enrolled.  The  churches 
do  not  withdraw  from  their  denominations,  but  they 
drop  their  denominational  names  and  form  a  union 
independent  of  denominational  lines.  As  might  be 
expected,  this  action  has  resulted  in  giving  great  en- 
couragement to  the  weaker  congregations  of  the 
union,  and  infused  a  spirit  of  more  aggressive  work 
among  all  the  ministers  associated. 

— The  Swedish  Augustana  Synod  has  been  very 
energetic  in  establishing  its  educational  work. 
At  Rock  Island,  111.,  it  has  its  theological  seminary 
with'  three  professors  and  forty-five  students.  In- 
struction is  imparted  through  both  the  Swedish  and 
the  English  languages.  One  of  the  professors.  Dr. 
Weidner,  who  teaches  dogmatics,  is  entirely  Eaglish; 
the  other  two  are  Swedish.  In  the  four  colleges  of 
the  Synod  there  is  an  attendance  of  740  students, 
and  instruction  is  imparted  by  49  teachers.  The 
oldest  college  is  that  of  Rock  Island,  with  170  stu- 
dents, of  whom  125  have  the  ministry  in  view — cer- 
tainly a  large  percentage.  The  faculty  numbers  13 
men.  The  institution  was  founded  in  1870.  In 
1876  Gustavus  Adolphus  College  was  established  at 
St,  Peter,  Minn.  It  now  has  a  faculty  of  17  mem- 
bers, and  an  attendance  of  200,  of  whom  40  are  la- 
dies. Of  these  160  males,  about  40  propose  to 
study  for  the  ministry.  Bethany  College  in  Kan- 
sas was  opened  only  six  years  ago,  but  now  has  an 
attendance  of  300  students,  and  a  teaching  force  of 
12.  The  Luther  Academy  at  Wahoo,  Neb.,  was 
opened  in  1883.  It  has  70  students,  of  whom  25 
will  enter  the  Lutheran  ministry.  There  are  three 
professors,  A  remarkable  sign  of  the  interest  taken 
by  this  whole  body  in  the  cause  of  education  is  seen 
in  the  fact  that  one  student  for  every  eighty  com- 
municants is  in  attendance  at  one  of  the  church 
colleges. 


LITERATURE. 


In  the  Faith  Missionary,  devoted  to  the  advancement  of 
Faith  Work  in  foreign  lands,  beside  a  number  of  inter- 
esting letters  from  the  brethren  now  laboring  in  India, 
the  report  of  the  Linwood  Convention  for  Faith  healing 
and  the  promotion  of  a  holy  life  is  full  of  interest.  The 
meeting  itself  was  one  of  power  and  resulted  in  the 
formation  of  a  permanent  organization  of  which  Deacon 
O.  M.  Brown  of  Oberlin  is  the  president. 

The  last  Literary  Magazine  is  sure  to  have  readers  for 
such  discussions  ot  current  social  topics  as  "The  Growth 
of  Oo-operation  in  England"  by  George  J.  Holyoake, 


OoTOBBB  27, 1887 


THE  CHHISTIAN  CYNOSUHXL 


13 


"French  Peasant  Proprietora,"  "Young 
Married  Women,"  "Present  Life  and 
Thought  in  China."  and  "The  At>olition 
of  Poverty."  Biography  has  "Samuel 
Taylor  Coleridge,"  a  very  instructive  and 
discriminating  ar'icle,  and  "Socrates"  by 
Prof.  Blackie  of  Eiinburgh.  In  science 
there  are  "The  Creatures  we  Breathe," 
"The  Honey-Bee,"  "The  Redemption  of 
Astrology,"  "Great  Men  and  Evolution," 
"The  Coral  Reefs  and  Evolution,"  and 
"Prehistoric  Trephining  "  A  sketch  of 
early  discoveries  in  America  by  Scandi- 
navian voyagers  is  a  valuable  arlicle. 

Vick'a  JUustrated  Monthly  is  as  enter- 
taining in  FdU  as  when  Spring  bursts  out 
in  bloom  with  useful  notes  about  or- 
chards, bulbs,  fairs,  etc.  Now  we  are 
filling  the  south  windows  with  our  win- 
ter ti)wer  gardens  such  companions  as 
"Vick's"  are  always  welcome. 

Demorest'H  Monthly  for  November  will 
be  of  special  interest  to  Prohibitionists 
for  its  fine  portraits  of  MioS  Willard  and 
the  late  J.  B.  Finch  Other  illustrations 
are  of  fine  order.  The  sanitary,  bill  of- 
fare,  fashion  and  house-decoration  de- 
partments of  this  magazine  are  of  the 
first  class. 

The  Lincoln  Life  in  the  forthcoming 
November  Century  has  to  do  with  the 
period  after  Lincoln's  election,  and  be- 
fore his  inauguration.  In  this  install- 
ment will  be  given  to  the  world  for  the 
first  time  fourteen  letters  of  President 
Lincoln.  These  are  written  to  men  like 
Qentral  Scott,  Mr.  Seward,  Mr.  Ray- 
mond, Mr.  Gilmer,  and  others.  There 
are  also  important  letters  from  W.  H. 
Seward,  and  interesting  letters  and  ex- 
tracts from  letters  by  Horace  Greeley,  E 
B  Washburne,  Simon  Cameron,  General 
Scott,  Thurlow  Weed,  Thomas  Corwin, 
W.  0.  Bryant,  and  John  A.  Dix. 


Lodge  Notes. 

The  Delta  Kappa  Epailon  (D.  K.  E  ) 
secret  college  fraternity  held  a  conven- 
tion in  Chicago  last  week . 

The  national  meeting  of  the  Brother- 
hood of  Eiginecs  meeting  in  Chicago 
last  week  were  addressed  by  Gov.  Ogles- 
by.  No  business  of  public  interest  was 
transacted,  but  the  order  had  a  banquet 
and  a  "good  time." 

Rev.  Dr.  Kane,  London,  Eng.,  Grand 
Master  of  the  Orangemen,  denies  the 
statement  that  he  repudiated  Chamber- 
lain's proposals  for  separate  treatment  of 
Ulster,  and  states  that  he  is  in  full  sym- 
pathy with  Chamberlain. 

C.  H.  Harris  who  some  time  since 
gained  a  doubtful  reputation  as  the  re- 
tailer of  low  humor  over  the  name  "Carl 
Pretzel  "  has  become  editor  of  a  weekly 
Sunday  sheet  in  tbis  city  and  was  also 
lately  made  a  Koight  Templar — business 
and  lodge  relation  fitting  well  to  each 
other, 

MacCiIla,  a  Masonic  authority,  issues 
the  following:  "We  consider  it  a  part  of 
the  obligation  of  Masons  to  transmit  to 
their  successors  all  of  the  essential  forms 
and  ceremonies  of  Freemasonry  as  they 
received  them  including  the  very  veibiage 
of  the  craft."  For  instance:  Misonry 
is  sometimes  called  Geometry,  the  "ob- 
long fquare,"  "hermaphrodite,"  "murder 
and  treason  not  excepted,"  etc  ,  etc. 

Grand  Secretary  Parvin  of  Iowa  pro- 
posed some  time  ago  to  donate  his  valua- 
ble private  "Iowa  historical  collection" 
to  the  Grand  Lodge  Library,  if  cases 
should  be  made  to  keep  it  intact  and  it 
should  bear  his  name.  It  reveals  the  in- 
telligence of  men  who  are  educated  in 
the  lodge  literature  and  philosophy  that 
there  were  objections  made  to  the  pro- 
posal by  influential  Masons  and  it  was 
withdrawn. 

Sjmc  time  since  a  correspondent  sign- 
ing himself  "Mason"  wrote  to  the  island 
ard  of  this  city  about  pastoral  supplies 
in  Nebraska,  closing  his  remarks  on  the 
subject  with  the  lodge  lingo,  that  men 
"free-born,  of  lawful  age,  well  rccom- 
menled,  duly  and  truly  prepared,  worthy 
and  ./ell  qialiUcd"  could  bo  had  by  writ- 
ing to  J.  W.  Osborn  or  C.  C.  Pierce. 
Such  a  shameful  attempt  to  fill  Baptist 
pulpits  with  Freemasons  cannot  be  too 
severely  denounced. 

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THE  CHRISTIAIT  CYNOSTTEE. 


October  27, 188? 


In  Brief. 


A  rich  deposit  of  rock  salt  was  found 
at  a  depth  of  470  feet,  at  Hutchinson, 
Kan.,  Wednesday.  The  product  is 
claimed  to  be  as  fine  as  any  found  in  the 
country. 

In  an  address  at  Dubuque,  Congressman 
CoffiQ  stated  that  in  the  past  nine  years 
the  old-fashioned  car  coupler  and  hand- 
brake had  killed  441  railroad  employes 
in  Iowa,  and  crippled  for  life  1,439  per- 
sons. 

It  is  stated  that  the  principal  sugar  re- 
finers of  the  country  are  endeavoring  to 
form  a  "trust,"  for  the  better  protection 
of  their  interests,  and  that  the  combined 
resources  of  the  firms  mentioned  is  about 
$50.000  000. 

Although  the  best  of  the  public  lands 
have  gone,  it  is  encouraging  to  note  that 
there  remain  unsurveyed  about  9,000  000 
acres  in  Colorada,  12  000,000  in  Arizona, 
nearly  30  000,000  in  California,  49,000,- 
000  in  Dakota,  7,000  000  in  Florida,  44,- 
000,000  in  Idaho,  7,000  000  in  Minnesota, 
39,000,000  in  Nevada,  74  000  000  in  Mon 
tana,  41,000  000  in  Utah,  more  than  20,- 
000,000  in  Washington  Territory,  and  so 
on. 

A  magazine  published  in  Philadelphia 
in  1818  gave  the  following  as  an  item  of 
news;  "In  the  course  of  the  twelve 
months  of  1817,  12,000  wagons  passed 
the  Alleghany  mountains  from  Philadel- 
phia and  Baltimore,  each  with  from  four 
to  six  horses,  carrying  from  thirty-five  to 
forty  hundredweight.  The  cost  of  car 
riage  was  about  $7  per  hundredweight, 
in  some  cases  as  high  as  $10,  to  Philadel- 
phia. The  aggregate  sum  paid  for  the 
conveyance  of  goods  exceeded  $1,500,- 
000  "  To  move  a  ton  of  freight  between 
Pittsburg  and  Philadelphia,  therefore, 
cost  not  less  than  $140,  and  took  proba- 
bly two  weeks'  time.  In  1886,  the  aver- 
age amount  received  by  the  Pennsylvania 
Railroad  for  the  carriage  of  freight  was 
three-quarters  of  one  cent  per  ton  per 
mile.  The  distance  from  Philadelphia  to 
Pittsburg  is  385  miles,  so  that  the  ton 
which  cost  $140  in  1817  was  carried  in 
1886  for  $2.87.  At  the  former  time  the 
workingman  in  Philadelphia  had  to  pay 
$14  for  moving  a  barrel  ,of  flour  from 
Pittsburg,  against  twenty  eight  cents 
now.  The  Pittsburg  consumer  paid  $7 
freight  upon  every  100  pounds  of  dry 
goods  brought  from  Philadelphia,  which 
100  pounds  is  now  hauled  in  two  days  at 
a  cost  of  fourteen  cents. 

Cygnet,  Ohio,  is  a  town  of  tanks.  It 
is  at  Cygnet  that  the  Buckeye  Pipe  Line 
Company  has  already  built  a  dozen  35  000 
barrel  tanks,  and  will  build  without  delay 
as  many  more,  A  few  months  ago,  where 
Cygnet  now  stands  the  wind  whistled 
through  a  poor  potato  patch,  and  sighed 
among  the  trees  of  the  Black  Swamp. 
Now  trees,  potato  patches,  large  clumps 
of  golden  rod,  and  beautiful  bunches  of 
blue  asters  must  all  get  out  of  the  road 
of  the  tank  men.  "The  greatest  gusher 
in  the  world,"  recently  mentioned  in  the 
Blade,  was  next  visited.  Wonderful  as 
are  the  stories  told  of  other  wells  in  other 
fields,  this  well  certainly  stands  without 
an  equal  in  the  world.  The  well,  which 
is  only  a  short  walk  from  Cygnet,  had 
been  flowing  at  the  rate  of  250  barrels  a 
day  when  Mr.  Parker  said  "Shoot  it,"  and 
Mr.  W.  J.  Morrison,  of  Findlay,  dropped 
the  "go  devil."  Never  before  in  the  his- 
tory of  the  oil  fields  has  such  a  result 
been  achieved.  The  oil  burst  forth  in  a 
mighty  volume,  and  it  seemed  as  if  the 
fountains  in  the  center  of  the  earth  had 
been  broken  up  and  were  being  forced 
up  by  an  unseen  and  unknown  force. 
Through  four  lines  the  oil  poured,  and 
the  tanks  shook  and  the  earth  in  the  vi- 
cinity of  the  well  trembled.  The  thun- 
ders from  the  well  can  be  heard  all  over 
Cygnet.  In  less  than  an  hour  and  a  half 
the  well  flowed  .jOO  barrels  into  the  tanks, 
and  this  will  give  the  "oil  volcano"  a 
capacity  of  «,000  per  day.  The  well  is 
keeping  up  its  reputation  for  being  the 
greatest  gusher  in  the  world,  and  at  the 
rate  it  is  llowing  now  all  the  35,000  barrel 
tanks  at  Cygnet  will  soon  be  filled  from 
the  "oil  volcano." 

A  striking  instance  of  the  extent  to 
which  labor  saving  machinery  is  carried 
nowadays,  says  the  Industrial  Jourrud  is 
shown  in  the  tin  can  industry.  Every- 
body knows  that  tin  caus  are  manufac- 
tured by  machinery.  One  of  the  machines 
used  in  the  process  solders  the  longitud- 
inal seams  of  the  cans  at  the  rate  of  fifty 
a  minute,  the  cans  rushing  along  in  a 


continuous  stream.  Now,  of  course,  a 
drop  or  two  of  solder  is  left  on  the  can. 
The  drop  on  the  outside  can  be  easily 
cleaned  away,  but  it  is  not  so  easy  to 
secure  the  drop  left  on  the  inside.  It 
wouldn't  do,  of  course,  to  retard  the 
speed  of  the  work — better  waste  the  drop, 
it  is  only  a  trifle,  anyhow,  and  to  99  men 
in  100  it  would  not  seem  worth  a  min- 
ute's attention.  The  hundredth  man 
worked  for  a  firm  using  one  of  these  ma- 
chines, and  he  set  about  devising  an 
ingenious  arrangement  for  wiping  the 
inside  of  the  can,  thereby  saving  that 
drop  of  solder  and  leaving  none  to  come 
in  contact  with  the  contents  of  the  can. 
He  was  encouraged  by  his  employers  to 
patent  his  invention,  did  so,  and  has 
already  received  several  thousand  dollars 
in  royalties  for  its  use .  As  the  machine 
solders  20,000  cans  a  day,  the  solder 
saved  by  his  invention  amounted  to  $15 
a  day.     It  pays  to  think  as  you  work. 


CATAKKH  CURED. 


A  clergyman,  after  years  of  suffering 
from  that  loathsome  disease,  catarrh,  and 
vainly  trying  every  known  remedv,  at 
last  found  a  prescription  which  complete- 
ly cured  and  saved  him  from  death.  Any 
sufferer  from  this  dreadful  disease  send- 
ing a  self  addressed  stamped  envelope  to 
Prof.  J.  A.  Lawrence,  212  East  9th  St., 
New  York,  will  receive  the  recipe  free  of 
charge. 

FREE  TRACTS 


Will  be  furnished  to  those  who  desire  in- 
formation or  who  will  distribute  them 
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There  are  in  stock  now  a  large  number 
of 

"PREBMASONBY  IN    THB   FAMILY." 

This  is  especially  interesting  to  ladies. 

"TO   THE   BOYS   WHO   HOPE   TO   BE   MEN." 

It  is  illustrated  and  will  please  the 
school  children. 

"selling  dead   HORSES." 

You  can  always  get  the  attention  of 
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horses  with  this  tract. 

"MOODY   ON    SECRET    SOCIETIES" 

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A  limited  number  of  two  new  tracts 
will  be  sent  to  any  who  need  them. 

"THE   SONS   OF   VETERANS." 
"in    which    ARMY    ARE     YOU?" 

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Ought  you  not,  once  a  year  at  least,  to 
put  a  tract  into  each  one  of  your  neigh- 
bor's houses?  Will  you  send  for  a  supply 
soon? 

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15 


Home  and  Health. 

HOW  FRENCH  BREAD  18  MADE. 

One  summer's  day  we  stopped  to  call 
at  the  stone  farm  house  of  Monsieur  Du- 
val. Ernestine,  the  eldest  daughter,  was 
housekeeper  in  her  dead  mother's  place, 
and  she  it  was  who  brought  out  the  amber- 
colored  cider,  the  goat's  cheese,  and  the 
heavy,  hard,  country  bread.  It  is  an 
essential  of  French  peasant  hospitality  to 
offer  these  things  to  visitors.  The  loaf 
she  took  from  the  shelf  was  one  of  half  a 
dozen  leaning  against  the  black  walL 
These  loaves  resembled  cart  wheels,  and 
had  been  baked  in  six-quart  milk  pans. 
Ernestine  cut  the  loaf  with  a  small  savr 
made  for  the  purpose !  Noi  hing  less  than 
such  a  saw,  or  a  pirate's  cutlass,  could 
pever  that  homely  but  wholesome  pain 
rfisain..  These  loaves,  we  knew,  were 
baked  only  once  a  month.  Bread  day  in 
a  Norman  peasiUt  family  is  like  washing 
day  on  an  American  farm,  in  the  respect 
that  it  comes  at  regular  periods.  We 
judged  that  bread  day  in  this  cottage  was 
approaching,  from  the  fact  that  only  six 
loaves  remained  of  the  original  thirty  or 
thereabout.  After  our  luncheon  Ernes- 
tine took  us  through  the  orchard  to  a 
picturesque  stone  building,  where  the 
bread  was  wont  to  be  made.  This  build- 
ing had  once  been  part  of  an  ancient 
abbey,  and  amid  its  ivy-colored  ruins  we 
could  still  trace  fine  sculpture  and  bits  of 
armorial  designs,  but  inside  there  was  no 
trace  of  art  or  architecture.  It  was  really 
a  Norman  hen  house.  We  saw  several 
pairs  of  sabots  or  wooden  shoes  hanging 
from  the  wall  and  looking  as  if  they  had 
been  whitewashed.  In  one  corner  of  the 
place  was  a  large  space  inclosed  with 
boards  This  was  empty,  but,  like  the 
sabots,  it  suggested  whitewash  or  mortar 
mafeing  Ernestine  told  us  that  this  was 
the  family  dough  trough.  Hither,  once 
a  month,  came  her  father  and  the  hired 
man  to  "set"  the  yeast  arising .  Flour 
and  water  were  stirred  together  with  the 
huge  wooden  spades  shaped  like  our 
snow  shovels  which  hung  with  the  sabots 
upon*the  wall.  When  the  mass,  thor- 
oughly beaten  together,  had  risen  and 
assumed  a  dark  color  and  leathery  con- 
sistency, then  came  the  tug  of  war.  The 
two  men  put  on  the  sabots  over  their  or- 
dinary shoes,  jumped  in  upon  the  dough, 
and  began  the  kneading  Their  way  was 
to  hop  and  prance  and  flourish  like  opera 
dancers,  to  stamp  and  kick  like  horses, 
exerting  themselves  till  the  perspiration 
streamed  off  them  and  they  had  no 
strength  left.  After  this  process  the 
dough  was  put  into  the  pans,  and  then 
baked  in  the  huge  oven  at  the  rear  of  the 
abbatial  hen  house.  In  all  Norman 
towns  half  clad  men  may  often  be  seen 
lounging  about  bake  house  doors.  Their 
legs  and  feet  are  bare  and  floury,  and  as 
they  tread  the  streets  we  know  that  they 
have  just  come  from  or  are  returning  to 
their  usual  occupation  of  kneading  bread. 
— Bporh. 

FIGHTING  SLEEP  WITH  TEA. 

The  practice  of  taking  tea  or  coffee  by 
students,  in  order  to  work  at  night,  says 
Dr  Mattieu  Williams,  is  downright  mad- 
ness, especially  when  preparing  for  an 
examination.  More  than  half  of  the 
cases  of  breakdown,  loss  of  memory, 
fainting,  etc.,  which  occur  during  severe 
examinations,  and  far  more  frequently 
than  is  commonly  known,  are  due  to 
this.  I  frequently  hear  of  promising  stu- 
dents who  have  thus  failed;  and,  on  in- 
quiry, have  learned— in  almost  every  in- 
stance— that  the  victim  has  previously 
drugged  himself  with  tea  or  coffee.  Sleep 
is  the  rest  of  the  brain;  to  rob  the  hard- 
worked  brain  of  its  necessary  rest  is  cere- 
bral suicide.  My  old  friend,  the  late 
Thomas  Wright,  was  a  victim  of  this  ter- 
rible folly.  He  undertook  the  translation 
of  the  "Life  of  Julius  C.uaar,"  by  Napo- 
leon III .  and  to  do  it  in  a  cruelly  short 
time.  He  fulfilled  his  contract  by  sitting 
up  several  nights  successively  by  the  aid 
of  strong  tea  or  coffee  (I  forget  which). 
I  saw  him  shortly  afterward.  In  a  few 
weeks  he  had  aged  alarmingly,  and  be- 
come quite  bald;  his  brain  gave  way  and 
never  recovered.  There  was  but  little 
difference  between  his  age  and  mine,  and 
but  for  this  dreadful  cerebral  strain,  ren- 
dered possible  only  by  the  alkaloid  (for 
otherwise  he  would  have  fallen  to  sleep 
over  his  work,  and  thereby  saved  his  life), 
he  might  still  be  amusing  and  instructing 
thousands  of  readers  by  fresh  volumes  of 
popularized  arcbn'ological  research. — Bel. 

Dr.  Fehling  testifies  that  the  influence 
of  the  nurse's  diet  on  the  chil^  is  illusory; 
the  nurse  or  mother  can,  with  impunity, 


eat  sour  articles,  such  as  lemons,  oranges 
and  vinegar,  without  thereby  influencing 
the  child.  How  many  mothers  have,  for 
days  and  weeks  after  their  confinement, 
been  denied  satisfaction  to  their  cravings 
for  lemons,  fruit  and  salads,  by  the  Sarah 
Gramps  ruling  over  them  in  their  times 
of  trial,  the  attending  surgeons  calmly, 
cruelly  consenting,  on  account  of  the 
imaginary  danger  of  colic  to  the  puling 
infant. —  Med.  Bum. 


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THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSUBE. 


October  2T,  1887 


NFWS  OF  THE  WEEK 

WASHINaTON. 

The  Carriage-builders'  National  Asso- 
ciation met  in  fifteenth  annual  sesei  >n  at 
Washington  Tuesday,  President  Stude- 
baker,  of  South  Bend.  lod.,  in  the  chair; 
The  executive  committee  suggested  the 
advisability  of  advancing  the  prices  of 
many  classes  of  vehicles. 

Inspector  Armstroug,  of  the  Crow  In- 
dian reservation,  lecommends  the  imme- 
diate arrest  of  the  "Medicine  Man"  and 
his  seventeen  lawless  followers,  and  the 
Secretary  of  War  instructed  the  military 
to  take  such  action  as  would  prevent  an 
outbreak  among  the  Indians. 

President  Cleveland  returned  Saturday 
to  Washington  from  his  long  trip  of  4,500 
miles . 

CHICAGO . 

The  arguments  on  tlie  motion  for  a  new 
trial  in  the  omnibus  boodle  case  were  made 
last  week  by  Alexander  Sullivan,  Judge 
Jamieson  taking  the  case  under  advise- 
ment next  day. 

A  mass-meetirg  of  so  called  laboring 
men  was  held  at  Battery  D  Hall  Thursday 
to  protest  against  the  hanging  of  the  con- 
demned anarchists.  About  4,500  persons 
were  present.  R-solutionsn  questing  the 
Governor  to  commute  the  sentence  were 
passed,  and  about  $400  raised. 

The  National  Convention  of  Employ- 
ing P/inttrs  began  its  sessions  yesterday, 
and  decided  to  refuse  the  demand  of  the 
Printers  International  Union  for  a  nine- 
hour  day. 

Hon.  Elihu  B.  Washburn  died  Satur- 
day afternoon  suddenly  of  neuralgia  of 
the  heart  at  the  home  of  his  son  in  this 
city. 

A  bronze  statue  of  Abraham  Lincoln 
in  heroic  siz3  was  unveiled  with  appro- 
priate ceremonies  in  Lincoln  Park  Satur- 
day.   It  is  the  gift  of  Eli  Bates. 

COUNTKY. 

Suit  on  behalf  of  the  United  States  was 
begun  Friday  at  New  York  against  the 
trustees  of  Trinity  church  for  importing, 
und^  r  contract  to  preach,  the  Rev.  E. 
Walpole  Warren,  in  violation  of  the  con- 
tract labor  law. 

The  arrangements  for  .the  formation  of 
a  sugar  trust  fund  are  said  to  be  practic- 
ally completed.  Bonds  will  be  issued  lo 
the  amount  of  $15,000  000,  and  $^0,00O,- 
000  in  stock  will  be  distributed.  Mr. 
Henry  Havemeyer  will  be  President,  and 
John  E  Searles,  now  treasurer  of  the 
Hivemeyer  &  Elder  Sugar  refloing  Com-a 
pauy,  will  be  the  general  manager  of  the 
concern. 

It  is  announced  as  probable  that  the 
Jerome  Park  track  will  be  turned  into  a 
reservoir,  and  that  the  sound  of  the  hoofs 
of  thoroughbreds  will  never  be  heard  on 
it  again. 

An  equestrian  statue  of  General  Meade 
was  unveiled  Tuesday  at  Pairmount  Park, 
Philadelphia.  The  military  parade  was 
of  an  imposing  character. 

Two  hundred  and  eighty  Mormon  con- 
verts from  Liverpool  were  landed  Tues- 
day at  New  York. 

Spriogfl-jld,  Mo.,  adopted  local  prohibi- 
tion Thursday  by  a  majority  of  250  votes 
The  election  was  hoUy  contested,  and 
ladies  worked  earnestly  against  the  liquor 
traffic. 

Csiptain  Mathias  Gaitz,  one  of  the  old- 
est settlers  of  Minnesota,  hanged  himself 
at  his  home  at  Winsted,  Minn.,  Thursday. 
It  is  thought  excessive  drinking  led  to 
the  act. 

Over  100  persona  left  the  vicinity  of 
Beloit,  Wis.,  Tuesday  for  Pasadena  and 
Los  Anc;eles,  Cal,  where  they  will  settle. 

A  powerful  fljw  of  natural  gas  was 
struck  Thursday  at  Auburn,  Ind.,  at  a 
depth  of  1,907  feet. 

Petroleum  was  struck  at  Hutchinson, 
Kan  ,  Friday  evening,  at  a  distance  of 
820  feet.  Oaly  a  week  or  two  ago  large 
deposits  of  salt  were  discovered  in  that 
locality. 

The  motion  for  a  new  trial  in  the  cases 
of  William  Uerbst,  former  President  of 
the  First  National  Bank  of  Glen  Rock, 
Pa.,  and  his  son,  convicted  of  embezzling 
the  bank's  money,  was  overruled  by 
United  Slates  Judge  Butler  at  Philadel- 
phia, Monday,  and  father  and  son  were 
sentenced  for  five  years  each. 


Three  coaches  of  the  Chesapeake  and 
Ohio  fast  express  were  thrown  from  the 


track  at  St.  Albans,  twelve  miles  below 
Charlestown,  W.  Va ,  at  noon  Thursday. 
The  cars  were  filled  with  passengers,  few 
of  whom  escaped  unhurt,  and  three  or 
four  probably  sustained  fatal  injaries. 
The  disaster  was  caused  by  a  detective 
switch. 

Near  Greer's,  twelve  miles  from  Green- 
ville, S  C  ,  a  freight  train  and  a  passen- 
ger train  were  in  collision,  Thursday 
morning.  The  engineer  of  the  passenger 
and  a  woman  were  killed  and  ten  persons 
wounded,  of  whom  four  or  five  are  not 
expected  to  survive.  The  engineer  and 
conductor  of  the  freight  train  have  dis- 
appeared. 

Fire  at  San  Francisco  Wednesday  night 
destroyed  tbe  Fulton  Iron  Works  (loss 
$200,000).  and  the  Cdliforoia  Car  Works 
(loss  about  $50,000).  The  structures 
were  well  insured. 

Franz  Mikhof,  one  of  a  band  of  an- 
archists who  have  been  setting  fire  to  in- 
sured houses,  their  reward  being  a  com- 
mission from  the  owners,  was  convicted 
at  New  York  Thursday.  William  Scharf, 
the  leader  of  the  incendiaries,  has  escaped. 

A  fishing  schooner  which  arrived  Tues- 
day at  Qloujester,  Mass  ,  reports  fallicg 
in  with  a  deserted  French  sloop  Sept  30, 
and  finding  ten  men  drowned  in  the  cabin. 

Near  Monon,  Ind.,  Wednesday  night, 
a  child  of  Joseph  Cleary  was  torn  to 
death  by  a  shepherd  dog  The  little  fel- 
low was  caressing  the  animal,  which  sud- 
denly sprang  at  his  throat  and  killed  him 
before  help  could  arrive. 

An  incendary  fire  at  Marinette,  Wis., 
Thursday  morning,  destroyed  forty  build- 
ings in  the  business  portion  of  the  city, 
entailing  a  loss  of  $350,000.  N )  fatali- 
ties are  reported.  The  insurance  is  about 
$80,000. 

Friday,  in  Roane  county,  West  Vir- 
ginia, Jake  Coon  and  Robert  Duff  were 
identified  as  having  participated  in  the 
murder  of  Rev.  Thomas  P.  Ryan,  and 
were  lynched.  Vigilantes  also  captured 
and  killed  George  Duff,  Jr.,  brother  of 
Robert.  William  Drake  was  taken  by  a 
mob  to  Spencer,  but  it  is  not  known 
whether  he  was  lynched.  Drake  con- 
fessed than  Dan  Cunningham,  a  detect- 
ive, planned  the  robbery  and  that  his 
gang  carried  out  the  scheme. 

A  desperate  encounter  took  place  be- 
tween Bud  Trainer's  gang  of  outlaws  and 
a  vigilance  committee  led  by  Robert  Hen- 
derson, on  the  north  fork  of  the  Arkansas 
River,  Indian  Territory,  Thursday.  Eight 
of  the  vigilantes  were  killed,  and  a  like 
number  were  seriously  wounded.  The 
outlaws  lost,  it  is  thought,  fifteen  men. 

70BEI0N. 

The  Shakefpeare  memorial  fountain 
presented  to  the  city  of  Stratford-upon- 
Avon  by  Mr.  George  W.  Childs,  of  Pnil- 
adelphia  was  dedicated  Monday,  the  oc 
casion  being  made  a  holiday.  Henry 
Irving  delivered  the  principal  address, 
and  a  letter  was  read  from  the  Hon. 
James  Ru-sell  Lowell.  A  poem  on  the 
memorial  from  the  pen  of  Dr.  Oliver 
Wendell  Holmes  was  read  by  Mr.  Irving. 
At  the  banquet  addresses  were  made  by 
Minister  Pnelps  and  others. 

Advices  by  the  steamer  Rio  de  Janeiro, 
from  Hong  Kong  and  Yokohoma,  are  to 
the  eSdCt  that  Corea  is  on  the  eve  of  re- 
bellion against  Chinese  authority.  Sim- 
ultaneously with  the  appointment  by  the 
King  of  Corea  of  five  ministers  plenipo- 
tentiary to  represent  the  Corean  Govern- 
ment in  European  courts.  Yuen,  China's 
resident  minister  in  Corea,  left  the  city 
secretly. 

By  the  disastrous  Are  at  Han  Kow, 
China,  1  000  lives  were  lost,  and  property 
to  the  extent  of  2,000,000  taels  destroyed. 

An  application  was  made  before  Judge 
O'Brien,  of  the  Court  of  Queen's  Bench 
her»,  for  a  writ  of  certiorari  to  quash  the 
verdict  of  willful  murder  rendered  by  the 
Coroner's  jury  against  the  policemen  who 
did  the  shooting  at  Mitchcllstown.  The 
application,  being  unopposed  by  the  At- 
torney General,  was  granted. 

The  steamer  Great  Eistern  has  been 
sold  at  auction  for  $105  000. 


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There  are  In  the  United  States 

Some  200  different  Lodges, 
With  2,000  000  members. 
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The  belief  is  widely  held  that  if  any  part  of  out 
citizens  were  in  favor  of  a  national  debt  they  were 
the  bankers.  But  the  late  meeting  of  the  American 
Bankers'  Association  at  Pittsburgh  entertained  res- 
olutions declaring  in  favor  of  a  rapid  extinguish- 
ment of  the  public  debt  and  against  a  reduction  of  the 
revenue,  but  urging  that  the  surplus  be  promptly 
and  constantly  applied  on  the  debt,  and  that  the  ex- 
istence of  the  national  banks  does  not  depend  on  the 
debt.  It  is  one  of  the  simplest  of  propositions  that 
as  the  credit  of  the  nation  is  strong  so  is  that  of  its 
banks.  This  canceled  debt  would  be  a  better  na- 
tional defense  also  than  can  possibly  be  secured  by 
expending  an  equal  sum  in  forts  and  armaments 
which  in  a  year  or  two  will  be  discounted  by  our  in- 
ventions if  not  by  wise  measures  of  arbitration. 


GONTENTH. 


Bditobijll: 

Notes  and  Comments 1 

Editorial  Correspondence.  8 

The  Knights  of  JLabor....  8 

CONTBIBUTIONS  : 

Lodge  Religion 1 

Slough  It  Off  2 

The  Regions  Beyond 2 

Witnessing  for  Christ  and 

for  his  Enemy 2 

Noble  Grand 2 

Thb  Sekmon: 
The  Sabbath  Man's  Need- 
ed Rest 3 

Rbfobm  News: 
The    Iowa     Association ; 
Southern  Alabama  and 
Its  Metropolis;  The  Re- 
form In  Iowa 5 

BiBLB  Lesson 6 

Thanksgiving 7 

Secret  Lodges  iu  India 9 


COBBBSPONDBNOB : 

The  Humane  Society  and 
Evangelical  Alliance  In 
Rochester ;  Glloopses  of 
Iowa ;  Elder  Huddle- 
ston's   Trials;    From  a 

Pastor's  Notebook 5,6 

Boston  Letteb 9 

Washington  Letteb 9 

The  Homb 10 

Tempbranob 11 

Religious  Nbws 12 

Litebatubb 12 

Thb  N.C.  A 7 

Chubch  vs.  LODGB 7 

Lecture  List 7 

Lodge  Notes 13 

Home  and  Health 14 

Farm  Notes 15 

News  of  thb  Wbbk 16 

Markets 13 

Business 13 


Next  Monday,  Nov.  7th,  is  the  semi-centennial 
of  the  murder  of  Elijah  P.  Lovejoy  at  Alton,  Illi- 
nois, for  his  eflorts  against  slavery.  The  eloquent 
sketch  of  Rev.  C.  C.  Foote  in  these  columns  two 
weeks  ago  is  worth  re-reading  on  that  day  as  is  also 
an  able  article  upon  the  martyrdom  by  Dr.  J.  E. 
Roy  in  the  Advance  of  last  week.  This  generation 
can  do  no  better  than  to  keep  in  vivid  memory  the 
deeds  and  characters  of  such  men  who  could  dare  to 
die  for  the  truth.  Such  men  the  world  will  have 
until  the  end.  The  Christian  must  still  pass  through 
Vanity  Fair. 

The  Supreme  Court  at  Washington  heard  the  ar- 
guments in  the  anarchist  appeal  for  two  days  last 
week,  Butler,  Tucker  and  Pryor  asking  for  a  new 
trial,  Attorney-General  Hunt  and  Judge  Grinnell 
representing  the  State.  A  decision  was  expected 
Monday,  but  has  been  postponed  till  late  in  the 
week.  It  is  the  very  general  belief  that  no  writ  will 
be  granted.  Meanwhile  meetings  of  agnostics  and 
Universalists  in  Chicago  and  New  York  are  listen- 
ing to  pleas  for  mercy  for  the  seven  condemned 
men.  A  rumor  is  current  that  Gov.  Oglesby  will 
commute  the  sentence  of  Fielden  through  the  pleas 
of  some  of  the  capitalists  and  employers  whom  he 
has  so  long  denounced  with  curses  of  extermination. 


"They  that  be  for  us  are  more  than  they  that  be 
against  us."  In  is  important  that  we  not  only  know, 
but  deeply  realize,  in  all  our  eflorts  to  promote  the 
right  and  destroy  the  wrong,  that  our  help  must 
come  from  God  alone.  Still  we  should  rejoice  that 
he  raises  up  instruments  to  do  his  will,  and  in  the 
faithful  witnesses  he  sends  to  help  us  in  opposing 
popular  evils.  The  United  Presbyterian  church, 
which  has  over  six  hundred  ministers,  gives  the  fol- 
lowing testimony  against  secret  societies: 

"  We  declare  that  all  associations,  wh(  ther  formed  for 
political  or  benevolent  purposes,  which  impose  upon  their 
mtmbers  an  oath  of  secrecy,  or  an  obligation  to  obey  a 
code  Oi  unknown  laws,  are  inconsistent  with  the  genius 
and  spirit  of  Christianity,  and  church  members  ought  not 
to  have  fellowship  with  such  associations." — Section  15,  I 
Testimony  of  the  United  Presbyterian  Church. 


The  comer-stone  of  a  monument  to  Gen.R.  E,  Lee 
was  laid  by  Freemasons  in  Richmond,  Virginia, last 
Thursday  in  the  presence  of  fifteen  thousand  ex- 
confederates.  No  Anti-mason  will  object  to  this  ar- 
rangement. That  it  is  most  appropriate  we  unani- 
mously agree.  Let  all  future  monuments  to  com- 
memorate treason  and  rebellion  be  left  to  the  tender 
mercies  of  the  lodge.  More  than  all  others  let  them 
have  the  honor  of  perpetuating  the  memory  of  Jef- 
ferson Davis,  who  belongs  to  their  brotherhood, 
though  of  late  years  he  repudiates  the  relation.  The 
furore  at  Macon, Georgia.last  week  over  the  aged  and 
unrepentant  traitor  was  pitiful.  What  but  evil  can 
result,  in  either  South  or  North,  from  the  waving  of 
rebel  flags,  the  singing  of  the  old  rebel  songs,  and 
the  adoration  of  the  old  man  whose  life  has  been  so 
full  of  crime  against  his  government,  while  he  flat- 
teringly addresses  the  crowds  as  "my  people?" 


A  railway  superintendent  on  one  of  our  great 
Western  roads  lately  said  to  a  gentleman  who  called 
to  remonstrate  against  the  additional  Sunday  trains, 
"My  dear  sir,  you  come  to  the  wrong  place.  You 
should  go  to  the  churches,"  The  railroads  cannot 
so  easily  put  off  their  responsibility,  but  the  super- 
intendent was  right.  This  judgment  also  should  be- 
gin at  the  house  of  God.  The  Sunday  suburban 
trains  are  demanded  by  the  church  revelers  whose 
graces  have  not  developed  to  reach  their  own  neigh- 
borhood. But  the  churches  are  not  indiflerent  in 
this  matter.  A  few  weeks  since  the  large  Rock  Riv- 
er Methodist  conference  took  decided  action  for  the 
sanctity  of  the  Lord's  day.  The  Sabbath  conven- 
tion to  be  held  at  Elgir,  near  this  city,  next  week, 
was  called  by  an  association  of  Congregational 
churches.  The  Chicago  ministers  of  that  denomi- 
nation discussed  the  question  last  week  with  a 
hearty  and  unanimous  condemnation  of  Sunday  bus- 
iness and  pleasuring.  The  Presbyterian  Synods  of 
Iowa  and  Illinois,  meeting  within  a  few  days,  have 
both  passed  strong  resolutions  against  Sunday  trains, 
mails  and  papers.  If  these  pastors  now  take  these 
resolutions  into  the  pulpit,  they  will  soon  reach  the 
prayer  meeting,  the  class  room  and  the  session,  and 
the  work  will  be  fairly  begun.  There  is  a  fine  en- 
thusiasm in  Elgin  for  the  meeting.  Accommoda- 
tions for  300  delegates  are  promised  and  from  the 
interest  manifested  in  northern  Illinois  we  judge  the 
hospitality  of  the  city  will  be  tested. 


should  not  be  ignorant.  There  is  no  influence  act- 
ing against  religion  in  schools  more  subtle  and  pow- 
erful than  the  Christ-rejecting  lodges.  Having  cast 
out  of  their  own  constitutions  the  only  source  of 
true  morality  and  religion,  as  teachers  and  school 
boards  they  follow  the  instructions  of  their  secret 
cabal.  Even  the  great  National  Association  of 
teachers  put  at  its  head  Aaron  Gove,a  Freemason  so 
full  of  degrees  and  rites  and  lodge  honors  that  it  is 
a  wonder  how  he  can  keep  his  position  as  superin- 
tendent of  Denver  schools  unless  he  is  held  there  by 
the  lodge. 

To  the  charge  lately  made  that  there  is  a  great 
amount  of  drunkenness  in  the  regular  army  it  is  re^ 
plied  from  the  Judge  Advocate  General's  office  that 
this  vice  has  been  decreasing  yearly  since  the  war, 
and  during  the  last  fiscal  year  the  improvement  has 
been  greater  than  for  years  past,  especially  among 
the  officers.  The  records  of  court-martial  offenses 
seem  to  be  the  basis  for  this  judgment.  One  officer 
had  taken  notes  at  several  army  posts.  At  one 
thirteen  of  the  seventeen  officers  were  strictly  temper- 
ate, at  another  ten  out  of  thirteen;  and  in  his  opinion 
there  w.is  less  intemperance  in  the  army  than  among 
an  equal  number  of  professional  men  in  civil  life. 
This  gain  for  temperance  is  attributed  in  some  part 
to  the  restrictions  upon  sutlers,  but  more  to  the 
arousing  of  a  popular  sentiment  against  drinking 
customs.  If  ever  the  case  was  worse  than  is  repre- 
sented by  this  officer  our  army  was  truly  in  a  sad 
condition,  and  it  was  a  mercy  in  disguise  which  led 
a  Democratic  Congress  to  cut  it  down  to  20,000  men. 
.^  •  * 

LODGE  REEIQION. 


The  Illinois  Presbyterian  Synod  met  this  year, 
with  Dr.  W,  C,  Gray  of  the  Interior,  in  the  beautiful 
Chicago  suburb  of  Oak  Park,  The  report  of  a  com- 
mittee on  public  schools,  consisting  of  the  Interior 
editor  and  pastors  Jenkins  and  Johnson  was  a  re- 
markable document,  in  its  able  and  learned  condem- 
nation of  the  secular  tendency  in  our  common 
schools:  recommending  a  standing  committee  on  this 
question,  following  the  example  of  the  Synod  of 
New  York;  recommending  the  co-operation  of  Chris- 
tian people  in  securing  members  of  school  boards 
who  shall  not  represent  one  or  two  infidels  at  the 
expense  of  the  Christian  majority  in  a  community; 
and  condemning  the  use  of  school  books  from  which 
all  reference  to  religion  has  been  scrupulously  elim- 
inated, and  the  open  attempt  of  the  enemies  of  re- 
ligion to  "use  the  whole  organization  of  the  public 
school  as  an  etfective  propaganda  for  the  undermin- 
ing and  overthrowing  of  the  Christian  faith,"  This 
last  proposition  has  application  of  which  the  Synod 


BY   REV.    J.   B.    GALLOWAY. 

We  often  hear  it  said,  "One  religion  is  just  as 
good  as  another.  One  church  is  just  as  good  as 
another,"  If  these  things  are  so,  then  certain  other 
things  legitimately  follow.  It  follows  that  the  Ma- 
sonic religion  is  just  as  good  as  the  Christian;  a 
synagogue  of  Satan  is  just  ^s  good  as  a  church  of 
Christ;  the  religion  of  Cain  just  as  good  ae  that  ot 
Abel;  the  harlot  is  just  as  good  as  the  faithful  bride, 
Rev,  19:  2  to  the  contrary  notwithstanding;  or,  to 
go  a  step  farther,  the  logical  conclusion  is,  the  god 
of  this  world  is  just  as  good  as  the  God  of  heaven! 
These  are  the  principles  that  lead  to  socialism,  an- 
archy, and  the  reign  of  terror;  and  will  again  bring 
on  the  violence  and  sudden  destruction  of  the  days 
of  Noah.     Gen.  6:  13;  Lev,  17:  26, 

But  the  very  opposite  of  these  propositions  is  the 
truth.  The  true  church  exists  here  for  the  purpose 
of  purifying  and  saving  a  corrupt  world;  an  apostate 
church  does  the  very  opposite,  Ther«  is  a  line 
somewhere,  it  is  not  for  us  just  to  locate,  beyond 
which  when  a  church  goes  she  becomes  a  part  of 
"the  great  harlot  which  did  corrupt  the  earth  with 
her  fornications."  Is  there  no  ditTerenoe  then  be- 
tween the  true  and  the  false? 

Masons  generally  say  No;  and  are  so  very  kind 
and  charitable  that  they  have  constructed  a  religion 
in  which  "all  men  can  agree."  And  yet  all  outside 
the  mystic  circle  are  lovingly  called  "Cowans."  The 
truth  is,  Masonry  is  one  of  the  most  exacting  and 
despotic  iX)wers  on  the  face  of  the  earth.  Never 
were  the  devotees  of  strange  gods  or  false  worships 
required  to  stoop  lower,  or  make  a  more  abject  con- 
fession, than  are  Masons  on  the  very  threshold  of 
the  lodge.     To  the  question,  "Who  comes  here?"  he 

is  made  to  say,  "Mr. ,  who  has  long  been  in 

darkness,"  etc.  This  statement  is  either  true  or 
false,  and  the  candidate  gets  down  pretty  flat  before 
the  lodge  god,  no  matter  which  horn  of  this  dilemma 
he  may  take.  If  it  is  true  he  is  in  a  bad  case.  If 
it  is  false  he  lies. 

Paul  said,  "I  count  all  things  but  loss  for  the  ex- 
cellency of  the  knowledge  of  Christ  Jesus  my  Lord." 
And  here  the  Mason  seems  to  count  all  things  but 
loss  for  the  excellency  of  the  knowledge  of  Masonry. 
The  Christian  says,  "My  Lord  and  my  God;"  and 
the  Mason  now  says,  "Worshipful  Master."  It  is 
therefore  a  most  marvelous  counterfeit  of  Christian- 
ity. It  would  almost  seem  that  no  man  uould  invent 
it,  apart  from  inspiration — I  mean  the  inspiration  of 
the  devil. 


TEQB  CHRISTlAlir  CYNOBUBE. 


NOVEMBBE  3    18W 


Let  as  admit  for  a  moment  that  Masonry  is  all 
truth  as  far  as  it  goes,  and  furnishes  men  unto  good 
works.  No  one  will  claim  that  it  contains  all  moral 
truth,  or  holds  the  key  of  knowledge.  Now  it  is  a 
principle  in  mathematics,  that  "the  whole  is  greater 
than  any  of  its  parts."  Why  then  should  the  Chris- 
tian, who  has  in  the  Bible,  the  whole  of  moral  truth, 
and  is  thoroughly  furnished  unto  all  good  works," 
crouch  and  cringe  on  bare  knees  at  another  altar,  to 
get  scraps  of  truth?  But  Masonry  proper  is  Christ- 
less  and  Cbrist  is  the  light  of  the  world;  it  is  there- 
fore a  gigantic  system  of  darkness;  and  its  votaries 
are  as  benighted  as  the  prophets  of  Baal. 


8L0UOH  IT  OFF. 


BT  ELDEB  S.  0.  KIMBALL. 


"Let  the  Holy  Ghost  carry  conviction  to  hearts 
upon  all  such  things.  The  old  skin  that  sometimes 
clings  to  the  flesh  will  slough  off  as  the  vigor  of  life 
comes  back  in  convalescence.  George  Fox  said  to 
Wm.  Penn  ihat  he  might  wear  his  sword  as  long  as 
the  Holy  Ghost  would  let  him.  The  sword  soon 
came  >  ff  Even  a  snake  will  shed  his  own  skin  if 
you  give  him  time.  Don't  try  to  pull  the  skin  off 
of  people  until  returning  health  and  vigor  have 
made  them  ready  to  slough  it  off." — David  B.  Upde- 
graff. 

An  important  truth  is  well  illustrated  in  the 
above  paragraph,  yet  it  may  be  so  wrested  as  to  fur- 
nish an  apology  for  those  time-serving  preachers 
who  for  Balaam's  reward  allow  the  people  to  perish 
in  their  sins  unrebuked.  If  the  snake  slough  his 
old  skin  in  due  season,  all  right;  but  suppose  he 
wear  it,  and  is  proud  of  it,  and  defends  it,  year  in 
and  year  out?  Suppose  Wm.  Penn  had  continued 
to  wear  his  sword,  and  advocated  the  manly  art  of 
fencing  and  sparring,  would  the  Friend  Quakers 
have  put  him  forward  as  a  leading  public  defender 
of  their  faith? 

It  would  not  be  polite  to  dash  a  pail  of  cold  water 
on  a  sleeping  guest  in  order  to  wake  him  for  break- 
fast, so  reason  and  Scripture  agree  that  proper  time 
and  teaching  should  be  given  to  an  uninstructed 
convert  to  bring  him  into  the  full  light  and  liberty 
of  the  children  of  God.  Paul  did  not  leave  it  en- 
tirely to  the  Holy  Spirit  to  instruct  the  Ephesians 
that  gods  made  with  hands  were  no  gods,  but  he  re- 
buked their  idolatry  at  the  risk  of  mob  violence. 
Stephen,  a  man  "full  of  the  Holy  Ghost,"  did  not 
leave  it  to  the  Divine  Spirit  to  show  the  Jews  their 
connt-ction  with  the  crucifixion  of  Jesus,  but  he 
summoned  them  to  repentance  as  murderers  of  the 
Son  of  God.  Now  what  some  Christian  people 
would  like  to  know  is  this:  Is  it  consistent  in  a  Hol- 
iness Convention  to  put  forward  adhering  Freema- 
sons as  examples  and  teachers  of  full  salvation  and 
entire  sanctiflcation?  Will  Charles  CuUis,  publish- 
er of  the  Times  of  Refrething,  David  B.  Updegraff, 
publisher  of  the  F  v-nds'  Expositor,  O.  M.  Brown, 
president  of  the  Ohio  Holiness  Alhance  and  publish- 
er of  the  Faith  Missionary,  and  A..  B.  Simpson,  pub- 
lisher of  the  Word,  Wi/ik  and  World,  please  answer 
the  above  question?  If  holiness  and  "entire  sancti 
fictttioa"  do  not  imply  and  practically  secure  com- 
mon morality,  then  words  have  lost  their  meaning 
and  the  best  Christians  will  refuse  to  be  classed 
with  the  popular  holiness  host. 


THB  RBOIOHS  BBJOND. 


BY  REV.  J.  p.  AVIBY. 

How  much  owest  thou  my  Lord?  Take  thy  pen, 
but  we  would  not  advise,  as  did  the  unjust  steward, 
to  write  quickly.  Rather  pause;  consider  well,  and 
if  memory  serves  thee  ill,  refresh  it  by  quiet  medi- 
tation. "Ye  know  the  grace  of  our  Lord  Jesus 
Christ,  who  though  tie  was  rich,  yet  for  our  sakes 
became  poor:  that  ye  through  his  poverty  might  be 
rich." 

Go  ye,  or  send  ^he  Gospel  to  every  crea*ure.  is  to- 
day as  much  a  royal  mandate  as  when  the  disciples 
began  at  Ji-rusalem.  Ponder  the  following  objec- 
tions and  answers  respecting  home  and  foreign  mis- 
sion work.  We  have  adopted  and  pass  on  the  fol 
lowing  six  propositions  from  the  pen  and  thoughts 
of  another.  They  are  calculated  to  awaken  convic- 
tion and  stir  to  prayerful  endeavor: 

1.  There  were  many  unconverted  ones  in  Jerusa- 
lem and  the  regions  round  about  in  apostolic  times 
as  there  are  now  in  Christian  lands.  And  there  al- 
ways will  be  till  we  obey  God,  and  preach  the  Gos- 
pel to  every  creature. 

2.  All  the  men  and  means  are  needed  at  home. 
But  the  missionary  spirit  brings  more  men  and 
means  to  the  home  work  than  if  none  went  as  mis- 
•ionaries. 


3.  What  a  waste  of  men!  But  the  Holy  Spirit 
selected  the  best  men  in  the  ancient  church  for  this 
foreign  work. 

4.  The  heathen  are  well  enough  off  without  the 
Gospel.  Why,  then,  did  the  Holy  Spirit  send  Paul 
to  them? 

5.  The  same  obligation  rests  on  us,  as  on  this  an- 
cient church,  to  send  the  Gospel  to  the  heathen. 

6  The  preparation  for  the  Gospel  is  much  the 
same  now  as  then.  1.  There  was,  as  is  now,  a  weak- 
ening of  the  heathen  religions*  and  a  hunger  for 
more  life.  2  The  world  was  largely  under  one  gov- 
ernment, defending  and  making  highways  for  the 
missionaries.  So  now  the  power  of  the  world  is  in 
the  hands  of  Christian  governments,  who  own  half 
the  land,  and  control  all  the  seas  of  the  world. 
3.  The  English  language  is  almost  as  universal  and 
influential  as  the  Greek  in  Paul's  time.  4.  The  dis- 
persion of  the  Jews  in  all  countries  prepared  the 
way  for  the  Gospel.  So  Christian  colonies  and 
commerce  have  made  a  highway  for  the  Gospel  in 
our  day. 

Let  us  rejoice  in  the  wide-open  doors,  and  not  com 
plain  that  the  demands  and  calls  are  so  many  upon 
our  purse;  but  resolve:   All  that  I  am  and  have  shall 
be  consecrated  Lord  to  thee,  now  and  always. 

Mariner's  Temple,  New  York. 


W1TNB89IN0  FOR   0BRI8T  AND  FOB  HIS 

BNBMY. 


BY   E.   E.    FLAGG. 


In  our  daily  reading  of  Isaiah  I  was  struck  by  this 

remarkable  antithesis:  "Fear  ye  not ye  are  even 

my  witnesses.     They  that  make  a  graven  image  are 

all  of  them  vanity they  are  their  own  witnesses." 

Is  it  possible  to  place  in  a  stronger  light  the  differ- 
ence between  the  devotee  of  fashion  and  the  disci- 
ple of  Christ,  between  the  slave  of  Mammon  and 
the  friend  of  God,  between  him  who  kneels  at  Baal's 
altars  and  he  who  refuses  to  bow  before  the  image 
of  the  beast  even  at  the  sound  of  cornet  and  dulci- 
mer and  all  kinds  of  music?  "Ye  are  my  witnesses, 
saith  the  Lord."  You  "who  are  set  continually  on 
the  watch-tower,"  and  you  who  can  only  keep  the 
homelights  trimmed  and  burning;  for  in  the  beacon 
fire  or  the  glimmering  rush  light  the  same  heart  of 
flame  leaps  heavenward.  But  sad  as  the  dirge  over 
a  dead  hope,  mournful  as  the  wail  of  the  night  wind 
over  a  sepulchre  comes  the  sorrowful  refrain  for 
those  who  have  let  their  candle  go  out  in  darkness, 
or  kindled  strange  fires  to  an  unknown  God:  "They 
are  their  own  witnesses." 

I  was  surprised  the  other  day  to  hear  a  revival 
preacher  in  a  company  of  Christians  ask  each  one  to 
give  their  personal  testimony  that  they  loved  the 
Lord.  It  ought  to  have  been  as  strange  a  question 
as  to  ask  them  if  they  loved  their  dearest  friend. 
True  love  laughs  at  such  an  inquiry.  It  is  like  ask- 
ing if  one  is  alive  when  the  blood  is  mantling  in  the 
cheeks  and  bounding  in  the  veins  and  every  motion 
is  a  joy.  Still  it  set  me  to  thinking.  The  best  wit- 
ness that  we  love  our  friend  is  our  desire  to  have 
him  with  us,  and  even  after  a  dear  one  has  gone 
from  your  embrace  forever,  don't  you  put  the  favor- 
ite chair  in  its  familiar  corner,  and  deal  tenderly 
with  old,timeworn  articles  of  dress  or  furniture  that 
are  neither  particularly  useful  nor  beautiful,  just  be- 
cause of  their  associations  with  that  loved  presence? 
So  our  best  witness  for  Christ  is  that  we  want  him 
with  us  all  the  time. 

But  when  we  sing  that  sweet  Gospel  hymn, 

"Oh,  come  to  my  heart,  Lord  Jesus, 
There  is  room  in  my  heart  for  thee," 

do  we  always  make  sure  that  there  is  room  in  our 
houses  for  him  and  room  at  our  tables?  For  I  can 
not  but  think  that  if  every  Christian  woman  remem- 
bered that  Christ  was  her  guest  there  would  be  a  de- 
cided revolution  in  our  style  of  cooking,for  instance 
in  favor  of  simpler  and  more  hygienic  modes. 
Should  we  heat  and  tire  ourselves  out  even  if  "we 
are  going  to  have  company"  by  cooking  up  a  variety 
of  indigestible  dishes  that  we  would  not  dare  offer  to 
our  Divine  Guest,  knowing  that  thereby  we  should 
only  incur  Martha's  rebuke,  and  perhaps  a  severer 
one,  as  this  is  a  more  enlightened  age,and  we  ought 
to  know  a  great  deal  in  regard  to  the  stomach  and 
the  kind  of  food  which  should  be  put  into  it  that  she 
could  not  be  expected  to  know?  Should  we  fritter 
precious  time  away  in  useless  needlework  with 
Christ  sitting  in  our  homes  and  watching  us  as  we 
flounce  and  lurbelow  and  trim,  or  make  crazy  scarfs 
and  quilts  that  a  few  generations  hence  will  only 
waken  the  same  half-pitiful  smile  that  we  give  to  our 
grandmother's  faded  samplers?  Ah,  when  we  re- 
member this,  remember  to  think  of  Christ  as  our  ] 
every-day  guest,  then  there  will  be  a  return  in  our 
homes  of  the  old  apostolic  spirit  of  Christian  hospi- 


tality that  has  so  nearly  died  out.  We  shall  not 
shrink  from  entertaining  the  traveling  preacher  or 
the  delegate  to  a  church  convention  or  the  wearied 
worker  whom  Providence  sends  in  our  way.  What 
we  would  offer  our  Lord  we  can  certainly  offer  them, 
and  if  all  such  receive  a  hearty  welcone  and  go  from 
our  firesides  refreshed  and  strengthened,  we  may 
rest  assured  that  Jesus  is  as  much  at  home  in  our 
dwellings  as  he  ever  was  in  the  Bethany  household. 
"But  we  don't  make  graven  images,"  you  say. 
What  matter  if  you  don't  when  the  essence  of  all 
false  worship  is  to  put  a  lie  in  the  place  of  the  truth, 
the  flesh  in  the  place  of  the  spirit,  the  visible  show 
in  place  of  the  unseen  reality?  Are  you  not  a  false 
worshiper,  my  dear  sister  woman,  when  you  put 
your  nice,  elaborate  housekeeping,  your  fine  sewing, 
your  needless  tucking  and  embroidery  before  the 
things  of  the  kingdom?  For  there  must  always  be  the 
poor  and  the  stranger  at  your  gates.and  many  times 
has  the  Lord  been  nigher  to  you  than  you  thought  in 
one  of  his  saints  to  whom  you  could  have  minister- 
ed and  did  not.  He  who  is  the  faithful  and  true 
witness  must  have  better  testimony  to  your  love 
than  this.  He  must  come  into  your  bouse  and  abide 
there  and  be  daily  gladdened  by  your  loving  minis- 
trations. Will  you  keep  him  waiting  at  the  gate? 
Will  you  do  worse  and  neglect  him  when  once  enter- 
ed? invite  other  guests  with  whom  he  has  nothing  in 
common,and  let  in  rival  interests  in  which  he  cannot 
share?  Then  on  you  as  surely  as  on  the  Mammon 
worshiper  in  his  counting-room,  or  he  who  kneels  to 
Baal  in  the  secret  chambers,mu8t  be  pronounced  the 
same  sad  words  of  doom,  "They  are  their  own  wit- 
nesses." 

NOBLB  GRAND. 


A  venerable  clergyman,  familiarly  called  Father 
W.,  was,  some  years  ago,  visiting  his  son,  who  re- 
sided in  a  beautiful  city  in  Massachusetts.  Father 
W.  one  day  told  the  following  story  to  an  attentive 
listener: 

It  was  late  when  I  retired  to  rest  last  night.  The 
reason  was  this:  My  son  Henry  (as  we  will  call  him) 
was  at  the  Odd-feilows'  lodge,  and  his  wife  and  fam- 
ily were  very  tired  after  such  a  hot  day,  and  know- 
ing it  would  be  late  when  he  came  home  they  did 
not  want  to  wait  for  him.  "Oh,  well,"  said  I,  "I'll 
sit  up  for  Henry,  and  let  him  in.  You  had  better 
all  go  to  bed."  After  a  little  further  persuasion 
they  consented  to  the  arrangement.  It  was  after 
eleven  o'clock  when  he  came  home  and  found  me 
waiting  for  him.  When  seated  he  said:  "Father,  I 
was  elected  by  the  lodge,  to-night.  Noble  Grand." 
"Noble  Grand! '  said  I,  "Noble  Grand!  Well,  Hen- 
ry, you  can  never  get  any  higher  than  that.  Noble 
Grand !  It  reminds  me  of  one  of  our  ancestors,  who 
had  a  scapegrace  of  a  son  who  was  very  much  inter- 
ested in  military  affairs.  One  training-day  he  went 
out  to  the  field  where  the  militia  were  training,  and 
on  his  return  home  he  said  to  his  mother,  'Mother, 
they  have  made  me  an  oflScer — a  corporal.' 

"This  his  mother  regarded  as  a  matter  of  great 
interest.  His  father  was  very  deaf,  and  being  past 
labor,  he  used  to  sit  in  the  chimney-corner  all  day 
long,  having  but  little  intercourse  with  the  family, 
or,  the  rest  of  the  world.  Sometimes,  however,  when 
anything  of  importance  had  occurred,  his  wife  would 
try  to  make  him  hear,  though  it  was  almost  impos- 
sible. This,  she  thought,  was  one  of  the  important 
events,  and  she  must  try  to  tell  him  about  it.  So 
she  went  and  screamed  in  his  ear,  'They  have  made 
our  son  an  officer.' 

"The  old  gentleman  put  his  hand  to  his  ear,  and 
said,  'What  did  you  say  ?' 

"Then  she  screamed  louder,  'They  have  made  our 
son  an  officer.' 

"Again  he  put  bis  hand  to  his  ear,  and  said, 
'What  did  you  say?'  And  she  screamed  louder 
still,  'They  have  made  our  son  an  officer.' 

"Then  putting  on  an  angry  look,  he  said,  'Ah! 
just  as  I  expected.  I  always  told  the  young  rascal 
that  the  officers  would  get  him  if  he  didn't  behave 
better.' 

"  'No,  no,'  cried  the  old  lady  in  piercing  voice, 
'they've  made  our  son  an  officer  in  the  militia — a 
corporal.' 

"On  hearing  this  the  old  gentleman  threw  him- 
self back  in  his  chair,  and  throwing  up  his  hands, 
he  exclaimed,  'Lack-a-dayl  lack-a-day!  there  never 
was  such  a  thing  happened  in  our  family  before.' 

"So  I  may  say  to  you,  Henry,  there  never  was 
such  a  thing  happened  in  our  family  before  as  for 
one  of  us  to  be  made  Noble  Grand."  s.  b. 


The  Voice  declares  that  thirty-six  per  cent  of  the 
recent  Republican  primaries  of  Brooklyn  were  held 
in  saloons,  and  forty-eight  per  cent  of  the  Democratic 
primaries.  These  figures  were  obtained  by  special 
investigation. 


NOVEMBKE  3.  1887 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


d 


THE  SEEMON. 


THB  8  ABB  ATE  MAN'S  NBBDBD  REST. 


SERMON   PREACHED   BY   REV.   J.    M.    POSTER   IN   THE 

REFORMED  PBKSByTERIAN   CBCaCH,  CEDAR- 

VILLE,   OHIO,   AUG.    14,    1887. 


"The  Sabbath  was  made  for  man."— Mark  2:27. 
The  Sabbbath  question  is  coming  to  the  front. 
While  its  enemies  are  becoming  more  intense  in  their 
opposition  to  it,  its  friends  are  becoming  more  earn- 
est in  its  defense.  The  one  would  move  the  hand  of  the 
clock  back  to  the  "Continental  Sunday"  of  Europe; 
the  other  is  endeavoring  to  move  it  forward  to  that 
divinely  appointed  rest  so  inseparable  from  the 
well-being  of  soul  and  body.  "The  Sabbath  was 
made  for  man." 

I.  We  have  here  cm  intimation  of  the  origin  of  the 
Sahhath. 

It  is  impliedly  taught  in  the  expression  "was 
made,"  that  the  Sabbath  was  instituted  by  the  Cre- 
ator. He  who  created  all  things  by  the  word  of  his 
power  made  the  Sabbath  day.  "This  is  the  day 
which  the  Lord  hath  made."  The  great  feast  of  the 
New  Testament  is  called  "the  Lord's  Supper"because 
be  instituted  it  and  claims  the  exclusive  right  to 
grant  its  privileges  to  whom  he  will.  So  the  Sab- 
bath is  called  "the  Lord's  day"  because  he  ordained 
it  and  has  the  exclusive  right  to  determine  how  its 
hours  shall  be  spent.  The  Sabbath  is  not  a  human 
afterthought  but  a  divine  forethought.  It  is  the  ar- 
rangement, appointment  and  contrivance  of  heaven 
for  man.  It  has  its  necessity  in  the  constitution  of 
our  nature  and  its  authority  in  God's  Word:  "Ke- 
member  the  Sabbath  day  to  keep  it  holy." 

II.  Ihere  is  an  intimation  of  the  time  when  the  Sah- 
bath  was  instituted, 

"The  Sabbath  was  made  for  man."  The  term  man 
here  is  generic,  including  the  whole  human  race.  It 
was  not  made  for  a  single  individual  nor  for  a  sin- 
gle family  nor  for  a  single  nation,  but  for  all  the 
sons  and  daughters  of  Adam,  for  the  whole  human 
family.  Then  it  must  have  been  co-eval  with  the 
human  race,  and  is,  therefore,  an 

ORIGINAL   AND   ABSOLUTE,    UNIVERSAL   AND   PERMA- 
NENT  INSTITUTION. 

That  it  is  such  appears: 

1.  From  the  words  of  institution. 

"And  on  the  seventh  day  God  ended  his  works 
which  he  had  made;  and  he  rested  on 
the  seventh  day  from  sll  his  works  which 
he  had  made.  And  God  blessed  the  seventh 
day  and  sanctified  it."  To  bless  and  sanctify  a  day 
signifies  to  consecrate  it  to  divine  service,  and  an 
assurance  that  those  who  observe  it  shall  enjoy  spec- 
ial favors.  So  much  is  intimated  in  the  language 
of  Isaiah:  "If  thou  turn  away  thy  foot  from  the 
Sabbath  (i.  e.,  cease  trampling  under  foot  the  Sab- 
bath), from  doing  thy  pleasure  on  my  holy  day;  and 
call  the  Sabbath  a  delight,  the  holy  of  the  Lord,hon- 
orable,  and  shall  honor  him,  not  doing  thine  own 
ways,  nor  finding  thine  own  pleasure,  nor  speaking 
thine  own  words;  then  thou  shalt  delight  thyself  in 
the  Lord  and  I  will  cause  thee  to  ride  upon  the  high 
places  of  the  earth,  and  feed  thee  with  the  heritage 
of  Jacob,  thy  father."  These  directions  were  not 
given  and  these  promises  were  not  made  respecting 
a  temporary  institution.  They  were  spoken  with 
reference  to  the  original  and  permanent  ordinance  of 
the  Sabbath. 

2.  The  reason  assigned  for  the  institution  of  the 
Sabbath  proves  it  to  be  original  and  permanent. 

"Because  that  in  it  he  had  rested  from  all  his 
work  which  God  created  and  made."  The  same  rea- 
son is  assigned  in  the  Fourth  Commandment, — "for 
in  six  days  the  Lord  made  heaven  and  earth,  the  sea 
and  all  that  in  them  is,  and  rested  on  the  seventh 
day,  wherefore  the  Lord  blessed  the  Sabbath  day 
and  hallowed  it.  It  is  evident  that  this  reason  ex- 
isted in  the  beginning  as  well  as  twenty-five  hun- 
dred years  later  when  the  law  was  given  at  Sinai; 
and  if  so  the  ordinance  which  rests  upon  that  fact 
must  have  existed  likewise.  From  the  beginning 
God  gave  us  six  days  for  our  own  employment  and 
reserved  one  for  himself.  The  Sabbath  is  God's  own 
property. 

3.  The  hebdomadal  division  of  time  possessed 
from  the  beginning  proves  the  Sabbath  to  be  an  or- 
iginal and  permanent  institution. 

It  is  said,  "in  process  of  time"  Cain  and  Abel 
brought  their  sacrifices.  Literally  it  is  "in  the  end 
of  days"  and  Hebrew  scholars  generally  agree  that 
the  allusion  is  to  the  septenary  division  of  time,and* 
suggests  the  thought  of  public  worship  on  the  Sab- 
bath. Lamech's  "sevenfold"  vengeance  was  sug- 
gested by  the  week.  When  Noah's  dove  returned  to 
the  ark,  he  waited  seven  days  and  sent  it  out  again. 
When  it  returned  with  the  olive  branch  in  its  mouth 


he  waited  yet  another  seven  days.  Jacob  fulfilled 
Rachel's  "week."  Recent  discoveries  confirm  this 
division  of  time  as  existing  long  before  the  giving 
of  the  law  at  Sinai.  A  Babylonian  tablet,  written 
long  before  Moses's  day,  reads:  "The  seventh  day — 
a  Sabbath — the  Prince  of  many  nations  the  flesh  of 
birds  and  cooked  fruits  eats  not.  The  king  in  his 
chariot  rides  not.  In  royal  fashion  he  legislates  not. 
....  To  make  a  sacred  spot  is  suitable . . .  Raising  his 
hand  the  high  place  of  the  god  he  worships."  He- 
siod,  who  lived  about  nine  hundred  years  before  the 
advent  of  Christ,  says:  "The  seventh  day  is  holy." 
Homer,  who  sang  about  the  same  period,  and  Call- 
machus,  likewise  a  Greek  poet,  who  flourished  about 
seven  hundred  years  later,  allude  to  the  seventh  day 
as  holy.  Theophilus  of  Antioch  says  concerning 
the  seventh  day:  "The  day  which  all  mankind  cele- 
brate." Porphyry  says,  "The  Phoenicians  conse- 
crated one  day  in  seven  as  holy."  Lucian  remarks, 
"The  seventh  day  is  given  to  the  school  boys  as  a 
holiday."  Eusebius  observes,  "Almost  all  the  phi- 
losophers and  poets  acknowledge  the  seventh  day  as 
holy."  Josephus,  the  Jewish  historian  says:  "No 
city  of  Greeks  or  barbarians  can  be  found  which 
does  not  acknowledge  the  seventh  day's  rest  from 
labor."  Philo  testifies,  "The  seventh  day  is  a  festi- 
val to  every  nation."  (see  "Prize  Essay,"  by  J.  A. 
Qainton,  page  12.)  How  came  all  nations  by  this 
septenary  division  of  time?  It  is  not  a  natural  di- 
vision. There  is  nothing  in  the  movements  of  eith- 
er sun  or  moon  to  suggest  it.  It  is  a  purely  arbitra- 
ry division.  The  only  rational  solution  is  in  the  or- 
iginal and  permanent  institution  of  the  Sabbath. 

4.  The  examples  of  eminent  piety  in  the  earliest 
history  of  the  church  prove  the  existence  of  the  Sab- 
bath. 

Had  Abel,  Enoch,  Noah,  Melchisedec,  Job,  Abra- 
ham, Isaac  and  Jacob,  no  Sabbath?  Such  piety 
could  not  exist  without  it.  That  the  Sabbath  must 
have  been  a  principal  means  of  fostering  and  in- 
creasing the  faith  by  which  those  "elders  obtained  a 
good  report,"  appears  from  "the  felt  and  proved 
necessity  of  a  periodical  day  of  rest  and  worship  to 
the  religion  of  present  days."  Edward  Bickersteth, 
one  of  the  best  men  whom  our  age  hasproduced.tes- 
tifies  that  but  for  a  weekly  day,  given  as  entirely  as 
possible  to  God,  religion  would  have  soon  aban- 
doned him.  "To  conceive  that  the  patriarchs,  who 
were  men  of  like  passions,  men  exposed  to  like 
temptations,  toils  and  sufferings,  with  others,  could 
maintain  for  centuries  a  holy  and  happy  life  with- 
out the  stimulus  and  refreshment  of  the  Sabbath,  is 
to  suppose  a  case,  which,  if  true,  would  prove  the 
uselessness  of  the  institution  in  any  circumstances, 
but  which,  in  fact,  is  a  simple  impossibility  and  a 
mere  dream." — Gilfillan. 

5.  The  fact  that  Moses  revived  the  institution 
among  the  Hebrews  in  Egypt  before  the  exodus  es- 
tablishes its  originality. 

The  people  had  become  corrupt;  they  neglected 
the  worship  of  the  true  God;  they  defiled  themselves 
with  the  abominations  of  the  land.  When  Moses 
came  to  call  them  out  of  Egypt  the  first  thing  he  did 
was  to  revive  the  worship  of  God  among  them.  And 
the  very  first  step  in  this  revival  was  to  require  them 
to  keep  the  Sabbath.  This  enraged  Pharaoh,  and 
hence  these  wrathful  words:  "Wherefore  do  ye,  Mo- 
ses and  Aaron,  let  the  people  from  their  work?  Get 
you  unto  your  burdens;  behold  the  people  of  the 
land  are  many,  and  ye  make  them  rest  (Sabbatize) 
from  their  burdens." 

6.  After  Israel  had  come  into  the  wilderness,  and 
three  months  before  the  giving  of  the  law,  it  is  men- 
tioned, not  as  an  institution  just  then  appointed, but 
as  one  already  well  known. 

In  the  sixteenth  chapter  of  Exodus,  in  connection 
with  the  giving  of  the  manna, we  read:  "And  it  came 
to  pass  that  on  the  sixth  day  they  gathered  twice  as 
much,  two  omers  for  one  man;  and  all  the  rulers 
came  and  told  Moses.  And  he  said  unto  them:  This 
is  that  which  the  Lord  hath  said,  To-morrow  is  the 
rest  of  the  holy  Sabbath  unto  the  Lord;  bake  that 
which  ye  will  bake  to-day,  and  seethe  that  ye  will 
seethe;  and  that  which  remaineth  over  lay  up  for 
you  to  be  kept  until  the  morning."  It  is  evident 
that  Moses  had  not  commanded  them  to  make  this 
provision  for  the  Sabbath.  They  did  it  gratuitous- 
ly; indicating  that  the  Sabbath  was  an  ordinance 
with  which  they  were  familiar.  It  is  also  evident 
that  the  elders  went  to  Moses  because  the  people 
had  violated  a  special  command  not  to  gather  more 
manna  than  each  one  needed  each  day.  And  it  is  fur- 
thermore evident  that  the  Israelites  regarded  the 
Sabbath  as  a  moral  ordinance  of  superior  obligation 
to  this  special  command  as  to  the  gathering  of  man- 
na; and  when  the  two  came  in  conflict  the  moral 
took  the  precedence.  The  whole  transaction  indi- 
cates that  they  regarded  the  Sabbath  as  an  original 
and  permanent  institution. 

7.  The  word  "Remember"  in  the  beginning  of  the 


Fourth  Commandment  indicates  that  it  was  an  ordi- 
nance already  binding. 

It  is  as  if  God  had  said:  "I  call  to  your  minds 
that  institution  with  which  you  are  all  familiar,  an 
ordinance  which  your  fathers  and  fathers'  fathers 
have  observed,  an  ordinance  which  occupied  God's 
seventh  day  and  man's  first  day  upon  earth;  're- 
member the  Sabbath  day.* " 

8.  The  place  it  occupies  in  the  Decalogue  proves 
it  to  be  an  original  and  permanent  institution. 

There  were  three  classes  of  laws  given  to  the  Is- 
raelites at  Sinai,  viz., the  judicial,  the  ceremonial  and 
the  moral.  The  first  two  were  local  and  temporary, 
the  last  was  universal  and  permanent.  The  moral 
law  was  delivered  by  God's  voice  out  of  the  midst 
of  the  fire  and  smoke  of  the  quaking  mountain,  while 
the  blast  of  the  tiumpet  was  exceeding  long  and 
loud,  to  indicate  its  majesty  and  authority;  and  it 
was  written  by  the  finger  of  God  upon  two  tables  of 
stone,  to  indicate  its  perpetuity.  "'That  law  is  found- 
ed on  the  eternal  distinctions  of  right  and  wrong — 
distinctions  that  are  strong  and  irreversible  as  the 
granite  bases  of  the  mountain  from  which  it  was  de- 
livered."— Farrar.  Sooner  shall  the  heavens  and 
the  earth  pass  away  than  one  jot  or  tittle  of  the  law 
fail.  Every  precept  of  this  law  has  its  authority  in 
the  nature  of  God  and  its  necessity  in  the  nature  of 
man.  Every  precept  of  this  law  was  originally  writ- 
ten upon  man's  heart  and  was  only  here  re-enacted 
with  increased  obligation.  But  the  Sabbath  is  found 
in  the  very  heart  of  the  Decalogue.  It  is  the  key- 
stone of  the  moral  arch.  It  is,  therefore,  an  origi- 
nal and  permanent  institution. 

9.  The  Saviour  recognized  it  as  a  moral  ordi- 
nance. 

Christ  did  not  come  to  abrogate  the  Sabbath;  he 
came  to  keep  it.  He  fulfilled  ail  righteousness.  The 
Jews  charged  him  with  breaking  the  Sabbath  when 
he  and  bis  disciples  passed  through  the  corn  fields 
and  "his  disciples  began  to  pluck  the  ears  of 
com  and  to  eat."  But  he  proved  by  an  example 
that  this  was  no  violation  of  the  law  of  the  Sabbath. 
"Do  you  not  remember  how  David  went  irto  the 
house  of  God  in  the  days  of  Abiathar,  the  high 
priest,  and  did  eat  the  shewbread,  which  is  not  law- 
ful to  eat  but  for  the  priests,  and  gave  also  to  them 
which  were  with  him?  Now,  if  David,  your  hero, 
your  saint,  your  model,  could  set  aside  a  special 
command  in  case  of  necessity,8hall  I.who  am  Lord  of 
the  Sabbath  day,  be  criminated  for  doing  a  work  of 
necessity?  The  priests  in  the  temple  spend  the 
whole  Sabbath  day  in  killing  sacrifices  and  burning 
incense  and  are  blameless.  .  Shall  not  I,  who  am 
Lord  of  the  temple,  be  allowed  to  do  that  which  is 
necessary?  If  ye  had  known  what  that  meaneth,  'I 
will  have  mercy  and  not  sacrifice,'  ye  would  not 
have  condemned  the  guiltless.  For  the  Son  of  Man 
is  Lord  even  of  the  Sabbath  day."  Again,  he  said  to 
a  man  who  had  kept  his  bed  for  thirty-eight  years. 
"Arise,  take  up  thy  bed  and  walk."  The  Jews  say 
to  him,  "It  is  not  lawful  for  thee  to  carry  thy  bed, 
for  the  prophet  says:  'Thou  shalt  bear  no  burden 
on  the  Sabbath  day.'  "  "Yes,"  interposes  the  Mas- 
ter, "but  he  does  not  mean  that  it  is  unlawful  for 
this  man  to  carry  home  his  pallet,  the  only  bed  he 
has  in  the  world,  but  he  means  to  forbid  you  avari- 
cious Jews  from  compelling  your  hirelings  to  work 
on  the  Sabbath."  And  if  Christ  were  speaking  here 
to-day  he  would  say:  "It  means  to  forbid  these 
street  car  companies  compelling  their  drivers  and 
conductors  to  run  the  cars  all  day  Sabbath  for  gain; 
the  railroad  corporations  compelling  their  engineers 
and  conductors  to  run  their  trains  on  Sabbath;  the 
wealthy  families  compelling  their  servants  to  stay  at 
home  and  cook  their  fine  dinners,  while  they  go  to 
the  house  of  God  to  worship,  and  thus 

DEPRIVE  THE  LABORING  CLASSES 

of  their  heaven  ordained  right  to  one  day  in  seven  as 
a  rest"  Again.Jesus  loosed  a  woman  whom  Satan 
had  bound  for  eighteen  years  on  the  Sabbath.  The 
Jews  found  fault.  He  said,  "Which  of  you, having 
an  ox  or  an  ass,  would  not  loose  him  and  lead  him 
to  water  on  the  Sabbath  day?  Shall  I,  then,  be 
chargeable  for  loosing  adaughterof  Abraham  whom 
Satan  hath  bound  these  eighteen  years?  Judge 
righteous  judgment"  Christ  in  no  sense  abolished 
the  law  of  the  Sibbath.  He  swept  away  their  false 
glosses  and  interpretations,  their  endless  traditions 
and  commandments  of  men,  but  left  the  moral  law 
standing  pure  and  holy  as  originally  and  permanent- 
ly enacted. 

10.  The  New  Testament  Sabbath  is  this  original 
and  permanent  institution. 

When  Moses  came  down  from  the  mount  and  saw 
the  golden  calf,  he  broke  the  tables  at  the  foot  of  the 
mount,  to  indicate  that  the  law,  as  a  covenant  of 
works,  was  broken.  God  directed  him  to  hew  out 
two  other  tables  of  stone,  and  reproduced  the  law 
upon  them  with  his  own  finger,  and  directed  that 


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these  two  tables  be  placed  in  the  ark,  under  the 
mercy-seat,  as  "a  rule  of  life  in  the  hands 
of  a  Mediator.  Jesus  Christ  is  the  Medi- 
ator. The  law  of  the  Sabbath  is  therefore  in  his 
hands.  He  is  its  administrator.  And  as  Lord  of 
the  Sabbath  he  changed  the  day  from  the  seventh 
to  the  first  day  of  the  week  on  the  morning  of  his 
resurrection.  What  is  the  proof  of  this?  (o)  Ezek- 
iel  1(3:26,  27.  "Seven  days  shall  they  purge  the  al- 
tar and  purify  it;  and  they  shall  consecrate  them- 
selves. And  when  these  days  are  expired,  it  shall 
be  that  upon  the  eighth  day,  and  so  forward,  the 
priests  shall  make  your  burnt-ofierings  upon  the  al- 
tar and  your  peace  offerings,  and  I  will  accept  you, 
saith  tbe  Lord."  This  language  is  symbolical.  The 
allusions  are  to  the  ceremonial  services  of  the  tem- 
ple. But  it  is  a  prophecy  and  finds  its  fulfillment  in 
the  Christian  Sabbath.  \h)  Hebrews  J^:8-10.  This 
is  the  prime  argument  It  is  found  in  the  very 
place  where  the  authority  for  the  change  of  the  day 
would  naturally  be  expected,  in  a  book  written  for 
the  purpose  of  persuading  the  Jews  to  accept  of  the 
Christian  instead  of  the  Mosaic  institutions.  The 
argument  is  that  as  God  created  the  world  in  six 
days  and  rested  the  seventh,and  set  it  apart  in  com- 
memoration of  the  work  of  creation;  so  Christ,  hav- 
ing finished  the  work  of  redemption  in  his  resurrec- 
tion on  the  first  day  of  the  week,  set  it  apart  in 
commemoration  of  his  greater  work.  "For  he  that 
is  entered  into  his  rest  he  also  hath  ceased  from  his 
own  works  as  God  did  from  his."  This  interpreta- 
tion has  the  authority  of  two  of  the  most  eminent 
theologians,  John  Owen  and  Francis  Turretin.  (c) 
The  practice  of  the  church  subsequent  to  the  resurrection 
of  Christ.  On  tne  day  the  Lord  arose  he  appeared 
to  his  disciples  on  five  different  occasions,and,  with- 
drawing himself  during  the  interval,  re-appeared  on 
the  following  "first  day  of  the  week."  On  that  day 
the  disciples  came  together  to  break  bread  and 
preach  the  Gospel.  On  that  day  the  Galatians  and 
Corinthians  made  their  collections.  On  that  day 
John  saw  the  future  history  of  the  church  pass  in  re- 
view before  him,  while  an  exile  on  Patmos.  "I  was 
in  the  Spirit  on  the  Lord's  day."  Dr.  Rice  observes 
that  "this  change  of  the  day  has  the  advantage  of 
commemorating  the  resurrection  of  Christ  and  the 
completion  of  the  work  of  redemption,  whilst  it  an- 
swers all  the  purposes  which  were  accomplished  by 
the  keeping  of  the  last  day  of  the  week.  The  Sab- 
bath still  occurs  on  every  seventh  day,  thus  remind- 
ing men  that  in  six  days  God  created  the  heavens 
and  the  earth,  and  rested  the  seventh,  and  impress- 
ing upon  them  their  obligation  to  their  Creator. 
But  it  occurs  on  the  first  day  of  the  week,  thus  re- 
minding us  that  the  Son  of  God  died  for  our  sins, 
and  on  the  morning  of  the  third  day  rose  for  our 
justification.  And  so  by  the  observance  of  every 
seventh  day  and  that  the  first  day  of  the  week,a8  the 
holy  Sabbath, 

THE   TWO  GREAT   EVENTS    IN    THE   HISTORY   OF   OUR 
WORLD 

are  constantly  brought  to  view — namely,  its  crea- 
tion and  its  redemption;  and,  at  the  same  time,  the 
minds  of  men  are  turned  both  to  the  Law  of  God 
and  to  the  Gospel  of  Christ.  For  by  creation  man 
was  placed  under  the  perfect  law  of  God,  'holy,  just 
and  good;'  and  by  redemption  he  is  placed  under  the 
grace  of  God  which  bringeth  salvation."  It  is  evi- 
dent, therefore,  as  Dr.  Hodge  says,  "that  an  institu- 
tion having  unchanged  purposes  and  relations,  en- 
acted at  creation,  re-enacted  at  Sinai  with  added  sa- 
crednesB,  and  re-enacted  again  with  added  associa- 
tions and  obligations  by  Jesus  Christ,  must  be  the 
same  institution  in  spite  of  the  mere  change  of  the 
day." 

III.  The  reasons  and  necessities inwhich  the  /Sabbath 
originated. 

"The  Sabbath  was  made  for  man."  We  specify 
three. 

1.  The  physical.  Proudhon,  the  French  socialist, 
will  not  be  regarded  as  a  biased  witness.  He  says, 
"Diminish  the  week  by  one  single  day,and  there  has 
not  been  suflcient  labor  comparatively  to  require 
rest.  Extend  the  week  by  the  same  quantity  one 
more  day,  the  work  becomes  excessive.  Establish 
every  three  days  one  half  day  of  rest,  you  multiply 
by  the  dividing  of  the  week  the  loss  of  time,  and  in 
cutting  the  natural  unity  of  the  day  you  break  the 
natural  equilibrium  of  things.  Give,  on  the  contra- 
ry, forty-eight  hours  repose  after  twelve  consecutive 
days  of  work,  you  kill  man  by  inertia  after  having 
bruised  him  by  fatigue."  Could  anything  be  more 
conclusive?     Let  us  verify  this. 

(a)  Tbe  S-nbhath  is  a  necessity  for  rest  and  re- 
pose. Besides  the  rest  in  sleep  the  human  system 
requires  one-seventh  part  of  time  for  rest.  Dr.Farre, 
in  evidence  before  a  committee  of  the  House  of 
Commons,  said:  "Although  the  night  apparently 
equalizes  the  circulation,  yet  it  does  not  sufficiently 
restore  its  balance  for  the  attainment  of  a  long  life- 


hence  one  day  in  seven,  by  the  bounty  of  Provi- 
dence, is  thrown  in  as  a  day  of  compensation  to  per- 
fect by  its  repose  the  animal  system."  No  fewer 
than  641  medical  men  of  London,  including  Dr.  Far- 
re,  subscribed  a  petition  to  Parliament  against'  the 
opening  of  Crystal  Palace  for  profit  on  Sabbath,con- 
taining  the  following  sentence:  "Your  petitioners, 
from  their  acquaintance  with  the  laboring  classes, 
and  with  the  laws  which  regulate  the  human  econo- 
my, are  convinced  that  a  seventh  day  of  rest,  insti- 
tuted by  God,  coeval  with  the  existence  of  man,  is 
essential  to  the  bodily  health  and  mental  vigor  of 
men  in  every  station  of  life." 

(6)  The  Sabbath  is  a  necessity  in  the  matter  of 
cleanliness.  It  was  no  arbitrary  law  that  required 
of  the  Jews  frequent  ablutions.  The  Sabbath  tends 
to  foster  habits  of  cleanliness  and  thus  prolongs  life. 
The  lack  of  the  Sabbath  induces  filthy  habits.  Look 
at  France  after  the  Revolution  1  "The  moroseness 
occasioned  by  the  want  of  a  Sabbath  in  France  has 
an  effect  on  the  cleanliness  of  young  men  engaged  in 
manual  labor;  they  pursue  their  daily  drudgery  in 
their  dirty  working  dresses,  and  habit  at  length  ren- 
ders them  averse  to  a  change  of  linen  and  clothes." 
The  Sabbath  is  a  physical  necessity.  "Oh,precious 
day;  the  working  man's  jubilee,  the  slave's  release, 
the  shield  of  servitude,  the  antidote  of  wearine8s,the 
superior  of  the  curse  I  Thou  art  the  tried  and  true 
friend  of  man." — John  Allen  Quintan. 

2.  The  intellectual.  The  brain  must  have  rest  by 
a  change  of  subjects  of  thought  from  secular  to  re- 
ligious. Burke  said  respecting  anti-Sabbatarian 
students:  "They  who  always  labor  can  have  no  true 
judgment;  they  exhaust  their  attention,  burn  out 
their  candles  and  are  left  in  the  dark."  Isaac  Tay- 
lor said,  "I  am  prepared  to  aflftrm  that,  to  the  studi- 
ous especially,  and  whether  younger  or  older,  a  Sab- 
bath well  spent,  spent  in  happy  exercises  of  the 
heart,  devotional  and  domestic,  a  Sabbath  given  to 
the  soul  is  the  best  of  all  means  of  refreshment  to 
the  mere  intellect."    This  is  self-evident. 

3.  The  moral  and  religious.  Our  moral  and  relig- 
ious natures  require  the  Sabbath  as  much  as  our 
physical  natures  require  the  light  and  heat  of  the 
sun.  "The  great  majority  of  one  hundred  thousand 
men  employed  on  the  inland  navigation  of  England 
are  deprived  of  the  blessing  of  the  Lord's  day,  and 
are,  consequently,with  their  wives  and  children,gen- 
erally  speaking  in  a  state  of  deplorable  ignorance 
of  the  Gospel  and  of  the  power  of  religion."  Baron 
Gurney,  when  passing  sentence  of  death  on  two 
boatmen  at  the  Stafford  assizes,  said:  "There  is  no 
body  of  men  so  destitute  of  all  moral  culture  as 
boatmen;  they  know  no  Sabbath  and  are  possessed 
of  no  means  of  religious  instruction."  It  has  been 
said  that  "no  class  of  men  are  more  frequently  be- 
fore the  magistrates  than  the  London  cab  and  omni- 
bus drivers,  who  are  employed  every  day  from  thir- 
teen to  sixteen  hours  in  their  calling.  Habits  of 
intoxication  and  profane  swearing  prevail  among 
them;  and  the  same  characteristics  attach  to  them 
as  to  others  who  are  deprived  of  the  privileges  of  the 
Lord's  day,  namely,  demoralization  and  degrada- 
tion." The  French  nation  abolished  the  Sabbath 
and  adopted  every  tenth  day  as  a  rest.  The  law 
worked  immense  harm.  "Domestic  crimes,  infanti- 
cides, the  murder  of  husbands  by  their  wives  and 
wives  by  their  husbands,  were  almost  as  common  as 
larcenies  were  wont  to  be."  No  wonder  Abbe  Gre- 
gior  exclaimed: "This  law  will  soon  ruin  the  nation," 

IV.  As  "Lord  of  the  Sabbath^'  the  Saviour  has  leg- 
islated respecting  the  observance  of  the  day. 

The  Decalogue  is  both  a  civil  code  and  a  spiritu- 
al rule  of  life.  In  the  second  sense  it  belongs  to  the 
church.  She  determines  matters  of  faith.  In  the 
first  sense  it  belongs  to  the  state.  As  a  civil  code 
the  state  is  the  keeper  of  both  tables  of  the  law.  It 
must  authoritatively  and  judicially  suppress  all  open 
and  public  violation  of  the  law.     Hence  it  follows 

1.  That  the  state,  as  the  keeper  of  the  civil  Sab- 
bath, must  prohibit  public  Sabbath  desecration.  The 
prophet  Jeremiah  was  directed  to  go  and  stand  in 
the  gate  of  the  city  of  Jerusalem  and  say  to  the  rul- 
ers of  Judah,  "Thus  saith  the  Lord,  Ye  shall  bear 
no  burden  on  the  Sabbath,"  i.  e.,  they  were  to  for- 
bid their  people  working  on  Sabbath.  If  they  re- 
garded this  edict,  God  would  pour  out  his  blessing, 
But  if  they  disobeyed  God  would  kindle  a  fire  in 
their  gates  and  it  would  consume  their  palaces  and 
it  should  not  be  quenched.  They  repudiated  the 
message  and  imprisoned  tbe  messenger.  By-and- 
by  the  Chaldeans  invaded  their  land,  burned  up 
their  cities  and  villages,  carried  the  people  captive  to 
Babylon  and  kept  them  there  as  slaves  for  seventy 
years.  And  this  is  the  reason  God  assigns:  "That 
my  land  might  have  her  Sabbaths."  After  the  cap- 
tivity Nehemiah  saw  some  treading  wine  presses,etc., 
on  the  Sabbath.  "Then  contended  I  with  the  no- 
bles in  the  land,  and  said,  What  is  this  evil  thing 
that  ye  do?"  He  charges  the  sin  upon  the  rulers  be- 


cause they  did  not  suppress  it.  Then  he  ordered 
the  gates  of  Jerusalem  to  be  closed  on  the  Sabbath. 
The  Tyrian  merchants  who  were  wont  to  trade  in 
the  streets  on  Sabbath  came,  and,  finding  the  gates 
closed,  lodged  outside  the  wall.  "Then  I  ascended 
the  wall  and  said.  Why  lodge  ye  about  the  wall  on 
the  Sabbath  day?  If  you  do  so  again  I  will  lay 
hands  upon  you."  All  this  indicates  that  the  re- 
sponsibility for  public  Sabbath  desecration  lies  with 
the  government.  Hence  the  government  should  say 
to  these  men  who  run  saloons,  beer  gardens,  base 
ball  parks,  variety  theatres,  etc.,  "Your  doors  and 
gates  shall  all  be  closed  on  the  Sabbath  day — yes, 
and  on  every  other  day,  too,"  It  should  put  forth 
the  strong  arm  of  the  law  and  lay  it  upon  these  rail- 
road corporations  and  say,  "Your  trains  shall  not 
rumble  on  the  Sabbath,  depriving  hundreds  of  thou- 
sands of  workmen  of  their  rest  on  pain  of  losing 
their  position."  It  should  prohibit  Sabbath  proces- 
sions with  banners  and  bands  of  music  by  Masonic 
and  other  orders.  It  should  prohibit  public  Sabbath 
desecration  on  the  partof  theindividual,corporation, 
municipality,  commonwealth  or  general  government. 
Yes,  the  state  should  say  to  Congress,  "You  shall 
not  continue  your  sessions  through  the  Lord's  day, 
or  require  the  mail  to  be  carried  and  distributed 
through  every  State  in  the  Union  on  that  day,  thus 
off'ering  an  open  insult  to  the  God  of  the  Sabbath 
and  setting  a  flagrant  example  for  evil  before  this 
great  people."     And  when  our 

GOVERNMENT   COMES   TO   RECOGNiyE   ITS   DUTY 

our  land  will  have  her  Sabbaths.  But  this  is  a  judg- 
ment that  must  begin  at  the  house  of  God.  As  long 
as  professing  Christians  buy  and  read  the  "Sunday 
newspaper"  on  Sabbath,  we  need  not  complain  of 
the  government  for  not  suppressing  the  nuisance. 
As  long  as  professing  Christians  use  the  "Sunday 
trains"  for  business  or  pleasure,  we  need  not  find 
fault  with  the  civil  oflficers  for  not  stopping  them. 
The  church  must  be  purged. 

2.  The  church  as  the  keeper  of  the  religious  Sab- 
bath must  teach  the  people  their  duty  as  to  the  ob- 
servance of  the  day.  Now  the  question  is,  "What 
saith  the  Scripture?     How  readest  thou?" 

(1)  It  should  be  a  day  of  absolute  rest  from  all 
secular  emplyoment.  It  is  as  much  our  duty  to 
rest  on  the  seventh  day  as  to  work  the  other  six.  "In 
it  thou  shalt  do  no  work."  This  clearly  prohibits 
every  one  from  pursuing  his  ordinary  vocation.  If 
obeyed,  it  would  close  every  store,  workshop  and  art 
gallery  in  the  land.  "Nor  thy  son  nor  thy  daugh- 
ter," imposes  on  parents  the  duty  of  restraining 
their  children  from  week-day  work.  "Nor  thy  man- 
servant,"forbids  employers  imposing  any  but  works 
of  necessity  upon  hired  laborers.  "Nor  thy  maifl- 
servant,"forbids  unnecessary  domestic  employment. 
"Nor  thy  cattle."  Doth  God  take  care  of  oxen?  Yes, 
even  the  beast  of  burden  must  rest.  "Nor  the  strang- 
er that  is  within  thy  gates."  Even  the  visitor  at 
your  house  must  conform  to  the  law  of  a  well-regu- 
lated household. 

(2.)  All  the  hours  of  the  day  should  be  consecrated 
to  the  glad  and  hearty  service  of  God.  We  are  en- 
joined to  count  "the  Sabbath  a  delight,  the  holy  of 
the  Lord,  honorable."  We  should  keep  it  holy  to 
God  because  we  love  it.  If  we  love  the  Sabbath,we 
will: 

So  adjust  our  worldly  affairs  on  Saturday  that  our 
minds  will  be  free  from  distracting  cares  and  per- 
plexing thoughts. 

Rise  betimes  on  Sabbath  morning.  It  is  robbing 
God  of  his  time  to  lie  in  bed  longer  on  Sabbath  morn- 
ing than  we  are  wont  to  do  on  other  days. 

Spend  the  morning  hours  in  secret  prayer,  family 
worship,  reading  and  meditating  upon  the  Scrip- 
tures,and  so  train  the  soul  for  the  sanctuary. 

Spend  the  body  of  the  day  in  God's  house,  wor- 
shiping him  in  the  great  congregation. 

The  evening  hours  should  be  spent  in  the  family 
circle,  recapitulating  the  sermons  of  the  day,reciting 
the  catechism,  reading  a  verse  about  in  the  Scrip- 
tures, and  recounting  each  other's  experiences  in  the 
divine  life.  "This  is  the  day  God  hath  made,  in  it 
we  will  joy  triumphantly."  Then,  as  Scotland's  po- 
et, Robert  Burns,  says: 

"They  round  the  Ingle  form  a  circle  wide; 
The  sire  turns  o'er  wl'  patriarchal  grace 
The  big  Ha'-Blble,  ance  his  father's  pride, 
And,  'Let  us  worship  God,'  he  says,  wl'  solemn  air. 
They  chant  their  artless  notes  In  simple  guise,— 
The  priest-like  father  reads  the  sacred  page,— 
Then  kneeling  down  to  heaven's  eternal  King, 
The  saint,  the  father  and  the  husband  prays." 

And  thus  closes  "the  pearl  of  days." 


— Prof.  David  McAllister,  D.  D.,  has  accepted  the 
call  of  the  Pittsburgh  congregation,  so  long  minis- 
tered to  by  Rev.  Dr.  A.  M.  Milligan,  and  was  in- 
stalled last  week. 


.^ 


NOTBMBBR  3,  1887 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


\ 


Befobm  News. 


TEE  IOWA  STATE  CHRISTIAN  ASSOCIATION. 

College  Springs,  Iowa,  Oct.  22,  1887. 

The  convention  of  the  Iowa  State  Christian  Asso- 
ciation has  come  and  gone.  It  came  as  an  orphan, 
was  kindly  taken  in,  fed  and  cared  for,  and  sent  on 
its  way  rejoicing.  What  we  mean  by  its  state  of 
orphanage  is,  that  none  of  its  regular  officers  were 
present;  but  we  appointed  a  god-father  and  god- 
mother, and  made  the  little  thing  happy  under  their 
fostering  care.  We  presume  the  minutes  will  come 
to  you  in  due  time,  and  we  will  therefore  confine 
ourselves  to  such  things  as  will  not  appear  in  the 
minutes.  The  attendance  of  members  of  the  Asso- 
ciation from  a  distance  was  meagre,  owing,  no 
doubt,  to  the  fact  that  the  place  of  meeting  was  in 
a  remote  corner  of  the  State  and  off  the  railroad. 
But  as  we  have  plenty  of  cranks  at  home,  we  had 
no  lack  of  an  audience. 

On  Tuesday  evening,  after  devotional  exercises. 
Rev.  J.  S.  T.  Milligan  of  North  Cedar,  Kansas,  was 
introduced  as  the  first  speaker,  and  discussed  at 
length  the  question  of  "Secret  Societies  and  the 
Church."     His  line  of  discussion  was  as  follows: 

1.  The  importance  of  the  question,  from  the 
church's  relation  to  God,  to  Truth,  to  Man,  to  So- 
ciety. 

2.  Secret  societies  are  not  homogeneous  with  the 
church.  Their  God  is  not  our  God.  They  do  not 
accept  our  Saviour  and  Lord:  nor  our  standard  of 
authority:  nor  our  method  of  salvation:  nor  our  or- 
dinances: nor  our  hope. 

3.  They  are  antagonistic  to  the  church.  They  are 
counter  organizations:  in  their  brotherhood;  in  their 
agencies;  in  their  means  and  methods;  in  their  oper- 
ations. They  are  opposite  in  their  authority;  in 
their  caricatures;  in  their  influence. 

Bro.  Milligan  is  a  convention  in  himself.  He  can 
be  genial  sunshine,  a  laughing  shower,  a  majestic 
thunder-storm  or  a  terrific  cyclone  at  will.  We  owe 
him  much  for  his  earnest  work  in  our  convention. 

At  the  close  of  his  address,  Bro.  Cole,  from  the 
dark  continent,  was  introduced,  and  presented  the 
character  of  secret  orders  among  the  native  African 
tribes.  It  was  well  done,  and  enjoyed  as  a  rich 
treat.  One  part  of  the  initiation  in  the  leading  or- 
der among  the  native  tribes  is  a  good  whipping. 
We  recommend  the  following  addition  to  be  made 
to  the  initiatory  rites  of  our  Masonic  brethren: 
When  the  candidate  takes  off"  his  pantaloons  and 
part  of  his  shirt,  and  rolls  up  one  leg  of  his  panta- 
lets, let  one  clothed  in  the  habiliments  of  an  old 
Boman  Lictor  approach  with  his  fasces  and  make  a 
vigorous  application  of  the  rods  to  the  nude  epider- 
mis of  the  novitiate.  It  would  be  in  harmony  with 
the  boasted  antiquity  of  the  order. 

An  audience  of  about  400  people  listened  with 
deep  interest  to  the  addresses  of  Tuesday  evening. 
Wednesday  forenoon  was  spent  in  transacting  the 
business  of  the  Association.  In  the  afternoon  the 
committee  on  resolutions  reported  a  magnificent  set 
of  resolutions,  broad,  comprehensive  and  radical. 
These  were  the  basis  of  the  general  discussion  dur- 
ing the  entire  afternoon,  and  it  was  as  fine  a  discus- 
sion as  we  have  ever  listened  to.  The  resolutions 
were  all  unanimously  adopted. 

In  the  evening  Bro.  W.  I.  Phillips  of  Chicago 
opened  with  a  history  of  the  National  Christian  As- 
sociation, and  the  present  outlook.  As  an  old  citi- 
zen and  pastor  in  the  place,  the  people  were  glad 
to  hear  him,  and  the  general  feeling  was  that  he  did 
credit  to  himself  and  his  cause.  Bro.  Wm.  Wishart, 
D.  D.,  of  Monmouth,  111.,  followed  in  a  half-hour  ad- 
dress, and  with  sharp,  incisive  logic  dealt  telling 
blows  against  the  secret  system.  Forty-five  years 
ago  we  heard  him  as  an  old  Abolitionist,  and  though 
the  blossom  of  the  almond  tree  is  on  his  head  his 
natural  force  is  not  abated.  In  all  the  great  ques- 
tions of  moral  reforms  "the  Lord  has  taught  his 
hands  to  war,  and  instructed  his  fingers  to  fight." 
We  were  sorry  we  could  not  give  him  an  hour  in- 
stead of  thirty  minutes. 

But  there  were  more  good  things  to  follow.  Bro. 
Coe,  a  seceding  Mason,  who  came  from  the  north- 
eastern part  of  the  State,  was  put  on  trial  as  "a  per- 
jured villain;"  but  was  allowed  thirty  minutes  to 
make  his  defense  before  we  would  put  the  cable-tow 
around  his  neck,  that  once  to  his  body  said,  "Noble 
Banquo,  let  me  enfold  thee."  At  the  close  of  his 
defence  our  hearts  relented,and  we  let  him  go  "Scot 
free."  Bro.  Milligan,  who  drove  the  first  nail  in 
our  meeting,  was  now  given  ten  minutes  to  clinch 
the  whole,  and  it  was  just  such  a  clincher  as  a  man 
who  fights  under  the  banner  of  the  old  Cameronians 
can  give. 

At  the  close  the  scries  of  resolutions  were  again  I 
ead,  and  a  rising  vote  of  the  house  taken.  It  was  1 
stimated  that  from  250  to  300  persons  rose  up  in 


their  favor.  Thus  closed  an  interesting  meeting  of 
our  State  Association.  We  were  sorry  there  were 
not  more  present  from  a  distance  to  enjoy  it.  The 
whole  range  of  the  discussion  was  noble,  manly, 
dignified,  earnest.  Christian.  Bro.  Hawley,  the 
State  agent,  was  with  us,  gave  a  good  report,  did 
good  work,  and  was  continued  in  his  present  posi- 
tion. The  expenses  of  the  meeting  were  met,  and 
something  left  for  future  use.  Though  we  had  no 
secret  orders  here  to  contend  with,  we  still  believe 
the  convention  will  do  us  good.  The  frequent  in- 
quiry made,  "Where  is  Stoddard?"  indicated  that 
somebody  was  missed.  Wm.  Johnston. 

SOUTHERN  ALABAMA  AND  ITS  METROPOLIS. 

The  three  productive  divisions  of  the  State — Mobile,  its 
surroundings  and  prosperity — The  condition  of  the  col- 
ored people— Lectures  and  the  "Cynosure"  —Faithful 
pastors— The  Alabama  State  Convention  in  December. 

Mobile,  Ala.,  Oct.  26,  1887. 

Dear  Cynosure: — About  the  middle  third  of 
Alabama,  extending  from  east  to  west,  is  called  the 
"Black  Belt,"  partly  because  of  its  having  a  darker 
soil,  and  partly  because  the  bulk  of  the  colored  pop- 
ulation live  there.  In  some  of  the  counties  they  are 
to  the  whites  as  many  as  four  to  one.  This  is  the 
great  cotton  belt.  The  northern  part  is  better  adapt- 
ed to  grain  growing,  and  is  rich  in  mineral  products. 
In  some  parts,  especially  the  northwest,  the  colored 
population  is  very  small. 

South  of  the  cotton  belt  is  the  great  Hard  Pine 
region,  which,  with  brief  intermissions,  extends 
along  the  Gulf  Coast  from  the  Atlantic  to  the  inte- 
rior of  Texas.  It  has  been,  and  perhaps  still  is, 
one  of  the  finest  forest  regions  of  the  world.  In 
Alabama  it  is  sparsely  settled,  with  occasional  cot- 
ton, and  some  sugar  plantations,  many  sawmills 
along  the  railroads,  and  in  the  more  southern  bor- 
der many  turpentine  and  rosin  factories.  In  the 
northwestern  and  southeastern  parts  of  the  State 
there  is  still  a  good  deal  of  Goverment  land  sub- 
ject to  entry,  most  of  which  is  valuable  for  its  tim- 
ber. 

The  Louisville  and  Nashville  railroad,  which  con- 
nects Montgomery  with  Mobile  and  New  Orleans,  is, 
in  its  equipment  and  management,  far  superior  to 
the  East  Tennessee  and  Georgia  road.  It  has  much 
nicer  waiting-rooms,  and  is  more  reliable  as  to  time. 
I  left  Montgomery  on  the  morning  of  the  14th  and 
arrived  here  at  2  p.  m.  As  we  approached  the  head 
of  Mobile  Bay  the  land  became  low;  the  pines  gave 
way  to  hard  woods,  of  which  the  live  oak  and  mag- 
nolia are  conspicuous;  the  Spanish  moss  hangs  long 
and  somber,  and  the  palmetto  everywhere  abounds. 

Mobile  is  not  a  magnificent  city,  though  it  has 
some  fine  streets  and  good  buildings.  One  must  go 
a  number  of  miles  to  find  anything  resembling  a 
hill.  The  country  around  is  well  adapted  to  market 
gardening,  and  shipments  to  the  North  are  large. 
Sugar  cane  is  also  a  good  deal  raised.  Formerly 
oranges  were  an  important  crop,  but  for  seven  years 
there  have  been  none.  Even  bananas  have  matured 
here,  but  never  do  now.  Mobile  is  partaking  of  the 
general  prosperity  of  the  State  and  is  recovering 
from  the  collapse  that  came  upon  it  after  the  war, 
when  its  population  steadily  fell  off.  With  the 
finest  harbor  on  the  Gulf,  with  two  rivers  that  are 
navigable,  and  important  railroads,  it  ought  to  be  a 
great  city.  It  will  yet  become  such.  I  was  glad  to 
see  that  the  authorities  are  waking  up.  Granite 
pavements  are  being  put  down  in  the  business  parts 
of  the  city;  electric  lights  are  being  provided  for 
the  whole  town,  and  the  finest  public  school  build- 
ing for  the  colored  public  schools  that  I  have  seen 
anywhere  in  the  South  is  just  being  completed.  It 
is  said  that  more  than  200  houses  are  being  con- 
structed, and  no  one  need  be  idle  who  is  willing  to 
work  for  reasonable  wages. 

The  colored  people  are  advancing  in  education, 
and  increasing  slowly  in  property.  Their  churches 
are  not  keeping  pace  with  the  general  growth.  The 
great  drawback  to  this  people  is  the  prevalence  and 
power  of  the  secret  lodge  system.  There  lies  be- 
fore me  a  copy  of  the  Christian  Weekly,  "for  Christ 
and  Humanity,"  Rev.  E.  H.  Europe,  editor  and  man- 
ager. It  is  a  neat  and  well-conducted  paper,  but  it 
gives  a  half  column  to  notices  of  fourteenchurches,and 
two  columns  to  fifty-two  secret  societies.  All  these 
are  for  the  colored  people.  What  these  societies 
absorb  and  waste  can  be  seen  by  the  following  state- 
ment of  the  cost  of  an  excursion  to  Meridien  last 
summer:  There  was  paid  to  the  railroad  company 
1750.  The  net  profits  were  over  $400,  and  the  en- 
tire cost  in  money,  not  counting  time,  over  $1,400. 
A  poor  people  cannot  continue  to  pay  out  such  sums 
and  prosper. 

I  preached  on  Sabbath  in  the  St.  Louis  Street  Bap- 
tist, the  Stone  Street  Baptist,  and  the  Congregational 
{Continued  on  12th  page.) 


Correspondence. 


THE  HUMANE  SOCIETY  AND  THE  EVANGEL- 
ICAL ALLIANCE  IN  ROCHESTER. 


Rochester,  N.  Y.,  Oct.  25th,  1887. 
Editor  Christian  Cynosure: — The  Eleventh  An- 
nual Convention  of  the  American  Humane  Associa- 
tion was  held  in  this  city  Wednesday,  Thursday  and 
Friday  of  last  week.  Delegates  were  present  from 
most  of  the  States  in  the  Union  and  also  Canada. 
Mayor  Parsons  delivered  the  address  of  welcome. 
President  G.  E.  Gordon,  of  Milwaukee,  responded. 
As  a  sample  of  what  the  society  is  accomplishing, 
take  the  following  item  from  the  President's  report: 

"Animals.  Cases  investisfated,  131,655.  Number  of 
horses,  mules,  and  other  animals  relieved  from  cruelty 
and  suffering,  109,573.  Number  of  times  ambulance 
used  to  remove  disabled  animals,  2,753.  Animals  hu- 
manely destroyed,  21,285.  Arrests  for  cruelty  to  animals, 
10,216. 

Children.  Cases  investigated,  52,006.  Number  of 
children  relieved  from  cruelty  and  suffering,  31,202. 
Number  of  children  adopted  or  placed  in  private  homes, 
1,683.  Number  of  children  placed  in  institutions,  15,- 
433.     Arrests  for  cruelty  to  children,  10,320." 

M.  V.  B.  Davis  read  a  paper  on  "Humane  Work  in 
the  East."  The  first  society  was  organized  in  1866. 
In  twenty-one  years  all  the  societies  have  taken  cog- 
nizance of  300,000  cases  calling  for  interference. 
There  are  150,569,000  domestic  animals  in  the 
United  States  "measurably  protected  by  the  Associ- 
ation." The  money  expended  annually  in  the  hu- 
mane work  is  $150,000. 

J.  J.  Kelso,  of  the  Toronto  Globe,  read  a  paper  on 
"Humane  Work  in  Canada."  Defective  laws  are 
their  great  obstacle.  J.  M.  Humphries,  in  a  paper 
on  "Humane  Work  in  the  South,"  stated  that  Negro 
mothers  "go  away,  all  day,  locking  up  their  little 
children  without  food  or  water."  If  the  children 
disobey  some  trifling  command  they  are  often  beaten 
until  they  cannot  stand.  The  rich  farmers  use  their 
horses  and  mules  to  put  in  their  crops,  feeding  them 
so  little  that  they  are  reduced  to  a  skeleton.  Then 
they  sell  them  to  horse-traders  for  a  song,  who,  in 
turn,  auction  them  off  to  the  ignorant  Negroes  at 
large  profits.  Among  other  subjects  on  the  pro- 
gramme were,  "How  can  the  Humane  Societies  Ben- 
efit the  Street  Waifs?"  "Humane  Literature  in  Pub- 
lic Schools,"  "Cruelty  to  Infants  from  Neglect," 
"Work  of  Societies  to  Prevent  Cruelty  to  Children." 

The  next  meeting  will  be  held  in  Toronto,  a  step, 
it  was  suggested,  toward  annexation.  It  is  proposed 
to  call  an  International  Congress  two  years  hence. 
In  the  corridor  of  the  "Council  Chamber,"  ropes, 
whips,  knives,  clubs  and  thongs,  were  on  exhibition 
which  had  been  taken  from  parties  arrested  for  cru- 
elty to  man  and  beast.  "Man's  inhumanity  to  man" 
and  beast  is  shocking.  A  slanderous  tongue  is 
worse  than  any  of  these  instruments  of  cruelty.  A 
relentless,  hard  and  cruel  heart  is  worst  of  all. 

On  Friday  at  4  p.  m.  Rev.  Josiah  Strong,  D.D., 
secretary  to  the  Evangelical  Alliance,  addressed  the 
ministers  and  laymen  of  Rochester  who  were  inter- 
ested in  his  work,  in  the  First  Baptist  church.  The 
Alliance  is  world-wide.  It  was  organized  in  London 
in  1826.  It  is  best  known  by  the  subjects  for  the 
week  of  prayer  which  it  prepares.  The  American 
branch  is  twenty  years  old.  It  proposes  to  unite 
the  churches  in  co  operative  work.  More  than  half 
the  population  of  the  United  States  never  darken  a 
church  door.  In  a  section  in  New  York  city,  having 
60,000,  there  are  three  churches  and  one  hundred 
saloons.  In  a  section  in  Chicago,  having  60,000, 
there  are  no  churches  and  153  saloons.  How  can 
the  chasm  between  the  churches  and  the  masses  be 
bridged.  Lot  the  churches  form  themselves  into  a 
visiting  committee  and  the  homes  of  the  churchless 
be  visited  regularly  once  a  month.  Three  hundred 
visitors  can  visit  3,000  homes  and  only  make  ten 
visits  each  per  month.  This  tree  will  yield  its  fruit 
every  month.  It  has  been  tried  in  Oswego,  Mans- 
field and  Philadelphia.  Christianity  is  the  leaven. 
But  what  if  the  leaven  be  in  one  pan  and  the  dough  in 
another?  They  must  be  brought  together.  It  is  our 
only  salvation.  The  public  schools  are  the  di- 
gestive organ  of  the  body  politic.  Through  them 
our  foreigners  will  be  Americanized.  Dr.  McGlynn, 
attacking  the  Roman  hierarchy,  is  a  possibility  be- 
cause of  the  public  schools.  They  must  be  guarded 
against  the  insidious  attempts  of  Rome  to  capture 
them.  The  floo<ls  of  immigrants  that  are  pouring 
in  upon  us,  the  anarchists,  the  intrigues  of  Roman- 
ism, the  strained  relations  between  labor  and  capi- 
tal, the  liquor  traffic.  Sabbath  desecration,  Mormon- 
ism  and  political  corruption,  make  an  impending 
crisis.  The  future  weal  or  woe  of  this  nation  will 
be  determined  in  the  next  twenty  years.  The  Amer- 
ican Alliance  holds  a  convention  in  Washington, 
D.  C,  Dec.  7th,  8th  and  Oih.  Dr.  Strong  desired  a 
delegation  of  sixty  from  Rochester. 


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1!HE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURSi. 


NOYEMBSB  3,  1887 


On  Sabbath  evening  I  preached  on  the  "Dominion 
of  Christ"  in  the  Reformed  Presbyterian  church, 
Rev.  John  Graham,  pastor.  They  occupy  an  elegant 
brick  building  on  Alexander  Street.  They  have  only 
been  in  this  house  since  September.  It  is  perhaps 
the  best  in  the  body.  Rev.  James  P.  Sankey,  the 
Dr.  Morehead  of  Rochester,  has  a  congregation  of 
400  on  Allen  Street.  This  city  is  well  supplied  with 
churches.  The  Baptists  are  strong  here.  The  Pres- 
byterians are  also  numerous.  Rev.  James  B.  Shaw, 
of  the  Brick  church,  has  been  in  that  charge  since 
1840.     The  Methodists  are  likewise  here  in  force. 

The  Rochester  University,  established  in  1847,  is 
doing  a  grand  work.  It  has  an  endowment,  includ- 
ing productive  and  unproductive  property,  amount- 
ing to  about  $1,000,000,  It  has  two  courses  of  in 
struction,  the  classical  and  scientific.  "Two  thou- 
sand two  hundred  and  sixty  hours  are  spent  in  the 
recitation  room  by  a  student  in  his  entire  course." 
Martin  B.  Anderson,  LL.D,,  is  president.  Profs. 
Kendrick,  Quinby,  Lattimore,  Mixer,  Gilmore, 
Morey,  Webster,  Burton  and  Forbes  are  among  the 
faculty.  Men  graduating  here  have  become  presi- 
dents of  colleges,  senators,  judges,  professors  in 
theological  seminaries  and  editors.  The  Rochester 
Theological  Seminary  was  established  in  1850. 
Their  endowment  is  little  less  than  that  of  the  Uni- 
versity. They  have  graduated  more  than  1,000  stu- 
dents.    Both  are  Baptist  institutions. 

Rochester  has  a  population  of  100,000.  It  is  a 
city  of  beautiful  and  luxurious  homes.  It  is  widely 
known  as  the  home  of  Hiram  Sibley,  the  seed-man. 
I.  W.  Powers,  the  banker,  whose  art  gallery  is  un- 
surpassed in  America,  is  also  widely  known.  The 
Genesee  Falls,  wheve  Sam  Patch  made  his  fatal  leap, 
are  known  throughout  the  land.     Yours. 

J.  M.  FoSTBft, 


help  in  time  of  sickness,  neither  a  decent  burial  at 
death,  if  they  did  not  belong  to  some  secret  society, 
but  I  am  glad  to  say  that  such  was  not  the  case  in 
this  instance.  The  Lord  will  always  provide  for  his 
people.  During  the  long  period  of  his  own  sickness 
and  also  at  the  death  of  Johnnie,  the  father  received 
aid  from  his  friends  who  were  in  sympathy  with 
him,  both  white  and  colored,  and  without  having 
been  solicited.  We  believe  that  God  has  a  people 
to  take  care  of  the  brother  as  long  as  be  stands  for 
the  right.  And  now,  while  the  brother  in  his  dis- 
tress is  striving  to  eradicate  the  evils  of  secret  or- 
ganizations, let  us  with  our  means  assist  him  in  this 
great  work.  Let  every  friend  of  truth  and  right 
stand  by  the  brother  and  give  him  our  prayers,  and 
means,  and  bid  him  God-speed.     Respectfully  yours, 

JUDSON. 
FROM  A   NBW  TORE  PASTOR'S  NOTB-BOOE. 


BIBLE  Lesson. 


OLWPSES  OF  IOWA. 


Dear  Cynosure: — The  new  city  of  Coin  lies  some 
seven  miles  west  of  College  Springs,  and  is  its  near- 
est railroad  point  It  has  the  usual  quota  of  lodges; 
and  also  what  is  not  so  common — a  thriving  church 
opposed  to  secretism.  Rev.  Dr.  Brown,  the  pastor, 
is  an  uncle  of  Rev.  E.  B.  Graham,  of  Omaha,  author 
of  "In  the  Coils."  In  eeattering  a  few  tracts  in  the 
business  portion  of  the  village,  I  was  informed  that 
the  United  Presbyterians  had  an  Odd-fellow  in  their 
communion,  who  told  them  that  if  they  would  not 
take  him  with  his  Odd-fellowship,  he  would  go  to 
another  church;  but  he  was  retained  because  he  was 
popular  and  had  money.  I  at  once  called  on  the 
United  Presbyterian  pastor  and  learned  from  him 
that  the  story  was  without  foundation  so  far  as  he 
knew.     He  did  not  know  of  a  secretist  in  his  church. 

"What  kind  of  a  paper  is  this?"  said  a  Kansas 
man  on  the  train  to  whom  a  Cynosure  was  handed? 

"It  is  opposed  to  secret  societies."- 

"That  is  good,"  said  the  gentleman,  "for  they  are 
humbugs.  I  was  an  Odd-fellow  in  the  town  where 
I  live,  and  the  principles  of  Odd-fellowship  are  good, 
all  right;  but  you  must  judge  of  an  institution,  not 
by  what  it  says  but  by  what  it  does.  The  Knights 
of  Labor  pass  resolutions  against  destroying  prop- 
erty and  wrecking  trains  and  then  members  and 
officers  lead  in  acts  of  violence,  as  at  St.  Louis." 

"Why  did  I  leave?  because  of  the  practical  work- 
ings of  the  institution.  The  saloon-keeper  was  re- 
ceived into  membership.  Another  member  con- 
tracted a  loathsome  disease  and  was  voted  $3  per 
week;  the  Noble  Grand  was  a  doctor,  and  he  kept 
this  brother  along,  week  after  week.  He  did  not 
cure  him,  but  he  got  the  $3!  By  another  scheme 
one  brother  cheated  another  out  of  $100.  And  so  I 
learned  that  that  kind  of  brotherly  love  was  a  hum- 
bug." W.  I.  Phillips. 


ELDER  HUDDLBSTON'8  TRIALS. 

Knoxville,  Tenn. 

Dear  Ctnobdbe: — We  are  sorry  to  inform  you  of 
the  death  of  Johnnie  F.  Huddleston,  son  of  Rev.  P. 
A.  Huddleston.  Johnnie  was  only  eight  years  old, 
but  a  youth  of  a  very  bright  intellect.  The  bereaved 
father  and  mother  have  the  tender  sympathy  of 
many  devoted  friends. 

I  speak  in  honor  of  his  father  who  has  made  a 
respectable  history  in  life  as  a  minister  of  the  Gos- 
pel. Elder  Huddleston  has  only  a  limited  educa- 
tion; but  the  Lord  has  supplied  his  deficiency  with 
wisdom  by  the  Holy  Spirit,  and  has  enabled  him  to 
do  great  good  in  this  work.  But  his  refusal  to  be- 
come a  member  of  any  secret  organization,  has  ren- 
dered him  very  unpopular  in  the  eyes  of  many  nar- 
row-minded individuals.  Despite  all  opposition, 
however,  the  Elder  has  triumphed,  and  still  holds 
his  position,  contending  for  truth  and  justice,  and 
not  for  the  evils  of  secret  organizations. 

[t  has  been  said,  that  the  poor   need   not  expect 


I  have  lived  nine  years  this  fall  across  the  Hud- 
son River  from  the  city  of  Albany,  N.  Y.,  where  I 
can  see  the  principal  part  of  it,  (that  is,  my  family 
lived  here  though  I  have  preached  elsewhere  )  Al- 
bany is  almost  given  over  to  rum  and  beer.  I  ques- 
tion if  you  could  find  a  church  in  the  city  in  which 
they  would  tolerate  a  straight  out  prohibition  lec- 
ture. Troy  is  no  better.  I  met  three  Roman  Cath- 
olic priests  last  week  that  resembled  hard  drinkers 
much  more  than  men  of  God — what  a  shame!  It  is 
awful  that  leaders  of  precious  souls  are  such  livers. 
"What  will  the  harvest  be?"  Sometimes  it  seems 
that  we  cannot  overthrow  the  rum  power.  It  is  en- 
trenched in  the  appetites  and  passions.  Tobacco,  a 
twin  devil  with  rum,  is  making  havoc  with  the 
young  men. 

I  sometimes  attend  church  at  my  home,  and  I 
must  confess  it  pains  me  to  see  such  constant  efforts 
made  by  popular  preachers  to  evade  the  real  issue 
between  Christ  and  the  devil.  The  preaching  is 
artistic  in  many  cases,  and,  as  year  as  I  can  judge, 
rhetorical;  just  as  if  human  souls  which  are  thirst- 
ing for  the  water  of  life  must  be  satisfied  with  finely 
framed  words.  In  the  name  of  God  and  humanity 
what  do  the  preachers  suppose  souls  are  made  of! 
Let  us  have  the  message  of  John  the  Baptist,  or  the 
love  of  John  the  Evangelist — a  few  sons  of  thunder. 
A  large  mustache,  gold  cuff-buttons,  fine  gesticula- 
tions, and  a  pleasing  manner  do  not  move  to  repent- 
ance. 

Just  such  a  class  of  ministers  cannot  move  a 
tongue  against  the  sin  of  secretism,  or  pride,  or  dis- 
honesty; in  fact  against  nothing  which  might  offend 
the  hearer.  Here  we  have  church  members  who 
would  cause  a  rebellion  in  a  minute  should  a  word 
be  said  against  secret  societies.  Avoid  all  things 
that  may  offend  and  you  drive  the  nails  into  the 
hands  and  feet  of  the  Son  of  God  afresh.  The 
world  and  church  are  in  a  condition  that  should 
alarm  us. 

Prohibition  is  marching  along.  I  pray  the  good 
Lord  to  help  us.  Bro.  0.  M.  Owen,  of  Utica,  N.  Y., 
has  launched  the  Life  Boat.  He  has  a  mighty  strug- 
gle before  him.  He  hates  the  rum  devil,  and  is  not 
afraid  to  tell  it.  I  hope  he  will  see  the  desire  of  his 
soul — the  rescue  of  thousands  through  his  Life  Boat. 
Suppose  we  appoint  a  day  of  fasting  and  prayer 
for  the  cause  of  Christ.  I  believe  it  depends  much 
on  the  nearness  of  our  living  to  God.  Our  success 
must  come  from  God.     Vain  is  the  help  of  man. 

I  am  not  a  theologian,  but  I  dislike  the  preaching 
and  singing  we  hear  so  frequently.  "Our  sins  are 
under  the  blood."  I  always  taught  and  believed 
that  our  sins  are  all  forgiven,  and  washed  away  by 
the  blood,  and  that  we  are  then  under  the  blood, 
fully  justified.  We  must  watch  or  the  devil  of  anti- 
nomianism  will  corrupt  the  church.  Second  proba- 
tion doctrine  is  taught  because  these  gentlemen  can 
see  a  handsomer  and  safer  way  to  make  a  good  liv- 
ing than  to  preach  openly  the  doctrine  of  universal- 
ism.  I  would  like  to  know  how  they  come  to  the 
conclusion  that  eternal  punishment  is  too  much. 
Does  not  God  know?  These  same  smooth-lipped 
preachers  can  tolerate  abominations  by  winking  at 
them,  and  find  fault  with  God's  theology.  It  is  a 
pity  they  thrust  their  impudence  into  the  face  of 
God.  Yea,  they  tell  us  many  good  things  of  heaven, 
a  place  that  perhaps  many  of  their  hearers  care  less 
about  than  the  lodge  or  theater.  I  hope  we  will  be 
true  to  God,  no  difference  about  bread  and  butter. 

Levi  Kelly. 


— In  the  examination  of  eighteen  young  men  atWeat- 
fleld  recently  for  a  West  Point  cadetship,  all  under  twen- 
ty years  of  age,  ten  were  at  once  ruled  out  as  physically 
unfit,  the  medical  examiner  finding  that  more  than  half 
of  the  number  had  a  "tobacco  heart,"  such  as  cigarette 
smoking  produces.  The  successful  candidate  was  a  boy 
who  had  been  compelled  to  work  in  a  mill  and  could  de- 
vote only  hig  spare  hours  to  books  and  study. 


STUDIES  IN  THE  NEW  TESTAMENT. 

LESSON  VII.— Nov.  13.— Christ's  W^ltness  to  John.— Matt. 
11:2-15. 

GOLDEN  TEXT.— He  was  a  burning  and  a  shining  light.— 
John  5:  85. 

iOpen  the  BibU  and  read  the  lesson.l 
COMMENTS   ON   THE  LESSON   BY  B.  E.  FLAGG. 

1.  John's  Inquiry,  vs.  2-6.  It  seems  at  first  sight 
strange  that  John  should  question  for  a  moment  Christ's 
Messiahflhip .  But  his  whole  life  and  character  belonged 
to  the  old  dispensation  rather  than  the  new.  Even  he 
had  but  dim  and  distorted  ideas  of  what  that  kingdom 
of  heaven  was  to  be,  whose  coming  he  had  preached 
with  such  fiery  earnestness  on  the  banks  of  the  Jordan. 
And  when  the  days  and  months  rolled  by  and  left  him 
still  in  prison,  there  is  no  cause  for  wonder  that  he  began 
to  doubt  One  who  never  appeared  for  his  deliverance; 
who  taught  and  labored  quietly  without  stir  or  tumult, 
while  the  nation,  (3od's  peculiar  people,  still  remained 
under  the  yoke  of  a  heathen  power.  So  we  cannot  al- 
ways understand  the  long-suffering  patience  of  the  Lord. 
Men  see  injustice  and  evil  and  wrong  on  every  side,  and 
they  grow  doubting,  even  skeptical.  "If  there  is  a  God," 
they  say,  "why  does  he  allow  such  things  to  be ?'  And 
yet  the  world  is  full  of  the  sweet,  silent  triumphs  of 
Christianity;  the  Gospel  is  slowly  but  surely  bringing  in 
the  age  of  peace  and  good  will  to  men.  And  blessed  is 
he  who  is  willing  to  wait  in  patient  trust  that  all  will 
come  right  at  last;  who  finds  no  occasion  for  stumbling 
when  Christ  appears  in  unlocked  for  shapes  and  ways. 
Our  only  answer  to  the  skeptic  must  still  be  the  same  that 
was  sent  to  John;  let  the  fruits  of  our  holy  religion  tes- 
tify to  the  truth  and  divinity  of  its  Founder. 

2.  Christ's  Witness  to  John.  vs.  7-15.  We  have  here 
a  most  graphic  picture  of  all  true  reformers:  not  a  reed 
shaken  with  every  wind  of  opinion,  every  storm  of  pop- 
ular clamor;  not  clothed  in  soft  raiment,  like  so  many  so- 
called  labor  reformers;  but  choosing  the  roughest  dress 
and  the  rudest  fare  to  the  sacrifice  of  principle.  Such 
are  prophets  who  go  before  their  day  and  generation  pre- 
paring the  way  of  the  Lord.  We  see  also  the  different 
standards  by  which  heaven  and  earth  measure  greatness. 
It  was  not  the  Roman  Citi^ar  sitting  on  the  pinnacle  of 
human  power,  but  the  helpless,  half -forgotten  prisoner 
whom  our  Lord  considered  greatest  of  the  human  race. 
And  yet  so  transcendently  superior  was  the  new  dispen- 
sation to  the  old  that  the  veriest  babe  in  Christ  was  great- 
er than  even  John  the  Baptist,  in  point  of  knowledge  and 
privilege .  But  while  all  may  enter  into  the  kingdom  of 
heaven,  now  no  longer  at  the  doors,  not  even  nigh,  to 
the  trusting  believer  but  in  his  heart,  its  gates  are  not 
open  to  the  indifferent,  the  slothful,  the  self-seekers. 
And  this  is  not  through  any  arbitrary  caprice  of  the  di- 
vine will,  but  according  to  a  natural  law  which  is  illus- 
trated every  day  in  our  own  lives  and  the  lives  of  others. 
We  cannot  enjoy  properly  what  we  make  no  effort  for. 
We  should  not  enjoy  even  heaven  easily  purchased,  and 
rest  would  not  be  rest  that  had  not  first  been  preceded  by 
weariness  and  toil  to  make  the  contrast  sweet.  Christ's 
witness  to  John  is  the  more  noticeable  from  coming  j  ust 
at  that  time  when  the  latter  seemed  to  doubt  him.  His 
divine  eye  saw  that  it  was  but  a  passing  cloud,  a  spot  on 
the  sun .  He  takes  no  notice  of  the  clouds  of  moment- 
ary doubt  and  depression  in  a  heart  that  truly  loves  him. 
"And  if  ye  will  receive  it" — if  ye  will  divest  your  minds 
of  prejudice  and  accept  unpopular  truths  and  their  equal- 
ly unpopular  teachers,  on  Christ's  witnessing  word,  we 
shall  be  in  no  danger  of  committing  the  mistake  of  the 
old  Jews,  who  stoned  the  prophets,  the  Eliases  God  sent 
to  reprove  their  sins  and  warn  them  of  his  coming  judg- 
ments. For  them  who  have  ears  to  hear  his  word  needs 
no  interpreter;  let  them  hear. 

From  Peloubet's  Notes. 

John  the  Baptist,  born  in  the  summer  of  B.  C.  5,  and 
living  more  than  thirty  jears  in  retirement  in  the  wilder- 
ness, began  his  public  ministry  in  the  summer  of  A.  D. 
26.  He  preached  for  nearly  two  years,  when  he  was  im- 
prisoned by  Herod,  March,  A.  D.  28,  because  of  his  faith- 
fulness in  reproving  Herod  for  marrying  his  brother  Phil 
ip's  wife  (Mark  6:  17-20).  After  a  year  in  the  dungeons 
of  Macbicrus  Castle,  John  was  murdered  by  Herod  in  the 
thirty- fourth  year  of  his  age,  as  described  in  Mark  6 : 
21-29.  At  the  time  of  his  martyrdom  his  disciples  were 
still  on  their  mission  in  Galilee,  concerning  which  we 
studied  in  our  last  two  lessons. 

"Now  when  John  had  heard  in  the  prison  the  works  of 
Christ."  Of  the  Messiah,  such  works  as  the  Messiah 
would  be  expected  to  do.  These  works  were  (1)  his  mir- 
acles, as  the  raising  from  the  dead  the  son  of  the  widow 
of  Nain,  just  before  this  time;  (2)  his  methods  of  teach- 
ing and  preaching  so  different  from  John's;  (3)  his  eat- 
ing with  publicans  and  sinners;  (4)  his  neglect  of  the 
Jewish  fasts  (Mark  2.18)  and  the  traditions  of  the  Phar- 
■eea  (Mark  7:  6.) 


NOVBMBKR  3,  18BT 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSITHE. 


"Those  things  which  ye  do  hear  and 
aee"  Observe,  Christ  makes  no  direct 
answer,  aflEords  no  peculiar  evidence,  but 
leaves  his  faith  to  rest  on  the  common  ev- 
idence on  which  the  faith  of  all  the  dis- 
ciples is  built.  So  Christ  solves  our 
doubts  by  pointing  to  those  evidences  of 
Christianity  which  are  open  to  all. — Ab- 
bott, It  is  not  new  promises  that  we  need, 
but  new  light  on  the  old;  not  a  new  Bi- 
ble, but  new  views  on  that  which  we 
have;  not  new  evidences,  but  to  see  how 
many  and  great  are  the  old. 

"Preached  to  them."  Why  is  the  Gos- 
pel for  the  poor?  1.  The  controlling  force 
of  the  community  will  come  sooner  or 
later  from  those  who  are  poor.  2  They 
are  representatives  of  the  majority  of 
men .  3  They  are  more  apt  to  feel  their 
need  of  the  Gospel.  4.  It  tends  to  equal- 
ize and  bind  together  the  different  classes 
of  society. — Prof.  E.  A.  Park. 

"A.  reed  shaken  by  the  wind."  Did 
you  go  to  see  a  fickle,  undecided  man, 
the  sport  of  every  influence  that  blew 
upon  himi —Morison.  "So  far  from  be- 
ing a  reed,  shaken  by  the  wind  of  popu- 
lar opinion,  John  was  a  rock,  which  stood 
unmoved  though  beaten  by  storms  of  suf 
fering  " —  Wordsworth. 

"There  hath  not  risen  a  greater  than 
John  the  Baptist."  No  one  has  done 
more  to  bring  the  kingdom  of  Qod  on 
earth.  No  individual  of  the  children  of 
men,  in  any  age,  has  been  superior  to 
John  in  greatness  of  soul.  None  has  ex- 
celled him  in  magnanimity  of  spirit,  in 
self-denial,  in  disinterested  and  heroical 
devotedness  to  the  service  of  God,  and 
to  the  interests  of  the  kingdom  of  God. 
— Moriaon. 

"He  that  is  least  in  the  kingdom  of 
heaven  is  greater  than  he  "  The  least  of 
the  greatest  is  greater  than  the  greatest 
of  the  least. — Maldonatus.  It  does  not 
mean  greater  in  personal  character,  nor 
in  eternal  condition,  but  in  present  priv- 
ilege, prerogative,  station,  as  the  least 
child  is  greater  than  the  highest  servant . 
John  was  a  servant,  we  are  sons,  of  God. 
There  is  a  significance,  too,  in  the  lan- 
guage used  here,  "born  of  women." 
Whoever  enters  the  kingdom  of  heaven 
is  born  of  the  Holy  Ghost. — Abbott. 

"The  kingdom  of  heaven  suffereth  vi- 
olence," etc.  The  metaphor  is  that  of  a 
city  to  which  long  siege  has  been  laid, 
and  into  which  at  last  the  victorious 
troops  pour  j  lyf ully,  seiziDg  on  it  as  their 
prey.  The  preaching  of  John  the  Bap- 
tist inaugurated  the  new  dispensation,  in 
which  the  poor  had  the  Gospel  preached 
unto  them.  Crowds  thronged  to  hear 
him,  as  now  they  were  thronging  to  hear 
Christ,  eager  to  seize  hold  of  the  king- 
dom which  both  John  and  Jesus  declared 
to  be  at  hand.  There  was  no  such  eager- 
ness to  lay  hold  on  the  preaching  of  the 
scribes;  this  very  contrast  was  an  evi- 
dence that  the  kingdom  of  heaven  was 
at  hand,  and  it  dated  from  the  advent  of 
John,  who  was  thus  pointed  out  as  the 
mesnengersent  before  the  L)rd  (ver.  10), 
the  Elias  that  was  for  to  come  (ver.  14). 
— Abbott.  The  expression  is  evidently 
metaphorical,  denoting  the  violent  burst- 
ing forth  of  the  kingdom  of  heaven,  as 
the  kernel  of  the  ancient  theocracy, 
through  the  husk  of  the  Old  Testament. 
John  and  Christ  are  themselves  the  vio- 
lent who  take  it  by  force, — the  former,  as 
commencing  the  assault;  the  latter,  as 
completing  the  conquest.  Accordingly, 
this  is  a  figurative  description  of  the 
great  era  which  had  then  commenced. — 
Lange. 

"He  that  hath  ears  to  hear,"  etc.  This 
usually  follows  an  important  statement, 
intimating  that  he  who  has  the  discern- 
ment to  understand  will  find  the  deeper 
meaning.  Here  it  suggests:  Christ  meant 
more  than  that  John  was  Elijah,  even 
that  he  himself  was  the  Messiah.  Then, 
as  now,  properly  to  understand  the  Scrip- 
tures we  must  know  Christ.— i2es.  Com. 


THANKaGlVINO   DAT. 

Washtnoton,  Oct  25. — The  following 
proclamation  was  issued  late  this  after- 
noon by  the  President  of  the  United 
States: 

The  goodness  and  the  mercy  of  God 
which  have  followed  the  American  peo- 
ple during  all  the  days  of  the  past  year 
claim  their  grateful  recognition  and  hum- 
ble acknowledgement.  By  his  omnipo- 
tent power  he  has  protected  us  from  war 
and  pestilence  and  from  every  national 
calamity;  by  his  gracious  favor  the  earth 
has  yielded  a  generous  return  to  the  la- 
bors of  the  husbandman,  and  every  path 
of  honest  toil  has  led  to  comfort  and  con- 
tentment; by    his  loylag    kindness    th« 


hearts  of  our  people  have  been  replen- 
ished with  fraternal  sentiment  and  patri- 
otic endeavor,  and  by  his  unerring  guid- 
ance we  have  been  directed  in  the  way  of 
national  prosperity. 

To  the  end  that  we  may,  with  one  ac- 
cord, testify  our  gratitude  for  all  these 
blessings,  I,  Grover  Cleveland,  President 
of  the  Uoited  States,  do  hereby  desig- 
nate and  set  apart  Thursday,  the  24th  day 
of  November  next,  as  a  day  of  Thanks- 
giving and  Prayer,  to  be  observed  by  all 
the  people  of  the  land. 

On  that  day  let  all  secular  work  and 
employment  be  suspended.  Let  our  peo- 
ple assemble  in  their  accustomed  places 
of  worship,  and  with  prayer  and  songs 
of  praise  give  thanks  to  our  Heavenly 
Father  for  all  he  has  done  for  us,  while 
we  humbly  implore  the  forgiveness  of 
our  sins,  and  a  continuance  of  bis  mercy. 
Let  families  and  kindred  be  reunited  on 
that  day ;  and  let  their  hearts,  filled  with 
kindly  cheer  and  affectionate  reminiscen- 
ces, be  turned  in  thankfulness  to  the 
'  source  of  all  their  pleasures  and  Giver  of 
all  that  makes  the  day  glad  and  j  oyous . 

And  in  the  midst  of  our  people  and  our 
happiness  let  us  remember  the  poor,  the 
needy,  and  the  unfortunate,  and  by  our 
gifts  of  charity  and  ready  benevolence 
let  us  increase  the  number  of  those  who 
with  grateful  hearts  shall  join  in  our 
Thanksgiving. 

In  witness  whereof  I  have  set  my  hand 
and  caused  the  seal  of  the  United  States 
to  be  hereunto  affixed. 

Done  at  the  city  of  Washington  this 
twenty  fifth  day  of  October,  in  the  year 
of  our  Lord  one  thousand  eight  hundred 
and  eigh  yseven,  and  of  the  Independ- 
ence of  the  United  States  the  one  hun- 
dred and  twelfth 

Qbovkr  Clevklakd. 

By  the  President: 

Thomas  P  Bayahd,  Sec'y  of  ftate. 

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I'KEEMASONRY 

BY 

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l*UKt    Mu»it«>r   of  li<^y.stone  Lu«l{(e, 
:Vo.  080,  Chicago. 

IlliiKtrnte.-i  evory  i..'?ii,  Rrlp  and  ceremony  of  the 
Lodge  ami  ulvm  n  bi'ef  explnnstlon  ot  each.  This 
work  should  be  ivalltired  like  lenvati  all  over  the 
country.  It  in  ho  cheap  that  It  can  be  u»ed  as 
irnctH,  und  luouey  thu.x  expended  wlU  bring  a  bouu- 
tilul  harveat.  S-J  panes.  Price,  yoatpald,  d  oenta. 
Per  llXi.  $3.6U.    Addreas, 

National  Christian   AisocUtion, 


ANTIMABONIO  L30TUBBRS. 

Gbnxhal  AeBNT  AND  Lbotttbsb,  J.  p. 
Stoddard,  231  W.  Madison  St.,  Chicago. 

H.  H.  Hinman,  Cynosure  office. 
Agent  for  Southern  States. 
Statb  AeBNTB. 

Iowa,  C.  F.  Hawley,  Wayne,  Henry 
Co.     Care  Rev.  Geo.  Fry. 

Missouri,  Eld.  Rufus  Smith,  Maryville. 

New  Hampshire,  Kid.  S.  C.  Kimball, 
New  Market. 

Ohio,  W.  B.  Stoddard,  Columbus. 

Kansas,  Robert  Loggan,  Clifton. 

Alabama,  Rev.  G.  M.  Elliott,  Selma. 

Dbobkb  WoBKBBfi. — [Seceders.l 
J.  K.  Glassford,  Carthage,  Mo. 
Othbb  Lbctuubbs. 

C.  A.  Blanchard,  Wheaton,  111. 
N.  Callender,  Thompson,  Pa. 

J  H.  Tlmmons,  Tarentum,  Pa 

T.  B.  McCormlck,  Prlnreton,  Ind. 

E.  Johnson,  Dajton,  Ind. 

H.  A.  Day,  WlUiamstown,  Mich. 

J.  M.  Bishop,  Chambersburg,  Pa. 

A.  Mayn,  Bloomlngton,  InoT 

J.  B.  Cressinger,  Sullivan,  O. 

W.  M.  Love,  Osceola,  Mo. 

J.  L.  Barlow,  Grundy  Center,  Iowa. 

A.  D.  Freeman,  Downers  Grove,  111 

Wm.  Fenton   St  Paul,  Minn. 

E.  I.  GrinneU,  Blalreburg,  Iowa. 

Warren  Taylor,  South  Salem,  O. 

J.  8.  Perry,  Thompson,  Conn. 

J.  T.  Michael,  New  Wilmington,  Pa. 

S.  G.  Barton,  Breckinridge,  Mo. 

E.  Bametson,  Hasklnvllle,  Steuben  Co,  N.  Y 

Wm.  R.  Roach,  Pickering,  Ont. 

D.  A.  Richards,  Brighton,  Mich. 

THB   OHTTROEBB    VS.    L0Dfi^9RT. 

The  following  denominations  are  com- 
mitted by  vote  of  their  legislative  assem- 
blies or  by  constitution  to  a  separation 
from  secret  lodge  worship: 

Adventists  (Seventh-day.) 

Baptists — Primitive,  Seventh-day  and 
Scandinavian. 

Brethren  (Dunkers  ot  German  Bap- 
tists.) 

Christian  Reformed  Church. 

Church  of  God  Northern  Indiana  El- 
dership.) 

Congregational — The  State  Associations 
of  Illinois  and  Iowa  have  adopted  resolu- 
tions against  the  lodge. 

Disciples  (in  part.) 

Friends. 

Lutherans — Norwegian,  Danisk,  S\/^«d- 
ish  and  Synodical  Conferences. 

jVIennonites. 

Methodists — Free  and  Wesleyan. 

Methodist  Protestant  (Minnesota  Con 
ference.) 

Moravians. 

Plymouth  Brethren. 

Presbyterian — Associate,  Reformeii  and 
United. 

Reformed  Church  (Holland  Brsnch.) 

United  Brethren  in  Christ. 

Individual  churches  in  some  of  these 
denominations  should  be  excepted,  in  part 
of  them  even  a  considerable  portion. 

The  following  lOcal  churches  have,  as  a 
pledge  to  disfellowshlp  and  oppose  lodge 
vorship,  given  their  names  to  the  follow- 
ing list  as 

thb   ASSOCIATBD   CHUKCHBS   of  CHRIST. 

New   Ruhamah  Cong.  Hamilton,  Miss. 

Pleasant  Ridge  Cong.   Sandford  Co.  Ala. 

New  Hope  Methodist,  Lowndes  Co.,  Mis*. 

Congregational,  College  Springs,  Iowa. 

College  Church  of  Christ,  Wheaton,  111. 

First  Congregational,  Leland,  Mich. 

SuE;"r  Grove  Church,  Green  county,  Pa. 

MillUry  Chapel,  M.  E.,  Lowndes  county, 
Miss. 

Hopewell  Missionary  Baptist,  Lowndes  Co., 
Miss. 

Cedar  Grove  Miss.  Baptist,  Lowndes  Co., 
Miss. 

Simon's  Chapel,   M.   E.,  Lowndes  Co.,  Ml»«. 

Pleasant  Ridge  Mias.  Baptist,  Lowndes  Co., 
Vliss. 

Brownlce  Church,  Caledonia,  Miss. 

Salem  Church,  Lowndes  Ca,  Miss. 

West  Preston  Bantlat  Church.  Wayne  Co..Pa. 

othbr  local  chubchbs 

adopting  the  same  nrinciple  are — 

Baptist  churches :  N.  Ablngton,  Pa. :  Meno- 
monie,  Mondovi,  Waubeck  ana  Spring  Prairie, 
Wis. ;  Wheaton,  111. ;  Perry,  N.  Y. ;  Spring 
Creek,  near  Burlington,  Iowa ;  Lima,  Ind. ; 
ConstablevUle,  N.  Y.  The  "Good  Will  Assocl- 
ton"of  Mobile,  Ala.,  comprising  some  twenty- 
five  colored  Baptist  churches;  Bridgewater 
Baptist  Association,  Pa.;  Old  Tebo  Baptist, 
near  Leesvllle,  Henry  Co.,  Mo. ;  Hoopeeton,  111 ; 
Esmen,  111. ;  Strykersville,  N.  Y. 

Congregational  churches :  Ist  of  Oberlln,  O. ; 
Tonica,  Crystal  Lake,  Union  and  Big  Woods. 
111. ;  Solebury,  Ind. ;  Congregational  MethodlBt 
Maplewood,  Mass. 

Independent  churchefl  In  Lowell,  Country- 
man school  house  near  Linden  wood,  Mjrengo 
and  Streator,  111. :  Bereaand  Camp  Nelson,  K!y; 
Ustlck,  111. ;  Clarksburg,  Kanaas;  SUte  Aaaod- 
atlonof  Minittwt  and  ChiuthM  0f  GhrUtta 
KaftwkT. 


N.  C.  A.  BUILDING  AND  OBTICX  0» 
THE  CHRISTIAN   CYNOSURE, 
«n  WEST  MADISON  STREET,  CHICAGO 


NA  fmHAL  CHRIS  TIAN  ASSOC  I  A  TIOB 

Prbbidbnt.— H.  H.  George,  D.  D.,  Gen- 
eva College,  Pa. 

VicB-PRBsnjBNT — Rev.  M.  A.  Gaalt, 
Blanchard  Iowa. 

Cob.  Sbc't  and  Gbnbral  AesHT. — J 
P.  Stoddard,  221  W.  Madison st.,  Chicago. 

Rbc.  Sbc't.  and  Tbbabubbb. — W.  I. 
Phillips,  221  W.  Madison  St.,   Chicago. 

Dibbctobs. — Alexander  Thomson,  Mi 
R.  Britten,  John  Gardner,  J.  L.  Barlow, 
L.  N.  Stratton,  Thos.  H.  Gault,  C.  A. 
Blanchard,  J.  E.  Roy,  E.  R.  Worrell,  H. 
A.  Fischer,  W.  R.  Hench. 

The  object  of  this  Association  Is: 
"To  expose,  withstand  and  remove  secret 
societies.  Freemasonry  in  pailicular,  and  otheJ 
antl-Christlan  movements,  in  order  to  save  th« 
churches  of  Christ  from  being  uepraved,  to  re- 
deem the  admlnistrr  Ion  of  lustice  from  per- 
version, and  our  r^p  iblican  government  from 
corruption." 

To  carry  on  this  work  contributions  are 
solicited  from  every  friend  of  tne  reform. 

Form  of  Bequest.— T  give  and  bequeath  to 
the  National  Christian  Association,  incorpo- 
rated and  existing  under  the  laws  of  the  State 

of    Illinois,  the  sum  of  dollai  s  for  the 

purposes  of  said  Association,  and  for  which 
me  receipt  of  its  Treasurer  lor  the  time  being 
liall  be  sufficient  dlschatse. 

THB  HATIOKAL  CONYBNTIOH. 

Pbbbidbiit.— Rev.  J.  S.  McCulloch, 
D.  D. 

Srcbbtabt. — Rev.  Lewis  Johnson. 

statb  ATTXILIABT  AB8O0IATI0NS 

Alabama.— Pres.,  Prof.  Pickens;  Sec.,  O. 
M.  EUlott;  Treas.,  Rev.  C.  B.  Curtis,  all  of 
Selma. 

Calttokhia.— PreSy^  L.  B.  Lathrop,  HoUl*- 
ter ;  Cor.  Sec,  Mrs.  U.  P.  Merrill,  Woodland  • 
Treas.,  C.  Ruddock,  Woodland. 

CoNNBCTicuT.— Pres..  J.  A.  Conant,  WUll- 
mantle;  Sec,  Geo.  Smith,  Willlmantlc;  Treas. 
C.  T.  CoUhiB,  Windsor.  ' 

Ii.T.rnois.— Pres.,  J.  P.  Stoddard;  Sec,  M. 
N.  Butler;  Treas.,  W.  1.  Phlllipf.  all  at  Cy 
ruMura  office. 

Ihdiaba.— Pres.,  WUllam  H.  Flgg,  Reno 
Sec,  S.  L.  Cook,  Albion;  Treas.,  KnJ.  Utah 
Silver  Lake. 

Iowa.— Pre8.,Wm  Johnston, College  Springs - 
Cor  Sec,  C.  D.  Trumbull.  Momii.  s^| 
Treas.,  James  Harvey,  Pleasant  Plain,  Jeffer- 
son Co. 

Kjlhsas.— Pres.,  J.  P.  Richards,  Ft  Scott" 
Sec,  W.  W.  McMillan,  Olathe;  Treas.,  j! 
A.  Tcrrence,  N.  Cedar. 

MASSACffDSBTTS.— Prea.,  S..A.  Pratt;  Sec, 
Mrs.  E.  D.  Bailey ;  Treas.,  David  Manning  8r., 
Worcester. 

MiOHiOAH.— Pree.,  D.  A.  Richards,  Brighton ; 
Sec'y,  H.  A.  Day,  Willlamston;  Treae. 
Geo.  Swanson,  Jr.,  Bedfoiu. 

MiNNBSOTA.— Pre*.,  B  0  Paine,  W»MtoJa ; 
Cor.  S«c.  Wm  Fenu  n.  St  Paul:  Rec  Ssc'y. 
Mrs.  M.  F.  Morrill,  St.  Carles,  treaa.,  Wb. 
H.  Morrill,  Bu  Charles. 

MissocBi.— Prea.,  B.  F.  Miller,  E**levll'e; 
Treas. /William  Beauchamp,  Avalon ;  Cot.  S<  c, 
A.  D.  Thomas,  Avalon. 

Nbbrabka.— Free.,  8.  Austin,  Falrmonit; 
Cor.  Sec,  W.  Bpooner,  Kearney;  Treaa,. 
J.  C.  Fye. 

NbwHampshikb.— Free.,  Isaac  Hyatt,  Gil 
ford  Village ;  Sec,  S.  C.  KImbaU,  New  Market* 
Treas.,  James  F.  French,  Canterbury. 

Nbw  York.— Pres.,  F.  W.  Capwell,  Dale; 
Sec'y,  John  Wallace,  Syracuse;  Treas.,  M. 
Merrick,  Syracuse. 

Ohio.— Pres.,  Rev.  R  M.  Smith,  Pagetown: 
Rec  Sec-,  Rev.  Coleman,  Utica;  Cor.  Sec  and 
Treas.,  Rev.  S.  A.  George,  Mansfield;  Agent, 
W.  B.  Stoddard,  Columbus. 

PiNNSTLVAJiiA.- Pre*.,  A.  L.  Post,  Moa 
troee;  Cor.  Sec,  N.  Callender,  Thompaoo; 
Treaa.,  W.  B.  BertelsLWllkesbarre. 

VaaMONT.— Pres.,  W.  R.  Laird,  St.  Johno- 
burv ;  Sec,  C.  W  Potter. 

W»OOl»BTW.— Pre*.,  J.  W.  Wool,  Barabou; 
Sec,  W.  W-  Ames,  Meaomonla;  Traar,  M.  R. 
Britten.  Vienna. 


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The  Christian  Cynosure. 

Kdrobi. 
J.  BLANCHARD.  HSMRT  L.  KILLOGG. 


CHIOAOO,    THTTBBDA'?,    NOVEMBEK   3,   1887. 


EDITORIAL  C0RRB8P0NDENGB. 


Portland,  Me.,  Oct.  26,  1887. 

Dear  Cynosure: — I  came  here  via  Montreal. 
On  the  train  was  a  gentlemanly  pleasant  man  from 
Ticonderoga,  N.  Y.,  having  a  wife  and  six  children. 
He  had  sent  $25  to  a  Canadian  lodge,  and  was  next 
week  to  be  initiated,  intending,  as  I  inferred,  to 
keep  his  initiation  from  the  knowledge  of  his  wife. 
I  remonstrated — urged  that  if  his  wife,  in  his  ab- 
sence, should  join  a  society  and  swear  to  conceal  its 
proceedings  from  him  during  life,  he  would  divorce 
or  forsake  her!  My  earnestness  attracted  a  young- 
erly  man  who  broke  in  with  the  usual  talk:  "I  am 
a  Mason."  "There  is  no  wrong  in  it;"  and  "you 
know  nothing  about  it,"  etc. 

"Sir,"  said  I,  "d'd  you  not  swear  to  have  your 
throat  cut  if  you  told  the  truth  about  your  institu- 
tion?" He  refused  to  answer,  but  was  brassy  and 
went  on. 

"You  see,  sir,"  said  I  to  the  first  gentleman,  "what 
you  must  sweor  to,  after  being  stripped  next  week." 

The  intruder  began  to  vociferate,  when  I  refused 
to  talk  with  him,  saying,  "I  have  not  sworn  to  lie 
and  you  have."  I  then  plead  with  the  first  man  not 
to  deal  so  unworthily  with  the  wife  who  had  nursed 
his  babes,  and  promised  if  he  would  put  ofl  joining 
I  would  furnish  him  reading  which  would  surely 
convince  him.     I  hope  he  will  not  join. 

Crossing  the  Canada  line  I  found  an  agreeable 
young  minister  on  his  way  to  the  Portland  anniver- 
sary. He  had  just  joined  the  lodge,  being  urged  to 
it  by  his  church  members.  I  fear  the  Congrega- 
tional ministry  are  surrendering  to  the  "accursed 
thing."  The  papers,  the  Mirror  and  Congregation- 
alist,  give  no  warning,  and  the  poor  ministers  yield 
to  the  harlot  embraces  of  the  lodge.    It  is  terrible. 

THE   AMERICAN   MISSIONARY  ASSOCIATION. 

The  anniversary  fills  the  large  church.  The  exer- 
cises are  interesting — very.  Secretary  Strieby  read 
the  ablest  and  best  article  I  ever  heard  from  him. 
His  theme  was  the  abolition  of  caste  in  the  South. 
I  resolved  to  get  his  speech  and  repeat  his  argument 
in  New  Orleans;  but,  to  my  astonishment  Dr.  A. 
H.  Quint  was  called,  and  made  a  long  army-speech, 
such  as  interests  a  crowd.  Dr.  Quint,  years  ago,  in 
the  Congregationalist,  boasted  of  receiving  favors 
from  a  rebel,  liquor-selling  landlord  in  the  region 
(South)  of  which  he  was  speaking.  I  asked  who 
put  him  a  32  deg.  Mason,  and  defiant  Masonic  Grand 
Chaplain,  to  speak  for  the  American  Missionary 
Association,  which  is  opposed  to  lodgery.  I  was 
told  the  Boston  Secretary  put  him  in  the  programme, 
and  a  secretary  said  he  thought  "Dr.  Quint  had 
changed  from  what  he  was." 

I  leave  Portland  to-morrow  morning,  and  must 
know  which  side  the  secretaries  are  on  before  I  ask 
our  readers  to  walk  in  fellowship  with  Dr.  A.  H. 
Quint,  who  uses  the  religious  bodies,  as  Masons  use 
funerals,  not  to  mourn  the  dead,  but  to  spread  the 
devil-worship  of  the  lodge.  If  Dr.  Quint  has 
"changed"  he  can  easily  say  so.  As  things  are  he 
is  drawing  in  the  young  ministers  to  the  ruin  of  so- 
ciety and  the  damnation  of  souls!  The  young  cler- 
gyman above  mentioned  is  an  instance.  The  Amer- 
ican Missionary  Association  cannot  get  the  vampire 
lodges  out  of  their  Southern  churches,  by  holding 
up  Dr.  Quint,  who  is  known  to  every  lodge  between 
the  oceans.  If  the  matter  could  be  laid  before  the 
noble  men  and  women  who  crowd  these  great 
churches,  they  would  vote  such  lodge  leaders  away 
from  their  holy  meetings.  Let  us  pray  fervently 
that  the  godly  men  and  women  of  New  England 
may  escape  from  these  lodge-wiles  as  the  bird  from 
the  snare  of  the  fowler. 

NDN8  AND  TQE  CATHOLIC  CHURCH. 

Two  nuns  from  a  religious  bouse  in  St.  Louis 
were  in  the  cars  coming  to  Montreal.  Conversing 
on  the  "Probation  after  death"  theory,  it  was  said. 
If  any  sinners  are  on  probation  after  death,  they 
should  surely  be  prayed  for;  "that  if  we  get  to  pray- 
ing for  the  dead  we  may  yet  join  these  friends  ov«r 
the  way,"  pointing  to  the  nuns. 

One  of  them  spoke  up:  "We  should  be  very  glad 
to  have  you  do  so." 

"Well;  perhaps  you  may  convert  us  yet" 
"Oh  no;"  said  she;  "Our  Lord  must  do  that." 
On  leaving  the  cars  she  turned   and   gave  us  a 
neat  embroidered  card,  with  a   picture   of   Christ 
bearing  the  cross;  and  on  the  back  the  following  in 
short  separate  lines: 


"Jesus  Comes  Down  to  Eakth  to  Become: — Our 
Friend,  our  Guide,  our  Knowledge,  our  Joy,  our  Com- 
forter, our  Strength,  our  Defender,  our  Master,  our  Eope, 
our  Food. 

"He  will  ascend  tc  heaven  to  be  forever  our  Reward." 
And  on  the  other  side,  under  the  picture,  a  neat  en- 
graving in  French  letters:  "Ye  pecheur  crucifie  de 
noveau  Jesus.  Le  aime  fidele  panse  ses  blessures." 
(The  sinner  crucifies  Jesus  afresh.  The  true  friend 
endeavors  to  heal  his  wounds.) 

In  Portland  we  are  lodged  with  a  most  interesting 
family,  Mr.  O'Brien,  Mrs.  O'Brien  and  five  excellent 
children.  The  eldest  daughter  is  married  to  a  physi- 
cian near  by.  Another  daughter  aids  with  her  pen 
the  evangelist.  Dr.  Pentecost.  They  are  all  pious, 
clear-thinking  Maine  people.  Dr.  Merriman  and 
lady  are  my  fellow  guests.  Our  pastor  Mr.  Chitten- 
den was  graduated  by  him  at  Ripon  College,  and 
Mrs.  Merriman  was  a  daughter  of  the  Christian  pat- 
riot, Judge  Lockwood,  who  did  more  than  any  other, 
except  perhaps  old  Gov,  Reynolds,  to  prevent  Illi- 
nois becoming  a  slave  State. 

I  had  them  read  the  nun's  tract,  which  pleased 
them  all.  Dr.  Merriman  said:  "I  have  no  doubt 
that  God  has  thousands  of  true  children  in  that 
church.  We  must  make  a  wide  distinction  between 
'the  Holy  Catholia  church'  and  popery;  and  also  be- 
tween popery  and  Jesuitism,  which  now  rules  the 
Roman  church,  though  it  did  not  always  do  so." 
He  then  told  of  a  Congregational  minister,  whom 
we  both  knew,  who  formed  a  Christian  friendship 
with  a  Catholic  priest,  and  the  priest,  when  dying 
sent  for  the  pastor  to  pray  with  him,  and  when  sev- 
eral priests  came  to  administer  "extreme  unction," 
they  were  left  below  till  after  the  Protestant  pastor's 
prayer. 

In  our  talk  with  the  nuns,  they  approved  of  sim- 
ple absolute  obedience  to  priests;  and  justified  it  by 
the  example  of  our  Saviour.  We  replied:  "You 
are  surely  mistaken.  For  when  Peter,  called  the 
first  Pope,  rebuked  Christ  and  insisted  on  his  not 
going  to  Jerusalem,  etc.,  saying,  'Be  It  far  from 
thee,'  the  Saviour,  so  far  from  submitting  to  him, 
said,  'Get  thee  behind  me,  Satan!'  "  The  nun  made 
no  reply,  but  looked  thoughtful  and  was  silent. 

It  would  seem  that  the  fountains  of  the  great 
deep  of  mind  are  slowly  breaking  up.  May  God 
hasten  the  day  when  "the  knowledge  of  the  glory  of 
God  shall  cover  the  earth  as  the  waters  cover  the 


sea. 


THB   MAINE   LAW   AND   MASONRY. 


I  am  sorry  to  find  Portland  is  not  the  Mecca  of 
temperance.  I  went  from  the  cars  to  a  barber  shop, 
in  the  corner  of  which  sat  a  young  man  decently 
clad,  but  drunk!  He  babbled  for  a  few  minutes  and 
then  sank  into  a  comatose  state  as  dead.  I  have 
conversed  with  several  who  admit  a  great  amount  of 
drinking.  One  said  the  gale  had  blown  eighty  ships 
into  the  harbor,  and  perhaps  the  young  man  came 
from  one  of  them.  Two  others  said  the  sheriff  and 
police  did  not  and  would  not  enforce  the  law;  that 
liquor  gave  them  business  and  votes. 

I  asked,  "Does  not  the  Masonic  oath  hinder  the 
execution  of  the  law?"  And  one  of  the  Srst  tem- 
perance men  in  the  State  said,  "Out  he^  in  Bath,  a 
minister  was  urging  the  prosecution  of  an  atrocious 
saloon;  and  the  lawyer  to  whom  he  applied,  asked, 
'Are  not  you  a  Mason?' 

"  'I  am,'  replied  the  minister. 

"  'Well,'  said  the  attorney,  'that  man  is  a  Mason; 
and  you  had  better  let  him  alone.'  So  the  case  was 
dropped." 

My  informant  was  a  member  of  a  temperance 
lodge.  He  said  he  had  no  doubt  there  were  numer- 
ous cases  like  the  one  he  related,  and  of  which  he 
knew  the  parties. 

The  readers  of  the  Cynosure  cannot  too  often  or 
too  deeply  feel  and  be  urged  to  remember,  that 
lodge-worship  is  devil-worship,  and  that  Christ  alone 
has  power  to  cast  out  devils;  and  that  he  requires 
believing,  fervent,  persevering  prayer;  and  that  will 
do  it. 

GEN.   NEAL   DOW 

is  near  87,  but  is  hale  and  hearty  and  has  superin- 
tended the  erection  of  houses  this  summer.  He  is 
a  truthful,  simple-hearted,  honest  man,  which  is 
greater  than  to  be  a  popular  statesman.  The  Good 
'Templars  gave  him  no  rest  till  they  got  him  to  sub- 
mit to  initiation  some  ten  years  ago,  but  like  Dr. 
Jewett,  and  John  B.  Gough,  and  Gen.  Fiske,  he  quit 
their  night-worships  with  loathing.  It  is  a  pity  he 
still  pays  dues  to  their  dark  mill  of  rites — much 
worse  than  a  cider-mill — though  beyond  vinegar  and 
apple  sauce,  we  might  spare  the  cider-mill. 

Gen.  Dow  is  a  Quaker  and  his  family  Congrega- 
tionalists.  Of  this  latter  denomination  there  are 
eight  churches  in  Portland;  and  if  they  could  be 
reached,  ninety  out  of  a  hundred  would  abhor  the 
lodges.  But  their  Mirror  is  a  cloud  to  keep  out 
light. 


THE   AMERICAN   MISSIONARY   ASSOCIATION 

was  born  amid  the  clanking  of  a  continent  of  chains. 
It  now  meets  in  the  silence  of  those  fetters  fallen. 
It  drew  to  it  the  best  men  and  women  on  earth,  and 
its  management  have  done  brave  things  against  the 
Southern  lodges.  But  Satan,  who  intruded  himself 
into  the  counsels  of  the  Almighty  in  the  days  of 
Micaiah  the  prophet;  and  who  followed  Paul  and 
Silas  in  their  revival  meetings,  hangs  onto  and 
hounds  the  Association,  now  that  it  is  popular, 
though  he  used  to  mob  it,  and  drive  it  into  the  out- 
skirts of  cities  and  towns  where  it  met.  The  Na- 
tional Christian  Association  is  not  named  by  its 
secretaries'  list  of  benevolent  causes,  though  the 
Falstaff  "Grand  Army  of  the  Republic,"  whose  very 
title  is  a  falsehood,  had  honorable  mention.  Let  us 
pray  for  the  A.  M.  A.  It  has  the  grandest  field  in 
the  world,  and  the  grandest  constituency  of  all  the 
missionary  societies. 


TEE  ENIOETa  OF  LABOR. 


The  three  weeks'  convention  of  this  order,'  lately 
closed  at  Minneapolis,  was  a  meeting  of  much  sig- 
nificance to  that  order,  inasmuch  as  it  confirmed  the 
conservative  rule  of  Powderly,  which  it  has  been 
disputed  was  at  an  end.  There  is  no  doubt  he  is 
wearying  of  the  effort  to  hold  such  turbulent  ele- 
ments in  subjection,  and  probably  would  have  re- 
signed some  time  since,  but  for  the  fact  that  with 
him  will  depart  the  confidence  of  the  Pope  and  the 
Catholic  hierarchy  in  the  order,  and  nearly  one-half 
the  membership  would  be  ordered  out  by  their 
priest.  Thus  his  resignation  means  ruin.  This 
pressure  will  keep  him  at  the  head  of  the  order  so 
long  as  it  can  possibly  be  held  together. 

A  few  details  will  give  some  idea  of  this  long 
and  wrangling  meeting.  The  General  Secretary, 
Litchman,  presented  a  very  voluminous  report.  The 
number  of  members  in  good  standing  at  the  last 
session  of  the  General  Assembly  was  702,924,  and 
the  number  of  members  in  arrears,  26,753.  This 
made  the  apparent  membership  of  the  order,  as 
then  reported,  729,677.  The  total  number  of  mem- 
bers reported  in  good  standing  July  1  is,  in  round 
numbers,  485,000.  A  large  number  are  yet  in 
arrears,  which  will  bring  the  total  above500,000.  An 
attempt  to  secure  an  endorsement  of  the  anarchists 
was  defeated  by  the  personal  influence  and  passion- 
ate entreaty  of  Powderly,  who  saw  ruin  in  the  meas- 
ure, since  to  vote  it  would  at  the  same  time  vote  to 
alienate  the  Catholic  church,  and  almost  that  entire 
social  and  political  influence  which  has  upheld  Pow- 
derly and  endured  the  order  for  his  sake.  A  two- 
days'  fight  came  on  near  the  close  over  the  attempt 
to  drive  Bailey  and  Barry  from  the  General  Execu- 
tive Board  by  reducing  it  to  five  members  and  mak- 
ing them  the  appointees  of  Powderly.  This  ex- 
tremely despotic  measure  was  defeated,  and  to  bal- 
ance its  crushing  effect  a  vote  of  confidence  was 
given  the  head  of  the  order.  It  was  thus  a  drawn 
battle  at  Minneapolis;  but  a  manifesto  has  been 
signed  by  some  thirty-five  delegate's,  representing 
over  a  hundred  thousand  members  of  the 
order,  charging  the  Powderly  administration 
with  losing  every  important  strike  or  lock- 
out, reducing  the  membership  by  217,000 
names,  increasing  the  annual  expenditures  to 
$500,000,  and  general  blundering,  extravagance,  ar- 
bitrary rulings,  and  using  the  funds  of  the  order  for 
private  purposes.  These  charges  number  twenty, 
and  indicate  plenty  of  fight  left  in  the  bosom  of  the 
socialistic  and  radical  minority. 

But,  except  for  the  endorsement  of  Powderly's 
efforts  to  promote  temperance  in  the  ranks,  there 
seems  to  have  been  no  action  which  has  any  direct 
bearing  on  the  grievances  of  workingmen.  Boy- 
cotts were  ordered,  Chinese  membership  refused, 
Negro  members  commended,  measures  taken  to 
extend  the  order  to  foreign  countries,  but  outside 
the  lines  of  this  secret  society  the  laborer  was  for- 
gotten. The  order  adds  to  its  despotic  principles 
and  its  secretism  that  supreme  selfishness  which  is 
the  universal  supplement  of  lodgery.  Every  year 
that  passes  proves  it  to  be  a  grievous  burden  upon 
the  working  classes,  and  they  will  desert  it  hereafter 
in  greater  crowds  than  ever. 


— Rev.  H.  H.  Hinman  has  donated  a  library  of 
medieal  works  to  his  friend  and  late  co-worker,  J. 
Augustus  Cole,  to  be  used  for  his  proposed  Indus- 
trial School  in  Africa. 

— Bro.  Hinman,  leaving  Mobile,  went  to  New  Or- 
leans via  Pensacola,  Florida,  and  spent  a  week  in 
very  encouraging  work  for  the  national  convention. 
The  local  outlook  for  that  meeting  he  regards  very 
hopeful.  On  Saturday  last  he  went  to  New  Iberia 
for  a  brief  visit  with  Bro.  Gunner  and  other  friends 
in  that  interesting  town. 


NOTEHBER  3,  188T 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CTNOSURE. 


9 


— Secretary  Stoddard  writes  of  a  good  meeting  at 
Princeton,  Missouri,  after  which  he  visted  our  old 
friend  George  W.  Needels  at  Albany,  on  Friday. 
The  letter  reporting  this  visit  we  are  constrained  to 
put  over  a  week.  From  Albany  brethren  Stoddard 
and  Butler  went  rapidly  to  Greenfleld  in  Dade  county, 
to  be  early  on  the  ground  for  the  southern  district 
meeting.  From  both  meetings  we  hope  for  a  good 
report  next  week. 

— The  Nebraska  State  Journal  has  a  brief  notice 
of  the  death  of  Oliver  B.  Wilcox  at  the  home  of  his 
daughter,  Mrs.  Davis,  in  Lincoln,  on  the  19th  ult. 
Bro.  Wilcox  resided  for  many  years  in  Batavia  and 
Wheaton,  111.,  and  was  highly  respected  in  all  rela- 
tions of  life.  He  was  deacon  of  the  Congregational 
church,  Batavia,  and  elder  in  the  College  church  at 
Wheaton.  His  recovery  from  a  long  and  perplex- 
ing disease  that  had  brought  him  near  to  the  grave 
by  the  evident  power  of  God  in  answer  to  prayer  was 
reported  in  the  Cynosure  at  the  time.  He  removed 
a  year  or  two  later  to  Nebraska  to  be  near  his  chil- 
dren. He  was  a  godly  man,  never  wavering  in  his 
convictions  of  Christian  duty,  and  true  to  Christ 
against  the  great  foe  of  the  lodge. 


as  well  as  in  the  United  States?  If  you  who  are 
fighting  the  powers  of  darkness  there  could  only 
realize  the  great  need  of  other  lands,  you  would 
surely  enlarge  your  labors.  You  would  make  it  a 
mission  work,  and  the  friends  would  give  you  the 
means  to  promote  it.  Our  first  great  need  is  books, 
pamphlets,  and  tracts.  A  Minion  Fund  should  be 
opened  at  once  at  the  office  of  the  Cynosure  to  send 
anti-secrecy  books  to  India.  And  let  any  who  are 
moved  to,  correspond  directly  with  us;  address  as 
below.  Let  all  whose  eyes  are  open,  rouse  to  work 
and  pray  as  never  before  against  this  mock  religion 
which  is  so  cruelly  hindering  souls  from  entering 
the  way  of  salvation. 

The  Manager,  India  Watchman, 
Bombay,  India. 


The  Ohio  agent  asks  the  patience  of  his  co- 
workers in  that  State.  He  has  for  a  week  or  two 
been  attending  to  private  business,  but  this  week 
takes  the  field  again.  He  sends  this  brief  appeal 
along  with  an  excellent  report  of  Dr.  Munhall's  dis- 
course on  separation  in  which  he  arraigns  the  lodges. 
This  account  we  have  not  room  for  this  week.  Ohio 
friends  read  and  rally  to  this  appeal  from  your 
agent: 

Brethren  and  Friends:  What  we  want,  and 
what  we  must  have,  is  the  anointing  of  the  Holy 
Spirit  for  the  great  work  that  is  before  us  this  win- 
ter. Thousands  are  going  to  hell  on  every  side. 
There  are  in  this  city  of  Columbus  about  seventy- 
five  churches,  as  many  or  more  lodges  and  500  sa- 
loons and  devil-traps.  Is  it  not  time  that  we  were 
awake  and  at  work?  Every  one  who  thinks  so  please 
meet  in  New  Concord,  Nov.  16th  and  17th,  and  plan 
with  me  the  methods  of  carrying  the  battle  to  the 
gates.     Yours  for  Christ  and  reform, 

W.  B.  Stoddard. 


OUR  BOSTON  LBTTBR. 


JOHN  B.  FINCH   MEMORIAL   SERVICE   IN  THE  PEOPLE'S 
CHDRCH. 


TBB  OEIO   CONVBNTION 


Will  be  held  at  New  Concord,  Muskingum  county, 
November  16th  and  17th,  openiner  at  9  a.  m.  of  Wednes- 
day, the  16th.  Addresses  will  be  given  by  President 
Smith,  Revs.  W.  A.  Coleman  and  William  Dillon,  Secre- 
tary J.  P.  Stoddard,  State  Agent  W.  B.  Stoddard,  and 
the  closing  address  by  Pres  C.  A.  Blanchard.  Eater 
tainment  as  usual  will  be  provided  for  those  coming  from 
a  distance.  It  is  especially  desired  that  all  churches  in 
sympathy  appoint  at  once  as  large  a  delegation  as  they 
may  think  best  to  represent  them  at  this  convention. 
Let  the  friends  come  praying  for  a  glorious  blessing,  that 
wej  may  go  forth  stronger  for  Christ  in  the  future. 

8BGRBT  LODOBB  IN  INDIA. 

Editor  Cynosure: — The  article  in  your  paper  of 
August  4th,  on  "Oath-bound  Secrecy  in  India,"  is 
good  but  weak  in  one  point.     It  quite  underrates 
the  power  and  influence  of  the  lodge  in  India.    The 
writer  will  feel  its  power  if  he  only  fights  it  a  little! 
Errors  and  heresies  of  all  sorts  seem  small  to  those 
who  do  not  enter  the  lists  against  them.     His  point 
is  that  Masonry  "has  not  made  any  deep  impression 
on  the  native  mind,"  etc.     But  the  truth  is  that  it  is 
getting  hold  of  just  that  section  of  the  native  com- 
munity that  are  becoming  the  most  powerful,  and 
must  eventually  lead   the  whole  land.     I  open  the 
directory  to  one  station,  Secunderabad;  here  are  five 
lodges.     All  have  natives  as  members;  in  some  the 
majority  are  natives;  all  have  some  native  officers. 
At  a  recent  public  installation  in  Allahabad  some 
natives  took  a  prominent  part.  The  article  you  quote 
has  some  sadly  misleading  statements.      All  that 
about  Freemasonry  being  "looked  upon  as  a  foreign 
religion,"  etc.,  may  be  true  enough  as  to  the  great 
mass  of  people  who  are  not  wanted  by  Masons,  but 
it  is  not  true  of  thousands  of  more  advanced  natives 
whose  brains  and  money  Masonry  courts.     In  the 
lodge  lists  before  me  are  Hindus,  Mohammedans, 
and  Parsees.      "Worshipful  Brother  Ardaseer  Rut- 
lanjee,  W.  M.;  Kight  Worshipful  Brother  llazanath 
Parsad,  R.  W.  M.;  Most  Excellent  Companion  Mir- 
za  Mahamod  Alii  Khan,  P.  H.;"  and  so  on  with  the 
oriental  worthies.     Instead  of  being  repelled  by  this 
"foreign  religion,"  the  educated  native  is  naturally 
drawn  by  this  shallow,  showy  form  of  religion, — a 
Christianity  without  Christ,  a  high-sounding,  gaudy 
trumpery  over  mumblings  of  mysticism.     It  is  Eu- 
ropean heathenism  which  the  Asiatic  can  link  upon 
his  own  heathenism.    So  they  mix  up  their  theories, 
pegs  and  morals. 
When  will  the  anti  secrecy  leaders  in  America  see 


Rev.  J.  W.  Hamilton's  pet  scheme,  the  People's 
(Methodist)  Church,  corner  Columbus  Avenue  and 
Berkeley  Street,  was  crowded  Sunday,  23d  inst,  by 
the  friends  of  the  late  John  B.  Finch,  and  the  tem- 
perance cause,  and  shall  I  add — the  Independent 
Order  of  Good  Templars,  and  Sons  of  Temperance, 
etc.,  on  which  occasion,  a  memorial  service  was  held 
in  honor  of  the  great  total  abstinence  advocate. 
The  service,  which  was  rendered  the  more  impressive 
from  the  fact  that  Mr.  Finch  was  to  lecture  on  that 
platform  on  that  very  day,  consisted  of  vocal  and 
instrumental  music,  and  eulogistic  addresses  by 
Messrs.  Eugene  H.  Clapp,  M.  W.  P.  of  S.  T.;  Benja- 
min R.  Jewell;  Revs.  Richard  Eddy,  D  D  ;  J.  W. 
Hamilton,  D.D.,  A.  A.  Miner,  D.D.,  C.  E.  Davis, 
pastor  of  People's  church;  and  Mrs.  Helen  G.  Rice 
of  the  W.  C.  T.  U. 

John  B.  Finch  was  not  a  local  champion  of  the 
cause  of  temperance.  His  field  was  as  extensive  as 
the  United  States,  and  his  reputation  extended  far 
beyond  their  limits,  across  the  great  pond  to  Europe, 
where  thousands  paid  homage  to  him  as  high-cock- 
lorum  of  the  I.  O.  G.  T.  Lest  somebody  might  ac- 
cuse me  of  being  uncharitable  to  the  memory  of  the 
departed,  I  will  herewith  parenthetically  explain 
that  I  refer  only  to  his  position  as  supreme  officier 
of  the  said  order.  I  believe  that  Mr.  Finch  held 
that  office,  not  for  personal,  or  selfish  motives,  but 
for  the  good  he  honestly  thought  he  could  accom- 
plish thereby.  1  may  be  mistaken,  however.  To 
use  Rfcv.  Mr.  Eddy's  words,  vethatim,  in  reference  to 
this  point,  "It  may  be  said  of  Mr.  Finch  with  abso 
lute  truth  that  he  cared  nothing  for  the  Good  Tem- 
plar organization  as  an  end  or  for  a  place  of  power 
in  it.  The  end  which  he  and  all  Good  Templars 
look  forward  to  was  the  annihilation  of  the  liquor 
traffic.  The  means  to  this  end  may  be  various. 
Good  Templarism  is  but  one  of  the  many  preferred 
by  those  who  are  members  of  that  organization." 
Mr.  Eddy,  whose  address  was  biographical,  rather 
than  strictly  eulogistic,  also  stated  that  the  fallen 
warrior  had  joined  the  order,  at  whose  head  he  stood 
when  he  fell,  about  fifteen  years  ago.  He  was  ini- 
tiated in  the  Grand  Lodge  of  New  York.     In  1880 


hearts  and  lives  a  better  memorial  has  been  built 
than  falls  to  the  usual  lot  of  man."  Mr.  Clapp,  who 
is  M.  W.  P.  of  S.  T.,  also  said  that  he  always  found 
in  Mr.  Finch  a  ready  and  wise  counsellor  in  matters 
appertaining  to  his  own  order. 

Mr.  George  Kempton,  secretary  of  the  State  Pro- 
hibition party,  read  an  interesting  poem  dedicated 
to  the  deceased.  Rev.  A.  W.  Hamilton  spoke  good 
words  concerning  Mr.  Finch,  and  predicted  a  glo- 
rious success  to  the  principles  he  left  behind. 

On  the  programme  of  the  service  was  printed  the 
closing  and  last  utterance  of  Mr.  Finch's  lecture  at 
Lynn,  one  hour  before  his  death: 

"Boys,  we  can't  offer  you  offices;  but  if  you  want 
a  chance  to  fight  for  mother,  home  and  conscience, 
and  against  the  grog-shop  and  monopolies,  come 
with  us,  and  we  will  carry  the  banner  of  Prohibition 
until  in  the  White  House  sits  a  man  who  believes  in 
the  principles  of  the  Prohibition  party." 

John  B.  Finch  was  human;  let  us  remember  his 
many  virtues,  and  forget  and  forgive  his  faults  and 
his  mistakes.  D.  P.  Mathews. 


OUR  WASHINGTON  LBTTBR. 


The  other  morning,  just  about  the  dawn  of  day, 
when  the  President  and  Mrs.  Cleveland  quietly  ar- 
rived from  their  long  tour,  they  looked  as  bright 
and  fresh  as  if  they  had  only  returned  from  a  drive 
to  Oak  View,  instead  of  having  been  absent  three 
weeks,  traveled  4,500  miles  through  seventeen 
States,  and  met  millions  of  American  citizens,  who 
gladly  greeted  their  distinguished  guests  with  a  con- 
tinuous round  of  festivities.  Both  the  President 
and  his  wife  expressed  themselves  as  delighted  with 
their  travels  and  charmed  with  the  cordiality  and 
hospitality  of  their  reception,  as  well  as  greatly 
pleased  at  the  indications  of  the  substantial  eviden- 
ces of  the  progress  and  prosperity  of  tde  great  and 
growing  region  through  which  they  passed.  No 
doubt  the  trip  will  be  of  material  benefit  to  both  the 
people  and  the  President. 

The  Supreme  Court  of  the  United  States  is  at 
present  the  center  of  popular  interest  at  the  Capital, 
as  well  as  elsewhere,  on  account  of  a  number  of  im- 
portant cases  to  be  tried,  among  which  I  may  men- 
tion that  of  the  Chicago  Anarchists,  and  the  prohi- 
bition cases  from  Kansas,  Iowa  and  Georgia.  The 
adjudication  of  the  last  named  cases  will  determine 
the  constitutionality  of  State  prohibitory  legislation 
and  will,  besides,  involve  millions  of  dollars,  for  in 
the  event  that  the  decision  is  adverse  to  such  enact- 
ments, the  States  will  be  made  pecuniarily  responsi- 
ble for  breaking  up  the  liquor  traffic  without  com- 
pensation to  the  dealers.  Thus  it  can  be  readily 
perceived  what  an  immense  responsibility  rests  on 
our  highest  court  in  this  class  of  cases. 

Last  week  the  representatives  of  most  the  Agri- 
cultural Colleges  and  agricultural  experiment  sta- 
tions in  the  United  States  had  a  meeting  in  this  city 
for  the  purpose  of  interchanging  views,  with  the 
hope  of  advancing  the  weighty  interests  committed 
to  their  charge — the  convention  having  assembled 
under  Jlhe  auspices  of  Congress.  The  deliberations 
of  this  body  of  educated   farmers — both  practical 


and  theoretical— were  of  such  a  character  as  to  give 
he  was  elected  Grand  Chief  Templar,  to  which  office  •'  promise  of  the  most  flattering  and  satisfactory  re- 
he  was  re-elected  in  1881.     In  1878  he  had  received  ]  suits. 

the  R.  W.  G.  degree,  and  continued  an  active  mem-  As  I  may  have  remarked  before,  Washington  is  a 
ber,  up  to  his  death,  of  the  Elected  Right  Worthy  I  great  place  for  national  conventions,  and  it  may  at 
Grand  Templars.  Mr.  Eddy  also  intimated  that  the  I  no  distant  day  be  designated  as  the  city  of  conven- 
fundamental  principle  of  the  order  had  been  his  tions  as  well  as  of  "magnificent  distances."  The 
educator,  and  that  he  had  amply  repaid,  by  his  ad-  project  to  have  the  National  Democratic  Convention 
herence  to  it,  all  he  had  ever  received.     His  one '  meet  here  in  1888  continues  to  grow  in  popular 

favor,  and  it  is  probable  that  a  great  and  united  en- 


great  aim  had  been  to  heal  the  breach  which  divided 
the  order  when  he  first  entered.  He  had  succeeded 
in  accomplishing  this  the  spring  of  the  present  year. 
He  had  been  untiring  in  his  efforts  to  increase  the 
order,  and  when  he  died,  ruled  over  700,000  men 
and  women,  a  constituency  scattered  over  the  world, 
on  which  the  sun  never  sets. 

"John  B.  Finch,"  said  Dr.  A.  A.  Miner,  "was  a 
strong  man  with  a  tender  heart.  While  his  sympathy 
embraced  the  world,  he  had  an  iron  nerve.  His 
eyes  were  wide  open  to  the  indescribable  woes  flow 


deavor  will  be  put  forth  to  that  end.  There  are 
many  who  believe  that  properly  directed  efforts  will 
secure  for  the  Capital  both  the  National  conventions 
of  the  two  great  political  parties.  1  see  that  the 
National  Republican  Committee  is  called  to  meet  in 
this  city  on  December  8th  next 

Washington  is  not  free  from  labor  troubles,  as 
the  Knights  of  Labor  here  are  thoroughly  organized 
and  assert  themselves  in  a  vigorous  and  aggressive 
manner.     In  a  few  days  there  will  l^e  a  great  dem 


ing  from  the  liquor  traffic  and  drinking  usages  of  onstration — it  being  the  purpose  to  parade  10.000 
society.  He  saw  clearly  that  neither  of  the  great '  men — as  a  protest  against  the  verdict  of  the  Wash- 
political  parties  could  overthrow  that  traffic.  Though  I  ingUm  Judge  who  pr-^nounced  a  boycott  a  common 
of  the  strictest  sect  a  Methodist,  he  was  through   conspiracy.     Such  efforts  to  establish  an  odious  for- 


other  sympathies  a  Universalist." 

Mr.  Benj.  R.  Jewell  said:  "I  would  not  claim  a 
perfect  character,  but  I  do  feel  that  ho  ranked  among 
those  who  are  truest  and  best.  We  miss  his  smiling 
face  and  his  happy  greetings,  but  amid  the  sorrow 
of  his  absence  we  remember  our  loss  is  his  gain." 

Mr.  Clapp  eulogized:  "John  B.  Finch  was  a  com- 
prehensive man  in  all  his  purposes  and  ideas.  We 
desire  to  rear  a  monument  so  that  in  the  years  to 
come  it  will  perpetuate  his  memory  and  virtues. 


that  they  should  battle  against  these  evils  in  India,  Granite  may  crumble,  marble  may  decay,  but  in  our  carouse  and  fight 


eign  practice  should  alarm  workingmen  of  patriotic 
spirit. 

The  Capital  is  becoming  notorious  for  blootly 
murders.generally  occurring  on  Saturday  nights, and 
mostly  being  the  work  of  colored  roughs.  Of  the 
eight  men  now  confined  in  the  District  jail  on  the 
charge  of  murder,  seven  are  negroes.  The  District 
Commissioners  must  be  pleased  with  this  result  of 
their  open  saloons  and  places  of  debauchery,  tempt- 
ing weak  men  with  wages  just  in  pocket  to  drink, 


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THE  CHBISTIAN  CYNOSTTKE. 


NoviMBKa  3, 188^ 


THE  HOME. 


ONLY  IN  THBB. 

Fain  would  I  be  strong  with  the  heart  of  the  brave, 
All  fearlees  in  conflict,  all  calm  in  defeat; 

Fain  would  I  be  patient,  Lord;  patience  I  crave; 
In  pain  to  be  silent,  submissive  and  sweet. 

O  where  shall  I  find  it,  the  strength  I  would  win, 
As  pilgrim  I  journey  through  peril  and  sin; 

My  Master,  my  Saviour,  my  help  Is  in  thee, 

In  thee  Is  my  help.  Lord,  'tis  only  In  thee. 

Fain  would  I  be  gentle,  whatever  betide, 
And  meek,  unresisting,  returning  no  word 

In  haste  or  in  anger  to  those  at  my  side 
Who  may  grieve  or  annoy  me.    Thy  gentleness,  Lord, 

Bestow  on  thy  child  that  her  looks  may  be  fair 
And  mildness  distill  from  her  Bpeech,and  her  care 

Be  laid  at  thy  feet;  for  whatever  It  be, 

In  thee  is  my  help.  Lord,  and  only  in  thee. 

Fain  would  I  be  faithful,  so  dally  to  prove 
To  those  whom  I  meet  that  my  life  has  a  spring 

Abundant  In  beauty  and  precious  in  love, 
And  that  close  to  the  Vine  In  my  earth-life  I  cling. 

Fain  would  I  be  faithful,  nor  follow  afar ; 
Fain  would  I  abide  where  thy  chosen  ones  are; 

My  Master,  my  Saviour,  be  gracious  to  me, 

In  thee  Is  my  help,  Lord,  and  only  in  thee. 

Fain  would  I  be  cheerful  and  sing  as  I  go, 
Uplifting  thy  praises  through  darkness  and  dawn ; 

Fain  wear  a  white  robe,  not  the  garment  of  woe. 
And  joyously,  blithely  and  gaily  go  on. 

O  bid  me  to  triumph  and  smile  through  my  tears, 
O  crown  me  a  victor  o'er  trials  and  fears. 

My  Master,  my  Master,  my  j  >y  is  in  thee, 

In  thee  is  my  help.  Lord,  and  only  in  thee. 

—Margaret  E.  Sangster. 


LIFE'S  BVBNING. 


BY  I.  N.  KANAGA. 

In  the  morning  of  life  it  is  all  anticipation.  Our 
cheeks  are  flushed  with  bright  hopes.  We  are  then 
most  apt  to  view  things  with  exptctations  the  most 
luminous  and  joyous.  Yet  these  bright  hopes  are 
not  always  realized,  nor  our  skies  above  us  remain 
forever  cloudless  and  full  of  sunshine  as  we  fondly 
expected. 

Yet  with  the  good  man  every  day  ought  to  brit)g 
its  hallowed  joys  and  its. cheering  prospectives.  Es- 
pecially should  this  be  so,  if  life  has  been  well  spent 
in  spite  of  adverse  surroundings.  See  that  hoary- 
headed  one  whose  feet  have  always  been  found  in 
the  way  of  righteousness.  Like  a  ripe  shock  in  its 
season]^  so  is  his  head  crowned  with  glory  while  his 
fruit  shakes  like  Lebanon. 

Though  that  good  man's  quiet  hours  piay  be  em- 
ployed in  humble  toil,  yet  he  is  happy,  supremely 
happy  and  joyous.  His  daily  joys  along  life's  even- 
ing slope  may  never  be  known  to  the  stranger  to  such 
joys,  yet  they  oft  oveiflow  and  rise  indeed  to  holy 
rapture.  Evening  as  it  slowly  advances  grows  more 
luminous  and  full  of  blessed  realizations! 

Content  now  sits  blessedly  quiet  and  restf uF  upon 
his  brow.  His  happy  tasks  are  now  well  completed 
and  as  he  looks  to  his  future  home  above,  faith  waves 
her  hands  in  cheerful  triumph!  Sunset  is  nigh  and 
eternal  rest  is  waiting  just  beyond.  And  now  in 
wondrous  melody  hear  him  break  forth  into  song — 
"My  sun  of  life  Is  setting  fast— 
My  triumph  is  begun  I" 

Beloved,  how  is  it  with  you  now  in  life's  evening? 
How  is  it  with  me?  I  will  tell  you  to  God's  glory. 
My  life  has  never  been  spent  with  the  great  multi- 
tude in  the  service  of  sin  nor  in  the  pursuit  of  the 
pleasures  of  the  world.  I  have  ever  aspired  to  walk 
above  the  paths  of  evil  men  and  away  from  the  vain 
allurements  of  the  world  around  me.  And  now  when 
I  look  forth  from  life's  west  windows  i  look  with 
great  comfort  upon  the  past  and  infinite  gladness 
upon  the  bright  scenes  that  lie  before  me.  The 
world  and  sin  recede  in  the  dim  distance,  while  vis- 
ions of  the  better  land  loom  up  before  me  with  im- 
measurable brightness  and  pleasure!  I  care  not  to 
live  this  earthly  life  over  again  only  that  I  may  save 
more  of  my  fellow  men  and  thus  bring  more  glory 
to  my  blessed  Lord.  From  a  little  boy  now  to  my 
three-score  and  ten  I  have  loved  and  served  God  and 
now  1  run  with  joyous  expectation  to  embrace  the 
life  beyond  me  only  a  little  way,  a  life  "eternal  in 
the  heavens!"  Then  I  will  still  look  on  and  up  and 
sing— 

"Thy  life's  sunrise  was  brilliant — 

Its  sunset  Is  gladly  swefit, 
Since  it  brings  longed-for  rest 

To  my  weary  pilgrim  feet !" 

Ntvoark,  N.  J.,  1887. 


FALBB  TO  THBIR  OHILDRBN. 


Susanna  Wesley  gave  to  the  world  sons  from  the 
school  of  strict  discipline.  She  never  sUowed  her 
children  to  cry  aloud  after  they  were  a  year  old. 
With  her  numerous  family  she  was  teacher  and 
preacher  as  well  as  the  most  considerate  of  mothers, 
and  hence  the  result.  One  reason  of  much  of  the 
ungodliness  of  religious  teachers'  children  is  that 
the  father  and  mother  were  living  lives  of  sensual- 
ism and  open  sin  when  their  children  were  born  and 
being  raised.  Thus  they  have  sown  to  the  wind  and 
are  now,  though  saved  themselves,reaping  the  whirl- 
wind. Again,the  selfishness  of  the  parents  is  man- 
ifested in  sentimental  love  that  palliates,  covers 
up  and  excuses  sin  in  our  own  that  would  be  de- 
nounced unsparingly  in  others.  Religious  profess- 
ors and  teachers  teach  the  utterly  lost  and  fallen 
condition  of  all,  but  there  is  a  good  deal  of  mental 
reservation  when  pinned  down  in  their  feelings  as 
to  their  own  offspring.  And  if  the  real  sentiment 
of  many  hearts  were  unveiled  it  would  be  found  that 
they  were  joined  in  heart  with  the  unregenerate  to 
fight  God  who  is  the  personification  of  holiness,who 
"abhors  and  hates  sin"  as  well  as  loves  righteous- 
ness. To  hate  iniquity  to  the  extinction  of  life  it- 
self in  ourselves  is  a  test  that  Christ  makes  of  true 
discipleship  to  the  God  of  holiness.  Another  reas- 
on why  children  are  unsaved  and  eternally  lost  by 
shoals  from  Christian  homes  is  they  are  depending 
upon  the  love  of  God  and  the  parents'  and  church's 
prayer8,not  knowing  that  these  very  means  of  grace, 
if  not  improved  upon,  are  the  swiftest  and  surest 
sources  of  damnation  revealed  in  the  Book  of  God. 
"A  savor  of  life  unto  life  or  of  death  unto  death." 

We  have  been  sorely  tried  and  terribly  pained  to 
hear  parents,  in  the  midst  of  a  God-defying,  Christ- 
rejecting,  rebellious,  stubborn  set  of  father-and- 
mother  -  dishonoring  children,  whom  God's 
Word  declares  their  "eyes  the  ravens  of  the  valley 
shall  pluck  out,"  get  down  upon  their  knees  in 
their  midst  and  tell  these  children  in  prayer  that 
they  knew  God  would  save  them,  thus  making  God 
a  liar  and  propping  up  their  deceived  children  in  a 
false  hope  and  encouraging  them  to  pursue  the  cho- 
sen path  of  evil  with  the  pious  parents'  assurance  be- 
fore God  that  the  end  would  be  all  right.  Ei  was 
a  type  of  most  of  the  religious  teachers  in  this  age 
as  regards  the  training  of  his  children — hence  the 
same  result  follows.  God's  curse  rested  upon  Eli 
and  his  house  because  he  failed  to  discipline  his 
children,  but  lie  revealed  his  secrets  to  Abraham  be- 
cause of  the  opposite  principle  upon  which  he  gov- 
erned his  household.  "And  the  Lord  said,  Shall  I 
hide  from  Abraham  that  thing  which  I  do,seeing  that 
Abraham  shall  surely  become  a  great  and  mighty 
nation  and  all  of  the  nations  of  the  earth  shall  be 
blessed  in  him?  For  I  know  him  that  he  will  com- 
mand his  children  and  his  household  after  him  and 
they  shall  keep  the  way  of  the  Lord  to  do  justice 
and  judgment,  that  the  Lord  may  bring  upon  Abra- 
ham that  which  he  hath  spoken."  Eli  by  human 
sentiment  raised  preachers'  children  that  cursed  the 
land.  While  Abraham,  by  the  stern  hand  of  law 
and  disci  pline,binding  his  Isaac  to  God's  altar  a  whole 
burnt  offering  to  God,  has  made  his  name  the  fath- 
er of  the  faithful  and  through  bis  numerous  poster- 
ity the  Christ  of  God  was  manifested  to  the  world. 

Is  it  not  about  time  we  had  a  little  thorough  in- 
struction from  God's  Word  and  find  out  the  cause 
of  ungodly  children  and  remedy  it.  Jesus  said  of 
the  devil- possessed  boy,  "This  kind  goeth  not  forth 
but  by  fasting  and  prayer."  A  good  deal  less  of 
sentimental  effervescence,  "Beulah  Land,"  self- 
glorification  songs  in  our  services,more  of  stern  law 
preached,  and  down  we  must  come  from  the  mount 
of  transfiguration  to  cast  out  the  devils  from  our 
children  and  the  sons  of  men  by  fasting,  prayer, 
Gethsemane  and  the  Calvary  route  that  crucifies  the 
world  to  us  and  us  to  the  world. — Fire  and  Hammer. 


BDUOATING  OHILDRBN. 


The  load  to  home  happiness  is  over  libe  stepping- 
Btones  which  lie  about  the  brook  of  daily  discom- 
fort* 


When  Moses,  the  great  lawgiver  of  Israel,  would 
impress  the  commandments  of  Jehovah  upon  that 
people,  he  says,  "These  words  which  I  command 
thee  this  day  shall  be  in  thy  heart;  and  thou  shalt 
teach  them  diligently  unto  thy  children." 

That  is,  whet,  or  sharpen  it  upon  them.  In  whet- 
ting an  article,  you  turn  the  thing  whetted  on  this 
side  and  on  that  side,  and  often  repeat  the  strokes; 
and  so  in  teaching  children,  the  mind  is  affected,  not 
by  the  violence,  but  by  the  frequency  of  the  impres- 
sion. The  minds  of  children,  like  narrow-necked 
bottles,  must  be  filled  slowly,  drop  by  drop.  Spe- 
cial care  must  be  taken  to  make  things  plain  unto 
them,  and  to  make  the  instruction  as  much  as  can 
be,  not  a  task  or  burden,  but  easy  and  pleasant. 
Children  are  half  taught  when  they  are  reconciled  to 
instruction. — Sd. 


TUB  IRON  WOLF. 


"I  conducted,  two  months  ago,"  said  a  clergyman, 
"the  funeral  services  of  one  of  my  parishioners.  He 
had  been  a  farmer.  Forty  years  ago  he  commenced 
work  with  one  hundred  acres  of  land,  and  he  ended 
with  one  hundred.  He  was  a  skilful,  industrious 
workingman,  but  he  had  laid  by  no  money  in  the 
bank.  I  understood  the  reason  as  I  listened  to  the 
comments  of  his  friends  and  neighbors. 

"  'It  was  always  a  warm,  hospitable  house,'  said 
one.  'The  poor  man  was  never  turned  away  from 
that  door.  His  sons  and  daughters  all  received  the 
best  education  which  his  means  could  command. 
One  is  a  clergyman,  one  a  civil  engineer,  two  are 
teachers — all  lead  useful  and  happy  lives.' 

"Said  another:  'Those  children  sitting  there  and 
weeping  are  the  orphans  of  a  friend.  He  gave  them 
a  home.  That  crippled  girl  is  his  wife's  niece.  She 
lived  with  them  for  years.  That  young  fellow  who 
is  also  weeping  so  bitterly,  was  a  waif  that  he  res- 
cued from  the  slums  of  the  city.' 

"And  so  the  story  went  on — not  of  a  miser  who 
had  heaped  dollar  upon  dollar,  but  of  a  servant  of 
God  who  had  helped  many  lives,  and  had  lifted  many 
of  them  out  of  misery  and  ignorance  into  life  and  joy. 

"On  my  way  home  from  the  funeral  I  stopped  at 
the  farm  of  another  parishioner,  who  said  to  me  in 
a  shrill,  rasping  tone: 

"  'So  poor  Gould  is  dead!  He  left  a  poor  account 
— not  a  penny  more  than  he  got  from  his  father. 
Now  I  started  with  nothing;  and  look  here,'  pointing 
to  his  broad  fields.  'I  own  down  to  the  creek !  Dye 
know  why  ?  When  I  started  to  keep  house  I  brought 
this  into  it  the  first  thing,'  taking  an  iron  savings- 
bank  in  the  shape  of  a  wolf  out  of  the  closet.  'Every 
penny  I  could  save  went  into  its  jaws.  It  is  sur- 
prising how  many  pennies  you  can  save  when  you've 
a  purpose.  My  purpose  was  to  die  worth  $100,000. 
Other  folks  ate  meat;  we  ate  molasses.  Other  folks 
dressed  their  wives  in  merino;  mine  wore  calico. 
Other  men  wasted  money  on  schooling;  my  boys  and 
girls  learned  to  work  early  and  keep  it  up  late.  I 
wasted  no  money  on  churches,  sick  people,  paupers, 
and  books.  And,'  he  concluded  triumphantly,  'now 
I  own  to  the  creek;  and  that  land  with  the  fields 
yonder,  and  the  stock  in  the  barns,  are  worth  $100,- 
000.     Do  you  see?' 

"And  on  the  thin,  hard  lips  was  a  wretched  at- 
tempt to  laugh.  The  house  was  bare  and  comfort- 
less; his  wife,  worn  out  with  work,  had  long  ago 
gone  to  her  grave.  Ot  his  children,  taught  only  to 
make  money  a  god,  one  daughter,  starved  in  body 
and  mind,  was  still  drudging  in  the  kitchen;  one  son 
had  taken  to  drink,  having  no  other  resource,  and 
died  in  prison.  The  other,  a  harder  miser  than  his 
father,  remained  at  home  to  fight  with  him  over 
everv  penny  wrung  out  of  their  fertile  fields. 

"Yesterday  I  buried  this  man,"  continued  the 
clergyman.  "Neither  neighbor  nor  friend,  son  nor 
daughter,  shed  a  tear  over  him.  His  children  were 
eager  to  liegin  the  quarrel  for  the  ground  he  had 
sacrificed  his  life  to  earn.  Of  it  all  he  had  now  only 
enough  to  cover  his  decaying  body.  Economy  for 
a  noble  purpose  is  a  virtue;  but  in  the  houses  of 
some  it  is  avarice,  and,  I'ke  a  wolf,  devours  intelli- 
gence, religion,  hope  and  life  itself." — Friendly  Com- 
panion. 

^  •  »■ 

VIOLET'S  SACRIFICE. 

It  was  Violet's  fifteenth  birthday.  It  seemed  as 
if  no  year  had  ever  brought  such  a  host  of  pretty 
presents,  and  now  at  bed-time,  when  Violet  came  to 
her  dainty  room,  she  found  mamma's  gift.  It  was 
a  white  plush  banner  with  cherry  trimmings,  and 
this  text  painted  on  it  by  mamma's  skillful  fingers: 
"Bear  ye  one  another's  burdens." 

Violet  was  the  only  child,  and  everything  that 
wealth  and  boundless  love  could  procure  was  lav- 
ished upon  her.  A  year  ago  she  had  given  her 
heart  to  the  Saviour.  It  had  been  very  easy  to  be- 
lieve that  he  loved  her,  when  her  life  had  been  so 
full  of  sunshine,  and  she  truly  loved  him  in  return. 

Ever  since  Violet  coald  remember,  her  mamma 
had  given  her  a  birthday  verse  to  think  of  through 
the  year.  As  she  now  settled  down  into  the  soft 
depths  of  her  armchair  and  gazed  thoughtfully  at 
her  gift,  she  wondered  why  this  particular  text  had 
been  chosen.  Nobody  in  her  circle  of  acquaintance 
seemed  to  have  any  burdens,  and  Violet  had  no 
troubles  of  her  own.  She  half  wished  that  mamma 
had  not  placed  the  banner  in  such  a  conspicuous 
position  over  her  little  table,  for  the  words  seemed 
to  stare  at  her  in  a  very  uncomfortable  msnner. 

But  if  the  text  had  been  less  conspicuous,  it  might 
have  been  entirely  forgotten  in  the  glad  days  that 
followed.  Such  a  delightful  thing  was  to  happen 
to  Violet!  She  was  going  to  Europe!  Uncle  George 
and  Aunt  Mary  were  planning  a  trip,  and  they  had 


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THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURM. 


11 


begged  Judge  Clinton  to  let  his  little  daughter  ac- 
company them.  She  was  almost  beside  herself  with 
joy.  The  wonderful  things  that  she  had  read  and 
heard  and  dreamed  about — she  was  to  see  them  all. 
And  they  would  visit  the  Holy  Land!  It  seemed  al- 
most too  good  to  come  true;  only  good  things  were 
always  coming  true  in  Violet's  life. 

Then  came  the  busy  days  of  getting  ready;  the 
shopping  with  mamma,  the  planning  with  the  dress- 
maker and  the  good-by  calls.  In  the  midst  of  all 
these  pleasant  preparations,  Violet  had  to  look  some- 
times at  her  motto,  and  wonder  if  there  were  any 
burdens  that  she  could  lighten.  Perhaps  she  was  a 
little  more  thoughtful — a  little  more  careful  not  to 
trouble  others  for  what  she  could  do  as  well  herself. 
Mamma  thought  so  sometimes.  It  was  Thursday, 
and  they  were  to  go  on  Monday.  The  big  trunk  was 
already  in  the  hall,  waiting  for  a  few  more  parcels 
before  it  should  be  closed.  Violet  had  been  trying 
on  her  pretty  traveling-dress,  and  ran  down  to  the 
sewing- room  to  show  it  to  the  dressmaker. 

"I  think,  Mrs.  Gilman,  that  these  sleeves  are  a 
little  too  long.     And  don't  you  think — " 

\'iolet  stopped  short  The  woman's  work  had 
fallen  upon  the  floor,  and  she  sat  with  her  face  buried 
in  her  hands.  She  was  a  pale  little  widow  whom 
their  former  dressmaker,  who  was  now  ill,  had  rec- 
ommended. She  looked  up  apologetically  after  a 
minute,  and  took  up  her  work  again,  saying,  "For- 
give me.  Miss  Violet." 

The  young  girl  had  a  tender  heart.  She  sat  down 
beside  the  woman,  drew  the  work  gently  away,  and 
said,  "Now  tell  me  all  about  it,  please." 

With  the  sweet,  girlish  face  looking  into  hers,  the 
woman  told  her  story.  Her  own  little  girl  had  be- 
come blind.  Several  physicians  had  been  consulted 
but  each  said  be  could  do  nothing.  One  of  them, 
however,  thought  that  a  noted  oculist  in  New  York 
could  help  her.  "But  he  might  as  well  live  in  the 
moon,"  the  woman  added  bitterly,  "for  all  the  differ- 
ence it  would  make  to  me  about  taking  Elsie  there. 
It  takes  all  I  can  earn  to  buy  food  and  shelter  for 
us;  and  I  tell  you.  Miss  Violet,  when  I  see  rich  peo- 
ple ride  in  their  carriages,  with  more  money  than 
they  know  what  to  do  with,  and  my  darling  growing 
blind  because  I  haven't  money  to  buy  her  sight,  I 
wonder  sometimes  if  Grod  is  just." 

It  was  Violet's  first  contact  with  suffering.  She 
did  not  know  how  to  say  comforting  things,  so  she 
bent  down  and  kissed  tbe  worn,  sad  face,  saying,  "I 
am  so  sorry." 

Violet  was  very  sober  all  that  day.  Judge  Clin- 
ton rallied  her  at  dinner  time  on  her  lack  of  spirits, 
and  took  her  out  to  drive,  in  the  afternoon,  behind 
the  new  grays.  But  even  this  did  not  bring  back 
her  usual  light-heartedness.  She  could  not  forget 
the  little  girl  who  must  always  be  in  the  dark.  In 
the  evening  she  excused  herself,  and  went  to  her 
room.     She  did  not  want  even  mamma. 

"Bear  ye  one  another's  burdens."  The  red  let- 
ters shone  out  from  the  white  back-ground  like  fire. 
She  knew  that  her  father  never  refused  her  anything, 
and  that  if  she  now  asked  him  for  money  to  give 
Elsie  he  would  grant  the  request.  But  with  the 
great  expense  which  her  trip  to  Europe  would  incur, 
she  felt  that  she  ought  not  to  ask  him.  The  sacri- 
fice must  be  all  her  own,  and  she  sat  down  and  faced 
it — to  go  to  Europe  or  to  give  Elsie  her  sight. 

Violet  shut  her  eyes  to  think  what  it  meant  to  be 
blind;  never  to  see  her  friends,  never  to  see  the  buds 
and  the  flower^^nd  the  whole  glad  world.  How 
dreadful  it  would  be!  But  to  give  up  her  trip  to 
Europe!  Sne  said  it  over  very  slowly  to  think  what 
it  meant.  Her  trunk  was  nearly  packed;  everybody 
expected  her  to  go,  and  the  girls  were  going  to  the 
station  to  bid  her  good-by.  She  couldn't  give  it  up. 
But  the  red  letters  never  relented,  and  after  a  long, 
long  struggle,  the  motto  won !  When  she  looked  up 
once  more,  the  letters  were  all  aglow  with  a  radiance 
that  seemed  not  of  earth,  and  she  was  conscious  of 
the  presence  of  One  who,  when  on  earth,  pleased  not 
himself. 

The  next  morning  there  was  a  long  talk  with  papa 
in  his  library,  and  when  it  was  over  the  judge  went 
out  wiping  his  eyes.  Violet  went  that  very  day  and 
put  into  Elsie's  hand  the  price  of  the  sweet  blue 
eyes.  It  was  a  little  hard  to  unpack  the  trunk,  and 
oh,  so  hard  to  make  her  friends  undersuind  that  she 
was  not  going  to  Europe  after  all!  Then  she  had  to 
go  down  to  the  station  to  see  Uncle  George  and  Aunt 
Mary  cH,  and  that  was  by  no  means  easy. 

But  there  was  something,  two  months  after,  that 
more  than  compensated  for  all  these  experiences. 
Mamma  summoned  her  to  the  parlor  one  day  to 
meet  callers,  and  there  were  Elsie  and  her  mother 
just  come  home.  Elsie  clung  to  Violet,  kissing  her 
band  again  and  again. 

"I  told  the  doctor,"  she  said,  "if  he  could  only 
give  me  light  enough  to  see  Miss  Violet,  that  I  would 
be  satisfled.     And  now  I  can  see  everything  as  well 


as  you.  I  told  him  all  about  you,  and  when  mam- 
ma paid  him,  he  said  that  he  must  not  do  less  than 
you,  and  gave  back  the  money  for  me  to  go  to  school 
with,  he  said." 

Mrs.  Gilman  whispered  to  Violet,  "You  have 
brought  back  my  faith  in  God,  and  I  will  never 
doubt  him  again." 

Violet  has  found  other  burdens  to  lighten  since 
then.  She  has  not  been  to  the  Holy  Land  yet,  but 
the  Holy  Land  has  come  to  her,  even  the  Kingdom 
of  God,  which  is  "within  you." — Congregationalitt. 


TEliFEEANCE. 


PROHIBITION  IN  THB  SUPRBMB  OOURT. 


From  a  Washington  dispatch  to  the  Inter-Ocean 
the  fear  of  temperance  men  for  the  result  of  the  ap- 
peals from  Kansas  and  Iowa  of  the  saloonists  are 
not  unfounded.  Speaking  of  the  efforts  of  Mr.  Pack- 
ard and  others  to  secure  an  oral  argument  on  these 
cases  the  dispatch  reads: 

The  prohibitionists  are  more  anxious  to  have  an 
argument  in  this  matter  as  they  are  apprehensive  of 
the  Qnal  result,  inasmuch  as  in  one  of  the  prelimi- 
nary orJers  that  has  been  made  the  announcement 
orficially  was  that  the  decision  below  was  affirmed  by 
a  divided  court  here.  The  decision  of  the  court  be- 
low was  that  the  Iowa  prohibition  law,  so  far  as  it 
applies  to  saloon-keepers  and  forbids  them  from  sell- 
ing liquor,  is  constitutional,  and  that  the  power  to 
regulate  the  sale  of  liquor  in  the  saloons  by  retail  is 
within  the  right  of  the  State.  This  was  the  decision 
which  was  rendered  by  United  States  Judge  Brewer, 
who,however,in  the  case  of  the  brewery  or  distillery, 
had  decided  that  the  Iowa  prohibition  law  is  uncon- 
stitutional unless  the  State,  before  destroying  the 
establishment,  should  compensate  its  owners  for  its 
cost  or  be  responsible  in  damages  for  its  destruc- 
tion. The  decision  of  Judge  Brewer  proceeded  upon 
the  ground  that  the  brewer  or  distiller  had  a  vested 
right  in  his  property  before  the  prohibition  law  was 
enacted  and  that  the  law  if  put  m  execution  would 
be  a  violation  of  that  portion  of  the  Federal  Consti- 
tution which  protects  vested  rights.  But  as  to  sa- 
loon-keepers. Judge  Brewer  did  not  go  so  far.  The 
attorneys  for  the  saloon-keepers  had  endeavored  to 
maintain  that  his  bar  and  all  of  the  appliances  of 
his  trade  would  be  rendered  valueless  if  the  State 
should  not  permit  him  to  sell  liquor,  and  that  in  his 
case  as  in  the  case  of  the  brewer  which  had  already 
been  decided  by  Judge  Brewer  his  rights  were  vest- 
ed and  were  the  same  in  degree.  But  at  this  point 
Judge  Brewer  stopped  and  the  case  came  to  the 
United  States  Supreme  Court  on  appeal. 

It  is  this  decision  of  Judge  Brewer  in  the  saloon- 
keepers' case  which  the  United  States  Supreme  Court 
has  just  affirmed  on  appeal  by  a  divided  court.  This 
means  that  there  are  four  members  of  the  United 
States  Supreme  Court  who  believe  with  Judge  Brew- 
er that  the  State  of  Iowa  can  prevent  the  saloon-keep- 
er from  selling  liquor,and  that  there  are  on  the  other 
hand  four  members  of  the  United  States  Supreme 
Court  who  are  of  opinion  that  the  Iowa  law  is  in 
this  respect  unconstitutional.  The  prohibitionists, 
of  course,  are  anxious  to  know  which  four  of  the 
Justices  agree  with  them  and  which  are  against 
them;  and  the  Justices  of  the  Supreme  Court  have 
not  chosen  to  gratify  this  curiosity.  But  that  the 
court  is  thus  equally  divided,  a  fact  which  seems  to 
have  been  overlooked,gives  the  prohibitionists  grave 
apprehensions,  and  also  causes  them  to  look  with 
great  interest  to  the  new  Justice  who  shall  take  the 
place  of  the  late  Justice  Woods.  The  eight  justices 
of  this  court  who  have  announced  their  judgments  in 
October  will  not  reconsider  them  in  January.  And 
it  may  therefore  happen  that  the  new  Justice  will 
have  the  responsibility  of  the  casting  vot«  as  to  the 
constitutionality  of  the  Iowa  law  in  the  case  in 
which  Judge  Brewer  decided  that  a  brewery  or  dis- 
tillery can  not  be  destroyed  by  a  State  without  com- 
pensation to  the  owner.  In  other  words  the  fate  of 
the  prohibition  movement  in  all  of  the  States  may 
turn  upon  the  opinion  of  the  ninth  justice  of  the  Su- 
preme Court,  who  has  not  yet  been  nominated,  but 
who,  by  common  consent,  is  to  be  Mr.  Lamar,  thf. 
present  Secretary  of  the  Interior.  The  delay  in  an- 
nouncing u  decision  in  this  case  has  caused  the  pro- 
hibitionists to  fear  that  the  court  will  await  a  full 
bench  before  determining  it. 


DRUNRBN  PRIBSTS. 

The  SL  Louis  Republican  of  June  20,  printeil  a 
letter  from  Bishop  Uogan  of  the  Catholic  diocese  of 
St.  Joseph,  Mo.,  which  was  brought  out  in  court,  and 
was  never  intended  for  publication.  But  it  reveals 
a  sad  state  of  affairs. 

The  bishop  appointeil  a  German  priest  over  an 


English  congregation.  This  gave  so  great  offence  to 
some  parties  that  the  letter  in  question  was  written 
in  self-defense.  His  defence  is  that  the  priests  of 
his  diocese  were  such  a  drunken  lot  that  he  was  com- 
pelled to  supply  the  parish  as  he  did.  He  then  gives 
a  list  by  name  of  twenty-two  priests  that  were  re- 
ceived into  the  diocese  from  1869  to  1876  whom  he 
was  compelled  to  dismiss  on  account  of  immorality, 
especially  drunkenness.  Some  of  them  are  described 
as  "constantly  drunk;"  one  is  "now  going  round 
from  city  to  city  a  drunken  wreck."  So  disgraceful 
was  the  state  of  affairs  that  he  was  compelled  at  last 
to  "turn  over  a  new  leaf."     He  says: 

"The  constant  shameful  public  and  sacrilegious 
drunkenness  of  the  last  three  mentioned  priests  who 
were  by  my  side  at  the  cathedral  determined  me  to 
wipe  them  and  their  kind  out  of  my  jurisdiction. 
Herbert,  after  repeated  drunkenness,  went  into  a  spree 
for  a  week  in  my  house;  was  in  the  house,  broke  out 
at  night,  got  into  a  house  of  disreputable  women  in 
his  drunkenness  and  was  thrown  out  into  the  street, 
picked  up  drunk,  recognized  and  taken  into  a  house 
and  made  sober,  and  put  into  a  carriage  and  taken 
to  my  house.  That  evening  Galvin  and  Kiley  were 
told  by  me  to  prepare  for  the  proper  celebration  of 
the  feast  of  the  patronage  of  St.  Joseph  for  Easter 
Sunday.  On  Saturday  night  they  staved  up  all  night, 
drinking,  carousing  and  shouting.  Kiley  fell  down, 
blackened  and  almost  broke  his  face  in  falling.  Of 
course,  the  two  sacrilegious  priests  said  mass  the 
next  day,  and  Kiley  went  into  the  pulpit  and 
preached,  with  his  blackened  and  bruised  face,  to 
the  people  of  the  cathedral.  This  was  on  the  feast 
of  the  patron  of  the  diocese  and  of  the  universal 
church.     It  was  time  for  me  to  begin  a  reformation." 

The  bishop  began  to  purge  his  diocese,  and  of 
course  met  with  resistance  from  the  drunken  priests 
and  their  friends.  But  what  a  revelation  of  the  se- 
crets of  a  diocese  this  is. 


THB  SALOON  HAS  NO  RIGHTS. 


The  time  has  not  come  when  just  and  wholesome 
law  will  be  permitted  to  remain  as  a  dead  letter;  but 
the  time  is  fast  apprjaching  when  the  insolence  and 
lawlessness  of  the  saloon  will  be  effectually  sup- 
pressed. A  sentiment  in  that  direction  is  rapidly 
developing,  and  nothing  has  done  more  to  quicken 
it  than  the  saloon  itself.  Its  disregard  for  law,  its 
arrogance,  its  lobbying  in  legislative  halls,  and  dic- 
tating to  conventions  and  caucuses,  have  done  more 
than  all  else  to  create  aseniimect  against  it  that  will 
control  it  or  suppress  it  altogether.  It  should  con- 
sider that  it  has  no  claim  on  the  public  at  all.  It 
is  no  part  of  legitimate  industry;  it  has  no  part  in 
commercial  prosperity.  It  exists  in  opposition  to 
all  principles  of  industrial  and  commercial  interests. 
The  people  have  the  highest  right  recognizable  to 
suppress  it  entirely — the  right  of  self  protection. 
For  the  saloon  to  talk  of  its  rights  is  foolish.  It 
has  none.  It  only  exists  by  sufferance,  and  there  is 
nothing  on  which  it  can  base  a  claim  for  protection. 
It  is  an  industry  that  weakens  everything  it  touches, 
one  that  adds  nothing  to  individual  or  national  pros- 
perity, but  is  a  heavy  burden  upon  both.  The  rev- 
enue it  yields  is  too  insignificant,  compared  to  the 
tax  it  makes  necessary,  to  speak  of. — Chicago  Cur- 
rent. 


Detective  John  T.  Norris  placed  Harry  Gordon  in 
jail  at  Upper  Sandusky,  Ohio,  for  placing  obstruc- 
tions on  the  C,  H.  V.  A:  "T.  railroad  track,  four  miles 
south  of  Upper  Sandusky,  on  Friday  evening,  Sep- 
tember 30.  He  was  ejected  from  the  passenger  train 
by  the  conductor  for  refusing  to  pay  his  fare;  and 
for  revenge,  Gordon  placed  heavy  cross  ties  on  the 
track  at  different  points  about  naif  a  mile  apart. 
He  admits  his  guilt,  and  tries  to  shield  himself  with 
the  lame  excuse  that  he  was  under  the  influence  of 
liquor.  The  company  will  prosecute  him  to  the  full 
extent  of  the  law.  Gordon  has  a  wife  and  four  in- 
teresting children,  in  destitute  circumstances,  near 
Marion,  Ohio,  where  he  lives.  Alas,  for  the  family! 
Drink  has  been  his  curse.  And  yet  the  rum  seller 
goes  scott  free. 


It  is  said  of  Atlanta  that  while  litiuor  ruled  it 
was  as  wicked  as  other  citie.<>,  one  of  its  streets  be- 
ing lined  with  saloons,  and  unsafe  for  any  lady  to 
walk  through;  and  at  present,  although  a  city  of 
sixty-five  thousand,  a  young  girl  may  walk  through 
any  street  in  it,  even  at  night,  and  not  hear  a  pro- 
fane word;  and  that  the  one  hundred  and  more 
buildings  used  as  saloons  are  nearly  all  used  as 
healthful  stores,  while  property  has  increased  from 
ten  to  thirty  per  cent.  To-day  Atlanta  is  a  Chris- 
tian city,  2,00U  persons  being  added  to  the  church 
since  the  prohibition  of  the  liquor  trattlc. 


12 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSITRE. 


November  3, 1881 


BBFORM  NEWS  {Continued  from  5th  page.) 

churches.  Though  the  weather  was  bad  I  had  fair 
congregations.  On  Monday  night  I  addressed  a  lit- 
erary society  in  the  Congregational  church,  and  last 
night  preached  in  the  St.  Louis  Street  church.  The 
Cynosures  that  have  been  coming  here  have  been  a 
power  for  good,  and  have  been  highly  appreciated. 
The  Stone  Street  and  St.  Louis  Street  churches  still 
maintain  their  testimony  against  the  lodge.  Pastor 
Ragland  of  the  Congregational  church  does  not  fail 
to  speak  out,  and  he  reports  that  some  of  his  mem- 
bers that  at  first  withstood  him,  have  since  given  up 
their  lodge  connections  and  confessed  their  mistake. 

It  has  been  resolved  to  hold  the  annual  meeting 
of  the  Alabama  Christian  Association  in  this  city, 
during  the  last  week  in  December.  It  is  hoped  to 
secure  the  presence  of  Secretary  Stoddard.  Due  no- 
tice will  be  given  of  the  meeting. 

Emerson  Institute  opens  favorably  under  the  care 
of  Prof.  Armstrong,  formerly  of  Tougaloo  Univer- 
sity, Mississippi.  I  was  glad  to  meet  some  of  the 
teachers  of  former  years.  This  school  has  been  and 
is  doing  great  good.  On  Wednesday  night,  though 
dark  and  stormy,  I  met  a  fair  congregation  at  the 
Stone  Street  church,  and  gave  them  a  Bible  reading 
on  "The  Coming  of  our  Lord,"  and  took  several  sub- 
scriptions to  the  Cynosure.  I  hope  to  go  from  here 
to  Pensacola,  Fla.,  and  from  there  to  New  Orleans. 
Yours  for  Christ,  H.  H,  Hinman. 


THB  REFORM  IN  IOWA. 


From  the  annual  meeting  I  came  in  company  with 
Rev.  B.  W.  Coe,  a  seceded  Mason,to  Henry  county 
to  work  for  a  week  or  two  in  Henry  and  Washing- 
ton and  Louisa  counties.  C.  F.  Hawley. 


Religious  News. 


Deab  Cynosure: — From  Ainsworth  I  came  to 
Marengo  where  the  Wesleyan  Methodists  of  Iowa 
were  gathered  for  their  annual  conference.  While 
here  I  met  a  layman  of  the  M.  E.  church  who  mani- 
fested a  deep  interest  in  the  anti  secret  society  re- 
form. I  gave  him  some  literature  and  he  promised 
to  work  up  the  reform  among  his  brethren  of  the  Ma- 
rengo M.  E.  church  so  that  when  I  lectured  there 
again  they  might  hear  me. 

Bro.  J.  A.  Cole,  the  native  African,was  there  and 
made  a  powerful  appeal  to  the  people  to  aid  in  send- 
ing missionaries  to  Christianize  and  civilize  the 
Mohammedan  and  heathen  tribes  of  the  Dark  Conti- 
nent. He  wants  men,  who,  after  they  have  suc- 
ceeded in  converting  his  countrymen  from  the 
heathenism  of  the  Kofong  and  Purrow  lodges  to 
Christ,  will  not  encourage  them  by  their  example 
to  join  pagan-infidel  societies  like  the  Freemasons. 
Should  he  not  be  encouraged  by  every  lover  of 
truth  and  righteousness  in  his  noble  effort  to  free 
Africa  from  the  curse  of  rum  and  secret  socie- 
ties? 

The  conference  affirmed  its  purpose  to  kindly 
yet  vigorously  enforce  discipline  so  as  to  exclude 
every  form  of  the  lodge  system  from  the  churches. 
From  Marengo  I  made  my  way  northward  and 
spent  the  Sabbath  before  the  Minnesota  conven- 
tion at  Wasioja  with  my  family.  I  went  with  Prof. 
Paine  to  the  convention.  Returning  to  Iowa  I 
passed  down  through  the  State,  calling  at  many 
places  to  stir  up  the  friends  of  reform  to  renewed 
effort,  and  spent  the  following  Sabbath  at  Clarinda, 
the  county-seat  of  Page  county.  The  next  day  I 
reached  College  Springs  and  found  everything  ready 
for  the  coming  annual  meeting  of  the  Iowa  Associ- 
ation, through  the  blessing  of  Christ  upon  the  faith- 
ful and  well-directed  efforts  of  Dr.  Wm.  Johnston, 
the  pastor  of  the  United  Presbyterian  church  of 
College  Springs. 

I  was  obliged  to  report  a  deficit  of  about  $190; 
but  as  there  are  subscriptions  that  are  past  due  that 
will  doubtless  soon  be  paid,  we  are  encouraged  to 
go  forward  with  the  work  in  the  name  of  Christ,  by 
whose  iK)wer  we  expect  the  truth  to  be  made 
mighty  to  pull  down  this  stronghold  of  Satan,trust- 
ing  that  the  friends  of  Christ  and  his  truth  will  not 
weary  of  coming  up  to  his  help  against  the  organ- 
ized paganism  and  infidelity  of  the  secret  lodge 
system. 

James  Harvey  of  Pleasant  Plain,  Jefferson  coun- 
ty, was  re-elected  treasurer.  To  him  let  all  do- 
nations and  subscriptions  be  sent.  I  want,  as  soon 
as  the  funds  of  the  Association  will  justify  it,  to 
carry  out  plans  for  the  more  general  distribution 
of  literature,  and  call  another  man  to  my  aid.  The 
churches  must  be  delivered  from  the  grasp  of  the 
lodge  power.  Satan  must  not  be  permitted  to  cor- 
rupt the  churches  with  the  false  itifidel  philosophy 
of  the  lodge.  The  American  pulpits  must  not  be 
occupied  by  men  who  are  schooled  in  the  lodge. 
This  effort  to  bring  darkness  and  light  into  com- 
munion must  not  be  permitted  to  succeed. 

By  the  power  of  Christ,  dear  brethren,  we  can, 
and,  with  your  persistent  help,  we  will  free  the 
church  from  the  polluting  embrace  of 


— D.  W.  Potter,  the  well-known  Chicago  evangelist, 
has  been  secured  to  hold  union  services  in  Aurora, 
111.,  beginning  last  Sabbath.  Mr.  Millard,  a  cele- 
brated Gospel  singer,  will  assist  Mr.  Potter.  The 
meetings  are  held  at  the  Island  rink. 

— The  evangelist  Moody  is  soon  to  visit  Louis- 
ville, Ky.,  and  the  erection  of  a  temporary  building 
capable  of  seating  5,000  persons  has  been  agreed 
upon  for  the  meetings.  The  building  will  be  located 
on  the  vacant  lot  belonging  to  the  Southern  Baptist 
Theological  Seminary,  and,  it  is  proposed,  shall  be 
ready  for  occupancy  by  Jan.  1,  1888,  at  which  date 
Mr.  Moody  is  expected.  The  series  of  meetings  will 
continue  for  one  month.  The  great  evangelist  is 
very  popular  in  Louisville,  and  his  coming  is  awaited 
with  much  interest. 

— Prof.  H.  Woodsman,  assisted  by  Prof.  Vann 
and  other  brethren,  says  the  Living  Way,  will  hold 
an  institute  for  the  preachers,  deacons  and  Sunday- 
school  teachers  of  the  East  Sardis  and  North  Sardis 
Associations  at  Sistern  Hill  Baptist  church,  near 
Como,  Miss.,  October  26-28.  An  institute  for  the 
ministers,  deacons  and  teachers  of  the  Friendship 
and  adjoining  associations,  will  be  held  by  Bro. 
Woodsmall  at  Bartlett,  Tenn.,  Nov.  3, 4,  5,  He  has 
also  an  appointment  for  an  institute  at  Clarksville, 
Tenn.,  for  the  Cumberland  River  and  Tennessee, 
Red  River  and  Kentucky  associations.  These  meet- 
ings by  Prof.  Woodsmall  have  proved  of  the  great- 
est benefit  to  the  colored  Baptist  pastors.  He  leaves 
no  needed  truth  unspoken  because  it  may  not  be 
popular. 

— Dr.  L.  W.  Munhall  opened  a  series  of  meetings 
in  Armory  Hall,  Columbus,  Ohio,  Oct.  23.  The 
State  Journal  next  day  has  a  very  full  and  glowing 
account  of  the  crowded  meetings  and  the  effect  of 
the  preaching.  The  Columbus  pastors  are  praying 
for  a  powerful  work  of  the  Spirit  which  shall  sweep 
over  the  whole  city. 

— The  United  Presbyterian  church  in  Kansas 
City  is  about  building  a  new  house  of  worship. 
The  plans  are  ready  and  the  work  is  soon  to  begin. 
Rev.  David  M.  McClellan  is  pastor  of  this  church. 

— Rev.  J.  M.  Hervey,  of  Los  Angeles,  whose  la- 
bors with  the  United  Presbyterian  church  there  have 
been  so  successful,  has  united  with  another  denom- 
ination. 

—Rev.  Dr.  M.  M.  Gibson  and  family,  of  San  Fran- 
cisco, have  just  returned  from  a  trip  to  Europe. 

— The  United  Presbyterian  Synod  of  Kansas  lately 
resolved  against  the  proposed  opening  of  the  Kansas 
State  House  on  the  Sabbath;  and  also  invited  the 
co-operation  of  other  churches  on  the  sanctity  of  the 
day.  The  position  of  the  body  in  regard  to  politics 
is  given  in  the  following:  Resolved,  That  any  polit- 
ical party  that  ignores  God's  supreme  authority, 
fails  to  give  the  Bible  the  first  place  in  law  and  edu- 
cation, and  the  Sabbath  the  first  in  time,  and  does 
not  look  upon  the  liquor  traffic  as  a  crime  which  ad- 
mits no  compromise  and  demands  prompt  annihila- 
tion at  the  hands  of  the  State  and  nation,  is  unwor- 
thy of  patriotic  and  Christian  support. 

— Rev.  A.  F.  McDill,  formerly  of  this  city  and 
Denver,  has  gathered  a  United  Presbyterian  colony 
at  Wildomar,  San  Diego  Co.,  Cal.,  and  forty-five 
persons  petition  for  a  church  organization,  stating 
that  the  value  of  the  property  offered  and  the  amount 
subscribed  for  a  church  building  aggregated  $1,790. 

— The  Cincinnati  M.  E.  Conference  requested  its 
delegates  to  the  General  Conference  to  favor  legisla- 
tion that  would  recognize  the  office  of  evangelist  in 
the  church. 

— Mr.  Moody  has  just  completed  two  weeks  of  la- 
bor in  Montreal,  and  gives  it  as  his  impression  that 
a  very  good  work  has  been  done,  or  more  strictly, 
well  begun  there.  All  went  on  smoothly  from  the 
start,  notwithstanding  the  large  non-Protestant  pop- 
ulation of  that  chief  city  of  Canada.  His  labors 
over  at  Montreal,  at  least  for  the  present,  Mr.  Moody 
was  considering  an  invitation  quite  out  of  routine. 
He  has  been  invited  to  go  to  Minneapolis  and  preach 
at  the  opening  of  the  largest  Swedish  Lutheran 
church  in  America.  It  will  accommodate  from  four 
to  five  thousand  worshipers,  and  is  described  as 
complete  in  all  its  appointments.  We  count  it  a 
good  sign — one  that  may  well  encourage  all  who 
deprecate  manners  and  customs  foreign  to  our  soil, 
that  these   brethren   who   are   so   numerous  in  the 


a  series  of  meetings  are  in  contemplation,  but  of  this 
we  are  not  advised.  In  any  case,  these  Swedes  are 
proposing  a  good  beginning.  No  greater  boon  could 
come  to  the  large  and  increasing  Scandinavian  pop- 
ulation of  all  that  region,  than  a  powerful  and  per- 
vasive work  of  the  Holy  Spirit.  Individuals  and 
churches  may  well  offer  special  prayer  for  so  great 
a  blessing  upon  brethren  of  a  common  faith,  and 
who,  though  coming  among  us  as  strangers,  are  wel- 
come, and  here  to  stay. — Evangelist. 

— The  installation  of  Rev.  David  McAllister, 
LL.D.,  as  pastor  of  the  Eighth  Street  Reformed 
Presbyterian  church,  took  place  Thursday  night, 
with  a  large  attendance  of  members  and  friends. 
Dr.  McAllister  was  installed  by  a  commission  from 
the  Pittsburgh  Presbytery  consisting  of  Revs.  Prof. 
D.  B.  Willson,  Prof.  Thomas  SprouU,  Prof.  J.  K. 
McClurkin,  J.  W.  SprouU  and  J.  R.  J.  Milligan,  of 
Allegheny;  Rev.  J.  C.  McFeeters,  of  Parnassus,  and 
Rev,  W.  W.  Carithers,  of  Wilkinsburg,  with  Elders 
A.  B.  Copeland,  John  A.  Dodds  and  R.  C.  Coulter. 
The  ordination  sermon  was  preached  by  Rev.  J,  R. 
J.  Milligan,  and  Rev.  D.  B.  Willson  made  the  in- 
stallation prayer.  Rev.  J.  C.  McFeeters  delivered 
the  charge  to  the  pastor,  and  Rev.  W.  W.  Carithers 
the  charge  to  the  congregation.  The  service  closed 
with  prayer  and  benediction  by  the  Rev.  J.  K.  Mc- 
Clurkin, after  which  the  congregation  passed  to  the 
front  of  the  pulpit  and  united  in  greeting  the  new 
pastor.  Dr.  McAllister,  who  succeeds  the  late  Rev. 
A.  M.  Milligan,  D.D.,  as  pastor  of  the  Eighth  Street 
church,  was  graduated  from  Union  College,  New 
York,  in  1860,  and  from  the  Allegheny  R.  P.  Theo- 
logical Seminary  in  1863,  and  was  ordained  pastor 
of  the  Walton  congregation  in  New  York  the  same 
year.  In  1883  he  was  elected  professor  of  political 
philosophy  and  history  in  Geneva  College.  In  con- 
nection with  his  duties  as  pastor  of  the  Eighth  Street 
church.  Dr.  McAllister  will  continue  to  act  as  one 
of  the  editors  of  the  Christian  Statesman,  of  Phila- 
delphia, which  was  founded  by  himself  and  Dr.  T. 
P.  Stevenson  twenty  years  ago,  and  which  they  have 
been  publishing  ever  since.  Dr.  McAllister  is  one 
of  the  best  known  men  in  the  Presbyterian  church 
in  Pennsylvania,  as  well  as  one  of  the  ablest,  and 
his  call  to  this  church  as  pastor  brings  satisfaction 
to  every  member  of  the  Eighth  Street  congregation 
after  the  vicissitudes  they  have  passed  through  since 
the  last  long  sickness  of  their  late  pastor.  Dr.  Milli- 
gan. Dr.  McAllister  will  continue  to  lecture  twice 
each  week  at  Geneva  College  until  his  place  in  the 
faculty  can  be  filled. — Pittsburg  Dispatch, 


LITERATURE. 


Let  us  work  and  pray  and  pay,  and  trust  in  Christ  Northwest,  are  proposing  to  open  their  great  church 
to  gwe  us  the  victory.  '  -^^  this  truly  American  fashion.    It  may  even  be  that 


Primitive  Orthodoxy  and  ^^Progressive  Orthodoxy'^ 
is  a  discourse  by  Prof.  L.  T.  Townsend,  D.  D.,  print- 
ed by  request  and  published  by  J.  J.  Arakelyan, 
Boston,  on  the  topic  now  agitating  many  theological 
circles.  The  argument  is  strong  and  eloquently  ex- 
pressed, but  the  chief  value  is  in  its  historical  re- 
view of  similar  attempts  at  re-stating  Christian  doc- 
trine and  giving  new  theories  a  following  from 
Clement  and  Origin  to  Theodore  Parker.  The  sig- 
nificant failure  of  all  these  efforts,  and  the  increas- 
ing power  of  the  Christian  faith  in  spite  of  all  op- 
posing or  detracting  influences  is  such  a  proof  of  its 
truth  that  it  cannot  be  overthrown. 

Scribner's  Magazine  for  November  is  a  very  richly  il- 
lustrated number,  and  has  for  itp  leading  article  an  inter- 
esting paper  by  William  F.  Apthorp,  the  musical  critic 
of  the  Boston  Transcript,  on  "Waener  and  Scenic  Art." 
Dr.  Henry  M.  Field,  editor  of  the  New  York  Evangelist, 
describes  a  recent  visit  which  he  made  to  the  strange 
tribe  in  Northern  Algeria,  known  as  the  "Kabyles,"  or 
"Berbers,"  a  warlike  race  inhabiting  a  very  mountainous 
region,  the  "Switzerland  of  Africa,"  and  preserving  pe- 
culiar traits  and  institutions.  Professor  D.  A.  Sargent, 
M.  D.,  of  Harvard  University,  furnishes  the  second  of 
his  notable  papers  on  physical  training,  entitled  "The 
Physical  Characteristics  of  the  Athlete  "  "A  Diplomatic 
Episode"  is  a  noteworthy  paper  by  Miss  Olive  Risley 
Seward,  the  adopted  daughter  of  ex  Secretary  Seward, 
and  his  confidante  in  many  important  political  affairs, 
explaining  for  the  first  time  an  incident  in  our  diplomatic 
history  relating  to  the  failure  of  the  negotiations  for  the 
purchase,  from  Denmark,  of  the  islands  of  St.  Thomas 
and  St.  John.  The  author  shows  that  this  failure  refiects 
seriously  upon  the  managers  of  the  foreign  affairs  of  the 
United  States,  many  of  whom  are  now  dead.  "The  Vik- 
ing Ship"  is  an  interesting  paper  upon  an  ancient  ship 
which  was  unearthed  several  years  ago  at  Gokstad,  in 
Norway.  General  Francis  A.  Walker,  President  of  the 
Massachusetts  Institute  of  Technology,  contributes  a 
vigorous,  plain  spoken  article,  entitled,  "What  Shall  we 
Tell  the  Working  classes?"  in  which  he  finds  the  solution 
of  the  labor  problem  in  a  healthier,  manlier,  more  truly 
American  sentiment  among  working  men,  which  can  only 
be  fostered  and  spread  by  education. 

The  next  copy  of  the  Century  will  be  popular  in  Chi- 
cago because  of  an  illustrated  paper  on  St.  Qaudens,  the 
sculptor  of  the  Lincoln  monument  unveiled  here  in  Lin- 
coln Pork .      As  the  statue  was  completed  since  the  arti- 


MOTZMBBR  3, 1887 


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THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


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cle  was  written,  Mrs.  Van  Rensselaer  con- 
tributes a  short  supplemental  paper  de- 
scribing that  work,  with  a  full  page  illus- 
tration, engraved  by  Whitney.  Mrs. 
Van  Rensselaer  considers  this  statue  "not 
only  our  best  likeness  of  Abraham  Lin- 
coln, but  our  finest  work  of  monumental 
art." 

The  boasted  "Woman's  day"  is  about 
to  be  ushered  in  with  a  "Woman's  Bible." 
Mrs.  Elizabeth  Cady  Stanton  is  chairman 
of  the  American  committee  having  in 
charge  the  enterprise  of  publishing  this 
book,  which  she  promises  will  revolution- 
ize religion  as  well  as  politics. 

The  constant  success  of  the  Illustrated 
London  NevoH  (American  edition)  is  not 
by  any  means  a  surprise  when  even  the 
contents  of  a  single  week  are  considered. 
The  issue  of  Oct.  29th,  gives  an  excel- 
lent colored  portrait  of  Prince  Bismarck, 
while  in  addition  there  are  pictures  of  the 
Nizam  of  Hyderabad,  two  pages  devoted 
to  illustrations  of  the  State  of  Ireland, 
another  page  of  Bristol  Cathedral,  one 
of  the  death  of  Caesar.  As  ever,  the  New 
York  office  is  in  the  Potter  Building. 

Next  to  Mount  St.  Elias  in  Alaska, 
Mount  Tacoma  is  the  tallest  peak  in  the 
United  States.  Dr.  C.  D.  Hendrickson, 
in  the  American  J/a^raziwe  for  November, 
describes  an  ascent  to  the  highest  attain- 
able point  on  the  north  side  of  this  mount- 
ain, which  seems  to  be  the  center  of  a 
wild  and  precipitous  region,  once  the  seat 
of  enormous  volvanic  activity,  and  still 
retaining  a  savage  grandeur  and  loneli- 
ness. In  a  paper  entiiled,  "Cyclopia," 
P.  D.  Nott  entertainingly  describes  the 
old  forges  and  charcoal  furnaces  of  Penn- 
sylvania. The  original  methods  of  the 
iron  manufacture  are  so  rapidly  losing 
ground  that  in  a  few  years  they  will  be 
obliterated.  Exactly  how  and  why  our 
continent  came  to  be  called  America 
rather  than  Columbia,  is  very  clearly  set 
forth  in  a  paper  by  Abby  Sage  Richard- 
son. It  has  been  the  fashion  for  more 
than  a  century  to  fling  abuse  upon  Amer- 
igo Vespucci  for  having  wrested  the  hon 
or  of  naming  the  continent  from  its  dis- 
coverer. Quite  recently  documents  have 
been  recovered  which  place  the  matter 
wholly  in  a  different  light.  Mrs.  Rich- 
ardson represents  Vespucci  as  having 
made  no  claim  for  honors  that  were  not 
his  due.  The  chief  poem  in  this  number 
is  "The  enterprise  and  the  boxer,"  by 
Henry  Abbey — a  stirring  epic  descriptive 
of  a  naval  battle  that  took  place  in  the 
days  of  our  grandfathers . 


Lodge  Notes. 

At  its  session  in  New  York  Tuesday, 
the  Supreme  Council  of  Sovereign  Grand 
Inspectors  General,  thirty-third  degree, 
Scottish  Rite  Masons,  elected  oflScers. 
Judge  John  J.  Gorman  of  New  York  was 
chosen  Sovereign  Grand  Commander. 

The  Executive  Board  of  Good  Tem- 
plars at  Boston,  Oct.  20,  elected  W.  W. 
Turnbull  of  Glasgow,  Scotland,  R.  W.  C. 
Counsellor,  to  be  "Right  Worthy  Grand 
Templar,"  in  place  of  J.  B.  Finch.  Dr. 
O'Aonhyatekha  of  Ontario  was  chosen 
to  fill  the  office  vacated  by  Turnbull. 

A  number  of  representative  men  in  se- 
cret society  life  insurance  had  a  meeting 
with  closed  doors  at  Milwaukee.  It  is 
understood  that  their  desire  is  to  get  up 
some  sort  of  a  combination  by  which 
they  will  not  pull  against  each  other,  and 
will,  if  possible,  make  these  various  as- 
sociations virtually  one,  so  far  as  insur- 
ance is  concerned. 

Negroes  belonging  to  the  Knights  of 
Labor  are  causing  trouble  on  the  sugar 
plantations  of  Louisiana.  They  demand- 
ed increase  of  pay,  and,  on  being  refused, 
went  on  a  strike.  They  refused  to  per- 
mit willing  men  to  fill  their  positions, 
and  State  troops  were  dispatched  by  Gov- 
jirnor  McEoery  Thursday  to  quell  the  dis- 
turbance they  might  cause. 

Fifty  Knights  of  Labor,  returning  from 
the  convention  at  Minneapolis,  called  at 
the  county  jail  in  this  city  to  visit  the 
anarchists.  They  had  telegraphed  to 
Minneapolis  and  asked  the  sheriff  to  per- 
mit them  to  see  the  condemned  men.  Dep- 
uty Sherifli  were  in  waiting  to  accompa- 
ny them  to  the  jiil.  George  Schilling 
and  other  local  knights  were  also  with 
them  to  make  the  introductions. 

A  new  society,  to  be  known  as  the 
League  of  the  Rose,  is  being  organized 
in  Oltaws,  Ont.  The  promoter  of  the 
scheme  is  a  prominent  member  of  the 
Order  of  the  Sons  of  England.  The  mem- 
bers will  be  bound  to  uphold,  as  far  as  in 
them  lies,  the  principles  of  conservatism, 


the  throne  and  the  church.  It  will  be 
run  on  the  same  lines  as  the  Primrose 
League  of  England. 

The  officers  of  the  Amalgamated  Asso- 
ciation of  Iron  and  Steel  Workers  are 
preparing  for  trouble  with  the  Knights 
of  Labor  by  strengthening  their  lines 
President  Weihe,  of  the  Amalgamated, 
has  just  completed  the  formation  of  a 
lodge  among  the  workmen  at  the  Spang 
Iron  and  Steel  Works.  The  men  were 
astonished  when  told  that  those  belong- 
ing to  the  Knights  of  Labor  must  re- 
nounce the  latter  order  by  April  1.  The 
Amalgamated  people  are  making  efforts 
to  bring  in  all  the  5,000  employes  of  the 
steel  mills  in  Pittsburg.  President  Weihe 
will  go  East  to  head  off  the  knights  in 
that  direction,  and  later  on  the  Western 
mills  will  be  taken  care  of. 

B  F  Parker  of  Mauston,  Wis.,  "Grand" 
Secretary  of  the  Good  Templar  Grand 
Lodge,  announces  to  the  order  through 
out  the  land:  "Wm.  W.  Turnbull,  of 
Glasgow,  Scotland,  is  now  the  head  of 
the  order.  It  is  his  order  that  directions 
be  made  to  every  lodge  in  your  jiiriedic- 
tion  to  go  into  mourning  for  three 
months,  the  charter  and  regalia  of  every 
lodge  to  be  draped  for  that  period,  and 
every  member  is  requested  to  wear  crape 
on  the  right  arm  or  in  the  button  hole  of 
the  coat  collar,  or  pinned  on  the  dress  of 
the  sisters,  with  the  public  recognition 
pin  or  badge.  Lodges  are  requested  to 
hold  a  memorial  service  on  the  first  Sun- 
day of  December,  in  the  lodge  room  or 
some  other  suitable  place.  A  collection 
should  be  taken  at  that  time,  and  the 
amount  forwarded  to  this  office,  to  make 
a  fund  with  which  to  erect  a  Good  Tem- 
plars monument  to  the  memory  of  our 
leader." 

8UB8GRIPT101H  LETTERS. 

The  following  have  made  remittances 
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TBE  CHBISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


November  3, 1889 


Home  and  Health. 

'   DRINKING  BEFORE  MEALS. 

An  acquaintance  of  the  writer  who  has 
suffered  sorely  from  dyspepsia  for  a  num- 
ber of  years,  and  has  tried  most  of  the 
numerous  remedies  a  host  of  kind  friends 
have  recommended  for  her  relief,  hands 
us  the  following  article  from  the  Medical 
News,  with  the  r<  quest  that  it  be  printed 
in  the  Scientific  American.  Our  dyspep- 
tic friend  has  found  great  relief  in  follow- 
ing the  directions,  and  it  is  hoped  others 
may  be  also  benefited. 

"In  the  morning  the  stomach  contains 
a  coasidrrable  quantity  of  mucus  spread 
over  and  adherent  to  its  walls.  If  food 
enters  at  this  time,  the  tenacious  mucus 
will  interfere  to  some  extent,  with  the  di- 
rect contact  between  the  food  and  the 
stomach  necessary  to  provoke  the  secre- 
tion of  gastric  j  uice.  A  glass  of  water 
taken  before  breakfast  passes  through  the 
stomach  into  the  small  intestines  in  a 
continuous  and  uninterrupted  fliw.  It 
partly  distends  the  stomach,  stretching, 
and  to  some  extent  obliterating  the  rugte; 
it  thins  and  washes  out  most  of  the  tena- 
cious mucus;  it  increases  the  fullness  of 
the  capillaries  of  the  stomach,  directly  if 
the  water  is  warm,  and  indirectly  in  a 
reactionary  way  if  it  is  cold;  it  causes 
peristalsis  of  the  alimentary  tract,  wakes 
it  up  (so  to  speak),  and  gives  it  a  morn- 
ing exercise  and  washing.  Care  must  be 
taken  not  to  give  cold  water  when  the 
circulation,  either  local  or  general,  is  so 
feeble  as  to  make  reaction  improbable. 
"We  should  not  risk  it  in  advanced  age, 
nor  in  the  feeble,  whether  old  or  young, 
nor  should  it  be  given  in  local  troubles, 
like  chronic  gastric  catarrh.  In  these 
cases  it  is  best  to  give  warm  or  hot  water. 
The  addition  of  salt  is  very  beneficial. 
Such  a  time-honored  custom  as  drinking 
soup  at  the  beginning  of  a  meal  could 
only  have  been  so  persistently  adhered  to 
because  of  it  having  been  found  by  ex- 
perience to  be  the  most  appropriate  time. 
It  does  exactly  what  warm  or  hot  water, 
with  the  addition  of  salt,  does,  and  more, 
in  that  it  is  nutritive  and  excites  the  flow 
of  gastric  juice." — Scientific  American. 

HOT  WATER  REMEDIES. 

There  is  no  remedy  of  such  general  ap- 
plication, and  none  so  easily  attainable, 
as  water,  and  yet  nine  persons  out  of  ten 
will  pass  by  it  in  an  emer«;ency  to  seek 
for  something  of  far  less  efficiency.  There 
are  few  cases  of  illness  where  water 
should  not  occupy  the  highest  place  as  a 
remedial  agent  A  strip  of  flannel  or  nap- 
kin, folded  lengthwise  and  dipped  in  hot 
water  and  wrung  out,  and  then  applied 
around  the  neck  of  a  child  that  has  the 
croup,  with  thick  dry  flannel  outside,  will 
usually  bring  relief  in  ten  minutes.  A 
towel  folded  several  times,  and  dipped  in 
hot  water,  and  quickly  wrung  out  and  ap- 
plied over  the  toothache  or  neuralgia,  will 
generally  afford  prompt  relief.  This  treat- 
ment in  cholic  works  like  magic.  I  have 
seen  cases  that  have  resisted  all  other 
treatment  for  hours  yield  to  this  in  ten 
minutes.  There  is  nothing  that  so 
promptly  cuts  short  a  congestion  of  the 
lungs,  sore  throat,  or  rheumatism,  as  hot 
water,  when  applied  promptly  and 
thoroughly.  Tepid  water  acts  promptly 
aa  an  emetic,  and  hot  water  taken  freely 
half  an  hour  before  bedtime,  is  the  best 
cathartic  possible  in  the  case  of  consti- 
pation, while  it  has  a  most  soothing  effect 
upon  the  stomach  and  bowels.  This 
treatment  continued  a  fetr  months,  with 
proper  attention  to  diet,  will  cure  any 
curable  case  of  dyspepsia.  Headache  al- 
most always  will  yield  to  the  simultane- 
ous application  of  hot  water  to  the  feet 
and  the  back  of  the  neck. 

Water  DRINKING. — According  to  Dr. 
L.  Brunton,  in  the  Practitioner,  there  is 
no  diuretic  so  good  as  water.  Water 
does  not  merely  stimulate  the  kidneys, 
but  it  facilitates  their  work  by  preparing 
the  waste  substances  for  elimination,  and 
by  aiding  in  their  removal.  The  major- 
ity of  persons  drink  too  little  water.  Per- 
sons who  have  a  gouty  or  rheumatic  state 
of  the  system,  will  find  great  relief  in 
copious  water  drinking .  A  bad  taste  in 
the  mouth  in  the  morning  may  often  be 
prevented  by  tafeing  a  glass  or  two  of 
water  late  in  the  previous  evening.  Wa- 
ter is  most  effective  when  taken  hot. — 
Oood  Htallh. 


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Faem  Notes. 


The  difference  in  drivers  may  be  seen 
in  the  fact  that  one  is  always  hallooing 
at  his  horses  at  the  top  of  his  voice,  and 
complaining  that  they  do  not  do  good 
work;  another,  who  can  rarely  be  heard, 
always  gets  a  good  day's  work  from  his 
te»m,  and  that  without  hurting  them. 
Skill  and  judgment  and  self  control  are 
as  valuable,  cumparatively,  in  a  man  who 
has  the  management  of  horses,  as  in  any 
other  branch  of  industry. 

How  TO  GET  Rid  of  Rats  and  Mice. 
— A.  genileman  of  large  experience,  and 
fully  as  humane  as  most  of  us,  says  he 
gets  rid  of  rats  by  putting  potash  in  their 
holes  and  runs.  The  poor  wretches  get 
it  on  their  feet  and  over  their  fur, 
then  they  lick  it  and  don't  like  the  taste 
of  it;  it  burns  them  somewhat  and  the 
more  they  see  of  it  the  less  they  like  it: 
so  they  clear  out  almost  as  soon  as  the 
application  is  made.  To  get  rid  of  mice, 
the  same  person  uses  tartar  emetic,  migled 
with  any  favorite  food;  they  take  it,  take 
sick,  aLd  take  their  leave. 

How  to  Save  Your  Shoe  Soles  — 
Melt  together  tallew  and  common  resin, 
in  the  proportion  of  two  parts  of  the 
former  to  one  of  the  latter,  and  apply 
the  preparation,  hot,  to  the  soles  of  the 
boots  or  shoes — as  much  of  it  as  the 
leather  will  absorb .  One  farmer  declares 
that  this  liitle  receipt  alone  has  been 
worth  more  than  the  cost  of  five  years' 
subscription  to  the  newspaper  publish- 
ing it. 

Live  Willows  for  Fence  Posts  — 
The  fence  post  qaestion  is  one  of  the 
greatest  importance  to  American  farmers, 
and  will  be  for  many  years.  For  that 
reason  the  solution  of  it  is  of  interest  to 
a  vast  number  of  people.  A  correspond- 
ent of  an  exchange  writes  as  below  in 
regard  to  the  use  of  willow  for  this  pur- 
pose. Any  one  who  has  had  experience 
with  willows,  especially  in  soil  at  all 
moist,  will  agree  fully  with  this  opinion. 
He  says: 

"It  is  frequently  recommended  to  plant 
trees  along  the  line  of  the  fences  that 
when  the  trees  have  attained  sufficient 
size,  their  trunks  may  be  used  for  posts. 
Thus  live  posts,  that  will  not  rot,  are  had, 
already  securely  set,  at  the  cost  of  set- 
ting out  the  trees  only.  But  to  this  the 
objection  is  that  the  swaying  of  the  tree 
loosens  the  nails  holding  the  boards  or 
the  staples  fastening  the  wire!),  whether 
the  nails  or  staples  are  driven  into  the 
tree  or  into  a  piece  of  timber  fastened  to 
the  tree.  One  of  our  Western  subscrib- 
ers has  discovered  that  when  the  willow 
is  planted,  this  objection  is  avoided,  for 
the  top  of  the  willow  can  be  kept  cut 
down  so  closely  that  the  trunk  will  be 
swayed  little,  if  any.  The  tree  should 
not  be  used  as  a  post  until  the  trunk  has 
attained  a  diameter  of  six  inches  a  foot 
from  the  ground;  and  even  when  it  has 
reached  this  si^te,  the  tree  may  be  cut  off 
five  feet  from  the  ground,  making  a  post 
of  the  desired  beightb  without  killiagthe 
tree.  Such  cutting  off  would  be  fatal  to 
any  other  tree  that  could  be  used  for  this 
purpose;  but  the  willow  will  send  out 
a  thick  bunch  of  shoots,  which  will  soon 
become  respectable  branches  and  may  be 
cut  off  in  their  turn.  Thus  we  mav  have 
a  thick,  stocky  trunk  five  feet  high  with 
so  little  top  that  the  wind  will  not  loosen 
the  nails  or  staples.  The  branches  cut 
off  make  good  beanpoles,  or  'he  summer 
Are  wood  pur  excellence.  They  cut  very 
easily  when  green,  dry  out  rapidly,  and, 
when  dry,  make  a  quick,  hot  fire  that 
dies  down  at  once— just  the  fire  that  the 
bouse  wife  wishes  during  the  summer. 
Other  points  in  favor  of  the  willow  for 
live  fence  posts  are  the  ease  with  which 
it  can  be  got  to  grow,  and  the  rapidity  of 
its  growth.  If  slips  are  stuck  into  the 
ground  in  the  spriog,  when  the  ground  is 
moist,  they  will  at  once  root  and  grow. 
When  fence  posts  are  scarce,  this  use  of 
the  willow  can  be  confidently  recom- 
mend d;  and  likely  it  will  pay  to  so  use 
the  willow  even  when  posts  are  cheap. 
Tbe  willow  is  slow  to  die,  and  will  make 
a  firm  post  for  years  " 

A  writer  in  the  Horseman  excoriates  in 
the  following  terms  tbe  man  who  forgets 
bis  horse  while  he  feeds  himself.  Wbile 
the  language  is  somewhat  intemperate, 
tbe  spirit  of  it  is  correct.  We  should 
not  forget  our  horse's  appetite  while  in- 
dulging our  own.  This  seems  to  apply 
to  the  city  horse  owner,  but  no  doubt  fits 
a  good  many  farmers  too:  "I  have  bad 
my  eye  for  some  time  upon  the  man  who 
leaves  bis  horse  standing  all  day  at  the 
ouibatone,  checked  high,  and  with  no 


dinner.  If  there  is  a  meaner  man  than 
he  is,  I  want  to  avoid  the  side  of  the 
street  where  he  walks.  Why,  do  you 
know,  sir,  that  if  you  and  that  horse 
were  to  be  given  entrance  into  heaven  to- 
day on  nothing  but  individual  merits, 
with  no  inserted  clause  about  'immortal 
souls,'  and  all  that,  the  angel  door  keeper 
wouldn't  take  as  long  to  decide  between 
you  as  it  takes  a  lamb  to  caper?  That 
blessed,  faithful,  long  enduring,  never- 
complaining,  brave  old  horse  would  be 
let  in  ahead  of  you,  as  qiickly  as  angels' 
bands  could  toss  down  the  golden  bars  I 
When  I  think  of  a  beer  guzzling,  impure- 
hearted,  blasphemous  old  sinner  like  you, 
and  remember  all  your  cruelty  to  the  no- 
ble steed  who  drags  your  worthless  old 
body  about  behind  him,  I  feel  like  going 
into  some  of  our  churches  with  a  special 
request  that  a  day  be  set  apart  to  search 
out  your  infinitesimal  germ  of  a  soul." 


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FJREE  TRACTS 


Will  be  furnished  to  those  who  desire  in- 
formation or  who  will  distribute  them 
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There  are  in  stock  now  a  large  number 
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"freemasonry  in  the  family." 

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"SELLING  DEAD   HORSES." 

You  can  always  get  the  attention  of 
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"MOODY   ON    SECRET    SOCIETIES" 

leads  Christians  to  separation. 

A  limited  number  of  two  new  tracts 
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"THE   80N8   OP   VETERANS." 
"IN     WHICH     ARMY    ARE     YOU?" 

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quested to  do  so. 

Ought  you  not,  once  a  year  at  least,  to 
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NOTES  AND  SUGGESTIONS  FOR 
KIBI.R  ltK.\nTN(;s.  Ily  HrlKt:*  and  KUIotU 
Contatuji  o\,r  twenty  short  chapters  by  varloni 
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CHICAGO. 

The  Common  Council  are  debating 
■whether  to  set  up  in  the  gas  business  or 
adopt  electricity  for  street  lighting.  They 
believe  they  must  no  longer  depend  on 
the  gas  companies. 

The  Socialistic  Labor  party  held  its 
convention  last  week,  and  espoused  the 
cause  of  the  anarchists  outright.  Besides 
nominating  a  ticket  composed  of  radical 
Socialists,  the  convention  passed  an  ad- 
dress to  Governor  Oglesby  on  behalf  of 
the  condemned  anarchisis,  which  clearly 
defines  its  position  in  favor  of  a  revolu- 
ary  programme  Capt.  Black,  the  lawyer 
for  the  anarchists,  was  nominated  for 
judge  to  succeed  Judge  Gary. 

The  Chicago  Coal  Exchange  Friday 
advanced  the  price  of  anthracite,  the  new 
price  to  take  effect  Nov.  1.  The  price 
will  then  be  $8  per  ton  for  range  and  nut 
coal.  This  is  all  the  result  of  an  infa- 
mous combination  between  the  railroads 
and  the  mining  companies  by  which  coal 
was  prevented  from  being  shipped  by 
lake  from  Buffalo,  when  the  price  would 
have  been  about  $5  Now  the  roads  get 
all  the  profits. 

COUNTRY. 

The  furious  storm  that  swept  over 
Lake  Michigan  Saturday  swamped  the 
propeller  Vernon  off  Manitowoc,  Wis., 
and  it  is  supposed  her  entire  crew  have 
perished.  Besides  several  passengers  she 
had  on  board  a  crew  of  twenty-one  men. 
The  Vernon  was  a  Chicago  craft,  plying 
between  this  city  and  Cheboygan.  She 
was  due  in  Chicago  to-day  with  a  cargo 
of  miscellaneous  freight,  composed  chief- 
ly of  produce. 

An  incendiary  set  fire  Monday  night  to 
a  building  in  Paris  township,  Kent  coun- 
ty, Michigan,  in  which  thirty  Italian  la- 
borers were  sleeping.  A  band  outside 
had  barred  the  doors  to  prevent  the  es- 
cape of  the  men,  who,  however,  were 
aroused  by  a  wakeful  companion,  and 
managed  to  get  out  of  the  blazing  struct- 
ure in  their  night  clothes.  Efforts  are 
being  made  to  discover  the  conspirators. 

The  boiler  of  a  threshing  machine  ex- 
ploded Tuesday  morning  between  Fred- 
erick and  Ellendale,  D.  T.  Three  men 
were  killed  and  two  fatally  wounded . 

A  four  year  old  boy  was  burned  to  death 
Tuesday  morning  at  Brazil,  Ind.  The 
boy's  grandmother  mounted  a  horse  to  go 
for  a  doctor,  and  was  thrown  off,  receiv- 
ing injuries  that  will  prove  fatal. 

One  third  of  the  potato  crop  of  Wau- 
paca county.  Wis.,  has  been  ruined  by 
frost.  At  6  o'clock  Tuesday  morning  the 
thermometer  at  Waupaca  indicated  zero. 

Mrs.  Felton  of  Romulus,  Mich  ,  heard 
a  great  uproar  in  front  of  her  house  late 
Monday  night,  and  being  alone  with  six 
small  children,  became  alarmed,  fearing 
an  attack  was  to  be  made  on  her .  She 
got  a  revolver,  and  in  an  attempt  to  raise 
the  hammer,  discharged  the  weapon,  and 
received  the  bullet  in  her  abdomen. 

Near  Freeport,  III,  early  Tuesday 
morning  a  freight  train  of  the  Minnesota 
and  Northwestern  line,  running  on  the 
Illinois  Central  road,  was  thrown  from 
the  track  and  wrecked.  The  damage  was 
great,  and  it  will  take  several  days  to 
render  the  road  passable.  The  E,  B. 
Washburne  funeral  train  passed  but  a 
few  minutes  before,  but  went  safely  over 
the  obstruction  that  caused  the  accident. 

A  fireman  and  brakeman  were  instant- 
ly killed,  and  the  engineer  was  fatally  in- 
jured in  an  accident  on  the  Midland  road 
near  Florissant,  Col.,  Thursday. 

Convicts  in  the  penitentiary  at  Yuma, 
A.  T.,  attempted  to  escape  Thursday 
morning.  A  life  priKoner  snatched  a  pis- 
tol from  an  escaping  criminal,  and  with 
it  killed  a  man  who  held  and  was  stab- 
bing the  superintendent  of  the  institu- 
tion. None  of  the  conspirators  eacap«d, 
but  two  of  them  were  killed  and  three 
wounded,  one  fatally.  The  superintend 
ent  was  badly  hurt. 

The  convict  labor  contract  system  was 
abolished  by  the  last  Pennsylvania  legis- 
lature, and  work  on  all  outstanding  con- 
tracts was  finished  Monday,  the  24lh. 
This  throws  a  large  number  of  convicts 
into  idleness  Many  have  been  locked  in 
their  cells  during  the  past  ten  days,  and 
thoy  are  oom plaining  bitterly  of  their  con- 
finement. 

A  terrible  epidemic  of  typhoid  fever  is 
rbging  in  the  Iron  Mountain  village  on 
the  Menominee  River  railway  100  miles 


south  of  Ishpeming,  Mich.  There  were 
200  cases  last  week,  and  new  cases  were 
reported  every  few  minutes.  Physicians 
are  working  day  and  night  with  help 
from  other  towns.  The  deaths  are  nu- 
merous. 

On  account  of  the  scarcity  of  coal, 
caused  by  the  strike  of  the  coal  miners  in 
the  vicinity,  the  public  schools  of  Spring- 
field, 111.,  were  compelled  to  close.  Some 
of  the  mines  are  being  worked,  but  will 
not  receive  orders  from  private  consum- 
ers. 

A  telegraph  pole  placed  on  the  track 
of  the  Rock  Island  road,  near  Morris,  111., 
wrecked  a  freight  train  Friday  morning, 
the  engineer  and  fireman  being  killed. 
It  is  believed  that  the  intention  of  the 
murderers  was  to  derail  the  Kansas  City 
express,  which,  fortunately,  was  half  an 
hour  late,  to  be  followed  in  a  short  time 
by  the  Omaha  and  Minneapolis  express. 
There  is  no  clew  to  the  wreckers,  for 
whose  capture  a  reward  of  $2,000  has 
been  offered. 

J.  E  Smith,  the  express  messenger  who 
recently  killed  two  robbers  near  El  Paso, 
was  Thursday  paid  $2  000  as  a  reward,  by 
the  Governor  of  Texas.  He  expects  to 
receive  $2,000  more  from  the  express 
company,  and  $1,000  additional  from  the 
railroad  corporation. 

Forty-nine  head  of  cattle,  suffering 
from  pleuropneumonia,  were  killedThurs- 
day  on  a  farm  near  New  Brunswick,  New 
Jersey . 

The  water  famine  that  has  prevailed 
through  the  two  western  tiers  of  Ohio 
counties  and  the  adjacent  Territory  of 
Indiana  is  growing  serious,  for  upon  the 
table  lands  and  extended  level  stretches, 
away  from  larger  streams,  cattle  are  act- 
ually suffering  and  bellowing  for  drink. 
Farm  and  village  wells  are  dry,  and  in 
other  wells  the  low  stage  of  water  is 
breeding  typhoid  fever  and  kindred  dis- 
eases. Sources  of  smaller  water-power 
mills  have  been  stopped  for  thrpe  months, 
and  as  many  steam  mills  have  been  run- 
ning on  short  time  or  shut  down  alto- 
gether. Fall  wheat  and  barley  have  had 
spindling  growth,  but  will  easily  recover 
if  rain  comes  before  a  hard  winter  sets 
in. 

A  heavy  flow  of  natural  gas,  bursting 
unexpectedly  from  a  well  near  Lima,  Ohio, 
was  ignited  by  a  furnace  fire  and  explod- 
ed wiih  terrific  force.  Samuel  Hughes,  a 
driller,  was  shockingly  mangled,  and  der- 
ricks, machinery,  engines,  etc.,  were  de- 
stroyed by  the  fire.  The  gas  is  still  burn- 
ing, all  efforts  to  extinguish  it  being  vain. 

FOREIGN. 

At  the  meeting  called  by  the  Lord  May- 
or to  devise  means  for  assisting  the  de- 
serving poor  of  London,  it  was  decided 
unadvisable  to  open  a  special  fund,  as 
was  done  last  year,  because  this  would 
encourage  loafers.  But  resolutions  were 
adopted  advising  the  public  to  all  in  their 
power  to  assist  theLondon  charities  which 
were  able  and  deserving,  but  to  use  more 
discrimination. 

Advices  from  New  Zealand  are  to  the 
effect  that  King  Malietoa  of  Samoa,  has 
been  deposed  by  Germany,  and  that,  with 
his  son  and  three  chiefs,  he  had  been  tak- 
en board  the  warship  Albatross,  the  des- 
tination of  which  is  unknown.  New 
Zealand  and  other  papers  characterize 
Germany's  course  as  arbitrary  in  the  ex  - 
treme. 

The  Montenegrin  arrested  at  Varna  has 
confessed  that  the  Slav  Committee  at 
Odessa  prompted  him  with  5,000  napo- 
leons and  a  good  post  under  the  Russian 
Government  if  he  succeeded  in  organizing 
a  plot  to  murder  Prince  Ferdinand  and 
M.  Skobouloff,  the  Bulgarian  leaders. 

Sir  Wilfred  Blunt,  M.  P.,  who  was  ar- 
rested at  Woodford  on  Sunday,  the  23d 
ult , for  speaking  at  a  proclaimed  meeting, 
was  later  found  guilty  of  violating  the 
Irish  crim03  act  and  sentenced  to  two 
months'  imprisonment.  Notice  of  appeal 
from  the  verdict  was  given  by  defend- 
ent's  counsel  Mr.  Roche,  a  poor  law 
guardian  of  Woodford,  who  was  also  ar- 
rested at  Sunday's  meeting,  was  sentenced 
to  three  weeks'  imprisonment  without 
hard  labor. 

Sir  William  Harcourt,  speaking  at 
Portsmouth,  denied  that  it  was  possible 
to  shelve  the  Irish  question,  which,  he 
said,  when  thrust  aside,  always  came  back 
with  renewed  force.  The  coercion  act  was 
already  a  dead  failure.  Other  govern- 
ments had  failed  after  trying  coercion, 
but  the  present  government  had  failed 
before  it  began  trying  it. 


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various  movements  of  the  lodge  as  they  appear  to  public  view, 
and  reveals  the  secret  machinery  of  corruption  In  politics, 
courts,  and  social  and  religious  circles. 

There  are  In  the  United  States 

/S'ome  200  different  Lodges, 
With  2,000  000  members, 
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yet  80  unpopular  and  beset  with  difficulties,  as  that  which  would 
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CONTENTS. 


Bditobial  : 

Notes  and  Comments 1 

Editorial  CorreepoDdence.  8 
The  Doomed  Anarchists. .  8 
TheN.C.  A.  Foreign  Mis- 
sion   8 

CONTBIBUTIONS  ; 

Secret  Societies  and  the 
Colored  People 1 

Idle  Vaporlngs 2 

Ole  Buli— A  Musical  Rem- 
iniscence     2 

Slavery,  Saloonery,  Lodg- 

ery 2 

Sblectbd : 

The  Colored  Masons  of 
Mississippi 3 

Necessity  of  the  Sabbath.    3 

Strange  Fljiuring 3 

Rbform  News  : 

From  the  General  Agent; 
Our  Work  Along  the 
Gulf;  The  New  Hamp- 
shire Convention 4,5 


COBKBSFOKDBNCB : 

Reform  Congregations  in 
and  About  Pittsburgh; 
Munhall  at  Columbus; 
Truth  Triumphing 
Among  the  Baptists  of 
Texas;  National  Reform 
in  Northern  Wisconsin ; 
Pith  and  Point 5,6 

BiBLB   LBSSON 6 

Boston  Letter 9 

Obituary— Dr.  Clark 7 

The  N.  C.  a 7 

Church  vs.  Lodge 7 

The  HOMB 10 

Temperance 11 

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On  Tuesday,  as  we  go  to  press,  the  vote  of  Oregon 
is  being  cast  on  three  amendments  to  the  State  con- 
stitution. The  first  is  to  prohibit  the  manufacture 
and  sale  of  intoxicating  liquors.  The  friends  of 
temperance  have  made  an  active  canvass  of  the  State, 
and  many  prominent  men  and  women  from  the  East 
have  given  their  assistance,  chief  among  them  ex- 
Governor  St.  John.  It  is  expected  that  the  vote  will 
be  very  close,  and  possibly  the  decision  will  lie  with 
Portland,  which  is  sure  to  go  wrong.  But  there  is 
some  hope,  and  many  and  sincere  will  be  the  prayers 
that  the  result  will  not  be  like  Michigan,  Tennessee 
and  Texas,  but  that  one  State,  at  least,  will  be  re- 
deemed from  the  rum  curse  in  1887. 


Cardinal  Gibbons  of  Baltimore  wrote  an  article  of 
the  most  plausible  character  in  the  North  American 
Review  last  month,  deploring  some  of  the  obvious 
dangers  threatening  the  country.  Among  these  was 
our  national  sin  of  Sabbath-breaking.  The  testimo- 
ny of  the  head  of  the  Eomish  church  in  America 
against  this  evil  is  of  value;  but  the  Cardinal  must 
know  that  intelligent  readers  understand  well  enough 
that  the  practice  of  the  Bomish  church  has  little  ef- 
fect in  sanctifying  the  day.  The  "continental"  Sab- 
bath which  is  making  such  inroads  upon  our  "New 
England"  day  comes  to  us  from  Catholic  countries. 
As  one  of  the  Cardinal's  own  admirers  says,  "In 
Spain,  Italy,  France,  and  other  Catholic  countries — 
or  in  the  distinctive  Catholic  portions  of  them — 
theatres  and  concerts  and  public  gardens  and  public 
institutions  are  open  as  on  week  days  and  liberally 
patronized  by  all  classes  of  Catholics.  In  Ireland, 
said  to  be  the  most  loyal  Catholic  country  on  the 
globe,  political  meetings  are  held  regularly  on  Sun- 
day and  are  attended  by  the  people  and  clergy  with- 
out distinction  of  creed." 


The  Mormons  gathering  courage  from  the  treach- 
erous minority  report  of  Carlton  of  Indiana  and 
McClernand  of  Illinois,  members  of  the  Utah  Com- 
mission, have  decided  to  raise  1400,000  to  squander 


on  Congress  this  winter  and  bribe  and  buy  their 
way  to  Statehood.  But  the  administration  will 
hardly  venture  to  pass  favorably  on  such  a  measure 
against  the  strongly  expressed  judgment  of  its  serv- 
ant Governor  West  But  a  more  certain  check  upon 
their  evil  ambition  is  the  decision  of  Judge  Zane  of 
the  Territorial  Supreme  Court  last  Saturday,grant- 
ing  the  petition  of  District  Attorney  Peters  for  a 
receiver  for  the  Mormon  church.  In  his  opinion 
Judge  Zane  says:  "It  sufficiently  appears  that  the 
defunct  corporation  has  in  its  possession  real  prop- 
erty in  value  exceeding  $50,000,  the  limit  fixed  by 
the  act  of  Congress  of  1862,  and  that  a  portion  of 
it  is  not  a  building  or  grounds  appurtenant  thereto, 
held  for  the  purpose  of  the  worship  of  God."  The 
decision  is  of  course  received  with  the  greatest  in- 
dignation by  the  Mormons,  who  denounce  the  aflair 
as  robbery.  The  decision  will  have  the  good  effect 
probably  to  hinder  the  $400,000  job  and  the  palms 
of  some  Congressmen  will  have  to  keep  on  itching 
this  winter. 


Since  the  editorial  on  another  page  was  written 
it  is  announced  that  Spies,  Schwab  and  Fielden  of 
the  condemned  men  have  been  persuaded  by  the 
most  urgent  solicitations  of  their  friends  to  sue  for 
mercy  from  the  governor,  deploring  the  massacre  of 
the  police  and  regretting  the  effect  of  their  violent 
teachings.  It  is  not  a  humble  document,  but  shows 
some  contrition  under  the  gallows'  shadow.  As  was 
expected  last  week  the  unanimous  decision  of  the 
Supreme  Court  at  Washington  was  against  the  peti- 
tion of  the  anarchists,  and  the  utmost  effort  to  move 
Governor  Oglesby  is  being  made.  Petitions  are  cir- 
culating on  the  streets  of  Chicago  and  are  coming 
in  from  all  over  the  country,  and  Black,with  various 
representatives  of  labor  and  socialist  societies,  will 
make  a  personal  plea  to  stop  the  hanging.  But  the 
condemned  men  seem  to  be  making  any  other  dis- 
position of  their  cases  impossible.  Earlv  Sunday 
morning  Engel  was  found  nearly  dead.  He  had  at- 
tempted suicide  with  opium  smuggled  in  to  him. 
Prompt  measures  saved  him.  A  few  hours  later 
while  cleaning  out  Lingg's  cell,  four  bombs  charged 
and  primed  were  dragged  out  by  the  pallid  officers. 
The  discovery  thrilled  the  city,  and  roused  the  len- 
ient Sheriff  Matson  to  realize  that  human  tigers  are 
not  to  be  played  with  as  he  has  with  boodlers. 
Every  precaution  will  be  taken  by  the  city  authori- 
ties, but  the  police  confess  that  it  is  always  the  un- 
expected that  happens.  Anarchists  from  other  cities 
are  coming  in  companies  to  Chicago  and  all  man- 
ner of  thieves  with  them.  It  is  a  week  to  try  the 
temper  of  the  city,  but  ihe  people  are  quiet  and  con- 
fident in  the  ability  of  the  guardians  of  the  public 
peace  to  prevent  disorders.  An  excellent  sugges- 
tion has  been  made  that  all  Christians  should  ob- 
serve the  day  with  fasting  and  prayer  so  that  the 
dangers  threatened  from  this  assault  upon  social  and 
religious  order  may  be  averted. 


A  day  seems  hardly  to  have  passed  since  we  pub- 
lished a  note  on  the  determination  of  Rev.  R.  G. 
Wilder,  editor  of  the  greatest  of  the  missionary  mag- 
azines, the  Missionary  Review,  to  return  with  his  wife 
to  India  and  spend  the  last  years  of  his  life  among 
the  people  to  whom  he  gave  the  thirty  best  years  of 
his  life.  He  bad  just  completed  his  business  ar- 
rangements, had  transferred  the  editorial  care  of  the 
Review  to  Dr.  A.  T.  Pierson  of  Philadelphia  and  Dr. 
J.  M.  Sherwood  of  New  York,  and  on  the  very  day 
the  contract  was  signed  his  soul  went  up  to  God. 
He  was  buried  at  Princeton,  New  Jersey,  on  the 
afternoon  of  the  ISth  of  October,  being  71  years  old. 
Dr.  Wilder  was  an  early  missionary  of  a  representa- 
tive type.  Well  educated,  he  turned  his  back  on 
wealth,  ease  and  honor  at  home  for  the  self-denials 
of  a  life  in  India.  After  serving  with  the  American 
Board  for  twelve  years  he  continued  for  the  same 
length  of  time  to  manage  an  independent  mission, 
and  then  until  the  failure  of  his  health  was  main- 
tained by  the  Presbyterian  Board.  Needed  reforms 
in  the  management  of  tiiis  Board  were  urged  in  the 
Review  with  great  ability,  and  the  magazine  was 
without  a  peer  in  presenting  the  general  outlook  of 
missions  and  for  its  report  of  missionary  statistics. 
On  his  last  morning  a  friend  spoke  in  sympathy  for 


his  great  suffering.  His  moans  of  distress  ceased, 
he  looked  up  cheerfully  and  spoke  for  the  last  time, 
"Yes;  but  I  am  the  son  of  a  King!" 


BBGRST  aOCIBTIBa  AND  THB  COLORED 
PEOPLB. 


BY   REV.    H.    H.    HINMAN. 

The  following  circulars  were  sent  to  a  worthy  pas- 
tor of  a  colored  church  in  Mississippi.  '  It  is  a  spec- 
imen of  the  series  of  most  wicked  frauds  perpetra- 
ted on  the  colored  people  of  the  South,  in  which  it 
has  been  sought  to  involve  their  ministers  as  parties. 
private  lktter. 

Office  of  the  Supreme  Commandery  ok  the  ( 

Universal  Brotherhood  of  America.         ( 

Natchez,  Miss., 188 . . 

Dear  Sir: — The  Supreme  (Jommaadery  of  the  U  B.A. 
respectfully  state  that  you  have  been  recommended  to 
them  as  a  gentleman  worthy  of  confidence, and  in  consid- 
eration of  which  you  have  been  elected  a  "Commander" 
of  this  organiz-ition.  The  offlce.if  accepted.may  be  held 
during  good  behavior.  You  will  receive  for  organizing 
Commanderies  $50  a  month,  provided  you  initiate  100 
members,  and  $100  a  month,  provided  you  initiate  200 
members;  and  for  any  number  less  than  100,  fifty  cents 
per  member,  provided  no  lodge  contain  less  than  ten 
members;  and  50  cents  extra  for  each  degree  conferred. 

1.  The  "Commander"with  thegreatest  number  of  mem- 
bers shall  be  the  successor  to  the  Supreme  Commaudery 
in  case  of  vacancy. 

2.  The  "Commander"  with  the  largest  number  of  mem- 
bers in  his  State  shall  be  commissioned  Go7ernor  of  all 
the  lodges  in  his  State. 

3.  The  "Commander"with  the  largest  number  of  mem- 
bers in  his  county,  shall  be  commissioned  County  Com- 
mander . 

You  will  understand  from  the  above  that  you  have  an 
opportunity  not  only  of  making  money  in  doing  good, 
but  of  becoming  a  man  of  great  distinction.  Your  de- 
grees will  be  free,  and  increased  with  your  membership. 

The  great  and  important  secrets  of  the  noble  cause  to 
be  disclosed  as  the  members  rise  by  degrees,  and  its  good 
works  will  soon  make  the  organization  the  largest  in  the 
United  States.  If  jou  accept  this  greatest  offer  of  a  life- 
time, sign  the  enclosed  oath  and  send  for  a  commission 
and  degrees  to  the  Supreme  Commander. 

I  This  paper  is  Issued  from  the  Supreme  Commandery,  and 
signed  by  the  "Supreme  Commander,"  who  is  a  lawyer,  by  a 
Rev.  Miller,  a  Clerk  of  Circuit  Court,  a  Principal  of  the  high 
Bchool,  all  of  Natchez,  and  a  real  estate  lawyer  of  Vidalla,  La., 
who  are  the  leading  officers.  I 

OBLIGATION. 

In  the  presence  of  your  Heavenly  Father  and  these 
witnesses  you  hereby  pledge  your  sacred  honor  that  you 
will  never  reveal  any  of  the  secrets  of  this  order,  or  com- 
municate them  or  any  part  thereof  to  any  person  in  the 
world,  unless  you  are  satisfied  by  strict  lest  or  in  some 
legal  manner,  that  they  are  lawfully  entitled  to  receive 
them;  that  you  will  conform  to  and  abide  by  the  consti- 
tution, the  rules  and  regulations  of  the  Supreme  Com- 
mandery and  the  subordinate  commandery  to  which  you 
may  be  attached .  That  you  will  never  sanction  the  ad- 
mittance of  any  one  to  membership  in  the  order  whom 
you  have  any  reason  to  believe  is  an  improper  person, 
nor  will  you  oppose  the  admission  of  any  one  solely  on 
the  grounds  of  a  personal  matter.  You  will  not  in  any 
manner  whatever  knowingly  wrong  or  defraud  a  brother, 
nor  will  you  permit  it  to  be  done  by  another,  if  in  your 
power  to  prevent  it.  You  will  recognize  all  lawful  signs 
given  you  by  a  member  of  this  order,  and  will  render 
them  such  assistance  as  they  may  be  in  need  of,  so  far  aa 
you  are  able.  Should  you  knowingly  or  willfully  violate 
this  oath  or  any  part  of  it,  you  invoke  on  yourself  total 
expulsion  from  the  order,  without  the  possibility  of  rein- 
statement and  to  be  forever  disgraced  by  the  Brother- 
hood universally— So  help  me  God. 

OBJECTS. 

This  society  is  organizad  for  the  purpose  of  aiding  and 
assisting  the  members  thereof  by  paying  to  the  legal  rep- 
resentatives of  a  deceased  member  a  death  benefit  of  not 
less  than  five  hundred  dollars  nor  more  than  one  thousand 
dollars,  and  to  a  member  who  shall  become  permanently 
disabled  after  joining  the  Brotherhood  an  endowment  of 
not  less  than  five  hundred  nor  more  than  one  thousand 
dollars. 

"Any  person,  white  or  colored,  male  of  female,  of  any 
religion  or  politics, who  believes  in  a  Supreme  Being  .  . 
being  sound  in  body  and  mind  and  of  good  moral  charac- 
ter, or  those  who  are  desirous  of  reforming  their  lives, 
shall  be  eligible  to  membership  in  this  Brotherhood." 

I  remark  on  the  above: 

1.  It  is  an  appeal  to  the  pride  and  cupidity  of  pas- 
tors, offering  them  a  large  bribe  if  they  will  help 


1 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CJYKOSUKES. 


NOVEMBBB  10,  1887 


defraud  their  flocks,  and  a  larger  bribe  if  they  are 
eminently  successful.  The  organizer  is  to  carry  out 
this  fraud  by  pretending  that  this  is  a  benevolent  soci- 
ety, and  that  it  confers  benefits  on  all  those  who  are 
connected  with  it.  Actually,  he  takes  from  each 
member  not  less  than  fifty  cents,  which  he  puts  into 
his  own  pocket,  and  fifty  cents  more  to  pay  for  a 
promise,  which  in  its  terms  can  never  be  fulfilled. 
Besides  this,  each  member  must  pay  a  regular  as- 
sessment and  dues,  a  part  of  which  goes  into  the 
pockets  of  the  organizer. 

2.  He  is  expected  to  sell  valuable  secrets  with 
each  degree,  the  pay  for  which  he  can  put  (at  least 
half  a  dollar  of  it)  in  his  own  pocket.  These  se- 
crets are  declared  to  be  "great  and  important."  Like 
all  the  so-called  secrets  of  other  orders  they  are, 
and  must  be,  simply  frivolous  and  foolish,  if  not 
something  worse.  That  there  is  any  intrinsic  value 
in  any  of  the  secrets  of  any  of  the  orders  no  sensi- 
ble person  can  honestly  pretend.  To  secure  this 
privilege  of  defrauding  his  neighbors,  the  organizer 
must  swear  and  subscribe  to  an  extra-judicial  oath, 
dishonoring  his  manhood  and  violating  the  Third 
Commandment. 

That  men  of  respectability  should  lend  their  sanc- 
tion to  such  a  scheme  seems  incredible.  The  array 
of  names,  whether  real  or  spurious,  shows  how  wide- 
ly the  system  has  taken  hold  on  the  people,  and  with 
what  impunity  such  frauds  can  be  perpetrated  on 
the  innocent  and  unsuspecting. 
<  «  » 

IDLE  VAPORING. 


BY  MBS.  M.  A.  BLANCHARD. 

It  indicates  a  sad  state  of  affairs  when  many  of 
the  utterances  of  those  who  are  leaders  of  religious 
thought  can  only  be  fitly  designated  by  this  term. 
Confronted  as  we  are  on  all  sides  by  evils  of  greater 
or  less  magnitude,  we  might  hope  that  every  soldier 
of  the  Cross  taking  his  place  by  his  Master,  would 
stand  up  bravely  for  the  right,  and  as  manfully  op- 
pose the  wrong.  If  this  were  done  how  rapidly 
would  "righteousness  cover  the  earth  even  as  the 
waters  the  sea."  We  have  reason  to  know  and  be- 
lieve that  a  vast  majority  of  Christians  are  at  heart 
opposed  to  secret  societies.  Protestant  Christianity 
as  a  whole  was  a  bursting  out  from  the  darkness  of 
the  convent,  the  cloister  and  the  Inquisition,  and 
with  the  chained  Bible,  into  the  risen  glory  of  a  life 
by  faith  in  God  the  Father,  Son,  and  Holy  Ghost. 
What  a  heritage  to  enter  upon  was  this! 

But  what  do  we  see?  Yonder  is  a  young  man 
just  converted,  full  of  ardor  to  spread  the  knowledge 
of  Christ  to  those  in  pagan  lands.  When  just  about 
starting  to  his  work,  after  years  of  preparation 
Christian  friends  send  him  to  the  Masonic  lodge, 
where  he  is  duly  initiated  in  its  dark  mysteries,  his 
conscience  put  under  bondage  to  new  and  strange 
oaths,  and  his  Saviour  left,  with  his  hat  and  clothes, 
at  the  door.  This  is  all  done  to  increase  his  influ- 
ence in  heathen  or  foreign  lands.  Sad  at  heart,  you 
seek  to  get  access  to  the  thought  fountains,  to  pop- 
ularize the  example  and  teachings  of  Christ,  who 
"ever  spake  openly  to  the  people  and  in  secret  said 
nothing,"  so  that  victimizing  our  young  men  in  this 
way  shall  cease.  To  your  agreeable  surprise  you 
find  the  private  opinion  of  a  multitude  of  the  edu- 
cators in  our  land  to  be  heartily  with  you.  But  like 
"dumb  dogs"  they  will  not  bark.  "They  see  the 
wolf  coming."  Those  under  their  eye  and  influence 
are  in  danger  of  being  stripped,  mangled,  and  torn; 
they  will  not  utter  a  loud  and  hearty  warning  them- 
selves, nor  will  they  get  or  allow  another  one  more 
brave  than  themselves  to  do  it  for  them.  No,  their 
fine  sentiments  all  end  in  idle  vaporing. 


OLE  BULL- A   MV810AL  REMINI80BN0E. 


BY   OKOROE    W.    CLARK. 


I  saw  it  stated  in  a  public  journal  the  other  day 
that  Ole  Bull  has  left  a  daughter  who  inherits  her 
father's  musical  genius.  If  so,  cultivated  and  de- 
veloped, she  will  make  her  mark  and  fortune  in  the 
world.  This  notice  calls  to  my  mind  some  remi- 
niscences of  her  famous  father. 

I  have  heard  nearly  all  the  great  masters  on  the 
violin  that  ever  came  to  this  country,  but  no  one 
ever  made  such  a  revelation  of  the  wonderful  pow- 
ers of  that  wonderful  instrument  to  my  mind  and 
heart  as  did  Ole  Bull.  No  one  ever  carried  my  soul 
by  the  influence  and  power  of  music  to  such  sub- 
lime heights  of  royal  ecstacy  as  this  then  youthful 
Norwegian.  Next  to  him  came  Mons.  Julian,  with 
his  famous  band  of  one  hundred  performers,  in 
Castle  Garden,  New  York.  I  heard  them  both  on 
the  occasion  of  their  first  appearance  on  our  shores 
and  I  look  back  upon  these  occasions,  though  now 
almost  half  a  century  ago,  as   the  two  great  and 


most  intense  musical  events  of  my  life.  I  heard 
Gottschalk,  Thalburg,  and  the  wonderful  blind  Tom 
on  the  piano,  and  was  charmed,  especially  with  the 
extraordinary  performances  of  that  eccentric  nonde- 
script, "blind  Tom; '  but  I  confess  to  greater  and 
more  intense  delight  when  Ole  Bull,  that  king  of 
violinists,  made  his  dehut  in  New  York  city. 

The  Tabernacle  was  packed  with  a  brilliant,  fas- 
tidious and  appreciative  audience;  who,  while  they 
seemed  taken  quite  aback  by  the  youthful,  even  boy- 
ish, modest  and  diffident  appearance  of  the  young 
Norwegian,  and  who  seemed  also  to  mistrust  his 
ability  or  power  to  answer  their  very  sanguine  ex- 
pectations, yet  gave  him,  nevertheless,  a  most  cor- 
dial and  enthusiastic  reception,  to  which  he  most 
gracefully  bowed  his  acknowledgments.  The  pro- 
found silence  that  now  ensued  was  intense,  almost 
breathless.  Then  came  the  deliberate,  artless,  and 
nice  adjustment  of  the  instrument  under  the  inclin- 
ing left  ear,  the  soft  and  delicate  twang  of 
the  strings  by  the  fingers,  as  the  ear  turned  listfuUy 
down  to  hear  if  they  were  "/««<  in  tune"  Then  the 
long  and  exquisitely  drawn  bow  and  the  sweet,  ten- 
der, weird,  enchanting  and  anon  rhapsodical  strains 
soon  dispelled  all  doubt,  holding  all  spellbound,  and 
finally  completely  electrified  the  vast  audience. 
The  young  foreigner  was  overwhelmed  with  shouts 
of  applause,  as  the  human  mass  rose  simultaneously 
to  their  feet,  swinging  their  hats  and  waving  their 
handkerchiefs  and  literally  burying  their  idol  with 
a  shower  of  magnificent  bouquets. 

Ole  Bull's  powers  of  imitation  and  description 
were  marvelous,  and  elicited  great  admiration.  In 
his  piece  dedicated  to  "America"  while  reveling  so 
grandly  upon  its  magnificent  mountains  and  amid 
its  beautiful  valleys,  he  would  occasionally  drop 
into  some  sweet,  tender  and  plaintive  negro  melody, 
stirring  the  deep  chords^  of  pity  in  all  hearts.  Then 
while  portraying  our  broad  lakes,  silvery  streams, 
flourishing  towns  and  rising  cities,  he  suddenly 
broke  out  into  "Hail  Columbia,  Happy  Land" again 
carrying  the  immense  audience  by  storm. 

In  his  piece  describing  the  "Solitude  of  the  Prai- 
ries," I  involuntarily  imagined  myself  standing  alone 
far  away  out  on  some  of  those  vast  western  plains, 
"a  thousand  miles  from  any  place,"  or  mortal  inhab- 
itant, just  as  night  was  casting  its  sable  curtain 
over  the  earth.  So  real  was  the  whole  scene  pre- 
sented to  my  mind  that  I  could  fairly  feel  the  fall- 
ing shadows  of  evening,  and  hear  the  black  crickets 
sing  in  the  prairie  grass. 

During  the  rendering  of  his  famous  "America" 
and  in  the  midst  of  its  glowing  tribute,  he  glided 
suddenly  and  playfully  into  "Yankee  Boodle;"  and 
such  a  going  over  and  shaking  up  that  crankey  old 
tune  had  never  taken  before.  He  played  it  fast  and 
he  played  it  slow;  he  played  it  high  and  he  played 
it  low;  he  turned  it  inside  out  and  outside  in;  down 
side  up  and  upside  down;  changing  the  key  and  the 
movements  and  varying  the  variations  and  the  into- 
nations and  the  accentuations,  again  and  again,  until 
the  audience  was  completely  convulsed  with  laugh- 
ter, ending  with  round  after  round  of  almost  deafen- 
ing applause. 

On  his  programme  for  the  evening  was  a  composi- 
tion entitled  "Niagara  Falls."  The  idea  of  describ- 
ing Niagara  Falls,  that  wonderful  wonder  of  the 
world,  with  a  "fiddle"  seemed  ludicrous  in  the  ex- 
treme, and  many  feared  it  must  prove  a  ridiculous 
failure.  Yet  he  did  it;  and  so  successfully  and  with 
such  consummate  skill  and  perfection  we  could  fairly 
hear  the  roar  of  the  thundering  cataract,  see  the 
arched  rainbow  amid  the  silvery  spray  curving  over 
the  awful  chasm,  and  hear  the  birds  sing  and  twitter 
their  sweet  notes  amid  the  leafy  boughs  on  Goat 
Island.  As  the  last  notes  died  away  there  burst 
forth  another  wild  demonstration  of  delight,  accom- 
panied with  another  still  more  copious  shower  of 
bouquets.  The  young  Norwegian  stooped  to  gather 
up  and  press  to  his  breast  these  beautiful  and  fra- 
grant tokens  of  their  generous  and  enthusiastic  ad- 
miration and  delight,  but  all  in  vain;  they  fell  so 
thick  and  fast  about  him  he  was  obliged  to  "fall 
back"  and  bow  himself  off  the  stage  to  avoid  the 
peltings  of  the  floral  storm.  The  platform  was  left 
a  literal  "bed  of  flowers." 

From  that  night  on  Ole  Bull  was  "master  of  the 
situation."  He  had  won  all  hearts.  He  had  achieved 
a  victory.  A  continent  lay  at  his  feet.  His  success 
and  his  fame  in  America  was  assured.  With  his 
brilliant  career  through  our  country  after  that,  and 
of  the  thousands  who  flocked  to  hear,  and  were  held 
spell-bound  under  the  mysterious  influence  of  his 
magic  wand,  the  older  of  your  readers  are  familiar. 
There  was  none  of  the  "see-saw,"  "clap-trap,"  "hum- 
drum methods  in  his  performances.  They  were  free 
from  the  mere  common,  mechanical,  formal  and 
monotonous  routine.  His  style  was  peculiarly  his 
own;  his  renderings  were  always  inspired  by  the 
deep  and  glowing  fires  of  true  genius.     They  were 


therefore,  not  only  natural,  easy,  unaffected  and 
graceful,  but  they  were  in  a  high  degree  esthetical 
as  well  as  emotional —  nay,  more,  they  were  sub- 
limely spiritual  and  inspiring;  and  his  hearers  were 
always  left  the  purer  and  the  better  and  with  sweeter 
memories  lingering  ever,  after  hearing  Ole  Bull. 

I  can  never  forget  the  scene — this,  the  first  time, 
though  now  more  than  forty  years  agone,  when  I 
heard  Ole  Bull  on  the  occasion  of  his  debut  in  New 
York,  then  in  the  flower  and  flush  of  his  youth:  nor 
the  last  time  I  heard  him  in  this  city  in  1881,  when 
age  had  frosted  both  our  heads  with  silver,  while  he 
yet  retained  complete  mastery  over  his  instrument, 
charming  all  hearts  as  of  yore.  Nor  shall  I  forget 
the  scene  behind  the  curtain  after  the  performance 
was  over,  as  I  went  in  to  give  him  the  friendly  hand 
of  gratulation  and  "good-bye,"  when  he  threw  his 
long  arms  so  cordially  around  my  neck,  and  with  a 
brother's  warm  embrace,  as  we  exchanged  the  "last 
farewell." 

Ole  Bull  waa  not  only  a  radiant  genius,  but  a 
warm-hearted  and  generous  soul.  He  sought  not 
only  to  entertain  and  delight  his  fellow  creatures 
with  his  heavenly  gifts,  but  to  better  their  material 
condition  with  his  wealth,  which  was  freely  lavished 
for  that  purpose. 

From  here  he  returned  to  his  native  Norway — to 
the  hills  and  to  the  home  of  his  childhood,  to  the 
scenes  of  his  youth  and  the  graves  of  his  fathers, 
where  now  he  sleeps  well! — and  where  his  memory  is 
embalmed  in  the  hearts  of  the  millions  in  two  con- 
tinents, who  have  been  enraptured  by  his  wonderful 
and  charming  skill  upon  the  violin. 

Detroit. 

■  «  » 

SLAVERY!    8AL00NERT!    LODQBRY! 


The  syllabic  termination  of  these  three  words 
might  have  great  additional  force  if  it  had  the  sig- 
nificance of  the  Scotch  word  "eerie,"  which  means 
dread  or  fear  of  evil  spirits  I  Lord  Brougham,  the 
Edinburgh  Review  writer,  reform  statesman,  orator, 
and  chancellor  of  the  United  Kingdom,  said  that  the 
English  language  would  be  greatly  enriched  if  the 
lowland  Scotch  were  incorporated  with  it.  The  word 
"eerie"  and  many  others,  require  more  than  one 
English  word  to  give  their  correct  meaning.  But 
certainly  it  would  be  a  correct  thing  to  associate 
dread  and  fear  with  saloonery  and  lodgery,  as,  alas! 
became  so  justly  realized  in  slavery  and  its  rebellion. 

Each  of  these  eerie  sisters  show  their  identity  of 
character  by  their  preliminary  actions  of  natural 
hostility  to  the  supremacy  of  righteousness,  and  to 
the  true  equality  and  brotherhood  of  all  mankind. 
Slavery  was  the  fate  of  the  black  skin  under  white 
despots.  Lodgery  has  its  despots  over  its  oath- 
bound  slaves  of  every  shade  of  skin,  and  saloonery 
enslaves  by  drunkenness  and  follows  in  the  foot- 
steps of  these  illustrious  evil-doers  by  the  persecu- 
tion and  murder  of  those  who  seek  to  prevent  the 
evils  which  flow  from  it,  by  depriving  it  of  its  license. 
The  early  Abolitionists,  the  revealers  of  the  secrets 
of  lodgery,  and  the  advocates  of  prohibition  to-day 
experience  the  same  treatment.  The  mob  is  appealed  • 
to,  or  chosen  instruments  of  vengeance  are  secretly 
engaged  to  wreak  the  rage  of  the  lodge  despots  and 
of  the  liquor  lords  upon  the  faithful  ones  who  dare 
to  declare  the  truth  about  the  trade,  or  the  dens 
which  foster  the  vices  that  would  ruin  the  peace  and 
prosperity  of  our  homes  and  country. 

Slavery  and  lodgery  were  faithful  allies  before  the 
war.  Saloonery  and  lodgery  are  now  equally  bound 
to  support  each  other  against  the  glorious  progress 
of  sentiment  in  favor  of  emancipation  from  their 
direful  sway. 

Morgan,  Lovejoy  and  Haddock  were  martyr  vic- 
tims without  forms  of  law  as  scores  of  others  were; 
and  John  Brown  equally  martyred,  though  by  the 
form  of  law,  inspired  the  march  of  our  armies.  The 
trial  of  Haddock's  murderers  will  soon  tell  whether 
saloonery  or  law  is  supreme  in  Iowa  and  the  sooner 
or  later  probable  result  in  our  whole  country. 

T.  H. 


The  divine  origin  of  the  Bible  is  proved  by  its 
doctrine  of  sin.  It  does  not  say  idolatry  is  unrea- 
sonable and  unmanly,  but  a  sin.  Sabbath-breaking, 
killing,  lying,  stealing,  adultery,  swearing  and  cov- 
etousness  are  sins.  The  Bible  condemnation  of  sin 
tends  to  lead  wicked  men  to  repentance.  In  this 
very  point  much  modern  Christian  effort  is  vain. 
The  church  does  not  say  with  the  emphasis  of  the 
Bible:  Sabbath  desecration  is  a  sin,  the  raising,  sale 
or  use  of  tobacco  is  a  sin,  the  making,  sale  or  use  of 
intoxicating  liquor  is  a  sin,  the  administering,  con- 
cealing or  taking  of  a  secret  lodge  oath  is  sin.  The 
Bible  doctrine  is  that  sin  is  to  be  confessed 
as  publicly  as  the  offence;  to  be  atoned  for  as  far 
as  ability  and  justice  admit;  to  be  abandoned,  hated 
and  condemned,  not  sneaked  around  and  concealed. 
It  is  not  enough  to  tell  wicked  men  that  their  acts 


NoVEMBBR  10,  1887 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


3 


are  ungentlemanly,  expensive,  unhygienic  and  un- 
wise. No  man  was  ever  led  to  sound  repentance  and 
eternal  life  by  such  surface  arguments.  "The  soul 
that  sinneth  shall  die"  is  the  Gospel  tocsin  that  rouses 
the  sleeping  sinner  to  cry  for  mercy  and  accept  de- 
liverance through  the  atonement  of  Jesus  Christ. — 
Chrittian  Witness. 


THE  COLORED  MASONS  OF  MiaaiSSIPPI. 


AN  ORGANIZATION  OF  MUBDERERS. 


A  Grenada,  Miss.,  letter  to  the  New  York  Herald 
says:  Greenwood,  the  county  seat  of  Leflore  coun- 
ty, Miss.,  is  situated  upon  the  Yazoo,  two  miles  be- 
low the  confluence  of  the  Yallo  Busha  and  Talla- 
hatcbee  rivers. 

The  country  around  Greenwood  forms  a  portion 
of  what  is  known  as  the  "Black  Belt" — the  negroes 
being  in  the  majority  of  five  to  one — and  is  part  of 
the  famous  Yazoo  delta,  the  richest  and  most  pro- 
ductive country  upon  the  globe. 

In  this  immediate  section  within  the  last  two 
weeks  evidence  has  been  obtained  which  threw  the 
whole  county  into  the  greatest  excitement  and  as- 
tonishment and  has  unearthed  crimes  of  great  enor- 
mity. 

Dick  Murrell,  a  Negro,  came  to  Leflore  county 
several  years  ago  from  the  neighborhood  of  Selma, 
Ala.,  accompanied  by  six  or  seven  brothers  and  sis- 
ters. They  were  all  bright  mulattoes  and  fearless 
dare-devils,  but  Dick  seemed  to  be  by  far  the  best 
and  most  law-abiding  of  the  lot. 

They  were  all,  except  Dick,  implicated  in  trouble 
in  Leflore  county  years  ago,  when  one  of  them  was 
killed  and  the  others  required  to  leave  the  country. 
A  year  after  that  Matthew  Beck,  one  of  the  best 
and  most  law-abiding  citizens  of  the  county,  and 
who  was  involved  in  the  original  trouble  with  the 
Murrells,  was  assassinated.  Circumstantial  evidence 
pointed  to  the  Murrells  as  the  assassins,  and  they 
were  arrested  in  Alabama,  but  were  discharged  upon 
habeas  corpus  before  the  people  of  Leflore  county 
had  the  opportunity  of  presenting  their  evidence. 
They  have  not  been  heard  of  since,  but  Dick  Murrell 
was  not  connected  or  involved  in  any  of  this  trouble, 
and  has  always  been  regarded  a  good  citizen. 

In  1880  there  came  to  Leflore  county,  as  a  teacher 
in  the  public  school,  a. Negro  named  Henderson, 
who,  after  teaching  a  while,  was  appointed  United 
States  census  taker.  While  acting  in  taat  capacity 
he  was  instrumental  in  organizing  in  Greenwood  the 
first  lodge  of  colored  Masons  in  the  county.  Soon 
afterward  Henderson  was  indicted  by  the  grand  jury 
for  forgery,  he  having  drawn  a  draft  with  all  the 
names  forged,  upon  which  he  received  money  from 
a  Mr.  Tinny.  While  the  grand  jury  was  investigat- 
ing this  forgery  case,  one  of  the  newly-made  Ma- 
sons, a  Negro  and  member  of  the  grand  jury,  offered 
to  pay  Tinny  the  amount  Henderson  had  obtained 
from  him  in  order  to  stop  further  proceedings. 

The  order  languished  until  after  the  overflow  in 
the  delta  in  1885,  when  one  Thomas  W.  Stringer, 
colored,  who  officiated  at  the  institution  of  the 
Greenwood  lodge  in  1880,  again  made  his  appear- 
ance, and  organized  several  lodges — one  at  Surah 
Mound,  a  plantation  on  the  Tallahatchee  river,  about 
five  miles  from  Greenwood,  and  one  at  Dry  Bayou, 
ten  miles  further  up  the  river,  on  a  plantation  largely 
owned  and  cultivated  by  Negroes. 

Accident  has  thrown  into  the  possession  of  the 
correspondent  the  dispensation  of  Stringer  to  this 
lodge.  It  is  dated  Vicksburg,  Oi:t.  22,  1885,  and 
appoints  certain  parties  officers  of  Dry  Bayou  lodge 
and  authorizes  them  to  admit,  initiate,  pass,  and 
raise  Masons  to  the  sublime  degree  of  Master  Ma- 
son, and  directing  them  to  obey  all  rules  and  edicts 
emanating  from  the  Grand  Lodge,  and  not  otherwise. 
Henry  Taylor,  a  Negro  living  on  the  plantation  of 
a  Mr.  Stoncill,  killed  his  uncle,  Luke  Taylor,  in  the 
latter  part  of  last  July,  for  acknowledged  wrong- 
doing with  Martha  Taylor,  Henry's  wife.  The  Ne- 
groes were  much  incensed  against  Henry,  as  Luke 
was  a  member  of  Dry  Bayou  lodge,  and  but  for  the 
firmness  of  Mr.  Stoncill  would  have  lynched  him. 
Henry  was  shortly  afterward  tried  and  acquitted  by 
a  committing  court.  Another  Negro,  George  Evans, 
a  short  time  after  this,  in  an  altercation  with  Ben 
Harris,  also  colored,  and  a  Mascn,  of  the  Greenwood 
lodge,  shot  and  killed  him.  George  came  into 
Greenwood  badly  wounded,  claimed  the  protection 
of  the  white  people,  and  was  lodged  in  jail.  A  few 
nights  afterward  a  crowd  of  one  hundred  Negroes, 
composed  exclusively  of  the  Masons  of  the  Dry 
Bayou,  Surah  Mound,  and  Greenwood  lodges,  forced 
the  jail,  took  George  Evans  about  half  a  mile  from 
the  building,  hanged  him  to  a  tree,  and  then  riddled 
his  body  with  bullets.  As  the  different  crowds  dis- 
appeared that  night  the  members  of  the  Dry  Bayou 
lodge  called  out  that  there  was  a  man  in  the  neigh- 


borhood who  had  killed  a  man  and  needed  attention. 
In  the  meantime  notice  was  given  to  Henry  Tay- 
lor and  his  wife  that  the  Masons  intended  killing 
both  of  them  as  soon  as  a  protracted  religious  meet- 
ing, then  in  progress  at  Dry  Bayou,  should  close. 
Henry  quit  work  late  in  the  afternoon  of  Saturday, 
August  20,  went  to  his  home,  and  neither  he  nor  his 
wife  has  since  been  seen.  After  the  disappearance 
of  Henry  and  his  wife,  the  Negro  Masons  industri- 
ously circulated  the  report  that  they  had  fled  the 
country,  and  this  report  was  not  questioned  until 
September  17,  when  the  body  of  a  man  was  found 
floating  in  Tallahatchee  River,  a  few  miles  below 
Stoncill's  plantation.  The  corpse  was  badly  decom- 
posed; about  the  neck  a  pair  of  trousers  was  tied 
with  suspenders,  and  these  trousers  and  suspenders 
were  identified  as  belonging  to  Henry.  A  coroner's 
jury  was  at  once  impaneled,  and  after  a  close  inves- 
tigation, taking  four  days,  the  jury  returned  a  ver- 
dict of  murder  against  eleven  parties,  including  Dick 
Murrell  and  others.  These  eleven  were  arrested, 
and  upon  a  preliminary  trial  before  two  magistrates 
were  remanded  to  jail  without  bail,  except  Dick 
Murrell,  who  was  discharged.  Dick  had  turned 
States  evidence,  and  given  the  names  of  a  great  num- 
ber of  others  implicated  in  the  double  murder.  The 
witness  upon  whose  testimony  the  verdict  was  ren- 
dered by  the  jury  of  inquest  at  the  preliminary  hear- 
ing by  the  magistrates  refused,  for  a  while,  to  give 
any  evidence,  saying  that  if  he  testified  he  would 
not  get  home  alive.  It  was  only  when  Dick  Mur- 
rell, a  brave  and  fearless  fellow,  told  what  be  knew, 
that  the  recalcitrant  witness  could  be  induced  to  tes- 
tify agjKnst  his  brother  Masons. 

It  had  been  fully  proved  before  the  jury  of  inquest 
that  a  part  of  the  obligation  taken  by  the  fraternity 
was  to  avenge  the  wrong  or  injury  done  to  any  Ma- 
son, and  that  it  was  the  duty  of  the  officers  of  the 
lodge  to  see  that  the  same  was  carried  out.      That 
they  kept  this  obligation  the  recent  deaths  of  George 
Evans  and  Henry  and  Martha  Taylor  fully  shows. 
The  body  of  Martha  has  never  been  found,  but  evi- 
dence has  been  obtained  that  she,  too,  was  shot  at 
the  same  time  and  place  that  Henry  met  his  death. 
Both  bodies  were  carried  out  upon  a  log  projecting 
into  the  river  and  thrown  in,  Martha's  dress  being 
filled  with  rocks  and  securely  tied  around  her  feet. 
The  main  witness  against  one  of  the  party  whose 
trial  was  to  have  begun  on  the  10th  inst.,  cannot  now 
be  found.      Dan  Miller,  another  important  witness 
who  told   of  the  obligation,  has  also  disappeared, 
leaving  his  crop  and  family  behind.    No  conception 
of  the  difficulty  of  obtaining  evidence  can  be  had, 
except  by  those  engaged  in  ferreting  out  the  matter. 
Negroes  outside  the  order  stand  in  mortal  and  in- 
effable dread  of  the  enmity  of  the  fraternity,  and  it 
is  only  after  the  most  solemn  promise  of  protection 
by  the  whites  that  they  will  consent  to  tell  anything. 
Now,  however,  that  the  silence  of  members  of  the 
order  has  been  broken,  no  difficulty  is  apprehended 
by  the  grand  jury,  which  shortly  convenes,  in  gath- 
ering all  the  testimony  needed  to  establish  the  exist- 
ence of  this  hellish  obligation  and  their  terrible  ex- 
ecutions. 

The  parties  implicated  are  some  of  the  most  pros- 
perous and  thrifty  Negroes  in  the  county.  Some 
own  real  estate,  and  many  raise  annually  from  fifty 
to  one  hundred  bales  of  cotton.  Should  the  matter 
be  prosecuted  to  its  full  extent,  as  it  most  certainly 
will  be,  the  white  planters  of  the  northern  and  cen- 
tral portions  of  the  county  will  be  heavy  financial 
losers.  They  are  very  much  enraged  over  the  enor- 
mity of  the  crimes,  and  though  pecuniarily  inter- 
ested in  having  the  personal  attention  and  labor  of 
the  Negroes  in  gathering  their  crops,  yet  they  refuse 
to  go  on  bonds,  secure  attorneys'  fees,  or  to  do  any- 
thing except  to  ferret  out  and  punish  the  perpetra- 
tors. 


day — eight  days'  wages  for  seven  days'  work.  But 
they  could  not  make  them  moral  nor  keep  them 
healthy.  Things  went  badly  and  they  changed  their 
course — employed  the  men  only  six  days  in  a  week 
and  allowed  them  to  rest  on  the  Sabbath.  The  con- 
sequence was  that  they  did  more  work  than  ever  be- 
fore. This,  the  superintendent  said,  was  owing  to 
two  causes,  the  demoralization  of  the  people  under 
the  first  system,  and  their  exhaustion  of  bodily 
strength,which  was  visible  the  most  casual  observ- 
er." Mr.  Bianconi,of  Clonmel,in  Ireland, proprietor 
at  the  time  of  one  hundred  and  ten  vehicles  which 
traveled  from  eight  to  ten  miles  an  hour,  stated  be- 
fore a  statistical  society  that  none  of  the  cars  ex- 
cept those  connected  with  the  mail  were  run  on  Sab- 
bath; that  he  found  it  much  easier  to  work  a  horse 
eight  miles  an  hour  every  week  day,  in  place  of  six 
miles,  than  an  additional  six  on  Sabbath;  and  that 
by  this  plan  there  was  a  saving  of  thirteen  per  cent 
He  added,  in  conclusion:  "I  am  persuaded  that  man 
cannot  be  wiser  than  his  Maker." 

In  that  remarkable  cabinet  of  thought  and  informa- 
tion on  this  subject  by  James  GilfiUan,  to  whom  we 
are  indebted  for  the  above  facts.this  sentence  strikes 
us:  "Hogarth,  like  himself,  is  true  to  nature  when, 
in  one  of  the  early  plates  in  the  series  of  'Industry 
and  Idleness,'    he  represents  the   idle  apprentice, 
whose  course  ends  at  the  gallows,  as  gambling  on  a 
Sabbath  day  upon  a  tombstone  during  divine  ser- 
vice."    We  need  the  Sabbath  to  curb,  to  restrain,  to 
overcome  these  corrupt  natures  of  ours.    We  need  it 
to  divert  the  whole  current  of  our  lives  from  chan- 
nels of  earthly-mindedness  to  those  of  the  Spirit. 
We  need  it  to  open  our  souls  to  the  reception  of  the 
light  of  the  Sun  of  Righteousness.       We  need  it  to 
bathe  our  souls,  polluted  with  sin,  in  the  fountain 
of  the  Redeemer's  blood.       We  need  it  to  clothe 
our  souls  with  the  spotless  robes  of  the  righteous- 
ness of  Christ.       We  need  it  to  satisfy  the  hunger 
and  quench  the  thirst  of  our  souls  with  the   bread 
and  water  of  life.       We  need  it  to  hold  communion 
with  the  Master  and  drink  in  his  love  as  the  fleece 
drinks  in  the  dew.     We  need  it  for  distributing  the 
manna  that  grows  in  the  midst  of  the  Paradise  of 
God,  and  scattering  the  leaves  of  the  tree  of   life 
which  are  for  the  healing  of  the  nations.   And  when 
that  blessed  Sabbath  arrives  that  is  promised  in  the 
Word,  when  the  sound  of  the  woodman's  axe  and 
blacksmith's  anvil  will  not  be  heard,  when  the  rat- 
tling of  the  wheels  of  the  mill,  the  shuttle  and  the 
loom  will  not  be  heard,  when  the  rumbling  of  the 
trains,  the  shrill  whistle  of  the  steam  boat,  and  the 
thundering  applause  of  the  maddening  crowd  on  the 
pleasure  grounds  will  not  be  heard,when  the  plough 
will  lie  still  in  the  furrow  and  the  yoke  will  not  pass 
the  ox's  neck,  when  the  roofs,  chimneys,  steeples    . 
and  monuments  of  our  cities  will  rise  in  an  atmos- 
phere less  murky  than  on  other  days,  and  when  the 
churches  will  be  filled  with  anxious  hearers, who  will 
hang  on  the  preacher's  lips  like  bees  in  a  swarm, 
then  will  these  words  of  the  Saviour  be  verified: "The 
Sabbath  was  made  for  man." — Rev.  J.  if.  Foster. 


8TRAH0B  FIGURING. 


THE 


PETSICAL  AND  MORAL  NECESSITY  OF 
TEE  SAB  BATE. 


In  an  appeal  for  Sabbath  rest  Dr. Humphrey  men- 
tions a  case  which  has  often  been  cited:  "A  contract- 
or went  on  to  the  West,  with  his  hired  men  and 
teams,  to  make  a  turnpike  road.  At  first  he  paid  no 
regard  to  the  Sabbath,  but  continued  his  work  as  on 
other  days.  He  soon  found,  however,  that  the  ordi- 
nances of  nature,  no  less  than  the  moral  law,  were 
against  him.  His  laborers  became  sickly;  his  teams 
grew  poor  and  feeble,  and  he  was  fully  convinced 
that  more  was  lost  than  gained  by  working  on  the 
Lord's  day.  So  true  is  it  that  the  Sabbath  laborer, 
like  the  glutton  and  the  drunkard,  undermines  his 
health,  prematurely  hastens  the  infirmities  of  age 
and  his  exit  from  the  world."  Two  thousand  men 
"were  employed  for  years  seven  days  in  a  week.  To 
render  them  contented  in  giving  up  their  right  to 
the  Sabbath  as  a  day  of  rest,  that  birthright  of  the 
human  family,  they  paid  them  double  wages  on  that 


The  Grand  Lodge,  Knights  of  Pythias  of  Penn- 
sylvania, met  at  Williamsport,  Wednesday,  August 
15,  1887,  and  representatives  are  reported  present 
from  500  lodges,  while  another  part  of  the  annual 
report  claims  only  388  lodges  in  this  commonwealth. 
This  report  says  that  during  the  past  year  only  sev- 
enteen new  lodges  have  been  organized,  while  five 
had  surrendered  their  charters,  leaving  a  net  gain  of 
only  twelve  new  lodges  in  Pennsylvania,  with  its 
sixty-six  counties  and  many  large  cities.  Some 
things  in  this  report  strike  us  as  most  singular,  if 
not  a  little  salty.  According  to  it,  the  receipts  of 
the  year  were  $10,347.23,  which  added  to  a  balance 
on  hand  from  the  previous  year  of  $6,728.87  make 
the  total  receipts  only  $17,076.10;  and  yet  this  re- 
port says  that  the  lodges  spent  in  the  last  year,  for 
the  relief  of  brethren,  $130,445.20;  for  the  burial 
of  the  dead,  $35,099  55;  and  for  the  relief  of  "wid- 
owed  families,"  $1,099.96,  or  a  total  of  $166,592.71; 
and  still  there  was  a  balance  on  hand  of  $6,567.16, 
making  a  grand  total  of  $173,150.87.  These  figures, 
this  grand  report  says,  are  taken  from  the  reports 
of  "the  Grand  Master  of  the  Exchequer"  and  "the 
Grand  Keeper  of  Records  and  Seal,"  and  of  course 
must  be  taken  as  true,  by  outside  people  who  can- 
not understand  lodge  manipulations  of  money^naat- 
ters  or  how  an  annual  income  of  only  $17,076.10 
can  be  made  to  pay  an  outlay  of  $173,160.87. 
When  the  report  says,  "This  shows  a  good  work 
among  the  distressed  and  sick,"  it  reminds  us  of 
the  miraculous  multiplication  of  the  loaves  and  fish- 
es. But  we  feel  sorry  that  the  brave  Knights  of 
Pythias  could  not  find  it  in  their  hearts  to  give  "wid- 
owed families,"  in  the  entire  twelve  months,  only 
$1049.96  out    of  an  expenditure  of  $166,593.71. 


4 


IIBE  GHRISTIAir  CYNOBUREi. 


KOVEMBIR  10, 1887 


Surely,  the  37,466  members  now  claimed  in  Penn- 
sylvania do  not  remember  the  widow  and  the  father- 
less in  a  way  that  is  "very  flattering  to  the  present 
administration."  The  K.  of  P.  report  "a  fund  on 
hand  and  amount  invested  of  $657,342,"  Perhaps 
from  this  they  drew  the  excess  of  their  expenditures 
over  receipts,  amounting  in  the  last  year  to  $156,- 
074.67.  At  this  rate  it  would  take  but  little  over 
four  years  to  exhaust  the  entire  "investment"  and 
wind  up  the  K.  of  P.  financially. — Scmdy  Lake 
News. 


Befobm  News. 


FROM  THE    GENERAL  AGENT. 


DR.     HAS6ELQUIST    INTERVIEWED. 

Near  Fairfield,  Iowa,  Oct.  25, 1887. 

The  day  is  faultless.  The  region  through  which 
we  are  passing  is  one  of  the  best  improved  in  this 
rich  and  fertile  State.  Drouth  has  evidently  efl^ected 
crops,  but  stock,  as  seen  from  the  cars,  seem  to  be 
in  fine  condition.  Corn  husking  is  evidently  the 
special  order  among  farmers,  and  every  thing  indi- 
cates a  busy  season.  A  pleasant  incident  was  the 
meeting  with  Dr.  Hasselquist,  who  has  been  my 
traveling  companion  since  five  o'clock  this  morning, 
who  is  a  deeply  interested  student  of  the  secret 
lodge  system  and  converses  intelligently  upon  any 
phase  of  our  great  movement. 

He  said,  in  substance,  "I  do  not  pretend  to  pre- 
dict the  future,  but  it  does  seem  to  me  that  a  cri- 
sis is  near  at  hand,  and  I  have  thought  the  devil 
might  be  organizing  the  secret  empire  for  the  final 
conflict."  He  expressed  hearty  admiration  for  the 
N.  C.  A.,  but  wondered  that  the  workers  were  not  so 
disheartened  as  to  abandon  the  field. 

Such  thoughts  indicate  a  comprehension  of  the 
issues  involved  which  is  possible  only  to  the  prayer- 
ful and  well-informed,  and  it  is  encouraging  to  find 
one  who  is  a  leader  in  the  religious  and  educational 
movements  of  a  great  denomination  presenting  a 
rare  exception  to  the  general  rule  of  ignorance  or 
indifference  on  a  question  so  vital.  Dr.  Hasselquist 
was  glad  of  an  opportunity  to  examine  the  Knights 
of  Labor  covenant,  and  to  have  assurance  of  its 
genuineness  on  so  good  authority  as  that  of  the  late 
John  B.  Finch.  The  proof  was  on  this  wise.  Ee- 
ferring  to  me  and  holding  in  his  hand  a  copy  of  the 
Koight  of  Labor  exposition,  which  on  his  request  I 
handed  him  as  he  stood  before  the  audience,  he  read 
such  extracts  from  the  covenant  as  he  chose,  thus 
having  a  full  knowledge  of  what  he  was  asserting. 
Directing  his  remarks  to  me,  he  said,  in  substance, 
"If  you  were  never  a  member  of  the  order,  you 
must  have  stolen  that  obligation,  and  in  that  case 
you  must  be  a  thief.  If  you  were  ever  a  member 
you  obligated  yourself  to  keep  its  secrets,  and  in 
that  case  you  must  be  a  liar;  and  in  either  case  you 
are  a  fool." 

This  novel  demonstration  rather  amused  the  Dr., 
but  he  thought  it  severe  language  for  a  gentleman 
to  use,  and  rather  hard  on  me.  I  replied  that  I 
could  well  afford  to  be  sacrificed  in  that  way,  to  ob- 
tain the  confirmation  of  the  correctness  of  that  obli- 
gation by  so  notable  a  member,  and  before  an  audi- 
ence of  intelligent  people. 

The  Dr.  reported  a  healthy  state  of  affairs  at  Au- 
gustana  College  and  the  Theological  Seminary,  and 
will  have  something  to  say  in  his  paper  about  the  New 
Orleans  convention,  which  he  heartily  endorses. 

PRINCETON. 

Stepping  from  the  car  I  grasped  the  hand  of  Bro. 
M.  N.  Butler.  This  town  has  improved  since  I  was 
here  before.  Old  wooden  structures  have  given 
place  to  substantial  two-story  bricks,  and  the  indi- 
cations are  of  a  brisk  business.  The  court  house 
stands  in  the  middle  of  an  unfenced  square  and 
shows  signs  of  age.  Its  outer  walls  are  embellished 
with  temperance  sentiments:  east  side,  "Whisky  a 
national  curse;"  south,  "Prohibition;"  west,  "Help 
save  the  boys.  Vote  for  home;"  north,  "Redeem 
Mercer  county."  This  is  where  our  meeting  is  to 
be  held,  and  I  am  hoping  for  a  good  time. 

BIU).   NEEDELS   AND   THE    AMERICAN   PARTY. 

Albany,  Mo.,  Oct.  28,  1887. — After  the  success- 
ful termination  of  the  meeting  at  Princeton  on  the 
evening  of  the  26th,  I  came  to  Albany,  and  thence 
six  miles  in  the  country  to  the  home  of  our  old 
friend  George  W.  Needels.  I  cannot  conceive  of  a 
more  hearty  welcome  or  more  generous  hospitality 
than  I  received  from  Bro.  Needels  and  his  excellent 
wife.  We  read  the  Word,  united  in  song,  prayed 
and  talked  together  as  the  hours  flew  by  on  swift 
wing.  His  desire  is  to  plan  and  do  for  "God  and 
home  and  native  land"  while  it  is  day,  for  he  says, 
"What  I  do  I  must  do  quickly."  His  admiration  of 
the  Cynoture  is  unabated,  but  he  is  deeply  impressed 
with  the  necessity  of  a  political   party  and  organ 


that  shall  do  in  the  sphere  of  politics  what  the  N. 
C.  A.  is  doing  for  the  churches,  and  he  is  ready  to 
back  any  feasible  movement  in  that  direction  to  the 
extent  of  his  ability.  His  desire  is  for  a  leader,  and 
party  organ  that  shall  take  a  bold  stand  and  enter 
upon  an  aggressive,  uncompromising  course  with  its 
head  center  at  Washington,  D.  C,  and  its  outposts 
at  every  point  where  they  can  be  planted.  Evidently 
he  has  thought  and  prayed  earnestly  over  the  mat- 
ter and  has  plans  which  he  hopes  yet  to  see  in  some 
measure  realized,  but  it  would  be  better  for  him  than 
for  me  to  explain.  Though  he  has  said  or  written 
but  little  of  his  views  of  late,  he  is  as  much  in  ear- 
nest as  ever  he  was  when  defending  his  rights  and 
the  honor  of  his  flag  in  the  dark  days  of  rebellion. 
Bro.  B.  T.  Roberts  is  to  spend  next  week  in  a  pro- 
tracted effort  with  him  and  other  brethren  in  this 
vicinity,  and  he  is  hoping  to  obtain  light,  and  by 
council  to  reach  a  conclusion  and  mature  some  plan 
upon  which  he  can  successfully  push  forward  the 
cause  of  the  American  party,  a  work  to  which  he 
feels  specially  called  of  God.  Let  us  pray  that  we 
may  "see  eye  to  eye,"  and  stand  shoulder  to  shoulder 
in  "the  unity  of  the  Spirit  and  the  bond  of  peace." 

A  sabbath  in  olathe. 

Oct.  31. — I  am  waiting  for  a  train  to  Greenfield, 
Mo.  Bro.  Butler  preceded  me  on  Saturday  and  1 
stopped  over  to  spend  Sabbath.  My  first  call  was 
on  Rev.  W.  W.  McMillan,  whose  greetings  were 
most  cordial.  I  regretted  to  find  his  excellent  wife 
suffering  from  temporary  illness,  but  was  glad  to 
find  her  much  improved  this  morning.  Rev.  J.  H. 
Wylie,  successor  to  Bro.  McMillan,  was  absent  as- 
sisting his  brother  in  communion  services  at  Wash- 
ington,Iowa.  He  is  much  esteemed  and  highly  com- 
mended in  the  community.  At  the  house  of  Bro.H 
Curtis  I  found  Rev.  J.  C.  Bernhard,  and  a  home  in 
good,  old-fashioned  welcome.  Bro.  Bernhard  was 
engaged  in  a  protracted  effort  and  it  was  arranged 
that  I  should  speak  on  Saturday  evening  and  on  Sab- 
bath. Rev.  Mrs.  Shaw  of  Boston  gave  a  lecture  in 
the  United  Presbyterian  church  under  the  auspices 
of  the  W.  C.  T.  U.,  which  doubtless  diminished  the 
attendance,  but  a  fair  audience  assembled  at  the 
hour  of  evening  services.  Several  old  friends  came 
forward  at  the  close  and  among  them  Bro.  Bishop, 
whom  I  last  met  as  professor  in  Avalon  College,Mo 
He  is  now  pastor  of  the  Congregationalist  church  in 
this  city.  The  Sabbath  evening  congregation  was 
much  larger  than  either  that  preceded  and  I  spoke 
with  some  liberty  from  the  words,  "What  will  you 
do  with  Jesus  which  is  called  Christ."  I  noticed 
Rev.  McMillan,  Dr,  Bell,  Mr.  Achison,Mr.Miller,and 
other  Covenanters  in  the  audience,  and  learned  that 
there  was  some  disappointment  that  no  mention  was 
made  of  the  lodge  system.  A  movement  is  in  prog- 
ress to  arrange  a  union  service  on  my  return  and  I 
propose  by  the  help  of  God  to  epeak  once  again  on 
this  iniquitous  system  in  Olathe.  On  Saturday 
there  was  a  large  crowd  gathered  from  the  country, 
and  as  I  passed  among  them  I  did  not  witness  a 
brawl,  see  a  bloody  face,  hear  an  oath  or  detect  the 
infiuence  of  liquor  in  a  single  instance.  The  season 
has  been  favorable  and  crops  exceptionally  good  in 
Johnston  county,  and  all  the  good  people  are  satis- 
fied with  prohibition  which  does  prohibit,in  spite  of 
the  hell  holes  of  Kansas  City,  only  twenty  miles 
away, 

WELCOME   TO   SOUTHWESTERN    MISSOURI. 

Dadeville,  Mo,,  Nov.  1,  1887,— From  Olathe  I 
came  to  Walnut  Grove,  Mo.,  on  the  Gulf  Road, 
reaching  the  station  at  5  p.  m,  A  friend  with  mules 
and  hack  was  ready  to  convey  me  some  twelve  miles 
to  Friendship  Baptist  church.  The  way  was  through 
woods  and  over  what  must  be  a  rough  and  romantic 
country,  with  clearings,  cabins,  and  occasionally 
more  pretentious  dwellings.  The  weather  was  warm 
and  the  moon  in  its  full  strength.  Doors  were  open 
and  in  many  instances  we  could  see  the  cheerful 
blaze  in  the  old-fashioned  fireplace.  We  reached 
the  church  a  few  minutes  after  seven  o'clock,  and 
found  it  environed  with  teams  hitched  to  the  trees, 
and  packed  with  intelligent  men  and  women,  who 
had  come,  some  of  them,  from  five  or  six  miles  away 
to  hear  a  lecture  on  Masonic  religion.  It  was  the 
third  meeting  by  Bro.  Butler,  and  the  audience, which 
had  grown  from  twenty  on  Sabbath  morning  to  the 
full  capacity  of  the  church,  was  a  decided  compli- 
ment to  the  speaker.  Bro.  Butler  was  armed  with 
Masonic  works  and  showed  himself  master  of  the 
subject.  The  attention  and  order  were  unexception- 
al and  the  enthusiasm  at  the  close  exceedingly  grat- 
ifying to  witness.  I  had  been  on  the  cars  and  in 
the  hack  since  eleven  o'clock,  missing  supper  and 
not  having  a  chance  to  wash,  but  improved  the  op- 
portunity to  put  in  a  few  words.  Arrangements 
were  made  to  have  a  strong  delegation  at  the  court 
house  in  Greenfield  to-night,  and  the  meeting  ad- 
journed with  benediction   by  Elder  Brookine.    A 


hearty  hand  shaking  followed,  and  I  accepted  the 
cordial  invitation  of  Mr.  Wood  Kirby,  who  took  Bro. 
Butler  and  myself  three  or  four  miles,  where  we 
were  most  hospitably  entertained  by  him  and  his  ex- 
cellent wife,  who  is  deeply  interested  and  thorough- 
ly enlisted  in  the  work.  We  are  now  waiting  at  the 
postoffice  in  this  village  for  conveyance  to  Green- 
field, where  we  are  to  renew  the  discussion  this  even- 
ing. J.  P.  Stoddard. 


OUR  WORK  ALONG  THE  GULF. 


The  Rising  City  of  Pensacola  and  its  Immoralities — A 
Masonic  Graduate — Toward  New  Orleans — The  City 
and  its  Universities — Welcome  and  Sympathy— Dr. 
Bothwell,  the  Central  Church  and  tJie  N.  G.  A.  Con- 
vention—No  Glenn-Bill  Trouble  in  New  Orleans— The 
Jewish  Orphan  Asylum  and  Jewish  Lodges — Pastor 
Hall  and  Ms  Church  Free  from  Secretism. 

New  Orleans,  Oct.  26,  1887. 

Dear  Cynosure: — Around  Mobile  Bay  and  down 
to  Pensacola,  Fla.,  is  an  uneventful  ride.  There  are 
a  few  lumber  and  turpentine  villages  and  but  little 
cultivation.  I  did  not  see  one  cotton  field  in  all  this 
region.  Small  fields  of  sugar-cane  are  seen,  and 
some  of  turnips  or  other  garden  vegetables,  but  lit- 
tle or  no  grain  of  any  sort.  The  soil  is  too  poor. 
Near  Pensacola  almost  nothing  is  cultivated.  There 
are  a  few  orange  trees  and  might  be  more,  for  they 
seem  to  be  bearing  fairly  well.  The  swamp  land,  if 
drained,  would  undoubtedly  be  fertile,  but  the  sand 
hills  seem  to  be  moved  about  by  the  winds. 

Nevertheless,  Pensacola  is  a  pretty  and  flourishing 
little  city.  Young  it  is  not,  for  its  old  Spanish  ori- 
gin is  indicated  by  the  names  of  its  streets,  and  by 
some  of  the  signs  on  its  stores.  It  is  at  least  twice 
as  old  as  Chicago,  but  until  within  a  few  years  it 
has  been  but  an  insignificant  village.  The  opening 
up  of  the  great  lumber  region  of  Southern  Alabama 
and  West  Florida,  and  the  fact  that  it  ias  the  deep- 
est harbor  south  of  Norfolk,  are  making  it  an  im- 
portant place.  It  has  now  a  population  of  over  14,- 
000,  with  many  fine  public  and  private  buildings, 
and  is  in  marked  contrast  with  Mobile  in  the  energy 
and  public  spirit  of  its  citizens.  It  is  becoming  an 
important  winter  resort,  and  has  some  fine  hotels. 
The  custom  house,  court  house,  and  public  school- 
building  for  whites,  are  fine  structures.  There  is 
also  a  public  school  for  the  colored  people,  who  con- 
stitute about  half  of  the  population.  In  number  and 
size  of  the  ships  in  the  harbor  it  surpasses  any  city 
on  the  southern  coast;  but  they  are  nearly  all  en- 
gaged in  the  lumber  trade.  I  did  not  see  one  bale 
of  cotton.  The  wages  paid  here  seem  to  be  better 
than  anywhere  else  in  the  South,  though  the  employ- 
ment is  not  constant.  Intemperance,  Sabbath-break- 
ing and  kindred  immoralities  are  exceedingly  preva- 
lent. There  are  very  few  professed  Christians,  I  am 
told,  who  do  not  drink  wine  and  beer. 

I  attended  the  meeting  of  colored  ministers  on 
Saturday  afternoon  at  the  A.  M.  E.  Zion  church  and 
spoke  for  forty-five  minutes  on  the  secret  lodge  sys- 
tem. I  had  careful  attention.  Two  of  the  brethren 
are  Masons,  and  one  of  them  is  a  devoted  one.  He 
said  that  Moses  was  the  first  Mason,  and  that  Christ 
and  the  apostles  were  Masons.  This  he  knew,  and 
that  a  man  who  was  not  a  Mason  could  not  under- 
stand Masonic  books  or  know  anything  about  it. 
He  claimed  to  have  historical  proof  that  the  Saints 
John  were  Masons,  but  when  confronted  with  testi- 
mony of  the  Grand  Secretary  of  the  A.  F.  and  A.  M. 
of  Iowa,  he  said  that  Mr,  Parvin  did  not  know  what 
he  was  saying.  It  was  useless  to  attempt  to  contend 
against  so  much  wi8dom(?).  Here  is  a  man  who  is 
as  miserably  ignorant  of  the  English  language  as  he 
is  of  the  facts  of  Masonry,  who  will  continue  as  a 
pastor  to  be  a  "blind  leader  of  the  blind." 

I  attended  and  addressed  the  Sabbath-school  in 
the  African  M.  E.  church;  and  preached  at  3  p.  m. 
in  the  A.  M.  E.  Zion  church,  the  largest  in  the  city, 
and  at  night  had  a  good  congregation  in  the  A.  M, 
E.  church.  The  pastors  of  these  churches,  who  are 
holding  revival  meetings,  showed  me  much  kindness. 

Monday  morning  at  6:50  I  left  for  New  Orleans 
which  place  I  reached  at  7:20  p.  m.  For  a  long  way 
southwest  of  Mobile  the  road  passes  through  pine 
barrens.  Then  in  Southern  Mississippi  there  is  a 
better  country,  a  number  of  pretty  towns,  and  some 
grand  views  of  Old  Ocean.  It  was  amusing  to  see 
how  many  places  are  aspiring  to  be  fashionable  re- 
sorts, and  the  names  they  take.  "Orange  Grove" 
had  three  small  houses,  but  not  an  orange  tree. 
"Arlington  Heights"  is  simply  an  enclosure  with  a 
sign  over  the  gate.  It  is  perhaps  five  feet  higher 
than  the  surrounding  plain.  But  Scranton,  Missis- 
sippi City,  Pass  Christian,  Bay  St.  Louis,  and  some 
others  are  pretty  places.  Beyond  this  the  rivers, 
lakes  and  marshes  seem  interminable,  until  the  train 
suddenly  emerges  from  the  woods  and  the  long  ar- 


NOYEHBIB  10,  1887 


THE  CHKISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


ray  of  electric  lights  tell  us  that  we  have  reached 
the  "Crescent  City." 

New  Orleans  is  a  good  ways  from  the  sea,  but  I 
found  that  sharks  are  not  confined  to  salt  water.  I  was 
not  badly  bitten,  and  after  a  good  night's  rest  felt 
renewed  hope  and  courage.  It  is  probable  that  New 
Orleans,  in  spite  of  recent  storms  and  floods,  was 
never  so  prosperous  as  to-day.  A  full  cotton  crop 
is  being  harvested  earlier  than  usual  and  rapidly 
marketed.  An  unusually  fine  growth  of  sugar-cane 
is  also  early,  and  is  being  manufactured.  There  was 
a  better  corn  crop,  and  planters  have  less  to  buy. 
Southern  Louisiana  has  more  oranges  than  in  any 
year  since  1880. 

I  went  out  to  Leland  University,  and  all  along  St. 
Charles  Street  for  several  miles  there  are  beautiful 
orange  trees  bending  with  fruit.  At  Leland  the 
young  trees  that  I  had  supposed  killed  beyond  re- 
demption are  quite  full.  1  did  not  find  President 
Mitchell  at  home,  but  met  a  kind  reception  from  the 
professors  and  teachers.  I  went  also  to  Straight 
University,  where  I  found  an  unusual  number  of 
students  for  the  season  and  President  Hitchcock  and 
his  corps  of  teachers  hard  at  work,  but  kindly  cour- 
teous and  sympathetic.  At  a  second  visit  to  Leland 
I  became  acquainted  with  President  Mitchell,  late  a 
Chicago  pastor,  and  formerly  president  of  Shurtliff 
College,  Alton,  111.  I  found  him  quite  in  sympathy 
with  our  reform.  He  was  quite  willing  to  have  me 
address  the  students,  but  advised  that  we  wait  till  a 
larger  number  are  in  attendance.  This  school,  with 
its  beautiful  location,  fine  buildings  and  excellent 
oflScers  and  teachers,  ought  to  have  a  better  attend- 
ance.    It  probably  will  have  later. 

A  new  school  for  the  e<?ucation  of  the  colored, 
known  as  Columbia  University,  has  just  been  opened 
in  a  central  location  under  the  care  of  Pres.  G.  W. 
Bothwell,  D.D.,  late  of  the  Southern  University.  I 
called  on  Dr.  Bothwell  and  found  him  hearing  a 
class  of  young  ladies  recite  in  "The  History  of  Eng- 
lish Literature."  I  saw  that  they  were  readers  and 
thinkers.  The  school  opened  on  the  24th  with  sev- 
enty students.  He  expects  the  number  to  double 
next  week.  Dr.  Bothwell  is  pastor  of  the  Central 
Congregational  church,  and  says  that  he  will  do  all 
that  he  can  to  aid  the  convention  which  it  is  pro- 
posed to  hold  in  that  church,  and  that  he  is  in  entire 
sympathy  with  the  work  of  the  N.  C.  A. 

There  has  been  for  the  last  year  or  two  a  growing 
reaction  against  the  secret  orders  in  this  city  and  in 
this  State.  This  has  been  due  in  part  to  a  convic- 
tion of  their  sinfulness,  but  more  to  the  rascality  of 
many  who  are  at  the  head  of  the  orders.  Never  was 
a  more  favorable  time  to  push  our  reform. 


THE   UNIVERSITIBS  AND  COLLEGES  OP  NEW  ORLEANS. 

Among  the  five  so-called  universities  open  to  the 
colored  youth  of  New  Orleans,  Straight  is  the  old- 
est, most  largely  attended  and  best  supported.  There 
are  nineteen  professors  and  teachers,  including  the 
able  president.  Rev.  Dr.  Hitchcock.  A  Congrega- 
tional church,  made  up  largely  of  students,  has  been 
organized  and  worships  in  the  chapel.  Prof.  Berger 
acts  as  pastor.  In  the  Law  department  of  this 
school  there  has  been  for  years  the  co-education  of 
both  white  and  colored  students.  There  has  been 
no  friction  and  no  dream  of  social  equality  or  mis- 
cegenation. All  have  accepted  it  as  the  equal  op- 
portunity of  equal  citizens  to  understand  and  in- 
terpret the  laws  to  which  all  are  alike  subject.  Had 
it  been  in  Georgia  Mr.  Glenn  would  have  been  great- 
ly shocked,  but  here  in  Louisiana  race  distinctions 
have  never  been  so  strongly  Inarked.  In  ante-bel- 
lum days  there  were  Negro  slaveholders  who  ranked 
with  the  aristocracy,  and  whose  children  had  the 
best  of  educational  advantages.  The  horror  of  race 
contamination  was  never  felt  by  the  old  French  set- 
tlers as  it  was  by  those  of  English  origin;  and  Ro- 
man Catholicism — with  all  its  faults— is  far  less  tol- 
erant of  the  proscriptive  spirit,  which  excludes  the 
colored  worshiper  from  his  Father's  house,  than  most 
of  the  Protestant  churches  of  the  South.  Whoever 
visits  these  five  schools  will  see  in  all  of  them  every 
shade  of  color,  from  the  pure  black  to  those  whom 
the  unpracticed  eye  cannot  distinguish  from  the 
Caucasian  race.  Nor  will  he  find  that  talent  de- 
pends on  complexion.  As  often  as  any  way  the 
pure  Negro  comes  to  the  front  and  carries  off  the 
prize  of  oratory  or  scholarship. 

Among  the  schools  visited,  New  Orleans  Univer- 
sity deserves  mention.  It  is  under  the  patronage  of 
the  M.  E.  church  and  the  care  of  President  Adkin- 
Bon.  It  has  about  150  students,  but  expects  a  con- 
siderable increase  later  in  the  season.  A  large,  fine 
building  is  nearly  completed,  and  will  add  greatly 
to  their  means  of  instruction.  The  president  cheer- 
fully accepted  our  literature;  but,  while  his  treat- 
ment was  very  courteous,  he  thought  it  would  be 
very  imprudent  to  allow  an  address  to  the  students 
on  the  subject  of  secret  societies  lest  friends  should 
be  alienated.    This  is  one  of  the  few  schools  of  the 


South  that  has  declined  to  give  me  a  hearing,  and 
in  all  instances  by  men  who  had  but  just  come  on 
the  field,  and  had  no  just  comprehension  of  the  na- 
ture and  importance  of  the  subject.  It  is  only  a 
question  of  time  when  they  will  think  differently. 

Just  beside  this  large,  new  university  building  is 
one  still  larger,  and,  though  studiously  plain,  is  a 
noble  structure.  It  is  the  new  Jewish  Orphan  Asy- 
lum. 1  was  politely  shown  through  the  building  by 
Kabbi  Heyman,  who,  with  his  wife,  has  general  su- 
pervision. The  Rabbi  is  a  devoted  Jew.  He  had 
established  a  school  for  the  education  of  his  people 
in  Damascus  and  also  in  Algeria.  He  said  that  Je- 
sus was  a  good  Jew,  and  that  he  hoped  all  Chris- 
tians would  become  as  good  Jews  as  Jesus  was. 
He  did  not  explain  how  a  good  Jew  could  pretend 
to  be  the  Messiah  when  he  was  not.  The  building 
cost  about  $90,000,  and  will  accommodate  300  wid- 
ows and  orphans.  The  money  was  raised  by  the 
contribution  of  the  benevolent  among  this  people, 
who,  it  would  seem,  contribute  more  in  proportion 
to  their  numbers  than  any  other  class  of  people. 
There  are  about  150  orphans,  most  of  whom  attend 
the  public  school,  but  the  youngest  have  a  Kinder- 
garten in  their  home.  The  little  ones  looked  bright 
and  comfortable. 

The  relation  of  the  Jewish  body  to  the  secret 
lodge  system  is  seen  in  the  fact  that  there  are  four 
distinctly  Jewish  secret  societies,  and  that  the  Grand 
Lodge  of  one  of  these,  the  I.  O.  B.  B,,  appoints  one 
half  of  the  directors  of  this  institution.  The  corner 
stone  of  this  building  was  laid  by  the  Masonic  Grand 
Master  of  the  State,  with  the  usual  Masonic  ceremo- 
nies. In  his  address  he  claimed  that  King  Solomon 
was  a  Mason,  and  that  of  this  fact  "there  is  power- 
ful and  convincing  evidence."  What  a  wonderful 
contribution  to  history  if  this  "evidence"  could  be 
shown.  No  one  will  question  that  in  all  these  cere- 
monies and  prayers  ttiere  was  no  mention  made  of 
Jesus  the  Christ,  though  in  the  last  prayer  there  was 
a  petition  for  the  "Messianic  time."  It  would  be  a 
great  accession  to  the  Hebrew  fold,  and  no  loss  to 
Christianity,  but  a  most  consistent  and  appropriate 
thing  if  all  Freemasons  would  consent  to  be  circum- 
cised and  unite  with  a  body  with  which  they  are  so 
intimately  related. 

Because  of  other  engagements  I  was  obliged  to 
decline  an  invitation  to  address  the  students  of 
Straight  University,  where  I  was  most  hospitably 
entertained.  I  became  acquainted  here  with  two 
Congregational  pastors  of  the  city.  Rev.  Isaac  Hall 
and  Rev.  C.  H.  Claibourne,  who  earnestly  sympa- 
thize with  our  work  and  will  do  what 'they  can  to 
aid  our  convention.  The  former  said  that  out  of 
150  members  he  had  not  one  that  belonged  to  a  se- 
cret order.  The  latter  said  he  had  belonged  to  the 
Freemasons,  Odd-fellows  and  the  Tabernacle;  that 
he  had  been  swindled  by  them  all,  and  that  he  left 
them  because  his  conscience  would  not  allow  him  to 
remain.  He  had  never  seen  an  exposition  of  Ma- 
sonry, and  when  I  showed  him  "Freemasonry  Illus- 
trated" he  said,  "Here  is  what  I  paid  many  dollars 
for  in  the  lodge."  He  has  promised  to  write  out 
his  experience  in  the  orders.  H.  H.  Hinman, 


was  resumed  and  the  following  officers  were  elected 
for  the  ensuing  year: 

I  President,  Rev.  C.  L.  Baker  of  Manchester;  Vice- 
presidents,  by  counties:  Belknap,  Elder  J.  G.  Smith; 
Carroll.  B.  M.  Mason;  Cheshire,  F.  S.  Wood;  Coos, 
Elder  S.  Lang;  Grafton,  Prof.  J.  K.  Lord;  Hills- 
borough, Rev.  p]  W.  Oakes;  Merrimack,  A.  H.  Brown; 
Rockingham,  Rev.  Edward  Robie,  D.  D  ;  Strafford, 
Deacon  Moses  Pierce;  Sullivan,  C.  W.  J.  Fletcher: 
{Continued  on  .Hh  page.) 


Correspondence. 


REFORM  GONQREGAlioiyS  IN  AND   ABOUT 
PITTSBURGH. 


THB  NBW  EAMPBHIRB   CONVENTION. 


Our  editor's  letters  give  a  general  review  of  the 
meeting  last  week  in  Manchester,  New  Hampshire, 
the  daily  Union  of  that  city  has  a  detailed  report  of 
considerable  length,  and  great  fairness,  from  which 
we  gather  the  following  particulars: 

The  eleventh  annual  meeting  of  the  New  Hamp- 
shire Christian  Association  opened  Saturday  after- 
noon at  2  o'clock.  The  meetings  are  being  held  with 
the  Elm  Street  Christian  Advent  church,  and  are 
productive  of  much  interest,  the  attendance  having 
been  large  since  the  opening  session.  Delegates  are 
present  from  all  over  the  State,  and  speakers  from 
both  Massachusetts  and  Maine  are  in  attendance. 
A  special  feature  of  the  session  has  been  the  sing- 
ing, which  is  led  by  F.  E.  Blackmer  and  wife  of 
Springfield,  Mass.,  Mrs.  Blackmer  acting  as  accom- 
panist. Seldom  at  a  convention  in  this  city  has  finer 
music  been  heard  than  that  rendered  by  these  charm- 
ing vocalists. 

The  session  opened  at  the  time  designated  with  a 
service  of  prayer,  following  which  Elder  C.  L.  Baker, 
pastor  of  the  Advent  Christian  church,  welcomed 
the  Association  to  the  city  and  to  the  hearts  and 
homes  of  his  ,iarishioners,his  remarks  being  respond- 
ed to  by  the  president  of  the  Association,  Rev.  Isaac 
Hyatt  of  Gilford.  The  appointment  of  the  various 
committees  on  resolutions,  etc.,  followed,  and  then 
the  afternoon  meeting  was  brought  to  a  close  by 
President  Hyatt,  who  delivered  an  interesting  dis- 
course on  "How  to  Overcome  Evil,"  the  method  ad- 
vanced being  the  Biblical  one  of  subduing  evil  with 
good. 

After  a  prayer  meeting  in  the  evening,  basineBs 


PxTTSBUROH,  Nov.  1,  1887. 

Editor  Christian  Cynosure: — Prof.  D.  McAllis- 
ter, LL.D.,  has  been  installed  pastor  of  the  Eighth 
Street  Reformed  Presbyterian  congregation,  of  wiiich 
Rev.  A.  M.  Milligan,  D.D.,  was  for  twenty  years 
pastor.  This  is  one  of  the  best  congregations  in  the 
Covenanter  body,  and  it  is  believed  Dr.  McAllister 
will  fill  the  place  with  perfect  satisfaction.  It  is 
fitting  that  a  typical  National  Reformer  should  be 
the  successor  of  one  whose  whole  soul  was  conse- 
crated to  that  work.  Pittsburgh  has  been  the  head- 
quarters for  the  movement  heretofore,  and  there  will 
be  no  change  so  long  as  this  Professor  of  Political 
Philosophy  occupies  that  pulpit. 

Last  Thursday  evening  I  lectured  in  the  McDon- 
ald Town  Hall  on  the  "Moral  Responsibility  and 
Accountability  of  Nations."  The  audience  was  not 
very  large.  The  superintendent  of  the  public 
schools  was  out  and  Bro.  D.  W.  Irons,  United  Pres- 
byterian pastor  and  principal  of  the  Academy.  On 
Friday  evening  I  lectured  in  the  same  place  on  "The 
State  and  Moral  Law."  On  Sabbath  evening  I 
preached  in  the  United  Presbyterian  church  of  which 
Bro.  Irons  has  charge,  on  "The  Dominion  of  Christ." 
After  three  evenings  McDonald  ought  to  be  well  in- 
doctrinated in  National  Reform. 

Washington  county  is  perhaps  the  richest  in  the 
State  in  natural  resources.  A  rich  soil  on  the  sur- 
face, and  under  it  a  coal  bed  of  six  feet,  together 
with  oil  and  gas  wells.  Last  Sabbath  we  assisted 
Rev.  John  Slater  at  the  communion  in  the  Miller's 
Run  Reformed  Presbyterian  congregation.  Father 
Slater  has  been  the  pastor  of  this  congregation  for 
forty-four  years.  He  is  an  old  blue-stocking  Cove- 
nanter. He  combines  the  courage  of  John  Knox, 
who  said  before  the  Privy  Council,  "I  am  in  a  place 
where  I  am  demanded  of  God  to  speak  the  truth,  and 
therefore  the  truth  I  speak,  impugn  it  whoso  list," 
with  the  convictions  of  Luther,  who  said  before  the 
Diet  at  Worms,  "I  cannot  submit  my  faith  either  to 
the  Pope  or  the  council.  Here  I  stand.  I  can  saj' 
no  more.  God  help  me.  Amen."  It  is  in  striking 
contrast  with  the  sickening  conformity  of  our  times. 
A  secular  historian  says:  "I  know  of  none  equal  to 
Bunyan's  Facing-both-ways,the  fellow  with  one  eye  on 
heaven  and  one  on  earth,  who  sincerely  preaches  one 
thing  and  sincerely  does  another,  and  from  the  in- 
tensity of  his  reality  is  unable  even  to  see  or  feel 
the  contradiction.  He  is  substantially  trying  to 
cheat  both  God  and  the  devil,  and  in  reality  only 
cheating  himself  and  his  neighbor.  This  of  all 
characters  upon  the  earth  appears  to  me  to  be  the 
one  of  which  there  is  no  hope  at  all — a  character 
becoming  in  these  days  alarmingly  abundant" 

J.  M.  Foster. 


THB  BVAN0BLI8T  MUnHALL  AT  COLUMBUS. 


Columbus,  O. 

Dear  Cynosure: — There  is  a  much  needed  revival 
work  being  carried  on  in  this  city  by  Dr.  Munhall, 
assisted  by  the  singers,  Dr.  Towner  and  wife.  This 
work  was  instituted  by  a  union  of  the  pastors  of 
several  of  the  churches.  Special  services  were  be- 
gun Sabbath  evening,  Oct.  23d,  and  have  continued 
every  afternoon  and  evening.  We  have  been  won- 
derfully encouraged,  blessed  and  helped  in  attending 
these  meetings.  The  doctor  wields  the  sword  of 
the  Spirit  with  a  masterly  hand  and  thus  evinces 
the  truth  of  his  calling.  So  far  his  effort  has  been 
to  get  Christians  prepared  for  work,  by  dispelling 
false  ideas,  giving  them  right  conceptions  of  truth, 
and  getting  them  to  act  according  to  knowledge. 

I  would  like  to  write  at  length  of  these  discourses, 
but  I  may  only  speak  of  the  sermon  last  night,  as  it 
will  the  most  interest  Cynosure  readers.  The  subject 
was  "Separation  from  the  World."  Several  passages 
of  Scripture  were  read,  Ex.  33:  16  and  2  Cor.  6:  14 
among  them.  The  speaker  dwelt  t>t  length  on  the 
latter  passage.  Said  he,  "I  am  going  to  talk  pretty 
plain  to  you  to-night  I  am  going  to  tell  you  some 
things  that  most  preachers  don't  dare  to  tell  you, 
but  it  is  God's  truth,"  etc.  Then  with  an  eloquence 
that  is  bom  alone  of  God,  with  a  courage  that  is 


6 


OTQB  CHRISTIAN  CYlTOSUKEi. 


November  10, 1887 


alone  txj  the  saint,  he  riveted  the  attention  of  his  au- 
dience, while  he  showed  how  professed  Christians 
were  going  hand-in-hand  with  the  world,  how  they 
were  "unequally  yoked  together  with  unbelievers," 
First  the  marriage  relation  was  noticed.  Christian 
women  united  to  unholy  men,  and  Christian  men 
married  to  sinful  women.  Theater-goers  were  yoked 
in,  were  helping  to  support  ungodly  and  devilish 
performances.  Card-players  who  professed  Chris- 
tianity could  not  ask  God's  blessing  on  their  game. 
Business  men  were  often  unequally  yoked;  were 
partners  in  business  that  broke  God's  laws.  The 
railway  business  was  cited  as  an  instance.  "A  pro- 
fessed Christian  who  will  rent  his  building  for  a  sa- 
loon or  brothel  ought  to  be  kicked  out  of  the  church, 
I  don't  care  who  he  is,  or  how  rich  he  is!"  said  the 
speaker. 
Next  came  the 

SECRET    SOCIETY   QUESTION, 

on  which  the  doctor  spoke  substantially  as  follows: 
"I  have  been  bumped  into  nearly  all  the  secret  so- 
cieties going,  and  so  know  what  I  am  talking  about. 
1  am  out  of  all  but  two,  and  shall  leave  them  if  they 
don't  behave.  If  these  societies  do  as  they  claim 
they  may  do  some  good  in  benevolent  ways.  One 
secret  society  that  I  joined,  shortly  after  I  came  in 
proposed  a  ball.  I  protested  as  a  Christian.  They 
went  ahead  with  their  ball.  I  took  my  hat  and  said 
good-bye.  Another  fitted  up  one  end  of  the  lodge- 
room  for  theatrical  performances  and  I  left.  Two  men, 
intimate  friends  of  mine  whose  names  were  on  the 
church  book,  could  not  find  time  to  attend  prayer- 
meeting  once  a  year,  and  yet  they  traveled  half  way 
across  the  continent  to  attend  a  conclave  of  Knights, 
dance  and  parade.  There  are  many  professed  Chris- 
tians who  pay  $250  a  year  lodge  dues  who  can 
scarcely  pay  $10  to  church  work,  times  are  so  hard. 
Such  men  are  going  to  the  devil.  I  lived  in  a  town 
where  there  were  thirty-four  secret  societies;  young 
men  going  to  hell  by  the  hundreds.  We  wanted 
$600  to  start  a  Young  Men's  Christian  Association. 
I  tried  to  raise  the  money  (and  if  I  cannot  raise 
money  then  others  need  not  try).  1  could  not  get  it, 
and  yet  every  one  of  those  lodges  were  spending 
more  every  year  than  we  wanted.  Brethren,  there  is 
something  wrong  somewhere  I  Why  don't  you  say 
Amen!"  Several  responses  were  heard  from  the 
audience.  W.  B.  Stoddard, 


NATIONAL  REFORM  IN  NORTHERN  WISCON- 
SIN. 


TRUTH  TRIUMPHING  AMONG 
OF  TEXAS. 


THE  BAPTISTS 


Hearne,  Texas. 

Editor  Cynosure: — Learning  of  the  efforts  and 
aims  of  your  organization,  I  drop  you  these  lines, 
and  mail  you  a  list  of  our  pastors  and  ask  that  you 
mail  tracts,  or  any  thing  that  will  help  them  come 
to  the  light.  My  people  (colored)  are  given  to  soci- 
eties. I  have  spent  ten  years  out  of  fifty-two  at 
their  altars.  •  They  are  greatly  injuring  my  people, 
and  are  fast  falling  into  disuse.  I  got  a  few  of  your 
tracts  from  Rev.  Gountee  of  Memphis,  and  used 
them  to  a  good  advantage. 

Last  Sabbath  one  of  our  churches  had  a  corner- 
stone laid  in  Brazos  county  by  the  Odd-fellows,  and 
when  they  were  done  the  mason  (brick-layer)  builded 
one  of  the  pillars  on  which  the  church  was  to  rest.  Pas- 
tor and  people  stood  by  and  saw  the  work  go  on. 
They  don't  know  of  the  wickedness.  "How  can  I, 
except  some  man  guide  me?"  said  the  eunuch  to 
Phillip. 

At  our  State  convention,  held  October  12-16  at 
Brenham,  I  had  private  talks  with  a  great  number 
of  our  pastors,  and  found  four  out  of  five  willing 
to  give  up  the  lodge.  Some  had  on  pins  represent- 
ing three  different  societies.  The  colored  people  are 
quite  ready  for  these  great  reforms.  They  need 
reading  matter.  Thousands  are  too  poor  to  pay  for 
it,  and  others  don't  know  where  to  send  for  it.  Mail- 
ing something  to  a  few  will  greatly  help. 

I  met  the  chief  man  of  the  colored' Odd -fellows, 
who  is  a  professor  in  our  Bishop  College,  at  Mar- 
shall, Texas,  and  gave  him  a  pamphlet  which  he 
read  with  great  care,  and  promised  to  read  up  on  the 
matter,  and  if  he  found  the  societies  harmful  he 
would  quit.  It  is  surprising  to  know  how  willing  a 
great  many  of  our  best  men  are  to  throw  off  their 
yoke  of  lodge  tomfoolery. 

I  would  like  to  take  your  paper,  but  am  too  poor. 
I  have  been  in  the  campaign  of  my  State  and  Ten- 
nessee, and  in  the  latt«r  I  got  nothing  for  my  work 
and  thereby  was  unable  to  meet  a  note  on  my  home, 
and  lost  it  I  returned  home  last  week  from  Ten- 
nessee to  find  my  wife  and  child  out  of  doors.  A 
friend  gave  me  a  "crank  pin."  I  put  it  on  and  will 
try  it  again,  and  only  pray  God  to  give  me  strength 
and  courage  to  spend  and  be  spent  in  saving  my 
people,  and  advancing  the  cause  and  kingdom  of 
Jesus.    I  am  yours  in  Jesus, 

(Rev.)  L.  G.  Jordan. 


Eau  Claire,  Wis. 
Editor  Cynosure: — I  was  overjoyed  by  Bro. 
Gault's  visit  lately,  and  presentation  of  National 
Reform  ideas.  The  impression  he  made  on  his  au- 
diences was  strong,  and  I  trust  will  be  lasting. 
Living  two  miles  in  the  country,  doing  all  my  loco- 
motion on  foot,  and  77  years  of  age,  I  could  not 
personally  do  much  to  aid  him;  but  my  acquaintance 
with  him,  and  the  hearing  his  two  soul-stirring  lec- 
tures was  to  me  as  an  oasis  in  the  desert  of  my  ex- 
perience here.  I  think  his  remarks  on  Moses  might 
be  well  entitled  a  grand  answer  to  the  "Mistakes  of 
Moses,"  by  Ingersoll.  And  I  think  if  his  lecture 
were  advertised  in  some  such  words  it  might  attract 
an  audience.  I  exceedingly  regret  that  no  collec- 
tion nor  contribution  was  made  for  the  cause.  But 
I  am  certain  that  such  an  impression  was  made  as 
will  justify  a  second  effort  here.  I  am  perfectly 
convinced  that  this  country  is  doomed  to  destruction; 
it  may  be  a  speedy  and  a  terrible  one,  if  not  averted 
by  timely  repentance.  Thos.  Barland. 


PITH  AND  POINT. 


ALL  TOGETHER  FOR  REFORM, 

I  have  been  a  reader  of  the  Christian  Cynosure  for  ten 
years.  I  have  valued  its  teachings  because  they  are 
sound,  and  correct,  according  to  the  Bible  standard.  I 
have  also  felt  a  deep  interest  in  the  gradual  improvement 
of  the  paper  and  the  rapid  advance  of  the  great  princi- 
ples which  it  advocates.  I  stand  in  heart  with  the  sturdy 
workers,  men  and  women,  in  front  of  the  battle,  ever 
ready  to  bend  the  bow  and  shoot  the  arrow  against  this 
Babylon  of  modern  idolatry,  so  near  akin  to  Diabolus.the 
leader  of  King  Alcohol's  army .  I  have  taken  my  stand 
against  both, and  try  to  obstruct  their  onward  movements; 
but  prayer  is  my  greatest  weapon,  and  to  take  hold  of  the 
Almighty  arm  that  moves  the  world  is  my  blessed  privi- 
lege. 

The  temperance  work  ought  to  be  conducted  without 
secrecy  of  any  kind .  Grips  and  passwords  are  offensive 
to  a  great  many.  My  ideal  is  one  grand  open  temperance 
society .  Ministers  of  the  Gospel  and  members  of  all 
Christian  churches  should  come  together  and  stand  side 
by  side  as  total  abstainers  in  one  mighty  phalanx  against 
these  two  giant  sins  of  the  age.  To  his  church  Christ 
delegated  this  work  of  saving  the  world. — Mrs.  A,  P. 

thank  god  for  christian  courage. 

I  hold  my"demit"  as  a  Master  Mason  in  good  standing, 
and  for  years  the  devil  had  me  so  hood-wlnked  and  the 
Masonic  "cable-tow"  such  a  reassuring  turn  "about  my 
neck"  that  I  really  thought  Masonry  next  to  godliness . 
But,  thanks  be  unto  the  God  of  all  grace,  by  his  Spirit 
and  Word,  through  sanctified  human  agency,  my  eyes 
were  opened  to  see  Satan's  hatred  of  Jesus,  and  that  Ma- 
sonry not  only  ignored  but  virtually  dethroned  my  bless- 
ed Redeemer.  Since  which  time  (6  years  ago)  I  have  not 
shunned  to  expose  the  hell-born  oaths  and  obligations  of 
the  order. — B.  F.  Hathaway. 

HE   SAW   THE     RESCUE   OF   MILLER. 

I  was  once  tolerably  well  stocked  with  Anti  masonic 
works,  but  they  are  all  stolen  from  me.  I  lived  in  Leroy, 
New  York,  and  saw  Miller,  the  printer,  when  they  res- 
cued him  from  the  Mason  mob;  when  John  Haskell  play- 
ed so  conspicuous  a  part  and  overcame  Dr.  Sheldon,  who 
was  as  rabid  as  a  tiger.  I  remember  many  other  scenes, 
too  numerous  to  mention  in  this  short  letter;  and  likewise 
scenes  in  the  courts  where  they  swore  they  were  Masons 
and  the  oaths  were  true. — Ledger  Cowley, i''armn£?tora, 
Mic7i. 

FROM   AN    ARIZONA   PASTOR. 

Your  excellent  paper  was  duly  received  and  I  must 
candidly  confess  myself  much  pleased  with  the  bold  and 
clear  position  it  takes  for  the  cause  of  the  church.  I  ap- 
preciate it  still  the  more  because  it  is  radical.  It  gives 
no  uncertain  sound .  You  cannot  be  charged  with  the 
sentence,  "I  would  that  ye  were  either  hot  or  cold,  but 
since  yon  are  lukewarm  I  will  spew  you  out  of  my 
mouth".  When  the  church  will  drop  the  friendship  of 
this  world  and  trust  wholly  in  the  Lord  and  carry  for- 
ward without  mistrust  in  the  result  of  a  faithful  course, 
and  stand  like  our  great  men  in  God's  Word,  the  world 
will  soon  worship  at  the  feet  of  Christ,  King  of  kings  and 
Lord  of  lords .  Since  my  conversion  I  understood  it  my 
duty  to  be  radical  upon  all  questions  of  moral  reform, and 
have  been  convinced  ever  since  it  to  be  the  only  true  po- 
sition for  an  honest  person  to  take  in  order  to  succeed. — 

H.    J.    B. 

FROM  A  NEW  ORLEANS  COLPORTEUR. 

The  lodges  here  are  at  ease  just  now,  as  I  am  not  able 
to  publish  free  tracts,  though  every  time  one  of  them 
sees  me  talking  to  some  one  with  a  paper  in  my  hand 
they  get  uneasy .  It  seems  as  it  our  ministers  are  other- 
wise engaged  and  have  no  time  to  preach  against  secret- 
ism.  My  pastor  invited  me  to  preach  twice  since  Bro. 
Hinman  was  here  in  last  October,  1886.  I  think  Bro. 
Arnold's  tent  would  do  good  work  here.  Any  notices, 
circulars,  etc.,  for  the  proposed  convention  here  will  be 
gladly  received  and  distributed.  As  this  was  Satan's 
stronghold  in  slavery  days,  it  is  now  in  lodge  days.  Pray 
for  our  deliverance.— FiuNcis  J,  Davidson. 


Bible  Lesson. 


STUDIES  IN  THE  NEW  TESTAMENT. 

LESSON  VIII.— Nov.  20.— Judgment  and  Mercy.— Matt.  11 : 
20-30. 

GOLDEN  TEXT.— Come  unto  me,  aU  ye  that  labor  and  are 
heavy  laden  and  I  will  give  you  rest.- Matt.  11 :28. 
[Open  the  Bible  and  read  the  lesson.] 
COMMENTS   ON   THE  LESSON   BY  E.  E.  FLAGG. 
1.   The  judgment  for  unbelief,  vs.  20-24.      The  woe 
pronounced  on  these  cities  shows  that  the  greatest  sin  a 
nation  as  well  as  an  individual  can  commit  is  that  of  per- 
sistent unbelief.    God  raises  up  brave  and  earnest  cham- 
pions to  reprove  national  sins,  and  when  the  people  re- 
fuse to  hear  their  message  they  incur  terrible  guilt.  Tyre 
and  Zidon,  marts  of  commerce  and  trade,  rich, populous, 
luxurious,  sunk  though  they  were  in  the  lowest  depths 
of  heathen  vice,  "would  have  repented  like  Nineveh  in 
sackcloth  and   ashes  if  they  had  beheld  "the  mighty 
works"  which  were  of  daily  occurrence  in  the  cities  of 
Palestine.       Especially  Capernaum, exalted  unto  heaven 
by  being  made  Christ's  earthly  dwelling  place,  would 
have  a  doom  as  much  more  severe  than  Sodom's  as  the 
light  was  greater  against  which  she  sinned.      Our  own 
American  nation,  through  her  wonderful  history,  her 
free  institutions  and  her  open  Bible  has  also  beeS  exalt- 
ed to  heaven.    But  she  has  made  material  prosperity  her 
god,  and,  by  the  election  of  bad  men  to  power,  by  the 
complete  secularizing  of  her  government,  by  the  desecra- 
tion of  the  Sabbath,  by  legalizing  the  rum  traffic,  and  by 
the  rearing  of  countless  lodge  altars,  the  shrines  of  a  false 
religion  and  a  Christless  worship,  she  is  continually  pro- 
voking God's  judgment.      The  fate  of  these  early  nations 
who  have  been  hurled  from  their  heights  of  power  into 
the  deepest  oblivion  are  set  as  warning  lights  for  the  na- 
tions of  to-day.    Not  in  vain  are  these  words  said  (and 
they  apply  with  special  force  to  America,  so  strikingly 
favored  of  God),  "the  people  or  the  nation  which  will 
not  hear  that  Prophet  (Christ)  shall  be  utterly  wasted." 
3.   The  truly  wise.  vs.  25-27.     In  these  wonderful  ver- 
ses Christ's  soul  seems  to  have  reached  a  heighth  where 
he  could  "see  the  travail  of  his  soul  and  be  satisfied."  In 
a  parallel  passage  it  is  said  that  "he  rejoiced  in  spirit;" 
and  all  through  the  Bible  (Jod's  signal  favor  to  the  lowly 
is  made  an  occasion  for  exultation.     In  all  ages  the  true 
wisdom  has  been  hid  from  those  who  make  policy  their 
god,and  whom  their  fellow  men  consider"wi8e  and  pru- 
dent," but  who  are  only  crafty  and  cunning;  while  it  is 
revealed  to  the  poor,  the  simple,  the  sincere,  those  who 
are  called  by  the  world  "fools"  and  "cranks"  because  it 
can  have  no  appreciation  of  this  highest  kind  of  wisdom. 
The  Huguenots,  the  Lollards  and  the  Poor  Men  of  Lyons 
are  illustrations.     Despised  by  the  world, their  principles 
have  triumphed,  and  their  names  are  honored  to-day  on 
the  page  of  history  where  the  names  of  kings  and  popes 
have  gathered  dust.    They  saw  the  truth  that  prime  min- 
isters and  courtly  .diplomats  and  church  dignitaries  could 
not  see^ because  God  had  revealed  it  unto  them.  The  his- 
tory of  every  reform  is  an  illustration.     The  world's  re- 
formers as  a  rule  have  never  come  from  the  ranks  of  the 
rich  and  great  and  learned.but  their  fountain  spring  is  in 
humble,  God  fearing  homes.      We  must  become  as  little 
children  and  be  willing  to  be  fools  for  Christ's  sake,  if  we 
would  be  the  recipients  of  heavenly  wisdom. 

3.  The  call  to  the  heavy  laden,  vs.  28-30.  Many  refuse 
to  take  up  the  cross;  nctne  can  refuse  the  common  bur- 
den which  all  humanity  must  carry.  But  when  we  take 
Christ's  yoke  upon  us  he  gives  us  something  else  to  think 
about.  For  our  earthly  cares  he  gives  us  the  things  of 
the  kingdom  to  care  about;  for  our  daily  worries  and 
vexation,  the  peace  and  largeness  of  this  new  state  of  be- 
ing into  which  we  are  born.  He  puts  the  shadows  be- 
hind us  and  the  light  all  before.  He  makes  the  prizes  of 
earth  show  in  their  real  littleness  and  the  rewards  of 
heaven  in  their  real  magnitude.  It  matters  little  what 
our  worldly  lot  may  be  when  the  world  lies  at  our  back. 
We  can  take  scorn  and  tribulation  and  persecution,  and 
be  joyful  in  it.  This  is  to  take  Chrst's  yoke  upon  us; 
this  is  indeed  to  find  rest,  to  get  rid  of  all  the  friction  of 
sin,  and  enjoy  the  unconstrained  freedom  of  our  highest 
and  noblest  faculties. 


Women  of  New  York  State  who  desire  to  vote  at 
the  coming  election  are  requested  to  write  to  Hamil- 
ton Wilcox,  Esq.,  30  East  Fourteenth  Street,  near 
Fifth  Avenue,  New  York  city,  for  informa- 
tion. 

One  of  the  encouraging  signs  of  the  times  as  re- 
gards temperance,  it  is  said,  is  the  increasing  demand 
for  apples  for  the  drying  houses  and  fruit  canning 
establishments,  and  which  greatly  lessen  the  prod- 
ucts of  cider  mills. 


I 


November  10, 1887 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYKTOSURE. 


OBITTJAEY. 

Dh.  John  M.  Clark  died  at  Carthage, 
Indiana,  September  6th,  1887,  aged  73 
years .  The  notice  of  his  life  and  char- 
acter published  in  the  Ghriatian  Worker 
reads  as  follows: 

"He  was  born  in  Guilford  county.North 
Carolina,  where  in  1842  he  married  Eu- 
nice A.  Hill, who  with  one  daughter, their 
only  child,  survives  him .  He  graduated 
at  the  Jefferson  Medical  School  in 
1840,  and  successfully  pursued  the  prac- 
tice of  medicine  in  North  Carolina  and 
Indiana  until  within  a  few  years.  He  was 
a  remarkably  conscientious  and  careful 
physician  and  was  kind  and  indulgent  to 
the  poor.  During  these  years  of  medical 
practice  he  continued  to  pursue  his  liter- 
ary studies,  and  obtained  (in  addition  to 
his  Greek  and  Latin)  a  familiar  acquaint- 
ance with  the  German,  and  also  read  more 
or  less  of  the  French,  Spanish,  Italian, 
Hebrew  and  Arabic  language.  He  was 
noted  for  his  close  and  accurate  study 
both  of  the  Old  and  New  Testament 
Scriptures  (reading  them  in  the  Hebrew 
and  Greek)  with  special  reference  to  the 
great  plan  of  salvation  as  taught  by  Je- 
sus Christ.  He  had  a  strong  attachment 
to  the  principles  of  the  Society  of  Friends, . 
of  which  he  was  a  birthright  member,  but 
for  many  years  deafness  had  prevented 
him  from  taking  an  active  part  in  its  bus- 
iness or  religious  meetings.  Only  a  small 
portion  of  his  meritorious  literary  pro- 
ductions, both  in  poetry  and  prose,  have 
appeared  in  print  from  time  to  time,  ow- 
ing to  his  natural  diffidence  and  aversion 
to  notoriety.  Thus  has  peacefully  passed 
from  us  a  man  of  integrity  and  generosi- 
ty, whose  modest  worth  endeared  him  to 
all  who  knew  him  " 

Dr.  Clark  was  not  only  a  learned  but  a 
pious  man,  whose  whole  soul  abominated 
the  secret  lodge  worship  which  had  al- 
ready in  some  quarters  insinuated  itself 
into  the  Friends  church.  His  influence 
and  pen  were  not  vainly  used  to  keep  the 
church  pure  from  this  evil .  He  wrote 
often  and  ably  for  the  Cynosure  over  the 
name  "Quaker Boy."  He  purposed  leav- 
ing a  portion  of  his  property  so  as  to  aid 
in  checking  the  lodge  evil.  He  had  pro- 
vided that  $15,000  should  be  entrusted  to 
the  Friends'  church  for  twenty  years,  the 
income  to  be  used  in  circulating,  first,  anti- 
secret  literature,  and  second,  literature 
agreeable  to  the  teaching  of  the  Friends 
on  conversion.  Before  he  could  put  his 
name  to  the  will  he  sank  under  his  dis- 
ease, and  never  rallied  enough  to  com- 
plete his  wish .  The  church  and  our  re- 
form has  lost  a  noble  man;  may  the  Lord 
raise  up  many  who  shall  take  his  place . 


8ECRBT800IBTIB8  GONDBMNBD. 


The  death  of  Jenny  Lind  Goldschmidt 
on  Tuesday  last,  at  the  age  of  66  years,  re- 
moves one  who  in  the  prime  of  her  pow- 
ers was  one  of  the  world's  most  famous 
singers .  She  possessed  a  soprano  voice 
with  a  range  of  two  and  a  half  octaves 
and  remarkable  for  sweetness,purity  and 
sympathy.  Her  advent  in  this  country  in 
1850,  under  the  management  of  P.T.Bar- 
num,  evoked  an  enthusiasm  in  musical 
circles  seldom  equaled.  There  are  many 
people  still  living  in  this  country  who  re- 
call with  delight  the  singing  and  the 
sweet  face  of  Jenny  Lind  during  her 
tout  of  our  principal  cities.  These  will 
learn  with  sincere  regret  the  news  of  her 
deaih.  The  song  of  the  Nightingale  has 
been  forever  hushed,  but  its  echoes  will 
continue  to  linger  in  thousands  of  grate- 
ful hearts  that  beat  in  harmony  with  her 
sweet  voice  and  in  sympathy  with  her 
nobility  as  a  true  woman.  Since  1858 
she  has  lived  in  retirement  in  Lon- 
don, emerging  occasionally  to  give  con- 
certs in  aid  of  the  poor,  with  whom  she 
always  deeply  sympathized.  Her  hus- 
band was  Otto  Goldschmidt,  a  young  pi- 
anist, who  accompanied  her  on  her  Amer- 
ican tour,  and  to  whom  she  was  married 
in  Boston. — Eve.  Jourmd. 

MASONIC  OATHS, 

BY 

I*a»t   niiiHtor    of  Iie}N(oii«   liUtlsc 

IVu.  (Kt».  <:iiicnKo. 

K  mnsterly  diicuexlon  o(  tho  Oiithn  of  the  Masonic 
LoilKt'.t"  wbieb  in  nppxiuloil  "I'reemasoury  nl  a 
Qlaiice,"  illuHtratiiig  evory  aiioi,  grip  bikI  cere- 
mony of  the  Mnsoiilc  Loil/e.  This  w.)rk  In  hiKhly 
oniummuloil  l>y  Itfui'iuK  Icoturohias  furDlxbioe  tb( 
boat  nr^umeDta  on  the  nnttiro  and  hrac- 

terot  MiUMouio  (.bllKntlona  of  any  h<M)k  lu  prlut 
Paper  cover,  207  pages.    Vrlce,  40  couts, 

National  Christian  Association, 

<W1  MUmtMrALfu  Si.  CU«m(o,  ID, 


BY   GREAT  UBN  IN   THB     BTATB. 

George  WasJdngton,  in  a  letter  written 
a  year  before  his  death:  "I  preside  over 
no  lodge,  nor  have  I  been  in  one  more 
than  once  or  twice  during  the  last  thirty 
years." 

President  MiUard  Fillmore,  J.  G.  Spen- 
cer and  otJiers:  "The  Masonic  fraternity 
tramples  upon  our  rights,  defeats  the  ad- 
ministration of  justice,  and  bids  defiance 
to  every  government  which  it  cannot  con- 
trol." 

Chief  Justice  John  Marshall:  "The  in- 
stitution of  Masonry  ought  to  be  aban- 
doned as  one  capable  of  much  evil  and 
incapable  of  producing  any  good  which 
might  not  be  effected  by  safe  and  open 
means." 

John  Quincy  Adams:  "I  am  prepared 
to  complete  the  demonstration  before 
God  and  man,  that  the  Masonic  oaths, 
obligations  and  penalties  cannot  by  any 
possibility  be  reconciled  to  the  laws  of 
morality,  of  Christianity,  or  of  the  land." 

General  A.  W.  Riley: — I  hold  that  the 
difference  between  the  Christian  and  a 
heathen  religion  is,  that  one  has  morality 
and  the  other  has  not.  And  when  our 
churches  refuse  to  speak  of  such  subjects 
as  slavery,  liquor-selling  and  secret  socie- 
ties, they  are  becoming  heathen  religions; 
that  is,  religions  without  morals . 

Gharles  Francis  Adams:  "Every  man 
who  takes  a  Masonic  oath  forbids  himself 
from  divulging  any  criminal  act,  unless 
it  might  be  murder  or  treason,  that  may 
be  communicated  to  him  under  the  seal 
of  fraternal  bond,  even  though  such  con- 
cealment were  to  prove  a  burden  upon  his 
conscience  and  a  violation  of  hisjbounden 
duty  to  society  and  to  his  God." 

Gha/rles  Sumner:  "1  find  two  powers 
here  in  Washington  in  harmony,  and  both 
are  antagonistical  to  our  free  institutions, 
and  tend  to  centralization  and  anarchy — 
Freemasonry  and  Slavery;  and  they 
must  both  be  destroyed  if  our  country  is 
to  be  the  home  of  the  free,  as  our  ances- 
tors designed  it." 

Disraeli,  Lord  Beaconsjield;  In  conduct- 
ing the  governments  of  the  world  there 
are  not  only  sovereigns  and  ministers,  but 
secret  orders  to  be  considered,  which  have 
agents  everywhere — reckless  agents,  who 
countenance  assassination,  and,  if  neces- 
sary, can  produce  a  massacre . " 

General  J.  W.  Ph^ps: — All  secret  or- 
ganizations are  links  of  one  and  the  same 
chain  which  binds  men  to  evil  and  not  to 
good.  The  Masonic  lodge  is  the  parent 
source  from  which  all  similar  modern  or- 
ganizations have  emanated  and  this  lodge 
is  now  in  active  operation  in  every  city 
and  considerable  village  of  the  country 
swaying  our  parties  and  churches;  filling 
our  offices,  secular  and  divine,  with  its 
partisans;  shaping  our  political  destinies; 
and  teaching  a  spurious  and  corrupt- 
ing morality  subversive  both  of  the  Chris- 
tian religion  and  of  free  institutions. 

Thurlow  Weed:  "1  now  look  back 
through  an  interval  of  fifty-six  years  with 
a  conscious  sense  of  having  been  gov- 
erned through  the  Anti-masonic  excite- 
ment by  a  sincere  desire,  first  to  vindicate 
the  violated  laws  of  my  country,  and  next 
to  arrest  the  great  power  and  dangerous 
influences  of  secret  societies." 

A.  M.  Sullivan,  Irish  Leader:  I  had  not 
studied  in  vain  the  history  of  secret,  oath- 
bound  associations.  I  regarded  them  with 
horror.  I  knew  all  that  could  be  said  as 
to  their  advantages  in  revolutionizing  a 
country,  but  even  in  the  firmest  and  best 
of  hands  they  had  a  direct  tendency  to 
demoralization  and  are  often  on  the 
whole  more  perilous  to  society  than  open 
tyranny." 

Hon.  Edward  Blake.leader  in  Canadian 
Parliament,  March,  ISS4:  "I  am  not  in 
favor  of  State  recognition  of  any  secret 
societies.  I  have  never  joined  one, though 
many  of  my  best  friends  are  members  of 
secret  societies.  But  I  believe  tho  ten- 
dency of  secrecy  itself  to  be  injurious.  I 
believe  that  it  brings  with  it  the  possibili- 
ty of  evil;  I  believe  that  it  involves  a  cer- 
tain amount  of  sacrifice  of  individuality 
and  independence,  and  gives  very  great 
facilities  for  the  misleading  of  members 
by  designing  leaders-very  great  and  mis- 
chievous facilities  for  that  purpose."  "I 
believe  that  a  great  deal  of  the  trouble, 
social  and  political,  that  has  occurred  in 
those  countries  [Europe  and  America]  is 
due  to  secret  societies." 


ANTI-MABONIO  LBOTURBRB, 

Obnbral  AeBNT  AND  Lbctxtbbr,  J.  p. 
Stoddard,  221  W.  Madison  St.,  Chicago. 

H.  H.  Hlnman,  Cynosure  office. 
Agent  for  Southern  States. 
Statb  Aobnts. 

Iowa,  C.  F.  Hawley,  Wayne,  Henry 
Co.     Care  Rev.  Geo.  Fry. 

Missouri,  Eld.  Rufus  Smith,  Maryville. 

New  Hampshire,  Eld.  S.  C.  Kimball, 
New  Market. 

Ohio,  W.  B.  Stoddard,  Columbus, 

Kansas,  Robert  Loggan,  Clifton. 

Alabama,  Rev.  G.  M.  Elliott,  Selma. 

Dbgrbb  Workbbs. — [Seceders.") 
J.  E.  Glassford,  Carthage,  Mo. 
Othbb  Lbcturbbs. 

C.  A.  Blanchard,  Wheaton,  HI. 
N.  Callender,  Thompson,  Pa. 

J .  H.  TlminonB,  Tarentum,  Pa 

T.  B.  McConnlck,  Princeton,  Ind. 

E.  JohnBon,  Dayton,  Ind. 

H.  A.  Day,  WllllamBtown,  Mich. 

J.  M.  BlBhop,  Chambersburg,  Pa. 

A.  Mayn,  Bloomlngton,  Ind. 

J.  B.  CresBlnger,  Sullivan,  O. 

W.  M.  Love,  Osceola,  Mo. 

J.  L.  Barlow,  Grundy  Center,  Iowa. 

A.  D.  Freeman,  Downers  Grove,  lU 

Wm.  FentOD .  St  Paul,  Minn. 

E.  I.  Grlnnell,  Blalrsburg,  Iowa. 

Warren  Taylor,  South  Salem,  O. 

J.  S.  Perry,  Thompson,  Conn. 

J.  T.  Michael,  New  Wilmington,  Pa. 

8.  G.  Barton,  Breckinridge,  Mo. 

E.  BametBon,  HasklnvlUe,  Steuben  Co,  N.  Y 

Wm.  R.  Roach,  Pickering,  Ont. 

D.  A.  Richards,  Brighton,  Mich. 

THB   CHURGHBB    VS.   LODeSRY. 

The  following  denominations  are  com- 
mitted by  vote  of  their  legislative  assem- 
blies or  by  constitution  to  a  separation 
from  secret  lodge  worship: 

Adventists  (Seventh-day.) 

Baptists — Primitive,  Seventh-day  and 
Scandinavian. 

Brethren  (Dunkers  or  German  Bap- 
tists.) 

Christian  Reformed  Church. 

Church  of  God  Northern  Indiana  El- 
dership.) 

Congregational — The  State  Associations 
of  Illinois  and  Iowa  have  adopted  resolu- 
tions against  the  lodge. 

Disciples  (in  part.) 

Friends. 

Lutherans — Norwegian,  Danisli.  Swed- 
ish and  Synodical  Conferences. 

jVIennonites. 

Methodists — Free  and  Wesleyan. 

Methodist  Protestant  (Minnesota  Coa- 
ference.) 

Moravians. 

Plymouth  Brethren. 

Presbyterian — Associate,  Reformeil  and 
United. 

Reformed  Church  (Holland  Branch.) 

United  Brethren  in  Christ. 

Individual  churches  in  some  of  these 
denominations  should  be  excepted,  in  part 
of  them  even  a  considerable  portion. 

The  following  local  churches  have,  as  a 
pledge  to  disfellowship  and  oppose  lodge 
worship,  given  their  names  to  the  follow- 
ing list  as 

THB   associated   CUUKCHES   OF  CHRIST. 

New    Ruhamah  Cong.  Hamilton,  Miss. 

Pleasant  Ridec  Cong.   Sandford  Co.  Ala. 

New  Hope  Methodist,  Lowndes  Co.,  Miu. 

Congregational,  College  Springs,  Iowa. 

College  Church  of  Christ,  \Vheaton,  111. 

First  Congregational,  Leland,  Mich. 

SuK»r  Grove  Church,  Green  county.  Pa. 

Military  Chapel,  M.  E.,  Lowndes  county, 
Miss. 

Hopewell  Missionary  Baptist,  Lowndes  Co., 
Miss. 

Cedar  Grove  Miss.  Baptist,  Lowndes  Co., 
Miss. 

Simon's  Chapel,  M.   B.,  Lowndes  Co.,  Miss. 

Pleasant  Kidge  Mies.  Baptist,  Lowndes  Co., 
Miss. 

Brownloe  Church,  Caledonia,  Miss. 

Salem  Church,  Lowndes  Co.,  Miss. 

West  Preston  Bantlst  Church.  Wayne  Co.,P». 

OTHBR  LOCAL  CHUBCHBB 

adopting  the  same  principle  are — 

Baptist  churches :  N.  Ablnrton,  Pa. :  Meno- 
monie,  Mondovl,  Waubeck  and  Spring  Prairie, 
Wis. ;  Wheaton,  111. ;  Perry,  N.  Y. ;  Spring 
Creek,  near  Burlington,  Iowa ;  Lima,  Ind. ; 
Constahlevllle,  N.  Y.  The  "Good  Will  Associ- 
ton"  of  Mobile,  Ala.,  comprising  some  twenty- 
five  colored  Baptist  churches;  Bridgewater 
Baptist  Association,  Pa.;  Old  Tebo  Baptist, 
near  Leesvllle,  Henry  Co.,  Mo. ;  Hoopeaton,  111 ; 
Esmen,  111. ;  StrykersvUle,  N.  Y. 

Congregational  churches :  Ist  of  Oberlln,  O. ; 
TonlcA.  Crystal  Lake,  Union  and  Big  Woods, 
111. ;  Solshury,  Ind. ;  Congregational  Methodist 
Maplewood,  Mass. 

Independent  churches  In  Lowell,  Country- 
man school  house  near  Lindenwood,  Marengo 
and  Streator,  HI. :  Bereaand  Camp  Nelson,  Ky ; 
Dstlck,  111. ;  Clarksburg,  Kansas;  8tat«  Associ- 
ation of  Mhiitt«n  anif  ChorahM  of  ChrUt  la 
KntnekT- 


N.  C.  A.  BUILDINa  AND  OFTICX  OI 
THE  CHRISTIAN   CYNOSURE, 
»81  WEST  MADISON  STREET,  CHICAGO 


NA'riONALCERiaTIAN  ASSOCIATIOm 

Prbbidbnt.— H.  H.  George,  D.  D.,  Gen- 
eva College,  Pa. 

ViCB-PRBBiDBNT — Rcv.  M.  A.  Gault, 
Blanchard,  Iowa. 

Cob.  Sbc'y  and  General  Asbnt. — J 
P.  Stoddard,  221 W.  Madison  St.,  Chicago. 

Rbc.  Sec't.  and  Treasurer. — W.  I. 
Phillips,  221  W.  Madison  St.,   Chicago. 

DiRECTOHS. — Alexander  Thomson,  Hi 
R.  Britten,  John  olardner,  J.  L.  Barlow, 
L.  N.  Stratton.  Thos.  H.  Gault,  C.  A. 
Blanchard,  J.  E.  Roy,  E.  R.  WorreU,  H. 
A.  Fischer,  W.  R.  Hench. 

The  object  of  this  Association  Is: 
"To  expose,  withstand  and  remove  secrel 
societies,  Freemasonry  in  particular,  and  othei 
anti-Christian  movements,  in  order  to  save  the 
churches  of  Christ  from  being  uepraved,  to  re- 
deem the  admlnl6tr» tion  of  justice  from  per- 
version, and  our  r?p  ibUcan  goTemment  from 
corruption." 

To  carry  on  this  work  contributions  an 
solicited  from  every  friend  of  tne  reform. 

Form  of  Bequest. — J  give  and  bequeath  to 
the  National  Christian  Association,  incorpo- 
rated and  existing  under  the  laws  of  the  State 

of    Illinois,  the  sum  of dollat  s  for  the 

purposes  of  said  Association,  and  for  which 
tte  receipt  of  its  Treasurer  for  the  time  being 
liall  be  sufficient  dlscharae. 

THB  NATIONAL  CONVENTION. 

Prbbidbnt.— Rev.    J.    8.  McCullocb, 
D.  D. 
Skcrbtabt.— Rev.  Lewis  Johnson. 

BTATB  AnznjABT  ASSOCIATIONB 

Alabama.— Pres.,  Prof.  Pickens;  Sec,  G. 
M.  Elliott;  Treaa.,  Rev.  C.  B.  Curtis,  aU  of 
Selma. 

Cautobnia.— PreSy^  L.  B.  Lathrop,  HoUU- 
ter ;  Cor.  Sec.,  Mrs.  U.  P.  Merrill,  Woodland ; 
Treas.,  C.  Ruddock,  Woodland. 

CONNBCTICUT.— Pres.,  J.  A.  Conant,  Willi- 
mantle;  Sec,  Geo.  Smith,  WiUlmantlc ;  Treaa.. 
C.  T.  ColUns,  Windsor. 

Ii.TjTJois. — Pres.,  J.  P.  Stoddard;  Sec,  M. 
N.  Butler;  Treaa.,  W.  I.  Phillip*,  all  at  C?y 
rt08i«r«  office. 

Indiana.— Prea.,  WlUlam  H.  Flgg,  Reno 
Sec,  S.  L.  Cook,  Albion;  Treaa.,  Ben].  Ulah 
SUver  Lake. 

Iowa.— Pre8.,Wm.  John6ton,College  Springs ; 
Cor  Sec,  C.  D.  Trumbull,  Morning  Snn; 
Treas.,  James  Harvey,  Pleasant  Plain,  Jeffer- 
son Co. 

Kansas.- Pres.,  J.  P.  Richards,  Ft  Scott; 
Secj  W.  W.  McMlUan,  Olathe;  Treaa.,  J. 
A.  "Tcrrence,  N.  Cedar. 

MASSACHC3BTT3.— Pres.,  8..'A.  Pratt;  Sec, 
Mrs.  K.  D.  Bailey;  Treas., David  Mannlng.Sr., 
Worcester. 

MiOHiOAN.— Pres.,  D.  A.  Rlchard^  Brighton ; 
Sec'y,  H.  A.  Day,  Wllllamston;  Treaa, 
Geo.  Bwanson,  Jr.,  Bedfoi  J. 

MiNNBSOTA.— Pres.,  E.  G  Paine,  Wssloja; 
Cor.  Sec.  Wm.  Fcnton.  St.  Paul :  Rec.  Sec'y, 
Mrs.  M.  F.  Morrill,  St.  Caarles;  Treaa.,  Wm. 
H.  Morrill,  St.  Charles. 

Missouri.- Pres.,  B.  F.  Miller,  EagleviUe; 
Treas./WlUiam  Beauchamp,  Avalon ;  Oor.  8f  c, 
A.  D.  Thomas,  Avalon. 

Nbbbabka.- Pres.,  8.  Austin,  Falrmouit; 
Cor.  Sec,  W.  Bpooner,  Kearney;  Treas., 
J.  C.  Fye. 

NrnwHAMPSHiBB.— Pres.,  Isaac  Hyatt,  Gil 
ford  Village;  Sec,  8.  C.  Kimball,  New  Market* 
Treas.,  James  F.  French,  Canterbury. 

Nbw  York.— Pres.,  F.  W.  Capwell,  Dale; 
Sec'y,  John  Wallace,  Syracuse;  Treas.,  M. 
Merrick,  Syracuse. 

Ohio.— f  res..  Rev.  R.  M.  Smith,  Pagetown: 
Rec  Sec,  Rev.  Coleman,  Utica;  Cor.  Sec  and 
Treas.,  Rev.  S.  A.  George,  Mansfield;  Agent, 
W.  B.  Stoddard,  Columbus. 

Pbhnstlvahia.— Prea.,  A.  L.  Post,  Mok 
trose;  Cor.  Sec,  N.  Callender,  Thompaont 
Treas.,  W.B.  BertelBLWUkeebaxro. 

Vbrmont.— Pre*.,  W.  R.  Laird,  St.  Johns- 
bury  ;  Sec,  C.  W  Potter. 

WiscONBiN.— Pres..  J.  W.  Wool,  Baraboo; 
Sec,  W.  W.  Ames,  Manomonta;  Treas.,  M.  R. 
Britten,  Vienna. 


8 


THE  CHRISllAlir  OYNOBUKE, 


NOYEMBXR  10,  1887 


The  Christian  Cynosure. 


Sdito&s. 


J.  BLANCHABD. 


HENRY  L.  KELLOGG. 


CHICAeO,    THX7B8DAY,    NOVKMBKR   10,   1887. 


EDITORIAL    CORREaPONDESCE. 


Manchester,  N,  H.,  Nov.  1,  1887. 

Deak  Ctnosubb: — The  State  meeting  in  New 
Hampshire  has  been  eminently  crowned  with  the  Di- 
vine presence  and  blessing.  I  have  attended  all  but 
two  sessions  of  the  three  days,  and  have  had  reports 
of  them  when  absent,  all  but  the  last  evening,  which 
I  expect  to  receive  before  closing  this  letter.  Oth- 
ers, as  well  as  myself,  felt  anxious  lest  bringing  in 
the  topics  of  Faith  Healing,  Social  Purity,  and  gen- 
eral missionary  work  should  switch  off  the  meeting 
from  its  declared  object  as  an  auxiliary  "opposed  to 
secret  societies;"  and  that  tendency  was  manifest  to 
some  extent  The  hour  and  a  half  assigned  to  "The 
National  Christian  Association"  in  the  printed  pro- 
gramme was  wholly  given  to  other  matters,  and  I 
was  not  heard  on  that  subject,  which  disappointed 
some  and  a  few  left  the  hall.  But  it  was  good  for 
my  humility,  and  makes  my  high  estimate  of  the 
meeting  all  the  more  reliable. 

Miss  I.  D.  Haines  is  pastor,  or  prophetess,  of  a 
Free  Baptist  church  in  Dexter,  Me.,  where  there  are 
ten  or  eleven  lodges  &nd  seven  churches,  and  her 
church  is  the  only  one  whose  pulpit  is  not  struck 
dumb  before  the  secret  lodges.  Miss  Haines  has 
not  been  posted  in  the  anti-lodge  reform,  but  this 
makes  her  utterances  the  more  weighty  in  some  re- 
spects. She  is  an  agreeable  speaker,  and  is  "well 
reported  of  by  the  brethren"  who  know  her.  She 
has  one  "fruit  of  the  Spirit,"  gentleness,  which  some 
lack  in  all  new  and  earnest  movements  for  Christ. 

DIVINE     HEALING 

was  to  have  been  presented  by  a  Rev.  Mr.  Oakes,  an 
eloquent  Irishman,  who,  in  words,  declared  his  warm 
sympathy  with  anti-secrecy,  but  said  nothing  which 
Masons  would  object  to.  He  is  reputed  to  welcome 
Masons  to  his  church.  I  may  hear  more  from  him 
in  the  report  of  last  night's  meeting.  Miss  Haines 
spoke  of  Divine  Healing,  but  I  did  not  hear  her. 

The  people  who  cut  away  the  forests  from  the 
New  England  hills,  all  believed  in  faith  healing,  and 
sent  notes  to  their  church  pulpits  requesting  prayers 
when  any  were  sick.  But  this  faith,  like  their  ha- 
tred of  secret  lodges  and  human  slavery,  had  died 
out.  It  is  now  following  the  anti-slavery  revival 
which  has  wiped  out  that  curse;  and  Satan,  as  he  is 
wont,  will  be  sure  to  inject  some  "dead  flies"  to 
make  this  ointment  stink.  If  the  beloved  friends, 
who  are  now  seeking  to  turn  our  minds  from  our 
semi  pagan  medical  science  to  Christ  for  healing, 
happen  to  read  this  editorial,  let  me  say  to  them  in 
brief: 

1.  Like  the  return  of  Christ  to  our  earth,  faith 
healing  has  fallen  wofuUy  into  disuse,  and  its  revi- 
val is  a  good  token  of  Christ's  approach. 

2.  The  devil  always  apes  Christ,  and  he' will  do  so 
in  this. 

3.  If  Satan  can  inflict  diseases,  as  in  the  case  of 
Job,  he  can  heal  them;  and  will,  if  he  can,  turn  the 
healing  to  further  his  devilish  designs. 

4.  We  have  great  reason  to  watch  and  pray,  and 
be  not  'h'gnorant  of  his  devices,  some  of  which  are: 
moving  us  to  use  faith  healing  to  draw  crowds. 
Christ,  in  the  case  of  Jairus's  daughter,  and  other 
instances,  shut  off  the  gaping  crowd.  Again,  he 
will  pervert  Scripture.  When  James  taught  to  "call 
for  the  elders  of  the  church"  to  pray,  anointing  the 
tick  person  with  oil,  he  did  not  mean  taking  a  little 
tiny  vial  of  oil  and  touching  the  forehead  with  it. 
The  Word  is  ''anointing  him,"  i.  e.,  the  sick  one,  as 
the  Good  Samaritan  "poured"  oil  and  wine  on  the 
man  bruised  by  thieves.  Oil  was  tljen  nearly  a  uni- 
versal remedy  (see  Barnes,  Olshausen,  "Lange  and 
others),  as  water  cure  was  in  some  localities.  If 
that  had  been  universal  as  the  use  of  oil  was,  the 
Word  would  have  run:  Applying  water  in  the  name 
of  the  Lord.  That  is,  use  the  best  means  you  know 
of;  then  pray  over  him,  and  if  God  does  not  want 
the  sick  person  in  heaven,  he  will  give  faith  and  ef- 
fect healing,  instantaneous,  or  gradual,  as  Christ  re- 
stored si^bt. 

In  18.S0  I  spent  two  weeks  in  Oberlin,  when  the 
place  was  full  of  "bands,"  praying  for  "the 
blessing"  of  sanctiflcation,  and  much  frailty  and  ig- 
norance appeared.  On  my  return  to  Cincinnati  I 
said  in  our  paper  that  I  would  rather  be  the  weakest 
and  wildest  seeker  of  eanctification  there,  than  Dr. 
Morse  of  the  New  York  Observer,  who  was  a  mere 
observer  and  critic  of  reforms  and  reformers.  A 
few  such  papers  at  that  time,  if  they  had  done  their 
duty,  would,  under  God,  have  sunk  slavery  and 
saved  as  the  war. 


Let  us  not  stumble  again  lest  a  worse  thing  come 
upon  our  beloved  nation. 

SOCIAL  puaiTr 
was  presented  by  Miss  Annie  M.  Ray,  a  daughter  of 
Deborah  the  prophetess,  by  her  mien  and  tones. 
She  and  her  companions  have  just  obtained  $5,000 
from  the  New  Hampshire  legislature  to  begin  their 
work  to  save  girls  of  fourteen,  fifteen  and  upward, 
the  many  bright-eyed  daughters  of  French  emigrants 
in  the  factories,  who  are  decoyed,  deceived  and  cast 
cfi^  by  the  hell-kites  in  the  shape  of  men.  The  best 
of  all  is,  all  these  reformers  look  solely  to  Christ 
for  power. 


"THE   PILGRIM   FATHERS" 

IS  the  name  of  a  new  secret  society  in  New  England. 
The  gentlemanly  conductor  who  informed  me,  said 
he  belonged  to  it. 

"Did  they  blindfold  you  when  you  were  initiated?" 
I  asked. 

"Yes." 

"What  did  initiation  cost?" 

"Four  dollars  and  a  half.  A  quarterly  due  of 
fifty  cents.  A  funeral  charge  of  half  a  dollar  for 
each  death." 

These  are  the  regular  charges.  Of  course  there 
will  be  assessments.  No  more  striking  proof  of 
their  terrible  power  can  be  given  than  this  "Pilgrim 
Fathers"  lodge.  The  local  bodies  are  called  "Colo- 
nies." I  never  saw  sharper  men  in  money  matters 
large  and  small  than  the  New  England  people.  But 
they  are  hoodwinked  by  Satan  in  these  lodges,  even 
in  regard  to  money:  and  the  diabolical  impudence 
of  using  the  name  of  "The  Pilgrim  Fathers,"  and 
their  early  "Colonies"  to  cover  their  devilish  worships 
and  taxation,  excels  everything  but  its  Satanic  craft. 
But  the  rapid  increase  of  these  hoodwink  man- 
traps shows  that  Satan  is  conscious  that  his  time  is 
short. 

Miss  Flagg  is  here.  She  is  now  anxious,  more 
anxious  since  her  mother's  death,  to  have  the  W.  C. 
T.  U.  inaugurate  another  department  of  women's 
work  against  the  lodge.  She  would  be  an  admirable 
head  of  it.  Their  Social  Purity  work  has  been  well 
presented  here,  and  a  resolution  passed  and  collec- 
tion taken  for  Bro.  Davis,  now  still  in  Boston  jail. 
Elder  S.  C.  Kimball  has  done  admirably  in  getting 
up  this  meeting:  and  there  are  many  here  who  de- 
serve and  will  receive  honorable  mention.       J.  b. 


penitence,  and  are  to-day  the  enemies  of  society, 
criminals  of  the  worst  character,  as  ready  as  ever  to 
conspire  and  burn  and  slay.  A  year  of  confinement 
has  not  abated  their  fury  or  changed  their  diabolical 
purpose.  If  they  were  free  they  would  begin  again 
their  devilish  work. 

But  one  man's  purpose  can  stop  the  execution  on 
Friday,  and  the  friends  of  these  murderers  are  mov- 
ing earth  to  affect  that  purpose — toward  heaven  they 
have  no  prayers.  With  them  are  joined  men  prom- 
inent in  the  circles  of  infidelity,  as  IngersoU,  Booth 

and  Rabbi ,  agnostics,  Universalists,  Knights 

of  Labor  and  many  other  secret  lodges  of  working- 
men — and  in  general  all  that  class  of  people  who  are 
restive  under  the  law  of  God;  who  wish  to  put  off 
his  authority,  resist  his  righteous  government,  and 
who  boast  their  disbelief  in  the  punishment  he  has 
promised  to  sin.     Out  of  this  vile  soil  of  rebellion 
against  the  authority  of  the  Most  High  God  has 
sprung  all  this  poisonous  growth  of  anarchy  and 
massacre.     And  this  is  the  question  Governor  Ogles- 
by  is  to  decide.     Shall  he  yield  to  the  prayers  and 
imprecations  and  threats  which  load  down  his  tables; 
or  shall  he  remember  the  churches,  the  bulwark  of 
our  liberties;  shall  he  remember  our  common  schools 
crowded  with  bright  hopes  for  the  future  of  Ameri- 
ca; shall  he  remember  our  homes  and  their  cherished 
circles  dearer  than  life?    These  have  spoken  through 
government  and  law.     Their  word  is  as  the  word  of 
God,  and  has  its  authority  through  him.     The  law  is 
just.     It  has  condemned  the  crime  of  these  men  as 
one  of  the  worst,  a  crime  including  many  crimes. 
Every  interest  dear  to  civilization  calls  tor  the  exe- 
cution of  their  sentence.     Shall  one  man  take  the 
responsibility  of  deciding  against  all  these  interests 
that  he  may  please  a  mawkish  sentiment  begotten 
by  cowardice  and  hatred  of  God's  law?     Governor 
Oglesby's  position  is  not  one  to  be  envied,  but  his 
duty  is  clear,  and  this  is  the  great  opportunity  of 
his  life.     Will  he  be  faithful  to  the  trust  he  has 
sworn  to  keep,  or  will  he  fail  and  bring  upon  his 
memory  the  curses  of  unborn  generations? 


TSB  DOOMED  ANARCHISTS. 


Friday,  November  11th,  seven  men  now  in  the 
county  jail  in  this  city  are  to  be  hung  unless  Gover- 
nor Oglesby  interferes.  These  seven  men  have  been 
found  guilty  of  the  most  savage  and  heinous  crime, 
as  instigators  and  accessories  to  massacre  by  dyna- 
mite. None  but  the  ignorant  or  the  foolish  dare  say 
they  have  not  had  fair  trial,  and  the  utmost  effort 
has  not  saved  them  from  the  condemnation  of  every 
court  that  has  heard  or  can  hear  their  case.  There 
remains  but  one  more  event  to  complete  their 
wretched  history — an  event  toward  which  their 
course  has  tended  for  years^  the  legitimate  end  of 
conspiracies  for  the  murder  of  men  and  the  destruc- 
tion of  society. 

The  story  of  their  crime  will  not  soon  be  forgot- 
ten. In  April,  1886,  there  were  strikes  in  progress 
in  Chicago,  partly  fomented  by  these  men.  For 
years  several  of  them  had  been  known  as  profes- 
sional agitators.  A  thieves'  administration  had  per- 
mitted them  to  harangue  the  crowds,  and  incite  to 
violence.  They  had  formed  a  number  of  secret  so- 
cieties in  which  their  plans  for  general  massacre 
were  discussed.  Dynamite  was  kept  in  their  houses 
and  in  the  oflBce  of  their  paper.  Bombs  were  made 
and  baskets  full  taken  to  their  meetings  and  distrib- 
uted. Under  their  speeches  reckless  men  were  be- 
coming mad  and  furious.  A  meeting  called  by  the 
secret  word  of  the  conspirators'  lodge  met  on  Des- 
plaines  Street  just  off  the  old  Haymarket  Square  on 
the  evening  of  May  4.  Had  the  mayor  done  his 
duty  this  meeting  would  not  have  been  held  nor 
would  many  others  that  preceded  it.  The  police 
without  waiting  for  his  order,  ordered  its  disper- 
sion. They  were  answered  with  a  bomb  which  killed 
seven  of  their  number  and  wounded  more  than  fifty 
others.  The  well-known  leaders  of  this  insurrec- 
tionary movement  were  arrested  and  after  a  trial  of 
nearly  two  months  were  sentenced — seven  to  die, 
one  to  the  penitentiary  for  fourteen  years.  The  Su- 
preme courts  of  the  State  and  of  the  United  States 
have  heard  their  case,  argued  by  the  ablest  men  who 
could  be  engaged.  The  unanimous  decision  in  every 
instance  has  been  of  the  guilt  of  these  men  and  the 
justice  of  their  sentence. 

During  their  trial  they  gloried  in  what  they  had 
done — they  glory  in  it  to  this  day.  They  pose  as 
martyrs,  because  they  have  helped  kill  off  the  guard- 
ians of  the  peace.     They  have  no  word  of  regret,  or 


THE  JS.  G.  A.  FOREIGN  MISSION. 

This  is  the  work  of  the  printed  page,  not  the  liv- 
ing agent.  For  several  years  occasional  requests 
for  tracts  and  pamphlets  from  West  and  South  Af- 
rica, from  India  and  the  West  Indies  have  been 
answered  by  the  Board,  until  at  last  the  urgent  ap- 
peals of  brethren  in  Bombay  and  the  interior  of  In- 
dia led  to  the  opening  of  a 

FOREIGN    FUND 

by  the  Treasurer,  in  which  donations  for  this  pur- 
pose might  be  placed. 

Our  readers  have  not  been  urged,  except  in  the 
India  letters,  to  help  this  fund,  but  they  have  sent 
in  some  $21.  But  the  calls  are  becoming  more  ur- 
gent. Bro.  Cole  says  that  his  friend  and  agent,  Mr. 
Case  of  Sierra  Leone,  has  already  disposed  of  a 
large  invoice  of  Anti-masonic  baoks,  and  writes  for 
more.  A  letter  from  the  Bombay  brother -was  read 
last  week.  We  cannot  doubt  our  friends  have  been 
moved  by  these  appeals;  and  their  interest  in  the 
cause  in  these  foreign  lands  will  rise  as  they  under- 
stand the  importance  of  the  work. 

In  India  brethren  Gladwin  and  Ward  are  organ- 
izing a  great  colporteur  work.  The  former  is  "Lec- 
turing and  General  Representative  in  India"  of  the 
Gospel  Purity  Association  of  England,  the  latter  an 
earnest  and  devoted  missionary  at  Secunderabad. 

Do  not,  brethren,  let  these  appeals  fall  unheeded. 
It  is  a  day  of  missionary  awakening  in  the  churches. 
But  a  small  part  of  the  tenth  due  to  the  Lord's  work 
will  help  to  scatter  thousands  of  tracts  among  the 
English-speaking  people  in  foreign  lands. 

NEXT   WEEK 

we  hope  to  present  our  most  important  home  fund 
for  the  circulation  of  the  Cynosure  among  the 
Southern  ministers  with  reasons  which  are  unan- 
swerable why  that  fund  should  be  raised  without 
delay  to  fifteen  hundred  dollars  at  least.  One  of  these 
arguments  appears  in  our  Texas  letter  on  the  6th 
page. 


The  annual  meeting  of  the  Woman's  Missionary 
Board  of  the  Interior  was  held  in  this  city  on  the 
second  and  third  days  of  November  in  the  New 
England  church.  Mrs.  Moses  Smith,  the  president, 
was  in  the  chair,  and  quite  a  number  of  mission- 
aries and  mothers  of  missionaries  were  on  the  plat- 
form. Devotional  exercises  were  led  by  Mrs.  Pres. 
Magoon,  and  interesting  addresses  made  by  Miss 
Porter,  Miss  Evans  an  others.  While  joining  earn- 
estly in  efforts  for  the  perishing  in  foreign  lands,  let 
us  lift  up  earnest  cries  for  those  in  our  own  country 
who  are  bowing  down  to  altars  where  an  unknovm 
God  is  worshiped,  and  Jesus  ignored  and  despised. 
It  will  ever  remain  true  that  by  no  other  name  under 


•*sn 


NOTEMBER  10,  188T 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


heaven  but  Christ's  can  men  be  saved.  Our  giving, 
praying,  and  earnest  doing  ought  to  be  greatly  in- 
creased. 


— Bro.  M.  A.  Gault  was  lecturing  last  week  around 
Grlenwood,  Minn.,  on  his  way  to  Blanchard,  Iowa, 
where  he  will  make  his  winter  headquarters. 

— Bro.  J.  B.  Galloway  and  Bro.  Isaiah  Faris  of 
Vernon,  Wis.,  arc  using  their  efforts  to  prevent  the 
organization  of  Good  Templar  lodges  in  their  vicin- 
ity. 

— Bro.  I.  R.  B.  Arnold  after  the  Wisconsin  State 
meeting  has  visited  Milton  Junction,  Sugar  Creek, 
Whitewater  and  Palmyra.  He  visits  Beloit  this 
week  and  has  engagements  at  Cherry  Valley  and 
the  Flora  Wesleyan  church. 

— Secretary  Stoddard  expected  to  remain  over  the 
Sabbath  at  Greenfleld,  Missouri.  On  Tuesday  and 
Wednesday  evenings  he  was  to  be  at  Carthage, 
and  at  Olathe,  Kansas,  Thursday  evening,  reaching 
this  city  Saturday. 

— Our  literary  department  contains  some  facts  of 
great  interest  respecting  the  attitude  of  Washington 
toward  some  of  the  prominent  features  of  our  mod- 
ern secret  lodges.  The  life  of  Washington  is  well 
worth  a  careful  study  in  this  relation,  because  of  the 
odious  attempt  of  the  lodge  to  make  him  a  patron 
saint. 

— When  President  J.  Blanchard  passed  through 
Detroit  on  his  way  to  New  England  he  spoke  on  the 
secret  system  in  that  city.  The  Detroit  Freema»on 
of  last  week  devotes  over  three  columns  to  a  violent 
and  denunciatory  letter  attempting  a  reply.  This 
Freemason  calls  Pike  "a  Christiaa  gentleman"  de- 
nies the  well-known  fact  of  Masonic  baptism,  and 
the  equally  well-known  fact  of  the  influence  of  the 
Masonic  lodge  in  promoting  the  rebellion,  etc.  The 
lodge  may  feed  itself  fat  oti  such  stuff.  Dyspepsia, 
gout  and  death  will  follow. 

— The  Living  Way  of  Memphis  reports  the  mur- 
der of  a  colored  minister,  Rev.  James  Tipton,  in 
that  city  on  the  2 6 lb  ult.  The  murderer  is  unknown 
as  are  the  reasons  for  the  deed.  The  dead  man  had 
on  a  Masonic  pin,  and  belonged  to  lodge  only  Wen- 
ty-five  miles  away.  But,  strange  to  say,  not  a  lodge 
or  a  member  of  the  order  lifted  a  finger  to  care  for 
the  dead  body.  Two  of  his  brother  ministers,  with 
other  friends,  cared  for  his  decent  burial.  Brethren 
Countee  and  Brinkley  make  the  circumstance  the 
text  for  an  earnest  editorial  upon  the  selfishness 
and  false  pretensions  of  the  lodge. 

— In  an  editorial  on  Chinese  High-binders  and 
their  fearful  power  in  our  issue  of  Oct.  6th,  senti- 
ments were  attributed  to  Rev.  Mr.  Pond,  who  super- 
intends the  Congregational  Chinese  missions  in  San 
Francisco,  which  we  are  well  pleased  to  learn  from 
himself  personally  that  he  does  not  hold.  It  was 
understood  from  the  report  that  fell  into  our  hands 
that  he  reasoned  in  favor  of  the  expulsion  of  the 
Chinese  from  this  case  of  outrage,  which  would  be 
held  inconsistent  in  one  engaged  as  he  is  in  saving 
them  from  heathenism.  But  we  were  also  surprised 
that  he  did  not  see  in  the  affair  reason  to  condemn 
the  secret  societies  among  the  Chinese,  and  Ameri- 
cans as  well,  which  teach  assassination. 


REFORM  NRW8  {Continued  from  r,th  page.) 

Sfcretary,  S.  C.  Kimball  of  Newmarket;  Treasurer^  J 
F.  French  of  Canterbury:  Executive  Committee,  Isaac 
Hyatt,  Ebenf  zer  Smith,  C.  L.  Baker,  J.  F.  French, 
S.  C.  Kimball.  The  annual  sermon,  delivered  by 
Rev.  S,  C.  Kimball  of  Newmarket,   followed. 

Sunday  morning  at  9  o'clock  the  Sunday  services 
opened  with  an  hour's  worship  led  by  Rev.  S.  C. 
Kimball.  The  meeting  was  well  attended,  and  an 
excellent  religious  spirit  was  manifest.  At  10  o'clock 
Rev.  Jonathan  Blanchard,  late  president  of  Wheaton 
College,  Illinois,  addressed  the  convention.  His 
sermon,  which  was  aimed  at  secret  societies,  was  a 
vigorous  arraignment  of  the  lodge  movement,  and 
met  with  the  unqualified  approval  of  those  present 
averse  to  such  fraternities. 

His  address  was  followed  by  the  sacrament  of  the 
Lord's  Supper,  Elder  J.  G.  Smith  of  New  Hampton 
and  Deacons  Rowe  of  Gilford  and  Seaward  of  Man- 
chester officiating  with  him  at  this  service. 

This  comprised  the  forenoon  exercises  with  the  ex- 
ception of  the  following  resolution  endorsing  the 
convicted  Boston-Common  exhorter,  which  was  unan- 
imously passed,  and  was  supplemented  by  a  contri- 
bution of  $12,  which  will  be  presented  to  Mr.  Da- 
vis's family.     The  resolution  reads  as  follows: 

Resolved,  That  we  assure  our  beloved  brother  and  fel- 
low laborer,  Elder  William  F.  Davie,  now  in  jail  for 
preaching  the  Gospel,  of  our  prayers  and  sympainy,  and 
implore  mercy  on  the  people  of  Boston,  whoso  rulers 
show  more  zeal  against  preachers  than  against  blasphem- 
ers, gamblers  and  rumsellers. 


"Christian  Women's  Work"  was  the  subject  of  the 
afternoon's  addresses,  the  speakers  being  Miss  E.  E. 
Flagg  of  Wellesley,  Mass.,  the  well-known  author, 
Mrs.  Caroline  W.  Bixby  of  North  Weare,  and  Miss 
Annie  Ray  of  Manchester.  Miss  Flagg's  remarks 
were,  while  in  their  scope  largely  antagonistic  to  any 
and  all  secret  societies,  devoted  to  a  discussion  of 
the  question,  "How  can  we  get  the  Workingman  to 
Vote  the  Prohibition  Ticket?"  Her  apparently  un- 
answerable query  was  left  with  the  advice  to  the  As- 
sociation to  train  up  the  children,  teaching  them,  the 
coming  voters,  that  righteousness  exalteth  a  nation, 
while  sin  is  a  reproach  to  any  people.  Mrs.  Bixby's 
remarks  were  also  devoted  to  the  temperance  cause, 
while  Miss  Ray  made  a  most  pathetic  address,  out- 
lining some  of  her  experiences  as  secretary  of  the 
local  Woman's  Christian  Temperance  Union.  Her 
practical,  earnest  thoughts  appealed  directly  to  her 
hearers,  and  dry  eyes  were  a  rarity  throughout  her 
pithy  talk. 

The  day's  devotions  were  brought  to  a  close  by  a 
Gospel  service  led  by  Miss  I.  D.  Haines,  evangelist 
of  Dexter,  Me.,  who  had  charge  of  this  portion  of 
the  exercises  of  the  convention. 

The  third  day's  session  opened  with  a  prayer  and 
praise  service,  followed  by  a  discussion  of  the  home 
mission  work,  during  which  Mr,  Kimball  submitted 
the  following  facts,  emboriying  his  labors  from  De- 
cember, 1886,  to  April,  1887;  and  the  report  was  as 
follows:  Families  prayed  with,  806;  subscriptions  for 
religious  papers,  560;  sermons  preached,  41.  Dur- 
ing this  time  about  3,000  pages  of  tracts  were  dis- 
tributed. Mr.  Kimball  was  then  elected  home  mis- 
sionary for  the  coming  year,  the  Association  pledg 
ing  him  $5  50  a  month,  and  donating  $17  at  the 
start.  A  discussion  of  the  work  followed  by  Revs. 
S.  C.  Kimball,  Isaac  Hyatt,  J.  G.  Smith,  E.  W.  Oakes, 
Deacons  I.  Leadbetter  and  S.  Rowe.  Ex  President 
Blanchard  was  announced  to  speak  on  the  work  of 
the  National  Christian  Association,  but  the  forenoon 
was  occupied  by  other  speakers  and  he  was  shutout. 
He  bid  farewell  to  the  convention  at  noon  in  order 
to  take  the  afternoon  train  for  St.  Johnsbury,  Vt. 
A  unanimous  vote  of  thanks  was  tendered  the  gen- 
tleman on  his  departure. 

During  the  afternoon  the  time  was  occupied  by  a 
brief  Gospel  service,  and  an  able  doctrinal  sermon 
delivered  by  Rev.  .1.  G.  Smith  of  New  Hampton,  on 
the  subject,  "The  Coming  of  our  Lord."  The  only 
other  business  transacted  was  the  passing  of  the  fol- 
lowing resolutions: 

Whereas,  The  evils  of  intemperance  are  constantly 
apparent.and  resticting  forces  are  not  effectively  brought 
to  bear  upon  the  traffic,  therefore 

Resolved,  That  we  as  an  organization  and  individuals 
voice  our  protest  against  any  and  all  connection  with 
this  iniquity,  and  we  will  use  our  influence  as  far  as  pos- 
sible for  effectual  and  entire  prohibition,  and 

Whebeas,  The  lodge  system  is  closely  allied  with  in- 
temperance, 

Renolved,  That  we  recommend  all  Christians  to  sever 
their  connection  with  all  secret  societies,  and 

WuBBEAS,  The  purity  of  the  home  must  be  maintained 
if  we  would  not  have  our  nation  engulfed  in  ruin, 

Resolved.  That  we  deplore  the  existence  of  social  evils 
which  assail  our  peace  and  join  hands  joyfully  with  the 
Woman's  Christian  Temperance  Union  in  its  noble  and 
persistent  endeavors  to  remedy  these  evils  and  restore  to 
paths  of  purity  those  who  have  wandered  from  them. 

Resolved,  That  the  Lord's  way  to  renounce  Freemason- 
ry is  to  confess  with  heartfelt  contrition  to  God  and 
man  its  hidden  ini(|uities  to  the  best  of  our  knowledge 
and  belief. 

Resolved,Th&t  our  thanks  are  due  Dr.Jonathan  Blanch- 
ard for  the  gratification  and  help  afforded  by  his  pres- 
ence at  our  convention  and  his  able  and  instructive  ad- 
dress on  the  evils  of  the  lodge  system;  also  to  Miss  I.  D. 
Haines,  evangelist  from  Maine,  for  successfully  conduct- 
ing our  devotional  meetings,  and  for  her  able  exposition 
of  the  Scriptural  doctrine  of  holiness  and  practical  piety, 
and  we  also  appreciate  with  thankfulness  the  service  of 
song  80  finely  rendered  by  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Blackmer  of 
Springfield,  Mass. 

Resolved,  That  as  we  believe  there  is  one  Lord,  one 
faith,  ore  baptism, and  are  in  full  accord  with  our  Lord's 
prayer  that  his  people  might  be  one,  we  will  by  precept 
and  example  show  the  world  that  Christ's  church  is  one 
united  family. 

Resolved,  That  our  heartfelt  thanks  are  duo  to  the  Ad- 
vent church,  meeting  in  Arcanum  hall,  for  the  use  of 
their  place  of  worship  and  the  generous  and  Christian 
hospitality  with  which  they  have  opened  their  hearts  and 
homes  for  our  entertainment. 

Resolved,  That  the  thanks  of  the  Association  are  here- 
by tendered  to  the  railroads  of  the  State  for  their  kind- 
ness in  transporting  delegates  to  the  meeting  at  a  reduced 
rate  of  fare. 

The  convention  was  closed  Monday  evening  by  an 
instructive  discourse  delivered  by  Rev.  E.  W.  Oakes 
of  the  People's  Baptist  church,  on  the  subject  of 
"Divine  Healing."  The  sermon  was  followed  by  a 
season  given  up  to  faith  healing,  and  during  which 
several  persons  embraced  this  new  feature  of  Gos- 
pel work. 


TBB  OHIO   CONVENTION 


Will    be  held  at  New  Concord,  Muskingum    county, 
November  16th  and  17th,  opening  at  9  a.  m.  of  Wednes- 
day, the   16th.     Addresses  will  be  given    by    President 
Smith,  Revs  W.  A.  Coleman  and  William  Dillon,  Secre- 
tary J.  P.  Stoddard,    State  Agent  W.  B.    Stoddard,  and 
the    closing  address  by  Pres  C.  A.  Blanchard.       Enter- 
tainment as  usual  will  be  provided  for  those  coming  from 
a  distance.     It  is  especially  desired  that  all  churches  in 
sympathy  appoint  at  once  as  large  a  delegation  as  they 
may    think    best  to  represent  them  at  this  convention. 
Let  the  friends  come  praying  for  a  glorious  blessing,  that 
wo  may  go  forth  stronger  for  Christ  in  the  future. 
H.  R.  Smith,  Prea 
W.  J    COLE.MAN,  Ren.  Eee'y. 
8.  A.  George,  Cor.  Secy. 


OUR  BOSTON  LETTER. 


THE    BRITISH-AMERICAN    ASSOCIATION  8   ORGAN    IN- 
DORSES  REPUBLICANISM. 

To  Boston's  nearly  300  daily,  weekly  and  monthly 
publications  there  was  added  Saturday  last,  Oct.  29, 
the  first  issue  of  a  weekly  paper  whose  mission  is 
the  advocacy  of  a  subject  which  is  deeply  interest- 
ing a  large  portion  of  itie  peoples  of  two  continents 
— the  naturalization  of  British-Americans.  Next  to 
its  advocacy  of  naturalization,  is  its  devotion  to  Re- 
publicanism. In  recommending  the  most  worthy 
ticket  to  be  cast  at  the  next  elections,  it  says: 

"The  Republican  party  has  the  conspicuous  merit  of 
having  definite  ideas.". . . .  "In  the  State  to  day,  it  stands 
as  the  repreBentative  of  pure  government,  as  the  champi- 
on and  resolute  defender  of  the  free  schools,  as  the  hope 
of  those  who  value  the  American  idea  of  self-govern- 
ment and  of  liberty  without  license." 

"Champion  and  resolute  defender  of  the  free 
schools!"  We  hope  the  writer  means  to  include  the 
saloon  schools,  which  with  undeniable  success  teach 
our  young  men  and  women  the  way  to  destruction. 
Aye !  it  may  defend  the  free  schools,  but  does  it  de- 
fend the  scholars?  Thousands  upon  thousands  of 
boys  and  girls  are  forced  to  leave  these  defended 
schools  and  seek  their  own  livelihood,  because  this 
great  champion  Republican  party  fails  to  defend 
their  parents  against  dissipation,  which  is  the  direct 
cause,  in  a  majority  of  cases  of  their  being  com- 
pelled to  give  up  the  school  for  the  work-shop.  I 
can  bear  testimony  to  this  fact — for  such  has  been 
my  own  sad  experience,  and  I  was  brought  up  in  a 
household  of  Republicans  "of  the  straightest  sect" 

If  the  Republican  party  thinks  so  much  about  the 
education  of  our  boys  and  girls,  let  them  first  turn 
aside  the  course  of  the  rum  traffic. 

"It  cringes  to  no  foreign  ideas  to  seek  support," 
claims  this  newly  created  British-American  citizen, 
with  utmost  confidence  in  what  he  says,  perhaps. 
Would  God  that  it  cringed  to  no  domestic  facts — 
the  distillery  and  the  saloon ! 

With  a  burst  of  enthusiasm,  which  would  be  com- 
mendable, were  it  not  a  case  of  "the  pot  calling  the 
kettle  black,"  referring  to  the  Democracy,  this  newly 
born  babe  of  British-American  journalism  strikes  a 
dramatic  attitude  and  cries: 

"Political  poverty,  like  that  of  a  more  personal  kind, 
is  subjected  to  the  disagreeable  necessity  of  finding 
strange  bedfellows.  For  tnis  reason  the  Democracy,  es- 
pecially in  the  large  centres  of  population, has  been  com- 
pelled to  be  of  all  complexions,  till  its  motley  garb  ex- 
cites dipgust  and  distrust.  Here  it  edges  cautiously  to 
free  trade;  there  it  sidles  up  to  woo  protection  ideas; 
again  it  nurses  Greenbackiem.and  changes  front  to  whis- 
per its  abiding  faith  in  the  currency  basis,  and  hangs  on 
to  the  edge  of  socialism,  and  every  other  ism,  good,  bad 
or  indifferent, which  has  a  vote  to  give." 

Naughty,  naughty  Democrats!  How  such  acts 
must  shock  innocent,  unsophisticated  little  Repub- 
licanism. Of  course  it  is  never  imitated  by  its 
Democratic  cousin  in  fishing  for  votes  in  the  same 
streams.  Of  course  pure  little  Republican  has  never 
been  guilty,  even  of  edging,  sidling,  wooing,  nurs- 
ing, whispering  and  hanging  to — the  king  of  the 
vat,  while  hypocritically  pretending  to  be  that  ty- 
rant's enemy! 

Referring  for  one  brief  second  to  the  temperance 
question,  as  if  almost  frightened  at  its  own  little 
spei:k  of  weak  trepidity,  in  another  column,  this  new 
paper,  in  words  which  would  really  occupy  four 
lines,  but  which  is  generously  spread  into  nearly 
five,  s.ays: 

"Republicans,  being  lovers  of  the  race,  are  arrayed  in 
almost  solid  phalanx  in  efforts  to  reduce  the  terrible  evils 
of  intemperance  and  limit  the  power  and  demoralizlDg 
ionuence  of  the  saloon," 

I  wonder  how  many  votes  such  an  extract  will 
cost?  Tbat  it  is  not  a  fancy  tempting  little  bait  for 
Prohibs  to  nibble  at  I  have  no  doubt.  There  is  one 
member,  however,  of  that  aquatic  family  whom  such 
bait  will  fail  to  tempt,  viz:  D.  P.  Mathews. 


10 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSUHE. 


NOYSHBEB  10,  1887 


The  Home. 


HAND  INEAND. 


The  thinker  must  work  and  the  worker  think, 

For  both  go  hand-in-hand. 
The  smithy's  stroke  and  the  drop  of  Ink 

Make  the  brawn  and  brain  of  the  land 

O,  you  at  your  forge  and  you  at  your  books, 

Be  both  at  your  Implements  striving, 
To  uplift  from  the  dust  the  kingdom  of  man 

To  a  higher  and  better  living. 

The  man  that  toils  and  the  man  that  thinks 
Must  work  now,  shoulder  to   shoulder. 

All  labor  is  worthy,  if  honest  it  be, 
The  world  mu-t  grow  wise  as  older. 

When  we  lift  the  man  at  the  desk,  we  lift 

The  laborer  at  the  plow ; 
When  from  a  measure  of  wrong  we  sift, 

Two  measures  are  sifted  somehow. 

— Joseph  Da7M  Miller. 


MORALB  OF  SPBCULATION. 


The  Christian  Advocate  is  throwing  light  on  a 
dark  subject — speculation  in  stocks  and  futures. 
It  is  a  needed  light,  for  much  of  the  wealth  of  met- 
ropolitan churches  comes  from  this  source,  and 
there  is  a  growing  uneasiness  about  the  business  in 
the  Christian  conscience.  This  uneasiness  has  been 
increased  of  late  by  certain  notable  cases  that  have 
been  before  the  public.  The  Ives  Pool  bill,  which 
recently  passed  the  Legislature  at  Albany,  is  an  act 
to  legalize  gambling  at  horse-races.  This  bill  is  a 
step  backward  in  Christian  civilization,  and  reverses 
the  almost  universal  verdict  of  Christian  nations. 
That  it  meets  with  so  many  defenders  can  only  be 
explained  by  the  influence  on  the  public  conscience 
of  the  gambling  in  securities  in  the  Exchanges.  If 
it  is  fair  and  right  to  gamble  in  Wall  Street,  it 
ought  not  to  be  a  criminal  offence  to  gamble  in  Jer- 
ome Park  or  Sheepshead  Bay.     So  say  the  people. 

In  order  to  get  clear  ideas,  let  us  lay  out  the 
ground  a  little. 

What  do  we  mean  by  stock?  When  a  company 
is  formed  and  money  is  paid  in,  receipts  are  given 
in  acknowledgment.  Those  receipts  are  provided 
with  a  blank  power  of  attorney,  and  are  transferable 
from  one  owner  to  another.  In  this  shape  they  are 
called  stock.  When  wheat  is  stored  in  an  elevator, 
or  oil  is  stored,  receipts  are  given  for  them,  and 
these  receipts  are  transferable.  The  ease  of  hand- 
ling such  receipts  and  the  fluctuations  and  uncer- 
tainties of  their  price  in  the  market  furnish  the  con- 
ditions which  lead  to  illegitimate  speculation  or 
gambling  in  the  money  centers  of  the  country.  The 
uncertainties  of  value  arise,  for  the  most  part,  not 
from  the  ordinary  laws  of  trade  or  growth  of  the 
country,  but  from  the  manipulation  of  powerful  or 
crafty  operators.  These  manipulations  create  arti- 
ficial values  in  stocks — values  that  have  no  fixed  re- 
lations to  the  actual  values  which  the  stocks  are 
supposed  to  represent.  These  artificial  and  uncer- 
tain values  furnish  the  prime  conditions  for  gam- 
bling, and  place  such  stocks  on  the  level  with  the 
roulette  table  or  the  pack  of  cards. 

The  purchase  and  owning  of  stocks  for  investment 
is  as  legitimate  as  owning  houses  and  lands.  The 
Exchanges  for  the  transfer  of  stock  and  produce 
are  a  necessity  of  civilization,  and  the  broker  in 
these  Exchanges  who  mediates  between  buyer  and 
seller  is  as  necessary  as  the  broker  in  real  estate,  or 
the  jobbing  merchant  who  buys  from  the  manufac- 
turer and  sells  to  the  retailer. 

Operators  may  be  classed  under  three  heads: 

1.  The  investor — the  man  with  surplus  money 
who  prefers  to  put  his  money  in  stocks  rather  than 
in  real  estate  or  business.  There  is  an  element  of 
speculation  in  such  investment,  but  as  he  is  depend- 
ing upon  rise  in  actual  values  from  the  growth  of 
the  country  and  other  legitimate  causes,  this  ele- 
ment is  reduced  to  a  minimum,  and  is  not  greater 
than  the  risks  of  ordinary  business. 

2.  The  speculator — the  man  of  large  means  who 
uses  his  money  for  the  purpose  of  manipulating 
prices,  who  cares  nothing  about  actual  values  or  the 
prosperity  of  the  country  except  as  they  enable  him 
to  so  move  prices  as  to  make  a  profit  for  himself. 
He  enters  the  market,  not  for  purposes  of  permanent 
investment,  but  to  wrest  wealth  from  his  competi- 
tors by  an  unscrupulous  employment  of  his  capital 
in  creating  fluctuations  favorable  to  himself.  These 
are  the  men  that  force  the  market,  whether  as 
"bulls"  or  "bears,"  and  whose  operations  are  known 
as  "raids." 

3.  The  small  speculator — who  cares  and  knows 
nothing  about  values,  but  who  plays  with  the  mar- 
ket as  the  gambler  plays  with  the  cards.  He  seldom 
owns  the  slock  he  trades  in,  but  puts  up  a  margin 
and  borrows  the  balance  from  the  broker.    The 


small   speculator  is  a  gambler,  and  the  large  specu- 1 
lator  is  a  gambler  who  plays  with  loaded  dice. 

Wherein  is  the  immorality  of  gambling?  That 
question  is  easier  asked  than  answered.  Let  me 
make  an  attempt.  There  are  three  ways  of  obtain- 
ing wealth:  by  work,  by  the  gifts  of  charity  or  af- 
fection and  by  stealing.  Omitting  now  the  consid- 
eration of  gifts  of  charity  and  affection,  it  may  be 
said  that  the  only  honorable  way  to  obtain  wealth  is 
to  give  to  another  or  to  society  some  equivalent  for 
what  one  obtains.  All  legitimate  business  should 
be  profitable  to  all  engaged  in  it  and  to  society. 
Real  ownership  only  exists  when  you  have  given 
value  for  value.  The  gambler  gives  nothing  for  his 
gains.  He  is  a  non-producer  and  a  parasite  on  the 
public  wealth.  It  is  no  defence  to  say  that  the  loser 
agreed  to  the  chances  of  the  game,  for  that  plea  will 
exculpate  Burr  for  the  murder  of  Hamilton  in  the 
duel,  or  the  prize-fighter  who  kills  his  opponent  in 
the  ring.  The  actual  wealth  of  the  country  is  not 
increased  one  dollar  by  the  hundreds  of  millions 
that  are  exchanged  annually  in  the  nefarious  modes 
of  gambling.  And  all  who  lost  hoped  to  win.  That 
character  should  break  down  and  all  wholesome 
habi>s  of  thought  and  conduct  be  ruined  by  the 
gambling  habit  is  inevitable;  and  hence  even  pagan 
nations,  like  ancient  Rome,  and  nearly  all  the  na- 
tions of  Christendom,  have  made  gambling  a  felony. 
The  man  who  wins  by  the  throw  of  dice  has  in  his 
possession  what  belongs  to  another.  He  cannot 
say,  "I  earned  it;  it  represents  honest  work  and  use- 
ful toil."  But,  "I  played  for  it  and  won  it."  The 
man  who  carries  home  from  the  horse  race  circuit 
$100,000  as  the  result  of  his  summer's  work,  has 
captured  money  that  was  produced  by  hard  toil,  and 
that  once  had  legitimate  owners.  He  won  it,  and 
the  only  return  he  gave  for  it  was  heart-burnings 
and  chagrin,  perhaps  beggary  and  suicide.  He  won 
because  he  was  lucky  or  shrewd,  or,  as  is  most  prob- 
able, because  he  was  a  party  to  fraud  and  treachery. 
But  the  bread  that  his  children  eat  and  the  pillow 
on  which  he  sleeps  belong  to  others. 

As  to  future  in  the  technical  sense — that  is,  pre- 
tended sales  for  future  delivery — the  honorable 
merchant  keeps  clear  of  them.  It  is  sheer  betting 
on  the  market.  If  the  future  is  not  too  remote,  as 
selling  a  crop  that  is  ready  for  harvesting,  there  is 
little  risk;  but  if  it  is  quite  remote,  and  especially  if 
large  operators  are  liable  to  manipulate  the  market, 
then  the  chance  element  is  uppermost,  and  the  trans- 
action becomes  a  wager.  It  is  estimated  that  not 
one-tenth  of  the  transactions  in  wheat  are  actual 
sales. 

Let  us  take,  for  illustration,  a  transaction  of  a 
common  type  among  large  operators  in  Wall  Street. 
John  Doe  is  a  "bear,"  and  is  about  to  make  one  of 
his  "raids."  Finding  things  favorable  for  his  pur- 
pose, he  enters  the  Board  and  sells  a  certain  stock 
to  all  buyers.  He  sells  at  lowering  figures.  By 
innuendo  and  deed  he  depresses  the  stock.  Men 
who  hold  the  stock  become  alarmed;  those  who  hold 
it  on  "margins"  are  forced  to  sell  at  a  loss.  Lower 
and  lower  falls  the  price.  John  Doe  was  selling 
what  he  had  not  got,  but  he  is  rich  and  can  back  his 
transactions.  And  now  when  the  price  is  low 
enough  to  suit  him  he  buys  it  again,  the  stock  re- 
covers its  old  rate,  and  John  Doe  pockets  his  gains. 
The  operator  used  his  wealth  to  browbeat  the 
"lambs,"  just  as  the  highwayman  used  his  pistols, 
in  the  oMen  time,  to  browbeat  the  stage-coach  pas- 
sengers. The  morality  of  such  a  transaction  needs 
no  illustration  perhaps;  and  yet  an  illustration 
might  "bring  it  out,"  as  the  photographers  say.  A 
man  sees  that  the  new  Elevated  Railroad  in  Brook- 
lyn is  about  to  boom  property  in  a  certain  suburb. 
He  buys  heavily  in  houses  and  lots.  He  mortgages 
and  buys  more.  Another  man  finds  out  his  condi- 
tion and  plans,  and  purchasing  a  few  lots  adjoining 
builds  a  brewery  and  a  glue  factory.  Property  goes 
down  in  that  neighborhood.  The  first  man  is 
swamped,  and  sells  out  at  a  loss;  the  second  man 
buys  in,  and  then  pulls  down  the  factories;  property 
rises  and  he  makes  a  fortune.  That  is  "business," 
but  it  docs  not  illustrate  the  Golden  Rule.  But  it 
is  precisely  what  is  done,  and  done  constantly  in 
the  Stock  Exchange. 

A  kingdom  was  once  offered  for  a  horse,  but  only 
a  rogue  would  accept  the  offer. 

Let  us  now  put  a  sample  of  pagan  morality  over 
against  the  morals  of  speculation  in  this  Christian 
century.  In  his  De  Officiis  Cicero  discusses  some 
questions  in  morals,  and  raises  the  following  case: 
"A  ship  laden  with  corn,  on  the  way  from  Alexan- 
dria to  Rhodes,  passes  several  other  corn  vessels, 
bound  for  the  same  port.  When  the  vessel  had 
reached  its  destination,  shall  the  master  sell  the  corn 
for  what  he  can  get,  concealing  the  fact  that  such  a 
supply  is  at  hand,  or  shall  he  tell  the  facts,  and  then 
find  a  market  for  his  corn?" 
Cicero  declares  that  in  honor  and  morality  be 


must  tell,  and  that  to  do  otherwise  is  to  act  the  part 
of  a  swindler. — Rev.  Joseph  Pullman^  in  N.  T.  Chris- 
tian Advocate. 


B0T8    WHO   SUGGEBD. 


Thirty  years  ago  Mr.  H ,  a  nurseryman  in 

New  York  State,  left  home  for  a  day  or  two.  It  was 
rainy  weather  and  not  the  season  for  sales,  but  a 
customer  arrived  from  a  distance,  tied  up  his  horse, 
and  went  into  the  kitchen  of  the  farm-house,  where 
two  lads  were  cracking  nuts. 

"Is  Mr.  Il at  home?" 

"No,  sir,"  said  the  eldest,  Joe,  hammering  at  a 
nut. 

"When  will  he  be  back?" 

"Dunno,  sir.     Mebbe  not  for  a  week." 

The  other  boy,  Jim,  jumped  up  and  followed  the 
man  out.  "The  men  are  not  here,  but  I  can  show 
you  the  stock,"  he  said,  with  such  a  bright,  courte- 
ous manner,  that  the  stranger,  who  was  a  little  irri- 
tated, stopped  and  followed  him  through  the  nurs- 
ery, examining  the  trees,  and  left  his  order. 

"You  have  sold  the  largest  bill  that  I  have  had 
this  season,  Jim,"  his  father,  greatly  pleased,  said  to 
him  on  his  return. 

"I'm  sure,"  said  Joe,  "I'm  as  willing  to  help  as 
Jim,  if  I'd  thought  in  time." 

A  few  years  afterward  these  two  boys  were  left, 
by  their  father's  failure  and  death,  with  but  two  or 
three  hundred  dollars  each.  Joe  bought  an  acre  or 
two  near  home.  He  has  worked  hard,  but  is  still  a 
poor,  discontented  man.  Jim  bought  an  immigrant's 
ticket  to  Colorado,  hired  as  a  cattle-driver  for  a 
couple  of  years,  and  with  his  wages  bought  land  at 
forty  cents  an  acre,  built  himself  a  house,  and  mar- 
ried. His  herds  of  cattle  are  numbered  by  the  thou- 
sand, his  land  has  been  cut  up  for  town  lots,  and  he 
is  ranked  as  one  of  the  wealthiest  men  in  the  State. 

"I  might  have  done  like  Jim,"  his  brother  said 
lately,  "if  I'd  thought  in  time.  There's  as  good 
stuff  in  me  as  in  him." 

"There's  as  good  stuff"  in  that  loaf  of  bread  as  in 
any  I  ever  made,"  said  his  wife,  "but  nobody  can 
eat  it.  There's  not  enough  yeast  in  it."  The  re- 
tort, though  disagreeable,  was  true.  The  quick, 
wide-awake  energy  which  acts  as  leaven  in  a  char- 
acter is  partly  natural.  But  it  can  be  inculcated  by 
parents  and  acquired  by  a  boy  if  he  chooses  to  keep 
his  eyes  open,  and  to  act  promptly  and  boldly  in 
every  emergency. — Springfield  Republican. 


A  LITTLE  GENTLEMAN. 


His  cap  is  old,  but  his  hair  is  gold, 

And  his  face  Is  clear  as  the  sky ; 
And  whoever  he  meets,  on  lanes  or  streets, 

He  looks  him  straight  in  the  eye 
With  a  fearless  pride  that  has  naught  to  hide, 

Though  he  bows  like  a  little  knight, 
Quite  debonair,  to  a  lady  fair, 

With  a  smile  that  is  swift  as  light. 

Does  his  mother  call?    No  kite,  or  ball. 

Or  the  prettiest  game  can  stay 
His  eager  feet  as  he  hastes  to  greet 

Whatever  she  means  to  say; 
And  the  teachers  depend  on  this  little  friend 

At  school  In  his  place  at  nine. 
With  his  lessons  learned  and  his  good  marks  earned, 

All  ready  to  toe  the  line. 

I  wonder  if  you  have  seen  him,  too. 

This  boy,  who  Is  not  too  big 
For  a  morning  kiss  from  mother  and  sis. 

Who  isn't  a  bit  of  prig, 
But  gentle  and  strong  and  the  whole  day  long, 

As  merry  as  boy  can  be ; 
A  gentleman,  dears,  in  the  coming  years, 

And  at  present  the  boy  for  me. 

—Harper^s  Youny  Pcuplc. 


BICE  MEN'S  aONS. 


A  wealthy  broker  in  New  York  began  life  as  a 
farm-hand  in  New  Jersey.  He  had  the  craving,  nat- 
ural to  a  poor  boy,  for  fine  clothes,  a  splendid  house, 
luxury  of  every  kind.  To  acquire  these  he  worked 
hard  with  brain  and  body. 

As  he  rose  in  life,  he  was  thrown  in  contact  with 
educated  men,  great  financiers,  rulers  of  commerce, 
artists,  teachers,  scientific  men.  His  own  intellect, 
strengthened  by  its  work,  was  bold  and  broad  enough 
to  appreciate  them  all. 

By  the  time  he  was  fifty,  he  cared  little  for  the 
physical  luxuries  which  his  money  could  buy  for 
him.  His  pursuits,  apart  from  his  business,  were 
noble  and  elevating — those  which  belong  to  a  many- 
sided,  enlightened  American,  who  keeps  abreast  of 
bis  time  in  its  great  movements. 

His  son,  on  the  contrary,  was  born  in  the  lap  of 
riches.  Luxuries,  the  lack  of  which  urged  his  fath- 
er to  incessant  activity,  were  as  familiar  to  him  as 


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THE  CHRISTIAN  CTNOSUKEL 


11 


the  air  and  daily  sunshine.  Fine  clothes,  rich  food, 
amusements  of  all  kinds,  gave  him  little  pleasure; 
they  were  matters  of  course. 

He  knew  no  life  of  which  they  were  not  a  part. 
He  did  not  work  at  school  or  at  college.  Why  should 
he?  Other  men  worked  to  make  a  place  for  them- 
selves in  the  world.  His  place  was  already  made 
for  him.  He  needed  no  more  millions  than  his 
father  could  give  him. 

He  had  literally  nothing  to  do  but  to  amuse  him- 
self. 

Now,  there  is  but  a  limited  number  of  amuse- 
ments in  the  world,  and  after  a  certain  time  the 
senses,  the  nerves,  the  whole  body,  grow  jaded  with 
each  of  them. 

By  the  time  this  young  man  had  reached  the  age 
of  twenty-five,  he  was  as  sated  with  pleasure  as  a 
gray-haired  debauchee.  Cards,  wine,  sport,  travel, 
bored  him;  his  physical  strength  was  exhausted; 
his  mind,  though  still  immature,  was  almost  imbe- 
cile. When  a  sudden  attack  of  illness  carried  him 
out  of  this  world,  nobody  in  it  was  sorry;  himself, 
perhaps,  least  of  all. 

The  story  of  this  rich  man  and  his  son  has  been 
repeated  countless  times  in  the  lives  of  our  rich  men. 
The  "gilded  youth"  of  our  great  cities  grow  weary 
of  balls,  of  steam  yachts,  of  even  the  theaters, 
gambling  and  drink.  Their  jaded  appetites  crave 
stronger  diet. 

In  the  great  centers  of  riches  and  folly  some  of 
them  crowd,  in  the  small  hours  of  the  morning,  to 
dens  unknown  to  the  police,  to  see  brutal  combats 
between  prize-fighters.  At  a  recent  fight  between  a 
woman  and  a  dog,  the  ring  was  surrounded  by  men 
worth  millions. 

"The  only  real  sensation  I  have  enjoyed  for  years," 
said  one  of  this  class  lately,  "was  in  China,  last 
July,  when  I  saw  the  executioner  chop  off"  five  heads 
in  an  hour." 

At  heart,  these  lads  are  made  of  as  go..,l  manly 
stufl  as  others.  They  are  victims  to  the  ,'v>j)ular 
idea  that  the  sole  use  of  money  is  amusemenl.  iiven 
when  weighted  by  huge  fortune,  as  Napoleon  Bona- 
part  once  wrote  to  his  marshal,  "Surely,  we  should 
endeavor  to  do  something,  to  say  that  we  have  lived; 
to  leave  some  impress  of  our  lives  upon  the  sands 
of  time." — Youth's  Companion. 


make  such  an  apology  for  them,  for  it  their  rude- 
ness is  really  intentional,  they  are  not  fit  to  be  re- 
ceived into  any  worthy  person's  society.  But  they 
who  mean  well  should  also  do  well,  and  the  ways  of 
politeness  are  never  so  easily  learned  as  in  youth. 
The  boy  who  is  habitually  coarse  and  rude  in  his 
bearing  toward  other  boys  will  be  such  as  a  man 
toward  men,  and  all  his  life  will  never  gain  the  rep- 
utation of  being  a  gentleman. —  United  Frethyterian. 


Temperance. 


THE  BUM  POWER. 


BY  JOBL   BWAETZ,  D.  D. 


WET  BOra  SHOULD  NOT  BE  SNUBBED. 

Don't  snub  a  boy  because  he  wears  shabby  clothes. 
When  Edison,  the  inventor  of  the  telephone,  first 
entered  Boston  he  wore  a  pair  of  yellow  linen  breeches 
in  the  depth  of  winter. 

Don't  snub  a  boy  because  his  home  is  plain  and 
unpretending.  Abraham  Lincoln's  early  home  was 
a  log  cabin. 

Don't  snub  a  boy  because  of  a  dullness  in  his  les- 
sons. Hogarth,  the  celebrated  painter  and  engraver, 
was  a  stupid  boy  at  his  books. 

Don't  snub  a  boy  because  of  the  ignorance  of  his 
parents.  Shakspeare,  the  world's  poet,  was  the  son 
of  a  man  who  was  unable  to  write  his  own  name. 

Don't  snub  a  boy  because  he  chooses  an  humble 
trade.  The  author  of  the  "Pilgrim's  Progress"  was 
a  tinker. 

Don't  snub  a  boy  because  of  physical  disability. 
Milton  was  blind. 

Don't  snub  a  boy  because  he  stutters,  Demos- 
thenes, the  great  orator  of  Greece,  overcame  a  harsh 
and  stammering  voice. 


PROUD   OF  HIS  PATCH. 

A  poor  boy  was  attending  school  one  day  with  a 
large  patch  on  one  knee  of  his  trousers.  One  of  his 
schoolmates  made  fun  of  him  for  this,  and  called  him 
"Old  Patch."  "Why  don't  you  fight  him?"  cried 
one  of  the  boys,  "I'd  give  it  to  him  if  he  called  me 
so."  "Oh,"  said  the  boy,  "you  don't  suppose  I'm 
ashamed  of  my  patch,  do  you?  For  my  part  I'm 
thankful  for  a  good  mother  to  keep  me  out  of  rags. 
I'm  proud  of  my  patch  for  her  sake."  This  was 
noble.  That  boy  had  the  courage  that  would  make 
him  successful  in  the  struggles  of  life.  We  must 
have  courage  in  our  struggles  if  we  hope  to  come 
right. 

MANNERS  BETWEEN  BOYS. 


'  Tie  rum,  my  friends,  that  rules  the  land, 

The  ballot's  cast  by  beer ; 
And  liquor  Is  the  sovereign  power 

The  politicians  fear. 
If  whisky  pays  the  voter's  tax, 

Then  will  It  have  a  voice ; 
And  If  It  pays  a  larger  tax 

'  Twill  claim  the  ruling  choice. 

If  statesmen  license  rum  and  gin, 

And  share  In  part  the  pay, 
Then  must  they  shelter  rum  and  gin : 

There  is  no  other  way. 
It  is  not  fair,  It  is  not  just, 

To  murmur  and  to  frown, 
And  curse  the  drink  that  pays  the  tax 

And  run  the  business  down. 

If  rum  is  made  a  lawful  trade. 

And  it  is  gainful,  too, 
And  if  it  pays  the  voter's  tax, 

As  other  people  do, 
Then  why,  whilst  pocketing  the  cash 
With  one  right  willing  hand, 
The  other  use,  as  many  do, 

To  stamp  an  odious  brand? 

The  higher  up  the  license  goes 

The  stronger  flows  the  beer ; 
"It  costs  to  sell,  more  must  be  sold,"— 

The  reason  is  quite  clear. 
And  wealth  and  style  will  gild  the  trade. 

And  this  will  be  its  boon : 
The  palaces  of  rum  and  gin 

Win  shame  the  low  saloon. 

What  pays  the  cash  and  "cuts  a  dash" 

Is  sure  to  hold  the  sway. 
And  men  will  think  'tis  fine  to  drink 

In  6uch  a  splendid  way. 
The  license  concentrates  the  trade, 

And  links  in  one  the  cause 
Which  buys  the  votes  and  pays  the  tax, 

Which  makes  and  breaks  the  laws. 


-Hei. 


PROHIBITION  IN  ATLANTA. 


There  is  a  great  deal  of  rudeness  between  boys 
in  tbeir  iutercourse  and  bearing  with  one  another 
that  is  not  really  intended  as  such,  but  is  not,  there- 
fore, any  the  less  to  be  disapproved.  It  is  often 
simply  the  overflow  of  excessive  high  spirits.  But 
the  very  best  good  humor,  unrestrained  by  the  prop- 
er bounds  and  limitations,  may  become  the  most 
positive  incivility. 

We  often  apologize  for  the  coarseness  of  people 
by  saying,  "He  meant  well."     It  is  well  if  we  cau 


The   Prohibition   campaign  is  fairly  opened,  and 
has  begun  with  vigor,     Kev.  Sam  Jones   threw  the 
first  shell   in  the  Opera  House  on  Sunday  night  to 
an  immense  audience.     The  house  was  filled   to  its 
utmost  capacity,  and  at  least  one  thousand  were 
turned  away  for  want  of  room.     On  the  stage  were 
seated,  in   addition  to  many  ladies,  Judge  Hillyer, 
chairman  of  the  Prohibition  Committee,  and  a  large 
number  of  prooainent  citizens.     Mr.  Jones,  in  open- 
ing his  address,  alluded  to  the  fact  that  twenty-four 
months  ago  he  was  the  speaker  of  the   first   public 
assembly,  which  met  to  work  for  prohibition  of  the 
liquor  traffic.     It  was  not  now  a  question  whether 
they  should  put  bar-rooms  and  liquors  out  of  Atlan- 
ta, but  a  queation  whether  they  should  suffer   them 
to  come  back  into  Atlanta.     "What  you  want  in  At- 
lanta," said  he,  "is  a  mayor  who  will   enforce   the 
prohibition    law."     I  am   not  bringing  politics  into 
this  issue,  but  I  see  the   anti-Probibitionists   say: 
"All  ye  Democrats  come  to  the  front."     If  anti-Pro- 
hibitionists claim  the  Democratic  party,  if  the  Dem- 
ocratic party  will  be  claimed  by  it,  then   anti- Prohi- 
bitionists  are  welcome  to   the  Democratic  party." 
"The  red-flag  Anarchists  of  Chicago,"  said  he,  "never 
did   as  much  harm  since  they  were  organized  as  the 
bar-rooms  of  Chicago  have  done  in  a  single   night." 
All   he   said   was  received  with  immense  applause. 
Dr.  Hawthorne  and  others  prominent  in   the   cause 
of  prohibition  spoke,  and  were  enthusiastically  re- 
ceived.    The  ladies  of  the  city  are  taking  an  active 
part   in  this  cause,  and  a  meeting  of  the  ladies  was 
held  yesterday  and  organized  a  club,  to  be  known  as 
the  "Ltuiies  Prohibition  Club."     The  plan  of  the  or- 
ganization is  to  make  the  principal  field  of  work  in 
the  prohibition  cause  in  the  homes  of  the  city,  and 
a  committee  was  appointed  to  canvass  the  city   for 
membership.     Even  the  children  aie  included  in  the 
work   of  organiz;ition.      The   Prohibitionists   have 
fitted   up  a  hall  in  comfortable  st\le.  scats  having 
been   arranged,  and  a  speaker's   platform   erected. 
They  have  also  put  up  tents  in  diflerent  parts  of  the 
city  where  they  will  be  accessible  to  a  great  number 
of  people.    The  ministers  of  the  city  of  all  denom- 


inations have  rendered  their  services  to  the  prohibi- 
tion cause.  The  negroes  are  forming  organizations, 
and  all  the  colored  ministers  are  active  in  the  mat- 
ter, and  state  that  the  colored  vote  will  be  at  least 
1,000  greater  than  at  the  last  election.  Everything 
points  to  an  exciting  campaign.  The  anti-Prohibi- 
tionists are  forming  clubs  and  organizing  meetings 
in  different  parts  of  the  city.  A  large  number  of 
leading  Antis  met  last  night  to  adopt  a  plan  of  cam- 
paign for  the  Prohibition  canvass,  and  take  such 
other  action  as  they  might  deem  proper.  Great  in- 
terest was  taken  in  the  object  of  the  meeting  by 
those  who  were  in  attendance,  and  several  animated 
speeches  were  made.  This  warfare  will  be  exciting, 
and  many  predict  that  it  will  be  a  close  fight. 


CALL  FOR  A  WORLD'S  DAT  OF  PRATER  FOR 
THE  TEMPERANCE   CAUSE. 


NOVEMBER   12   AND    13,    1887. 


(Abridged  from  Official  Call.) 

From  the  first,  the  woman's  temperance  work  has 
been  a  work  of  prayer  and  faith.  The  little  pray- 
ing bands  in  the  United  States  and  Canada  have 
many  times  appointed  special  days  of  prayer.  And 
now,  when  this  heaven-born  movement  has  expanded 
into  the  World's  Woman's  Christian  Temperance 
Union,  the  same  spirit  leads  to  the  same  methods, 
and  from  many  hearts  comes  the  cry  for  a  world- 
embracing  prayer-day,  wide  as  the  circuit  of  the  sun. 
It  will  unify  the  thoughts  of  the  white-ribbon  wo- 
men all  around  the  globe;  strengthen  their  purpose, 
and  make  their  hand-clasp  firmer,  as  together  they 
bear  onward  the  white  flag,  inscribed  "For  God  and 
Home  and  Every  Land."  It  will  claim  the  blessed 
promise  made  to  Christ's  disciples  when  they  are 
agreed  as  touching  anything,  and  from  heaven  bring 
such  a  blessing  upon  our  sacred  cause  as  is  not  oth- 
erwise to  be  secured. 

Therefore,  it  has  been  agreed,  after  consultation 
with  Mrs.  Margaret  Bright  Lucas,  President  of  the 
World's  Woman's  Christian  Temperance  Union,  to 
set  apart  the  12th  and  13th  of  November,  1887,  as 
days  of  prayer  for  the  growth  and  universal  diffu- 
sion of  all  forms  of  temperance  work,  especially 
those  that  have  their  origin  in  the  conviction  that 
the  use  of,  and  traffic;  in  brain  poisons  of  every  kind, 
must  be  abolished  by  an  appeal  to  the  intellect 
through  argument;  to  the  heart  through  sympathy, 
and  to  the  conscience  through  the  quickening  power 
of  Christ's  almighty  Gospel. 

The  same  days  herein  set  apart  are  to  be  observed 
by  the  National  W.  C.  T.  U.  (United  States),  as  their 
day  of  prayer,  not  only  for  the  World's  W.  C.  T.  U,, 
but  for  the  blessing  of  God  upon  the  approaching 
annual  convention,  to  be  held  at  Nashville,  Tenn., 
November  IG  to  21,  1887;  and  all  our  auxiliaries 
are  asked  to  take  a  collection  for  the  World's  W.  C. 
T.  U.,  if  practicable.        Francis  E.  Willard, 

President  National  W.  C.  T.  U. 


At  a  recent  banquet  of  Insurance  men  in  New  York 
the  young  Prohibition  candidate  for  Assembly  in  the 
twenty-first  district,  Brooklyn,  so  we  are  told,  "Woke 
the  echoes,"  by  a  manly  appeal  for  probibition,  even 
while  the  glasses  clinked  and  the  champagne  sparkled 
on  every  side.  And  again,  during  the  recent  sessions 
of  the  National  Editorial  Association  in  Denver,  Col., 
a  case  of  true  courage  and  heroism  was  exhibited, 
when  at  a  large  banquet  attended  by  two  hundred 
persons.  Dr.  Moore  of  the  Denver  University  in  re- 
spose  to  his  toast,  "Irrigation,"  made  an  eloquent 
appeal  for  total  abstinence,  with  the  wine  glasses 
clinking  all  around  him.  And,  what  was  more  won- 
derful. Dr.  Moore  sat  down  amid  the  applause  of 
his  audience,  and  was  warmly  seconded  in  his  views 
by  Governor  Adams  of  Colorado. — Christian  Nation. 

The  Pennsylvania  State  W.  C.  T.  TT.,  meeting  at 
Lewisburg,  adopted  the  following  strong  endorse- 
ment of  National  reform  principles: 

"God  being  the  Universal  Sovereign,  Christ  the 
Sopreme  Ruler,  and  the  Holy  Bible  the  supreme 
law  on  which  all  law  should  be  baaed;  therefore,  be 
it  resolved,  that  the  Woman's  Christian  Temperance 
Union  of  Pennsylvania  do  heartily  endorse  and  will 
zealously  co-operate  with  the  National  Reform  As- 
sociation, in  its  work  to  secure  a  recognition  in  the 
National  Constitution  of  God,  and  of  his  Son  Jesus 
Christ  as  the  Ruler  of  Nations,  and  his  Word  as  the 
higher  law  to  which  api)eal  should  be  made  in  all 
things;  and  also  that  we  unite  in  their  oflorts  for 
the  retention  of  the  Bible  in  the  public  schools  as 
an  educator  to  Christian  citizenship  and  Christian 
legislation." 

The  Turkish  government  is  making  an  effort  to 
close  the  drinking  saloons  of  Constantinople,  owing 
tJ  their  demoralizing  influence  upon  the  people. 


IBta 


12 


THE  CHRISTIAN  OYNOSTTRE. 


November  10, 1881 


Religiotts  News. 


A  NOBLE  MiaaiON. 


Few  of  our  readers  understand  the  depth  of  devo- 
tion to  Christ  and  strength  of  self-denying  purpose 
required  to  undertake  a  mission  among  the  lost 
women  of  a  great  city;  nor  what  wisdom,  tact,  skill 
and  perseverance  is  needed  to  make  it  successful. 
Such  a  work  is  the  Anchorage  Mission  at  No.  40 
Fourth  Ave..  Chicago,  carried  on  under  the  control 
of  the  W.  C.  T.  U.  and  conducted  by  a  most  devoted 
Christian  woman,  Mrs.  A.  L.  Prindle.  From  her 
late  report  we  print  the  following  portion,  with  the 
warmest  commendation  of  its  usefulness: 

This  mission  has  given  food,  shelter  and  lodging 
to  about  700  women  and  girls,  since  the  16th  of 
September  [1886].  The  money  received  for  lodging 
from  these  has  not  amounted  to  more  than  $5  in 
the  aggregate,  therefore  we  are  very  dependent  upon 
the  Christian  public  for  the  support  and  maintenance 
of  this  most  Christ-like  work.  We  would  very 
gratefully  acknowledge  the  ample  donations  received 
from  the  warm  friends  of  our  cause,  and  especially 
the  literal  answer  to  our  prayer,  "Give  us  this  day 
our  daily  bread,"  through  the  generosity  and  liberal 
kindness  of  H.  H.  Kohlsaat,  of  Clark  Street. 

Situations  in  Christian  homes  have  been  found 
for  a  large  number  of  our  inmates,  in  both  city  and 
country.  One  who  was  thoroughly  redeemed  has 
gone  out  as  a  missionary,  with  a  prospect  of  going 
to  India  in  the  near  future.  Our  first  trophy  in 
rescue  work  was  a  young  French  woman,  twenty- 
seven  years  of  age,  who  had  been  nine  years  a  woman 
of  the  town.  She  was  beautiful  and  graceful  when 
sober,  and  bore  marked  evidences  of  cultivation  and 
refinement.  Six  months  of  careful  Christian  train- 
ing in  the  Erring  Woman's  Refuge  developed  her 
latent  noble  womanhood,  and  she  is  now  earning  her 
bread  as  a  dressmaker  and  seamstress. 

In  one  of  our  daily  rounds  of  brothel  visiting,  we 
were  attracted  by  the  lovely  face  of  a  young  girl  of 
eighteen,  smoking  a  cigarette.  Upon  inquiry,  we 
found  that  she  would  gladly  leave  this  shameful  life, 
but  for  an  unpaid  board  bill.  Being  assured  that 
her  avocation  was  unlawful,  and  the  debt  also,  she 
escaped  from  the  house  at  night,  and  came  to  us. 
She  was  the  honored  daughter  of  a  Christian  moth- 
er, residing  in  an  adjacent  town,  was  visiting  friends 
in  Chicago,  and  invited  to  ride  by  an  apparently 
respectable  young  man  in  the  social  circle.  Passing 
through  Fourth  Ave.,  to  which  she  was  a  stranger, 
he  alighted,  and  invited  her  to  do  so,  saying  he 
wished  to  call  on  an  old  friend.  When  once  in  the 
house,  he  escaped  through  a  back  door,  and  left  the 
poor,  unfortunate  girl  to  her  fate,  a  victim  to  the 
cruel  mercies  of  the  wicked.  She  spent  a  few  months 
in  the  Refuge  for  treatment,  and  was  then  returned 
to  her  mother. 

A  young  widow,  found  in  one  of  the  lowest  dives 
in  Chicago,  has  been  redeemed,  and  gives  evidence 
of  a  special  call  to  missionary  work.  The  Holy 
Scriptures  are  a  wonderful  revelation  to  her  new- 
born faith,  and  she  drinks  in  the  precious  truths  of 
the  Gospel,  as  the  parched  ground  does  water.  She 
expects  to  enter  a  Training  School  for  nurses  the 
coming  season,  and  thus  fit  herself  for  a  useful  life. 

A  free  registry  office  has  been  most  fully  appre- 
ciated by  many  a  poor  respectable  girl,  seeking  em- 
ployment, far  away  from  home  and  mother. 

Our  Mothers"  meeting  on  Wednesday  afternoons 
still  continues  to  be  owned  and  blessed  of  God,  and 
our  Bible  class  is  made  very  interesting  and  instruct- 
ive by  a  young  lady  from  the  Training  School. 

The  heavy  rent  of  $75  per  month,  with  other  ex- 
penses, induces  us  to  make  a  very  earnest  plea  to 
the  benevolent  public  for  aid  to  prosecute  this  sadly 
needed  work  in  our  great  city.  Surely  every  purity- 
loving  and  God-fearing  man  and  woman  will  heartily 
respond  to  our  call,  and  send  us  speedily  clothing, 
bedding,  groceries,  and  money,  for  which  you  shall 
receive  our  hearty  thanks,  blessing  and  benediction. 


— ^The  Covenanters  have  rented  a  hall  and  are 
making  an  effort  to  organize  a  congregation  in  Kan- 
sas City. 

— Three  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal  bishops  have 
died  since  the  last  General  Conference — Bishop 
Matthew  Simp8on,Bi8hop  Wiley,and  Bishop  Harris. 

— The  Salvation  Army,  entering  India  five  years 
ago.has  now  120  English  and  eighty  native  mission- 
aries. 

— Joseph  Cook  of  Boston  is  delivering  a  course 
of  six  lectures  before  the  students  of  the  Drew  The- 
ological Seminary  at  Madison,  N.  J. 

— Rev.  Narciese  Cyr,  a  well-known  French  clergy- 
man and  preacher  in  Boston, a  professor  also  in  Bos- 


ton university,  has  been  cordially  invited  to  return 
to  France  to  labor  in  connection  with  the  McAll 
mission  and  in  the  Reformed  Church.  Mr.  Cyr  has 
accepted  the  invitation. 

— The  last  Wealeyan  Methodist  has  a  full  report  of 
the  most  important  and  interesting  meeting  of  the 
denomination — the  General  Conference.  This  meet- 
ing at  La  Otto,  Ind.,  Oct.  19  to  26,  was  generally 
harmonious  and  satisfactory  in  its  results.  No 
change  is  made  in  the  editorial  and  business  man- 
agement of  its  papers  and  book-room  at  Syracuse, 
brethren  Wardner  and  Kinney  remaining.  The  im- 
petus to  the  foreign  missionary  work  through  the 
work  of  Bro.  J.  A.  Cole  was  most  hopeful.  The 
welcome  given  to  the  representatives  of  the  National 
Christian  Association  and  of  the  loyal  United 
Brethren  was  most  cordial.  A  delegate  was  ap- 
pointed to  attend  the  N.  C.  A.  convention  in  New 
Orleans. 

— The  annual  meeting  of  the  New  West  Education 
Commission  took  place  in  this  city  Friday.  Rev. 
Charlea  R.  Bliss,  the  general  secretary,  read  his  re- 
port, setting  forth  the  work  the  commission  is  ac- 
complishing in  Utah  in  the  erection  of  schools;  also 
the  relation  of  Mormonism  to  Christianity,  and  the 
present  attitude  of  the  Mormon  question.  The  commis- 
sion has  now  incorporated  academies  at  Salt  Lake, 
U.  T.;  Albuquerque,  N.  M.;  Las  Vagas,  N.  M.;  Til- 
lotson,  Trinidad,  Col.,  and  unincorporated  academies 
at  numerous  other  points  in  Utah  and  New  Mexico. 
The  number  of  teachers  is  sixty-four,  and  of  pupils 
2,600,  and  there  are  thirty  Sunday-schools.  From 
the  treasurer's  statement  it  appears  that  the  total 
income  for  the  year  was  $61,318.79;  current  ex- 
penses for  the  year  $43,580.12;  leaving  a  balance  of 
$17,738  67.  At  the  close  of  the  preceding  year 
there  was  a  deficiency  of  $2,998.32,  and  a  debt  and 
interest  amounting  to  $5,238.29,  which  have  been 
paid.  The  receipts  for  the  present  year  are  estima- 
ted at  $61,000,  $20,000  of  which  will  be  required  for 
the  completion  of  new  buildings,  and  $45,000  will 
be  needed  to  pay  teachers  and  meet  current  ex- 
penses. Rev.  F.  A.  Noble,  D.D.,  was  re-elected  presi- 
dent. 


LITERATURE. 


Thb  Life  of  George  Washington.  By  Washington  Irving. 
In  four  volumes,  illustrated.  Price,  half-morocco,  $4.  John 
B.  Alden,  New  York. 

This  great  biography  was  the  crowning  work  of  a 
literary  career  at  once  one  of  the  most  popular  and 
brilliant  in  the  history  of  American  letters.  The 
project  was  early  entertained  by  Mr.  Irving,  almost, 
it  would  seem,  from  the  time  that  his  literary  fame 
was  firmly  established ;  and  the  resolution  was  taken 
nearly  thirty  years  before  the  result  was  fully  reached. 
An  Edinburgh  publisher  was  the  first  to  urge  Mr. 
Irving  to  undertake  the  work,  and  the  collection  of 
materials  was  begun,  but  not  until  1855,  when  the 
great  author  had  reached  an  age  when  he  realized 
that  few  years  were  left  him,  did  the  first  volume 
appear.  The  fourth  was  not  published  until  1859, 
so  pains-taking  and  conscientious  was  he  in  the 
work.  It  will  probably  remain  the  best  and  most 
popular  of  the  histories  of  the  life  and  work  of 
Washington.  It  is  a  remarkable  fact  that  though, 
lodge  writers  have  regarded  the  Masonic  career  of 
Washington  of  so  great  importance  to  the  world  and 
of  so  great  moment  in  his  own  life  as  to  fill  a  good- 
sized  volume  with  it  (see  Hayden's  work  on  Wash- 
ington as  a  Freemason),  yet  Irving,  the  first  of  Amer- 
ican prose  writers,  says  not  one  word  of  this  incon- 
gruous relation,  which  Washington  abandoned  years 
before  the  Revolutionary  war  broke  out.  Irving, 
who  must  have  been  familiar  with  the  history  of  the 
Masonic  lodge,  evidently  regarded  the  early  affilia- 
tion of  Washington  with  the  order  as  a  piece  of 
youthful  folly,  into  which  he  had  been  persuaded,  but 
which  formed  a  relation  too  incompatible  with  his 
truth-loving  and  dignified  character  to  be  long  sus- 
tained. The  same  significant  fact  may  be  noted 
in  the  life  of  Washington  by  Chief  Justice  Mar- 
shall, who  himself  had  been  lured  into  the  lodge  in 
his  early  years.  Both  these  eminent  writers  regard 
this  episode  in  the  life  of  their  hero  as  an  indis- 
cretion over  which  the  mantle  of  charity  should  be 
drawn,  and  which  the  world  should  forget, — and  it 
would  be  forgotten,  as  it  has  long  since  been  for- 
given, were  it  not  for  the  shameless  effrontery  of 
Freemasons,  who,  not  satisfied  with  the  personal 
degradation  into  which  their  system  has  plunged 
themselves,  desire  to  drag  down  into  the  same  pit 
the  great  name  of  the  Father  of  his  Country.  The 
history  of  the  order  of  the  Cincinnati  is  given  in  the 
last  volume.  This  was  a  society  composed  of  the 
officers  of  the  American  army,  who,  after  seven 
years  of  companionship  in  trial  and  suffering,  de- 
sired to  maintain  a  closer  relation  than  that  of  pri- 


vate citizenship,  merely.  There  is  nothing  to  show 
that  this  was  a  secret  order,  though  erroneously 
supposed  by  some  to  be  so.  The  original  proposi- 
tion to  make  it  an  hereditary  and  perpetual  society 
aroused  much  opposition  among  the  patriotic  spirits 
of  a  century  ago,  and  by  Washington's  advice  it 
was  given  up.     Mr.  Irving  says  of  this  event: 

"Washington  endeavored  to  allay  this  jealousy. 
In  his  letters  to  the  presidents  of  the  State  societies, 
notifying  the  meeting  which  was  to  be  held  in  Phil- 
adelphia on  the  1st  of  May,  he  expressed  his  earn- 
est solicitude  that  it  should  be  respectable  for  num- 
bers and  abilities,  and  wise  and  deliberate  in  its  pro- 
ceedings, so  as  to  convince  the  public  that  the  ob- 
jects of  the  institution  were  patriotic  and  trust- 
worthy. 

"The  society  met  at  the  appointed  time  and  place. 
Washington  presided,  and  by  his  sagacious  counsels 
effected  modifications  of  its  constitution.  The  he- 
reditary principle,  and  the  power  of  electing  honor- 
ary members,  were  abolished,  and  it  was  reduced 
to  the  harmless,  but  highly  respectable  footing  on 
which  it  still  exists." 

It  is  an  unhappy  contrast  between  the  loyal  spirit 
of  that  day  and  our  own,  to  notice  how  similar  soci- 
eties at  the  present  time,  not  satisfied  with  the  laud- 
able objects  of  fraternal  associations,  have  added 
the  forms  of  a  secret  lodge  and  the  obnoxious  he- 
reditary principle.  The  decay  of  patriotism  is  in 
nothing  so  marked  as  in  this  fact. 

The  rebellion  in  western  Pennsylvania  in  1794 
was  the  occasion  of  a  famous  proclamation  by  Wash- 
ington against  the  political  societies  organized  with 
more  or  less  secrecy,  after  the  pattern  of  the  Jaco- 
bin clubs  of  France.  Irving  quotes  from  Washing- 
ton's denunciation  of  the"self-createdsocieties"which 
had  fomented  this  rebellion: 

"  'When,  in  the  calm  moments  of  reflection,  they 
shall  have  retraced  the  origin  and  progress  of  the 
insurrection,  let  them  determine  whether  it  has  not 
been  fomented  by  combinations  of  men,  who,  care- 
less of  consequences,  and  disregarding  the  unerring 
truth,  that  those  who  arouse,  cannot  always  appease 
a  civil  convulsion,  have  disseminated  from  igno- 
rance or  perversion  of  facts,  suspicions,  jealousies, 
and  accusations  of  the  whole  government.' 

"This  denunciation  of  the  'self-created  societies' 
was  a  bold  step,  by  which  he  was  sure  to  incur  their 
resentment.  It  was  not  relished  by  some  members 
of  the  Senate,  but  the  majority  gave  it  their  ap- 
proval. In  the  House,  where  the  opposition  party 
was  most  powerful,  this  passage  of  the  President's 
speech  gave  rise  to  much  altercation,  and  finally, 
the  majority  showed  their  disapprobation  by  pass- 
ing it  over  in  silence  in  the  address  voted  in  reply. 

"The  "self-created  societies,"  however,  which  had 
sprung  up  in  various  parts  of  the  Union,  had  re- 
ceived their  death-blow;  they  soon  became  odious 
in  the  public  eye,  and  gradually  disappeared;  fol- 
lowing the  fate  of  the  Jacobin  clubs  in  France." 

The  publisher  of  this  edition  of  Irving's  greatest 
work  has  made  a  very  happy  and  successful  effort 
to  make  it  popular.  It  is  issued  in  two  and  four- 
volume  sets,  at  prices  ranging  from  $1,50  to  $4,  ac- 
cording to  binding. 

Alden's  Cyclopedia  of  Universal  Literature.  Vol.  VII. 
Bowden  to  Ferrier.  Pp.  480.  Price,  cloth,  50  ceats.  John  B. 
Alden,  New  York. 

The  value  of  this  literary  encyclopedia  lies  as 
much  in  its  entertaining  selections,  as  in  those  state- 
ments of  fact  and  discriminating  judgment  which 
make  it  a  valuable  book  of  reference.  Some  will 
miss  the  critical  and  judicious  remarks  of  Chambers 
and  other  historians  of  literature,  but  an  opportunity 
is  given  for  a  little  personal  study  and  exercise  of 
taste  which  may  be  quite  as  well  as  to  always  de- 
pend on  the  judgment  of  another.  One  is  astonished 
to  see  what  treasures  wrapped  up  in  our  English 
tongue  here  peep  out  of  their  coverings.  And  it  is 
a  public  benefaction  to  make  this  wealth  available 
to  poor  as  well  as  rich  by  such  cheap  but  tasty  vol- 
umes as  this. 

In  Mr.  Kennan's  first  paper  in  the  seriea  on  "Siberia," 
which  is  printed  in  the  November  Century,  he  protests 
against  the  use  of  the  word  "Nihilist,"  which, he  says, the 
Ruspian  government  and  the  Russian  conservative  class 
have  made  the  world  accept  as  descriptive  of  all  their  op- 
ponents, from  the  "terrorists"  to  the  law-abiding  mem- 
bers of  provincial  assemblies  who  respectfully  ask  leave 
to  petition  the  Crown  for  the  redress  of  grievances.  He 
states  that  the  word  was  fist  introduced  in  Russia  by 
Turgenef  in  his  novel,  "Fathers  and  Children,"  and  was 
there  used  appropriately.  Mr.  Eennan  says:  "It  has 
been  my  fortune  in  the  course  of  the  last  two  years  to 
make  the  intimate  personal  acquaintance  of  more  th^n 
five  hundred  members  of  this  Russian  protesting  party, 
including  not  fewer  than  three  hundred  of  the  so-called 
Nihilibts  living  in  exile  at  the  convict  mines  and  in  the 
penal  settlements  of  Siberia  "  This  first  paper  in  Mr. 
Kennan's  series  is  one  of  four,  descriptive  of  the  present 
state  of  feeling  in  Russia,  and  its  causes.  It  is  calculat- 
ed as  an  introduction  to  what  he  will  have  to  say  later  on 
Siberia  and  the  Exile  System.      The  frontispiece  this 


NOTIHBBB  10,  1887 


-THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSUKE. 


13 


month  is  a  portrait  of  Washington  by 
Wright  of  Philadelphia,  made  in  1784 
and  now  for  the  first  time  engraved.  Of 
this  portrait  it  is  stated  that  Washington 
wrote  to  Mrs.  Powel,  for  whom  it  was 
painted,  that  "it  was  the  best  for  which 
he  had  then  sat,"  while  Tuckerman  said 
that  "perhaps  no  portrait  of  Washington 
bears  such  convincing  marks  of  genuine 
individuality  without  a  particle  of  artistic 
flattery."  Articles  on  the  "Home  and 
Haunts  of  Washington"  and  "Mt.  Vernon 
as  it  is"  accompany  the  portrait.  The 
special  art  feature  of  the  number  is  the 
sculpture  of  Augustus  Saint  Gaudens.  of 
which  several  beautiful  examples  are  re- 
produced, including  two  of  his  portraits 
in  low  relief,  the  large  relief  portrait  of 
Dr.  Bellows,the  Puritan  statue  at  Spring- 
field, Mass.,  the  Lincoln  statue,  etc.  Pro- 
fessor John  T.  Stoddard  of  Smith  College 
contributes  a  second  paper  on  "College 
Composites,"  in  which  he  shows  the  re- 
sults of  his  experiments  in  the  combina- 
tion of  photographs,  the  examples  being 
drawn  from  several  large  college  classes 
of  1887.  The  conclusion  of  the  Battle 
Series  is  emphasized  in  this  number  by  an 
admirable  presentation  in  text  and  pic- 
tures of  the  break  up  of  Lee's  army  and 
the  surrender  at  Appomattox.  The  arti- 
cle is  by  General  Horace  Porter,  and  is 
entitled  "Grant's  Last  Campaign  "  With 
the  November  number  the  Lincoln  His- 
tory reaches  a  most  interesting  part  of 
the  great  President's  career,  the  period 
between  his  election  and  his  inaugura- 
tion, and  one  upon  which,  by  their  per- 
sonal relations  to  him,  Messrs.  Nicolay 
and  Hayare  able  to  throw  much  new  light. 
This  installment  contains  large  quotations 
from  unpublished  MS.  letters  to  and  from 
Lincoln. 

The  prevalence  of  scarlet  fever  in  all 
parts  of  the  civilized  world  and  the  great 
mortality  therefrom,  amounting  in  Eng- 
land alone  during  five  years  to  88,273 
deaths,  have  induced  i:cience  to  institute 
an  inquiry  into  the  reasons  for  such  a 
condition  of  things, — whether  it  is  a  fact 
that  this  disease  is  not  amenable  to  con- 
trol by  sanitation;  or  whether  san- 
itarians have  not  suggested  any 
practical  method  by  which  it  may 
be  controlled;  or  whether  parents, 
teachers,  health  authorities  and  others 
neglect  to  carry  out  the  recommendations 
which  sanitary  science  has  made.  With 
the  object  of  helping  to  determine  these 
quedtions,  if-cience  has  issued  a  circular 
letter  containing  specific  inquiries,  which 
can  be  obtained  by  addressing  Science,^! 
LaFayette  Place,  New  York. 

Dr.  George  P.  Pentecost,  who  has  just 
been  conducting  a  hopeful  evangelistic 
work  in  Amesbury,  Mass., was  one  of  the 
most  intereatpd  participants  in  the  late 
American  Board  meeting  at  SpringQeld. 
The  discussion  of  Andover  theories  there 
inspired  him  to  write  ably  on  that  ques- 
tion in  the  November  number  of  Words 
and  Weapons  Especial  attention  is  also 
given  to  the  subject  of  family  prayer  and 
two  powerful  and  practical  articles  ap- 
pear which  are  worth  re  reading  a  dozen 
times  in  most  Christian  households.  Dr. 
Pierson  concludes  his  sketch  of  John 
Knox,  and  a  sermon  on  the  "Precious 
Blood  of  Christ"  adds  much  to  the  value 
of  the  magazine. 

Louisa  M.  Alcott  contributes  one  of 
her  charming  stories,  entitled  "Pansies," 
to  the  first  number  of  the  new  volume  of 
St  JSicholas.  It  ia  followed  by  a  bewil- 
dering array  of  short  storie8,entertaining 
sketches,  and  bright  jingles  and  verses. 
Of  a  more  instructive  turn  are:  "A  Peas- 
ant Painter— Jules  Baetien  Lepage,""El- 
ephants  at  Work,"  by  John  R.  Coryell; 
the  true  story  of  Pocahontas,  by  E.  8. 
Brooks;  and  "The  Last  Chance  of  Life," 
by  Diivid  Ker,  a  characteristic  episode  in 
the  life  of  Napoleon  Bonaparte. 

The  ^%Biss  Cross  is  a  most  attractive 
magazine  wherein  young  people  may  be- 
gin scientific  study.  Ixa  leading  article 
tells  of  the  geologic  attractions  of  Ma- 
zon  Creek,  in  Grundy  county, 111.  Whea- 
ton  College  has  in  its  cabinet  probably 
one  of  the  largest  and  best  collections 
ever  gathered  in  that  locality.  Lieut. 
Schwatka  writes  a  very  entertaining  and 
JDstTuntive  article  on  "Wintering  in  the 
Arctics." 

The  American  AgricuUurist  for  No- 
vember, 1887,  is  a  double  number,  far 
surpassing  its  editor's  claim,  any  previ- 
ous issue  in  the  amount  and  variety  of 
readiug  matter,  in  the  number  of  contrib- 
utors, in  the  number  and  variety  of  illus- 
trations, etc.,  etc.  There  are  no  less  than 
one  hundred  and  ninety-&even  columns  of 
reading  matter  proper,   embracing  four 


hundred  and  eight  editorial,  contributed 
and  descriptive  articles;  fifty-five  differ- 
ent contributors,  representing  twenty- two 
States,  Territories,  the  Provinces  and 
Europe,  and  two  hundred  and  forty  illus- 
trations, including  full  page  illustrations 
and  premiums.  In  alluding  to  the  death 
this  month  of  one  of  its  editors.  Col. 
Mason  C.  Weld,  the  American  Agricul- 
turist says:  "What  is  note  worthy,  the 
body  of  writers,  who  for  nearly  a  half  a 
century  have  made  it  a  power  in  both 
hemispheres,  are  still,  with  this  excep- 
tion, connected  with  the  periodical.  Pub- 
lishers have  come  and  gone,  but  the  edit- 
ors and  their  associates  remain."  Ad- 
dress American  Agriculturist,  751  Broad- 
way, New  York. 

•  ■  ■ 

Lodge  Notes. 

Rev.  J.  B.  Finn,  of  Watertown,  is 
Grand  Chaplain  of  the  Grand  Command- 
ery  of  Wisconsin  Knight  Templars. 

Chief  Justice  Way  of  South  Australia 
is  a  Freemason  and  lately  provided  a 
grand  entertainment  for  the  Grand  Lodge 
of  the  province. 

The  Royal  Templars  of  Temperance  re- 
port 7,000  members  in  Canada,  and  are 
active  and  aggressive,  holding  "Royal 
Revivals,"  in  lodge  parlance,  through  the 
country. 

Lord  Wolseley,  England's  commander- 
in-chief,  who  was  made  a  Mason  in  1854 
in  a  Military  Lodge,  No.  728,  in  Dublin, 
has  been  appointed  Grand  Junior  War- 
den of  the  Grand  Lodge  of  England. 

On  Wednesday  last  125  ladies,  above 
named,  visited  Waukesha,  Wis.  The 
Sunday  previous  seventy- five  of  the  dele- 
gates to  the  National  meeting  of  the 
brotherhood  spent  the  day  there  and  par- 
ticipated in  the  organization  of  a  new  di- 
vision of  the  order. 

"White  Caps,"  a  gang  of  ruflians  said 
to  be  as  bad  as  the  "Bald  Knobbers"  of 
Missouri,  are  terrorizing  the  people  of 
Crawford  and  Harrison  counties, Indiana. 
They  wear  ma8ks,carry  hickory  switches, 
and  lash  the  unfortunates  who  fall  under 
their  displeasure. 

Prince  Albert  Victor,  son  of  the  Prince 
of  Wales,  Grand  Master  of  England,  is 
appointed  by  his  father  Grand  Senior 
Warden.  Prince  Victor  was  initiated  on 
the  17th  March,1885,  in  the  Royal  Alpha 
Lodge,  No.  16, the  disgraceful  and  pagan 
ceremony  being  performed  by  the  young 
man's  own  father. 

District  Assembly  No.  3,115  K.  of  L., 
the  oldest  assembly  in  New  Albany,Ind., 
has  gone  out  of  existence.  It  had  at  one 
time  a  membership  of  800,  but  this  num- 
ber was  reduced  to  70.  There  was  no 
dissenting  voice  to  the  proposed  dissolu- 
tion. The  charter  and  secret  work  of  the 
order  will  be  sent  to  headquarters. 

At  a  meeting  of  Chicago  local  assembly 
1307,  Knights  of  Labor,  it  was  decided 
by  a  majority  vote  that  the  assembly 
would  withdraw  in  a  body  from  the 
Knights  of  Labor  organization.  A  com 
mittee  was  appointed  to  confer  with  the 
"provisional  committee"of  dissenters,  with 
the  object  of  forming  the  nucleus  of  the 
proposed  new  organization. 

The  Grand  Lodge  of  Scotland  recently 
issued  a  charter  for  a  lodge  in  the  town 
of  Alexandria,  in  Egypt,  and  within  the 
jurisdiction  of  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Egypt. 
The  Egyptians  made  short  work  of  the 
invaders.  The  representative  of  the 
Grand  Lodge  of  Scotland  at  "Egypt"  was 
peremptorily  ordered  to"pass  in"  his  com- 
mission. Eventually,  Scotland  withdrew 
the  charter  and  apologized . 

The  wives  of  the  engineers  attending 
the  Locomotive  Brotherhood  in  Chicago 
organized  at  the  Palmer  House  the  Grand 
Lodge  of  the  "Ladies'  Auxiliary  of  the 
Brotherhood  of  Locomotive  Engineers." 
Lodges  have  existed  in  various  cities,  but 
there  has  never  been  heretofore  any  reg- 
ular organization.  After  this  all  the  lodg- 
es will  get  charters  of  the  Grand  Lodge . 
The  objects  will  be  sociability  and  help  in 
case  of  sickness.  Every  member  of  the 
order  pays  50  cents  to  this  Grand  Lodge 
yearly. 

8VB80RIPT10N  LBTTSR8. 

The  following  have  made  remittances 
of  money  to  the  Cynosure  from  Oct.  31 
to  Nov.  4  inclusive. 

J  8  T  Milligan.  A  D  Gray,  C  G  Fait.  E 
L  Jones,  H  P  Marks,  J  Porter,  A  C  Sta- 
ples, W  Chestnut,  H  Elder,  J  McFariand, 
T  Keppel,  Rev  0  B«nder. 


FREE  TRACTS 


Will  be  furnished  to  those  who  desire  in- 
formation or  who  will  distribute  them 
where  they  will  do  the  most  good. 

There  are  in  stock  now  a  large  number 
of 

"FREEMA80NBY   IS    THB   FAMILY." 

This  is  especially  interesting  to  ladies. 
"to  the  boys  who  hopb  to  be  men." 

It  is  illustrated  and  will  please  the 
school  children. 

"BBLLINQ  DEAD   HORSES." 

You  can  always  get  the  attention  of 
farmers  or  men  who  are  interested  in 
horses  with  this  tract. 

"MOODY   ON     SECRET    SOCIETIES" 

leads  Christians  to  separation. 

A  limited  number  of  two  new  tracts 
will  be  sent  to  any  who  need  them. 

"THE   SONS   OF   VETERANS." 
"in     WHICH     ABMY    ABE     YOU?" 

Remember  these  tracts  will  be  sent  you 
freely.  But  any  who  wish  to  contribute 
to  this  Free  Tract  Fund  are  earnestly  re- 
quested to  do  so. 

Ought  you  not,  once  a  year  at  least,  to 
put  a  tract  into  each  one  of  your  neigh- 
bor's houses?  Will  you  send  for  a  supply 
soon? 

National  Christian  Association, 
221  W.  Madison  St.,  Chicago. 

FIFTY  YEARS  and  BEYOND; 

OR, 

Old  Age  and  How  to  Enjoy  It 

A  most  appropriate  gilt  book  lor  "The  Old 
Folks  at  Home." 


Compiled  by  REV.  S.  O.  LATHBOF. 

Introduction  by 
EEV.  ARTHUR  EDWARDS,  D.  D., 
(Editor  N.  W.  Christian  Advocate.) 


The  object  of  thiB  volume  Is  to  give  to  that  great 
army  who  are  fast  hastening  toward  the  "great  be- 
yond" some  practical  hints  and  helps  as  to  the  boo* 
way  to  make  the  most  of  the  remainder  oft 
that  now  Is,  and  to  give  comfort  and  help    g 
life  that  Is  to  come. 

"It  la  a  tribute  to  the  Christianity  that  honors  the 
gray  head  and  refuses  to  consider  the  oldish  man  a 
burden  or  an  obstacle.  The  book  will  aid  and  com- 
fort every  reader."— Northwestern  Christian  Advo- 
cate. 

"The  selections  are  very  precious.  Springing  from 
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November  10, 1887 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


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Farm  Notes. 


IS  A  BEEF  FAMINE  IMMINENT? 

Are  we  to  experience  a  beef  famine  ? 
The  facts  seem  to  indicate  it,  and  many 
sources  believed  to  be  trustworthy  point 
to  the  scarcity  of  beef  in  the  near  future. 
Some  authorities  expect  short  commons 
in  1888,  others  defer  the  evil  hour  until 
1889.  The  severity  of  the  winter  of  1886- 
87  was  such  as  to  heavily  deplete  the 
herds  of  the  Northwest.  The  losses  which 
occurred  were  in  old  cows  and  in  year- 
lings. These  are  classes  which  would  not 
affect  the  supply  of  the  coming  year,  nor 
yet  of  1889,  save  that  a  general  shortage 
would  stiffen  prices  in  some  degree .  These 
old  and  very  young  animals  died  from 
poverty  rather  than  from  exposure.  No 
matter  how  extreme  the  cold,  had  the 
cattle  been  well  fed  only  a  few  would 
have  succumbed  to  the  influence  of  the 
extreme  cold;  as  it  was, the  ranches  were 
overstocked.  The  winter  feed,  which 
consists  of  the  natural  grasses  cured  on 
the  ground,  had  all  been  eaten  down 
long  before  winter  really  set  in,  and  star- 
vation followed.  Another  source  of  ap- 
prehension arises  from  the  numerous  loss- 
es in  the  Southwest,  where  the  want  of 
water  was  such  that  entire  districts  were 
cleared  of  their  herds ;  the  drouth  caused 
the  death  of  all  ages  of  cattle,  so  that  an 
immediate  drain  was  felt  at  many  local 
points.  Still  the  numbers  of  Spanish  cat- 
tle seem  to  represent  legions.  On  our 
Eastern  markets  these  same  long-horned 
wanderers  of  the  plains  are  most  unwel- 
come visitors.  The  large  wholesale  butch- 
ers are  timid  of  them;  the  beef  is  coarse, 
discolors  readily,  and  the  carcasses  dress 
to  poor  advantage.  These  farapart  loss- 
es give  rise  to  apprehension,  which  is 
rather  shadowy  when  calmly  investigat- 
ed. No  losses  hea\  ier  than  usual  are  re- 
ported from  any  other  cattle  growing 
States.  Now  the  worst  that  cur  cattlemen 
need  fear  is  a  probable  rise  in  prices 
which  will  decrease  the  volume  of  our 
export  trade,  in  that  as  soon  as  a  mar- 
gin of  profit  ceases,  foreign  shipments 
from  our  ports  must  also  cease,  until 
prices  again  go  down  to  a  lower  plane. — 
Agriculturist. 

HOW  SHEEP  PAY. 

If  a  farmer  has  plenty  of  patience,  and 
is  willing  to  give  close  attention  to  details 
in  the  care  of  stock,  he  can  make  more 
money  for  food  consumed  from  sheep 
than  from  any  other  stock.  But  not  one 
farmer  in  ten  will  care  to  give  them  the 
attention  they  require  at  certain  seasons 
of  the  year;  so  the  few  who  do  take  good 
care  of  a  flock  will  find  a  good  market 
for  mutton  and  a  demand  for  wool  at 
some  price  usually  enough  to  pay  for 
wintering  the  flock.  A  farm  which  is 
rolling  in  its  surface  seems  perfectly  ad- 
apted to  sheep  raising.  Such  land  needs 
grass  on  the  hill  tops  to  keep  it  from 
washing,  and  sheep  need  hill  tops  and 
sweet,  short  grass.  They  like  to  lie  down 
on  a  hillside  in  the  spring,  where  the  sun 
makes  the  ground  dry  and  warm,  and 
where  they  are  protected  from  the  cold 
sweep  of  the  wind. 

The  greatest  profit  from  sheep  is  not  in 
mutton  or  wool,  but  in  the  enhanced  fer- 
tility of  the  farm  on  which  they  are  kept. 
No  other  stock  can  compare  with  sheep  in 
this  direction .  This  increased  value  comes 
from  two  causes:  the  large  (juantity  of 
solid  and  liquid  manure  deposited  on  all 
the  land,  and  particularly  on  the  highest 
and  poorest  points  in  the  pasture.  The 
manure,  being  fine  and  well  scattered,  is 
pressed  about  the  roots  of  the  grass, 
where  it  gives  the  greatest  possible  bene- 
fit. Another  source  whereby  the  grasses 
are  encouraged  is  the  destruction  of 
bushes  and  many  kinds  of  weeds  which 
grow  where  cattle  and  horses  only  are 
pastured.  Hazel  brush  fares  very  badly 
in  the  sheep  pasture,  and  wild  roses, rag- 
weed, burdocks  and  other  weeds  are  se- 
lected first  and  then  the  sheep  look  for 
grass.  In  this  way  a  sheep  pasture  be- 
comes like  a  beautiful  lawn  and  every 
year  grows  better;  but  if  the  farmer  sees 
"millions  in  sheep,"  and  overstocks  his 
fields,  then  the  grass  goes  with  the  bushes 
and  weeds.  Then  the  sheep  get  poor, 
tumble  down  one  after  another, their  am- 
bition lessens  as  their  tlesh  goes,  and  the 
unfortunate  owner  or  imprudent  manag- 
er votes  sheep  a  perfect  nuisance. -.4 to«^ 
ir.an  Agriculluriat. 

Ari'LEB  FOR  Cows. — A  Maine  farmer, 
who  had  a  dozen  cows,  tried  this  experi- 
ment with  them.  To  six  he  gave  from  a 
peck  to  a  half  bushel  of  apples  daily  for 
two  weeks:    The  result  was  very  gratify- 


ing, for  the  amount  of  milk  was  greatly 
increased,  and  it  was  also  of  much  better 
quality. 

He  then  returned  to  the  previous  metb  - 
od  of  feeding,  and  the  quantity  of  milk  at 
once  began  to  decrease.  At  the  same 
time  he  commenced  feeding  apples  to  the 
other  six  cows,  that  had  been  kept  on  a 
different  diet,  and  they,  like  the  first  six, 
at  once  gave  more  and  better  milk  than 
formerly.  Thus  he  changed  back  and 
forth  two  or  three  times  with  the  same 
results,  until  he  was  fully  satisfied  that 
apples  were  valuable  food  for  milch  cows. 
—Sx. 


FOR    TOUR  CONVENIENCE  AND 
COMFORT. 

The  through  train  of  the  Burlington 
Route,  C.  B.  &  Q.  R.  R., leaving  Chicago 
in  the  evening  for  St.  Paul  and  Minneap- 
olis, makes  connection  with  through 
trains  from  the  East  at  Chicago,  and  at 
St.  Paul  and  Minneapolis  with  through 
trains  for  Manitoba,Portland,Tacomaand 
all  points  in  the  Northwest.  This  night 
train  is  equipped  with  Pullman  Sleeping 
Cars  and  C  B.  &  Q.  passenger  coaches 
through  to  St.  Paul  and  Minneapolis,  din- 
ing car  en  route.  To  the  day  train  ser- 
vice has  recently  been  added  Pullman 
Parlor  cars  through  to  St.  Paul  and  Min- 
neapolis, in  addition  to  through  C.B.&  Q. 
passenger  coaches,  and  dining  car  en 
route.  Delightful  scenery,  smooth  track 
and  road  bed,  and  as  quick  time  as  by  any 
other  line  if  you  maKe  your  journey  to 
Sl.Panl  and  Minneapolis  via  the  Burling- 
ton. 

Tickets  can  be  obtained  of  any  coup- 
on ticket  agent  of  the  C.  B.  &  Q.  R  R.  or 
connecting  lines,  or  by  addressing  Paul 
Morton,  Qen'l.  Passenger  and  Ticket 
Agent,  Chicago. 


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THE  OHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


NOVBMBBB  10,  1887 


Npws  of  The  "Week. 

THB  ANARCHISTS. 

Spies,  Schwab,  and  Fielden  have  in- 
dicted a  letter  to  the  Governor  appealing 
for  mercy,  in  which  they  declare  that 
they  uever  advocated  force  and  are  really 
very  sorry.  Petitions  are  being  constant- 
ly received  by  Governor  Ogleaby,  some 
asking  a  commutation  of  sentence  and 
others  that  the  law  take  its  course. 

In  a  speech  at  a  meeting  of  the  Pro- 
gressive  Libor  party  at  NewYork  Friday 
night,  8.  E.  Shevitch,  editor  of  the  Lead- 
er, said  that  if  the  condemned  men  in 
Chicago  were  executed,  "something  thou 
sands  of  times  worse  than  the  late  civil 
war  will  follow,"  and  that  persons  con- 
cerned in  the  "outrageous  murder  will 
have  to  answer  for  the  blood  they  shed 
by  every  spark  of  life  in  their  worthless 
bodies." 

Mr.  McLane,  United  States  minister  in 
Paris  has  received  a  communication  from 
M.  Bardolet,  president  of  the  extreme 
left  in  the  Chamber  of  Deputies,  to  the 
governor  of  Illinois,  praying  for  clemen- 
cy for  the  condemned  Chicago  anarchists. 

A  large  and  violent  meeting  of  anarch- 
ists was  held  in  Marseilles,  France,  Sun- 
day night,at  which  were  adopted  resolu- 
tions giving  warning  to  A.merican  repre- 
sentatives in  France  that  their  safety 
would  be  endangered  by  the  execution  of 
the  condemned  Chicago  anarchists. 

COUNTRY. 

Several  masked  men  stopped  the  east- 
bound  Salt  L^ke  express  on  the  Denver 
&  Rio  Grande  railroad  at  about  1  a.  m,  a 
few  miles  east  of  Grand  Junction  and 
robbed  the  passengers  of  their  money  and 
valuables.  The  robbers  then  entered  the 
express  car.but  failed  to  open  the  safe. 
The  mail  pouches  were  cut  and  the  regis 
tered  packages  and  letters  opened.  Tbe 
robbers  took  to  the  mountains.  It  has 
not  yet  been  learned  how  much  money 
they  secured. 

A  freight  train  crashed  into  six  cars 
carrying  Robinson's  circus  in  the  uuion 
depot  St.  LouiB,Thur8day  evening.killing 
one  man, hurting  several  persons  and  set- 
ting free  among  the  people  the  wild 
beasts  of  the  menagerie .  The  tiger  bound- 
ed into  the  crowd.  One  man  was  bitten 
in  the  neck  by  the  infuriated  animal.  Of- 
ficers were  present,  but  they  dared  not 
shoot  at  the  beast  in  the  crowd.  A  flight 
of  stairs  leads  to  the  upper  offices,  and  up 
this  the  tiger  sprang.  Near  the  top  he 
met  one  of  the  clerks.  Man  and  animal 
stood  facing  each  other.  The  former  got 
into  the  office  safely,  put  his  revolver 
through  the  slightly-opened  door,  and 
fired  at  the  tiger.  The  latter  became  more 
and  more  infuriated  by  every  shot.  At 
this  juncture  circus  men  arrived  with 
poles  and  canvas,  and,  after  a  struggle, 
succeeded  in  overpowering  the  brute. 
Nine  cages  were  demolished  in  the  colli- 
sion, and  fourteen  animals  in  all  were 
liberated.  Two  mountain  lions  are  dead 
and  a  big  boa  constrictor  wascuttopiec 
es.  A  lion  was  overpowered  with  pikes 
and  canvas  under  a  freight  train  ;a  leopard 
was  shot  in  the  head;  an  ibex  was  cap- 
tured slightly  injured,  and  the  Bengal  ti- 
ger has  three  bullets  in  him  and  numer- 
ous pike  wounds.  The  company's  loss 
is  $30,000.  Eleven  animals  were  at  large 
at  one  time,  creating  a  reign  of  terror  in 
the  southern  section  of  the  city  for  over 
two  hours.  The  last  secured  was  a  moun- 
tain lion,  which  fought  d'isperately  in  the 
ticket  office  of  General  Manager  Taussig 
until  lassoed  with  strong  ropes  and  near- 
ly strangled. 

A  dispatch  from  Evansville,  Ind.,  says. 
This  section  of  the  country  is  now  exper- 
iencing one  of  the  most  prolonged 
drouths  in  the  memory  of  the  oldest  set- 
tler. The  effects  are  being  felt  through 
the  wide  area  of  country  from  Owensbo- 
ro,  Ky.,to  the  mouth  of  the  Ohio  river  at 
Cairo,  comprehending  all  of  southwestern 
Kentucky  and  a  large  section  of  southern 
Indiana  and  southern  Illinois.  In  some 
parts  of  the  stricken  territory  a  copious 
rain  has  not  fallen  for  more  than  four 
months.  In  the  extreme  western  counties 
of  Kentucky  a  deplorable  condition  of 
affairs  is  reported.  Wells  and  springs 
have  not  only  given  out,  but  streams 
have  disappeared  for  the  first  time  in 
their  history.  Many  of  the  people  are 
compelled  to  travel  several  miles  for 
drinking  water, while  the  cattle  and  hogs 
are  said  to  be  dying  by  hundreds  in  a 
hopeless  search  for  water  along  the  beda 
of  the  water  courses. 


The  Utah  Supreme  Court  has  decided 
to  appoint  a  receiver  for  Mormon  church 
property  in  excess  of  $50,000. 

The  receipts  of  the  Post  Office  Depart- 
ment were  $48  837,000,and  the  aggregate 
expenditures  $52,391,677;  excess  of  ex- 
penditures over  all  revenues,  $8  554,068. 

Father  McGlynn  said  in  NewYork  that 
he  will  soon  be  reinstated  in  the  Catholic 
church,  but  the  Archbishop  says  the  sto- 
ry is  absurd. 

General  Ruger  gave  battle  to  the  Crow 
Agency  Indians  in  Montana,  in  which 
Sword  Bearer  and  three  or  four  of  his 
desperate  followers  were  killed  and  the 
outbreak  virtually  crushed.  The  author 
ities  at  the  Interior  Department  consider 
the  situation  decidedly  grave,  and  thac  no 
delay  should  occur  in  the  arrest  of  the 
malcontents.  Business  is  suspended  and 
the  settlers  continue  in  a  state  of  alarm. 

FOREIGN. 

The  British  cabinet  resolved  to  contin- 
ue its  present  vigorous  policy  in  Ireland, 
especially  as  regards  speeches  at  pro- 
claimed meetings. 

The  Hawaiian  Government  will  cede 
Beard  River  Harbor,  near  Honolulu,  to 
the  United  States, as  a  coaling  station,  with 
the  proviso  that  it  shall  be  relinquished 
if  the  American  Government  abrogates 
the  present  reciprocity  treaty.  The  har- 
bor is  regarded  as  the  finest  in  the  Ha- 
waiian group. 

Berlin  dispatches  state  that  the  date  of 
the  Czar's  departure  from  Copenhagen  is 
still  in  obscurity.  The  17th  and  20th  are 
mentioned.  German  uniforms  have  been 
sent  to  Copenhagen,  and  a  rumor  is  cur- 
rent in  Berlin  that  the  Czar  and  Emper- 
or William  have  arranged  a  meeting  for 
the  17th.  At  the  same  time  there  is  a 
vague  rumor  that  the  arrangements  have 
been  broken  off.  Nothing  definite  can 
be  learned,  but  a  meeting  is  counted  up- 
on on  all  sides.  A  failure  to  meet  now 
would  be  looked  upon  as  an  extremely 
bad  sign  for  the  relations  of  the  two 
empires. 

Germany,  in  connection  with  the  other 
powers,  has  adopted  a  tolerant  policy  to- 
ward Prince  Ferdinand  of  Bulgaria,  be- 
lieving it  to  be  best  for  Europe  that  his 
position  should  be  made  secure,  and  that 
any  attempt  at  violent  interference  in 
Bulgarian  affairs  will  be  strongly  resented 
by  Prince  Bismarck. 

The  Prussian  budget  will  show  a  defic- 
it of  40,000,000  marks.  It  is  hoped  to 
cover  the  deficit  by  increased  returns  from 
the  state  railways  and  the  share  of  Prus- 
sia in  the  brandy  tax  from  October,1887, 
to  April,  1888. 

Wm.  O'Brien,  the  sensational  Irish  ed- 
itor who  made  such  disturbance  in  Cana- 
da a  few  months  since,has  been  arrested. 
He  resisted  the  attempt  to  force  him  to 
put  on  the  uniform  of  the  Tullimore  jail. 
Th3  prison  doctor  then  directed  the  gov- 
ernor to  desist  on  account  of  the  unfavor- 
able state  of  Mr.  O'Brien's  health,  Dillon 
spoke  at  Castlerea.  He  entreated  his 
hearers  to  swear  with  him  that  as  long  as 
life  and  liberty  remained  they  would  do 
everything  in  their  power"to  avenge  Mr. 
O'Brien,  and  to  make  suffer  the  hateful 
class  who  consigned  this  beloved  and 
gifted  Irishman  to  a  felon's  cell." 

MARKS T  RBPORTB, 

CHICAGO. 
Wheat— No.  2 73 

No.  3 64    @     66 

Winter  No  8 73 

Com— No.  a 4114'        42 

Oat»— No.a ^^.^^ 25>i@     261.^ 

Rye-No.  2 53^ 

Branperton ..........11  75       12  3.5 

Hay— Timothy 9  50    @13  00 

Butter,  medium  to  best 16    m     24 

Cheese 04    @     13  W" 

Beans 1  25    ®  2  50 

Kggs 17 

Seeds— Timothy* 2  07    0  2  18 

Flax 1  02         1  09 

Broomcorn 02>^@     r7 

Potatoes  per  bus 50    @      75 

Hides— Green  to  dry  flint 07>^@     13 

Lumber— Common 11  OO    ^18  00 

Wool 10    @      35 

Cattle— Choice  to  extra 4  90    @  5  60 

Common  to  good 1  25    (ot  4  70 

Hogs 3  50    O  4  70 

Sheep 2  00    @  4  15 

NEW  YORK. 

Flour 8  20    @  5  60 

Wheat— Winter 82X0     89 

Spring 84iy 

Corn 59  5<* 

Oats 82    ^      40 

BggB «..«.      15    @      21 

Butter ^ 16    m     25 

Wool.*^.,^^. 09  87 

KANSAS  CITY. 

Cattle — .^^ 125    Q  4  80 

Hogl.^.^ ^^ 8  00    2  4  85 

•kMB.^^..^    -.^.*».160    0  8  40 


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They  all  voted  for  him  as  often  as  possible;  and 
reputable  men  voted  for  him  also,  because  they 
thought  him  shrewd  to  veto  jobs  and  plundering  of 
the  public  funds,  and  careful  in  providing  good 
streets,  etc.  What  fatal  economy  I  Finely  paved 
streets  have  been  torn  up  month  after  month  by 
some  corporation  under  authority  from  his  adminis- 
tration; the  boodler  trials  and  steals  have  come  in  to 
swell  the  reckoning,  and  the  fatal  results  of  anarchy 
are  also  laid  at  the  door  of  the  Harrison  rule.  What 
profit  is  there  in  the  economy  of  wicked  rulers? 
Verily,  "when  the  wicked  bear  rule  the  people 
mourn."  This  city  spurned  the  law  of  God,  she 
sowed  to  the  wind  of  license  and  greed;  she  has 
plentifully  reaped  the  whirlwind  of  consternation, 
of  murder  and  of  rebellion. 


CONTENTS. 


Editobiai.  : 

Notes  and  Comments 1 

Editorial  Coireepondence.    8 
A  Thousand  Cynomres  for 
the  South 8 

CONTBIBUTIONS  : 

Why  this  Waste? 1 

Paul's  Method  of  Reform 

Work a 

Antl-Chrlst  Personified. . .    2 
The  Growth  of  the  New 
Hampshire  Association.    3 
Sblected : 
Masonic   Mutual    Benefit 

Societies 3 

Wrong  Fellowship 3 

The  Sabbath  —  American 

and  Christian 3 

N.  C  A.  Board  Meeting. ...    4 
The  Prohibition  Conference    4 
Rbform  News: 
From  the  General  Agent; 
Howe  Institute  Opened 
in  New  Iberia 4 

BiBLB    LB880N 6 

Letters  fr-m  the  Alps 7 

Literature 7 


COBBESPOITDBNCB : 

Lecture  Notes  from  South- 
east New  York;  The 
Mother  of  Bro,  Coun- 
tee  passes  hence ;  High- 
place  Worship ;  From  a 
Reporter's  Notebook; 
Intellectual  and  Moral 
Stupidity;      Pith     and 

Point  5,6 

Boston  Letter 9 

Washington  Letter 9 

The  Home 10 

Tempekancb 11 

Religious  Nbws: 
The  Elgin  Sabbath  Con- 
vention      9 

Lodge  Notes 13 

In  Brief 13 

Home  and  Health 14 

Farm  Notes 15 

News  of  thb  Wbbk 16 

The  N.  C.  A 15 

Church  vs.  Lodge 15 

i-bcture  List 15 

Markets 16 

Business 13 


Francis  Murphy,  the  temperance  evangelist,  be- 
gan the  fourth  week  of  his  Gospel  temperance  cam- 
paiDg  in  this  city  with  an  overflowing  house  last  Sab- 
bath night  at  the  Union  Park  Congregational  church, 
where  he  will  hold  meetings  every  night  this  week. 
Instead  of  holding  daily  meetings  in  Farwell  Hall 
as  last  year,  he  is  now  visiting  all  parts  of  the  city, 
reaching  those  districts  which  may  never  have  been 
penetrated  with  an  appeal  for  temperance  on  Gospel 
grounds.  He  is  assisted  by  the  officers  and  sup- 
porters of  the  Gospel  Temperance  League  which 
was  formed  here  last  spring  at  the  close  of  his  sev- 
eral months'  labor,  and  is  reaching  many  by  his 
sympathy  who  might  be  repelled  by  severer  argu- 
ments. 


The  expiration  of  a  lease  in  England  drawn  for 
999  years  in  the  reign  of  Alfred  the  Great  is  noted 
as  a  remarkable  witness  for  the  stability  of  the  Eng- 
lish government  and  institutions.  The  West  Side 
Chicago  street  railway  has  just  leased  its  property 
and  franchises  for  the  same  length  of  time.  Will 
our  social  fabric  survive  the  assaults  of  anarchy; 
will  they  not  be  undermined  by  the  causes  just  enu- 
merated? The  open  Bible  has  preserved  England 
for  a  thousand  years.     Will  it  so  preserve  America? 

"A  thousand  years,  my  own  Columbia." 
Shall  that  day  break  in  gladness  upon  our  Atlan- 
tic headlands?  It  is  a  momentous  question,  but  He 
"who  hath  power  over  the  nations  to  set  up  or  to  de- 
stroy" will  be  with  us  according  as  we  obey  his  re- 
vealed Word.  Verily,  blessed  is  that  nation  whose 
God  is  the  Lord. 


The  vote  for  constitutional  prohibition  of  the 
liquor  traffic  was  lost  in  Oregon  last  Tuesday,  but 
Dakota  nearly  redeemed  the  day.  The  verdict  of 
that  Territory  is  decidedly  in  favor  of  prohibition. 
The  vote  was  by  counties,  and  of  the  sixty-eight, 
sixiy-twn  are  against  the  traffic  by  majorities  of  from 
fifty  to  600  votes.  Only  six  counties  are  for  license. 
We  print  their  names  for  the  benefit  of  readers  who 
propose  settling  in  Dakota:  Bonhomme,  Coding- 
ton, Dent,  Ramsey,  Stulsman  and  Ward.  The  vote 
on  dividing  the  Territory  also  received  the  great  ma- 
jority of  15,000.  This  question  settled,  both  north 
and  south  divisions  will  soon  be  ready  to  enter  as 
States;  and  with  such  a  grand  vote  for  temperance 
both  parts  will  come  in  pure  and  clean,  with  no  taint 
of  the  infamous  traffic  upon  them. 


Chicago  and  her  anarchisteT  have  been  furnishing 
sensations  for  the  world  long  enough.  The  eight- 
hour  strike  on  the  1st  of  May,  1886;  the  bomb  mas- 
sacre on  the  4th,  by  which  seven  policemen  were 
slain  and  fifty-nine  wounded  ;the  trial  in  August  and 
September  following;the  appeal  to  the  higher  courts; 
the  desperation  of  Lingg  and  his  suicide;  and  the 
execution  and  burial — these  have  been  invariable 
topics  of  morbid  interest.  But  Chicago  has  met 
these  emergencies  with  firmness  and  courage,  and 
has  proved  to  the  world  that  we  may  put  confidence 
in  American  institutions,  whicb  were  founded  in  the 
name  of  God  by  men  who  worshiped  him  with  the 
utmost  sincerity.  The  anarchist  leaders  are  now  at 
rest  in  prison  and  the  grave.  ''Rest"  {Ruhe)  was 
their  watchword  of  insurrection  on  the  fatal  4th  of 
May — a  word  of  fearful  prophecy.  Let  us  hope  that 
the  world  also  may  have  rest  from  such  sort  of  Chi- 
cago sensations. 


"If  Chicago  had  kept  the  Sabbath  there  would 
have  been  no  anarchists,"  said  Dr.  Everts  in  his  ad- 
dress at  the  Elgin  Sabbath  Convention.  If  there 
had  been  no  saloons  there  would  have  been  no  anar- 
chists. If  the  secret  lodges  had  been  suppressed 
there  would  have  been  no  anarchists.  The  open  sa- 
loon is  on  the  side  of  anarchy — there  these  conspir- 
ators against  society  met  and  plotted.  Sabbath  vi- 
olation is  on  the  side  of  anarchy — meetings  in  favor 
of  lawlessness  were  always  held  on  that  day;  and 
they  are  still  in  Chicago,  in  London,  Ireland,  and 
New  York.  The  secret  lodge  is  on  the  side  of  an- 
archy— it  subjects  part  of  this  people  to  other  gov- 
ernments than  the  American,  to  other  oaths  than 
the  oath  of  God,  and  schools  them  in  such  lessons 
of  assassination  as  hardened  the  heart  of  Lingg  and 
his  companions.  Casting  out  the  Bible  from  our 
schools  is  on  the  side  of  anarchy,  since  it  allows  the 
youth  of  our  cities  to  grow  up  with  no  convictions 
on  the  right  basis  of  authority  in  the  state,  much 
less  with  proper  respect  for  the  authority  of  God. 
The  homage  paid  to  infidelity  in  the  person  of  an 
Ingersoll,  or  its  more  subtle  manifestations  of  Dr. 
Thomas  and  the  lodge  of  which  he  is  the  religious 
functionary — this  also  is  on  the  side  of  anarchy. 
The  wretched  men  who  have  given  up  their  lives 
were  hardened  against  God;  the  appeals  of  Miss 
Dryer,  of  the  Bible  workers,  and  of  Dr.  Bolton  were 
vain  to  penetrate  their  armor  of  unbelief  and  hard- 
ihood. They  had  reached  the  "seat  of  the  scorner." 
Shall  not  the  churches  of  America  arise  and  make 
war  on  these  evils,  no  longer  by  words,  but  by  such 
deeds  as  shall  give  us  a  peaceful,  joyful  revolution? 


Anarchy  and  its  suppression  has  been  a  judgment 
also  upon  Chicago.  For  eight  years  this  city  suf- 
fered Carter  H.  Harrison  to  be  at  the  head  of  mu- 
nicipal affairs.  He  was  notoriously  the  friend  of 
gamblers,  saloons,  and  the  vicious  classes  generally. 


Dr.  James  McCosh  has  resigned  the  position  of 
president  of  Princeton  College,  which  has  just  been 
raised  to  the  rank  of  a  first-class  university  under 
his  charge,  and  retires  just  as  that  work  is  com- 
pleted. The  public  can  only  surmise  whether  he 
feels  the  burden  of  seventy-six  years  too  heavily  for 
the  responsibilities  of  the  office,  or  whether  he  wish- 
es for  his  few  remaining  years  of  activity  to  devote 
bis  energy  to  the  School  of  Philosophy  in  which  he 
is  profoundly  interested.  For  his  successor  in  the 
University  the  name  of  Dr.  John  Hall,  now  Chancel- 
lor of  the  University  of  New  York, is  mentioned;  but 
more  certainty  is  expressed  that  Prof.Francis  L.  Pat- 
ton  of  Princeton  Theological  Seminary  or  Prof.  Wm. 
M.  Sloane  of  the  college  will  be  chosen.  Prof.Sloane 
is  the  son  of  the  late  Dr.  J.  R.  W.  Sloane  of  the  Re- 
formed Presbyterian  Seminary.whose  addresses  were 
among  the  ablest  in  the  conventions  of  the  National 
Christian  Association.  Prof.  Sloane  is  editor  of  the 
Princeton  Rtvuw,s.x\6.  was  for  a  time  secretary  to  the 
historian  Bancroft,  whose  literary  life  he  sketched 
some  months  since  for  ihe  Cmtwy.  He  is  now  com- 
piling a  life  of  his  father  and  will  represent  faithful- 
ly his  convictions  on  Christian  reform.  The  good 
that  Dr.  McCosh  has  accomplished  in  elevating  and 
advancing  the  standard  of  higher  education  in  this 
country  can  never  be  adequately  repaid  or  fully  es- 
timated. He  can  honorably  retire  from  an  active 
service  crowned  with  the  gratitude  and  blessings  of 
thousands  of  young  men. 


The  association  formed  in  Memphis  lately  for 
the  establishment  of  a  new  academy  at  a  meeting 
reported  in  the  last  Living  Way  have  agreed  to  lo- 
cate the  school  in  Memphis  as  central  to  the  district 
of  Western  Tennessee,  Northern  Mississippi  and 
Eastern  Arkansas,  and  it  will  be  called  the  Memphis 
Baptist  Bible  and  Normal  Institute.  This  will  add 
one  to  the  institutions  for  the  colored  race  that  are 
out  and  out  for  Christ  against  the  lodge. 


WH7  THIS  WA8TB? 


BY   REV,   J.    F.    AVERT. 


Often,  as  in  Christ's  time, we  find  men  asking  this 
question.  Why  this  waste?  as  though  they  were  the 
greatest  of  economists.  They  talk  of  our  modern 
missionary  enterprises  as  being  a  waste  of  precious 
lives  and  means.  But  the  fact  is,  they  love  the  bag 
and  hate  the  thought  of  any  possible  toll  therefrom 
to  Christ  Jesus,  who  proved  himself  by  word  and 
deed  to  be  bitterly  opposed  to  waste.  Did  he  not 
say,  after  the  miracle  of  the  loaves,  "Gather  up  the 
fragments  that  remain  that  nothing  be  lost?"  Yet 
he  commended  the  breaker  of  the  alabaster  box.  To 
Jesus  the  escape  of  its  pleasant  ointment  was  no 
sin.  The  story  of  the  donor's  benevolence,  Christ 
declared,  should  last  longer  and  spread  farther  than 
the  sweet  perfume  she  Ijosed  in  honor  of  her  much- 
loved  Lord,  from  whom  she  had  learned  the  meaning 
of  full  and  free  salvation. 

These  cavillers  against  Gospel  liberality  selfishly 
sniff  the  air  and  murmur  against  the  gifts  and  sac- 
rifices of  true  and  liberal  givers,  men  and  women, 
who,  knowing  the  preciousness  of  the  saving  Name, 
would  tell  others  the  story  and  count  not  their  lives 
and  offerings  worthy  to  be  compared  to  love's  great- 
er demand.  Wasters  enough.of  a  truth, there  are  who 
can  stand  idle  and  say  never  a  word, whilst  the  mills 
of  the  drunkard  makers  grind  cruelly,  but  alas  I  not 
slowly. 

The  squandering  of  money  in  the  saloon  and  the 
lodges  sljould  aff  >rd  food  for  deep  rt flection  and 
consideration.  It  certainly  shows  a  great  waste,  a 
needless  waste,  and  a  great  deal  of  liberality  on  the 
side  of  those  who  love  the  world.  Economy  appears 
to  be  tightly  and  rigidly  practiced  where  liberality 
might  well  abound.  The  following  lines  give  a  fair 
and  proportionate  idea  of  expenditures,  showing  in 
round  numbers  sundry  yearly  expenditures  by  the 
people  of  the  United  States.  It  compares  the  cost 
of  vices  with  expenditures  for  the  necessaries  of  life, 
and  sharply  defines  the  Interest  of  the  people  at 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


NOYEMBIK  17,  188T 


large  in  the  things  that  relate  to  the  best  interests 
of  society. 

Alcoholic  Liquors,  $900,000,000. 

Tobacco.  $690,000,000. 

Wool,  Cotton  and  Sugar,  $602  000,rOO. 

Iron,  Steel  and  Lumber,  $523,000,000.. 

Bread,  $505,000,000. 

Meat,  $303,000,000. 

Public  Education,  $92,000,000. 

Home  and  Foreign  Missions,  $5,500,000. 

With  such  a  showing  can  we  wonder  at  the  crime, 
social  disorder,  domestic  unhappiness,  sickness  and 
sorrow  that  abound  among  us?  Should  Christians 
be  niggardly  in  the  face  of  such  large  liberality? 
Surely  the  followers  of  Jesus  need  a  spirit  of  fuller 
consecration  of  themselves  and  theirs  to  Christ's  ser- 
vice. When  we  see  missionaries  forsaking  homes, 
and  going  toother  work  amongst  the  unhealthy  parts 
of  the  earthjWe  ought  to  give  them  our  sincerest  re- 
spect. We  see  men  and  women  of  culture  and  of 
means  devoting  themselves  to  missionary  work,and 
we  are  bound  to  support  them  in  the  work  which 
they  have  undertaken,  and  that  with  a  liberal  hand. 
If  we  economize,  let  us  see  to  it  that  we  begin  in 
those  matters  which  are  carnal  and  selfish.  Then, 
and  not  till  then  can  we  fully  know  the  blessing  of 
true  increase.  All  denial  and  surrender  of  self  for 
Christ's  sake  and  kingdom  brings  the  fatness  of  soul 
which  is  gladdening  and  satisfying. 

Mariner's  Temple,  New  York, 


PAUL'S  METHOD  OF  REFORM    WORK. 


BY   RIV.    J.   D.    NUTTING. 


The  following  is  intended  as  a  short  sermon  for 
all  concerned — including  the  preacher.  And  since 
the  Scripture  in  a  sermon  is  always  good,  whatever 
be  true  of  the  rest,  let  me  begin  with  two  texts  in- 
stead of  one. 

1.  "Let  every  one  of  us  please  his  neighbor,  for  his  good  to 
edification."— iioTO.io;  2. 

2.  "I  made  myself  servant  unto  aU,  that  I  might  gain  the 
more.  And  unto  the  Jew  I  became  a  Jew,  that  I  might  gain  the 
Jews ;  to  them  that  were  under  the  law,  as  under  the  law,  that 
I  might  gain  them  that  are  under  the  law ;  to  them  that  are 
without  law,  as  without  law  (being  not  without  law  to  God,  but 
under  the  law  to  Christ),  that  I  might  gain  them  that  are  with- 
out law ;  to  the  weak  1  became  as  weak,  that  I  might  gain  the 
weak ;  I  am  made  all  things  to  all  men,  that  I  might  by  all 
means  save  some." — 1  Cor.  i):  19-22. 

Two  dangers  constitute  a  Scylla  and  Charybdis  in 
every  moral  reform.  On  the  one  hand  is  the  dan- 
ger that  those  who  should  be  its  friends  will,  instead, 
be  the  supple  tools  of  indolent  or  opposing  public 
opinion,  without  sufficient  moral  stamina  to  stand 
for  the  truth  unless  the  crowd  is  at  their  backs;  and 
on  the  other,  that  those  who  are  genuine  friends  will 
become  narrow-minded,  unbending,  repulsive  dog- 
matists, hindering  almost  as  much  as  they  help  the 
movement  with  which  they  are  connected.  The  one 
class  erects  a  flabby,  rubber  idol  falsely  called  "ex- 
pediency," and  may  often  be  seen  in  great  numbers 
bowed  in  a  very  disgraceful  attitude  before  it,  hav- 
ing sacrificed  the  truth,  the  commands  of  God,  their 
own  self-respect  and  that  of  their  neighbors,  more 
or  less  consciously,  to  secure  the  smiles  of  the  hid- 
eous caricature  before  them.  The  other  class  builds 
many  idols,  out  of  the  various  cast-iron  sets  of  ideas 
possessed  by  its  members,  and  around  each  of  them 
is  gathered  a  group  of  devoted  worshipers.  These 
idols  all  have  a  strange,  though  varying  resemblance 
to  the  hollow,  red-hot  Moloch  of  old,  into  which  dev- 
otees cast  even  their  children;  sacrificing  in  fanati- 
cal zeal  the  things  which  should  be  most  dear  to 
them  for  other  purposes. 

Neither  of  these  classes  rightfully  contains  a  sin- 
gle human  being,  yet  a  vast  multitude  of  mankind 
is  found  in  them,  and  temptation  towards  them  is 
constant  and  universal  as  gravitation;  and  one  hard- 
ly knows  where  he  is  until  it  may  be  almost  too  late 
for  recovery.  How  can  we  escape?  St.  Paul,  by 
inspiration,  shows  the  way  in  our  texts.  Consider 
two  germinal  thoughts: 

I.  "Edification"  i$  the  conttant  object  of  a  true  life 
— the  saving  of  souls  and  "building  them  up"  into 
the  best  possible  "temples  of  the  Holy  Ghost."  We 
are,  as  Christ  and  Paul  were,  to  be  constantly  going 
about  doing  good;  hourly  carrying  the  moral  wel- 
fare of  ourselves  and  others  upon  our  hearts;  joy- 
ous in  being  able  to  do  even  a  little  for  others,  and 
BO  lor  the  blessed  kingdom  of  our  Christ.  We 
are  to  be  co-workers  thus  with  Christ,  and  "laborers 
together  with  God"  (1  Cor.  3:  9,  10,  etc.).  Real  re- 
form work  is  only  a  branch  of  Gospel  work,  not  a 
separate  thing;  and  is  hence  controlled  by  the  same 
principles,  commands  and  instructions  as  were  given 
for  preaching  the  Gospel. 

And  we  often  need  to  bear  in  mind  that  no  one's 
work  for  edification  is  rightly  to  be  limited  by  his 
own  wishes  or  tastes.  I  once  had  a  member  in  my 
church — a  business  man  of  fair  ability — who  was 
our  choir  leader,  and  who  excused  himself  from 
ever  attending  prayer  meeting  or  taking  part  in  so- 1 
cial  revival  services,  by  saying  that  the  music  was 


his  part — an  excuse  that  would  not  stand  a  second 
in  the  Judgment.  A  lady  member  of  the  same 
church  excused  herself  from  doing  more  for  church 
work  than  occasional  attendance  at  Sabbath  morning 
service,  because  of  her  great  devotion  to  the  W.  C. 
T.  U.  and  other  temperance  efforts,  an  excuse  no 
more  valid  than  the  other.  So  many  reformers,  as 
they  style  themselves,  do.  But  when  Christ  gave 
his  last  command,  to  go  and  preach  his  Gospel,  ad- 
dressing it  not  to  the  twelve,  but  to  every  Christian 
soul  according  to  ability  and  providential  circum- 
stances, he  meant  the  whole  Gospel;  no  more  mean- 
ing that  bold  men  should  preach  our  little  part  of 
the  Gospel  alone  than  that  timid  men  should  omit 
reform  truths.  We  are  to  build  a  symmetrical  tem- 
ple, on  His  plan,  not  ours. 

II.   The  spirit  in  which  it  is  to  be  attempted. 

1.  A  spirit  of  service  to  others,  not  of  dictatorial 
"lording  it  over  God's  heritage."  Paul  says  that 
he  "made  himself  servant  unto  all;"  Christ  says 
that  the  greatness  of  service  is  the  only  true  great- 
ness, and  that  even  he  was  "among  you  as  one  that 
serveth."  Right  here  is  a  very  great  danger  to  any 
one  who  attempts  to  bring  about  any  moral  reform. 
Because  he  feels  conscious  of  possessing  a  truth 
which  others  do  not,  and  of  laboring  for  that  truth 
while  others  give  it  a  cold  shoulder,  he  is  apt  in- 
sensibly to  grow  Pharisaical,  thinking  himself  bet- 
ter than  they,  (see  1  Cor.  4:  1-7;  8:  2.)  The  next 
step,  often  coming  insensibly,  too,  takes  him  to  a 
point  at  which  he  will  peaceably  brook  no  dissent 
from  his  opinion,  and  may  make  various  attempts, 
this  side  of  physical  force,  to  compel  others  to  either 
echo  his  opinions  or  keep  silence.  The  next  step  is 
the  Inquisition,  when  power  permits.  How  oppo- 
site to  all  this  were  Paul  and  Christ!  Paul  spoke 
of  "in  honor  preferring  one  another,"  and  of  "in 
lowliness  of  mind  each  esteeming  other  better  than 
themselves,"  and  signed  himself  "Paul  the  servant" 
(Rom.  1 :  1),  tracing  thus  the  signature  of  Christ 
over  after  him.  Thus  we  are,  as  the  condition  at 
once  of  the  Divine  blessing  on  our  labors  and  of 
our  success  in  them,  to  do  all  in  the  spirit  of  service 
marked  by  these  characteristics. 

2.  A  spirit  of  adaptability  to  others,  and  to  the 
circumstances  in  which  we  are  placed.  Verse  3  says, 
"For  even  Christ  pleased  not  himself."  Says  Lange, 
the  author  of  what  is  probably  the  greatest  com- 
mentary accessible  in  English,  speaking  of  this  pas- 
sage, "Pleasing  one's  self  denotes  the  inconsiderate 
or  unfriendly  pursuit  of  the  ideals  of  our  own  sub- 
jectivity in  the  selfish  isolation  of  our  personal  ex- 
istence;"— like  a  train  between  iron  rails  trying  to 
throw  every  obstacle  to  one  side  or  the  other,  and 
ending  in  a  smashup  when  it  cannot.  The  Christian 
has  no  business  with  such  a  stiff-set,  unadjustable 
course  of  travel.  He  is,  by  Divine  injunction,  if 
his  truth  be  not  received  in  one  city  to  go  to  anoth- 
er; if  swine  trample  his  pearls,  to  take  them  to  a 
better  market;  and  to  seek  to  please  all  men  to  their 
edification  by  adapting  himself  to  their  peculiarities, 
instead  of  trying  to  smash  his  way  through  them, 
or  attempting  to  go  through  in  spite  of  them.  (See 
second  text.)  He  is  to  regard  true  expediency,  which 
means,  as  Paul  uses  the  word  in  1  Cor.  10:  23,  a 
contributing  to  the  end  sought  by  the  means  used; 
using  such  means  and  rejecting  others.  So  Paul 
says  he  did  (second  text).  From  the  references  we 
see  that  in  accord  with  this  principle  he  circumcised 
Timothy  (though  circumcision  had  been  abolished) 
"because  of  the  Jews  which  were  in  those  quarters," 
to  avoid  arousing  their  prejudices  against  this  young 
minister;  and  to  the  pagan  Galatians  he  almost  rid- 
iculed the  Jewish  ceremonial  law  which  some  strove 
to  impose  on  them,  while  in  preaching  to  Jews  that 
was  often  the  basis  of  his  argument  (Gal.  3:  Rom.3). 
So  in  many  other  cases.  In  his  loving,  hungry  zeal 
after  the  souls  of  his  hearers  his  own  personal  likes, 
dislikes,  and  peculiarities,  and  even  the  means  used, 
faded  almost  out  of  his  view.  As  a  physician  in  a 
critical  case  has  no  love  for  remedies  in  themselves 
substitutes  one  for  another  as  need  demands,  so 
this  greatest  of  the  apostles,  "forgetting  those  things 
that  were  behind,reached  out,"  with  longing  earnest- 
ness, for  souls  and  character,  "unto  those  things 
which  were  before."  Festus  called  him  mad  be- 
cause of  his  earnestness,  but  we  find  nobody  calling 
him  a  slave  to  methods  or  to  "cranky"  personal  pe- 
culiarities. He  used  these,  so  far  as  he  had  them, 
as  men  ought  to  use  political  parties — not  as  mas- 
ters but  as  slaves;  tools  for  certain  kinds  of  work, 
to  be  dropped  or  changed  for  others  the  moment 
they  became  unsuitable.  He  could  face  the  beasts 
at  Ephesus,  the  howling  mob  at  Jerusalem  or  the 
Ciusar  of  the  world  at  Rome,  and  could  withstand 
his  co-laborer,  Mark,  "to  his  face,  because  he  was 
to  be  blamed;"  yet  his  motto  was,  'All  things  to  all 
men,  that  by  all  means  I  may  save  some."  Practi- 
cally, this  is  the  World's  Evangelical  Alliance  motto: 
"In  essentials  unity,  in  non-essentials  diversity," 


with  the  addition,  "and  terribly  in  earnest"  for  the 
main  chance  of  good;  never  crossing  God's  com- 
mands, but  otherwise  sacrificing  all  to  success  in 
his  work. 

Now,  allowing  me  the  Scripture  privilege  of  judg- 
ing others  by  myself,  these  Bible  directions  meet  a 
very  great  need,  and  will  correct  great  faults  if  ob- 
served. When  God  lays  down  a  plan  no  other  will 
succeed,  because  that  is  the  plan  on  which  he  built 
the  universe  to  go.  We  have  an  adago  that  "Vine- 
gar catches  no  files."  Let  that  serve  as  a  back- 
ground, and  over  it  write:  "But  'let  every  one  of  us 
please  his  neighbor  for  his  good  to  edification,' " 
and  take  the  two  for  a  guideboard  to  success.  It 
will  lead  to  greater  adjustability  of  method  and 
view;  to  a  greater  sweetness  of  spirit  and  feeling  in 
many  cases;  to  a  greater  variety  in  kind  and  direc- 
tion of  effort;  to  a  greater  endeavor  to  put  ourselves 
in  the  places  of  lodge-entangled  souls  so  that  we 
can  meet  just  their  view  of  the  case,  instead  of 
shooting  wide  of  the  mark  with  our,  mayhap,  crook- 
ed-barreled blunderbusses  of  a  past  generation;  to 
a  far  greater  appreciation  of  the  differences  of  view 
which  separate  many  from  us  who  would  otherwise 
be  workers;  to  a  much  greater  unity  with  God  in 
this  work  for  souls — and  to  a  much  greater  measure 
of  success  in  it. 

God's  plan  is  always  safe;  let  us  try  it  as  fully  as 
we  can  learn  how. 

Wauseon,  Ohio. 


ANTLCHRiaT  PERSONIFIED, 


BY  M.   N.   BUTLBR. 


What  strange  language  is  this  I  find  in  Mackey's 
Manual  of  the  Lodge,  page  93;  Masonic  Ritualist, 
page  106;  Sickels's  Ahiman  Rezon,  page  169:  "Itis 
one  of  the  most  beautiful,  but  at  the  same  time  most 
abstruse  doctrines  of  the  science  of  Masonic  sym- 
bolism, that  the  Mason  is  ever  to  be  in  search  of 
truth,  but  is  never  to  find  it." 

"Ever  learning,  and  never  able  to  come  to  the 
knowledge  of  the  truth."  And  why?  "Jesus  saith 
unto  him,  I  am  the  way,  the  truth,  and  the  life;  no 
man  cometh  unto  the  Father  but  by  me.  I  and  my 
Father  are  one.  Whosoever  denieth  the  Son,  the 
same  hath  not  the  Father;  but  he  that  acknowledg- 
eth  the  Son  hath  the  Father  also.  For  the  Father 
judgeth  no  man,  but  hath  committed  all  judgment 
unto  the  Son.  But  whosoever  shall  deny  me  before 
men,  him  will  I  also  deny  before  my  Father  which 
is  in  heaven." 

See  again  Webbs  Monitor,  page  73;  Sickels's  Mon- 
itor, 2nd  part,  page  5;  Mackey's  Ritualist, page  27 1 ;  Ma- 
coy's  Monitor,  page  86:  "Ye,  also,  as  lively  stones, 
are  built  up  a  spiritual  house,  an  holy  priesthood, 
to  offer  up  spiritual  sacrifices  acceptable  to  God. 
Wherefore,  also  it  is  contained  in  the  Scriptures, 
Behold,  I  lay  in  Zion,  for  a  foundation,  a  tried  stone, 
a  precious  corner  stone,  a  sure  foundation;  he  that 
believeth  shall  not  make  haste  to  pass  it  over." 

Ilow  does  that  read  in  the  Bible?  "Ye,  also,  as 
lively  stones,  are  built  up  a  spiritual  house,  an  holy 
priesthood,  to  offer  up  spiritual  sacrifices,  accept- 
able to  God  by  Jesus  Christ.  Wherefore,  also,  it  is 
contained  in  the  Scripture,  Behold,  I  lay  in  Zion  a 
chief  comer  stone,  elect,  precious;  and  he  that  be- 
lieveth on  him  shall  not  be  confounded."  1  Peter 
2:  5,  6. 

Again,  Webb's  Monitor,  page  120;  Mackey's  Rit- 
ualist, page  348;  Sickels's  Monitor,  page  50,  part 
2nd;  Macoy's  Monitor,  page  156:  "Now  we  com- 
mand you,  brethren,  that  ye  withdraw  yourselves 
from  every  brother  that  walketh  disorderly,  and  not 
after  the  tradition  which  ye  received  of  us."  "Now, 
them  that  are  such,  we  command  and  exhort  that 
with  quietness  they  work  and  eat  their  own  bread." 
These  passages  appear  thus  in  the  Bible:  "Now  we 
command  you,  brethren,  in  the  name  of  our  Lord 
Jesus  Christ,  that  ye  withdraw  yourselves  from  every 
brother  that  walketh  disorderly  and  not  after  the 
tradition  which  he  received  of  us."  "Now,  them 
that  are  such  we  command  and  exhort,  by  our  Lord 
Jesus  Christ,  that  with  quietness  they  work,  and  eat 
their  own  bread."     2  Thess.  3:  6,  12. 

Thus  we  have  in  our  midst  a  religious  organiza- 
tion that  deliberately  turns  the  Lord  Jesus  Christ 
out  of  his  own  blessed  Word.  It  takes  from  and 
adds  to.  (See  Rev.  22:  18,  19.)  Every  member  of 
the  order,  knowingly  or  unknowingly,  in  swearing 
allegiance  to  Masonry,  adopts  pure  theism,  abjures 
Christ,  and  bows  to  anti-Christ. 

Such  are  the  solemn  truths  in  this  matter;  therefore, 
let  me  oppose  such  a  society,  and  anything  that  af- 
filiates with  it.  "He  that  biddeth  him  Godspeed  is 
partaker  of  his  evil  deeds."  Let  us  use  these  facts 
for  God  and  perishing  humanity,  warning  the  peo- 
ple to  renounce  evil,  and  accept  Christ  and  his  free 
salvation. 


-^wr 


NOYEMBBB  17,  1887 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


TEB  GROWTH  OF  THE  NEW  EAMP8HIRE 
ASSOCIATION. 


In  the  annual  sermon  before  the  Christian  Asso- 
ciation of  New  Hampshire,  lately  held  at  Manches- 
ter, Elder  S.  C.  Kimball  spoke  from  the  text,  Mark 
4:  28,  "First  the  blade,  then  the  ear,  after  that  the 
full  com  in  the  ear:" 

My  text,  he  said,  well  illustrates  the  growth  of  the 
National  Christian  Association  and  its  eighteen  aux- 
iliary State  Associations.  It  is  my  purpose  to  speak 
only  of  our  own.  Apparently  small  causes  when 
of  divine  origin  led  to  immense  results.  A  dispute 
between  Martin  Luther  and  another  priest  named 
Tetzel  in  reference  to  the  so-called  sacrament  of  pen- 
ance led  to  the  Protestant  reformation.  Luther  was 
so  blinded  by  prejudice  and  sectarian  zeal  that  it 
took  the  gross  wickedness  of  his  fellow  priest,  Tet- 
zel, to  wake  him  up  and  lead  him  to  investigate  the 
New  Testament  that  he  might  find  out  what  Chris- 
tianity really  was.  So  the  gross  abuses  practiced  in 
our  New  Hampshire  churches  led  the  brethren  who 
formed  this  Association  to  enter  upon  a  line  of  pray- 
erful investigation,  which  resulted  in  a  flood  of  light 
on  many  points  of  faith  and  practice.  Gambling 
in  many  forms  was  practiced  by  churches  of  the 
prominent  evangelical  denominations.  Theatrical 
plays  were  brought  into  the  church,  men  and  women 
were  sold  at  auction  to  the  highest  bidder  for  sport, 
feasting  and  backwoods  games  were  carried  beyond 
the  extreme  limits  of  decency,  while  minister  and 
deacons  looked  on  without  descent  or  joined  in  the 
frolic.  These  things  were  defended  on  the  ancient 
plea  of  Rev.  Mr.  Tetzel  that  they  brought  immense 
revenues  to  the  church.  At  the  same  time  many 
ministers  and  church  members  united  with  the  vari- 
ous secret  orders.  Indeed,  most  ministers,  especially 
among  the  Methodists  and  Freewill  Baptists,  were 
members  of  some  mixed  fraternity,  ostensibly  to 
help  some  good  cause  or  to  get  help.  Before  this 
time  President  Charles  G.  Finney  of  Oberlin  pub- 
lished his  great  work  on  Freemasonry,  accompanied 
by  a  statement  of  his  own  experience  in  the  lodge. 
President  Jonathan  Blanchard  of  Wheaton,  and  oth- 
ers, had  already  organized  the  National  Christian 
Association.  To  purge  the  church  from  these  evils, 
especially  the  last  named,  the  New  Hampshire  Chris- 
tian Association  was  organized  at  Lake  Village,  No- 
vember 24,  1875.  It  may  be  asked  why  we  did  not 
work  for  reform  in  the  church  and  through  the  reg- 
ular channels.  We  prayerfully  and  patiently  at- 
tempted that,  but  were  generally  voted  down  and 
stigmatized  as  disturbers  of  Zion.  Scattered  among 
the  several  denominations,  boycotted  by  the  leaders, 
and  destitute  of  a  local  paper  through  which  we 
could  communicate,  we  were  shut  up  to  the  choice 
of  submission  or  avert  undenominational  resistance. 
Most  of  the  evils  that  we  had  opposed  were  of  such 
a  nature  that  they  were  death-struck  as  soon  as  we 
were  able  to  hold  them  up  to  public  gaze.  Our  suc- 
cess has  been  so  complete  that  were  it  not  for  pub- 
lic records  some  would  doubt  whether  such  evils 
ever  so  crowded  into  the  church.  Of  all  the  evils 
mentioned  the  fraternity  question  alone  remains  a 
live  issue,  and  as  to  that,  it  is  exceedingly  rare  to 
hear  a  Christian  man  publicly  defend  the  secret  lodge 
system  as  necessary  for  the  accomplishment  of  any 
good  end.  It  is  an  axiom  in  mathematics  that  the 
whole  is  greater  than  any  of  its  parts.  So  in  morals, 
all  truth  is  stronger  than  any  one  truth.  The  whole 
Decalogue  stands  .  firmer  together  than  any  single 
precept  would  alone.  The  Gospel  as  a  whole  will 
make  more  rapid  progress  than  any  single  virtue 
called  from  it.  Our  temperance  advocates  err  if 
they  expect  by  multiplied  agencies  to  cause  that  re- 
form to  outrun  Christianity.  So  our  anti-lodge 
friends  will  greatly  err  if  they  expect  to  accomplish 
anything  without  Christ  and  the  power  of  his  Spirit. 
Archimedes  said:  "Give  me  whereon  to  stand  and 
I  can  move  the  world."  So  in  morals:  The  deprav- 
ity of  the  human  heart  is  such  that  outside  the  Gos- 
pel of  Jesus  Christ  there  is  neither  motive  nor  pow- 
er that  can  save  a  sinner.  That  Rock  alone  furn- 
ishes a  fulcrum  adequate  to  raise  fallen  humanity. 


Of  all  the  glorious  fizzles,  the  recent  big-named 
"International  Encampment"was  the  most  cheering. 
It  was  another  of  the  last  gasps  of  the  effort  to  keep 
alive  the  sectional  issue  by  the  worship  of  G.  A.  R. 
secret  society.  It  will  not  attract  this  people.  We 
are  not  a  war  people,  and  cannot  be  made  to  look 
upon  an  army  save  as  a  last  and  sad  resort.  The 
army  does  not  represent  to  us  the  grandeur  and 
power  of  the  nation — the  ballot-box  is  the  palladium 
of  our  liberties.  The  "International"  Encampment 
is  now  in  the  hands  of  a  young  sprig  of  a  sucker  who 
is  called  a  "receiver,"  and  he  is  hustling  the  gory 
soldiers  around  livelier  than  a  major-general  of  reg- 
ulars. Thank  the  Lord  that  the  War  of  the  Rebel- 
lion is  nearly  ended.— Gc/ieua,  111,  Patrol. 


MABONIC  MUTUAL  BENEFIT  BOCIETIEB. 


The  annual  meeting  of  the  Masonic  Mutual  Bene- 
fit Society  of  Indiana,  was  held  some  time  last  Au- 
gust in  Indianapolis.  Total  membership  10,300. 
Total  receipts  $269,531.29.  Disbursements  $258,- 
612  58.  Total  death  benefits  paid  $212,000.00,  leav- 
ing $11,918  cash  in  treasury.  Let  us  look  at  these 
figures  a  little  closer.  If  the  reader  will  but  take 
pencil  and  slate  and  figure  for  a  few  moments,  he 
can  convince  himself  that  the  benefit  this  society 
proposes  to  offer  its  members,  is  a  benefit  for  which 
the  members  must  dearly  pay.  Remember,  the  to- 
tal receipts  for  the  past  year  were  $269,531.29;  now 
if  we  divide  this  sum  by  the  total  membership  10,- 
300  we  have  the  amount  contributed  by  each  member 
on  an  average  in  the  past  year,  namely  $26.16.  Di- 
vide the  $212,000.00,  the  sum  paid  for  death  bene- 
fits, by  10,300  again,  and  we  have  the  amount  each 
member  received  on  an  average,  for  the  $26.16  which 
he  contributed,  namely,  $20.57.  Now  subtract 
$212,000.00  from  $258,612.85  leaves  $45,612.85  and 
you  have  the  sum  required  to  carry  on  the  associa- 
tion in  the  past  year;  namely  $45,612.85.  In  other 
words:  every  member  paid  on  an  average  $26.16  in- 
to the  treasury,  but  received  on  an  average — please 
remember  as  benefit  (?)  for  this  is  a  benefit  society 
— five  dollars  and  fifty-nine  cents  less  than  he  con- 
tributed. Is  that  not  rather  a  foolish  business  trans- 
action. Just  think  of  a  person  placing  $26.16  in  a 
bank,  and  when  calling  for  this  money  again,  the 
banker  saying  to  him:  My  dear  friend,  'tis  true, 
you  deposited  $26.16  with  me  with  the  understand- 
ing that  you  were  to  receive  a  benefit  by  doing  so; 
on  this  condition,  I  received  your  money,  here  are 
$20.57,  all  that  is  coming  to  you,  I  having  expended 
$5.59  of  your  deposit  to  "manage"  the  same.  Do 
you  think  that  person  would  ever  deposit  another 
cent  with  that  banker?  Certainly  not.  To  give 
$26.16  and  receive  in  return  but  $20.57  is  bad 
enough;  but  the  benefit  received  by  the  members  of 
the  Masonic  Mutual  Benefit  Society  on  an  average, 
must,  in  fact,  be  still  less;  for  I.  J.  Spann,  a  dele- 
gate to  the  convention  and  a  member  of  the  auditing 
committee,  and  consequently  in  a  position  to  know 
the  facts,  said,  during  the  sharp  discussion  which 
followed  the  financial  reports,  that  it  cost  33  per 
cent,  of  the  entire  fund  to  run  the  association  for 
the  past  year.  What  does  this  prove?  It  proves 
that  the  members  did  not  receive  over  $20.57  on  an 
average  for  the  $26.16  they  contributed;  but  only  67 
cents  worth  of  benefit  out  of  every  dollar  contrib- 
uted. Thirty-three  cents  were  expended  in  running 
the  association.  A  benefit  society,  indeed!  If  mer- 
chants and  tradesmen  would  run  their  business  on 
like  principle,  it  would  financially  ruin  them  in  a 
short  time,  and  printing  offices  would  be  kept  busy 
printing  notices  for  sheriff's  sales. — Lutheran  Wit- 


WRONG  FELLOWSHIP. 


Fellowship  between  faith  and  unbelief  must,  soon- 
er or  later,  be  fatal  to  the  former.  "I  would  thou 
wert  either  cold  or  hot"  has  a  deep  significance  for 
us.  Truth  is  truth,  and  error  is  error.  There  the 
case  begins  and  ends.  The  blending  of  light  and 
darkness  can  at  the  best  only  produce  twilight,  not 
noon.  We  may  tamper  with  doubt,  may  trifle  with 
certainty,  and  we  may  succumb  to  public  opinion, 
but  what  will  the  end  be?  Has  the  one  great  Oracle 
spoken?  Has  it  spoken  accurately  and  intelligibly? 
If  it  has,  our  only  honest  position  is  acceptance  of 
its  utterances.  Every  revealed  truth  has  a  distinct, 
personal  claim  to  be  believed,  however  offensive  to 
the  taste  or  spirit  of  the  age.  Truth  never  demands 
a  vote.  It  refuses  to  go  to  the  poll  or  to  acknowl- 
edge majorities.  It  presents  its  evidence  and  claims 
submission.  To  attempt  to  gather  truth  out  of  a 
multitude  of  errors,  by  setting  them  to  neutralize 
each  other,  is  to  revive  the  vain  alchemy  of  the 
Middle  Ages  to  turn  iron  into  gold,  or  to  imitate 
the  folly  of  an  old  student  of  prophecy,  who  gath- 
ered some  scores  of  conflicting  prophetic  dates  to- 
gether, and  struck  the  mean  among  them  in  order 
to  reach  the  true  year.  We  are  apt  to  forget  that 
error  is  sin;  that  truth  does  not  reverse  itself;  that 
inspiration  and  non-inspiration  are  two  opposite 
poles  admitting  of  no  medium;  that  fidelity  ought 
not  to  cloak  itself  under  the  name  of  candid  inquiry; 
and  that  candid  inquiry  should  beware  of  being  land- 
ed in  unbelief,  perhaps,  before  it  is  aware. 

There  are  some  who  are  cowardly  enough  to  trifle 
with,  or  nibble  at  truth,  but  not  bold  enough  to  fling 
it  away.  It  would  be  well  for  us  to  remember  that 
not  merely  accepted  error,  but  undervalued  truth, 
has  often  made  havoc  of  a  church  and  shipwreck  of 
a  soul.  Much  of  the  teaching  of  the  present  day 
is  not  in  the  direction  of  certainty,  and  men  feel 
that  to  be  tossed  to  and  fro  with  curious  specula- 


tions will  make  but  a  poor  life  for  them.  Mean- 
while revelation  remains  to  us,  and,  when  human 
thinkers  have  spent  themselves,  it  will  re-assert  its 
authority  and  power.  The  cross  still  stands,  and 
with  it  Jehovah's  eternal  purpose  of  grace — grace 
finding  its  way  to  the  sinner  through  the  righteous 
channel  opened  by  the  death  of  the  Divine  Substi- 
tute.— Horatius  Bonar,  D.  D. 


THE  SABBATH— AMERICAN  AND  CHRISTIAN. 


Citizens  as  law-makers  are  to  distinguish  between 
the  American  Sabbath  and  the  Christian  Sabbath. 
The  former  is  a  day  of  rest  from  labor,  a  day  of 
quietness  when  tho&e  who  desire  to  worship  God  in 
the  sanctuary  can  do  so  undisturbed.  This  can  be 
and  ought  to  be  preserved  by  law.  The  churches 
and  all  who  work  have  a  right  to  it.  The  Christian 
Sabbath,  however,  is  a  day  to  be  religiously  observ- 
ed. That  cannot  be  made  obligatory  by  law  with- 
out a  violation  of  freedom  of  conscience,  except 
where  a  community  is  of  one  mind  and  all  its  mem- 
bers are  agreed  that  the  day  should  be  kept  holy 
unto  the  Lord.  The  American  Sabbath  is  establish- 
ed by  law.  Those  who  come  to  America  from  oth- 
er lands  if  they  do  not  like  the  law  can  go  back  to 
where  they  came  from.  Americans,  by  which  we 
mean  those  who  are  American  in  sentiment  as  well 
as  those  born  in  the  Unii.ed  States,  by  a  large  ma- 
jority desire  the  preservation  of  the  American  Sab- 
bath,and  are  opposed  to  the  introduction  of  the  Sab- 
bath of  continental  Europe.  That  desire  has  made 
the  law  closing  the  saloons  on  Sunday.  That  desire, 
we  believe.if  it  had  an  opportunity  to  express  itself, 
would  cast  a  large  vote  in  favor  of  the  suppression 
of  Sunday  newspapers.  The  publication  and  sale  of 
newspapers  on  the  Sabbath  is  as  much  a  violation 
of  the  American  Sabbath  as  the  work  of  carpenters, 
masons,  blacksmiths,  or  the  prosecution  of  any  kind 
of  business  on  that  day  would  be.  And  the  making 
of  newspapers  on  that  day  is  just  as  demoralizing 
and  injurious  as  to  conduct  any  other  industrial  pur- 
suit would  be.  There  are  certainly  twenty-five  mil- 
lions of  people  in  the  United  States  who  wish  to 
worship  God  in  Christian  churches  on  the  Lord's 
day,  unmolested  and  undisturbed,  and  they  have  a 
right  to  the  protection  of  the  law  and  a  faithful  ex- 
ecution of  the  law.  But  while  those  who  wish  to 
maintain  the  American  Sabbath  make  this  their  ar- 
gument against  the  Personal  Liberty  party,  Chris- 
tians ought  to  assert  and  maintain  more  than  this. 
They  ought  to  claim  that  the  Protestant  Christian 
church  does  a  great  work  on  the  Sabbath,  by  its 
method  of  observing  the  day,  in  making  men  right- 
eous,in  maintaining  a  high  moral  standard,in  enlight- 
ening and  strengthening  the  conscience  of  men,  in 
holding  before  them  a  perfect  example  of  obedience 
to  a  perfect  moral  law — an  example  acknowledged 
by  infidels  to  be  a  perfect  one.  Righteousness  is 
absolutely  essential  to  the  maintenance  of  a  free  rep- 
resentative government.  Without  it  a  government 
by  the  people,  of  the  people  and  for  the  people  can 
not  be  preserved.  Nothing  the  world  has  ever  had 
upon  it  has  been  so  efficient  in  producing  and  main- 
taining righteousness  as  the  Protestant  Christian 
church,  and  the  work  of  that  church  which  has  yield- 
ed such  a  result  has  been  done  chiefly  on  the  Sab- 
bath. The  welfare  of  the  community  demands  that 
the  church  shall  be  protected  from  molestation  and 
disturbance  while  performing  this  supremely  neces- 
sary and  important  service.  Let  Romanists  take 
part  in  preserving  the  American  Sabbath  for  their 
own  reasons.  But  the  Papal  church  never  has  any- 
where produced  righteousness  in  men  as  the  Protes- 
tant Christian  church  has.  This  has  been  true  in 
all  the  past,  is  true  to-day,  is  the  record  of  history, 
the  testimony  of  every  Papistical  country.  The  state 
cannot  afford  to  allow  the  Christian  church  to  be  mo- 
lested and  disturbed  in  its  endeavor  on  the  Sabbath  to 
establish  and  maintain  a  high,  courageous,  conscien- 
tious, hearty  righteousness.  And  while  Christian 
people  unite  with  others  in  a  resolute  effort  to  preserve 
the  American  Sabbath,  they  ought  at  the  same  time 
to  assert  the  value  and  the  necessity  of  the  charac- 
ter which,  under  God, is  formetl  and  nurturetl  by  the 
Christian  church  on  that  day.  Legally  we  can  claim 
only  the  right  to  worship  God  undisturbed,  but  we 
must  not  allow  the  importance  of  the  worship  of  the 
church  to  be  overlooked.  This  country  owes  more 
than  words  can  tell  to  Protestant  Christianity.  The 
people  who  frequent  and  support  Christian  church- 
es are  among  the  most  valuable  citizens  of  the  com- 
monwealth. No  other  men  have  contributed  more 
to  the  unparalleled  progress  of  the  country. — Chrit- 
tian  Intelligencer. 


There  are  seven  papers  printed  in  the  Norwe- 
gian and  Swedish  language  in  this  country  that  are 
advocating  prohibition. 


THB  CHKLSTIAI?  CYNOSURE. 


NOYSMBIB  17, 1887 


Jf.  a  A,  BOARD   MEETING. 


A  meeting  of  the  Board,called  by  Pres.L.N.Strat- 
ton,  cbairican,  was  held  at  10  o'clock  Saturday  fore- 
noon and  engaged  in  the  discussion  of  important 
measures  for  promoting  the  work  of  the  Associa- 
tion. 

It  was  voted  that  the  National  Convention  in  New 
Orleans  be  opened  on  Friday  afternoon,  February 
17,  1888,  and  to  continue  through  the  20th.  A  cir- 
cular setting  forth  the  objects  and  work  of  the  N.C. 
A.,  prepared  by  the  General  Agent  for  general  dis- 
tribution, was  approved.  The  employment  of  Bro. 
Francis  J.  Davidson  for  colporteur  work  in  the 
South  was  referred  to  the  General  Agent.  L.  N. 
Stratton,  J.  P.  Stoddard  and  W.  R.  Hench  were  ap- 
pointed a  committee  on  programme  for  the  New  Or- 
leans meeting. 

The  disposition  of  property  in  St.Loui8,Michigan, 
Kansas  and  Minnesota,  donated  or  proposed  to  be 
donated  to  the  Association,  was  referred  to  a  com- 
mittee. A  proposition  from  Prof  H.  A.  Fischer  to 
offer  premiums  for  essays  on  secret  societies  by  stu- 
dents of  academies,  colleges  and  theological  semi- 
naries was  approved,  and  brethren  Stoddard, Kellogg 
and  Phillips  requested  to  arrange  details  and  put 
the  resolution  into  effect. 

It  was  voted  to  request  Rev.W.  H.  French  of  Cin- 
cinnati to  present  to  the  American  Branch  of  the 
Evangelical  Alliance  meeting  at  Washington,  Dec. 
8th  next,  the  subject  of  secret  societies  as  an  obsta- 
cle in  the  way  of  the  progress  of  the  church  of 
Christ.  A  committee  was  appointed  to  examine  the 
records  concerning  the  purchase  of  the  Washington 
building  and  make  a  statement  of  facts  at  some  fu- 
ture meeting  of  the  Board. 

The  effort  to  evangelize  the  colored  churches  of 
the  South  in  respect  to  their  connection  with  secret 
Bocietie8,by  increasing  the  donations  of  the  tynosure 
to  their  pastors  by  1,000  copies,  was  endorsed,  and 
friends  and  agents  of  the  cause  were  requested  to 
aid  this  important  work  in  every  practicable  way. 
The  Board  also  directed  that  Carpenter  Hall  should 
be  opened  November  30th  for  the  use  of  any  who 
might  wish  for  conference  during  the  Prohibition 
convention. 

The  importance  of  Miss  E.  E.  Flagg's  proposition 
to  secure  a  department  of  the  W.  C.  T.  U.  on  secret- 
ism  was  mentioned  and  the  General  Secretary  was 
instructed  to  correspond  with  her  respecting  the  de- 
votion of  her  time  and  exceptional  talents  to  this 
reform.  The  Board  learned  after  thus  voting,  with 
expressions  of  regret  and  sympathy,  of  the  serious 
illness  of  Miss  Flagg's  aged  father. 

THE  NATIONAL  PROHIBITION  CONFERENGB. 


state  that  you  wish  to  attend  the  National  Prohibi- 
tion Conference  at  Chicago,  and,if  arrangements  are 
made  for  reduced  rates,  you  will  be  given  a  certifi- 
cate showing  that  you  have  paid  full  fare  to  Chica- 
go. Then  secure  the  signature  of  the  railroad  sec- 
retary at  the  Conference,  and,  on  presenting  this  at 
the  ticket  oflSce  in  Chicago,  you  can  buy  your  re- 
turn ticket  for  one  third  regular  fare. 


Beform  News. 


FROM  THE    GENERAL  AGENT. 


CONVENTION 


AND   LECTURES   IN 
MISSOURI. 


SOUTHWKSTEaN 


Greenfield,  Mo.,  Nov.  2ad,  1887. 
The  anti-secrecy  discussion  opened  here  last  even- 
ing with  a  fair  audience  and  continued  for  two 
hours  with  excellent  attention  and  order.  My  re- 
marks of  a  general  character  were  followed  by  a 
stirring  speech  by  ^ro.  Butler,  and  recess  was  taken 
to  9  o'clock  this  morning.  The  forenoon  audience 
was  exceptionally  large  for  day  session  in  the  busy 
season.  The  first  hour  was  spent  in  singing,  prayer 
and  Scripture  reading,  with  remarks  interspersed, 
when  the  meeting  was  formally  organized  by  the 
election  of  T.  C.  Cook  of  Bates  county  as  chairman, 
and  J.  W.  Thompson  of  Dade  county,  secretary. 
After  a  few  remarks  by  the  General  Agent  on  the  ori- 
gin and  history  of  the  N.  C.  A.  and  the  rise  and  prog- 
ress of  the  American  party,  Bro.  Butler  read  and  ex- 
plained the  platform  of  the  party,which  lead  to  an  in- 
formal discussion  occupying  most  of  the  forenoon. 
Elder  Love  having  arrived  from  Osceola  was  introduc- 
ed by  the  secretary  and  made  a  brief  and  happy 
speech. 

The  afternoon  session  was  a  continuation  of  bus- 
iness and  discussion.  The  committee  on  resolutions 
reported,  and  after  thorough  discussion  their  report 
was  adopted  and  will  be  forwarded  to  you  by  the 
secretary.  The  lecture  of  the  afternoon  was  on  the 
Masonic  covenant.  Elder  Love  being  compelled  by 
previous  engagement  to  leave  at  the  close  of  the  even- 
ing session,  he  was  given  so  much  of  the  time  as 
he  desired  to  occupy.  His  discourse  was  upon  the 
Masonic  oaths,  in  which  he  successfully  demonstrat- 
ed that  they  are  neither  legally  nor  morally  binding. 
There  was  much  pleasantry,  wit,  and  many  sharp 
points  in  the  elder's  speech,  and  he  made  an  im- 
pression that  will  long  remain  a,nd  not  be  easily  ef- 
faced in  this  community. 


In  response  to  a  call  issued  July  28th,  1887,  the 
National  Committee  of  the  Prohibition  party  will  as- 
semble in  Chicago  on  the  30th  day  of  November, 
1887,to  fix  the  time  and  place  of  the  nominating 
convention  of  1888.  On  the  day  following  the  friends 
of  prohibition  from  all  over  the  country  assemble 
for  a  conference.  A  cordial  invitation  is  extended 
to  all  Prohibitionists  to  be  present  on  this  occasion. 
Dr.  Herrick  Johnson  is  designated  as  president  of 
the  conference,  which  will  be  held  in  Battery  D  ar- 
mory on  Michigan  Avenue,  beginning  at  9  a.m.  with 
devotional  exercises.  The  following  topics  will  be 
discussed: 

"A  Political  Party  with  Prohibition  its  Chief  Aim 
is  the  only  way  to  Accomplish  the  Needed  Reform." 
A.  B.  Leonard,  of  Ohio;  Samuel  Dickie,  of  Michi- 
gan. 

"Party  Organization  and  Finance."     T.  C.  Rich- 
mond, of  Wisconsin;  Fred  F.  Wheeler,of  New  York. 
"High  License — Is  it  a  Step  toward  Prohibition?" 
Mrs.  Clara  A.  Hoffman,  of  Missouri;  W.  W.  Satter- 
lee,  of  Minnesota. 

"Prohibition  as  Related  to  our  Agricultural  Inter- 
ests." Jno.  A.  Brooks,of  Missouri;  Fontaine  T.Fox, 
Jr.,  of  Kentucky. 

"The  Prohibition  Party  Movement  the  only  true 
Solution  of  the  Southern  Problem."  A.  A.  Hop- 
kins, of  New  York;  E.  L.  Dohoney.of  Texas. 

"The  Proper  Attitude  of  the  Prohibition  Party 
toward  Woman  Suffrage."  Mrs.  Mary  A.  Wood- 
bridge,  of  Ohio;  I.  K.  Funk,  of  New  York. 

"The  Relations  of  Labor  and  Liquor."  Jno.  L 
Thomas,  of  Maryland;  Walter  Thomas  Mills,  of 
Ohio. 

It  is  intended  to  give  an  average  of  one  hour  to 
each  topic  under  discussion,  allowing  one-half  the 
time  to  the  speakers  above  named. 

At  the  mass  meeting  in  the  evening  the  speakers 
will  be  Gen.  Clinton  B.  Fisk.Mrs.  Mary  T.  Lathrap, 
Hon.  John  P.  St.  John. 

A  large  number  of  the  railroads  have  made  ar- 
rangements to  return  attendants  on  this  conference 


Lamar,  Mo.,  Nov.  5th. — Bro.  Butler  gave  a  very 
able  speech  on  Masonic  government  on  the  evening 
of  the  3rd  inst.  at  Greenfield,  which  was  listened  to 
with  the  most  profound  attention.  It  was  a  master- 
ly effort  and  will  bear  fruits  for  years  to  come.  Leav- 
ing Greenfield  at  9:30  p.  m.,  we  reached  Dadeville  at 
12  o'clock,  and  enjoyed  a  few  hours  of  rest  hugely. 
In  the  morning  it  was  arranged  that  I  should  speak 
at  Friendship  in  the  evening  and  that  efforts  should 
be  made  to  invade  new  territory,but  the  way  seemed 
hedged  up  beyond  last  evening,  and  as  Bro.  Glass- 
ford  urged  that  we  come  to  Carthage  in  advance  of 
the  convention  we  bade  our  friends  farewell  and 
started  at  an  early  hour  for  Everton,  twelve  miles 
distant,  where  we  took  a  train  for  this 
point,  where  we  are  awaiting  a  train  for  Carthage. 
Looking  back  we  can  say  truly,  "Hitherto  the  Lord 
hath  helped  us,"  and  we  ure  now  in  the  midst  of 
one  of  the  most  beautiful  and  fertile  prairie  expans- 
es I  have  ever  chanced  upon. 


sacked  and  burned  during  the  war.     It  has  now  a 
population  of  8,000,  and  is  surrounded  by  mineral 
and  agricultural  resources  which  are  being  rapidly 
developed.     Its  type  of  society  is  Northern;  its  his- 
torical politics.  Republican;  its  sentiment,  prohibi- 
tion; and  its  last  vote  was  pronounced  and  emphatic 
by  352  majority  against  high  license,  low  license  or 
license  of  any   kind.      It  has  eight  conspicuous 
houses  of  worship,  and  most  shades  of  religious 
opinion  have  representatives  here.     The  W.  C.  T.  U. 
has  two  bands  that  as  usual  are  doing  most  effective 
work  and  are  cordially  supported  by  the  evangelical 
clergy  of  the  city.     Carthage   Collegiate  Institute 
has  a  fine  structure  nearly  completed.     The  principal 
thoroughfares  are  broad  and  neatly  kept,  and  well 
lighted  with  electric  lights  and  gas  at  night.     Street 
cars  furnish  cheap   transit  from  the  depots  to  re- 
motest points  in  the  city,  while  two  railroads   con- 
nect this  with  the  great  centers  of  trade  East,  West, 
North  and  South.     Two  woolen  mills  run  one  hun- 
dred looms  and  give  employment  to  about  that  num- 
ber of  hands.     Four  flouring   mills   average   about 
seven  hundred  barrels  each  day.     Two  foundries  are 
running  with  full   force.     Limestone  is   abundant 
along  the  banks  of  Spring  river  that  drains  the  city. 
Fruit  is  abundant,  and  when  properly  cultivated,  is 
of   superior   quality.     It   has   become  one  of  the 
prominent  sources  of  wealth  that  is  accumulating 
here.     Rev.  John  Glassford  ( 'mine  host")  took  from 
his  trees  7,300  bushels  of  apples  and  five  hundred 
of  pears  this  season,  beside  small  fruits;   for  all  of 
which   he   found  ready  sale  at  a  fair  price,  and  is 
planning  for  still  further  enlargement  of  his  orchards. 
The  above  will  give  our  friends  some  idea  of  the 
present  and   prospective  importance  of  this  region 
and  I  am  sure  every  one  will  be  glad  to  learn  that  this 
town  at  least  is  comparatively  free  from  lodge  dom- 
ination.    The  Odd-fellows  maintain  an  organization 
here,  but  it  is  not  known  that  the  Masons  hold  lodge 
in  the  place.     Bro.  Glassford  was  the  third  man  who 
pitched  his  tent  here  under  reconstruction  and   his 
influence  and  voice  has  been  constantly  against  the 
secret  lodge  system.     He  was  "entered,  passed  and 
raised"  in  Waverly,  Iowa,  in   1858.     He   was  dis- 
gusted with  the  performance  and  did  not  hesitate  to 
say  so.     When  threatened  he  asserted  his  freedom 
and  manhood,  and  though  often  denounced,  he  kept 
steadily  on,  speaking  his  sentiments,  and  when   oc- 
casion  seemed  to  call  for  it,  worked  the  blue  lodge 
degrees  publicly.     To  him  more  than  any  other  one 
is  due  the  present  condition  and  sentiment  of  this 
community  on  the  secret  lodge  system,  and  he  feels 
much  encouraged  by  the  present  prospect. 

10  p.  M. — The  audience  was  much  larger  in  the 
opera  house  this  than  last  evening.  Bro.  Butler 
spoke  one  hour  and  a  half  on  Masonic  Government, 
and  I  followed  with  a  few  remarks  in  t'ne  same  line. 
I  am  now  waiting  for  a  north-bound  train  to  Olathe. 

J.  P.  Stoddard. 


HOWE  INSTITUTE  OPENED  IN  NEW  IBERIA. 


OTHER 


NOTES    OF     WORK   AND     TRAVEL    FROM    THE 
N.   0.    A.   AGENT   IN   THE    SOUTH. 


Carthage,  Mo.,  Nov.  9.— With  Bro.  M.  N.  Butler 
I  reached  this  city  on  Saturday  last.  We  have  since 
been  busy  at  work.  Sabbath  offered  no  open  door 
for  either  of  us  to  speak.  On  Monday  I  attended 
ministers'  meeting,  and  was  surprised  to  see  the 
hour  pass  without  a  song,  a  Scripture  reading,  or  a 
word  of  prayer.  I  hope  this  is  not  usual,  and  al- 
though they  heard  me  briefly  on  our  work  I  could 
not  expect  much  sympathy  from  a  prayerless  meet- 
ing, even  of  clergymen. 

Monday  evening  I  preached  with  liberty  to  the 
"Holiness"  people  and  found  friends.  Last  evening 
the  Opera  House  contained  a  good  audience  at  the 
hour  appointed  for  services.  Good  order  prevailed 
and  responses  from  the  audience  were  frequent  and 
hearty.  Bro.  Butler  has  visited  675  dwellings  and 
left  over  5,000  pages  of  N.  C.  A.  tracts  which  are 
quietly  but  effectually  doing  its  work.  He  is  adver- 
tised to  speak  at  7:30  p.  m.  on  the  "Government  of 
Freemasonry."  The  town  is  stirred  already  and  the 
outlook  is  encouraging.  I  leave  here  at  1:10  a.  m. 
to-morrow  for  Olathe,  Kans.,  where  1  am  to  address 
a  union  meeting  in  the  U.  P.  church  at  7:30  p.  m. 
and  shall  take  the  next  train  for  Chicago. 

This  is  Jasper  county  and  the  third  in  population 


New  Iberia,  La.,  Nov.  1,  1887. 

From  New  Orleans  I  came  to  New  Iberia  by  day- 
light. For  one  hundred  miles  west  of  the  city  there 
is  a  succession  of  marshy  prairies  and  cypress 
swamps,  with  a  few  fine  plantations  of  sugar-cane 
and  rice  and  some  unimportant  towns.  Not  till  we 
passed  Morgan  City  was  there  any  large  tracts  of 
good  land.  If  these  vast  regions  of  Southern  Lou- 
isiana could  be  drained  it  would  add  immensely  to 
the  wealth  of  the  State.  South  and  west  of  Bayou 
Teche  is  prairie  country  sufficiently  dry  for  cultiva- 
tion and  with  a  soil  of  great  natural  fertility.  It  is 
the  great  sugar  region  of  the  State,  though  cotton  is 
also  cultivated  to  a  considerable  extent.  A  mag- 
nificent crop  of  cane  is  being  harvested  and  made 
into  sugar  and  molasses. 

I  met  Bro.  Gunner  at  the  depot.  He  was  just 
starting  to  fill  an  appointment  at  a  mission  twelve 
miles  away,  but  I  was  kindly  received  and  enter- 
tained at  his  hospitable  home.  On  the  next  day 
(Sabbath  the  30lh)  I  preached  twice  to  his  people, 
both  morning  and  at  night,  and  taught  a  class  in 
the  Sabbath-school.  I  was  impressed  with  the  earn- 
est and  intelligent  piety  of  the  people,  and  am  sure 
they  have  greatly  prospered  under  so  able  and  judi- 
cious a  pastor. 

Monday  morning  I  attended  the  opening  of  Howe 
Institute.  The  building  has  been  thoroughly  re- 
paired, though  the  painting  was  not  quite  finished. 
The  school  opens  auspiciously  under  the  care  of 
Prof.  Y.  Clipper,  a  graduate  of  Straight  University, 
and  Miss  Sarah  M.  Farley,  to  whose  indefatigable 
labors  is  largely  due  the  success  that  has  attended 
this  enterprise.      Other  teachers  are  expected  soon, 


at  one-third  regular  fare.       When  you  buy  a  ticket  in   Missouri,     Carthage,  its  "seat  of  justice,"  was  and  the  outlook  is  very  favorable, 


m^^. 


NOVEHBXR  17, 188T 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


Last  night  I  spoke  in  Bro.  Gunner's  church  on  the 
secret  lodge  system,  to  a  good  audience,  who  were 
nearly  all  in  sympathy  with  my  views.  An  alarm 
of  fire  somewhat  disturbed  us,  but  the  meeting  was 
a  success.  There  are  in  this  church  quite  a  number 
who  have  been  members  of  the  lodge,  and  who  now 
strongly  oppose  the  whole  system.  Some  members 
of  the  church  belong  to  the  Knights  of  Labor,  oth- 
erwise none  have  lodge  connections.  It  is  hoped 
and  believed  that  they  will  speedily  purge  out  this 
leaven  of  evil,  and  be  a  light  in  the  midst  of  the 
abounding  darkness. 

The  people  throughout  the  southern  part  of 
Louisiana  are  largely  of  French  origin.  The 
French  language  and  the  Roman  Catholic  religion 
prevails  extensively.  These  have  left  their  impress 
on  that  entire  State.  It  is  a  remarkable  fact  that 
while  the  inter-marriage  of  the  races  is  strictly  pro- 
hibited by  every  other  Southern  State,  it  always  has 
been  and  still  is  tolerated  by  law  in  Louisiana.  Nor 
do  such  marriages  call  forth  any  social  protest,  un- 
less a  colored  man  should  marry  a  white  woman. 
Six  such  marriages  have  recently  taken  place  be- 
tween white  men  and  colored  women  with  whom 
they  had  long  been  living  in  concubinage,  a  practice 
that  extensively  prevails.  I  am  glad  to  be  able  to 
say  that  the  persons  thus  united  became  convinced 
of  the  wretchedness  of  the  former  lives,  and  desired 
to  make  the  best  possible  reparation  to  their  chil- 
dren, to  the  church  to  which  they  belonged,  and  to 
society. 

"All  Saints  Day"  is  everywhere  celebrated.  At 
New  Iberia  the  whole  day  was  spent  in  visiting  and 
decorating  the  graves  of  the  Catholic  Cemetery,  and 
late  in  the  afternoon  the  priest  conducted  religious 
services  in  the  French  language.  Candles  were  kept 
burning  during  the  day  and  night  over  most  of  the 
graves. 

Southeast  of  New  Iberia  about  ten  miles  are  the 
Army  Salt  Mines,  one  of  the  greatest  wonders  of 
America.  A  high  plateau  of  several  miles  in  ex- 
tent, but  cut  by  ravines  and  valleys,  rises  up  out  of 
the  prairie.  It  is  called  an  island,  but  there  are 
only  small  bayous  around  it.  These  are  salt  and 
abound  in  crabs  and  other  salt-water  fish.  Near  the 
center  of  this  island  is  an  immense  deposit  of  pure, 
solid  crystallized  salt.  It  has  been  bored  to  the 
depth  of  five  hundred  feet  with  no  diminution  of 
quantity  or  purity.  It  commences  about  five  or  six 
feet  below  the  surface,  and  none  can  tell  how  wide 
is  the  breadth  of  the  deposit.  I  went  down  to  the 
lower  chamber,  175  feet  below  the  surface.  Here 
was  a  cavern  of  solid  salt.  The  roof  averaged  about 
fifteen  feet  in  hight,  and  tram-ways  led  out  in  four 
ways  from  the  central  shaft.  They  were  in  one  of 
the  chambers  blasting  with  dynamite  cartridges,  two 
of  which  were  exploded  while  we  were  below.  Great 
masses  of  salt  were  thrown  down  weighing  several 
tons.  There  was  ample  ventilation  and  light  and 
the  work  went  on  rapidly.  A  perceptible  saline 
odor  was  in  the  air,  and  affected  the  nostrils  and 
eyes,  but  not  so  much  as  in  the  grinding  room  above. 
There  is  a  much  larger  chamber  100  feet  from  the 
surface,  with  walls  thirty  feet  high  and  galleries 
more  extended.  This  we  did  not  visit.  Over  300 
tons  are  shipped  daily,  much  of  it  in  large  cubic 
blocks,  some  in  coarse  salt,  while  much  is  ground  to 
different  degrees  of  fineness.  The  little  stream 
which  runs  away  from  the  mill  is  saturated  brine, 
and  the  ground  is  strewn  in  all  directions  with  salt 
crystals  that  look  like  coarse,  white  gravel.  A  rail- 
road to  New  Iberia  takes  one  loaded  train  a  day,  and 
the  cars  seemed  to  be  from  all  parts  of  the  country. 
How  such  a  vast  deposit  could  have  been  formed 
and  preserved  is  something  for  geologists  to  decide. 
It  seems  practically  inexhaustible,  and  will  continue 
to  be  a  source  of  great  wealth. 

We  reached  New  Iberia  in  time  to  take  the  train 
for  Lafayette,  twenty  miles  west.  As  we  went  west 
the  prairie  seemed  to  be  more  elevated  and  more 
devoted  to  cotton,  though  sugar  plantations  are  fre- 
quent, and  the  work  of  harvesting  both  cane  and 
cotton  is  being  puahed.  Sugar-making  goes  on  both 
night  and  day.  Lafayette  is  essentially  a  Creole 
town,  even  more  than  New  Iberia.  It  has  about 
2,000  inhabitants  and  seven  fine  hotels.  Roman 
Catholics  are  largely  in  the  ascendency.  There  are 
but  two  white  Protestant  churches,  Presbyterian  and 
Southern  Methodist.  Both  are  small.  There  are 
three  colored  congregations,  Baptist,  M.  K.  and  C. 
M.  E.  churches.  A  talk  with  the  pastors  revealed 
the  usual  state  of  things.  They  had  all  joined  some 
ol  the  "orders,"  and  all  were  satisfied  with  their  mis- 
chievous character.  The  great  pressure  of  sugar- 
making,  which  keeps  most  of  the  laboring  men  em- 
ployed night  and  day,  prevents  the  holding  of  even- 
ing meetings  during  the  week.  For  this  reason  I 
have  concluded  to  return  to  New  Orleans  and  go 
farther  North. 

I  spent  the  Sabbath  at  New  Iberia  and  preached  in 


the  morning  for  Bro.  Gunner.  It  was  a  communion 
season  and  seven  members  were  received  into  the 
church  on  their  profession  of  faith.  It  was  an  occa- 
sion of  deep  interest.  In  the  afternoon  I  attended  a 
meeting  of  the  New  Iberia  Moral  Reform  League. 
This  is  a  movement  started  by  the  colored  pastors 
and  others  with  the  object  of  promoting  social  puri- 
ty and  saving  the  youth  from  the  prevalent  vices  of 
the  land.  The  meeting  was  conducted  with  great 
dignity  and  propriety.  A  constitution  was  adopted 
and  most  able  and  excellent  remarks  were  made  by 
Bro.  Gunner  and  others.  At  night  I  preached  to  a 
full  house  in  the  Baptist  church.  Rev.  Livingston, 
pastor.  This  brother,  having  seen  the  inside  of  the 
lodge,  fully  endorses  our  reform.  It  is  only  a  ques- 
tion of  tfme  when  he  will  carry  his  church  with  him. 
Howe  Institute  is  progressing  favorably  under  the 
care  of  Prof.  Clipper  and  Miss  S.  A.  Farley.  They 
expect  other  teachers  soon.  The  school  will  do  a 
great  and  most  important  work.  1  go  this  morning, 
amidst  a  heavy  rain,  to  New  Orleans. 

H.    H.    HiNMAN. 


Correspondence. 


LECTURE  N0TE8  FROM  SOUTHEASTERN 
NEW    YORK 


Walton,  N.  Y.,  Nov.  8,  1887. 

Last  Sabbath  I  preached  in  the  Reformed  Pres- 
byterian church  of  Walton,  New  York,  Rev.  S.  G. 
Shaw,  pastor.  This  was  the  charge  of  Prof.  D.  Mc- 
Allister, L  L.  D.,  of  Pittsburgh,  for  sixteen  years. 
It  is  like  carrying  coals  to  New  Castle  to  come  here 
with  National  Reform.  The  Dr.  held  the  banner  so 
high  and  displayed  it  so  faithfully  that  all  have  seen 
it.  The  editor  of  the  Reporter,  a  local  paper,  has 
very  kindly  consented  to  open  his  columns  for  the 
movement,  and  accordingly  I  have  written  an  article 
setting  forth  the  principles  and  objects  of  the  Asso- 
ciation. The  editor  of  the  Chronicle  very  generous- 
ly made  the  same  offer,  which  is  gladly  accepted. 
On  Monday  evening  I  spoke  at  a  prohibition  meet- 
ing on  the  "Basis  of  Moral  Reforms."  This  was 
on  the  eve  of  election  and  a  large  crowd  turned  out. 
On  Wednesday  evening  I  lectured  in  the  village  hall 
on  the  "Moral  Responsibility  of  Nations."  Our 
cause  received  a  very  good  hearing  in  this  place. 

Walton  is  a  village  of  2,000,  nestled  among  the 
great  hills  of  Delaware  county.  Its  cozy  dwellings, 
wide  streets,  pavements  of  flagging  and  large  yards 
make  it  an  inviting  place,  and  the  large-hearted  peo- 
ple and  their  wealth  of  hospitality  make  one  forget 
he  is  a  stranger  in  a  strange  land. 

Let  me  give  a  bit  of  experience.  I  arrived  in 
Sidney,  twenty-three  miles  from  here,  Saturday 
night  at  seven  o'clock.  Our  train  had  been  de- 
layed by  a  wreck  and  was  late.  The  train  for  this 
place  had  left  Sidney  just  ten  minutes  before.  There 
was  no  other  train  until  three  o'clock  Sabbath  morn- 
ing. I  do  not  believe  in  using  the  Sunday  trains, 
and  could  not  wait  for  that.  A  young  man,  Mr.  D. 
R.  Fosbury,  agreed  to  drive  me  down  for  $5.  In 
fifteen  minutes  we  were  on  the  way.  It  took  four 
hours  and  it  was  very  cold.  But  we  got  here,  and 
the  driver  returned  to  North  Walton,  where  he  stayed 
with  a  cousin  till  morning,  intending  to  go  with 
them  to  church  ^bbath  morning.  I  would  rather 
lose  $5  and  be  chilled  through  than  use  these  Sun- 
day trains. 

On  Thursday  evening  I  lecture  in  Bovina.  This 
is  Rev.  O.  B.  Milligan's  charge.  This  young  broth- 
er, like  his  father,  the  late  Dr.  A.  M.  Milligan,  is  in 
striking  contrast  to  the  mild  and  affable  pastor  in 
Walton.  Clocks  strike;  watches  must  be  consulted. 
Rev.  Joseph  Parker  of  London  spoke  in  Cincinnati 
last  Friday  night  on  "Clocks  and  Watches."  Men 
differ,  he  said,  in  movement,  like  wheels  of  a  watch. 
"Men  are  of  different  styles;  but,  like  time-pieces, 
they  are  all  set  to  do  the  same  kind  of  work — to  ful- 
fill the  truth.  Clocks  strike — some  in  one  tone, 
some  in  another— but  all  tell  the  same  story.  Some 
time-pieces  do  not  strike  at  all.  They  must  be 
looked  at  to  learn  the  time  from  them.  The  strik- 
ing clocks  are  needed  particularly  in  the  dark.  In 
dark  periods  of  the  world's  history  there  have  al- 
ways been  striking  clocks,  such  as  Luther,  Lincoln 
and  Gladstone.  AH  time-pieces  have  to-be  regulat- 
ed. There  are  also  regulators  among  men.  They, 
too,  are  regulated  by  the  sun.  So  all  men  must  look 
to  the  source  of  light — to  the  source  of  truth.  All 
persons,  all  churches,  all  creeds,  must  be  regulated 
from  the  same  source,  and  all  tell  the  truth  in  their 
own  particular  place." 

On  Friday  evening  I  expect  to  lecture  in  Syracuse, 
if  Bro.  Wallace  succeeds  in  arranging  for  it  Dur- 
ing the  month  of  October  I  preached  and  lectured 
thirty-one  times,  besides  twenty-seven  short  address- 
es.   The  reoeipta  amounted  to  $163.  Rev.  T.  P.  Ste- 


venson, D.  D.,  says  the  ideal  National  Reformer  will 
make  his  own  way,  i.  e.,  his  receipts  will  cover  his 
salary  and  expenses.  For  one  month  we  were  ideal 
and  a  little  more.  J.  M.  Foster. 


TEE  MOTHER  OF  BRO.  GOUNTEB  PASSES 
HEhCB. 


Memphis,  Nov.  8,  1887. 

Dear  Readers  of  the  Cynosure: — Once  more, 
amid  the  busy  scenes  of  life,  I  am  permitted  to  write 
you.  Many  things  have  occurred  in  our  city  that  I 
feel  would  have  been  interesting  to  you,  but  the  in- 
creasing work  of  my  pastoral  care,  and  the  Increas- 
ing demands  of  the  Living  Way  upon  the  limited 
time  the  Master  has  allotted  me  to  labor,  has  caused 
me  very  reluctantly  to  cut  off  something  from  my 
monthly  correspondence  with  you.  I  have  not  for 
one  moment  ceased  to  think  of  you,  for  I  have 
around  me  such  a  cluster  of  mementoes,  as  well  as 
a  file  of  Cynosures,  that  look  where  I  may  I  am  re- 
minded of  the  friendships  that  are  mine  through 
faith  in  the  Lord  Jesus  Christ,  and  wrought  out  by 
the  noble  Cynosure.  I  read  the  Cynosure  each  week 
with  increasing  interest 

Few  persons  are  aware  of  the  deep-seated  hatred 
the  lodgites  can  have  in  their  bosoms  against  those 
who  are  led  by  the  Spirit  of  God  to  leave  and  to  de- 
nounce their  organized  infamy;  and  few  have  any 
idea  of  the  venom  these  people  can  heap  upon  one 
who  dares  arouse  their  indignation.  For  over  two 
years  I  have  been  unrelenting  in  my  warfare  against 
the  lodge,  and  all  kindred  forms  of  ungodliness  in 
which  Christians  affiliate  with  the  world  of  sinners. 
My  cup  has  been  full  to  the  brim,  and  God  only 
knows  the  depth  of  my  anxiety.  He  knows  of  my 
sleepless  nights,  of  my  days  of  hunger,  of  my  bitter, 
bitter  tears.  Yet  I  trusted  him.  I  laid  all  my  care 
upon  him,  "because  he  cared  for  me."  He  knows 
of  my  joy  amid  sorrow,  of  my  strength  amid  weak- 
ness, and  of  my  help  in  the  time  of  trouble.  And 
now  he  comes  again  to  prove  me,  it  may  be,  or  to 
lift  my  heart  higher,  as  you  know  we  sometimes  sink 
down  in  the  depths  lower  than  the  Master  would 
have  us.  We  do  not  always  maintain  that  degree 
of  holiness  we  ought,  our  growth  in  grace  is  not  al- 
ways that  steady,  every-day  continual  augmenta- 
tion.    He  sees  us  and  would  lift  us  higher. 

To  this  end,  no  doubt,  the  Master  has  come,  and 
on  last  Saturday  night,  at  the  hour  of  2  a.  m.,  he 
came  and  took  to  himself  my  aged  mother,  who  had 
been  with  me  in  all  my  woes.  She  had  scarcely 
any  sickness,  and,  in  fact,  none  that  had  necessitat- 
ed the  calling  in  of  the  family  physician.  She  re- 
tired at  10  p.  M.,  and  at  1:30  a.  m.  she  called  me 
from  an  adjoining  room.  I  hastened  to  her  side, 
and  she  was  sitting  on  the  side  of  her  bed  breathing 
heavily.  She  asked  for  water.  I  gave  it  to  her: 
she  took  the  cup  and  drank,  and  folding  her  arms, 
she  said,  "Well — Lord  Jesus,  receive  my  spirit," 
and  without  a  sigh  she  passed  cut  of  time  into 
boundless  eternity. 

The  hand  of  the  Lord  is  here,  and  he  has  surely 
visited  us.  I  realize  that  it  is  all  right  He  has 
been  my  joy  and  my  stay,  and  in  this  I  bow  before 
him  and  say  unto  my  Lord,  Do  unto  me  as  seemeth 
good  in  thy  sight.  Our  work  for  the  Master  is  pro- 
gressing, and  I  yet  ask  your  prayers,  to  be  kept  by 
the  power  of  God.  R,  N.  Codntkk. 

HIGH-PLACE   WORSHIP. 


Fairport,  Kansas. 

Editor  Cynosure: — I  am  still  laboring  for  the 
overthrow  of  all  false  worship,  and  am  allowed  to 
see  considerable  results  from  the  labor.  Quite  a 
number  have  withdrawn  from  all  lodge  associations, 
and  others  have  been  saved  from  entering.  I  am 
laboring  with  a  tent  in  the  summer  and  in  school 
houses  in  winter;  and  while  I  do  not  make  a  special- 
ty of  the  lodge  worship,  I  always  let  my  light  shine 
on  it  as  devil  worship  and  absolutely  inconsistent 
with  the  religion  of  Jesus,  exhorting  those  entan- 
gled to  "come  out  from  among  them  and  be  sepa- 
rate." At  Alton,  in  Osborne  countj*,  which  is  a  per- 
fect devil's  seat  of  lotlgery,  I  made  it  the  special 
subject  one  evening  and  succeeded  in  getting  them 
wonderfully  stirred.  The  editor  of  the  paper  at- 
tended the  meeting  and  spouted  considerably,  and 
then  called  on  the  lodge  worshipers  in  the  audience 
to  verify  his  statements.  Then  the  M.  E.  preacher, 
who  was  a  Mason,  took  a  turn  at  it  I  told  them  to 
go  ahead;  it  only  needed  agitation  to  make  the  peo- 
ple see  the  nature  of  their  unfruitful  works  of  dark- 
ness. 

The  next  morning  an  old  man  who  had  attended 
the  meeting,  and  who  had  been  particular  to  display 
his  Odd-fellow  pin  the  day  before,  came  in  and  said, 
"If  the  editor  had  only  kept  still  the  people  would 
not  have  believed  what  you  aaid;  but  now  they  will 


^HE  GHRISTIAir  CYNOSUKB. 


NOTEHBIR  17,  1887 


believe  the  whole  of  it,  and  as  for  me,  the  lodge  has 
received  the  last  dollar  it  will  ever  get  from  me. 
That  night  they  threatened  to  tear  down  our  tent. 

While  I  recognize  with  you  that  the  lodge  wor- 
ship of  to-day  is  the  old  Baal  worship  of  Ahab's 
time  revived,  I  feel  more  especially  my  call  is 
against  the  revived  High-place  worship  of  olden 
times  which  was  the  first  step  which  led  them  down 
to  the  Baal  worship,  and  which  has  its  parallel  in 
our  denominational  worship,  destroying  the  unity 
of  Grod's  people.  It  was  the  sin  of  Jereboam,  the 
son  of  Nebat,  who  made  Israel  to  sin. 

Wm.  Knight. 


0DD8  AND  BND8  FROM  A  RBPORTER'8 
NOTB-BOOR. 

Streator,  Illinois. 
"At  the  corner  of  one  of  the  gin  mills  in  this  sa- 
loon-cursed town  is  this  sign  in  large  letters: 
"Wanted — BfiOO  men  to  unload  schooners."  The 
whisky-blinded  youths  who  are  induced  to  enter  the 
groggery,  perhaps  never  stop  to  think  of  the  awful 
significance  of  the  sign.  "Unloading  schooners," 
indeed!  What  awful  cargoes  they  at  times  contain; 
how  heavily  are  they  freighted  with  blasted  hopes, 
with  ruined  homes,  with  wasted  and  degraded  man- 
hood. Truly,  a  "schooner"  of  beer  is  a  small  ves- 
sel, but  many  of  the  brightest  specimens  of  Ameri- 
can manhood  are  sailing  straight  to  perdition  on 
that  sort  of  a  craft,  and  that,  too,  at  a  speed  that 
leaves  even  the  victorious  Volunteer  away  in  the  dis- 
tance. This  should  not  interfere  with  our  pressing 
this  fact  upon  them. 

And  yet  young  men  are  encouraged  in  this  course 
of  conduct  by  the  weak-kneed  advocates  of  temper- 
ance who  "are  heartily  in  favor  of  temperance,  but 
who  don't  see  how  we  are  to  get  rid  of  the  evil." 
These  weak  brethren  preface  every  statement  they 
make  in  favor  of  temperance  by  an  unmanly  whine 
about  the  great  power  of  the  liquor  traffic.  You 
might  as  well  put  a  mustard  plaster  on  a  bald  head 
to  cure  heart  disease  as  to  expect  any  active  aid 
from  such  as  these  in  the  suppression  of  the  liquor 
traffic. 

By  the  way,  it  is  from  the  ranks  of  these  people 
that  the  liquor  traffic  secures  its  most  powerful 
allies,  the  "regulators,"  who  want  to  control(?)  the 
business  by  legalizing  it.  "Regulate  it."  "Keep  it 
confined  within  certain  limits."  "Regulate,"  in- 
deed! It  seems  like  a  dream  to  me  that  "once  upon 
a  time"  a  dark  shadow  of  evil  rested  over  this  na- 
tion. Good  men  cried  out  against  it  and  denounced 
it.  Then  the  statesmen  and  politicians  tried  their 
hand  at  "regulating"  it.  They  drew  a  chalk-mark 
of  legislation  across  the  map  of  the  United  States 
and  decreed  that  south  of  that  line  the  evil  should 


tion.  Well-fed,  well-dressed  Christian  people  sit  in 
comfortable  pews  and  listen  to  able  speakers  depict- 
ing the  fearful  ravages  of  drink.  But  somehow  it 
does  not  seem  to  get  down  deep  into  their  hearts. 
What  is  that  vast  army  of  100,000  annually  slain  by 
drink  to  them?  Merely  a  little  straight  mark  fol- 
lowed by  a  row  of  ciphers.  But  if  the  "one"  that 
gives  that  row  of  ciphers  their  awful  significance 
was  "some  one"  near  and  dear  to  them,  what  a  diff- 
erence it  would  make!  So  I  have  about  concluded 
that  it  is  a  waste  of  temperance  ammunition  to  fire 
statistics  into  a  Christian  community  with  any  hope 
of  arousing  them  to  active  work.  Their  consciences, 
not  their  intellects  need  to  be  awakened. 

Will  H.  Miller. 


Bible  Lesson. 


INTBLLBCTUAL  AND  MORAL  STUPIDITY. 


Hiawatha,  Kans. 
The  good  work  is  gaining  all  the  while.  The  peo- 
ple are  being  educated  to  think  more  independently 
on  reform  work  and  to  feel  that  secrecy  is  evidence 
of  wrong  doing.  The  amount  of  gross  ignorance 
of  some  of  our  loud-mouthed  opponents  on  this  sub- 
ject is  wonderful.  In  talking  to  an  Odd-fellow  re- 
cently, he  said,  "The  Bible  was  full  of  Odd-fellow- 
ship. If  you  will  read  the  2nd  chapter  of  Genesis 
and  the  4th  chapter  of  Fith-eUom&ns  you  will  find 
Odd-fellowship  taught  in  unmistakable  language," 
etc.  When  told  that  no  such  Book  as  Fithellonians 
was  found  in  the  Bible,  he  was  not  able  to  make  the 
correction,  not  knowing  the  correct  names  of  the 
books  of  the  New  Testament.  He  then  said  that 
"Paul  taught  the  doctrine  of  the  order  to  the  chil- 
dren of  Israel  when  he  led  them  through  the  des- 
ert!" When  I  told  him  that  Paul  did  not  live  till 
thousands  of  years  after  the  exodus  of  the  children 
of  Israel  from  Egypt,  he  seemed  confused  and  said 
it  was  Moses,  he  believed. 

At  this  point  in  the  conversation  a  Mason  who 
was  present  began  to  inquire  of  me  how  old  Mason- 
ry was.  I  said,  "The  first  lodge  of  speculative  Ma- 
sonry was  formed  in  1717  in  Appletree  Tavern,Cov- 
ent  Garden,  London." 

"No,"  said  he,  "Masonry  was  originated  at  the 
confusion  of  languages  at  the  laying  of  the  corner 
stone  of  Solomon's  temple!"  "0,  temporal  0,  mo- 
res!" What  could  I  do  better  than  to  retreat  from 
the  field,  vanquished  before  such  crushing  argu- 
ments! Verily,  such  mental  and  moral  darkness  is 
seldom  found  even  in  heathen  lands.  I  should  have 
said  that  said  Odd-fellow  is  a  member  in  a  Protes- 
tant church  and  sometimes  leads  in  the  weekly 
prayer  meeting,  and  boasts  of  contributing  to  send 
charities  to  the  heathen! 

When  the   startling  news  came  of  Mr.  Finch's 
,         ,.^,,,,        ^,     ,..  [death,  I  felt  that  it  was  an  interposition  of  God  to 

be  undisturbed,  but  north  of  it  it  must  not  set  its  gayg  the  Prohibition  party  from  disruption.     I  have 

seen,  or  thought  I  saw, the  movement  ahead  to  place 


foot.  The  older  readers  of  the  Cynosure  will  re 
member  how  the  "regulation"  worked  in  that  case. 
The  chalk-mark  was  washed  out  by  a  sea  of  blood, 
and  the  evil  was  overthrown  and  destroyed. 

I  have  noted  also  in  connection  with  that  little 
event  that  every  old,  white-haired  citizen  I  meet 
now  was  an  Abolitionist  "before  the  war."  I  would 
be  the  last  one  to  doubt  their  word;  but  I  have  often 
wondered  where  the  opposition  came  from  if  they 
were  all  the  unflinching  advocates  of  right  they  now 
claim  to  have  been.  But  history  is  repeating  itself, 
and  it  is  only  a  question  of  time  when  the  legalized 
liquor  traffic  will,  as  was  the  slavery  question,  be 
wrapped  up  in  a  constitutional  amendment  and 
shoved  back  upon  the  top  shelf  of  history.  When 
that  time  comes  the  man  who  has  been  on  the  "oth- 
er side"  will  be  in  a  terrible  fix.  He  will  either  be 
so  ashamed  of  himself  that  he  won't  dare  show  him- 
self on  the  street  or  else  he  will  have  to  do  an  enor- 
mous amount  of  lying  to  keep  up  his  reputation. 
The  trouble  is  that  many  of  the  very  people  who 
ought  to  be  thoroughly  alive  to  this  question— our 
Christian  people — have  allowed  themselves  to  drift 
into  a  state  of  hopeless,  helpless  imbecility,  a  state 
of  lazy,  selfish,  utter  and  complete  indifference.  The 
matter  has  not  as  yet  come  home  to  them  personally 
and  pointedly. 

For  instance,  some  Christian  young  lady  reads  of 
the  fearful  slaughter  of  birds  for  the  sake  of  their 
plumage.  Then  she  lays  down  the  book  or  paper 
and  goes  down  town  and  straightway  falls  in  love 
with  a  bonnet,  so  covered  over  with  plumes  that  it 
looks  like  an  inanimate  zoological  garden.  "Per- 
fectly heartless,"  says  the  unthinking  observer. 
But  just  let  a  poor  little  PiUglish  sparrow  that  isn't 
worth  two  pins  flutter  down  at  her  feet  with  a  bro- 
ken wing  and  how  changed  is  her  attitude!  How 
tenderly  will  she  care  for  the  poor  mute  sufferer! 
One  little  agonized  flutter  of  that  maimed  wing 
strikes  with  a  thousandfold  more  force  upon  her 
heart-strings  than  all  the  dry  statistics  that  were 
ver  compiled.     Just  so  with  this  temperance  ques- 


Mr.  Finch  in  nomination  at  the  head  of  the  ticket 
for  the  Presidency,  and  I  knew  that  in  such  a  case 
there  must  be  division.  Startling  as  his  death  was 
to  us  all,  still  let  us  all  feel  to  realize  that  "God 
moves  in  a  mysterious  way,"  and  let  us  hope  and 
pray  that  our  standard  bearer  for  '88  may  be  a  man 
true  and  tried,  and  one  who  is  free  from  lodge  en- 
tanglements.   Yours  for  the  cause, 

J.  W.  Margrave. 


PITH  AND  POINT. 


A  CHEERING  LETTER  FROM  A  MCHMOND  PASTOR. 

I  wish  to  let  you  know  how  much  I  admire  your  paper, 
and  how  thankful  I  am  for  the  kindness  shown  in  send- 
ing it  to  me.  I  have  not  been  able  to  make  any  contri- 
bution, but  hope  to  soon.  Bro.  Hinman  was  to  see  me 
and  also  preached  for  me.  I  am  in  sympathy  with  the 
great  reform  movement  and  do  recognize  the  obligation 
I  am  under  as  a  minister  to  do  all  I  can  in  aiding  this 
grand  and  noble  work.  All  evils  that  afflict  mankind 
and  all  institutions  that  are  opposed  to  Christ,  and  there- 
fore to  Christianity,  should  meet  the  just  condemnation, 
especially  of  the  pulpit  and  of  the  religious  press.  I  bid 
you  Ood  speed.  May  the  seed  that  is  sown  from  time  to 
time,  bring  an  abundant  harvest. — J.  Wheeler,  pastor 
of  tJie  Leigh  Street  M,  B.  Church. 

THE  TWO  KINDS  OP  LIGHT! 

What  can  better  convey  this  fact  than  the  light  of  the 
world,  Christianity,  ordered  to  be  everywhere  freely  and 
openly  taught  to  every  person;  and  the  light  which  is 
everywhere  hidden  under  the  bushel,  quart  and  pint 
measures  of  lodgery  I  "Men  do  not  light  a  candle  to  hide 
it  under  a  bushel."  said  the  Lord  Jesus  Christ.  "Oh,  yes 
they  do,"  says  Freemasonry.  "If  you  walk  into  my 
lodge,  I'll  bind  up  your  eyes,  make  you  take  my  oaths, 
and  you  shall  be  glad  to  see  my  light  when  I  take  your 
hoodwink  off!"  If  Christians  by  pure  lives  and  good 
works  are  "the  light  of  the  world,"  as  the  Son  of  God 
said,  what  are  those  who  prefer  different  lights,  and  an- 
other gospel  with  its  false  teachers  and  false  Christs  and 
the  offer  of  a  Christless  grand  lodge  above  instead  of  the 
heaven  with  Christ  and  his  redeemad  forever. — x.  h. 


STUDIES  IN  THE  NEW  TESTAMENT. 

LESSON  IX.— Nov.  27.— Jesus  and  the  Sabbath.— Matt.  12 : 
1-14. 

GOLDEN  TEXT.— It  is  lawful  to  do  well  on  the  Sabbath 
days.— Matt.  12: 12. 

YOpen  the  Bible  and  read  the  Usson.l 
COMMENTS   ON   THE  LESSON   BY  E.  E.  FLAGG. 

1.  The  True  End  of  the  Sabbath,  vs.  1-9.  These 
sticklers  for  the  law  "devoured  widow's  houses,"  per- 
verted judgment,  and  were  apologists  and  defenders  of 
the  grossest  immorality,  just  as  many  who  are  very  ortho- 
dox in  their  religious  belief  defend  the  evils  of  our  own 
day.  To  license  the  rum  traffic  is  to  do  just  what  these 
Pharisees  did.  It  is  to  lend  one's  vote  and  influence  to 
perpetuating  the  worst  kind  of  oppression,  to  breaking 
the  hearts  of  widows  and  orphans,  as  well  as  robbing 
them  of  their  earthly  goods.  It  is  to  do  even  worse.  The 
greatest  sins  against  social  purity  follow  in  the  wake  of 
the  saloon.  The  drink  curse  is  at  the  bottom  of  the 
many  blighted  lives  which  go  down  in  starless  night  after 
their  brief  career  of  vice  in  our  large  towns  and  cities. 
It  stands  in  the  way  when  tender  hands  would  lift  these 
wanderers  up  and  restore  them  to  paths  of  happiness  and 
virtue.  Before  we  condemn  these  Pharisees  for  their 
hypocrisy,  let  us  be  sure  that  our  own  garments  are  clean 
from  their  sin.  The  lesson  our  Saviour  would  have  us 
learn  is  this:  that  the  Sabbath  is  his  day,  he  is  Lord  of  it, 
and  service  for  him  is  always  Sabbath  service,  whether  it 
be  the  work  demanded  by  our  own  bodily  needs  like  that 
of  the  disciples  plucking  the  ears  of  corn,  or  ministering 
to  the  wants  of  others.  It  is  mercy  be  requires  and  not 
sacrifice — not  the  mere  tithing  of  anise  and  mint  and 
cummin,  but  the  weightier  matters  of  the  law,  love  to 
God,  and  obedience  to  that  other  great  command,  "Thou 
shalt  love  thy  neighbor  as  thyself." 

2.  The  Test  of  Hypocrisy,  vs.  10-14.  It  is  impossible 
for  hypocrisy  to  always  keep  the  veil  on.  In  some  act 
or  word  it  is  sure  to  reveal  its  true  nature,  and  our  Sav- 
iour's scathing  answer  to  their  question,  "How  much  is 
a  man  better  than  a  sheep,"  convicts  them  at  once  of  that 
selfishness  which  is  at  the  root  of  hypocrisy.  They  would 
lift  a  sheep  from  the  pit  where  it  had  fallen,  on  the  Sab- 
bath day,  not  from  any  humane  feeling  but  because  they 
did  not  want  to  lose  their  property.  It  used  to  be  Eng- 
land's national  disgrace  that  the  life  of  a  rabbit  or  a  deer 
was  held  by  the  law  as  of  more  value  than  the  life  of  a 
man,  and  it  is  equally  to  America's  discredit  that  stringent 
laws  are  passed  to  stamp  out  cattle  infection  while  the 
saloon  plague  is  allowed  to  scatter  the  germs  of  moral 
and  physical  death  all  over  the  land.  Many  say  it  is  not 
fitting  to  discuss  reform  subjects  on  the  Sabbath  day,  and 
that  every  question  which  trenches  on  politics,  as  indeed 
almost  all  our  great  moral  questions  do,  should  be  care- 
fully excluded  from  the  pulpit.  They  stand  just  where 
these  Pharisees  stood.  The  Sabbath  day  is  of  all  days 
the  most  fitting  on  which  to  break  off  fetters,  whether 
they  are  the  fetters  of  sin  or  of  false  opinion.  It  is  al 
ways  lawful  to  do  well  on  the  Sabbath  days,  and  any  sub- 
ject for  which  a  text  can  be  found  in  God's  Word  is  fit  to 
preach  upon  on  that  day.  What  day  more  fitting  than 
the  Lord's  day  on  which  to  show  the  sin  of  false  worships 
and  break  the  fetters  of  the  lodge  captive.  The  conduct 
of  the  Pharisees  in  seeking  to  destroy  Christ  after  he  had 
healed  the  paralytic  was  another  test  of  their  true  spirit. 
Hypocrisy  is  a  wolf.  Unmask  it,  and  we  find  the  wolf's 
fangs  and  the  wolf's  heart. 


PKACTICAL. 

1 .  Vers.  1-8.  Jesus  always  obeyed  God's  law  of  right- 
eousness, but  he  rebuked  and  opposed  the  false  theories 
and  interpretations  with  which  men  distorted  and  neu- 
tralized the  truth. 

2 .  Jesus  refrained  from  doing  some  things  he  had  a 
right  to  do,  and  which  he  defended  as  right,  lest  his  ene- 
mies should  gain  an  advantage  over  him.  He  did  not 
himself  pluck  the  ears  of  corn,  nor  did  he  do  anything  to 
the  man  with  a  withered  hand,  except  by  speaking. 

3.  Jesus  did  not  abolish  the  Sabbath;  he  only  restored 
it  to  its  true  place  and  purpose . 

4.  An  intolerant  and  censorious  spirit  in  religion  is  one 
of  the  greatest  curses  a  man  can  well  fall  under. — A. 
Clarke. 

5.  The  object  for  which  any  institution  was  created  is 
greater  than  the  institution  was  created  to  accomplish  it. 

6.  No  ceremonial  exactness  or  observance  of  forms 
will  compensate  for  the  absence  of  the  right  spirit. 

7 .  The  Sabbath  is  made  for  man ;  that  is,  for  the  whole 
man,  not  for  his  body  alone.  A  religious  observance  of 
the  Sabbath  best  rests  the  body,  cultures  the  mind  with 
the  grandest  thoughts  on  the  noblest  themes,  and  exalts 
and  comforts  the  soul,  and  fits  it  for  heaven. 

8.  The  Sabbath  should  be  made  a  joy,  especially  to 
children,  and  its  very  method  of  keeping  should  be  such 
as  to  impress  its  delight  upon  them. 

9.  The  Sabbath  was  made  for  aU  men,  and  we  have  no 
right  to  so  spend  the  Sabbath  as  to  deprive  others  of  its 
privileges. 


NOTEMBBR  17,  188T 


THE  CHKISTIAN  CYNOSXTKE. 


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ing  good  to  the  bodies  and  souls  of  men 

11.  With  the  word  of  command  here,  as  in  others  of 
Christ's  miracles  (Matt.  9:  6;  John  5:  8,  etc.),  comes 
power  to  obey  it.  So  he  requires  what  are  impossibili- 
ties of  withered  souls,  but  with  the  command  imparts 
power  to  fulfil  (John  1:  12).— Abbott. 

12.  Ver.  14.  Those  whose  lives  and  interests  are  bound 
up  with  false  doctrines  and  wrong  practices  hate  those 
who  seek  reform  and  proclaim  the  truth. 


LETTBRB  FROM  TEB  ALPS. 

I  To   a  friend.  1 

A  Tyrolese  mansion  and  the  Tiousehold  devotions — Fash- 
ions in  the  Alps—  Three  kingdoms  a  day — T7ie  highest 
hotel  in  Europe  and  a  venturesome  journey  to  it — Ital- 
ian speculation — Glimpses  of  tiwitzerland — Thorwald- 
sen's  memorial  to  the  Btoiss  Quard  of  1792— The  dan- 
gers of  Zug—  and  of  Oerman  doctors. 

Pbaed,  Tyrol. 
Since  my  last  writing  we  have  been  to  Bruneck  in 
the  Pulsterthal,  and  I  have  made  a  sketch  of  the  old 
house  where  Mrs.  L.  spent  all  her  summers  during 
the  seven  or  eight  years  she  was  in  Italy  and  Ger- 
many. The  owner  of  the  house,  a  peasant,  but  very 
well  educated,  was  delighted  to  see  an  acquaintance 
of  Mrs.  L.'s,  and  she  seems  to  have  been  a  great  fa- 
vorite with  all  the  people  there.  The  house  is  an 
immense,  great  stone  building,  partly  plastered  out- 
side and  painted  pink,  and  has  windows  of  tiny 
panes  protected  by  iron  gratings.  In  the  yard  are 
stone  seats  which  have  been  there  two  hundred  years, 
at  least,  and  some  very  large  trees,  I  suppose  centu^ 
ries  old.  Inside  the  bouse  is  a  little  chapel,  where 
is  some  beautiful  wood  carving  and  several  rare 
paintings.  The  head  of  the  house  has  prayers  there 
with  his  servants  every  evening.  It  is,  everywhere 
in  this  vicinity,  the  custom  among  the  Catholics  to 
have  evening  prayers  after  supper,  but  the  way 
they  do  it  seems  rather  absurd.  The  prayers  are 
repeated  by  rote  and  in  unison.  Meanwhile  the 
whole  company  is  on  their  knees,  but  several  heads 
are  probably  outside  the  window  and  occupied  with 
whatever  is  passing  there,  and  the  remainder  are 
amusing  themselves  in  various  ways. 

We  staid  one  night  with  a  peasant  woman  whom 
Mrs.  L.  had  as  maid,  and  wanted  me  to  see.  This 
woman  had  the  first  real  costume  I  have  seen  in  the 
Tyrol,  a  very  pretty  one  which  was  her  mother's  at 
the  time  she  married.  I  had  supposed  that  the  peas- 
ant's costumes  were  light  and  comfortable  to  wear; 
I  wish  you  could  only  lift  the  skirt  of  this  one! 
There  were  twelve  yards  of  heavy  woolen  material 
besides  the  lining,  and  over  this  an  apron  of  home- 
spun linen  weighing  several  pounds  more.  Miss  E. 
is  slender,  but  in  that  costume  any  one  could  think 
she  would  weigh  three  hundred  pounds.  It  is  so 
with  nearly  all  the  costumes,  I  am  told.  These  are 
worse  than  the  dress  of  the  most  fashionable  ladies, 
as  far  as  concerns  health,  and  I  do  not  wonder  that 
the  people  will  not  wear  them  longer.  Only  Sun- 
days and  holidays  is  any  one  in  costume  to  be  found; 
even  then  it  is  seldom. 

We  are  going  from  here  the  nearest  way  into 
Switzerland,  and  I  suppose  will  be  on  the  border  to- 
morrow evening  at  this  time.  We  are  going  over  a 
mountain  which  I  understand  lies  partly  in  Austria, 
partly  in  Italy,  and  ends  in  Switzerland.  For  three 
or  four  hours  we  will  very  likely  be  in  Italy. 
From  here  we  have  a  very  good  view  of  several 
glaciers,  and  will  to-morrow  go  across  the  foot  of 
ona  The  mountain  in  "Stilfser  Joch."  I  forgot  to 
say  that  around  Meran  we  saw  figs  and  pomegran- 
ites  growing,  and  quantities  of  the  large  chestnuts 
sold  here.  We  have  had  the  first  fruit  in  a  month 
the  last  two  days. 


lady  who  was  with  us  began  to  have  palpitation  of 
the  heart  as  soon  as  we  came  into  the  higher  air, 
and  had  to  be  carried  or  led  the  last  two  hours;  that 
is  why  we  came  so  late. 

As  we  came  over  the  border  the  prices  on  every- 
thing doubled  immediately.  In  the  Tyrol  every- 
thing is  very  reasonable,  and  the  food  exceedingly 
good,  but  here  nothing  is  well  made,  and  the  waiters 
and  hotel  people  are  not  at  all  agreeable. 

We  were  yesterday  in  Coin  and  to-day  in  Zurich, 
coming  this  evening  to  Lucerne,  where  we  have  of 
course  seen  nothing  yet.  I  had  hoped  we  would 
get  as  far  as  Berne,  but  think  we  will  not  manage 
it,  for  the  hotel  bills  are  too  large,  and  besides  we 
must  both  be  back  in  Munich  by  Monday.  So  far 
the  Swiss  scenery  is,  to  me  at  least,  not  what  I  had 
expected.  I  think  our  own  Rocky  mountains  must 
be  much  grander. 


Munich. — We  had  very  good  weather  nearly 

all  the  way,  only  in  Lucerne  it  was  foggy  over  the 
mountains  so  that  we  never  had  a  good,  clear  view  of 
the  lake,  though  several  times  we  saw  nearly  to  the 
top  of  the  "Jung-frau."  What  interested  me  most 
there  was  Thorwaldsen's  great  lion,  hewn  in  the  solid 
rock,  and  the  "glacier  garden."  The  lion  is  immense, 
and  lies  in  a  cavity  cut  out  of  the  hill  of  rock  be- 
hind Lucerne.  Before  it  is  a  little  lake  with  swans 
upon  it,  and  altogether  it  makes  a  very  strong  im- 
pression. All  over  Lucerne  are  pictures,  carvings, 
and  casts  of  the  famous  lion,  until  I  should  think 
any  one  remaining  there  would  get  tired  to  death  of 
the  bad,  good  and  indifferent  representations.  The 
"glacier  garden"  is  an  acre  or  more  of  bare  rock, 
which  was  formerly  under  a  glacier  and  shows  the 
effect  of  its  action.  Where  stones  were  between  the 
ice  and  the  rock  underneath  there  are  great,  round 
cavities,  like  huge  bowls,  some  of  which  are  twenty- 
five  feet  in  diameter  and  more  than  that  in  depth. 
The  spiral  is  yet  quite  plainly  to  be  seen  where  the 
smaller  stone  (the  millstone,  it  is  called)  wore  the 
other  away. 

From  Lucerne  we  went  across  the  lake  to  Kass- 
nacht,  celebrated  from  its  associations  with  William 
Tell's  adventures.  It  is  a  little  place  with  quaint 
old  houses.  From  there  we  walked  through  the 
"Hollow  way,"  where  Tell  shot  the  tyrant  Gessler, 
to  Tell's  chapel,  and  to  a  village  on  Zuger  Sea,  from 
which  we  took  a  boat  to  Zug,  and  went  from  there 
by  rail  to  Zurich. 

I  presume  you  read  how  a  part  of  Zug  suddenly 
"caved  in"  and  fell  into  the  lake  last  summer. 
When  we  were  there  they  were  still  fishing  for  valu- 
able articles  in  the  lake  above  the  ruins.  We  saw 
a  part  of  a  house  and  considerable  furniture  recov- 
ered. The  other  houses  in  the  vicinity  are  all  de- 
serted, and  it  is  altogether  a  desolate  looking  place. 
It  seems  remarkable  that  only  eleven  lives  were  lost. 

After  the  journey  back  to  Munich  I  was  sick  again, 
as  usual,  after  a  long  railroad  trip.  1  had  to  visit  a 
Grerman  doctor  who  gave  me  medicine  that  made  me 
so  entirely  sick  that  I  was  several  days  in  bed,  and 
even  the  Germans  had  to  allow  that  their  medicines 
did  not  agree  with  me.  They  all  imagine  that  we 
Americans  are  sick  because  we  are  not  so  red  as 
they  are.  They  think  their  doctors  can  cure  any- 
thing, but  they  don't  say  any  more  to  me  since  I 
made  the  experiment.  b. 


the  less  respect  it,  because  it  represents  honest  and 
earnest  thinking.  I  can  see  that  from  week  to  week 
he  is  winning  the  class  by  his  kindness  of  heart  and 
suavity  of  manner,  that  he  is  drawing  larger  and 
larger  audiences,  and  that  he  is  surely  and  perma- 
nently mastering  the  difficult  situation.  He  is  not 
filling  Dr.  Meredith's  place,  nor  is  he"rattling 'round 
in  it,"  nor  trying  to,  but  is  making  a  place  for  him- 
self of  his  own  peculiar  kind,  a  large  place,  too,  a 
useful  place,  and  a  unique  place  which  none  but  him- 
self will  be  able  to  fill. — Cor,  Christian  ^Standard. 


LiTEEATXIItE. 


DlS. 


Lucerne,  Switzerland. — If  I  remember  right, 
I  wrote  last  from  Praed  in  the  Tyrol.  Since  that 
we  have  been  over  "Stilfser  Joch"  into  Switzerland, 
and  were,  on  the  way,  over  night  in  Italy;  where  we 
were  nearly  frozen,  saw  a  snowstorm,  September 
first,  and  slept  under  four  heavy  blankets.  The  ho- 
tel where  we  spent  the  night  is  the  highest  inhabit- 
ed place  in  Europe,  7,605  feet  above  the  sea.  I 
sketched  a  glacier  and  nearly  blew  away  in  the  pro- 
cess. You  would  be  surprised  to  hear  what  flowers 
we  found  the  highest — our  garden  monkshood  or 
larkspur,  after  no  other  blossom  except  a  sort  of  this 
was  to  be  found  in  the  region.  We  were  a  little  be- 
lated on  our  way  over  "Stilfser  Joch,"  and  in  conse- 
quence were  precisely  on  the  highest  point,  8,488 
feet,  at  nine  o'clock  with  the  full  moon  shining  its 
highest.  I  do  not  think  it  often  happens  that  any 
one  gets  a  view  by  moonlight  of  such  a  place.  I 
certainly  would  not  advise  anybody  to  make  an 
evening  expedition  at  such  a  height;  and  we  were 
very  fortunate  in  not  having  gone  alone,  for  the  ther- 


— Professor  Harper  has  this  year  conducted  sum- 
mer schools  of  Hebrew  at  Philadelphia,  Chicago, 
Newton  Center,  Mass.,  the  University  of  Virginia, 
and  Evanston,  111.  His  work  at  Yale  University  is 
most  successful.  President  Dwight  is  reported  as 
saying:  "Young  Harper  and  his  classes  have  done 
more  to  popularize  the  study  of  Hebrew  in  this 
country  than  all  the  schools  and  the  theologians  who 
have  preceded  him." 

— Mr.  George  W.  Cable  has  conducted  the  great 
Tremont  Temple  teachers'  meeting  for  a  month,  and 
has  demonstrated  his  ability  to  succeed.  He  is  a 
very  different  man  from  his  predecessor,  Dr.  Mere- 
dith. His  methods  are  different;  his  spirit  is  differ- 
ent. Each  man,  however,  has  something  which  the 
other  lacks.  Dr.  Meredith  certainly  made  the  class 
a  brilliant  success,  bringing  it  up  out  of  littleness 
and  obscurity  into  proportions  unequalled.  His  fit- 
ness for  such  work  is  of  a  very  higb  order.  But  I 
venture  to  say  that  Mr.  Cable's  fitness,  although  so 
different,  is  no  less  high.  In  some  respects  I  think 
he  may  even  excel  Dr.  Meredith.  His  spiritual  in- 
sight, for  instance,  is  of  a  rare  quality.  He  sounds 
depths  in  Scripture  that  surprise  and  delight  you. 
He  has  also  great  originality  and  independence.  He 
sets  tradition  at  naught  He  tramples  on  conven- 
He  sees  with  his  own  eyes,  thinks  with 


tionality. 
mometer  must  have  stood  near  zero,  the  wind  blew '  his  own  mind,  and  decides  with  his  own  judgment 
fi  gale,  and  when  we  arrived  at  the  hotel  it  was  You  may  not  always  accept  his  view,  but  you  none  for  the  church. 


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The  completion  of  this  handy  volume  series  of 
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Thb  Happy  Singer,  for  revival,  camp  tent  and  social  meet- 
ings and  the  Sabbath  School.    By  C.  E.  Rowley. 

This  is  a  compilation  of  gospel  songs  much  re- 
sembling the  familiar  "Moody  and  Sankey"  book, 
which  have  been  received  with  great  favor  wherever 
sung  by  Bro.  Kowley  and  his  wife.  At  the  late 
Wesleyan  General  Conference  they  rendered  great 
service  in  the  devotional  meetings.  Its  author  was 
for  a  time  associated  with  Bro.  Doty  of  the  Christian 
Harvester,  Cleveland,  and  later  with  Rev.  S.  Rice  in 
the  Holiness  Conservator.  If  we  were  to  criticise 
anything  in  this  collection,which  seems  to  be  one  of 
much  merit,  it  is  in  following  too  much  after  the 
fashion — that  is,  adding  to  every  verse  of  good 
hymns  a  chorus  of  repetitions.  It  is  time  we  left 
such  things  pretty  much  to  the  nursery.  How  would 
it  sound  in  reading  the  descripliion  of  the  New  Je- 
rusalem we  should  repeat  the  words,  "over  there," 
half  a  dozen  times  after  each  verse.  We  are  not 
commanded  to  lay  aside  our  good  sense  in  singing 
any  more  than  in  reading. 

With  its  November  issue  Babyhood  completes  its  third 
year  and  volume.  From  the  first  number  it  has  been  a 
pronounced  success,  winning  praises  alike  from  press  and 
subscribers.  There  is  not  a  home  in  the  land,  blessed 
with  small  children,  but  would  be  made  happier  and  bet- 
ter for  its  monthly  visits.  With  the  November  number 
is  given  an  index  of  the  volume  j  ust  closed,  embracing 
more  than  1,000  topics.  We  have  first  editorial  notes, 
brief  and  to  the  point,  on  such  subjects  as  ear-boxing, 
early  drawings,  diphtheria,  watered  milk,  and  the  evolu- 
tion of  nursery  sciences.  Then  follow  articles  on  the 
"Contagious  Diseases  of  Children,"  "Bumps  and  Bruises," 
"First  Attempts  at  Art,"  "Proposed  Training  School  for 
Nursery  maids,"  "School  Lunches,"  etc. 

Now  that  the  committee  of  eminent  and  philanthropic 
Englishmen  are  visiting  our  country  in  the  interests  of 
peaceful  arbitration,  and  President  Cleveland  has  given 
them  an  attentive  hearing,  it  is  a  good  time  to  circulate 
documents  in  behalf  of  peace.  An  excellent  tract  is  an 
"Address  of  the  Representatives  of  the  Religious  Society 
of  Friends  for  Pennsylvania,  New  Jersey,  and  Delaware, 
to  their  Fellow  Citizens  on  the  Subject  of  War."  Copies 
may  be  had  for  gratuitous  circulation  by  writing  to  Ja- 
cob Smedley,  Friend's  Book  Store,  No.  304  Arch  Street, 
Philadelphia. 

The  Bvangelical  Lutheran  Almanac  for  1888,  edited  by 
Pastor  D.  Simon,  English  Secretary  of  the  Joint  Synod 
of  Ohio  of  the  Evangelical  Lutheran  church,  and  pub- 
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just  issued.  It  contains  a  very  comprehensive  and  com- 
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isterial lists,  teachers,  hospitals,  homes  for  orphans  and 
the  poor,  etc.,  being  altogether  a  valuable  reference  work 
Price  10  cents  each. 


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THE  CHBI^liAJSr  CYNOSUKE. 


NOVEMBSK  17,  188t 


A  THOUSAND  ••CYNOSURBS"  FOB  THB  SOUTH. 


It  is  but  seven  years  since  our  reform  began  to 
take  root  in  the  South.  The  first  efforts  sprang  from 
a  movement  to  divorce  missions  from  the  secret 
lodge,  which  was  aided  by  the  Cynosure,  but  in  which 
the  N.  C.  A.,  as  a  body,  at  first  took  no  special  part. 
Bro.  H.  H.  Hinman  spent  about  a  year  in  this  work 
and  was  supported  by  special  contributions  for  the 
purpose,  when  his  salary  was  assured  by  the  Asso- 
ciation, and  Rev.  P.  S.  Feemster  engaged  for  a  time 
to  assist  him.  A  demand  for  the  circulation  of  the 
Cynosure  arose  in  connection  with  these  efforts,  and 
was  fostered  and  encouraged  greatly  by  Dr.  J.  E. 
Roy,  then  Southern  secretary  of  the  American  Mis- 
sionary Association. 

Since  June  1,  1885,  up  to  the  present  time  a  little 
over  $900  have  been  contributed  to  send  copies  of 
the  Cynosure  to  colored  pastors  in  the  South,  or  an 
average  of  less  than  $450  per  annum.  The  results 
of  this  circulation  of  the  paper  have  been  wonderful. 

They  are — 

1.  Reports  from  pastors  in  all  parts  of  the  South, 
thankfully  acknowledging  the  aid  thus  given  them  to 
overcome  the  pestilent  lodge  influence  in  their 
churches. 

2.  The  formation  of  the  Good- Will  Association  of 
some  twenty-five  Baptist  churches  in  and  about  Mo- 
bile which  forbids  secret  societies. 

3.  The  sustaining  of  Rev.  R.  N.  Countee  in  his 
seceding  from  the  lodge,  and  maintaining  his  paper 
and  church  until  many  Baptist  churches  and  pastors 
of  Tennessee  and  Arkansas  are  standing  by  him. 

4.  The  action  of  the  St.  Marion  Baptist  Asso- 
ciation of  Arkansas  to  expel  the  lodge  from  their 
churches. 

5.  Similar  action  of  the  State  Baptist  Convention 
of  Louisiana,  comprising  all  the  churches  of  that 
denomination  in  the  State. 

6.  The  condition  of  the  Texas  Baptist  Convention 
which  is  nearly  ready  for  the  same  action. 

7.  The  founding  of  schools  for  the  higher  educa- 
tion of  the  colored  children  in  New  Iberia,  La,,  and 
Memphis,  Tenn.,  on  the  distinctive  principle  of  op- 
position to  secretism, 

THIS    GRAND   WORK 

has  been  accomplished  not  without  the  aid  of  breth- 
ren Hinman,  Feemster,  Woodsmall  and  others;  but 
while  the  living  agent  or  the  paper  could  neither 
alone  have  achieved  so  magnificent  results,  the  cir- 
culation of  the  Cynosure  has  been  the  great  agency, 
and  at  the  same  time  the  least  expensive.  It  has 
often  been  the  pioneer,  reaching  sections  where  no 
agent  has  penetrated,  and  after  his  departure  keep- 
ing alive  the  fire  of  reform. 

In  view  of  these  facts  we  conceive  it  to  be  a  duty 
to  call  upon  the  friends  of  this  cause  everywhere  for 
means  to  send  a  tuodsand  copibs  of  the  Cynosure 
for  a  year  to  as  many  pastors  in  the  South,  especially 
the  colored  Baptists,  that  the  good  work  now  well 
begun  among  them  may  reach  to  every  one  of  the 
800,000  colored  members  of  their  churches.  The 
Congregational  churches  supported  by  the  A.  M.  A. 
are  already  taking  the  ground  of  separation  from 
the  lodge,  under  advice  from  the  secretaries  of  their 
Association.  With  \he8e  churches  saved  to  Christ 
from  the  lodge  curse,  and  the  Baptists  brought  up 
to  the  same  line,  what  may  not  our  faith  ask  for  in 
this  respect  for  the  Negro  race?  An  earnest,  faith- 
ful pushing  of  our  work  may,  in  a  few  years,  re- 
deem them  wholly.  What  more  noble  object  now 
invites  our  aid;  and  to  attain  it  what  means  more 
economical,  more  sure  and  more  convenient  can  pos- 
sibly exist  than  scattering  a  thousand  copies  of  the 
Cynosure?  If  $900  spent  in  this  way  can  show  such 
results,  $1,500  would  double  them.  Let,  therefore, 
every  friend  of  the  reform  make  an  effort  to  contrib- 
ute to  this  fund  and  share  in  the  blessing  and  tri- 
umph which  must  follow. 

A  number  have  already  been  asked  to  each 
make  one  of  a  hundred  to  complete  this  fund  before 
January,  1888.  The  reasons  for  this  investment  are 
so  convincing  that  not  one  has  refused.  Why  should 
not  these  hundred  shares  be  immediately  taken? 
If  one  person  cannot  assume  so  much  alone  let 
clubs  of  two,  three,  five,  or  ten  make  them  up.  The 
N.  C.  A.  Board  has  given  its  hearty  endorsement  of 
the  plan;  and  the  friends  of  reform  and  of  the  Ne- 
gro race,  now  toiling  under  this  second  bondage, 
have  only  to  know  of  it,  to  send  back  an  echo,  say- 
ing, THE  WORK  SHALL  BE  DONE. 


The  Christian  Cynosure. 


J.  BLANCHARD. 


Kditobs. 


HKNRT  L.  KILLOGQ. 


OHIOAeO,    THUB3DAT,    NOVEMBER   17,   1887. 


EDITORIAL    CORRESPONDENCE. 


MiDDLEBURY,  Vt,  Nov.  8th,  1887. 

One  year  more  will  be  sixty  years  since  I  entered 
Middlebury  College.  The  good  Dr.  Bates  was  pres- 
ident. Prof.  Hough(whom  we  students  called  Prof. 
Johnny)  had  the  ancient  languages  (modern  lan- 
guages were  not  taught);  Prof.  Turner,mathematics; 
and  Henry  Smith,  since  president  of  Marietta  Col- 
lege and  Lane  Seminary,  Cincinnati,  was  tutor  and 
examined  me  (much  trembling)  for  a  Freshman. 

I  preached  on  Sabbath  from  the  pulpit  of  the 
sainted, large-souled  Dr.Morill,who  baptized  the  most 
excellent  mother  of  my  children  and  my8elf,and  yes- 
terday I  addressed  near  seventy  brilliant  young  men 
in  the  college  chapel.  I  think  all  Middlebury  alum- 
ni, all  Vermonters,  and  all  others  who  read  this  ar- 
ticle will  be  glad  it  is  written,  except  those  whom 
it  censures. 

THE  SAINTED  DEAD. 

I  cannot  say  with  the  wassail  poet  Moore: 

"1  feel  like  one  who  treads  alone. 

Some  banquet  hall  deserted. 
Whose  lamps  are  dead,  whose  guests  are  fled. 

And  all  but  me  departed." 

But  rather  with  another  poet,  not  yet  renowned,  as 
I  walk  these  new  streets  and  look  on  new  faces,  fa- 
miliar,though  unknown, 

"Sweet  storied'scenes  swift  over  memory  pass, 
Like  shadows,  pictured  on  a  sea  of  glass." 

"Are  they  not  all  ministering  spirits?"  Samuel 
Swift,  Peter  Starr,  (xov.  Slade,  the  modern  Socrates, 
with  his  wedded  Xantippe,  now  escaped  the  demons 
who  troubled  her, — these  then  front-rank  citizens  of 
this  town,  with  their  compeers  and  associates,  were 
men  "of  whom  the  world  was  not  worthy."  And 
while  the  college  taught  us  to  be  scholars,  these 
taught  us  to  be  men.  There  were  few  such  towns' 
populations  as  Middlebury  then  held,  and  their 
names  would  fill  a  long  catalogue  or  a  short  vol- 
ume. 

THE  VERMONT  COLLEGES. 

Burlington  began,leaning  on  theState.and  still  re- 
tains a  tinge  from  the  complexion  of  her  origin. 
Middlebury  leaned  on  Grod.  One  had  funds;  the 
other  revivals.  And  though  the  latter  has  waded 
through  the  slough  which  successful  Christians 
must  have  in  order  to  correct  their  Pharisaism,  she 
has  reached,or  is  reaching  the  opposite  bank.and  is 
coming  up.  Twenty  years  ago  God  sent  down  from 
St.  Albans  a  young  student  from  the  family  tree  of 
Lawrence  Brainerd,a  stalwart  Vermont  farmer,  who 
turned  a  lakeside  morass  into  a  thousand-acre  farm. 
And  when  the  lodge  frogs  of  the  Apocalypse  (Rev. 
16:13)  who  murdered  Morgan  for  telling  truth,  at- 
tempted.but  failed  to  pollute  Vermont  with  their  un- 
cleannesses,  Lawrence  Brainerd's  name  filled  the 
newspapers  as  their  fearless  antagonist,  and  Ver- 
mont went  solid,  sole  and  single,  for  Wirt  and  open, 
fair  dealing. 

The  present  president  of  Middlebury  is  that 
young  St.  Albans  student,  who  passed  by  Burling- 
ton on  his  way  to  college.  When  he  took  the  presi- 
dency, the  college  began  to  rise  to  its  feet.  And 
now,  if  it  had  a  Western  preparatory  department,  it 
would  stand,  numerically,  above  Marietta,  Jackson- 
ville, Knox,  Ripon,  Iowa,  and  the  other  oldest  and 
strongest  colleges  in  the  West. 

President  Brainerd  is  an  eminently  sound,  suc- 
cessful and  practical  man;  and,  though  he  has  giv- 
en little  or  no  study  to  the  lodge,  he  has  not  defiled 
himself  with  its  Cbristless  devil  worships.  But  the 
air  of  Middlebury  is  hostile  to  secret  meanness,  and 
in  the  national  discussion  of  the  lodge  system  now 
approaching  a  glorious  future  awaits  Middlebury 
College. 

Burlington  now  receives  $3,500  a  year  from  the 
State  legislature  for  analyzing  a  little  cows'  milk, 
and  specimens  of  soil,  after  obtaining  the  princely 
donation  from  the  U.  S.  Surplus  Revenue:  and  Con- 
gress sends  a  high  Mason  four  months  in  the  year 
to  teach  military  tactics  to  the  pious  students  of  Bur- 
lington, to  hasten  the  time  when  men  shall  not 
"learn  war"  any  morel  But  though  the  spirit  of  war 
is  anti-Christ,  and  the  lodge  is  demon-worship,Chris- 
tianity  is  gaining  in  Burlington.and  they  have  some 
sincerely  pious  professors  who  are  popular;  and 
statesmen,  like  Hon.  Daniel  Roberts,  a  Middlebury 
alumnus,  may  yet  help  the  college  to  shake  off  the 
leprosy  of  the  lodge. 


STATESMEN. 

The  Cynosure  has  reported  Senator  Eimunds  as  a 
Mason.  He  does  not,  however,  train  with  them;  and 
his  raid  on  Mormonism,  which  was  recognized  as 
Masonry  by  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Illinois,  is  much  in 
his  favor.  Senator  Morrill,  in  a  mountain  town  east 
of  the  mountains,  seems  to  hold  his  place  in  the 
Senate  because  he  has  no  competitors  like  CoUamer 
or  Phelps.  Gov.  Stuart  of  Middlebury,  now  in  the 
House  at  Washington,  is  a  strong,  sensible  man,  and 
no  Mason.  But  his  law- partner,  a  brilliant  young 
lawyer,  worships  no  God  in  particular,  not  even  the 
world-god  of  the  lodge.  But  he,  yesterday,  argued 
that  though  Masons  are  sworn  by  secret  oaths,  which 
they  recognize  as  binding  on  them  to  conceal  Ma- 
sons' crimes  and  aid  to  deliver  them  "right  or 
wrong,"  that  oath  does  not  hurt  them  for  jurors,  if 
they  will  also  swear  that  they  think  they  can  do  jus- 
tice! That  is  tantamount  to  saying,  that  in  our  late 
war,  though  a  man  might  own  he  had  sworn  treason, 
and  consider  his  secesh  oath  binding,  yet  that  oath 
would  not  hurt  him  as  a  juror  to  try  rebel  criminals 
who  are  on  trial  for  murdering  Union  men !  I  hope 
before  this  lawyer  becomes  a  judge,  God  will  give 
him  a  braver  heart,  better  judgment,  and  freedom 
from  tobacco.  But  the  men  who  are  to  rescue  our 
court-houses  from  sinking  into  popular  contempt, 
because  the  cases  are  so  often  decided  in  secret 
lodges,  are  now  in  the  colleges. 

Women  sink  less  rapidly  than  men,  because  they 
grapple  less  with  the  world  outside  the  home;  and 
there  are  women  here  now,  as  there  were  fifty  years 
ago,  whose  eyes  are  not  darkened  by  the  hoodwinks 
which  their  husbands  have  worn  in  the  lodge. 

URBANITIES. 

The  last  three  days  are  a  bright  oasis  in  my  life. 
Hon.  Phillip  Bartell,  of  the  class  of  1826,  who  mar- 
ried the  beautiful  Emma  Seymour,  and  who  now 
owns  and  occupies  the  old  Senator's  residence,  came 
yesterday  and  took  President  Brainerd  and  his  gifted 
companion  out  to  ride.  Of  course  I  went  along. 
The  mysterious  dream-mist  of  the  Indian  summer 
"had  robed  the  mountains  in  its  azure  hue."  But 
the  scene  was  exquisite  beyond  language,  and  the 
ride  delightful.  Though  an  octogenarian,  Mr.  Bar- 
tell  has  his  team  so  trained  that  they  run,  walk,  or 
rest  by  the  slight  motion  of  their  owner's  hand  with- 
out a  word  spoken;  and  our  ride  was  terminated  in 
social  converse  and  an  elegant  repast  presided  over, 
by  Gov.  Stuart's  daughter,  the  grand-daughter  of 
Emma  Seymour,  who  reproduces  in  person  the  pic- 
ture of  sixty  years  ago.  And  here  also  are  the  de- 
scendants of  "the  beloved  physician"  Dr  Jonathan 
Allen,  who  befriended  bravely  the  soul  and  body  of 
the  late  stately  Senator  Phelps,  (whose  son  is  now 
our  minister  to  Eogland)  when  the  rum  fiend  made 
a  fearless  physician  needful  to  him.  Dr.  Allen's 
son  now  presides  over  Rush  Medical  College  of  Chi- 
cago; another  is  a  prominent  physician  in  Rutland. 

But  the  time  would  fail  me  to  speak  of  the  loved 
ones  departed  who  "all  died  in  faith"  here  "having 
received  the  promises  and  were  persuaded  of  them." 
To  day  I  climb  and  cross  the  Green  Mountains  by 
steam,  and  will  write  from  the  hills  where  all  my 
young  imaginations  were  bom. 


Burlington,  Vt.,  Nov.  4. — I  spoke  in  St.  Johns- 
bury  night  before  last  for  our  excellent  brother.  Rev. 
W.  R.  Laird.  During  the  day  we  called  and  con- 
versed with  Col.  Fairbanks,  whose  father  has  furn- 
ished scales  to  weigh  the  commerce  of  the  United 
States,  and  as  war  governor,  taught  other  States'by 
by  his  example,  as  did  Gov.  Andrews  of  Massachu- 
setts, and  quickened  them  by  his  zeal.  The  Colonel 
joined  the  Masons  when  a  young  man,  and  assured 
us  he  "had  nothing  to  do  with  them"  of  late.  But 
the  Masons  claim  him,  and  report  that  he  went  to 
Scotland  to  receive  a  degree  which  he  could  not  get 
here;  which  is  doubtless  one  of  the  lies  on  which 
lodges  live  He  is  talked  of  as  governor,  but  does 
not  seek  office,  and  is  an  active  Christian  and  devot- 
ed Sabbath-school  superintendent. 

The  beautiful  village  of  St.  Johnsbury  is  really 
the  creation  of  the  genius  and  taste  of  the  Fair- 
banks family.  We  requested  him  to  sign  a  paper 
to  send  to  Secretary  Strieby,  assuring  him  that  if 
the  A.  M.  A.  should  divorce  their  Southern  churches 
from  the  lodges,  it  would  not  diminish  the  Fair- 
banks's  princely  contributions.  Col.  Fairbanks  is 
not  posted  enough  to  take  so  decided  a  stand  as  yet. 
He,  in  my  opinion,  however,  would  be  pleased  if 
the  poor  colored  churches  could  be  rescued  from  the 
secret  lodge  vampires  which  are  silently  sucking 
their  life  blood. 

THE  anarchists, 

Saratoga,  N.  Y.,  Nov.  11. — The  dispatches  just 
now  tell  us  that  four  wretches  must  hang  to-day. 
Lingg,  the  human  rattlesnake,  has  gone  by  his  own 
hand;  and  two  go  to  the  dungeon.     The  country  ap- 


NoYiHBia  17, 188T 


THE  CHKISTIAN  CYNOSUKE. 


pears  dignified  and  ita  judiciary  august.  Millions 
breathe  freer  when  those  anarchists  cease  to  breathe. 
The  secret  lodge  is  the  college  and  these  criminals 
are  its  pupils.  When  two  oaths  are  put  in  a  man's 
conscience,  it  begins  to  break  down.  Twenty-eight 
make  a  Mason;  and  the  degrees  up  to  thirty-three 
each  help  to  exterminate  to  the  roots  all  sense  of  di- 
vine obligation  in  the  man's  moral  nature.  One 
thing  ia  as  right  as  another  to  him  then.  The  church- 
es are  now  supporting  the  secret  college  and  the 
country  is  hanging  its  graduates.  May  God  open 
their  eyes  in  time,  before  we  have  a  repetition  of  the 
war.  For  if  Baal  worships  will  not  bring  war  the 
Bible  is  a  mistake.     But  it  is  not  a  mistake!  J.  b. 


— During  October  Bro.  Hinman  labored  in  three 
States,  Alabama,  Florida,  and  Louisiana,  and  lec- 
tured twenty-one  times. 

— After  a  prolonged  and  tedious  voyage  Bro.  A. 
D.  Zaraphonithes  and  his  family  reached  Montreal 
on  the  4th  inst.,  and  after  a  few  days  spent  in  that 
city  they  will  go  on  to  New  York  for  the  winter. 
Their  many  friends  in  this  country  will  be  glad  to 
bear  of  their  safe  arrival. 

— Pastor  J.  Meier  of  the  First  German  Baptist 
church,corner  of  Bickerdikeand  West  Huron  streets, 
Chicago,  reports  his  church  of  400  members  as  es- 
tablished in  the  faith  of  Christ  so  firmly  and  wiaely 
that  they  all  condemn  the  secret  orders  and  refuse  to 
admit  their  members  to  church  fellowship  until  the 
evil  associations  are  forsaken.  He  has  taken  a  quan- 
tity of  German  tracts  to  distribute  and  wishes  a  lec- 
ture on  the  subject  for  his  people.  T  his  is  a  regular 
Baptist  church  but  of  German  membership. 

— Some  time  since  we  noticed  the  interesting  fact 
of  the  nomination  last  spring  of  a  local  Anti-mason- 
ic ticket  by  the  good  people  of  New  Haven,  Michi- 
gan, who  were  weary  of  lodge  domination.  One  of 
the  candidates  has  written  Secretary  Stoddard  of  his 
willingness  to  engage  in  lecture  work,  and  is  encour- 
aged to  begin  about  his  own  home,  where  success 
may  extend  his  field  to  a  State  work.  Such  local 
efforts  are  tokens  of  greatest  encouragement.  Would 
that  they  might  be  more  often  reported. 

— The  committee  appointed  by  the  Board  on  pre- 
mium essays  by  students  will  have  arranged  the  de- 
tails of  this  plan  so  that  it  can  appear  next  week.  It 
will  be  favorably  received  everywhere,  and  be  the 
means,  no  doubt,  of  saving  thousands  of  our  youth 
from  the  lodge.  The  proposition  includes  prizes  of 
twenty  dollars  for  the  beat  essay, and  ten  for  the  next 
in  merit  on  the  two  subjects:  "Secret  Societies  and 
the  Labor  Problem,"  and  "The  Relation  of  Secret 
Societies  to  the  Temperance  Cause."  "The  object 
of  the  above  essays  shall  be  to  present  the  evils  re- 
sulting from  secret  societies  in  the  above  relations." 

— A  note  mailed  from  Miss  Flagg  on  the  7th 
brings  the  most  unwelcome  news  of  the  sudden 
and  severe  illness  of  her  father.  He  was  attacked 
on  the  Saturday  previous  with  an  acute  brain  trouble, 
the  origin  of  which  the  best  physicians  from  Boston 
were  not  able  to  locate.  The  attack  was  of  such  se- 
verity that  at  times  several  attendants  were  needed 
to  restrain  the  sufferer.  The  latest  word  was  hope- 
ful of  recovery,  but  for  a  few  days  the  anguish  of 
the  daughter  was  great  with  the  dread  of  parting 
from  the  only  one  left  her.  The  interest  and  joy  of 
her  father  in  Misa  Flagg'a  noble  work  for  the  reform 
has  always  been  one  of  her  greatest  encouragements 
in  it,  and  our  readers  will  heartily  join  with  us  in 
the  prayer  that  the  Lord  may  restore  him  to  so  de- 
voted a  daughter. 

■*  %  ^ 

THB  PROHIBITION  GONFBRBNCB 

in  Chicago,  Dec.  1,  will  be  attended  by  many  who  object 
to  voting  for  members  of  secret  lodges.  All  such  are  re- 
queeted  to  meet  for  consultation  and  prayer  at  8  o'clock 
p.  M  ,  also  at  7  in  the  evening,  on  Wednesday,  Nov.  30, 
in  Carpenter  Hall  of  the  N.  C.  A.  Building,  221  West 
Madison  Street  The  room  will  bo  open  all  day  and 
evening  for  the  accommodation  of  friends  visiting  Chi- 
cago at  that  time. 

<  »  »  ' 

THB  OHIO   CONVENTION 


Will  be  held  at  New  Concord,  Muskingum  county, 
November  16th  and  17ih,  opening  at  9  a.  m  of  Wednes- 
day, the  16ih.  Addresses  will  be  given  by  President 
Smith,  Revs  W.  A.  Coleman  and  William  Dillon,  Secre- 
tary J  P.  Stoddard,  State  Agent  W.  B.  Stoddard,  and 
the  closing  address  by  Pres  C.  A..  Blanchard.  Enter- 
tainment as  usual  will  be  provided  for  those  coming  from 
a  distance.  It  is  especially  desired  that  all  churches  in 
sympathy  appoint  at  once  as  large  a  delegation  as  they 
may  think  best  to  represent  them  at  this  convention. 
Let  the  friends  come  praying  for  a  glorious  blessing,  that 
we  may  go  forth  stronger  for  Christ  in  the  future. 

H.  R.  Smith.  Prtt. 

W.  J    Coleman,  Rec  F«c'y. 

8.  A.  Gbobqk,  Cor,  Bec'y, 


OVB  BOSTON  LBTTBR. 


BOSTON   YODNQ   MIN  S    CHRISTIAN   ASSOCIATION. 


Twenty  years  ago  a  modest  sign  on  the  front  of 
Tremont  Temple  announced  the  occupancy  of  the 
Boston  Young  Men's  Christian  Associatian  of  a  part 
of  that  building,  whose  front  was  cut  up  into  a  num- 
ber of  small  offices,  as  it  is  now,  the  Temple  proper 
being  located  in  the  rear,  and  the  Meionaon,  a 
smaller  hall,  immediately  beneath  it  Five  years 
ago  a  more  conspicuous  sign-board  denoted  its  loca- 
tion on  the  corner  of  Tremont  and  Eliot  streets. 
These  quarters,  though  less  cramped  than  those  at 
the  Temple,  were  inadequate  for  its  growing  work. 
It  now  occupies  a  magnificent  building  of  its  own 
on  Boylston  street,  corner  of  Berkeley,  one  of  the 
most  aristocratic  parts  of  the  city.  The  entire  edi- 
fice is  105  feet  front,  100  feet  deep,  and  105  feet  in 
the  highest  part.  The  land  cost  $97,000;  the  build- 
ing, appointments,  etc.,  $203,000;  making  a  total 
cost  of  $300,000.  Fifty-nine  donations  toward  the 
payment  of  this  sum,  in  amounts  of  from  $1,000  to 
$25,000,  footed  to  $143,000.  The  building  has  a 
large  hall  which  will  seat  900,  called  "Association 
Hall;"  two  smaller  halls,  seating  respectively  350 
and  200,  and  a  lecture-room  aeating  250;  also  par- 
lora,  library,  reading-room,  recreation-room,  coal- 
room,  fourteen  class-rooms,  lavatory  and  gymnasi- 
um, 40x95,  with  dressing-rooms  attached,  for  942. 

On  different  evenings  of  the  week  the  following 
classes  are  held  for  annual  members:  banking  and 
commercial  arithmetic,  book-keeping,  common-school 
arithmetic,  elocution,  free-hand  drawing,  mechanical 
drawing,  penmanship,  short-hand  and  type-writing, 
telegraphy,  vocal  and  male  chorus  music,  emergency 
lectures  and  physiology,  French,  German,  New  Tes- 
tament Greek  and  Spanish.  The  instructors  are  all 
first-class — among  the  best  in  the  coumry.  The  ad- 
ditional cost  of  attending  these  classes  is  the  price 
of  text-books,  etc. 

Every  Thursday  evening  during  the  winter  months 
an  entertainment  consisting  of  readings  and  singing 
is  given  to  members  in  "Association  Hall."  In  con- 
nection with  all  these  advantages  there  is  a  Ram- 
bling Club,  which  takes  excursions  to  manufacto- 
ries, art  galleries,  etc.  Thanksgiving  a  dinner  is 
given  free  to  all  members  unable  to  reach  their  own 
homes,  or  who  have  none.  Young  men  of  good 
character,  church  members  or  not,  can  become  mem- 
bers on  payment  of  annual  membership  fee,  $2;  life 
membership,  $J5. 

Among  all  the  papers  on  file  in  the  reading-room, 
one  looks  in  vain  for  the  clear-cut  features  of  the 
Cynosure.  Hundreds  of  young  men  visit  this  room 
weekly,  and  what  better  reading  of  a  religious  na- 
ture could  they  pick  up  by  chance,  as  they  saunter 
from  paper  to  paper,  than  the  Cynosure.  Its  very 
name,  so  unusual,  would  be  sure  to  attract  their  at- 
tention for  a  moment  at  least,  but  in  that  single 
moment  they  would  become  aware  of  an  organized 
effort  to  suppress  secret  societies.  And  the  ques- 
tion would  naturally  arise  in  their  young  and  in- 
quisitive minds — vohy?  Why  suppress  secret  socie- 
ties? Thus  their  minds  might  be  opened  to  receive 
a  reason.  Alas!  however,  I  am  afraid  that.  Chris- 
tian institution  as  it  claims  to  be,  it  would  hardly 
welcome  a  journal  representing  anti-secrecy  reform. 

D.  P.  Mathews. 


OUR  WASHINGTON  LBTTBR. 


One  of  the  most  widely  known  and  popular  of 
Congressmen  is  the  late  American  minister  to  Tur- 
key, the  Hon.  S.  S.  Cox,  of  New  York, who  is  known 
to  fame  as  "Sunset,"  and  as  the  wit  of  the  House  as 
well.  Messrs.  Cox  and  Mills  are  the  only  members 
prominently  named  for  chairman  of  the  ways  and 
means  committee  of  the  Fiftieth  Congre8s,butas  the 
New  Yorker  declines  that  great  honor  in  advance, 
the  Lone  Star  statesmen  appears  to  have  the  field  to 
himself,  and  will  probably  attain  the  distinction  to 
wh'ch  he  aspires.  Mr.  Cox  has  just  reached  the 
Capital,  and  be  expresses  some  interesting  views 
upon  political  and  legislative  queationa — especially 
the  tariff,  which  he  believes  will  be  materially  modi- 
fied this  winter  by  the  passage  of  a  compromise 
measure  repealing  the  tol)acco  tax  and  placing  a 
Urge  number  of  the  necessities  of  life  on  the  free 
list. 

Of  contemplated  legislation  none  is  of  more  gener- 
al interest  or  importance  to  the  people  of  the  United 
States  than  the  proposed  postal  telegraph,  which 
finds  many  advocates,  particularly  among  those 
statesmen  who  were  influential  in  pressing  the  Inter- 
State  Commerce  bill  to  a  successful  issue.  In  fact, 
it  seems  that  the  country's  only  safe  hope  and  pro- 
tection against  the  grasping  greed  of  the  grinding 
telegraph  monopoly  is  Government  control  of  that  I 
system  of  communication.       And  that  it  will  come 


sooner  or  later  there  is  little  reaaon  to  doubt,  unless 
the  lobbyiats  can  raise  enough  boodle  to  capture 
Congress,  which  I  do  not  believe  is  purchasable,  as 
a  whole,  though  there  are  reasons  for  concluding 
that  some  members  have  their  regular  prices  for 
votes  and  influence.  If  that  were  not  true  the  oc- 
cupation of  the  lobbyists  would  be  gone,  and  these 
persuasive  individuals  would  disappear  from  the  cor- 
ridors of  the  Capitol. 

Other  legislation  that  is  needed  and  will  be  at- 
tempted is  a  change  in  both  the  time  of  electing 
Congressmen  and  the  date  for  the  meeting  of  that 
body.  At  present  a  Congress  is  chosen  thirteen 
months  before  it  convenes,  which  is  neither  in  ac- 
cord with  our  plan  of  popular  representation,  nor 
with  the  advanced  ideas  that  dominate  and  permeate 
the  modern  republican  system  of  government.  The 
right  way  would  be  to  elect  Congressmen  in  Novem- 
ber, and  have  the  session  begin — not  on  the  first 
Monday  in  December.as  now, — but  on  the  first  Mon- 
day in  January,  following  the  election, — thus  at  a 
single  stroke  of  good  policy  dispensing  with  the  long 
interim  and  the  useless  holiday  adjournment,  which 
latter,  coming  in  two  or  three  weeks  after  the  open- 
ing of  the  session,  seems  to  your  correspondent  to 
be  largely  in  the  line  of  a  farcical  performance  for 
a  body  of  such  power  and  dignity  as  the  national 
legislative. 

There  is  a  good  deal  of  gossip  floating  around  the 
White  House,  which  those  who  are  well  posted  claim 
to  have  some  foundation  in  fact.  It  is  said  that 
among  the  first  communications  that  will  go  from 
the  President  to  the  Senate  will  be  Secretary  Lamar's 
nomination  for  Supreme  Justice,  and  that  Postmas- 
ter General  Vilas  will  be  appointed  to  the  vacant 
portfolio,  to  be  succeeded  himself  by  Don  M.  Dick- 
inson, of  Michigan.  I  merely  give  these  reports  for 
what  they  are  worth,and  that  may  be  much  or  little. 

The  past  week  a  youthful  newspaper  correspond- 
ent created  a  great  sensation  by  mailing  to  Chief 
Justice  Waite  a  bogus  "infernal"  machine.  At  first 
it  was  attributed  to  anarchist  sympathizers,  but  the 
youth,  when  confronted  with  the  evidence  of  his  in- 
discretion, said  it  was  a  joke.  In  the  eyes  of  the 
law  it  is  a  criminal  offense.  * 


Reiigiotis  News. 


THB  BLQIN  SABBATH  CONVENTION. 


PROCEEDINGS,   ADDRESSES   AND    PERMANENT   OBOAN- 
IZATION. 


The  convention  called  by  members  of  the  Elgin 
Association  of  Congregational  ministers  and  churches 
to  consider  the  prevalent  desecration  of  the  Sabbath 
and  its  remedy,  met  Tuesday  evening,  November  8, 
in  the  Baptist  church,  Elgin,  Illinois.  Rev.  W.  L. 
Ferris  of  Dundee  conducted  the  opening  devotional 
exercises,  assisted  by  Rev.  A  N.  Alcott  of  Elgin  and 
the  male  choir.  Different  Elgin  pastors  presided  at 
each  sitting  in  this  order:  J.  M.  Clendeming,  A.  H. 
Ball,  Wm.  Craven  and  H.  0  Rowlands.  Rev.  Geo.  A. 
Milton,  who  has  lately  taken  charge  of  a  church  in 
the  city,  conducted  the  opening  devotional  service 
on  the  last  evening.  All  the  Elgin  pastors  were  the 
business  committee,  and  all  their  people  joined 
hands  and  hearts  to  entertain  the  convention  in  a 
royal  manner.  Rev.  John  Mitchell  of  Sycamore  was 
permanent  secretary.  Theimportantaddresses  were 
by  Rev.  Henry  Wilson  of  Carpenterville,  Rev.  Drs. 
W.  W.  Everts,  Mandeville,  and  S.  I.  Curtis  and  Hon. 
Thomas  E  Hill  of  Chicago,  by  Pres.  C.  A.  Blanch- 
ard and  Frank  W.  Smith. 

At  the  opening  of  business  the  secretary,  on  read- 
ing the  call  for  the  meeting,  said  that  words  of  ap- 
proval and  letters  had  been  received  from  a  number 
of  States,  and  the  signatures  to  the  call  which  had 
been  circulated  numbered  several  thousands. 

The  openirg  address  by  Rev.  Henry  Wilson  on 
"The  Christian  and  Sabbath  Business,"  was  a  very 
able  and  logical  paper,  in  which  he  said  the  Chris- 
tian of  to-day  is  called  upon  to  decide  the  following 
practical  questions: 

1.  How  much  work  shall  the  followers  of  Christ 
compel  others  to  do  on  the  Sabbath?  Shall  the 
Christian  purchase  meat  or  have  it  delivered  Sab- 
bath morning  when  he  can  buy  a  refrigerator?  Shall 
the  milkman  deliver  milk  at  the  homes  of  Christians 
on  the  Sabbath  when  the  Christians  can  purchase  a 
■  louble  quantity  Saturday  or  use  condensed  milk? 
Shall  the  Christian  ride  out  Sabbath  afternoon  and 
.-^o  compel  men  to  work  in  livery  stables  on  that 
day? 

•>.  Should  the  Christian  give  up  his  employment 
rather  than  neglect  the  means  of  grace,  violate  his 
own  conscience,  injure  his  children  and  the  cause  cf 
Christ  by  working  on  the  Sabbath? 

{ConHnrud  on  Ifth  pag») 


10 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


November  17, 1887 


The  Home. 


TRY  LOVIUQ-KINBNBBS. 

Sitting  alone  in  the  shadow 

Of  a  Krlef  that  was  all  my  own ; 
Silently  thinking  it  over, 

Silently  making  moan, 
Sudden  there  swept  the  music 

Of  a  gladness  great  and  deep, 
Over  the  chords  of  feeling, 

Till  my  heart  forgot  to  weep. 

"Because  of  thy  loving-kindness"— 

The  word  stole  into  my  brain. 
Like  a  cool  hand  soothing  its  fever, 

And  charming  away  the  pain. 
Because  of  thy  loving-kindness, 

Better  than  life  to  me. 
My  life  shall  be  keyed  to  the  measure 

Of  praise  unchecked  and  free. 

Not  always  the  path  is  easy; 

There  are  thickets  hung  with  gloom. 
There  are  rough  and  stony  places 

Where  never  the  roses  bloom. 
But  oft,  when  the  way  is  hardest , 

I  am  conscious  of  One  at  my  side, 
Whose  hands  and  whose  feet  are  wounded, 

And  I'm  happy  and  safe  with  my  Guide. 

Better  than  friends  and  kindred. 

Better  thaa  love  and  rest. 
Dearer  than  hope  and  triumph. 

Is  the  name  I  wear  on  my  breast. 
I  feel  my  way  through  the  shadows, 

With  a  confident  heart  and  brave, 
I  shall  live  in  the  light  beyond  them, 

I  shall  conquer  death  and  the  grave. 

Often  when  tried  and  tempted. 

Often,  ashamed  of  sin, 
That,  strong  as  an  armed  invader. 

Has  made  wreck  of  the  peace  within, 
That  wonderful  loving-kindness. 

Patient,  and  full,  and  free, 
Has  stopped  for  my  consolation. 

Has  brought  a  blessing  to  me. 

Therefore  my  lips  shall  praise  Thee, 

Therefore,  let  come  what  may. 
To  the  height  of  a  solemn  gladness 

My  song  shall  arise  to-day. 
Not  on  the  drooping  willow 

Shall  I  hang  my  haip  in  the  land. 
When  the  Lord  himself  has  cheered  me 

By  the  touch  of  his  pierced  hand. 

-^Margaret  E.  SangsteVy  in  S.  S.  Times. 


ing  town;  the  Rev.  Pliny  Fisk  and  the  Rev.Levi  Par- 
sons,early  missionaries  to  Palestine,  who  brought 
that  country  nearer  than  ever  before  to  Bible  read- 
ers; Wm.  M.  Ferry.U.  S.  Senator;  Prof.  James  Hay- 
ward.of  Cambridge;  Dr.  Marcus  Whitman,  who  took 
the  first  wagon  over  the  Rocky  Mountains  to  Oregon; 
John  Brown,  of  Harper's  Ferry  notoriety;  William 
Cullen  Bryant,  the  poet,  author  and  editor,  whose 
name  is  a  household  word  wherever  the  English  lan- 
guage is  spoken,  and  whose  home  in  Cumington  was 
in  sight,  less  than  three  miles  away;  together  with 
the  pastor's  own  tour  sons,of  whom  tfie  Rev.Wm  A. 
Hallock,  D.  D.,  was  the  originator  of  the  American 
Tract  Society  and  its  accomplished  secretary  for  up- 
ward of  half  a  century,  residing  in  New  York  city; 
Gerard  Hallock,  who  established  the  Boston  Tele- 
graph in  1825,  united  it  with  the  Boston  Recorder  in 
1826,  became  half-proprietor  of  the  New  York  Ob- 
server in  1827,  and  in  1828,  in  partnership  with  Da- 
vid Hale,  founded  the  New  York  Journal  of  Com- 
merce, and  then  conducted  it  with  signal  ability 
through  the  most  important  thirty-three  years  in  the 
history  of  the  newspaper  press  of  America;  Leavitt 
Hallock,  a  scholarly,  public-spirited.  Christian  gen- 
tleman,who  settled  in  Plainfield,  extended  the  most 
generous  hospitality  to  missionaries,  ministers,  and 
college  students,  and  gave  all  his  children — both 
sons  and  daughters — a  liberal  education;  and  Ho- 
man  Hallock,  who  went  to  Malta  and  Smyrna  as 
missionary  printer  and  invented  the  new  Arabic 
type  in  which  the  Bible  has  been  so  successfully  and 
extensively  printed."  ' 

m  I  m 

BLASP^MY. 


mult,  but  Elijah's  prayer  brought  down  the  fire 
which  consumed  the  sacrifice.  The  Christian  wor- 
ships a  God  at  hand,  and  he  who  walks  with  God 
and  has  fellowship  with  him  is  not  dependent  upon 
noise  and  racket  for  Divine  recognition  or  help  from 
above  in  time  of  need. — Ghrittian. 


WHAT  AN  OUT-OF-THE- 
QIVBN  TO  THE 


WAY  TOWN  HAS 
WORLD. 


From  the  Magazine  of  American  History  for  March 
we  extract  the  following  account  of  a  famous  family 
whose  home  was  in  Plainfield,  Mass.: 

"In  the  summer  of  the  year  1792  came  the  young 
pastor  who  had  been  secured  for  the  infant  church 
in  Plainfield.  He  was  ordained  on  the  11th  of  Ju- 
ly. This  was  the  Rev.  Moses  Hallock,  then  thirty- 
two  years  of  age,  a  graduate  from  Yale,and  a  minis- 
ter, who,  in  scholarly  equipment  for  his  life  work 
and  in  simplicity  and  force  of  character,  had  few 
equals  and  no  superior.  He  and  Deacon  Richards 
became  the  most  ardent  friends.and  so  continued  to 
the  end  of  their  lives.  Mr.  Hallock's  salary  was 
small  at  the  beginning,  less  than  $200  a  year,which 
was  paid  one-fourth  only  in  cash,  the  rest  in  farm 
produce.  But  he  was  content.  One  neighbor  pre- 
sented him  with  sixty  young  apple  trees  and  he 
planted  an  orchard,  which  soon  yielded  delicious 
fruit  He  preached  to  the  Plainfield  people  forty- 
five  years,  during  which  period  revivals  followed  re- 
vivals with  more  frequency  and  broader  results  than 
in  any  other  individual  church  in  the  land.  During 
one  of  the  early  years  of  his  ministry  it  is  recorded 
that  'seventeen  joined  the  church  in  one  day;'  and 
again,  'thirty-one  persons  joined  the  church,twenty- 
four  of  whom  adorned  the  aisle  at  one  time.' 

"In  addition  to  his  pastoral  duties,  Mr.  Hallock 
opened  a  classical  school  in  his  dwelling  house  for 
the  benefit  of  the  sons  and  daughters  of  his  parish- 
ioners. This  attracted  wide  attention,  and  ere  long 
many  pupils  came  to  him  from  other  towns  in  the 
vicinity;  during  the  three  following  decades  he  pre- 
pared a  large  number  of  young  men  for  college  and 
the  higher  walks  and  professions  of  life.  In  the 
records  of  Williams  College,it  is  said  that  for  a  long 
time  in  the  early  struggles  of  that  institution,  the 
question  of  how  many  students  were  to  enter  at  the 
beginning  of  each  college  year  depended  upon  the 
number  Mr.  Hallock  could  furnish.  Half  the  class 
were  not  infretiuenlly  from  the  Plainfield  school. 
Among  those  who  in  boyhood  learned  their  various 
lessons  in  the  historic  parsonage  were  the  distin- 
guished sons  of  Deacon  Ilichards,before  mentioned; 
Rev.  Jonas  Kifig,  the  celebrated  missionary  to 
Greece,  whose  birthplace  was  in  Hawley,  the  adjoin- 


Dr.  A.  J.  Gordon  of  Boston  has  none  too  soon 
raised  the  voice  of  solemn  warning  against  what  he 
styles  the  "cooking  stove  apostasy."  Total  prohibi- 
tion of  carnal  amusement  in  the  house  of  God  is  the 
only  remedy.  The  Gospel  Sickle  is  responsible  for 
the  following  horrid  recital: 

"A  few  weeks  since  in  the  town  of  Sullivan,  Ill.,a 
'crazy  supper'  was  given  by  the  ladies  of  a  certain 
prominent  church,which  we  refrain  from  mentioning 
out  of  respect  to  the  denomination  in  general.  A 
circular  was  gotten  up  and  issued  in  very  fantastic 
style  advertising  the  supper, which  reads  as  follows: 

"  'The  ladies  of  the church,assisted 

by  their  many  friends,  will  give  a  "Crazy  Supper  "at 
the  Armory,  Sullivan,  111.,  Wednesday  evening,  Aug, 
3, 1887,  beginning  at  5:30  p.  m.,  and— "We  won't  go 
home  till  mornin'." 

"  'Is  it  not  written,  "Every  vacuum  must  be  fill- 
ed?" "Let  no  guilty  man  escape?"  So  come  along. 
Hear  the  words  of  the  prophet  Jerry  My  Oh,  "The 
young  man  and  his  girl  can't  live  on  dry  bread  alone." 
So  the  crazy,  mazy  menu  will  consist,  among  other 
things,  of  tongue,chicken  salad  and  just  every-day 
chicken,  ham,  pickles,  jelly,  cake,  ice  cream,  tea,cof- 
fee,  etc.,and  will  be  served  in  many  crazy,mazy,hazy 
waze,  "And  the  light  shone  down  on  brave  women 
and  fair  men." — Burns.  Give  ear,  0  ye  inhabitants 
of  Sullivan  and  vicinity,  to  the  voice  of  Dave  the 
sweet  ringer;  make  a  joyful  sound  on  the  psalter-y 
and  the  butter-y,the  tin  horn  and  the  cob  pipe;  such 
excellent  music  will  be  furnished.  Admission  and 
supper,  25  cents.  Friends,  Romans,  countrymen,we 
come  not  here  to  talk,  but  to  invite  you  to  eat,drink 
and  be  merry.' 

"Think  of  a  religious  organization  in  a  civilized 
land  and  composed  of  civilized  people  getting  up 
such  a  caricature  on  religion  and  the  Bible  as  the 
above-described  incident  affords!  Think  of  prof ess- 
ed  Christians  giving  to  the  prophet  of  God  such  a 
name  as  'Jerry  My  Oh,'  and  putting  into  his  mouth 
such  words  as  'The  young  man  and  his  girl  can't 
live  on  dry  bread  alone!'  In  the  language  of  another, 
'Such  a  caricature  on  God's  Word  is  truly  appalling.' 
It  is  enough  to  cause  even  worldlings  to  blush  for 
shame  that  they  live  in  a  land  where  such  iniquities 
are  practiced  in  the  name  of  religion,  and  for  the 
support  of  the  worship  of  God." 


WAS  IT  LUCK? 


'YOU  ROLLERS  TOO  LOUD." 


"'Taint  de  true  grace,honey!  'taint  de  sure  glory," 
said  Aunt  Judy  to  one  of  her  colored  sisters.  "You 
hollers  too  loud.  When  you  gits  de  love  in  your 
heart  and  de  Lamb  in  your  bosom,  you'll  feel  as  if 
you  was  in  dat  stable  at  Beth'lem,  an'  de  blessed 
Virgin  had  lent  you  de  sleepin'  baby  to  hold." 

There  are  many  people  who,  if  they  lived  nearer 
to  the  Lord,  would  not  need  to  talk  so  loud  while 
trying  to  make  him  hear  them.  The  still  waters  run 
deepest.  Tumult  and  babble  and  excitement  are  no 
certain  evidences  of  the  peace  that  passetb  knowl- 
edge. On  the  top  of  Mt,  Carmel  most  of  the  yelling 
was  done  by  Baal's  prophets,  while  Elijah,  calm,cool 
and  collected,  taunted  them  with  the  indifference  of 
their  sleepy  god.     Baal's  priests  made  the  most  tu- 


There  was  a  frantic  cry  of  "Whoa!"  "whoa!"  and 
the  driver  of  "No.  7"  put  down  the  brake,  and  the 
car  came  to  a  standstill  just  as  a  runaway  horse 
dragging  but  a  fragment  of  a  carriage,  dashed  past. 
Men,  women  and  children  ran  in  various  directions, 
some  of  them  trying  to  keep  out  of  the  horse's  track, 
and  others,  more  venturesome,  making  ineffectual 
attempts  to  seize  the  dangling  bridle. 

Mr.  Lord  was  unfolding  the  Bee,  which  always 
reached  him  about  the  time  he  started  down  town, 
when  the  commotion  outside  attracted  his  attention. 

"Look  out  for  your  old  basket!"— and  a  slight 
kick  completely  overturned  it.  In  their  haste  and 
excitement,  a  colored  woman  and  two  boys  had  ac- 
tually collided;  at  the  same  time  finding  a  street  car 
in  unyielding  background. 

Herbert  Atkinson,  nearly  tumbling  into  the  bask- 
et of  freshly-laundried  clothes,  which  the  woman 
in  her  fright  had  dropped,  indignantly  applied  the 
force  necessary  to  scatter  the  immaculate  linen  upon 
the  dusty  street. 

With  a  fierce  scowl  and  muttered  oath  he  immedi- 
ately sprang  upon  the  car.  Other  vehicles  standing 
near  completely  blocked  the  passage,and  while  trou- 
ble was  imminent  (for  the  drivers  were  loud  in  ex- 
postulation),Mr.Lord  gave  his  attention  to  the  scene 
just  under  his  window. 

"Excuse  me,  madam,"  said  the  other  boy,  lifting 
his  hat,  which  he  was  in  the  act  of  placing  on  his 
head,  after  picking  himself  up  from  the  pavement, 
where  he  for  a  moment  had  fallen,  when,  during  the 
scramble  for  safety,  both  the  woman  and  Herbert 
had  brought  up  against  him. 

"Yer  didn't  do  it,  honey,  yer  noways  ter  blame," 
was  the  answer. 

As  she  reached  for  her  basket  she  groaned,  and 
George  Graham  exclaimed,  "Are  you  hurt?"  and 
while  she  with  one  hand  was  tightly  holding  the 
bruised  and  sprained  wrist,  he  was  very  carefully 
gathering  up  the  now  soiled  garments,  brushing, 
shaking  and  folding. 

When  the  car  started,  everything  had  been  ar- 
ranged, and  the  manly  lad  was  walking  away  with 
the  washerwoman's  load. 

Mr.  Lord  returned  to  his  paper,  first  looking  at 
his  own  advertisement,  which  read  something  like 
this: 

"Wanted,  at  this  oflSce,  an  honest  and  gentleman- 
ly boy,  about  sixteen  years  of  age,  who  has  a  home 
in  the  city.  None  but  an  apt  scholar,  and  one  well 
recommended  need  apply.  Call  at  twelve  o'clock  to- 
day." 

Mr.Lord's  experience  in  advertising  was  such  that 
he  congratulated  himself  on  the  short  notice  he  had 
given,tru8ting  that  the  right  boy  would  be  on  hand, 
and  he  not  be  pained  as  he  would  be  if  obliged  to  turn 
away  many  applicants  for  the  place. 

A  little  before  noon  his  wife  came  in  for  a  chat, 
leaving  their  little  Annie  with  him  for  an  hour,  as 
was  her  custom  when  out  at  this  time. 

"Papa's  little  Rest  has  come,  has  she?"as  he  took 
the  child  in  his  lap.  It  was  one  of  his  happy  hours, 
he  often  said,when  he  gave  himself  up  to  a  frolic  with 
his  little  girl. 

"Oh,  pa,  Dinah  has  hurt  her  hand  and  tumbled 
down  in  the  street.  It  was  something  about  a  horse 
and  a  car, — anyway,mamma  has  packed  a  basket  of 
food  for  her  and  taken  her  home.  It  was  no  matter 
'bout  the  tumbled  clothes,  mamma  told  her." 

"Yes,  dear,  but  who  is  Dinah?"  seeing  that  the 
child  was  too  much  interested  to  think  of  anything 
else  just  then. 

"Oh,  she  helps  Mary  wash,  and  sometimes  takes 
the  clothes  home  with  her.  Pa,  there  is  the  very  boy 
who  brought  the  basket  for  her,coming  here,"as  she 
looked  from  the  window. 

"It  is  twelve  o'clock,darling,  and  I  must  attend  to 
a  little  business.     You  may  stay  here  with  me." 

"John,"  through  a  speaking  tube,  "you  may  send 
up  the  boys  in  the  order  in  which  they  come." 

"Good-morning!"  and  a  youth  politely  removed 
his  hat  as  he  responded  to  the  usual  pleasant  greet- 
ing. 

A  prepossessing  face  and  evidently  a  well-inform- 
ed boy  of  sixteen,  bright  and  active,  with  a  letter 
from  a  well-known  man,  which  read  something  like 
this:  "James  Armstrong  is  the  son  of  an  old  friend 
of  mine.  He  is  a  fine  scholar.  Please  give  him  a 
place  and  oblige,"  etc. 

"Well,  James,  I  like  your  looks,  and  I  do  not 
doubt  your  ability,  but  I  noticed  the  stump  of  a  ci- 


NOTIHBXB  17, 1887 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


11 


gar  in  your  fingers  as  you  came  in,  and  your  clothes 
are  filled  with  the  odor  of  tobacco.  How  long  have 
you  smoked?" 

"Two  years  or  more,"he  answered,  looking  resent- 
fully at  the  gentleman,  though  he  had  the  grace  to 
blush. 

"My  boy, do  you  know  you  are  sowing  the  seeds 
of  misery?" 

"It  rests  me  to  smoke." 

"Rests  you!  Ah,  poor  child,  I  might  preach  you 
a  long  sermon,  tell  of  the  blighted  lives,  ruined 
nerves,  and  empty  pockets,  but  forbear.  My  lad, 
learn  a  les8on,throw  it  away  before  it  is  too  late.  I'll 
excuse  you  now." 

The  boy  went  out  in  a  swaggering,indifl[erent  way, 
muttering  something  about  "taking  away  a  man's 
liberty." 

Pityingly,  Mr.  Lord  saw  him  depart.  The  next 
boy  was  clean  and  pure  to  look  at,  and  handed  his 
recommendation  to  Mr.  Lord  in  a  very  self-satisfied 
way.  The  gentleman,  with  a  sense  of  the  morning 
fresh  in  his  mind,  even  when  he  read  the  compli- 
mentary words,  written  by  his  own  minister,  could 
not  say  "Yes"  to  such  an  applicant.  He  had  no 
doubt  of  his  fine  scholarship,and  his  general  appear- 
ance was  greatly  in  his  favor,  but  said:  "Hebert,  I 
came  down  on  car  No.  7  this  morning  and  witnessed 
a  little  scene  that  you  will  recall.  I  advertised  for 
a  gentlemanly  lad.     I'll  excuse  you  now." 

With  hot  cheeks  he  departed. 

The  next  was  a  boy  with  a  fine  face,but  not  as  well 
grown  as  the  others,  and  with  no  recommendation 
except  a  note  from  his  mother.  Mr.  Lord  read: 
"Dear  Sir: — We  are  strangers  in  the  city.  I  know 
of  no  one,who,with  this  short  notice,can  recommend 
my  boy.  A  mother  may  be  partial  in  her  judgment, 
but  he  is  a  good  boy,  and  you,  if  you  will  take  the 
trouble,  can  learn  of  his  scholarship.  Will  you 
please  give  him  a  chance  to  learn  a  trade  that  has 
great  attractions  for  him?  We  have  a  case  in  the 
house  and  he  can  already  set  type  quite  rapidly. 
His  father  was  a  printer.  Excuse  this  long  note  and 
oblige.  Yours  truly,  M.  A.  Graham." 

"Well,  a  mother  ought  to  know,"  he  said  to  him- 
self, and  as  his  eye  took  in  the  air  of  re- 
spectability that  pervaded  the  dress  of  the 
boy,  he  realized  that  unless  supplanted  by 
new  it  would  soon  become  very  shabby;  and 
he  recalled  the  time  when  his  own  mother  came 
to  the  city  with  her  small  children  and  the  disap- 
pointments that  he,  her  oldest  child,  had  met  with 
before  he  gained  a  foothold  in  the  seething  tide  of 
humanity  that  surrounded  the  unsophisticated 
youth. 

"It  you  can  give  us  a  little  time,  sir,  mother  will 
write  to  our  old  home,  and  get  the  names  of  parties 
who  will  give  me  a  recommendation. 

"My  boy,  I  advertised  for  a  gentlemanly  lad,  and 
of  that  I  have  had  indisputable  evidence  already ,and 
the  examination  I  will  now  give  you  will  settle  the 
question  of  scholarship.  Everything  else  I'll  take 
on  trust,  feeling  confident  that  I  shall  not  be  de- 
ceived." 

That  evening  Mrs.  Atkinson,  when  discussing  af- 
fairs with  an  acquaintance,  said: 

"1  cannot  understand  the  luck  of  some  folks.  Her- 
bert went  to  the  editor  of  the  Bee  this  morning,  and 
was  only  the  second  boy  there,"  "Yes,  my  boy  got 
there  first,"  interrupted  the  other,"and  he  had  a  let- 
ter from  one  of  Mr.  Lord's  own  friends."  "And  my 
boy,"  broke  in  the  first  speaker,  "had  a  recommen- 
dation from  our  minister,  and  even  then  Mr.  Lord 
took  a  shabby  little  fellow, Herbert  8ays,who  doesn't 
know  anybody  in  town.     Such  luck!" 

Was  it  luck,  boys? — S.  S.  limes. 


A   GOOD  JOKB. 


Boys  are  often  fond  of  playing  jokes.  Such  may 
sometimes  be  done,  but  never  to  any  one's  incon- 
venience. In  one  of  our  colleges  the  professor,  who 
made  himself  very  friendly  with  the  students,  was 
walking  out  with  an  intelligent  scholar,  when  they 
saw  an  old  man  hoeing  in  a  cornfield.  He  was  ad- 
vancing slowly  with  his  work  toward  the  road,  by 
the  side  of  which  lay  his  shoes.  As  it  was  near 
sunset,  the  student  proposed  to  play  the  old  man  a 
joke.  "I  will  hide  his  shoes;  we  will  conceal  our- 
selves behind  the  bushes,  and  see  what  he  will  do." 

"No,"  said  the  professor,  "it  would  not  be  right. 
You  have  money  enough;  just  put  a  dollar  in  the 
man's  shoes;  then  we  will  hide  behind  the  bushes, 
and  see  what  he  will  do." 

The  student  agreed  to  the  proposal,  and  they  con- 
cealed themselves  accordingly. 

When  the  laborer  had  finished  his  row  of  com,  he 
came  out  of  the  field  to  go  home.  He  put  on  one 
shoe,  felt  something  hard,  took  it  off  and  found  the 
dollar.  He  looked  around  him  but  saw  no  one,  and 
looked  up  gratefully  toward  heaven.      He  then  put 


on  the  other  shoe,  and  found  another  dollar.  He 
looked  at  it,  and  looked  all  around  him,  but  saw  no 
one.  He  then  knelt  upon  the  ground  and  returned 
thanks  to  God  for  the  blessings  that  had  been  con- 
ferred upon  him.  The  listeners  learned  from  the 
prayer  that  the  old  man's  wife  and  one  of  his  chil- 
dren were  sick,  and  that  they  were  very  poor;  so 
that  the  two  dollars  were  a  great  relief  sent  to  them 
from  heaven. 

"There,"  said  the  professor,  "how  much  better 
this  is  than  to  have  hidden  the  old  man's  shoes." — 
Christian  Advocate. 


Temperance. 


THB  WICKED  PROHIBITORY  LAW  OF  IOWA. 


[Correspondence  of  the  Inter  Ocean.  | 

But  this  "fanatical  law"  has  also  very  seriously 
injured  the  sherifl  business  in  the  counties  where  it 
has  been  vigorously  enforced.  In  a  recent  interview 
with  Sheriff  Painter,  of  this  county,that  official  said: 
"Of  course  prohibition  has  injured  business.  I 
served  as  sheriff"  about  two  years  before  it  began  to 
take  effect.  In  those  happy  days  the  county  board- 
ing house  which  I  run  was  always  full  to  overflow- 
ing. The  county  paid  50  cents  a  day  for  the  keep- 
ing of  each  prisoner,  and  I  had  from  forty  to  fifty 
boarders  all  the  time,and  no  danger  of  their  jump- 
ing the  board  bill.  But  now  and  for  months  past  I 
have  only  a  paltry  eight  or  ten;  and  the  expenses 
are  more  than  the  income.  The  first  term  I  used  to 
take  from  twenty-five  to  thirty  to  the  penitentiary 
each  year;  but  this  year  I  have  only  taken  four  to 
the  pen.  I  tell  you  the  criminal  business  is  all  gone 
to  smash  and  the  sheriff's  office  isn't  worth  half  as 
much  as  it  was  in  the  good  old  saloon  times.  I've 
had  enough  of  the  office  and  will  be  glad  when  my 
time  is  up.  And  large  numbers  of  sheriffs  with 
whom  I  have  talked  are  in  the  same  fix.  If  it  hadn't 
been  for  the  fees  for  prosecuting  the  saloon  fellows 
I  should  come  out  in  debt." 

Now  that  is  proof  of  the  most  positive  character 
that  prohibition  hurts  business.  It  has  been  partic- 
ularly disastrous  to  the  criminal  business  in  four- 
fifths  of  the  counties  of  the  State.  The  district 
judges  attest  this  fact.  Judge  Kavanaugh,  of  this 
district,  said  to  the  Grand  Jury  recently,  in  open 
court,  that  in  this  county  the  records  show  a  de- 
crease of  more  than  fifty  per  cent  in  the  cases  of 
crimes  of  violence,  or  involving  moral  turpitude, 
within  the  past  year.  In  fact,  these  are  hard  times 
for  lawyers,  especially  the  younger  class,  who  de 
pend  upon  criminal  practice.  A  prominent  lawyer 
of  this  State,  who  served  in  Congress  a  number  of 
years,  on  resuming  his  practice  recently  noted  the 
change.    He  said  to  the  reporter  of  a  local  paper: 

"The  remarkable  shrinkage  in  law  business  in 
Iowa  is  one  of  the  most  notable  and  significant  signs 
of  the  times.  I  find  on  taking  up  my  business  again 
that  the  prohibitory  law,  by  decreasing  crime  and 
bringing  in  peace  and  good  neighborhood, has  taken 
away  half  of  my  practice.  The  railroad  commission, 
which  is  merely  a  method  of  arbitration  between  the 
people  and  the  railroads,  and  a  very  successful  one, 
has  taken  away  another  large  part  of  it.  The  farm- 
ers and  other  business  men  who  used  to  owe  a  great 
many  small  debts,  and  thus  furnished  a  great 
amount  of  business  to  lawyers,  have  now  either  paid 
up  or  else  have  had  the  business  sense  to  negotiate 
loans  on  long  time,  following  the  old  rule  of  owing 
one  large  debt  rather  than  a  good  many  small  ones, 
and  this  has  taken  away  another  large  slice  of  my 
practice.  There  is  no  use  denying  the  fact,  Iowa 
now  has  far  less  businesb  for  lawyers  than  it  used 
to  have." 

All  this  is  sad,  very  sad!  But  the  good  people  of 
the  State  will  probably  endure  with  rare  Christian 
fortitude  the  affiictions  that  have  lately  come  upon 
the  criminal  lawyers  and  others  who  have  suffered 
by  the  operation  of  the  law.  There  are  some  mitiga- 
tions for  calamities  of  that  sort. 

It  is  noted  that  among  the  jugwumps  of  this  city, 
who  complain  most  loudly  of  the  disastrous  results 
of  prohibition,  are  a  half  dozen  promising  young 
lawyers,  whose  practice  heretofore  has  been  defend- 
ing or  prosecuting  criminals.  Like  one  Demetrius, 
the  Ephesian  silversmith,  they  cry  out,"Our  craft  is 
in  danger,"  and  join  the  saloonocracy  in  the  shout- 
ing, "Great  is  Bacchus  and  Gambrinus I" 

Yes,  and  a  similar  plaint  comes  up  from  the  pen- 
itentiary at  Fort  Madison.  The  contractors  for  pris- 
on labor  complain  that  they  are  unable  to  fill  their 
orders  because  of  a  marked  falling  o(r  in  the  number 
of  hands  furnished  them  by  the  State.  The  decrease 
this  year  is  over  seventy,  and  if  this  thing  goes  on 
the  contractors  will  be  ruined  for  the  want  of  cheap 
criminal  labor.  Without  a  doubt  prohibition  hurts 
business! 

Another  great  industry  has  suffered  a  marked  de- 


cline in  this  city  within  the  past  year  or  two,  viz., 
the  business  of  slugging  and  highway  robbery. 
Three  and  four  years  ago  cases  of  midnight  as- 
saults upon  belated  travelers  and  citizens  were  of 
frequent  occurrence.  There  were  certain  streets  and 
portions  of  the  city  in  which  an  unarmed  man 
would  scarcely  venture  alone  on  a  dark  night.  For 
a  time  there  was  serious  talk  among  the  law-abiding 
people  of  organizing  a  vigilance  committee  to  clean 
out  that  prowling  band  of  marauders.  They  made 
the  saloons  their  rendezvous,  and  since  the  anti-sa- 
loon law  took  effect  they  have  vanished.  The  "bus- 
iness" has  been  badly  hurt.  All  our  citizens  can 
testify  to  that.  Our  streets  are  comparatively  safe 
now  at  all  hours  of  the  day  and  night,  and  slugging 
is  no  longer  feared.  Of  course  this  marked  change 
makes  dull  times  for  reporters  and  the  police,  but 
other  people  don't  complain  much. 

The  driving  out  of  that  class  of  citizens  has  un- 
doubtedly decreased  the  population  of  the  city  some- 
what, but  the  result  is  not  especially  disastrous  to 
those  who  remain.  That  class  of  gentry  are  now 
abroad,  plying  their  trade  in  more  congenial  cities, 
and  they  are  of  the  sort  who  most  feelingly  describe 
the  disastrous  effects  of  prohibition  on  Des  Moines. 


THE  PROHIBITIONiaT'8   OPPORTUNITY. 


Without  doubt  the  Prohibitionist  is  abroad,  and 
if  he  is  anxious  to  win  he  must  truly  and  honorably 
show  to  the  colored  man  that  he  is  his  friend.  As 
slavery  could  not  die  and  the  Republican  party  live 
without  the  colored  man's  vote,  so  prohibition  can- 
not be  secured  and  retained  without  us.  There  are 
thousands  of  colored  men  who  want  to  join  the  Pro- 
hibitionists, as  a  political  party,  but  as  many  ques- 
tions concerning  our  rights  are  still  unsettled,  we 
are  not  prepared  to  leave  the  Republican  party  nor 
to  join  the  Democratic  party,  and  as  there  are  many 
questions  of  wages  and  the  entering  of  shops  by 
colored  men,  it  is  hardly  safe  to  trust  the  Labor 
party.  Now,  the  colored  man  is  looking  to  the  Pro- 
hibition party,  and  he  is  really  charmed  with  the 
moral  ideas  it  represents.  Many  are  disgusted  with 
the  weakness  of  the  Republicans,  nearly  all  hate 
the  principles  of  the  Democrats,  and  we  want  to 
help  win  our  common  rights.  The  whole  South  is 
under  Democratic  control.  Republican  victory  will 
mean  little  help  for  us,  for  when  they  had  power  it 
was  even  worse,  with  no  power  to  overreach  the 
doctrines  of  "States  Rights."  What  shall  we  do? 
Listen!  Let  the  Prohibitionists  of  the  South  meet 
the  colored  man  on  the  following  platform: 

1.  A  guarantee  to  put  down  mob  law  and  prose- 
cute all  who  make  the  Negroes'  life  a  burden  in  the 
South. 

2.  Honestly  to  give  extended  public  school  privi- 
leges to  the  Negro. 

3.  To  do  away  with  all  distinctions  in  traveling 
on  railroads,  steamboats  and  omnibusses. 

4.  A  pledge  to  see  that  the  Negro  is  defended  in 
contracts  and  all  dealings  with  planters,  and  others 
accustomed  to  cheat  and  outrage  our  defenseless, 
poor  and  ignorant  plantation  hand. 

5.  A  pledge  to  see  that  colored  men  and  women 
get  justice  before  the  courts,  and  that  erring  children 
be  not  sent  to  penal  institutions  but  to  reformatory 
ones. 

6.  To  give  equal  representation  on  county  and 
State  tickets,  and  every  way  to  share  in  the  bless- 
ings of  full  American  citizens. 

Let  the  Prohibitionist  do  this  and  we  will  elect 
the  next  President  of  the  United  States  for  them, 
and  put  them  in  the  possession  of  the  Southern 
States  and  give  them  big  foothold  in  Congress  in 
both  houses. 

Of  course,  the  white  Southern  Prohibitionist  must 
expect  to  do  as  others  to  get  votes — they  must  offer 
the  inducement  The  contest  in  Texas,  Tennessee 
and  Kentucky  shows  that  the  bare  discussion  of  pro- 
hibition don't  carry  elections.  Even  Christians 
won't  vote  for  it.  Now,  give  the  Negro  something 
to  vote  for,  and  he  will  show  you  that  he  thinks 
more  of  his  rights  than  he  does  of  whisky.  Trj*  it 
and  see.  If  there  are  not  good  men  enough  in  the 
Prohibition  party  to  grant  these  things  let  them  stop 
prating  about  the  ettects  of  strong  drink,  poverty, 
etc.  Come  down  to  the  things  the  Negro  wants,  and 
protect  him  at  the  polls,  and  we  will  pull  otl  our 
coats  and  roll  up  our  sleeves,  and,  braving  death  it- 
self, sweep  this  country  and  drive  whisky  back  to 
hell  from  whence  it  came. — American  Baptist. 
m  »  m 

The  report  of  the  Oregon  election  of  Tuesday  last 
indicates  that  the  prohibitory  amendment  was  lost  by 
a  majority  of  from  7,000  to  8,000  votes. 

At  the  territorial  fair  in  Albuquerque,  the  New 
Mexico  W.  C.  T.  U.  netted  $1)5,  while  the  saloon 
"privilege"  on  the  grounds  did  not  receive -sufficient 
to  pay  for  its  license. 


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THE  CHKrSTLAJHT  CYNOSITKB. 


NOVEMBEK  17,  1887 


BLOIN  CONVENTION  {Continued  from 
3,  Should  the  Christian  patronize  those 


9th  page). 
who  vio- 
late the  Sabbath  day?  Shall  he  ride  on  street-cars 
on  the  Sabbath,  or  hold  stock  in  corporations  that 
run  Sunday  trains?  Shall  he  purchase  or  advertise 
in  the  papers  that  issue  a  Sunday  edition?  Shall  he 
trade  during  the  week  with  those  who  defy  the  best 
sentiments  and  injure  the  best  interests  of  society? 

4.  What  is  the  proper  use  of  Saturday  as  prepar- 
atory to  the  Sabbath?  Shall  the  Christian  work  late 
Saturday  night  and  sleep  late  Sabbath  morning  and 
neglect  going  to  church,  or  shall  one-half  of  Satur- 
day be  observed  as  a  holiday? 

5.  What  is  the  necessary  work  that  the  Christian 
must  do  on  the  Sabbath?  how  much  travel?  how 
much  trade?  how  much  work  in  the  home? 

6.  What  shall  be  the  difference  between  the  con- 
verted and  the  unconverted  to  the  observance  of  the 
Sabbath?  Shall  the  law  of  charity  be  recognized 
by  the  follower  of  Christ?  Shall  he  say,  "IE  meat 
make  my  brother  to  offend"  I  will  not  purchase 
meat  on  the  Sabbath  days. 

7.  Shall  the  Christian  church  have  as  much  au- 
thority over  its  members  as  the  Koights  of  Labor, 
which  forbids  its  members  to  buy  or  sell  on  the  Sab- 
bath? 

8.  The  Christian  should  recognize  certain  princi- 
ples to  determine  the  measure  of  pleasure,  work  and 
religion,  on  the  Sabbath  in  answering  these  ques- 
tions. 

In  answering  these  questions  we  must  regard: — 
First — The  permanence  of  the  moral  law.       The 
Sabbath  is  not  an  ecclesiastical  ordinance  for  Chris- 
tians but  a  humane  provision  for  all  men. 

Second — The  supremacy  of  the  divine  law  over  the 
human  law.  The  law  of  Sabbath  rest  is  not  the  law 
of  the  Christian  church,  but  the  law  of  God. 

Third — The  church  must  also  recognize  the  unity 
of  moral  law,  man  with  his  intellect  and  passions 
needs  the  restraint  of  the  Sabbath  on  the  ground 
that  tempts  him  to  labor  seven  days  a  week. 

Fourth — The  Christian  should  recognize  the  be- 
neficence of  the  law  of  Sabbath  rest.  The  Sabbath 
is  for  man,  not  man  for  the  Sabbath. 

Much  can  be  done  to  redeem  the  Sabbath.  The 
teachings  of  the  Scriptures  should  be  emphasized  in 
the  pulpit.  The  Christian  is  to  enter  the  rest  of  God 
by  following  the  example  of  Christ.  The  industries 
of  the  world  should  be  silent  one  day  in  seven  that 
the  toiler  may  hear,  the  invitation  of  the  Master, 
•'Come  uuto  me,  all  ye  that  labor  and  are  heavy  lad- 
en and  1  will  give  you  rest,"  and  that  the  spiritual 
temple  of  God  may  be  built  without  the  noise  of  the 
hammer. 

Rev.  Dr.  W.  W.  Everts  of  Chicago,  for  some  thir- 
ty years  pastor  of  the  First  Baptist  church,  more 
lately  engaged  in  a  mission  to  the  colored  churches 
of  the  South,  and  author  of  a  book  on  the  Sabbath, 
next  addressed  the  convention  with  such  earnest- 
ness, eloquence  and  logical  power  as  to  create  great 
enthusiasm.  His  statement  of  the  fundamental  prin- 
ciples of  the  discussion  were  the  keynote  of  the 
whole  meeting,  that  the  Sabbath  was  the  gift  of 
God  for  all  mankind. 

The  Sabbath,  from  its  very  nature,  was  intended 
to  intercept  all  things  of  a  secular  nature  and  show 
men  their  duty  to  God.  Jehovah  gives  us  margin 
and  liberties  for  six  days,  but  gives  us  no  liberty 
on  the  seventh  day.  This  day  is  set  apart  for  di- 
vine worship  and  preparation  for  another  life. 

It  is  the  test  of  all  religion.  The  people  who  do 
not  keep  the  Sabbath  have  no  religion.  Think  of 
your  God  and  your  duty  to  your  God.  The  Sab- 
bath was  established  in  the  garden  of  Eden.  It  was 
made  in  the  beginning;  it  is  a  part  of  nature.  Thus 
it  anticipates  all  sges.all  periods,and  was  made  with 
man.  It  is  no  late  innovation.  This  fact  is  too 
much  overlooked.  The  Sabbath  was  enforced  by 
Moses;  Christ  himself  reaffirmed  it.  This  was  one 
of  the  greatest  religious  laws  that  the  day  of  God 
should  be  honored.  The  Sabbath  was  made  for 
man  because  man  could  not  live  without  it.  The 
church  never  abolished  the  Sabbath.  The  Christian 
church  is  built  upon  the  Sabbath.  The  church  un- 
derstands it,  and  the  church  that  remembers  God 
will  remember  and  keep  holy  the  S'ibbath  da)'.  It  is 
a  day  set  apart  for  the  worship  of  God  and  for  re- 
ligious works.  I  have  no  patience  with  "religious" 
men  who  do  not  keep  the  Sabbath.  He  who  does 
not  keep  the  Sabbath  does  not  worship  God,  and  he 
who  does  not  worship  God  must  be  forever  lost. 

The  laboring  class  are  apt  to  arise  late  on  Sunday 
morning,  read  the  Sunday  papers  and  allow  the 
hour  of  worship  to  go  by  unheeded.  In  Vienna,that 
Catholic  city,  the  Sunday  newspaper  is  prohibited. 
Cannot  New  York  and  Chicago  do  what  Vienna  can? 
The  Sunday  train  is  another  great  evil.  They  can 
not  afford  to  run  a  train  unlesss  they  get  a   great 


many  pa8sengers,and  bo  break  up  a  great  many  oon-   this  point. 


gregations.  The  Sunday  railroad  trains  are  hurrying 
their  passengers  fast  on  to  perdition.  What  an  out- 
rage that  the  railroad,  that  great  civilizer,8hould  de- 
stroy the  Christian  Sabbath  I  The  saloon  is  counte- 
nanced in  our  cities  on  Sunday.  Not  content  with 
keeping  this  gateway  of  hell  wide  open  during  six 
days  they  must  also  hold  open  the  doors  on  the  Sab- 
bath of  the  Lord.  If  our  people  have  any  respect 
for  themselves,  for  their  forefathers,  they  will  not 
countenance  any  political  party  that  countenances 
the  saloon.  The  Sunday  saloon  is  the  widest  gate 
possible  to  hell.  In  Chicago  there  are  worse  thea- 
tres running  now  on  Sunday  than  New  Orleans  ever 
saw.  Ball  playing  on  Sunday  must  be  stopped. 
When  we  get  away  from  God's  law  we  must  sink.  If 
Chicago  had  kept  the  Sabbath  there  would  be  no  an- 
archists. The  military  are  at  Highwood  because 
there  was  no  Sabbath  in  Chicago. 

How  many  ministers  go  after  the  people.  Keep 
the  Sabbath  in  the  house  of  God  or  you  will  lose  it. 
The  doctor  was,  as  always,  eloquent,  practical  and 
forcible,and  the  audience  enjoyed  his  remarks. 

Frank  W.  Smith,  the  evangelist,  well  known  in 
Northern  Illinois  for  his  lectures  on  Andersonville 
Prison-pen,  was  the  last  speaker.  His  eloquence, 
fervor  and  originality  aroused  the  audience  to  the 
highest  enthusiasm.  He  plead  with  Christians  for 
self-denial  in  order  to  protect  and  preserve  the  Sab- 
bath. 

The  Wednesday  morning  session,  after  a  half-hour 
prayer  meeting  in  tiie  chapel  and  devotional  servi- 
ces led  by  Rev.  S.  H.  Swartz,  late  of  Belvidere,  now 
of  Leaf  River,  was  devoted  to  the  discussion  of  the 
followicg  resolution: 

Resolved,  That  we  recognize  the  Sabbath  as  an  institu- 
tion of  God.  revealed  in  nature  and  the  Bible,  and  of 
perpetual  obligation  on  all  men;  and  also  as  a  civil  and 
American  institution,  bound  up  in  vital  and  historical 
connection  with  the  origin  and  foundation  of  our  gov- 
ernment, the  growth  of  our  polity  and  necessary  to  be 
maintained  in  order  for  the  preservation  and  integrity  of 
our  national  system,  and  therefore  as  having  a  sacred 
claim  on  all  patriotic  American  citizens. 

On  motion  to  adopt.  Dr.  Mandeville  of  Chicago, 
State's  Attorney  Cooper  of  Du  Page  county.  Prof. 
Whitney  of  Beloit,  Pres.  L.  N.  Stratton  and  Prof. 
H.  A.  Fischer  of  Wheaton,  Rev.  C.  K.  Colver  of 
Chicago,  Rev.  Fuller  of  Morrison,  Rev.  Staunton  of 
Rockford,Rev.Harbaugh  of  Genoa  Junction,andRev. 
Lea  of  Woodstock,  discussed  the  resolution  which 
was  adopted. 

The  committee  on  resolutions  also  suggested  some 
queries  on  street  car  travel,  the  milk  business  and 
Sunday  papers.  Dr.  P.  S.  Henson  being  unavoid- 
bly  absent,  the  time  which  he  was  expected  to  oc- 
cupy was  devoted  to  brief  speeches  on  these  ques- 
tions, and  the  liveliest  interest  was  aroused  in  the 
practical  work  of  Sabbath  observance.  Hon.  Thomas 
B.  Hill,  late  mayor  of  Aurora,  read  an  able  paper 
urging  the  universal  adoption  of  a  Saturday  half- 
holiday  in  order  to  give  the  laboring  man  his  recrea- 
tion and  time  for  small  jobs,  and  save  the  Sabbath 
for  needed  worship  and  spiritual  improvement. 

Rev.  Mr.  Stewart,  of  Savannah,  made  an  earnest 
speech  for  putting  into  effect  the  State  law  on  the 
Sabbath.  His  was  a  railroad  town  and  full  of  Sab- 
bath-breaking, but  the  men  were  anxious  something 
should  be  done  to  give  them  relief.  The  Brother- 
hood of  Engineers,  he  believed,  would  sustain  any 
effort  to  enforce  the  law  against  the  railway  compa- 
nies. 

Rev.  Mr.  Swartz  said  that  all  vhese  lines  of  busi- 
ness would  stop  on  Sunday  if  the  profits  were  taken 
away.  Let  the  railroads  and  street  cars  be  restrain- 
ed from  making  any  charge  for  Sunday  travel  and 
they  would  stop  quick.  The  man  who  can't  get  to 
church  without  a  street  car  would  glorify  God  more 
by  staying  at  home.  It  is  not  a  necessity;  it  is  self- 
ishness, the  desire  for  dollars  and  cents.  But  for 
that,  not  a  wheel  of  the  Sunday  train  would  turn; 
not  a  factory  run. 

The  street  car  question  came  up  by  a  good  broth- 
er from  Rockford  who  had  horses  and  carriage,  but 
did  not  like  to  drive  in  the  dark,  and,  as  he  liked  to 
hear  Dr.  Staunton  preach,  he  took  the  street  car 
which  came  near  to  his  house.  Pres.  Blanchard 
showed  how  by  so  doing  he  kept  the  employes  from 
enjoying  their  Sabbath.  Dr.C.  E.  Mandeville  thought 
that  the  Christian  who  rifles  on  the  Sunday  train  or 
street  car  encourages  the  Sunday  travel  among  pleas- 
ure seekers,  and  places  an  obstacle  in  the  way  to 
their  salvation.  11  ;v.  D.  W.  Wise  of  Granville  said 
that  in  Toronto  there  are  no  Sunday  street  cars;there 
are  no  Sunday  papers,  no  saloons  and  no  places  of 
amusement  open  oa  the  Sabbath  day,  and  in  all  of 
the  cities  he  had  ever  visited,  he  had  never  seen  a 
city  with  a  greater  moral  advancement.  All  the 
churches  are  filled  to  overflowiog  and  the  city  pros- 
pers and  thinks.  Revs.  Helms  of  Forrest,  Chitten- 
den of  Wheaton  and  Harris  of  Byron  also  spoke  to 


[Our  space  will  not  allow  the  completion  of  this 
report  in  this  number  and  we  reluctantly  postpone 
the  conclusion  for  a  week.] 


— The  Glenn  Bill  excitement  in  Georgia  has  had 
the  effect  in  the  offending  university  of  Atlanta  to 
increase  the  number  of  students  from  291  last  year 
to  413  at  present  enrolled. 

— Rev.  Paul  S.  Feemster,  well  known  to  our  read- 
ers for  his  valuable  services  in  Kansas  and  the 
South,  has  lately  joined  the  Wesleyan  conference  in 
Kansas,  and  has  taken  up  a  circuit  work  in  the  vi- 
cinity of  his  home  in  Meade  county. 

— Mr.  Bowes,  formerly  of  Washington,  D.  C,  but 
now  of  Baltimore,  Md.,  has  charge  of  a  large  class 
studying  the  Bible  lessons.  It  meets  every  Friday 
afternoon  in  the  Y.  M.  C.  A.  building.  Mr.  Bowes 
will  be  remembered  as  being  interested  in  the  move- 
ment to  secure  headquarters  for  the  N.  C.  A.  in 
Washington  four  years  ago. 

— Joseph  Cook  will  soon  be  in  Boston  and  begin 
his  autumn  lecture  tours.  He  has  a  new  lecture  en- 
titled, "Law  and  Labor;  Property  and  Poverty." 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Cook  were  lately  visited  at  their  Cliff 
Seat  villa,  Ticonderoga,  by  Dr.  and  Mrs.  Joseph 
Parker  of  the  Tabernacle,  London,  who  spent  sev- 
eral days  and  held  long  consultations  about  lectur- 
ing in  the  United  States,  Canada,  Australia,  Japan 
and  India. 

— The  annual  meeting  of  the  United  Presbyterian 
Association,  formed  last  year  at  Allegheny  City,  is 
being  held  this  week  at  Xenia,  Ohio.  Its  object  is 
to  promote  purity  of  worship,  especially  in  respect 
to  church  music. 

— D.  K.  Pearson  of  this  city,  a  retired  capitalist, 
has  lately  given' $180,000  to  Christian  and  benevo- 
lent causes.  The  Y.  M.  C.  A.  has  $30,000;  the  Pres- 
byterian and  Congregational  Seminaries,  each,  $50,- 
000;  the  Woman's  Presbyterian  Board  of  the  North- 
west, $30,000;  and  to  the  Presbyterian  Hospital, 
$20,000. 

— Rev.  W.  R.  Swartz,  son  of  Rev.  Joel  Swartz, 
D.  D.,  of  Gettysburg,  has  joined  the  Presbyterian 
ranks.  He  had  been  engaged  in  missionary  work  in 
India  for  two  years,  having  been  sent  out  by  the 
Southern  Lutheran  church. 

— The  New  York  cathedral  is  to  be  located  on 
three  blocks,  bounded  by  Tenth  and  Morningside 
avenues,  and  One  Hundred  and  Tenth  and  Oue  Hun- 
dred and  Thirteenth  streets.  The  price  paid  for  the 
lots  was  $850,000.  The  building  is  to  cost  nine  or 
ten  million  besides.  In  this  day  of  missions  and 
benevolent  enterprise,  such  a  squandering  of  money 
on  human  pride,  all  in  the  name  of  the  Lord  Jesus, 
would  seem  to  lie  a  sin  to  be  smitten  with  the  di- 
vine curse. 

— The  General  Missionary  Committee  of  the  Meth- 
odist church  has  apportioned  the  appropriation  of 
the  mission  fund  as  follows:  Africa,  $16,000;  South 
America,  $58,500;  China,  $118,857;  Germany,  $35,- 
060;  Switzerland,  $11,400;  Scandinavia,  $54,472; 
North  India,  $82,000;  South  India,  $24,000;  Bulga- 
ria  and  Turkey,  $21,504. 

— A  Lutheran  Japanese  attended  the  conference 
of  Lutheran  pastors  recently  held  in  San  Francisco. 
He  spoke  German  fluently  and  desires  to  be  edu- 
cated for  the  ministry.  Some  of  the  Lutheran  mis- 
sionary societies  in  Germany  are  at  work  in  Japan, 
and  he  is  doubtless  one  of  the  fruits  of  their  labor. 

— The  Church  of  England  Zenana  Society  is  the 
most  enterprising  society  of  its  kind,  probably  in 
the  world.  It  has  88  missionaries,  with  445  Bible 
women  and  other  agents  locally  engaged;  four  nor- 
mal schools  with  123  pupils,  and  133  other  schools, 
with  5,411  scholars.  Last  year  2,364  zenanas  were 
regularly  visited.  Financially  it  received  19,497  ru- 
pees in  government  grants,  7,916  rupees  in  fees,  and 
18,953  rupees  locally  subscribed.  Its  home  receipts 
during  the  year  amounted  to  $118,185. 

— The  China  Inland  Mission  held  a  notable  con- 
ference some  months  since  in  Hung  Tung,  Shansi 
Province,  West  China,  three  hundred  Christians 
taking  part  in  it.  In  connection  with  it,  fifty-two 
women  and  155  men  were  baptized.  Last  year 
163  converts  were  baptized  in  the  province,  in 
which  there  are  three  stations,  twenty-three  mis- 
sionaries and  fourteen  native  helpers.  A  feature  of 
the  conference  was  the  reports  given  by  workers, 
showing  that  the  people  are  being  wonderfully  stirred 
by  tidings  of  the  new  religion. 

— The  Turkish  Government  has  attempted  to  close 
the  service  held  on  Sabbath  afternoons  at  a  room 
over  the  Mission  Reading-room  at  Koom-Kapou,  in 
Constantinople.  Minister  Straus  has,  however,  thus 
far  succeeded  in  defending  the  right  of  the  mission- 
to  bold  worship  in  that  place. 


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THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


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Lodge  Notes. 

The  Chicago  Evening  Mail  published 
lately  the  folio «7ing  list  of  prominent 
Masons  in  this  city: 

Frank  M.  Bristol,  the  Methodist  revi- 
valist, is  a  Enight  in  Apollo  commandery. 

Henry  C  R-itnsey  is  a  Past  Grand  Com- 
mander, and  is  prominent  in  Episcopal 
church  affairs.  He  is  a  board  of  trade 
man. 

Dr.  Vincent  L.  Hurlbert  has  another 
title  which  he  only  wears  at  lodge  meet- 
ings. He  is  a  Past  Qrand  Master  of  the 
Grand  Eacampment. 

Lieut  Gov  Smith  was  elected  Grand 
Master  of  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Illinois  at 
the  State  convention  last  week.  He  has 
a  brilliant  war  record. 

The  rector  of  St.  Mark's  Episcopal 
church,  the  Rev.  Mr.  Fleetwood,  is  Pre- 
late of  Monijoie  commandery.  He  is 
popular  with  bis  congrega'ion,  not  many 
of  whom  know  that  their  pastor  is  a  Sir 
Enight. 

"Maj.  Tobey's  Battery"  gives  a  better 
history  of  E.  P  Tobey  than  a  lengthy 
biography  of  this  Enight  would.  He  is 
an  old  member  of  Apollo  commandery, 
and  his  war  record  is  a  matter  of  history. 

Capt.  H  D  Purington  is  handsome,  a 
military  genius,  aged  34  years,  and  he 
spends  half  his  time  in  devising  evolu- 
tions for  the  drill  corps  of  St.  Bernard 
commandery,  of  which  he  is  Past  Com- 
mander. 

Not  more  than  half  of  the  Rev.  Dr. 
Thomas's  congregation  are  aware  of  the 
fact  that  their  beloved  pastor  is  a  Enight 
Templar  and  a  Thirty-second  Degree 
Mason.  He  is,  however,  and  his  grip 
proves  it. 

The  Maltese  cross  which  dangles  from 
the  watch  chain  of  the  Rev.  Dr.  Lorimer 
proclaims  him  to  be  a  Sir  Enight.  Apol- 
lo commandery  No  1  is  where  he  sees 
poor  wretches  bumped  through  their  de- 
grees . 

The  Rev.  Dr.  Clinton  Locke,  D.D., 
rector  of  Grace  Episcopal  church,  is  a 
Tempi  ir,  and  holds  high  office  in  Apollo 
commandery.  He  is  Past  Eminent  Grand 
Prelate  of  the  Grand  Eacampment  of  the 
United  States. 

DeWitt  C  Cregier.  who  is  paid  $10,000 
per  anuum  for  superintending  the  un- 
loading of  frozen  passengers  in  winter 
from  Mr.  Jones'  West  Side  street  cars,  is 
a  Past  Grand  Master  of  the  Grand  Lodge, 
and  is  Generalissimo  in  Apollo  command- 
ery. 

Amos  Grannis,  the  wealthy  South  Side 
county  commissioner  and  ex-alderman,  is 
a  P.  M.  of  the  Home  Lodge,  508,  and  P. 
£.  C.  of  Apollo  commandery.  Mr.  Qran- 
nis's  friends  are  sorry  for  him,  as  he  is 
soon  to  be  made  an  A.  G.  and  R.  T.  M.  B. 

Bishop  Fallows  is  a  Enight  Templar, 
member  of  the  St.  Bernard  commandery, 
and  one  of  the  most  eloquent  speakers  in 
the  country  besides.  He  entered  the 
army  as  a  private  during  the  war,  and 
when  the  forces  were  disbanded  he  wore 
a  colonel's  straps. 

Sir  Henry  Turner  is  a  military  man,  but 
he  looks  more  like  a  French  dancing- 
master.  Turner  is  a  Past  Grand  Com- 
mander, and  aids  Purington  in  drilling 
Sir  Enights.  He  was  one  of  the  original 
members  of  the  famous  Ellsworth  regi- 
ment of  Zouaves. 

Sheriff  Matson  has  encounted  the  goat 
thirty-two  times,  is  a  member  of  Apollo 
commandery  and  Oriental  consistory.  He 
experienced  some  difficulty  in  gaining 
admittance  to  the  order,  the  objection 
being  that  he  belonged  to  the  Bjoldfroly 
Pfenning  club,  a  Norwegian  organization. 

C  F.  Gunther  has  encountered  the 
horns  of  the  mysterious  hunter  thirty  two 
times.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Chevalier 
Bayard  commandery  and  Oriental  con- 
sistory. Mr.  Gunther  has  been  elected  to 
receive  his  thirty-third  degree,  the  high- 
est grade  ever  conferred  in  Scottish  rite 
Masonry. 

Sir  (Gilbert  Wordsworth  Barnard,  Grand 
Recorder  of  the  Grand  Commandery  of 
Illinois,  knows  more  about  Enights  Tem- 
plar, their  grips,  signs,  passwords,  secrets, 
and  history,  than  any  other  Enight  in 
the  country.  Mr.  B>irnard  is  very  proud 
of  the  Illinois  Masonic  Orphans'  home, 
which  he  so  zealously  worked  to  estab- 
lieh.  He  is  an  old  settler  and  has  been 
in  Chicago  forty  years.  He  belongs  to 
St.  Bernard  commandery. 

Norman  T.  Gassetto  has  held  so  many 
offices  in  the  Apollo  commandery  that  it 
would  take  a  column  to  do  him  justice. 
Mr  GiBFette  digs  dollars  out  of  Chicago 
real  estate  for  a  livelihood,  and  makes 
something  less  than  $50  000  a  year.  He 
is  a  pillar  of  Dr.  Lorimer's  church  and 


one  of  the  most  charitable  of  men.  Mas- 
sachusetts is  Mr.  Gassette's  birthplace. 
He  knows  more  about  county  politics 
than  the  average  church  member. 


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Mrs.  J.  A.  Bingham 5.00 

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The  store  and  residence  of  F.  N.  Mon- 
roe, a  prominent  Prohibitionist  of  How- 
ell, Mich.,  were  burned  during  the  tem- 
perance campaign  last  spring.  Joseph 
Geloulang  charged  Monroe  with  having 
fired  the  premises  for  the  insurance  and 
to  gain  votes  to  the  cause  he  represented. 
Suit  for  slander  was  instituted,  and  a  jury 
has  awarded  Mr.  Monroe  $1,500  damages. 

The  Niagara  Falls  Hydraulic  Motor  and 
Power  Company  of  Chicago  and  New 
York  filled  articles  of  incorporation  with 
the  Secretary  of  State  at  Springfield,  111. 
"With  a  capital  of  $15  000.000,  the  object 
is  to  built  a  plant  on  Niagara  Falls  to 
convert  the  falling  water  into  motive 
power. 

The  Supreme  Court  of  Indiana  has  de- 
cided that  a  student  attending  school  in 
any  other  county  than  that  in  which  he 
has  his  permanent  residence,  is  not  an 
eleotor  under  the  law,  and  that  in  order 
to  be  such  he  must  have  definitely  determ- 
ined to  make  the  town  where  he  is  attend- 
ing school  the  place  of  his  residence,  and 
must  be  assessed  for  purposes  of  taxation. 

The  shut  down  of  oil  wells,  manipu- 
lated by  the  Producers'  Protective  Asso- 
ciation and  the  Standard  Oil  Company, 
went  into  effect  a  few  days  ago,  it  is  al- 
leged, is  to  continue  eighteen  months. 
Standard  Oil  is  to  divide  the  profits  of 
5,000,000  barrels  of  oil  at  62  cents  among 
the  syndicate  who  shall  live  up  to  the 
contract,  and  2  000,000  barrels  are  to  be 
set  aside  to  create  a  wage  fund  for  the 
laboring  men  thrown  out  of  employment. 

At  Louisville,  Charles  B.  Brownfield,  a 
dissipated  character,  cut  the  throats  of 
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his  brother-in-law,  William  F.  Bruner, 
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penailess,  and  that  he  killed  Bruner  be- 
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14 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CTNOSTTRE. 


November  17, 1881 


Home  and  Health. 

THE  NUTRITIOUS  VALUE  OF  CERTAIN 
FOODS. 

It  has  come  to  this:  that  the  simplest 
articles  of  diet  are  safest,  and  that  is,  in 
my  opinion,  another  argument  in  favor 
of  plain  living.  Yes,  the  simplest  are 
the  safest,  and  let  me  add,  the  best  are 
the  cheapest.  The  butcher,  for  example, 
or  the  egg  merchant  cannot  adulterate  his 
wares,  but  he  may  have  several  qualities; 
and  there  is  a  stage  at  which  all  animal 
foods  arrive,  when  kept  in  shops,  which 
renders  them  to  a  large  extent  poisonous, 
and  this  is  bad,  if  not  worse  than  adul- 
teration. 

We  often  hear  it  said  that  shop  eggs, 
as  they  are  called,  are  good  enough  for 
frying,  with  bacon  for  example.  This  is 
a  positive  mistake;  an  egg  that  has  even 
the  suspicion  of  staleness  about  it,  is  del- 
eterious to  health,  not  to  say  dangerous, 
no  matter  whether  it  be  fried  or  boiled. 
And  the  same  may  be  said  of  flesh  meats 
of  all  kinds,  and  I  will  not  except  even 
hare  or  venison.  I  am  quite  prepared  to 
have  this  little  sentence  pooh-poohed  by 
the  robust  and  healthy.  I  only  add  that 
I  adhere  to  it,  that  1  have  the  courage  of 
my  convictions,  and  furthermore,  that  I 
have  invalids  and  dyspeptics,  and  those 
with  delicate  digestions  in  my  thoughts 
as  I  write. 

I  grant  you,  my  healthy  athlete,  who 
can  tramp  over  the  moors  with  the  gun 
and  bag  from  morning  dawn  to  dewy 
eve,  and  never  feel  tired,  that  the  eating 
of  long  kept  game  may  not  seem  to  in- 
jure you,  but  the  bare  fact  that  piquant 
sauces  and  stimulants  are  needed  to  aid 
its  digestion  is  exceedingly  suspicious. 
There  are  two  animals  in  particular  that 
like  their  food  high  and  tender;  one  is  the 
crocodile,  the  other  our  friend  the  dog; 
but  both  have  wonderful  strong  digestive 
powers ;  little  inferior,  in  point  of  fact,  to 
that  of  the  ostrich,  about  which  bird  so 
many  fanciful  stories  have  been  written 
and  told. 

It  may  be  said,  without  much  fear  of 
contradiction,  that  any  kind  of  food  or 
any  mixed  diet  or  meat  which  requires 
the  aid  of  stimulants,  either  of  the  nature 
of  condiment  or  wines,  is  not  salutary. 
Such  diet  as  this  is  a  tax  upon  the  whole 
system,  and  causes  heat  and  discomfort, 
and  a  feverish  state  of  the  blood,  which 
can  only  end  in  debility  of  the  nervous 
system,  and  more  or  less  of  prostration. 

But  those  who  would  obtain  the  great- 
est amount  of  health  and  comfort  from 
the  food  they  eat  must  be  most  careful  in 
its  selection.  Leaving  idiosyncrasy  out 
of  count  for  the  present,  although  every 
one  ought  to  know  what  agrees  with  him 
and  what  does  not,  there  are  many  things 
connected  with  the  value  and  digestibility 
of  food  obtained  from  various  sources 
that  I  do  well  to  remind  the  reader  of. — 
Ca»»dl'8  Family  Magazine. 

Pop  Ovkbs.— Two  cups  of  milk,  two 
and  one-half  cups  of  flour,  two  eggs,  but- 
ter size  of  one  half  walnut,  salt,  melt  the 
butter,  beat  all  thoroughly  together,  put 
in  cups  and  bake  thirty  minutes. 

CoRNMEAL  Muffins. — One  and  one- 
half  cups  cornmeal,  the  same  of  flour,  two 
teaspoonfuls  baking  powder,  half  cup  su- 
gar, half  teaspoonful  salt,  small  tea- 
spoonful  melted  butter,  two  eggs,  milk 
enough  to  make  a  stiff  batter. 

Tomato  Fkitteks. — One  quart  stewed 
tomatoes,  one  egg,  one  small  teaspoonful 
soda .  Stir  in  flour  enough  to  make  a 
batter  like  that  for  griddle  cakes .  Have 
some  lard  very  hot  on  the  stove,  drop  the 
batter  in  a  spoonful  at  a  time  and  fry. 

Remedy  fou  Soke  Throat. — Buy  at 
a  drug  store  one  ounce  of  camphorated 
oil,  and  five  cents  worth  of  chlorate  of 
potash .  Whenever  any  soreness  appears 
in  the  throat,  put  the  potash  in  half  a 
tumbler  of  water,  and  with  it  gargle  the 
throat  thoroughly,  then  rub  the  neck 
thoroughly  with  the  camphorated  oil  at 
night  before  going  to  bed,  and  also  place 
around  the  throat  a  small  strip  of  woolen 
flannel.  This  is  a  simple,  cheap  and  sure 
remedy . 

Cuke  for  Freckles— Horseradish 
grated  into  a  cup  of  cold  sour  milk— let 
it  stand  twelve  hours,  then  strain  and 
apply  two  or  three  times  a  day — will,  it 
is  said,  remove  freckles  from  hands  or 
face  in  a  short  time.  Or,  one  ounce  of 
lemon  juice  mixed  with  a  quarter  of  a 
drachm  of  pulverized  borax  and  half  a 
drachm  of  sugar,  will  also  remove  them. 
Keep  the  lotion  in  a  glass  bottle,  corked 
tightly  a  few  days  before  using,  and  ap- 
ply to  the  freckles  occasionally,  and  they 
will  soon  be  removed. 


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THE  CHEJ3TIKN  CYNOSUIUC 


15 


rAKM  Notes. 


WINTER  CARE  OF  COWS. 
The  arrangement  of  the  barn  and  yard 
should  be  such  as  to  reduce  the  labor  as 
much  as  possible.  Excessive  warmth  is 
not  conducive  to  robustness,  health  or 
profit.  If  a  man's  house  is  kept  closed 
up  and  heated  with  stoves  to  a  tempera- 
ture of  eighty  degrees,  and  his  food  and 
drink  are  all  taken  hot  with  a  view  to 
preventing  the  effects  of  the  cold  and  to 
insure  more  comfort,  the  dwellers  in  that 
house  will  become  sick  or  diseased;  the 
impure  air  will  poison  the  blood;  the 
warmth  will  relax  the  skin,  dry  it  and 
open  the  pores,  and  the  slightest  draft 
will  cause  a  fit  of  shivering  and  induce 
dangerous  colds.  It  is  in  precisely  such 
houses  that  sore  throats,  diphtheria,  scar- 
let fever,  and  other  diseases  are  so  fre- 
quent, while  in  the  house  where  the  win- 
dows are  thrown  open  to  the  breezes,  and 
the  cold,  brisk,  pure  air  is  welcomed,  and 
exercise  and  health  give  warmth,  fed  by 
the  abundant  oxygen  of  the  fresh  air 
coursing  through  the  blood,  there  are 
health  and  vigor  and  comfort.  It  is  the 
same  in  the  dairy.  Pleuro-pneumonia 
invades  those  herds  which  are  kept  in 
close,  warm,  unwholesome  stables,  and 
the  dreaded  tuberculosis  finds  there  its 
prey;  while  from  the  wide  airy  stable, 
well  ventilated  and  filled  with  pure  cold 
air,  the  well  fed  cows  will  emerge  to  frolic 
in  the  snow,  and  enjoy  themselves  in  the 
bright  sunshine  and  the  crisp  air,  when 
the  thermometer  marks  down  nearly  to 
zero.  Except  in  stormy  weather,  the 
cows  should  spend  at  least  three  or  four 
hours  every  day  in  the  yard,  picking  some 
rough  feed  and  getting  water  and  exer- 
cise.— American  Agricidturiat. 

AN  OPPORTUNITY  FOR  MANURE  MAK- 
ING. 

To  preserve  a  healthful  condition, 
maintain  the  vital  warmth,  and  keep  the 
skin  in  proper  action,  thorough  carding 
and  brushing  should  not  be  neglected  in 
a  winter  dairy,  and  the  utmost  cleanliness 
in  every  respect  should  be  observed. 
Abundant  supplies  of  absorbents,  of 
which  dried  swamp  muck  is  the  best,  and 
hard  wood  sawdust  and  fresh  leaves  next, 
and  in  place  of  these  cut  straw,  or  any 
other  fine  waste  material  should  be  pro- 
cured. The  winter  dairy  is  a  grand  op- 
portunity for  making  manure,  and  the 
improvement  of  a  farm,  and  to  this  end 
every  possible  economy  in  saving  and 
preserving  the  manure  should  be  exer- 
cised. The  feeding  must  be  liberal  and 
of  the  best  food.  It  must  be  regular  in 
quality,  quantity  and  time;  because  out  of 
the  food  the  butter  must  come,  and  in 
quality  and  quantity  will  be  exactly 
equivalent  to  the  food  given. — Agricul- 
turist. 

Garget— Rorv  Milk. — Several  corre- 
spondents desire  information  in  regard  to 
garget  in  its  different  stages.  This  dis- 
ease is  an  inflammation  of  the  milk 
glands,  most  commonly  coming  on  just 
previous  to  or  at  the  time  of  calving,  but 
may  appear  with  greater  or  less  severity 
at  any  time  when  the  flow  of  milk  is 
abundant.  The  symptoms  are,  enlarge- 
ment of  the  udder,  which  becomes  hard, 
congested  and  painful ;  one  or  both  sides 
may  be  attacked,  and,  on  pressure,  hard 
cakes  may  be  felt  in  the  udder,  the  teats 
sympathetically  becoming  tense,  painful, 
and  often  nearly  or  entirely  impervious. 
The  milk,  when  drawn,  is  ropy,  and  if 
the  inflammation  goes  on,  may  become 
bloody  and  mixed  with  matter.  Of 
course,  the  object  of  any  treatment  is, 
first  to  allay  the  inflammation.  For  this 
purpose,  bathe  or  foment  the  udder  and 
teats  in  warm  water,  or  with  warm  soap 
suds.  If  the  organ  is  very  much  swollen, 
support  it  by  means  of  a  bag  or  bandage 
passed  over  the  hind-quarters,  cutting 
holes  for  the  teats.  In  this  bag  may  be 
placed  a  linseedand-meal  poultice,  if  the 
inflammation  continues  great.  If  neces- 
sary, draw  off  the  milk  by  a  milk-tube, 
which  should  be  done  three  times  a  day. 
Give  a  purge  of  half  a  pound  of  salts, 
lessen  the  amount  of  food,  which  should 
be  very  simple,  without  grain,  and  offer 
very  little  fluid.  If  the  glands  remain 
hard  after  inflammation  has  subsided,  rub 
with  iodine  ointment.  The  too  early  and 
sudden  removal  of  the  calf  often  brings 
on  this  condition.  The  restoration  of  the 
calf  may  sometimes  greatly  accelerate  the 
cure.  If  we  interfere  with  nature's  laws, 
we  must  sooner  or  later  suffer  the  conse- 
quences.—.Sai. 


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over  Ireland  to  Farnellite  Bnle." 


By  Rev.  John  Lee,  A.  M.,  B.  D- 


General  Viscoujit  Wolseley:   "Interesting." 

Chicago  hiter-Ocean:  "A  searching  review." 

Christian  Cyttositre:  "It  deserves  a  wide  cir- 
culation at  the  present  time." 

Bishop  Coxe,  J'rotestatU  Episcopal,  of  West- 
ern New  York:  "Most  useful  publication;  a 
logical  sequel  to  'Our  Country,'  by  Josiah 
Strong." 

JCmile  De  Laveleye  of  Jielgiinn,  the  great  pub- 
licist: "I  have  read  with  the  greatest  interest 
your  answer  to  Cardinal  ManDlng.  I  think 
Rome's  encroachments  In  the  Umted  States 
ought  to  be  carefully  watched  and  resisted." 

Tiev.  C.  C.  J/cCabe,  D.  £>.:  "It  Is  a  useful 
book  and  ought  to  have  a  wide  sale.  Tou  are 
dealing  with  a  question  which  will  soon  domi- 
nate every  other  In  American  politics.  The 
Assassin  of  Xatimui  Is  In  our  midst  and  is  ap- 
proaching the  Temple  of  Liberty  with  stealthy 
tread.  The  people  of  this  country  will  under- 
stand the  Belfast  frenzy  some  day  better  than 
they  do  now." 

fhe  liight  Jfon.  iMrd  Robert  Montague:  "I 
have  read  It  with  the  greatest  pleasure,  and 
with  ama/.ement  at  the  intimate  acquaintance 
with  the  acts  of  KoiiiMnism  In  our  midst  which 
you  have  evinced.  1  only  wish  that,  Instead 
of  publishing  your  pamphlet  in  Chicago,  you 
had  sown  It  broadcast  over  England,  Scotland 
and  Ireland." 

PBICK,   POSTPAID,  as   CENTS. 

National  Christian  Association, 
221  W.  Madison  St,  Chicago. 


ANTI-MABOmO  LB0TUB3BB. 

Gbnbbal  AeBNT  AND  Lbctxtbsb,  J.  p. 
Stoddard,  221  W.  Madison  St,  Chicago. 

H.  H.  Hinman,  Cynosure  office. 
Agent  for  Southern  States. 
Btatb  AeBNTS. 

Iowa,  C.  P.  Hawley,  Wayne,  Henry 
Co.     Care  Rev.  Geo.  Pry. 

Missouri,  Eld.  Rufus  Smith,  Maryville. 

New  Hampshire,  Kid.  S.  C.  EimbaU, 
New  Market. 

Ohio,  W.  B.  Stoddard,  Columbus. 

Kansas,  Robert  Loggan,  Clifton. 

Alabama,  Rev.  G.  M.  Elliott  Selma. 

Degree  Workers. — [Seceders.l 
J.  K.  Glassford,  Carthage,  Mo. 
Other  Lbctubbrs. 

C.  A.  Blanchard,  Wheaton,  lU. 
N.  Callender,  Thompson,  Pa. 
J.  H.  Tlmmons,  Tarentum,  Pa 

T.  B.  McCormlck,  Princeton,  Ind. 

B.  Johnson,  Dayton,  Ind. 

H.  A.  Day,  Wllllamstown,  Mich. 

J.  M.  Bishop,  Chambersburg,  Pa. 

A.  Mayn,  Bloomlngton,  Ind. 

J.  B.  Cresslnger,  Sullivan,  O. 

W.  M.  Love,  Osceola,  Mo. 

J.  L.  Barlow,  Grundy  Center,  Iowa. 

A.  D.  Freeman,  Downers  Grove,  111 

Wm.  FentOD .  8t  Paul,  Minn. 

E.  I.  Grlnnell,  Blalrsburg,  Iowa. 

Warren  Taylor,  South  Salem,  O. 

J.  8.  Perry,  Thompson,  Conn. 

J.  T.  Michael,  New  WUmlngton,  Pa. 

8.  G.  Barton,  Breckinridge,  Mo. 

E.  Bametson.  Hasklnvllle,  Steuben  Co,'N.  Y 

Wm.  R.  Roach,  Pickering,  Ont. 

D.  A.  Richards,  Brighton,  Mich. 

THB   CmmCHBB    VS.   LODeSRT. 

The  following  denominations  are  com- 
mitted by  vote  of  their  legislative  assem- 
blies or  by  constitution  to  a  separation 
from  secret  lodge  worship: 

Adventists  (Seventh-day.) 

Baptists — Primitive,  Seventh-day  and 
Scandinavian. 

Brethren  (Dunkers  or  German  Bap- 
tists.) 

Christian  Reformed  Church. 

Church  of  God  VNorthem  Indiana  El- 
dership.) 

Congregational — The  State  Associations 
of  Illinois  and  Iowa  have  adopted  resolu- 
tions against  the  lodge. 

Disciples  (in  part.) 

Friends. 

Lutherans — Norwegian,  Danisli.  S  rad- 
ish and  Synodical  Conferences. 

Mennonites. 

Methodists — Free  and  Wesleyan. 

Methodist  Protestant  (Minnesota  Con 
ference.) 

Moravians. 

Plymouth  Brethren. 

Presbyterian — Associate,  Reformed  and 
United. 

Reformed  Church  (Holland  Branch.) 

United  Brethren  in  Christ. 

Individual  churches  in  some  of  these 
denominations  should  be  excepted,  in  part 
of  them  even  a  considerable  portion. 

The  following  local  churches  have,  as  a 
pledge  to  disfellowship  and  oppose  lodge 
worship,  given  their  names  to  the  follow- 
ing list  as 

THE   ASSOCIATED   CHtlRCHES    OF  CHRIST. 

New   Ruhamah  Cong.  Hamilton,  Mlsa. 

Pleasant  Ridge  Cong.   Sandford  Co.  Ala. 

New  Hope  >Iethodl8t,  Lowndes  Co.,  Miss. 

Congregational,  College  Springs,  Iowa. 

College  Church  of  Christ,  Wheaton,  111. 

First  Congregational,  Leiand,  Mich. 

Sugar  Grove  Church,  Green  county,  Pa. 

Military  Chapel,  M.  E.,  Lowndes  county, 
Miss. 

Hopewell  Missionary  Baptist.,  Lowndes  Co., 
Miss. 

Cedar  Grove  Miss.  Baptist,  Lowndes  Ca, 
Miss. 

Simon's  Chapel,   M.   E.,  Lowndes  Co.,  Mls«. 

Pleasant  Ridge  Miss.  Baptist,  Lowndes  Co., 
Miss. 

Brownlee  Church,  Caledonia,  Mise. 

Salem  Church,  Lowndes  Co.,  Miss. 

West  Preston  Baptist  Church.  Wayne  CcPa. 

OTHER  LOCAL  CHURCHBB 

adopting  the  same  nrinciple  are — 

Baptist  churches :  N.  Ablngton,  Pa. :  Meno- 
monle,  Mondovl,  Waubeck  and  Spring  Prairie, 
Wis. ;  Wheaton,  111. ;  Perry,  N.  Y. ;  Spring 
Creek,  near  Burlington,  Iowa ;  Lima,  Ind. ; 
ConstablevUle,  N.  Y.  The  "Good  Will  Assod- 
ton"of  Mobile,  Ala.,  comprising  some  twenty- 
flye  colored  Baptist  churches;  Bridgewater 
Baptist  Association,  Pa. ;  Old  Tebo  Baptist, 
near  Leesvllle,  Henry  Co.,  Mo. ;  Hoopeston,  111 ; 
Esmen,  111. ;  Strykersvllle,  N.  Y. 

Congregational  churches :  1st  of  Oberlln,  O. ; 
Tonica,  Crystal  Lake,  Union  and  Big  Woods, 
111. ;  Solsbur}-,  Ind. ;  Congregational  Methodist 
Maplewood,  Mass. 

Independent  churches  In  Lowell,  Country- 
man school  house  near  Llndenwood,  Marengo 
and  Strcator,  111. ;  Berea  and  Camp  Nelson,  Ky; 
Ustick,  111. ;  Clarksburg,  Kanaaa;  SUte  Associ- 
ation of  Mlniiten  and  Chonhet  of  Christ  1b 
KemtoekT. 


N.  C.  A.  BUILDING  AND  OFFICE  01 
THE  CHRISTIAN   CYNOSURE, 
«81  WEST  MADISON  STREET,  CHICAQO 


NA  TIONAL  CHRIS  TJAN  A880CIA  TIOIH 

Presidbht.— H.  H.  George,  D.  D.,  Gen- 
eva College,  Pa. 

ViCE-PREBiDEHT — Rcv.  M.  A.  Gault, 
Blanchard,  Iowa. 

Cor.  Sec't  and  General  Aoeitt. — J 
P.  Stoddard,  221 W.  Madison  st.,  Chicago. 

Reg.  Sec't.  and  Trsasubbr. — W.  I. 
Phillips,  221  W.  Madison  St.,   Chicago. 

Directors. — Alexander  Thomson,  Mi 
R.  Britten,  John  clardner,  J.  L.  Barlow, 
L.  N.  Stratton,  Thos.  H.  Gault  C.  A. 
Blanchard,  J.  E.  Roy,  E.  R.  Worrell,  H. 
A.  Fischer,  W.  R.  Hench. 

The  object  of  this  Association  Is: 
"To  expose,  withstand  and  remove  secret 
societies,  Freemasonry  in  particular,  and  otbef 
anti-Christian  movements,  In  order  to  save  tha 
churches  of  Christ  from  beln^  cepraved,  to  re- 
deem the  adminlstr* tlon  of  justice  from  per- 
version, and  our  rep  ibUcan  government  from 
corruption." 

To  carry  on  this  work  contributions  ar« 
solicited  from  every  friend  of  tne  reform. 

Form  op  Bequest. — J  give  and  bequeath  to 
the  National  Christian  Association,  Incorpo- 
rated and  existing  under  the  laws  of  the  State 

of    Illinois,   the  sum  of ■     dollars  for  the 

purposes  of  said  Association,  and  for  which 
toe  receipt  of  its  Treasurer  for  the  time  l>elng 
liall  be  sufficient  dlschacKe. 

THB  NATIONAL  CONTENTION. 

Pbbscdbnt. — Rev.    J.    8.  McCulloch, 
D.  D. 
Srcretabt. — Rev.  Lewis  Johnson. 

8TATB  AT7XILIABT  AfiSOCIATIONS. 

Alabama.— Pre*.,  Prof.  Pickens;  Sec.,  O. 
M.  Elliott;  Treas.,  Rev.  C.  B.  Curtis,  all  of 
Selma. 

CALrPOBNiA.— Presy^  L.  B.  Lathrop,  HoUls- 
ter;  Cor.  Sec,  Mrs.  U.  P.  Merrill,  Woodland: 
Treas.,  C.  Ruddock,  Woodland. 

CoNNBCTicuT.— Pres..  J.  A.  Conant,  WlUl- 
mantle ;  Sec,  Geo.  Smith,  Wllllmantlc ;  Treas. 
C.  T.  Collins,  Windsor.  ' 

iLUNOis.— Pres.,  J.  P.  Stoddard;  Sec,  M. 
N.  Butler;  Treas.,  W.  I.  Phillip*,  all  at  Cy 
fiorure  office. 

Indiana.— Pres..  William  H.  Flgg,  Reno 
Sec,  8.  L.  Cook,  Albion;  Treas.,  BenJ.  Ulah 
Silver  Lake. 

Iowa.— Pre8.,Wm.John8ton,College  Springs  • 
Cor  Sec,  C.  D.  Trumbull,  Morning  Sun; 
Treas.,  James  Harvey,  Pleasant  Plain,  Jeffer- 
son Co. 

Kansas.— Pres.,  J.  P.  Richards,  Ft  Scott: 
Sec,  W.  W.  McMillan,  Olathe;  Treaa.,  jI 
A.  Torrence,  N.  Cedar. 

Masbachtjsbtts.— Pros.,  8.;a.  Pratt;  Sec, 
Mrs.  E.  D.  Bailey;  Treas., David  Mannlng.Sr,, 
Worcester. 

Michigan.- Pres.,  D.  A.  Richards,  Brighton ; 
Bec'y,  H.  A.  Day,  WUllamston ;  Treaa. 
Geo.  Bwanson,  Jr.,  BedioiJ. 

Minnbsota.— Free.,  B.  G.  Paine,  WsAloJa ; 
Cor.  Sec,  Wm.  Fenton,  St  Paul;  Rec.  Sec'y, 
Mrs.  M.  F.  Morrill,  St.  Cnarles;  Treas.,  Wm. 
H.  Morrill,  St.  Charles. 

Missouri.— Pres.,  B.  F.  Miller,  Eaglevllle 
Treas.,  William  Beauchamp,  Avalon ;  (S)r.  S«c, 
A.  D.  Thomas,  Avalon. 

Nbbraska.— Pres.,  8.  Austin,  Falnnonit; 
Cor.  Sec,  W.  Spooner,  Kearney;  Treas., 
J.  C.  Fye. 

NiwHAMPsniRB.— Pres.,  Isaac  Hyatt,  Gil 
ford  Village;  Sec,  S.  C.  KlmbaU,  New  Market' 
Treas.,  James  F.  French,  Canterbury. 

Niw  YOHK.— Pres.,  F.  W.  Capwell,  Dale; 
Sec'y,  John  Wallace,  Syracuse;  Treas.,  M. 
Merrick,  Syracuse. 

Ohio.- Free.,  Rev.  R.  M.  Smith,  Pagetown; 
Rec  Sec,  Rev.  Coleman,  Utica;  Cor.  Sec  and 
Treas.,  Rev.  8.  A.  George,  Mansfield;  Agent, 
W.  B.  Stoildard,  Columbus. 

PBNN9TLVAN1A.— Pres.,  A.  L.  Po«t  Kos 
troee;  Cor.  Sec,  N.  Callender,  Thonpaoni 
Treas.,  W.  B.  Bertels^WUkeebarre. 

VuMONT.- Pres.,  W.  R.  Laird,  Bt  Johns- 
bury;  Sec,  C.  W  Potter. 

WIBOOHSIN.— Pres.,  J.  W.  Wood,  Baraboo; 
Sec,  W.  W.  Ames,  MenomonU;  Treas.,  M.  B. 
Britten,  Vlanna. 


16 


THE  CHHISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


NOTEHBSR  17,  188T 


Npws  of  The  week 

WASHINGTON. 

There  is  no  longer  any  doubt  but  that 
during  the  first  few  days  of  the  coming 
session  of  Congress  the  President  will 
nominate  Secretary  Lamar  to  fill  the  va- 
cancy on  the  Supreme  bench,  caused  by 
the  death  of  Justice  Woods,  and  at  the 
same  time  Postmaster  General  Vilas  will 
be  nominated  to  succeed  Lamar  as  Secre- 
tary of  the  Interior. 

Secretary  L»mar  addressed  a  letter  to 
Commissioner  Sparks,  Friday,  replying 
in  a  curt  manner  to  the  latter's  communi- 
cation relative  to  the  adjustment  of  the 
Chicago.  St  Paul,  Minneapolis,  and  Oma- 
ha Railroad  land  grants,  and  in  conclu- 
sion says  that  either  Mr.  Sparks  or  the 
writer  (Secretary  Lamar)  must  retire 
from  the  department  forthwith. 

The  Department  of  Agriculture  reports 
that  the  pickiog  of  cotton  has  progressed 
rapidly.  The  result  in  fractions  of  a 
bale  indicate  a  crop  of  about  6,300  000 
bales,  on  an  acreage  of  about  18,640,000, 
or  33.8  of  a  bale  per  acre. 

THE   ANAHCHISTS. 

Governor  Oglesby,  after  hearing  the 
pleas  of  the  friends  of  the  anarchists  last 
Wednebday,  decided  to  commute  the  sen- 
tences of  Fielden  and  Schwab,  who  were 
taken  to  the  penitentiary  at  Joliet  Satur- 
day .  The  governor  refused  to  interfere 
in  the  other  cases. 

After  the  four  bombs  were  found  in 
Lingg's  cell  last  week  Sunday  he  was 
placed  under  close  guard,  but  about  9 
A.  M  Thursday  a  fearful  explosion  in  his 
cell  showed  that  he  had  not  been  too 
closely  watched.  The  bomb  maker  had 
committed  suicide  by  means  of  a  fulmin- 
ating cap,  which  he  held  in  his  mouth 
and  lit  with  a  candle.  How  he  secured 
the  fulminate  with  which  the  deed  was 
committed  is  a  mystery,  as  his  cell  and 
clothing  had  been  thoroughly  searched. 
The  explosion  blew  out  one  side  of  his 
face,  shattering  teeth,  jaws  and  tongue 
horribly.    He  died  in  about  five  hours. 

Sir  minutes  before  noon  Friday,  Spies, 
Fischer,  Engel  and  Parsons  were  hung  in 
the  county  j  ail  in  this  city.  They  were 
not  allowed  to  harangue  the  200  specta- 
tors, and  died  with  the  same  hardihood 
and  indifference  to  death  which  they 
have  for  years  manifested  in  their  inflam- 
matory speeches.  Their  bodies  were 
given  to  their  friends,  and  were  buried  on 
Sunday  in  the  German  cemetery  near  Oak 
Park,  nine  or  ten  miles  west  of  the  city. 
Thousands  viewed  their  bodies  and  the 
police  had  at  times  to  make  way  for  the 
funeral  procession  through  the  crowds. 
There  was  no  disorder,  but  an  old  soldier 
demanded  the  privilege  of  carrying  the 
U.  8.  flag  at  the  head  of  the  procession 
and  defied  the  friends  of  the  dead  to  tear 
it  down.  Fearing  the  effect  of  force  they 
allowed  him  to  pruceed.  Sanguinary  aod 
revengpful  speeches  were  made  at  the 
cemetery,  but  the  hopes  of  anarchy  were 
buried  with  the  four  victims  of  its  mis- 
guided rage. 

A  gathering  at  Cincinnati  Thursday 
night,  called  for  the  purpose  of  express- 
ing sympathy  for  the  Chicago  anarchists, 
was  dispersed  by  the  police,  but  no  ar- 
rests were  made. 

Three  thousand  persons  paraded  at  New 
York  Thursday  night  to  show  their  sym- 
pathy for  the  doomed  anarchists.  Black 
and  red  flags  were  carried,  and  the  two 
American  flags  in  the  procession  were 
furled  and  draped.  The  transparencips 
bore  menacing  legends,  and  the  bands 
played  funeral  airs.  The  police  precau- 
tions for  the  preservation  of  the  peace 
were  thorough  and  tactical,  but  not  the 
slightest  dibturbance  occurred. 

Frustrated  in  holding  a  meeting  in 
honor  of  their  executed  brothers  in  Chi- 
cago, the  New  York  anarchists  Siturday 
night  retired  uttering  dire  threats  againsi 
the  police.  A  meeting  in  which  five  cof- 
fins draped  in  mourning  were  to  be  the 
chief  features,  outside  of  the  U9ual  ha- 
rangues, did  not  come  off  and  the  solemn 
reminders  of  death  were  piled  in  a  side 
room  of  saloonkeeper  Eanders'  establish 
ment,  at  Second  Avenue  and  First  Sireet. 

Tne  head  of  the  London  police  having 
forbidden  a  socialist  meeting  in  Trafalgar 
Square  in  sympathy  with  the  Chicago 
anarchis's,  the  lawless  elements  resolved 
to  test  the  power  of  the  authorities.  The 
result  was  a  severe  struggle.  The  scene 
in  Trafalgar  square  has  not  been  equalled 
since  18G6  when  the  people,  asserting  the 
right  of  public  meeting,  destroyed  the 
rulways  around  Hyde  Park.  Four  thou- 
Mnd  policemen  took  possession  of  the 


approaches  to  the  square  at  an  early  hour. 
About  noon  various  societies,  socialist, 
radical,  and  Irish,  approached  the  square 
from  every  direction  The  paraders  were 
headed  by  bands  of  music,  and  they  car- 
ried banners  and  mottoes.  The  police 
attacked  and  dispersed  each  group  as  it 
arrived  near  the  square.  Fierce  fights 
took  place  on  the  otrand.  Northumber- 
land Avenue,  Whitehall,  Pall  Mall,  and 
other  adj  tcent  streets.  Oae  of  the  soci- 
eties succeeded  in  entering  thefquare  but 
was  repulsed  after  a  bloody  fight.  At 
4:30  p.  M  the  crowd  in  the  vicinity  of  the 
square  numbered  100  000,  and  the  police 
were  powerless  to  thoroughly  disperse 
them.  Cavalry  and  infantry  were  sum- 
moned to  the  assistance  of  the  police,  but 
no  charge  was  made,  as  the  people  of 
their  own  accord  began  to  disperse  at 
dusk.  About  200  citizens  and  forty  po- 
licemen were  Ie  j  u  i  ed.  Fifty  persons  were 
arrested,  among  them  being  Socialist 
Burns. 

COUNTRY. 

Inspector  Bonfleld  of  this  city,  has  dis- 
tributed $500  among  the  families  of  the 
oflBcers  killed  at  the  Haymarket  riot.  The 
donor  would  not  divulge  his  identity. 

A  license  of  incorporation  has  been 
granted  to  the  Ciiicago  Times  Publishing 
Company.  The  capital  stock  is  $1,000,- 
000,  and  the  incorporators  are  James  J, 
West,  Clinton  A.  Snowden,  and  Frank  E. 
Weigly. 

At  the  election  Tuesday  General  Fora- 
ker  was  re-elected  Governor  of  Ohio  by 
30,000  plurality,  and  the  Legislature  is 
safely  Republican.  Ames  (Rep.)  was  re- 
elected Governor  of  Massachusetts,  by  an 
increased  majority.  Colonel  Fred  Grant 
was  defeated  in  New  York,  where  the 
George  vote  shows  a  heavy  falling  off. 
Prohibition  was  beaten  in  Oregon;  and 
Democratic  gains  are  reported  from  Iowa, 
but  the  State  is  safe.  The  Democrats 
carried  Virginia  and  Maryland,  and  are 
said  to  have  majorities  in  the  Legislature. 
Pennsyvania  and  Nebraska  elected  the 
Republican  nominees.  The  Republicans 
of  New  Jersey  secured  a  maj  ority  of  the 
Legislature  in  both  branches. 

For  fifteen  hours,  ending  Friday  morn- 
ing, twenty-six  alarms  of  fire  were  turned 
in  at  St.  Louis,  causing  many  people  to 
believe  that  attempts  were  being  made  to 
burn  the  city .  A  number  of  alarms  were 
also  answered  Friday.  Captain  Evans, 
of  the  Salvage  Corps,  reported  to  the 
Mayor  that  80  per  cent  of  recent  fires 
were  of  an  incendiary  origin.  The  Fire 
Chief  thinks  the  greater  number  of  the 
blazes  were  set  by  small  boys  and  tramps. 

The  next  grand  jury  at  Binghampton, 
N,  Y.,  will  be  called  upon  to  determine 
whether  the  eleven  women  who  swore  in 
their  votes  in  the  interest  of  the  Prohibi- 
tion party  on  Tuesday,  at  Kettleville,  vio- 
lated the  law.  Five  men,  three  of  whom 
are  Democrats  and  two  Republicans,  have 
entered  complaints  against  the  females. 

Friday  afternoon  the  400-foot  draw 
span  of  the  Santa  Fe  badge  across  the 
Mississippi  at  Fort  Madison,  Iowa,  was 
swung  for  the  first  time.  It  is  said  that 
through  trains  will  be  running  from  the 
Pacific  coast  to  Chicago  before  New 
Year's  day. 

MARKET  BB PORTS. 

CHICAGO. 
Wheat— No.  2 72% 

No.  3 63>i@     66 

Winter  No  8 7314 

Com— No.  8 44 

Oats— No.a .„^.»^ 27 

Rye— No.  2 53 

Bran  per  ton , 11  75       l*"  00 

Hay— Timothy 9  50  @13  00 

Butter,  medium  to  best 16  @     27 

Cheese 04  @     vi}^ 

Beans 1  25  (%  2  ,50 

KKgs 17ia      183^ 

Seeds- Timothy 2  f?  (^  2  18 

Flax 1  02         1  09 

Broomcom 02>^@      '7 

Potatoes  per  bus 5U  @      75 

Hides— O  reen  to  dry  flint 07>^@      13 

Lumber— Common 1100  C<il8  00 

Wool 10  @      35 

Cattle— Choice  to  extra 4  90  @  5  60 

Common  to  good 1  50  vt  4  70 

Hogs 8  ,50  @  4  90 

She«p 2  00  @  4  15 

NEW  YORK. 

Flour 820  (3560 

Wheat— Winter 8'X@     893^ 

Spring 843i 

Corn .54  5.5W 

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Alezauder  Hamilton 1 

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ALEXaJUDUR  HAMILTON. 


Hamilton,  the  founder  of  emp're  and  the  friend  of 
WaahiDgton,  is  justly  celebrated  as  one  of  the  great- 
est men  of  a  great  age.  In  statcsmanRbip  he  has 
without  detraciion  been  compared  to  Pitt  who  was 
Prime  Minister  of  Eogland  at  twenty-four;  and  in 
the  success  of  his  endeavors  to  Napoleon  who  at 
forty-two  had  nearly  subdued  all  Europe. 

He  was  born  in  1757  in  the  island  of  Nevis  in  the 
West  Indies.  He  thus  came  into  the  world  a  Brit- 
ish suV^ject,  his  father  a  Scotch  m'^rchant,  his  moth- 
er a  French  Huguenot.  The  early  death  of  his 
mother,  and  failure  of  his  father  in  business  put 
young  Hamilton  into  a  counting-house  at  twelve, 
where  the  precocity  of  his  genius  attracted  the  no- 
tice of  relatives  who  sent  him  to  Boston  in  his  fif- 
teenth year  to  be  educated.  It  is  interesting  to 
know  that  among  his  warm  friends  was  the  excel- 
lent Dr.  Knox,  a  Presbyterian  clergyman  of  Nevis, 
who  materially  aided  him  in  this  introduction  to  his 
future  home,  and  the  effect  of  whose  religious  teach- 
ings was  probably  never  lost  upon  Hamilton.  In  a 
year  he  was  ready  for  college  and  wished  to  enter 
Princeton  with  the  privilege  of  going  through  the 
course  without  waiting  for  the  regular  classes.  This 
would  not  be  permitted,  and  he  found  accommoda- 
tions at  King's  (now  Columbia)  College.  While  a 
student,  at  the  age  of  17  he  published  several  essays 
concerning  the  rights  of  the  colonies,  which  were  so 
remarkable  for  their  vigor  and  maturity  of  style,  as 
well  as  for  soundness  of  argument,  that  they  were 
attributed  to  Jay, 

He  entered  the  American  army  as  captain  of  ar- 
tillery while  18;  and  in  1777,  while  barely  20,  Wash- 
ington made  him  his  aid  with  the  rank  of  lieutenant 
colonel.  Notwithstanding  the  disparity  of  twenty- 
five  years  in  their  ages,  he  contioued  to  be  the  in- 
separable companion  of  Washington  during  the  war, 
and  was  alwd}s  consult)  d  by  him  on  the  most  im- 
portant occasions.  In  this  new  and  trying  position 
he  soon  became  the  most  valued  and  trusted  of  all 


the  experienced  officers  about  the  commander-in 
chief,  while  his  popular  manners  made  him  a  gen- 
eral favorite.  He  was  on  terms  of  closest  intimacy 
with  Washington  who  used  often  to  address  him 
with  the  endearing  title  of  "Mv  boy."  He  saved 
the  battle  of  Monmouth  under  Washington's  direc- 
tions, and  in  the  assault  that  forced  the  capitulation 
of  Cornwailis  at  Yorktown,  he  was  the  first  man  to 
enter  the  enemy's  works  at  the  head  of  his  command. 
His  conduct  on  every  occasion  of  difficulty  and 
danger,  confirmed  and  fully  established  his  high 
military  rrputation  and  earned  for  him  from  his 
comrades  in  arms  the  epithet  of  the  'Little  Lion." 
His  boyish  figure  struck  with  astonishment  those 
who  had  long  heard  of  his  exploits. 


ALEXANDEK   HAMILTON. 

He  is  described  at  this  time  as  being  a  mere  strip- 
ling, small,  tlender  and  almost  delicate  in  frame. 
His  personal  appearance  is  described  by  those  who 
knew  him  as  being  of  a  "small,  lithe  figure,  instinct 
with  life;  erect  and  steady  in  gait;  a  military  pres- 
ence, without  the  intolerable  accuracy  of  a  martinet; 
and  his  general  address  graceful  and  nervous,  indi 
caling  the  beauty,  energy  and  activity  of  his  mind;  a 
bright  ruddy  complexion,  light  colored  hair,  a  mouth 
infinite  in  expression,  its  sweet  smile  beiog  most  ob- 
servable; e)es  lustrous  with  deep  meaning  and  re- 
flection, and  the  whole  countenance  decidedly  Scot- 
tish inform  and  expression."  His  manner  and  con- 
versation had  an  irresistible  charm,  an  influence 
which  his  enemies  had  frequent  occasion  to  regret. 
"He  rises  before  us,"  writes  another  of  his  later 
life,  "small  in  stature,  but  erect  and  graceful,  and 
by  the  art  of  the  chisel  and  the  brush,  we  can  see 
the  firm,  strong  jaw,  noble  head,  long,  straight  nose, 
and  most  efltctive  of  all  the  dark,  deep-set  eyes. 
We  can  easily  imagine  how  he  looked,  with  his  eyes 
glowing  and  fiashing  as  he  became  excited,  and  how 
his  full,  melodious  voice  rang  out,  compelliog  the 
attention  of  all  who  listened." 

He  left  the  army  in  1782  at  the  age  of  twenty- 
five,  having  successfully  managed  Jsuch  important 
interests  as  were  never  perhaps  before  committed  to 
one  so  young.  During  the  same  year  he  was  sent 
as  delegate  to  Congress,  but  resigned  after  a  short 
time  to  resume  his  law  practice.  He  felt  keenly 
during  this  time  the  inadequacy  of  the  articles  of 
confederation  as  the  framework  of  a  national  govern- 
ment, and  was  a  leader  in  the  movement  for  the 
Constitutional  convention  of  1787,  of  which  he  was 
the  most  active  and  influential  member  next  to 
Washington.  The  State  of  New  York  was  by  a  large 
majority  opposed  to  the  federal  movement,  and  Gov- 
ernor Clinton  was  at  its  head.  Hamilton  so  far 
overcame  them  as  to  secure  a  representation,  but  the 
other  two  delegates  were  uncompromising  States- 
rights  men  and  his  action  was  hampered  by  their 
presence.  An  opportunity  came,  however,  for  a 
great  speech,  in  which  he  wisely  decided  to  concen- 
trate all  bis  force  and  argument  Filled  with  a 
deep  conviction  of  the  impejrtance  of  the  crisis,  and 
having  complete  mastery  of  his  subject,  he  made  a 
speech  of  five  or  bLc  hours  in  length,  which  is  de- 


scribed by  Governeur  Morris  as  the  ablest  and  most 
impressive  he  ever  heard.  His  greatest  service, 
however,  in  behalf  of  the  union  and  constitution  of 
a  federal  government  that  should  rest  upon  the  au- 
thority, not  of  the  States  but  of  the  people,  were 
rendered  before  and  after  the  ronveniion  of  1787  in 
securing  the  endorsement  of  New  Yoik,  whose  geo- 
graphical position,  dividing  New  Eogland  from  the 
other  States,  was  of  great  importance.  The  remark- 
able series  of  essays  which  have  come  down  to  us  as 
the  "Federalist"  were  chiefly  from  his  pen.  They 
marked  an  epoch  in  the  development  of  free  consti- 
tutional government  and  p  >liiical  thought.  The 
New  York  convention,  whicti  finally  ratified  the  C'm- 
stitu'ion,  was  also  by  large  mtj  irity  opposed  to  such 
action;  but  the  arguments  and  el<  quence  of  Hamil- 
ton overcanoe  all  and  carried  the  day.  This  victory 
was  one  of  Hamilton's  most  brilliant  exploits. 

When  Washinglon  was  elected  President  all  eyes 
turned  to  Hamilton  as  the  man  for  the  most  difficult 
place  in  the  Cabinet — the  Secretary  of  the  Treasury. 
The  post  was  beset  with  difficulties  that  would  have 
appalled  the  boldest,  but  Hamilton  was  convinced 
that  he  now  could  render  his  country  his  best  service, 
and  he  did  not  hesitate.  It  was  the  great  epoch  of 
bis  life.  He  was  only  thirty-two  years  old,  in  the 
flower  of  his  age.  The  country  was  on  the  verge  of 
financial  ruin,  and  schemes  for  repudiation  were 
among  the  first  obstacles  Hamilton  overcame.  His 
measures  for  restoring  the  public  credit,  funding  the 
national  debt,  assuming  the  war  debt  of  the  States, 
establishing  a  national  bank,  arranging  a  system  of 
duties,  and  levying  an  internal  revenue  tax,  met 
with  the  most  stubborn  resistance,  but  he  carried 
most  of  them  through  successfully.  Tbe  opposition 
was  led  by  Jtfferson,  the  Secretary  of  Slate,  who  re- 
turned from  France  to  accept  the  place,  full  of  the 
ideas  of  the  fatal  French  Revolunon  then  already 
begun,  and  he  was  a  ready  leader  for  the  opposition 
to  the  firm  establishment  of  a  national  governoaent. 
In  the  winter  of  1791-92  this  opposition  bad  formed 
itself  into  a  party,  but  J<:fl"c;r3on  bid  his  hand  with 
the  Masonic  cunning  of  a  Jacobin.  His  secret  work 
very  soon  developed  into  the  State-rights  party, 
called  'Republicans."  He  at  length  attempted  to 
break  down  the  public  confidence  in  HamiUon  by 
securing  an  oider  from  Congress  for  an  account  of 
the  operations  of  the  Treasury;  but  siifftnd  a  most 
inglorious  defeat.  The  trials  of  the  administration 
wiih  the  infamous  Genet,  tbe  embassador  from  the 
French  republic,  followed,  in  wbich  Hamilton  was 
Washington's  wisest  counsellor;  while  Jtfferson's 
course  was  vacillating,  treacherous  and  unpatriotic. 

Hamilton  resigned  and  returned  to  his  law  prac- 
tice in  1795,  next  to  Washington  the  mostconspicu- 
ous  man  in  the  nation,  without  a  question  as  to  his 
integrity  in  the  breast  of  his  bitterest  political  ene- 
my. In  private  life  he  was  still  the  adviser  of 
Washington,  the  leader  of  his  party,  and  the  mark 
for  the  poisoned  arrows  of  his  enemies.  Washing- 
ton's Farewell  Address  was  so  much  the  work  of 
Hamilton's  pen  that  there  has  been  much  controver- 
sy which  of  the  two  was  the  real  author  of  the  great 
paper.  To  Washington  belongs  the  foundation  and 
framework,  the  superstructure  was  in  great  part 
Hamilton's.  Of  Hamilton  in  private  li'e  at  work 
for  his  living,  Talleyrand,  who  knew  him  personally 
said,  "I  have  beheld  one  of  tbe  wonders  of  the 
world.  I  have  seen  a  man  who  has  made  the  for- 
tune of  a  nation  laboring  all  night  to  support  his 
family."  Talleyrand  in  1819  said  he  bad  known 
nearly  all  the  marked  men  of  his  time,  but  he  had 
never  known  one,  on  the  whole,  equal  to  Hamilton. 

Guizjt,who  had  read  and  reflcied  much  upon  the 
writings  of  Hamilton,  said  of  him  that  he  "must  be 
classed  among  tbe  men  who  have  best  known  the 
vital  principles  and  fundamental  conditions  of  a 
government — one  worthy  of  its  mission  and  of  its 
name." 

President  Van  Buren  speaks  of  "Hamilton's  ele- 
vated charac'.er  in  private  life:  upon  whose  integrity 
and  fidelity  in  his  personal  dealings  and  in  tbe  dis- 
charge of  every  private  trust  that  was  reposed  in 
bim  no  shadow  rested,  who  was  indifferent  to  ihe 
accumulation  of  weaUb,wbo  as  a  pul)lic  min  was  so 
free  from  intrigues  for  personal  advancement,  and 
{Coniinutd  on  8lh  page) 


THE  CHKISTJlAN  CYNOSURE. 


NOVBMBSK  24, 188t 


\ 


THB  SUPREMACY  OF  LAW. 


BY  H.  H.  HINMAN. 


After  the  Supreme  Court  of  the  United  States  had 
aflSrmed  the  correctness  of  the  courts  of  Illinois  in 
trial  of  the  anarchists,  all  hope  of  judicial  vindica- 
tion was  dispelled.  Executive  clemency  which,  had 
it  been  asked  for  in  a  spirit  of  penitence,  might  have 
been  possibly  hoped  for,  was  rendered  most  improb- 
able by  the  evident  purpose  to  repeat  the  original 
crime.  Dynamite  bombs  in  the  prisoner's  cell  did 
not  mean  mere  self-destruction.  It  meant  revenge 
— the  murder  of  the  innocent — the  undying  hate  of 
those  who  deliberately  planned  the  overthrow  of  all 
law,  the  destruction  of  all  authority  and  the  death 
of  all  who  stood  in  the  way  of  their  triumph  in 
wickedness.  It  is  a  terrible  thing  to  take  the  life  of 
a  fellow  man.  It  is  pleasant  to  exercise  mercy.  It 
requires  not  a  little  courage  to  vindicate  the  law, 
but  it  is  a  courage  that  must  be  exercised,  if  we 
would  preserve  the  lives  and  safety  of  the  people. 

Within  the  last  few  years  not  only  have  a  vast 
number  of  bloody  crimes  disgraced  our  land,  but 
the  fact  that  the  guilty  ones  so  often  escape,  and 
that  the  execution  of  the  laws  is  so  uncertain,  not 
only  tends  to  encourage  crime,  but  in  a  vast  and  in- 
creasing number  of  cases  leads  to  a  criminal  en- 
forcement of  justice.  Inefficiency  in  our  courts, 
corruption  in  our  officials  and  tender-heartedness  in 
our  State  executives  where  they  ought  to  be  stern, 
is  made  the  occasion  of  a  vast  number  of  murders 
by  lynch  law,  a  class  of  crimes  scarcely  less  danger- 
ous to  the  peace  and  well-being  of  society  than  the 
deeds  they  were  intended  to  prevent.  The  supremacy 
of  righteous  law  is  the  safeguard  of  a  free  people. 

While,  therefore,  we  in  the  name  of  justice  and  of 
public  safety  demand  that  the  law  shall  be  sternly 
executed,  we  ought  also  to  regard  all  combinations 
of  men  for  whatever  object  or  under  whatsoever  pre- 
text, that  are  calculated  to  impair  the  efficiency  of 
the  laws,  as  an  invasion  of  the  province  of  govern- 
ment, and  a  menace  to  the  rights  of  the  people. 

We  see  a  marked  illustration  of  this  matter  in  the 
Knights  of  Labor  and  the  practical  workings  of  that 
system  here  in  Loiiisiana,  Whatever  might  be  ad- 
missible among  an  educated  class  of  laborers,  the 
ordinary  plantation  laborer  cannot  for  his  own  sake, 
nor  for  the  sake  of  others,  be  safely  trusted  in  the 
exercise  of  power  in  which  he  is  made  responsible 
to  himself  or  to  his  lodge.  In  the  conflict  which  is 
sure  to  arise  between  the  capitalist  and  the  ignorant 
and  poor  laborerj  it  is  the  latter  who  is  certain  to  go 
to  the  wall.  In  the  avoidance  of  the  conflict  is  the 
true  remedy. 

Such  a  conflict  has  recently  been  precipitated  with 
the  most  deplorable  results.     The  colored  laborers 
on  the  sugar  plantations  of  Southern  Louisiana  have 
within  a  year  past  mostly  organized  as  Knights  of 
Labor.     They  were  made  to  believe  that  they  could 
control  the  labor  market  and  dictate  the  price  of  la- 
bor.   The  crop  this  year  was  unusually  large  and 
the  labor  was  pressing.     The  Knights  made  a  de- 
mand for  $1.25  to  $2  50  per  day  which  was  refused. 
They  struck  in  Terre  Bonne  Parish  and  other  labor- 
ers  were  employed   in   their  place.     The  new  em- 
ployes were  white  men.     They  were   waylaid   (pre- 
sumably by  discharged  Knights)  and  four  were  shot. 
At  once  the  authorities  were  appealed   to,  and   the 
troops   were  called  out  to  suppress  an  insurrection. 
Meantime  a  planter  was  shot  by  some  one  and  the 
troops   and   sheriff's   posse  went  to  arrest  the  mur- 
derer.    They  found  a  company  of  Negro  laborers, 
and    because  of  a  pretended  or  real  fear  that  one  of 
them  was  armed,  the  brave  troops  fired   into  them, 
killing  four  and  wounding  others.     Meanwhile  many 
sugar  mills  have  stopped  and  multitudes  of  poor  la- 
borers are  driven  from  their  homes.     Deplorable  in 
many  respects  as  is  the  condition  of  these  Negro  la- 
borers, and  vindictive  and  cruel  as  has  often   been 
the  course  pursued  towards  them,  yet  it  remains 
true  that  but  for  the  Knights  of  Labor  these  labor- 
ers would  have  had  an  exceptionally  good  year,  and 
that  their  condition  has   been  rendered   far  worse 
than  it  would  be  otherwise,  if  such  an  organization 
had  not  existed.     During  the  war  the   Negro  very 
wisely  kept  out  of  the  conflict  till  his  country  called 
him  to  arms.     He  will  show  equal  wisdom  by  keep- 
ing out  of  all  combinations  of  men  whose  organiza- 
tions  are  likely  to  be  used  to  resist  the  supremacy 
of  law. 

New  Orleans,  La. 


ing  on"  as  he  did  not  appear  in  church  at  all.  This 
reminds  me  of  one  difference  between  now  and  fifty 
years  ago.  Then  there  were  few  associations  out- 
side of  the  church  to  attract  attention.  Now  we 
have  them  by  the  score,  taking  men  away  from  their 
wives  and  children  as  well  as  their  religious  duties. 
That  they  contribute  to  the  multiplication  of  di- 
vorces, we  have  no  doubt. — Rev.  James  Porter,  D.D., 
in  Zion's  Herald. 


A  SPIRIT  MEDIUM  GIVES 
TION. 


US  AN  ILLUSTRA- 


BY    MRS.   L,    M.    HOYT. 


It  is  a  question  with  some  how  this  conflict  with 
the  "powers  of  darkness"  will  end,  but  to  those  who 
have  faith  in  God,  and  are  trusting  him  as  their 
leader,  there  can  be  no  doubt,  for  he  has  never  "lost 
a  battle."  Some  are  saying,  "I  know  not  what  to 
do,  for  those  to  whom  we  looked  for  counsel  and 
advice  have  turned  to  the  enemy's  side,  and  are  proph- 
esying evil  against  us."  But  was  not  one  of  the 
twelve  apostles,  Judas,  a  devil?  Did  he  not  betray 
his  Lord?  Can  we  expect  the  church  to  be  better 
and  purer  than  when  our  blessed  Jesus  was  here  on 
earth? 

It  appears  from  the  present  "outlook"  that,  in  the 
church  of  the  United  Brethren  in  Christ,  a  rem- 
nant of  the  tribe  of  Judas  still  remains.  The  "com- 
mission folly"  has  a  Judas-look  from  first  to  last. 
Such  false  pretensions  are  daily  brought  to  our  no- 
tice, of  the  scheming,  plotting,  planning,  wire-work- 
ing!— and  all  for  what?  To  open  wide  our  doors  to 
the  monster  of  oath-bound  secrecy.  The  plea  is  for 
"wealth  and  numbers."  None  say  that  it  would  be 
the  means  of  saving  one  soul,  or  in  any  way  advanc- 
ing the  spiritual  interests  in  the  church.  Dare  any 
say  that  getting  members  of  the  lodge  into  the 
church,  adds  one  particle  to  her  spiritual  interests? 
I  have  traveled  and  observed  widely,  and  I  have 
never  met  one  who  advocated  the  lodge  system,  that 
gave  any  satisfactory  evidence  to  my  mind  that  they 
were  really  the  children  of  God.  They  had  a  "form 
of  godliness,  but  deny  the  power  thereof;"  Jesus  says, 
"from  such  turn  away." 

I  knew  a  noted  spiritualist,  said  also  to  be  a  "free- 
lover,"  who  organized  a  Sabbath-school.  He  had  a 
"trance  speaker,"  who  often  spoke  for  the  instruc- 
tion and  edification  of  the  school.  He  told  the  chil- 
dren to  always  believe  what  she  told  them,  for  when 
she  was  in  a  trance  she  always  spoke  the  truth  and 
nothing  hut  the  truth.  One  Sabbath  she  took  up  the 
lodge  system,  and  gave  it  no  quarters;  told  of  its  de- 
ception, its  meanness;  warned  the  young  to  beware 
of  secret  organizations;  and,  in  fact,  berated  it  in 
such  a  manner  that  the  children  looked  upon  it  as  a 
terrible  system,  indeed,  and  in  their  minds  won- 
dered why  such  a  vile  system  was  allowed  to  exist 
in  a  civilized  land. 

This  brought  the  spiritualist  into  a  sad  dilemma, 
as  he  was  a  member  of  several  different  secret  or- 
ders, and  all  knew  it.  He  arose  at  the  conclusion 
of  the  trance  speech,  and  told  the  children  that  the 
medium  was  actuated  by  a  lying  spirit,  and  he  was 
sorry  to  have  to  say  to  them  that  all  she  had  said 
was  untrue;  not  to  believe  a  word  of  it.  But  some 
of  them  said  to  me  afterwards,  "I  believe  she 
told  the  truth,  and  I  should  have  thought  better  of 
him  if  he  had  kept  still." 

Some  of  our  church  members  and  ministers,  even 
bishops,  too,  have  said  that  they  were  United  Breth- 
ren and  did  not  believe  in  secrecy,  yet  by  vote  and 
act  they  contradict  their  own  statements.  I  fail 
to  see  how  we  can  have  any  confidence  in  such  men, 
who  say  one  thing  and  do  another.  May  God  grant 
us  a  clear  victory  over  the  enemies  of  our  beloved 
Zion.  I  believe  he  will. 
Ware,  Mass. 


paigns  against  sin  in  the  American  army,  was  now 
turning  his  power  of  brain  and  heart  to  the  discus- 
sion of  those  questions  which  "minister  strife  rather 
than  godly  edifying."  I  thought,  What  have  these 
questions  to  do  with  pointing  the  masses  about  me 
from  sin  and  superstition  to  the  way  of  salvation  in 
Christ? 

As  to  the  first  question,  the  efl'ort  to  get  Christi- 
anity back  into  Judaism  as  regards  the  day  of  the 
week  to  be  observed  as  Sabbath  might  as  well  be  ap- 
plied to  getting  us  back  into  other  Jewish  dates  and 
doings.  It  is  about  as  sensible  as  a  certain  catch 
question  which  the  Mohammedans  try  to  use  upon  us 
in  our  bazaar  preaching.  They  will  come  up  with 
a  meek,  teachable  look  and  ask,  "Is  Christ  your 
teacher  and  example,  and  do  you  follow  him  in  all 
things?"  If  the  missionary  is  unwitting  enough  to 
say,  "Yes,"  then  the  Moslem  boldly  asks,  "Christ 
was  circumcised, — why  do  you  not  follow  his  exam- 
ple in  that?" 

A  number  of  Jewish  ideas  could  just  as  well  be 
fastened  upon  Christianity  as  the  seventh  day  of  the 
week.     Eomanism  is  a  wonderful  compound  of  Ju- 


THANK801VING. 


MISSION  FIELD   THOVGHTB. 


The  pastor  approached  one  young  man,  and  urged 
him  to  come  Monday  night  and  seek  the  Lord,  but 
he  said  he  could  not  as  he  was  to  take  another  de- 
gree in  some  club  or  lodge.  "Well,"  said  the  pas- 
tor, "come  then  Tuesday  night."  But  this  was  im- 
possible, as  he  was  to  take  a  degree  in  another  con- 
cern that  very  night.and  he  is  probably  still  "march- 


Dear  Editor: — Please  allow  me  a  few  remarks 
as  to  a  recent  discussion  in  the  Cynosure.  Some 
years  ago  I  received  a  letter  from  an  old  friend  in 
California.  I  was  hastening  to  hold  an  open  air 
meeting  among  the  natives  in  the  bazaar  and  read 
the  letter  as  I  walked  to  the  place.  It  was  eight 
pages  of  foolscap,  trying  to  prove,  first,  that  the 
Christian  Sabbath  was  a  mistake;  that  we  ought  to 
go  back  to  the  Jewish  time  of  reckoning  and  keep 
Saturday  as  a  holy  day.  Next,  the  letter  tried  to 
prove  that  there  is  no  hereafter  for  all  sinners  on 
earth;  that  after  all  the  vile,  devilish  deeds  which 
the  base  men  of  earth  can  commit  have  been  done 
there  is  no  retribution  whatever. 

I  occasionally  glanced  up  from  the  long  letter  to 
the  masses  of  heathen  about  me.  My  heart  sank  as 
I  saw  that  one  who  had  been  with  me,  a  dear  Chris- 
tian comrade,  and  a  really  useful  man  in  our  cam- 


daism  and  heathenism.  We  are  taken  into  a  grand 
spiritual  dispensation;  its  days  and  signs  are  sim- 
ple; and  it  is  a  great  pity  that  confusing  questions 
of  this  sort  are  brought  before  the  people.  We  wel- 
come foreign  Christian  papers  to  our  foreign  fields, 
and  are  glad  to  have  such  as  will  help  us  in  our 
great  work  of  evangelization  among  the 
English  and  the  English  -  speaking  natives 
of  India,  but  just  so  far  as  such  use- 
less and  misleading  discussions  are  brought  into 
the  Christian  papers  of  Europe  and  America,  they 
limit  their  usefulness  in  these  foreign  mission  fields. 
There  are  great,  earnest,  burning  questions  which 
must  be  urged;  there  are  grand  points  of  saving 
truth  which  must  be  continually  put  before  the  peo- 
ple. We  can  put  all  points  of  necessary  truth  be- 
fore them  without  opening  the  columns  of  our  pa- 
pers for  the  direct  teaching  of  error.  An  earnest 
evangelical  minister  will  find  his  time  so  fully  occu- 
pied in  preaching  God's  law  and  Gospel  that  he  will 
not  find  it  useful  to  invite  Jews  and  Universalists 
into  his  pulpit  to  sow  their  teachings.  Our  Christian 
papers  should  be  as  carefully  guarded  as  our  pul- 
pits. Then  God  will  bless  them  and  they  shall  bring 
with  rejoicing  their  sheaves  to  the  garners  of  glory. 
A  Missionary  in  India. 


Oh,  men  1  grown  sick  with  toil  and  care, 

Leave  for  awhile  the  crowded  mart ; 
Oh,  women  1  sinking  with  despair, 

Weary  of  limb  and  faint  of  heart, 
Forget  your  cares  to-day,  and  come 
As  children  back  to  childhood's  home  I 

Follow  again  the  winding  rills; 

Go  to  places  where  you  wont. 
When  climbing  up  the  summer  hills, 

In  their  green  lap  you  sat; 
And  softly  leaned  your  head  to  rest 
On  Nature's  calm  and  peaceful  breast. 

Walk  through  the  sere  and  fading  wood. 

So  lightly  trodden  by  your  feet 
When  all  you  knew  of  life  was  good, 

And  all  your  dream  of  life  was  sweet, 
And  let  fond  memory  lead  you  back, 
O'er  youthful  love's  enchanted  track. 

Taste  the  ripe  fruit  of  orchard  boughs. 
Drink  from  the  mossy  well  once  more : 

Breathe  fragrance  from  the  crowded  mows, 
With  fresh,  sweet  clover  running  o'er ; 

And  count  the  treasuries  at  your  feet, 

Of  silver  rye  and  golden  wheat. 

Go  sit  beside  the  hearth  again, 
Whose  circle  once  was  glad  and  gay ; 

And  if  from  out  the  precious  chain 
Some  shining  links  have  drooped  away. 

Then  guard  with  tenderer  heart  and  hand 

The  remnant  of  your  household  band. 

Draw  near  the  board  with  plenty  spread, 

And  if  in  the  accustomed  place 
You  see  the  father's  reverent  head, 

Or  mother's  patient,  loving  face, 
Whate'er  your  life  may  have  of  ill, 
Thank  God  that  these  are  left  you  still. 

Thank  God  for  friends  your  life  has  known, 
For  every  dear  departed  day, 

The  bleesed  past  is  safe  alone- 
God  gives,  but  does  not  take  away; 

He  only  safely  keeps  above 

For  us  the  treasure  that  we  love. 

— Pliaebe  Carey. 

m  I  m 

And  sure  I  am  that  it  is  better  to  be  sick,  provid- 
ing Christ  comes  to  the  bedside,  and  draws  by  the 
curtains  and  says,  "Courage!  I  am  thy  salvation," 
than  to  be  lusty  and  strong  and  never  be  visited  by 
Christ — Rutherford. 


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NovEMBiR  24, 1887 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSUKB. 


IfO  MORE  PANTOMIME  IN  PROHIBITION. 


The  Boston  Traveler  giving  an  account  of  the  Sons 
of  Temperance  at  the  time  of  the  last  session  of  the 
National  Division  says  that  in  its  forty-four  years  of 
existence  it  has  taken  in  2,250,000  people  in  Amer- 
ica alone  and  now  has  80,528  members.  Allowing 
50,000  to  have  died  in  those  forty-four  years  (a  rate 
of  7  a  year  per  1,000  on  160,000,)  a  little  over  96 
per  cent  of  all  who  have  joined  the  order  have  left 
it.  Or  during  each  year  on  an  average,  while  100 
came  in  96  went  out. 

Probably  that  is  about  the  ordinary  rates  of  the 
I.  O.  G.  T.  progress.  Taking  the  history  of  that  or- 
der in  California  from  1871  to  1881  when  it  was 
growing  and  very  prosperous  as  compared  with  oth- 
er States,  it  took  in  68,334  members  and  let  out  63,- 
006,  or  92^  went  out  for  100  who  came  in.  Laterly 
it  has  lost  all  its  new  recruits  and  reduced  its  old 
membership  beside  to  nearly  one-half. 

These  two  societies  did  nearly  all  the  temperance 
work  that  was  done  from  the  year  1844  to  1874  and 
were  by  far  the  most  energetic  temperance  societies 
up  to  that  time.  But  they  did  not  advance  and 
keep  up  with  the  times  nor  meet  the  demands  of 
progress.  Like  the  old  political  parties  of  our  coun- 
try, they  have  had  a  glorious  history;  they  wrought 
wonders  and  some  miracles  in  their  day. 

But  new,  swift,  well  appointed,  huge  steamers 
have  taken  the  place  of  the  old  sailing  craft;  the 
sewing  machine  has  run  out  the  tiresome  thimble 
and  hand  stitcher;  the  steam  harvester  and  thresher 
have  superseded  the  scythe  and  sickle,  and  the  work 
is  better  done  and  much  more  of  it  is  accomplished. 
So  the  W.  C.  T.  U.,  the  Y.  W.  C.  T.  U.,  the  Prohibi- 
tion club,  the  Grospei  temperance  meeting,  the  young 
men's  clubs,  the  Band  of  Hope  and  the  Demorest 
medal  contests,  the  county  and  State  conventions, 
and  the  new  watchword  of  practical  prohibition  and 
woman's  equality,  have  rendered  the  old  scythes  and 
sickles  and  hand  rakes  of  temperance  about  like  the 
obsolete  grandpa  lumber  and  furniture  that  is  rever- 
ently stowed  away  in  the  garret. 

The  old  ox-team  and  stage  coach  were  of  inesti- 
mable utility  in  their  day,  but  it  would  be  an  idle 
waste  of  means  and  time  to  keep  them  up  now,  when 
so  much  better  organizations  are  in  useful  operation 
and  have  absorbed  all  the  best  workers.  The  new 
systems,  had  they  been  tried  forty  years  ago,  would 
have  worked  much  better  than  the  old,  but  we  did 
not  know  it.  The  writer  for  a  long  time  believed 
with  others  that  the  awful  failures  were  due  to  in- 
competency of  leadership  and  it  could  be  remedied. 
Now  it  appears  beyond  a  doubt  that  the  system  was 
organically  and  fatally  defective  and  the  leadership 
incompetent  as  well;  and  now  it  is  much  more  so. 

The  revenues  of  these  old  dying  institutions,  now 
expended  to  almost  no  purpose  of  the  cause  of  tem- 
perance or  prohibition,  (utterly  wasted  in  this 
State,)  would  amazingly  help  the  work  of  the  W.  C. 
T,  U.,  and  the  Prohibition  party  and  their  work 
among  young  and  old.  None  of  which  it  does  now 
in  any  respect. 

It  may  be  said  these  institutions  are  schools,  edu- 
cators; they  were  so  once  and  did  a  great  work  of 
education,  being  then  the  only  temperance  schools. 
The  Band  of  Hope  is  to-day  a  better  educator  by 
far  than  they  evor  were,  and  it  is  entirely  free  from 
their  objectionable  features.  It  is  educating  both 
young  and  old  too  in  the  most  effective  manner.  In 
these  days  we  want  action  among  grown  people  af- 
ter their  schooling  is  over.  All  who  desire  the  suc- 
cess of  the  home  versus  the  dramshop,  should  plant 
themselves  and  the  Lord's  money  they  can  spare  in 
the  societies  that  are  in  the  field  for  the  practical 
abolition  of  the  great  curse.  The  time  for  paper 
soldiers  in  this  war  has  passed  forever. —  Ihe  Censor, 
Los  Avgeles,  Cal. 


ALEXANDER  HAMILTON. 

When  New  York  ratified  the  Federal  Constitution, 
the  people  of  that  State  celebrated  the  event  by  a 
festival  procession,  in  which  was  borne  a  flag  with 
the  portrait  of  Washington  on  one  side  and  that  of 
Hamilton  on  the  other.  The  enthusiasm  of  the  hour, 
which  recognized  these  great  men  as  foremost  among 
the  founders  of  the  republic — as  the  men  who  knew 
how  to  build  and  save  a  State — has  been  justified  by 
the  political  history  of  succeeding  years,  and  espe- 
cially by  the  fierce  and  bloody  struggle  of  our  own 
time.  That  we  are  today  a  united  and  powerful 
nation,  and  not  the  weak  and  hostile  fragments  of  a 
once  great  republic,  is  owing  to  the  triumph  of  those 
sentiments  of  nationality  which  Hamilton  strove 
throughout  his  life  to  foster  and  strengthen. 

To  estimate  aright  Hamilton's  greatness,  we  need 
to  remember  that  while  he  was  a  many-sided  man, 
and  great  in  many  different  ways,  as  statesman. 


greatest  in  the  successful  solution  of  those  difficult 
problems  of  civil  government  which  most  profoundly 
affect  human  welfare,  but  in  respect  to  which  men 
are  most  liable  to  err.  While  the  science  of  political 
economy  was  in  its  infancy,  he  exhibited  a  mastery 
of  its  principles  which  placed  him  beside  Adam 
Smith  and  Turgot.  He  saw,  as  with  an  unerring 
instinct,  the  kind  of  government  best  suited  to  the 
needs  of  a  handful  of  people  as  they  emerged  from 
the  war  of  Independence,  and  which  would  also  prove 
adequate  to  the  needs  of  the  greatest  of  nations. 
Although  he  had  never  been  in  Europe,  he  was  able 
to  forecast  the  movements  of  European  governments 
with  a  correctness  that  led  Talleyrand  to  say  of  him, 
"He  divined  Europe." 

In  his  lifetime,  it  was  the  fashion  of  his  oppo- 
nents, the  State-rights  men  of  that  day,  to  call  him 
a  monarchist.  His  writings  abundantly  prove  the 
falsity  of  this  assertion.  He  was,  above  all  things, 
a  practical  statesman,  and  never  wasted  an  effort  in 
attempts  to  establish  a  government  unsuited  tp  the 
genius  of  the  people.  But  what  he  did  believe  in, 
and  saw  was  essential  to  the  very  existence  of  the 
nation,  was  a  strong  central  government,  supreme  in 
its  own  domain,  springing  from  the  people  and  act- 
ing directly  upon  them,  and  sutHciently  expansive 
to  meet  the  wants  of  a  continental  republic.  To 
establish  such  a  government,  he  exerted  to  the  ut- 
most all  the  powers  of  his  richly-gifted  nature.  This 
was  the  great  work  of  his  life;  and  for  this  work  he 
is  entitled  to  rank,  not  merely  among  the  greatest 
statesmen  of  his  time,  but  among  the  great  benefac- 
tors of  the  race. 

No  man  ever  labored  more  diligently  to  produce 
an  enlightened  public  opinion.  His  tongue  and  pen 
were  never  idle.  He  had  an  abiding  faith  in  the 
ability  and  disposition  of  the  people  to  form  correct 
judgments  on  public  affairs  when  properly  instructed. 
As  a  political  controversialist,  he  had  no  equal.  His 
bitterest  enemy,  Aaron  Burr,  said  of  him :  "If  you 
put  yourself  on  paper  with  him,  you  are  lost." 
Jefferson  thought  that  Madison  was  the  only  person 
competent  to  measure  swords  with  him.  He  was 
not  a  literary  artist  like  Burke.  His  power  as  a 
writer  consisted  in  the  clearness  of  his  statements 
and  the  strength  of  his  arguments.  He  persuaded 
men,  not  by  stirring  their  passions  or  charming  their 
fancies,  but  by  convincing  their  judgments. 

No  adequate  report  of  Hamilton's  speeches  has 
been  preserved,  from  which  to  judge  of  his  powers 
as  an  orator;  but  from  the  testimony  of  the  ablest 
of  his  contemporaries,  and  from  the  effect  which  his 
speeches  produced,  we  know  that  he  is  entitled  to 
rank  among  the  great  orators  of  the  world.  His 
greatest  efforts  as  an  orator  were  put  forth  in  the 
Constitutional  Convention  at  Poughkeepsie.  When 
that  convention  of  sixty-five  members  assembled, 
forty-six  were  opposed  to  the  adoption  of  the  con- 
stitution, and  only  nineteen  were  in  favor  of  it. 
The  opposition  to  it  was  headed  by  Governor  Clin- 
ton, one  of  the  most  astute  and  influential  politicians 
of  his  time.  Some  of  the  ablest  debaters  in  the  State 
were  arrayed  on  the  same  side,  and  at  their  head  was 
Melancthon  Smith,  a  most  acute  dialectitian.  Day 
after  day  the  great  debate  went  on,  the  speeches  of 
Hamilton  filling  men  with  wonder  at  their  power, 
and  melting  them  to  tears  with  their  pathos;  but  on 
the  test  votes  the  majority  against  the  federalists 
was  always  two  to  one.  Finally,  Melancthon  Smith, 
overpowered  by  the  arguments  of  Hamilton,  gave  up 
his  opposition  and  one  after  another  of  his  followers 
joined  the  federalists,  till  on  the  final  vote  there  was 
a  majority  of  three  in  favor  of  the  constitution. 
We  know  of  no  triumph  of  oratory  in  modern  times 
surpassing  this. — Henry  Cabot  Lodge. 


WTOLIFFB  A8  A  SOCIAL  REFORMER. 


Prof.  Minto's  story  in  the  English  Illustrated  Mag- 
azine, "The  Mediation  of  Ralph  Hardelot,"  intro- 
duces its  readers  to  some  of  the  economical  and  so- 
cial questions  that  pressed  upon  the  English  people, 
five  centuries  ago.  The  ideas  of  Wycliffe  are  pre- 
sented in  the  following  extract: 

"A  more  peaceful  scene  could  not  have  been  con- 
ceived. It  was  a  vision  of  happy  and  prosperous 
industry — nature  smiling  on  the  labors  of  man  and 
backing  up  his  efforts  with  genial  aid — Production 
and  Exchange  vocal  in  the  beat  of  the  flail  and  the 
rumble  of  the  wagon,  all  sounding  musical  in  the 
soft,  warm  air.  And  yet  that  mysterious,  impalpa- 
ble atmosphere,  the  common  thought  of  man,  was 
charged  with  dangerous  electricity.  A  mighty  storm 
was  gathering  that  would  shake  every  timber  in  the 
framework  of  society.  The  agents  of  revolution 
were  abroad. 

"Among  these  agents  must  be  reckoned  the  disci- 
ples of  Wycliffe,  of  whom  Ralph  Hardelot  was  one 
of  the  most  ardent  and  enterprising.     Not  that  W}'- 


selled  the  poor  to  rise  in  armed  rebellion  against  the 
rich.  He  had  no  quarrel  with  the  feudal  system  ex- 
cept that  lords  and  knights  did  not  live  up  to  the 
strict  conception  of  their  duty  in  the  commonwealth, 
which  was  to  prevent  wrong-doing  and  protect  la- 
boring men  in  the  exercise  of  their  industry,  guard- 
ing them  against  fraud  and  robbery,  against  the 
subtleties  of  knaves  and  the  oppression  of  strong- 
handed  enemies,  foreign  and  domestic.  His  aims 
were  not  directly  political.  It  was  a  religious  re- 
formation that  he  labored  after,  with  an  ultimate 
view  to  the  banishment  of  dissension  and  disorder 
and  corruption  from  the  realm,  and  the  establish- 
ment of  a  reign  of  universal  peace  and  charity,  con- 
tented labor  of  each  in  his  appointed  station,  and 
brotherly  love  among  all.  As  a  means  to  this  great 
end  he  desired  first  of  all  the  purification  of  the 
church  and  the  religious  orders  by  a  return  to  the 
simplicity  of  apostolic  doctrine,  and  the  purity  and 
poverty  of  apostolic  life  as  set  forth  in  the  New 
Testament. 

"Such  was  Wycliffe's  scheme  for  the  purification  of 
the  church,  and,  though   it   seemed   to  affect  the 
church  alone,  it  is  not  difficult  to  see  how  it  brought 
him  at  once  into  contact  and  conflict  with  the  polit- 
ical system.     It  is  possible  that  it  was  the  political 
problem  of  the  relation  of  the  kingdom   to  the  pa- 
pac}%  on   which  he  was  consulted  as  a  learned  doc- 
tor, that  started  Wycliffe  on  his  career  as  a  reform- 
er.    But  be  this  as  it  may,  his  theories,  when  fully 
developed  and  pushed  ardently  into   practice,  had 
much    more  wide-reaching   political   consequences. 
All  the  servants  of  Christ,  he  held,  all  ministers  of 
religion,  all  teachers  and  exemplars  of  the  teaching 
of   Holy  Writ,  should   subsist  on  voluntary  alms; 
worldly  possessions  stifled  and  choked  their  spirit- 
ual usefulness.     Now  in  his  time  a  fourth,  or  even 
a  third,  of  all  the  land  of  England  was  held  by  the 
church  and  religious  orders.     What  was  to  be  done 
with  it  if  its   present   holders   were  dispossessed? 
Wycliffe  proved  by  elaborate  argument  that  secular 
authority  not  only  might  lawfully  take   possession 
of  all  this  wealth,  but  was  bound  in  duty  so  to  do, 
men  of  religion  holding  it  contrary  to   the  rule   of 
Christ.     Put  for  whose  use   should  it   be  appro- 
priated?    On  this  point  also  Wycliffe's  teaching  was 
clear  and  emphatic.     All  the  worldly  wealth  of  the 
church   and  the  orders,  beyond  what  sufficed  for  a 
simple  maintenance,  belonged  of  right  to  the   poor; 
the  men  of  religion   were   but  the  proctors  of  the 
poor  in  their  tenure  of  it,  and  were  acting  as  fraud- 
ulent trustees  when  they   spent  it  on   sumptuous 
buildings,  rich  fare,  large  retinues,  or  coarse  sensu- 
ality, while  the  poor  wandered  houseless,  ate  and 
slept  with  the  swine,  tottered  about  with  naked  sides 
and  shaking  lips  and  hands.     He  specified  two  uses 
to  which  the  wealth  of  'worldly  clerks  and  feigned 
religious'   might  be  turned.      Partly  it  should  be 
given  to  secular  lords,  who  should  in  return  give  to 
the  poor  protection  and  equitable  government.     And 
partly  should  it  be  seized  to  meet  the  expenses  of 
just  and  necessary  wars.     Wycliffe  did  not  hesitate 
to  urge  that  for  this  national  purpose  shrines  should 
be  stripped,  and  the  waste  treasure  hung  on   stocks 
and  stones  used  for  the  defence  of  the  realm, 

"It  was  this  last  doctrine  that  brought  Wycliffe  and 
the  poor  priests,  whom  he  sent  forth  as  models  of  a 
true  Christian  priesthood,  into  vital  contact  with  the 
practical  politics  of  a  time  when  all  classes  of  the 
laity  were  groaning  under  the  burden  of  unprece- 
dentedly  heavy  taxation.  Especially  the  poorest, 
who  had  hitherto  escaped  direct  taxation,  were  like- 
ly to  receive  this  new  gospel  with  gladness.  Wy- 
cliffe's heresies  on  excommunication  and  transub- 
stantiation  and  other  points  of  church  doctrine 
might  interest  theologians  only;  here  was  a  doctrine 
that  the  poorest  understanding  could  grasp— a  basis 
from  which  his  disciples  could  act  with  powerful 
effect  on  the  masses  of  the  people. 

"It  must  not  be  supposed  that  all  the  agitators  of 
the  time,  whose  teaching  corresponded  more  or  less 
with  Wycliffe's,  were  direct  disciples  of  his.  The 
heresy  was  in  the  air;  what  he  chiefly  did  was  to 
furnish  it  with  a  reasoned  foundation  in  Scripture 
and  the  dicta  of  the  fathers  and  doctors  of  the 
church." 


lawyer,  financier,  orator,  writer  and  soldier,  he  was  tjliffe  was  a  revolutionary  in  the  sense  that  he  coun 


KNIOHTS  OF  THE  GOLDEN  BAOLE. 

About  once  every  three  months  we  receive  from 
Jay  Dee  Barnes,  of  Philadelphia,  a  half  column  of 
matter  intending  to  boost  a  secret  society  called 
Knights  of  the  Golden  Eagle,  of  which  he  seems  to 
be  "boss."  We  might  say  for  Jay  Dee  and  the 
Knights  of  the  Golden  Eagle  that  while  we  belong 
to  two  or  three  societies  we  are  not  so  much  stuck 
on  them  as  to  do  much  free  advertising  in  fa- 
vor of  new  ones.  The  largest  number  of  secret  so- 
cieties are  organized  to  give  a  few  fellows  a  good 
easy  place  with  little  work  and  big  pay.     We  do  not 


iTHE  CHBISTLOr  CYlSOBimSi, 


NovBMBiR  24, 1887 


have  the  same  idea  of  secret  societies  that  brother 
Crawford  has.who  regards  them  as  the  very  incarna- 
tion of  evil,  for  we  think  much  of  their  work  is,  like 
dancing,  more  foolish  than  sinful.  For  exam  pie  the 
great  high-sounding  titles  bestowed  on  the  officers  of 
some  societies,  and  the  many  deaf  and  dumb  signs 
used  in  the  lodge  room  would  better  become  children 
than  full-grown  men.  The  man  known  on  the  street 
as  old  "Tim"  Flinigan  must  be  addressed  in  the  se- 
cret society  room  as  Most  Noble  and  August  Po- 
tentate, or  by  some  equally  bombastic  and  ridicu- 
lous title.  When  we  join  another  secret  society,  we 
want  it  to  be  one  where  the  presiding  officer  is  called 
simply  President  or  Chairman,  instead  of  Your  Ex- 
alted Highness,  and  where  the  Secretary  must  not 
labor  under  the  title  Most  Notable  and  Illustrious 
Scribe.  Secret  societies  have  done  good,  no  doubt, 
but  they  are  becoming  so  numerous  that  they  threat- 
en to  become  a  nuisance.  So,  Mr.  Jay  Dee  Barnes, 
we  don't  want  to  become  a  Knight  of  the  Golden 
Eagle,  and  we  wouldn't  advise  any  of  our  readers  to 
join  nor  will  we  give  you  any  more  free  puffs. — 

Wettern  Press. 

.*  •  » 

OUR  BOSTON  LBTTER. 


AN  BMINENT  BOSTON  CLERGYMAN  EXPLODES  A 
VERBAL  ANARCHIST   BOMB. 


The  topic  generally  discussed  in  Boston  pulpits, 
last  Suaaay,  was  anarchy,  and,  as  everybody  ex- 
pected, the  action  of  the  courts  in  condemning  the 
Chicago  anarchists,  and  the  ultimate  fate  of  four  of 
them,  was  commended  as  being  just.  But  there  was 
one  exception.  There  was  one  doctor  of  divinity 
who,  on  that  day,  greatly  extended  his  already 
widely  spread  reputation  in  standing  out  alone  as  a 
sympathizer  with  the  anarchical  faction.  Whilst 
such  men  as  Drs.  James  Freeman  Clarke,  Bartol, 
and  Davis  were  condemning  the  unfortunate  bomb- 
throwers  and  indorsing  the  faithfulness  of  the  courts 
in  meting  out  well-deserved  punishment;  while  these 
eminent  clergymen  were  doing  just  what  they  prob- 
ably thought  every  other  preacher  discussing  the 
subject  was  doing,  Rev.  Dr.  A.  A.  Miner,  the  great 
whiskey  antagonist,  was  doing  just  the  opposite. 

The  notice  which  had  been  given  in  the  papers 
that  Dr.  Miner  would  speak  on  anarchism,  drew  a 
large  house.  Had  the  question  been  put  to  the 
audience  as  to  what  his  opinions  would  be  concern- 
ing the  anarchists,  no  doubt,  the  unanimous  reply 
would  have  been — denunciatory.  But  when  he 
announced  that  the  fundamental  ideas  of  Albert 
Parsons  were  the  same  as  his  own,  that  elite  gath- 
ering received  a  shock  from  which  it  will  not  soon 
recover.  It  may  forget  the  shock,  but  not  the 
speaker,  nor  his  unexpected  utterances.  Before  the 
discourse  ended  many  made  a  hasty  retreat. 

In  the  course  of  his  remarks  the  doctor  asserted 
that  Paul  was  an  anarchist,  and  that  he  preached 
anarchy  when  in  Ephesus.  Anyone  who  attempted 
to  change  the  existing  condition  of  things  would  be 
likened  to  the  men  recently  executed.  For  a  mo- 
ment the  speaker  imagined  himself  and  hearers  in 
Galilee  as  the  enemies  of  Christ,  the  Pharisees  and 
officers  of  Judaism.  Christ  comes  along  and  de- 
nounces them  as  they  deserve.  They  tbink  their 
government  to  be  complete  when  this  disturber  of 
the  peace,  the  Cdrist,  comes  and  denounces  them, 
and  turns  things  upaide  down,  shows  them  their 
hypocrisy,  tor  which  they  put  him  to  death.  Going 
further,  the  speaker  emphatically  declared  that  the 
simple  truth,  the  simple  words  of  a  reformer  will 
never  break  up  a  community  that  is  thoroughly 
organized;  error  alone  will  accomplish  it.  The 
errors  of  the  world  causes  anarchy — it  is  its  essence. 
It  is  easy  to  make  parallel  the  cases  of  Christ  and 
those  executed  men  in  breaking  down  things  estab- 
lished. The  anarchists,  he  -also  declared,  in  this 
country  met  with  prohibition  of  their  right  to  free 
speech.  In  their  passion,  is  it  a  wonder  they  threw 
bombs?  Comparing  this  with  a  country  where  men 
cannot  speak  that  which  is  true  without  meeting  the 
established  order  of  things,  the  speaker  said  that  the 
trouble  is  we  have  anarchy  in  our  laws. 

I  would  like  to  add,  just  here,  that  the  city  ordi- 
nance of  Boston  in  prohibiting  free  Gospel  speech 
on  the  Common  is  nothing  less  than  anarchy  against 
constitutional  right,  and  fully  confirms  the  charge 
of  Mr.  Miner  that  we  have  anarchy  in  our  laws. 

That  Mr.  Miner's  remarks  will  be  criticized  by  his 
brother  ministers  and  others  cannot  be  doubted. 
Right  or  wrong,  however,  he  has  certainly  gathered 
himself  up  out  of  the  rut  of  catering  to  the  popular 
opinion  of  the  masses,  who  depend  altogether  on 
newspaper  versions  of  the  Chicago  trouble  and  the 
doctrine  of  the  anarchists.  Dr.  Miner  has  opened 
a  new  page  ou  which  the  people  must  read,  blended, 
yes,  interwoven  with  error  and  passion,  truths — 
ttcls  which  it  must  acknowledge — anarchy  in  the 


laws  of  this  nation,  which  must  be  condemned  and 
extirpated,  for  it  is  as  dangerous  to  the  constitution, 
the  rights  of  the  people,  as  the  Parsons's  anarchism 
may  be  to  our  laws.  D.  P.  Mathews. 


OUR  WA8HINOT0N  LETTER. 


The  talk  of  the  Capital  is  the  conversation  be- 
tween Mr.  Lamar,  Secretary  of  the  Interior,  and  Mr. 
Sparks,  Commissioner  of  the  General  Land  Office, 
which  has  culminated  in  a  caustic  letter  from  the 
Cabinet  Minister  to  his  subordinate,  in  which  it  is 
stated,  after  citing  the  differences  of  their  opinions 
on  legal  questions  involved  in  certain  railroad  land 
grants,  that  one  or  the  other  of  the  two  officials  con- 
cerned must  forthwith  resign  his  position.  Public 
opinion  appears  to  sustain  the  action  of  Secretary 
Lamar,  because  according  to  the  decisions  of  the 
United  States  Supreme  Court,  his  construction  of 
the  land  laws  is  clearly  right,  and  the  Commissioner's 
radically  wrong.  Whenever  Lamar  would  reverse 
Sparks,  which  was  a  common  occurrence,  the  latter 
would  file  a  long  protest,  reviewing  the  case  and 
attempting  to  convince  the  Secretary  of  his  error. 
So  it  finally  became  simply  a  question  of  official 
subordination.  It  is  generally  believed  that  Mr. 
Lamar's  letter  was  inspired  from  the  White  House 
— the  administration  being  anxious  to  unload  Sparks 
on  account  of  his  unpopular  Western  land  policy. 
It  is  evident  that  the  Land  Commissioner  will  have 
to  go,  and  that  quickly.  He  is  held  in  such  aversion 
by  many  Congressmen  that  they  will  not  enter  his 
office  unless  they  know  he  is  absent.  Assistant 
Commissioner  Stockslager  and  Geo.  M.  Julian,  Sur- 
veyor General  of  New  Mexico,  both  Indiana  Demo- 
crats, are  spoken  of  as  successor  of  Sparks. 

It  is  well  understood  that  Postmaster  General 
Vilas  is  to  be  the  new  Secretary  of  the  Interior,  and 
that  Don  M.  Dickinson,  of  Michigan,  will  fill  the 
other  vacancy.  It  would  appear  to  be  the  Presi- 
dent's purpose  to  give  the  West  two  Cabinet  mem- 
bers with  the  view  of  strengthening  his  party,  where 
it  is  known  to  be  weakest.  It  is  now  conceded  by 
all  that  the  New  York  election  means  Mr.  Cleve- 
land's certain  renomination  by  the  Democrats,  while 
the  Republicans  may  name  any  one  of  half  a  dozen 
candidates-  the  signs  of  the  times  not  pointing  to 
any  particular  man;  however,  Mr.  Blaine's  friends 
still  claim  that  he  is  the  Republican  favorite. 

We  are  not  yet  through  with  our  Centennials, 
though  there  have  been  a  number  within  the  past 
dozen  years.  The  next  one  will  be  observed  in 
New  York  City,  April  30,  1889,  in  commemoration 
of  the  Centennial  of  the  inauguration  of  Gen.  Wash- 
ington as  President  of  the  United  States.  Centen- 
nials from  their  frequency  are  losing  much  of 
popular  enthusiam  and  attractiveness,  still  I  think 
that  at  New  York  there  should  be  a  celebration 
worthy  alike  of  the  noble  founders  of  the  greatest  of 
Republics,  and  of  the  progress  and  patriotism  of 
the  national  character.  The  illustrious  Washington 
will  forever  loom  up  as  one  of  the  grandest  and 
most  colossal  figures  of  history — the  pride  of  his 
own  countrymen,  and  the  central  objtct  of  the 
world's  admiration  and  veneration — his  fame  grow- 
ing brighter  with  the  fleeting  years. 

Senator  Cookrell's  commiitee  to  investigate  the 
methods  of  conducting  the  business  of  the  Federal 
Departments,  will  make  a  supplemental  report,  fav- 
oring the  erection  of  additional  Government  build- 
ings; at  present  the  clerks  are  crowded  together  in 
such  a  manner  as  to  seriously  impair  their  efficiency. 
The  Government  is  now  compfelied  to  pay  quite  a 
large  rental,  and  it  would  prove  a  paying  investment 
it  the  recommendation  of  the  committee  should  be 
approved.  * 


Eefoem  News. 


FROM  THE    GENERAL  AGENT. 


THE  OHIO  STATE  MEETING. 


New  Concord,  O.,  Nov.  18,  1887. 
Years  have  elapsed  since  1  visited  New  Concord, 
Ohio,  the  first  time.  Faces  have  changed  and  so, 
slightly,  is  the  town  itself;  but  reform  principles 
seem  to  have  grown  and  strengthened.  Unlike 
many  other  villages  the  saloon  and  lodge  destroyers 
have  no  "local  habitation,"  and  but  very  few  sup- 
porters in  the  community;  while  Prohibitionists  and 
open  advocates  of  "charity,  brotherly  love  and  truth" 
are  numerous  and  outspoken.  The  seed  sown  has 
grown,  and  the  places  of  veterans  are  already  occu- 
pied in  part  by  those  upon  whom  the  mantles  of  the 
departed  have  fallen.  Dr.  McClurkin  and  his  esti- 
mable family  are  held  in  grateful  remembrance  for 
their  good  works,  and  followed  by  the  prayers  and 
benizons  of  sympathizing  hearts  to,  their  field  of  ia- 
bor  in  Wahoo,  Kans.;  while  Bro.  Paris,  walking  in 


the  footsteps  of  his  predecessors,  is  caring  for  the 
sheep  and  lambs  of  the  Covenanter  fold.  Dr.  Paul, 
whose  presence  is  suggestive  of  stability,  independ- 
ence and  stern  integrity,  has  left  the  supervision 
of  Muskingum  College  to  others,  but  retains  his  hold 
upon  the  confidence  and  affections  of  the  people. 
His  address  of  welcome  to  the  Ohio  State  conven- 
tion, to  the  town  and  college  chapel  some  years  ago, 
was  a  gem  and  model  in  its  line  which  I  well  re- 
member, and  the  happy  response  by  Dr.  Wishart 
was  creditable  to  cause  and  occasion. 

A  late  train  prevented  my  attendance  on  the  open- 
ing exercises  of  this  annual  session  of  the  Ohio 
Sta*.e  Christian  Association,  but  I  am  told  the  ad- 
dress of  welcome  and  response  were  fitting  to  the 
occasion.  The  circle  of  eminent  men  was  fairly 
represented  by  Dr.  Spencer,  Dr.  Lytle,  Dr.  Paul, 
Pres.  Irons,  Revs.  Coleman,  Smith,  Wylie,  Paris, 
Cannon,  S.  ^  ^eorge,  Thompson,  Profs.  Gray, 
Paden,  and  other  godly  men  and  women.  The  local 
attendance  was  good  and  increased  steadily  from 
the  beginning.  Every  attention  was  paid  to  the 
comfort  of  delegates  from  abroad,  and  the  entire 
expenses  of  the  convention  easily  raised,  with  a 
margin  sufficient  to  pay  expenses  of  Dr.  Spencer  to 
the  Prohibition  conference  in  Chicago  on  the  80th 
inst.  The  committee  chosen  to  attend  the  confer- 
ence were:  Pres.  F.  M.  Spencer,  D.D.,  Rev.  J.  P. 
Lytle,  D.D.,  Rev.  E.  Thompson,  Rev.  J.  M.  Paris 
and  Prof.  T.  H.  Paden. 

Rev.  Coleman's  address  was  warmly  and  worthily 
endorsed  by  a  vote  requesting  a  copy  for  publica- 
tion. Pres.  C.  A.  Blanchard's  two  addresses  were 
among  the  happiest  and  most  effective  of  his  labors, 
and  W.  B.  Stoddard  preached  sound  doctrine  joined 
with  many  practical  suggestions;  while  to  myself 
was  awarded  a  patient  and  attentive  hearing.  On 
the  whole  the  meeting  was  a  success,  and  all  the 
friends  present  felt  that  much  good  had  been  accom- 
plished. Secretary  S.  A.  George  will  doubtless  give 
a  detailed  report  including  resolutions  and  other  of- 
ficial action  of  the  body,  looking  to  plans  and  work 
for  the  coming  year.  J.  P.  Stoddard. 


A  GRAND  SERIES  OF  MEETINGS  IN  IOWA. 


Dear  Ctnosure: — After  the  annual  meeting  at 
College  Springs,  Rev.  B.  W.  Coe,  the  seceded  Ma- 
son, who  came  from  northeastern  away  across  to 
southwestern  Iowa  to  bear  his  testimony  against  the 
lodge  system,  came  with  me  to  Henry  county,  and 
we  began  reform  work  by  lecturing  at  Wayne.  It 
was  a  rainy  night  and  the  congregation  was  not 
large,but  the  meeting  was  a  good  one.  Some  thought 
they  had  never  heard  the  invalidity  of  the  Masonic 
covenant  so  clearly  and  forcibly  shown  before. 

When  the  fact  that  the  covenants  of  Masonry  are 
not  legally  or  morally  binding.and  that  it  is  not  dis- 
honorable to  wholly  repudiate  them,  is  clearly  and 
generally  shown,  the  bottom  will  fall  out  of  Mason- 
ry and  the  power  of  the  craft  to  "bull-doze"  those 
whose  consciences  revolt  against  the  wickedness  of 
the  lodge  will  be  gone. 

On  the  Sabbath  Bro.  Coe  preached  at  Wayne  and 
I  went  with  Bro.  Fry,  the  pastor,  and  preached  at  a 
country  place  six  or  eight  miles  from  Washington.  On 
Monday  morning  we  went  to  Ainsworth  to  arrange 
for  a  lecture  there.  We  saw  some  of  the  elders  of 
the  United  Presbyterian  church  and  by  their  advice 
secured  a  place  and  fixed  upon  a  time.  We  then 
went  to  Winfield  where  we  had  arranged  the  Satur- 
day before  and  Bro.  Coe  and  myself  lectured  for 
two  evenings.  The  attendance  of  business  men  and 
Masons  was  quite  general.  The  pastor  of  the  M.  E. 
church  treated  us  very  courteously  and  generously 
offered  to  aid  us  in  giviog  notice  of  the  lectures. 

From  Winfield  we  went  to  Wyman  and  lectured 
in  the  Covenanter  church.  There  was  a  large  at- 
tendance and  an  interesting  meeting.  The  Cove- 
nanters of  Wyman  and  Rev.  Mr.  Black,  their  pas- 
tor,held  a  high  place  in  my  esteem  before  this  meet- 
ing, which  served  to  intensify  my  appreciation  of 
their  nobility  of  character. 

Our  next  meeting  was  in  the  Evangelical  Swedish 
Lutheran  church  of  the  Augustana  Synod,  Rev.  Mr. 
Franzen,  pastor.  This  meeting  was  well  attended. 
We  gave  them  Freemasonry  contrasted  with  the  Ko- 
fong  lodge,  the  leading  secret  society  of  the  "Dark 
Continent." 

Our  next  meeting  was  at  Ainsworth.  Here  the 
lodge  was  well  represented  in  the  audience;  and  it 
pleased  the  Lord  to  gird  both  Bro.  Coe  and  myself 
for  the  battle.  The  fruit  of  this  meeting,  I  doubt 
not,  will  abide.  The  pastor  of  the  United  Brethren 
church  was  most  hearty  in  his  congratulations  and 
thanks  at  the  conclusion  of  the  meeting. 

From  Ainsworth  we  came  to  Salem.  Thomas 
Cooper  took  us  over  twenty  miles  in  his  carriage 
across  the  country,  carried  us  around  while  we  were 
there,and  brought  us  back  when  our  work  was  done 


NovEMBSB  24, 1887 


THE  CHRISTIAN  GYNOSUKE. 


"Bro.  Coe  preached  at  Salem  and  I  at  Chestnut  Hill 
on  the  Sabbath.  On  Monday  night  we  lectured  at 
Cedar  Run.  The  attendance  was  good.  The  follow- 
ing night  we  lectured  at  Salem.  Both  of  these  lec- 
tures were  in  the  meeting  houses  of  the  Society  of 
Friends.  The  aext  day  we  returned  to  Wayne,  The 
day  following  we  went  to  Morning  Sun  and  called 
upon  Rev.  Mr.  Trumbull,  the  corresponding  secreta- 
ry of  the  Iowa  Association.  We  then  went  to  Lin- 
ton, three  miles  distant,  and  visited  Rev.  Mr.  Robb. 

The  next  morning  Bro. Coe  took  his  departure  and 
I,  my  soul  greatly  refreshed  by  my  interviews 
with  brethren  Trumbull  and  Robb,  went  forth  to 
my  labor  as  State  agent.  While  at  Salem,  friend 
Gibson,  Miles,  Pidgeon,  Foss  and  others  subscribed 
and  donated  to  the  funds  of  the  Association. 

Dear  friends,  will  you  not  pray  and  work  with 
Christ  to  turn  men  away  from  the  darkness  of  the 
lodge  to  the  light  of  the  Gospel.  The  lodge  must 
not  be  permitted  to  dominate  and  corrupt  the  church. 
The  real  equality  of  American  citizens  before  the 
law,  which  is  so  seriously  menaced  by  the  lodge  sys- 
tem, must  be  maintained.  Let  all  who  are  for  Christ 
against  the  idolatry  and  infidelity  of  secretism  come 
to  his  help.  We  need  your  prayers,  your  co-opera- 
tion, and  your  financial  aid  in  carrying  forward  this 
great  work.  The  church  will  be  corrupted  and  lib- 
erty will  give  place  to  anarchy  or  despotism  unless 
we  succeed.  We  therefore  call  on  every  lover  of 
Christ  and  of  his  country  lo  aid  in  carrying  forward 
this  reform.  C.  F.  Hawley. 


A   WBBE  IN  THE  CREaCENT  CITY. 


THE  GREAT  CHARITr   HOSPITAL   AND   LOTTERY — THE 
COLORED    SPATE    FAIR. 


New  Orleans,  La.,  Nov.  12,  1887. 

Dear  Cynosure: — I  returned  to  New  Orleans  on 
Monday  the  8th.  On  Tuesday  1  visited  several  min- 
isters and  the  Great  Charity  Hospital  of  this  city. 
This  is  one  of  the  largest  institutions  of  the  kind  in 
the  country.  It  receives  among  other  sources  of  in- 
come, $40,000  from  the  Louisiana  State  Lottery.  It 
was  one  of  the  reasons  given  for  chartering  this 
grand  scheme  of  robbery,  that  thereby  this  hospital 
could  be  sustained.  Louisiana  not  only  places  her- 
self in  opposition  to  the  moral  sense  and  legal  enact- 
ments of  every  other  State  in  the  Union,  but  helps 
to  demoralize  their  citizens  and  cheat  them  out  of 
their  earnings.  Next  to  the  lodges  and  the  liquor 
traffic,  there  is  not  a  more  demoralizing  influence  or 
grosser  system  of  iniquity  than  this  lottery  business. 
Efforts  have  been  made  from  time  to  time  to  prevent 
the  United  States  mails  from  being  used  for  lottery 
purposes,  but  the  forces  here  have  proved  too  strong. 
Notwithstanding  the  badness  of  their  cause,  Gens. 
Beauregard  and  Early  were  regarded  as  brave  and 
gallant  commanders.  Their  fame,  such  as  it  was, 
has  been  badly  smirched  by  their  connection  with 
this  abominable  business.  It  would  be  better  that 
the  walls  of  this  great  building  should  crumble  into 
ruins,  than  that  this  iniquity  should  go  on  under  the 
patronage  of  the  State.  It  would  be  a  great  mistake 
to  suppose  that  the  business  men  of  this  city  do  not 
know  that  this  lottery  system  is  not  only  morally 
corrupt,  but  a  great  financial  drain.  A  leading  man- 
ufacturer and  business  man  in  this  city  told  me  that 
he  regarded  it  as  one  of  the  greatest  evils  with  which 
the  people  of  the  State  are  tifHicted. 

The  Hospital  in  itself,  of  course,  is  a  most  benefi- 
cent institution.  I  was  greatly  pleased  with  the  ad- 
mirable order  and  neatness,  as  well  as  the  great 
number  of  beds  for  patients.  I  witnessed  while 
there  an  admirable  surgical  operation — the  operation 
for  cataract.  A  man  totally  blind— one  eye  being 
destroyed,  and  the  lens  of  the  other  perfectly  opaque. 
The  eye  was  opened  and  the  lens  taken  out.  As  the 
patient  lay  on  the  table,  he  was  asked  if  he  could  see 
certain  things,  and  described  them  accurately. 

Next  day  I  went  to  the  Colored  State  Fair,  now 
being  held  at  the  old  Spanish  Fort.  Of  the  fair  I 
will  speak  further  on.  I  was  accompanied  by  my 
friend,  Mr.  F.  J.  Davidson,  and  introduced  to  a  large 
number  of  ministers  from  different  parts  of  the  State. 
Most  of  them  were  Freemasons,  but  some  were 
strongly  opposed  to  the  lodge. 

Among  others  I  met  a  leading  colore^  physician 
of  this  city.  He  told  me  that  he  was  paying  dues 
in  twenty-two  ^ecret  orders,  and  it  cost  him  for  dues 
alone  $50  per  month.  I  asked  him  if  it  paid.  He 
said  it  paid  him;  for  he  was  the  physician  for  all 
these  societies,  and  got  their  patronage.  I  asked  if 
he  thought  it  an  advantage  to  the  members  gener- 
ally. He  said,  "No;  it  was  a  great  extravagance  and 
loss."  He  said  he  was  a  Christian,  and  I  asked  if 
he  thought  the  societies  promotive  of  Christianity. 
He  said  No;  that  for  a  long  time  he  had  known  that 
their  influence  was  against  the  welfare  of  the 
churches.    He  then  went  on  to  say  so  much  against 


them  that  I  felt  I  was  altogether  left  behind  in  my 
opposition. 

On  Wednesday  night  I  spoke  in  St.  Mark's  Bap- 
tist church.  Rev.  H.  Davis,  pastor.  This  is  the 
I  church  of  wbich  Bro.  Davidson  is  a  member,  and  his 
I  influence  has  been  to  lead  to  a  better  understanding 
of  the  secrecy  question.  The  church  has  a  debt 
resting  on  them,  and  are  making  great  efforts  to  get 
it  removed. 

On  Thursday  morning  I  spoke,  by  invitation  of 
Pres.  Hitchcock,  to  the  some  350  students  of  Straight 
University.  There  was  excellent  attention,  and  I 
had  the  approval  of  some  if  not  all  of  the  professors. 
On  Thursday  night  I  lectured  on  the  lodge  system 
in  Rev.  H.  C.  Green's  church.  The  congregation  was 
not  large,  but  attentive  and  sympathetic. 

On  Friday  I  went  again  to  the  State  Fair.  It  was 
"Education  Day,"  and  the  schools  would  make  their 
display.  Spanish  Fort,  where  the  fair  is  held,  is  a 
popular  resort  on  Lake  Ponchartrain,  seven  miles 
from  the  city.  It  has  a  rival  abou<.  two  miles  away 
at  West  End,  a  newer  and  somewhat  more  elegantly- 
kept  resort.  Each  has  a  steam  railway  running  out 
from  the  city,  and  both  are  much  patronized.  At 
Spanish  Fort  there  is  a  large  exposition  building,  an 
opera  house,  a  large  hotel,  and  many  other  structures, 
which  surround  the  really  nice,  but  somewhat  dilap- 
idated grounds.  From  the  top  of  the  high  tower 
there  was  a  magnificent  view  of  the  lake  with  its 
shipping,  and  the  city  in  the  distance. 

The  day  was  perfect  and  there  was  a  far  larger 
attendance  than  any  previous  time.  The  schools 
were  there  in  force.  The  fair  on  the  whole  has  been 
but  a  moderate  success.  Both  the  place  and  time 
were  most  unfortunate:  the  place  because  it  is  inac- 
cessible by  roads,  and  the  time  because  of  the  great 
pressure  to  secure  the  cotton  and  sugar  on  the 
plantations.  The  schools  made  a  fine  show;  that  of 
machinery  and  agricultural  implements  was  good; 
but  in  stock  and  farm  products  there  was  a  lamenta- 
ble failure.  In  these  the  quality  exhibited  was  good, 
but  the  quantity  very  meager.  I  saw  some  of  the 
longest  sugar  cane  I  had  ever  seen.  The  colored 
universities  all  had  displays,  except  Leland,  and 
their  performances  in  the  opera  house  were  most 
creditable.  All  the  leading  educators  were  there, 
and  Ex  Gov.  Pinchback  was  a  conspicuous  figure. 
It  is  hardly  probable  that  the  fair  will  pay  expenses. 
Had  it  been  in  February  it  might  have  been  a  much 
greater  success.  I  go  out  to  'Terre  Bonne  to  spend 
the  Sabbath.  H.  H.  Hinman. 


SHALL  aOUTHWE8TERN  MlSSOUBl  BE  EMAN- 
CIPATED? 


Carthage,  Mo.,  Nov.  15,  1887. 

Editor  Cynosure: — A  few  words  may  be  of  in- 
terest to  your  many  readers.  The  Missouri  cam- 
paign is  well  under  way.  First  came  the  Princeton 
meeting,  which  we  trust  will  bear  much  fruit  many 
days  hence.  The  meetings  at  Dadeville  were  enthu- 
siastic and  a  strong  delegation  accompanied  us  to 
Greenfield.  The  stronghold  of  Masonry  is  in  south- 
west Missouri.  Mr.  Wood  Kirby,  an  old  soldier  and 
dispatch-bearer  for  General  Lyon  and  Fremont,  a 
brave  man  who  had  smelled  powder  for  free  speech 
in  years  agone,  piloted  our  craft;  and  A.  C.  Patter- 
son, J.  W.  Thompson,  Canady,  Contrell,  and  other 
staunch  friends  stayed  through  the  meetings.  Sel- 
dom has  that  old  court-house  had  such  enthusiastic 
audiences,  as  truths,  strange  and  startling,  were  thun- 
dered from  behind  that  bar.  Much  interest  was 
aroused  and  the  cause  of  liberty  given  a  new  impe- 
tus. 

At  Carthage  large  and  intelligent  audiences  gath- 
ered in  the  Opera  Hall  and  listened  eagerly,  and 
manj'  for  the  first  time,  to  the  discussion  of  oath- 
bound  systems  of  despotism  and  infidelity.  Many 
expressed  hearty  sympathy  for  the  work,  and  with 
such  men  as  Rev.  J.  K.  Glassford,  Bro.  Benjamin, 
and  scores  of  free  men  and  women  to  back  it  up 
with  their  prayers  and  influence,  it  is  only  the  be- 
ginning of  better  days.  Bro.  Glassford  had  done  a 
grand  work  in  preparing  the  way. 

After  Bro.  Stoddard  left  I  went  west  from  Car- 
thage and  found  Bro.  Wilbur  F.  Haughawjut,  Rev. 
James  Weaver,  Bro.  Milton  and  other  warm  friends, 
and  have  brought  the  cause  before  four  different 
audiences  in  as  many  places,  holding  last  night  to  a 
good  audience  in  Oronogo.  There  have  been  gooti 
audiences,  good  order  and  good  attention  all  around. 

Last  night  the  craft  were  out  in  full  force.  One 
poor  fellow  lost  his  jewel,  much  to  the  discomfiture 
of  the  fraternity,  and  the  amusement  and  edification 
of  the  audience.  This  morning  the  conductor  on  the 
Frisco  train  gave  Bro.  Haughawout  a  sound  cursing 
and  abusing  for  reading  the  letters  on  his  Knight 
Templar's  charm.  He  was  very  profane  and  abu- 
sive and  even  vulgar  in  his  language,  entirely  for- 
getting his  duties  and  deportment  as  a  geatlemaa 


and  servant  of  the  public.  He  was  very  prodigal  of 
his  threats  against  me,  though  I  said  not  a  word  till 
I  left  his  train  at  Carthage,  and  then  I  told  him  how 
he  had  transcended  his  office  as  conductor,  and  that 
he  was  only  a  living  exponent  of  his  miserable  sys- 
tem. 

I  have  sold  a  dozen  lodge  expositions  in  and 
around  Oronogo,  and  the  craft  are  stirred  at  the 
wholesale  exposition  of  their  Christless  religion  and 
anti-republican  organization.  We  look  for  a  strong 
meeting  to-night.  May  God  give  us  a  glorious  vic- 
tory, and  may  the  da'y  not  be  far  distant  when  free 
speech  will  be  all  that  is  meant  by  that  word.  Will 
the  friends  everywhere  pray  for  southwestern  Mis- 
souri and  for  its  emancipation  from  lodgism.  We 
are  listing  the  names  of  many  free  men  who  receive 
the  truth  gladly.    But  more  anon.     M.  N.  Butler. 


Correspondence. 


AMONG  THE  NEW  TORE  COLLEGES. 


Rochester,  N.  Y.,  Nov.  17,  1887. 
Editor  Christian  Cynosure: — Last  Thursday  1 
visited  Clinton,  a  village  of  2,200.  Last  summer 
they  celebrated  the  centennial  of  its  settlement. 
President  Cleveland  and  his  wife  were  present.  He 
lived  here  years  ago.  His  sister,  Miss  Rose,  is  a 
graduate  of  Holton  Female  Seminary.  This  village 
has  three  such  institutions:  the  Huntington,  Hawley 
and  Holton  Seminaries.  The  latter  is  the  largest. 
Hamilton  College  is  located  here.  It  was  founded 
in  1812.  Rev.  Henry  Darling,  D.  D.,  is  president, 
and  there  are  thirteen  professors  in  the  faculty. 
Prof.  Peters  is  perhaps  the  greatest  astronomer  in 
America.  This  college  is  unique  in  that  it  is  purely 
classical.  They  have  no  preparatory  department, 
and  one  object  is  kept  steadily  in  view — to  give  the 
students  a  thorough  classical  training.  Last  year 
they  had  185  students.  Some  of  the  brightest  lights 
in  the  Presbyterian  church  have  gone  out  of  this  in-' 
stitution.  Herrick  Johnson,  Robinson,  the  Oriental- 
ist, Joel  Parker,  Albert  Barnes,  A.  T.  Pierson,  Theo- 
dore W.Dwight  of  the  Columbia  College  Law  School, 
Chas.  W.  Warner,  editor  of  Harper's,  Senator  Joseph 
R.  Hawley,  and  Prof.  Norton  of  Cincinnati  Univer- 
sity, a  first  honor  man  in  this  college  and  a  German 
University,  are  among  the  alumni.  The  have  a 
beautiful  campus  of  thirty  acres,  a  number  of  build- 
ings, a  large  library,  aparatus,  observatory,  etc 
Their  available  money  endowment  amounts  to  $300,- 
000.  About  $1,000,000  has  been  donated  at  differ- 
ent times,  but  not  all  is  of  present  value. 

The  president  very  kindly  invited  me  to  address 
the  students  on  Friday  at  12  m.  Out  of  140  stu- 
dents present  this  week,  over  100  were  present.  Dr. 
Darling  invited  me  to  stay  and  preach  in  the  college 
the  next  Sabbath,  but  a  previous  appointment  pre- 
vented my  accepting.  The  door  is  left  open  for  the 
future. 

I  next  stopped  at  Syracuse,  a  city  of  about  80,000, 
and  soon  completed  arrangements  for  addressing 
the  students  of  Syracuse  University  on  the  morning 
of  the  22d  inst.  The  editor  of  the  Syracuse  Journal 
gave  place  for  a  column  article  on  our  reform;  and 
he  wrote  a  flattering  editorial  on  my  work  last  week 
and  this.  I  also  wrote  an  article  for  the  Utandard, 
another  daily,  which  the  editor  took  under  review. 
Both  editors  were  quite  shy  at  first.  They  thought 
I  represented  a  political  party  bearing  the  name  of 
National  Reform,  which  held  a  convention  in  Syra- 
cuse  not  long  since,  to  which  but  one  man  came. 
But  when  the  matter  was  explained  to  them  they 
were  very  cordial. 

Sabbath  evening  I  preached  in  the  United  Pres- 
byterian church  of  Sterling  A'alley,  Rev.  A.  W.  Ly- 
tie,  pastor.  This  is  a  congregation  of  197.  The 
ni<yht  was  dark,  but  the  house  was  well  filled.  Mon- 
day morning  I  took  the  train  for  Rochester,  where 
I  called  on  the  editor  of  the  Dtinocrat  and  Chronicle, 
the  leading  Republican  paper.  He  very  kindly 
at^reed  to  print  an  article  for  us.  It  appeared  Tues- 
day morning.  On  Monday  evening  1  lectured  in  the 
United  Presbyterian  church  of  Cuylerville,  Rev. 
John  Rippey,  D.  D.,  pastor.  The  rain  and  thick 
darkne3s,a  law  suit  in  town.and  a  concert  in  the  Gen- 
esee Normal  School,  three  miles  away,  c(  ns  lired  to 
make  our  audience  small.  I  was  iateretted  in  the 
salt  well  in  the  village,  which  yields  thirty  barrels  a 
day.  The  great  shaft  at  Piflord,  three  miles  away, 
is'  the  wonder  of  the  country.  It  is  sixteen  by  twenty- 
four  feet,  and  eleven  huudred  feet  deep.  At  this 
depth  there  is  a  vein  of  pure  salt  one  hundred  feet 
deep  and  underlying  the  whole  country.  The  salt 
supply  here  is  practically  inexhaustible.  The  shaft 
and  works  cost  $3,600,000.  The  railroad  cannot 
suddIv  them  with  cars  enough  to  carry  away  the 
^^  ^  J.  M.  Foster. 


IBIS  GHRISHAN  CYNOSUKlii. 


NovBMBXB  24, 1887 


GOOD    WORDS  FOR  TEE   EDITOR  WHILE  BE 
18  AWAY. 


During  my  recent  tour  of  Wisconsin  I  found  some 
radical  friends  of  reform.  AnApostle  8ays,"Hath  not 
God  chosen  the  poor  of  this  world?"  etc.  Captain 
Wm.  Wilson  of  Menomonee  is  an  exception  to  this 
rule.  I  spent  two  nights  in  his  palatial  home  on  the 
high  bank  of  the  Red  Cedar,  overlooking  his  great 
lumber  mills,  whose  constant  hum  is  the  last  sound 
you  hear  at  night  and  the  first  to  awaken  you  in  the 
morning.  He  has  been  one  of  the  strongest  finan- 
cial supporters  of  the  anti-secret  cause  in  the  State, 
and  his  pastor,  Bro.  W.  W.  Ames,  sent  the  first  dol- 
lar to  Dr.  Blanchard  when  he  proposed  to  start  the 
Cynosure,  an  honor  worthy  to  be  inscribed  on  Bro. 
Ames's  tombstone  when  he  dies.  Captain  Wilson 
venerates  Dr.  Blanchard,  as  a  leader  in  reform,  more 
than  any  living  man.  He  declares  that  he  puts  more 
radical,  undiluted  truth  into  the  Cynosure  editorials 
than  he  finds  any  where  outside  of  the  Bible.  A.  S. 
Hammond  of  Eau  Claire,  a  successful  lumberman, 
entertains  the  same  high  opinion  of  Dr.  Blanchard, 
though  he  never  saw  him.  He  has  been  reading  the 
Cynosure  for  years,  and  says  its  editorials  strike  bed- 
rock with  a  clearer  ring  than  any  paper  he  has  found. 

Robert  Pinkerton,  a  successful  farmer  near  Wau- 
pacca,  feels  that  the  Cynosure  is  the  only  reform 
paper  that  cuts  down  to  the  root  of  the  cancer  of 
secretism,  which,  more  than  any  other  evil,  is  endan- 
gering the  body  politic.  He  thinks  our  national  re- 
form movement  does  not  lay  the  axe  hard  enough  to 
the  root  of  this  evil  of  secret  societies.  I  do  not 
know  the  practice  of  our  lecturers  in  the  East,  but 
it  is  my  habit  at  most  places  to  warn  the  people 
against  this  danger  as  well  as  others.  It  is  my  con- 
viction that  the  movement  can  never  be  successful  if 
this  important  truth  is  left  out.  As  Bro.  T.  P.  Robb 
of  Sharon,  Iowa,  once  said,  "May  God  deliver  us 
from  a  Religious  Amendment  administered  by  Free- 
masons," or  any  who  have  sworn  supreme  allegiance 
to  another  authority  than  King  Jesus. 

For  this  reason  our  movement  must  recognize  the 
National  Christian  Association  as  an  indispensible 
ally.  And  I  am  glad  to  know  that  it  is  so  regarded, 
especially  by  friends  in  the  West.  And  I  am  glad 
to  find  so  many  who  appreciate  the  faithful  efforts 
of  Dr.  Blanchard  and  his  co-workers  in  holding  the 
anti-secret  movement  to  radical  lines. 

During  the  coldest  days  of  '84,  I  was  at  Olathe, 
Kansas,  and  called  on  Mrs.  John  P.  St.  John.  She 
was  seated  by  the  base-burner  with  a  pile  of  papers 
by  her  side,  but  I  noticed  the  Cynosure  in  her  lap, 
and  remarked,  "I  see  you  read  the  Cynosure." 

"Oh,  yes,"  she  replied,  "I  do  love  to  read  Dr. 
Blanchard's  editorials."  May  he  live  yet  many 
years  to  wield  that  incisive,  fluent  pen,  and  to  hold 
us  steady  to  the  line  of  radical  reform. 

M.  A.  Gault. 


MARE8  OF  THE  TRUE  CHURCH. 


Editoe  Christian  Cynosure: — Rev.  A.  T.  Pier- 
son,  D.  D.,  delivered  an  address  before  the  Conven- 
tion of  Christian  Workers  in  New  York  city  last 
September  on  "The  Ideal  Church."  Five  distin- 
guishing marks  were  given: 

1.  She  is  evangelical.  The  oracles  of  God  have 
been  committed  to  her.  The  truth  is  to  be  faithfully 
kept,  vindicated,  promulgated  and  applied.  The 
church  is  the  pillar  and  ground  of  truth. 

2.  She  is  evangelistic.  To  her  the  command  has 
been  given,  "Go  ye  into  all  the  world  and  preach 
the  Gospel  to  every  creature."  As  Dr.  Duff  used  to 
say,  "the  church  must  be  evangelical,  that  she  may 
be  evangelistical."  "God  be  merciful  unto  us  and 
bless  us,  and  cause  his  face  to  shine  upon  us,  that 
thy  way  may  be  known  upon  earth,  thy  saving  health 
among  all  nations."  Home  and  foreign  missions 
are  in  a  measure  realizing  the  fulfillment  of  this 
prayer. 

3.  She  is  educative.  A  part  of  her  commission 
is,  'Teaching  them  to  observe  all  things  whatsoever 
I  have  commanded."  The  church  is  the  divinely 
appointed  agent  of  reformation.  She  stands  upon 
the  broad  platform  of  the  first  and  second  reforma- 
tions. She  holds  up,  not  the  elastic  cord  of  human 
expediency,  but  the  golden  mete  wand  of  divine  rev- 
elation. She  speaks  the  truth,  the  whole  truth,  and 
nothing  but  the  truth.  She  shuns  not  to  declare  the 
whole  counsel  of  God,  whether  men  will  hear  or  for- 
bear. 

4.  She  will  not  tolerate  caste.  The  modern  church 
is  made  up  of  cliques.  Between  them  there  is  a 
great  gulf  fixed.  They  are  as  far  apart  as  the  upper 
and  lower  caste  in  India.  This  ought  not  so  to  be. 
Until  it  is  cast  out  the  Holy  Spirit  cannot  do  many 
mighty  works  of  grace  within  her.  "Behold  how 
good  and  how  pleasant  it  ia  for  brethren  to  dwell  to- 
gether in  unity." 


5.  She  is  free.  The  masses  will  not  enter  a  church 
where  the  pews  are  rented  and  held  by  the  members. 
Dr.  Pierson  had  a  very  pleasant  congregation  in 
Detroit.  Their  church  was  all  they  could  wish;  but 
the  rented  pews  kept  out  the  non-church  goers. 
God  came  down  in  mercy  and  burned  their  church. 
While  rebuilding  they  worshiped  in  the  Opera  House. 
From  the  first  it  was  filled  to  overflowing.  When 
they  went  back  to  the  new  church  the  pews  were 
rented  and  the  outsiders  would  not  follow  them.  In 
his  present  charge,  the  Bethany  Church  of  Philadel- 
phia, the  seats  are  free  and  they  uniformly  have  a 
large  audience.     The  Gospel  must  be  free. 

J.  M.  Foster. 


PITH  AND  POINT. 


SECKBTI8M  AND  ANARCHY. 

One  of  the  fundamental  evils  I  see  in  secretism  is  its 
temptation  to  crime.  Shield  unsanctified  human  nature 
from  the  light,  and  what  evil  will  it  not  perpetrate?  In 
the  darkness  men  can  (and  do)  have  fellowship  with  the 
devil;  but  only  in  the  light  can  we  have  fellowship  with 
God.  "If  we  walk  in  the  light  as  he  is  in  the  light,"  we 
have  fellowship  with  the  Father  and  Son  and  his  people 
(1  Johnl:  3-7).  If  our  country  is  to  be  saved  from 
anarchy  (which,  1  think,  is  Masonry  gone  to  seed — "mur 
der  and  treason  not  excepted") ,  the  true  and  strong  light 
of  heaven  must  be  turned  in  upon  the  dark  conclaves  of 
evil — D.  C.  Martin,   Princeton,  Ind. 

A   GOOD    PLACE     FOR  HARD   HITTING. 

I  am  an  out-and  out  opponent  of  all  these  unholy 
leagues,  and  in  this  honey-combed  country  of  secretism 
one  can  put  in  some  tremendous  hits  Already  in  our 
presbytery  I  have  some  enemies,  but  I  am  endeavoring  to 
deserve  Luther's  encomium,  "He  never  feared  the  face 
of  man."  If  I  can  help  you  any  I  shall  be  glad. — W.  J. 
A.,  Lehigh,  Ind.  Ter. 

COULD   NOT    SERVE   TWO   MA8TBE8. 

I  was  an  Odd-fellow  for  years,  but  found  I  could  not 
serve  two  masters.  Praise  the  Lord,  my  motto  now  is, 
"Jesus  only."  I  am  very  much  pleased  with  the  paper, 
and  wish  it  could  be  placed  in  every  Christian  family.  I 
have  given  special  advice  to  my  family  to  take  care  of 
every  paper,  and  when  we  have  read  it  to  send  it  to  some 
one.  God  bless  you.  Yours  thankfully. — S.  R.  K  ,  Fort 
Smith,  Ark. 


Bible  Lesson. 

STUDIES  IN  THE  NEW  TESTAMENT. 

LESSON  X.-Dec.  4. -Parable  of  the  Sower.— Matt.  13:1-9. 

GOLDEN  TEXT.— The  seed  is  the  Word  of  God.- Luke  7 :11. 
[Open  the  Bible  and  read  the  lesson.] 
From  Peloubet'B  Notes. 

Why  Jesus  Taught  by  Parables.  The  reason  is 
given  in  verses  11-15,  following  this  lesson.  His  object 
was  80  to  veil  the  truth  that  it  might  be  received  by  those 
who,  if  they  saw,  would  not  perceive,  and,  if  they  heard, 
would  not  understand,  lest  they  should  be  converted;  i^., 
who  were  determined  not  to  receive  the  truth,  since  its 
acceptance  would  have  required  repentance  and  a  change 
of  life. — Abbott.  Did  he  speak  in  parables  because  he 
did  not  wish  them  to  know  and  to  enjoy?  Everything  the 
reverse.  But  he  was  aware  that,  in  consequence  of  the 
inveteracy  of  their  prepossessions,  they  could  not,  in  the 
first  instance,  see  "the  secret  of  the  kingdom"  wi  hout 
being  repelled  in  spirit,  and  confirmed  in  their  dissent  and 
dislike.  He  wished,  therefore,  that  they  should  not  "see." 
But,  at  the  same  time,  he  graciously  wished  that  they 
should  "look,"  and  keep  "looking,"  so  that  they  might, 
if  possible,  get  such  a  glimpse  of  the  inner  glory  as 
might  fascina'e  their  interest  and  attention,  and  by  and 
by  disarm  their  prejudices,  so  that  they  might  with  safety 
be  permitted  to  "see." — Morison. 

"Behold  a  sower  went  forth  to  sow."  The  expression 
implies  that  the  sower,  in  the  days  of  our  Saviour,  lived 
in  a  hamlet,  or  village,  as  all  these  farmers  now  do,  to 
guard  against  robbers.  They  go  forth  into  the  open 
country,  where  the  path  passes  through  the  cultivated 
land,  where  there  are  no  fences,  where  thorns  grow  in 
clumps  all  around,  where  the  rocks  peep  out  in  places 
through  the  scanty  soil  and  hard  by  are  patches  extreme- 
ly fertile. —  Thomson,  Land  and  Book,  1:  116 

The  Sower  designates:  1.  Jesus  Christ,  who  came  forth 
from  the  Father  and  heaven  to  sow  the  good  seed  in  this 
evil  world.  2.  The  Apostles  who,  taught  by  Jesus,  and 
under  the  influence  of  the  Spirit,  scattered  over  the  then 
known  world  the  truths  of  the  kingdom  of  God.  3.  All 
who  go  forth  to  preach  or  teach,  in  public  or  in  private, 
the  truths  of  the  Word  of  God. 

The  Good  Seed  is  the  Word  of  God  (Luke  8:  11),  the 
spiritual  truths  which  God  has  revealed  to  men  in  vari- 
ous ways,  but  especially  by  his  Son  Jesus  Christ. — P. 
It  includes  all  spiritual  truth  concerning  the  kingdom  of 
heaven,  whether  spoken,  as  by  Christ  and  hisA.poBtles,or 
written, as  in  theNewTestament.and  in  booksofinterpreta 
tion  and  of  spiritual  applicatian.  All  spiritual  lifedepenson 
a  DivineSeed  sown  in  the  heart  by  theDivine  Sower.  The 
life  of  the  Seed  depends  on,  first,  receiving  it;  second, 
rooting  it;  third,  cultivating  it — Abbott. 

1.  The  wayside  hearer  hears  the  Word,  but 
does  not  understand  it,  on  account  of  thought- 
less, spiritual  stupidity,  arising  not  so  much 
from  want  of  intellectual  capacity,  as  from  preoccupation 
of  miad.  Their  mind  is  like  a  road,  beaten  hard  by  the 
constant  passage  through  it  of  "the  wishes  of  the  flesh, 
and  current  thoughts"  concerning  common  earthly  things. 
—A,  B.  Bruce,  D.  D.    The  way  is  the  heart,  beaten 


and  dried  by  the  passage  of  evil  thoughts. — H  de  8.  Vie  ■ 
tore.  Sin  has  so  hardened  the  heart,  worldliness  has  so 
deadened  the  feelings,  sinful  pleasures  and  desires  have 
so  dulled  the  conscience,  that  God's  truth  makes  no  im- 
pression, more  than  a  passing  dream,  or  a  pleasant  song, 
to  be  heard  and  forgotten. — P.  '  2  The  fowls  typify 
Satan,  "the  wicked  one,"  and  all  his  various  agencies . 
In  the  application  Christ  imputes  these  wandering 
thoughts,  which  do  the  work  of  truth  robbers,  to  the  evil 
one  whose  agents  and  instruments  they  are. — Abbott. 
3.  The  method.  It  is  done  in  a  moment, — by  a  smile  at 
the  end  of  the  sermon ;  by  a  silly  criticism  at  the  church 
door;  by  foolish  gossip  on  the  way  home.  These  are  "the 
fowls  of  the  air"  whom  the  evil  one  uses  in  this  task, — 
Farrar.  The  wicked  one — afraid  of  losing  a  victim  by 
his  "believing  to  salvation"  (Luke  8;  12)— finds  some 
frivolous  subject  by  whose  greater  attractions  to  draw  ofE 
the  attention,  and  straightway  it  is  gone  Of  how  many 
hearers  of  the  Word  is  this  the  graphic  but  painful  his- 
tory!—J.  F.  andB.  Wherever  there  is  a  preacher  in 
the  pulpit,  there  is  a  devil  among  the  pews,  busy  watch- 
ing the  words  that;  fall  from  the  speaker's  lips,  to  catch 
them  away. — Quthrie.  4.  iVo^e  that  the  wicked  one  can- 
not take  away  the  good  seed  unless  we  let  him.  He  can 
not  destroy  the  seed  if  the  soil  is  good.  This  is  one  of 
the  punishments  of  worldliness,  that  the  seed  does  not 
find  a  good  soil  to  grow  in,  and  the  good  which  God 
would  do  to  us  fails. 

Pharaoh  and  Festus  are  Scripture  examples  of  wayside 
hearers. — Stock.  So  is  the  man  that  interrupted  Jesus 
while  he  was  preaching,  to  ask  him  to  interfere,  and  com- 
pel h's  brother  to  divide  the  inheritance  with  him  (Luke 
12:13). 

1.  The  stony-ground  hearers  are  those  whose  emotions 
are  touched,  but  whose  will  and  character  are  unchanged. 
They  are  moved  by  the  winds  of  popular  excitement  or 
enthusiasm,  but  there  is  no  new  life  — P.  The  character- 
istic of  this  class  is  emotional  excitability,  inconsiderate 
impulsiveness  Their  fault  is  want  of  deliberation,  not 
the  mere  fact  of  receiving  the  Word  with  joy.  For  joy 
is  a  characteristic  of  deep  as  well  as  of  shallow  natures. 
Absence  of  joy  in  religious  life  is  a  sign,  not  of  depth, 
but  of  dullness.  Joy  without  thought  is  the  definition 
of  the  stony  ground  hearer. — A.  B.  Bruce  2.  Their 
experience.  Persons  whose  feelings  are  thus  easily  moved, 
— whose  religion  consists  largely  in  sympathy  and  roman- 
tic dreams  concerning  the  kingdom  of  God,— if  their 
deeper  nature  is  not  touched,  will  soon  fall  back  into 
their  old  ways.  Temptations  assault,  persecutions  arise, 
expectations  of  joy  or  worldly  advantage  fade  away, 
and  their  religion,  having  no  foundation  in  the  reason, 
the  conscience,  the  will,  the  charactpr,  will  f  oon  vanish, 
"like  the  baseless  fabric  of  a  dream  " — P.  A  sneer  from 
some  leading  spirit  in  a  literary  society,  or  a  laugh  raised 
by  a  gay  circle  of  pleafiure  seekers  in  a  fashionable  draw- 
ing room,  or  the  rude  jest-?  of  scoffing  artisans  in  a  work- 
shop, may  do  as  much  as  the  fagot  and  the  stake  to  make 
a  fair,  but  false  disciple  deny  his  Lord. — Arnot 

King  Saul,  Herod  Antipas,  and  the  Galatians  (Gal.  5 : 
7)  proved  themselves  stony  ground  hearers. — Stock  So 
was  that  proposed  disciple,  to  whom  Jesus  replied,  "Pox- 
es have  holes,"  etc.  (see  Les.  2).  Felix  combined  the 
features  of  this  and  the  previous  class, 

The  thorns  are  first,  "the  cares  of  this  world,"  anxious, 
unrelaxing  attention  to  the  business  of  this  present  life; 
second,  "the  deceitfulnesss  of  riches," — of  those  riches 
which  are  the  fruit  of  this  worldly  "care;"  third,  "the 
pleasures  of  tbis  life," — the  enjoyments,  in  themselves.it 
may  be,  innoc.nt,  in  which  worldly  prosperity  enables 
one  to  indulge  These  "choke"  or  "smother"  the  Word; 
drawing  off  so  much  of  one's  attention,  absorbing  so 
much  of  one's  interest,  and  using  up  so  much  of  one's 
time,  that  only  the  dregs  of  these  remain  for  spiritual 
things,  and  a  fagged,  hurried,  and  heartless  formalism  is 
at  length  all  the  religion  of  such  persons. — /.  F.  and  B. 
It  may  be  asked,  Who,  then,  has  a  chance  of  bringing 
forth  fruit  unto  perfection,  for  what  character  is  free 
from  thorns?  But  the  question  is  not,  who  is  free  from 
evil  desires  and  temptations,  but  what  attitude  you  as- 
sume toward  these.  The  thorny  ground  hearer  never 
makes  up  his  mind  to  be  resolutely  against  evil.  The 
true  hearer  seeks  first  the  kingdom  of  <3od  and  biings 
forth  fruit  to  perfection, — Bruce. 

Balaam,  Judas,  and  Ananias  were  thorny  ground  hear- 
ers. Lot  and  Martha  were  in  danger  of  belonging  to 
this  class  Simon  Magus  and  Demas  combined  the  feat- 
ures of  these  thorny  and  the  stony-ground  hearers.  Of 
the  thorny  ground  hearer,  the  man  of  divided  mind  and 
double  hearc,  we  have  an  example  in  him  who  came  to 
Jesus  and  said,  "Lord,  I  will  follow  thee,  but  first  let  mo 
go  and  bid  them  farewell  which  are  at  home  at  my 
house"  (Luke  9:61,62).  The  example  is  all  the  more 
instructive  that  the  man's  temptation  arose,  not  from  lust 
after  forbidden  pleasure,  but  from  inordinate  affection 
for  things  lawful.  John  Mark  was  one  who  looked  back 
(A.ct8  15.  38),  and,  therefore,  was  rejected  by  Paul,  but 
he  appears  afterwards  to  have  regained  Paul's  confidence, 
a  fact  which  reminds  us  that  a  thorny-ground  hearer  is 
under  no  fatal  necessity  of  continuing  such. — Bruce. 

From  all  these  we  learn  that  the  true  hearer  receives 
the  Word  in  an  honest  and  good  heart,  understands  it 
(personally  applies  it),  and  keeps  it,  and.  brings  forth 
fruit  with  patience,  giving  it  careful  nurture,  and  contin- 
uing through  all  hindrances  to  the  end.  Such  hearers 
desire  to  know  and  obey  the  truth;  they  act  upon  it  as 
far  as  they  know  it;  their  conscience  is  guided  by  it; 
their  character  is  formed  by  it;  their  affections  choose  it. 
— P.  The  "thirty  fold"  is  designed  to  express  the  low- 
est degree  of  fruitfulness;  the  "hundred  fold,"  the  high- 
est; and  the  "sixty-fold"  the  intermediate  degree-of  fruit- 
fulness.  Asa  "hundred  fold",  though  not  unexampled 
(Gen,  26:  12),  is  a  rare  return  in  the  natural  husbandry, 
80  the  highest  degrees  of  spiritual  fruitfulness  are  too  sel- 
dom witnessed.— Z.  F.  and  B, 


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NOYEMBBK  24   iij8t 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


REFORM  NEWS  (Continued  from  5th  page). 

REFORM  WORK  IN  BOVTHWEBTBRN 
MISSOURI. 


Dadkville,  Mo.,  Nov.  8,  1887, 

Dbar  Ctnosurb: — Another  joust  with  the  enemy. 
Upon  the  13th  of  October  I  received  intelligence 
from  Bro.  Butler  that  it  was  desirable  that  a  district 
meeting,  relative  to  the  great  work  had  in  view  by 
the  N.  C.  A.,  be  held  somewhere  in  southwestern 
Missouri.  Within  about  twenty-four  hours  a  few  of 
us  found  ourselves  collected  together  to  consider 
what  was  best  to  be  done.  We  soon  concluded  that 
Greenfield,  Dade  county,  was  the  place,  and  Novem- 
ber 1st,  the  time  for  said  meeting;  and  the  next  mail 
had  a  return  letter  to  that  effect.  Accordingly,  about 
8  o'clock  p.  M.  of  the  29th,  just  two  weeks  from  the 
time  our  dispatch  had  started,  who  but  M.  N.  Butler 
raps  at  the  door  of  good  Bro.  Cannady,  of  our  vil- 
lage. It  is  superfluous  to  say  that  we  were  glad, 
nay,  we  rejoiced.  Greenfield,  however,  is  twelve 
miles  away,  and  the  Ist  of  November  near  at  hand; 
so  next  evening  (Sabbath)  Bro.  Butler  gives  the  in- 
habitants of  our  neighborhood  a  very  clear  and  tell- 
ing Bible  reading,  touching  the  great  subject  of  se- 
crecy and  darkness  as  evolved  from  that  blessed  vol- 
ume. Next  evening  at  the  same  place,  to  a  crowded 
audience,  he  gave  a  clear,  forcible  and  weighty  lec- 
ture on  the  religion  of  Freemasonry,  contrasting,  as 
he  passed  along,  the  teachings  of  their  very  highest 
authorities  on  this  subject  with  those  of  the  Bible. 
It  simply  demolished  everything  that  came  in  its 
way.  Just  as  the  lecturer  was  about  opening,  lo!  a 
venerable  form,  evidently  somewhat  affected  by  age 
and  toil,  was  observed  passing  up  the  right  aisle 
toward  the  speaker,  who  proved  to  be  no  other  than 
the  General  Agent  of  the  N.  C.  A ,  J,  P.  Stoddard 
of  Chicago.     We  took  breath  and  rejoiced  again. 

Next  morning  the  time  for  the  siege  had  arrived. 
Greenfield,  the  stronghold  of  sworn  secrecy  for  all 
southwestern  Missouri,  was  to  be  marched  upon. 
Oh,  for  wisdom,  as  well  as  grace!  After  a  council 
we  divide,  Bro.  Stoddard  visiting  the  college,  Bro. 
Butler  scattering  his  literature  over  the  place,  while 
the  writer  takes  in  the  high  school  in  all  its  grades, 
leaving  the  balance  of  our  forces  to  act  as  wisdom 
and  circumstances  might  dictate. 

At  7  o'clock  p.  M.,  with  anxious  and  praying  hearts, 
we  repair  to  the  court  house,  the  place  appointed  for 
the  coming  conflict.  The  first  evening  no  formal 
organization  is  attempted.  The  audience,  however, 
is  larger  than  expected,  and,  after  devotional  exer- 
cises, was  entertained  by  brethren  Stoddard  and  But- 
ler in  general  remarks,  relative  to  the  nature,  work, 
and  evident  design  of  Freemasonry  and  kindred  or- 
ders. Before  adjourning  it  was  determined  to  meet 
the  next  day  at  9  o'clock  a.  m,,  and  at  2  and  7  p.  m. 

Next  morning  the  convention  proceeded  to  form- 
ally organize,  Bro.  T.  A.  Cook  of  Bates  county  be- 
ing voted  to  the  chair,  and  J.  W.  Thompson  of  Dade, 
to  perform  the  duties  of  secretary.  The  convention 
was  then  entertained  by  brethren  Stoddard  and  But- 
ler. During  this  session  the  entire  body  was  made 
to  almost  leap  for  joy,  on  beholding  the  manly  form 
and  pleasant  countenance  of  Elder  Wm.  M.  Love  of 
Osceola.  At  the  first  suitable  moment  he  was  form- 
ally introduced  to  the  convention,  and  in  return 
made  a  few  remarks  touching  the  great  work  on 
hand,  the  promotion  of  which  we  had  convened  to 
consider.  In  the  afternoon  the  convention  was  en- 
tertained by  a  lecture  from  Bro.  Stoddard  on  the 
"Covenant  of  Freemasonry."  I  am  satisfied  that  it 
was  a  telling  blow  against  the  lodge.  The  report  of 
the  committee  on  resolutions  was  also  adopted.  At 
7  o'clock  p.  M.  a  well-received  lecture  was  given  by 
Bro.  Love,  after  which  brethren  Stoddard  and  But- 
ler talked  to  the  people. 

Next  day,  the  most  important  feature  of  our  meet- 
ing, evidently,  was  some  short  hand-to-hand  skirm- 
ishing between  two  of  our  noble  standard  bearers 
(Love  having  left)  and  prominent  citizens  of  the 
place,  viz:  ministers  of  the  Gospel,  editors  of  our 
local  papers,  principal  of  our  college,  and,  doubtless, 
gentlemen  of  the  legal  fraternity,  as  well.  In  some 
instances  the  champions  of  the  works  of  darkness 
were  so  affected  that  I  could  think  of  nothing  more 
appropriate  to  represent  them  than  the  writhing  and 
Bquirming  of  a  poor,  flayed  reptile  in  a  bed  of  hot 
sand.  The  last  evening  and  session  of  our  meeting 
was  addressed  by  Bro.  Butler.  He  brought  all  to 
their  leet. 

Thus  it  was,  I  will  abruptly  say,  that  the  district 
meeting  opposed  to  organized  secrecy,  in  southwest- 
ern Missouri,  closed  its  recent  session.  I  am  fully 
persuaded  that  in  more  than  one  respect  great  good 
will  be  the  result.  The  convention,  with  its  entire 
work  throughout,  was  introduced  and  conducted  so 
completely  in  the  true  spirit  of  humanity  and  love, 
that  all  oppQgition  frogi  the  cofumoQ  and  unpoisoned 
Dindi   fle^    »pace.     Bro,    Sutler    aidecl    muob 


by  his  national  airs  and  patriotic  songs,  in 
connection  with  Bro.  Stoddard's  "supposable 
case,"  which  consisted  in  portraying  in  most 
vivid  colors,  to  his  hearers,  a  character  that  in 
all  its  characteristics  fitted  the  arch  traitor  of  the 
late  Rebellion;  and  a  voice  from  the  audience  ex- 
claimed aloud,  "That  fits  Jeff.  Davis."  The  feelings 
of  the  audience  by  this  time,  in  view  of  what  they 
had  heard  from  first  to  last  during  the  entire  con- 
vention, could  be  restrained  no  longer,  but  found 
vent  in  hearty  and  loud  expressions  of  approbation. 
We  must  exclaim,  "Praise  God  from  whom  all  bless- 
ings flow." 

The  convention  being  over,  Bro.  Stoddard  treated 
us  to  another  lecture  atDadeville,  where  Bro.  Butler 
had  set  the  ball  rolling  the  Sabbath  evening  previ- 
ous. Saturday  morning  having  now  come,  our  two 
wheel  horses  of  moral  reform  are  placed  in  a  com- 
fortable carriage  for  Carthage,  Jasper  county,  a  city 
of  ten  thousand  inhabitants,  to  farther  prosecute  the 
the  great  and  glorious  work  in  which  they  are  en- 
gaged. It  is  superfluous  to  say  that  our  prayers 
went  with  them.     Yours  for  the  war, 

J.  W.  Thompson. 


A  THOUSAND  "CTNOSURRS"  FOR  THB  SOUTH 


TEMPERANCE. 


Labor  has  been  improved  100  per  cent  in  the 
counties  of  Georgia  where  prohibition  has  been 
adopted.  The  business  men  are  fast  becoming  pro- 
hibitionists as  a  matter  of  busine8s,and  now  wonder 
they  could  not  see  before  that  the  money  spent  in 
saloons  belongs  to  those  doing  a  legitimate  business 
and  giving  value  received  in  return  for  the  cash. 
Men  are  now  saving  money  and  looking  forward 
hopefully  to  the  time  when  they  shall  own  houses 
and  lands  for  themselves.     Speed  the  day. 

An  ocean  of  beer  flows  from  the  three  fountains 
of  England,  Germany  and  America.  England  sends 
forth  a  stream  of  990,000,000  ganons,Germany  900,- 
000,000,  and  the  United  States  700,000,000  gallons. 
The  Atlantic  and  Paci^c  are  never  drained,  but  this 
ocean  of  2,500,000,000  gallons  of  beer  is  annually 
drained  into  human  8tomachs,crazing  the  brain8,cor- 
rupting  the  hearts  and  damning  the  souls  of  mill- 
ions, all  by  the  consent  and  under  the  seal  of  en- 
dorsement of  the  governments. 

If  the  Prohibition  party  should  nominate  for  the 
Presidency,  Gen.  Clinton  B.  Fisk,  their  nomination 
would  receive  hearty  ratification  hj  every  member 
of  the  National  Reform  Association.  Here  is  Mr. 
Fisk's  profession  of  faith,  published  when  he  was  a 
candidate  for  governor  of  New  Jersey:  "The  Pro- 
hibition party  of  the  State  of  New  Jersey  in  Con- 
vention assembled,  acknowledges  Almighty  God  as 
the  rightful  Sovereign  of  all  men,  from  whom  the 
just  powers  of  government  are  derived,  and  to  whose 
laws  human  enactments  should  conform  as  an  abso- 
lute condition  of  peace,  prosperity  and  happiness." 

The  N.  Y.  Christian  Advocate  speaks  thus  pun- 
gently  of  "the  insolence  of  the  liquor  traffic:"While 
demanding  protection  from  the  law,  it  is  perpetually 
evading  and  breaking  the  law.  It  ships  goods 
abroad  to  avoid  the  payment  of  taxation,  and  sells 
secretly  to  evade  license  fees  and  police  inspection. 
It  bands  itself  together  to  dispute  the  execution  and 
constitutionality  of  offensive  legislation,  and  shirks 
its  share  of  the  burdens  which  fall  on  legitimate 
traffic.  More  than  great  corporations,  even,  does  it 
scrutinize  candidates  and  employ  legislative  attor- 
neys. No  evidence  can  convince  its  agents  of  the 
social  evils  of  which  it  is  the  parent,  or  raise  them 
to  the  comprehension  of  what  society  would  be  were 
the  traffic  stamped  out.  It  is  manifest  that  society 
endures  more  from  the  liquor  domination  than  from 
any  other  tyranny. 

Twelve  hundred  million  cigarettes  were  used  by 
the  young  men  of  this  country  last  year.  Yet  so 
positive  and  apparent  is  their  evil  effect  that  no 
cigarette  smoker  would  be  admitted  to  a  govern- 
ment military  or  naval  school.  Boys  can  be  kept 
from  this  baleful  habit  if  parents  will  only  so  deter- 
mine, but  the  truth  is  there  are  too  many  of  them 
like  the  silly  mother  who  said  to  me  that  she  did 
not  approve  of  dancing,  but  let  her  daughter  attend 
dances  because  it  was  the  fashion  with  her  set.  The 
fashionable  way  of  going  to  the  devil  might  be 
checked  if  parents  could  realize  what  it  meant  at 
last.  Many  who  think  the  devil  a  very  amiable  gen- 
tleman, would  instantly  stampede,  like  the  congre- 
gation of  that  Italian  priest,  the  other  day,  when 
they  saw  beside  the  preacher  in  the  pulpit  a  hide- 
ous, realistic  impersonation  of  his  Infernality. 
With  blackened  face,  and  menacing  homo,  and  a 
frightful  tail  firing  firecrackers,  it  was  too  realistic 
and  the  congregation  bolted,  muob  to  the  consterna. 
tioD  of  tbe  ^m»tic  prieat.    But  tbe  inor»l  is  there. 


It  is  but  seven  years  since  our  reform  began  to 
take  root  in  the  South.  The  first  efforts  sprang  from 
a  movement  to  divorce  missions  from  the  secret 
lotlge,  which  was  aided  by  the  Cynosure,  but  in  which 
the  N.  C.  A.,  as  a  body,  at  first  took  no  special  part 
Bro.  H.  H.  Hinman  spent  about  a  year  in  this  work 
and  was  supported  by  special  contributions  for  the 
purpose,  when  his  salary  was  assured  by  the  Asso- 
ciation, and  Rev.  P.  S.  Feemster  engaged  for  a  time 
to  assist  him.  A  demand  for  the  circulation  of  the 
Cynosure  arose  in  connection  with  these  efforts,  and 
was  fostered  and  encouraged  greatly  by  Dr.  J.  E, 
Roy,  then  Southern  secretary  of  the  American  Mis- 
sionary Association. 

Since  June  1,  1885,  up  to  the  present  time  a  little 
over  $900  have  been  contributed  to  send  copies  of 
the  Cynosure  to  colored  pastors  in  the  South,  or  an 
average  of  less  than  $450  per  annum.  The  results 
of  this  circulation  of  the  paper  have  been  wonderful. 

They  are — 

1.  Reports  from  pastors  in  all  parts  of  the  South, 
thankfully  acknowledging  the  aid  thus  given  them  to 
overcome  the  pestilent  lodge  influence  in  their 
churches. 

2.  The  formation  of  the  Good- Will  Association  of 
some  twenty-five  Baptist  churches  in  and  about  Mo- 
bile which  forbids  secret  societies. 

3.  The  sustaining  of  Rev.  R.  N.  Countee  in  his 
seceding  from  the  lodge,  and  maintaining  his  paper 
and  church  until  many  Baptist  churches  and  pastors 
of  Tennessee  and  Arkansas  are  standing  by  him. 

4.  The  action  of  the  St.  Marion  Baptist  Asso- 
ciation of  Arkansas  to  expel  the  lodge  from  their 
churches. 

5.  Similar  action  of  the  State  Baptist  Convention 
of  Louisiana,  comprising  all  the  churches  of  that 
denomination  in  the  State. 

6.  The  condition  of  the  Texas  Baptist  Convention 
which  is  nearly  ready  for  the  same  action. 

7.  The  founding  of  schools  for  the  higher  educa- 
tion of  the  colored  children  in  New  Iberia,  La.,  and 
Memphis,  Tenn.,  on  the  distinctive  principle  of  op- 
position to  secretism. 

THIS    GRAND   WORK 

has  been  accomplished  not  without  the  aid  of  breth- 
ren Hinman,  Feemster,  Woodsmall  and  others;  but 
while  the  living  agent  or  the  paper  could  neither 
alone  have  achieved  so  magnificent  results,  the  cir- 
culation of  the  Cynosure  has  been  the  great  agency, 
and  at  the  same  time  the  least  expensive.  It  has 
often  been  the  pioneer,  reaching  sections  where  no 
agent  has  penetrated,  and  after  his  departure  keep- 
ing alive  the  fire  of  reform. 

In  view  of  these  facts  we  conceive  it  to  be  a  duty 
to  call  upon  the  friends  of  this  cause  everywhere  for 
means  to  send  a  thousand  copiks  of  the  Cynosure 
for  a  year  to  as  many  pastors  in  the  South,  especially 
the  colored  Baptists,  that  the  good  work  now  well 
begun  among  them  may  reach  to  every  one  of  the 
800,000  colored  members  of  their  churches.  The 
Congregational  churches  supf>orted  by  the  A.  M.  A. 
are  already  taking  the  ground  of  sep.iration  from 
the  lodge,  under  advice  from  the  secretaries  of  their 
Association.  With  \hese  churches  saved  to  Christ 
from  the  lodge  curse,  and  the  Baptists  brought  up 
to  the  same  line,  whit  may  not  our  faith  ask  for  in 
this  respect  for  the  Negro  race?  An  earnest,  faith- 
ful pushing  of  our  work  may,  in  a  few  years,  re- 
deem them  wholly.  What  more  noble  object  now 
invites  our  aid;  and  to  attain  it  what  means  more 
economical,  more  sure  and  more  convenient  can  pos- 
sibly exist  than  scattering  a  thousand  copies  of  the 
Cynosure?  If  $900  spent  in  this  way  can  show  such 
results,  $1,500  would  double  them.  Let,  therefore, 
every  friend  of  the  reform  make  an  effort  to  contrib- 
ute to  this  fund  and  share  in  the  blessing  and  tri- 
umph which  must  follow. 

A  number  have  already  been  asked  to  each 
make  one  of  a  hundred  to  complete  this  fund  before 
January,  1888.  The  reasons  for  this  investment  are 
so  convincing  that  not  one  has  refused.  Why  should 
not  these  hundred  shares  be  immediately  taken? 
If  one  person  cannot  assume  so  much  alone,  let 
clubs  of  two,  three,  five,  or  ten  make  them  up.  The 
N.  C.  A.  Board  has  given  Us  hearty  endorsement  of 
the  plan;  and  the  friends  of  reform  and  of  the  Ne- 
gro race,  now  toiling  under  this  second  bondage, 
have  only  to  know  of  it.  to  send  back  an  ec'io,  8ay. 

log,  TUii:  WQKK  SHALL  M  DOM, 


8 


'SHE  CHRISriAK  CTSr^^OStJBi;. 


NOYSMBIB  24, 188f 


The  Christian  Cynosure. 


1.  BLANCHARD. 


XDnoaa. 


HKNR7  L.  KSLLOGG. 


CHICAGO,    THXTRfiDAT,    NOVEMBER   24,   1887. 


THE  FUHD  FOR    THS    COLORED   PASTORB 


has  better  reasons  to  recommend  it  than  any  prrj^ct 
now  before  the  supporters  of  the  reform.  Since  the  Na- 
tional Association  was  organized  it  has  not  been  able  to 
show  ia  any  other  department  of  its  work  so  great  re- 
eulta  from  so  small  expenditure.  We  rej  lice  that  friends 
understanding  this  fact,  are  responding  nobly.  The 
Treasurer  reports  this  week  that  nine  shares  of  $15  each 
have  been  taken,  and  part  of  another — $145  in  all— near 
ly  one  tenth  of  the  whole  amount  proposed  to  be  raised 
by  January  1st.  This  is  grand.  Lst  each  week  now 
show  an  increase  in  something  like  a  geometrical  ratio, 
and  a  great  work  will  be  done. 

FOREIGN   FUND. 

Two  weeks  ago  the  Treasurer's  books  showed  $31.  One 
brother  sends  $50  in  response  to  the  appeals  from  India, 
Eist  and  "West  Africa  and  the  West  Indies.  The  fund 
amounts  now  to  $73  Oar  publisher  can  now  fill  a  long 
waiting  order  from  India  for  145  books  and  pamphlets, 
amouQiing  to  about  $15,  and  16  000  pages  of  t  acts  worth 
$13  A  call  from  Bro  Shemeld  from  the  Zalu  country 
at  Eatcourt,  Natal,  will  also  be  filled. 


EDITORIAL    CORREtiPONDBNGE. 


POLITICS   AND   PROHIBITION. 

In  1884  St.  John  had  25  000  votes  in  New  York, 
Nnxt  jear  New  York  gave  to  Piohibition  some  31,- 
000;  and  last  year  over  36  000.  In  the  election  just 
paot  FORTY  ONE  THOUSAND  votcd  Pfohiliition.  This 
year,  too,  Henry  George  men  gave  72  000  votes; 
and  a  multitude  of  prohibition  Republicans,  think- 
ing their  chance  had  come  to  whip  their  old  enemies, 
the  Ddmocrats,  and  get  their  offices,  voted  ";«««  once 
more'  with  the  Republicans.  But  though  the  Labor 
party  drew  largely  from  them,  yet  the  Democrats 
have  beaten  the  Republicans  17,000  in  the  present 
election.  Why  should  Republicans  "throw  away 
their  vot€s?"  The  men  of  principle  are  leaving 
them.  They  cannot  elect  their  candidate  next  year 
if  they  lose  either  the  liquor  vote  or  the  temper- 
ance vote;  and  they  cannot  have  both.  It  was  al- 
ways dffij;ult  to  carry  water  on  both  shoulders.  It 
is  impossible  for  the  Republicans  to  reach  the  White 
House  carrying  water  on  one  shoulder  and  whisky 
on  the  other. 

THE    GOOD    TIMPLABS 

drag  on  after  the  Mason  lodges.  Only  one  in  five 
Masons,  to  average,  attend  lodge  meetings!  The 
non-attendants  pay  the  "dues,"  and  the  rowdy  one- 
fifth,  who  attend  the  meetings,  eat  and  drink  them! 
General  Neal  Dow  told  me  he  still  paid  his  dues  to 
the  Good  Templars,  though  he  left  their  meetings 
ten  or  twelve  years  ago.  Suppose  churches  were 
supported  by  men  who  seldom  or  never  attend  relig- 
ious meetings,  and  the  meetings  kept  up  by  those 
who  don't  pay,  what  sort  of  churches  would  they  be? 
Miss  Willard  lately  wrote  to  General  Dm  advising 
him  to  join  the  "Knights  of  Labor!"  We  must  ask 
local  Women's  Christian  Temperance  Unions  to  re- 
monstrate with  that  dear  woman. 

Like  the  Masons,  too,  the  temperance  lodges  are 
"good  for  funerals."  Tney  have  had  memorial  meet- 
ings of  John  B.  Finoh.  But  they  are  going  in  for 
a  regular  memorial  day  for  him,  as  the  "Grand 
Army,"  organized  after  the  fighting  was  done,  keep 
a  memorial  day  for— Politics! 

CANDIDATES   FOR   1888. 

Grover  Cleveland,  of  course,  for  the  Democrats. 
They  have  not  another  his  equal;  and  the  party  is 
not  strong  enough  to  elect  another  "Jimmy"  Polk. 
Blaine  is  shelved;  though  he  will  run  if  his  legs 
hold  out  De  Pew  is  talked  of  locally.  None  speak 
of  Robert  Lincoln  here.  He  may  run  for  all  that, 
and  may  win,  if  whisky  and  water  mix  well.  But 
the  Democrats  have  the  advantage  of  professing 
liquor  in  the  North,  and  protecting  what 
they  profess.  In  the  South  they  profess 
temperance.— for  the  Negroes!  Would  God  the 
American  churches  would  arise  from  their  lees,  and 
not  repeat  their  pro  slavery  folly,  which  sunk  the 
ministry  one-half. 

CONJUBINO    WITH    THE    8I0K, 

The  poor  anarchists  are  now  beyond  our  reach- 
but,  as  Demosthtnes  said  to  the  Greeks,  "If  Paillip 
be  dead  you  will  make  another  Phillip."  So  with  us. 
The  so-called  'Wtligiou*  papet"  dare  not  and  do  not 
utter  their  own  convictions;  and  the  spawn  of  Ma- 


son lodges  are  manufacturing  anarchists  so  fast  that 
unless  God  interferes,  there  will  soon  be  so  many 
there  will  not  be  ropes  enough  to  hang  them. 

I  have  been  by  Old  Orchard  in  Maine,  and  con- 
versed with  many  on  "faith  healing,"  or,  as  they 
elect  to  call  it,  "Divine  healing,"  and  I  am  satisfied 
that  Satan  is  endeavoring  to  turn  the  revival  of 
rational  and  Scriptural  prayer  for  recovery  of  the 
sick,  into  covju-ing  with  them.  How  little  is  read, 
written  and  said  of  that  of  which  the  Bible  is  so  full, 
"cnnju  ing"  '^ enchantments,"  ^'divination,''  and  ^'deal- 
ing with  familiar  spiits."  A  tonguey  minister,  who 
has  repeatedly  fallen  by  liquor,  as  Gough  did,  but 
without  his  terrible  excuse  for  it,  or  his  deep,  honest 
piety  when  he  recovered,  is  one  of  the  foremost  heal- 
ers I  have  seen  in  my  journey.  Instead  of  "anoint- 
ing him"  (the  sick  man)  with  oil  as  a  rational  reme- 
dy then  universally  used,  and  as  Isaiah  used  the  fig- 
plaster  for  King  Hezekiah's  abscess,  thev  use  the 
oil  as  a  Romish  priest  uses  it  in  "Extreme  Unction." 
But  let  us  not  be  cheated  out  of  piaying  and  believ- 
ing for  the  recovery  of  the  sick. 

Nov.  14.— I  spoke  here  yesterday  (Sabbath)  three 
times:  in  the  morning  love-feast,  afiernoon  mass 
W.  C.  T.  U.  meeting  in  the  M.  E.  church,  and 
preached  at  night  in  the  Free  Methodist  church,  di- 
rect against  the  lodge.  I  think  I  shall  review  Dr. 
Leach's  temperance  mass  meeting  speech  in  the  Sar- 
atoga Eng'e.  1  meet  many  who  have  read  the  Cyno- 
sure, and  all  who  have  read  approve. 

POLITICS. 

The  Henry  George  party  took  two  thirds  or  three- 
fourths  of  its  72  000  votes  in  the  State  from  the  Demo- 
crats. When  this  Labor  party  resolved  to  go  in.  the 
Republicans  hoped  to  win  against  their  old  enemv, 
the  Democratic  party.  Their  failure  by  17,000 
votes  in  the  State  puts  them  in  a  hopeless  minority 
for  next  year. 

The  Democrats  are  doubtless  to  have  the  great  ad- 
ministration the  four  years  from  1888.  But  when, 
next  June,  the  platforms  are  made  up,  neither  old 
party  will  dare  defy  the  distillery-brewery-saloon 
party;  and  Southern  prohibition  Democrats  and 
Northern  prohibition  Republicans  will 

"Leave  >he  poor,  old  stranded  wreck 
And  pull  for  the  shore ;" 

and  a  reform  party  will  rise  from  the  sea  where  they 
Sink,  as  the  Republican  party  rose  from  the  sinking 
Whig  and  Democratic  parties  in  1856,  after  sixteen 
years  struggle.  Our  salvation  depends  on  our  teach- 
ing the  masses  the  dark  and  damning  nature  of  the 
lodge,  so  that  the  reform  party  of  1892  will  not  bow 
the  knee  to  Baal  or  kiss  his  image.  God  must  help 
us  or  we  fail.  The  skies  are  full  of  bright  omens. 
My  review  of  Dr.  Leach's  sermon  or  speech  here 
yesterday,  though  brilliant  and  thoroughly  eloquent, 
yet  lowered  his  Republican  flag,  which  he  flaunted 
so  savagely  against  the  Prohibition  party  two  years 
ago,  at  least  half-mast;  and  good,  sensible,  pious 
and  capable  Mother  Pond,  President  of  the  W.  C. 
T.  U.,  called  on  me  to  speak  in  that  great  church  af- 
ter Dr.  Leach  had  done.  His  speech  trembled 
throughout,  like  the  weather  vane  before  it  begins 
to  turn. 

THE    SALVATION   ARMY. 

Nov.  15. — I  went  to  the  town  hall  last  night,  for 
the  first  time,  to  hear  two  Salvation  Army  speakers: 
a  woman  of  38  or  40,  and  a  young,  slim  man,  with 
full  mustache,  trim  blue  coat  and  brass  buttons,  but- 
toned close  to  the  throat,  with  a  bright  badge  like 
a  policeman's  on  his  left  breast.  Of  course,  I  went 
prejudiced  against  them,  and  I  am  still  opposed  to 
mingling  military  titles  with  the  religion  of  Christ, 
whose  servants  did  "not  fight."  And  I  was  specially 
displeased  to  hear  the  man  call  the  woman  "Cap- 
tain," from  the  Latin  caput  (head);  for  the  man  is 
"<Ae  head  of  the  woman,"  even  though  the  woman 
furnishes  the  brains  for  it.  But,  I  must  say,  I  never 
in  my  life  saw  a  meeting  better  handled,  or  heard 
better  speaking;  more  solid.  Scriptural  and  evangel- 
ical. The  hall  was  crowded  with  a  fair  proportion 
of  roughs,  but  the  order  was  perfect  Once,  only,  a 
little  stir  was  made  by  grown  boys  in  the  back  of 
the  hall;  but  the  young  man  showed  that  he  was  cap 
tain  by  quelling  it  at  once,  wisely  and  well. 

My  heart  was  pained  for  the  woman;  she  looked 
weary  and  worn.  She  wore  an  army  coat  with  a  cap, 
not  in  bad  taste;  and  when  she  laid  it  aside  she  re- 
vealed a  plain,  rich  dress  in  the  style  of  a  wealthy 
London  Q  lakeress,  and  though  without  rufll  iS  or  the 
dromedary  hump  on  her  lower  spine,  an  ornamental 
band  peeped  from  behind  the  collar  of  her  dress, 
and  showed  with  excellent  effect,  as  did  the  gold 
bracelets  which  the  servant  of  Abraham  put  on  the 
neck  of  Rebecca.  Both  had  tambourines.  Hers 
was  elegant,  and  she  played  on  it  with  a  smooth, 
white  hand,  an  artistic  play  of  long,  taper  fingers; 
and  sang  with  a  sweet,  loud  voice,  like  the  call  of  a 
mother  to  a  sick  child,  or  a  wayward  one.    The  two 


seemed  animated  by  one  spirit,  and  though  the  young 
man's  tones  were,  at  first,  harsh  as  those  of  a  con- 
verted dude,  their  deep,  honest  fervor,  and  sound, 
Christian  good  sense,  gained  on  me  all  the  while, 
and  the  crowd  involuntarily  beat  time  to  their  sing- 
ing with  their  feet  But  though  the  woman  was  fair 
and  decently  formed  and  proportioned,  her  nervous 
system  was  over-strained;  and  though  she  plead 
with  sinners  to  come  to  Christ  earnestly  and  well, 
one  was  reminded,  by  her  pre  occupied  looks  and 
tones,  of  Pope's  couplet: 

"The  soul  uneasy  and  confined  from  home 
ReetB  and  expatiates  la  a  life  to  come." 

When  she  britfl7  said  of  her  experience,  "Five 
years  ago  I  was  brought  to  the  feet  of  Jesus,  and 
was  seized  with  a  desire  to  some  good,"  it  actually 
seemed  as  if  she  was  apologizing  to  us  for  being 
found  in  the  unwomanly  methods  of  the  Salvation 
Army  in  which  she  joined,  with  drum,  trumpet  and 
tambourine,  to  draw  and  save  the  lowest  snd  the  lost. 
But  for  the  accursed  night  lodges,  there  would  be 
men  enough  in  the  churches  to  go  to  the  highways 
and  hedges  and  compel  the  roughs  to  come  in,  while 
she  and  her  sisters  might  sing  to  them  and  point 
them  to  Christ.  j.  b. 


— A  word  from  Bro  Charles  Merrick  of  Syracuse, 
New  York,  wants  a  State  convention  in  that  city  this 
fall. 

,  — Bro.  C.  F.  Hawlev  during  the  month  ending 
Nov.  15 ;h  collected  $79  57  at  the  meetings  held  at 
College  Springs,  Wayne,  Wiofield,  Wyman,  Salem, 
Linton,  Washington  and  other  points.  He  gave 
seventeen  lectures  and  was  accompanied,  for  some 
ten  days,  by  Bro.  B.  W.  Coe  of  West  Union,  a  se- 
ceded Mason,  whose  assistance  in  the  meetings  was 
material. 

— Rev.  T.  L.  Buchwalter,  a  venerable  and  faithful 
member  of  the  United  Brethren  church,  whom  many 
of  our  readers  will  remember  in  conventions  of  years 
ago,  has  been  for  years  an  invalid  at  his  home  in 
Lisbon,  Iowa.  A  letter  of  Christian  cheer  and  con- 
solation to  him  from  Bro.  J.  Hoke  of  Chambers- 
burg,  Pa.,  is  printed  in  the  Highway  of  Holiness. 
Bro.  Hoke  in  a  very  clear  and  expressive  manner 
sets  forth  the  reasons  why  such  afflictions  should  be 
borne  with  meek  patience  and  submission  to  the  in- 
finite and  loving  purpose  of  God. 

— A  letter  from  Bro.  J.  F.  Galloway  of  Okahump- 
ka,  Florida,  tells  of  some  of  the  difficulties  under 
which  he  labors.  He  preaches  twice  a  month,  walk- 
ing seven  or  eight  miles  to  the  appointment,  and  do- 
ing his  work  with  no  earthly  reward.  The  Lord  has 
owned  his  work  in  one  place  with  a  number  of  con- 
versions, but  Satan  opposes  by  stirring  up  Masonic 
opposition  and  the  prejudice  against  one  who  will 
preach  to  Negroes.  There  is  much  ignorance  in  re- 
ligious things  all  about  him,  the  Sabbath  is  disre- 
garded, and  chiefly  on  this  account,  the  fourth  com- 
mandment being  perhaps  as  much  unknown  as  diso- 
beyed. The  health  of  himself  and  family  is  better 
than  for  some  time.  Bro.  Galloway  asks  to  be  re- 
membered in  the  prayers  of  our  readers  for  a  bless- 
ing on  his  labors  among  the  needy  people. 


ALEXANDER  HAMILTON  {from  1st  page.) 

whose  thoughts  and  acts  in  that  character  were  so 
constantly  directed  to  great  questions  and  great  in- 
terests." 

The  distinguished  Judge  Ambrose  Spencer,  a  po- 
litical enemy,  left  this  judgment:  "Alexander  Ham- 
ilton was  the  greatest  man  this  country  ever  pro- 
duced. I  knew  him  well.  ...  It  was  he  more 
than  any  other  man  who  thought  out  the  Constitu- 
tion of  the  United  States  and  the  details  of  the  gov- 
ernment of  the  Union;  and,  out  of  the  chaos  that 
existed  after  the  Revolution,  raised  a  fabric,  every 
part  of  which  is  instinct  with  his  thought  .  .  .  He 
more  than  any  other  man  did  the  thinking  of  hia 
time." 

John  Marshall  ranked  Hamilton  next  to  Washing- 
ton, and  with  the  judgment  of  their  great  Chief  Jus- 
tice Americans  are  wont  to  be  content 

But  the  character  of  this  great  man  is  not  without 
blemish.  He  was  weak  enough  to  be  enticed  from 
his  conjugal  fidelity  for  a  time  by  an  artful  adven- 
turess named  Maria  Reynolds.  But  he  confessed 
his  sin,  and  we  do  not  find  that  the  affection  of  his 
devoted  wife  wavered  during  the  trial.  He  married 
Elizabeth,  the  daughter  of  General  SchuyKr,  in  1780. 
Eight  children  were  given  them,  and  the  home  was 
a  happy  one.  The  oldest  son  fell  in  a  duel  a  few 
years  before  and  in  the  same  place  where  the  father 
was  murdered  by  Burr  in  the  name  of  honor. 

The  character  of  these  two  men  was  in  sharpest 
contrast,  and  with  their  unfortunate  relations  is 
enough  for  a  lengthy  chapter.  Hamilton  first  met 
Burr  at  the  battle  of  ^arlem  Plains  in  1776.    At. 


NoyzMBXB  24, 188T 


T^E  CHRISTIAN  CTSTNOSURE. 


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this  meeting  "angry  worda  passed  between  them."  j 
What  was  the  cause  is  not  known.  It  is  probable 
that  a  mutual  dislike  was  irresistible.  They  had 
little  in  cammoa  together.  "Burr  was  fearless,  ad- 
venturous, insubordinate,  subtle,  and  crafty.  Ham- 
ilton was  resolute,  ambitious,  brave,  frank  and  can- 
did." Burr  had  been  on  Washington's  staff,  but  only 
for  a  few  weeks.  He  saw  nothing  to  adoaire  in 
Washington,  and  nothing  of  advantage  to  hope  for 
to  himself.  Washington,  too,  had  for  some  good 
reason  a  strong  dislike  to  Burr.  That  dislike  in 
after  years  ripentd  into  serious  distrust  and  rppul- 
sion.  Burr  was  an  avowed  and  boastful  libertine, 
and  finally  sank  into  universal  ignominy  as  an  assas- 
sin and  a  traitor.  He  was  to  the  end  of  life  a 
Freemason,  and  his  treasonable,  correspondence  late 
in  life  was  carried  on  in  the  R  )yal  Arch  cypher. 

Hamilton  on  the  contrary  seems  throughout  hi-» 
career  to  have  been  of  a  reformer  spirit.  He  urged 
the  enlisting  of  N-^gro  troops  in  the  American  army 
and  argued  the  subject  in  a  long  letter  to  the  Presi- 
dent of  Congress  dated  March  14,  1779.  With  re- 
gard to  slavery,  Hamilton  from  his  youth  had  been 
opposed  to  it.  With  Lafayette  and  J  'V  he  belonged 
in  1783  to  a  manumission  society.  Enbraciug  all 
men,  black  and  white,  in  his  comprehensive  and  gen- 
uine humanity,  he  desired  to  see  ihem  all  happy  and 
free.  He  early  saw  the  dangerous  tendency  of  the 
French  R-ivolution  characterized  by  atheism  and 
made  powerful  by  secret  cabals.  He  opposed  its 
powerful  influence  in  this  country,  and  one  of  his 
biographers  well  sajs  he  was  its  greatest  victim. 
Contrasting  it  with  our  own  revolution  he  said,  "The 
one  is  liberty,  the  other  licentiousness  " 

On  his  first  appearing  in  Congress  Hamilton  rd- 
vocated  open  sessions  and  that  debates  be  made 
public.  Doubtless  Washington's  aivice  strength- 
ened his  convictions.  When  at  20  he  entered  the 
family  of  the  great  commander  the  latter  had  for 
some  tea  years  ceased  active  membership  in  the 
Masonic  lodge.  In  the  history  of  the  Columbian 
Order,  a  secret  political  society,  now  well  known  by 
the  name  of  "Tammany,"  it  is  narrated  that  in  1798, 
"President  Washington's  denunciation  of  secret  so- 
cieties in  general  had  almost  killed  it."  Burr  was 
said  to  be  an  active  member  and  used  it  for  his  own 
purposes  as  he  did  Masonry.  He  was  leader  of  the 
Democratic  party  at  that  time,  and  wielded  the  in- 
fluence of  that  order  so  ably  that  the  Federalists  in 
1800  were  overcome  in  New  York  and  Thomas  Jef- 
ferson was  made  President  and  himself  Vice  Presi- 
dent of  the  United  States.  "From  the  organization 
of  the  society, "goes  onthehi3tory,"Alexander  Ham- 
ilton was  its  most  determined  opponent,  and  when 
President  Washington's  Farewell  Address  appaared 
he  was  the  first  to  apply  the  reproof  against  secret 
societies  coAtained  in  it  to  the  Tammany  oaganiza^ 
tion." 

This  clearly  fixes  the  position  of  these  two  men, 
as  opponents  in  religion,  in  politics,  and  in  relation 
to  the  lodge.  Hamilton's  influence  prevented  Burr 
from  being  elected  governor  of  New  York  and  Pres- 
ident of  the  United  States,  and  the  malignant  rage 
of  the  defeated  Mason  determined  that  so  powerful 
enemy  must  be  removed,  if  need  be,  by  assassina- 
tion. Already,  years  before,  Hamilton's  pamphlets 
had  aroused  the  greatest  animosity  of  political  ene- 
mies, a  club  of  gentlemen  in  New  York  met  one 
evening;  and,  after  discussing  his  letters,  were  raised 
to  so  fierce  a  pitch  of  anger  that  they  agreed  to  the 
infamous  proposition  to  get  rid  of  their  foe  by 
challenging  him  one  after  another  until  some  one 
should  have  the  fortune  to  destroy  him.  With  the 
same  purpose  Burr  found  his  opportunity  and  sent 
a  challedge  to  mortal  combat.  Hamilton  knew  his 
enemy,  yet  made  every  honorable  efl'jrt  at  explana- 
tion. But  the  sleuth-hound  of  the  lodge  would  not 
be  turned  from  his  track;  and  the  custom  of  the  day 
was  against  him. 

Often  in  the  course  of  his  splendid  career  he  had 
dared  to  stand  alone,  to  brave  the  malice  of  enemies 
and  the  senseless  clamor  of  mobs.  He  had  done 
well  to  have  preferred  his  duty  to  God,  his  fam- 
ily and.  his  country  than  to  yield  to  the  mere 
pressure  of  public  opinion.  But  a  soldier's  courage, 
like  a  woman's  virtue,  may  not  endure  the  suspicion 
of  a  stain.  Hamilton  had  human  imperfections; 
his  pride  was  sensitive.  He  feared  that  his  refusal 
to  fii^ht  would  diminish  his  influence  and  future  use- 
fulness. He  yielded  to  these  sentiments;  made 
every  preparation  and  left  a  statement  of  his  mo 
lives,  which  clearly  shows  he  had  no  murderous  in- 
tentions; that  he  risked  his  life  in  deference  to  a 
prejudice  he  deppiaed;  and  that  he  was  resolved  to 
spare  his  remorst^less  enemy  who  was  hunting  him 
to  the  death.  The  result  is  well  known.  Oa  the 
11th  of  Julv,  1804,  Hamilton  fell. 

Of  Hamilton's  death-bed,  his  biographer  Morse 
writes  as  follow-*:  "His  wife  and  children  were  be- 
side bis  couch.  Again  and  again  he  sought  consola- 


tion both  for  his  wife  and  himself  in  their  religious 
belief.  He  was  a  sincere  and  earnest  Christian.  He 
had  lately  said  of  Christianity  in  his  firm,  positive 
way,  'I  have  studied  it,  and  I  can  prove  its  truth  as 
clearly  as  any  proposition  ever  submitted  to  the 
mind  of  man.'  His  thoughts  and  interests,  amid 
all  the  exciting  whirl  of  public  and  private  affairs, 
had  boen  often  and  fervently  turned  in  this  direc- 
tion of  late  years.  He  now  requested  to  have  the 
communion  administered  to  him.  There  was  some 
diftiLulty  apparently  by  reason  of  his  never  yet  hiv- 
ing been  formally  admitted  to  the  church;  but  this 
obstacle  was  finally  overcome,  and  greatly  to  his 
comfort  he  received  the  sacrament."  He  died  after 
thirty  hours  of  suffering,  and  was  buried  amid  uni- 
versal lamentation.  Burr  ceased  to  be  a  political 
leader  and  his  name  was  held  in  horror  by  his  coun- 
trymen. A  c  >roner'8  jury  returned  a  verdict  of  mur- 
der, and  the  Vice  President  of  the  United  States  was 
compelled  to  fly  and  conceal  himself. 


Religious  News. 


TBS  ELGIN  SABBdTH  CONVENTION. 


REPORT  CONTINUED  FROM  LAST  WEEK. 


The  discussions  of  Wednesday  morning,  Nov.9th, 
were  of  the  most  practical  nature.  The  street  car 
and  Sunday  travel  question  being  settled  in  favor  of 
their  discontinuance,  the  milk  business  had  its  turn. 
Rav.  Mr.  Robinson  presented  the  case  of  the  farm- 
er as  it  was  usually  argued  out  in  defense  of  the 
running  of  the  creameries,  cheese  factories  and  con- 
densing factories  on  the  Sabbath.  That  argument 
took  this  form:  The  cows  must  be  milked,  for  it  is 
according  to  the  nature  God  has  given  them.  It  is 
not  according  to  Christ's  example,  who  said, "Gather 
up  the  fragments  that  nothing  be  lost,"  that  this 
milk  be  wasted,  thrown  away.  To  take  care  of  it  at 
home  will  keep  wife  and  men  busy  so  they  can't 
go  to  church.  At  the  factory  two  or  three  men  can 
care  for  it  and  save  the  labor  of  hundreds.  So  these 
establishments  run  in  order  to  save  the  work  of 
many  people.  The  milk  must  be  shipped  to  the  city 
also  for  the  children.  There  is  no  place  in  the  world 
to  discuss  this  subject  like  Elgin,  which  is  the  head- 
quarters of  the  milk  and  butter  business  for  the 
country. 

Ready  replies  were  made  to  every  objection  for 
Sabbath  rest  for  the  milkmen.  Prof.  H.  A.  Fischer 
said  as  a  boy  his  father's  farm  sent  the  milk  of  twen- 
ty cows  to  Chicago  daily,  but  on  Sabbath  there  was 
no  train  and  they  had  no  difficulty  in  providing  for 
the  surplus  at  home  without  much  loss.  Dr.  C.  E 
Mandeville  said  not  a  drop  of  the  milk  shipped  to 
the  city  Sunday  was  sold  that  day.  Families  could 
get  on  Saturday  enough  for  two  days  and  everybody 
had  a  refrigerator  where  it  could  be  kept.  Ha  knew 
of  a  godly  farmer  who  found  it  a  good  profit  to  fatten 
p'gs  with  Sunday  milk.  Mr.  Swartz  said  there  were 
always  poor  people  who  would  be  glad  to  take  away 
surplus  Sunday  milk, and  a  blessing  would  go  with 
the  gift.  Mr.  George  P.  Lord  of  Elgin,  one  of  the 
most  prominent  business  men  of  the  city,  and  well 
known  throughout  the  State,  said  he  kept  100  cows, 
and  knew  the  problem  capable  of  an  easy  solution. 
Every  farmer  can  keep  his  milk,  for  all  ccol  it.  His 
men  have  the  whole  supply  put  away  by  7  or  7:30 
o'clock  Sunday  morning.  The  housewife  has  no 
more  care  of  it  that  day  than  any  other,  and  all  can 
go  to  church.  The  only  question  is  one  of  profit  A 
little  more  is  made  from  the  product  by  running  the 
factorj'.  The  establishment  of  which  he  was  presi- 
dent never  run  on  the  Sabbath.  Others  spoke,  but 
with  no  essential  difference  of  opinion. 

On  the  Sunday  paper  question  Rsv.W.  H.  Holmes 
said  he  was  in  a  quandary.  He  understood  the  work 
on  the  Sunday  paper  was  done  Saturday, hut  the  Mon- 
day morning  paper  was  got  out  on  the  Sabbath.  Dr. 
Staunton  had  been  on  the  staff  of  a  city  daily  and 
thought  it  nearly  impossible  to  issue  the  Monday 
paper  without  working  some  of  the  hours  of  Sun- 
day. The  compositors  must  be  on  before  midnight 
Rev.  Mr.  Harbaugh  had  been  a  practical  printer.and 
knew  that  most  of  the  work  could  he  done  outside 
of  those  hours.  Prof.  Whitney  of  Beloit  spoke  ably 
against  the  Sunday  paper  as  most  mischievous  and 
demoralizing  because  of  its  very  existence,  without 
regard  to  the  time  it  was  printed.  It  was  made  to 
he  sold  on  the  S  ibbath  and  those  who  sold  and  those 
who  bought  and  read  were  alike  deprived  of  the 
proper  use  of  the  day.  Rev.  A.  J.  Ctiittenden  of 
Wheaton  said  we  assume  things  that  are  not  true, 
that  it  is  a  necessity  that  we  have  just  so  many  pa- 
pars.  We  have  acquired  an  abnormal  appetite  for 
news.  We  do  not  need  all  these  papers.  We  preach 
that  men  should  be  virtuous,  but  there  is  no  virtue 
till  it  is  tested,  and  here  we  can  bring  the  test  of 
self-denial.    Rev.  Mr.  Stover,  of  Belvidere,  was  late- 


ly from  the  East.  The  question  of  Sabbath  desecra- 
tion is  also  a  practical  one  there.  The  large  icflux 
of  foreigners,  the  Sunday  excursions  aid  picnics 
were  a  fearful  source  of  demoralizition.  Riv.  Mr. 
Stewart  said  the  excuse  for  the  Sunday  paper  was 
competition.  If  it  did  not  pay  it  would  stop  soon 
enough.  We  should  organize  and  give  our  patron- 
age only  to  those  institutions  that  keep  the  Sabbath 
and  there  would  then  be  a  different  kind  of  compe- 
tition. 

Rev.  William  Craven  of  Grace  M.  E.  church, Elgin, 
presided  in  the  afternoon  after  a  half  hour  prajer- 
meetlng  led  by  Rav.  Mr.  Smith  of  St.  Charles.  Dr. 
C.  E  Mandeville  of  Chicago  gave  a  most  excellent 
address  upon  the  topic,  "Some  Dangers  Respecting 
Sabbath  Observance."  He  appeared  as  the  represen- 
tative of  the  R  )ck  River  M.  E  conference.  He  be- 
lieved we  are  on  the  eve  of  the  greatest  moral  battle 
ever  fought  in  this  country.  The  enemy  is  massing. 
There  is  in  this  country  an  organiz.ation  known  as 
the  Personal  Liberty  party,  which  aims  to  destroy 
the  Sabbath;  why  it  is  so  called  he  could  not  say. 
Surely  if  there  is  a  country  on  the  face  of  the  earth 
where  personal  liberty  is  enjoyed  it  is  here,  and  yet 
the  cry  is,  "We  want  personal  liberty."  What  is 
mesnt  is  person^il  license,  by  which  all  restraint  on 
the  liquor  traffic,  gambling  and  such  evils  shall  be 
moved.  Every  form  of  vice  is  represented  in  this 
battle;  we  must  defend  the  Sabbath  or  sink.  It  is 
well  to  come  together  and  consider  how  have  we 
reached  this  lamentable  moral  condition. 

The  history  of  Nehemiah  is  worth  a  study.  His 
treatment  of  the  Sabbath  question  is  a  model  for  all 
governments  and  all  time.  How  did  the  Sabbath 
desecration  so  characteristic  of  the  present  day  come 
about? 

1.  We  have  wiped  out  the  distinction  between  the 
believer  and  the  non-believer.  A  few  years  ago  we 
sent  word  to  the  oppressed  nations  of  Europe  to 
come  to  America,  the  land  of  plenty.  The  invitation 
to  all  the  world  to  come  here  has  been  too  well  un- 
derstood. The  foreigner  has  come  with  his  ignor- 
ance, his  ideas  of  oppression,  even  his  crimes,  and 
we  have  not  done  our  duty  by  him  in  instructing 
him  in  our  newer  civilization.  We  let  them  alone; 
let  them  have  their  own  way.  Very  little  effort  was 
made  to  elevate  them  or  to  instruct  them.  They 
knew  nothing  of  our  Christian  Sabbath.and  it  is  the 
most  natural  thing  in  the  world  that  they  should  fol- 
low the  ways  of  their  native  land,  and  we  allowed 
them  to  do  so  unmolested.  Is  it  any  wonder  that 
the  laws  of  our  country  are  trampled  under  foot? 
We  have  become  so  used  to  seeing  this  desecration 
of  the  Sabbath;  have  become  so  familiar  with  it  that 
we  now  see  and  allow  to  pass  unheeded  what  would 
have  instilled  horror  in  the  heart  of  the  Christian 
some  years  ago.  We  as  a  people  have  become  de- 
moralized with  the  familiarity  of  foreign  customs. 
Pope's  famous  couplet  describes  too  accurately  our 
present  moral  condition.  As  Nehemiah  found  on  his 
return  from  Shushan  that  the  Jews  had  become  a 
part  of  the  heathen  with  whom  they  lived, so  are  we. 
And  I  tell  you,  my  friends,  we  will  never  get  ahead 
in  this  matter  until  the  Christian  church  separates 
from  this  class.  There  are  people  who  seem  asham- 
ed of  their  old  Puritanic  blood;  may  God  help  them. 
There  has  been  an  alliance  formed  between  the  church 
and  the  world.  Let  us  not  deny  it  Influential  men 
fasten  themselves  upon  the  church:  a  sort  of  politi- 
cal Christians.  Too  many  men  are  in  the  church  for 
self- profit.  We  pastors  are  to  blame  for  allowing 
them  to  rule.  We  should  remember  the  example  of 
Nehemiah  when  he  lound  the  wealthy  Tobiah,  the 
Ammonite,  in  the  very  temple;  how  he  drove  this 
influential  heathen  out  and  pitched  out  his  stuff  af- 
ter him.  So  long  as  the  rich  member  rides  to  tue 
park  in  his  carriage  you  have  no  right  to  object  to 
the  poor  member  going  to  the  park  in  a  street  car. 
The  church  of  God  must  be  purified,  even  if  it  strips 
it  of  its  wealth.     God  has  enough  and  to  spare. 

The  subject  has  two  sides.  We  must  not  look 
alone  at  the  religious  side.  The  interests  of  the 
church  and  state  are  united.  They  must  stand  or 
fall  together.  They  must  not  be  antagonistic  We 
can  never  have  a  Christian  nation  until  the  laws  of 
man  and  the  laws  of  God  are  in  accord.  Till  our 
laws  harmonize  with  the  Decalogue  we  shall  not  do 
our  full  duty  as  a  people.  Christianity  is  the  safe- 
guard of  the  state.  Do  you  think  had  we  done  our 
duty  to  the  foreigners  who  have  come  into  cur 
midst,  there  would  have  been  any  anarchy  in  Chi- 
cago? No.  Had  the  church  done  its  duiy  is  it  not 
fair  to  assume  that  communism  and  anare-hiam 
would  not  have  existed?  Our  present  condition  is 
such  as  we  have  not  known  since  the  war.  God  will 
he  just  if  he  allows  these  people  from  foreign  na- 
tions to  chastise  us. 

The  Christian  people  must  stand  together  and  re- 
fuse to  listen  to  the  politician  whose  only  cry  is  for 
{Contitiued  on  ISlh  page.) 


10 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


NOYBMBXB  24, 1887 


The  Home, 


TEANEBOIVINO    OF  OLD. 


HOW   THE     DAY    WAS    OBSERVED   IN   NEW   ENGLAND. 


BT   HARRIET     BEECHER   8T0WE, 


On  the  whole,  about  this  time  in  our  life  we  were 
a  reasonably  happy  set  of  children.  The  Thanks- 
giving festival  of  that  year  is  particularly  impressed 
on  my  mind  as  a  white  day.  Are  there  any  of  my 
readers  who  do  not  know  what  Thanksgiving  Day  is 
to  a  chil  t  ?  Then  let  them  go  back  with  me  and  re- 
call the  image  of  it  as  we  kept  it  in  Oldtown.  Peo- 
ple have  often  supposed  because  the  Puritans  found- 
ed a  society  where  there  were  no  professed  public 
amusements  that,  therefore,  there  was  no  fun  going 
on  in  that  ancient  land  of  Israel,  and  that  there 
were  no  cakes  and  ale,  because  they  were  virtuous. 
They  were  never  more  mistaken  in  their  lives;  there 
was  abundance  of  sober,  well-considered  merriment, 
and  the  hinges  of  life  were  well  oiled  with  that  sort 
of  secret  humor  which  to  this  day  gives  the  raci- 
ness  to  real  Yankee  wit.  Besides  this,  we  must  re- 
member that  life  itself  is  the  greatest  possible 
amusement  to  people  who  really  believe  they  can  do 
much  with  it,  who  have  that  intense  sense  of  what 
can  be  brought  to  pass  by  human  efforts  that  was 
characteristic  of  the  New  England  colonies.  To 
such  it  is  not  exactly  proper  to  say  that  life  is  an 
amusement;  but  it  certainly  is  an  engrossing  inter- 
est that  takes  the  place  of  all  these  amusements. 
Looking  over  the  world  on  a  broad  scale,  do  we  not 
find  that  public  entertainments  have  very  largely 
been  the  sops  thrown  out  by  the  engrossing  upper 
classes  to  keep  the  lower  classes  from  inquiring  too 
particularly  into  their  rights,  and  to  make  them  sat- 
isfied with  a  stone  when  it  was  not  convenient  to 
give  them  bread?  Wherever  there  is  a  class  that  is 
to  be  made  content  to  be  plundered  of  its  rights, 
there  is  an  abundance  of  fiddling  and  dancing,  and 
amusements,  public  and  private,  are  in  great  requi- 
sition. It  may  also  be  set  down,  I  think,  as  a  gen- 
eral axiom  that  people  feel  the  need  of  amusements 
less  and  less,  precisely  in  proportion  as  they  have 
solid  reasons  for  being  happy. 

Our  good  Puritan  fathers  intended  to  form  a  state 
of  society  of  such  equality  of  conditions,  and  to 
make  the  means  of  securing  the  goods  of  life  free 
to  all,  that  everybody  should  find  employment  for 
his  faculties  in  a  prosperous  seeking  of  his  fortunes. 
Hence,  while  they  forbade  theaters,  operas  and 
dances,  they  made  a  state  of  unparalleled  peace  and 
prosperity,  where  one  could  go  to  sleep  at  all  hours 
of  day  or  night  with  the  house-door  wide  open,  with- 
out bolt  or  bar,  yet  without  apprehension  of  any  to 
molest  or  make  afraid. 

The  Fourth  of  July  took  high  rank  after  the  Dec- 
laration of  Independence,  but  the  king  and  high 
priest  of  all  festivals  was  the  autumn  Thanksgiving. 
When  the  apples  were  all  gathered,  and  the  cider 
was  all  made,  and  the  yellow  pumpkins  were  rolled 
in  from  many  a  hill  in  billows  of  gold,  and  the  corn 
was  husked,  and  the  labors  of  the  season  were  donfe, 
and  the  warm,  late  days  of  Indian  summer  came 
in  dreamy  and  calm  and  still,  there  came  over  the 
community  a  sort  of  genial  repose  of  spirit,  a  sense 
of  something  accomplished.and  of  a  new  golden  mark 
made  in  advance  on  the  calendar  of  life. 

In  those  days  there  were  none  of  the  thousand 
ameliorations  of  the  labors  of  housekeeping  which 
have  since  arisen;  no  ground  and  prepared  spices 
and  sweet  herbs;  everything  came  into  our  hands 
in  the  rough  and  in  bulk,  and  the  reducing  of  it 
into  a  state  for  use  was  deemed  one  of  the  appro- 
priate labors  of  childhood.  Even  the  salt  we  used 
in  cooking  was  rock-salt,  which  we  were  required  to 
wash  and  dry  and  pound  and  sift  before  it  became 
fit  for  use. 

Great  as  the  preparations  were  for  dinner,  every- 
thing was  so  contrived  that  not  a  soul  in  the  house 
should  be  kept  from  the  morning  service  of  Thanks- 
giving in  the  church  and  from  listening  to  the 
Thanksgiving  sermon,  in  which  the  minister  was  ex- 
pected to  express  his  views  freely  concerning  the 
politics  of  the  country  and  the  state  of  things  in 
society  in  general. 

But  it  is  to  be  confessed  that,  when  the  good  man 
got  carried  away  by  the  enthusiasm  of  his  subject 
to  extend  those  exercises  beyond  a  certain  length, 
anxious  glance8,exchanged  between  good  wives,indi- 
cated  a  weakness  of  the  flesh,  having  a  tender  refer- 
ence to  the  turkeys  and  chickens  and  chicken-pies 
which  might  possibly  be  over-doing  in  the  ovens  at 
home.  But  your  old  brick  oven  was  a  true  Puritan 
institution,  a  truly  well-bred  even,  and  it  would  have 
blushed  redder  than  its  own  fires  if  a  God-fearing 
bouae  matron,  away  at  the  temple  of  the  Lord, 


should  come  home  and  find    her  pie-crust  either 
burned  or  undone. 

Although  all  servile  labor  and  vain  recreation  on 
this  day  were  by  law  forbidden,  according  to  the 
terms  of  the  proclamation,  it  was  not  held  to  be  a 
violation  of  the  precept  that  all  the  nice  old  aunties 
should  bring  their  knitting-work  and  sit  gently  trot- 
ting their  needles  around  the  fire;  nor  that  Uncle 
Bill  should  start  a  full-fledged  romp  among  the  girls 
and  children,  while  the  dinner  was  being  set  on  the 
long  table  in  the  adjoining  kitchen. 

But  who  shall  do  justice  to  the  dinner,  and  de- 
scribe the  turkey,  and  chickens  and  chicken-pies, 
with  all  that  endless  variety  of  vegetables  which  the 
American  soil  and  climate  have  contributed  to  the 
table  and  which,  without  regard  to  the  French  doc- 
trine of  courses,  were  all  piled  together  in  jovial 
abundance  upon  the  smoking  board?  There  was 
much  coming,  and  laughing,  and  talking  and  eating, 
and  all  showed  that  cheerful  ability  to  dispatch  the 
provisions  which  was  the  ruling  spirit  of  the  hour. 
After  the  meat  came  the  plum  puddings,  and  then 
the  endless  array  of  pies,  till  human  nature  was 
actually  bewildered  and  overpowered  by  the  tempt- 
ing variety;  and  even  we  children  turned  from  the 
profusion  offered  us,  and  wondered  what  was  the 
matter  that  we  could  eat  no  more. 

The  dinner  being  cleared  away,  we  youngsters, 
already  excited  to  a  tumult  of  laughter,  tumbled 
into  the  bedroom  under  the  supervision  of  Uncle 
Bill,  to  relieve  ourselves  with  a  game  of  blindman's 
buff,  while  the  elderly  women  washed  up  the  dishes 
and  got  the  house  in  order,  and  the  men  folks  went 
out  to  the  barn  to  to  look  at  the  cattle,  and  walked 
over  the  farm  and  talked  of  the  crops. 

In  the  evening  the  house  was  all  open  and  lighted 
with  the  best  of  tallow  candles  which  Aunt  Lois  her- 
self had  made  with  especial  care  for  this  illumina- 
tion. The  succeeding  hours  were  given  up  to  amuse- 
ment of  an  admissible  character,  the  day  thus  round- 
ed off  with  complete  gratitude  and  enjoyment. — 
Oldtown  Folks. 


A  THANRaOIVINO  DAT. 


A  THANK8GIVIN0  BUNDLE. 

Grandma  is  hunting  the  Efarret  over, 

What  do  you  s'pose  she  wants  to  find? 
She  only  laughs  when  I  asked  the  question, 

Said,  "Run  away,  Tom,  and  never  mind." 
She  pulled  out  some  trunks  and  an  old  oak  chest, 

A  eplnnlng-wheel  and  a  queer  old  chair ; 
When  I  told  her  I'd  help  her  she  looked  so  funny, 

What  do  you  s'pose  she's  doing  up  there? 

Grandma  had  sent  for  all  the  children 

To  spend  Thanksgiving  with  her  at  home ; 
She  was  keeping  a  secret  she  knew  would  please  them 

And  planned  a  surprise  when  the  time  should  come. 
Aunt  Amy  from  Boston  had  brought  a  bundle, 

She  gave  to  grandma  in  such  a  way ; 
While  she  said  with  a  laugh,  "I've  brought  you  something 

You  wanted  to  have  for  Thanksgiving  Day." 

"I  know  what  it  is,"  Tom  told  his  cousins, 

When  grandma  had  carried  it  out  of  sight; 
"It's  one  of  those  puddings  that  dear  Aunt  Amy 

Knows  we're  so  fond  of— I  know  I'm  right  I 
I'm  glad  she  brought  it;  there's  lots  of  raisins, 

And  mamma  will  give  us  a  great  big  slice ; 
But  I  can't  think  what  there  is  up  garret 

For  Thanksgiving  Day  that's  very  nice." 

But  when  the  children  were  cal.ed  to  dinner, 

What  do  you  suppose  was  waiting  therel 
At  the  end  of  the  table  they  saw  what  grandma 

Had  found  up  garret — an  old  high  chair, 
And  the  cunningest  baby  tied  within  it — 

The  bundle  Aunt  Amy  had  brought  along— 
A  blue-eyed,  dimpling,  darling  cousin, 

Who  gravely  gazed  at  the  noisy  throng. 

"1  see,"  cried  Tom,  as  they  danced,  delighted, 

"What  grandma  was  hunting  for  so  up  there; 
I'd  never  have  guessed  that  we'd  have  at  dinner 

A  baby  tied  in  our  old  high  chair." 
And  such  a  day  as  that  glad  Thanksgiving 

They  never  had  had  In  their  lives  before; 
They  had  pudding  with  raisins,  besides  the  baby. 

And  felt  that  they  never  could  want  for  more. 

— Barper^s  Young  People. 


Thinking  and  Doing. —  It  is  not  what  people  eat, 
but  what  they  digest  that  makes  them  strong.  It  is 
not  what  they  gain,  but  what  they  save,  that  makes 
them  rich.  It  is  not  what  they  read,  but  what  they 
remember,  that  makes  them  learned.  It  is  not 
what  they  profess,  but  what  they  practice,  that  makes 
them  holy. 

Do  not  wade  far  out  into  the  dangerous  sea  of  this 
world's  comfort.  Take  what  the  good  God  provides 
you,  but  say  of  it,  "It  passeth  away,  for,  indeed,  it 
is  but  a  temporary  supply  for  a  temporary  need." 
Never  sufler  your  goods  tO  become  your  God.— <SpMr. 
gton. 


In  the  winter  of  1873-4,  the  Hon.  Julius  Harley 
ably  represented  Bytown  and  its  surrounding  coun- 
try in  the  Ohio  Senate  and  was  one  of  its  Committee 
on  the  Penitentiary.  In  his  frequent  visits  to  the 
prison  his  attention  was  often  attracted  by  a  young 
man,  scarcely  more  than  a  boy,  with  the  ruddy  tints 
and  boyish  roundness  not  yet  wholly  faded  from  his 
face,and  in  sad  coiitrast  with  the  dumb  wistfulness 
of  the  large  blue  eyes  and  the  weary,hopeless  droop 
of  the  thin,flexible  lips.  He  was  employed  about 
one  of  the  hallways,  and  day  by  day  stood  aside  to 
let  them  pass,  with  a  listless  dejection  apparent  in 
every  line  of  his  firm,  strong  form.  It  was  a  figure 
that  strongly  impressed  Harley,  but  he  was  always 
in  company,  always  in  a  hurry,  and  his  interest  nev- 
er came  to  more  than  a  fleeting  feeling,  and  would 
no  doubt  have  been  wholly  forgotten  had  not  busi- 
ness connected  with  his  law  practice  called  him  to 
Columbus  the  following  November,  and  while  there, 
making  a  visit  to  the  Penitentiary,  he  came  upon  this 
same  prisoner  in  his  old  accustomed  place.  He  was 
passing  on  as  usual  when,  stirred  by  a  sudden  im- 
pulse, touched,  perhaps,  afresh  by  the  worn  lines  on 
the  young  f  ace,he  turned  back  and  spoke.  The  pris- 
oner started  at  the  cordial,  ringing  tone,  stammered, 
hesitated;  "Sir,"  he  exclaimed,  half  in  apology  it 
seemed,  half  to  utter  the  pent-up  cry  of  his  heart, 
"I  have  been  in  this  prison  three  years,  and  except 
the  officers,  you  are  the  first  one  that  has  ever  spok- 
en to  me,  and  it  has  seemed  sometimes  that  I  was 
famishing  for  the  sound  of  a  kind  word." 

If  Mr.  Harley  was  touched  before  he  was  deeply 
moved  now.  "Tell  me  who  you  are  and  about  your- 
self,"he  said,  kindly. 

"Who  am  I?"  answered  the  young  man  sadly, 
that  is  a  question  I  sometimes  ask  myself.  Once 
in  Massachusetts  there  was  a  Harry  Brainard,whose 
father  was  a  good  man,  a  deacon  in  the  church,  who 
every  morning  and  evening  as  long  as  he  lived  gath- 
ered his  children  about  him  and  prayed  that  they 
might  grow  up  to  be  good  men  and  women.  He  was 
taught  to  keep  the  Sabbath,  to  speak  the  truth,  to 
shun  vice.  Sometimes  I  think  I  was  that  Harry 
Brainard,  but  now  I  am  John  Fuller,  No.  342,  sen- 
tenced for  horse  stealing." 
"Horsestealing!" 

"Yes.     They  said  my  guilt  was  self-evident,  and 
yet  I  had  no  more  thought  of  taking  the  horse  than 
you  have.      But  I  will  tell  you  the  whole  story.      I 
was  the  youngest  child  and  my  older  brothers  had 
all  left  home,  and  after  father  died  I  grew  to  think- 
ing that  farm  work  was  slow  and  farm  life  dull,  in 
short,  to  fancying,  as  many  a  foolish  boy  has  done 
before,  that  I  was  a  little  too  smart  for  a  farmer.  So 
I  grew  restless  and  discontented,  and  at  last  when  a 
friend  who  had  come  to  Ohio  wrote  me  that  there 
was  a  chance  for  teachers  in  the  southern  part  of 
ttie  State,  I  left  the  old  home  and  the  old  mother; 
God  forgive  me  for  it.  I  found  a  school  in  Belmont  ^ 
county,and  in  the  spring  got  a  situation  as  clerk  in  a 
drug  store,  where  I  could  keep  my  hands  white  and 
my  boots  blacked  all  the  time;  so  much  more  gen- 
teel you  know  than  plowing  or  hoeing  corn.      Well, 
like  all  drug  stores,  we  sold  liquor,and  like  so  many 
other  drug  clerks  from  handling  I  came  to  tasting. 
I  knew  mother  would  not  approve,  but  she  did  not 
know  the  ways  of  the  world,  and  there  was  no  dan- 
ger for  me.  I  should  always  know  where  to  stop  and 
not  take  too  much.       But  about  this  time  I  made  a 
new  acquaintance,a  runner  from  Chicago,a  gay  .dash- 
ing fellow.       He  ridiculed  my  church-going,  chaffed 
me  for  my  innocence,mocked  me  for  what  true  prin- 
ciple I  had,  and,in  short,  made  light  of  everything  I 
had  been  taught  to  consider  sacred.  I  was  complete- 
ly fascinated  by  him,  proud  of  his  notice,  and  only 
too  willing  to  follow  where  he  led.       One  Sabbath 
we  took  a  walk  to  a  little  town  some  two  or  three 
miles  distant  on  the  Ohio  river,and  when  there  Rue- 
dy  proposed  we  get  a  horse  and  buggy  and  go  over 
to  the  Virginia  side.     Of  course  I  agreed, as  I  did  to 
everything  he  proposed,  and  when  he  further  sug- 
gested that  we  have  a  bottle  of  brandy  added  to 
complete  the  rig,  T  also  assented.       We  had  had 
something  before  we  left  home,  and  now  we  treated 
the  stable  boy  before  starting.     We  treated  the  fer- 
ryman when  we  crossed  the  river, we  treated  the  first 
man  we  met  on  the  Virginia  side,  and  then  for  want 
of  some  one  else  treated  each  other.     I  wasn't  hard- 
ened to  that  sort  of  thing,  so  that  is  about  the  last  I 
have  any  distinct  remembrance  of  till  1  woke  up  two 
days  later  to  find  myself  at  a  low  tavern  in  a  little 
town  some  twenty  miles  from  the  river,  and  there, 
while  I  was  trjing  to  collect  my  rather  bewildered 
ideas  and  think  what  I  had  better  do,  the  owner  of 
the  horse  with  a  sheriff  found  and  arrested  me.  The 
horse  was  in  my  possession  nnd  the  landlord  said  I 
bad  called  it  mine.      Ruedy  bad  disappeared,  and 
nobody  would  believe  my  story^wblle,  to  make  mat. 


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NOTSMBBB  24,  1887 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


II 


ters  worse,  that  region  had  been  suffering  for  some 
time  from  a  gang  of  thieves,  and  they  were  anxious 
for  some  one  to  make  an  example  of ;  so  I  was  taken 
back  in  irons.  Court  was  in  session,  and  in  less 
than  a  month  I  had  my  trial,  my  conviction,  and  a 
five  years'  sentence.  At  first  my  one  thought  had 
been  to  keep  it  from  mother  and  the  folks  at  home. 
It  would  be  happiness  for  them  to  think  me  dead 
rather  than  to  know  the  truth.but  when  I  found  my- 
self locked  up  here, with  even  the  excitement  of  sus- 
pense over,  I  thought  I  should  die.  1  was  young, 
proud  and  with  all  a  boy's  wild  hopes,  and  I  almost 
hoped  I  should  die.  But  I  have  lived  through  three 
years  of  it,  of  the  convict  cell  and  convict  dress  and 
convict  silence.  I  told  you  that  I  had  a  Chris- 
tian training;  that  is  something  one  cannot  easily 
shake  off.  The  old  texts  and  hymns  I  heard  in  the 
village  church  and  in  my  own  home  haunt  me  here, 
and  one,  'He  will  blot  them  from  the  book  of  his  re- 
membrance,' is  always  ringing  in  my  ears,for  it  has 
seemed  that  I  was,  indeed,  utterly  forgotten  of  both 
God  and  man." 

There  was  a  pathos  of  dull  misery  in  the  tone  as 
well  as  the  words  with  which  he  ended  his  story,that 
touched  Harley's  kindly  heart  and  made  him  long 
to  give  some  crumb  of  comfort,  but  his  training  had 
not  been  particularly  in  a  theological  line.  However, 
he  shook  Brainard  warmly  by  the  hand  with  "Well 
™y  boy,  yours  is  a  pretty  hard  case,  but  keep  up  a 
good  heart.  I'll  see  what  can  be  done  about  it;  and 
as  to  your  being  forgotten,that's  all  nonsense.  You 
know  your  mother  thinks  of  you  every  day  of  her 
life,  and  as  for  the  Lord,  why,  who  knows  but  he 
sent  me  here  to-day?"(A  remembrance  of  his  sudden 
impulse  flashing  through  his  mind  and  giving  him  a 
pleasurable  sense  of  being  a  sort  of  committee  man 
of  Providence,  as  it  were).  "We  don't  know  for  cer- 
tain that  he  did,  of  course,  but  still  it  wouldn't  do 
any  hurt  to  think  so,"  and  the  Hon.  Julius  hurried 
away,  congratulating  himself  that  his  effort  in  im- 
parting religious  instruclion  had  been  quite  a  brill- 
iant success. 

Returning  to  his  hotel,  what  was  his  surprise  to 
encounter  his  legislative  friend,  the  "member  from 
Belmont  county,"who  had  run  up  to  look  a  little  af- 
ter the  affairs  of  state  before  the  meeting  of  the  As- 
sembly,and  Harley  lost  no  time  in  imparting  to  him 
the  discovery  he  had  just  made  that  there  was  a 
young  fellow  from  his  county  in  the  Penitentiary 
who  "really  ought  not  to  be  there." 

"So  he  says,  eh?"  with  a  superior  smile,  for  the 
Belmont  gentleman  having  enjoyed  the  advantage  of 
ten  years'  legislative  experience  was  inclined  to  look 
upon  new  comers,  like  his  Bytown  colleague,  as  un- 
sophisticated, mere  chicks  in  fact  in  the  ways  of  the 
world.  "Of  course  they  are  all  victims  of  circum- 
stances," he  continued,  critically  balancing  his  ci- 
gar; "never  knew  one  to  be  guilty  of  the  crime  for 
which  he  was  sent;  in  fact,  to  take  their  word  they 
are  the  most  innocent  body  of  men  ever  collected  to- 
gether." 

But  Harley  was  not  to  be  repulsed.  "Just 
go  over  with  me  and  hear  this  boy's  story  for  your- 
self." 

"Oh,  I'll  do  that,"wa8  the  careless  assent,"though 
I  doubt  if  it  will  bear  examination."  But  he,  too, 
was  touched  by  the  simple  story,  and,  urged  on  by 
his  friend,  made  immediate  inquiries  into  the  case, 
which  confirmed  the  truth  of  Fuller  or  Brainard's 
statement,  and  the  facts  being  laid  before  the  Gov- 
ernor, iVIr.  Harley  had  the  pleasure  before  he  left  for 
home  and  Thanksgiving  of  walking  down  to  the 
Penitentiary  with  a  pardon  in  his  pocket,  and  it  is 
doubtful  if  in  all  his  full,pro9perous  life  he  had  ever 
known  many  happier  hours  than  when  young  Brain- 
ard stood  before  him  once  more  a  free  man,  his  face 
flushed  with  joy,and  his  voice  choked  with  emotion, 
and  putting  in  his  hand  the  little  purse  that  had 
been  raised  by  a  few  who  had  become  interested  in 
his  story,  told  him  to  take  the  next  train  for  Massa- 
chusetts and  Thanksgiving. 

The  young  man,  clinging  to  his  hand,  exclaimed 
over  and  over  again,  "Oh,  Mr.  Harley,  you  don't 
know  what  this  is  to  me.  Why,it  is  home  and  friends 
and  a  chance  in  life  again.  But  how  can  I  ever 
thank  you  or  ever  repay  you  for  it  all?" 

"By  letting  us  know  that  you  have  made  a  man 
of  yourself,  a  sober,  honest,  honorable  man." 

"Please  God  I  will,"  was  the  faltering  answer.  "I 
have  bad  a  bitter  lesson,  but  it  has  been  well  learn- 
ed." And  so  they  parted,  the  one  to  social  pride 
and  position,to  a  rounding  of  the  year's  pleasant  suc- 
cess, made  sweeter  by  this  truest  of  all  charitie8,the 
charity  of  helping  the  other  to  a  returning  akin  to 
his  of  whom  Christ  taught,  with  the  treasures  of 
growth  and  years  and  opportunities  spent  and  wast- 
ed, but  with  the  promise  of  a  new  and  nobler  life 


II. 


An  old  brown  farm  house  rested  snugly  in  a  little 
hollow  among  the  Massachusetts  hills.  A  quaint 
old  house  with  great  chimneys,  a  sloping  roof  and 
dormer  windows, with  tall  walnut  trees  swaying  over 
it,  and  a  great  bitter-sweet  vine  clambering  over  the 
low  eaves  and  mossy  shingle  roof,  its  clustering  ber- 
ries opening  their  scarlet  hearts  under  the  keen 
frost  touches.  There  are  clumps  of  great  lilac 
and  snowberry  bushes  in  the  yard,  and  dry  stalks 
where  hollyhocks  and  asters  had  bloomed, with  a  few 
hardy  marigolds  still  lingering  in  sunny  corners. 
There  is  a  garden  at  the  foot  of  the  yard,  an  old- 
fashioned  garden,  with  its  broad  center  walk  down 
from  the  picket  gate,  with  a  row  of  beehives  under 
the  plum  trees  ou  one  side  and  bunches  of  carraway 
and  anise  and  fennel  and  dill  for  summer  Sundays 
and  winter  seed-cakes  on  the  other  with  a  hedge  of 
currant  and  raspberry  bushes,  a  Si^^-iading  barberry 
in  one  corner,and  a  border  of  sage  and  summer  sav- 
ory and  saffron  and  pennyroyal.  And  in  front  of 
the  garden  wide  meadows,  for  the  old  house  stands 
amid  its  clustering  barns.apart  from  even  the  drow- 
sy stir  of  the  quiet  country  road,with  the  heights  of 
far,  blue,  mountainous  hills  lifting  on  the  north.and 
in  the  east  a  narrow  glimpse  of  the  sea,  whose  break- 
ing surf  may  be  heard  in  storms  or  the  still- 
ness of  clear  nights.  The  entrance  is  up  a  shaded 
grassy  lane,  whose  gate  rolling  on  clumsy  wooden 
wheels  is  seldom  closed;on  the  one  side  is  themead- 
ow,on  the  other  a  stubble  field  of  corn,  and  beyond 
that  the  orchard,  with  interlacing  arches  of  gnarled 
old  trees,and  out  from  among  these  juice-gathering 
roots  bubbles  a  clear  spring  that  trickles  down  across 
the  lane  into  a  sunken  mossy  trough  where  the 
horses  are  led  to  water  and  the  cows  love  to  linger 
on  their  way  to  the  milking  yard. 

It  is  Thanksgiving  Day,  cold  and  grayly  clear, 
with  a  thin,  pale  sunshine  over  all  the  soft,  brown 
fields  and  russet  woods  where  the  leaves  of  the  oak 
and  beech  still  cling,but  the  walnut  trees  have  long 
been  bare,the  lane  is  full  of  the  dry,  rustling  leaves 
of  the  apple  and  maple,  and  the  thread  of  a  brook 
murmurs  half-choked  by  them;  the  barberrys  gleam 
redder  than  ever  among  their  brown  branches,  as  do 
the  few  ungathered  apples  swaying  on  high  and 
scattered  boughs.       It  is  Thanksgiving  Day  in  the 
wide  old  kitchen  where  the  broad  fireplace  and  brick 
oven  stretch  behind  the  stove,  and  on  the  high  man- 
tel glisten  shining  brass  candlesticks,the  floor  white 
scoured,  and  whiter  still  by  contrast  with  the  heavy 
wainscoting  and  many-paneled  doors,  almost  ebony 
black  by  time  and  bright  by  frequent  rubbing.   But 
there  is  no  stir  of  glad  bustle,  and  the  old  turkey 
stands  around  the  door  and  shakes  his  red  head  in 
calm  security.     Holidays  are  the  saddest  days  in  the 
year,  when  there  is  only  silence  and  vacant  places 
for  the  dear  ones  that  once  made  their  fulness  com- 
plete, and  so  the  wbite-faced  widow  feels  as  she  goes 
about  her  simple  morning  duties.     There  is  the  ear- 
ly breakfast,  and  then  she  takes  from  its  stand  the 
worn  family  Bible,  in  which  is  written  the  birth  and 
death  of  the  husband  and  father,  whose  fingers  had 
turned  its  pages  for  so  many  years,  and  the  children 
who  gathered  in  that  old  kitchen  to  listen,  till,  chil- 
dren no  longer,  they  had  gone  forth  from  the  home, 
some  to  the  tumults  of  life,some  to  the  hush  of  the 
grave.     In  a  voice  that  is  tremulous  with  years  and 
many  sorrows  she  reads  the  chapter  indicated  by 
the  faded  ribbon  as  the  one  in  course,  while  the 
shock-headed  hired  man  sits  very  upright.his  thumbs 
pressed  hard  together  in  token  of  respectful  atten- 
tion.      Then   follows  a  prayer,  in  which  the  daily 
needs,  through  long  repetition, have  crystallized  into 
a  set  form  of  phraseology.      John  is  used  to  it  all, 
to  the  remembrance  of  "this  thy  young  servant  now 
before  thee,"  and  for  the  absent,  and  to  the  tremor 
that  always  thrills  her  voice  as  she  asks  for  the 
"missing  one,  that  if  he  be  among  the  living  the 
arms  of  love  may  still  be  about  him, "and  only  thinks 
that  she  is  most  through, and  he  will  go  out  and  feed 
the  cows  tl'.eir  cornstalks.     By  and  by  he  brings  the 
old  brown  horse  and  still  older  "calash  top"  around 
to  the  stepping  stone,  and  the  little  widow  in  her 
carefully  kept  black  steps  in,  with  a  gentle  reproof 
to  John  for  not  going  too,  and  taking  the  lines  into 
her  mittcned  hands  drives  the  two  miles  over  the 
frozen,  hilly  road  to  the  "Centre  church,"  and  all 
alone  in  the  long,high-backed  pew, save  for  the  mem- 
ories that  cluster  there,  listens  to  the  Proclamation 
and  Thanksgiving  sermon.     Passing  out  at  the  close 
of  the  service,  through  neighboring  family  groups, 
gathering  with  cheerful  greetings  and  chatter,a  dim- 
ness comes  before  her  eyes  at  the  sight  as  she  turns 
away  up  the  steep.lonely  road,  the  raw  wind  beating 
sharply  in  her  face.      John  is  wailing  to  hurry  the 
horse  into  the  stable,  and  then  goes  whistling  away 
over  the  fields  to  his  own  Thanksgiving.       As  she 


opening  before  him, with  that  penitent  cry,  "Father,  enters  the  warm  kitchen  the  toothsome  flavor  of  the 
I  have  sinned  against  heaven  and  in  thy  sight."         chicken  she  has  put  to  roast  (for  she  can  not  let  the 


day  pass  without  some  slight  observance  of  its 
feast)  meets  her,  but  the  tall  old  clock  ticking  so 
loudly  in  the  corner  is  the  only  sound  that  breaks 
the  stillness,  and  the  great  gray  cat  rubbing  about 
her  is  the  only  living  thing  that  bids  her  welcome. 

Never  before  has  Thanksgiving  Day  found  her  ut- 
terly alone.       Once  there  were  fires  in  the  "square 
rooms,"  a  long  table  with  a  great  turkey  for  the 
center-piece,    and  the  house   rang  with  gay  voices 
and  laughter,among  which  Harry's  was  the  merriest 
of  all.     Only  last  year  Jane  was  with  her,  but  look- 
ing from  her  window  across  the  hills  she  can  see  the 
white  stones  gleaming  in  the  little  burying  ground 
where  the  autumn  leaves  are  drifting  over  Jane's 
grave,  and  Harry — it  is  three  years  since  she  has 
heard  of  him,  three  years  that  she  has  been  secretly 
praying  God  for  the  unspeakable  comfort  of  know- 
ing that  he,  her  baby,  her  darlipg,  has  found  the 
same  quiet  rest;  and  now  Elizibeth  in  Wisconsin 
and  James  and  Luther  in  Iowa  are  urging  her  to 
leave  the  old  farm  and  come  to  them.     No,  she  can 
not  live  alone,  but  they  do  not  know  what  they  ask. 
Leave  the  old  house,  the  home  to  which  she  came  as 
a  bride,  the  rooms  where  she  sang  lullabys  to  her 
babies  and  folded  the  hands  of  her  dead?     And  so 
absorbed  in  memory  as  she  draws  out  the  little  round 
table  and  spreads  it  for  the  solitary  meal,  it  is  not 
strange    ttiat  she  does   not  hear    a   step  coming 
through  the  dry  leaves  in  the  lane,a  step  that  paus- 
es by  the  little  brook  and  again  at  the   barberry 
bush;  that  hesitates  at  the  gate,  and  coming  softly 
up  the  stone  walk,  lifts  the  latch  slowly  and  gently. 
The  widow  hears  that  Some  neighbor  is  coming  in. 
She  will  put  on  another  plate.       But  it  is  no  neigh- 
bor's face  that  greets  her  as  she  looks  up.       The 
plate  (ind  it  is  one  of  her  best  China,  too)  falls  to 
the  floor  in  fragments  and  she  walks  over  them  all 
unconscious,and  the  chicken  in  the  oven  gives  many 
a  warning  sputter  before  she  is  aware  of  anything 
save  the  joy  that  this  her  son  that  was  dead  is  alive 
again,  was  lost  and  is  found.     There  might  have 
been  gayer,merrier  Thanksgiving  dinners  eaten  that 
day,  but  hardly  one  of  more  heartfelt   happiness 
than  that  in  the  wide,  low-ceiled  kitchen,  with  the 
November  afternoon  sun  shining  through  the  tiny- 
paned  windows  shaded  by  the  scarlet-flecked  bitter- 
sweet vine,  where  blue  jays  and  a  late  robin  or  two 
chattered  and   flattered  over  their   Thanksgiving. 
True,  there  is  a  stain  of  shame  on  an  honered,  un- 
tarnished name,  and  the  shadow  of  a  disgrace  that 
time  nor  penitence  can  never  wholly  wipe  away,  but 
there  is  the  humility  that  springs  in  the  still  valley 
of  humiliation,the  strength  that  is  born  of  trial,and. 
the  contentedness  of  a  heart  that  has  found  its  rest 
That  was  four  years  ago.     This  summer  the  Hon. 
Mr.  Harley,  in  a  trip  among  the  Massachusetts  hills, 
passed  through  the  gate,  rolling  on  its  clumsy,  wood- 
en  wheels,   up   the  grassy,   shady   lane,   past  the 
gnarled  old  orchard  and  thread  of  a  brook;  past  the 
garden  with  its  spreading  barberry,  its  spicer^-  smell 
of  aromatic  herbs;  its  bees  humming  under  the  plum 
trees;  up  the  narrow  stone  walk  under  the  tall  wal- 
nut trees  to  the  kitchen  door,  and  the  joyous  greet- 
ing of  the  sun-browned  young  farmer,  whose  smil- 
ing  face  still   shows   lines  of  pain  and  conflict  sel- 
dom seen  in  one  so  young.      There  is  a  greeting  no 
less  hearty,  if  shyer,  from  the  blushing  young  wife, 
and  the  very  young  gentleman  in  very  long  dresses, 
who  is  introduced  as  Julius  Harley  Brainard.     But 
best  of  all  is  the  welcome  of  the  white-faced,  white- 
haired  woman  in  her  arm  chair  by  the  bitter-sweet 
shaded  window,  with  her  great  Bible  open  on  the 
stand  beside  her. 

"Yes,"  she  said,  in  her  sweet,  weak  voice,  "I  am 
glad  to  see  you  before  I  go,  and  that  will  not  be 
long,  but  I  have  nothing  more  to  ask.  I  have  lived 
to  see  my  son  restored  to  me.  I  shall  end  my  life 
in  the  old  home  among  the  old  friends.  The  good 
Lord  has  granted  me  every  wish,  and^  since  that  four 
years  ago  all  my  days  have  been  Thanksgiving  days." 
—  Cltvdand  Herald. 


The  late  Professor  Samuel  Miller,  of  Princeton, 
New  Jersey,  was  a  man  of  large  benevolence.  He 
refused  to  aid  no  object  whii;h  he  considered  worthy 
of  public  or  private  beneficence.  He  used  to  say 
that  he  loved  to  have  a  nail  in  every  building  in- 
tended for  the  glory  of  God  or  the  good  of  man. 
It  was  in  his  heart  to  aid  to  the  extent  of  his  ability 
every  worthy  ciuse.  And  doublloss  he  had  his  re- 
ward. He  had  it  as  ho  went  along  in  the  onscious- 
ness  of  doing  good.  He  had  it  in  the  prayers  and 
benedictions  of  the  poor.  He  has  it  now  in  heaven 
in  the  smile  of  his  divine  Lord.  And  he  will  have 
it  in  the  great  rewarding  day,  when  the  Master  will 
bring  to  light  every  good  deed,  and  say  unto  him, 
"Well  done,  good  and  faithful  servant;  enter  thou 
into  the  joy  of  thy  Lord."  Were  all  to  act  on  the 
same  principle,  bow  much  good  would  be  accom. 
plishedl 


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Tm^  asmmmAm  oTMOBwrnm. 


Novi:mber'24,  1881 


ELGIN  CONVENTION  (Continued  from  9th  page). 
"party."  We  allow  a  third  or  fourth-rate  politician 
to  go  to  our  legislative  halls  and  make  our  laws, 
laws  at  variance  with  the  teachings  of  the  Bible  and 
the  will  of  God.  Until  the  Christian  people  come 
together  and  say  we  will  have  proper  laws  arid  have 
them  properly  enforced,  we  cannot  hope  for  a  reme- 
dy. The  merchants  of  Tyre  insisted  upon  selling 
goods  near  the  temple  on  the  Sabbath,  and  Nehemi- 
ah  compelled  the  officers  of  the  law  to  do  their  duty 
and  stop  it.  So  can  we  compel  the  officers  of 
the  law  to  do  their  dutj-.  Our  laws  are  sufficient  if 
we  will  only  enforce  them.  Sin  is  stubborn.  I  wish 
that  the  Christian  had  the  persistency  of  the  sinner. 
Sin  is  ever  persistent.  Drive  the  saloons  out  of  El- 
gin, and  they  will  locate  just  outside  the  limits. 
Close  the  front  door,  and  the  back  door  comes  open. 
Close  the  saloon  altogether,  and  the  drug  stores 
come  into  active  service.  When  the  church  of  God 
awakes  and  does  its  duty  on  one  side  and  the  state 
on  the  other  we  shall  have  no  further  trouble  in  this 
matter. 

The  doctor  continued  his  explanation  of  Nehemi- 
ah's  course  in  a  masterly  manner,  making  so  plain 
the  application  to  the  present  that  it  seemed  like  a 
picture  of  to  day. 

Prof.  Samuel  Ives  Curtis,  D.  D.,  of  the  Chicago 
Congregational  Seminary,  from  whose  faculty  he 
was  a  delegate,  spoke  of  the  sympathy  of  his  insti- 
tution in  this  movement.  He  referred  the  case  of 
Toronto  where,  under  the  executive  control  of  a 
Christian  Mayor,  there  is  presented  the  illustrious 
example  of  a  city  that  keeps  the  Sabbath.  "Re- 
member the  Sabbath  day  to  keep  it  holy,"  is  forci- 
bly impressed  in  the  Scripturps.  We  are  not  com- 
manded to  remember  the  Sabbath  as  a  day  of  rest 
or  recreation,  but  to  "keep  it  holy."  If  we  keep  it 
holy,  we  shall  not  go  out  on  excursions,  on  pleas- 
ure bent.  This  day  belongs  to  God;  in  his  service 
shall  we  spend  it.  In  foreign  cities,  following  the 
church  services,  the  people  go  to  the  beer  garden, 
to  the  theater,  and  to  every  form  of  pleasure.  The 
Fourth  Commandment  seems  to  have  been  singled 
out  by  foreig;n  nations  to  be  disobeyed  and  broken 
down.  In  Leipsic  it  has  been  found  that  on  a  sin- 
gle Sabbath,  out  of  a  population  of  150  000,  but 
two  or  three  per  cent  are  in  church,  while  40,000  are 
off  on  excursions.  The  church  that  is  thus  handi- 
capped by  the  pleasure-seeking  throng  ceases  to  be 
an  instrument  of  good  to  the  glory  of  God.  When 
the  ministers  of  the  Gospel  have  it  known  that  they 
never  travel  on  Sunday,  they  will  have  more  influ- 
ence with  the  congregation,  and  Sunday  traffic  will 
be  materially  decreased. 

Rsv.  A.  H.  Ball,  from  the  committee  on  resolu- 
tions, offered  the  following  additional  report,  which 
was  adopted: 

Besolved,  That  we  look  with  shame  and  sorrow  on  the 
non-observance  of  the  Sabbath  by  many  Christian  people, 
in  that  the  custom  prevails  with  them  of  purchasing  Sab- 
bath newepapers,  engacring  in  and  patroDizing  Sabbath 
busiDCSS  and  travel  and  in  many  instances  giving  them- 
selves to  pleasure  and  self  indulgence,  setting  aside  by 
neglect  and  indiffurence  the  great  duties  and  privileges 
which  God's  day  brings  them. 

2.  That  we  give  our  votes  and  support  to  those  candi- 
dates, or  political  officers  who  will  pledge  themselves 
to  vote  for  the  enactment  and  enforcing  of  statutes  in 
favor  of  the  civil  Sabbath. 

3.  That  we  give  our  patronage  to  such  business  men, 
manufacturers  and  laborers  as  observe  the  Sabbath. 

4.  That  we  favor  a  permanent  Sabbath  organizition 
for  th"  State  of  Illinois;  the  object  of  which  shall  be  the 
creation  of  public  Hentiment  and  to  secure  the  enactment 
and. enforcement  of  necessary  laws  for  the  protection  of 
the  Sabbath. 

5.  That  we  favor  the  organization  of  auxiliary  socie- 
ties to  accomplish  the  above  obj  ct. 

6.  That  four  committees  be  appointed  by  this  conven- 
tion, consisting  of  two  persons  each,  a  minister  and  a 
layman,  one  committee  to  carefully  aad  accurately  inves 
tigate  and  report  td  the  next  convention  all  the  facts  ob- 
tainable concerning  Sunday  businpss;  one  to  investigate 
and  report  similarly  concerning  Sunday  newspapers;  one 
concerning  Sunday  pleasuring;  one  concerning  Sunday 
transportation  and  travel. 

The  committee  aUo  roported  a  form  of  perma- 
nent organization,  to  be  called  The  Sabbath  Associ- 
ation of  Illinois,  whose  purpose  shall  be  to  recover 
and  preserve  the  Scriptural  and  historical  Sabbath, 
commonly  called  the  Lard's  day. 

On  the  last  evening,  after  devotional  service  led 
by  Rev.  George  R.  Milton,  the  pastor  of  the  church 
where  the  convention  was  sitting  was  called  to  the 
chair.  Rev.  Walter  O.  Ferris  made  a  short  speech 
on  financial  qucBtions,  and  a  collection  was  taken. 
Rev.  D.  W.  Wise  moved  a  resolution  of  thanks  for 
the  hospitality  of  the  good  people  of  Elgin.  Let- 
ters were  read  from  Dr.  Ilcrrick  Johnson  of  the 
Presbyterian  Seminary,  Chicago,  regretting  the  ne 
cessity  of  his  absence,  and  condemning  especially 
the  Sunday  newspaper;  also  from  George  May  Pow- 
ell, secretary  of  the  Sabbath  Association  of  Phila- 


delphia. It  was  announced  that  the  influence  of  the 
convention  was  already  being  felt — a  butcher  in 
in  the  city  announced  that  his  shop  would  close, 
and  a  letter  was  read  from  a  druggist  asking  that 
an  tffort  be  made  to  close  that  branch  of  business. 

Pres.  C.  A.  Blanchard  was  introduced  by  pastor 
Rowlands  as  the  one  to  whom  the  convention  was 
indebted  for  its  great  success.  He  spoke  briefly, 
sajing  that  in  this  great  work  we  are  undertsking 
for  the  Sabbath  we  are  representatives  of  the  Lord 
God.  The  work  is  not  ours.  We  must  always  re- 
member that  we  are  commissioned.  Our  own  words 
have  little  weight.  God's  have  power.  It  made  no 
difference  who  bore  the  note  from  Grant  to  Buckner 
at  Fort  Donelson.  It  was  the  order  that  meant  un- 
conditional surrender.  He  illustrated  by  the  bold- 
ness of  General  Connor  at  Salt  Lake  many  years 
ago,  how  Christians  must  be  invincible,  not  because 
of  what  we  are,  but  because  of  what  God  is.  The 
church  has  been  thoughtless  and  neglectful  of  her 
work.  Though  armed  and  carrying  bows  we  turn 
back  in  the  day  of  battle.  We  need  the  courage  of 
moral  conviction,  as  Marshal  Ney  was  brave  for  his 
French  master  in  covering  the  renowned  retreat  from 
Russia. 

The  committee  on  nomination  reported  as  fol- 
lows: 

Committee  on  Sabbath  business— L.  N.  Stratton,  G.  P. 
Lord. 

On  Sabbath  papers— H.  W.  Harbaugh,  Amos  Churchill . 

Oa  Sabbath  pleasuring— C.  E.  Mandeville,  Ezra  A. 
Cook. 

On  Sabbath  travel — James  Lewis,  Deacon  Cornell. 

The  officers  for  the  permanent  association  were 
also  nominated: 

President,  Charles  A.  Blanchard  of  Wheaton. 

Corresponding  Secretary,  W.  H.Holmes,  Joliet. 

Recording  Secretary,  Dr.  Staunton,  Rockford. 

Treastirer,  W  L  Gary,  Wheaton. 

Executive  Committee:  The  above  named  and  Thomas 
E.  Hill  of  Prospect  Park,  John  Mitchell  of  Sycamore  and 
Benjamin  Douglas  of  Chicago. 

All  of  the  above  named  were  elected  unanimously 
by  the  convention. 

Professor  Fischer  presented  the  following  resolu- 
tion which  was  unanimously  adopted: 

Resolved,  That  this  association  authorizes  the  execu- 
tive committee  to  request  railway  corporations  and  news 
papers  to  diecontinue  the  running  of  Sunday  trains  and 
the  publication  of  Sunday  editions  of  their  papers. 

Rev.  Mr.  Rowlands  closed  the  session  with  a  short 
address  to  the  delegates  present  and  to  the  peo- 
ple of   Elgin. 

After  a  song,  Rev.  C.  K.  Colver  closed  the  con- 
vention with  the  benediction. 


LITERATURE. 


— Ira  D.  Sankey,  the  singing  evangelist,  and  com- 
panion of  Moody,  sailed  for  Europe  Saturday,  No- 
vember 12. 

— Fowler  Hall,  the  new  addition  to  the  McCor- 
mick  Theological  Seminary  of  the  Presbyterian 
church,  was  dedicated  last  week. 

— The  evangelist  Moody  was  in  Chicago  Friday 
and  was  at  first  announced  to  speak  in  his  old 
church  on  Chicago  Avenue  in  the  evening,  but  the 
appointment  was  withdrawn.  He  went  on  to  Pitts- 
burgh to  begin  a  series  of  meetings. 

— Rev.  A.  W.  Parry,  late  pastor  of  the  Free  Meth- 
odist church  at  Prospect  Park,  III,  was  appointed 
agent  of  Evansville  Seminary  by  his  conference,  but 
the  sickness  of  the  principal  has  compelled  him  to 
take  temporary  charge  of  the  school. 

— The  one  hundred  and  fifth  session  of  the  Meth- 
odist Conference  (South)  began  at  Danville,  Va., 
Nov.  16,  Bishop  Key,  of  Georgia,  presiding.  When 
a  motion  was  made  to  appoint  a  committee  on  tem- 
perance, the  Bishop  said:  "No,  sir,  we  do  not  ap 
point  committees  on  temperance;  we  have  passed 
temperance  down  in  my  county,  and  now  call  it  pro- 
hibition." A  committee  on  prohibition  was  ap- 
pointed. 

— Dwight  L.  Moody  inaugurated  a  series  of  meet- 
ings on  Sabbath  day  at  the  Grand  Central  Rink  in 
Pittsburgh.  The  meetings  are  under  the  auspices 
of  the  Evangelical  Ministerial  Association,  and  will 
be  continued  daily  for  several  weeks.  The  services 
Nov.  20  were  attended  by  over  12,000  persons. 
There  were  fifty  conversions. 

— Rev.  H.  C.  Heyser,  pastor  of  a  German  evan- 
gelical church,  has  resigned.  He  says:  "The  cause 
of  the  disagreement  is  due  to  the  fact  that  we  have 
socialists  and  anarchists  among  the  church  mem- 
bers. They  want  a  religion  without  a  Christ  and  a 
world  without  a  God.  That  is  a  kind  of  theology 
of  which  I  have  no  undertanding,  and  not  being 
able  to  preach  it  I  resigned."  The  most  influential 
members  in  the  congregation,  it  appears,  are  either 
saloon  keepers  or  proprietors  of  shooting  galleries, 
and  the  church  is  unable  to  discipine  them. 


The  Pleasures  op  Life.    By  Sir  Jobn  Lubbock,  Bart.    Pp. 
107.    Price,  25  cents.    John  B.  Alden,  New  York. 

This  is  a  volume  of  lectures  by  an  Eoglishman 
who  is  eminent  in  Parliament,  as  a  banker,  a  zoolo- 
gist, and  student  and  writer  on  topics  relating  to  the 
early  condition  of  the  human  race.  The  book  is 
hardly  written  from  the  standpoint  of  a  Christian; 
though  if  we  limit  the  meaning  of  its  title  to  those 
pleasures  which  are  derived  from  the  present  life, 
and  regard  the  higher  and  sweeter  pleasures  of  the 
spiritual  life  as  belonging  to  another  classification, 
the  work  has  a  useful  place.  Though  the  Bible  is 
placed  at  the  head  of  the  list  of  one  hundred  books 
that  are  often  mentioned  for  their  contributions  to 
the  genuine  pleasure  of  life,  it  is  hardly  referred  to 
otherwise.  Writing  from  the  standpoint  thus  indi- 
cated, the  author  gives  us  charming  discussions  on 
"The  Duty  of  Happiness,"  "The  Happiness  of  Duty," 
"A  Song  of  Books,"  "The  Choice  of  Books,"  "The 
Blessedness  of  Friends,"  "The  Value  of  Time," 
"The  Pleasures  of  Travel  and  of  Home,"  "Science 
and  Education."  As  a  literary  volume  it  will  delight 
every  reader.  As  a  scientist  the  author  magnifies 
the  agency  of  scientific  studies  above  measure  in  re- 
moving superstition,  and  confidence  in  witchcraft 
and  sorcery.  But  science  of  itself  has  done  very 
little  of  the  kind.  From  the  standpoint  of  the  au- 
thor it  is  a  very  entertaining  and  cheering  book,  full 
of  helps  to  gratitude  to  God,  the  giver  of  all  good: 
and  it  would  have  marred  no  page  if  there  had  been 
more  positive  recognition  of  this  fact — the  most 
fundamental  to  all  true  enjoyment. 

7he  Story  of  Jonah  is  the  title  of  a  sermon  by 
Prof.  L,  T.  Townsend,  D.  D.,  professor  of  Theol- 
ogy in  Boston  University,  in  Plymouth  Church, 
Brooklyn,  last  May.  It  is  published  at  the  request 
of  a  number  of  members  of  the  church.  It  is  a 
very  able,  learned  and  logical  argument,  establish- 
ing the  truth  of  the  Bible  narrative  in  the  most 
convincing  manner.  The  discourse  is  issued  in 
handsome  style,  and  sold  for  20  cents  by  J.  J.  Ara- 
kelyan,  150  Pearl  St.,  Boston. 

Mr.  George  Kennan,  the  Siberian  traveler  and  writer, 
has  been  black  listed  by  the  Russian  Qovernmeat,  and 
will  not  be  permitted  to  re  enter  the  Czar's  dominions. 
"I  expected,  of  course,"  says  Mr.  Kennan,  "to  be  put  on 
the  Russian  black  list.  I  am  only  thankful  that  I  suc- 
ceeded in  crtiKaing  the  frontier  with  all  my  material  and 
papers  coming  this  way.  The  outside  of  the  Russian 
frontier  line  is  a  good  enough  side  for  me  at  present.  I 
became  satisfied  before  I  got  half  through  Siberia  that  I 
should  never  be  permitted  to  go  there  again,  and  that 
after  the  publication  of  my  papers  no  other  foreigner  would 
be  allowed  to  make  investigations  there,  and  I  lost  no 
possible  opportunity  to  secure  accuracy  and  thorough- 
ness. I  brought  back  more  than  fifty  pouuds  of  notes, 
papers,  and  original  documents,  many  of  the  latter  from 
secret  government  archives,  besides  500  or  600  foolscap 
pages  of  manuscript  prepared  for  me  by  political  exiles 
in  all  parts  of  Siberia,  and  covering  the  most  noteworthy 
episodes  in  their  lives.  I  visited  every  convict  mine  in 
Siberia,  and  every  convict  prison  except  one, and  I  believe 
I  know  the  exile  system  better  than  most  officers  of  the 
exile  administration,  and  far  better  than  any  outsider.  I 
can  regard  the  black  listing,  therefore,  with  a  certain  de- 
gree of  complacency.  The  stable  door  is  locked,  but  the 
horse  has  been  stolen — and  I've  got  him  "—N.  7.  Trib- 
une. 

The  November  number  of  the  Cosmopolitan  is  guilty 
of  an  act  which  should  be  a  crime  for  a  respectable  mag- 
azine, in  advocating  pugilism,  the  most  beastly  of  so- 
called  sports.  It  is  no  excuse  that  this  is  done  by  an  au- 
thor of  some  repute,  Juli*n  Hawthorne.  The  second 
part  of  Hornaday's  "Passing  of  the  Buffalo"  is  entertain- 
ing, but  coarse  and  vulgar  in  passages.  "The  Califor- 
nia Ranch,"  by  Ella  Sterling  Cummins,  gives  a  mass  of 
information  in  regard  to  the  great  farms  on  the  Pacific 
Co^st.  Shirley  Dare,  in  au  article  on  "A  Brighter  Out- 
look for  Women,"  advocates  the  revival,  in  a  modified 
form,  of  the  convent  for  the  benefit  of  unmarried  and 
widowed  women,  that  depend  upon  themselves  for  sup- 
port. Joel  Benton  explains  "The  Origin  of  Love  and 
Beauty,"  while  William  H  Rideing  describes  "The  Boy- 
hood of  James  Russell  Lowell,"  and  Joseph  T.  Ailing 
gives  a  lively  and  pictures q  le  description  of  "The  Chief 
City  of  a  Moorish  Despot." 

H.  C.  Bunner's  story  in  Scribner's  for  December  is  en- 
titled "The  Zidoc  Pine  Labor  Union,"  and  is  said  to  be 
filled  with  humor  and  genial  satire,  exposing  the  absurd- 
ity of  the  foreign  ideas  about  labor  and  capital  which 
have  found  a  foothold  among  workingmen  in  this  coun- 
try. Mr.  Buoner  is  editor  of  Puck,  which  has  always 
used  toward  the  labor  lodges  that  severity  which  their 
bad  principles  deserve. 

Vick's  Magazine  opens  fire  this  month  on  the  English 
Sparrow,  and  if  the  little  chirpers,  so  harmless  looking, 
deserve  one-half  the  punishment  due  under  the  indict- 
ment, they  would  soon  be  banished  to  some  corner  of  the 
globe  where  they  would  have  no  one  to  annoy  but  them- 
selves. Like  anarchy,  beer  saloons,  and  lodges— all  for- 
eign importations— they  should  be  driven  back  into  the 
Atlantic. 

The  November  Library  Magazine  has  biographical  ar- 
ticles on  Coleridge,  Richard  Jefleriea,  Walt  Whitman, 


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TEE  CaSRISTIAI^  CTNOSUKBL 


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and  Thackeray.  Popular  topics  are  dis- 
cuBsed  in  "The  Nile  and  its  Inundations," 
"Wheat  Growing  in  India  and  America," 
"What  is  a  Day?"  "The  Moon  and  the 
Weather,"  "The  Railway  Question  in 
Manitoba."  "Church-  goin)?"  and  "Ser- 
mons" suggest  practical  religious  di?- 
cussions. 

BVBaORIPTlON  LBTTERB. 

The  following  have  made  remiUances 
of  money  to  the  Cynosure  from  Nov.  14 
to  Nov.  19  inclusive. 

Mrs  J  Uaire.  .T  Stratton,  J  Humt»le,  G 
W  Merritt,  B  Willis,  W  W  Cromwell,  8 
C  Tajlor,  W  Knight.  I  C  McFeeters,  J 
Swank,  J  M  Hervey,  J  Gowan,  R  4  Wil- 
son, H  C  Frink,  A  Sullivan,  D  C  Martin, 
Mrs  W  W  White.  PBrenner.E  I  Wicker- 
sham,  Rev  C  E  Drew,  J  McLaren,  M  A 
Gault,  G  Neiswender.  R^v  A  W  Parry, 
T  Eraser,  B  L  Todd,  J  R  Denison,  J  F 
McKee,  R  H  Shaw,  S  Jackson,  Mrs  E  M 
Livesay,  J  Gomer,  J  P  Thomas,  Mrs  J  B 
Nessell,  T  C  Aaderson,  Mrs  M  Wilson, 
Dr  Tsgert.  F  M  Cory,  J  Luce,  Mrs  C  E 
Douglas,  G  Burnett,  Rev  A  W  Hall. 

FREE  TRACTS 

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Faem  Notes. 

HOW  TO  ACT  AT  A  FIRE. 

In  a  lecture  before  the  Society  of  Arts, 
London,  Mr.  A.  W.  C  Ghean  gave  the 
following  concise  and  simple  directions 
how  to  act  on  the  occurrence  of  fires. 
Fire  requires  air;  therefore,  on  its  appear- 
ance every  effort  should  be  made  to  ex- 
clude air— shut  all  doors  and  windows. 
By  this  means  fire  may  be  confined  to  a 
single  room  for  a  sufficient  period  to  en- 
able all  the  inmates  to  be  aroused  and 
escape;  but  if  the  doors  and  windows  are 
thrown  open,  the  fanning  of  the  wind 
and  the  draft  will  instantly  cause  the 
flames  to  increase  with  extraordinary  ra- 
pidity. It  must  never  be  forgotten  that 
the  most  precious  moments  are  at  the 
commencement  of  a  fire,  and  not  a  sin- 
gle second  of  time  should  be  lost  in  tack- 
ling it.  In  a  room  a  table  cloth  can  be 
80  used  as  to  smother  a  large  sheet  of 
flame,  and  a  cushion  may  serve  to  beat  it 
out;  a  coat  or  anything  similar  may  be 
used  with  an  equally  successful  result. 
The  great  point  is  presence  of  mind — 
calmness  in  danger,  action  guarded  by 
reason  and  thought  In  all  large  houses 
buckets  of  water  should  be  placed  on 
every  landing,  a  little  salt  being  put  into 
the  water.  Always  endeavor  to  attack 
the  bed  of  a  fire;  if  ycu  cannot  extin- 
guish a  fire,  shut  the  window  and  be  sure 
to  shut  the  door  when  making  good  your 
retreat.  A  wet  silk  handkerchief  tied 
over  the  eyes  and  nose  will  make  breath- 
ing possible  in  the  midst  of  much  smoke, 
and  a  blanket  wetted  and  wrapped  around 
the  body  will  enable  a  person  to  pass 
through  a  sheet  of  flame  in  comparative 
safety.  Should  a  lady's  dress  catch  fire, 
let  the  wearer  at  once  lie  down.  Rolling 
may  extinguish  the  fire,  but  if  not,  any- 
thing (woolen  preferred)  wrapped  tight- 
ly round  will  effect  the  desired  purpose. 
A  burn  becomes  less  painful  the  moment 
air  is  excluded  from  it.  For  simple  burns, 
oil  or  the  white  of  an  egg  can  be  used 
One  part  of  carbolic  acid  to  six  parts  of 
olive  oil  is  found  to  be  invaluable  in  most 
cases,  slight  or  severe,  and  the  first  layer 
of  lint  should  not  be  removed  till  the  cure 
is  complete,  but  saturated  by  the  appli- 
cation of  fresh  outer  layers  from  time  to 
time.  Linen  rag  soaked  in  a  mixture  of 
equal  parts  of  lime  water  and  linsed  oil 
also  forms  a  good  dressing.  Common 
whiting  is  very  good,  applied  wet  and 
continually  dampened  with  a  sponge. 

INHERENT  FERTILITY  OF   THE   SOIL. 

John  J.  Willi8,8uperintendent  of  Lawes 
and  Gilbert's  experimental  farm,  Rotham- 
Bted,  England,  in  summarizing  the  re- 
sults of  the  renowned  experiments  of 
Lawes  and  Gilbert,  writes  in  the  Ameri- 
can Agriculturist  for  November: 

No  soil  is  so  rich  that  it  cannot  be  made 
poor,  it  not  almost  barren;  for,  with  every 
crop  removed  there  is  necessarily  a  cer- 
tain quantity  of  inorganic  matter,  as  well 
nitrogen,  taken  from  thi  land.  And  if 
this  goes  on  year  after  year,  without  re- 
storing to  the  soil  something  of  what  has 
been  taken  out  of  it,  the  land  becomes 
poorer  and  poorer,  and  at  last  is  capable 
of  growing  only  the  most  meager  crops. 
Every  acre  of  land  growing  a  crop  of 
thirty  bushels  of  wheat  removes  about 
one  hundred  and  ninety  pounds  of  min- 
eral plant  food  and  forty  five  pounds  of 
nitrogen.  Land  may  also  be  exhausted 
by  feeding  stock.  If  what  is  grown  be 
consumed  on  the  land  so  that  all  the  solid 
and  liquid  "excreta'  produced  be  restored 
to  the  soil,  the  feriility  of  the  surface  soil 
would  be  slightly  improved,  but  the  soil 
as  a  whole  would  not  be  sufficiently  en- 
riched to  produce  a  correspondingly  large 
crop  as  that  eaten  off,  because  something 
would  have  been  assimilated  by  the  ani- 
mals for  respiration  and  increase  of  meat. 
Therefore,  some  other  external  supply  of 
manure  is  rendered  necessary  if  the  fer- 
tility of  the  soil  is  to  be  maintained. 
There  is,  however,  a  certain  amount  of 
inherent  fertility  in  nearly  every  soil, 
which  it  is  extremely  difficult  to  exhaust 
This  fact  can  be  capitally  illustrated  by 
the  Rothamstf  d  experiments  whefe  cereal 
crops,  of  wheat  and  barley,  have  been 
grown  on  the  same  land  year  after  year 
without  manure,  for  more  than  for- 
ty years,  and  the  whole  of  the 
produce,  both  grain  and  straw,  re- 
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In  Brief. 


A  little  girl  is  quoted  who  said :  "Mam- 
ma says  I'm  five,  but,  counting  all  the  good 
times  I've  had,  seems  as  if  I  most  a  hun- 
dred." 

Countryman  (coming  into  town^  and 
gazing  at  the  network  of  overhead  wires) : 
"Just  see  how  nothing  is  any  good  in 
these  cities.  Even  the  houses  have  to  be 
tied  together  to  keep  them  from  falling." 

Polite  tramp:  "Will  you  oblige  me 
with  a  little  vinegar  and  a  bit  of  rag, 
madam?  I've  bruised  my  heel."  Lady 
of  the  house:  'I'm  very  sorry,  but  our 
vinegar  is  all  out;  wouldn't  a  little  rum 
do  as  well?"  Tramp:  "I  don't  know 
madam;  but  I'll  try  it,  and — er — never 
mind  the  rag." 

Doubtless  Archbishop  Corrigan  of  New 
York  has  a  large  income,  but  he  has  a 
large  cathedral  to  support.  He  has  his 
fine  marble  "palace"  rent  free,  and  a  sal- 
ary of  $5,000  a  year.  Then  each  church 
in  the  diocese,  except  the  poorer  ones, 
has  to  pay  him  $200  a  year  for  the  sup- 
port of  the  cathedral.  This  cathedraticum, 
as  it  is  called,  is  said  to  aggregate  $15,- 
000  a  year.  Then  a  dollar  fee  is  charged 
for  each  burial  in  the  Catholic  cemetery, 
which  amounts  to  about  $20,000  a  year. 
To  this  must  be  added  many  large  gift' 
from  wealthy  parishioners.  The  princf  3 
of  this  world  are  mighty. 

There  are  400  Mormon  bishops  in  Utah, 
2,423  priests,  2,947  teachers,  and  6.854 
deacons.  Salt  Lake  City  is  divided  into 
wards  of  eight  or  nine  blocks  each,  and 
a  bishop  is  put  in  charge  of  each  ward. 
Under  him  there  are  two  teachers,  whose 
business  it  is  to  learn  the  employment 
and  income  of  every  resident  of  the  ward 
and  report  the  same  to  the  bishop.  Then 
the  bishop  collects  the  tenth  of  each  man's 
income  and  turns  it  in  to  the  church  au- 
thorities. The  same  complete  system  ex- 
ists all  over  the  Territory.  As  the  bish- 
ops get  a  good  commission  on  their  col- 
lections they  make  very  zealous  and  per- 
sistent collectors 

The  great  German  scholar.  Prof.  Dr. 
De  Wette,  furnished  Theodore  Parker, 
and  almost  all  modern  infidels  of  that 
school,  with  the  weapons  with  which 
they  attack  the  faith  of  the  Christian 
church.  But  this  same  De  Wette,  called 
the  "universal  doubter,"  was  so  fortunate 
as  to  marry  an  eminently  holy  and  lovely 
Christian  lady,  and  the  influence  of  her 
merciful  spirit  and  life  led  to  a  wondrous 
change  in  all  his  thought  and  teaching. 
In  his  last  commentary  we  find  these  mem- 
orable words:  "Only  this  I  know;  in  no 
other  is  there  salvation,  except  in  the 
name  of  Jesus  Christ,  and  him  crucified : 
and  for  the  human  race  there  is  nothing 
higher  than  the  God-man  realized  in  him, 
and  the  kingdom  of  God  planted  in  him." 

The  Calcutta  Englishman  calls  atten- 
tion to  a  remarkable  decline  in  the  popu- 
larity of  the  great  Rith  Jattra,  or  Car 
Festival,  at  the  Juggernaut  Temple  in 
Orissa.  That  the  number  of  visitors  this 
year  shows  a  large  decrease  might  have 
been  expected,  owing  to  the  recent  loss 
of  two  pilgrim  steamers  and  to  the  com- 
mon belief  that  the  loss  of  a  third  had 
been  predicted.  It  appears,  however, 
that  although  the  falling  off  is  more 
marked  this  year,  it  has  been  going  on 
steadily  for  some  years  past  The  relig- 
ious enthusiasm  of  the  crowd  is  said  to 
be  also  disappearing.  There  is  no  longer 
a  wild  rush  for  the  car,  in  which  the  idol 
is  dragged  from  the  temple  to  a  country 
house  and  back  again,  and  on  several  oc- 
casions it  has  been  necessary  to  hire  cool- 
ies to  perform  the  work. 

In  the  foundations  of  the  great  Audi- 
torium Building,  now  going  up  at  the 
corner  of  Congress,  Wabash  and  Michi- 
gan avenues,  Chicago,  they  have  used  one 
million  feet  of  timber.  The  excavation 
was  made  first,  nearly  twenty-five  feet; 
then  over  the  bottom  was  closely  placed 
twelve  inch  timber  about  twenty  five  feet 
long;  across  these  was  placed  another 
course  of  closely  laid  timbers,  same  size 
(these  timbers  are  constantly  under  wa- 
ter); on  this  was  closely  laid  a  course  of 
railroad  rails;  across  this  another  course 
of  iron  rails;  and  on  this  a  concrete 
about  four  feet  thick .  It  takes  six  thou- 
sand tons  of  iron  in  all  for  the  building 
and  ten  million  bricks.  The  building  will 
cost  two  million  dollars,  and  will  be  the 
best  structure  in  the  city.  A  portion  of 
it  is  to  be  ten  stories  high,  and  will  re- 
quire one  or  two  years  yet  to  finish. 
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TBE  OHBISTIAN  CYNOSUBE. 


NoYiuBiB  24, 1887 


TUTWs  OF  The  week 

THB  AKABCHISTS, 

Johann  Most,  the  anarchist,  was  ar- 
rested Thursday  on  an  indictment  for 
making  an  incendiary  speech,  calculated 
to  incite  a  riot.  The  prisoner  was  locked 
up  in  one  of  the  cells  at  police  headquar- 
ters. 

The  Newark  (N.  J.)  anarchist,  whose 
saloon  license  has  been  revoked,  refuses 
to  close  his  place,  and  a  collision  ie  feared 
between  the  police  and  the  "reds." 

Petitions  are  being  signed  at  Hartford, 
Conn  ,  asking  for  the  resignation  of  the 
Rev  J.  C.  Kimball  (Unitarian),  pastor 
of  Unity  church,  who,  in  a  sermon  last 
Sunday,  compared  the  executed  an- 
archists to  Jesus  Christ . 

Two  dynamite  bombs,  of  the  ga?-pipe 
pattern,  were  found  at  St.  Joseph,  Mo., 
Thursday.  One  had  been  placed  at  the 
entrance  to  the  city  hall.  The  imple- 
ments were  exploded  and  showed  terrific 
force.  The  Chief  of  Police  notified  his 
men  to  shoot  all  anarchists  who  resisted 
arrest. 

What  appesired  to  be  a  genuine  dyna- 
mite bomb  was  found  Friday  night  at  the 
door  of  the  local  department  of  the  Co- 
lumbus, Ohio  8(ate  Journal.  A  match 
was  so  arranged  tbat  If  any  one  stepped 
on  it  the  fuse  would  take  fire  and  explode 
the  dread  implement. 

A  gas-pipe  bomb,  with  fuse  attached, 
was  found  Wednesday  night  at  the  door 
of  an  orphan  asylum  in  a  submb  of  Cin- 
cinnati. The  police  took  possession  of 
the  infernal  contrivance, 

A  dynamite  bomb,  made  of  one-inch 
gas-pipe,  with  solid  brass  ends  and  six 
caps  so  placed  that  a  fall  would  certainly 
strike  one  of  them,  was  found  by  the  j  m- 
itor  of  the  Eaabury  church,  Rockford,Ill , 
Sanday  morning.  It  was  placed  so  that 
had  he  opentd  the  church  as  uiUmI  a 
swinging  dorr  would  have  knocked  it 
down  several  stone  steps  and  undoubt- 
edly exploded  it. 

GENERAL. 

The  gold  ledge  recently  discovered 
near  Preecott,  A.  T ,  is  said  to  be  the 
richest  ever  found  in  the  country.  The 
ledge  can  be  traced  for  nearly  two  miles, 
and  the  quartz  rock  taken  out  averages 
$100,000  a  ton. 

The  Pennsylvania  Railroad  Company 
has  deci^ied  to  establish  for  its  employes  a 
trust  savings  fund, in  which  amounts  from 
$5  upward  may  be  deposited,  and  draw  4 
per  cent  per  annum  interest. 

A  contract  for  two  pumping  engines  of 
15  000  000  gallons  capacity,  each,  for 
the  Mioneapolis  (Minn  )  City  Water- 
works was  let  Friday.  They  will  cost 
$129  000.  and  will  be  the  largest  pair 
west  of  New  York. 

Just  before  noon  Friday  an  aerolite, 
weighing  three  tons,  f»-ll  in  the  street  in 
front  of  the  Merchaats'  National  Bink  at 
Amsterdam  N  Y.,  creating  the  greatest 
excitement  A  deep  indentation  was 
made  by  the  visitor  from  on  high,  in 
whose  mass  (xperts  have  found  traces  of 
iron,  nickel,  aluminum,  and  other  metals. 

During  the  year  ended  October  31  last. 
seventeen  Gloucester  (Mass.)  fiehing  ves- 
sels were  lost,  168  men  perishing,  who 
left  over  sixty  fatherless  children. 

Dillard  and  Anna  Bruins,  who  have 
been  living  upon  public  charity  in  Indi- 
anapolis, have  fallen  heirs  to  coal  prop- 
erty in  Pennsylvania  worth  nearly  one 
million  dollars. 

ACCIDENTS. 

The  Anchor  Line  steamer,  Arizona,  was 
almost  entirely  destroyed  by  flimes  early 
Thursday  at  Marquette,  Mich.  The  crew 
was  in  great  danger  for  a  time,  and  es- 
caped, the  vessel  being  run  into  port. 
The  cargo  and  vessel  are  a  total  loss. 

An  explosion  of  gasoline  lamps  in  the 
storage  house  of  the  Edison  Electric 
Light  Co.,  at  Philadelphia,  Thursday 
night,  burned  fourteen  men,  some  of 
whom  are  not  expected  to  survive. 

An  Italian  workman  fell  900  feet  down 
the  Hecia  Mine  shaft  at  l9hpeming,Mich., 
Thursday.     He  leaves  a  large  family. 

News  was  received  to  the  effect  that 
Indians  are  burning  the  Oklahoma  coun- 
try. No  cause  is  assigned  for  the  al- 
leged outbreak.  The  supposition  is  thit 
there   is  an  uprising  against   "boomers." 

A  mo.tt  dipailrous  fire  visited  Memphis, 
Tenn.,  Thursday  night.  It  started  in  the 
buildings  of  the  Merchants'  Cotton  Com- 


press and  Storage  Company,  and  de- 
stroyed them,  with  13,200  bales  of  cotton 
and  several  compresses.  The  loss  will 
reach  $800,000,  on  which  there  is  not  a 
great  deal  of  insurance. 

Robbers,  who  reported  they  were  de- 
tectives, committed  several  burglaries  in 
Tompkinsville,  the  county  seat  of  Mon- 
roe, Kentucky,  Thursday  morning,  and 
then  set  fire  to  the  (own,  and  it  was  al- 
most wholly  destroyed .  The  county  rec- 
ords wore  all  burned. 

A  passenger  train  on  the  Brazil  Branch 
of  the  E^ansville  and  Indianapolis  road 
was  thrown  from  the  track  near  Brazil 
Friday  night  and  tiie  engineer  was  buried 
beneath  his  1  c  >motive,  which,  with  a 
coach,  was  consumed  by  flimes.  The 
fireman  and  brakeman  were  geridusly  in- 
j  ured,  as  were  some  of  the  passengers. 

In  the  vicinity  of  Hope,  Ark  ,  and  in 
the  hills  and  bottoms  of  the  Red  and  Sul- 
phur R.vers,  forest  fires  are  raging.  Many 
farm  houses  and  out  buildings  have  been 
destroyed,  and  numbprs  of  hogs  and  cat 
tie  have  been  burned  to  death.  At  Little 
Rock  the  smoke  is  almost  suffocating  and 
unless  rain  speedily  falls  the  losses 
throughout  the  State  will  be  very  heavy. 

Barnam's  great  show  in  win'er  quar- 
ters at  Bridgeport,  Conn.,  was  entirely 
destroyed  by  fire  Suoday  evening.  la 
less  than  thirty  minutes  the  immense  two 
story  building,  600x300  feet,  was  con- 
sumed Thirty  elepnants,  a  rhinoceros, 
and  three  lions  and  a  few  horses  were 
rescued.    The  rest  perished  miserably. 

S  X  men  were  blown  to  pieces  Wednes- 
day by  an  explosion  in  the  Hancock 
CHemiCdl  Company's  packing  housa  for 
djrnamite  at  Ishpeming,  Mich.  No  trace 
of  the  men  or  building  was  found,  such 
was  the  force  of  the  snock. 

ft  is  reported  that  a  few  nights  ago  two 
negroes  of  Montgomery,  Ala  ,  assaulted 
Miss  Fralisb,  a  respectable  young  lady, 
while  she  was  alone  at  home  The  neigh 
bors  scoured  the  country  until  the  brutal 
negroes  were  found.  They  were  taken 
before  the  young  lady  who  promptly 
identified  them,  The  negroes  were  then 
chained  to  a  pile  of  logs,  which  was  set 
on  fire  and  the  two  were  soon  enveloped 
in  flimes.  Their  cries  were  most  pitiful, 
but  they  were  left  to  their  fate  and 
burned  to  ashes. 

FOBKIGN. 

The  Czar  of  Russia  arrived  in  Berlin 
Friday  morning.  The  prepirations  to 
receive  him  were  in  keeping  with  his  rank. 
The  enthusiasm  displayed  was  only  mod- 
erate The  Czar  is  looking  very  sad  and 
c  'reworn.  Toe  Czirina  and  the  Princess 
William  were  more  heartily  cheered  than 
were  tbeir  huibands  The  spectators  dis 
pla}ed  more  curiosity  than  enthusiasm. 
As  the  Czir  and  Prince  William  were  driv- 
ing through  the  Koenigi  piaiz  a  man 
ihiew  a  paper  into  the  carriage  in  which 
they  were  riding.  The  occurrence,  for  a 
moment, caused  intense  excitement  among 
the  onlodkers  Tue  man  was  immedi- 
ately seized  by  the  police.  Later,  while 
the  imperial  party  were  passing  through 
Unterden  Linden,  a  young  man  tried  to 
throw  a  petition  into  the  Czar's  carriage. 
He  was  arrested. 

It  is  said  that  Tippoo  Tib,  the  African 
chief  upon  whom  Stanley  relied  so  much 
for  assistance  in  the  Congo  country,  has 
proved  traitor  to  the  explorer,  and  that 
the  latter  has  been  compelled  to  flght  to 
save  his  life.  His  rear  guard  is  reported 
annihilated. 

The  Dutch  steamer,  W.  A.  Scholten, 
Captain  Taat,  which  left  R'jtterdam  Sat- 
urday for  New  York,  was  sunk  by  a  col- 
lision with  the  steamer  Rosa  Mary,  of 
Hartlepool,  at  11  o'clock  at  night  ten 
miles  off  Dover,  England.  The  Scholten 
carried  a  complement  of  230  passengers 
and  crew.  The  steamer  Ebro  of  Sunder- 
land rescued  ninety  of  the  crew  and  pas- 
sengers and  landed  them  at  the  Sailors' 
Home  at  Dover;  132  others  are  missing. 
One  passenger  and  a  child  of  the  party 
brought  to  Dover  were  found  dead  from 
exposure.  It  is  hoped  that  passing  ves- 
sels have  rescued  the  missing  ones. 

Letters  from  Berlin  describe  the  state 
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truly  painful .  The  popular  conviction  in 
Berlin  is  that  it  is  a  close  race  which 
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THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE, 


The  C  TIfOS  TTRE  represents  the  Christian  movement  against 
the  Secret  uodge  System ;  discusses  fairly  and  fearlessly  the 
various  movements  uf  the  lodge  as  they  appear  to  public  view, 
and  reveals  the  secret  machinery  of  corruption  in  politics, 
courts,  and  social  and  religious  circles. 

There  are  In  the  United  ritates 

Some  200  different  Lodges, 
With  2,000  000  members, 
CosUny  ^20,000  000  yearly. 

This  mighty  world  po*er  confrouts  the  church  and  seeks  to 
rule  and  ruin  every  Christian  Keform. 

No  Christian  Reform  Movement  of  tlie  day  Is  so'necessary, 
yet  80  unpopular  aod  beset  with  difficulties,  as  that  which  would 
remove  tne  dark  pall  of  oaths,  dark-lantern  meetings,  secret 
signs,  mysterious  and  pagan  worship  about  altars  condemned 
by  the  word  of  the  Living  God. 

No  other  paper  gives  the  best  of  Its  correspondence  and  edi- 
torial strength  to  this  vitally  Important  reform.  The  CYNO- 
S  URE  should  be  yoar  paper  in  addition  to  any  other  you  may 
take. 

Because  it  is  the  representative  of  the  reform  against  the 
Lodge,  with  ablest  arguments,  biographical  and  historical  sketch- 
es, letters  from  lecturers,  seceders  and  sufferers  from  lodge  per- 
secution. The  ablest  wrltirs  on  this  subject  from  all  denomina- 
tions and  all  parts  of  the  country  contriiute.  Special  depart- 
ments for  letters  from  our  metropolitan  centers,  on  the  relation 
of  secret  orders  to  current  events. 

The  CYNOSURE  began  Its  twentieth  volume  September  22, 
1887,  with  features  of  special  and  popular  interest. 

TERMS:  $2.00  per  year;  strictly  in  advance,  $1.50.  Special 
terms  to  clubs.    Send  for  sample  copy. 

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To  be  Issued  before  January  1st..  1888. 

Scotcli  Rite  Masonry  Illustrated. 

The  Complete  Illustrated  Ritual  of  all  the  Degrees  of  the  Scotch  Rite,  including 
the  83d  and  last  Degree,  and  an  Historical  sketch  of  the  Order  The  first  three  De- 
Erees,  as  published  in  "FRKBMAtiOHRY  ILLV8TRATICD,"  termed  the  Blue 
Lodge  Degrees,  are  common  to  all  the  Rites,  so  the  Scotch  Rite  Exclusively  covers 
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Templarism  Illustrated"  include  the  entire  "York  Rite"  or  "American  Ritb" 
Degrees.  The  York  and  Scotch  Rites  are  the  leading  Masonic  Rites,  and  the  Scotch 
or  Scottish  Rite  is  conceded  to  be  the  Ruling  Masonic  Rite  of  the  world.  The  com- 
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Bditobial  : 

Notes  and  Comments 1 

The  National  W.  C.  T.  U. 

Convention 8 

Address  to  the  Citizens  of 

Saratoga 8 

To  all  Students 9 

Personal  Menilon 9 

CONTaiBUTIONS  : 

West  African  Abuses  of 

Women 2 

The  Leaven  of  the  Lodge.    2 
The   Southern    Louisiana 
Labor  Troubles 2 

SBLiBCTBD  * 

Why  Not  Join  the  G.  A.R.  ?    3 
Walking     Delegates    In- 
dicted     3 

The  Union-Labor  Secret- 
Society  Party 3 

Card-Playing 3 

San  Francisco  Letter 4 

BiBLB  Lbssoh 6 

Washington  Letter 12 

Rbligigus  Nbws 12 

LiTBRATUBB 12 


Rbfobh  News  : 
The  Work  of  our  Agent  In 
the  South;  The  Lodge 
Shows  Fight  in  South- 
western Missouri ;  The 
Ohio  State  Convention. .4 ,5 

COBBBSPONDBNOB ; 

The  Virtues  of  the  Pilgrim 
Fathers ;  A  Stalwart  Re- 
former; The  Memphis 
School ;  A  Pleasant  Vis- 
it ;  New  Orleans  Lodges 
Thinning  Out;  Pith  and 

Point 5,6 

Thb  N.  C.  a 7 

Chtjbch  vs.  Lodge 7 

Secret    SociETiEa     Con- 
demned      7 

ThbHomb 10 

Temperance 11 

Lodge  Notes 13 

Markets 13 

Business 13 

Home  and  Health 14 

In  Bbibf 15 

News  op  thb  Wbbe 16 


ELEVEN  SHARES  TAKEN. 


The  proposition  to  send  1000  copies  of  the  Cynosure  to 
colored  ministers  in  the  South  has  an  excellent  endorse- 
ment from  Bro.  Hinman,  the  N.  C.  A,  Southern  agent, 
who  evidently  had  not  seen  the  proposition 
in  the  Cynosure  when  he  wrote.  Please  turn  to  his  letter 
and  read  where  he  says,  speaking  of  the  effort  to  send 
the  New  York  Voice  to  all  ministers. "There  is  still  great- 
er need  of  a  fund  to  send  the  Cynosvre  to  the  ministers; 
for  while  there  are  many  papers  that  will  give  the  people 
the  facts  about  temperance,  there  are  very  few  that  will 
tell  the  truth  about  the  'unfruitful  works  of  darknesp.'  I 
suggest  that  $1,000  be  raised  and  applied  to  that  pur- 
pose." 

Several  friends  have  sent  in  since  last  week  and  eleven 
of  the  hundred  fifteen  dollar  shares  are  taken.  We  are 
almost  impatient.  Dear  friends,  let  us  hasten  this  good 
work.  Send  what  you  can  and  remember  how  much 
every  dollar  heretofore  invested  in  this  way  has  accom- 
plished. 


The  announcement  that  Gladstone  will  visit  this 
country  next  spring  brings  a  thrill  of  satisfaction 
to  every  American  heart.  The  greatest  of  modern 
statesmen  has  not  always  appreciated  this  country 
at  its  full  value,  but  his  views  have  changed  since 
the  war,  as  have  those  of  many  other  people,  and  he 
is  now  more  fully  in  sympathy  with  our  institutions 
than  any  of  his  compeers,  unless  we  except  sturdy 
old  John  Bright.  Mr.  Qillig,  the  banker  of  the 
American  Exchange,  London,  who  brings  word  of 
this  visit,  says  that  the  advice  of  physicians  that  an 
ocean  voyage  will  benefit  his  health  has  inclined  Mr. 
Gladstone  to  overcome  his  aversion  to  a  sea  voyage, 
and  he  has  always  cherished  a  desire  to  visit  this 
country.  He  will  remain  about  two  months  and  will 
visit  the  principal  cities. 


The  Golden  Rule  of  Boston  says:  "At  Sidon, 
Bister  city  to  old  Tyre,  the  home  of  ancient  Matonry, 
there  are  now  going  on,  partly  impeded  by  the  un- 
progressive  and  greedy  Turkish  government,  most 
interesting  excavations.  Already  eighteen  sarcoph- 
agi have  been  found,  richly  sculptured.  On  one  was 
carved  eighteen  statues,  about  three  feet  high,  and 


inscriptions  in  Phoenician  and  hieroglyphical  char- 
acters. These  monuments  are  at  least  about  three 
thousand  years  old,  and  may,  when  deciphered,  throw 
light  on  Bible  history."  Tyre,  as  the  seat  and 
source  of  ancient  Baal  worship,  was  also  the  home 
of  the  Masonic  lodge.  The  legend  of  Hiram  Abiff 
is  of  but  little  account  in  comparison.  We  suggest 
that  as  Lieutenant  Gorringe  of  Obelisk  fame  is  dead, 
that  the  lodges  of  this  country  send  their  renowned 
Poet  Laureate,  Bob.  Morris,  the  champion  prevarica- 
tor, to  supervise  the  Masonic  part  of  these  explora- 
tions. His  experience  in  cutting  Masonic  marks  in 
conspicuous  places  about  Palestine  would  be  of  im- 
mense advantage  to  the  lodge  in  this  instance. 


Dr.  Munhall,  who  began  another  great  meeting  in 
the  Doan  Music  Hall,  Cleveland,  November  20th,  at- 
tended the  recent  convention  in  Philadelphia  on  Bi- 
ble Inspiration.  While  there  he  explained  to  the 
editor  of  the  Christian  Statesman  somewhat  of  his 
course  in  a  revival  meeting  in  dealing  with  preva- 
lent public  evils."My  sermon  last  Sabbath  afternoon," 
he  said, "before  three  thousand  men  in  the  Armory  in 
Columbus,  under  which  some  four  hundred  young 
men  arose  to  profess  conviction  of  sin  and  desire 
for  salvation,  was  on  '  Sins  of  Impurity  and  the  Open 
Saloon.'  I  have  delivered  that  sermon  some  sixty 
times  in  as  many  cities,  and  as  far  as  I  have  been 
able  to  trace  its  results,  about  eighteen  thousand 
men  have  been  awakened  by  it  to  desires  for  a  bet- 
ter life."  It  has  been  a  sad  fashion  with  our  evan- 
gelists, as  well  as  our  pastors,  to  carefully  avoid  di- 
rect attacks  upon  sins  which  might  be  popular  with 
some  part  of  their  congregations.  Thank  God  that 
Moody,  Pentecost  and  Munhall  are  setting  a  better 
example,  and  are  proving  that  the  H0I3'  Spirit  will 
bless  the  truth  spoken  faithfully,  though  it  may  cut 
down  the  vile  sins  that  grow  in  secret  and  the  peo- 
ple love. 


Dr.  Pentecost  has  lately  closed  a  work  of  salvation 
in  the  busy  city  of  Amesbury  in  the  northeastern 
corner  of  Massachusetts,  the  home  of  the  poet  Whit- 
tier.  He  began  the  work  October  9.  The  town  was 
full  of  intense  activity,  but  all  for  the  present  life; 
and  the  evangelist  found  the  task  of  arousing  the 
slumbering  churches  a  difficult  one.  For  a  time  the 
congregations  were  composed  of  all  classes  but  the 
vigorous  youth  and  young  men  and  women.  This 
class,  which  he  desired  so  much  to  reach,  was  too 
busy  to  care  for  their  souls.  In  an  article  in  Words 
and  Weapons  for  November,  Mr.  Pentecost  says  of  one 
great  hindrance  to  the  Gospel  work:  "The  town  is 
full  of  all  kinds  of  clubs,  secret  societies  and  other 
associations,  where  men  especially  congregate  to 
spend  such  evenings  as  they  have.  More  church 
members,  we  are  told,  are  found  in  the  Masonic  and 
Odd-fellows'  lodges,  and  in  the  rooms  of  other  clubs 
and  secret  societies,  than  can  be  found  on  any  single 
night  in  all  the  prayer  meetings  of  the  town."  In 
the  December  Words  and  Weapons,  Dr.  Pentecost 
devotes  a  whole  article  to  this  lodge  stumbling-block 
in  Amesbury.  It  seems  to  have  been  a  stronghold 
of  the  devil,  nearly  impregnable;  but  doubtless  the 
faithful  testimony  of  the  evangelist  will  bear  fruit, 
and  he  would  find  its  blessed  effect  should  he  visit 
the  place  again. 

The  second  trial  of  John  Arensdorf,  the  brewer, 
for  the  murder  of  Haddock  began  in  Sioux  City, 
Iowa,  Noveniber  14.  The  jury  selected  after  several 
days'  examination  had  a  good  share  of  the  farmer 
class — promise  of  a  more  hopeful  result  than  the 
disagreement  at  the  first  trial,  when,  had  it  not  been 
for  one  noble  old  farmer  who  held  out  against  the 
other  eleven,  this  leader  in  murder  conspiracy  would 
have  gone  free  to  seek  another  victim.  The  attor- 
neys of  the  State  have  found  two  important  witness- 
es, a  milkman  and  his  wife,  who  saw  the  murder 
and  knew  that  Arensdorf  fired  the  shot.  It  was  ex- 
pected that  the  defense  would  shatter  this  testimony, 
but  they  have  not  yet  assailed  it.  As  before,  the 
testimony  of  the  defense  is  very  contradictory,  but 
shrewd  lawyers  who  well  know  how  "to  make  the 
worse  appear  the  better  reason,"  will  make  all  con- 
lusion  disappear  when  they  address  the  jury.  Th( 
people  of  Sioux  City  are  generally  eager  to  see  just- 


ice done  and  the  guilty  Arensdorf  convicted,  yet 
not  a  few,  and  some  prominent  business  men,  are 
reported  as  using  all  their  influence  on  the  other 
side.  May  God  hear  the  right  and  take  vengeance 
upon  the  guilty. 

Prohibition  has  another  backset  in  the  loss  of  the 
election  in  Atlanta,  Georgia,  by  a  small  majority. 
Henry  F.  Grady,  editor  of  the  Corutitution,  who  took 
an  active  part  against  the  saloon,  says  of  the  result: 
"The  defeat  of  the  prohibition  was  not  unexpected. 
From  first  to  last  the  Negroes  were  almost  solidly 
against  it.  Much  of  this  was  due  to  the  influence  of 
Yellowstone  Kit,  a  rich  and  shrewd  medicine  vender, 
worshiped  by  the  Negroes,  who  spoke  night  after 
night  at  the  anti-meetings,  carried  on  the  shoulders 
of  Negro  men.  The  part  taken  in  the  campaign  by 
the  ladies  was  not  significant.  Prohibition  was  not 
beaten  on  its  merits.  The  law  was  too  extreme,  it 
being  impossible  to  get  even  medicinal  or  sacra- 
mental wine  without  violating  it.  Its  administration 
has  been  often  unwise.  Had  it  not  been  for  these 
things,  the  undeniable  good  it  worked  would  have 
overcome  even  the  great  Negro  majority  against  it. 
Atlanta  will  not  suffer  seriously.  The  bar-room  as 
it  existed — insolent,  political,  corrupting,  and  ruling 
— is  a  thing  of  the  past  A  conference  will  be  held 
to  devise  a  plan  upon  which  the  people  can  unite. 
Not  the  slightest  ill-feeling  survives  the  contest, 
which  was  without  precedent  in  vigor  and  aggres- 
sion. A  City  Council  is  to  be  elected  on  Dec.  6. 
In  fighting  for  that,  the  leaders  of  the  two  factions 
will  probably  unite  on  a  ticket  of  the  best  men  in 
the  city,  and  will  seek  to  elect  it  by  a  compact  of 
the  conservative  element  of  both  sides."  Mr.  Grady 
two  years  ago  was  the  chief  antagonist  of  George 
W.  Cable  in  his  efforts  to  reconstruct  the  public 
opinion  of  the  South  on  the  subject  of  caste.  Had 
he  and  others  served  their  God  as  faithfully  as  they 
have  their  prejudices,  the  Negro  vote  instead  of  now 
being  cast  against  the  best  interests  of  the  country, 
would  be  joined  with  their  white  brethren  in  forever 
casting  out  the  saloon  demon.  Mr.  Grady  is  not 
reaping  a  profitable  harvest,  but  he  did  not  sow  for 
any  other. 

The  National  W.  C.  T.  U.  at  Nashville  was  a  meet- 
ing of  great  enthusiasm  and  success.  The  superin- 
tendents of  the  forty  departments  of  work  in  the 
W.  C.  T.  U.  met  November  14th  for  general  con- 
sultation. In  the  convention  proper  among  the  hun- 
dreds of  delegates  and  visitors  appeared  those  of 
Mrs.  Hannah  Whitall  Smith  of  Philadelphia;  Pun 
dita  Remaboi,  the  learned  high-caste  Hindoo  lady ; 
Mrs.  Esther  T.  Hough  of  Vermont,  editor'  of  the 
Woman's  Magazine;  Miss  Mary  Allen  West  of  Chi- 
cago, editor  of  the  Union  Signal;  Rev.  Dr.  Steven- 
son of  Philadelphia,  editor  of  the  Christian  States- 
Tnan,  and  Rev.  Dr.  Weight  of  Cambridge,  Mass., 
who  conducted  a  class  in  New  Testament  Greek,  for 
the  evangelistic  department.  Frances  K.  Willard 
was  re-elected  president,  the  old  board  being  hon- 
ored in  like  manner.  A  framed  photograph  of  the  tem- 
perance temple  to  be  erected  in  Chicago,  to  cost  $850,- 
000  first  proposed  by  Mrs.  T.  B.  Carse,  was  exhibited 
and  highly  praised,  and  16,000  toward  its  construc- 
tion was  pledged.  Resolutions  were  passed  sup- 
porting the  Blair  education  bill;  a  protest  against 
personalities  in  politics;  urging  a  temperance  attor- 
ney at  Washington  to  look  after  the  botly's  interests; 
vigilance  in  the  preservation  of  the  Christian  Sab- 
bath, and  urging  men  to  sustain  such  laws  by  their 
votes;  equal  suffrages;  scientific  temperance  instruc- 
tion and  indorsement  of  Mrs.  Mary  H,  Hunt;  work 
among  colored  people,  and  the  reaffirmation  of  the 
former  resolutions  regarding  the  Prohibition  party. 
Mrs.  Tunstall,  president  of  the  Indian  Territory 
Woman's  Christian  Temperance  Union,  spoke  elo- 
quently of  the  condition  of  the  Territory  regarding 
temperance.  She  told  how,  notwithstanding  the 
United  States  Government  is  pledged  to  keep  out 
liquor,  it  is  smuggled  in  in  eggshells,  sacks  of  flour, 
sold  as  kerosene  oil,  and  brought  in  in  every  possi- 
ble way.  The  Indian  women  .ill  favored  temperance 
and  suffrage,  she  said.  The  convention  adopted  a 
syllabus  of  the  matter  and  manner  of  scientific  tern 
perance  instruction  in  the  public  schools. 


2 


TECE  CHRISTIAN  GYNOSUHE. 


Deoehbir  1, 188? 


WE8T  AFRICAN  ABUSES  OF  WOMEN. 


BY  J.    OOMBB,   MISSIONABT  AT   SHXBBBO. 


I  write  particularly  concerning  the  women  amongst 
whom  I  live  and  labor;  but  what  is  true  of  the 
abuses  of  the  women  here,  I  have  reason  to  believe 
is  largely  true  of  all  African  tribes.  Of  all  heathen 
nations  I  know  of  none  so  degraded  as  the  African; 
and  of  all  the  women  of  the  world  I  know  of  none 
so  abused  as  the  African  women,  and  we  need  not 
look  far  for  the  cause  of  this  state  of  things,  for 
besides  the  rum  so  universally  used  all  along  the 
coast,  there  are  numerous  secret  societies,  some  ex- 
clusively for  women.  Foremost  amongst  these  is 
the  Boondoo. 

I  have  tried  to  learn  the  nature  and  object  of  this 
society;  all  I  can  learn  is  that  girls  are  taught  eti- 
quette, to  sing,  dance,  anoint  their  bodies,  to  paint 
their  bodies  in  the  most  grotesque  manner  possible. 
The  Boondoo  is  to  the  African  girl  what  the  high 
school  or  seminary  is  to  the  American  girl;  and  it 
has  such  reputation  here  that  any  female  that  has 
not  been  to  Boondoo  is  called  a  Gbokah,  i.  e.,  a  rude 
or  vulger  person. 

A  few  years  ago  a  man  sent  me  word  that  he 
wished  to  put  two  of  his  daughters  in  the  mission 
school  to  be  trained.  I  sent  him  word  that  he  should 
come  himself  and  see  me.  He  came,  and  seemed 
very  anxious  that  his  daughter  should  learn  the  white 
man's  book,  and  all  the  white  man's  fashion.  I  told 
him  we  would  take  the  girls  and  teach  them  on  con- 
dition that  they  be  left  to  us  entirely;  that  they  could 
never  follow  the  Boondoo,  or  yassy,  or  any  of  the 
country  medicines  (religions  or  secret  societies) 
again. 

"But  these  are  country  girls,"  said  he. 

"Very  true,"  said  I,  "but  we  will  train  them  for 
God  and  the  white  man's  medicine,  and  it  won't  do 
to  mix  them." 

After  some  farther  talk  he  said,  "Very  well,  I  will 
see  the  mammy  first."  1  have  not  seen  the  man 
since. 

Notwithstanding  the  supposed  refining  and  elevat- 
ing nature  of  these  societies  the  women  do  not  es- 
cape the  most  cruel  treatment.  Last  week  a  young 
girl  in  Shengay  told  me  her  story:  "My  missis  send 
me  to  Boondoo."  (The  sessions  are  held  in  a  thick 
bush  near  to  a  town  and  last  from  two  to  six  months.) 
Whilst  in  the  Boondoo  her  father  died,  and  the  peo- 
ple of  the  town  had  to  "pull  the  cry,"  which  means 
to  eat,  drink,  and  dance  for  several  days.  She  was 
sold  for  a  cow  to  be  eaten  at  her  father's  "cry,"  and 
was  taken  to  another  town.  A  man  by  the  name  of 
Baw  Baw  got  into  a  fight  and  some  of  his  teeth  were 
broken  out.  A  country  court  decided  that  they 
must  pay  him  for  his  teeth.  She  was  given  to  the 
man  to  pay  for  his  teeth.  She  went  to  the  English 
officer  that  has  lately  been  stationed  in  a  town  near 
to  where  she  was  living,  and  reported  that  she  had 
been  given  to  the  man  for  a  slave.  The  officer  told 
her  she  was  free  to  go  where  she  pleased,  and  sent 
her  here.  The  man  Baw  Baw  has  followed  her  here 
and  claims  that  she  is  bis  wife,  and  demands  her; 
but  the  constables  here  refuse  to  give  her  up.  What 
is  greatly  needed  here  is  aWest  African  girls'  home, 
where  a  hundred,  yea,  a  thousand,  of  these  harm- 
less and.  friendless  creatures  could  be  cared  for. 
Oct.  12,  1887. 


a  room,  the  laughing  stock  of  devils  incarnate,  com- 
pelled to  kneel  and  swear  oath  after  oath — such 
cruel  oaths  as  were  never  administered  in  any  Chris- 
tian or  civilized  court — swearing  to  persecute  any 
one  of  their  number  who  would  dare  to  divulge  the 
secrets  of  their  order,  and  to  submit  to  have  their 
own  throats  cut  or  their  bowels  torn  out  if  they  di- 
vulged the  guilty  secrets.  Think  of  these  very  same 
men,  perhaps  the  next  day,  going  into  a  public  as- 
sembly of  respectable  men  and  women  and  attempt- 
ing to  guide  their  steps  into  the  way  of  life!  Could 
you  imagine  anything  more  insulting  to  a  true  child 
of  God?  A  true  and  accepted  Mason  can,  in  my 
view,  certainly  not  be  the  servant  of  the  Divine 
Redeemer,  who  commanded  his  disciples  saying, 
"Swear  not  at  all,  neither  by  heaven,  for  it  is  God's 
throne;  neither  by  the  earth,  for  it  is  his  footstool; 
neither  shalt  thou  swear  by  thine  head  because  thou 
canst  not  make  one  hair  white  or  black." 

The  leaven  of  Freemasonry  in  the  church  is  like 
the  leaven  of  the  Pharisees  of  which  Christ  told  his 
disciples  to  beware.  It  is  hypocrisy,  deceit  and 
guile,  and  gross  wickedness,  if  we  may  credit  the 
testimony  of  good  men  who  have  repented  of  the 
sins  and  horrible  oaths  into  which  they  had  been 
duped.  These  come  out  boldly  denouncing  Free- 
masonry as  a  master-piece  of  the  devil,  hatched  out 
of  his  infernal  brain  to  destroy  souJs.  But  our 
Lord  Jesus  will  defeat  Satan,  for  he  will  take  the 
prey  from  the  mighty,  and  he  will  purify  the  church. 

Freemason  ministers  are  in  low  reputation  now 
among  the  well-informed  of  mankind;  and  I  trust 
that  soon  they  will  have  no  flocks  over  which  to  pre- 
side, to  feed  on  the  fat,  and  clothe  them  with  the 
wool.  "For  thus  saith  the  Lord  God  unto  the  shep- 
herds, Woe  be  the  shepherds  of  Israel  that  do  feed 
themselves!  Should  not  the  shepherds  feed  the 
flocks?"  These  words  of  the  God  of  Israel  were 
spoken  in  Bzekiel's  day  to  the  shepherds  of  Israel, 
but  they  are  not  of  less  force  now,  for  the  same  woe 
of  God  is  out  against  the  same  class  of  shepherds  in 
this  our  day.  Their  end  will  be  according  to  their 
works.  But  what  a  glorious  reward  awaits  the  true 
shepherd,  "for  when  the  chief  Shepherd  shall  appear 
he  shall  receive  a  crown  of  glory  that  fadeth  not 
away;"  and  we  have  many  true  shepherds  in  the 
church.  Jesus  knoweth  them  that  are  his;  and  let 
every  one  that  nameth  the  name  of  the  Lord  depart 
fiom  iniquity." 


THE  SOUTHERN  LOUISIANA   LABOR 
TROUBLES. 


BY   REV.    H.    H.    HINMAN. 


THE  LEAVEN  OF  THE  LODGE. 


FBOH  A   PAPER   READ   BY  J.  W.  WOODWORTH   BEFORE 
THE  MILWAUKEE  DISTRICT  METHODIST  EPIS- 
COPAL  CONFERENCE. 


Jesus  says,  "Behold,  I  come  quickly  and  my  re- 
ward is  with  me  to  give  every  one  according  as  his 
work  shall  be."  Suppose  he  were  to  come  quickly 
as  we  understand  that  word  to  mean,  would  the 
hosts  of  itinerant  ministers  and  of  local  preachers 
and  all  the  members  of  what  is  called  Methodist 
churches,  numbering  many  millions — would  they,  we 
say,  be  ready  to  meet  him  at  his  coming?  I  think 
not.  But  many  of  the  leaders  of  this  vast  host 
would  want  to  hide  their  heads  beneath  the  mount- 
ains from  the  face  of  Him  that  sitteth  upon  the 
throne  and  from  the  wrath  of  the  Lamb  "who  is  of 
purer  eyes  than  to  behold  iniquity,"  and  "cannot 
look  upon  sin  with  any  allowance." 

There  is  an  evil  in  our  beloved  church  which  must 
be  purged  out;  and  may  God  hasten  the  time.  I  re- 
fer to  Freemasonry,  by  which  the  mind  is  enslaved, 
which  is  worse  than  the  old  African  slavery,  which 
enslaved  the  body  but  left  the  mind  free.  The  evil, 
we  think,  exists  mostly  among  the  so-called  great  and 
wise  and  good  men  of  our  church.  Imagine  one  of 
these  dignified  men  stripped  almost  nude,  with  a  ca- 
ble tow  around  his  body,  hoodwinked  and  led  around 


A  minister  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal  church, 
who  resides  at  Pattersonville,  said  he  was  present 
when  the  sherifli's  posse  fired  on  the  colored  strikers, 
killing  four  men  and  wounding  three  others.  There 
was  absolutely  no  excuse  for  the  murder.  There 
was  no  riot  and  no  resistance  of  law.  The  only 
pretext  was,  that  the  company  did  not  at  once  dis- 
perse. The  military  who  were  present  did  not  fire. 
The  shooting  of  four  white  laborers  at  Terrebonne 
by  colored  strikers  (as  it  is  supposed)  was  the  real 
incentive,  yet  no  one  for  a  moment  imagines  that 
the  men  shot  at  Pattersonville  had  anything  to  do 
with  the  shooting  at  Terrebonne.  There  has  been 
much  difference  of  opinion  as  to  the  propriety  of 
calling  out  the  troops.  The  planters  approve  it,  but 
the  Knights  of  Labor  denounce  it.  It  was  probably 
quite  unnecessary,  but  may  have  been  supposed  to 
be  a  wise  precaution. 

The  real  cause  of  all  the  trouble  was  the  action  of 
the  Knights  of  Labor  in  New  Orleans,  who  sought  to 
make  use  of  the  plantation  hands  to  further  their  pur- 
poses, and  who  made  them  promises  that  they  had 
no  means  to  fulfill.  These  laborers  were  getting 
from  75  cents  to  $1  per  day,  with  50  cents  a  watch 
(three  hours)  for  night  work.  This  is  larger  than 
the  average  wages  of  the  South.  There  are  a  few 
planters  who  have  improved  appliances  for  sugar 
making,  who  could  well  afford  to  pay  more.  The 
large  majority  who  use  the  old  open-kettle  process 
can  hardly  sustain  themselves  at  the  present  price 
of  sugar.  The  crop  this  year  is  unusually  fine  and 
rich.  The  season  so  far  has  been  favorable,  yet  a 
single  hard  frost  would  destroy  much  of  its  value. 

The  strike  was  ordered  in  the  highth  of  cane- 
cutting.  The  hands  who  were  under  contract  by  the 
year,  and  were  living  in  their  employers'  houses, 
were  compelled,  often  against  their  will,  to  stop 
work.  The  result  was  that  other  laborers  were  hired, 
mostly  Germans,  Italians,  Chinese  and  Negroes  from 
New  Orleans,  and  the  work  went  on  with  but  partial 
suspension.  Add  to  this,  most  of  the  strikers  were 
evicted. 

I  stopped  at  Terrebonne  Nov.  14th,  and  found  the 
M.  E.  church  full  of  women  and  children  who  had 


fled  there  for  refuge.  I  called  on  Rev.  Daniel  Clay, 
pastor  of  the  Congregational  church,  who  told  me 
that  he  was  constantly  importuned  to  open  his 
church  for  the  reception  of  these  helpless  families. 
He  said  that  if  the  weather  became  cold  and  stormy 
he  would  do  so,  but  so  long  as  it  was  warm  and  dry 
they  could  live  outdoors.  lie  had  built  the  church 
and  preached  for  them  for  eight  years.  He  thought 
the  strike  wholly  .unjustifiable  and  exceedingly  fool- 
ish. He  said  that  many  of  them  would  go  to  work, 
but  were  afraid  to  do  so,  and  were  vainly  expecting 
help  that  did  not  come. 

Mr.  Clay  was  born  in  Kentucky  in  1812,  and  is 
the  son  of  the  distinguished  Henry  Clay.  He  was 
a  slave  until  made  free  by  the  war.  He  was  sold 
South  when  he  was  but  twelve  years  old,  and  had 
no  opportunities  for  an  education.  He  owns  a  small 
farm  of  this  good  land  {Terre-Bonne),  and  is  a  vigor- 
ous old  man  of  excellent  judgment,  a  good  preacher, 
and  of  unquestionable  piety.  He  had  never  joined 
any  secret  society,  but  had  always  opposed  them. 
He  gave  up  the  use  of  strong  drink  and  tobacco, 
and  persuaded  most  of  his  people  to  do  so.  They 
had  had  little  connection  with  the  secret  societies 
until  the  Knights  of  Labor  came  there,  and  by  spe- 
cious promises  induced  most  of  his  people  to  join 
them.  He  was  greatly  troubled  with  the  present 
condition  of  things,  and  would  have  been  very  glad 
to  have  me  address  his  congregation,  except  that  it 
would  be  impossible  to  get  them  together. 

The  great  alluvial  region  of  Southern  Louisiana 
has  all  the  elements  of  vast  agricultural  wealth.  In 
natural  water-ways  it  is  scarcely  surpassed  by  any 
part  of  the  world.  It  has  but  a  single  adversary,  and 
that  is  water.  There  are  vast  marshes  and  cypress 
swamps  that  are  uninhabitable,  but  if  drained  would 
produce  magnificent  crops.  Large  tracts,  that  before 
the  war  were  in  sugar  plantations,  are  now  simply 
great  marshes.  Here  and  there  the  old  chimnies 
rise  up  out  of  the  swamps.  Bayou  Terrebonne, 
that  twenty-five  years  ago  was  navigable  for  steam- 
boats, is  now  but  a  small,  shallow  ditch.  Efforts  are 
being  made  to  restore  it,  and  a  steam  dredge  is  now 
at  work  on  its  southern  extensions.  Some  of  the 
plantations  are  sufficiently  high,  but  with  most  there 
is  a  constant  struggle  and  expense  to  free  them 
from  water.  As  might  be  supposed  there  is  consid- 
erable malarial  fever,  but  not  so  much  as  used  to 
prevail  in  Michigan,  and  the  colored  people  are  quite 
healthy. 

We  are  now  paying  two  and  one-half  cents  per 
pound  in  duties  on  brown  sugars.  Louisiana  pro- 
duces but  a  fraction  of  our  supply.  After  a  hun- 
dred years'  trial,  it  is  found  that  sugar-cane  can 
never  be  more  than  an  exotic  and  sugar  production 
an  exotic  industry.  We  are  paying  each  year  $48,- 
000,000  in  sugar  duties,  or  about  100  per  cent  ad 
valorum.  Of  this  vast  sum,  it  is  supposed  that  the 
sugar  planters  receive  about  $7,000,000  per  year. 
If  this  sum  were  withheld  nearly  all  the  planters 
who  follow  the  old  process  of  boiling  in  open  kettles, 
and  they  are  in  a  large  majority,  would  have  to  aban- 
don the  business.  The  result  would  not  necessarily 
be  financial  ruin.  These  lands  are  well  adapted  to 
the  culture  of  rice,t!otton  and  corn;  but  it  would  re- 
sult in  the  breaking  up  of  many  of  the  plantations 
and  their  sale  or  rental  in  small  holdings,  to  the  Ne- 
gro laborers.  This  plan  has  taken  the  place,  very 
largely,  of  the  old  plantation  system  in  the  great 
cotton  belt  and  has  been  a  benefit  to  the  cotton  in- 
terest. Here  it  would,  I  believe,  result  in  a  great 
benefit  to  both  proprietor  and  laborer. 

Let,  therefore,  the  seven  millions  that  these  plant- 
ers receive  from  our  revenues  be  annually  expended 
in  drainage  in  Louisiana  and  Florida,  and  the  sugar 
interest,  so  far  as  it  is  practicable,  would  take  care 
of  itself.  The  best  equipped  plantations  would  con- 
tinue with  a  fair  profit  and  the  nation  would  be  saved 
at  least  $41,000,000  annual  tax.  The  prairies  of 
Louisiana  would  furnish  the  cotton  districts  the 
corn  and  pork  which  they  now  get  from  the  North, 
and  all  departments  of  society  would  be  enriched. 


Two  cases  of  high-pressure  sparkling  champagne, 
one  intended  for  President  Cleveland  and  the  other 
for  Secretary  of  State  Bayard,  arrived  at  this  port 
on  Monday  on  the  steamer  Lord  'Sough.  Colonel 
G.  G.  Fisher,  an  ex-United  States  Consul,  had  the 
wine  in  charge.  The  champagne  being  intended  for 
the  highest  dignitaries  in  the  country,  the  ex-Consul 
presumed  that  they  would  be  admitted  free  of  duty. 
Surveyor  Campbell  examined  his  law  books.  He 
could  not  find  any  clause  which  would  allow  the 
wine  to  come  ashore  without  the  usual  tariff  tax,  so 
the  President  and  the  Secretary  will  be  compelled  to 
wait  a  couple  of  days  for  their  mellow  gift — Phila- 
delphia Record. 

Leadville,  Col.,  supports  1,100  saloons — but  it  has 
no  money  in  its  treasury  to  support  its  public  schools. 


BEdiuBis  1, 1887 


THE  CHKISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


WHY  NOT  JOIN  THB  Q.  A.  R.f 

Since  the  organization  of  the  Grand  Army  of  the 
Republic,  I  have  been  frequently  urged  to  join  the 
lodge  and  become  more  personally  identified  with 
the  "boys  in  blue."  In  each  instance  where  com- 
mittees visited  me,  I  replied  that,  if  there  was  noth- 
ing objectionable  in  the  lodge,  I  would  join  it  at  the 
earliest  opportunity.  Permit  me  to  give  your  read- 
ers a  dialogue  that  took  place  while  I  was  pastor  of 
our  church  in  Sacramento,  California.  It  occurred 
in  the  spring  of  1878.  For  convenience  I  will  use 
the  abbreviations  Com.  for  committee  and  C.  for 
candidate,  whom  I  am  supposed  to  be.  I  will  state 
the  points  only. 

Com. — We  were  appointed  to  invite  you  to  become 
a  member  of  Summer  Post  No.  —  of  this  city.  Our 
boys  have  heard  your  patriotic  enunciations  upon 
several  occasions  since  you  became  a  resident  of  the 
city,  and  would  be  pleased  to  have  you  identify 
yourself  with  our  Post. 

C. — Comrade,  if  there  is  nothing  objectionable  in 
your  lodge,  I  would  not  object  to  being  associated 
with  those  who  stood  at  my  side  when  our  flag  was 
about  to  be  stained  by  the  hand  of  traitors;  but  I 
cannot  consistently  join  you  until  I  am  made  ac- 
quainted with  your  rules  of  decorum  and  your  tenets 
of  civil  and  religious  beliefs,  and  be  able  to  indorse 
them. 

Com. — We  can  assure  you  that  there  is  nothing 
in  our  lodge  that  you  would  not  approve.     When 

Rev. was  pastor  of  the church,  he  was  a 

member  of  our  Post,  and  was  our  chaplain.  We 
have  had  no  clergyman  in  the  city  since  who  had 
been  in  the  army,  and  our  present  chaplain  cannot, 
of  course,  take  part  with  us  only  on  public  occasions. 
We  would  like  to  have  you  become  a  member  so 
that  we  could  choose  you  as — 

C. — Do  I  understand  you  that  your  present  chap- 
lain (Rev.  R.  Sheliers)  cannot  officiate  in  the  lodge 
because  he  was  not  in  the  army?  He  is  a  patriot,  I 
am  sure,  and  was  one  all  through  the  war. 

Com. — Yes,  of  course,  our  Post  is  open  only  to  all 
honorably  discharged  soldiers. 

C. — If  I  were  to  join,  would  you  exclude  my  wife 
from  attending  the  lodge  with  me? 

Com. — The  meetings  are  held  only  with  interest 
to  those  who  belong  to  the  Post. 

C. — Yes,  I  believe  that  to  be  all  right  so  long  as 
it  does  not  conflict  with  the  interests  of  others;  but 
I  should  feel  embarrassed  to  join  a  society  that 
would  exclude  my  wife  from  sitting  with  me  to  en- 
joy the  deliberations  you  claim  to  be  of  so  great 
value  to  me.  Would  you  then  permit  me  to  tell  her 
upon  my  return  home  what  occurred  at  the  lodge,  so 
she  could  have  common  interest  with  myself,  and 
feel  assured  that  her  husband  was  indeed  connected 
with  a  society  that  brought  honor  upon  herself  and 
her  family? 

Com. — We  have  but  few  secrets.    Only  such  as 
prevent  impostors  from  imposing  on  us. 
C. — Would  you  allow  me  to  examine  your  ritual? 
Com. — Yes,  here  it  is. 

C. — This  is  not  the  one  I  desired  to  see.  I  would 
like  to  look  into  the  active  and  practical  workings 
of  the  society. 

Com. — That  is  not  for  outsiders  to  see;  but  then 
there  is  nothing  in  it  that  you  would  object  to,  we 
are  sure. 

C. — Answer  me  then  a  few  questions.  Do  you 
take  saloon-keepers  in?  And  do  you  take  spiritual- 
ists, and  infidels,  and  Kearneyites?  Suppose  I  would 
object  to  associating  with  men  whose  business  is 
inimical  to  my  home;  and  with  infidels  and  de- 
bauched spiritualists,  whose  principles  are  calculated 
to  destroy  the  institutions  of  both  church  and  state, 
would  your  society  allow  me  the  privilege  to  either 
confer  them  to  the  principles  of  civil  and  religious 
purity,  or  move  to  expel  them  from  the  lodge? 

Com. — You  see  we  are  not  a  religious  society,  and 
cannot  interfere  with  the  personal  rights  of  individ- 
uals. 

C. — Yes,  that  may  be,  but  does  not  the  business 
of  making  drunkards,  and  of  inculcating  anti-Chris- 
tian sentiments  and  doctrines,  interfere  with  me  and 
my  church,  and  their  work  in  this  city?  How  can  I 
consistently  fellowship  a  man  in  a  lodge  whom -I 
would  not  take  into  church?  And  when  you  tell  me 
that  you  do  take  such  characters  in,  and  then  pre- 
vent Christian  men  from  correcting  the  evils  of  their 
beliefs  and  practices,  you  give  the  fullest  proof  to 
my  convictions  that  Christian  men  cannot  consist- 
ently be  identified  with  an  institution  that  harbors 
members  the  church  would  not  retain. 

Com. — Our  object  is  to  perpetuate  the  patriotism 
that  held  us  together  while  at  the  front,  and  not  to 
teach  religious  tenets  and  enforce  religious  practices, 


remedies  for  these  evils;  and  when  you  tell  me  that 
wicked  persons,  who  denounce  the  church,  blas- 
pheme God,  malign  Christian  men,  women  and  chil- 
dren, cannot  be,  and  are  not,  restrained  by  your  so- 
ciety, I  am  done.  I  will  not  yoke  my  neck  with 
such  fellows. 

Com. — We  regret  that  you  cannot  come  in  among 
us,  and  hope  you  will  give  it  further  thought,  then 
we  will  see  you  again. 

C. — Comrade,  in  glancing  over  the  ritual  you 
handed  me,  and  comparing  your  answers  to  my 
questions,  I  plainly  see  that  the  G.  A.  R.  is  composed 
of  all  classes  of  men.  I  am  also  acquainted  with 
many  of  the  boys.  When  Ingersoll  lectured  here, 
some  of  them  applauded  his  utterances.  Last  deco- 
ration day  some  of  them  were  beastly  drunk.  On 
last  Fourth  of  July,  they  marched  immediately  in 
the  rear  of  a  two-horse  dray  load  of  whisky,  repre- 
senting one  of  the  industries  of  our  city,  while  from 
a  bunghole  a  flag-staff,  with  flag  suspended,  invited 
either  the  favor  or  the  frown  of  the  populace.  The 
G.  A.  R.  did  not  frown,  but  followed  the  insulting 
exhibit  as  though  they  were  there  to  guard  it. 

Com. — The  boys  did  not  all  feel  that  way  about  it. 

C. — Why  did  not  they  respond  when  I  urged  them 
from  the  sidewalk  where  I  stood  to  take  down  the 
flag  and  put  a  stop  to  the  insult? 

Com. — That  would  have  raised  a  rumpus  and 
broke  up  the  order  of  the  day. 

C. — Yes,  so  it  would,  the  boys  would  have  resisted 
each  other.  Some  of  them  like  rum  better  than  the 
flag.  Comrades,  excuse  me;  I  will  never  go  up 
stairs  behind  guarded  doors,  away  from  my  family, 
to  aflaiiate  with  persons  who  claim  to  be  patriots, 
while  at  the  same  time  they  harbor  both  men  and 
principles  at  variance  with  the  state,  and  madly  op- 
posed to  the  church.  I  shall  continue  to  live  and 
labor  for  the  church;  and  shall  continue  to  honor  the 
flag  by  maintaining  the  principles  of  my  country. 
I  will  not  join  your  Post. 

The  dialogue  ended,  and  I  had  no  further  calls. — 
Rev.  H.  J.  Becker  in  the  Christian  Contervator, 


WALKING  DELBQATEa  INDIOTBD. 


The  Grand  Jury  in  this  city  have  indicted  the 
committee  of  the  Knights  of  Labor,  who  for  months 
past  have  been  engaged  in  a  conspiracy  against  one 
0.  M.  Hartt,  because  he,  being  the  foreman  in  a 
shoe  factory,  and  detecting  theft  in  some  of  the  em- 
ployes thereof,  dismissed  them  from  service.  Hartt 
simply  did  his  duty;  and  for  doing  it  the  Knights 
of  Labor  demanded  that  he  should  be  dismissed  by 
his  employer,  and  the  cowardly  employer  yielded  to 
their  demand.  He  then  sought  and  obtained  em- 
ployment in  Philadelphia,  and  on  a  similar  demand 
was  there  discharged.  The  same  process  against 
him  with  a  similar  result  was  renewed  in  Baltimore. 
Recently  he  made  a  contract  with  an  employer  in 
Newburgh  in  this  State,  and  the  employer  intimi- 
dated by  the  same  influence  was  led  to  break  bis 
contract  with  him. 

Such,  briefly,  is  the  outline  of  the  facts  as  they 
have  appeared  in  the  newspapers.  They  show  a 
deliberate  and  persistent  conspiracy  to  prevent  this 
man  from  getting  employment  anywhere,  simply  be- 
cause in  discharging  his  duty  he  has  offended  the 
Knights  of  Labor.  Such  a  conspiracy  is  an  offense 
against  the  law  of  the  State;  and  upon  the  presenta- 
tion of  these  facts  before  the  Grand  Jury,  these  per- 
secutors and  conspirators  have  been  indicted.  If 
the  proof  upon  their  trial  shall  show  the  facts  to  be 
as  represented,  then  they  ought  to  be  visited  with 
the  extreme  penalty  of  the  law,  which  is  a  fine  of 
five  hundred  dollars  and  one  year's  imprisonment 
in  the  penitentiary.  The  Knights  of  Labor  ought 
to  be  sternly  taught  that  they  cannot  thus  outrage 
the  rights  of  the  citizen  without  being  punished  for 
it.  Society  is  bound  to  protect  every  man  against 
such  abominable  treatment.  This  is  a  particularly 
glaring  case,  and  is  a  good  one  for  an  effective  ex- 
ample. — Independent. 


turned  into  an  entirely  different  direction,  simply  to 
serve  the  political  ambitions  of  their  leaders.    Take, 
for  instance,  the  vote  for  Probate  Judge:  the  Re- 
publican candidate  received  over  31,000;  the  Demo- 
cratic over  18,000,  and  the  Union-Labor  over  14,- 
000.     The  combined   Republican   and   Democratic 
votes,  viz.,  49,000,  shows  the  sentiment  of  voters  of 
this  county  as  against  the  dictation  of  secret  socie- 
ties in  politics.     This  is  a  majority  of  35,000  over 
the  Union-Labor  ticket — the  ticket  of  secret  labor 
societies.     We  are  not  criticising  the  rank  and  file 
of  the  Union-Labor  party.     We  believe  that  they 
are  thoroughly  honest  in  their  convictions  and  ac- 
tions; that  they  have  been  blindly  following  their 
leaders  and  have  been  held  together  rather  by  pride 
in  their  organization  than  by  sound  political  rea- 
sons.    Now  that  the  election  is  over  they  will  begin 
to  inquire  into  the  motives  and  purposes  of  the 
Schrages,  the  Weiers,  the  Ogdens,  the  Davises,  the 
Cavanaughs,  et  al. ;  they  will  discover  the  demagog- 
ism  of  these  would-be  reformers  and  agitators  whose 
assumption  to  represent  the  labor  of  this  country 
was  preposterous.     This  country  is  a  nation  of  la- 
borers, where  no  badge  of  a  secret  society  is  re- 
quired to  give  a  man  a  chance  to  work.     Here  every 
man  has  the  right  to  make  his  own  livelihood  ac- 
cording to  his  own  free  will;  if  he  desires  to  enter  a 
labor  organization,  that  is  his  right  and  privilege, 
but  being  in,  he  cannot  lay  claim  to  being  the  only 
authorized  laborer  in  this  country  to  the  exclusion 
of  others  who  are  not  in  his  organization.    This  was 
the  tendency  of  the  Ogden-Cavanaugh  style  of  dem- 
agogism  and  dictation  in  the  Union-Labor  campaign 
just  closed.    It  is  to  be  hoped  that  the  lessons  of 
yesterday's  defeat  will  be  studied  and  appreciated 
by  the  rank  and  file  of  the  Union-Labor  party,  and 
that  in  the  future  demagogism  and  blatherskite 
leadership  will  be  uncompromisingly  rejected. — Oin- 
cinnati  Weekly  Times. 

m  I  m 

CABDPLATING. 


THB  UNION-LABOR  SBORBTtiOClBTT  PARTY. 


When  a  secret  society  turns  itself  into  a  political 
party  it  must  expect  to  receive  knocks  just  like 
other  political  organizations.  The  Knights  of  La- 
bor were,by  the  machinations  of  their  leaders,turned 
into  a  political  party,  and,  as  a  consequence,  were 
yesterday  ground  between  the  upper  and  nether  mill- 
stones of  Republican  and  Democratic  parties,  until 
now  they  present  a  beautiful  dissolving  view.  A 
secret  society  is  just  the  place  for  socialistic  blath- 
erskites and  demagogues  to  come  to  the  surface  and 
push  themselves  into  prominence.  They  did  this 
very  thing  in  the  Union-Labor  party,  which  was 


In  the  fall  of  1838  a  number  of  young  men,  all 
of  us  of  respectabte  families,  and,  as  the  world  goes, 
good  habits,  established  a  club-room.  Soon  cards 
were  introduced,  and  we  played  simply  for  the  game 
and  as  an  amusement,  without  thought  of  danger 
or  wrong-doing. 

One  evening, .  at  a  game  of  all-fours,  it  was  pro- 
posed, as  adding  interest  to  our  amusement,  to  play 
for  cigars,  the  value  of  which  would  only  be  a  few 
cents.  The  next  trial  was  for  tickets  for  an  exhi- 
bition, costing  one  dollar.  Soon  we  played  for  mon- 
ey, and  one  Seventh-day  night,  about  six  months 
after  the  club  was  started,  just  as  the  town-clock 
struck  the  hour  of  twelve,  I  threw  my  last  card. 
The  stakes  on  the  table  were  then  eighty  dollars.  I 
had  lost!  I  looked  back  at  the  downward  steps  I 
had  already  taken,  and  then  toward  the  future,  which 
was  pictured  to  my  mind  as  a  prospective  view,  and 
in  the  distance  there  appeared  the  States-prison  and 
the  gallows.  It  seemed  clear  to  me  that  unless  my 
steps  were  arrested,  I  must  arrive  at  one  or  the  other 
of  these.  My  resolution  was  taken,  and  I  then  and 
there  declared  before  my  companions  that  I  would 
never  touch  another  card  as  long  as  1  lived.  And  I 
am  thankful  to  that  Divine  Preserver,  who  has 
strengthened  me  to  keep  my  resolution,  through 
many  temptations  and  much  ridicule  and  reproach. 
I  give  my  experience  in  hope  that  some  who  are 
treading  this  downward  course  may  be  induced  to 
pause  and  reflect,  and  seek  for  the  Divine  aid,  which 
can  alone  strengthen  them  to  forsake  this  captivat- 
ing snare  of  the  great  destroyer  of  men. — Cor.  of 
Christian  Statesman. 


It  will  Unman  Him. — We  saw  a  mule  taken  up 
to  an  upper  story  to  serve  in  drawing  up  grain. 
Cleats  were  nailed  on  the  ascending  stairway.  The 
mule  came  to  the  ascent  and  halted.  The  leader 
pulled  and  coaxed,  but  the  mule  did  not  believe  in 
going  up,  and  set  himself  to  stay  down  with  a  reso- 
lution worthy  of  a  man's  imitation.  Oats  was  of- 
fered him,  but  as  it  was  drawn  up  the  mule  showed 
that  he  loved  his  principles  better  than  the  oats. 
All  projects  failed,  when  a  by-stander  said,  "Let  me 
take  him."  He  took  hold  of  the  halter,  put  a  bag 
around  the  mule's  head,  covering  its  eyes.  Then  he 
led  the  mule  around  the  room  several  times,  and 
then  came  to  the  stairway  and  hoodwinked  mule  ran 
with  haste  up  the  ascent  Here  we  saw  the  reason 
why  the  lotiges  use  the  hootlwink  and  perform  the 
rite  of  circumambulation.  If  this  process  will  un- 
mule  the  mule,  it  will  unman  the  man. — Conservator. 

The  local  option  law  would  be  a  real  blessing  in  some 
localities,  and  would  be  a  general  advantage  were  it 
not  possible  that  those  counties  that  choose  to  go  wet, 


C— Comrades,  our  patriotism  has  its  best  exhibi-  avowedly  nothing  more  or  less  than  a  party  of  se-  could  be  the  sources  of  the  supply  for  those  who 
tion  in  the  public  maintenance  of  those  institutions  '  cret  societies.  These  societies,  which  were  formed  choose  to  banish  the  saloon,  because  they  are  contigu- 
that  discourage  vice  and  crime,  and  provide  the  for  one  purpose,  have  been  used  for  another,  and  ous,  and  could,  therefore,  monopolize  the  traffic. 


TBE  CHBISTIAI?  CYNOSXTKBS. 


Decshbsr  1, 1887 


OUB  BAN  FRANCISCO  LETTER. 


AH  classes  of  society  have  been  greatly  excited 
during  the  past  month  about  a  case  of  murder  or 
suicide;  which  it  is,  has  not  yet  been  decided  by  the 
coroner's  jury.  If  it  be  a  murder,  according  to  the 
general  verdict,  it  is  certainly  a  rival  of  "A  Cele- 
brated Case,"  and  proves  fact  to  be  stranger  than 
fiction.  The  victim  was  a  young  Jew,  by  the  name 
of  Benhayon.  He  was  found  lying  dead  upon  the 
floor  of  a  down-town  lodging  house  on  the  23d  of 
October,  but  lay  so  composed,  with  his  arms  at  his 
sides  and  his  feet  together,  that  the  housekeeper 
thought  him  drunk,  and  that  companions  had  carried 
him  in  during  the  night  and  laid  him  there.  No  one 
in  the  house  knew  who  he  was,  or  how  or  when  he  came 
there.  On  examining  the  room,  however,  poison  was 
found  in  a  glass  near  him,and  on  the  table  were  three 
letters  supposed  to  have  been  written  by  him.  One  of 
these  was  a  confession  of  the  murder  of  his  only  siater 
about  two  years  ago,  of  which  crime  her  husband. 
Dr.  Bowers,  was  convicted  at  the  time.  Another 
letter  was  to  Dr.  Bowers  asking  his  forgiveness  for 
the  injury  done  to  him;  and  saying  he  would  let  him 
suffer  no  more  for  his  sin.  Dr.  Bowers  was 
convicted  of  murdering  his  wife  by  slow 
poisoning  with  phosphorus,  to  get  the  $17,000 
insurance  on  her  life,  and  is  now  awaiting  the  decis- 
ion of  the  court  on  his  application  for  a  new  trial. 

At  first  it  was  supposed  to  be  suicide,  but  Ben- 
hayon lived  at  his  own  home,  was  very  fond  of  his 
sister  and  very  bitter  against  her  husband.  He  was 
not  known  to  have  a  room  down  town;  and  was  not 
known  to  have  been,  during  his  life,  in  the  house  in 
which  he  died.  The  room  in  which  the  body  was  found 
was  engaged  by.  a  man  named  Dimig,  a  few  days  be- 
fore the  death  occurred,  and  if  it  proves  to  be  suicide 
Dimig  is  a  victim  of  a  wonderful  chain  of  circum- 
stantial evidence,  indicating  that  he  is  one  of  the 
chief  actors  in  a  foul  tragedy.  The  prevailing  be- 
lief now  is  that  Dr.  Bowers  has  planned,  and  lured 
others  to  carry  out  a  deep  plot  to  clear  himself  and 
gain  his  own  freedom.  The  letters  found  have  been 
examined  by  experts,  about  half  of  whom  pronounce 
them  forgeries,  while  the  others  maintain  that  they 
are  the  genuine  writings  of  Benhayon. 

Another  case  which  has  incited  more  than  usual 
interest,  is  the  divorce  case  of  R.  H.  McDonald,  Jr., 
son  of  Dr.  E-.  H.  McDonald,  once  Prohibition  can- 
didate for  governor.  After  he  brought  suit  for  di- 
vorce, his  wife  brought  suit  for  $500,000  damages 
against  Dr.  McDonald  for  alienating  the  affections 
of  her  husband  from  her.  She  had  a  talk  with  Dr. 
McDonald  about  compromising,  in  a  parlor  of  the 
Baldwin  Hotel.  At  its  close  she  drew  a  revolver  and 
shot  at  him  three  times,  without,  however,  injuring 
him.  She  was  then  put  into  prison  with  her  little 
child,  not  three  years  old,  and  its  nurse;  after  which 
she  was  charged  with  five  cases  of  forgery  against 
her  father-in-law,  with  bail  at  $8,000.  A  man  named 
Swalm,  whom  many  suppose  committed  the  forger- 
ies for  her,  was  arrested  after  starting  for  the  East 
and  lodged  in  prison  in  this  city.  When  his  trunks 
were  examined  they  were  found  to  contain  $40,000 
in  gold  notes,  over  $3,000  of  Mrs.  McDonald's  jew- 
elry and  a  large  amount  of  elegant  clothing  belong- 
ing to  her.  Thus  it  seems  she  was  to  meet  him  at 
the  East.  The  cases  promise  to  reveal  a  sickening 
array  of  family  troubles;  though  it  now  ap- 
pears that  the  McDonalds  are  the  most  deeply  in- 
jured parties. 

San  Francisco  may  almost  be  called  a  Catholic 
city;  and  the  chief  social  attraction  just  now  is  the 
Catholic  Fair,  in  the  Mechanics'  Pavilion.  The  pro- 
ceeds are  to  go  towards  completing  the  new  Catholic 
cathedral,  the  foundation  of  which  has  just  been 
finished.  Each  parish  has  a  booth  which  is  stored 
with  rich  and  beautiful  furniture,  silverware,  pic- 
tures and  useful  and  fancy  articles,  besides  a  large 
amount  of  statuary,  most  of  them  donated  by  mer- 
chants or  private  individuals.  The  most  notable 
feature  of  the  fair  is  the  gambling,  which  would 
scarcely  be  tolerated  in  a  county  fair;  but  is  encour- 
aged and  indulged  in  by  all  classes,  because  sanc- 
tioned by  the  "Holy  Catholic  Church."  "His  Rev- 
erence," the  Right  Reverend  Archbishop  Reardon, 
was  present,  as  well  as  many  of  the  parish  clergy, 
encouraging  the  ladies  by  taking  chances  on  articles 
in  the  different  booths.  Reardon  is  a  remarkably 
young  man  for  the  high  position  which  he  holds, 
not  looking  to  be  much  over  thirty  years  of  age. 
He  is  also  a  very  intellectual  appearing  young  man, 
yet  very  affable  and  pleasing  in  his  manners,      s. 


Refokm  News. 


THE  WORE  OF  OUR  AGENT  IN  THE  SOUTH. 


— Dr.  James  McCosh's  latest  work,  "Psychology," 
has  been  introduced  as  a  text-book  in  colleges  of 
Japan  and  Ceylon  and  the  State  University  of  Cal- 
cutta, where  a  knowledge  of  it  is  required  in  order 
to  the  degree  of  B.  A. 


Dear  Ctnosure: — On  Saturday,  Nov.  12th,  I 
went  west  from  New  Orleans  on  the  Southern  Pacific 
railroad,  expecting  to  spend  the  Sabbath  at  Terre 
Bonne,  fifty-five  miles  from  the  city.  Because  the 
name  of  the  station  had  been  changed,  I  was  carried 
by,  and  went  on  to  Baldwin,  100  miles.  I  stayed  at 
Gilbert  Seminary,  which  is  under  the  care  of  Dr.  and 
Mrs.  Godman,  and  was  most  hospitably  entertained. 
I  preached  twice  on  the  Sabbath  in  the  M.  E.  church 
to  the  students  and  citizens.  The  pastor,  who  is  an 
Odd-fellow,  endorsed  what  I  said  about  the  orders, 
though  some  others  thought  it  a  hard  saying  to 
maintain  that  all  the  societies  are  bad. 

I  am  now  going  up  the  Mississippi  River  on  a 
steamer.  We  were  stopped  by  the  fog,  but  the  air 
is  now  warm  and  bright.  The  country,  on  both 
sides,  seems  well  settled  and  beautiful.  That  the 
river  is  higher  than  the  land  on  each  side,  is  evident. 
We  can  only  see  the  tops  of  the  houses  and  chim- 
neys. One  of  the  problems  of  science  is  what  to  do 
with  the  lower  Mississippi.  Its  banks  and  bed  are 
rising  and  always  threaten  the  low-lying  districts. 
It  grows  longer  towards  the  Gulf  because  it  carries 
its  bed  along  with  it,  and  the  land  is  being  cultivated 
much  farther  down  than  it  was  twenty  years  ago. 
It  is  a  mighty  and  wonderful  river.  Baton  Rouge 
is  in  sight  and  I  stop  there. 

LOUISIANA'S  CAPITAL  AND  ITS  CHURCHES. 

Baton  Rouge,  Nov.  18. — The  vast  alluvial  plain 
that  occupies  the  entire  region  of  Southern  Louis- 
iana, ends  at  Baton  Rouge,  130  miles  by  the  river 
above  New  Orleans.  Here  also  end  the  sugar  plan- 
tations on  the  east  side  of  the  river.  On  the  west, 
they  continue  somewhat  higher  up.  The  climatic 
influences  are  not  widely  different  from  New  Orleans. 
There  are  orange  trees  here  in  full  bearing,  and  I 
have  nowhere  seen  so  large  fig  trees.  The  soil  in 
this  part  of  the  State  is  excellent,  and  the  crops  of 
cotton  and  sugar  good,  the  latter  especially  so. 
There  is  said  to  be  a  greater  yield  of  crystalized  su- 
gar to  the  acre  than  was  ever  known  before. 

Baton  Rouge  is  a  pleasant  little  city,  and  ought  to 
be  a  more  important  place  than  it  is.  Its  elevation 
above  the  river,  and  freedom  from  floods,  ought  to 
make  it  much  healthier  than  New  Orleans.  It  is 
said  that  it  was  very  prosperous  before  the  war,  but 
has  never  been  able  to  become  adapted  to  the  new 
order  of  things.  A  gentleman  who  kindly  showed 
me  through  the  rather  elegant  State  House,  thought 
that  one  hundred  years  hence  it  would  be  the  garden 
of  the  world;  that  the  only  drawback  was  the  Negro, 
and  that  when  they  were  all  sent  back  to  Africa,  the 
country  would  be  prosperous.  That  is  a  specimen 
of  the  kind  of  talk  that  you  will  hear  all  over  the 
South.  The  trouble  with  such  men  is,  that  they  are 
profoundly  ignorant  of  history,  arithmetic,  and  the 
Ten  Commandments.  Like  the  Bourbons,  they 
never  learn  or  forget  anything.  With  a  colored 
population  in  Louisiana  larger  than  the  white,  and 
increasing  more  rapidly;  with  a  constant  advance- 
ment on  their  part,  in  education  and  wealth,  there  is 
about  as  little  prospect  of  their  being  expatriated  as 
there  is  of  their  white  brethren.  Men,  like  Gen. 
Jackson  in  his  Macon  speech,  may  prate  about  slav- 
ery as  "the  gentlest  and  kindliest  relation  that  ever 
existed  between  labor  and  capital,"  but  no  possible 
change  will  ever  restore  the  old  order  of  things,  or 
get  rid  of  the  Negro.  He  will  remain  the  co-laborer 
and  fellow-citizen  with  the  race  to  whom,  without  his 
choice,  he  is  largely  united  in  the  ties  of  consanguin- 
ity, and  with  whom  he  must  inevitably  bear  the 
equal  burdens  and  responsibilities  of  government. 

Baton  Rouge  is  beginning  to  grow.  It  is  slowly 
taking  its  place  in  the  New  South.  I  find  the 
churches  here  as  much  afflicted  with  the  lodge  pes- 
tilence as  elsewhere.  A  pastor  of  one  of  the  largest 
colored  churches,  told  me  that  twelve  years  ago  he 
joined  the  Masons.  After  being  a  member  of  the 
order  three  weeks,  he  saw  a  Mason  shoot  down  an 
unoffending  man  in  the  streets.  His  lodge  forbade 
any  one  taking  sides  against  the  murderer.  He  left 
them,  and  as  a  pastor,  had  lifted  up  his  voice  against 
them.  He  said  that  the  time  had  been  when  the  in- 
fluence of  the  societies  was  so  great  that  no  member 
of  the  church  could  be  brought  to  discipline;  but 
that  such  influence  had  measurably  declined.  Three 
other  ministers  gave  similar  testimony,  and  all  re- 
garded the  lodge  system  as  a  nuisance  to  be  abated 
as  speedily  as  possible. 

I  reached  the  city  Wednesday  afternoon,  and 
preached  that  evening  in  a  colored  Baptist  church. 
Rev.  Geo.  Bird,  pastor.  My  testimony  against  the 
lodge  caused  some  commotion,  but  was  not  unkindly 
taken.  Here  I  found  teaching,  Miss  Emily  Beeken, 
formerly  of  the  Mendi  Mission,  West  Africa.  She 
has  been  several  years  laboring  here  and  at  New  Or- 


leans. She  expressed  hearty  sympathy  with  my 
work.  Next  night  I  preached  in  Mt.  Zion  Baptist 
church.  Rev.  H.  Williams,  pastor.  He  reads  the 
Cynosure,  and  heartily  welcomed  my  testimony 
against  the  lodge.  He  says  that  most  of  the  people 
are  out  in  the  sugar  region,  and  will  not  be  in  till 
Saturday  night.  He  is  anxious  that  I  should  remain 
and  preach  on  the  Sabbath,  which  I  have  consented 
to  do,  and  also  to  preach  in  one  of  the  Methodist 
churches.  The  pastor  of  the  only  white  Baptist 
church  in  the  city  does  not  reside  here,  but  I  under- 
stand he  reads  the  Cynosure  and  sympathizes  with 
our  work,  and  yet  it  would  be  hard  to  find  a  city 
anywhere,  in  which  the  combined  power  of  the  lodge 
and  saloon  is  greater  than  here. 

I  am  exceedingly  glad  of  the  movement  that  sends 
The  Voice  to  all  the  ministers  of  the  land.  It  is  a 
most  wise  and  profitable  expenditure  of  means. 
There  is  still  greater  need  of  a  fund  to  send  the 
Cynosure  to  the  ministers;  for  while  there  are  many 
papers  that  will  give  the  people  the  facts  about  tem- 
perance, there  are  very  few  that  will  tell  the  truth 
about  the  "unfruitful  works  of  darkness."  I  suggest 
that  $1,000  be  raised  and  applied  to  the  purpose. 

NATCHEZ  AND  ITS  SCHOOLS. 

Natchez,  Miss.,  Nov.  22. — On  my  last  Sabbath  at 
Baton  Rouge,  I  preached  three  times:  in  the  Shiloh 
Baptist,  the  Mt.  Zion  Baptist,  and  the  A.  M.  E. 
churches.  The  day  was  chilly,  and  there  was  no 
provision  for  warming  the  houses  of  worship,  which 
made  the  attendance  smaller  than  otherwise.  Nev- 
ertheless there  was  a  good  attendance  at  Mt.  Zion  at 
3  p.  M.,  and  I  preached  from  Eph.  5:  11-13.  Most 
of  those  who  listened,  heartily  assented,  and  the 
pastor,  who  lias  seen  the  inside  of  the  lodge,  gave 
his  earnest  endorsement.  At  night,  in  the  M.  E. 
church,  the  pastor  told  me  I  had  better  not  say  much 
about  the  societies,  as  his  people  would  not  receive 
it.  I  did  not  say  much,  and  what  I  did  say  was  re- 
ceived with  evident  disfavor.  I  had  many  hearty 
amens,  until  I  spoke  of  the  lodge  iniquity.  I  think, 
however,  the  pastor  endorsed  what  I  said,  and  was 
glad  to  have  it  spoken. 

On  Monday  morning  I  left  Natchez  by  the  Missis- 
sippi Valley  railroad.  We  saw  no  more  orange  trees 
or  cane  fields,  but  found  a  fine  cotton  region,  with 
numerous  small  villages.  At  Harriston  the  road 
intersects  with  the  Natchez,  Jackson  and  Columbus 
railroad.  Here  I  had  to  wait  nearly  four  hours. 
There  were  standing  on  the  side  track  of  the  M.  V. 
R,  R.,  six  cars  loaded  with  about  250  bales  of  cot- 
ton. Sparks  from  a  passing  train  set  them  on  fire, 
and  in  a  few  minutes  they  were  all  enveloped  in 
flames.  Of  course  the  cars  burned  as  well  as  the 
cotton.  Most  that  could  be  done  was  to  separate 
the  remaining  cars  from  those  which  were  burning. 
Within  ten  days  past,  immense  quantities  of  cotton 
have  been  burned  at  Memphis,  and  on  ship  board, 
and  has  led  to  a  consideration  of  the  exceedingly 
careless  way  in  which  it  is  packed  and  shipped. 

At  5  V.  M.  we  left  for  Natchez,  (28  miles),  which 
our  mixed  train  reached  in  three  hours.  I  had  vis- 
ited this  city  in  December  of  1843,  and  had  not  been 
here  since.  Except  the  magnificent  bluff,  on  which 
it  stands,  and  the  roads  leading  down  to  the  landing, 
there  was  nothing  to  remind  me  of  forty-four  years 
ago.  Across  the  river,  where  there  was  then  a  cot- 
ton field,  white  with  its  open  bolls,  there  is  now  a 
village,  and  "Natchez  under  the  hill"  where  there 
are  now  some  tumble-down  houses  and  dilapidated 
huts.  Nevertheless,  Natchez  is  a  pleasant  and  grow- 
ing city,  with  about  11,000  inhabitants  and  some 
large  manufacturing  establishments.  A  number 
of  large  and  costly  residences  are  in  process  of 
construction.  Thei-e  is  a  fine  building  for  the  col- 
ored public  school,  and  its  work  is  supplemented  by 
other  institutions. 

I  visited  Natchez  College,  under  the  care  of  Profs. 
Wadlow  and  Owens,  graduates  of  Roger  Williams 
University,  Nashville,  Tenn.  There  were  about  sev- 
enty students,  none  of  whom  are  primary.  I  was 
greatly  pleased  with  the  thoroughness  of  the  instruc- 
tion, and  the  proficiency  of  the  students.  When  I 
explained  to  the  professors  the  nature  of  my  work, 
I  found  it  met  their  hearty  approval.  This,  they 
said,  was  what  they  had  been  taught  at  Roger  Will- 
iams. They  cheerfully  gave  me  the  hour  from  12 
to  1  p.  M.  I  spoke  nearly  an  hour  and  then  an- 
swered questions.  All  were  glad  to  get  tracts  and 
expressed  a  warm  interest  in  the  discussion. 

I  also  visited  the  school  for  colored  young  ladies 
conducted  by  Rev.  A.  .1.  and  Mrs.  Miller.  They 
have  just  gotten  into  a  new  school  building,  and 
their  work  is  one  of  great  promise.  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Miller  are  from  Washington,  D.  C.  Mrs.  M.  was 
educated  at  Howard  University.  Bro.  Miller  is  pas- 
tor of  the  A.  M.  E.  church,  the  only  colored  Metho- 
dist church  in  the  city.  They  have  a  fine  house  of 
worship  and  are  strong  in  numbers.  Like  nearly  all 
the  churches,  they  are  almost  devoured   by  the 


Deoimbxb  1, 1887 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSUKK. 


swarms  of  secret  lodges  that  infest  them.  The  pas- 
tor told  me  that  he  had  been  a  Mason,  and  had 
helped  organize  the  "Universal  Brotherhood  of 
America,"  which  is  described  in  your  paper  of  Nov. 
10th.  Since  then  he  has  seen  his  mistake,  and  has 
withdrawn  from  them.  He  reads  the  (Jynoture  with 
great  interest.  There  are  several  colored  Baptist 
churches  here,  but  I  have  been  able  to  see  but  one 
of  the  pastors.  Providence  permitting,  I  shall  go  to 
Jackson,  Tougaloo  and  other  points  in  the  center  of 
the  State.  H.  H.  Hinman. 


THE  LODGE  BHOWa  FIOHT  IN  B0UTHWB8T- 

BRN  MiaaouRi. 

MassER,  Kansas,  Nov.  23,  1887. 

Editor  Cynosure: — At  last  writing  I  was  speak- 
ing at  Oronogo,  a  mining  town  in  Jasper  county, 
Missouri.  On  returning  from  Carthage  with  Rev. 
J.  R.  Qlassford  on  the  night  train  of  November  15, 
we  found  the  M.  E.  church  locked,  and  the  report 
going  the  rounds  that  there  would  be  no  meeting. 

We  had  no  notion  of  playing  that  way.  Bro. 
Waggoner,  a  holiness  man  and  an  ex-metober  of  the 
Masonic  lodge  in  Oronogo,  opened  the  holiness 
church,  and  soon  it  was  packed  to  standing  room. 
Wilbur  F.  Haughawout,  Esq.,  one  of  the  trustees  of 
the  locked  church,  made  a  rattling  speech  in  favor 
of  free  speech  against  this  miserable  oath -bound 
secret  despotism.  Then  I  took  the  stand  with  my 
books;  God  gave  me  liberty  and  I  poured  a  broad- 
side of  Masonic  Government  into  the  lodge.  The 
threats  of  violence  during  the  day,  and  the  attempt 
to  decoy  me  into  the  baggage  car  to  "do  me  up," 
had  stirred  my  blood,  and  1  felt  like  talking.  The 
utmost  quietness  and  decorum  prevailed  while  I 
spoke.  The  fraternity,  not  satisfied  in  locking  us 
out,  had  come  up  to  the  meeting  in  full  force  and 
took  it  like  little  men,  as  honoring  Albert  Pike,  rob- 
bing Washington's  grave,  and  the  treasonable  teach- 
ings of  Masonry  were  rehearsed  to  the  astonished 
people,  a  large  part  of  whom  were  ladies. 

But  when  Bro.  Glassford,  a  seceded  Mason  from 
Carthage  lodge,  took  the  floor  and  began  showing  up 
the  lodgites  and  their  doings  it  was  the  last  straw 
that  broke  the  camel's  back.  The  Masons  adjourned 
our  meeting  in  a  regular  bedlam  of  confusion  worse 
than  when  poor  Hiram  is  slain  by  Jubelum  in  the 
lodge.  Nothing  has  ever  stirred  the  Oronogo  and 
Joplin  Masons  like  these  meetings,  and  this  is  only 
the  beginning  of  the  end.  We  have  a  long  list  of 
free  Americans  who  are  aroused  at  this  attempt  to 
suppress  free  speech.  Men  like  Bro.  Wilbur  F. 
Haughawout,  who  have  faced  rebel  lead  at  Antietam, 
Gettysburg,  Winchester,  Chancellorsville,  Cedar 
Mountain,  Atlanta,  Second  Bull  Run,  and  more  than 
twenty  hard-fought  battles,  are  not  the  men  to  quail 
when  free  speech  is  assailed,  and  threats  heard  from 
organized  corruption.  They  declare  that  if  this  is 
not  free  America  the  sooner  the  public  find  it  out 
the  better.  An  effort  will  be  made  to  determine 
who  was  the  cat-paw  of  the  lodge  to  lock  members 
of  the  church  out  of  their  own  building.  But  more 
anon  on  that. 

We  are  now  speaking,  distributing  N.  C.  A.  liter- 
ature and  listing  names  in  the  southeast  corner  coun- 
ty in  the  great  State  of  Kansas.  It  is  trying  to  rain 
to-day  as  we  are  comfortably  housed  at  the  pleasant 
home  of  Bro.  J.  C.  Peterson,  who  is  a  solid  Amer- 
ican. The  rain  will  lay  the  dust,  which  has  been 
very  disagreeable  to  breathe  and  wade  through. 
Yours  for  the  war,  M.  N.  Butler. 


THE  OHIO  STATE  GONVBHTION. 


rkboldtionb  adopted  at  new  concord,  ohio,  nov. 
18th  and  17th,  1887. 


Resolved,  1.  That  we  reaffirm  our  former  declarations 
in  relation  to  the  anti- Christian  and  anti -republican  na- 
ture of  secret  societies,  for  whatever  purpose  formed. 

2.  We  express  gratitude  to  God  for  the  success  which 
has  thus  far  attended  our  eSorts  to  awaken  public  atten- 
tion to  the  evils  of  the  system  of  secrecy,  as  this  is  seen 
in  the  largely  increased  number  of  avowed  friends  of  our 
cause  from  all  ranks  and  professions,  the  continually  in- 
creasing prominence,  and  widening  influence  of  the  NO. 
A.,  and  from  the  many  State  and  other  auxiliary  associ- 
ations which  have  been  formed  ;from  the  frank  and  fear- 
less utterances  of  the  Christian  and  occasionally  even  of 
the  secular  press,  on  the  evils  incident  to  as  well  as  nec- 
essarily intended  in  sworn  secrecy.  It  has  come  that  the 
charmed  circle  in  which  the  secret  orders  fancied  them- 
selves included,  by  which  all  investigation  was  preclud- 
ed, has  been  broken,  and  the  veil  which  concealed  their 
character  and  acts  has  been  torn  away,  and  public  opin- 
ion recognizes  the  fact  that  discussion  of  their  principles 
and  workings  is  legitimate. 

3.  We  recoguize  with  thankfulness  the  ordering  of  Di- 
vine Provideoce  in  so  permitting  the  indefinite  multiplii- 
cation  of  secret  orders  and  tiieir  constant  and  almost  un- 
versal  interference  and  obstruction  of  the  manufacturing 
and  other  interests  of  the  country,  thus  imperilling  her 


commercial  and  financial  prosperity  and  stability,  that 
thinking  men  of  all  classes  are  gradually  opening  their 
eyes  to  the  fact  that  secret  associations  are  nothing  less 
than  a  conspiracy  against  all  who  are  not  included  in 
them,and  are  therefore  inherently  and  essentially  unjust, 
and  that  they  are  hurtful  to  society  and  dangerous  to  the 
state. 

4.  The  secret  empire  being  the  organized  kingdom  of 
Satan  in  the  world,  and  the  rival  and  enemy  of  the 
church,  its  overthrow  is  but  a  question  of  time.  In  the 
conflict  in  which  we  are  engaged  we  recognize  the  Lord 
Jesus  Christ  as  our  leader  and  rest  on  his  power  and 
grace  to  crown  our  efforts  with  ultimate  and  complete 
victory . 

Whereas,  The  National  Committee  of  the  Prohibition 
party  is  to  meet  in  Chicago  for  conference  in  the  near 
future,  and  among  other  duties  they  will  be  called  upon 
to  elect  a  chairman  of  their  body;  and 

WuKREAs,  We  believe  in  open  methods  of  carrying  on 
honorable  work  and  do  not  wish  the  Prohibition  party  to 
be  made  the  servant  of  a  secret  society;  therefore 

Resolved,  That  we  request  the  members  of  our  com- 
mitte  to  be  appointed  to  that  conference  to  use  their  in- 
fluence to  secure  the  election  of  a  chairman  who  will  not 
use  the  organization  to  strengthen  the  lodge,but  who  will 
confine  his  efforts  to  the  work  of  securing  national  pro- 
hibition of  the  importation,  manufacture  and  sale  of  in- 
toxicating drinks. 

J.  P.  Lytlb,  Chairman  of  GommiUee. 

5.  A.  George,  Secretary. 

The  following  officers  were  elected  for  the  ensuing 
year: 

President:  Rev.  F.  M.  Spencer,D  D.,  New  Concord. 

First  Vice-President:  Rev.  H.  R.  Smith.Pagetown. 

Second  Vice-President:  Rev.  Wm.  Dillon,  Dayton. 

Corresponding  Secretary  and  Treasurer:  Rev.  C.  W. 
Hiatt,  Columbus. 

Recording  Secretary:  S.  A.  George,  Mansfield. 

Executive  Committee:  Capt.  J.  M.  Scott,  Alexandria  ;K. 
A.  Orvis,  Columbus.  8.  A.  George,  Sec. 


Correspondence. 


THB  VIRTUES  OF    THE  PILGRIM  FATHERS. 


Oswego,  N.  Y.,  Nov.  24,  1887. 

Editor  Christian  Cynosure: — While  in  Amer- 
ica, Canon  Farrar  delivered  a  lecture  on  Dante's  Di- 
vine Comedy.  He  told  us  how  the  poet  was  led  by 
Virgil  through  the  Inferno,  the  hell  where  sin  is 
punished,  and  through  Purgatorio,  the  fires  where  sin 
is  purged,  and  at  last  by  Beatrice  through  Paradiso, 
the  heaven  where  the  soul  is  filled  with  God.  Hell 
represents  selfishness,  in  the  mind  of  the  poet.  It 
is  divided  into  three  sections,  according  to  the  three 
all-inclusive  sins.  These  sins  are  Lust,  Hate,  and 
Fraud.  There  is  the  Upper  Hell,  the  Hell  of  Incon- 
tinence, the  Central  Hell,  the  Hell  of  Malice,  the 
Nether  Hell,  the  Hell  of  Fraud  and  Treachery,  in 
the  lowest  pit  of  which  sits  Satan  himself.  In  the 
introduction  he  called  attention  to  the  "awful  vir- 
tues of  the  Pilgrim  Fathers,"  the  virtues  that  have 
made  Americans  what  they  are.  "If  you  are  to-day 
wise  and  great,  these  virtues  have  made  you  so. 
These  are  the  virtues  which  made  the  rock,  touched 
by  the  feet  of  a  few  pilgrims,  the  corner-stone  of  a 
great  nation.  These  virtues  inspired  the  writer  of 
the  Declaration  of  Independence.  These  virtues 
gave  courage  to  the  men  who,  at  Lexington,  'fired 
the  shot  heard  round  the  world.'  These  virtues  in- 
spired the  words  of  Canning  and  Parker,  of  Whit- 
tier  and  Longfellow.  These  virtues  gave  Lincoln 
the  faith  which  called  forth  the  armies  to  crush  the 
rebellion  and  led  to  victory  the  100,000  men  under 
Grant.  These  virtues  have  grouped  the  eight  and 
thirty  stars  about  the  Goddess  of  Liberty  and  have 
flung  the  chains  from  the  slave.  If  America  be 
true  to  these  virtues  she  will  be  the  enlightener  of 
the  world.  Bat  if  the  sous  of  these  fathers  be  false 
to  these  virtues,  then,  like  all  before  her,  she  shall 
fall  from  heaven  like  Lucifer  of  old."  The  Nation- 
al Reform  Association  is  calling  the  nation  to  the  ex- 
ercise of  these  virtues. 

Last  Sabbath  evening  I  preached  in  Fair  Haven 
M.  E.  church,  Rev.  E.  C.  Crowe,  pastor.  The  Pres- 
byterian congregation,  of  which  Rev.  Sweet  is  pastor, 
joined  in  the  service.  The  house  was  filled,  and 
they  listened  for  over  an  hour  with  the  closest  atten- 
tion. On  Monday  I  visited  Oswego.  The  editor  of 
the  Daily  limes  cordially  received  an  article  on  Na- 
tion Reform.  Arrangements  were  also  made  for 
preaching  in  the  M.  E.  church  next  Sabbath  evening. 
Through  Mrs.  G.  M.  Gardenier,  secretary  of  the 
Oswego  W.  C.  T.  II.,  and  Mrs.  C.  B.  Randall,  the 
president,  arrangements  were  made  for  a  lecture  in 
Ph(i>nix  on  li'riday  evening. 

From  here  I  went  to  Syracuse  and  called  at  the 
ottice  of  the  Northern  Vhristiari  Advocate,  The  edit- 
or. Rev.  Dr.  Warren,  very  willingly  gave  a  column 
and  a  half  for  National  Reform.  I  had  an  exceed- 
ingly pleasant  conversation  with  him.  I  shall  al- 
ways think  of  it  with  the  greatest  of  pleasure.  In 
the  evening  I  lectured  in  the  Reformed  Presbyterian 
church,   Rev.  A.  G.  Wallace,  pastor.      The  Congre- 


gational pastor  near  by  was  present,  and  many  of 
his  people.  We  had  a  very  fair  audience.  Tuesday 
morning  I  talked  to  the  students  of  the  Syracuse 
University.  This  was  the  most  responsive  audience 
I  have  met  in  the  Empire  State.  The  Chancellor, 
Rev.  Charles  A.  Sims,  D.  D.,  L.  L.  D.,  was  out  of 
the  city.  The  Dean,  Prof.  John  R.  French,  L.L.  D., 
read  the  hymn  in  the  chapel  exercises,  and  I  never 
heard  his  equal.  His  voice  is  deep  and  strong;  a 
large  man  of  commanding  appearance,  he  holds  his 
hearers  as  in  a  vice.  His  build  is  in  a  striking  con- 
trast with  Stephens.  He  was  a  member  of  the  com- 
mission sent  by  the  congress  of  the  Southern  Con- 
federacy toconferwith  Lincoln  about  terms  of  peace. 
He  wore  a  great  overcoat  which  made  him  look  large, 
and  when  he  took  it  off  he  looked  correspondingly 
small.  Lincoln  afterwards  said  to  Grant,  "I  never 
saw  such  a  big  chuck  with  such  a  little  ear." 

This  university  is  comparatively  new.  It  was 
originally  Genesee  College,  located  at  Lima,  I  be- 
lieve. It  was  removed  to  Syracuse  in  1873.  Hon. 
George  F.  Comstock,  L.  L.  D.,  donated  a  lot  of  fifty 
acres.  They  have  a  substantial  building,  costing 
$250,000.  The  foundation  is  laid  for  a  library 
building  near  by.  Through  the  munificent  contri- 
bution of  Mr.  John  Crouse,  another  building  is  to 
be  erected  next  summer.  Last  Friday  they  dedi- 
cated the  Observatory.  They  have  an  endo?nnent 
of  $650,000.  It  is  expected  soon  to  reach  $1,000,- 
000.  "The  university  now  receives  annually  aboat 
$16,000  from  its  invested  funds,  and  $7,500  from 
conference  professorships."  They  have  a  faculty 
of  forty-six  instructors,  and  430  students.  There 
are  three  departments.  College  of  Liberal  Arts,  of 
Medicine,  and  of  Fine  Arts.  This  institution  has 
adopted  co-education. 

I  called  at  the  office  of  the  Wesleyan  Methodist. 
The  editor  very  promptly  gave  me  the  freedom  of 
his  columns,  and  so  I  wrote  an  article  on  National 
Reform  which  will  soon  appear. 

On  Tuesday  evening  I  lectured  in  the  Sterling 
Valley  United  Presbyterian  church.  Bro.  Lytle,  the 
pastor,  at  the  close  made  a  few  remarks,  indicating 
where  he  stood.  On  Wednesday  evening  I  lectured 
in  the  Hannibal  Presbyterian  church.  This  is  a 
village  of  2,000.  Rev.  M.  A.  Gault  lectured  in  this 
place  two  years  ago.  On  Thursday  evening  I  lec- 
tured in  the  Reformed  Presbyterian  church  of  Sterling 
Center.  Rev.  T.  J.  Allen  ministered  here  for  thir- 
teen years.  Having  resigned,  the  congregation  has 
called  a  licentiate,  Mr.  French,  who  has  signified 
his  intention  to  accept.  On  Friday  evening  I  lec- 
tured in  Pha3nix,  under  the  auspices  of  the  W.  C.  T.  U. 

Last  Friday  evening  Hon.  Benjamin  Butt«rworth 
of  Cincinnati  spoke  in  Rochester,  advocating  Com- 
mercial Union  with  Canada.  Canada,  including  all 
the  provinces,  has  an  area  of  3,500,000  square  miles. 
The  United  States  an  area  of  3,036,000  square  miles. 
These  are  separated  by  a  barbed  wire  fence  4,000 
miles  long.  There  are  gates  at  which  stand  Custom 
House  officers.  A  man  starts  over  with  nine  car- 
loads of  corn;  he  must  drop  three  at  the  gate  be- 
fore entering  Canada.  He  starts  back  with  seven 
carloads  of  barley,  and  three  must  be  left  for  toll 
before  entering  the  United  States.  The  world's  sup- 
ply is  not  more  than  one  year  in  advance  of  the 
starvation  line.  There  is  no  danger  of  over-pro- 
duction. This  fence  ought  to  be  taken  down.  The 
inventive  genius  of  America  has  furnished  the  world 
375,000  new  industries  in  the  last  generation.  He 
was  in  favor  of  protecting  these;  but  the  food  bar- 
ricade between  tiie  United  States  and  Canada  ought 
to  be  taken  down. 

It  is  interesting  to  note  that  in  the  last  election 
in  this  State  a  religious  test  was  applied.  The  Per- 
sonal Liberty  party  resolved  to  put  the  question  to 
every  candidate,  "Will  you  vote  for  a  law  granting 
the  privilege  of  keeping  saloons  open  Sabbath  after- 
noon?" The  ministers  of  Syracuse  met  and  re- 
solved that  they  must  put  a  counter  question:  and 
so  they  made  a  negative  answer  to  the  question  a 
condition  of  their  support,  as  the  Personal  Liberty 
party  had  made  the  affirmative  answer  the  condition 
of  their  suffrage.  This,  of  course,  is  unconstitu- 
tional. J-  M.  Foster. 


A   STALWART  RS FORMER. 


Rev.  John  K.  Glassford  of  Carthage,  Mo.,  has 
made  a  record  deserving  of  mention.  A  native  of 
Hamilton  county,  Ohio,  he  came  to  Lafayette  county, 
Ind.,  where  he  professed  Christ  and  united  with  the 
M.  E.  church  at  18  years  of  age.  He  began  preach- 
ing when  20  years  old.  He  traveled  Blue  Island 
circuit,  near  Chicago,  in  1S53-4.  He  removed  to 
northern  Iowa  and  was  made  a  Mason  in  Waverly, 
Bremer  county,  in  1858.  Previous  to  initiation  he 
had  read  Morgan's  expose  and  had  been  often  told 
by  men  reputed  truthful  that  it  was  false.  After 
taking  one  degree  he  was  disgusted,  but  finally  con- 


TH£  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSTTKB. 


Decxhbxr  1, 1887 


Bented  to  the  "passing  and  raising."  He  ceased  act- 
ive connection  at  once,  and  privately  spoke  against 
the  lodge.  He  very  soon  encountered  threats  and 
opposition,  but  nothing  daunted  he  continued  to  as- 
sert his  rights  until  the  pressure  became  strong, 
when  he  boldly  and  publicly  renounced  the  order, 
and  challenged  his  opponents  to  an  honorable  dis- 
cussion. As  usual  the  result  was  personal  hostility 
and  insinuations  of  violence  to  which  he  gave  little 
heed. 

In  November,  1865,  he  removed  with  his  family 
to  Jasper  county,  Missouri,  where  he  has  since  re- 
mained an  active,  uncompromising  foe  to  all  secret 
societies.  Believing  the  M.  E.  church  hopelessly 
throttled  by  the  lodge,  he  transferred  his  relations 
to  the  United  Brethren,  where  he  still  remains,  in 
deep  sympathy  with  the  loyal  wing,  though  not  very 
hopeful  of  the  final  result. 

Besides  attending  personally  to  an  extended  and 
varied  business,  he  preaches  and  lectures  frequently, 
and  when  occasion  requires  works  the  three  degrees 
of  Blue  Lodge  Masonry.  His  wife  is  a  most  esti- 
mable and  cultured  lady,  and  has  stood  by  her  hus- 
band unflinchingly  during  their  years  of  fiery  trit>l. 
She  related  some  thrilling  episodes  in  their  early  ex- 
perience during  the  trying  days  of  reconstruction, 
when  the  "regulators"  used  to  suspend  thieves  and 
bush-whackers  to  the  nearest  suitable  limb  without 
the  formality  of  impanneling  a  jury.  Their  two 
surviving  children  imbibed  the  sterling  principles 
of  their  parents,  and  the  third  genertion  gives  prom- 
ise of  being  typical  reformers  in  due  time. 

J.  P.  Stoddard. 


THB  MEMPHIS  SCHOOL. 

All  will  be  glad  to  hear  how  the  good  work  goes 
on  under  the  charge  of  Prof.  Woodsmall,  the  self- 
denying  laborer  among  the  Southern  colored  Bap- 
tist churches.  The  following  letter  was  written  to 
Bro.  George  W.  Clark: 

Memphis,  Tenn.,  Nov.  2,  1887. 

Mt  Dear  Bro.  Clark. — I  am  truly  glad  to  hear 
from  you;  but  how  much  more  I  should  enjoy  sit- 
ting down  and  having  a  good  talk  with  you  and  then 
go  and  have  a  rousing  meeting  with  the  colored  peo- 
ple and  hear  you  sing,  like  we  had  last  winter  in 
Arkansas!  I  often  think  about  our  experience;  it 
was  a  delightful  one  to  me,  and  I  feel  sure  that  the 
Master  blessed  your  work  and  is  still  blessing  it. 

My  health  is  about  as  last  year.  I  am  very  tired 
now  and  half  sick,  hardly  able  to  be  up.  Yet  I  am 
happy  in  my  work,  and  the  outlook  is  hopeful  for 
the  winter.  I  am  preparing  to  start  on  a  campaign 
in  Mississippi  of  several  weeks.  I  have  planned  a 
special  course  for  pastors  for  the  winter  at  Little 
Rock  as  last  year,  and  also  here  at  Memphis.  Dr. 
Stone,  an  old  brother  in  Ohio  who  has  helped  me  in 
former  years,  has  promised  to  take  charge  at  Little 
Rock.  The  colored  brethren  have  decided  to  start  a 
school  here  at  Memphis,  and  decided  to  have  no 
teacher  who  drinks  drams,  uses  tobacco  or  opium,  or 
is  a  member  of  a  secret  society!  Bro.  Peter  Howe 
promised  $10,000.  The  school  was  begun  in  a  small 
way  to-day.  I  expect  to  provide  for  the  pastor  by  Jan. 
3d.  I  think  that  this  enterprise  is  of  the  Lord.  I 
have  a  good  strong  colored  man  with  me  now.  He 
will  work  in  the  field  with  me  and  in  the  school  when 
needed. 

I  hope  you  can  come  South  this  winter.  If  you 
can,  write  me  before  hand.  I  would  write  more,  but 
but  have  too  much  do,  and  am  afraid  to  delay  lest  I 
delay  too  long,  as  each  day  brings  all  that  I  can  do. 
I  hope  you  may  soon  be  better.  Pray  for  me.  Your 
brother  in  Christ,  H.  Woodsmall. 

While  Christian  friends  will  not  fail  to  pray  for 
Bro.  Woodsmall  and  such  faithful  workers  at  the 
South,  they  will  sincerely  sympathize  also  with  Bro. 
Countee  who  has  lost  a  devoted,  intelligent,  amiable 
and  noble  Christian  mother.  a.  w.  c. 


A  PLBA8ANT  VISIT. 


In  response  to  an  invitation  from  Hon.  J.  A.  Co- 
nant  I  spent  the  second  Sabbath  in  November  at 
Willimantic,  Conn.  I  found  a  noble  few  laboring 
to  promote  temperance,  truth  and  righteousness. 
To  preach  the  Gospel  to  them  seemed  like  feeding 
those  who  had  a  relish  for  "the  sincere  milk  of  the 
Word."  And  to  lectur*  on  temperance  was  like  ad- 
dressing those  whose  hearts  are  in  sympathy  with 
God  in  all  his  benevolent  designs  and  purposes. 
There  is  a  loud  call  for  such  workers  in  Willimantic. 

1  learned  that  the  pastor  of  one  of  tbe  prominent 
churches  rejects  the  atonement  and  cuts  the  Bible 
to  suit  his  own  notions.  It  may  be  others  may  feel 
compelled  to  follow  the  example  of  the  great  Lon- 
don preacher,  Rev.  C.  H.  Spurgeon,  in  withdrawing 
from  tbe  Baptist  Union. 


Willimantic,  from  a  business  standpoint,  is  a  thriv- 
ing town  of  eight  thousand  or  more  inhabitants. 
Bro.  Conant  has  a  pleasant  family  and  a  delight- 
ful home  overlooking  the  town.  I  enjoyed  my  visit 
with  them  very  much.  Moreover,  the  laborer  is  re- 
membered as  worthy  of  a  reward.     Isaac  Hyatt. 


NEW  ORLEANS  LODGES  THINNING  OUT. 


New  Orleans,  La.,  Nov.  14,  1887. 

Dear  Ctnosure: — That  dearly  beloved  and  faith- 
ful servant  of  the  Master,  Rev.  H.  H.  Hinman,  was 
in  this  modern  Sodom  last  week.  He  had  been  here 
before  in  October,  but  I  knew  it  not.  We  spent  last 
Tuesday  and  Wednesday  together  and  visited  sev- 
eral of  the  city  clergymen.  Among  them  we  met 
Rev.  R.  Thompson,  D.D.,  pastor  of  Union  Chapel 
M.  E.  church,  the  largest  M.  E.  colored  church  in 
the  city.  The  learned  doctor  was  busy,  but  very 
heartily  received  us.  He  wore  the  pin  of  F.  L.  T. 
and  F.  C.  B,,  but  when  Bro.  Hinman  began  opening 
their  secret  faults  he  owned  up. 

I  am  sure  Bro.  Hinman's  visit  here  in  the  interest 
of  the  National  Convention  has  done  good.  He  lec- 
tured last  Wednesday  night  at  St.  Mark's  Fourth 
Baptist  church,  and  Thursday  night  at  Shiloh  Bap- 
tist church.  I  met  a  sister  yesterday  who  chanced 
to  be  at  Shiloh  church  Thursday  night,  and  she  was 
furious.  She  addressed  me  thus:  "What  old  white 
man  was  dat  with  you  Thursday  nigHt?"  I  told  her 
quietly. 

"Well,  he  need  not  come  here  to  help  Elder  Green 
talk  'boat  s'cieties."  I  read  a  letter  from  last  week's 
Cynosure,  and  she  became  convinced. 

I  listened  with  patience  to  a  masterly  sermon  by 
Dr.  Thompson,  yesterday  evening.  Taking  for  his 
text  Psalm  27:  4,  among  other  things,  the  doctor 
said:  "It  doth  make  my  very  heart  pain  to  hear  men 
going  through  the  country  claiming  self-made  insti- 
tutions and  organizations  of  men  to  be  better  than 
God's  church,  which  is  the  pillar  of  truth.  Any  or- 
ganization of  men  better  than  God's  church  is  too 
good  for  me!"  Although  Wesley  Chapel  M.  E. 
church,  where  the  sermon  was  preached,  is  a  strong- 
hold for  all  kinds  of  secretism,  the  sermon  was  en- 
thusiastically received  throughout. 

I  preached  Sunday  night  at  St.  John  Divine  Bap- 
tist church  on  "Separation."  This  church  is  pretty 
well  filled  with  societies,  but  they  gladly  received 
the  sermon.  Bro.  Richard  Shepherd,  a  member  of 
Shiloh  Baptist  church,  told  me  to-day  he  was  pleased 
with  Bro.  Hinman's  lecture  Thursday  night.  He  has 
been  a  member  of  Amos  Lodge  G.  U.  O.  of  O.  F.; 
also  Golden  Keys  Tabernacle  No.  4.  He  is  con- 
vinced of  their  foolery,  and  has  left  them.  Mr. 
Johnson,  member  of  Union  Bethel,  A.  M,  E ,  is  a 
Patriarch  Mason,  and  Good  Samaritan,  but  says  he 
is  convinced  of  their  robbery.  He  says  he  has  seen 
his  error.  Mr.  Antoine  Rosemond,  an  ex-member 
of  Pride  of  the  South  Lodge  K.  of  P.,  has  seen  his 
mistake,  after  spending  $25  foolishly,  and  has  sev- 
ered connection  with  them. 

I  want  (God  helping)  to  arouse  as  many  as  possi- 
ble to  attend  the  N.  C.  A.  Convention.  I  trust  to 
start  out  from  Thibodeauxville  to  Bayou  Sara  next 
month  to  awaken  them  up  there.    P.  J.  Davidson. 


and  more  necessary  in  order  to  secure  the  favor  of  God 
than  that  the  people  return  to  their  allegiance  to  him  by 
a  proper  obeervance  of  his  holy  day !— A.  M  ,Berlin,  Wis. 


FAINT  HBAKTBD . 


PITH  AND  POINT. 


-  is  very  fearful  that  the  effort  to  change 


PROM  THE   PRESIDENT   OF   THB   BAPTIST   SUNDAY-SCHOOL 
STATE   CONVENTION,  TEXAS. 

Please  send  me  as  much  spare  literature  on  secret  soci 
eties  as  you  can .  I  desire  to  distribute  the  same  over 
Texas.  I  find  places  that  need  it.  Your  literature  is  do- 
ing great  good  in  helping  to  destroy  that  deadly  foe  to 
Christ's  cause.  An  early  reply  will  greatly  oblige,  yours 
in  the  advancement  of  the  Master's  work,  J.  Tolivbr. 

WHAT    ARE    THE    WEAPONS? 

It  is  reported  that  a  distinguished  professor  in  a  Bap- 
tist Theological  Seminary  says  that  "Anti-masons  are 
fighting  for  truth  with  false  weapons."  I  want  to  say 
that  real  Anti-masons  know  that  they  are  fighting  for 
truth;  but  if  with  false  weapons, with  what  kind  of  weap- 
ons, I  ask,  does  the  vanguard  of  Protestantism,  and  the 
Baptist  denomination  in  particular.in  the  matter  of  Free 
masonry  fight  for  lies?  And  by  what  authority  are  Chrie- 
tians  cast  out  of  churches  and  that  for  no  other  reason 
than  they  are  real  Anti-masons?  True  love,love  that  re- 
fiects  the  love  of  God,  "rejoiceth  in  the  truth."  To  con- 
tend against  truth  is  Satanic. — W.  Fenton,  St.  Paul, 
Minn, 

FROM   A    MEMBEB   OK   THE   SABBATH   CONVENTION. 

I  have  read  several  numbers  of  the  Cynosure  lately  and 
have  become  very  much  interested  in  the  paper.  You 
certainly  are  engaged  in  a  good  work.  I  will  risk  my 
salvation  upon  the  correctness  of  your  position  in  oppos- 
ing all  forms  of  secret  organizations  wherein  the  relation 
we  sustain  to  our  fellow  men  is  affected.  I  like  your  pa 
per  more  especially  because  it  is  the  fearless  advocate  of 
aU  moral  reforms.  I  was  much  interested  in  the  report 
of  the  late  convention  in  Elgin,  III.,  in  the  interest  of 
Sabbath  reform.     Surely  there  is  nothing  more  desirable 


Mr.  - 
public  opinion  on  the  lodge  question  will  fail,  and  is  dis- 
posed to  drop  the  Cynostire,  notwithstanding  his  Scotch 
birth  and  Presbyterian  training,  I  see  that  it  requires  a 
Christ  formed  within,  and  the  spirit  and  character  of  the 
same  developed,  to  make  the  way  smooth  on  the  anti- 
secrecy  line. — M.L.  W.,  Kingston,  111. 


Bible  Lesson. 


LESSON 

24-30. 


STUDIES  IN  THE  NEW  TESTAMENT. 
XL-Dec.  11.— Parable   ol   the  Tares.— Matt.  13: 


GOLDEN  TEXT.— The  harvest  is  the  end  of  the  world  and 
the  reapers  are  the  angels.— Matt.  13:39. 

\Ope>i  the  BibU  and  read  the  lesson.] 
From  Peloubet's  Notes. 
The  Sower  is  the  Son  of  Man  (ver.  37).  He  is  the 
source  of  all  the  powers  by  which  men  are  made  good. 
He  changes  men's  hearts;  he  sends  the  Holy  Spirit;  he 
brought  the  truth;  he  made  the  atonement;  he  instituted 
the  church.  More  than  this, he  not  only  creates  the  good 
seed,  but  he  sows  it, — he  commands  his  people  go  into 
all  the  world  and  preach  the  Gospel;  he  plants  in  their 
hearts  the  desire  to  lead  men  to  God;  he  opens  the  door 
for  them,  and  leads  them  to  the  best  instrumentality. 

God's  children  are  seed,  not  mere  grains  of  sand;  for 
(1)  they  are  living,  (3)  they  are  the  means  of  increasing 
the  disciples,  (3)  through  them  the  whole  world  is  to  be 
filled  with  the  fruits  of  the  Spirit  and  the  children  of  the 
kingdom.— P. 

Note  (1)  That  every  Christian  should  remember  that 
he  is  a  seed  sown  by  the  Son  of  Man.  He  is  not  to  live 
alone.a  selfish  life,but  is  to  lead  many  others  to  be  Chris- 
tians (2)  He  is,  therefore,  to  be  very  careful  to  be  good  seed, 
such  as  bears  fruit,  and  such  as  bears  good  fruit.  For 
every  seed  produces  fruit  after  its  kind.  Imperfect  Chris- 
tians tend  to  multiply  imperfect  Christians.  Every  error 
or  fault  of  ours  is  doubly  evil,— it  injures  ourselves  and 
it  injures  others. — P. 

The  Tares  are  those  children  of  the  wicked  one  (ver. 
38)  who  resemble  in  appearance  the  children  of  God;  the 
false  professors,  the  wolves  in  sheep's  clothing,  for  the 
point  of  comparison  is  that  the  tares  resemble  the  wheat 
till  the  fruit  appears.  Those  partaking  of  his  nature  and 
belonging  to  him,  serving  him,  and  destined  to  be  sharers 
in  his  punishment. — Alexander. 

Here,  as  throughout  the  Scriptures,  the  broad  line  is 
drawn  between  the  two  classes  of  men:  they  do  not  in 
fact,  as  in  appearance,  resemble  one  another.  One  is  pro- 
duced from  good  seed,  the  other  from  evil  seed;  one  class 
are  the  children  of  God,  the  other  are  the  children  of  the 
devil ;  one  belongs  to  the  kingdom  of  light,  the  other  to 
the  kingdom  of  darkness.  But  the  difference  is  not  in- 
eradicable here:  the  great  gulf  which  begins  on  earth  be- 
comes impassable  only  at  death. — Abbott.  We  are  not 
to  suppose  that  the  wheat  can  never  become  tares  or  the 
tares  wheat:  this  would  be  to  contradict  the  purpose  of 
Him  who  willeth  not  the  death  of  a  sinner,  but  rather  that 
he  should  be  converted  and  live ;  and  this  gracious  pur- 
pose shines  through  the  command.  Let  both  grow  togeth- 
er till  the  harvest. — Alford. 

The  enemy  that  sowed  the  tares  was  the  devil,  the  en- 
emy of  God  and  man  (ver.  89),  whose  effort  is  to  make 
men  as  bad  as  himself.  Here,  as  in  so  many  other  places, 
the  great  conflict  is  spoken  of  as  rather  between  Satan 
and  the  Son  of  Man  than  between  Satan  and  God.  It  was 
part  of  the  great  scheme  of  redemption  that  the  victory 
over  evil  should  be  a  moral  triumph,  not  obtained  by 
mere  putting  forth  of  superior  strength. — Trench. 

The  Destruction  of  the  Tares.  All  that  is  iniquity,  all 
that  offend  others,  that  is,  all  that  cause  others  to  fall 
into  sin,  shall  be  cast  into  a  furnace  of  fire,  where  there 
shall  be  wailing  and  gnashing  of  teeth.  And  this  for  two 
reasons:  (1)  This  is  all  they  are  fit  for.  It  is  the  just 
end  and  right  punishment  of  the  wicked.  (2)  Punish- 
ment is  intended  to  keep  wickedness  from  spreading  and 
destroying  all  the  good.  -  P.  Fire  is  frequently  em- 
ployed in  the  Bible  as  a  metaphor  for  the  punishment  of 
the  ungodly  (Isa.  5  24;  10:16,17;  Mai.  4:1;  Matt.  8:10; 
7:19:  Heb.  6.8;  10:27).  The  fire  is  represented,  not  as 
something  external  to  the  sinner,  but  as  consisting  of  his 
sins  and  as  proceeding  from  himself  (Isa.  9  18,  19;33  11, 
12).  An  examination  of  these  passages  will  make  it 
clear  that  (a)  fire  is  used  in  them  as  a  symbol,  not  of  pur- 
ification, but  of  punishment;  (6)that  it  represents  a  pun- 
ishment which  is  a  finality,  from  which  there  is  no  deliv- 
erance or  restoration;  (c)that  it  stands  for  a  terrible  pen- 
alty, such  as  could  be  interpreted  only  by  a  physical  sym- 
bol; (d)  that  it  is  symbolical  merely  (as  of  necessity  it 
must  be,  for  souls  and  spiritual  bodies  cannot  be  burned 
with  literal  fire). — Abbott 

The  righteous  shall  in  that  day  shine  forth  in  the  king- 
dom of  their  Father  as  the  sun,  the  symbol  of  gladness, 
of  truth, of  glory,of  life  in  themselves, and  of  giving  light 
and  life  and  cheer  to  all  around. — P.  Then,  when  the 
dark  hindering  clement  is  removed,  shall  this  element  of 
light,  which  was  before  struggling  with  and  obstructed  by 
it.  come  forth  in  its  full  brightness  (see  Col,  3  4;  Rom.  8: 
18;  Prov.  25:4  5).  A  glory  shall  be  revealed  in  the  saints; 
it  shall  not  merely  be  brought  to  them  and  added  from 
wi  bout;  but  rathtr  a  glory  which  they  before  had,  but 
which  did  not  before  evidently  appear,  shall  burft  forth 
and  show  itself  openly.  &<*  did  the  Lord's  hidden  glory 
once  in  the  days  of  his  fiesh,  at  the  mrment  of  his  trans- 
figuration. That  shall  be  the  day  of  the  manifestation  of 
the  sons  of  God:  they  shall  shine  forth  as  the  sun,  when 
the  clouds  are  rolled  away  (Dan,  12:3).— Trench, 


V 


DXOXMBXB  1, 188T 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSUBE. 


6S0BS  T  800IBTIB8  CONDEMNED 


BY  OBBAT  MEN  IN  THE  CHTTBCH. 

Albert  Barhkb,  1849: — Any  good 
cause,  I  think,  can  be  promoted  openly; 
any  secret  association  is  liable,  at  least, 
to  abuse  and  danger. 

Rev.  Leonakd  Bacon,  D.  D.— Wish- 
ing you  good  success  in  your  war  against 
secret  societies. 

Rev.  B.  p.  Aydeldotte,  T).!).,  former 
president  of  Wooduia/rd  College,  0.,  (a  re- 
nouncing Mason) : — Freemasonry  is  a  lie 
all  over. 

Rev.  Justin  Edwards,  D.D.,  autJior 
and  head  of  Andover  Heminary: — When- 
ever the  cause  of  temperance  is  veiled  in 
darkness  and  secrecy,  it  must  lose  its  hold 
on  the  public  confidence  and  sympathy. 

Rev.  M.  Bennett,  long  presiding  el- 
der M.  E.  cAwrcA  —  I  am  pleased  to  be 
counted  in  for  the  movement  which  is  be- 
ing inaugurated  against  tyrannical  organ- 
izations and  factitious  distinctions  in  so- 
ciety. 

Dr.  Thomas  Scott,  the  great  commen- 
tator:— Rash  oaths  are  above  all  things  to 
be  avoided;  but  if  men  are  entangled  by 
them,  they  ought  rather  to  infringe  the 
sinful  oaths  than  to  add  sin  to  sin  and 
ruin  to  their  own  souls. 

Rev.  J.  C.  K  Milligan,  editor  of  "Our 
Banner:" — Through  such  silence,  secret 
connivance  and  horrid  oaths  "ever  to 
conceal  and  never  reveal,"  the  state  of 
our  country  is  rapidly  becoming  such  as 
to  alarm  every  Christian  philanthropist. 

Rev.  B.  T.  Roberts,  editor  of  the  Free 
Methodist:  —For  us  to  keep  silent  respect- 
ing Masonry,  and  thus  tacitly  endorse  the 
idea  that  a  man  can  both  accept  Christ 
and  deny  him— that  is,  be  a  good  Mason 
and  a  good  Christian  at  the  same  time, 
would  be  treason  to  Christ. 

John  Q.  Fee,  Birea  College,  1868.— 
It  is  Freemasonry,  Odd-fellowship  and 
kindred  associations  that  have  spawned 
and  now  lend  respectability  to  "Regulat 
ors,"  "Ku  Klux  Klans,"  and  other  bands 
of  midnight  assassins  now  ranging 
through  Kentucky  and  other  portions  of 
the  South. 

Rev.  J.  P.  Lvtle,  D.  D.  :— Masonry  has 
damned  all  who  ever  trusted  in  it  for  sal- 
vation. It  is  now  leading  away  thou- 
sands from  the  church,  and  from  patLs  of 
virtue  by  association  with  the  intemper- 
ate, unclean  and  profane,  and  is  dragging 
them  down  the  road  which  leads  to  the 
chambers  of  eternal  death. 

Rev.  Edward  Beechrr,  D.D.  :— If  on 
such  anti- Christian  grounds,  prayers  are 
framed,  rites  established  and  chaplains 
appointed,  ignoring  Christ  and  his  inter- 
cession, God  regards  it  as  a  mockery  and 
an  insult  to  himself  and  his  church.  In 
it  is  revealed  the  hatred  of  Satan  to 
Christ.  By  it  Christ  is  dethroned  and 
Satan  exalted. 

Rev.  W.  W.  Patton,  D.  D.,  1869:— 
However  secret  societies  may  differ  among 
themselves,  yet  they  are  all  anti-republi- 
can in  their  tendencies;  and  are  all  lead- 
ing to  the  same  results,  viz.,  a  substitution 
of  worldly  and  selfish  innovations  for 
moral  and  religious  influences,  and,  ulti- 
mately, to  the  theoretical  and  practical 
neutralization  of  Christianity. 

Rev.  James H.  Faihchild,  D.D.,  Pitts- 
burg address:— The  point  is  not  that  the 
working  of  a  secret  organization  may  be 
perverted  to  selfish  ends,  but  that  in  its 
very  nature  it  strongly  tends  to  such  per- 
version. A  worthy  institution  may  be 
perverted,  but  an  institution  in  which  the 
tendency  to  perversion  is  inherent  and 
constitutional,  is  not  a  good  institution. 

Rev.  Dr.  James.  B.  Walker, aM</tor 
of'PhilosopJiy  of  the  Plan  of  tialvation." 
— There  is  probably  not  one  in  a  thous- 
and who  enter  the  lodge,  who  know,  when 
blindfolded  thoytake  the  terribleoaths.that 
Masonry  is  an  anti-Christ  and  one  of  the 
most  powerful  enemies  of  Christ  that  ex- 
ists. But  this  is  put  beyond  the  possi- 
bility of  a  doubt  by  the  highest  Masonic 
authorities. 

Rev.  Nathan  Brown,  Editor  "Am. 
Baptist"  and  missionarij  to  Japan. — If 
Freemasonry  had  existed  in  the  days  of 
Christ,  and  in  the  same  form  that  it  ex- 
ists with  us.hc  could  not  have  condemned 
it  more  distinctly  than  ho  did  in  his  Ser- 
mon on  the  Mount:  "If  ye  do  good  to 
them  that  do  good  to  you,  what  do  ye 
more  than  others?  Do  not  even  the  pub- 
licans the  same?"  The  Gospel  is  at  war 
with  every  system  of  clique  or  clan,  caste 
or  combination  that  seeks  to  create  dJB- 
tinctions  in  the  human  family. 


Charles  C.  Footb: — What  would  the 
introduction  of  Christ  into  Mohamme- 
danism be,  but  its  annihilation?  And 
thus  would  it  be  with  Masonry. 

Rev.  John  Todd,  Pittsfield,  Mass.: — 
Unhesitatingly  I  give  my  decided  disap- 
probation of  what  I  deem  secret  societies 
in  college  and  elsewhere.  I  have  never 
known  any  good  results  from  them  which 
could  not  have  been  attained  in  some 
other  more  appropriate  way,  and  I  have 
known  great  evils  resulting  from  them. 

Howard  Crosby,  ChanceUor  Univer- 
nty  of  New  York,  1870: — We  have  no 
hesitation  in  writing  secret  societies 
among  the  quackeries  of  the  earth . 

Idem,  1886:  —The  secret  lodge  system 
belongs  to  despotisms  and  not  to  democ- 
racies. Whatever  in  it  is  not  babyish  is 
dangerous. 

Rev.  Matthew  L.  R.  Perrine,  D.D., 
Auburn  Theological  Seminary,  Rev.  Joel 
Parker  and  Rev.  Chauncey  Eddy: — 
Having  formerly  associated  with  Free- 
masons, we  deem  it  our  duty,  publicly  to 
declare  that  the  system  of  Freemasonry  is 
in  our  judgment,  of  a  tendency  on  the 
whole  pernicious  to  the  moral  habits,  and 
dangerous  to  the  civil  and  religious  insti- 
tutions of  our  country. 

Rev.  Levi  Chase,  FallBiver,  Mass.:— 
The  question  has  been  asked  by  Masons, 
who  wish  to  asperse  the  characters  of 
those  who  have  renounced  Masonry, 
"Why  did  not  they  renounce  it  be- 
fore?" For  one,  I  will  give  them  the  rea- 
son why  I  did  not.  The  Masonic  oaths 
locked  my  tongue  in  silence— death,  in 
all  its  horrid  shapes  and  frightful  forms, 
stared  me  in  the  face — I  considered  the 
oaths  binding. 

Rev.  C.  D.  Burlingham,  in  history  of 
the  Oenesee  M.  E  Confer  ence,  1860: — This 
new  element  of  discord  (Odd  fellowship) 
began  to  introduce  itself  in  our  church, 
professedly  as  a  mutual  insurance  com- 
pany against  temporal  want,  and  a  newly 
discovered  and  remarkably  successful 
Gospel  appliance  for  bringing  the  world, 
reformed  and  saved  into  the  church. 
But  our  people  very  naturally  looked 
upon  it  with  suspicion,  dreading  its  power 
as  a  secret  agency  acting  through  aflBliated 
societies,  and  doubting  its  utility  as  a 
financial  scheme.  They  feared  it  would 
drag  the  church,  debased  and  corrupted, 
into  the  world. 

Rev.  Joel  Mann,  a  renouncing  Mason: 
— Although  portions  of  the  Gospel  are 
interwoven  with  its  forms,  I  conceive 
that  Masonry  presents  false  grounds  of 
hope;  leads  men  to  depend  on  their  own 
defective  righteousness; — to  expect  the 
favor  of  God  without  the  interposition  of 
a  Redeemer,  and  even  without  repent- 
ance; and  thus  has  a  most  injurious  influ- 
ence on  their  eternal  interests.  Under 
the  most  favorable  circumstances,  which 
in  any  place,  have  attended  Masonry,  it 
has  occasioned  a  great  waste  of  time  and 
money,  which  might  and  ought  to  have 
been  employed  for  better  purposes.  And 
furthermore,  it  interferes  materially  with 
domestic  religious  duties. 

Rev.  Aaron  Leland,  formerly  Lieut.- 
Oovernor  of  Vermont  and  Deputy  Grand 
Master  of  the  Masonic  Grand  Lodge  {to  a 
Baptist  association) : — He  stated  that  the 
first  objection  which  presented  itself  to 
his  mind  was  the  practice  ot  praying  for 
the  soul  of  a  brother  Mason  after  he  had 
been  dead  two,  three,  and  sometimes  four 
days— th&t  he  persisted  in  the  practice  for 
a  short  season  to  the  injury  of  his  con- 
science— that  it  was  a  Romish  custom, 
and  he  never  would  preach  at  the  burial 
of  a  Mason  when  Masonic  forms  and  cus- 
toms were  attended  to— that  he  never 
would  preach  to  a  lodge  of  Masons  as 
sticli,  and  that  he  was  ashamed  that  he 
had  ever  participated  in  the  principles 
and  practices  of  the  institution. 

Elder  David  Bernard: — I  solemnly 
renounce  all  fealty  to  Masonry,  and  do 
most  earnestly  beseech  my  brethren  in 
Christ  Jesus,  of  every  name,  to  come  out 
and  boar  unequivocal  testimony  against 
it.  Think,  O  think,  dear  Christians,  that 
hundreds  and  thousands  of  precious  and 
immortal  souls  will  be  lost  forever,  unless 
they  return  and  repent,  but  that  the  name 
of  the  precious  Jesus  is  rejected,  your 
Saviour,  your  precious  and  adorable  Sav- 
iour taken  away— the  cause  of  your  bleed- 
ing Redeemer  injured— the  hands  of  the 
wicked  strengthened,  and  the  Almighty 
God  dishonored!  And  O,  let  mo  entreat 
you  in  the  mercy  and  bowels  of  Jesus 
Christ,  to  rellect  that  you  have  to  answer 
for  the  blood  of  those  who  shall  find  also, 
when  it  shall  bo  forever  too  late,  that 
Masonry  is  not  a  Saviour!  «• 


THE   OmmCHEB    V8.    LODeSRT. 

The  following  denominations  are  com- 
mitted by  vote  of  their  legislative  assem- 
blies or  by  constitution  to  a  separation 
from  secret  lodge  worship: 

Adventists  (Seventh-day.) 

Baptists — Primitive,  Seventh-day  and 
Scandinavian. 

Brethren  (Dunkers  or  German  Bap- 
tists.) 

Christian  Reformed  Church. 

Church  of  God  VNorthem  Indiana  El- 
dership.) 

Congregational — The  State  Associations 
of  Illinois  and  Iowa  have  adopted  resolu- 
tions against  the  lodge. 

Disciples  (in  part.) 

Friends. 

Lutherans — Norwegian,  Danisk,  Sj?»d- 
ish  and  Synodical  Conferences. 

Mennonites. 

Methodists — Free  and  Wesleyaa. 

Methodist  Protestant  (Minnesota  Con- 
ference.) 

Moravians. 

Plymouth  Brethren. 

Presbyterian — Associate,  Reformotl  aj»d 
United. 

Reformed  Church  (Holland  Branch.) 

United  Brethren  in  Christ. 

Individual  churches  in  some  of  these 
denominations  should  be  excepted,  in  part 
of  them  even  a  considerable  i>ortion. 

The  following  local  churches  have,  as  a 
pledge  to  disfeUowshlp  and  oppose  lodge 
worship,  given  their  names  to  the  follow- 
ing list  as 

the   ASSOCIATBr   CHURCHES   OF  CHKI8T. 

New   Ruhamah  Cong.  Hamilton,  Miss. 

Pleasant  Ridee  Cong.  SandfordCo.  Ala. 

New  Hope  Methodist,  Lowndes  Co.,  Miss. 

Congregational,  College  Springs,  Iowa. 

College  Church  of  Christ,  Wheaton,  HI. 

First  Congregational,  Leland,  Mich. 

Sugar  Grove  Church,  Green  county.  Pa. 

Military  Chapel,  M.  E.,  Lowndes  county, 
■'/liss. 

Hopewell  Missionary  Baptist,  Lowndes  Co., 
Miss. 

Cedar  Grove  Miss.  Baptist,  Lowndes  Co., 
Miss. 

Simon's  Chapel,  M.  E.,  Lowndes  Co.,  Miss. 

Pleasant  Ridge  Mise.  Baptist,  Lowndes  Co., 
Vliss. 

Brownlee  Church,  Caledonia,  Miss. 

Salem  Church,  Lowndes  Co.,  Miss. 

West  Preston  Bantlst  Church,  Wayne  Co.,Pa. 

OTHER  LOCAL  CHTmCHBB 

adopting  the  same  principle  are — 

Baptist  churches :  N.  Ablngton,  Pa.;Meno- 
monle,  Mondovl,  Waubeck  and  Spring  Prairie, 
Wis. ;  Wheaton,  111. ;  Perry,  N.  Y. ;  Spring 
Creek,  near  Burlington,  Iowa;  Lima,  Ind. ; 
ConstablevlUe,  N.  Y.  The  "Good  WIU  Assocl- 
ton"ofMobile,  Ala.,  comprising  some  twenty- 
five  colored  Baptist  churches;  Bridgewater 
Baptist  Association,  Pa.;  Old  Tebo  Baptist, 
near  LeesvlUe,  Henry  Co. ,  Mo. ;  Hoopeston,  111 ; 
Esmen,  111. ;  StrykerBvllle,  N.  Y. 

Congregational  churches :  1st  of  Oberlln,  O. ; 
Tonica.  Crystal  Lake,  Union  and  Big  Woods. 
111. ;  Solsbury,  Ind. ;  Congregational  Methodist 
Maplewood,  Mass. 

Independent  churches  In  Lowell,  Conntry- 
man  school  house  near  Llndenwood,  Marengo 
and  Streator,  111. ;  Bereaand  Camp  Nelson,  Ky ; 
Ustlck,  111. ;  Clarksburg,  Kansas ;  State  Associ- 
fttlonof  Mii!i*t<eri  and  Chnrchea  of  Christ  !■ 
Kemtnekv 

ANTl-MABONIO  LS0TVSSB8. 

Qbnbbal  AeBNT  AND  Lbctubbb,  J.  p. 
Stoddard,  221  W.  Madison  St.,  Chicago, 

H.  H.  Hinman,  Cynosure  oflSce. 
Agent  for  Southern  States. 
Statb  AeSNTB, 

Iowa,  C.  F.  Hawley,  Wayne,  Henry 
Co.     Care  Rev.  Geo.  Fry. 

Missouri,  Eld.  Rufus  Smith,  Maryville. 

New  Hampshire,  Eld.  S.  C.  Kimball, 
New  Market. 

Ohio,  W.  B.  Stoddard,  Columbus. 

Kansas,  Robert  Loggan,  Clifton. 

Alabama,  Rev.  G.  M.  Elliott,  Selma. 

Dbgbbb  Wobkbbs. — LSecedcrs.] 
J.  K.  Glassford,  Carthage,  Mo. 
.  Othbb  Lbctubbrs. 

C.  A.  Blanchard,  Wheaton,  111. 
N.  Callender,  Thompson,  Pa. 

J  H.  Tlmmons,  Tarentum,  Pa 

T.  B.  McCormlck,  Princeton,  Ind. 

E.  Johnson,  Dayton,  Ind. 

H.  A.  Day,  Wllllametown,  Mich. 

J.  M.  Bishop,  Chambersburg,  Pa. 

A.  Mayn,  BloomlDgton,  Ind. 

J.  B.  Cresslrger,  Sullivan,  O. 

W.  M.  Love,  Oecpola,  Mo. 

J.  L.  Barlow,  Oruinly  Center,  Iowa. 

A.  D.Freeman,  Dowcer*  Grove,  111 

Wm.  Fent«D  St  Paul,  Minn. 

E.  I.  Grlnnell,  Blab^l  urg,  Iowa. 

Warren  Taylor,  South  Balem,  O. 

J.  8.  Perry,  Thompson,  Conn. 

J.  T.  Michael,  Nrw  Wllmlugton.Pa. 

8.  G.  Barton,  Brecklurlilge,  Mo. 

E.  Bameteon,  Haeklnvllle,  Steuben  Co.'N.  Y 

Wm.  R.  Roach,  Pickering,  Ont. 

D.  A.  Richards,  Brighton,  Mich.  ' 


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Fbesidbnt.— H.  H.  George,  D.  D.,  Gen- 
eva College,  Pa. 

ViCB-PBBsiDBHT — Rev.  M.  A.  Gaolt, 
Blanchard,  Iowa. 

CoB.  Sbc'v  and  General  Agent.- J 
P.  Stoddard,  221 W.  Madison  st.,  Chicago. 

Rbc.  Sbc'v.  and  Trbabubbb. — W.  I. 
Phillips,  221  W.  Madison  St.,   Chicago. 

DrBBCTOBfl. — Alexander  Thomson,  Mi 
R.  Britten,  John  tlardner,  J.  L.  Barlow, 
L.  N.  Stratton,  Thos.  H.  Gault,  C.  A. 
Blanchard,  J.  E.  Roy,  E.  R.  Worrell,  H. 
A.  Fischer,  W.  R.  Hench. 

The  object  of  this  Association  Is: 
"To  expose,  withstand  and  remove  secrrt 
societies,  Freemasonry  in  particular,  and  othef 
anti-Christian  roovements,  in  order  to  save  tha 
churches  of  Christ  from  being  depraved,  to  re- 
deem the  admlnistrt'tion  of  justice  from  per- 
version, and  our  rep  iblican  government  from 
corruption." 

To  carry  on  this  work  contributions  are 
solicited  from  every  friend  of  tne  reform. 

Form  op  Bequest. — J  give  and  bequeath  to 
the  National  Christian  Association,  incorpo- 
rated and  existing  xmder  the  laws  of  the  State 

of   Illinois,  the  sum  of ■    dollars  for  the 

purposes  of  said  Association,  and  for  which 
the  receipt  of  Its  Treasurer  for  the  time  t>eiDg 
Kball  be  sufficient  discharse. 

THB  NATIONAL  CONYSNTION. 

Pbbbidbnt,— Rev.    J.    S.  McCulloch, 
D.  D. 
Secrbtabt. — Rev.  Lewis  Johnson. 

BTATB  AXTXILIABV  ASSOCIATIONB. 

Alabama.— Pres.,  Prof.  Pickens;  Sec,  B. 
M.  Elliott;  Treas.,  Rev.  C.  B.  Curtis,  all  of 
Selma. 

Calhobnia.— Pre«^  L.  B.  Lathrop,  Hollls- 
ter;  Cor.  Sec,  Mrs.  U.  P.  Merrill,  Woodland; 
Treas.,  C.  Ruddock,  Woodland. 

CoNNBCTictJT.— Pres..  J.  A.  Conant,  Willi- 
mantle;  Sec,  Geo.  Smith,  WlUlmantlc ;  Treas. 
C.  T.  CoUln^  Windsor.  ' 

Illinois.— Pres.,  J.  P.  Stoddard;  Sec,  M. 
N.  Butler;  Treas,,  W.  I.  Phllllpi.  all  at  CV- 
no*ur«  office. 

Indiana.— Pres.,  William  H.  Flgg,  Reno 
Sec,  S.  L.  Cook,  Albion ;  Treas.,  BenJ.  Ulah 
Silver  Lake. 

IowA.-PreB.,Wm.  Johnston.College  Springs ; 
Cor  Sec,  C.  D.  Trumbull,  Morning  Sun; 
Treas.,  James  Harvey,  Pleasant  Plain,  Jeffer- 
son Co. 

Kansas.— Pree.,  J.  P.  Richards,  Ft  Scott: 
Sec.  W.  W.  McMillan,  Olathe;  Treas.,  jI 
A.  Torrence,  N.  Cedar. 

Massachtjsbtts.— Pree.,  S.lA.  Pratt;  Sec, 
Mrs.  E.  D.  Bailey;  Treas.,  David  Mannlng.Sr., 
Worceeter. 

Michigan.— Pres.,  D.  A.  Richards,  Brighton : 
Sec'y,  H.  A.  Day,  Wllllamston;  TreM. 
Geo.  Bwanson,  Jr.,  BedfoiJ. 

Minnesota.- Pres.,  E.  Q.  Paine,  Waaloja  • 
Cor.  Sec,  Wm.  Fenton,  St.  Paul:  Rec.  Sec'y 
Mrs.  M.  F.  Morrill,  St.  Cflarles;  Treaa.,  Wm 
H.  MorriU,  St  Charles. 

Missouri.— Pre*.,  B.  F.  Miller,  EaglevlUe 
Treas.,  William  Beauchamp,  Avalon ;  Cx)r.  8»c, 
A.  D.  Thomas,  Avalon. 

Nebraska.- Pres.,  S.  Austin,  Falrmooit; 
Cor.  Sec,  W.  Spooner,  Kearney;  Treas., 
J.C.  Fye. 

NiwHAMPSHiRB.— Pres.,  Isaac  Hyatt  GU 
ford  Village ;  Sec,  S.  C.  Kimball,  New  Market- 
Treas.,  James  F.  French,  Canterbury. 

Niw  York.— Pres.,  F.  W.  Capwell,  Dale; 
Sec'y,  John  Wallace,  Syracuse;  Treas.,  M. 
Merrick,  Syracuse. 

Ohio.— Pres.,  Rev.  R.  M.  Smith,  Pagetown: 
Roc  Sec,  Rev.  Coleman,  Utica;  Cor.  Sec  and 
Treas.,  Kev.  S.  A.  Otorge,  Mansfield;  Agent, 
W.  B.  Stoddani,  Columbus. 

PiNNSTLVANiA.— Pree.,  A.  L.  Post,  Mos 
trose;  Cor.  Sec,  N.  Callender,  Tbompaon 
Treas.,  W.B.  Bertels,  WUkeebarre. 

Ybbmont.— Free.,  w.  R.  Laird,  St  Johns- 
bury;  See,  C.  W  Potter, 

WisoOHaiH.— Pres.,  J.  W  Wood,  Baraboo; 
gk'c,  W.  W.  Ames,  Menomonle;  Treas.,  M.  B 
Britten,  Vienna. 


8 


THE  OHRISTIAH  CYNOSUKE. 


Deobmbie  1, 1887 


The  Christian  Cynosure. 


KonoBS. 


i.  BLANCHARD. 


HEMRT  L.  KBLLOOQ. 


CHICAaO,    THUBSDAT,    DBCEMBKR   1,   1887. 


The 
TO  20, 


New  Orleans 
1888. 


Convention  February  17 


At  home,  after  a  long  and  happy  journey  to  the 
hills  where  father,  mother,  and  three  sisters  were 
buried,  and  where  jJl  our  young  imaginations  were 
born.  The  trip  has  fastened  two  impressions  in  our 
mind:  that  the  lodge  is  to  be  overthrown  more  speed- 
ily than  we  have  expected:  and  the  churches  are  to 
sufler  worse.  The  ministers  almost  universally  dis- 
like and  dread  the  lodge;  yet  are  silent  concerning 
it  till  spoken  to,  and  then  reply  with  bated  voice,  as 
though  afraid  some  one  would  hear. 


F.  W.  Capwbll,  Esq.,  of  Wyoming  county,  New 
York,  is  hoping  to  attend  the  New  Orleans  conven- 
tion, with  Mrs.  Capwell.  Two  things  make  this 
Southern  anniversary  exceptionally  important.  1. 
New  Orleans  and  Louisiana,  as  their  names  import, 
were  founded  by  French  Roman  Catholics,  who,  of 
all  civilized,  Christian  peoples,  have  least  hatred  of 
colored  people.  And,  second,  just  now  millions  of 
money  are  seeking  investment  South.  This  wears 
out  the  hatred  of  Northerners,  and  will  open  the  he- 
reditary hospitality  of  Southern  people  to  our  N.  C. 
A.  anniversary.  A  third  reason  is  that  our  meeting 
is  in  1888.  This  will  give  us  access  to  a  million  of 
colored  votes,  which,  if  gained  for  American  Pro- 
hibition, would  turn  the  scale  and  elect  a  reform 
President  at  the  latest  in  1892. 


Aaron  Bqrr. — Since  our  last  issue,  some  valu- 
able facts  respecting  the  Masonic  career  of  the  mur- 
derer of  Alexander  Hamilton  have  been  discovered 
in  the  history  of  Masonry  in  Illinois,  by  John  C. 
Reynolds,  a  Deputy  Grand  Master.  When  Burr 
was  on  his  way,  or  returning,  during  his  well  known 
trip  to  New  Orleans  he  visited  the  Grand  Lodge  of 
Illinois  on  the  4th  of  April,  1812.  While  in  this 
State  he  also  visited  Morning  Star  Lodge  at  Kas- 
kaskia,  and  his  name  appeared  afterward  on  the 
records  of  that  lodge  as  a  visitor.  Burr  hailed  from 
Union  Lodge,  No.  40,  Connecticut.  Morning  Star 
Lodge  went  down  with  all  the  rest  in  Illinois  during 
the  Morgan  times.  The  oldest  lodge  in  this  State 
now  on  the  roll  is  Bodley,  No  1,  of  Quincy,  the  char- 
ter dating  from  1840. 


THE  NATIONAL  W.  C.  T.  U.  CONVENTION. 


In  this  great  meeting  at  Nashville,  Tennessee, 
Miss  Willard's  annual  address  contained  the  follow- 
ing passage: 

"I  have  always  been  opposed  to  secret  societies  and 
never  more  so  than  today.  They  are  a  relic  of  medise- 
val  times,  and  destined  to  become  extinct.  But  the 
Good  Templars  and  the  Knights  of  Labor  have  so  much 
in  them  that  is  praiseworthy,  their  secretism  is  so  nomi- 
nal, and  their  purposes  so  helpful  that  it  has  always 
seemed  to  me  they  formed  exceptions  to  the  general  rule. 
I  believe  they  will  not  always  be  secret  even  in  name,  but 
that  this  useless  feature  will  fade  away  and  merge  into 
the  light  of  common  day." 

The  friends  of  humanity,  the  country,  and  the 
Christian  religion,  have  much  reason  to  congratulate 
themselves  on  the  utterance  of  Miss  Willard  given 
in  the  above  extract  Her  national  position,  untir- 
ing industry,  singular  ability,  philanthropy,  and 
address,  make  her  utterance  above  a  historic  event; 
and  her  mind  has  certainly  made  progress  toward  a 
right  understanding  of  the  secret  lodge  issue.  And 
yet,  if  she  goes  no  farther,  she  will  certainly  help 
the  lodge  and  hinder  prohibition. 

Her  views  are  defective,  and  in  our  judgment  fa- 
tally so,  in  the  following  particulars: 

1.  She  indicts  secret  societies  only  as  "a  relic  of 
mediaeval  times,  destined  to  become  extinct,"  where- 
as, the  lodge  ritual  is  »  Christ-omitting,  man-invented 
religion.  In  the  sound  words  of  Dr.  Gray,  editor  of 
the  Interior,  "Masonry  claims  to  save  men  and  take 
them  to  heaven  without  the  mediation  of  Christ." 
And  every  religion  on  our  globe  which  omits  Christ, 
is  "Gentile,"  or  demon  worship.  To  accuse  such  a 
system  of  being  "medijeval"  and  "destined  to  ex- 
tinction," is  to  blink  at  its  malignant  nature,  just  as 
it  would  be  to  accuse  treason  of  being  old  and  likely 
to  fade  out 

2.  It  pleads  for  Good  Templar  and  Knights  of 
Labor  secrecy,  as  Lot  pleaded  for  Zoar,  "Is  it  not  a 
little  one?"  The  objection  to  this  "little"  secrecy 
is,  that  it  is  in  the  plain  of  the  Masonic  Sodom,  and 


parture  from  the  plain  example  of  Jesus  Christ, 
John  18:  20.  More  Masons  can  be  made  to-day  by 
sending  out  a  lecturer  to  form  Good  Templar  lodges, 
than  to  form  Masonic  lodges !  The  Master  of  Whea- 
ton  (111.)  lodge  offered  a  thousand  dollars  to  Wheaton 
College  if  the  rule  might  be  waived  so  that  students 
might  join  Good  Templar  lodges.  This  being  re- 
fused, he  offered  ten  thousand  dollars  if  the  rule 
might  be  relaxed,  so  as  to  make  Wheaton  "like  Be- 
loit  and  other  colleges."  This  being  refused  he 
prosecuted  the  College  in  the  Circuit  and  Supreme 
Courts  of  Illinois,  to  break  down  the  anti-secret  rule. 
Miss  Willard's  speech  grants  all  that  this  lodge 
master  demanded  of  Wheaton  College  to  make  its 
opposition  to  lodgery  harmless. 

Soon  after  The  Issue  (a  magnificent  paper)  was 
started  in  Nashville  to  take  Prohibition  to  the  peo- 
ple of  Tennessee,  Finch  &  Co.  put  a  brisk  agent  into 
that  State  and  covered  it  with  Good  Templar  lodges. 
Of  course  the  popular  vote  went  against  the  Prohi- 
bition cause,  as  it  always  has  done,  and  always  will 
do,  where  secrecy  holds  the  helm.  We  are  not  in 
their  lodges.  The  lodge  members  themselves,  that 
is,  the  rank  and  file,  do  not  know  how  the  defeat  is 
carried;  but  the  general  method  is,  to  let  Templar 
men  in  the  Legislature  or  State  vote  Prohibition  so 
as  to  hide  their  treachery;  but  to  bribe  with  distil- 
lers' and  brewers'  money  just  enough  to  defeat  the 
Prohibition  cause.  When  St.  John  was  sunk  near 
fifty  thousand  votes  in  Kansas,  the  bribery  was 
wholesale.  Negro  votes  were  bought  for  a  chunk  of 
tobacco;  and  bummer  politicans  for  prices  to  suit 
Such  methods  defeated  Prohibition  in  Tennessee. 
The  whole  State  was  sworn  to  secrecy,  especially  the 
temperance  wing  of  it. 

Miss  Willard's  courage  failed  as  it  did  before 
Powderly's  show  of  millions.  Hence  she  put  into 
her  address  the  following: 

"As  temperance  people  we  must  no  longer  leave  our 
interests  undefended  in  Washington.  I  suggest  that  this 
convention  invite  the  Sons  of  Temperance,  Good  Tem- 
plars, and  the  Prohibition  party  to  combine  with  us  in  the 
efEort  to  engage  a  Christian  temperance  lawyer  at  Wash- 
ington who  shall  watch  our  interests  as  carefully  as  Lou- 
is Shade  &  Co.  do  those  of  the  brewers  and  distillers." 

But  does  Miss  Willard  think  we  are  so  dull  as  to 
hope  that  Sons  of  Temperance  and  Templar  lodges 
will  send  a  lawyer  to  Washington  who  is  not  a  sworn 
secretist?  Never!  She  has  steadily  refused  to  be 
initiated  by  the  Good  Templars;  yet  she  yokes  the 
open  workers  up  with  them.  If  she  were  in  the 
lodges,  she  might  protect  us.  But  now  she  puts  us 
at  their  mercy;  and  the  tender  mercy  of  lodge-leaders 
is  cruel. 

The  venerable,  and  now  sainted  Bishop  Simpson 
wrote  us,  a  few  weeks  before  he  died,  that  he  had 
"never  joined  a  secret  society,  not  even  the  Sons  of 
Temperance.  Biit  I  allow  others  the  exercise  of 
their  own  judgment" 

This  is  not  Cynosure  morals.  If  there  were  good 
and  sufficient  reasons  why  Bishop  Simpson  should 
shun  secret  societies  through  his  whole  life,  he 
should  have  given  those  reasons  to  the  church,  and 
saved  thousands  of  Methodists,  and  millions  of 
money,  from  the  maw  of  the  secret  anti-Christ 

Miss  Willard  has  excelled  the  good  and  great 
Bishop.  She  has  broken  silence,  which  he  did  not; 
and  we  greatly  rejoice.  But  fidelity  to  Christ  and 
his  cause  must  keep  us  from  her  error,  viz.,  giving 
our  words  against  the  lodge,  and  our  actions  for  it 


ADDRB88  TO  TEE  GHB18TIAN8  OF  SAR- 
ATOGA. 


RKPLY  TO  DR.  S.  V.  LEECH. — HISTORY  OF  FREEMASON- 
RY.— ITS  OONNECnON  WITH  THE  REBELLION. — 
ITS   COMING   DOWNFALL. 


[Leaving  Saratos;a  I  wrote  the  following  semifare- 
well  to  its  citizens  who  have  showed  me  many  kindness- 
es for  years  with  no  rebuffs  for  our  reform.  It  was  to 
have  been  printed  there,  but  the  editor  of  the  Eagle, 
though  a  fair  and  fearless  man,  shrunk  from  publishing 
it,  saying,  "With  my  limited  knowledge  of  secret  socie- 
ties it  would  be  monstrous  for  me  to  print  an  article 
practically  branding  a  large  section  of  our  population  as 
criminals  or  concealers  of  crime."  Our  judicious  and 
fair  minded  friends,  Mr.  and  Mrs  Capwell.of  Dale.N.Y., 
where  I  stopped,  with  others.insist  that  it  should  be  pub- 
lished.— .1   B  ] 

Forty-nine  years  ago  my  young  wife  and  myself 
made  our  first  visit  to  Saratoga,  on  the  way  to  our 
new  western  home.  Wo  have  often  drunk  health 
from  these  fountains  since;  and  found  society,  here, 
pleasant  as  the  Springs.  Indeed,  years  before,  the 
Davidson  children,  whose  gifted  sister  lies  buried 
near  here,  were  my  pupils  in  Pittsburgh;  and  Hon. 
Judge  Cowen,  the  most  learned  of  jurists  and  legal 
reporters,  urged  me  to  share  his  office  and  library 
here.     His  monument  now  honors 


«^f  ^    ..  .  •-  .      ,.  ,    ,  ' 1 — """  """vi"  your  cemetery 

not  on  the  mountain  to  which  the  angels  commanded  and  city.     Seventy-eight  years   ago   (1809)  Judge 
Lot  to  escape.     There  is  no  "little"  deliberate  de-  Cowen,  then  a  poar  boy,  wrote  and  circulated  a  to- 


tal abstinence  pledge;  and  this  county  was  the  home 
of  the  first  temperance  society.  The  handful  of 
seed  thus  sown  now  "shakes  like  Lebanon." 

But  my  apology  for  addressing  you  this  note  is 
this:  By  invitation  of  the  excellent  Mrs.  Pond,  pres- 
ident of  your  W.  C.  T.  U.,  I  lately  addressed  a  body 
of  Saratoga  temperance  women,  in  a  speech  printed 
in  the  Eagle,  urging  that  the  temperance  lodges 
should  drop  their  secrecy  and  unite  with  the  Wom- 
en's "Union"  in  one  grand,  open,  American,  Chris- 
tian body,  for  the  extermination  of  the  liquor  curse. 
And  last  Sabbath,  by  invitation  of  the  same  good 
lady  president,  I  added,  in  a  few  remarks,  my  amen 
to  Dr.  S.  V.  Leech's  brilliant  and  powerful  prohibi- 
tion speech  in  his  M.  E.  church  in  this  city. 

EXPLANATIONS. 

Some  friends  wondered  a  little  at  my  cordial  en- 
dorsement of  Dr.  Leech's  speech,  seeing  he  de- 
nounced, with  unchristian  bitterness,  some  persons 
who,  he  said,  had  censured  him  concerning  his 
course  on  temperance,  because  he  voted  with  the 
Republican  party  while  advocating  prohibition. 

I  answered:  "I  endorsed  the  speech,  not  the  consist- 
ency of  the  speaker."  We  read  of  some  persona 
"defiled"  by  false  worships  or  other  sins;  that  they 
"profess  that  they  know  God,  but  in  works  deny 
him."  And  such  are  called  by  Paul  "abominable, 
disobedient,  and  to  every  good  work,  reprobate." 
(Titus  1:  16.)  Now  if  Dr.  Leech  boards  his  family 
at  a  licensed  liquor-selling  hotel;  if  he  voted  for  li- 
cense candidates  while  prohibition  candidates  were 
in  the  field;  and  if,  as  I  am  told,  he  intended  his  al- 
most scurrillous  and  railing  remarks  for  third  party 
Prohibitionists,  like  the  Christian  patriot,  Dr.  Emory 
Potter,  because  they  have  censured  his  course, which 
they  had  the  same  right  to  do  which  he  had  to  cen- 
sure theirs,  as  he  has  often  done;  but,  above  all,  if 
Dr.  Leech  is  an  Odd-fellow  and  Freemason,  and,  re- 
lying on  the  pretended  secrecy  of  those  orders  for 
concealment,  if  he  represents  them  to  be  what  he 
knows  they  are  not,  then,  and  in  that  case,  he  is  cer- 
tainly included  in  the  above  terrific  denunciations 
and  definitions  of  Paul. 

DR.  LEEOH's   SPEECH. 

Dr.  Leech,  within  a  year  past,  addressed  the  Odd- 
fellows in  their  hall  here,  and  in  the  address,  said, 
"I  have  sat,  on  many  occasions,  in  the  council  rooms 
of  Freemasons."  His  speech  may  be  read  in  the 
Daily  Saratogian,  Dec.  10,  1886.  Those  who  will 
take  the  pains  to  read  that  speech  will  find  him  say- 
ing of  Masons  and  Odd-fellows:  "I affirm  that  their 
precepts,  rules,  rituals  and  private  work  are  in  pro- 
fovmdest  harmony  with  the  most  rigid  morality" 

Now  if  Dr.  Leech  was  properly  initiated,  we  have 
the  following  facts  concerning  his  initiation  on  the 
testimony  of  Charles  G.  Finney,  late  president  of 
Oberlin  College,  who  had  been  a  Mason,  and  who 
was  one  of  the  holiest  men  on  earth,  with  thousands 
of  other  good  men;  as  well  as  on  sworn  testimony  in 
New  York  courts.     (See  Wendell,  13  vol.,  1st  case.) 

DR.  leech's   INITIATION. 

When  Dr.  Leech  was  initiated  he  was  stripped  of 
coat,  vest,  pants,  shoes  and  socks;  a  slipper  was  put 
on  one  foot,  a  rope  about  his  neck,  and  a  hoodwink 
over  his  eyes.  In  this  manner  he  was  led  by  the 
rope  around  the  lodge  in  the  rite  of  "circumambula- 
tion."  If  that  was  "profound  morality"  it  certainly 
was  not  common  decency. 

Before  he  became  a  Master  Mason,  he  swore 
twenty-eight  oaths,  ending,  "So  help  me  God;"  and 
under  the  most  savage  and  disgusting  penalties. 
All  this  in  the  face  of  Christ, whose  minister  he  pro- 
fesses to  be,  and  who  has  said,  "Swear  not  at  all" 
Is  this  "morality?" 

Further,  he  swore  to  conceal  all  a  Master  Mason's 
crimes  but  two;  and  if  he  took  four  more  degrees, 
to  the  Royal  Arch,  he  swore  to  conceal  all  a  Royal 
Arch  Mason's  crimes  without  exception.  Conceal- 
ing crime  is  to  be  accessory  to  crime  before  or  after 
the  fact   Is  this  "morality?" 

Then  Masonry  turns  the  whole  Decalogue  from 
God's  law  into  lodge  law.  Thus,  instead  of  the  Sev- 
enth Commandment,  "Thou  shall  not  commit  adul- 
tery," the  Mason  swears  not  to  defile  the  female  rel- 
atives of  Masons.  Is  this  morality?  But  Mackey, 
in  the  chief  Lexicon  of  the  order,  says  in  the  article 
on  "Moral  Law"  that  that  does  not  mean  "the  Ten 
Commandments,  but  only  the  law  written  in  the 
heart  of  man," — of  Africans,  for  instance!  It  were 
easy  to  show  that  the  lodge  has  no  standard  of  law 
or  morals  but  its  own  dicta,  which  are  no  standard. 
D'Israeli  said  to  his  Jewish  brethren,  "Christ  has 
taken  the  ten  precepts  given  by  Moses  and  made 
them  the  moral  standard  of  Christendom."  Hence, 
rejecting  the  Decalogue,  Masons  have  no  standard 
of  law  or  morals. 

Stone  masonry  is  as  old  as  stone  walls.  Appren- 
tices were  early  hazed,  as  the  phrase  now  is,  and 
their  indentures  were  wet  with  liquor.    So  with  Fel' 


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DioiMBiB  1, 188T 


THE  CHKISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


low  Crafts  and  Master  Masons.  In  926  a  rite  of 
three  degrees  was  made  out  of  these  three  hatings, 
which  stood  791  years,  till  1717.  Then  stone  ma- 
sonry was  dropped,  and  all  who  would  join  and 
could  pay  dues  were  "accepted,"  and  given  the  free- 
dom of  the  order,  and  so  became  "J'Vee  and  Accepted 
Matont,"  made  up  of  all  sorts,  as  we  see  in  the 
lodges  now.  They  then  began  to  build  a  mystical 
temple  and  send  men  to  the  "lodge  above,"  no  mat- 
ter how  they  had  lived  or  died.  "A  Master  Mason," 
says  Mackey,  "represents  a  man,  under  the  doctrine 
of  love,  saved  from  the  grave  of  iniquity  and  raised 
to  the  faith  of  salvation."  And  the  leading  Pres- 
byterian paper  in  the  United  States  lately  said, 
"Enough  proof  is  before  the  American  people  to 
show  that  Masonry -professes  to  save  men  and  send 
them  to  heaven  without  the  mediation  of  Christ." 

Moreover,  the  lodge  makes  a  clean  sweep  of  the 
God  of  the  Bible,  "Father,  Son  and  Holy  Ghost," 
and  substitutes  an  imaginary  "  Grand  Architect  of 
the  Universe"  or  "god  of  this  world,"  which  is  an 
alias  of  the  devil,  to  whom,  and  not  to  Christ,  every 
Masonic  prayer  is  offered.  It  is  to  be  charitably 
hoped  that  Dr.  Leech  is  ignorant  of  this,  being  be- 
witched by  all  the  sorceries  of  the  lodge.  Such  was 
Masonry,  formed  in  1717  at  the  Appletree  tavern, 
Covent  Garden,  London. 

FACTS   IN   HISTORY. 

James  II.  turned  papist  and  fled  to  France.  All 
the  degrees  above  the  three  old  York  Rite  degrees 
were  invented  as  upper  degrees,  in  France,  by 
Jesuits,  aided  by  an  apostate  Protestant,  Eamsay, 
to  govern  the  English  lodges  and  get  the  Stuarts 
back  on  the  throne  of  England  and  crush  Protest- 
antism and  free  government  in  Europe.  William 
of  Orange  went  over  and  the  scheme  failed.  But 
Masonry  had  now  an  independent  existence  of 
its  own.  It  was  a  false  religion,  with  altars,  rituals, 
burial  service,  priests,  high  priests,  and  "Grand 
High  Priests,"  and  Voltaire  and  Frederick  of  Prus- 
sia used  it  to  overthrow  all  religions  but  itself.  In 
1758  was  formed,  at  Paris,  a  ^^  Council  of  Emperors, 
East  and  West."  This  "Council  of  Emperors,"  in 
1761,  empowered  Stephen  Morin,  a  Jew  who  re- 
tained nothing  of  Judaism  but  its  hate  of  Christ,  to 
proceed  to  the  new  world  and  plant  these  French 
degrees.  They  called  him  a  "Sovereign  Inspector 
General."  This  Morin  made  sixteen  other  "inspec- 
tors," thirteen  of  whom  were  Jews.  The  three  who 
were  not  Jews  were  Frederick  Dalcho,  John  Mitch- 
ell and  Col.  Provost.  These,  in  Charleston,  S.  C, 
opened  the  first  Supreme  Masonic  Council  in  the 
world,  added  eight  new  degrees  to  what  they  before 
had,  and  formed  the  present  "Ancient  and  Accepted 
Scottish  Rite"  of  thirty-three  degrees,  of  which  rite 
Albert  Pike  is  now  the  head  of  the  original  South- 
em  Jurisdiction  in  this  country.  This  Supreme 
Council  in  Charleston  was  formed  m  1801,  the  year 
of  Jefferson's  first  election.  Aaron  Burr,  who  was  a 
Mason  along  with  Benedict  Arnold,  and  who  had 
been  on  Arnold's  staff  in  the  Canada  invasion,  came 
near  defeating  Jefferson  by  fraud.  He  afterwards 
attempted  to  divide  the  United  States'  territory  by 
the  Ohio  and  Mississippi  rivers,  as  the  Charleston 
Supreme  Masonic  Council  afterward  divided  it  Ma- 
Bonically;  and  as  Calhoun  attempted  by  nullifica- 
tion, and  the  great  secession  in  1860  nearly  accom- 
plished it  Jefferson  tried  Burr  for  treason,  pur- 
chased Louisiana,  and  consolidated  the  Union. 

THK  MOBQAN  MURDER. 

While  these  events  were  passing,  lodges  spread 
rapidly  for  twenty-five  years,  till  1826,  when  Will- 
iam Morgan,  who  was  a  patriot,  said  to  his  friends 
that  Masonry  would  surely  destroy  the  Republic, 
and  spoke  the  words  which  are  on  his  monument  at 
Batavia,  N.  Y.:  "I  otoe  to  my  country  an  exposure  of 
its  dangers."  He  exposed  three  degrees,  and  the  ex- 
cellent David  Bernard  published  the.  rest.  And,  in 
1832,  of  2,000  lodges  then  in  the  country,  1,500 
gave  up  their  charters,  and  228,000  votes  were  cast 
for  Wirt  and  Ellmaker  against  the  lodge. 

That  year  (1832)  Garrison  formed  his  New  En- 
gland Anti-Slavery  society,  and  the  slave  question 
swallowed  up  all  others.  The  lodge  went  South,  be- 
came a  "Southern  institution,"  and  organized  seces- 
sion and  rebellion  in  its  lodge  rooms.  The  proof  of 
this  is  in  Greeley  s  "Great  American  Conflict."  The 
first  secession  ordinance  issued  at  Columbia,  South 
Carolina,  Dec.  17,  1860.  Parker,  Inglis,  Kelts  and 
Rhett,  all  four  said  in  that  meeting  they  had  been 
working  up  secession  for  thirty  years;  that  is,  from 
Jackson  to  Lincoln.  Of  course  that  "working  up" 
was  not  done  outdoors,  but  in  the  secret  lodge 
rooms.  The  ten  lodges  of  the  District  of  Columbia 
all  went  secesh,  and  the  country  Southern  lodges 
followed  suit  But  God  saved  the  Union  by  Lin- 
coln, Grant,  Seward,  Chase,  Stevens,  Sumner,  Wil- 
son, Giddings,  Charles  Francis  Adams  and  Thurlow 
Weed,  whom  ]^inpolo  sect  to  aid  Adams  at  London, 


These  were  all  Anti-masons.  McClellan  and 
McDowell  were  not  These  facts  are  now  begin- 
ning to  be  opened  to  the  country,  and  will  yet  at- 
tract universal  attention. 

But  while  our  boys  were  fighting,  the  lodge  lead- 
ers were  initiating  and  swindling  them.  They  drew 
in  our  Union  soldiers  by  thousands,  by  telling  them 
they  would  get  favors  from  rebel  Masons.  So  Ma- 
sonry came  back  on  the  refluent  waves  of  the  war 
which  it  had  hatched  in  the  rebel  lodge  rooms;  and 
now  the  pulpit  and  the  press  are  choked  and  stifled 
by  the  lodge;  and  the  success  of  this  stupendous 
swindle,  by  the  lodge  which  owns  the  temple,  has 
bred  a  thousand  others.  Dr.  Leech  boasts  of  the 
vast  charities  of  Odd-fellowship.  A  careful  scan- 
ning of  their  reports  and  records  will  show  three 
dollars  paid  in  to  one  paid  "for  relief,"  and  that  to 
rich  and  poor  alike.  This  is  not  charity;  it  is  tak- 
ing two  dollars  for  handling  one;  and  paying  alike 
to  rich  and  poor. 

A  perfect  craze  of  secretism,  finery,  and  grandil- 
oquent titles  has  seized  the  ex-slave,  and  thousands 
on  thousands  of  black  mothers  now  board  their  hus- 
bands, whose  wages  goto  the  lodges:  and  they  are 
disintegrating  the  churches. 

the   anti-secret  revival. 

But  there  is  always  a  revival  of  sin  before  a  re- 
vival of  holiness.  Paul  says,  "When  the  command- 
ment came,  sin  revived."  And  the  commandment 
is  come.  In  1868  a  National  Christian  Association 
was  formed  inPitiBburgh,  "opposed  to  secret  societies." 
President  Fairchild  of  Oberlin  gave  the  chief  ad- 
dress, and  Prof.  Henry  Cowles  was  chairman  of  the 
committee  which  reported  the  constitution.  Its  or- 
gan, the  Christian  Cynosure,  has  stood,  now,  nineteen 
years,  and  sees  its  work  extending  in  other  papers: 
in  Washington,  where  we  own  a  fine  headquarters, 
in  New  Hampshire,  Iowa  and  Pennsylvania;  while 
the  venerable  organs  of  the  United  and  the  Re- 
formed Presbyterians,  Friend  Quakers,  Wesleyan 
and  Free  Methodists,  and  others,  have  aroused  them- 
selves, like  lions  from  their  lairs,  and  shaken  the 
dewdrops  from  their  manes.  Christ  is  coming,  and 
is  well  on  his  way. 

Too  largely  the  ministry  of  the  large  church  or- 
ganizations, as  in  the  slavery  grapple,  still  stand 
aghast;  but  thousands  pray  for  our  success  who 
never  say  a  word  in  public.  One  Mason  can  hang 
a  jury,  and,  with  his  lodge  to  back  him,  can  govern 
a  church.  The  ministers  "do  err,  not  knowing  the 
Scriptures,"  nor  the  nature  of  the  lodge,  nor  the 
signs  of  the  times.  The  power  of  Popery,  Mormon- 
ism,  Spiritualism  and  the  lodge  is  sorcery;  and  the 
apparent  conflict  between  any  of  these  is  a  conflict 
between  a  kite  and  a  snake,  merely  a  question  of 
prey.  A  false  religion  puts  the  soul  of  a  man  into 
a  posture  in  which  the  devil  can  mesmerize  him. 

On  the  contrary,  receiving  Christ  makes  us  "free 
indeed."  Unlike  the  false  priest,  he  has  "all  power 
in  heaven  and  earth,"  and  has  no  motive  to  oppress 
us.  "All  things  that  the  Father  hath"  are  his;  he 
has  therefore  no  motive  to  plunder  us.  He  is  our 
elder  brother;  has  felt  temptations  and  knows  how 
to  feel  for  us.  He  has  died  once  for  our  sins,  and 
is  not  likely  to  get  out  of  patience  with  us.  In 
short,  we  "are  complete  in  him."  For  "through  him 
we  have  access  by  one  Spirit  to  the  Father,"  in  whom 
eternity  and  infinity  meet;  and  he  is  "our  Father 
who  art  in  heaven;"  and  his  home  is  ours!  Aye! 
and  his  kingdom  is  coming  "on  earth."  The  Lord's 
prayer  was  not  given  to  mock  us,  but  to  be  answered. 
"He  shall  send  his  angels  and  gather  out  of  his 
kingdom  all  things  that  offend,  and  them  which  do 
iniquity."  This  is  now  being  done.  Twelve  legions 
of  angels  were  ready  at  his  cross,  and  they  all  "ex- 
cel" the  evil  spirits  "in  strength."  And  they  all 
know  the  way  home,  and  can  bring  us  there,  as  they 
did  the  beggar  at  the  gate. 

Now  contrast  the  stupendous  magnificence  of  an 
infinite  world,  filled  with  "righteousness,  peace,  and 
joy  in  the  Holy  Ghost,"  a  world  harmonized  by  the 
two  definite  forces  of  supreme  love  to  God  and  equal 
love  to  man,  as  taught  by  Christ — contrast  this  with 
the  dreary  babblings  of  mediums,  the  lying  wonders 
of  the  spirit  circle,  the  blood-howl  of  the  anarchist 
and  atheist,  or  the  milder  mummery  of  the  lodges, 
which  fill  the  conscience  with  oaths  and  pledges,  so 
that,  like  the  liver  of  a  calomel  patient,  it  becomes 
incapable  of  healthy  action  of  any  kind.  Set  off  a 
community  of  such  persons  by  themselves — no  God's 
oath  to  secure  property,  or  stable  marriage,  or  father, 
mother,  brother  or  sister-hood;  to  be  guarded  by 
pass-words,  grips,  signs  and  summons  given  by 
strange  lips  and  hands  which  may,  for  aught  we 
know,  be  the  hands  of  harlots  or  bandits;  and  then 
stand  up  and  bray  eloquently  over  the  glories  of  the 
lodge,  and  trample  on  the  example  of  Christ  who 
;  "in  secret  said  nothing,"  John  18:  20.  No,  no!  no! I 
a  thousand  times  NO.     "If  any  man  will  serve  me," 


said  our  Saviour,  "let  him  follow  me;"  do  as  I  did; 
and  that  was  not  to  join  a  secret  society,  for  he  did 
not  J.  Blanchard. 


— Our  "Personal  Notes"  mention  the  names  of 
two  gentlemen  who  are  ready  to  enter  our  reform 
lecture  work.  The  Illinois  Executive  Committee 
have  not  yet  positively  secured  a  State  agent  They 
were  hoping  to  find  Bro.  M.  N.  Butler  at  liberty, 
but  Secretary  Stoddard  holds  him  fast;  and,  truly, 
while  he  is  doing  such  excellent  work  in  Missouri  it 
would  not  be  good  policy  to  withdraw  him.  God  is 
answering  our  prayers  that  laborers  may  be  sent 
into  the  vineyard  of  reform.  Let  us  be  diligent  in 
providing  for  them  bountifully. 

— Rev.  Dr.  W.  H.  French,  of  Cincinnati,  who  was 
requested  by  the  N.  C.  A.  Board  to  attend  the  meet- 
ing of  the  Evangelical  Alliance  in  Washington  from 
Wednesday  to  Friday  of  next  week,  and  present  the 
cause  for  which  we  especially  labor,  has  consented 
to  act,  and  is  making  preparations  suitable  to  the 
duty  and  the  occasion. 


TO  ALL  STUDS  NTS 


IN   COLLEGES,   THEOLOOICAL    SEMINARIES   AND 
ACADEMIES. 


The  Board  of  the  National  Christian  Association 
desiring  to  arouse  an  interest  among  American  stu-^ 
dents  in  the  topics  named  below,  have  offered  cash* 
prizes  for  essays  on  the  following  topics: 

"Secret  Societies  and  the  Labor  Problem." 

"The  Relation  of  Secret  Societies  to  the  Temperance 
Cause." 

For  the  best  essay  on  each  of  these  topics  a  pre- 
mium of  Twenty  Dollars  will  be  paid  to  its  author: 
for  the  second  in  merit  a  premium  of  Ten  Dollars. 

This  offer  is  made  to  students  of  both  sexes  in  all 
the  institutions  named  above,  with  the  following  lim- 
itations: 

1.  The  length  of  the  essays  may  not  be  more 
than  2,000  words,  plainly  written. 

2.  They  must  be  mailed  to  the  "Essay  Committee, 
N.  C.  A.  office,  221  West  Madison  St,  Chicago," 
before  May  1,  1888. 

3.  The  name  and  address  of  each  writer  must  be 
plainly  written  on  a  separate  sheet  accompanying 
the  essay. 

4.  The  Association  to  have  the  privilege  of  pub- 
lishing as  a  tract,  or  in  their  paper,  the  Christian  Cy- 
nosure, any  or  all  the  four  prize  essays;  and  any 
others  which  may  seem  desirable,  if  satisfactory 
arrangements  can  be  made  with  their  authors. 

The  committee  of  award  have  not  yet  been  chosen. 


PERSONAL  MENTION. 


— Word  from  Miss  Flagg  is  hopeful  of  the  speedy 
recovery  of  her  father,  and  the  resumption  of  her 
literary  labor  for  the  reform,  whereat  we  all  rejoice 
with  thanksgiving. 

— Elder  J.  F.  Browne  has  accepted  an  invitation 
to  take  charge  of  Howe  Academy,  New  Iberia, 
Louisiana,  and  leaves  Berea  College  about  the  6th 
inst  for  his  new  labors. 

— Dr.  J.  N.  Norris  of  Birmingham,  Iowa,  disap- 
points us  all  by  word  that  he  cannot  attend  the  Pro- 
hibition Conference  and  the  special  consultation  in 
the  N.  C.  A.  building  this  week.  Dr.  Norris  would 
be  a  Nestor  in  our  counsels. 

— Pres.  J.  Blanchard  returned  from  his  Eastern  trip 
of  a  month  last  week  Tuesday,  in  time  to  enjoy  a 
Thanksgiving  reunion  at  which  nearly  half  a  hun- 
dred friends  sat  down  at  the  festival  tables.  That 
New  England  hospitality  is  bountiful  is  proved  by 
the  fact  that  he  has  increased  in  weight  ten  pounds 
by  it 

— A.  E.  Burl  ot  New  Haven,  Michigan,  one  of 
the  leaders  in  the  late  political  agitation  against  the 
lodge  in  that  place,  expects  to  attend  the  Prohibi- 
tion Conference.  He  has  lately  been  lecturing 
against  the  orders  in  the  vicinity  of  his  home,  and 
we  hope  an  open  door  may  be  found  Viy  which  he 
may  continue  that  work.      Mr.   Burt  is  an  attorney. 

The  Keystone,  a  leading  Masonic  organ,  pictures 

a  portion  of  a  lotlge  interior  not  down  in  Bernard, 
Ronayne  or  Doesburg.  Tbis  is  suggestive  of  tem- 
perance and  morality.  Read:  "Labor  can  best  be 
performed  in  an  apartment  set  apart  from  which  the 
odor  of  viands  and  the  fumes  of  tobacco  are  ex- 
cluded, and  refreshments  can  be  best  enjoyed  'around 
the  mahogany,'  when  the  labor  of  the  evening  has 
been  concluded,  and  naught  remains  to  be  done  ex- 
cept to  'harmonize  in  the  light'  of  the  banquet  hall, 
and  then  'part  upon  the  square.'  The  Masonic  bod- 
ies which  habitually  exclude  the  banquet  from  their 
curriculum  make  a  serious  mistake." 


10 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


Decsmbbb  1, 1887 


The  Home. 


WHEN  HE  GOMES. 


If  I  were  told  that  1  must  die  to-morrow, 

That  the  next  sun 
Which  sinks  should  bear  me  past  all  fear  and  sorrow 

For  any  one ; 
AH  the  fight  fought,  all  the  short  journey  through ; 

What  should  I  do? 

I  do  not  think  that  I  should  shrink  or  falter 

But  just  go  on, 
Doing  my  work,  nor  change,  nor  seek  to  alter 

Aught  that  Is  gone ; 
But  rise  and  move  and  love  and  smile  and  pray, 

For  one  more  day. 

And,  lying  down  at  night  for  a  last  sleeping, 

Say  In  that  ear 
Which  hearkens  ever :  "Lord,  within  thy  keeping 

How  should  I  fear  1 
And  when  to-morrow  brings  thee  nearer  still, 

Do  thou  thy  wlU," 

1  might  not  sleep  for  awe ;  but  peaceful,  tender, 

My  soul  would  lie 
All  the  night  long;  but  when  the  morning  splendor 

Flashed  o'er  the  sky, 
I  think  that  I  could  smile— could  calmly  say, 

"It  is  His  day." 

But,  If  a  wondrous  hand  from  the  blue  yonder 

Held  out  a  scroll. 
On  which  my  life  was  writ,  and  I  with  wonder 

Beheld  unroll 
To  a  long  century's  end  its  mystic  clew. 

What  should  I  dol 

What  could  I  do,  O  blessed  Guide  and  Master, 

Other  than  this — 
Still  to  go  on  as  now ;  not  slower,  faster ; 

Nor  fear  to  miss 
The  road,  although  so  very  long  It  be, 

WhUeledbythee? 

Step  after  step,  feeling  thee  close  beside  me, 

Although  unseen ; 
Through  thorns,  through  flowers,  whether  the  tempest  hide 
thee. 

Or  heavens  serene. 
Assured  thy  faithfulness  can  not  betray. 

Nor  love  decay. 

I  may  not  know,  my  God ;  no  hand  revealeth 

Thy  counsels  wise ; 
Along  the  path  a  deepening  shadow  stealeth ; 

No  voice- replies 
To  all  my  questioning  thought,  the  time  to  tell ; 

And  it  Is  well. 

Let  me  keep  on,  abiding  and  unfearing. 

Thy  will  always; 
Through  a  long  century's  ripe  fruition  Hearing, 

Or  a  short  day's ; 
Thou  canst  not  come  too  soon ;  and  I  can  wait 

If  thou  come  late. 

—Susan  Coolidge, 


0RR18T1ANITT  AND  CRIME. 


One  fact  is  certain  and  undeniable;  there  is  no  de- 
cent civilization  or  education  outside  of  the  influence 
of  the  Bible.  The  man  who  wishes  to  train  up  his 
daughters,  and  educate  his  sons  in  science,  art,  and 
morality,  is  careful  to  keep  within  the  range  of 
Christian  influences  and  institutions.  He  may,  for 
the  sake  of  gain,  go  into  heathen  lands.  He  may,  if 
in  love  with  iniquity,  remain  there,  and  participate 
in  the  degradation  that  surrounds  him;  but  if  he 
seeks  and  loves  purity,  righteousness,  and  morality, 
he  finds  it  only  where  the  light  of  the  Gospel  has 
been  shed.  And  today  we  find  that  those  countries 
most  noted  for  their  order,  uprightness,  and  piety, 
and  most  free  from  violence  and  strife,  are  the  coun- 
tries where  the  Bible  is  believed  and  obeyed. 

Says  the  Lutheran  Visitor,  "Travelers  tell  us  that 
there  is  less  crime,  less  theft,  arson,  perjury,  mur- 
der, in  Scotland  and  Wales  than  in  any  other  coun- 
tries on  the  globe.  The  people  are  the  most  moral. 
It  is  said  that  a  bad  book,  an  immoral  publication, 
cannot  live  in  these  countries.  There  is  not  a  bad 
book  in  the  Welsh  language.  Why  is  this?  Be- 
cause of  the  hold  the  Bible  has  on  the  people.  Go 
into  a  church,  and  when  the  pistor  announces  his 
text  there  is  a  rustling  of  leaves  all  over  the  church 
— the  people  are  hunting  the  text.  Every  one  has 
his  Bible  with  him.  It  is  his  hand  book — his  daily 
companion.  The  Bible  is  dominant.  And  the  Bible 
is  the  foe  to  all  wroDgdoiog.  Hence,  so  little  crime, 
so  much  virtue.  We  have  too  many  books,  too 
many  bad  books,  too  many  good  books;  they  take 
the  place  of  the  Bible.  Our  newspapers  are  read 
much  more  than  our  Bibles." 

There  are  some  countries  where  for  generations 
the  Bible  has  been  kept  from  the  common  people. 
What  is  the  condition  of  those  countries  today? 


Who  wishes  to  live  there?  Who  sends  his  children 
to  such  countries  to  be  educated  and  trained  for 
usefulness? 

There  was  one  nation  from  which  the  Bible  had 
been  excluded  for  generations,  while  those  who  read 
and  loved  it  were  imprisoned  and  exiled,  until  at 
length  the  benighted  and  oppressed  nation  plunged 
into  infidelity,  and  arose  in  its  madness  and  over- 
turned all  religion,  and  buried  itself  in  its  ruins. 

Said  a  French  journalist  at  that  time:  "We  are 
the  only  people  in  the  world  who  ever  tried  to  do 
without  a  religion.  But  what  is  already  our  sad  ex- 
perience? Every  ten  days  we  are  astounded  by  the 
recital  of  more  crimes  and  assassinations  than  were 
committed  formerly  in  the  whole  year.  At  the  risk 
of  speaking  an  obsolete  language,  and  receiving  in- 
sult for  a  response,  we  declare  that  we  must  cease 
striving  to  destroy  the  remnants  of  religion  if  we 
desire  to  prevent  the  entire  dissolution  of  society." 

The  world  has  seen,  in  the  horrors  of  the  French 
revolution,  one  example  of  a  government  where  God 
was  denied,  and  his  Word  was  prohibited.  That 
tale  of  horrors  will  not  soon  be  forgotten  by  men 
who  care  for  the  present  or  future  welfare  of  them- 
selves, their  families,  or  their  race. — Armory. 


NEWTON  AND    VOLTAIRE  ON   PROPEEOT. 


It  is  a  singular  and  most  remarkable  fact  that  Sir 
Isaac  Newton,  in  his  work  on  the  prophecies  of 
Daniel  and  Eevelation,  said  that  if  the  predictions 
of  these  books  were  true,  as  he  knew  that  they  were, 
it  would  be  necessary  that  new  modes  of  traveling 
should  be  invented  and  brought  into  use.  And  he 
further  said  that  the  knowledge  of  mankind  would 
be  so  increased  before  a  certain  date  or  time  alluded 
to  in  the  prophecy,  namely  the  1,260  years  (which 
most  commentators  agree  in  fixing  not  far  from  A. 
D.  1860),  that  men  would  be  able  to  travel  at  the 
rate  of  fifty  miles  an  hour. 

Voltaire  got  hold  of  this  statement  of  Newton's 
and,  in  the  sneering  spirit  of  skepticism,  said,  "Now 
look  at  the  mighty  mind  of  Newton,  the  great  phi- 
losopher who  discovered  the  law  of  gravitation; 
when  he  became  an  old  man  and  got  into  his  dotage 
he  began  to  study  the  book  called  the  Bible,  and  in 
order  to  credit  its  fabulous  nonsense  he  would  have 
us  believe  that  the  knowledge  of  mankind  will  yet 
be  so  increased  that  we  shall  by-and-by  be  able  to 
travel  fifty  miles  an  hour!    Poor  dotard!" 

Doubtless  the  sneer  of  the  philosophic  infidel 
afforded  a  laugh  to  his  skeptical  friends,  and  both 
he  and  they  probably  thought  it  evidence  of  his 
wisdom  and  of  the  superstitious  weakness  of  New- 
ton. But  the  most  confirmed  skeptic,  if  he  should 
get  into  a  railroad  train  to-day,  would  be  compelled 
to  say  that  Newton  was  the  wise  Christian  philoso- 
pher and  Voltaire  both  illmannered  and  unwise. — 
Am.  Messenger. 

^  I  m 

"VERILY,   THOU  SHALT  BE  FED." 


I  found  in  Syracuse  a  Christian  woman  whom 
they  called  "Mother  Austin,"  a  person  of  most  re- 
markable faith.  She  was  so  poor  that  she  was  en- 
tirely dependent  upon  the  charity  of  the  people  for 
subsistence.  She  was  an  uneducated  woman,  and 
had  been  brought  up  manifestly  in  a  family  of  very 
little  cultivation,  but  she  had  such  faith  as  to  secure 
the  confidence  of  all  who  knew  her.  I  do  not  think 
I  ever  witnessed  greater  faith,  in  its  simplicity,  than 
was  manifested  by  this  woman. 

A  great  many  facts  were  related  to  me  respecting 
her  trust  in  God,  and  in  what  a  remarkable  manner 
God  provided  for  her  wants  from  day  to  day.  She 
said  to  me  on  one  occasion,  "Mr.  Finney,  it  is  im- 
possible for  me  to  suffer  for  any  of  the  necessaries 
of  life,  because  God  has  said  to  me,  '  Trust  in  the 
Lord  and  do  good;  so  shalt  thou  dwell  in  the  land, 
and  verily,  thou  shalt  be  fed.' " 

She  related  to  me  many  facts  in  her  history,  and 
many  facts  were  related  to  me  by  others,  illustrative 
of  her  faith.  One  Saturday  evening,  she  said,  a 
friend  of  hers,  but  an  impenitent  man,  called  to  see 
her,  and  after  conversing  awhile,  offered  her  a  five- 
dollar  bill.  She  said  she  felt  an  inward  admonition 
not  to  take  it,  feeling  that  it  would  be  an  act  of  self- 
righteousness  on  the  part  of  the  young  man,  and 
might  do  him  more  harm  than  it  would  do  her  good. 
She,  therefore,  declined  to  take  it,  and  he  went 
away.  She  told  me  she  had  just  wood  and  food 
enough  in  the  house  to  last  over  Sunday,  and  that 
was  all;  that  she  had  no  means  whatever  of  obtain- 
ing any  more.  Still  she  was  not  at  all  afraid  to  trust 
God  in  these  circumstances,  as  she  had  done  for  so 
many  years. 

On  that  Sunday  morniog  there  came  a  violent 
snow  storm.  On  Monday  morning  the  snow  was 
several  feet  deep,  and  the  streets  so  blocked   up 


there  was  no  getting  out  without  clearing  the  way. 
She  had  a  young  son  who  lived  with  her,  the  two 
composing  the  whole  family.  They  arose  in  the 
morning  and  found  themselves  snowed  in  on  every 
side.  They  made  out  to  muster  fuel  enough  for  a 
little  fire,  and  soon  the  boy  began  to  inquire  what 
they  should  have  for  breakfast.  She  said,  "I  do  not 
know,  my  son;  but  the  Lord  will  provide," 

She  looked  out  and  saw  that  nobody  could  pass 
the  streets.  The  lad  began  to  weep  bitterly,  and 
concluded  that  they  should  freeze  and  starve  to  death. 
However,  she  said  she  went  on  and  made  such  prep- 
arations as  she  could  to  provide  for  breakfast,  if 
any  should  come.  I  think  she  told  me  she  set  her 
table,  and  made  arrangements  for  the  meal,  believ- 
ing that  something  would  come  in  due  season. 

Very  soon  she  heard  loud  talking  in  the  street. 
Going  to  the  window  to  see  what  it  was,  she  saw  a 
man  in  a  single  sleigh,  and  some  men  with  him  shov- 
eling snow  so  that  the  horse  could  get  through.  Up 
they  came  to  her  door,and,  behold,  they  had  brought 
fuel  and  provision,  everything  to  make  her  comfort- 
able for  several  days! 

But  time  would  fail  me  to  relate  the  instances  in 
which  she  was  helped  in  a  manner  as  striking  as  this. 
Indeed,  it  was  notorious  through  the  city,  so  far  as 
I  could  learn,  that  Mother  Austin's  faith  was  like  a 
bank;  and  that  she  never  suffered  for  want  of  the 
necessaries  of  life,  because  she  drew  on  God. — Au- 
tohiography  of  Pre*.  Finney. 
*  *  m 
"HIS  LOVE  TO  ME." 


To  an  invalid  friend,  who  was  a  trembling,  doubt- 
ing believer,  a  minister  once  said:  "When  1  leave 
you  I  shall  go  to  my  own  residence,  if  the  Lord  will; 
and  when  there  the  first  thing  that  I  expect  to  do  is 
to  call  for  a  baby  that  is  in  the  house.  I  expect  to 
place  her  on  my  knee,  and  look  down  into  her  sweet 
eyes,  and  listen  to  her  charming  prattle;  and,  tired 
as  I  am,  her  presence  will  rest  me,  for  I  love  that 
child  with  an  unutterable  tenderness. 

"But  the  fact  is  she  does  not  love  me;  or  to  say 
the  most  for  her,  she  loves  me  very  little.  If  my 
heart  were  breaking  under  a  burden  of  crushing  sor- 
row it  would  not  disturb  her  sleep.  If  my  body 
were  racked  with  excruciating  pain  it  would  not  in- 
terrupt her  play  with  her  toys.  If  I  were  dead  she 
would  be  amused  in  watching  my  pale  face  and 
closed  eyes.  If  my  friends  came  to  remove  the 
corpse  to  the  place  of  burial  she  would  probably 
clap  her  hands  in  glee,  and  in  two  or  three  days  to- 
tally forget  her  papa.  Besides  this  she  has  never 
brought  me  in  a  penny,  but  has  been  a  constant  ex- 
pense on  my  hands  ever  since  she  was  bom.  Yet, 
although  I  am  not  rich  in  this  world's  possessions, 
there  is  not  money  enough  in  this  world  to  huy  my 
baby.  How  is  it?  .Does  she  love  me  or  do  I  love 
her?  Do  I  withhold  my  love  until  I  know  she  loves 
me?  Am  I  waiting  for  her  to  do  something  worthy 
of  my  love  before  extending  it  to  her?" 

"Oh,  I  see  it!"  said  the  sick  man,  while  the  tears 
ran  down  his  cheeks,  "I  see  it  clearly;  it  is  not  my 
love  to  God,  but  God's  love  to  me  I  ought  to  be 
thinking  about;  and  I  do  love  him  now  as  I  never 
loved  him  biefore." 

From  that  time  his  peace  was  like  a  river,  "We 
love  him  because  he  first  loved  us." — Lights  and 
Shadows. 


'JESUS  DID  IT." 


Elkanah  Beard,  who  was  for  many  years  a  mis- 
sionary, tells  the  following  about  a  little  girl  in  the 
city  of  Benares,  in  Hindustan,  He  knew  the  father 
and  mother  of  the  child,  and  knows  every  word  of  it 
to  be  true,  and  believes  that  God  answered  the  little 
girl's  prayer. 

In  that  city  lay  a  mother  sick.  For  months  she 
had  not  left  her  bed,  and  all  that  she  looked  forward 
to  was  slow  death.  Her  little  daughter  was  eight 
years  old.  She  loved  her  mother  and  was  almost 
broken-hearted.  She  took  the  New  Testament  and 
read  the  promises  of  answers  to  prayer.  Going  to 
her  mother,  she  said: 

"Mother,  dear,  can't  Jesus  make  you  well?" 

"Yes,  my  child,  but  it  is  not  his  will." 

"Mother,  why  not?  Have  you  ever  asked  him  to 
heal  you?" 

"No,  no,  my  child,  but  — " 

"Mother,  you  pray  to  God,  I  know." 

"Yes,  darling." 

"What  kind  of  prayers,  mamma?" 

"Oh,  my  child,  I  am  in  such  agony  I  cannot  talk 
to  you  about  it;  go  and  play." 

The  child  dropped  her  head  sadly,  and  went  out 
beneath  a  tree  in  her  father's  garden,  for  her  father 
was  a  postal  official  in  that  large  city,  and  had  a 
beautiful  home.  She  sat  there,  and  thought  and 
prayed.    Suddenly  she  returned  to  the  bedside  of 


DiOSMBBK  1,  1887 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


11 


her  mother,  and  kneeling,  said:  "Mamma,  I  am  go- 
ing to  try  Jesus,  anyhow.  He  says,  'Ask.'  Yes,  I 
am  going  to  ask  him.  Now,  mamma,  pray  with  me. 
0  Jesus,  dear,  good  Jesus,  I've  no  happy  days  now, 
since  my  mamma  is  sick  these  three  months.  She 
is  so  sick  she  can't  talk  to  her  little  girl.  0  Jesus, 
she  is  so  sick.  0  God,  make  my  poor  mamma  to 
get  well.  0  God,  you  can,  you  will.  Mamma  loves 
you!  her  little  girl  loves  you!" 

Suddenly  she  §prang  to  her  feet  and  clapping  her 
hands,  cried,  "He  will,  mamma,  he  will,  he  will." 

That  self-same  day  the  lady,  who  had  not  moved 
her  limbs  for  months,  arose  from  her  bed,  and  went 
about  her  household  duties,  healed  and  praising 
God.  Her  husband  met  her  at  the  door  thai  day, 
and  overwhelmed  with  the  event,  went  down  on  his 
knees  and  prayed  to  God  to  make  him  worthy  of 
the  blessing  that  had  fallen  on  his  house;  while  his 
little  girl  stood  by  him,  her  face  radiant  with  holy 
joy,  exclaiming,  "0  papa,  Jesus  did  it!" — Kma  of 
Refrething, 


WHO  18  THIS  LITTLE  GIRL  t 


I  know  a  bright  little  girl  who  can  say 

Each  one  of  her  letters  from  Z  to  A, 

And  Is  always  willing  to  leave  her  play 

When  mamma  wants  an  errand  done ; 

Who  knows  how  to  knit  and  mend  and  sew, 

And  is  neat  as  wax  from  top  to  toe. 

She  brings  her  father's  slippers  and  gown 

When  he  returns  from  the  busy  town, 

Where  he  works  from  mom  till  the  sun  goes  down ; 

We  never  knew  her  a  falsehood  to  tell, 

Whate'er  she  does  she  loves  to  do  well ; 

What  is  her  name,  do  you  know  ? 

—Boy  Maitland. 

TEE  POWER  OF  HABIT. 

The  passers-by  on  a  country  road  used  to  pause 
sometimes  and  wonder  to  see  an  old  white  horse  in 
the  pasture  traveling  round  and  round  in  a  circle. 
Hour  after  hour  he  kept  up  his  tramp,  though  en- 
tirely free  to  go  and  come  as  he  pleased.  This 
shows  tbe  power  of  habit.  For  twenty  years  he  had 
been  daily  harnessed  to  the  end  of  a  long  sweep.and 
traveled  in  just  such  a  circuit,  until  too  stiff  and 
blind  for  further  service;  then  a  kind  master  gave 
him  his  time  and  a  good  pasture.  Twenty  years  of 
steady  industry  had  made  work  a  necessity.  Now 
when  life  was  all  holiday,  there  was  no  holiday;  so 
he  kept  on,  from  choice,  in  his  old  round. 

Habits,  good  or  bad,  cling  to  us.  I  remember 
what  a  blustering  winter  morning  it  was  when  Allen 
resolutely  buttoned  his  overcoat  up  to  his  chin  and 
drew  on  his  fleecy  gloves. 

"You  are  not  going  to  church  such  a  morning  as 
this,  Allen?"  said  a  brother  medical  student. 

"To  be  sure  I  am,"  said  the  other  decidedly.  "I 
was  brought  up  to  attend  church,  and  I  should  as 
soon  think  of  going  without  my  breakfast  as  of 
staying  at  home. 

It  is  one  of  the  best  habits  a  youth  can  form,  and 
a  great  safeguard  amidst  the  temptations  of  a  city, 
to  attend  the  house  of  God. 

The  habit  of  patient  industry  is  a  grand  one  to 
form  very  early,  for  all  of  one's  success  in  life  must 
hinge  upon  it.     "The  idle  soul  shall  suffer  hunger." 

There  are  bad  habits,  too,  which  seem  to  blend 
into  one  another  as  the  waters  of  the  brook  mingle 
with  those  of  the  river.  Idlers  love  the  saloons  and 
the  shady  porches  of  old  tavern-stands,  and  the  com- 
pany they  meet  there.  They  fall  an  easy  prey  to 
the  rum-seller;  and  when  the  habit  of  tasting  his 
samples  is  once  formed,  it  is  not  often  broken.  All 
manhood  goes  down  with  it,  as  into  an  awlul  whirl- 
pool. 

How  happy  a  boy  should  be  who  finds  a  good 
habit  of  any  kind  growing  stronger  every  day!  It 
is  easy  for  one  to  tell  for  himself  just  how  he 
stands,  if  he  will  only  look  sharply  at  his  going  and 
comings,  and  see  with  what  feelings  he  goes  about 
his  daily  duties.  "He  that  hath  clean  hands  shall 
be  stronger  and  stronger."  Oae  cannot  have  his 
hands  clean  from  sin  unless  the  thoughts  flow  in 
right  channels.  They  do  make  channels  for  them- 
selves, in  which  they  habitually  flow,  just  as  surely 
as  the  water-courses. —  Youth's  World. 


other;  and  he  called  all  the  men  in  the  village  to  pull 
the  ropej  but  the  ship  would  not  move.  'It's  of  no 
use;  you  must  make  up  your  mind  to  stay,'  said  the 
captain.  'I  will  not,'  cried  the  man;  and  he  fetched 
all  the  women,  and  they  pulled  with  the  men.  Still 
the  ship  did  not  move.  'Well,  you  see,'  said  the 
captain,  'you  can't  do  anything,  you  must  stop.'  'I 
shall  not,'  said  the  man;  and  he  gathered  the  chil- 
dren, and  they  took  hold  of  the  rope  and  pulled  with 
their  fathers  and  mothers.  Slowly  the  ship  moved 
in  the  water,  and  the  man  sailed  about  his  business. 
So  now,  children,  come  and  pull,  and  see  if  the  ship 
will  not  move." 


Tempesakce. 


WHAT  70 U  VOTE  FOR! 


[From  the  Detroit  Evening  Journal.  | 
Every  citizen  who  goes  to  the  polls  and  casts  a 
ballot  performs  one  of  the  most  important  acts  of 
his  life — an  act  that  affects  more  of  his  fellow  creat- 
ures in  respect  of  their  rights,  their  interests  and 
their  homes,  for  "weal  or  for  woe,"  than  in  anything 
else  he  does.  He  touches  the  springs  that  move  the 
whole  machinery  of  government.  He  votes  for  good 
or  bad  laws,  for  righteous  or  unrighteous  govern- 
ment, according  to  the  character  and  qualifications 
of  the  men  or  parties  for  whom  he  votes.  Govern- 
ments are  of  God's  ordaining,  and  are  for  the  pro- 
tection of  society,  its  rights,  safety  and  welfare, 
against  the  selfish,  unprincipled  and  lawless — a  "ter- 
ror to  evil  doers  and  a  praise  to  them  that  do  well!" 
God's  command  is:  "Choose  out  from  among  you 
righteous  men  to  rule  over  you,  men  who  fear  God, 
love  the  truth,  hate  covetousness,  who  will  do  jus- 
tice in  the  morning  and  let  the  oppressed  go  free!" 
That  is  the  class  of  men  we  want  now.  "He  that 
ruleth  over  men  must  be  just." 

Now,  the  question  comes  to  every  voter,  can  he  ob- 
serve and  obey  these  important  principles  and  com- 
mands and  vote  for  either  the  Democratic  or  Repub- 
lican parties?  Can  a  good,  loyal,  patriotic  citizen — 
can  a  good  Christian,  whose  duty  it  is  to  "do  all  to 
the  glory  of  God" — support  the  one  or  the  other  of 
these  degenerate  and  corrupt  political  organizations, 
considering  their  relations  to  righteous  civil  govern- 
ment and  their  complicity  and  support  of  the  wicked 
liquor  traffic?  I  hold  he  cannot,  and  for  these  rea- 
sons: 

Ist.  These  parties  are  not  and  do  not  profess  to 
be  governed  by  any  of  these  high  moral  considera- 
tions, and  are  decided  upon  no  moral  or  reform  is- 
sues whatever,  but  are  engaged  in  a  selfish  and  un- 
holy strife  for  the  "offices" — the  "ins"  to  hold  on — 
the  "outs"  to  get  in;  and  the  mode  of  their  warfare 
and  their  diatribes  upon  each  other  are  demorarlizing 
and  disgraceful  in  the  extreme.  2.  These  parties 
are  today  the  great  props,  guys,  and  supports  of  the 
whole  crime  and  misery-producing  liquor  business 
in  this  country!  They  are  both  completely  subserv- 
ient to  the  liquor  power,  and  its  bidding  they  do  and 
its  interests  they  serve.  They  both  enact,  and  for 
bribe  money,  sanction  and  defend  the  atrocious  li- 
cense scheme,  thus  perverting  and  degrading  the 
functions  and  powers  of  the  government  to  the  le- 
galized support  and  perpetuity  of  the  liquor  curse. 

To  vote,  therefore,  for  either  of  these  parties  is  to 
vote  directly  for  that  against  which  God  pronounces 
a  "woe!"  is  to  vote  directly  for  licensing  the  drink 
traffic,  the  "hellish  saloons!"  the  direct  cause  of  idle- 
ness, drunkenness,  pauperism,  rowdyism,  anarchism, 
riots,  robberies,  Sabbath  desecrations,  wife  and  chil- 
dren starvinga  and  beatings  and  ghastly  murders! 
O,  fellow-men!  O,  fellow-Christians,  can  you  thus 
prostitute  your  God  given  franchise!  But  to  vote 
for  the  Prohibition  party  you  vote  for  good,  true, 
clean  men,  who  will  administer  the  government  in 
righteousness,  abolish  the  deadly  liquor  traffic  and 
save  and  protect  our  cherished  institutions  of  liber- 
ty, learning  and  religion,  and  save  our  homes  and 
our  children  from  the  terrible  liquor  scourge.  Which 
will  you  vote  for?  Geo,  W.  Clabk. 


The  law  requires  this;  nothing  less  than  this  will 
ever  satisfy  its  friends. 

Those  text-books  that  only  point  out  the  evils  of 
drunkenness  and  the  danger  of  excessive  use  of  al- 
coholic drinks  and  narcotics,  do  not  meet  the  re- 
quirements of  the  law,  and  do  not  satisfy  those  who 
secured  its  enactments,  and  who  are  determined  to 
secure  its  enforcement. 

A  petition,  therefore,  has  been  signed  by  many 
legislators  who  voted  for  these  laws  in  various  Statea, 
and  in  the  National  Congress,  by  the  representatives 
of  temperance  organizations,  who  are  familiar  with 
the  sentiments  and  are  entitled  to  speak  for  the  very 
numerous  membership  of  different  churches  and 
other  bodies,  extending  widely  throughout  the  land, 
and  by  citizens  who  speak  for  themselves. 

This  petition  makes  a  respectful  and  earnest  ap- 
peal  to  all  publishers  of  text-books  on  this  subject, 
to  revise  their  publications  to  conform  to  the  latest 
results  of  scientific  inquiry,  and  to  meet  the  terms 
and  spirit  of  these  statutes,  so  that  public  and  au- 
thorized expressions  of  approval  and  endorsement 
of  all  such  books  can  be  issued  and  given  wide  cir- 
culation. 

Such  an  appeal  to  all  publishers  effectually  refutes 
the  charge  that  the  friends  of  temperance  instruc- 
tion are  pecuniarily  interested  in  the  sale  of  any 
particular  book.  It  is  because  the  question  of  total 
abstinence  for  the  children  of  this  country,  and, 
therefore,  of  their  well  being  and  that  of  the  land 
soon  to  be  governed  by  them,  depends  largely  upon 
the  teachings  in  the  text-books  employed,  that  this 
appeal  is  made. 

Among  the  signers  of  this  petition  are  thirty-two 
gentlemen,  members  of  the  National  Congress,  who 
were  influential  in  securing  the  passage  of  the  stat- 
ute enacted  by  that  body,  requiring  the  study  of 
Scientific  Temperance  in  all  schools  under  the  con- 
trol of  the  Federal  Government.  These  names  are 
led  by  those  of  Hon.  John  J.  Ingalls,  President 
Protempore  of  U.  S.  Senate,  Senator  H.  W,  Blair 
from  New  Hampshire,  Senator  Palmer  from  Michi- 
gan, Senators  Hoar  and  Dawes  from  Massachusetts, 
Senator  Frye  from  Maine  and  others. 

Congressman  Long  of  Massachusetts,  Hon.  Geo. 
W,  Geddes  of  Ohio,  Hon.  A.  S.  Willis  of  Kentucky, 
Hon,  James  O.  Donnell  of  Michigan,  Hon.  E.  N. 
Morrill  of  Kansas,  and  Congressmen  Conger  and 
Hepburn  from  Iowa,  are  among  the  petitioners  from 
the  lower  House  of  the  same  Congress. 

If  space  would  allow  the  printing  of  the  entire 
list  of  signers,  the  reader  would  see  many  additional 
names  of  persons  whose  opinions  have  national  in- 
fluence. 

As  a  whole,  the  petition  constitutes  an  expression 
of  the  best  public  sentiment  of  our  country,  in  fa-, 
vor  of  teaching  to  the  children  of  the  United  States, 
the  full  truth  of  science  against  strong  drink,  and 
in  favor  of  total  abstinence. 


A  HOMEMADE  DRUNRARD  AND  MURDERER. 


TEMPERANCE    TEXT-B00K8. 


WHAT  THE  CHILDREN  DID. 

Rev.  N.  H.  Boston,  addressing  a  missionary  meet- 
ing of  English  children,  told  the  following  story: 
"In  my  country  (Africa)  there  was  a  man  who  had 
to  take  a  journey  on  very  imix)rtant  business.  When 
be  got  to  the  boat  that  wan  to  lake  him,  it  was  fast 
in  the  mud  of  the  river.  'You  cannot  go  till  the  tide 
rises,' said  the  captain.  'I  must,'  said  the  man;  and 
he  called  to  the  strongest  man  there  to  bring  a  rope 
and  help  pull;  but  the  ship  did  not  move.  'You 
iTiust  wait,'  said  the  captain.    'I  cannot,'  said  tbe  the  habit  of  its  use. 


During  the  last  five  years,  the  Legislatures  of 
twenty  three  out  of  the  thirty-five  States,  and  the 
National  Congress  for  all  the  ten  Territories,  have 
made  the  study  of  Scientific  Temperance  compulso- 
ry '"for  all  pupils  in  all  their  public  schools." 

The  population  of  these  States  and  Territories  is 
over  one-half  that  of  the  whole  country.  Thui 
America's  majority  to-morrow,  is  in  these  schools 
of  to-day. 

It  was  the  intention  of  those  who  secured  these 
laws  that  the  children  should  have  the  latest  science 


John  Hodel,  a  silk  weaver,  living  at  Turnersville, 
Conn.,  shot  his  wife  last  night,  (Nov.  1)  and  then  set 
fire   to   the   house.     Two  children  were  burned  to 
death.     Hodel   fled   but  is  now  under  arrest     The 
murder  is  one  of  the  most  horrible   ever   known   in 
Connecticut.     Hodel  had  been  on  a  spree  for  about 
a  week,   and   when   sober   was   a  quiet,   good-na- 
tured fellow.    He  tells  the  following  story:    "Last 
night  I  told  my  wife  I'was  going  to  kill  myself.     She 
said  she  wanted  to  die,  too.     An  agreement  was  then 
made  that  the  whole  lamily  should  die  together,  two 
small  children,  a  boy  and  girl,  aged  three  and  six 
years,  and  the  mother,  who  expected  to  be  confined 
again  in  a  month.     During  the  night  I  brought   the 
two  children   from   an   adjoining  room  and  placed 
them  in  bed  with  their  mother  and   set   fire   to  the 
bed;  but  the  smothering  process  was  too  slow,  so  I 
got  a  shot-gun  and  fired  both  barrels  into  my  wife's 
breast  killing  her  instantly.     The  flames  then  spread 
and    smothered   both   children.     I   then  went  down 
stairs,  rapped  on  the  window  of  the  lower  tenement 
bedroom  and  called  them  to  come  in  and  see   what 
I  had  done.   Then,  with  nothing  on  but  a  night-shirt, 
I  ran  down  the  road  toward  the  depot  crying  'fire.' '' 
Ilansicker  and  other  neighbors   put  out  the   fire 
after  the  room  had   been  badly  scorched  and  a  hole 
burned  in  the  floor.     Hodel  wandered  around  awhile, 
got  a  pair  of  pants  from  a  German  neighbor,  and 
finally,  after  the   IxKlies   had  been  moved  into  the 
room  below,  came  back  to  the  house,  and  made  no 
effort  to  escaiMJ,     Ho  is  a  S«?i8R,  and  came  from  Lu- 
cerne a  year  ago  last  July,     He  says  he  expects  to 
be  hanged,  and  don't  care   how   (juit-kly.     Ho   had 
half  a  dozen  barrels  of  homemade  wine  and  cider 
^  in  his  cellar,  and  drinking   from    these   made   him 
crazy  and  prompted  the  murder.     Neither  he  nor  his 


concerning  the   dangers  and  hurtful  qualities  of  al 

cohol,  used  in  any  degree,  and  the  peril  of  forming '  wife  had  any  relatives  in  this  country — DitjuUch  to 

*u^  K„u;*  ,.*  ;«-  .,„„  Chicago  IleraUi. 


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THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSTTEE. 


DsoEMBia  1, 188) 


OUR  WASHINGTON  LETTER. 


There  were  on  Tuesday,  the  22nd  inst.,  by  actual 
count,  seventy-five  Congressmen  at  the  Capital,  and 
the  list  is  lengthened  on  the  arrival  of  nearly  every 
train.  Among  the  most  prominent  of  the  members 
I  have  noticed  on  the  Avenue  (that's  Pennsylvania 
Avenue — so  called  by  all  Wa8hingtonian8)are  Messrs. 
Voorhees,  Harrison,  Edmunds  and  Everts,  of  the 
Senate,  and  Messrs.  Carlisle,  Springer,  Breckenridge 
and  Davenport  of  the  House.  Two  other  remark- 
able men  and  notable  figures  who  are  often  seen  on 
the  streets  are  the  ex-President  of  the  Senate  and 
the  President  of  the  Senate,  John  Sherman  and 
John  J.  Tngalls.  The  stately  form  of  the  Ohio  Sen- 
ator is  seldom  seen  outside  of  his  carriage  on  the 
streets,  while  on  the  other  hand,  the  long,  willowy 
figure  of  the  picturesque  Kansan  can  often  be  seen 
mingling  with  the  throngs  that  frequent  the  thorough- 
fares of  this  beautiful  city.  If  one  wishes  to  catch 
a  glimpse  occasionally  of  most  of  the  national  so- 
Ions,  the  best  place  to  take  a  stand,  outside  of  the 
Capitol  itself,  is  in  the  corridors  of  the  different 
departments,  near  the  doors  of  the  Secretary's  office. 
When  a  common  mortal,  like  you  or  I,  dear  reader, 
would  enter  the  awe-inspiring  presence  of  a  Cabinet 
minister,  the  obliging  door-keeper  always  hands  out 
a  card,  with  blanks,  wherein  we  are  required  to  state 
"name  and  nature  of  business,"  and  send  it  in  by  a 
messenger  before  the  slightest  chance  for  admission; 
but,  when  a  "member,"  as  they  are  popularly  known, 
appears,  the  door  flies  open  as  if  by  magic  by  the 
time  he  is  within  six  feet  of  it. 

As  forshadowed  in  my  last  letter,  the  resignation 
of  Commissioner  of  the  Land  Office  Sparks  has 
taken  place — the  President  letting  down  the  arro- 
gant and  rebellious  official  as  easilj'^  as  possible. 
This  was  the  only  way,  outside  of  a  peremptory  dis- 
missal, to  properly  rebuke  the  persistent  insubor- 
dination of  the  irascible  Illinoian,  who  constantly 
deported  himself  in  office  as  if  he  was  lord  of  all  he 
surveyed. 

It  is  the  gossip  of  the  hotel  and  departmental 
corridors  that  some  opposition  is  developing  to  the 
confirmation  of  Secretary  Lamar's  probable  nomin- 
ation to  the  Supreme  Bench,  chiefly  on  account  of 
his  advanced  age — he  is  entering  his  sixty-third 
year — and  it  appears  that  this  feeling  is  by  no  means 
confined  to  his  political  opponents.  There  is  a  dis- 
position on  the  part  of  several  Republican  Senators 
to  raise  a  sectional  outcry  against  the  Secretary  on 
account  of  his  having  -within  the  past  four  years 
championed  the  civil  chieftain  of  the  Southern  Con- 
federacy, on  the  floor  of  the  United  States  Senate. 
It  is  broadly  intimated  that  the  Supreme  Court  is 
equally  divided  on  the  issue  of  the  prohibition  cases 
from  Iowa,  Kansas  and  Georgia,  and  that  the  new 
Justice  will  have  to  cast  the  deciding  vote — it  now 
stands  four  to  four — nine  being  a  full  bench.  In 
the  celebrated  drive  well  case,  the  Supreme  Court 
has  recently  rendered  a  decision  against  the  patentee, 
who  claims  a  royalty  of  ten  dollars  each  on  all  the 
driven  wells  in  the  United  States — the  number  be- 
ing estimated  at  three  millions. 

The  deficiencies  for  the  transportation  of  the 
mails  amounted  to  from  eight  to  fifteen  million  dol- 
lars per  annum  a  few  years  since;  but  these  deficits 
have  been  gradually  reduced  until  they  are  now  no 
more  than  a  million  a  year — so  that  by  the  end  of 
the  present  year  the  PostofficQ  Department  promises 
to  be  on  a  self-sustaining  basis.  * 


RELIGIOUS  News. 


— Dr.  Wm.  Wishart  is  doing  an  excellent  work  in 
Clearfield,  Iowa.  The  Midland  says  it  is  possible 
that  the  Doctor  may  become  a  resident  of  South- 
western Iowa. 

— Rev.  J.  B.  Galloway  of  Vernon,  Wis.,  has  been 
requested  to  supply  Yorkville  congregation  half  time 
for  the  present,  and  appointed  to  do  so  by  Wiscon- 
sin Presbytery, 

— Rev.  David  Strang  of  Lincoln,  Tenn.,  and  at 
one  time  a  United  Presbyterian  missionary  in  Egypt, 
has  recently  made  a  visit  to  Wooster,  Ohio. 

— Rev.  H.  W.  Crabbe  has  lately  gone  to  his  ap- 
pointment as  pastor  of  the  United  Presbyterian 
church  at  Los  Angeles.  He  succeeds  Rev.  J.  M. 
Hervey. 

—Elder  Isaac  Hyatt,  of  Gilford  Village,  New 
Hampshire,  begins  a  series  of  revival  meetings  with 
his  church.  He  will  be  assisted  by  Rev.  R.  W. 
Churchill,  of  Belmont,  and  asks  all  Christians  to 
pray  for  an  abundant  blessing. 

— After  telling  what  has  been  accomplished  by 
missionaries  in  India,  a  leading  religious  journal  re- 
marks:   "Notwithstanding  all  that  has  been  done 


the  heathen  population  is  larger  to-day  than  when 
Gordon  Hall  landed  in  Bombay,  and  it  has  a  popu- 
lation that  in  its  higher  classes  is  breaking  with  old 
traditions,  givnig  up  its  old  faith,  and  in  imminent 
danger  of  drifting  away  from  all  religion." 

— Mr.  Munhall  and  his  co-workers,  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Towner,  began  their  evangelical  work  in  Cleveland 
Sunday  evening  in  the  Music  Hall.  They  had  a 
wonderful  meeting  in  Columbus. 

— Rev.  W.  H.  Chandler  has  just  closed  his  second 
year  at  Plymouth,  111.  In  this  time  the  membership 
has  more  than  doubled,  and  a  new  parsonage  has 
just  been  built.  Bro.  Chandler  was  formerly  con- 
nected with  the  United  Brethren. 

— D.  W.  Potter,  the  evangelist  from  this  city,  has 
been  holding  very  successful  meetings  in  Aurora. 
Several  hundred  were  converted. 

— Professor  Smyth,  of  the  Andover  Seminary,  has 
appealed  to  the  Supreme  Court  from  the  decision  of 
the  Board  of  visitors  deposing  him  from  his  profes- 
sorship. The  case  will  be  heard  in  Boston  early  in 
December. 

— Previous  to  the  adjournment  of  the  North  Ala- 
bama Conference  of  the  Southern  Methodist  church 
at  Tuscaloosa,  a  resolution  was  adopted  requesting 
Dr.  D.  C.  Kelley,  of  Nashville,  one  of  the  most  emi- 
nent Methodist  divines  in  America,  and  missionary 
treasurer  of  the  General  Conference,  to  resign  his 
official  position  on  account  of  his  utterances  in  ref- 
erence to  the  Emma  Abbott  episode  at  Nashville. 
The  resolution  will  create  a  great  sensation  through- 
out the  entire  Southern  Methodist  church.  Dr.  Kel- 
ley defended  Miss  Abbott's  rising  in  church  to  de- 
fend herself  against  a  severe  but  just  condemnation 
of  theater-going. 

— At  a  meeting  of  ministers  of  all  denominations, 
at  the  First  Methodist  church  of  Chicago,  Francis 
Murphy  was  requested  to  commence  a  winter  cam- 
paign against  intemperance  in  the  city. 

— At  a  meeting  of  Presbyterian  ministers  in  Pitts- 
burgh, resolutions  were  unanimously  adopted  de- 
nouncing Sunday  newspapers  and  protesting  against 
their  publication,  sale,  and  reading  on  the  Sabbath 
day;  also  entreating  all  lovers  of  social  order  and 
the  Sabbath  to  withdraw  their  patronage  from  such 
papers  and  threatening  to  appeal  to  the  authorities 
to  have  them  suppressed.  The  resolutions  were  then 
sent  to  the  ministers  of  other  churches  with  a  request 
that  similar  action  be  taken. 

— The  Evangelical  Alliance,  composed  of  minis- 
ters of  nearly  all  the  churches  of  Cincinnati,  at  a 
meeting  held  to-day  deplored  the  "impending  perils 
of  anarchism,  socialism,  ultramontanism,  infidelity, 
Sabbath-breaking,  and  intemperance,"  and  heartily 
promised  all  possible  aid  to  "efforts  to  combine  the 
patriotism  and  Christianity  of  our  country  in  taking 
measures  to  save  it  from  those  threatening  its  de- 
struction." They  approved  the  plan  of  the  proposed 
National  convention  at  Washington,  D.  C,  to  con- 
sider these  questions  and  appointed  delegates  to  at- 
tend it. 

— The  China  Inland  Mission,  undenominational, 
has  126  unmarried  and  43  married  missionaries; 
these,  with  117  native  workers  and  the  wives  of  the 
missionaries,  constitute  a  band  of  over  300,  and  the 
mission  is  asking  for  100  more,  of  whom  seventy 
are  already  secured.  The  income  of  the  past  year 
was  $110,745.  Donations  were  received  from  Afri- 
ca, Palestine,  America,  New  Zealand,  Australia,  In- 
dia, and  every  European  country  except  Austria, 
Turkey  and  Greece.  Of  converts,  the  Society  men- 
tion 1,055  as  "in  fellowship,"  and  402  as  baptized 
during  the  year. 

— The  manager  of  one  of  the  most  important 
newspapers  in  Tokyo  had  been  told  about  Christian- 
ity by  some  of  his  friends,  but  avowed  himself  as 
unwilling  to  accept  it.  A  short  time  ago  he  arranged 
to  print  a  Christian  book,  and  in  doing  so,  was 
obliged  to  look  over  and  correct  the  proof.  He  be- 
came interested  in  the  contents,  and  he  soon  began 
to  study  it  with  great  pleasure.  So  he  was  led  on 
step  by  step  to  a  belief  in  Christ,  and  a  profession 
of  the  Christian  faith. 

— Rev.  Narcisse  Cyr,  a  well-known  French  clergy- 
man and  preacher  in  Boston,  a  professor,  also,  in 
Boston  University,  has  been  cordially  invited  to  re- 
turn to  France  to  labor  in  connection  with  the  McAll 
Mission  and  in  the  Reformed  church,  and  has  ac- 
cepted the  invitation. 

— No  fewer  than  one  hundred  and  ten  candidates 
have  applied  for  the  living  of  the  EstablishedCburch, 
Kennoway,  England,  which  has  recently  been  made 
vacant  by  the  death  of  the  pastor.  It  is  evident  that 
there  are  some  men  in  the  ministry  who  don't  be- 
lieve that  the  field  is  the  world. 


LITEBATTJBE. 


Bible  Studies  from  the  Old  and  New  TeBtamentB,  covering 
the  International  Sunday-school  Lessons  for  1888.  By  Geo.F. 
Pentecost,  D.  D.  Pp.  343.  Pi  ice,  cloth,  $1;  paper,  50  cents. 
A.  8.  Barnes  &  Co.,  New  York  and  Chicago. 

The  notes  on  the  Sabbath-school  lessons,  which 
have  appeared  in  the  New  York  Witness  and  Words 
and  Weapons,  by  Dr.  Pentecost,  for  several  years, 
have  been  justly  admired  for  their  practical  and 
earnest  character.  All  who  have  been  helped  in 
their  use,  and  all  who  have  marked  with  gratitude 
to  God  the  fearless  course  of  Dr.  Pentecost  as  an 
evangelist  and  able  writer  on  religious  topics,  will 
hail  this  volume.  In  connection  with  the  Interna- 
tional Sunday-school  Lessons  for  1888,  it  is  highly 
probable  that  no  one  book  will  prove  of  greater  val- 
ue or  excite  more  wide-spread  interest  than  these 
"Bible  Studies."  It  covers  the  Old  and  New  Testa- 
ment International  Lessons  by  a  plan  of  treatment 
which  is  decidedly  new  and  interesting.  The  author 
has  avoided  the  too  common  mistake  followed  by 
writers  on  these  lessons,  and  has  rigidly  excluded 
the  mass  of  merely  critical  and  explanatory  and  ex- 
egetical  matter,  which  only  serves  to  overload  the 
lesson  for  the  average  teacher,  and  has  confined  him- 
self to  a  purely  common-sense  and  spiritual  exposi- 
tion of  the  Scriptures.  Every  incident  and  sentence 
has  a  vital  and  pregnant  meaning,  and  he  writes  as 
though  the  Scriptures  were  given  for  the  readers  of 
to-day  rather  than  for  those  to  whom  it  was  first  re- 
vealed centuries  ago.  The  book  will  be  a  vast  help 
to  Sunday-school  teachers  and  advanced  scholars; 
indeed,  it  is  evidently  a  book  of  more  than  mere 
passing  value,  for  it  is  so  written  and  prepared  as  to 
give  it  a  permanent  place  among  books  of  comment 
on  the  Sacred  Text.  It  ought  to  have,  and  no  doubt 
will  have,  a  wide  reading.  The  literary  style  is  not 
high,  but  is  easy  and  very  direct  in  presenting  its 
meanings  in  fresh  and  condensed  forms  that  are  re- 
markably suggestive  and  inspiring  to  the  reader's 
thought.  No  one  will  have  any  doubt  as  to  what 
the  writer  has  meant  to  say. 

December  Scribner's  Jtfagazine  fittingly  closes  a  very 
successful  first  year's  work  with  a  number  full  of  literary 
excellence  and  an  unusual  number  of  illustrations  artis- 
tic and  original.  In  "The  Zadoc  Pine  Labor  Union,"  by 
H.  C.  Bunner,  editor  of  Puck,  a  ringing  word  is  spoken 
for  strong,  native  American  energy  and  shrewdness  as  an 
antidote  to  the  wild  theories  and  methods  which  foreign 
laborers  have  introduced  in  this  country  with  their  labor 
union  lodge.  It  is  the  application  of  native  wit  instead 
of  foreign  theory  to  the  labor  question.  The  contrast 
between  common  sense  and  rant  is  ludicrous,  and  the 
satire  penetrating.  The  most  fully  illustrated  article  is  "In 
Florence  with  Romola,"  by  E .  H.  Blashfield,  the  well 
known  painter,  and  his  wife,  with  sixteen  drawings  by 
the  former.  This  is  the  fruit  of  several  visits  to  the 
scenes  of  George  Eliot's  romance,  and  is  an  a:Sectionate 
and  faithful  interpretation  of  some  of  the  most  interest- 
ing features  of  Florence,  from  both  the  artistic  and  the 
literary  point  of  view.  "In  Dickens-Land"  is  a  posthu- 
mous essay  by  Edwin  Percy  Whipple,  the  great  Ameri- 
can essayist.  The  poetry  is  of  high  class  and  in  some 
respects  remarkable,  especially  Stevenson's  transforma- 
tion of  the  Scotch  legend  of  Ticonderoga.  Other  hand- 
somely illustrated  poems  are  "Tarpeia,"  a  legend  of  an- 
cient Rome,  by  Louise  Imogen  Quiney,  "The  Water 
Witch,"by  Elizabeth  Akers.and  "A  Song  to  the  Lute, "by 
Austin  Dobson. 

The  Missionary  Review  issues  a  double  number  for  No- 
vember and  December,  the  last  work  of  the  noble  souled 
R.  G.  Wilder.  He  had  thus  brought  the  Review  through 
its  tenth  volume  and  turned  it  over  to  the  new  editors, 
Rev.  Drs.  J.  M.  Sherwood  and  A.  T.  Pierson,  who  take 
charge  with  the  January  number .  It  is  their  purpose  to 
greatly  enlarge  it,  making  it  a  monthly  of  80  pages,  give 
it  a  fine  mechanical  appearance,  enlarge  its  soope,  in- 
crease its  literary  and  intellectual  attractions,  and  bring  it 
into  harmonious  relations  with  all  the  great  missionary 
agencies  and  movements  of  the  age — in  a  word,  to  make 
it  the  "Missionary  Review  of  the  World"  in  fact  as  well 
as  in  name— a  review  truly  representative  of  the  spirit, 
policy  and  work  of  modern  missions  in  their  unity,  en- 
tirety and  universality.  This  labor  will  popularize 
the  .Smew,  but  we  fear  its  independent  spirit  will  fade  in 
the  attempt,and  we  shall  no  longer  find  those  faithful 
criticisms  of  society  management  which  were  of  such 
real  value  to  the  missionary  organizations  and  were  so 
much  needed  for  the  information  and  intelligent  action 
of  the  churches.  We  pray  the  new  editors  to  be  as  faith- 
ful as  Paul  admonished  Timothy  to  be. 

The  American  edition  of  the  London  Illustrated  News 
for  Nov.  26  contains  a  fine,  full-page  portrait  of  the  late 
great  prima  donna,  Jenny  Lind.  In  the  sketches  of  the 
visit  of  the  Prince  of  Wales  in  Devon  and  Cornwall,  one 
represents  the  Prince  laying  the  corner  stone  of  a  new 
church  at  Falmouth.  He  does  it  not  as  Grand  Master  of 
Freemasons,  but  simply  as  the  heir  apparent  to  the 
throne. 

The  current  number  of  Science  contains  a  very  able 
plea  foe  the  study  of  Logic  which  is  worth  a  careful  read- 
ing by  educators.  There  is  also  a  picture  of  the  annual 
congress  of  the  Theosophical  Congress  at  Adyar,  India. 
This  Society  is  closely  associated  with  the  higher  de- 
grees of  Freemasonry,  Masons  of  many  degrees  being 
amoDg  its  leading  disciples.    Its  great  object  is  Masonic 


DioiMBiB  1, 1887 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


13 


—"to  lay  the  foundation  for  a  universal 
brotherhood  of  man,  without  distinction 
of  race,  religion  or  color." 

•  ■  • 

Lodge  Notes. 

District  Assembly  No.  3,115,  K.of  L., 
the  oldest  assembly  in  New  Albany,  Ind., 
has  gone  out  of  existence .  It  had  at 
one  time  a  membership  of  800,  but  this 
number  was  reduced  to  70.  There  was 
no  dissenting  voice  to  the  proposed  dis- 
solution.    So  mote  it  be  I 

One  of  the  men  concerned  in  the  shoot- 
ing of  the  four  white  men  at  Pharr 's  cane 
carrier,  Nov.  4,  in  southern  Louisiana,  has 
made  a  partial  confession,  which  puts  the 
responsibility  of  the  deed  directly  on  the 
master  workman  of  Barwick  lodge, 
Knights  of  Labor,  and  the  secretary  of  the 
executive  board  of  that  district . 

The  Masonic  Grand  Lodge  of  Ohio  had 
a  long  and  hot  discussion  of  the  motion 
to  disapprove  the  Grand  Master's  decision 
that  the  higher  degree  order  of  Cerean 
was  illegal  and  unmasonic.  Arguments 
pro  and  con  occupied  the  time  until  2 
o'clock,  when  a  vote  was  reached  and  the 
ruling  of  the  Grand  Master  was  sustained 
by  a  large  majority. 

The  Grand  Lodge  of  Perfection  of 
Northern  Indiana  conferred  the  Scottish 
Rite  degree  on  forty  applicants.  Among 
those  who  took  part  in  the  services  were 
a  large  number  of  State  officials  and  pol- 
iticians as:  Bruce  Carr,  Auditor  of  State; 
L.T.  Michener, Attorney  General;  Charles 
Griffin,  Secretary  of  State;  Judges  Elliott 
and  Zallars,  of  the  Supreme  Bench,  and 
about  thirty  others  from  Indianapolis, 

On  the  28th  of  September  the  Ohio 
State  lodge  of  the  "Patriotic  Order  Sons 
of  America"  adopted  resolutions  con- 
demning the  Chicago  anarchists  and  com- 
mending the  courts  and  officials  legally 
engaged  in  their  punishment  This  very 
patriotic  order  not  fiading  a  suitable  op- 
portunity to  display  themselves  in  the 
Chicago  papers,  finally,  just  before  the 
day  of  execution,  published  their  reao 
lutions  as  a  big  two  column  advertise- 
ment to  catch  new  members . 

The  Supreme  Council  of  Sovereign 
Grand  Inspectors  General  of  the  Thirty- 
third  Degree,  Scottish  Rite  Freemasonry 
for  the  United  States,  held  their  session 
this  year  in  New  York  city.  The  follow- 
ing officers  were  elected :  Judge  John  J. 
Gorman,  of  New  York,  Sovereign  Grand 
Commander;  William  A.  Hershiser,  of 
Columbus,  Lieutenant  <5rand  Command- 
er; Granville  A.  Frambies.of  Ohio  Grand 
Minister  of  State;  Robert  E.  Roberts, 
Grand  Treasurer  General ;  Robert  B  Fol- 
ger,  M.  D.,  of  Brooklyn,  Grand  Corre- 
sponding Secretary  General;  John  G. 
Barker,  Grand  Secretary  General;  John 
Boyd,  Grand  Keeper  of  the  Archives; 
Isaac  F.  Graham,  of  Connecticut,  Grand 
Standard  Bearer;  E  J  Edwards,  of  Min- 
neapolis, Grand  Captain  of  the  Guard. 

The  Grand  Lodge  of  Illinois  Odd-fel- 
iows  lately  met  at  Cairo  considered  sever- 
al important  propositions,  one  of  which 
was  to  amend  the  constitutions  of  subor- 
dinate lodges  »'>  that  applicants  for  rein- 
statement must  sign  an  agreement  not  to 
seek  redress  in  the  civil  courts  for  griev- 
ances arising  in  the  order,  a  beautiful 
plan  whereby  the  order  should  be  pro- 
tected from  its  excellent  and  virtuous 
members.  Resolutions  affecting  mileage 
paid  delegates  to  the  Grand  Lodge  stirred 
up  a  warm  debate.  The  proposition  was 
to  reduce  the  allowance  from  8  cents  per 
mile  to  6.  The  opponents  of  the  meas- 
ure held  that  the  present  rate  of  8  cents 
did  not  more  than  cover  expenses,  while 
the  other  side  held  that  the  amount  al- 
lowed now  would  bankrupt  the  treasury, 
leaving  it  short  $6,000,  there  being  but 
$16,000  on  hand  against  $21,000  required. 
The  resolution  was  lost.  Right!  Odd- 
fellows pay  enough  for  dues  and  other 
exactions  without  hearing  their  own  trav- 
eling expenses  beside.  Nevermind  what 
becomes  of  the  Grand  Lodge  I 

8VB80RIPT10N  LBTTBBB. 

The  following  have  made  remittances 
of  money  to  the  Cynosure  from  Nov.  21 
to  Nov.  26  inclusive. 

L  D  Felt,  J  V  Swanson,  R  Wright,J  E 
Parker,  J  T  Cullor,  J  W  Thompson,  W 
Constance,  J  H  Derksen,  H  F  Clarke,J  L 
Moore,  L  Powers,  B  S  Watson,  W  C  Rose, 
M  Moore,  I  R  B  Arnold,  D  Rankin,  A 
Warner.  W  B  Loomis,  J  D  Dickinson, 
Judge  Zearing,  S  F  Thompsom,  Dr  J  C 
Miles,  W  H  Sawyer,  T  Mills,  W  Arms,  J 
Gault,  R  R  Pinkerton,  S  Besecker.Rev  A 
A  Stevens,  W  Parkhill,  Mrs  L  Coon. 


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THE  OHKISTIAN  CYNOStJRE. 


DSOSMBSR  1, 188i 


Home  and  Health. 

HOW  TO  MAKE  GUESTS  UNCOMFORT- 
ABLE. 

May  I  name  a  few  of  the  plans  resorted 
to  by  well  meaning  but  mistaken  people 
to  make  their  homes  so  decidedly  unat  < 
tractive  to  any  one  that  the  time  required 
for  social  pleasures  takes  almost  nothing 
from  their  lifetime?  One  of  these  ways 
&  the  habit  of  constantly  calling  atten- 
tion to,  by  excusing, all  the  shortcomings 
and  drawbacks  to  the  hospitality  being 
dispensed.  The  hostess  who  habitually 
does  this  is  a  troublesome  person  to  visit, 
whether  she  "fears  that  the  smallness  of 
her  rooms  must  cramp  you,"  or  deplores 
"the  shabbiness  of  the  furniture,"  or  is 
■worried  "lest  the  noise  of  her  children 
will  make  you  long  to  be  at  home  again," 
or  excuses  the  manner  in  which  meals  are 
served.  It  may  be  that  most  of  these 
things  would  pass  unnoticed,  or  trouble 
you  very  little,  if  only  the  mistress  of  the 
house  would  not  plaintively  proclaim 
them,  taxing  the  powers  of  the  polite 
guest  to  the  very  utmost  to  protest  that 
they  were  not  noticeable,  or  to  coin  some 
little  fiction  as  to  the  disorder  being  ex- 
cusable, and  growing  tired  and  worried 
over  the  efiEort  to  cover  up  thje  poor  man- 
agement of  the  hostess,  and  her  impolite 
ness  also,  for  it  is  impolite  to  tax  a  guest 
in  this  double  way;  she  has  her  own 
share  as  well  as  that  of  the  hostess  to 
bear,  and  it  is  little  wonder  if,  in  future, 
she  keeps  away  from  such  a  tax.  Per- 
haps we  enter  a  house  where  draperies 
of  cobwebs  seem  to  be  the  order  of  the 
day .  What  do  we  care  if  such  is  the 
state  of  their  walls?  Very  few  of  us 
care  at  all,  if  only  our  homes  are  neat. 
If  such  is  the  taste  of  the  dwellers  there 
you  are  willing  it  shall  be  gratified .  But 
to  be  told  to  "only  look  at  them!"  and  to 
be  asked  "if  this  is  not  a  disgraceful  con- 
dition of  things?"  or  told,'  I  am  sure  you 
will  tell  how  carelessly  we  live,  now, won't 
you?"  is  rather  embarrassing.  8o,intend- 
ing  to  make  yourself  agreeable,  you  ob- 
serve thaf'cobwebs  are  rather  pretty  and 
quite  graceful,  and  you  rather  like  them," 
and  such  like  inanities  as  this,  "They  do 
collect  so  fast  this  weather,"  knowing 
these  must  be  the  collection  of  months,  ^ 
and  then  you  collapse,  for  the  effort  is 
severe, and  the  hostess  keeps  on  saying: 

"Perfectly  dreadful!  You  are  not  used 
to  such  things,  and  I  shan't  sleep  to  night 
for  thinking  of  the  condition  in  which  you 
found  my  rooms." 

If  you  are  fond  of  careless  housekeep- 
ing, it  is  entirely  your  own  affair,  but  to 
impress  it  on  your  guests  is  an  experi- 
ment you  will  not  find  successful,  for  they 
will  not  stand  it  often.  The  excusing 
hostess  is  particularly  annoying  at  meals, 
and  often  obliges  her  guest  to  eat  of  un- 
savory or  ill  cooked  dishes,in  the  effort  to 
save  the  feelings  of  one  who  deserves  lit- 
tle or  no  consideration.  Unless  you  eat 
extravagantly,  she  is  sure  the  meal  is 
"badly  prepared,"  "not  to  your  taste," 
"overdone,"  "underdone,"  and  she  "just 
knows  you  will  starve." 

Don't  make  people  at  your  table  eat 
more  than  they  wish  to;  particularly  don't 
urge  on  them  anything  that  is  one  atom 
questionable  by  debating  its  merit, and  so 
sending  a  challenge  to  a  polite  person  to 
accept  more  of  it  (as  a  proof  of  its  super- 
ior quality)  than  is  agreeable  or  profita- 
ble. Even  if  an  entire  meal  should  prove 
a  failure,  it  is  better  to  order  it  quietly 
away  than  to  load  the  stomach  of  your 
victim  with  uneatable  food.  The  tempo- 
rary discomfort  of  being  a  little  unsatis- 
fied is  soon  cured,  while  eating  undigesti- 
ble  food  carries  its  reminder  in  physical 
Buffering  for  several  days. 

There  is  another  very  common  form  of 
victimizicg  your  guests — talking  about 
things  or  people  they  don't  know,  never 
have  known,  and  under  no  circumstances 
will  ever  be  likely  to  come  in  contact 
with.  It  leaves  the  visitor  so  entirely  out- 
side of  any  chance  to  interest  himself  in 
the  conversation;  leaves  him  so  entirely 
alone  that  if  he  is  not  intimate  enough  to 
take  a  book  or  a  nap,  so  as  to  wait  for  a 
change  in  the  topic  of  talk  which  he  can 
understand  and  join  in,  his  position  is 
often  embarrassing,  always  tiresome  and 
not  one  to  accept  willingly  many  times. 
— Margaret  Arthur  in  Oood  B&usekeep- 
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In  Brief. 


Division  of  labor  lias  been  carried  to 
such  perfection  In  this  country  that  it  is 
now  possible,  so  it  is  said, to  make  a  com- 
plete sewing  machine  in  one  minute,  or 
sixty  in  an  hour;  a  reaper  every  fifteen 
minutes;  a  locomotive  in  a  day,  and  300 
watches  in  the  same  time. 

The  National  Agricaltural  Department 
estimates  the  corn  yield  will  be  about  1,- 
500,000,000  bushels,  and  that  the  wheat 
crop  will  reach  450,000,000  bushels.  The 
conditions  of  cotton  and  potatoes  are  said 
to  have  declined,  while  the  tobacco  ave- 
rage has  increased  5  per  cent  since  last  re- 
port. 

At  Salem,  Mass.,  the  committee  having 
the  matter  in  hand  decided  to  present  to 
John  Qreenlcaf  Whittier,on  the  occasion 
of  his  eightieth  birthday  a  suitably  in- 
scribed memorial,  to  be  signed  by  the  pub- 
lic men  of  Massachusetts,  the  governor. 
Senators  and  members  of  Congress,  in 
grateful  recognition  of  the  poet's  services 
to  the  commonwealth  and  the  nation. 

The  first  train  on  the  Rome,  Water- 
town&Ogdensburg  to  be  heated  by  steam 
began  running  lately  on  the  Oswego  and 
Syracuse  division.  The  steam  is  convey- 
ed by  pipes  from  the  locomotive,  and  the 
scheme  is  reported  to  be  an  excellent  one 
and  the  method  of  heating  to  give  satis- 
faction. The  company  intends  to  use 
the  system  on  all  its  trains. 

In  all  the  villages  and  through  the  farm- 
ing districts  of  the  Miami  Valley,  Ohio, 
as  a  result  of  the  water  famine  an  epi- 
demic of  diphtheria  and  fevers  prevails, 
and  the  further  the  investigation  is  ex- 
tended the  more  appalling  are  the  reports 
of  the  plague.  At  Lewisburg, where  the 
death  list  is  the  greatest,  schools  are 
closed  and  the  children  are  forbidden  to 
go  upon  the  streets. 

It  has  recently  been  discovered  that  the 
headquarters  of  Mormon  activity  in 
Europe  is  in  the  canton  of  Berne,  Switz- 
erland. The  station  is  in  charge  of  Bishop 
Schoenfeld,  and  from  it  missionaries  are 
Bent  out  in  all  directions .  The  number 
of  converts  in  Berne  alone  last  year  was 
336;  throughout  the  whole  of  Switzer- 
land the  year  before  the  whole  number 
of  converts  was  between  600  and  700.  It  is 
said  that  gifts  and  collections  are  expect- 
ed of  the  converts  to  carry  on  the  work. 
The  government  is  thoroughly  aroused 
and  proposes  to  take  vigorous  measures 
to  break  it  up. 

"What  is  known  as  the  driven  well  pat- 
ent, which  has  been  several  times  before 
the  United  States  Supreme  Court,  and 
which  has  always  heretofore  been  sus- 
tained, has  just  been  declared  invalid  in 
an  opinion  by  Justice  Blatchford  based 
upon  the  record  in  case  number  16,  An- 
drews, Green  and  others  vs.  George  Hovey, 
brought  here  by  an  appeal  from  the 
United  States  circuit  court  for  the  south- 
ern district  of  Iowa.  This  court  holds  that 
the  fact,  now  made  to  appear  for  the  first 
time  in  the  driven  well  litigation,  that  the 
invention  was  used  at  Cortland,  N.Y.,by 
others  than  Green  more  than  two  years 
before  application  for  patent  was  made.is 
a  fact  fatal  to  the  patent's  validity.  The 
decree  of  the  circuit  court  in  favor  of  the 
alleged  infringer  Hovey  is  affirmed. 

An  item  of  interest  connected  with  the 
Chicago  anarchists  is  Mrs.  Capt.  Black's 
doggery.  All  through  the  long  trial  be- 
fore Judge  Gary  Mrs.  Black  attended 
closely  and  constantly  and  has  shown 
even  deeper  interest  in  the  men  and  more 
sympathy  with  their  revolutionary  princi- 
ples than  her  husband.though  he  was  the 
leading  lawyer  on  the  defense.  The  oth- 
er day  an  immense  pile  of  market  baskets, 
160  to  200  of  them,  astonished  the  pat- 
rons of  a  Fifth  Avenue  meat  market,  piled 
about  the  door  without  and  within .  The 
proprietor  explained  that  they  were  re- 
turned by  Mrs.  Black,  who  bought  about 
$3.00  worth  of  meat  daily  to  feed  her 
two  or  three  score  dogs.  Mrs.  Black's 
sympathy  is  so  strong  for  the  poor  work- 
ingman — but  the  curs  must  be  fed  all  the 
same. 


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THE  CHHISTIAN  CTNOSURE, 


DxoixBXR  1, 1887 


NPws  OF  The  Week 

CHICAGO . 

Besides  the  late  great  Fat  Stock  and 
Horse  Show,  the  eighteenth  annual  meet- 
ing of  the  Bee-keepers'  Union  was  lately 
held  here.  The  discussions  were  of  great 
interest  to  those  concerned. 

August  Hetzke,  a  German,  whipped  his 
step-son,  a  bey  of  twelve  or  thirteen 
years, to  death  with  a  heavy  leather  strap. 
The  circumstances  show  the  greatest 
atrocity.  The  father  was  a  drunken 
brute,  and  is  under  arrest, 

GENERAL. 

At  a  somewhat  exciting  local  election 
in  St.  Louis  for  members  of  the  City 
School  Board  the  issue  was  on  the  ques- 
tion of  continuing  to  teach  the  German 
language  and  certain  "fancy  studies"  in 
the  public  schools.  The  candidates  in 
favor  of  abolishing  the  teaching  of  those 
branches  were  elected. 

Judge  C.  B.  Grant  of  Detroit,  Mich., 
called  a  meeting  of  saloon-keepers  Wed- 
nesday and  read  to  them  the  liquor  laws. 
He  told  them  the  acts  were  passed  to  be 
obeyed  in  his  district,  and  said  offenders 
would  be  dealt  with  strictly  in  accordance 
with  the  letter. 

It  is  expected  that  3,000  employes  will 
walk  out  of  the  breweries  in  Milwaukee, 
Wis.,  because  of  a  circular  to  be  issued  to 
them,  informing  them  their  union  will 
not  longer  be  recognized,  because  it  has 
broken  its  agreement  with  the  breweries. 
The  statue  of  the  Puritan,  erected  at 
Springfield,  Mass.,  in  honor  of  Deacon 
Samuel  Chapin,  was  dedicated  Thanks- 
giving Day  with  simple  ceremonies. 

The  trial  of  Johann  Most  was  begun 
Wednesday  at  New  York,  and  the^  State 
rested  after  proving  that  Most  made  a 
threatening  speech,  concluding  with  the 
words,  "lam  an  anarchist!  Rise, anarchy! 
Long  may  it  live !"  A  reporter  testified 
that  he  "did  not  take  notes  at  the  meet- 
ing because  he  did  not  want  to  be  carried 
out  dead . " 

One  hundred  and  fifty-three  inmates  of 
the  Soldiers'  Home  at  Bath,  near  Buffalo, 
N.  Y.,  have  been  indicted  for  voting  at 
the  last  election . 

Prohibition  in  Atlanta  and  Fulton 
county,  Ga  ,  was  defeated  by  a  small  ma- 
jority Saturday. 

Engineer  Markham  and  his  fireman 
were  attacked  by  a  panther  Sunday  morn- 
ing between  Artell  and  Minden  on  the 
Burlington  and  Missouri  Road.  The  men 
had  left  the  locomotive  to  repair  a  wheel, 
when  the  animal  sprang  upon  them  and 
severely  lacerated  both  before  being  dis- 
patched with  a  bullet.  The  animal  meas- 
ured six  feet  and  weighed  over  200 
pounds. 

Fire  last  week  Monday  at  Mound  City, 
111.,  destroyed  thirty-five  buildings,  in- 
cluding two  hotels,  the  Mayor's  residence, 
the  Patrial  office  and  three  dry  goods 
stores.  A  negro  has  been  arrested  for 
causing  the  conflagration  by  setting  fire 
to  an  unoccupied  hotel. 

Reports  of  forest  and  prairie  fires  came 
from  all  directions  in  the  South  and 
Southwest  early  last  week  with  accounts 
of  great  destruction  of  property.  The 
bottom  lands  of  the  Okawa  and  the  Big 
Muddy  rivers  in  Southwestern  Illinois 
and  the  prairies  in  many  parts  of  the 
same  section  of  the  State  were  ablaze,  and 
outhouses, fences, farming  machinery, out- 
standing crops  and  whole  forests  and  in 
some  cases  residences  were  destroyed.  In 
Southeastern  Missouri  and  in  Arkansas, 
between  the  Iron  Mountain  Railway  and 
and  the  Mississippi  river  the  swamps  and 
lowlands  were  almost  burned  out,  and 
the  whole  country  was  so  filled  with 
smoke  that  the  people  were  almost  stifled. 
As  far  west  as  Hot  Springs  fires  devasta- 
ted farms  and  burned  residences,  barns 
and  fences;  and  the  little  town  of  May- 
flower, in  Franklin  county,  barely  es- 
caped total  destruction.  On  the  east  side 
of  the  Mississippi  river,  in  Washington 
and  Bolivar  counties.Mississippi, nineteen 
cotton  gins,  besides  much  other  valuable 
property,  has  been  destroyed. 

To  the  great  relief  of  the  people  of 
Southern  Illinois,  a  heavy  rainfall  set  in 
throughout  that  region  Wednesday. 

Henry  Lockwood  and  wife,  residing 
near  Marion,  Ind.,  left  their  three  chil- 
dren, the  youngest  18  months  and  the 
oldest  8  years,  in  the  house  alone  Satur- 
day night.  When  the  parents  returned 
Sunday  the  babe  was  frozen  to  death  and 
the  others  were  frost  bitten. 


A  bloody  fight  took  place  Sunday  be- 
tween whites  and  blacks  at  Jellico,  Ky., 
in  which  three  men  were  kUled  and  a 
number  wounded.  Whisky  was  the  cause 
of  tha  fight,  but  the  combatants,  having 
tasted  blood,  are  eager  for  another  fight, 
and  last  Monday  the  little  town  was  full 
of  armed  men. 

A  panic  prevails  at  Bellaire,Ohio,owing 
to  the  prevalence  of  incendiary  fires.  Five 
buildings  were  fired  during  the  past  week 
and  the  hose  of  the  department  was  cut 
while  extinguishing  one  of  the  blazes, 
practically  crippling  it  for  the  present. 

The  trains  due  in  Pueblo,  Colo.,  Satur- 
day night  were  blockaded  by  heavy  snow 
drifts  near  Dodge  City,  Kan.  The  storm 
was  very  severe  in  that  vicinity,  and  many 
telegraph  poles  were  broken  down  by  the 
wind. 

While  playing  on  the  ice  on  Rock 
Creek,  Morrison,  111.,  Saturday,  three 
children — Georgie,  Charlie  and  Lillie 
White  —  were  drowned.  Charlie,  the 
youngest  of  the  three,  broke  through  the 
ice  with  his  sled,  and  in  attempting  to 
rescue  him  Georgie  and  Lillie  both  went 
down.  All  three  were  dead  when  taken 
from  the  water  an  hour  and  a  half  later. 

The  town  of  Doniphan,  fourteen  miles 
north  of  Hastings,  Neb., was  partly  wiped 
out  by  fire  Saturday  morning.  It  is 
claimed  that  burglars  entered  the  Post- 
offlce,  blew  the  safe  open,  and  to  cover 
the  robbery  fired  the  building.  Seven 
brick  buildings  were  burned  to  the 
ground. 

In  a  collision  of  Baltimore  and  Ohio 
freight  trains  near  Cochrane's  Mills,  Pa . , 
Friday  forenoon,  three  men  were  killed 
and  five  others  wounded,  two  of  whom 
may  not  survive.  Both  trains  were  com- 
pletely wrecked. 

A  New  Orleans  special  of  Wednesday 
says:  The  striking  sugar  hands  at  Thibe- 
denux.  La  ,  about  five  o'clock  this  morn- 
ing fired  upon  the  white  pickets  who 
were  guarding  the  place.  The  white  men 
returned  the  fire  and  a  brisk  battle  en- 
sued, in  which  twenty-five  negroes  are 
said  to  have  been  killed  and  two  white 
men  wounded.  Additional  troops  will 
probably  be  sent  to  the  scene  at  once. 

The  negro  Hudson, who  caused  the  de- 
structive fire  at  Mound  City,  111.,  last 
Monday,  has  implicated  Mrs.  Lawler,  a 
former  landlady  of  the  house  in  which 
the  fire  started,  stating  that  she  gave  him 
$15  to  set  the  fire.  Mrs.  Lawler,  who  de- 
nies the  negro's  story,  has  been  placed 
under  arrest. 

At  a  crossing  at  West  Newton,  Mass., 
Thursday,  a  team  attached  to  a  carriage 
was  run  down  by  a  train.  William  and 
Charles  Hannon  were  killed,  Joseph 
Burke  was  fatally  injured,  and  Patrick 
D.  Gorman  was  badly  bruised.  The  hors- 
es had  to  be  shot. 

FOBBIGN. 

The  German  Reichstag  was  opened  in 
Berlin  November  24  Minister  Von  Boet 
ticher  read  the  speech  from  the  throne. 
The  National  Oazetie,  commenting  on  the 
speech,  says  it  hopes  that  the  effects  of 
the  peaceful  policy,  of  which  the  message 
treats,  may  be  multiplied  as  the  session 
proceeds  and  that  more  explicit  state- 
ments made  in  the  Reichstag  regarding 
Germany's  foreign  relations  may  estab- 
lish the  fact  that  the  European  situation 
is  growing  clearer.  The  Reichstag  sent 
a  brief  message  of  respect  and  sympathy 
to  the  Crown  Prince. 

A  Bogota  (United  States  of  Colombia) 
paper  states  that  thousands  of  Colombians 
in  certain  districts  are  annually  stolen  and 
sold  into  slavery  of  the  vilest  character, 
and  that  sometimes  combats  take  place 
among  the  kidnappers  and  the  natives  in 
which  hundreds  are  slain  and  their  bod- 
ies left  unburied. 

The  peace  arbitration  delegates,  who 
have  returned  to  London,  speak  highly 
of  their  reception  in  America  and  express 
themselves  as  hopeful  of  good  results 
from  their  visit.  They  say  they  found 
the  old  jealousies  giving  way  to  a  gener- 
ous interest  in  English  affairs. 

A  mysterious  disease  is  said  to  be 
claiming  many  victims  at  Posoya,  in 
Chili  The  victims  are  first  taken  with 
pains  in  the  stomach,  followed  by  a  flow 
of  blood  from  the  mouth,  and  sometimes 
from  the  eyes  and  ears. 

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THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE, 


The  C  YJfOS  URE  represents  the  Christian  movement  against 
the  Secret  Lodge  System ;  discusses  fairly  and  fearlessly  the 
various  movements  of  the  lodge  as  they  appear  to  public  view, 
and  reveals  the  secret  machinery  of  corruption  in  politics, 
courts,  and  social  and  religious  circles. 

There  are  In  the  United  States 

Some  200  different  Lodges, 
With  2,000  000  members, 
Costing  $,20,000,000  yearly. 

This  mighty  world  power  confronts  the  church  and  seeks  to 
rule  and  ruin  every  Christian  Reform. 

No  Christian  Reform  Movement  of  the  day  is  so  necessary, 
yet  so  unpopular  and  beset  with  difficulties,  as  that  which  would 
remove  the  dark  pall  of  oaths,  dark-lantern  meetings,  secret 
signs,  mysterious  and  pagan  worship  about  altars  condemned 
by  the  Word  of  the  Living  God. 

No  other  paper  gives  the  best  of  Its  correspondence  and  edi- 
torial strength  to  this  vitally  important  reform.  The  C  YNO- 
S  URE  should  be  your  paper  in  addition  to  any  other  you  may 
take. 

Because  It  Is  the  representative  of  the  reform  against  the 
Lodge, with  ablest  arguments,  biographical  and  historical  sketch- 
es, letters  from  lecturers,  seceders  and  sufferers  from  lodge  per- 
secution. The  ablest  writers  on  this  subject  from  all  denomina- 
tions and  all  parts  of  the  country  contribute.  Special  depart- 
ments for  letters  from  our  metropolitan  centers,  on  the  relation 
of  secret  orders  t«  current  events. 

The  C  YNOS  URE  began  its  twentieth  volume  September  22, 
1887,  with  features  of  special  and  popular  Interest. 

TERMS:  12.00  per  year;  strictly  In  advance,  $L50.  Special 
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G0NTXNT8. 


Bditobial: 

Notes  and  CommentB 

Mormon  Statehood 

The  Anarchists  :  Their 
Doctrines  and  Punish- 
ment  

The  Prohibition  Confer- 
ence   

Nominate  a  Free  Man 

The  Lodges  at  the  Confer- 
ence   

Personal  Mention 

COITTBIBUTIONS : 

Who  Slew  all  These? 

National  Reform 

Our    Ever  Present  Help 

(poetry) 

Anarchy  and  Christianity. 
Sblectbd : 
The  Abolition  of  Titles... 
Why  Christ  Is  not  Recog- 
nized   In  our  National 

Constitution 

Liquor  on  the  Congo 

Educational 

BiBLB  Lisbon 


Rbfobm  Nbws  : 
From    Mississippi   Coun- 
try ;  The  Cause  Prospers 
In  Iowa 4 

COBBBSFONDBNOB : 

Dr.  Miner  and  the  Anarch- 
ists; Sound  Advice  for 
Political  Action -iBallots 
and  Bribes;  Expositions 
in  Southeastern  Africa : 

Pith  and  Point 5,6 

ToStudents t 

Thb  Homb 10 

Tempbrancb 11 

Religiods  Nbws 12 

LiTEBATDBB 12 

Thb  N.  C.  a 7 

Chubch  vs.  Lodob 7 

Secret    Societies     Con- 
demned     7 

Lodge  Notes 13 

Markets 13 

BusiNBsa 18 

Farm  Notes 14 

Home  and  Health 15 

News  of  thb  Wbbs 16 


FIFTEEN  SHARES  TAKEN. 


Let  it  be  always  remembered  that  the  fund  for  the 
1,000  copies  of  the  Cynosure  to  colored  pastors  is  being 
raised  for  the  best  of  reasons.  No  other  investment 
has  produced  so  great  and  beneficent  results,  as: 

1 .  The  Good  Will  Association  of  Baptist  churches  at 
Mobile. 

3.  The  resolution  of  the  St.  Marion  Baptist  Associa- 
tion, Arkansas,  to  rid  their  churches  of  secretism . 

8.  The  vote  against  the  lodges  by  the  Louisiana  State 
Baptist  Convention. 

4.  The  leavening  of  the  Texas  Baptist  Convention. 

6.  The  founding  of  schools  at  Memphis  and  New 
Iberia,  which  are  opposed  to  secretism. 

Other  strong  reasons  .might  be  added,  which  show 
that  the  N.  C.  A.  has  probably  not  before  offered  so 
good  an  investment  for  the  donations  of  the  friends  of 
reform. 

We  are  glad  to  report  this  week  that  fifteen  shares 
of  $15  each  have  been  taken  for  this  fund.  The  good 
tense  of  the  Cynosure  readers  appreciates  such  facts, 
and  they  are  ready  to  respond.  A  thousand  copies  of 
the  paper  to  as  many  colored  pastors,  would  be  the  best 
New  Year's  gift  of  the  season .  Let  the  good  word  go 
around,  and  all  who  can  contribute  less  or  more,  send 
on  to  the  N.  C.  A.  Treasurer  at  the  earliest  opportunity. 
Such  a  gift  will  return  a  thousand  fold  into  the  bosom 
of  the  giver. 


At  a  meeting  of  Republicans  in  Detroit  last  week, 
Senator  Palmer  of  Michigan  created  a  great  sensa- 
tion by  announcing  his  conviction  t&at  the  party  was 
ready  by  a  strong  majority  to  adopt  State  prohibi- 
tion, and  in  six  years  would  adopt  it  as  a  national 
isBue.  His  colleague,  Stockbridge,agrees  with  him, 
and  BO  do  other  Michigan  Congressmen.      Senator 


Palmer  is  an  influential  man  in  bis  party  and  bis 
views  are  of  the  highest  importance. 


The  celebrated  Freemason,  Captain  Howgate, 
whose  plundering  of  government  funds  a  few  years 
since  is  well  remembered,  has  so  far  kept  in  biding, 
and  bis  bondsmen  have  been  called  on  to  settle. 
Howgate  stole  $133,700,  but  his  bail  was  very  Ma- 
sonically  and  ridiculously  small — only  $12,000.  Let 
the  people  charge  this  matter  up  against  the  Ma- 
sonic lodge  against  the  day  when  we  must  reckon 
with  it 


The  lodges  cannot  forgive  Dr.  Pentecost  for  re- 
buking them  at  Amesbury.  Our  readers  have  noted 
a  former  comment  on  this  subject,  and  will  read  at 
more  length  from  Dr.  Pentecost  himself  on  the  third 
page  of  this  number.  From  Amesbury  he  went  to 
Augusta,  Maine,  the  home  of  Mr.  Blaine,  who, 
though  not  a  Freemason,  has  never  cared  to  tell  his 
supporters  why  he  refrains  from  taking  a  step  so 
popular  among  politicians.  But  in  Augusta  an  outcry 
is  raised  that  Mr.  Pentecost  is  making  too  much 
money  for  a  revivalist  This  is  very  like  a  lodge 
howl.  Freemasonry,  which  is  robbing  the  Christian 
church  on  every  hand  of  means,  reputation,  virtue 
and  religion,  could  find  no  other  charge  to  bring, 
doubtless, — like  a  pickpocket  raising  a  cry  of  "Stop 
thief,"  in  the  streets.  The  Tompkins  Avenue  church 
in  Brooklyn  paid  Dr.  Pentecost  $8,000  yearly.  He 
resigned  such  a  place  for  revival  work  where  he  may 
get  one-third  that  amount. 


Michigan,  Tennessee,  Texas,  Oregon — in  all,  the 
prohibitory  amendment  has  been  defeated,  but  in 
in  Washington  we  have  a  victory  that  makes  good 
our  loss.  When  Judge  Harlan  arose  in  the  Supreme 
Court  on  Monday  and  read  a  long,  elaborate  and 
practically  unanimous  opinion  sustaining  the  judg- 
ment of  the  Kansas  courts,  it  was  an  hour  for  the 
land  to  sing  Hallelujah.  The  constitutionality  of 
the  Kansas  law  is  thus  affirmed,  and  the  decision 
against  compensating  liquor  dealers  and  manufac- 
turers for  property  rendered  worthless  by  the  policd 
laws  of  a  State  is  made  the  law  of  the  land  This 
is  a  VICTORY.  It  will  not  greatly  effect  Kansas  for 
liquordom  was  not  worth  much  in  that  State,  but 
for  Illinois,  Kentucky,  Tennessee,  and  many  other 
States,  where  tens  of  millions  are  invested  ia  the 
traffic  it  is  of  utmost  importance.  A  contrary  de- 
cision would  have  burdened  the  prohibitory  move- 
ment and  crushed  it  down  to  earth.  The  Supreme 
Court  has  been  reported  as  evenly  divided  on  this 
question,  and  the  result  is,  therefore,  more  glorious. 
Praise  the  Lord! 


The  Flta,  the  Mosquito,  the  Scandal,  Lucifer, 
John  tike  Baker,  the  Liar,  the  Green  Bird,  the  Per- 
fume, the  Syringe,  the  Piston  are  the  names  of  some 
of  the  Mexican  papers  translated,  given  by  a  mis- 
sionary of  the  American  Board  in  that  country  to 
a  friend  in  this  city.  The  case  »/J  a  prominent  Cath- 
olic organ  is  also  mentioned,  which  professes  to  be 
published  to  give  instruction  in  religion;  but  its  col- 
umns are  so  filled  with  news  of  bull-fights,  theaters, 
and  such  like  amusements,  that  scarce  a  corner  is 
left  for  the  Catholic  church  proper.  We  have  in 
this  slight  view  a  striking  revelation  of  a  demoral- 
ized people.  With  the  priests  to  control  the  lower 
classes  and  the  lodge  the  higher,  the  condition  of 
Mexico  cannot  be  regarded  as  any  better  than  the 
Moslem  nations. 


By  adopting  Mr.  Sankey  as  his  helper  in  gospel 
work  fifteen  years  ago,  Mr.  Moody  married  the  sing- 
er with  the  exhorter  in  revival  work,  and  the  bond 
has  seemed  to  be  inseparable.  The  names  of  Bliss, 
Sankey,  McQranahan,  Herald,  Excell,  Towner,  are 
as  well  known  as  Moody,  Whittle,  Munhall,  Pente- 
cost, Jones  or  Needham;  and  the  style  of  their  mu- 
sic, yielding  to  a  popular  taste  instead  of  leading  it, 
has  swung  to  an  extreme  over  against  the  rather  se- 
vere and  unadorned  tunes  of  years  ago.  But  in  the 
meeting  begun  the  other  day  in  Pittsburgh,  Mr. 
Moody  found  a  new  condition  of  things,  and,  accept- 
ing it,  is  as  successful  as  ever.     The  Psalm-singing 


people  of  Pittsburgh  are  so  numerous  that  their  con- 
victions have  to  be  respected,  and  for  the  first  time, 
at  least  in  this  country,  a  successful  use  of  the 
Psalms  in  meter  has  been  attempted  in  a  revival 
service.  It  is  pleasant  to  note  this  mark  of  reaction. 
Let  it  spread  to  other  cities. 


Cardinal  Gibbons  of  Baltimore,  in  a  late  North 
American  Review,  covertly  assailed  the  public  school 
system,  linking  it  with  Mormonism  and  ballot-box 
stuffing,  as  containing  a  danger  that  should  be  guard- 
ed against.  Mr.  Jeremiah  Qain,  for  years  princi- 
pal of  one  of  the  schools  of  Chicago,  and  a  Catho 
lie,  replies  in  the  December  Review.  Though  re- 
spectful to  his  Cardinal  he  dissents  from  his  views, 
but  would  have  the  school  entirely  secular.  As  this 
is  the  pretended  reason  for  Catholic  objection  it  puts 
the  school  system  between  the  mill-stones.  Bat  it 
is  left  for  Bishop  Cleary  of  Kingston,  Canada,  to 
introduce  the  latest  argument  against  the  common 
school.  In  a  public  address  at  Napanee  be  deliv- 
ered himself  in  these  words:  "Modesty  is  not  one 
of  the  things  taught  in  our  public  schools.  On  the 
contrary,  girls  at  these  schools  learn  to  be  boister- 
ous, immodest,  screaming,  kicking  creatures,  such 
as  were  never  seen  among  Pagans,  Our  public 
schools  are  destroyers  of  modesty,  an  abomination, 
and  a  disgrace.  All  female  modesty  is  destroyed  in 
the  girls  that  attend  them,  and  they  become  rude, 
screeching  females,  who  kick  their  heels,  flirt  their 
skirts,  and  stare  into  the  faces  of  men  with  a  bold- 
ness that  must  bring  the  blush  of  shame  to  the 
cheek  of  any  modest  man."  Orangemen  and  all 
have  joined  in  a  general  shout  of  indignation,  and 
the  Bishop  will  probably  be  instructed  by  Cardinal 
Taschereau  to  explain  that  he  meant  something  else 
by  what  he  said.  It  is  too  late,  however,  for  him 
to  explain  away  the  fact  that  the  Romish  church  is 
unalterably  hostile  to  the  public  school  system,  and 
will  use  every  means  to  destroy  it 


WEO  8LBW  ALL  THBBBf 


THI    RI8PON8IBIL1TT   07  THE   LOUISIANA   MA88A0EI. 


BT   RIV.    H.    H.    HINMAN. 


The  recent  (Nov.  22nd)  shooting  of  twenty-seven 
men  at  Thibodeaux,  Louisiana,  in  which  two  white 
men  were  wounded  and  twenty-five  Negroes  killed, 
c  >nstituteB  one  of  the  bloodiest  dramas  this  unhap- 
py region  has  seen  since  the  great  civil  war.  No 
class  of  laborers  has  been  more  quiet,  peaceable  and 
patient  than  the  Negroes  of  the  sugar  plantations. 
Heretofore  their  relations  to  their  employers  have, 
on  the  whole,  been  not  unsatisfactory.  It  is  true 
the  wages  paid  were  small,  from  75  cents  to  $1.26 
per  day,  with  usually  free  rent  of  a  small  house  and 
vegetable  garden.  This  is  more  than  the  average 
of  the  wages  paid  in  the  South.  Considering  the 
disabilities  of  the  average  sugar  planter,  it  is  not 
unreasonably  small. 

Until  the  present  season  the  relation  of  employ- 
ers and  employes  has  been  peaceful.  During  the 
past  year  the  Knightfl  of  Labor  organized  bodies  of 
these  laborers.  In  all  cases  the  headquarters  have 
been  in  New  Orleans,  and  the  controlling  influences 
the  white  Knights  of  that  city.  In  the  height  of  the 
sugar  season  strikes  were  ordered  at  Terre  Bonne 
and  other  places.  Riots  ensued.  Laborers  were 
shot  and  strikers  evicted;  troops  were  called  out  and 
more  Negroes  were  shot  At  last  it  was  supposed 
that  the  trouble  was  ended,  and  the  troops  were  sent 
home. 

About  November  15th  I  was  in  the  vicinity  of 
Thibodeaux.  The  work  of  cutting  and  grinding  cane 
was  going  on,  but  great  numbers  of  the  colored  peo- 
ple were  idle.  Their  labor  was  in  demand,  and 
when  asked  why  they  did  not  go  to  work  they  said 
they  were  afraid.  Many  were  living  in  churches 
and  some  were  without  any  shelter.  Threats  were 
made  of  the  destruction  of  property,  and  a  home 
guard  was  organized.  According  to  report  this 
guard  was,  on  the  22nd,  fired  into  by  colored 
•trikere,  and  two  men  were  wounded.  They  returned 
fire  and  killed  twenty-five  of  their  assailants.     It  is 


THE  CHRIgPl'IAH  CTNOSUEXl. 


Deobmbie  8, 1887 


quite  probable  that  many  others  were  wounded,  and 
that  inconceivable  misery  was  inflicted  on  this  poor 
people.  The  responsibility  for  this  great  calamity 
rests  not  on  the  colored  people.  Their  most  intelli- 
gent and  upright  representatives  greatly  deplore  the 
conflict,  t»nd  have  no  sympathy  with  those  who  or- 
dered the  strike.  Rev.  Daniel  Clay,  son  of  the  great 
Henry  Clay,  who  has  spent  many  years  in  the  im- 
mediate neighborhood  of  this  sad  affair,  and  is 
thoroughly  familiar  with  the  previous  and  present 
condition  of  the  people,  greatly  deplores  the  organ- 
ization of  the  Knights  of  Labor  as  one  of  the  worst 
calamities  of  his  people. 

Nor  are  the  colored  strikers  the  ones  who  are 
mostly  to  blame.  They  have  suffered  themselves  to 
be  deceived  by  false  promises.  They  have  been  made 
to  believe  that  they  could  secure  their  demands,  and 
that  in  the  meantime  they  would  be  guaranteed  a 
support.  Their  passions  have  been  appesiled  to,  and 
a  race  conflict  has  been  excited.  Not  they,  but 
their  seducers  and  deceivers  are  mainly  to  blame. 
On  the  order  of  the  Knights  of  Labor  and  its  kin- 
dred systems  of  darkness  rests  the  guilt  of  all  this 
blood.  It  is  not  by  race  antagonism  that  the  rights 
of  the  Negro  are  to  be  vindicated.  The  colored  la- 
borer has  no  greater  enemy  than  the  man  who  en- 
courages him  in  deeds  of  intimidation  and  violence. 
Deplorable  as  is  the  condition  of  many  of  these 
people,  and  appealing  as  it  does  to  the  moral  sensi- 
bilities of  all  who  regard  the  welf'«:e  of  humanity, 
yet  the  remedy  is  to  be  found  in  cultivating  peace- 
ful relations;  in  maintaining  the  supremacy  of  the 
civil  law,  and  avoiding  all  things  which  are  likely  to 
occasion  strife. 

Touqaloo,  Miss. 

•  «  » 

NATIONAL  REFORM. 


BY   REV.   J.    M.    FOSTER. 


The  National  Reform  Association  was  organized 
in  1864.  The  president  is  Hon.  Felix  R.  Brunot  of 
Pittsburgh.  Among  the  vice-presidents  are  such 
men  as  Joseph  Cook,  Boston  Monday  lecturer;  Rev. 
Dr.  Seeley,  president  of  Amherst  College;  Dr.  Sco- 
vel,  president  of  Wooster  University;  Dr.  Payne, 
president  of  Wesley  an  University,  Delaware,  Ohio; 
Dr.  Blanchard,  late  president  of  Wheaton  College; 
Judge  Hagans,  Cincinnati;  Dr.  flerrick  Johnson, 
Chicago,  and  Dr.  T,  D.  Cuyler,  Brooklyn.  Rev.  T. 
P,  Stevenson,  D.  D.,  editor  of  the  Christian  States- 
man, Philadelphia,  is  corresponding  secretary;  Rev. 
D.  McAllister,  L.L.  D.,  of  Pittsburgh,  is  treasurer. 
The  Association  has  four  district  secretaries  in  the 
field  who  give  all  their  time  to  the  work.  Revs. 
Mills,  Gault,  Weir  and  Foster,  and  four  who  give 
one-fourth  time,  Revs.  Coleman,  Wylie,  Leiper  and 
Johnston.  These  men  go  from  place  to  place,  hold- 
ing meetings,  preaching  in  the  several  churches,  ad- 
dressing colleges  and  theological  seminaries,  and 
writing  articles  for  the  press,  and  so  awaken  the 
public  conscience  to  the  necessity  of  moral  reforma- 
tion. 

The  work  at  present  is  agitation  in  the  lines  of 
Sabbath  reform,  reform  in  our  Divorce  Legislation, 
Temperance  reformation,  etc.  The  object  of  the 
Association  is  to  conserve  the  Christian  features  of 
this  government  and  place  our  nation  in  its  proper 
relation  to  the  authority  and  law  of  God.  It  is  as- 
sumed that  this  is  a  Christian  nation — Christian  in 
origin,  history  and  life. 

The  Pilgrim  Fathers  before  landing  on  Plymouth 
Rwk,  while  in  the  cabin  of  the  Mayflower,  drafted 
a  constitution  of  government  That  constitution 
began,  "Jn  the  name  of  God,  Amen.  For  the  glory  of 
Gk)d  and  the  maintenance  of  the  Christian  faith,"etc. 
All  the  colonial  charters  and  compacts  recognized 
Almighty  God  and  the  supremacy  of  his  law  in  civ- 
il affairs.  In  the  Declaration  of  Independence  there 
is  a  distinct  acknowledment  of  a  superintending 
Providence  in  national  matters.  In  thirty-four  out 
of  thirty-eight  State  constitutions  there  is  a  clear 
and  explicit  acknowledgment  of  the  Higher  Powers 
in  government  In  all  the  inaugural  addresses  of 
our  Presidents,  save  one,  there  is  a  recognition  of 
the  obligation  of  all  nations  in  general,  and  of  ours 
in  particular,  to  the  Governor  among  the  nations. 
And  then  the  chaplaincies  in  our  armies  and  navies 
in  the  Congressional  and  Legislative  Halls,  the  Bi- 
ble in  our  public  schools  and  reformatory  institu- 
tions, the  oath  in  our  courts  of  justice,  the  oath  ad- 
ministered to  civil  officers,  the  laws  making  blas- 
phemy and  profanity  punishable  offences,  the  laws 
protecting  the  Christian  Sabbath,  the  laws  guarding 
the  ordinance  of  Christian  marriage,  etc.,  these  are 
but  the  details  of  the  great  leading  fact  that  Chris- 
tianity is  the  common  law  in  the  land;  in  other 
words,  this  is  a  Christian  nation. 

Writers  distinguish  between  a  nation  and  its  gov- 
enunent     The  nation  is  the  creature  of  God,  bom 


in  his  Providence,  and  responsible  to  him  for  its 
character  and  conduct.  Now,  our  proposition  is, 
A  Christian  nation  ought  to  have  a  Christian  gov- 
ernment 

1.  Because  the  authority  of  the  state  comes  fromGod. 
There  are  only  two  theories  respecting  civil  govern- 
ment: the  infidel  theory,  viz.,  that  the  state  is  only 
a  wise  human  institution;  and  the  Christian  theory, 
viz.,  that  it  is  an  ordinance  of  God.  The  first  is  usu- 
ally based  upon  the  social  compact  This  idea  was 
conceived  in  the  mind  of  the  atheist,  Hobbes  of 
Malmsbury.  Denying  the  existence  of  any  fixed 
standard  of  right,  and  consequently  that  there  is  any 
such  thing  as  virtue  or  vice,  this  speculative  philos- 
opher resolved  all  laws  into  one,  the  will  of  the  leg- 
islature. In  our  Constitution  it  takes  a  little  differ- 
ent form,  the  will  of  the  people.  The  second  is  the 
true  theory.  The  state  is  a  divine  institution.  It  is 
that  settled  order  of  things  that  is  manifestly  in  har- 
mony with  the  divine  will.  It  has  its  necessity  in 
man's  nature,  for  "man  is  a  political  being,"  and  its 
authority  in  God's  Word,  "The  powers  that  be  are 
ordained  of  God."  It  is  clothed  with  authority  and 
powers  which  transcend  all  human  institutions,  and 
so  becomes  the  heaven-ordained  and  heaven-com- 
missioned agent  representing  the  divine  authority 
among  men.  In  the  82nd  Psalm  rulers  are  called 
gods,  i.  e.,  they  represent  God  in  the  world.  In  the 
13th  chapter  of  Romans  rulers  are  called  God's  min- 
isters; they  act  in  his  name  and  by  bis  authority. 
The  state  is  the  arm  of  Jehovah  administering  the 
affairs  of  the  divine  government  among  the  nations 
of  earth.  It  is,  therefore,  evident  that  obedience  to 
just  and  legal  authority  is  obedience  not  to  man  but 
to  God.  Rebellion  against  just  and  legal  authority 
is  rebellion  not  against  man  but  against  God.  Pat- 
riotism is  not  a  mere  sentiment,  but  a  duty  to  God. 
Rebellion  is  not  a  mere  mistaken  political  sentiment 
but  a  resisting  the  authority  of  God.  "And  they 
that  resist  shall  receive  condemnation  to  them- 
selves." 

2.  Because  the  laws  of  the  state  come  from  God. 
The  phrase  of  Hooker  is  too  sublime  ever  to  become 
trite,  "Law  has  its  seat  in  the  bosom  of  God 
and  its  voice  in  the  harmony  of  the  world."  There 
were  two  thoughts  that  filled  the  mind  of  Kant  with 
ever-increasing  admiration  and  delight,  "the  starry 
heavens  above  us  and  God's  law  within  us."  Black- 
stone  says,  "Any  law  that  contravenes  a  known  law 
of  God  is  no  law  at  all."  All  laws  come  from  God, 
say  the  wisest  of  the  Grecian  and  Roman  sages,  Cic- 
ero, Seneca  and  others.  Minos,  the  law-giver  of 
Crete,  claimed  to  be  the  son  of  Jupiter  and  to  have 
received  his  laws  from  his  reputed  father.  Lycur- 
gus,  the  lawgiver  of  Crete,  claimed  as  authority  for 
the  laws  which  he  gave  the  oracle  at  Delphi  the 
god  Apollo;  and  Numa  claimed  as  authority  for  his 
laws  the  nymph  Egeria.  The  Emperor  of  China  is 
looked  upon  as  the  vice-gerent  of  heaven.  Every 
year  he  observes  a  three-days'  fast  in  seclusion.  Then 
coming  forth  in  his  royal  robes  he  marches  with 
bands  and  banners  to  the  temple,  and  while  the  sacri- 
fice is  being  offered,  he  rolls  himself  in  the  dust  and 
utters  words  most  disparaging  to  himself  but  most 
honoring  to  God,  indicating  that  as  the  head  of  the 
nation  he  recognizes  his  responsibility  to  the  God  of 
heaven.  Yonder  in  Thibet  the  Grand  Lama  is  the 
incarnation  of  deity.  In  this  capacity  he  dispenses 
civil  offices  by  consecration  just  as  the  Pope  of 
Rome  did  in  Eurppe  for  several  centuries.  These 
facts  clearly  indicate  that  there  is  an  ineradicable 
conviction  in  the  human  soul  that  laws  will  not 
bind  the  conscience  unless  they  be  derived  from  God. 
There  is  a  deep  philosophy  underlying  politics. 
Though  the  fact  is  so  often  lost  sight  of,  civil  gov- 
ernment is  under  law  to  God  as  immutable  as  the 
laws  of  gravitation. 

3.  Because  the  nation  is  a  moral  person  responsible 
to  God  for  its  character  and  conduct.  A  nation  is  not 
like  a  cup  of  sand  held  together  by  external  pres- 
sure. It  is  an  organism.  It  has  a  unity  and  a  con- 
tinuity running  through  the  generations.  It  has 
reason,  will  and  conscience.  It  contracts  debts  and 
may  not  repudiate.  Milton  says,  "A  nation  ought 
to  be  one  huge  Christian  personage,  as  big  and  com- 
pact in  virtue  as  in  body."  A  nation  has  a  life  and 
is  sensitive  as  the  most  wary  man.  Touch  a  single 
member  of  a  nation  and  all  is  commotion.  Think  of 
the  thrill  our  nation  experienced  when  Sumter  was 
fired  upon  I  A  nation  has  a  soul.  "What  I  admire 
most  in  a  nation  is  its  soul,"  says  Hyacinthe.  Mor- 
al principles  constitute  the  soul  of  a  nation  and  so 
long  as  they  are  preserved  the  nation  will  live,  for 
"the  eternal  years  of  God  are  hers."  What  is  more 
common  in  Scriptures  than  "ungodly  nation,"  "hyf>- 
ocritical  nation,"  "wicked  nation, "and"holy  nation," 
"righteous  nation,"  "godly  nation."  The  lesson  of 
history  is  that  righteousness  in  national  character 
and  uprightness  in  national  conduct  secured  the  di- 
vine blessing;  but  wickedness  in  national  character 


and  life  made  her  obnoxious  to  the  divine  judg- 
ments. 

The  National  Reform  Association  is  calling  this 
nation  to  a  recognition  of  Gk)d  as  Sovereign,  Christ 
as  King  and  the  Bible  as  the  supreme  law,in  her  na- 
tional charter. 

Rochester,  If.  Y. 

OUR  EVER  PRESENT  HELP. 


BY  ANNA    HOLTOKE  HOWAKD. 


"Our  help  1b  In  the  name  of  the  Lord."  Psalm  124 :  8. 
We  look  to  thee,  most  gracious  Lord, 

With  prayerful,  steadfast  eye. 
Our  trust,  dear  Lord,  is  In  thy  Word; 

Oh,  hear  thy  children's  cry  1 

How  long,  O  Lord  1    How  long  shall  sin 

And  Satan  ride  apace? 
How  long,  O  Lord !  shall  evil  win. 

And  triumph  in  the  race? 

Arouse  thy  slumbering  church,  O  Lord, 

To  hear  the  groans  and  cries 
That  daily,  from  ten  thousand  hearts, 

In   intercession  rise. 
Direct  us,  Lord,  and  send  us  might, 

When  Satan's  hosts  assail. 
Thou  only  canst  defend  the  right; 

With  thee  we  must  prevail. 

ANAROET  AND  CHRISTIANITY. 


BT  D.    P.    MATHEWS. 


At  the  next  Boston  municipal  election  the  proba- 
bility is  that  the  majority  of  the  voters  will  do  just 
what  they  have  been  doing  for  many  years,  cast  li- 
cense bombs  at  mothers,  wives  and  children,  the 
explosion  of  which  is  more  far-reaching  in  destruc- 
tion, both  physically  and  spiritually,  than  the  dyna- 
mite of  the  Chicago  anarchists;  and  yet  these  same 
voters,  even  as  they  cast  their  ballots  of  sorrow 
and  death,  will  piously  express  satisfaction  that  the 
Chicago  monsters,  who,  in  their  fanaticism,  hesitat- 
ed not  to  endanger  the  lives  of  innocent  people,  have 
received  just  retribution.  Bah!  there  is  more  an- 
archy in  the  casting  of  a  license  vote  than  the  throw- 
ing of  a  dynamite  bomb.  The  nation  is  safer  amid 
the  explosions  of  the  latter,  than  in  the  drowning 
flood  of  the  former. 

The  average  anarchist,  I  believe,  is  honest,  no 
matter  how  deluded  he  may  be.  I  believe  his  inten- 
tions toward  the  human  race  are  good, — good  as  he 
understands  good.  He  desires  to  dispel  the  griev- 
ance of  the  race.  His  greatest  fault  is  impatience, 
yet  aggravated  by  capital,  we  can  hardly  wonder  at 
this.  He  has  declared  war  against  capital  and  mo- 
nopoly, and  resorts  to  tactics  which  he  considers 
most  efficacious.  He  thinks  he  flghts  from  princi- 
ple, and  is  willing  to  sacrifice  his  life.  His  argu- 
ment for  throwing  bombs  is  this:  In  destroying  a 
few,  millions  will  be  emancipated  from  the  thralldom 
of  capital — millions  spared  the  pangs  of  slow  starv- 
ation and  abject  misery.  Many  of  them  have  been 
taught  this  from  their  childhood,  at  their  mother's 
knee.  We  cannot  justly  classify  them  as  common 
murderers.  That  the  press,  both  secular  and  relig- 
ious, that  the  masses,  and  even  the  clergy  of  every 
denomination  condemn  the  platform  of  anarchism, 
is  not  a  positive  argument  against  the  rottenness  of 
every  plank.  Disagreeable  as  they  may  be,  facts 
will  not  down,  and  he  who  tries  to  smother  them  is 
a  moral  murderer.  Before  attempting  to  destroy 
anything  which  apparently  contains  error,  we  should 
put  it  through  a  process  of  analyzation,  separating 
its  composite  elements,  labelling  error  as  error,  and 
truth  as  truth.  The  prevailing  criticism  of  anarchy, 
however,  is  synthetic  rather  than  analytic.  Both 
the  good  and  the  bad  elements  are  indiscriminatingly 
amalgamated  and  branded  as  error,  in  big,  burning 
capitals.  To  say  that  the  anarchists  are  altogether 
in  error,  altogether  a  bad  lot,  is  doing  just  this. 

The  newspapers,  and  nearly  all  ardent  temper- 
ance advocates  assert  that  anarchy  isliatched  in  the 
beer  saloon.  Suppose  whisky  is  a  good  incubator, 
is  not  the  process  of  incubation  of  less  importance 
than  the  creation  of  the  embryo  egg?  Where  does 
the  egg  come  from  which  is  hatched  in  the  whisky 
hennery?  Who  lays  it?  We  must  go  elsewhere 
than  the  saloon  in  order  to  get  a  correct  reply.  A 
great  mistake  we  Americans  are  making  in  condemn- 
ing, in  trying  to  eradicate  an  effect  rather  than  the 
cause.  Cause  will  produce  effect  as  fast  as  we  can 
destroy  it  Nestling  among  the  statutes  of  this  na- 
tion are  myriads  of  anarchical  eggs  which  must  be 
smashed,  or  they  will  be  hatched  by  our  Linggs  and 
Parsons.  We  have  our  choice  of  breaking  the  eggs 
or  killing  the  chickens. 

The  Chicago  anarchists  simply  did  in  a  wrong  way 
what  all  good  people,  to  some  extent,  should  do  in 
a  right  way.     Water  can  never  rise  above  its  own 


Deobhbbb  8, 188T 


THE  CHKISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


level.  These  men  were  worldlings,  and,  therefore, 
whUe  the  principle  of  their  ultimatum  was,  doubt- 
less, good,  like  a  vessel  on  the  waters  of  their  im- 
practicable ideas,  it  could  not  rise  higher  than  the 
tide  of  their  own  unregenerate  natures.  Do  I  astound 
you,  dear  reader,  as  a  correspondent  of  the  Cynosure, 
when  I  say  there  wot  principle  in  the  bomhs  flung  in 
the  streett  of  Chicago?  But  it  was  principle  mis- 
placed— placed  in  the  wrong  instrument,  that  is  all. 
It  is  impossible  that  these  principles  which  oppose 
tyranny,  in  any  form,  be  not  thrown  as  bombs.  They 
will  be  thrown  so  long  as  oppression  exists,  either 
charged  with  dynamite  or  pure  Christianity  and 
moral  legislation.  The  question  simply  is,  who  shall 
throw  them — how  shall  they  be  thrown?  I  am  not 
indorsing  the  Chicago  version  of  anarchy;  even 
were  I  disposed  to  do  so,  the  Cynosure  is  the  last  ve- 
hicle I  would  expect  to  convey  to  the  public  such  an 
indorsement.  No,  I  am  not  indorsing  it;  I  am  sim- 
ply giving  it  a  few  impartial  glances. 

At  first  glance  it  certainly  appears  repulsive;  a 
second,  careful  scrutiny  does  not  fail  to  perceive  its 
hideousness,  error,  passion,  and  may  be  worse,  yet 
truth  and  justice  are  also  seen  confined  in  this  horrid 
environment.  I  could  not  be  a  Parsons  anarchist; 
there  is  a  sword  on  his  hip.  I  am  a  Christian,  yet, 
paradoxical  as  it  may  seem,  I  am  an  anarchist — 
but  in  regard  to  bad  law,  only;  and  the  sword  pro- 
ceedeth  from  the  mouth,  and  not  the  scabbard.  Is 
the  Christian  under  law?  Nay,  he  is  free  from  the 
law.  The  law,  no  matter  how  good  it  may  be,  is 
for  evil  doers,  only,  God  is  under  no  moral  law. 
As  a  child  of  God,  the  Christian  is  under  no  law. 
The  Spirit  of  God  actuates  every  thought,  every 
act  He  will  respect  the  the  law  of  man  so  long  as 
it  is  in  harmony  with  the  Spirit  of  God.  He  must  be 
anarchical  to  all  else.  He  has  the  mind  of  Christ. 
The  Chicago  anarchist  set  up  his  own  perverted  rea- 
son as  a  criterion,  and  all  law,  good  and  bad,  wheth- 
er human  or  divine,  which  disagreed,  or  came  in  col- 
lision therewith,  he  sought  to  overthrow.  Unlike 
the  Parsons  anarchist,  the  Christian,  though  free 
from  the  law,  believes  in  law  as  a  regulator  of  the 
vicious,  and  a  protection  for  the  innocent.  Under 
these  considerations,  law  is  indispensible.  Although 
Christianity  is  in  a  sense  anarchical,  it  is  a  glori- 
fied anarchy.  As  such  it  was  anarchical  to  the  laws 
of  Judaism.  The  Chicago  anarchists  wished  to 
throw  off  the  dominion  of  law.  Christianity  is 
simply  an  evolution  of  the  spirit  of  the  law  from 
out  its  crustaceous  envelope  into  a  new  condition. 
Instead  of  being  written  on  paper  or  engraved  in 
stone,  it  has  become  an  element  of  the  heart.  The 
anarchist  desires  what  he  is  not  prepared  to  receive 
in  his  present  state. 

Christianity  is  also  sanctified  communism.  Every 
man  in  Christ  is  not  to  think  of  his  own  welfare, 
but  that  of  his  neighbor.  Satan  is  holding  an  air 
castle  of  happiness  before  these  poor  souls,  tired  of 
human  misgovemment,  sick  of  sin  and  knowing  it 
not.  It  is  Christianity  they  want.  But  blind  lead- 
ers of  the  blind  they  are  groping  in  the  dark.  They 
need  our  prayers  more  than  our  censures.  Convert 
these  same  anarchists — these  same  Spies,  Linggs 
and  Parsons,  and  they  would  ornament  the  cause  of 
Christ;  these  impulsive  men,  who  breathe  only  de- 
struction, would  become  the  Pauls  and  Peters  of  the 
modem  church.    They  are  m^de  of  that  stock. 

Should  we  for  a  moment  admit  that  the  doctrines 
of  anarchism  contain  more  or  less  truth,  let  us  not 
forget  that  no  matter  how  lofty  their  sentiments, 
they  can  never  be  a  success  in  this  world.  Human 
nature  will  not  permit  it.  Only  the  righteous  can 
live  without  law;  only  the  righteous  can  do  as  they 
please,  and  please  to  do  right.  Only  the  righteous 
can  be  true  communists,  because  only  the  righteous 
can  love  one  another  as  they  love  themselves.  Only 
the  translated  righteous  can  attain  that  condition  of 
purity  where  there  is  "no  marrying  nor  giving  in 
marriage."  Though  Paul  and  Christ  were  anarchists, 
communists  and  socialists,  they  were  not  of  a  mun- 
dane, sensual  kind,  but  of  an  heavenly,  a  divine. 
What  they  destroyed  they  replaced  with  something 
better,  more  lasting — eternal.  The  happiness  sought 
by  the  Chicago  anarchists  was  for  time  and  not 
eternity;  that  of  the  Jerusalem  anarchists  was  for 
both. 

And  now,  dear  editors  of  American  journalism, 
both  secular  and  religious,  instead  of  dipping  your 
pens  in  the  inkstand  of  hard  utterances,  which  will 
only  the  more  exasperate,  dip  them  in  the  ink  of 
love,  pity  and  compassion,  that  the  heaving  breasts 
and  throbbing  temples  of  these  excited  souls  may 
be  soothed  and  quieted.  And  you,  representatives 
of  the  Agonizer  of  Gethsemane,  instead  of  your 
Sinaitic  denunciations,  down  on  your  knees  and 
wrestle  in  prayer  for  these,  your  misled  brethren — 
the  anarchists. 
Botton,  Mats. 


aSCRBT  BOOlBTISa  AND  THE  OHUROB. 

A  prominent  business  man  in  a  city  where  we 
have  been  recently  holding  evangelistic  services  jus- 
tified himself  to  his  pastor  for  not  having  attended 
the  meetings  and  cast  in  his  influence  with  the  work 
by  saying  that  his  business  crowded  him  to  such  an 
extent  that  he  could  spare  but  one  evening  in  the 
week,  and  that  he  had  to  give  to  his  "lodge,"  mean- 
ing his  Masonic  lodge.       In  the  same  city  is  a  pas- 
tor whose  church  is  associated  with  the  other  church- 
es in  the  work  (at  least  nominally).  We  had  been  in 
the  city  preaching  for  two  weeks  and  had  never  yet 
met  that  pastor.       When  we  did  meet  him  we  ex- 
pressed our  pleasure  at  seeing  him   and   remarked 
that  we  had  missed  him  from  the  meetings  thus  far. 
He  replied:  "Yes,  I  am  sorry  not  to  have  been  pres- 
ent,but  the  truth  is  I  am  engaged  upon  a  book  which 
I  am  very  anxious  to  finish,  and  after  working  hard 
on  it  all  day  I  am  too  tired  to  come  out  to  the  meet- 
ings at  night.     "I  am  sorry  you  are  so  engaged,"we 
replied,  "for  we  need  the  help  of  every  man  and  es- 
pecially of  every  pastor  in  this  battle.     What,may  I 
ask,  is  the  book  you  are  writing?"     "It  is  a  histori- 
cal work  on  the  first  introduction  of  Masonry  into  this 
country;  a  most  fascinating  and  interesting  study,  I 
assure  you."    We  were  so  dumbfounded  at  this  that 
we  hastily  expressed  our  wish  that  all  ministers  of 
the  Gospel  would  abandon  that  order  and  devote 
themselves  to  the  work  of  the  Gospel  and  to  the  es- 
tablishment of  the  work  of  Jesus  Christ 

We  may  have  spoken  unadvisedly  with  our  lips; 
but  with  these  two  examples  before  us,  the  one  of  a 
leading  business  man  who  could  not  spare  time  from 
his  lodge  to  even  attend  one  service  of  the  Gospel 
meetings,  and  the  other  a  pastor  who  could  not 
spare  one  evening  to  join  with  his  and  other  church- 
es in  a  special  work  of  grace,  because  he  was  en- 
gaged in  writing  a  history  of  Masonry,  we  began  to 
think  that  there  was  some  incongruity  between  Ma- 
sonry and  Christianity.  No  wonder  we  have  found 
it  difficult  to  arouse  great  interest  among  unconvert- 
ed and  careless  men  in  spiritual  things,  in  a  town  of 
ten  thousand  inhabitants  where  there  are  four  times 
as  many  secret  societies  as  there  are  churches,every 
one  of  them  to  a  great  extent  patronized  and  sup- 
ported by  professed  Christians,  both  ministers  and 
laymen.  "Come  out  from  among  them  and  be  ye 
separate,  saith  the  Lord." — Geo.F.  Pentecost  inWords 
and   Weapons. 


THB  ABOLITION  OF  TITLBH. 


A  "plan  of  campaign"  has  been  arranged  in  Eng- 
land looking  to  the  abolition  of  titles.  The  movers 
in  this  crusade  are  Radicals,  who  belong  to  a  farm- 
ers alliance.  If  the  reader  consider  the  awful  devo- 
tion with  which  the  average  Englishman  loves  his 
lord,  it  may  be  seen  how  hopeless  is  the  task  which 
the  farmers  have  undertaken.  There  are  no  lords 
among  farmers.  The  need  of  the  hour,  therefore,  is 
for  the  mice  to  bell  the  cat  The  hold  caste  has  se- 
cured on  the  English  people  will  defy  the  propagan- 
da of  any  farmer  or  other  sort  of  non-titularly  sub- 
jects. The  nobility  of  the  three  realms,  are  the  sup- 
port of  the  throne.  Through  the  respect  felt  for  a 
duke  the  proper  reverence  for  the  crown  itself  is 
maintained.  Even  Gladstone,  lover  of  the  people, 
half  democrat,  created  more  lords  than  any  Tory 
premier  of  modern  times. 

Great  is  the  awe  of  the  average  Englishman  when 
he  is  honored  with  the  patronage  of  his  betters. 
That  awe  is  so  marked  that  we  catch  it  like  the 
cholera.  There  is  a  large  district  in  the  Eastern 
States  that  is  now  infected  with  this  contagion. 
There  are  indications  that  it  will  sooner  or  later  dev- 
astate Chicago.  The  Constitution  of  the  United 
States  was  supposed  to  be  a  perfect  prophylactic 
against  this  foreign  effeteness,  but  that  highly  re- 
spected organic  chart  has  failed  completely  in  Its 
office.  One  may  therefore  expect  little  from  this 
new  mbvement  Instead  of  escaping  from  his  own 
thralldom,  the  non-titled  Britisher  has  gotten  many 
Americans  into  the  habit  of  mind  which  he  has  now 
set  out  to  deplore. — Herald. 


WET   CHRIST  IB  NOT  RBCOGNIZBD  IN 
NATIONAL   CONSTITUTION. 


OUR 


The  opposition  to  the  formal  recognition  of  Christ 
as  "King  of  Kings,  and  Lord  of  Lords,"  as  devel- 
oped in  the  popular  objection  to  the  acknowledg- 
ment of  God  in  our  National  Constitution  is  an  effect 
and  has  its  cause  in  something.  The  cause  may  be 
ascribed  to  false  teaching,  or  want  of  proper  intel- 
ligence, or  both.  No  Bible  reader  who  realizes  the 
nature  of  Christ's  kingly  otllce,  power  and  authority, 
as  therein  distinctly  taught,  ought  for  a  moment  to 
make  serious  or  determined  opposition  to  such  ac- 
knowledgment of  his  divine  claims,  especially  in  a 


land  where  the  people  are  so  largely  Christian  in 
their  religious  sentiments .  Is  is  not  to  be  feared 
that  much  of  this  opposition  comes  from  the  king- 
dom of  darkness,  over  which  the  god  of  this  world 
holds  sway?  The  devil  has  entrenched  himself  in 
America  behind  barred  doors  and  in  secret  conclaves, 
out  of  which  Christ  is  excluded,  and  in  whose  pa- 
gan prayers  and  heathen  worship  the  very  name  of 
Christ  is  omitted,  even  to  the  mutilating  of  passages 
of  Scripture  in  their  prayers  by  the  omission  of  that 
sacred  name  altogether. 

We  would  like  to  know  if  any  person  ever  heard 
of  a  secret  lodge,  by  formal  resolution,  or  otherwise, 
giving  expression  to  its  approval  of  the  religious 
amendment  We  never  heard  of  a  secret  order  en- 
dorsing the  acknowledgment  of  God  in  a  funda- 
mental national  law,  the  federal  Constitution. 

Did  you,  reader?  If  so,  please  tell  us  when  and 
where  such  an  anomalous  thing  ever  happened. 
Anti-Christ  is  the  name  that  should  be  written  over 
the  entrance  door  of  every  oath-bound  secret  lodge. 
The  secret  chamber  is  "where  Satan's  seat  is."  There 
he  wields  despotic  sway  and  sits  on  the  throne  of  a 
"kingdom  that  is  full  of  darkness." 

It  would  be  most  unreasonable  to  expect  that  Sa- 
tan should  share  the  glory  of  sovereignty  with 
Christ,  his  rival.  Hence  in  the  dark  lantern  dena 
that  are  dignified  with  names  suggestive  of  "the 
sweet  charities,"  and  whose  officers  are  bedizened 
with  high-sounding  titles  of  royalty,  there  is  a  well- 
defined,  a  settled  and  studious  opposition  to  giving 
to  Christ  the  honors  and  titles  due  to  him  as  King 
of  kings,  and  Lord  of  lords. — Sandy  Lake  News. 

m  I  m 

LIQUOR    ON  THB  CONGO. 


The  following  memorial  has  been  prepared  for 
presentation  to  the  Fiftieth  Congress,  at  the  open- 
ing of  the  session  in  December  next: 
To  the  United  States  Senate  and  House  of  Represent' 

ativet: 

Your  memorialists,  the  Board  of  Managers  of  the 
National  Temperance  Society,  respectfully  invite 
your  attention  to  the  great  devastation  now  being 
caused  among  the  native  races  of  Africa  by  the  in- 
troduction among  them,  by  American  and  other 
traders,  of  intoxicating  liquors;  to  the  fact  that 
America  is  estimated  to  have  sent  to  the  West  Coast 
of  Africa  alone,  in  1884-5,  an  aggregate  of  921,412 
gallons  of  spirits;  that  the  wholesale  demoraliza- 
tion and  ruin  thus  resulting  from  strong  drink  is  a 
great  injury  to  legitimate  commerce  in  our  relations 
with  Africa,  as  well  as  disastrous  to  fiie  temporal 
and  spiritual  wellbeing  of  an  untutored  people, 
whom  philanthropic  and  Christian  men  and  women 
of  our  own  country  seek  to  civilize  and  Christianize; 
and  we  hereby  earnestly  ask  you,  in  the  exercise  of 
the  authority  vested  in  you  by  the  Constitution  of 
the  United  States,  "to  regulate  commerce  with  for- 
eign nations"  [Article  I,  Section  8],  promptly  to 
adopt  appropriate  and  effective  measures  for  the  dis- 
couragement and  suppression  of  this  wasteful  and 
destructive  African  exportation  of  intoxicating 
liquors  by  American  citizens. 


Travkunq  FasKMASONs  were  those  who  left 
Italy  at  the  revival  of  art  and  the  development  of 
church  building,  and  spread  all  over  the  world,  es- 
tablishing guilds  of  Freemasons,  and  erecting  those 
gems  of  architectural  grace  and  strength  on  which 
non-Masonic  writers  have  agreed  as  to  their  exist- 
ence, and  asserted  their  association;  but  it  was  not 
until  recently  that  this  truer  theory  of  Masonic  his- 
tory was  either  realized  or  welcomed.  But  when 
we  seek  to  connect  our  speculative  order  with  these 
traveling  Masons,  who  have  left  their  tracks  on 
many  a  monastery  wall  and  many  an  enduring  stone, 
we  feel  that  we  have  still  a  chasm  to  pass  which  it 
may  be  doubtful  if  we  shall  ever  bridge  over  with 
certain  and  incontestable  evidence.  Still  such  a 
view  seems  to  us  the  most  rational  and  the  most  his- 
torical, inasmuch  as  their  constitutions  are  ours, 
their  marks  are  ours,  their  emblems  are  ours.  But 
we  must  not  lose  sight  that  the  lapse  of  time  has 
made  oreat  changes  in  any  such  condition  of  affairs, 
and  that  it  is  perhaps  after  all  the  safest  to  say, 
that  while  the  speculative  Grand  Lodge  of  1717  is 
the  continuation  of  the  operative  Grand  Assembly, 
the  mighty  changes  from  an  operative  to  a  specula- 
tive Brotherhood  has  necessitated  alterations  and 
additions  to  the  original  plan,  many  and  great  Our 
Freemasonry  to-day  is  an  improved  version  of  the 
improved  Freemasonry  of  the  revival  of  1717. — 
Kenmng's  Masonic   Cyclopirdia. 

m  9  m 

Our  government  is  in  partnership  with  the  great- 
est of  criminals,  and  is,  therefore,  responsible  for 
all  the  consequences  that  flow  from  this  criminal 
combination. 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURK. 


DeoimbibS  1887 


BDUOATIONAL. 


— Prof.  Henry  Drummond,  the  famous  scientist 
of  Edinburgh  (Scotland)  University,  author  of  "Nat- 
ural Law  in  the  Spiritual  World,"  is  mentioned  for 
the  Presidency  of  Princeton  College,  to  succeed  Dr. 
McCosh. 

— At  a  special  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Regents 
of  the  Smithsonian  Institution  held  in  Washington 
last  week  Prof.  S.  P.  Langley  was  elected  Secretary 
of  the  institution,  to  succeed  the  late  Prof.  S.  F. 
Baird. 

— There  are  now  over  six  hundred  institutions  in 
this  country  which  call  themselves  colleges.  Of 
this  number  there  are  about  three  hundred  and  fifty 
which  have  students  in  the  regular  college  course. 
Four  of  these  are  Universalists,  nine  Episcopal,  fif- 
teen CoDgregational,thirty-three  Presbyterian,thirty- 
seven  Baptist,  thirty-seven  Roman  Catholic,  forty- 
nine  Methodi8t,8ixteen  Lutheran,  six  Reformed,  and 
seven  United  Brethren.  Seventy-six  are  non-denom- 
inational,and  the  remaining  are  shared  by  a  number 
of  smaller  denominations.  There  are  probably  not 
less  than  35,000  to  40,000  persons  pursuing  the  col- 
lege course.  Of  these  at  least  one-half  are  not  prac- 
tical Christians  and  make  no  pretension  to  Chris- 
tianity. 

— The  trustees  of  the  Peabody  Education  Fund 
held  their  twenty-sixth  annual  meeting  recently  in 
New  York.  According  to  the  secretary's  report  the 
fund  amounts  to  $2,000,000,  and  the  income  there- 
from $70,000.  The  income  is  distributed  as  follows: 
Scholarship,  $22,800;  Normal  schools,  $13,000;  in- 
stitutes, $11  700;  public  schools,  $13  000;  Normal 
College  at  Nashville,  $9,500.  The  States  now  re- 
ceiving money  from  the  fund  are  Alabama,  Arkan- 
sas, Georgia,  Louisiana,  North  Carolina,  South  Car- 
olina, Tennessee,  Texas,  Virginia,  and  West  Virgin- 
ia. Reports  show  very  favorable  results.  The 
Bcbolarsbips  are  allotted  as  follows:  Alabama,  13; 
Arkansas,  10;  Georgia,  14;  Louisiana,  8;  North  Car- 
olina, 14;  South  Carolina,  10;  Tennessee,  14;  Texas, 
9;  Virginia,  14;  West  Virginia,  8.  The  scholarships 
are  $200  each. 

— From  the  annual  report  of  John  B.  Riley,  sup- 
erintendent of  Indian  schools,  to  the  Secretary  of 
the  Interior,it  appears  that  the  aggregate  expendi- 
ture by  the  Government  for  the  education  of  Indian 
children  during  the  year  was  $1,095,379,  of  which 
$719,833  was  expended  on  account  of  th«  govern- 
ment boardfiig-school8,and  $308,299  for  the  support 
and  education  of  pupils  at  contract  boarding-schools, 
most  of  which  are  under  control  of  religious  denom- 
inations, as  the  chief  items.  The  whole  number  of 
Indian  children  between  the  ages  of  6  and  16  years 
is  39,821;  of  this  number  14,932,  or  about  37^  per 
cent  attended  school  some  portion  of  the  year.  The 
proportion  of  children  attending  school  varies  wide- 
ly at  diflEerent  agencies.  Where  schools  have  been 
established  for  several  years,  with  accommodations 
for  a  considerable  proportion  of  the  pupils,  the  pre- 
judices exhibited  by  the  Indians  against  education 
have  largely  disappeared.  A  uniform  system  of 
text-books  and  study,  and  the  teaching  of  English 
only  are  recommended. 

— At  the  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Regents  of  the 
Michigan  University  at  Ann  Arbor,  the  other  day. 
President  Angell  stated  that  the  appropriation  by 
the  Legislature  for  the  past  two  years  had  amount- 
ed to  $155,000.  Out  of  1,406  students,  as  the  pres- 
ident bad  ascertained,  the  parents  of  502  were  farm- 
ers; 171,  merchants,  ninety-three  lawyers;  eighty- 
three,  physicians;  fifty-two,  manufacturers;  fifty- 
four,  mechanics,  and  fifty-one  clergymen.  Presi- 
dent Angell  estimates  that  as  many  as  forty-five 
per  cent  belonged  to  the  class  who  gained  their  liv- 
ing by  manual  toil.  The  sons  and  daughters  of  the 
rich,  he  said,  do  not  form  a  very  large  percentage 
of  the-  whole  number.  His  report  closed  with  grate- 
ful mention  of  the  efforts  made  by  the  churches  for 
the  spiritual  culture  of  the  students.  It  may  be  add- 
ed, that  the  churches  will  also  make  "grateful  men- 
tion" of  whatever  efforts  are  known  to  be  made  by 
the  University  itself  for  the  spiritual  culture  of  its 
students.  This  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Regents 
was  opened  with  the  reading  of  Scripture  and  pray- 
er by  President  Angell. 

— The  celebration  of  the  twenty-fifth  anniversary 
of  the  foundation  of  the  Gustavus  Adolphus  Coll.-ge 
of  St.  Peter,  Minn.,  together  with  the  exercises  dedi- 
cating the  new  music  and  business  hall,  took  place 
Nov.  2  and  3.  The  city  was  filled  with  Scandina- 
vians from  all  parts  of  luwa,  Minnesota,  Dakota, 
Kansas,  N»-braeka,  Wisconsin  and  Illinois.  The 
school  was  first  established  at  Red  Wing  ,  Minn.,  in 
1862,  and  afterward  removed  to  Carver,  from  which 
place  it  was  moved  to  St  Peter,  its  present  location. 


From  one  scholar  in  1862,  it  has  now  become  an  in- 
stitution that  numbers  300  students  and  a  faculty  of 
eighteen  members.  The  festivities  were  attended  by 
thousands  and  were  held  in  the  large  Swedish  church. 
The  services  were  opened  by  Rev.  George  W.  Sandt, 
of  Augustana  College,  Rock  Island,  111.,  in  an  ad- 
dress on  "The  Guardian  of  Liberty."  In  the  even- 
ing Rev.  C.  A.  Evald,  pastor  of  the  Emmanual 
church,  Chicago,  delivered  a  long  address  in  the 
Swedish  language.  A  chorus  of  nearly  a  hundred 
voices,  under  the  direction  of  Prof.  Norman,  of  Bos- 
ton, furnished  the  music.  Addresses  by  Gov.  Mc- 
Gill,  Secretary  of  State  Mattson,  and  Congressman 
Lind,  of  Minnesota,  were  heard  on  the  second  day. 


A  middle-aged  man  once  came  before  the  exam- 
ining committee  of  the  church  of  which  I  was  pas- 
tor, with  this  strange  experience.  He  had  wandered 
away  from  God,  despised  religion,  hated  the  church, 
and  thrown  away  his  Bible.  For  years  he  had  not 
been  to  church.  In  the  very  worst  of  this  period  of 
wandering  he  chanced  to  visit  his  father's  brother,  a 
grand  old  Christian.  On  the  morning  after  his  ar- 
rival, out  of  polite  deference  to  the  family,  he  stayed 
in  the  room  during  family  worship.  When  his  uncle 
began  to  read  the  chapter,  the  tone  of  voice  called 
back,  through  its  remarkable  resemblance,  his  own 
father's  voice.  It  was  even  more  marked  during  the 
prayer.  The  godless  man  seemed  to  be  again  kneel- 
ing at  prayer — as  a  child  in  his  own  home,  with 
father,  mother,  brothers  and  sisters  on  their  knees 
beside  him.  After  leaving  his  uncle's  roof,  that 
voice  remained  sounding  in  his  memory.  Ultimate- 
ly it  was  the  direct  means  of  his  conversion. — S. 
Winchester  Adriance  in  Am.  Magazine. 

Nothing  is  doing  more  to  spoil  the  holy  song  ser- 
vice of  the  sanctuary  than  the  pretentious  choir  mu- 
sic so  common  in  our  churches  to-day.  This  is  not 
only  BO  in  the  large  cities  where  the  congregations 
have  come  to  accept  the  service  of  the  choirs  (many 
of  whom  are  utterly  godless)  to  do  their  praising  for 
them;  but  we  have  been  pained  to  find  it  a  growing 
curse  in  the  country  churches.  The  people  do  tibt 
sing  if  there  are  quartette  choirs.  Any  method  of 
worship  that  tends  to  stop  the  voluntary  impulse  to 
holy  experimental  song  on  the  part  of  the  worship- 
ers is  a  stumbling-block  in  the  way  of  spiritual  life. 
— Geo.  F,  Pentecost  in  Words  and  Weapons. 


BEFOEM  XEWS. 


FROM  MI8ai88IPPI  COUNTRY. 


A   Y.  M.  C.  A.  WRONGLY  NAMED. — ENDORSEMENT  OP 
THE  AMERICAN  MISSIONARY  AGENT. 


Meridian,  Miss.,  Nov.  29,  1887. 

Dear  Cynosure: — My  Thanksgiving  was  at  Jack- 
son, Miss.  This  tainiliar  and  time-honored  festival 
has  gotten  only  a  precarious  foothold  among  the 
masses  of  the  people  of  the  South.  Nevertheless  it 
is  one  of  the  coming  institutions.  Like  the  free 
public  school  system,80ciety  will  ere  long  cheerfully 
accept  it.  I  attended  services  in  the  Congregation- 
al church  and  heard  an  excellent  sermon  by  Pastor 
Harris,  after  which  I  was  asked  to  make  remarks. 
At  night  I  preached  in  the  A.  M.  E.  church  and  ex- 
pected a  full  bouse.  There  were  a  few  present,  in- 
cluding all  of  the  colored  ministers.  The  rest  of  the 
people  were  at  the  circus,  which  was  in  progress  and 
bad  greater  attractions  than  a  Gospel  sermon. 

Jackson  is  under  local  option,  and  the  law  seems 
well  enforced  so  far  as  sales  are  concerned, 
but  there  seems  to  be  a  considerable  jug  trade 
from  other  towns.  One  firm  offers  to  send  to  Jack- 
son whisky,  beer  or  wine  without  charge  for  jugs. 
The  best  class  of  the  people,both  white  and  colored, 
sustain  the  law.  A  leading  business  man  said  that 
trade  had  increased  since  the  law  came  in  force,  and 
the  Sword  and  Shield  enumerates  several  enterpris- 
es begun  since  the  law  took  effect.  It  says  "If  this 
is  ruin,  we  want  more  of  it." 

I  went  into  the  rooms  of  the  Y.  M.  C.  A.  where  I 
found  an  elderly  man  in  charge  of  the  reading  room. 
He  said  it  was  but  little  patronized.  I  found  on  the 
table  a  paper  in  the  whisky  interest.and  strongly  de- 
nunciatory of  prohibition  and  the  Supreme  Court,  I 
inferred  that  the  Y.  M.  C.  A.  allowed  a  good  deal  of 
latitude  in  the  reading  it  provided,  and  so  I  intro- 
duced the  Cynosure  and  briefly  explained  its  charac- 
ter and  objects.  When  I  asked  if  they  would  like  to 
have  it  sent  to  them,  I  was  told  by  the  man  in 
charge  that  he  thought  it  would  be  very  distasteful. 
He  was  a  Mason  and  eo  were  most  of  their  friends. 
As  to  the  paper,  it  was  "full  of  falsehoods."  He 
could  "see  them  on  every  page.  I  asked  him  to 
point  out  one.  He  did  not,  but  said  Masonry  bound 
its  members  to  the  purest  and  highest  morality  anil 


that  no  one  could  be  a  Mason  unless  he  was  a  good 
Christian.  After  listening  to  a  good  deal  of  similar 
talk  I  remembered  the  admonition  about  "casting 
pearls,"  etc.,  and  left 

I  went  out  to  Jackson  College, the  excellent  school 
established  by  the  Baptist  Home  Missionary  Society. 
In  the  fine  new  building  1  found  more  than  two  hun- 
dred students  under  the  care  of  Pres.  Ayers,  assist- 
ed by  eight  teaciiers.  There  is  no  primary  depart- 
ment and  the  course  ol  instruction  seems  largely  one 
of  Biblical  study.  There  is  certainly  here  a  fine 
body  of  young  men  and  women.  By  invitation  I  ad- 
dressed them  on  the  secret  lodge  system,  and  was 
followed  by  able  remarks  from  the  president,  giving 
his  experience  and  judgment  of  the  matter.  He  has 
been  a  lifelong  Anti-ma8on,and  was  chosen  to  preach 
the  funeral  sermon  of  Elder  J.  D.  Steams. 

Friday  night  I  went  to  Tougaloo  University,seven 
miles  north  of  Jackson.  1  was  most  kindly  received 
and  entertained.  This  is  one  of  the  most  flourish- 
ing schools  of  the  American  Missionary  Association, 
and  was  never  so  prosperous  as  now.  It  is  a  little 
world  by  itself.  Its  four  large  buildings  with  one 
or  two  separate  dwellings  constitute  with  their  occu- 
pants the  entire  community.  The  workshops  and 
the  large  farm  give  employment  and  industrial  edu- 
cation to  all  the  young  men.  The  management  of 
the  farm  is  in  the  hands  of  Prof.  Bishop,  who  is  an 
enthusiast  in  his  profession  of  practical  and  scien- 
tific farming.  Perhaps  there  is  nothing  that  the  col- 
ored young  men  of  the  South  need  to  know  more 
than  this.  One  of  the  things  he  has  demonstrated  is 
the  practicability  of  the  dairy  business  in  this  State. 
This  he  has  done  by  improved  breeds  of  cattle  and 
utiliaing  the  Southern  grasses.  Pres.  Woodworth, 
who  takes  the  place  of  Pres.  Pope  (now  transferred 
to  the  mountain  work  in  Tennessee)  was  a  number 
of  years  a  Congregational  pastor  in  Connecticut  and 
seems  well  fitted  for  his  work. 

On  Saturday  night  I  was  invited  to  address  the 
students  on  the  secret  society  question  and  had  an 
excellent  hearing.  My  remarks  were  heartily  en- 
dorsed by  the  president,and  also  by  Secretary  Baird 
of  the  A.  M.  A.,  who,  together  with  Superintendent 
Ryder,  was  on  a  visit  to  the  institution.  They  both 
gave  able  and  timely  addresses  on  Sabbath  after- 
noon and  evening. 

On  Monday  morning  I  left  for  Jackson  and  at  6 
p.  M.  started  for  Meridian  reaching  here  10  p.  m. 
This  is  one  of  the  most  flourishing  towns  in  the 
State,  and  is  having  a  season  of  unusual  prosperity. 
Next  spring  they  vote  on  local  option  and  feel  con- 
fident of  carrying  it  in  the  county.  I  have  been  too 
unwell  since  I  came  here  to  do  any  reform  work,but 
am  sure  that  there  is  both  occasion  and  opportunity. 

H.    H.   HiNMAN. 


THE  0AU8B  PR08PBR8  IN  IOWA. 

Dear  Cynosure: — After  Bro.  Coe  left  me  I  went 
to  Washington  and  spent  a  little  time  in  canvassing 
for  the  Cynosure,  and  for  subscriptions  to  the  State 
work.  Rev.  J.  N.  Laughead,  Hugh  McCausland, 
W.  A.  Stewart,  and  others,  gave  subscriptions  and 
donations. 

Leaving  Washington  I  returned  to  Salem  in  time 
to  attend  the  Salem  Quarterly  Meeting  of  the  Friends' 
church.  I  preached  at  the  select  meeting  for  minis- 
ters, elders  and  overseers  on  Friday;  and  at  11  a.  m. 
on  the  Sabbath;  and  with  others  spoke  again  in  the 
evening.  At  this  quarterly  meeting  I  was  invited 
to  preach  and  lecture  at  the  preparative  and  monthly 
meetings  of  the  Salem  Quarterly  Meeting.  A  plan 
of  appointments  was  arranged  and  published  in  pur- 
suance of  which  I  went  first  to  West  Grove,  where 
I  preached  and  lectured.  I  next  preached  and  lec- 
tured at  Oak  Ridge.  Here,  as  at  West  Grove,  there 
was  a  good  audience  of  attentive  listeners.  The 
clerk  and  moderator  of  the  quarterly  meeting  were 
present  and  seemed  deeply  interested.  When  it  be- 
came apparent  that  my  purpose  was  to  demonstrate 
that  the  worship  of  the  Masonic  lodge  is  false  and 
Satanic,  a  Mason  present  seemed  deeply  exercised. 

"Will  you  tell  us  what  god  the  Masons  pray  to?" 
he  cried. 

"I  will  make  that  clear  as  I  proceed,"  I  replied. 
I  then  called  attention  to  the  fact  that  Satan  is  the 
god  of  this  world.  That  as  the  dogs  under  the 
table  eat  what  is  rejected  by  the  children,  so  Satan 
receives  the  worship  that  is  rejected  by  the  God  and 
Father  of  our  Lord  Jesus  Ctirist  I  showed  that 
in  the  ritual  of  Freemasonry  there  is  a  studied  re- 
jection of  our  Lord  Jesus  Christ,  as  the  one  Media- 
tor between  God  andmen;thatin  rejecting  Christ, the 
one  only  way  to  God,  they  had  cut  themselves  off 
from  access  to  the  Father.  The  being,  then,  whom 
they  really  had  access  to  was  Satan,  who  receives  all 
false  worship.  The  conclusion  was  irresistible, 
that  the  devil  is  the  being  really  worshiped  in  the 


DEOXlfBBR  8, 1887 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSUIOS. 


lodge.  This  conclusion  was  confirmed  by  a  refer- 
ence to  the  fact  that  the  prophets  of  the  Old  Testa- 
ment declare  the  false  worship  of  their  times  to  have 
been  devil  worship;  and  the  Apostle  Paul  aflSrms 
that  the  false  worshipers  of  his  day  worshiped 
devilt.  Moreover,  Paul  teaches  that  those  who  toor- 
ihip  devils  come  into  fellowship  with  devils. 

Does  any  one  think  that  one  who  is  in  fellowship 
with  devils,  is  also  in  fellowship  with  the  Father  and 
with  Jesus  Christ?     Does  not  reason,  as  well  as  rev- 
elation, teach  that  "ye  cannot  drink  the  cup  of  the 
Lord  and  the  cup  of  devils?"  that  "ye  cannot  be  a 
partaker  of  the  Lord's  table  and  the  table  of  devils?" 
After  the  congregation  was  dismissed,   my  Ma- 
sonic friend,  who  had  desired  to  know  what  god  the 
lodge  worshiped,   called  the  congregation  to  order 
and  told  them  they  could  get  all  the  Masonry  the 
lecturer  had,  at  any  bookstore  for  25  cents.     I  im- 
mediately called  the  attention  of  the  congregation 
to  the  fact  that  last  winter  I  saw  a  circular  at  Win- 
field  that  had  been  sent  out  by  a  Masonic  publish- 
ing house,  intended  only  for  the  eyes  of  craftsmen, 
in  which  the  fact  was  deplored  that  many  Masons 
were  using  the  exposes  of  Masonry  that  were  in  the 
hands  of  those  who  are  not  Masons,  to  post  them- 
selves so  as  to  become  bright  Masons — fit  to  officer 
a  lodge;  and  the  circular  further  said  that  in  many 
lodges  they  were  working  Masonry  by  these  books 
that  are  in  the  hands  of  Anti-masons;  and  the  craft 
was  warned  that  if  they  continued  to  work  Masonry 
in  the  lodge  by  the  books  that  are  in  the  hands  of  the 
Anti-masons,  it  would  eventually,  when  the  fact  be- 
came  known,   work  the  destruction  of  the  order. 
Now,  said  I,  if  our  Masonic  friend  desires  to  build 
up  and  perpetuate  Masonry,   he  is  unwise  in  calling 
attention  to  these  books;  for  it  will  lead  young  Ma- 
sons to  purchase  them,  and  finding  that  they  con- 
tain Masonry  just  as  they  received  it  in  the  lodge, 
they  will  study  the  books  so  as  to  become  bright  Ma- 
Bons;and  when  elected  to  office  in  the  lodge  they  will 
work  Masonry  by  Ronayne's  and  Doesburg's  exposes, 
the  very  thing  that  according  to  the  Masonic  circu- 
lar referred  to  will  eventually  work  the  destruction 
of  the  order. 

The  meeting  closed  as  the  one  at  West  Grove  had 
done  before,  with  the  truth  triumphant.  There  can 
be  no  concord  between  Christ  and  Belial.  Why,  then, 
should  those  who  persist  in  the  worship  of  devils 
in  the  lodge,  be  retained  in  the  fellowship  of  the 
church?  It  is  an  abomination  in  the  sight  of  God 
for  a  church  to  go  into  partnership  with  the  lodge, 
as  the  M,  E.  church  did  here  in  Salem.  They  joint- 
ly built  a  house  of  worship;  the  lower  story  to  be 
used  by  the  church  for  the  worship  of  God,  and 
the  upper  story  to  be  used  as  a  lodge  room  by  the 
Masons.  Surely  these  dear  brethren  would  not"  have 
gone  into  partnership  with  the  lodge  if  they  had 
understood  the  real  nature  of  its  worship.  May  we 
not  address  them  in  love,  as  the  Apostle  did  the 
Jews?  "Brethren,  I  wot  that  through  ignorance  ye 
did  it." 

A   PHOTOOBAPH   OF   GOOD   TEMPLABISM. 

After  the  lecture  at  Oak  Kidge,  I  went  to  Chest- 
nut Hill,  and  preached  in  the  Friends'  meetinghouse 
at  11  A.  M.  on  the  Sabbath.  From  Chestnut  Hill  I 
went  to  Pilot  Grove,  and  preached  in  the  Baptist 
church  at  7  p.  h.  of  the  same  Sabbath.  On  Monday 
night  I  lectured  on  the  Religious  Character  of  the 
Secret  Lodge  System,  in  the  Baptist  church  of  Pilot 
Grove. 

The  pastor  of  the  M.  E.  church,  who  is  not  a 
member  of  any  secret  society,  was  present.  In 
showing  Freemasonry  to  be  a  Satanic  conspiracy  to 
supplant  Christ,  and  subvert  Christianity  by  substi- 
tuting deistical  infidelity,  I  spoke  of  the  taking  of 
Christ's  name  out  of  the  Scripture  readings,  in  the 
Royal  Arch  work.  At  the  conclusion  of  my  lecture, 
the  M.  E.  pastor  announced  that  he  would,  at  some 
future  time,  preach  a  sermon  on  secret  societies.and 
intimated  that  he  might  differ  with  me  on  some 
points;  but,  referring  to  the  high-handed  outrage 
committed  by  Royal  Arch  Masonry  in  expunging 
the  name  of  Christ  from  their  Scriptural  readings, 
he  said,  "Curted  be  the  order  that  will  take  away  the 
name  of  Christ  from  the  Word  of  God."  Surely  a 
more  high-handed  insult  was  never  oflered  to  the 
God  of  the  Bible.  There  was  a  good  attendance  and 
excellent  order  and  attention  both  to  the  sermon  and 
lecture  delivered  at  Pilot  Grove. 

On  Tuesday  I  returned  to  Chestnut  Hill  and  lec- 
tured there  in  the  evening.  One  young  man  was  so 
interested  that  he  expressed  the  desire  that  I  would 
give  them  a  series  of  lectures  on  the  lodge  system. 
The  next  night  I  lectured  in  the  Friends'  meeting 
house  in  Salem.  A  Mason  who  was  present  seemed 
deeply  exercised  in  spirit  while  I  unfolded  the  pa- 
gan4nfidel  character  of  the  religion  Of  Freemasonry. 

From  Salem  I  went  to  the  Valle^  meeting  house 
end  preaehfld  one  night.     They  h«<)  i)nOe  a  flourish* 


ing  Friends'  meeting  here;  but  by  removals  and  oth- 
er causes  it  has  fallen  into  decay  and  been  "laid 
down."    At  this  meeting  I  met  Charles  McMillan, 
also  Jonathan  Frazier,  who  in  other  days  has  been 
active  in  the  Gospel  ministry.     Before  bis  eyes  were 
opened  to  perceive  the  danger  to  be  apprehended 
from  the  secret  society  system,  his  zeal  for  temper- 
ance led  him   to  unite  with  secret  temperance  or- 
ders.    He  first  joined  the  Sons  of  Temperance  and 
continued  a  zealous  member  until  the  lodge  room 
was  used  for  card-playing,  when  he  became  disgust- 
ed and  left  that  order.      But  when  a  Good  Templar 
lodge  was  organized,  hoping  thereby  to  promote  the 
cause  of  temperance,  he  joined  that  order.     Finding 
that  they  were  accomplishing  but  little  real  temper- 
ance work,  he  proposed  that  they  hold  some  open 
meetings.     His  suggestion  was  followcd,and  by  this 
Scriptural  and  rational  method  they   succeeded  in 
arousing  the  community  and  received  large  acces- 
sions to  their  lodge  membership.    The  truth  had  so 
taken  hold  upon  their  consciences  in  the  open  meet- 
ings that  many  of  them  came  to  the  lodge  as  sinners 
would  go  to  an  inquiry  room,  deeply  impressed  with 
their  sinful  and  lost  condition;  but  there,  instead  of 
being  pointed  to  Christ  and  prayed  with   as  peni- 
tents, they  were  simply  initiated  as  Good  Templars. 
The   result  was  disastrous.       Not  being  joined  to 
Christ  by  faith,  and  saved  by  grace,  there  was  no 
permanent  reformation.      The   "un-reconstructed" 
drinkers,  being  in  the  majority,  elected  officers  of 
their  own  kind  and  thus  gained  control  of  the  lodge. 
The  result  was  a  resolution  was  passed  to  appropri- 
ate the  money  that  had  accumulated  in  the  treasury 
from  the  former  rapid  accession  of  members  to  the 
purchase  of  intoxicating  liquors  to  be  drunk  by  the 
lodge. 

Again  Jonathan  became  disgusted  and  left  the 
lodge.  Since  then  he  has  become  convinced  that  in 
a  free  government  like  ours  good  objects  can  be  bet- 
ter promoted  by  open  than  by  secret  methods,  and 
hence  it  is  wrong  for  good  men  for  the  promotion  of 
good  objects  to  adopt  those  methods  that  are  only 
necessary  to  be  adopted  by  bad  men  for  the  promo- 
tion of  unlawful  objects.  It  is  a  pity  that  other 
men,  who  have  not  had  the  experience  of  my  friend 
should  not  have  acquired  the  same  good  sense  in 
some  other  school. 

From  the  Grand  Valley  I  returned  to  Salem,where 
James  Comer,  B.  Binford  and  S.  B.  McMillan  gave 
subscriptions  to  the  Iowa  Association.  The  Sabbath 
following  I  preached  at  11  a.  m.  at  the  Cedar  Creek 
Friends'  meeting  house.  On  Saturday  night  I  was 
entertained  by  Alfred  Trueblood,  the  clerk  of  the 
Salem  Quarterly  Meeting. 

Sabbath  night  I  preached  in  the  Friends'  church 
at  Oak  Ridge.  Here,  as  also  at  the  Yalley  meeting 
house,  the  desire  was  expressed  that  I  should  tarry 
and  hold  a  series  of  Gospel  meetings  with  them.  But 
the  next  morning  I  took  my  departure  and  turned 
my  face  towards  Chicago  to  be  present,  according 
to  the  appointment  of  the  State  Convention,  at  the 
coming  conference  of  Prohibitionists. 

Within  a  short  time  past  I  have  been  enabled  to 
send  in  twenty  new  subscriptions  to  the  Cynotv/re. 

C.  F.  Hawlit. 


One  was  a  deacon  of  the  church,  who  was  ill,  his 
wife  accompanying  him;  the  other  was  a  stranger. 
There  was  no  commotion  whatever.  The  Boston 
papers  generally  reported  me  correctly.  The  Globe 
gave  a  most  erroneous  report.and  afterward  correct- 
ed it.  The  speaker  had  the  audience  entirely  at  his 
fingers'  ends.  A.  A.  Minib. 


Correspondence. 


DR.  MINBB  AND  TBS  ANARGEI8TB. 


Boston,  Dec.  2, 1887. 

Editok  op  thb  Chbistian  Ctnosubi: — In  your 
issue  of  Nov.  24,  your  Boston  correspondent,  unin- 
tentionally, no  doubt,  does  me  no  small  measure  of 
injustice.  My  topic  was  "The  Manufacture  of  An- 
archists." I  did  not  discuss  the  justice  or  injustice 
of  the  fate  of  the  anarchists  of  Chicago,  and  of 
course  did  not  express  agreement  in  opinion  with 
Parsons,  I  did  not  undertake  to  determine  the  lim- 
it of  injustice,  where  revolution  becomes  justifiable, 
if  it  does  so  at  any  point.  I  did  show  that  the  very 
essence  of  anarchism  is  often  wrought  into  law.  This 
is  true  wherever  injustice,  tyranny  and  corruption 
are  embodied  in  law.  Against  such  law  it  is  not 
strange  that  there  should  be  outbreaks.  I  express- 
ly guarded  my  hearers,  however,  against  assuming 
that  I  was  speaking  of  the  Chicago  anarchists. 

In  my  allusions  to  St  Paul  at  Ephesus,  I  denied 
that  St  Paul  was  an  anarchist  or  the  cause  of  an- 
archy; he  was  but  the  occasion.  The  real  source  of 
the  anaitihy  was  the  superstition  of  the  Ephesians 
who  worshiped  the  goddess  Diana,  and  the  iniqui- 
tous gains  of  Demetrius  and  his  fellow  craftsmen 
whose  traffic  was  based  on  that  superstition.  Paul 
simply  hurled  at  those  errors  and  iniquities  the 
truth  that  "they  be  no  gods  which  are  made  with 
hands"-^a  very  different  thing  from  throwing  bombs. 
The  statement  that  "many  made  hasty  retreat,"  is 
not  true.      Three  penoas,  and  no  more,  went  out 


BOUND    ADVIOB   FOR  POLITICAL  ACTION. 

[The  following  letter  from  the  president  of  the 
New  York  Association,  who  has  been  welcomed  as  a 
leader  among  us,  was  read  at  the  meeting  for  con- 
sultation in  the  N.  C.  A.  building,  connected  with 
the  Prohibition  Conference:] 

Dale,  N.  Y.,  Nov.  21,  1887. 

1.  By  no  means  give  up  the  American  party.  We 
have  today  all  the  organization  we  ever  had.  Vot- 
ing for  St  John  did  not  dissolve  us.  Parties  often 
adopt  other  parties'  candidates  and  elect  them,  as 
two  parties  elected  S.  P.  Chase  to  the  Senate.  This 
did  not  dissolve  them.  One  was  the  Democratic 
party,  the  other  became  the  Republican  partv. 

2.  Let  every  American  who  voted  for  St.  John  in 
1884  attend  the  Prohibition  Conference  in  Chicago, 
November  30th  inst,  and  by  private  conference  with 
Prof.  A.  A.  Hopkins,  Dr.  Jutkins,  and  others,  agree 
to  resolve,  in  substance,  "That  the  National  Prohi- 
bition party  and  W.  C.  T.  U.  are  open,  not  secret 
parties;  and  while  thankful  for  the  co-operation  and 
votes  of  secret  temperance  lodges,  we  think  a  na- 
tional party  should  not  be  secret  in  whole  or  in  part." 
If  the  Chicago  Conference  agrees  to  the  above,  or 
something  tantamount  to  it,  and  agrees  on  candi- 
dates clean  of  the  lodge.  I  nm  in  favor  of  acting  and 
voting  with  them  throughout 

3.  If  they  refuse,  I  am  in  favor  of  putting  an 
American  ticket  in  the  field  and  voting  it;  adopting 
such  of  the  Prohibition  party's  candidates  as  are 
clean  of  the  lodge. 

As  to  candidates,  I  think,  as  now  advised.  Gen. 
Fisk  and  Fred,S.  Douglas  would  be  the  best  nomina- 
tion, but  Gen.  0.  0.  Howard  would  be  a  good  choice, 
and  there  are  others.  I  think  the  Negro  vote  should 
be  represented  in  the  ticket  The  Negro  has  got 
to  the  polls  now,  and  to  nominate  one  would  be  to 
strike  with  Providence,  who  "chooses  the  weak 
things  to  confound  the  mighty." 

I  think  immediately  after  the  Chicago  Conference 
every  possible  effort  should  be  put  forth  for  the  New* 
Orleans  Convention,  Feb.  17th  prox.      I  hope  Dr. 
Stratton's   committee  will  meet   at  once  and  act. 
Yours  for  Christ  and  reform,        F.  W.  Capwell. 


BALLOTS  AND  BRIBBB. 

RocHESTEB,  N.  Y.,  Nov,  28,  1887. 

Editor  Christian  Ctnosobe: — In  an  article  in 
the  North  American  Rtview  for  December  Edgar  J. 
Levey  describes  what  he  saw  in  the  last  election  in 
New  York  city.  The  polls  were  opened  at  6  a.  m. 
Before  this  a  large  number  of  men  collected  at  the 
polling  place  and  formed  a  line.  "My  curiosity  was 
at  once  excited  to  see  who  the  zealous  citizens  were 
who  were  so  anxious  to  exercise  the  '  priceless  boon 
of  citizenship '  that  they  had  arisen  almost  before 
daybreak  in  order  to  avail  themselves  of  the  privi- 
lege. On  approaching  I  saw  that  they  held  their 
ballots  tightly  clenched  in  their  right  hands,  which 
were  elevated  at  right  angles  with  their  bodies,  and 
that  they  took  go<^  care  to  keep  them  in  this  posi- 
tion until  the  polls  opened. 

"In  a  few  minutes  the  voting  began.  As  soon  as 
each  man  voted  he  passed  out  and  filed  into  the  side 
door  of  a  bar  room,  located  near  by.  I  entered  and 
saw  a  well-known  ward  'heeler'  pass  a  five  dollar  bill 
into  each  voter's  hand,  with  no  effort  at  conceal- 
ment The  whole  transaction  from  first  to  last  had 
quite  the  air  of  a  common  business  transaction." 
"In  the  colored  district  west  of  Sixth  avenue  and 
south  of  Thirty -fourth  street,  the  answer  given  by 
the  colored  workers  was  always  the  same  in  its  gen- 
eral tenor:  '  There  is  too  much  money  against  us,' 
said  one  of  them.  '  My  best  friends  come  to  me  to- 
day and  say  that  they  would  like  to  vote  the  Repub- 
lican ticket,  but  they  have  been  offered  four  dollars 
for  their  votes,  and  that  is  too  great  an  inducement 

for  them  to  withstand.    • (mentioning  the  name 

of  a  man  who  keeps  an  infamous  colored  'dive'  in 
the  vicinity)  has  had  $1,000  placed  in  his  hands 
with  which  to  carry  this  district,  and  he  seems  to 
be  spending  most  of  it'  While  we  were  talking  a 
man  shambled  up  to  us  and  deliberately  asked  us 
in  so  many  words,  'how  much  we  would  give  for  hit 
vote.'  This  was  the  uniform  experience  I  met 
with  in  going  from  one  election  district  to  another. 
The  price  for  votes  varied  from  twoto  fivedoliars,  but 
in  two  instances  I  heard  of  as  much  as  ten  dollars  hav- 
ing been  given  for  a  vote.  From  personal  observation, 


6 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


Decbubxr  8, 1887 


and  from  the  statements  of  friends  whose  experience 
agreed  with  mine,  there  can  be  no  doubt  that  about 
a  quarter  of  a  million  of  dollars  was  spent  in  this 
city  for  illegal  purposes — an  average  of  three  hun- 
dred dollars  for  each  election  district." 

The  writer  does  not  put  it  too  strongly  when  he 
adds,  "It  may  be  safely  said,  without  any  attempt 
to  palliate  their  crime,  that  the  anarchists  lately 
hanged  in  Chicago  have  not  so  sinned  against  soci- 
ety as  have  the  political  leaders  who  make  such  a 
thing  as  free  choice  in  elections  an  impossiblity." 

Last  Sabbath  morning  I  preached  in  the  Sterling 
Reformed  Presbyterian  church.  Rev.  T.  J.  Allen 
was  pastor  of  this  congregation  for  thirteen  years. 
Having  resigned  last  June  they  have  called  a  licen- 
tiate, Mr.  French,  who  comes  to  enter  upon  the  dis- 
charge of  his  duties  this  week.  In  the  evening  Mr. 
John  Hunter  drove  me  to  Oswego,  ten  miles  away, 
where  I  preached  in  the  M.  E.  church.  Rev.  Brown, 
pastor.  This  is  a  large  church  with  a  seating  ca- 
pacity of  800.  It  was  well  filled;  and  the  close  at- 
tention given  throughout  indicated  very  clearly  that 
their  sympathies  were  with  us.  Three  young  men 
came  forward  and  asked  me  to  refer  them  to  docu- 
ments to  read  upon  the  Immigration  Problem.  An 
elder  said,  "You  told  the  truth  to-night.  We  must 
come  to  that  or  the  nation  will  perish."  Several  ex- 
pressed their  approval  by  a  long  and  vigorous  hand- 
shaking. A  colored  lady  who  has  been  a  member 
of  the  congregation  for  sixty  years,  the  oldest  mem- 
ber in  it,  said,  "That  is  the  gospel  of  the  kingdom." 
National  Reform  will  have  a  future  in  Oswego. 
Judge  Harman  assured  me  that  the  cause  had  many 
friends  in  the  city. 

It  began  raining  during  service,  and  grew  worse 
all  the  way  home.  A  heavy  gale  set  in  from  the 
lake  and  it  turned  quite  cold,  so  that  the  ride  was 
very  impleasant.  A  friend  stopping  at  Mr.  Hunter's 
by  the  name  of  Perry,  has  been  for  some  time  asso- 
ciated with  the  Chicago  Times.  He  requested  me  to 
write  an  article  on  National  Reform  and  he  would 
have  it  printed  in  his  paper.  Accordingly  I  pre- 
pared what  will  make  a  column. 

Monday  morning  I  came  into  Rochester  and  met 
with  the  city  ministers  in  their  weekly  conference. 
They  kindly  invited  me  to  address  them,  Rev.  Dr. 
Sankey  making  the  motion. 

The  time  has  come  for  emphasizing  the  moral  ac- 
countability and  responsibility  of  the  nation.  The 
nation  lives  through  the  generations.  Israel  was  the 
same  nation  through  her  judges  and  kings;  Rome 
the  same  through  her  kings,  emperors,  decemvirs, 
military  tribunes,  consuls  and  dictators;  and  France 
through  her  imperial,  monarchical  and  Republican 
forms  of  government.  The  nation  has  a  character 
for  good  or  evil.  Even  the  Romans  could  stigmatize 
the  Carthaginians  with  the  epithet,  "Punic  faith," 
and  the  embittered  could  speak  in  loathing  terms  of 
"perfidious  Albion."  The  nation  is  a  moral  person, 
having  reason,  will  and  conscience,  and  capable  of 
rights  and  obligations.  It  contracts  debts  and  may 
not  repudiate.  It  enters  into  treaties.  The  nation's 
bad  character  and  wicked  conduct  makes  it  obnox- 
ious to  the  divine  judgments.  Amalek  was  exter- 
minated because  they  smote  Israel.  Egypt  wor- 
shiped beasts  and  became  the  basest  of  kingdoms. 
Rome  was  honeycombed  with  corruption,  and  she 
was  crushed  beneath  a  succession  of  calamities  and 
judgments.  Our  nation  sinned  in  slavery,  and  the 
war  of  the  Rebellion  was  the  penalty.  It  still  ignores 
the  King  of  kings,  and  the  panic  of  '73,  the  grass- 
hopper plague,  fires  in  city  and  forest,  and  the  slay- 
ing of  our  Christian  President  Garfield  testify  to  the 
divine  displeasure.  "Think  ye  that  those  eighteen 
men  upon  whom  the  tower  of  Siloam  fell  and  slew 
them  were  sinners  above  all  that  dvrell  in  Jerusalem? 
I  tell  you,  nay;  but  except  ye  repent,  ye  shall  all  like- 
wise perish." 

For  the  last  thirteen  years  Canada  has  had  the 
Cook  liquor  law  which  allows  only  one  saloon  to  so 
many  inhabitants.  It  is  fast  exterminating  the 
drink  system.  The  Voice  has  declared  in  favor  of 
such  a  measure  as  a  mean*  to  the  end — prohibition. 

J.  M.  Foster. 


BXP08ITI0N8  IN  B0UTHBA8TBBN  AFRICA. 

Bethany  Zulu  Mission,  \ 
NiAE  EsTOODRT,  Natal,  Oct.  7th,  1887.  j 
Editor  CynoMure, 

Dear  Beiother  in  Christ: — Some  months  since 
you  kindly  mailed  me  some  books  on  the  character 
and  claims  of  Freemasonry.  Since  that  time  I  have 
loaned  them  to  several  persons  to  read,  who  loaned 
them  to  others,  who  were  Freemasons,  asking,  "Are 
these  books  true?"  These  Masons  without  excep- 
tion declared  the  books  to  be  true  expositions,  and 
gave  it  as  their  opinion  that  the  authors  were  kicked 
out  of  the  lodge,  etc. 


Some  time  after  this  Bro.  T.  B.  Arnold  sent  me 
Ronayne's  "Hand  Book,"  which  I  also  loaned.  The 
first  Mason  who  read  it  said,  "Yes,  that  book  is  all 
true."  The  second  said,  "That  book  has  brightened 
me  up."  No.  3  said,  "I  must  see  the  loaner  of  it 
and  try  to  buy  one,for  my  friends  won't  believe  Ma- 
sonry can  be  revealed  unless  I  show  them  this 
book."  No.  4  said,  "A  person  reading  that  book 
could  enter  a  Masonic  lodge  without  much  difll- 
culty." 

Again  I  sent  forth  this  messenger  of  light;  but 
like  Noah's  dove  it  has  not  returned.  I  intend  send 
ing  to  T.  B.  Arnold  for  a  few  copies  to  be  brought 
out  by  missionaries. 

I  do  not  know  of  a  lodge  within  sixty  miles  of 
here,  but  several  have  asked  me  to  get  them  a  book 
I  presume  this  is  the  first  circulation  of  Anti-ma- 
sonic literature  in  Natal,  yet  it  is  none  too  soon,  for 
once,when  away  from  home  I  met  a  Christian  broth 
er  who  said  he  had  "proved  Masonry  to  be  a  hum 
bug  and  had  kept  clear  of  them  for  years;"  yet  he 
thought  his  oath  was  his  honor,  etc.  Wishing  you 
Grod's  blessing  on  your  work,  I  remain  yours  in  Je 
sus,  Robert  Shembld. 


PITH  AND  POINT. 


"blessed  ABE   YB  WpEN  MEN  SHALL  PERSECUTE  YOU. 

I  am  scattering  the  tracts'  sent  me  "broadcast."  Since 
our  position  has  become  known  against  secret  orders  and 
drunkenness,  we  have  suffered  loss  financially.  We  had 
one  building  burned  (a  great  loss  to  us),  our  stock  has 
suffered  violence,  and  in  our  condition  financially  we 
have  had  stern  want  to  stare  us  in  the  face,  for  opposing 
these  evils.  I  earnestly  request  every  reader  of  this  pa 
per  to  pray  for  us  that  we  may  not  falter,  but  stand  firm 
for  the  right,  and  starve  if  need  be,  rather  than  sanction 
the  secret  workings  of  the  lodge  power.  Those  that  have 
plenty  of  this  world's  goods  don't  know  what  it  is  to 
fight  these  "orders"  and  suffer  want  as  a  result,  but  we 
do;  pray  for  us. — L.  M.  Hoyt,  Ware,  Mais. 

THE   BEST. 

I  never  heard  of  the  Christian  Cynosure  until  a  few 
days  ago  a  gentleman  (Robert  Smith)  gave  me  a  copy 
containing  the  best  article,  by  Mr.  Milligan,  on  the  change 
of  the  Sabbath  that  I  have  ever  read. — Rev.  J.  B.  Ride 
OUT,  Navarra  Mills,  Gal. 

WHAT  PROHIBITION  PROHIBITS  IN  WEST  VIRGINIA. 

The  question  of  prohibition  is  also  before  us,  and 
though  there  are  some  points  of  principle  I  do  not  yet 
quite  endorse,  I  shall  surely  vote  for  it,  as  I  did  for  local 
option  four  years  ago.  "That  has  done  immense  good 
here.  We  could  never  have  a  meeting  of  any  kind  when 
liquor  was  sold  in  this  place  but  fights  and  bloodshed  re 
suited.  In  these  four  years  of  prohibition  there  has  not 
been  one  fight!  So  if  the  Prohibition  party  put  up  a 
ticket, the  undersigned  will  do  all  in  his  power  for  it. — g.  h  . 

Bro.  Geo.  W.  Clark,  of  Detroit,  sends  us  the  above, 
and  says  the  writer  is  a  well-bred  Englishman,  has  been 
a  teacher  in  the  highest  schools  of  the  Episcopal  church, 
has  been  a  dear  lover  of  his  toddy  and  &&  ardent  sup 
porter  of  the  Democratic  party. 


Bible  Lesson. 


BTUDIK8  IN  THE  NEW  TESTAMENT. 

LESSON  XII.— Dec.  18.— Other  Parables.— Matt.  13:  31-33, 
44-52. 

GOLDEN  TEXT.— So  shall  It  be  at  the  end  of  the  world:  the 
angels  shall  come  forth,  and  sever  the  wicked  from  among  the 
just— Matt.  13:49. 

{Open  the  Bible  and  read  the  lesson.] 

From  Peloubet's  Notes. 

The  Parable  of  the  Mustard  Seed  —Vers.  31,  32. 
This  parable,  like  most  others  respecting  the  kingdom 
of  God,  has  a  double  reference — general  and  individual 

1.  In  the  general  sense  the  insignificant  beginnings  of 
the  kingdom  are  set  forth;  the  little  babe  cast  in  the  man- 
ger at  Bethlehem;  the  man  of  sorrows,  with  no  place  to 
lay  his  head;  the  Crucified  One;  or  again  the  hundred 
and  twenty  names  who  were  the  seed  of  the  church  after 
the  Lord  had  ascended;  then  we  have  the  kingdom  of 
God  waxing  onward  and  spreading  its  branches  here  and 
there,  and  different  nations  coming  into  it. — Alford. 
Daniel  uses  the  growth  of  the  tree  to  typify  that  of  an 
earthly  kingdom,  Dan.  4:  10-12;  Ezekiel  to  symbolize 
that  of  the  kingdom  of  God,  Ezek.  17:  22-24;  compare 
Ps.  80:  8-11.  This  is  the  point  to  which  the  Lord  calls 
especial  attention,  not  to  the  greatness  of  the  mustard 
tree  in  itself,  but  its  greatness  as  compared  with  the  seed 
from  whence  it  springs;  for  what  he  would  teach  his  dis- 
ciples was  not  (merely)  that  his  kingdom  should  be  glo- 
rious, but  that  it  should  be  glorious  despite  its  weak  and 
slight  and  despised  beginnings. — Trench.  "Ah  it  then 
was,  it  was  smaller  than  any  sect  or  party  in  Palestine, 
or  Greece,  or  Italy.  It  was  sown  in  God's  field  of  the 
world,  but  it  was  to  grow  till  it  became  greater  than  any 
sect  or  school,  a  tree  among  the  trees  of  the  forest,  a 
kingdom  among  other  kingdoms—  a  great  organized  so- 
ciety; and  the  birds  of  the  air,  i.e  ,  the  systems  of  thought, 
institutions,  and  the  like,  of  other  races,  were  to  find  ref- 
uge under  its  protection .  The  branches  refer  to  the  va- 
rious divisions  and  portions  of  his  kingdom  in  different 
countries  and  in  different  methods  of  work,  all  filled  with 


his  one  life;  and  in  the  soul  to  the  various  faculties  it 
controls,  the  various  directions  of  religious  development, 
in  thought,  feeling,  work. — Alexander.  The  church 
gives  shade  and  shelter  to  the  weary,  the  wandering,  the 
oppressed . 

2.  The  individual  application  points  to  the  small  be- 
ginnings of  divine  grace;  a  word,  a  thought,  a  passing 
sentence,  may  prove  to  be  the  little  seed  which  eventu- 
ally fills  and  shadows  the  whole  heart  and  being,  and 
calls  all  thoughts,  all  passions,  all  delights,  to  come  and 
shelter  under  it. — Alford.  It  gives  hope  to  every  Chris- 
tian worker  who  plants  but  small  seeds,  and  must  leave 
tifiae  to  develop  the  tree;  to  every  Christian  soul,  who 
must  expect  his  religious  life  to  be  in  its  beginning  an 
instantaneous  planting  of  the  seed  of  grace,  but  in  its 
development  a  gradual  growth. — Abbott.  'The  idea  of 
growth  involves  not  only  internal  development,  but  also 
accretion  from  without,  through  food,  air,  water,  etc.— 
Q.  W.  Clark. 

The  Parable  of  the  Leaven  . — Ver .  33 .  This  parable 
applies  to  the  kingdom  of  heaven  in  the  world.  The  king- 
dom of  heaven,  when  divinely  introduced  into  the  mass  of 
the  human  race,  seemed  for  a  season  to  be  hidden.  It  was 
hidden.  It  did  not  attract  observation.  It  does  not, 
even  yet,  so  far  as  its  real  spiritual  essence  is  concerned, 
attract  much  observation.  But  it  is  operating;  and  it 
will  continue  to  operate,  silently,  penetratively,  diffu- 
sively, transmutatively,  assimilatively,  till  the  whole  mass 
of  mankind  shall  be  brought  under  its  converting  infiu- 
ence.  Then  shall  the  kingdoms  of  this  world  be  the 
kingdom  of  the  King  of  kings,  the  kingdom  of  heaven. — 
Morison. 

Note  1.  That  the  leaven  which  transforms  the  world  is 
placed  in  it  from  without.  It  is  the  gift  of  God,  not  a 
product  evolved  from  man's  own  soul.  It  brings  new 
life  with  it. 

2.  It  is  silent  and  hidden  in  its  operation  especially  at 
first,  and  is  often  very  near  to  victory  when  to  those 
without  it  seems  to  have  been  a  failure . 

3.  It  is  continually  working  upon  that  which  is  next 
to  it;  it  works  from  particle  to  particle,  from  individual 
to  individual.  "Each  true  Christian,  leavened  by  Chris- 
tianity, operates  as  leaven  upon  his  neighbor." 

4.  It  transforms  into  its  own  nature  that  with  which  it 
comes  in  contact. 

5.  It  proceeds  from  the  interior  outward. 

6.  It  has  a  miraculous  power  of  increase.  A  little  liv- 
ing, active,  consecrated  Christianity  has  a  measureless 
transforming  power.  Christianity  has  already  leavened 
the  governments,  the  commerce,  the  business,  the  social 
customs  of  all  peoples  with  whom  it  has  come  in  contact. 

7.  This  is  a  prophecy  of  the  final  triumph  of  Chris- 
tianity.— P. 

This  parable  is  illustrated  in  the  history  of  every  Chris- 
tian soul;  for  Christ  is  hidden  in  the  soul,  and  becomes 
the  secret  source  of  its  life;  to  him  it  gradually  becomes 
conformed;  he  is  unrecognized  by  the  world,  tiiough  the 
sweetness  and  life  produced  by  his  presence  is  perceived; 
and  he  gradually  and  silently  pervades  the  whole  being, 
until  the  whole  is  leavened. — Abbott.  In  these  words  is 
a  promise  and  an  assurance  that  the  word  of  life,  received 
into  any  single  heart,  shall  not  there  cease  its  effectual 
working  till  it  has  brought  the  whole  man  in  obedience 
to  it,  so  that  he  shall  be  a  new  creature  in  Christ  Jesus. 

The  Parable  of  the  Hidden  Treasure  . — Ver.  44. 
1 .  This  parable  illustrates  the  priceless  value  of  the  bless- 
ings of  the  kingdom.  2.  The  man  finding  the  treasure 
unexpectedly,  represents  the  fortuitous  discoverer  of 
truth;  one  who  stumbles,  as  it  were,  upon  the  truth,  or  to 
whom  the  truth  comes  with  awakening  or  convincing 
power  suddenly  or  unexpectedly. — Clark.  3.  Many  per- 
sons never  suspect  that  this  treasure  is  in  existence,  or, 
if  they  admit  that  it  is,  they  never  think  that  it  is  so  vei^ 
near  to  them  as  it  really  is.  Hence,  many  never  find  it 
at  all.  In  truth,  they  n  ever  seek  for  it.  —Morison .  4.  This 
treasure  is  represented  as  being  bought.  For  though  in 
a  sense  the  kingdom  of  heaven  never  can  be  bought  with 
money,  yet  there  is  a  sense  in  which  it  costs  the  possessor 
much.  Without  effort,  without  giving  up  many  dear 
and  pleasant  things,  no  one  can  enjoy  the  kingdom  of 
heaven.  5  He  that  would  possess  this  treasure  must 
prize  it  above  all  other  things;  he  must  give  up  every- 
thing that  is  inconsistent  with  it,  "even  as  a  man,"  says 
Trench,  "would  willingly  fiing  down  pebbles  and  mosses, 
which  hitherto  he  had  been  gathering,  and  with  which 
he  had  filled  his  hands,  if  pearls  and  precious  stones  were 
offered  him  in  their  stead." — P. 

The  Parable  op  the  Pearl  of  Great  Price. — "Vers. 
45,  46.  The  grand  design  of  this  parable  is  to  show  the 
earnestness  and  whole  heartedness  with  which  salvation 
must  be  sought.  Its  center  of  comparison  is  found  in 
the  merchant  selling  all  he  had  and  buying  the  pearl. 
The  merchant  represents  the  sincere  inquirer  after  truth; 
the  goodly  pearls,  wisdom,  knowledge,  philosophy,  relig- 
ious truth,  things  with  which  to  satisfy  the  cravings  of 
man's  higher  spiritual  nature;  the  pearl  of  great  price, 
the  kingdom  of  God  in  the  heart,  which  may  be  expressed 
by  eternal  life,  or  by  the  knowledge  of  God,  and  of  Jesus 
Christ  whom  he  has  sent  (John  17:  3)  or  by  Christ,  who 
is  to  be  received  and  formed  in  the  heart.  Col.  1:  27. 
The  selling  all  and  buying  the  pearl  represents  giving  up 
all  to  Christ,  who  takes  up  his  abode  in  the  heart,  and 
gives  eternal  life.  Compare  Prov.  2:  3-8;  23:  23;  Rev. 
3:  18.— Q.  W.  Clark. 

The  Parable  of  the  Net.— Vers.  47-50.  The  sea  is 
the  world;  out  of  it,  by  unseen  but  invisible  influences, 
all  humanity,  good  and  evil,  large  and  small,  old  and 
young,  are  drawn  steadily,  and  despite  their  forebodings 
and  struggles  to  escape,  to  the  shore  of  eternity.  Not 
until  that  shore  is  reached  can  the  kingdom  of  God  be 
fully  disclosed;  then  the  angels,  who  come  with  Christ  in 
his  glory  to  judge  the  world  (Matt.  25:  31),  separate  the 
good  from  the  bad,  gathering  the  former  into  the  many 
mansions  (vessels),  and  casting  the  latter  away. — Abbott. 


Deobhbsb  8, 188T 


THE  CHBISTIAN  CYNOSUBE. 


BBCRSTBOOIBTIBB  OONDBMNSD. 


BT  OBBAT  UBN  IN  THE     BTATB. 

George  Washington,  in  a  letter  written 
a  year  before  his  death:  "I  preside  over 
no  lodge,  nor  have  I  been  in  one  more 
than  once  or  twice  during  the  laat  thirty 
years." 

President  MiUard  Fillmore,  J.  O.  Spen- 
cer and  others:  "The  Masonic  fraternity 
tramples  upon  our  rights,  defeats  the  ad- 
ministration of  justice,  and  bids  defiance 
to  every  government  which  it  cannot  con- 
trol." 

Chief  Justice  John  JUar shall:  "The  in- 
stitution of  Masonry  ought  to  be  aban- 
doned as  one  capable  of  much  evil  and 
incapable  of  producing  any  good  which 
might  not  be  effected  by  safe  and  open 
means." 

John  Quincy  Adams:  "I  am  prepared 
to  complete  the  demonstration  before 
God  and  man,  that  the  Masonic  oaths, 
obligations  and  penalties  cannot  by  any 
possibility  be  reconciled  to  the  laws  of 
morality,  of  Christianity,  or  of  the  land." 

Oeneral  A,  W.  Riley: — I  hold  that  the 
difference  between  the  Christian  and  a 
heathen  religion  is,  that  one  has  morality 
and  the  other  has  not.  And  when  our 
churches  refuse  to  speak  of  such  subjects 
as  slavery,  liquor-selling  and  secret  socie- 
ties, they  are  becoming  heathen  religions; 
that  is,  religions  without  morals . 

(Maries  Francis  Adams:  "Every  man 
who  takes  a  Masonic  oath  forbids  himself 
from  divulging  any  criminal  act,  unless 
it  might  be  murder  or  treason,  that  may 
be  communicated  to  him  under  the  seal 
of  fraternal  bond,  even  though  such  con- 
cealment were  to  prove  a  burden  upon  his 
conscience  and  a  violation  of  hislbounden 
duty  to  society  and  to  his  God . " 

Oha/rles  Sumner:  "I  find  two  powers 
here  in  Washington  in  harmony,  and  both 
are  antagonistical  to  our  free  institutions, 
and  tend  to  centralization  and  anarchy — 
Freemasonry  and  Slavery;  and  they 
must  both  be  destroyed  if  our  country  is 
to  be  the  home  of  the  free,  as  our  ances- 
tors designed  it." 

Disraeli,  Lord  Beaconsfidd.'Io.  conduct- 
ing the  governments  of  the  world  there 
are  not  only  sovereigns  and  ministers,  but 
secret  orders  to  be  considered, which  have 
agents  everywhere — reckless  agents,  who 
countenance  assassination,  and,  if  neces- 
sary, can  produce  a  massacre . " 

General  J.  W.  Phelps: — All  secret  or- 
ganizations are  links  of  one  and  the  same 
chain  which  binds  men  to  evil  and  not  to 
good.  The  Masonic  lodge  is  the  parent 
source  from  which  all  similar  modem  or- 
ganizations have  emanated  and  this  lodge 
is  now  in  active  operation  in  every  city 
and  considerable  village  of  the  country 
swaying  our  parties  and  churches;  filling 
our  ofiSces,  secular  and  divine,  with  its 
partisans;  shaping  our  political  destinies; 
and  teaching  a  spurious  and  corrupt- 
ing morality  subversive  both  of  the  Chris- 
tian religion  and  of  free  institutions. 

ThurUno  Weed:  "I  now  look  back 
through  an  interval  of  fifty-six  years  with 
a  conscious  sense  of  having  been  gov- 
erned through  the  Anti-masonic  excite- 
ment by  a  sincere  desire,  first  to  vindicate 
the  violated  laws  of  my  country,  and  next 
to  arrest  the  great  power  and  dangerous 
influences  of  secret  societies." 

A.  M.  Sullivan,  Irish  Leader:  I  had  not 
studied  in  vain  the  history  of  secret,oath- 
bound  associations.  I  regarded  them  with 
horror.  I  knew  all  that  could  be  said  as 
to  their  advantages  in  revolutionizing  a 
country,  but  even  in  the  firmest  and  best 
of  bands  they  had  a  direct  tendency  to 
demoralization  and  are  often  on  the 
whole  more  perilous  to  society  than  open 
tyranny." 

Eon.  Bdtoa/rd  Blake,leader  in  Canadian 
Parliament,  March,  I884:  "I  am  not  in 
favor  of  State  recognition  of  any  secret 
societies.  I  have  never  joined  one, though 
many  of  my  best  friends  are  members  of 
secret  societies.  But  I  believe  the  ten- 
dency of  secrecy  itself  to  be  injurious.  I 
believe  that  it  brings  with  it  the  possibili- 
ty of  evil;  I  believe  that  it  involves  a  cer- 
tain amount  of  sacrifice  of  individuality 
and  independence,  and  gives  very  great 
facilities  for  the  misleading  of  members 
by  designing  leaders-very  great  and  mis- 
chievous facilities  for  that  purpose."  "I 
believe  that  a  great  deal  of  the  trouble, 
social  and  political,  that  has  occurred  in 
those  countries  [Europe  and  America]  ia 
dw  to  secret  societies," 


Charles  Francis  Adams:  "A.  more  per- 
fect agent  for  the  devising  and  execution 
of  conspiracies  against  church  and  state 
could  scarcely  have  been  conceived." 

Th/iddeus  Stevens:  "By  Freemasonry, 
trial  by  jury  is  transformed  into  an  en- 
gine of  despotism  and  Masonic  fraud." 

Judge  Pliny  Merrick  (o  seceded  Mason) : 
— If  ever  a  Chapter  or  a  lodge  shall  es- 
tablish laws  in  conflict  with  those  of  the 
state  the  Masonic  requisition  is  obedience 
to  the  lodge  and  conflict  with  the  state: 
and  if  a  member  hesitates  at  this  humili- 
ating obedience,  bis  heart  must  be  "torn 
from  his  bosom,"  his  "vitals  plucked 
from  his  body,"  and  Masonic  vengeance, 
not  satisfied  with  this  bloody  immolation, 
denies  a  resting  place  to  the  motionless 
remains,  but  they  are  to  be  "burnt  to 
ashes  and  scattered  to  the  winds." 

Samuel  C.  Pomeioy,  in  an  address, 
lS83:-"TheTe  may  be  a  broad  distinction 
between  the  good  and  the  bad  in  secret 
societies,  but  as  they  all  alike  have  oath- 
bound  obligations  to  complete  oblivion  of 
all  they  do  or  say,  I  have  no  means  of 
judging  the  good  from  the  bad.  So  I  turn 
away  from  them  all  to  the  great  Teach- 
er who  said,  "In  secret  have  I  said  noth- 
ing." 

Judge  Daniel  H.  Whitney,  (renouncing 
Mason):  While  professed  ministers  of 
the  Gospel  and  members  of  churches  are 
permitted  to  associate  themselves  with 
these  organizations,  the  task  to  apply  a 
remedy  will  be  a  hopeless  one;  and  just 
so  long  will  the  declaration  made  to  me 
not  long  since  by  a  high  Mason  and  a 
worthy  man  prove  true,  that  "a  Masonic  " 
lodge  is  the  strangest  medley  of  priests 
and  murderers — deacons  and  whoremas 
ters— church  members  and  gamblers — de 
cent  men  and  loafers — drunkards  and 
rowdies,  that  the  All  Seeing-Eye  ever 
looked  down  upon." 

Hon.  Samuel  Dexter,  in  an  open  letter  to 
the  Grand  Master  of  Mass.,  1798:  "If 
there  be  no  very  important  reason  for 
upholding  Masonry  at  a  moment  like  the 
present,  there  is  a  reason  against  it.  The 
system  of  the  destroyers  of  human  virtue 
and  happiness  is  to  undermine  in  the 
dark  the  castle  that  cannot  be  carried  by 
storm.  Secret  agency  has  overthrown 
all  the  republics  of  Europe,  and  an  ex 
tended,  secret,  leveling,  self-created  so- 
ciety, without  any  valuable  object  of 
pursuit,  and  embracing  bad  characters  as 
well  as  good,  cannot  be  the  subject  of  ap- 
probation of  an  anxious  patriot." 

William  E.  Seward:  "Before  I  would 
place  my  hand  between  the  hands  of  oth- 
er men  in  a  secret  lodge,  order,  class,  or 
council,  and,  bending  on  my  knee  before 
them,  enter  into  combination  with  them 
for  any  object,  personal  or  political,  good 
or  bad,  I  would  pr&y  to  God  that  that 
hand  and  that  knee  might  be  paralyzed, 
and  that  I  might  become  an  object  of 
pity  and  even  the  mockery  of  my  fellow- 
men." 

Wendell  PhiUips:  "1  wish  you  success 
most  heartily  in  your  efforts  to  arouse  the 
community  to  the  danger  of  secret  soci-^ 
eties.  They  are  a  great  evil;  entirely 
out  of  place  in  a  republic,  and  no  patriot 
should  join  or  uphold  them.  Consider- 
ing the  great  forces  which  threaten  the 
welfare  of  the  nation  in  the  next  thirty 
years,  and  how  readily  and  efficiently  they 
can  use  any  secret  organizations,  such 
should  not  be  allowed  to  exist." 

George  Washington's  Fareteell  Address: 
"The  very  idea  of  the  power  and  the  right 
of  the  people  to  establish  government  pre 
supposes  the  duty  of  every  individual  to 
obey  the  established  government.  All 
obstructions  to  the  execution  of  the  laws, 
all  combinations  and  associations,  under 
whatever  plausible  character,  with  the 
real  design  to  direct,  control,  counteract, 
or  awe  the  regular  deliberation  and  action 
of  the  constituted  authorities,  are  de- 
structive of  this  fundamental  principle, 
and  of  fatal  tendency." 

Daniel  Webster:  "All  secret  associa- 
tions, the  members  of  which  take  upon 
themselves  extraordinary  obligations  to 
one  another,  and  are  bound  together  by 
secret  oaths,  are  naturally  sources  of 
jealousy  and  just  alarm  to  others;  are  es- 
pecially unfavorable  to  harmony  and  mu- 
tual confidence  among  men  living  togeth 
er  under  popular  institutions,  and  arc 
dangerous  to  the  general  cause  of  civil 
liberty  and  just  government.  Under  the 
influence  of  this  conviction  I  heartily  ap 
proved  the  law,  lately  enacted  in  the  State 
of  which  I  am  a  citizen,  for  abolishing  all 
lucb  oaths  and  oblifrations." 


TEB   CEUROHBS    VS.    LODeXBT. 

The  following  denominations  are  com- 
mitted by  vote  of  their  legislative  assem- 
blies or  by  constitution  to  a  separation 
from  secret  lodge  worship: 

Adventists  (Seventh-day.) 

Baptists — Primitive,  Seventh-day  and 
Scandinavian. 

Brethren  (Dionkers  or  German  Bap- 
tists.) 

Christian  Reformed  Church. 

Church  of  God  Northern  Indiana  El- 
dership.) 

Congregational — The  State  Associations 
of  Illinois  and  Iowa  have  adopted  resolu- 
tions against  the  lodge. 

Disciples  (in  part.) 

Friends. 

Lutherans — Norwegian,  Danisk.  Sw«d- 
ish  and  SjTiodical  Conferences. 

Mennonites. 

Methodists — Free  and  Wesleyan. 

Methodist  Protestant  (Minnesota  Con- 
ference.) 

Moravians. 

Plymouth  Brethren. 

Presbyterian — Associate,  Reformed  and 
United. 

Reformed  Church  (Holland  Branch-) 

United  Brethren  in  Christ. 

Individual  chirrches  in  some  of  these 
denominations  should  be  excepted,  in  part 
of  them  even  a  considerable  portion. 

The  following  local  churches  have,  as  a 
pledge  to  disfellowship  and  oppose  lodge 
worship,  given  their  names  to  the  follow- 
ing list  as 

THB   ASSOCIATBD  CHUKCHBB   OP  CHKIST. 

New   Ruhamah  Cong.  Hamilton,  Miss. 

Pleasant  Ridge  Cong.   Sandf  ord  Co.  Ala. 

New  Hope  Methodist,  Lowndes  Co.,  Miss. 

Congregational,  College  Springs,  Iowa. 

College  Church  of  Christ,  Wheaton,  Dl. 

First  Congregational,  Leland,  Mich. 

Sugar  Grove  Church,  Green  county,  Pa. 

Military  Chapel,  M.  E.,  Lowndes  county, 
■^iliss. 

Hopewell  Missionary  Baptist.,  Lowndes  Co., 
Miss. 

Cedar  Grove  Miss.  Baptist,  Lowndes  Co., 
Miss. 

Simon's  Chapel,  M.  E.,  Lowndes  Co.,  Miss. 

Pleasant  Ridge  Miss.  Baptist,  Lowndes  Co., 
Miss. 

Brownlee  Church,  Caledonia,  Miss. 

Salem  Church,  Lowndes  Co.,  Miss. 

West  Preston  Bactlst  Church,  Wayne  Ca,Fa. 
OTHBB  LOCAL  CHTTBCHSS 

adopting  the  same  principle  are — 

Baptist  churches :  N.  Abmgton,  Pa. ;  Meno- 
monle,  Mondovl,  Waubeck  ana  Spring  Prairie, 
Wis. ;  Wheaton,  HI. ;  Perry,  N.  Y7;  Spring 
Creek,  near  Burlington,  Iowa;  Lima,  Ind. ; 
Constablevllle,  N.  T.  The  "Good  Will  Assod- 
ton"ofMobUe,  Ala.,  comprising  some  twenty- 
five  colored  Baptist  churches;  Bridgewater 
Baptist  Association,  Pa.;  Old  Tebo  Baptist, 
near  Leesvllle,  Henry  Co. ,  Mo. ;  Hoopeston,  HI ; 
Esmen,  111. ;  Strykersvllle,  N.  Y. 

Congregational  churches :  Ist  of  Oberlln,  O. ; 
Tonlca.  Crystal  Lake,  Union  and  Big  Woods, 
lU. ;  Solsbury,  Ind. ;  Congregational  Methodist 
Maplewood,  Mass. 

Independent  churchefl  In  Lowell,  Country- 
man school  house  near  Lindenwood,  Marengo 
and  Streator,  111. :  Berea  and  Camp  Nelson,  Ky ; 
Ustlck,  HI. ;  Clarksburg,  Kansas ;  State  Aseod- 
atlon  of  Mlnliten  aniT  ChorchM  of  Christ  !■ 
KaHtaekv- 

ANTIMASOmO  LS0TURBB8. 

Gbnbral  AeBirr  Aim  Lbctubbb,  J.  P. 
Stoddard,  331  W.  Madison  St.,  Chicago. 

H.  H.  Hinman,  Cynosure  office. 
Agent  for  Southern  States. 
Statb  AeBNTS. 

Iowa,  C.  F.  Hawley,  Wayne,  Henry 
Co.     Care  Rev.  Geo.  Fry. 

Missouri,  Eld.  Rufus  Smith,  Maryville. 

New  Hampshire,  Eld.  S.  C.  Kimball, 
New  Market. 

Ohio,  W.  B.  Stoddard,  Columbus. 

Kansas,  Robert  Loggan,  Clifton. 

Alabama,  Rev.  G.  M.  Elliott,  Selma. 

Dbgbbb  Workbbs.— [Seceden.! 
J.  K.  Glassford,  Carthage,  Mo. 
Othbb  Lbctusbbs. 

C.  A.  Blanchard,  Wheaton,  HI. 
N.  Callender,  Thompson,  Pa. 

3 .  H.  Tlmmons,  Tarentum,  Ps 

T.  B.  McCormick,  Princeton,  Ind. 

B.  Johnson,  Dayton,  Ind. 

H.  A.  Day,  WfUiamstown,  Mich. 

J.  M.  Bishop,  Chambersbnrg,  Pa. 

A.  Mayn,  Bloomlngton,  Ind. 

J.  B.  Cressinger,  Sullivan,  O. 

W.  M.  Love,  Osceola,  Mo. 

J.  L.  Barlow,  Grundy  Center,  Iowa. 

A.  D.  Freeman,  Downers  Grove,  111 

Wm.  FentxiD.  St  Paul,  Minn. 

E.  I.  Grinnell,  Blaireburg,  Iowa. 

Warren  Taylor,  South  Salem,  O. 

J.  S.  Ferry,  Thompson,  Conn. 

J.  T.  Michael,  New  Wilmington,  Pa. 

8.  G.  Barton,  Breckinridge,  Mo. 

E.  Bametson.  HasklnvlUe,  8t«uben  Co,'N.  T 

Wm.  R.  Roach,  Pickering,  OnU 

D.  A.  Richards,  Brighton,  Mich. 


N.  C.  A.  BUILDING  AND  OFTICE  OI 
THE  CHRISTIAN   CYNOSURE, 
SSI  WEST  MADISON  STREET,  CHICAGC 


IfA'riONAL  CHRIS  TIANAB80CIA  TIOB 

Prbsidbht.— H.  H.  George,  D.  D.,  Gen- 
eva College,  Pa. 

ViCB-PHBsrDBHT — Rcv,  M.  A.  Gault, 
Blanchard,  Iowa.  • 

Cob.  Sbc't  and  Gbnbral  AesNT. — J 
P.  Stoddard,  821 W.  Madison  st.,  Chicago. 

Rbc.  Sbc't.  and  Tbbabtjbbb. — W.  I. 
Phillips,  231  W.  Madison  St.,   Chicago. 

D1BBCTOB8. — Alexander  Thomson,  Mi 
R.  Britten,  John  <jlardner,  J.  L.  Barlow, 
L.  N.  Stratton,  Thos.  H.  Gault,  C.  A. 
Blanchard,  J.  E.  Roy,  E.  R.  Worrell,  H. 
A.  Fischer,  W.  R.  Hench. 

The  object  of  this  Association  Is: 
"To  expose,  withstand  and  remove  secret 
societies,  Freemasonry  in  particular,  and  othet 
anti-Christian  movements,  in  order  to  save  the 
churches  of  Christ  from  being  i.epraved,  to  re- 
deem the  admlnistrflion  of  justice  from  per- 
version, and  our  rsp  iblican  government  from 
corruplJon." 

To  carry  on  this  work  contributions  are 
solicited  from  every  friend  of  tne  refonn. 

Form  op  Bequest. — J  give  and  be<^ueath  to 
the  National  Christian  Association,  incorpo- 
rated and  existing  undfer  the  laws  of  the  Stat« 

ol    Illinois,  the  sum  of ■    dollars  for  the 

purposes  of  said  Association,  and  for  whVh 
toe  receipt  of  its  Treasurer  for  the  time  being 
'llall  be  sufficient  dischaote. 

THB  NATIONAL  OONTBNTION. 

Pbbsidbnt.— Rev.    J.    8.  McCullocb, 
D.  D. 
Sbcbetabt. — Rev.  Lewis  Johnson. 

BTATX  ATTXnjABT  AB80CLATI0NB 

Alabama.— Pres.,  Prof.  Pickens;  Sec,  G. 
M.  Elliott;  Treas.,  Rev.  C.  B.  Curtis,  all  of 
Selma. 

Calhornia.— PreSy^  L.  B.  Lathrop,  HoUls- 
ter;  Cor.  Sec,  Mrs.  U.  P.  Merrill,  Woodland: 
Treas.,  C.  Ruddock,  Woodland. 

CoNNBCTicuT.— rres..  J.  A.  Conant,  WIlll- 
mantic;  Sec,  Geo.  Smith,  Wllllmantic ;  Treas.. 
C.  T.  Collins,  Windsor.  ' 

Illinois.— Pres.,  J.  P.  Stoddard;  Sec,  M. 
N.  Butler;  Treas.,  W.  L  Phillips,  all  at  Cy 
twture  office. 

Indiana.— Pres.,  WUllam  H.  Flgg,  Reno 
Sec,  S.  L.  Cook,  Albion;  Treas.,  BenJ.  Ulah 
BUverLake. 

lowA.— Pres.,Wm.Johnston,College  Springs; 
Cor  Bee,  C.  D.  Trumbull,  Morning  8un; 
Treas.,  James  Harvey,  PIsasant  Plain,  Jeffer- 
son Co. 

Kansas.— Pres.,  J.  P.  Richards,  Ft  Scott: 
Sec,  W.  W.  McMillan,  Olathe;  Treas.,  j! 
A.  Tcrrence,  N.  Cedar. 

Massaohusbtts.— Pres.,  S.JA.  Pratt;  Sec, 
Mrs.  E.  D.  Bailey;  Treas., David  Mannlng.Sr., 
Worcester. 

Michigan.- Pres..  D.  A.  Richards,  Brighton ; 
Sec'y,  H.  A.  Day,  Wllllamston ;  Treas. 
Geo.  Bwanson,  Jr.,  Bedfoiu. 

Minnesota.— Pres.,  S.  G.  Paine,  Wasloia  • 
Cor.  Sec,  Wm.  Fenton,  St.  Paul;  R«c  Sec'y 
Mrs.  M.  F.  Morrill,  St.  Cnarles;  Treas.,  Wm 
H.  Morrill,  St.  Charles. 

MiBSOUKi.— Pres.,  B.  F.  Miller,  BsflevlUe 
Trea8.jWilllAm  Beauchamp,  Avalon ;  (Sw. 8*c, 
A.  D.  Thomas,  Avalon. 

NasaABKA. — Pres.,  S.  Austin,  Falnnouit; 
Oor.  Bee,  W.  Bpooner,  Kearney;  Treas,. 
J.  C.  Fye. 

Nbw  HAMPSHma.— Pres.,  Isaac  Hyatt,  Gil 
ford  Village ;  Sec,  S.  C.  KimbaU,  New  Market- 
Treas.,  James  F.  French,  Canterbury. 

Nbw  York.— Pres.,  F.  W.  CapweU,  Dale; 
Sec'y,  John  Wallace,  Syracuse;  Treas.,  M. 
Merrick,  Syracuse. 

Ohio.— Pres.,  Rev.  R.  M.  Smith,  Pagetown: 
Rec  Sec^  Rev.  Coleman,  Utica;  Cor.  Sec  and 
Treas.,  Rev.  8.  A.  George,  Mansfield;  Agent, 
W.  B.  Stoddard,  Columbus. 

Pbnnstlvania.- Pres.,  A.  L.   Post,   Mo«- 
trose;  Cor.  Sec,   N.   CiJlender,   Thoapson 
Treas.,  W.  B.  BertelSLWUkesbwre. 

V«BMONT.— Pres.,  W.  R.  Laird,  SL  Johns- 
bury;  Sec,  C.  W  Potter. 

WisoOHsni.- Pres.,  J.  W  Wood,  Barsboo; 
Sec,  W.  W.  Ames,  Menomonle;  Treas.,  M.  B 
Britten,  Vienna. 


8 


TSSi  aHBJBllAN  OYNOSXJESi. 


BsoiMBXK  8, 188T 


The  Christian  Cynosure. 

Xditobs. 
J.  BLANCH ARD.  HSNRT  L.  EJELLOOG. 


OSICACK),   TEUBSDAT,   DBCEHBBB  8,  1887. 


The  New  Orleans  Convention  February  17 
TO  20,  1888. 


MORMON  STATEHOOD. 


"We  do  not  feel  sure,"  says  the  American,  "that 
this  movement  for  (Mormon)  statehood  did  not  orig- 
inate right  here  in  Washington.  A  Mormon  bishop 
is  reported  as  saying  that  a  bargain  had  been  struck 
with  the  Democratic  party  for  the  admission  of 
Utah." 

Stephen  A.  Douglas  was  made  a  Mason  in  Spring- 
field lodge,  No.  26,  in  1840,  the  year  of  the  revival 
of  the  lodge  after  its  prostration  by  the  Morgan 
discussions.  He  was  already  widely  known  as  "The 
Little  Giant,"  and  leader  of  the  Illinois  Democracy. 
He  had  then  been  five  years  in  the  Legislature. 
The  Hard-Cider  campaign  elected  Harrison  that 
year;  and  Douglas,  though  Vermont-born,  and  edu- 
cated there  and  in  Canandaigua,  New  York,  where 
lodge-villainy  and  murder  were  put  under  a  shower 
of  sunbeams,  started  into  life  boldly  avowing  the 
United  States  Presidency  as  his  goal.  He  saw  the 
lodge  and  ^avery  overthrow  Adams  and  elect  Jack- 
son in  1828.  And,  though  he  finished  his  education 
in  Canandaigua  in  sight  of  the  jail  where  Morgan 
was  taken  out  and  murdered  by  Masons;  and  though 
the  Vermont  and  New  York  lodges  were  all  turned 
inside  out,  Douglas  was  made  a  Mason  in  Springfield, 
111.,  in  1840— five  years  after  he  entered  the  Illinois 
Legislature.  He  procured  a  charter  for  Nauvoo 
which  made  Joseph  Smith  mayor,  judge  and  legisla-' 
tor;  and  Smith  received  a  revelation  that  Douglas 
was  the  greatest  man  living.  Parties  were  so  evenly 
balanced  that  this  made  Illinois  Democratic  till  Gov. 
Bissell  in  1856,  sixteen  years  later. 

If  it  is  true  that  a  new  league  is  formed  between 
Democrats  and  Mormons,  nothing  will  save  the  na- 
tion but  the  success  of  an  American  Prohibition  party, 
as  the  anti-slavery  partv  saved  us  from  utter  ruin 
by  the  pro-slavery  pro  Mormon  party  which  brought 
on  secession  and  rebellion;  and  such  may  prove  to  be 
the  fact 

The  Washington  Star  professed  to  be  independ- 
ent; bu^it  is  said  that  its  owners  have  a  controlling 
interest  in  the  Republican  and  Post,  so  as  to  be  sure 
of  Government  patronage  whichever  party  is  up; 
and  the  Star  comes  out  fully  pro-Mormon,  which 
neither  of  the  old  parties  now  dare  venture.  If  a  sec- 
ond secret  league  really  exists  between  leading  Demo- 
crats and  Mormons,  as  the  Star's  conversion  to  Mor- 
monism  intimates,  nothing  can  save  us  but  the  bless- 
ing of  God  on  a  reform  party. 


TEE  ANABCHIBTB:    THEIR  DOCTBINBB  AND 
PUNI8HMBNT. 

A  letter  from  a  respected  Kansas  friend,  N.  B. 
Blanton,  expresses  his  deep  regret  at  the  general  ap- 
proval of  the  death  sentence  visited  upon  the  Chi- 
cago anarchists;  and,  adopting  the  view  of  our  be- 
loved Quaker  brethren,  objects  to  capital  punish- 
ment. We  cannot  begin  a  discussion  of  that  ques- 
tion at  present,  and  will  only  say  that  the  law  of 
God  to  the  race  as  represented  in  Noah  (Genesis  9: 
5  and  6)  is  sufficient  basis,  we  believe,  for  our  laws 
which  make  death  the  penalty  for  murder.  The 
Chicago  anarchists  were  hung  for  that  crime,  they 
having  been  proven  guilty  of  conspiracy  to  murder 
which  resulted  in  the  death  of  seven  policemen  and 
the  wounding  of  fifty-nine  others. 

Our  valued  correspondent  in  Boston  has  raised 
some  general  questions  respecting  the  aims  of  the 
anarchists  and  their  relation  to  law,  which  appear 
on  another  page,  and  were  suggested  by  his  letter 
of  two  weeks  since  reporting  a  sermon  by  Dr.  A  A 
Miner  of  that  city.  Dr.  Miner,  it  will  be  remem- 
bered, was  first  introduced  to  our  readers  in  an  able 
address  on  prohibition  at  the  N.  C.  A.  Washington 
Convention  in  1883.  We  have  a  double  pleasure  in 
printing  on  the  fifth  page  his  own  correction  of  the 
report  of  his  sermon:  since  it  in  the  first  place  rights 
an  injustice  unintentionally  done  him  by  the  Cyno- 
iure  and  our  correspondent;  and,  second,  it  gives  us 
quite  a  different  view  of  his  opinions  of  anarchy 
and  such  as  we  should  have  judged  he  would  main- 
tain. 

While  this  iron  is  hot  on  the  anvil  we  wish  to  help 
give  it  proper  shape. 

1.  It  is  a  misconception  to  class  Christianity  and 
anarchy  together  •«  if  they  wer«  in  any  way  related 


or  had  anything  in  common.  Anarchy  is  a  state 
of  society  where  there  is  no  law  but  the  law  of  the 
strongest,  which  is  the  law  of  devils;  when  individu- 
als, says  Webster,  "do  as  they  please  with  impu- 
nity." Or,  if  we  take  a  definition  from  themselves, 
a  witness  in  the  Most  trial  in  New  York  the  other 
day  gives  this:  "Anarchy  means  that  the  people 
shall  rule,  not  the  government  It  means  that  gov- 
ernment shall  be  done  away  with;  that  there  shaU  be 
no  government,  but  every  man  shall  be  free  to  do 
what  he  desires.  The  laws  shall  be  those  of  com- 
mon sense.  A  man's  only  punishment  is  to  be  him- 
self. His  conscience  will  be  his  punishment"  Most 
himself  when  testifying  stated  his  views  thus:  "We 
do  not  fight  against  any  particular  government.  We 
do  not  especially  fight  the  government  of  the  Unit- 
ed States.  We  are  opposed  to  government  as  such; 
we  think  that  the  power  held  by  the  government 
should  be  abolished."  Anarchy  has  its  interpreta- 
tion, also,  in  that  festival  of  horrors,  the  French 
Revolution  of  the  last  century;  in  the  Paris  Com- 
mune of  1870;  in  the  New  York  draft  riots  of  1863; 
and  in  some  degree  in  many  of  our  railroad  centers 
in  the  railroad  strike  and  rioting  of  1877.  It  will 
not  do  to  confound  such  results  with  the  effect  of 
Christian  teaching. 

2.  There  is  danger  of  so  confusing  terms  as  to  cre- 
ate a  public  sympathy  for  revolting  sentiments 
which  have  led  men  possessed  of  them  into  deepest 
crimes,  and  a  seeming  approval  for  the  nihilism  of 
Bakunin  or  the  savagery  of  Most  To  speak  of 
Christ  or  Paul  as  anarchists  or  sympathizing  with 
the  principles  of  anarchists  shows  that  these  princi- 
ples are  not  understood — otherwise  the  comparison 
would  be  rank  blasphemy,  and  a  libel  on  religion. 
Christ  came  to  fulfill  law;%)  do  his  Father's  will;his 
life  was  the  most  perfect  example  of  obedience  to 
the  highest  law.  He  commanded  obedience  to  Eome; 
and  in  his  own  life  his  implacable  enemies  could 
find  no  flaw  of  unlawful  action.  From  Paul  we 
learn  the  highest  authority  and  source  of  human  gov- 
ernment But  anarchy  is  atheism.  It  neither  has 
regard  for  God,  nor  for  law,  human  or  divine. 

3.  Because  anarchists  make  the  cause  of  the  poor 
a  pretext  for  preaching  their  evil  philosophy,  for 
throwing  bombs,  firing  cities  with  petroleum,  or 
dancing  with  heads  on  pikes — that  is  no  proof  that 
compassion  for  the  oppressed  is  a  part  of  anarchy. 
Such  virtues  belong  to  the  true  religion  only.  They 
never  sprung  from  anarchy,  nor  were  fostered  by  it; 
nor  was  ever  by  it  an  oppressor  justly  punished,  or 
a  wrong  fairly  righted.  For  virtue  and  justice  and 
charity  we  must  look  to  Christ  No  anarchist  lodge, 
any  more  than  a  Masonic  lodge,  originated  these 
principles,  or  can  truly  practice  them.  Masonry  pre- 
tends to  sublime  charity  and  instruction  in  right- 
eousness; but  such  pretensions  make  that  order,  as 
old  Dr.  Aydelotte  (once  a  member)  said,  "a  lie  all 
over"    Like  the  hypocrite  of  Pollock, 

"Who  stole  the  livery  of  the  court  of  heaTen 
To  serve  the  devil  in,"— 

such  man-invented,  devil-controlled  systems  for  the 
professed  salvation  of  mankind  are  a  gross  decep- 
tion. 

4.  We  say  that  the  Christian  is  free  from  law. 
He  is  free  from  no  law  only  in  proportion  to  his 
obedience  to  higher  law.  The  true  Christian  con- 
firms all  just  law  and  honors  the  Law-giver.  He 
is  as  far  removed  from  the  desolating  princi- 
ples of  anarchy  as  heaven  from  hell.  If  he  lives 
under  evil  laws  which  he  cannot  under  God  obey,  he 
does  not  therefore  destroy  government.  Christiani- 
ty is  the  bulwark  of  just  government,  and  such  a 
government  ours  hopes  to  be,  and  is  nearest  that 
perfect  standard  of  any  on  earth.  Let  us  not  allow 
anarchists  to  overthrow  it,  nor  call  Satan  into  our 
councils  to  help  mend  it 


THE  PROHIBITION  CONFERENCE. 

Seldom,  if  ever,  have  the  Prohibition  leaders  been 
greeted  by  an  audience  so  immense  and  enthusiastic 
as  greeted  them  at  the  close  of  the  Prohibition  Con- 
ference last  Thursday  evening  in  this  city.  Its  size 
wab  measured  by  the  capacity  of  the  hall,  which 
holds  some  5,000,  and  its  zeal  reached  the  $6,000 
mark  when  money  was  asked  to  carry  on  the  cam- 
paign. 

The  meeting  of  the  National  Committee  of  the 
party  on  Wednesday  was  attended  by  fifty-three 
members  from  twenty-five  States  and  the  District  of 
Columbia.  Their  meeting  was  called  in  a  small 
room,  but  hundreds  of  men  and  women  equally  in- 
terested in  the  result  of  their  deliberations  wished  to 
be  present;  so,  after  singing,  "All  Hail  the  Power  of 
Jesus  Name,"  and  prayer  by  Rev.  Dr.  Leonard  of 
Ohio,  the  Committee  adjourned  in  the  large  hall  of 
the  building.     An  attempt  was  made  to  throw  the 


meeting  open  to  general  participation  by  allowing 
all  Prohibitionists  to  sit  as  advisory  members  of  the 
Committee  to  share  in  its  debates,  but  wiser  coun- 
sels prevailed. 

The  treasurer  of  the  Committee,  Samuel  D.  Hast- 
ings of  Madison,  Wisconsin,  reported  the  receipt  of 
$8,646.46  since  the  last  meeting,  which  was  during 
the  campaign  of  1884.  Of  this  $1,000  was  from  our 
oat-meal  friend,  Schumacher  of  Akron,  Ohio.      To 

A.  J.  Jutkins,  corresponding  secretary,  was  paid 
$4,225  for  salary  and  expenses  during  this  time,and 
$1,000  to  Gov.  John  P.  St.  John  for  his  campaign 
expenses. 

On  motion  of  Rev.  W.  W.  Satterlee  of  Minnesota 
the  date  of  the  nominating  convention  was  fixed  for 
Wednesday,  June  6th,  1888.  The  place  of  meeting 
called  out  the  representatives  of  half  a  dozen  cities, 
but  the  question  was  postponed  for  the  election  of  a 
chairman,  which  was  the  most  important  business  of 
the  day.  Samuel  Dickie  of  Michigan,  A.  A.  Hop- 
kins of  New  York  and  T.  C.  Richmond  of  Wisconsin 
were  nominatedjMissWillard  making  a  strong  speech 
for  the  former,  who  received  30  of  the  44  votes  and 
was  conducted  to  the  platform  amid  a  perfect  ova- 
tion. 

In  executive  session  the  Committee  resolved  on 
Indianapolis  for  the  National  Convention.  The  ques- 
tion of  representation  was  a  more  difficult  one  to 
settle,  because  some  States  were  not  organized,  and 
in  some  the  vote  had  varied  greatly.  The  final  de- 
cision, that  every  Congressional  district  should  have 
two  delegates  and  every  organized  State  four  dele- 
gates at  large,  met  with  some  opposition  and  more 
in  the  Conference,  but  the  reasons  for  it  were  too 
strong  to  be  overthrown  by  ranting,  ad  captandum 
speeches  by  the  crowd  outside  the  Committee. 

The  memorial  services  during  the  evening  of  Wed- 
nesday was  addressed  at  length  by  Miss  Willard, 
who  spoke  strongly  for  Mr.  Finch,  the  late  chair- 
man of  the  National  Committee.     (General   Clinton 

B.  Fisk  and  Dr.  A.  B.  Leonard  made  brief  and 
more  moderate  addresses. 

The  programme  provided  for  the  Conference  of 
Thursday  was  quite  successfully  carried  out.  Dr. 
Leonard  and  Prof.  Dickie  opened  upon  the  topic, 
"A  Political  Party  with  Prohibition  its  Chief  Aim 
is  the  Only  Way  to  Accomplish  the  Needed  Reform." 
Dr.  'Leonard's  speech  was  very  able.  "Party  Or- 
ganization and  Finance"  was  the  subject  given  to 
T.  C.  Richmond  of  Wisconsin,  and  as  a  Good  Tem- 
plar it  was  evidently  a  favorite  one.  His  speech  gave 
Mr.  Chafin,  a  fellow  Good  Templar,  an  occasion  to 
raise  his  voice  against  the  "secret"  action  of  the  Na- 
tional Committee  in  the  matter  of  representation  at 
Indianapolis. 

Mrs.  Clara  Hoffman  of  Missouri  led  on  the  topic, 
"High  License — Is  it  a  Step  toward  Prohibition?" 
She  was  ably  followed  by  Rev.  W.  W.  Satterlee  of 
Minneapolis.  Among  the  other  speakers  R.  M.  Har- 
rison of  Quiocy,  111.,  aroused  much  enthusiasm  by 
his  humorou.s  characterization  of  the  old  parties. 
Prof.  A.  A.  Hopkins  presented  a  strong,  well-digest- 
ed argument  on  "The  Prohibition  Party  Movement 
the  Only  True  Solution  of  the  Southern  Problem." 
He  defined  this  problem  to  be  an  effort  to  politically 
reconcile  two  races  in  one  section  so  that  ignorance 
and  immorality  in  one  shall  not  override  morality 
and  intelligence  in  the  other.  A  number  of  speak- 
ers from  the  South  had  the  privilege  of  speaking  on 
this  question,  Cranfil  of  Texas,  Walker  of  North 
Carolina,  Coulson  of  Alabama,  and  others. 

"The  Proper  Attitude  of  the  Prohibition  Party 
toward  Woman  Suffrage"  was  assigned  Mrs.  Mary 
A.  Woodbridge.  She  assumed  to  address  those  who 
were  opposed  to  the  woman  vote,and  her  arguments, 
while  not  having  the  merit  of  originality, were  forci- 
ble and  well  presented.  Dr.  I.  K.  Funk  of  the  New 
York  Voice  followed  with  a  rousing  short  speech. 
This  called  out  Miss  Willard,  but  T.  C.  Richmond 
followed  with  a  protest  against  the  woman  suffrage 
plank. 

John  L.  Thomas  of  Maryland  led  the  discussion 
on  "The  Relations  of  Labor  to  Capital,"  with  a  pa- 
per that  showed  careful  and  wide  research. 

The  evening  meeting  was  the  great  rally  for  mul- 
titude and  enthusiasm.  The  addresses  of  General 
Fisk  and  Gov.  St  John  were  cheered  to  the  echo,and 
the  singing  of  thd  Silver  Lake  Club  was  hardly  less 
inspiring.  The  effort  to  raise  $5,000  was  more  than 
successful,  and  the  audience  adjourned  at  11  o'clock 
resolved  more  than  ever  that  the  liquor  traffic  must 
be  put  down. 

During  the  day  the  editors  of  Prohibition  papers, 
some  twenty  in  number,  met  and  completed  an  or- 
ganization. All  the  leading  papers  of  the  party 
this  side  of  the  Rocky  Mountains  were  represented, 
and  the  conference  of  their  editors  will  help  much 
to  strengthen  the  probibiton  work  in  every  part  of 
the  oouQtry. 


Dbobmbbb  8, 188t 


ISE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSUKE. 


NOMINATE  A  FREE  MAN. 

In  response  to  an  invitation  for  all  anti-lodge  Pro- 
hibitionists to  meet  in  Carpenter  Hall  Wednesday 
afternoon  a  considerable  number  were  present  from 
four  or  five  States.  Dr.  F.  M.  Spencer,  late  presi- 
dent of  Moskingam  College,  Ohio,  was  called  on  to 
preside  and  Secretary  Stoddard  made  a  statement 
of  the  object  of  the  meeting  and  the  results  of 
his  conferences  with  leading  Prohibitionists.  He 
had  stated  to  them  the  position  of  American  voters; 
that  they  demanded  of  candidates  for  rulers  over  the 
whole  people  that  they  should  not  be  secretly  pledg- 
ed to  a  part  in  the  lodge.  In  every  case  a  favorable 
response  was  given  to  this  proposition,  and  it  was 
acknowledged  reasonable  and  the  least  that  could  be 
asked  by  men  of  convictions  against  the  secret  or- 
ders. There  was,  perhaps,  an  exception  in  a  Knight 
of  Labor  named  Zimmerman,  who  is  not,  however, 
much  of  a  leader  outside  his  lodge  ring.  Bro.  Stod- 
dard also  mentioned  the  importance  of  ,the  election 
in  the  Prohibition  National  Committee  of  a  chair- 
man to  succeed  Mr.  J.  B.  Finch,  lately  deceased. 
There  had  been  but  two  names  considered  in  Prohi- 
bition circles,  Prof.  A.  A.  Hopkins  of  New  York  and 
Prof.  Samuel  A.  Dickie  of  Michigan.  But  during 
the  forenoon  the  Good  Templars  had  put  up  a  can- 
didate, T.  C.  Richmond  of  Wisconsin,  and  members 
of  the  committee  were  apprehensive  of  a  struggle 
with  the  secret  society  members  in  the  afternoon. 

After  a  season  of  prayer  and  consultation  as  to 
the  best  measures  to  be  taken  to  influence  the  Con- 
ference and  the  party  in  favor  of  open  work  and 
men  unpledged  to  secretism,  a  committee  was  ap- 
pointed to  draw  up  a  memorial  to  be  presented  to 
the  National  Prohibition  Commtttee  before  their  ad- 
journment So  much  time  was  occupied  in  suggest- 
ing instructions  to  the  committee  that  they  were  un- 
able to  complete  their  report  before  next  morning. 
As  the  Prohibition  Committee  unexpectedly  held 
but  a  short  meeting  after  this  time,  the  memorial 
could  not  be  presented,  and  a  combination  of  cir- 
cumstances prevented  its  being  read  to  the  Confer- 
ence. It  was  read,  however,  by  several  members  of 
the  Committee,  and  its  sentiments  endorsed,  and 
Gtov.  St.  John  approved  of  presenting  it  to  the  Confer- 
ence. Had  he  been  present  in  the  afternoon  of  the 
Conference  it  would  no  doubt  have  been  presented. 
The  work  of  the  meeting  of  consultation  was  not, 
however,  lost,  as  an  excellent  beginning  has  been 
made  for  future  meetings  of  the  party,  and  we  have 
the  assurance  of  the  best  men  in  the  party  of  their 
general  agreement  with  the  anti-secret  Prohibition- 
ists, both  those  who  have  acted  with  the  American 
party  and  those  who  have  not,  in  their  proposal  that 
no  lodge  men  shall  be  nominated. 


THE  L0VOE8  AT  THE  CONFERBNOE. 


The  only  public  mention  of  the  secret  orders  was 
when  W.  T.  Mills,  one  of  the  speakers  of  the  after- 
noon, made  a  boast  of  his  Knight  of  Labor  member- 
ship, and  in  the  evening,  when  Thomas  Mouldiog,  a 
humble  but  sincere-looking  little  man,  promised  for 
the  campaign  $100  as  head  of  the  Grand  Division  of 
the  Sons  of  Temperance  for  Illinois. 

But  had  J.  B.  Finch  been  alive,  the  lodges  would 
have  had  their  own  way  in  both  Committee  and 
Conference.  And  this  was  manifestly  his  purpose. 
He  has  confessed  that  his  lodge  could  not  prosper 
about  Chicago  because  of  the  testimony  of  the  Na- 
tional Christian  Association.  He  therefore  called  a 
meeting  of  Good  Templars  to  meet  here  on  Tuesday, 
Nov.  29th,  to  arrange  their  plans  and  maintain  the 
supremacy  which  they  held  in  his  position  as  chair- 
man of  the  National  Prohibition  Committee.  This 
meeting  had  other  objects  for  the  public — the  found- 
ing of  a  Good  Templar  life  insurance  society,  and 
a  reading  course;  the  first  to  be  a  powerful  agency  io 
holding  together  the  dissolving  lodges  of  the  order, 
though  there  is  another  temperance  society  of  the 
kind  open  to  all;  the  second  would  aid  in  the  same 
way  by  drilling  the  weak  members  into  stalwarts. 
But  it  afterward  developed  that  there  were  other 
reasons  not  for  the  public;  and  Mr.  Finch,  remem- 
bering his  experiences  and  defeats  at  Lake  Blufl  and 
Pittsburgh,  had  reason  to  expect  in  Chicago  the  ne- 
cessity of  a  better-planned  defense  than  he  has  hith- 
erto made  for  his  order.  Perhaps  we  should  say 
orders,  since  we  leam  from  a  Chicago  gentleman  of 
known  probity  and  a  seceded  Mason,  that  he  used 
often  to  meet  Finch  in  the  Masonic  lodge  at  Platts- 
mouth,  Nebraska.  But  within  a  year  or  two  Mr. 
Finch  has  been  understood  to  say  he  was  not  a  Ma- 
son, and  it  is  to  be  hoped  that  he  had  left  that  order 
though  still  a  most  devoted  secretist. 

The  result  of  this  lodge  consultation  at  the  Tre- 
ttiont  House,  Nov.  29th,  appeared  before  both  the 
Committee  and  the  Conference.  Twd  names  only 
iMd  b«Mi  Qonsldered  by  the  Prohibition  leader*  as 


likely  to  be  presented  for  the  chairmanship  of  the 
National  Committee — Hopkins  and  Dickie.  It  was 
believed  that  neither  of  these  gentlemen  was  favor- 
able to  lodge  methods.  The  election  was  fixed  for 
3  p.  M.  of  the  30th.  But  before  noon  the  plan  of  the 
secretists  began  to  develop.  One  member  of  the 
National  Committee  said  with  apprehension  that 
there  was  trouble  ahead.  Another  said  they  had  a 
secret  society  fight  in  hand.  The  Good  Templars 
had  made  their  nomination  of  T.  C.  Richmond  of 
Wisconsin,and  no  one  knew  what  strength  he  might 
develop.  This  was  the  work  of  the  secret  caucus  of 
the  day  before.  The  election,  however,  wa9  a  disap- 
pointment to  Mr.  Richmond.  He  had  but  two  votes, 
while  Dickie  had  30  and  Hopkins  12.  The  an- 
nouncement of  the  vote  was  received  with  prolonged 
applause  by  the  audience  (for  the  Committee  sat  in 
open  session),  and  was  made  unanimous. 

In  the  Conference  Thursday  morning,  while  Dr. 
Herrick  Johnson  was  presiding,  Mr.  Chafin,  of  Wau- 
kesha, Wis.,  the  head  of  the  Gk)od  Templars  of  that 
State,  made  a  violent  attack  upon  the  National  Com- 
mittee for  their  decision  on  the  basis  of  representa- 
tion for  the  nominating  convention,  accusing  them 
of  meeting  in  lecret  $ei»ion,  with  doted  doors,  etc. — 
he,  the  head  of  a  lodge,  and  just  out  of  a  contempti- 
ble secret  caucus  I  An  appeal  to  the  record  showed 
that  the  Committee  was  acting  under  instructions 
moved  in  the  last  National  Convention  by  Chafin 
bimself.  Nevertheless,  as  his  motion  was  a  popular 
one,  to  make  the  basis  of  representation  proportion- 
ate to  the  number  of  voters,  it  passed.  There  ap- 
peared to  be  a  body  of  Wisconsin  Good  Templars 
about  Chafin,  who  supported  him  with  loud  applause. 

The  Committee  paid  no  attention  to  the  resolu- 
tion, and  Chafin  during  the  noon  recess  was  mak- 
ing loud  boasts  of  "the  circus"  they  were  to  have 
in  the  afternoon.  At  the  first  opportunity  he  opened 
the  fight  on  the  National  Committee,  but  Prof. 
Dickie,  who  was  in  the  chair,  so  quietly  and  firmly 
"sat  down"  upon  him  that  he  was  completely  flat- 
tened, and  no  more  was  heard  of  the  Good  Templar 
knights  thereafter. 

These  facts  we  hail  as  proof  that  the  Prohibition 
party  is  not  to  be  a  tail  to  a  lodge  kite,  nor  the  in- 
troduction to  secretism  which  J.  B.  Finch  proposed 
it  should  be.  They  prove  also  that  the  leaders  of 
the  party  are  sincere  in  their  assurance  of  sympa- 
thy with  the  views  of  the  anti-lodge  voters. 


PERSONAL  MENTION. 


Thx  Los  Anoxlbs  Cinsor  has  put  the  Cynosure 
under  great  obligation  by  publishing  an  excellent 
advertisement  of  this  paper  in  a  place  of  especial 
prominence.  This  generous  act  is  of  more  value 
when  we  remember  that  the  Censor  is  the  best  Pro- 
hibition paper  on  the  Pacific  coast,  and  to  our  mind 
in  some  respects  the  lest  in  the  land.  It  was  a  pleas- 
ure that  we  were  able,  while  in  California  last  year, 
to  often  recommend  the  Censor  to  temperance  men, 
and  the  Cynosure  has  more  widely  extended  that  no- 
tice. There  have  been  few  arguments  and  state- 
ments of  fact  which  more  clearly  show  the  need  of 
putting  the  temperance  lodges  under  the  ban  than 
have  appeared  in  the  Censor.  They  are  convincing 
to  all  candid  minds  that  these  orders  are  only  a  dead 
weight  on  the  Prohibition  movement;  and  that  it 
cannot  succeed  under  their  leadership.  It  is  a  pleas- 
ure to  again  commend  the  Censor  to  all  our  Pacific- 
slope  readers  and  to  many  in  the  States  who  con- 
template a  brief  sojourn  in  California.  Let  no 
reader  of  this  notice  pass  through  Los  Angeles  with- 
out calling  on  the  genial,true-hearted  Captain  Wood, 
the  Censor  editor,  in  his  office  at  119  Main  St.  The 
friendly  welcome  you  will  get  will  linger  in  memory 
as  one  of  the  happy  reminiscences  of  California. 


— Bro.C.  F.  Hawley  of  the  Iowa  work  is  spending 
a  few  days  with  his  family  which  lately  returned 
from  Minnesota  to  Wheaton.  He  goes  back  this  week 
with  $100  worth  of  books  to  scatter  over  the  State. 
— Rev.  A.  M.  Hunt,  pastor  of  the  Baptist  church 
in  La  Salle,  Illinois,  who  has  bad  some  experience 
as  a  lecturer,  has  made  a  proposition  to  take  the 
field  for  the  N.  C.  A.,  and  Secretary  Stoddard  is  cor- 
responding in  hope  to  arrange  the  matter  satisfac- 
torily. 

— Dr.  F.  M.  Spencer,  late  president  of  Muskingum 
College,  attended  the  Prohibition  Conference  last 
week,  and  gave  hearty  assistance  in  the  meeting  of 
the  anti-lodge  supporters  of  prohibition  on  Wednes- 
day afternoon.  It  was  his  first  visit  to  the  Cyno- 
sure office,  and  the  agreeable  impression  he  left 
makes  us  wish,  not  only  for  many  future  visits,  but 
that  the  supporters  of  our  reform  throughout  the 
country  may  make  his  acquaintance. 

— Scores  of  Cynosure  readers  attended  the  prohibi- 
tion meetings  in  Chicago  last  week.  We  would  be 
glad  to  mention  them  all  were  there  room,  but  when 
we  say  that  among  them  were  C.  B.  Knight,  of  Wor- 
cester, Mass.,  Mrs.  Ames  and  Mrs.  L.  C.  Andrews, 
of  Wisconbin,  Bro.  Hawley  and  wife,  of  Iowa,  Dr. 
Spencer,  of  Ohio,  and  brethren  Jerome  Howe,  G.  R. 
Milton,  Alexander  Thompson,  and  A.  D.  Freeman, 
of  this  State,  a  good  idea  of  their  representative 
character  may  be  gained. 

— A  letter  from  Bro.  A.  D.  Zaraphonithes  tells  us 
he  is  settled  for  the  winter  at  No.  5,  Winthrop  Place, 
New  York  city.  His  wife  and  children  are  with  him 
and  all  are  in  good  health,  though  somewhat  strait- 
ened in  circumstances.  He  will  spend  part  of  the 
time  lecturing  and  preaching,  while  acquiring  some 
knowledge  of  several  trades  which  will  be  of  service 
to  his  work  as  missionary  in  Greece.  At  Montreal 
they  had  the  satisfaction  of  making  some  friends 
for  Mr.  Sakellarios  in  Athens,  in  whose  welfare  they 
have  a  warm  interest. 

— A  fine  portrait  of  Senator  Pomeroy  adorns  the 
last  number  of  Munyon's  Illustrated  World,  the  or- 
gan of  the  Philadelphia  American  party.  It  accom- 
panies his  speech  in  that  city.  It  is  eloquent  in  the 
Senator's  epigrammatic  style  and  does  not  forget  to 
speak  firmly  for  Him  "who  in  secret  said  nothing." 
It  would  have  recommended  Dr.  Kirhy'a  platform 
if  there  had  been  a  recognition  of  the  King  of  kings 
and  of  the  principles  be  maintained  which  would 
overthrow  the  lodge.  But  that  could  hardly  be  ex- 
pected when  the  movement  is  sustained  by  secret 
societies. 

— The  St.  Croix  (Wis.)  Republican  says  of  Bro. 
Gault's  work  at  New  Richmond:  "Rev.  M.  A.  Gault 
of  the  National  Reform  Association  preached  an 
able  sermon  in  the  Congregational  church  on  Sab- 
bath morning  on  the  Bible  in  our  common  educa- 
tion; and  in  the  evening  he  occupied  the  M.  E  pul- 
pit, when  he  gave  a  comparative  statement  of  the 
character  of  the  United  States  of  Israel  and  the 
United  States  of  America.  Both  discourses  were 
able  and  interesting.  Mr.  Gault  is  far  above  the 
lecturers  usually  employed  and  sent  over  the  coun- 
try by  reformatory  societies." 


— Bro.  Hinman  has  reached  Columbus,  Missis- 
sippi, after  visiting  Meridian  and  other  points.  He 
is  quite  unwell  from  the  effects  of  a  severe  cold,  but 
seems  not  to  be  unable  to  travel,  and  we  hope  to 
learn  of  his  entire  recovery.  As  the  time  for  the 
New  Orleans  meeting  approaches,  his  labors  amont; 
the  colored  churches  become  of  more  pressing  im- 
portance. 

— The  Christian  Conservator  of  Dayton,  which 
ably  speaks  for  the  movement  to  maintain  the  posi- 
tion of  the  United  Brethren  church  against  lodge 
usurpation,  has  just  doubled  its  size,  and  comes  to 
us  in  eight  pages  instead  of  four.  We  hail  this 
evidence  of  popular  favor,  and  rejoice  that  the  work 
of  brethren  Dillon  and  Floyd  can  present  so  evident 
a  mark  of  success.  For  their  assistant  in  the  office 
they  have  wisely  chosen  a  son  of  Bishop  M.  Wright, 
who  has  experience,  zeal  and  piety,  and  whose  work 
on  the  Conservator  adds  much  to  its  value.May  these 
brethren,  and  those  who  Ul)or  with  ihem  for  the 
purity  of  the  church,  daily  see  the  work  of  God 
prospering  mightily  in  their  hands. 


TO  ALL  STUDBNTa 


IN   00LLEQE8,   THKOLOOICAL    SEMINARIKS   AND 
AOADEMIKS. 

The  Board  of  the  National  Christian  Association 
desiring  to  arouse  an  interest  among  American  stu- 
dents in  the  topics  uauoed  below,  have  offered  cash 
prizes  for  essajs  on  the  following  topics: 

"(S'tcrrf  Soci-ti's  and  the  Labor  Frobltm." 

^■The  Kdation  of  K^ecet  Hocielies  to  the  Temperance 
Come." 

For  the  best  essay  <^n  each  of  these  topics  a  pre- 
mium of  Twenty  Dollars  will  be  paid  to  its  author: 
for  the  second  in  merit  a  premium  of  Ten  Dollars. 

This  offer  is  made  to  students  of  both  sexes  in  all 
the  institutions  named  above,  with  the  following  lim- 
itHtioni«: 

1.  The  kng'.h  of  the  essays  may  not  be  more 
than  2  000  wnrtls,  plainly  written. 

2.  They  must  hi- mailed  to  the  "Essay  Committee, 
N.  C.  A.  office,  221  West  Madison  St,  Chicago," 
be  tore  May  1.  1888. 

3.  The  name  and  address  of  each  writer  must  be 
plainly  wiillen  on  a  separate  sheet  accompanying 
the  etsay. 

4.  The  Association  to  nave  the  privilege  of  pub- 
lishing as  a  tract,  or  in  their  paper,  the  Christian  Cy- 
nofure,  any  or  all  the  four  prize  essays;  and  any 
u;  i.i»r-  Will,  ti  111  .y  f-.t-n  ih^airable,  if  satisfactory 
arrangtim<^uis  can  be  made  with  their  authors. 

The  committee  of  award  have  not  yet  been  chosen. 


10 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


DsoiKBXB  8, 1887 


The  Home. 


BB  PATIENT  WITH    THE  CHILDREN. 

They  are  such  tiny  feet  I 

They  have  gone  such  a  little  way  to  meet 

The  years  which  are  required  to  break 

Their  steps  to  evenness,  and  make 

Them  go 

More  sure  and  slow. 

They  are  such  little  hands  I 

Be  kind— things  are  so  new,  and  life  but  stands 

A  step  beyond  the  doorway.    All  around 

New  day  has  found 

Such  tempting  things  to  shine  upon,  and  so 

The  hands  are  tempted  oft,  you  know. 

They  are  such  fond,  clear  eyes 

That  widen  to  surprise 

At  every  turn  I     They  are  so  often  held 

To  sun  or  showers— showers  soon  dispelled 

By  looking  in  our  face. 

Love  asks  for  such,  much  grace. 

They  are  such  fair,  frail  gifts  t 
Uncertain  as  the  rifts 
Of  light  that  lie  along  the  sky— 
They  may  not  be  here  by  and  by ; 
Give  them  not  love  but  more  above. 
And  harder— patience  with  the  love. 

— Selected, 


FAMILY  WORSHIP. 


thanksgiving  for  mercies  past  and  for  blessing  upon 
the  opening  day. 

Second.  It  would  be  better  to  be  unpunctual  in 
every  other  matter  than  in  coming  to  family  pray- 
ers. The  habit  of  late  breakfasts,  and  lying  in  bed 
until  the  last  minute  and  beyond  before  arising  and 
making  ready  for  the  day,  is  not  only  a  bad  one  in 
itself,  but  it  has  done  much  more  to  break  down 
God's  altars  in  his  households  than  any  other  one 
indulgence.  Every  Christian  father  and  head  of  a 
family  ought  to  be  inflexible  in  this  one  rule,  that 
at  the  appointed  time  every  member  of  the  family 
shall  be  present,  when  possible,  at  the  time  when 
Grod's  Word  is  read  and  his  throne  of  grace  suppli- 
cated. A  little  firmness  on  this  point  will  soon 
bring  the  whole  household  into  line  and  into  prompt 
attendance. 

We  know  from  experience  some  of  the  difficulties 
that  encompass  this  household  worship,  especially 
where  there  is  a  large  family,  some  of  whom  go  to 
business  and  some  to  school.  We  know  how  diffi- 
cult it  is  to  assemble  the  family  before  breakfast, 
and  how  much  more  difficult  still  it  is  to  hold  them 
together  after  breakfast.  Nevertheless,  it  is  the 
first  duty  of  every  Christian  parent  to  rescue  this 
sacred  and  blessed  hour  from  the  greedy  grasp  of 
the  busy  and  time-driving  demon  of  our  day.  De- 
pend upon  it,  the  Christian  man  who  neglects  his 
family  altar  will  in  the  end  pay  dearly  for  it,  both 
in  the  matter  of  his  own  spiritual  life,  and,  most 
likely,  in  the  spiritual  ruin  of  his  children. —  Words 
and  Weapons. 


By  family  worship  we  mean  the  formal  gathering 
of  the  family  together,  morning  or  evening,  or  both, 
for  the  purpose  of  reading  and  hearing  the  Word  of 
God  read  and  uniting  in  prayer  to  him  for  blessing 
and  thanksgiving.  Where  the  father  and  head  of 
the  family  is  a  Christian,  he  is  the  family  priest,and 
naturally  reads  the  Bible  with  or  without  comment 
and  leads  the  rest  of  the  family  in  petition  to  God. 
Sometimes  when  the  father  and  head  of  the  family 
is  not  a  Christian,  the  mother  takes  the  lead  in  this 
household  worship;  but  such  instances  are  rare. 
The  large  probabilities  are  that  where  the  father  is 
not  a  Christian  there  will  be  no  family  altar. 

This  custom  is  not  based  on  any  specific  com- 
mandment, but  it  is  as  legitimate  an  outgrowth  of 
the  work  of  the  Spirit  as  private  prayer  is.  The  in- 
estimable blessing  of  family  prayer  cannot  be  told 
in  words.  That  house  and  home  is  almost  sure  of 
unbroken  blessing  where  God  is  so  honored  and 
sought  after.  On  the  other  hand  the  prayerless 
household  can  hardly  expect  blessing  from  God  in 
like  measure  with  the  praying  family.  Private  and 
closet  prayer  can  no  more  supply  the  place  of  family 
prayer  than  can  family  prayer  be  a  substitute  for 
closet  prayer. 

There  is  much  reason  to  fear  that  this  good  old 
custom  is  losing  ground  among  American  Chris- 
tians.    Recent  inquiries  instituted  by  a  pastor  of 
one  of  our  largest  and  most  influential  churches  re- 
vealed the  fact  that  not  half  the  families  in  which 
the  father  and  head  of  the  house  was  a  professing 
Christian,  were  blessed  with  a  family  altar.     The 
reasons  assigned  by  those  heads  of  families  who 
did  not  maintain  a  family  altar  were  various,though 
the  most  of  them  could  be  classified  under  this  head, 
"We  have  not  the  time."    Think  of  iti  not  time  to 
tarry  together  ten  or  fifteen  minutes,  after  or  before 
breakfast,  to  thank  God  for  the  mercies  of  the  day 
and  night  past,  and  to  implore  his  presence  and 
blessing  during  the  present  day,  and  to  make  spec- 
ial petition  for  special  need   and  to  commit  the 
whole  family  to  his  love  and  care.     Yet  these  Chris- 
tians who  have  no  time  always  take  time  to  eat  their 
breakfasts,  which,of  the  two,  in  the  long  run,  would 
be  by  far  the  least  important.     Another  reason  giv- 
en by  a  representative  of  a  class  alleges  that  "it  is 
impossible  to  assemble  the  family  in  the  morning 
for  prayers.     Some  are  always  late;  and  after  break- 
fast children  must  get  off  to  school  and  older  ones 
to  business.     In  the  evening  it  is  worse  still;  callers 
drop  in,  or  appointments  for  other  things  press  and 
the  family  is  scattered."     Still  others  declare  that 
they  cannot  conduct  prayers  even  in  presence  of 
their  own  families.     They  were  never  "brought  up" 
that  way,  or  they  "have  no  gifts,"  etc.     Or,  having 
gone  so  loDg  without  a  family  altar  it  is  difficult  to 
take  it  up  now.     It  is  not  necessary  to  enumerate 
other  reasons  though  many  others  are  given.     Un- 
der, these  three  heads  the  majority  of  the   cases 
where  there  is  no  family  worship  may  be  classified. 
To  these  we  would  say  in  all  kindness  and  with 
deep  conviction: 

First.  It  would  be  better  to  lose  an  hour  at  busi- 
ness every  day  than  to  lose  the  fifteen  or  twenty 
minutes  usually  devoted  to  the  reading  of  a  portion 
of  God's  Word  in  presence  of  the  assembled  family, 
and  the  united  prayer  of  the  whole  household 


THE  CHILD  AT  THE  FAMILY  ALTAR. 


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1.  Every  Christian  household  should  be  gathered 
together  daily  at  family  worship.  We  might  say, 
here  is  the  most  important  means  of  Christian  cul- 
ture. It  is  the  every-day  church.  The  effect  of 
this  chain  of  influences  on  a  child's  life  it  is  impos- 
sible to  estimate.  However  little  he  realizes  what 
is  going  on,  merely  enduring  it  with  listlessness  or 
impatience,  he  is  learning.  Thousands  owe  their  sal- 
vation directly  to  it.  We  forget  the  vividness  with 
which  after-days  will  bring  all  this  back.  The 
sound  of  the  voice,  the  picture  of  the  complete  fam- 
ily always  there,  the  touching  recollection  how  one 
by  one  there  came  the  vacant  chairs,  the  scraps  of 
what  was  read  catching  the  attention  for  a  moment 
— all  this  makes  up  the  most  precious  of  the  soul's 
memories.  Every  day  it  comes;  even  the  toddling 
youngster  of  a  year  expects  it. 

2.  But  let  us  make  it  as  cheerful  and  pleasant  as 
possible.  Family  worship  should  be  adapted  to  the 
child,  not  the  parent.  If  the  parent  shall  "become 
as  a  little  child,"  in  prayer,  through  this  service,  he 
himself  will  "enter  the  kingdom  of  heaven."  Of 
course  it  should  not  be  of  tedious  length.  Do  not 
have  a  chapter  of  eighty  verses  read.  Pood  is  a 
good  thing,  but  we  do  not,  therefore,  need  to  cram 
it  down  long  after  they  have  had  all  they  can  possi- 
bly digest. 

Anything  should  be  introduced  asjauxiliary  which 
may  make  the  Bible  an  intensely  interesting  book. 
A  father  once  told  me  that,  beginning  the  Old  Tes- 
tament, he  purchased  a  large  map,  pasted  it  on  card- 
board, and  hung  it  in  the  dining  room.  Every  day 
at  the  hour  of  worship  the  places  were  pointed  out. 
The  children  followed  Abraham  toHaran,  to  Canaan, 
to  Egypt,  and  back  again.  When  the  Book  of  Esther 
had  been  completed,  they  begged  their  father  to  be- 
gin over  again.  Thus  the  Holy  Land  became  a  home- 
land to  each;  its  valleys  and  lakes,  and  rivers  and 
places  as  familiar  as  their  own  county. 

Let  the  prayer  be  brief,  and  simple,  arid  yet  grand- 
ly broad.  I  think  my  own  great  interest  in  missions 
began  in  the  hearing  my  father  pray  for  the  mission- 
aries. Then  every  morning  we  children  were  men- 
tioned. We  knew  how  ardent  was  the  longing  for 
our  salvation.  The  chidren  carry  these  things  in 
mind.  Be  simple.  Use  words  that  they  can  under- 
stand. There  would  be  more  practical,  simple,  and 
brief  prayers  in  the  prayer  meeting  if  they  were  so 
at  family  worship. 

3.  Give  the  children  something  to  do.  Stopping 
over  night  in  Maine  at  a  brother  clergyman's  home, 
the  morning  brought  me  an  ideal  picture  of  family 
worship.  There  were  seven  or  eight  children.  Every 
child  that  could  read  at  all  had  a  Bible.  To  one 
was  the  regular  duty  of  distributing  the  Bibles,  and 
to  another  the  hymn  books.  All  took  part  in  read- 
ing. Then  came  the  hymn,  the  mother  playing  the 
piano,  the  father  singing  bass,  the  guest  taking 
tenor,  the  children  piping  up  their  shrill  sopranos, 
with  the  mother  leading,  and  the  oldest  boy  taking 
the  alto.  Then  followed  the  prayer,  concluding  with 
the  Lord's  Prayer,  in  which  all  joined.  The  variety, 
the  brevity,  the  simplicity  filled  each  child  with 
hearty  interest  delightful  to  witness.    There  is  no 


diviner  sight  on  earth  than  a  large  Christian  family 
at  home  worship. 

Give  each  child  something  to  do.  As  soon  as 
each  has  learned  to  spell  out  a  few  words,  let  him 
have  a  Bible,  and  with  your  assistance  stumble 
through  a  verse.  Family  worship  of  this  sort  tends 
to  proficiency  in  reading,  and  especially  in  reading 
aloud.  It  is  sad  to  hear  some  young  men  try  to 
read  the  Bible  aloud.  They  have  gone  into  busi- 
ness, and  yet  cannot  read  decently.  It  could  not 
possibly  have  been  so,  had  all  the  children  read  at 
family  worship. 

If  possible,  have  singing.  In  any  case,  close  with 
the  Lord's  Prayer.  The  children  will  listen  more 
intently  to  the  parent's  prayer,  to  know  when  to  join 
in  the  closing  part.  With  many  busy  men  the  morn- 
ing devotions  take  place  at  the  breakfast  table. 
Each  child  comes  to  the  table  with  a  verse  to  repeat. 
All  being  seated,  each  repeats  his  or  her  verse,  then 
all  heads  are  bowed,  while  the  father  offers  a  brief 
prayer,  concluding  with  the  Lord's  Prayer.  No  fam- 
ily is  too  busy  for  at  least  this,  and  it  ministers  to 
the  memory,  storing  the  mind  with  Scripture.  The 
more  formal  worship  may  be  held  in  the  evening. 

The  Sabbath  worship  should  be  most  precious. 
Beside  all  else,  it  is  in  my  own  home  the  time  of  a 
tiny  prayer  meeting.  Every  member  offers  a  short 
petition,  down  to  the  little  fellow  who  says,  "Dear 
Jesus,  help  me  to  be  a  dood  boy  to-day." 

Why  will  any  Christian  father  let  a  day  go  by 
without  establishing  this  blessed  service,  even  if  he 
has  to  get  his  wife  to  read,  and  nothing  more  fol- 
lows but  the  united  repeating  of  the  prayer?  And 
if  the  father  is  gone,  mother,  begin  to  teach  that 
oldest  boy  his  place!  The  son  of  a  widow  in  my 
congregation  was  converted  a  year  ago.  Although 
only  fourteen,  the  very. next  day  his  mother  put  the 
Bible  in  his  hand,  and  he  has  since  been  the  priest 
of  the  household.  And  when  we  hear  his  prayers 
in  prayer  meeting,  we  know  why  they  arie  so  acceptable 
and  scriptural.  God  fill  this  whole  land  with  family 
altars! — S,  Winchester  Adrian^e  in  Am.  Magazine. 


DOROTHY  ANNS  SERMON. 


There  was  great  rejoicing  among  the  little  ones  at 
the  farm  when  it  was  understood  that  Cousin  Hetty, 
who  lived  in  the  city,  was  coming  to  make  a  long 
visit.  She  was  not  very  strong,  so  mamma  said.and 
they  must  all  be  careful  to  be  very  kind  and  polite, 
and  to  see  that  she  always  had  the  best  of  every- 
thing. 

The  little  lassie  came,and  they  were  delighted  with 
everything  about  her,  fron  her  pretty  fair  curls  and 
white  face.so  different  from  their  sun-browned  ones, 
to  her  dainty  dresses  and  French  boots.  There 
could  be  no  doubt  that  her  manners  were  quite  equal 
to  her  appearance,  so  Jessie  and  Tom  and  Polly  re- 
solved to  be  upon  their  best  behavior  all  the  time. 

"Will  you  come  out  into  the  garden?"said  Jessie. 
"There  are  lots  of  currants  and  a  few  raspberries 
ripe.  There  will  be  lots  of  raspberries  next  week, 
though." 

Such  a  garden  as  that!  None  of  your  little  sev- 
en-by-nine scraps,  but  a  full  acre  of  everything  which 
could  be  found  in  a  liberal,  old-fashioned,  country 
garden. 

A  broad  walk  through  the  middle  of  it  was  bor- 
dered by  beds  of  bright-colored  flowers, with  rows  of 
hollyhocks  and  sunflowers  at  the  end.  Honeysuck- 
les and  morning-glories  climbed  over  the  fences,and 
in  a  shady  corner  grew  such  pansies  as  the  children 
believed  only  mamma  knew  how  to  raise. 

Miss  Hetty  tried  the  fruit  and  said,  "I  don't  like 
currants;  they're  sour.    I  like  only  raspberries." 

It  had  been  supposed  that  each  one  would  eat  a 
great  many  currants  and  a  very  few  raspberries.  But 
on  hearing  this  the  others  offered  her  all  the  rasp- 
berries they  could  find,  and  were  rather  surprised  to 
see  that  she  took  them  without  seeming  to  think 
whether  they  liked  them,  too.  She  kept  calling  for 
more,and,when  Tom  scratched  his  face  and  Polly  tore 
her  sleeve  pushing  through  the  bushes  in  search  of 
them,  very  quietly  ate  all  they  had, without  so  much 
as  a  thank-you.  Then  she  declared  the  berries  were 
not  half  ripe,  and  not  fit  to  eat. 

"Mamma  don't  wish  us  to  pick  the  pansies  unless 
she  is  with  us,"ventured  Jessie,as  Hetty  began  gath- 
ering them  freely,"because  she  has  some  choice  ones 
she  wants  to  keep  for  seed." 

"I  like  choice  pansies,  too,"  said  Hetty,  with  a 
scowl  on  her  pretty  face. 

They  went  to  the  swing,  where  Hetty  grumbled 
when  the  others  wanted  to  take  a  turn.  Then  to  the 
croquet-ground,  where  things  went  smoothly  so  long 
as  Hetty  was  on  the  winning  side;  but  if  the  play 
went  against  her  she  grew  sober,  then  sulky,  and 
finally  threw  down  her  mallet  and  refused  to  finish 
the  game. 


Peoxhbsb  8, 1887 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


11 


Long  before  tea  time  Jessie  and  Tom  and  Polly 
began  to  wonder  if  it  was  so  very  delightful  a  thing 
after  all  to  have  a  cousin  from  the  city  to  visit  them; 
and  before  the  first  week  was  gone  everybody  on  the 
place  bad  fully  decided  that  it  was  not. 

Hetty  could  be  very  sweet  and  pleasant  while 
things  were  exactly  to  her  liking,  but  unless  she 
could  have  her  own  way  in  everything  her  frowns  and 
complaints  were  ready  at  a  moment's  notice.  She 
had  never  been  taught  to  take  any  thought  for  oth- 
ers, and  her  little  cousins  found  it  very  hard  to  en- 
dure all  her  whims  and  ill  humors.  They  were  very 
dutifully  anxious  to  heed  all  mamma's  reminders 
that  it  was  their  place  to  give  up  to  their  guest,  but 
she  herself  could  not  help  seeing  that  Hetty  made 
sore  demands  upon  their  patience. 

One  day  there  was  a  picnic,  to  which  all  the  chil- 
dren looked  forward  for  days,  and  for  which  great 
preparations  were  made.  When  all  were  ready  to  go 
it  was  discovered  that  Hetty  was  wearing  a  pair  of 
thin  slippers. 

"Oh,  my  dear,"  said  mamma,  "you  must  put  on 
your  thick  shoes.  There  will  be  rough  ground  and 
perhaps  damp  places  to  go  over  today." 

Hetty  had  made  up  her  mind  to  wear  those  slip- 
pers and  was  not  inclined  to  change  it,  or  them,  but 
was  still  quite  determined  to  go  to  the  picnic.  So 
she  said,  "Then  I  believe  I  won't  go." 

The  other  children  were  as  wofuUy  dismayed  as 
she  bad  expected  them  to  be. 

"0,  Hetty!"  cried  Jessie,  "you  must  not  stay  at 
home.  It's  lovely  out  there — wild  flowers  and  vine 
swings" — 

"And  a  creek  where  we  fish  and  wade  and  sail 
boats,"  said  Tom. 

"And  such  good  things  in  the  basket,"  whispered 
Polly. 

"Hurry,  dear,"  said  her  aunt  coaxingly.  "We  are 
all  waiting,  you  see." 

"Don't  wait,"said  Hetty,"I'd  rather  stay  at  home." 
She  went  to  her  room,much  enjoying  the  commotion 
she  was  making.  From  the  back  of  it  she  could  look 
out  of  the  window  and  see  what  was  going  on.  The 
children  got  into  the  big  spring  wagon  and  sat  look- 
ing up  at  her  windows.  Then  her  aunt  came  out  and 
called  cheerily  up  to  her,  "Come,  Hetty,  we've  got  a 
good  seat  for  you." 

"And  I'm  to  have  the  whip,  and  I'll  let  you  have 
.it  half  the  time,"8houted  Tom. 

Hetty  came  to  the  window  and  said,  "Thank  you. 
Aunt  Emily,  but  I'd  rather  not  go;"  and  then 
watched  again  from  the  back  of  the  room,  wonder- 
in  what  they  would  do  next  in  the  way  of  urging 
her. 

Aunt  Emily  got  in,  and  to  Hetty's  great  astonish- 
ment the  wagon  was  driven  away.  What  could  it 
mean?  They  surely  would  never,  never  think  of 
such  a  thing  as  going  without  her.  They  must  be 
going  to  turn  back  for  her — perhaps  they  were  do- 
ing an  errand  first.  But  there  was  a  little  mis 
giving  at  her  heart  as  she  slowly  walked  down  to 
the  kitchen  and  asked  Dorothy  Ann.the  maid, "Where 
are  they  all  gone?" 

"Why,  to  the  picnic,  of  course!  Seems  to  me  I'd 
a  gone,  too,  if  I'd  been  you." 

"Gone  without  me?"  Hetty  stood  in  blank  amaze- 
ment for  a  few  moments,  then  flung  herself  down  on 
the  floor  and  screamed. 

At  the  first  howl  Dorothy  Ann  quietly  took  a 
chair,  folded  her  arms,and  sat  looking  at  Hetty  as  if 
she  were  some  very  interesting  natural  curiosity. 
And  Hetty  screamed  louder  and  kicked  until  her 
bronze  slippers  were  as  badly  ofl"  as  if  they  had  gone 
through  half  a  dozen  picnics.  And  the  louder  she 
screamed  and  the  harder  she  kicked  the  straighter 
Dorothy  Ann  looked  at  her. 

It  was  very  perplexing  for  Hetty.  She  had  never 
kicked  and  screamed  before  without  everybody  be- 
ing frightened  for  fear  she  would  injure  herself,  and 
coaxing  and  petting  her,  and  offering  her  everything 
she  wanted,  including  her  own  way,  if  she  would 
only  stop.  But  here  was  Dorothy  Ann  looking  as  if 
she  would  not  mind  if  it  lasted  all  day,  and  not  a 
soul  anywhere  near  to  do  any  coaxing.  Hetty  did 
not  know  what  to  do  next. 

At  last,  when  her  throat  ached  and  her  face  was 
red  and  her  whole  self  very  badly  tumbled,  she  sat 
upon  the  floor  and  looked  at  Dorothy  Ann.  And 
then  Dorothy  Ann  spoke. 

"You're  a  nice  child,  now  ain't  you?" 
It  was  not  spoken  sneeringly  or  in  anger.  Dorothy 
Ann  was  a  pleasant-faced,  hard-working  woman,old- 
er  than  Aunt  Emily,  and  her  words  always  had 
weight  in  the  family.  After  a  pause  she  went  on  in 
a  slow,  earnest  way:  "You're  a  nice  child,  I  say! 
Don't  you  think  it's  nice  to  be  a  makin'  yourself  a 
trouble  and  a  torment  with  your  cross,  crabbed,  can- 
tankerous ways?  Don't  you  think  it's  nice  to  come 
where  folks  is  all  glad  to  see  you  and  their  hearts 
just  warm  and  a  runnin'  over  with  kind  feelin's  to 


you,  and  little  ones  that's  always  a-givin'  up  to  you, 
and  you  just  for  all  the  world  like  abuzzin'  wasp  or 
a  stingin'  nettle  or  a  prickly  chestnut  burr  that  every- 
body is  glad  to  get  away  from  or  drop  out  of  their 
hands?  Don't  you  think  it's  nice  to  keep  them  chil- 
dren all  rasped  up  with  your  tantrums,  and  to  keep 
your  aunt  in  a  fret  all  the  time  between  her  wish  to 
do  everything  that's  kind  by  you,  tellin'  her  chil- 
dren to  do  the  same  likewise,and  you  a-goin'  on  like 
all  possessed?" 

Hetty  stared  up  at  Dorothy  Ann,  bewildered  at 
words  the  like  of  which  she  had  never  heard  before, 
and  slowly  through  her  mind  came  the  idea  that  the 
next  thing  for  her  to  do  was  to  feel  very  angry. 

"How  dare  you  talk  so  to  me?"  she  cried.  "Mam- 
ma won't  let  you."  But  Dorothy  Ann  noticed  her 
anger  as  little  as  she  had  her  screams. 

"If  you  go  on  so  to  your  mamma,  don't  she  think 
it's  nice  to  have  a  little  girl  to  buy  pretty  things  for 
and  to  take  good  care  of,  and  then  to  have  her  a 
snappin'  and  a  snarlin'  and  a  scowlin',  and  a  makin' 
people  wherever  she  goes  wish  she  was  a  thousand 
miles  away?  Don't  you  think  she's  proud  of  havin' 
such  a  child? 

"Don't  you  think  it's  nice  to  see  your  pretty  blue 
eyes  all  red,  and  your  forehead  all  crumpled  up  so 
you  might  iron  it  out,and  your  mouth  that  was  made 
to  smile  and  laugh  all  puckered?  Don't  you  know 
there's  wolves  a  looking  out  of  your  eyes  when  there 
ought  to  be  lambs  and  doves?  Don't  you  know 
the  words  you  speak  are  like  so  many  snakes  and 
toads  a  droppin'  out  of  your  mouth?  And  what  do 
you  suppose" — Dorothy  Ann's  voice  grew  solemn — 
"the  good  Lord  thinks  when  he  looks  at  that  little 
heart  of  yourn  that  he  give  you  to  keep  full  of  sweet- 
ness and  loving  kindness,  and  to  make  you  a  com- 
fort instead  of  a  trial  to  folks — what  does  he  think, 
do  you  s'pose,when  he  sees  it  all  blotted  and  stained 
up  with  all  sorts  of  hateful  thoughts?" 

Hetty  had  never  taken  her  eyes  from  Dorothy 
Ann's  face,  and  now  as  she  seemed  to  have  said  her 
say  and  went  back  to  her  work  as  if  nothing  had  hap- 
pened, it  came  over  her  very  strongly  that  the  next 
thing  for  her  to  do  was  to  feel  very  much  ashamed. 
With  a  little  sob  or  two  she  got  ofl  the  floor  and 
went  out  and  lay  down  under  an  apple  tree.  There 
Dorothy  Ann  found  her,  an  hour  later,  fast  asleep. 

"Poor  little  creature!  She's  tired  herself  clean 
out."  Dorothy  Ann  had  for  some  days  been  "bilin' 
over  for  a  chance  to  speak  her  mind,"  and  having 
now  had  it  felt  very  kindly  disposed.  She  slipped 
a  cushion  under  the  poor  little  rumpled  head,  and 
when  dinner  time  came  Hetty  found  a  dainty  pud- 
ding, just  big  enough  for  her,bakedon  purpose.  And 
during  the  long  afternoon  Dorothy" Ann  told  funny  old 
stories  and  let  her  make  molasses  candy  to  pass  away 
the  time. 

"I  do  declare,  I'm  most  afraid  to  see  Hetty!"  said 
Tom,  as  the  picnic  party  drew  near  home.  And  the 
other  members  of  it  felt  so  too. 

But  Hetty  was  subdued,  and  as  days  went  on  ev- 
ery one  was  amazed  at  the  change  in  her.  And  no- 
body could  ever  guess  how  it  came  about  for  she 
never  told  of  Dorothy  Ann's  sermon.  I  wish  all 
spoiled  children  could  hear  such  a  one;don'tyou? — 
Congregationalut. 


Tempekance. 


HOME  TRAINING  AND  TEMPERANCE  WORE. 

"When  I  cannot  learn  from  each  lesson  that  I  give, 
more  than  any  pupil  in  the  class,  I  shall  give  up 
teaching,"  said  a  successful  teacher  and  author  of 
text-bookp. 

And  the  faithful  mother,  in  at  least  the  first  half 
dozen  years  of  her  baby's  life,  will  learn  more  les- 
sons than  she  teaches  the  child. 

Very  likely  she  has  said  to  herself,  in  view  of 
some  of  her  husband's  peculiarities,  "Oh,  that  I 
might  have  had  a  part  in  your  early  training!" 

Perhaps  when  she  sees  the  same  traits  in  her  boy, 
she  repeats  the  wish.  But  as  the  years  go  on,  and 
she  sees,  not  only  her  own  peculiarities  in  the  child, 
but  also  the  defects  of  her  character  in  his  training, 
she  may  say  in  self-abasement,  "Ob,  that  I  could 
begin  life  again!  I  might  have  done  more  to  im- 
prove my  mind;  I  might  have  trained  my  body  and 
made  it  stronger.  I  could  have  corrected  and 
moulded  my  unbalanced  temperament;  and  my  chil- 
dren would  have  been  the  better  for  these  self-im- 
provements. We  are  noi  fit  to  have  our  children 
unless  we  have  prepared  ourselves  for  the  trust." 

But  if  children  are  already  ours  before  we  real- 
ize the  part  that  our  character  will  play  in  their  des- 
tiny, we  can  only  do  our  best  with  the  material  that 
we  have.  Every  child  has  both  ^xxi  and  evil  in 
his  nature,  and  which  we  will  d  ^\-  out,  depends 
largely  upon  ourselves. 


We  may  not,  as  it  is  said,  learn  a  language  easily 
after  we  are  twenty,  and  we  may  not  be  what  we 
might  have  been  morally.  But  we  can  train  our 
children  the  more  faithfully  because  of  realizing  our 
own  short  comings. 

An  important  part  in  the  mother's  work,  is  the 
training  and  educating  of  healthy  bodies.  In  rightly 
developing  the  physical  nature  of  her  children,  she 
is  doing  much  to  develop  their  moral  nature.  "A 
sound  mind  in  a  sound  body,"  is  a  trite  saying. 
Those  in  charge  of  inebriate  asylums,  regard  intem- 
perance as  a  bodily  and  mental,  as  a  moral  disease; 
and  they  think  the  matter  of  diet  of  great  impor- 
tance. The  regimen  laid  down  is — "meat  only  once 
a  day,  and  then  beef  or  mutton  preferable,  boiled  or 
roas^^d,  never  fried  or  highly  seasoned,  and  never 
allowed  to  include  pork  in  any  form;  much  fruit, 
vegetables  and  grains,  but  no  pastry.  In  short, 
nothing  that  demands  unnatural  labor  of  the  di- 
gestive organs,  or  that  creates  unnatural  thirst. 

Though  the  remark  that  "Youth  is  the  time  for 
improvement,"  is  a  common  one,  it  may  be  doubted 
if  we  realize  how  much  more  plastic  the  mind  is  in 
childhood,  than  later  on  in  life.  Early  impressions 
have  a  security  of  hold  upon  the  mind,  greater  than 
those  received  in  mature  years.  That  a  provincial 
accent  or  common  errors  in  language  are  seldom 
eradicated  after  one  has  grown  to  maturity,  prove 
this. 

That  moral  training  which  has  for  its  end  the 
building  up  of  a  sound  moral  character  in  our  chil- 
dren, will  not  only  be  an  element  of  temperance 
work,  but  it  must  of  necessity  have  temperance  work 
as  an  element.  If  we  have  right  principles  our- 
selves, it  is  easy  to  teach  our  children  right  princi- 
ples of  action.  But  to  train  them  to  act  from  these 
principles,  requires  exhaustless  patience  and  will- 
power on  their  part  as  on  our  own.  Not  until  it  is 
easier  for  them  to  do  right  than  it  is  to  do  wrong,  is 
our  training  successful.  Moral  attainment,  like  in- 
tellectual and  artistic,  is  the  result  of  doing  over  and 
over  again  the  things  that  we  ought  to  do,  and  re- 
sisting again  and  again  the  temptation  to  do  the 
things  that  we  ought  not  to  do.  Repeated  acts  be- 
come habits,  and  habits  form  character. 

"But,"  says  some  disheartened  mother,  "it  is  easy 
enough  to  write  what  is  good  to  do,  but  it  seems, 
sometimes,  as  though  no  other  evil  has  so  many  al- 
lied powers  as  that  of  intemperance.  Often  the  hard 
lot  or  evil  surroundings  and  companions,  of  inher- 
ited tendency  and  parental  example,  of  poverty  and 
ill  health,  rises  up  against  one.  And,  when  all  these 
things  are  to  be  met,  even  a  mother  can  do  little  to 
conquer  them." 

Indeed,  she  can  do  much.      The  inspiration  of  a 
real  life,   filled  with  that  heroism  which  conquers 
circumstances  to  win   success,  is  better  than   any 
paper  upon  ethics.  But  a  few  days  ago  we  folded  for 
their  last  rest  the  hands  of  a  mother,  the  story  of 
whose  determined  and  successful  struggle  with  ad- 
verse circumstances  would  cheer  the  faintest  hearted. 
She  was  left  without  father  or  mother  at  an  early 
age,   and   when  only  eighteen  she   married   a  man 
who  became   intemperate.     The  care  and  much  of 
the  support  of  a  family  of  ten  children  devolved 
upon  her.  So  faithfully  did  she  train  these  children, 
that  they  all  grew  to  be  much  above  the  average 
citizen  in  ability  and  usefulness.     The  father  end^ 
his  life  in  an  insane  asylum,  while  the  old  age  of 
the  mother  was  blest  and   cheered  by  her  loving 
children,  all  of  whom  survive  her,  though  she  died 
at  the  age  of  eighty-five.    She  abhorred  alcohol  and  it 
was  not  until  the  last  years  of  her  life  that  she  could 
be  induced  to  take  medicine  containing  it     She  set 
an   unfaltering  example   in  those  virtues   that  she 
wished  her  children  to  possess.    The  poverty  of  the 
family  early  taught  the  children  to  be  producers  in- 
stead of  consumers.     The  hard  work  and  plain  fare 
made  them  strong,  and  gave  them  the  ability  to  win 
their  way  in  the  world. 

In  connection  with  this  family,  one  thing  bear- 
ing upon  the  subject  of  heredity  might  be  men- 
tioned. Though  these  children  have  too  much  prin- 
ciple to  indulge  in  the  use  of  alcoholic  liquors,  the 
three  youngest  are  subject  to  severe  congestive 
headaches,  and  a  son  of  one  of  them  is  an  inmate  of 
an  insane  asylum.  The  family  think  that  his  brain 
trouble  may  be  the  result  of  an  injury  to  the  head, 
received  when  he  was  a  child,  however. 

The  thought  that  is  now  given  to  the  subject  of 
heredity,  while  it  spurs  some  to  nobler  li\ing  for 
their  children's  sake,  may  have  the  effect  of  discour- 
aging others.  I  know  a  thoughtful  minister,  who, 
with  a  tact  not  easily  imitated,  discourages  the  some- 
what common  practice  of  speaking  of  the  advanta- 
ges of  having  been  born  and  reared  in  Christian 
families.  He  thinks  it  disheartening  to  others  less 
fortunate,  besides  having  a  tendency  to  make  peo- 
ple forget  the  power  of  God  by  whose  help  all  can 


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THJEi  CHRISTIAlSr  CTNOSUHB^. 


DiOSHBKR  8,  188% 


be  re-created,  morally,  spiritually,  and,  in  a  measure, 
physically. 

By  His  help,  the  force  of  habit,  that  may  be  such 
a  foe  to  mankind,  is  the  brick  upon  brick  by  which 
moral  and  spiritual  upbuilding  shall  be  accomplished. 
—National  W.  C.  T.  U.  Bulletin. 


RELIGIOUS  NEWS. 


Special  Notice  —A  special  session  of  the  "South 
Kansas  Conferenoe,"  will  be  held,  D.  V.,  at  Olathe,  Kan,, 
Dec.  22,  1887,  commencing  at  10  a.  m.  All  who  have  an 
interest  in  the  prosperity  of  this  new  conference,  in  the 
cause  of  God,  are  earnestly  requested  to  attend.  Let 
delegates  be  appointed,  and  come,  with  all  ministers  who 
desire  our  future  success.  J.  A.  Richards,  PreB. 

J.  C.  Bebnhard,  Bee. 


— Rev.  Dr.  George  F.  Pentecost  is  now  engaged 
in  evangelistic  work  in  Augusta,  Me.,  which  is  ex- 
pected to  continue  for  several  weeks. 

— The  United  Presbyterian  Conference,  opposed 
to  the  introduction  of  the  organ,  at  its  session  at 
Dayton,  Ohio,  elected  the  Rev.  D.  D.  Little,  of  Alle- 
gheny City,  president  for  the  ensuing  year. 

— About  fifty  Harvard  undergraduates  propose  to 
organize  a  series  of  meetings  in  Boston  for  the  ben- 
efit of  those  not  ordinarily  reached  by  religious  or- 
ganizations. They  will  be  aided  by  the  preachers 
to  the  University. 

— The  First  Reformed  Presbyterian  congregation 
of  New  York  dedicated  a  new  church  edifice  on  No- 
vember 20,  at  39  West  119th  street.  This  is  the 
fourth  time  they  have  changed  their  home  since 
their  organization  in  1794,  when  they  occupied  a 
building  in  Chambers  street  opposite  the  City  Hall 
Park.  The  pastor.  Rev.  J.  C.  K.  Milligan,  is  the 
third  pastor  in  succession  since  1794,  having  served 
twenty-nine  years.  The  cost  of  the  new  church  is 
$50,000,  nearly  all  paid, 

— A  series  of  meetings  was  held  in  Philadelphia, 
November  7  and  8,  under  the  auspices  of  the  Cen- 
tral Committee  of  the  Philadelphia  Evangelistic 
Union.  Among  the  speakers  at  the  opening  session 
was  Theodore  Cuyler,  D.  D.,  whose  subject  was  "Face- 
to-Face  Work  for  Christ."  The  meetings  were  large- 
ly attended. 

— It  is  believed  that  Rev.  George  R.  Rogers,  of 
Brooks  Station,  Ky.,  is  the  oldest  minister  in  active 
service  in  the  United  States.  Though  ninety-six 
years  old  he  frequently  rides  his  horse  to  Louisville 
and  return — a  distance  of  twenty-six  miles.  He 
served  through  the  war  of  1812  and  draws  a  pen- 
sion for  that  service. 

— A  London  dispatch  says  a  number  of  Baptist 
churches  and  clergymen  will  follow  Mr.  Spurgeon's 
example  by  withdrawing  from  the  Baptist  Union. 
The  directors  of  the  Pastor's  College  will  convoke  a 
conference  to  consider  joint  action  on  the  secessions. 
The  Nottingham  Tabernacle  has  passed  a  resolution 
of  sympathy  with  Mr.  Spurgeon. 

— A  General  Conference  of  all  evangelical  mis- 
sions in  Mexico  is  to  be  held  in  the  City  of  Mexico, 
from  January  31  to  February  3,  1888. 

— The  work  among  the  coolies  from  India  and 
China  employed  on  the  sugar  estates  in  Mauritius  is 
carried  on  by  four  Euglish  and  four  Indian  clergy- 
men. The  Christian  adherents  exceed  two  thou- 
sand. 

— The  Sultan  of  Turkey  has  approved  thirty-two 
editions  of  the  Scriptures  in  Arabic,  and  290  of  the 
300  publications  of  the  Protestant  press  at  Beirut. 
This  authorization  gives  them  unrestricted  sale 
throughout  the  Empire. 

— The  unwise  order  of  the  Interior  Department, 
prohibiting  the  teaching  of  Indians  in  their  native 
tongue,  threatens  to  produce  disastrous  results  in 
some  of  the  schools  of  the  American  Missionary 
Association.  Several  of  the  institutions  it  is  feared 
will  be  closed,  and  a  number  of  others  seriously 
crippled. 

— According  to  the  Year-book  of  the  United 
Brethren  church  for  1888  the  statistics  for  the  year 
are  as  follows:  Number  of  churches,  4,396 — in- 
crease, 64;  itinerant  preachers,  1,566;  members, 
195,278— increase,  10,175;  Sunday-schools,  3,478; 
scholars,  206,088 —increase,  26,359;  teachers  and 
officers  in  Sunday  schools,  30,051 — increase,  1,504; 
church  buildings  and  expenses,  $319,058.63— in- 
crease, $67,583  34;  total  for  missions,  $64,464  57. 
The  increase  in  the  membership  of  the  church  in 
the  last  three  years  aggregates  28,955. 

— Extensive  preparations  are  being  made  by  the 
Presbyterian  Board  of  Indian  Schools  to  educate 
the  Indians  of  Arizona.  At  Tuscon  they  are  build- 
ing an  $8,000  school  house,  ("ifty  acres  of  land 
haye  been  bought  on  the  Santa  Crux  riy«r,  wher«  tb« 


young  Indians  will  be  instructed  in  farming,  and 
another  building  to  cost  $6,000  will  soon  be  erected, 
where  150  pupils  can  be  accommodated. 

— The  union  Gospel  meetings  under  the  leadership 
of  Dr.  L.  D.  Munhall  and  Professor  Towner  and 
wife  were  opened  at  the  Doan  Music  Hall,  some  3,- 
000  people  being  present  Rev.  Wm.  Johnson,  the 
retiring  pastor  of  the  Tabernacle  church  meeting  in 
the  hall,  conducted  devotional  exercises  and  an- 
nounced that  Dr.  Munhall  was  delayed  yet  Jjy  the 
Columbus  meeting.  Frank  W.  Smith,  the  evangel- 
ist, spoke  the  first  evening. 

— The  Spirit  of  Mistimu  states  that  "the  Chinese 
governor  of  the  large  island  of  Formosa,  in  starting 
a  college,has  chosen  a  missionary  to  inaugurate  and 
organise  the  institution.  Such  a  step  would  have 
been  regarded  as  a  miracle  one  generation  ago." 

— Rev.  William  Clyde,  late  Presbyterian  pastor 
at  Chehalis,  Washington  Territory,  has  lately  re- 
moved to  Lafayette,  Yamhill  county,  Oregon. 

— Seventeen  missionaries  and  seven  children  have 
lately  sailed  from  New  York  to  reinforce  Bishop 
Taylor's  African  mission. 

— The  students  of  Princeton  University  and  The- 
ological Seminary  have  each  resolved  to  support  a 
foreign  missionary.  The  former  have  raised  $1,600 
and  the  latter  have  $600,  with  the  prospect  of  more. 

— In  fifty  years  the  communicants  in  the  missions 
of  the  London  Missionary  Society  have  increased 
from  6,615  to  70,561,  and  the  native  preachers  from 
451  to  7,168. 

— A  three  weeks'  revival  meeting  was  lately  held 
in  Evanston,  III,  conducted  by  C.  H.  Yatman,  a 
young  man  from  Newark,  N.  J.  All  denominations 
joined  heartily  in  the  work.  The  different  pastors 
have  lists  of  over  200  names  of  persons  who  have 
expressed  a  desire  to  be  Christians. 

— The  Chicago  Avenue  (Moody  church)  Sabbath- 
school  is  in  a  very  prosperous  condition  under  the 
superintendence  of  J.  M.  Hitchcock  of  the  Y.  M. 
C.  A.  Employment  Bureau.  The  attendance  last 
Sabbath  was  the  largest  of  the  season,  there  being 
1,751  persons  present 

— Ying  Lee,  a  remarkably  bright  Chinese  laundry- 
man  of  Hartford,  Conn,  has  decided,  at  Evangelist 
Moody's  earnest  invitation,  to  enter  the  Mount  Her- 
mon  School,  and  prepare  for  the  ministry. 

— Rev.  J.  H.  Smyth,  pastor  of  the  Second  Re- 
formed church,  New  York,  recently  preached  on  in- 
fidelity, and  in  his  sermon  gave  an  illustration  of  the 
punishment  which  befell  thirty-six  infidels  in  New- 
burg  many  years  ago  who  formed  themselves  into  a 
society.  One  of  the  hearers  of  the  sermon  was  G. 
B.  Taylor,  a  lawyer,  president  of  the  Orange  County 
Musical  As80ciation,and  tenor  singer  in  the  Rev.Mr. 
Smyth's  church  choir.  On  returning  home  he  set 
about  investigating  the  matter.  The  society  was 
formed  half  a  century  ago.  Then  a  block  where 
now  a  Presbyterian  and  a  Methodist  church  stand 
was  a  pond  of  water.  Near  this  was  an  old  tree  with 
a  hollow  trunk.  In  this  they  baptized  a  cat  and  gave 
communion  bread  and  wine  to  a  dog.  Mr.  Taylor's 
investigations  show  that  the  minister's  statement 
that  within  a  year  from  the  time  when  the  sac- 
rilege was  committed  the  entire  membership  of  the 
society  was  exterminated,  is  true.  Seven  members 
killed  themselves  and  five  were  killed  in  railroad  ac- 
cidents.— Sandy  Lake  Neun. 

— The  Moody  meetings  in  Pittsburgh,  in  success- 
ful operation,  are  the  theme  of  general  conversation. 
The  evangelist  seems  to  be  quite  as  popular  a 
preacher  as  ever.  It  is  hoped  and  believed  he  will 
be  the  means  of  reviving  a  deeper  interest  in  the 
church  worship  of  the  Smoky  City.  There  is  great 
need  of  revival  there,  for  the  standard  of  general 
piety,  morality  and  religion,  is  not  as  good  as  it 
once  was.  Happily,  Mr.  Moody  is  opposed  to  se- 
cret societies,  and  will  give  them  no  countenance. 
They  are  as  cold  spiritually  as  so  many  icebergs, 
and  chill  the  life  out  of  any  church  where  they  are 
allowed  to  enter.  Essentially  selfish,  self-seeking 
and  unevangelical,  it  will  be  a  happy  day  for  Chris- 
tianity in  this  country  when  she  sets  her  foot  on 
them  and  crushes  these  deadly  vipers  to  death.  Mr. 
Moody  demonstrates  that  a  man  does  not  need  to 
belong  to  any  secret  order  to  be  a  successful  preach- 
er.— Sandy  Lake  Newi. 


LITEKATTTBE. 


Tbb  Talmud:  What  It  is,  and  what  It  knows  abont  Jesus 
and  bis  followers.  By  Rev.  Bernbard  Pick,  Ph.  D.  Pp.  147. 
Price,  50  cents.    John  B.  Alden,  New  Tork. 

Renan,  the  French  infidel  whose  life  of  Jesus  was 

so  widely  read  twenty  years  ago,  thought  the  New 

Testament  could  only  be  understood  by  the  light  of 

'  the  Talmud,  ai  Freemasoai  pretend  that  tbti  Bibl« 


is  best  understood  and  read  by  the  dark-lantern  light 
of  their  lodge.  The  author  of  this  volume,  how- 
ever, proves  that  many  things  in  the  Talmud  can 
only  be  understood  by  the  light  of  the  New  Testa- 
ment and  the  history  of  the  church.  The  book 
shows  first  what  the  Talmud  is  by  giving  a  brief 
history  of  Jewish  traditionalism  of  which  the  Tal- 
mud is  the  culmination,  which  Milman  calls  "that 
wonderful  monument  of  human  industry,  human 
wisdom  and  human  folly."  The  Edinburgh  Review 
says  of  the  Talmud  that  it  may  "compete  with  the 
Gonttitutions  of  Loyola  for  the  right  to  be  considered 
the  most  irresistible  organ  ever  forged  for  the  sub- 
jugation of  the  human  will."  The  second  part  refers 
to  what  the  Talmud  has  to  say  about  Jesus,  the  Gos- 
pels and  Christian  customs.  The  study  of  Jewish 
traditions  and  man-invented  rites,  which  Christ  so 
emphatically  condemned  as  making  void  the  law  of 
his  Father,  and  turning  the  worship  of  the  Jews  into 
vanity,  is  made  most  interesting  by  the  aid  of  this 
volume.    A  full  index  assists  the  student  greatly. 

Among  the  beautiful  suggestions  for  the  approach- 
ing gift  season  are  the  ragged-edge  booklets  of 
Frank  E.  Housh  &  Co.,  of  Brattleboro,  Vt,  publish- 
ers of  the  Woman's  Magazine.  They  seem  to  take 
all  hearts:  "Childhood  Songs,"  for  the  children; 
"Love  Songs,"  for  the  youths  and  maidens;  "Moth- 
er Songs,"  and  "Songs  for  the  Night,"  for  anybody, 
but  particularly  adapted  for  those  along  in  years. 
These  are  beautiful  selections,  beautifully  printed, 
and  the  price  is  25  cents. 

The  leading  article  in  the  American  Magazine  for  De- 
cember, "Christ  Ideals  in  American  Art,"  by  Wm  H. 
Ingereoll,  is  replete  with  descriptions  and  illustrations 
showing  how  our  leading  painters  and  sculptors  have  rep- 
resented the  ideal  Christ.  A  very  interesting  account  is 
also  given  of  the  origin  and  history  of  this  ideal,  which, 
according  to  early  traditions,  may  be  traced  to  a  portrait 
taken  in  the  lifetime  of  Jesus.  Charles  Gayarre  tells, 
with  a  wealth  of  anecdote,  how  various  means  of  amuse- 
ment were  provided  for  rich  and  poor  fifty  years  ago,  in 
a  quarter  of  New  Orleans  that  seems  then  to  have  been 
devoted — at  least  in  the  holiday  season — to  the  Genius  of 
Pleasure.  Salmon  fishing  in  the  Cascapedia  river  is  de- 
scribed in  an  illustrated  article.  Lords  Dufferin,  Lome 
and  Lansdowne,  as  well  as  the  Princess  Louise,  angled  in 
this  stream;  but  visitors  from  the  United  States,  among 
whom  was  the  late  President  Arthur,  caught  its  biggest 
fish.  In  another  illustrated  article,  Z.  L  White  has  a 
pleasant  sketch  of  the  discoverer  of  natural  gas  at  Find- 
lay.  0.,  to  whom  the  people  of  that  place  should  certainly 
erect  a  monument.  Dr.  Hutchinson  writes  the  Health 
notes,  and  Jenny  June  the  paper  on  Household  Art, 
which  are  not  the  least  valuable  part  of  the  magazine. 

Bemorest's  Magazine  had  such  an  advertisement  at  the 
Prohibition  Conference  last  week  as  might  make  a  rival 
turn  green  with  envy,  when  the  publisher  was  called  to 
the  front  and  made  a  few  remarks  indicating  his  intense 
hatred  of  the  drink  traffic  But  there  is  no  rival.  For 
a  fashion  magazine  to  be  leading  in  the  prohibition  ranks 
is  unique.  But  the  magazine  is  not  all  for  fashions,  and 
we  are  glad  to  say  that  the  other  departments  are  of 
more  value. 

Babyhood,  the  magazine  for  mothers,  begins  with  the 
December  issue  its  fourth  volume.  It  contains  an  article 
by  Dr.  Chapin  on  contagious  diseases  of  children,  which 
will  be  found  especially  helpful,  giving,  as  it  does,  the 
first  symptoms  of  such  diseases  as  scarlet  fever,  measles, 
diphtheria,  small-pox,  chicken-pox,  whooping  cough  and 
mumps.  The  extended  article  on  the  prevention  and 
cure  of  stuttering  in  children  is  also  particularly  valua- 
ble .  A  dozen  contributors,  among  them  Rev.  Drs.  John 
Hall  and  Wm.  M.  Taylor,  discuss  the  question,  "Ought 
Santa  Claus  to  be  Abolished?" 

The  Bwist  Cross  for  December  is  out.  This  magazine 
shows  young  people  how  to  collect  facts,  and  how  to 
use  them  when  collected.  It  is  well  illustrated.  The 
articles  are  good,  and  will  add  to  the  reader's  stock  of 
ideas,  and  lead  bim  to  think .  There  is  no  nonsense 
about  the  Swiss  Cross.  It  is  safe,  pure,  healthful  read- 
ing, and  we  should  feel  much  encouraged  as  to  the  future 
of  our  nation  could  we  know  that  all  the  boys  and  girls 
of  our  land  read  it .  There  would  be  leas  of  a  desire  to 
ape  the  silly  frivolities  of  Madam  Fashion,  and  more 
sound  common  sense,  than  we  find  to-day.  $1.60  per 
year;  New  York. 

In  the  American  Garden  for  December  are  notable  facts 
for  greenhouse  and  conservatory  owners.  W.  A.  Manda 
of  the  Harvard  Botanic  Garden  writes  of  "Orchids  for 
Beginners."  Directions  are  given  for  rose  culture  in  the 
window  garden.  Charles  Barnard,  one  of  the  Century 
editors,  and  a  noted  writer  on  industrial  topics,  has  a 
highly  interesting  account  of  his  successful  vegetable 
gardening  in  a  village  houselot,  of  special  value  to  pro  - 
fessional  men  and  mechanics,  on  the  score  of  both  health 
and  economy.  School  gardening,  the  adornment  of 
school  house  grounds  and  the  teaching  of  gardening  at 
school,  has  become  a  feature  of  the  magazine. 

Professor  Shields,  of  Princeton,  will  have  in  the  De- 
cember Century  another  article  on  Church  union,  in 
which  he  will  review  all  the  recent  Century  "Open  Let- 
ters" on  Christian  unity,  and  further  explain  his  proposi- 
tion with  relation  to  "The  United  Churches  of  the  United 
States." 

The  London  Illustrated  News  (American  edition)  is 
giving  thousands  of  readers  most  graphic  views  of  the 
riots  in  London  and  tht  ditturbancM  in  Ireland.     Th« 


DioiMBBB  8, 1887 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSUKB. 


18 


holiday  number  of  the  NewB  is  one  of  the 
best  erer  issued.  Beside  the  finely  illus- 
trated number,  four  fine  colored  pictures, 
copies  of  paintings  by  Millais  and  others, 
are  included,  the  price  of  all  being  50  cts. 


Lodge  Notes. 

The  crowd  of  people  who  had  assem- 
bled at  Armory  Hall,  Kansas  City,  Friday 
night,  with  the  intention  of  participating 
in  the  E.  of  L.  grand  ball,  were  swindled. 
The  ball  had  been  gotten  up  by  two 
smooth  strangers,  who  sold  the  tickets 
quite  generally  throughout  the  city.  The 
crowd  present  waited  for  over  two  hours 
before  becoming  aware  of  the  fraud. 

There  are  653  lodges  of  Masons  in  18 
principal  cities  of  the  world,  in  an  aggre- 
gate population  of  over  13,000  000— an 
average  of  one  Mason  to  every  276  per- 
sons. Sixteen  cities  of  the  United  States, 
with  a  population  of  7,000  000,  have  527 
lodges,  with  a  membership  of  about  61,- 
000 — an  average  of  one  Mason  to  every 
114  of  the  population. — Canadian  Craft$- 
man. 

Emanuel  Swedenborg,  the  religious 
mystic,  the  son  of  a  Lutheran  Bishop,  es- 
tablished a  Masonic  rite  called  after  his 
name,  consisting  of  six  degrees,  viz..  Ap- 
prentice, Fellow  Craft,  Master,  Theoso- 
phite.  Blue  Brother  (!),  Red  Brother. 
Oustavus  III.  established  the  "Swedish 
Rite,"  composed  of  twelve  degrees.  Ma- 
sonry in  Sweden  is  now  said  to  be  pro- 
tected by  the  government 

Last  Friday  was  held  the  fourth  annual 
ball  of  Arthur  Lodge  98,  of  the  Loyal 
Orange  Institution.  That  the  dances  had 
been  named  by  Orangemen  was  evident, 
some  of  the  names  being  "Orange  Lily," 
"Boyne  Water,"  "Protestant  Boys,"  "En- 
niskillen,"  "United  We  Stand,"  "Orange 
and  Blue"  and  "No  Surrender."  Arthur 
Lodge  is  one  of  six  lodg'.^s  of  Orangemen 
in  this  city  and  has  a  membership  of 
nearly  one  hundred. 

An  effort  ia  being  made  in  New  York 
to  form  an  anti-anarchistic  society  to  op- 
pose the  anarchists  and  socialists  in  their 
endeavor  to  overthrow  the  existing  order 
of  government.  Cards  for  signatures  are 
being  widely  distributed,  and  signers  to 
them  are  numerous.  At  the  present  rate 
the  organiziition  will  have  a  membership 
of  at  least  10,000  before  the  end  of  this 
week.  There  are  five  reasons  set  forth 
on  the  card  for  the  necessity  of  such  a 
society :  To  restrict  and  regulate  immi- 
gration; to  increase  the  period  of  natural- 
ization to  fourteen  years'  residence;  the 
extension  and  protection  of  the  American 
free  school  system;  American  lands  for 
Americans;  no  public  funds  for  sectarian 
uses. 

In  the  current  issue  of  the  Journal  of 
United  Labor  Mr,  Powderly  has  an  article 
on  the  present  troubles  among  the 
Knights  of  Labor.  He  says  those  who 
are  determined  on  seceding  and  propose 
to  form  a  new  order  out  of  the  wreck  of 
the  old  one  have  little  knowledge  of  the 
trials  and  dangers  to  be  encountered  in 
such  an  undertaking.  He  feels  that  the 
amount  of  energy  necessary  to  success- 
fully accomplish  such  a  work  would  make 
the  Knights  of  Labor  invincible.  All 
who  aspire  to  oflSce,  he  says,  cannot  be 
successful,  and  if  these  seceders  should 
build  up  a  new  order  they  would  "do  so 
only  to  find  at  their  elbows  men  who,  like 
themselves,  will  stop  at  nothing  mean  or 
low  to  compass  their  ends." 


INQUIRINQ    NOTICE  I 

Any  information  of  the  whereabouts  of 
Netty  or  John  Keelen,  or  Lizzie  Tares, 
will  be  gladly  received.  They  were  at 
one  time  members  of  the  Old  Baptist 
church,  of  Pensacrjla,  Fla.  Pensacola 
and  Mobile  papers  please  copy. 

Cn.\RLEY  Johnson, 
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Carrington,  E  Marcy,  F  J  Fischer,  J  N 
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FREE  TRACTS 

Will  be  furnished  to  those  who  desire  in- 
formation or  who  will  distribute  them 
where  they  will  do  the  most  good. 

There  are  in  stock  now  a  large  number 
of 

"FREBHA80NBT  IN    THE   FAMILY." 

This  is  especially  interesting  to  ladies. 
"to  thb  boys  who  hops  to  bb  ubn." 

It  is  illustrated  and  will  please  the 
school  children. 

"SBLLINO  DBAD   H0RSB8." 

You  can  always  get  the  attention  of 
farmers  or  men  who  are  interested  in 
horses  with  this  tract. 

"MOODY  ON    8BCBET    SOCIBTIBS" 

leads  Christians  to  separation. 

A  limited  number  of  two  new  tracts 
will  be  sent  to  any  who  need  them. 

"THB   80N9   OP  VBTBRAJI8." 
"IN    WHICH    ASMY    ARB     YOU?" 

Remember  these  tracts  will  be  sent  you 
freely.  But  any  who  wish  to  contribute 
to  this  Free  Tract  Fund  are  earnestly  re- 
quested to  do  so. 

Ought  you  not,  once  a  year  at  least,  to 
put  a  tract  into  each  one  of  your  neigh- 
bor's houses?  Will  you  send  for  a  supply 
soon? 
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Hay— Timothy 9 

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Cheese 

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Tlaz 1  26 

Broomcom 03)^(3     n 

Potatoes  per  bus 50  @     75 

Hides— Green  to  dry  flint 07>^S     13 

Lumber— Common 1100  (|l8  00 

Wool 10  a      35 

Cattle— Choice  to  extra 4  90  3  5  70 

Commontogood 1  50  a  4  75 

Hogs 3  95  (a  5  65 

Sheep 8  50  ^  4  44 

NEW  YORK. 

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Wheat— Winter 91  @     96U 

Spring 90 

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Hogs — ..^.^.^  ^„ 8  75 

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FINNEY  ON  MASONRY. 

The  character,  <::8lini  and  practical  workinn  of 
Frccmabonry.  By  Pre>.  Charles  G.  Finney  of  Ober- 
iln  Colletcc.  President  Finney  wa*  a  "brlRht 
.Mason,"  liut  left  the  lodge  when  he  became 
a  Chrlsltnn.  This  book  has  opened  the  eyes  of 
multitudes.  In  clc  TSc;  per  dozen  I7.S0.  Paper 
cover  S.'ic  ;  per  doien,  IS. SO. 

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of  tLo  three  ninks  of  the  order,  with  the  addition  .f 
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BT  A  TRAYXLEB. 


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unwary  and  a  key  to  many  mysteries 
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WHAT  CAN  IT  TEACH  US? 


BT  J.  AU0USTTJ8  COLS, 
Of  Shalngay,  W.  A. 

■^Ith  Portrait  of  the  .A.uthor. 
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HON.    THTTRLOW    WEED  ON   THE  MOB 

0AN  ABDTJOTION. 

This  la  a  sixteen  P*ge  pamphlet  eomprlalng  a  leW 
(er  written  by  Hr.  Weed,  and  read  at  the  onTelllng 
of  the  monument  erected  to  the  memory  of  Oapt. 
William  Horg&n.  The  frontlRpieoe  la  an  engraTln; 
of  the  monument.  It  la  a  history  of  the  nnlawfu 
seizure  and  oonflnement  of  Morgan  In  theOananda< 
gua  jail,  hla  aubaequent  conveyance  by  Freemason 
to  Fort  Niagara,  and  drowning  In  Lake  Ontario 
He  not  only  aabicrlbea  his  Vkiut  to  the  letter,  bui 

ATTACHES  BIB  ATFTDATIT   tO  it. 

In  closing  his  letter  be  wrltee:  I  now  look  back 
through  an  Interval  of  flfty-alx  yeara  with  a  con. 
aclous  sense  of  hsTlng  been  gOTemed  througn  the 
"  Antl-Maaonlo  ezoltement "  by  a  sincere  desire, 
first,  to  vlndloate  the  violated  laws  of  my  country, 
and  nxt,  to  arrest  the  great  power  and  dangerona 
Influenoee  of  "  secret  societies. " 

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vlt— almost  the  Ihsi  public  act  of  his  life. 

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NATIONAL  SUICIDE, 

AND 

ITS  PREVENTION. 

BT  08CAS  P,  LirifBT,  PH.  D. 

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For,  as  Goldsmith  said  of  his  Vicar  of  Wake- 
field, 

E'en  his  fallings  lean  to  virtue's  side. 

—Cynosure. 

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The  Christian's  Secret 

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THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSTTHB. 


DiOBHBIB  8,  1881 


Fakm  Notes. 

WINTER  KILLING  OF  FRUIT  TREES. 

There  is  a  wide  difference  in  the  hardi- 
ness of  different  varieties  of  fruit  trees. 
Some  varieties  endure  severe  freezing 
better  than  others.  A  variety  that  lives 
one  winter  may  die  the  next,  because  of 
the  changes  surrounding  it;  and  so  a  ten- 
der variety  may  live,  when  one  naturally 
more  hardy  dies.  Sudden  changes  often 
work  disastrously.  This  was  seen  in  the 
winter  of  1853-4  in  a  belt  of  country  ex- 
tending from  New  York  to  Michigan. 
Quince  trees  and  pear  trees  on  quince 
stocks  were  greatly  injured  by  rapid  suc- 
cessions of  very  warm  and  intensely  cold 
weather.  The  result  was,  that  nearly  all 
the  trees  that  were  not  sheltered  were 
destroyed,  or  so  weakened  that  they  con- 
tinued to  die  till  late  in  the  summer. 

The  warmth  had  promoted  sap  circula- 
tion, and  the  sap,  suddenly  freezing, 
formed  little  crystals  in  the  wood,  which 
lacerated  the  fibres  by  every  motion  of 
the  swaying  trees.  This  cause  may  be 
supplemented  by  such  a  freezing  and 
thawing  of  the  limbs  and  branches  as 
dries  the  life  out  of  them.  In  all  such 
cases  the  injury  to  trees  will  be  in  pro- 
portion to  the  exposure,  and  so  the  pro- 
tection of  good  wind-breaks  is  of  great 
importance.  In  that  memorable  season 
of  such  widespread  loss,  those  trees  that 
chanced  to  be  sheltered  from  the  winds 
escaped.  It  was  also  observed  that  the 
loss  was  not  so  great  with  trees  on  clayey 
soil  that  shed  oS  the  water,  as  on  sandy 
soil  that  was  filled  with  water. 

A  wise  precaution  against  winter-kill- 
ing in  sections  where  there  is  danger,  is 
not  to  cultivate  late  in  the  season.  The 
culture  that  stimulates  a  late  growth  cf 
soft  wood  that  does  not  ripen  before  the 
severity  of  winter  sets  in  is  to  be  avoided. 
The  immature  wood  is  easily  injured,  the 
cells  are  ruptured  by  freezing  and  thaw- 
ing, and  the  disorganized  cells  in  spring 
are  no  longer  able  to  perform  their  office. 
Secure  an  eisy  growth  of  wood  that  will 
ripen  in  time  to  be  ready  for  all  changes 
of  weather,  and  you  will  have  compara- 
tive security. — American  Agriculturist. 

UTILIZING  COARSE  FODDER. 

Corn  fodder,  straw,  and  even  marsh 
hay  at  times,  are  the  sole  dependence  for 
feeding.  In  such  cases  these  inferior 
fodders  may  be  made  up  by  the  addition 
of  the  richer  foods  which  can  be  pur- 
chased and  used  at  such  a  profit  as  will 
be  satisfactory  to  the  dairyman.  And  in 
feeding  these  coarser  fodders,  the  use  of 
roots  with  them  will  be  found  exceeding- 
ly valuable.  The  succulent  roots  being 
almost  wholly  digestible,  aid  very  much 
in  the  digestion  of  the  coarser  fodder;  and 
for  winter  feeding  a  supply  of  mangels  or 
sugar  beets  will  be  indispensable  for  the 
most  profit.  In  a  similar  way  the  use  of 
malt  sprouts  steeped  in  water,  which 
makes  a  sweet  semi  liquid  pulp  of  an 
agreeable  odor  and  taste,  mixed  with  cut 
straw  and  corn  fodder,  has  been  found  to 
keep  up  the  yield  of  milk;  and  with  a 
slight  increase  in  the  mixed  meal,  or 
ground  grain  food,  to  prevent  any  defic- 
iency in  the  yield  of  butter.  Well  cured 
corn  fodder,  or  the  stalks  of  the  com 
crop,  cut  before  frost,  or  as  soon  as  the 
grain  has  been  glazed  and  stacked  so  as 
to  preserve  the  greenness  and  sweetness 
of  the  leaves,  has  yielded,  with  the  addi- 
tion of  a  peck  of  sliced  roots,  as  much 
and  as  good  butter  as  that  made  from  the 
best  of  clover  hay. — American  Agricul- 
turiit. 

Btorino  Vegetables  in  Leaves — A 
Maine  farmer  says  that  he  has  found  the 
best  method  of  storing  vegetables  for  ta- 
ble use  to  be  to  pack  them  in  dry  leaves 
in  barrels.  He  has  had  beets  thus  packed 
come  out  the  succeeding  August  as  crisp 
and  fresh  as  when  taken  from  the  ground. 
It  is  quite  as  effective  as  to  pack  them  in 
sand,  the  usual  way,  as  well  as  easier  and 
much  more  cleanly." 

Protect  the  Rose  Bushes.— This 
should  not  be  neglected  by  those  who 
have  choice  plants.  All  of  the  Tea,  Noi- 
sette and  most  of  the  Bourbon  class  of 
roses  need  protection  if  left  out  during 
the  winter;  indeed  all  roses  would  be  bet- 
ter for  a  light  covering.  This  may  be 
done  by  hilling  up  with  earth;  or,  better, 
by  strewing  leaves  or  straw  lightly  over 
the  plants,  and  securing  them  with  ever- 
green branches.  Oftentimes  the  latter 
are  in  themselves  sufficient. 


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THE  CHRTSnAy  CYNOSURE. 


15 


Home  and  Health. 


THE  SPARE  ROOM. 

The  winter  is  at  hand.  The  country 
parson  has  before  him  the  horror  of  the 
icy  bed  and  fireless  room.  Who  has  not 
shivered  there,  and  "wished  for  the  day?" 
It's  the  new  preacher  who  is  destined  for 
martyrdom.  The  old  one  knows  the 
"homes."  He  goes  there  only  in  August. 
Alas,  even  then  there  may  be  a  plague 
which  makes  him  long  for  the  freezing 
seasons  of  snows  I 

We  have  known  the  head  of  a  family 
to  lead  his  minister,  an  old  man  with  thin 
blood,  and  aches  in  his  bones,  away  from 
the  roaring  fireplace  of  his  own  chamber 
to  an  apartmeot  of  arctic  temperature, 
and  to  sheets  akin  to  slabs  of  ice .  There 
was  a  fireplace,  while  chips  and  wood  lay 
in  heaps  down  stairs.  The  host  said: 
"You  will  soon  be  in  bed,  so  it  ain't  worth 
while  to  kindle  a  fire."  The  wretched 
victim  of  this  inhumanity  was  in  ague 
and  suffered  untold  horrors  before  sun- 
rise. 

It  is  not  too  much  to  say  that  the  foun- 
dation of  ailments  lasting  and  tormenting 
for  years  have  been  laid  in  these  polar 
atmospheres.  Health  once  impaired  is 
not  easily  restored.  It  is  a  sacred  duty 
to  shun  guest-chambers  where  Boreas 
holds  high  carnival,  and  rheumatism, 
neuralgia  and  lumbago,  like  Siberian 
wolves,  rend  the  tendons  and  gnaw  the 
bones.  It  is  far  better  to  hear  the  com- 
plaint of  "not  visiting  his  people"  than 
be  in  agony  for  years  from  indifference  to 
common  comforts . 

Suffer  a  word  of  exhortation.  Preach- 
ers at  home  sleep  in  an  air  warm  all  day. 
The  change  to  a  room  where  a  feeble 
blaze  on  a  cold  hearthstone  is  struggling 
for  life,  is  a  shivering  contrast .  The  fire 
should  be  kindled  an  hour  before  bed- 
time. The  cover  ought  to  be  thrown 
open  to  give  the  sheets  a  touch  of  the 
higher  temperature.  There  should  be 
extra  blankets  within  reach,  on  the  foot 
of  the  bed .  Bed-clothing,  if  not  watched, 
will  get  damp.  Putting  a  guest  between 
chilling  and  moist  sheets  is  a  crime  against 
health,  man  and  Ood.  Rather  let  him  go 
to  a  Negro  cabin,  where  he  may  lie  be- 
fore a  log  fire  and  turn  as  he  needs  heat. 
— Richmond  Christian  Advocate. 

CARE  OF  FROZEN  PLANTS. 

When  by  any  mishap  the  plants,  wheth- 
er in  parlor  or  greenhouse,  become  frozen, 
either  at  once  remove  them  (taking  care 
not  to  touch  the  leaves)  to  some  place 
warm  enough  to  be  just  above  the  point 
of  freezing;  or,  if  there  are  too  many  to 
do  that,  get  up  the  fire  as  rapidly  as  pos- 
sible, and  raise  the  temperature.  The 
usual  advice  is  to  sprinkle  the  leaves  and 
shade  the  plants  from  the  sun.  We  have 
never  found  either  remedy  of  any  avail 
with  frozen  plants,  and  the  sprinkling  is 
often  a  serious  injury  if  ^one  before  the 
temperature  is  above  the  freezing  point. 
In  our  experience  with  thousands  of  fro- 
zen plants,  we  have  tried  all  manner  of 
expedients,  and  found  no  better  method 
than  to  get  them  out  of  the  freezing  at- 
mosphere as  quickly  as  possible;  and  we 
have  also  found  that  the  damage  is  in 
proportion  to  the  succulent  condition  of 
the  plant  and  the  intensity  of  the  freez- 
ing. .Tust  what  degree  of  cold  plants  in 
any  given  condition  can  endure  without 
injury,  we  are  unable  to  state.  Plants 
are  often  frozen  so  that  the  leaves  hang 
down,  but  when  thawed  out  are  found 
to  be  not  at  all  injured.  At  another  time 
the  same  low  temperature  acting  on  the 
same  kind  of  plants  may  kill  them  out- 
right if  they  happen  to  be  growing  more 
thriftily,  and  are  full  of  sap.  Much  de- 
pends on  the  temperature  at  which  plants 
have  been  growing.  When  the  frost  is 
penetrating  into  a  greenhouse  or  room  in 
which  plants  are  kept,  and  the  heating 
arrangements  are  inadequate  to  keep  it 
out,  the  best  thing  to  do  is  to  cover  the 
plants  with  paper  (newspapers)  or  sheet- 
ing. Thus  protected,  most  plants  will  be 
enabled  to  resist  four  or  five  degrees  of 
frost.  Paper  is  rather  better  than  sheet- 
ing for  this  purpose. — Peter  Henderson  in 
American  Agriculturist. 

— To  make  pumpkin  butter,  cook  your 
pumpkin  thoroughly,  rub  through  colan- 
der, measure  or  weigh  equal  quantities  of 
pulp  and  sugar;  place  in  preserving  ket- 
tle, boil  carefully  until  thic^;  it  should 
keep  a  round  up  appearance  when 
dropped  on  a  plate  and  look  leathery;  any 
seasoning  you  like ;  I  use  allspice .  I  make 
mine  one  half  apples,  and  use  dark  brown 
sugar,  sometimes  half  molasses;  to  buy 
I  sugar  is  as  cheap.     Allspice  and  dark 


sugar  make  it  dark,  which  I  like.  If  you 
seal  it  up  it  won't  require  so  much  sugar 
or  cooking. 

KEROSENE  AND  DIPHTHERIA. 

A  well-known  doctor  says  that  the 
fumes  of  kerosene,  when  a  lamp  is  turned 
low,  are  likely  to  cause  diphtheria.  The 
New  York  board  of  health  a  few  years 
ago  decided  that  to  this,  more  than  any 
other  cause,  the  prevalence  of  this  disease 
was  to  be  attributed.  This  is  given  as 
accounting  for  the  fact  that  diphtheria 
generally  begins  to  spread  with  the  ad- 
vent of  short  days  and  long  nights.  Chil- 
dren dislike  to  go  to  bed  in  the  dark,  and 
the  kind  mother  lets  the  lamp  remain  in 
the  bedroom,  usually  turning  down  the 
fiame,  so  that  the  light  shall  not  keep  the 
child  awake.  Many  bedrooms  are  thus 
semi-lighted  all  night,  and  the  windows 
being  closed,  or  raised  but  slightly,  the 
atmospheric  condition  is  simply  deathly. 
A  turned-down  kerosene  lamp  is  a  maga- 
zine of  deadly  gas  that  the  hesJthiest  lungs 
cannot  safely  be  exposed  to. — Peoria 
Transcript. 

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THE  CHBISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


DxcixBia  8, 1887 


NPWS  OF  THE  WEEK 

WASHINGTON. 

Dispatches  announced  Saturday  night 
that  the  Democrats  in  the  Fiftieth  Con- 
gress held  a  caucus  and  wound  up  with  a 
rough  and  tumble  fight.  Carlisle  was 
nominated  for  Speaker.  The  Republican 
members  met  in  caucus  and  passed  com- 
plimentary nominations  for  officers. 

Mr.  W.  A.  Frere,  Supervising  Archi- 
tect of  the  Treasury,  submitted  his  annual 
report  to  Secretary  Fairchild  yesterday. 
He  says  that  there  are  under  control  of 
the  Treasury  Department  more  than  200 
completed  and  occupied  buildings,  and 
that  during  the  past  year  work  of  con- 
struction and  repairs  have  been  prose- 
cuted upon  sixty  three  buildings,  of  which 
number  four  have  been  completed,  in- 
volving a  total  expenditure  of  $3,261,373. 

The  Fiftieth  Congress  was  opened  at 
noon  Monday  with  a  very  full  attendance 
of  both  houses.  The  private  and  public 
galleries  were  crowded  to  ove:  flowing 
nearly  an  hour  before  noon.  At  noon, 
sharp,  the  House  was  called  to  order  and 
the  roll-call  began.  Then  a  red-whis- 
kered, hatchet-faced  man  interrupted 
proceedings  by  singing  the  doxology. 
He  was  taken  out,  but  not  before  he  had 
finished.  He  is  weak  minded.  The  desks 
of  members  were  profusely  decorated 
with  flowers. 

CBnCAGO. 

As  a  result  of  Judge  Tuley's  decision 
the  wholesale  liquor  men  will  have  to 
pay  a  license  of  $500,  which  will  be  col- 
lected without  much  ceremony  in  the  fu- 
ture. 

Judges  McAllister  and  Moran,  of  the 
Appellate  court  have  granted  a  super- 
sedeas to  the  County  Commissioner 
thieves  yet  in  jail  in  this  city.  Just  be- 
fore retiring  from  the  States  Attorney's 
office  to  become  judge,  Grinnell  non- 
suited a  number  of  the  little  boodlers, 
and  the  county  board  has  settled  with  all 
but  two  or  three  others. 

The  long  strike  of  the  job  printers  is  at 
an  end,  and  has  failed.  Typographical 
Union  No.  16,  at  a  meeting  held  Sunday, 
declared  that  the  strike  for  nine  hours 
was  at  an  end,  and  fixed  the  working  day 
at  ten  hours,  and  the  scale  of  wages  at 
$18  a  week.  The  strikers  were  ordered 
to  return  to  their  places.  •  But  the  em- 
ploying printers  will  hire  no  one  who 
does  not  give  up  his  secret  labor  lodge. 

COXJNTBT. 

At  Springfield,  111.,  Friday,  a  license  of 
incorporation  was  granted  to  the  Ameri- 
can Tariff  Reform  League,  of  Chicago. 
The  object  is  to  inaugurate  a  propaganda 
of  tariflf  reform  and  establish  branches 
throughout  the  United  States.  Among 
the  incorporators  are  Postmaster  Judd, 
and  Judge  Grinnell,  of  the  anarchist  trial. 
A  bronze  statue  of  President  Garfield 
was  unveiled  Thursday  at  Cincinnati,  the 
militia  and  soldiers'  societies  taking  part 
in  therparade .  Addresses  were  delivered 
by  Congressman  Ezra  B.  Taylor,  Gover- 
nor Foraker,  and  Hon.  Samuel  F.  Hunt. 

A  sensation  was  caused  in  the  Arens- 
dorf  trial  at  Sioux  City,  Iowa,  Friday,  by 
the  testimony  of  Hon.  Byron  Webster,  of 
Dubuque,  United  States  Revenue  Col- 
lector. He  swore  Arensdorf  was  not  in 
the  Shepherd  House  when  Mr.  Haddock 
was  murdered.  The  defense  had  de- 
pended on  proving  an  alibi  by  showing 
the  defendant  was  at  the  saloon  men- 
tioned at  the  time  of  the  assassination . 

Workmen  employed  in  digging  a  well 
on  the  farm  of  Robert  Comeford,  near 
Cerro  Gordo,  111.,  found  a  number  of  reg 
ularly  made  bricks  in  the  blue  clay,  and 
at  a  depth  of  48  feet.  Mr.  Comeford  im- 
proved this  farm  from  the  raw  prairie, 
and  is  positive  that  no  bricks  have  ever 
been  used  in  that  vicinity .  It  is  a  mat- 
ter of  some  curiosity  as  to  how  they  got 
there . 

A  report  that  2,000  Belgian  miners  have 
been  engaged  to  come  to  this  country  to 
take  the  places  of  the  Lehigh  Valley 
strikers  has  caused  great  excitement 
among  the  latter,  who  threaten  bloodshed 
should  imported  diggers  invade  their  ter- 
ritory. 

The  party  that  will  make  the  final  sur- 
veys of  the  Nicaragua  Canal  sailed  from 
New  York  Wednesday. 

Some  time  ago  a  movement  was  set  on 
foot  at  Macon,  Ga..  to  raise  by  popular 
subscription  a  Jeff  Ddvis  fund.  The 
project  was  heartily  approved    by   the 


press  and  the  people,  and  bid  fair  to  be  a 
great  success,  but  it  has  now  fallen 
through,  a  letter  from  Mrs.  Davis  being 
enough  to  squelch  it. 

Two  Negroes  were  killed  and  many 
others  were  injured  in  a  fight  with  whites 
at  Cat  Island,  Ark  ,  Thursday.  The  un- 
fortunates had  been  arrested  charged 
with  insulting  white  women,  and  at  the 
trial  were  shot  down.  It  is  said  the  Ne- 
groes are  arming  for  revenge. 

A  fall  of  rock  and  earth  in  a  quarry 
near  Hummelstown,  Pa.,  Tuesday  even- 
ing, buried  three  men,  whose  bodies  can- 
not be  recovered  for  many  weeks.  Sev- 
eral workmen  narrowly  escaped. 

Jake  Sharp,  the  king  of  New  York 
boodlers,  is  out  on  $40  000  bail,  and  New 
York  is  very  skeptical  of  his  ever  being 
brought  to  a  second  trial.  If  he  takes 
advantage  of  his  present  opportunities 
to  get  away  to  Europe,  he  can  well  afford 
to  requite  his  bondsmen. 

An  attempt  was  made  to  assassinate 
Policeman  Feeney,  of  Union  Hill,  N.  J., 
Sunday,  by  means  of  a  dynamite  bomb. 
The  missile  was  thrown  through  a  salorn 
window,  and  exploded  under  a  table  at 
which  the  officer  had  been  sitting  an  in- 
stant before  The  table  and  room  were 
badly  shattered,  but  the  officer  was  unin- 
jured. Feeney  is  the  officer  who  broke 
up  several  anarchist  meetings  in  Neir 
Jersey  recently. 

The  Massachusetts  Legislature  is  to  be 
petitioned  to  incorporate  the  Postal  Au- 
tomatic Telegraph  Company,  having  for 
its  object  the  building  of  a  line  across  the 
continent  from  New  York  to  San  Fran- 
cisco. 

The  high  level  bridge  across  the  Mis- 
sissippi River  at  Dubuque,  Iowa,  was 
formally  dedicated  and  opened  Tuesday. 
The  bridge  is  the  only  one  over  the  Mis- 
sippi  between  St.  Paul  and  Davenport 
high  enough  for  steamers  to  pass  beneath. 

A  tremendous  flow  of  natural  gas  was 
struck  Tuesday  at  Xenia,  near  Wabash, 
Ind.  A  blaze  60  feet  high  was  issuing 
from  a  3  inch  pipe  all  night  and  the  peo- 
ple were  highly  elated. 

Tuesday  night  the  jury  at  New  York 
in  the  case  of  Johann  Most,  charged 
with  making  an  incendiary  speech,  re- 
turned a  verdict  of  guilty,  notwithstand- 
ing that  the  judge's  charge  was  in  favor 
of  the  accused. 

At  St.  Louis,  Wednesday,  Henry  Jack- 
son, Charles  Evans,  and  Mrs.  Jackson 
were  arrested  for  burning  James  Wilson, 
3  years  old,  to  death.  The  accused 
practice  voodoo  rites,  and  admit  they  saw 
the  bed  burning  before  the  fire  alarm  was 
given. 

FOBBiaN. 

Coercion  in  Ireland  is  bearing  fruit  in 
the  shape  of  apostles  of  violence,  and  a 
revolt  in  the  Irish  National  League  is 
threatened. 

The  town  of  Bisignano,  in  Calabria, 
sustained  severe  shocks  of  earthquake  on 
Saturday  by  which  twenty  houses  were 
destroyed  and  twenty  persons  killed. 

Private  information  received  at  London 
from  San  Remo  reports  that  there  has 
been  no  decided  improvement  in  the  con- 
dition of  Crown  Prince  Frederick  Will- 
iam. His  physicians  are  doing  all  they 
can  to  prolong  his  life  under  the  disease, 
and  admit  that  there  is  no  chance  of  re- 
moving the  disease  except  by  an  opera- 
tion, leaving  the  chances  of  curing  the 
patient  small  and  chances  of  hastening 
his  end  very  great. 

M.  Francois  Sadi  Carnot  was  on  Satur- 
day elected  president  of  the  French  Re- 
public. While  the  triumph  of  this  emi- 
nent engineer  and  financier  occasions 
much  surprise,  it  gives  general  satisfac- 
tion. He  is  one  of  the  few  French  states- 
men of  the  present  day  whose  past  his- 
tory is  absolutely  unimpeachable,  and 
whose  political  and  private  character  is 
untarnished  by  any  kind  of  blemish. 
There  is  no  disorder  in  Paris,  and  the 
crisis  is  ended. 

The  election  of  Carnot  to  the  presi- 
dency has  tranquilized  not  only  France 
but  Europe.  The  English  and  conti-^ 
nental  press  approve  it.  It  harmonizes 
most  of  the  conflictin^nterests,  and  even 
contributes  to  remove  the  remaining  irri- 
tation between  Russia  and  Germany,  for 
both  are  satisfied  with  it.  The  Hovoc 
Vremya,  of  St.  Petersburg,  the  semi- 
official journal,  hardly  dares  speak  other- 
wise than  in  accord  with  the  government. 
It  says  the  election  is  in  every  way  for- 
tunate. 


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■various  movements  of  the  lodge  as  they  appear  to  public  view, 
and  reveals  the  secret  machinery  of  corruption  in  politics, 
courts,  and  social  and  religious  circles. 

There  are  in  the  United  States  • 

Some  200  different  Lodges, 
With  2,000  000  members. 
Costing  $20,000,000  yearly. 

This  mighty  world  power  confronts  the  church  and  seeks  to 
rule  and  ruin  every  Christian  Reform. 

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yet  80  unpopular  and  beset  with  difficulties,  as  that  which  would 
remove  the  dark  pall  of  oaths,  dark-lantern  meetings,  secret 
signs,  mysterious  and  pagan  worship  about  altars  condemned 
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CONTENTS. 


Bditobial: 

Notes  and  Comments 1 

This  is  What  We  Mean. . .  8 

The  Sons  of  Veterans 8 

American  Politics 8 

Shall  the  Gospel  be  free  In 

BoBton? 9 

Dr.  Thomas,  Prelate  and 

Grand  Chaplain 6 

CONTKIBUTIONS : 

W.  C.  T.  U.  Workers  and 

the  Lodge 1 

The  Two  Plans  of  Salva- 
tion     2 

The  Catholic  Church  in 

America 2 

A  Fearful  Indictment 4 

Sblbotbd : 
The  Shop  Council  vs.  the 

Secret  Union 3 

Sabbath  Reform 5 

The  Washington  Conven- 
tion of  the  Evangelical  Al- 
liance     4 

Washington  Lettbr 4 


Sbcbbt  Empire: 

The  B  aid  Knobbers 4 

Rbfobm  Nbws  : 
Mississippi    and   its 
Churches  ;    Cured    by 
their  own  Medicine —    5 

COBBESPONDBNOB : 

Notes  from  a  West  African 
Mission;  The  W.C.T.U. 
and  Secretism  ;  God 
Help    us  to   be  True; 

Pith  and  Point 5,6 

8.8.  Lessons  for  1888 7 

ThbN.C.  A 7 

Prospectus 8 

ThbHoub 10 

Tbmpebancb 11 

Rbligious  Nbws 12 

LiTBRATUBK 12 

Lodge  Notes 13 

Markets 13 

Business 13 

Home  and  Health 14 

Farm  Notes 15 

News  of  thb  Week 16 


President  Cleveland's  message  is  unlike  any  sim- 
ilar document  ever  written.  He  bluntly  tells  Con- 
gress that  the  National  finances  "imperatively  de- 
mand immediate  and  careful  consideration;"  that  the 
surplus  in  the  Treasury  will  by  June  next  reach 
$140,000,000,  an  exaction  upon  the  industries  and 
necessities  of  the  people  which  should  be  stopped. 
The  message  argues  the  case  of  tariff  reduction, — 
not,  indeed,  by  any  original  arguments,  but  plainly 
and  forcibly  so  that  the  people  can  understand  it; 
and  from  them  he  will  have  his  reward  in  spite  of 
the  carping  politicians  in  both  old  parties.  The 
President  has  forced  the  battle  upon  them,  and  it 
will  be  fought  out  on  this  line. 


Rev.  Dr.  French  of  Cincinnati,  who  attended 
the  Evangelical  Alliance  meeting  at  Washington  last 
week  at  the  request  of  the  N.  C.  A.  Board,  found 
the  way  quite  effectually  barred  to  a  direct  testi- 
mony against  the  lodge  evil.  There  was  no  more 
room  for  Christ  in  the  inn  than  there  is  for  his 
truth,  if  unpopular,  in  our  great  Christian  gather- 
ings. But  this  does  not  matter  only  for  those  who 
deliberately  refuse  to  hear  the  truth.  Dr.  French 
wrote  hastily  of  his  efforts  and  discouragements, 
and  encouragements,  also.  No  special  privilege 
could  be  granted  him,  and  the  time  was  so  generally 
taken  up  by  the  stated  speakers  on  nearly  every 
topic  that  open  discussion  was  ruled  out.  We  are 
glad  to  note,  however,  that  Rev.  J.  M.  Foster  lec- 
turer for  the  National  Reform  cause,  and  a  corres- 
pondent whom  our  readers  have  learned  to  esteem, 
got  in  a  short  speech  on  the  immigration  question. 
His  position,  as  outlined  in  his  excellent  report  of 
the  Conference,  was  the  sound  one,  we  believe,  to 
which  all  political  quacks  must  come  at  last,  if  they 
wish  this  vexed  question  settled  righteously. 


Arensdorf  goes  free .  The  jnry  last  Friday  re- 
turned a  verdict  of  acquittal  to  the  great  disappoint- 
ment of  many,  especially  in  Sioux  City,  who  bad 
looked  for  some  sort  of  punishment  to  be  visited  upon 
a  man  believed  to  be  guilty  of  an  awful  crime.   The 


causes  leading  to  this  disappointment  may  never  be 
clearly  understood,  but  the  prejudice  of  Judge 
Wakefield  has  been  severely  commented  upon  in 
the  press  reports.  To  the  gratuitous  insults  offered 
by  the  lawyers  of  the  defense  he  was  deaf,  but 
sharply  petulant  toward  the  prosecution.  Such  con- 
duct would  strongly  affect  a  jury.  The  saloon  men 
were  confident  of  acquittal  all  along,  but  the  citizens 
of  Sioux  City  were  generally  believed  to  be  of  a 
contrary  opinion.  It  is  now  doubtful  if  ever  the 
murderer  of  Haddock  is  tried  or  punished.  Let 
Iowa  and  the  nation  charge  the  crime  up  to  the 
drink  traffic  and  vow  its  death  as  a  just  revenge. 


Dr.  Joseph  Parker  of  the  London  City  Temple, 
and  author  of  the  "People's  Commentary,"  has  em- 
barked for  home.  His  visit  to  us  was  hailed  and 
heralded.  He  departs  amid  disappointments  and 
threats  of  law.  He  began  with  the  Beecher  Memo- 
rial, upon  which  was  soon  tagged  the  scandal  that  it 
was  for  reward.  A  truce  was  patched  up,  but  Dr. 
Parker  closed  his  final  sermon  before  the 
Plymouth  Church  with  an  insult,  repeating 
the  Lord's  prayer  to  the  end  of  the  sentence 
on  forgiveness,  then  stopping  short,  he  left  the  pul- 
pit and  the  astonished  people.  In  Chicago  Dr.  Par- 
ker took  pains  to  slur  the  Congregational  ministers 
for  their  objections  to  Mr.  Beecher,  and  in  a  sermon 
complimented  Darwinism  and  Freemasonry, — when 
Christ  came  "man  touched  man  with  a  Masonic 
grip."  It  is  not  as^^onishing  after  these  revelations 
of  his  character  Dr.  Parker  found  that  he  was  not 
wanted,  and  after  planning  a  six-months'  lecture 
tour  gave  it  up  in  as  many  weeks  and  went  home. 


Mr.  Blaine  -  is  across  an  ocean.  He  is  safe;  and 
while  he  holds  tobacco  to  be  a  necessity  to  ninety- 
five  in  a  hundred  Americans,  and  that  we  must 
have  whisky  and  a  whisky  tax  to  keep  off  foreign  in- 
vaders, we  hope  he  will  stay  in  foreign  parts.  If 
the  Republican  party  wants  such  sentiments  pre- 
vailing in  the  White  House,  the  country  should  be 
done  with  it.  We  do  not  believe  it  does.  We  pre- 
fer to  regard  Mr.  Blaine's  remarks  as  a  bit  of  slan- 
der. Our  readers  may  see  them  on  the  11th  page. 
The  versatile  politician  is  aging.  His  judgment  is 
forsaking  him.  To  commend  the  filthy  tobacco 
habit  as  necessary,  when  it  killed  Grant,  and  is  ban- 
ished from  the  schools  at  West  Point  and  Annapolis, 
wheffe  the  nation  trains  its  young  men  to  be  its  pro- 
tectors, shows  fatal  weakness.  So  does  the  recom- 
mendation to  build  forts  against  foreign  enemies  by 
the  patronage  of  a  more  terrible  enemy  than  Hes- 
sians, Cossacks,  Turks,  Arabs,  the  Amazons  of 
Dahomey,  or  the  savages  of  Terra  del  Fuego  all  let 
loose  at  once  upon  us.    Stay  away,  Mr.  Blaine  I 


The  expenses  for  the  defense  of  the  Chicago  an- 
archists were  raised  by  a  society  organized  for  the 
purpose,  which  has  been  perpetuated  in  order  to 
erect  a  monument  and  raise  a  fund  for  the  surviv- 
ing relatives.  They  engaged  Battery  D  for  a  grand 
ball  last  Saturday  night  and  later.  The  labor  lodg- 
es generally  were  invited  to  join  and  accepted,  but 
when  it  came  to  the  essential  requisite  of  such  a 
ball,  the  wine  and  beer,  Mayor  Roche  stepped  in  and 
forbade  the  drinks.  The  anarchist  remnant  were 
wild.  They  threatened  to  have  their  liquor,  mayor 
or  no  mayor.  Their  one  friend  in  the  Council  took 
up  the  matter,  but  had  the  pleasure  of  voting  alone. 
But  the  wholesome  fear  of  law  cooled  the  hot  heads; 
but  no  beer,  no  ball.  So  the  plan  of  a  great  ball  was 
given  up  and  the  performance  went  on  in  several 
fragments  in  private  and  remote  halls  where  they 
could  dance  and  be  drunk  with  no  officer  to  inter- 
fere. If  Chicago  had  no  saloons,  she  would  have 
no  anarchists. 


The  comments  on  Mr.  Moody's  meetings  in  the 
South  last  winter  because  of  the  question  of  color 
may  have  done  him  some  injustice.  He  is  expecting 
to  return  to  that  Southern  work  this  winter  and  is 
reported  as  saying  that  the  trouble  last  year  was 
due  to  the  Negroes  more  than  to  the  whites.  Al- 
though usually  there  the  whites  worship  in  one  build- 
ing and  the  blacks  in  another,  still,  at  the  Moody 


meetings  all  were  welcome  and  seats  reserved  for  the 
black8,but  the  colored  people  insisted  that  he  should 
refuse  to  preach  unless  the  white  people  would  throw 
aside  their  life-long  prejudices  and  allow  them  per 
feet  equality  as  to  seats  and  positions  in  church  ser- 
vices. The  committee  offered  to  divide  the  church- 
es, allowing  the  colored  people  one  side  and  the 
whites  the  other  half,  but  that  would  not  do.  They 
were  bound  to  sit  in  the  same  seats  with  the  whites, 
or  not  at  all.  "As  I  only  stopped  two  or  three  days 
in  a  town,"  said  Mr.  Moody,  "I  could  not  stop  and 
enter  this  fight  of  the  races  that  has  been  going  on 
for  a  century.  I  went  to  preach  the  Gk>spel  as  an 
evangelist,  not  as  a  reformer." 


A  Christian  Conference,  with  special  reference  to 
the  Lord  Jesus  Christ  as  Saviour,  Sanctifier,  Healer, 
and  the  Coming  Lord,  was  held  last  week  in  this  city. 
The  meeting  being  largely  under  the  control  of 
Revs.  John  E.  Cookman  and  A.  B.  Simpson  of  New 
York  was  devoted  in  large  degree  to  the  third  topic, 
and  the  good  effect  of  its  work  in  other  respects  was 
largely  lost  sight  of  by  the  public.  Among  the  ad- 
dresses on  Christ  as  our  justification,  Pres,  C.  A. 
Blanchard  called  attention  to  the  fact  that  this  work 
of  grace,  if  it  was  true,  would  make  men  cease  from 
sin,  and  leave  no  more  place  in  them  for  tobacco, 
whisky,  theater,  dance-hall  or  lodge.  This  testi- 
mony was  warmly  received  by  the  congregation, 
though  Bishop  Fallows  and  Dr.  Fawcett  sitting  by 
were  not  happy  under  it.  President  Blanchard  con- 
ducted the  evening  exercises  of  the  same  day  which 
were  somewhat  informal,  owing  to  the  absence  of 
Dr.  Lorimer  who  was  to  make  the  address,  but  yet 
were  practical  and  inspiring.  The  address  of  Mr. 
Blackstone  of  Oak  Park  on  the  Second  Coming  of 
Christ  and  its  influence  on  missionary  effort  was 
interesting  in  statement  and  a  powerful  plea  for  the 
church  to  arouse  from  the  slumber  into  which  Satan 
has  cast  her  by  the  stupefaction  of  worldliness.  Mr. 
Blackstone  has  prepared  a  fine  and  costly  set  of 
maps  and  charts  which  he  uses  in  frequent  gratui- 
tous lectures.  He  is  equal  to  an  ordinary  mission- 
ary society  in  himself,  and  his  address  ought  to  be 
heard  in  every  church  in  the  land. 


W.  G.  T.  U.  W0RRBR8  AND  THE  LODOS. 


by  rev.  M.  A.  QAULT. 

Mrs.  Harvey  Law,  Secretary  of  the  local  W.  C.  T. 
U.  at  New  Richmond,  Wis.,  took  a  deep  interest  in 
our  National  Reform  work  when  I  lectured  there, 
and  like  many  in  her  situation,  complains  of  friction 
between  them  and  the  Good  Templars  of  the  town. 
She  spoke  of  receiving  letters  from  W.  C.  T.  U. 
headquarters,  advising  their  Union  to  employ  lectur- 
ers from  the  Knights  of  Labor,  but  she  was  not  in 
favor  of  such  affiliation.  There  are  more  women 
than  we  suppose  in  favor  of  an  anti-secret  depart- 
ment in  W.  C.  T.  II.  work.  I  found  Mrs.  L.  M.  Wy- 
lie,  of  Alexandria,  Minn.,  president  of  the  Douglas 
Co.  W.  C.  T.  U.,  i»nd  also  an  officer  of  the  State  or- 
ganization, and  one  of  the  best  workers  in  the  State. 
She  is  strongly  opposed  to  secret  organizations,  and 
thinks  it  about  time  to  openly  oppose  them  in  her 
town.  She  has  the  courage  of  her  convictions,  and 
often  wields  a  vigorous  pen  in  her  local  press. 

Mrs.  M.  M.  Bailey,  of  Shenandoah,  la.,  is  perhaps 
second  to  no  W.  C.  T.  U.  worker  in  the  State.  She 
is  president  of  the  Page  Co.  Union,  and  is  fre- 
quently called  out  to  lecture  in  other  counties,  and 
has  few  superiors  as  a  platform  speaker.  She  is 
truly  devoted  to  the  Master's  work,  and  is  an  honor 
to  Wheaton  College,  from  which  she  is  a  classical 
graduate.  Being  a  Presbyterian,  she  believes  in  the 
perseverance  of  the  saints,  and  practices  it  as  well. 
She  would  decidedly  favor  an  anti-secret  department 
in  W.  C.  T.  U.  T?ork. 

Mrs.  M.  E.  McKee,  wife  of  the  Rev.  D.  McKee,  of 
Clarinda,  Iowa.,  is  president  of  theHarlin  W.  C.  T.  U., 
and  does  not  hesitate  to  speak  out  publicly,  when 
occasion  offers,  against  the  evil  of  secret  societies. 
This  Union  wrote  and  signed  a  strong  protest  last 
summer  against  the  W.  C.  T.  U.  affiliating  with  such 
secret  organizations  as  the  Knights  of   Lal)or  ani' 


'^nSM  CHTRTCTIAIf  CYKOSURE. 


DioxHBiR  15, 188? 


Good  Templars.  It  was  written  and  sent  to  the 
Union  Signal  oflSce,  on  the  occasion  of  the  Lake 
Bluflf  convention  coquetting  with  the  Knights,  and 
permitting  John  B.  Finch  to  make  such  a  virulent 
attack  upon  the  National  Christian  Association. 

Another  Iowa  lady  all  aglow  with  zeal  in  W.  C. 
T.  U.  work,  is  Miss  Eva  M.  Shout z,  of  Centerville, 
a  graduate  of  the  classical  course  of  Monmouth  Col- 
lege in  1884.  She  is  in  deep  sympathy  with  the 
anti-secret  reform,  as  well  as  radical  prohibition. 
She  has  remarkable  gifts  as  a  public  speaker,  being 
an  enthusiast  in  the  study  of  elocution.  Prof.  K.  0. 
Moon,  teacher  of  Expression  in  the  National  School 
of  Oratory  in  Philadelphia,  says  this  of  her:  "I 
take  great  pleasure  in  expressing,  in  the  form  of  a 
testimonial,  my  estimate  of  the  competency  and 
culture  of  Miss  Eva  M.  Shoutz,  as  a  public  reader, 
and  as  a  teacher  of  elocution.  She  is  a  graduate  of 
the  National  School  of  Elocution  and  Oratory,  in  its 
most  extended  course,  and  was  awarded  the  gold 
medal  of  the  institution,  by  public  competition,  and 
therefore  graduated  with  the  highest  honors  of  the 
school.  Miss  Shoutz  is  endowed  naturally  with  a 
large  degree  of  dramatic  sympathy,  and  expressive 
power,  which  by  study  and  discipline  she  has  so 
carefully  controlled  as  to  acquire  that  rare  and  de- 
lightful faculty  in  public  reading  and  speaking, 
viz.,  the  power  to  move  and  thrill  an  audience  by 
her  performance,  and  to  convey  to  them  the  very 
spirit  and  motive  of  her  author."  She  was  elected 
last  year  to  the  chair  of  Elocution  in  Monmouth 
College,  but  declined  the  honor. 

Mrs.  L.  H.  Plumb,  the  banker  of  Streator,  111,, 
will  be  remembered  by  all  who  attended  the  Nation- 
al Anti-secret  Convention  at  Galesburg  in  1881,  by 
her  convincing  address  on  the  relation  of  the  lodge 
to  the  saloon.  I  spent  a  Sabbath  with  her  last  win- 
ter, and  found  she  was  wielding  a  powerful  anti- 
secret  itfluerce  in  the  National  W.  C.  T.  U.,  as  an 
intimate  friend  and  adviser  of  Miss  Willard. 

My  object  in  singling  out  these  noble  women — 
and  I  might  add  many  others — is  that  Miss  Flagg 
and  others  of  the  W.  C.  T.  U.,  who  are  looking 
toward  establishing  an  anti-secret  department,  may 
know  that  they  can  rely  upon  these  as  strong  help- 
ers. 

Why  does  the  National  Christian  Association  not 
make  a  greater  effort  to  enlist  women  in  this  work? 
How  easily  it  may  be  shown  that  secret  societies  are  the 
enemies  of  the  home,  by  imposing  secret  obligations 
which  destroy  the  confidence  and  intimacy  that 
should  exist  between  husband  and  wife!  How  often, 
as  Mrs.  Plumb  has  shown,  are  drinking  habits  first 
acquired  in  the  lodge  I  How  much  poverty  and 
wretchedness  has  been  inflicted  upon  the  home  by 
the  strikes  of  laboring  men,  which  would  not  be 
possible  but  for  the  lodge  I  And  surely  the  work  of 
the  W.  C.  T.  U.,  which  instinctively  brings  women 
into  conflict  with  every  enemy  of  "God,  home  and 
native  land,"  the  secret  lodge,  one  of  the  greatest  of 
these  enemies,  should  not  be  overlooked. 


TUB  TWO  PLANS  OF  8ALVAT10N. 


tem  of  religion  through  which  to  work  to  head  off 
the  divine  purpose  to  make  the  religion  of  Christ 
the  universal  religion  of  this  globe. 

In  1717  the  work  was  begun  and  in  1842  it  was 
completed.  A  system  of  deistical  infidelity  was 
organized  under  the  name  of  Ancient  Craft  Mason- 
ry; and  already  its  teachers  speak  of  it  as  "this  uni- 
versal religion."  No  open  war  is  made  on  Christi- 
anity. Indeed,  Christians  are  flattered  into  the  be- 
lief that  they  can  remain  Christians  and  become 
Masons.  But  in  becoming  Masons  they  are  required 
to  ignore  Christ  in  their  confession  of  faith;  to  take 
covenants  that  bind  to  sin,  and  to  engage  in  a  Christ- 
less,  and  therefore  false,  worship.  He  who  truly  re- 
pents of  his  sins  and  believes  in  and  obeys  Christ, 
worships  God.  All  the  devotees  of  false  religions 
worship  devils.  So  taught  the  prophets  and  so  taught 
the  great  Apostle. 

Masonry  is  a  false  religion,  antagonizing  Christi- 
anity in  principle,  binding  to  sin  and  rejecting 
Christ.  He  who  worships  at  Masonic  altars,  there- 
fore, according  to  the  Word  of  God,  worships  dev- 
ils; and  he  who  worships  devils,  according  to  the 
same  infallible  Word,  comes  into  fellowship  with 
devils;  and  he  who  is  in  fellowship  with  devils  can 
not  be  in  fellowship  with  the  Father  and  with  Jesus 
Christ. 

Upon  this  point  the  Holy  Ghost  is  explicit.  He 
says,  "Ye  cannot  drink  the  cup  of  the  Lord  and  the 
cup  of  devils:  ye  cannot  be  a  partaker  of  the  Lord's 
table  and  the  table  of  devils."  God  is  a  jealous  God, 
and  he  will  not  tolerate  spiritual  whoredom  in  his 
people.  He  commands  those  who  would  be  Chris- 
tians not  to  be  yoked  with  unbelievers.  To  those 
who  have  been  beguiled  into  the  carnal  brother- 
hoods he  commands,  saying,"Come  out  from  among 
them  and  be  ye  separate;  touch  not  the  unclean 
thing,  and  I  will  receive  you,  and  will  be  a  Father 
unto  you  and  ye  shall  be  my  sons  and  daughters, 
saith  the  Lord  Almighty." 

It  is  the  covenant  that  makes  the  Mason.  It  is 
the  covenant  that  makes  a  man  a  member  of  any 
carnal  brotherhod  or  secret  society.  God  commands 
a  separation  so  complete  as  not  to  touch  the  unclean 
thing.  Obedience  to  this  command  would  involve  a 
renunciation  of  the  covenant  by  which  he  was  made 
a  member  of  that  carnal  brotherhood  so  complete  as 
not  to  hold  himself  bound  thereby  in  a  single  point; 
for  if  he  held  himself  bound  in  a  single  point,at  that 
point  he  would  touch  the  unclean  thing.  Separate 
yourself  so  entirely  as  not  to  touch  the  unclean 
thing,  says  God,  and  I  will  receive  you.  Can  that 
man  who  refuses  to  be  a  doer  of  God's  Word,  be- 
lieve on  the  Lord  Jesus  Christ  unto  righteousness? 


BT   REV.    C,    F.    HAWLEr. 

In  the  Gospel  salvation  is  by  grace,  received 
through  faith.  In  Masonry  salvation  is  assumed  to 
be  by  works.  Here  is  positive  antagonism.  God, 
in  his  Word,  affirms  that  salvation  is  not  of  works. 

Repentance,  which,  practically,  is  a  turning  from 
sin  to  God,  is,  according  to  the  Gospel,  essential  to 
salvation.  Masonry,  by  covenants  that  assume  to 
be  irrevocable,  and  hence  perpetual,  binds  to  sin, 
and  hence  utterly  subverts  the  Gospel  scheme  of  sal- 
vation from  sin  by  our  Lord  Jesus  Christ. 

In  the  Gospel  Christ  is  presented  as  the  one  me- 
diator between  God  and  men;  as  the  one  only  way 
through  which  we  can  come  to  God;  as  the  only 
name  given  under  heaven  or  among  men  whereby 
we  can  be  saved.  Ancient  Craft  Masonry  ignores 
and  rejects  Christ  as  the  Mediator,  as  the  way  to 
God,  as  the  only  Saviour,  In  fact  it  is  a  system  of 
organized  deistical  infidelity,  Christ  has  no  place 
in  the  Masonic  confession  of  faith  or  in  the  ritual  of 
worship.  It  is,  therefore,  a  Satanic  device  to  bind 
men  to  sin  and  separate  them  from  God. 

When  God  called  Abraham  pagan  idolatry  had 
nearly  become  the  universal  religion  of  this  world. 
Judaism  struggled  with  paganism  for  centuries,  but 
only  succeeded  in  keeping  alive  the  knowledge  of 
the  true  God.  Christianity  rapidly  vanquished  idol- 
atry and  bid  fair  as  "a  stone  cut  out  without  hands 
to  become  a  great  mountain  and  fill  the  whole 
earth."  Satan,  having  failed  to  make  paganism  the 
"universal  religion,"  instigated  Mohammedanism, 
and  with  the  scimitar  undf-rtook  to  make  it  the  "uni- 
versal religion"of  the  world.  But  finally  in  the  clash 
of  arms,  the  Moslem  scimitar  was  broken,  and  Sa- 
tan's ingenuity  was  taxed  to  invent  some  other  sys- 


THB  CATHOLIC  CEURCH  IN  AMERICA. 


BY  REV.    A    SMITH. 

The  church  of  Rome  is  the  result  of  the  union  of 
dead  Christianity  with  the  paganism  of  ancient 
Rome.  For  ages  the  papal  church  has  had  her  seat 
and  held  her  court  in  the  city  of  Rome  on  the  Tiber, 
and  her  unswerving  ambition,  like  that  of  ancient 
Rome,  has  been  and  still  is  supreme  and  universal 
dominion.  The  papacy  originated  A,  D,  606,  For 
the  last  thirteen  centuries,  she  has  been  adding  error 
to  error,  lie  to  lie,  and  blasphemy  to  blasphemy,  un- 
til in  this  age  she  has  asserted  the  dogmas  of  the 
immaculate  conception  of  Mary  and  the  unfallibility 
of  the  Pope. 

The  following  are  the  dates  of  the  principal  inno- 
vations, corruptions,  and  assumptions  of  papacy  on 
the  authority  of  the  Evangelical  Tnimpet:  Invoca- 
tion of  saints,  375;  the  Latin  service,  600;  suprem- 
acy of  the  Pope,  606;  worship  of  images  and  relics, 
787;  transubstantiation,  1000;  the  sacrifice  of  the 
mass,  1100;  sale  of  indulgences,  1190;  withholding 
cup  from  laity;  1415;  purgatory,  1439;  restriction 
of  the  Bible.  1546;  seven  sacraments,  1547;  worship 
ol  the  virgin,  1563;  the  creed  of  Pius  IV. added  1564. 
The  celebrated  Council  of  Trent  commenced  its  sit- 
tings in  1545,  and  before  its  close  in  1564  the  above 
innovations  and  corruptions  were  sanctioned; nor  have 
they  been  altered,  much  less  abjured  unto  the  pres- 
ent time.  Since  the  Reformation  took  place,in  1517, 
the  immaculate  conception  of  Mary  has  been  added 
as  an  article  of  faith  to  the  creed  of  the  Romish 
Church  in  1854,  and  the  infallibility  of  the  Pope 
has  been  settled  also  in  the  "Vatican  council,  in 
1870.  ' 

The  church  of  Rome  is  an  absolute  despotism. 
She  claims,  and  wherever  possible  exercises,  su- 
preme control  over  all  persons  and  things,  whether 
civil  or  religous,  spiritual  or  temporal.  She  wields 
a  greater  influence  over  the  consciences  of  her  near- 
ly 200,000,000  subjects  than  any  other  government 
on  earth.  She  is  the  most  powerful  and  dangerous 
political  party  in  the  world.    In  iier  system  of  false 


religion,  her  combined  civil  and  religious  despotism, 
her  blasphemous  titles,  her  oathbound  Jesuitism, 
her  secret  councils  and  her  veiled  harems  for  the 
priests,  she  closely  resembles  her  copyists,  the  Ma- 
sonic institution,  and  the  Mormon  hierarchy.  Bigot- 
ed, intolerent,  cruel,  hypocritical,  avaricious,  un- 
scrupulous, and  lecherous,  she,  has  to  the  extent  of 
her  power,  crushed  out  ail  civil  arid  religious  liber- 
ty; fostered  ignorance,  superstition  and  crime,  and 
degraded  and  impoverished  the  masses  under  her 
sway.  Having  deceived  her  slaves  with  the  blas- 
phemous pretention  that  she  alone  held  the  keys  of 
heaven,  she  has  amassed  great  wealth  by  her  traflSc 
in  the  souls  of  men  by  selling  them  eternal  salva- 
tion, and  every  earthly  good  in  the  form  of  relics, 
beads,  pictures,  scapularies,  dispensations,  absolu- 
tion, extreme  unction,  and  masses,  both  for  the  liv- 
ing and  the  dead. 

The  church  of  Rome  has  ruled  over  the  kings  of 
the  earth,  she  has  persecuted  the  saints  of  the  Most 
High,  she  is  red  with  the  blood  of  the  martyrs  of 
Jesus,  she  butchered  the  Albigenses  and  the  Peido- 
montese,  her  unjust  wars  drenched  Europe  with 
gore,  her  bloody  inquisition  condemned  millions  of 
innocent  victims  to  fiendish  tortures,  and  the  most 
horrible  deaths.  She  murdered  the  Huguenots  on 
St.  JBartholomew's  day,  and  drove  our  pilgrim  fore- 
fathers to  seek  a  home  among  the  savages  and  wild 
beasts  of  America  that  they  might  be  free  to  wor- 
ship God  according  to  His  holy  word.  Since  the 
great  Protestant  reformation  in  the  days  of  Martin 
Luther  she  has  changed  her  tactics,but  not  her  char- 
acter. Had  she  the  power  she  would  to-day  re-enact 
the  atrocious  crimes  of  former  ages.  This  is  evi- 
dent from  her  unchanged  canon  law,  the  Syllabus  of 
Pope  Pius  IX,,  the  encyclical  of  Pope  Leo  XIIL, 
the  utteraeces  of  the  Romish  press,  and  her  treat- 
ment of  ex-priests,  like  Chiniquy  and  McGlynn,  by 
the  infallible  pope  and  his  satraps.  To-day  Rome 
is  bending  all  her  energies,  plying  all  her  hellish 
arts,  and  utilizing  all  her  Jesuit  cunning  for  the 
ccnquestof  England  and  the  United  States,  the  two 
great  Protestant  powers  which  form  the  chief  bar- 
rier to  the  gratification  of  her  insatiate  ambition  for 
universal  empire.  To  day  Rome  is  full  of  hope  and 
courage  and  confident  of  final  victory.  To-day  Leo 
XIIL,  the  most  astute  and  wily  pontiff  that  the 
I  world  has  seen  for  ages,  is  plotting  in  the  Vatican, 
and  plying  with  vigor  and  success  his  schemes,  for 
the  acquisition  of  political  prestige  and  temporal 
power.  To-day  this  pope  is  marshalling  and  mass 
ing  his  forces  for  the  great  battle  of  Armageddon, 

Ever  since  America  was  discovered  and  taken 
possession  of  by  Christopher  Columbus  in  the  name 
of  the  pope  it  has  been  a  pet  scheme  of  the  papal 
church  to  Romanize  and  rule  the  new  world.  To 
this  end  she  has  sent  out  missionaries  to  the  savag- 
es, colonized  Canada  and  Louisiana  with  French 
papists  and  flooded  Florida,  Mexico,  and  Central 
and  South  America  with  her  Spanish  subjects.  For 
more  than  a  century  a  stream  of  papal  subjects  has 
been  with  increasing  volume  poured  from  the  mouth 
of  the  great  red  dragon  on  our  shores.  A  large 
share  of  this  multitude,  many  of  them  paupers  or 
criminals  from  the  slums  of  Europe,  have  by  order 
of  their  priests,  voted  in  the  interests  of  the  pope, 
and  for  the  overthrow  of  our  free  institutions.  The 
desire  of  Rome  is  to  divide  and  destroy  the  nation, 
and  her  Satanic  hatred  of  all  true  liberty,  and  true 
reform  was  clearly  unmasked  during  the  slavehold- 
ers rebellion.  Pope  Pius  IX,  acknowledged  the 
Southern  confederacy.  He  wrote  a  letter  of  approval 
to  his  "dear  son  Jefferson  Davis,"  Every  Romish 
bishop,  but  one,  at  the  North  favored  the  South. 
Papal  mobs  were  let  loose  in  New  York  and  other 
northern  cities,  in  the  interests  of  the  rebellion, 
France,  the  eldest  son  of  the  church,  sent  an  army 
of  French  troops  under  Maximilian  into  Mexico, 
and  the  Jesuits  planned  and  executed  the  assassin- 
ation of  President  Lincoln, 

"In  the  Catholic  Church  of  the  United  States 
there  are  now  1  cardinal,  12  archbishops,  61  bishops, 
7658  priests,  1530  ecclesiastical  students,  6910 
churches,  3281  chapels,  36  theological  seminaries, 
88  colleges,  593  academies,  485  charitable  institu- 
tions, 2697  parochial  schools,  and  531,725  pupils  in 
attendance  at  these  schools.  In  the  diocese  of  Bos- 
ton there  are  400,000  Catholics,  and  it  is  claimed 
that  out  of  every  eleven  children  born  in  Boston 
seven  are  Catholics.  The  arch-diocese  of  New  York 
has  600,000  Catholics,  while  the  Catholic  population 
of  Brooklyn  is  about  250,000,  Most  of  the  other 
dioceses  show  a  si  miliar  relative  strength,  and  yet 
Sadlier's  Catholic  Directory,  from  which  the  figures 
are  taken,  says  that  the  Catholic  church  in  this 
country  is  only  in  her  infancy.  It  is  estimated 
that  there  are  now  in  the  United  States  from  seven 
to  eleven  millions  of  Romanists,  and  more  than  ten 
million  in  the  British  Empire."  From  a  carefully 
prepared  table  by  A.  L.  Brown  in  "Romanism  tha 


Deokmbir  15  188T 


THE  CHBISTIAN  CYNOSUHE. 


8 


Danger  Ahead,"  we  take  the  following  statistics 
showing  the  rate  of  increase  of  the  Eomish  element 
in  this  country  beginning  at  1790  and  closing  in 
1878:  In  1790  the  proportion  was  one  out  of  every 
31  of  the  entire  population;  in  1800,  one  out  of 
every  88;  in  1810,  one  out  of  every  60;  in  1820,  one 
out  of  every  40;  in  1830,  one  out  of  every  27;  in 
1840,  one  out  of  every  18;  in  1850,  one  out  of  every 
12;  in  1860,  one  out  of  every  8^;  in  1870,  one  out 
of  every  7;  in  1878,  one  out  of  every  6.  If  this 
ratio  of  increase  is  kept  up  how  long  will  it  be  be- 
fore Rome  will  have  her  way  in  everything  in  this 
"home  of  the  free?" 

But  are  not  the  Protestant  churches  growing  fast 
enough  and  converting  Romanists  enough  to  neu- 
tralize the  power  of  Rome?  No.  Dr.  Josiah  Strong 
shows  by  an  array  of  figures  that  cannot  be  refuted 
that  the  Romish  Church  has  grown  since  1850  faster 
than  any  other  church  or  all  of  the  Protestant 
churches  combined.  We  submit  for  the  careful  con- 
sideration of  the  reader  these  alarming  figures.  "In 
1850,"  he  tells  us,  "the  Catholic  Church  was  nearly 
one  half  as  large  as  all  evangelical  Protestant  church- 
es. From  1850  to  1880  the  population  increased  116 
per  cent,  the  communicants  of  evangelical  churches 
185  per  cent,and  the  Roman  Catholic  population  294 
per  cent.  During  the  same  period  Catholic  church- 
es increased  447  per  cent.  From  1870  to  1880  the 
churches  of  all  evangelical  denominations  increased 
49  per  cent,  whilst  Catholic  churches  multiplied  74 
per  cent.  From  1875  to  1880  the  ministers  of  evan- 
gelical churches  increased  in  number  46  per  cent. 
Catholic  priests  61  per  cent.  From  1850  to  1870 
ministers  increased  86  per  cent,  priests  204  per  cent. 
From  1850  to  1880  ministers  increased  173  per  cent 
and  priests  391  per  cent.  In  1850  the  Catholic  pop- 
ulation was  equal  to  45  per  cent  of  the  evangelical 
church  membership.  In  1870  it  was  equal  to  68 
per  cent  and  in  1880  a  slight  loss  due  to  falling  off 
of  immigration  during  the  latter  half  of  the  period. 
Examination  shows  that  the  growth  of  the  Catholic 
church  corresponds  closely  with  that  of  the  foreign 
population,  but  is  somewhat  more  rapid.  Since  1880 
there  has  been  a  marked  increase  in  the  Catholic 
population.  The  annual  growth  of  the  latter  from 
1870  to  1880  was  176,733,  while  from  1883  to  1884 
it  was  231,322."  These  important  statistics  should 
be  carefully  studied.  If  we  compute  the  vast  and 
rapidly  increasing  wealth,  social  influence  and  polit- 
ical power  of  the  Church  of  Rome  the  showing  would 
be  still  more  startling. 

With  one-third  of  the  vote  and  paying  one-tenth 
of  the  taxes,  Rome  has  received  from  the  public 
treasury  of  New  York  city  within  fifteen  years  more 
than  $12,000,000  for  her  schools,churches,etc.  Many 
school  boards  are  controlled  by  papists.  Rome  has 
many  teachers  in  our  public  schools;  she  is  every- 
where making  war  on  our  Bible  and  our  public 
schools.  The  municipal  governments  of  our  cities 
are  largely  under  the  control  of  the  priests;  a  large 
share  of  our  State  militia  and  our  army  and  navy 
are  papists.  Many  of  the  officials  in  every  branch  of 
our  government,  both  State  and  national,  are  either 
Romanists  or  tools  of  the  Jesuits.  Nearly  all  our 
political  parties  are  bidding  for  the  Romish  vote. 
Our  two  great  political  parties  are,to  a  large  extent, 
not  only  rum-ruled,  but  Rome-ruled.  Senator  Win- 
dom  says  that  the  ram-sellers  rule  New  York  city, 
New  York  city  rules  New  York  State,  and  the  State 
of  New  York  often  decides  the  Presidency  of  the 
nation.  But  a  large  share  of  our  rum-sellers  are  Ro- 
manists, who  are  owned  and  controlled  by  the  papal 
church.  It  is  admitted  that  Romish  votes  decided 
the  last  Presidential  election.  It  is  said  that  Cardi- 
nal Qibbons  has  a  million  and  a  half  votes  at  his  dis- 
posal,and  that  no  man  can  be  President  of  the  Unit- 
ed States  without  closing  a  bargain  with  this  satrap 
of  the  Pope  in  the  interests  of  the  papal  church.  Ac- 
cording to  Dr.  McGlynn  the  Pope  is  plotting  for 
diplomatic  relations  between  his  court  and  that  of 
England  and  the  United  States.  He  is  anxious  to 
be  represented  by  accredited  ambassadors  at  the  cap- 
itals of  these  Protestant  powers.  Rome  claims  to 
be  educating  ten  thousand  Protestant  children  in  her 
schools.  Two-thirds  of  the  females  in  her  nunner- 
ies are  the  children  of  nominal  Protestants.  Our 
secular  press  is  usually  either  faint  in  its  opposition 
to  Rome,  or  else  favors  her  schemes,  either  for  pat- 
ronage, office  or  pay.  Our  Protestant  press  and  pul- 
pit for  the  most  part  are  either  criminally  liberal  or 
silent  in  regard  to  papal  encroachments,  while  the 
Protestant  masses  manifest  intense  ignorance  and  a 
foolhardy  apathy  on  this  sub]ect,and  an  egotism  and 
stupidity  which  foreshadows  coming  disaster. 

From  the  above  facts,  and  volumes  more  which 
might  be  written  it  is  evident  that  our  Protestant 
civilization  and  our  civil  and  religious  liberties  are 
to-day  in  great  and  imminent  peril  from  the  increas- 
ing power  of  the  "mother  of  harlots."  God  forbid, 
tbat  we  ibonld  neglect  to  do  ftll  in  our  power  to  pre- 


serve the  glorious  inheritance  of  civil  and  religious 
liberty,  the  Holy  Bible  and  the  holy  Christianity  for 
which  our  Pilgrim  Fathers  toiled  and  suffered,  and 
our  Washington  and  his  army  of  heroes  fought,  and 
our  Lincoln  was  martyred. 
Syracute,  N.  Y, 

■  ■  m 

THE  SHOP  COUNCIL  ¥8.  THE  SECRBT  UNION. 


Who  can  estimate  the  evil  influence  of  secrecy  on 
the  labor  difficulties?  The  employer  is  trained  to  se- 
crecy as  he  is  trained  to  business.  He  must  learn 
to  keep  the  conduct  of  his  business  in  his  own  hands 
and  head,  to  guard  his  trade  secrets,  to  confine  each 
employee's  knowledge  to  his  own  department,  and 
general  knowledge  to  partners;  to  "let  things  out"is 
to  tempt  bankruptcy.  The  trades  union  is,in  its  turn, 
as  secretive  as  the  employer,  for  it  feels  that  secrecy 
is  essential  to  the  successful  struggle  which  is  to  prove 
its  reason  for  existence.  In  its  secret  debates,petty 
grievances  are  swollen  into  unnatural  proportions 
through  the  desire  to  maintain  the  "dignity  of  labor" 
by  showing  that  "an  injury  to  one  is  the  concern  of 
all."  On  both  sides  that  first  blow  which  is  to  be 
half  the  battle  is  to  come  like  a  thunder-clap  from  a 
cloud  of  secrecy. 

Two  men,  taking  such  an  attitude  toward  each 
other,  would  not  be  far  from  a  conflict;  the  first  mo- 
tion,perhaps  unconscious  or  instinctive,by  one  would 
be  met  by  more  effective  movement  by  the  other.  The 
present  attitude  of  employer  and  employee  toward 
each  other  is  too  often  that  of  the  frontier  ethics  of 
the  Far  West,  where  a  well-furnished  pistol  pocket 
and  the  ability  to  "draw"  most  promptly  are  the 
supreme  tests  of  the  better  man;  and  where,  conse- 
quently, the  first  motion  toward  the  pistol  pocket  is 
the  signal  for  decisive  action  by  the  other.  Could 
the  employee  get  into  the  secrets  of  the  employer.he 
might  be  surprised  to  find  that  the  supposed  million- 
aire was  really  "shinning"  around  the  street  in  the 
desperate  effort  to  make  one  note  take  the  place  of 
another;  and  that  an  attack  upon  him  at  the  juncture, 
resulting  in  suspension  of  work,  would  be  suicide 
rather  than  victory.  Could  the  employer  get  at  the 
secrets  of  his  employee,  he  might  be  surprised  to 
find  that  the  supposed  loud-mouthed  demagogue  was 
really  borne  down  by  a  double  burden  of  anxiety  for 
his  family,  by  fear  of  the  direct  consequences  of  a 
strike  or  lock-out  and  of  the  indirect  consequences  of 
any  apparent  treachery  to  "the  cause  of  labor"  on  his 
part.  Could  the  two  parties  know  each  other  better, 
how  many  struggles  would  be  averted,and  how  many 
others  would  never  rise  to  the  dignity  of  a  strike  or 
lock-out. 

Mr.  James  C.  Bayles,  the  editor  of  the  Iron  Age, 
has  suggested  in  a  pamphlet  the  institution  of  "shop- 
councils,"in  which  employer  and  employee  are  to  be 
equally  represented — the  decisions  not  to  be  binding 
on  either  party  unless  approved  by  both,and  all  func- 
tions to  be  purely  conciliatory.  As  a  means  of  elim- 
inating something  of  the  element  of  secrecy  from  the 
relations  of  the  two  parties,of  keeping  petty  matters 
out  of  secret  discussion  and  decision, it  seems  all  that 
can  be  desired.  It  is  the  antipode  of  compulsory  ar- 
bitration; and  it  avoids  that  suspicion  which  often 
attaches  even  to  voluntary  arbitration.  It  is  rather 
symptomatic  than  remedial,  just  as  a  general  disuse 
of  the  pistol-pocket  would  be  an  excellent  accessory 
to  a  law  against  street-combats.  It  is  a  modest  prop- 
osition; but,  even  in  the  din  of  high-sounding  schemes 
and  associationSjis  it  too  much  to  hope  for  a  fair  trial 
of  it  somewhere? — Editorial  in  the  Century. 
m  %  • 

The  abnormal  array  of  labor  against  capital  prob- 
ably reached  its  climax  a  year  or  two  ago.  The 
great  organizations,  like  the  Knights  of  Labor,  are 
now  disintegrating.  The  terrorism  they  proposed 
and  endeavored  to  enforce  was  rather  worse  and 
more  oppressive  than  the  tyranny  of  capital,  against 
which  they  were  ostensibly  protesting.  A  latent 
sense  of  justice  was  aroused  by  this  illegal  and  un- 
reasonable attempt  to  enslave  capital  and  establish 
a  certain  community  of  interests  in  which  capitalists 
should  have  no  part  beyond  the  melancholy  pleasure 
of  seeing  their  property  handled  with  the  utmost 
freedom  by  those  who  had  taken  possession  thereof 
by  force.  That  sense  of  justice  is  now  active,  thanks 
to  the  reckless  edicts  and  wholesale  boycotts  of  irre- 
sponsible societies,  and  foreign  agitators  are  begin- 
ning to  learn  that  the  easy  job  they  have  so  long 
enjoyed  of  working  with  the  mouth  only  is,  in  vul- 
gar parlance,  just  about  "played  out"  This  is, 
therefore,  an  excellent  time  for  missionary  work. 
It  might  even  be  well  to  make  some  degree  of  intel- 
ligence a  prerequisite  to  citizenship.  At  the  very 
least  the  man  who  votes  should  be  able  to  read  the 
ticket  and  understand  what  he  is  voting  for.  This 
all  leads  up  to  the  important  thought  that  some  sort 
of  education  is  the  best  antidote  for  the  labor  trou- 
bles.— Chicago  Herald. 


The  Secret  Empire 


THE  BALD  KNOBBERB. 

The  history  of  society,  while  full  of  wild  incident, 
hardy  adventure,  and  summary  vengeance,  is  more 
instructive  even  than  entertaining.  It  provides  a 
remarkable  study  of  the  secret  society  principle, 
and  the  facility  with  which  an  organization,  adopt- 
ing it  for  an  apparently  useful  purpose,  is  readily  de- 
veloped into  a  band  of  assassins  and  guerrillas,  and 
with  such  subtile  self-deception  that  its  members 
seem  hardly  to  be  aware  of  the  enormity  of  their 
crimes.  The  Ku-Klux  originated  as  a  band  of 
young  men  associated  for  amusement;  the  Masonic 
lodgej  was  a  simple  stone-mason's  society.  The 
Bald  Knobbers  was  first  a  company  of  settlers 
blindly  defending  their  property  rights  as  squatters 
from  the  incursions  of  railways  and  speculators. 

From  various  reports  in  the  daily  press  we  are 
able  to  compile  the  following  history  of  this  secret 
order. 

In  the  southwestern  part  of  Missouri  there  is  a 
mountainous  district  comprising  about  a  dozen 
counties  which  was  settled  some  three  generations 
ago  by  the  ancestors  of  the  present  Bald  Knobbers. 
These  people  had  come  from  the  mountain  regions 
of  the  Carolinas,  Western  Virginia,  and  Eastern 
Kentuky  and  Tennessee,  in  which  localities  they  had 
been  known  as  "po'  white  trash,"  the  general  term 
then  given  by  the  planters  and  negroes  to  non-slave- 
holding  whites.  Coming  to  Missouri  with  little 
wealth  save  their  horses,  shotguns,  and  family  carts, 
they  found  a  home  to  their  fancy  in  the  Ozark 
Mountains.  Here,  as  farther  east,  they  found  them- 
selves the  scorn  of  the  wealthy  planters  on  the  low 
lands  adjoining  them,  but  the  mountain  recesses 
abounded  in  game  and  the  hillsides  gave  their 
hardy  cattle  abundant  and  cheap  pasture,  and  they 
lived  in  peace  and  comparative  plenty  until  the  civU 
war  broke  out.  All  these  men  were  Douglas  Demo- 
crats, and  they  declared  themselves  decidedly  on 
the  side  of  the  Union.  They  became  known  as  the 
"Mountain  Feds,"  and  under  their  leader,  William 
Monks,  they  struck  many  a  blow  against  the  power 
of  the  guerrillas.  After  the  coming  of  peace  civili- 
zation began  making  its  way  into  the  Ozark  Moun- 
tains in  a  manner  that  the  "Mountain  Feds"  did  not 
at  all  approve  of.  Railroads  were  built,  and  settlers 
began  to  find  out  that  the  large  tracts  of  land  that 
these  mountaineers  had  held  so  long  as  their  own, 
were  still  open  for  settlement  under  the  homestead 
law.  They  pushed  in  and  began  taking  up  the 
land,  in  utter  disregard  of  the  holdings  of  the  in- 
habitants. The  mountaineers  did  not  understand 
it;  they  could  not  at  all  comprehend  how  strangers 
could  have  a  right  to  take  the  land  on  which  their 
huts  stood  and  their  cattle  grazed;  and,  further- 
more, they  did  not  mean  to  submit  to  it. 

A  vigilance  committee,  which  was  formed  in 
Taney  county,  a  district  isolated  from  railroads  and 
their  commerce,  to  rid  the  neighborhood  of  horse 
and  cattle  thieves,  having  succeeded  fairly  in  its 
work,  it  seemed  well  adapted  for  operations  upon 
the  invadors.  It  was  revamped  into  a  regular  se- 
cret society. 

In  October,  1884,  a  meeting  was  held  in  Taney 
county  on  a  hill  called  Bald  Knob.  Several  other 
meetings  followed,  and  the  parties  who  attended 
were  called  Bald  Knobbers.  It  seems  that  these 
meetings  were  for  the  purpose  of  forming  a  perma- 
nent secret  society  for  the  regulation  of  the  universe 
generally,  and  Laney  county  in  particular.  An  oath 
of  secrecy,  more  horrible  than  the  dime  novel  pro- 
duction or  the  MoUie  Maguire  oath,  was  originated, 
and  it  is  related  that  applicants  for  membership 
would  sometimes  faint  while  having  the  oath  of  se- 
crecy administered  to  them. 

In  the  spring  of  1885  a  permanent  organization 
was  effected,  there  being  at  the  time  about  125 
members.  Officers  were  elected,  captains  of  various 
squads  appointed,  and  a  general  campaign  mapped 
out  for  running  Taney  county.  Two  brothers, 
named  Taylor,  were  under  arrest  for  felonious  as- 
sault They  were  taken  from  jail,  and  lynched. 
This  created  considerable  talk,  as  the  lynching  was 
denounced  by  every  good  citizen. 

The  Bald  Knobbers  then  commenced  work  in 
earnest  Men  who  criticized  their  acts  would  re- 
ceive the  following  note: 

"You  have  looled  with  the  wrong  end  of  the  mule, 
and  have  thirty  days  to  get  out  of  the  county." 

This  warning  was  well  understood.  To  disobey 
it  meant  assassination.  In  a  few  days  men  who  re- 
ceived notices  disposed  of  their  property  as  best  they 
could,  and  left.  According  to  reports  the  organiza- 
tion constantly  increased.  Numerous  murders  were 
committed,  and  no  arrests  were  made.  The  court- 
house was  burned  twice;  grand  juries  were  packed, 


THE  CHBISTIAN  CTNOSUBXi. 


Deobhbxb  15, 1887 


and  no  indictments  were  ever  returned.  The  soli- 
tary newspaper  published  in  the  county  called  on 
the  officers  to  enforce  the  laws.  For  this  bit  of  en- 
terprise the  office  and  contents  were  burned.  The 
publisher  started  a  new  paper,  and  again  every- 
thing was  consumed  by  an  incendiary  fire.  The 
editor  then  sought  an  investment  elsewhere.  The 
officers  made  no  attempt  to  enforce  the  law,  and  the 
organization  spread  rapidly  into  the  adjoining  coun- 
ties of  Stone,  Ozark,  Douglass,  and  Christian. 

In  two  years  over  100  murders  were  charged 
against  the  Bald  Knobbers  in  the  counties  named, 
and  arson  and  intimidation  were  too  common  to 
create  attention.  As  all  the  counties  are  distant 
from  railroads,  and  without  any  means  of  commun- 
ication with  the  rest  of  the  State,  the  true  condition 
of  aflairs  was  not  known.  Only  two  or  three  papers 
are  published  in  that  section  of  the  State,  and  they 
were  afraid  to  say  anything.  In  November,  1885, 
Secretary  of  State  McGrath  visiied  Taney  county 
for  the  purpose  of  inspecting  some  land  he  had  pur- 
chased. While  there  he  heard  about  the  depreda- 
tions of  the  Bald  Knobbers,  and  published  an  arti- 
cle in  a  newspaper  of  this  city,  setting  forth  the 
facts.  This  induced  Governor  Marmaduke  to  send 
the  Adjutant  General  to  Taney  county.  A  partial 
investigation  was  made,  and  also  a  threat  to  send 
militia  on  the  lawless  counties,  but  during  all  this 
time  the  courts  made  no  efforts  to  break  up  the  or- 
ganization, or  even  pry  into  its  lawless  acts. 

The  society  at  first  tried  intimidation  on  the  new 
settlers.  When  they  grew  bolder  and  committed 
depredations,  and  murder  followed,  naturally,  when 
there  was  no  restraint  of  law.  The  efforts  of  the 
State  authorities  proved  to  be  of  no  avail,  and  it 
was  not  until  the  case  was  undertaken  by  Col.  M. 
E.  Benton,  United  States  District  Attorney  for  the 
western  district  of  Missouri,  that  the  Bald  Knob- 
bers lodge  was  broken  up.  He  took  measures  to 
bring  the  offenders  before  the  Federal  courts.  War- 
rants were  issued,  and  during  the  spring  of  1887 
fifteen  members  of  the  order  were  arrested.  These 
were  taken  to  Jefferson  City  to  be  tried  for  violation 
of  the  "Ku-Klux  law."  The  prisoners  were  from 
Douglass,  Taney,  Christian,  and  other  counties  of 
southwestern  Missouri.  Their  trial  came  off  early  in 
September.  After  the  cases  of  four  had  been  heard, 
and  the  jury  pronounced  them  guilty,  the  rest  threw 
themselves  upon  the  mercy  of  the  court,  and  all  re- 
ceived nearly  the  maximum  punishment  of  ten  years 
imprisonment  and  $5,000  fine. 

Thus,like  Ku-Kluxism  and  the  Mollie  Maroguires, 
the  law  at  last  overtook  these  desperadoes,  broke  up 
their  lodge  and  visited  upon  them  the  punishment 
they  seemed  to  have  deserved. 


burning  and  burdened  heart,  one  of  these  men,  as  it 
were,  leaning  carelessly  on  an  old  rotten  fence,  just 
ready  to  topple  over  into  hell. 

m  *  m  ' 

THE    WASHINGTON    CONVENTION    OF    TEB 
EVANOELICAL  ALLIANCE. 


A  FEARFUL  INDICTMENT. 


FROM   A   NEW   ENGLAND   PASTOR. 


[A  friendly  letter  from  a  retired  Congregational 
pastor  who  was  for  years  over  a  large  and  influential 
church,  contains  the  following  passages  which  are 
the  more  striking  from  the  fact  that  the  writer  has 
known  little  or  nothing  of  the  organized  opposition 
to  the  lodge,  and  this  is  probably  the  first  publica- 
tion of  his  sentiments  on  this  question. — Ed.] 

From  the  first  day  of  my  ministry  I  opposed  "Ma- 
sonry" and  preached  against  it,  and  for  five  years 
did  not  know  I  had  a  Mason  in  my  church;  and  to 
the  last  day  they  kept  the  matter  as  still  as  possible. 
They  were  ashamed  to  be  seen  in  processions.  They 
one  and  all  forsook  the  Masonic  meetings,  but  had 
not  courage  to  go  farther.  As  far  as  my  experience 
goes  I  know  the  venom  of  Masonry  is  not  seen  or 
known  by  many  "goody"  members.  It  is  "a  wheel 
within  a  wheel."  1  have  seen  its  perfect  Jesuitism 
for  twenty  years,  in  the  little  caucus  of  select  Ma- 
sons, etc. 

I  saw  in  the  twenty  years'  pastorate  of  so  large  a 
church  that  Masonry  perfectly  paralyzed  the  profes- 
sing Christian.  I  never  saw  an  active  Christian  who 
was  an  active  Mason.  I  had  reasons  enough  to  op- 
pose and  have  nothing  to  do  with  them. 

While  I  was  pastor  we  never  took  a  Mason  into 
our  church  knowing  he  was  a  Mason.  In  a  few 
cases  by  letter  men  whom  we  had  known,  but  never 
suspected,  "crept  in  unawares."  My  church  in  the 
main  felt  as  strongly  as  I  did.  Early  I  bad  the  idea 
that  vital  religion  would  utterly  kill  Masonry  in  the 
church  and  congregation,  and  it  did  it  wonderfully 
in  our  little  circle;  but  I  saw  it  spreading  all  around 
me  and  to-day  my  church  is  controlled  and  run  by 
two  men,  now  active  Masons,  but  once  disciplined 
by  my  influence  for  too  great  familiarity  with  women. 

But  one  of  the  worst  effects  of  Masonry  as  I  met 
it  was  this:  the  converted  and  unconverted  made  a 
religion  of  it.  They  seemed  to  feel  the  need  of 
nothing  more  vital.     It  was  awful  to  meet,  with  the 


Washington,  D.  C,  Dec.  8,  1887. 
Editok  Christian  CrNosuRE: — The  convention 
of  the  American  Evangelical  Alliance  met  in  the 
Congregational  church,  Tenth  and  G  streets,  at  9 
o'clock  Wednesday  morning.  About  500  delegates 
were  registered  and  many  were  not.  It  was  notice- 
able that  the  majority  had  passed  the  meridian  of 
life.  Many  of  the  brightest  lights  in  the  country 
were  there."  Dr.  Pierson  said,  "It  is  the  grandest 
assembly  since  the  day  of  Pentecost.  It  is  more  im- 
portant than  the  Council  of  Nice,  made  up  as  it  were 
of  scarred  veterans  and  maimed  martyrs,  met  to  set- 
tle the  divinity  of  Christ.  This  convention  is  to 
settle  the  practical  application  of  these  principles  to 
modern  lite." 

William  E.  Dodge,  president  of  the  Alliance,  called 
the  convention  to  order.  Bishop  Samuel  Harris, 
D.D.,  LL.D.,  of  Michigan,  read  the  Scripture,  and 
Dr.  Pierson  offered  prayer.  In  his  opening  address 
the  president  reviewed  the  state  of  the  country, 
financially,  morally  and  spiritually,  and  plead  for 
co-operation  on  the  part  of  the  churches  as  the  only 
remedy  for  existing  evils. 

Hon.  John  Jay,  a  venerable  gentleman  from  New 
York,  presided  at  the  first  session.  The  address  of 
welcome  was  delivered  by  Bishop  Edward  G.  An- 
drews, D.D,,  LL.D.,  of  this  city.  He  said,  Washing- 
ton is  the  city  of  conventions.  It  is  the  center  of 
our  national  life.  "The  city  is  more  yours  than  ours; 
it  is  built  by  and  represents  the  whole  nation."  He 
was  followed  by  Rev.  Daniel  Dorchester,  D.D.,  of 
Boston,  on  "The  Perils  of  the  City."  He  gave  a 
startling  array  of  facts.  The  only  blemish  was,  he 
did  not  have  time  to  read  more  than  half  he  had 
written.  Rev.  S.  J.  McPherson,  D.D.,  of  Chicago, 
came  next.  His  was  the  address  of  the  convention 
for  wit,  pith  and  eloquence.  Chicago  is  the  only  city 
that  has  dared  to  punish  anarchism.  There  are  in 
some  of  our  cities  communities  of  30,000  Bohemians 
and  not  more  than  four  evangelical  ministers  who 
can  speak  their  language.  Immigrants  are  coming 
here  at  the  rate  of  a  million  a  year,  and  either  we 
must  assimilate  them  or  they  will  assimilate  us. 
These  two  addresses  were  repeated  in  the  Fourth 
Presbyterian  church  last  night  at  an  overflow  meet- 
ing. 

Judge  Strong  presided  at  the  afternoon  session. 
Immigration  was  discussed  by  Prof.  Hjalmer  H. 
Boyesen,  of  Columbia  College.  He  advocated  re- 
stricted immigration.  This  is  wrong.  Each  dele- 
gate is  allowed  ten  minutes  to  discuss  the  topic.  I 
took  our  ten  minutes  to  show  that  our  government 
should  be  thoroughly  Christianized  and  then  any 
who  should  choose  to  come  and  conform  to  our 
Christian  institutions  should  be  permitted  without 
let  or  hindrance.  Several  members  of  the  conven- 
tion have  since  spoken  to  me  and  endorsed  this  po- 
sition. Prof.  A.  L.  Baldwin  of  New  Haven  spoke. 
He  thought  restriction  ought  to  begin  at  Sandy 
Hook  and  not  at  the  Golden  Gate.  We  complain 
that  the  Chinamen  do  not  become  citizens  and  then 
pass  a  law  forbidding  them.  Prof.  Merrill  E.  Bstes, 
L.  L.  D.,  of  Rutgers  College,  spoke  on  the  "Misuse 
of  Wealth."  Money  is  a  trust.  Rich  men  are  only 
stewards.  Next  came  Bishop  J.  F.  Hurst,  D.  D., 
LL.  D.  Buffalo,  on  "Estrangement  from  the  Church." 
Rev.  A.  T.  Pierson,  D.  D.,  of  Philadelphia,  spoke  on 
the  same  subject.  He  became  very  animated. 
Bishop  Coxe  showed  the  dangers  of  Jesuitry,  and 
Dr.  McArthur,the  ravages  of  the  saloon;but  he  advo- 
cated tax  and  high  license,  both  which  involve  sin- 
ful complicity  with  the  iniquitous  traffic. 

Judge  Harlan,  of  the  Supreme  Court,  presided 
this  morning.  Papers  were  read  on  the  "Perils  of 
the  Family,"  "The  Social  Vice,"  and  "Illiteracy." 

Bishop  Harris  made  the  speech  of  the  Conference. 
Its  burning  eloquence  and  touching  pathos,  its  beau- 
ty and  sublimity  were  irresistible.  Dr.  McPherson 
was  only  second  to  him.  He  called  out  more  ap- 
plause than  the  Bishop,  but  did  not  stir  so  deeply. 
Next  came  Dr.  Pierson.  Dr.  Hatcher,  of  Richmond, 
made  the  most  witty  address.  Dr.  McCosh's  paper 
on  the  church's  duty  to  capitalists  and  laborers,  was 
the  most  profound,  while  Bishop  Cox's  paper  was 
the  most  scholarly.  The  key-note  of  all  was,  Satan 
is  massing  his  forces  and  the  churches  must  co-op- 
erate to  meet  them. 

The  house  has  been  filled  to  overflowing  at  each  of 
the  sessions.  An  influence  for  good  will  go  out  to  the 
whole  nation.  (The  proceedings  of  the  Convention 
are  to  be  printed  in  full.  Paper  bind  $1  per  copy, 
cloth  $1.50.     Anyone  can  procure  it  by  addressing 


the  secretary  of  the  Alliance,  Rev.  Josiah  Strong, 
D.  D.,  New  York  City.) 

President  Cleveland  invited  the  delegates  to 
visit  him  at  the  White  House  on  Friday.  We  visit- 
ed Howard  University.  Pres.  Wm.  W.  Patton  kind- 
ly showed  us  through  their  apartments.  They  have 
a  four-story  building  and  two  dormitories.  There  . 
are  Literary,  Medical,  Law,  Normal,  and  Theologi- 
cal departments.  They  have  42  instructors  and  450 
students  of  both  sexes,  chiefly  colored.  They  have 
an  endowment  of  $150,000.  Congress  makes  them 
an  annual  appropriation  of  $30,000.  They  rent  a 
small  property  to  the  government  for  $4,000  a  year. 
So  they  have  a  good  working  basis. 

The  fiftieth  Congress  is  in  session.  The  Presi- 
dent's message  is  as  full  of  common  sense  and  safe 
principles  as  an  egg  is  full  of  meat.  Ex- Secretary 
Blaine  declares  from  his  partisan  standpoint,  that 
it  would  ruin  oar  industries  if  carried  out.  But  the 
better  judgment  of  the  nation  will  give  a  different 
verdict.  J.  M.  Foster. 


OUR  WASHINGTON  LETTER. 


Washington,  Dec.  10,  1887. 

SecretaryFairchild's  report  oh  the  Treasury  is  very 
voluminous  and  one  that  will  be  read  with  general 
interest.  It  represents  much  earnest  thought  and 
hard  work,  for  the  Secretary  devoted  a  whole 
month's  time  to  the  great  task  before  him — the  re- 
port is  in  the  Secretary's  own  handwriting.  Among 
the  important  recommendations  is  the  suggestion 
that  Congress  provide  for  the  erection  of  a  fire- 
proof hall  of  records  for  the  better  presentation  of 
valuable  Government  records  that  at  present  are 
too  much  in  danger  of  destruction.  During  the 
month  of  November  there  was  a  considerable  in- 
crease in  the  National  debt,  chiefly  because  of  the 
vast  sura  paid  out  for  pensions — the  amount  being 
eighteen  million  dollars  on  that  account.  For  the 
period  in  question,  the  receipts  of  the  Govern- 
ment were  over  a  million  dollars  a  day. 

The  report  of  the  Postmaster  General  makes  a 
very  favorable  showing,  from  which  it  appears  that 
there  has  been  a  gain  of  $4,840,000  in  receipts,  as 
compared  with  the  previous  year,  while,  on  the  other 
hand,  the  increase  in  expense  is  but  little  more  than 
two  million  dollars.  The  deficiency,  which,  two 
years  ago,  was  $700,000,  has  been  reduced  about 
three-fourths,  and  it  is  estimated  that  it  will  almost 
entirely  disappear  before  the  close  of  the  current 
year,  if  the  present  promising  condition  of  the  af- 
fairs of  the  Department  continues.  In  the  matter  of 
changing  officers,  this  report  shows  that  of  the 
2,337  Presidential  postmasters,  who  were  in  place 
March  4,  1885,  but  340  remain— 1,807  new  men 
having  been  appointed.  Another  feature  of  postal 
business  that  will  doubtless  interest  many  of  your 
readers,  is  the  official  record  of  the  amount  of  mon- 
ey lost  in  dead  letters,  which,  for  the  past  year, 
footed  up  $29,687;  of  this  amount  the  sum  of  $22,- 
637  was  restored  to  the  owners;  the  amount  of 
$6,672,  which  could  not  be  returned  to  the  owners, 
was  deposited  in  the  Treasury,  together  with  $2,921, 
the  sum  realized  from  auction  sales  of  unclaimed 
parcels  of  merchandise  found  in  the  mails. 

The  report  of  the  Controller  of  the  Currency  is 
one  that  will  be  read,  especially  by  business  men, 
with  more  than  ordinary  interest,  as  an  important 
addition  is  made  in  the  practical  suggestion  of  a 
new  code  of  bank  laws,  a  copy  of  which  has  been 
sent,  with  an  explanatory  letter,  to  each  member  of 
Congress.  Up  to  the  31st  of  October  the  total  num- 
ber of  national  banks  organized  was  $3,805,  of 
which  117  have  failed,  625  have  gone  into  voluntary 
liquidation,  leaving  3,061  banks  still  organized  at 
that  date. 

In  the  Fiftieth  Congress,  political  parties  will  be 
more  evenly  balanced  than  for  many  years,  the  Re- 
publican majority  having  dwindled  to  almost  noth- 
ing in  the  Senate,  and  the  Democratic  majority  hav- 
ing been  reduced  to  about  a  dozen  in  the  House. 
There  are  three  contested  election  cases  in  the  Sen- 
ate, and  eight  in  the  House. 

The  Republicans  have  been  felicitating  themselves 
that  they  would  be  able  to  control  the  Presidential 
election,  in  the  event  that  there  should  be  no  popu- 
lar choice,  as  that  party  claims  a  majority  of  the 
States  by  Congressional  delegations;  but  this  is  by 
no  means  an  accomplished  fact,  as  the  Democrats, 
in  settling  the  contested  election  cases  from  Califor- 
nia and  Indiana,  have  it  in  their  power  to  transfer 
the  majority  of  the  State  Congressional  delegations 
to  that  organization. 

Since  their  arrival  in  the  capital  over  one  hundred 
Congressmen  have  been  interviewed,  and  the  drift 
of  sentiment  is  largely  in  favor  of  tariff  reform. 

The  Democratic  Congressional  caucus  developed 
much  excitement  and  bitter  feeling  over  the  heated 
contest   for   the  doorkeepership,  and  there   was  an 


Peobhbir  15,  188T 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


occurrence  that  suggested  a  slight  resemblance  to 
the  proverbial  Donnybrook  fair.  The  lie  was  passed 
between  the  gentleman  from  Arkansas  and  the  gen- 
tleman from  Georgia,  and  these  members  then  came 
to  blows,  and  blood  was  drawn  before  the  belliger- 
ent legislators  could  be  separated  by  their  friends. 
Since  I  last  wrote  you  the  Fiftieth  Congress  has 
assembled  and  the  general  Christian  Conference  has 
begun  its  sessions.  Seldom,  if  ever,  before  in  the 
history  of  religious  gatherings  in  this  country,  has 
such  a  body  of  men  come  together  as  assembled  in 
the  Congregational  church  on  Wednesday  morning. 
Almost  every  man  among  the  delegates — of  whom 
there  are  about  fifteen  hundred — is  a  man  of  note 
and  ability  in  the  denomination  to  which  he  belongs, 
and  almost  every  shape  of  Protestant  belief  is  rep- 
resented by  its  ablest  men.  For  the  first  time,  at 
least,  sectarian  jealousies  and  differences  have  been 
lost  sight  of,  and  Presbyterian  professors  of  theolo- 
gy and  Episcopal  bishops  forget  the  doctrines  of 
predestination  and  apostolic  succession,  and  unite 
in  the  great  aim  of  the  Alliance,  the  awakening  of 
an  interest  in  evangelical  work  throughout  the  coun- 
try. 

The  motto  of  the  Alliance  is  "  Unum  corpus  mmus 
in  C'hristo"{We  are  one  body  in  Christ),  and  its  spir- 
it pervades  the  whole  gathering.  Three  sessions 
are  held  each  day  and  the  programs  of  each  include 
the  reading  of  papers,  addresses  and  discussions  on 
relevant  subjects,  with  interspersions  of  music  and 
songs,  in  which  everybody  joins.  It  is  both  a 
spiritual  and  intellectual  treat  to  attend  the  sessions 
of  this  assembly.  The  papers  read  as  well  as  the 
addresses  made  are  weighty  with  thought  and  beau- 
tiful in  diction,  having  been  carefully  prepared  by 
men  of  wide  information  and  profound  erudition. 
And  as  I  said  before,  the  spirit  manifested  by  the 
entire  body  is  excellent.  It  must  be  comforting  to 
Dr.  Schaff,  the  apostle  of  the  movement  for  the  clos- 
er unity  of  the  churches,  to  look  over  this  assembly 
and  think  of  the  time  not  many  years  ago  when  such 
a  gathering  would  have  been  impossible.  I  believe 
a  divine  messenger,  sent  on  an  errand  on  swiftest 
wing,  would  be  tempted  to  pause  for  a  moment  over 
this  Christian  Conference  and  view  the  heavenly 
scene. 

At  noon  on  Monday  last  the  flags  were  raised  over 
both  wings  of  the  Capitol  for  the  first  time  since  the 
close  of  the  Forty-ninth  Congress.  Promptly  at 
twelve  o'clock  the  gavels  fell  in  both  the  Senate  and 
House  of  Representatives,  and  the  new  Congress, 
called  to  order,  was  ready  for  roll  call. 

In  the  House  end,  just  as  the  reading  clerk  was 
about  to  proceed,  a  man  arose  in  the  northwest  gal- 
lery and  with  uplifted  hands  began  to  sing  the  Dox- 
ology  in  a  plaintive  voice.  The  House  was  greatly 
amazed,  and  every  one  began  to  laugh.  At  first  it 
was  not  known  from  whence  the  singing  came,  but 
the  vocalist  was  soon  discovered,  and  the  sergeant 
at  arms  hastened  after  him,  while  for  about  ten  min- 
utes there  ensued  a  perfect  bedlam  of  noise  and  con- 
fusion. Before  the  oflScer  arrived  at  the  scene  of 
the  song,  the  singer  had  finished  the  Doxology  and 
resumed  his  seat.  Thus  the  usual  opening  proceed- 
ings of  the  House  were  varied,  while  the  Senate 
started  off  in  its  usual  dignified  way.  The  man  was 
taken  to  the  station  house.  In  reply  to  the  ques- 
tion, "Why  did  you  sing?"  he  replied,  "To  praise 
God;  such  assemblages  should  not  be  opened  with- 
out praise  to  the  Redeemer."  He  was  trying  to 
reach  the  souls  of  members  through  their  ears. 

The  man  proved  to  be  a  noted  enthusiast  by  the 
name  of  Patrick  Dugan,  who  had  had  many  curious 
experiences.  At  the  opening  of  the  Brooklyn  Bridge 
he  tried  to  preach  to  the  crowds  assembled,  until 
carried  off  by  the  police,  and  on  various  other  pub- 
lic occasions  whenever  and  wherever  he  could  find 
an  audience,  His  attempt  to  convert  Congress,  how- 
ever, was  the  biggest  thing  he  has  undertaken,  and 
his  failure  was  no  more  than  he  expected.  * 


SABBATH  REFORM. 


At  a  meeting  of  Protestant  pastors  in  this  city  on 
Monday  the  28th  ult.  to  consider  how  to  overcome 
the  prevalent  Sabbath  desecration.  Rev.  Dr.  C.  E. 
Mandeville,  whose  able  address  at  the  Elgin  Sabbath 
convention  was  one  of  the  features  of  that  meeting, 
presented  several  papers.  They  were  voted  to  be 
presented  to  the  meeting  of  the  Evangelical  Alliance 
at  Washington  last  week,  with  the  recommendation 
that  they  be  laid  before  Congress  by  a  committee 
from  that  Alliance  meeting. 

The  first  paper  said  that  but  for  Sabbath  desecra- 
tion there  would  be  no  such  class  as  anarchists  in 
this  country.  It  called  for  a  union  among  the  church 
people  to  down  the  demon  of  Sabbath  desecration. 
The  proposed  plan  strikes  at  every  form  of  labor 
now  indulged  in  on  the  Sabbath  day.  The  ministers 
propose  to  petition  Congress  to  enact  laws  first  to 


dispense  with  carrying  the  mails  and  holding  post- 
offices  open  on  the  Sabbath.  The  paper  is  addressed 
to  the  House  of  Representatives  assembled,  and  says: 
"The  telegraph  is  now  used  to  transmit  all  important 
news,  and  therefore  there  is  no  absolute  necessity  for 
running  mails  on  the  Sabbath.  Consequently  the 
running  of  mails  on  that  day  is  in  violation  of  State 
laws." 

The  next  paper  is  addressed  to  the  directors  of 
the  railroads  of  the  United  States  and  says:  "The 
increased  rate  of  speed  of  travel  and  transportation, 
as  compared  with  that  used  in  the  days  of  our  fa- 
thers, has  so  multiplied  the  facilities  of  despatching 
business  that  there  is  no  necessity  of  running  trains 
more  than  six  days  in  a  week,  and  that,  therefore, 
all  work  done  on  Sabbath,  except  of  necessity  and 
mercy,  is  in  violation  of  our  State  laws,  so  that  if  a 
community  of  capital  openly  ignores  statute  laws  we 
need  not  be  surprised  when  a  community  of  laborers 
follows  their  example." 

A  paper  to  the  directors  of  telegraph  lines  says: 
"The  electric  forces  now  utilized  by  our  telegraphs 
have  brought  the  people  of  the  world  into  close  prox- 
imity, and  therefore  there  is  no  more  necessity  for 
transacting  business  by  telegraph  on  the  Sabbath 
than  there  is  for  people  to  keep  their  stores  open." 

The  last  paper  is  addressed  to  the  proprietors  of 
the  public  press  of  the  United  States,  and  says  that 
"the  Sabbath  is  the  dividing  line  between  Christian- 
ity and  heathenism;  that  it  is  the  bulwark  that  shields 
our  Christian  civilization  against  anarchy,  and  that 
every  influence  that  tends  to  weaken  the  power  of 
the  Sabbath  over  the  public  conscience  endangers 
the  stability  of  our  Republican  institutions;  that  the 
business  of  publishing  and  selling  newspapers  on  the 
Sabbath  is  in  open  violation  of  our  State  laws.  We, 
therefore,  respectfully  request  you  to  discontinue  the 
publication  of  newspapers  on  the  Sabbath." 


Reform  News. 


mSBISBIPPI  AND  ITS  GEURCHE8. 

Caledonia,  Miss.,  Dec.  8,  1887. 

Dear  Ctnosure: — My  stay  in  Meridian,  Miss., 
was  not  very  profitable  because  of  my  ill  health.  I 
should  have  said  of  that  thriving  little  city,  not  only 
that  it  is  prospectively  a  "dry"  town,  but  that  it  is 
already  under  prohibition,  and  that  the  law  is  en- 
forced there  with  greater  strictness  than  in  Jackson 
or  in  almost  any  other  town  in  the  State.  I  left 
there  on  Dec.  1,  at  10:30  p.  m.,  and  reached  Colum- 
bus at  3  a.  m.  of  the  2d.  I  was  able  to  make  but 
few  calls  in  that  city.  Rev.  Jordan,  pastor  of  the 
largest  colored  Baptist  church,  who  has  been  Deputy 
Grand  Master  of  the  A.  F.  and  A.  M.,  I  found  to  be 
firm  in  his  opposition  to  the  lodge  system,  but  some- 
what disheartened  through  opposition  and  much 
affliction.  Rev.  C.  E.  W.  Dobbs,  D.D.,  pastor  of  the 
leading  (white)  Baptist  church,  and  editor  of  the 
Southern  Baptist  Record,  has  also  seen  the  inside  of 
the  lodge  and  learned  to  abhor  its  follies  and  blas- 
phemies. He  expressed  a  warm  interest  in  our 
work  and  a  hope  that  he  might  be  able  to  attend  the 
New  Orleans  convention.  I  have  rarely  found  among 
Southern  pastors  a  man  of  more  courage  and  unfal- 
tering integrity  than  this  faithful  preacher  and  editor. 

On  Saturday  I  found  a  ride  to  Bro.  Tapley's  (thir- 
teen miles)  and  received  a  cordial  welcome.  On  the 
way  I  observed  that  all  the  cotton  was  picked,  at 
least  a  month  earlier  than  usual,  and  of  better  qual- 
ity than  had  it  remained  out  longer.  The  crop  was 
about  the  average.  This,  together  with  a  better  corn 
crop,  makes  the  people  more  comfortable.  There 
has  been  great  scarcity  of  water  and  some  suffering, 
but  the  heavy  rains  of  the  last  few  days  will  remedy 
that  evil.  Secret  societies  have  for  several  years 
been  at  a  discount  in  all  this  region,  but  recently  the 
Farmers'  Alliance  has  been  introduced  in  place  of 
the  Grange,  which  had  become  about  extinct.  The 
new-fangled  order  which,  from  all  I  can  learn,  is 
only  a  new  name  for  the  same  thing,  is  having  quite  a 
run,  and  gives  promise  of  a  similar  career. 

Bro.  Tapley  I  found  in  better  health  than  a  year 
ago,  and  pursuing  his  missionary  and  reform  work 
with  a  fair  measure  of  success.  His  family,  includ- 
inej  the  mother,  are  all  away  at  school,  and  sister  I. 
D.  Feemster  has  kindly  come  here  to  keep  house 
for  us  while  I  remain. 

Sabbath  was  rainy  and  I  kept  quiet  Monday,  the 
5th,  was  clear  and  warm,  and  I  preached  at  night  in 
the  Piney  Grove  Congregational  church,  to  a  small 
but  interested  congregation. 

On  Wednesday  was  the  annual  meeting  of  the 
Associated  Churches  of  Christ  for  Lowndes  county. 
The  place  of  meeting  was  Simon's  Chapel,  nine 
miles  distant  The  rain  came  down  steadily,  but 
the  good  mule  pulled  us  steadily  on,  and  though 
thoroughly  wet,  we  were  not  seriously  harmed.  We 
met  a  few  and  had  a  pleasant  meeting.     Rev.  Eli 


Tapley  was  chosen  moderator,  and  I  had  the  honor 
to  be  secretary.  Representatives  from  five  churches 
were  present  After  prayer  the  following  resolutions 
were  taken  up  and  after  brief  discussion  were 
adopted  without  dissent: 

Resolved,  That  we  greatly  deplore  the  prevalence  of 
the  secret  lodge  system  as  alike  injurious  to  the  cause  of 
Christianity  and  to  a  just  civil  government.  We  rejoice 
at  the  growing  opposition  to  this  system  of  iniquity,  and 
trust  that  the  time  is  not  far  distant  when  all  the  church- 
es and  the  ministry  will  "have  no  fellowship  with  the  un- 
fruitful works  of  darkness,  but  rather  reprove  them." 

WiiBRBAS,  The  use  of,  and  traffic  in,  intoxicating 
drinks  are  a  great  obstacle  to  the  cause  of  religion,  and 
a  most  fruitful  source  of  poverty  and  crime,  therefore, 

Resolved,  That  we  will  favor  all  wise  and  Christian 
methods  to  prevent  their  use,  and  all  legal  ways  to  stop 
their  sale. 

Resolved,  That  we  regard  with  profound  interest  the 
work  of  the  W.  C.  T.  Union  and  the  National  Prohibi- 
tion party,  and  we  hold  that  their  final  triumph  is  among 
the  objects  for  which  Christians  should  earnestly  labor 
and  pray,  j    -r    '?f  -^^ 

Whereas,  In  the  faithful  preaching  of  God's  Word 
there  is  the  highest,  if  not  the  only  hope  for  the  uplifting 
of  all  classes  of  society  in  their  social,  moral  and  relig- 
ious conditions,  therefore. 

Resolved,  That  such  preaching  should  be  Scriptural, 
prayerful  and  plain — should  appeal  to  men's  reason  and 
aim  at  convincing  the  judgment,  correcting  the  morals 
and  sanctifying  the  hearts  of  those  who  hear.  Above 
all,  the  preacher  should  be  a  faithful  embassador  of 
Christ  who  will  not  shun  to  declare  the  whole  counsel  of 
God. 

A  collection  was  taken  up  for  Bro.  J.  L.  Pollard> 
who  had  acted  as  lecturer  during  the  last  year,  and 
the  convention  adjourned  to  meet  at  the  same  place 
July  27,  1888. 

Providentially  the  rain  abated  and  we  drove  home 
before  thick  darkness  came  down  upon  us,  and  a 
night's  rest  made  us  forget  the  cold  and  storm.  My 
health  has  improved  and  my  heart  has  been  cheered 
since  I  came  here  and  take  courage  to  go  around. 

H.  H.  HiNMAN. 


CURED  BY  THEIR  OWN  MEDIO  INS. 


Adrian,  Mo.,  Dec.  5,  1887. 

Editor  Cynosore: — At  last  writing  I  was  at  Mes- 
ser,  Kansas.  My  last  meeting  there  was  interesting. 
At  the  close  a  United  Brethren  M.  D.  came  forward 
along  with  a  Mason  and  asked  who  gave  me  the  priv- 
ilege of  using  the  school  building  for  such  lectures. 
I  was  putting  up  my  books,  selling  some  expositions, 
and  paid  no  attention  to  his  impertinence.  Then  he 
demanded  more  fiercely  by  what  right  I  had  occupied 
the  building.  I  answered,  by  the  same  right  that  the 
whole  neighborhood  had  come  into  their  own  build- 
ing and  sat  and  listened  to  me.  He  retorted  that  no 
one  but  a  lot  of  cranks  would  listen  to  such  a  discus- 
sion of  secretism.  This  was  a  slam  at  the  audience 
and  they  quickly  resented  it  by  hisses  and  groans. 
This  infuriated  the  M.  D.  and  he  advised  me  in  lan- 
guage more  forcible  than  pious  that  it  would  be  well 
for  me  to  get  out  of  that  section  and  be  in  a  hurry 
about  it 

This  straightened  me  up.  I  looked  the  would-be 
U.  B.  straight  in  the  eye  and  told  him  quietly  that  I 
never  got  in  a  hurry  on  an  occasion  like  taat;  to  please 
excuse  me;  I  did  not  ask  such  chaps  as  he  what  I 
should  say,  how  or  when  I  should  say  it  The  crowd 
took  in  the  situation,  and  so  did  the  M.  D,,  as  he  has- 
tily retreated  amid  the  hoots  of  all  present,  except 
perhaps  three  or  four. 

The  Mason  who  had  used  profanity  against  Charles 
Francis  Adams  in  my  meeting  the  night  before,  then 
stepped  up  and  wanted  to  ask  me  one  question.  It 
was:  "Are  you  a- Mason?"  I  answered,  "Try  me!" 
At  this  he  began  to  fume  about  perjury.  I  stopped 
him  short  by  saying,  "Every  time  you  open  your 
mouth  you  are  violating  your  obligation.  You  were 
sworn  to  keep  silence.  That  is  the  jewel  of  a  Mason 
and  you've  lost  your  jewel  bad." 

In  confusion  he  blurted  out  to  the  amused  crowd, 
"I  aint  said  nothin'."  This  was  too  much  and  the 
crowd  fairly  roared  with  merriment.  All  this  was 
after  the  meeting  proper  had  been  dismissed.  Men 
said  they  would  go  any  reasonable  distance  to  hear 
more,  and  are  anxious  for  me  to  speak  again. 

I  spent  the  stormy  Saturday  and  the  Sabbath  in 
Carthage,  the  guest  of  Bro.  J.  K.  Glassford,  and  other 
friends.  Monday,  Nov.  28, 1  came  to  Adrian.  The 
train  was  delayed,  so  I  tarried  at  the  hotel  over  night 
and  on  Tuesday  morning  I  met  our  good  Bro.  T.  A. 
Cook,  who  presided  at  the  late  Greenfield  district 
meeting.  We  immediately  planned  a  week's  cam- 
paign and  were  soon  speeding  over  the  country  on 
two  swift,  high-spirited  ponies.  By  night  a  school- 
house  was  filled  and  the  campaign  under  way.  Our 
work  here  has  been  a  complete  success  and  we  leave 
our  brother  and  co-worker  to  give  the  particulars. 
And  now  1  am  ort  for  Kansas.     Yours  for  the  truth, 

M.  N.  BOTLKB. 


6 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


Deoimbir  15, 1887 


Correspondence. 


^NOTEBIFROMA  WB8T  AFRICAN  MISSION. 

Mission  Office,  Shengat,     ) 
West  Africa,  Oct.  14, 1887,  j 

Mt  Good  Friend: — In  answer  to  your  kind  offer 
of  August  17,  I  answer  that  we  shall  gladly  accept 
of  any  and  all  assistance  that  we  can  get  to  push 
forward  the  great  work.  As  to  being  firm  in  our 
opposition  to  the  secret  lodge  and  every  other  sys- 
tem of  wickedness,  we  are  obliged  because  of  the 
nature  of  things  to  take  a  decided  stand  against 
them.  There  can  be  no  neutral  position  with  us,  as 
the  ceremonies  of  all  the  secret  orders  here  are  the 
most  ridiculous  nonsense,  obscene  and  wicked,  if 
what  I  hear  of  them  be  true.  I  hJlve  never  joined 
any,  but  what  I  have  seen  I  know  to  be  so.  Our 
field  is  an  important  one  because  the  enemy  is  here 
in  force — rum,  secrecy,  idolatry,  slavery,  and  polyg- 
amy. A  few  tracts  might  be  used  to  good  advan- 
tage, mostly  on  temperance. 

The  great  mass  of  the  people  here  cannot  read 
and  are  very  ignorant.  An  educated  man  who  can 
speak  the  Sherbro  and  Mendi  language,  and  who  is 
familiar  with  the  secret  societies  and  customs  of  the 
country,  by  traveling  through  the  country  and  lec- 
turing on  the  subject  would  surely  do  much  good. 

By  far  the  greatest  amount  of  good  would  'be  ac- 
complished by  establishing  a  home  for  women  where 
the  wives  and  mothers  of  the  country  can  be  trained 
in  the  ways  of  Christianity.  A  few  girls  have  been 
trained  in  this  mission;  some  of  them  are  married, 
and  are  now  in  the  mission  work  with  their  hus- 
bands. But  we  are  not  training  girls  now;  a  mis- 
sion debt  has  to  be  paid  before  we  can  take  girls 
again.  In  my  judgment  it  is  the  only  way  of  lay- 
ing a  foundation  for  mission  work.  A  grant  of  land 
can  be  had  and  buildings  put  up  where  a  large  num- 
ber of  females  could  be  cared  for;  with  a  good  na- 
tive man  and  his  wife  in  charge,  they  could  support 
themselves  after  the  first  year.  Mrs.  L.  B.  Curtis 
taught  a  school  for  us  at  the  town  of  Mannoh  for 
six  years  and  did  a  good  work.  She  held  morning 
and  evening  worship  and  conducted  a  regular  service 
twice  on  Sabbath,  besides  a  Sabbath-school.  Mrs. 
Thompson,  a  daughter  of  Bishop  Crowther,  is  con- 
ducting a  very  successful  small  school  at  Senehoo. 
She  conducts  morning  and  evening  worship  in  her 
house.    Many  of  the  people  of  the  village  attend. 

The  English  government  have  lately  taken  pos- 
session of  this  district  and  many  of  the  slaves  are 
claiming  their  freedom,  and  many  young  girls  are 
left  without  a  home  or  friend  and  no  work  to  do. 
These  are  used  to  farm  work  and  could  support 
themselves  from  the  soil  by  making  palm  oil.  The 
English  authorities  do  not  care  to  interfere  with 
domestic  slavery,  as  it  is  termed,  and  it  is  only  when 
the  domestics  apply  to  them  that  they  are  set  at  lib- 
erty. Female  domestics  are  always  preferable  here 
as  they  can  be  used  on  the  farm  or  in  the  house. 
They  are  often  rented  or  hired  out  to  men  and  used 
as  wives,  gambled  off  or  exchanged  for  goods.  A 
young  girl  is  with  us  in  the  mission  now  that  was 
on  the  eve  of  being  sent  to  the  Soo  Soo  country  for  a 
cow,  but  made  her  escape  to  the  British  officer.  She 
knows  nothing  of  her  parents.  There  are  many 
women  in  the  same  condition,  drifting  about,  beg- 
ging for  food  and  shelter.    Yours  very  truly, 

Joseph  Gomek. 


TEB  W.  G.  T.  U.  AND  BB0RBT18M. 

Seneoaville,  Ohio,  Dec.  2,  1887. 

Dear  Cynosure: — I  have  just  read  in  the  New 
York  Pioneer  an  account  of  the  great  gathering  in 
Nashville,  Tenn.,  of  notable  and  noble  women  from 
almost  every  State  and  Territory  of  our  Union,  rep- 
resentatives of  the  "National  Woman's  Christian 
Temperance  Union."  I  was  deeply  interested  in 
their  proceedings,  so  far  as  given,  and  especially 
with  the  annual  address  of  the  president.  Miss  Wil- 
lard;  and  nothing  pleased  me  more  than  her  free 
and  fearless  declaration,  "I  have  always  been  op- 
posed to  secret  societies,  and  never  more  so  than  to- 
day. They  are  a  relic  of  medieval  times,  and  des- 
tined to  become  extinct,"  etc. 

The  women  are  doing  a  noble  work  against  the 
rum  power,  and  deserve  all  the  assistance  and  en- 
couragement we  can  give  them;  and  when  this  mat- 
ter is  finally  put  to  rest,  and  the  cruel  reign  of  alco- 
hol is  at  an  end,  then  the  mass  of  the  people  will  be 
sober  long  enough  to  think  of,  and  work  for  the  re- 
moval of  another  great  and  growing  evil,  that  threat- 
ens to  rule  and  ruin  church  and  state,  and  is  doing 
it  so  slyly  that  many  persons  seem  not  to  be  aware 
of  what  is  going  on  in  the  dark.  Oath-bound  se- 
cretism.  Masonry  and  its  kindred  orders,  all  clan- 
Disti  and  dangerous  institutions,  should  not  be  toler- 


ated in  a  civilized  country,  and  yet,  to  a  great  ex- 
tent, they  control  the  society  and  business  of  this 
"land  of  the  free  and  home  of  the  brave." 

This  unsearchable  and  irresponsible  power,  in  its 
multifarious  and  divided  departments,  must  be 
looked  into  and  lashed  out  of  the  land.  Gk>od  men 
have  been  trying  to  do  this  for  some  years  past. 
Much  light  has  been  let  in  upon  this  darkness,  but 
the  mass  of  the  people  yet  seem  to  be  indifferent 
about  its  being  and  power.  But  we  hope  it  will  not 
be  long  till  the  good  women  of  the  land  beat  the  sa- 
loon, then  they  will  have  some  leisure  to  muster 
and  concentrate  their  forces  upon  the  lodge;  and 
when  the  women  engage  in  this  fight  and  lead  the 
voting  force — of  which  we  hope  they  will  soon  be- 
come an  integral  part — then  the  men,  who  cannot 
defend  their  cause  here,  will  gracefully  yield. 

We  would  not  have  our  sisters  diverted  from  their 
present  high  calling,  but  when  the  proper  time  comes, 
which  will  certainly  come  before  many  years,  and 
we  hope  it  will  not  amount  to  years,  then  we  shall 
have  this  cancer  cured  by  soft  hands  and  soothing 
kindness,  and  foolish  men,  instead  of  deserting  their 
wives  and  families  every  few  nights,  will  stay  at 
home  for  company  and  comfort  to  those  they  prom- 
ised to  defend  and  cherish  until  death.  And  young 
men  will  spend  their  evenings  to  better  advantage 
elsewhere  than  in  the  secret  lodge. 

This  is  written  in  haste,  but  is  the  result  of  seri- 
ous thought,  frequent  prayer,  and  honest  conviction 
of  an  aged  man  and  minister  of  the  Gospel  of  Jesus. 
May  God  help  us  all  to  do  right,  and  unite  to  op- 
pose and  put  down  all  manner  of  wrong,  is  the  earn- 
est prayer  of  the  writer,  Wm.  G.  Kbil. 

Note. — The  W.  C.  T.  U.  has  forty  departments  of 
work,  with  National  and  State  superintendents  for 
each.  Many  of  these,  as  heredity,  social  purity,  the 
morality  of  the  press,  etc.,  are  not  more  nearly  con- 
nected with  temperance  than  the  lodge  issue.  What 
the  N.  C .  A.  is  anxious  the  Union  should  do  is  to 
add  a  department  on  secretism;  and  to  this  end 
Miss  Flagg  of  Massachusetts  has  been  laboring, 
and  we  believe  not  in  vain.  We  doubt  the  success 
of  prohibitory  laws  in  the  hands  of  the  lodge. — Ed. 


GOD  HBLP  US  TO  BE  TRUB. 

Lincoln,  Kans.,  Nov.  12,  1887. 
Editors  Christian  Cynosure: — Why  do  men 
who  are  members  of  secret  societies  object  to  read 
ing  your  works?  And  why  do  so  few  leave  the 
lodge  after  knowing  its  workings  and  its  effect  on 
the  individual? 

1.  In  joining  a  secret  society  a  man  is  obliged  to 
sacrifice  his  individuality,  and  so  feels  that  he  is 
personally  attacked  whenever  the  lodge  is.  This  is 
also  the  reason  they  are  so  loyal  to  it,  because  they 
have  sacrificed  themselves  in  order  to  comply  with 
its  requirements. 

2.  So  few  leave,  also,  because  they  are  not  always 
approached  with  the  right  spirit.  The  day  of  the 
"crank"  is  past.  Much  more  can  now  be  accom- 
plished in  the  way  of  "reform"  by  appealing  to  men 
in  the  name  of  their  manhood,  to  leave  the  lodge 
and  "quit  themselves  like  men."  Too  often  we  find 
the  would-be  reformers  more  anxious  for  .  notoriety 
than  to  really  benefit  their  fellowmen,  and  possess- 
ing but  very  little  of  the  spirit  of  Christ,  who  went 
about  doing  good.  Those  who  oppose  secret  socie- 
ties are  sometimes  those  who 

"Atone  for  sins  they  are  Inclined  to, 

By  damning  those  they  have  no  mind  to." 

With  some  it  is  a  question  of  respect.  This  is 
cwrtainly  contrary  to  the  teachings  of  Christ,  who 
was  no  respecter  of  persons,  and  always  condemned 
sin  wherever  found.  Oh,  that  we  had  more  of  the 
spirit  of  Christ,  so  that  we  could  heal  as  well  as 
convict. 

Secret  societies  and  organized  selfishness  are  syn- 
onymous. Their  benevolence  and  charity  is  all  a 
lie,  and  is  "stealing  the  livery  of  heaven  to  serve  the 
devil  in."  It  is  living  a  lie,  and  as  a  lie  it  is  doomed. 
Oh,  that  the  lies  and  glitter  might  be  trampled  under 
foot.  Men  are  tired  of  fashions  and  mystery.  We 
long  to  read  the  soul.  Too  long  have  we  been  dis- 
guised. We  want  the  curtain  thrown  back.  The 
motives  that  so  hoodwink  us  we  would  abandon  for- 
ever, and,  wrapped  in  nothing  but  our  own  plain 
cloak  from  God,  stand  alone  if  need  be,  but  without 
pride  or  selfishness.  "Where  shall  we  find  one  who 
has  pandered  to  no  policy,  or  employed  no  undue 
tact  to  win  somebody's  favor?"  Yet  sometimes, 
when  our  longings  beat  heavenward,  the  soul  ascends 
and  "dwells  apart;"  for  a  moment  it  flutters  like  a 
lost  bird,  and  then,  with  a  joyful,  tender  throb,  it 
wings  its  way  back,  through  "the  flight  of  years," 
until,  like  the  guiding  star  of  old,  it  lingers  over  the 
"manger  of  Bethlehem,"  Christ,  the  world's  Saviour 
— but  no  password  gains  admittance  to  the  Lord  of 


glory.  Without  having  taken  the  first  degree,  he  is 
triumphant  among  men;  with  no  vain  titles — a  quiet, 
humble  life  that  has  unbounded  love  for  us  and  asks 
nothing  more  from  us. 

May  God  help  us  to  turn  our  eyes  toward  him,  and 
this  question  of  secret  societies  will  be  solved.  May 
all  ministers  of  the  Gospel  be  "true  as  God's  own 
stars,"  in  standing  for  principle.  This  age  admits 
of  no  excuse  for  not  living  a  purely  Christian  life. 
Sin  always  has  been  and  always  will  be  doomed. 
May  God  broaden  our  conceptions,  quicken  our 
sense  of  duty,  and  help  us  to  be  true.    B.  S.  Hull. 


PITE  AND  POINT. 


WHY     DO   NOT   THB   PRESBYTERIAN   PAPERS     SPEAK? 

I  value  the  paper  very  highly,  and  am  doing  all  I  can 
in  the  cause  it  advocates,  both  for  prohibition  and  against 
secret  societies .  But  1  am  advanced  in  life  and  retired 
from  the  active  duties  of  the  ministry,  and  have  no  means 
of  making  money.  I  have  been  doing  all  I  can  in  circu- 
lating Finney  "On  Masonry,"  the  Morgan  book  and 
"Ma-Ha-Bone."  The  Masons  are  all  angry,  and  doing 
all  they  can  against  me;  but  I  think  a  vast  amount  of 
good  is  being  done .  When  I  meet  them  they  look  sul- 
len, but  I  think  they  feel  ashamed  and  vexed  that  their 
silly  and  profane  and  wicked  laws  and  ceremonies  are 
now  generally  exposed .  Indeed,  I  have  been  told  that 
they  feel  vexed  and  ashamed,  too .  I  would  like  to  know 
why  our  Presbyterian  papers  are  silent — the  Presbyterian 
Banner,  New  York  Observer,  St.  Louis  Evangelist,  Phil- 
adelphia Presbyterian?  Do  they  not  know  that  these 
things  should  be  exposed,  or  are  they  afraid  of  losing 
subscribers?— J. F.F.,  Union,  Mo. 


HOW    TO 


HELP  CIRCULATE  THB 
SOUTH. 


'cynosure"    in    the 


I  have  been  thinking  that  it  would  be  a  good  thing  if 
some  of  the  poor  ministers,  or  all  of  them,  white  or  black, 
would  send  their  address  to  your  paper,  that  we  who 
have  quite  a  number  of  papers  could  send  them,  after 
reading,  and  in  that  way  do  a  great  deal  of  good.  I 
should  be  glad  of  the  chance  to  help  free  the  people 
from  immorality  as  much  as  I  can.  I  gave  three  of  my 
best  years  to  set  the  colored  man  free  from  slavery,  but 
the  bondage  of  sin  is  worse. — H.  P.  Marks,  Rockford, 
Illinois . 


THE  LODGE  CARES 


FOR  THE  AGED  WHEN  THEY 
MONEY. 


HAVE 


I  am  in  my  seventy-sixth  year,  and  have  taken  the 
paper  from  the  commencement  until  now,  and  expect  to 
while  the  good  Lord  spares  my  life .  It  would  be  hard 
for  me  to  do  without,  for  I  want  to  keep  track  of  the 
Freemasons  and  Odd  fellows,  for  they  have  nearly  ruined 
me,  cheated  me  out  of  $5,000  cash.  But  my  trust  is  in 
the  living  God,  having  the  promise  that  everything  will 
work  together  for  good. — IJ.Marcy,  Emporia,  Kans. 

FROM    A   MARYLAND     PASTOR. 

I  read  it  [the  Cynosure']  for  three  years  at  Westminster 
College  (1873-1875),  and  learned  to  love  it  for  its  bold, 
true  ring  on  the  secret  society  question,  as  also  the  rights 
of  the  down-lrodden .  I  give  the  societies  a  hard  rub 
when  a  good  chance  offers .  — h  .  g  .  m  . .  Oovanstown,  Md . 


Who  would  have  believed  it  a  dozen  years  ago — 
that  California,  where  heavy  drinking  was  more 
common  than  in  any  State  of  the  Union,  would  in 
1887  have  a  young  city  with  an  ironclad  prohibition 
ordinance.  And  yet  Pasadena  has  passed  just  such 
an  act,  and  a  fellow  has  to  have  a  mighty  big  pain, 
and  tell  the  druggist  all  about  it,  before  ho  can  get 
two  fingers  of  whisky.    The  world  moves. 

"If  you  don't  want  to  traffic  with  the  devil,  keep 
out  of  his  shop."  So  said  one  of  the  old  Puritan 
fathers.  It  is  as  good  a  proverb  to  us  as  it  was  two 
hundred  years  ago.  The  devil  has  many  shops 
about  us  and  he  is  luring  thousands  of  Christians, 
young  and  old,  into  them,  well  knowing  that  he  is 
pretty  sure  to  induce  some  to  traffic  with  him,  if  he 
can  get  them  once  on  his  ground  and  on  speaking 
terms  with  him. 

It  is  encouraging  to  friends  of  temperance  to  learn 
that  the  use  of  the  grape  for  unfermented  wine  is 
greatly  increased.  One  town  in  New  Jersey  reports 
6,000  gallons  made  this  year.  Those  who  have  in 
charge  furnishing  wine  for  sacramental  use,  can 
now  get  an  article  both  safe  and  agreeable.  Do 
not  fail  to  consider  the  weak  brother  for  whom 
Christ  died.  Allow  no  snare  to  be  laid  for  him  at 
the  Lord's  table. 

Prohibition  has  lost  Atlanta,  but  it  has  gained  a 
vast  territory  where  least  expected,  in  the  North 
Sea.  The  six  Powers  bordering  on  the  North  Sea 
have  come  to  an  international  agreement  that  no 
spirits  shall  be  sold  to  fishermen  and  men  on  board 
fishing  vessels;  that  they  be  forbidden  to  buy  spir- 
its; that  exchange  of  goods  by  them  for  spirits  be 
equally  forbidden;  and  that  vessels  peddling  sup- 
plies to  fishing  vessels  shall  not  be  allowed  to  sell 
liquors.  Most  admirable!  but  why  is  not  that  good 
for  the  land  which  is  good  for  the  sea? 


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DlOXMBBB  15, 188T 


TEE  CHKISTIAN  CYNOSUHE. 


INTERNATIONAL  8.  8.  LEBSONti 
FOB   1888. 


STUDIES   IN    THB    NEW   TESTAMENT. 
FIBST    QUAKTBR. 

1,  Jan.  1.— Herod  and  John  the  Bap- 
tist. Matt.  14  1-12.  Golden  Text.—Kad. 
his  disciples  came,  and  took  up  the  body, 
and  buried  it,  and  went  and  told  Jesus. 
V.  12. 

2.  Jan.  8.— The  Multitude  Fed.  Matt. 
14  13-21.  Jesus  said  unto  them,  I  am 
the  bread  of  life.     John  6  35. 

8.  Jan.  15. — Jesus  Walking  on  the  Sea. 
Matt.  14  22-86.  Be  of  good  cheer;  it  is 
I;  be  not  afraid,  v.  27. 

4.  Jan.  22. — Jesus  and  the  Afflicted. 
Matt.  15  21-81.  Is  any  among  you  af- 
flicted? let  him  pray.    James  5  13; 

5.  Jan.  29. — Peter  Confessing  Christ. 
Matt.  16  13-28.  Whosoever,  therefore, 
shall  confess  me  before  men,  him  will  I 
confess  also  before  my  Father  which  is 
in  heaven.     Matt.  10  32. 

6.  Feb.  5.— The  Transfiguration.  Matt. 
17  1-13.  And  there  came  a  voice  out  of 
the  cloud, saying, This  is  my  beloved  Son: 
hear  him.     Luke  9  85. 

7.  Feb.  12. — Jesus  and  the  Little  Ones. 
Matt.  18  1-14.  But  Jesus  said.  Suffer 
little  children,  and  forbid  them  not,  to 
come  unto  me;  for  of  such  is  the  king- 
dom of  heaven.    Matt.  19  14. 

8.  Feb.  19. — A  Lesson  on  Forgiveness. 
Matt.  18  21-35.  And  forgive  us  our  debts, 
as  we  forgive  our  debtors.    Matt.  6  12. 

9.  Feb.  26.— The  Eich  Young  Ruler. 
Matt.  19  16-26.  Ye  cannot  serve  God 
and  Mammon.     Matt.  6  24. 

10.  March  4. — Christ's  last  Journey  to 
Jerusalem.  Matt.  20  17-29.  The  Son 
of  Man  came  not  to  be  ministered  unto, 
but  to  minister,  and  to  give  his  life  a 
ransom  for  many.  v.  28, 

11.  March  11. — Christ  entering  Jerusa- 
lem. Matt.  21  1-16.  Blessed  be  he  that 
Cometh  in  the  name  of  the  Lord.  Psa. 
118  26. 

12.  March  18.— The  Son  Rejected. 
Matt.  21  83-46.  He  came  unto  his  own, 
and  his  own  received  him  not.  John  111. 

13.  March  25. — Review;  or.  Temper- 
ance Lesson,  Gal.  5  16-26;  or.  Mission- 
ary Lesson,  Psa.  2  1-12. 

SECOND      QUAKTEB. 

1.  April  1. — The  Marriage  Feast.  Malt. 
22  1-14.  Blessed  are  they  which  are 
called  unto  the  marriage  supper  of  the 
Lamb.  Rev.  19  9. 

2.  April  8. — Christ's  Last  Warning. 
Matt.  28  27-39.  Create  in  me  a  clean 
heart,  O  God;  and  renew  a  right  spirit 
within  me.  Psa.  51  10. 

3.  April  15. — Christian  Watchfulness. 
Matt.  24  42-51.  And  what  I  say  unto 
you  I  say  unto  all.  Watch.  Mark  13  87. 

4.  April22,— The  Ten  Virgins.     Matt. 

25  1-13.  And  they  that  were  ready  went 
in  with  him  to  the  marriage:  and  the  door 
was  shut.  V.  10. 

5.  April  29.— The  Talents.  Matt.  25 
14-80.  Be  thou  faithful  unto  death,  and 
I  will  give  thee  a  crown  of  life.  Rev. 
a  10. 

6.  May  6.— The  Judgment.  Matt.  25 
31-46.  And  these  shall  go  away  into 
everlasting  punishment;  but  the  right- 
eous into  life  eternal,  v.  46. 

7.  May  13.— The  Lord's  Supper.  Matt. 

26  17-30.  For  even  Christ,  our  passover, 
is  sacrificed  for  us.  1  Cor.  5  7. 

8.  May  20. — Jesus  in  Gethsemane. 
Matt.  26  36-46.  Though  he  were  a  Son, 
yet  learned  he  obedience  by  the  things 
which  he  suffered.  Heb.  5  8. 

9.  May  27  —Peter's  Denial.  Matt.  26 
67-75.  Wherefore  let  him  that  thinkoth 
he  standeth,  take  heed  lest  he  fall.  1  Cor. 
10  13. 

10.  Juae  3.— Jesus   Crucified.    Matt. 


27  88-50.  He  humbled  himself,  and  be- 
came obedient  unto  death,  even  the  death 
of  the  cross.  Phil.  2  8. 

11.  June  10.— Jesus  Risen.  Matt.  28 
1-15.  But  now  is  Christ  risen  from  the 
dead,  and  become  the  first  fruits  of  them 
that  slept.  1  Cor.  15  20. 

12.  June  17. — The  Great  Commission. 
Matt.  28  16-20.  The  Lord  gave  the  word; 
great  was  the  company  of  those  who 
published    it.    Psa.  68  11. 

13.  June  24.—  Review;  or,  Temperance 
Lesson,  1  Cor.  8  1-13;  or,  Missionary  Les- 
son, Isa.  61  4-11. 

STUDIES   IN   THE    OLD    TKSTAMENT. 
THIBD    QUABTEB. 

1.  July  1. — God's  Covenant  with  Israel. 
Ex.  24  1-12.  I  will  be  to  them  a  God, 
and  they  shall  be  to  me  a  people.  Heb. 
8  10. 

2.  July  8.— The  Golden  Calf.  Ex  32 
15-26.  Little  children,  Keep  yourselves 
from  idols.  1  John  5  21. 

3.  July  15— God's  Presence  Promised. 
Ex  88  12-23  Lo,  I  am  with  you  alway, 
even  unto  the  end  of  the  world.  Matt  28  20. 

4  July  22 -Free  Gifts  for  the  Taber- 
nacle. Ex  35  20-29  God  loveth  a  cheer 
ful  giver.    2  Cor  9  7. 

5  July  29— The  Tabernacle.  Ex  40 
1  to  16.  Behold,  the  tabernacle  of  God  is 
with  men,  and  he  will  dwell  with  them. 
Rev  21  8. 

6  August  5— The  Burnt  Offering.  Lev 
1  1  to  9.  The  Lord  hath  laid  on  him  the 
iniquity  of  us  all.  Isa  53  6. 

7  August  12— The  Day  of  Atonement. 
Lev  16  1  to  16.  Without  shedding  of 
blood  is  no  remission.  Heb  9  22. 

8  August  19— The  Feast  of  Taberna- 
cles. Lev  23  83  to  44.  The  voice  of  re- 
j  Dicing  and  salvation  is  in  the  tabernacles 
of  the  righteous.  Psa  118  15. 

9  August  26— The  Pillar  of  Cloud  and 
of  Fire.  Num  9  15  to  23.  Oh,  send  out 
thy  light  and  thy  truth;  let  them  lead  me. 
Psa  43  8. 

10  Sept  2— The  Spies  Sent  into  Ca- 
naan. Num  18  17  to  33.  Let  us  go  up  at 
once,  and  possess  it;  for  we  are  well  able 
to  overcome  it.  Num  13  80. 

11  Sept  9— The  Unbelief  of  the  Peo- 
ple. Num  14  1  to  10.  So  we  see  that 
they  could  not  enter  in  because  of  unbe- 
lief. Heb 3 19. 

12  Sept  16— The  Smitten  Rock.  Num 
20  1  to  13.  They  drank  of  that  spiritual 
Rock  that  followed  them;  and  that  Rock 
was  Christ.  1  Cor  10  4. 

18  Sept  28— Death  and  Burial  of  Mo- 
ses. Deut  34  1  to  12.  The  path  of  the 
just  is  as  the  shining  light,  that  shineth 
more  and  more  unto  the  perfect  day . 
Prov  4  18. 

14  Sept  30 — Review;  or,  Temperance 
Lesson,  Deut  21  18  to  21;  or,  Missionary 
Lesson,  1  Thess  1 1  to  10. 

KOUBTH   QUABTEB. 

1  Oct  7 — The  Commission  of  Joshua. 
Josh  1  1  to  9.  Stand,  therefore,  having 
your  loins  girt  about  with  truth,  and 
having  on  the  breastplate  of  righteous- 
ness.    Eph  6  14. 

2  Oct  14— Crossing  the  Jordan.  Josh 
3  5  to  17.  When  thou  passest  through 
the  waters,  I  will  be  with  thee;and  through 
the  rivers,  they  shall  not  overflow  thee. 
Isa  48  2. 

3  Oct  21— The  Stones  of  Memorial. 
Josh  4  10  to  24.  Then  ye  shall  let  your 
children  know,  saying,  Israel  came  over 
this  Jordan  on  dry  land,  v  22. 

4  Oct  28— The  Fall  of  Jericho.  Josh  6 

1  to  16.  By  faith  the  walls  of  Jericho 
fell  down,  after  they  were  compassed 
about  seven  days.  Heb  11  80. 

5  Nov  4— Defeat  at  Ai.  Josh  7  1  to  13. 
Incline  my  heart  unto  thy  testimonies, 
and  not  to  covetousness.   Psa  119  36. 

6  Nov  11 — Caleb's  Inheritance.  Josh 
14  5  to  15.  Trust  in  the  Lord,  and  do 
good;  so  Shalt  thou  dwell  in  the  land,  and 
verily  thou  shalt  be  fed.  Psa  37  3. 

7  Nov  18— Helping  One  Another. 
Josh  21  43  to  45;  22  1  to  9.  Bear  ye 
one  another's  burdens,  and  so  fulfill  the 
law  of  Christ.  Gal  6  2. 

8  Nov  25— The  Covenant  Renewed. 
Joeh  24  19  to  28.  The  Lord  our  God 
will  we  sfrve,  and  his  voice  will  we 
obey.  V  24. 

9  Dec2— Israel  Under  Judges.  Judges 

2  11  to  23.  Take  heed,  brethren,  lest 
there  be  in  any  of  you  an  evil  heart  of 
unbelief,  in  departing  from  the  living 
Qod.  Heb  3  13. 


10  Dec  9— Gideon's  Army.  Judges  7 
1  to  8.  Not  by  might,  nor  by  power,  but 
by  my  Spirit,  saith  the  Lord  of  hosts. 
Zech  4  6. 

11  Dec  16— Death  of  Samson.  Judges 
16  21  to  81.  Great  men  are  not  always 
wise.  Job  32  9. 

12  Dec  23— Ruth's  Choice.  Ruth  1 
16  to  22.  Thy  people  shall  be  my  peo- 
ple, and  thy  God  my  God.  v  16. 

13  Dec  30— Review;  or.  Temperance 
Lesson,  Num  6  1  to  4;  or.  Missionary 
Lesson,  Psa  67  1  to  7. 

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Treaa.,  W.B.  Bertela/WUkeebarre. 

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THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE, 


PR08PBOTUB  FOR  THB    TWENTIETH  TEAR. 


As  we  turn  over  the  leaf  for  another  year  the  Cy- 
nosure would  again  write  at  the  top  of  the  new  page: 
"Christ  always;  Christ  only."  It  will  more  than  ever 
be  the  purpose  of  all  connected  with  the  paper  to 
make  it  a  power  for  the  coming  kingdom  of  our 
Lord,  before  which  all  the  systems  of  secret  wor- 
ship, mystery  and  iniquity  of  the  great  Babylon 
must  fall.  We  would  be  on  the  Conqueror's  side 
in  that  day — we  will  stand  for  him  now  in  the  days 
of  testimony  and  of  tribulation. 

The  Cynosure  during  1888  will  give  the  most 
earnest  attention  to  the  South-  The  National  Con- 
vention at  New  Orleans,  Feb.  17th,  and  the  effort, 
which  promises  so  much  success,  to  put 

ONE    THOUSAND   COPIES 

of  the  paper  into  the  hands  of  colored  pastors  gives 
a  direction  to  our  interests.    We  also  hope  that  the 
National  Christian  Association  will  be  able  to  put 
other  workers  into  the  Southern  field. 
The  Winor  Secret  Orders^  so-called,  will  have 

more  respect  given  to  their  insinuating  and  benumb- 
ing influence.  If  Masonry  and  Odd-fellowship  have 
felt  severely  the  attacks  upon  their  strongholds.they 
are  making  good  all  losses  by  training  up  an  army 
of  young  men  whose  convictions  are  paralyzed  in 
respect  to  secretism  by  the  swarms  of  orders  which 
cover  their  modicum  of  lodgery  with  a  bait  of  tem- 
perance, insurance,  patriotism,  good  fellowship,  bus- 
iness aid,  etc.,  etc.  The  Cynosure  will  endeavor  to 
rouse  our  careless  churches  to  see  that  this  evil  is 
likely  to  be  worse  than  the  first. 

We  have  nearly  completed  arrangements  for  spec- 
ial Correspondence  from  the  metropolitan  cities 

in  different  parts  of  the  country.  Our  readers  may 
expect  letters  once  a  month.or  oftener,  from  Boston, 
New  York,  Philadelphia,  Washington,  Cincinnati, 
New  Orleans,  Denver,  San  Francisco  and  Los  An- 
geles. These  letters  will  give  graphic  pictures  of 
the  earnest  American  life  which  throbs  in  our  great 
cities,  with  especial  reference  to  the  news  of  the 
lodges  in  each. 

The  very  popular  Biographical  Work  of  the  Gyno- 
sv/re  during  the  three  years  past  will  be  continued 
with  some  features  which  will  be  especially  attract- 
ive. During  the  last  year  there  have  appeared  por- 
traits of  George  B.  Cheever,  William  H.  Seward, 
Daniel  Webster,  John  Brown,  Charles  Sumner, 
Charles  Francis  Adams,  Enoch  Honeywell,  Bishop 
Hamline,  Charles  Gr.  Finney,  Howard  Crosby,  Dr.  C. 
F.  W.  Walther,  and  Alexander  Hamilton.  These 
portraits  have  been  accompanied  with  sketches 
which  have  presented  facts  of  profoundest  interest 
to  our  discussion,  collated  after  diligent  and  often 
exhaustive  search.  We  can  promise  for  the  coming 
year  biographies  of 

John  G.  Whittikk,  the  Poet. 

Joseph  Cook,  tTie  Lecturer. 

Jambs McCosH,  the  Philosopher. 

John  C.  Spencer,  the  Lawyer. 

John  MABfiHALL,  the  Judge. 

William  Ewabt  Gladstone,  the  Statesman. 

These  are  all  in  preparation.  Others  whom  we 
do  not  care  at  present  to  mention  are  in  contempla- 
tion, whose  portraits  will  adorn  the  paper  and  the 
history  of  whose  lives  will  enrich  them. 

Letters  from  foreign  lands  we  expect  to  be  more 
frequent  and  valuable  in  1888  than  ever.  Corre- 
spondents in  England,  Germany,  Greece,  Turkey, 
India,  West  and  South  Africa,  China  and  Mexico 
will  through  our  columns  be  in  personal  connection 
with  our  readers. 

Best  of  all  is  the  noble  company  of  contributors 
and  correspondents  in  our  own  land.  We  hardly 
need  mention  them;  but  it  is  a  pleasure  to  see  those 
goodly  names  in  print.     Here  are  a  few  of  them: 

William  F.  Davis,  the  hero  of  Boston  Common 

H.  L.  Hastings,  editor  of  the  "Christian." 

Hon.  8.  V.   WJiite.  M.  C. 

Rev.  B  A  Jmes,  Vice-president  Nat'J.  Cong'l.  Council 

Pres.  H.  H.  George,  Geneva  College. 


Ree.  C.  O.Foote,  Detroit. 
Qeo.  W.  Gla/rk,  the  singer. 
Bishop  M.  Wright. 

Pres.  E.  H.  Fair  child,  Berea  College. 
Cecil  H.  Eov>a/rd,  Astor  Library. 
Rem.  Julius  Qrunert,  D.D.,  Evangelical  Synod. 
Ret).  Wm.  Johnston,  D.D.,  United  Presbyterian. 
Rev.  B.  Cum,  German  Lutheran. 
Rev.  B.  W.  WiUiams,  Texas. 
Elder  J.  L.  Barlow,  Iowa. 
Pres.  C .  A . Blancha/rd,  Wheaton  College. 
Reo.  David  Mc Fall,  Chambers  St.  Church,  Boston. 
ReiD.G.  W.Eiatt,  High  St.  Church,  Columbus. 
Prof.EUiott  Whipple,  Wheaton,  late  of  Romona  In- 
stitute, Santa  Fe. 

Elder  Nathan  Callender,  Pennsylvania. 

Pres.  L.  N.  Btratton,  Wheaton  Theological  Seminary. 

Rev. Henry  T.  Cheever,  Worcester. 

Reo.  Joel  8wa/rtz,  D.D.,  Gtettsyburg. 

MissE.S.Flagg,  Author  of  "Between  Two  Opinions." 

Mrs  .M.A.  Blanchard,  Wheaton. 

Mrs .  A .  E .  Kellogg,  Denver. 

Hon. 8.  C.  Pomeroy,  Washington. 

Hon.Halleck  Floyd,  Indiana. 

Rev .  W. H. French,  D.D.,  Cincinnati, 

Rev. M.A.  Qavlt,  Iowa. 

Rev .  J.  M.  Foster,  Cincinnati. 

Rev  .J.8.T.  Milligan,  Kansas . 

Rev.  William  Wishart,  D.D.,  Monmouth. 

H.M.Hugunin,  former  editor  "Chicago  Eve.  Journal." 

Capt.A.D.  Wood,  editor  "Censor,"  Los  Angeles. 

Rev. R.N.  Couniee,  editor  "Living  Way,"  Memphis. 

Prof  .A. R.  Cervine,  Augustana  College. 

Rev.H.  W. Lathe,  First  Church,  Northampton. 

Rev.  J. F.Avery,  Mariners'  Temple,  New  York. 

But  we  must  forbear.  Who  can  recall  these  and 
other  names  like  them  without  a  thrill  of  happy  and 
grateful  recollections.  To  keep  in  their  company  a 
season  were 

—"worth  ten  years  of  common  life." 

We  invite  all  friends  of  the  past  to  honor  them- 
selves by  remaining  in  this  company.  The  Cynosure 
gives  you  a  noble  fellowship.  You  can  hardly  afford 
to  forsake  it.  Let  your  name  then  be  found  on  the 
list.  Do  your  neighbor  a  good  turn  and  get  his 
subscription  also. 

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"Christian  Cynosure"  Chicago. 


to  join  this  able  and  much  respected  clergyman,  and 
the  two  together,  hold  meetings  in  every  church  in 
Vermont,  of  any  and  every  denomination,  which  will 
allow  us  to  preach  on  the  relation  of  secret  societies 
to  the  cause  and  kingdom  of  Christ. 

Please  communicate  with  the  Cynosure  on  the 
subject  of  such  a  visitation.  Vermont  is  historical- 
ly the  most  hopeful  field  in  the  United  States.  Her 
people  cast  the  vote  of  the  State  for  Wirt  and  Ell- 
maker;  and  if  a  few  leading  clergymen  will  unite 
and  take  a  stand  in  favor  of  such  a  discussion  the 
people  are  ready. 

The  author  of  this  letter  is  well  known,  has  been 
pastor  of  a  large  church  for  years,  and  is  highly  es- 
teemed. Please  communicate  with  the  Cynosme  or 
its  editor  soon. 


THIS  IS  WHAT  WE  MEAl!^. 


TO   8AVE    THB    COLORED    BAPTIBTS    FROM 
THB  LODGE. 


read   what  it  will  amoont  to. 


"Be  not  weary  in  well  doing." — Those  who 
build  up  a  reform,  and  stand  by  a  despised  society 
like  the  American  Missionary  Association,  in  its 
days  of  weakness,  deserve  its  honor  and  confidence 
when  it  has  become  a  power  for  good  in  the  land, 
and  its  hundreds  of  dollars  have  become  hundreds 
of  thousands.  But  a  few  get  in  the  lead  whose 
"principles  are  seven,"  as  John  Randolph  said,  viz., 
"five  loaves  and  two  fishes,"  and  straightway  men 
like  A.  H.  Quint  march  to  the  front  and  pluck  the 
fruit  they  so  ill-deserve,  whose  whole  past  history 
is  such  as  to  make  the  righteous  sad,  while  the 
wicked  clap  their  hands  in  triumph.  But  noble 
men  still  live,  and  while  Maine  has  a  Neal  Dow  and 
hosts  of  brave  men  and  women  and  the  "Lord  reigns" 
we  will  not  despair.  We  rejoice  and  bless  the  Lord 
for  every  hour  he  has  given  us  power  and  disposi- 
tion in  the  past  to  work  for  the  A.  M.  A.,  and  for 
every  dollar  he  has  enabled  us  instrumentally  to  add 
to  its  funds.  May  it  prove  faithful  to  its  charge  of 
the  Indian,  the  Freedmen,  and  the  Chinese,  and  re- 
ceive His  benediction  who  says,  "Blessed  is  he  who 
considereth  the  poor."  If  we  have  any  poor,  the 
above  three  classes  must  certainly  be  counted  in. 


Rev.  Richard  De  Baptiste,  Corresponding  Secretary  of 
Galesburg,  111,,  says  the  American  Baptist,  has  spent 
two  years  in  carefully  gathering  statistics .  He  shows 
26  institutions  of  learning  for  colored  Baptists,  with  352 
teachers  and  3,609  pupils,  though  6  institutions  did  not 
report  the  number  of  pupils.  Total  value  of  property, 
$1,072,140,  3  institutions  not  reporting.  The  religious 
status  is  shown  as  follows:  300  District  associations;  10,- 
068  churches;  6,605  ordained  ministers;  total  baptisms, 
48,212;  total  membership,  1,155,486;  Sunday-schools, 
3,304,  Sunday-school  officers  and  teachers,  10,718;  Sun- 
day-school pupils,  194,492;  value  of  church  property, 
$3,036,571;  contributions  reported  for  salaries  and  ex- 
penses, $230,445.51;  for  missions,  $23,253  67;  education 
and  other  matters,  $47,899  96;  making  a  total  of  $301,- 
978. 14.  There  are  forty  journals  edited  and  controlled 
by  colored  Baptists.  From  these  statistics  Alabama  has 
110,798  colored  Baptists;  Georgia,  159,690;  Mississippi, 
114,756;  North  Carolina,  106.977;  South  Carolina,  100,- 
286;  Virginia,  187,119;  Louisiana,  70,657;  Texas,  69,950; 
Kentucky,  55,033;  hence  in  nine  of  the  Southern  States 
alone  there  are  986,266  colored  Baptists,  or  about  two- 
thirds  of  the  entire  number, 

WHAT   A   glorious    MISSION 

To  help  to  keep  this  vast  body  of  Christians  out  of  the 
lodge  maelstrom!  This  is  what  we  mean  by  asking  for 
$1,500  to  send  a  thousand  copies  of  the  Cyjwsure  one 
year  to  these  colored  Baptist  pastors.  Hundreds  who 
have  read  the  paper  have  been  led  to  take  a  stand  for 
Christ  against  this  lodge  unrighteousness,  and  to  preach 
and  faithfully  warn  their  people.  Let  us  help  them, 
dear  friends.  Last  week  we  reported  fifteen  of  the  hun- 
dred $15  shares  in  this  fund  taken.  This  week  we  can 
say  gladly  that  EIGHTEEN  shares  are  taken.  More 
and  better  next  week . 


The 

TO  20, 


New 
1888. 


Orleans  Convention  February  17 


We  call  attention  to  a  letter  from  a  New  England 
clergyman  in  the  present  Cynosure.  The  editor 
proposes,  in  the  early  spring,  after  the  National 
Christian  Association  Anniversary  in  New  OrlAana. 


THB  80N8  OF  VBTBRAN8. 


Most  people  are  ignorant  of  what  precisely  these 
are. 

1.  They  are  an  "order"  composed  of  men  above 
18  years  old  if  sons  of  soldiers,  or  over  21  if  sons  of 
members. 

2.  They  are  to  be  a  perpetual  order,  provided  with 
ojfficers  to  hold,  lease,  and  manage  real  estate. 

3.  They  are  a  secret  order.  Not  only  are  members 
forbid  to  "divulge  any  of  the  private  affairs  of  the 
order,"  but  twice  a  year  their  head  man  issues  a 
pass-word  in  secret  cypher  which  the  members  can- 
not read. 

4.  It  is  auxiliary  to  and  under  the  rules  of  the  G. 
A.  R.,  and  is,  in  fact,  the  secret  Grand  Army  made 
a  perpetual  secret  order. 

5.  Its  professed  objects  are  care  of  the  sick  and 
to  "keep  green"  the  memories  of  our  citizen  soldiers; 
yet  women  are  excluded. 

6.  Members  are  subject  to  taxation  at  the  discre- 
tion of  the  "camp." 

7.  Falling  in  arrears  forfeits  membership. 

8.  The  head  body  charters  the  local  bodies,  and 
the  chief  officer  can  take  away  a  charter  and  quash 
the  body. 

9.  A  camp  of  1,000  or  more  members  is  allowed 
but  three  of  the  rituals  for  officers.  The  members 
are  allowed  none. 

10.  It  has  adopted  a  "coat  of  arms,"  like  the  Eng- 
lish titled  aristocracy. 

11.  It  declares  its  secrecy  to  he  unimportant,  which 
is  falsehood  and  hypocrisy. 

All  the  above  can  be  seen  in  printed  Constitution, 
Rules  and  Regulations.  In  short,  it  is  an  attempt 
to  form  by  a  secret  lodge  an  hereditary  order  such 
as  was  suppressed  by  the  advice  of  Washington. 

Financially  it  is  a  swindle.  As  a  society  it  is  a 
fraud  on  the  public,  as  would  be  a  secret  section  in 
a  family.  It  is  made  up  of  voters,  yet  discards 
"politics;"  is  in  a  Christian  country,  yet  discards  re- 
ligion; while  it  corrupts  both:  and  is,  in  short,  a 
substitute  for  and  cover  of  the  falling  Masonic 
lodges  which  are  sinking  under  discussion. 


AMERICAN  POLITICS. 


Our  chairman  of  the  National  American  Commit- 
tee very  sensibly  advises,  "By  no  means  give  up  the 
American  party."  "We  have  all  the  party  and  all 
the  organization  we  ever  had."  The  Cynosure  en- 
dorses Chairman  Capwell's  advice:  "If  the  Prohi- 
bition party  nominates  men  clean  of  the  lodge,  vote 
for  them," 

John  B.  Gough,  St.  John,  G^n.  Fisk,  Miss  Wil- 
lard,  and  Vice  President  Henry  Wilson,  not  to  men- 
tion the  now  sainted  Dr.  Marsh,  personally  assured 
^hfl  writer  that  they  are  opposed  to  the  secret  rituals, 


DXOXMBBB  15, 188T 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CTN08URE. 


and  Dr.  Charles  Jewett  did  the  same  in  his  book. 
We  are  earlier  prohibitionists  than  the  Prohibition 
party.  We  wish  to  swell  the  prohibition  vote  to  the 
uttermost.  If  there  should  be  three  or  four  candi- 
dates next  year,  as  in  1824,  when  Adams,  Jackson, 
Clay,  and  Crawford  were  running;  and  there  should 
be  no  election  by  the  people,  and  it  should  go  into 
the  House  of  Representatives,  we  have  some 
chance  for  a  reform  President  next  year. 

But  the  presumption  is  that  the  Democrats  will 
elect  their  man;  which  will  be  better  than  that  re- 
form should  succeed  by  a  weak  vote.  Reform 
against  the  lodge  and  liquor  needs  the  overwhelm- 
ing majority  which  sustained  Lincoln.  General 
Fisk  will  be  the  Prohibition  candidate.  He  sus- 
tains three  characters  with  those  who  know  him, 
viz. :  statesman,  general,  and  Christian,  and  stands 
well  in  each.  Col.  Bain  of  Kentucky  is  an  excellent 
man,  and  is  said  to  be  siq^  of  the  temperance 
lodges.  But  Fred  Douglass  "never  would  join  a 
secret  society;  not  even  that  military  concern." 
These  are  his  words. 

Now  the  Cynosure  is  in  favor  of  a  side  mass  meet- 
ing in  New  Orleans  next  February  17th.  By  that 
time  it  will  be  indicated  who  are  to  be  the  reform 
candidates  for  President  and  Vice  President,  and 
we  are  in  favor  of  appointing  a  committee  to  ask 
every  presumptive  candidate  whether  he  belongs 
to  any  secret  society?  and  whether  he  approves 
of  the  open  American  methods  of  the  Prohibition 
party  and  the  W.  C.  T.  U.;  and  if  the  Prohibition 
leaders  equivocate  or  insist  on  running  a  party, 
part  secret  and  part  open,  then  we  are  in  favor  of 
forthwith  calling  a  national  convention  to  meet  the 
week  after  the  Prohibitionists  nominate  in  Indian- 
apolis, June  8th,  and  inviting  every  true-hearted 
Prohibitionist  to  forsake  so  absurd  and  hopeless  a 
party,  and  join  us  in  nominating  and  voting  for 
Americans.  What  say  the  friends  of  the  American 
cause?  Let  us  meet  and  act  promptly  at  New 
Orleans. 


is  all  the  theology  Dr.  Thomas  preaches.  It  is  the 
same  which  heathen  philosophy  has  always  taught; 
and  the  law  and  Gospel  of  the  lodge,  according  to 
the  oft-repeated  saying  above,  is  as  faras  this  false 
prophet  has  gone  toward  Christ 


DR.  TE0MA8, 


PRELATE  AND 
LAIN. 


GRAND  CSAP- 


Rev.  Thomas  E.  Green  of  this  city  is  a  lover  of 
sensations.  He  was  the  object  of  great  notoriety 
two  years  ago  when  he  left  the  Presbyterians  for 
the  Episcopalian  fold;  and  since  he  has  been  rector 
of  a  small  West  Side  church  he  has  once  and  again, 
though  not  himself  a  Mason,  opened  his  church  for 
the  Knight  Templars  to  perform  their  so-called  re- 
ligion. It  is  especially  agreeable  to  the  lodge  to  re- 
ceive such  favors  from  one  not  sworn  to  be  of  their 
own  number;  and  as  a  token  of  their  satisfaction  a 
presentation  of  a  lectern  was  lately  made  to  Mr. 
Green.  Mr.  George  B.  CoflSn,  formerly  leader  of 
the  Apollo  quartette,  and  now  one  of  the  instructors 
in  the  Congregational  Theological  Seminary  of  this 
city  and  "Eminent  Commander"  of  St.  Bernard 
Commandery  of  Knight  Templars,  and  Dr.  Thomas, 
Grand  Chaplain  of  the  Grand  Lodge,  officiating. 
The  former  began  the  ceremony  thus: 

"Reverend  sir,  I  am  deputed  by  representatives  of 
Apollo,  Chicago,  and  St  Bernard  Commanderies.  Knights 
Templar,  who  have  visited  your  superb  church  home  to- 
night, to  present  you  with  a  slight  token  of  the  esteem 
and  regard  we  bear  you  for  the  services  you  have  ren- 
dered us.  We  have  selected  our  esteemed  frater,  the 
Rev.  Dr.  H.  W.  Thomas,  who  is  Prelate  of  the  St.  Ber- 
nard Commandery,  to  make  this  presentation,  and  he 
will  now  speak  for  us . " 

The  speech  of  the  Grand  Chaplain  is  thus  re- 
ported: 

"My  Brother:  It  is  always  pleasant  upon  occasions  of 
this  kind  for  Christians  to  come  together.  Particularly 
ia  this  true  of  the  present  church  and  Masonry.  Mason- 
ry antedates  Christianity  by  many  thousand  years.  Ma- 
sonry proper  rests  upon  pure  theism — an  ever  present  and 
all-abiding  faith  in  an  ever-living  God,  overruling  all 
and  in  all.  Masonry  proper  is  the  law  and  Knight  Tem- 
plary  is  the  gospel .  They  represent  Christianity,  and 
they  have  adopted  many  forms  peculiar  to  Christianity. 
We  have  in  our  order  beautiful  liturgies  that  are  impos- 
ing and  impressive.  I  admire  the  service  of  the  Episco- 
pal church .  I  am  especially  pleased  to  see  the  children 
here  in  the  service.  But  we  have  a  liturgy  of  consecra- 
tion in  the  Knights  Templar  that  is  most  solemn  and  im- 
pressive.    More  BO  than  any  other  I  have  ever  known. 

"I  present  you  with  this  beautiful  token  of  my  broth- 
ers' love  and  esteem.  It  represents  St.  John,  the  evan- 
gelist. The  eagle  is  his  emblem,  because  it  soars  to  the 
highest.  It  holds  a  book  which  you,  my  brother,  I 
know,  read  with  the  greatest  love  and  reverence .  And 
I  trust  you  will  accept  the  gift  in  all  the  love  in  which  it 
is  given." 

We  remember  when  Dr.  Thomas  was  expelled 
from  the  Methodist  church,  it  was  in  evidence 
against  him  that  he  rejected  such  portions  of  Scrip- 
ture history  as  suited  his  notion.  The  lodge  is  wel- 
come to  such  an  excellent  authority  for  proof  of  its 
antiquity.     Dr.  Thomas  knows   all   about  it.     The 


SHALL  THE  G08PEL  BE  FREE  IN  BOSTON  f 

The  brief  review  of  the  history  of  attempt  to  en- 
force an  obnoxious  city  ordinance  in  Boston,  which 
is  given  in  another  department,  will  call  the  atten- 
tion of  many  of  the  Cynosure  readers  to  the  case  of 
Mr.  Davis.    He  is  incarcerated  in  cell  18,  Suffolk 
Jail,  Charles  street,  with  fewer  privileges  than  were 
enjoyed  by  the  anarchists  here  in  Chicago.     Mrs. 
Davis,  a  most  faithful,  conscientious  woman,  fit  con- 
sort for  a  brave  man,  fully  sustains  her   husband. 
She  is  allowed  to  visit  him  only  once  a  week,  on 
Thursday,  when  she  is  allowed  a  ten  minutes'  visit 
in  the  presence  of  an  officer.    To  serve  out  the  fines 
and  costs  of  $350  on  four  charges  Mr.  Davis's  im- 
prisonment will  continue  nearly  a  year.     He  could 
obtain  his  release  probably  at  any  moment,  by  prom- 
ising to  not  again  violate  the  ordinance.     This   he 
will  never  do,  for  he  is  a  man  of  conscience.     It  was 
a  disappointment  that  he  was   unable  to  take  the 
case  to  the  United  States  Supreme  Court,  but  through 
some  legal  technicality   this  is  denied.     He  there- 
fore remains  in  his  cell,  Bible  in  hand,  endeavoring 
to  bring  all  whom  he  can  reach  to  a  knowledge  of 
Christ.     It  is  quite  probable  that  when  the  leg  isla- 
ture  meets,  if  not  before,  a  public  effort  will  be  made 
toward  securing  a  repeal  of  the  ordinance  which,  in 
one  sense,  forbids  free  speech  in  the  streets  of  Bos- 
ton.    The  testimony  of  Joseph  Cook  at  a  recent  meet- 
ing of  Boston  clergymen  is  having  much  influence  in 
the  case.    Said  Mr.  Cook:  "I  protest  against  the  law- 
less use  of  the  law  and  against  the  law  itself.  Let  me 
say,  as  a  traveler,  that  after  making  a  tour  of  the 
world,  Boston  is  the  first  city  I  have  heard  of,  either 
on  heathen  or  Christian  ground,  in  which  the  preach- 
ing of  the  Gospel  is  followed  by  arrest.     I  would 
like  both  Protestants  and  Catholics  to  preach  on  the 
Common.     I  would  not  even  arrest  the  agitator,  ex- 
cept in  time  of  tumult.     The  action  of  the  city  has 
brought  us  into  disrepute  even  in  distant  lands. 
Mr.  Davis  was  my  college  mate.     I  have  known  him 
for  a  quarter  of  a  century.     Very  tender  memories 
connect  themselves  with  him  under  the  Cambridge 
elms.     He  was  then  what  he  is  now,  a  man  of  su- 
preme conscientiousness  and  decisive  strength.  You 
say  he  is  a  man  lacking  in   judgment,  or   he  would 
not  run  squarely   against  the  ordinance.     Perhaps 
he  is  farther-sighted  than  some  of  us;  perhaps   he  is 
more  courageous.     I  am  for  keeping  arbitrary  pow- 
er out  of  the  hands,  not  only  of  the  Catholics,  but 
of  Protestants  themselves.    If  the  liberty  tree  on 
Boston  Common  is  to  fall,  let  it  be  by  the  hands  of 
the  whole  people,  not  the  will  of  a  clique  in  our  city 
hall." 


— Rev.  R.  N.  Countee,  editor  of  the  Living  Way, 
Memphis,  writes  to  Secretary  Stoddard  that  he  will 
be  ready  to  answer  at  the  New  Orleans  convention, 
and  speak  on  "Why  I  Joined  and  Why  I  Left  the 
Lodge." 

— Bro.  H.  H.  Hinman  went  on  from  Columbus, 
Miss.,  where  he  addressed  his  last  letter,  to  Memphis, 
where  he  remains  for  some  days.  He  purposes  then 
to  go  through  a  portion  of  Arkansas,  and  then  south 
to  New  Orleans. 

—Rev.  W.  W.  Kelley,  who  not  long  since  re- 
turned with  broken  health  from  a  self-sustaining 
mission  in  southeastern  Africa,  has  lately  suffered 
for  a  second  time  the  loss  of  a  beloved  wife.  She 
died  suddenly  of  heart  disease  on  the  morning  of 
December  1st. 

—Bro.  W.  B.  Stoddard,  the  Ohio  Agent,  still  has 
a  strong  hand  on  the  crank  and  begins  again  to  put 
the  machinery  in  motion.  He  went  Friday  to  Utica 
in  Licking  county  to  work  with  Bro.  Caleb  Lyons. 
His  reports  for  a  time  intermitted  will  begin  again 
next  week,  God  willing. 

— Rev.  R.  Hardie,  of  Mellette,  Dakota,  is  suffer- 
ing from  paralysis  to  an  extent  which  renders  his 
arms  and  limbs  numb.  Bro.  Hardie  is  husband  of 
the  author  of  the  pamphlet,  "A  Woman's  Victory." 
We  sincerely  unite  with  the  Weileyan  Methodist  in 
prayer  that  he  may  be  healed. 

— Senator  Pomeroy  writes  us  that  the  publication 
of  his  speech  in  Munyon's  World  does  his  testimony 
against  the  lodge  injustice,  since  a  great  part  of  what 
he  said  on  that  topic  is  omitted.  But  there  is  enough 
inserted  to  let  every  reader  know  that  the  speaker 
was  on  Christ's  side  of  the  lodge  question. 


our  publisher  to  secure  a  full  list  of  these  original 
subscribers  and  let  us  see  how  they  look  in  kind  of 
honor  roll.     Old  friends,  please  send  your  names. 

— It  is  a  note  we  can  make  with  the  greatest  sat- 
isfaction that  because  of  the  late  generous  contribu- 
tions to  the  Foreign  Fund  our  publisher  has  sent 
over  seventy  pounds  of  anti-lodge  publications  to 
Bombay,  India,  to  be  scattered  widely  through  the 
immense  Indian  empire.  May  a  blessing  go  with 
every  page. 

— Bro.  W.  T.  Ellis,  editor  of  the  Fire  and  JIammer, 
Los  Angeles,  Cal.,  writes  that  one  of  the  churches  of 
that  city  has  expelled  its  elder  for  adhering  to  the 
secret  order  of  the  A.  O.  U.  W.  (United  Workmen). 
When  judgment  thus  begins  at  the  house  of  God, 
there  is  much  hope  that  the  world  will  be  blessed 
by  such  Christians. 

— Bro.  Samuel  Simpson,  of  Garfield,  Whitman 
county,  Washington  Territory,  asks  for  tracts  to  dis- 
tribute after  some  meetings,  promised  about  the 
holidays  by  a  seceded  Mason.  They  will  be  sent, 
along  with  our  prayers  and  best  wishes  for  the  suc- 
cess of  the  effort  in  the  far  Northwest  Who  do  you 
expect  to  lecture,  Bro.  S.  ?    Please  write  more  about  it. 

— Bro.  I.  R.  B.  Arnold  returned  Friday  to  his  fam- 
ily in  Wheaton  from  a  Wisconsin  trip  in  the  vicin- 
ity of  Waupun.  He  lectured  during  the  time,  by 
special  invitation,  before  the  inmates  of  the  peni- 
tentiary, and  gave  his  illustrations  of  the  philoso- 
phy of  ancient  and  modern  heathen  systems  to  a 
fine  audience  in  the  Genesee  Wesleyan  church  near 
Oakfield. 

— We  have  been  hoping  for  a  good  letter  from 
Beloit,  Wisconsin,  giving  some  report  of  Bro. 
Arnold's  two  lectures  on  false  religions,  reproduced 
in  Masonry  before  the  students  of  Beloit  College. 
The  addresses  were  heard  with  deep  interest  and 
doubtless  was  seed  sown  in  good  ground.  These 
two  lectures  ought  to  be  given  before  every  insti- 
tution in  the  West 

—Rev.  Wm.  J.  Reid,  D.  D.,so  long  the  First  Clerk 
of  the  United  Presbyterian  General  Assembly,  has 
been  chosen  to  take  the  place  of  the  late  lamented 
Dr.  Kerr  as  editorial  manager  of  the  United  Pres- 
byterian. He  will  also  contribute  articles  on  special 
subjects.  Dr.  Reid  is  pastor  of  the  First  U.  P. 
church  of  Pittsburgh,  and  author  of  a  book  defend- 
ing the  distinctive  principles  of  the  church.  We 
trust  he   will  prove  a  worthy  successor  of  Dr.  Kerr. 

— During  his  journeyings  Bro.  Arnold  found  a 
Baptist  pastor,  a  Freemasoii,  who  was  led  to  see 
clearly  the  religious  origin  and  affinity  of  the  lodge 
through  the  illustrated  lectures,  and  privately 
avowed  his  purpose  to  openly  renounce  Masonry  at 
the  first  opportunity.  Another  interesting  case  is 
that  of  a  Methodist  pastor  and  his  wife  in  Wiscon- 
sin, who,  on  general  Christian  principles,  are  strong- 
ly opposed  to  secretism,  although  never  having 
given  the  subject  special  investigation. 

— A  call  from  Mr.  A.  E.  Burt,  of  New  Haven, 
Michigan,  last  week,  has  given  us  a  personal  ac- 
quaintance with  a  gentleman  of  an  interesting  char- 
acter, whose  experience  with  the  lodge  has  been 
somewhat  peculiar.  He  was  persuaded,  by  friends 
who  represented  themselves  to  be  non-Masons,  to 
send  in  his  application  for  membership  with  a  $5 
fee.  The  objections  of  his  parents  (his  father  had 
been  a  Mason)  and  the  subsequent  knowledge  that 
the  pretended  friends  belonged  to  the  lodge,  made 
him  halt,  and  after  some  inquiry,  to  refuse  to  follow 
his  money  into  bad  company.  His  study  of  the  or- 
der has  been  wholly  from  a  legal  and  constitutional 
standpoint,  and  he  has  consented  to  write  out  for 
our  readers  some  of  his  conclusions,  and  is  ready  to 
answer  calls  to  lecture.  Since  Bro.  Day,  president 
of  the  Michigan  Association,  reports  $50  in  the  State 
treasury,  would  it  not  be  well  to  put  it  to  good  use 
and  give  Mr.  Burt  a  chance  to  enlighten  some  dark 
corners  of  Michgan? 


— Letters  are  often  received  at  this  office  saying 
that  the  writer  has  been  a  subscriber  to  the  Cynosure 
"pure  theism"  of  Masonrv  is  more  reliable,  for  that  since  its  first  number, 


— Elder  A.  B.  Oyen,  a  prominent  Seventh-day 
Adventist,  has  followed  D.  M.  Canright  in  a  renun- 
ciation of  the  tenet  and  its  fellowship.  He  was  at 
one  time  a  missionary  to  Europe,  and  editor  of  the 
Danish  paper. 

— At  the  Lutheran  synod  recently  held  in  Rich- 
mond, Ind.,  a  gift  of  $:iO,000  was  reported  to  found 
a  theological  seminary,  and  the  synod  by  resolution 
decided  that  hereafter  users  of  tobacco  will  he  de- 
barred from  positions  in  their  theological  institutions. 

— Bishop  Tuttle,  writing  from  Salt  Lake  City  to 
the  AS^irtV  o/  JUisstont,  twenty  years  after  his  arrival 
there,says:"Ihave  lived  to  see  the  imperious  arrogance 
of  Mormonism  bite  the  dust,  although  deep-seated, ob- 
stinate rebelliousness  remains."  During  his  one 
month's  visit  he  haii  confirmed  fifty  persons,  of  whom 
It  is  a  happy  suggestion  of  '  twenty-five  came  out  of  Mormonism. 


10 


THE  OHKISTIAN  C3rNOBITRE. 


Deoxubir  15, 1887 


The  Home. 


TEA T  I  MAT  RNO W  ElM. 

Lord,  let  me  talk  with  thee  of  all  I  do, 
All  that  I  care  for,  all  I  wish  for  too. 
Lord,  let  me  prove  thy  sympathy,  thy  power, 
Thy  loving  oversight  from  hour  to  hour ! 
When  I  need  counsel  let  me  ask  of  thee: 
Whatever  my  perplexity  may  be. 
It  cannot  be  too  trivial  to  bring 
To  One  who  marks  the  sparrow's  drooping  wing; 
Nor  too  terrestrial,  since  thou  hast  said 
The  very  hairs  are  numbered  on  our  head. 
'Tie  through  such  loopholes  that  the  foe  takes  aim, 
And  sparks  unheeded  burst  into  a  flame. 
Do  money  troubles  press?    Thou  cans't  resolve 
The  doubts  or  dangers  such  concerns  Involve. 
Are  those  1  love  the  cause  of  anxious  care? 
Thou  canst  unbind  the  burdens  they  may  bear. 
Before  the  my«terles  of  thy  word  or  will, 
Thy  voice  can  gently  bid  my  heart  be  still. 
Since  all  that  now  is  hard  to  understand 
Shall  be  unraveled  in  yon  heavenly  land. 
Or  do  I  mourn  the  oft-besetting  sin, 
The  tempter's  wUes  that  mar  the  peace  within? 
Present  thyself,  Lord,  as  the  absolving  priest. 
To  whom,  confessing,  I  go  forth  released. 
Do  weakness,  weariness,  disease,  invade 
This  earthly  house,  which  thou  thyself  hast  made? 
Thou  only.  Lord,  canst  touch  the  hidden  spring 
Of  mischief,  and  attune  the  jarring  string. 
Would  I  be  taught  what  thou  wouldst  have  me  give. 
The  needs  of  those  less  favored  to  relieve? 
Thou  canst  so  guide  my  hand  that  1  shall  be 
A  liberal,  "cheerful  giver,"  Lord,  like  thee. 
Of  my  life's  mission  do  I  stand  in  doubt? 
Thou  knowest,  and  canst  clearly  point  it  out. 
Whither  I  go,  do  thou  thyself  decide. 
And  choose  the  friends  and  servants  at  my  side. 
The  books  I  read  I  would  submit  to  thee. 
Let  them  refresh,  instruct,  and  solace  me. 
I  would  converse  with  thee  from  day  to  day. 
With  heart  intent  on  what  thou  hast  to  say ; 
And  through  my  pilgrim  walk,  whate'er  befall, 
Consult  with  thee,  O  Lord,  about  it  all. 
Since  thou  art  willing  thus  to  condescend 
To  be  my  intimate,  familiar  Friend, 
O,  let  me  to  the  great  occasion  rise, 
And  count  thy  friendship  life's  most  glorious  prize  1 
—  The  London  WiVne&s. 


TEE  aSGRBT  OF  A  VICTORIOUS  LIFE. 


The  words  of  the  Apostle  Paul  are  among  the 
most  precious  legacies  bequeathed  to  the  world  by 
great  men;  a  legacy  which  derives  its  main  value 
from  the  fact  that  it  conveys  that  which  was,  in  its 
origin,  a  gift  from  heaven.  But  quite  as  valuable 
as  Paul's  words  is  Paul's  life.  Those  eloquent  and 
powerful  statements  of  truth  which  all  subsequent 
generations  have  carried  in  their  consciences  and 
hearts  would  lose  half  their  force  if  there  were  not 
behind  them  the  impulsion  of  one  of  the  noblest 
lives  ever -lived  upon  the  earth.  The  single-heart- 
ed devotion  to  duty,  the  fearlessness,  the  noble 
temper,  the  patience,  and  the  self-sacrifice  of  that 
life  constitute  one  of  the  supreme  achievements  of 
history.  For  it  is  in  character,  and  in  character 
alone,  that  the  supreme  achievement  is  to  be  found. 
Not  in  great  works  of  architecture,  nor  in  great 
books,  not  in  great  statesmanship  nor  in  great  so- 
cial movements,  is  to  be  found  the  supreme 
achievement  of  which  men  are  capable;  a  noble 
character  remains  among  all  the  activities  and  at- 
tainments of  men  the  one  supreme  and  final  suc- 
cess; that  which  neither  time  nor  misconception 
nor  detraction  are  able  to  diminish  or  destroy. 

The  eagerness  with  which  men  turn  to  the 
stories  of  such  lives  as  that  of  Paul  is  almost 
pathetic.  They  look  away  from  their  own  failures 
and  infidelities  and  sins  to  such  a  life,  and  find  com- 
fort in  the  fact  that  some  man  has  really  lived  the 
life  which  each  man  would  like  to  live  in  his  best 
hours.  The  supreme  disappointment  of  life  does 
not  come  from  any  feeling  that  a  particular  object 
has  not  been  attained,  that  the  fortune  so  long 
worked  for  has  never  been  secured,  the  fame  so 
eagerly  chased  never  overtaken,  the  great  position 
so  untiringly  sought  for  never  attained,  but  from 
the  consciousness  that  in  the  battle  of  life  one  has 
been  defeated;  that,  instead  of  mastering  the  diffi- 
culties and  calamities  and  obstacles  which  surround 
every  man,  one  has  been  mastered  by  them.  The 
great  satisfaction,  the  supreme  comfort  which 
springs  from  such  a  life  as  Paul's  comes  from  the 
consciousness  that  here  was  a  man  who  overcame 
every  obstacle,  and  instead  of  being  mastered  by 
the  things  which  seemed  against  him,  triumphed 
over  them  His  was  a  life  outwardly  all  defeat, 
inwardly  all  victorious.  It  appeals  to  and  satisfies 
the  inward  aspiration  of  every  one;  for  each  of  us 
feel  that  Just  such  a  life  belongs  to  him;  that  we 


were  not  made  to  be  baffled  and  beaten  and  van- 
quished, but  to  conquer  and  overcome,  and  to 
emerge  from  the  struggle  victorious  against  all 
odds. 

The  secret  of  a  great  life  is  never  difllcult  to 
find.  When  Savanarola  was  brought  to  the  rack, 
and  his  persecutors  listened  eagerly  for  the  secrets 
they  were  about  to  wring  from  him,  the  reformer 
could  only  reply  in  his  agony:  "My  secrets  are 
few,  because  my  purposes  have  been  great."  Paul's 
purposes  were  great,  and  his  method  therefore 
was  transparent.  Everything  was  against  him,  as 
men  look  at  life.  He  stepped  aside  from  the  career 
which  was  open  to  him,  and  which  promised  the 
realization  of  the  ambition  of  a  Jew;  he  expatriat- 
ed himself;  he  was  a  wanderer  on  the  face  of  the 
earth;  outcast,  persecuted,  rejected,  despised,  and 
finally  put  to  death.  All  things  conspired  against 
him,  and  yet  in  the  face  of  all  these  obstacles  no 
one  reads  his  life  with  any  other  conciousness 
than  that  here  was  a  great  and  eternal  victory. 
This  man,  with  all  the  world  against  him,  defeated 
the  world,  and  calmly  held  it  at  bay.  And  this 
great  result  was  achieved,  not  by  tricks,  nor  by 
persuasion,  nor  by  great  gifts  of  minds,  but  by  a 
tremendous  conviction  and  a  life  held  steadfastly 
true  to  that  conviction.  Paul  belonged  to  his  time 
and  to  the  world  in  which  he  found  himself;  but 
neither  the  time  nor  the  world  gave  him  his  con- 
viction nor  his  unconquerable  energy  of  spirit; 
these  things  came  to  him  from  heaven.  He  con- 
ceived of  life,  of  the  world,  and  of  society,  not  as 
things  which  should  sustain  and  support  him,  but 
as  affording  opportunities  for  the  outgo  of  his 
energies.  He  did  not  look  to  men  for  his  purpose, 
for  his  strength,  or  for  his  consolation;  for  all 
these  things  he  looked  to  G-od.  It  was  a  matter 
almost  of  indifference  to  him  that  men  rejected  him 
and  spurned  him  and  persecuted  him.  So  long  as 
he  had  the  consciousness  of  a  divine  work  to  do, 
and  of  divine  strength  to  accomplish  it,  he  cared 
little  for  human  aid  or  help.  The  world  was  to 
him  simply  the  field  in  which  his  work  was  to  be 
accomplished;  he  did  not  look  to  it  for  the  rewards 
of  that  work.  He  belonged  to  his  fellows  for  all 
service  and  helpfulness,  but  they  could  neither  ap- 
point his  task  nor  reward  him  when  it  was  finished. 
Like  trees,  he  was  rooted  in  the  common  soil;  but, 
like  them,  light  and  heat,  and  the  dews  and  rain 
which  give  foliage  and  strength,  came  from  heaven. 
Here  is  the  secret  of  his  life,  and  here  is  the  only 
secret  by  which  such  success  as  his  can  be  attain- 
ed.—  Ihe  Christian  Union. 


GOOD  WORDS  FOR  CERI8TIAN  WORKERS. 


[Dr.  Pentecost  in  Words  and  Weapons.] 

It  is  as  natural  for  saved  people  to  come  together 
in  church  relations  as  it  is  for  sheep  to  flock  to- 
gether. When  we  see  or  know  of  a  "professor  of 
religion"  going  in  a  crowd  by  himself  and  refusing 
to  give  and  receive  ■  church  fellowship  we  cannot 
help  thinking  of  a  goat. 

"A  hearing  ear  is  better  than  a  jewelled  ear." 
We  often  think  of  this  when  we  see  the  diamonds 
sparkling  in  the  ears  of  the  fair,  but  careless  women. 
Anent  of  this  we  wonder  how  many  women  who 
wear  a  cross  of  gold  around  their  necks  or  swinging 
at  their  girdles  are  really  taking  up  the  cross  of  true 
discipleship  and  following  Christ. 

At  the  cry  of  the  blind  beggar,  the  Sun  of  Right- 
eousness was  brought  to  a  standstill  in  the  mid- 
heaven  of  his  love,  that  the  poor  beggar  might  re- 
ceive his  sight.  That  Sun  of  Righteousness  is  as 
near  and  ready  to  stop  and  flood  the  soul  of  any 
sinner  with  light  to-day  as  he  was  when  he  wrought 
his  ministry  of  love  on  the  earth  two  thousand  years 
ago. 

It  is  said  that  in  the  first  ages  of  Christianity,  Sa- 
tan sought  to  destroy  the  church  by  persecution  and 
failed;  but  that,  when  he  joined  the  church  and  pat- 
ronized it  with  worldly  power  and  prosperity,  he 
succeeded  in  well  nigh  smothering  the  life  out  of  it. 
It  looks  much  as  though  he  had  succeeded  in  retain- 
ing his  membership  in  some  of  the  churches  of  the 
nineteenth  century. 

The  young  minister  who  has  not  read  and  studied 
the  sermons  and  writings  of  John  Bunyan,  Flavel, 
Charnock,  Thomas  Adams  and  Henry  Smith,  has 
lost  a  treat  and  passed  by  mines  of  spiritual  truth 
which  he  is  not  likely  to  come  up  with  in  a  thousand 
modern  books.  After  being  in  company  with  these 
old  masters  of  the  Word,  ordinary  books  and  ser- 
mons seem  like  the  veriest  skimmed  milk. 

A  brother  who  has  been  spending  a  few  weeks  in 
the  country,  tells  of  his  experience  in  going  to 
church,  which  has  not  been  very  satisfactory.  He 
says,  "We  had  forms  for  worship  and  chopj)ed  hay 
for  sermons."    The  one  is  a  weariness  to  the  fiesh 


and  the  other  is  starvation  to  the  soul.  If  ministers 
of  the  Gospel  would  only  realize  that  in  every  con- 
gregation there  were  souls  who  came  to  worship 
Grod  in  spirit  and  in  truth  and  hungry  to  be  fed  on 
bread  from  heaven,  they  would  certainly  see  to  it 
that  their  forms  of  worship  where  instinct  with  the 
spirit  of  praise  and  prayer  and  their  sermon  throb- 
bing with  life  from  the  living  and  Spirit  breathing 
Word.  Forms  for  worship  and  dull  platitude  for 
sermons  will  soon  dry  up  the  life  of  any  church  and 
turn  it  into  a  sepulchre  of  hypocrites. 

Sometimes  we  think  the  Holy  Ghost  is  only 
needed  to  furnish  men  to  do  spiritual  work;  but  we 
are  reminded  that  in  choosing  of  the  first  deacons  to 
attend  to  the  temporal  and  material  interest  of  the 
church,  called  the  "serving  of  tables,"  the  disciples 
were  directed  to  choose  "men  of  good  report,  full  of 
the  Holy  Ghost  and  wisdom,  whom  we  may  appoint 
over  this  business."  Perhaps  the  reason  why  most 
church  quarrels  and  ^disagreements  grow  out  of 
questions  and  matters  affecting  the  formalities,  is 
because  we  are  not  careful  to  seek  the  presence  and 
power  of  the  Holy  Ghost  here,  as  well  as  in  what  we 
are  pleased  to  call  the  spiritual  interests  and  con- 
cerns of  the  church.  Is  not  everything  that  apper- 
tains to  the  church  of  God  a  spiritual  interest;  and 
ought  not  everything  be  done  in  the  power  of  the 
Spirit,  from  the  building  of  the  meeting-house  to  the 
preaching  of  the  sermon  in  it? 

If  any  person  or  persons  make  a  proposition  to 
hold  a  fair,  or  festival,  or  bazar,  or  broom  drill,  or 
any  other  worldly  device  for  getting  money  for  the 
church  this  winter,  move  to  amend  by  substituting 
a  protracted  meeting  for  the  preaching  of  the  Gos- 
pel to  sinners. 

Suppose  that  from  now  until  the  first  of  March 
twenty  thousand  of  the  churches  in  our  laud  should 
give  themselves  to  earnest  protracted  revival  work, 
among  the  people,  who  could  predict  the  glorious 
result? 

Are  you  engaged  in  any  pursuit,  are  you  planning 
any  pleasure,  are  you  indulging  in  any  practice 
which  you  have  not  spread  out  in  prayer  before 
God,  seeking  his  wisdom  and  approval  and  fellow- 
ship with  you  in  it?  Remember  that  we  are  one 
with  him  in  all  that  pertains  to  our  life  as  well  as  in 
life  itself.  No  doubt  if  there  were  more  unreserved 
conference  with  God  the  Holy  Ghost  as  to  all  the 
affairs  of  our  life  there  would  be  many  changes,  fre- 
quent modifications  and  not  a  few  abandonments  of 
plans  and  pursuits. 

There  is  a  great  difference  in  the  confession  of  sin 
on  the  basis  of  one's  own  consciousness  and  the  con- 
fession of  sin  on  the  basis  of  God's  Word.  The  first 
is  like  the  necessary  admission  which  a  criminal 
makes  to  himself  concerning  his  crime;  but  the  sec- 
ond is  like  that  criminal  voluntarily  coming  into 
court  and  giving  himself  up  to  the  law,  making  a 
full  confession.  There  are  thousands  of  sinners 
who  are  ready  to  say,  "Why,  yes,  I  am  a  sinner," 
whom  you  can  by  no  means  get  on  their  knees  to 
make  that  confession  to  God  and  accept  from  his 
Word  the  sentence  due  to  and  passed  upon  sinners. 
This  is  just  the  difference  between  true  penitence 
and  daring  sinfulness. 

The  Book  of  God  is  a  store  of  manna  for  God's 
pilgrim  children;  and  we  ought  to  see  to  it  that  the 
soul  get  not  sick  and  loathe  the  manna.  The  great 
cause  of  our  neglecting  the  Scriptures  is  not  want  of 
time,  but  want  of  heart,  some  idol  taking  the  place 
of  Christ.  Satan  has  been  marvelously  wise  to  en- 
tice away  God's  people  from  the  Scriptures.  A 
child  of  God  who  neglects  the  Scriptures  cannot 
make  it  his  business  to  please  the  Lord  of  glory; 
cannot  make  him  Lord  of  his  conscience;  ruler  of 
the  heart;  the  joy,  portion,  and  treasure  of  the  soul. 
Unconverted  people  usually  take  their  estimate  of 
Christianity  from  the  backslidden  and  apostate  pro- 
fessors of  religion  with  whom  they  have  to  do,  rath- 
er than  from  those  Christians  whom  they  know  and 
who  adorn  the  doctrine  of  Christ.  This  is  in  part 
because  it  suits  them  to  do  so,  and  in  part  because 
a  backslidden  Christian  is  so  conspicuous  a  witness 
though  a  talse  one;  and  partly  because  those  Chris- 
tians who,  while  they  give  no  bad  testimony  by  their 
outward  lives,  fail  to  give  a  positive  testimony  by 
their  lips,  which  would  be  taken  at  par  if  backed  up 
as  it  would  be  by  their  consistent  living. 

TEE  WINTER  NAP. 


By  mid-October  most  of  the  Rip  Van  Winkles 
among  our  brute  creatures  have  lain  down  for  their 
winter  nap.  The  toads  and  turtles  have  buried 
themselves  in  the  earth.  The  woodchuck  is  in  his 
hibernaculum,  the  skunk  in  his,the  mole  in  his;  and 
the  black  bear  has  his  selected,  and  will  go  in  when 
the  snow  comes.  He  does  not  like  the  looks  of  his 
big  tracks  in  the  snow.  They  publish  his  goings 
and  comings  too  plainly.      The  coon  retires  about 


DxoiHBiB  15, 1887 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSTTKE. 


U 


the  same  time.  The  provident  wood  mice  and  the 
chipmunk  are  laying  by  a  winter  supply  of  nuts  and 
grain,  the  former  usually  in  decayed  trees,  the  lat- 
ter in  the  ground.  I  have  observed  that  any  unusu- 
al disturbance  in  the  woods  near  where  the  chip- 
munk has  his  den  will  cause  him  to  shift  his  quar- 
ters. One  October,  for  many  successive  days  I  saw 
one  carrying  into  his  hole  buckwheat  which  he  had 
stolen  from  a  near  field.  The  hole  was  only  a  few 
rods  from  where  we  were  getting  out  stone,  and  as 
our  work  progressed  and  the  racket  and  uproar  in- 
creased the  chipmunk  became  alarmed.  He  ceased 
carrying  in,  and  after  much  hesistation  and  darting 
about,  and  some  prolonged  absences,  he  began  to 
carry  out;  he  had  determined  to  move;  if  the  moun- 
tain fell,  he  at  least  would  be  away  in  time.  So  by 
mouthfuls,  or  cheekfuls,  the  grain  was  transferred 
to  a  new  place.  He  did  not  make  a  "bee"  to  get  it 
done,  but  carried  it  all  himself,  occupying  several 
days,  and  making  a  trip  about  every  ten  minutes. 

Insects  also  go  into  winter  quarters  by  or  before 
this  time;  the  bumble-bee,  hornet  and  wasp.  But 
here  only  royalty  escapes;  the  queen  mother  alone 
foresees  the  night  of  winter  coming  and  the  morn- 
ing of  spring  beyond.  The  rest  of  the  tribe  try  gyp- 
sying  for  a  while,  but  perish  in  the  first  frosts.  The 
present  October  I  surprised  the  queen  of  the  yellow- 
jackets  in  the  woods  looking  out  a  suitable  retreat. 
The  royal  dame  was  house-hunting,  and  on  being 
disturbed  by  my  inquisitive  poking  among  the 
leaves  she  got  up  and  flew  away  with  a  slow,  deep 
hum.  Her  body  was  unusually  distended,  whether 
with  fat  or  eggs,  I  am  unable  to  say.  In  Septem- 
ber I  took  down  the  nest  of  the  black  hornet  and 
found  several  large  queens  in  it,but  the  workers  had 
all  gone.  The  queens  were  evidently  weathering 
the  first  frosts  and  storms  here,  and  waiting  for  the 
Indian  summer  to  go  forth  and  seek  a  permanent 
winter  abode.  If  the  covers  could  be  taken  off  the 
fields  and  woods  at  this  season,  how  many  interest- 
ing facts  of  natural  history  would  be  revealed!  The 
crickets,  ants,  bees,  reptiles,  animals,  and  for  aught 
1  know,  the  spiders  and  flie8,asleep  or  getting  ready 
to  sleep  in  their  winter  dormitories;  the  fires  of  life 
banked  up  and  burning  just  enough  to  keep  the 
spark  over  until  spring. — From  Winter  Sunshine,  by 
John  Burroughs. 


BOMEBODT'B  MOTHER. 

The  woman  was  old,  and  ragged,  and  gray, 
And  bent  with  chill  of  the  winter's  day; 

The  street  was  wet  with  the  winter's  snow, 
And  the  woman's  feet  were  aged  and  slow. 

She  stood  at  the  crossing  and  waited  long, 
Alone,  uncared  for,  amid  a  throng 

Of  human  beings,  who  passed  her  by. 
Nor  heeded  the  glance  of  her  anxious  eye. 

Down  the  street  with  laughter  and  shout. 
Glad  in  the  freedom  of  school  let  out, 

Came  the  boys  like  a  flock  of  sheep, 
Hailing  the  snow  piled  white  and  deep. 

Past  the  woman  so  old  and  gray, 
Hastened  the  children  on  their  way. 

Nor  offered  a  helping  hand  to  her. 
So  meek,  so  timid,  afraid  to  stir. 

Lest  the  carriage  wheels  or  horse's'  feet 
Should  crowd  her  down  In  the  slippery  street. 

At  last  came  one  of  the  merry  troop, 
The  gayest  laddie  of  all  the  group. 

He  paused  beside  her,  and  whispered  low, 
"I'll  help  you  across,  if  you  wish  to  go." 

Her  aged  hand  on  his  strong  young  arm 
She  placed ;  and  without  hurt  or  harm 

He  guided  the  trembling  feet  along. 
Proud  that  his  own  were  firm  and  strong. 

Then  back  again  to  his  friends  he  went, 
His  young  heart  happy,  and  well  content. 

"She's  somebody's  mother,  boys,  you  know. 
For  all  she's  old,  and  poor,  and  slow ; 

And  I  hope  some  fellow  will  lend  a  hand 
To  help  my  mother,  you  understand, 

If  ever  she's  old,  and  poor,  and  gray, 
When  her  own  dear  boy  is  far  awsy." 

And  "somebody'i  mother"  bowed  low  her  head 
In  her  home  that  night,  and  the  prayer  she  said 

Was  "God  be  kind  to  the  noble  boy 

Who  Is  somebody's  son,  and  pride,  and  Joy." 

—Selected. 


home  when  all  his  companions  went  to  join  Gen. 
Stark  and  fight  the  Hessians  at  Bennington.  They 
had  been  gone  but  a  little  while  when  some  soldiers 
galloped  up,  and  asked  if  there  was  anybody  at 
home.  "Yes,"  Luke  said;  "1  am  here."  "What  I 
mean,"  said  one,  "is  there  anybody  here  who  can 
shoe  a  horse?"  "I  think  I  can;  I  will  try."  So  he 
put  the  shoe  on  the  horse  quite  thoroughly  and  well. 
And  when  it  was  done,  one  of  the  men  said,  "Boy, 
no  ten  men  who  have  left  you  to-day,  have  served 
your  country  as  you  have."  It  was  Colonel  Warner. 
When  I  read,  Mr.  Hale  goes  on  to  say,  in  the  big 
books  of  history  of  Col.  Warner  riding  up  just  in 
time  to  save  the  Battle  of  Bennington,  I  think  of 
Luke  Vamum.  When  I  see  monuments  in  memory 
of  Col.  Warner,  and  Gen.  Stark,  and  even  Burgoyne, 
I  think  of  Luke  Varnum.  And  often  I  think,  "Does 
not  every  boy  who  does  his  duty  have  the  future  of 
the  world  upon  him?"  Had  it  not  been  for  Luke 
Varnum's  work  that  day,  perhaps  the  battle  of  Ben- 
nington and  of  Saratoga  might  have  gone  otherwise. 
Did  you  ever  think  that  on  the  hinge  of  a  baby's 
tear  hung  the  destiny  of  the  world?  We  are  here, 
perhaps,  to-day,  because  of  a  tear  that  once  glistened 
on  a  baby's  cheek.  It  was  the  weeping  of  the  little 
Moses  in  the  bulrushes  that  touched  the  heart  of 
Pharaoh's  daughter,  so  that  she  had  him  taken  to 
her  home  and  nursed  and  trained  in  all  the  learning 
of  the  Egyptians.  In  the  court  of  Egypt,  he  was 
prepared  to  become  the  forerunner  of  Christ,  and 
the  leader  of  God's  chosen  people.  How  little  we 
know  what  any  smallest  act  of  our  own  may  do  I 
Who  are  you  and  I  that  we  should  pick  and  choose 
when  we  do  not  know  what  may  come  out  of  the 
little  things  God  sets  against  our  hands?  Certainly 
we  should  not  have  had  the  perfect  example  of 
Christ  had  he  not  stooped  for  us  to  the  noble  doing 
of  each  daily  duty.  Do  you  not  see  how  this  daily 
life  of  yours  may  be  God's  mission  for  you,  if  only 
in  it  you  will  seek  to  do,  as  Jesus  did,  even  the  least 
things  that  the  Father  sets  against  your  hand? 


Temfebance. 


THE  REPUBLICAN  PARTY  AND  PROHIBI- 
TION. 


GREAT  THIN  a  8  FROM  LITTLE. 

Edward  Everett  Hale  tells  this  tale  of  the  Revo- 
lution: There  was  a  little,  lame  blacksmith's  boy, 
who,  because  he  was  lame,  was  obliged  to  remain  at 


I  asked  Senator  Palmer  this  morning  if  it  was 
true  that  he  had  made  a  prohibition  speech  at  a  meet- 
ing of  Republicans  in  Detroit  last  week,  as  reported 
in  the  newspapers. 

"No,"  he  replied,  "I  didn't  make  a  speech.  There 
was  a  gathering  of  Republican  leaders  in  our  State 
for  the  purpose  of  consulting  upon  means  and  meas- 
ures for  the  partv  welfare,a  sort  of  experience  meet- 
ing, you  might  say,  and  I  made  a  little  talk  which 
surprised  some  of  our  people." 

"Did  you  come  out  in  favor  of  prohibition?" 

"I  did." 

"Did  you  advise  the  Republican  party  to  take  up 
the  prohibition  issue  and  make  it  its  own?" 

"Exactly  so." 

"Was  your  speech  fully  reported?" 

"It  was  not." 

"Would  you  mind  telling  me  precisely  what  you 
said?" 

"I  have  not  the  slightest  objection.  It  was  a  little 
informal  talk  or  consultation,  as  I  have  told  you, 
and,  while  I  cannot  recall  the  exact  words,  what  I 
said  was  that  this  question,  which  is  already  a  cloud 
even  larger  than  a  man's  hand,  is  soon  to  overshad- 
ow the  whole  sky;  the  gage  had  been  thrown  down 
to  us  in  the  last  election  and  inquisition  applied  to 
all  candidates  by  the  saloon  element  demanding  from 
them  an  expression  of  views  on  the  whisky  question 
that  amounted  to  pledges.  The  Republican  candi- 
dates who  made  these  pledges  were  discriminated 
against  by  the  temperance  people,  and  those  who 
did  not  were  slaughtered  by  the  liquor  influence.  I 
said  that  I  believed  in  taking  up  the  gauntlet  thus 
thrown  down,  and,  as  a  party,  coming  out  on  one 
side  or  the  other  of  this  question.  Whenever  the 
Republican  party  has  asserted  a  great  principle  re- 
gardless of  the  immediate  apprehensions  and  warn- 
ings it  has  always  won;  and  the  question  now  is 
whether  we  should  take  the  lead  in  the  prohibition 
movement  or  come  in  at  the  tail  of  the  procession. 

THI   WAR   ISSUIS   DEAD. 

"Although  a  great  majority  of  the  Republican 
party  regard  those  questions  which  the  war  devel- 
oped of  great  interest — such  as  the  rights  of  the  Ne- 
groes in  the  South,  the  freedom  of  the  ballot,and  an 
honest  count  at  the  polls — a  generation  has  come 
up  which  knows  not  Joseph,  and  new  fuel  js  re- 
quired to  stir  them  up  to  the  enthusiasm  that  exist- 
ed when  the  Republican  party  achieved  its  greatest 
success.  It  is  absolutely  imperative  that  we  have 
some  great  moral  or  sentimental  issue  to  hold  the 


mental  in  its  highest  sense.  The  tariff  alone  won't 
do,and  I  know  of  no  other  question  that  appeals  to 
the  homes  and  the  hearts  of  the  people  of  this  coun- 
try like  the  temperance  question.  I  do  not  pretend 
to  be  a  total  abstainer  myself,  although  a  temperate 
man,  but  the  question  is  whether  whisky  is  going  to 
run  this  country  or  the  sober  judgment  of  the  people 
who  are  not  under  its  influence. 

"The  strength  of  the  Republican  party  is  its  weak- 
ness. By  that  I  mean  that  the  convictions  of  the 
individuals,  the  sentiments  of  its  component  parts, 
must  be  aroused  and  unified  on  some  supreme  idea 
in  order  to  get  the  thinking  men  of  that  party  to 
act  together.  You  have  to  fire  them  with  some  great 
purpose  or  they  will  scatter.  Each  man  thinks  for 
himself,  and  I  believe  that  the  sentiment  of  the  Re- 
publican party,  the  great  majority  of  it,  is  already 
in  favor  of  adoptisg  the  prohibition  issue  at  State 
elections,  and  that  within  six  years  it  will  be  com- 
pelled to  adopt  prohibition  as  a  national  issue.  That 
is  about  what  I  said  to  our  people  at  the  meeting." 
"Was  there  any  dissent  from  your  views?" 
"Considerable.  I  noticed  that  most  of  our  people 
dislike  the  use  of  the  term  prohibition,and  they  were 
nearly  all  in  favor  of  stringent  legislation  to  regu- 
late the  manufacture  and  sale  of  intoxicating  liquor. 
They  don't  want  to  join  the  Prohibition  party.  The 
animosity  toward  some  of  the  prohibition  leaders, 
growing  out  of  past  campaigns,  has  made  the  name 
and  the  organization  distasteful." 

"How  many  men  were  present  at  this  meeting?" 
"There  were  about  one  hundred  representative  Re- 
publicans from  all  over  the  State  of  Michigan." 

"How  did  your  colleague.  Senator  Stockbridge, 
stand?" 

"He  coincided  entirely  with  my  views.  I  was  sur- 
prised that  he  went  as  far  as  he  did,  but  he  believes 
as  I  do,  that  the  strong  should  be  willing  to  go  with- 
out whisky  rather  than  the  weak  should  be  overcome 
by  it." 

"How  about  the  Congressmen?  What  stand  did 
they  take?" 

"Congressman  Allen  is,  practically,  a  prohibition- 
ist, and  he  took  very  strong  ground3,but  believed  in 
our  present  local  option  law.  There  was  some  oppo- 
sition to  my  suggestion  coming  from  honest,earnest 
temperance  men  who  opposed  it  on  the  ground  that 
all  sumptuary  legislation,  so  called,  is  contrary  to 
the  spirit  of  our  institutions. — Corretptmdence  Chica- 
go Daily  News. 

BLAINE  ON  WHI8KT  AND  TOBACCO. 


The  New  York  Tribune   correspondent  in  Paris  ~ 
cabled  the  views  of  Hon.  J.  G.  Blaine  on  the  Presi- 
dent's message  last  Wednesday  night,  in  which  that 
Republican  leader  expressed  the  following  singular 
views  on  whisky  and  tobacco: 

"Then  do  you  mean  to  imply  that  you  would  fa- 
vor the  repeal  of  the  tobacco  tax?" 

THE    TOBACCO   TAX. 

"Certainly — I  mean  just  that,"  said  Mr.  Blaine; 
"I  should  urge  that  it  be  done  at  once,  even  before 
the  Christmas  holidays.     It  would  in  the  first  place 
bring  great  relief  to  growers  of  tobacco  all  over  the 
country,  and  would,  moreover,  materially  lesson  the 
price  of  the  article  to  consumers.    Tobacco  to  mill- 
ions of  men  is  a  necessity.    The  President  calls  it  a 
luxury,  but  it  is  a  luxury  in  no  other  sense  than  tea 
and  coffee  are  luxuries.    It  is  well  to  remember  that 
the  luxury  of  yesterday  becomes  a  necessity  of  to- 
day.    Watch,  if  you  please,  the  number  of  men  at 
work  on  the  farm,  in  the  coal  mine,  along  the  rail- 
road, in  the  iron  foundries,  or  in  any  calling,  and 
you  will  find  ninety-five  out  of  one  hundrai  chew- 
ing while  they  work.     After  each  meal  the  same 
proportion  seek  the  solace  of  a  pipe  or  a  cigar. 
These  men  not  only  pay  the  millions  of  the  tobacco 
tax,  but  pay  on  every  plug  and  every  cigar  an  en- 
hanced price  which  the  tax  enables  the  manufactur- 
er and  retailer  to  impose.     The  only  excuse  for  such 
a  tax  is  the  actual  necessity  under  which  the  gov- 
ernment found  itself  during  the  war  and  the  years 
immediately  following.     To  retain  the  tax  now,  in 
order  to  destroy  the  protection  which  would  inci- 
dentally flow  from  raising  the  same  amount  of  money 
on  foreign  imports,  is  certainly  a  most  extraordin- 
ary policy  for  our  government." 

THB   WniSKT  TAX. 

"Well,  then,  Mr.  Blaine,  would  you  advise  the  re- 
peal of  the  whisky  tax  also?" 

"No,  I  would  not.  Other  considerations  than 
those  of  financial  adminstration  arc  to  be  taken  into 
account  with  regard  to  whisky.  There  is  a  moral 
side  to  it.  To  cheapen  the  price  of  whisky  is  to  in- 
crease the  consumption  enormously.  There  would 
be  no  sense  in  urging  the  reform  wrought  by  high 
license  in  many  States  if  the  National  government 


Republican  party  together,      I  use  the  word  sent!- '  neutralizes  the  good  effect  by  making  whisky  with- 


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THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


Deosmbib  15, 188) 


in  reach  of  every  one  at  twenty  cents  a  gallon. 
Whisky  would  be  everywhere  distilled  if  the  sur- 
veillance of  the  government  were  withdrawn  the  re- 
mission of  the  tax,  and  illicit  sales  could  not  then 
be  prevented  even  by  a  policy  as  rigorous  and 
searching  as  that  with  which  Russia  pursues  the  ni- 
hilists. It  would  destroy  high  license  at  once  in  all 
the  States.  Whisky  has  done  a  vast  deal  of  hurt  in 
the  United  States.  I  would  try  to  make  it  do  some 
good.  I  would  use  the  tax  to  fortify  our  cities  on 
the  sea-board." 


REIIGIOTIS  NEWS. 


— Rev.  Dr.  John  Williamson,  of  this  city,  gave  to 
the  Methodist  ministers  at  their  weekly  meeting,  a 
few  days  since,  a  wonderful  experience  which  he  had 
the  past  year.  He  is  the  pastor  of  Michigan  Avenue 
church,  and  a  year  ago  his  health  was  so  bad  that 
his  physician  told  him  he  would  have  to  rest  at  least 
a  whole  year.  It  was  with  great  reluctance  that  he 
agreed  to  do  this;  it  was  the  greatest  sacrifice  of  his 
life.  Some  months  afterward  this  weighed  on  his 
heart  so  much  that  he  cried  aloud  unto  the  Lord  for 
divine  aid.  Dr.  Williamson  stated  that  at  that  time 
he  held  a  sweet  and  indescribable  communion  with 
God,  in  which  he  was  assured  that  his  health  would 
be  restored.  His  physician  had  but  recently  assured 
him  that  he  was  as  well  as  he  ever  was  before,  and 
he  ascribes  this  wonderful  cure  entirely  to  divine 
healing.  The  relating  of  Dr.  Williamson's  experi- 
ence caused  quite  a  sensation,  and  many  there  were 
who  agreed  with  him  that  it  was  an  example  of  Di- 
vine healing. 

— Mr.  Spurgeon's  secession  from  the  Baptist  Un- 
ion of  London,  on  account  of  the  growing  laxity  of 
the  churches  composing  it,  has  been  followed  by  a 
withdrawal  of  a  number  of  prominent  clergymen  of 
like  conservative  ideas. 

— Rev.  W.  H.  Brewster  of  Benton  Harbor,  Mich., 
has  resigned,  in  accordance  with  a  purpose  enter- 
tained for  some  time.  Having  been  ordained  in 
1839,  he  begins  to  feel  the  weight  of  advancing 
years  and  is  desirous  of  laying  aside  the  burdens  of 
the  active  pastorate.  His  people  are  very  averse  to 
accepting  his  resignation,  and  an  effort  will  be  made 
to  so  lighten  his  labors  as  to  enable  him  to  contin- 
ue. Mr.  Brewster  was  pastor  of  the  College  church, 
Wheaton,  for  several  years  previous  to  1872, 

— In  Augusta,  Maine,  where  Dr.  G.  F.  Pentecost 
has  been  laboring,  the  merchants  closed  their  stores 
at  6  p.  M.,  except  on  two  days,  to  allow  attendance 
of  employes  on  the  evening  meetings. 

— Rev.  M.  W.  Montgomery,  general  Congregation- 
al missionary  among  the  Scandinavians  in  this  coun- 
try, has  returned  from  a  three  weeks'  stay  in  Utah 
where  he  has  been  investigating  the  religious  situa- 
tion and  needs  of  the  40,000  Scandinavians  in  that 
Territory,  nearly  all  of  whom  are  Mormons  or  seced- 
ers  from  that  apostate  church. 

— Rev.  S.  H.  Kellogg,  who  has  spent  fifteen  years 
in  faithful  home  missionary  labor  in  Minnesota,  has 
removed  to  California.  His  address  will  be  Los 
Angeles. 

— Dr.  Justin  D.  Fulton  is  still  delivering  his  ser- 
ies of  lectures  against  Romanism,  and  was  recently 
attacked  by  a  mob  in  Biddeford,  Maine,  which 
stoned  the  hall  and  drove  the  lecturer  away.  Dr. 
Fulton,  however,  has  returned  to  Biddeford,  by  in- 
vitation of  the  Protestant  clergymen  of  that  city 
and  Saco,  and  has  begun  another  series  of  lectures 
on  the  same  subject. 

— It  is  gratifying  to  know  that  the  Water  Street 
Mission,  New  York,  founded  by  the  late  Jerry  Mc- 
Anley,  is  still  prospered  as  a  means  of  usefulness. 
At  its  fiftieth  anniversary,  held  on  a  recent  Sunday, 
the  Rev.  Dr.  Parkhurst  presented,  in  an  address,  the 
grand  work  done  in  both  the  McAuley  Missions. 
All  along  the  line  of  Christian  workers  the  name  of 
Jerry  McAuley  still  gives  inspiration  in  the  great 
duty  of  recueing  the  perishing. 

— Bishop  Hurst  says  8,000,000  of  Indians  in  Mex- 
ico have  never  seen  a  copy  of  the  Word  of  God. 

— The  first  Christian  church  in  the  Congo  Free 
State  was  organized  in  November  of  last  year,  and 
there  are  1,062  converts  in  the  Congo  mission. 

— Madagascar  is  almost  a  miracle  of  missionary 
triumph.  The  native  Christians  of  that  island  have 
given  more  than  $4,000,000  for  the  spread  of  the 
Gospel  during  the  last  ten  years. 

— The  Bloomington,  Illinois,  Presbytery  has  a 
singular  case  on  its  hands  in  the  shape  of  a  church 
at  Sidney  composed  entirely  of  women.  They  raised 
the  money  and  built  a  neat  little  chapel  and  dedi- 
cated it  practically  free  from  debt  There  being  no 
male  members  to  hold  the  offices,  the  Presbytery  is 


endeavoring  to  complete  the  organization  by  electing 
elders.  If  they  cannot  find  some  male  members 
they  will  have  to  let  women  take  the  places,  which 
is  what  the  women  want. 

— The  Women's  Foreign  Missionary  Society  of 
the  M.  E.  church  has,  in  the  past  year,  accepted 
twenty-three  young  ladies  for  missionaries. 

— Dr.  Munhall  held  a  meeting  for  men  only  in  the 
Doan  Music  Hall,  Cleveland,  Sabbath  evening,  Dec. 
4.  Some  3,000  were  present,  and  at  the  close  400 
rose  to  say  that  they  renounced  sin  and  accepted 
Christ.  A  yet  larger  number  rose  to  signify  their 
desire  to  be  saved  through  Christ. 

— A  dispatch  from*  Pittsburgh  says  that  D.  L. 
Moody,  the  evangelist,  closed  a  series  of  three  week's 
meetings  in  Pittsburgh  Sabbath  night.  Two  to  four 
meetings  have  been  held  every  day,  except  Satur- 
day, and  the  Central  Rink,  seating  some  3,500  per- 
sons, has  been  full  at  every  meeting.  On  some  oc- 
casions thousands  have  been  turned  away.  The 
ministers  of  the  city  have  been  thoroughly  united 
in  this  series  of  meetings  and  all  bear  testimony  to 
the  faithfulness  with  which  the  evangelist  has 
preached  the  Gospel.  No  attempt  has  been  made  to 
number  the  persons  converted,  but  the  result  will  be 
a  large  accession  to  the  memberhip  of  all  the 
churches.  The  press  of  the  city  has  given  full  and 
interesting  reports  from  day  to  day,  and  some  of 
them  have  published  the  sermons  in  full.  Twelve 
or  fifteen  thousand  attended  the  services  on  the  last 
day.  Mr.  Moody  returned  Monday  to  his  home  at 
Northfield.  After  the  holidays  he  will  spend  a 
month  in  Louisville,  where  a  tabernacle  seating 
5,000  people  is  being  built  for  his  use.  After  leav- 
ing Louisville  Mr.  Moody  will  spend  the  rest  of  the 
winter  and  early  spring  on  the  Pacific  coast. 


LITERATURE. 


Christian  Liberties  in  Boston.  A  sketch  of  recent  attempts 
to  destroy  them  through  the  device  of  a  gag-by-law  for  Gospel 
preachers.  Written  and  published  by  Wm.  F.  Davis,  evangel- 
ist, and  sold  by  H.  L.  Hastings,  47  Cornhlll,  Boston. 

The  struggle  for  constitutional  and  Gospel  rights 
waged  on  Boston  Common  for  several  years,  is  more 
or  less  familiar  to  all  readers  of  the  American  relig- 
ious press.  For  several  years  evangelists  like  Bro. 
Davis.who  feared  God  rather  than  men,  have  preached 
to  respectful  crowds  who  gather  on  the  Common. 
Not  until  1885  was  there  any  serious  interference 
under  the  city  statutes  forbidding  such  preaching. 
In  that  year  the  police  made  a  descent  on  the  Com- 
mon and  their  net  fell  around  large  fish.  Not  only 
were  Bro.  Davis  and  some  speakers  from  the  Salva- 
tion Army  taken  in,  but  also  H.  L.  Hastings,  editor 
of  the  Christian,  and  Dr.  A.  J.  Gordon,  the  eminent 
Baptist  pastor.  A  few  minutes  before  the  secretary 
of  the  Y.  M.  C.  A.  had  opened  the  meeting  by  de- 
claring their  purpose  to  make  a  test  case  against  a 
vicious  and  unconstitutional  city  law.  Dr.  Gordon 
and  the  Y.  M.  C.  A.,  however,  fainted  in  the  day  of 
battle,  paid  their  fine  and  let  rights  and  wrongs  take 
care  of  themselves  on  Boston  Common.  Not  so  did 
their  fathers  in  the  early  days  of  that  historic  spot. 
But  Bro.  Davis  has  continued  to  preach  every 
season.  This  year  he  was  again  arrested,  and  re- 
fusing to  pay  the  fine,  has  been  for  we^ks  in  jail. 
This  book  is  a  history  of  this  battle.  We  wish  it 
might  be  read  by  every  hearth-fire  in  America.  It 
would  open  many  eyes  to  see  the  dangers  that  lurk 
for  our  liberties  in  rum-ruled,  lodge-ridden  legisla- 
tion and  courts.  H.  L.  Hastings  was  fined  $30  for 
simply  reading  three  chapters  of  the  Bible  aloud  on 
the  Common.  The  same  judge  fined  a  man  who 
made  at  the  time,  a  little  disturbance  of  this  peacea- 
ble Gospel  meeting,  a  paltry  $3.  Is  Boston — is 
America  willing  to  unread  the  noble  apostrophe  of 
Mrs.  Hemans  to  the  Pilgrims: 

"Ay,  call  it  holy  ground, 

The  soil  where  first  they  trod. 
They  have  left  unstained  what  there  they  found — 

Freedom  to  worship  God?" 

Shall  we  own  the  rule  of  degenerate  days,  and  let 
the  devil  have  his  way  with  the  rights  of  the  public 
worship  of  God?  Truly  does  this  volume  point  out 
the  evil  counsel  of  the  lodge  in  all  this  business. 
"Their  intercourse,"  says  the  writer  of  the  authors 
and  abettors  of  the  gag  law,  "with  each  other  is  by 
private  winks,  and  signs  and  passwords,  and  grips, 
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sonic, Tobacco,  Satanic  church.  From  such  separate 
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The  December  Century  opens  with  a  frontispiece  por- 
trait of  Lincoln  from  a  photograph  made  about  the  time 
of  his  inauguration,  which  event  is  the  subject  of  the 
present  part  of  the  Lincoln  History.  The  narrative  be- 
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accompanied  by  unpublished  letters  from  Seward,  Scott, 
and  General  Stone.  Prof.  Charles  W,  Shields,  of  Prince- 
ton College,  contributes  an  important  and  interesting 
paper,  entitled  "The  United  Churches  of  the  United 
States,"  being  a  review  of  the  Century  letters  on  Chris- 
tian Unity,  In  summing  up  he  says:  "Never  were  the 
signs  as  well  as  the  needs  of  such  union  more  apparent, 
never  was  the  feeling  so  deep  and  growing  that  the  di- 
visions in  the  Christian  church  must  somehow  come  to 
an  end."  Mr.  Kennan's  second  paper  deals  with  the 
"Prison  Life  of  the  Russian  Revolutionists,"  and  answers 
the  question,  What  is  the  specific  nature  of  the  wrongs 
which  call  forth,  especially  among  the  youth  of  Russia, 
such  manifestations  of  fierce,  passionate  hatred  for  the 
Tsar,  and  which  inspire  such  persistent  and  desperate 
attempts  to  take  his  life?  An  illustrated  paper  on  "The 
Sea  of  Galilee"  is  contributed  by  Edward  L.  Wilson. 
The  narrative  is  the  result  of  personal  observation  and 
experience  in  Palestine,  during  which  Mr.  Wilson  made 
a  large  number  of  photographs,  which  have  been  utilized 
in  illustrations  which  accompany  the  article.  The  Tonic 
Sol  Fa  System  of  writing  and  teaching  music  is  similarly 
the  subject  of  two  short  papers,  one  by  Theodore  F. 
Seward  in  advocacy  of  it,  and  describing  its  remarkable 
growth  in  England,  and  another,  more  critical,  by  Mr. 
H.  E .  Krehbiel,  musical  critic  of  the  New  York  Tribune, 
whose  conclusion  is  that  the  system  is  admirably  adapted 
to  the  study  of  harmony  and  singing,  but  ill  adapted  to 
the  study  and  practice  of  instrumental  music. 

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full  page  illustrations,  of  which  there  are  no  less  than  four- 
teen, among  them  a  portrait  of  Rembrandt,  by  himself. 
Potato  Planting,  Study  of  a  Head,  from  a  drawing  by 
Sir  Frederick  Leighton,  and  a  portrait  of  Philip  IV. 
The  illustrated  article,  ""The  Sea  of  Galilee,"  by  Laurence 
Oliphant,  is  of  great  value  and  interest.  The  writer  has 
made  careful  explorations  about  this  remarkable  histori- 
cal spot,  and  the  result  of  his  personal  study  of  the  site 
of  cities,  and  of  the  rock-hewn  homes  of  the  robber 
bands  whom  Herod  overthrew,  is  most  entertaining. 
"Ornithology  at  South  Kensington  Museum,"  it  another 
illustrated  article  of  much  interest.  The  continuation 
of  Prof.  Minto's  story  of  England  in  the  time  of  Wick- 
liffe  reveals  to  the  animated  reader  surprising  pictures  of 
life  and  manners  at  that  day.  American  readers  will 
have  little  interest  in  the  notes  of  old  English  coaching, 
or  in  the  prolix  theatrical  article,  though  both  are  pro- 
fusely illustrated. 

The  readers  of  St .  Nicholas  for  December  will  read 
first  the  story  of  "Three  Miles  High  in  a  Balloon,"  by  a 
St.  Louis  reporter  who  ascended  with  others  last  June. 
The  account  is  fascinating  and  so  are  the  pictures,  but 
the  writer  makes  a  serious  mistake  in  telling  of  the  loss 
of  Donaldson  in  Lake  Michigan  and  the  reporter  of  the 
Evening  Journal  who  went  with  him .  Donaldson  was 
attached  to  Barnum's  show,  and  the  ascent  was  made 
from  the  Lake  front,  Chicago,  just  before  night.  Frank 
R.  Stockton  administers  a  salutary  little  lesson  to  both 
young  and  old  in  one  of  his  admirable  stories,  "The 
Clocks  of  Rondaine,"  the  first  part  of  which  appears  in 
this  number;  while  J.  T.  Trowbridge  gives  an  account 
of  "How  the  Hart  Boys  Saw  Great  Salt  Lake,"  which, 
with  some  exaggerations,  gives  a  striking  picture  of  some 
of  the  drawbacks  in  the  Utah  climate. 

Every  one  needs  a  calendar  for  the  New  Year,  and 
will  appreciate  the  elegant  one  designed  and  engraved 
on  steel  for  Messrs.  Doliber,  Goodale  &  Co.,  of  Boston, 
Mass.,  who  will  mail  it  to  any  one  upon  receipt  of  ten 
cents  in  stamps  or  cash.  It  is  one  of  Lowell's  finest  steel 
plate  engravings. 

Science  for  December  9  contains  a  resume  of  an  elab- 
orate paper  on  "The  Corset,"  read  before  the  Brooklyn 
Pathological  Society  by  Dr.  R.  L.  Dickinson.  It  is  a  re- 
markable exhibit  of  the  physiological  evils  chargeable  to 
the  use  of  this  fashionable  engine  of  female  suicide. 


Deoihbib  15, 1887 


THE  CHKISTIAN  CYNOSURK. 


13 


Lodge  Notes. 

The  Good  Templar  lodges  all  held  a 
memorial  service  for  J.  B.  Pinch,  Dec. 4, 
and  took  up  collections  to  build  him  a 
monument.  If  Anti-masons  had  let  him 
alone,  the  lodge  would  not  be  so  anxious 
to  vindicate  his  memory. 

The  convention  of  the  Chi  Phi  College 
Fraternity  met  in  Philadelphia.  The 
sessions  were  secret.  The  following  in- 
stitutions were  represented:  Universities 
of  Ohio,  Virginia,  Georgia.  California, 
Yale,  Vanderbilt,  Lehigh,  Franklin,  and 
Marshall;  Rennsalaer  Polytechnic,  Ste- 
vens Institute,  Lafayette,  Rutgers,  Am- 
herst, and  Dickinson  Colleges . 

The  forty-first  annual  convention  of 
of  the  Theta  Delta  Chi  fraternity  was 
held  at  the  Park  Avenue  Hotel  in  New 
York.  Delegates  from  sixteen  colleges 
and  universities  were  present .  The  pro- 
ceedings were  secret,  and  continued  sev- 
eral dajs. 

At  the  late  meeting  of  the  Illinois 
Grand  Lodge  of  Odd-fellows,  Gen.  J.  C. 
Smith,  Lieutenant  Governor  of  Illinois, 
was  re-elected  Grand  Scribe. 

A  report  was  submitted  by  a  special 
committee  of  tho  Indiana  Grand  lodge 
proposing  the  establishment  of  a  home 
for  the  aged  and  indigent  Odd-fellows  of 
Illinois  Indiana,  Michigan  and  Wiscon- 
sin, and  recommended  its  adoption.  The 
motion  when  put  was  defeated  by  a  heavy 
majority. 

There  were  a  few  months  ago  60,000 
colored  Knights  of  Labor  in  the  United 
States;  but  since  the  massacre  of  the 
blacks  in  Louisiana  the  lodges  will  be 
turned  out  and  broken  up. 

Local  Assembly  No.  7,143,  composed  of 
cane,  whip  and  umbrella  makers,  of  Phil- 
adelphia, has  withdrawn  from  theEnights 
of  Labor,  and  its  members  have  formed 
an  open  Union. 

At  the  final  session  of  the  District  As- 
sembly, Knights  of  Labor,  of  London, 
Ont.,  after  a  lengthy  discussion,  a  reso- 
lution was  passed  urging  secession  from 
the  United  States  General  Assembly  and 
the  forming  of  a  General  Assembly  for 
Canada,  the  latter  body  to  have  complete 
and  unrestricted  powers  to  adjudicate  on 
all  questions  and  business  connected  with 
the  order. 


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Home  and  Health. 

SLEEPING  APARTMENTS. 

Some  great  writer  has  remarked :  "It 
must  not  be  forgotten  that  we  spend  a 
considerable  portion  of  our  lives  in  the 
bedchamber,  and, therefore,  its healthf ul- 
nesB  cannot  fail  to  have  a  very  import- 
ant bearing  upon  our  physical  well-being." 
Everybody,  indeed,  who  is  actuated  by 
a  due  regard  for  health  and  real  comfort, 
will  consider  an  equal  degree  of  attention 
necessary  in  giving  attention  to  the  size, 
situation,  temperature,  and  cleanliness  of 
the  apartment  he  occupies  during  the 
hours  of  repose  as  of  the  parlor,  drawing- 
room,  or  any  other  apartment;  and  yet 
how  very  often  do  we  find  families  crowd- 
ed at  night  into  obscure  and  confined 
chambers,  of  dimensions  scarcely  more 
ample  than  those  of  an  old  fashioned 
closet,  while,  perhaps,  in  the  majority  of 
instances,  the  best  rooms  in  the  whole 
house  are  set  apart  for  the  sole  purpose 
of  ostentatious  display.  Now  it  is  very 
important  that  the  largest  and  most  ele- 
vated room,  or  rooms,  upon  the  second 
floor  of  the  dwelling,  be  appropriated 
for  the  purpose  of  sleeping,  and  that 
the  same  be  properly  ventilated  during 
all  seasons  of  the  year. 

There  are  few  houses,  the  rooms  of 
which  are  so  situated  as  to  render  good 
ventilation  impossible,  and  the  influence 
of  this  practice  upon  the  health  of  in- 
mates is  too  important  to  permit  being 
neglected  from  any  slight  cause.  A  bed- 
chamber should  be  divested  of  all  unnec- 
essary furniture,  and,  unless  of  consider- 
able size,  should  never  contain  more  than 
one  bed.  There  cannot  be  a  more  per- 
nicious custom  than  that  pursued  by  some, 
indeed,  by  many,  families  of  having  their 
children  sleep  in  small  apartments,  with 
two,  and  sometimes  with  three,  beds,  and 
crowded  into  the  same  room.  It  is  scarce- 
ly necessary  to  observe  that  cleanliness, 
in  the  most  extensive  signification  of  the 
term,  is,  if  possible,  even  more  necessary 
with  reference  to  the  bed  chamber  than 
with  almost  any  other  apartment  in  the 
whole  house .  The  practice  of  sleeping 
in  a  room  which  is  occupied  during  the 
day-time  is  extremely  unwise.  Perfect 
cleanliness  and  sufficient  free  ventilation 
cannot,  under  sach  circumstances,  be  pre- 
served, especially  during  cold  weather; 
hence  the  atmosphere  becomes  constantly 
more  vitiated,  and  altogether  unfit  for 
respiration.  While  too  great  a  degree  of 
caution  cannot  be  observed  to  avoid 
sleeping  in  damp  rooms,  beds,  or  clothing, 
the  temperature  of  the  bed  chamber,  if 
possible,  should  never  be  increased,  under 
the  ordinary  circumstances  of  health,  by 
artificial  means.  As  this  apartment  is  to 
be  reserved  solely  for  sleeping,  a  fire  is 
never  necessary,  excepting,  possibly,  dur- 
ing extreme  cold  weather,  and,  even  then, 
temperature  ought  not  to  exceed  fifty  de- 
grees. 

A  sleeping  apartment,  in  which  a  heavy 
fire  has  been  kept /or  several  hours  prior 
to  retiring,  may  to  some  persons  at  first 
thought,  offer  great  comfort.  But,  right 
here,  great  danger  is  very  liable  to  occur 
since  by  heating  the  room  to  such  an  ex- 
tent as  has  been  referred  to  the  system 
becomes  greatly  enervated,  creating  an 
increased  susceptibility  to  the  influence 
of  the  cold  air,  and  thus  the  way  is  opened 
to  the  attack  of  some  of  the  most  se- 
rious diseases,  especially  of  the  throat 
and  lungs.  Happy,  indeed,  should  those 
persons  esteem  themselves  whose  means 
forbid  an  indulgence  in  the  form  of  luxu- 
ry !  A  person  accustomed  to  undress  in 
a  room  without  a  flre,  and  to  seek  repose 
in  a  cold  bed,  will  not  experience  the 
least  inconvenience,  even  in  the  severest 
of  winter  weather.  The  natural  heat  of 
the  body  will  very  speedily  render  a  per- 
son, under  such  circumstances,  even  more 
comfortable  than  he  or  she  will  be  who 
sleeps  in  a  heated  apartment,  as  experi- 
ence has  amply  verified.  But  this  is  not 
all.  The  constitution  of  the  one  accus- 
tomed to  sleeping  in  a  room  which  is  not 
artificially  heated  will  be  rendered  more 
robust  and  strong,  and  far  less  susceptible 
to  the  influence  of  atmospherical  vicissi- 
tudes, than  the  person  who  is  not  so  ac- 
customed to  sleep. — Qetjrge  Newdl  Love- 
joy  in  Oood  Soutekceping . 


KNIGHTS    OF    tYTHIAS   IL- 
LUSTRATED. 

o#1l '.!!"■'"  Chuncellor.  A  full  Illuntrwed  cxpoRlilon 
of  Aothruo  rank*  of  the  order,  with  the  adJltr»nof 
K^nk"'"x!"^';^  '«'•'««''''  «nd  Ampimrd  TMfd 
n»nx.      The  l.jd(t(!room,  (.l»n«,  counteriltrns,  grlpB. 

VATIOirAIi  OHBUTIAS  ABIOOIATIOir, 


BNTITLKD 


^ifn/DbBu^' 


PRAYEB. 


A  promise  "being  left  tia  of  en- 
tering into  His  rest, . .  .-whereby 

shaUl  know  thai  I  aViall  inVipntl 
ilL   Ba^.Vi^X,. asa.su, A. 

PROMISE^ 

Commit  ihjr  ■vaKT  iinto  tlia 
Xiord ;  trust  aUo  in.  TTim  and  Eia 

sbiUl  bnng  it  to  pasB,  Puaaazlt,&, 

PBEGEPT. 

In  letum'mg  and  xeali  shall  ^e 
be  Bavedj  in  cmietnesa  and  in. 
confidencfLeballbe  yaiualzeng^ba 

tailrw    IK. 

FSAISE. 

Beiurn,  "unto  thy  leat,  0  my 
soul;  for  the  pUor.d  hath,  deau 
bottntifuUy-with.  thee.  Sa.cDd.7v 


9^ 


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THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE, 


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Fakm  Notes. 


A  PERFECT   WIND-BREAK. 

1.  A  perfect  wind-break  should  be  of 
such  varieties  of  evergreens  as  can  be 
easily  cultivated,  make  a  rapid  upward 
growth,  and  at  the  same  time  gro  w  so  dense 
as  to  be  a  real  barrier  against  wind  and 
storm.  These  requisites  can  only  be  ob- 
tained by  planting  two  or  more  kinds,  as 
white  or  Norway  spruce,  or  both,  and 
white  or  Scotch  pine,  or  both.  The  rows 
of  trees  should  be  ten  feet  apart,  and  the 
trees  six  feet  apart  in  the  rows.  The  first 
row  next  to  the  buildings  should  be  white 
spruce,  the  next  Norway  (or  both  rows 
can  be  of  either  kind) ;  the  next  three  or 
more  rows,  white  or  Scotch  pine.  Five 
rows  will  make  a  perfect  shelter  belt,  but 
more  can  be  planted  if  desired.  White 
spruce  is  a  more  beautiful  tree  than  Nor- 
way, but  does  not  make  quite  so  rapid  an 
upward  growth,  and  the  plants  will  cost 
more.  Some  may  object  to  planting  so 
closely  as  six  feet,  but  this  must  be  borne 
in  mind:  A  rapid  upward  growth  in  ever 
greens  can  be  soonest  obtained  by  crowd- 
ing, and  for  a  western  tree-planter  the 
tree  that  will  give  him  shelter  and  protec- 
tion the  soonest,  is  the  one;  and  we  think 
the  above  distance  is  about  the  "mean" 
between  far  apart  and  too  close. 

2.  "Wild  white  pine  (by  this  is  under- 
stood plants  from  the  forest),  if  dug,  not 
pulled,  where  they  grow  in  the  sunlight, 
and  are  stalky,  will  be  the  cheapest,  but 
we  do  not  advise  putting  such  plants  di- 
rectly in  shelter  belt  rows.  Instead,  put 
them  in  well  prepared  ground  in  rows 
two  feet  apart,  one  foot  in  row,  shade 
lightly,  give  thorough  cultivation,  take 
shade  off  next  spring  in  cloudy  weather, 
leave  two  years  from  planting,  and  then 
transplant  in  permanent  rows . 

Trees  kob  Other  Purposes, — By  this 
we  understand  the  most  profitable  trees 
to  plant  for  other  uses  than  shelter.  We 
advise  European  larch  for  general  farm 
uses,  and  red  cedar  for  fence  posts.  They 
should  be  planted  four  feet  apart  in  rows, 
and  the  rows  four  to  six  feet  apart.  It 
is  better  not  to  plant  the  larch  in  blocks, 
but  in  belts  of  from  six  to  ten  rows,  and 
on  the  outside  of  all  other  timber— as 
they  thus  seem  to  retain  their  healthy 
condition  to  a  greater  age.  No  tree  will 
make  so  large  a  proportion  of  straight, 
medium-sized  limber  as  European  larch. 
Red  cedar  will  always  be  in  demand  for 
fence  posts,  is  the  easiest  of  all  ever- 
greens to  grow;  good  two  or  three  year- 
old  plants,  with  fair  cultivation,  will 
make  posts  at  ten  years  from  planting. 
One  of  the  main  points  of  successful 
evergreen  culture  is  thorough  cultivation 
for  the  first  two  or  three  years  from  plant- 
ing. The  best  sized  plaats  are  those  from 
one  to  two  feet  in  hight,  and  that  have 
been  at  least  once  transplanted.  Great 
care  should  be  taken  by  every  one  who 
handles  them,  either  as  digger,  packer  or 
planter,  to  never  allow  the  roots  to  be  ex- 
posed to  the  drying  influence  of  sun  or 
wind.  Shelter  belts  should  be  planted  at 
least  one  hundred  feet  away  from  the 
object  to  be  sheltered.  [Is  not  this  dis- 
tance too  great  for  shelter?— Ed  ]  For 
ornament,  and  on  the  lawn,  a  few  of 
Menzie's  spruce  (when  they  can  be  ob- 
tained), balsam  fir  and  hemlock,  in  cool, 
moist  locations.  A  few  of  the  dwarf 
kinds,  mountain  pine,  Siberian  arbavitic, 
and  Savin,  are  useful  in  the  angles  of 
walks  and  drives,  and  very  beautiful. 
Among  deciduous  trees,  the  cut-leaved» 
birch  stands  first.  European  and  oak- 
leaved  mountain  ash,  magnolia  acuminati, 
and  when  it  is  once  known,  the  Bolleana 
poplar  will  form  some  of  the  grandest 
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THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSUBE. 


Deosmbir  15, 1887 


Nfws  of  The  Week 

WASHINGTON. 

Hon.  Joseph  Chamberlain,  of  England, 
was  given  a  dinner  Friday  night  at  Wash- 
ington by   Secretary  and  Mrs .  Whitney . 

Senator  Spooner  writes  to  a  friend  in 
Milwaukee  that  he  will  soon  introduce  a 
bill  for  a  new  public  building  in  that  city, 
to  cost  $1,200,000,  and  take  charge  of  its 
passage  through  the  Senate . 

The  National  Republican  Committee 
has  voted  to  hold  the  next  nominating 
convention  of  the  party  in  Chicago  on 
Tuesday,  June  19th. 

COUNTBY. 

The  jury  in  the  case  of  John  Arens- 
dorf,  on  trial  at  Sioux  City  for  the  mur- 
der of  Rev.  Dr.  Haddock,  returned  a 
verdict  of  "not  guilty"  at  9  o'clock  Fri- 
day evening. 

Dubuque  brewers  are  excited  over  the 
recent  decision  of  the  United  States  Su- 
preme Court  in  the  Kansas  prohibitory 
cases,  and  it  was  rumored  Friday  that 
they  would  voluntarily  close  their  estab- 
lishments. Sentiment  in  favor  of  com- 
pensation by  the  State  is  said  to'  be  grow- 
ing in  Iowa. 

Johann  Most,  convicted  of  making  an 
incendiary  speech,  was  sentenced  at  New 
York  Thursday  to  one  year's  imprison- 
ment. The  prisoner  pleaded  his  inno- 
cence, maintaining  that  he  was  a  victim 
of  prejudice  and  perjury.  His  lawyers 
appealed  the  case  and  next  day  found  a 
judge  who  admitted  him  to  bail. 

The  total  loss  by  fire  in  this  country 
during  November  was  $16,003,975,  an  in- 
crease of  $6,000,000  over  the  same  month 
last  year.  These  figures  are  the  heaviest 
for  any  November  since  the  Boston  fire. 
Manufacturers  of  rubber  boots  and 
shoes  perfected  an  organization  at  New 
York  Friday,  to  be  known  as  the  Boston 
Rubber  Boot  and  Shoe  Trust.  The  phras- 
ing of  the  documents  of  the  combina- 
tion is  similar  to  that  used  in  the  papers 
of  the  Standard  Oil  Company. 

A  law  suit  is  impending  between  Dr. 
Bell  and  Thomas  A.  Edison  in  regard  to 
the  phonograph  or  graphophone.  It  is 
said  that  Bell  has  perfected  the  instru- 
ment so  that  it  records  human  utterances 
on  prepared  paper,  and  that  when  said 
paper  is  placed  in  another  graphophone 
the  communication  can  be  heard  in  the 
voice  of  the  sender. 

The  Illinois  Railroad  and  Warehouse 
Commissioners  filed  a  report  with  the 
Governor  Friday  upon  the  Chatsworth 
railroad  disaster.  They  find  that  the  To- 
ledo, Peoria  and  Western  railroad  man- 
agement is  censurable  for  not  keeping 
itself  informed  of  the  condition  of  its 
tracks. 

The  sudden  appearance  of  water  in 
many  wells  in  Southern  Wisconsin  that 
have  been  perfectly  dry  since  the  drought 
of  last  summer  has  caused  no  little  won- 
der among  the  people.  Wells  are  filled 
almost  to  the  top;  streams  run  in  abun- 
dance from  side  hills  and  from  springs 
that  have  long  been  dry,  and  the  creeks 
and  small  rivers,  whose  beds  have  been 
dry  for  months,  are  gradually  rising,  ^nd 
bid  fair  to  become  formidable  streams. 
The  phenomenon  occurred  during  a  night, 
and  is  similar  to  that  reported  from  San- 
gamon county,  this  State,  and  at  Mat- 
toon  and  vicinity,  where  abandoned  wells 
that  had  been  dry  some  months  suddenly 
filled  with  pure  water. 

At  Hot  Springs,  Ark  ,  Sunday,  the  wife 
of  Alderman  Laughran  died  of  hydro- 
phobia. A  ferocious  bull  dog  attacked 
her  two  babes,  and  in  rescuing  them  the 
brave  mother  was  severely  bitten .  The 
wounds  were  cauterized  and  a  mad  stone 
was  applied,  but  the  woman  died  in  hor- 
rible agony. 

Near  Cadillac,  Mich.,  Thursday,  a  con- 
struction gang  on  the  Toledo,  Ann  Arbor 
and  Cadillac  railroad  attempted  to  make  a 
crossing  on  the  property  of  J.  Chapin,  a 
farmer.  He  ordered  the  men  away  and 
when  they  refused  to  leave  the  premises 
fired  into  the  crowd,  killing  one  man  and 
injuring  others. 

An  infernal  machine  was  received 
Thursday  by  United  States  Marshal  Jones 
of  Kansas.  Efforts  were  made  to  open 
the  box  by  Colonel  Jones,  ex-Qovernor 
Glick,  and  others,  and  when  the  lid  had 
been  taken  off  the  dangerous  nature  of 
the  contents  caused  considerable  alarm. 

California  wool  growers  met  Thursday 
at  San  Francisco  and  adopted  resolutions 
declaring  that  any  reduction  in  the  tariff 


on  wool  would  seriously  cripple  the  in- 
dustry and  greatly  decrease  the  produc- 
tion. Congress  is  asked  to  maintain  the 
present  tariff  on  wool. 

The  Buckeye  Flouring  mills  o  f  M.  W. 
Anderson,  in  Portsmouth,  Ohio,  burned 
Wednesday  morning.  The  east  wall  of 
the  building  fell,  and  some  six  persons 
were  taken  from  the  ruins  dead  or  se- 
verely injured. 

FOREIGN. 

It  is  reported  that  the  people  in  the 
Bavispe  district  of  Mexico,  which  has 
been  shaken  by  earthquakes,  are  wild 
with  terror  and  destitute  of  food  and 
clothing,  and  unless  aid  is  speedily  furn- 
ished all  will  perish. 

Paris  dispatches  announce  that  three 
shots  were  fired  at  M.  Jules  Ferry  in  the 
lobby  of  the  Chamber  of  Deputies  by  a 
man  named  Aubertin .  The  wounds  are 
slight.  The  bystanders  tried  to  lynch 
Aubertin  after  he  had  fired  the  shots,  but 
were  prevented  with  difllculty  from  carry- 
ing out  their  intention.  ^  M.  Ferry's  as- 
sailant is  a  native  of  Rombach,in  Moselle. 
When  he  made  the  attack  on  M.  Ferry 
he  was  accompanied  by  an  accomplice 
who  was  to  have  shot  M  Goblet,  but  who 
funked,  giving  as  his  reason  that  his  re- 
volver dropped  to  the  floor.  When  Au- 
bertin was  searched  by  the  police  a  paper 
was  found  on  him  which  indicated  that 
he  and  his  confederate  had  drawn  lots 
yesterday  to  decide  who  should  do  the 
shooting.  The  paper  ends,  "Death  tc 
intriguers.  Our  path  is  marked  out  to 
form  an  intelligent,  disinterested,  and 
patriotic  ministry.  So  be  it."  Aubertin, 
the  would-be  assassin,  is  the  author  of 
various  pamphlets  and  the  inventor  of 
several  machines,  the  failure  of  which  has 
reduced  him  to  deep  poverty,  embittered 
his  life  and  brought  on  occasional  attacks 
of  insane  exaltation  of  mind. 

Berlin  dispatches  announce  the  pream- 
ble of  the  new  German  military  service 
bill.  It  abounds  in  plain  speaking  re- 
garding the  armies  which  Germany  must 
calculate  upon  facing  on  the  field  of  bat- 
tle. It  sets  forth  that  the  German  army 
is  composed  of  men  whose  liability  to 
serve  in  the  active  army  extends  over 
twelve  years,  whereas  in  the  Russian  army 
the  period  is  fifteen  years,  and  in  the 
French  twenty  years. 

Lord  Hartington's  speech  on  fair-trade 
agitation  at  the  Unionist  conference  in 
London  has  failed  to  satisfy  English  free- 
traders, and  has  given  offense  to  most 
of  the  Conservatives.  The  Liberal- 
Unionist  press  has  taken  up  the  discus- 
sion vigorously,  and  declares  that  free- 
trade  is  distinctly  a  more  important  ques- 
tion than  that  of  home  rule  for  Ireland. 
They  also  declare  that  no  alliance  with 
the  Tory  party  is  possible  hereafter  if  the 
Tories  in  their  Parliamentary  action  are 
to  be  associated  as  a  party  with  any  meas- 
ure directed  toward  protection. 

MARKET  RSPORTB. 

CHICAGO. 

Wheat-No.  2 76i^@     n% 

No.  3 70 

Winter  No  a 79^ 

Com— No.  2 ^..  48)2 

Oats— No.2  ...... ..-.«»»^««  30>i 

Rye— No.  a 61 

Branper  ton 16  25 

Hay— Timothy 9  .50  @12  00 

Butter,  medium  to  best 16  @     28 

Cheese 04  @     \i]^ 

Beans 1  2.5  (^  2  40 

BggB 21  @     22 

8eedft-Timothy« 180  ®  2  31 

Flax 125 

Broom  com 02>^@     f? 

Potatoes  per  bus 50  @     75 

Hides— Green  to  dry  flint 07)^®     13 

Lumber— Common 11  00  ^18  00 

Wool 10  @      35 

Cattle— Choice  to  extra 4  90  @  6  25 

Common  to  good 100  69  4  75 

Hogs 3  75  @  5  60 

Sheep 2  35  @  4  40 

NEW  YORK. 

Flour 320  @  5  60 

Wheatr-Wlnter 90  @      94 

Spring 89i^@      93 

Com 61  62% 

OatB 36  (&|      44 

Iggs .      23  @     85 

Bntter > ^^,     16  @     S8 

Wool..«.^^..-~-      ,  09  87 

KANSAS  CITT. 

Cattle 125  a  4  80 

Hogs .^^ a  00  a  5  35 

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CONTENTS. 


Editorial  : 

Notes  and  CommentB 1 

The  Poet  Whittler 8 

Demonlsm  and  the  "Voice 

of  Masonry" 8 

Mormonlem  Must  Go 9 

"CONTBIBUTIONS  : 

Have  You  Turned  Over  a 
New  Leaf? 2 

The  Ancient  Order  of  Ne- 
hushtans 2 

The  Gospel  Minister 2 

Sblbcted : 

Whittler  Poems :  Mv  Birth- 
day ;  The  Moral  Warfare  1,2 

The  Theosophlcal  Move- 
meat  in  India 3 

A  National  Evil 3 

Foreigners  and  Anarchy. .    4 

The  N.  C.  A.  Convention 

at  New  Orleans 4 

Rbvobh  News  : 

Ohio     Again    Reports 
Grandly 5 


Cosebspondbnob ; 

The  Sabbath  and  Temper- 
ance In  New  York ;  He 
Pinched  the  Baby  and 
Kan    Away;    Pith    and 

Point 5,6 

Bible  Lbsson 6 

A  Short  Sermon  on  Wheaton 

College 6 

Prospectus 7 

Prize  Essays 7 

A  Thousand  Cjnosures  for 

tba  South 7 

Prof.  Woodsman's  Letter  . .     8 

Over  One  Half  Raised 8 

Literature 9 

The  Homb. 10 

Temperance 11 

Religious  Naws 13 

Lodge  Notes 13 

Home  and  Health 14 

Farm  Notes 15 

News  of  thb  Wbbk 16 

Markbts , 16 


Our  Chicago  anarchists  had  another  day  of  it  last 
Sabbath.  The  bodies  of  Spies,  Parsons,  Fischer, 
pjDgel  and  Lingg,  lying  in  a  cemetery  some  ten 
miles  west  of  the  city,  were  removed^  to  their  final 
tomb  and  laid  side  by  side  under  a  huge  stone. 
There  was  a  repetition  of  the  speech-making  of  the 
first  burial,  and  of  the  swearing  to  revenge  the  dead 
and  maintain  the  cause,  but  there  was  little  enthusi- 
asm. Captain  Black,  who  spoke  again,  was  subdued 
in  his  tone.  The  remembrance  of  former  religious 
associations  came  over  him,  and  his  speech  was  like 
a  sermon.  He  compared  the  anarchists  to  Christ 
only  as  they  labored  for  human  fraternity,  but  he 
showed  how  sadly  he  has  apostatized  by  declaring 
they  should  be  saved  and  "received  into  the  myste- 
ries of  God." 


Everyone  who  believes  in  the  American  constitu- 
tional right  of  free  speech  and  a  free  press,  especially 
for  the  proclamation  of  the  Gospel,  has  an  interest 
in  the  the  Boston  city  election  of  last  Tuesday. 
A  majority  of  nearly  1800  in  a  total  vote  of  51,000 
was  given  for  the  re-election  6t  O'Brien,  who  last 
August  graced  a  boxing  match  and  belt  presenta- 
tion to  the  champion  wife-beater  and  "plug-ugly," 
Sullivan.  A  majority  of  8,483  was  given  at  the 
same  time  for  license;  last  year  it  was  4,437.  This 
means  a  continuation  of  the  rule  of  the  Rum  and 
Romanism  which  hopes  to  prevent  the  open-air 
preaching  of  the  Gospel  to  the  poor,  and  gives  the 
hero,  Davis,  who  withstands  them,  a  year  in  jail  for 
his  temerity.  Other  cities  of  Massachusetts  give 
no  greater  hope  of  deliverence  from  like  evils. 
Lynn,  Salem,  and  Newburyport  are  for  license  with 
600  majority  and  Worcester  by  190. 


The  late  speech  of  Senator  Palmer  of  Michigan 
indicates  the  strength  of  prohibitory  convictions  in 
that  State.  Six  counties,  under  the  local  option  priv- 
ilege, have  voted  out  the  saloons,  and  this  warning, 
with  the  late  Supreme  Court  decision,  is  begetting  a 
wholesome  trepidation  among  the  liquor  dealers  and 
makers.  Their  last  move  is  a  threat  to  close  all 
the  hotels  in  the  temperance  infected  districts.  In 
Branch  county  it  is  understood  they  have  formed  a 
combination  of  all  the  public  houses  to  the  etfect 


that  if  prohibition  prevails  at  the  next  election  every 
hotel  will  close.  This  will  be  a  grand  opportunity 
for  the  good  people  of  that  district  to  get  rid  of  a 
bad  lot  of  landlords;  and  they  should  thank  those 
gentlemen  for  timely  notice.  We  remember  hearing 
that  Deacon  Selah  Loomis,  who  died  in  this  State 
in  1872,  kept  the  first  temperance  tavern  between 
Detroit  and  Chicago  nearly  fifty  years  ago,  and  spite 
of  threats  of  enemies  and  protestation  of  friends 
he  made  it  pay.  Tempera.nce  houses  ought  to  be 
everywhere  profitable  in  Michigan   to-day. 


JOHN   G.    WHITTIER. 


Our  Illinois  Senator  Cullom,  of  the  Inter-State 
Commerce  bill,  has  proposed  to  Congress  a  Postal 
Telegraph  system  similar  to  that  so  popular  in  Eng- 
land, and  the  Senate  has  appointed  a  special  com- 
mittee on  the  proposition.  It  is  hardly  expected  the 
bill  will  become  law  at  present,  but  the  discussion 
of  its  merits  will  go  on  until  the  people  generally 
will  demand  it.  When  Gould  adroitly  secured  the 
Baltimore  and  Ohio  telegraph,  and  so  once  more 
made  the  Western  Union  line  the  great  monopoly, 
it  was  broadly  hinted  that  he  was  now  ready  to  sell 
to  the  Government.  The  national  or  private  manage- 
ment of  the  telegraph  is  a  question  on  which  both 
sides  have  much  to  say;  but  discussion  will  give  us 
full  information,  and  no  doubt  the  postal  telegraph 
will  in  a  few  years  be  one  of  our  popular  institu- 
tions. 


The  appalling  catastrophe  in  China,  by  which 
unknown  thousands  have  lost  their  lives  and  mill- 
ions brought  to  suffering  and  starvation,  was  not,  per- 
haps, to  have  been  unexpected.  The  Hoang  Ho,  or 
Yellow  River,runs  for  2,400  miles  through  the  north- 
ern part  of  the  Chinese  empire  in  an  erratic  course. 
Its  lower  course  is  through  great  alluvial  plains,  and 
its  swift  current,  which  forbids  navigation,  bears  to 
the  sea  vast  deposits  of  sediment  Like  our  Mis- 
sissippi its  floods  are  confined  by  great  levees  main- 
tained at  great  expense.  As  sediment  has  been  de- 
posited the  artificial  banks  have  been  raised  until 
over  a  part  of  its  course  the  river  runs  in  an  im- 
mense artificial  channel,  entirely  above  the  surround- 
ing country.  With  the  breaking  down  of  this  em- 
bankment September  28th  last  some  7,000  square 
miles  of  territory  have  been  flooded,  and  the  inhab- 
itants drowned  or  driven  wretchedly  to  higher 
grounds.  The  government  is  raising  a  large  relief 
fund,  but  the  greatest  exertion  cannot  save  multitudes 
from  perishing.     Thomas  Faton,  one  of  the  Ameri- 


can missionaries,  writing  from  Honau  Province, 
under  the  date  of  Oct.  28,  says:  "The  newly  gath- 
ered crops,  houses,  and  trees  are  all  swept  away, 
involving  fearful  loss  of  life.  The  country  was 
covered  with  fine  winter  braid,  which  is  gone,  and 
implies  the  complete  destruction  of  next  year's  crop. 
'  Bread,  bread,'  is  the  cry  of  thousands  who  are  on 
the  river  bank.  Benevolent  people  go  in  boats  and 
throw  bread  among  the  masses  here  and  there,  but 
it  is  nothing  compared  with  the  requirements.  The 
mass  of  people  is  still  being  increased  by  continual 
arrivals,  even  more  hungry  than  the  last.  There 
they  sit,  stunned,  hungry,  and  dejected,  without  a 
rag  to  wear  or  a  morsel  of  food.  Mat  huts  are  be- 
ing erected  for  them  to  the  west  of  this,  but  what  it 
will  be  in  two  months  I  cannot  conceive.  The  mis- 
ery is  increased  owing  to  the  bitter  cold  weather." 


MT  BIRTHDAY. 


Beneath  the  moonlight  and  the  snow 

Lies  dead  my  latest  year ; 
The  winter  winds  are  wailing  low 

Its  dirges  In  my  ear. 

I  grieve  not  with  the  moaning  wind 

As  if  a  loss  befell; 
Before  me,  even  as  behind, 

God  is,  and  all  is  well  I 

His  light  shines  on  me  from  above. 

His  low  voice  speaks  within,— 
The  patience  of  Immortal  love 

Outwearjing  mortal  sin. 

Not  mindless  of  the  growing  years 

Of  care  and  loss  and  pain. 
My  eyes  are  wet  with  thankful  tears 

For  blessings  which  remain. 

If  dim  the  gold  of  life  has  grown, 

I  wUl  not  count  it  dross. 
Nor  turn  from  treasures  still  my  own 

To  sigh  for  lack  and  loss. 

The  years  no  charm  from  Nature  take; 

As  sweet  her  voices  call. 
As  beautiful  her  mornings  break, 

As  fair  her  evenings  fall. 

Love  watches  o'er  my  quiet  ways, 

Kind  voices  speak  my  name. 
And  lips  that  And  It  hard  to  praise 

Are  slow,  at  least, '.to  blame. 

How  softly  ebb  the  tides  of  will  I 

How  fields,  once  lost  or  won. 
Now  lie  behind  me  green  and  still 

Beneath  a  level  sun  1 

How  hushed  the  hiss  of  party  hate. 

The  clamor  of  the  throng! 
How  old,  harsh  voices  of  debate 

Flow  into  rhythmic  song ! 

Methinks  the  spirit's  temper  grows 

Too  soft  in  this  still  air; 
Somewhat  the  restful  heart  foregoes 

Of  needed  watch  and  prayer. 

The  bark  by  tempest  vainly  tossed 

May  founder  in  the  calm. 
And  he  who  braved  the  polar  frost 

Faint  by  the  isles  of  balm. 

Better  than  self-indulgent  years 

The  outflung  heart  of  youth. 
Than  pleasant  songs  In  idle  years 

The  tumult  of  the  truth. 

Rest  for  the  weary  hands  Is  good, 

And  love  for  hearts  that  pine, 
But  let  the  manly  habitude 

Of  upright  souls  be  mine. 

Let  winds  that  blow  from  heaven  refresh, 

Dear  Lord,  the  languid  air; 
And  let  the  we«knees  of  tbe  tlesh 

Thy  strength  of  spirit  share. 

And,  if  the  eye  must  fail  of  light, 

The  ear  forget  to  hear, 
Make  clearer  still  the  spirit's  sight. 

More  tine  the  inward  ear ! 

Be  near  mc  in  mine  hours  of  need 

To  Botithe,  or  cheer,  or  warn, 
And  down  these  slopes  of  sunset  lead 

As  up  the  bills  of  mom  I 

-J.  a.  WhitUer. 


«2ME  CHKE^riAJr  CYNOSURE. 


Deoxmbik  22, 188? 


HAVE    TOU    TURNED    OVER  A  NEW  LEAP f\ 


BY  KBV.  J.    F.   AVBRT. 

Many  said  towards  the  close  of  1886,  "Please 
God,  I  am  going  to  turn  over  a  new  leaf  next  year." 
This  and  better  might  do;  but  this  and  worse  will 
never  do.  Now,  in  all  seriousness,  "What  hast  thou 
done?"  Perhaps  thou  mayest  say,  time  enough  yet. 
My  intentions  are  good,  it  is  only  a  lack  of  oppor- 
tunity. The  more  convenient  season  has  not  yet 
come.  The  thought,  will  it  ever  be  a  more  oppor- 
tune season,  is  worth  not  only  consideration,  but  de- 
mands prompt  and  deliberate  action;  because  one 
All-wise  hath  declared  and  decided,  "Now  is  the  ac- 
cepted timej  now  is  the  day  of  salvation." 

Many  have  found,  many  will  find  it  hard  going 
to  overtake  neglected  opportunity,  and  harder  woo- 
ing to  win  rejected  mercy.  Mercy,  chari«^^y-like, 
suflereth  long,  and  is  kind;  but  the  door  will  be  shut 
sometime.  Then  knocking  and  loud  calling  will 
bring  no  response  save  the  admonition  that  salva- 
tion was  without  money  and  without  price,  free  to  all 
who  heeded  the  voice  and  call  of  mercy.  Therefore, 
now,de8piser8  of  love's  free  gift  may  go  with  diligence 
to  buy  of  them  that  sell  the  needed  oil  and  grace, 
but  "Too  latfc!  too  late!"  will  be  the  cry. 

Neglect  of  so  great  salvation  means  eternal  con- 
demnation and  self-torment,  because  when  the  King 
waited  to  be  gracious  ye  would  not  come.  Procras- 
tination is  the  thief  not  only  of  time  and  opportunity, 
but  it  ruins  all  present  and  future  success.  Why 
not  turn  over  a  new  leaf  at  once?  Already  Time's 
rude  fingers  have  snatched  from  the  calendar  of 
1887  all  but  the  last  page,  as  if  angry  because 
such  golden  opportunities  have  been  so  squandered, 
and  in  the  life  and  memory  of  so  many  not  only 
slighted  and  neglected,  but  worse  by  far,  the  pass- 
ing days  bad  been  used  by  do-nothings,  spend- 
thrifts, and  the  ungodly  in  abusing  and  consuming 
their  own  bodies  and  span  of  life. 

Procrastinators  and  waiters,  beware  I  The  judg- 
ment will  not  tarry.  The  day  of  reckoning  is  not 
far  oflE.  Time  past  is  gone;  the  present  flies;  the 
future,  who  can  count  or  tell.  What  a  day  may 
bring  forth  is  past  calculation  or  finding  out.  Not 
knowing  what  shall  be  on  the  morrow,  let  us  en- 
deavor not  only  to  do  with  our  might  and  with  both 
hands  diligently,  each  day's  alloted  task,  but  let 
us  see  to  it  that  as  the  day  breaks  we  ask  counsel 
of  God,  and  say,  "Lord,  what  wilt  thou  have  me  to 
do;"  "Not  my  will.  Thy  will  be  done." 

Can  any  reader  give  a  justifiable  excuse  for  a  leaf 
not  turned?  Will  good  resolutions  unexecuted  and 
liroken  jield  soul  satisfaction  or  a  present  and 
future  profitable  harvest?  Have  you  so  soon  for- 
gotten past  resolves;  were  they  only  the  fleeting 
fancies  of  a  fevered  brain,  roused  into  activity  with 
the  thought.  The  year  is  almost  gone?  Still  I  have 
to  do  what  in  sober  moments  last  year  was  vowed. 
What  caused  you,  then,  to  roughly  count  the  cost 
and  shudder  at  the  greatness  of  the  sum  of  wasted 
time  and  opportunity?  Why  did  you  say  at  the  end 
of  the  year,  "I  must  swear  off,  boys.  I  am  going  too 
fast;  spending  too  freely?"  Do  you  fear  the  year's 
closing  books  would  show  up  thedeficiences?  Why 
did  you  shudder  and  pause  as  if  feeling  the  chill 
blast  of  disgrace  blowing  from  some  unknown  quar- 
ter? And  why,  with  fevered  brow  and  quickened 
pulse  in  an  agony  of  fear,  as  if  the  furnace  breath 
of  ihe  pit  played  upon  you,  did  you  say  with 
clecched  teeth,  I  must  turn  over  a  new  leaf;  this 
will  never  do  if  there  be  a  hell?  Maybe  the  Book 
of  books  is  true,  and  why  not?  Can  I  better  trust 
Hie  insane  babbling  of  smoke  and  spirit-heated 
brains,  the  logic  and  reasoning  of  men  who  have  no 
Itjve  to  God  or  hope  of  heaven  in  their  hearts,  than 
Hie  pious  pleadings  and  teachings  of  those  whose 
love  is  proven?  Yes,  I  must  turn  over  a  new  leaf. 
Why  was  the  pipe  crushed  beneath  the  foot,  the 
flisk  flung  out  of  the  window,  and  the  well-worn 
cards  treated  to  cleansing  in  the  fire?  Was  it  not 
Ihe  prompting  of  God,  the  recollection  that  these 
things  are  unclean  and  defiling?  Was  it  not  a  con- 
sciousness that  they  were  sapping  the  will-power 
and  energy  of  your  better  manhood? 

Tbtse  resolutions  were  good,  but  the  new  leaf  of 
a  regenerated  self  was  not  turned  ere  the  year  died. 
N  )  cry  went  up  to  heaven,  "Save,  Lord.or  I  perish." 
Tiic  Sabbath  did  not  find  you  a  penitent  and  seek- 
ing sinner  in  the  place  your  father  loved  so  well, 
li  was  not  known,  it  is  not  known  by  saintor  sinner 
tliiit  you  turned  over  a  new  leaf.  Yet  you  know  it 
is  mm  or  burn.  Come  to  Jesus  now,  or  else 
hereafter  depart  from  him  forever.  Now  on  the 
page  made  white  by  the  blood  of  the  Lamb  can  be 
written  a  worthier  record.  He  who  blotteth  out  the 
transgression  of  the  past  will  give  grace  sufficient  to 
those  who  trust  in  him,  to  keep  and  make  a  better 


record.  The  man  whose  trust  is  in  God,  and  be- 
lieves in  honest  endeavor  needs  not  fear  who  shall 
see  what  is  written  over  the  smallest  success  thus 
attained.  Jesus  will  write  on  the  final  leaf,  Well 
done.  He  demands  of  none  more  than  grace-given 
opportunities  freely  yield.  But  to  all  the  cry  is, 
"Now  is  the  accepted  time."  "Go  work  to-day." 
Sinners  may  join  hand  in  hand,  but  they  shall  not 
go  unpunished.  Signs  of  distress  bring  very  little 
practical  help  now.  Then  the  fool  will  prove  the 
folly  of  trusting  in  an  arm  of  flesh. 
Mariners^  Temple,  New  York. 


THE  MORAL  WARFARE. 


When  Freedom,  on  her  natal  day. 

Within  her  war-rocked  cradle  lay, 

An  Iron  race  around  her  stood,  , 

Baptized  her  infant  brow  in  blood ; 

And,  through  the  storm  which  round  her  swept, 

Their  constant  ward  and  watching  kept. 

Then,  where  our  quiet  herds  repose, 
The  roar  of  baleful  battle  rose. 
And  brethren  of  a  common  tongue 
To  mortal  strife  as  tigers  sprung. 
And  every  gift  on  Freedom's  shrine 
Was  man  for  beast,  and  blood  for  wine ! 

Our  fathers  to  their  graves  have  gone ; 
Their  strife  is  past,— their  triumph  won ; 
But  sterner  trials  wait  the  race 
Which  rises  in  their  honored  place,— 
A  moral  warfare  with  the  crime 
And  folly  of  an  evil  time. 

So  let  it  be.    In  God's  own  might 

We  gird  us  for  the  coming  fight, 

And,  strong  in  Him  whose  cause  is  ours 

In  conflict  with  unholy  powers, 

We  grasp  the  weapons  he  has  given, — 

The  Light,  and  Truth,  and  Love  of  Heaven. 

-J.  &.  Whittier. 


TEE  ANGIEJ^T  ORB  KB  OF  THE  NB- 
EUaUTANa! 


BY   THOS.    HODOE. 


Not  a  doubt  of  it!  They  are  an  ancient  order. 
They  claim  to  maintain  the  worship  Instituted  by 
Moses  when  he  set  up  the  Brazen  Serpent  by  divine 
authority.  Its  divine  power  to  heal  ceasi  d  when 
its  divine  purpose  was  at  an  end,  but  the  Nebush- 
tans  contended  for  its  perpetual  divine  power,  and 
no  doubt  condemned  Hezekiah  for  destroying  the 
Brazen  Serpent  which  Moses  had  set  up  (1.  Kings 
18:  4)  and  for  destroying  all  reverence  tor  it  by 
calling  it  only  a  piece  of  brass!  The  Nehushtans 
would  feel  this  to  be  an  outrage,  and  ever  since  have 
been  always  ready  to  maintain  anything  which  at 
any  time  had  a  divine  sanction — even  when  super- 
ceded by  other  divine  appointments. 

It  was  this  rule  of  action  that  made  some  of  the 
first  Jewish  Christians  try  to  continue  circumcision. 

The  largest  body  of  modern  Nehushans  may  be 
called  the  Roman  Catholic  church.  They  admit  the 
Gospel  facts,  and  the  miracles  in  proof  of  them;  but 
instead  of  resting  content  with  the  sacred  record  of 
these  facts,  claim  that  divine,  miraculous  power  is 
still  inherited  by  their  church  for  the  same  purpose. 
Thus  the  Holy  Scriptures  have  become  of  only  se- 
condary importance  to  her  people  and  so  this  Ne- 
hushtan  church  worships  her  wafer  as  the  very  body 
of  the  Saviour  who  died  for  our  sins.  Thus  too,  his 
command  to  "drink  of  the  cup"  is  set  aside  and  her 
wafer  is  given  instead,  to  her  deluded  followers. 

The  ancient  Nehushtans  burned  incense  to  their 
brazen  serpent,  and  for  thus  doing  we  may  almost 
literally  charge  some  of  the  orders  of  modern  Ne- 
hushtanism,  men  whose  rites  and  worship  are  done 
in  secret,  while  some  of  their  symbols  are  displayed 
in  the  most  ostentatious  manner.  Look,  for  exam- 
ple, at  the  Knight  Templars  when  they  try  to  enlist 
popular  sympatby,  as  if  they  were  using  a  Christ- 
given  emblem  by  their  display  of  the  form  of  the 
cross  on  their  flags  as  they  march  to  do  honor  to 
their  "Masonry  divine!"  Verily,  their  brazen  dis- 
play of  the  wooden  cross  would  be  far  more  appro- 
priate in  the  form  of  the  serpent  itself;  for  it  is 
more  ancient  than  the  cross,  and  would  be  equally 
true  in  all  that  it  signifies  to  them.  The  same  view 
may  be  taken  of  erratic  doings  by  other  bodies, 
which  by  human  presumption  invent  rites  for  divine 
worship,  or  continue  things — now  discontinued — 
their  divine  purpose  having  been  accomplished. 

Some  modern  Christians  will  think  very  charita- 
bly of  the  Nehushtans.  Was  there  any  express 
prohibition  not  to  'burn  incense"  (1  Kings  18:  4)  to 
the  wonderful  brass  serpent  that  Moses  had  made? 
No.  Therefore,  why  not  preserve  it  with  all  due 
honor?  Even  so  now-a-days,  many  do  not  support 
the  Roman   Catholic  wafer,  nor  the  display  of  the 


cross  by  a  Masonic  branch  of  the  worshipers  of  the 
Great  Architect;  and  they  read  with  delight  of  the 
miracles  done  by  Christ  when  on  earth,  and  also  of 
the  power  given   to  his  apostles,  etc.,  in  proof  of 
"Jesus  and  the  Resurrection."    But  on  the  Nehush- 
tan  principle  they  imagine  that  these  miraculous 
powers  can  still  be  exercised  by  themselves  in  the 
present  day.     They   forget  the  great  object  which 
was  served  by  the  miracles  of  Christ  and  his  first 
messengers.     That  was  served  and  the  record  made 
then,  as  it  had  been  of  Moses  and  the  prophets,  whose 
testimony  Jesus  called  his  generation  to  believe;  for 
if  they  would  not,  "neither  would  they  believe  if 
one  rose  from  the  dead."     Every  dispensation  was 
introduced  by  supernatural  manifestations,  and  often 
did  "God  speak  to  the  fathers  by  the  prophets,"  but 
"in  these  last  days  he  speaks  by  the  Son,"  the  heir 
of  all  things,  and  by  whom  he  will  judge  the  world. 
He  has  called  on  all  to  "hear  his   beloved   Son." 
Let  man  remember  that  the  laws  which  relate  to  our 
bodies  and  to  matter  are  as  truly  the  laws  of  God  as 
are  those  which  relate  to  the  Spirit,  and  that  we 
have  no  right  to  ask  him  to  suspend  or  change  na- 
ture's laws  for  our  personal  benefit.     How  can  his 
children  regard  such  a  thing  as  acceptable  or   rea- 
sonable service?     On  the  contrary  we  must,  as  we 
are  taught  by  our  Lord's  example  in  suffering  hun- 
ger, etc.,  and  by   persecutions  to  be  endured  for 
righteousness'  8ake,submit  to  suffering,  and  even  to 
be   thankful  for  it,  as  one  means  wtiereby  we  are 
trained  to  say,  "Thy  will  be  done,"  and  to  be  will- 
ing to  leave  our  present  state  of  existence  for  the 
glorious  home  above.     Some  in  our  day  of  light 
seem  to  give  way  to  superstitions  so  gross  that  we 
cannot  be  surprised  to  see  men  prefer  to  follow  the 
mere  rationalist  rather  than  such  arrant  believers! 
Let  us  all  beware!   for  "even  now  there  are  many 
antichrists,"  and  "false  teachers."   Men  were  misled 
by  false  prophets  in  the  olden  time.     The  "devices 
of  Satan  are  numerous  and  delusive  as  ever;   there- 
fore let  those  who  think  they  stand  "take  heed  lest 
they  fall."     "The  Gospel  is  the  power  of  God"  to 
recover  a  lost  world.     Therefore  let  his  people  as  an 
army  be  faithful  to  it,  and  to  the  ordinances  which 
our  Lord  appointed  to  represent  it,  and  they  can 
then  rest  assured  in  his  promise  to  be  with  them  to 
the  end  of  the  conquered  world. 
Chicago. 

*  I  m 

TEE    GOSPEL  MINISTER. 


BT   REV.    J.    M.    FOSTER. 


The  minister  of  the  Gospel  is  the  ambassador  of 
God.  '  Now  then  we  are  ambassadors  for  Christ, 
as  though  God  did  beseech  you  by  us,"  etc. 

1.  He  must  he  imbued  with  the  Spirit  of  God. 

This  is  necessary  to  his  being,  as  Calvin  savs,  "a 
proper  instrument  of  the  Spirit."  This  new  and 
spiritual  life  is  the  first  and  indispensable  qualifica- 
tion— the  sine  qua  non.  He  is  utterly  unfit  to  be  a 
minister  of  the  Word  who  has  not  been  born  again. 
A  graceless  preacher  is  a  lifeless  statue  holding  a 
burning  lamp.  A  graceless  preacher  is,  as  Spurgeon 
puts  it,  "a  blind  man  elected  to  a  professorship  in 
optics,  philosophizing  upon  light  and  vision,  dis- 
coursing upon  and  distinguishing  to  others  the  nice 
shades  and  delicate  blendings  of  the  prismatic  col- 
ors." "If  the  blind  lead  the  blind,  both  shall  fall 
into  the  ditch."  You  must  first  feel  yourself  what 
you  would  have  others  feel.  You  must  first  weep 
yourself  before  you  can  cause  others  to  weep.  So 
you  must  be  spiritually  alive  before  you  can  be  an 
instrument  for  awakening  spiritual  vitality  in  oth- 
ers. 

"No  one  can  inspire  a  taste,  much  less  a  passion, 
for  the  object  of  his 'own  pursuit  who  is  not  himself 
most  powerfully  moved  by  it.  It  is  the  scintillations 
of  his  own  zeal  flying  off  from  his  own  burning 
heart  and  falling  upon  their  souls  that  kindles  in 
them  the  fire  which  burns  in  his  own  bosom.  Luke- 
warmness  can  excite  no  ardor,  originate  no  activity, 
produce  no  effect;  it  benumbs  whatever  it  touches." 
The  fire  from  heaven  consumed  the  sacrifice  upon 
the  Jewish  altar.  The  fire  of  God's  Spirit  burns  in 
the  heart  of  the  preacher  of  Christ.  "His  Word 
was  in  mine  heart  as  a  burning  fire  shut  up  in  my 
bones,  and  I  was  weary  with  forbearing,  and  I  could 
not  stay."  It  is  this  fire  in  the  heart  that  gives 
power  to  the  witnesses  of  Christ.  "We  believe  and 
therefore  speak."  "Knowing,  therefore,  the  terror 
of  the  Lord,  we  persuade  men."  It  is  the  irresistible 
in  a  man  that  makes  him  earnest.  If  he  can  keep 
anything  back  he  had  better  do  it,  for,  as  Spurgeon 
says,  uttering  it  would  do  no  good.  "Necessity  is  laid 
upon  me,  yea,  woe  is  me  if  I  preach  not  the  Gos- 
pel." When  Cicero  spoke  in  the  Roman  forum  the 
people  said:  "What  a  wonderful  man!"  But  when 
Demosthenes  spoke  in  the  Athenian  bema,  the  peo- 
ple shouted;  "We  will  go  and  fight  Philip!"    The 


DsoiMBiR  22, 1887 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


mere  rhetorician  awakens  applause;  but  the  minis- 
ter of  Christ  causes  them  to  cry  out:  "Sirs,  what 
must  I  do  to  be  saved?  ' 

It  is  no  small  encomium  pronounced  upon  John 
Knox  when  they  said,  "He  preached  as  if  Jesus 
Christ  were  at  his  elbow."  In  spite  of  the  threats 
of  Queen  Mary  he  went  to  St.  Andrew's  Cathedral, 
and,  with  his  burning  words  of  fire,  aroused  an  op- 
position against  the  papacy  which  garrisons  and  arms 
could  not  withstand.  An  eye  witness  said:  "It 
seemed  as  if  he  would  ding  the  pulpit  to  blads  and 
fly  out  of  it."  Martin  Luther  "never  entered  the 
pulpit  without  trembling."  And  yet  when  his 
friends  endeavored  to  dissuade  him  from  going  to 
the  Diet  at  Worms  where  he  was  to  testify  for  Christ, 
he  said:  "I  would  go  though  there  were  as  many 
devils  there  as  there  are  tiles  on  the  roofs  of  the 
houses."  We  have  read  of  pilots  whose  hair  turned 
from  jet  black  to  snow  white  while  steering  their 
vessel  through  a  narrow  pass,  when  moving  the 
helm  but  the  estimation  of  a  hair  might  send  their 
living  charge  into  a  watery  grave.  Endless  life  or 
eternal  death  are  the  issues  at  stake  when  a  minis- 
ter speaks.  Spurgeon  relates  how  an  English  sur- 
geon and  a  French  doctor  were  once  comparing  notes 
regarding  a  certain  very  critical  operation.  The 
Frenchman  averred  that  he  had  performed  it  more 
than  three  hundred  times,  while  the  Englishman  said 
that  he  had  attempted  it  only  on  eight  occasions. 
"But  how  many  did  you  save  by  it?"  inquired  the 
Englishman.  "Oh,  none  at  all,"  was  the  answer; 
"but  the  operation  was  brilliant."  "Ah I"  replied 
the  Englishman,  "but  I  saved  seven  out  of  the  eight." 
The  mere  worldling  thinks  of  the  display;  the  true 
minister  seeks  to  save  the  soul. 

Dr.  Taylor  uses  this  illustration:  "A  summer  or 
two  ago,  a  clergyman  of  the  church  of  England, 
who  was  taking  a  holiday  in  Switzerland,  came,  in 
one  of  the  mountain  passes  of  that  land,  to  a  place 
of  considerable  danger,  and  as  he  was  threading  his 
way  with  care  he  heard  a  piercing  shriek,  which,  at 
length,  he  found  proceeded  from  a  lady  who  was 
down  on  the  side  of  the  precipice  in  a  position  of 
awful  peril,  and  who  was  crying  for  assistance. 
Taking  a  hasty  survey  of  the  situation,  he  went  by 
what  seemed  to  him  the  best  way  to  her  relief,  and 
after  making  great  efforts  he  succeeded  in  bringing 
her  with  him  to  a  place  of  safety.  The  next  day 
he  went  with  a  friend  to  show  him  the  spot;  but 
though  he  tried  very  hard,  he  found  that  he  could 
not  get  any  where  near  it.  In  the  former  instance 
there  was  a  life  to  be  saved;  in  the  latter  there  was 
only  a  display  to  be  made."  The  true  minister  seeks 
to  save  the  soul. 

2.  He  must  deliver  God's  message. 

God  said  to  the  prophet,  "Preach  the  preaching 
that  I  bid  thee."  Like  young  Samuel  who  told  Eli 
every  whit  that  the  Lord  had  spoken  and  kept  noth- 
ing back,  they  are  to  declare  the  whole  counsel  of 
God.  The  severe  charge  given  to  the  prophet  Eze- 
kiel  should  strike  terror  into  the  hearts  of  unfaithful 
ministers.  "0  son  of  man,  I  have  set  thee  for  a 
watchman  to  the  house  of  Israel;  therefore  thou 
shalt  hear  the  word  at  my  mouth  and  shalt  warn 
them  from  me.  When  I  say  to  the  wicked,  0  wicked 
man,  thou  shalt  surely  die  I  if  thou  dost  not  speak 
to  warn  the  wicked  from  me,  that  wicked  man  shall 
die  in  his  iniquities,  but  his  blood  will  I  require  at 
thine  hands.  Nevertheless  if  thou  dost  speak,  and 
he  turns  not,  he  shall  die  in  his  iniquities,  but  thou 
hast  delivered  thy  soul."  "Woe  be  to  the  shepherds 
of  Israel  that  do  feed  themselves!"  "Woe  to  the 
idle  shepherds  that  do  lead  the  flock.  The  sword 
shall  be  upon  his  arm  and  upon  his  right  eye." 

These  warnings  are  needed  to-day.  A  minister 
in  Rochester  said  he  would  not  dare  preach  against 
the  liquor  traffic,  because  it  would  divide  his  con- 
gregation. Ho'v  many  ministers  are  silent  as  to  the 
delusions  and  crimes  of  the  Masonic  lodge  for  the 
same  reason?  It  is  a  fearful  thing  to  withhold  the 
truth.  Bunyan,  in  his  "Sighs  from  Hell,"  pictures 
the  unfaithful  minister  going  down  to  pandemonium 
and  being  greeted  by  the  taunts  of  the  souls  he  had 
deluded.  The  minister  must  preach  the  whole  Gos- 
pel. "I  am  determined  to  know  nothing  among  you, 
save  Jesus  Christ  and  him  crucified."  He  must 
preach  Christ,  in  his  person,  offices  and  work,  in  his 
humiliation  and  exaltation,  in  his  law,  grace  and 
reign.  It  is  the  same  city  of  Jerusalem  that  you 
see  whether  looking  from  the  mountains  of  Judea, 
the  plain  of  Sharon,  the  height  of  Bbshan,  the  desert 
of  Paran,  or  the  valley  of  Megiddo.  So  it  is  the 
same  Saviour  creating  the  worlds,  giving  the  law  at 
Sinai,  suffering  upon  Calvary,  ascending  up  to  heav- 
en, sending  the  Spirit  and  coming  to  judge  the  earth. 
Rowland  Hill  said,  never  preach  a  sermon  without 
three  R's:  Ruin  by  sin.  Redemption  by  the  blood 
of  Christ,  and  Regeneration  by  the  Holy  Spirit. 
He  "prophesies  according  to  the  proportion  of  faith." 
In  a  ligbtbouse  at  Sandy  Hook,  "by  a  beautiful 


combination  of  the  catoptric  and  dioptric  principles, 
a  reflector  behind  and  a  many-ringed  lantern  in 
front,  things  are  so  arranged  that  no  ray  of  light  is 
lost,  but  all  are  bent  out  to  the  wide  ocean."  Every 
part  of  divine  truth  must  be  brought  to  bear  upon 
the  mind  and  heart. 

3.  He  mutt  leave  results  with  God. 

His  message  attracts  the  friends  and  repels  the 
enemies  of  Christ.  "We  are  unto  God  a  sweet  savor 
of  Christ,  in  them  that  are  saved  and  in  them  that 
perish:  to  the  one  we  are  a  savor  of  death  unto  death; 
to  the  other  a  savor  of  life  unto  life."  Pass  a  mag- 
net through  a  heap  of  iron  filings  and  other  sub- 
stances, the  filings  are  attracted,  the  other  substances 
are  repelled.  The  light  is  noxious  to  diseased  eyes, 
and  yet  it  is  "a  pleasant  thing  to  behold  the  sun." 
It  is  said  that  vultures  avoid  the  fragrance  of  myrrh, 
and  yet  it  is  the  delight  of  sentient  beings.  Even 
so  the  preaching  of  the  Gospel  tends  to  save  those 
who  believe,  but  it  brings  destruction  to  those  who 
believe  not.  It  is  like  the  sunshine,  "which  touches 
the  meadows  and  makes  them  bloom  in  brighter 
verdure;  which  touches  the  sandy  desert  and  makes 
it  more  dry  and  vitreous  than  before;  which  touches 
one  metallic  plate  treated  with  iodine  and  it  turns 
purple;  another  treated  with  nitrate  of  silver,  and 
turns  it  black.  The  Gospel  of  the  Cross  was  a 
stumbling-block  to  the  Jews  and  foolishness  to  the 
Greeks,  but  the  power  of  God  unto  salvation  in  them 
that  believed.  When  Paul  preached  at  Antioch  the 
Jews  blasphemed,  contradicting  those  things  which 
were  spoken,  while  the  Gentiles  rejoiced,  and  en- 
treated that.the  same  things  might  be  spoken  to 
them  the  next  Sabbath. 

A  minister  must  seek  conversions.  Without  these 
the  work  is  a  failure.  But  he  must  also  make  it  so 
hot  for  thieves,  money-grips  and  libertines  that  they 
cannot  stay.  And  that  is  just  as  sweet  a  savor  to 
God  as  the  former.  I  know  a  minister  in  the  State 
of  New  York  who  was  driven  from  his  pulpit  because 
he  faithfully  reproved  the  sin  of  covetousness  on  the 
part  of  the  man  who  held  the  money-bag  of  the  con- 
gregation. But  the  lash  in  the  hands  of  the  money- 
power  did  not  injure  the  one  upon  whom  it  fell. 
Herod  sent  John  the  Baptist  to  prison  for  reproving 
him.  Ahab  sent  Michaiah  to  the  dungeon  for  re- 
proving him.  The  persecutors  were  the  sufferers. 
The  sons  of  Israel  sold  Joseph  their  brother  into 
Egypt.  They,  not  he,  were  the  real  sufferers.  The 
minister  must  deliver  his  message  whether  men  will 
hear  or  forbear.  "And  the  Lord  said  unto  me.  Be- 
hold, I  have  put  my  words  in  thy  mouth.  See,  I 
have  this  day  set  thee  over  the  nations  and  over  the 
kingdoms,  to  root  out,  and  to  pull  down,  and  to  de- 
stroy, and  to  throw  down;  to  build  and  to  plant." 

Cincinnati,  0. 


THB  TEB080PBIGAL   MOVBMBNT  IN  INDIA. 


Ernst  von  Weber  prints  in  Ueher  Land  und  Meer 
an  interesting  paper  on  the  theosophists  of  India. 
He  calls  attention  to  the  fact  that  students  of  Vol- 
kerpsychologie  cannot  fail  to  be  impressed  by  India's 
awakening  from  her  long  intellectual  sleep.  To-day 
the  new  and  fresh  intellectual  life  may  be  observed 
from  the  Himalayas  to  Ceylon,  and  from  the  Indus 
to  the  fruitful  lands  of  Burmah.  This  movement 
owes  as  much  to  the  spread  of  the  English  language 
as  to  any  other  one  cause.  It  is  now  customary  for 
all  educated  Hindus  to  be  able  to  speak  the  English 
language  fluently,  and  the  British  Government  has 
helped  this  on  by  its  system  of  schools. 

The  Aryan  Hindu  is  naturally  of  a  metaphysical 
and  speculative  turn  of  mind,  and  it  is,  therefore, 
not  to  be  wondered  at  that  the  newly  aroused  intel- 
lectual activity  should  have  found  expression  in  the 
so-called  theosophical  movement.  The  first  impulse 
to  this  idealistic  development  did  not  come,  however, 
from  India  itself,  but  from  abroad.  It  came  from 
the  land  which,  as  the  writer  cynically  expresses  it, 
is  the  most  unfruitful  soil  for  idealistic  fruit,  the 
United  States  of  America.  It  was  in  New  York,  as 
long  ago  as  1875,  that  Colonel  Olcott  laid  the  corner- 
stone of  the  theosophical  structure  which  was  soon 
to  exercise  so  wide-spread  an  influence.  The  princi- 
ples of  the  cosmopolitan  brotherhood  of  theoso- 
phists, which  in  certain  particulars  resemble  those 
of  the  Freemasons  or  those  of  the  Jewish  sect  of 
the  Essenes,  rapidly  spread  through  other  countries. 
The  indefatigable  apostle  of  the  new  society  did  his 
work  so  well,  that  the  number  of  associate  socie- 
ties, which  in  1879  was  only  two,  increased  in  1883 
to  ninety-three,  and  in  ISSG  to  one  hundred  and 
thirty-two.  Of  this  last  number,  107  are  in  India, 
eight  in  Europe,  fift'^en  in  America,  one  in  Africa, 
and  one  in  Australia.  The  headquarters  and  admin- 
istrative center  of  all  these  societies  is  Adyar,  a  rural 
capital  in  Madras,  where  Colonel  Olcott  dwells,  on 
the  banks  of  a  river  in  a  paradise  of  palms  and 
flowers.      His  villa  also  serves  as  the  gathering- 


place  where  each  year  in  Christmas  week  more  or 
fewer  of  the  delegates  of  the  theosophical  societies 
throughout  India  assemble  in  convention.  Colonel 
Olcott  has  managed  to  imbue  thousands  of  men  of 
the  higher  circles  of  India  with  his  ideas.  He  is 
greatly  honored  by  his  fellow-theosophists,  and  is 
loved  as  a  father  and  benefactor.  His  occasional 
journeys  through  the  country  are  like  triumphal 
processions,  and  his  influence  over  the  cultured 
classes  of  the  Hindus  throughout  India  is  extraor- 
dinary. 

Some  idea  of  the  objects  and  aims  of  the  Theo- 
sophical Society  may  be  gathered  from  the  following 
selection  from  the  declaration  of  principles  adopted 
at  the  annual  assembly  of  the  delegates  in  1886. 
The  objects  of  the  society  are  there  set  forth  as,  (1) 
to  lay  the  foundation  for  a  universal  brotherhood  of 
man,  without  distinction  of  race,  religion,  or  color; 
(2)  to  promote  the  study  of  the  Aryan  and  other 
Oriental  literatures,  religions,  and  sciences;  (3)  to 
investigate  hitherto  unknown  natural  forces  and  the 
psychical  powers  of  man  (which  is  pursued  by  a  part 
of  the  brotherhood  only).  The  brotherhood  invites 
to  membership  all  those  who  love  their  fellow-men, 
and  who  believe  the  divisions  following  from  dif- 
ferences of  race,  religion  and  color,  to  be  an  evil; 
all  students  and  scholars;  all  earnest  seekers  after 
truth;  all  philosophers  in  the  East  as  well  as  in  the 
West;  all  those  who  love  India  and  desire  the  re- 
turn of  its  former  spiritual  greatness;  and,  finally, 
all  those  who  are  striving  after  permanent  good,  and 
not  mere  passing  pleasures  and  the  interests  of  a 
worldly  life,  and  who  are  ready  to  make  personal 
sacrifices  in  order  to  attain  to  knowledge  of  the 
highest  good.  The  society  professes  no  special  re- 
ligion, and  has  in  no  wise  the  character  of  a  sect, 
for  it  includes  followers  of  all  religions.  It  de- 
mands of  all  its  members  only  such  tolerance  of 
other  faiths  as  each  man  asks  for  his  own.  The 
society  interferes  in  no  way  with  the  Indian  laws 
of  caste,  nor  with  any  other  social  customs  and 
usages. — Science. 


A  NATIONAL  BVIL. 


On  Thanksgiving  day  Rev.  T.  G.  Morrow,  of  Pax- 
ton,  Illinois,  preached  an  able  discourse  in  the 
United  Presbyterian  church,  from  which  the  follow- 
ing is  an  extract,  showing  the] national  danger  from 
the  lodge: 

Another  great  evil  is  the  numerous  secret  oath- 
bound  societies.  Whilst  the  keeping  of  secrets, 
either  by  an  individual  or  a  society,  is  not  wrong  in 
itself,  yet  an  organization  founded  upon  the  princi- 
ple of  secrecy,  is  at  least  subject  to  suspicion,  and 
we  believe  ought  to  be  shunned  by  every  follower  of 
Christ. 

Any  individual  may  have  certain  purely  personal 
matters,  and  every  family  may  have  some  exclu- 
sively family  interests  that  may  very  properly  be 
kept  private,  because  no  one  else  can  have  any 
proper  interest  in  them  and  because  they  do  not  di- 
rectly affect  any  other  individual,  nor  any  public  in- 
terest whatever. 

But  were  a  family  always  to  act  on  the  principle 
of  secrecy— in  concealing  everything  that  is  said  and 
done;  were  they  to  invent  signs  and  grips  and  pass- 
words for  the  purpose  of  concealment;  were  they  to 
admit  no  one  under  their  roof  without  first  exacting 
a  solemn  oath  or  promise,  that  nothing  seen  or 
heard  shall  be  made  known,  under  a  severe  penalty, 
every  one  would  say  there  must  be  something  wrong. 
Such  a  family  would  lose  the  respect  and  confidence 
of  all  persons  whose  respect  is  of  any  value. 

The  man  who  endeavors  to  conceal  the  business 
in  which  he  is  engaged  or  the  place  and  manner  of 
carrying  on  his  business,  exposes  himself  to  the 
suspicion  of  his  fellowmen.  The  public  would  lose 
confidence  in  him.  He  would  not  be  regarded  as  a 
safe  man. 

Now  it  is  not  expected  that  business  men  will 
make  all  their  business  atlairs  public.  But  habitual 
secrecy,  constant  concealment  and  unwillingness  to 
tell  either  friend  or  foe  what  business  they  follow 
or  to  speak  of  business  operations,  will  cause  any 
man  to  be  regarded  as  destitute  of  common  honesty. 
This  fact  shows  that  in  the  common  judgment  of 
men,  constant  concealment  is  suspicious  and  wrong. 
If  then  habitual  secrecy  on  the  part  of  a  family  or 
on  the  part  of  an  individual  in  regard  to  business 
matters  is  suspicious  and  wrong,  it  must  also  be  so 
on  the  part  of  associations  of  men. 

An  individual  working  in  the  dark  may  do  much 
mischief,  but  an  association  thus  working  can  do 
much  more  mischief.  All  those  considerations 
which  forbid  individuals  to  shroud  their  actions  in 
secrecy  and  darkness  and  require  ihem  to  be  open, 
frank  and  straightforward  in  their  course,  apply 
with  equal  or  greater  force  to  associations.    This 


TECE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURJi. 


Decsmbxr  22, 1887 


concealment  of  actions  and  principles  either  by  in- 
dividuals or  associations  is  inconsistent  with  the 
teachings  of  the  Bible. 

John  18:  20,  the  words  of  Jesus:  "I  spake  open- 
ly to  the  world;  I  ever  taught  in  the  synagogue, 
whither  the  Jews  always  resort,  and  in  secret  have  I 
said  nothing." 

Isaiah  29:  15:  "Woe  unto  them  that  seek  deep 
to  hide  their  counsel  from  the  Lord,  and  their  works 
are  in  the  dark  and  they  say,  'Who  seeth  us?  and 
who  knoweth  us?'  " 

Eph.  5:  11,  12:  "And  have  no  fellowship  with 
the  unfruitful  works  of  darkness,  but  rather  reprove 
them,  for  it  is  a  shame  to  speak  of  those  things  that 
are  done  of  them  in  secret." 

John  3:  20:  "For  every  one  that  doeth  evil 
hateth  the  light,  neither  cometh  to  the  light,  lest  his 
deeds  should  be  reproved.  But  he  that  doeth  truth 
cometh  to  the  light,  that  his  deeds  may  be  made 
manifest  that  they  are  wrought  in  God." 

Again,  these  secret  societies  constitute  an  artificial 
relation  in  society.  God  has  instituted  the  relations 
of  the  family,  the  church  and  the  state  or  society. 
He  has  also  imposed  the  obligations  of  these  rela- 
tions. These  relations  being  divined  and  regulated, 
are  designed  and  adapted  to  move  on  together  and 
co-operate  harmoniously,  like  the  planets  of  the  solar 
system.  Their  duties  and  obligations  never  inter- 
fere or  conflict  with  each  other.  But  here  is  a  rela- 
tion that  cuts  right  across  all  other  relations.  It 
enters  the  family,  it  interferes  between  parents  and 
children,  between  husband  and  wife,  between  broth- 
ers and  sisters. 

It  enters  society,  interferes  with  its  various  rela- 
tions, both  civil  and  social.  It  enters  the  church,  it 
comes  between  pastor  and  people  and  between  mem- 
bers of  the  same  church.  It  often  produces  aliena- 
tion and  distrust,  if  not  positive  discord  and  conflict. 
It  is  useless  to  sav  that  membership  in  these  socie- 
ties need  not  conflict  with  a  man's  duty  in  his  other 
relations.  In  the  very  nature  of  things  they  must 
and  do  conflict.  We  all  know  and  see  that  they  do 
conflict  in  a  multitude  of  instances. 

Again,  many  of  these  societies  require  of  those 
who  enter  them  an  oath  to  keep  secret  their  distinct- 
ive principles,  signs  and  acts,  before  they  are  per- 
mitted to  know  what  they  are.  This  we  believe  is 
wrong,  because  those  who  take  such  an  oath  submit 
their  conscience  to  the  judgment  of  others,  in  that 
they  bind  themselves  to  conceal  what  others  tell 
them  will  be  proper  and  right  for  them  to  conceal, 
but  about  which  they  themselves  know  nothing,  and 
also  because  they  place  themselves  in  a  position 
which  maj'  and  often  does  interfere  with  their  obli- 
gations to  God. 

Again,  some  of  these  secret  societies  teach  a  false 
religion.  That  they  teach  a  religion  no  one  can 
deny.  They  have  their  altars,  their  chaplains,  their 
priests  and  their  rituals  of  worship.  These  are  all 
peculiar  to  religion. 

And  in  these  rituals  of  worship  and  in  their 
prayers  and  hymns  and  selections  of  Scripture,  the 
name  of  Jesus  Christ,  the  only  Saviour  of  sinners, 
is  carefully  omitted.  This  must  be  done,  or  the  Jew 
and  the  Mohammedan  could  not  unite  in  their  wor- 
ship. 

If  tiese  forms  in  which  they  engage  are  not  acts 
of  worship,  they  must  be  mockery.  Does  it  not 
seem  as  if  tLe  followers  of  Jesus  Christ  should  stand 
aloof  from  these  associations,  inasmuch  as  Jesus 
Christ  himself  has  said:  "No  man  cometh  unto  the 
Father  but  by  me." 

They  have  a  religion  without  a  Christ,  hence  it  is 
false,  and  therefore  dangerous  to  our  Christian  in- 
stitutions. 

m  I  ■ 

FORBIQNBRB  AND  ANARCHY. 

The  continuation  of  the  rule  of  Rum  and  Roman- 
ism in  Boston  for  another  municipal  term,  suggests 
serious  questions  respecting  other  cities  where  the 
foreign,  un-American  vote  is  always  a  factor  to  be 
considered,  if  not  a  dominant  influence.  The  late 
anarchist  performances  in  Chicago  and  New  York 
are  a  ptjwerful  influence  in  this  foreign  question, 
and  incline  not  a  few  of  the  most  conservative  to 
agree  with  the  opinion  of  the  Christian  Intelligencer 
below.  The  Cynoture  has  advocated,  instead  of  pos- 
itive and  direct  restriction,  such  a  just  enforcement 
of  Just  laws  that  foreign  assassins  would  wish  to 
avoid  this  country.  The  Christianizing  of  our  Con- 
stitution, the  prohibition  of  the  liquor  traffic  and  of 
the  secret  lodges,  with  properly  enforced  regulations 
conforming  to  these  measures,  would  aflTord  most  ef- 
fectual and  honorable  check  to  this  foreign  invasion. 
The  Intelligencer  article  reads  thus: 

Herr  Johann  Most's  witnesses,  whatever  they  did 
not  prove  by  their  testimony  in  the  anarchist's  favor, 
convicted  themselves  of  at  least  two  things— ignor- 
ance and  atheism.     One  witness  swore  that  he  knew 


nothing  about  the  government  and  yet  intended  to 
become  a  citizen  of  the  United  States.     Judge  Cow- 
ing, in  sentencing  Most   last   Thursday,   said:     "I 
have  had  'citizens'  here   who   did   not  know  who 
George  Washington  was,  who  Lincoln  was  nor  who 
was  the  President."     The  thought  of  making  citi- 
zens  out  of  such  material  is  repelling.     There  is  an 
instinctive  recoil  from  the  bare  idea.     Yet  with  our 
laws  as  they  now  are,  it  cannot  be  prevented.     Citi- 
zenship is  their  right,  which  designing  men  are  care- 
ful to  see  that  they,  in  due  tince,  claim  and   obtain, 
in  the  expectation  of  reaping  a  reward  from  their 
votes.     Any  twelve-year-old  newsboy  or  bootblack 
in  this  city  knows  more  about  our  government  and 
institutions;  could  vote  more  intelligently,  and  is  in 
every  way  better  qualified  for  citizenship   that  one- 
half  of  the  immigrants,  even  after  they  have  lived 
here  the  prescribed  time,  and  been  naturalized.     To 
say  nothing  about  the  inexpediency  of  the  practice, 
it  is  unjust  to  our  American- born  youth,  who  must 
wait  till  they  are  twenty-one  years  of  age  before  they 
can  become  citizens  and  entitled  to  vote,  to   admit 
to  full-fledged  citizenship  after  a  short  residence  in 
this  country  the  hordes   of  immigrants   that  land 
every  week  on  our  shores.     The  Rev.  Heber  Newton 
did  not  utter  the  sentiment  of  a  visionary   when   he 
said  in  a  recent  sermon:     "We  are  overtasking  our 
powers  in  the  effort  to  assimilate  too  much  raw  ma- 
terial.    No  country  on  earth  ever  attempted  to  make 
citizens  on  such  a  scale.     We  dare  not  keep  on  wel- 
coming shoals  of  the  most  ignorant  peoples  of  Eu- 
rope.    I   say   this  is  no  narrow  spirit.     But  if  this 
flood  of  emigration  is  to  continue  pouring  into  our 
cities,  justice  cannot  be  done  to  it,  charity  cannot 
provide  for  it.     We  dare  not  continue  to  crown  with 
a  franchise  the  settlings  of  races  utterly  alien  to  our 
institutions.     In  Fall  River  to-day  the  American  is 
out- voted  by  those  who  do  not  speak  his  tongue." 

The  examination  of  another  witness  in  the   Most 
case  ran  like  this: 


THE  N.C.A.  CONVENTION  AT  NEW  ORLEANS. 


Q.  Do  you  believe  in  the  existence  of  a.  Supreme  Be- 
ing? A.  I  never  gave  much  thought  to  that .  I  don't 
believe  in  the  sort  of  god  that  we  build  churches  for.  I 
believe  in  a  philosophical  god, in  a  power  which  nobody 
on  earth  knows  much  about.  He  created  the  whole  world. 
And  I  believe  in  natural  laws  which  are  governing  the 
world . 

Q.  Do  you  believe  that  he  punishes  for  per  j  ury  ?  A.  I 
don't  think  that  a  philosophical  god  concerns  himself 
much  with  such  trifling  things  as  are  going  on  here. 

What  is  meant  by  a  "philosophical  god"  we  have 
never  heard  explained,  and  therefore  do  not  know, 
but  it  is  evident  from  this  man's  conception  that  it 
is  a  god  who  does  not  concern  himself  about  the  af- 
fairs of  men;  who  does  not  hold  them  responsible 
and  will  not  call  tliem  to  account.  What  is  the  tes- 
timony of  an  atheist  worth,  though  he  takes  an  oath 
to  tell  the  truth?  It  is  not  a  serious  matter  to  him 
what  his  crime  may  be,  or  whether  he  tells  the  truth 
or  a  falsehood,  since  he  holds  himself  to  be  amena- 
ble to  human  law  only,  and  unaccountable  to  a  Su- 
preme Being.  Anarchists  are  given  credit  for  pos- 
sessing the  courage  of  their  convictions.  They  have 
courage,  it  is  true,  but  it  is  of  the  lowest  order;  it  is 
the  courage  of  the  brute,  blind,  impetuous;  or,  the 
courage  of  the  fool,  who  saith  in  his  heart  there  is 
no  God.  It  is  this  atheism  that  makes  anarchism 
bold  and  diabolical.  It  cheapens  crime.  It  is  the  bot- 
tom fact  in  their  persistent  assaults  on  law  and  life. 

Deep,  threatening  under- currents  of  evil  are  bring- 
ing to  the  top  in  this  country  questions  that  will 
claim  the  profound  consideration  and  careful  action 
of  our  legislators,  like  \hese:  Can  we  afford  to  let 
men  vote  who  know  nothing  about  the  genius  of  our 
government  and  the  spirit  of  our  institutions,  and 
who  are  too  ignorant  to  write  their  names  on  their 
ballots?  Is  not  our  country  too  free,  tempting  the 
vicious  and  lawless  to  convert  liberty  into  license? 
Shall  unrestricted  immigration  be  any  longer  en- 
couraged? Already  a  bill  has  been  introduced  in 
Congress  proposing  restriction  by  making  consular 
inspection  and  a  certificate  of  good  character  indis- 
pensable pre-requisites  to  immigration.  This  sub- 
ject is  rapidly  gaining  prominence.  The  demand  is 
growing  imperative,  irrespective  of  )eligious  creeds 
and  political  parties,  for  some  law  of  restriction 
which  it  is  within  the  power  of  Congress  to  enact. 


Give  me  the  money  that  the  working  classes  have 
spent  for  rum  during  the  last  thirty  years,  and  I 
will  build  for  every  workingman  a  house,  and  lay 
out  for  him  a  garden,  and  clothe  his  sons  in  broad- 
cloth and  his  daughters  in  silks,  and  secure  him  a 
policy  of  life  insurance,  so  that  the  present  home 
may  be  well  maintained  after  he  is  dead. — Talmage. 

A  law  has  been  passed  and  is  vigorously  enforced 
in  Copenhagen  by  which  every  man  leaving  a  wine- 
shop drunk  is  conducted  back  to  the  tavern  in  a  ve- 
hicle at  the  expense  of  the  wine  merchant  who  al- 
lowed him  to  get  drunk  on  his  premises. 


When  men  began  to  multiply  on  the  face  of  the 
earth  and  wickedness  became  exceeding  great,  God 
commissioned  civil  government  and  the  church  to 
secure  the  heritage  of  liberty  and  happiness,  and 
perpetuate  justice,  judgment  and  mercy  under  the 
divine  injunction,  "Do  unto  others  as  je  would  that 
others  should  do  unto  you." 

Since  sin  invaded  the  first  Eden  of  purity  and  in- 
nocence, ambition  and  avarice  have  dominated  in 
the  human  heart,  until  history  demonstrates  the  fact 
that  no  people  can  safely  intrust  their  fortunes  to 
irresponsible  hands;  that  to  conserve  personal  free- 
dom, and  protect  civil  and  religious  rights  against 
the  encroachments  of  unscrupulous  leaders,  the  peo- 
ple must  exercise  that  "vigilance  which  is  the  price 
of  liberty." 

If  danger  is  more  imminent  under  one  form  of 
government  than  another  it  is  that  in  which  a  ma- 
jority rule  at  the  ballot  box.  A  palsied  arm  cannot 
smite  down  a  haughty  foe,  and  a  nation  may  not 
permit  the  dissipation  of  its  vital  forces  by  internal 
enemies,  or  the  rupturing  of  its  unity  by  hostile 
bands  and  long  maintain  its  authority  or  even  con- 
tinue its  existence.  Hence  the  stability  of  the 
American  Republic  can  only  be  assured  by  that 
good  faith  which  inspires  mutual  confidence,  disarms 
jealousy,  and  results  in  hearty  cooperation  for  the 
welfare  of  all  alike. 

It  is  evident  that  a  government  based  upon  secre- 
cy and  selfishly  administered  for  the  benefit  of  the 
minority  to  the  exclusion  of  the  majority  must  be 
the  enemy  of  a  government  by  the  people  for  the 
whole  people,  and  of  the  race.  It  is  a  well-known 
fact  that  there  is  in  our  midst  a  despotic  govern- 
ment of  foreign  origin,  having  a  trained  and 
equipped  soldiery  of  its  own,  which  professes  to 
confer  upon  its  members  extraordinary  advantages, 
by  mystic  arts.  That  its  movements  are  character- 
ized by  the  utmost  secrecy,  and  the  lips  of  its  sub- 
ject sealed  with  an  oath  or  solemn  obligation,  bind- 
ing the  initiate  to  secrecy,  obedience  and  mutual 
succor,  while  excluding  more  than  one-half  of  the 
human  family  from  any  share  in  its  counsels  or 
avowed  benefits. 

Intrusted  as  we  are  under  God  with  the  keeping 
and  destiny  of  the  church  and  this  great  nation,  we 
are  confronted  by  a  Secret  Empire  with  organized 
forces  armed,  drilled  and  grasping  for  power,  al- 
ready numbering  its  subjects  by  hundreds  of  thou- 
sands, and  counting  its  treasures  by  hundreds  of 
millions,  which  we  must  meet  and  overcome  by  "the 
sword  of  the  Spirit,  which  is  the  Word  of  God;  or 
cower  like  cravens  at  its  feet.  The  issue  is  thrust 
upon  us,  and  how  best  to  meet  it  is  a  question  tax- 
ing the  ablest  and  best  talent  of  our  day. 

Some  believe  this  Secret  Empire  doomed  to  speedy 
dissolution  by  its  own  inherent  elements,  and  would 
leave  it  to  work  its  own  ruin.  Others  advocate  ag- 
gressive measures  for  its  overthrow.  Some  say  it  is 
purely  a  moral  question  and  should  be  left  to  the 
ministry  and  the  churches  for  solution.  Others  go 
further  and  insist  that  it  should  be  rebuked  socially, 
outlawed  in  commerce  and  made  an  issue  at  the  bal- 
lot box.  In  whatever  else  intelligent  men  differ,  all 
agree  that  wise,  conciliatory  and  effective  methods 
should  be  adopted  and  the  opposition  united  upon 
the  most  effective  plan  for  securing  the  end  sought 
by  all. 

To  secure  this  union  the  National  Christian  Asso- 
ciation was  organized  May  7th,  at  Pittsbugh,  Pa., 
"to  expose,  withstand  and  remove  secret  societies, 
Freemasonry  in  particular,  and  all  other  anti-Chris- 
tian movements,  in  order  to  save  the  churches  of 
Christ  from  being  depraved,  to  redeem  the  adminis- 
tration of  justice  from  perversion  and  our  republic- 
an government  from  corruption." 

Its  objects  have  been  endorsed  and  its  work  en- 
couraged by  such  eminent  men  as  Pres.  C.  G.  Fin- 
ney, Bishop  D.  Edwards,  A.  M.  Milligan,  D.D.,  D. 
A.  Wallace,  D.D.,  James  McCosh,  D.D.,  Joseph 
Cook,  A.  Spaeth,  D.D.,  T.  H.  Haselquist,  D.D.,  and 
many  others. 

Through  the  labors  of  Rev.  H.  H.  Hinman  and 
with  the  hearty  co-operation  of  educators,  ministers 
and  distinguished  civilians,  an  inviting  field  has 
been  opened  in  the  Southern  portion  of  our  country; 
and  to  further  the  general  cause  of  Christ  and  civil 
liberty  by  encouraging  and  strengthening  our  breth- 
ren and  diffuse  information  and  stimulate  greater 
activity  on  this  line  of  Christian  work,  the  National 
Christian  Association  will,  D.  Y.,  hold  its  trtrenlieth 
annual  convention  in  Central  Congregational  church. 
New  Orleans,  February  17th,  18th  and  20th,  1888. 

The  general  object  of  this  convention  is  to  con- 
sider the  relation  of  the  secret  lodge  system  to  the 
church  of  Christ  ^nd  to  civil  government.  An  in- 
teresting programme  has  been  arranged  and  able 
speakers  engaged   to  discuss  vital   issues   upon   a 


Peoehbbb  22,  188T 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE:. 


5 


broad  basis.     Opportunity  will  be  given  for  brief 
volunteer  speeches  and  all  are  invited  to  attend. 
J.  P.  Stoddard,  Gen.  Agent  and  Sec'y. 


"A  minister  without  boldness  is  like  a  smooth  Gle, 
a  knife  without  an  edge,  a  sentinel  that  is  afraid  to 
let  off  his  gun.  If  men  will  be  bold  in  sin,  minis- 
ters must  be  bold  in  reproof." — Selected. 


Reform  News, 


OHIO  AGAIN  REP0RT8  GRANDLY. 


An  incident  of  the  State  Convention — Licking  county 
friends— Be  knew  Odd  fellwofihip  better  than  Solomon 
— A  Doctor  on  a  front  seat — A  Conclave  Note — Look 
out! — Drop  the  muckrake. 

Utioa,  Ohio,  Dec.  14,  1887. 

Dear  Cfnosure: — The  report  of  our  recent  State 
meeting  was  very  meager,  considering  its  excellence. 
This  was  perhaps  my  fault  as  I  relied  on  others. 
Among  the  grand  testimonies  to  which  we  listened 
was  that  of  Jerome  Moody  of  Mountville,  Morgan 
county.  Mr.  Moody  had  for  years  walked  in  dark- 
ness, being  blinded  by  the  lodge,  but  is  now  rejoic- 
ing in  the  light.  He  is  endeavoring  to  rescue  oth- 
ers and  desires  that  I  assist  with  lectures.  But  for 
a  protracted  meeting  I  should  be  with  him  now. 
Learning  of  this  I  have  come  to  work  for  a  time  in 
this  section. 

Utica  has  for  years  been  noted  for  its  reformers, 
being  the  home  of  many  Covenanters  and  Mr.  Ca- 
leb Lyons,  who,  though  not  able  to  run  the  car  of 
reform,  has  in  a  substantial  way  pushed.  I  received 
a  cordial  welcome  at  his  home,  as  elsewhere.  I 
missed  the  council  of  our  former  recording  secreta- 
ry. Rev.  W.  J.  Coleman,  but  found  the  seed  he  had 
sown  in  a  county  lecture  against  the  lodge  not  with- 
out fruit. 

Saturday  morning  I  made  my  way  to  the  home  of 
Mr.  Elmer  Harrison,  living  near  Martinsburg,  and 
found  him  to  be  a  young  man  with  too  much  judg- 
ment to  be  deluded  by  lodgery.  He  attributed  his 
conversion  to  our  principles  and  later  subscription 
to  the  Cynosure  to  his  experience  in  being  initiated 
into  the  Sons  and  Daughters  of  Temperance.  We 
soon  arranged  for  lectures  in  the  Disciple  church. 
Sabbath  morning  and  afternoon  I  attended  the  Meth- 
odist and  Baptist  churches,  and'was  invited  in  both 
instances  to  participate  in  the  services.  I  accepted 
the  latter  rather  reluctantly,  as  the  preacher's  breath 
smelled  strong  of  tobacco.  He  told  the  Lord  in 
prayer  that  he  knew  the  difliculties  under  which  they 
as  a  church  labored.  I  was  not  at  all  surprised  that 
they  labored  under  difficulties,  when  I  heard  the 
sermon  and  learned  afterward  that  he  was  a  zealous 
advocate  of  Odd-fellowship.  He  said,  "I  have  trav- 
eled and  lectured  for  the  order,  and  am  well  posted 
on  their  charitable  work  from  the  days  of  Solomon 
down."  He  said  he  would  be  willing  to  discuss  the 
subject  with  any  man,  but  was  not  prepared  just 
now,  and  would  not  want  to  discuss  among  his  peo- 
ple. I  went  away  feeling  that  if  Solomon  had 
seen  him  he  would  have  exclaimed,  "Vanity  of 
vanities;  all  is  vanity!" 

Owing  to  the  darkness  and  bad  roads  we  arrived 
at  the  church  a  little  late  in  the  evening,  happily  to 
find  it  well  filled  with  an  excellent  audience,  which  T 
endeavored  not  to  disappoint.  The  Lord  helped  me 
graciously  to  present  the  truth  in  such  a  manner  as 
to  win  the  favor  of  lovers  of  light,  and  anger  of 
those  who  sought  darkness.  A  vote  was  taken  at 
the  close  which  expressed  the  people's  wish  to  have 
the  subject  further  discussed. 

Monday  evening  was  very  dark  but  the  house  was 
again  filled.  A  doctor  of  the  place,  who  was  a 
leading  Mason,  was  on  the  front  seat.  As  I  hung 
up  my  chart  and  proceeded  to  give  away  the  mys- 
teries for  which  he  had  paid  so  much,  he  appeared 
somewhat  uneasy.  Before  concluding  I  gave  my 
usual  invitation  for  any  member  of  the  lodge  to  ask 
(luestions  or  make  remarks,  reserving  the  right  to 
ask  them  questions.  The  doctor  asked  if  I  would 
be  willing  to  discuss  the  question  with  a  man  whom 
he  might  get.  I  assured  him  I  would  be  glad  to 
discuss  with  any  fair-minded  man.  He  replied  that 
he  thought  he  could  get  a  man.  I  asked  the  doctor 
several  (luestions  to  which  I  received  prompt  replies; 
but  when  I  asked  if  he  was  prepared  for  initiation 
in  the  manner  indicated,  he  replied,  "I  am  not  on 
the  witness  stand."  I  urged  that  he  reply  either 
yes  or  no,  calling  the  attention  of  the  audience  to 
the  fact  that  he  had  answered  *  other  questions 
promptly.  In  short,  he  proved  to  be  on  the  witness 
stand,  and  the  audience  was  satisfied  with  his  testi- 
mony, as  expressed  somewhat  in  the  collection  re- 
ceived. I  have  taken  six  subscriptions  to  the  Cyno- 
sure here  and  expect  more  to-morrow. 

Since  my  last  writing  I  have  learned  much  of  the 


workings  of  the  lodges  in  this  State.  At  the  recent 
Knight  Templar  Conclave  in  Columbus  $2,000  were 
spent  for  a  single  supper  and  ball.  The  belle  of  the 
evening  was  a  womaL.  of  immoral  character.  There 
was  a  constant  procession  from  the  Park  rink  where 
the  ball  was  going  on,  to  the  Park  saloon.  I  make 
this  statement  on  the  authority  of  a  leading  man  in 
a  Christian  church  of  that  city  who  was  fully  con- 
versant with  the  facts  stated. 

There  is  a  man  going  around  in  our  State  trying 
to  organize  Prohibitionists  into  a  secret  society. 
Look  out  for  him!  The  devil  always  has  dead  flies 
to  spoil  every  good  ointment. 

Friends,  if  there  ever  was  a  time  when  we  should 
stand  firmly  together  for  God  and  the  right,  it  is 
now.  Some  are  constantly  complaining  that  we  have 
not  done  away  with  secret  societies,  but  rather  they 
are  increasing.  They  are  looking  every  day  to  their 
little  ten-acre  lot,  instead  of  the  Lord  of  heaven 
and  earth.  Of  course  they  become  disheartened, 
discouraged,  drop  their  Cynosure,  and  sit  around  like 
an  old  tub  of  sour-krout,  good  for  nothing,  and  in 
the  way  of  everybody.  Oh,  let  us  not  with  a  muck- 
rake get  down  and  gather  the  straws  of  earth,  but 
look  above  to  the  glittering  crown.  "The  darkest 
hour  is  just  before  the  morning."  If  you  want  light 
hear  the  words  of  the  Sav^iour,  "Awake,  thou  that 
sleepest,  and  arise  from  the  dead,  and  Christ  shall 
give  thee  light."  W.  B.  Stoddard. 


Correspondence. 


THE    SABBATH  AND    TBMPERANCB  MOVE- 
MENT IN  NEW  TORE. 


New  York  City,  Dec.  14,  1887. 

Editor  Christian  Cynosure: — A  mass  meeting 
was  held  Tuesday  evening  in  Steinway  Hall  "in  favor 
of  the  Sabbath  and  Temperance."  Hon.  William  H. 
Howland,  Mayor  of  Toronto,  was  the  chief  speaker. 
He  made  this  motto  a  fixture  in  the  Mayor's  office, 
"Except  the  Lord  keep  the  city  the  watchman  wak- 
eth  but  in  vain."  The  Sabbath  was  made  the  key- 
stone of  the  moral  arch.  Street  cars  are  not  allowed 
to  run  in  Toronto  on  Sabbath.  The  saloons  are 
closed  from  6  o'clock  Saturday  evening  until  6 
o'clock  Monday  morning.  Only  one  saloon  is  al- 
lowed to  every  400  people.  The  control  is  taken  out 
of  the  hands  of  the  municipal  authorities.  The 
amount  of  liquor  consumed  has  been  reduced  from 
seven  to  three  and  a  half  gallons  per  caput.  In  the 
United  States  thirteen  gallons  per  head  are  used. 
It  is  all  very  well  to  talk  of  moral  suasion,  but  social 
necessities  must  take  the  shape  of  law  or  social  tyr- 
annies will  do  so." 

Joseph  Cook  followed.  He  said:  "Let  us  thank 
God  that  there  is  one  city  in  America  which  has  quit 
fooling  with  fools."  "You  can  fool  some  of  the 
people  some  of  the  time.  You  can  fool  some  people 
all  the  time,  but  you  can't  fool  all  the  people  all  the 
time.  The  chief  mischiefs  in  the  respectable  circles 
are,  so  far  as  the  temperance  reform  is  concerned, 
poltroonery  and  procrastination.  In  the  name  of 
the  poltroonery  that  preceded  the  abolition  of  slav- 
ery, I  ask  you  to  take  courage  and  trample  on  the 
poltroonery  in  dealing  with  the  liquor  traffic.  Just 
as  you  saw  it  your  duty  to  refuse  to  vote  for  any 
party  that  was  on  its  knees  to  the  slavery  power,  so 
I  say  in  the  name  of  God  refuse  to  vote  for  any 
party  that  is  on  its  knees  to  the  whisky  ring." 
Strong  resolutions  were  adopted  calling  upon  Chris- 
tians in  New  York  to  demand  the  closing  of  the  sa- 
loon from  Saturday  evening  to  Monday  morning,  to 
abstain  from  Sabbath  traveling,  either  for  pleasure 
or  gain,  and  to  discontinue  the  publication,  buying, 
selling  and  reading  of  newspapers  on  Sabbath. 

Last  Sabbath  morning  and  afternoon  I  preached 
in  the  Willoughby  Avenue  Reformed  Presbyterian 
church.  Rev.  J.  F,  Carson,  pastor.  In  the  evening 
I  preached  in  the  Franklin  Avenue  Presbyterian 
church.  Rev.  J.  W.  Hageman,  pastor.  This  congre- 
gation numbers  580  members.  I  was  very  much 
taken  back  when  I  went  to  the  church  and  learned 
that  Bro.  Hageman  had  made  the  following  an- 
nouncement in  the  morning:  "1  announced  last 
Sabbath  that  I  would  preach  tonight  on  the  'Chris- 
tian Conference'  at  Washington.  I  was  providen- 
tially kept  from  attending.  But  I  have  done  equally 
well  in  securing  the  services  of  one  who  was  there 
and  who  will  speak  on  that  subject."  A  very  large 
audience  turned  out. 

On  Monday  morning  I  visited  Union  Theological 
Seminary  and  conferred  with  Dr.  Schafl.  Ho  very 
kindly  consented  to  secure  a  hearing  on  National 
Reform  before  the  Society  of  Inquiry.  The  lecture 
comes  the  second  Monday  in  January.  On  Tues- 
day I  visited  Poughkeepsie,  a  citv  of  22,000  on  the 
Hudson,  midway  between  New  York  and  Albany. 
I  first  interviewed  Rev.  Francis  B.  Wheeler,  D.D., 


Presbyterian  pastor.  He  was  well  acquainted  with 
our  movement  and  had  read  the  Statesman  for  some 
years.  I  next  visited  the  Eastman  National  Busi- 
ness College,  C.  C.  Gains,  president  They  have  a 
new  and  commodious  building  and  300  students,  and 
the  president  said,  "We  are  like  the  temple  of  Janus, 
never  closed."  They  have  a  regular  coarse  of  lec- 
tures. National  Reform  was  given  a  place  on  their 
programme,  so  I  will  be  heard  there.  I  called  on 
the  editor  of  the  Eagle,  the  Republican  paper  of  the 
city.  He  very  cordially  accepted  of  a  column  article 
on  our  movement. 

At  Vassar  College  I  spent  a  half  hour  very  pleas- 
antly with  the  president,  Rev.  James  M.  Taylor, 
D.D.  The  college  was  founded  in  1861  by  Matthew 
Vassar.  They  have  200  acres  of  ground.  After 
erecting  the  buildings,  he  left  $275,000  endowment. 
His  purpose  was  "to  found  and  perpetuate  an  insti- 
tution which  should  accomplish  for  young  women 
what  our  colleges  accomplish  for  young  men." 
They  have  thirty-five  "officers  of  government  and 
instruction"  and  300  students.  The  doctor  says, 
"We  are  like  a  family  here."  "The  hours  for  rising 
and  retiring,  the  warming  and  ventilation  of  rooms, 
the  choice  and  preparation  of  food,  and  the  sanitary 
regulations  of  the  college,  are  all  carefully  directed." 
It  is  two  miles  out  from  the  heart  of  the  city. 

The  elevated  railroads  in  New  York  carry  500,000 
passengers  daily.  At  first  they  carried  morning  and 
evening  for  5  cents  and  charged  10  cents  during  the 
day.  And  when  they  changed  to  5  cents  all  day, 
thtir  expense  increased  $800,  but  their  income  $7,000 
per  day.  It  is  proposed  to  have  underground  rail- 
ways. East  river  an d  North  river  are  to  be  tunneled. 
These  railroads  are  tae  product  and  life  current  of 
modern  civilization,  but  they  are  fast  breaking 
down  the  Christian  SaMbath.  Those  who  hold  stock 
in  them  are  guilty  of  breaking  the  Fourth  Com- 
mandment. J.  M,  Foster. 


HE   PINCHED    THE   BABT  AND  RAN  AWAT. 

Adrian,  Mo.,  Dec.    10,  1887. 

Dear  Cynosure:— On  or  about  the  first  of  No- 
vember last  I  attended  our  district  meeting  at 
Greenfield,  Dade  county,  and  arranged  with  Bro.  M. 
N.  Butler  for  a  series  of  lectures  in  Bates  county  at 
sometime  in  the  future.  Bro.  Butler  arrived  at  my 
house  November  30th,  and  after  a  short  rest  we  sad- 
dled our  ponies  and  were  soon  in  the  country  billing 
a  meeting  at  the  Fairview  school  house.  Three  hours' 
notice  gave  us  a  full  house  the  first  night.  The  sec- 
ond night  standing  room  was  in  demand.  Men  and 
women  came  for  miles,  who  had  not  been  to  church 
for  years.  They  listened  with  profound  interest  to 
the  Bible  reading,  and  at  last  to  the  so-called  secrets 
of  Masonry,  The  people  were  astonished  to  know 
that  their  Masonic  neighbors  had  gone  through  so 
much  silly  tom-foolery  and  got  nothing  but  that 
magic  word  "Mah-hah-bone."  A  Mason  present,  the 
children  at  school  said,  pinched  his  baby  to  make  it 
cry,  so  he  could  have  an  excuse  to  go  home,  which 
he  did  before  the  description  of  the  resurrection  of 
Hiram  Abifl[.  The  meeting  closed  with  great  enthu- 
siasm. 

Bro.  Butler  announced  that  he  would  lec- 
ture Sabbath  afternoon  on  the  religion  of  Masonry. 
Friday  afternoon  we  billed  at  the  Coleville  school 
house  for  Friday  and  Saturday  nights,  and  distrib- 
uted literature  over  the  greater  part  of  tour  town- 
ships. The  hour  ariived;  the  people  came  through 
the  mud  and  darkness  and  listened  while  Bro.  But- 
ler gave  us  the  truth.  The  second  night  the  old 
school  house  was  completely  packed;  some  mem- 
bers of  the  fraternity  were  present,  but  silent,  al- 
though they  could  not  sit  still  on  their  seats. 

We  have  many  warm  friends  at  Coleville  to  whom 
we  feel  under  obligation,  more  especially  Bro.  Per- 
ry Fancher  and  wife,  who  cared  lor  us  and  our  po- 
nies one  day  and  night  They  are  deeply  in  sym- 
pathy with  our  cause,  and  will  read  the  American 
hereafter.  We  have  met  no  obstacle  but  what  has 
been  removed.  The  United  Brethren  by  their  trus- 
tees closed  their  church  against  us,  but  the  school 
house  was  opened  for  us,  and  the  Lord  has  been 
with  us  all  the  way  through.  The  Masonic  preacher 
failed  to  fill  his  appointment  at  the  Fairview  school 
house.  At  2  r.  m.  the  people  began  to  gather. 
Bro.  Butler  unpacked  his  Masonic  librarj-,  and  for 
three  hours  he  showed  the  people,  in  the  presence 
of  the  Worshipful  Master  of  Crescent  Hill  Lodge, 
No.  168,  that  he  was  master  of  his  subject 

Monday  morning  we  started  across  the  country 
for  New  Lancaster,  Kansas.  About  sundowa  we 
reached  the  home  of  Joseph  F.  Cook,  who  is  in 
sympathy  with  us.  The  next  day  we  met  the  trus- 
tees of  the  Union  church,  who  welcomed  us  by  giv- 
ing up  their  prayer  meeting  in  favor  of  the  lectures. 
The  audience  increased   until  there  were  not  less 


6 


TOMi  CHHISTIAN  CTNOBJJREi. 


Deosubir  22, 1887 


than  three  hundred  and  fifty  people  listening  to 
Bro.  Butler  while  he  revealed  the  so-called  secrets 
and  the  religion  of  Freemasonry. 

We  met  many  warm  friends  at  Lancaster,  one  of 
whom  was  the  Rev.  Wm.  Huffman,  who  I  had  not 
seen  for  twenty  years.  He  has  read  the  Cynosure, 
and  Bonayne's  and  Bernard's  exposes.  He  is  get- 
ting feeble,  though  faithful  as  when  younger.  1 
started  for  home  next  morning,  and  Bro.  Butler 
for  Olathe,  Kansas.  I  am  trusting  now  in  the  Lord 
for  the  result  of  our  work.  T.  A.  Cook. 


PITE  AND  POINT. 


A   TREBDHENS   8CK00L   IN   NOBTH   CAROLTKA. 

We  are  still  at  work  here  among  the  pines  of  North 
Carolina,  where  we  have  opened  a  school  and  for  nearly 
ten  years  devoted  our  time  to  directing  and  teaching  this 
poor  people .  Here  we  have  opened  a  reading  room  for 
the  Freedmen,  and  we  need  books  and  magazines  and 
money  to  fit  up  the  building.  If  the  friends  of  the  Freed- 
men wish  to  engage  in  a  good  work  now  is  a  rare  chance 
to  erect  a  suitable  cottage  for  library  and  school  purpos- 
es. Our  work  is  unsectarian .  — Mrs  .  N  .  A .  Rutherford, 
Misttpnary  Teacher,  Lumberton,  N.  O. 

MORE  PRAYER  AND  WORK  NEEDED. 

Masonry  is  gaining  here.  Two  weeks  ago  they  organ- 
ized two  new  lodges  in  Coshocton,  and  nearly  all  belong 
to  the  Masons.  The  lodges  are  made  up  of  all  kinds  of 
characters,  the  infidel,  the  profane  swearer,  the  Sabbath- 
breaker,  the  gambler,  the  drunkard,  and  some  other  char- 
acters still  lower, with  a  sprinkle  of  professed  Christians. 
— William  M.  Bovd,   Canal  Lewis,  0. 

ANARCHY   AND   SECRETISM. 

I  am  taking  an  active  part  in  a  literary  and  debating 
society  at  our  new  shool-house,  called  "Union  Hall," 
where  society  is  hunting  a  nucleus  to  form  around  and 
shape  its  future  character,  as  a  neighborhood  having  a 
moral  influence  in  the  world.  Our  question  for  debate 
next  Tuesday  night  is:  "Besolved,  That  secret  organiza- 
tions are  the  source  of  all  anarchy,"  I  taking  the  affirma- 
tive .  It's  a  great  question  and  my  whole  soul  flows  out 
in  it. — L.  D.  Brown,  Morenci,  Ind. 

A   TESTIMONY   WORTH   HAVING. 

The  Cynosure  is  a  first  class  Gospel  witness  for  Christ 
— Christian  in  spirit,  pure  in  doctrine,  with  kindness  and 
courage  of  the  martyrs  in  proclaiming  it.  The  Lord 
bless  its  editors  and  publisher  and  readers -t-Georqb 
Clark,  Oberlin,  0. 

A  WELCOME   WAITING. 

Oh,  that  I  could  have  some  of  the  old  veteran  reform- 
ers visit  us!  That  dear  old  President  Blanchard,  how  I 
should  love  to  hear  him  speak  before  I  depart  and  go 
home;  Bro.  Charles  Blanchard — I  heard  him  lecture  in 
Freeport  some  ten  years  since;  dear  Bro.  Hinman,  who 
has  broken  bread  at  my  table  in  Freeport;  Bro.  Stoddard 
—if  they  ever  come  this  way  may  the  Lord  direct  them 
to  Alta  Vista,  sixteen  miles  southwest  of  Alma,  Kans . , 
on  the  new  R.I.R.R. — Jesse  Hunter. 

VOTES   AS   HE   PRAYS. 

I  am  the  only  one  here  that  openly  says,  "I  will  not 
vote  for  a  man  that  takes  his  drinks  or  belongs  tc  a  se- 
cret order,  if  I  know  him  to  be  such."  True,  we  have  a 
Dunker  church  of  twenty  members,  and  the  preachers 
are  opposed  to  secret  societies,  but  they  say,  "Who  shall 
we  vote  for,  if  not  for  a  secretist."  I  say.  Let  us  rally 
and  together  select  our  men. — J.  T.  Cullor,  Julesburg, 
Ool. 


feared  the  multitude . "    A  good  man   fears  nothing  but 
sin;  a  bad  man  fears  what  people  will  think  of  him.    We 
have  here  an  example  of  the  faithful  preacher  who  de- 
clares God's  truth  without  respect  of  persons,  like  old 
Hugh  Latimer  before  Henry  VIII.       Many  say  that  the 
pulpit  has  lost  its  old  power  over  men;  if  this  is  so,  it  is 
because  it  has  lost  its  old  courage  in  rebuking  sin.     Her- 
od and  Henry  VIII.  were  kings;  both  John  and  Latimer 
might  have  sheltered  themselves  behind  the  miserable 
sophistry  that  honor  to  the  office  demanded  that  they 
be  silent  regarding  their  sins .     How  many  ministers  who 
preach  before  our  Presidents,  governors  and  others  in 
authority  are  John  the  Baptists?      Yet  none  need  more 
to  have  the  plain, unvarnished  truth  set  before   them. 
There  is  a  popular  idea  in  regard  to  our  Chief  Executive 
that  "we  must  honor  the  office  if  we  cannot  honor  the 
man ;"  and  even  if  a  lover  of  wine,  or  a  violator  of  the 
Seventh  Commandment  is  elected  to  the  White  House, 
his  sins  are  condoned  by  press  and  pulpit  in  deference  to 
his  high  position .     But  the  skin  clad  desert  prophet  nev 
er  reasoned  in  this  fashion .     He  believed  that  a  high  of- 
fice so  far  from    being  a  shield  against  rebuke  should 
draw  down  the  deepest  thunders  of  God's  offended  law. 
Herod's  promise  was  that  of  a  dissolute  man,  too  full  of 
wine  to  weigh  his  words  or  remember  that  he  would  be 
held  accountable  at  the  day  of  judgment  for  even  the 
idle  utterances  of  the  passing  moment.       Of  course  he 
never  supposed  that  a  beautiful,  delicately-reared  prin- 
cess would  outrage  every  natural  instinct  by  asking  for 
the  gory  head  of  John  the  Baptist.       So  men  who  take 
lodge  oaths  never  dream  that  they  may  be  asked  to  shield 
a  murderer  or  a  traitor,  or  ?ven  to  become  traitors  or  mur- 
derers themselves;  but  in  reality  they  promise  by  the 
very  terms  of  their  oath  exactly  what  Herod  promised 
Herodias's  daughter — whatever  the  lodge  may  ask . 

3.  The  sin  of  keeping  wicked  oaths,  vs. 8-12.  The 
king  was  sorry,  but  for  his  oath's  sake,  and  the  drunken 
crowd  of  revelers  who  witnessed  it,  he  commanded  the 
atrocious  deed  to  be  done.  Even  those  who  say  that  re- 
pentant Masons  act  very  wickedly  in  breaking  their 
oaths  will  hardly  contend  that  Herod  ought  to  have  kept 
his .  He  was  asked  for  what  he  had  no  right  to  give .  So 
on  the  same  principle  Masonic  oaths  should  be  confessed 
and  renounced,  and  the  iniquities  of  the  system  exposed, 
for  the  lodge  too  asks  of  a  man  what  he  has  no  right  to 
give.  It  asks  him  to  surrender  his  will  and  conscience 
unreservedly  to  another;  to  "obey  every  sign  and  sum- 
mons from  a  Master  Mason's  lodge,  if  within  the  length 
of  his  cable-tow."  How  can  he, more  than  Herod, know 
what  may  possibly  be  included  under  this  demand?  How 
can  he  surrender  the  immortal  jewel  of  his  free  will,  the 
God-given  pledge  and  talisman  of  his  manhood?  Herod 
was  probably  in  his  cups  when  he  took  this  oath.  Ban- 
quets and  balls  are  always  the  concomitants  of  a  Mason- 
ic or  Odd  fellow  lodge.  Thus  she  surrounds  her  votaries 
with  exactly  the  right  kind  of  atmosphere  to  break  down 
a  man's  moral  principle  if  he  has  any  and  make  him 
ready  to  do  her  behests  though  it  be,  as  in  Herod's  case, 
to  the  loss  of  his  soul . 


Bible  Lessoit. 


BTUDIBB  IN  THE  NEW  TESTAMENT. 

LESSON  1.— Jan.  18.— Herod  and  John  the  Baptist.— Matt. 
14:1-18. 

GOLDEN  TEXT.— And  hla  dleclples  came  and  took  up  the 
body,  and  burled  It,  and  went  and  told  Jesus.- v.  13. 
lOpm  tht  BibU  and  read  the  2<Mon.1 
COMMENTS   ON   THE  LESSON   BY  E.  E.  FLAGG. 
1.   Buperstition  and  cruelty  are  close  allies,     vs.  1,  2. 
Some  one  has  said  that  "they  who  will   not  have  gods 
create  spectres . "    The  farther  people  rebound  from    Bi- 
ble truth,  as  a  rule,  the  more  ready  they  are  to  become 
the  dupes  of  spiritualism  and  the  grossest  forms  of  error 
that  ever  taxed  human  credulity .     The  cruel  are  usually 
superstitious.      Only  the  murderer  of  John  the  Baptist 
could  have  entertained  the  wild  idea  that  Jesus  was  John 
risen  to  life.     Charles  IX.  could  see  in   his  last  hours 
only  the  ghosts  of  the  murdered  victims  of  St.  Bartholo- 
mew's day;  but  there  is  no  reason  to  suppose   that  mar- 
tyred saints  ever  left  their  abodes  of  bliss  to  terrify  their 
most  cruel  persecutors.      His  own  guilty  conscience  cre- 
ated the  phantoms  of  terror  which  thus  beset  his  dying 
bed. 

2.  Herod's  rath  oalh.  vs.  3-7.  Herod  was  a  weak, 
aa  well  as  a  cruel  and  superstitious  man.  He  allowed 
himself  to  become  the  minion  of  the  wicked  Herodias,as 
Ahab  of  the  more  notorious  Jezebel .      To  please  her  he 


A  SHORT  8BRM0N  ON    WHEATON  COLLS  OB. 

"And  they  said,  Nothing,"— Luke  22:  85. 

The  context  reads,  "When  I  sent  you  without 
purse,  and  scrip,  and  shoes,  lacked  ye  anything? 
And  they  said,  Nothing." 

Can  any  one  imagine  a  more  destitute  condition 
than  the  disciples  were  in  when  Jesus  sent  them  out 
to  preach.  They  not  only  were  without  money,  but 
they  had  not  even  a  purse  to  put  it  in.  They  not 
only  had  nothing  to  eat,  but  no  scrip,  which  was  a 
leather  bag  to  carry  food  in,  and  they  had  no  shoes, 
— literally  barefoot.  They  went  without  a  walking 
stick  or  overcoat.  Just  read  the  full  account  of 
their  outfit.  (Luke  9:  3).  "And  he  said  unto  them. 
Take  nothing  for  your  journey,  neither  staves 
(walking  sticks),  nor  scrip  (a  provision  bag),  neither 
bread  (provisions),  neither  money,  neither  have  two 
coats  apiece."  How  the  negatives  are  multiplied 
and  intensified. 

Well,  with  such  an  outfit,  where  were  they  to  go? 
Let  us  see.  Luke  10:  3.  "Go  your  ways:  behold,! 
send  you  forth  as  lambs  among  wolves."  He  sent 
them  right  among  them,  who,  not  many  years  after, 
killed  him,  and  put  every  one  of  them  except  John 
to  a  violent  death;  and  to  prepare  them  not  to  be 
disappointed  he  admonished  them  (John  15:  18-19): 
"If  the  world  hate  you,  ye  know  that  it  hated  me 
before  it  hated  you;  but  because  I  have  chosen  you 
out  of  the  world,  therefore  the  world  hateth  you." 
What  a  prospect  was  this  before  them.  Let  each 
reader  of  this  article  face  it  and  see  how  it  looks. 
Let  the  professed  ministers  of  this  same  Jesus  f  ace 
it,  and  ask  themselves  if  they  are  willing  to  accept 


Imprisoned  John  and  would  have  put  him  to  death,  onlv 

he  reared,  not  to  commit  an  atrocious  murder,  but  "he  of  the  commission,  and  engage  in  the  work  assigned   ^a™®- 


them.  Where  are  they  to  get  the  first  night's  lodg- 
ing, or  the  first  mouthful  of  food?  These  they 
are  to  have,  but  they  can't  see  where  they  are  to 
come  from;  but  Jesus  saw  and  told  them  they 
should  have  it,  "for  your  heavenly  Father  knoweth 
ye  hath  need  of  all  these  things."  Matt.  6:  32.  And 
they  went  right  out  and  preached  with  a  bold  assur- 
ance that  the  word  of  Jesus  was  reliable,  and  they 
found  it  so.  God  supplied  their  every  want,  yet  he 
did  it  through  human  hands  and  hearts  and  heads. 
The  word  of  the  Son  of  God  is  pledged  that  all  his 
disciples  in  every  age  who  really  accept  of  his  com- 
mission upon  the  conditions  upon  which  it  is  given, 
shall  have  all  needed  things.  His  disciples  found 
it  so  then,  and  they  will  find  it  so  now. 

What  real  disciple  of  Christ  would  not  love  to 
have  been  one  of  those  disciples,  acting  on  a  com- 
mission and  depending  on  Jesus  for  supplies?  Would 
they  not  choose  it,  rather  than  a  salary  of  $5,000 
to  preach  for  Beecher's  church?  Well,  they  may 
have  it;  Jesus  is  pledged  for  it.  They  can't  see 
anything  but  hatred  and  death  in  the  world;  but 
the  word  of  Jesus  stands  good  against  the  world. 
"Be  of  good  cheer,"  he  says,  "for  I  have  overcome 
the  world."  Jesus  is  the  giver  of  every  needed 
thing,  and  he  will  do  it  through  human  hands  and 
hearts  and  heads.  But  his  plan  is  with  all  his  dis- 
ciples, in  all  ages,  that  they  can't  see  an  inch  be- 
fore them  only  as  they  look  to  him,  and  heartily  ac- 
cept of  his  commission  upon  the  terms  he  gives  it, 
and  look  to  him  as  responsible  for  all  needed  sup- 
plies, and  thus  he  will  bind  them  with  indissoluble 
cords  of  faith  and  love  to  him  in  all  they  do  and  all 
they  have.  And  this  plan  will  never  fail.  When- 
ever and  by  whomsoever  truely  accepted  and 
carried  out  it  will  prove  a  success;  it  was  never 
known  to  fail. 

But  Jesus  will  do  it  as  he  has  ever  done  it,  and 
ever  will  do  it,  through  human  hands  and  hearts 
and  heads.  He  made  these  all;  he  died  for  them 
all;  he  claims  them  all;  and  he  has  a  right  to  them 
all;  and  he  will  use  them  to  supply  all  their  needs, 
they  must  give  up  their  hands  and  hearts  and  heads 
to  him  with  which  to  supply  them.  This  is  as 
much  a  part  of  his  plan  as  it  is  that  they  shall  de- 
pend upon  him  for  it,and  it  is  robbery  to  withhold  it 
from  him.  I  will  not  argue  this  question  before 
the  true  disciples  of  Christ.  They  know  it  is  true. 
They  know  that  they  are  Christ's  with  all  their 
powers,  and  all  th^  have,  to  be  used  by  him  in  the 
work  of  saving  men. 

Now  let  me  make  a  direct  personal  application  to 
ail  the  readers  of  the  Cynosure.     Wheaton  College 
is  a  power  which  Christ  is  using  to  save  and  purify 
men.     It  is  a  mighty  instrument  which  Jesus  wants 
and  is  using.     It  has  accepted  his  commission  and 
is  doing  his  work.     It  has  twelve  teachers  qualified 
and  devoted  to  him.     It  has  graduated  men  like  L. 
N.  Stratton,  J.  P.  Stoddard,  C.  A.  Blanchard,  Revs. 
Hiatt,  Ferris  and  others,  both  men  and  women, — all 
go  out  to  bless  the  world  with  a  pure  Christianity 
uncontaminated  with  the  defilement  of  secret  lodges. 
It  has  four  classes  of  promising  young  men  and 
women  now  under  its  care  in  the  college  proper,  be- 
side a  large  number  in  other  departments.     These 
twelve  teachers  are  devoting    themselves  to  their 
work  with  the  devotion  of  true  disciples  of  Christ, 
not  seeing  whence  their  support  is  to  come.     There 
is  a  small  fund  to  sustain  them,  but  it  lacks  $700 
of  a  sufficient  support     Wheaton  College  has  given 
birth  to  and  sustains  the  Cynosure.  Its  ex-president 
and  one  of  its  graduates  are  its  editors.    What  Anti- 
mason   can  do   without  Wheaton  College  and  the 
Cynosure?     Cripple  one  and  you  cripple  both:  crip- 
ple both   and  you  cripple  the  whole  cause.     The 
world  is   filled  with  the  lodges  which  are  wolves 
among  whom  they  are  sent.     They  see  nothing  but 
the  word  of  Jesus  to  ensure  their  support;  this  they 
take  and  have  gone  out  among  wolves.     We,  their 
friends,  are  the  hands,  the  heads,  and  the   hearts 
that  Jesus  wants  to  sustain  them.     Shall  he  have 
them?     I  am  a  farmer  and  I  will  respond  for  one. 
Who  will  volunteer?     Seven  hundred  menwith  the 
trifling  sum  of  $1  apiece  will  make  the  sum  and  fill 
the  college  and  the  cause  with  courage  aud  strength. 
The  drought  has  narrowed  down  my   means,  but  I 
will   make  one  of  the  seven  hundred.     Who  will 
right  away  send  a  dollar  each  to  the  college  treasur- 
er?    If   seven   hundred  can't  be  found  who  have 
enough  love  for  Jesus  to  send  the  little  sum  of  $1, 
if  a  hundred  and  forty  will  send  $5  apiece  the  work 
is  done.     If  this  number  can't  be  found  to  pay  such 
a  small  sum,  if  seventy  will  pay  $10  each  they  will 
fulfill  the   words  of  Jesus  who  has  sent  them  out 
without    staves,  purse,  or  scrip.      I  will,    though 
hard  run,  be  one  on  either  of  these  plans.     Who  will 
volunteer  and  make  up  one  of  either  plans?  Let  him 
send  his  name  to  the  college  treasurer.  Prof.  H.  A. 
Fischer,  Wheaton,  111.    Don't  hesitate;  send  in  your 
An  Anti-Sicret  Farmer. 


DXCBMBIB  22,  1881 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


1888. 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


PR08PRGTUB  FOR  THE    TWENTIETH  YEAR. 

As  we  turn  over  the  leaf  for  another  year  the  Cy- 
nosure would  again  write  at  the  top  of  the  new  page: 
"Chritt  always;  Christ  only"  It  will  more  than  ever 
be  the  purpose  of  all  connected  with  the  paper  to 
make  it  a  power  for  the  coming  kingdom  of  our 
Lord,  before  which  all  the  systems  of  secret  wor- 
ship, mystery  and  iniquity  of  the  great  Babylon 
must  fall.  We  would  be  on  the  Conqukror's  side 
in  that  day — we  will  stand  for  him  now  in  the  days 
of  testimony  and  of  tribulation. 

The  CyNOsuRE  during  1888  will  give  the  most 
earnest  attention  to  the  South-  The  National  Con- 
vention at  New  Orleans,  Feb.  17th,  and  the  effort, 
which  promises  so  much  success,  to  put 

ONE   THOUSAND   COPIES 

of  the  paper  into  the  hands  of  colored  pastors  gives 
a  direction  to  our  interests.  We  also  hope  that  the 
National  Christian  Association  will  be  able  to  put 
other  workers  into  the  Southern  field. 

The  Minor  Secret  Orders,  so  called,  will  have 
more  respect  given  to  their  insinuating  and  benumb- 
ing influence.  If  Masonry  and  Odd-fellowship  have 
felt  severely  the  attacks  upon  their  strongholds.they 
are  making  good  all  losses  by  training  up  an  army 
of  young  men  whose  convictions  are  paralyzed  in 
respect  to  secretism  by  the  swarms  of  orders  which 
cover  their  modicum  of  lodgery  with  a  bait  of  tem- 
perance, insurance,  patriotism,  good  fellowship,  bus- 
iness aid,  etc.,  etc.  The  Cynoture  will  endeavor  to 
rouse  our  careless  churches  to  see  that  this  evil  is 
likely  to  be  worse  than  the  first. 

We  have  nearly  completed  arrangements  for  spec- 
ial Correspondence  from  the  metropolitan  cities 

in  different  parts  of  the  country.  Our  readers  may 
expect  letters  once  a  month.or  oftener,  from  Boston, 
New  York,  Philadelphia,  Washington,  Cincinnati, 
New  Orleans,  Denver,  San  Francisco  and  Los  An- 
geles. These  letters  will  give  graphic  pictures  of 
the  earnest  American  life  which  throbs  in  our  great 
cities,  with  especial  reference  to  the  news  of  the 
lodges  in  each. 

The  very  popular  Biographical  Worl(  of  the  Cyno- 
sure during  the  three  years  past  will  be  continued 
with  some  features  which  will  be  especially  attract- 
ive. During  the  last  year  there  have  appeared  por- 
traits of  George  B.  Cheever,  William  H.  Seward, 
Daniel  Webster,  John  Brown,  Charles  Sumner, 
Charles  Francis  Adams,  Enoch  Honeywell,  Bishop 
Hamline,  Charles  G.  Finney,  Howard  Crosby,  Dr.  C. 
F.  W.  Walther,  and  Alexander  Hamilton.  These 
portraits  have  been  accompanied  with  sketches 
which  have  presented  facts  of  profoundest  interest 
to  our  discussion,  collated  after  diligent  and  often 
exhaustive  search.  We  can  promise  for  the  coming 
year  biographies  of 

John  G  Whittikr,  the  Poet. 

Joseph  Cook  the  Lecturer. 

Jambs  McCosH,  the  Philosopher. 

JouN  C  SrKNCEK  the  Lawyer. 

John  Mar  hall,  the  Judge. 

William  Ewakt  Gladstone,  the  Statesman. 

These  are  all  in  preparation.  Others  whom  we 
do  not  care  at  present  to  mention  are  in  contempla- 
tion, whose  portraits  will  adorn  the  paper  and  the 
history  of  whose  lives  will  enrich  them. 

Letters  from  foreign  lands  we  expect  to  be  more 
frequent  and  valuable  in  1»88  than  ever.  Corre- 
spondents in  England,  Germany,  Greece,  Turkey, 
India,  West  and  South  Africa,  China  and  Mexico 
will  through  our  columns  be  in  personal  connection 
with  our  readers. 

Best  of  all  is  the  noble  company  of  contributors 
and  correspondents  in  our  own  land.  We  hardly 
need  mention  them;  but  it  is  a  pleasure  to  see  these 
goodly  names  in  print.     Here  are  a  few  of  them: 

William  F.  Davis,  the  hero  of  Boston  Common. 

H.  L.  Hastingn,  editor  of  the  "CUristian." 

Hon.  8.  V.    White,  M.  C. 

Rev.  B.  A. Imes,  Vice-president  Nat'l.  Cong'l.  Council. 

Pres.  H.  U.  Oeorge,  Geneva  College. 

Ret>.  G.  G.  Foote,  Detroit. 

Qeo.   W.  Glark,  tbe  singer. 

Bishop  M.   Wright. 

Pres.  R .  U .  Fair  child,  Bcrea  College. 

Cecil  II.  Howard,  Astor  Library. 

Rev.  Julius  Grunert,  D.  1).,  Evangeliral  Synod. 

Rev.   Wm.  Johnston,  D.D.,  United  Presbyterian. 

Rev.  B.  Cum,  German  Lutheran, 


Rev.  B.  W.  Williams,  Texas. 

Eldefj.  L.  B 'riow,  Iowa. 

Pres .  G.A.  Blanchard,  Wheaton  College. 

Reo .  David  Mc  If  all.  Chambers  St.  Church,  Boston. 

Rev.G.  W.Hiatt,  High  St.  Church,  Columbus. 

Prof.  Elliott  Whipple,  Wheaton,  late  of  Romona  In- 
stitute, Santa  Fe. 

Elder  Nathan  Gallender,  Pennsylvania. 

Prea.  L.N.  8tr"tton,  Wheaton  Theological  Seminary. 

Rev .  Henry  T.  Gheeoer,  Worcester . 

Rev .  Joel  tivariz,  D.D.,  Gettsy burg . 

Hits  E.  B .  Flagg.  Author  of  "Between  Two  Opinions.' 

Mrs .M.A.  Blanchard,  Wheaton. 

JUrs  A.E. Eellogg,  Denver. 

Hon. 8.  G.  Pomeroy,  Washington. 

Hon.Halleck  Floyd,  Indiana. 

Rev.  W.H.French.  D.D.,  Cincinnati. 

Rev  .M.A.  Oault,  Iowa. 

Rev .  J.  M.  Fosltr.  Cincinnati. 

Rev.  J. 8.  T.Milligan,  Kansas. 

Rev.  William  Wishart,  D.D.,  Monmouth. 

H.  M.  Hugunin,  former  editor  "Chicago  Eve.  Journal." 

Gapt.A.D.  Wood,  editor  "Censor,"  Los  Angeles. 

Rev .  R .  N .  Gouniee,  editor  "Living  Way,"  Memphis. 

Prof.  A.R.  Gervine,  Augustana  College . 

Rev.H.  W.  Lathe,  First  Church,  Northampton. 

Rev.  J.  F.  Avery,  Mariners'  Temple,  New  York. 

But  we  must  forbear.  Who  can  recall  these  and 
other  names  like  them  without  a  thrill  of  happy  and 
grateful  recollections.  To  keep  in  their  company  a 
season  were 

— "worth  ten  years  of  common  life." 

We  invite  all  friends  of  the  past  to  honor  them- 
selves by  remaining  in  this  company.  The  Cynosure 
gives  you  a  noble  fellowship.  You  can  hardly  afford 
to  forsake  it.  Let  your  name  then  be  found  on  the 
list.  Do  your  neighbor  a  good  turn  and  get  his 
subscription  also. 

In  advance  $1.50  per  tear.  Address,  the 
"Christian  Cynosure"  Chicago. 


A  THOUSAND  ••0TN08URB8"  FOR  THE  SOUTH 


TO  ALL  STUDENTS 


IN   COLLEGES,    THEOLOGICAL    SEMINARIES   AND 
ACADEMIES. 

The  Board  of  the  National  Christian  Association 
desiring  to  arouse  an  interest  among  American  stu- 
dents in  the  topics  named  below,  have  offered  cash 
prizes  for  essays  on  the  following  topics: 

"Secret  /Societies  and  the  Labor  Problem." 

"  The  Relation  of  Secret  Societies  to  the  Temperance 
Cause." 

For  the  best  essay  on  each  of  these  topics  a  pre- 
mium of  Twenty  Dollars  will  be  paid  to  its  author: 
for  the  second  in  merit  a  premium  of  Ten  Dollars. 

This  offer  is  made  to  students  of  both  sexes  in  all 
the  institutions  named  above,  with  the  following  lim- 
itations: 

1.  The  length  of  the  essays  may  not  be  more 
than  2,000  words,  plainly  written. 

2.  They  must  be  mailed  to  the  "Essay  Committee, 
N.  C.  A.  office,  221  West  Madison  St.,  Chicago," 
before  May  1,  1888. 

3.  Tbe  name  and  address  of  each  writer  must  be 
plainly  written  on  a  separate  sheet  accompanying 
the  essay. 

4.  The  Association  to  nave  the  privilege  of  pub- 
lishing as  a  tract,  or  in  their  paper,  the  Christian  Cy- 
nosure, any  or  all  the  four  prize  essays;  and  any 
others  which  may  seem  desirable,  if  satisfactory 
arrangements  can  be  made  with  their  authors. 

The  committee  of  award  have  not  yet  been  chosen. 


The  Sunday-school  is  considered  more  as  a  pleas- 
ant pastime  than  a  mighty  organization  for  the  evan- 
gelization of  the  city  and  the  country.  It  is  left 
almost  wholly  to  such  volunteers  as  may  be  inclined 
to  give  their  services  when  they  feel  like  doing  so. 
No  solemn  obligation  is  implied  when  a  teacher  takes 
a  class;  that  is,  no  3uch  obligation  as  would  be  im- 
plied if  the  same  teacher  undertook  to  work  for  an 
earthly  master  and  for  "cash"  pay  for  services  ren- 
dered. 

To  almost  all  heroic  souls  there  pertains  a  certain 
sternness  of  character,  a  stiffness  bordering  on  stub- 
bornness,— an  inflexibility  akin  to  obstinacv.  Its 
whole  value  depends  on  what  is  the  governing  force 
in  the  man.  Out  of  this  same  stuff,  intolerance  and 
ignorance  make  bigots;  ecclcsiasticism  and  formal- 
ism make  popes  and  (lersecutors;  passion  and  hatred 
make  demons;  and  spirituality  makes  heroes  and 
martyrs. — Dr.  A.  T.  Fierson. 

People  love  Christian  singing  when  there  is  heart 
and  soul  in  it,  and  not  sung  in  an  unknown  tongue 
by  a  professional  choir.  In  the  one  case  it  is  voor- 
ship,  and  the  Holy  Spirit  will  use  the  song;  in  tbe 
other  it  is  entertainment,  and  the  Holy  Spirit  will 
have  nothing  to  do  with  it 

Among  the  rubbish  which  the  world  has  heaped 
upon  the  church  Luther  felt  round  till  he  found  the 
Rock  of  Ages. — lodd. 


It  is  but  seven  years  since  our  reform  began  to 
take  root  in  the  South.  The  first  efforts  sprang  from 
a  movement  to  divorce  missions  from  the  secret 
lodge,  which  was  aided  by  the  Cynosure,  but  in  which 
the  N.  C.  A.,  as  a  body,  at  first  took  no  special  part 
Bro.  H.  H.  Hinman  spent  about  a  year  in  this  work 
and  was  supported  by  special  contributions  for  the 
purpose,  when  his  salary  was  assured  by  the  Asso- 
ciation, and  Rev.  P.  S.  Feemster  engaged  for  a  time 
to  assist  him.  A  demand  for  the  circulation  of  the 
Cynosure  arose  in  connection  with  these  efforts,  and 
was  fostered  and  encouraged  greatly  by  Dr.  J.  E. 
Roy,  then  Southern  secretary  of  the  American  Mis- 
sionary Association. 

Since  June  1,  1885,  up  to  the  present  time  a  little 
over  $900  have  been  contributed  to  send  copies  of 
the  Cynosure  to  colored  pastors  in  the  South,  or  an 
average  of  less  than  $450  per  annum.  The  results 
of  this  circulation  of  the  paper  have  been  wonderful. 

They  are — 

1.  Reports  from  pastors  in  all  parts  of  the  South, 
thankfully  acknowledging  the  aid  thus  given  them  to 
overcome  the  pestilent  lodge  influence  in  their 
churches. 

2.  The  formation  of  the  Good-Will  Association  of 
some  twenty-five  Baptist  churches  in  and  about  Mo- 
bile which  forbids  secret  societies. 

3.  The  sustaining  of  Rev.  R.  N.  Countee  in  his 
seceding  from  the  lodge,  and  maintaining  his  paper 
and  church  until  many  Baptist  churches  and  pastors 
of  Tennessee  and  Arkansas  are  standing  by  him. 

4.  The  action  of  the  St.  Marion  Baptist  Asso- 
ciation of  Arkansas  to  expel  the  lodge  from  their 
churches. 

5.  Similar  action  of  the  State  Baptist  Convention 
of  Louisiana,  comprising  all  the  churches  of  that 
denomination  in  the  State. 

6.  The  condition  of  the  Texas  Baptist  Convention 
which  is  nearly  ready  for  the  same  action. 

7.  The  founding  of  schools  for  the  higher  educa- 
tion of  the  colored  children  in  New  Iberia,  La.,  and 
Memphis,  Tenn.,  on  the  distinctive  principle  of  op- 
position to  secretism. 

THIS    GRAND   WORK 

has  been  accomplished  not  without  the  aid  of  breth- 
ren Hinman,  Feemster,  Woodsmall  and  others;  but 
while  the  living  agent  or  the  paper  could  neither 
alone  have  achieved  so  magnificent  results,  the  cir- 
culation of  the  Cynosure  has  been  the  great  agency, 
and  at  the  same  time  the  least  expensive.  It  has 
often  been  the  pioneer,  reaching  sections  where  no 
agent  has  penetrated,  and  after  his  departure  keep- 
ing alive  the  fire  of  reform. 

In  view  of  these  facts  we  conceive  it  to  be  a  duty 
to  call  upon  the  friends  of  this  cause  everywhere  for 
means  to  send  A  thousand  copiss  of  the  Cynosure 
for  a  year  to  as  many  pastors  in  the  South,  especially 
the  colored  Baptists,  that  the  good  work  now  well 
begun  among  them  may  reach  to  every  one  of  th^ 
800.000  colored  members  of  their  churches.  The 
Congregational  churches  supported  by  the  A.  M.  A. 
are  already  taking  the  ground  of  separation  from 
the  lodge,  under  advice  from  the  secretaries  of  their 
Association.  With  \hese  churches  saved  to  Christ 
from  the  lodge  curse,  and  the  Baptists  brought  up 
to  the  same  line,  wh^t  may  not  our  faith  ask  for  in 
this  respect  for  the  Negro  race?  An  earnest,  faith- 
ful pushing  of  our  work  may,  in  a  few  years,  re- 
deem them  wholly.  What  more  noble  object  now 
invites  our  aid;  and  to  attain  it  what  means  more 
economical,  more  sure  and  more  convenient  can  pos- 
sibly exist  than  scattering  a  thousand  copies  of  the 
Cynosure  f  If  $900  spent  in  this  way  can  show  such 
results,  $1,500  would  double  them.  Let,  therefore, 
every  friend  of  the  reform  make  an  effort  to  contrib- 
ute to  this  fund  and  share  in  the  blessing  and  tri- 
umph which  must  follow. 

A  number  have  already  been  asked  to  each 
make  one  of  a  hundred  to  complete  this  fund  before 
January,  1888.  The  reasons  for  this  investment  are 
80  convincing  that  not  one  has  refused.  Why  should 
not  these  hundred  shares  be  immediately  taken? 
If  one  person  cannot  assume  so  much  alone,  let 
clubs  of  two,  three,  five,  or  ten  make  them  up.  The 
N  C.  A.  Board  has  given  its  hearty  endorsement  of 
the  plan;  and  the  friends  of  reform  and  of  the  Ne- 
crro  race,  now  toiling  under  this  second  bondage, 
have  only  to  know  of  it,  to  send  back  an  echo,  say- 
ing THB  WORK  SHALL  BE  DONE. 


8 


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Deokmbss  22, 188? 


The  Christian  Cynosure. 


J.  BLANCH ARD. 


KSITOBB. 


HKNRY  L.  KULLOGG. 


CHICA60,    THXJB8DAT,    DECEMBER   22,   1887. 


PEOF.  WOODSMALL. 


ON    THE  PROPOSED  THOUSAND  CYNOSURES 
FOR    THE  SOUTHERN  MINISTERS. 


A   LETTER   WORTH   READING. 

Editor  Christian  Cynosure: — I  am  glad  to  see 
that  you  are  making  an  effort  to  still  more  widely 
circulate  the  Cynosure  in  the  South;  and  I  write  in 
the  hope  that  I  may  help  some  in  this  good  work. 
For  it  is  truly  a  good  work,  and  a  great  work  that 
the  paper  is  doing,  especially  among  the  colored 
people.  Except  the  few  earnest  men  and  women, 
white  and  colored,  who  are  bravely  engaged  in  the 
reform  work,  no  agency  is  more  effective  for  good 
than  the  Cynosure.  In  fact,  the  paper  can  be  made 
to  do  a  work  now  that  can  be  done  in  no  other  way. 
Thousands  could  soon  be  reached  by  the  paper,  and 
instructed  and  strengthened,  who  could  not  be 
reached  in  years  by  lecturers.  Thousands  have  al- 
ready been  so  reached. 

Scarcely  a  week  passes  that  I  do  not  have  evi- 
dence of  the  value  of  the  Cynosure  in  opening  the 
eyes  of  pastors  and  others  to  the  harmfulness  and 
sinfulness  of  secret  societies,  and  in  giving  them 
courage  to  renounce  and  expose  them.  Within  the 
past  three  months  I  have  talked  with  brethren  in 
Tennessee,  Alabama,  Mississippi,  Arkansas  and 
Louisiana,  who  have  told  me  that  the  Cynosure  had 
been  instrumental  in  causing  them  to  quit  the  lodg- 
es. All  had  seen  the  evil  effects  of  the  secret  orders 
upon  their  churches  and  the  people  generally,  but 
felt  that  they  could  not  oppose  them,  or  that  it 
would  be  useless.  But  the  C^raojwre  heartened  them 
and  made  them  strong  enough  to  raise  their  voices 
against  them. 

No  one  not  acquainted  with  the  situation  in 
many  places  in  the  South,  where  nearly  all  the  men 
of  influence,  white  and  colored,  judges,  lawyers, 
doctors,  merchants,  and  even  preachers,  are  mem- 
bers of  secret  societies,  can  realize  what  a  revelation 
and  joy  it  is  to  our  poor  colored  pastors,  who  are 
grieved  to  see  the  evils  of  these  orders,  but  feel 
powerless  to  oppose  them,  to  learn,  as  they  do,  from 
the  Cynosure,  that  thousands  of  the  ablest  and  pur- 
est ministers,  statesmen  and  others,  are  opposed  to 
secret  societies,  and  that  a  great  organization  has 
been  effected  to  expose  their  evils.  It  is  especially 
helpful  to  them  to  learn  that  so  many  colored  pas- 
tors are  renouncing  the  lodges.  Thousands,  how- 
ever, have  not  yet  been  reached.  Men  are  still  go- 
ing among  the  churches  and  setting  up  secret  lodg- 
es among  their  members,  where  the  leaders  have  not 
been  warned,  who  would  keep  the  lodges  out  of  their 
churches  if  they  could  read  the  Cynosure  for  awhile- 
as  a  prominent  brother  in  Mississippi  did  who  told 
me  a  few  days  ago  that  he  had  recently  kept  a  man 
from  organizing  societies  in  his  churches.  In  some 
parts  of  the  country  nearly  every  church  has  a  hall 
above  for  one  or  more  secret  societies. 

The  Cynosure  is  also  of  great  value  in  our  tem- 
perance work,  I  wish  that  every  colored  pastor  on 
the  Mississippi  river  and  its  tributaries  could  be  sup- 
plied with  it  for  this  feature  alone.  And  I  am  sure 
it  friends  could  see  the  situation  in  these  regions  of 
moral  darkness  as  those  of  us  do  who  labor  in  them, 
that  money  enough  would  soon  be  furnished  to  send 
the  paper  to  all  the  pastors. 

Last  night  a  colored  deck  hand  was  shot  by  the 
second-mate  on  the  boat  I  came  up  on,  the  Coaho- 
ma. The  mate  bad  been  drinking  and  used  coarse 
language  in  directing  the  men.  One  protested,  and 
he  was  shot  down  like  a  dog.  They  brought  the 
dead  man's  body  to  his  poor  mother.  The  murder- 
er got  off  at  some  landing.  Nothing  is  likely  to  be 
done  with  him.  H.  Woodsmall. 

Osceola,  Ark.,  Dec  8,  1887.  I 


OYEE  ONE-FOURTH  RAIDED. 


The  Treasurer  reports  twenty-five  and  one-half 
of  the  $15 .  00  shares  this  week .  This  is  cheering  news . 
The  good  letter  of  Professor  Woodsmall  ought  to  en- 
courage every  reader  of  this  number  to  resolve  anew  to 
do  all  in  their  power  to  save  the  colored  churches .  Every 
dollar  sent  in  is  immediately  used  and  helps  take  the  Cy- 
nosure to  a  colored  pastor.  We  have  kept  back  the 
names  of  the  donors  to  this  special  fund,  but  it  is  too 
goodly  a  list  to  hide  in  a  subscription  book,  and  so  here 
we  have  it: 

O.C.Blanchard $    5.00 

A.R.Harris 3.50 

Ira  Mettler 50 

M.R.  Britten 20.00 

Wm .  Ainsworth 1.50 

Mrs.  J.  A.  Belong .20 

A.  Austin 1.00 

H.L.  Kellogg 15. CO 

Mrs.  S.B  Allen 1.00 

Mrs.  Irene  Stoddard 1.00 

Conrad  Stegner 5 .  00 

John  Gardner 30.00 

Mrs.  M.  A.  Blanchard 2.00 

Mrs.  Aaron  Lewis .50 

J.  Shaw 1.12 

W.  L  Phillips 15.00 

Mrs.  M.  B.  Nichols 15.00 

R]  J.  Williams 10.00 

Eld.  Isaac  Bancroft 100.00 

Rev.  J.  Blanchard 15.00 

J.  Rutty 10.00 

Rev.  C.CPoote 5.00 

Wm.  Berry 1.00 

Edward  Walker 1 .00 

Rhoda  Housel 5.00 

Peter  C.  Housel 5.00 

W.  L.  Bitley 15.00 

Josiah  Talbot 15.00 

Lewis  Geshwiller 8.50 

Mrs.  Charles  Richardson 2 .  75 

Wm.  Cooper 1.00 

H.Webb 1.00 

S.A.Pratt 2.00 

J.  Auguptine 15.00 

H.A.Fischer 15.00 

S.  M.  Neff 3.00 

Sam'l  Bushey 50 

Mrs. R.R.  Belong — 97 

Mrs.  J.  A.Bingham 5.00 

Mrs.  S.  H.  Nutting 3.00 

L.  B.  Lathrop 5.00 

F.  W.  Capwell 15.00 

Thomas  Kingsmouth 5 .  00 

Total, $382.04 


The 
TO  20, 


New 
1888. 


Orleans  Convention  t'EBRUARY  17 


THE  POET  WHIT  TIER. 


As  this  gifted  American  approaches  his  exit,  the 
eyes  of  the  nation  turn  more  and  more  tenderly  to- 
ward him,  as  the  young  Hebrew  prophets  followed 
the  footsteps  of  their  Elijah  and  spoke  of  his  ascent 
with  bated  breath.  None  of  the  reviewers,  not  even 
Mr.  Kennedy,  who  has  given  his  memoirs  before  his 
chariot  comes  for  him,  do  him  justice.  They  com- 
pare him  with  Lowell,  Longfellow  and  Emerson.  It 
is  like  comparing  a  natural-grown  forest  flower  to 
flowers  of  wax.  Art  is  beautiful  and  genius  is  sub- 
lime; but  nature  is  both  in  one. 

In  1840,  while  our  national  furnace  blast  was  hot- 
test, and  the  wrath  of  the  slave  power  bore  heaviest 
on  the  scattered  friends  of  freedom  for  the  enslaved, 
a  fair  was  gotten  up  in  Philadelphia  to  raise  funds 
for  the  cause,  but  more  to  unite  the  hearts  and 
strengthen  the  hands  of  their  advocates  throughout 
the  United  States.  A  small  volume  of  poems  was 
devised  and  published  in  aid  of  this  double  object,to 
be  contributed  by  the  Abolitionists,to  be  called"The 
North  Star."  Whittier,  of  course,  was  the  editor. 
John  Quincy  Adams  wrote  the  leading  article,  and 
the  editor  of  the  Cynosure,  by  invitation  of  the  com- 
mittee, was  one  of  the  contributors,  and,  besides  his 
special  contribution,  he  sent  a  poetic  tribute  to 
Whittier  himself,  which  the  poet's  modesty  exclud- 
ed from  the  volume,  but  which  has  been  much  pub- 
lished and  commended  as  a  just  tribute  to  our  na- 
tional bard.  It  has  been  republished  two  or  three 
times  in  the  the  Cynosure  by  special  request,  or  we 
would  insert  it  here.  We  refer  to  it  now  as  a  part 
of  personal  introduction  of  Mr.  Whittier  to  our  read- 
ers. Mr.  Kennedy's  life  of  the  poet  speaks  clearly 
within  the  truth  when  he  says  that  his  poetry  did  as 
much  or  more  to  overthrow  slavery  than  Mr.  Garri- 
son's denunciations. 

The  writer  of  this  sketch  was  a  student  in  Andov- 
er,  Dec.  4,  1843,  when  Whittier  and  Lewis  Tap- 
pan  were  secretaries  of  the  first  national  anti  slavery 
convention  in  Philadelphia,  Six  thousand  dollars 
were  raised  in  that  meeting  for  the  cause.  We  went 
to  Dr. Woods  and  said:  The  slave  question  will  now 


swallow  up  all  other  questions  before  the  American 
people;and  we  pleaded  with  him  to  commit  that  then 
great  and  popular  "school  of  the  prophets"  in  favor 
of  abolition.  But  we  urged  in  vain.  And  that  semi- 
nary sunk  the  New  England  ministry  one  half  by 
shunning  the  slavery  issue.  G-arrison  first  went  tO' 
Dr.  Beecher  and  other  leading  clergymen  fully  ex- 
pecting encouragement  and  co-operation.  But  wbeni 
he  saw  they  assented  to  his  principles  but  censuredi 
his  measures,  while  they  took  no  meaures  of  their 
own,  he  became  disgusted;  and  he  and  his  follow- 
ers, Burleigh,  Weld,  Oliver  Johnson,  McKim,  Cod- 
ding, Allen,  Elizur  and  Henry  C.  Wright,  with  a 
host  of  other  men,  and  many  women,  forsook  the 
communion  table  and  prayer-meeting,  and  "concern- 
ing the  faith  made  shipwreck."  Whittier  was  sway- 
ed by  them;  but  though  tossed  for  a  time  with 
doubt,  he  clung  to  his  household  altar,  and  to  this 
day  worships  Christ  with  the  orthodox  Friends. 

The  Garrisonites  forsook  both  church  and  state. 
Whittier  was  twice  elected  to  the  Massachusetts  leg- 
islature, and  served  in  other  civil  offices.     But  "Po- 
eta  nascitur  non  fit."     He  was  born  a  poet.     Why  he 
never  married  we  know  not.       That  he  loved  we 
know.     No  man  ever  looked  back  through  the  dim- 
ming years  and  said  of  a  young  girl  companion: 
"I  see  her  still  1  the  brow  of  enow, 
The  mild  blue  eye  that  glanced  below, 
And  that  high  langauge  of  the  look 
Her  mind-illumined  features  took  1" 
who  had  not  that  girl's  image  graven  not  only  omhis 
memory  but  in  his  heart.     Shakespeare  says, 

"Hanging  and  wiving  go  by  destiny." 
And  it  would  seem  that  not-marrying  follows  the 
same  rule. 

His  biographer  Kennedy  says,  Whittier's  reform 
craze  damaged  him  as  a  poet.  We  profoundly  dif- 
fer with  him.  Opposing  slavery  was  feeling  and 
acting  with  God,  from  whom  all  true  inspiration 
comes.  The  system  was  a  universal  extinguisher  of 
all  that  is  God.  The  books  written  by  American 
slave-holders  could  be  counted  on  the  fingers  of  a  sin- 
gle hand.     And  as  to 

"Young  loves,  young  hopes  and  young  remembrances; 
The  melody  of  woods  and  winds  and  waters;" 
they  might  as  well  live  in  the  choke-damp  of  a  mine 
as  in  the  atmosphere  of  a  plantation.  And  when 
young  Whittier,  whose  muse  had  already  out-sung 
the  birds  and  brooks  of  his  native  woodlands,  and 
the  deep  luUabys  of  the  ocean  itself  near  by,  cast  in 
his  lot  for  a  quarter  of  a  century  with  the  hated,, 
mobbed  and  hunted  Abolitionists,the  angels  sent  by 
Christ  "to  gather  out  of  his  kingdom  all  things  that 
offend,  and  them  which  do  iniquity,  then  fanned  the 
young  poet's  genius  with  their  soft,  invisible  pin- 
ions, and  his  verse  rose  as  his  reputation  fell.  And 
though  his  idyls  will  live  along  the  valley  of  the 
Merrimack  while  Burns's  songs  echo  by  the 

"Banks  and  braes  o'  bonny  Doon," 
the  lava  torrent  of  his  appeals  to  the  United  States 
against  American  slavery  will  ring  through  the  cor- 
ridors of  history  till  nations  are  no  more. 

"Say  1    Shall  we  scoff  at  Europe's  kings 
While  Freedom's  flame  is  dim  with  us, 

And  round  our  country's  altar  clicgs 
The  damning  shade  of  slavery's  curse? 

"Go !  Let  us  ask  of  Constantlne 

To  loose  his  hold  on  Poland's  throat, 
Or  beg  the  Lord  of  Mammodh's  line 

To  spare  the  struggling  Sullote. 

"Will  not  the  scorching  answer  come, 
From  turbulanced  Turk  and  fiery  Rub  : — 

Go  I    Loose  your  fettered  slaves  at  home, 
Then  turn,  and  ask  the  like  of  us!" 

But  the  fall  of  the  slave  power  illustrates  and 
proves  the  words  of  Christ  to  be  true — "Without  me 
ye  can  do  nothing."  Had  we  all  been  non-voting, 
non-resistant,  no-Sabbath,  no-prayer-meeting,  no- 
church,  no-government  Abolitionists,  the  slave  laws, 
slave  coffles,  and  slave  pens  would  be  existing  to- 
day! 

Nor  should  we  forget  that  the  Mason  lodges  fell 
throughout  the  North  just  as  the  slave  question  was 
coming  up;  and  that  the  Abolitionists  were  Anti- 
masons,  and  the  whole  national  administration  was 
in  their  hands  when  the  shackles  fell,  fell  by  blows 
from  arms  unfettered  by  the  lodge.  God  grant  that 
our  beloved  Whittier,  whose  fathers  and  mothers 
taught  him  to  abhor  the  blood-curdling  oaths  of  the 
lodge,  may  live  to  put  God's  silver  trumpet  to  his 
lips  and  wind  a  blast  against  "the  damning  shade" 
of  Masonry's  curse,  which  heaven  shall  hear  and 
earth  shall  heed  I 


DE MONISM  AND  THE  "VOICE  OF  MA80NRT." 


Blanchard  still  says  the  lodge  is  demon  worship.  Prob- 
ably his  own  demonism  la  what  he  imputes  to  the  lodge. 
—  Voice  of  Masonry,  December . 


T  ~^^ 


DxoiHBiB  22, 188T 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSUKE. 


Then  aaswered  the  Jews,  Say  we  not  well  that  thou  art 
a  Samaritan  and  hast  a  devil?— John  8:48. 

Here  were  two  parties  charging  each  other  with 
demonism.  Christ  and  his  disciples  were  Moody 
Christians,  Democrats,  praying  people;  in  every-day 
clothes,  working,  singing,  reading  and  living  by  the 
Scriptures.  The  Jews  were  priest-governed,  praying 
on  the  street  corners  and  in  their  synagogues  "to  be 
seen  of  men,"  wearing  priest  regalia,  which  were 
"long  robes"  with  "broad  phylacteries"  or  borders, 
and  loved  to  be  called  of  men  "Rabbi,  Rabbi."  They 
held  secret  councils;  killed  Christ  and  the  apostles; 
made  the  worship  of  God  "vain"  and  his  law  "void" 
by  human  traditions;  and  their  lodge-meetings  and 
mischiefs  were  so  secret  that  Christ  said  they  were 
"like  graves  which  appear  not,  and  men  that  walk 
over  them  are  not  aware  of  them."     Luke  11:  44. 

Now  will  friend  Brown,  without  bantering,  but  in 
sober,  solemn  earnest,  tell  us  which  of  those  parties 
were  the  Freemasons  and  secretists  of  that  day,  and 
which  had  demons  or  devils  by  whom  they  were  led 
and  actuated?"  The  Cynosure  will  respectfully  and 
cheerfully  publish  the  answer  of  the  Voice,  and 
make  no  reply  till  the  following  week.  We  are 
pleased  to  see  that  the  Voice  rebukes  a  Mason  who 
rails  at  the  Bible. 


MORMON  18M  M VST  00. 


The  suit  of  U.  S.  Attorney  Peters  against  the 
Mormon  church  two  months  ago,  to  have  a  receiver 
appointed,  was  successful.  Chief  Justice  Zane 
granted  the  demand  in  an  able  decision  on  the  5th 
of  November,  and  the  U.  S.  Marshal,  Frank  Dyer, 
was  appointed  to  the  responsible  duties  of  the  receiver- 
ship. In  a  few  days  he  made  a  demand  for  the 
Temple  Block  in  Salt  Lake  City,  on  which  stand  the 
Mormon  Temple,  Assembly  Hall,  and  large  Taber- 
nacle. He  also  took  possession  of  the  parsonage, 
known  as  the  Gardo  House,  and  the  church  histo- 
rian's office,  leaving  men  in  charge.  A  demand  was 
also  made  for  all  the  books,  papers,  securities,  and 
other  personal  church  property.  On  the  18th  of 
November  Marshal  Dyer  took  charge  of  the  effects 
of  the  Perpetual  Immigration  Society,  The  assets 
were  nominally  $585  832  84  in  notes  and  accounts, 
with  a  credit  of  $167,874.34  to  trustees  in  trust, 
and  a  large  safe  full  of  papers.  The  records  show 
that  at  a  conference  several  years  ago  the  church 
"forgave"  the  debts  due  this  society  to  the  amount 
of  $814,064  35.  Early  in  December  the  receiver 
went  to  Ogden  and  laid  claim  to  church  property  in 
that  city.  In  all  these  cases  he  met  refusal,  of 
course,  but  Marshal  Dyer  is  a  man  to  have  his  way 
notwithstanding.  The  Deseret  News  (Mormon  organ) 
of  the  14th  says  that  after  several  delays,in  order  to 
have  a  more  amicable  adjustment,  the  Marshal  sum- 
marily seized  the  account  books  in  the  office  of  the 
President  of  Mormonism.  The  Mormons  cry  "Out- 
rage," but  in  a  very  humble  manner  compared  to 
their  raving  threats  of  two  years  ago.  Ever}'  few 
days  a  new  gang  is  marched  to  jail  for  six  months 
and  pay  $300  fine;  but  this  appointment  of  a  receiver 
is  the  most  crushing  blow.  Marshal  Dyer  has  had 
many  years  of  severe  experience  in  Salt  Lake.  He 
is  a  man  who  will  flinch  at  no  danger  in  the  per- 
formance of  his  duty.  He  believes  the  Mormon  busi- 
ness will  not  be  settled  without  bloodshed.  To  the 
writer  he  said  last  year,  "There  are  plenty  of  assas- 
sins among  the  Mormons  ready  to  do  their  work; 
and  there  is  no  doubt  they  have  marked  some  of  us 
who  have  been  most  active  in  the  prosecutions. 
Before  they  give  up  I  have  no  doubt  they  will  find 
some  opportunity  to  wreak  their  vengeance."  We 
trust  the  apprehensions  of  the  brave  Marshal  may 
be  disappointed;  but  it  cannot  be  concealed  that  the 
order  of  the  court  has  given  him  a  very  trying  and 
hazardous  office. 


piety  may  soon,  we  pray,  be  as  much  honored 
our  school  children  as  they  now  do  his  name. 


by 


Thk  American  has  of  late  some  exceedingly  able 
articles  on  its  anti-secrecy  page;  and  its  general  tone 
grows  stronger  and  stronger.  We  should  be  glad 
to  have  its  suggestions  and  exhortations  about  the 
New  Orleans  meeting  Feb.  17,  and  to  hear  from  the 
National  Committee  on  our  political  duties  in  the 
campaign  of  1888  which  is  now  approaching.  Will 
all  our  praying,  thinking  men,  give  us  their  views  of 
our  National  chairman  Capwell's  suggestions  re- 
specting this  important  canvass? 


— The  Birmingham  Free  Press  has  secured  a  copy 
of  the  Sons  of  Veteran  ritual  and  is  printing  some 
interesting  selections,  which  will  prove  a  revelation 
to  some  good  people  who  persuade  themselves  that 
this  is  an  innocent  and  harmless  organization,  good 
for  a  boy's  plaything. 

— D.  Archibald,  a  worker  in  reform  from  Canada, 
is  visiting  in  New  England.  While  at  Cambridge- 
port,  Woburn,  and  other  places,  he  wisely  sought 
opportunities  for  circulating  the  Cynosure  and  tracts 
through  the  Y.  M.  C.  A.  and  other  agencies.  We 
wish  to  commend  the  efforts  of  this  brother  and 
hope  they  will  frequently  be  copied. 

— Mr.  D.  P.  Mathews  of  Boston,  who  does  excellent 
service  as  correspondent  of  the  Cynosure,  we  regret 
to  learn  has  been  quite  ill,  and  confined  to  his  room 
and  bed.  His  letter  respecting  Dr.  Miner's  sermon 
on  the  anarchists  was  far  enough  from  an  intention- 
al misrepresentation,  and  he  will  say  a  word  in  cor- 
rection himself  as  soon  as  able  to  write. 

— Rev.  Edward  Anderson,  son  of  Dr.  Rufus  An- 
derson, the  secretary  for  many  years  of  the  Ameri- 
can Board  of  Commissioners  for  Foreign  Missions, 
has  lately  been  installed  "Chaplain-in-Chief"  of  the 
Grand  Army  at  Norfolk,  Conn.  When  in  Quincy, 
111.,  years  ago  he  openly  defended  Masonry  as  a 
member  of  the  order,  and  even  had  the  effrontery  to 
present  a  paper  in  favor  of  the  lodge  before  the  Illi- 
nois State  Congregational  Association  meeting  at 
Princeton. 

— Miss  Rufina  Fry,  of  Ligonier,  Indiana,  a  lady 
whose  name  in  the  Cynosure  office  will  always  be  as- 
sociated with  unswerving  devotion  to  Christ  in  op- 
posing secretism,  has  written  a  three-page  tract,  en- 
titled, "The  Sin  against  the  Holy  Ghost."  She 
makes  a  strong  argument  from  the  Scriptures  upon 
this  subject,  to  show  that  the  apostate  who  sells  his 
birthright  like  Esau,  can  have  no  hope  of  repent- 
ance. This  tract  can  be  had  of  Miss  Fry  for  distri- 
bution at  the  rate  of  25  cents  per  hundred. 

— The  Union  Signal  reports  that  some  of  the 
Good  Templar  lodges  of  Iowa  are  holding  open 
meetings  with  "satisfactory  results."  We  presume 
this  means  with  respect  to  genuine  temperance  work 
and  not  to  the  mere  satisfaction  of  lodge  leaders. 
If  so  it  is  but  another  proof  of  the  charge  so  often 
made  that  these  lodges  are  more  hindrance  than 
help  to  the  temperance  work.  When  they  really  do 
any  good  work  for  that  reform  it  is  done  with  open 
doors,  in  an  open,  Christian  and  American  manner. 
All  these  orders  have  to  do  is  to  keep  on  with  their 
open  work  and  they  will  lose  the  taste  for  lodgery. 
But  if  they  hold  a  few  open  meetings  only  to  more 
readily  catch  members  for  their  lodge  initiation  the 
curse  of  heaven  will  rest  on  their  hypocrisy. 


white.  The  immense  importance  of  this  duty  can- 
not be  over-estimated,  and  Atlanta  now  emphasizes 
it. — Independent. 


LITERATXIEE. 


Our  Wiiittikr  Number. — It  is  most  fitting  that 
the  Cynosure  should  remember  "the  best  loved  citi- 
zen of  the  United  States"  upon  the  occasion  of  his 
eightieth  birthday,  Dec.  17th,  since,  especially,  he 
upholds  the  principles  it  is  the  mission  of  this  paper 
to  urge.  On  the  18th  of  February  last  the  poet 
wrote  from  his  home  at  Oak  Knoll,  Danvers,  Mas- 
sachusetts, to  the  editor  of  the  Cynosure:  "As  re- 
gards secret  societies,  I  have  always  kept  aloof 
from  them.  I  can  see  no  good  in  them  to  compen- 
sate for  the  real  or  possible  evil." 

Again  on  the  29th  of  March  he  wrote  from  Ames- 
bury:  "I  suppose  thee  knew  that  the  Society  of 
Friends  do  not  allow  any  of  their  members  to  join 
secret  societies,  or  take  any  oaths.  I  wish  other 
sects  would  take  the  same  ground." 

It  was  a  most  fitting  part  of  this  birthday  cele- 
bration, that  the  public  schools  of  Chicago,  Bos- 
ton, and  numerous  other  cities  held  special  exer- 
cises in  honor  of  a  noble  man,  whose  principles  and 


It  was  the  Negro  vote  we  are  told  that  gave  At- 
lanta its  majority  of  a  thousand  against  prohibition. 
But  it  was  the  ignorant  and  vicious  Negro  vote.  All 
the  educated  Negroes,  the  teachers,  the  preachers, 
favored  prohibition.  All  the  white  teachers  in  the 
colleges  attended  by  Negroes  were  earnest  in  favor 
of  prohibition,  and  so  taught  their  pupils.  If  there 
was  any  lukewarmness  it  was  on  the  part  of  one  or 
two  Negro  ministers  who  felt  that  their  race  was  not 
receiving  fair  treatment  at  the  hands  of  the  prohibi- 
tion leaders;  yet  they  did  not  help  free  liquor.  The 
intelligent  Negroes  were  not  carried  away  by  the  ar- 
gument that  the  saloon  gave  them  their  equal  rights; 
that  the  saloon  was  the  only  place  where  they  were 
on  a  level  with  the  whites.  The  intelligent  men  did 
not  ask  for  Negro  equality  on  the  road  to  hell.  Now 
this  is,  or  ought  to  be,  a  good  object  lesson  for  the 
better  class  of  whites  in  the  South.  It  ought  to 
teach  them  that  the  safety  of  the  South  rests  in  the 
education  of  the  Negro.  He  must  be  lifted  up  in 
intelligence  and  virtue;  and  the  schools  which  teach 
such  virtue  and  intelligence  are  the  greatest  boon  to 
the  South.  Those  who  want  an  ignorant,  drunken, 
dangerous  Negro  proletariat  in  the  South  should  op- 
pose Negro  education.  Those  who  want  a  New  South 
of  enterprise,  temperance  and  virtue,  should  bend 
every  energy  to  educate  the  poor,  both  black  and 


The  Map  Graphic  is  the  latest  and  happiest  of 
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T7ie  Missionary  Review  closed  its  tenth  volume  with 
the  death  of  its  founder  and  editor.R.G  Wilder;'.the  new 
volume  opens  a  new  series,  the  name  of  the  magazine  is 
enlarged,  in  poor  taste  we  think,  to  Missionary  Review  of 
the  World;  nor  is  the  caricature  of  an  angel  an  inspiring 
object;  but  under  the  new  management  the  scope  of  the 
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Wilder  from  a  photograph,  and  Dr.  Pierson's  sketch  of 
his  life  is  a  noble  tribute  to  a  man  whose  devotion  to 
Christ  was  as  unselfish  as  it  was  sincere.  Other  editor- 
ials on  "Missionary  Problems  in  India,"  and  "Biography 
of  Moffatt,"  with  an  article  on  the  "Christian  and  non 
Christian  Religions,"  by  Prof .  Williams  of  Oxford,  Eng- 
land, are  excellent  proof  that  the  new  magazine  will  eas- 
ily continue  to  hold  first  place  among  the  missionary  pub- 
lications, and  will  be  a  powerful  factor  in  bringing  in 
the  day  when  missionary  papers  will  be  all  the  church 
papers  we  want. 

The  Library  Magazine  favors  American  writers  for  the 
present  month,  Henry  Burroughs,  Prof.  Sumner  and 
Richard  Henry  Stoddard  appearing  in  its  list.  Biograph- 
ical articles  are  on  King  Alfred,  Samuel  Johnson,  Dinah 
Mulock  Craik,  Zola  and  Madame  Necker.  Social  and 
political  science  has  place  in  "The  Boon  of  Nature"  and 
"Wealth  and  the  Working  Classes,"  while  all  will  read 
with  pleasure'In  Mammoth  Cave,"  "The  Russian  Pacif- 
ic Railway,"  "Missions  and  Missionaries  in  Africa,"  and 
"The  Changing  Status  of  Woman." 

The  poet  Whittier  has  a  ballad  entitled  "The  Brown 
Dwarf  of  Rugen"  in  the  forthcoming  (January)  number 
ot  St.  Ififholas.  E.H.Blasbficld  furnishes  it  with  sever- 
al illustrations.  The  eightieth  anniversary  of  the  poet's 
birth,  just  celebrated,  lends  interest  to  this  the  longest 
poem  he  has  given  to  the  public  for  some  years.  Prof. 
Phillip  Schaff  will  contribute  the  opening  paper  in  the 
January  Century.  His  subject  is  "The  Roman  Cata 
combs,"  their  origin  and  character.and  their  historic  val- 
ue. Illustrations  accompany  the  article,  showing  the 
rough  sculpture  and  symbolic  art  of  the  martyr's  tombs. 
A  most  novel,  convenient  and  valuable  business  calen- 
dar for  1888  is  the  Columbia  Bicycle  Calendar  and  Stand, 
just  issued  by  the  Pope  Mfg.  Co  ,  of  Boston,  Mass.  In 
this  calendar  a  new  departure  has  been  made,  decidedly 
unique  and  different  from  any  previous  attempt  at  calen- 
dar construction.  The  calendar  proper  is  in  the  form  of 
a  pad,  containing  365  leaves,  one  for  each  day  in  the 
year,  and  a  portion  of  each  leaf  is  left  blank  for  conven- 
ient memoranda. 

Virk'.i  Mngatine  begins  a  long  article  on  Weather  and 
Crops  which  a  farmer  would  expect  to  find  full  of  sage 
advice  and  prognostication.  Not  so  with  Vick.  Weath- 
er and  crops  are  all  tl  iwers  and  beauty  with  this  charm- 
ing floral  guide  and  companion.  House  plants,and  some 
new  flowers  and  grapes  hare  attractive  articles. 


10 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSUKE. 


Deoiubbb  22, 1887 


THE  HOME. 


REST  AT  LAST. 


When  on  my  day  of  life  the  night  is  falling, 
And,  in  the  winds  from  unsuoned  spaces  blown, 

I  hear  far  voices  out  of  darkness  calling 
My  feet  to  paths  unknown. 

Thou  who  hast  made  my  home  of  life  lo  pleasant. 
Leave  not  its  tenant  when  its  walls  decay ; 

0  Love  divine,  O  Helper  ever  present, 
Be  Thou  my  strength  and  stay  1 

Be  near  me  when  all  else  Is  from  me  drifting, 
Earth,  sky,  home's  pictures,  days  of  shade  and  shine. 

And  kindly  faces  to  my  own  uplifting 
The  love  which  answers  mine. 

1  have  but  Thee,  O  Father !    Let  Thy  spirit 
Be  with  me  then  to  comfort  and  uphold ; 

No  gate  of  pearl,  no  branch  of  palm,  I  merit , 
Nor  street  of  Shining  gold. 

Suffice  It  If— my  good  and  ill  unreckoned. 
And  both  forgiven  through  Thy  abounding  Grace— 

I  find  myself  by  hands  familiar  beckoned 
Unto  my  fitting  place. 

Some  humble  door  among  Thy  many  mansions. 
Some  sheltering  shade  where  sin  and  striving  cease, 

And  flows  forever  through  heaven's  green  expansions 
The  river  of  Thy  peace. 

There  from  the  music  round  about  me  stealing, 
I  fain  would  learn  the  new  and  holy  song. 

And  find  at  last,  beneath  Thy  trees  of  healing. 
The  life  for  which  I  long. 

— /.  O.  Whiiiiei: 


MARRIAGES.— CIVIL  AND  DIVINE. 


Marriage  is  a  two-fold  institution.  It  is  a  legal 
contract  which  answers  to  the  physical  relations  of 
the  agreement,  and  many  marriages,  so-called,  never 
rise  above  this  plane  because  the  parties  entering 
into  the  covenant  are  incapable  of  any  higher 
union. 

The  Negroes  of  the  South  often  formed  their  alli- 
ances by  what  they  called  "taking  up  together." 
This  idea  of  marriage  was  on  the  plane  of  their 
moral  and  intellectual  development,  being  just  one 
degree  above  the  relations  of  the  animals. 

Rising  in  the  intellectual  scale,  just  one  grade 
above  the  Negro  method  of  "taking  up  together," 
we  find  the  "civil  contract"  marriages  of  our  day. 
They  are  rightly  named — they  are  civil  contracts, 
nothing  more,— and  of  course  can  be  "broken  at  the 
option  of  the  parties"  with  rather  more  ease  than  a 
man  can  get  out  of  a  poor  investment  in  real  estate. 
They  are  only  legal,  and  are  civil  perhaps  during 
the  "honeymoon."  They  pertain  merely  to  the  phys- 
ical and  financial  relations  of  marriage. 

The  woman  pledges  herself  to  certain  relations, 
with  the  mental  reservation  that  they  shall  last  only 
while  the  man's  purse  holds  out;  and  if  the  alliance 
is  at  all  equal,  the  man  pledges  himself  to  pay  her 
bills,  with  the  intention  of  doing  so  only  until  he 
sees  some  one  that  he  admires  more.  In  other  words, 
he  takes  an  option  on  a  pretty  girl  until  her  health 
and  beauty  fade,  when  he  will  feel  perfectly  justified 
in  seeking  other  companionship.  When  a  civil  con- 
tract for  physical  purposes  is  all  there  is  of  so  many 
marriages,  we  cannot  wonder  the  divorce  courts  have 
their  dockets  full,  and  human  misery  is  daily  exhib- 
ited in  the  newspapers.  An  alliance  of  this  kind  is 
as  high  as  some  men  and  women  can  reach,  because 
in  their  intellectual  and  moral  weakness,  they  can- 
not conceive  of  any  higher  relation. 

But  the  institution  which  was  ordained  of  God  as 
the  model  relationship  of  life  is  something  entirely 
above  and  beyond  these  lower  alliances.  The  divine 
covenant  between  man  and  woman  recognizes  the 
civil  tie,  but  the  moral  and  spiritual  union  is  as  far 
above  the  civil  code  as  the  intellectual  bond  is  above 
the  physical  relation. 

The  ideal  marriage  contemplated  by  its  Divine 
Auihor  can  only  be  attained  by  parties  who  are  ca- 
pable of  appreciating  its  purity  and  strength.  As 
well  might  we  call  the  relation  between  parent  and 
child  a  civil  one,  as  to  call  a  perfect  marriage  a  civil 
contract. 

There  is  a  legal  relation  between  parent  and  child, 
and  among  immoral  people  it  is  sometimes  necessa- 
ry to  enforce  it,  but  in  the  genuine  mother  or  loving 
father,  this  fact  is  overwhelmed  and  lost  in  the  re- 
sistless tide  of  parental  love. 

When  high  moral  natures  meet  upon  the  tide  of 
life,  and  clasp  hands  in  perfect  union,  iheir  intel 
lectual  and  spiritual  natures  are  blended  together. 
Their  moral  strength  is  united,  and  their  whole  be- 
ings are  so  interwoven  with  »;H';h  other  that  they 
become  indeed  "one  flesh."  These  are  they  "whom 
God  has  joined  together,"  and  it  is  from  these  di 
Tine  anions  that  the  children  are  born  who  become 


brain  and  moral  strength  of  the  world.  In  humble 
cottages,  lighted  by.  the  watchfires  of  love,  are  rocked 
the  cradles  that  contain  our  poets,  scientists,  re- 
formers and  statesmen. 

In  a  perfect  marriage  the  civil  tie  is  merely  an 
incident  in  the  divine  covenant;  so  deep  and  strong 
and  pure  is  the  bond  that  the  devil  himself  cannot 
break  it,  for  it  is  born  of  God  and  belongs  to  him. 
It  is  the  one  element  of  original  purity  left  to  man, 
and  the  curse  has  touched  only  its  physical  relations. 

The  deep,  quenchless  tide  of  self  sacrificing  love 
sweeps  on  within  its  sacred  domains  until  it  flows 
into  the  broad  river  of  life.  This  never-failing  love 
that  God  has  bequeathed  to  man  gleams  like  the 
stars  upon  eternity's  ocean,  until  its  rays  are  min- 
gled with  those  of  "the  bright  and  morning  star." 

The  sacred  light  of  connubial  love  was  lighted  at 
the  watchfires  of  the  angels  in  the  morning  of  time, 
and  it  shall  illumine  the  bright  altars  of  home  until 
it  is  blended  with  the  radiant  light  of  God's  city. 
AfHictions  cannot  drown  it,  darkness  cannot  hide  it, 
poverty  will  not  harm  it,  evil  influences  cannot  con- 
quer it,  time  will  not  crush  it,  and  death  itself  can- 
not kill  it,  for  it  shall  arise  with  a  new  glory  on  the 
resurrection  morning  and  gleam  anew  in  living,  lov- 
ing hearts,  where  perils  cannot  reach  it  and  God's 
own  loving  hand  shall  crown  it. — Mrs.  H.  V.  Reed, 
in  the  Union  Signal. 

m  I  ■ 

STRONG  FOUNDATIONS. 


A  story  is  told  of  Lepaux,  a  member  of  the  French 
directory,  that  with  much  thought  and  study  he  had 
invented  a  new  religion  to  be  called  "Theophilan- 
thropy,"  a  kind  of  organize  Rousseauism,  and  that 
being  disappointed  in  its  not  being  readily  approved 
and  adopted,  he  complained  to  Talleyrand  of  the  dif- 
ficulty he  found  in  introducing  it. 

"I  am  not  surprised,"  said  Talleyrand,  "  at  the 
difficulty  you  find  in  your  eflTort.  It  is  no  easy  mat- 
ter to  introduce  a  new  religion.  But  there  is  one 
thing  I  would  advise  you  to  do,  and  then,  perhaps, 
you  might  succeed." 

"What  is  it?  what  is  it?"  asked  the  other  with 
eagerness. 

"It  is  this,"  said  Talleyrand.  "Go  and  be  cruci- 
fied, and  then  be  buried,  and  then  go  on  working 
miracles,  raising  the  dead,  and  healing  all  manner 
of  diseases,  and  lasting  out  devils,  and  then  it  is 
possible  that  you  might  accomplish  your  end!" 

And  the  philosopher,  crest-fallen  and  confounded, 
went  away  silent. 

The  anecdote  shows,  in  a  fresh  and  striking  light, 
how  firm  the  foundation  on  which  Christianity  and 
the  faith  of  the  Christian  rest.  "Ransack  all  his- 
tory," says  an  able  writer,  "and  you  cannot  find  a 
single  event  more  satisfactorily  proved  than  the  res- 
urrection of  Christ  from  the  dead."  And  says 
another,  a  distinguished  jurist:  "If  human  evidence 
has  ever  proved,  or  ever  can  prove  anything,  then 
the  miracles  of  Christ  are  proved  beyond  the  shadow 
of  a  doubt."  And  yet  the  miracles  and  resurrec- 
tion of  Christ  prove  his  divinity;  and  as  Napoleon 
said,  "His  divinity  once  admitted,  Christianity  ap- 
pears with  the  precision  and  clearness  of  algebra — 
it  has  the  connection  and  unity  of  a  science." 

And  on  this  strong  foundation  it  is  that  Christi- 
anity and  the  Christian  faith  rest.  And  how  abso- 
lutely immovable  that  foundation  is,  how  absolutely 
convincing  the  evidence  from  this  source,  we  hardly 
realize  until,  like  Talleyrand,  we  call  on  the  objector 
himself  to  be  crucified,  himself  to  rise  from  the 
dead,  and  himself  to  work  miracles,  as  Christ  did 
throughout  Jerusalem  and  all  Judea,  in  the  presence 
of  thousands  and  tens  of  thousands,  both  enemies 
and  friends. 

It  was  a  most  assuring  as  well  as  comforting 
thought,  that  this  external  evidence  from  without 
can  never  be  shaken  while  human  testimony  has 
value  or  meaning.  And  when  we  add  to  this  the 
internal  evidence — the  fact  that  thousands  and  mill- 
ions of  Christians  have  felt,  in  their  own  experience, 
that  the  Gospel  is  true,  just  as  the  hungry  man 
knows  when  he  is  fed,  or  the  thirsty  when  he  has 
drank;  just  as  we  know  the  existem e  of  the  sun 
because  we  see  its  light  and  feel  its  heat — then  the 
foundation  on  which  as  Christians  we  rest,  stands 
doubly  sure  to  the  soul.  Heaven  and  earth  may 
pass  away,  but  God's  Word  and  all  that  rests  upon 
it  shall  abide  forever. —  Words  and  Weapons. 

^  n  m 

For  the  church  that  is  not  active,  "the  Lord  has 
no  use,  the  world  has  no  respfect,  and  the  devil  has 
no  dread." — McArthur. 

No  grace  is  more  necessary  to  the  Christian  work- 
er than  fidelity,  the  humble  grace  that  marches  on 
in  sunshine  and  storm,  when  no  banners  are  waving 
and  there  is  no  music  to  cheer  the  weary  feet. — 
Nichols. 


•  IF  I  HAD  ONL  T  SPOKE  HIM  FAIR  A  T  LAST. 


The  morning  after  I  lectured  in  Wilkesbarre  there 
was  a  great  colliery  explosion.  Hundreds  of  Cor- 
nish miners  were  killed  and  their  corpses  lay  at  the 
mouth  of  the  coal  mine  for  recognition.  Wives 
were  wringing  their  hands  and  children  were  crying, 
and  a  wail  of  desolation  filled  the  air. 

Sitting  at  the  mouth  by  a  pale  corpse  was  a  young 
wife.  She  looked  at  her  husband,  but  uttered  no 
cry;  her  eyes  were  dry.  She  rocked  herself  to  and 
fro,  her  face  white  with  anguish. 

"Oh,  that  I  had  spoke  fair  to  him  at  the  end!" 
she  moaned.  "Oh,  that  he  would  come  to  life  one 
minute  that  I  could  say,  'Jimmy,  forgive  me,'  but 
nothing  can  help  me  now.  Oh,  I  could  bear  it  all 
if  I'd  only  spoke  fair  to  him  at  the  end!" 

And  then  at  last,  the  story  came.  They  had  been 
married  a  year,  she  and  Jim;  and  they  both  "had 
tempers,"  but  Jim,  he  was  always  the  first  to  make 
up.     And  this  very  morning  they  had  had  trouble. 

It  began  because  breakfast  wasn't  ready,  and  the 
fire  wouldn't  burn;  and  they  had  said  hard  words, 
both  of  them.  But  at  the  very  last,  though  break- 
fast had  not  been  fit  to  eat,  Jim  had  turned  round 
at  the  door  and  said: 

"  'Gi'e  me  a  kiss,  lass.  You  know  you  love  me, 
and  we  won't  part  in  ill  blood.' 

"No,  Jimmy,I  don't  love  you!"  I  said,  petulantly. 

"  'Gi'e  me  one  kiss,  lass,'  pleaded  Jimmy. 

"No,  not  one!  And  now  — ,"  and  then  the  tears 
rushed  to  her  eyes.  With  awful  sobs  she  flung  her 
arms  around  the  corpse. 

"Dear  Jimmy!  Darling  Jimmy,  speak  to  me 
now,"  she  mourned.     "Say  you  forgive  me!" 

"Do  not  grieve  so  hopelessly,"  I  said;  "perhaps 
Jimmy  knows  what  you  feel  now." 

But  the  mourner's  ears  were  deaf  to  all  comfort, 
and  the  wailing  cry  came  again  and  again: 

"Oh,  if  I  had  only  spoke  him  fair  at  the  last!" 

It  is  not  an  uncommon  story,  this.  We  quarrel 
with  those  we  love,  and  part,  and  meet  and  make 
up  again;  and  death  is  merciful,  and  waits  till  we 
are  at  peace;  yet  how  possible  is  just  such  an  ex 
perience  to  any  one  of  us,  who  parts  with  some  dear 
one  in  anger,  or  who  lets  the  sun  go  down  upon 
wrath. 

But  it  is  always  the  noblest  nature,  the  most  loy- 
al heart,  which  is  the  first  to  cry,  "I  was  wrong;  for- 
give me." — Eli  Perkins's  Booh. 


A  LITTLE  GIRL'S  LEGACY. 


A  little  girl,  ten  years  old,  lay  on  her  death-bed. 
It  was  hard  to  part  with  the  pet  of  the  family;  with 
her  golden  hair,  her  loving  blue  eyes,  and  affection- 
ate nature,  how  could  she  be  given  up?  Her  father 
fell  upon  his  knees  by  his  darling's  bedside  and 
wept  bitterly.  He  tried  to  say,  but  could  not,"Thy 
will  be  done."  It  was  a  struggle  and  a  trial  such  as 
he  had  never  before  experienced.  His  sobs  dis- 
turbed the  child,  who  had  been  lying  apparently  un- 
conscious. She  opened  her  eyes  and  looked  dis- 
tressed. 'Papa,  dear  papa,"  she  said  at  length. 
"What,  my  dear?"  answered  the  father.  "Papa," 
she  asked  in  faint,  broken  accents,  "how  much  do  I 
cost  you  every  year?"  "Hush  dear;  be  quiet,"  j;ie 
replied,  in  great  agitation,  for  he  feared  that  delir- 
ium was  coming  on.  "But,  please  papa,  how  much 
do  I  cost  you?"  To  soothe  her  he  replied,  though 
with  a  trembling  voice:  "Well,  dearest,  perhaps 
$200  or  $300.  What  then,  darling?"  "Because, 
papa,  I  thought  maybe  you  would  lay  it  out  this 
year  in  Bibles  for  poor  children  to  remember  me 
by."  With  a  bursting  heart,  her  father  replied, 
kissing  her  clammy  brow:  "I  will,  my  precious 
child;  yes!"  he  added,  after  a  pause,  "I  will  do  it 
every  year  as  long  as  I  live;  and  thus  my  Lillian 
shall  yet  speak  and  draw  hundreds  and  thousands 
after  her  to  heaven." 

Would  it  not  be  better  and  more  advisable  for 
some  of  the  professors  of  Christianity  to  spend  more 
for  the  poor,  and  not  so  much  for  the  unnecessary 
worldly  things  which  are  so  much  seen  among  Chris- 
tian professors?  Oh,  how  many  poor  children  could 
be  clothed  and  fed  with  the  money  which  is  spent 
unnecessarily  and  to  keep  up  with  the  fashions! 
Let  us  learn  a  lesson  from  this  incident  which  has 
been  selected  for  our  consideration. — Selected. 


A  GENEROUS  HORSE. 


A  number  of  horses  are  kept  together  at  Indepen- 
dence. A  few  days  ago  a  load  of  alfalfa  hay  was 
brought  and  put  in  the  yard  near  the  stable.  One 
horse  was  loose  in  the  yard, the  other  two  being  tied 
up  in  the  stable,  the  door  being  left  open.  After 
eating  a  few  bites  of  the  alfalfa,  of  which  he  is  very 
fond,  the  loose  horse  appeared  to  remember  that  his 


^■'l'^',l   '   — 


DioiMBiB  22, 1887 


THE  U±li?aSTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


11 


companions  were  debarred  from  the  feast.  He  took 
large  mouthfuls  of  the  alfalfa,  carried  it  into  the 
stable,  and  placed  it  before  the  other  horses. — Inyo, 
Cal,,  Independent. 

i*  •  ^ 

EOW  TO  DO  IT. 


The  fields  are  all  white, 
And  the  reapers  are  few; 

We  children  are  willing. 
But  what  can  we  do 
To  work  for  our  Lord  In  his  harvest? 

Our  hands  are  so  small. 
And  our  works  are  so  weak, 

We  cannot  teach  others ; 
How  then  shall  we  seek 
To  work  for  our  Lord  in  his  harvest? 

We'll  work  by  our  prayers, 
By  the  pennies  we  bring, 

By  small  self  denials — 
The  least  little  thing 
May  work  for  our  Lord  in  his  harvest. 

Until,  by  and  by. 

As  the  years  pass  at  length. 
We  too  may  be  reapers 
And  go  forth  in  strength 
To  work  for  our  Lord  in  his  harvest. 


—Set. 


MIND  TBS  DOOR. 


Have  you  ever  noticed  how  strong  a  street  door 
is?  how  thick  the  wood  is?  how  heavy  the  hinges? 
what  large  bolts  it  has?  and  what  a  grim  lock?  If 
there  was  nothing  of  value  in  the  house,  or  no 
thieves  outside,  tbis  would  not  be  wanted;  but  as 
you  know  there  are  things  of  value  within,  and  bad 
men  without,  there  is  need  that  the  door  be  strong; 
and  we  must  mind  the  door,  especially  as  to  barring 
and  bolting  it  at  night. 

We  have  a  house— our  hearts  may  be  called  that 
house.  Wicked  things  are  forever  trying  to  break 
in  and  go  out  of  our  heart.  Let  us  see  what  some 
of  these  bad  things  are. 

Who  is  at  the  door?  Ah,  I  know  him!  It  is  An- 
ger. What  a  frown  there  is  on  his  face!  How  his 
lips  quiver!  How  fierce  his  looks  are!  We  will 
bolt  the  door  and  not  let  him  in,  or  he  will  do  us 
harm. 

Who  is  that?  It  is  Pride.  How  haughty  he 
seems!  He  looks  down  on  everything  as  though  it 
was  too  mean  for  his  notice.  No,  sir,  we  shall  not 
let  you  in,  so  you  may  go. 

Who  is  this?  It  must  be  Vanity,  with  his  flaunt- 
ing strut  and  gay  clothes.  He  is  never  so  well 
pleased  as  when  be  has  a  fine  dress  to  wear,  and  is 
admired.  You  will  not  come  in,  sir;  we  have  too 
much  to  do  to  attend  to  such  fine  folks  as  you. 

Mind  the  door!  Here  comes  a  stranger.  By  his 
sleepy  look  and  slow  pace  we  think  we  know  him. 
It  is  Sloth.  He  likes  nothing  better  than  to  lie  in 
my  house,  sleep,  and  yawn  my  life  away,  and  bring 
me  ruin.  No,  no,  you  idle  fellow!  work  is  pleasure, 
and  I  have  much  to  do.  Go  away,  you  shall  not 
come  in. 

But  who  is  this?  What  a  sweet  smile!  What  a 
kind  face!  She  looks  like  an  angel!  It  is  Love. 
How  happy  she  will  make  us  if  we  ask  her  in!  Come 
in!  Come  in!     We  must  unbar  the  door  for  you. 

Oh,  if  children  kept  the  door  of  their  hearts  shut, 
bad  words  and  wicked  thoughts  would  not  go  in.and 
out  as  they  do.  Open  the  door  to  all  things  good; 
shut  the  door  to  all  things  bad!  We  must  mark 
well  who  comes  to  the  door  before  we  open  it,  if  we 
would  grow  to  be  good  men  and  women.  Keep 
guard — mind  the  door  of  your  hearts! — Young 
Churchman. 


Temfebance. 


TRUB  INDBPBNDENOB. 


BT   I.    N.    KANAGA. 

This  implies  perfect  freedom  from  any  dominant 
power.  It  is  an  assured  liberty  from  all  servility 
and  bondage.  To  be  truly  and  pre-eminently  free 
we  can  in  no  sense  become  slaves.  Independence  in 
its  noblest  sense  presupposes  that  we  are  in  no  wise 
bound  by  any  coercive  law  or  ever  pay  servile  hom- 
age to  the  passions  and  appetites  of  our  lower  na- 
ture. For  if  we  are  verily  God's  freemen  we  "are 
free  indeed."  Then  if  free  we  cannot  be  in  bondage 
to  any  being  or  any  thing. 

Hence,  if  we  are,  as  a  nation,  independent  indeed 
in  the  best  sense  of  that  term,  we  must  not,  we  can 
not  be  truckling  slaves.  So  then  we  must  be  deliv- 
ered entirely  and  forever  from  the  vile  and  ruinous 
use  of  opium,  tobacco  and  strong  drink.  These  and 
all  other  poisonous  or  hurtful  causes  of  mental,mor- 


al  and  physical  degeneracy  and  ruin  must  be  entire- 
ly put  away  and  renounced  forever  if  we  would  be  | 
truly  free  and  nobly  independent. 

In  this  light — and  is  it  not  t'ae  true  light  on  this 
momentous  subject — how  far  as  a  people,  as  a  na- 1 
tion  are  we  from  a  noble,  veritable  independence? 
Have  we  not  in  a  great  measure,  at  least  in  the 
opium,  tobacco  and  liquor  traffic,  riveted  our  own 
chains  of  a  most  servile  and  base  slavery?  Let  us 
arise,  therefore,  in  the  strength  of  our  God  and  put 
away  these  villainous  national  idols,  these  perpetu- 
al curses  and  perils  to  our  liberty,  happiness  and 
perpetuity !  Then  and  only  then  shall  we  be  able  to 
say: 

"We  bow  to  no  power,  save  One  that's  on  high. 

Nor  bend  to  a  mortal  a  suppliant  knee, 
But  the  stars  and  the  stripes  float  out  on  the  sky. 
Distinct  as  the  billows,  but  one  as  the  sea  I" 
Newark,  N  .J. 


AFTBR  THB  BABT  GAME. 


There  had  been  little  joy  in  the  married  life  of 
Peter  and  Margaret  Smith.  "Times  went  hard" 
with  them  after  Peter  lost  his  place  in  a  large  store. 
His  wife  knew  why  he  had  been  sent  away,  and  so 
did  the  keeper  of  the  corner  saloon.  Margaret  had 
been  forced  to  earn  their  daily  bread  by  washing — 
new  work  for  her,  and  a  bitter  trial.  Exhausted 
with  her  toil,  she  often  reproached  her  husband. 
And  Peter,  as  savage  as  a  wounded  lion,  after  un- 
successful efforts  to  get  a  situation, would  rush  away 
to  that  dreadful  corner.  Margaret  saw  this  earthly 
prop  growing  daily  more  and  more  insecure,  and 
knew  not  how  to  turn  to  Christ  for  comfort. 

Just  then  the  baby  came,  their  first. 

"What  a  pity,  and  they  so  poor!"  said  the  neigh- 
bors, and  Margaret  thought  so  too,  as  she  lay  upon 
her  bed  faint  and  hollow-eyed.  But  despite  the  lack 
of  comforts  and  the  gloomy  future,  a  great  peace 
suddenly  fell  upon  her.  It  was  the  pure  joy  of 
motherhood  that  filled  the  poor  ignorant  woman's 
heart.  Poverty  could  not  stifle  it,  and  in  Peter's 
eyes  it  crowned  her  with  all  graces.  The  tiny  thing 
that  had  come  to  them  seemed  too  sacred  for  their 
keeping, 

"It  can't  be  she  belongs  to  such  as  we,  Maggie!" 
he  would  say,  brokenly,  scarcely  touching  the  new 
comer  with  the  tip  of  his  finger.  Then,  as  he  noted 
the  new  expression  on  his  wife's  face,  "It's  like  her 
mother  she'll  be,  and  a  fine  woman,  too!" 

And  Margaret,  watching  the  infant  in  the  long 
hours  when  Peter  was  off,  would  say : 

"The  child  favors  her  father.  Peter  is  not  like 
other  men.  If  he'd  only  keep  away  from  the  cor- 
ner, I'd  be  happy!" 

Strangly  enough,  Peter  left  his  old  haunt  after 
the  baby  came.  Every  spare  moment  was  given  to 
it  and  the  mother.  She  was  so  quiet  and  loving 
that  he  feared  he  would  lose  her. 

"If  she'd  be  a  bit  cross  with  me  now  and  then,  I'd 
feel  easier,"  he  mused,  brushing  his  eyes  with  his 
coat  sleeve. 

"  'Taint  natural  that  her  and  me  should  agree  so 
well." 

But  when  he  told  the  sick  woman  this  she  smiled 
and  took  gently  his  hand. 

"I  hope  I  shall  be  a  better  wife  to  you,  Peter.  I 
want  to  speak  to  you  as  I  would  have  the  child 
speak  when  she  grows  up." 

"It's  a  sight  more  comfortable  if  you  feel  just  as 
well,"  admitted  her  husband. 

When  Margaret  was  well  again  she  proposed  to 
go  out  washing,  but  Peter  would  not  hear  of  it 

"It's  a  pity  if  I  can't  earn  enough  for  two  of  us 
and  the  child.  She  would  grieve  for  ye;  do  ye  bide 
at  home  with  her,  Maggie!" 

Peter  managed  somehow,  with  Margaret's  econo- 
my, and  they  were  "not  a  bit  the  poorer  for  the 
baby." 

It  was  a  wonderful  child,  even  the  neighbors 
thought,  as  it  grew  in  beauty  and  intelligence.  How 
they  planned  for  the  future  in  the  happy  evenings 
when  Margaret  sewed  and  Peter  held  his  tiny 
daughter!  And  if  there  was  a  bit  of  money  to 
spare,  Peter  invested  it  for  the  child,  bringing  home 
queer  specimens  of  bonnets  and  strange  dress  pat- 
erns,  which  Margaret  thought  beautiful  because  he 
bought  them,  as  she  cut  the  wee  girlie's  dresses 
after  a  fashion  of  her  own.  The  baby  was  borne  in 
its  proud  father's  arms  in  the  summer  evenings — a 
quaint  picture,  but  very  winsome,  with  its  sweet 
face  and  wistful  blue  eyes.  Peter  was  often  awe- 
struck as  the  babe  looked  at  him  in  her  gentle, 
grave  way.     Margaret  cradled  her  tenderly. 

Before  the  summer  ended  the  child  drooped. 

"Put  on  the  little  maid's  bonnet  and  her  best 
dress,  Maggie;  I'll  take  her  out  on  the  bridge.  May- 
hap the  ocean  air  '11  'liven  her  a  bit" 

The  baby  coaxed  him  to  take  her  with  upheld 


arms,  and  Peter  started  out.     He  had  to  pass  the 
corner.     An  old  comrade  called  to  him: 

"Don't  slight  friends,  Peter;  come  in  and  have  a 
drink." 

This  seconded  by  a  fierce  prompting  from  his  old 
appetite,  Peter  turned  to  go  in.  He  glanced  at  the 
child  he  bore;  her  ejes  were  upon  his  face,  wistful 
and  loving.     He  paused. 

"Signed  the  pledge,  comrade?"  said  the  other. 

"Not  I,"  said  Peter;  "but  it's  no  place  for  the 
child." 

While  he  hesitated  his  friend  rose  upon  his  un- 
steady feet  to  "see  the  little  lass."  Peter's  whole 
soul  went  against  this.  His  baby  daughter  was  too 
precious  for  such  company.  He  hurried  away 
battling  with  new  thoughts.  If  the  rum  shop  and 
drinking  men  were  unfit  for  her,  surely  he,  who  was 
her  guide  and  companion,  ought  to  shun  them,  also. 
For  the  first  time  he  realized  his  responsibility;  it 
seemed  awful.     A  prayer  sprang  to  his  lips: 

"Our  Father  who  art  in  heaven,  make  me  fit  to  be 
the  father  of  this  child." 

Peter  never  doubted  that  the  petition  was  heard 
and  that  his  steps  turned  in  the  better  way  on  that 
sultry  afternoon  when  the  baby  kept  him  from  his 
old  temptation. 

"It  came  to  me  as  if  it  were  sent,"  he  told  Mar- 
garet, "the  wrong  way  1  was  going,  after  the  baby 
came.  Let  us  take  a  new  start,  Maggie.  We'll  go 
to  church,  if  we  havn't  good  clothes;  we'll  get  ub 
a  Bible  and  read  in  it  every  day.  I  believe  the 
child  was  sent  for  this  purpose,"  added  Peter. 
"There's  somewhat  about  her  different  from  others." 

Thus  they  were  led  to  the  feet  of  Jesus.  The  fam- 
ily altar  was  established  in  their  humble  home,  and 
Peter  and  Margaret  mingled  with  God's  people. 
They  have  no  child  now;  those  wistful  eyes  are 
closed  forever,  but  her  parents  are  not  wholly  deso- 
late, for  He  who  once  entered  earth  in  the  form  of  a 
babe  has  given  them  the  blessed  hope  of  meeting 
her  again. —  Christian  Herald. 


A  BIGHT  TO  BEHOLD. 


What  a  crowd!  Look  at  them!  Choice  company ! 
Beloved  of  unprincipled  politicians!  Holding  the 
balance  of  power  in  the  city.  Look  at  them,  an 
army  of  8,034  liquor  dealers  in  New  York  city. 
What  is  their  record?  This:  2,864  of  the  mean 
crowd  have  been  inmates  of  the  county  prison; 
1,764  have  been  confined  in  police  stations;  1,616 
have  been  tried  and  escaped  justice;  6,090  are  Ger- 
mans and  Irish,  and  only  100  are  Americans;  3,560 
are  women;  half  of  the  whole  number  are  said  to 
be  convicts  or  attaches  or  frequenters  of  gambling 
hells  and  brothels.  Choice  company! — Evangelical 
Messenger. 

The  ISigns  of  the  Times  gives  this  answer  to  the 
tobacco  question.  "Is  it  possible  that  a  man  who 
is  bound  with  such  fetters  is  a  Christian?  We  say, 
No.  He  may  say,  '  Lord,  Lord,'  but  he  is  not  a  Bi- 
ble Christian.  The  Christian  must  seek  first  the 
kingdom  of  God  and  his  righteousness;  he  must 
hunger  and  thirst  after  righteousness;  his  condition 
is  described  in  the  words  of  the  Psalmist:  '  My  soul 
longeth,  yea,  even  fainteth  for  the  courts  of  the 
Lord;  my  heart  and  my  flesh  crieth  out  for  the  liv- 
ing God.'  Psa.  84:  2.  But  the  habitual  tobacco-user 
seeks  first  his  tobacco;  his  flesh  cries  out  for  tobacco 
above  everything  else.  If  he  is  a  professed  minister 
of  the  Gospel,  he  depends  upon  his  cigar  even  for 
the  inspiration  to  make  a  fervent  prayer  or  write  or 
deliver  an  elegant  sermon;  so  that  even  in  his  pro- 
fessed service  for  the  Lord  he  depends,  not  upon 
the  Lord,  but  upon  his  tobacco.  We  say  that  it  is 
the  worst  form  of  idolatry,  when  tobacco  is  depend- 
ed upon  to  help  do  the  work  of  the  Lord.  And 
everyone  who  is  addicted  to  the  use  of  tobacco  is 
held  in  the  same  kind  of  bondage.  No  man  can 
have  the  Loni,  nor  even  his  family  or  his  business, 
first  in  his  thoughts,  if  he  uses  tobacco.  The  vile 
stuff  will  assert  and  maintain  its  claim  to  have  the 
first  place.  Once  more.  The  Apostle  Paul  exhorts 
us  to  'cleanse  ourselves  from  all  filthiness  of  the 
flesh  and  spirit,  perfecting  holiness  in  the  fear  of 
God.'  2  Cor.  7:1.  Certainly  this  includes  tobacco; 
for  all  the  other  filthiness  of  which  the  flesh  is  ca- 
pable cannotoutrank  the  filthiness  which  comes  from 
tobacco-using.  Again,  we  are  told  of  those  who  ex- 
pect to  see  Christ  as  he  is,  and  be  with  him  when 
he  comes,  that  *every  man  that  hath  this  hope  in 
him  purifieth  himself,  even  as  he  is  pure.'  1  John 
3:  3.  Tbe  Christian  must  be  like  Christ;  but  can 
anyone  imagine  Christ  using  tobacco?  The  very 
thought  is  abhorrent,  and  seems  almost  blasphe- 
mous. But  if  tobacco-using  were  not  a  sin,  it  would 
not  be  difficult  to  associate  it  with  thoughts  of  Christ 
for  sin  is  the  only  thing  that  is  foreign  to  Christ's 
nature." — Reformed  Presbyterian  and  Covenanter. 


12 


TME  OHEIBTUM  OTMOBUTm. 


Dbokmbsb  22,  1881 


RELIGIOUS  NEWS. 


TEE  REVIVAL  IN  COLUMBUS,  OHIO. 

Rev,  C.  W.  Hiatt  of  High  Street  Church  writes 
as  below  to  the  Advance  of  Dr.  Munhall's  work: 

"The  five  weeks'  series  of  evangelistic  meetings 
which  were  held  by  the  pastors'  Union,  of  Colum- 
bus, under  the  direction  of  Rev.  L.  W.  Munhall, 
closed  Thanksgiving  night.  The  progress  and  re- 
sults of  the  movement  have  proved  most  satisfac- 
tory. Dr.  Munhall  has  few,  if  any,  equals  as  a 
leader.  He  indulges  in  no  sensationalism  and  rushes 
to  no  extremes.  His  method  is  entirely  Scriptural, 
and  every  position  he  takes  is  fortified  by  a  "Thus 
saith  the  Lord."  It  was  easy  to  see  at  the  outset 
that  if  any  results  were  to  be  realized  they  would 
come  in  demonstration  of  the  power  of  the  rightly 
divided  Word.  Great  has  been  the  benefit  of  this 
Bible  unfolding. 

"First,  it  is  well  known  that  two  thousand  peo- 
ple have  made  public  confession  of  Christ,  at  least 
a  thousand  of  whom  are  now  under  the  special  care 
of  the  pastors.  These  are  not  children  save  in  small 
proportion.  At  one  meeting  for  young  men  only, 
one  thousand  manly  fellows  arose  for  prayers,  and 
four  hundred  accepted  Christ.  Such  a  scene  is  rare- 
ly witnessed  in  a  lifetime. 

"Second,  the  membership  of  the  twenty-three 
churches  have  been  wondrously  revived  and  strength- 
ened in  the  faith.  Had  there  been  no  soul  reached 
beyond  the  pale  of  the  church,  such  an  awakening 
within  it  would  have  more  than  repaid  the  cost  and 
labor  of  the  meetings.  It  is  greatly  encouraging  to 
the  ministers  to  note  the  large  increase  in  the  num- 
ber of  those  who  carry  their  Bibles  to  Sabbath  serv- 
ices, and  to  mark  the  growth  in  all  the  congrega- 
tions as  well." 


The  Texas  Free  Methodist  Conference  in  its 
report  on  reforms  voted:  "We  are  in  favor  of  rad- 
ical reforms,  and  are  opposed  to  all  that  is  opposed 
to  the  will  of  God,  and  that  will  hinder  the  salvation 
of  souls  in  our  midst,  and  we  are  ready  to  assist  in 
every  true  reform,  either  social  or  religious."  In 
addition  to  a  strong  condemnation  of  the  liquor 
traffic  and  tobacco,  the  following  was  said  of  the 
lodge:  "We  believe  that  oath-bound,  secret  socie- 
ties are  opposed  to  both  the  letter  and  the  spirit  of 
the  Gospel  of  Jesus  Christ,  and  that  no  one  with  the 
true  light  of  God  in  his  soul  can  be  a  Christian  and 
belong  to  any  of  them.  We  believe  that  they  are  a 
hindrance  to  the  work  of  God  in  substituting  in 
many  instances  their  pagan  rites  and  ceremonies  for 
the  religion  of  Jesus  Christ,  thereby  deceiving  the 
souls  of  men. 

"Masonry,  especially,  has  laid  its  unhallowed 
hands  on  the  Bible,  and  professes  to  shed  forth  the 
light  of  truth  upon  its  votaries,  through  the  silly 
mutterings  and  solemn  mockeries  of  its  Christless 
forms.  It  tries  to  get  control  of  the  affairs  of  state. 
It  enters  our  halls  of  justice,  seeking  to  influence 
our  judges  and  corrupt  our  juries;  and  it  shields  its 
sworn  votaries,  whether  right  or  wrong.  In  many 
instances  it  has  got  into  the  church,  and  there  guards 
the  door  of  conferences,  controls  the  appointments, 
and  with  its  iron  grip  compels  ministers  to  bow  to 
its  mandates,  or  be  driven  from  the  conference. 

"Resolved^  That  we  as  a  conference  will  do  our  ut- 
most to  destroy  these  evils  from  our  midst." 


— Bro.  J.  Augustus  Cole  of  West  Africa  preached 
morning  and  evening  on  a  late  Sabbath  in  Syracuse, 
New  York.  A  deep  interest  is  being  taken  in  the 
African  mission,  which  he  is  about  inaugurating,  by 
the  Wesleyan  churches. 

—Rev.  L.  Swartz.late  of  Belvidere,Ill.,has  been  as- 
sisting in  revival  services  in  the  Wesleyan  church  at 
Wheaton. 

— A  very  interesting  revival  work  is  going  on  in 
connection  with  the  labors  of  Prof.  H.  A.  Fischer 
of  the  N.  C.  A.  Board  in  Prospect  Park,  III.  Jlver 
since  he  preached  a  sermon  warning  against  the  se- 
cret societies  the  work  has  grown  steadily  in  power- 
and  among  the  adults  who  have  come  out  for  Christ 
is  a  gentleman  who  was  a  lodge  missionary  a  few 
years  ago,  belonging  to  almost  every  order  he  could 
get  into,  as  his  friends  said,  among  them  the  Scotch 
Rite  Consistory  of  32°  Masons  in  this  city.  He  has 
now  begun  to  pray  with  his  family  and  praise  God 
for  a  better  salvation  than  Masonry  can  supply. 

— It  is  said  since  prohibition  has  been  enforced  in 
Kansas,  church  membership  has  increased  from  ten 
to  forty  per  cent. 

—The  Presbyterian  Synod  of  Nebraska  has  de- 
clared the  high  license  system  of  that  State  a  fail- 
ure, and  strongly  advocates  prohibition. 

— The  Swedish  Evangelical   Mission,   Lutheran, 


on  the  North  Side,  Chicago,  has  just 
its  new  church  edifice,  located  on  the  corner  of  Mar- 
ket and  Whiting  streets.  This  is  the  largest  Swed- 
ish church  in  the  city,  having  seating  capacity  for 
2,000  persons.  The  dedication  services,  in  English, 
were  held  last  Sunday,  Dec.  18,  at  2:30  and 
7:30  p.  M.,  when  addresses  were  given  by  Drs. 
Noble,  Goodwin,  and  D.  C.  Marquis. 

— Mr.  Moody  concluded  his  labors  in  this  city  on 
last  Sabbath,  says  the  United  Presbyterian  of  the 
15th.  The  meetings  during  the  week  were  largely 
attended,  some  of  them  by  more  than  could  be  com- 
fortably accommodated  in  the  rink.  Every  evening, 
after  Monday  evening,  the  audience  was  composed 
of  men  only,  and  an  effort  was  made  to  secure  the 
attendance  of  none  but  those  who  were  not  in  the 
habit  of  attending  church.  How  far  this  effort  was 
successful  may  be  questioned,  but  it  is  certain  that 
many  were  present  who  are  not  regular  hearers  of 
the  Gospel.  Mr.  Moody  made  some  of  his  most 
powerful  appeals  to  these  men,  and  showed  his  won- 
derful skill  in  holding  and  moving  an  audience. 
That  he  did  not  speak  in  vain  was  evident  from  the 
number  who  sought  the  inquiry  room  that  they 
might  learn  more  of  the  way  of  salvation. 

— The  committees  appointed  by  the  last  General 
Assemblies  of  the  Northern  and  Southern  Presby- 
terian churches  met  in  Louisville  last  week  for  the 
purpose  of  taking  steps  looking  to  a  union  of  the 
two  bodies.  The  conference  is  the  result  of  harmo- 
ny of  action  and  opinion  evidenced  at  the  last  Gen- 
eral Assemblies,  at  which  the  committees  were  ap- 
pointed. No  definite  action  can  be  taken  at  the 
meeting,  the  province  of  the  committee  being  only 
to  report  and  recommend  the  General  Assemblies  at 
the  ensuing  annual  meeting. 

— Concordia  Seminary,  St,  Louis,  has  just  lost 
another  devoted  teacher  and  learned  man,  in  the 
death  of  Prof.  Schaller,  from  paralysis  on  the  29th 
ult, 

— The  Paris  Missionary  Society  established  in 
1822,  dedicated  its  new  seminary  at  Paris  on  May 
31st,  and  paid  for  its  price  of  $50,000.  It  wiped 
out  a  deficit  of  $14,000  and  had  money  enough  in 
its  treasury  to  start  the  Congo  mission  besides  sup- 
porting the  older  fields  in  South  Africa,  on  the  Sen- 
egal and  on  the  Tahiti  Islands,  The  latter  field  is 
severely  suffering  from  the  intolerance  of  the  French 
colonial  government,  which  is  atheistic  at  home  and 
Jesuitic  in  foreign  parts. 

— Pera  Johannes,  a  Persian,  educated  at  Her- 
mannsburg,  is  patiently  working  among  his  country- 
men, the  Nestorians,  in  Persia  (Kurdistan).  He  has 
lately  established  four  primary  schools,  the  teach- 
ers of  which  had  studied  with  him  the  small  cate- 
chism. Johannes  preaches  four  times  on  Sunday 
and  twice  every  week  day. 

— The  Tompkins  Avenue  Congregational  church 
of  Brooklyn  has  increased  greatly  in  numbers  since 
the  Rev.  Dr.  Meredith  began  his  pastorate,  and  it 
has  been  determined  to  erect  a  new  and  more 
spacious  edifice  a  short  distance  from  the  present 
church.  The  building  now  used  as  a  church  will  be 
used  as  a  Sunday-school  hall. 

— The  Independent  finds  that  there  are  about  one 
thousand  unemployed  Congregational  ministers  in 
the  United  States,  or  one-fourth  of  the  entire  minis- 
terial force  of  Congregationalism  in  this  country, 
while  there  are  hundreds  of  pastorless  churches  in 
New  England,  and  asks.  Why  not  get  these  needy 
churches  and  needy  ministers  together? 

— There  are  now  in  the  city  of  Constantinople, 
besides  the  missionaries  of  the  American  Board, 
and  the  missionaries  of  the  Baptist  Publication  So- 
ciety, Campbellite  missionaries,  a  Quaker  mis- 
sionary and  a  Mormon  missionary.  The  field  of 
these  laborers  is  mainly  among  the  members  of  the 
existing  evangelical  churches,  who  are  thus  beset 
on  all  sides  by  offers  of  a  better  way  than  that 
which  they  have  learned.  Of  course  there  are  some 
in  every  church  who  are  ready  to  hear  any  new 
thing,  and  to  be  carried  about  by  every  wind  of  doc- 
trine. The  sole  convert  of  the  Mormon  missionary, 
so  far,  is  a  man  who  became  a  Protestant  in  one  of 
the  towns  of  Asia  Minor  and  on  coming  to  Constanti- 
nople was  led  to  become  a  Baptist.  He  next  became 
a  Campbellite;  not  being  satisfied  with  the  doctrines 
of  this  church,  he  fell  into  the  hands  of  the  Mor- 
mons and  was  baptized  in  the  sea  of  Marmora. — In- 
dependent. 

— The  Indian  Witneti  says  that  the  Madras  Presi- 
dency contains  by  far  the  largest  Christian  popula- 
tion of  all  India,  the  actual  number  of  native  Chris- 
tians, including  Roman  Catholics,  amounting  to 
700,000.  This  shows  that  out  of  every  1,000  of  the 
population  23  are  native  Christians.  But  it  is  in 
educational  matters  that  the  native  Christians  have 


finished  i  shown  most  satisfactory  progress.  According  to 
the  latest  census  return,  in  the  municipal  towns, 
while  the  percentage  of  educated  Hindu  males  is 
36  30  and  of  Mohammedans  30,  that  among  the 
male  native  Christians  is  53.67.  The  proportion  of 
educated  females  is  equally  striking,  and  largely  in 
favor  of  the  native  Christians.  Taking  the  total 
population,  male  and  female,  of  the  three  creeds 
throughout  the  Presidency,  we  find  the  averages  to 
be  Hindus,  9  90  per  cent.,  Mohammedans  8  57,  and 
Christians  16.53. 

— The  editors  of  the  Conservator,  Dayton,  are  wel- 
comed in  many  United  Brethren  churches.  On  a 
late  Sabbath  both  brethren  Dillon  and  Floyd  were 
dedicating  new  churches,  one  in  Sunfield,  Michigan, 
the  other  at  Elida,  Ohio, 

— There  are  five  denominations  of  Methodists  in 
England,  The  indications  are  that  they  are  draw- 
ing nearer  to  each  other,  and  that  union  may  reason- 
ably be  looked  for  in  a  few  years.  It  is  said  there 
will  be  a  remarkable  economy  of  men  and  means 
as  a  result  of  union, 

— The  Presbyterian  church  has  twelve  theological 
seminaries,  which  had  last  year  705  students. 
Princeton  leads  with  161;  Union  next  with  134; 
McCormick  next  with  113.  Yet  the  Presbyterians 
are  looking  to  our  branch  of  the  Reformed  church 
for  pastors  for  important  churches. 

— London  has  a  population  of  5,416,006,  and  the 
sittings  in  the  churches  afford  accommodations  for 
1,903  509,  which  perhaps  is  about  one-half  of  the 
adult  population.  Of  these  sittings  the  Established 
church  furnishes  49.5  per  cent,  and  the  free  churches 
50.5  per  cent, 

— The  daughter  of  the  Princess  Beatrice,  daughter 
of  Queen  Victoria,  was  baptized  at  Ballater,  near 
Balmoral,  on  Nov,  23dl,  by  the  Rev.  Dr.  Lees,  of  St. 
Giles's,  Edinburgh,  It  is  reported  that  this  is  the 
first  time  a  royal  infant  has  been  baptized  into  the 
Presbyterian  church  of  Scotland. 

— The  Lutheran  Observer  claims  that  it  has  suffic- 
ient evidence  that  the  support  of  the  Sunday  papers 
come  not  from  "the  irreligious  crowd  of  worldly  and 
vicious  people  sybo  care  nothing  for  God  or  his  Sab- 
bath," but  from  Christians  who  buy  those  papers  or 
subscribe  for  them  and  give  them  advertising  pat- 
ronage, 

— The  Norwegian  Mission  Society  has  made  four 
hundred  converts  in  its  Zulu  Mission  since  1873, 
and  in  Madagascar,  since  1867,  about  seven  thou- 
sand heathen  have  been  baptized,  and  about  thirty 
thousand  children  instructed  in  the  mission  schools. 

— Jacob  Scheinman,  a  Polish  Jew,  twenty  years 
ago,  came  to  the  conclusion  that  Jesus  Ctrist  was 
the  true  Saviour.  The  strict  Talmudic  Jews  got  him 
transported  to  Siberia,  where  for  fifteen  years  he 
has  labored  almost  unheeded  to  awaken  faith  in  his 
fellow  exiles,  with  some  encouraging  results, 

— During  the  year  1886,  3,640  adults  were  bap- 
tized in  Japan,  making  a  total  membership  of  14,- 
815.  There  are  now  193  organized  churches,  sixty- 
four  of  them  self-supporting;  ninety-three  native 
ministers  and  169  theological  students;  $26,886.01 
were  contributed  by  the  native  converts. 

— Of  the  17,743  Fijians  inhabiting  the  Fiji  Islands, 
more  than  nine-tenths  attend  church  with  fair  regu- 
larity; the  Fiji  children  know  much  less  of  cannibal- 
ism than  the  older  missionaries  can  tell  them ;  where 
fifty  years  since  there  was  not  a  single  Christian,  to- 
day there  is  not  a  single  avowed  heathen;  all  the 
Fiji  children  are  in  the  schools;  the  schools  and 
churches  have  wholly  displaced  the  heathen  temples. 

— It  is  stated  that  thirty-three  missionary  socie- 
ties now  have  workers  in  Africa.  The  dark  conti- 
nent is  encompassed  on  every  side,  and  like  the  di- 
visions of  an  investing  army  these  missionaries  are 
moving  toward  the  center  and  closing  in  upon  the 
last  strongholds  of  heathenism  and  tlie  slave  trade. 
Hundreds  of  natives  in  the  seminaries  are  prepar- 
ing to  labor  as  preachers  or  teachers,  and  thousands 
of  children  are  receiving  Christian  instruction.  It 
is  said  that  the  Scriptures  have  been  translated  in 
whole  or  in  part  into  sixty-six  of  the  dialects  of 
Africa,  while  the  whole  Bible  has  been  rendered 
into  eleven  languages,  spoken  by  multitudes  of  na- 
tives. 

— Quite  a  sensation  has  been  created  in  church 
circles  in  Davenport,  Iowa,  by  the  announcement 
that  the  Rev,  M.  L.  Williston,  of  the  Edwards  Con- 
gregational church,  has  declared  his  intention  of 
leaving  the  Congregational  church  and  becoming  an 
Episcopalian.  He  has  already  made  application  to 
Bishop  Perry  as  a  candidate  for  orders.and  the  date 
of  his  ordination  has  been  fixed.  Mr.  Williston  is  a 
graduate  of  Amherst  College,  and  has  sustained  an 
excellent  reputation  in  the  denomination  to  which 
he  has  up  to  this  time  belonged. 


DiMMBiB  22,  1887 


THU  UHHISTIAN  CYNOSUK3S. 


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Lodge  Notes. 

An  old  man  was  unmercifully  whipped 
and  almost  drowned  by  White  Caps  at 
English,  Crawford  county,  Ind.,  and  a 
lynching  party  has  gone  after  the  mis- 
creants. 

The  executive  committee  of  the  coun- 
cil of  administration  of  the  Grand  Army 
of  the  Republic  has  decided  to  hold  the 
next  national  grand  encampment  at  Co- 
lumbus in  the  second  week  in  September 
next. 

Some  time  ago  Supreme  Chancellor 
HowardDouglass  of  the  Knights  of  Pyth- 
ias instructed  all  grand  lodges  to  change 
their  constitutions  so  as  to  be  in  accord 
with  the  supreme  laws.  All  the  States 
excepting  Pennsylvania,  Delaware,  Ore- 
gon and  Nebraska  have  complied.  The 
Supreme  Chancellor  has  issued  a  notice 
to  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Pennsylvania  in- 
forming them  that  if  his  instructions  are 
not  complied  with  he  will  suspend  that 
grand  jurisdiction.  In  the  case  of  Illi- 
nois, Supreme  Chancellor  Douglass  had 
to  face  the  very  strongest  opposition.  In 
the  Grand  Lodge  George  W.  Herdman 
and  E .  C  Race,  together  with  the  Grand 
Keeper  of  Records  and  Seal,  Henry  P. 
Caldwell,  cast  their  influence  against  the 
authority  of  the  Supreme  Chancellor. 
There  is  every  appearance  of  a  beautiful 
row  among  these  devoted  knights,  sworn 
to  be  friends  to  the  death. 

Another  of  the  occasional  murders  in 
the  Chinatown  of  San  Francisco  has  re- 
vealed the  work  of  the  secret  societies 
among  the  Chinese  in  this  country.  The 
Sam  jup  Company,  a  large  and  power- 
ful organization,  which  made  its  own 
laws  for  the  Chinese  belonging  to  it.split 
some  time  ago  into  two  factions  called 
the  Bo  Sin  Seer  and  the  Kie  Sin  Seer. 
Some  of  the  highbinders  of  the  Kie  Sin 
Seer  killed  two  men  of  the  Bo  Sin  Sser, 
and  the  latter  faction  commissioned  a 
trusty  cutthroat  named  Leong  Ah  Tick 
to  avenge  the  slaughter  of  itj  members. 
Leong  Ah  Tick  accordingly  killed  Lee 
Wy,who  happened  to  be  the  first  Kie  Sin 
Seer  man  who  came  in  the  range  of  his 
pistol.  After  the  latter  murder,  a  party 
from  the  Kie  Sin  Seer  went  to  the  head- 
quarters of  the  Bo  Sin  Seer  faction  and 
tearing  down  the  sign  over  the  door 
chopped  it  to  pieces .  This  is  considered 
the  greatest  indignity  that  can  be  offered 
a  highbinders'  organization  andean  only 
be  wiped  out  in  blood. 

Safety  Lodge,  No.  16,Knighls  and  La- 
dies of  Honor,  says  the  Inter  Ocean  of 
Friday  last,  was  fully  represented  at  the 
Armory  Police  Court  yesterday  morning, 
when  eight  ladies  and  ten  knights  were 
charged  before  Justice  Lyon  with  disor- 
derly conduct.  It  was  an  excited  lodge 
that  gathered  around  the  bench  and  told 
the  story  of  the  trouble.  Dr.  Edward  P. 
Koch  was  blamed  by  some  of  the  mem- 
bers for  it.  He  was  formely  Supreme  Re- 
gent of  the  order,and  October  27*wa8  de- 
posed by  the  board  of  directors.  He  ap- 
pealed and  says  that  nineteen  of  the 
twenty  six  lodges  in  the  city  supported 
him.  At  any  rate  he  continued  to  visit 
the  various  lodges,  and  paid  particular 
attention  to  No  16.  His  appearance 
seemed  to  create  dissension  in  that  body, 
for  about  three  weeks  ago  Charles  D . 
Wilson,  the  Grand  Protector  of  the  lodge, 
was  accused  of  some  misdeeds,  and  the 
question  of  his  deposition  was  put  to 
vote .  What  the  result  of  the  vote  was 
has  never  been  o01:ially  announced, but  a 
faction  claimed  that  he  must  abdicate. and 
Frank  Palmer  was  elected  in  his  place. 
But  some  of  the  members  would  not  rec- 
ognize Mr.  Palmer,  and  in  consequence 
the  meetings  for  the  past  few  weeks  have 
broken  up  in  disorder  Wedneeday  eve- 
ning Mr  Wilson  took  time  by  the  fore- 
lock, and  at  8  o'clock  sharp  took  posses- 
sion of  the  chair.  Dr.  Koch  was  present 
and  demurred  at  Mr.  Wilson's  action, 
whereupon  Mr  Wilson  said  that  Dr.  Koch 
had  no  business  in  tbat  lodge.  Dr  Koch 
took  umbrage  at  this  remark  and  advanc 
ed  upon  the  acting  Grand  Protector.  For 
lunattly  for  the  latter,  the  doctor  tripped 
and  fell  before  he  reached  the  platform 
just  as  Mr  Wilson  tapped  him  on  the 
head  with  the  charter  of  the  lodge.  As 
the  doctor  fell,  TreasurerWeirner  jumped 
upon  him  and  caught  him  by  the  throat. 
Mrs.  Augusta  Kuntz  ran  to  help  the  doc- 
tor, and  in  a  moment  all  the  knights  and 
ladieswere  fightioir  and  scrambling  all  07 
er  the  room.  Officers  Ryan  and  Weber 
appeared  at  this  juncture,  and  two  patrol 
wagon  loads  of  'knights"  and  "ladies" 
were  taken  to  the  Twenty-second  Street 
Station,  where  they  gave  bonds  for  their 


appearance  yesterday  morning .  Justice 
Lyon  fined  nine  of  the  knights  and  ladies 
sums  ranging  from  |1  to  $5  each  and  dis- 
cb^iifged  the  others. 


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BSOKMBXR  22, 1881 


Home  asd  Health. 

INDIGESTION  AND  DISEASE. 
Dr.  Henry  Reynolds  has  an  article  in 
the  Phrenological  Journal  on  indigestion 
which  seems  to  define  the  nature  and 
symptoms  of  the  complaint  very  closely. 
Many  suffering  from  dyspepsia  will 
find  their  own  feelings  described  in  the 
following  extracts,  taken  from  Dr.  Rey- 
nolds' paper,  and  we  hope  some  will  de- 
rive benefit  from  his  hints: 

The  important  relation  of  indigestion 
to  many  diseases  which  people  suffer  is 
not  sufficiently  realized.  Difficulty  in 
breathing,  occurring  spoataneously, or  on 
slight  exertion,  may  be  caused  by  indi- 
gestion. 

Indigestion  causes  alterations  in  the 
general  nutrition  of  the  body,  which  are 
manifested  in  various  ways,  among  which 
are  the  following:  AEaBmia,or  a  depraved 
state  of  the  blood,  involving  a  deficiency 
of  the  red  globules  of  the  blood,and  caus- 
ing persons  thus  affected  to  be  unnatu- 
rally pale.especially  about  the  lips;  decay 
of  the  teeth;  grayness  of  the  hair;  exces- 
sive liability  to  inflammation,  from  slight 
causes,  of  the  mucous  membranes.espec- 
iaUy  the  eyes  and  throat;  to  which  may 
be  added,  in  cases  of  those  predisposed  to 
such  affections,  liability  to  gout  and 
rheumatism  and  affections  of  the  lungs 
and  kidnejs.  Consumption  has  frequent- 
ly been  regarded  as  due  in  many  cases  to 
long  continued  derangement  of  the  diges- 
tion, whereby  the  general  nutrition  of 
the  system  has  become  impaired. 

The  inflammation  of  the  mucous  mem- 
brane of  the  throat,  known  as  "clergy- 
men's sore  throat,"  is  a  product  of  indi- 
gestion, and  the  removal  of  the  cause  by 
the  adoption  of  a  suitable  dietary,  eaier- 
cise  in  the  open  air,  and  observance  of  the 
laws  of  health  generally  will  be  the  best 
treatment  for  it. 

Indigestion  is  the  cause  of  various  al- 
terations in  the  skin  manifested  by  gener- 
al coldness  or  chilliness,  especially  of  the 
extremities,  by  changes  in  its  color  tex- 
ture, which  may  be  earthy  or  sallow  in 
tint,  or  dry  and  coarse,  and  by  various 
eruptions,  among  which  are  the  well 
known  eczema,  acne,  impetigo  and  nettle 
rash.  Most  of  the  cases  of  skin  diseases 
affecting  children  are  best  treated  by  at- 
tention to  the  diet,  making  the  diet  easi^ 
ly  digestible  and  sufficiently  limited  to 
insure  complete  digestion. 

The  cause  of  indigestion  may  be  due 
to  the  food  or  condition  of  the  stomach. 
The  food  may  be  defective  in  quality. 
There  may  be  excess  or  deficiency  of  the 
normal  ingredients,  saccharine,  starch,al 
buminous  or  fatty,  or  some  of  the  natur- 
ally indigestible  materials  which  form  a 
part  of  all  food.  The  food  may  be  in- 
troduced in  an  indigestible  form  on  ac- 
count of  defects  in  the  cooking  of  it,  or 
imperfect  mastication,  or  from  its  having 
undergone  putrefaction  or  fermentation, 
which  arrests  the  functions  of  the  stom- 
ach. Imperfect  mastication  of  food  is  a 
very  common  cause  of  indigestion  among 
Americans . 

Eating  too  much  is  probably  the  most 
common  of  all  causes  of  indigestion .  The 
secretion  of  the  gastric  juice  in  the  stom 
ach  seems  to  be  proportioned  to  the 
amount  of  material  required  for  the  nour- 
ishment of  the  system .  Food  taken  in 
excess  of  this  amount  acts  as  a  foreign 
substance  undergoing  fermentation  and 
putrefaction,  and  occasioning  much  dis- 
turbance in  the  system . 

Much  may  be  done  for  the  cure  of  in- 
digestion by  eating  very  abstemiously  of 
suitable  food,  thoroughly  ma8ticated,tak- 
ing  exercise  in  the  open  air,  and  observ- 
ing the  laws  of  health  generally.  The 
amount  of  food  should  be  reduced  until 
the  quantity  is  reached  the  stomach  can 
digest  without  evincing  any  symptoms  of 
indigestion . 

» ■ » 

Rubbing  a  bruise  in  sweet  oil  and  then 
in  spirits  of  turpentine  will  usually  pre- 
vent the  unsightly  black  and  blue  spot, 
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15 


Farm  Notes. 

HANG  UP  THESE  APHORISMS. 

Farm  animals  are  hurt  more  by  medi- 
cine than  by  the  lack  of  it.  When  an 
animal  needs  medicine,  it  needs  a  compe- 
tent physician. 

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food  regularly  given,  with  comfortable 
shelter  and  kind  treatment,  are  the  best 
preventives  of  disease. 

A  mortgage  on  the  home  makes  the 
fireside  gloomy,  for  it  shuts  out  the  sun- 
shine of  prosperity  and  f reeheartedness . 

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cast the  weather,  see  more  beauty  in  a 
dollar  than  in  a  bed  of  flowers,  and  will 
hear  the  crow  in  a  cornfield  quicker  than 
the  lark  in  the  air. 

Better  is  it  to  have  one  pair  of  trousers 
with  money  in  the  pockets  than  two  pairs 
with  empty  pockets. 

The  horse  knows  all  that  the  colt 
learned,  and  boys  tormenting  the  colt  are 
not  teaching  it  what  it  should  know. 

System  worked  ten  hours  a  day  and 
was  done.  Hap  hazard  got  up  at  four 
in  the  morning,  hurried  all  day,  and  was 
doing  the  chores  at  half-past  nine  at 
night . 

Job  had  much  patience;  yet  it  was  for- 
tunate for  him  that  he  did  not  join  fenc- 
es with  a  neighbor  who  kept  breachy 
stock. 

The  man  who  fills  his  ice  house  pro- 
vides himself  with  a  conservator  of 
health  and  a  servant  of  pleasure. 

What  is  said  about  keeping  animals 
warm  during  the  winter,  does  not  apply 
to  manure.  Smoking  is  more  injurious 
to  the  compost  heap  than  to  boys. 

The  man  too  poor  to  take  the  Ameri- 
can Agricu'turitt,  or  to  buy  his  wife  a 
calico  dreSB  without  grumbling,  is  rich 
enough  to  afford  the  lightning  rod  ped- 
dlers and  sickle  grinder  frauds  fine  pick- 
ing —  American  Agriculturist. 

THE  CHEERFUL  FARM  KITCHEN. 

A  spaci  >U8  farm  kitchen,  when  there's 
a  clean  and  loving  mother  presiding  over 
it,  is  about  as  pleasant  as  any  spot  on 
earth.  The  great  stove,  with  its  cheerful- 
ly singing  kettle,  the  smoo'h  painted 
floor,  the  braided  rug  for  mother's  feet, 
the  dear  little  squeaking  rocking  chair  in 
which  she  knits  and  sews,  the  geraaiums 
and  petunias  and  other  easy  growiag 
plants  in  the  windows,  the  big  long  table 
with  plenty  of  room  foi  everybody  and 
some  to  spare— on  which  are  served  such 
meals  as  only  mother  can  prepare.  Ab ! 
we  are  sorry  for  the  poor  child  that  does 
not  get  a  life  start  in  such  a  room!  It  is 
to  this  big,  pleasant  atmosphered  kitchen 
that  the  children  can  look  for  comfort 
and  pleasure  in  this  growling  winter 
weather.  There  is  school,  to  be  sure,  but 
night  sets  in  almost  as  soon  as  school 
closes,  and  in  the  hours  between  four 
o'clock  and  bedtime  something  must  be 
done  for  the  child  whose  natural,  health- 
ful cry  is  for  "something  to  do." — Idem, 

Pleasant  Phases  of  Farm  Life. — It 
is  a  common  complaint  that  the  farba  and 
farm  life  are  not  appreciated  by  our  peo 
pie.  We  long  for  the  more  elegant  pur- 
suits or  the  ways  and  fashions  of  the 
town.  But  the  farmer  has  the  most  sane 
and  rational  occupation,  and  ought  to 
find  li(e  sweeter,  if  less  highly  seasoned, 
than  any  other.  He  alone,  strictly  speak 
ing,  has  a  home.  How  can  a  man  take 
root  and  thrive  without  land?  He  writes 
his  history  upon  his  field.  How  many 
ties,  how  many  resources  he  has;  his 
friendships  with  his  cattle,  his  teams,  his 
dog.his  tree8;the  satisfaction  in  his  grow 
ing  crops,  in  his  improved  fields,  his  in- 
timacy with  nature,  with  bird  and  beast, 
and  the  quickening  elemental  forces;  his 
co-operation  with  the  clouds,  the  sun, 
the  seasons,  heat,  wind,  rain,  frost.  Noth- 
ing will  take  the  various  social  distem- 
pers, which  the  city  and  artificial  life 
breed,  out  of  a  man  like  farming,  like  di- 
rect and  loving  contact  with  the  soil.  It 
draws  out  the  poison.  It  humbles  him, 
teaches  him  patience  and  reverence,  and 
restores  the  proper  tone  to  his  system. — 
John  Burroughs  in  "tigns  and  Seasons." 


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A  promise  being  left  us  of  en- 
tering into  His  rest, .  . .  vrhereby 
shall  1  know  that  I  shall  inherit 

it..    Bob.  r/.l.    Gtju.  XV. 8. 

PROMISE. 

Comniil  thy  "way  -unto  the 
Lord ;  trust  also  in  Him  and  Ha 
shall  bring  it  to  pass.  Fs.xxxyU,E. 

PRECEPT. 

In  returning  and  lest  shall  ye 
"be  saved;  in  quietness  and  in 
confidence  shall  be  your  strength. 

l3_X.\X,.  15. 

PRAISE. 

Heiurn  luito  thy  rest,  O  -my 
soul;  for  tlie  Lord  hath  dealt 
bouutifuUywith  thee,  Ps.  mvl  7. 


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commentary  In  the  tl'st  rank  of  all  biblical  aids. 

Send  for  Circnlar  fnlly  describing  this  Work. 

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HON.  THURLOW  WEED  ON  THE  MOB 

GAN  ABDUCTION. 

ThU  Is  ■  8lxte«n  page  pamphlet  oomurlBlng  a  'ew 
ter  written  by  Mr.  Weed,  ami  read  at  the  unveiling 
c'  the  monument  •reeled  to  the  memory  of  Oapt. 
WlllUm  Morgan.  The  frontispiece  1r  an  engraving 
of  th»  monument.  It  is  a  history  of  the  uulawfii 
seizure  and  oonflnement  of  Morgan  in  th«  Oatiauda' 
gun  Jail,  his  subiequent  conveyance  by  Freemiwor 
to  Fort  Niagara,  »ud  drowning  in  Lake  Ontario 
He  not  only  oubecrlben  his  name  to  the  letter,  bm 

ATTAOHErt  BI«  AFFIDAVIT   to  It. 

In  closing  his  letter  he  writes:  I  now  look  back 
through  iiu  Interval  of  fltty-Blx  years  with  aeon- 
■clous  Heme  of  having  been  goTernod  througn  the 
"  Antl-Masonlo  eiollemout  "  by  a  sincere  desire, 
first,  to  vluiUoftte  the  violated  laws  of  my  country, 
and  n-xt.  to  arrest  the  great  power  and  dangerous 
InQuonci'ti  of  "  secret  societies." 

The  pamphlnt  Is  well  worth  perusing,  and  is 
doubtless  thelnot  historical  article  which  this  great 
lournallst  and  politician  wrote.  [Ohioago,  Nsllona' 
Christian  Ai(K>c'»tlm)  1     fllnsl*  'vipw  s  ~>t-u 

National  Christian  Association. 

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Blanchard,  J.  E.  Roy,  E.  R.  Worrell,  H. 
A.  Fischer,  W.  R.  Hench. 

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societies,  Freemasonry  in  particular,  and  othef 
anti-Christian  movements,  In  order  to  save  th« 
churches  of  Clirlst  from  beln^  t.epraved,  to  re- 
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THB  NATIONAL  OONYBNTION. 

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BTATB   AUZIIilABV    AB80CIATI0NB 

Alabama.— Pre«.,  Prof.  Pickens;  Sec.,  G. 
M.  Elliott;  Treas.,  Rev.  C.  B.  Curtis,  all  of 
Selma. 

Calipobnia.— Pres^  L.  B.  Lathrop,  HoUli- 
ter;  Cor.  Sec,  Mrs.  U.  P.  Merrill,  Woodland: 
Treas.,  C.  Ruddock,  Woodland. 

CoNNBCTicuT.— Pres..  J.  A.  Conant,  Willi 
mantle;  Sec,  Geo.  Smith,  WlUlmantlc ;  Treas. 
C.  T.  CoUins,  Windsor.  ' 

lujNOis.— Pres.,  J.  P.  Stoddard  Sec,  M. 
N.  Butler;  Treas.,  W.  I.  Phillip*  all  at  Cy 
nosure  olBce. 

Indiana.— Pres.,  William  H.  Flgg,  Reno 
Sec,  S.  L.  Cook,  Albion;  Treas.,  BenJ.  Ulsh 
Silver  Lake. 

Iowa.— Pres.,Wm  Johnston, College  Springs; 
Cor  Sec,  C.  D.  Trumbull,  Momlns  Sun; 
Treas.,  James  Harvey,  Pleasant  Plain,"  Jeffer- 
son Co. 

Kansas.- Pres,.  J.  P.  Richards,  Ft  Scott: 
Secj  W.  W.  McMlUan,  Olathe;  Treas.,  }. 
A.  Torrence,  N.  (>dar. 

MA8BAOH08KTT3.— Pres.,  S..A.'Pratt;  Sec 
Mrs.  E.  D.  Bailey ;  Treas.,  David  Manning  8r., 
Worcester. 

MiCHiOAH.— Pres.,  D.  A.  Richards,  Brighton ; 
Sec'y,  H.  A.  Dav,  Willlamston;  Treas. 
Geo.  Bwanson,  Jr.,  Bedfoni. 

MrNNBBOTA.— Pres.,  B.  G  Paine,  Wasloja 
Cor.  Sec,  Wm.  Fenton,  St.  Paul ;  Rec.  Sec'y 
Mrs.  M.  F.  Morrill,  St.  Cjarles;  Treas.,  Wm 
H.  MorriU,  St.  Charles. 

Missouri.— Pres.,  B.  F.  Miller,  Eaglevll'e 
Trea8.iWmiam Beauchamp,  Avalon ;  tJor.  Sf c, 
A.  D.  Thomas,  Avalon. 

Nbbraska.- Pres.,  8.  Austin,  Falrmoni  t ; 
Cor.  Sec,  W.  Spooner,  Xeamey;  Treas., 
J.  C.  Fyo- 

Nbw  Hampskikb.- Pres.,  C.  L.  Baker,  Man- 
chester; Sec,  8.  C.  Kimball,  New  lia  ke  ; 
Treas.,  James  F.  French,  Canterbury. 

Nbw  York.— Pres.,  F.  W.  Capwell,  Dale, 
Sec'y,  John  Wallace,  Syracuse;  Treas.,  M. 
Merrick,  Syracuse. 

Ohio.— rres.,  F.  M.  Spencer,  New  Concord ; 
Rec.  Sec,  8.  A.  George,  Mansfleld;  Cor.  Sec 
and  Treas,  C.  W.  blui.  Columbus;  Agent, 
W.  B-  Stoddard,  Columbus. 

PBNNSTLVANIA.— Pre*.,  A.  L.  Post,  MOK 
trose;  Cor.  bee,  N.  Callender,  Thoapaon 
Treas.,  W.B.  Bertels,  Wilkeebarro. 

Vbbmoht.— Pros.,  W.  R.  Laird,  St.  Johns- 
bury ;  Sec,  C.  W  Potter. 

WisoosaiH.-Prcs.,  J.  W  Wood,  Baraboo: 
Sec,  W.  W.  Ames,  Menomonle;  Treat.,  M.  K 
Britten.  Vienna. 


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THE  OHEISTLAJNT  CTiN^OSUHlS. 


t>EOIMBXB  22,  188t 


N7WS  OF  The  Week. 

WASHINGTON. 

The  Senate  Committe  on  Education 
held  a  meeting  and  unanimously  ordered 
a  favorable  report  on  the  Blair  education 
bill.  It  will  be  reported  as  it  passed  the 
Senate  in  the  last  Congress. 

A  committee  of  citizens  of  Utah,  head- 
ed by  Delegate  Caine,  waited  on  Speaker 
Carlisle  and  SenatorTngalls  and  presented 
to  them  copies  of  the  State  constitution 
adopted  at  the  last  Utah  convention . 

Mr.  N.M.  Bell,  superintendent  of  for- 
eign mails,  has  gone  to  New  York  to 
meet  Mr.  McClellan,the  Postmaster  Gen- 
eral of  Canada,  for  the  purpose  of  nego- 
tiating a  parcel  post  convention  between 
the  United  States  and  Canada,  similar  to 
those  recently  put  in  operation  between 
this  country,  Jamaica,  Mexico  and  Ber- 
muda. 

Arrangements  are  now  being  made  at 
the  Treasury  Department  for  the  payment 
on  Jan.  1  next  of  $8,414,670  interest  on 
United  States  bonds  and  Pacific  Railroad 
bonds.  This  is  in  addition  to  $848,452 
interest  which  would  have  fallen  due  on 
that  date. 

Five  hundred  bills  and  more  have  al- 
ready been  introduced  in  the  Senate.  It 
is  not  extravagant  to  estimate  that  the 
number  of  bills  likely  to  be  introduced  in 
the  House  at  the  first  time  set  apart  for 
the  reception  of  bills  will  be  5,000.  There 
were  more  than  15,000  bills  introduced  in 
the  last  Congre8S,of  which  12,000  failed. 
A  very  large  proportion  of  these  12,000 
bills  are  to  be  reintroduced  in  the  Fifti- 
eth Congress. 

COUNTKY 

In  boring  an  artesian  well  in  Fairview, 
Southern  California,  six  miles  from  Santa 
Ana,  natural  gas  was  struck  in  a  large 
quantity.  When  indications  of  gas  were 
discovered  the  workmen  bored  deeper,  and 
after  going  six  feet,  struck  gas  which 
burns  strongly  on  emerging  from  the 
well. 

The  heaviest  snowstorm  in  the  memory 
of  the  oldest  inhabitant  is  reported 
throughout  Western  Texas,  four  to  six 
inches  having  fallen  in  some  places. 

A  serious  coal  famine  now  prevails  in 
Western  and  Southwestern  Kansas,  many 
communities  being  entirely  without  coal 
and  unable  to  get  it.  The  Railroad  Com 
missioners  are  investigating  the  subject 
and  have  addressed  a  letter  to  General 
Manager  Goddard  of  the  Atchi8on,Tope- 
ka  and  Santa  Fe  railroad  calling  his  at- 
tention to  his  responsibility. 

The  Distillers'and  Cattle  Feeders'  Trust 
was  fully  organized  Friday  at  Peoria,  to 
go  into  effect  Jan.  1  next.  It  is  said 
the  contract  is  of  a  cast-iron  description 
and  the  Spellman,  Pekin  and  Nebraska 
distillers  that  were  holding  out  have  fi- 
nally signed  the  document. 

R.  Porter  Lee,  a  defaulting  bank  cash- 
ier, who  swindled  numerous  farmers  and 
stock  raisers  in  Michigan,  has  been  par- 
doned by  President  Cleveland,  to  the 
great  surprise  and  dissatisfaction  of  his 
numerous  victims 

Mrs.  Alexander  Yarsen.wife  of  a  weal- 
thy resident  of  Corunne,  Mich  ,  who  was 
placed  in  an  insane  asylum  two  weeks 
ago,  has  been  released,  the  court  finding 
that  the  woman  is  sane .  She  will  now, 
it  is  said,  sue  her  husband  for  divorce, 
and  bring  civil  suits  against  the  physi- 
cians who  issued  the  insane  certificates . 

An  explosion  of  a  twenty  horse  power 
boiler  in  the  Edison  Electric  Company's 
works  at  Chester,  Pa  ,  caused  the  death 
of  five  persons  and  injured  three  others. 
The  boiler  was  lifted  from  its  founda- 
tions and  propelled  through  the  base  of  a 
ninety-foot  high  stack,  which  instantly 
fell .  Superintendent  Walter  Embree 
was  engaged  with  a  force  of  men  close  to 
the  stack  unloading  a  new  boiler,  and  the 
whole  parly  was  buried  beneath  the  fall- 
ing bricks. 

A  hotel  at  Orescent,  near  Los  Angeles, 
Cal.,  waa  blown  down  by  a  storm  Wed- 
nesday. Two  persons  were  killed,  and 
fourteen  others  badly  wounded . 

In  a  swamp  near  Hawesville,  Ky.,were 
found  a  baloonandthe  remains  of  an  un 
known  aeronaut.  The  body  had  been  al- 
most reduced  to  a  skeleton,  and  it  is  sup- 
posed the  man  perished  dajs  ago  in  the 
upper  air  from  hunger  and  extreme  cold. 

E.  L.Harper,  the  Fidelity  banker,  was 
found  guilty  Monday  at  Cincinnati  asset 
forth  in  the  thirty-three   counts   of   the 


indictment,  and  was  sentenced  to  ten 
years  in  the  Ohio  Penitentiary,  whither 
he  was  taken  in  the  afternoon. 

It  is  rumored  in  New  York  and  Boston 
that  the  United  States  Supreme  court  will 
decide  the  telephone  suits  adversely  to 
Mr.  Bell.  On  this  report  Bell  telephone 
stock  dropped  forty  points  in  one  day. 

FOREIGN. 

A  Paris  journal  says  that  President 
Carnot  will  pardon  all  political  prisoners 
Jan  1 . 

Owing  to  German  influence  the  Porte 
is  extending  the  fortifications  on  the  Bos- 
phorus. 

The  Duke  of  Norfolk  presented  Queen 
Victoria's  congratulations  to  the  Pope 
Saturday . 

Government  circles  in  Berlin  and  Vien- 
na are  becoming  convinced  that  the  al- 
lies will  attack  Russia  in  the  spring.  The 
same  feeling  prevails  in  the  English  for- 
eign office. 

For  eleven  months  of  the  present  year 
the  passengers  from  Canada  to  the  Unit- 
ed States  numbered  65,621,  against  48,- 
587  in  the  corresponding  period  of  1886 . 
Immigration  to  Canada  shows  a  compar- 
ative reduction  of  171,330. 

JohnV.  Ellis,  of  St.  John,N.B., mem- 
ber of  the  Canadian  Parliament, publishes 
an  editorial  in  his  paper,  the  St.  John 
Olobe,  favoring  Canadian  annexation  to 
the  United  States . 

Ching  Chow  and  ten  other  populous 
cities  in  the  province  of  Honau,  China, 
were  destroyed  on  the  night  of  Sept .  28 
last  by  the  bursting  of  the  banks  of  the 
Hoang  Ho, or  Yellow  River, a  former  rich 
plain  of  great  extent  being  now  ten  to 
thirty  feet  under  water.  Thousands  of 
lives  were  lost  and  millions  of  people  are 
reported  naked  and  starving.  The  cat- 
astrophe is  said  to  be  the  most  apalling 
occurrence  of  modern  times . 

Count  Kalnoky,  the  Austrian  minister, 
after  conference  with  the  Emperor,  it  is 
reported,  will  now  agree  to  a  joint  note 
from  the  powers  to  Russia  demanding  an 
explanation  of  her  military  preparations. 

The  Vienna  correspondent  of  the  Lon- 
don Times  telegraphs  that  a  strong  feel- 
ing exists  in  the  city  in  favor  of  sending  ' 
an  immediate  ultimatum  to  Russia,  to  be 
followed  in  case  of  an  unsatisfactory  re- 
ply by  a  rapid  march  of  the  German  and 
Austrian  forces  on  the  Russian  frontier . 
It  is  feared  that  war  will  occur  in  the 
spring .     The  feeling  is  intense . 


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MASONIC  OATHS, 

BY 

PaMt   Iflaater    of  KoyMtone  I^odffe, 
No.  030,  Chicago. 

K  ranfltorly  <1ifcu8ilon  of  the  Oatbn  of  the  Manonlo 
Ix>ili;e,to  which  in  iippendi'd  "Freemasonry  at  a 
Glance."  llluHtratlng  every  elgM,  grip  and  cere- 
inony  of  the  Masonic  Lodfc-e.  This  work  la  hlijhly 
cmnmendoil  liy  luatiliiK  Ivcttirers  aa  fumlahlng  tha 
■oHt  iiri^iimeuta  on  the  nntnre  and  urac- 

Icrof  MaHDulc  (.bllKritloiiN  of  any  t>ouk  In  priui 
Paper  cover,  207  phksh.    I'rice,  40  cents, 

National  Christian  Association, 

*«»1  invest  llli»dls«n  82.  OkJa^*^  "'i 


POWDER 

Absolutely  Pure. 

This  powder  never  varies.  A  marvel  of  purity, 
strength  and  wholesomeness.  More  economical  than 
the  ordinary  kinds,  and  cannot  he  sold  In  competi- 
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CONTENTS. 


Editobial  : 

Notes  and  Comments 1 

Responses  from  North  and 

South 8 

By  Whom  Must  Mormon- 
Ism  Oo? 8 

The    Discussion    of     the 

Minor  Orders 8 

Oaths  of  the  Sons  of  Vet- 
erans     8 

CoNTEiBtrrioNS : 

Orangeism 1 

An  Appeal  to  the  Knights 
of  i-abor  against  Lodg- 

ery 2 

Sblected : 
The  March  of  the  Tears 

(poetry) 1 

The  Covenanter 2 

Fair  Play's  a  Jewel 3 

Hymns  of  Judgment 3 

The  Remedy  for  Social  Ills    3 
BiBLB  Lbssoh 6 

LlTEBATURB 7 

Washington  Lettbb 9 

Convention  Call 9 

A  Word  for  New  Orleans. . .    9 


Rbfoem  News  : 
From  the  General  Agent; 
Our  Southern  At  ent 
Enters  Arkansas ;  From 
the  Iowa  Agent; Reform 
Sentimpnt  Growing  in 
Ohio;  Volunteer  Work 
for  the  National  Conven- 
tion  4,5 

Cobbespondbnob 
The  New  York  Methodists 
hear  from  Ohio;  Seven- 
ty Thousand  in  Trxas 
lieady  to  be  Saved  What 
to  do  about  Romanism; 

Pith  and  Point 5,6 

The  Homb 10 

Temperancb 11 

Religious  Nbwb 12 

Lodge  Notes 18 

Prize  Essays 7 

In  Brief 7 

Home  and  Health 14 

Farm  Notes 15 

News  op  THB  Wbbk 16 

Markets 13 

Business 13 


A  HAPPY  NEW  YEAR  to  all  the  dear  Cynosure  read- 
ers, one  and  all.  We  have  closed  our  work  for  1887. 
The  record  is  with  God.  It  is  imperfect,  but  our  aim 
has  been  to  hasten  the  coming  of  our  Lord  Jesus  and  his 
kingdom.  Pray  for  the  Cynosure,  that  it  may  be  used 
of  God  in  1888.  Pray  as  you  read,  that  it  may  be  power 
ful  in  converting  men  to  the  truth  and  help  to  save  the 
churches  of  Christ  and  our  God-given  state  from  the 
clutches  of  our  adversary.  As  we  pray,  so  shall  this  be 
a  good  year  for  us  all.  May  God  grant  a  twelve  months 
of  blessing. 


The  first  platform  of  the  American  party,  adopted 
in  Chicago  in  1872,  contained  this  plank:  "11.  That 
reciprocal  free  trade  is  the  true  basis  of  commercial 
interchange  among  nations,  and  that  a  gradual  ap- 
proach toward  free  competition  in  all  the  marts  of 
trade  is  the  true  policy  on  the  tariff  question."  The 
last  platform,  adopted  in  Chicago  in  1884,  repeats 
the  idea  in  different  terms,  thus:  "13.  That  it 
should  be  the  settled  policy  of  the  government  to 
reduce  tariffs  and  taxes  as  rapidly  as  the  necessities 
of  revenue  and  vested  business  interests  will  allow." 
The  American  party  has  thus  been  from  first  to  last 
in  favor  of  tariff  for  revenue  only,  not  for  protec- 
tion. The  first  was  introduced  by  Alexander  Ham- 
ilton, the  greatest  of  American  financiers,  when  Sec- 
retary of  the  Treasury  in  Washington's  first  admin- 
istration; protective  tariff  came  from  Henry  Clay  in 
1824.  As  the  Cynosure  has  ever  maintained  this 
platform  as  the  index  of  its  political  principles,  it 
is  with  great  satisfaction  that  we  have  now  a  Presi- 
dent openly  committed  to  one  of  our  American 
principles,  and  by  all  the  influence  of  his  adminis- 
tration pushing  it  to  an  issue.  It  is  also  very  satis- 
factory to  note  that  the  people  are  endorsing  Mr. 
Cleveland  in  spite  of  p.^rty.  We  hope  for  the  ddy 
when  the  nation  will  accept  all  our  principles;  and 


wish  to  say  this  much  at  present  in  answer  to  a  few 
forgetful  friends  who  think  we  are  following  the 
President.  On  the  contrary  he  is  following  where 
we  pointed  the  way  before  he  was  even  a  sheriff. 


Sir  George  Trevelyan,  in  a  recent  speech  at  Car- 
narvoon,  Ireland,  upon  the  Irish  crisis,  said  that 
among  the  tenants  upon  his  estate  there  was  no  pau- 
perism and  absolutely  no  discontent.  The  reason 
suggested  for  this  remarkable  condition  of  peace, 
while  the  country  all  about  is  in  an  uproar,  is  signif- 
icant. There  has  been  no  tippling  house  in  the  re- 
gion for  thirty  years.  Why  should  not  Mr.  Parnell, 
in  his  supreme  love  for  his  countrymen,  make  a  fight 
against  Irish  whisky.  It  is  better  than  a  guess  that 
the  same  effort  for  temperance  in  Ireland  that  has 
been  expended  upon  Home  Rule  agitation  would 
have  produced  two-fold  the  results  in  respect  to  the 
actual  comfort  and  happiness  of  the  people. 


Reports  from  the  West  of  the  storm  of  last  week 
are  full  of  singular  contradictions.  News  that  many 
persons  had  perished  in  western  Kansas,  was  fol- 
lowed by  as  positive  declarations  that  the  first  re- 
ports were  exaggerated  and  no  such  suffering  and 
destitution  was  known.  It  is  a  fact  that  settlers  in 
western  Kansas  have  been  so  nearly  destitute  of  fuel 
that  they  stopped  trains  by  force  and  helped  them- 
selves, and  that  the  railway  commissioners  of  the 
State  called  upon  the  railway  companies  to  no  lon- 
ger neglect  the  settlers.  Large  supplies  have  also 
been  forwarded  to  the  western  counties,  and  there 
is  no  doubt  of  considerable  destitution,  and  with 
this  must  come  suffering  and  probably  death  in 
many  cases.  If  the  report  of  fatalities  in  the  last 
storm  shall  not  be  confirmed,  the  condition  of  the 
people  is  yet  such  as  to  call  for  sympathy  and  sub- 
stantial efforts  to  relieve  them. 


We  have  at  length  the  end  of  the  McGarigle  farce. 
The  Freemasons  claim  to  have  turned  all  the  bood- 
lers  out  of  their  lodges,  but  they  have  only  cast  out 
the  poor  dogs  who  are  under  the  ban  of  public  opin- 
ion. No  body  else  was  touched  by  this  most  virtu- 
ous order.  Like  the  Spartan  rule,  the  vengeance  of 
Masonry  falls  only  upon  those  thieves  who  are  so 
stupid  as  to  be  caught.  A  Dr.  St.  John  helped  Mc- 
Garigle to  get  upon  Captain  Freer's  schooner.  He 
was  arrested  mouths  ago.  The  trial  came  off  Wed- 
nesday, Grinnell  had  put  off  this  case  upon  his  suc- 
cessor in  the  prosecuting  attorney's  oflQce.  This  gen- 
tleman seemed  not  to  care  about  troubling  the  spec- 
ial agents  of  the  runaway  and  agreed  that  the  judge 
should  order  a  verdict  of  not  guilty.  But  how  about 
the  Masonic  agents — the  real  ones?  Who  shall  try 
them?  Will  not  our  immaculate  Chicago  Freema- 
sons undertake  this  business  also? 


A  gre^t  fight  is  on  between  the  Philadelphia  and 
Reading  railway  and  its  train  men.  The  company 
had  occasion  to  discharge  five  men,and  it  transpired 
that  the  new  men  put  in  their  place  had  never  learn- 
ed the  lodge  grip  or  sworn  the  lodge  oath.  The 
Knights  of  Labor  at  work  with  the  new  men  immed- 
iately quit  work,  as  if  their  companions  were  lepers 
or  plague-stricken.  The  infection  spread  until  over 
1,000  men  quit  work  Friday  afternoon.  Switches 
were  closed,  wheelbarrows  dropped,  fires  raked  out 
of  engines  and  the  whole  freight  business  of  the 
road  stopped.  The  company,  thus  forced  into  a 
fight,  has  resolved  to  employ  no  more  union  men  or 
Knights  of  Labor,  whose  lodge  relations  make  such 
petulant  and  dictatorial  workmen.  The  Reading 
road  handles  a  large  portion  of  the  procUict  of  the 
Pennsylvania  coal  fields,  so  that  this  strike  will 
have  many  aggravating  consequences.  If  the  com- 
pany is  in  any  collusion  in  this  matter  in  order  to 
advance  the  price  of  coal  it  deserves  as  little  sym- 
pathy as  do  the  men  for  their  contemptible  insubor- 
dination at  the  bidding  of  the  loilge. 


Mr.  Pow'erly  says  that  "for  every  man  the 
Knights  of  Labor  have  lost  on  account  of  their 
temperance  clause  they  have  gained  five  hundrei." 
Since  the  order  has  been  steadily  and  rapidly  going 
down  for  over  a  year  Mr.  Powderly's  mathematics 
seem  to  work  by  a  peculiar  rule. 


In  the  Senate  Thursday  Mr.  Dolph,  having  intro- 
duced a  bill  for  the  payment  of  damages  by  Indian 
depredations,  amounting  to  some  $15,000,000,  soon 
after  followed  with  a  speech  on  his  joint  resolution 
of  the  week  before  proposing  a  Constitutional 
amendment  on  the  subject  of  marriage  and  divorce, 
and  prohibiting  bigamy  and  polygamy.  The  pro- 
posed amendment  is  in  the  following  words:  "Con- 
gress shall  have  power  to  legislate  on  the  subject  of 
marriage  and  divorce  by  general  laws  applicable 
alike  to  all  the  States  and  Territories,  and  neither 
bigamy  nor  polygamy  shall  exist  or  be  permitted 
within  the  United  States  or  any  place  subject  to  its 
jurisdiction,"  Mr.  Dolph  claims  to  be  unalterably 
opposed  to  the  admission  of  Utah  so  long  as  there 
is  any  possibility  that  the  Mormon  hierarchy  may 
continue  its  domination.  But  the  gentleman  ought 
also  to  know  that  the  Mormons  are  rather  glad  than 
otherwise  of  his  measure,  hoping  that  it  will  relieve 
them  of  the  irksome  supervision  of  courts  and  re- 
ceivers. Other  Senators  wish  to  be  heard  on  this 
resolution  and  it  is  laid  over  till  after  the  holiday 
recess. 

TEE  MARCH  OF  THE  TEARS. 


One  by  one,  one  by  one. 

The  years  march  past  till  the  march  is  done ; 

The  old  year  dies  to  the  solemn  bnell. 

And  a  merry  peal  from  the  changing  bell 

Ushers  the  other,  one  by  one. 

Till  the  march  of  the  years  shall  at  last  be  done. 

Bright  and  glad,  dark  and  lad, 

Are  the  years  that  come  In  mystery  clad ; 

Their  faces  are  hidden  and  none  can  see 

If  merry  or  sorrowful  each  will  be. 

Bright  and  sad,  dark  and  glad. 

Have  been  the  years  that  we  all  have  had. 

Fair  and  subtle  under  the  sun 
Something  from  us  each  year  has  won. 
Has  It  elven  us  treasures?    Day  by  day 
It  has  stolen  something  we  prized  away ; 
We  meet  with  fears,  and  count  with  tears 
The  buried  hopes  of  the  long-past  years. 

Is  It  sol    And  yet  let  us  not  forget 

How  fairly  the  sun  has  risen  and  set ; 

Each  year  has  brought  us  some  sunny  hours. 

With  a  wealth  of  song,  and  a  crown  of  flowers, 

Power  to  love  and  time  to  pray. 

Its  gifts  have  been  ere  It  passed  away. 

We  hall  the  New  that  has  come  In  view ; 

Work  comes  with  It,  and  pleasure, too; 

And  even  though  It  may  bring  some  pain, 

Each  passing  year  is  a  thing  of  gain; 

We  greet  with  song  the  days  that  throng ; 

Do  they  bring  us  trouble?  'Twill  make  us  strong. 

With  smiles  of  hope,  and  not  with  tears, 
We  meet  our  friends  In  the  glad  new  years ; 
God  is  with  them,  and,  as  they  come. 
They  bear  us  nearer  our  restful  home. 
And  one  by  one,  with  some  treasure  won, 
They  come  to  our  hearts  till  they  all  are  gone. 

— Mariannt  Fartiingham. 


ORANQEiaM. 


BY   BEV.    S.    0.    IBVINK. 

Its  hoodwink  has  not  been  over  my  eyes,  nor  ita 
"Brand"  over  my  heart,  but  I  think  few,  if  any,  of 
the  uninitiated  in  this  country  know  Orangeism  so 
well  as  I.  My  acquaintance  with  other  secret  or- 
ders has  given  me  such  an  advantage  that  I  could 
more  readily  acquire  light;  and  as  I  let  the  light 
shine  many  were  led  to  contend  with  me,  but  their 
admissions  and  evasions  have  given  me  the  clue  to 
other  things. 

Persecution  has  followed  the  preaching  of  the 
truth,  and  some,  more  loyal  to  the  truth  and  to  their 
church  than  to  the  lodge,  stand  by  me.  One  Orange- 
man is  represented  as  saying,  "He  preaches  nothing 
but  the  truth,  and  I  can  say.  Amen,  to  all  he  says." 
Another  said,  "There  is  no  more  need  of  Orangeism 
in  this  country  than  for  a  third  wheel  to  a  cart." 

Several  have  left  the  lodge.  One  admitted  that 
it  was  no  use  to  longer  argue  the  question,  for  he 
was  beaten  on  the  ground  of  his  own  choosing,  that 
what  he  had  supposed  to  be  good  was  shown  to  be 


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•ffBE  CHRIfiPriAN  CYNOSURE. 


Beobmbik  29, 188T 


evil  He  has  since  washed  himself  clean  from 
"Black"  Orangeism  and  "Blue"  Masonry,  and  wrote 
a  letter  for  me  to  read  to  the  church,  calling  on  all 
Christians  to  leave  their  secret  lodges.  I  read  this 
letter  to  a  full  church  at  a  sacramental  service. 
The  following  day  my  ofllcial  board  met.  Some  dis- 
cussion on  secretism  took  place,  as  they  were  nearly 
all  Orangemen.  I  had  ready  a  lengthy  letter  by 
which  I  offered  to  convince  the  most  skeptical  that 
I  knew  something  of  Orangeism.  Taey  waived  the 
reading  of  the  letter,  and  gave  me  a  unanimous  in- 
vitation to  remain  their  pastor  another  year.  Both 
mover  and  seconder  of  the  resolution  were  Orange- 
men. So  much  for  the  triumph  of  conscience  over 
lodge  loyalty.  No  wonder  that  Christians  are  con- 
sidered the  weak  timbers  in  the  lodge  edifice! 

One  of  the  members  of  that  oflQcial  board  told  me 
he  had  challenged  members  of  his  lodge  to  name 
five  members  who  were  not  perjured  men!  Another 
said  he  left  the  lodge  before  he  saw  me,  because  of 
the  way  the  Scriptures  were  prostituted  to  lodge  pur- 
poses. An  adhering  Orangeman  said  he  was  con- 
vinced that  the  man  who  had  never  joined  was  the 
freest  man. 

Some  months  ago  T  met,  for  the  first  time,  one  of 
our  ministers  who  is  both  an  Orangeman  and  a  Ma- 
son; he  told  me  he  was  going  to  lecture  that  week 
in  Winnipeg  on  Orangeism.  I  said  I  was  sorry  I 
could  not  be  there  to  add  to  the  interest  by  taking 
the  "Anti"  side.  I  gave  him  his  "Two  and-a-half 
grip"  (referring  to  the  two-and-a-half  tribes),  a  pres- 
sure on  the  middle  of  the  upper  half  of  the  third 
finger.  I  gave  him  also  the  'Night  Challenge,"  a 
part  of  his  initiaiion  when  he  is  thrown  from  "Ja- 
cob's Ladder"  and  caught  in  a  great  sheet,  by  which 
he  is  tossed  up  "between  heaven  and  earth,  where 
there  is  no  eye  to  pity,  and  no  arm  to  save,"  etc.  I 
asked  him  to  deny  if  he  could,  but  he  did  not, 
though  the  laugh  was  turned  on  him  by  a  lady  re- 
marking, "Silence  gives  consent." 

I  gave  him  his  Masonic  oaths,  and  said,  "If  I 
were  a  robber  I  could  come  to  you  a  minister,  and 
say,  '  Bro. ,   I  give  jou  as  a  Masonic   secret  a 


subject  is  to  save  those  who  fear  God  from  delusive, 
counterfeit  religions  and  alliances  with  the  ungodly, 
which  hurt  themselves,  weaken  the  church  and  dis- 
honor Grod.  Any  information  or  incidents  in  the 
possession  of  readers  of  this  article  regarding  Or- 
angeism will  be  thankfully  received  if  sent  to  my 
address. 

Plympton,  Manitoba. 


AN  APPEAL    TO    THE  KNIGHTS   OF  LABOR 
AOAlIiST  LOJJGEBT, 


BT   A.   E.    BUKT. 


Statement  of  my  latest  robbery,  and  demand  that 
you  hitch  up  and  drive  me  away  to  escape  the  cffi 
cers  of  the  law.'  You  would  have  to  help  extricate 
me  from  my  present  dfficulty." 

He  replied,  "I  would  deliver  you  into  the  oflScer's 
hands." 

I  said,  "You  would  thereby  break  your  Masonic 
oath." 

"Well,"  he  answered,  "I  told  you  I  was  not  a  very 
good  Mason." 

When  at  a  missionary  meeting  with  a  brother 
minister,  an  Orangemen,  we  talked  freely  on  the 
subject  and  agreed  pretty  well  about  the  matter, 
with  the  exception  of  letting  the  light  shine  to  save 
our  people  from  these  alliances  with  the  world. 
When  we  got  to  the  parsonage  at  night  I  was  intro- 
duced to  his  wife  as  a  backslider  from  Orangeism. 
This  was  a  feather  in  mv  cap  with  her,  but  I  pro- 
ceeded, to  the  amazement  of  my  dear  brother,  to  ex- 
plain that  I  had  never  been  an  Orangeman. 

At  our  last  Annual  Conference  I  was  asked  by  a 
delegate  if  I  knew  anybody  of  my  name  in  Southern 
Manitoba  who  was  exposing  Orangeism.  I  pleaded 
guilty,  and  was  informed  if  I  had  ever  been  an  Or- 
angeman I  ought  not  to  do  as  I  was  reported  to  have 
done.  He  said  my  name  was  up  in  the  Grand  Lodge 
of  Manitoba,  which  met  in  Winnepeg,  and  thai  some 
very  hard  things  were  said  about  me.  I  gave  him 
to  understand  that  what  I  had  said  I  had  said,  and 
God  helping  me,  would  still  say  and  defend.  I  well 
knew  this  man  in  Ontario,and  knew  him  to  be  a"thorn 
in  the  side"  of  more  than  one  church.  He  could  be 
depended  on  for  loyalty  to  the  Queen  and  whisky  on 
the  12ih  of  July. 

I  am  told  on  credible  authority  that  one  of  my  mem- 
bers here,  a  man  of  more  than  ordinary  intelligence, 
says  he  could  innocently  take  the  life  of  an  Orange- 
man who  had  revealed  its  secrets.  The  students  of 
Masonry  will  know  what  that  means. 

Methodist  ministers  have  preached  for  above  four- 
teen years  at  one  appointment  on  this  mission  at  an 
annual  loss  of  $75,  missionary  funds.  Almost  all 
who  could  be  were  Orangemen  or  became  such,but  not 
one  soul  in  all  of  the  years  joined  the  church.  I 
gave  them  for  six  months  a  Gospel  of  love  and  lab- 
or, of  separation  and  consecration, and  then  conclud- 
ed there  was  not  enough  of  the  clucking  hen  in  me 
to  sit  longer  on  bad  eggs.  I  "sat"  on  them  once 
more  real  hard,  and  barely  escaped  the  odorous  nest 
by  flight  to  a  poor,  neglected  people,  where  we  be- 
gan without  a  member,  and  already  have  twenty- 
four,  with  the  prospect  of  building  a  church.  I 
have  just  heard  this  week  that  at  the  place  above- 
mentioned  the  lodge  took  fever  and  chills  from  the 
"breeze"  1  gave  them,  and  expired  last  month. 
I  have  in  preparation  a  brief  exposure  of  Orange 


Much  has  been  said,and  a  vast  amount  of  thought 
has  been  exhausted,  in  trying  to  solve  the  Labor 
Problem,  and  as  yet  no  one  has  been  able  to  quiet 
this  burning  unrest  or  restore  to  a  wronged  and  op- 
pressed peoole  the  confidence  that  has  been  infa- 
mously betrayed  so  many,  many  times.  The  ele- 
ment that  is  sapping  the  life-blood  of  our  nation  is 
the  unconstitutionally  chartered  secret  societies. 
Some  may  scoff  at  or  laugh  to  scorn  thoughts  I  here 
advance,  but  when  strikes,  riots,  bloodshed  and 
murder  are  of  almost  daily  occurrence,  it  is  time 
some  one  rose  up  and  sounded  the  order  to  halt,  till 
we  at  least  have  time  to  investigate,  and  if  possible 
check  this  iniquity  in  its  onward  course. 

But,  Knights  of  Labor,  those  of  you  who  have  the 
welfare  of  the  nation  at  heart;  who  furnish  bone, 
sinew  and  muscle  to  every  calling  that  is  honorable 
and  legitimate;  you  who  are  pioneers  in  all  kinds  of 
industry ;  you  who  have  borne  for  so  many  years 
your  unconstitutional  and  unlawful  burdens;  you 
who,  when  the  conflict  raged  so  fiercely,  threatening 
the  very  existence  of  our  Union,  manfully  faced  the 
storms  of  shot  and  shell,  that  the  perpetuation  of 
the  Union  and  of  equal  rights  unimpaired  might  be 
handed  down  to  your  posterity,  and  that  your  de- 
scendants for  all  generations  to  come  might  enjoy 
the  blessings  of  liberty  and  of  equal  rights, — I  now 
ask  you  to  halt  in  this,  your  first,  and,  as  I  may  say, 
your  only  mad  career.     Prompted  to  acts  of  violence 
as  you  have  been  by  the  oppressions  of  the  privi- 
leged few,  I  do  not  wonder  that  your  situation  is 
dark  and  gloomy  indeed;  but  for  all  this  halt,  con- 
sider, reflect.     Do  not  in  the  heat  of  passion  for  a 
single  instant  dethrone  reason,  by  which  alone  you 
can  obtain  redress  for  your  grievances.     Do  you  ex- 
pect to  relieve  or  extricate  yourselves  from  the  un 
just  burdens  of  which  you  are  so  bitterly  complain 


But  you  ask.  Shall  we  disband?  My  answer  is, 
Never!  Discharge  your  sentinel.  Open  your  doors; 
and  ask  the  honest  millions  to  aid  you  in  putting 
down  this  monster  demon  of  oppression.  Who 
should  be  counted  among  the  anarchists  of  this 
country  if  not  the  Freemasons  who  have  instituted 
and  put  in  force  the  foulest  system  of  oppression 
that  ever  disgraced  the  history  of  the  world.  Char- 
tered Freemasonry  is  the  most  cowardly  system  of 
oppression  as  well  as  the  lowest  avenue  to  crime 
that  was  ever  instituted  or  conceived  of  by  men. 
Remember  the  fact  that  these  charters  are  to  be  per- 
petual, and  that  they  forever  deny  to  the  govern- 
ment the  right  of  investigation,  and  you  will  no 
longer  marvel  that  instead  of  enjoying  the  blessings 
of  a  republican  government  we  as  a  nation  to-day 
are  cursed  with  an  omnivorous  oligarchy. 


THE  COVENANTER. 


SERMON  BT  RBV.  0.  H.  SPURQEON,  SUITABLE  FOR 
THE  NEW   YEAR  SEASON. 


such  as 


"All  the  paths  of  the  Lord  are  mercy  and  truth  to 
keep  his  covenant  and  his  testimonies.— Psalm  25 :10. 

In  my  text  I  see  two  things  worth  talking  about. 
The  first  is  the  spiritual  covenanter— "such  as  keep 
his  covenant  and  his  testimonies;"  and,secondly,here 
is  his  notable  experience— "All  the  paths  of  the  Lord 
are  mercy  aod  truth  unto  such  as  keep  his  covenant." 
I.  Observe  in  the  text  the  footprint  of  the  spiritu- 
al covenanter.  You  have  heard  of  the  old  Cove- 
nanters of  Scotland,  their  decision  of  mind  and  force 
of  character.  Their  theory  of  government  for  the 
kingdom  of  Scotland  was  quaintly  unpractical,  but 
it  grew  out  of  true  and  deep  fear  of  the  Lord. 

These  stern  old  men,  with  their  stiff  notions,  have 
gone.  And  what  have  we  in  their  places?  Indiffer- 
ence and  frivolity.  Self-contained  men,  men  in 
whom  is  the  true  grit,  are  now  few  and  far  between 
as  compared  with  the  old  covenanting  days. 

But  1  want  to  speak  this  morning,  not  of  the  old 
Covenanters,  but  of  those  who  at  this  day  keep  the 
covenant  of  the  Lord.  The  true  covenanter  is  one 
who  has  found  out  God,  and  therein  has  made  the 
greatest  discovery  that  was  ever  made.  He  has  dis- 
covered, not  only  a  God,but  the  living  and  true  God; 
and  he  is  resolved  to  be  on  living  terms  with  him 
for  time  and  for  eternity.  He  will  henceforth  never 
shut  his  eyes  to  God,  for  his  longing  is  to  see  more 


just  burdens  of  which  you  are  so  bitterly  complain- 1   ^^^  ^^^j.^  ^^  jjjj^ 

ing  by  adopting  and  making  use  of  the  same  unlaw^  Already,too,thi8  man  has  discovered  another  cov- 
enant, whose 'ruins  lay  between  him  and  God,  and 
block  the  road.     He  reads  of  the  first  covenant,  the 


f  ul  weapons  that  are  made  use  of  in  oppressing  you? 
If  this  is  to  be  the  theory,  you  have  made  a  mistake 
that  will  prove  fatal  unless  you  now  heed  the  warn- 
ing. 

Fellow  laborers,  it  becomes  us  to  assert  our  rights 
openly  and  publicly  before  the  world,  for  our  cause 
is  just  and  the  reward  which  we  seek  is  fully  and 
legitimately  merited.     Can  you  expect  aid,  comfort, 
consolation  and  redress  from  a  government  which 
you  have  made  subservient,  by  means  of  a  charter, 
to  the  organization  which  you  now  represent;  a  gov- 
ernment, the  functions  of  whose  offices  and  the  con- 
stitution and  laws  of  which,  through  a  charter,  you 
are  at  liberty  to  recognize,  or  by  the  same  means 
violate  or  reject  any  or  all  laws  that  may  be  enacted 
by  and  for  the  people?     Can  a  greater  evil  exist  in 
this  country  than  that  the  Constitution  and  printed 
laws  of  the  United  States  and  of  each  State  should 
be  secondary  to  the   grips,  signs  and   passwords 
which  are  known  to  but  a  privileged  few,  who  have 
no  more  honor  than  to  steal  from  us  our  liberties 
and  enthrone  the  right  to  rob,  which  means  to  op- 
press, upon  their  chartered  altars. 

Men  of  labor,  do  you  ask,  Is  capital  our  oppress- 
or?    I  answer  emphatically.  No!     Capital  is  subject 
at  all  times  to  the  sharp  eye  of  investigation.     Cap- 
ital is,  always  has  been,  and  always  will  be,  a  bene- 
factor to  labor.     You  ask  again.  Who  is  our  real 
oppressor?     I  answer  by  asking  you  several  ques- 
tions.    Do  you  not,  as  a  secret  society,  expect  to 
obtain  control  of  this  government?     Have  you  not 
learned  from  experience  that,  as  a  secret  organiza- 
tion, you  never  can  obtain  control?     Do  you  not 
know  that  Freemasonry  is  a  secret  organization  and 
is  now  in  control  of  this  government?     Do  you  not 
know  it  has  ruined  your  institution  as  effectually  as 
it  has  paralyzed  our8,the  best  government  on  earth? 
Do  you  not  know  that  Freemasonry  must  step  down 
and  out  if  you  ascend  to  power?     Then  will  you  not 
learn  that  Freemasons  are  your  Royal  Arch  ene- 
mies?    Do  you  not  know  that  the  Freemasons  have 
their  spies  in  your  ranks,  creating  dissension  here 
and  dissension  there  in  order  that  your  progress 
may  be   retarded?     Did  not  the  impeachment  of 
Milo  H.  Dakin  from  the  legislature  of   Michigan 


covenant  with  our  first  father,Adam,which  was  brok- 
en by  disobedience,  whose  fatal  breach  has  brought 
upon  us  losses  and  woes  unnumbered.  This  cove- 
nant the  believer  has  not  ignored.for  he  has  felt  his 
share  in  its  failure,  and  come  under  the  condemna- 
tion  of  it.  Brethren,  we  are  condemned  under  the 
first  covenant,  not  only  by  the  act  of  our  represen- 
tative,but  also  through  our  personal  endorsement  ol 
his  rebellion  by  our  own  actual  sin.  That  covenant, 
which  should  have  been  a  covenant  of  life,  has  be- 
come a  covenant  of  death  unto  us. 

This  covenanter  of  whom  I  speak  is  one  who  has, 
through  divine  enlightenment,perceived  a  better  cov- 
enant,and  sure  salvation  therein.      He  has  seen  the 
Son  of  God  arrayed  in  bloodstained  garments  com- 
ing from  Gethsemane;  he  has  seen  him  answering 
at  the  bar  for  the  broken  law,  scourged  with  the 
chastisement  of  our  peace,and  bound  with  the  bands 
of  our  condemnation.     Oh,  my  soul,  hast  thou  not 
seen  thy  Lord  bareheaded  amid  the  tempest  of  di- 
vine wrath  for  sin?  Our  soul  has  stood  in  the  midst 
of  the  horrible  tempest,  half -blinded  by  the  lightning 
and  deafened  by  the  thunder;  at  last  there  has  been 
a  rent  in  the  black  mantle.and  a  shower  of  wondrous 
love  has  followed  the  black  tempest,  and  a  voice  has 
been  heard,sweeter  than  the  harps  of  angels,  saying, 
"It  is  finished."      Thus  have  the  Lord's  covenanted 
ones  come  forth  from  under  the  old  covenant  into  a 
covenant  of  grace,  in  which  peace  and  joy  abound. 
Now  are  we  in  happy  league  with  God.       Our  cove- 
nant with  him  shall  compass  all  our  life;  we  are  his, 
and  he  is  ours.  ,, 

The  covenanting  man  does  not  regard  himself  any 
more  as  one  by  himself,  for  he  is  joined  "^^0  the 
Lord,  and  has  entered  into  the  closest  fellowship 
with  him.  None  can  separate  him  from  God—the 
union  is  vital  and  complete.  You  ask  me  what  it  is 
which  thus  binds  the  man  to  God.  I  answer:  he 
feels  that  he  is  henceforth  joined  unto  the  Lord  for 
many  reasons,  and  among  the  rest  because  the  Lord 
has  chosen  him  to  be  his  own.  He  is  old-fashioned 
enough  to  believe  that  God  has  a  choice  in  the  sal- 


lam. 


My  object  in  writing,  as  in  preaching,  on  this  system  of  oppression? 


.  •         enougn  to  oeueve  luat  ^^^  "*•"  - ,  .      , 

.      ,     ,    .      -  ,,  '^'g*°  vation  of  men.  and  he  perceives,  because  faih  has 

speak  to  you  in  thundering  tones  that,  as  a  secret  ^^^  granted  him,  that  the  Lord  has  evidently  cho, 

organization,  you  never  can  destroy  this  chartered » ^^^  ^^  ^^^  salvation.     Now,the  man  that  believes 


Dkoehbis  29, 188T 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


3 


that  Qod  has  chosen  him,  that  is  the  man  to  enter 
into  covenant  with  Qod,  and  to  keep  that  covenant. 
Moreover.in  addition  to  the  choice  of  Gk>d  this 
covenanter  sees  a  blood-mark  upon  his  body,  soul 
and  spirit.  The  redemption  made  on  the  cro88,what- 
ever  its  other  bearings,  is  seen  by  the  believer  to  be 
specially  for  him.  He  cries,  ''For  me  the  bloody 
sweat;  for  me  the  spitting  and  the  scourging;  for 
me  the  nails  and  the  spear.  Truly,  I  am  not  my 
own,  I  am  bought  with  a  price." 

Besides,  the  covenanting  believer  feels  that  he 
has  been  the  subject  of  a  special  call.  Whatever 
Qod  may  have  done  with  others,  he  knows  that  he 
has  dealt  specially  with  him  in  a  way  of  grace  and 
mercy.  A  voice  has  called  him  from  his  kindred 
and  from  his  father's  house  as  surely  as  Abraham 
was  called.  The  Lord  himself  has  brought  him  out 
of  darkness  into  marvelous  light.  Omnipotent  grace 
has  aroused  the  echoes  of  his  soul. 

Yes,  I  can  say  something  more,  ior  this  true  cov- 
enanter feels  that  he  is  now  united  to  God  in  Christ 
Jesus.  Matchless  doctrine,  unity  with  God  through 
Jesus  Christ!  We  talk  of  aristocrats,  but  believers 
are  the  aristocrats  of  heaven  and  earth.  We  often 
hear  the  words  "royalty"  and  "blood  royal;"  the 
blood  royal  of  the  universe  is  in  the  man  that  be- 
lieves in  Jesus.  By  virtue  of  our  union  with  Christ 
we  are  one  with  God  and  partakers  of  the  divine 
nature.  The  day  shall  come  when  all  the  gewgaws 
and  trappings  of  courts  shall  be  laid  aside  as  faded 
tawdriness;  but  then  the  true  dignity  and  honor  of 
the  twice-born,  the  quickened  by  the  Holy  Ghost, 
shall  be  truly  seen.  To  be  members  of  the  body  of 
Christ — this  means  glory  indeed.  To  be  married 
unto  the  King's  Son,  even  to  the  Lord  Jesus— this 
means  such  bliss  as  angels  cannot  reach.  Do  you 
wonder  that  because  of  such  immeasurable  privi- 
lege we  make  a  sure  covenant  with  God? 

There  are  three  or  four  things  I  would  say  briefly 
about  this  true  covenanter:  the  Lord  make  each  one 
of  us  to  be  of  his  stamp!  You  may  know  him  by 
his  attachment  to  the  Lord  Jesus,  who  is  the  sum, 
substance,  surety  and  seal  of  the  covenant;  as  also 
by  his  zeal  for  the  Gospel  through  which  the  cove- 
nant is  revealed  to  the  sons  of  men.  He  will  not 
hear  anything  which  is  not  according  to  the  old  Gos- 
pel, for  he  counts  another  gospel  to  be  a  pestilent 
evil.  He  is  very  fond  of  the  word  "grace; "and  with 
the  thing  itself  he  is  altogether  enamored.  The  man 
that  is  in  covenant  with  God  cannot  bear  the  idea  of 
human  merit — he  loathes  it: it  raises  his  indignation. 
Others  may  feed  on  philosophical  morality.but  noth- 
ing but  the  grace  of  God  will  do  for  us.  Our  keep- 
ing the  covenant  and  the  testimonies  binds  us  to  a 
firm  adherence  to  the  inspired  Gospel,  and  the  grace 
of  God,  which  is  the  glory  of  it. 

He  who  is  indeed  in  covenant  with  God  is  known 
by  his  continual  regard  to  the  life, walk  and  triumph 
of  faith.  He  has  faith,  and  by  that  faith  he  lives 
and  grows.  He  is  and  has  and  does  all  things  by 
f aith,and  you  cannot  tempt  him  away  from  that  faith 
wherein  he  stands. 

This  covenanting  man  will  also  be  known  by  his 
stem  resolve  to  preserve  the  Gospel  in  its  purity  and 
hand  it  on  to  others.  When  the  truth  of  God  was 
made  known  to  Abraham,  it  was  committed  to  him 
and  to  his  descendants  as  a  sacred  deposit,  of  which 
they  were  to  be  the  guardians  and  trustees.  It  was 
theirs  to  keep  that  lamp  burning  by  which  the  rest 
of  the  world  would,  in  due  time,  be  saved  from  dark- 
ness. At  this  hour  the  eternal  truths  of  the  Gospel 
of  our  Lord  Jesus  Christ  are  given  over  to  certain 
chosen  men  and  women,to  be  preserved  by  them  till 
the  coming  of  the  Lord.  This  keeping  is  to  be  ac- 
companied with  a  constant  proclamation,  so  that  the 
truth  may  spread  as  well  as  live,  and  may  go  on  con- 
quering and  to  conquer. 

II.  Under  our  second  head  let  us  now  study  the 
covenanter's  notable  experience.  The  text  says:"All 
the  paths  of  the  Lord  are  mercy  and  truth  unto  such 
as  keep  his  covenant  and  his  testimonies." 

Observe,  first,  that  the  Lord  makes  many  ap- 
proaches to  covenanting  men.  He  does  not  leave 
them  alone,  but  he  comes  to  them  and  manifests 
himself  to  them.  By  the  expression,  "All  the  paths 
of  the  Lord,"  I  learn  that  the  Lord  has  many  ways 
of  drawing  near  to  his  chosen.  Not  in  the  public 
highways  of  grace  only  doth  he  meet  those  with 
whom  he  is  on  terms  of  peace,  but  in  many  private 
and  secret  paths.  He  makes  ways  for  himself,  and 
comes  along  them  quietly,  taking  his  people  at  una- 
wares. On  a  sudden  he  whispers  a  word  of  heaven- 
ly promise,  and  then  is  away  again.  But  he  is  not 
long  gone;  he  makes  another  path,  and  comes  to  us 
with  new  unction  and  fresh  revealings.  What  a  life 
is  that  to  which  the  Lord  makes  innumerable  paths! 
Happy  shall  he  be  who  shall  attain  to  it! 

Note,  next,  that  all  the  dealings  of  God  with  his 
people  are  in  a  way  of  mercy.  "All  the  paths  of  the 
Lord  are  mercy."      This  i^  well,  for  the  best  of  the 


saints  will  always  need  mercy.    Those  who  keep  his 
covenant  are  still  kept  by  his  mercy. 

That  mercy  will  always  be  "tender  mercy,"  abid-. 
ing  mercy,  and  abounding  mercy.  His  mercy  is 
constant  as  the  day,  fresh  as  the  hour,  new  every 
morning, 

The  Psalmist  says:  "All  the  paths  of  the  Lord  are 
mercy  and  truth."     That  is  to  say,  Qod  has  always 
shown  the  truth  of  his  Word.       He  has  never  been 
false  to  his  pledges.       He  has  done  according  to  his 
Word.     We  have  followed  no  cunningly  devised  fa- 
bles.   We  have  had  truth  of  mercy,  verity  of  mercy. 
I  may  have  been  a  dreamer  in  some  things;  but  when 
I  have  lived  unto  God  I  have  then  exercised  the 
shrewdest  common  sense,  and  walked  after  the  rule 
of  prudence.     I  know  that  many  of  you  think  that 
Christian  experience  leans  to  the  region  of  sentiment 
if  not  of  imagination;  but  indeed  it  is  not  so.     The 
surest  fact  in  a  believer's  life  is  God's  nearness  to 
him,  care  for  him,  love  to  him.       Other  things  are 
shadows  or  shinings  which  come  and  go.       How  I 
wish  I  could  persuade  you  of  this!  but,  alas,the car- 
nal mind  will  not  receive  spiritual   things;  I   may 
bear  witness  of  that  which  I  taste  and  handle,  but 
you  will  not  believe  me. 

To  this  rule  there  is  no  exception — "All  the  paths 
of  the  Lord  are  mercy  and  truth  unto  such  as  keep  his 
covenant."  All  God's  dealings  with  his  people  are 
gracious  and  faithful.  Sometimes  the  ways  of  God 
are  full  of  truth  and  mercy  manifestly — they  have 
been  so  to  me  in  many  a  notable  instance. 

Mark  you,  when  we  cannot  see  it,  the  Lord  is  just 
as  merciful  in  his  ways  to  us.  God  is  as  good  when 
he  denies  as  when  he  grants;  and  though  we  often 
see  the  marvelous  tenderness  of  our  God,  it  is  not 
necessary  that  we  should  see  it  to  make  it  true. 
Our  God  is  wise  as  a  father,  and  tender  as  a  moth- 
er,and  when  we  cannot  comprehend  his  methods  we 
will  belive  in  his  love. 

I  hear  some  say:  "These  things  do  not  happen  to 
me.     I  find  myself  struggling  alone,  and  full  of  sor- 
row."     Do  you  keep  the  covenant?       Some  of  you 
professing  Christians  live  anyhow,  and  not  by  cove- 
nant rule.    You  do  not  live  to  God,  you  do  not  keep 
his  covenant,you  do  not  observe  his  testimonie8,you 
are  not  living  consecrated  lives;  therefore,  if  you  do 
not  enjoy  his  mercy  and  truth,  do  not  blame  the  Lord. 
I  have  this  much  to  add  to  it — What  a  bliss  it  is 
to  have  entered  upon  the  spiritual  life,  and  to  be  in 
covenant  with  God!      I  call  all  short  of  this  death, 
and  I  know  no  other  name  for  it.    What  solidity  we 
have  in  godliness!    It  puts  eternal  rock  beneath  our 
feet.  What  a  wondrous  thing  the  life  of  a  consecrat- 
ed man  will  seem  to  be  when  it  shall  be  viewed  in 
its  completeness,  in  the  light  of  the  eternal  throne! 
Then  will  the  embroidery  of  love  be   seen  in  its 
beauty,and  the  fabric  of  life  will   be  owned   to  be 
worthy  of  a  God.       Things  not  seen  as  yet  will  be 
seen  then;  and  things  known  in  part  will  be  seen  in 
all  their  bearings.  I  suppose  that  one  of  the  engage- 
ments of  heaven  will  be  to  observe  how  kindly  our 
God  has  dealt  with  us  upon  the  road.     At  any  rate, 
when  we  come  to  the  glory  land  we  shall  only  reck- 
on that  to  have  been  true  life  which  was  spent  in 
communion  with  God.      Link  us  with  God,  and  we 
live;  divide  us  from  him,  and  we  are  dead. 


case  was  then  on  the  same  plea  taken  to  the  Court 
of  Appeals  of  the  State;  and  that  court  has  just  laid 
down  the  doctrine  that  the  condition  of  drunken- 
ness, at  the  time  of  committing  a  crime,  is  absolute- 
ly no  legal  excuse  for  the  crime.     "Our  statute,"  said 
the  court,  "makes  it  [drunkenness]  an  offense,  and 
one  crime  should  not  privilege  another,"  adding  that 
drunkenness  is  "by  far  the  most  fruitful  source  of 
crime  in  our  State."    It  is  perhaps  true  that  murder, 
if  perpetrated  by  one  in  the  state  of  drunkenness, 
has  less  moral  enormity  attached  to  it  than  if  per- 
petrated by  one  who  is  perfectly  sober  when  com- 
mitting the  offense,  and  deliberately  does  the  deed 
in  cold  blood.     Yet  this  difference  can  never,  with 
any  safety  to  society,  be  recognized  in  the  adminis- 
tration of  penal  law.     Drunkenness  is  always  a  self- 
induced  state,  and  by  the  party  can  be  induced  at 
any  time  by  simply  drinking  a  sufficient  amount  of 
intoxicating  liquor;  and  if  this  condition  were  a  legal 
excuse  for  crime,  then  all  that  men  would  have  to 
do  in  order  to  furnish  themselves  with  an  excuse, 
would  be  to  get  thoroughly  drank  at  the  time.     So- 
ciety surely  would  not  be  adequately  protected  un- 
der such  a  rule  of  law.     The  doctrine  stated  by  the 
Kentucky  Court  of  Appeals  is  clearly  the  right  one. 

— Independent. 

^  ■  ^ 

HTMNS  OF  JUDQMBNT. 


FAIR  PLAY'S  A  JEWBL. 

So  the  Supreme  Court  decides  that  a  State  has  a 
right  to  destroy  a  distiller's  business  without  com- 
pensation therefor.  Well,  maybe  this  isn't  right. 
As  a  rabid  Prohibitionist  I  am  personally  in  favor 
of  paying  for  every  distillery,  brewery,  and  saloon 
that  is  closed  up  and  forced  out  of  business  by  pro- 
hibition. Every  dollar  of  its  highest  market  value 
at  the  time  its  business  was  good.  That  is  only 
fair  and  just  and  right.  Then,  1  am  in  favor  of 
compelling  the  distillery,  brewery,  and  saloon  to  pay 
100  cents  on  the  dollar  for  every  lousiness  that  they 
ever  closed  up  and  ruined.  That  is  only  right  and 
just  and  fair,  too.  Let  us  strike  a  balance  with  the 
distillery,  square  up  the  account  on  both  sides,  and 
the  fellow  who  comes  out  in  debt  must  agree  to  pay 
up  like  a  man,  no  matter  what  the  Supremo  Court 
says.  My  word  for  it,  the  Kansas  Prohibitionists 
are  ready  and  willing  to  waive  the  decision  and 
settle  on  this  basis  if  the  distillery  is.  What  is 
sauce  for  the  goose  of  the  pond  is  sauce  for  the 
worm  of  the  still.  Walk  up  to  the  counter,  worm, 
and  settle. — Burdette. 


The  Psalmist  says,  "I  wi!l  sing  of  mercy  and 
judgment,  unto. thee,  0  Lord,  will  I  sing."  One  of 
the  most  marked  characteristics  of  the  light  and  friv- 
olous singing  of  the  present  day,  is  the  utter  absence 
of  hymns  and  songs  dealing  with  the  facts  of  eter- 
nal judgment  and  final  retribution.  We  are  told 
again  and  again  that  ministers  and  churches  hold 
the  old  faith  that  their  fathers  held,  and  so  they  do, 
when  tbey  are  testing  people's  orthodoxy,  or  quali- 
fying them  to  receive  salaries,  enjoy  privileges,  ap- 
propriate endowments,  or  hunt  out  heretics:  but  we 
have  abundant  reason  to  believe  that  in  many  in- 
stances, not  only  individuals  but  churches  and  de- 
nominations have  drifted  away  from  their  ancient 
moorings,  and  in  many  cases  do  not  themselves 
know  just  where  they  are,  or  whither  they  are  go- 
ing. 

Take  any  modern  hymnal  and  look  through  it  to 
find  hymns  which  bear  upon  the  awful  themes  of 
judgment  and  eternity,  and  how  little  you  will  find. 
You  may  meet  with  songs  about  "clouds,"  and 
"mists,"  and  "angel's  wings,"  and  "disembodied 
throngs,"  and  "golden  gates,"  and  "silver  rivers," 
and  "Beulah's  land,"  and  "angel's  harpstrings,"  but 
how  few  you  will  find  of  those  hymns  which  bring 
the  soul  to  stand  face  to  face  with  God,  and  con- 
sider the  solemn  realities  of  judgment  and  eternity? 
You  look  for  such  hymns  in  the  current  hymnals 
of  the  day  and  you  can  scarcely  find  one  of  them. 
The  old  hymns  which  dealt  with  such  subjects  are 
mostly  discarded,  and  instead  of  them  we  have 
something  of  a  very  different  character  and  a  very 
different  influence.  Men  who  hold  the  same  creeds 
that  their  fathers  did,  sing  differently,  and  preach 
differently,  and  sometimes  practice  differently  from 
those  in  whose  steps  they  profess  to  be  walking. — 
The  Christian,  Boston. 

THE  RBMBD7  FOB  8001 AL  ILLS. 


A  man,  some  time  since,  killed  another  in  the  State 
of  Kentucky,  when  under  the  influence  of  intoxicat- 
ing liquor.  He  was  indicted  on  the  charge  of  mur- 
der in  the  first  degree,  and,  being  tried  and  convicted, 
he  was  sentenced  to  be  hanged.  He  interposed  the 
plea  of  intoxication  on  his  trial,  which  was  regarded  _ 
by  the  court  as  furnishing  no  defense  for  the  crime  I  ^ 


committed,  or  even  mitigation  of  its  enormity.    The  "» <^  Forem. 


The  advocates  of  the  new  theory  of  property,  in 
their  revision  of  the  Bible,  would  give  us  an  im- 
proved version  of  the  parable  of  the  Good  Samari- 
tan. They  tell  us  that  when  the  proud  Levite  and 
the  selfish  priest  had  passed  by  the  wounded  man,  a 
kind  communist  came  down  that  way,  and  began  to 
whisper  in  the  sufferer's  ear:  "My  friend,  you  have 
been  very  much  in  error.  You  were  a  thief  your- 
self when  you  were  amassing  your  private  wealth; 
and  these  gentlemen  who  have  just  relieved  you  of 
it  with  needless  violence  have  only  begun  in  a  hasty 
and  unjustifiable  manner  what  must  soon  be  done 
in  a  large  and  calm  way  for  the  benefit  of  the  whole 
community."  Whereupon,  we  are  to  sup^xtse  the 
man  was  much  enlightened  and  comforted,  and  be- 
came a  useful  member  of  society.  But  Christ  says 
that  it  was  a  Samaritan, a  man  of  property,  riding  on 
his  own  beast,  and  carrying  a  little  spare  capital  in 
his  pocket,  who  lifted  up  the  stranger,  and  gave 
him  oil  and  wine,  and  brought  him  into  a  place  of 
security,  and  paid  for  his  support  And  to  every 
one  who  reads  the  parable,  he  says:  "Go  thou  and 
do  likewise."  Here  is  the  open  secret  of  the  regen- 
eration of  society  in  the  form  of  a  picture.  And  if 
we  want  it  in  the  form  of  a  philosophy  we  may  get 
it  from  St.  Paul  in  five  words:  "Let  him  that  stole 
steal  no  more  (reformation),  but  rather  let  him  labor 
(industry),  working  with  his  bands  that  which  is 
good  (honesty),  that  he  may  have  (property^,  to  give 
to  him  that  needeth  (charity)." — Rev.  Dr.  \an  Dyke, 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYITOBURli. 


Decbmbxb  29, 1887 


REFORM  NEWS. 


FROM  TEE    OBNBBAL  AGENT. 


NOTIS   OP   A    KANSAS   VISIT. 


Leaving  Chicago  on  the  13th  I  arrived  in  Abilene, 
Kansas,  at  4  o'clock  a.  m.  of  the  15th,  without  note- 
worthy incident.  My  business  at  Abilene  was 
chiefly  with  the  recorder  and  tax  receiver  of  Dickin- 
son county,and  having  accomplished  my  work  I  made 
some  notes  of  the  city.  It  reports  a  population  of 
y,000,  and  exhibits  signs  of  "push"  and  growth 
above  the  average  of  other  towns  I  visited.  Real 
estate  brokers  and  loan  offices,  with  life  and  fire 
insurance  agencies,  occupy  the  most  conspicuous 
corners,  and  every  new  arrival  may  be  sure  of  receiv- 
ing due  attention.  1  am  under  special  obligation  to 
Fry,  Royer  and  Bessie  for  information,  and  was  glad 
to  learn  of  the  high  esteem  in  which  our  friend,  C. 
B.  Knight  of  Worcester,  is  held  by  this  leading  firm 
and  by  the  citizens,  as  well  as  of  the  profitable  in- 
vestment he  made  during  his  brief  sojourn  in  Ab- 
ilene. 

salina's  masonic  murder. 

I  reached  Salina  on  the  evening  of  the  15th,  and 
was  obliged  to  remain  over  night  for  a  train  on  the 
Missouri  Pacific.  At  the  New  York  House  I  learned 
that  court  was  in  session,  and  that  a  man  by  the 
name  of  Chilson  was  on  trial  for  shooting  a  neigh- 
bor by  the  name  of  Head.  Parties  who  had  attend- 
ed the  trial  thought  the  evidence  conclusive  of  wil- 
ful, premeditated  murder,  without  any  mitigating 
features.  He  had  followed  the  man  with  a  pistol; 
had  repeatedly  said  he  would  kill  him;  and,  driving 
out  of  town  with  an  associate,  passed  his  victim  on 
the  road,  gave  his  team  into  the  charge  of  his  com- 
panion who  drove  on,  while  he  concealed  himself  in 
a  hedge,  and  when  Head  came  up  he  shot  him  dead 
in  his  carriage.  Chilson  admitted  the  killing,  but 
claimed  to  be  acting  in  "self-defence."  The  opinion 
seemed  unanimous  that  Chilson  was  guilty  and  would 
be  hung.  After  listening  for  a  time  the  landlord 
said,  "Gentlemen,  he's  a  high  Mason  and  belongs  to 
the  Odd-fellows  and  all  them  kind  of  societies,  and 
he'll  never  be  hung  or  go  to  the  penitentiary.  You 
see  his  bondsmen  are  all  Masons,  and  they  are  do- 
ing all  they  can  for  him;  and  mark  my  word,  they 
will  clear  him  slick  and  clean!" 

There  was  a  lull  in  the  conversation,  and  I  thought 
it  a  good  time  to  repeat  that  clause  of  the  Master 
Mason's  oath  which  refers  to  the  "grand  hailing 
sign  of  distress."  I  found  myself  the  "cynosure 
of  all  eyes,"  and  very  soon  confronted  by  members 
of  both  the  Masonic  and  Odd-fellow  orders.  We 
engaged  in  a  spirited  interchange  of  words,  which 
continued  until  eleven  o'clock,  in  which  some  tall 
lying  was  done,  unless  Finney,  Bernard,  Ronayne, 
and  all  the  rest  of  the  seceders,  have  grossly  be- 
trayed us  "profanes"  as  to  the  ceremonies  and  oaths 
of  the  "Blue  Lodge."  I  could  but  pity  the  poor 
Hiramites,  but  was  encouraged  to  find  that  "they 
that  be  with  us  are  more  than  they  that  be  with 
them."  I  was  obliged  to  decline  invitations  to  visit 
and  speak  in  three  different  counties,  but  furnished 
the  gentleman  with  the  Weed  pamphlet  and  other 
documents. 

CARLTON. 

This  is  a  new  and  small  village  on  thft  Missouri 
Pacific  railroad,  located  in  a  rich  farming  region, 
which  has  this  season  suffered  severely  from  drouth, 
and  other  causes.  The  individual  banking  estab- 
lishment of  the  town  suspended  a  short  time  ago, 
and  tied  up  what  little  change  there  was  in  the  place, 
so  that  business  is  at  a  standstill. 

A  drive  of  four  miles  to  the  half  section  belong- 
ing toMiss  Cynthia  Derbyshire  of  Yp8ilanti,Mich.,was 
over  superb  roads,  and  what  in  ordinary  seasons  is 
a  most  productive  region.  Having  completed  my 
mission  to  Carlton,  I  took  supper  with  Mr.  Shaffer, 
a  long-time  friend  of  Rev.  D.  Yant,  and  who  heard 
me  speak  in  Bolivar,  Ohio.  I  then  returned  to  Abi- 
lene. 

Ex-Governor  Glick  and  many  leading  Democrats 
had  been  in  conference  during  my  absence,  and  in 
his  address  the  ex-Governor  said,  "Our  first  object 
is  to  establish  a  daily  paper  that  shall  be  the  Demo- 
cratic organ  of  the  State;  and,  second,  to  seek  the 
removal  of  the  capital  from  Topeka  to  this  city." 
The  paper  has  been  issued  but  the  seat  of  govern- 
ment is  still,  so  far  as  I  could  learn,  at  Topeka,  but 
the  rumor  would,  of  course,  "boom"  real  estate  in 
Abilene. 

TOPEKA. 

Unable  to  reach  Chicago  before  the  Sabbath  I 
dropped  off  at  Topeka,  where  I  preached  morning 
and  evening  for  the  Wesleyans,  and  took  part  with 
the  "Salvation  Army"  in  their  three  o'clock  services. 
The  Army  report  over  fifty  conversions  in  the  few 


weeks  they  have  been  at  Topeka,  and  the  Wesley- 
ans are  just  now  engaged  in  a  protracted  effort  with 
encouraging  prospects. 

During  my  stay  of  nearly  a  week,  in  which  tiaie 
I  have  visited  several  interior  towns  and  traveled 
nearly  five  hundred  miles  in  Kansas,  I  have  not 
seen  a  single  person  under  the  influence  of  intoxi- 
cating liquor,  and  have  heard  very  little  profanity, 
until  reaching  Kansas  City,  where  the  "demon" 
seems  to  have  full  sway,  and  the  name  of  God  is 
blasphemed  with  impunity.  J.  P.  Stoddard. 


OUR  SOUTHERN  AGENT  ENTERS  ARKANSAS. 


South  Land  College,  Arkansas,  ] 
Dec,  17th,  1887.  j 

Dear  Cynosure: — Forty -four  years  ago  I  stopped 
for  a  few  minutes  at  Helena,  then  a  small  village 
occupying  a  tract  much  of  which  is  now  in  the  bed 
of  the  Mississippi  river.  That  was  the  only  time 
1  had  been  in  the  State  until  I  walked  off  the  fine 
steamer,  James  Lee,  on  the  morning  of  the  15th  inst. 
at  Helena.  I  had  been  stopping  some  days  at  Mem- 
phis, and  had  enjoyed  the  hospitality  of  Bro.  Coun- 
tee  and  his  excellent  wife.  I  had  preached  for  Rev. 
B,  A.  Imes  in  the  Congregational  church,  and  for 
Bro.  Countee  in  the  Tabernacle  Baptist  church;  had 
given  one  lecture  to  the  more  than  300  students  of 
LeMoyne  Institute;  had  visited  numerous  brethren; 
conferred  with  dear  Bro.  Woodsmall;  and  left  there 
on  the  evening  of  the  14th.  It  costs  about  as  much 
to  travel  on  a  Mississippi  steamer  as  it  does  to  stay 
the  same  length  of  time  at  a  first  class  hotel,and  the 
accommodations  are  about  the  same.  If  one  can 
spare  the  time,  it  is  a  luxurious  mode  of  traveling. 
At  Helena  the  hills  forming  the  west  bank  of  the 
river  basin  approach  within  half  a  mile  of  the  stream. 
Elsewhere  the  hills  are  far  away.  The  town,  which 
is  an  important  business  place,  has  from  5,000  to 
6,000  inhabitants.  Part  of  it  is  high  and  has  many 
fine  residences.  Much  is  low  and  liable  to  overflow 
in  spite  of  the  extensive  levees. 

A  very  fine  school  building — for  whites — sur- 
mounted with  a  tower  and  clock  stands  near  the  cen- 
ter of  the  city.  What  may  be  the  provisions  for  a 
public  school  for  the.  colored,  I  did  not  learn;  but 
only  that  the  public  school  system  has  a  very  imper- 
fect development  in  the  State.  The  colored  church- 
es are  two  Baptist,  one  Methodist  Episcopal,and  one 
African  M.  E.  I  believe  the  pastors  of  all  these 
churches  belong  to  some  secret  order,  and  nearly  all 
the  members,  both  male  and  female.  Most  of  the 
churches  here  and  in  this  vicinity  have  each  a  secret 
church  aid  society  to  which  none  are  admitted  but 
the  duly  initiated.  I  have  often  heard  Freemasonry 
called  the  "hand-maid  of  religion,"  but  here  it  be- 
comes its  mistress,and  despotically  controls  its  min- 
isters and  members. 

Two  of  these  pastors,  who  have  themselves  been 
Freemasons,  and  had  a  membership  in  the  other  or- 
ders, have  become  heartily  sick  and  tired  of  this  des- 
potism, which  controls,subverts  and  practically  pau- 
perizes the  church.  They  have  invited  me  to  preach 
to  their  people  and  hope  to  arrange  for  lectures. 

Ten  miles  west  of  Helena  is 

SOUTH   land   college, 

a  school  established  by  the  Society  of  Friends  for  the 
education  of  colored  youth.  On  the  16th  a  ride 
over  the  hills,  covered  with  magnificent  oaks,  beech 
and  poplars,  brought  me  to  a  broad  and  beautiful 
valley  where  this  school  makes  a  little  world  by  it- 
self. It  was  chartered  in  1864;  the  Normal  grade 
was  instituted  in  1869;  college  department  organized 
in  1872;  first  class  graduated  in  1876.  Over  300 
teachers  have  gone  out  from  here  to  labor  in  this  and 
adjoining  States.  It  is  at  present  under  the  care  of 
Elkanah  and  Irena  S.  Beard,  who  were  formerly 
missionaries  of  the  Society  of  Friends  in  India.  They 
are  assisted  by  seven  professors  and  teachers.  I 
was  kindly  received  and  listened  with  great  interest 
to  the  rhetorical  exercises  on  Friday  afternoon.  I 
met  here  Prof.  C.  J.  Miller,  a  graduate  of  Berea 
College,  who  had  heard  me  preach  and  lecture  sev- 
eral times  in  that  place.  He  comes  to  take  charge  of 
the  public  school. 

This  excellent  institution, whose  prospects  up  to  a 
short  time  ago  were  never  more  promising,  has  met 
with  a  severe  calamity.  Of  the  six  fine  buildings 
occupied  for  school  and  dormitories,  three  have 
burned  down,  and  they  are  left  both  crowded  and 
crippled.  Fortunately  the  main  college  building 
was  not  burned.and  1  attended  a  meeting  of  the  col- 
ored citizens  to  take  steps  for  rebuilding.  Much  in- 
terest was  manifested  and  about  $150  were  pledged. 
It  is  earnestly  hoped  that  the  friends  of  education 
will  interest  themselves  in  this  school  and  will  aid 
in  rebuilding.  Nowhere  in  the  State  is  there  greater 
need  than  here,  and  perhaps  nowhere  have  been  bet- 
ter results  from  school  work  among  the  freedmen. 


Owing  to  the  crowded  condition  of  the  college  build- 
ings, they  were  unable  to  extend  to  me  the  hospital- 
ity I  usually  find  among  Friends.  But  a  neighbor, 
Mr.  D.  C.  Gordon,  a  Southern  white  Republican,and 
a  Christian  gentleman,  together  with  his  amiable 
lady  has  made  my  stay  here  most  pleasant  and  prof- 
itable. 

Helena,  Dec.  19. — I  lectured  on  Saturday  night 
in  the  college  chapel  at  South  Land  to  an  intelligent 
and  appreciative  audience.  All  received  the  truth 
kindly  and  candidly.  One  of  the  professors,recent- 
ly  from  Indiana,  said  Tie  was  an  Odd-fellow,  and  be- 
longed to  two  other  orders.  He  was  not  quite  con- 
vinced, but  had  listened  with  interest.  Others  con- 
nected with  the  school  thought  that  what  I  had  said 
was  timely  and  important.  On  Sabbath  morning, 
which  was  bright  and  warm,I  was  brought  into  Hel- 
ena in  time  for  the  morning  service.  At  three  p.  m. 
I  preached  in  the  First  Baptist  church.  Rev.  Morris, 
pastor.  They  have  a  fine  new  house  of  worship  and 
are  a  prosperous  congregation.  Bro.  Morris  reads 
the  Cynosure  with  interest  and  heartily  welcomed 
what  I  said  about  the  "orders."  At  night  I  preached 
in  the  A.  M.  E,  church.  Rev.  Russel,  pastx)r,  who 
also  expressed  his  appreciation  and  added  eloquent 
words  of  endorsement.     I  go  hence  to  Pine  Bluff". 

H.  H.  Hinman. 


FROM  TEE  IOWA  AGENT. 


JASON   BARTHOLOMEW'S    MEMORIAL. — THE    PROHIBI- 
TION  conference. — THE   FRIENDS*   MEETINGS. 


Dear  Cynosure: — From  Salem  I  went  to  Cedar 
Rapids  to  take  train  for  Chicago  to  attend  the  Con- 
ference of  Prohibitionists.  At  Cedar  Rapids  I  called 
on  N.  Bourne,  who  has  been  an  active  worker  in  the 
N.  C.  A.  and  Prohibition  movements. 

He  took  me  to  one  of  the  cemeteries  of  the  city,to 
visit  the  grave  of  Jason  C.  Bartholemew,  who  died 
August  2nd,  1884,  aged  79  years,  4  months.  He 
was  a  veteran  anti-slavery  reformer,  and  afterwards 
entered  with  his  whole  soul  into  the  battle  of  Christ 
against  the  great  anti-Christ  of  this  country,  the  se- 
cret lodge  system.  Bro.  N.  Bourne  settled  his  es- 
tate, and,  in  behalf  of  his  widow,  erected  a  suitable 
monument  to  his  memory.  It  is  of  the  best  New 
Hampshire  granite  and  second  to  no  monument  in 
the  cemetery.  Massive  and  well-proportioned,it  will 
perpetuate  his  memory  to  the  end  of  time,  and  his 
works  will  follow  him  to  make  green  his  memory  in 
the  Eternal  City  of  our  God.  Chiseled  into  the  en- 
during granite  are  the  words: 

Here  lie  the  remains  of  a  vigorous  opposer  of  Ameri- 
can slavery  and  secret  societies,  especially  Freemasonry. 

He  spent  freely  of  his  time  and  worldly  goods  to  es- 
tablish equity  and  righteousness  in  the  earth. 

He  loved  God  and  his  fellow  men. 

"Blessed  are  the  dead  that  die  in  the  Lord.  They  rest 
from  their  labors  and  their  works  do  follow  them." 

Being  dead,  our  friend  Bartholomew  yet  speaks 
from  the  enduring  granite  that  marks  his  earthly 
resting  place.  Much  credit  is  due  to  his  widow,and 
to  Bro.  N.  Bourne,  who,  as  her  agent,  was  instru- 
mental in  erecting  this  enduring  tribute  to  the  mem- 
ory of  a  departed  moral  hero. 

From  Cedar  Rapids  I  went  to  Chicago,  stopping 
at  Wheaton  long  enough  to  go  to  "my  own  hired 
house"  and  greet  my  family.  My  mission  to  the 
Conference  of  Prohibitionists  was  to  protest  in  the 
name  of  the  million  church  members  who  were 
represented  at  the  Congress  of  Christians  and 
Churches  held  at  Chicago  last  March  to  consider  the 
secret  lodge  system  against  drawing  the  secret  soci- 
ety car  with  the  Prohibition  engine.  We  think  it  is 
time  that  Christian  men  and  women  should  walk 
circumspectly,  as  in  the  day,  and  not  stumble  into 
building  up  one  great  system  of  evil  while  they  are 
laboring  to  pull  down  another. 

There  were  some  grand  men  and  noble  women  at 
the  Conference.  Gen.  Fisk,  of  New  Jersey,  will 
doubtless  be  the  Presidential  nominee  of  the  Prohi- 
bition party.  Grover  Cleveland  and  some  other 
man  may  combine  and  defeat  him  in  '88  as  John  P. 
St.  John  says  Mr.  Blaine  and  Mr.  Cleveland  com- 
bined and  defeated  him  in  '84.  But,  if  individual 
manhood  was  the  test,  he  ought  to  be  a  noble  speci- 
men of  American  manhood  who  should  be  preferred 
before  such  a  Christian  gentleman  and  philanthrop- 
ist as  Gen.  Fisk  of  New  Jersey. 

I  think  I  never  was  at  a  meeting  where  the  Chris- 
tian women  of  America  were  more  ably  represented 
than  at  this  Chicago  Conference.  The  saloon  sys- 
tem may  well  tremble  before  the  tread  of  the  migh- 
ty army  of  Christian  heroes,  of  which  the  Christian 
women  form  the  center,  that  are  marching  on  in  the 
name  of  Christ  to  free  our  homes  and  native  land 
from  the  drink  curse. 

The  Republican  party  is  a  "grand  old  party."  No 
other  political  organization  of  men  can  point  to  such 


Deoembib  29,  188T 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSUHK 


a  glorious  record  of  achievements.  But  the  day  is 
hastening  when  a  party  for  Christ  and  righteousness 
will  arise,  composed  of  the  good  men  and  women  of 
our  land  in  the  North  and  in  the  South,  in  the  East 
and  in  the  West,  who  will  ordain  political  righteous- 
nets.  Then  the  saloons  and  the  gambling  hells,  and 
the  secret  lodges  and  the  brothels  must  go!  In  that 
good  time  coming  the  women  of  our  fair  land  will 
wield  the  ballot,  and  side  by  side  with  the  men  who 
are  true  and  tried  they  will  conquer,  and  social  pur- 
ity will  triumph.  Adultery  will  cease  to  be  legal- 
ized in  that  day.  No  polygamy  in  Utah  for  the 
Mormons:  and  no  law  for  unscriptural  divorce  and 
marriage  for  the  Gentiles  of  the  States.  Glorious 
have  been  the  achievements  of  the"grand  old  party" 
in  the  past.  More  glorious  will  be  the  achievements 
of  the  party  of  all  righteousness  in  the  future.  It 
was  a  proud  day  for  the  old  veterans  when  they 
marched  with  Sherman  to  the  sea.  But  a  nobler  rec- 
ord shall  they  make  who  march  with  Christ  to  the 
conquest  of  the  governments  of  this  world  until  the 
warp  and  woof  of  human  legislation  shall  be  the  law 
of  God. 

After  I  had  fulfilled  my  mission  at  Chicago,  and 
had  made  a  short  visit  with  my  family  at  Wheaton,I 
returned  to  Iowa  and  resumed  my  work.  The  first 
week  after  my  return  I  sent  nineteen  subscriptions 
to  the  Cynosure,  all  of  them  for  a  full  year  but  two, 
which  were  for  six  months.  I  spent  one  night  with 
James  Harvey,  the  treasurer  of  the  Iowa  Associa- 
tion. On  Saturday  night  I  reached  Aaron  Stalker's, 
an  earnest  friend  of  reform,  and  a  member  of  the 
Friends'  church  at  Hopewell,  Salem  quarterly  meet- 
ing. 

I  sat  with  the  Friends  of  the  Hopewell  meeting 
on  First  Day,  11  A.  m.,  and  being  admonished  by  the 
elder,  who  sits  at  the  head  of  the  meeting,  to  use  my 
liberty,I  preached  the  Word  unto  them,  I  had  call- 
ed upon  friend  Hiatt,  the  minister  of  the  Richland 
meeting  on  Seventh  Day,  and  he  arranged  to  ap- 
point a  special  meeting  for  me  on  First  Day  at  7  p.m. 
So  I  returned  from  Hopewell  after  the  morning  ser- 
vice and  preached  at  Richland  in  the  evening.  I 
have  a  lecture  announced  for  Richland  on  Tuesday 
evening,  and  at  Hopewell  on  Wednesday 
evening,  and  at  Woolsey  Friends'  meeting  house  on 
Thursday  evening. 

Truly  the  harvest  is  great  and  the  laborers  are 
few.  Bro.  Coe  will  take  the  field  with  me  as  soon 
as  the  friends  in  Iowa  will  increase  their  subscrip- 
tions so  as  to  justify  duplicating  the  working  force. 
Send  in  your  donations  and  subscriptions  to  our 
State  treasurer,  James  Harvey,  Pleasant  Plain,  Jef- 
ferson Co.,  Iowa.  Let  all  who  are  indebted  for  the 
Cynosure,9.nd.  those  who  are  back  on  last  year's  sub- 
scription to  the  Iowa  Christian  Association,  please 
remit  as  soon  as  possible  to  the  treasurer. 

C.  F.  Hawlby. 


I  had  intended  stopping  off  one  train  at  Stouts- 
ville,  but  meeting  the  pastor  of  the  Evangelical 
church  at  the  depot,  coming  to  this  place,I  conclud- 
ed not  to  stop.  He  assured  me  of  his  support  in  ar- 
ranging for  lectures.  I  have  met  with  more  success 
in  securing  Cynosure  readers  here  this  year  than  last. 
Reform  sentiment  is  evidently  increasing. 

W.  B.  Stoddabd. 


REFORM  BBNTIMENT  GROWING  IN  OHIO. 

CiBOLEViLLE,  0.,  Dec.  22d,  1887. 

Dear  Cynosube: — Before  going  to  the  young 
people's  meeting  in  the  Lutheran  church  with  Rev, 
Schneider,  at  whose  home  I  am  a  guest,I  will  report 
briefly  of  my  last  week's  work. 

After  my  lecture  last  reported  at  Martinsburg  I 
returned  to  Columbus,  spending  the  rest  of  last  week 
there  and  at  Reynoldsburg,  My  next  stop  was  at  Ca- 
nal Winchester.  There  I  found  a  sad  state  of  af- 
fairs: secretists  as  thick  as  the  frogs  of  Egypt:  ev- 
ery church  in  town,  with  one  exception,  represented 
at  the  altars  of  Baal.  The  one  exception  was  the 
German  Lutheran.  Its  pastor  Rev.  L.  H.  Schuh,as- 
sured  me  of  his  hearty  sympathy.  He  hopes  to  ar- 
range for  me  to  lecture  next  month.  Mr.  Israel  Gay- 
man,  a  Methodist  brother,  entertained  me  part  of 
the  time  during  my  stay.  He  became  interested  in 
our  reform  by  listening  to  a  lecture  which  I  gave  at 
Hope  about  a  year  ago.  The  U.  B.  church  there 
was  entirely  "liberal."  The  fathers  who  founded 
and  builded  the  church  were  firm  in  iheir  opposition 
to  the  lodge.  God  prospered  them.  Many  were 
converted.  The  children  now  claim  that  they  have 
acted  as  incubators  to  hatch  out  converts  for  other 
churches  long  enough,  and  wish  to  make  their  nest 
large  like  the  others  to  take  in  all  sorts  of  chicks. 
As  sure  as  God's  Word  is  true,  such  a  church  will 
not  prosper  spiritually. 

My  next  stop  was  at  the  home  of  Mr.  C.M.Strick- 
ler,  Clearport.  Mr.  S.  recently  graduated  from  the 
Law  School  at  Ann  Arbor,Michigan.  His  principles 
are  known  far  and  near;  he  having  made  speeches 
and  circulated  reform  literature.  We  can  recom- 
mend him  to  any  desiring  services  in  his  line.  I 
added  Cynosure  subscriptions  to  our  list  here  as  else- 
where. One  man  in  subscribing  said  that  his  boys 
attended  my  lectures  last  year  and  that  they  had 
never  been  as  interested  in  any  lectures  as  in  those, 
He  di<l  ftot  thin^  ^ey  would  join  th^  lodgQ, 


VOLUNTEER  WORK  FOR  THE  NATIONAL 
CONVENTION. 


New  Orleans,  Dec.  19,  1887. 
Deab  Cynosure: — I  had  to  postpone  my  pro- 
posed visit  to  Baton  Rouge,  last  week,  but,  thank 
God,  Bros.  Hubbs,  Clanton,  Dorsey,  Reese,  and 
other  prominent  anti -secretists,  were  there.  The  books 
you  sent  with  tracts  came  safely.  I  will  try  to  use 
them  for  the  glory  of  God.  I  have  the  promise  of 
many  here  to  attend  the  proposed  convention,  Feb- 
ruary 17th  to  20th,  1888.  I  visited  Kennerville,  a 
small  village  of  700  or  800  inhabitants,  on  the  L. 
N.  O.  tt  T.  R.  R.  There  are  three  Baptist  and  one 
Methodist  church  in  the  place;  but  owing  to  the 
Knights  of  Labor  having  a  meeting,  there  were  no 
services  except  in  one  church  on  the  Sabbath.  It 
seems  as  if  every  man  in  the  town  is  a  Knight  of 
Labor.  Every  Baptist  preacher  and  deacon  in  the 
place  is  a  member,  and  reform  is  not  worth  one-half 
per  cent  as  yet,  but  I  trust  to  accomplish  some  good 
here,  God  helping.  I  met  Revs.  F.  Isaacs  and  A, 
Robinson  here,  both  missionaries  from  our  First 
District  Baptist  Association.  They  both  regard  the 
Knights  of  Labor  as  a  great  fraudulent  political 
scheme,  and  no  good  for  laborers.  Though  both  of 
these  reverends  are  Odd-fellows,  they  heartily  accept 
reform.  They  promise  to  attend  the  National  Con- 
vention, and  both  admit  that  Christians  need  not 
join  secret  societies  to  do  good.  A  Bro.  Williams 
tried  to  persuade  me  to  join  the  Knights  of  Labor, 
saying,  it  is  the  strongest  and  best  secret  society  in 
the  world.  I  hope  to  go  on  my  mission  in  the  coun- 
try, to  arouse  an  interest  in  the  convention,  but  I 
don't  know  yet  whether  I  will  be  able.  Rev.  Isaac 
Hall  promises  to  do  all  he  can  to  awaken  his  peo- 
ple to  attend  the  convention.  I  preached  last  night 
in  the  little  African  Baptist  church  of  Kennerville, 
Rev.  J.  L.  Burl,  pastor.  There  was  a  nice  and  atten- 
tive audience.  I  preached  last  Thurday  night  here 
in  Pleasant  Plain  M.  E.  church.  Continue  in  your 
good  work.  Francis  J.  Davidson. 


— A  dispatch  from  Stanstead,  province  of  Quebec, 
Dec.  19,  says:  "This  morning  about  1  o'clock  a 
bomb  with  a  lighted  fuse  was  thrown  through  a 
window  into  the  dining-room  of  Dt.  Canfield's  resi- 
dence. Mrs.  Canfield  hearing  the  crash  and  hissing 
of  the  fuse  sprang  from  her  bed  and  succeeded  in 
detaching  the  fuse.  The  bomb  contained  enough 
giant  powder  to  demolish  the  house  and  kill  all  its 
inmates.  The  doctor's  father,  who  is  a  bailiff,  has 
been  engaged  lately  serving  processes  for  violations 
of  the  Canada  temperance  act  and  was  threatened 
with  violence  if  he  did  not  desist." 

A  Bangor  lawyer  has  made  an  analysis  of  internal 
revenue  statistics  which  shows  that,  while  these 
taxes  amounted  last  year  to  an  average  of  $1.76  per 
capita  of  the  population  of  the  United  States,  the 
sum  collected  in  Maine,  $28,856,  was  only  4  cents 
per  capita  of  the  population  of  the  States,  This  is 
another  illustration  of  the  way  in  which  prohibition 
is  a  "failure"  in  Maine! 


ComiESPONDENGE. 


THE  NEW  YORE  METHODIST  PASTORS  HEAR 
FROM  OHIO. 

Brooklyn,  N.  Y.,  Dec.  22,  1887. 
Editob  Christian  Cynosure: — On  Monday  morn- 
ing I  had  the  pleasure  of  attending  the  M.  K.  preach- 
ers' meeting,  in  the  Book  Concern,  Broadway,  New 
York.  They  meet  at  11  o'clock.  There  were  200 
present.  I  was  introduced  to  the  officers  by  the 
kindness  of  the  editor  of  the  Christian  Advocate  By 
invitation,  Dr.  Harper,  of  Yale  College,  read  a  paper 
on  "The  Bible  and  Syrian  Monuments."  He  began 
with  a  reference  to  the  Divine  in  Scripture.  The 
fact  that  sixty-two  different  men,  living  in  different 
places  and  through  a  period  of  1500  years,  represent- 
ing every  degree  of  culture,  writing  in  different  lan- 
guages and  styles  of  composition,  should  all 
unite  in  making  one  harmonious  book,  called 
the  Bible,  can  only  be  explained  on  this  hy- 
pothesis, "Holy  men  of  old  spake  as  they  were 
moved  by  the  Holy  Ghost."  But  the  Bible  has  a 
human  side.  It  bears  the  impress  of  its  authors. 
Like  the  Saviour's  two-fold  nature,  i*.  is  perfectly 
human  and  absolutely  divine.  The  Syrian  monu- 
ments illuatrat^  the  human  side,    They  contain  rec- 


ords of  wars  and  pillage,  and  weak  and  foolish  trib- 
utes of  self-praise.  He  quoted  their  account  of  the 
wars  against  David,  Jeroboam,  Jehu,  etc.  They  are 
much  like  what  we  find  in  Kings  and  Chronicles. 
Then  he  added:  "It  is  generally  affirmed  that  the 
likeness  proves  the  authenticity  of  the  Scriptures. 
But  I  say,  it  is  their  unlikeness.  The  Syrian  records 
breath  the  spirit  of  pride;  the  Scriptures  are  humble. 
Their  language  is  extravagant;  the  Bible  is  chaste. 
The  one  praises  men;  the  other  praises  God." 

Then  Dr.  Leonard  of  Ohio  was  called  upon  to 
speak  upon  "The  Temperance  Situation  in  Ohio," 
He  said:  The  constitution  adopted  in  1851  forbids 
the  granting  of  license.  Until  1881  license  or  tax 
was  not  thought  of  in  the  State,  Any  one  who  will 
take  the  trouble  to  read  the  debates  in  the  conven- 
tion which  drafted  a  new  constitution  will  find  this 
to  be  the  case,  and  the  new  constitution  was  defeated 
because  it  had  a  tax-clause.  In  1881  the  Republican 
legislature  passed  the  Pond  law.  The  smaller  sa- 
loon must  pay  $100  tax,  the  larger  $200,  and  both 
give  bond.  The  Supreme  Court  of  Ohio  is  a  very 
peculiar  affair:  sometimes  it  goes  this  way,  some- 
times that.  It  had  three  Democrats  and  two  Repub- 
licans on  the  bench.  The  Democratic  judges  decided 
the  bond  was  unconstitutional  and  so  the  law  was 
annulled.  In  1883  two  amendments  were  submitted 
to  the  people,  the  first  to  license  liquor  selling, 
the  second  to  prohibit  it.  The  first  received  95,000 
votes,  the  second,  323,000  votes  that  were  counted 
— showing  how  the  people  stood.  That  winter  the 
Republican  legislature  passed  the  Scott  law,  without 
the  bond  feature.  But  the  liquor  men  of  Hamilton 
county  rebelled  and  that  was  declared  unconstitu- 
tional. 

Last  year  the  Republican  legislature  passed  the 
Dow  law.  It  had  three  features:  The  Council  local 
option,  the  Sunday  opening,  and  the  tax.  In  not  a 
single  village  where  local  option  has  been  adopted 
are  the  saloons  closed.  Cincinnati,  Sandusky,  Bu- 
cyrus  and  other  places  have  adopted  the  Sunday 
opening  act.  Ohio  enjoys  the  supreme  disgrace  of 
having  an  open  saloon  on  Sabbath.  Last  spring  the 
legislature  felt  that  it  must  do  something,  so  it  led 
out  that  animal,  the  Dow  law,  and  looked  him  over. 
It  would  not  do  to  put  out  an  eye,  for  he  could  not 
see.  They  could  not  pull  a  tooth  for  he  could  not 
bite  as  well,  nor  pull  out  a  toe  nail  for  he  could  not 
scratch.  But  they  discovered  a  tuft  of  hair  on  the 
tip  of  his  tail  and  they  lifted  the  legislative  axe  and 
cut  that  off,  but  it  did  not  draw  blood.  Some  of  us 
in  Ohio  think  it  is  time  to  have  a  party  that  means 
to  do  something. 

On  last  Sabbath  night  I  preached  in  the  DeKalb 
Avenue  M.  B.  church,  Rev.  Crandall  J.  North,  pas- 
tor. There  are  716  members  in  this  congregation. 
They  have  a  Sabbath-school  of  634.  There  was  a 
large  and  attentive  audience.  Such  a  hearing  is  ex- 
ceedingly gratifying  to  a  National  Reformer.  The 
New  York  Witness  very  cordially  received  an  article 
discussing  the  principles  of  our  movement  The 
Tribune,  the  Herald,  the  Brooklyn  Union  and  the 
Brooklyn  Eagle  have  given  extended  notices.  The 
Voice  will  print  a  sermon  on  "The  True  Basis  of 
Moral  Reform,"  and  a  paragraph  stating  the  charac- 
ter and  work  of  the  National  Reform  Association. 
An  article  has  been  received  for  consideration  by 
the  Christian  at  Work,  as  also  the  Christian  Advocate. 

I  have  interviewed  Dr.  Meredith  of  the  Tompkins 
Avenue  Congregational  church,  Brooklyn.  He  came 
here  from  Boston  last  September.  The  church  is 
not  large  enough  to  accommodate  the  crowds  that 
go  to  hear  him  preach.  He  is  a  large  man  in  every 
way:  strong  in  body, of  towering  intellect  and  great 
heart.  The  people  hear  him  gladly.  I  also  called 
on  Dr.  Cuyler.  He  is  small  in  stature  and  quite 
gray,  but  quick  and  impulsive.  Being  quite  deaf,  he 
speaks  very  loud.  It  is  enough  to  say  he  is  one  of 
the  Vice-presidents  of  the  National  Reform  Associ- 
ation. I  next  saw  Dr.  Patterson  of  the  United  Pres- 
byterian church.  He  has  been  at  work  in  this  city 
since  1848,  It  was  refreshing  to  hear  him  narrate 
his  experience,  preaching  in  halls,  gathering  in  the 
people  and  building  up  his  own  congregation,  I 
then  saw  Dr,  Foot,  of  the  Willoughby  Avenue  Pres- 
byterian church;  also  Revs,  Prince,  McNickoU  and 
Bridges,  all  Brooklyn  pastors. 

The  secretaries  of  the  Brooklyn  and  New  York 
City  Y.  M.  C.  A.  took  great  interest  in  the  move- 
ment we  are  pushing.  It  is  not  unlikely  that  a  lec- 
ture will  be  given  in  each  of  their  halls.  Last 
night  the  Brooklyn  society  celebrated  the  anniversa- 
ry of  the  landing  of  the  Pilgrims  on  Plymouth  Rock 
in  1620.  Judge  Hoadly  of  Ohio  and  Senator  Haw- 
ley  of  Connecticut  were  among  the  speakers.  A 
banquet  was  served  over  in  New  York  City  at  Del- 
monico's.  We  arc  reminded  that  Delmonioo,  the 
man  who  established  the  best  restaurant  in  Ameri- 
ca, starved  himself  to  death.  "He  builds  too  low 
who  builds  beneath  the  skies."       .J.  M.  Fo>*teb. 


TBE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSXJRfi!. 


Deoxhbib  29, 188T 


BBVBNTT  THOUSAND  IN   TBZAH  RBADT  TO 
BE  8AVBD. 


■WHAT   SAY  OUE    ANTI-LODGB    FRIBNDS   TO   THIS 
APPIAL? 


HiARNK,  Texas,  Dec.  16,  1887. 

DxAR  Ctnosurb: — Since  I  last  wrote  you  I  have 
visited  several  of  our  larger  cities  and  distributed  the 
tracts  sent  me.  I  read  Bro.  Hinman's  contributions 
in  your  columns  with  a  great  deal  of  pleasure,  and 
only  pray  the  day  may  soon  come  when  some  one 
shall  canvass  Texas. 

Kev.  Wm.  Massey  of  Austin;  president  of  our 
State  convention  and  one  of  the  ablest  ministers,and 
who  is  referred  to  as  the  "silver-tongued  preacher 
of  Texas,"  has  read  the  tracts  and  come  out  on  the 
Lord's  side.  He  assisted  me  in  leaving  tracts  in  the 
barber  shops,  and  in  conversation  said  better  things 
than  I  could.  Two  weeks  later  he  went  to  Navasota 
to  attend  his  appointment,and  the  sisters  of  the  S.S. 
of  C.  (Seven  Stars  of  Consolation)  turned  out  in  full 
uniform  (and  put  a  collar  on  him  also  which  he  wore 
during  the  time  he  delivered  the  sermon).  For  want 
of  support  and  encouragement  he  yielded.  His  ten- 
der heart  would  not  let  him  slight  the  work  of  preach- 
ing that  S.  S.  of  C.  sermon.  He  said  anything  that 
seems  to  be  backed  up  by  the  Bible  our  people 
would  follow  or  join.  He  took  up  the  "No.  Seven" 
wherever  found  and  made  the  best  of  it  he  could. 
When  he  was  through  we  talked  it  over;  he  said  it 
would  injure  him  to  take  a  stand  against  the  lodge 
at  present.  Many  of  the  members  of  the  church  did 
not  turn  out,and  many  who  were  out  sat  back.  They 
showed  signs  of  disapproval  of  the  whole  affair. 

I  was  speaking  to  one  of  our  teachers  to-day, who 
had  left  his  school  room  to  write  up  a  general  law 
for  the  S.  S.  of  C.  I  said  to  him  the  societies  teach 
men  to  steal;  as  he  was  leaving  his  school  to  be 
taught  by  his  assistant.  In  reply  he  said,  "I  learned 
it  from  you  preachers."  I  asked  how;  he  said  the 
preachers  are  the  leaders  in  all  of  these  societies. 
They  pastor  their  churches  and  get  pay  as  officers  in 
the  lodge.  It  is  true  to  a  great  extent,  and  made 
me  feel  more  like  fighting  the  wickedness. 

Rev.  A.  R.  Griggs,  our  superintendent  of  missions, 
is  a  great  worker  and  is  ready  to  help,  but  afraid 
to  espouse  the  cause  of  reform  as  its  forerunner. 
Rev.  J.  Toliver  is  a  great  worker  and  has  more  in- 
fluence over  the  masses  than  any  minister  in  Texas. 
He  is  speaking  for  our  cause  in  nearly  every  sermon. 
He  does  not  belong  to  any  lodge.  The  following 
incident  caused  him  to  quit  all  the  lodges.  When  1 
joined  the  Masons,  being  a  personal  friend  of  his,  I 
persuaded  him  to  send  in  his  application,  which  he 
did.  He  was  black-balled  for  the  second  time.  The 
Worshipful  Master,  a  preacher,  tried  to  assist  him 
in,  but  to  no  avail.  When  he  was  notified,  he  said, 
"If  blacklegs  and  other  bad  persons  run  the  lodge 
I  give  up  the  whole  business."  Here  a  Christian 
gentleman,  and  one  of  the  ablest  preachers  we  hav«, 
is  rejected  from  a  lodge,  and,  as  was  afterward 
learned,  because  he  stumped  his  county  against 
liquor,  and  fought  the  other  sins  of  his  people. 

If  some  one  could  go  over  this  State  and  speak 
to  our  pastors  and  people,  great  good  could  be  done. 
One  of  the  strongest  societies  in  the  State  has  a 
worldly  man  for  its  executive.  Rev.  Z.  T.  Pardee 
of  Corsicana,  at  one  of  their  meetings,  arose  and 
gave  them  his  regalia  and  walked  out,  because  of 
the  ungodly  action  of  that  officer.  A  missionary 
might  meet  with  some  trouble  at  first,  but  would  suc- 
ceed. 

Some  of  my  members  here  are  disliking  my  stand, 
and  whenever  I  speak  against  their  society  they  get 
angry.  I  asked  one  the  other  day  why  was  it  she 
did  not  get  angry  if  I  spoke  against  Jesus,  or  my 
brother  pastors,  or  the  churches;  and  she  said,  "That 
is  so."     After  a  short  talk  she  gave  up. 

The  majority  of  our  women  in  this  State  belong 
to  some  side-show  lodge.  Rev.  W.  H.  Jackson  of 
this  place  bad  an  application  before  one  of  the 
lodges,  and  I  told  him  he  would  have  to  be  divested 
of  his  clothes  and  take  a  whipping.  He  then  be- 
come interested  in  the  subject  after  a  talk  and  some 
tracts;  he  gave  the  whole  matter  up,  and  says  in 
future  his  text  will  be,  "In  sicrit  have  I  said 
noTHiNO." — JESUS.  I  find  the  news  of  such  an  or- 
ganization as  the 

KATIONAL   CHRISTIAN   ASSOCIATION 

ii  getting  well  known  in  Texas.  I  feel  very  grate- 
ful to  you  for  the  paper.  It  is  a  great  blessing  to 
me.  A  kind  ft  lend  sends  me  tracts  and  other  pa- 
papers  weekly.  I  also  thank  him.  I  use  every 
page  to  the  best  advantage.  Many  of  our  Baptist 
ministers  do  not  belong  to  the  lodge,  and  I  feel  that 
70,000  Baptists  of  Texas  with  their  three  schools 
stand  ready  to  be  saved  and  help  save  others.  I 
am  yonri  for  reform,  L.  G.  Jordan. 


WHAT  TO  DO  ABOUT  ROMANISM. 


Chicago,  Dec.  19,  1887. 

Dear  Editor  op  the  Ctnosure: — A  thousand 
pens  ought  to  respond  to  the  article  in  your  last  is- 
sue, "The  Catholic  church  in  America,"  asking 
you  directly  the  question,  "What  shall  we  cio  to  avert 
the  peril,  near  at  hand,  from  this  increasing  and 
criminal  power?"  And  then  50,000  of  our  grandest, 
manliest  citizens,  should  immediately  reply,  saying: 
"We  will  meet  in  convention  on  the  first  of  the  New 
Year,  and  for  five  consecutive  days  we  will  plan  and 
advise,  and  bring  all  our  forces  together  to  see  what 
can  be  dorie  to  avert  this  pending  evil:  how  we 
we  may  save  our  young  people  from  the  sacrifice, 
and  put  sense  into  the  heads  of  the  old  ones,  who, 
if  they  are  not  fascinated  with  the  cloister,  are  flat- 
tered with  the  show  and  glitter  of  the  church,  and 
are  pleased  with  the  convenience  of  sins  remitted 
for  money,  instead  of  repentance."  Here  lies  the 
danger:  fear,  favor  and  fascination;  and  who  is  go- 
ing to  break  the  chain?  Where  is  the  righteous  in- 
dignation, the  wise  planning? 

If  an  hostile  army  was  approaching  the  city,  how 
alive  would  it  be  for  self -protection!  But  when 
within  there  is  an  enemy  undermining  it,  and  all 
the  more  surely,  because  so  few  see  only  the  low, 
bending  affability  and  smiling  face  turned  toward 
them,  meanwhile  the  stealthy  hand  is  pulling  the 
bricks  from  the  foundations  of  all  civil  and  relig- 
ious rights,  and  even  personal  safety.  Who  will 
arouse  them  to  their  danger?  Why  shall  not  the 
encroachments  upon  our  civil  liberties  be  made 
again,  as  heretofore,  as  some  affirm?  Is  it  because 
the  nation,  the  church,  the  individual,  is  doing  any- 
thing to  hinder  it?  Is  it  as  another  says,  "That  we 
are  becoming  too  enlightened?"  What  good  does 
enlightenment  do  if  we  do  not  use  it?  Or,  is  it 
that  the  Church  of  Rome  is  better  than  heretofore?  Her 
boast  is  "That  she  never  changes."  Our  brave  nation 
would  throttle  the  fiercest  lion,  but  it  is  too  court- 
eous, too  trustful,  too  busy  to  see  danger  in  a  pleas- 
ant garb.     Straws  show  the  current  sometimes. 

I  have  expended  considerable  money,  time  and 
strength  in  trying  to  do  God's  work  in  this  city. 
Oftentimes  I  walk  in  the  distribution  of  tracts  to 
save  car  fare.  Sometimes  I  get  into  a  car  very 
tired,  and  opposite  me  are  fat,  hearty  "Sisters;"  a 
few  words  of  converse,  but  no  fare  is  asked  of  them. 
So  are  they  banded  together,  though  strangers.  Let 
it  be  an  ensample  to  us. 

Sabbath  afternoon  I  thought  to  have  two  hours  be- 
fore a  dinner  at  2  o'clock  to  distribute  tracts  and  call 
on  a  friend  I  would  have  saved.  I  had  mistaken 
the  number,  and  after  walking  on  eight  blocks,  and 
working  by  the  way,  I  found  where  he  had  been, 
but  had  now  removed  twenty-five  blocks  farther 
down.  Should  I  go  there?  Yes,  I  ought;  but  on 
looking  in  my  pocket  found  I  had  no  pocket-book 
with  me,  so  I  walked  the  distance;  but  on  returning 
I  thought  I  would  try,  for  the  first  time,  the  "Sisters'  " 
plan.  So  I  hailed  a  car,  stepped  onto  the  platform, 
and  in  the  sincerest  manner  told  the  conductor  of 
my  benevolent  work,  and  unexpected  necessity.  He 
replied,  "It  is  against  the  rules  of  the  road  to  let 
anyone  ride  free." 

"Very  well,"  I  said,  "leave  meat  the  next  street." 
The  bell-rope  was  pulled,  and  I  climbed  down,  to 
walk  on  in  the  twilight. 

The  point  here  is  this:  The  Roman  church  is  to  be 
dreaded  because  it  is  a  unit.  But  they  know,  and 
they  boast,  they  have  not  much  to  fear  from  us,  be- 
cause we  are  not  a  unit.  Try  to  bring  Christ  to  the 
heart  of  a  Romanist,  and  it  is  like  striking  adamant. 
Why?  Because  you  have  first  to  strike  against  the 
church,  which  is,  as  a  rule,  between  you  and  them. 

John  Jay  was  a  statesman — and  he  saw  danger, 
fearful  danger,  and  warned  us  of  Rome.  Will  we 
heed? 

"Where  no  counsel  is  the  people  fall;  but  in  the 
multitude  of  counselors  there  is  safbtt."  Prov.  11: 
14.  Mrs.  N.  Arlouine  Brightman, 

3207  Cottage  Grove  Ave. 


PITH  AND  POINT. 


THE   NAME    OF    CHRIST   IN   G,  A.  R.  PRAYERS. 

The  letter  on  the  trouble  about  prayers  in  the  Q.  A.  R. 
of  Chariton,  published  in  the  Cynosure  of  Oct.  20th,  is 
creating  quite  a  sensation  here.  Many  are  beginning  to 
see  the  danger  of  even  the  Q.  A.  R.  order  when  men  Hke 
Col.  O.  A.  Bartholomew  whose  brother  is  the  Methodist 
minister  in  Chariton  would  tile  Christ  out  of  the  "Post," 
and  men  who  are  professing  Christians  and  members  re- 
spectively of  the  Methodist  and  United  Presbyterian 
churches  would  agree  to  offer  prayer  without  using 
Christ's  name.  Mr.  Aughey  (not  Hughey)  is  the  pastor 
of  the  Presbyterian  church  in  Chariton  and  has  the  re- 
spect of  many  for  preferring  to  resign  his  office  as  chap- 
lain of  the  Post  rather  than  to  dishonor  Christ  by  Aff«r_ 


ing  a  so-called  prayer  without  using  his  name.    There 
is  danger  in  the  dark. — E.  F.  Baird,  Chariton,  Iowa, 

A  BLESSING   FROM  NORTH  OAROLrNA. 

I  was  about  to  give  up  the  paper  because  of  my 
straightened  circumstances,  but  I  really  cannot  afford  to 
say  good  bye  to  the  dear  Cynosure.  Ood  bless  you  again, 
dear  brother;  I  sincerely  love  you  and  your  dear  people 
and  pray  that  God  may  greatly  bless  your  labors.  It  is 
a  real  feast  to  read  the  Cynosure.  Pray  for  me. — d.  l.  s., 
Raleigh,  N.  C. 

IOWA  MUST   HAVE   FENCES  FOX-TIGHT. 

C.  F.  Hawley  has  lately  done  good  work  in  our  midst, 
but  the  Good  Templars  have  since  organized  a  large 
lodge.  I  am  glad  to  belong  to  the  W.  C.  T.  U.,  but  can 
not  approve  of  the  Masons  and  Odd- fellows  starting  our 
young  people  in  the  line  of  secrecy. — Rhoda  S.  Blacx- 
LEDGE,  Salem,  Iowa. 

anarchy  of  the  devil. 

I  have  read  your  paper  ever  since  it  has  been  a  paper. 
Was  raised  up  to  love  the  cause.  You  have  always  set 
forth  the  doctrine  that  the  devil  and  Masonry  were  an- 
archy. Pres.  C.  A.  Blanchard  at  New  Concord  on  the 
16  th  of  last  month  said  it  in  words.  Now  when  any 
man  charges  Jesus  Christ  with  being  an  anarchist,  com- 
munist or  socialist,  and  then  smoothes  it  over  with  the 
oily  tongue,  and  says  they  were  of  the  kind  heavenly  and 
divine,  he  is  a  liar  and  a  rebel  against  God  and  all  good 
government. — Wm.  N.  Wilson,  Freeland,  0. 

FROM  ONE  OF  THE  EARLY  SUBSCKIBBRS. 

I  think  I  have  something  of  an  appreciative  idea  of  the 
great  work  engaged  in  by  the  "N.  C.  A."  Allow  me  to 
say,  I  have  been  an  uninterrupted  subscriber  to,  and 
reader  of,  the  Christian  Cynosure,  almost  from  the  be- 
ginning. As  soon  as  I  found  it  out  I  certainly  look  up- 
on it  as  one  of  the  very  best  papers  published  in  all 
our  country.  Would  to  God,  I  could  do  a  hundred  fold 
more  in  its  circulation  than  I  can. — J.  W.  ThompsoNj 
Dadeville,  Mo. 


Bible  Lesson. 


STUDIES  IN  THE  NEW  TESTAMENT. 
LESSON  1.— Jan.  8.— The  Multitude  Fed.— Matt.  14: 13-21. 


GOLDEN  TEXT, 
life.— John  6 :  35. 


-Jesus  said  unto  them,  I  am  the  bread  of 


yOpeii  the  Bible  and  read  the  lesson.^ 
COMMENTS   ON   THE  LESSON   BY  E.  E.  FLAGG. 

1.  The  Divine  Compassion',  vs.  13,  14.  Jesus  was  hu- 
man and  he  needed  rest — rest  of  mind  as  well  as  of  body. 
On  a  sensitive  spirit  the  constant  pressure  of  multitudes, 
the  gazing  down  as  it  were  into  the  maelstrom  of  human 
life  with  all  its  woe  and  sin  and  misery,  for  it  was  not  as 
a  rule  the  healthy,  the  happy  and  the  fortunate  who 
thronged  around  Jesus,  brings  a  peculiar  kind  of  nervous 
weariness  harder  to  bear  than  any  mere  physical  fatigue. 
But  this  blessed  soothing  balm  of  solitude  Christ  was 
willing  to  forego.  Without  a  murmur  of  impatience  at 
this  invading  of  his  retreat  he  spends  another  long  day 
healing  and  teaching  the  multitude.  Home  quiet  and 
privacy  is  very  sweet,  but  if  In  selfish  enjoyment  of  our 
own  fireside  we  forget  those  outside  its  circle  of  light  and 
warmth,  we  are  not  following  Christ.  Some  people 
think  after  they  have  performed  a  round  of  social  visits 
that  their  whole  duty  in  this  respect  is  done.  As  they 
phrase  it,  they  have  performed  their  duty  to  society. 
But  the  Bible  talks  about  our  duty  to  the  world,  not  to 
society.  It  tells  us  that  every  man  is  our  neighbor,  every 
cry  of  human  need  the  call  of  the  Master. 

2.  The  Part  of  the  Church  in  Feeding  the  World,  vs. 
15-17.  When  the  disciples  said  to  Christ,  "Send  the 
multitude  away,"  they  only  obeyed  the  natural  impulse 
of  humanity  when  brought  face  to  face  with  wants  it 
cannot  relieve.  But  if  the  church  did  its  duty  the  multi- 
tude need  not  depart.  The  laboring  masses  need  not  go 
off  to  anti-poverty  apostles,  and  learn  anarchism  in  beer- 
saloons,  thus  seeking  to  satisfy  their  hunger  of  soul  and 
body  with  that  which  is  not  bread.  The  church  of  to- 
day needs  again  to  hear  Jesus's  command,  "Give  ye  them 
to  eat."  She  has  only  to  accept  the  cause  of  the  poor  as 
her  cause;  to  fling  open  her  doors,  free  as  the  everlasting 
Gospel  she  proclaims,  that  every  creature  may  come  in, 
and  let  fashion  and  wealth  if  they  enter  at  all  take  back 
seats;  to  be  the  world's  anti-poverty  society.  No  matter 
how  poor  the  church  may  be  which  does  this,  her  five 
loaves  and  two  fishes  will  be  continually  increased  in 
proportion  to  her  faith  and  the  needs  of  the  multitude. 
And  this  would  not  be  true  of  Christ's  church  if  it  were 
not  blessedly  true  of  every  individual  member.  The 
humblest  talent  laid  meekly  at  his  feet  without  shame  and 
without  distrust  will  be  increased  a  hundred  fold,  and 
the  five  loaves  and  two  fishes  of  the  poorest  believer 
made  to  feed  a  world.  Our  insufficiency  is  the  empty 
vessel  into  which  Christ  pours  his  all-sufficiency. 

8.  Th£  Multitude  Fed.  vs.  17-21.  His  first  command 
is,  "Bring  them  hither  to  me."  The  consecrating  Christ 
touch  must  be  on  all  successful  efforts  for  humanity. 


DioxuBBB  29, 188T 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


He  sets  the  multitude  in  organized  ranks.  Work  at  hap- 
hazard accomplishea  little.  The  lodge  and  the  saloon 
are  examples  of  what  Satan  can  do  in  the  way  of  organ- 
ization. Every  Christian  laborer  should  have  his  place 
and  his  work.  Christ  gives  to  the  disciples,  they  to  the 
multitude.  The  bread  of  life  is  intrusted  to  our  hands. 
Shall  we  let  the  multitude  feed  on  the  husks  of  bad  lit- 
erature when  the  interesting  book  or  illustrated  paper 
from  our  own  overflowing  stores  might  save  a  soul  from 
perishing  ?  Shall  we  let  them  starve  on  lodge  tradition 
and  fable  while  we  in  cowardly  fear  keep  back  the  truth 
for  which  they  are  hungering?  He  who  freely  gives  will 
find  his  own  stores  increased.  In  the  Qospel  dispensa- 
tion it  is  grace  for  grace,  blessing  for  blessing.  Feed  the 
multitude  and  the  fragments  left  over  shall  spread  a  table 
for  us  in  the  desert. 


LITEBATTTBE. 


Sylvan  Secrets  In  Bird  Songs  and  Books.  By  Maurice  Thomp- 
son.   Pp.  139.  Price,  69c.    John  B.  Alden,  New  York. 

The  author  of  this  beautiful  little  volume,  though 
a  Southerner,  may  lay  claim  to  the  "universal  gen- 
ius" of  the  Yankee,  He  was  born  in  Indiana,  but 
reared  in  the  mountain  region  of  Georgia.  He  was 
well  educated  by  private  tutors,  especially  in  the 
classics  and  oriental  languages.  He  became  an  en- 
thusiastic sportsman,  was  during  the  war  a  daring 
Confederate  scout,explored  afterwards  the  fastnesses 
of  the  Florida  Everglades,  served  as  an  engineer  in 
the  construction  of  railways  and  other  public  works; 
and,af  ter  marrying  the  daughter  of  a  railway  presi- 
dent, settled  down  in  Crawfordsville,  Indiana,  as  a 
lawyer.  He  has  a  lucrative  practice,  is  something 
of  a  politician,  has  served  in  the  State  legislature 
and  is  State  Geologist.  But  he  is  best  known  to  the 
public  through  his  books, "By-ways  and  Bird-Notes," 
"Songs  of  Fair  Weather,"etc.,  and  his  contributions 
to  the  magazines  and  the  New  York  Independent.  His 
literary  work  is  that  of  a  poet-naturalist,  an  observ- 
er of  nature  from  the  literary  and  poetic  side  rather 
than  the  scientific.  He  is  a  graceful  and  fascinating 
writer,  delighting  either  by  the  artistic  merit  of  his 
composition,or  by  the  treasures  of  natural  discovery 
which  he  opens  to  the  admiring  reader  whose  blunt- 
er instincts  and  more  prosaic  habits  would  never 
have  dreamed  had  an  existence.  While  he  is  by 
some  enthusiastically  placed  beside  Thoreau  and 
Burroughs,  he  is  surely  not  a  recluse  like  the  former 
nor  tainted  with  infidelity  like  the  latter.  It  reveals 
a  good  foundation  to  his  work  when  we  see  in  the 
preface  such  a  passage  as  this: 

"The  more  I  have  studied  Nature,  the  more  I  have 
become  aware  of  God.  When  I  approach  the  beginning 
I  find  him,  and  his  hand  puts  me  gently  but  firmly  away, 
as  if  to  say:  'I  stand  here  all  alone.'  When  I  approach 
the  end,  there  too  is  Ood  standing  all  alone,  self -existent, 
sufficient,  unimaginable,  at  once  the  cause  and  the  cul- 
mination, the  germ,  the  bloom,  and  the  fruit  of  all  things. 
I  do  not  expect  that  men  ever  will  find  the  secret  of  life 
locked  in  a  cell  or  in  any  other  minute  division  of  matter. 
No  analysis  of  the  specialist,  no  synthesis  of  the  general- 
izer  can  ever  pass  beyond  the  vail.  God  said:  "Let  life 
be,"  and  life  was.  Still  I  believe  in  evolution;  I  feel  it, 
I  see  it;  but  it  is  evolution  by  God's  law,  bounded  by  his 
limiting  purpose.  When  we  study  Nature  we  study  him, 
not  in  the  materialistic  or  pantheistic  sense,  but  in  the 
Christian  sense.  The  will  of  the  universe  is  God's  will, 
because  God  made  the  universe,  as  he  made  man,  and 
blew  into  it  the  energy  that  fills  it.  I  see  no  clash  be- 
tween Christianity  and  Science." 

In  the  chapters  on  Bird  Song,  its  "Motif,"  "Gene- 
sis" and  "Anatomy"  there  is  a  happy  rivalry  of  the 
imagination  with  the  shrewd  inquisition  of  the  sci- 
entist; and  those  on  Shakespeare  and  Buskin  will 
not  lack  for  admiring  readers,  if  there  be  also  criti- 
cal ones. 

The  Ootmopolitan  for  December  gives  us  another  of 
Von  Schierbrand's  articles  on  Persia,  which  has  all  the 
interest  of  his  former  sketch  of  the  manners  and  customs 
of  a  barbarous  but  historical  race.  The  present  sketch 
is  of  the  rulers,  and,  if  truthfully  drawn,  a  sadder  picture 
of  cruelty,  avarice  and  lust,  even  the  king  of  Dahomey 
would  hardly  disclose.  Why  our  government  should 
keep  up  an  expensive  mission  at  such  a  court  is  not  easy 
to  imagine;  and  it  can  well  be  understood  why  Mr.  F.  H. 
Winston  of  this  city  refused  to  serve  for  any  length  of 
time  in  such  a  humiliating  capacity.  The  magazine  con- 
tains a  number  of  shorter  but  equally  interesting  articles, 
of  which  Olive  Thome  Miller's  story  of  the  Central  Park 
chimpanzee,  and  J.  Macdonald  Oxley's  sketch  of  the 
woodsmen  and  their  work  are  especially  entertaining. 

Mr.  Eennan's  article  in  the  January  Century  will  be  on 
the  "Russian  Provincial  Prisons."  It  will  describe  the 
present  shameless  system,  attempted  reforms,  and  the  ef- 
fects on  prisoners,  and  will  give  their  secret  methods  of 
communication  in  changeable  ciphers,  the  knock  alpha- 
bet, etc. 

"The  Undeveloped  South,  its  Resources,  and  the  impor- 
tance of  their  development  as  a  factor  in  determining  the 
future  prosperity  a^d  growth  of  wealth  in  the  United 
States,"  is  the  title  of  a  pamphlet  by  George  B.  Cowlam, 
of  Enoxville,  Tenn.  It  is  an  interesting  exhibit  of  the 
prospective  value  of  mining  and  agricultural  products  of 
the  South.    To  be  had  of  the  author;  price  10  centa. 


1888. 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


PR08PBCTU8  FOB  THE    TWENTIETH  TEAR. 

As  we  turn  over  the  leaf  for  another  year  the  Cy- 
nosure would  again  write  at  the  top  of  the  new  page: 
^^  Christ  always;  Christ  only."  It  will  more  than  ever 
be  the  purpose  of  all  connected  with  the  paper  to 
make  it  a  power  for  the  coming  kingdom  of  our 
Lord,  before  which  all  the  systems  of  secret  wor- 
ship, mystery  and  iniquity  of  the  great  Babylon 
must  fall.  "We  would  be  on  the  Conquerob's  side 
in  that  day — we  will  stand  for  him  now  in  the  days 
of  testimony  and  of  tribulation. 

The  Ctnosdbe  during  1888  will  give  the  most 
earnest  attention  to  the  South-  The  National  Con- 
vention at  New  Orleans,  Feb.  17th,  and  the  effort, 
which  promises  so  much  success,  to  put 

ONE   THOUSAND   COPIES 

of  the  paper  into  the  hands  of  colored  pastors  gives 
a  direction  to  our  interests.  We  also  hope  that  the 
National  Christian  Association  will  be  able  to  put 
other  workers  into  the  Southern  field. 

The  Minor  Secret  Orders,  so-called,  will  have 

more  respect  given  to  their  insinuating  and  benumb- 
ing influence.  If  Masonry  and  Odd-fellowship  have 
felt  severely  the  attacks  upon  their  strongholds.they 
are  making  good  all  losses  by  training  up  an  army 
of  young  men  whose  convictions  are  paralyzed  in 
respect  to  secretism  by  the  swarms  of  orders  which 
cover  their  modicum  of  lodgery  with  a  bait  of  tem- 
perance, insurance,  patriotism,  good  fellowship,  bus- 
iness aid,  etc.,  etc.  The  Cynosure  will  endeavor  to 
rouse  our  careless  churches  to  see  that  this  evil  is 
likely  to  be  worse  than  the  first. 

We  have  nearly  completed  arrangements  for  spec- 
ial Correspondence  from  the  metropolitan  cities 

in  different  parts  of  the  country.  Our  readers  may 
expect  letters  once  a  month.or  oftener,  from  Boston, 
New  York,  Philadelphia,  Washington,  Cincinnati, 
New  Orleans,  Denver,  San  Francisco  and  Los  An- 
geles. These  letters  will  give  graphic  pictures  of 
the  earnest  American  life  which  throbs  in  our  great 
cities,  with  especial  reference  to  the  news  of  the 
lodges  in  each. 

The  very  popular  Biographical  Work  of  the  Cyno- 
sure during  the  three  years  past  will  be  continued 
with  some  features  which  will  be  especially  attract- 
ive. During  the  last  year  there  have  appeared  por- 
traits of  George  B.  Cheever,  William  H.  Seward, 
Daniel  Webster,  John  Brown,  Charles  Sumner, 
Charles  Francis  Adams,  Enoch  Honeywell,  Bishop 
Hamline,  Charles  G.  Finney,  Howard  Crosby,  Dr.  C. 
F.  W.  Walther,  and  Alexander  Hamilton.  These 
portraits  have  been  accompanied  with  sketches 
which  have  presented  facts  of  profoundest  interest 
to  our  discussion,  collated  after  diligent  and  often 
exhaustive  search.  We  can  promise  for  the  coming 
year  biographies  of 

John  G.  Whittier,  the  Poet. 

Joseph  Cook,  the  Lecturer. 

Jambs  McCosH,  the  Philosophy. 

John  C.  Spencer,  t?ie  Lawyer. 

John  Marshall,  the  Judge. 

William  Ewart  Gladstone,  the  Statesman . 

These  are  all  in  preparation.  Others  whom  we 
do  not  care  at  present  to  mention  are  in  contempla- 
tion, whose  portraits  will  adorn  the  paper  and  the 
history  of  whose  lives  will  enrich  them. 

Letters  from  foreign  lands  we  expect  to  be  more 
frequent  and  valuable  in  1888  than  ever.  Corre- 
spondents in  England,  Germany,  Greece,  Turkey, 
India,  West  and  South  Africa,  China  and  Mexico 
will  through  our  columns  be  in  personal  connection 
with  our  readers. 

Best  of  all  is  the  noble  company  of  contributors 
and  correspondents  in  our  own  land.  We  hardly 
need  mention  them;  but  it  is  a  pleasure  to  see  those 
goodly  names  in  print.     Here  are  a  few  of  them: 

WiUiam  F.  Davis,  the  hero  of  Boston  Common. 

H.  L.  Eastings,  editor  of  the  "Christian." 

Bon.  8.  V.    WTiite,  M.  C. 

Rev.  B.A.lmes,  Vice-president  Nat'l.  Cong'l.  Council. 

Pres .  H.  H.  Oeorge,  Geneva  College. 

Ret.  0.  O.  Foots.  Detroit. 

Geo.   W.  Clark,  the  singer. 

Bishop  M.   Wright. 

Pres.  E.  E.  Fairchild,  Berea  College. 

Cecil  IT.  Eoward,  Astor  Library. 

Rev.  Julius  Qrunert,  D.l).,  Evangelical  Synod. 

Rev.  Wm.  Johnston,  D.D.,  United  Presbyterian. 

Rev.  B.  Curu,  German  LutJ>A''<ui. 


Rev.  B.  W.  WiUiams,  Texas. 

Elder  J.  L.  Birlow,  Iowa. 

Pres.  0 .  A .  Blanchard,  Wheaton  College. 

Rev.  David  McFaR,  Chambers  St.  Church,  Boston. 

Rev.C.  W.Biatt,  High  St.  Church,  Columbus. 

Prof.  Elliott  Whipple,  Wheaton,  late  of  Romona  In- 
stitute, Santa  Fe. 

Elder  Nathan  Callender,  Pennsylvania. 

Pres.  L.  N.  Stmtton,  Wheaton  Theological  Seminary. 

Rev .  Henry  T.  Cheever,  Worcester . 

Rev.  Joel  tinartz,  D.D.,  Gettsyburg. 

Miss  E.  B.  Flagg,  Author  of  "Between  Two  Opinions.' " 

Mrs .M.A.  Blanchard,  Wheaton. 

Mrs.A.E.EeUogg,  Denver. 

Hon.  8.  C.  Pomeroy,  Washington. 

Hon.HaUeck  Floyd,  Indiana. 

Rev.  W.H.French,  D.D.,  Cincinnati. 

Rev.M.A.Oault,  Iowa. 

Rev .  J.  M.  Foster,  Cincinnati. 

Rev.  J. 8.  T.MiUigan,  Kansas. 

Rev.  William  Wishart,  D.D.,  Monmouth. 

M.M.Uugunin,  former  editor  "Chicago  Eve.  Journal." 

Capt.A.D.  Wood,  editor  "Censor,"  Los  Angeles. 

Refv.  R.N.  Countee,  editor  "Living  Way,"  Memphis. 

Prof.  A.R.  Cervine,  Augustana  College . 

Rev.H.  W.LatTu,  First  Church,  Northampton. 

Rev.  J. F.Avery,  Mariners'  Temple,  New  York. 

But  we  must  forbear.  Who  can  recall  these  and 
other  names  like  them  without  a  thrill  of  happy  and 
grateful  recollections.  To  keep  in  their  company  a 
season  were 

—"worth  ten  years  ol.'common  life." 

We  invite  all  friends  of  the  past  to  honor  them- 
selves by  remaining  in  this  company.  The  Cynosure 
gives  you  a  noble  fellowship.  You  can  hardly  afford 
to  forsake  it.  Let  your  name  then  be  found  on  the 
list.  Do  your  neighbor  a  good  turn  and  get  his 
subscription  also. 

In  advance  $1.50  per  tear.  Address,  the 
"Christian  Cynosttbe"  Chicago. 


PRIZE    ESSAYS. 


IN  colleges,  theological  seminaries  and 

ACADEMIES. 


The  Board  of  the  National  Christian  Association 
desiring  to  arouse  an  interest  among  American  stu- 
dents in  the  topics  named  below,  have  offered  cash 
prizes  for  essays  on  the  following  topics: 

^^Secret  Societies  and  the  Labor  Problem." 

^^  The  Relation  of  Secret  Societies  to  the  Temperance 
Cause." 

For  the  best  essay  on  each  of  these  topics  a  pre- 
mium of  Twenty  Dollars  will  be  paid  to  its  author: 
for  the  second  in  merit  a  premium  of  Ten  Dollars. 

This  offer  is  made  to  students  of  both  sexes  in  all 
the  institutions  named  above,  with  the  following  lim- 
itations: 

1.  The  length  of  the  essays  may  not  be  more 
than  2,000  words,  plainly  written. 

2.  They  must  be  mailed  to  the  "Essay  Committee, 
N.  C.  A.  oflSce,  221  West  Madison  St.,  Chicago," 
before  May  1,  1888. 

3.  The  name  and  address  of  each  writer  must  be 
plainly  written  on  a  separate  sheet  accompanying 
the  essay. 

4.  The  Association  to  nave  the  privilege  of  pub- 
lishing as  a  tract,  or  in  their  paper,  the  Christian  Cy- 
nosure, any  or  all  the  four  prize  essays;  and  any 
others  which  may  seem  desirable, 'if  satisfactory 
arrangements  can  be  made  with  their  authors. 

The  committee  of  award  have  not  yet  been  chosen. 


IN  BRIEF. 


The  Panama  Star  and  Herald  publishes  the  report  of 
the  agent  of  the  Columbia  Government  specially  ap- 
pointed to  watch  the  progress  of  the  work  rn  the  Pana- 
ma Ship  Canal.  He  sums  up  the  work  as  follows:  Of 
161,000,000  cubic  metres  of  rock  and  earth  127,lK)0  000 
metres  remain  to  be  excavated.  The  sum  expended  to 
date  is  1,818,023,900  francs.  The  enormous  task  of  turn- 
ing the  Chagres  River  is  estimated  to  cost  471,700,000 
francs.  To  this  is  to  be  added  2.541.495.1HX)  francs  for 
excavation  yet  to  be  done.  This  will  bring  the  total  yet 
to  be  expended  up  to  .1.012,495,0^X1  francs. 

The  plan  of  the  German  Government  to  provide  for 
working  men  in  their  old  age  will  be  applied  at  first  only 
to  industrial  workmen,  of  which  it  is  estimated  the  num- 
ber is  7,251,000.  The  minimum  pension  to  be  allowed 
is  120  marks  yearly,  the  state,  employers,  and  workmen 
each  contributing  one  third  of  the  pension  fund,  which 
will  be  a  tax  on  each  individual  of  3  marks  yearly.  It  is 
estimated  that  a  state  credit  of  22,0tH).(XX)  marks  will  be 
required.  All  workmen  over  fifty  years  of  age  when  the 
bill  is  passed  will  be  excluded  from  its  benefits. 

Carefully  prepared  statistics  show  that  there  are  500,- 
000  criminals  in  this  country,  only  riO.lXX!  of  whom  are 
incarcerated.  Of  the  500,000  it  is  estimated  that  one- 
third  are  under  twenty  years  of  age,  one-half  under 
twenty-one  years  of  age,  and  a  fraction  under  twenty- 
two  years  of  age,  and  the  chances  are  that  all  of  them 
'  will  continue  criminals  through  the  rest  of  their  lives. 


■^mB  (OMMB'^iMM  ^I'MomjMm. 


Dbobmb«e29,  1887 


Th<^  Christian  Cynosure. 

i.  BhAHCRASD.  HKWRY  L.  KELLOGO. 


CHICAeO,    TH17B8DAV,    DBCEMBEB   29,   18S7. 


The  New  Orleans  Convention  February  17 
TO  20,  1888. 


RESPONSES  FROM  NORTH  AND  SOUTH. 


The  friends  who  have  been  giving  to  the  fund  for 
sending  the  Cynosure  to  colored  pastors  will  be 
thrilled  with  the  letters  we  give  them  in  this  number 
from  New  Orleans,  from  Texas,  and  this  below  from 
Plaquemine.  A  copy  of  the  Texas  letter  has  been 
sent  Bro.  Hinman  to  lead  him  that  way  before  the 
New  Orleans  meeting.  But  the  N.  C.  A.  ought  to 
have  ten  good  men  at  work  in  the  South,  and  would 
send  them  if  it  was  able.  Pray  that  God  send  help 
in  this  critical  hour.  When  m^n  cannot  go  the  Cyno- 
sure can.  It  has  helped  Texas  up  to  the  present 
condition.  Read  here  what  it  is  doing  for  this  poor 
people  in  Louisiana: 

Plaquemine,  La.,  Dec.  20,  1887. 

Dear  Editor: — I  very  recently  attended  the  an- 
nual session  of  the  Fourth  District  Baptist  Associa- 
tion, which  session  was  held  at  the  capital  of  this 
State.  Among  the  issues  of  importance,  and  that 
which  attracted  my  attention  most,  was  "Secret 
Orders." 

1  must  acknowledge  that  this  evil  continues  to  ex- 
ist even  among  some  of  the  paetors.and  pastors  who 
have  very  important  charges.  I  am  glad  to  note 
the  fact  that  we  made  some  converts  by  the  manly 
arguments  produced  by  the  "honey-tongued"  ora- 
tors, Rev.  A.  Hubbs  and  A.  L.  Reese.  These  hon- 
ored divines  took  a  manly  stand,  notwithstanding 
the  threats  made.  "We  captured  one  of  these  secret 
preachers  and  made  him  wish  for  the  secret  place. 

Your  paper  is  of  unspeakable  value  to  us  in  help- 
ing to  crush  this  evil,  which  robs  children  of  that 
which  is  due  them  by  their  parents,  and  that  is  edu- 
cation. It  is  a  fact  that  fathers  will  deprive  their 
children  of  the  necessary  comforts  of  life  in  order 
to  be  a  "financial  member"  in  the  lodge. 

Send  us  the  paper,  supply  us  with  facts,  and  we 
are  willing  to  be  the  instruments  of  use.  We  need 
it  in  the  home;  we  need  it  in  the  church;  we  need  it 
in  the  community.  We  hail  mth  joy  the  day  when 
Christianity— the  millstone— will  be  tied  to  the  neck 
of  secretism  and  sink  it  beneath  oblivion.  Yours 
in  the  work,  L.  H.  Williams. 

The  fund  reported  last  week  amounted  to  $382.04 
we  are  thankful  to  add  three  more  $15  shares  mak- 
ing $427.04. 

Dear  friends,  let  these  appeals  from  the  colored 
pastors  themselves  stir  you  to  double  effort  to 
speedily  make  up  the  $1,500  needed  for  a  thousand 
copies  to  be  sent  South. 

Rev.  Wm.  Dillon,  editor  of  the  Conservator,J)&j. 
ton,  Ohio,  has  been  suspended  for  preaching  the 
Gospel  and  administeringthe  communion  of  Christ's 
body  and  blood.  In  Elida  circuit,  United  Brethren 
refused  to  hear  and  support  preachers  who  were  un- 
faithful to  God  and  the  church  and  who  allowed 
members  of  secret  societies  to  come  into  the  church- 
es. The  conference  would  not  send  them  ministers 
who  were  opposed  to  the  lodge,  and  they  formed 
voluntary  meetings  and  worshiped  outside  of  the  ob- 
jectionable congregations.  Rev.  Mr.  Dillon  preached 
and  administered  the  sacrament  to  such  a  church  or 
churches,  and  Rev.  Mr.  Luttrell,  who  was  presiding 
elder  over  that  circuit  last  year,  but  not  this  sus- 
pended Bro.  Dillon,  and  published  his  suspension  in 
the  Telescope.  Why  the  elder  who  is  over  the  Elida 
circuit  did  not  do  this  hateful  work  we  know  not 
All  can  see  that  Luttrell  had  no  right  or  authority 
to  suspend  him,  even  if  he  had  done  anything  wor- 
thy of  suspension.  We  should  advise  Bro. Dillon  to 
keep  on  steadily  preaching  to  those  people,  at  least 
^'^^  }fj^  Jf^^'^^^^y  B^mnded.  The  slave-holders 
used  the  Constitution  to  bind  Abolitionists.but  took 
no  heed  to  obey  it  themselves.  It  is  so  with  those 
who  fellowship  "the  unfruitful  works  of  darkness." 
The  wrath  of  God  will  surely  fall  on  such  men  at  the 
end. 


country  with  great  force.  Who  will  enter  it  as  a 
lecturer  at  once?  Some  missionaries  have  started 
for  Africa  without  means  to  cross  the  ocean,  and 
God  has  brought  them  on  their  journey  and  sus- 
tained them  with  food  and  raiment.  Shall  seventy 
thousand  Baptists  in  Texas  be  snared,  taken  and  de- 
stroyed by  the  concealed  worships  of  Satan,  for  want 
of  light?  A  brother  called  on  us  a  week  since  who 
has  preached  with  success  in  Texas  twelve  years. 
It  was  painfully  instructive  to  hear  his  account  of 
the  preaching  which  the  people  get  there  from  Meth- 
odist preachers  who  are  "almost  all  Masons."  He 
says  they  seem  to  have  no  idea  at  all  of  bringing 
souls  to  trust  in  Christ.  It  is  only  "join  the  church 
and  ail  will  be  well."  And  though  ignorant,  the 
industrious  masses  see  that  the  lodges  attract  these 
preachers  more,  even,  than  their  own  churches. 

In  our  late  trip  East,  we  preached  on  Sabbath 
evening  in  a  Baptist  church,  contrasting  this  lodge 
with  the  kingdom  of  Christ,  and  we  called  on  those 
who  would  now  "seek  first  the  kingdom  of  God"  to 
publicly  confess  and  manifest  it;  and  we  had  a 
precious  prayer  meeting  for  those  who  came  out.  It 
is  a  mistake  to  lecture  against  the  lodge  without 
seeking  and  expecting  the  Holy  Spirit  to  be  "poured 
out"  on  the  congregation.  Who  will  go  and  preach 
salvation  in  Texas?  Who  will  form  a  club  to  sustain 
an  anti-secret  preacher  there  for  one  year? 


BY  WHOM  MUST  MORMON  ISM  00? 


The  United  States  court  has  ordered  Marshal 
Dyer,  who  is  said  to  be  a  brave  man,  to  take  posses- 
sion of  the  Mormon  church  property,  which  is  held 
in  violation  of  the  act  of  Congress;  as  if  the  Y.  M. 
C.  A.  should  amass  millions  of  real  estate  and  hold 
and  use  it  for  purposes  of  gain,  speculation,  priest- 
ism,  and  political  despotism  and  power. 

There  is  no  doubt  but  Congress  and  the  court  are 
right,  morally,  legally  and  constitutionally.  The 
papacy  was  driven  out  of  Scotland  by  such  men  as 
Marshal  Dyer.  John  Knox  pointed  to  the  old  stone 
priest  houses,  called  monasteries,  and  said  signifi- 
cantly, "Tear  down  the  nests  and  the  rooks  will  fly 
away."  The  people  took  the  hint,  and  without  shed- 
ding one  drop  of  popish  blood  they  rescued  Scot- 
land from  the  grasp  of  papacy. 

But  the  people  were  converted.  And  why  should 
not  Congress  send  enlightened.  God-fearing  men,  as 
Grant  sent  Quakers  to  Indians,  to  instruct  the  Mor- 
mons? The  masses  are  sincere  and  industrious,but 
ignorant  people.  Let  the  churches  do  what  they 
can,  but  Congress  ought  to  do  enough  for  the  poor 
priest-ridden  Mormons  to  convince  them  that  the 
Americans  love  them  and  do  not  wish  to  plunder 
them.  Henry  the  Vlllth  was  a  tyrant  and  ruffian, 
but  he  sent  Thomas  Cromwell,  who  was  a  good  man, 
to  tear  up  the  monasteries;  and  he  went  in  the  name 
of  Christ,  without  whom  we  can  do  nothing. 

A  political  party  cannot  cure  a  religious  evil.  We 
should  remember  this,  that  Christ  alone  is  mightier 
than  Satan,  who  is  god  of  the  false  religions  of  the 
earth,  Mormonism  and  Masonry  included.  Joseph 
Smith  belonged  to  the  lodge,  and  modeled  Mormon- 
ism after  it.  "The  Ancient  and  Accepted  Scottish 
Rite"  is  now  to  be  presented  in  Mr.  Cook's  volumes 
just  as  it  is,  and  the  truth  of  the  expose  attested  in 
the  notes  by  the  highest  Masonic  authorities.  Every 
lover  of  Christ  should  be  an  agent  for  that  book. 
(See  advertisement  in  the  Cynosure.)  The  Ameri- 
can people  have  never  had  the  like  before,  and  they 
will  find  in  these  faithfully  developed  degrees  Jo. 
Smilili's  golden  plates  dug 'from  the  earth,  and  all 
the  gibberish  of  Mormonism,  which  our  own  Illinois 
legislature  chartered  at  the  bidding  of  Stephen  A. 
Douglas,  who  was  a  member  of  a  Springfield  lodge 
of  Masons. 


overthrown  to-morrow,  it  would  leave  all  its  vitality 
in  these  orders.  We  fear  there  has  been  an  error  in 
our  management  of  this  lodge  question,  and  we  urge 
a  full  and  free  discussion  in  our  columns. 

We  are  led  to  make  this  suggestion  to  our  readers, 
and  to  request  them  to  contribute  from  their  expe- 
riences and  cogitations,  because  many  who  suppose 
themselves  warm  opponents  of  the  lodge,  when  their 
sentiments  come  to  the  analysis,  are  found  to  be  op- 
posed to  Freemasonry,  but  not  to  the  temperance 
lodges,  or  labor  unions,  or  Grand  Army.  Friends 
who  are  honored  by  the  National  Association  and 
entrusted  in  some  measure  with  its  work  have  ques- 
tioned whether  our  opposition  to  all  the  orders  was 
wise.  Prominent  members  of  the  Wesleyan  church 
have  said  they  do  not  regard  the  Grand  Army  and 
Sons  of  Veterans  as  secret  societies,  and  have  en- 
couraged these  orders  in  a  community  where  secret 
societies  were  in  much  disfavor.  The  late  discus- 
sions in  the  Reformed  Presbyterian  Synod  and  the 
United  Presbyterian  General  Assembly  will  be  re- 
membered. Now  are  we  to  say  we  are  opposed  to 
Masonry  and  give  the  "little"  lodges  the  right  hand 
of  fellowship,  or  shall  we  more  emphatically  regard 
the  whole  lodge  system  as  one,  a  unit;  no  branch, 
stem  or  root,  feeder,  fountain  or  stream  to  be  ne- 
glected? Is  it  as  important  to  save  our  young  men 
from  joining  the  Sons  of  Veterans  as  the  Odd-fel- 
lows, the  Knights  of  Labor  as  the  Knights  of 
Pythias?  Let  us  review  these  questions  carefully. 
We  have  requested  several  able  writers  to  give  us 
their  views  as  Dr.  Johnson  of  College  Springs  has 
done  most  ably,  and  hope  that  at  least  as  a  result 
of  the  discussion  the  thoughts  of  our  friends  who 
profess  opposition  to  the  lodge  will  be  established. 


THE   DISCUSSION   OF    THE  MINOR  ORDERS. 


The  letter  from  Texas  on  the  6th  page  opens 
a  field  which  appeals  to  every  lover  of  God  and  hia 


It  was  a  forcible  though  rude  illustration  in  the 
early  days  of  our  discussion  of  the  lodge  to  com- 
pare Freemasonry  and  the  dozen  or  two  other  or- 
ders to  a  sow  with  a  litter  of  pigs:  when  we  should 
be  able  to  drive  out  the  old  beast  the  litter  would 
follow.  The  illustration  was  not  exact.  The  pigs 
do  not  sustain  the  dam  but  she  them.  Not  so  the 
lodge.  Freemasonry  sustains  the  other  orders  only 
as  an  incident  to  its  own  success.  It  furnishes  them 
a  model  and  leads  the  way  in  their  organization, 
and  puts  its  henchmen  in  important  places  in  these 
orders  so  as  to  keep  their  suuplies  running  toward 
itself.  These  minor  lodges  are  like  the  springs  and 
streams  that  flow  to  make  the  river,  or  the  brace 
roots  of  a  cornstalk.  They  are  the  Sabbath-schools 
that  go  before  the  churches  in  almost  every  home 
mission  work.  When  Masonry  was  believed  to  be 
dead  in  1834,  it  was  by  these  lodges  that  it  crept 
back  into  influence  and  power.    Should  Masonry  be 


OATHS  OF  THE  SONS  OF  VETERANS. 


Rev.  George  Warrington,  pastor  of  the  United 
Presbyterian  church  at  Birmingham,  Iowa,  and  ed- 
itor of  the  Psalm-Singer,  while  lately  attending  a 
meeting  of  his  presbytery  at  Washington,  Iowa,  was 
shown  a  copy  of  the  ritual  of  the  Sons  of  Veterans, 
from  which  he  made  accurate  copies  of  oaths  and 
prayers,  which  are  printed  in  the  Free  Press  of  Bir- 
mingham. This  ritual  was  "approved  and  promul- 
gated" by  the  sixth  annual  "Encampment  of  the 
Commandery-in-chief"  of  the  order  meeting  in  Des 
Moines,  Iowa,  August  18,  1887.  The  committee 
which  reported  the  ritual  was  headed  by  G.  B.  Ab- 
bott, "Commander-in-chief,"  and  C.  J.  Post,  his 
"Adjutant  General."  No  document  can  be,  there- 
fore, more  reliable. 

We  copy  from  the  Free  Press  and  add  a  few  re- 
marks which  will  serve  to  explain  some  of  the  feat- 
ures of  this  order  which  should  not  be  overlooked. 

In  the  opening  formalities  the  "Captain"  of  the 
lodge  or  "camp"  asks  the  members  to  name  the 
principles  on  which  the  order  is  founded  and  which 
it  is  supposed  to  inculcate.  The  reply  is  "Friend- 
ship, Charity  and  Loyalty."  These  are  excellent 
virtues,  but  take  away  the  solemn  mockery  of  oaths, 
secrecy  and  seclusion,  the  formidable  titles  which 
are  a  part  of  the  machinery  of  war,  and  the  forms 
of  religious  worship,  and  it  would  be  as  impossible 
to  get  a  company  of  young  men  together  to  promote 
the  bare  virtues  of  friendship,  charity  and  loyalty 
as  it  would  to  making  up  patchwork  quilts  like  a 
sewing  school.  Take  these  exterior  accessories  away 
and  the  whole  thing  would  be  too  flat  and  insipid  to 
exist  a  day.  It  would  then  appear  plain  that,  so 
far  as  these  virtues  were  connected  with  religion,the 
church  and  its  associated  societies  were  altogether 
sufficient  for  all  the  purposes  of  teaching  and  en- 
forcing them. 

The  opening  prayer  is  as  follows: 

OPENING   TRAYER. 

Our  Heavenly  Father,  the  Bigh  and  Mighty  Ruler  of 
the  Universe,  who  dost  from  thy  throne  look  down  upon 
the  government  of  men,  most  heartily  do  we  beseech  thee, 
with  thy  favor  to  bless  our  native  land  and  to  preserve 
in  purity  and  integrity  its  free  institutions  for  all  coming 
time. 

Bless  our  order.  Qrant  that  it  may  long  exist  and  that 
it  may  continue  to  be  an  instrument  of  great  good  to  all. 
Give  us  willing  hands  and  ready  hearts  to  properly  carry 
out  its  ptinciples  and  objects.  Keep  green  in  our  minds 
the  memory  of  those,  botn  living  and  dead,  who  sacrificed 
so  much,  that  the  life  of  the  nation  might  be  preserved, 
and  deal  with  them  in  all  things  with  thy  special  mercy. 

Give  us  thy  aid  in  conducting  the  business  for  which 
wc  are  here  assembled,  and  so  endow  us,  that  charity, 
justice,  peace  and  harmony  shall  ever  remain  and  abide 
with  us. 

We  ask  all  in  the  name  of  our  Lord  and  Saviour.    Amen. 

To  this  all  are  required  to  respond  and  say 
"Amen."  , 

Two  other  prayers  are  quoted:  one  is  said  over 
the  candidate  after  he  has  sworn  to  keep  the  secrets 
of  the  lodge,the  other  is  at  the  close  of  the  meeting. 
The  first  closes  with  the  same  words  as  above,  the 


Deojembbr  29,  1887 


mni  ^kijd:^:yi:if^i^ 


other  with:  "for  our  Redeemer's  sake.  Amen."  If 
such  petitions  were  used  in  a  Christian  church  who 
could  object  or  wish  anything  added?  No  one,  cer- 
tainly. Why  then  say  anything  but  in  approval  of 
them  in  a  Sons  of  Veterans'  lodge?  Because  they 
are  prescribed  formula  to  be  used  without  exciting 
any  objection  in  a  membership  that  may  contain 
Jews,  or  Unitarians,  not  to  say  numerous  unbeliev- 
ers. The  terms  must  therefore  be  so  general  that 
each  one  may  apply  them  to  such  a  divinity  as  he 
worships.  The  disciples  of  all  religions  have  Lords, 
Saviours  and  Redeemers;  therefore  if  no  particular 
name  is  given  the  religious  worship  can  go  on  with- 
out interruption  or  objection.  If  they  should  say. 
In  the  name  of  our  Lord  and  Saviour,  Jesus  Christ, 
that  would  be  worship  in  which  a  Christian  could 
join,  but  all  could  not  say.  Amen,  as  the  ritual  com- 
mands. This  prayer  is,  therefore,like  those  of  Free- 
masonry, a  deist's  prayer,  and  cannot  be  accepted  of 
God. 

After  the  prayer  and  the  candidate  is  prepared  for 
initiation,  he  is  thus  addressed: 

We  are  now  prepared  to  muster  you  into  our  ranks. 
In  doing  this  it  is  necessary  for  you  to  take  a  solemn  ob 
ligation,  but  I  can  assure  you  that  it  will  not  in  any  way 
interfere  with  your  religious  belief  or  your  duties  and 
obligations  in  private  life,  or  as  citizens  of  the  United 
States.     Are  you  ready  to  assume  this  obligation? 

He  is  told  to  hold  up  his  right  hand,  put  the  left 
over  his  heart,  and  repeat  the  following  oath  as  the 
administrator  gives  it  out  line  by  line: 

OATH    OF   MEMBERSHIP. 

-,  of  my  own  free  will  and  accord, 


TBS  If.  C.  A.  NATIONAL  CONVENTION. 


OFFICIAL   CALL. 


I, 


without  reservation  or  purpose  of  evasion,  and  in  the 
presence  of  Almighty  God  and  the  brothers  of  this  camp 
here  assembled,  do  most  solemnly  and  sincerely  promise 
and  swear,  that  1  will  ever  bear  true  allegiance  to  the 
government  of  the  United  States  of  America,  that  I  will 
steadily  adhere  to  and  sustain  the  principles  of  this  order, 
and  that  I  will  in  honesty  and  good  faith  carry  out  its 
objects. 

I  furthermore  promise  and  swear,  that  I  will  carefully 
guard  and  never  reveal  any  of  the  secrets  of  this  order, 
its  pass-words,  grips,  signs,  and  countersigns;  that  I  will 
not  knowingly  wrong  this  camp,  a  veteran  soldier,  or  a 
brother  of  the  order,  or  suffer  it  to  be  done  by  others  if 
in  my  power  to  prevent  it;  that  I  will  always  aid  a  worthy 
and  distressed  veteran  or  brother  to  the  best  of  my  abil- 
ity, without  injury  to  myself,  and  that  I  will  promptly 
warn  such  a  one  of  any  danger  I  may  know  to  threaten 
him;  that  T  will  faithfully  sustain  and  obey  the  constitu- 
tion and  by  laws  of  this  camp,  and  all  legal  orders  com 
ing  from  proper  authority,  and  to  the  best  of  my  ability 
live  up  to  all  the  requirements  of  the  order. 

In  witness  thereof,  I  pledge  my  sacred  honor,  and  pray 
God  to  keep  me  true  and  steadfast  in  this,  my  sacred  oath 
and  obligation,  as  a  son  of  a  veteran. 

Here  we  have  a  company  of  boys  and  young  men 
swearing  each  other  with  all  the  solemnity  of  an  ap- 
peal to  Almighty  God  to  never  reveal  the  secrets  of 
the  order,  nor  its  grips,  signs,  passwords  or  counter- 
signs; to  promptly  warn  his  fellow  members  of  any 
danger;  and  to  obey  all  the  orders  which  may  come 
from  the  headquarters  of  the  order.  How  much 
more  than  this,  pray,  is  required  of  a  Freemason? 
Both  orders  give  an  assurance  that  religious,  private 
and  civil  duties  shall  not  be  interfeied  with,  but 
give  no  bond  for  it.  But  they  tie  up  the  candidate 
with  the  solemn  form  of  an  oath.  Nearly  every  ob- 
jection which  holds  against  the  Freemason  oath, 
holds  against  this,  the  savage  and  disgusting  parts 
being  omitted.  But  these  are  not  the  oath.  The 
Son  of  Veteran  assumes,  if  his  oath  were  a  true  one, 
as  much  responsibility  before  God  as  the  Mason;  and 
the  violation  of  this  oath  is  supposed  to  be  followed 
by  the  penalty  which  a  just  God  will  visit  on  the 
perjurer,  whether  he  be  Mason  or  what  not. 

But  why  is  this  not  a  false  oath  as  well  as  a  Ma- 
son's? Who  gave  these  boys  the  right  to  swear 
one  another  to  obey  orders  and  keep  secrets  of 
which  tbey  can  know  nothing?  These  oaths  are  all 
extra-judicial,  illegal  and  false — no  more  binding 
than  the  ordinary  cursing  of  a  saloon  or  bawdy- 
house.  They  are  such  as  Daniel  Webster  said 
should  be  suppressed  by  law.  They  arc  such  as  the 
Word  of  God  to  the  Jews,  and  the  commandment  of 
Christ  to  all  men,  utterly  condemn.  No  one  can  take 
them  without  sin.  No  one  can  keep  them  and  main- 
tain an  organization  that  requires  them  without  sin. 
No  Christian  can  patronize  such  an  order  or  encour- 
age it  without  incurring  the  sin  ol  bidding  God 
speed  to  an  evil  deed.     2  John  10,  11. 


H.  L.  Hastings  of  Boston,who8e  name  is  known 

and  loved  on  two  continents  for  his  work  as  an 
evangelist  and  lecturer  against  intidelity.filleda  part 
of  the  last  number  of  the  Christian  with  illustrations 
and  arguments  on  the  case  of  Davis  against  the  rule 
of  rum  and  Romanism  in  Boston,  and  with  the  aid 
of  150  volunteer  circulators  is  scattering  the  power- 
ful document  by  the  thousand  in  that  city. 


The  Seventeenth  Convention  of  the  National  Chris- 
tian Association  is  hereby  called  to  meet  in  the  Central 
Congregationalist  church  in  the  city  of  New  Orleans, 
Louisiana,  at  7;30  p.  m.,  February  17th,  1888.  An  inter- 
esting programme  has  been  arranged,  able  speakers  have 
been  secured,  and  three  sessions  will  be  held  daily,  clos- 
ing with  the  evening  of  Feb.  20lh.  Seats  are  free  and 
the  public  are  most  cordially  invited  to  attend. 

Rev.  J.  S  McCuLLOCH,  D.D.,  Prea. 

Rev.  Lewis  Johmston,  Sec'y. 
■  t  > 

A  WORD  FOB  NBW  ORLEANS. 


Dear  Friends: — Permit  me,  in  connection  with 
the  above  notice,  to  add  a  word  of  exhortation.  A 
kind  Providence  has  watched  over  us  and  spared 
our  beloved  country  from  great  national  calamity, 
and  the  church  of  Christ  from  persecution  or  apos- 
tacy  another  year.  Great  evils  have  menaced  and 
still  threaten  the  unity,  purity  and  peace  of  our  so- 
cial, civil  and  religious  compact,  but  hitherto  their 
proud  waves  have  been  stayed,  until  we  are  again 
called  to  meet  in  the  council  of  the  National  Chris- 
tian Association.  Never  in  the  history  of  this  move- 
ment against  the  lodge,  the  saloon  and  the  ring  pow- 
ers in  this  nation,  and  in  favor  of  open  methods,  the 
Holy  Sabbath,  and  Christ,  the  Supreme  Ruler,  has 
there  been  a  more  important  gathering,  or  one  giv- 
ing greater  promise  of  immediate  results. 

Since  the  last  meeting  in  Knoxville,  Teen.,  there 
has  been  marked  and  manifest  progress  all  along 
the  lines.  Especially  is  this  true  in  the  Southern 
part  of  our  great  Union.  Reports  from  pastors 
speak  of  decided  progress  in  knowledge  and  aver- 
sion to  the  secret  lodge  system.  The  formation  of 
associations  to  procure  information  and  promote  in- 
vestigation, the  weeding  out  of  secretists  and  their 
societies  from  old  ecclesiastical  bodies,  the  open  and 
impartial  fraternity  insisted  upon  among  students 
in  older  institutions,  and  the  founding  of  schools  in 
which  abstinence  from  all  secret  societies  is  made  a 
condition  of  membership,  calls  from  all  quarters  for 
information  and  help  in  combating  the  secret  em- 
pire— all  these  indicate  a  grand  and  growing  work; 
while  protests  from  seceders,  pastors  and  evangelists 
have  been  frequent  and  in  most  decisive  terms  of 
condemnation.  Every  indication  is  that  the  harvest 
is  ripe,  awaiting  the  faithful  reapers.  The  door  thus 
opened,  as  well  as  the  nervous  and  agitated  condi- 
tion of  the  populstr  mind,  unite  with  personal  obli- 
tions  and  considerations  in  an  appeal  to  every  lover 
of  Christ,  of  his  blood-bought  church,  and  a  free 
and  just  government,  to  be  abundant  in  prayer  and 
watchfulness,  and  where  possible  to  attend  the  na- 
tional council  at  New  Orleans. 

The  location  of  this  meeting  must  be  regarded  as 
a  providential  opportunity  for  many  of  our  breth- 
ren, especially  in  the  Southern  States,  to  come  to- 
gether and  encourage  each  other  and  plan  for  a  more 
united  and  aggressive  movement.  Let,  therefore, 
associations,  educational  institutions  and  churches 
opposed  to  the  secret  lodge  system,  without  regard 
to  denominational  or  sectional  lines,  appoint  dele- 
gates to  this  body,  and  let  those  in  sympathy  with 
the  objects  it  seeks  to  secure,  turn  their  steps  thith- 
er if  possible,  and  let  the  prayers  and  offerings  of 
those  detained  at  home  be  joined  with  their  breth- 
ren met  in  counsel,  that  a  multitude  may  be  emanci- 
pated from  bondage  in  the  Secret  Empire,  and  a 
blessing  come  to  all  the  land  through  the  instru- 
mentality of  this  convention. 

J.  P.  Stoddard,  Sfc'y.  N.  C.  A. 

Chicago,  Bee.  22,  1887. 


— Miss  Sarah  A.  Farley  of  the  lately  opened 
Howe  Institute,  New  Iberia,  La.,  has  again  come 
North  for  aid  to  enlarge  the  capacities  of  the  institu- 
tion. Her  success  last  year,  and  the  acquaintance 
gained  with  Chicago  people  encourages  her  to  hope 
that  her  stay  here  will  not  be  long.  Elder  J.  F. 
Browne,  well  known  to  our  readers,  has  gone  on 
from  Borea  to  take  charge  of  the  Institute.  The  de- 
sire is  to  fit  up  dormitories  for  u  hundred  pupils 
from  outside  the  town,  who  are  unable  to  secure 
boarding  places. 

— Rev.  B.  A.  Imes  of  Memphi3,Tenn.,  is  expected 
to  attend  the  National  Convention  at  New  Orleans 
and  speak.  Ills  church  is  this  year  independent  of 
support  from  the  American  Missionary  Association. 

— Among  others,re8pon8es  have  come  from  Revs. 
Byron  Gunner  and  J.  F.  Browne  of  NewIberia,La., 
and  Rev.  R.  N.  Countee  and  Prof.  Woodsmall  of 
Memphis, that  tbey  will  attend  the  National  OoDven- 

tiOQ, 


WASHINGTON  LETTER. 

Washington  is  itself  when  Congress  is  in  session. 
Pennsylvania  avenue  is  now  crowded  with  pedes- 
trians and  carriages.  Every  corridor  of  the  Capitol 
is  alive  with  politicians,  lobbyists  and  sight-seers, 
and  the  hotels  and  boarding  houses  are  filled  from 
attic  to  basement. 

The  United  States  Senate  is  a  perennial  body  and 
so  is  at  work  again,  but  the  House  of  Representa- 
tives is  not  The  latter  has  to  be  entirely  reorgan- 
ized with  each  new  Congress,  and  Speaker  Carlisle 
does  not  even  expect  to  be  able  to  announce  the 
committees  until  after  the  holidays.  Committee 
making  is  the  most  perplexing  problem  with  which 
the  Speaker  is  called  upon  to  wrestle.  The  difficul- 
ty is  in  giving  each  member  all  that  he  would  like. 
It  is  impossible.  Each  would  like  to  be  chairman 
of  a  committee,  and  also  to  be  assigned  to  a  place 
on  one  of  the  leading  committees,  like  the  Ways 
and  Means,  and  Appropriations.  There  are  333 
Members,  including  the  eight  Territorial  Delegates. 
There  are  about  fifty  Chairmanships,  and  about  700 
committee  places.  Each  member  must  serve  on  at 
least  two  committees,  and  the  necessity — since  the 
House  is  Democratic — of  having  a  Democratic  ma- 
jority on  each  committee,  makes  it  necessary  to  give 
a  larger  proportion  of  committee  places  to  the  Dem- 
ocrats than  even  their  majority  in  the  House  jus- 
tifies. 

The  Senate  has  decided  to  lift  the  veil  from  a 
mystery  of  twenty  years.  It  has  voted  to  remove 
the  injunction  of  secrecy  from  the  journals  of  ex- 
ecutive sessions  from  1820  to  the  end  of  the  Forti- 
eth Congress.  It  makes  fifteen  volumes  of  printed 
matter;  but  who  would  take  the  time,  or  care  to  pe- 
ruse them  at  this  late  day?  They  can  only  be  of 
value  to  the  occasional  student  of  history.  Much 
more  reasonable  is  the  demand  that  the  executive 
sessions  of  the  Senate  shall  henceforth  be  held 
openly,  and  the  injunction  of  secrecy  be  removed. 

A  number  of  the  eminent  divines  who  were  in  at- 
tendance of  the  Evangelical  Alliance  Conference  re- 
mained over,  and  have  occupied  various  pulpits  in 
the  city.  The  convocation  was  a  remarkable  one  of 
active  and  distinguished  Christian  workers.  Among 
many  other  subjects,  it  discussed  thoughtfully  the 
advantages,  the  necessitj',  and  practical  methods  of 
co-operative  work  among  the  different  denomina- 
tions. The  Alliance  itself  bears  witness  to  the 
power  for  good  of  co-operation,  in  the  benefit  residt- 
ing  from  this  conference  to  all  who  participated  in 
it,  and  to  the  thousands  of  readers  of  the  papers 
and  addresses  delivered  by  the  distinguished  visit- 
ors. In  contending  for  co-operative  work,  the  argu- 
ment substantially  was,  that  there  is  no  division 
in  the  forces  of  evil;  and  the  forces  which  strive  for 
good,  though  exhibiting  varied  discipline,  must 
unite  solidly  in  the  presence  of  the  enemy.  Jeal- 
ousies and  little  contentions  in  the  ranks  only  impair 
the  efficiency  of  the  Christian  army,  and  postpone 
its  great  victory.  One  of  the  speakers  made  the 
remark  that  the  Christian  people  were  ready  to  unite 
in  Christian  work,  but  that  the  preachers  themselves 
were  keeping  them  apart. 

Senator  Blair,  whose  Education  bill  to  mitigate 
the  evils  and  remove  the  dangers  of  illiteracy  is 
again  hopefully  at  the  front,  has  not  forgotten  the 
saloon.  He  presented  a  petition  last  week  Monday 
asking  that  there  be  submitted  to  the  several  States 
an  amendment  to  the  Constitution  prohibiting  the 
manufacture,  importation,  exportation,  transporta- 
tion and  sale  of  all  alcoholic  liquors  as  a  beverage 
in  the  United  States.  He  also  asked  for  the  ap- 
pointment of  a  National  commission  to  investigate 
and  report  upon  the  alcoholic  liquor  traffic. 

Washington  expects  soon  to  see  one  of  the  great- 
est gatherings  of  women  ever  known.  It  is  the  In- 
ternational Council  of  Women,  to  meet  from  March 
25  to  April  2.  Helen  Gladstone,  daughter  of  the  ex- 
premier,  will  come  from  England  with  other  distin- 
guished ladies,  and  Italy,  France  and  Germany  are 
to  be  represented.  All  the  activities  of  womanhood 
outside  the  home  and  for  home's  sake  will  be  illus- 
trated, and  plans  for  future  advance  will  be  dis- 
cussed. Representative  white-ribbon  women  of  the 
country  will  be  there  and  t^ke  a  prominent  part  in 
the  proceedings.  * 

m-^^m- 

What  will  the  Orangemen,  who  have  been  op- 
posing Home  Rule  on  the  ground  that  it  would  be 
e(|uivalent  to  Rome  Rule,  ssiy  to  the  efforts  of  Lord 
Salisburv's  Government  to  secure  the  co-operation 
of  the  Pope  in  regulating  the  affairs  of  Ireland, 
or  to  the  prot>o9ition  in  the  Observrr,  which  is  un- 
derstood to  be  Lord  Salisbury's  organ,  that  the  Irish 
priests  should  be  paid  by  the  British  Government 
so  as  to  give  them  a  pecuniary  interest  in  main- 
taining the  present  order  of  things?— JV.  Y.  Witnm, 


10 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSX7BE. 


Deoehbxb  29, 1887 


The  Home. 


A  JVBW  TBAB'8  H7MN. 


Dear  Lord,  attend  my  falteriDg  steps, 

Throughout  another  year ; 
So  weak  and  feeble  in  myself, 

1  fain  would  have  thee  near. 

I  can  not  know  thy  will  for  me. 

But,  Lord,  I  know  thy  love 
"Will  ne'er  appoint  a  way  for  me, 

That  does  not  lead  above. 

Sickness  and  pain  may  be  my  lot, 

And  poverty  and  grief ; 
And  maybe  now  is  hovering  near. 

The  dark-winged  angel.  Death. 

And  yet  1  calmly  look  to  thee, 

This  happy,  glad  New  Year; 
And  sweetly  give  myself  to  thee, 

"Without  a  doubt  or  fear. 

But  that  thou'lt  keep  me  all  the  way, 

And  ever  choose  for  me 
The  very  best,  the  wisest  thing, 

To  bring  me  near  to  thee. 

For  temporal  things  I  do  not  ask. 

But  this,  dear  Lord,  I  plead : 
That  thou  wouldst  come  and  dwell  with  me, 

Supplying  every  need. 

Subdue  my  proud  and  selfish  heart. 

Oh,  let  me  ever  sit. 
In  meek  humility,  to  learn 

At  Jesus' s  pierced  feet. 

My  will  In  sweet  subjection  bring, 

My  dearest  Lord,  to  thine, 
And  then,  if  needs  be  pain  must  come. 

My  smiles  through  tears  shall  shine. 

In  loving  passlveness  I  yield 

My  sinful  heart  to  thee. 
To  cleanse  and  consecrate  and  use; 

Thy  temple  may  it  be. 

I  do  not  ask  great  things  to  do. 

Be  humble  service  mine ; 
And  in  my  every  look  and  word, 

May  Jesus's  presence  shine. 

And  thus  in  all  my  daily  life, 

May  Christ  exalted  be. 
That  by  some  word  or  deed  of  mine. 

Souls  may  be  drawn  to  thee. 

So  may  I  walk  from  day  to  day. 

Throughout  this' glad  New  Year- 
Eternity  always  in  view. 
And  heaven  aye  sweetly  near. 


our  hands  to,  which  will  never  he  completed?  Books 
unread  in  our  libraries,  subjects  not  studied  out, 
promises  of  duty  to  self,  promises  of  good  to  others, 
conversations  broken  off!  What  plannings,  outlin- 
ings,  both  for  thought  and  action,  which  will  never 
be  filled  in!  With  Job  we  will  one  day  cry,  "I  am 
cut  off  in  the  midst  of  my  purposes,"  or  pray, 
"Spare  me  that  I  may  gather  strength  before  I  go 
hence  and  be  no  more."  Learn  to  make  each  day 
as  far  as  possible  complete  in  itself;  or,  where  that 
is  not  practicable,  let  each  day's  work  be  like  the 
little  threads  of  hemp  that  make  the  lengthened 
rope,  each  working  in  with  those  that  are  adjacent, 
80  that  life  will  constitute  one  consistent  whole. 
The  weakness  of  most  lives  is  from  the  separation 
of  its  little  pieces. 

Two  resolutions  for  the  coming  year: 

1.  I  will  begin  to  do  only  the  most  important 
things — take  for  my  keynote  what  Saint  Bernard 
was  in  the  habit  of  saying  to  himself,  "Bernard,  ad 
quid  venistis?" 

2.  I  will  put  my  whole  energy  into  whatever  I  do, 
remembering  the  words  of  the  wise  man,  "Whatso- 
ever thy  hand  findeth  to  do,  do  it  with  thy  might," 
etc. — Associate  Presbyterian. 


NOAH  STEPHBNa'a  NEW  TEAR. 


I  LEAVE  IT  ALL  TO  THEE. 

Another  year !  Lord,  let  me  by  thy  side 
Meet  all  its  changes,  and  be  thou  my  guide. 
I  leave  it  all  to  thee— the  sunny  day. 
Or  the  rough  winter— only  be  my  stay ; 
And  help  me  through  its  passing  hours  to  be 
A  faithful  servant  in  the  world  for  thee 
To  occupy  the  time  till  thou  shalt  come 
To  call  me  up  to  thine  eternal  home. 
When  I  shall  see  thy  face,  and  like  thee  be 
And  in  thy  presence  rest  eternally. 

— Selected. 


CONSECRATION. 


-Franc. 


THOUGHTS  FOR  THE  LAST  SABBATH  OF  THE 
TEAR. 

"Then  shall  the  end  come. "--Matt.  24:  14. 
The  knell  of  1886  is  a  monition;  not  only  from 
the  past,  but  from  the  future.  Whether  for  us  it 
sounds  across  the  interval  of  many  years,  or  of  a 
few  days,  no  one  but  God  knows.  It  prophesies  the 
end  of  all  earthly  things  for  us.  A  grandly  omin- 
ous voice  is  it:  the  forecast  echo  of  the  voice  of  the 
mighty  angel  that  John  saw,  with  a  rainbow  about 
his  head,  his  face  as  it  were  the  sun,  and  his  feet  as 
pillars  of  fire;  with  right  foot  upon  the  sea,  and  his 
left  upon  the  earth;  in  his  hand  a  little  book  (of  hu- 
man accountability);  "and  he  lifted  up  his  hand  to 
heaven,  and  sware  by  Him  that  liveth  forever  and 

ever  .  .  .  that  there  should  be  time  no  longer." 

Rev.  10:  5,  6. 

We  are  continually  doing  things  for  the  last  time: 
every  day  is  the  last  day  for  something. 

To-day  may  be  the  last  opportunity  of  conversa- 
tion with  some  companion.  If  you  felt  that  you 
might  be  speaking  to  your  child  for  the  last  time, 
what  would  you  say?  What  deep  undertone  of  hon- 
est, earnest  thought  would  there  be  seen  in  your 
mirthful  conversation!  A  teacher  cried  bitterly  as 
he  learned  of  the  sudden  death  of  one  of  his  boys: 
"Oh,  if  I  had  dreamed  of  the  possibility  of  this,  1 
would  have  talked  so  differently,  so  plainly,  last 
Sabbath.  God  forgive  me!"  The  preacher  almost 
every  Sabbath  preaches  to  some  who  hear  him  for 
the  last  time;  be  sure  to  put  your  whole  heart  and 
the  whole  heart  of  the  Gospel  into  your  words. 

Avoid  the  delusion  that  opportunities  of  either 
doing  or  getting  good  have  in  them  any  prophecy  of 
returning.  They  are  God's  gifts  for  the  moment 
It  is  doubtful  if  he  ever  repeats  the  opportunity  in 
exactly  the  same  form,  and  with  the  same  possibili- 
ty of  blessing.  He  is  too  rich  in  resources  for  that. 
A  lost  opportunity  is  lost  forever,  whatever  other 
opportunities  may  come.  They  are  not  given  as  so 
many  probations,  but  as  so  many  times  of  spiritual 
investment,  each  having  its  significance  in  itself. 
How  many  as  yet  uncompleted  things  we  have  set 


Among  the  many  passages  in  the  Old  Testament 
whose  translation  is  vitally  improved  in  the  New  Re- 
vision is  the  following  verse  in  the  first  Book  of  the 
Chronicles:  "Who  then  offereth  willingly  to  conse- 
crate himself  this  day  unto  the  Lord?"  King  David 
propounded  this  question  to  the  people  of  Israel 
when  he  was  about  undertaking  the  noble  project  of 
rearing  a  magnificent  temple  to  Jehovah.  He  calls 
for  contributions  of  money  and  labor.  There  was 
to  be  no  enforced  draft  of  either  men  or  money; 
every  gift  was  to  be  spontaneous  and  offered  will- 
ingly. It  is  the  same  thought  which  Paul  presents 
when  he  exhorts  that  "whatsoever  ye  do,  do  it  heart- 
ily as  to  the  Lord."  The  overmastering  love  of  Christ 
in  the  soul  will  make  hard  labors  light,  and  unwel- 
come tasks  agreeable,  and  sacrifices  prompt  and 
cheerful.  "Plunged  into  the  atmosphere  of  love, 
the  dim  flame  of  obedience  will  burn  more  bright- 
ly, like  a  lamp  plunged  into  a  jar  of  oxygen." 

The  very  word  "consecration"  savors  of  pious 
cant  in  the  estimation  of  some  people,  because 
they  have  heard  it  glibly  used  by  certain  sentiment- 
al Christians  in  a  cheap  and  flippant  fashion.  Right- 
ly felt  and  practiced  it  is  the  very  essence  of  healthy, 
holy  and  happy  piety.  God  has  a  sovereign  right 
to  us;  in  every  sweet  breath  of  his  pure  air,  in 
every  object  of  beauty  our  eyes  behold,  in  every 
line  of  his  precious  Word,  in  every  step  of  his 
providential  care,  in  every  heart-joy  at  the  mercy- 
seat,  in  every  promise  fulfilled  and  grace  imparted, 
we  discover  a  new  obligation  to  be  the  Lord's.  "Ye 
are  not  your  own;  ye  are  bought  with  a  price;" 
these  solemn,  tender  words  seal  the  claim  of  our  cru- 
cified Master.  Christ  for  me,  and  I  for  Christ,  is  the 
very  core  of  honest  self-consecration. 

To  be  worth  anything  this  must  begin  with  and 
center  in  the  heart.  The  whole  undivided  soul 
must  be  surrendered  to  him  who  died  to  redeem  the 
soul.  Christ  will  not  take  up  with  a  closet  or  a  cor- 
ner. He  demands  tlie  complete  surrender  of  the  will, 
the  faculties  and  the  affections.  A  hundred  half- 
Christians  cannot  make  a  simple  whole  one.  The 
more  heart  there  is  in  our  religion,  the  more  joy, 
the  more  power,  the  more  victory.  Nobody  suc- 
ceeds in  what  is  undertaken  grudgingly;  the  success- 
ful men  have  always  been,  like  Paul,  men  of  one 
idea.  "This  one  thing  I  do;"  "for  me  to  live  is 
Christ."  The  paramount  purpose  with  Isaac  New- 
ton was  star-eyed  Science;  he  waited  at  the  posts 
of  her  doors  until  she  taught  him  how  to  weigh 
the  globe.  Love  of  his  art  held  Joshua  Reynolds  to 
his  easel  for  twenty  unbroken  hours  till  he  had 
caught  the  coveted  conception  on  his  canvas.  The 
great  rugged,  Scotch  soul  of  Livingston  was  already 
among  the  heathen  of  the  dark  continent  before  he 
carried  his  body  thither  for  martyrdom.  The  more 
of  your  heart  you  give  to  Jesus  the  more  will  Jesus 
give  you  of  himself. — Independent. 


Noah  Stephens  was  a  miser.  The  spirit  of  ava- 
rice, born  in  him,  was  strengthened  by  cultivation. 
From  his  earliest  boyhood  he  had  struggled  to  earn 
money,  not  to  use,  but  to  hoard.  His  earnings  from 
picking  berries  and  from  odd  jobs  were  carefully 
put  in  a  tin  box,  and  the  spending  money,  which 
most  boys  would  have  used  lavishly,  remained  un- 
touched by  him.  When  any  of  the  silver  pieces  be- 
came tarnished,  he  would  rub  and  scour  them,  and 
exult  over  his  little  property.  It  was  his  cherished 
dream  to  become  a  rich  man,  and  the  best  energies 
of  his  life  were  devoted  to  the  accumulation  of 
wealth.  At  fifty  years  of  age  he  was  the  possessor 
of  half  a  million  dollars,  gained  entirely  through 
economy  and  industry,  combined  with  fine  business 
ability.  He  gave  sparingly  to  the  church  of  which 
he  was  a  member;  he  paid  his  bills  promptly  and 
was  honest  in  his  transactions;  but  he  knew  not  the 
meaning  of  the  word  philanthropy,  for  his  soul  was 
too  narrow  to  contain  any  love  for  his  fellow  men. 
He  had  bank  and  railroad  stock,  government  bonds, 
and  houses  in  the  city  and  country.  The  more  he 
possessed,  the  more  his  greed  of  gain  increased. 

One  morning,  as  Noah  Stephens  sat  in  his  office, 
Mrs.  Ruth  Ames  came  in.  She  was  an  old  school- . 
mate  of  Mr.  Stephens,  and  was  highly  regarded  by 
him.  Mrs.  Ames  was  a  woman  of  culture  and  influ- 
ence, whose  precious  deeds  were  a  bright  and  shin- 
ing light  everywhere.  She  was  a  member  of  the 
Woman's  Relief  Society. 

After  a  few  moments'  conversation,  she  said, 
smilingly:  "Mr.  Stephens,  God  has  blessed  you  in 
all  things;  times  are  hard,  winter  is  coming  on,  and 
there  is  a  great  deal  of  suffering  in  our  town.  You 
have  thousands  of  dollars  more  than  you  can  use; 
will  you  give  me  a  little  to  relieve  the  unfortunate?" 
He  frowned,  shut  his  lips  tightly  together,  but 
said  nothing. 

"So  many  apply  to  our  relief  society  for  help," 
said  Mrs.  Ames,  "that  we  find  it  difficult  to  meet  the 
demands.  Here  is  a  list  of  cases  wanting  immedi- 
ate aid." 

She  took  out  a  paper  and  was  about  to  read  sev- 
eral names,  when  Mr.  Stephens  interrupted  her: 
"Don't  want  to  hear  anything  of  that  kind!  People 
needn't  come  to  want  if  they  work;  lazy  folks  must 
expect  to  go  cold  and  hungry,  and  drunken,  shift- 
less people  deserve  to  suffer.  I  earned  my  own  liv- 
ing from  a  boy;  nobody  ever  gave  me  a  cent.  I 
don't  believe  in  helping  an  idle  class;  it  encourages 
them  in  greater  indolence  and  improvidence." 

Mrs.   Ames  looked  down   upon  her  paper.     "Do 
listen  to  me,"  she  said  entreatingly.      "Here  is  Joe 
Brintnell  with  a  broken  leg;  his  mother  is  sick,  and 
his  father,  who  was  a  carpenter,  fell  from  the  house 
he  was  building  and  was  killed.      Can  a  boy  whose 
leg  is  in  splints  and  bandages  take  care  of  himself?" 
"How  did  he  break  his  leg?"  asked  Mr.  Stephens. 
"He  fell  from  a  loaded  wagon." 
"Is  David  Brintnell  his  uncle?" 
"Yes,  I  think  eo." 

"Then  let  his  uncle  help  him;  he  can  do  it." 
Mrs.  Ames  read  another  name  from  her  paper: 
"Mrs.  Martin,  paralyzed,  aged  seventy.     She  needs 
coal   and  groceries;  an  excellent  woman,  in  great 
want;  her  religion  alone  sustains  her." 

"Let  her  go  to  the  almshouse;  heaven  is  just  as 
near  her  there  as  anywhere,"  said  Mr.  Stephens  con- 
temptuously. 

Mrs.  Ames  read  on:  "Mrs.  David  Lee,  a  widow 
with  six  children  and  no  means.  You  know  her — 
an  industrious,  hard-working  woman.  Don't  you 
think  she  deserves  help?" 

"  Well,  perhaps  so,"  returned  Mr.  Stephens  coldly. 
"Let  the  church  help  her." 

"  Noah  Stephens,"  said  Mrs.  Ames,  "you  and  I 
are  old  friends,  and  that  gives  me  the  right  of  plain 
speaking.  Your  hair  is  becoming  sprinkled  with 
gray;  the  signs  of  time  are  on  your  face;  a  few 
years  more,  and  you  will  be  numbered  with  the 
dead.  You  can  carry  nothing  with  you.  What  will 
become  of  all  the  money  you  leave  behind?" 
He  made  no  reply. 

"  To  whom  much  is  given  much  will  be  required," 
continued  Mrs.  Ames,  in  a  solemn  tone.  "You 
are  a  member  of  the  church,  Noah  Stephens,  and 
you  profess  to  be  a  follower  of  Christ.  Think  of 
what  I  have  said." 

Mr.  Stephens  spoke  not,  and  there  was  a  long 
pause. 

"  The  light  of  your  earthly  lamp  will  soon  go  out," 
she  continued  earnestly,  with  eyes  fixed  full  upon 
him.  "  Will  you  let  it  go  out  in  darkness?  Oh,  1 
hope  God  will  not  appoint  a  discipline  of  pain  and 
trial  to  bring  you  to  your  senses  in  order  to  make 
you  see  what  a  worthless  thing  your  hoarded  gold 
is,  when  you  might  comfort  and  bless  to  many. 
'  Good  morning,  Mr.  Stephens." 


DioitfBiB  29, 1887 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CTNOSUREL 


11 


She  left  the  counting  room  and  went  her  way,  and 
Noah  Stephens  pursued  his  own  thoughts.  Her 
plain  speaking  was  far  from  agreeable  to  him.  He 
did  not  like  the  wholesome  truths  to  which  he  had 
been  forced  to  listen. 

The  day  wore  away,  and  when  twilight  was  com- 
ing on,  Mr.  Stephens  rose  from  his  easy-chair  and 
prepared  to  go  home.  He  put  on  his  warm  over- 
coat, hat  and  gloves,  and  walked  rapidly  down  the 
street. 

It  was  a  bitter  cold  night;  the  sidewalks  were 
crowded  with  harrying  people,  and  the  jingle  of 
sleigh-bells  sounded  constantly  in  his  ears.  There 
was  a  sheet  of  glare  ice  in  his  path  just  before 
reaching  his  house,  and  as  he  went  over  it  his  foot 
slipped  and  he  fell  violently  to  the  ground.  He 
tried  to  rise,  but  sharp  pains  darted  from  his  leg 
throughout  the  body.  In  a  moment  half  a  dozen 
people,  who  had  seen  the  accident,  were  on  the  spot 
to  give  him  assistance.  Mr.  Stephens  grew  white 
and  dizzy  from  pain,  and  the  pitying  people  carried 
him  home  and  laid  him  on  his  bed.  Dr.  Howe  was 
summoned  immediately.  His  leg  was  broken,  and 
the  physician  pronounced  his  injury  a  serious  one. 
His  leg  was  put  in  splints  and  bandages  until  the 
broken  bone  could  unite,  and  he  would  have  to  lie 
quietly  several  weeks. 

Poor  Mr.  Stephens!  He  was  unused  to  suffering, 
and  to  be  thrown  helpless  upon  his  bed  in  a  moment, 
was  a  trial  almost  beyond  his  power  of  endurance. 

One  night  he  could  not  sleep.  It  was  the  last 
night  of  the  year.  He  heard  the  clock  strike  eleven. 
The  old  year  was  fast  going  out;  a  new  year  would 
soon  be  ushered  in.  Noah  Stephens  began  to  think. 
He  did  not  want  to  think;  there  was  nothing  pleas- 
ant in  his  reflections,  but  there  was  nothing  else  for 
him  to  do.  He  thought  of  Mrs.  Ames's  words, 
which  had  come  again  and  again  like  unwelcome 
visitors  to  his  ears:  "Will  you  let  the  light  of  your 
earthly  lamp  go  out  in  darkness?  Oh,  I  hope  God 
will  not  appoint  a  discipline  of  pain  and  trial  to 
bring  you  to  your  senses,  to  make  you  see  what  a 
worthless  thing  your  hoarded  gold  is,  when  you 
might  comfort  and  bless  so  many." 

Again  and  again  he  asked  himself  if  he  was  like 

what   Mrs.   Ames  had  said.      Was  he  avaricious? 

Was  he  hard-hearted?      What  was  to  become  of  his 

money?     He  was  worth  half  a  million  of  dollars; 

he  could  not  take  it  with  him,  but  he  must  account 

to  God  for  its  use.     Hoarded  money !     He  began  to 

see  it  in  the  light  of  a  dangerous   thing.     It  might 

stand  in  the  way  of  his  eternal  happiness. 

"Gold,  gold,  gold,  gold. 
Bright,  yellow,  hard  and  cold." 

Was  he  a  miser?  He  did  not  like  the  word. 
There  was  pain  in  his  broken  limb,  pain  in  his  head, 
and  pain  in  his  heart.  He  hardly  knew  which  caused 
the  most  suffering. 

Morning  came;  it  was  New  Year's  day,  bright  and 
sunny.  Mr.  Stephens  sent  a  messenger  to  ask  Mrs. 
Ames  to  come  to  him,  and  to  bring  the  list  of  names 
she  had  read  to  him.  She  obeyed  the  summons 
immediately,  and  soon  sat  by  his  bedside.  Mrs. 
Ames  kindly  inquired  how  Mr.  Stephens  was,  and 
then  waited  for  him  to  speak. 

After  a  moment's  pause  he  said:  "  The  plain  truths 
you  told  me  in  my  office  that  day,  have  proved  a 
blessing  to  me.  For  one  month  I  have  not  been 
able  to  take  a  step,  and  have  suffered  intensely.  My 
thoughts  have  been  busy,  and  daily  your  words  have 
returned  to  my  mind.  I  have  thought  it  over  and 
over,  and  now  I  see  how  mistaken  I  have  been.  You 
said  you  hoped  God  would  not  appoint  a  discipline 
of  pain  and  trial  for  me,  but  you  see  he  has;  and  I 
am  thankful  for  it,  for  without  this  suffering  and 
your  plain  speaking,  I  should  never  have  realized 
how  much  good  I  could  do  with  my  means.  I  made 
a  resolve  last  night  to  do  everything  I  can  for  the 
sick  and  poor.  Now  that  1  have  suffered  myself,  I 
realize  that  others  do.  Will  you  please  read  that 
list  again,  and  let  me  help  you  aid  them?" 

Once  more  Mrs.  Ames  read  from  her  paper  the 
name  Joe  Brintnell. 

"Joe  Brintnell?"  said  Mr.  Stephens.  "Is  he  the 
one  with  the  broken  leg?" 

"  Yes,"  said  Mrs.  Ames. 

"Poor  fellowl"  continued  Mr.  Stephens;  "how 
hard  it  must  have  been  for  him!  I  have  had  every 
comfort,  and  it  was  all  I  could  do  to  endure,  but  he 
must  have  lacked  many  things  he  needed.  Here  is 
some  money  for  him,  which  I  will  give  you  to  ex- 
pend as  you  think  best.  You  see  how  changed  I 
am.  Six  weeks  ago  I  should  have  considered  my 
money  thrown  away;  but  now  I  know  I  could  not 
make  a  better  use  of  it." 

A  look  of  pleasure  came  over  Mrs.  Ames's  face 
as  she  took  the  money,  and  Mr.  Stephens  continued: 
"  You  said  there  was  a  widow  with  six  children  who 
were  in  great  destitution.  You  know  best  what  she 
needs,  and  if  you  will  give  me  a  list,  I  will  have 


the  things  sent  to  her  immediately.  I  wish  to  keep 
my  resolve.  Mrs.  Ames,  you  have  spent  your  life 
in  doing  good;  I  have  spent  mine  in  making  money. 
How  much  richer  you  are  in  the  sight  of  Gk>d 
than  I!" 

Mrs.  Ames  put  into  his  hand  a  paper  containing 
several  names  and  the  necessities  of  each,  and  took 
her  leave. 

New  Year's  day  passed  rapidly  away.  What  a 
happy,  useful  day  it  was  to  Mr.  Stephens!  He  sent 
money  to  individuals,  and  donations  to  his  church, 
the  relief  societies,  the  Society  for  the  Prevention 
of  Cruelty  to  Animals,  Orphan  Asylum,  Home  for 
the  Destitute,  etc. 

Never  before  had  his  thoughts  been  turned  so 
completely  upon  others.  Strange  to  say,  in  caring 
for  and  blessing  the  unfortunate,  his  own  physical 
suffering  was  almost  forgotten.  Several  thousands 
of  dollars  were  sent  forth  on  errands  of  mercy. 

During  the  next  week  Mr.  Stephens  received 
many  calls  from  the  people  whom  he  had  helped, 
and  many  expressions  of  thanks  and  gratitude  fell 
from  their  lips.  That  memorable  New  Year's  day 
was  the  birthday  of  a  new  and  brighter  life.  When 
he  recovered  his  health  and  returned  to  his  place  of 
business,  his  counting  room  wore  a  different  aspect. 
It  was  no  longer  a  place  where  he  was  to  invent 
schemes  to  gain  money  to  hoard.  The  worth  of 
money  lay  in  its  use,  and  no  man  during  the  subse- 
quent years  of  health  and  prosperity  which  followed, 
knew  better  how  to  spend  it  wisely  and  well  than 
Noah  Stephens.  May  he  live  to  enjoy  many  more 
Happy  Years! — Anna  E.  Wood^  in  Zion$  Herald. 


THB  GEILD  AND  THB  TEAR. 


Said  the  Child  to  the  youthful  Year : 
"What  hast  thou  In  store  for  me, 

O  giver  of  beautiful  gifts,  what  cheer, 
What  joy  dost  thou  bring  with  thee?" 


"My  seasons  four  shall  bring 
Their  treasures :  the  winter's  snows. 

The  autumn's  store,  and  the  flowers  of  spring, 
And  the  summer's  perfect  rose. 

"All  these  and  more  shall  be  thine. 

Dear  Child ;  but  the  last  and  best 
Thyself  must  earn  by  a  strife  divine, 

If  thou  wouldst  be  truly  blest. 

"Wouldst  know  this  last,  best  gift? 

'Tis  a  conscience  clear  and  bright, 
A  peace  of  mind  which  the  soul  can  lift 

To  an  infinite  delight. 

"Truth,  patience,  courage,  and  love 

If  thou  unto  me  canst  bring, 
I  will  set  thee  all  earth's  ills  above, 

O  Child,  and  crown  thee  a  King  1" 

—Cdia  Thaxter. 


Temperance. 


RB FUSING    WINB  WITH   WASHINGTON. 


In  these  days  no  well-bred  person  shows  surprise 
when  any  one  refuses  wine.  It  is  only  the  vulgar 
and  unrefined  who  significantly  lift  their  eyebrows 
or  make  sneering  remarks  because  a  comrade  shows 
his  temperance  principles.  Perhaps  this  has  always 
been  true.  At  any  rate,  the  following  clipping  from 
the  Little  Christian  shows  that  Washington  was  as 
gentlemanly  "as  he  was  great.  Toward  the  close  of 
the  Revolutionary  War  an  officer  in  the  army  had 
occasion  to  transact  some  business  with  General 
Washington,  and  repaired  to  Philadelphia  for  that 
purpose.  Before  leaving  he  received  an  invitation 
to  dine  with  the  General,  and,  accepting,  found  him- 
self in  company  with  many  distinguished  guests, 
among  whom  he  preserved  a  modest  demeanor,  tak- 
ing but  little  part  in  the  conversation.  Before  the 
close  of  the  dinner  General  Washington,  calling  him 
by  name,  requested  him  to  drink  a  glass  of  wine 
with  him.  "Will  you  have  the  goodness  to  excuse 
me.  General?"  replied  the  officer.  "I  have  made  it 
a  rule  never  to  drink  wine."  All  eyes  were  instant- 
ly turned  upon  the  young  officer  with  surprise  and 
indignation — mayhap  a  few  with  approval.  That  a 
person  should  be  so  unsocial  and  so  mean  never  to 
drink  wine  was  too  bad;  but  that  he" should  abstain 
from  it  on  an  occasion  like  that,  and  when  offered 
to  him  by  Washington  himself,  was  intolerable. 
Washington  at  once  saw  the  feeling  of  his  guests, 
and  promptly  addressed  them:  "Gentlemen,"  said 
he,  "our  friend  is  right;  I  do  not  wish  any  of  my 
guests  to  partake  of  anything  against  their  incli- 
nations; and  I  certainly  do  not  wish  them  to  violate 
any  established  principle  in  social  intercourse  with 
me.  I  honor  my  friend  for  his  frankness,  for  his 
consistency  in  thus  adhering  to  an  established  rule 
which  could  never  do  any  of  us  any  harm  if  we 
adopted  it" — JSelecUd. 


KANSAS  PROHIBITORY  DBCISION. 


The  Supreme  Court  of  Kansas  rendered  a  decision 
lately  to  the  effect  that  any  person  the  lawful 
and  bona  fide  possessor  of  intoxicating  liquor  may 
use  as  he  sees  fit,  he  may  drink  it  himself  or  give  it 
away,  but  he  cannot  by  any  shift  or  device  in  selling 
or  giving  away  lawfully  evade  the  provisions  of  the 
statute  prohibiting  the  manufacture  and  sale  of  in- 
toxicating liquor.  They  also  hold  that  a  person  can 
not  be  convicted  under  section  16  of  the  prohibitoiy 
act  of  1881  for  keeping  in  his  house,  store,  or  in  a 
wareroom  thereof,  intoxicating  liquor  for  his  own 
use  or  for  giving  away,  if  it  is  done  honestly  and  in 
good  faith,  and  not  as  a  shift  to  evade  the  provis- 
ions of  the  act. 

The  decision  was  rendered  by  Chief  Justice  Hor- 
ton,  all  the  justices  concurring.  The  case  came  up 
in  ihe  Supreme  Court  on  an  appeal  from  Miami 
county,  and  the  decision  of  the  lower  court  was  re- 
versed. It  seems  that  a  shoe  dealer  named  Stand- 
ish.  of  that  place,  had  been  in  the  habit  of  sending 
to  Kansas  City  and  purchasing  beer  and  whisky  for 
a  number  of  parties,  they  drinking  it  in  the  back 
room  of  his  store.  He,  however,  derived  no  profit, 
direct  or  indirect,  from  the  dispensation  of  the  pro- 
hibited beverage.  Notwithstanding  this  fact,  he  was 
indicted  by  the  Federal  Grand  Jury,  under  section 
16  of  the  prohibitory  law  of  1881,  charged  with 
keeping  a  place  where  intoxicating  liquor  was  dis- 
pensed. He  was  convicted  in  the  lower  court,  and 
the  case  was  appealed,  the  result  being  the  reversal 
above. — Inter  Ocean. 


ONB  CITY'S  SALOON  BILL. 


What  do  you  suppose  is  the  annual  saloon  bill  of 
Brooklyn?  You  will  hardly  believe  until  I  prove  it 
to  you.  It  is  between  sixteen  and  twenty  millions 
of  dollars.  A  sum  so  vast  that  we  must  needs 
break  it  up  into  smaller  sums  to  get  any  practical 
idea  of  it.  First,  let  me  show  you  how  I  reach  the 
result.  There  are  a  little  less  than  3,000  licensed 
saloons  in  our  city.  Now  it  is  an  under  and  not  an 
over  estimate  to  put  these  three  thousand  saloons  at 
$15  per  day  for  three  hundred  and  sixty-five  days  in 
the  year.  Indeed,  a  saloon  keeper  to  whom  these 
figures  were  recently  shown  declares  that  a  saloon 
cannot  live  upon  an  average  receipt  of  less  than  $20 
per  day.  Three  thousand  saloons  at  $15  per  day 
make  a  grand  total  of  $16,425,000  per  annum. 
This  is  easily  within  the  lines.  It  is  more  likely 
$20,000,000.  Now,  in  order  to  get  this  enormous 
amount  of  money  before  you,  I  present  you  this 
table.  This  enormous  sum  of  money  represents  the 
following  values: 

250,000  bbls.  flour  at  $6 $  1,500,000 

220,000  tons  of  coal  at  $5 1,100.000 

150,000  overcoats  at  $5 750.000 

200,000  dress  coats  at  $20 4,000.000 

200,000  pairs  pants  at  $5 1,000,000 

600,000  pairs  boots  and  shoes  at  $3 1.800.000 

600,000  pairs  socks  at  25  cents 150  000 

300,000  yards  of  cloth  at  $1 300,000 

450  000  yards  of  flannel  at  50  cents 225  000 

600.000  hats  and  caps  at  50  cents 8lX).000 

500,000  public  library  books  at  $2 1,000,000 

Build  20  school-houses  at  $60.000 1.200,000 

Build  30  new  churches  at  $50.000 1,500.000 

Build  1  inebriate  asylum 200,000 

Build  100  houses  for  aged  and  infirm 100.000 

Build  a  free  museum 1,000.000 


Total $16,125,000 

Now  let  us  suppose  that  the  city  of  Brooklyn 
should  receive  every  year  an  order  to  manufacture 
the  above  articles  of  food,  and  build  every  year  the 
number  of  school  houses,  churches,  asylums,  homes, 
museums,  and  furnish  the  stipulated  number  of 
library  books,  instead  of  the  order  to  sell  so  much 
liquor,  what  would  not  be  the  added  prosperity  of 
our  city? — Irith   World. 


Gov.  St  John  will  begin  his  second  lecture  tour 
in  California,  January  10. 

The  Kentucky  Court  of  Appeals  has  affirmed  that 
drunkenness  is  no  excuse  for  crime. 

Los  Angeles  is  having  Sunday  evening  Prohibi- 
tion meetings,  attended  by  over  3,000  people. 

Why  are  not  the  saloon's  murders  punished? 
Lately  the  jury  disagrees  a  second  time  in  the  case 
of  a  man  believed  to  have  killed  Mr.  Haddock  in 
Sioux  City.  On  the  night  of  the  saloon's  victory  at 
Atlanta  a  company  of  drunken  rioters  turned  on  a 
joung  man  named  Hightower,  standing  at  the  door 
of  his  home,  and  asked  him  if  he  had  voted  wet  or 
dry.  He  answered,  "I  was  dry;"  whereupon  one  of 
them  hurled  a  stone  at  him,  struck  him  in  the  head 
and  killed  him.  A  crowd  saw  it,  and  no  man  is  ar- 
rested. 


12 


DiOEMBBK  29,  188) 


KELIGIOTIS  NEWS. 


CEIOAQO  BIBLE  WORK. 

The  Bible- Work  Institute  will  hold  a  three  months' 
term  for  ladies  in  the  Bible- Work  Room,  Y,  M.  C.  A. 
Building,  150  Madison  street,  Chicago,  111.,  begin- 
ning January  8,  1888.  The  course  of  study  will  in- 
clude the  following  subjects:  Bible  exposition  by 
books;  Geographj'  of  Bible  lands  and  mission  fields; 
Christian  evidences;  Church  history;  Inquiry-room 
work;  Sunday-school  work;  Methods  of  work. 

The  instruction  will  be  given  by  well-known  Chris- 
tian teachers  of  our  city;  among  whom  are  Rev.  E. 
P.  Goodwin,  D.  D.;  Prof.  W.  G.  Craig,  D.  D.;  Prof. 
Hugh  Macdonald  Scott,  D.  D.;  Rev.  P.  S.  Henson, 
D.  D.;  and  Evangelist  E.  W.  Bliss. 

It  is  important  that  applications  to  enter  this  In- 
stitute be  sent  immediately.  Ladies  who  wish  to 
enter  may  send  for  a  circular.  The  Institute  will 
be  under  the  supervision  of  the  Chicago  Evangeli- 
zation Society,  F.  G.  Ensign,  Manager.  Address, 
Miss  E.  Dryer,  Bible-Work  Room,  150  Madison 
St.,  Chicago,  111. 

<  »  ■ 

WEEK  OF  PBAYBR    PROGRAM. 


TOPICS    SUGGESTED   FOR   EXHORTATION   AND   PRAYER 

BY   THE  EVANGELICAL  ALLIANCE,   REVISED 

BY    S,    C.   KIMBALL. 


Sabbath,  Jan.  1. — Sermons,  "Lift  up  your  heads, 
for  your  redemption  draweth  nigh." — Luke  21:  28. 
"The  end  of  all  things  is  at  hand;  be  ye  therefore 
sober  and  watch  unto  prayer." — 1  Peter  4:  7;compare 
Rom.  13:  12;  1  Cor.  7:  29;  Eph.  5:  16. 

Monday. — Thanksgiving.  For  our  acceptance 
with  God  through  Jesus  Christ  and  the  liberty  of 
united  access  by  one  Spirit  to  the  throne  of  Grace; 
for  the  enduring  goodness  of  God;  for  answers  to 
prayer  during  the  past  year;  for  the  growing  spirit 
of  Christian  unity;  for  the  maintenance  of  peace  on 
earth;  for  ever-widening  fields  given  to  the  preach- 
ing of  the  Gospel;  for  souls  gathered  into  the  king- 
dom; and  for  all  who  have  dedicated  themselves  to 
the  service  of  Christ.— Psa.  23:  30:  66:  98:100:  103: 
133:  166;  1  Sam.  2:  1-10;  1  Chr.  29:  10-15;  Isa.  12: 
26: 1-9;  Luke  17:  11-19;  Eph.  1;  Rom.  12;  Heb.2:10. 

Tuesday. — CoNFEssioN.Of  vices  prevalent  through- 
out Christendom,  such  as  drunkenness,  impurity, 
profane  language.  Sabbath-breaking,  and  wide-spread 
Christless  worship  in  secret  lodges  under  the  very 
shadow  of  our  churches;  of  great  public  wrongs, 
such  as  oppressive  laws,  or  demoralizing  trades,  like 
the  opium  and  liquor  traffics;  of  luxury  and  the 
wasteful  use  of  God's  gifts  by  some  classes  of  soci- 
ety, and,  among  others,  lawless  discontent  and  cov- 
etousness;  of  hindrances  to  the  acceptance  of  the 
Gospel  by  the  inconsistent  lives  of  nominal  Chris- 
tians, and  especially  ministers  who  preach  Christ  in 
the  pulpit  but  ignore  him  in  the  profane  worship  of 
the  secret  lodge;  of  jealousies  and  sectarian  rivalries 
among  brethren  ;of  personal  unfaithfulness,  imperfect 
consecration  to  God, faults  of  pride  ortemper,and  the 
worldliness  and  inaction  which  render  so  many  be- 
lievers unfruitful.— Psa  15:  32:  51:  70:  80:  90:130; 
Hosea  5:  15-6:  7;  14;  Mic  6;  Neh.  1;  Jer.  7:  1-16; 
9:  1-9;  18:  5-17;  Bzek.  14:  12-23;  Hag.  1:  2-11; 
Dan.  9:  3-19;  Luke  2:  1-18;  James  4;  Rom  3:  9-26; 
Eph.  5:  11;  1  Cor.  10:  21;  Luke  10:  16;  John  10:1. 

Wednesday. — Prayer  for  families  and  schools. 
For  the  hallowing  of  the  home  in  all  its  relation- 
ships; for  the  blessing  of  the  Holy  Spirit  upon  the 
efforts  of  parents  to  guide  sons  and  daughters  to 
Christ;  for  invalid  members  of  the  family;  for  hired 
help;  for  both  teachers  and  taught  in  universities, 
schools  and  colleges;  for  Sabbath-schools;  for  Asso- 
ciations for  young  men  and  women;  for  every  effort 
to  protect  the  immature  against  temptations,  and  to 
equalize  the  standard  of  morality  for  both  sexes. — 
Psa.  1:  34:  78:  1-8;  113:  119:  1-10;  127:  128:  131: 
133;  Dent.  6:  Prov.  3:  1-26;  8:  and  9;  23:  12-35; 
31:  10-.31;  2  Sim.  7:  18-29;  Mai.  2:  11-16;  Mark  9: 
3-16;  Matt.  18:  1-14;  Eph.  5:  22-6:  9;  Col.  3:  12- 
4:  1;  Titus  2;  Eccl.  11:  9-12:  7. 

Thursday. — Prayer  for  the  Church  of  God. 
For  every  branch  of  the  one  universal  Church,  that 
all  may  be  filled  with  the  Holy  Ghost  and  enabled 
to  keep  the  unity  of  the  Spirit  in  the  bond  of  peace; 
for  more  love  and  co-operation  among  Christians; 
for  the  removal  of  needless  causes  of  division;  for 
the  better  observance  of  the  Lord's  day;  for  greater 
wisdom  and  zeal  to  labor  for  the  conversion  of  the 
ungodly,  the  religious  education  of  the  young,  and 
the  growth  of  believers;  for  the  Spirit  of  Truth  to 
guide  students  of  His  Word  into  a  fuller  under- 
standing of  it;  for  pastors,  evangelists,  and  church 
councils;  for  the  attainment  by  all  the  Lord's  peo- 
ple of  a  higher  ataodard  of  boUueaii  and  consecra- 


tion to  service;  for  a  more  faithful  testimony  against 
Freemasonry  and  other  systems  of  false  worship  in 
Christian  lands;  and  for  the  speedy  coming  of  our 
Lord  and  Saviour  Jesus  Christ. — Psa.  46:  48:  84: 
87:  122:  132;  Gen.  28:  10-22;  32:  24-32;  1  Kings  8: 
22-30;  Isa.  54;  Joel  2:  23-32;  Jno.  15:  17;  Eph.  1: 
15-23;  2:  11-22;  3:  14-21;  4:  1-16;  1  Cor.  13;  Rev. 
21:  1-7. 

Friday. — Prayer  FOR  Missions.  For  the  quick- 
ening of  a  missionary  spirit  and  for  the  outpouring 
of  the  Holy  Ghost;  for  all  agents  in  Gospel  work, 
that  they  may  be  kept  humble,  devoted,  and  cour- 
ageous; for  native  churches  and  converts,  especially 
such  as  endure  persecution  for  the  Gospel's  sake; 
for  mission  colleges,  Bible  and  tract  societies,  and 
the  spread  of  vernacular  Christian  literature;  for 
the  overthrow  of  all  false  religions,  and  for  the  con- 
version of  Jews,  Mohammedans,  and  heathen  to  the 
faith  of  Christ;  for  the  complete  opening  up  of 
Africa  to  the  light,  and  the  cessation  of  its  slave 
trade,  and  rum  trade  with  England  and  America; 
for  a  blessing  on  all  missionary  conferences  to  be 
held  this  year.— Psa.  2:  67:  72:  110:  126;  Isa.  11: 
1-9;  25:  6-9;  35:  40:  44:  55:  60;  Matt.  9:  35-38; 
13:  24-33;  28:  16-20;  John  12:  20-32;  Acts  10: 
34-48;  17:  22-31;  Rom.  10:  1-15. 

Saturday. — Prayer  for  Nations.  For  kings 
and  for  all  that  are  in  authority,  that  we  may  lead 
quiet  and  peaceable  lives;  for  legislatures  and  judges, 
that  laws  may  be  wisely  made  and  administered;  for 
the  abolition  of  the  traflSc  in  opium  and  intoxicat- 
ing drinks,  and  the  cessation  of  all  forms  of  cruelty; 
for  a  pacific  spirit  among  States;  for  soldiers  and 
sailors;  for  emigrants  and  travelers;  for  the  deliv- 
erance of  the  nations  from  all  superstition;  for  just 
dealing  and  a  Christian  spirit  between  employers 
and  employed;  for  the  amelioration  of  the  condition 
of  the  poor;  for  a  plentiful  harvest  the  world  over; 
for  the  elevation  of  public  morals,  especially  in  re- 
spect of  temperance  and  chastity;  for  the  cultivation 
of  art  and  science  in  a  reverent  and  Christian  spirit; 
for  the  spread  among  the  people  of  a  pure  literature; 
for  all  philanthropic  work  among  the  suffering  or 
degraded.— Psa.  20:  33:  47:  61:  65:  75;  82:  107:  31 
to  end;  144:  9-15;  Prov.  31:  1-9;  Jer.  5:  20-29; 
18:  1-17;  Ezek.  34-1-16;  47:  1-12;  Rom.  13;  1  Tim. 
2:  1-8;  1  Peter  2:  13-25. 

Sabbath,  Jan.  8. — Sermons.  "Be  ye  steadfast, 
unmovable,  always  abounding  in  the  work  of  the 
Lord."— 1  Cor.  15:  58. 


— Pastor  C.  R.  Hunt,  of  Clarence,  Iowa,  has  be- 
gun a  protracted  meeting  under  most  hopeful  condi- 
tions. Eight  persons  had  confessed  penitence  for 
sin  and  resolved  to  seek  the  Lord  last  week. 

— Geo.  W.  Needels,  of  Albany,  Mo.,  writes  of  a 
revival  of  great  interest  in  his  vicinity,  some  twenty- 
five  accepting  Christ,  among  them  some  of  his  own 
family. 

— ^The  revival  interest  among  the  churches  of 
Geneva,  111.,  has  been  growing  until  the  pastors  feel 
the  need  of  assistance  from  outside  their  number. 
It  has  been  some  time  since  so  much  anxiety  about 
the  salvation  of  the  soul  has  been  felt  by  the  people 
of  that  place. 

— Dr.  McAllister,  successor  of  Dr.  A.  M.  Milli- 
gan,  in  the  Eighth  Street  Reformed  Presbyterian 
church,  Pittsburgh,  lately  preached  a  memorial  ser- 
mon on  the  late  Prof.  J.  R.  W.  Sloane,  D  D.,  in  the 
church  in  Allegheny  City  of  which  Dr.  Sloane  was 
long  pastor.  The  church  has  begun  a  fund  for  a 
monument. 

— Rev.  J.  M.  Foster  of  Cincinnati  is  engaged  to 
supply  the  pulpit  of  the  Brooklyn  Covenanter 
church  for  the  time  being.  Rev.  J.  F.  Carson,  the 
pastor,  has  been  obliged  to  cease  work  on  account 
of  ill  health. 

— A.  J.  Bell,  the  evangelist  of  this  city.is  visiting 
California,  and  the  Pacific  of  San  Francisco  says  he 
lately  began  revival  services  in  the  First  M.  E. 
church  of  that  city,  much  religious  interest  having 
been  already  manifested  in  the  congregation. 

— Gen.  O.  0.  Howard,  commanding  the  Pacific 
department,  has  lately  visited  Southern  California 
with  Mr.  McCoy,  secretary  of  the  San  Francisco  Y. 
M.  C.  A.,  to  arouse  an  interest  in  that  organization. 
They  visited  Pasadena  and  Los  Angeles,  laying  the 
corner  stone  of  a  Y.  M.  C.  A.  building  in  the  latter 
city.  On  the  return  they  stopped  at  Fresno  and 
held  a  great  mass  meeting. 

— The  Sabbath-school  of  the  Armour  Mission, 
Chicago,  now  numbers  1,400,  and  the  evening  con- 
gregations number  about  1,000. 

— The  Rev.  Jacob  Freshman,  pastor  of  the  He- 
brew Christian  church  in  New  York,  by  special  in- 
vitation visited  Chicago  last  month,  preached  to 
large  ';udieDce8  in  various  evangelical  churches,  and 


established  a  branch  of  his  Hebrew-Christian  work 
in  that  city.  Six  gentlemen,  ministers  and  laymen, 
with  Prof.  H.  M.  Scott  as  chairman  and  Mr.  Wm.  E. 
Blackstone,  secretary  and  treasurer,  act  as  Mr. 
Freshman's  Advisory  Committee.  There  are,  it  is 
estimated,  40,000  Hebrews  in  Chicago. 

— The  ministerial  jubilee  of  Rev.  Horatius  Bonar, 
D.  D.,  of  Glasgow,  which  was  to  have  been  celebrat- 
ed this  month,  has  been  postponed  on  account  of  the 
venerable  doctor's  indisposition,  until  March,  1888. 
It  will  be  learned  with  regret  that  Dr.  Bonar  has 
been  confined  to  his  bed  for  some  time  past. 

— At  a  reception  given  to  the  Church  Extension 
Committee  of  the  Presbyterian  church  and  others  of 
the  clergy  and  laity  of  New  York  by  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Elliott  T.  Sbepard,  the  other  evening,  the  present 
condition  of  the  fund  was  discussed  and  aggressive 
measures  to  increase  it  were  agreed  on.  The  new 
fund  was  headed  by  two  subscriptions  of  $10,000 
each  from  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Shepard,  and  within  half  an 
hour  over  $60,000  was  subscribed — enough  to  clear 
off  the  mortgages  on  churches  aided. 

— Bishop  William  Taylor  writes  that  it  is  impossi- 
ble to  secure  the  necessary  force  of  carriers  to  trans- 
port his  goods,  and  that  he  needs  a  traction  steam- 
engine  and  wagons,  a  couple  of  ferry  barges,  and  a 
steam  barge,  to  run  the  eighty-eight  miles  of  the 
Congo  from  Isangala  to  Manyanga.  The  Bishop 
has  now  working  under  him  in  Africa,  on  the  West 
Coast  and  on  the  Congo,  about  one  hundred  mis- 
sionaries, besides  a  party  of  twenty-six  now  on 
their  way  out,  and  constant  reinforcement  which  he 
is   receiving. 

— A  contingent  of  the  Salvation  Army  on  land- 
ing at  Bombay  lately,  not  only  announced  that 
they  had  definitely  adopted  Indian  dress  but  Indian 
food.  A  native  paper  commenting  on  this,  says: 
"They  then  had  their  first  Indian  dinner  on  rice  and 
curry,  which  they  declared  to  be  the  most  delicious 
dish  they  had  ever  eaten.  Our  people  can  learn  an 
infinite  deal  from  the  Salvationists." 

— The  discussion  of  the  question  of  the  reunion 
of  the  Northern  and  Southern  Presbyterian  church- 
es is  bringing  out  some  plain  talk.  A  Southern 
writer  in  a  Southern  Presbyterian  paper  says  in  the 
course  of  an  argument  in  favor  of  union,  particular- 
ly as  a  means  of  breaking  down  some  prejudices 
now  existing:  "It  is  a  fact  that  very  generally  in 
the  South  any  man  or  woman  coming  from  the 
North  to  teach  or  preach  to  the  Negroes  will  have  to 
bear  the  burden  of  social  ostracism.  It  is  a  fact  that 
Southern  men  and  women  can  preach  to 
and  teach  the  Negro  and  experience  no  ostracism. 
Your  daughter,  young  lady  though  she  be,  can  hang 
in  tender  affection  about  the  neck  of  the  old  black 
mammy  and  nobody  think  anything  of  it,  but  just 
catch  that  New  England  woman  trying  it." 

— One  of  the  most  successful  missionaries  in 
Oroomiah  is  a  blind  Armenian  from  Harpoot,  Tur- 
key. He  knows  the  Bible  thoroughly,  and  riding  on 
a  miserable  little  donkey ,which  is  led  by  a  one-eyed 
deaf  man,  he  goes  boldly  from  village  to  village 
preaching  the  Gospel.  His  blindness  protects  him, 
and  the  people  crowd  to  see  the  wonder — a  blind 
man  reading. 

— The  house  to  house  visitation  organized  by  Mr. 
Moody  in  Chicago,  is  being  industriously  carried 
forward.  During  the  past  six  months  four  thousand 
families  have  been  visited  by  lady  missionaries,  who 
have  read  the  Bible  to  them  and  distributed  relig- 
ious literature,  and  invited  them  to  church  and  their 
children  to  Sunday-school. 

— Pastor  CuUiss,  of  the  Baptist  church,  Racine, 
Wis.,  created  an  indignant  feeling  among  the  fash- 
ionable society  circles  lately  by  an  open  and  severe 
attack  on  dancing.  He  spoke  to  an  immense  audi- 
ence Sabbath  evening  on  "Seven  Popular  Devils," 
before  his  regular  sermon.  He  referred  at  length  to 
the  numerous  printed  communications  of  criticisms 
published  in  the  daily  papers  and  hinted  at  threat- 
ening letters  received  personally.  In  his  own  de- 
fense, he  simply  stated  that  he  had  been  misrepre- 
sented and  that  his  actual  remarks  on  the  evils  of 
dancing  needed  no  apology. 

— A  general  assembly  of  clergymen  representing 
all  Protestant  missions  in  Mexico,  will  be  held  in 
the  City  of  Mexico,  Jan.  31,  1888.  The  Methodist, 
Baptist,  Quaker,  and  Episcopalian  missions  will  be 
present,  and  addresses  will  be  made  by-several  bish- 
ops of  the  United  States. 

— A  new  M.  E.  hospital,  founded  by  Mr.  George 
I.  Seny,  was  dedicated  by  appropriate  services  in 
Brooklyn  last  week.  It  will  be  known  as  the  "Meth- 
odist General  Hospital."  Although  under  the  super- 
vision of  the  M.  E.  church,  it  will  be  open  to  Jew 
and  Gentile,  Catholic  and  Protestant,  heathen  attc| 
infidel,  all  on  equal  terms, 


Dboimbib  29, 1887 


THE  UJauilsnAN  CYNOStJRK. 


13 


NEWS  {Continued  from  IGtJipage). 

killed,  and  twenty  others  were  wounded, 
some  of  them  seriously.  One  report 
states  that  three  of  thfi  cars  rolled  down 
a  fifteen-foot  embankment. 

At  Brookfield,  Ohio,  Friday  night.  Mr. 
W.  M.  Lakin,  his  wife,  and  two  children, 
were  sitting  by  a  center  table  when  a 
haiiging-lamp  fell  down  between  them. 
All  were  seriously  burned,  one  of  the 
children  dying  within  six  hours. 

GENERAL. 

The  grand  jury  at  Hartford,  Conn., 
Thursday  night  returned  indictments 
against  James  8.  Parsons,  President; 
Eobert  E.  Beecher,  Secretary,  and  Isaac 
W.  Hakes,  a  clerk  of  the  Continental  Life 
Insurance  Company,  charged  with  false 
entries  and  returns.  Parsons  is  in  Can- 
ada. 

Owing  to  excessive  competition,  the 
Montauk  Pire  Insurance  Company,  of 
Brooklyn,  has  decided  to  discontinue 
business,  and  will  reinsure  its  risks  with 
the  Niagara  Pire  Insurance  Company,  of 
New  York  City. 

Two  mortgages  for  $10,000,000  each 
were  recently  placed  on  file  in  the  Re- 
corder's office  of  Mercer  county,  Pennsyl- 
vania. They  are  on  the  New  York  and 
Pennsylvania  Railroad  Company,  and 
given  to  New  York  parties.  One  occu- 
pies forty-three  and  the  other  fifty  pages. 

The  Oklahoma  Settlers'  Association, 
organized  at  the  headquarters  of  the  Ok- 
lahoma boomers  in  Wichita,  Kan.,  is  re- 
ceiving many  new  recruits,  who  are  pay- 
ing the  $25  that  is  required  as  a  member- 
ship fee.  In  the  event  that  Congress 
fails  to  throw  open  the  land  for  settle- 
ment next  spring  the  boomers  will  move 
upon  it  en  masse,  take  forcible  posses- 
sion, and  resist  any  attempt  to  drive 
them  away. 

The  workmen  in  the  new  opera  house 
at  Marshalltown,  Iowa,  found  a  gas-pipe 
bomb,  with  fuse  attached,  in  an  unfin- 
ished brick  flue.  This  afternoon  officers 
took  the  bomb  to  the  outskirts  of  the 
city,  placed  it  under  the  roots  of  a  large 
tree  and  lighted  the  fuse.  It  exploded 
with  terrific  force,  tearing  the  trees  in 
the  vicinity  to  shreds,  and  a  splinter  tore 
a  hole  through  Sheriff  McCord's  overcoat. 
Several  arrests  are  now  expected. 

FOREIGN. 

Advices  from  Zanzibar  under  date  of 
Dec.  19  state  that  a  messenger  has  arrived 
from  Central  Africa  who  brings  no  direct 
news  from  Henry  M.  Stanley,  but  says  it 
is  reported  in  the  country  on  the  east 
side  of  Lake  Nyanza  that  Mr.  Stanley, 
after  many  privations,  reached  Wadelai 
in  the  early  part  of  September.  The 
principal  difficulty  he  encountered  was  be- 
tween the  Mabodi  country  and  Wadelai. 

Berlin  dispatches  announce  that  ad- 
vices from  all  points  are  to  the  effect  that 
if  war  early  in  the  spring  is  averted,  offi- 
cial anticipation  will  be  deceived  and  mil- 
itary expectation  disappointed.  Within 
the  past  few  days  it  has  become  the  set- 
tled conviction  of  the  diplomatic  circles 
that  the  Czar's  pacific  tendencies  have 
been  overborne  by  the  Panslavist  faction, 
and  that  he  is  now  under  the  control  of 
the  war  party,  the  leaders  of  which  are 
likely  to  precipitate  a  war  by  some  act  of 
provocation  committed  without  the  Czar's 
full  assent.  The  return  of  General  Von 
Schweinitz,  the  German  ambassador  to 
St.  Petersburg,  was  hoped  to  be  signal- 
ized by  a  decisive  turn  of  the  tide  peace- 
ward. 

The  Official  Messenger  gives  details  of 
the  recent  troubles  at  Russian  uniuersi- 
ties.  It  says  that  on  Dec.  15  thirteen 
students  of  the  Charkoff  University  sud- 
denly left  their  classes  and  went  into  the 
streets,  where  they  met  a  number  of  pu- 

{lils  of  the  Technological  and  Veterinary 
nstitutes,  and  began  acting  in  a  riotous 
manner,  and  smashed  the  university  win- 
dows. On  the  14th  inst.  the  students  of 
the  Odessa  University  engaged  in  a  riot, 
and  on  the  lOth  the  Kazan  University  and 
veterinary  students  also  indulged  in  riot- 
ous proceedings.  All  the  university  and 
technological  lectures  have  been  sus- 
pended. There  is  evidence  that  evil-dis- 
posed persons  instigated  the  riots. 


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Lodge  Notes. 

Kentucky  again  comes  to  the  front  with 
an  "oldest  Mason."  Collins  Pitch,  of 
Meade  county,  is  the  oldest  Mason  in  the 
order  in  that  State,  having  become  a 
member  of  the  order  in  1820.  He  is  past 
ninety  five  years  of  age. 

Pive  walking  delegates  of  the  building 
trades'  section  of  the  Central  Labor 
Union  were  arraigned  in  the  general  ses- 
sions in  New  York,  Dec.  19,  to  plead  to 
the  indictment  charging  them  with  con- 
spiracy to  ruin  the  business  of  Peck  & 
Snyder,  dealers  in  building  materials. 

Stone  county,  Missouri,  the  headquar- 
ters of  the  Bald-knobbers,  is  again  in  a 
state  of  great  excitement  over  a  feud  be- 
tween the  families  of  Ike  Terry  and  one 
Wagner.  At  a  recent  meeting  of  the 
parties  Wagner  was  killed  and  a  friend 
named  Garrett  was  mortally  wounded. 

The  Rajah  of  Bulsampore  granted  the 
use  of  his  baradari,  a  hall  in  the  center  of 
his  garden,  having  clustering  columns, 
Saracenic  arches,  and  marble  floors,  for 
holding  the  reunion  session  of  the  Good 
Templar  Lodge  of  India.  Some  interpret 
this  favorably  for  temperance.  It  may 
be  the  very  reverse. 

J.  B.  Pinch  planned  to  start  a  weekly 
Good  Templar  sheet  in  this  city  and  de- 
pended on  the  Prohibition  movement  to 
make  it  a  success.  His  death  changed 
the  outlook  and  the  plan  has  been  aban- 
doned. Dr.  Oronlyateka,  of  London, 
Can.,  the  virtual  head  of  the  order  in  this 
country,  will  publish  a  monthly  instead. 

Henry  George  is  reported  to  have  late- 
ly said:  "The  great  order  of  the  Knights 
of  Labor  is  yet  extending  over  new 
ground,  but  it  is  evidently  decaying  in  all 
the  places  where  it  was  once  strong.  The 
reason  clearly  is  that  it  has  no  settled  and 
adequate  plans  for  the  improvement  of 
the  coiaditions  of  the  laboring  masses 
other  than  the  application  of  trades  union 
principles  to  the  masses  of  the  unskilled. 
Mr.  Pcwderly  evidently  feels  the  want, 
and  is  endeavoring  in  these  letters  to  sup- 
ply it.  But  if  this  first  letter  is  an  exam-, 
pie  of  those  to  follow  he  will  succeed 
only  in  making  himself  ridiculous." 


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Livingston,  Wm  Mathews.  J  W  Brigham, 
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Hunting,  Mrs  M  A  Sterrett,  T  Kingsworth, 
R  Craft,  R  A  Cullor,  C  P  Potter,  C  H 
Babcock,  Miss  C  Wiggins,  C  W  Bennett, 
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Bro8,H  P  Donthart,  J  C  Rider,  J  C  Young, 
D  Booth,  R  A  Smith,  A  Lake,  C  R  Hunt, 
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,J  N  Norris,  E  H  Gould,  D  R  Mitchell, 
Mrs  P  Lloyd. 

MARKET  BE  PORTS. 

CHICAGO. 

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No.  3 67  73H 

Winter  No  8 79i^@      SIM 

Corn-No.  3 48%         48% 

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Rye— No.  8... 62    @      6.5 

Branper  ton 15  75 

Hay— Timothy 9  .50    @14  00 

Butter,  medium  to  best 16    @     28 

Cbeeee 04    @     laii' 

Beans 125    ^2  40 

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Flax 1  25 

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Liumber— Common 11  00    (($18  00 

Wool 10    @      :» 

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Common  to  good 1  .50    k»  4  90 

HoKS 8  yo    (a  5  7.5 

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Spring 90 

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14 


'  THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


DiOEMBiB  29, 1881 


Home  akd  Health. 

THE    HEALTHFULNE8S  OF  HOUSE- 
WORK. 

American  women  are  not  a  proverbially 
strong  race.  They  are  intelligent  beyond 
most  nationalities— that  is,  in  greater 
numbers.  The  strong  brained,  executive 
woman  who  is  known  to  public  life,  just- 
ly and  well  known  for  excellence  in  any 
department  of  science,  art  or  literature,  is 
exceptional  everywhere,  and  with  her,  be 
she  English,  Scotch,  French,  American 
or  any  other  race,  we  do  not  have  to  do 
when  we  speak  of  the  special  intelligence 
of  the  American  woman. 

But  of  the  large  number  of  women  who 
help  to  make  up  the  American  people, 
probably  the  great  majority  of  them  read 
ajcid  think  and  act  witn  more  or  less  in- 
telligence. 

Yet  the  problem  how  to  become  a 
strong  race  is  still  unsolved,  and  until  it 
is  made  the  subject  of  more  extensive 
thought  and  research  and  importance 
among  thinking  women  it  must  stay  so. 

Undoubtedly  climatic  influence  has 
much  to  do  with  our  extreme  nervous, 
tightly  strung  temperaments.  Our  varia- 
bleness of  weather,  from  intensely  hot  to 
very  cold,  from  wet  to  dry,  from  calm 
languor  of  atmosphere  to  high  and  gusty 
winds  must  produce  some  effect  upon  the 
physical  constitution  of  those  who  are 
subjected  to  these  changes.  And  a  vast 
amount  of  good  sense  and  knowledge  is 
required  to  so  adapt  the  clothing  and 
modes  of  life  to  these  variations  as  to  be 
never  caught  unaware  and  unprepared. 

As  a  worker,  woman  needs  short  inter- 
vals of  work  and  then  a  time  for  rest.  I 
am  not  comparing  her  working  power 
with  that  of  man.  They  ought  not  to  be 
compared,  as  they  frequently  are,  to  the 
prejudice  of  women.  When  a  certain 
salary  is  affixed  to  a  piece  of  work  and 
paid  to  whoever  does  it,  irrespective  of 
sex,  women  will  have  less  cause  to  com- 
plain of  in  j  ustice  than  they  sometimes 
have  at  present. 

But  to  compel,  or  to  think  a  woman 
can  work  juat  as  a  man  works  is  to  ex- 
pect David  to  wear  Saul's  armor.  In  her 
own  way  she  does  well  enough.  If  all 
women  did  all  they  were  fully  capable  of, 
notwithstanding  the  disability  of  being 
women  and  not  men,  in  the  battling  force 
of  this  world,  there  would  be  a  revolution 
of  affairs  at  once. 

But  some  women  will  utterly  disregard 
every  known  hygienic  law,  then  wonder 
why  women  can't  be  strong.  They  eat 
badly,  they  sleep  too  little  or  too  much, 
they  keep  irregular  hours,  they  work  too 
long  at  one  time,  they  take  too  little  ex- 
ercise or  too  much  at  one  time,  they 
breathe  bad  air,  they  dress  too  thinly, 
wear  tight  corsets,  badly  fitting  shoes, 
heavy  dresses,  and  then  wonder  that  they 
are  not  strong. 

So  women  can  do  away  with  all,  or 
most  of  these  evils  at  once  by  taking 
proper  heed  to  their  ways.  Others  can- 
not so  readily  mend  their  lives. 

But  no  employment  women  engage  in 
Las  in  it  more  of  the  elements  of  health- 
ful living  than  housework.  Ordinarily 
speaking,  it  is  not  a  matter  of  particular 
commiseration  when  a  women  is  too  poor 
to  keep  a  servant  and  must  do  a  large 
share  of  her  own  work.  She  finds  in  it 
healthful  activity  for  both  body  and 
mind.  And  if  her  family  is  not  unrea- 
sonably large,  or  she  suffering  from 
weakness  which  makes  the  actual  work 
too  much  for  her  strength,  she  ought  to 
find  in  it  happiness  and  strength. 

Probably  the  very  largest  number  of 
families  do  their  own  work  in  America, 
and  there  is  some  intelligence  among  al- 
most the  poorest  and  meanest.  And  with 
our  form  of  government  it  will  be  an  evil 
day  when  this  ceases  to  be  the  case. 

The  run  of  sloppy  shop  work,  where 
ill-fitting,  poorly  sewed  clothing  is  gotten 
up  at  less  than  cost  of  making,  will  be 
over  when  women  refuse  to  buy,  wear  or 
make  such  clothing,  and  turn  to  the  do- 
mestic life  in  their  own,  or  some  one 
else's  kitchen,  in  preference  to  doing 
such  work  at  the  mere  pittance  given 
for  it. 

Housework  is  the  one  employment 
among  women  seemingly  most  in  disre- 
pute, yet  it  is  the  one  thing  which  most 
women  can  do,  and  do  well  if  they  will. 
The  variety  of  occupation,  the  activity 
of  muscle  re(juired,  the  regular  hours 
usually  kept  and  the  mental  acumen 
needed  to  make  people  comfortable,  all 
tend  to  make  the  life  of  the  houseworker 
a  strong  and  healthful  one. 

Yet  women  don't  like  to  do  it — think 


life  a  burden  if  they  are  compelled  to 
drudge  in  the  kitchen,  and  homes  and 
boarding  houses  suffer  in  consequence. 

Would  that  American  women  as  a 
whole  might  be  blessed  with  strong  com- 
mon sense  on  this  subject,  and  so  dignify 
housework  as  to  have  some  pride  in  being 
an  adept  in  its  useful  arts,  and  learn  to 
profit  by  its  health  giving  exercise. — 
Christian  at  Work. 


MASON  AND  HAMLIN  OBOANS 
ABROAD. 


PE0GKES8   IN  PIANOS. 

[From  the  London  Lady's  World.l 
"One  could  not  spend  a  pleasanter 
morning  anywhere  than  in  the  music 
room  of  the  agents  for  these  organs. 
There  will  be  found  all  sorts  and  condi- 
tions of  American  organs — from  those 
that  can  be  packed  in  a  box  and  conve- 
niently carried  to  camp  meeting  in  a  quiet 
by  street,  to  the  famous  Liszt  model, 
which  has  no  rival  for  power  and  beauty 
of  tone.  There  is  also  the  Queen's  model, 
which  received  Her  Majesty's  warmest 
approbation.  The  London  music  room 
of  this  firm,  with  its  comfortable  lounges 
and  old  engravings,  is  open  to  all  comers, 
and  there  you  will  meet  in  its  precincts 
the  most  celebrated  musicians  of  the  day. 
Many  of  them  come  and  listen  with  rapt 
attention  and  admiration  to  the  brilliant 
improvisation  of  celebrated  organists, 
who  are  always  kind  enough  to  play  for 
visitors  who  wish  to  hear  them.  Here 
you  will  find  Sir  Arthur  Sullivan,  Sir 
George  Grove,  Maud  Valerie  White, 
Gywllym  Crowe,  Charles  Godfrey  (Horse 
Guards,)  Bucalossi,  Lawrence  Kellie,  and 
even,  on  some  mornings,  the  beautiful 
Mary  Anderson  and  the  gifted  Mrs.  Ken- 
dall; but,  indeed,  as  every  one  goes  there, 
the  list  is  endless." 

Messrs.  Mason  &  Hamlin  bid  fair  to 
become  as  famous  for  their  improved 
pianos  as  they  have  long  been  for  their 
world-renowned  organs.  The  peculiar 
feature  of  the  Mason  &  Hamlin  piano  is 
that  the  strings  are  directly  secured  to  the 
iron  frame  by  metal  fastenings,  instead  of 
being  wound  around  iron  pins  set  in 
wood  as  in  other  pianos.  The  results  of 
this  important  improvement  are  claimed 
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Fabm  Notes. 


PROTECTING  WOOD  FROM  ROT. 

A  Oerman  periodical  states  that  a 
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was  accidentally  discovered  by  Herr  K. 
Fleischer,  of  Qonobitz,  a  few  years  since . 
The  gist  of  the  matter  is  that  he  was  mak- 
ing a  preparation  of  coal  tar  and  ashes 
for  the  purpose  of  driving  away  ground 
fleas  and  beetles  from  his  garden.  Just 
as  he  had  mixed  the  materials  together 
he  was  called  away  from  his  work,  and, 
on  returning,  found  that  instead  of  tar  in 
the  ashes  there  was  a  kind  of  woody  tex- 
ture Astonished  at  the  transformation, 
he  tried  the  experiment  over  and  over 
again,  and  invariably  with  the  same  re- 
sult. Just  about  this  time  he  had  occa- 
sion to  refloor  an  outdoor  room,  where 
the  boards  came  into  almost  immediate 
contact  with  the  ground,  and  took  the 
opportunity  of  testing  the  preservative 
effects  of  this  mixture  by  smearing  the 
under  sides  of  the  boards  with  coal  tar 
and  sprinkling  them  liberally  with  ashes, 
a  thin  layer  of  which  latter  was  also 
sifted  over  the  ground.  The  procedure 
proved  eminently  successful,  for  the  floor 
is  still  in  perfectly  good  condition,  and 
not  in  the  least  attacked  by  fungoid 
growth,  while  on  all  previous  occasions, 
though  laid  down  with  equally  good  ma- 
terial, it  had  always  required  constant  re- 
pair, and  was  generally  quite  rotten  in 
less  than  two  years. 

The  Metal  of  the  Futube. — The 
metal  of  the  future  is  aluminium.  When 
it  is  made  cheap  enough,  which  will  be 
very  soon,  it  will  take  the  place  of  iron 
and  tin,  as  well  as  of  other  valuable  met- 
als, while  its  alloy  will  be  a  favorite  com- 
pound in  all  the  arts.  Its  value  consists 
in  its  whiteness,  brilliancy,  resistance  to 
tarnish,  strength,  malleability  and  extra- 
ordinary lightness.  It  does  not  weigh 
more  than  glass,  while  it  is  stronger  and 
more  pliable  than  iron,  and  has  the  enor 
mous  advantage  over  the  latter  of  not 
rusting — that  is,  it  is  impervious  to  oxy- 
gen. 

Painting. — For  painting  chairs  and 
other  furniture,  select  any  color  desired, 
of  the  paint  put  up  in  small  tin  packages, 
ground  in  all.  Take  out  such  portion  as 
may  be  needed  and  put  in  a  well  cleaned 
tin  fruit  can  or  other  vessel.  For  almost 
any  color  but  white,  add  about  one  half 
as  much  light  colored  japan  dryer  as  there 
is  paint,  and  thin  with  turpentine  so  that 
it  will  spread  smoothly  and  evenly.  Use 
small  round  pa<nt  brushes  of  a  size  cor- 
responding to  the  work  to  be  done.  Give 
one,  two  or  three  coats,  as  may  be  re- 
quired, allowing  each  coat  to  dry  thor- 
oughly before  putting  on  another.  This 
will  give  a  bright  glossy  fioish.  For 
white  paint,  inside  work,  add  light  copal 
varnish  and  turpentine.  Linseed  oil 
makes  a  fine  body  but  requires  time  to 
dry.  For  inside  or  outside  house  painting 
use  the  ready  mixed  paints,  of  good  qual- 
ity, and  stir  everything  up  thoroughly 
from  the  bottom  before  using. 

A  Cheap  Black  Walnut  Stain. — A 
cheap,  quick  drying  stain,  for  fine  bass- 
wood,  etc.,  in  imitation  of  black  walnut, 
is  made  by  dissolving  gum  asphaltum  in 
spirits  of  turpentine,  about  one  fourth 
pound  gum  to  one  pint  of  turpentine; 
dissolve  in  a  warm  place,  shake  frequent- 
ly, add  a  very  little  dry  Indian  red  to  the 
solution.  It  can  be  made  dark  or  light 
by  adding  more  or  less  turpentine.  Ap- 
ply with  a  brush,  and  allow  it  to  dry 
thoroughly  before  varnishing. 

Varnishing. — Give  the  work  two  or 
more  coats  of  shellac  varnish,  according 
to  hardness  of  the  wood,  rub  down  light- 
ly with  fine  sand  paper,  and  apply  one  or 
two  coats  of  hard  oil  finish,  using  a  soft 
flat  varnish  brush.  Apply  just  enough, 
BO  that  it  will  not  run  down  the  wood- 
work in  streaks. — American  Agricullur- 
Ut. 

A  most  remarkable  imitation  of  black 
walnut  has  lately  been  manufactured 
from  poor  pine,  the  quality  and  appear- 
ance of  the  article  being  such  as  to  defy 
detection,  except  upon  very  close  exam- 
ination. To  accomplish  this,  one  part  of 
walnut  peel  extract  is  mixed  with  six 
parts  of  water,  and  with  this  solution  the 
wood  is  coated.  When  the  material  is 
half  dry,  a  solution  of  bichromate  of  pot- 
ash with  water,  is  rubbed  on  it,  and  the 
made  walnut  is  ready  for  use. 


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Nfws  of  The  Week 

WASHINGTON. 

Hon.  Seth  C.  Moffatt,  Congresaman 
from  the  Eleventh  Michigan  District, 
died  in  Washington  Thursday  morning, 
aged  46. 

Senator  Saulsbury  has  reintroduced  his 
bill  of  last  session  to  require  that  a  resi- 
dence of  three  years  shall  be  necessary 
before  an  alien  can  declare  his  intention 
to  become  a  citizen  of  the  United  States, 
and  of  two  years  additional  before  he 
shall  have  right  to  vote  or  hold  office. 

Senator  Manderson  introduced  a  bill 
granting  pensions  according  to  length  of 
imprisonment  to  all  Union  prisoners  of 
war  confined  in  Southern  prisons  for 
more  than  sixty  days. 

The  Chief  of  the  Bureau  .of  Statistics 
reports  that  the  total  value  of  the  imports 
of  merchandise  into  the  United  States  for 
the  twelve  months  ending  Nov.  30,  1887, 
was  $712,986  918,  and  the  total  value  of 
exports  for  the  same  period  $727,460,635. 

The  joint  resolution  introduced  by  Sen- 
ator Hoar  for  the  celebration  of  the  cen- 
tennial of  the  Constiution  provides  that 
in  addition  to  such  other  celebration  as 
may  be  provided  for,  the  centennial  anni- 
versary shall  be  observed  by  the  two 
houses  of  Congress,  which  shall  meet  in 
the  House  of  Representatives;  that  the 
Chief  Justice  of  the  United  States  shall 
be  requested  to  deliver  an  oration,  and 
that  the  President  and  Governors  of  States 
shall  be  invited  to  be  present. 

TEMPEBANCE. 

Francis  Murphy  has  left  Chicago  to 
undertake  a  new  work  in  Pittsburgh.  On 
the  19th  he  inaugurated  his  novel  temper- 
ance crusade.  The  meeting  wa<»  held  in 
the  iron  mills  of  Spang,  Chalfant  &  Co., 
at  JEcna.  Five  hundred  sooty  workmen 
with  shirt-bosoms  wide  open  and  sleeves 
rolled  up,  surrounded  the  cold-water  ad- 
vocate. The  speech  delivered  was  adapted 
to  the  habits  of  iron  workers.  While  he 
was  speaking  the  men,  with  arms  bared 
to  the  shoulder,  stood  around  listening 
intently  and  applauding  every  sentence. 

The  Superior  Court  of  Kennebec  coun- 
ty, Maine,  has  declared  the  law  making 
the  payment  of  the  United  States  special 
tax  as  a  liquor-seller  prima  facie  evidence 
that  the  party  paying  such  tax  is  a  saloon- 
keeper, and  therefore  a  public  nuisance, 
to  be  unconstitutional. 

The  temperance  revival  at  Joliet,  111,, 
led  by  Wm  McConnell,  is  gaining  ground 
every  day,  hundreds  being  unable  to  gain 
admission  to  the  meetings.  The  saloon- 
keepers are  becoming  alarmed  at  the  loss 
of  customers.  The  Chicago  Tribune  Bent 
two  reporters  to  write  down  and  carica- 
ture the  meeting. 

Reports  were  current  at  Des  Moines 
Monday  that  a  syndicate  of  capitalists 
had  been  formed  to  purchase  the  Hiate 
BegisUr  of  that  city.  It  is  claimed  that 
if  the  sale  is  made  the  policy  of  the  paper 
will  be  changed  to  anti-prohibition. 

The  Selzer  Brewery,  of  Sioux  City, 
Iowa,  has  applied  to  the  County  Board 
of  Commissioners  to  manufacture  beer 
for  medical  use.  Action  will  be  taken 
Jan.  4  Prior  to  that  time  the  Law  and 
Order  League  will  seek  to  restrain  them 
from  granting  such  a  permit.  This  will 
involve  a  legal  complication  of  interest 
to  all  brewers  of  the  State. 

The  management  of  the  Milwaukee 
Soldiers'  Home  are  about  to  open  a  sa- 
loon on  the  grounds,  and  Thursday  the 
brewers  were  given  an  opportunity  to 
exhibit  their  beer  and  make  propositions. 
At  noon  ten  quarter  kegs  were  on  tap  in 
the  reception-room,  and  a  committee  of 
two  commissioned  officers  and  three  ser- 
geants were  busy  testing  the  fluid.  No 
conclusion  was  arrived  at. 

PBR80NAL. 

The  Virginia  Legislatare  Tuesday 
elected  John  8.  Barbour  United  States 
Senator,  to  succeed  Mr.  Riddleberger. 
Barbour  received  87  votes,  to  48  for  Ma- 
hone. 

Governor  John  M.  Thayer,  of  Nebras- 
ka, has  sent  a  letter  to  the  Nebraska 
Senators  in  Congress  protesting  against 
the  confirmation  of  L.  Q.  C.  Lamar  as 
Justice  of  the  Supreme  Court.  He  alleges 
that  Lamar  was  a  bold  and  defiant  rebel, 
and  is  not  a  fit  person  to  interpret  the 
Constitution. 

Last  September,  at  Port  Huron,  Mich  , 
John  8.  Flummeruelt  and  his  wife  celc 
brated  their  golden   wedding.     Tuesday 


Mrs.  Flummeruelt  began  suit  for  divorce, 
alleging  gross  cruelty  at  divers  times  on 
the  part  of  her  spouse,  who,  she  states, 
beat  her  in  a  brutal  manner  after  the 
guests  had  departed  on  the  night  of  their 
golden  wedding  anniversary. 

At  a  meeting  Monday  evening  the  Bos- 
ton branch  of  the  National  League  of 
Colored  Men  adopted  a  resolution  oppos- 
ing the  confirmation  of  Mr.  Lamar  as 
Supreme  Court  Justice. 

Ex-Governor  Murray,  of  Utah,  has  left 
Salt  Lake  City  and  gone  to  Southern 
California  to  live.  Governor  Murray 
filled  the  executive  chair  of  Utah  for 
eight  years  with  signal  ability  and  cour- 
age, for  it  required  no  small  amount  of 
courage  to  oppose  the  Mormons  and  en- 
force the  United  States  statutes, 

WEATHER   NOTES. 

A  blizzard  prevailed  early  last  week  in 
portions  of  Dakota,  Minnesota,  Iowa, 
Illinois,  Missouri,  Kansas  and  Colorada. 
The  snow  is  unusually  heavy  in  some 
western  sections,  and  is  driven  by  a  fierce 
wind,  making  drifts  in  railway  cuts 
which  have  blockaded  trains.  The  ther- 
mometer is  as  low  as  24  below  zero  at 
some  points,  and  in  Colorado  as  low  as 
51  is  recorded.  Railway  traffic  is  seri- 
ously retarded,  trains  being  reported 
abandoned  in  Dakota  and  Kansas.  In 
Western  Kansas,  where  a  coal  famine 
prevails,  deaths  from  freezing  are  re- 
ported. 

A  chain-bound  lumber  raft,  560  feet 
long,  80  feet  wide,  and  38  feet  high,  was 
lost  Sunday  by  the  steamer  Miranda 
while  being  towed  to  New  York.  It  is 
believed  that  the  raft  has  floated  into  the 
track  of  ocean  steamers,  any  one  of 
which  would  be  shattered  by  a  collision 
with  its  huge  bulk,  and  excitement  pre- 
vails in  nautical  circles  lest  a  disaster 
should  result. 

The  snow  storm  of  Saturday  night, 
Dec.  17,  in  Pennsylvania,  caused  the 
greatest  blockade  on  the  railroads  experi- 
enced since  1872.  The  Lehigh  Valley  Road 
was  blocked  with  trains  from  Easton  to 
Readington  The  snow  was  two  feet 
deep  on  a  level  and  three  to  five  feet  deep 
in  drifts  Ten  coal  trains  were  blockaded 
on  the  Susquehanna  Road  between  Eas- 
ton and  Allentown.  Three  passenger 
trains,  eight  freight  trains,  and  twenty 
coal  trains  were  blocked  on  the  Morris 
and  Essex  Road  between  Hackettstown, 
N.  J.,  and  Washington,  N.  J.,  from  Sat- 
urday evening  to  Sunday  noon.  At 
Somerville  the  snow  was  six  feet  deep, 
and  at  Perth  Amboy  eight  feet  deep. 
Drifts  were  fifteen  feet  deep.  The  roofs 
of  several  buildings  at  Phillipsburgh  were 
crushed  in  by  the  weight  of  snow. 

ACCIDENTS,  BTC, 

Ed.  Johnson,  a  colored  man,  living 
near  Cincinnati,  Thursday  morning 
placed  some  dynamite  cartridges  in  the 
oven  of  his  stove  to  thaw  them  out.  An 
explosion  followed,  nearly  destroying  his 
house,  killing  an  18  year  old  daughter, 
an  infant  1  year  old,  and  seriously  injur- 
ing Johnson  and  his  wife. 

James  Londy,  his  wife  and  three  chil- 
dren, of  Lima,  Ohio,  were  fatally  injured 
Thursday  in  a  natural  gas  explosion, 
which  wrecked  their  dwelling. 

The  explosion  of  a  sawmill  boiler  at 
Tilton,  Ga.,  resulted  in  the  instant  death 
of  six  men  and  the  fatal  wounding  of 
two  others. 

At  New  York  Mies  Inez  Van  Zandt 
quarreled  with  her  friend.  Miss  Fannie 
Sickles,  and,  in  a  spirit  of  revenge,  cut 
up  two  canaries  owned  by  the  latter  with 
a  carving-knife.  For  her  cruelty  Miss 
Van  Zindt  was  Monday  aentenoed  to  one 
month  in  the  penitentiary. 

At  Joliet,  111 ,  Tuesday,  the  wall  of  a 
new  five  -story  building,  known  as  the 
Barber  block,  fell  in,  instiiutly  killing 
William  Stage,  a  contractor,  and  John 
Palmer,  a  workman.  Five  others  were 
seriously  injured. 

At  Bdllston  Spa,  N.  Y.,  Monday  morn- 
ing, S.  S.  Crandell,  formerly  a  lawyer 
and  real  estate  broker,  shot  and  killed  his 
wife,  his  mother-in-law,  Mrs.  S  8  Stone, 
and  his  step-daughter,  Julia  Bulk'ey, 
and  then  blew  out  his  own  brains.  The 
tragedy  resulted  from  disputes  over 
money  matters  and  the  murderer  began 
his  deadly  work  while  the  family  were  at 
the  brcakfant  table. 

A  broken  rail  wrecked   a  Wieconsin 
Central  paatcngcr  train  near  Filiold,  Wis., 
early   Friday  morning.      One  man  was 
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Editobial : 

Notes  and  Comments 

The  Churches  Uniting  . . . 
A  New  Reformer  In  a  New 

Place  

Satan  Casting  out  Satan. . 

CONTEIBUnONS  : 

In  Politics,  Infidels 

Miss  WlUard  and  the  Min- 
or Secret  Orders 

Address  before  the   New 
Hampshire  Association. 
Selected : 
The  Golden  Year  (poetry) 

At  the  Lodge  Door 

Kbfobm  News  : 
Bro.    Hinman    Meets     a 
Christmas  Cyclone;    A 
Memorable  Report  from 

Iowa 

Bible  Lbssoh 

Hang  them  with  their  own 

Rope 

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English  Puritan;  Dr. 
Miner's  Word  as  Good 
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the  National  Conven- 
tion ;  The  Grand  Army 
and     War;    Pith     and 

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San  Francisco  Letter 9 

Washington  Letter 9 

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Temperance 11 

Religious  News 12 

Literature 12 

Lodge  Notes 13 

Home  and  Health 14 

Lecture  List 14 

Church  vs.  Lodge 14 

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News  oy  thb  Week 16 

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FOB  THE  SOUTHS RN  GHUBCHB8. 


The  letters  from  Prof.  Woodsmall  and  brethren  Jordan 
and  Williams  from  Texas  and  Arkansas  have  been  read. 
The  fruit  they  bear  already  appears,  and  will  yet  more 
and  more  be  seen.  Read  the  list  of  contributions  on  the 
last  page.  God  bless  the  givers,  and  let  them  see  the  ef- 
fect of  their  gifts  and  prayers  among  the  Freedmen, 
Next  week  we  hope  to  print  the  action  of  the  Louisiana 
Convention,  representing  70,000  Baptists,  condemning 
the  lodge.  Nearly  70,000  Baptists  in  Texas,  114,000  in 
Mississippi,  110,000  in  Alabama,  and  other  scores  of  thou- 
sands in  Tennessee  and  Arkansas  will  be  ready  to  take 
the  same  stand  against  the  lodge  as  the  enemy  of  Christ, 
80  soon  as  they  can  be  shown  its  iniquity.  We  ought  to 
have  a  score  of  speakers  in  the  South.  Until  they  can 
be  sent,  wk  must  get  the  cynosure  into  the  hands  of 
the  colored  pastors.  One-third  the  fund  we  ask  for  is 
raised.     Let  the  rest  come  quickly. 


The  order  of  Foresters  in  this  country,  like  the 
Good  Templars,  Freemasons,  Odd-fellows,  etc.,  main- 
tains a  color  line,  and  keeps  the  word  white  in  its 
constitution.  The  High  Court  of  England,  the  su- 
preme authority  in  the  order,  has,  after  much  pro- 
testation, finally  refused  point  blank  to  issue  another 
dispensation  to  the  order  in  this  country  until  this 
matter  is  righted  and  the  Negro  admitted.  The 
American  lodges  have  often,  for  years,  discussed 
this  question,  giving  a  day  to  the  debate  in  Detroit 
in  1885,  and  next  year  in  this  city.  The  decision  in 
Kngland  will  result  probably  in  the  secession  of  the 
American  lodges  of  Foresters,  and  a  delegated  meet- 
ing has  been  called  to  decide  the  matter.  So  the 
cause  of  universal  brotherhood,  according  to  the 
lodge,  grows  apace. 


The  Heading  railway  had  a  temporary  success  last 
week  in  its  struggle  with  the  Knights  of  Labor. 
Many  of  the  men  refused  to  obey  the  order  to  strike 
and  the  business  of  the  road  was  resumed.  But  the 
bosses  of  the  order  after  an  all-night  secret  meeting 
carried  their  measure,  and  a  general  strike  was  or- 


dred,  which  was  by  Tuesday  obeyed  by  some  .30,000 
men  engaged  in  the  mines  and  on  the  road.  Six  of 
the  company's  best  collieries  are  yet  at  work,  but 
sixty-two  are  deserted,  and  the  prospect  of  a  coal 
famine  is  a  probability  in  some  parts  of  Pennsylva- 
nia. The  managers  of  an  immense  iron 
industry  are  alarmed,  for  they  cannot  afford  that 
their  business  should  be  paralyzed  and  will  press 
their  suit  for  an  arbitration  before  30,000  iron  work- 
ers join  the  army  of  the  idle.  Business  interests 
have  their  measure  of  value,  but  can  suffer  no  loss 
so  great  as  that  which  may  be  inflicted  by  putting  a 
secret  lodge  despotism  in  virtual  control  of  such  an 
army  of  men. 

The  most  important  Washington  news  we  put  on 
this  page  for  the  sake  of  prominence.  The  temper- 
ance people  of  that  city  hope  for  a  possibili- 
ty of  bringing  the  saloon  question  to  an  issue.  Like 
St.  George  they  are  anxious  for  a  fight  with  the 
dragon,  and  Washington  will  have  a  lively  experi- 
ence if  they  are  able  to  make  one.  Mrs.  Moulton, 
one  of  the  leading  temperance  agitators  of  the  city 
says  of  the  saloon  business:  "What  is  wanted  is  to 
wipe  out  the  whole  thing  at  one  stroke.  We  want 
Congress  to  pass  a  bill  which  at  one  stroke  will 
sweep  every  drinking-place  from  this  beautiful  capi- 
tol  city,the  seat  of  government  of  the  Republic, which 
should  be  a  model  of  purity  and  propriety  for  all  the 
world  to  copy.  If  Congress  will  pass  the  bill,  Pres 
ident  Cleveland  will  sign  it,  without  doubt.  He  will 
not  stand  in  the  way  of  temperance  reform.  I  have 
seen  enough  of  him  to  know  that.  And  Mrs. Cleve- 
land, God  bless  her,  is  one  of  the  best  women  in  the 
world.  She  would  banish  the  wine  cup  from  the 
White  House  if  she  could,  and  from  Washington  so- 
ciety." Mr.  Wheelock,  who  represents  the  District 
on  the  National  Prohibition  Committee  and  attend- 
ed the  Chicago  Conference,  believes  the  nation  will 
have  a  very  agreeable  surprise  ere  long  from  the 
President,  who,  he  has  reason  to  believe,  would  like 
to  put  a  heavy  foot  on  the  saloon  business. 


The  papal  jubilee,  now  being  celebrated  in  Rome, 
will  be  narrowly  observed  by  the  crowned  heads  of 
Europe  who  have  Catholic  subjects;  and  with 
more  reason  by  Americans,  who  need  to  practice 
more  than  most  people  the  virtue  of  "eternal  vigi- 
lance." Last  Sabbath  special  masses  were  said  in 
Catholic  churches  everywhere  for  this  jubilee,  and 
were  attended  with  much  fervor  and  enthusiasm. 
In  Rome  the  pontifical  mass,  attended  in  St.  Peter's 
by  Leo  himself,  drew  together  a  crowd  of  many 
thousands,  while  48  cardinals  and  238  archbishops 
and  bishops  graced  the  ceremony.  The  statue  of 
St.  Peter  was  clad  in  pontifical  garments  and  a  tia- 
ra was  placed  on  its  head.  The  Pope  wore  a  tiara 
with  a  thousand  pearls,  and  placed  on  his  head  the 
crown  presented  him  by  the  Protestant  Emperor 
William  of  Germany.  The  golden  plate  used  in 
the  ceremony  was  the  gift  of  the  Protestant  (.^ueen 
and  Empress  Victoria.  The  chalice  was  the  gift  of 
the  King  of  I'ortugal,  and  the  Pope's  pastoral  ring 
was  from  the  Austrian  archdukes.  At  these  mani- 
festations of  the  return  of  political  power  to  the 
"prisoner  of  the  A'^atican,"  Leo  was  overcome,  and 
twice  fainted  during  the  ceremony.  On  Tuesday,  in 
an  address  in  the  presence  of  his  whole  court,  the 
Pope  asserted  that  his  predecessors  had  been  the 
greatest  friends  of  Italy,  and  that  to  try  to  reduce 
the  interests  of  bis  church  to  the  "(|uestion  of  the 
laws  of  Italy"  could  only  be  the  result  of  "the  most 
deplorable  blindness."  The  $1,000,000  given  to  the 
jubilee  fund  will  be  spent  in  propagating  the  Rom- 
ish faith.  To  Victoria  the  Pope  sent  an  autograph 
letter  by  the  hand  of  the  Duke  of  Norfolk,  a  part  of 
its  contents  being,  it  is  understood,  a  reply  to  the 
request  for  a  special  dispensation  allowing  certain 
Koglish  papists  to  join  the  Freemasons.  Doubtless 
the  permission  is  granted,  though  so  violent  an  ex- 
ception to  the  encyclicals  of  past  years. 


The  result  of  the  temperance  crusade  in  Joliet, 
111.,  led  by  Will.  J.  McConnell,  under  the  auspices 
of  the  Young  Woman's  Christian  Temperance  Union, 
is  the  organization  of  a  temperance  league,  with  a 
superintendent  of  prosecution,  to  secure  evidence 


and  prosecute  all  violators  of  existing  liquor  laws. 
Last  week  was  the  sixth  of  the  meetings,  and  the 
revival  still  continues.  The  workingmen  have  joined 
in  large  numbers,  for  the  movement  has  better  prom- 
ises than  labor  union,  lodge  or  insurance  society. 


THB  GOLDEN  YEAR. 


We  sleep  and  wake  and  sleep,  but  all  things  move : 
The  sun  flies  forward  to  his  brother  sun ; 
The  dark  earth  follows  wheeled  in  her  ellipse; 
And  human  things,  returning  on  themselves. 
Move  onward,  leading  up  the  golden  year. 

Ah,  though  the  times  when  some  new  thought  can  bud 
Are  but  as  poets'  seasons  when  they  flower. 
Yet  seas  that  daily  gain  upon  the  shore 
Have  ebb  and  flow  conditioning  their  march. 
And  slow  and  sure  comes  up  the  golden  year. 

Then  wealth  no  more  shall  rest  in  mounded  heaps. 

But  smit  with  freer  light  shall  slowly  melt 

In  many  streams  to  fatten  lower  lands. 

And  light  shall  spread,  and  man  be  llker  man 

Through  all  the  seasons  of  the  golden  year. 

Fly,  happy,  happy  sails,  and  bear  the  Press ; 
Fly,  happy  with  the  mission  of  the  Cross : 
Knit  land  to  land,  and  blowing  heavenward, 
With  silks,  and  fruits,  and  spices,  clear  of  toll, 
Enrich  the  markets  of  the  golden  year. 

But  we  grow  old.    Ah  I  when  shall  all  men's  good 
Be  each  man's  rule,  and  universal  peace 
Lie  like  a  shaft  of  light  across  the  land, 
And  like  a  fane  of  beams  athwart  the  sea. 
Through  all  the  circle  of  the  golden  year  i 

— Alfred  Tninyxon. 


IN  POLITICS,  INFIDELS. 


BY   REV.    B.    C.    WYLIE. 

My  recent  work  in  the  interest  of  National  Reform 
has  impressed  me  more  deeply  than  ever  with  the 
necessity  of  showing  the  connection  between  poli- 
tics and  morality.  The  wicked  persistency  with 
which  members  in  regular  standing  in  orthodox 
churches,  both  in  theory  and  practice,  deny  this  con- 
nection, is  sad  and  discouraging. 

At  a  meeting  not  long  since  I  made  the  statement 
that  there  are  Christian  men  who  recognize  God's 
law  as  binding  in  their  social  and  ecclesiastical  rela- 
tions, but  in  politics  they  are  infidels,  and  recognize 
neither  God  nor  moral  law  in  the  political  sphere. 
At  the  conclusion  of  my  address  an  elder  in  the 
church  said  with  some  warmth  of  feeling  that  that 
remark  was  personal.  On  inquiry  I  discovered  that 
in  a  sense  it  was  personal,  and  that  he  was  not  the 
only  man  whom  it  hit,  though  I  did  not  know  a  per- 
son in  the  house. 

A  few  months  ago  a  Christian  lawyer  said  to  me 
that  he  thought  ministers  argued  very  strangely 
about  the  divorce  question;  that  the  State  did  not 
deal  with  the  moral  side  of  the  question  at  all,  but 
that  it  looked  upon  marriage  only  as  a  civil  contract, 
and  there  was  no  use  in  making  so  much  ado  about 
the  dissolving  of  a  civil  contract 

Still  more  recently  a  lawyer  who  is  also  an  elder 
in  a  branch  of  the  Presbyterian  church  declared  that 
the  state,  as  such,  sustains  no  relation  to  the  moral 
law;  it  has  no  moral  character  and  is  under  no  mor- 
al code;  and  for  the  state  to  acknowledge  God  and 
the  moral  law  would  transform  it  into  a  monster. 

The  fact  that  in  those  States  where  "high  license" 
has  become  the  policy  of  the  dominant  party  the 
Prohibition  vote  grows  very  slowly  or  is  on  the  de- 
cline apparently,  indicates  that  the  views  (luoted 
above  are  not  the  views  of  a  few  individuals,  but 
that  the  masses  yet  need  to  be  instructed  on  this 
fundamental  truth  of  political  science,  viz.,  that 
Christ  rules  in  the  political  sphere,  and  his  revealed 
will  is  supreme  law  for  nations.  Many  of  the  class 
referred  to  admit  that  such  issues  as  the  Sabbath 
question  and  the  saloon  question  arise  in  the  politi- 
cal sphere;  but  they  deny  that  these  issues  arise 
there  as  moral  issues.  It  is  said  that  all  such  issues 
have  a  secular  and  material  side  as  well  as  a  moral 
side,  and  the  state  deals  only  with  the  secular  and 
material    side.       In  a  recent  number  of  the  Xeu) 


IIHE  GHEHBTIAB^  CYlTOSirRE. 


January  5, 1888 


Princeton  Review  Sanford  H.  Cobb  contends  that 
Prohibitionists  have  no  right  to  make  use  of  the 
moral  argument  in  advocating  a  prohibitory  law. 

For  all  this  subtlety  of  argument  against  morals 
in  politics;  for  all  this  dissecting  of  vital,  moral  is- 
sues, by  which  one  piece  of  an  issue  is  assigned  to 
the  church,and  another  piece  of  the  same  issue  to  the 
state;  and  for  all  this  ignoring  of  moral  obligation 
in  the  sphere  of  politics  we  are  indebted  to  the  so- 
cial compact  theory  of  government.  "Why  do  the 
heathen  rage  and  the  people  imagine  a  vain  thing? 
The  kings  of  the  earth  set  themselves,  and  the  rul- 
ers take  counsel  together,  saying,  let  us  break  their 
bonds  asunder,  and  cast  away  their  cords  from  us. 
He  that  sitteth  in  the  heavens  shall  laugh,  and  the 
Lord  shall  have  them  in  derision.  Be  wise  now 
therefore,  0  ye  kings,  be  instructed,  ye  judges  of 
the  earth.  Serve  the  Lord  with  fear,  and  rejoice 
with  trembling;  kiss  the  Son  lest  he  be  angry  and 
ye  perish  from  the  way  when  his  wrath  is  kindled 
but  a  little." 

Ray^  Ind. 

MISS    WILLARD    AND    THB    MINOR    8SCRBT 
ORDERS. 


BT  RSV.  0.  F.  HAWLET. 

I  cannot  too  strongly  express  my  admiration  of 
Miss  Willard  as  a  Christian  temperance  worker. 
As  the  president  of  the  W.  C.  T.  U.  she  is  leading, 
to  the  battle  of  Christ  against  the  rum  power,  a 
mighty  host  of  Christ-loving  and  sin-hating  women. 
No  person  on  this  continent  has  a  more  magnificent 
opportunity  to  serve  Christ  and  her  generation,  ac- 
cording to  the  will  of  God,  on  a  gyand  scale  than 
she.  And  I  cannot  express  my  profound  gratitude 
to  Christ,  who  has,  by  his  Spirit  and  providence, 
marshaled  such  a  host  of  noble  women,  under  such 
a  wise  and  competent  leader  as  Miss  Willard,  to 
battle  for  the  home  against  the  saloon. 

The  W.  C.  T.  U.,  of  which  Miss  Willard  is  the 
head,  is  an  organized  army  of  Christian  women 
whose  aim  is  to  exalt  Christ,  and  bring  in  a  reign  of 
universal  righteousness.  Miss  Willard  is  not  ignor- 
ant of  the  fact  that  Satan  is  working,  through  Free- 
masonry and  its  kindred  orders,  to  supplant  Christ 
and  subvert  the  Gospel.  She  knows  that  there  are 
evils  in  Jesuitism,  Nihilism  and  Freemasonry.  She 
knows  that  Christ  is  not  the  father  and  head  of  or- 
ganized secrecy.  She  knows  that,  in  a  free  country 
like  ours,  secret  societies  are  not  a  necessity  for  the 
promotion  of  good  objects;  and  she  can  see  that 
good  men  and  women  ought  not  to  employ  those 
methods  for  the  promotion  of  good  objects  that  bad 
men  necessarily  resort  to  for  the  promotion  of  evil 
designs.  She  knows  that  those  who  do  good  should 
come  to  the  light,  that  their  deeds  may  be  made 
manifest  that  they  are  wrought  in  God,  and  leave 
the  Jesuits,  and  Nihilists,  and  American  anarchists, 
and  Freemasons,  to  monopolize  secret  society  meth- 
ods of  work. 

So,  as  a  matter  of  course.  Miss  Willard  is  relig- 
iously opposed  to  secret  societies.  And  she  does 
not  hesitate  to  express  her  disapproval  of  them. 
But,  in  her  eflforts  to  organize  victory  for  prohibi- 
tion, she  has  been  betrayed  into  coquetting  with  the 
Good  Templars  and  Knights  of  Labor.  It  is  all 
right  for  her  to  persuade  as  many  of  the  Good  Tem- 
plars and  Knights  of  Labor  to  vote  prohibition  as 
she  can.  I  would  do  that  myself.  It  is  her  flattery 
of  them,  as  secret  organizations,  to  which  I  refer. 
There  is  so  little  secrecy  in  them,  she  says.  She 
does  not  just  like  to  endorse  a  wrong  principle  be- 
cause it  is  presented  in  a  diluted  form.  She  has  too 
often  condemned  the  use  of  light  wines,  and  beer, 
and  cider,  on  the  ground  that  there  is  a  per  cent  of 
alcohol  in  them,  and  therefore  they  are  injurious  in 
themselves,  and  lead  to  the  use  of  stronger  drinks. 
So,  in  her  unfortunate  apology  for  these  orders,  she 
refers  to  the  small  per  cent  of  secrecy  in  them,  and 
expresses  her  hope  that  soon  they  will  lay  aside  this 
objectionable  feature  altogether. 

I  think  Miss  Willard,  if  she  was  not  too  busy  with 
the  weighty  duties  of  her  office  to  examine  this  mat- 
ter, would  see  that  secret  organizations  do  not  grow 
out  of  their  secrecy  as  they  increase  in  age;  but  that 
the  minor  orders  are  simply  training  schools  to  pre- 
pare material  for  the  greater.  I  cannot  better  illus- 
trate the  relation  of  the  minor  secret  orders  to  the 
major,  than  by  giving  the  experience  and  judgment 
of  a  little  boy.  In  going  to  school,  he  had  to  pass 
by  where  a  goose  and  her  mate,  with  their  family  of 
goslings,  grazed  by  the  road  side.  The  gander, 
jealously  guarding  his  rising  family,  had  mercilessly 
whipped  the  little  boy  with  his  wings.  To  avoid 
his  fierce  attacks,  the  boy  had  learned  to  climb  the 
road  fence,  and  go  around  him  in  the  field.  On  one 
of  these  occasions  the  goslings  had  got  through  the 


fence  into  the  field,  and  a  gentleman,  who  was  pass- 
ing along  the  road,  observed  the  boy  busily  catching 
the  goslings  and  wringing  their  necks.  Shocked  at 
his  wanton  destruction  of  the  brood,  the  man  cried 
out,  "Boy !  what  are  you  about  there?"  The  boy 
looked  up  and  grimly  replied,  "Dog  on  'em;  they'll 
be  ganders,  bime  bye." 

Freemasonry  is  run  by  a  ring;  and  the  minor  or- 
ders are  run  by  Freemasonry.  The  secret  society 
system  is  one  great  wedge,  that  is  driven  by  Satan 
between  men  and  God.  The  minor  secret  societies 
are  the  thin  edge  of  that  wedge.  Freemasony  ig- 
nores Christ,  and  binds  to  sin;  and  yet  professes  to 
regenerate,  and  free  from  sin.  Odd-fellowship,  as 
first  introduced  into  this  country  seventy  years  ago, 
was  a  secular  society,  for  mutual  aid  in  sickness, 
and  in  burying  the  dead.  It  has  since  adopted  a 
deistical  confession  of  faith,  and  a  Christless  ritual 
of  worship,  in  imitation  of  Freemasonry,  the  modern 
mother  of  spiritual  harlotry.  And  not  to  be  out- 
done by  Freemasonry,  which  assumes  that  men  are 
regenerated  by  the  observance  of  her  pagan  cere- 
monies, Odd-fellowship,  through  her  great  apostle, 
Mr.  Grosh,  aflSrms  that,  "What  regeneration  by 
the  word  of  truth  is  in  religion,  initiation  is  in  Odd- 
fellowship."  A  more  cunning  contrivance  to  build 
men  up  in  their  own  righteousness,  and  make  Phar- 
isees instead  of  Christians,  was  never  invented. 
The  gosling  of  seventy  years  ago  is  a  gander  now. 

The  Grange,  though  gotten  up  for  the  honest  farm- 
ers, struck  the  trail  of  Masonry  and  Odd-fellowship, 
and  adopted  a  deistical  ritual  of  worship;  only  the 
cunning  of  the  serpent  was  seen  in  the  fact  that  in 
the  prayer  to  be  read  on  funeral  occasions,  when  the 
farmers  who  were  not  yet  entangled  in  the  meshes 
of  the  net  of  secrecy  would  be  present,  there  was  a 
recognition  of  Christ;  while,  behind  the  tyled  doors, 
a  deistical  ritual  was  used. 

Good  Templarism  is  the  thin  edge  of  the  wedge 
of  secrecy.  It  recognizes  Christ  in  the  ritual  of 
worship;  but,  by  making  those  eligible  to  the  office 
of  chaplain  who  do  not  profess  to  have  repented 
towards  God,  and  to  have  believed  on  our  Lord  Je- 
sus Christ,  Good  Templarism  turns  the  solemn  wor- 
ship of  God  into  a  farce  and  blasphemy.  God  can 
only  be  approached  by  his  sinful  creatures  through 
the  mediation  of  Christ.  But  Christ  will  not  act  as 
mediator  in  behalf  of  those  who  will  not  repent  of 
their  sins.  Good  Templarism,  therefore,  by  making 
impenitent  sinners  eligible  to  the  office  of  chaplain, 
has  in  it  the  elements  of  a  false  worship,  which  God 
will  not  condone  because  of  its  formal  recognition 
of  Christ.  The  worship  of  impenitent  sinners,  like 
the  "sacrifice  of  the  wicked,  is  an  abomination  unto 
the  Lord." 

God  commands  repentance.  The  faith  of  the  im- 
penitent is  feigned.  And  though  they  formally  rec- 
ognize Christ,  as  does  the  Good  Templars'  ritual, 
yet  their  worship  is  an  abomination  to  God.  But,  if 
the  edge  of  the  wedge  should  be  made  sharp,  and 
repentance  towards  God  should  be  taught  in  some 
lodge  of  the  future,  as  well  as  faith  in  our  Lord 
Jesus  Christ,  there  would  be  no  warrant  for  adopt- 
ing lodge  methods  for  the  propagation  of  the  Gos- 
pel. The  command  of  Jesus  to  proclaim  his  Gospel 
upon  the  "housetops,"  to  dismiss  the  tyler,  and 
throw  open  the  doors  for  every  creature  who  will 
to  come,  would  be  imperative. 

Christ  has  no  use  for  the  lodge.  He  commands 
his  people  not  to  be  yoked  together  with  unbelievers, 
as  those  are,  and  must  be,  who  go  into  the  lodge, 
for  whatever  purpose. 

Seeing,  then,  that  in  our  free  Republic  there  is 
no  necessity  for  good  men  to  adopt  secret  society 
methods  for  doing  good  works,  why  wantonly  trans- 
gress the  commandment  of  God.  Is  not  separation 
from  the  world  to  Christ  clearly  enjoined  in  the 
Gospel?  Christ's  plan  is  to  gather  his  people  in 
the  church.  Satan  would  beguile  them  into  the 
lodge,  and  yoke  them  with  unbelievers.  But,  as 
every  good  object  can  be  better  promoted  by  open 
than  by  secret  methods,  why  should  those  who  have 
taken  the  yoke  of  Christ  upon  them,  wantonly  dis- 
regard both  his  example  and  precepts. 

Be  content,  dear  brethren,  to  follow  Christ,  and 
to  be  members  of  the  household  of  faith,  and  of  the 
visible  church  of  our  Lord  Jesus  Christ. 


ADDRBBB  BEFORE  TEE  NEW  HAMP8HIRE 
CHRISTIAN  ASSOCIATION. 


BT   MISS   E.  E.  FLAGG. 


As  we  came  home  from  our  meeting  in  the  hall, 
we  saw  through  the  curtains  of  a  Fraternity  (secret 
society)  club-house  window,  belonging  to  students,  a 
"hop"  in  full  tilt— orchestra  reeling  oQ  swift  music, 
fairy  bundles  of  muslin  and  silk,  known  to  contain 
young  ladies,  in  the  arms  of  young  men  attired  in 
the  regulation  dress  suit.  It  pained  me,  as  a  friend 
and  sister  of  them  all.  Morality  has  a  scientific  as 
well  as  a  religious  basis,  and  dancing  is  eminently 
"unscientific"  in  its  relation  to  morality. — France* 
E.  Willard,  in  Union  Signal. 


The  story  is  told  that  in  a  certain  place,  which 
shall  be  nameless,  where  the  W.  C.  T.  U.  lately 
pitched  their  tents,  one  man  was  heard  to  ask  anoth- 
er as  he  looked  up  at  their  neat  sign,  "What  is  the 
W.C.T.U.?"  and  received  for  answer,  "I  don't  know. 
I  think  it  must  be  some  new  kind  of  a  military  com- 
pany." Now  this  man  did  not  simply  make  an 
amusing  blunder;  he  uttered  unconsciously  a  truth 
which  I  believe  the  liquor  sellers,  smarting  under 
the  blows  which  the  white  ribbon  hosts  are  constant- 
ly dealing  their  traffic,  would  be  the  last  ones  to  deny. 
"The  Lord  gave  the  word;  great  was  the  company  of 
the  women  who  published  it."  This  is  the  new  ver- 
sion of  Psalm  68:11,  but  the  margin  of  our  old  King 
James's  translation  reads,  "army;"  "Great  was  the 
army  of  the  women  who  published  it."  And  this  is  just 
what  we  are — not  a  mere  handf  ul,not  a  forlorn  hope, 
but  drilled  and  organized  and  constantly  gathering 
new  recruits  to  our  standard. 

We  are  battling  with  a  foe  who  has  the  advantage 
in  many  respects.  In  the  first  place  he  has  posses- 
sion, as  the  miles  of  grog  shops  in  our  great  cities 
testify.  In  the  second  place  he  has  got  the  sinews  of 
war.  With  his  yearly  income  of  some  hundred  millions 
he  can  lay  both  the  two  great  parties  under  bonds  to 
do  his  bidding;  he  can  have  his  paid  assassins  to  si- 
lence with  club  and  bullet  our  brave  champions  whom 
he  cannot  silence  any  other  way;  and  when  his  reign 
is  threatened  at  the  polls  he  can  stuff  the  ballot  box, 
and  have  no  fear  of  consequences.  Worse  than  this 
he  can  stuff  the  voter.  For  in  the  third  place  he  has 
all  the  nation's  illiteracy  and  ignorance  on  his  side, 
and  this  is  a  terrible  power.  "Against  stupidity  the 
gods  themselves  fight  in  vain,"  and  there  is  no  stu- 
pidity so  deep  and  dense  as  that  which  gathers 
around  the  saloon  politician, — unless  it  be  the  kind 
which  sits  quietly  in  comfortable  homes  and  lets  sa- 
loon politics  carry  the  day.  Our  foes  have  said  of 
us  "that  we  never  know  when  we  are  beaten,"  but, 
thank  God!  there  is  one  thing  we  know  thoroughly; 
we  know  who  leads  us,  and,  furthermore,  we  know 
who  leads  the  other  side;  and  this  is  a  great  point. 
To  know  the  enemy's  devices  and  be  able  to  circum- 
vent and  defeat  them  is  half  the  battle. 

No  more  important  problem  confronts  the  W.C.T. 
U.  to-day  than  this:  how  shall  we  press  home  to  the 
heart  and  conscience  of  every  working  man  in  the 
nation  that  it  is  both  his  interest  and  his  duty  to 
vote  for  prohibition?  But  many  who  wear  the  white 
ribbon  and  yield  to  none  in  their  loyalty  to  our  grand 
National  President  have  noticed  with  deepest  regret 
her  seeming  disposition  to  court  the  Knights  of  La- 
bor as  a  means  to  this  end.  Now  I  want  to  say  right 
here  that  it  does  not  alter  one  iota  my  love  and  rev- 
erence for  Miss  Willard  that  I  believe  she  has  made 
a  mistake.  I  remember  that  the  Rock  apostle  made 
a  mistake — one  so  very  serious  that  Paul  felt  it  his 
duty  to  withstand  him  to  his  face;  and  when,  in  her 
burning  zeal  for  that  noble  cause  of  which  she  is  the 
anointed  queen,  the  inspired  prophetess,  she  forgets 
momentarily  that  God  alone  is  our  helper  and  seeks 
aid  from  the  arm  of  flesh,  I  feel  that  there  is  need 
of  the  Pauline  spirit. 

What  the  working  classes  want  is  truth,  God's 
truth,  the  truth  which  maketh  free,not  from  one  but 
from  every  form  of  bondage— the  blessed,  glorious 
Gospel  liberty.  To-day  they  are  asking  Pilate's  old 
question,  some  sneeringly,  some  doubtingly,  some 
sincerely  and  earnestly  and  we  ought  to  be  able  to 
answer  it.  Shall  it  be  by  truckling  to  falsehood?  by 
disguising  our  honest  convictions?  Shall  the  W.  C. 
T.  U.  with  its  open  Christian  methods  of  work  ally 
itself  with  the  secret,  dark-lantern,  Christless  meth- 
ods of  the  lodge?  No;  a  thousand  times,  NO.  Let 
us  set  it  down  to  the  honor  of  the  workingman  that 
he  honors  truth. 

John  Stuart  Mill  in  his  Autobiography — one  of 
the  most  remarkable  books  ever  written — relates 
that  upon  one  occasion  a  political  opponent  at  some 
public  gathering  charged  him  with  making  the  rath- 
er sweeping  assertion  that  the  working  classes  of  all 
countries  were  addicted  to  lying,  and  the  only  differ- 
ence between  the  Anglo  Saxon  and  the  races  of 
Southern  Europe  in  this  respect  was  that  the  form- 
er were  ashamed  of  it,  while  the  latter,  like  the  an- 
cient Spartans,  were  only  ashamed  of  it  when  found 
out.  It  was  a  trying  moment.  Exeter  Hall  was 
crowded  with  working  people  who  had  made  Stuart 
Mill  their  political  candidate.  But  he  rose  up  in  his 
seat  and  frankly  avowed  before  them  all  that  he  had 
said  just  those  words.  And  what  was  the  result. 
There  was  a  perfect  storm  of  applause  through  all 
that  vast  building.  He  stood  on  firmer  ground  in 
their  affection  and  trust  than  be  stood  before.  And 
from  this  incident  he  goes  on  to  deduce  a  moral 


January  5,  1888 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSUKE. 


which  I  wish  to  put  before  the  W.  C.  T.  U.  as  a 
beacon-light  while  they  are  searching  for  ways  and 
means  by  which  to  influence  the  laboring  man  to 
vote  for  prohibition:  that  complete  straightforward- 
ness is  the  best  recommendation  to  his  favor.  We 
have  fallen  on  the  times  of  which  Carlyle  prophe- 
sied thirty  years  ago:  "New  spiritual  pythons,  plen- 
ty of  them ;  enormous  megatheriums,  as  ugly  as  ever 
were  born  of  mud,  loom  huge  and  hideous  out  of 
the  twilight  future  on  America,  and  she  will  have 
her  own  agony  and  her  own  victory,  but  on  other 
terms  than  she  is  yet  quite  aware  of."  The  Hercules 
of  Labor  is  struggling  to-day  in  the  coils  of  these 
spiritual  pythons.  It  would  be  enough  if  all  he  had 
to  grapple  with  was  the  greed  and  avarice  of  capital 
that  we  hear  so  much  about;  of  godless  corporations 
who  would  rob  him  of  his  Sabbath  and  reduce  him 
to  the  level  of  the  brute.  But  on  the  one  side  he 
has  the  saloon  pressing  its  cup  of  vice  and  misery 
and  degradation  to  his  lips,  and  if  he  have  strength 
enough  to  dash  it  to  the  ground,  on  the  other  he  is 
confronted  by  a  more  subtle  enemy  which  binds  him 
in  fetters  of  iron  to  do  the  will  of  unknown  leaders; 
and  which,  if  he  refuses  it  allegiance,  can  take  the 
bread  out  of  his  children's  mouths  and  reduce  him 
and  his  to  beggary  and  starvation.  Oh,  he  needs 
our  help;  let  him  see  that  there  are  reinforcements 
coming,  that  the  white  ribbon  army  is  advancing  to 
his  aid.  But  let  us  go  to  him  with  no  grip  but  that 
of  Christian  8ympathy,no  sign  or  password  but  that 
of  the  conquering  cross,  and  depend  upon  it  he  will 
prove  our  noblest  and  strongest  ally,aod  in  our  great 
battle  against  the  liquor  traffic  and  our  grand  new 
warfare  for  social  purity 

"Be  like  a  sheathen  sabre 
Ready  to  flash  out  at  God's  command, 
The  chivalry  of  Labor." 

Another  problem  of  equally  vital  importance  con- 
cerns our  educational  work  among  the  children.  In 
our  Bands  of  Hope  and  Loyal  Legions  we  are  train- 
ing the  future  men  and  women  of  our  land  to  fill, 
and  we  trust  more  than  fill, our  places  when  we  pass 
from  the  noise  and  heat  of  conflict  into  the  eternal 
peace.  We  have  to  deal  with  material  soft  and  plas- 
tic to  our  hands,  which  will  keep  forever  the  mould 
in  which  we  shape  it.  Great  wisdom  is  necsssary 
for  such  a  work,  and  it  is  just  here  that  we  need  to 
hang  out  a  few  danger  signals.  An  old  negro  preach- 
er used  to  d'vide  his  sermon  into^two  parts:  "Fust, 
all  de  things  in  de  text,  and  second,all  de  things  not 
in  de  text;  and,  brederen,  we'll  wrastle  wid  de  sec- 
ond part  fust."  This  is  just  what  our  Good  Tem- 
plar friends  have  been  doing.  They  have  divided 
their  subject  into  two  parts,  temperance  and  the 
things  outside  of  temperance,  the  working  of  de- 
grees, the  learning  of  signs  and  grips  and  passwords; 
and  like  the  old  colored  preacher  they  have  wrest- 
led with  the  second  part  first.  And  the  trouble  is 
they  have  never  got  through  wrestling  with  it,and  till 
there  is  a  radical  change  in  their  methods  it  doesn't 
look  as  if  they  ever  would.  We  see  this  tendency 
even  in  our  Sunday-schools  where  more  time  and 
pains  is  often  spent  in  drilling  the  children  to  take 
their  part  in  concert  exercises  than  is  given  to  their 
legitimate  work  of  Bible  instruction.  The  spirit  of 
the  age,  which  is  outward  rather  than  inward,  and 
makes  a  great  deal  of  everything  which  addresses 
itself  to  the  eye  and  ear,  is  partially  responsible  for 
much  that  is  superficial  and  hindering  rather  than 
helpful  in  our  modes  of  education, moral, secular  and 
religious.  The  introduction  of  broom  drills  and  per- 
formances of  a  similar  frivolous  nature  into  the  ju- 
venile work  of  the  W.  C.  T.  U.  I  look  upon  as  a  very 
neat  device  of  the  enemy.  Their  only  use  is  to  di- 
vert the  minds  of  the  children  from  what  should  be 
our  one  great  object,  that  of  training  them  to  be 
temperance  workers.  This  and  like  errors  let  us 
avoid.  Let  us  take  temperance  for  our  text  and 
then  remember  the  classification  of  "all  de  things  in 
de  text,  and  all  de  things  not  in  de  text,"  and  give 
the  second  part,  the  things  which  do  not  make  for 
temperance  and  have  no  vital  connection  with  tem- 
perance work,  a  wide  berth.  We  may  be  sure  that 
what  remains  will  be  enough  to  fill  our  hands  and 
our  hearts  full. 

Only  let  us  not  fall  into  the  opposite  error  of  leav- 
ing out  things  which  do  properly  belong  to  the  text. 
Vice  is  hydra  headed  and  to  fight  one  form  of  it  ef- 
fectually we  must  fight  it  in  every  form.  It  follows 
then  that  all  moral  education  may  be  broadly  classed 
as  temperance  education,  and  it  is  just  as  much  a 
part  of  the  work  to  teach  our  boys  and  girls  to  hal- 
low the  Sabbath,  to  reverence  God's  name,  and  be 
pure  in  every  word  they  utter  and  thought  they  think 
as  to  teach  them  the  physiological  action  of  alcohol 
on  the  human  system.  It  should  be  a  part  of  our  work 
to  teach  them  wliat  the  Bible  says  about  the  unfruitful 
works  of  darkness.  Many  W.C.  T.U.  women  have  not 
had  their  eyes  opened  to  see  the  power  behind  the 
throne  which  is  hindering  the  temperance  reform  in  so 


many  invisible  ways.  But  when  they  do  find  out — 
and  they  are  learning  it  fast,  for  God's  Spirit  is 
with  them,  the  spirit  of  wisdom  and  understanding 
as  well  as  of  might,  the  spirit  of  knowledge  and 
counsel  as  well  as  the  fear  of  the  Lord — then  they 
will  teach  the  children  the  sin  of  these  secret,  false 
worships.  And  the  boys  and  girls,  when  they  are 
told  that  Masonry  is  as  old  as  Solomon's  temple  or 
the  Garden  of  Eden,  will  know  better.  They  will 
know  that  on  the  testimony  of  their  own  historians 
the  first  Grand  Lodge  met  at  the  Apple-tree  Tavern 
in  London  no  longer  ago  than  1717.  When  they  are 
told  that  it  can't  be  revealed,  they  will  know  that  it 
has  been  revealed;  that  the  very  oath  the  candidate 
takes  says  it  can  be.  When  they  are  told  that  the 
lodge  is  more  benevolent  than  the  church  they  will 
be  able  to  do  a  little  figuring  on  their  own  account. 
When  they  are  told  that  Masonry  teaches  Christian- 
ity they  will  know  it  is  a  lie, — that  she  rejects  the 
Comer-stone,  Christ  Jesus,  and  borrows  her  rites 
and  ceremonies  from  the  old  pagan  world,  that  wor- 
shiped on  the  high  places  and  gave  a  cup  of  poison 
hemlock  to  one  of  the  purest  sages  of  antiquity, 
because  he  refused  to  bow  at  its  secret  shrines  of 
unwritten  and  unspeakable  abominations.  And 
when  these  boys  get  to  be  men  there  is  one  thing,  be 
assured,  they  won't  do.  They  will  not  break  the 
heart  of  some  mother  or  wife  or  sister  by  taking 
their  first  glass  of  liquor  in  a  lodge  room. 

There  is  also  the  danger  that  just  as  many  pa- 
rents have  come  to  trust  the  whole  matter  of  their 
children's  religious  instruction  to  theSabbathschools, 
so  our  temperance  fathers  and  mothers  will  come  to 
trust  these  outside  organizations  to  do  that  work  of 
home  teaching  which  only  fathers  and  mothers 
can  do. 

I  have  been  frequently  asked  the  question,  "How 
did  you  happen  to  take  up  the  anti-secret  work?" 
As  the  answer  has  a  direct  bearing  on  this  especial 
point,  I  trust  a  few  personal  reminiscences  will  be 
pardoned.  One  of  our  noted  leaders  in  the  W.  C. 
T.  U.  was  once  asked  if  she  had  ever  suffered  per- 
sonally from  the  saloon  that  she  should  take  up  the 
temperance  work  with  such  zeal.  The  questioner  be- 
trayed an  utter  lack,  both  of  fine  moral  perceptions, 
and  of  a  true  understanding  of  reform  work.  Don't 
we  all  know  that  it  is  from  the  happy,  guarded 
heights  of  Christian  homes  that  the  angels  of  hu- 
manity come  down  to  save  the  perishing?  Florence 
Nightingale  was  safe  in  her  quiet  Eoglish  home,  but 
she  could  not  stay  there  for  the  vision  of  the 
wounded  and  the  dying,  as  they  lay  uncared  for  on 
fields  of  death  in  the  far-away  Crimea. .  Josephine 
Butler  and  Ellice  Hopkins  reach  out  brave,  white 
hands  of  womanhood  to  their  fallen  sisters  from  the 
peaceful  shelter  of  pure  homes.  And  this  noble 
white  ribbon  leader  heard  more  loudly  the  call  of 
God  to  go  forth  in  the  battle  against  the  saloon,  just 
because  the  drink  curse  had  never  touched  her  or 
hers;  and  so  she  could  go  as  the  angels  go,  without 
animosity,  without  personal  feeling,  without  rancor 
or  bitterness. 

I  look  back  on  a  childhood,  guarded,  so  far  as 
human  power  could  do  it,  from  the  least  breath  of 
evil;  but  one  of  my  earliest  recollections  is  of  stand- 
ing beside  my  father's  knee,  not  yet  out  of  the  bor- 
derland of  infancy,  while  he  explained  to  me  the 
pictures  in  some  juvenile  temperance  publication, 
and  told  me  what  a  dreadful  thing  alcohol  was,  and 
how  much  suffering  and  misery  it  caused.  How 
my  little  heart  bled  for  the  drunkard's  poor  children! 
and  what  righteous  wrath  swelled  my  bosom  against 
the  wicked  rum-seller!  My  father  was  among  the 
first  to  cast  an  anti-slavery  vote,  and  though  I  re- 
member but  dimly  that  great  struggle  whose  closing 
echoes  were  drowned  out  in  the  cannon  peal  of  civil 
war,  I  do  remember  well,  how  he  fostered  my  child- 
ish enthusiasm  for  its  grand  leaders,  and  how  he  al- 
ways stood  ready  to  explain  its  political  phases  to 
my  young  comprehension.  My  mother's  kind  heart 
and  warm  sympathies  were  always  on  the  side  of 
the  weak  and  the  oppressed;  and  the  first  book 
which  she  put  into  my  hand  of  which  I  have  any 
remembrance  after  the  Bible  and  Pilgrim's  Progress 
was  Uncle  Tom's  Cabin.  She  did  not  say  as  some 
unwise  mother's  would  have  said,  that  I  was  too 
young  to  know  about  the  suflcrings  of  the  slave,  but 
she  taught  me  to  hato  with  my  whole  soul  the  dread- 
ful system  which  made  such  things  possible.  And 
now  that  she  has  passed  beyond  the  vail  it  is  a  pre- 
cious privilege  to  me  that  I  can  pay  this  tribute  to 
her  dear  memory. 

I,  of  course,  received  no  anti-secret  instruction. 
The  waters  of  reform  in  that  direction  had  not  then 
been  stirred.  When  we  received  the  Cynoture  from 
a  dear  old  father  in  Israel,  and  read  Finney's  work 
on  Freemasony,  and  our  eyes  were  opened  to  see 
what  the  institution  really  was, — a  government  and 
I  a  religion,  but  a  government  of  despots,  and  a  relig- 
ion of  devils,  which  every  true  Christian  and  every 


true  patriot  is  bound  to  fight,  as  he  loves  his  coun- 
try and  as  he  loves  his  God,  I  was  a  child  no  longer. 
I  was  a  woman.  But — and  here  lies  the  point — 1 
had  breathed  the  atmosphere  of  reform  from  mj 
cradle;  it  had  been  instilled  into  me  by  precept 
and  example,  that  principles  were  the  only  things 
worth  fighting  for,  and  that  for  one  of  the  least  of 
God's  eternal  truths  it  were  well  worth  the  while  to 
bear  the  loss  of  all  things,  and  go  forth  rejoicing, 
even  unto  bonds  and  imprisonment  and  death.  And 
when  I  heard  the  call  of  God  to  join  this  Gideon's 
band,  who  were  battling  so  bravely  against  the  lodge 
iniquity,  I  stood  ready  to  obey  it,  because  the  way 
had  been  prepared  years  before.  And  I  solemnly 
assert  that,  brought  up  in  such  a  home,  if  I  foxAA 
have  felt  or  acted  otherwise  it  would  have  been  a 
moral  miracle. 

And  so  I  appeal  to  you,  fathers  and  mothers,  by 
all  that  you  hold  sacred  and  dear,  by  those  precious 
words:  God,  and  home,  and  native  land,  don't  let 
Bands  of  Hope  and  Loyal  Legions  do  your  work  for 
you.  They  won't  do  it,  because  they  can't.  Make 
the  atmosphere  of  your  homes  an  atmosphere  of 
righteousness.  Teach  your  children  those  great 
moral  and  religious  principles  on  which  all  our  free 
institutions  rest.  Explain  to  them  the  things  they 
don't  understand.  Mothers  may  not  find  so  much 
time  to  ruffle  and  trim  their  own  and  their  children's 
garments,  and  fathers  may  not  find  so  much  time  to 
read  the  newspapers,  but  it  will  pay — in  the  golden 
coin  of  eternity.  Even  now  storms  are  rising  in  our 
national  horizon.  Carlyle's  prophecy  has  not  been 
fulfilled— nor  half  fulfilled.  To-day,  in  the  city  of 
the  Puritans,  a  devoted  evangelist  lies  in  jail,  sen- 
tenced for  a  year  because  he  has  refused  to  humbly  beg 
permission  to  preach  the  Gospel  of  the  ring  of  rum- 
sellers  and  Romanists  who  rule  Boston!  Vile  men, 
godless  men,  men  who  hate  Christ,  who  trample  his 
covenant  under  their  feet,  who  will  have  none  of  his 
doctrines  and  none  of  his  laws,  are  chosen  to  fill  our 
highest  offices.  They  hold  the  helm  of  our  ship  of 
state.  And  when  the  clouds  gather,  red-veined  with 
the  lightnings  of  coming  woe;  when  the  billows  of 
God's  judgments— those  judgments  which  are  like  a 
great  deep,  roll  over  her  decks,  then  what?  Train 
the  children.  Teach  our  future  voters  that  "right- 
eousness exalteth  a  nation,  but  sin  is  a  reproach  to 
any  people,"  and  the  catastrophe  may  be  averted 
and  our  nation  saved. 


AT  THE  LODGE  DOOR. 


Rap — rap  — rap  ! 

Door-keeper. — Who  is  there? 

Arts. — I  am  the  lover  of  all  mankind,  the  great 
benefactor  ef  the  human  race,  who  died  that  they 
might  live,  and  I  seek  admission  to  your  lodge  that 
your  members  may  receive  the  benefits  I  bring. 

D.  K. — What  is  your  name? 

Ant. — My  name  is  Jesus  Christ 

D.  K. — You  will  wait  until  your  request  is  com- 
municated to  our  presiding  officer,  and  his  answer 
returned. 

Jems. — I  am  willing  to  wait  so  long  as  there  is 
hope  of  my  being  admitted. 

D.  K.  (after  a  pause). — Our  answer  to  your  request 
is  this:  There  are  many  of  us  who  do  not  believe 
you  are  what  you  claim  to  be;  but  we  all  believe  in 
God  and  put  our  trust  in  him,  and  we  are  seeking  to 
inculcate  the  great  principles  of  virtue  and  morality 
for  which  we  have  the  greatest  respect.  If,  there- 
fore, you  are  willing  to  come  in  upon  this  basis,  you 
can  talk  as  much  as  you  please  about  faith  in  God 
and  our  duty  to  our  neighbors,  but  you  must  be  si- 
lent about  your  peculiar  doctrines.  We  do  not  want 
to  hear  anything  about  the  cross,  or  about  the  no- 
tion that  you  suflered  death  to  atone  for  the  sins  of 
mankind,  or  that  you  alone  can  bring  to  man  ever- 
lasting life. 

Jesus. — But  if  I  consent  to  be  silent  on  these 
themes,  how  can  I  fulfill  my  great  mission  as  the 
Saviour  of  sinners?  "No  man  cometh  to  the  Father 
but  by  me;"  and  God  will  not  accept  your  homage 
except  you  render  it  through  me,  for  it  is  his  will 
that  all  men  shall  honor  the  Son  even  as  they  honor 
the  Father.  And  though  he  oflers  to  men  the  un- 
speakable blessing  of  eternal  life,  it  is  only  in  and 
through  me  for  "I  [alone]  am  the  way,the  truth  and 

the  life." 

/).  A'.— Well,  as  a  lodge,  we  entirely  ignore  these 
claims  of  yours;  and  if  you  should  advance  them  in 
our  meetings,  you  would  only  produce  discord;  there 
are  proper  places  and  times  for  you  to  speak  on  these 
themes. 

Jaui. — I  ask  not  to  interfere  with  any  other  bus- 
iness that  is  right,or  to  monopolize  the  8peaking,but 
only  that  I  may  have  the  privilege  of  using  suitable 
opportunities  to  invite  men  to  partake  of  the  bene- 
fits of  my  salvation. 

J).  K. — You  will  not  be  permitt     t  to  talk  at  all 


IBE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSUREi. 


January  5,  1888 


on  these  subjects  in  our  lodge;  and  unless  you  con- 
sent to  be  silent,  I  must  refuse  you  admission. 

Jesus. — To  refuse  to  admit  me  as  your  Saviour  is 
to  refuse  to  admit  me  at  all,  for  where  my  salvation 
is  ignored  I  cannot  come;  but  I  must  warn  you  that 
by  rejecting  me  you  are  rejecting  him  that  sent  me, 
for  I  am  the  salvation  which  God  has  provided  for 
you.  Your  professed  reverence  for  God,  whilst 
turning  from  the  Son  of  God,i8  an  insult  to  the  Most 
High,  even  as  was  the  offering  of  fruits  and  flowers 
presented  by  Cain.  God  hath  declared  that  without 
shedding  of  blood  there  is  no  remission  of  sins,  and 
I  alone  am  the  Lamb  of  God  which  taketh  away  the 
sin  of  the  world. 


The  Saviour  turns  sadly  away  from  the  lodge  door, 
and  as  he  does  so,  one  who  professes  to  be  a  follow- 
er of  his  comes  up.but  instead  of  following  his  Mas- 
ter he  obtains  admittance  upon  the  terms  which 
Christ  himself  would  not  consent  to.  lie  agrees  to 
let  the  cross  of  Christ  sink  out  of  sight,  and  enters 
into  a  covenant  of  brotherhood  upon  the  basis  of  a 
belief  in  a  god  which  is  not  "the  God  and  Father  of 
our  Lord  Jesus  Christ,"  and  therefore  not  the  true 
God  at  ail,  any  more  than  is  the  God  the  Mohamme- 
dan worships.  The  god  of  the  lodges  is  said  to  be 
the  God  of  the  Bible,  but  it  is  a  false  claim.  The 
god  of  the  lodges  is  a  counterfeit  of  the  true  God. 
There  is  a  surface  resemblance,  as  there  is  between 
the  counterfeit  and  the  genuine  coin,  but  it  does  not 
go  below  the  surface.  The  god  of  the  lodges  re- 
quires no  shedding  of  blood,  no  atonement  for  sin, 
has  provided  no  Saviour  for  sinners,  and  no  Holy 
Spirit  to  transform  the  moral  nature;  but  the  devo- 
tees of  this  false  god  claim  that  their  god  requires 
nothing  from  his  worshipers  but  what  every  one  can 
provide  for  himself;  or  that  his  righteousnes  con- 
sists of  nothing  more  than  conformity  to  certain 
right  rules  of  conduct. 

True  follower  of  Christ,  follow  him  as  he  turns 
away  from  the  lodge  door.  Go  nowhere  that  Christ 
does  not  lead  you;  enter  into  fellowship  with  no 
company  where  Christ  is  not  received.  Let  the  re- 
fusal to  admit  your  Master  be  the  bar  to  your  own 
entry.  Be  not  deceived  by  a  talk  about  fellowship 
with  God.  There  is  no  fellowship  with  God  apart 
from  Christ.  Only  those  have  fellowship  with  God 
who  can  say:  "Truly  our  fellowship  is  with  the 
Father  and  with  his  Son,  Jesus  Christ. — Elder  W.  R. 
Young  in  Bible  Banner. 


Reform  News. 


BRO.  HINMAN MEBT8  A  CHRISTMAS  CYGLOBE. 

Arkansas  railroads  and  prairies — Members  of  the  Marion 
Baptist  Association— The  Secretary  of  the  N.G.  A.  Na- 
tional Convention. 

Pine  Bluff,  Ark.,  Dec.  26,  1887. 

Dear  Cynosure: — Arkansas  railroads  are  not  all 
of  them  very  reliable.  I  left  Helena,  Ark.,  on  the 
19th  at  2:30  v.  m.  on  a  mixed  train  for  Pine  Bluff, 
by  the  Arkansas  Midland.  This  road  has  been  re- 
cently changed  from  narrow  to  standard  guage,  but 
the  small  iron  rails  have  been  retained.  We  ran 
about  twelve  miles  an  hour  and  by  6:30  we  were 
five  miles  from  Clarendon,the  end  of  the  road.  Here 
we  encountered  a  wrecked  train  that  we  could  not 
pass.  The  night  was  dark  and  the  mud  deep,  but  a 
team  took  our  satchels  and  some  of  us  rode  part  of 
the  way.  The  rest  walked  on  the  track  and  at  10:30 
1'.  M.  were  in  the  pleasant  prohibition  town  of 
Clarendon,  where  I  found  an  excellent  hotel  kept  by 
some  Canadian  people  who  were  Christians  and  re- 
formers. Next  day  at  12  m.  I  left  for  Pine  Bluff 
on  the  St.  Louis,  Arkansas  and  Texas  railroad, 
which  is  very  rough  and  slow.  Here,  too,  we  were 
stopped  by  another  wreck,  which  detained  us  sever- 
al hours,  so  that  it  was  night  when  we  reached  this 
city. 

The  country  between  Helena  and  this  place  im- 
pressed me  as  much  superior  in  fertility  to  the  east 
side  of  the  Mississippi.  Much  of  it  is  heavily  tim- 
bered with  magnificent  oaks,  with  occasional  strips 
of  cypress  and  pine.  Between  the  White  and  Ar- 
kansas rivers  there  are  some  fine  prairies  which  are 
only  sparsely  settled.  Southern  people,  and  espec- 
ially the  Negroes,  seem  averse  to  settling  on  the 
prairies.  They  prefer  the  poorer  pine  lands,because 
of  the  better  water,  more  abundant  fuel  and  the  fat 
pine  for  lights.  When  they  move  on  to  the  prairies 
they  are  pretty  sure  to  move  back. 

I'ine  Bluff  is  a  bustling,  growing  young  city.  The 
number  of  wholesale  liquor  houses  indicates  a  large 
consumption  in  the  adjoining  country  as  well  as 
here.  Just  now  there  is  a  whirl  of  excitement  over 
the  Christmas  holidays.  The  season  has  been  fair- 
ly good  and  the  colored  people,  who  constitute  more 


making  haste  to  spend  their  part  of  the  surplus, 
mostly  for  trifles  and  follies.  There  are,  however, 
quite  a  number  of  colored  men  of  wealth  and  char- 
acter. The  county  has  three  colored  members  of 
the  legislature,  and  they  hold  most  of  the  county 
oflSces.  The  saloon  and  the  lodge  are  the  greatest 
obstacles  to  their  progress.  Happily,  there  is  a  wak- 
ing up  to  these  evils.  I  have  found  none  of  the  col- 
ored pastors,  and  certainly  there  are  no  others,  who 
do  not  oppose  the  liquor  traffic.  There  is  a  strong 
and  growing  conviction  that  all  forms  of  organized 
secretism  are  a  standing  obstacle  and  menace  to  the 
church. 

One  of  the  Baptist  ministers.  Rev.  Geo.  Robinson, 
is  the  pastor  of  the  largest  church  in  the  city.  He 
was  once  a  slave,  but  now  owns  a  farm  of  160  acres 
and  a  pleasant  home  in  the  city.  Between  him  and 
his  former  master  there  is  the  pleasant  relation  of 
neighbors  and  friends.  Years  ago  he  was  made  a 
Mason.  He  told  me  that  he  clung  to  it  until  he  be- 
came convinced  that  it  was  "the  devil's  plan  to  sup- 
plant and  destroy  the  church."  He  is  a  member  of 
the  Marion  Association  and  heartily  sustains  its  ac- 
tion in  excluding  all  secretists.  Other  Baptist 
brethren,  and  especially  Rev.  Battles,have  been  very 
pronounced  in  their  testimony  against  the  lodge  sys- 
tem. 

None  have  been  more  earnest,  persistent  and  suc- 
cessful than  Rev.  Lewis  Johnson,  who  both  in  his 
school  and  church  has  not  failed  to  give  voice  to  the 
Covenanter  principles  in  which  he  was  educated.  I 
preached  for  his  people  on  Sabbath  at  3  p.m.  on  the 
lodge  system,  and  had  the  hearty  approval  of  sever- 
al who  had  seen  much  of  the  inside  of  the  system. 
At  night  I  preached  in  the  M.  E.  church, Rev. Higgins, 
pastor;  and  though  he  and  most  of  his  people  be- 
long to  the  orders,  my  testimony  was  well  received. 

On  the  22nd  I  visited  the  State  Normal  school. 
It  has  a  fine  building  and  over  a  hundred  students. 
It  is  under  the  care  of  Prof.  Corbin,  an  able  colored 
principal,  assisted  by  several  colored  teachers.  By 
request  I  briefly  addressed  the  students  and  distrib- 
uted tracts. 

I  think  this  State  an  excellent  field  for  reform 
work.  I  have  found  the  people,  both  white  and  col- 
ored, more  ready  to  hear  the  truth  and  with  more 
of  the  freedom  and  heartiness  that  belongs  to  a  new 
country.  I  have,  however,  been  much  hindered  by 
the  Christmas  craze.  It  began  on  Saturday,  contin- 
ued all  night,  all  day  Sabbath.and  at  this  hour,Mon- 
day  night,  the  fireworks  and  explosives  are  still  go- 
ing off,  The  Southern  fashion  of  drinking  egg-nog 
seems  to  prevail  among  white  and  colored,  church 
members  and  other  sinners.  How  any  people  can 
think  to  honor  the  advent  of  the  Prince  of  Peace  by 
gluttony,  drunkenness,  and  the  mimicry  of  war  it 
would  be  hard  to  tell  I  It  is  manifest  that  they  have 
no  thought  of  Christ,  and  it  would  be  far  more  for 
his  honor  if  the  observance  of  the  day  were  abolish- 
ed. The  Roman  Catholics  and  Episcopalians  had 
religious  services,  which  were  well  attended;  but  in 
other  churches  the  usual  attendance  was  greatly  di- 
minished. 

The  first  snow  of  the  season  fell  last  night  and 
has  all  melted  to-day.  So  far  the  winter  has  been 
very  mild  and  there  is  apparently  little  of  poverty 
or  distress.  Arkansas  has  in  it  the  elements  of  great 
wealth,  and  is  rapidly  becoming  one  of  the  most  im- 
portant of  the  cotton-growing  States.  I  hope  to 
spend  a  few  more  days  in  this  city  and  then  go  to 
Little  Rock  and  then  to  Texas.  The  harvest  is  great 
but  the  laborers  are  few.  Pray  ye  that  the  Lord  may 
send  more  laborers  into  his  harvest. 

H.    H,    HlNMAN. 


A  MEMORABLE  REPORT  FROM  IOWA. 


AN    ARGDiMENT    ON    THE    METHODIST    MINISTERS — A 

CHRISTIAN    EX  ODDFELLOW    UPON    THE    OLD 

CEREMONIES     OF     THE     ORDER  —  NO 

CHRIST  IN  ODD-FELLOWSHIP. 


Dear  Ctnosure: — In  my  last  letter  I  spoke  of 
stopping  for  a  night  with  James  Harvey,  of  Pleas- 
ant Plain,  Jefferson  county,  the  treasurer  of  the 
Iowa  State  Christian  Association.  I  always  feel, 
when  I  am  under  his  hospitable  roof,  that  his  house- 
hold are,  indeed,  friends.  From  there,  as  I  also 
wrote,  I  came  to  Richland,  Keokuk  county,  and 
called  upon  Bro.  Hiatt,  a  minister  of  the  Friends' 
church,  and  after  it  was  arranged  that  I  should  at- 
tend the  Friends'  meeting  at  Hopewell  first  day 
morning,  and  the  meeting  at  Richland  in  the  even- 
ing. We  also  arranged  for  three  lectures:  at  Rich- 
land on  Tuesday  night,  at  Hopewell  on  Wednesday 
night,  and  at  Woolson  on  Thursday  night.  There 
was  a  violent  storm  on  Tuesday  night,  so  that  we 
directed  the  sexton  not  to  open  the  house.     But  the 

-  -  ...  other  appointments  were  filled.     Some  of  the  roads 

than  two-thiras  of  the  population  of  this  county,  are  were  impaasable,  by  reason  of  snow  drifts,  so  tt  ■ 


congregations  were  not  as  large  as  they  would  have 
been  under  more  favorable  circumstances.  Aaron 
Stalker  and  Nathan  Cox  at  Hopewell,  and  W.  H. 
McCracken  at  Woolson,  have  been  readers  of  the 
Cynosure.  Each  of  them  gave  a  donation  to  the 
State  work.  Some  others  at  Woolson  subscribed 
also. 

On  Saturday  I  went  to  Clay  and  called  upon  the 
Congregational  minister.  He  received  me  very 
kindly,  and  conversed  freely  upon  the  lodge  ques- 
tion. He  thought  the  per  cent  of  Congregational 
ministers  who  were  entangled  in  the  net  of  Masonry 
was  small.  I  told  him  that  in  some  conferences  our 
Methodist  brethren  had  been  deceived  by  Satan,  and 
had  gone  almost  bodily  into  the  lodge.  But  that 
where  the  true  character  of  Masonry  had  been  re- 
vealed by  the  discussion  of  the  question,  and  by  the 
dissemination  of  literature,  in  one  conference  three- 
fourths  who  had  been  Masons  left  the  lodge;  also 
that  in  one  of  the  counties  of  Iowa,  where  light  had 
been  thrown  upon  the  darkness  of  lodgery,  I  called 
upon  twelve  of  the  pastors,  taking  them  by  course, 
and  found  but  one  Mason,  and  only  one  Odd-fellow 
in  the  twelve.  The  other  ten  were  not  members  of 
any  secret  society;  and  nine  of  them  were  radical 
anti-secret  society  men.  Then  I  compared  this,  with 
the  condition  of  the  DesMoines  Conference  of  the 
Methodist  Episcopal  church,  twelve  years  ago, 
when  91  out  of  the  95  ministers  who  were  members 
of  that  conference,  were  Freemasons.  These  men 
have  been  deceived;  and  having  been  drawn  into  the 
practice  of  the  heathen  religious  ceremonies  of  the 
lodge,  and  led  to  engage  in  its  deistical  worship, 
they  have  come  under  the  mesmeric  power  of  Satan, 
and  their  minds  are  blinded;  so  that  they  do  not 
perceive  that  Satan  is  working  through  the  lodge 
system,  to  supplant  Christ,  and  subvert  Christianity, 
by  an  effort  to  make  the  deistical  worship  of  the 
lodge  the  universal  religion  of  mankind.  Every 
one,  to  whom  the  knowledge  of  this  great  Satanic 
conspiracy  has  come,  should  aid  in  delivering  these 
misguided  brethren  from  the  grip  of  the  lodge 
power,  and  from  the-  snare  of  Satan  in  which  they 
have  been  taken.  Surely  these  Masonic  ministers 
will  be  filled  with  horror  when  they  see  that  in  giv- 
ing their  influence  to  the  lodge  they  have  given  their 
influepoe  to  Satan. 

The  Congregational  brother  received  the  literature 
I  gave  him,  and  said  he  would  give  it  to  the  leading 
men  of  his  church,  when  he  had  examined  it. 

From  Clay  I  went  to  Fairview  and  called  upon  one 
of  the  United  Brethren,  who  is  a  reader  of  the  Cyno- 
sure. A  revival  meeting  was  in  progress,  and  so  I 
made  no  move  towards  getting  up  a  lecture.  The 
brother  on  whom  I  called  has  been  an  Odd-fellow. 
He  went  clear  through  Odd-fellowship.  He  told  me 
how  they  used  to  meet  the  candidate  when  he  was 
ushered  into  the  subordinate  lodge,  and  startled 
him  by  slapping  him  upon  both  shoulders,  and  then 
give  the  stern  command  to  bring  forth  the  chains 
and  put  them  upon  him;  and  of  the  march  around 
the  room,  and  of  the  halt  before  the  coffin  with  a 
human  skeleton  in  it.  To  heighten  the  effect,  the 
lights  were  turned  down  and  two  alcohol  lamps  were 
held,  one  at  the  head  and  the  other  at  the  foot  of 
the  coflfin.  The  already  frightened  candidate  was 
brought  up  blind-folded  to  the  coflBn,  and  the  band- 
age suddenly  removed  from  his  eyes,  and  he  bid  to 
behold  the  skeleton,  at  which  the  disguised  Odd-fel- 
lows, standing  around,  were  pointing  with  their  fln- 
gers.  He  also  spoke  of  how  the  lodge  transforms 
its  votaries  into  the  image  of  Satan,  by  becoming  to 
them  a  school  of  falsehood.  He  told  how  the  obli- 
gation to  conceal  what  had  already  been  revealed, 
operated  as  a  snare  to  bring  him  under  the  power  of 
Satan  and  lead  him  to  lie. 

He  lived  with  his  grandmother  until  after  he  was 
of  age.  She  was  a  reader  of  the  Telescope.  A  ser- 
mon had  been  delivered  on  Odd-fellowship,  and 
published  in  the  Telescope,  and  read  by  the  old  lady, 
who  was  horrified  at  the  description  of  the  Odd-fel- 
low initiation.  She  appealed  to  her  grandson  to 
know  if  such  things  were  done  in  the  lodge.  "Were 
you  led  blindfolded  to  an  open  coffin,  in  which  was 
a  human  skeleton?"  eagerly  queried  the  grand- 
mother. 

He  saw  no  way  by  which  he  could  conceal  the 
fact  that  he  had  been  horrified  in  his  initiation  by 
being  suddenly  confronted  by  a  grinning  skeleton, 
only  to  lie.  If  he  hesitated,  and  refused  to  answer, 
it  would  be  taken  for  granted  that  he  bad  gone 
through  the  dreadful  ceremony.  It  would  not  do 
for  him,  as  an  Oddfellow,  to  admit  th^  truth,  and 
so  he  lied  to  his  grandmother,  by  denying  that  there 
was  any  such  ceremony  in  the  Odd-fellows  initia- 
tion. He  lived,  however,  to  repent  of  his  sin,  and 
to  confess  it  to  the  dear  old  saint  by  acknowledging 
the  truth  as  a  man  and  a  Christian  that  he  had  de- 
nied as  an  Odd-fellow. 
He  said  that  one  lodge  that  he  attended  had  a 


January  5,  1888 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


vault  made  under  the  floor  just  deep  enough  to  hold 
the  skeleton,  with  a  trap  door  which  was  carpeted 
to  match  with  the  carpet  of  the  lodge  room.  This 
trap  door  was  turned  back  when  the  candidate  was 
to  be  confronted  with  the  skeleton.  He  also  spoke 
of  the  candidate's  journey  through  the  wilderness  in 
the  encampment  degrees;  the  mock  thunder,  and  the 
sprinkling  water  on  the  traveler  in  imitation  of  rain; 
and  the  brush  and  other  obstacles  he  was  made  to 
stumble  over  as  he  was  led  on  his  journey,  was  de- 
scribed. But  the  crowning  act  was  the  leading  the 
candidate  over  a  bridge.  This  had  an  ascent  of 
some  three  feet,  a  level  place  on  top,  and  then  a 
steep  descent.  The  bridge  was  made  of  rollers, 
that  would  turn  when  stepped  upon,  so  that  the 
candidate  was  in  danger,  especially  in  his  descent, 
of  falling  and  breaking  his  back.  Two  men  con- 
ducted the  blindfolded  man  through  the  wilderness, 
and  over  this  bridge,  and  they  were  charged  to  keep 
a  firm  hold  upon  him,  as  two  men,  while  being  ini- 
tiated in  Ballimore,  had  fallen  in  crossing  this 
bridge,  and  injured  their  backs  so  as  to  become  crip- 
ples for  life. 

His  description  was  of  Odd-fellowship  as  prac- 
ticed in  his  lodge  before  the  revision  made  at  Tor- 
onto a  few  years  ago.  He  said  that,  while  to  the 
candidate  they  talk  of  the  lessons  to  be  learned 
from  these  ceremonies,  among  themselves  they 
speak  only  of  the  fun  they  have  had  while  initiating 
him. 

He  said  that  at  one  time  the  Noble  Grand  of  the 
Richland  lodge  was  a  member  of  the  Disciple  church 
of  llichland.  A  Methodist  minister  had  been  ini- 
tiated, and  he  noticed  that  there  was  no  chaplain 
and  no  prayer  in  the  lodge.  The  minister  expressed 
his  surprise  that  they  should  have  no  prayers,  and 
asked  for  an  explanation.  The  Noble  Grand  replied 
that  he  believed  in  the  Christian  religion;  that  he 
did  not  think  it  was  right  to  ignore  Ohrist  in  prayer. 
The  ritual  of  Odd-fellowship  would  not  allow  them 
to  pray  in  the  name  of  Christ,  and  therefore  he  had 
not  appointed  a  chaplain,  for  he  did  not  think  it 
was  right  to  ignore  Christ,  as  the  Mediator,  in  prayer. 
A  discussion  immediately  arose,  some  claiming 
that  it  was  not  contrary  to  the  principles  of  Odd- 
fellowship  to  pray  in  the  name  of  Christ.  But 
these  parties  were  soon  convinced  of  their  ignorance. 
The  deistical  character  of  the  order  was  proven 
right  there  in  the  lodge,  by  an  appeal  to  the  ritual 
itself;  and  those  who  thought  that  Christ  might  be 
honored  and  confessed  in  the  lodge  worship,  were 
confounded.  When  the  Methodist  minister  saw 
that  Odd-fellowship  was  a  deliberate  conspiracy  to 
supplant  Christ,  the  one  only  way  to  God,  by  ignor- 
ing his  mediation  in  the  lodge  worship,  he  proved 
himself  a  loyal  disciple  of  Jesus  by  immediately 
arising  in  the  lodge  and  making  the  declaration, 
"Then  I  am  no  longer  an  Odd-fellow." 

So  will  every  Methodist  minister  decide  when  he 
learns  the  truth  of  this  matter,  if  he  has  not  gone 
so  far  in  this  false  worship  as  to  have  come  com- 
pletely under  the  mesmeric  power  of  Satan. 

I  attended  the  revival  meeting  at  Fairview  Satur- 
day night.  Sabbath  morning  I  went  to  Hopewell 
and  preached  at  11  A.  m.  in  the  Friends  church.  In 
the  afternoon  I  went  to  Richland  and  preached  at  7 
p.  M.  in  the  Friends  church  by  invitation  of  the  pas- 
tor. On  Monday  night  I  lectured  in  the  Friends 
church  of  Richland.  At  the  conclusion  of  the  lec- 
ture 1  distributed  some  reform  literature,  which 
was  eagerly  received,  both  by  the  middle  aged,  and 
the  young.  The  next  day  I  left,  feeling  glad  that 
I  had  been  permitted  lovingly  to  preach  and  faith- 
fully to  defend  the  Gospel  of  the  Son  of  God.  I 
sent  eight  new  subscribers  to  the  Cynosure  while  at 
Richland.  C.  F.  Hawlet. 


Correspondence. 


1UI8H  PRE8BTTBRIAN  AND  BNQLI8H  PURI- 
TAN. 

Editor  Christian  Cynosure: — When  the  mem- 
bers of  the  English  Parliament  are  being  arrested 
and  compelled  to  wear  the  prison  garments,  our  at- 
tention is  necessarily  turned  to  Ireland,  the  bone  of 
contention.  A  little  book  has  been  placed  in  my 
hand,  "History  of  the  Irish  Presbyterian  Church," 
by  Rev.  Thomas  Hamilton.  It  gives  some  interest- 
ing facts.  The  Irish  Parliament  repudiated  the 
Pope  in  1537  and  accepted  Henry  VIII.  as  the  head 
of  the  church.  The  Reformation  dawned.  The 
reign  of  Kdward  VI.  was  brief  but  helpful.  The 
bloody  Mary  did  all  she  could  to  retard  it.  Queen 
Elizabeth  favored  the  work.  "The  Plantation  of 
Ulster"  took  place  in  l(i07.  The  Roman  Catholic 
earls  had  forsaken  their  estates  and  they  were  con- 
fiscated. They  were  divided  into  tracts  of  1,000, 
1,500,  and  2,000  acres  each,  and  given  to  English 


build  a  castle  and  bawn  or  walled  enclosure  and  setr 
tie  forty-eight  able  men  of  English  and  Scotch  de- 
scent within  four  years,  for  the  largest  proportion; 
a  brick  house  and  bawn  within  two  years,  for  the 
second  class;  and  a  bawn  for  the  third.  Ulster  has 
been  Protestant  to  this  day.  The  three  remaining 
provinces  Leinster,  Munster  and  Connaught  are  Ro- 
man Catholic. 

In  1641  occurred  the  Irish  Saint  Bartholomew, 
when  "several  hundreds  of  thousands"  were  inhu- 
manly and  barbarously  massacred  by  the  Romanists. 
Its  memory  hangs  like  the  sword  of  Damocles  over 
Ireland  to-day.  At  the  battle  of  the  Boyne  July  1, 
1(590,  King  William  vanquished  James  II.  and  Ire- 
land was  free.  To-day  there  are  5,000,000  Catholics 
and  1,500,000  Protestants.  Gladstone  proposes  to 
give  Ireland  a  parliament  and  allow  her  to  settle  her 
own  domestic  affairs,  the  English  Parliament  still 
retaining  the  supremacy.  According  to  his  plan  Ire- 
land will  sustain  the  same  relation  to  England  that 
New  York  State  does  to  the  United  States.  The 
Presbyterians  in  Ulster  are  afraid  this  Home  Rule 
plan  would  rob  them  of  their  liberties,  and  hence 
their  rejoicing  when  Gladstone  was  defeated,  June 
7th,  1886.  But  Home  Rule  is  as  certain  to  prevail 
as  the  sun  to  rise.  It  means  the  freedom  of  the 
people.  The  sun  of  civil  and  religious  liberty  has 
arisen  never  to  go  down  again. 

Last  Friday's  Tribune  devotes  almost  a  page  and 
a  half  to  the  addresses  at  the  banquet  of  the  New 
York  society  of  New  Englanders  celebrating  the  vir- 
tues of  the  Pilgrim  Fathers.  Three  hundred  mem- 
bers and  guests  were  present.  The  president,  Ex- 
Judge  Horace  Russell,  made  a  jocose  speech.  He 
quoted  the  celebrated  definition  of  a  bore,  "The  man 
who  always  talks  about  himself  when  you  want  to 
talk  about  yourself."  It  is  said  that  "he  who  blows 
his  own  trumpet  generally  plays  a  solo."  Solos  are 
the  kind  of  music  we  like. 

Rev.  Joseph  H.  Twitchell,  D.D.,  responded  to  the 
toast,  "Forefather's  Day."  "Those  unconscious, 
pathetic  heroes,  pulling  their  shallop  ashore  on  the 
Cape  yonder  in  1620 — what  reverence  can  exceed 
their  just  meritl  What  praise  can  compass  the  vir- 
tue of  that  sublime,  unconquerable  manhood,  by 
which,  in  the  calamitous  woful  days  that  followed, 
not  accepting  deliverance,  letting  the  Mayflower  go 
back  empty,  they  stayed  perishing  by  the  graves  of 
their  fallen;  rather,  stayed  fast  by  the  flickering 
flame  of  their  living  truth,  and  so  invoked  and  got 
on  their  side  forever  the  force  of  that  great  law  of 
the  universe,  'Except  a  corn  of  wheat  fall  into  the 
ground  and  die,  it  abideth  alone;  but  if  it  die  it 
bringeth  forth  much  fruit.'  How  richly  and  how 
speedily  fruitful  that  seed  was  we  know.  It  did  not 
wait  for  any  large  unfolding  of  events  on  these 
shores  to  prove  the  might  of  its  quickening.  'West- 
ward the  star  of  empire  takes  its  way.'  " 

Yes,  "but  the  first  pulse  of  vital  power  from  the 
new  State  moved  eastward.  For  behold  it  still  in 
its  young  infancy,  if  it  can  be  said  to  have  had  an 
infancy,  stretching  a  strong  band  of  help  across  the 
sea  to  reinforce  the  cause  of  that  Commonwealth, 
the  rise  of  which  marks  the  epoch  of  England's  new 
birth  in  liberty.  The  pen  of  New  England,  fertilized 
by  freedom  and  marvelously  prolific  ere  a  single 
generation  passed,  was  indeed  the  Commonwealth's 
nursing  mother.  Cromwell,  Hampden,  Sidney,  Mil- 
ton, Owen,  were  disciples  of  teachers  mostly  from 
this  side  the  Atlantic.  Professor  Masson,  of  Edin- 
burgh University,  in  his  admirable  Life  of  Milton, 
enumerates  seventeen  New  England  men  whom  he 
describes  as  'potent'  in  England  in  that  period. 
Numbers  went  to  England  in  person;  twelve  of  the 
first  twenty  graduates  of  Harvard  College  prior  to 
1646  among  them;  and  others,  not  a  few  representing 
the  leading  families  of  the  Colonies,  who  going  over 
with  their  Isreasts  full  of  New  England  milk,  nour- 
ished the  heart  of  the  great  enterprise;  'performed,' 
so  Palfrey  tells  us,  'parts  of  consequence  in  the  Par- 
liamentary service,  and  afterwards  in  the  service  of 
the  Protectorate.'  It  is  not  too  much  to  say  that 
on  the  fields  of  Marston  Moor  and  Naseby,  New 
England  appeared;  and  that  those  names  may  fairly 
be  written  on  her  banners.  The  emigration  of  pop- 
ulations hither  from  Europe,  great  a  factor  as  it  has 
been  in  shaping  the  history  of  this  continent,  has 
not  been  so  great  a  factor  as  the  emigration  of  ideas 
the  other  way,  and  continues  to  be,  in  shaping  the 
history  of  Europe,  and  of  the  mother  country  most 
of  all." 

Mayor  Hewitt  said :  "In  New  York  City  we  have 
500,000  born  in  foreign  lands,  500,000  born  in  the 
State  of  New  York,  and  25,000  out  of  New  England: 
one  New  England  man  to  ten  Irishmen,  nine  Ger- 
mans and  one  Englishman.  If  it  takes  ten  Irish- 
men, nine  Germans  and  one  Englishman  to  support 
one  Yankee,  you  will  no  longer  want  to  restrict  im- 
migration, but  on  the  contrary  to  increase  it.     You 


grants,  but  the  great  works  which  they  have  executed 
within  the  last  ten  years,  and  out  of  which  has  come 
the  great  prosperity  which  we  now  enjoy  in  this 
country.  We  don't  want  to  restrict  immigration. 
This  country  does  not  want  to  do  so  for  one  hundred 
years  to  come;  but  what  it  does  want  to  do  is  to  re- 
strict the  importation  of  immigrants  who  will  be  a 
burden  to  the  country  and  not  add  to  its  wealth  or 
resources.  But  so  long  as  they  have  sound  minds 
in  sound  bodies,  it  is  impossible  for  any  greater 
contribution  to  have  been  made  to  the  resources  of 
the  country  than  we  derive  from  the  healthy  and 
large  immigration  from  other  countries.  But  those 
who  come  here  opposed  to  our  institutions,  those 
who  come  here  with  the  idea  that  law  is  to  be  defied, 
those  who  come  here  to  preach  revolution,  those  who 
would  travel  under  the  red  flag,  are  not  suitable  for 
a  self-governing  people.  They  are  the  enemies  of 
order  and  of  freedom,  the  poison  which  will  circulate 
through  any  system  where  suffrage  prevails,  and  it 
is  alike  the  duty,  the  privilege,  and  the  highest  in- 
stinct of  self-preservation  which  should  induce  us 
to  put  some  check  upon  the  inflow  of  such  perni- 
cious elements,  to  preserve  for  ourselves  and  for  the 
lowest  laborers  who  come  here,  the  blessings  of 
freedom  which  you  and  they  will  then  enjoy." 

Hon.  Chauncey  M.  Depew  spoke  on  "The  Puritan 
in  New  York."  He  said:  "The  secret  of  Puritan 
success  is  the  spirit  of  unrest.  They  had  in  their 
English  homes  the  same  comforts  and  opportuni- 
ties as  their  neighbors;  but  they  left.  They  had  in 
Holland,  after  twelve  years  of  residence,  acquired 
the  language  and  secured  the  industiial  opportuni- 
ties of  all  the  rest  of  their  class;  but  they  left.  They 
found  in  New  England,  after  many  years  of  resi- 
dence, unnumbered  acres  of  forest  and  farm  as  yet 
unoccupied;  but  they  left.  They  became,  and  still 
are,  the  most  beneficent  of  tramps.  Thej  love  not, 
like  the  ordinary  tramp,  to  live  on  the  country,  but 
to  improve  it."  "The  Yankee  had  room  enough  in 
New  England,  but  he  wanted  New  York.  No  history 
of  our  times  can  be  successfully  written  which  does 
not  give  a  chapter  to  the  eloquence  of  Henry  Ward 
Beecher.  The  commanding  influence  of  Mr.  Evarts 
in  this  country  and  in  Europe  has  been  due,  in  a 
measure,  to  the  opportunities  which  could  be  afford- 
ed by  no  other  place  than  New  York.  New  York  is 
proi'd  of  her  Puritans."  J.  M.  Fostbb. 


DR.  MINER'S  WORD  AS  GOOD  A8  GOLD. 


so  SAYS  OUR  BOSTON  COHRESPONDENT. 

Editor  of  thk  Cynosure: — It  was  with  not  a 
little  surprise  that  your  correspondent  learned  from 
Dr.  Miner's  letter  in  the  Cynosure  of  Dec.  8th,  that 
in  the  "Boston  Letter"  published  Nov.  24th  he  had 
unconsciously  done  that  grand  old  gentleman  an  in- 
justice. A  severe  attack  of  sickness  has  prevented 
an  earlier  reply  which  certainly  is  his  due.  There 
was  no  intention  on  the  part  of  your  correspondent 
to  infer  that  the  doctor  indorsed  the  Chicago  anarch- 
ists, but  that,  in  a  more  charitable  and  Christian 
manner  than  other  clergymen  of  this  city,  he  dis- 
cussed some  of  the  causes  of  anarchy;  yet,  since  his 
attention  has  been  called  to  the  article  in  question, 
he  can  clearly  perceive  that  the  following  paragraph, 
very  carelessly  and  illy  used,  owing,  however,  to 
the  haste  in  which  the  article  was  written  in  order 
to  get  it  on  to  Chicago  in  time  for  publication,  must 
have  created  a  wrong  impression,  which  he  sincerely 
regrets: 

"Whilst  such  men  as  Drs.  James  Freeman  Clarke, Bartol 
and  Davis  were  condemning  the  unfortunate  bomb- 
throwers  and  indorsing  the  faithfulness  of  the  courts  in 
meting  out  well-deserved  punishment:  while  these  emi- 
nent clergymen  were  doing  what  they  probably  thought 
every  other  preacher  was  doing.  Rev.  Dr.  A.  A. Miner,  the 
great  whisky  antagonist,  was  doing  just  the  opposite. " 

Taken  as  a  whole  this  statement  was  certainly  an 
exaggeration,  and  failed  to  convey  the  writer's  real 
thoughts.  He  certainly  did  not  intend  to  imply 
that  the  doctor  did  not  commend  the  action  of  the 
courts  under  the  circumstances,  but  that  in  a  more 
elevated  ranee  of  judgment  and  criticism  his  mind 
went  beyond  the  mere  deeds  of  the  culprits  and  the 
sentence  passed  upon  them,  and  in  similar  justice 
and  equity  which  the  Almighty  would  exercise, 
dealt  with  the  cause  of  the  "manufacture  of  anarch- 
ists;" in  fact  that  he  struck  at  the  root  of  the  mat- 
ter instead  of  the  anarchist  himself;  that  like  a  true 
explorer  he  sought  the  sources  of  this  rushing,  tur- 
bulent, anarchical  stream  which  threatens  to  sul»- 
merge  beneath  its  muddy  waters  the  social  and  po- 
litical systems  through  which  it  flows.  In  this,  your 
correspondent  meant  to  imply  the  doctor  differed 
from  contemporary  critics. 

It  was  reiwrted  that  many  left  the  church,  pre- 


and  Scotch  settlers  on  condition  that  they  would  all  know  not  only  the  active  labor  of  these  immi-  sumably  because  they  were  wholly  bitter  against 


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THE  CHHISTIAN  CYNOSURB:. 


January  5,  1888 


the  anarchists,  and  incapable  of  grasping  the  doc- 
tor's thoughts.  No  doubt  that  report  was  false,  or 
exaggerated. 

While  your  correspondent  would  feel  badly,  of 
course,  if  he  should  misrepresent  any  one,  yet  he  is 
yery  sorry  that  he  allowed  himself,  even  through 
haste,  in  an  ambiguous  way  to  cast  a  wrong  reflec- 
tion upon  one  whom  he  so  highly  respects  and  ad- 
mires as  Dr.  Miner,  who  most  nobly  espouses  a 
cause  so  near  his  heart  as  the  temperance,  and  he 
earnestly  hopes  the  readers  of  'the  Cynosure,  will  in 
all  confidence,  fully  accept  his  refutation  as  pub- 
lished in  the  Cynosure  of  the  8th  inst.,  for  every- 
body, friend  and  foe  (the  rumseller  included)  believes, 
his  word  to  be  as  good  as  gold. 

Your  correspondent  is  exceeding  glad  that  Mr. 
Miner  so  promptly  and  frankly  refuted  the  careless 
expressions  which  must  have  erroneously  impressed 
your  readers,  and  also  rejoices  in  the  opportunity 
for  making  correction,  or  rather  explanation. 

D.  P.  Mathews. 


aUGGBSTIOHS  FOB 


THE  NATIONAL  CONVEN- 
TION. 


MjMPHis,  Tenn.,  Dec.  20,  '87. 

I  am  settled  in  the  conviction  that  with  the  con- 
version of  the  ministry  of  the  Gospel  from  the  se- 
cret lodge,  the  church  must  be  emancipated  and  the 
lodge  fall  from  its  respectable  eminence — perhaps  I 
should  say,  its  "bad  eminence."  In  discussion  there 
is  a  large  field  to  cover,  but  when  ministers  can  be 
induced  to  hear  and  to  speak,  I  think  the  core  of  the 
whole  subject  is  touched  when  we  press  the  one  idea 
of  loyalty  to  Christ  and  his  church  as  opposed  to  all 
rivals  of  different  character, — this  and  the  family. 
There  is  perhaps  more  difficulty  with  dishonesty  in 
men  than  with  blindness  or  ignorance.  However, we 
need  to  have  patience  with  all. 

Suppose  that  in  the  Convention  a  prominent  place 
should  be  given  to  ask  and  answer  : 

1.  Can  a  man  be  loyal  to  Christ  and  to  the  oath- 
bound  lodge? 

2.  Can  a  man  be  true  to  his  family  and  to  the 
lodge? 

3.  Can  a  man  be  true  to  his  own  conscience  and 
be  a  loyal  adherent  of  oath-bound  secrecy? 

These  plain  tests  lie  on  the  surface  of  my  thought 
always  in  connection  with  this  subject.  They  may 
not  add  anything  to  the  arrangement  of  topics,  but 
they  impress  me  as  showing  the  joints  in  the  armor 
of  the  other  side,  directly  and  very  plainly. 

B.  A.  Im£s. 


while  the  works  of  the  lodge  are  hidden  in  shameful 
security  to  persecute  those  who  dare  to  make  its 
works  manifest.  Of  such  Paul  enjoins  us  to  have 
no  fellowship  "for  it  is  a  shame  to  speak  of  the 
things  done  of  them  in  secret." 

As  to  whether  the  Grand  Army  of  the  Republic 
has  symbols,  initiatory  rites  and  ceremonies,  I  know 
not,  yet  its  acknowledged  objects  are  to  influence 
legislation,  to  secure  better  pensions  for  honorably 
discharged  soldiers.  If  it  be  right  to  go  to  war  it  is 
equally  right  the  survivors  should  also  be  paid,  but 
my  Bible  teaches  me  that  war  is  equally  wrong 
with  secret  societies.  Christ  is  the  Prince  of  peace 
and  came  to  establish  a  kingdom  of  peace,  and  the 
subjects  of  a  peaceful  kingdom  are  peaceful  sub- 
jects. "Else  would  my  servants  fight."  The  whole 
life  of  Christ  was  one  of  peace.  He  taught  peace 
under  all  circumstances,by  words  and  examples.  We 
can  not  engage  in  warfare  without  encouraging  and 
developing  the  unbridled  carnal  lusts  and  passions, 
without  making  manifest  the  works  of  the  flesh,Buch 
as  wrath,  strife,  envy,  etc.  They  that  do  such  things 
cannot  inherit  the  kingdom  of  God.  Taking  this 
view  of  things  how  can  a  man  of  God  belong  to  an 
organization  which  has  for  one  of  its  objects  the 
bringing  to  our  remembrance  of  bloody  carnage  that 
has  never  extended  the  borders  of  Zion  nor  exalted 
a  nation. 

Finally,  let  me  say,  "Let  love  be  without  dissim- 
ulation; abhor  that  which  is  evil;  cleave  to  that 
which  is  good."  "Bless  them  that  persecute  you; 
bless,  and  curse  not."  "Provide  things  honest  in 
the  sight  of  all  men."  Rom.  12:10,  14,  17.  "Let  us, 
therefore,  follow  after  the  things  that  make  for 
peace."  Rom.  14:19.  W.  H.  Roose. 


You  could  almost  see  the  chill  running  up  and  down  the 
backs  of  his  members.  One  remark — in  fact  the  first  one 
on  the  subject — was,  "  There  are  seven  or  eight  secret 
orders  in  this  place,  and  they  are  a  curse."  He  com- 
menced his  services  last  Monday  night,  and  has  been 
preaching  against  church  sins  each  night.  His  people 
act  as  if  dazed.  "But  if  he  keeps  pegging  away"  the 
crust  will  give  way.  If  I  could  afford  it  I'd  send  him  the 
Cynosure,  but  as  that  is  out  of  the  question  at  present, 
I'll  continue  to  pray  for  him.  God  bless  true  reforms  and 
trv^  reformers.— i.  N.  Y.,  Custer  City,  Pa. 

WE   MUST   VOTE   AS   WE   PKAY. 

Mr.  Capwell  is  a  man  of  sound  judgment,  and  his  let- 
ter shows  that  he  is  the  right  man  in  the  right  place. 
The  American  party  is  still  in  being,  and  should  think  of 
nothing  else  but  acting  as  a  party.  It  is  true  it  is  prohi- 
bition in  sentiment.  And  if  the  Prohibition  party,  out 
of  regard  for  the  truth,  and  the  uniting  all  true  prohibi 
tionists  in  one  body,  will  nominate  men  clean  of  the 
lodge,  as  a  party  we  will  vote  for  them.  But  if  they 
nominate  lodge  men  of  any  degree,  we  will  nominate 
our  own  men. — Amekican  Prohibitionist. 


Bible  Lesson. 


PITE  AND  POINT. 


TEE  GRAND  ABUT  AND  WAR. 


FBOM   MBS.    J.    W.    PHELrS. 

The  friends  of  the  late  General  Phelps,  whose  labors 
80  long  enriched  the  columns  of  this  paper,  will  be  glad 
to  hear  from  his  wife  in  the  following,  and  to  know  that 
■he  and  her  son  are  well: 

"I  receive  the  Cynosure  evey  week  and  enjoy  reading 
it  very  much.  I  read  it  very  thoroughly;  then  most  of 
them  I  send  to  some  one  else  so  they  can  have  the  bene- 
fit of  them.  I  cannot  tell  you  how  great  an  interest  my 
husband  had  in  it.  He  said  he  always  read  every  paper 
through  three  times.  I  think  the  Anti-masons  have  a 
great  deal  to  encourage  them.  Are  not  all  the  labor 
troubles,  the  anarchists,  etc.,  caused  directly  by  secret 
societies?  They  are  all  branches  of  one  and  the  same 
tree;  some  are  in  bloom,  but  a  great  many  are  bearing 
the  most  poisonous  fruit,  and  so  many  dropping  the  fatal 
seed,  and  it  falls  where  it  receives  good  soil,  making  it 
flourish  and  grow." 


Carson  Citt,  Mich. 
Editor  Christian  Cynosure:  —  The  specimen 
copy  of  your  paper  came  to  hand  and  its  numerous 
articles  were  read  with  deep  interest  and  to  my  edi- 
fication. You  are  doing  a  good  work,  and  may  God 
hasten  the  day  when  the  end  you  purpose  accom- 
plishing will  be  consummated.  It  does  me  good  to 
read  the  articles  of  those  who  have  liberated  them- 
selves from  the  iniquitous  oath-bound  institution.in- 
stituted  by  designing  men  and  resting  under  the 
■eal  of  the  infernal  powers.  These  are  not  the  pow- 
ers to  which  Paul  said  we  should  be  subject,  but 
rather  an  influence  in  the  direction  of  making  the 
laws  of  the  powers  that  are  ordained  of  God  null 
and  void  by  shielding  a  criminal  brother  so  that  he 
is  not  held  apswerable  to  the  retributions  of  a  brok- 
en law. 

As  far  as  experience  goes  with  these  secret  socie- 
ties I  have  had  but  little,  yet  were  there  no  other 
objectionable  feature  about  them  but  the  secrecy, 
there  is   enough   in  the  Word  of  God  to  condemn 
them.  They  consider  the  secrecy  of  their  orders  their 
life.       This  was  declared  in  almost  as  many  words 
by  the  editor  of  Farm  and  Home  when  asked  by  one 
of  its  readers  whether  it  would  not  be  better  to  set 
the  candle  on  the  bu8hel,or  build  the  city  on  the  hill. 
He  also  said  its  annual  and  grips  was  its  protection. 
There  is  no  secret  society  on  earth   but  what  will 
knowingly  accept  unbelievers,  skeptics,  etc.,a8  mem- 
bers, and  as  illustrated  by  the  California  minister  in 
his  talk  with  the  member  of  the  G.  A.  R.,the  rough- 
er element  actually  rules  the  society.       Their  lives 
are  more  to  be  felt  than  the  more  pious  ones.      Yet 
with  all  their  protestations  to  make  ill  appear  well 
Paul  asks  them  plain  questions  which  they  can  nev- 
er answer:    "What  communion  hath  light  with  dark- 
ness?    What  part  hath  he  that  believeth  with  an  in- 
fidel?    What  concord  hath  Christ  and  Belial?" 

The  Light  is  the  life  of  the  church  of  Christ  while 
darkness  is  the  protection  of  the  lodge.  Christ  is 
the  Light  and  was  manifest  that  all  who  believe  on 
him  might  have  life.  The  works  of  the  Christian 
are  the  motive  power  of  the  church;  they  are  the  re- 
sult of  faith  and  for  the  upbuilding  of  mankind, 


A    CONGREGATIONAL     PASTOR     AMONG     THE     FIRST     8UB- 
SCRIBBBS. 

I  would  not  do  without  the  Cynosure  if  I  could.  I 
have  taken  the  paper  ever  since  the  first  number,  and 
expect  to  continue  so  long  as  we  both  live.  It  is  the 
David's  sling  of  the  nineteenth  century,  and  I  hope  to 
live  long  enough  to  see  the  stone  from  that  sling  sink 
deep  into  the  Masonic  Goliath's  head-  If  I  can  take  but 
one  religious  paper  it  will  be  the  Cynostire.  I  have  known 
and  loved  the  senior  editor  too  long  not  to  appreciate 
the  paper.  It  ia  a  great  help  to  me  in  every  respect,  ele- 
vating spiritually.  Long  live  the  Cynosure  with  its  no- 
ble band  of  workers.— J.  P.  Richards. 

THE    "cynosure"    BIOGRAPHIES. 

Mrs.  R.  and  I  read  the  Cynosure  with  very  much  pleas- 
ure .  We  have  never  been  in  favor  of  secret  societies. 
The  biographical  and  narrative  sketches  convey  the 
most  thrilling  and  interesting  history  in  my  possession. 
— L.  R.  R  ,  San  Jose,  Cal. 

ANOTHER  ORIGINAL   SUBSCRIBER. 

I  have  taken  the  Cynosure  from  the  first  starting  of 
the  little  paper.  My  interest  has  not  abated;  but  my 
days  are  drawing  to  a  close,  as  I  shall  soon  be  eighty, 
and  have  other  infirmities  besides  age.  I  feel  as  though 
I  could  hardly  give  it  up  as  long  as  I  can  read  it. — Allan 
Wright,  Wilton  Center,  111. 

FIGHTINC  MONTANA   MORMONS  AND   MASONS. 

I  am  doing  what  I  can  here  against  Mormonism  and  se- 
cret societies  in  general,  and  against  liquor.  It  made 
quite  an  excitement  in  the  Sabbath-school  this  summer 
when  I  read  from  the  Cynosure  the  discussions  at  the 
Newburgh,  N.  Y.,  Covenanter  Synod  on  the  subject  of 
secrecy.  One  old  woman  said  that  paper  was  a  counter- 
feit .  An  Odd-fellow  said  the  men  that  wrote  in  that 
paper  had  been  kicked  out  of  some  lodge.  One  young 
lawyer  asked  me  if  I  had  ever  applied  to  any  lodge  for 
membership.  I  hope  by  the  help  of  Him  that  reigns 
above  to  never  see  a  lodge  in  this  valley.  I  wish  some 
fearless  minister  would  come  out  here.  I  wrote  to  Bro. 
Reamer  sometime  ago  to  try  and  get  a  minister  to  come, 
but  have  not  heard  from  him.  I  hope  the  friends  of  re- 
form will  all  pray  for  our  work  against  evil  here.— 8.  E. 
Ferris,  Selish.  Montana . 

A    BRAVE    METHODIST    BROTHER. 

I  told  you  that  the  Methodist  preacher  in  this  place 
was  an  Odd  fellow.  I  gave  him  Sawyer's  sermon  on 
Odd-fellowship.  It  cured  him.  He  is  now  trying  to 
have  a  revival  on  the  separation  doctrine,  but  the  cold- 
ness was  as  thick  as  ice  when  he  hit  secret  societies . 


STUDIES  IN  THE  NEW  TESTAMENT. 
LESSON  III.— Jan.  15.— Jesus  Walkins;on  the  Sea.— Matt. 
14:22-36. 

GOLDEN  TEXT.— Be  of  good  cheer ;  it  is  I ;  be  not  afraid.— 
Matt.  U:  27. 
YOpen  th»  Bible  and  read  the  les$on.^ 
COMMENTS   ON   THE  LESSON   BY  E.  E.  FLAGQ. 
1.   The  Night  of  Prayer,     vs.  22,  23.     Jesus  was  not 
only  weary;  he  had  just  passed  through  one  of  the  sorest 
temptations  that  can  be  presented  to   human  nature. 
Could  it  have  been   anything  else?— that  storm-wind  of 
popular  acclaim,  ready  to  waft  him  at  once  to  a  throne, 
the  throne  of  David— his  by  ancestral  right.      He  need 
not  stoop  to  any  corrupt  intriguing,  any  art  of  the  dem- 
agogue.     He  need  only  let  the  eager  multitude,  that 
would  have  forced  him  to  accept  the  diadem,  have  their 
way,  and  it  was  his.    He  needed  the  healing  and  the  rest 
of  solitary  communion  with  his  Father .      Lives  that  are 
most  full  of  labor  should  be  most  full  of  prayer.      Lu- 
ther used  to  say,  when  in  the  hottest  of  his  warfare  against 
the  papacy,  that  he  was  too  busy  to  give  less  than  four 
hours  a  day  to  devotion . 

2.  Christ  in  the  Storm,  vs.  24-83.  Jesus  had  not 
forgotten  his  disciples  while  alone  with  God;  and  no  more 
does  he  forget  them  now,  exalted  at  his  Father's  right 
hand.  Across  the  fiercest  seas  of  trouble  he  walks  to 
meet  them,  but  he  is  not  always  recognized.  He  comes 
and  takes  a  lamb  of  the  flock,  or  perhaps  an  aged  parent, 
ripe  for  glory,  and  we  call  it  Death,  the  king  of  terrors. 
He  comes  and  checks  us  in  a  career  of  seeming  prosper- 
ity and  we  call  it  misfortune  and  disaster.  Like  the 
disciples,  we  cry  out  for  fear.  They  were  in  the  way  of 
duty  when  the  storm  came  up .  The  path  of  obedience 
is  often  the  path  of  peril.  Many  are  afraid  to  espouse 
an  unpopular  cause.  They  say  it  will  injure  them  in 
reputation  or  in  pocket,  yet  what  matter  if  it  does?  Shall 
the  truth  be  sold,  and  the  praise  of  men  weigh  heavier 
in  the  scale  of  our  desires  than  the  praise  of  God?  If 
all  the  human  race  acted  on  this  principle,  we  should 
have  no  "goodly  company  of  apostles,"  no  "noble  army 
of  martyrs."  Every  spark  of  civil  and  religious  freedom 
would  have  been  smothered  long  ago,  and  the  query,  "Is 
life  worth  living?"  would  answer  itself— in  the 
negative.  Across  the  billows  of  persecution,  though 
they  rise  up  mountain  high,  Christ  will  come.  And  there 
will  always  be  ardent  souls  like  Peter,  ready  to  walk  on 
the  water  to  go  to  Jesus,  yet  fainting  when  they  see  the 
wind  boisterous .  Faint  Hearts  are  Little  Faiths  as  well . 
They  look  at  the  difficulties  and  dangers  of  the  way  in- 
stead of  Christ,  and  they  begin  to  sink.  In  all  reform 
work  this  point  must  be  especially  kept  in  mind,— to  look 
to  Jesus .  The  reforms  of  to  day  are  intensely  religious 
movements .  The  lodge  and  the  saloon  have  reason  to 
dread  the  prayer  meetings  of  their  antagonists,  for  it  is 
there  that  the  hosts  of  Christian  men  and  women,  who 
are  to  bring  down  these  walls  of  Jericho,  get  their  march- 
ing orders .  Let  loyalty  to  Jesus  be  the  oil  on  the  flame 
of  our  hatred  to  evil,  and  the  fire  will  never  go  out  till 
our  nation  acknowledges  him  in  her  Constitution  and  her 
laws;  till  she  says  at  the  ballot  box,  no  less  than  in  her 
legislative  assemblies,  "Of  a  truth  thou  art  the  Son  of 
God." 

3.  Cur  Duty  to  Bring  Others  to  Christ,  vs.  34-36.  The 
people  of  Genessaret  scoured  all  the  country  round 
about  for  the  sick  that  they  might  be  cured .  This  was 
true  home  missionary  zeal,  though  it  only  concerned  the 
bodies  of  men.  Diseased  souls  and  suffering  bodies  are 
all  around  us .  Let  us  bring  them  to  the  Great  Physi- 
cian, and  tell  them  what  he  has  done,  what  he  is  able  to 
do,  and  what  he  will  do,  even  for  the  faith  that  only 
touches  the  hem  of  his  garment. 


January  5,  1888 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


BANG    THBM  WITH  THEIR  OWN 
ROPB. 


THE     LODGB   COMMENTS  ON  LODGBBT. 


The  National  Reveille  is  the  best  Sons 
of  Veterans  paper  published,  yet  the  pat- 
ronage it  receives  from  the  order  would 
not  keep  a  poodle  dog  from  starvation . 
Wake  up,  boys,  smoke  less  cigars,  drink 
less  beer,  and  the  nickels  saved  will  soon 
enable  you  to  save  the  required  dollar. — 
The  Comrade  (Q .  A .  R .  organ)  .  [But  the 
S.  ofV.  ritual  obliges  all  these  young 
men  to  join  in  prayer  to  a  "Lord  and 
Saviour,"  and  to  swear  in  the  name  of 
God.     See  Cynosure  of  last  week.] 

The  Order  of  Sons  of  Veterans  is  mod- 
eled after  that  of  the  G.  A.  R . ,  has  in 
view  substantially  the  same  objects,  and 
aspires  to  be  the  recognized  natural  suc- 
cessor to  that  grandest  of  all  orders,  the 
Grand  Army  of  the  Republic .  Patriot- 
ism and  not  politics  isits  inspiration.  Its 
membership  is  constituted  of  the  sons  of 
honorably  discharged  Union  soldiers  and 
sailors  of  the  war  of  1861-65,  and  their 
sons  of  succeeding  generations.  As  the 
order  is  a  military  organization  the  requi- 
site qualification  for  membership  insures 
for  the  future  a  well  drilled  army  of  na- 
tive born  Americans.  Cherishing  the 
memory  of  their  fathers'  struggles  for  lib- 
erty and  union,  they  will  stand  as  a  bul- 
wark against  all  attempts  to  do  violence 
to  American  institutions,  come  from  what 
quarter  they  may. — NationalReoeillei^ons 
of  Veterans  organ). 

What  is  sauce  for  the  goose  is  very  good 
victuals  for  the  "goose's"  mate:  A  com- 
mittee of  Ohio  members  of  the  Woman's 
Relief  Corps,  appointed  by  the  National 
Department  President,  have  been  investi- 
gating charges  against  Sarah  M.  E.  Bat- 
tles, President  of  the  Relief  Corps  of  Ohio. 
One  charge  is  that  Mrs.  Battles  refuses  to 
make  a  report  to  the  Q.A.  R  department 
headquarters,  and  acts  entirely  independ- 
ent of  the  G.A.  R.;  another  is,  that  at  the 
San  Francisco  National  Encampment  last 
summer,  she  hauled  in  the  flag  at  her 
headquarters  when  the  Ohio  delegation  of 
G .  A .  R .  passed  in  the  procession.  Other 
charges  are  in  a  similar  strain,  the  drift 
being  that  an  attempt  is  made  to  make 
the  Woman's  Relief  Corps  independent 
of,  instead  of  subsidary  to  the  G.A.  R. — 
Veteran's  Review. 

Masonic  tradition  attributed  to  Tubal 
Cain  the  invention  of  the  Plumb,  the 
Level  and  the  Square.  The  First  Great 
Light  in  Masonry  attributes  to  him  also 
the  invention  of  musical  instruments,  and 
Mohammedan  tradition  the  art  of  express- 
ing the  juice  of  the  grape  and  making 
wine.  Another  tradition  makes  him  the 
inventor  of  the  fishing  hook  and  line! 
May  not  this  ancient  Masonic  worthy 
well  be  styled  the  patron  of  Masons,  while 
they  are  at  Refreshments?  The  viands 
form  the  "corn  of  nourishment,"  and  the 
liquids  the  "wine  of  refreshment;"  and 
may  not  we  almost  say,  the  harmony  of 
sweet  sounds  from  musical  instrument 
and  human  voice  divine,  represent  the 
"oil  of  joy?" — Keystone. 

The  next  year  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Mich- 
igan was  requested  to  assist  in  laying  the 
corner-stone  of  St.  Paul's  church,  the 
mother  Episcopal  church  of  the  West. 
But  owing  to  the  wild  fanaticism  which 
then  prevailed  in  consequence  of  the  W. 
Morgan  affair,  it  was  not  possible  to  con- 
vene a  quorum  of  members  for  that  pur- 
pose. Bo  St.  Paul's  cornerstone  was  not 
laid  by  the  Grand  Lodge,  or  the  fraterni- 
ty. Not  even  the  great  power  and  influ- 
ence-of  that  gallant  soldier  and  patriot 
statesman,  General  Lewis  Cass,  who  was 
Grand  Master  as  well  as  Territorial  Gov- 
ernor, was  sufficient  to  enable  him  to  con- 
vene a  quorum  of  the  members.  The 
Grand  Lodge  was  not  again  convened 
until  June  2,  1841,  fourteen  years  after. 
On  the  17th  of  September,  1844  ourpres 
ent  Grand  Lodge  was  organized,  pursu- 
ant to  a  resolution  of  the  old  (first)  Grand 
Lodge,  under  new  charters  received  from 
the  Grand  Lodge  of  New  York,  that 
body  having  refused  to  recognize  the  re- 
organization under  what  she  termed  de- 
funct lodges  of  Michigan  Territory. — 
Paper  read  by  Dr.  A.  I.  Sawyer,  giving 
a  sketch  of  Monroe  Masonic  Lodge,  Mon- 
roe, Mich. 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


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Well4o  mention  the  paper  when  ordering 
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PROSPECTUS  FOR  THE    TWENTIETH  TEAR. 

As  we  turn  over  the  leaf  for  another  year  the  Cy- 
nosure would  again  write  at  the  top  of  the  new  page: 
"Christ  always;  Christ  only."  It  will  more  than  ever 
be  the  purpose  of  all  connected  with  the  paper  to 
make  it  a  power  for  the  coming  kingdom  of  oar 
Lord,  before  which  all  the  systems  of  secret  wor- 
ship, mystery  and  iniquity  of  the  great  Babylon 
must  fall.  We  would  be  on  the  Conqueroe's  side 
in  that  day — we  will  stand  for  him  now  in  the  days 
of  testimony  and  of  tribulation. 

The  Cynosure  during  1888  will  give  the  most 
earnest  attention  to  the  South-  The  National  Con- 
vention at  New  Orleans,  Feb.  17th,  and  the  effort, 
which  promises  so  much  success,  to  put 

ONE    THOUSAND   COPIES 

of  the  paper  into  the  hands  of  colored  pastors  gives 
a  direction  to  our  interests.  We  also  hope  that  the 
National  Christian  Association  will  be  able  to  put 
other  workers  into  the  Southern  field. 

The  Minor  Secret  Orders,  so-called,  will  have 

more  respect  given  to  their  insinuating  and  benumb- 
ing influence.  If  Masonry  and  Odd-fellowship  have 
felt  severely  the  attacks  upon  their  strongholds.they 
are  making  good  all  losses  by  training  up  an  army 
of  young  men  whose  convictions  are  paralyzed  in 
respect  to  secretism  by  the  swarms  of  orders  which 
cover  their  modicum  of  lodgery  with  a  bait  of  tem- 
perance, insurance,  patriotism,  good  fellowship,  bus- 
iness aid,  etc.,  etc.  The  Cynosure  will  endeavor  to 
rouse  our  careless  churches  to  see  that  this  evil  is 
likely  to  be  worse  than  the  first. 

We  have  nearly  completed  arrangements  for  spec- 
ial Correspondence  from  the  metropolitan  cities 

in  different  parts  of  the  country.  Our  readers  may 
expect  letters  once  a  month,or  oftener,  from  Boston, 
New  York,  Philadelphia,  Washington,  Cincinnati, 
New  Orleans,  Denver,  San  Francisco  and  Los  An- 
geles. These  letters  will  give  graphic  pictures  of 
the  earnest  American  life  which  throbs  in  our  great 
cities,  with  especial  reference  to  the  news  of  the 
lodges  in  each. 

The  very  popular  Biographical  Worl(  of  the  Cyno- 
sure during  the  three  years  past  will  be  continued 
with  some  features  which  will  be  especially  attract- 
ive. During  the  last  year  there  have  appeared  por- 
traits of  George  B.  Cheever,  William  H.  Seward, 
Daniel  Webster,  John  Brown,  Charles  Sumner, 
Charles  Francis  Adams,  Enoch  Honeywell,  Bishop 
Hamline,  Charles  G.  Finney,  Howard  Crosby,  Dr.  C. 
F.  W.  Walther,  and  Alexander  Hamilton.  These 
portraits  have  been  accompanied  with  sketches 
which  have  presented  facts  of  profoundest  interest 
to  our  discussion,  collated  after  diligent  and  often 
exhaustive  search. 

Letters  from  foreign  lands  we  expect  to  be  more 

frequent  and  valuable  in  1888  than  ever.  Corre- 
spondents in  England,  Germany,  Greece,  Turkey, 
India,  West  and  South  Africa,  China  and  Mexico 
will  through  our  columns  be  in  personal  connection 
with  our  readers. 

The  Sabbath  School  department  will  contain 
the  notes  of  Miss  E.  E.  Flagg  as  last  year.  Sab- 
bath-school workers  are  to  be  congratulated  in  the 
continuance  of  this  arrangement.  For  readers  of 
the  Cynosure  there  are  no  more  helpful  and  suggest- 
ive notes  published  than  these,  in  the  whole  range 
of  S.  S.  literature. 

Best  of  all  is  the  noble  company  of  contributors 
and  correspondents  in  our  own  land.  We  hardly 
need  mention  them.  To  keep  in  their  company  a 
season  were 

—"worth  ten  years.of .common  life." 

We  invite  all  friends  of  the  past  to  honor  them- 
selves by  remaining  in  this  company.  The  Cynosure 
gives  you  a  noble  fellowship.  You  can  hardly  afford 
to  forsake  it.  Let  your  name  then  be  found  on  the 
list  Do  your  neighbor  a  good  turn  and  get  his 
subscription  also. 

In  advance  11.50  per  tear.  Address,  the 
"Christian  Cynosure"  Chicago. 


M.  C.  A.  BUILDINQ  AND  OFKCE  0? 
THE  CHRISTIAN   CTN08URK, 
»81  WIST  MADISON  STRKBT,  CmCAGC 


NA  TIONAL  QHRIBTIAH  AB80CIA  TI09 

Prbsidkkt.-H.  H.  George,  D.  D,,  Gen- 
eva College,  Pa. 

VicB-PKBsiDBHT— Rev.  M.  A.  Gault, 
Blanchard,  Iowa. 

Cob.  Sbc't  and  Gbnbbal  Aobht. — J 
P.  Stoddard,  321 W.  Madison  St.,  Chicago. 

Rbc.  Sbc't.  and  Tbbabdbbb. — W.  I. 
Phillips,  221  W.  Madison  St.,   Chicago. 

DiBBCTOBS. — Alexander  Thomson,  MI 
R.  Britten,  John  <Jardner,  J.  L.  Barlow, 
L.  N.  Stratton,  Thos.  H.  Gault,  C.  A. 
Blanchard,  J.  E.  Roy,  E.  R.  Worrell,  H. 
A.  Fischer,  W.  R.  Hench. 

The  object  of  this  Association  Is: 
"To  expose,  withstand  and  remove  secret 
•ocletiee,  Freemasonry  In  particular,  and  othef 
antl-Christlan  raovements,  in  orderto  save  tha 
churches  of  Christ  from  being  uepraved,  to  r© 
deem  the  admlnlstrjUon  of  justice  from  per- 
version, and  our  cep  Jblican  government  from 
corruption." 

To  carry  on  this  work  contributions  are 
solicited  from  every  friend  of  the  refonn. 

Form  op  Bequest.— J  give  and  bequeath  to 
the  National  Christian  Associatiou,  Incorpo- 
rated and  existing  under  the  laws  of  the  State 

of   Illinois,   the  sum  of ■    dollars  for  the 

purposes  of  said  Association,  and  for  whJrh 
we  receipt  of  Us  Treasurer  for  the  time  beinf 
•IJall  be  sufficient  dischaote. 

THB  NATIONAL  OONVBNTION. 

Prksidbnt.— Rev.  J.  S.  McCulloch, 
D.  D. 

Sbcrktaby.— Rev.  Lewis  Johnson. 

BTATB  AUXILIABT  AB8OCIATI0NB. 

Alabama.— Pres.,  Prof.  Pickens;  Sec.  Q 
M.  Elliott;  Treaa.,  Rev.  C.  B.  Curtis,  ali  of 
Selma. 

Cautornia.— Pres^  L.  B.  Lathrop,  HoUta- 
ter ;  Cor.  Sec,  Mrs.  U.  P.  Merrill,  Woodland  • 
Treas.,  C.  Ruddock,  Woodland. 

CoNNBCTicuT.— Pres..  J.  A.   Conant,  Willi, 
mantle;  Sec,  Geo.  Smith,  Wllllmantlc •  Ttau 
C.  T.  Collins,  Windsor. 

Illinois.— Pres.,  J.  P.  Stoddard;  Sec.  M 
N.  Butler;  Treaa.,  W.  I.  Phllllpf  aU  at  CV 
iwsurt  office.  ' 

Indiana.- Pres.,  William  H.  Flgg,  Reno 
Sec,  8.  L.  Cook,  Albion;  Treas.,  BenJ.  ui«h 
Sliver  Lake. 

IOWA.-PreB.,Wm.  Johnston,Collejre  SDrlnirs  • 
Cor  Sec,  C.  D.  Trumbull,  Mornlmf  QqI\ 
Treas.,  James  Harvey,  Pleasant  Plaln7 Jeffer- 
son Co. 

Kansas.— Pree.,  J.  P.  RIcha^d^  Ft  Scott- 
Secj  W.  W.  McMlUan,  Olathe?  TrewT  j' 
A.  Torrence,  N.  Cedar.  ^ «««»•,  J. 

MASSACffnSBTTa.— Pres.,  S.JA.  Pratt-  Sec 
Mrs.  E.  D.  BaUey ;  Treaa.,  David  Manning  Br*' 
Worceeter.  *'°'^' 

Michigan.- Prea.,  D.  A.  Richarda,  Brijrhton  • 
Sec'y,  H.  A.  Day,  Wllllaniston ;  freaa' 
Qeo.  Swanaon,  Jr.,  BedfoiJ. 

MrNNHSOTA.— Prea.,  E.  Q.  Paine,  Wanlo'a' 
Cor.  Sec.  Wm.  Fenton.  St.  Paul;  Rec  Sec'-v' 
Mrs.  M.  F.  Morrill,  St.  Charles;  Treaa..  Wm 
H.  Morrill,  St.  Charles. 

Missouri.— Prea.,  B.  F.  Miller,  SaglevUJe 
Treaa./Wllllam  Bcanchamp,  Avalon ;  Cor.  S»c 
A.  D.  Thomas,  Avalon. 

Nbbraska.— Pros.,  8.  Austin,  Falnnoait 
Cor.  Sec,  W.  Spooner,  Kearney;  Trea*. 
J.  C.  Fye.  ■• 

Niw  HAMPSHiRH.—Prea.,  C.  L.  liakcr,  Man 
Chester;  Sec,  8.  C.  Khnball,  New  Market 
Treaa.,  James  F.  French,  Canterbury. 

Niw  York.— Prea.,  F.  W.  Capwell,  Dale; 
Sec'y,  John  Wallace,  Syracuee;  Treaa.,  M 
Merrick,  Syracuee. 

Ohio.— Pres.,  F.  M.  Spencer,  New  Concord; 
Roc.  Sec,  8.  A.  Qeoree,  Mansfield;  Cor.  Sec 
and  Trea*.,' C.»W.  Huit,  Columbus;  Agent 
W.  B.  Stoddard,  Columbua. 

Pbnnstlvanla.- Pree.,  A.  L.  Poat,  Moi 
troae;  C-or.  tiec,  N.  Caolender,  Thoopaon 
Treaa.,  W.B.  Bertela,  Wllkeebarre. 

Vbbmont.— Prea.,  W.  R.  Laird,  St.  Johna- 
bury;  Sec,  C.  W  Potter. 

wiBCOHsra.— Pres.,  J.  W  Wool,  BAraboo; 
Sec,  W.  W.  Ames,  Meaomoole;  Treae.,  M.  R 
Britten,  Vienna. 


8 


Ym^  UBMIE'l:mi^  CYKOBUKE, 


January  5, 1888 


Th^  Christian  Cynosure. 


J.  BLANCH ARD. 


Kdrobb. 


HSNBT  L.  KILLOGG. 


CHICAeO,    THTOBaDAY,    JANTJAKY   5,   1888. 


The  New 
TO  20,  1888. 


Orleans  Convention  February  17 


The  Publisher  and  Office  Editor  have  planned  a 
surprise  for  the  Editor-in-chief  and  a  New  Year's 
gift  for  all  the  readers  of  the  Cynosure,  and  pre- 
sent them  on  this  page  a  fine  portrait  of  Pres.  J. 
Blanohard. 


ed  by  four  representatives  of  secret  societies,  but 
no  disorder  occurred. 

This  incident  inspires  gratitude  to  God,  and  good 
hope.  A  few  years  since  but  few  individual  church- 
es could  be  found  to  ask  a  sermon  against  the  se- 
cret orders.  But  here  three  churches  unite,  and 
those  not  heretofore  denominationally  committed 
against  the  lodge!  Surely  the  city  of  LaSalle  should 
be  remembered  with  gratitude  and  thanksgiving  to 
God. 


A  ySW  RB FORMER  IN  A  NEW  PLAGE. 


The  papers  notice  the  death  of  Secretary  Powell 
of  the  American  Missionary  Association,  at  the  aa;e 
of  45.  This  death,  following  so 
soon  after  that  of  their  beloved 
president,  Hon.  W.  B.  Washbume, 
is  a  severe  stroke  to  this  interest- 
ing and  important  national  soci- 
ety. This  sad  intelligence  reach- 
es us  too  late  for  an  extended 
obituary,  which  can  be  given  here- 
after. We  presume  Secretary 
Roy  will  be  called  to  fill  the  va- 
cancy made  by  this  death.  He 
is  known  and  respected  in  the 
United  States  from  coast  to  coast; 
and  is  an  admirable  successor  of 
the  first  secretary,  the  beloved  and 
sainted  Prof.  Whipple. 


"Right  Worshipful  and  Rev.  John  D.  Vincil,"  in 
his  report  to  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Missouri,  fills 
some  five  columns  in  the  Voice  of  Masonry  for  De- 
cember. This  new  reformer  holds  this  language: 
"No  man  of  observation  can  entertain  the  hope  that 
the  evils  of  profanity  and  intemperance  are  'not 


A  correspondent  writes  of  in- 
teresting and  successful  revival 
meetings  now  held  in  San  Jose, 
California,  by  lay  evangelist  A.  J. 
Bell,  well  remembered  for  similar 
meetings  in  Wheaton  awhile  since. 
If  the  churches  can  be  cleansed 
from  the  leprosy  of  secretism.and 
the  Holy  Spirit  have  room  by  the 
casting  out  of  the  evil  spirits 
which  rule  and  ran  the  lodges,and 
then  the  rank  and  file  become 
evangelists  as  after  the  martyr- 
dom of  Stephen,  one  hundred  and 
twelve  years  which  brings  us  to 
the  opening  of  the.  seventh  thou- 
sand years  may  easily  see  the 
earth  filled  with  "righteousness, 
peace  and  joy  in  the  Holy  Ghost," 
which  is  the  kingdom  of  God. 


The  proposed  canvass  in  Ver- 
mont by  the  editor  and  a  Ver- 
mont clergyman  nest  spring,  is  •? 
strongly  approved  and  endorsed 
in  a  letter  from  Mr.  C.  P.  Potter, 
of  Guilford  Center.  Both  gentlemen  are  natives  of 
and  have  a  large  acquaintance  in  the  State;  and  both 
have  long  experience  in  addressing  public  assem- 
blies. Both,  too,  understand  and  have  been  life- 
long opponents  of  secret  societies;  and  as  Vermont 
cast  her  electoral  vote  solid  for  Wirt  and  Ell  maker 
in  1832;  and  as  the  children  of  those  voters  are  yet 
alive,  and  remember  the  dying  testimonies  of  their 
parents  whose  prayers  went  with  their  votes  against 
the  lodge;  and,  more  material  still,  thousands  still 
live  who  saw  the  Vermont  lodges  turned  inside  out, 
and  their  degrading  and  criminal  secrets  exposed; 
it  is  thought  no  spot  in  the  United  States  promises 
a  fairer  hearing  than  the  Green  Mountain  State. 
We  thank  Mr.  Potter  for  his  prompt  action,  and 
hope  every  Vermonter  who  hears  of  it  will  copy  his 
example. 


Morgan,  or  the  Masons  by  thousands  to  get  his  mur- 
derers clear  and  send  them  out  of  the  country. 
Gentlemen  reformers,  the  blood  of  murder  is  on 
your  hands  every  time  you  give  a  grip  or  make  a 
Masonic  sign!  For  as  Christ  said,  the  blood  of  all 
the  prophets  down  the  ages  was  on  that  generation 
of  "Morgan  killers,"  assassins  of  men  who  told  un- 
popular and  unwelcome  truth,  so  the  blood  of  the 
man  sunk  at  midnight  in  Niagara  River  reddens  on 
your  regalia  and  rusts  on  your  jewels.  And  if  the 
ghosts  of  the  murdered  dead  ever  come  back  to  the 
scenes  of  secret  assassination,  the  underground 
rooms  beneath  your  monster  temples  in  Philadel- 
phia, New  York  and  elsewhere,  have  felt  their  walls 
sweat  cold  drops  of  blood,  and  echoed  nightly  the 
sighs  and  agonies  of  men  murdered  like  Pritchard, 
Miller,  Morgan,  Brownlee  and  others,  for  no  crime 
but  telling  the  truth  concerning  Masonry,  and  so 
violating  oaths 

"More  honored  In  the  breach  than  the 
observance," 

because  the  oaths  themselves  are 
crimes  and  sins  which  God  re- 
quires should  be  confessed,  "pro- 
claimed on  house-tops,"  repented 
of  and  put  away. 


THE  CHURCHSa  UNITING. 


Pres.  C.  A.  Blanchard,  by  invitation,  addressed  a 
Union  Meeting  of  the  three  Protestant  Congrega- 
tions of  LaSalle,  111.,  against  the  secret  lodge  sys- 
tem, on  Sabbath  evening,  Dec.  25.  The  request  was 
conveyed  by  the  pastor  of  the  Baptist  church  but 
the  Congregationalist  and  Methodist  churches  cor- 
dially united.  The  congregation  was  full  and  the 
attention  excellent,  though  the  discourse  extended 
through  some  two  hours,  from  the  text,  "Prove  all 
things,"  etc.;  subject:  "The  Relation  of  the  Chris- 
tian Church  to  the  Secret  Society  System  of  our 
age."  Rev.  A.  M.  Hunt,  pastor  of  the  Baptist 
church,  presided.  Prayer  and  singing  were  had; 
the  order  was  good;  and  thirty  or  forty  persons,  af- 
ter the  service,  gave  the  speaker  their  thanks  and 

benedictions  for  his  discourse.    R«ply  was  attempt-  destruction^of  hrs 


widespread.'  They  are  'widespread'  and  far  reach- 
ing. That  immorality  among  Masons  is  the 
blight  of  the  institution  to-day  no  man  can 
deny." 

And  this  vigorous  writer  in  his  long  article  takes 
note  of  the  temperance  action  of  Grand  Lodges  giv- 
en in  another  place  in  this  number.  But  what  ap- 
pears a  marvel  to  us  outsiders  is  this:  All  its  fun- 
damental, authoritative  expounders  tell  us  with 
Mackey  that  "Masonry  is  that  religion  in  which  all 
mankind  ^gree;"  and  they  name  all  the  gods  and 
altars  but  the  Saviour  Christ'sXand  Christianity, 
which  it  excludes  and  brands  as  bigoted,  because  it 
refuses  to  fellowship  heathenism.  This  "bigotry" 
cast  Daniel  into  the  den  of  lions. 

Now  when  temperance  lodges  have  cast  out  the 
brewers,  distillers  and  saloon-keepers,  who  are  al- 
most all  Masons,  and  these  men,  being  excommuni- 
cated and  having  all  the  secrets,  form  lodges  of 
their  own,  how  are  the  temperance  lodges  to  refuse 
to  fraternize  with  the  liquor  lodges  without  becom- 
ing bigots  and  sectarians?  Mackey  says,  "Acacia 
ineans  a  Mason  who  by  strict  adherence  to  the  prin- 
ciples of  our  order  is  free  from  sin."  (See  Lexicon.) 
But  the  Masons  who  made  the  "Ancient  and  Ac- 
cepted Scottish  Rite,"  which  now  rules  the  Masonic 
world,  all  bought  and  drank  liquor.  Did  none  of 
those  Masonic  saints  and  worthies  "adhere  to  the 
principles  of  the  order"  which  they  themselves 
made  and  ordained?  The  fact  is,  the  attempt  to 
turn  out  Mason  distillers  and  brewers  will  turn  Ma- 
sonry upside  down,  and  stamp  on  its  professed  uni- 
versal religion. 

Besides,  many  distillers  and  brewers  are  much 
better  religionists  than  Aaron  Burr,  who  murdered 
Hamilton;  or  Benedict  Arnold,  who  attempted  the 


SATAN  CASTING  OUT  SATAN. 

The  Toronto  Freemason  says, 
"The  Masonic  fraternity  have 
commenced  in  earnest  to  legislate 
on  the  temperance  question,"  and 
gives  the  following  facts  in  proof 
of  the  statement: 

1.  ThatBro.  L  A.  Wills  intends 
next  July  to  bring  forward  the 
following  motion  in  the  Canada 
Grand  Lodge:    "No  lodge   shall 

:■  permit  to  be  used,  in  any  lodge 
room  used  by  them,  or  at  the  re- 
freshment table,  wines,  spirits,  or 
other  intoxicating  liquors." 

2.  It  was  a  regulation  by  the 
ancient  York  Masons,  as  far  back 
as  1725,  that  "No  more  persons 
shall  be  admitted  as  brothers  in 
this  society  who  shall  keep  a  pub- 
lic house."  (See  Gould's  History, 
vol.  4,  page  107.) 

3.  The  Grand  Lodge  of  Illinois 
interdicts  the  use  of  intoxicants 
in  lodge  quarters. 

4.  Nebraska  Grand  Lodge  re- 
solved in  1885:  "It  is  a  Masonic 
offence  for  a  Mason  to  engage  in 
retailing  or  wholesaling  intoxicat- 
ing liquors  as  a  beverage." 

5.  In  Oregon,  in  1885,  the 
Grand  Master  suspended  a  Wor- 
shipful Master  for  being  engaged 
in  the  liquor  traffic.     He  aban- 

-  ^  doned  the  traffic  and  was  prompt- 
ly restored  by  the  G.  M.  The  same  year  the  Oregon 
Grand  Lodge  resolved:  "That  the  keeping  of  a  liq- 
uor saloon,  or  attending  bar  in  the  same,  shall  be 
sufficient  ground  for  suspending  Masons  engaged 
therein." 

6.  Wyoming  Grand  Lodge  in  ]884  enacted  that 
"Constituent  lodges  are  hereby  prohibited  from 
admitting  to  membership  any  person  engaged  in  the 
manufacture  or  importation  of  any  spirituous  or 
malt  liquors  as  a  beverage." 

7.  Similar  resolutions  were  adopted  by  Colorado 
Grand  Lodge  in  1886.  Washington  Territory  in  1885, 
Missouri  in  1886,  and  Kentucky  in  1886,  resolved 
"that  selling  intoxicants  by  the  drink,  be  decreed  a 
Masonic  offense,  punishable  as  other  offences." 

The  ground  of  the  above  action  is  that  saloon- 
keeping  and  liquor-selling  is  become  disreputable 
and  injures  the  craft,  diminishes  the  "dues,"  in- 
duces demits  and  indicates  the  near  triumph  of  the 
prohibition  cause.  But  the  presumption  is  that  few 
or  no  attempts  will  be  made  to  enforce  the  above 
decrees.  But  if  enforced  to  any  considerable  extent, 
there  will  be  temperance  lodges  and  liquor  lodges, 
and  the  members  of  both  classes  will  secretly  fra- 
ternize as  before.  In  1877,  the  Grand  Orient  of 
France  erased  from  their  ritual  "the  existence  of 
God  and  the  immortality  of  man."  The  Grand 
Orient  and  its  dependences,  and  all  who  acknowl- 
edged allegiance  to  them,  were  promptly  expelled 
from  fellowship  by  the  Grand  Lodges  of  Ireland, 
England  and  many  in  the  United  States.  But 
French  Masons  are  still  fellowshiped  as  before. 


Stoudard-Steklk. — The  earnest  young  agent  of 
the  Ohio  State  Association  has  found  a  wife  from 
the  Lord.    He  married  at  Cedarville,  Ohio,  on  Thurs- 


country;  or  the  murderers  of  poor  day  last,    Miss  Agnes  E.  Steele  of  that  place.     Next 


JANnABT  5,  1888 


'tBM  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


day  the  young  people  came  on  this  city  and  to  Sec- 
retary Stoddard's  home  in  Wheaton,  where  one  of 
the  pleasantest  of  receptions  was  held  on  Monday 
evening.  Mrs.  Stoddard  is  a  very  estimable  young 
woman,  a  Covenanter  by  religious  education  and 
profession.  She  was  baptized  by  the  late  Dr.  Ster- 
rett  of  precious  memory,  and  was  a  member  of  Dr. 
Milligan's  church  in  Pittsburgh.  She  will  be  truly 
a  help  meet  for  Bro.  Stoddard.  They  return  to 
Columbus  in  a  few  days,  will  begin  housekeeping 
and  take  up  the  reform  work  together,  one  among 
the  churches  of  the  State,  the  other  with  prayer  and 
good  cheer  from  the  home  altar.  The  Ohio  friends 
are  to  be  congratulated  on  this  accession  to  their 
working  force,  and  with  us  they  will  call  down  a 
thousand  blessings  upon  this  happy  pair. 


— Elder  Kufus  Smith  is  spending  the  winter  at 
his  home  in  Maryville.  Mo.,  laying  plans  for  general 
missionary  work. 

— Bro.  Hinman's  Christmas  experience  at  Pine 
Bluff  so  moved  his  spirit  that  he  sat  down  and  wrote 
an  able  argument  upon  the  day  and  its  de-Christian 
izing  character.  If  it  does  not  appear  soon  in  our 
columns,  it  will  be  because  we  hope  its  convincing 
presentation  of  the  case  will  have  a  deeper  effect 
some  time  later  in  the  year. 

—The  Illinois  State  Executive  Committee  met 
with  Mrs.  E.  A.  Cook,  on  Washington  Boulevard,  in 
this  city,  Friday  evening,  There  was  great  encour- 
agement in  the  letters  received  from  various  parts 
of  the  State.  The  Committee  had  the  pleasure  of 
meeting  Rev.  Mr.  Hunt,  of  LaSalle,  111.,  who  has 
made  a  proposition  about  engaging  in  the  lecture 
work. 

— The  Baptist  church  at  Cedar  Springs,  Michigan, 
is  opposed  to  the  lodges,  and  is  reported  as  having 
maintained  this  position  from  its  organization. 
The  good  people  have  not,  however,  so  carefully 
guarded  their  testimony  as  they  should,  and  a  Free- 
mason named  Islip,  taking  advantage  of  a  quiet 
hour,  came  in  "unawares"  (See  Gal.  2:  4),  and  so 
concealed  his  true  character  that  he  was  not  discov- 
ered as  a  Mason  until  he  made  an  address  at  a  Ma- 
sonic installation.  The  brethren  deplore  their  lack 
of  vigilance,  but  it  does  not  appear  that  the  Free- 
mason has  any  scruples  about  his  part  of  the  affair. 


TES  JV.  C.A.  JfATTONAL  OONVEhTION. 


OFFICIAL    CALIi. 


The  Seventeenth  Convention  of  the  National  Chris- 
tian Association  is  hereby  called  to  meet  in  the  Central 
Congregationalist  church  in  the  city  of  New  Orleans, 
Louisiana,  at  7:30  p.  m.,  February  17th,  1888.  An  inter- 
esting programme  has  been  arranged,  able  speakers  have 
been  secured,  and  three  sessions  will  be  held  daily,  clos- 
ing with  the  evening  of  Feb;  20th.  Seats  are  free  and 
the  public  are  most  cordially  invited  to  attend. 

Rev.  J.  S.  McCuLLOCH,  D.D.,  Prea. 

Key.  Lewis  Johnston,  Bec'y, 


N.    0.   A.    BOARD   MBETINQ. 


There  will  be  a  meeting  of  the  N.  C.  A.  Board  of  di- 
rectors at  No.  231  W.Madison  St.,  Chicago,  at  10  o'clock 
A.  M  ,  Saturday,  January  7th.  The  business  of  this  meet- 
ing is  highly  important  before  our  General  Agent  leaves 
for  New  Orleans,  and  it  is  desirable  that  there  should  be 
a  full  attendance.  L.  N.Stbatton,  Pres. 

PERSONAL  MENTION. 


— llev.  T.  V.  Kobb,  of  Linton,  Iowa,  is  enjoying 
much  improved  health,  and  is  doing  full  pastoral 
duty. 

— Dea.  11.  E.  Adams,  a  former  resident  of  Whea- 
ton, died  at  his  home  in  College  Springs,  Iowa,  last 
Friday.  He  was  a  good  man  and  faithful  in  his 
testimony  for  Christ  against  secretism. 

— Rev.  A.  W.  Parry,  agent  of  Evansville  Semin- 
ary, Wisconsin,  has  been  released  from  class-room 
duties  by  the  recovery  of  Prof.  Coleman,  principal 
of  the  seminary.  He  has  raised  already  $-1,500  for 
the  institution. 

— Miss  Eva  M.  Shoutz  returned  recently  to  her 
home  in  Centerville,  Iowa,  from  Chicago,  where  she 
was  under  treatment  for  sore  eyes.  She  hopes  soon 
to  be  able  to  engage  in  W.  C.  T.  U.  work,  in  which 
she  is  much  interested. 

— Bro.  M.  A.  Gault  has  been  giving  lectures  dur- 
ing the  last  two  months  in  southern  Iowa  under  the 
auspices  of  the  W.  C.  T.  U.  He  says  that  Mrs. 
Mary  S.  Littell,  of  Allenton,  Iowa,  president  of  the 
Eighth  District,  who  has  managed  his  campaigns,  is 
in  deep  sympathy  with  the  anti-secret  reform. 


A   WORD  FOR  NEW  ORLEANS. 

"Know  this,  also,  that  In  the  last  days  perilous  times  shall 
come."— 2  Tim.  .?:1. 

"Be  ye,  therefore,  ready,  also,  for  the  Son  of  man  cometh  at  an 
hour  when  ye  think  not  "—Luke  12:  40. 

There  are  in  the  United  States  two  religions,  the 
true  and  the  false.  There  are  two  governments,  a 
constitutional  republic  and  a  despotic  empire.  There 
are  two  forms  of  worship;  the  one  Divine,  the  other 
Satanic.  There  are  two  systems  of  jurisprudence; 
the  one  open  and  accessible  to  all,  the  other  secret 
and  limited  to  the  initiated.  There  are  two  objects 
of  worship;  the  "God  and  Father  of  our  Lord  Jesus 
Christ,"  and  "the  god  of  this  world."  There  are 
two  covenants;  one  unto  life,  the  other  "with  death 
and  an  agreement  with  hell."  There  are  two  classes 
of  people;  those  whose  sins  are  "covered  with  the 
blood  of  Christ,"  and  those  who  are  trusting  in  "ly- 
ing vanities." 

Many  believe  that  the  secret  lodge  system  is  a 
false  religion,  by  which  men  are  deceived  and  perish; 
that  it  is  a  despotism,  denying  personal  freedom 
and  private  judgment  to  its  members;  that  its  wor- 
ship, rejecting  Christ  and  his  atonement,  is  a  Satanic 
invention;  that  in  secret  and  exclusive  courts  it  de- 
feats justice  and  delays  the  progress  of  temperance 
and  other  greatly  needed  reforms;  that  the  lodge 
god  is  not  theJehovah  of  the  Old  or  the  Jesus  Christ 
of  the  New  Testament,  but  "the  spirit  that  now 
worketh  in  the  children  of  disobedience;"  that  "he 
as  God,  sitteth  in  the  temple  of  God,"  and  "whose 
coming  is  after  the  working  of  Satan,  with  all  power 
and  signs  and  lying  wonders,  and  all  deceivableness 
of  unrighteousness  in  them  that  perish." 

They  believe  that  the  covenant  exacting  secrecy, 
submission  and  support,  without  warrant  of  law,  Di- 
vine or  human,  is  an  engagement  with  hell  and  a 
league  with  the  devil;  that  those  who  are  ruled  by 
their  secret  covenant  cannot  be  disciples  of  Him 
who  "ever  spake  openly  to  the  world,"  or  safe  ad- 
ministrators of  law,  where  impartial  justice  is  the 
right  of  all  alike. 

And  we  further  believe  that  it  is  a  duty,  solemnly 
enjoined  upon  all  who  have  been  enlightened,  to  "let 
their  light  shine,"  and  to  "reprove,  rebuke,  and  ex 
hort  with  all  longsuffering,"  those  whose  eyes  are 
yet  blinded  by  "the  god  of  this  world;"  that  however 
silence  may  have  been  tolerated  through  ignorance, 
and  the  judgments  of  God  tempered  hitherto,  he 
now  "commands  men  everywhere  to  repent,"  and  to 
"bring  forth  fruits  meet  for  repentance,"  before  "the 
door  is  shut." 

Entertaining  these  views,  we  feel  constrained  to 
appeal  to  brethren  of  like  precious  faith  to  "be  not 
hearers  only,  but  doers,"  in  the  work  of  exposing, 
withstanding  and  seeking  the  removal  of  this  secret 
lodge  system: 

1.  By  accepting  Christ's  word:  "Every  plant  that 
my  Heavenly  Father  hath  not  planted  shall  be  root- 
ed up." 

2.  By  inquiring,  'Lord, what  wilt  thou  have  me  to 
do?" 

3.  By  your  public  testimony,  warning  others  and 
inducing  them  to  investigate. 

4.  By  associating  with  others  in  united  efforts  in 
your  church  or  in  the  community  where  you  live. 

5.  By  praying  for  the  cause,  and  for  those  who 
in  God's  providence  are  intrusted  with  its  general 
management. 

G.  By  contributing  of  your  substance  as  the  Lord 
has  prospered  you,  in  support  of  faithful  workers, 
and  the  distribution  of  literature  among  the  peo- 
ple. 

7.  By  attending,  if  you  can,  the  National  Conven- 
tion, Feb.  17,  1888,  at  New  Orleans,  and  securing 
the  appointment  of  as  many  delegates  as  practica- 
ble to  go  with  you. 

And  lastly,  "Be  of  good  courage."  We  are  on  the 
Lord's  side,  and  "they  that  be  with  us  are  more  [and 
mightier  farj  than  they  that  be  with  them." 

J.  P.  Stoddabd,  Secy.  N.  C.  A. 


OUR  SAN  FRANCISCO   LETTER. 


As  a  party  of  ladies  and  gentlemen  were  about 
to  be  conducted  through  the  interesting  departments 
of  the  San  Francisco  Mint,  the  conductor  paused 
and  said,  "You  are  now  on  the  threshold  of  the 
largest  mint  in  the  world."  A  gentleman  of  the 
party  remarked,  "It  wouldn't  be  in  California  if  it 
were  not  the  largest  in  the  world." 

This  humorous  allusion  to  the  common  boast  that 
California's  products  surpass  in  size  those  of  most  or 
all  other  parts  of  our  great  Union,  is  recalled  to  mind 
by  noting  the  strides  which  our  city  is  taking  in 
many  enterprises.  The  three  new  lines  of  cable- 
roads  now  being  constructed,  one  of  which  will 
reach  from  the  business  center,  five  miles  away,  to 
the  Cliff"  House,  where  hundreds,  not  unfrequently 


thousands,  of  people  throng  daily  to  watch  the  cu- 
rious sea-lions  on  the  rocky  islands  near  the  shore, 
or  the  still  more  interesting  and  always  grand  Old 
Ocean,  will  place  her,  at  least,  on  an  equality  with 
any  other  city  in  the  world,  for  convenient  ways  of 
inter-municipal  travel.  The  great  number  of  fine  busi- 
ness houses  and  residences  which  have  been  going  up 
for  a  year  or  more  help  us  to  believe  the  almost  fabu- 
lous account  of  the  number  of  Eastern  people  who  are 
coming  to  make  their  homes  in  this  fascinating 
country. 

The  kindergartens  for  the  children  of  the  poor 
have  progressed  wonderfully  in  the  last  five  y^ars. 
Between  twenty  and  thirty  of  these  free  kindergar- 
tens are  largely  attended,  some  of  the  children's  pa- 
rents paying  a  little  each  month;  but  many  receive 
all  the  privileges  freely.  Fourteen  of  these  nurse- 
ries, where  the  seeds  of  virtue  and  love  are  sown  in 
the  hearts  of  the  coming  men  and  women  of  the 
next  generation,  are  under  the  supervision  of  Mrs. 
Sarah  B.  Cooper,  whose  untiring  energy  and  Chris- 
tian gentleness  have  endeared  her  to  many  hearts. 
Eight  of  these  kindergartens  are  supported  by  the 
consecrated  wealth  of  Mrs.  Senator  Stanford.  What 
a  grand  work  these  noble  women  are  doing  for  our 
nation  in  saving  these  precious  little  ones,  and  lay- 
ing a  good  foundation  for  them  to  build  upon  when 
they  arrive  at  years  of  discretion!  And  what  a  re- 
ward must  await  them !  How  can  any  woman  spend 
her  time  tending  a  poodle  dog,  while  they  are  sur- 
rounded by  neglected  human  souls! 

The  PacificCoast  Conference  of  Charities  and  Cor- 
rections held  its  annual  meeting  in  Union  S(iuare 
Hall  of  this  city,  beginning  Tuesday  evening  Dec. 
13th,  1887,  and  closing  Friday  evening  the  16th. 
Mr.  Fred.  H.  Wines,  Secretary  of  the  Illinois  Board 
of  Public  Charities,  made  the  opening  address,  and 
was  tendered  a  reception  at  its  close  in  the  adjoin- 
ing parlors.  This  address,  as  well  as  his  remarks 
in  the  different  discussions,  was  highly  appreciated. 
All  denominations  joined  in  the  conference,  and 
some  Jewish  and  Catholic  gentlemen.  Interesting 
addresses  and  papers  were  presented  on  the  sub- 
jects of:  "Industrial  Education  of  Youth,"  "The 
Relation  of  Alcoholism  to  Charities  and  Correc- 
tions," "Suggestions  for  Improvements  in  the  Ad- 
ministration of  the  Criminal  Law,"  "The  Co-opera- 
tion of  City  Charities  in  the  Prevention  and  Cure 
of  Pauperism,"  and  others  equally  interesting. 
Governor  Waterman,  Mayor  Pond,  General  O.  O. 
Howard,  and  other  earnest  workers  took  part;  and 
we  hope  that  much  good  will  result  from  it. 

Christian  people  are  looking  anxiously  forward  to 
the  visit  of  D.  L.  Moody  to  this  coast  early  in  the 
new  year,  and  praying  that  God  may  prosper  his 
work,  and  pour  out  such  a  spiritual  blessing  as  this 
coast  has  never  yet  received.  'Tis  high  time  that 
Christians  here  awoke  out  of  sleep  and  worked  unit- 
edly to  save  this  fair  heritage  of  God  from  those 
who  are  trampling  his  honor  in  the  dust.  S. 


OUR  WASHINGTON  LETTER. 


Wasbinoton,  D.  C,  Dec.  2!),  1887. 

The  holiday  season  at  the  Presidential  mansion  is 
passing  in  an  unusually  quiet  manner.  The  death 
of  ex-Secretary  Manning  cast  a  shadow  over  Cabinet 
circles  as  well  as  the  White  House,  and  a  number  of 
receptions  were  omitted  through  respect  to  his 
memory. 

We .  have  had  no  Congress  this  week.  Some  of 
the  Senators  and  Representatives  went  home  to  cat 
their  turkeys,  but  I  notice  that  there  are  more  here 
now  than  ever  before  at  this  season.  This  is  because 
of  the  Inter-state  Commeice  law,  which  prevents 
the  issue  of  passes  to  Congressmen.  Statesmen  now 
travel  like  ordinary  men.  They  pay  for  their  sleepers 
and  not  a  few  of  them  travel  in  common  coaches. 
The  subject  recalls  Representative  Holman,  of  In- 
diana, whose  excessive  economy  in  legislation  has 
caused  him  to  be  called  the  "  watchdog"  of  the 
Treasury,  and  also  the  "  great  objector,"  because,  on 
the  floor  of  the  House  he  rises  to  "  object"  to  almost 
every  proposition  that  involves  an  inroad  upon  the 
national  money  vaults.  It  would  seem,  however, 
that  Mr.  Holman  is  pretty  consistent,  for  when  he 
visited  the  Indian  reservation  on  otlicial  business  a 
year  or  so  ago,  he  wanted  his  committee  to  take  the 
common  cars  in  order  to  save  sleeping  car  expenses. 

Probably  no  man  in  the  city  has  enjoyed  the 
season  more  than  Washington's  philanthropist,  Mr. 
W.  W.  Corcoran,  a  man  full  of  years  and  deeds.  lie 
has  just  entered  upon  his  ninetieth  year.  I^ast 
Tuesday  was  his  birth-day,  and  his  house  was  fra- 
grant with  the  flowers  that  had  been  sent  to  him. 
He  received  a  large  number  of  callers;  letters,  tele- 
grams and  cable  messages  from  all  quarters  came 
in  all  day,  making  his  parlors  (with  the  flowers, 
{Contintud  on  l~th  page.) 


10 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


January  5, 1888 


THE  Home. 


JANXJABT. 

A  new  year  smiling  comes.    It  seems  that  we 
But  yesterday  the  last  one  turned  to  g^eet. 

Swiftly  the  months  passed  by,  and  silently 
We  marked  It  fade,  and  felt  that  something  sweet 

Was  drifting  from  us ;  and  we  softly  sighed 

As  the  year,  lately  new,  grew  pale  and  died. 

O  January  1  first  of  this  new  year, 
What  scenes  are  hidden  in  thy  coming  hours? 

We  greet  thee  with  a  mingled  joy  and  fear. 
Knowing  thou  hast  for  us  both  thorns  and  flowers ; 

And  as  we  blindly  meet  each  new-born  day. 

We  ask  for  guidance  o'er  the  untried  way. 

Welcome,  New  Year  I    Faith  bids  each  heart  be  strong, 
For  God  will  order  all  that  comes  with  thee. 

To  him  we  leave  it,  glad  to  march  along, 
Feeling  that  what  is  best  alone  will  be ; 

And  as  we  onward  pass,  kind  wishes  fall, 

That  this  may  prove  a  happy  year  for  all. 

— Brooklyn  Maguxint. 


GHURCE  AMUSEMBNTS. 


The  church  has  gone  into  the  amusement  business 
largely.  In  the  days  of  primitive  simplicity,  it  was 
thought  that  the  world  and  Satan  had  a  monopoly 
in  that  line.  This,  however,  is  "an  age  of  progress," 
so-called,  and  the  church  has  entered  the  market, 
and  is  in  competition  with  these  great  caterers. 
The  discovery  has  been  made  that  the  church,  in  or- 
der to  hold  its  young  people  to  its  altars,  must  pro- 
vide for  the  natural  craving  for  amusements.  Tt 
used  to  be  held  that  Jesus  and  his  work  furnished 
ample  resources  to  meet  the  loftiest  aspirations  of  a 
saved  soul.    It  was  sung 

"Thou,  O  Christ,  art  all  I  want. 
More  than  all  in  thee  I  find." 

That  sort  of  sentiment  is  now  thought  not  to  be 
up  to  "the  times."  Sad  as  it  may  appear,  judging 
from  the  new  order  of  things,  Jesus  is  not  equal  to 
the  occasion.  A  little  amusement  must  be  thrown 
in.  In  order  to  keep  the  people  from  the  theatre 
and  opera,  our  churches  must  be  made  into  semi- 
theaters  and  semi-operas. 

The  holidays  furnish  occasion  for  the  ingenious 
and  progressive  sons  and  daughters  of  Zion  to  make 
full  proof  of  their  new  vocation.  They  prepare  dra- 
mas, farces  (very  farcical),  suppers,  fairs  and  enter- 
tainments of  every  sort.  They  are  spending  "their 
wretched  strength  for  naught."  So  far  from  pre- 
venting attendance  upon  a  full-grown  theater  and 
opera,  by  these  efforts  they  are  whetting  the  appetite 
of  the  people  therefor.  The  church-theater  is  a 
preparation  for  the  world-theater.  Satan  is  delighted 
with  these  inventions.  They  had  a  jubilee,  doubt- 
less, in  his  dark  realm,  when  some  silly  brain  in 
Zion  first  conceived  the  idea  that  we  must  fight  Sa- 
tan and  sin  by  a  slight  indulgence  in  their  world- 
approving  exercises.  We  might  well  paraphrase  one 
of  our  hymns  on  this  point,  substituting  Satan  for 
Jesus: 

"He  rests,  well  pleased  their  toll  to  see. 
Beneath  his  heavy  yoke  they  move." 

But  this  is  serious  business — dreadful  business.  It 
is  eating  out  the  life  of  the  church — it  is  destroying 
our  young  people,  rendering  them  unfit  for  all  true 
spiritual  exercises.  We  counsel  every  earnest  fol- 
lower of  Jesus  resolutely  to  discountenance  these 
church  amusements.  Be  kind,  but  firm.  Loyalty  to 
Jesus  demands  it.  Give  your  money,  liberally,  for 
every  laudable  church  object— but  stand  aloof,  pos- 
itively, evermore  from  the  unholy  festivals.-— G^i^e 
to  Holineii. 


PLBA8URB8    WEIGH  A    OHRIBTIAN   SHOULD 
FOREGO. 

1.  Those  as  to  the  propriety  of  which  he  is  in 
doubt.     Rom.  14:  23. 

2.  Those  in  which  he  cannot  indulge  without  dan- 
ger that  his  example  muy  lead  others  into  sin.  Rom 
14:  15;  1  Cor.  8:  9. 

3.  Even  those  in  which,  if  he  engage,  he  will 
grieve  weak  Christians,  who  disapprove  them;  much 
more  those  which  Christians  universally  condemn 
1  Cor.  8:  12,  13;  Rom.  14:  15;  Mark  9:  42. 

4.  Those  which  have  the  taint  of  sin  upon  them 
Jude  23. 

5.  Those  which,  if  indulged  in,  would  place  him 
in  a  false  position  (1  Thess.  5:  22;  2  Cor.  8:  21),  and 
seem  to  identify  him  in  taste  and  life  with  a  sinful 
world,  from  which  he  should  be  separate  2  Cor  6- 
14-17;  Rom.  12:  2. 

i\.  Those  which  might  gain  the  mastery  over  him, 
and  which  would  interfere  with  anything  of  more 
importance.     Kph.  5:  18:  1  Cor.  7:  31;  Phil.  4:  5. 

7.  Those  into  which  he  cannot  carry  his  religion 
without  incongruity  (1  Cor.  10:  31);  on  wiiich  be 


cannot  ask  God's  blessing  (Col.  3:  17);  in  which  he 
cannot  show  forth  the  shining  graces  of  a  Christian 
character,  to  the  honor  of  God  (Matt  5:  16);  and  in 
which  he  cannot  breathe  the  atmosphere  of  Christ's 
presence. — Selected. 

<  •  » 

G0N818TBNGT. 


One  of  the  commonest  mistakes  made  by  a  Chris- 
tian, who  has  a  measure  of  regard  for  his  reputation 
and  influence,  is  in  thinking  that  it  is  somewhat  safer 
for  him  to  relax  from  a  high  standard  in  moral 
practices  away  from  home  than  at  home.  There  are 
men  and  women  who  would  not  use  wine  on  their 
ovn  table  at  home,  or  in  the  circles  of  their  own 
community,  and  who  would  think  it  unwise,  if  not 
wrong,  for  tlem  to  attend  the  theater  or  opera  in 
the  city  where  they  live,  who  feel  free  to  use  wine 
on  an  ocean  steamer,  or  in  a  hotel  abroad — "where 
everybody  uses  it;"  and  who  venture  on  just  one 
evening  or  so  at  the  theater  in  London,  or  at  the 
opera  in  Paris,  or  in  Vienna,  "just  to  see  a  first-class 
actor  for  once,"  or  "just  to  hear  the  music,  and  to 
look  at  the  building,  you  know."  Now,  if  these 
persons  were  aware  how  sure  the  report  of  that  de- 
parture of  theirs  from  their  ordinary  practices  is  to 
be  in  free  circulation  in  their  church  and  in  their 
community  within,  say,  ten  days  of  their  return 
from  abroad  (if,  indeed,  it  has  not  reached  their 
home  before  them),  and  how  certain  it  is  to  lower 
their  reputation  for  consistency  and  sincerity  among 
those  whose  good  opinion  they  value,  they  would  be 
likely  to  come  to  the  conclusion  that,  if  wine-drink- 
ing and  going  to  the  theater  or  the  opera  are  com- 
mendable practices,  the  Christian  who  indulges  in 
them  would  do  better  to  be  open  in  that  indulgence 
at  home,  than  to  make  an  exception  in  their  favor 
away  from  home.  In  many  a  church,  there  are 
those  who  count  themselves  examples  of  Christian 
conduct  at  home,  who  suffer  even  in  their  best 
Christian  influence  all  through  the  winter  because 
of  the  reports  of  their  pursuing  a  different  course 
from  their  home  practice  while  abroad  during  the 
summer.  If  a  good  name  is  worth  retaining  at 
home,  it  must  not  be  risked  carelessly  away  from 
home. — S.  S.  Timet. 


THE  CONVERTED  INDIAN. 


"I  understand,"  said  John  Sunday,  the  converted 
Indian  chief,  to  a  congregation  which  he  was  called 
to  address  at  Plymouth  in  the  year  1837,  "that  many 
of  you  are  disappointed  because  I  have  not  brought 
my  Indian  dress  with  me.  Perhaps  if  I  had  it  on 
you  would  be  afraid  of  me.  Do  you  wish  to  know 
how  I  dressed  when  I  was  a  pagan  Indian?  I  will 
tell  you.  My  face  was  covered  with  red  paint.  I 
stuck  feathers  in  my  hair.  I  wore  a  blanket  and 
leggings.  I  had  silver  ornaments  on  my  breast,  a 
rifle  on  my  shoulder,  a  tomahawk  and  scalping  knife 
in  my  belt.  That  was  my  dress  then.  Now,  do  you 
wish  to  know  why  I  wear  it  no  longer?  You  will 
find  the  cause  in  the  second  Corinthians,  fifth  chap- 
ter, seventeenth  verse:  'Therefore,  if  any  man  be  in 
Christ,  he  is  a  new  creature;  old  things  are  done 
away;  behold,  all  things  are  become  new.'  When  I 
became  a  Christian,  feathers  and  paint  'done 
away.'  I  gave  my  silver  ornaments  to  the  mission 
cause.  Scalping  knife  'done  away.'  That  is  my 
tomahawk  now,"  said  he,  holding  up,  at  the  same 
time,  a  copy  of  the  Ten  Commandments,  in  the 
Ojibbewa  language.  "Blanket  done  away."  "Be- 
hold," he  exclaimed,  in  a  manner  in  which  simplic- 
ity and  dignity  of  character  were  combined,  "Be- 
hold, all  things  are  become  new." 

Would  that  professing  Christian  men,  with  their 
pipes,  and  cigars,  and  tobacco,  with  their  gross  ap- 
petites and  evil  habits,  with  their  business  tricks, 
lodge  oaths,  and  sharp  practices,  and  women  with 
their  fashions  and  feathers,  their  paint  and  their 
trinkets,  their  vanity  and  vexation  of  spirit,  would 
give  as  good  evidence  that  they  are  in  Christ,  and 
are  new  creatures  as  did  John  Sunday. 

PAUL 8  THORN. 


Paul's  "thorn  in  the  flesh"  is  conjectured  by  Dr. 
John  Brown  of  Edinburgh,  to  have  been  weak  eyes, 
and  he  advances  evidence  for  it.  The  first  indica- 
tion is  the  utter  blindness,  caused  by  lightning,  on 
his  way  to  Damascus,  which  lasted  some  days,  and 
was  only  relieved  by  the  aid  of  Ananias,  "when 
there  fell  from  his  eyes  as  it  had  been  scales."  The 
second  was  the  blunder  of  Paul's  not  recognizing 
the  high  priest,  in  Acts  23,  when  he  says,  "I  wist 
not  that  it  was  the  high  priest,"  though  his  dress 
was  so  distinctive.  Third,  his  letter  to  the  Gala- 
tians,  "I  bear  you  record  that  you  would  have 
plucked  out  your  own  eyes  and  given  them  unto 
me,"  immediately  after  the  declaration  that  he  had 


preached  the  Gospel  unto  them  through  infirmity  of 
the  flesh.  Then  he  states  that  he  bears  in  his  body 
the  mark  of  the  Lord  Jesus,  which  would  suit  ad- 
mirably to  the  disabling  effect  of  his  conversion, 
when  Jesus  addressed  him  a  personal  remonstrance. 
Were  his  eyesight  suffering,  this  would  remind  him 
perpetually  of  the  day  when  he  was  struck  down  on 
his  persecuting  career  by  blindness.  Lastly,  he 
calls  the  Galatian  church  to  see  how  large  a  letter 
he  had  written  with  his  own  hand;  yet  the  epistle 
was  one  of  his  shortest;  and  it  could  only  have  sur- 
prised them  by  being  his  own  handwriting — not  by 
its  size — he  being  the  only  Apostle  whose  impaired 
vision  obliged  him  to  employ  an  amanuensis. — J.r- 

mory. 

^  •  » 

MT  LITTLE  FOOT-BRIDGES. 

One  Sunday  I  was  talking  to  the  Swedes  on  the 
North  Side  in  Chicago,  trying  to  help  them  to  see 
the  simplicity  of  faith.  It  came  to  me  to  compare 
the  obstacles  in  the  way  of  one  who  is  beginning  to 
trust  for  full  salvation,  to  the  chasms  with  which 
those  foreigners  were  familiar  in  their  old  mountain 
home,  so  deep  and  wide  that  they  could  not  get  over 
nor  around  nor  through  them,though  they  were  per- 
ishing for  the  food  that  lay  in  abundance  on  the  far 
side. 

I  have  a  little  foot-bridge  that  I  swing  across  the 
chasms  in  Christian  experience,  t-h-a-t,  meaning  an 
exponent  of  the  Divine  intention.  I  like  to  think 
of  it  as  a  little  bridge  over  which  simple  souls  may 
pass  to  assured  rest. 

If  I  will,  I  can  honestly  choose  that  God's  will  be 
done  in  everything  that  concerns  me.  No  matter 
about  my  feelings,  I  may  be  exceedingly  sorrowful, 
as  my  Master  in  Gethsemane,  or  I  may  say,  "Thy 
will  be  done,"  with  a  song  instead  of  a  sob.  I  say 
it  and  I  mean  it,  but,  how  do  I  know  that  I  do  sur 
render  all  to  him?  Ah,  I  have  come  to  my  first 
great  chasm.  Now  for  the  bridge.  Who  created 
in  me  this  great  wish  to  be  wholly  the  Lord's?  The 
Holy  Spirit.  Why  did  he  stir  me  to  such  earnest- 
ness in  this  matter?  That  he  may  help  me.  Then 
he  surely  helps  me,  and  with  his  infinite  aid  I  am 
wholly  given  to  the  Lord. 

But  I  come  to  another  chasm.  How  do  I  know 
that  the  Lord  receives  me?  Why  did  he  help  me 
to  come?  That  he  might  receive  me.  Then  I  am 
received,  thank  God!  But  how  can  I  be  sure  that 
he  cleanses  me  from  all  sin?  Why  did  he  receive 
me?     That  he  might  cleanse  me. 

"Then,  having  gone  so  far  by  faith,  you  mean  to 
depend  on  your  feelings  the  rest  of  the  way.  Why 
does  he  cleanse  you  from  sin?  Does  he  mean  that 
your  heart  shall  stand  empty,  like  a  newly  washed 
cup,  while  you  have  to  work  all  the  time  to  keep  out 
of  it  the  worldliness  and  sin  that  are  ready  to  flow 
back  into  it?"  I  see:  he  cleanses  that  he  may  fill 
me.  I  take  it  as  I  did  the  rest,  by  faith  in  his 
promises  and  in  himself. 

And  now  you  see  the  chain  of  bridges.  He  stirs 
me  to  come,  that  he  may  help  me  to  surrender  com- 
pletely. He  helps  me  to  surrender,  that  he  may  re- 
ceive me.  He  receives  me,  that  he  may  cleanse  me. 
He  cleanses,  that  he  may  fill  me.  And  you  may  go 
on:  he  fills  me,  that  he  may  use  me.  He  uses  me, 
that  he  may  glorify  himself. —  Times  of  Refreshing. 


TWO  LITTLE  HOME  MISSIONARIES. 


Down  town  in  the  church  parlors  the  mothers  and 
elder  sisters  were  as  busy  as  bees  packing  the  annu- 
al box  to  be  sent  to  the  home  missionary  in  Iowa. 
Up  town  in  the  white  house  on  the  hill,  two  little 
daughters,  Agnes  and  Anna,  had  a  bright  idea. 
They  thought  they  would  be  home  missionaries 
themselves,  and  their  little  tongues  went  so  fast  that 
the  gray  cat  on  the  rug  looked  up  blinking  and  won- 
dering, the  dog  shook  his  head  sagely,  and  Nurse 
Margaret,  passing  through  the  room,  repeated  quite 
unnoticed  her  favorite  bit  of  wisdom,  "Children 
should  be  seen  and  not  heard." 

When  Mrs.  Raeburn  came  home  from  the  meeting, 
Anna  flew  to  her,  with  eyes  and  lips  and  hands  all 
pleading  at  once. 

"Mamma,  Agnes  Clark  and  I  have  such  a  bright 
idea.  We  want  you  to  let  us  have  as  many  pretty 
pieces  as  you  can  spare,  silk,  worsted,  calico,  what- 
ever you  do  not  want  yourself.  We  intend  to  make 
lots  and  lots  of  beautiful  things  and  sell  them,  and 
send  the  money  to  the  missionaries,  just  we  two." 

"Isn't  that  a  large  enterprise  for  two  little  heads 
and  four  little  hands?"  said  Mrs.  Raeburn,  folding 
up  her  veil  and  smoothing  out  her  gloves.  "Do  you 
think  you  will  both  persevere?  Because  this  mam- 
ma does  not  like  her  little  girl  to  begin  anything 
which  she  does  not  finish." 

"Neither  does  my  mamma,"  said  Agnes  quickly. 

"Well,  you  may  have  my  piece  bag,  and  perhaps 


January  5,  1888 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURIS. 


11 


Cousin  Dora  will  give  you  some  good  advice,"  said 
Mrs.  Raeburn,  tying  on  her  kitchen  apron  and  going 
out  to  make  some  biscuits  for  tea. 

Just  then  old  black  Betty,  carrying  home  a  great 
basket  of  freshly  laundered  clothes,went  slowly  past 
the  door.  Betty  was  a  good  laundress  and  very  in- 
dustrious, but  she  had  three  grandchildren  to  care 
for,  and  the  little  girls  noticed  that  the  wind  blew 
right  through  her  poor,  thin  shawl,  that  her  shoes 
were  out  at  the  toes,  and  that  she  walked  feebly,  as 
if  she  were  tired. 
"Anna!"  said  Agnes. 
"Agnes!"  exclaimed  Anna. 

"Let's  help  old  Betty!"  said  both  at  once.  They 
retired  to  the  depths  of  the  sofa  in  the  corner,  and 
talked  again  with  so  much  animation  that  the  pet 
dog  shook  his  head,  and  the  cat  purred  approving- 
ly, while  the  nurse,  once  more  passing  through,  re- 
minded Miss  Anna  that  the  baby  was  asleep. 

For  the  next'four  weeks  the  two  girls  hurried  home 
from  school  every  day,  studied  their  lessons  and 
wrote  their  exercises  first,  and  were  then  very  much 
occupied  with  their  needles  from  after  tea  until  bed- 
time. Cousin  Dora  said  they  might  work  in  her 
room,  and  every  evening  two  golden  heads  might 
have  been  seen  bending  over  rainbow-tinted  silks, 
while  fleecy  rills  of  wool  went  flowing  over  dimpled 
hands  in  the  shade  of  Cousin  Dora's  lamp.  The 
path  between  the  homes  of  the  Raeburns  and  Clarks 
was  very  short,  and  Ted  Haeburn  was  quite  used  to 
escorting  Agnes  home  when  the  clock  struck   nine. 

The  result  of  their  industry  was  pronounced  very 
creditable  when  at  length  all  their  handiwork  was 
spread  out  on  Dora's  bed  for  the  admiring  mothers 
to  see. 

There  were  the  gayest  little  pin  cushions,  round 
and  heart-shaped;  there  were  a  "cunning"  case  for 
court-plaster,  a  tidy,  a  mouchoir  case,  a  bag,  a  doll's 
gown  and  apron,  and  a  pretty  little  wall  pocket, 
all  evolved  from  odds  and  ends.  A  pair  of  bedroom 
slippers,  a  pair  of  baby's  shoes  and  a  tippet,  testi- 
fied to  the  good  use  which  had  been  made  of  the 
wool  and  the  knitting  needles.  When  the  mothers 
had  looked  and  praised  and  admired,  they  set  their 
wits  to  work,  mother-like,  to  help  along.  And  so  it 
came  to  pass  that  when,  a  few  days  later,  little  rose- 
colored  invitations  flew  about  the  town,  bidding 
friends  and  neighbors  to  a  Little  Maidens'  Fair  at 
the  home  of  Anna  Kaeburn,  the  table  in  the  parlor 
was  quite  a  wonderful  sight,  while  in  the  dining 
room  were  cake  and  lemonade,  and  by  the  door  was 
a  great  pyramid  of  button-hole^bouquets,  which  grew 
beautifully  Iess,and  found  ready  buyers  at  five  cents 
apiece. 

"My  daughters,"  said  the  dear  old  pastor,  "you 
have  done  admirably." 

Anna  and  Agnes  thought  so  too,  when,  the  visit- 
ors having  gone,  they  counted  their  money,  and  what 
with  silver  dimes  and  nickels,  pennies  and  occasion- 
al quarter  and  half  dollars,  the  amount  footed  up  to 
no  less  sum  than  twelve  dollars  and  fifty  cents. 

What  does  Aunt  Betty  need?  was  now  the  ques- 
tion. The  answer  was  not  far  to  seek.  The  chil- 
dren's idea  was  to  slip  the  pocket  book  containing 
the  money  under  her  door  in  the  dusk  and  then  re- 
treat, leaving  her  to  think  that  an  angel  had  sent  the 
benefaction.  But  to  this  the  sensible  mothers  ob- 
jected that  Betty  would  certainly  spend  every  penny 
lor  her  grandchildren,  and  that  her  own  personal 
comfort  would  not  be  increased  at  all. 

It  ended  in  a  happy  journey  of  two  girls  and  two 
mothers  to  the  principal  stores, where  the  merchants, 
understanding  how  this  money  had  been  earned,gave 
the  children  as  good  a  discount  as  they  could  possi- 
bly afford.     The  purchases  were  as  follows: 

One  pair  of  thick,soft  blankets,warranted  to  keep 
out  the  cold. 

One  pair  of  thick,  stout  shoes,  warranted  to  keep 
out  the  wet. 

One  ton  of  coal.warranted  to  burn  freely  and  well 
and  keep  Aunt  Betty's  house  warm  and  comfortable. 

One  basket  of  potatoes,  warranted  to  taste  delic- 
ious, whether  boiled  or  baked. 

Oh,  how  happy  Anna  and  Agnes  were  when  all 
these  things  were  sent  nome.  As  often  as  they  saw 
Aunt  Betty  with  her  stout  shoes  on  her  poor,  old 
feet,  they  felt  a  deeper  interest  in  her  than  ever  be- 
fore, and  whenever  the  wind  whistled  with  great 
shrillness  at  night,  as  they  cuddled  up  in  their  own 
cosey  beds,  they  were  glad  at  the  thought  of  Betty's 
blankets. 

It  is  more  blessed  to  give  than  to  receive.  Every 
single  word  of  this  little  story  is  true,  and  this  win- 
ter old  Betty,  trudging  back  and  forth  with  her  bas- 
ket, will  not  3ufl!er  for  the  lack  of  a  good  shawl  or  a 
IBannel  skirt,as  she  did  a  year  ago.  Kind  deeds  are 
like  seed  sown  in  the  ground,  sure  to  multiply,  and 
other  people,  who  knew  what  the  girls  did,  will  look 
out  for  the  interests  of  Betty  and  others  equally  in 
want.— >SW. 


Temfeeance. 


THB  SALOON  AND    THB   SVPRBME    COURT. 


The  Saloon  reels  under  the  terrific  blow  dealt  by 
the  Supreme  Court  of  the  United  States  in  the  Kan- 
sas cases.  It  reels  to  and  fro  and  staggers  like  a 
drunken  man,  and  is  at  its  wit's  end.  Its  swagger 
is  for  the  moment  gone.  Its  loud,  boastful  tones 
have  fallen  into  a  hoarse  whisper,  and  its  imperti- 
nent challenge  to  the  American  people  has  lost  its 
defiant  ring.  The  power  and  majesty  of  Law  which 
it  has  so  often  scorned,  inspire  it  with  an  awe  it 
never  felt  before.  It  has  made  its  final  appeal  and 
has  found  that  there  is  no  way  of  escape  for  it  from 
the  mighty  grip  of  Law.  Any  State  may  now  de- 
clare it  a  nuisance  and  proceed  to  abate  it,  and  it 
has  no  remedy  except  in  rebellion.  Every  phase  of 
the  Saloon — the  brewery,  the  distillery,  the  grog- 
gery,  is  subject  to  the  exercise  of  this  sovereign 
power;  and  the  manufacture  and  the  wholesale  and 
the  retail  of  intoxicants  may  be  as  rigorously  sup- 
pressed as  any  other  form  of  nuisance  deemed  det- 
rimental to  health  or  morals. 

The  decision  of  the  Supreme  Court  declares  that 
compensation  for  damage  to  property  cannot  be  ex- 
acted from  the  State  when  the  manufacture  and  sale 
of  intoxicants  are  prohibited.  This  is  the  great 
point  decided.  Every  man,  henceforth,  who  enters 
into,  or  continues  in,  the  business  of  making  or  sell- 
ing intoxicants  in  any  State,does  so  at  his  own  risk. 
His  business  may  at  any  time,  either  by  legislative 
enactment  or  constitutional  provision,  be  declared  a 
nuisance  and  be  suppressed  as  in  Kansas,or  be  pro- 
hibited as  in  Maine  and  other  States.  It  is  in  effect 
a  notice  to  every  brewer  and  distiller  and  dealer 
that  he  must  be  prepared  to  give  up  this  business 
whenever  his  State  commands  him  to.  Formal  ac- 
tion by  the  popular  voice  or  by  legislative  process 
outlaws  his  business,  and  turns  the  criminal  ma- 
chinery of  the  State  against  him.  The  moral  force 
of  this  fact  is  irresistible.  It  will  crush  the  Saloon 
as  slavery  was  crushed.  The  supreme  interpreter 
of  our  Supreme  Law  has  given  us  this  mighty  weap- 
on of  warfare.     Let  us  wield  it  with  all  our  power. 

The  contest  is  narrowed  down  and  simplified  by 
this  decision.  The  Saloon,  with  its  whole  business 
is,  in  effect,  delivered  into  the  hands  of  the  people. 
The  people  may  do  what  they  will  with  it.  They 
may  support  it  or  they  may  tolerate  it;  they  may 
cripple  it  or  they  may  destroy  it.  Their  right  to 
deal  with  it  is  henceforth  unquestioned. 

The  lessons  for  temperance  men  are  these:  1st. 
Be  of  good  cheer.  Let  this  victory  inspire  you  with 
larger  hope  and  with  greater  courage.  Make  the 
most  of  it,  both  for  the  help  of  your  own  cause  and 
the  hindrance  of  that  of  the  Saloon.  2d.  Do  all 
that  is  possible  to  educate  and  strengthen  public 
sentiment  against  the  Saloon.  This  extremely  im- 
portant work  may  be  pushed  by  manifold  processes. 
3d.  Combine  wherever  you  can  and  as  far  as  you 
can  for  the  good  of  the  cause.  Combine  to  cripple 
as  well  as  to  destroy;  combine  in  ward  and  village 
and  town,  as  well  as  in  county  and  State.  Combine 
in  legal  action,  in  legislative  effort,  in  political  en- 
deavor, in  social  work,  and  in  religious  and  other 
organized  movements  intended  to  restrict  and  save 
from  the  curse.  4th.  Do  not  drive  those  who  do 
not  agree  with  you  in  methods  into  the  ranks  of  the 
enemy.  There  are  some  phases  of  the  conflict  in 
which  they  can  be  used.  Make  them  allies  in  the 
educational  work,  if  they  can  go  no  further;  in  the 
effort  to  rescue  and  reform,  if  they  will  not  oppose 
license.  6th.  Shut  up  a  saloon  wherever  you  can. 
Bring  every  provision  of  existing  laws  to  bear 
against  the  business,  and  by  using  all  influences,  all 
methods,  all  advantages,  yo«  will  steadily  gain  on 
the  enemy  and  in  the  end  rout  and  overcome  him. 

The  victory  is  with  us;  for  the  Supreme  Being 
and  the  Supreme  Court  are  on  our  side,  and  against 
the  Saloon,  and  from  these  it  has  no  appeal. — Inde- 

ptndent. 

m  *  m 

PROHIBITION  AND  CIVIL  RIQHT8. 

The  curse  of  Almighty  God  will  rest  on  those 
who  are  resix)n8ible  for  sending  rum  from  this  coun- 
try to  Africa.  Well  informed  persons  regard  it  a 
greater  evil  than  the  slave  trade. — Christian  Witnets. 

What  does  the  rumseller  care  about  the  curse  of 
God?  Is  he  not  one  of  that  class  of  fools  that  say 
"There  is  no  God?"  What  does  he  care  for  Africa? 
The  "almighty  dollar"  is  much  more  to  him  than  the 
Almighty  God. 

But  is  the  rumseller  alone  guilty?  Is  not  the 
government  (the  people  whom  the  government  rep- 
resents) partictpt  crimini*  /  Prohibitionists  are  cer- 
tainly on  the  right  track.  To  demand  the  earnest 
support  of  every  upright  and  thoughtful  colored 
citizen,  that  party  has  only  to  include  the  civil  rights 


of  the  colored  citizen  with  prohibition  as  the  prin- 
pal  end  of  its  being.  The  first  duty  of  every 
man  is  to  see  that  his  life,  liberty  and  other  rights 
common  to  the  body  politic  are  secure.  Then  he 
can  cheerfully  unite  in  party  measures  for  the  gen- 
eral good  of  the  commonwealth. — Baptist  Monitor 

{colored). 

•  ^  ■  » 

WIFB-P0I80N1NQ. 


Not  long  since  I  was  walking  in  the  city  with  a 
celebrated  physician.  As  we  passed  a  house  sur- 
rounded with  every  evidence  of  wealth  and  refine- 
ment, he  spoke:  "I  have  a  patient  in  there,  an  idol- 
ized wife,  who  is  dying,  and  beyond  all  help,  and 
none  of  them  know  what  is  the  matter  with  her,  and 
still  her  husband  has  killed  her." 

"Why,  doctor,"  says  I,  "what  do  you  mean?" 

"I  mean  just  this,  her  husband  is  just  literally 
steeped  in  tobacco  until  the  insensible  perspiration 
from  his  body  has  become  a  deadly  poison,  and  his 
wife  has  absorbed  enough  of  this,  and  had  before  I 
was  called  in,  so  that  she  will  die." 

At  an  establishment  where  they  treat  patients 
for  the  cure  of  the  tobacco  habit,  a  man  just  brought 
in  was  washed  as  clean  as  soap  and  water  could 
make  him,  and  then  some  flies  were  allowed  to  alight 
on  him.  In  five  minutes  by  the  watch  they  were 
dead.  There  was  poison  enough  in  the  perspiration 
that  came  out  of  a  man, washed  as  clean  as  possible, 
to  kill  them.  You  can  imagine  what  it  would  be 
when  he  wasn't  washed,  perhaps,  to  spend  hours 
each  day  in  a  warm  bed  with  him. —  T,  B.  Terry,  in 
Albany  Argiis. 

A  TEMPERANCE  MARTYR. 


Washington  has  added  another  to  the  catalogue 
of  martyrs  in  the  cause  of  temperance.  Capt  S.  S. 
Blackford,  a  one-armed  union  soldier,  who  for  many 
years  was  captain  of  the  capitol  police,  has  been  for 
several  years  engaged  in  fighting  the  saloons  in  the 
District  of  Columbia.  He  commenced  his  work 
when  his  oldest  son  was  murdered  in  a  saloon  while 
under  the  influence  of  liquor,  and  has  kept  it  up  in- 
cessantly until  he  died  to- day  with  his  armor  on. 
It  is  the  practice  in  the  District  of  Columbia  to  re- 
fuse a  license  to  a  saloon  unless  a  majority  of  the 
property-owners  on  both  sides  of  the  street  for  four 
blocks  sign  a  petition  for  such  license.  A  saloon- 
keeper, whose  case  was  considered  to  day,  got  a  ma- 
jority of  one;  and  Capt.  Blackford,  who  protested 
against  granting  the  license,  said  that  if  the  com- 
missioners would  give  him  a  little  time  he  would 
persuade  some  of  those  who  had  signed  the  petition 
to  reconsider  and  keep  the  saloon  off  the  street. 
The  commissioners  gave  him  until  11  o'clock  this 
morning  to  accomplish  this.  At  11:10  they  granted 
the  license  to  the  saloon-keeper.  Half  an  hour  after 
this  act  was  done,  the  news  came  to  the  district 
office  that  Capt.  Blackford  had  fallen  dead  upon  the 
street.  In  his  pocket  was  an  affidavit  from  one  of 
the  property-holders  setting  forth  that  he  had  signed 
the  petition  for  the  saloon  under  a  misapprehension, 
and  desired  his  name  to  be  stricken  off.  In  order 
to  reach  the  office  of  the  district  commissioner  be- 
fore 11  o'clock  Capt.  Blackford  ran  nearly  a  mile, 
burst  a  blood  vessel,  and  fell  dead  in  the  street. 
The  commissioners  have  no  power  to  revoke  a 
license  except  upon  complaint  of  the  police  that  the 
saloon  for  which  it  is  granted  is  a  disorderly  place, 
but  they  will  refer  this  matter  to  their  attorney  and 
see  what  can  be  done  about  it. — Daily  News. 


The  Prohibitionists  of  Illinois  will  hold  their  next 
convention  at  Springfield,  May  10,  1888. 

Senator  Blair's  new  book  is  being  printed  and 
will  be  ready  for  publication  on  Jan.  1,  1888.  The 
name  is  "The  Conflict  Between  Man  and  Alcohol." 

Enforcement  of  the  prohibitory  law  is  steadily 
going  forward  in  Rhode  Island.  No  policeman  is 
allowed  to  wear  a  uniform  in  Pawtucket  unless  he 
is  willing  to  do  his  duty  in  this  all-important  ques- 
tion. 

The  London  Temi^erance  Hospital  has  been  estab- 
lished fourteen  years.  In  that  time  alcoholic  stim- 
ulants have  been  resorted  to  in  not  more  than  five 
cases,  and  in  those  instances  the  results  have  proved 
no  more  successful  than  where  remedies  ordinarily 
used  in  the  hospital  were  employed.  Up  to  the 
present  time  over  30,000  patients  have  been  under 
treatment,  more  than  12,000  of  whom  were  to  a 
greater  or  less  degree  addictetl  to  drink.  Many  of 
these,  seeing  the  gootl  effect  of  the  treatment,  have 
become  total  abstainers.  The  rate  of  mortality  has 
been  only  [;  per  cent.  In  fatal  cases  there  were 
fully  one-fifth  more  deaths  among  non-abstainers 
than  amongst  teetotalers.  In  no  case  has  Dr.  Ed- 
munds, the  senior  physician,  prescribed  alcohol. 


12 


January  5,  1888 


WASHINGTON  LETTER  ( Continued  from  9th  page). 

cards  and  dainty  souvenirs  of  the  event)  an  interest- 
ing scene.  Mr.  Corcoran,  in  looking  back  through 
the  long  vista  of  his  eighty-nine  years,  remarked  one 
day  that  he  had  shaken  the  hand  of  every  Ameri- 
can President  except  Washington,  who  died,  said 
he,  "  before  I  began  to  run  about  the  "White  House." 
But  he  had  evidently  forgotten  the  exception  in  the 
case  of  President  Lincoln.  Mr.  Corcoran  was  not  on 
sufficiently  good  terms  with  him  or  with  his  Admin- 
istration to  have  shaken  hands  with  the  War  Presi- 
dent. Mr.Corcoran,unhappily,wa3  at  that  time  ?owarm 
a  sympathizer  with  the  South  that  he  found  it  neces- 
sary to  leave  Washington  for  a  time.  But  his  liberal 
acts  of  recent  years  at  least  are  well  known.  He 
has  given  about  $3,000,000  in  charity,  and  he  has 
probably  $8,000,000  left.  He  lives  in  the  house 
which  was  occupied  bj  Daniel  Webster  when  the 
latter  was  Secretary  of  State,  The  venerable  histor- 
ian, George  Bancroft,  is  one  of  his  nearest 
neighbors  and  most  intimate  friends. 


RELIGIOUS  NEWS, 


— Bro.  B.  M.  Sharp,  as  the  new  pastor  of  the 
Reformed  Presbyterian  church  at  Blanchard,  Iowa, 
is  doing  good  work  and  growing  in  the  estimation 
of  the  people. 

— Prof.  J.  K.  McClurkin,  who  was  elected  to  Dr. 
Sloane's  place  in  the  Reformed  Presbyterian  Semi- 
nary, in  Allegheny  City,  is  said  to  be  a  natural  born 
teacher,  and  is  quite  popular  with  the  students. 

— Mr.  George  Muller,  of  Bristol,  England,  is  now 
engaged  upon  his  fifteenth  evangelical  tour,  recently 
commencing  his  labors  in  New  Zealand. 

— Ben  Hogan  and  Lieutenant  Tom  Lauery  closed 
their  revival  work  in  Indianapolis  just  before  the 
holidays.  Their  work  was  deep  and  lasting.  They 
made  hundreds  of  converts  and  many  friends. 

— The  religious  movement  in  colleges,  inaugurat- 
ed by  Prof.  Drummond,  is  taking  definite  and  prac- 
tical shape.  A  large  meeting  of  Yale  students  was 
held  December  9,  at  which  addresses  were  made  by 
the  leaders  of  the  New  York  City  Students'  Move- 
ment. A  number  of  the  students  of  Harvard  Uni- 
versity have  also  inaugurated  a  similar  movement, 
and  have  appointed  a  series  of  meetings  which  are 
to  be  conducted  by  leading  pastors  and  to  be  fol- 
lowed by  personal  effort. 

— The  Baptists  of  Canada  have  agreed  to  accept 
Mr.  McMasters's  bequest  of  three-quarters  of  a 
million  of  dollars,  on  the  testator's  terms.  The 
money  is  to  be  used  in  founding  a  university.  With 
a  view  to  this  end  a  charter  has  been  granted  by 
the  Ootario  Legislature  for  the  union  of  the  Toron- 
to and  Woodstock  Colleges.  Whether  the  new  uni- 
versity shall  be  located  at  Woodstock  or  in  Toronto 
is  to  be  determined  at  a  special  session  of  the  Board 
of  Home  Missions. 

— J.  C.  Waller,  his  wife  and  two  children,  who 
went  from  Burlington,  Vt.,  to  the  Congo  country  to 
take  part  in  Bishop  Taylor's  mission  work,  have 
returned  to  New  York.  Mr.  Waller  is  a  badly  dis- 
appointed man,  and  his  report  is  as  gloomy  as  his 
mind.  He  describes  the  enterprise  as  a  complete 
failure,  and  thinks  he  was  lucky  to  escape  alive. 
The  supplies  were  inadequate.  The  steamer,  which 
cost  so  much  money,  is  lying  a  wreck  on  the  banks 
of  the  river.  Mr.  Waller  hopes  that  the  missionary 
societies  which  furnished  the  funds  for  the  expedi- 
tion will  investigate  the  truth  of  his  statements, 

—The  Norwegian  Synods  of  America  held  their 
fourth  general  missionary  meeting,  beginning  on  Oc- 
tober 25th,  in  the  Indian  Mission  House  at  Witten- 
berg, Wis.  The  president.  Pastor  Rasmusen,  was 
re-elected,  and  the  meeting  was  well  attended. 
Among  those  present  may  be  mentioned  Missionary 
Walen,  from  Madagascar,  who  has  been  sent  by  the 
Norwegian  Mission  Society  to  visit  the  Norwegian 
congregations  in  the  United  States  to  arouse  among 
this  people  a  deeper  interest  in  foreign  missions, 
and  to  collect  money  for  this  important  field,  A 
number  of  services  were  held,  both  in  Norwegian 
and  in  English.  The  Indian  boys,  under  Pastor 
Lartraus's  direction,  sang  a  number  of  Psalms  and 
recited  the  catechism.  Two  Indian  children— a  boy 
of  seven  and  a  girl  of  five— were  baptized.  These 
two  children  are  the  first  fruits  of  the  Norwegian 
Lutheran  Mission  among  the  Indians,  and  this  was 
the  first  baptism. — Lutheran. 


THE  BVAN0BLI8T  BELL  IN  CALIFORNIA. 

San  Jose,  Cal.,  Dec.  19,  1887. 

Editor  Cynosure:— Chicago  has  once  more  sent 

to  our  coast  a  servant  of  the  great  King,  to  invite 

our  people  to  the  Gospel  least,      Bro.  A.  J,  Bell  of 

your  city  arrived  here  on  Saturday,the  10th  inst.,and 


commenced  a  series  of  revival  services  in  the  First 
M,  E.  church  on  Sabbath  evening  following.  His 
coming  was  announced  several  weeks  in  advance 
of  his  arrival  and  our  pastor.  Rev.  F.  F.  Jewell,  D. 
D.,  had  prepared  the  way  for  a  rich  harvest.  The 
church  was  in  good  condition,  and  as  a  result  of  the 
work  of  the  past  week  about  eighty  have  united  with 
the  church,  of  whom  about  sixty-five  are  new  con- 
verts. Bro.  Bell  is  much  beloved  by  all  who  know 
him.  The  meetings  here  will  continue  indefinitely. 
Bro.  Bell's  address  while  on  the  coast  is  Santa  Bar- 
bara, Cal.  L.  R.   R. 


TBB  008PBL  IN  ARMENIA  . 


Bro.  G.  H.  Gregorian,  a  native  Armenian  who 
studied  in  this  country  at  Wheaton  and  Union  Park 
Theological  Seminary,  Chicago,  begins  his  ocean 
voyage  this  week  for  Constantinople  and  Yozgat  in 
Asia  Minor,  expecting  to  devote  his  life  to  the  Gos- 
pel work  among  his  own  people.  From  Great  Bar- 
rington,  Mass.,  he  sends  to  the  Cynosure  the  trans- 
lation of  an  interesting  letter  from  a  fellow  worker 
in  Armenia: 

"Coming  to  the  work  of  our  society,"  says  the 
writer,  "I  wrote  you  before  about  the  progress  of  the 
work  at  Everek,  and  told  you  of  my  visit  there  a 
year  and  a  half  ago,  when  I  helped  Mr.  Sarkis  Mel- 
ekian,  a  young  man,  to  be  ordained  a  priest,  that  he 
may  preach  plain  Gospel  under  the  cover  of  priest- 
ly gown.  I  succeeded,  though  it  cost  the  young  man 
a  great  deal  of  trial;  for  they  said,  'He  speaks  the 
words  of  Avedis,'  etc.  Finally  he  was  ordained,and 
began  to  preach  the  Gospel  in  the  church.  They  op- 
posed him,  and  commanded  him  to  desist.  When 
they  forbade  Mr.  Melekian  they  thought  the  matter 
was  ended,  but  it  did  not;  on  the  contrary,  the  work 
spread  more  than  ever, 

"I  think  I  wrote  you  before  about  the  Gospel 
preaching  at  five  different  families.  The  people  who 
gathered  in  these  five  houses  uniting  together  form 
a  congregation  of  several  hundred,  who  went  to  the 
church  one  Sabbath  noon,  opened  it,  and  began  to 
have  their  Gospel  study  in  the  very  church.  The 
rulers  and  priests  tried  to  prevent  them,  but  with 
no  effect.  And  now  every  Sabbath  noon  the  Word 
of  God  is  preached  to  the  people  in  their  own  lan- 
guage and  in  their  own  church.  Oh,  how  bless- 
ed to  hear!  .  .  .  We  have  not  yet  succeeded  in 
entering  the  church  at  Csesarea,  but  also  hope  to  en- 
ter and  together  with  the  great  congregation  to  read 
the  Word  of  God  and  preach. 

"These  days  there  is  not  a  little  movement  in  this 
city.  A  party  was  gathered  to  remove  the  pictures 
from  the  church  called  "Medz  Djam"(Cathedral),and 
they  removed  many  pictures  from  the  church.  The 
other  party  tried  to  put  them  back  again,  but  met 
with  no  success.  Finally,  they  settled  the  quarrel 
by  hanging  a  few  pictures  of  the  prophets  high  up 
on  the  columns;  but  no  candle  is  lighted  before 
these  pictures,  nor  are  they  worshiped  by  the  peo- 
ple. If  any  should  wish  to  kiss  them  they  cannot, 
because  they  hang  so  high  up. 

"Another  thing:  You  know  that  in  this  part  they 
make  a  picture  called  'Hire  Asdvadz,'  (God  the 
Father)  in  both  Greek  and  Armenian  monasteries. 

"The  Word  of  God  prospers,  and  great  works  are 
done,  and  still  shall  be  done;  only  you  pray  that 
the  Lord  himself  may  work." 

Avedis  Yeredsian. 

Cesarea,  Nov.  10,  1887. 


A  SPECIAL  CALL  FOR  WASIOJA. 


Beloved  Brethren,  Sisters  and  Friends,  East 
and  WEST:-This  cold  winter,to  pay  teachers.and  meet 
current  expenses,  to  make  the  school  a  blessed  suc- 
cess for  reform  and  true  holiness,  Wasioj  a  needs  and 
must  have  your  immediate  help.  Please  make  an  effort 
and  send  to  Rev.  W,  C.  Mullenix,  treasurer,  Wasioja, 
Dodge  Co.,  Minn.,  all  interest  or  principal  now  due. 
Wasioja  was  our  "  Pioneer"  Wesleyan  School,  and 
has  stood  like  a  beacon-light  of  reform  and  true  hol- 
iness in  the  midst  of  a  lost  world  in  darkness;  and 
for  thirteen  years  has,  at  the  expense  of  great  per- 
sonal sacrifice  of  many  devoted  friends,  sought, 
through  many  hardships  and  deprivations,  to  secure 
the  best  possible  results  for  the  cause  of  God  in 
this  excellent  school;  and  as  a  result,  some  of  the 
best  workers  in  the  Gospel  in  our  Zion  are  graduates 
from  Wasioja. 

The  school  is  doing  well  and  prospering  this  win- 
ter, but  needs  your  help,  your  prayers  and  co-operation. 
Shall  we  have  it  ?  Let  all  pay  who  can,  and  all  who 
have  not  subscribed,  please  send  a  liberal  "  New 
Year's  gift"  to  this  excellent  Christian  school,  and 
thus  gladden  many  hearts  and  do  much  to  carry  for- 
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LITERATURE. 


Inglesidb  Rhaims.    Verses  in  the  Dialect  of  Burns.    Rev.  J.  E. 
Rankin,  D.  D.    Frice,  cloth  50c.     John  B.  Alden,  New  York. 

The  former  pastor  of  the  Congregational  church 
of  Washington  City  seems  to  be  a  remarkable  proof 
of  the  old  saying,  "  Blood  will  tell."  Scotch  brogue 
and  Scotch  pathos  have  not  often  been  so  finely  re- 
produced outside  the  "  old  country,"  and  those  who 
have  admired  the  beauties  of  Burns  with  hesitation 
because  of  his  private  life,  may  turn  to  this  volume 
and  find  no  doubts  to  mar  the  satisfaction.  "  Dr. 
Rankin,"  says  Joseph  Cook,  "  has  much  of  the  gen- 
ius and  more  than  the  orthodoxy  of  Robert  Burns." 
Dr.  Rankin  has  written  strong  and  beautiful  English 
verse,  but  this  volume  is  all  Scottish  in  subject, 
scene  and  treatment.  The  unaffected  love  of  nature 
and  the  hearty  interest  in  the  joys  and  sorrows  of 
home-life  which  were  the  favorite  themes  of  Burns 
show  a  marked  sympathy  with  the  genius  of  the 
Scottish  poet,  but  the  stream  of  song  flows  between 
banks  that  do  not  muddy  its  waters.  In  some  of 
these  poems,  the  "  Auld  Scotch  Mither,"  the  "Lost 
Guid-man,"  "Jean  Anderson"  and  others,  the  reader 
will  scarcely  miss  the  fire  and  fancy  that  have  made 
Burns  read  and  loved  the  world  over. 

In  another  form  the  publishers  have  given  us  Dr. 
Rankin's  "  Brechin  Ballads,"  in  which  the  Scotch 
style  is  made  to  do  excellently  as  the  medium  of 
controversy,  and  the  "  Andover  heresy"  is  given 
its  benefit  to  the  full.  The  pernicious  spirit  of  caste 
is  shown  to  be  of  the  pit  in  "Fred  Douglass  at  the 
Gowden  Gate,"  as  no  prose  argument  could  ap- 
proach. 

In  Seribner's  Magazine  for  January  Mr .  Edward  L . 
Wilson,  the  photograpic  traveler,  contributes  an  interest- 
ing account  of  "The  Great  Pyramid"  of  Cheops,  which 
describes  the  appearance  and  structure  of  that  ancient 
monument;  narrates  the  incidents  of  an  ascent  and  de- 
scent; pictures  the  view  from  its  summit,  and  tells  much 
about  its  history  and  the  curious  speculationu  to  which 
it  has  given  origin.  Another  attractive  illustrated  arti- 
cle is  "Japanese  Art,  Artists,  and  Artisans,"  by  William 
Elliot  Griffls,  the  well-known  author  of  "Mikado's  Em- 
pire . "  The  pictures  are  made  from  drawings  by  a  Jap- 
anese artist.  The  leading  article  of  the  number,  "The 
Man  at  Arms,"  describes  the  man  at  arms  from  the  time 
of  Charlemagne  (800)  to  the  perfection  of  armor  (about 
1450),  and  is  the  result  of  study  and  research  continued 
from  time  to  time  for  several  years.  The  numerous  illus- 
trations are  based  upon  the  unique  collection  of  mili- 
tary manikins  in  the  Paris  Museum  of  Artillery,  and 
upon  old  manuscripts,  prints,  tombal  effigies,  etc.  "Mu- 
nicipal Finance,"  "French  Traits — Intelligence,"  and  "A 
Chapter  on  Dreams,"  and  several  stories  make  up  the 
contents  of  an  interesting  number  of  the  magazine. 

The  Baker  Taylor  Co.,  9  Broad  St.,  New  York,  pub- 
lishers of  Dr.StroDg's  book, "Our  Country,"announce  the 
speedy  publication  of  the  discussions  at  the  late  meeting 
of  the  Evangelical  Alliance  in  Washington  under  the 
title,  "National  Perils  and  Opportunities."  Cloth,  $1.50; 
paper,  $1. 

The  International  Committee  of  the  Y.  M.C.  A.  have 
published  from  their  office,  23d  St.  and  4th  Ave .,  New 
York,  a  list  of  topics  for  daily  prayer  meetings  for  1888. 
The  selection  seems  to  be  an  excellent  one,  which  must 
prove  useful  and  suggestive  to  all  Christian  workers.  It 
will  serve  an  excellent  purpose  also  for  daily  private 
readings. 

The  Library  Magazine,  in  late  weekly  issues,  has  the 
following  important  articles:  The  Catholic  Revival  of 
the  Sixteenth  Century,  from  the  Quarterly  Review.  Sci- 
ence and  the  Bishops,  by  Prof .  T .  H .  Huxley .  The  The- 
osopic  Movement  in  India,  by  Herr  Ernst  von  Weber. 
Rural  Prance,  from  the  Edinburgh  Review.  Address  on 
Aphorisms,  by  John  Morley,  M .  P. ;  American  Museums 
of  Pre-Historic  ArcLi^^ology,  by  Alfred  R.  Wallace; 
Roses  and  Rose-Culture,  from  the  Quarterly  Review. 

A  silver  lining  to  every  cloud!  With  the  short,  dull 
days  of  early  winter  come  the  cheery  holidays  and  Vick's 
beautiful  annual,  and  lo!  spring  already  appears  not  far 
distant.  We  can  almost  see  the  greening  grass  and  the^ 
blooming  flowers.  In  the  way  of  Catalogues,  Vick's" 
Floral  Guide  is  unequaled  in  artistic  appearance,  and  the 
edition  of  each  year  that  appears  simply  perfect,  is  sur- 
passed the  next.  New  and  beautiful  engravings,  and 
three  colored  plates  of  flowers,  vegetables,  and  grain,  are 
features  for  the  issue  for  1888.  Its  lavender  tinted  cover, 
with  original  designs  of  most  pleasing  sfEects,  will  ensure 
it  a  prominent  place  in  the  household  and  library.  It  is 
in  itself  a  treatise  on  horticulture,  and  is  adapted  to  the 
wants  of  all  who  are  interested  in  the  garden  or  house 
plants.  It  describes  the  rarest  flowers  and  the  choicest 
vegetables.  If  you  want  to  know  anything  about  the 
garden,  see  Vick's  Floral  Guide,  price  only  10  ceats,  in- 
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Published  by  James  Vick,  Seedsman,  Rochester,  N.  Y. 

( 'abbage  and  Celery  Plants,  a  guide  to  their  successful 
propagation,  is  a  now  manual  of  instruction,  by  Isaac  F. 
Tillinghast.  It  gives  modern  plans  for  constructing  low 
cost  hot  beds  and  greenhouses  to  be  heated  by  ferment- 
ing manure,  fire  flues  and  hot  water.  Also,  how  to  suc- 
cessfully grow  cabbage  and  celery  plants  in  the  open 
ground,  with  certain  methods  of  protecting  them  from 
destructive  insects  and  diseases,  which  have  not  hereto- 
fore been  given  to  the  public. 


Januart  5,  1888 


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Lodge  Notes. 

The  employes  of  the  North  Pennsylva- 
nia road  have  withdrawn  from  the 
Knights. 

The  Masonic  reunion  of  Scottish  Rite 
Masons  was  held  at  the  Masonic  Temple 
in  Toledo,  and  largely  attended  by  visit- 
ors from  all  parts  of  Ohio. 

The  Knights  of  Labor  of  the  Reading 
Railroad  system  have  issued  an  appeal"to 
workmen  and  workwomen  of  America 
and  outside  of  it"  to  support  the  Reading 
strikers  by  contributions.  The  business 
of  the  road  has  not  been  materially  inter- 
fered with  by  the  strike  of  last  week. 

The  costly  headquarters  of  the  Knights 
of  Labor  in  Philadelphia,  and  the  ex- 
penses of  keeping  up  the  institution,  to- 
gether with  other  injudicious  operations, 
are  said  to  have  pretty  nigh  bankrupted 
the  organization.  Bad  accounts  come 
from  there.  The  property  has  been  mort- 
gaged to  raise  money.  In  short,  the 
Knights  of  Labor  are  in  the  condition  of 
a  man  or  a  government  having  a  defi 
ciency  instead  of  asurplus. — Eve.Journal. 

A.  convention  is  to  be  held  March  1  in 
New  York,  to  form  a  National  District 
Assembly  of  Longshoremen.  The  reports 
received  from  the  officers  of  local  bodies 
indicate  that  50,000  men  will  thus  be 
brought  into  one  general  organiza- 
tion, under  the  jurisdiction  of  the 
Knights  of  Labor.  Such  an  organization 
would  be  the  largest  body  of  workers  of 
one  class  in  the  world.  It  is  a  part  of  the 
plan  of  the  organization  to  extend  it  to 
all  the  leading  ports  of  the  world. 

Knights  of  Pythias  in  Pennsylvania  are 
excited  over  a  dispute  between  the  Su- 
preme Lodge  of  the  United  States  and 
the  Graud  Lodge  of  the  State,  which 
threatens  to  be  carried  into  the  courts  be- 
fore it  is  settled.  The  Grand  Lodge  of 
Pennsylvania  claims  the  right  of  self- 
government  for  itself  and  its  lodges,  but 
this  is  denied  by  the  Supreme  Lodge. 
There  are  40,000  members  of  the  order 
in  this  State,  of  which  17,000  reside  in 
Philadelphia.  They  are  a  unit  in  sup- 
port of  the  position  taken  by  the  Grand 
Lodge  of  Pennsylvania. 

A  desperate  light  between  Orangemen 
and  Catholics  occurred  at  the  village  of 
Killybearn,  near  Cookstown,  County  Ty- 
rone, Ireland,  on  Monday.  Stones, bricks, 
clubs  and  revolvers  were  freely  used,  and 
the  house  of  the  parish  priest  was  almost 
wrecked,  the  windows  and  doors  having 
been  smashed  and  the  furniture  badly 
damaged.  The  Catholics  had  the  better 
of  the  fight  at  the  start,  but  the  Orange- 
men were  re-iuforced  and  the  struggle 
was  renewed  with  increaied  fury.  The 
battle  was  finally  stopped  by  the  police, 
who  made  several  arrests.  Many  persons 
were  injured  by  stones  and  clubs,  but  it 
is  not  known  that  anybody  was  hit  by 
bullets. 


MABKBT  BSPORTB. 

CHICAGO. 

Wheat— No.  a 78  @     79% 

No.  3 73  73 

Winter  No  8 82 

Com-No.  a 48%         .50 

Oat»-No.a... 32  35K 

Rye-No.  a 61>^ 

Bran  per  ton 1.5  75 

Hay— Timothy 9  .50  @15  OO 

Butter,  medium  to  best IB  @     2.S 

Cheese 04  @     Vili" 

Beans 1  2.5  ©  2  40 

Eggs 19  @      20>^ 

Seedfl— Timothy, 1  .50  Q  2  40 

Flax 140 

Broomcom... 02)^®     07 

Potatoes  per  bus 60  @      90 

Hides— Green  to  dry  flint 07>^@     13 

iiomber— Common 11  00  ^18  00 

Wool 10  @      3.5 

Cattle— Choice  to  extra 5  00  @  5  SO 

Commontogood 1  50  (t  4  90 

Hogs 4  2.5  (a  .5  95 

Sheep 2  40  @  .5  45 

NEW  YORK. 

Flour 8  20    O  5  60 

Wheat-Winter 92)^@     95>^ 

Spring 93X         <.»;i 

Com 60    @     03 

Oats '^h'M     46 

BggB 23    (3      25 

Butter IS    (A      -"4 

Wool 09  34 

KANSAS  CITY. 

Cattle..^ 1  ■'»0    0  4  40 

Hogi „^„.^  ^- 3  50    a  •'i  50 

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Too  saved;  in  quietness  aud  in 
confldenceahall  beyourstresgth. 

ifl  MfV.Ui. 

PBAISE. 

^.eium  -unto  thy  Test,  O  my 
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TBE  CHKISTIAl?  CYKOBITKE. 


January  5,  1888 


Home  and  Health. 


FRIED  FOODS. 

What  the  spit  is  to  the  English  cook, 
and  the  bain-marie  to  the  French,  the  frj- 
ing-pan  is  to  the  American.  The  Cana- 
dian lumberman  slings  his  soup-pot  over 
his  pack;  the  British  sportsman  cuts  a 
stick,  trims  it,  and  impales  his  game  over 
or  before  the  embers;  our  native  who 
"roughs  it"  cares  for  no  kitchen  utensil 
beyond  the  culinary  vade  mecum  of  his 
grandmothers.  In  it  he  grills  bacon, ven- 
ison, and  fish,  makes  gravy,  fries  flap- 
jacks, and  stews  the  maple  sugar  and  wa- 
ter that  is  to  drench  them,  boils  water  for 
tea,  coffee  and  shaving,  and  washes  the 
dishes  when  what  was  prepared  in  it  has 
been  eaten. 

The  dietetic  chord  for  the  day  is  sound- 
ed at  our  national  breakfast  in  fried 
chops,  fried  cutlets,  fried  eggs,  fried  ham 
or  bacon,  fried  fish,  fried  fish-balls,  fried 
potatoes,  fried  sausage,  fried  tripe,  and 
fried  beefsteak.  The  relative  mirror  is 
indicated  in  fried  buckwheat  or  other 
griddle-cakes,  fried  mush  or  hominy,  or, 
what  some  prefer  to  all  these,  fried  bread. 
Luncheon  and  dinner  maintain  the  theme 
in  fried  vegetables  of  all  sorts,  in  fritters 
and  pancakes,  and,  if  supper  be  served, 
croquettes,  fried  oysters,  and  doughnuts 
"give  the  diapason  closing  full." 

The  reasons  for  the  preference  we  dis- 
play for  this  mode  of  cookery  are  neither 
various  nor  many.  It  is  the  easiest  way 
of  making  ready  raw  material  or  "left- 
overs" for  the  table.  The  steady,  slow 
simmer  that  from  toughness  brings  forth 
tenderness;  the  steaming,  roasting,  boil- 
ing—to perfect  which  attention  must  be 
paid  to  degrees  of  heat,  to  basting  and 
turning— require  skill  and  time.  Our 
middle  class  women  are  overladen  with 
work,  and  ambitious  to  accomplish  what 
they  consider  as  higher  things  than  cook- 
ery. What  can  be  hurried  up  is  "put 
through"  in  what  Americans  (and  no 
other  people)  call  "less  than  no  time." 
The  frying-pan  makes  short  work  in  un- 
righteousness of  whatever  is  cast  into  its 
gaping  maw.  The  housewife— with  no 
conception  of  the  valuable  truth  that  cook- 
ing of  the  right  sort  will  take  care  of  itself, 
if  once  put  properly  in  train,  while  she  is 
busy  with  other  matters— delays  setting 
about  it  until  the  margin  of  time  is  re- 
duced to  the  minimum . 

The  best  writers  oh  diatetics  proscribe 
fried  foods  so  unsparingly  that  even  she 
whose  chief  aim  in  the  day  is  to  run 
through  a  given  quantum  of  labor,  might 
pause  to  read  and  ponder.  The  perni- 
cious properties  of  hot  grease  and  sub- 
stances soaked  in  it  are  published  in  the 
market-place  of  medical  and  domestic 
journals.  "As  a  broad  rule,"  says  Dr 
Fothergill,  "the  harder  the  fat,  the  Jess 
digestible  is  it."  When  all  that  is  vola- 
tile and  soluble  is  driven  out  of  it  by  rap- 
id heating  and  cooking,  and  the  ever  nau- 
seous touch  of  calcined  grease  is  super- 
added, the  digestive  organs  give  over  try- 
ing to   assimilate  it. 

Yet  our  dear  sisters  continue  to  fry 
everything  that  can  be  fried;  to  grow  sal- 
low and  spleeny;  and  to  take  patent  med- 
icines to  patch  up  the  coats  of  their  stom- 
achs.—Jfarion  Harland,  in  Journal  of 
Reconatructivea . 

The  Spaniards  have  a  proverb  that"the 
man  who  sits  with  his  back  to  a  draught 
siu  with  his  face  to  his  coffin."  This  is 
the  time  of  year  to  remember  health  rules 
Many  a  cold  will  be  taken  in  churches 
The  people  wUl  walk  to  church  in  the 
warm  sun  of  some  of  the  autumn  days 
wearing  their  overcoats.  On  entering  the 
building,  colder  than  the  outside,  having 
neither  sun  nor  fire,  they  will  remove 
their  coats  and  sit  down  in  a  perspiration 
The  true  method  is  to  carry  the  coat  on 
the  arm,  and  put  it  on  when  entering  a 
cold  room  and  ceasing  the  exercise  —He- 
lected. 

The  keeping  of  fruit  requires  a  uni- 
form, low  temperature,  just  above  the 
freezing  point.  Fruit,  in  ripening  .gives 
off  carbonic-acid  gas,  which  is  deleteri- 
ous, hence  fruit  should  not  be  stored  in 
the  house  cellar,  if  it  can  be  avoided. 
Where  there  is  no  other  place  for  the  fruit 
then  the  ventilation  of  the  cellar  must  be 
carefully  looked  to. 

"Be   not   among  winebibbers;  amone 
riotous  eaters  of  flesh."    Prov.  23:  20 
■~- 1 

Ai^»ertl«enr  wta  wibl  to  •ecure  tbo  at 
catioa  of  «te  beet  cIbm  ttf  purcbaoers, 
"i'  Cnr>  it  to  their  mir%iA»^«  co  hn-yort 
vpKx  «b  ifaw  OMAIMTIAMOritOSn&A 


1 


THS    OmmCEEB    Va.   LODeSBT. 

The  following  denominations  are  com- 
mitted by  vote  of  their  legislative  assem- 
blies or  by  constitution  to  a  separation 
from  secret  lodge  worship: 

Adventists  (Seventh-day.) 

Baptists — Primitive,  Seventh-day  and 
Scandinavian. 

Brethren  (Dunkers  or  German  Bap- 
tists.) 

Christian  Reformed  Church. 

Church  of  God  ^Northern  Indiana  El 
dership.) 

Congregational — The  State  Associations 
of  Illinois  and  Iowa  have  adopted  resolu- 
tions against  the  lodge. 

Disciples  (in  part.) 

Friends. 

Lutherans — Norwegian,  Danish,  Birttl- 
ish  and  Synodical  Conferences. 

jMEennonites. 

Methodists — Free  and  Wealeyan. 

Methodist  Protestant  (Minnesota  Con 
ference.) 

Moravians. 

Plymouth  Brethren. 

Presbyterian — As89ciate,  Reformeil  a^d 
United. 

Reformed  Church  (Holland  Branch.) 

United  Brethren  in  Christ. 

Individual  churches  in  some  of  these 
denominations  should  be  excepted,  in  part 
of  them  even  a  considerable  portion. 

The  following  local  churches  have,  as  a 
pledge  to  disfellowship  and  oppose  lodge 
worship,  given  their  names  to  the  follow- 
ing list  as 

THK    ASSOCIATED    CHURCHES    OF  CHRIST, 

New   Ruhamah  Cong.  Hamilton,  Miss. 

Pleasant  Ridge  Cong.  Sandford  Co.  Ala. 

New  Hope  Methodist,  Lowndes  Co.,  Miss. 

Congregational,  College  Springs,  Iowa. 

College  Church  of  Christ,  Wheaton,  111. 

First  Congregational,  Leland,  Mich. 

Sugar  Grove  Church,  Green  county,  Pa. 

Military  Chapel,  M.  E.,  LowD.des  county, 
"^liss. 

HopeweU  Missionary  Baptist,  Lowndes  Co., 
Miss. 

Cedar  Grove  Miss.  Baptist,  Lowndes  Co., 
Miss. 

Simon's  Chapel,  M.  K.,  Lowndes  Co.,  Miss. 

Pleasant  Ridge  Miss.  Baptist,  Lowndes  Co., 
Vliss. 

Brownlee  Church,  Caledonia,  Miss. 

Salem  Church,  Lowndes  Co.,  Mies. 

West  Preston  Bantist  Church.  Wayne  Co.,Pa. 

OTHBB  LOCAL  CHUBCHBS 

adopting  the  same  principle  are — 

Baptist  churches :  N.  Abington,  Pa. ;  Meno- 
monle,  Mondovl,  Waubeck  and  Spring  Prairie, 
Wis. ;  Wheaton,  HI. ;  Perry,  N.  T. ;  Spring 
Creek,  near  Burlington,  Iowa;  Lima,  Ind. ; 
Constableville,  N.  Y.  The  "Good  Will  Assocl- 
ton"of  Mobile,  Ala.,  comprising  some  twenty- 
five  colored  Baptist  churches;  Bridgewater 
Baptist  Association,  Pa. ;  Old  Tebo  Baptist, 
near  Leesville,  Henry  Co.,  Mo. ;  Hoopeston,  111 ; 
Esmen,  lU. ;  BtrykerBville,  N.  T. 

Congregational  churches :  Ist  of  Oberlln,  O. ; 
Tonica.  C'rystal  Lake.  Union  and  Big  Woods, 
111. ;  Solsbury,  Ind. ;  Congregational  Methodist 
Maplewood,  Mass. 

Independent  churches  In  Lowell,  Country- 
man school  house  near  Llndenwood,  Marengo 
and  Streator,  111. ;  Berea  and  Camp  Nelson,  Ky ; 
Ufltlck,  111, ;  Clarksburg,  Kansas ;  State  Aasocl- 
fttlon  of"  Minister*  ana  Ohurche*  of  Christ  Ib 
Kevtielcv 


AUTlMABOmO  LBOTURBBB. 
Gbnbbal  Agbnt  ahd  Lbcttjbbb,  J.  P. 
Stoddard,  221  W.  Madison  St.,  Chicago. 
H.  H.  Hinman,  Cynosure  office. 
Agent  for  Southern  States. 
Statb  AeBKTfl. 
Iowa,  0.  F.   Hawley,  Wayne,   Henry 
Co.     Care  Rev.  Geo.  Fry. 
Missouri,  Eld.  Rufus  Smith,  Maryvillo. 
New  Hampshire,   Eld.  8.  C.  Kimball, 
New  Market. 
Ohio,  W.  B.  Stoddard,  Columbus. 
Kansas,  Robert  Loggan,  Clifton. 
Alabama,  Rev.  G.  M.  Elliott,  Selma. 

Dbobbb  Wohkbbb.— [Seceders.] 
J.  K.  Glassford,  Carthage.  Mo. 
Othbb  Lkctubbbb. 

C.  A.  Blanchard,  Wheaton,  111. 
N.  Callender,  Thompson,  Pa. 

i  H.  Tlmmons,  Tarentum,  Pa 

T.  B.  McCormlck,  Princeton,  Ind. 

E.  Johnson,  Dayton,  Ind. 

H.  A.  Day,  WlUiamstown,  Mich. 

J.  M.  Bishop,  Chambersburg,  Pa. 

A.  Mayn,  Bloomlngton,  Ind. 

J.  B.  Cresslnger,  Sullivan,  O. 

W.  M.  Love,  Osceola,  Mo. 

J.  L.  Barlow,  Grundy  Center,  Iowa. 

A.  D.  Freeman,  Downers  Grove,  111 
Wm.  FentoD  St  Paul,  Minn. 

E.  I.  Grlnnell,  Blalrsburg,  Iowa. 
Warren  Taylor,  South  Salem,  O. 
J.  8.  Perry,  Thompson,  Conn. 
J.  T.  Michael,  New  Wilmington,  Pa. 

B.  O.  Barton,  Breckinridge,  Mo. 

E.  Bametson.  HasklnvUie,  Steuben  Co.'N.  Y 
Wm.  R.  Roach,  Pickering,  Ont 

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Faem  Notes. 


THINGS  TO  THINK  OF. 

"In  dairy  Id  g  he  who  sells  butter  at 
common  prices,  which  is  made  from  milk 
produced  from  common  cows,  fed  the 
common  way,  will  never  rise  to  comfort- 
able circumstances,  but  lead  a  hard  life 
of  toil  all  his  days." 

Get  out  of  the  deep,  worn  rut  of  your 
old  prejudices.  Stand  up  and  look  the 
problem  of  better  success  square  in  the 
face  like  a  man  of  pluck  and  brains. 
Don't  whine  about  monopolies  as  long  as 
you  don't  do  anything  for  yourself  on 
your  own  farm. 

Monopolies  are  bad  enough.  Corrupt 
officials  are  bad  enough.  High  taxes  are 
bad  enough.  All  these  outside  evils  are 
bad  enough,  the  Lord  knows,  but  to  sink 
down  in  indifference  inside  your  own 
line  fence,  call  every  improvement  that  is 
urged  upon  you  "theory,"  is  a  thousand 
times  worse  on  your  fortune.  With  such 
a  spirit,  no  wonder  monopolies  grind 
you,  officials  steal  from  you,  and  taxes 
rob  you.  Think  of  a  farmer  trying  to 
make  money  by  taking  milk  to  a  cheese 
factory  from  a  lot  of  cows  that  yield  him 
only  3,000  pounds  of  milk  a  year,  and  he 
not  knowing  or  caring  anything  about 
improving  that  yield  by  breeding  in  bet- 
ter dairy  blood. 

Think  of  him  going  along,  year  in  and 
year  out,  and  not  knowing  how  to  feed  a 
good  cow,  even  if  he  has  one,  so  as  to 
bring  a  little  profit  from  his  hard  labor. 

Think  of  him  making  butter  that  costs 
him  every  bit  of  16  to  18  cents  a  pound 
and  swapping  it  at  10  to  12  cents  a  pound 
for  groceries  at  the  country  store — pay- 
ing high  for  the  groceries  and  getting 
nothing  for  his  butter . 

Think  of  him  selling  cream  to  a  cream- 
ery and  never  stopping  to  think,  or  read, 
or  study  an  hour  in  a  month  as  to  the 
kind  of  cows  he  ought  to  have  for  that 
business,  or  the  proper  way  to  care  for 
them  in  order  to  get  the  most  cream. 

Think  of  a  man  blindly  plunging  along 
in  these  old  ruts  of  farm  practice  for 
years  and  never  caring  to  read  what  other 
men  are  doing  who  are  successful  and 
make  money  in  the  dairy  business. 

Think  of  a  man  doing  all  these  things, 
as  thousands  are  doing,  and  not  caring 
enough  for  his  own  profit  to  invest  bare- 
ly 100  cents  a  year  for  a  good  dairy  paper 
that  is  wide  awake  to  his  best  interests 
all  the  time,  and  worth  each  week  a  hun- 
dred times  its  cost  for  a  year. 

Think  of  a  man  doing  all  these  things, 
and  then  blaming  the  railroads,  the  mo- 
napolies  and  the  tariff  for  his  bad  fortune, 
not  once  dreaming  that  he  liimself  is 
mostly  to  blame  because  he  cares  so  little 
for  knowledge  and  the  experience  of 
others,  when  it  can  be  had  so  cheaply. 

Then  think  how  foolish  it  is  to  say  that 
a  paper  that  is  trying  to  build  up  practi- 
cal success  on  the  farm,  and  enlarge  the 
power  of  the  farmer  to  help  himself,  is 
not  a  true  friend  of  the  farmer  because  it 
is  not  everlastingly  howling  about  mo- 
nopolies. 

Remember,  success,  like  charity,  be- 
gins at  home. — Professor  W.  A.  Henry. 

CONVERTING    STRAW  INTO   MANURE. 

In  the  West  the  object  is  to  feed  one- 
third  of  the  straw-stack  and  convert  the 
balance  into  manure  as  rapidly  as  possi- 
ble .  The  straw  trampled  under  foot  by 
the  cattle  will  not  thoroughly  rot  if  left 
to  itself.  To  rot  and  fine  it,  it  must  be 
stirred  about,  and  the  swine  can  be  made 
to  do  this  work.  If  the  hogs  are  fed  on 
the  straw  once  a  week  they  will  move  the 
entire  mass,  unless  quite  deep,  rooting 
after  stray  grains.  If  their  noses  do  not 
get  to  the  bottom  of  the  heap,  sharpen  a 
heavy  stake  and  prod  it  through  the  straw, 
then  withdraw  it  and  drop  shelled  corn  or 
oats  into  the  hole.  In  this  way  a  hole  can 
be  made  every  few  feet  over  the  pile,  and 
the  hogs  will  turn  the  manure  thorough- 
ly. A  hog's  snout  is  a  very  cheap  and 
effective  manure  hook.  The  hogs  must 
not  be  allowed  to  lie  on  the  rotting  straw, 
as  this  is  almost  sure  to  produce  disease 
among  them.  They  become  too  warm, 
and  then  when  they  come  into  the  open 
air  they  contract  colds,  catarrhal  or  pul- 
monary diseases.  If  the  hogs  are  used  as 
above  recommended,  straw  can  be  con- 
verted into  well-rotted  and  fined  manure 
within  six  months;  and  if  the  straw-stack 
is  put  on  level  ground,  not  much  will  be 
lost  during  this  rapid  conversion.  When 
from  twelve  to  eighteen  months  are  re- 
quired for  the  rotting  of  the  manure(and 
this  time  will  be  required  when  deep 
masses  are  not  disturbed),  and  the  straw 


is  on  a  side  hill,  not  a  little  of  the  value 
of  the  manure  is  lost  by  being  washed 
down  hill. — American  Agriculturist. 


WESTERN    WEALTH. 

Such  confiicting  reports  are  heard  from 
various  sources  that  it  is  a  relief  to  read  a 
reliable  statement  of  the  actual  situation 
of  the  farmers,  stockmen  and  business 
men  of  the  West,  such  as  is  contained  in 
a  pamphlet  just  issued  under  the  above 
title.  The  statistics  given  are  the  latest 
official  figures.  Parties  desiring  this 
pamphlet  can  secure  a  copy  free  by  ad- 
dressing C.  H.  Wakren,  Gen.  Pass. 
Agent,  St.  Paul,  Minn. 


CONSUMPTION  SUIIELY  CURED. 

To  the  Editor:— Please  inform  your 
readers  that  I  have  a  positive  remedy  for 
the  above  named  disease.  By  its  timely 
use  thousands  of  hopeless  cases  have  been 
permanently  cured.  I  shall  be  glad  to 
send  two  bottles  of  my  remedy  free  to 
any  of  your  readers  who  have  consump- 
tion if  they  will  send  me  their  Express 
and  P.O.  address.  Respectfully,  T.  A. 
Slocum,  M.  C,  181  Pearl  St.,  New  York. 


MONTANA 


HEARD    FROM.— Recent 
niilroiul    cTtt-nslons  have 

J  (lijveloped     exceptionally 

flne  mineral,  stock  and  farming-  districts.  Maps 
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OTnpil  IN  MINNESOTA.— From  an  ex- 
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W  i  wWllsottt  is  being:  rapidly  tranformcd 
into  the  finest  stock  and  dairy  State  in  the 
Union.  >Cheap  lands  still  obtainable,  conven- 
ient to  railroad.  Particulars,  freei  upon  ap- 
plication to  C.  H.  WARKEN,  Gen.  Pass.  Ajft.. 
St.  Paul,  Minn. 

CENTERS.— ThQ 
building  of  rail- 
roads in  a  new 
and  fertile  country. creates  many  new  towns, 
affording  excellent  business  opportunities. 
Particulars  regarding  such  opportunities  in 
Montana,  Minnesota  and  Dakota  will  be  senl 
upon  application  to  C.  H.  WARKEN,  Gen.  Pass. 
Agt.,  St.  Paul,  Minn. 

North  Dakota  never 
had  bcttercrops  than 
I  those  just  harvested. 
Many  opportunities  tosecureflne  Government 
lands  recently  surveyed,  near  excellent  coal 
fields  and  adjacent  to  railroads.  Maps  and 
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NEW  BUSINESS 


PROSPEROUS.! 


SUCCESS.! 


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FAILURE 


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WHY  WORK 


FOR  ANOTHER,  or  on 
small  salary?  Why  con- 
tinue working  on  a 
worn-outfarm?  Whytry  to  secure  a  living  from 
Buch  high-priced  or  heavily  mortgaged  farms? 
Why  work  on  rented  land?  Why  not  start  for 
cour^elf?  Why  not  secure  at  once  some  of  the 
low-priced  but  very  fertile  and  well  located 
lands  adjacent  to  railroads  now  to  be  obtained 
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NPWS  OF  THE  WEEK 

COUNTRY. 

A  conference  consisting  of  the  Execu- 
tive Committee  of  the  Illinois  River  Im- 
provement Convention,  and  prominent 
citizens  of  Illinois,  Missouri  and  Iowa,* 
discussed  waterways  last  week.  At  a 
subsequent  meeting  of  the  committee  a 
bill  and  memorial  asking  for  an  appro- 
priation of  $100,000  from  Congress  for 
the  expenses  of  surveying  a  ship  canal 
route  from  Chicago  to  the  Illinois  River, 
by  a  commission  to  be  appointad  for  that 
purpose,  were  adopted,  and  a  sub-com- 
mittee appointed  to  convey  them  to  Con- 
gress. 

The  Prohibition  Convention  of  Kansas 
has  elected  the  following  delegates  to  the 
National  Prohibition  Convention  to  be 
held  in  Indianapolis,  Ind.,  in  June:  Ex- 
Governor  John  P. St.  John,  of  01athe;M. 
V. B . Bennett,  of  Columbus;  Mrs.  Fannie 
Rastell,  President  of  the  Kansas  W.  C. 
T.  U.,  and  Rev.  A.  M.  Richardson,  of 
Lawrence. 

About  13,000  miles  of  new  track  were 
laid  in  the  United  States  during  1887,sur- 
passing  the  record  of  all  preceding  years. 
At  a  mass  meeting  held  in  San  Fran- 
cisco Wednesday  night.  Mayor  Pond  pre- 
siding, resolutions  were  passed  calling 
Congress  to  enact  laws  excluding  the 
Chinese  from  any  entrance  to  the  United 
States. 

The  $50,000  bonds  voted  by  Beatrice, 
Neb., in  aid  of  the  Rock  Island  road,  have 
been  declared  void  by  Judge  Brady,  who 
rules  that  no  provision  was  made  for  pay- 
ing the  principal  of  the  bonds. 

Seventy  five  or  a  hundred  Hungarian 
and  Bohemian  granite  workmen  at  Hills- 
dale, Minn.,  striking  for  backpay,  cap- 
tured the  telegraph  office  on  a  drunken 
riot  Tuesday,  and  demanded  the  money 
in  the  safe,  with  revolvers  at  the  opera- 
tor's head  A  shcriif's  posse  has  gone 
from  Tower  to  quell  the  rioters,  who  had 
been  working, up  to  the  time  of  the  strike, 
in  getting  out  granite  for  the  Auditorium 
Building  in  this  city. 

Nathan  Reed,  a  resident  of  Lee  county, 
Ga.,  who  did  not  live  happily  with  his 
wife,  brutally  murdered  his  whole  family 
and  then  committed  suicide.  He  sent  a 
half  grown  boy,  who  lived  with  him, after 
a  doctor.  When  the  doctor  and  boy  re- 
turned they  found  thu  cabin  a  heap  of 
smoking  ruins,  and  in  them  the  charred 
bodies  of  Reed's  wife  and  six  children. 
A  further  tcarch  of  the  premises  disclosed 
Reed's  body  in  the  well  with  bis  throat 
cut. 

Another  disastrous  wreck  took  place 
at  Kouts,  Ind.,  on  the  Chicago  and  At- 
lantic railroad.  The  second  section  of  a 
freight  train  ran  into  the  lirst  in  a  blind- 
ing snowstorm,  and  a  fireman  lost  his 
life. 


Charles  Hall,  of  Shelbyville,  Ind., while 
officiating  as  Santa  Claus  at  a  Sabbath- 
school  festival  Wednesday  night,  was  ter- 
ribly burned  from  his  clothes  catching  fire 
from  the  lights  on  the  tree. 

Patrick  O'Brien,  an  Iowa  contractor, 
was  found  freezing  in  a  doorway  at  Cin- 
cinnati Wednesday  night.  He  had  been 
drinking,  and  on  his  person  was  found 
$8,000  in  money  and  $6,000  in  checks. 
The  police  express  great  surprise  that  the 
man  had  not  been  robbed. 

Forty  buildings  atWakefield,  Wis. .were 
burned  Monday,  including  the  bank, thea- 
ter, postoffice,  clothing  and  general  stores, 
and  a  dozen  saloons.  The  loss  is  placed 
at  $100,000. 

In  Atchinson,  Kas .,  a  cow  which  had 
been  bitten  by  a  mad  dog  became  furi- 
ously mad,  and,  breaking  out  of  the  pen 
in  which  she  was  confined,  ran  down  the 
street.  A  Mrs.  Hollis,  who  was  in  her 
path,  was  attacked  and  gored  so  badly 
that  she  died  from  the  effects  of  her  in- 
juries. 

Near  Shelbyville,  Ind.,  Saturday  even 
ing,  Mrs.  Sarah  G.  Ewing,  aged  62,  was 
attacked  and  killed  by  hogs,  which  then 
tore  and  mangled  her  body. 

North  and  South  bound  passenger 
trains  collided  on  the  Cincinnati  South- 
ern Road  near  Greenwood,  Ky., Saturday. 
The  crash  was  terrible,  the  engines  being  f 
so  thrust  together  that  they  could  not  be 
separated.  Eight  persons  were  killed 
and  many  injured.  The  accident  came 
from  a  conductor  misreading  his  orders. 
There  is  no  doubt  that  several  persons 
were  burned  to  death .  A  number  of 
charred  bodies  were  found  where  the 
bmoking  car  of  No.  1  was  burned. 

A  dreadful  smaehup  took  place  on  the 
New  York,  Pennsylvania  and  Ohio  rail- 
road, five  miles  west  of  Meadville,  Pa . , 
the  New  York  limited  dashing  into  a 
freight  train.  Both  trains  were  two 
hours  late.  Five  persons  were  killed  in- 
stantly, and  sixteen  badly  injured. 

During  a  fight  between  fifty  school- 
boys at  Allegheny  City  Monday  afternoon 
revolvers  were  drawn,  and  Joseph  John- 
ston, aged  ten,  was  fatally  shot. 
The  Haddock  murder  case  will  be  called 
in  Sioux  City  to  day,  and  it  is  believed 
the  indictments  againat  all  the  defendants 
in  court  will  be  nolle  pressed.  Three  are 
fugitives. 

FOREIGN. 

Most  of  the  German  rivers  are  frozen 
over.  Several  of  the  Baltic  ports,  includ- 
ing Konigsberg,  are  closed.  The  south- 
ern and  western  rivers  are  covered  with 
drifting  ice,  and  it  has  been  found  neces 
sary  to  remove  the  pontoon  bridges.  Rail, 
way  traffic  is  greatly  interrupted.  In  Thu- 
ringia  and  the  Hartz  Mountains  the  deer 
and  other  game  are  flocking  to  the  vil- 
lages for  food.  Several  deaths  from  the 
effects  of  exposure  are  reported  in  vari- 
ous parts  of  Austria. 

A  passenger  train  collided  with  a  snow- 
blocked  freight  train  near  Avila,  Spain, 
on  Thursday.  Several  persons  were  killed 
and  others  were  seriously  inj  ured . 

A  battle  was  fought  in  the  mountains 
near  Guatemala  recently  between  federal 
forces  and  revolutionists,  ending  in  the 
rout  and  almost  annihilation  of  the  in- 
surgents and  the  execution  of  the  cap- 
tured leaders. 

During  a  hurricane  at  Halifax,  N.  S.. 
Wednesday  night,  shipping  and  wharves 
were  damaged,  buildings  partly  wrecked, 
and  trees  and  fences  leveled. 

During  the  performance  in  the  theater 
at  Carthagena,  Spain,  Friday  evening,  a 
broker  occupying  one  of  the  stalls  com- 
mitted suicide  by  exploding  a  dynamite 
cartridge.  The  concussion  extinguished 
all  the  lights  in  the  house,  and  the  au- 
dience, becoming  panic-strcken,  fled 
from  the  building.  During  the  excite- 
ment over  100  persons  were  more  or  less 
injured. 

The  temperance  party  was  defeated  at 
Toronto  Monday,  losing  their  candidate 
for  Mayor  and  by  law  to  reduce  the  num  • 
ber  of  taverns  and  shop  licenses,  by  large 
majorities. 

Mail  advices  from  China  state  that  a 
powder  magazine  containing  forty  thou- 
sand kilogramms  of  powder  exploded  at 
Amoy  Nov  21,  doing  immense  damage. 
The  force  of  the  explosion  was  very 
great.  A  quarter  of  the  buildings  of  the 
town  were  laid  in  ruins.  Fifty  soldiers 
were  blown  to  atoms,  and  several  hun- 
dred inhabitants  killed. 


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There  are  In  the  United  States 

Some  200  different  Lodges, 
With  2,000  000  members, 
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CONTENTS. 


Editorial: 

Notes  and  Uomments 1 

TheLouisiana  Baptist  Con- 
vet  tlon 8 

Trouble  with  the  Secret 
Societies— the  G.  A.  R. .    8 

A  Human  Monster 8 

The    Reading    Strike    In 

Prophecy 9 

N.  C.  A.  Board  Meeting. .    9 

Personal  Mention 9 

Contributions  : 
The    Indians    and    their 
Leaders  in  the  Rebellion    1 

Bottom  Line  Work 2 

Masonic  Ministers 2 

Selected : 

God's  Ambassador 3 

The  Church  and  the  Labor 

Question 3 

The  Right  Union 3 

Washington  Letter 4 

Press  Comment 4 

Rbform  News: 
The    Arkansas   Churches 
Preparing  for  the  Lord .    4 


CORRESFOKDBNCB : 

A  Working  Church  and 
Pastor;  Bro.  Michael's 
Plan  for  the  M.  E. 
Church:  Lutherans  Ar- 
resting Nestoria ;  Secre- 
tary Parvln's  Library; 
The  W.  C.T.  U.  Opposed 
by  Lodges  in  Pennsylva- 
nia ;  United  Brethren  in 
Africa    and     America ; 

Pith  and  Point 5,6 

Bible  Lesson 6 

ThbN.C.  A 7 

Church  vs.  Lodge 7 

Lecture  List 7 

The  Homb 10 

Temperance 11 

Religious  Nbws 12 

Literature 12 

Lodge  Notes 13 

Home  and  Health 14 

Farm  Notes 15 

News  oy  thb  Wbbk 16 

Markets 13 

Business 13 


Last  Wednesday  States  Attorney  Marsh  moved  to 
dismiss  all  the  indictments  against  the  Haddock 
murder  conspirators,  except  for  the  three  men  who 
have  never  been  arrested.  The  result  of  the  last 
trial  of  Arensdorf  proved  the  futility  of  further  pur- 
suing the  case,  and  the  rum  demon  has  bis  triumph. 
Arensdorf  and  probably  the  whole  red-handed  gang 
will  be  driven  out.  The  ring-leader  goes  to  Milwau- 
kee to  find  a  place  to  pursue  his  vile  trade  of  brew- 
ing. At  least  let  us  hope  the  martyrdom  of  Had- 
dock cleared  one  city  of  the  liquor  curse. 


As  Mr.  Moody  left  Pittsburgh,  he  urged 
Francis  Murphy  to  return  to  his  own  city  and 
follow  the  revival  work  with  a  special  effort  for 
drinking  men.  The  latter  left  Chicago  to  follow  the 
suggestion,  but  an  unhappy  difference  has  arisen, 
and  it  is  reported  that  the  churches  are  closed  to 
the  temperance  evangelist  and  their  pastors  do  not 
co-operate.  One  of  them  explained  that  they  were 
compelled  to  take  back  seats,  and  there  was  too 
much  Murphy  about  the  meetings.  This  inharmoni- 
ous state  of  things  is  to  be  regretted.  Mr.  Murphy 
is  intensely  personal  in  his  meetings,  he  could  not 
do  battle  in  any  armor  but  his  own:  and  it  should 
not  be  taken  unkindly  by  the  pastors  that  workers 
in  the  good  cause  can  be  found  without  calling  on 
them.  Murphy  is  daily  visiting  the  jwork-shops  of 
Pittsburgh  and  Allegheny,  holding  meetings,  ex- 
horting to  a  better  life  and  getting  signers  to  the 
pledge.j 


Ex-Governor  Alger,  of  Detroit,  is  one  of  the 
wealthiest  men  in  Michigan,  and  has  a  generous 
heart.  A  year  ago  he  made  the  hearts  of  thousands 
glad  by  gifts  of  clothing  and  food.  The  other  day 
he  repeated  the  pleasant  task  by  taking  five  hundred  i 


poor  boys  to  different  clothing  stores  and  giving 
them  a  complete  outfit  from  head  to  foot;  and  by  the 
aid  of  churches  and  charitable  societies  distributed 
wood,  coal  and  flour  to  a  thousand  worthj  families 
where  poverty  hung  about  the  door.  This  generosi- 
ty ought  to  be  infectious,  though  it  is  not  strictly 
according  to  the  Christian  plan  (See  Matthew  6:3). 
But  is  quite  different  from  the  lodge  plan  likewise;  and 
we  are  glad  to  note  in  the  Detroit  freemason  that 
Gen.  Alger  is  not  a  member  of  that  order.  He  is 
surely  giving  to  our  rich  men  an  example  of  the 
surest  way  to  get  the  most  happiness  from  money. 


The  great  strike  on  the  Reading  railroad  involves 
so  many  interests  that  it  is  not  likely  to  be  long 
since  the  suffering  is  so  sharp.  In  1874,  when  a  simi- 
lar strike  occurred,  the  losses  sustained  by  mer- 
chants and  trades-people  in  the  region  was  reckoned 
at  $1,500,000,  under  which  200  merchants  entirely 
failed,  and  over  1,200  barely  escaped.  They  will 
not  be  caught  again,  and  are  of  course  bringing 
every  influence  on  the  company  to  yield.  But  in 
the  meeting  of  the  directors  the  other  day,  President 
Corbin  was  sustained,  and  a  motion  to  appoint 
George  W.  Childs  arbitrator  was  voted  down.  "The 
engineers'  and  firemen's  brotherhoods"  have  resist- 
ed the  strike,  though  they  may  be  Knights  of 
Labor.  The  "grand  master"  of  one  of  these  "broth- 
erhoods" has  telegraphed  that  no  "bulldozing"  on 
the  part  of  the  Knights  of  Labor  will  be  permitted. 
The  Reading  company  is  therefore  able  to  run  trains, 
but  there  is  no  coal  to  load  them. 


The  call  from  New  York,  resulting  from  the  Evan- 
gelical Alliance  meeting  in  Washington,  which  ap- 
pears on  our  12th  page,  roused  the  dormant  Chicago 
branch  into  holding  a  meeting  last  Monday.  Nearly 
all  the  prominent  pastors  of  the  city  were  present; 
and  the  temperance  question  was  well  discussed  and 
a  petition  adopted  for  the  closing  of  saloons  on  the 
Sabbath  day,  which  will  be  circulated.  On  this  topic 
Dr.  P.  S.  Henson  said  Chicago,  with  all  its  self-glori- 
fication, was  mean  beyond  most  cities  on  the  conti- 
nent in  the  shamelessness  of  its  violation  of  the 
Sunday  laws.  There  were  now  no  city  officers 
pledged  to  this  reform,  even  under  a  reform  admin- 
istration, because  the  crafty  hand  of  Mephistoph- 
eles  had  secured  the  repeal  of  the  Sunday  law. 
There  was  a  State  law,  but  possibly  its  oflicers  were 
inefficient  or  careless.  He  had  noticed  when  gam- 
bling was  suppressed  that  the  Chief  of  Police  had  a 
conference  with  the  gamblers,  warned  them,  and 
they  quit.  If  the  Chief  of  Police  and  the  Mayor 
should  do  the  same  with  the  saloon-keepers  we  might 
have  a  decenter  Sabbath  and  fewer  murders.  It 
might  interfere  with  the  Mayor's  political  aspira- 
tions, but  if  public  sentiment  was  aroused,  the  peo- 
ple stirred,  and  the  pulpits  thundered  their  righteous 
anathemas,  good  would  follow  as  surely  as  the  sun 
rose. 


Mr.  Lamar  has  resigned  the  portfolio  of  the  Sec- 
retary of  the  Interior  in  a  candid  letter  to  President 
Cleveland.  He  thinks  that  the  Senate  may  delay 
his  confirmation,  his  successor  is  waiting,  and  the 
vacancy  in  the  Supreme  Court  should  be  filled.  It 
is  an  honorable  plea  for  lenient  judgment  upon  his 
action  In  taking  a  place  which  the  vote  of  the  Sen- 
ate may  not  allow  him  to  retain.  The  Senate  Com- 
mittee on  Judiciary  discussed  the  case  Saturday.  A 
test  vote  was  taken  and  there  will  undeniably  be 
two  reports,  the  majority  being  against  confirmation. 
It  is  a  question  bow  the  Senate  will  stand,  but  it  is 
generally  believed  that  the  Presidents'  nomination 
will  be  approved  by  a  narrow  majority.  The  nomi- 
nation is  in  many  respects  unfortunate.  A  nominee 
for  the  Supreme  Bench  should  be  above  the  suspic- 
ions that  delay  confirmation.  Mr.  Lamar's  personal 
integrity  and  ability  are  not  denied;  but  his  legal 
attainments  are  narrow,  and  his  public  utterances 
respecting  recent  amendments  to  the  Constitution, 
on  which,  and  on  legislation  depending  on  them  he 
will  have  to  decree  as  judge,  are  decidedly  against 
him.  His  views  of  American  citizenship,  too,  as 
seen  in  his  denial  of  Jeff.  Davis's  treason  make  us 
hope  for  his  rejection. 


The  General  Executive  Committee  of  the  Knights 
of  Labor  order  met  in  Philadelphia  Tuesday,  over 
the  Reading  strike.  But  the  local  managers  of  the 
order  have  carried  on  their  work  with  too  strong  a 
hand  to  now  withdraw,  should  tbe  General  Execu- 
tive Board  order  the  men  back  to  work.  The  case 
is  similar  to  the  Stock  Yards  strike  in  this  city, 
which  began  with  a  miserable  pretense  and  ended 
not  only  in  failure,  but  before  it  is  forgotten  may 
break  up  the  Knights  of  Labor.  Powderly's  order 
at  that  time,  though  just,  was  yet  despotic,  accord- 
ing to  the  constitution  of  the  organization;  and  the 
anarchist  sympathizers  who  run  the  order  in  this 
city  have  made  it  the  beginning  of  division.  The 
long  meeting  in  St.  Paul  saw  several  struggles  be- 
tween the  factions,  and  the  anti-Powderly  crowd  have 
just  issued  a  "secret"  circular  calling  for  a  general 
rebellion  against  Powderly,  and  a  reorganization  of 
the  order.  Their  main  charge  is  "the  gradual  ab- 
sorption by,  and  concentration  in  the  General  Exec- 
utive Board  and  its  wily  agents  of  a  power  which  now 
"does  arrogantly  deny  to  members  of  the  great  la- 
bor organization,  of  which  they  are  paid  servants 
and  we  paying  members,  rights  which  in  this  coun- 
try Presidents,  Senators  or  courts  have  never  re- 
fused to  the  humblest  wage-workers  in  the  land." 
The  trouble  with  these  poor  men  is  their  ignorance 
of  the  nature  of  secretism.  The  lodge  system  is 
inevitably  despotic.  Had  they  heard  the  warning 
of  the  N.  C.  A.  they  might  have  escaped  their  pres- 
ent anguish  of  spirit  by  avoiding  its  certain  source. 


TBB  INDIANS  AND  THBIR  LEADBR8  IN  THB 
REBELLION. 


BY   HON.    S.    0.   POMEROT. 


Having  in  a  series  of  reminiscences  last  year 
spoken  of  those  men  who  led  the  Southern  States 
into  apostasy  from  the  general  Government,  of  the 
causes  which  inspired  them,  and  the  means  they 
adopted,  it  would  be  a  mistake  to  omit  the  fact  that 
they  not  only  led  astray  their  own  people  and  com- 
pelled them  to  sustain  the  rebellion,  but  also  se- 
duced five  of  the  Indian  nations  which  were  most 
advanced  in  civilization,  and  caused  them  to  apos- 
tatize from  their  faith  in  the  Government.  That 
atrocious  proceeding  will  be  the  subject  of  this  ar- 
ticle. 

The  Indian  tribes  have  always  been  regarded  as 
a  people  by  themselves,  having  their  own  laws  and 
customs,  and  not  citizens  of  the  United  States,  or 
o'f  any  State;  so  they  held  no  allegiance  to  any  sec- 
tion. North  or  South,  or  to  any  government  save 
their  own.  That  was  their  legal  status.  The  four 
or  five  civilized  nations  south  of  Kansas,  in  what  is 
known  as  the  Indian  county,  were  rich  in  cattle, 
lands,  and  annuities  from  the  government  of  the 
United  States.  In  all  the  earlier  years  of  our  his- 
tory the  Indian  tribes  have  been  dealt  with  by  treat- 
ies, and  the  United  States  government  has  appoint- 
ed agents,  and  supported  them  among  the  Indians. 

The  tribes  of  which  I  now  write  were  well  ad- 
vanced in  civilization  before  they  left  the  old  States. 
There  had  been  faithful  and  earnest  missionaries 
among  them,  and  these  missions  had  been  removed 
to  the  Territories  where  the  nations  moved.  The 
Cherokees,  Chicasaws,  Choctaws  and  Seminoles  were 
as  prosperous,  had  as  good  schools,  and  were  as  well 
civilized  as  the  majority  of  the  people  in  the  States 
where  they  had  lived. 

Since  these  tribes  adopted  civilized  habits,  and 
took  our  schools  and  language,  they  have  increased 
rather  than  diminished  in  their  population.  Before 
that,  and  during  their  wild  state,  there  had  been  a 
constant  wasting  a.way.  At  the  date  of  the  Revolu- 
tionary war,  there  were  as  many  Indians  as  white 
people  upon  what  is  now  the  territory  of  the  United 
States.  After  two  hundred  and  fifty  years,  they 
have  diminished  to  about  260,000,  all  told.  Histo- 
ry nowhere  else  records  the  destruction  of  a  people 
of  three  millions  to  a  quarter  of  one  million  within 
such  a  brief  period,  although  they  had  no  serious 
wars,  or  famine,  or  pestilence.  The  case  comes 
down  to  this:  the  Indian  has  had  the  contact  of  bad 
white  men,  and  their  bad  whisky. 


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"S^HE  CHRmriASi  CYNOSURE. 


January  12, 1888 


During  the  late  war,  the  Cherokees,  Creeks  and 
Seminoles — tribes  which  held  few,  if  any  slaves, 
furnished  over  three  full  regiments  for  the  union 
cause.  They  were  good  soldiers,  rendering  most 
eflScient  service.  The  Choctaws  and  Chicasaws, 
were  originally  in  great  part  from  the  State  of  Miss- 
issippi, and  held  some  slaves.  They  had  at  the 
date  of  the  rebellion  a  slaveholder,  D.  H,  Cooper, 
for  agent,  and  one  Albert  Pike  as  their  adviser  and 
attorney,  and  as  a  friend  to  represent  them  and  look 
after  their  interests  at  Washington.  These  two  men 
managed  the  affairs  of  these  two  tribes,  and  for  a 
long  time  seemed  to  enjoy  their  confidence. 

During  the  administration  of  General  Jackson, 
great  efforts  were  made  to  remove  these  tribes  from 
their  primitive  location,  and  have  them  take  lands 
west  of  the  Mississippi  Kiver.  They  owned  the  most 
valuable  lands  in  the  State  of  Mississippi,  which 
thhe  cotton  planters  wanted.  The  government  ap- 
plied both  peaceable  and  forcible  means  for  their  re- 
moval. I  remember  reading  their  most  pathetic 
lamentation  upon  leaving  their  homes  and  the  graves 
of  their  fathers,  when  I  was  but  a  school  boy. 

Upon  examination  of  old  records,  I  find  that 
while  they  were  yet  living  in  the  State  of  Mississip- 
pi, the  legislature  passed  laws  embracing  these 
tribes  within  the  jurisdiction  of  their  State  laws  ; 
and  under  the  state  Sovereignity  doctrine,  they  de- 
manded of  Andrew  Jackson,  President  of  the  Unit- 
ed States,  "  That  these  Indians  be  removed,  or  they 
be  required  to  submit  to  State  authority."  To  avoid 
a  quarrel  and  conflict  with  that  State,  Jackson  sent 
Gen.  Eaton  down  there  "  to  secure  their  removal  at 
any  cost."  So  he  undertook,  and  finally  succeeded, 
in  making  a  treaty  securing  their  removal.  To  do 
it  he  said  (See  House  Doc.  No.  98,  of  1873,  p.  40) : 
"  It  is  not  your  lands  but  your  happiness  we  seek." 
"  We  seek  no  advantage,  and  will  take  none."  "Your 
great  father  (Jackson)  could  not  approve  of  such  a 
cause."  "  He  has  sent  us  not  as  traitors  but  as 
friends  and  brothers  to  act  as  such."  With  this  lie 
on  their  lips,  and  with  both  treachery  and  deceit  in 
their  hearts,  they  induced  these  confiding  Indians  to 
cede  their  country  to  the  United  States,  upon  a 
promise  of  payment,  which  to  this  day  has  not  been 
fulfilled!  These  Indians  [were  hurried  off,  and 
left  their  claims  for  their  lands  and  other  sums 
due  them,  to  be  settled  for,  by  their  attorney 
and  agent.  On  they  were  driven  with  great  suffer- 
ings and  great  losses.  Hundreds  died  on  the  way. 
Their  herds  and  flocks  perished  on  the  route  or 
were  left  behind  for  those  eager  to  seize  their  lands 
and  their  improvements. 

Now  is  seen  the  part  enacted  by  their  trusted 
friends  Cooper  and  Pike,  the  one  their  agent,  the 
other  their  attorney.  When  an  agent  or  attorney 
deserts  his  clients,  abandons  their  cause,  or  sells  out 
to  the  otlier  side,  it  is  such  a  record  of  disgrace  and 
infamy  that  the  man  is  entitled  to  no  standing  in 
any  civilized  society. 

The  House  of  Representatives,  by  its  Committee 
on  Indian  affairs,  in  1873,  ordered  an  investigation 
into  all  these  frauds  upon  the  Indian  tribes.  That 
investigation  was  had,  and  published  in  House  Doc- 
ument No.  98,  of  that  year.  I  quote  from  that  doc- 
ument, from  which  it  will  be  seen  that  by  those* 
guardians  of  the  Indians,  so  far  as  these  civilized 
tribes  are  concerned,  they  were  awfully  swindled, 
wof  uUy  deceived,  seduced  into  the  service  of  the 
Rebellion,  and  their  money  taken  for  the  benefit  of 
Cooper  and  Albert  Pike.  To  sustain  this,  I  quote 
from  House  Doc.  No.  98,  page  495  : 

Washington,  D.  C,  May  22nd,  1872. 

Albert  Pike,  sworn  and  examined  by  the  chairman  of 
the  committee. 

Question. — Be  kind  enough  to  state  your  name,  resi- 
dence and  occupation. 

Answer. — Albert  Pike — Washington — a  lawyer. 

Q  —  Are  you  acquainted  with  the  Choctaw  and  Chica- 
saw  people? 

A. — Yes.  I  have  been  acquainted  with  their  country 
Bince  1852. 

Q.— Do  you  know  anything  of  their  financial  condi- 
tion— in  relation  to  accounts  between  them  and  the  Unit- 
ed States? 

A.— Yes.  I  made  a  treaty  with  them  for  the  Confed- 
erate States ....  paid  them  money ....  I  have  forgotten  the 
amount. 

Q. — Do  you  know  anything  about  the  manner  in  which 
Gen.  Cooper  expended  moneys  forthemin  1861, as  agent 
of  these  Indians? 

A.— No  sir.  I  only  know  he  received  |134,000  to  buy 
com ....  I  do  not  know  what  he  did  with  it. 

The  reader  must  bear  in  mind  the  Indians  never 
got  a  bushel  of  that  corn,  as  will  hereafter  appear. 

Q.— Did  he  deliver  any  portion  of  that  to  you  as  a 
Confederate  officer? 

A.— No  sir . . .  I  was  employed  by  the  Choctaws  before 
the  war. . .  .1  was  paid  a  certain  amount  of  general  fees. 
Then  an  additional   fee,  over  and  above  the  others. . 

In  the  winter  of  1861  he  (Cooper)  paid  me  $1,800 I 

do  not  think  it  was  out  of  the  corn  money I  was  paid 


toward  my  compensation  as  attorney In  1862  Gen. 

Cooper  turned  over  to  me  as  a  Confederate  officer  some 
money,  which  he  said  was  in  his  hands,  as  agent  of  these 
Indians,  belonging  to  the  United  States. 

Q. — How  much  did  he  turn  over? 

A. — Five  thousand  dollars.  I  was  in  command  of  the 
Indian  country  at  the  time,  as  brigadier  general  in  the 
Confederate  service .  Cooper  was  agent  for  the  Chica- 
saws and  Choctaws,  under  my  appointment He  was 

also  in  the  Confederate  service  under  me;  first  as  colonel, 
afterwards  as  brigadier  general  ...  I  needed  money  for 
the  troops.  I  told  him  I  would  receive  it.  He  brought  it, 
in  Confederate  money. 

Thus  under  oath  Pike  confessed  he  did  take 
money  from  Cooper,  knowing  it  to  be  Indian  money 
coming  from  the  United  States.  That  money  was 
paid  Gen.  Cooper  in  gold  coin.  He  paid  Pike  in 
"Confederate  money"! 

On  the  2d  day  of  March,  1861,  the  act  of  that 
date  was  passed  by  Congress,  appropriating .  $500,- 
000  in  part  payment  of  the  Choctaw  claim  for  lands 
ceded  before  they  left  Mississippi — "$250,000  cash, 
$250,000  in  United  States  bonds.  The  cash  they  got  I 
The  Ijonds  were  held  back  by  a  subsequent  act  of 
Congress.  Cooper  drew  that  money,  when  at  the 
time  he  was  a  defaulter  for  $140,931.52." 

On  page  83,  the  above  report  says  ;  "Cooper  was 
also  a  defaulter  to  the  full  amount  of  $140,931.52 
(over  and  above  this  sum  of  $250,000)  from  the  31st 
day  of  March,  1861,  to  this  time.  Eleven  years  and 
eleven  months  at  6  per  cent,  would  amount  to 
$100,766.03  ]  making  a  total  $241,697.55.  Cooper 
is  also  defaulter  to  the  Choctaws  as  well  as  the 
Chicasaws.  Cooper  did  buy  corn  for  the  Choctaw 
people  that  spring  ;  but  he  sold  it  on  the  way  up 
the  Red  River,  for  the  sums  above  stated,"  and  he 
spent  the  money;  the  Indians  got  none.  It  must  be 
borne  in  mind  that  these  men  had  given  in  their  ad- 
hesion to  the  rebel  cause  before  they  got  this  money! 
So  they  knew  the  character  of  the  acts  they  were 
performing.  They  knew  they  were  to  misappropriate 
that  money!  It  was  a  false  pretense  which  they 
put  forth  when  they  came  to  the  United  States 
Treasury  and  receipted  for  the  appropriation  in  the 
name  of  these  outraged  Indians. 

I  am  not  now  alluding  to  their  crime  of  rebellion, 
but  to  their  crimes  of  cheating  the  Indians  ;  to  their 
frauds  upon  them — on  the  U.  S.  Treasurer,  who  by 
this  time  was  Salmon  P.  Chase,  of  Ohio.  I  can 
understand  how  honest  men  can  be  lead  to  follow 
their  States  in  rebellion,  but  tell  me  how  honest  men 
can  plunder  the  defenseless  ;  can  steal  their  money; 
and  carry  the  goM  of  the  United  States,  appropriat- 
ed for  Indian  support,  to  their  own  pockets,  or  the 
coffers  of  the  rebellion  ?  To  have  had  this  money 
taken  in  war  by  an  enemy  would  have  been  bad 
enough.  The  crime  of  rebellion  was  bad  enough, 
for  men  fattening  upon  Government  office,  and 
being  educated  and  fed  from  its  bounty.  But  this 
crime  of  leading  astray  the  Indian  ;  squandering  his 
money ;  demoralizing  his  home  and  country  ; 
abandoning  him  to  defeat,  to  want  and  sorrow, — 
these  crimes  make  a  page  of  history,  growing  dark- 
er and  blacker  as  the  years  pass  away. 
[  To   be  concluded  next  week  ] 


"Have  we  not  said  a  thousand  times,  that  to  stand 
for  principle  can  bring  us  only  good  in  the  long  run? 
To  be  sure  we  may  lose  money,  and  doubtless  shall 
for  a  while,  but  our  true  riches  are  not  in  banks  or 
specie,  and  have  never  been.  I  often  think  our 
Heavenly  Father  deems  it  better  that  we  should  not 
be  wealthy,  either  as  individuals  or  a  society.  De- 
votion, energy,  enthusiasm,  of  these  nobody  can  de- 
prive us,  and  to  stand  for  the  embodiment  of  our 
principles  in  a  party  that  shall  grow  to  be  the  bal- 
ance of  power,  and  afterward  the  arbiter  of  destiny 
in  this  great  controversy;  to  help  onward  such  a 
vast  movement  is  the  greatest  good  to  which  we  can 
lend  our  influence." 

Let  such  words  be  emphasized  at  the  present 
juncture.  Building  so  near  the  foundation  in  our 
great  reform  work,  let  us  be  careful  that  nothing  but 
enduring  granite  goes  into  the  walls.  In  laying  the 
foundation  of  the  peers  of  the  St.  Louis  bridge,  if 
some  had  insisted  on  putting  blocks  of  cottonwood 
alternately  with  the  granite,  how  unwise  to  have  al- 
lowed it  just  for  the  sake  of  peace.  Let  us  remem- 
ber that  we  are  building  for  the  generations  to  come. 
Our  work  must  be  submitted  to  a  fiery  ordeal,  and 
nothing  will  endure  but  immutable  principles. 

Another  thought  has  come  to  me  often — that  ex- 
pressed in  these  words  by  Wendell  Phillips:  "Build 
from  the  bottom  line  of  true  reform;  build  the  pyra- 
mid from  the  base,  not  from  the  apex."  The  pres- 
ent duty  of  national  reformers  and  anti-secret  re- 
formers is  not  to  go  to  conventions  like  the  recent 
Alliance  at  Washington,  where  neither  Dr.  French 
nor  Bro.  Stevenson  could  get  a  hearing  on  special 
reforms,  but  to  go  to  the  people  in  less  influential 
centers,  where  they  are  better  prepared  for  the  re- 
ception of  the  truth.  It  is  seldom  that  D.  D.s  and 
L.  L.  D.s  will  take  up  a  reform  question  until  it  be- 
comes popular  with  the  masses.  Another  important 
saying  of  Wendell  Phillips  was,  that  "No  reform, 
moral  or  intellectual,  ever  came  from  the  upper 
classes  of  society.  Bach  and  all,"  says  he,  "comes 
up  from  the  protest  of  martyr  and  victim." 

Chariton,  Iowa. 


MASONIC  MINISTERS. 


Br   ELDBE   N.   CALLENDER. 


BOTTOM  LINE  WORE. 


BY   REV.   M.   A.    GATJLT. 


I  wrote  recently  to  a  leading  W.  C.  T.  U.  worker 
in  a  Missouri  county-seat  for  a  lecture  announcement 
before  their  Union.  The  result  is  a  good  illustra- 
tion of  how  secretism  shuts  the  door  against  reform 
work.  This  lady  laid  the  matter  before  the  Union. 
The  secretary,  a  lady  whose  father  was  a  Mason, 
had  been  at  Lake  Bluff  last  summer,  and  sympa- 
thized with  the  attack  of  John  B.  Finch  on  the  Na- 
tional Christian  Association.  She  opposed  my  lectur- 
ing under  the  auspices  of  the  Union,  for  she  had 
observed  that  I  sympathized  with  the  anti-secret 
cause.  My  correspondent  is  a  devoted  friend  of  our 
cause,  and  at  one  time  president  of  the  Union,  but 
was  unable  to  secure  a  meeting  for  me.  She  says 
that  on  account  of  the  stand  she  has  taken  against 
secretism,  she  is  called  a  crank,  and  has  been  cast 
out  of  the  synagogue,  and  has  lost  her  influence 
with  the  "Good-Lord,  good-devil"  type  of  believers. 
This  devoted  woman  is  sighing  and  crying  over  the 
state  of  affairs,  and  says  she  is  praying  that  God 
will  bring  light  out  of  the  darkness.  She  is  satis- 
fied that  a  great  warfare,  and  much  persecution 
and  trial  awaits  us  before  the  work  is  accomplished. 

It  is  a  serious  question  what  our  duty  is  in  such 
a  case.  Many  will  say.  Let  this  question  of  secret- 
ism alone;  it  will  only  hurt  our  work.  But  I  have 
often  read  the  reply  Miss  Willard  made  in  her  ad- 
dress at  the  Ohio  W.  C.  T.  U.  convention,  when 
some  said  that  to  favor  third  party  prohibition  would 
hurt  their  work  by  making  it  unpopular,  and  there- 
by shutting  off  contributions.     Miss  Willard  said: 


Matthew  Henry,  the  shrewd  commentator,  some- 
where remarks  that  "a  wicked  man  is  the  wickedest 
of  creatures,  a  wicked  Christian  is  the  wickedest  of 
men,  and  a  wicked  minister  is  the  wickedest  of 
Christians."  May  I  not  add  that  a  Masonic  preacher 
is  the  wickedest  of  ministers?  By  Masonic  minister 
T  mean  one  who  loves  and  adheres  to  Masonry  and 
at  the  same  time  professes  to  preach  the  Gospel  of 
Christ.  Can  any  one  but  a  hypocrite  do  this? 
Hypocrites  make  very  wicked  professors  and  more 
wicked  ministers.  Is  it  better  always  to  err  on  the 
side  of  charity?  Often  it  may  be.  But  in  a  world 
where  millions  of  souls  are  led  by  false  prophets 
such  as  Masonic  ministers,  it  is  a  question  whether 
it  is  best  to  err  on  the  side  of  charity  and  embrace 
an  apostate  as  a  prophet,  or  stand  aloof  from  a  real 
prophet  till  we  have  tried  and  proved  him  true. 

Can  a  man  be  less  than  an  apostate,  who  falls 
from  Christianity  to  Freemasonry?  Freemasonry 
defined  is  simply  anti-Christ.  1  will  stake  my  repu- 
tation upon  the  truth  of  this  proposition.  The  Bible 
proofs  of  this  would  make  a  respectable  volume. 
Is  there  a  religion  in  the  world  that  more  definitely 
antagonizes  the  Gospel?  It  can  be  made  to  appear 
that  Masonry  antagonizes  every  rule  of  the  Deca- 
logue and  every  fundamental  principle  of  the  New 
Testament.  Is  it  our  duty,  through  the  plea  of  tol- 
eration or  the  plea  of  charity,  to  fraternize  with  such 
men?  Can  we  do  so  and  be  consistent?  How  can 
we  and  not  disobey  God  who  forbids  fellowshiping 
such?  And  then  I  dare  not  become  responsible  for 
the  great  harm  that  such  a  course  would  do.  Must 
we  then  discriminate  between  Masonic  and  true 
ministers  of  Jesus?  Is  not  the  task  a  grave  and  a 
severe  one? 

Yea,  verily,  and  full  of  embarrassment.  Unwel- 
come as  the  task  is,  it  is  the  better  alternative.  Let 
me  not  seem  to  fellowship  what  my  very  being 
shrinks  from  as  a  moral  pest.  Though  it  pains  my 
soul  to  do  so,  I  must  be  true  to  my  convictions,  and 
as  I  see  things,  true  to  my  God.  Whence  comes 
this  painful  predicament?  Who  is  responsible  for 
it?  He  who  turns  to  "another  gospel  which  is  not 
another."  Has  not  the  time  for  separation  come? 
Paul  regarded  the  Galatians  who  turned  from  the 
Gospel  to  the  law  as  "bewitched."  What  must  be 
thought  of  those  who  turn  from  the  Gospel  to  Free- 
masonry? We  can  see  a  reason  why  a  Jew  should 
go  back  to  the  law  of  Moses  and  to  the  old  rite  for 
justification;  but  for  a  professed  Christian  and  a 
minister  to  go  back  to  the  religion  of  Baal  is  too 
much  for  us  to  fellowship. 


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Janttary  12,  1888 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


3 


Out  of  respect  to  the  memory  of  the  dead  we  at- 
tend the  funeral  of  a  neighbor  and  find  a  Mason  in 
the  desk  to  officiate.  We  are  invited  up.  We  refuse 
to  sit  with  such  a  man  because  in  so  doing  we  must 
in  some  measure  sanction  a  Christless,  heathen  re- 
ligion. Such  a  trial  we  recently  had.  And  the  Ma- 
sonic minister,  though  an  old  man,  of  a  family,  had 
conducted  an  illicit  correspondence  with  another 
man's  wife  under  an  assumed  name,  "Jennie  Dalby," 
and  broke  the  marriage  tie  between  that  woman  and 
her  husband.  If  he  was  not  a  brother  Mason,  as  he 
probably  was  not,  then  he  violated  no  Masonic  law. 
Said  minister  ingeniously  withdrew  from  his  confer- 
ence and  yielded  his  ordination  papers  without 
standing  trial.  He  is  now  preaching  under  the 
sanctions  of  his  conference,  I  am  informed.  I  be- 
lieve he  is  held  up  by  the  lodge.  Lodgery  will  crip- 
ple and  debauch  the  church  in  exact  proportion  as 
she  gives  it  her  fellowship.  Fellowshiping  evil  is 
contamination  by  it,  and  no  power  in  earth  or  heav- 
en can  prevent  the  effect. 

I  am  glad  to  note  that  in  Scranton  City  there  is 
one  Baptist  pastor  who  stands  erect  on  the  lodge 
question.  A  late  incident  will  illustrate.  One  of 
the  champions  of  embryo  Masonry  (Good  Templar- 
ism)  lectured  on  temperance  in  the  new  church  lo- 
cated in  the  part  of  the  city  called  Providence.  Af- 
ter he  got  through  speaking  he  proceeded  to  find  the 
required  number,  ten,  to  organize  a  Good  Templar 
lodge.  They  had  reached  the  number,  less  two,  when 
a  boy  of  15  years,  who  belonged  to  the  church,  was 
asked  to  be  one  of  the  required  number.  A  ranging 
NO  was  the  answer;  whereupon  the  brave  and  good 
pastor  rose  and  said,  "I  have  no  faith  in  lodges,  and 
don't  want  any  lodge  organized  in  this  church." 
No  lodge  was  organized  there. 

How  often  this  contemptible  trap  has  been  sprung 
on  the  pastors  of  the  churches!  None  but  the  cheek, 
"puffed  up"  by  lodgery,  is  capable  of  such  affrontery. 


QOD'8  AMBASSADOR. 


He  that  negotiates  between  God  and  man 

As  God's  ambassador  the  grand  concerns 

Of  judgment  and  of  mercy,  should  beware 

Of  lightness  in  his  speech.    'Tis  pitiful 

To  court  a  grin  when  you  should  woo  a  soul, 

To  break  a  jest  when  pity  would  Inspire 

Pathetic  exhortation ;  and  to  address 

The  skittish  fancy  with  facetious  tales, 

When  sent  with  God's  commission  to  the  heart ; 

So  did  not  Paul.    Direct  me  to  a  quip 

Or  merry  turn  In  all  he  ever  wrote, 

And  I  consent  you  take  It  for  your  text; 

Your  only  one  till  sides  and  benches  fall. 

No ;  he  was  serious  In  a  serious  cause, 

And  understood  too  well  the  weighty  terms  " 

That  he  had  taken  In  charge,  and  could  not  stoop 

To  conquer  those  by  jocular  exploits 

Whom  truth  and  soberness  assailed  In  vain. 

— Cowper. 

THE    CHURCH  AND   THE  LABOR  QUESTION. 

[Address  before  the  Evangelical  Alliance  Congress  at  Wash- 
ington, D.  C  ,  Dec.  8, 1887,  by  Geo.  May  Powell,  Chairman 
American  Arbitration  Councll.J 

Three  years'  intense  work  in  seeking  to  aid  in  se- 
curing Christian  settlements  of  strikes  and  lockouts, 
and  in  advancing  other  phases  of  right  in  the  labor 
question,  has  taught  us  that  the  influence  of  Evan- 
gelical religion  has  been  the  star  of  hope  in  one  of 
the  darkest,  wildest  storms  that  ever  swept  over  our 
country. 

In  this  work  we  have  sometimes  needed  the  coun- 
sel and  influence  of  Senators,  and  merchant  princes, 
and  others.  All  these  have  received  us  kindly,  but 
we  have  never  found  any  practical  co-operation  ex- 
cept from  such  of  these  men  as  were  sons  of  the 
church. 

We  all  see  that  there  are  millions  of  money  in- 
volved in  these  struggles;  but  we  consider  even 
these  vast  sums  small,  beside  the  hunger  and  cold, 
and  mental  and  other  physical  sufferings  of  women 
and  children,  and  of  poor,  helpless,  honest  men  who 
are  more  than  willing  to  work.  But  all  these  mill- 
ions of  dollars,  and  all  this  suffering  combined,  are 
small  beside  the  moral  questions  at  stake.  Giving 
a  man  work,  is  often  to  save  him.  By  parity  of 
reasoning,  to  throw  him  out  of  work  is  to  lose  him, 
and  it  may  be  his  family,  soul  as  well  as  body. 
Therefore,  as  the  Government  Labor  Bureau  Chief 
has  well  said  in  substance,  "The  labor  question  is 
one  of  ethics,"  Hence  the  propriety  of  discussing 
it  in  such  a  presence  as  tnis,  in  the  form  of  the 
"Relation  of  the  Church  to  the  Capital  and  Labor 
Questio'lt." 

If  this  question  is  viewed  through  sordid  and 
selfish  lenses,  it  is  as  enigmatic  as  the  handwriting 
once  on  a  Babylonian  palace  wall.  Its  solution  will 
confuse  and  baffle  those  most  wise  in  worldly  wis- 
dom.     Yet  seen  and  analyzed  in  the  light  of  a  ser- 


mon once  delivered  on  a  Syrian  mountain  for  a  pul- 
pit, its  interpretation  is  arrived  at  with  more  than 
the  clearness  and  precision  of  algebra. 

In  the  work  of  my  Committee  we  have  not  been 
able  to  settle  as  many  of  these  industrial  turmoils 
as  we  could  wish;  but  we  have,  directly  and  indi- 
rectly, settled  those  involving  hundreds  of  millions 
of  dollars.  Better  still,  we  have  helped  those  most 
directly  interested,  to  see  how  to  settle  them  for 
themselves.  Thinking  they  had  done  it  themselves, 
they  were  better  satisfied,  and  so  made  more  willing 
to  abide  more  steadfastly  by  the  results. 

Our  work  has  also  been  so  blessed,  that  we  have 
been  enabled  to  "side-track"  some  gathering  labor 
troubles  off  into  profit-sharing,  or  into  productive  co- 
operative measures. 

In  all  these  lines  of  effort  we  have  relied  l&rgely 
on  scattering  hundreds  of  millions  of  tract  pages  on 
arbitration,  and  other  Christian  measures,  through 
the  secular  and  religious  press.  See  for  example, 
'■'tStrikes,  Lockouts  and  Arbitration"  an  article  in 
the  Century  Magazine  of  April,  1886.  In  it  there 
were  about  a  quarter  million  issue  of  rules  of  aroi- 
tration  which  we  had  tested  in  strike  settlements 
which  we  had  successfully  organized  and  completed; 
also  notes  and  comments  on  the  same,  making  it 
easy  for  many  others  to  satisfactorily  use  them,  as 
many  did,  all  over  the  country,  without  any  further 
action  on  our  part.  Over  a  further  million  of  these 
rules  were  issued  and  scattered  through  republica- 
tion from  this  magazine,  by  local  newspapers  from 
ocean  to  ocean.  Better  still,  accounts  of  how  such 
troubles  had  been  prevented  by  such  conciliation  as 
that  in  the  Peace  Courts  of  France,  and  by  the  cul- 
ture of  Christian  relations  between  those  earning 
and  paying  wages,  was  set  forth  in  that  paper  and 
its  more  than  a  million  re-issue.  See  also  an  ad- 
dress of  ours  on  the  general  subject  of  Industrial 
Friction  before  the  Managers  of  the  Chicago  Board 
of  Trade,  October  26,  1886,  and  an  address  on 
"Profit-sharing"  we  gave  at  the  Social  Science  Con- 
gress at  Saratoga,  September  9,  1887. 

We  treat  liquor  and  tobacco  as  the  great  side- 
track of  waste  of  billions  of  the  people's  money, 
and  Christian  temperance  work,  especially  that  of 
the  W.  C.  T.  U.,  as  the  track  to  run  this  treasure 
into  the  true  economic  interests  of  labor  and  capi- 
tal. We  claim  that  "under-consumption"  is  a  term 
giving  truer  diagnosis  of  one  great  cause  of  labor 
trouble,  than  ''over-production."  Because:  When  the 
mass  of  the  people  spend  the  two  billions  or  more  of 
dollars,  now  worse  than  wasted  annually  in  drink  and 
dissipation,  in  buying  home-made  products  sorely 
needed  in  their  homes,  the  song  of  labor  will  be 
pitched  in  the  major  instead  of  the  minor  key. 

In  our  public  papers  and  addresses,  we  recognize 
home  and  city  missions — especially  the  latter — as 
the  Gibraltar  of  this  whole  subject.  But  we  find, 
too,  the  weakness,  as  well  as  all  the  strength  we  have, 
in  the  church.  For  example:  We  see  in  the  Sab- 
bath the  base  line  of  this  campaign.  The  question 
being  "one  of  ethics,"  conscience  is  its  spinal  col- 
umn, and  the  Sabbath  the  day  for  it  to  be  given 
strength,  so  that  laborers  and  capitalists  may  see 
just  what  the  golden  rule  demands  of  them,  and 
have  grace  given  to  act  accordingly.  Yet  an  address 
on  the  Sabbath  question  given  by  a  prominent  city 
pastor,  which  we  hoped  to  use  with  good  effect, 
turned  out  instead  to  be  a  weapon  of  the  enemy. 
He  treated  the  Sabbath  of  the  Puritan  as  having  no 
foundation  in  the  New  Testament.  He  took  the 
specific  ground  that  as  the  curved  line  is  "the  line  of 
beauty  in  art,"  so  we  must  vary  our  practice  in  Sab- 
bath observance  by  changing  demands  of  our  times. 
lie  even  sneered  at  the  Puritanism  of  one  who  would 
not  ride  on  a  Sunday  street-car. 

Aside  from  the  theater  being  the  lock  of  strength 
of  the  Demon  of  Impurity,  we  recognize  it  as  a  ter- 
rible enemy  to  the  economic  interests  of  labor  and 
capital  in  exclusively  secular  senses.  It  is  the  place 
where  tens  of  thousands  of  skilled  workmen  and 
women  actually  spend  a  majority  of  their  earnings. 
They  do  this  to  an  extent  that  keeps  them  sharply 
up  to  the  danger  line  financially.  Consequently,  in 
time  of  labor  trouble,  the  most  natural  tending  is 
to  swell  the  ranks  of  the  dangerous  classes.  Not- 
withstanding this  was  £et  forth  in  a  request  by  our 
commission  to  a  large  and  influential  body  of  clergy 
to  do  some  of  the  kind  of  preaching  on  this  subject 
that  hits  something,  they  declined.  Investigation 
gave  us  sadly  significant  proof  that  they  declined 
for  fear  of  consequences  of  hitting  paying  and  in- 
fluential members  and  officers  of  their  churches. 
But  we  will  not  now  further  multiply  this  class  of 
unpleasant  illustrations. 

Antinomianism  in  the  church,  active  as  well  as 
passive,  is  a  twin  brother  of  anarchy.     It  is  seen  in 
the  treatment  of  domestic  servants;  in 
edness  on   such   subjects  as  the  Sunday  press,  and . . ,     , 
amusement  questions;  in  many  a  church  member  ^°y  "®*"f 


giving  more  money  for  either  theaters  or  tobacco, 
than  for  all  good  purposes  put  together. 

Still,  what  is  wanted,  even  more  than  money,  is 
for  every  Christian  man,  woman  and  child  to  be  an 
active,  every-day  missionary. 

No  man  or  woman  is  likely  to  become  an  anar- 
chist, or  in  any  unwise  sense  a  labor  agitator,  who 
has  been  the  subject  of  personal  mission  work  by 
any  Christian  worker,  young  or  old.  When  these 
sons  and  daughters  of  the  church  are  each  simply 
doing  the  kind  of  daily  mission  work  that  their  own 
spiritual  health,  nay,  li/e  demands,  labor  troubles, 
and  others  like  them,  will  vanish  like  morning  mists 
when  the  sun  arises  in  its  strength. 


THE  RIGHT  UNION. 


un- 
do? 
The 


It  has  been  the  hope  of  the  laboring  man  to  join 
with  his  brother  tradesman  in  a  union.  This  union 
has  had  but  the  one  purpose  of  furthering  its- own 
wages  at  the  expense  of  its  employers,  of  the  public, 
and  of  the  interests  of  law  and  order.  If  the  union 
won  in  any  battle,  territory  accrued  to  its  empire — 
that  is,  wages  went  higher.  If  it  lost,  oppression 
came.  Higher  wages  meant  right ;  lower  wages 
meant  wrong.  Owing  to  the  moral  weakness  of 
such  an  evangel  it  may  be  sorrowfully  said  that  the 
unions  have  in  effect  been  right.  They  have  not 
been  able  to  get  too  much  wages,  though  there  be 
nothing  in  their  code  of  ethics  that  would  reject 
such  a  consummation.  They  have  suffered  unending 
defeats.  Into  this  union  they  would  admit  no  man 
who  was  not  selfishly  interested  in  obtaining  higher 
wages.  He  might  love  his  city,  he  might  dread 
strikes,  he  might  dislike  bossism,  but  if  he  were 
not  a  working  carpenter  he  could  not  be  true  to 
the  carpenter's  union,  said  the  elect.  All  but 
working  carpenters  were  enemies.  Consolidating, 
the  unions  at  last  formed  vast  federations,  and 
though  they  might  call  on  lawyers  to  write  the 
deeds  of  their  association,  still  no  lawyer,  of  all 
the  professionals,  should  join.  It  is  safe  to  say 
that  the  carpenter  who  thus  tabooed  the  lawyers 
never  bought  a  house  or  took  a  mortgage  without 
the  aid  of  one  of  these  men  whom  he  has  thor- 
oughly branded  as  constitutional  enemies  of  society. 
On  a  platform  which  declares  that  only  manual 
toil  is  fair  to  mankind  the  craftsmen  have  striven 
to  better  the  state.  Have  they  succeeded  ?  Will 
they  succeed?  Are  they  now  so  sure  they  are 
right  as  they  were  in  1868?  Is  not  the  employer 
as  proficient  in  the  art  of  selfishness  as  the  em- 
ploye? 

Pushed  thus  to  the  necessity  of  adopting 
selfish  principles,  what  should  the  union  man 
He  should  form  his  union  on  the  true  lines. 
State  of  Illinois  is  his  union.  Anything  that  shall 
be  really  good  for  carpenters  will  be  good  for  Hli- 
nois,  either  now  or  in  the  long  run.  A  play  at 
narrow  unionism  between  Gould  and  the  telegraph- 
ers has  ended  with  Gould  in  complete  control  and 
telegraphers  in  full  rout.  Now  let  the  workingmen 
"join  the  State"  on  thejbasis  of  justice  to  all.  Un- 
der such  an  organization,  where  no  lUinoisan  desired 
to  rob,  it  would  soon  grow  very  uncomfortable  for 
all  stock- waterers  and  would-be  oppressors. — Chi- 
cago Herald. 

m  I  m 

In  the  New  Englanders'  late  commemoration 
of. Forefather's  Day,  December  22,  in  New  York, 
General  Horace  Porter  said,  "The  rugged  old  Puri- 
tan, firm  of  purpose  and  stout  of  heart,  had  the 
courage  of  his  convictions;  he  counseled  not  with 
his  fears.  He  neither  looked  to  the  past  with  re- 
gret, nor  to  the  future  with  apprehension.  He 
might  have  been  a  zealot;  he  was  never  a  hypocrite. 
He  might  have  been  eccentric;  he  was  never  ridicu- 
lous. He  was  a  Hercules  rather  than  an  Adonis. 
In  his  wars  he  fired  hot  shot  He  did  not  send  in 
flags  of  truce,  he  led  forlorn  hopes,  he  did  not  fol- 
low the  wake  of  changes."  "He  was  a  grand  char- 
acter in  history.  We  took  off  our  hats  to  him.  We 
salute  his  memory.  In  his  person  were  combined 
the  chivalry  of  knighthood,  the  favor  of  the  crusader, 
the  wit  of  Gascony  and  the  courage  of  Navarre." 

During  an  exciting  temperance  campaign  in  Lake 
City,  Fla.,  four  temperance  girls  invited  a  young 
man,  who  was  very  influential  on  the  other  side, 
around  behind  the  court  house.  They  asked  him  to 
be  seated,  and,  then  surrounding  him,  closely  held 
him  a  prisoner  until  the  polls  were  closed.  He  was 
a  gentlemanly  young  man,  and,  as  he  could  not  get 
away  without  being  rude,  he  submitted  gracefully. 
Temperance  won  the  day. —  Waferbury  American. 

When  Jesus  came  into  our  earth,  the  world 
turned  him  out  of  doors;  but  when  he  comes  tosanc- 

alacVT^ist^  I  ^-^'y-  ^®  ^"™^  ^^®  ^^^^^  °"^  °'  dooTB.     Reader,  has 
I  ^^  ^yjQgfi  ^jjg  world  out  of  thy  doors,  the  doors  of 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSUREJ. 


January  12,  1888 


OUR  WASHINGTON  LETTER. 


Washington,  Jan.  7th,  1888. 
The  first  week  in  January  having  been  made  a 
week  of  prayer  by  all  the  Christian  churches 
throughout  the  world,  union  meetings  among  the 
different  denominations  are  held,  and  those  conduct- 
ed by  the  women  in  this  city  are  particularly  inter- 
esting. The  meetings  are  held  early  in  the  morning 
and  at  noon.  The  first  sunrise  meeting  ever  had  in 
Washington  was  held  on  Monday  morning  at  the 
Congregational  church. 

President  Cleveland,  along  with  the  European 
grandees,  felt  moved  to  send  a  Jubilee  gift  to  the 
Pope.  But  in  his  choice  he  was  wiser  than  they:  he 
sent  a  handsomely  framed  copy  of  the  United  States 
Constitution.  This  was  presented,  you  remember, 
through  Cardinal  Gibbons,  instead  of  through  Mr. 
Stalk),  the  American  Minister  at  Rome.  The  cir- 
cumstance provoked  some  comment,  but  it  seems 
the  President  had  a  very  good  reason  for  this  new 
,  departure.  Mr.  Stallo  is  not  on  good  terms  with  the 
Catholics  at  Rome  and  would  not  have  been  received 
by  the  Vatican  if  he  had  presented  himself.  It  is 
stated  that  at  a  banquet  in  the  "Eternal"  city  to 
which  the  American  was  invited,  one  of  the  cardi- 
nals of  the  Sacred  College  was  among  the  guests, 
and  that  Minister  Stallo,  after  creating  a  scene  by 
announcing  that  he  would  not  participate  in  any  en- 
tertainment in  Rome  where  Catholic  clergymen 
were  invited,withdrew  from  the  house.  I  would  not 
like  to  vouch  for  the  truth  of  this  whole  story,  but 
it  indicates  a  stalwart  devotion  to  conviction  in  our 
Italian  Minister.  It  is  not  surprising  that  Mr.  Cleve- 
land thought  it  necessary  to  take  another  channel 
through  which  to  make  a  present  to  the  Pope. 

The  Fisheries  Commission  resumed  its  meetings 
to-day  in  the  Diplomatic  reception  room  of  the  State 
Department.  This  is  the  most  sumptuous  apart- 
ment which  Uncle  Sam  has  yet  furnished.  The 
distinguished  conferees  have  had  a  long  rest  from 
their  leisurely  labors.  The  English  representatives 
of  the  Commission  have  been  visiting  the  Canadian 
Capital,  and  other  Canadian  cities  for  the  past  few 
weeks,  where  they  were  lionized  as  much  perhaps  as 
they  were  in  this  city.  They  claimed  that  Washing- 
ton, when  they  left  it,  was  the  most  hospitable  city 
they  had  ever  seen.  They  were  not  allowed  to  dine 
once  at  their  hotel  while  here.  The  Commission 
holds  but  two  sessions  a  week.  I  suppose  this  slow 
pace  is  maintained  in  its  work  in  order  to  be  in 
keeping  with  its  dignity  as  the  special  international 
parliament. 

Since  I  last  wrote  you,  our  lawmakers  have  re- 
turned from  their  holiday  vacation  to  iheir  desks  in 
the  Capitol,  and  the  brilliant  festivities  of  New 
Year's  Day  have  inaugurated  the  season's  social 
life  in  the  official  world.  No  doubt  is  expressed 
that  the  season  in  the  fashionable  world  will  be  as 
gay  and  giddy  and  brilliant  as  the  lightest-winged 
butterflies  of  Washington  society  could  wish.  But 
Congress  is  more  of  an  unknown  quantity.  It  is 
hoped  and  there  is  some  reason  for  believing  that 
it  will  settle  down  earnestly  to  the  great  tasks  be- 
fore it,  and  that  the  session  will  be  one  marked  for 
hard  work  and  good  work,  but  it  is  not  safe  to 
predict  or  to  hope  too  much  from  Congress.  It 
has  disappointed  us  too  often.  The  countryman's 
caricature  is  not  altogether  undeserved.  He  named 
his  slowest  horse  "Congress,"  because  said  the 
facetious  farmer,  he  never  passes  anything. 

As  usual,  on  New  Year's  Day,  the  scene  at  the 
White  House  was  interesting.  According  to  a  cus- 
tom instituted  by  and  honored  since  the  time  of 
Washington,  the  President  was  "at  home"  to  receive 
the  greetings  and  calls  of  ceremony,  duty,  courtesy, 
curiosity,  or  good  will  and  friendship,  from  all  class- 
es of  people.  This  annual  reception  embodies  all 
the  ceremony  and  all  the  glitter  which  our  republi- 
can simplicity  allows.  The  Supreme  Court,  the 
Diplomatic  Corps,  with  its  foreign  Court  costumes, 
silver  and  gold  lace  and  royal  decorations,  then  Con- 
gress, officers  of  the  Army  and  Navy,  in  full  uni- 
form, the  Civil  service,  the  District  officials,  various 
organizations,  and  lastly  the  people,  prominent  and 
obscure,  rich  and  poor,  passed  through  the  suite  of 
parlors  and  grasped  the  Presidential  hand  and  that 
of  the  first  lady  of  the  land.  The  old  mansion  was 
in  gala  dress  for  the  event.  Flowers  were  in  profu- 
sion everywhere,  and  the  ceremony,  happy  in  its 
traditions,  went  on  with  a  program  similar  to 
that  followed  in  the  early  days,  and  without  any  dis- 
turbing accident  or  incident  worthy  of  mention.  So 
smoothly  did  all  the  arrangements  made  for  last 
Monday's  occasion  run,  that  it  has  been  called  the 
most  perfectly  managed  reception  ever  held  at  the 
White  House.  ♦ 


PRES8  COMMENT. 


The  business  bouses  in  Pittsburgh  and  Allegheny, 
Pa.,  exceed  the  liquor  saloons  by  only  forty-four. 


Certain  labor  organizations  have  resolved  to  boy- 
cott the  product  of  some  of  the  Milwaukee  brewers 
because  of  their  treatment  of  their  employes.  The 
greatest  blessing  that  could  befall  the  working 
classes  of  America  as  a  whole  would  be  the  boycot- 
ting of  the  products  of  all  breweries  and  distilleries, 
wherever  located.  Whisky  and  beer  are  their  worst 
enemies,  the  worst  enemies  of  their  families,  of 
their  prosperity  and  of  their  general  welfare. —  Chi- 
cago Eve.  Journal. 

A  circular  signed  by  the  Rev.  F.  F.  Jewell, 
pastor  of  the  Methodist  church  in  San  Jose,  is  cre- 
ating considerable  consternation  in  religious  and 
temperance  circles  at  the  present  time.  In  it  the 
reverend  gentleman  objects  to  Senator  Stanford  en- 
dowing a  university  for  the  young  with  money  de- 
rived from  an  industry  which  is  annually  causing 
the  ruin  of  hundreds  of  young  men,  and  he  asks  all 
religious  and  temperance  organizations  to  file  pro- 
tests, to  be  presented  to  Senator  Stanford,  asking 
him  to  endow  his  university  with  money  derived 
from  some  other  source  than  the  product  of  the  vine. 
— San  Francisco  Examiner. 

We  gave  some  account,  in  our  issue  of  October 
6  th,  of  the  impression  made  by  Profs.  Drummond 
and  Simpson,  of  Edinburgh,  which  we  had  heard. 
The  opinion  was  expressed  that  possibly  a  process 
of  salvation  by  doing  rather  than  by  at  once  believ- 
ing on  Christ  was  being  taught  by  these  distinguish- 
ed men.  The  Signal,  a  thoroughly  sound  and 
excellent  magazine,  published  in  Edinburgh,  quotes, 
in  its  December  number,  what  we  said  and  adds, 
"We  are  very  far  from  being  surprised  at  the  doubts 
and  apprehensions  expressed  by  our  much  esteemed 
American  contemporary."  The  Signal  strongly 
dissents  from  the  statements  made  by  the  Professors 
that  "the  strongly  intellectual  and  brightest  minds 
(among  the  students  in  the  Universities  and  Colleges 
of  Scotland)  are  skeptical  or  infidel."  It  closes  its 
remarks  by  saying.  "It  is  strange  that  we  hear  so 
much  abroad  about  the  great  work  in  Edinburgh, 
when  we  see  so  little  evidence  of  it  ^at  our  doors." 
— Christian  Instructor. 

If  Dakota  is  admitted  shall  Utah  come  also?  It 
appears  that  not  a  few  Democrats  in  the  House  are 
foolish  enough  to  propose  this  arrangement  in  order 
to  secure  a  Democratic  to  balance  a  Republican  State, 
and  it  is  asserted  that  the  Administration  rather  en- 
courages the  idea.  But  the  more  intelligent  among 
the  Democrats  must  know  what  a  risky  step  this 
would  be,  and  what  a  storm  would  be  excited  against 
their  party  by  it.  The  religious  people  of  America, 
both  North  and  South,  have  the  same  opinion  of 
the  "Latter  Day  Saints"  that  they  always  have  had. 
But  for  the  restraining  power  of  the  Supreme  Court 
it  would  not  be  possible  to  keep  their  abhorrence  of 
this  polygamous  sect  within  the  bounds  of  tolera- 
tion. And  every  man  who  voted  to  place  polygamy 
beyond  the  restraint  of  national  law,  would  be  mark- 
ed for  political  extinction.  Not  only  the  individual 
members,  but  the  party  to  which  they  adhered 
would  suffer  for  their  action.  And  then,  even  if  the 
House  agreed  to  the  measure,  the  Senate  would  be 
sure  to  reject  it  by  more  than  all  the  Republican 
votes. 

Of  course  the  proposal  to  admit  Utah  will  be 
based  on  the  new  State  constitution,  which  forbids 
polygamy.  But  the  whole  Gentile  population  of 
the  Territory,  Democratic  as  well  as  Republican, 
have  warned  the  country  that  such  a  prohibition  is 
valueless,  as  it  would  never  be  enforced  by  any  gov- 
ernment elected  by  the  majority,  the  "Saints." — The 
American,  Philadelphia. 


Reform  News. 


THE  ARKANSAS  CEURGHE8  PREPARING  FOR 
THE  LORD. 


CHURCH  and  school  WORK  AT  LITTLE  ROOIC- 
AND  SECTARIANISM. 


-CASTE 


Little  Rock,  Ark.,  Jan.  4,  1888. 

Dear  Cynosure:— My  stay  at  Pine  Bluff  was  not 
so  profitable  as  was  to  be  desired.  The  people  were 
all  absorbed  in  the  "holidays,"  and  had  little  time 
or  thought  for  reform  principles  and  teachings. 
Nevertheless  some  seed  was  sown.  I  spoke  three 
times  and  distributed  a  good  many  tracts  that  were 
gladly  accepted. 

On  the  30th  I  came  to  Little  Rock,  forty  miles, 
by  the  Arkansas  Valley  Railroad,  which,  like  all 
other  roads  of  this  State,  might  be  improved.  Lit- 
tle Rock  I  found  to  be  a  pleasant,  growing  city  of 
about  33,000  inhabitants.  It  has  three  ratQer  spicy 
daily  papers,  and  several  weeklies.  There  is  about 
the  usual  proportion  of  colored  and  white  churches, 


some  excellent  school  buildings,  and  well  conducted 
public  schools.  There  is  a  considerable  Northern 
and  Western  element,  and  this  city  resembles  more 
the  cities  of  the  Northwest  than  do  similar  towns  on 
the  east  of  the  Mississippi.  There  are  two  Congre- 
gational churches,  the  older  organized  under  the 
patronage  of  the  American  Missionary  Association 
and  composed  of  colored  members.  The  pastor. 
Rev.  Y.  J.  Sims,  is  a  graduate  of  Taladega  College, 
and  reflects  the  principles  and  teachings  of  that  ex- 
cellent institution.  He  has  been  here  five  years  and 
has  made  his  church  work  a  fair  success.  Lest 
some  might  think  that  such  pastors  owe  their  suc- 
cess to  an  intermixture  of  Caucasian  blood,  I  will 
say  that  Bro.  Sims  and  Bro.  Gunner  are  pure  Ne- 
groes, and  are  proofs — if  any  were  needed — of  the 
capacity  of  the  race  to  teach  and  guide. 

The  other  Congregational  church  is  composed  of 
white  members  only,  and  was  organized  under  the 
patronage  of  the  American  Home  Missionary  Soci- 
ety. That  there  should  be  two  Congregational 
churches  in  a  city  of  this  size  is  not  strange.  They 
are  far  enough  apart  to  make  two  a  convenience. 
But  why  in  a  population,  one-third  of  which  is  col- 
ored, one  should  be  all  white,  and  the  other  all  dark, 
is  a  mystery  only  explained  by  the  fact  that  the 
spirit  of  caste  has  invaded  the  mission  churches  of 
the  South,  and  instead  of  casting  it  out,  it  is  pro- 
posed to  sanction  it  by  building  up  two  kinds  of 
Congregationalism. 

The  division  of  the  body  of  Christ  into  sects  of 
any  sort  is  wholly  unwarranted  by  the  Word  of  God. 
Those  who  defend  such  divisions  do  so  on  the  ground 
that  difference  of  opinion  on  doctrinal  points  are  a 
barrier  to  harmonious  work  for  Christ.  Fallacious 
as  this  argument  manifestly  is,  especially  in  view  of 
the  fact  that  such  differences  existed  in  the  primi- 
tive church,  and  were  not  suffered  to  be  the  ground 
of  division,  there  can  be  no  excuse  for  color  line' 
churches.  The  cruel  prejudice  and  brutal  treatment 
which  the  colored  people  of  the  South  are  continu- 
ally receiving  from  their  white  fellow  citizens  is  but 
a  fuller  carrying  out  of  the  caste  spirit  which  is  man- 
ifested by  all  the  churches.  Northern  Christians  can- 
not consistently  complain  of  the  exclusion  of  the 
Negro  vote  and  the  mobbing  and  hanging  men  with- 
out trial,  while  they  at  the  same  time  say  to  intelli- 
gent, cultured  Christians,  "We  will  not  unite  with 
you  in  church  fellowship  or  church  work."  It  is 
possible  that  something  of  this  blame  belongs  to 
our  "brother  in  black,"  but  as  a  rule  it  does  not. 
All  over  the  South  a  white  Christian  who  visits  a 
colored  church  is  treated  with  kindness  and  consid- 
eration; but  the  very  reverse  is  true  of  the  treatment 
of  colored  Christians  who  visit  white  congregations. 
It  is  said  that  the  Arkansas  Association  made  up  of 
white  churches  has  invited  this  colored  church  to 
unite  with  them.  That  surely  as  far  as  it  went  was 
fraternal,  and  it  is  hoped  that  the  first  church  will 
speedily  accept  the  invitation. 

After  calling  on  Bro.  Sims  and  Rev.  I.  P.  Robin- 
son of  the  First  Baptist  church  and  finding  them  in 
cheerful  sympathy  with  our  reform,  I  arranged  for 
my  Sabbath  work.  At  10  A.  m.  I  attended  Sabbath- 
school  at  the  First  Congregational  church;  at  11,  I 
preached  to  a  not  large,  but  very  intelligent  congre- 
gation. At  3  p.  M.  I  preached  in  the  fine  brick  Bap-  - 
tish  church  to  a  large,  congregation.  This  is  the 
largest  church  in  the  city.  I  did  not  fail  to  tes- 
tify against  the  secret  lodge  system,  and  had  the 
hearty  approval  of  the  pastor.  At  night  I  preached 
again  at  the  Congregational  church  from  Eph.  5: 
11,  12.  I  had  a  good  many  lodge  members  to  hear 
me,  but  all  gave  the  most  earnest  attention,  and  I 
trust  a  good  impression  was  made.  I  was  thankful 
to  have  begun  the  year  with  a  full  day's  work] 

Monday  I  rested  and  wrote.  On  Tuesday  I  vis- 
ited Philander  Smith  College,  the  large  and  excellent 
institution  established  here  by  the  M.  E.  church  for 
the  education  of  the  colored  youth.  I  was  kindly 
received  by  Pres.  Mason,  who  assured  me  of  his 
hearty  sympathy  in  our  work,  and  appointed  me  a 
time  when  I  should  address  the  students.  I  visited 
a  number  of  M.  E.  ministers  who,  though  they  had 
been  entangled  by  the  lodge,  are  now  glad  to  have 
it  opposed.  I  also  attended  the  colored  Baptist 
Educational  Convention,  which  commenced  its  ses- 
sions in  the  First  Baptist  church  and  is  to  continue 
three  days.  Some  able  papers  were  read,  especially 
one  by  Prof.  Booker,  of  the  Baptist  college  of  this 
place,  on  the  missionary  work  of  the  Baptists. 
Rev.  Dr.  Stone  of  Lebanon,  Ohio,  whose  long  expe- 
rience in  college  work  entitled  him  to  speak,  made 
some  able  remarks.  A  lady  whose  name  I  did  not 
get  made  a  strong  speech  on  the  waste  bjvtobacco- 
using  and  other  forms  of  extravagance  and  intem- 
perance. 

Providence  permitting  I  expect  to-day  to  address 
this  convention  on  the  objects  and  work  of  the  N.  C. 
A.;  to-night  to  preach  in  the  First  Congregational 


January  12,  1888 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


church;  to-morrow  to  address  the  students  of  Phi- 
lander Smith  College,  and  next  day  go  to  Hot 
Springs,  Ark.,  to  spend  the  Sabbath.  I  am  thank- 
ful for  a  fair  degree  of  health  and  the  loving  care  of 
our  heavenly  Father.  H.  H.  Hinman, 


Correspondence. 


A   WORKING   CHURCH  AND   PASTOR. 


Apropos  to  the  efforts  of  the  Evangelical  Alli- 
ance to  unite  the  churches  in  evangelistic  work,  the 
study  of  this  book  is  of  great  value.  Dr.  Cuyler's 
church  is  a  model  working  church. 

J.  M.  Foster. 


BRO.  MICHABLB  PLAN  FOR  TEB  MBTHODIST 
EPISCOPAL  CHURCH. 


Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 
Editor  Christian  Cynosure  : — A  volume  has 
been  placed  in  my  hands  entitled,  "Lafayette  Ave- 
nue Church.its  History  and  Commemorative  Services, 
1860  to  1885,  Rev.  Theodore  L.  Cuyler,  Pastor." 
It  is  made  up  of  "Historical  Discourses"  by  Dr. 
Cuyler;  Sabbath-school  Services,  with  addresses  by 
D.  W.  Mc Williams,  John  Wanamaker,  Ralph  Wells 
and  Dr.  Cuyler.  The  reunion,  with  addresses  by 
Mayor  Low,  Dr.  Storrs,  Dr.  Robinson  and  Dr.  Cuyler: 
and  letters  read  from  Joseph  Cook,  T.  DeWitt  Tal- 
mage,  John  B.  Gough,  Prof.  Shedd,  Geo.  L.  Prentiss, 
Ray  Palmer,  Newman  Hall,  Dr-  McCosh,  the  poet, 
Whittier,  and  others;  and  a  historical  sketch  and 
methods  of  church  work. 

The  sermon  contains  this  statement :     "During 
my  present  pastorate  I  have  preached  to  you  2,300 
discourses,  and  have  delivered  over  1,000  public  ad- 
dresses in  behalf  of  temperance  reform  and  of  Sab- 
bath-schools, Young  Men's  Christian   Associations 
and  kindred  enterprises  for  human  welfare.     I  have 
officiated  at  570  marriages,  and  baptized  802  chil- 
dren.    The  total  number  received  into  the  member- 
ship of  this  church  during  this  time  has  been  3,610. 
Of  this  number  1,566  have  united  by  confession  of 
their  (faith  in  Jesus   Christ.     The  number  of  mem- 
bers now  on  our  church  register  is  2,012."     As  to 
method  he  says,  "Personal   contact  with  souls,  per- 
sonal effort  for  souls,  is  the  only  secret  of  success. 
As  far  as  the  minister  is  concerned,  this  requires  the 
most  constant,  unintermitted  pastoral  labor.     My 
own  established  rule  has  been  :  first,  to  try  to  know 
everybody  in  the  congregation;  and  secondly,  never 
to  allow  a  single  day  to  pass  without  more  or  less 
personal  visitation.    The  Bible  and  books   in   the 
morning  and  door-plates  in  the  afternoon  make  a 
good  curriculum  for  a  pastor's  day.     To  carry  out 
thoroughly  a  system  of  personal  oversight;  to  visit 
every  household,  to  stand  by  every  sick  and  dying 
bed;  to  put  one's  self  into   sympathy  with   every 
troubled  brain  and  aching  heart,  is  a  process  that 
strains  the  nerves  and  swallows  up  the  time.    I  dis- 
covered long  ago  that  I  could  not  delve  deeply  in 
the  ,mine8  of  profound  scholarship,  or  roam  in  the 
fields  of  elegant  literature  (much  as  I  love  it),  and 
yet  be  a  faithful  pastor,  too.     So  I  made  my  choice, 
and  I  think  that  eternity  will  show   that  I   'chose 
the  better  part.'" 

Dr.Cnyler  said:  "When  I  was  in  Utah  a  young  man 
came  up  and  said,   'Dr.  Cuyler,  I  was  once  in  your 
Sabbath-school  in  Brooklyn;  I  am  now  teaching  a 
mission-school  up  in  Brigham  canon,  where  there 
are  fifty  bottles  to  one  Bible.  1  came  down  here  to  see 
my  old  pastor.'      Another  one  met  me  in  California 
and  took  me  by  the  hand  and  said,    'When  did  you 
see  father  and  mother  in  Brooklyn?'  and  then  broke 
down  and  could  say  no  more.     That  young  man  is 
out  in  California  at  work.    Lafayette  Avenue  Sab- 
bath-school has  its  representatives  all  over  the  world." 
Mayor  Low   said:     "When   I   was   first  elected 
mayor  of  Brooklyn,  I   received  a  letter  in  a  hand- 
writing that  has  since  become  familiar  to  me — the 
handwriting  of  Dr.  Cuyler,  whom  up  to  that  time  I 
had  never  net  personally.     He  asked  if  he  might 
venture  upon  the  privilege  of  an  old  man  addressing 
a  young  one  in  order  to  give  a  piece  of  advice.     The 
words  containing  this  advice  were  these:   'Never  be 
afraid,   Mr.   Mayor,  of  offending   individuals.     No 
matter  what  you  do,  you  must  offend  some;  but  be 
very  careful  that  you  never  offend  the  common  sense 
of  the  community  at  large.'     If  Dr.  Cuyler  has  been 
preaching   such   doctrine  as   that    for    twenty-five 
years  in  this  Lafayette  Avenue  Church,  I  do  not 
wonder  that  this  church  and  this  pulpit  have  been 
such  a  source  of    power."      Dr.    Storrs    quoted  a 
Scotch    anecdote.      "One  Sabbath  a  woman  came 
into  the  kirk  a  little   late.       Now    in    the  kirk  a 
man's  text  is  called  a  'groun.'     The  good  woman 
came  late,  as  I  have  said,  and  the  minister  had  com- 
menced his   sermon.     Accordingly   she   asked   an- 
other woman,   'Where's   his  groun?'     'His  groun!' 
replied  the  neighbor,  'he  lost  that  an  hour  ago,  an' 
he's  been  swimming  ever  since.'  1  have  seen  a  great 
many  ministers   who   reminded   me  of  that  story. 
They  have  been   swimming  around  from  place  to 
place,  and  many  of  them  have  had  hard  work  to 
keep  afloat      I  think  our  brother  has  been  right  in 
trying  to  keep  his  ground,  and  I  think  you  have 
been  wise   •    keeping  him  here." 


Some  time  since  the  editors  of  the  Christian  Cyno- 
sure allowed  me  to  publish  an  article  entitled  "A 
Plan  Proposed  to  Lovers  of  Righteousness  in  the 
Methodist  Episcopal  Church."  I  have  received 
many  assurances  of  approval  of  the  method  recom- 
mended in  that  article.  What  I  want,  however,  and 
what  I  believe  God  wants,  is  action.  After  further 
consideration  and  examination,  I  am  more  thor- 
oughly convinced  than  ever  of  the  practicability  of 
the  scheme,  and  of  the  eternal  good  which  must  re- 
sult from  its  thorough  and  correct  application. 

The  complete  conception  of  Bible  holiness  includes 
the  ideas  of  renunciation,  reformation  and  righteous- 
ness. I  greatly  desire  to  put  copies  of  the  "Plan" 
and  the  tracts  which  explain  it  in  the  hands  of  all 
who  admit  this  statement  to  be  true,  and  who  are 
willing  to  be  governed  by  it  no  matter  what  the  cost 
may  be.  As  I  put  the  tracts  in  their  hands,  I  shall 
pray  that  God  will  burn  the  truth  into  their  souls. 
To  every  one  who  will  send  me  two  one-cent  stamps, 
I  will  agree  to  mail  one  copy  of  the  Plan,  one  copy 
of  "A  Word  Concerning  the  Plan,"  and  one  copy  of 
"An  Appeal  to  the  Holy  People  in  the  Methodist 
Episcopal  Church." 

Please  do  not  throw  this  aside  as  a  catch-penny 
arrangement.  Gladly  would  I  give  these  tracts 
away  by  the  tens  of  thousands  were  I  able  to  do  so. 
With  one  cent  required  for  postage,  you  get  for  the 
other,  thirty-four  pages  of  printed  matter.  I  do  not 
ask  to  make  anything,  as  far  as  money  is  concerned, 
out  of  the  undertaking.  Should  you  want  larger 
quantities,  send  money  instead  of  stamps,  and  order 
according  to  the  prices  given  on  the  tracts. 

When  you  work  the  Plan,  be  sure  to  report  the 
result. 

I  will  be  very  thankful  to  the  editors  of  other 
journals  who  will  give  this  note  a  place  in  their  col- 
umns. J.  T.  Michael, 

619  Third  St.,  N.  W.,  Washington,  D.  C. 


a  trip  to  the  different  Swedish  settlements,  several 
already  having  their  small  church  buildings,  one  of 
stone,  the  material  of  the  remainder  being  turf. 
When  he  had  gladdened  them  all  with  the  preaching 
of  the  Gospel,  he  returned  to  his  family,  which  he 
had  left  in  the  new  built  parsonage,  in  a  place  named 
Boaz,  in  the  middle  of  Logan  count}',  Page  being 
the  post-office.  The  parsonage  is  as  yet  the  only 
house  in  the  new  town,  but  lots  are  sold  to  the  value 
I  of  $3,000,  mostly  to  Swedes.  Consequently  the 
congregation,  few  as  yet,  has  to  meet  in  the  minis- 
ter's dwelling;  but  next  summer  there  will  be  a  con- 
gregation of  perhaps  300  communicants.  In  the 
five  counties  70,000  acres  are  bought  by  Swedes, 
1,500  in  the  number,  and  more  will  buy.  I  think  it 
is  more  common  in  the  West  that  a  new  town  has  a 
saloon  and  gambling  house  in  the  first  place,  but 
here,  exceptionally,  the  parsonage  was  the  first  one. 

A.  R.  Cervine. 
Note. — Prof.  Cervine  will  remember  that  we  do 
not  vote  directly  for  President  In  order  to  have  a 
ballot  counted  for  a  certain  candidate  it  must  bear 
the  names  of  the  electors  who  are  understood  to  be 
pledged  to  that  candidate. 


8ECRBTART  PARVIN'S  LIBRARY. 


LUTHERANS  ASSISTING  NB8T0R1A. 


Rock  Island,  III,  Jan.  2,  1888. 
Editor  Cynosure: — You  have  been  pleased  to 
name  me  among  the  contributors  to  your  paper.  My 
contributions  have  been  very  few  and  small.  In 
the  issue  of  December  22  you  had  an  item  about 
Pera  Johannes,  the  Nestorian.  A  near  relation  to 
Pera  Johannes,  and  of  the  same  old  Nestorian 
church  at  Kurdistan,  Persia,  has  been  visiting  this 
country  again,  visiting  it  six  years  ago  to  find  some 
help  for  his  school  work  at  home.  For  help  he  has 
applied  to  the  Lutherans,  nearly  exclusively,  and 
those  from  the  three  northern  countries  of  Europe, 
who  are  giving  an  uninterested  aid  without  any  pros- 
elyting purpose.  He  has  got  about  $1,000  up  to  the 
end  of  the  year  just  gone,  and  he  will  have  more. 
He  will  go  back  this  month,  since  he  at  New  York 
attended  to  the  printing  of  the  catechism  (Luther's 
Smaller)  from  the  English,  which  he  has  translated 
to  his  Syro-Chaldean  tongue. 

I  am  very  well  satisfied  to  see  what  side  you  have 
taken  respecting  our  Democratic  President,  Mr. 
Cleveland,  and  his  last  message.  It  is  a  pleasure 
to  find  his  recommendation  agrees  with  the  platform 
of  the  American  party.  For  both  President  Cleve- 
land and  his  message,  I  think  the  most  of  the  Re- 
publican papers  of  every  tongue,  as  far  as  I  have 
seen,  are  too  slow  to  acknowledge  his  merit,  but 
quite  ready  to  point  at  his  least  mistake.  Mr.  Cleve- 
land is  not  a  full  free-trader,  and  I  am  not,  but  that 
the  duties  may  be  partly  taken  away,  I  think  both 
correct  and  useful.  For  one,  I  wonder  they  were 
not  reduced  long  ago.  Thirty  per  cent  is  the  tax  on 
printed  books;  let  it  be  retained  for  English  print, 
but  for  books  of  any  other  tongue  it  is  barbarous, 
indeed,  and  to  no  help  for  anybody. 

I  think  that  many  Republicans  will  vote  for  Mr. 
Cleveland  at  our  next  election.  I  will  do  it,  at  least, 
if  the  Republican  is  Mr.  Blaine,  or  one  of  his  kind. 
I  suppose  it  will  be  lawful  to  put  in  Mr.  Cleveland 
at  the  head  of  the  Republican  ticket  for  that  which 
may  be  given.     Please  enlighten  and  oblige. 

Western  Kansas  and  adjoining  parts  of  Colorado 
are  (luickly  settled  by  Swedes.  The  Kansas  Confer- 
ence of  the  Augustana  Synod  called  a  minister,  Rev. 
Stuntine,  at  Austin,  Texas,  to  take  a  charge  com- 
prising five  counties  in  the  northwestern  part  of  the 
State;  Logan  county  in  the  middle.  This  minister 
arrived  about  the  end  of  November,  and  first  made 


Cedar  Rapids,  Iowa,  Jan.  2,  1888. 
Dear  Cynosure: — Some  fourteen  years  since  I 
left  the  M.  E.  church  in  this  city  because  I  was  un- 
able to  endure  the  ordeal  of  being  told  the  way  of 
life  by  adhering  Masonic  ministers.  The  pastor  of 
the  church  (Presbyterian)  I  now  attend  in  his  New 
Year's  discourse  yesterday  seemed  to  lay  emphasis 
on  our  duties  in  making  a  new  departure  for  a  better 
life  with  the  commencement  of  the  coming  year. 
He  said  even  if  we  failed  to  come  up  to  the  line  of 
life  and  experience  we  aimed  at,  it  were  better  so 
than  not  to  have  made  the  attempt  Perhaps  so.  I 
have  failed  in  dropping  you  a  line  or  two  the  past 
year  to  let  you  know  how  the  warfare  prospers  here- 
abouts, and  will  try  and  begin  to  amend  in  that  re- 
spect 

About  two  years  since  the  disciples  of  the  "Hand- 
maid" built  a — what  I  think  is  denominated  a  State 
library  building,  quite  an  imposing  structure  on  the 
principal  avenue  of  the  city.  On  the  front  door  in 
large  gilt  letters  is  written:  "Open.  Walk  in." 
The  back  part  of  the  building  seems  to  have  no  win- 
dows on  the  sides  but  is  lighted  altogether  through 
the  roof.  I  have  had  some  curiosity  to  see  the  in- 
side, but  have  been  in  doubt  as  to  the  welcome  I 
should  receive  if  I  should  attempt  to  walk  in,  and 
even  the  most  courteous  treatment  I  am  afraid  would 
hardly  be  properly  appreciated  on  my  part  At  any 
rate  I  have  not  set  any  time  as  yet  for  a  formal  call. 
The  building  stands  there  looking  innocent  and 
quiet  enough.  I  also  have  seen  the  party  in  charge. 
Prof.  Parvin,  a  man  advanced  in  years  and  of  gen- 
tlemanly look.  I  judge  from  a  Masonic  view  the 
whole  investment  is  a  success.  It  looks  to  me  as  if 
they  had  roped  in  to  lodge  communion  nearly  all  the 
young  men  in  the  city  of  both  church  members  and 
outsiders. 

I  don't  know  as  the  Scripture  is  quite  fulfilled 
here  where  it  says  that  no  man  might  buy  or  sell 
unless  he  had  the  mark  of  the  beast  in  his  hand  or 
his  forehead.     I  haven't  seen   any   marked   in  the 
forehead  as  yet;  but  let  any  one  run  for  any  munic- 
ipal or  county  or  State  office  worth  having,  who  can't 
give  the  grip  with  his  hand,  and   I  guess  he  will 
"think   somedings"  when   he  sees   the  count     No 
doubt  some  Mason  who  reads  this  will  say  this  is  a 
capital  article;  it  proves   that  it  pays  to  join  us. 
Very  well,  admit  it;  in  a  certain  sense  it  does  pay. 
It   pays   the  Standard   Oil   Co.   to   so   manipulate 
both  financial  and  political  affairs  so  as  to  make  im- 
mense profits  and  crush  out  all  honest  competitors 
regardless  of  right  and  etiuity.     It  pays  the  steel 
rail  monopoly  to  keep  up  a  tariff  of  $14  per  ton  on 
steel  rails.     It  pays  railroad  projectors  and  builders 
and  stock  diluters  to  carry  on  their  divers  and  va- 
rious tricks  and  ways  and  so  on  to  the  end  of  many 
chapters.     You  see  it  pays.     No  doubt  in  the  world 
about  it     But  does  any  fraud,  or  trickery,  or  double 
dealing  ever  pay,  by  which   one  man  obtains  that 
which  in  strict  equity  and  right  belongs  to  another? 
I  mean  in  that  higher  and  fuller  sense  in   which  a 
man  can  look  up  towards  God  and  from  a  full  heart 
thank  him  for  his  worldly  possessions  and  feel  that 
in  his  sight  he  has  come  honestly  by  them.     Does 
it  pay  in  the  riches  that  are  abiding  and  eternal;   in 
peace  with  God  and  a  joyful  sense  of  his  loving 
presence  in  the  soul? 

I  hear  Major  Whittle  is  coming  here  to  preach  next 

week.     He  is  to  commence  at  the  M.  E.  church.     It 

is  a  good  place  to  begin.     Then,  it  is  said,  after  he 

gets  well  under  way,  Mr.  Moody  will  come  on  and 

him  some  assistance.     He  had   better  come 


give 


6 


TEE  CHRISTIAN  CTNOSXJKB. 


January  12,  1888 


right  on  at  once.  The  ground  needs  a  double  team 
from  the  word  go;  and  if  the  Apostle  Paul  could 
possibly  be  got  to  come  they  will  need  him  too,  for 
how  they  will  ever  get  God  to  help  them  unless  they 
tell  the  church  Masons  their  sins  in  plain  English 
and  by  name  and  get  them  to  confess  and  renounce 
in  public  their  lodge  oaths  and  attendant  abomina- 
ble iniquities  along  with  their  other  sins,  and  get 
them  thoroughly  purged  and  cleansed  to  start  on,  I 
cannot  understand.  Either  Finney,  Ronayne  and 
others  are  liars  of  the  first  water,  or  else  God  differs 
from  what  1  read  of  him  in  his  Word,  if  with  the 
average  Masonic  Christian  outfit  in  this  latitude,  we 
have  a  work  of  grace  that  will  be  genuine  and  abid- 
ing. There  won't  be  any  use  in  ignoring  the  facts 
here  set  out.  No  lodge  devil  cast  out,  no  work  of 
lasting  grace,  "Keep  not  thou  silence,  O  God;  hold 
not  thy  peace  and  be  not  still,  0  God.  For  lo,  thine 
enemies  make  a  tumult,  and  they  that  hate  thee 
have  lifted  up  the  head.  They  have  taken  crafty 
counsel  against  thy  people  and  consulted  against 
thy  hidden  ones.  As  fire  burneth  a  wood,  and  as 
the  flame  setteth  the  mountains  on  fire,  so  persecute 
them  with  thy  tempest  and  make  them  afraid  with 
thy  storm.  Fill  their  faces  with  shame  that  they 
may  seek  thy  name,  0  Lord,"  N,  Bourne, 


TEE   W.    C.    T.    U.    OPPOSED    BY   LODGES  IH 
PENNSYLVANIA. 


Custer  City,  Pa, 
Bradford,  Pa.,  with  its  12,000  inhabitants,  has  be 
tween  twenty  and  thirty  secret  lodges  and  ten 
churches  including  two  synagogues,  one  Roman 
Catholic  and  one  Universalist.  Mrs,  S.  told  me  she 
asked  a  lady  from  Derrick  City  (a  suburb)  why  they 
didn't  organize  a  W.  C.  T.  U.  in  Derrick,  seeing  they 
had  such  a  temperance  element.  Her  reply  was, 
"We're  so  lodge  ridden  and  so  poor  we  can't  sustain 
one.  It  is  lodge,  lodge,  lodge,  every  night  of  the 
week," 

I  learn  that  the  "Sons  and  Daughters  of  Temper- 
ance" (?)  have  broken  up  two  or  three  W,  C,  T, 
Unions  in  this  county,  notably  at  Port  Alleghany; 
but  there  the  Division  died  and  the  W.  C,  T,  U,  has 
arisen  again.  I  quote  you  from  a  letter  to  me  from 
the  president  of  the  Coryville  W.  C.  T.  U.  (this 
county)  a  short  time  since:  "We  have  not  been  able 
to  get  a  meeting  for  a  long  time,  but  last  Thursday 
evening  succeeded  in  getting  a  new  organization, 
and  can  find  nothing  but  sectarian  selfishness  at  the 
bottom  of  it  all;  and  as  an  order  of  Sons  and 
Daughters  of  Temperance  has  been  organized  here 
they  had  hoped  to  run  out  the  W.  C.  T.  U.,  but  my 
hope  is  in  God."  Miss  Willard  ought  to  see  the 
parasite  preying  upon  her  unions.  I  understand 
the  Division  in  Bradford  are  trying  their  best  to 
proselyte  the  ladies  of  the  union  there.  Oh,  for  an 
anti-secret  bomb  to  be  thrown  into  this  lodge-cursed 
district.  The  M,  E.  pastor  at  Custer  City  came  here 
an  Odd-fellow,  but  anti-lodge  light  was  thrown  upon 
him  and  I  understand  he  has  said,  "I  have  got 
through  with  it;"  but  I  have  not  heard  it  from  his 
own  lips, 

God  bless  the  Cynosure,  its  faithful  staff  and  all 
the  men  and  women  of  God  who  let  their  light 
shine,  and  help  me  to  keep  mine  always  bright. 

J.  C.  Young. 


UNITED 


BRETHREN  IN  AFRICA 
AMERICA. 


AND 


AVALON,   Mo. 

Editor  Cynosure: — In  the  Dec.  15  number  of 
your  paper,  I  find  a  letter  from  Bro.  Gomer  of  Af- 
rica, which  to  me  is  very  interesting;  but  it  sug- 
gests some  questions  that  puzzle  me.  For  thirty 
years  our  family  have  been  deeply  interested  in 
the  prosperity  of  that  mission.  We  have  been  will- 
ing in  our  poverty  to  deny  ourselves  the  comforts 
of  life  that  we  might  help  that  work.  We  felt 
that  the  United  Brethren  church  ought  to  carry  the 
Gospel  to  these  benighted  people,  because  of  the 
stand  she  took  against  the  curse  of  slavery  and  se- 
crecy, two  of  the  worst  evils  that  bound  and  fet- 
tered these  poor  heathen.  We  believed,  too,  that 
that  was  the  reason  that  God  so  favored  and  pros- 
pered our  mission  and  missionaries  there. 

After  reading  what  Bro.  Gomer  says  as  to  the 
wickedness  of  secret  societies  there,  and  the  stand 
he  feels  compelled  to  take  against  them,  the  ques- 
tion comes.  What  will  the  church  do  about  it? 
Shall  we  have  two  sets  of  rules,  one  to  govern 
United  Brethren  in  Africa  and  one  for  those  on  this 
side  of  the  Atlantic?  If  our  missionaries  over  there 
insist  on  teaching  the  heathen  that  they  must  give 
up  their  lodges  to  be  Christians,  how  will  these  con- 
verts feel  whp.n  they  become  aware  of  the  fact  that 
in  America  United  Brethren  preachers,  elders  and 
bishops  are  teaching  their  converts  that  they  can 


take  lodge  oaths,  can  fellowship  ungodly  men,  drunk- 
ards, atheists,  infidels  and  all  kinds  of  wicked  men; 
and  whoever  teaches  and  believes  otherwise  is  nar- 
row minded,  and  should  either  get  out  of  the  church 
or  forever  hold  their  peace  on  this  vexed  question? 

If  we  continue  to  give  through  the  United  Breth- 
ren church,  will  it  help  to  build  up  secrecy  or  help  to 
tear  it  down?  This  is  the  question  we  have  been 
puzzled  over.  The  colored  race  must  be  saved  from 
the  slavery  of  the  lodge — no  question  about  that; 
but  how  and  by  whom,  is  the  question  that  is  con- 
tinually arising  in  the  hearts  of  those  loyal  to  the 
kingdom  of  Christ, 

Are  there  still  but  the  two  kingdoms  in  the  world, 
the  kingdom  of  light  and  the  kingdom  of  darkness? 
Can  the  Christian  belong  to  both  of  these  kingdoms 
at  the  same  time?  We  know  that  all  along  the 
history  of  the  ages  there  has  been  a  terrible  con- 
flict going  on  between  these  two  powers.  Has  the 
nature  of  things  so  changed  that  men  belonging  to 
both  these  kingdoms  can  clasp  hands  in  a  brother- 
hood dearer  to  their  hearts  than  the  kingdom  of 
Christ?  Or  is  it  our  brethren  who  have  changed, 
and  are  going  now  to  leave  the  Master  to  fight  this 
battle  with  the  powers  of  darkness  alone?  It  is 
well  known  by  our  brethren  that  Masonry  rejects 
Christ,  and  it  is  the  corner-stone  of  the  whole  secret 
system.  It  certainly  does  not  belong  to  the  king- 
dom of  light,for  it  receives  the  ungodly  and  sinners, 
the  unbelievers  and  infidels  alike. 

In  the  olden  time  God  commanded  his  servants 
to  "break  up  the  fallow  ground;"  to  "sow  not  among 
thorns;"  but  to-day  the  order  seems  to  be  reversed. 
The  church  has  decided  not  only  to  sow  among,  but 
help  to  cultivate  thorns.  But  the  question  is.  What 
shall  we  do?  If  our  money  belongs  to  the  Lord, 
we  ought  to  feel  that  what  little  we  have  should  all 
be  used  to  help  the  Master  tear  down  the  kingdom 
of  darkness.  We  see  no  better  way  than  the  one 
proposed  by  the  N.  C.  A. ,  to  enlighten^  and  save  the 
colored  man  in  the  South,  and  then  God  will  raise 
up  scores  of  these  to  go  and  teach  a  pure  Christi- 
anity to  their  brethren  in  their  native  land.  And 
while  we  do  this  we  will  pray  God  to  deliver  Bro. 
Gomer  from  the  position  the  church  has  placed  him 
in,  so  that  he  can  assure  his  converts  that  his  church 
has  but  the  one  law  for  the  church  in  America  and 
in  Africa,  and  that  every  dollar  paid  to  the  United 
Brethren  church  goes  to  help  the  Master  in  the  con- 
flict against  the  powers  of  darkness.    A.  Butler. 


PITH  AND  POINT. 


GOOD   WORDS   FOR   THE   SOUTHERN   FUND. 

I  hope  the  fund  for  colored  ministers  of  the  South  may 
be  reached.  Nothing  can  be  of  more  moment  to  the  in- 
terests within  this  reform.  If  I  can  find  something  to 
help  the  cause  I  shall  do  it. — Nathan  Callender. 

I  hope  that  we  may  get  the  $1500. — M.  R.  Britten. 

I  send  you  my  mite,  $5.00,  to  help  in  sending  the  Cy- 
nosure South.  I  am  glad  there  are  others  that  can  do  so 
much  more  than  I  can  and  I  am  glad  so  many  are  willing 
to  do .  I  wish  I  could  do  more .  I  wish  the  Cynosurd 
might  be  read  by  all  the  families  in  our  land. — Mbs.J.A. 
Bingham. 

Enclosed  you  will  find  P.  O.  order  for  ten  dollars  for 
the  fund  for  the  Cynosure  for  the  Southern  ministers, and 
may  the  blessing  of  the  Lord  go  with  it.— O.  C.  Blanch- 
abd. 

The  balance  of  the  draft,  $15.00,  is  for  the  colored 
Baptist  ministers'  fund  of  the  South.  My  prayer  is  that 
God's  blessing  may  rest  on  your  labors. — Josiah  Tal- 
bot. 

I  have  been  looking  and  praying  sine  e  the  effort  to 
send  a  thousand  copies  of  the  Cynosure  to  the  colored 
ministers  at  the  South  was  put  forth  that  the  good  Lord 
would  open  the  way  that  I  might  aid  with  the  rest.  And 
now  in  the  afternoon  of  the  last  day  it  comes  around  and 
I  inclose  $1  for  that  fund.— Chauncey  Reynolds. 

a  seceded  GBAND  MASTEE  on  the  baptists  of  TEXAS. 

I  am  thoroughly  convinced  that  secret  societies  are 
anti-Christian  and  the  church  should  condemn  them.  I 
was  once  Grand  Master  of  the  United  Brothers  of  Friend- 
ship for  this  State,  and  after  hearing  lectures  in  these  se- 
cret meetings,  in  which  God's  church  was  evil  spoken  of, 
I  quit  the  order.  This  society  is  the  strongest  in  this 
country  west  of  the  Mississippi  and  south  of  the  Ohio 
rivers .  This  is  a  secret  society  of  colored  men .  The 
colored  Baptists  of  Texas  have  quit  worshiping  God  and 
have  gone  after  the  secret  society,  and  I  wish  it  was  in 
my  power  to  travel  over  this  State  and  preach  against 
whisky  and  secret  societies. — J.B.R.,  Calvert,  Texas. 

THE  (!.  A.  B.  AND  CHURCH  DISCirLINE. 

I  hope  with  the  Lord's  help  and  blessing  soon  to  be  able 
to  help  support  our  cause  against  the  demon  of  secretism. 
Father, now  79  years  old, a  thorough  Christian  and  schol- 
ar, translated  several  pieces  from  the  Cynoiure  for  the 
Hollandiah  papers  and  continues  to  do  so.  I  wish  you 
would  give  us  a  strong  article  on  the  Q.  A.  R.,  showing 
it  up  to  be  the  same  Masonic  religion,  under  the  cover  of 
seduction,  military  terms  and  titles,  and  that  it  is  one  of 
the  regular  acknowledged  secret  societies.      We  have  a 


member  of  our  church  who  lately  joined  the  G.  A.  R., im- 
agining it  to  be  all  right.  He  will  be  forced  to  leave  it, 
or  be  disciplined,  as  soon  as  the  Consistory  is  satisfied 
that  it  is  as  I  know  it  to  be. — Hollander. 

LOCAL   OPTION   IN   OHIO. 

J.  M.  Poster  in  his  correspondence  dated  Dec.  22,1887, 
at  Brooklyn,  N.  T.,  says,  "In  not  a  single  village  where 
local  option  has  been  adopted  are  the  saloons  closed." 
This  refers  to  Ohio.  My  knowledge  is  limited  to  three 
villages  that  have  adopted  local  option.  Mount  Victory, 
Hardin  Co.,  Ohio,  and  Rushsylvania  and  Belle  Centre, 
Logan  Co., Ohio,  and  the  reverend  correspondent  can  not 
find  an  open  saloon  in  anyof  the  three  villages. — Pro- 
hibition Republic.vn. 


Bible  Lesson. 


STUDIES  IN  THE  NEW  TESTAMENT. 
LESSON  IV.— Jan.  22.— Jesus  and   the  Afflicted.— Matt.  15: 
21-31. 

GOLDEN  TEXT.— Is  any  among  you  afflicted,  let  him  pray. 
— James  5 :13. 

lOpen  the  Bible  and  read  the  lesson.^ 
COMMENTS   ON   THE  LESSON   BY  E.  E.  FLAGQ. 

1.  The  woman  of  Canaan .  vs.  21-23.  The  half -heath- 
en people  of  Tyre  and  Sidon  corresponded  in  some  de- 
gree, in  their  mixture  of  races  and  general  godlessness.to 
the  half -civilized  population  on  our  far  Western  fron- 
tiers .  But  it  was  to  a  widow  woman  in  Sidon  that  Eli- 
jah  was  sent  to  escape  the  vengeance  of  Jezebel,  herself 
a  Sidonian  princess .  True  piety  gives  forth  its  bright- 
est light  in  the  darkest  places .  This  woman's  faith  was 
by  no  means  an  unintelligent,  unreasoning  faith .  She 
addresses  him  as  Lord  and  Son  of  David;  and  yet  he  an- 
swers her  not  a  word.  The  disciples  say,  "Send  her 
away."  This  is  the  common  method  of  humanity  in 
dealing  with  distress  it  cannot  console  or  alleviate.  How 
many  people,  when  a  great  moral  question  presses  upon 
them,  and  they  are  asked  to  combat  popular  wrongs, tac- 
itly say  in  reply,  "We  don't  want  to  think  about  it.  It 
will  disturb  our  peace  of  mind;  it  will  upset  our  favorite 
theories.  We  want  to  let  it  alone."  Bo  said  thousands 
in  regard  to  the  dead  and  gone  slavery  issue.  So  say 
many  in  regard  to  the  saloon .  Tell  them  that  the  lodge 
is  its  ally,  that  its  balls  and  suppers  and  banquets  have 
lured  and  are  still  luring  an  uncounted  throng  into  those 
paths  which  lead  directly  to  the  saloon  and  a  drunkard's 
grave,  and  they  shut  their  eyes  and  stop  their  ears . 
Wrongs  and  abuses  are  tolerated,  not  so  much  because 
society  is  hard-hearted  as  because  it  is  apathetic  and  self- 
indulgent.  If  it  has  no  panacea  for  the  suffering  it  does 
not  want  to  hear  the  cry  of  the  sufferer.  But  the  very 
importunity  which  is  so  troublesome  to  man  is  music  in 
the  ears  of  divine  compassion.  Let  us  not  be  afraid  of 
repeated  askings.  Our  Lord  meant  this  woman  to  be 
the  faith  teacher  for  future  generations,  and  so  he  slow- 
ly and  painfully  taught  her  the  lesson  we  all  need,  to 
knock  until  the  door  is  opened  to  us. 

2 .  T7i.e  humbleness  of  faith,  vs.  24-28 .  Whole  libra- 
ries have  been  written  regarding  the  nature  and  origin  of 
faith.  Here  we  have  Faith  standing  before  us,  a  living, 
breathing  form,  clothed  in  humility,  willing  to  take  the 
lowest  place,  but  not  willing  to  be  turned  off  without  a 
blessing.  True  faith  is  content  to  be  a  fool  for  Christ's 
sake.  She  takes  poor  humanity,  grievously  vexed  with 
the  devils  of  sin  and  vice,  up  in  her  arms,  not  only  be- 
lieving that  they  can  but  that  they  will  be  cast  out.  Re- 
forms do  not  conquer  by  force  of  numbers,  but  by  the 
amount  of  faith  in  the  hearts  of  those  who  carry  them 
on.  It  needs  to  be  like  this  woman's — a  flame  which 
burns  down  every  barrier,  and  finds  fuel  in  the  very  dis- 
couragements cast  in  its  way.  The  anti-secret  reform,  as 
it  is  the  most  unpopular  of  all.is,  from  a  human  point  of 
view,  the  most  discouraging.  But  the  devil  which  has 
always  vexed  humanity  the  sorest  is  the  devil  of  false 
worships,  and  we  know  that  we  have  the  promise  that  he 
shall  be  cast  out.  When  people  say,  "I  am  not  in  sym- 
pathy with  Masonry,  but  it  can  never  be  overthrown  and 
there  is  no  use  fighting  it,"  they  tacitly  say,  "I  don't  be- 
lieve God's  Word."  The  life  of  all  true  reform  is  prayer, 
earnest,  beseeching,  persevering  prayer.  When  every 
ballot  cast  for  the  overthrow  of  intemperance  is  winged 
by  prayer  the  Babylon  of  the  liquor  traflSc  will  go  down 
like  a  millstone. 

3.  The  healing  of  the  multitude,  vs.  29-31.  There  is 
sin  and  suffering  all  about  us  and  we  have  the  same  right 
to  take  the  sins  and  sufferings  of  others  to  Jesus  that  we 
have  to  take  our  own.  The  multitudes  wUl  glorify  God 
when  they  see  his  power,  and  we  ought  to  ask  and  ex- 
pect great  displays  of  that  power,  not  only  in  the  heal- 
ing of  diseased  bodies  but  in  the  casting  out  of  great 
evils,  for  we  are  living  in  those  latter  days  of  which  the 
prophet  wrote,  "I  will  make  the  unclean  spirit  to  pass 
out  of  the  land," 


Janhaet  12,  1888 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


TEB  cmniOHSB  va.  lod(^9st. 

The  following  denominations  are  com- 
mitted by  vote  of  their  legislative  assem- 
blies or  by  constitution  to  a  separation 
from  secret  lodge  worship: 

Adventists  (Seventh-day.) 

Baptists — Primitive,  Seventh-day  and 
Scandinavian. 

Brethren  (Dunkers  or  German  Bap- 
tists.) 

Christian  Reformed  Church. 

Church  of  God  VNorthem  Indiana  El 
dership.) 

Congregational — The  State  Associations 
of  Illinois  and  Iowa  have  adopted  resolu- 
tions against  the  lodge. 

Disciples  (in  part.) 

Friends. 

Lutherans — Norwegian,  Danisb,  Swed- 
ish and  Synodical  Conferences. 

jVIennonites. 

Methodists — Free  and  Wesleyan. 

Methodist  Protestant  (Muineaota  Con 
ference.) 

Moravians. 

Plymouth  Brethren. 

Presbyterian — Associate,  Reformeil  add 
United. 

Reformed  Church  (Holland  Brsnch.) 

United  Brethren  in  Christ. 

Individual  chiu-ches  in  some  of  these 
denominations  should  be  excepted,  in  part 
of  them  even  a  considerable  portion. 

The  following  local  churches  have,  as  a 
pledge  to  disfellowship  and  oppose  lodge 
worship,  given  their  names  to  the  follow- 
ing list  as 

THK   ASSOCIATBD   CHXTRCHES    OF  CHKISt, 

New   Ruhamah  Cong.  Hamilton,  Miss. 

Pleasant  Ridge  Cocg.  Sandford  Co.  Ala. 

New  Hope  iletliodist,  Lowndes  Co.,  Miss. 

Congregational,  College  Sprincs,  Iowa. 

College  Church  of  Christ.  Whe'aton,  111. 

First  Congregational,  Leland,  Mich. 

8ug«r  Grove  Church,  Green  county,  Pa. 

Military  Chapel,  M.  E.,  Lowndes  county, 
'^liss. 

Hopeweil  Missionary  Baptist,  Lowndes  Co., 
Miss. 

Cedar  Grove  Miss.  Baptist,  Lowndes  Co., 
Miss. 

Simon's  Chapel,  M.  E.,  Lowndes  Co.,  Miss. 

Pleasant  Ridge  Miss.  Baptist,  Loirodes  Co., 
.'Vliss. 

Brownlce  Church,  Caledonia,  Miss. 

Salem  Church,  Lowndes  Co.,  Miss. 

West  Preston  Bantlst  Church,  Wayne  Co.,Fa. 

OTHBB  LOCAIj  CHUBCHBB 

adopting  the  same  principle  are — 

Baptist  churches :  N.  Ablngton,  Pa. :  Meno- 
monle,  Mondovl,  Waubeck  and  Spring  Prairie, 
Wis. ;  Wheaton,  HI. ;  Perry,  N.  T. ;  Spring 
Creek,  near  Burlington,  Iowa ;  Lima,  Ind. ; 
Constableville,  N.  Y.  The  "Good  WIU  Assocl- 
ton"  of  Mobile,  Ala.,  comprising  some  twenty- 
five  colored  Baptist  churches;  Bridgewater 
Baptist  Association,  Pa.;  Old  Tebo  Baptist, 
near  LeesvlUe,  Henry  Co.,  Mo. ;  Hoopeston,  111 ; 
Esmen,  lU. ;  Strykersvllle,  N.  Y. 

Congregational  churches :  1st  of  Oberlin,  O. ; 
Tonica.  Crystal  Lake,  Union  and  Big  Woods, 
111. ;  Solsbury,  Ind. ;  Congregational  Methodist 
Maplewood,  Mass. 

Independent  churches  In  Lowell,  Country- 
man school  house  near  Llndenwood,  Marengo 
and  Streator,  111. ;  Bereaand  Camp  Ne'son,  Ky; 
Ustick,  111. ;  Clarksburg,  Kansas;  State  Associ- 
ation of  Ministers  and  Chnrchea  of  Ctarlit  is 
Kamtaekv. 


ANTI'MAaONIO  LS0TURBR8. 

Gbnbkal  Asbnt  ahd  Lbctobbb,  J.  p. 
Stoddard,  221  W.  Madison  St.,  Chicago. 

H.  H.  Hinman,  Cynosure  office. 
Agent  for  Southern  States. 
Statb  AesNTfl. 

Iowa,  C.  F.   Hawley,  Wayne,  Henry 
Co.     Care  Rev.  Geo.  Fry. 

Missouri,  Eld.  Rufua  Smith,  Maryville. 

New  Hampshire,   Eld.  S.  C.  Kimball, 
New  Market. 

Ohio,  W.  B.  Stoddard,  Columbus. 

Kansas,  Robert  Loggan,  Clifton. 

Alabama,  Rev.  G.  M.  Elliott,  Selma. 

Dbobbb  Wobkbbs. — LSeceders.] 
J.  K.  Glassford,  Carthage,  Mo. 
Othbb  Lbctubbbs. 

C.  A.  Blanchard,  Wheaton,  111. 
N.  Callendcr,  Thompson,  Pa. 

J .  H.  Tlmmons,  Tarentum,  Pa 

T.  B.  McCormick,  Princeton,  Ind. 

E.  Johnson,  Davton,  Ind. 

H.  A.  Day,  Wllllamstown,  Mich. 

J.  M.  Bishop,  Chambersburg,  Pa. 

A.  Mayn,  Bloomlngton,  Ind. 

J.  B.  Cresslnger,  Sullivan,  O. 

W.  M.  Love,  Osceola,  Mo. 

J.  L.  Barlow,  Grundy  Center,  Iowa. 

A.  D.Freeman,  Downers  Grove,  111 

Wm.  Fontoo.  St  Paul,  Minn. 

E.  I.  Grlnnell,  Blalrsburg,  Iowa. 

Warren  Taylor,  South  Salem,  O. 

J.  S.Perry,  Thompson,  Conn. 

J.  T.  Michael,  New  Wilmington,  Pa. 

8.  Q.  Barton,  Breckinridge,  Mo. 

E.  Bametson,  Haskinvllle,  Steuben  Co,'N.  Y 

Wm.  R.  Roach,  Pickering,  Ont.       v 

D.  A.  Richards,  Brighton,  Mich. 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


PR0SPBCTU8  FOR  THE    TWENTIETH  TEAR. 


As  we  turn  over  the  leaf  for  another  year  the  Oy- 
nosure  would  again  write  at  the  top  of  the  new  page: 
"Christ  always;  Christ  only."  It  will  more  than  ever 
be  the  purpose  of  all  connected  with  the  paper  to 
make  it  a  power  for  the  coming  kingdom  of  our 
Lord,  before  which  all  the  systems  of  secret  wor- 
ship, mystery  and  iniquity  of  the  great  Babylon 
must  fall.  We  would  be  on  the  Conqukrob's  side 
in  that  day — we  will  stand  for  him  now  in  the  days 
of  testimony  and  of  tribulation. 

The  Cynosure  during  1888  will  give  the  most 
earnest  attention  to  the  South-  The  National  Con- 
vention at  New  Orleans,  Feb.  17th,  and  the  effort, 
which  promises  so  much  success,  to  put 

ONE    THOUSAND   COPIES 

of  the  paper  into  the  hands  of  colored  pastors  gives 
a  direction  to  our  interests.  We  also  hope  that  the 
National  Christian  Association  will  be  able  to  put 
other  workers  into  the  Southern  field. 

The  Minor  Secret  Orders,  so-called,  will  have 

more  respect  given  to  their  insinuating  and  benumb- 
ing influence.  If  Masonry  and  Odd-fellowship  have 
felt  severely  the  attacks  upon  their  strongholds.they 
are  making  good  all  losses  by  training  up  an  army 
of  young  men  whose  convictions  are  paralyzed  in 
respect  to  secretism  by  the  swarms  of  orders  which 
cover  their  modicum  of  lodgery  with  a  bait  of  tem- 
perance, insurance,  patriotism,  good  fellowship,  bus- 
iness aid,  etc.,  etc.  The  Cynosure  will  endeavor  to 
rouse  our  careless  churches  to  see  that  this  evil  is 
likely  to  be  worse  than  the  first. 

We  have  nearly  completed  arrangements  for  spec- 
ial Correspondence  from  the  metropolitan  cities 

in  different  parts  of  the  country.  Our  readers  may 
expect  letters  once  a  month,or  of tener,  from  Boston, 
New  York,  Philadelphia,  Washington,  Cincinnati, 
New  Orleans,  Denver,  San  Francisco  and  Los  An- 
geles. These  letters  will  give  graphic  pictures  of 
the  earnest  American  life  which  throbs  in  our  great 
cities,  with  especial  reference  to  tbe  news  of  the 
lodges  in  each. 

The  very  popular  Biographical  Worit  of  the  CyTw- 
sure  during  the  three  years  past  will  be  continued 
with  some  features  which  will  be  especially  attract- 
ive. During  the  last  year  there  have  appeared  por- 
traits of  George  B.  Cheever,  William  H.  Seward, 
Daniel  Webster,  John  Brown,  Charles  Sumner, 
Charles  Francis  Adams,  Enoch  Honeywell,  Bishop 
Hamline,  Charles  G.  Finney,  Howard  Crosby,  Dr.  C. 
F.  W.  Waither,  and  Alexander  Hamilton.  These 
portraits  have  been  accompanied  with  sketches 
which  have  presented  facts  of  profoundest  interest 
to  our  discussion,  collated  after  diligent  and  often 
exhaustive  search. 

Letters  from  foreign  lands  we  expect  to  be  more 
frequent  and  valuable  in  1888  than  ever.  Corre- 
spondents in  England,  Germany,  Greece,  Turkey, 
India,  West  and  South  Africa,  China  and  Mexico 
will  through  our  columns  be  in  personal  connection 
with  our  readers. 

The  Sabbath  School  department  will  contain 
the  notes  of  Miss  E.  E.  Flagg  as  last  year.  Sab- 
bath-school workers  are  to  be  congratulated  in  the 
continuance  of  this  arrangement  For  readers  of 
the  Cynosure  there  are  no  more  helpful  and  suggest- 
ive notes  published  than  these,  in  the  whole  range 
of  S.  S.  literature. 

Best  of  all  is  the^ noble  company  of  contributors 
and  correspondents  ^in  our  own  land.  We  hardly 
need  mention  them.  To  keep  in  their  company  a 
season  were 

— "worth  ten  years  of  common  life." 
We  invite  all  friends  of  the  past  to  honor  them- 
selves by  remaining  in  this  company.  The  Cynosure 
gives  you  a  noble  fellowship.  You  can  hardly  afford 
to  forsake  it.  Let  your  name  then  be  found  on  the 
list.  Do  your  neighbor  a  good  turn  and  get  his 
subscription  also. 

In  advance  $1.50  ver  tear.  Address,  the 
"Christian  Cynosure"  Chicago. 


N.  C.  A.  BUILDING  AND  OFFICE  OF 
THE  CHRISTIAN   CYNOSURE, 
«21  WEST  MADISON  STREET.  CHICASC 


yA  "rjONAL  CH&ISTIAy  A880CIA  TIOH 

Prbsidrnt.— H.  H.  George,  D.  D.,  Gen- 
eva College,  Pa. 

ViCB-PRBSiDKNT — Rev.  H.  A.  Gault, 
Blanchard,  Iowa. 

Cob.  880*7  and  Gbnbral  Asbnt. — J 
P.  Stoddard,  221  W.  Madisonst.,  Chicago. 

Rbc.  Sbc't.  and  Trbabukbb. — W.  I. 
Phillips,  221  W.  Madison  St,   Chicago. 

DrRBCTORS. — Alexander  Thomson,  Hi 
R.  Britten,  John  <3ardner,  J.  L.  Barlow, 
L.  N.  Stratton,  Thos.  H.  QauU,  C.  A. 
Blanchard,  J.  E.  Roy,  E.  R.  Worrell,  H. 
A.  Fischer.  W.  R.  Hench. 

The  object  of  this  Association  Is: 
"To  expose,  withstand  and  remove  secret 
BOcieties,  Freemasonry  in  particular,  and  otbef 
anti-Christian  movements,  in  order  to  save  th« 
churches  ol  Christ  from  bein^  cepraved,  to  r» 
deem  the  admlnlstr*  tion  of  justice  from  per 
Tersion,  and  our  r;p  ibUcan  government  from 
corruption." 

To  carry  on  this  work  contributions  are 
solicited  from  every  friend  of  tne  reform. 

Form  of  Bequest.— J  give  and  bcaueath  to 
the  National  Christian  Association,  incorpo- 
rated and  existing  under  the  laws  of  the  State 

of    Illinois,  the  sum  of dollars  for  the 

purposes  of  said  Association,  and  for  wbVh 
toe  receipt  of  its  Treasurer  for  the  time  being 
*tijjl  be  sufficient  dlschaiae. 

THB  NATIONAL  CX)NVBNTION. 

PBBsroBNT.— Rev.  J.  S.  McCulloch, 
D.  D. 

Skcretaky.— Rev.  Lewis  Johnson. 

STATB  AUZHJABT  ASSOCIATIONS. 

AUlBAMA^.— Pre*.,  Prof.  Pickens;  Sec,  Q. 
M.Elliott;  Treas.,  Rev.  C.  B.  Curtis,  all  of 
Selma. 

Caliiobnia.— Pres^  L.  B.  Lsthrop,  Hollla- 
ter;  Cor.  Sec,  Mrs.  U.  P.  Merrill,  Woodland: 
Treas.,  C.  Ruddock,  Woodland. 

CoNNBCTicxTT.— Pres.,  J.  A.  Con&nt,  WIUI- 
mantle;  Sec,  Geo.  Smith,  Wllllmantlc ;  Treas. 
C.  T.  Collins,  Whidsor. 

Illinois.— Pres.,  J.  P.  Stoddard;  Sec,  M. 
N.  Butler;  Treas.,  W.  I.  Phillips  all  at  Cy- 
nof^tre  office. 


Indiana..— Pres.,  William  H.  Flgg,  Reno 
,  Sen 
Silver  Lake. 


Sec,  S.  L.  Cook,  Albion;  Treas.,  BenJ.  Utah 


Iowa.— Pres.,Wm.Johnston,College  Springs ; 
Cor  Sec.,  C.  D.  Trumbull,  Morning  Sun; 
Treas.,  James  Harvey.  Pleasant  Plain,  Jeffer- 
son Co. 

Kansas.- Pres..  J.  P.  Richards,  Ft  Scott: 
SecM  W.  W.  McMillan,  Olathe;  Treaa.,  J. 
A.  Torrence,  N.  Cedar. 

Massachusetts.— Pres.,  8.; A.  Pratt;  Sec., 
Mrs.  E.  D.  Bailey;  Treas., David  Mannlng.Sr., 
Worcester. 

Michigan.— Pres..  D.  A.  Richards,  Brighton ; 
Sec'y,  H.  A.  Day,  Wllliamston;  Treaa. 
Geo.  Bwanson.  Jr.,  Bedfoiu. 

MrNNHSOTA.— Pree.,  E.  O.  Paine,  Wa«ioJa'. 
Cor.  Sec..  Wm.  Fcnton,  St.  Paul;  Rec  Sec'y 
Mrs.  M.  F.  Morrill,  St.  Cnarles;  Treas.,  Wm 
H.  Morrill.  St.  Charles. 

Missouri.- Pres..  B.  F.  MlUer,  EaglevlUe 
TreAS.,  William  Beauchamp,  Avalon ;  (Jor.  8f  c 
A.  D.  Thomas,  Avalon. 

Nbbkasha.- Pre*.,  8.  Aostin,  Falrmouit 
Cor.  Sec,  W.  Bpooner,  Seamey;  Treas. 
J.  C.  Fye. 

Nbw HAiiPSHiKi.- Pres.,  C.  L.  Baker,  Man' 
Chester;  Sec.  S.  C.  Kimball.  New  Market' 
Treas.,  James  F.  French.  Canterbury. 

N«w  York.— Pres.,  F.  W.  Capwell,  Dale; 
Sec'y,  John  Wallace,  Syracuse;  Treas.,  M. 
Merrick,  Syracuse. 

Ohio.— rres.,  F.  M.  Spencer,  New  Concord; 
Rec  Sec,  8.  A.  Georee,  Mansfield:  Cor.  Sec 
and  Treas.,  C.  W.  Hutt,  Columbus;  Agent, 
W.  B.  Stoddard,  Columbus. 

PmNNSTLVANiA.- Pre*.,  A.  L.  Poet,  Moi 
troee;  Cor.  Sec,  N.  Callonder,  Thonpaon 
Treaa.,  W.B.  Bertels^Wllkesbarra. 

ViBMONT.— Pre*.,  W.  R.  Laird,  St.  Johns- 
bury  ;  Sec,  C  W  Potter. 

WiBOOHBiN.— Pres.,  J.  W  Wood,  Baraboo; 
Sec,  W.  W.  Ames,  Menomonle ;  Treas.,  M.  B 
Britten,  Vienna. 


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•STBE  CHRim:^IAN  CYKOSXmE. 


January  12, 1888 


The.  Christian  Cynosure. 


}.   BLANCHARD. 


XsnoBS. 


HBNRY  L.  KXLLOGG 


CHICA60,    THUHSDAT,   JANUABY   12,    1888 


The 
TO  20, 


New 
1888. 


Orleans  Convention  February  17 


TEE  LOUISIANA  BAPTIST  CONVENTION. 


The  action  of  this  representative  body  of  over 
70,000  church  members  was  first  referred  to  in  the 
Cynosure  of  September  22nd  last.  Rev.  Mr.  Hall, 
of  New  Orleans,  who  first  gave  us  this  joyful  news, 
said  that  in  the  discussion  a  number  of  the  pastors 
spoke  of  the  great  value  the  Cynosure  had  been  to 
them.  From  it  they  had  first  learned  of  the  iniquity 
of  lodgery,  and  had  been  convinced  by  reading  that 
their  vows  to  Christ  obliged  them  to  speak  out  and 
warn  their  people.  From  a  copy  of  the  Minutes 
of  the  "Louisiana  Baptist  State  Convention,"  held 
in  Little  Zion  church,  Opelousas,  July  13  to  17, 
1887,  we  take  this  verbatim  extract : 

PREACHERS   AND   SECRET   SOCIETIES. 

The  following  resolutions  were  offered  with  signatures 
attached: 

Whereas,  It  has  come  to  the  knowledge  of  this  Con- 
vention that  some  of  our  ministers  are  traveling  the  vari- 
ous districts  establishing  secret  societies  in  the  churches, 
thus  working  great  injury  to  the  churches  and  disgrace 
to  the  ministry  of  Jesus,  be  it 

Resohed,  That  this  Convention  does  not  endorse  the 
course  of  any  ministers  who  will  leave  the  work  of  the 
Lord  for  such  work, thus  telling  the  world  that  these  per- 
ishing institutions  of  men,  often  wicked  in  their  consti- 
tutions, are  of  more  importance  than  the  church  of  Je- 
sus, with  her  glory,  which  will  stand  forever.  Be  it  fur- 
ther 

Resolved,  That  this  Convention  advise  the  churches 
and  pastors  not  to  allow  these  societies  to  be  set  up  in 
their  houses  of  worship,  and  to  refrain  from  membership 
in  them,  where  it  is  discovered  that  there  is  conflict 
between  them  and  their  covenant  with  God. 

Signed,      Revs.  B.  Dorset,  H.  C.  Green, 

Wm,  Pendleton,  A.  L.  Reese, 
C.  L.  Roberts,  John  Brown, 
I.  Thomas, 

A,  HUBBS, 

A.  8.  Jackson, 
-  J.  D.  Whalet,  and  many  others. 
The  resolutions  led  to  a  heated  discussion.  The  Con- 
vention was  highly  in  favor  of  the  paper.  There  were 
four  or  five  brethren  who  were  greatly  opposed.  Finally 
the  resolutions  were  adopted  with  great  enthusiasm.  The 
Convention,  as  a  body,  is  opposed  to  secretiem. 

What  expense  would  we  not  spare  to  persuade  the 
Baptists  of  Illinois,  Ohio  or  New  York  to  take  such 
action.  It  is  possible,  by  putting  the  Cynosure  into 
the  hands  of  a  thousand  colored  pastors,  that  several 
other  State  Conventions  may  follow  Louisiana.  Let 
us  pray  for  it— give  for  it— and  never  give  over  until 
we  see  this  victory  for  Christ.  See  the  rfiport  of  the 
fund  on  page  16. 


The  Interior  sharply  criticizes  the  committees 
appointed  by  the  Presbyterian  Assemblies,  North 
and  South,  for  holding  their  late  meeting  in  Louis- 
ville in  secret,  and  keeping  their  deliberations  close 
from  the  press  and  public.     The  editor  aptly  and 
forcibly   says  : — "  'In  secret  have  I  done  nothing,' 
saith  Christ.     Anything  that  is  done  by  the  confer- 
ence committees  that  is  not  best  to  be  published,  is 
not  best  to  be  done.      *     *     *     gt^r  Chamber  pro- 
ceedings may  be  just  and   wise,  but  the  taint  of 
secrecy  excites  distrust  and  hostile  prejudice."  This 
is  sound  as  it  is  sharp.     But  in  its  arraignment 
of  Judge  McAllister,  of   Chicago,  the  Interior  out- 
does itself.     A  saloon-keeper  drugged  a  young  girl 
of  previous   good  character  and  ruined  her.     The 
brute  was  brought  before  McAllister,  who  cleared 
him  on  the  quibble  that  the  law  provided  punishment 
for  drugging  minors,  and  this  child  was  but  one 
minor,  and  therefore  the  Jaw  did  not  apply  to  her 
case.     The  Interior  thus  handles  this  Judge,  who,  a 
few  years  since,  browbeat  the  jury  and,  against  all 
rules  of  law  and  decency,  cleared  a  murderer  who 
shot  his  neighbor  before  witnesses  in  open  daylight: 

"There  is  on  ^2/ one  minor  in  this  case,  said  McAllister,  while 
the  law  says  minors."  The  criminal  must  drug  two  voungr  girls 
at  one  time  before  he  can  be  held  to  be  guilty  of  an  offense 
against  the  law.  The  statute  on  the  construction  of  statutory 
f  anguage  expressly  provides  that  the  plural  number  in  such 
cases  Includes  the  singular— hence  we  say  that  a  lawyer  guessing 
for  technical  quibbles  would  never  guess  this  one.  The  decision 
of  Judge  McAllister  ought  to  be  replied  to  by  the  prompt  insti- 
tution of  proceedings  for  his  impeachment.  This  will  give  him 
an  opportunity  to  show  cause,  if  he  have  any,  why  he  should 
not  be  degraded  from  the  bench." 


TROUBLE 


WITH  THE  SECRET 
THE  G.  A.  R. 


SOCIETIES. 


J.  Daggs, 
C.  Smith, 
J.  Baptiste, 


The  suspension  of  Rev.  Wm.  Dillon,  editor  of  The 
Conservator,  for  preaching  and  administering 
the  Lord's  Supper  to  United  Brethren,  who  had 
withdrawn  from  lodge-ridden  churches  and  formed 
congregations  of  their  own,  is,  we  are  glad  to  see, 
attracting  attention  and  comment.  It  seems  that 
Luttrell  who  suspended  him  was  not  his  presiding 
elder,  and  if  not,  the  suspension  was  void  as  it  is 
violent  and  vindictive. 


"The  Ancient  and  Accepted  Scottish  Rite." 

The  first  volume  of  this  book  is  now  out,  and  being 
delivered  to  those  who  have  ordered  it.  As  the 
Cynosure  editor  has  aided  in  the  production  of  the 
work  it  would  be  scarcely  modest  for  us  to  express 
the  strength  of  our  convictions  as  to  its  value  and 
importance.  We  hope  every  reader  will  take  it  up 
profoundly  impressed  with  two  facts  :  1.  That  it 
is  the  ruling  rite  of  the  Masonic  world;  and,  2.  That 
it  now  extends  around  our  globe.  Of  course  it 
must  be  a  leading,  if  not  the  leading  element  in  the 
final  struggle  between  light  and  darkness,  right  and 
wrong,  in  our  attlicted  world.  The  publisher,  Ezra 
A.  Cook,  well  known  as  an  earnest  and  successful 
toiler  for  truth,  and  the  country,  in  whose  armies  he 
has  fought,  has  bestowed  immense  labor  and 
evinced  rare  judgment  in  the  production  of  this 
book.  And  we  hope  its  readers,  if  they  approve  of 
it,  will  give  their  personal  efforts  to  make 
national  work. 


it  a 


We  learn  from  the  Pittsburgh  Commercial  Gazette 
that  the  Presbytery  of  Allegheny,  United  Presbyte- 
rian, has  voted  unanimously  that  being  a  member  of 
the  Grand  Army  of  the  Republic  is  no  bar  to  unit- 
ing with  the  church.  The  Gazette  editorial  reads: 
"They  voted  unanimously  that  the  G.  A.  R.  was 
not  a  secret  organization;  and  that,  therefore,  the 
men  belonging  to  it  had  a  right  to  membership  in 
the  church."  The  Gazette  thinks  that  vote  of  the 
Presbytery  "will  swell  the  G.  A.  R.  to  a  considerable 
extent."  This,  of  course,  will  make  trouble  for  that 
interesting  body  of  Christians  which  has  a  stand- 
ing rule  excluding  members  of  secret  societies;  for 
if  the  G.  A.  R.  is  not  "a  secret  organization,"  there 
are  none. 

The  ritual  adopted  at  Philadelphia,  Jan.  17, 1868, 
required  a  pledge  of  honor  before,  and  an  oath  dur- 
ing initiation  to  conceal  the  proceedings  of  the  en- 
campment. T^e candidates  were  led  in  blindfolded; 
took  the  oath  kneeling  at  an  altJt,  one  hand  on 
crossed  swords  laid  on  the  Bible,  the  other  lifted  to 
heaven.  The  blinders  were  taken  ofl^  and  the  can- 
didates saw  before  them  an  open  coffin,  spade,  and 
a  file  of  men  ready  to  shoot;  and  were  reminded 
that  such  was  and  would  be  the  doom  of  traitors, 
And  the  whole  encampment  responded,  "The  penal- 
ty of  treason  is  death." 

Their  secrets  are,  in  that  ritual,  termed  "mysteries;" 
and  the  secrets  were  further  guarded  by  passwords, 
grips,  etc.,  etc.;  and  the  candidate  was  pledged  to 
sustain  his  country's  cause  by  his  "vote,"  and  swore 
outright  to  sustain  a  "citizen  soldier"  for  office, 
"other  things  being  equal." 

This  ritual  was  adopted  twenty  years  ago.  Of 
course  it  was  unpopular.  It  was  a  sworn  caucus  in 
perpetual  session  the  year  round.  This  was  too  bold. 
Such  secret  oaths,  being  now  nearly  as  common  a^e 
ordinary  profane  swearing,  are  heeded  as  little  by  the 
swearers,  and  the  secrets  were  out  at  once  and  soo^ 
published.  And,  like  the  Odd-fellows,  and  the  Ma- 
sons of  Morgan's  day,  the  mock  Grand  Army  re- 
vised their  ritual,  as  thieves  change  their  name  and 
dress  for  the  purpose  of  concealment;  and  they  omit- 
ted those  parts  most  objected  to,  and  which  kept 
men  from  joining.  This  was  covering  knavery  by 
fraud. 

It  is  still  an  "unfruitful  work  of  darkness."  And, 
as  the  Union  soldiers  were  dying  off,  to  make  this 
secret  order  perpetual,  like  the  false  worships  of 
Asia  and  Africa,  they  have  started  an  annex  called 
"The  Sons  of  the  Veterans,"  whose  constitution  de- 
clares its  object  to  be  "to  aid  the  G.  A.  R,"  whose 
book  of  rules  or  by-laws  they  have  adopted.  These 
"Sons"  are  not  only  sons  of  soldiers,  but  the  sons  of 
soldiers'  sons,  down  to  the  close  of  time  I — a  secret 
order  to  pay  dues  to  those  who  run  it;  to  nurse  a 
taste  for  war  by  keeping  up  its  uniform,  titles  and 
sham  drills  in  time  of  peace.  And  if  war  should 
ever  again  come  to  the  country  in  fiarnest,  these  sol- 
diers of  night  and  secrecy  will  enter  it,  as  they  have 
got  up  these  military  counterfeits,  not  to  fight,  but 
for  what  they  can  make  by  it;  as  human  buzzards, 
not  to  share  the  action  but  the  prey.  Every  child 
of  God,  once  fairly  enlightened,  will  shrink  from 
such  an  order  with  loathing.     But  as  the  majority 


of  men  have  the  minds  of  followers,  many  good  men 
will  be  beguiled  by  them  for  a  time. 

"Loud  of  freedom  as  their  trumpets, 
And  as  hollow  as  their  drums." 

The  question  is.  What  shall  the  churches  do  with 
these  frauds? 

Excommunication  is,  in  the  Scriptures,  consecrat- 
ed to  the  highest  crimes  and  worst  vices.  Paul,  by 
inspiration,  ordered  the  man  who  had  his  father's 
wife  to  be  promptly  expelled;  and  it  is  about  the 
only  similar  case  in  the  New  Testament.  Christ  re- 
quired expulsion  to  be  preceded  by  earnest,  loving 
labor.  The  editor  of  the  Cynosure  has  had  near 
fifty  years'  experience  in  dealing  with  secret  orders 
by  church  discipline,  and  has  come  to  the  following 
practical  conclusions: 

Ql.  To  hold  church  testimonies,  laws  or  rules,  sub- 
ordinate to  the  command  of  Christ. 

2.  To  declare  a  secret  order  an  insult  to,  and 
trampling  on  the  example  of  Christ.  (See  John 
18:  20.) 

3.  To  ask  candidates  if  they  belong  to  secret  soci- 
eties; and  if  they  do,  to  give  their  case  to  a  commit- 
tee to  labor  with  them  in  love,  while  the  church  pray 
for  them. 

4.  To  inform  them,  if  they  insist  on  joining  and 
appear  to  be  Christians,  that  they  can  be  received, 
but  that  they  will  be  held  under  discipline  while  they 
hold  a  lodge  connection;  because  a  secret  oath  is 
worship,  and  not  the  worship  of  Christ. 

5.  If,  through  blindness  or  influence  of  bad  men, 
they  cling  to  the  lodge,  post,  or  division,  exclude 
them;  not  merely  for  belonging  to  a  secret  society, 
but  for  not  quitting  one  when  labored  with,  for 
grieving  their  brethren  with  their  secret  "meat,"  for 
contumacy;  in  short,  "causing  divisions."  Such 
Paul  commanded  to  "reject"  after  two  admonitions. 

In  an  experience  of  fifty  years,  we  have  never 
known  a  member  lost  by  their  adherence  to  secret 
orders.  Forty-five  years  ago  the  Sons  of  Temper- 
ance first  appeared  in  Cincinnati,  and  their  hostile 
nature  to  Christ  and  Christianity  was  explained  to 
the  church  at  our  communion  season.  Yet  in  a 
pleasant  pastorate  of  eight  years  and  over,  five 
hundred  members  were  received  to  the  church;  a 
heavy  debt  incurred  before  the  pastorate  began,  was 
paid  off,  and  the  church  continued  united  in  their 
pastor  to  the  last;  while  every  other  Protestant 
church  in  the  city  exchanged  pastors,  some  of  them 
three  or  four  times. 

We  are  one  in  Christ.  But  if  both  Christ  and  Satan 
are  worshiped  by  its  members,  a  church  will  be  di- 
vided and  eventually  wrecked. 


A  HUMAN  MONSTER. 


Ex-Senator  Pomeroy  is  laying  the  readers  of  the 
Cynosure,  the  American  people,  and  history  itself, 
under  obligation  by  the  article  from  his  pen  which 
begins  in  this  number.  The  records  of  the  Charles- 
ton Masonic  Supreme  Council,'  the  child  of  Jesuits 
and  Jews,  were  destroyed,  doubtless,  by  Pike  him- 
self.    This  covered  fifty- nine  years  before  the  war. 

This  article,  by  Senator  Pomeroy,  shows  sufficient 
reason  for  their  destruction.  But  when  Richmond, 
the  rebel  capital,  fell  into  our  hands,  the  haste  of 
the  rebels  to  leave  left  them  no  time  to  burn  their 
records  and  correspondence;  and  Senator  Pomeroy 
has  taken  from  authentic  Congressional  documents, 
and  these  annals  of  the  rebellion,  the  facts  given  us 
in  this  great  article,  for  which  posterity  will  owe  him 
thanks. 

There  is  but  one  drawback.  Men,  having  human 
feelings  are  reluctant  to  believe  such  pictures  true. 
If  Pike's  record  was  but  half  as  bad  it  would  be 
twice  as  easy  to  believe  it.  If  he  were  a  drunken 
bankrupt  like  Arnold  ;  if  he  had  suffered  cruelty  in 
his  youth;  if  his  boyhood  had  been  cramped  by 
ignorance,  starved,  over-worked,  whipped  by  miser 
guardians  and  haughty  officials  under  aristocratic 
laws,  his  picture  were  less  repulsive  and  abhorent. 
But  there  was  none  of  all  this.  The  son  of  a  poor 
shoemaker,  benign  laws  took  him  by  the  hand  and 
led  him  to  school  where  tuition  was  free.  He  early 
became  a  teacher  in  Newburyport,  and  a  student  in 
the  first  university  in  the  land,  whose  president  was 
an  Anti-mason;  and  by  the  procuring  of  John  Quincy 
Adams  and  Edward  Everett,  secret  societies  were 
driven  from  Cambridge,  Yale  and  the  leading  col- 
leges of  the  land.  He  was  seventeen  years  old  when 
Morgan  was  murdered;  and  when  Daniel  Webster 
gave  his  opinion  that  Masonic  oaths  should  be  pro- 
hibited by  law.  He  went  South  where  there  were  no 
free  schools  to  educate  poor  boys  like  him.  He 
went  from  freedom  and  joined  in  with  slavery  I  He 
left  the  town  where  Whitefield's  ashes  sleep,  and 
where  his  remains  are  still  visited  by  crowds  who 
profess  his  religion,  a  religion  which  has  placed 
England  and  the  United  States  at  the  head  of 
nations — and  be  has  used  the  learning  which  Chris- 


January  12,  1888 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


tianity  g%ve  him  to  translate  two  thousand  pages  of 
Asiatic  religion  from  the  Vedas  and  Zendavesta, 
and  to  attempt  the  over-throw  of  the  religion  which 
teaches  that  God  has  made  men  of  one  blood;  and 
swears  its  witnesses  on  the  Bible.  And  knowing, 
from  a  youth  of  seventeen,  the  damning  turpitude 
of  the  lodge,  he  swore  its  multitude  of  oaths;  and, 
perjured  to  everything  that  is  good,  he  is  faithful  to 
the  oaths  of  the  lodge.  In  the  hour  of  his  coun- 
try's great  agony,  he  took  slave-holding  Indians  to 
Washington  and  swore  them  to  cut  the  throats  and 
tear  off  the  scalps  of  the  sons  of  New  England  and 
the  North  who  were  fighting  for  humanity  and  free 
government. 

There  is  but  one  explanation  of  depravity  so 
heartless  and  fearful  as  that  detailed  in  the  Senator's 
article.  It  is  that  apostates  ever  go  to  extremes; 
and  especially  apostates  in  religion.  Cold,  clear, 
capable,  and  utterly  corrupt,  this  supreme  Mason 
has  the  cruelty  of  an  inquisitor,  the  hardihood  of  a 
stoic,  and  the  blindness  of  false  priests.  And  if  the 
Masonic  masses  can  be  persuaded  to  read  this  record 
of  cruelty  and  crime,  alike  against  Indians  and 
the  whites,  every  Mason  who  has  not  gone  down  the 
Niagara  of  corruption  with  their  leader,  will  shrink 
back  from  a  leadership  so  opposite  to  all  good. 


TEB  BEADING    STRIKE  IN  PBOPHECT. 


"And  I  saw  three  unclean  spirits,  like  frogs,  come 
out  of  the  mouth  of  the  dragon,  and  out  of  the 
mouth  of  the  beast,  and  out  of  the  mouth  of  the 
false  prophet.  For  they  are  the  spirits  of  devils 
working  miracles,  which  go  forth  unto  the  kings  of 
the  earth,  and  of  the  whole  world,  to  gather  them 
to  the  battle  of  that  great  day  of  Grod  Almighty." — 
Rev.  16:  13,  14. 

The  Revelation  is  a  kaleidoscope  of  history,  giv- 
ing tableaus  of  events,  in  which  the  instrument  has 
twenty-one  turns,  viz.,  seven  seals  opening;  seven 
trumpets  sounding,  and  seven  vials  poured  out. 
The  frogs  appear  under  the  sixth  vial.  One  more 
vial  and  the  cry  comes:  "It  is  done."  Frogs  are 
creatures  which  live  equally  at  ease  in  air,  water  or 
mud.  These  are  teaching  forces  from  the  mouths 
of  the  devils,  by  responses  (also  false  religions  or 
mysteries),  and  priests  or  the  Mormons  of  all  ages. 
These  unclean  teachers  are  equally  at  home  in  the 
church,  the  world,  and  the  lodge;  like  Bishop  Fal- 
lows, who  was  an  acceptable  Methodist  preacher,  a 
successful  civil  politician,and  went  fromOrientalHall 
Lodge,  where  he  was  brother  to  Dr.  Thomas,  to  Jews 
and  infidels  in  Chicago,  to  Mr.  Moody's  meeting, 
and  was  equally  at  home  in  all.  We  are  evidently 
nearing  the  battleday  of  God  under  the  sixth  seal. 

A  few  weeks  since  the  Reading  railway  company 
had  five  faithful  servants  who  would  not  join  a  se- 
cret union.  The  company  was  ordered  to  turn  those 
men  out:  "that  none  might  buy  or  sell"  who  had 
not  the  beast-mark  of  secret  oath  worship  of  Satan. 
The  company  said  the  men  were  faithful,  and  they 
would  not  turn  them  off.  Thirty  thousand  men 
were  ordered  by  their  sorcerers  to  strike,  and  they 
quit  work.  The  company  filled  their  places  and 
kept  on  hauling  coal.  The  sorcerers  went  to  the 
miners'  union,  and  twenty  or  thirty  thousand  more 
men  struck,  and  the  city  of  Philadelphia  is  threat 
ened  with  a  coal  famine,  by  a  handful  of  secret  soci 
ety  leaders.  Iron  makers  and  others  must  stop  their 
work,  and  cold  and  hunger  generates  wrath.  In  this 
way  the  frogs  are  bringing  war! 


N.    G.  A.  BOARD  MEETING. 


At  the  call  of  the  chairman  a  meeting  of  the 
Board  was  held  on  Saturday.  After  prayer  by  Sec 
retary  Stoddard,  a  program  for  the  New  Orleans 
meeting  was  reported  and  approved.  The  report  of 
Rev.  Dr.  W.  H.  French  of  Cincinnati,  who  was  re- 
quested to  represent  the  N.  C.  A.  in  the  meeting  of 
the  Evangelical  Alliance  at  Washington,  was  given, 
and  the  following  resolution  adopted: 

Resolved,  That  this  Board  requests  Messrs.  J.  Blanch- 
ard,  J.  E.  Roy  and  J.  P.  Stoddard  to  prepare  a  petition 
to  be  circulated  among  the  officers  and  prominent  mem- 
bers of  the  £7angclical  Alliance  of  the  United  States: 
first,  setting  forth  the  relation  of  the  church  to  secret  so- 
cieties of  every  character;  2nd,  the  Lodge  as  a  chief 
cause  of  estrangement  from  the  church;  3d,  the  L^dge  as 
a  source  of  peril  to  the  family.  The  purpose  of  this  ef- 
fort being  to  obtain  a  place  on  the  program  of  the  next 
meeting  of  the  Alliance  for  presenting  our  cause . 

The  engagement  of  Miss  Flagg  for  New  England 
and  the  W.  C.  T.  U.  work  was  considered  in  connec- 
tion with  an  able  letter  from  Miss  Flagg,  and  a  note 
just  received  by  Secretary  Stoddard  with  the  serious 
news  of  the  accident  just  befallen  her.  After  as 
full  a  discussion  as  possible  of  the  case,  the  Board 
resolved  "that  the  General  Secretary  be  requested  to 
proceed  at  his  earliest  convenience  to  New  England 


to  raise  money  for  the  support  of  a  NewEngland  agent 
of  the  National  Christian  Association,  and  that  we  em- 
ploy Miss  Flagg  as  such  agent  until  the  next  annual 
meeting  of  the  National  Christian  Association." 

It  was  also  resolved,  "that  this  Board  learn  with 
painful  regret  of  the  recent  accident  which  has  be- 
fallen Miss  E.  E.  Flagg,  and  with  this  expression  of 
our  sympathy  we  unite  our  prayers  for  her  speedy 
recovery." 

It  was  also  voted  "that  the  General  Agent  be  au- 
thorized to  employ  Miss  E.  E.  Flagg  as  soon  as  pos- 
sible to  work  in  the  city  of  Worcester,  Mass.,  as 
long  as  her  compensation  can  be  provided  for  from 
the  Worcester  fund  and  the  friends  of  our  cause  in 
Worcester  approve."  Another  attempt  to  establish 
a  New  England  work  was  indicated  by  adopting  the 
following: 

Resolved,  That  we  favor  the  establishment  of  a  district 
headquarters  for  the  National  Christian  Association  in 
the  city  of  Boston  and  the  location  of  an  agent  there. 

The  General  Agent  reported  the  work  done  during 
the  National  Prohibition  Conference,  Dec.  1,  1887; 
also  concerning  his  late  visit  to  Kansas  at  the  re- 
quest of  Miss  C.  Derbyshire,  and  her  proposed  dona- 
tion to  the  N.  C.  A.  The  finances,  the  Missouri 
work,  and  the  matter  of  a  Washington  agent  were 
discussed,  and  a  committee  directed  to  report  on  a 
suitable  person  for  the  latter. 

m  »  » 

— The  Central  Congregational  church  in  New  Or- 
leans in  which  the  National  Convention  is  to  be 
held  Feb.  17,  is  the  property  of  the  American  Mis- 
sionary Association.  It  was  the  old  Fourth  Pres- 
byterian church  at  the  close  of  the  war,  a  large  fine 
building.  The  Association  purchased  it  for  $20,- 
000,  and  has  entirely  or  in  part  supported  pastor, 
unless  quite  lately  the  church  has  become  self-sus- 
taining, as  has  the  Memphis  church  in  charge  of 
Rev.  B.  A.  Imes. 

— GeneralHusted  who  has  served  several  terms  as 
speaker  of  the  New  York  State  Assembly  has  been 
defeated  in  his  desire  for  re  election  by  a  vote  of  51 
to  19.  Husted  will  be  remembered  as  the  speaker 
who  introduced  the  Masonic  three  raps  to  call  up 
the  House,  and  for  a  time  the  lodge  gloried  in  the 
domination  it  held  in  the  legislature.  The  over- 
whelming defeat  of  Husted  and  his  Masonic  gavel 
indicates  a  rebellion  against  the  pretended  authority 
of  the  lodge. 

— Bro.  Hawley  writes  from  Baxter,  Iowa,  that  the 
protracted  meetings  generally  prevailing  in  the  place 
so  engage  the  evenings  that  no  opportunity  seems 
to  be  open  for  lectures.  He  rejoices  that  the 
churches  are  moved  to  engage  heartily  in  the  work 
appointed  them  of  God,  but  doubtless  prays  for  the 
day  when  they  shall  so  cast  off  the  man-fearing 
spirit  when  it  shall  not  seem  out  of  place  to  point 
out  the  relation  of  any  great  iniquity,  like  the  lodge 
or  liquor,  the  dance  or  the  theater  to  the  cause  of 
Christ  at  any  time  in  a  revival  meeting.  It  does 
not  hurt  Sam  Jones's  meetings  when  he  denounces 
gambling  and  the  saloon,  nor  Munhall's  when  he 
testifies  against  the  secret  orders.  This  should  be 
the  rule. 


PERSONAL  MENTION. 


RAILROAD  FARES  TO  NEW  6bLEAN8. 


Tickets  are  now  on  sale  in  Chicago  at  $30  for  the 
round  trip,  good  to  return  until  June  1, 1888.  Stop- 
overs at  any  point  south  of  Cairo  can  be  had  when 
desired,  but  the  trip  must  be  made  in  fifteen  days. 
The  distance  covered  by  this  ticket  via  Illinois  Cen- 
tral is  1,824  miles.  It  is  probable  that  reduced 
rates  can  be  obtained  at  points  along  the  lines  of 
different  roads  and  a  better  route  even  be  secured 
from  Chicago.  If  so  they  will  be  announced  in  due 
time.  This  is  certainly  a  grand  opportunity  for  the 
friends  to  visit  the  sunny  South  and  aid  a  good 
work  by  their  prayers  and  presence  at  the  conven- 
tion in  New  Orleans,  Feb.  17  to  20.  Who  is  plan- 
ning to  go?     Please  send  me  your  names. 

J.  P.  Stoddard,  Sec'y  N.  C.  A. 


TEE  N.  C.  A.  NATIONAL  CONVBIiTION. 


OFFICIAL   CALL. 

The  Seventeenth  Convention  of  the  National  Chris- 
tian Association  is  hereby  called  to  meet  in  the  Central 
Congregationalist  church  in  the  city  of  New  Orleans, 
Louisiana,  at  7:.30  p.  m  ,  February  17lh,  1888.  An  inter 
esting  programme  has  been  arranged,  able  speakers  have 
been  secured,  and  three  sessions  will  be  held  daily,  clos 
ing  with  the  evening  of  Feb.  20th.  Seats  are  free  and 
the  public  are  most  cordially  invited  to  attend. 

Rkv.  J.  S.  McCuLLOCH,  D.D.,  Pres. 

Rbv.  Lewis  Johnston.  Sec'y. 


— Rev.  Dr.  Wm.  Wishart  was  chosen  moderator 
for  the  United  Presbyterian  Presbytery  of  Mon- 
mouth at  its  meeting  Dec.  27.  Rev.  T.  H.  Hanna 
of  the  First  United  Presbyterian  church  is  Superin- 
tendent of  Missions  in  this  presbytery. 

— Rev.  Mr.  Hoyt  and  wife  of  Ware,  Mass.,  cele 
brate  the  twenty-fifth  anniversary  of  their  marriage 
on  the  22d  inst.,  and  invite  their  friends  to  spend 
the  day  with  them,  and  enjoy  a  Christian  visit.  Mrs. 
L.  M.  Hoyt  is  an  occasional  contributor  to  the  Cyno- 
sure. She  and  her  husband  have  suffered  much  be- 
cause of  their  convictions  against  secretism. 

— Rev.  David  Thompson,  of  Monmouth  Presby- 
tery, now  eighty-two  years  of  age,  a  sometime  con- 
tributor to  the  Cynosure,  fell  down  the  stairs  at  his 
home  a  few  days  ago  from  which  he  sustained  a 
broken  arm  and  strained  back  and  limbs.  At  the 
time  of  the  fall  he  was  carrying  a  lighted  lamp, 
which  was  broken  and  extinguished.  This  aged 
minister  is  the  father  of  Miss  Annie  Y.  Thompson, 
of  the  United  Presbyterian  Egyptian  mission. 

— A  letter  from  Wellesley,  Mass.,  was  received 
Saturday  morning  bringing  the  unwelcome  news 
that  Miss  E.  E.  Flagg,  author  of  "Between  Two 
Opinions,"  was  by  a  hard  fall  suffering  from  a  frac- 
tured hip.  All  the  Cynosure  readers  will  join  heart- 
ily with  the  resolution  adopted  by  the  N.  C.  A. 
Board,  soon  after  the  news  was  received,  expressing 
sincere  sympathy  for  our  afflicted  and  suffering 
friend. 

— A  letter  from  Bro.  Leadbetter  received  Monday 
informs  us  more  particularly  of  the  accident  that 
has  befallen  Miss  Flagg.  While  returning  home 
Wednesday  afternoon  from  Wellesley  Hills  she 
slipped  on  the  ice  and  fell  heavily.  The  serious  in- 
jury which  resulted  will  confine  her  closely  for  per- 
haps two  months.  Secretary  Stoddard  will  probably 
go  East  in  a  few  days,  as  directed  by  the  N.  C.  A. 
Board,  to  arrange  if  possible  so  that  5liss  Flagg  can 
begin  a  good  work  in  Boston  for  New  England  and 
the  W.  C.  T.  Union,  so  soon  as  her  recovery  is  as- 
sured, and  for  that  end  our  readers  will  join  us  in 
fervent  prayer. 

— Dr.  E.  P.  Goodwin  of  the  First  Congregational 
church,  Chicago,  preached  last  Sabbath  a  discourse 
on  the  twentieth  anniversary  of  his  pastorate.  He 
referred  to  the  197  members  who  had  died  during 
this  period  and  paid  the  following  tribute  to  the 
memory  of  Mr.  Carpenter:  "I  will  name  a  few  of 
them,  not  in  the  order  of  their  death,  but  in  the  or- 
der of  their  age  in  the  church.  First  of  all  is  one 
whose  name  is  more  intimately  interwoven  with  the 
early  history  of  the  church  than  that  of  any  other; 
one  without  whom  this  church  could  not  have  been 
founded  when  it  was  under  so  favorable  circumstan- 
ces. I  mention  the  name  of  Philo  Carpenter,  which 
is  enshrined  in  all  our  hearts." 

— Among  the  good  deeds  for  which  the  memory 
ofDr.J.B.Walker  willbe  loved  and  blessed  is  a  dona- 
tion to  the  Humane  Society  of  Illinois.  The  organ 
of  the  Society,  the  Humane  Journal,  acknowledges 
this  gift  thus  happily:  "The  Illinois  Humane  Soci- 
ety desires  to  tender  its  respect  to  the  memory  of 
the  late  Rev.  J.  B.  Walker,  D.  D.,  who  died  March 
6th  last,  in  the  eighty-second  year  of  his  age.  In 
his  will  he  bequeathed  a  legacy  of  $250  to  this  Soci- 
ety. In  looking  over  his  laoors  through  sixty  years 
of  public  life,  and  noticing  the  important  positions 
he  has  filled  as  editor,  writer,  teacher,  lecturer  and 
pastor,  we  find  he  was  a  man  of  active  brain  and 
natural  energy  of  character,  and  lived  a  great  and 
useful  life.  He  was  an  intellectual  giant  among 
men;  he  possessed  a  benevolent  nature;  he  had  no 
children,  but  adopted  many  needy  ones;  thirteen  of 
these  bless  his  memory.  For  fifteen  years  he  was 
a  resident  of  Wheaton,  Illinois,  and  a  professor  and 
lecturer  in  both  the  College  and  Theological  Semin- 
ary, and  pastor  in  the  [College]  church  at  that  place. 
Prominent  among  his  virtues  was  his  humane  de- 
sire for  the  suppression  of  cruelty  to  animals.  This 
sentiment  of  humanity  pervaded  his  whole  life  and 
shed  its  benign  influence  on  all  occasions  of  oppor- 
tunity to  do  in  this  behalf,  and  in  this,  'he  being 
dead  yet  speaketh,'  for  we  notice  in  his  will  that  he 
made  a  munificent  bequest  to  the  Wheaton  College, 
with  the  condition  that  its  President  should  preach, 
or  cause  to  be  preached,  once  a  year,  a  humane  ser- 
mon for  the  benefit  of  humane  societies  and  their 
work.  This  Society  confidently  hopes  that  all  preach- 
ers now  in  the  full  tide  of  influence  and  work  will 
take  thought  by  this  example.  If  each  should  preach, 
only  once  a  year,  a  sermon  to  benefit  humane  socie- 
ties, a  vast  amount  of  good  would  emanate  from  the 
pulpit  to  strengthen  the  cause  of  humanity." 


10 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSTJKli. 


January  12, 1888 


The  Home. 


EUOUBNOT  HTMN. 

fSung  at  the  first  Protestant  worship  held  In  Versailles  Pal- 
ace, November  2, 1879.  | 

Great  God,  to  thee  my  heart  upsprings, 
And  joyful  sings, 
JThy  glory  raising ; 
Unawed  by  kings. 
With  hands  and  voice 
I  will  rejoice 
In  grateful  praising ! 

I'll  worship  toward  thy  holy  hill, 

And  love  thy  will, 
Thy  mercy  singing ; 

Thy  truth  shall  flU 

My  soul  with  joy ; 

My  powers  employ. 
Sweet  tributes  bringing. 

From  every  foe  thy  hand  shall  save. 

And  from  the  grave 
Thy  power  shall  take  me. 

Let  Satan  rave ; 

Thy  Word  is  sure, 

And  shall  erdure; 
Do  not  forsake  me  1 

Thy  Word,  O  God,  my  joy  and  pride  1 
There's  none  beside 
Love's  wondrous  story; 
'Tis  magnified  ' 

Above  thy  name ; 
With  loud  acclaim 
I'll  spread  its  glory. 

In  paths  of  trouble  when  I  walk. 
With  thee  I'll  talk; 
Thou  wilt  revive  me. 
Though  lions  stalk 
With  dread  alarms, 
To  thy  strong  arms 
Their  roar  shall  drive  me. 

Rev.  Dr.  A.  T.  Pierson  of  Philadelphia,  in  sending  the  above 
hymn,  writes:  "I  translated  this  138th  Psalm,  keeping  as  near 
as  I  could  to  the  meter  and  style  of  the  Frencti  Huguenot  ver 
slon.  It  seemed  to  me  you  would  be  interested  to  publish  it 
from  its  historic  associations.  I  subjoin  the  first  verse  from  the 
French,  that  you  may  see  the  original.  Dr.  L.  W.  Bacon  trans- 
lated this  verse,  I  believe,  originally : 

"  'II  faut,  grand  Dieu,  que  de  men  cceur 

La  Sainte  ardeur, 

Te  glorifle, 
Qu'  a  toi,  des  mains  et  de  la  voix 

Devant  les  rois, 

Te  psalmodie.' " 

— iV.  Y.  Observer. 


THE  MARKED    BIBLE. 


We  will  introduce  our  reader  into  the  drawing- 
room  of  a  well-furnishedjhouse  in  London.  A  priest 
is  in  conversation  with  a  lady,  whose  desponding  as- 
pect and  downcast  looks  may  well  have  suggested 
the  "vords  that  he  has  just  uttered,  "  You  are  de- 
pressed ;  you  have  allowed  your  mind  to  become 
morbid  ;  do  not  let  this  continue,  but  try  to  shake 
it  ofl." 

The  lady  looks  up  a  little  less  hopelessly,  and 
seeing  that  his  words  are  taking  effect,  Father  B. 
continues  in  a  soothing  tone,  '•  There  is  to  be  a  con- 
cert to  day  ;  go  to  it,  you  need  rousing." 

Following  the  advice  of  her  counselor,  Mrs.  A. 
found  herself  on  the  afternoon  of  the  same  day  in 
the  St,  James'  Hall,  where  the  concert  was  to  be 
held.  She  had  not  been  seated  long  in  the  rapidly 
filling  hall  before  she  noticed  the  absence  of  all 
musical  instruments,  and,  greatly  surprised,  she  in- 
quired the  cause. 

"  There  is  to  be  a  concert  here  this  evening,"  re- 
plied the  lady  whom  she  had  addressed,  "  but  this 
afternoon  Mr.  C.  is  going  to  give  a  Gospel  address." 
"  Oh,  then  I  have  made  a  very  great  mistake  !  " 
exclaimed  Mrs.  A.,  "  I  cannot  stay  for  this,  I  must 
go  at  once,"  She  rose  hurriedly,  hoping  to  be  able 
to  leave  before  the  speaker,  who  had  just  stepped 
upon  the  platform,  should  begin,  but  at  that  moment 
a  number  of  umbrellas  behind  her  seat  fell  down. 
Confused  at  the  slight  disturbance  of  which  she  was 
the  cause,  and  not  willing  to  become  the  center  of 
observation,  she  quietly  sat  down, 

"  This  is  exceedingly  unpleasant,"  she  thought, 
"  but  it  is  too  late  now,  and  after  all  I  need  not  list- 
en," Soon,  however,  her  whole  attention  was  ab- 
sorbed. The  evangelist  was  declaring,  as  an  ambas- 
sador for  Christ,  a  message  of  love  and  forgiveness 
from  God,  a  present  and  immediate  salvation,  "  for 
he  that  believeth  on  the  Son  hath  everlasting  life  ; 
and  he  that  believeth  not  the  Son  shall  not  see  life', 
but  the  wrath  of  God  abidethon  him,"  (Jno.  iii,  36,) 
There  were  ears  that  remained  dull,  and  hearts  un- 
touched ;  for  the  same  story  has  been  repeated  many 
hundreds  of  times,  and  to  some  it  was  so  familiar 
that  they  wearied  of  it ;  but  to  Mrs,  A.  the  Gospel  I  aboutVs  goul 


came  in  all  its  freshness — to  her  it  was  good  news 
indeed.  The  Holy  Spirit  was  opening  her  under- 
standing that  she  should  believe  the  Scriptures,  and 
find  the  Gospel  what  it  really  is — "the  power  of  God 
unto  salvation," 

The  address  over,  the  lady  went  up  to  the  speaker 
and  anxiously  asked — 

"  How  may  I  be  sure  that  all  you  have  been  say- 
ing is  really  true  ?  " 

"  Have  you  a  Bible,"  inquired  Mr,  C.  "  Never 
mind,"  he  added  kindly,  "  look  over  this  one,  and 
you  will  see  for  yourself,"  Turning  to  John  v.  24, 
he  made  the  inquirer  read  the  words  which  had  been 
underlined,  "  Verily,  verily,  I  say  unto  you,  He  that 
heareth  My  word,  and  believeth  on  Him  that  sent 
Me,  hath  everlasting  life,  and  shall  not  come  into 
condemnation  ;  but  is  passed  from  death  unto  life." 
And  again,  "  These  things  have  I  written  unto  you 
that  believe  on  the  name  of  the  Son  of  God,  that  ye 
may  know  that  ye  have  eternal  life,"'  (1  Jno.  v,  13  ) 
Mrs.  A,  did  not  possess  a  Bible,  but  as  they  part- 
ed a  Christian  present  at  the  meeting  pressed  his 
own  into  her  hands,  begging  her  to  read  over  and 
over  again  those  passages  which  were  marked,  add- 
ing, "  May  God  bless  it  to  your  soul,"  And  He 
who  "  is  able  to  do  exceeding  abundantly  above  all 
that  we  ask  or  think,"  fully  answered  the  prayer. 

It  was  not  long  before  Mrs,  A,  was  visited  hy  the 
priest,  "  Well,"  he  said,  as  he  glanced  at  the 
changed  expression  of  the  face  before  him,  "  I 
need  not  ask  how  you  are ;  I  can  see  how  well 
my  remedy  has  succeeded  ! " 

Very  quietly  and  gladly  Mrs,  A,  told  her  visit- 
or of  the  afternoon's  mistake  and  how  it  had 
ended, 

"  Ah,"  exclaimed  Father  B.  with  vehemence,  "I 
see  how  it  is — you  have  been  among  heretics  !  I 
will  not  stay  to  argue,"  he  added,  rising,  "  but  I 
will  send  one  well  able  to  refute  the  errors  into 
which  you  have  fallen."  And  he  angrily  with- 
drew. 

"  The  entrance  to  Thy  words  giveth  light ;  it 
giveth  understanding  unto  the  '  simple '  (Ps.  cxix, 
130.)  It  was  by  the  Word  of  God  that  Mrs.  A. 
had  learned  that  she  was  lost ;  it  was  by  the  Word 
of  God  that  she  had  found  Christ,  in  whom  her 
heart's  desire  had  been  satisfied.  Of  what  avail, 
then,  the  arguments  of  even  the  most  able,  unless 
supported  by  that  Word  ? 

"  True  to  his  promise.  Father  B.  sent-  one  who 
was  considered  to  be  very  well  up  in  all  matters  of 
controversy,  and  a  long  time  was  spent  by  him  in 
trying  to  convince  his  hearer  that  she  was  blinded 
by  heresies.  But  while  he  was  endeavoring  to  try 
to  win  her  back  by  every  subtle  persuasion  within 
his  reach,  she  was  seeking,  in  prayer,  for  strength 
and  wisdom  to  speak  to  him  of  eternal  life  ;  for 
from  the  moment  that  he  had  entered  her  room,  and 
she  had  remarked  his  pale,  emaciated  face  and  evi- 
dently failing  strength,  she  had  been  convinced  that 
as  the  flower  of  the  grass  his  life  was  passing  away, 
and  "the  grace  of  the  fashion." 

The  conversation  ended,  the  young  priest  rose  to 
go  ;  but  as  he  did  Jso,  Mrs.  A.  laid  her  hand  upon 
his  arm,  and,  "  Now,"  she  said,  "  will  you  listen  to 
me  ?     You  are  ill — dying." 

But  though  he  listened,  there  was  no  response. 
"  Faith  cometli  by  hearing,  and  hearing  by  the 
Word  of  God."  She  would  give  him  that  Word, 
she  thought,  and  taking  her  Bible,  with  its  marked 
pages,  and  telling  him  how  God  had  blessed  it  to 
her  soul,  she  said,  "Take  it,  and  should  there  ever 
be  a  time  when  you  would  like  to  speak  with  me 
again  on  these  things,  send  aiM  I  will  go  to  you, 
wherever  I  may  be." 

Some  months  passed,  when  one  morning,  as  Mrs. 
A.  was  preparing  to  leave  London  for  Eton,  in  order 
to  bring  her  son  back  for  his  holidays,  a  messge 
arrived,  begging  her  to  come  to  the  young  priest, 
who  was  very  ill. 

"  What  can  I  do  ?  What  ought  I  do  ?  "  she 
thought.  "  My  child  is  expecting  me."  It  was  diffi- 
cult to  decide  between  the  love  of  a  mother's  heart 
and  the  sense  that  she  ought  to  obey  the  summons. 
But  nature  prevailed.  "  A  day  can  make  no  differ- 
ence," she  mentally  reasoned,  "and  I  can  go  the  first 
thing  to-morrow."  And  so  the  doubtful  question 
was  settled. 

Mrs.  A.  lost  no  time  in  starting  the  following 
morning  for  the  monastery,  where  t&e  young  priest 
lived.  But  one  glance,  as  she  stood  at  the  half- 
opened  door  of  his  room — the  stillness  too  unmis- 
takable and  the  figure  of  »  sister  of  mercy  kneeling 
in  prayer  was  enough  ;  he  was  gone,  for  death  had 
waited  not  for  the  opportunity  which  she  had  lost  ; 
and  looking  upon  the  mute  lips,  which  but  yesterday 
could  have  answered  the  question  which  now  she 
was  obliged  to  put  to  a  stranger,  her  whole  soul 
bowed  itself  in  anguish.  "  His  soul  I  oh,  tell  me 
I " 


The  sister  of  mercy  rose,  her  cold  composure  con- 
trasting with  the  earnestness  of  the  visitor.  "1 
will  tell  you,"  she  replied ;  "  he  died  cursing  you, 
and  cursing  your  Bible." 

Could  this  be  so  ?  Was  it  possible  ? — was  it  to 
curse  her,  and  let  her  hear  his  dying  breath  curse 
her  marked  Bible,  that  he  had  sent  for  her  yesterday? 
But  this  was  all  the  sister  of  mercy  had  to  say ; 
there  was  nothing  more  she  would  tell,  and  she 
withdrew. 

And  now  amid  her  newly-found  happiness,  a 
shadow  as  of  death  fell  upon  Mrs.  A.,  who  could 
not  escape  from  the  remorse  which  overtook  her  as 
she  mourned  over  her  delay  in  answering  the  request 
of  the  dying  man. 

Some  time  afterward  she  left  England  for  the 
continent.     When  there,  she  was  one  day  surprised 
by  the  announcement  of  a  visitor  with  whom  she 
was  unacquainted.  "  You  will  not  know  me,"  the  lady 
hastened  to  explain — "  you  will  not  recognize  me  ?" 
Not  as  she  was  then   dressed,   was  the  sister  of 
mercy  recognized.     She  had  long  sought,  but  until 
that   moment  fruitlessly,  for  Mrs.  A.,  for  her  con- 
science was   burdened  under  the  sense  of  guilt  in 
having  taken   part  in  the  lie  which  was  framed  re- 
specting the  death  of  the  young  priest.    He  had  not 
died  as  she  had  said — cursing  the  Word  of  God.  No, 
indeed,  but  rejoicing  in  Christ  as  his  Saviour,  and 
resting  in  his  finished  work.   Dying,  he  had  pleaded 
that  those  around  him  would  give  the  Bible  back  to 
the   one  who  had  given  it  to  him,  with  the  mes- 
sage that  he  blessed  it  and  blessed  her.    In  obeying 
her  superiors,  the  sister  of  mercy  had  kept  all  these 
particulars  from  the  lady's  knowledge.   But  she  had 
lived  only  to  obey  the  voice  of  the  Church  of  Rome, 
and   she  herself   had   sought  to  win  salvation  by 
works  of  charity  and  human  righteousness,  little 
knowing  the  utter  ruin  of  man  and  the  hopelessness 
of  presenting  works,   however  fair,   wrought  by  a 
sinner,before  a  holy  and  sin-condemning  God.  (See. 
Is.  Ixiv,  6)     She  knew  neither  God's  love  in  giving 
Jesus  to  atone  for  sin,  nor  eternal  life  as  God's  free 
gift.     (Jno.  X,  28,)   consequent   apon  the   finished 
work  of  Christ,  (Jno,  xix,  30.)     She  knew  nothing 
of  "  the  love  of  Christ  which  passeth  all  knowledge," 
(Eph,  iii,  19.)     And  how  could  she  ?     The  words  of 
God  were  to  her  a  strange  and  unknown  language  ! 
But  when  the  marked  Bible  fell  into  her  hands,  led 
by  God's  Holy  Spirit,  she  studied  it.     Like  light,  its 
divine  truths  shone  in  upon  her  heart,  dispelling  its 
darkness,  till  by  faith  she,  too,  learned  to  rest  in  the 
salvation  wrought  out  by  the  Son  of  God,  "  whom 
God  had  set  forth  to  be  a  propitiation  through 
faith  in  his  blood  "  (Rom.  iii,  25,)  and  to  see  herself 
"  accepted  in  the  beloved"  (Eph.  i,  6), 

One  who  was  thus  sensibly  brought  nigh  to  God 
could  not  long  remain  amid  ignorance  and  supersti- 
tion of  the  system  which  keeps  the  sinner  far  from 
God,  or  teaches  him  to  trust  in  rites  and  ceremonies, 
ordinances  and  works,  as  means  of  salvation  and 
approach  to  Christ,  In  laying  aside  the  robes  of 
her  sisterhood,  the  ex-sister  of  mercy  is  desiring 
to  serve  God  acceptably,  and  this  not  in  the  vain 
hope  of  winning  the  salvation  of  her  soul,  but  be- 
cause God  has  given  salvation  to  her,  and  to  him 
she  would  yield  her  body  a  living  sacrifice,  which  is 
her  "  reasonable  servioe,"  Thus  man's  wisdom 
ended  in  foolishness,  for  "  there  are  many  devices 
in  a  man's  heart,  nevertheless  the  counsel  of  the 
Lord  shall  stand,"     (Prov,  xix,  21.) 

Reader,  having  read  this  true  account,  which  is 
of  recent  occurrence,  now  take  the  Word  of  God,and 
see  if  there  be  not,  even  to-day,  a  salvation  for 
lost  sinners  as  perfect  as  it  is  divine,  and  "may  God 
bless  it  your  soul." —  Words  and  Weapons. 


ONE  OF  MY  RBROBS. 


"Even  a  child  is  known  by  his  doings."  It  was 
years  ago,  and  I  was  in  a  New  England  country 
town,  called  there  to  speak  for  the  Woman's  Foreign 
Missionary  Society,  Resting  at  a  farmhouse,  a  lit- 
tle fellow,  in  the  glory  of  first  pants,  came  into  the 
room,  and,  after  looking  me  over,  announced,  "I've 
got  the  heathen  woman's  friend,  I  have."  Of  course 
I  thought  at  once  of  the  paper  of  that  name,  so  I 
replied,  "Do  you  like  the  little  paper,  the  Heathen 
Woman's  Friend?" 

"  Of  course  I  like  her;  she  'longs  to  me,  and  she 
ain't  paper,  neither." 

"What  is  the,  then?  come  and  tell  me  about  her," 

"Well,  you  jus'  come  out  o'doors,  and  I'll  show 
her  to  you;"  and  he  led  the  way.  Through  a  long 
yard,  a  gateway,  and  another  yard  he  hurried  me, 
till,  pausing  beside  a  stake  to  which  a  cord  was  tied, 
he  pointed,  "There,  don't  you  see  her,  'the  heathen 
woman's  friend?'" 

My  eyes  followed  the  cord,  and  the  other  end  was 
tied  around  the  leg  of  a  silver-gray  hen,  which  was 


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THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSUB3B. 


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clucking  and  scratching  in  a  most  motherly  fashion 
for  the  chickens  around  her. 

"Don't  she  look  like  the  heathen  woman's  friend?" 
asked  my  little  entertainer. 

"I  don't  think  I  quite  understand;  you  will  have 
to  explain  this  to  me,"  I  said. 

"Well,  you  know  'bout  mission  bands,  don't  you? 
You  see  I'm  one  of  'em,  and  we  are  going  to  get  a 
lot  of  money.  Jimmy  Lake  and  John  Jones  have 
got  a  missionary  hen,  and  papa  gave  me  one.  My 
Aunt  Fanny,  she  said  I'd  better  call  mine  'The 
Heathen  Woman's  Friend,'  and  so  I  did.  We  set 
her  on  some  eggs,  and  how  many  chickens  do  you 
think  she  hatched?" 

It  seemed  impossible  to  count  the  restless  little 
things,  but  looking  at  Benny's  beaming  face,  I  said, 
"Oh,  a  dozen,  I  hope." 

"Oh,  she  did  better  than  that!  We  set  her  on  thir- 
teen eggs,  and  she  hatched  every  one.  Don't  you 
think  she's  'the  heathen  woman's  friend?' "  he  asked 
iriumphantly. 

Further  questioning  drew  out  the  statement  that, 
"Papa  is  to  buy  all  the  chickens  that  grow  up,  and 
I'm  going  to  put  all  the  money  into  mamma's  mite 
box.  Don't  you  guess  'twill  burst  the  top  out,  and 
may  be  the  bottom,  too?" 

In  talking  with  the  mother,  I  learned  that  consid- 
erable influence  would  be  brought  to  bear,  by  older 
brothers,  to  test  Benny's  missionary  zeal,  and  she 
promised  to  write  to  me  the  result,  which  I  give  in 
brief.  The  "friend"  brought  up  the  brood,  with 
only  the  loss  of  one  chicken,  and  when  the  dozen 
were  sold  they  made  a  nice  sum,  and  Benny  was 
told  that  he  was  under  no  obligations  to  give  more 
than  the  price  T)f  one  to  the  missions.  However, 
Benny  was  firm;  "I  promised  'em  to  the  Lord,  and 
I  won't  be  mean  enough  to  cheat  him;"  and  though 
he  was  teased  and  taunted,  he  held  on.  "I  can't  lie 
to  the  Lord,"  and  every  cent  was  given  as  oromised. 
— Selected. 


Temperance. 


WET  DON'T  THB  0ERI8TIANB  HELP  f 


BT   MRS.    ESTHER 


T.    nOUSH,    NATIONAL 
DEPT.  W.  0.  T.  U. 


SUPT.    PRESS 


TEB  WH[TE  DAT8  OF  WINTER. 


The  white  days  of  winter,  darling, 

When  softly  the  snowflakes  fall, 
Till  a  royal  garment  of  ermine 

Folds  tenderly  over  all. 
Field  and  hillock  and  valley, 

Hushed  In  the  sweetest  sleep, 
For  the  snow  comes  down  from  our  Father, 

His  loving  charge  to  keep. 

Under  the  snow-robe,  darling. 

There  is  wonderful  brooding  heat, 
That  Is  taking  care  of  the  daisies, 

And  saving  the  next  year's  wheat. 
And  we'd  have  no  flowers,  dearest, 

When  the  spring's  green  days  come  back, 
If  the  white  days  did  not  bring  us 

The  feathery  flakes  In  their  track. 

The  swift,  white  day,  my  darling. 

When  the  sleigh  bells'  merry  chime 
Is  echoing  o'er  the  roadway. 

Is  the  fun  and  frolic  time. 
But  the  still  white  eve,  my  dearest. 

Is  sweeter  to  you  and  me, 
When  we  have  the  song  and  story. 

And  the  prayer  at  the  mother's  knee. 

Our  little  home,  my  darling, 

Oh  !  whatever  wind  may  blow. 
The  south  with  Its  quiver  of  sunbeams, 

The  north  with  Its  flakes  of  snow. 
Our  little  home,  my  dearest. 

Is  under  the  dear  Lord's  care. 
And  we  fear  no  111  nor  sorrow,       \ 

Lovingly  sheltered  there. 

—Margaret  E.  Songster,  in  Public  Ledger. 


GOOD  COUNSEL  FOR  BOYS  AND  GIRLS. 

To  one  of  his  daughters  at  school   Bishop   Mcll- 
avine  gave  the  following  counsel: 

"Don't  cultivate,  dear  N ,  with  any  compan- 
ion, that  sort  of  violent  friendship  which  leads  to  a 
sort  of  confidential  communication  which  cannot  be 
made  known  to  your  parents.  Be  very  particular  as 
to  whom  you  allow  to  be  very  familiar  with  you,  as 
your  near  companions  and  friends.  First,  know 
well  the  person,  before  you  allow  a  close  intimacy; 
and  the  moment  you  see  anything  wrong  in  a  com- 
panion, think  what  efl[ect  it  should  have  on  your  in- 
timacy. Learn  to  say  No,  decisively  to  any  request 
or  proposal  which  your  judgment  tells  you  is  not 
right.  It  is  a  great  thing  in  a  child  to  learn  to  say 
No,  when  it  is  right  to  do  so.  Make  it  a  rule  to 
hear  nothing  from  any  girl  which  you  may  not  be 
allowed,  and  would  not  be  willing,  to  tell  your  dear 
mother.  Be  careful  to  let  nothing  interfere  with 
your  regular  private  prayers  and  reading  of  the 
Scriptures  and  labor  to  give  your  whole  heart  and 
life  to  God.— ^ci. 


The  words  were  intense  with  pleading.  I  shall 
never  forget  how  all  else  paled  into  insignificance 
before  that  cry  of  a  soul  just  on  the  border  of  the 
Heavenly  Land.  The  pleading  of  a  sister,  beloved. 
She  thought  a  great  pit  lay  in  the  paths  of  men,  and 
they  were  constantly  falling  in.  The  green  grass 
grew  up  to  its  edge,  the  flowers  drooped  over.  It 
had  no  barriers,  or  lights  of  warning.  "There,"  she 
would  call,  "the  dearest  friend  I  had  slipped  in,  and 
you  never  tried  to  stop  him.  And  a  boy  went  over, 
and  you  never  told  him  there  was  a  pit  there.  Can't 
you  save  that  girl?"  she  cried.  "Oh!  the  world  goes 
by,  the  great  thoughtless  world,  and  it  jostles  people 
in.  Where  are  the  Christians?  Where  are  the 
Christians?      Why  don't  the  Christians  help?" 

"If  I  could  live,"  she  said  in  calmer  tones,  "if  I 
could  live,  I  would  spend  every  day  of  my  life  keep- 
ing people  out  of  that  pit  I  would  build  a  wall  so 
high  no  little  child  could  climb  over,  or  I  would 
cover  it  so  deep  that  none  could  fall  in."  Then 
looking  at  me  with  eyes  luminous  with  the  light  of 
the  world  beyond,  she  clasped  my  hands  and  said, 
"Sister,  sister,  won't  you  try  and  keep  people  out  of 
that  pit?" 

It  has  come  to  me  far  over  the  years,  and  a  power 
I  cannot  resist  impels  the  sending  out  of  her  warn- 
ing cry,  with  the  hope  that  some  one  may  be  saved 
from  the  pit  by  the  friendly  hand  of  the  one  who 
reads  it.  Brothers,  sisters,  we  know  the  pit  is  there, 
right  in  the  way  of  life.  What  are  we  going  to  do 
about  it? 

Is  it  a  pit  grassed  over,  flower-decked?  Do  birds 
sing  in  the  archways,  and  beautiful  visions  tempt 
beyond?  The  pools  that  offended  the  sight  are 
bridged  over.  The  great  pit  is  made  respectable  by 
law.  It  is  the  High-License  saloon.  Christians, 
have  you  uttered  no  warning  cry?  Where  are  the 
danger  signals?  Must  the  young  men,  the  pride  of 
our  lives,  go  unwarned?  Will  it  be  less  a  death  of 
manhood  if  buried  beneath  the  costly  Moloch?  Will 
the  home  be  less  shadowed  because  the  tax  that 
made  the  saloon  lawful,  swelled  the  State's  resources? 
But  the  danger  lies  not  only  here.  Look,  opening 
on  every  side,  quicksands  of  impurity !  Nay,  we  see 
not,  we  cannot  believe  there  are  pits  there.  Yet  who 
that  reaches  them,  comes  up  the  same?  Perhaps 
the  steps  were  impure  pictures  and  stories,  hidden 
books,  idle  conversation,  foolish  company,  sinful 
amusements.  They  were  such  little  steps,  just  down 
a  plane  outside  of  mother's  or  father's  care,  where 
the  Sunday-school  did  not  reach,  and  away  from  the 
teacher's  guidance.  Such  little  deviations  from  the 
right  way.  But  the  boy  "went  over,  and  you  never 
told  him  there  was  a  pit  there,"  and  you  never  tried 
to  "save  the  girl." 

What  can  be  done  to  make  safe  paths  for  our 
children?  is  the  great  question  of  to-day.  The 
friends  of  education  are  building  a  wall  of  knowl- 
edge so  high  that  a  little  child  will  not  climb  over  to 
the  pit  of  ignorance.  Warning  lights  are  burning 
all  along  the  way  that  science  treads.  Are  the 
Christians  as  aroused  to  see  that  the  Sunday-schools 
and  the  churches  stand  shoulder  to  shoulder  with 
the  teachers  on  this  question? 

In  some  States  the  people  are  to  decide  whether 
or  not  their  boundaries  shall  be  freed  from  the  curse 
of  the  saloon,  the  distillery  and  the  brewery,  wheth- 
er a  wall  shall  be  built  between  the  home  and  the 
enemy  of  home,  or  the  pits  of  temptation  still  be 
open  to  lure  unwary  feet.  In  this  hour  of  decision, 
"where  are  the  Christians?"  The  battle  will  be 
sharp,  and  victory  must  depend  much  upon  the  acts 
and  influence  of  the  Christian  men  and  women. 

Does  the  fact  of  only  200,000  Christian  women 
banded  together  in  the  Woman's  Christian  Tem- 
perance Union,  to  defend  the  home  from  the  saloon 
by  organized  effort — which  means  right  home  train- 
ing, right  education  of  head,  heart  and  hand,  and 
righteous  laws  enforced,  that  shall  both  warn  the 
young  feet  away  from  the  pits  of  temptation,  and  in 
time  take  away  the  temptation  itself — touch  not 
your  heart,  oh.  Christian  woman  not  yet  enrolled  in 
the  glorious  army?  Where  are  the  millions  of 
mothers  and  home-keepers  who  can  arise  in  the 
majesty  of  womanhood  and  say,  "The  saloon  shall 
no  more  tempt  our  sons  and  destroy  our  daughters?" 
The  emergency  of  the  hour,  the  knowledge  of  our 
national  and  social  danger,  call  for  action.  To-day 
we  can  help;  to-morrow  it  may  be  too  late. 

Dear  Christian  brother  and  sister,  -'won't  you  try 
and  Iceep people  out  of  that  pit*" 


TEMPERANCE  IN  80UTE  AFRICA. 

A  late  copy  of  the  Cape  Mercury,  published  at 
King  William's  Town,  Cape  of  Good  Hope,  contains 
an  interesting  narration  showing  the  progress  of  the 
temperance  reformation  among  the  natives  of  that 
colony.  It  appears,  according  to  the  Inter  Ocean, 
that  the  people  of  Chief  Siwani's  tribe  were  the  first 
to  agitate  for  the  removal  of  the  canteens  (sutling 
houses  licensed  to  sell  liquors)  from  their  locations. 
In  this  they  were  successful,  and  it  was  found  by  ex- 
perience that  the  restrictions  placed  upon  the  traffic, 
though  falling  short  of  total  prohibition,  were  high- 
ly advantageous  to  the  tribe. 

It  was  recently  reported  among  them  that  the  gov- 
ernment, as  a  revenue  measure,  was  about  to  abro- 
gate the  restrictions  placed  upon  the  traffic  within 
the  proclaimed  areas.  This  caused  much  excite- 
ment among  them,  and  was  the  occasion  of  the  a8^ 
semblage  of  a  large  meeting  of  Siwani's  people,  June 
22,  in  front  of  the  court  house  in  the  town,  to  rep- 
resent their  views  to  the  magistrate,  and  through 
him  to  the  government. 

That  orderly  meeting  of  dusky  natives,  but  re- 
cently emancipated  from  the  thraldom  of  barbarism, 
eloquently  pleaded  for  the  protection  of  their  homes 
from  the  destroying  influence  of  the  drink,  which 
is  the  curse  of  civilized  man,  formed  a  scene  of  pa- 
thetic interest  to  all  who  feel  the  pulse-beat  of  phil- 
anthropic sentiment.  If  the  government  does  not 
heed  such  earnest  appeals  as  were  there  made,  then 
the  white  people  who  rule  the  colony  should  first  of 
all  be  made  the  subjects  of  future  missionary  labors. 
An  old  chief,  named  Mabope,  was  first  to  speak. 
They  asked  the  government  to  take  the  liquor  from 
their  homes,  and  it  had  done  so.  He  trusted  it 
would  now  listen  to  their  plea  and  not  bring  it  back 
again.  He  wanted  liquor  kept  as  far  away  from  the 
black  people  as  possible.  Sevise,  a  son  of  Siwani, 
said  they  looked  to  the  government  for  protection. 
They  were  all  agreed  as  to  the  good  that  had  fol- 
lowed since  the  canteens  had  been  closed,  and  they 
did  did  want  the  white  man's  liquor  brought  near 
their  locations  again.  He  was  not  speaking,  he  said, 
as  a  total  abstainer,  but  he  spoke  for  the  good  of 
his  people. 

The  statement  of  Mema,  son  of  a  principal  coun- 
cilor, was  to  the  effect  that  the  women  as  well  as  the 
men  were  addicted  to  the  drink  habit  "When  the 
canteens  were  among  them,"  he  said,  "their  wives 
spent  all  their  time  at  them,  and  they  had  no  wives." 
If  the  wives  of  civilized  white  people  should  fall 
into  like  habits  of  dissipation,  the  men  would  speed- 
ily organize  W.  C.  T.  U.  societies  for  the  suppres- 
sion of  the  evil.  The  dark  colored  sisters,  however, 
turned  the  tables  on  the  men  when  they  were  given 
opportunity  to  speak.  Nopodi,  wife  of  a  notable, 
said  the  women  were  losing  their  husbands  and  be- 
ing ill-treated  through  drink;  but  since  the  canteens 
had  been  closed  they  had  been  happier,  and  had 
become  prosperous  and  contented.  Another  woman 
bore  testimony  to  the  evil  effects  of  drink,  and  con- 
cluded by  saying  that  she  "had  almost  become  tired 
of  being  thrashed  when  the  canteens  were  near 
them."  That  sort  of  experience  would  make  even  a 
white  woman  "almost  tired!"  A  number  of  women 
spoke  to  about  the  same  effect 

Mr.  Dick,  the  local  magistrate,  closed  the  confer- 
ence by  saying  that  he  would  present  the  matter  to 
the  government,  and  that  he  believed  it  would  be  a 
good  day  for  the  natives  when  strong  drink  could  no 
longer  be  sold  to  the  black  man.  This  was  greeted 
by  signs  of  earnest  approval  by  the  assemblage. 
Altogether  the  incident  may  be  noted  as  an  indica- 
tion that  the  tidal  wave  of  temperance  is  reaching 
all  shores. — Sel. 


It  is  easy  to  be  nobody,  and  the  Watchman  tells 
how  to  do  it  :  Go  to  the  drinking-saloon  to  spend 
your  leisure  time.  You  need  not  drink  much  now, 
just  a  little  beer  or  some  other  drink.  In  the  mean- 
time, play  dominoes,  checkers,  or  something  else  to 
kill  time,  so  that  you  will  be  sure  not  to  read  any 
useful  books.  If  you  read  anything,  let  it  be  the 
dime  novel  of  the  day.  Thus  go  on  keeping  your 
stomach  full  and  your  head  empty,  and  yourself 
playing  time-killing  games,  and  in  a  few  years  you 
will  be  a  first-class  nobody,  unless  you  should  turn 
out  a  drunkard  or  a  professional  gambler,  either  of 
which  is  worse  than  nobo<ly.  There  are  any  number 
of  young  men  hanging  about  saloons  just  ready  to 
graduate  and  be  nobotlies. — Scientific  American. 

John  Bright,  while  believing  absolute  prohibition, 
for  the  present  at  least,  impracticable,  says  in  a  re- 
cent letter  :  "I  suppose  all  men  will  admit  that  it 
would  be  a  great  blessing  if  the  manufacture,  sale, 
and  use  of  drinks  which  intoxicate  were  abolished." 

Massachusetts'  drink  bill  last  year  wsis  $37,000,- 
000. 


12 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


January  12, 1888 


REIIGIOTJS  NEWS. 


WOBK  FOB  TEE  8WBD1SH  CHURGHEa  OF 
CALIFORNIA. 


Minna  St.,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 

Editor  Christian  Cynosure: — In  reply  to  your 
kind  note,  I  only  wish  to  say:  Our  work  is  increas- 
ing; would  we  had  more  laborers;  may  God  send 
them.  We  have  in  California  only  four  ministers; 
we  ought  to  have  many  more.  The  Swedes,  as  well 
as  other  nationalities,  are  moving  into  the  State  in 
large  numbers. 

What  we  need,  and  what  we  propose  to  do,  I  dare 
not  mention.  I  am  now  trying  to  start,  in  every 
community  of  Swedes,  a  Society  of  Christian  En- 
^avor.  Its  members  are  to  give  the  Lord  one-tenth 
of  all  their  earnings,  weekly.  Each  month  pay- 
ments are  to  be  made  to  such  objects  as:  Foreign 
Missions;  Home  Missions;  Our  Colleges  and  Semin- 
aries; Our  Parochial  School;  Paying  for  good  papers 
and  periodicals  for  gratuitous  distribution;  Tracts 
for  same;  Church  Extension;  Liquidating  church 
debt  where  most  needed. 

Its  members  are  to  visit  all  the  sick  and  needy, 
bring  the  blind  to  church  at  least  once  a  week,  etc. 

Pray  for  us.  Work  with  us.  We  need  to  be  up 
and  be  doing.  I  fear  I  am  not  more  than  one-tenth 
awake.  Pray  the  Lord  to  make  me  fully  awake.  Fra- 
ternally, J,  Telleen. 


CALL  OF  THE  EVANGELICAL  ALLIANCE. 

The  Conference  lately  held  in  Washington  made 
a  deep  impression  on  the  country.  It  was  remarka- 
ble for  its  numbers,  character  and  earnestness. 

There  was  an  extended  discussion  of  the  dangers 
to  our  national  life.  The  great  resources  of  the 
Christian  church — so  largely  unused — were  fully 
considered.  All  present  felt  that  new  and  remark- 
able opportunities  existed  for  bringing  the  practical 
teachings  of  Christ  to  bear  upon  the  social  problems 
of  the  times. 

It  was  shown  that  active  co-operation  of  all  Chris- 
tians was  absolutely  needed  and  easily  possible,  not 
only  without  interfering  with  the  work  of  any 
church,  but  distinctly  helping  forward  that  of  each. 

A  deep  impression  of  personal  responsibility  grew 
out  of  these  discussions,  and  the  members  left  with 
the  conviction  that  wise  and  prompt  action  should 
be  taken. 

We,  therefore, venture  to  suggest  that  in  each  city, 
town  and  neighborhood,  pastors  of  all  denomina- 
tions, and  such  laymen  as  they  may  select,  be  invit- 
ed to  meet  and  carefully  study  the  needs  and  prob- 
lems of  their  special  locality.  This  may  include 
such  organized  visitation  as  shall  give  a  certain 
knowledge  of  those  who  do  not  attend  religious  ser- 
vices, and  as  far  as  possible  the  reasons  which  keep 
them  away.  It  is  especially  desirable  to  devise  plans 
for  winning  the  confidence  of  working  people.  Such 
visitation  can  readily  include  a  knowledge  of  the 
sick  and  deserving  poor,  the  number  and  location  of 
saloons  and  places  of  ill  repute,  and  all  the  evil  in- 
fluences that  affect  the  moral  character  of  the  com- 
munity. Such  study  will  draw  Christians  into  clos- 
er sympathy,  and  will  so  reveal  needs  as  to  stimu- 
late earnest  and  united  action,  by  which  alone  the 
desired  work  can  be  effectively  done.  As  the  value 
of  the  work  will  depend  chiefly  on  its  continuance, 
we  suggest  that  permanent  organisations  be  formed^ 
and,  in  order  that  they  may  be  mutually  helpful 
and  that  they  may  cooperate  in  the  prosecution  of 
moral  reforms  and  in  the  defence  of  cherished  and 
endangered  institutions,we  invite  such  organizations 
to  become  branches  of  the  National  Alliance. 

Documents  will  be  furnished  on  application  to  the 
General  Secretary.  W.  E.  Dodge,  Prmrfen*. 

John  Jay,  Ch'n.  Ex.  Com. 
JosiAH  Strong,  Secretarv. 

47  Bible  House.  " 


—Evangelist  Moody  began  his  work  in  Louis- 
ville, Ky.,  Jan.  8,  with  four  meetings  Sabbath  day. 
The  aggregate  attendance  was  fully  12,000  Mr 
Moody  expressed  himself  greatly  pleased  with  the 
careful  preparations  made  for  him,  and  said  he  had 
never  spoken  in  so  large  a  building  as  that  erected 
for  him,  in  a  city  the  size  of  Louisville.  The  ca- 
pacity of  the  Tabernacle  is  between  5,000  and  6  000 
people.  ' 

—Much  dissatisfaction  is  reported  among  the  col- 
ored churches  of  Louisville  because  special  services 
have  been  arranged  for  their  race  apart  from  the 
whites  during  the  Moody  meetings  to  be  hold  here 
this  month.  Revs.  W.  H.  Chambers  and'  W  H 
Venahle,  prominent  colored  ministers,  have  begi'n 
agitating  the  matter,  and  the  executive  board  has 
decided  to  refer  the  matter  to  Mr.  Moody. 


— The  revival  services  at  Chicago  Avenue  church 
will  be  continued  this  week,  with  E.  W.  Bliss  to 
preach  every  night.  Mr.  Charles  Tatman,  a  young 
evangelist  from  the  Bast,  has  been  assisting  pastor 
Goss  with  great  success  in  this  revival. 

— Rev.  John  G.  Fee  rejoices  over  sixty-one  addi- 
tions to  the  company  of  the  disciples  at  Camp  Nel- 
son, Kentucky,  fifty-one  of  them  upon  confession  of 
faith,  mostly  out  of  the  school;  also  ten  conversions 
at  West  Union,  with  some  moving  of  the  waters  at 
Berea. 

— There  are  100,000  more  inhabitants  and  eleven 
fewer  churches  below  Fourteenth  street,  New  York, 
than  there  were  ten  years  ago. 

— In  the  Theological  Seminary  at  Richmond,  Va., 
there  are  sixty  students,  colored  men,  one-fourth  of 
whom  are  preparing  for  missionary  work  in  Africa. 

— London  has  a  population  of  5,416,006,  and  the 
sittings  in  the  churches  afford  accommodations  for 
1,903,509,  which  perhaps  is  about  one-half  of  the 
adult  population.  Of  these  sittings  the  Established 
Church  furnishes  49.5  per  cent,  and  the  free  churches 
50.5  per  cent. 

— The  Church  of  England  Committee  on  Intem- 
perance, on  motion  of  Archdeacon  Farrar,  in  convo- 
cation, was  recently  instructed  "to  take  into  special 
consideration  the  demoralization  and  destruction  of 
various  native  races  in  the  British  Empire  and  its 
dependencies  by  the  introduction  and  sale  of  intox- 
icating drink." 

— At  the  late  celebration  of  the  Lord's  Supper  by 
the  Second  Washington,  Iowa,  United  Presbyterian 
congregation.  Rev.  W.  C.  Williamson  assisted  the 
pastor.  Rev.  J.  R.  Logue,  and  twelve  new  members 
were  received. 

— IraB.Sankey,the  singing  evangelist.has  returned 
from  England.  He  will  rest  in  New  York  for  three 
weeks,  and  then  start  on  a  trip  through  the  Southern 
States,  holding  revival  meetings  in  all  the  principal 
towns.  He  will  not  return  to  England  until  next 
May,  when  he  will  inaugurate  an  important  evangel- 
ical movement  throughout  England,  Scotland  and 
Ireland. 

— In  regard  to  the  statement  that  the  Unitarians 
and  Universalists  are  looking  toward  Japan  as  a 
mission-field,  the  New  York  Observer  quietly  com- 
ments: "These  two  bodies  have  made  so  little  pro- 
gress at  home  that  we  presume  they  sigh  for  more 
encouraging  fields." 

— About  twenty  of  the  richest  residents  of  the 
City  of  Mexico  have  been  fined  under  the  law  for- 
bidding religious  ceremonies  and  observances  in 
the  streets,  they  having  placed  small  altars  with 
lighted  candles  on  the  balconies  of  their  houses,  on 
the  occasion  of  the  feast  of  Our  Lady  of  Gaudalupe. 

— In  Kochi,  Japan,  the  city  occupied  by  the  mis- 
sionaries of  the  United  States  Southern  Presbyte- 
rian church,  work  was  begun  only  two  years  ago. 
Now  there  is  a  Presbyterian  church  of  over  two  hun- 
dred members.  The  gain  in  the  whole  of  Japan  for 
the  last  two  years  has  been  seventy-five  per  cent. 

— Bishop  Parker,  who  succeeded  the  martyred 
Bishop  Hannington  in  the  East  African  mission, 
has  opened  the  new  Church  of  St.  Paul,  Kisututine. 
Some  English  missionaries  and  several  hundred  na- 
tive Christians  were  present.  The  Rev.  A.  D.  Shaw, 
in  describing  the  service,  says  that  the  people  not 
only  brought  corn  and  other  products  as  offerings, 
but  so  much  money.that  the  bags  and  plates  were 
too  small  to  contain  it,  and  so  it  was  poured  into 
the  font,  which  was  half  filled  with  coins.  The  col- 
lection amounted  to  565  rupees,  equal  to  $229.  On 
the  next  day  sixty-three  candidates  were  confirmed 
in  the  church,  and  there  were  150  communicants. 
Two  days  afterward  Bishop  Parker  started  with  the 
Rev.  J.  Blackburn  for  Mambria  by  an  intirely  new 
route  through  a  yet  unknown  country. 

— A  press  dispatch  from  New  Brunswick,  N.  J., 
says  that  a  meeting  of  the  ministers  of  that  city  has 
been  held,  and  the  plan  advocated  by  the  Evangel- 
ical Alliance  recently  held  in  Washington  for  more 
thorough  work  in  bringing  people  into  the  churches 
and  purifying  the  city  spiritually  and  politically 
adopted.  The  churches  will  appoint  committees, 
who  will  canvass  the  entire  city  after  the  manner  of 
political  canvassers,  and  afterward  will  devote  their 
attention  to  those  who  attend  no  churches,  to  the 
end  that  they  may  be  brought  under  Christian  in- 
fluences, believing  this  will  effect  great  reform  and 
be  the  means  of  electing  better  men  to  local  offices. 

— The  following  bequests  to  religious  and  educa- 
tional institutions  are  contained  in  the  will  of  the 
late  David  Whitcomb,  of  Worcester,  Mass. :  Ameri- 
can Board  of  Commissioners  for  Foreign  Missions, 
$25,000;  Massachusetts  Home  Missionary  Society, 
$25,000;  American  College  and  Education  Society, 
$5,000;  Congregational  Mission  of  New  York,  $5,- 


000;  Doane  College  of  Nebraska,  $13,000;  Carleton 
College,  Northfield,  Minn.,  $14,000;  American  Home 
Missionary  Society  of  New  York,  $10,000;  American 
Home  Missionary  Society  of  New  York,  $5,000,  to 
be  used  in  the  South  and  among  the  Indians  and 
Chinese  of  this  country;  Worcester  City  Missionary 
Society,  $1,641.50;  Amherst  College,  $10,000,  to  es- 
tablish a  Whitcomb  scholarship  fund. 

— One  by  one  the  Roman  Catholic  religious  orders 
which  were  driven  out  by  the  May  laws  are  being 
readmitted  or  recalled  into  Prussia.  At  Breslau 
the  Ursulines  have  received  from  government  per- 
mission to  open  a  boarding  school  and  high  school 
for  girls.  At  Fulda  the  Ministers  of  the  Interior 
and  of  Cult  have  jointly  permitted  a  renewed  settle- 
ment of  the  Franciscans  of  the  stricter  observance 
on  the  Frauenberg.  At  Dusseldorf  the  Clares  have 
been  permitted  to  return  to  their  old  convent.  Sim- 
ilar permission  has  been  given  to  the  Ursulines  to 
return  to  Fritzlar,  whence  they  had  to  fly  to  France 
in  1874.  The  Benedictine  nuns,  of  Fulda,  have  sold 
their  property  in  France  and  returned  to  occupy  their 
former  convent  and  church. 


LITERATURE. 


There  is  a  large  and  attractive  variety  in  the  table  of 
contents  of  the  Century  for  January.  Its  subjects  em- 
brace an  authoritative  account  of  the  formation  of  Lin- 
coln's Cabinet  in  the  history  by  the  President's  private 
secretaries,  with  many  unpublished  letters;  Mr.  Kennan's 
startling  record  of  personal  investigations  of  "Russian 
Provincial  Prisons";  Professor  Atwater's  valuable  and 
practical  paper  on  the  "Pecuniary  Economy  of  Pood"; 
an  illustrated  article  on  "The  Catacombs  of  Rome"  by 
Rev.  Dr.  Phillip  SchafE;  in  the  drama  a  biographical 
sketch  of  John  Gilbert,  with  portraits  by  J.  W.  Alexan- 
der; in  art  and  literature  a  critique  and  personal  sketch 
of  John  Ruskin  by  Mr .  Stillman,  with  an  excellent  por- 
trait for  the  frontispiece  of  the  number;  in  sport  "An 
Elk  Hunt  on  the  Plains"  by  Schwatka,  with  drawings  by 
the  younger  Inness;  in  travel  "The  Upper  Missouri  and 
the  Great  Falls"  by  E.  V.  Smalley,  illustrated;  in  fiction 
contributions  by  Cable,  Eggleston,  Stockton,  and  by  the 
author  of  "Sister  Todhunter's  Heart,"  bv  H.S.Edwards; 
four  pages  of  war  aftermath;  letters  on  Industrial  Edu- 
cation in  the  Public  Schools  from  superintendents  who 
have  tried  it;  in  sheer  fun,  a  play  by  Mark  Twain  enti- 
tled "Meisterschaft";  shorter  articles  on  "The  American 
Book"—  a  plea  for  international  copyright  by  Mr.  Clel- 
and  of  Indianapolis;  on  "A  Southern  Man  ahead  of  his 
Time"  (J.  R  Pettigru);  on  the  Piedmont  Exposition;  on 
"Hawthorne's  Loyalty,"  etc.,  etc.;  and  a  large  variety  of 
poems  from  different  parts  of  the  country.  It  is  a  su- 
perb number. 

Whittier's  beautiful  poem  telling  the  legend  of  "The 
Brown  Dwarf  of  Rugen,"  will  delight  all  the  readers  of 
St.  Nicholas  for  January.  We  are  glad  to  note  that  the 
conscientious  poet  explains  his  use  of  an  old  legend.  It 
is  illustrated  by  the  frontispiece  and  other  drawings  by 
E.  H.  Blashfield.  An  interesting  character-sketch  by 
Richard  M.  Johnston  is  called  "Poor  Mr.  Brown,"  and  a 
cleverly  suggested  lesson  is  enforced .  There  is  a  novel 
article  telling  of  "The  Amusements  of  Arab  Children,  by 
Henry  W.  Jessup.with  life-like  pictures  by  Harry  Fenn. 
"How  the  Yankees  came  to  Blackwood,"  by  Louise  Her- 
rick,  amusingly  represents  the  panic  caused  by  the  cap- 
ture of  a  Southern  village,  and  has  characteristic  sketch- 
es by  Kemble.  Nora  Perry  has  a  poem,  "Balboa,"which 
is  well  illustrated  by  Frank  Day.  "What  did  the  Butch- 
er Boy  Say?"  is  the  first  of  a  series  of  "Housekeeping 
Songs,"  set  to  music. 

Some  years  ago  a  company  of  infidels  began  the  publi- 
cation of  a  periodical  called  "Man,"  in  which  they  at- 
tempted to  propagate  their  baleful  sentiments.  In  De- 
cember a  fine  monthly  began  to  be  issued  from  New  York, 
called  "Woman."  It  is  a  handsome  magazine  with  an 
attractive  and  artistic  cover,  and  among  its  illustrations 
has  portraits  of  Dinah  Mulock  Craik  and  Jenny  Lind 
Goldschmidt.  "The  Astor  Library,""The  Swedish  Night- 
ingale," "Home  Decoration,"  and  "Woman  in  the  Brah- 
mo  Somaj"  are  articles  well  deserving  attention.  The 
departments  for  mothers,  daughters,  the  household,  soci- 
eties for  Christian  work,  etc  ,  are  helpful  and  suggestive, 
but  some  of  the  stories  are  too  trashy  to  be  redeemed 
even  by  a  good  moral. 

The  English  Illustrated  Magazine  gives  us  some  bright 
pictures  of  the  old  Exeter  road  out  of  London,a  highway 
full  of  history  in  the  days  of  the  coach .  The  illustrations 
picture  old  English  buildings  and  scenery  in  such  free 
and  happy  style  that  we  seem  set  back  a  century  or  two 
in  them.  The  old  city  of  Antwerp  has  some  choice  por- 
tions of  its  private  history  sketched  bv  Katherine  S.  Mac- 
quoid.and  a  no  less  pleasing  article  tells  of  the  attractions 
of  Southern  Tyrol . 

Interesting  articles  in  the  Library  Magazine  of  Decem- 
ber 31  are:  Secret  Societies  in  the  Two  Sicilies,  byE. 
Strachan  Morgan;  M.  Pasteur  and  Hydrophobia,  from 
Chamber's  Journal;  In  the  Land  of  Beer,  from  Cornhill 
Magazine;  Courses  of  Reading,  by  James  Payne;  The 
Hanging  of  Pictures,  by  Charles  L  Eastlake.  The  Li- 
brary Magazine  is  clubbed  with  the  Cynosxire  for  $2  10 
per  year  for  the  two . 

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nosure is  indebted  to  Mr.  B.  Tunnicliff.  It  is  valuable 
as  a  history  of  some  New  York  strikes  in  1886. 


January  12,  1888 


THE  CHHISTIAN  CYNOSURE, 


13 


Lodge  Notes. 

District  Assembly  49,  K.  of  L.,  New 
York  city.has  re-elected  James  E.  Quinn 
Master  Workman.  Mr.  Quinn  was  one 
of  the  delegation  of  four  that  was  sent 
to  make  argument  before  Governor  Ogles- 
by  in  behalf  of  mercy  for  the  anarchists. 

Mr.  Powderly  denies  the  reports  that 
he  is  opposed  to  the  Reading  strike,  and 
has  directed  that  the  entire  matter  be 
presented  to  the  general  executive  board 
of  the  Knights  of  Labor, who  as  yet  have 
received  no  oflScial  notification  of  the 
trouble. 

The  printers  on  all  the  French  papers 
in  Quebec  are  on  a  strike  for  nine  hours' 
work  and  increased  pay,  which  was  re- 
fused. The  papers  denounce  Cardinal 
Gibbons  for  supporting  the  Knights  of 
Labor,  and  approve  Cardinal  Tascher- 
eau's  views. 

Mrs.  Leonora  Barry,  the  general  inves- 
tigator of  the  Knights  of  Labor,  has  issued 
a  circular  letter  to  the  female  members  of 
the  order  wherever  found.  It  deals  with 
the  subject  of  the  condition  of  working 
women  and  girls,  and  strongly  advocates 
the  expenditure  of  money  for  education 
instead  of  strikes. 

A  letter  of  Cardinal  Taschereau  was 
read  in  all  the  Roman  Catholic  churches 
of  Quebec  Sunday  strongly  advising  all 
Catholics  not  to  enroll  themselves  in  the 
society  of  the  Knights  of  Labor,  and,  if 
enrolled,  to  withdraw  as  soon  as  possible. 
At  the  French  Cathedral,  after  the  read- 
ing of  the  letter,  the  official  clergyman 
strongly  charged  the  congregation  to  obey 
the  letter,  and  classifying  those  who  be- 
longed to  the  Knights  of  Labor  as  imbe- 
ciles. 

Intelligence  comes  from  Madisonville, 
Madison  county,  Texas,  that  a  body  of 
armed  citizens  calling  themselves  "Re- 
formers," shot  and  killed  Bill  Bolo  and 
then  hanged  Red  Paige  and  another  man, 
whose  name  is  not  known.  Alf  Whitten, 
a  friend  of  Bolo,  was  attacked  and  driv- 
en from  the  town .  Bolo  and  his  friends 
were  in  favor  of  maintaing  the  saloons. 
SherifiE  Black  has  applied  to  Governor 
Ross  for  troops.  A  state  of  terror  pre- 
vails. 

And  now  there  is  a  row  over  the  bronze 
commemorative  medals  of  Mr.  Beecher 
[Henry  W  ],  ordered  by  the  "Memorial 
and  Executive  Committee  of  the  Grand 
Army  of  the  Republic  of  King's  county." 
The  medals  were  to  be  sold  at  a  dollar 
and  a  half  each,  or  something  such.  They 
fell  flat,  metaphorically  speaking.  The 
caster  of  the  medals  applied  for  the  bal- 
ance of  his  bill.  The  response  of  Mr. 
Phillips,  the  treaaurer  of  the  committee, 
was  that  the  committee  had  sunk  $250  in 
"the  devilish  things"  and  had  no  more 
money.  They  could  get  no  one  to  touch 
them  —  that  is  to  say,  "the  devilish 
things." — Catholic  Retiiew. 


CONSUMPTION  SUJISLY  OUBEI>. 

To  the  Editor: — Please  inform  your 
readers  that  I  have  a  positive  remedy  for 
the  above  named  disease .  By  its  timely 
use  thousands  of  hopeless  cases  have  been 
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any  of  your  readers  who  have  consump- 
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THE  CHRISTIAN  OYNOSXJBE. 


January  12, 1888 


Home  aitd  Health. 

The  Exhaustivbness  of  City  Life  . — 
There  are  advantages  in  city  life,  but 
there  are  results  that  lessen  the  gains.  It 
is  not  merely  that  there  are  risks  from 
sewage  gas  and  from  crowded  rooms,  but 
from  numbers  that  hinder  interest.  City 
life  brings  out  the  ingenuity  of  man,  but 
there  is  a  great  exhaustion  of  vital  pow- 
er. There  is  constant  wear  and  tear  of 
the  system  by  the  multiplicity  of  things 
claiming  attention.  Think  of  the  com- 
mittee meetings  to  be  attended,  of  the 
multiplied  agencies  demanding  attention; 
of  the  fierce  competition  for  existence;  of 
the  strain  put  on  men  of  small  capital  by 
the  existence  and  advertising  power  of 
large  houses;  of  the  many  sights  compel- 
ling thought;  of  the  paralysis  sometimes 
produced  by  the  mightier  work  to  be  ov- 
ertaken; and  the  difficulty  of  making 
oneself  felt  amid  the  moving  crowds  of 
the  city.  Then  add  the  lateness  of  the 
hours  the  shops  remain  open ;  the  amount 
of  gas  used  and  bad  air  breathed;  the  ra- 
pidity with  which  every  customer  has  to 
be  attended  to;  the  distances  it  is  neces- 
sary to  travel,  on  trivial  business  fre- 
quently, in  a  city;  the  hurrying  to  catch 
trains;  the  complex  engagements  to  be 
met,  and  it  must  be  confessed  that  city 
life  is  most  exhaustive.  The  drafts  on 
nervous  energy  are  constant.  There  is 
great  excitement,  and  the  loss  caused  is 
not  60  readily  repaired  as  in  the  country. 
The  air  is  not  so  pure.  It  has  been  vitiat- 
ed by  bad  odors  from  every  source 
breathed  and  re-breathed;  there  is  no 
ozone  in  it.  This  accounts  for  the  sense 
of  lassitude  so  many  experience.  The 
superintendence  of  country  toil  or  actual 
work  has  a  more  restorative  influence 
than  city  work.  Agriculture  has  been 
thought  beneath  many,  and  it  has  thus 
been  left  to  lower  minds,  as  though  the 
best  cultivator  of  the  land  would  be  one 
who  had  least  cultivation  of  brain.  To 
what,  however,  do  men  of  leisure  and 
competency  so  readily  turn  as  to  farm- 
ing? It  is  evidently  the  normal  state  in 
which  pleasure  and  profit  are  best  com- 
bined. Man  was  not  intended  to  be  a 
mere  machine  to  get  money.  The  growth 
of  cities  means  that  men  live  rather  to 
gain  wealth  than  to  produce  it .  Men  may 
make  money  there,  but  at  what  a  cost  it 
is!  How  much  is  lost!  Some  say,  "No. 
There  are  these  advantages  in  town:  that 
lectures,  services,  and  amusements  can  be 
more  readily  reached."  Nearly  all  could 
be  gained  in  the  country  under  better 
management. — Sel . 

Good  Looks  and  Walking. — We  are 
often  twitted  as  a  nation  with  the  fact 
that  our  women,  beautiful  as  they  are  in 
the  first  years  of  womanhood,  have  not 
sufficient  stamina  to  keep  their  good 
looks  when  the  cares  of  matrimony  ar- 
rive. One  reason  given  is  that  American 
women  never  take  walking  exercises,  and 
here  is  a  lady  writing  to  the  Savannah 
IfetDS  that  there  is  no  reason  why  the  av- 
erage woman  should  not  add  tenfold  to 
her  enjoyment  of  life  and  of  out  of-door 
living  by  cultivating  the  noble  art  of 
walking.  "A  delicate  woman,  properly 
dressed,  and  who  knows  how  to  walk, 
can  do  ten  miles  of  a  summer  afternoon 
without  injury,  when  an  equivalent 
amount  of  other  exercise  might  produce 
serious  injury.  Walking  is  the  natural 
and  normal  exercise,  and  hurts  no  wo- 
man who  sets  rightly  about  it.  A  wo- 
man who  is  unaccustomed  to  vigorous 
walking  in  order  to  become  a  good  pe- 
destrian should  look  first  to  her  shoes. 
These  should  be  broad  across  the  forward 
part  of  the  foot,  offering  not  the  least  ob- 
struction to  the  free  movement  of  the 
toes.  The  heels  should  be  low  and  broad, 
and  the  shoe  should  fit  rather  snugly 
about  the  heel  and  instep.  The  full  dress 
equipment  should  weigh  upon  honest 
scales  no  more  than  two  and  a  half  or 
three  pounds  and  should  hang  from  the 
shoulders  witbout  any  band  pinned  or 
buttoned  or  laced  about  the  waist.  No 
woman  can  walk  in  a  corset.  The  walker 
must  be  comfortable  enough  to  be  un- 
conscious of  her  attire.  A  hat  that  shades 
the  eyes  is  in  order.  So  prepared,  try 
any  distance  that  does  not  prove  fatigu- 
ng  as  an  initial  experiment.  It  will 
probably  be  from  a  mile  and  a  half  to 
two  miles,  and  must  be  walked  at  a  brisk 
pace,  three  miles  and  a  half  an  hour  be- 
ing a  good  limit.  When  this  can  be  done 
without  backache  or  foot  weariness,  and 
a  well  woman  ought  to  have  no  difficulty 
at  her  first  trial, increase  the  distance  dur- 
ing the  leisure  days  of  the  summer  vaca- 
tion  daily,  maintaining  the  same  gait, 


and  fifteen  miles  a  day  for  a  week  or  fort- 
night in  succession,  twenty-five  miles  a 
day  on  any  occasion  that  demands  it,  will 
be  found  within  any  ordinary  capacity 
with  a  month  or  six  week's  training." 

A  Tekrible  Death. — Mrs  .Marie  Kat- 
lier,  a  German  woman,  of  Topeka,  Kan., 
was  horribly  burned  Dec.  15,  and  died 
from  her  injuries.  Mrs.  Katlier  discov- 
ered that  the  oil  in  her  lamp  needed  re- 
plenishing. She  blew  out  tha  flame,  as 
she  supposed,  unscrewed  the  top  of  the 
lamp,  and  proceeded  to  fill  the  lamp  from 
%]ie  oil  can.  An  explosion  followed,  she 
was  instantly  enveloped  in  flames,  and 
died  a  terrible  death. 


MONTANA 


HEARD    FROM.— Recent 

railroad  extensions  have 
developed  exceptionally 
fine  mineral,  stock  and  farming  districts.  Mapi 
and  full  particulars,  free,  upon  application  tf 
C.  H.  Warren.  Gon.  Pass.  Agt.,  St.  Paul,  Minn 

QTrtni/lN  MINNESOTA.— From  an  ex- 
u  I  llliRk  elusive  grain  country,  Minne- 
W  I  WWII  sota  is  being  rapidly  tranformed 
Into  the  finest  stock  and  dairy  State  In  th« 
Union.  JCheap  lands  still  obtainable,  conven- 
ient to  railroad.  '  Particulars,  free,  upon  ap- 
plication to  C.  H.  WARREN,  Gen.  Pass.  Agt., 
St.  Paul,  Minn. 


CENTERS.— The 
building  of  rail- 
roads in  a  new 


NEW  BUSINESS 

and  fertile  country  creates  many  new  towns, 
affording  excellent  business  opportunities. 
Particulars  regarding  such  opportunities  in 
Montana,  Minnesota  and  Dakota  will  be  sent 
upon  application  to  C.  H.  WARREN,  Gen.  Pass. 
Agt.,  St.  Paul,  Minn. 


PROSPEROUS.! 


North  Dakota  never 
had  better  crops  than 
'  those  just  harvested. 
Many  opportunities  to  secure  fine  Government 
lands  recently  surveyed,  near  excellent  coal 
fields  and  adjacent  to  railroads.  Maps  and 
full  particulars,  free,  upon  application  to  C.  H. 
WARREN,  Gen.  Pass.  Agt.  St.  Paul,  Minn. 


SUGOESS.! 


I  *  Are  you  mortgaged,  pay- 
ing heaving  rents,  or  run- 
'ning  behind?  Can  you 
move  to  new  location?  Excellant  lands,  cheap, 
which  will  increase  in  value  several  fold  in  five 
years.  No  other  such  opportunities  existing. 
Full  particulars,  free,  upon  application  to 
C.  H.  WARREN,  Gen.  Pass.  Agt.,  St.  Paul, 
Minn. 


FAILURE 


OF"  CROPS  is  an  unknown 
experience  in  Central  and 
Northern  Dakota  and  Min- 
nesota. Maps  and  full  particulars  regarding 
lands,  prices,  etc.,  sent  tree.  Address  C.  H, 
WARREN,  Gen.  Pass.  Agt.,  St.  Paul,  Minn. 


WHY  WORK: 


FOR  ANOTHER,  or  on 
small  salary?  Why  con- 
tinue working  on  a 
worn-outfarm?  Why  try  to  secure  a  living  from 
such  high-priced  or  heavily  mortgaged  farms? 
Why  work  on  rented  land?  Why  not  start  for 
p'ourself?  Why  not  secure  at  once  some  of  the 
low-priced  but  very  fertile  and  well  located 
lands  adjacent  to  railroads  now  to  be  obtained 
by  those  going  to  Northern  Dakota  and  Minne- 
sota, wher«  you  can  make  a  largernetprofitper 
icre  than  on  the  high  priced  or  worn-out  land 
70\i  now  occupy?  Why  not  go  and  look  the 
situation  over  and  see  for  yourself,  or  at  least 
obtain  further  information,  which  will  be  H 
sent  free,  if  you  will  Address  C.  H.  f 
WARREN,  Gen.  Pass.  Agt.,  St.  Paul,  Minn    ■ 

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THE  CHBISTIAir  CYNOBWXEL 


16 


Fakm  Notes. 


COAL  AND  WOOD  ASHES. 

Wood  ashes  are  excellent  for  the  hens 
to  scratch  in  and  pick  over,  as  they  con- 
tain bits  of  charcoal  and  other  materials, 
but  for  the  dust  bath  the  coal  ashes, sifted 
fine,  are  best.  The  coarser  portions,  how; 
ever,  may  be  thrown  where  the  hens  can 
get  at  them,80  as  to  provide  gritty  mater- 
ial in  cold  weather.  On  the  hen  house 
floor,  or  under  the  roost,  fine  coal  ashes 
provide  an  excellent  absorbent  and  pre- 
vent loss  of  the  droppings.  Wood  ashes 
being  alkaline  sometimes  cause  sores  on 
the  hens  when  used  for  dusting. 

When  you  sell  your  produce  by  sample 
show  a  sample  that  the  goods  will  equal. 

A  mistake  made  by  many  farmers  is 
wintering  more  fowls  than  the  quarters 
will  accommodate.  Nothing  so  soon  en- 
genders disease. 

Ohio  will  hold  one  hundred  farmers' 
institutes  the  coming  winter,   and  Wis 
consin  has  arranged  for  eighty-two. 

Don't  force  your  hens  to  lay  themselves 
out  by  giving  too  much  stimulating, egg- 
producing  food,  especially  if  your  birds 
are  worth  anything. 

Dr.  Hoskins  says  that  the  discovery  of 
the  Wealthy  apple  has  extended  profita- 
ble apple  culture  at  least  one  hundred 
miles  farther  to  the  north. 

Few  farmers  give  that  attention  to  their 
horses'  feet  that  they  should  give.  Moat 
men  rub  and  curry  well  enough, perhaps, 
and  many  take  great  pride  and  plenty  of 
time  in  smoothing  the  horse's  hide;  but 
seldom  is  it  that  they  think  of  that  most 
indispensable  part,  the  horse's  feet,  and 
stop  to  give  them  that  little  attention 
and  inspection  that  is  almost  daily  neces- 
sary. 

There  may  be  some  old  building  stand- 
ing about  your  premises  or  a  corner  in 
your  barn  or  some  out-house  which  could 
be  fixed  up  without  much  trouble  or  ex- 
pense to  answer  the  purpose  of  an  ice 
house,  if  you  have  not  such  a  conveni- 
ence already  upon  your  farm.  Those  who 
have  tried  it  only  know  what  a  conven- 
ience a  good  supply  of  ice  is  during  the 
hob  months  of  summer. 

WARM  WATER  FOR  STOCK. 

The  subject  of  warming  water  for 
stock  during  the  cold  weather  is  just  now 
occupying  the  attention  of  farmers.  The 
experiments  made  are  interesting, and  the 
results  are  almost  universally  reported  in 
favor  of  the  use  of  the  warm  water.  A 
correspondent  of  the  American  Cultivat- 
or sums  up  the  evidence  on  the  subject 
thus: 

Stock  kept  in  warm  stables  require 
warmer  water  than  if  they  are  kept  in 
cold  stables,  so  that  this  subject  is  doub- 
ling in  importance.  A  cow  kept  in  a 
warm  stable  and  turned  out  to  drink  ice- 
cold  water,  33  '^ ,  being  a  temperature  of 
over  60°  lower  than  that  of  the 
system,  makes  a  great  contrast,  which 
must  give  discomfort  to  the  animal  and 
loss  to  its  owner.  The  profits  of  farming 
are  so  small  that  it  becomes  necessary 
that  all  leaks  should  be  looked  after,even 
the  small  ones,  and  especially  the  larger 
ones,  like  the  one  under  discussion . 

In  the  reading  of  five  agricultural  pap 
era  and  in  conversing  with  many  farmers 
I  find  all  are  unanimous  in  the  opinion 
that  our  stock  should  be  provided  with 
tepid  or  warm  water,  but  the  degree  of 
temperature  to  which  it  should  be  raised 
becomes  a  question  upon  which  writers 
do  not  agree,  though  none  seem  to  know 
or  are  positive,  varying  in  their  opinions 
from  50  to  11:5  degrees.  An  average 
opinion  seems  to  be  from  (iO  to  80  de- 
grees. It  is  also  agreed  by  all  that  in 
warming  the  water  a  saving  is  made  in 
the  feed  if  nothing  more.  Nearly  all 
believe  there  is  a  saving  in  fiesh,  milk, 
and  the  manure  pile,  in  addition  to  the 
feed. 

I  have  seen  but  one  estimate  of  the  val- 
ue of  feed  saved  daily  per  cow,  ^nd  that 
was  eight  cents,  which  would  amount  to 
several  millionth  of  dollars  in  every  State 
yearly,  a  sum  worth  saving;  and  this  sum, 
be  it  remembered,  is  net  gain,  after  the 
expense  of  warming  the  water  is  taken 
out.  One  writer  says  thfit  he  drew  all 
the  water  that  forty  cows  drank  for  one 
winter  one  mile  from  a  spring,  rather 
than  have  them  drink  from  a  river  near 
by,  and  he  thought  it  paid  him  well. 

"The  result  of  an  experiment  at  an  agri 
cultural  school  in  Franco  showed  an  in- 
crease in  milk  of  one-third,  the  water  be- 
ing warmed  to  113  degrees.  Other  par- 
ties claim  an  increase  of  from   20  to  30 


per  cent.  At  the  Agricultural  College  in 
Kansas  an  experiment  resulted  in  the  in 
crease  of  milk  8]  per  cent  the  water  be- 
ing warmed  to  65  degrees.  Another  ex- 
periment in  France  showed  an  increase  in 
milk  of  three  pints  daily  per  cow  by 
warming  the  water  instead  of  using  pump 
water . 

Professor  J.  P.  Roberts, of  Cornell  Uni- 
versity, says:  "The  water  consumed  by 
two  sets  of  cows,  containing  three  ani- 
mals each,  was  weighed  for  a  period  of 
thirteen  days.  One  set  drank  an  average 
of  110  pounds  of  cold  water  each  day  per 
cow,  and  the  other  set  an  average  of  120 
pounds  of  warm  water  per  cow  each  day." 
I  have  another  statement  that  cows  will 
drink  one-third  more  when  water  is 
warmed  to  80  degrees  than  they  will  at 
32  degrees,and  that  the  milk  will  increase 
one  fifth  to  one-fourth  and  without  de- 
terioration .  Another  statement.  "A  cow 
that  makes  six  pounds  of  butter  a  week 
on  cold  water  will  make  seven  pounds  if 
the  water  is  warmed."  As  milk  is  from 
80  to  90  per  cent  water,  it  is  well  to  look 
after  the  quantity,  quality  and  tempera- 
ture of  the  water  consumed . 

A  few  years  since  a  Mr.  Dancel  com- 
municated to  the  French  Academy  of  Sci- 
ences an  expferiment  to  show  the  increase 
of  milk  by  the  increase  of  water  con- 
sumed. He  found  when  the  same  kind 
and  amount  of  food  was  liberally  moist- 
ened it  produced  more  milk  than  when 
fed  dry,  and  the  milk  was  adjudged  to  be 
of  as  good  quality.  Again,  Mr.  Dancel 
asserts  that  the  yield  of  milk  from  cows 
is  in  direct  proportion  to  tne  quantity  of 
water  taken.  He  also  says  that  cows 
which  habitually  drink  less  than  twenty- 
seven  quarts  of  water  per  day  are  neces- 
sarily poor  cows.  Such  cows  will  give 
from  five  to  seven  quarts  of  milk  daily, 
while  cows  that  drink  fifty  quarts  prove 
to  be  excellent  milkers.  This  experi- 
ment was  tried  in  the  summer. 

This  subject  is  fraught  with  much  im- 
portance to  farmers, and  it  should  receive 
due  consideration.  Here  is  an  open  field 
for  some  inventive  genius  to  devise  aome 
apparatus  for  the  warming  of  water  for 
stock  which  shall  combine  four  qualities, 
cheapness,  durability,  practicability,  and 
safety.  There  are  a  few  devices  for  this 
purpose  already  before  the  public  which 
no  doubt  have  merits. 


AN    UM>ISt;OVKRED    COUNTRY. 

For  many  years  traditions  and  occa- 
sional reports  obtained  from  traders  and 
ranchmen  have  been  repeated,  regarding 
the  wonderful  mineral  and  agricultural 
resources  of  central  and  northern  Monta- 
na, which  has  been  terra  incognito.  State- 
ments from  prospectors  who  occasionally 
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fullest  extent  the  reports  regarding  the 
unbounded  wealth  of  the  Territory,  but 
the  great  uncertainty  and  expense  of 
transportation  has  heretofore  prevented 
any  development  of  this  district.  Ri- 
cently  a  great  change  has  taken  place. 
The  extension  of  the  line  of  the  St.  Paul, 
Minneapolis  &  Manitoba  Railway  through 
this  Territory  and  the  announced  policy 
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developing  its  resources,  mineral  and 
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HON.    THURLOW    'WEED  OK    THK  MOU 

OAN  ABDUCTION. 

This  I*  a  Rlzteen  page  pamphlet  oomprUlng  a  lev 
ter  written  by  Mr.  Weed,  and  read  at  the  unvelllnt 
of  the  monument  er»cte>i  to  the  memory  of  Capt. 
WillUm  Morgr.n.  The  frontispiece  l^  an  entiraving 
of  the  monument.  It  Is  a  history  of  the  uuUwfu 
•eizure  and  confinement  ot  Morgan  In  theOauamla' 
gun  Jail,  hIsBubaequent  couveyance  hj  Freeumson 
to  Fort  Niagara.  »nd  drowning  In  Lake  Ontario 
He  not  only  subacrlbee  his  navk  to  the  letter,  btn 

ATTAOHKH  BIA  AmDAVrT   tO  It. 

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January  12, 1888 


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Nfws  of  The  week 

WASHINGTON. 

Congressman  M.  A.  Foran  said  Wed- 
nesday that  he  and  all  other  Randall 
Democrats  would  unite  with  the  Repub- 
licans in  Congress  for  the  defeat  of  any 
bill  framed  in  accordance  wilh  President 
Cleveland's  anti-tariff  message. 

It  is  understood  that  General  Bragg,  of 
Wisconsin,  will  receive  the  appointment 
of  minister  to  Mexico,  and  that  ex-Con- 
gressman Stockslager  will  succeed  Mr. 
Sparks  as  commisioner  of  the  general 
land  ofBse. 

The  Corean  Embassy,  Pa  Chun  Lun, 
Minister  Plenipotentiary,  and  his  several 
secretaries  and  interpreters,  arrived  in 
Washington  Monday  night  and  are  stay- 
ing at  the  Ebbitt  House, where  they  have 
engaged  a  large  suite  of  rooms. 

COUNTRY. 

The  draft-horse  war  in  Illinois  has  ter 
minated  in  a  victory  for  the  Percheron 
breeders.  The  State  Board  of  Agricul- 
ture voted  to  retain  a  serparate  claesiflca 
tion  in  the  premium  list  for  that  breed, as 
distinguished  from  the  general  grouping 
of  French  draft  horses,  which  will  not  be 
permitted  to  exhibit  in  direct  competition 
with  Percherons. 

The  first  satisfactory  observation 
through  the  Lick  telescope  was  made  Sat- 
urday evening  at  San  Jose,  Cal.  The 
sky  was  clear,  the  weather  cool  and  no 
rain.  The  big  telescope  was  first  pointed 
at  nebula  in  the  constellation  of  Orion 
and  the  observation  was  very  satisfac- 
tory. 

A  dispatch  from  Helena,M.T.,Jan.  7th, 
says  in  some  sections  of  the  territory  the 
cold  during  the  past  twenty  four  hours 
has  been  almost  unprecedented.  At  Bel- 
grade yesterday  the  spirit  thermometer  was 
52  degrees  below  zero,  the  coldest  night 
since  1865.  All  freight  trains  are  aban- 
doned .  Passenger  trains  going  West  are 
from  twenty-four  to  thirty  six  hours  late. 
No  reliable  returns  have  been  received  a? 
to  the  condition  of  stock  throughout 
Eastern  Montana.  Before  the  present 
storm  cattle  were  in  excellent  condition 
and  well  prepared  for  winter,  but  stock 
men  are  uneasy,  and  a  fortnight  of  in- 
clement weather  would  result  in  serious 
losses.  The  thermometer  ranges  from  14 
to  41  below  zero,  with  an  average  of  a 
foot  of  snow  on  the  ground. 

A  conference  was  held  Saturday  night 
in  Jersey  City  between  representatives  of  I 
the  various  trades  involved  in  the  Read- 
ing strike,  and  it  was  decided  that  the 
men  should  be  ordered  out  of  the  Wyom- 
ing mine.  This  action,  it  was  said, 
would  practically  stop  work  in  the  an- 
thracite coal  region.  A  prominent  mem- 
ber of  District  Assembly  49  said  yester- 
day that  the  Knights  had  fully  made  up 
their  minds  to  fight  this  strike  to  the  end, 
and  wculd  make  no  attempt  now  to  se- 
cure arbitration .  Closing  the  Wyoming 
mines,  he  added,  would  result  in  thous- 
ands of  men  being  thrown  out  of  work 
from  want  of  fuel  to  run  factories  and 
mills. 

Attention  has  been  called  by  Judge 
Spear,  United  States  district  judge  at  Sa- 
vannah, Georgia,  in  his  charge  to  the 
grand  jury,  to  the  conflict  between  the 
federal  and  State  laws  on  the  subject  of 


the  liquor  traffic,  the  State  prohibiting 
and  the  federal  government  granting  li- 
censes for  the  sale  of  liquor .  It  is  sug- 
gested that  a  memorial  be  addressed  to 
Congress  on  the  subject. 

For  the  season  of  1887  the  total  pro- 
duction of  corn  in  the  United  States  was 
1,456,000,000  bushels, value  $640,000,000; 
of  wheat  456,000.000  bushels, value  $309,- 
000.000;  of  oats  659,000,000  bushels, val- 
ue $200,000,000. 

An  unsuccessful  attempt  was  made 
near  Ottumwa,  Iowa,  Friday  night,  to  rob 
the  express  car  of  the  west  bound  train 
on  the  Chicago,  Burlington  and  Quincy 
railroad. 

The  Pennsylvania  Railroad  miners' 
train,  carrying  500  men  returning  from 
work, was  wrecked  at  Shamokin,  Pa.,  Jan. 
4 .  A  sill  was  wedged  on  the  roadbed . 
This  is  the  third  attempt  to  wreck  the 
train.  The  miners  are  very  angry  and 
threaten  vengeance.  No  person  was  ser- 
iously in  j  ured .  The  miners  riding  on  the 
train  are  all  Knights  of  Labor  working  at  * 
mines  paying  their  price .  They  do  not 
understand  the  animus  of  the  wreckers, 
but  believe  they  are  some  dissatisfied  par- 
ties who  desire  a  stoppage  of  mining  in 
the  whole  region . 

An  embryo  volcano  is  said  to  have  been 
discovered  near  Zollarsville,  Pa.  Dense 
smoke  is  reported  to  be  issuing  from  the 
ground,  and  hot  lumps  of  clay  have  been 
thrown  up. 

A  premature  blast  on  the  new  railroad 
near  Laurel  Run,  Pa ,  Thursday,  killed 
four  Italians  and  badly  in  j  ured  seven  oth- 
ers. 

A  span  in  the  new  central  viaduct,  now 
being  constructed  at  Cleveland,f  ell  Thurs- 
day. It  was  ninety  feet  long  and  eighty- 
five  feet  above  the  ground.  A  large  car 
on  which  there  were  supplies  was  pushed 
off  the  end  of  the  span  by  accident,  and 
in  falling  it  knocked  braces  and  beams 
out  of  place,  and  the  span  went  also . 
There  were  eight  workmen  on  the  span 
when  it  fell,  two  of  whom  were  killed  and 
all  injured. 

The  navigation  building  at  the  Brook- 
lyn Navy  Yard  was  destroyed  by  fire  ear- 
ly Friday  morning,  entailing  a  loss  of 
$200,000.  Many  valuable  maps,  plans, 
and  designs  were  burned. 

The  Board  of  Trade  of  Wichita,  Kas., 
has  passed  resolutions  announcing  that 
it  has  caused  a  searching  investigation  to 
be  made  throughout  Southwestern  Kan- 
sas for  the  purpose  of  ascertaining  the 
extent  of  the  suffering  there  during  the 
cold  weather  this  winter  with  the  result 
that  not  one  case  of  death  by  freezing  or 
starvation  has  occurred.  The  resolutions 
strongly  denounce  the  authors  of  the 
false  and  sensational  reports, which  were 
given  such  wide  circulation  in  the  East. 

It  is  stated  that  no  Reading  collieries 
are  being  worked  and  that  the  strike  is 
more  serious  than  acknowledged  by  the 
officials.  The  shipments  of  coal  are  scan- 
ty, and  reports  are  current  of  furnaces 
shutting  down  for  want  of  fuel.  The  de- 
mand for  coke  has  materially  increased. 
Albert  Stevens,  chairman  of  the  miners' 
joint  organization  at  Pottsville,  has,  by 
request,  telegraphed  Bradstreet's  that  20,- 
000  Reading  mine  workers  and  18,000 
railway  employes  are  out  on  the  strike. 
There  are  no  indications  of  a  speedy  set- 
tlement. 

FOBBIQN. 

This  has  so  far  been  one  of  the  sever- 
est winters  on  record  in  Austria.  Cases 
of  death  from  the  effects  of  exposure  are 
reported  daily  in  Vienna.  The  water 
supply  is  beginning  to  fail .  The  ice  in 
the  Danube  has  reached  Vienna.  The 
Flatten- See  is  frozen  over  for  the  first 
time  in  many  years. 

The  sentence  of  two  months'  imprison- 
ment passed  upon  Wilfrid  Blunt  for  hav- 
ing addressed  a  proclaimed  meeting  at 
Woodford  has  been  confirmed  by  the 
court  to  which  an  appeal  was  taken. 

The  Pope's  speech  to  the  pilgrims  is 
regarded  as  distinctly  putting  an  end  to 
the  idea  of  conciliation  with  the  Italian 
government: 

An  1.800  ton  bark,  believed  to  be  an 
American  vessel,  has  been  wrecked  at  the 
entrance  of  Waterford  (Ireland)  harbor. 
Her  crew,  consisting  of  twenty  five  per- 
sons, were  all  drowned.  The  vessel  is 
supposed  to  be  the  ship  Eureka,  Captain 
Southard,  which  sailed  from  San  Fran- 
cisco Aug.  10  for  Queenstown,  with  a 
cargo  of  wheat,  and  which  ran  by 
Queenstown  in  a  gale. 


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THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE, 


The  C  YNOSUJiEK^T^e,eDte,  the  Christian  movement  against 
the  Secret  Lodge  System;  discusses  fairly  and  fearlessly  the 
various  movements  of  the  lodge  as  they  appear  to  public  view, 
and  reveals  the  secret  machinery  of  corruption  in  politics, 
courts,  and  social  and  religious  circles. 

There  are  In  the  United  States 

Some  200  different  Lodges, 
With  2,000  000  members. 
Costing  $20,000,000  yearly. 

This  mighty  world  power  confronts  the  church  and  seeks  to 
rule  and  ruin  every  Christian  Reform. 

No  Christian  Reform  Movement  of  the  day  is  so  necessary, 
yet  so  unpopular  and  beset  with  difficulties,  as  that  which  would 
remove  the  dark  pall  of  oaths,  dark-lantern  meetings,  secret 
signs,  mysterious  and  pagan  worship  about  altars  condemned 
by  the  Word  of  the  Living  God. 

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torial strength  to  this  vitally  Important  reform.  The  C  FiVO- 
S  URE  should  be  your  paper  In  addition  to  any  other  you  may 
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of  secret  orders  to  current  evejtts. 

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CONTENTS. 


Now  that  the  paternal  side  of  our  government  is 
being  invoked  to  furnish  the  people  with  a  postal 
telegraph,  we  should  not  fail  to  understand  the  sub- 
ject as  thoroughly  as  possible.  Can  the  government 
furnish  us  so  efficient  a  service  as  private  corpora- 
tions? The  post  office  department  is  always  appeal- 
ed to  in  reply.  Our  mail  service  is  verily  a  won- 
der, whether  we  view  the  amount  of  work  performed 
or  its  accuracy  and  promptness.  But  in  the  trans- 
mission of  money  through  the  mails,  the  various 
methods  of  registry,  postal  notes  or  money  orders, 
are  quite  behind  the  express  companies,  who  fur- 
nish a  cheaper  means,  one  just  as  safe,  easier  of  col- 
lection,and  in  case  of  loss  in  transit  much  more  con- 
venient to  replace.  The  efficiency  of  the  express 
companies  in  this  particular  must  not  be  overlooked 
in  the  argument  for  increase  of  the  government  ser- 
vice. 


Editobial  : 

Notes  and  Comments 1 

Cagtfnp;  Oat  Devils 8 

Sons  of  Veterans  Pray  for 

theDead 8 

Mardl  Gras 8 

The    New    Scottish  Rite 

Book 8 

Personal  Mention 9 

CoNTsiBunoNS : 

Ambiguity    in     Religion 

Unpardonable 1 

The    Indians    and    their 
Leaders  In  the  Rebellion 

(Concluded) 2 

A  Hopeful  Review .3 

The  W.  C.  T.  U.  and  the 

Knight*  of  Labor 3 

Reformers  and  Prayer 3 

Secbet  Empire  : 
The  Patrons  of  Husbandry    3 

Press  Comment 4 

Washington  Letter 4 

New  York  Letter 9 


Reform  News  : 
On  the  Southwestern  Bor- 
ders;   From    the  Ohio 
Agent ;  Reform  Notes . .    5 

CORRBSPONDBNOB : 

From  a  True  Hearted  Cov- 
enanter: Herod's  Oath; 

Pith  and  Point 6 

Bible  Lesson 6 

The  N.  C.  a 7 

Church  vs.  Lodge 7 

Routes  and  Rates  to  New 
Orleans 9 

Program  for  New  Orleans    9 

The  Home 10 

Temperance 11 

Religious  Nhws 12 

Literature 12 

Lodge  Notes 13 

Markets 13 

Business 13 

Home  and  Health 14 

Farm  Notes 15 

News  op  thb  Wbbk 16 


The  confirmation  of  Mr.  Lamar  of  Mississippi  as 
Justice  of  the  Supreme  Court  last  Monday  was  not 
unexpected.  The  vote  was  close — 32  to  28 — but 
the  party  lines  were  not  so  closely  drawn  as  is  usual 
on  such  test  votes.  The  three  Republicans  who 
voted  for  the  confirmation  had  it  in  their  power  to 
defeat  it.  The  reports  of  the  debate  in  executive 
session  show  that  the  Democrats  were  either  so  con- 
fident of  their  case  that  they  did  not  care  to  discuss 
it,  or  else  they  "feared  the  people"  should  they  at- 
tempt a  defense  of  Mr.  Lamar's  rebellion  record. 
That  record  was  made  the  ground  of  Republican 
objection.  It  was  enough;  for,  if  every  other  pub- 
lic office  may  be  given  up,  to  the  Supreme  Bench 
should  be  admitted  only  those  whose  lives  have 
been  clear  of  so  great  a  transgression. 


The  spirit  of  union  is  yet  moving  among  the 
churches.  Not  only  are  the  North  and  South  branch- 
es of  the  General  Assembly  Presbyterians  sending 
out  committees  of  conference  to  shake  hands  over 
the  ineffaceable  color  line,  but  the  United  Presbyte- 
rians and  the  Associate  Reformed  Presbyteriani?, 
whose  headquarters  are  at  Due  West,  North  Caro- 
lina, have  also  been  exchanging  proposals  of  union. 
On  the  last  Thursday  of  1887  committees  from  the 
United  Presbyterian  General  Assembly  and  the  Re- 
formed Presbyterian  Synod  met  in  Allegheny  City. 
There  were  among  the  number  Rev.  Drs.  Harper, 
Reid,  D.  W.  Carson,  McAllister,  McFeeters,  and  J. 
R.  Wylie.  No  bar  to  the  union  of  the  denomina- 
tions was  met  until  the  question  of  civil  government 
arose.  The  committees  adopted  a  joint  report  stat- 
ing the  general  harmony  of  the  churches,  and  the 
divergence  of  opinion  respecting  the  authority  of 
Christ  in  the  State.  These  tentative  proposals  of 
union  seem  to  foretell  ultimate  union,  which  ought 
to  be  accomplished  without  in  any  way  relaxing  the 
tension  of  doctrinal  statement  or  daily  practice  re- 
specting flagrant  evils. 


Sullivan,  the  Boston  bruiser  and  wife-beater,  hav- 
ing been  accorded  a  professional  interview  with  the 
Grand  Master  of  English  Masons,  which  was  in- 
tended to  be  profoundly  secret,  the  Grand  Master  is 
in  a  petty  rage,  l)ecause,  like  his  other  profound  se- 
crets, it  got  out.  Some  of  the  papers  have  as  little 
regard  tor  his  feelings  as  if  he  were  not  Grand  Mas- 
ter and  Prince  of  Wales,  and  it  is  even  said  his 
queenly  mother  has  written  him  a  reproving  letter 
for  encouraging  a  brutal  man  and  a  brutal  sport. 
The  London  Truth  says  of  the  affair:  "The  Prince 
of  Wales  and  his  set  are  furious  that  publicity 
should  have  been  given  to  the  visit  which  he  paid  to 
Sullivan's  boxing  exhibition.  It  was  expressly  stip- 
ulated that  this  private  show-off,  before  Royalty, 
should  be  kept  quite  secret,  and  fervent  promises 
were  made  by  the  pugilist's  associates  that  they 
would  not  let  the  function  transpire."  And  the 
Herald  of  Peace  adds  with  great  significance:  "It 
may  be  easily  believed  that  the  Prince  and  his  en- 
tourage  are  annoyed — not  at  what  they  have  done — 
but  at  the  unintended  and  unexpected  publicity,  and 
consequent  public  indignation  which  have  resulted. 
And  this  raises  the  query — whether  other  question- 
able exhibitions  may  have  received  the  successfully 
secret  patronage  of  Royalty,  unknown  to  the  public 
and  the  press." 

m  »  • 

AMBIGUITY  IN  RELIGION  UNPAHDONABLH. 


BT  PRBS.  H.  H.   OEORQB. 


"It  is  the  unexpected  that  always  happens"  is  as 
good   for  a  political   proverb,  as   for  the   Chicago 
police  when   anarchists  are  to  be  executed.     Our 
Washington  letter  notices  the  character  of  Carlisle's 
committee  on  the  liquor  traffic.     The  anti-prohibi- 
tionists all   regard  it  "safe,"  a  good   committee  to 
smother  any  troublesome  bill.     But  their  very  con- 
fidence may  help  to  defeat  their  object;  and  a  spec- 
ial to  the  Inter  Ocean  the  other  day  shows  how  un- 
certain are  the  predictions  based  on  these  hopes: 
"The  anti-prohibitionists  are  a  good  deal  concerned 
at  the  prospect  of  legislation  this  winter,  and  they 
have  some  ground  to  fear  that  Congress  may  pass  a 
law  which  shall  either  provide  for  an  experiment 
for  the  prohibition  law  in  the  District  of  Columbia, 
or  for  an  extreme  high-license  bill.     The  apprehen- 
sion on  their  part  exists  not  because  it  is  believed 
that  there  is  a  majority  of  either  house  which  abso- 
lutely favors  prohibition  in  itself,  but  because  it  is 
believed,  with  considerable  reason,  that  in  view  of 
the  temperance   agitation   which   now   prevails  in 
many   sections  of  the  country,  there  will   not  be 
enough  opponents  of    prohibition   who   have    the 
courage  of  their  convictions  to  defeat  such  a  meas- 
ure.    It  seems  impossible  to  one  acquainted  with 
the  opinions  and  habits  of  public  men  here  to  think 
that  a  prohibition  law,  even  for  the  District  of  Col- 
umbia, Qoald  be  enacted;   but  (jueer  things  have 


The  terrible  storm  of  last  week  may  have  been  of- 
ten equalled  in  severity;  but  years  have  passed  since 
its  like  was  known,  and  thousands  are  exposed  now 
in  a  region  where  scores  were  ten  years  ago.  As 
the  region  of  blizzards  and  cyclones  becomes  more 
thickly  settled  these  tremendous  energies  of  nature 
will  have  more  victims.  But  in  Minnesota  where 
these  storms  were  so  fatal  years  ago  the  growth  of 
settlements  seems  to  have  produced  favorable  chang- 
es. The  thermometer  indicated  a  lower  temperature 
in  that  State  than  in  Dakota,  but  there  are  few  fa- 
talities reported.  Out  of  this  storm,  dreadful  as  are 
its  results,  have  come  such  accounts  of  heroism  and 
devotion  that  we  can  see  how  brave  and  faithful  a 
people  are  filling  up  these  Dakota  prairies.  No 
clime  of  perpetual  summer  has  the  natural  advan- 
tages which  help  produce  such  a  race. 


Our  northern  storms  may  help  us  sympathize  with 
the  hapless  Chinese,  stunned  by  their  immense  loss- 
es, of  life,  lands  and  goods,  by  the  overflow  of  the 
Yellow  River.  One-sixth  of  the  province  of  Ho- 
nan,  "the  garden  of  China"  is  now  a  vast  lake;  the 
rest  of  the  district  is  overrun  with  wretched  refu- 
gees who  escaped  with  nothing  but  their  lives.  In 
two  other  districts  no  less  than  three  thousand  large 
villages  were  engulfed  in  so  short  a  space  that 
scarcely  any  of  their  miserable  inhabitants  could  es- 
cape. An  extent  of  country  as  large  as  New  Hamp- 
shire or  Vermont  is  covered,  and  the  sluggish  gov- 
ernment is  bestirring  itself  to  dig  two  immense 
canals  to  draw  off  the  waters.  This  will  give  occu- 
pation to  thousands,  but  what  shall  be  done  for  the 
starving  millions,  who  are  utterly  beggared  and  de- 
pending for  subsistence  upon  charity?  Must  the 
death  list  of  the  Hood,  which  already  numbers,  it  is 
believed,  hundreds  of  thousands,  be  equalled  by  | 
that  of  the  famine? 


Ambiguity  means  the  use  of  a  term  or  phrase  in 
two  different  senses.  There  is  always  danger  of 
confusion  when  it  is  used.  But  if  a  person  were 
writing  a  treatise  on  science  or  philosophy  and 
should  use  a  term,  such  as  "idea,"  or  "reason,"  sus- 
ceptible of  two  distinct  meanings,  he  might  avoid 
confusion  by  clearly  explaining  that  such  words 
were  used  in  one  meaning  in  Part  I,  and  in  the  oth- 
er in  Part  II.  I  say,  such  might  be  done  and  no 
damage  result. 

Business  men  might  use  the  words,  "money," 
"capital,"  "stock,"  etc.,  in  two  distinct  senses,  pro- 
vided they  always  explained  in  what  sense  they 
used  them.  But  in  matters  of  religion  no  such 
double  terms  can  ever  be  allowed.  There  is  only 
one  sense  to  genuine  religion;  everything  else  under 
the  name  is  a  falsehood  and  a  deception.  Double- 
dealing  is  but  the  practical  carrying  out  of  double 
meaning. 

The  worst  objection  that  can  be  laid  against  the 
Masonic  fraternity  is  its  varied  and  changing  and 
ever-accommodating  use  of  the  term  "religion."  To 
one  man  the  system  is  presented  as  a  religion  that 
will  purify  him,  even  make  him  free  from  sin,  and 
prepare  him  for  the  "grand  lodge  above;"  to  another 
whose  liberality  is  unbounded.as  a  religion  that  will 
take  into  its  embrace  "Chinese,  Arab,  savage  and 
brother  Briton;"  and  to  another,  who  says  that  he  is 
a  Christian,  as  no  religion  at  all — only  a  benevolent 
institution.  One  member  of  the  order  can  say  it  is 
all  the  church  I  want;  another,  it  is  no  church  at 
all. 

It  is  no  more  than  will  be  admitted  to  say  that 
the  system  was  designed  to  be  for  the  accommoda- 
tion of  all  shades  of  belief.  It  was  framed  to  be  a 
sufficient  religion  to  all  those  who  have  no  other  and 
want  no  other;  and  no  religion  to  those  who  would 
scruple  to  give  up  their  accepted  forms  of  belief. 

In  order  to  catch  upon  that  religious  conscious- 
ness that  exists  in  all  men,  the  founders  have  repre- 
sented it  as  a  religion.  Mackey  says  "it  is  a  relig- 
ious institution."  Again  he  says,  "The  religion  of 
Masonry  is  theism."  They  have  made  prayer  a 
prominent  service  in  all  their  meetings.  They  give 
great  prominence  to  the  Bible;  hold  funeral  services 
for  the  dead,  and  give  a  religious  meaning  to  all  the 
symbols  they  use.  To  suit  a  class  of  men  who  are 
the  enemies  of  religion,  who  are  haters  of  it  and  are 
prejudiced  against  it,  they  leave  the  essence  of  re- 
ligion out;  drop  out  the  name  and  person  and  char- 
acter of  Christ,  assuring  such  that  it  is  just  as  good 
for  the  Mohammedan  and  Jew  as  for  the  Christian; 
and  to  a  third  class  who  have  some  conscience  about 
I  religion  they  explain  their  allusions  as  only  sym- 


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■aiBE  CEBSBTIAB  CYNOSWEHB. 


JANtJARY  19,  1888 


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bols;  they  don't  mean  religion  at  all:  to  such  the 
ceremonies  of  Masonry  are  only"ancient  and  accept- 
ed" rites. 

If  such  a  varied  use  of  terms  and  accommodating 
practice  could  be  allowed  anywhere  else,  in  the  sa- 
cred realm  of  religion  they  ought  not  to  be  and  must 
not  be  tolerated.  More  than  all  the  other  evils  of 
the  order  put  together  I  view  that  the  greatest,  yes,a 
a  hundred  times  the  greatest,  that  makes  it  a  pre- 
tense for  religion  when  it  is  not  a  religion  at  all; 
that  attempts  to  put  a  false  religion  in  the  place  of 
the  true  one,  to  satisfy  men  with  a  so-called  relig- 
ion that  cannot  save!  "There is  no  other  name  given 
under  heaven  nor  among  men  whereby  we  can  be 
saved,"  but  by  the  name  of  Jesus. 

If  that  fraternity  will  take  off  its  religious  mask, 
quit  praying,  quit  parading  the  Bible,  quit  holding 
funeral  services,  and  plant  itself  wholly  on  charity 
and  benevolence,  it  will  have  removed  one  of  its 
greatest  dangers  to  the  world.  If  men  should  be 
deceived  in  a  proposed  benevolent  scheme  it  might 
be  bad  enough — yet  many  have  been  in  insurance 
companies  and  various  confidence  games,  and  it  was 
only  a  loss  of  money — but  to  be  deceived  religious- 
ly is  fatal;  it  is  a  soul  deception;  it  has  an  eternity 
of  consequences.  Men  ought  to  tremble  at  the 
thought  of  playing  religion,  of  pretending  to  give 
light  to  a  poor,  lost,  ruined  sinner,  and  of  making  a 
farce  of  the  solemn  scene  of  death,  and  the  more 
dreadful  reality  of  the  resurrection. 

There  cannot  possibly  be  more  soul  safety  to  a 
member  of  the  Masonic  order  than  to  a  man  who  is 
a  member  of  a  bridge  company  or  a  railroad  or  in- 
surance company.  But  these  latter  associations 
never  pretend  to  provide  salvation  for  the  soul. 
They  do  offer  to  men  chances  to  make  money,  to 
provide  for  the  body;  but  they  never  presume  to 
prepare  them  for  the  life  beyond.  They  can  do  just 
as  much  for  a  man's  future  as  a  secret  society  can, 
»nd  that  is,  nothing  /  Then  let  the  society  say  so, 
pretend  so,  act  so,  and  declare  itself  as  only  a  bene- 
fit to  men  in  this  life. 

I  do  not  say  that  this  pretence  of  religion,  this 
everybody-accommodating  method  and  aim  in  relig- 
ious rites  and  services  is  all  the  objection  I  have  to 
these  orders.  I  could  enumerate  their  useless,  un- 
authorized, heartless  and  horrid  oaths;  also  their 
misnamed,  mistaken  and  misdirected  benev- 
olences ;  also  the  obstructions  they  put 
before  the  progress  wheels  of  both  church 
and  state.  But  I  do  say,  for  the  sake  of  im- 
mortal souls  who  are  going  down  to  death  and  to  the 
awful  judgment  of  God  thinking  and  believing  that 
they  are  saved  by  its  pretended  religion,  they  ought 
to  give  up  this  hollow  pretence.  If  it  sends  souls  to 
an  endless  hell,  will  they  not  quit  shamming,  quit 
playing  religion?  The  awful  realities  of  death  and 
the  resurrection  will  tear  the  mask  from  such  farce- 
like scenes  as  Hiram  Abiff,  and  sober,  thoughtful 
wise  men  ought  to  consider  such  facts  now  and  re- 
trace their  steps. 

Deception  is  bad  enough  anywhere;  but  at  no  point 
has  it  such  awful  consequences  as  in  religion. 

Then  I  close  as  I  began,  that  double  meaning  and 
double  dealing  in  religion  are  absolutely  unpardon- 
able. 

Geneva  College,  Pa. 


THE  INDIANS  AND  THBIR  LEADERS  IN  THE 
BEBBLLWN. 


BY   HON.   S.   C.   POMEROY. 


[Concluded  from  last  week.] 
The  frauds  perpetrated  upon  the  civilized  Indians 
have  been  shown.  Let  us  now  see  what  Albert 
Pike  did  for  himself  while  claiming  to  act  for  the 
Indians.  In  the  House  Document,  No.  98,  contain- 
ing the  report  of  the  Congressional  investigation, 
187.3,  I  quote  from  page  495  the  following: 

Question.— Were  you  acquainted  with  John  T.  Coch- 
ran? 

Answer. — Yes,  sir. 

Q.— Were  you  acquainted  with  the  contract  he  made 
witn  the  Choctaws?  [This  relates  to  a  30  per  cent  con- 
tract for  collectinp  their  claim  for  ceded  lands.] 

A. — Yes,  sir.     It  was  fir U  mide  by  me. 

Q. — What  interest  had  you  in  it? 

A. — Five  per  cent.  I  had  that  in  the  beginning  and 
claim  it  still . 

Q. — Please  state  to  the  Committee  what  you  know 
about  tbo  "ner  proceeds"  claim,  and  the  Cochran  con- 
tract under  it? 

A.— In  1854  I  made  a  contract  to  prosecute  the  Choc- 
taws' claims,  as  well  as  other  claims,  and  they  were  to 
pay  me  2.5  per  cent.  Afterward  a  new  contract  was  made 
with  Cochran  for  30  per  cent.  In  my  absence  this  was 
taken  in  Cochran's  own  name.  Afterwards  I  associated 
Corbrai  and  myself  on  equal  terms,  and  others  were  as- 
sociated. 

Q  —Was  money  paid  to  attorneys  for  negotiating  these 
treaties? 


A.— I  think  they  got  $100,000! 

Q. — Are  you  aware  that  $100,000  was  paid  by  the 
Choctaws,  and  $100,000  by  the  Chickasaws  also? 

A. — I  did  not  learn  anything  about  that  except  by 
odds  and  ends  at  different  times  afterwards. 

Q. — Do  you  know  anything  about  the  $250,000  in 
bonds,  appropriated  by  Congress? 

A. — Those  bonds  were  a  part  of  the  "net  proceeds."  I 
succeeded  in  getting  an  appropriation  for,  and  I  claimed 
my  fee  for  services  out  of  those  bonds. 

It  must  be  borne  in  mind  this  appropriation  was 
made  March  2d,  two  days  before  the  close  of  Mr. 
Buchanan's  administration,  and  after  Pike  had  de- 
cided to  rebel.  Five  hundred  thousand  dollars  were 
appropriated:  $250,000  in  bonds,  $250,000  in  gold. 

Q — Do  you  claim  a  fee  in  the  whole  $500,000? 

A. — Yes,  sir.  I  received  in  coin  $5,000,  in  Confeder- 
ate money  $30,000.  I  paid  out  $9,000,  leaving  of  that 
money  $21,000  for  myself;  but  there  was  more  money 
than  that  paid. 

Q. — To  whom  was  it  paid? 

A. — Five  thousand  dollars  to  Colonel  Cooper;  $2,000 
to  J.  B.  Lewis.  The  $250,000  was  paid  by  the  Treasury, 
and  part  of  it  put  into  a  bank  in  New  York.  There  was 
a  house  out  there  with  whom  I  made  the  arrangement  to 
pay  me  one  half  in  coin,  the  other  half  in  Confederate 
notes.  Col.  Cooper  wanted  some  money  and  Williams 
paid  him  on  my  order.  I  never  had  a  receipt,  but  have 
papers  to  show  he  got  it. 

Q.— Was  Cooper,  while  acting  as  agent,  interested  in 
the  Cochran  claim? 

A. — Yes,  sir.     He  always  claimed  an  interest  in  it. 
(Document,  page  497.) 

Q. — Was  you  counsel  for  the  Choctaws? 

A. — Yes,  I  was  counsel  for  the  Choctaws,  and  I  argued 
their  case  before  the  Committee  of  the  Senate. 
(See  same  Document,  page  557.) 

Allen  Wright,  sworn  and  examined. 

Q — State  your  age,  residence  and  occupation? 

A. — My  age  is  45;  residence  at  Boggy  depot.  I  am  a 
minister  of  the  Gospel. 

Q.— Have  you  occupied  any  official  position  in  the 
Choctaw  nation? 

A.— Yes,  member  of  the  Council,  national  treasurer, 
and  principal  chief. 

(See  page  559.) 

Q.— What  proportion  of  the  $500,000  appropriated  has 
been  paid? 

A.— Two  hundred  and  fifty  thousand  dollars  was  paid: 
$250,000  in  bonds  were  withheld. 

Q. — Was  one  half  paid  to  agents  and  attorneys  who 
acted  for  you  ? 

A. — Yes,  sir. 

Q  — Was  Albert  Pike  one  of  the  attorneys? 

A. — He  was.  We  did  not  know  it.  The  first  contract 
was  made  with  Pike,  but  on  account' of  his  negligence 
he  was  shoved  aside,  and  Cochran  was  employed. 

Q.— Who  paid  the  $100,000  over  for  the  Choctaw  na- 
tion? 

A.— I  did  it. 

Q. — To  whom  did  you  pay  it? 

A. — To  John  T.  Cochran;  according  to  the  contract; 
we  were  to  pay  him  $100,000. 

Q— By  what  right  did  you  have  the  money? 

A. — I  was  the  national  treasurer. 

Q— Where  did  you  get  the  money? 

A.— From  the  treasury  of  the  United  States. 

Q— Was  that  $100,000  ever  paid  back  to  your  nation? 

A. — It  never  was. 

In  bringing  to  notice  the  conduct  of  men  who 
were  engaged  in  the  late  rebellion,  it  may  be  ob- 
served that  they  were  as  good  as  the  cause  they  were 
engaged  in;  and  that,  bad  as  that  was,  only  a  few 
men,  comparatively,  brought  it  about.  Among  the 
very  worst  acts  I  find  these  herein  delineated,  where- 
by an  innocent  and  unprotected  people  confided  to 
their  agent  and  attorney  all  their  interests,  and  were 
then  deliberately  swindled,  impoverished,  desolated. 

This  testimony  is  upon  their  own  showing,  under 
the  solemnity  of  oaths;  if  indeed  such  men  are  at 
all  affected  by  oaths.  They  have  such  a  famil- 
iarity with  oaths,  taken  in  public  and  in  secret,  I 
cannot  suppose  they  are  controlled  by  any.  These 
men,  employed  to  help  the  Indian,  defrauded  him; 
pretending  to  be  collecting  a  claim,  they  only  pre- 
vented the  payment;  and  for  more  than  thirty  years 
their  conduct  has  kept  the  money  from  going  to  the 
Indian  nation.  Not  until  all  their  contracts  were  repu- 
diated and  new  men  employed,  have  they  been  bene- 
fited. In  November,  1886,the  Choctaws  had  their  old 
claim  adjudicated  by  the  Supreme  Court  of  theUnited 
States,  and  the  claim  for  over  two  and  one-half  mill- 
ion dollars  was  allowed.  Justice,  long  delayed, 
came  at  last.  More  than  two  full  generations  have 
died  since  they  ceded  their  lands,  and  since  the 
Government  became  indebted  to  them;  but  Congress 
has  not  yet  appropriated  the  money. 

Such  being  the  record  of  Albert  Pike  and  his 
Colonel  Cooper  up  to  the  rebellion,  it  may  not  be 
amiss  to  follow  them  into  the  Confederacy,  to  see 
how  they  kept  their  faith  with  the  new  government. 
I  shall  quote  the  balance  of  my  proof  from  "Records 
of  the  Rebellion,  Vol.  8,  and  of  series  one,"  page 
690,  where  appears  this  special  order  of  the  Secre- 
tary of  War  by  John  Withers,  A.  A.  General,  dated 
Richmond,   Va.,   Nov.  22,  1861:     "The  Indians  of 


the  country  west  of  Arkansas  and  north  of  Texas 
are  constituted  the  Department  of  Indian  Territory, 
and  Brigadier  General  Pike  is  assigned  to  the  com- 
mand of  the  same."  This  shows  that  all  of  these 
Indians  were  under  his  command. 
On  page  697  we  read: 

Richmond,  Vs.,  Nov  27,  1861. 
Hon.  J.  P.  Bbnjamin,  tecretary  of  War,  Sir:— It  will 
be  unwise  to  refuse  any  Indian  who  may  offer  to  come 
into  our  service.  We  now  have  3,500,  besides  the  Sem- 
inoles  and  others,  increasing  the  number  to  over  4,000. 
And  the  Comanches  and  Osages  I  would  employ  in  case 
of  invasion.  The  Indian  country  demands  to  be  defended 
against  the  Indians  on  the  prairies  west,  and  against  the 
more  villainous  marauders  of  Kansas  on  the  north.  Pro- 
visions are  cheap  in  the  Indian  country,  so  is  forage  and 
fuel.  I  wish  for  authority  to  organize  not  less  than  7,500 
of  the  troops.    I  am,  very  truly,  your  obedient  servant, 

Albert  Pike, 
Oen.  Com.  Army  of  the  G.  S.  A. 

Judah  P.  Benjamin,  Secretary  of  War,  replied 
from  Richmond,  Dec.  2d,  1861:  "The  Department 
makes  no  objection,  but  on  the  contrary  cheerfully 
assents  to  your  mustering  into  the  service  as  many 
companies  of  Indians  as  you  can  find  arms  for." 

Under  this  order  Pike  proceeded  to  organize  such 
Indians  as  he  could  get  to  enlist.  Some  stoutly  re- 
sisted the  effort  to  destroy  their  relations  with  the 
United  States.  Tribes  became  divided,  and  fought 
each  other,  not  only,  but  made  war  upon  other 
tribes.  Pike  thus  destroyed  the  peace  and  prosper- 
ity of  all  the  civilized  tribes,  and  led  them  to  for- 
feit all  their  annuities  under  promise  to  renew  them 
with  the  Confederate  government.  He  did  go 
through  the  farce  of  making  such  treaties.  Pike 
himself  being,  as  heretofore,  their  legal  adviser. 

Before  the  great  battle  Van  Dorn  and  Pike  had 
with  General  Samuel  R.  Curtis  at  Pea  Ridge,  Ark., 
the  most  decisive  of  all  the  battles  of  that  division 
of  our  army,  Pike  enlisted  the  Comanches,  and  oth- 
er wild  Indians  from  the  plains,  who,  mingling  with 
the  worst  of  the  other  tribes,  made  an  infuriated 
gang  of  savages,  disgraceful  to  civilized  warfare. 

I  quote,  to  sustain  this,  the  following  official  note 
of  General  Curtis,  dated  Bentonville,  Ark.,  March 
13,  1862:  "I  visited  Bentonville  yesterday.  Every- 
thing is  quiet  in  the  vicinity.  Daring  the  battle  we 
lost  six  guns,  but  we  recovered  all  back  and  took 
five  from  the  enemy.  I  have  also  taken  a  large  num- 
ber of  small  arms,  which  the  rebels  threw  away. 
My  loss  of  killed  and  wounded  will  exceed  my  first 
estimate  of  1,000  men.  General  Pike  commanded 
the  Indian  forces.  They  shot  arrows  as  well  as 
rifles,  and  tomahawked  and  scalped  the  prisoners." 

This  official  statement  must  fasten  upon  Albert 
Pike  the  disgrace  of  organizing  a  force  to  scalp  pris- 
oners and  tomahawk  the  dead!  Old  Ben  Wade  heard 
of  this,  and  his  indignation  kindled.  He  wrote  to 
General  Curtis  to  know  if  the  account  he  had  seen 
was  true. 

General  Curtis,  under  date  of  May  21,  1862, 
wrote  to  Senator  Wade.  His  letter  was  captured 
by  the  rebels,  and  is  now  found  in  "Captured  Rebel 
Archives,"  Vol.  8,  page  206: 

Batksvillb,  Ark.,  May  21,  1862. 

Hon.  Mr.  Wade: — I  have  the  honor  to  lay  before  you 
the  enclosed  affidavits,  from  which  it  appears  that  large 
forces  of  Indian  savages  were  engaged  against  this  army 
at  the  battle  of  Poa  Ridge.  The  warfare  was  conducted 
by  savages  with  all  the  barbarity  their  savage  natures  are 
capable  of.    *    *    *      Signed,      Samuel  R.  Curtis. 

Then  follow  the  affidavits.  John  M.  Noble,  3d 
Iowa  Cavalry  testifies:  "From  an  inspection  of  the 
bodies  of  the  men  of  the  3d  Iowa  Cavalry,  who  fell 
in  battle,  I  discovered  that  eight  of  the  men  had 
been  scalped!" 

Also  one  from  Daniel  Bradbury,  3d  Iowa  Caval- 
ry: "I  saw  over  300  Indians  scattered  over  the 
battle  field,  doing  as  they  pleased;  also  about  3,000 
Indians  marching  under  General  Pikel" 

Colonel  Cyrus  Bussey  of  the  3d  Iowa  Cavalry 
states  also,  under  oath:  "After  the  battle  I  attended 
in  person  to  the  burial  of  the  dead  of  my  command. 
Of  the  twenty-five  men  killed  of  my  regiment,  eight 
were  scalped,  and  the  bodies  of  others  horribly  mu- 
tilated. These  atrocities,  I  believe,  were  committed 
by  General  Pike's  Indians  I" 

Nothing  more  need  be  added.  I  should  not  have 
produced  this,  but  the  facts  set  forth  are  at  this  day 
denied  in  all  the  lodges  of  the  land. 

In  the  rebel  service  General  Pike  had  the  same 
eye  to  money  he  had  shown  in  the  United  States 
service.  The  following  are  portions  of  his  letter  to 
Hon.  J.  P.  Benjamin,  Secretary  of  War  (See  A''ol.  8, 
Rebellion  Record,  p.  719.): 

Richmond,  Dec.  25,  1861. 

I  call  your  attention  to  the  inclosed  slip  containing 
important  news  from  the  Indian  country.  I  do  not  be- 
lieve Hopocithlayohola  has  more  than  2,000  or  3,00D 
men.  [These  were  loyalUnion  Indians.]  Iwantaforce 
to  disperse  them ....  When  there  last,  1  incurred  debts, 
and  left  them  unpaid.  I  received  $20,000  in  money 
notes.    Our  Congress  has  now  ratified  the  treaties,  and 


January  19,  1888 


THE  CHKISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


appropriated  money.  I  have  the  money  to  pay  the 
troops,  and  $25,000  to  purchase  arms.  This  I  think  will 
keep  the  Indians  in  our  service. . .  .The  $445,000  placed 
in  my  hands  was  in  large  notes. . .  .1  must  go  via  New 
Orleans  to  exchange  them  and  get  small  notes. 

Signed,  Albert  Pike. 

I  cannot  pursue  this  subject  farther  at  this  time. 
To  give  all  phases  of  this  great  rebellion  and  all  in- 
strumentalities, I  have  alluded  to  the  part  General 
Pike  took  in  the  contest.  He  left  the  Union  service 
in  the  Indian  Department  with  soiled  hands;  he 
came  out  of  the  rebel  service  with  soiled  garments. 

When  Milton  saw  the  devil  go  out  of  Paradise,  he 
spoke  of  a 

"Lower  deep— 6tlll  opening  to  devour." 

No  man  or  devil  can  find  "a  lower  deep,"  for  him 
who  defrauds  the  innocent,  seduces  th*»,  living,  dis- 
honors the  dead,  and  adds  perjury  to  treason!  Such 
a  soul  must  go  down,  with  the  weight  of  pyramids 
in  everlasting  piles  of  pressure  on  him,  to  darkness 
that  has  no  morning  beyond  it,  and  not  a  star  to 
relieve  its  night  of  human  loathing  and  divine  ab- 
horrence. 

Washington,  D.  C. 


A  HOPEFUL  JiBVIEW. 


As  we  review  the  past  year  in  every  field   of  re- 
form the  march  has  been  forward  and  not  back- 
ward.      Relations  have  been  constantly  changing. 
The  public  has  been  learning,  and  that  very  fast. 
The  two  great  questions, Prohibition  and  Labor,have 
come  to  stay.     Both  are  forcing  the  lodge  question 
to  the  front.  The  capitalistic  press  is  daily  denounc- 
ing secret  labor  lodges  and  that  is  a  knife  that  will  cut 
two  ways.     It  is  poor  logic  that  will  not  work  both 
ways.  The  anarchic  adjunct  to  these  labor  lodges  is 
opening  the  eyes  of  honest  patriots.  The  resolutions 
of  sympathy  for  condemned  anarchism  could  only 
emanate  from  kindred  organizations.     The  Chicago 
Central  Labor  Union  must  needs  purchase  a  bury- 
ing place  in  Waldheim  cemetery  for  the  worst  ene- 
mies American  labor  ever  had.      Why  should  John 
Bandisch,  a  representative  of  the  New  York  Feder- 
ation of  Trades,  come  all  the  way  to  Chicago  to 
spread  a  floral  wreath  on  the  graves  of  the  menjwho 
run  up  the  red  flag  of  anarchy  against  the  old  "Stars 
and  Stripes?"      Men  still  talk  of  Chicago  boodler- 
ism  and  of  MiGarigle's  Masonic  escape.     If  lodgery 
will  do  that  in  Chicago,  will  it  not  do  so  anywhere 
else?       If  the  states  attorney  of  Cook  county  can 
challenge  a  man  off  a  jury  because  he  belongs  to 
the  same  lodge  as  boodler  Varnell,  may  not  an  An- 
ti-mason challenge  a  juryman  in  any  other  county 
for  a  like  cause? 

These  and  many  other  things  are  before  the  whole 
country.  The  line  is  also  being  drawn  closer  and 
closer  on  the  lodge  in  the  prohibition  work.  In  ev- 
ery neighborhood  Americans  are  showing  up  the 
affinity  of  the  lodge  and  the  saloon.  Their  sympa- 
thy and  co-operation  is  so  plain  that  no  man  or  set 
of  men  can  successfully  gainsay  it.  The  demonstra- 
tion is  seen  wherever  the  liquor  question  is  in  poli- 
tics or  in  the  courts.  The  Lake  Bluff  meeting, where 
John  B.  Finch  so  bitterly  assailed  Rev.  J.  P.  Stod- 
dard was  the  beginning  of  a  new  chapter  in  anti- 
lodge  agitation.  Miss  Willard's  efl!brt  to  shake  hands 
with  lodgery  only  adds  fuel  to  the  flame  kindled  at 
Lake  Bluff.  Our  Belvidere  resolutions  against  a 
coalition  of  temperance  and  lodgery  found  their  way 
into  the  Union  Signal,  and  lately  the  editor  of  the 
Signal  felt  called  upon  to  interpret  Miss  Willard's 
annual  address,  assuring  its  readers  "that  the  W.  C. 
T.  U.  has  no  intention  of  affiliating  with  secret  soci- 
eties." 

The  tide  is  setting  in.  The  people  are  more  will- 
ing to  listen  to  antilodgery  than  ever  before.  Nay, 
they  are  anxious  that  secretism  should  be  discussed. 
The  lodge  is  straining  every  nerve  to  side-track  the 
agitation.  Many  of  us  are  anxious  to  know  what  is 
to  be  done  in  the  coming  campaign?  Does  the  death 
of  John  B.  Finch  divorce  the  Prohibition  party  and 
the  lodge?  But  it  is  a  great  deal  easier  to  ask  ques- 
tions than  to  answer  them.  One  thing  is  certain;  the 
lodge  system  in  the  United  States  is  on  trial.  It  may 
get  a  political  postponement  or  a  change  of  venue, 
but  by  and  by  it  will  go  to  the  jury  and  be  settled 
at  the  ballot-box.  A  Reader. 


portant  subject.      I  deeply  regret  the  effort  being 
made  on  the  part  of  some  of  the  leaders  of  the  W. 
C.  T.  U.  to  commit  that  organization  in  favor  of  the 
Knights  of  Labor.     Many  of  the  friends  and  enthu- 
siastic  supporters  of  the   W.   C.   T.  U.   have   for 
months  feared  that  this  effort  was  being  made,  but 
have  hoped  they  were  mistaken.     There  is  now  no 
longer  any  room  to  doubt,  as  the  words  of  Mrs.  Ho- 
bart,  who  recently  addressed  the  convention  of  the 
Knights  of  Labor  at  Minneapolis,  are  too  plain  and 
positive  to  be  misunderstood.      It  must  be  remem- 
bered that  this  lady  was  commissioned  by  the  Na- 
tional W.  C.  T.  U.  to  bear  greetings  to  the  Knights 
of  Labor.     She  spoke  as  a  representative  of  the  W. 
C.  T.  U.  women  of  the  land.     These  are  her  words: 
'I  bear  you  greetings  and  words  of  cheer  from  250- 
000  white-ribbon  women,  who  have  faith  in  you,  and 
in  your  organization.'     This  effort  to   thus   commit 
this  large  number  of  loyal  Christian  women  in  fa- 
vor of  this  secret  labor  organization,  I  regard  as  a  seri- 
ous mistake.     It  will  result  in  evil  in  various  ways. 
It  will  have  a  tendency  to  dishearten  and  alienate 
from  the  organization  a  large  number  of  noble,  in- 
telligent Christian  women  of  strong  convictions  who 
are  religiously  opposed  to  secret  societies  on  general 
principles,  and  to  the  Knights  of  Labor  for  specific 
reasons.      These  women  will   not  consent  to   have 
said  of  them,  and  for  them,  what  they  cannot   in- 
dorse.    They  have  no  faith  in  the  Knights  of  Labor 


the  "sacrifice  of  fools"  in  "vain  talk,"  and  fill  their 
belly  with  the  east  wind  while  they  "cast  off  fear 
and  restrain  prayer."    The  strength  of  a  cause  is  to 
be  measured  only  by  the  power  it  has  with  God  in 
prayer,  no  more  and  no  less.     God's  promises  are 
valueless  unless  worked  out  in  the  soul  by  ferveaU, 
effectual  prayer.      Christ  never  taught  to  simply  be- 
lieve, and  rest  in  a  dead  faith  for  our  souls,  our  chil- 
dren, or  the  world;  but  by  precept  and  example  he 
ever  taught  not  only  to  ask,  and  believe,  but  to  seek 
and  TO  KNOCK.    The  latter  is  taking  the  kingdom  of 
heaven  by  violence.  Thus  did  Abraham,  David,  Jer- 
emiah, Daniel,  Jesus,  and  all  New  Testament  saints, 
and  every  man  of  deep  spiritual  power  in  the  world. 
It  is  only  the  faith  that  comes  through  the  effectual, 
fervent  prayer  that  avails  much,  or  anything,  with 
God  and  man.      If  one-half  had  been   written  and 
exhorted  on  the  subject  of  prayer,  that  has  been  on 
the  theory  of  a  dead  faith   for  purity  and  power;  if 
instead  of  jumping  around   and  singing  religious 
ditties,  and  claiming  the  fullness  of  God  when  little 
fruit  could  be  seen,  the  church  had  been  taught  to 
tarry  at  Jerusalem  until  they  were  endued  with  pow- 
er from  on  high,  God's  Holy  Ghost  power  would 
have   fallen   to  shake  the  world  and  bring  in   ever- 
lasting righteousness.     "Sow  to  yourselves  in  right- 
eousness,  reap  in  mercy."       It  is  time  to  seek  the 
Lord  till  he  comes  and  rain  righteousness  upon  you." 
The  whole  church  needs  driving  to  their  knees,  and 
keeping  there  until  God,  by  a  cyclone  of  spirit  power, 
"stands  them  upon  their  feet,"  to  be  swift  witnesses 
sands  outside  the  W.  C.  T.  U.  organization  who  be- 1  against  all  sin,  casting  down  all  the  powers  of  hell, 
lieve  in  it,  and  support  it,  and  have  hoped  for  much  and  crowning  Jesus  Lord  of  all,  who  baptizes  with 
from  it,   but  who  cannot  and  will  not  approve  any   theHolyGhost  and  fire,  in  answer  to  Pentecost  prayer 
movement  to  commit  it  in  favor  of  the  Knights  of  alone. 
Labor.      The  W.  C.  T.  U.  organization  is  a  strong       Los  Angeles,   Col. 
body  of  loyal  women,  but  it  cannot  afford  to  divide 
its  members  and  alienate  its  friends  and  supporters 
by  encouraging  what  many  of  these  members  and 
supporters,  from  religious  and  conscientious  princi- 
ples, oppose." 

Miss  West,  editor  of  the  Signal,  refers  Bro.  Mar- 
tin to  Miss  Willard's  annual  address  at  Nashville, 
as  an  assurance  that  "the  W.  C.  T.  U.  has  no  inten- 
tion of  affiliating  with  secret  societies."  We  all  re- 
joice in  the  condemnation  of  secretism,  bravely 
spoken  by  Miss  Willard.  May  she  and  other  noble 
women  repeat  the  testimony  again.  Prohibition 
cannot  succeed  part  open  and  part  secret. 


organization,  and  are  unwilling  to  be  presented  to 
the  world  in  a  false  light.     Then  there  are  thou- 


REFOBMBRS  AND  PRATER. 


BY  W.    T.    ELLIS. 


The  Secret  Empire 


THE  PATRONS  OF  HUSBANDRY. 


THE  W.  G.    T. 


U.  AND  THE  KNIGHTS 
LABOR. 


OF 


Rev.  Joel  Martin,  an  eloquent  Wesleyan  evangel- 
ist of  Hillsdale,  Michigan,  writes  a  kind  note  of  re- 
monstrance to  the  Union  Signal.  In  his  labors  in 
hundreds  of  localities  he  finds  a  strong  sentiment 
of  protest  and  regret  that  some  of  the  W.  C.  T.  U. 

leaders  "make  so  much  of  an  organization  from  which !  need  of  the  church  and  this  sin-cursed  earth  to-day 
so  many  excellent  people  hope  so  little."     He  says:  \  There  are  thousands  of  vaporing  talkers  about  sal- 

"Please  allow  me  to  express  through  the  columns '  vation  to-day  that  cannot  watch  with  the  Gethsem- 
of  your  able  paper  my  honest  conviction  on  an  im-  ane  Jesus  one  hour;  but  they  are  ever  ready  to  give 


A  message  was  sent  to  Luther  that   Melancthon 
was  dying;  he  found  him  presenting  the  usual  pre- 
monitory symptoms  of  death.  Melancthon  aroused, 
looked  Luther  in  the  face,  and  said,  "O  Luther,  is 
this  you?     Why  don't  you  let  me  depart  in  peace?" 
"We  can't  spare  you  yet,  Philip,"  was  the  reply; 
and,   turning  round,    he   threw   himself  upon   his 
knees  and  wrestled  with  God  for  his  recovery  for 
an  hour.      He  went  from  his  knees  to  the  bed  and 
took  his  friend  by  the  hand.     Again  he  said,  "Dear 
Luther,  why   don't  you  let  me  depart  in   peace?" 
"No,   no,  Philip,  we  cannot  spare  you  yet,"  was  the 
reply.       He  then    ordered  some  soup,   and   when 
pressed  to  take  it,  Melancthon  declined  again,  say- 
ing, "Dear  Luther,  why  will  you  not  let  me  go  home 
and  be  at  rest?"     "We  cannot  spare  you  yet."  was 
the  reply.     He  then  added,  "Take  this  soup,  Philip, 
or  I  will  excommunicate  you."      He  took  the  soup, 
soon  regained  his  wonted   health,  and  labored  for 
years  afterward  in  the  cause  of  the  reformation;  and 
when  Luther  returned  home  he  said  to  his  wife,  with 
joy,  "God  gave  me  my  brother  Melancthon  back  in 
direct  answer  to  prayer."     The  walls  of  Luther's 
study  were  said  to  be  "stained  with  the  breath  of 
prayer."      All  Bible  reformers  have   been   marked 
men  of  prayer.      The  Bible  says  more  on  the  sub- 
ject of  prayer  than  most  any  other  single  subject, 
and  it  is  our  only  way  of  approach  to  God.     Our 
source  of  spiritual  wisdom,  the  only  infallible  sign 
of  being  right  with  God,  is  communion  with   him 
and  power  to  prevail  with  him  in  prayer;  and  yet 
you  may  look  through  all  of  the  holiness  literature 
and  religious   papers  of  the  day  and  you  will  find 
but  little  said  about  prayer.      There  is  no  end   to 
theory  about  holiness,  church  organizations,  the  way 
to  raise  money,   the  coming  of  the  Lord,  the  Sab- 
bath question,  the  saloon  question,  etc.,  etc.,  and 
little  or  nothing  about  prayer.      Here  we  have  com- 
mon ground  with  all  Christians  to  begin  upon  (ex- 
cept  a  few  hair-brained  fanatics  that  think   their 
inanities  of  more  account  than  God's  power);  and 
we  venture  that  a  spirit  of  prayer  is  the  greatest 


Students  of  politics  who  are  studying  the  decline 
and  fall  of  the  labor  party  may  find  the  story  of  the 
career  of  the  National  Grange,  Patrons  of  Husband- 
ry,  lately  in  session  at  Grand  Rapids,  Mich.,  an  in- 
structive one.  An  interesting  account  of  the  rise 
and  decadence  of  the  grange  was  given  not  long 
since  to  the  Inter  Ocean's  Washington  correspondent 
by  the  man  who  organized  it.  The  story  was  told 
our  readers  years  ago,  but  in  this  new  form  many 
will  see  it  for  the  first  time. 

In  December,  1867,  William  Saunders,  a  Free- 
mason, then  and  now  connected  with  the  United 
States  Department  of  Agriculture,  and  six  other 
men  interested  in  husbandry,  met  in  a  small  build- 
ing in  Washington  and  formed  the  National  Grange, 
Patrons  of  Husbandry.  They  perfected  a  regular 
organization  and  prepared  to  extend  the  grange  to 
every  State  in  the  Union.  Its  growth  during  the 
first  five  years  was  unprecedented  in  the  history  of 
any  secret  society.  In  1876  there  were  granges  in 
nearly  every  State  and  Territory  in  the  Union,  and 
about  25,000  local  granges  were  in  good  standing 
when  the  annual  meeting  was  called  to  order  in 
Charleston  in  the  fall  of  that  year. 

Mr.  Saunders,  who  had  been  the  Master  during 
the  first  five  years  of  the  life  of  the  society,  declined 
a  re-election  in  1872,  but  was  choseo  chairman  of 
the    executive    committee.     This    committee    had 
control  of  the  finances,  and  they  were  well  managed. 
For  the  information  of  the  Charleston  meeting,  Mr. 
Saunders    prepared   a   financial    statement,    which 
showed  that  the  grange  had  on  deposit  with  the 
Farmers'  Loan  and  Trust  Company,  of  New  York, 
$95,000   in   United   States   registered   6   per  cent, 
bonds,   besides   something  like   $45,000   in    other 
funds.     This  money  came  from  the  collection  of  per 
capita  taxes  and  the  charge  of  $15  which  was  made 
to  every  grange  when  a  charter  was  granted.     The 
headquarters  at  Washington  were  conducted  upon 
business  principles.     The  secretary  was  paid  an  an- 
nual salary  of  $2,000.     Thirty-two  clerks  were  kept 
constantly  busy,  and  they  were  paid  salaries  which 
insured  competent  men.     Besides  this,  a  monthly 
journal  was  published,  which  was  the  organ  of  com- 
munication   between    the    National     headquarters. 
Every  subordinate  grange  in  the  country  received  a 
copy  of  the  paper  each  month,  so  that  every  mem- 
ber of  the  order   might  he  kept  posted  upon  the 
work  and  the  prospects  of  the  organization. 

When  the  annual  meeting  of  1875  was  called  to 
order  it  soon  became  evident  that  financial  prosperi- 
ty was  distasteful  to  many  of  the  delegates.  Some 
one  thought  that  there  was  danger  in  the  amount  of 
the  fund  reported  to  be  in  the  hands  of  the  executive 
committee.  A  resolution  was  introduced  stating 
that,  as  there  could  be  no  possible  use  for  this  large 
sum  in  the  hands  of  the  officers  of  the  National 
Grange,  it  should  be  reduced  by  distributiug  $o  to 
each   of  the  subordinate  granges  in  the  country. 


•SSE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


January  19, 1888 


This  resolution  was  adopted,  and  the  result  was  that 
the  fund  was  depleted  to  the  amount  of  $75,000. 
Then  in  order  that  there  might  be  still  less  danger 
of  the  accumulation  of  a  treasury  surplus,  one  intelli- 
gent granger  moved  that  the  per  capita  tax  be  re- 
duced from  10  to  5  cents.  This  seemed  to  be  in  the 
nature  of  retrenchment  and  reform  and  it  was  adopt- 
ed after  a  struggle.  Next  some  one  else  proposed 
that  there  was  really  very  little  necessity  for  the 
continued  publication  of  the  monthly  journal.  It 
was  suggested  that  it  was  a  great  expense  and  that 
the  State  grange  ought  to  be  the  medium  of  commu- 
nication between  the  head  of  the  organization  and 
the  subordinates.  The  suggestion  assumed  the 
form  of  a  motion,  was  adopted,  and  the  paper  soon 
was  a  thing  of  the  past. 

When  the  meeting  of  1875  adjourned  it,  in  Mr. 
Saunders'  opinion,  had  accomplished  as  much  as 
was  possible  toward  the  disintegration  of  the  order. 
The  policy  that  had  been  laid  out  and  followed  by 
the  Charleston  meeting  soon  bore  its  fruit.  The 
salary  of  the  secretary  was  reduced  to  a  nominal 
figure;  the  grange  organizers  who  had  previously 
been  paid  an  annual  salary,  were  put  upon  a  per 
diem  allowance;  and  within  a  year  the  applications 
for  new  charters  almost  ceased  in  consequence.  The 
headquarters  in  Washington  were  soon  abandoned, 
and  there  was  no  medium  of  communication  between 
the  head  officers  of  the  order  and  the  individual 
granges.  Instead  of  sticking  to  the  original  idea  of 
meeting  to  discuss  the  wants  and  needs  of  the  agri- 
culturist, some  of  the  leaders  in  the  State  organiza- 
tions suggested  that  the  granges  themselves  take 
the  place  of  the  manufacturer  and  the  merchant. 
Ploughs  and  other  farming  implements  were  to  be 
made  without  the  aid  of  the  greedy  manufacturers. 
The  $3  allowance  to  each  grange  which  was  paid 
after  the  divvy  resolution  was  passed,  was  used  as 
a  nucleus  by  several  of  the  State  granges  as  a  man- 
ufacturing fund.  The  venture  was  not  successful, 
and  it  is  believed  that  there  is  not  now  a  single 
grange  in  the  country  which  is  trying  to  usurp  the 
functions  of  the  manufacturer  or  the  foundryman. 

Within  two  years  after  the  Charleston  meeting 
the  number  of  granges  began  to  diminish.  There 
was  a  correspondingly  heavy  falling  off  in  the  amount 
of  the  per  capita  tax.  This  continued  until  last 
year.  Hardly  a  single  new  grange  was  established 
for  several  years.  On  the  contrary,  the  number  in 
good  standing  steadily  diminished.  Besides  this 
the  cutting  down  of  the  tax  reduced  the  receipts  of 
the  headquarters  to  such  an  extent  that  it  became 
necessary  to  draw  upon  the  capital  which  had  been 
saved  up  for  the  purpose  of  erecting  a  building  for 
the  headquarters.  It  soon  became  evident  to  those 
who  had  taken  the  greatest  interest  in  the  organiza- 
tion that  the  order  of  Patrons  of  Husbandry  would 
soon  be  doomed. 

In  the  meantime  rival  societies,  calling  them- 
selves "The  Wheel"  in  some  places  and  "Farmers' 
Alliance"  in  others,  began  to  spring  up  in  different 
parts  of  the  country,  and  an  effort  was  made  to 
place  the  grange  on  its  feet  again.  Within  the  past 
year  there  have  been  organized  between  200  and  300 
new  granges,  and  several  of  those  which  had  forfeit- 
ed their  charters  have  been  resuscitated.  But  the 
grangers  still  lack  a  great  deal  of  their  former  power. 
Mr.  Saunders  was  asked  to  what  he  attributed 
the  decadence  of  the  order.  He  replied  that  the 
resolution  which  brought  about  the  discontinuance 
of  the  monthly  publication  was  the  first  step,  as  it 
cut  off  the  communication  between  the  head  of  the 
order  and  the  individual  granges.  Secondly,  the 
distribution  of  the  fund  and  the  reduction  of  the 
tax.  This  prevented  the  carrying  out  of  the  plans 
by  which  it  was  intended  to  make  the  order  a  power 
for  the  good  of  the  farmers.  He  explained  that  it 
was  the  intention  of  the  organizers  to  establish  per- 
manent headquarters  in  Washington,  in  a  building 
which  should  have  been  owned  by  the  grange.  He 
thought  that  the  management  had  been  bad,  and 
pointed  out  the  organization  of  "The  Wheel"  and 
"Alliances"  as  indicating  that  with  proper  manage- 
ment the  agriculturists  can  be  organized  for  their 
own  good. 


PBBSa  COMMENT. 


It  is  reported  that  the  Baptist  church  in  Ocala 
Florida,  has  expelled  all  members  whose  names 
have  appeared  on  petitions  for  liquor  license. 
This  may  seem  to  some  like  severe  discipline.  But 
since  the  liquor  business  is  the  open  and  avowed 
enemy  of  the  church  and  all  that  for  which  the 
church  stands,  why  should  not  the  friends  of  the  in- 
iquitious  business  be  made  to  come  out  of  the 
church  and  stand  among  their  real  friends  and  allies? 
The  sooner  every  man  drops  into  his  real  place  on 
this  (luestion  the  better;  and  surely  the  place  of  the 
petitioner  for  the  soul-destroying  liquor  business  is 
not  in  the  church  of  Christ,  whose  first  and  only  bus- 
iness is  the  salvation  of  BOu\a.—i!abba.th  Recorder 


But  some  of  the  so-called  labor  organizations  of 
the  country  are  essentially  despotic.   Their  methods 
with   their  own   members  are  no  less  objectionable 
than  their  attempts  at  boycotting.     Their  assump- 
tion that  they  are  the  labor  element  of  the  country 
is  ridiculous   when   viewed  in  connection  with  the 
facts.   Workers  with  the  brain  are  counted  for  noth- 
ing, though  they  are  no  less  wage- workers  and  often 
put  in  more  hours  than  ten.     The  farmers  and  farm 
hands  seem  to  be  forgotten.     The  Inter  Ocean,  in  an 
editorial  giving  a  sketch  of  the  labor  movements, 
beginning  back  as  early  as  1803,  and  reckoning  the 
principal     labor     organizations    of     the     present 
time   at   sixteen    in    number,    states   that   nearly 
four-fifths    of    the     working    jmen     and     women 
of  our  country  belong  to  no  union.     The  presump- 
tion of  the  one-fifth,    therefore,   in    representing 
themselves  as  the  labor  party  of  the  United  States, 
would  be  actually  laughable,  did  they  not  succeed 
so  well   in  hoodwinking  the  public,  and  even   in 
frightening  the  Government,  State  and  Nation.    Let 
it  be  understood  we  want  all  wage-workers  to  have 
all  their  rights,  but  one  of  these  is  not  to  restrict 
liberty,  either  among  themselves  or  in  the  form  of 
boycott. — Farm,  Held  and  Stockman, 

We  do  not  see  how  anything  could  more  clearly 
demonstrate  the  folly  and  crime  of  an  anarchical 
movement  in  America  than  the  papers  by  Mr.  Ken- 
nan,  on  the  condition  of  affairs  in  the  Russian  Em- 
pire, now  being  published  in  the  Century.  These 
criticisims  proceed  from  a  country  whose  relations 
with  Russia  are  particularly  cordial.  They  are 
printed  in  a  periodical  where  "The  Life  of  Peter  the 
Great,"  published  as  a  two-years'  serial,  did  much 
to  increase  the  amicable  interest  of  Americans  in  the 
the  affairs  of  Russia,  and  they  are  from  a  hand  that 
has  shown  conspicously  its  friendliness  toward  the 
Russian  Government.  Without  favoring  or  defend- 
ing the  methods  of  the  Russian  revolutionists,  Mr. 
Kennan  shows  that  the  violence  which  individuals, 
or  groups  of  individuals,  are  guilty  of  in  Russia,  is 
a  natural  result  of  the  absence  of  civil  liberty.  The 
Russian  Liberals  (not  revolutionists)  demand  free- 
dom of  speech,  freedom  of  the  press,  security  for 
personal  rights,  and  a  constitutional  form  of  gov- 
ernment. America,  above  all  nations  of  the  world, 
means  these  very  things.  Anarchy,  and  the  das- 
tardly methods  of  the  anarchist,  have  no  slightest 
color  of  excuse  to  exist  in  a  free  country.  And, 
thank  heaven!  America  is  continually  making  it  evi- 
dent that  a  free  country  is  abundantly  adapted  to 
the  defense  of  its  own  freedom;  that  is  to  say,  of  its 
own  existence. — January  Century. 

The  "Boss"  dictation  to  which  the  Knights  of 
Labor  organization  has  chosen  to  subject  itself  ap- 
pears to  have  managed  things  badly.  They  first 
attempt  to  boycott  a  particular  coal  company,  and 
then  to  compel  the  Reading  railroad  to  refuse  to 
carry  cars  for  that  company,  was  as  foolish  as  it  was 
wrong,  and  the  subsequent  strike  of  the  employes 
to  enforce  the  boycott  was  a  blunder  so  gross  as  to 
be  wicked.  The  case  of  the  miners,  however,  is 
different.  That  more  than  60,000  railroad  workers 
and  coal  miners  should,  in  the  midst  of  winter,  be 
thrust  out  of  work  and  into  this  condition  of  organ- 
ized idleness  and  disaster,  and  the  great  mass  of 
honest  laborers,  whose  lot  is  hard  enough  at  best, 
be  ground  against  the  upper  and  the  nether  mill- 
stones of  the  grasping  and  heartless  corporations  on 
the  one  hand,  and  the  few  "master  workmen"  dicta- 
tors on  the  other,  is  pitiful  indeed. — Advance. 

The  colored  people  have  gone  into  organizations 
to  an  extraordinary  extent.  One  of  our  colored 
ministers  in  Texas  informed  a  General  Conference 
officer  that  he  belonged  to  seven  different  secret  so- 
cieties. They  have  not  been  content  with  imitating 
those  formed  by  their  Caucasian  fellow-citizens,  but 
have  instituted  a  large  number  of  their  own. 
Not  long  ago  a  case  was  tried  in  Baltimore 
which  is  recorded  on  the  docket  as  follows:  "Will- 
iam H.  Perkins,  Worthy  Ruler  of  St.  Thomas  Lodge, 
vs.  Augustus  Thomas,  Grand  Royal  King  of  the 
United  and  Consolidated  Order  of  Brothere  and  Sis- 
ters and  Sons  and  Daughters  of  the  Knights  of 
Four  Men,  and  the  members  of  the  Supreme  Grand 
Royal  House."  The  suit  in  this  case  arose  because 
the  Grand  Royal  Knight  became  disgusted  with  the 
workings  of  St.  Thomas  Lodge,  placed  it  under  the 
ban  of  excommunication,  and  said  he  would  not 
take  back  one  word  of  that  decree,  not  even  if  Pres- 
ident Cleveland,  or  even  if  Grant  would  come  out 
of  his  grave,  to  appeal  to  him.  St.  Thomas  Lodge 
brought  suit  to  make  the  Grand  Royal  Knight  take 
it  back.  Ludicorous  as  this  may  appear,  it  is  not 
much  more  so  than  the  proceedings  and  titles  of 
many  societies  that  are  now  formed  among  the  Cau- 
casian race. —  Christian  Voice. 


OUR  WASHINGTON  LETTER. 

Washington,  Jan.  13,  1888. 
Just  before  Congress  adjourned  for  the  holidays 
some  comments  were  made  by  the  city  papers  on 
the  non-attendance  of  Senators  at  morning  prayer. 
As  a  rule  the  Senate  Chaplain  delivered  his  invoca- 
tion in  the  presence  of  almost  empty  benches.     It 
was  a  very  rare  thing  that  the  presiding  officer  could 
call  a  quorum  together,  and  frequently  not  more 
than  half  a  dozen  Senators  were  present.     Since  the 
recess   it  is  noticed  that  they  are  a  little  more  re- 
spectful toward  the  only  religious  service  in  connec- 
tion with  the  proceedings.     Yesterday  morning  twen- 
ty-four  Senators,  seventeen  Democrats  and  seven 
Republicans,  were  at  their  desks  during  the  open- 
ing prayer.     The  Senators  generally  admit  that  it  is 
a  reproach  to  the  body  to  thus  ignore  morning  devo- 
tion, and  several  efforts  have  been  made  from  time 
to  time  to  effect  a  reform.      For  instance,  Senator 
Hoar  offered  a  resolution  during  the  last  Congress 
to  require  a  quorum  at  the  prayer,  but  the  second 
day  after,  the   Massachusetts  reformer  failed  to  be 
there  in  time  himself.     He  entered  the  chamber  just 
after  the  prayer  had  closed,  wearing  an  air  of  em- 
barrassment.     His  delinquency  was  observed,  and 
the  resolution  became  a  dead  letter. 

There  are  Senators  who  hold  that  it  would  be  bet- 
ter to  do  away  with  the  prayer  altogether  than  to 
treat  it  with  apparent  disrespect.  But  then,  again, 
a  proposition  to  dispense  with  the  Chaplain  would 
not  be  seriously  considered,  and  the  question  is  how 
to  prevail  upon  Senators  to  be  in  attendance  for 
prayer.  Good  people  say  there  must  be  a  thorough 
moral  reformation  among  our  lawmakers,  that  no 
number  of  resolutions  can  make  prompt  attendance 
binding  on  them. 

This  habit  of  ignoring  the  opening  prayer  is  a 
habit  of  very  long  standing  in  the  United  States 
Senate.  When  Judge  David  Davis  of  Illinois  was 
president  pro  tempore  of  that  body,  he  entered  the 
chamber  with  the  Chaplain  one  morning  and  the 
only  Senator  in  sight  was  Mr.  Butler  of  South  Car- 
olina. Mr.  Davis  walked  up  into  the  stand  with  the 
Chaplain,  and  with  all  the  dignity  and  solemnity 
usually  observed  by  him  on  such  occasions,  gave  a 
stroke  with  his  gavel  and  said:  "The  Senator  from 
South  Carolina  will  come  to  order."  The  summons 
was  treated  as  a  joke  by  the  galleries  and  the  pages 
on  the  floor,  but  it  was  not  so  meant  by  the  presid- 
ing officer.  He  simply  took  that  method  of  rebuk- 
ing the  Senate  and  of  having  his  rebuke  go  into  the 
Record. 

The  House  of  Representatives  has  at  last  made  a 
beginning  of  the  session's  work.  A  number  of  bills 
have  been  reported  from  committees,  and  are  now 
ready  for  discussion.  The  Senate  being  a  perma- 
nently organized  body,  is  always  in  working  condi- 
tion, and  consequently  always  far  ahead  of  the 
House.  It  works  in  a  quiet,  leisurely,  dignified  way, 
too,  and  never  permits  itself  to  be  induced  to  hurry. 
During  the  present  week  it  has  given  most  of  its 
time  to  debate  upon  the  Blair  Educational  bill,  and 
the  bill  to  Refund  the  Direct  War  Taxes. 

It  is  feared  by  Prohibitionists  that  Speaker  Car- 
lisle's committee  on  the  liquor  traffic  is  purposely 
arranged  to  defeat  any  legislation  in  the  House  in 
the  direction  of  prohibition.  The  ten  members  of 
the  committee  are  J.  E.  Campbell  of  Ohio,  Bland  of 
Missouri,  Merriman  and  Moffett  of  New  York,McRae 
of  Arkansas,  Anderson  of  Illinois,  McClanny  of 
North  Carolina,  Hunter  of  Kentucky,  Cheadle  of 
Indiana,  and  Yost  of  Virginia.  Most  of  these  mem- 
bers are  pronounced  opponents  of  temperance  leg- 
islation in  its  latest  and  best  form.  Carlisle  is  fur- 
ther charged  with  having  constructed  the  Commit- 
tee on  Education  with  special  reference  to  the  de- 
feat of  the  Blair  Educational  bill  which  was  dis- 
cussed at  length  in  the  Senate  last  week. 

Mr.  Lamar's  letter  to  the  President  resigning  the 
office  of  Secretary  of  the  Interior,  and  thus  reliev- 
ing the  situation  as  affected  by  the  pending  nomina- 
tions of  Mr.  Vilas  for  Secretary  of  the  Interior  and 
Mr.  Dickinson  for  Postmaster-General,  from  all  fur- 
ther embarrassment,  is  commented  upon  by  his 
friends  as  doing  honor  to  his  head  and  heart.  The 
expectation  is  quite  general  that  Mr.  Lamar  will  be 
confirmed  as  a  Justice  of  the  Supreme  Court.  Still 
there  are  uncertainties  surrounding  the  matter 
which  may  eventuate  in  his  rejection,  and  until  he 
is  confirmed  he  is  merely  a  private  citizen.  The 
President,  in  his  letter  accepting  Mr.  Lamar's  resig- 
nation, escaped  from  himself,  or  from  the  usual  re- 
serve with  which  he  surrounds  himself.  His  ex- 
pressions of  appreciation,  esteem  and  fondness  for 
Mr.  Lamar  read  more  like  a  love  letter  than  any- 
thing Mr.  Cleveland  has  ever  been  known  to  write, 
insomuch  that  some  have  been  nearly  ready  to  charge 
him  with  insincerity;  but  they  are  doubtless  mis- 
taken. * 


January  19,  1888 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


Beform  News. 


ON  TEE  aOUTEWBaTERN  BORDERS. 


ARKANSAS   CLIMATE   AND   WATKRINQ   PLACES — BE- 
FORM  WORK   AT   HOT  SPRINGS — ANOTH- 
ER  STATE   ENTERED. 


Hot  Springs,  Ark. 

Dear  Cynosure:  —  It  is  January  6th  and  the 
thermometer  is  70  °  in  the  shade.  The  tempera- 
ture has  continued  much  the  same  for  several  days. 
Verily  is  not  this  the  "Sunny  South?"  If  I  did  not 
know  that  the  mercury  sometimes  sinks  below  zero 
1  might  believe  it.  But  with  all  its  irregularities  of 
climate  Arkansas  is  a  fine  State,  and  my  stay  in  its 
capital  city  was  most  pleasant  and  profitable. 

On  Wednesday,  the  4th,  I  addressed  the  Baptist 
Educational  Convention  at  the  First  Baptist  church 
on  the  objects  and  work  of  the  N.  C.  A.  I  had  ex- 
cellent attention  and  the  hearty  endorsement  of 
most  of  those  present,  including  the  students  of  the 
Baptist  College.  At  night  1  preached  again  in  the 
First  Congregational  church,and  on  Thursday  morn- 
ing I  spoke  for  half  an  hour  to  the  students  of  Phi- 
lander Smith  College,  and  was  endorsed  by  the  pres- 
ident, Kev.  Dr.  Mason. 

This  excellent  institution  is  under  the  patronage 
of  the  Freedman's  Aid  Society  of  the  M.  E.  church 
and  has  in  attendance  about  160  students.  They 
have  nearly  completed  a  new  ladies'  hall  and  pro- 
pose farther  enlargements. 

On  Friday  at  10  a.  m.  I  left  by  the  St.  Louis  & 
Iron  Mountain  railroad  for  Hot  Springs.  The  coun- 
try is  uninteresting  until  Malvern  is  reached,  where 
we  changed  to  the  narrow-guage  for  this  city.  Soon 
we  reached  a  country  of  rocks  and  hills,  the  first  I 
had  seen  since  I  left  Northern  Alabama.  A  strict 
regulation  prohibits  solicitation  for  hotels,  boarding- 
houses,  or  physicians,  and  circulars  of  warning  are 
handed  to  passengers.  There  must  have  been  a  fear- 
ful state  of  things  to  necessitate  all  this  precaution. 
At  2  p.  M.  we  reached  the  far-famed  little  city.  It 
numbers  not  far  from  10,000  permanent  inhabitants, 
and  has  more  than  40,000  visitors  a  year,  who  re- 
main here  from  one  to  twelve  weeks.  But  for  one 
thing  it  would  be  a  most  unlikely  place  to  build  a 
town.  A  small  stream  receives  several  branches 
which  run  between  high  rocky  hills,  which  approxi- 
mate mountains.  In  this  narrow  valley,  and  only 
occasionally  climbing  up  the  sides  of  the  hills,  the 
streets  are  laid  out,  great  hotels  are  erected,  and 
boarding-houses  and  restaurants  are  innumerable. 

The  potent  influence  is  the  innumerable  springs 
of  hot  water  that  come  out  of  the  hills  and  are 
charged  with  various  saline  products,  which  cause 
the  rocks  over  which  they  sometimes  flow  to  look  as 
though  they  were  covered  with  hoar  frost.  The  tem- 
perature of  those  springs  varies  from  93  °  to  160  °  , 
or  hot  enough  to  cook  eggs.  Like  the  people  in  an- 
cient times,  there  come  here  "a  great  multitude  of 
impotent  folk,  blind,  halt  and  withered,  waiting  for 
the  moving  of  the  waters."  Whether  "an  angel  has 
troubled  the  waters"  here,  or  from  whence  the  heal- 
ing comes,one  thing  is  evident,that  many  are  healed 
and  the  reputation  of  the  springs  is  great  and  in- 
creasing. The  number  of  baths  given  in  these 
waters,  according  to  report  to  the  United  States  gov- 
ernment for  the  year  ending  Nov.  30th,  1885,  was 
19,846.  The  number  since  then  has  largely  increased. 
Almost  all  varieties  of  disease  are  treated;  the  most 
numerous,  however,  are  rheumatism  and  syphilitic 
affections. 

Some  of  the  hotels  are  very  fine  buildings,  with 
accommodations  for  over  400  guests.  Others  are 
more  moderate  in  both  pretensions  and  prices,  yet 
equally  comfortable.  I  want  to  recommend  the 
"Chautauquan,"Rev.  S.  W.  Gamble, proprietor.  Quiet 
and  pleasant  accommodations  can  be  had  for  $7 
to  $10  per  week,  less  than  half  of  some  of  the  larg- 
er hotels.  The  United  States  Hospital  for  Soldiers 
and  Sailors  is  a  very  fine  building  on  the  side  of  the 
mountain  and  affords  a  commanding  view  of  the 
city. 

On  my  way  here  I  became  acquainted  with  one  of 
the  leading  pastors,  who  told  me  he  was  a  Mason 
and  belonged  to  several  other  orders.  To  my  dis- 
sent from  his  views  he  replied  that  during  the  war 
he  was  a  prisoner  at  Camp  Douglas,  Chicago,  and 
that  while  other  prisoners  had  insutlicient  food,cloth- 
ing  and  attendance,  he,  because  he  was  a  Mason,  was 
comfortably  provided  for.  I  told  him  that  was  an 
excellent  reason  why  a  Christian  should  not  belong 
to  the  order.  For  if  it  conferred  special  advantag- 
es on  some  soldiers  to  which  they  were  not  entitled 
by  either  civil  or  military  law,  it  was  unjust  and 
cruel  to  others.  He  replied  that  hia  Masonic  privi- 
leges had  been  purchased  and  paid  for,  and  he  was 
entitled  t»  them.  This  was  the  slaveholders',and  is 
Jiow  the  liquor-dealers'  argument,  and  is  as  good  for 


any  one  of  the  trio  as  for  the  others.     He  has  asked 
me  to  preach  for  his  people,which  I  hope  to  do. 

Monday,  Jan.  9. — A  sudden  fall  of  the  thermom- 
eter of  45  o  ,  preceded  by  a  deluging  rain  and  fol- 
lowed by  snow,  takes  out  all  the  poetry  of  the  cli- 
mate. I  preached  yesterday  three  times — in  the 
First  Presbyterian  church  (Southern)  to  a  good-sized 
and  cultured  congregation.  A  good  many  were 
Congregationalists  from  the  North.  At  3  p.  m.  I 
preached  in  the  Second  Colored  Baptist  church;  and 
at  night  in  the  First  Baptist  church.  My  discour- 
ses in  the  afternoon  and  evening  were  on  the  lodge 
system.  The  first  was  heartily  endorsed  by  the  pas- 
tor; the  other  fell,  in  the  main,  on  unwilling  ears, 
and  yet  I  hope  some  good  was  done.  This  is  one 
of  the  strongest  lodge  centers  in  the  place.  I  became 
acquainted  with  the  presiding  elder  and  preacher  in 
charge  of  the  M.  E.  church  (white).  They  were  both 
lodge  men  but  thought  anti-secrecy,like  prohibition, 
might  be  a  good  thing  for  the  Negro.  There  are 
none  of  the  pastors  but  either  are  or  have  been 
lodge  men.     I  start  this  morning  for  Texas. 

Hearne,  Texas.Jan.  12. — The  belated  and  slow- 
moving  trains  on  the  International  and  Northern  R. 
R.  brought  me  here  at  2  p.  m.  on  the  10th.  Trains 
on  this  road  run  about  12  miles  an  hour.  In  the 
present  condition  of  the  road  it  would  be  unsafe  for 
them  to  go  faster.  I  left  Hot  Springs,  Ark.,  on  the 
9  th  at  9  A.  M,  When  I  reached  here  I  found  the 
snow  deeper  than  when  1  left  Arkansas.  I  found 
the  country  more  elevated,  better  wooded  and  less 
cultivated  than  I  had  supposed.  I  am  told  that  this 
is  not  the  best  part  of  the  State.  The  broad  valley 
of  the  Brazos  river  is  here  cut  up  into  large  planta- 
tions on  which  cotton  is  raised,  mostly  by  convict  la- 
bor, to  the  great  detriment  of  the  interests  of  the 
town.  The  result  is  that  this  little  city  is  not  grow- 
ing, and  some  of  the  fine  brick  stores  are  vacant. 
The  drought  of  three  years  has  had  a  depressing  ef- 
fect on  all  departments  of  business.  The  present 
heavy  rains  have  for  the  first  time  in  many  months 
thoroughly  wetted  the  ground.  The  colored  people 
are  doing  better  than  in  the  older  States.  Besides 
two  public  schools  with  respectable  school  buildings 
there  is  here  the  Hearne  Academy,  under  the  care  of 
Prof.  Smith,  assisted  by  several  teachers  (all  col- 
ored) and  under  the  patronage  of  the  colored  Bap- 
tist State  Convention.  They  have  a  fine  building,  a 
farm  and  an  industrial  department  for  instruction  in 
mechanical  labor.  I  visited  the  school  and  ad- 
dressed the  students  and  teachers.  I  was  much 
pleased  with  the  management  and  want  to  commend 
it  to  the  attention  of  benevolent  people  in  the  North. 
At  present  it  gets  no  aid  from  outside  of  the  State 
and  very  little  from  its  friends  here. 

Among  the  commendable  enterprises  here  is  that 
of  a  prohibition  paper,  undertaken  by  a  company  of 
colored  men,  and  aiming  to  represent  the  Prohibi- 
tion party  in  Texas.  But  two  numbers  have  been 
issued  and  so  far  it  seems  well  conducted.  Its  pres- 
ent singular  name,  Stven  Mansions,  it  is  proposed  to 
change,  and  other  plans  are  suggested  for  its  im- 
provement. Its  editor  is  in  sympathy  with  our 
anti-secrecy  reform,  and  Elder  L.  G.  Jordan  is  fore- 
man of  the  office.  Its  conductors  think  that  they 
have  means  enough  to  sustain  the  paper  one  year  in 
any  case,  and  hope  it  may  live  after  that  time. 

Prohibition  would  be  an  inestimable  blessing  to 
the  Negroes  of  Texas.  Their  greatest  enemies  are 
drinking  habits  and  the  whisky  traffic.  But  next  to 
this,  it  would  do  more  to  break  up  the  color  line  in 
politics  than  all  other  things  combined.  The  white 
Prohibitionists  of  the  South  are  the  most  intelligent 
and  cultured  of  the  people.  These  people  see  the 
necessity  of  educating  the  colored  race,  and  are  anx- 
ious to  secure  their  co-operation  in  reforms.  Neith- 
er of  the  old  parties  are  either  able  or  willing  to  do 
so.  The  colored  people  are  beginning  to  see  this, 
and  there  is  a  decided  drift  toward  the  Prohibition 
party.  I  want  to  commend  this  newspaper  enter- 
prise to  Prohibitionists  of  the  North.  I  expect  to 
speak  here  several  times  and  then  visit  Austin  be- 
fore I  return  east.  H.  H.  Hinman: 


FROM  THE  OHIO  AGENT. 


Cedarvillk,  O.,  Jan.  12th,  1888. 
Dear  Cynosure: — This  town  has  been  ceded 
largely  to  the  Scotch  and  Scotch  Irish, a  colony  from 
South  Carolina  having  settled  here  as  early  as  1808. 
1  need  not  say  to  those  acquainted  with  the  industrious 
habits  and  grit  of  the  people  who  formed  this  colo- 
ny, namely  the  Reformed  and  United  Presbyterians, 
that  they  are  thrifty.  Cedarville  has  a  population 
of  about  eleven  hundred  and  is  surrounded  by  a  rich 
and  productive  country,  as  may  be  seen  in  the  fine 
residences,  pikes  and  general  survey.  Its  growth  has 
been  slow  but  substantial.  This  may  be  accounted 
for  by  the  fact  that  the  three  churches  which  large- 
ly mold  its  religious  sentiments  do  not  drift  with 


the  popular  current.       Dark  lantern  shows  are  not 
popular. 

There  is  perhaps  no  town  in  the  State  where  re- 
formers are  more  welcome.  I  can  speak  from  ex- 
perience. This  is  where  I  found  Mrs.  Stoddard. 
The  club  of  Cynosure  readers  here  last  year  was 
twenty-three,  and  I  hope  to  be  able  to  report  it  larg- 
er this.  It  is  my  purpose  to  spend  a  little  time 
working  for  the  Cynosure  in  this  section  prior  to  re- 
turning to  Columbus.  From  there  I  shall,  I).  V.,  go 
to  assist  Bro.  Moody  with  meetings  in  Morgan  coun- 
ty. I  have  written  him  to  bill  me  for  lectures  on 
and  after  the  24th  of  this  month.  Knowing  some- 
what of  his  enthusiasm  I  predict  interesting  meet- 
ings. 

To  those  owing  me  for  their  subscriptions  to  the 
Cynosure,  who  should  have  paid  ere  this,  I  would 
say.  If  you  do  not  settle  before  long  I  shall  ask 
Mrs.  Stoddard  to  send  a  reminder.  Some  have  giv- 
en pledges  to  the  State  work  that  are  due  but  not 
paid.  You  will  please  notice  the  change  in  State 
officers.  Rev.  C.  W.  Hiatt,  Columbus,  was  elected 
State  Secretary  and  Treasurer  at  the  last  State  con- 
vention in  place  of  Rev.  S.  A.  George.  All  contri- 
butions to  State  work  should  be  sent  to  him.  We 
need  scarcely  add  that  funds  will  be  needed  to  car- 
ry forward  the  work  and  we  are  confident  friends 
will  respond  liberally.  If  you  cannot  spend  your 
time  in  shedding  light  on  the  darkness  of  the  lodge 
you  may  assist  those  who  can. 

W.  B.  Stoddard. 


REFORM  NOTES. 


prohibition   politics— ED.     GALE    THUNDERSTRUCK 

— THE   GOOD    TEMPLARS   THROTTLING    THE 

W.   C.   T.    U. 


Page  Center,  Iowa,  Jan.  10,  1888. 

Prof,  J.  R.  Dill  of  Burdett,  Kan.,  brother  of  Rev. 
J.  W.  Dill  of  Selma,  Ala.,  is  a  young  Covenanter 
who  has  had  considerable  experience  in  public  teach- 
ing, and  has  recently  taken  the  lecture  field  for  pro- 
hibition. He  addressed  a  large  audience  in  the 
Covenanter  church  at  Blanchard,  Jan.  3d,  which 
pleased  the  people  as  well  as  any  lecture  they  have 
heard  for  a  long  time.  He  has  much  of  that  grit 
which  makes  an  effective  speaker,  viz.,  enthusiasm, 
and  he  has  rare  dramatic  power.  We  predict  for 
him  a  successful  platform  career  if  he  has  the  gift 
to  hold  on.  He  showed  that  the  Republicans 
were  going  back  on  prohibition  in  Kansas,  and  there 
^as  a  growing  sentiment  in  favor  of  third  party 
action.  In  the  coming  conflict,  which  would  shake 
the  nations,  he  believed  the  communistic  secret  so- 
cieties would  begin  the  battle,  by  destroying  life 
and  property  with  their  fearful  dynamite.  The' 
higher  or  monopolistic  orders,  in  which  capital  is 
entrenched,  would  then  resort  to  dynamite  as  a 
means  of  defense.  A  terrible  shell  had  recently 
been  invented  in  Boston,  which  had  one  hundred 
times  the  explosive  force  of  dynamite,  and  which 
would  destroy  a  regiment  in  a  moment.  This  col- 
lision between  the  higher  and  lower  orders  would  be 
the  fulfillment  of  the  prophecy  that  the  potsherds 
would  be  dashed  together  and  shivered  to  pieces. 

Bro.  Dill's  reasoning  was  forcible  and  convincing. 
He  and  Bro.  J.  S.  T.  Milligan  did  good  work  at  a 
Prohibition  Convention  last  week  in  the  Senate 
Chamber  at  Topeka,  in  which  Gov.  St.  John  made  a 
telling  speech,  arraigning  the  g-o-p  as  the  secret 
ally  of  the  liquor  power.  It  does  seem  that  in  Kan- 
sas, as  well  as  all  over  the  land,  the  handwriting  of 
doom  against  the  Republican  party  is  on  the  wall, 
and  more  Daniels  every  day  are  reading  it. 

It  was  a  cold  day  and  in  a  driving  storm  that  my 
train  pulled  into  the  little  town  of  Grand  River, 
Iowa,  last  winter.  I  had  heard  that  the  notorious 
ruffian  and  ex-saloon-keeper,  Ed.  Gale,  who  was  the 
tool  of  the  lodges  in  inflicting  almost  fatal  injuries 
upon  Elder  D.  P.  Rathbun,  in  the  Kellerton  mob, 
lived  here.  While  the  train  only  stopped  two  min- 
utes, I  got  off,  and  putting  my  hand  on  the  shoulder 
of  a  big,  burly  fellow  standing  on  the  platform,  I 
said,  "Do  you  know  Hd.  Gale?" 

"I  do,"  he  replied. 

"Does  he  live  here?" 

"He  does." 

"Where?" 

"My  name  is  Ed.  Gale,"  he  replied. 

"Then."  said  I,  "you  are  a  man  1  have  long  read 
about.  Your  name  has  been  published  from  one 
end  of  the  land  to  the  other,  as  the  man  who,  in  the 
Kellerton  mob,  assaulted  Elder  Rathbun,  one  of  the 
most  widely  known  and  highly  esteemed  ministers 
in  the  Wesleyan  Methodist  church.  Your  name  will 
go  down  in  history  as  the  perpetrator  of  one  of  the 
most  daring  outrages  on  free  speech  that  the  annals 
of  our  country  afford.  And  unless  you  repent  you 
may  rest  assured  the  avenging  doom  of  Divine  ret- 


6 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSUB£l. 


January  19, 1888 


ribution  must  strike  you,"  Justthenthe  bell  tapped, 
the  train  moved,  and  I  swung  upon  the  platform; 
but  looking  back  as  we  rounded  a  curve,  I  still  saw 
the  astonished  Ed.  Gale  gazing  after  that  train. 

A  few  weeks  ago  I  lectured  in  the  Presbyterian 
church  at  Grand  River.  I  found  the  W.  C.  T.  U. 
had  a  mere  nominal  existence.  The  Good  Templars 
had  a  large  lodge  which  was  absorbing  the  interest. 
I  have  invariably  observed  that  where  the  Good 
Templars  are  strong  the  W.  C.  T.  U.  is  weak.  These 
plants  do  not  both  flourish  in  the  same  soil.  At 
Grand  River  there  is  one  church  and  three  or  four 
lodges.  The  leading  church  members  wear  the  links. 
My  collection  here  lacked  twenty-five  cents  of  pay- 
ing the  janitor's  fee,  and  my  hotel  bill,  yet  I  had  a 
crowded  house.  The  members  of  the  W.  C.  T.  U. 
were  taking  no  Union  papers.  They  said  they  could 
not  afford  it,  because  it  took  so  much  to  run  their 
lodge.  When  will  the  W.  C.  T.  U.  learn  that  secret 
societies  of  all  kinds  are  exotics  and  parasites,  and 
exert  a  blighting  influence  upon  every  Christian  in- 
stitution? 

Bro.  JB.  M.  Sharp,  pastor  of  the  Covenanter  church 
at  Blanchard,  kindly  invited  me  to  preach  a  Nation- 
al Reform  sermon  in  my  home  church.  The  day 
was  quite  cold,  yet  it  is  characteristic  of  these  peo- 
ple to  materialize  on  a  stormy  Sabbath;  and  then, 
when  the  collection  box  went  around,  they  material- 
ized to  the  amount  of  $34.25.  This  was  more  than 
I  had  received  at  a  dozen  collections  in  other  church- 
es. Brethren  sometimes  say  to  me,  "You  Covenan- 
ters are  great  on  agitation,  but  your  failing  is  you 
do  not  materialize  at  the  ballot  box."  My  reply  is, 
that  no  people  materialize  so  well  at  the  collection 
box  as  the  Covenanters;  so  that  no  one  church  has 
a  monopoly  of  all  the  good.  M.  A.  Gault. 


FROM  A  TRUBHBARTBD  COVENANTER. 


Sparta,  III. 

I  live  among  a  people  who  were  trained  to  testify 
against  the  lodge,  but  who  have  by  degrees  become 
degenerate,  and  are  willing  to  bear  the  lodge  mem- 
bers in  their  churches  against  their  better  knowl- 
edge. The  Grand  Army  finds  its  way  into  all  the 
churches  except  our  own,  and  I  fear  that  by  its  at- 
tachment, the  "Relief  Corps,"  it  spreads  its  subtle 
poison  even  in  ours.  By  it  the  women  are  corrupted 
from  the  simplicity  of  Christ.  I  do  not  know  how 
much  of  secrecy  may  be  required  in  members  of 
that  order,  but  I  know  that  it  will  serve  as  a  prop 
to  the  G.  A.  R.,  and  this  again  to  the  other  orders. 
It  is  our  duty  to  "hate  even  the  garments  spotted 
with  the  flesh." 

I  am  discouraged  as  to  the  prospect  in  this  com- 
munity. It  is  a  lodge-ridden  community,  and  bit- 
•terly  hates  the  Prohibition  party.  They  are  Repub- 
licans wedded  to  their  party  idol,  and  seem  to  care 
for  nothing  else.  Give  me  a  dark  community  com- 
ing up  rather  than  an  intelligent  one  going  down- 
ward. Pastors  and  elders  seem  animated  by  the  com- 
mon desire  to  increase  the  membership  at  ths 
expense  of  their  testimony;  and  I  fear  that  the  old 
Covenanters  themselves  are  entering  that  lukewarm 
state  that  precedes  toleration. 

I  am  still  free,  however,  in  my  own  pulpit  to 
preach  and  pray,  though  I  am  not  able  to  see  the 
express  answer  to  prayer.  Every  Sabbath,  in  the 
principal  prayer,  I  entreat  the  Lord  for  the  downfall 
of  Satan's  empire  with  all  its  strongholds  of  saloons, 
lodges,  free  love,  Sabbath-desecrating  corporations, 
secular  politics,  etc.  No  doubt  the  answer  is  in 
store,  though  not  yet  manifested. 

I  cannot  say  now  that  I  can  attend  at  New  Or- 
leans. If  1  do  so  it  must  be  at  my  own  expense. 
If  a  considerable  reduction  could  be  obtained,  1 
might  be  able  perhaps  to  strain  a  point  and  go. 
But  you  may  certainly  count  on  mj  prayers. 

A  "lady  of  the  W.  C.  T.  U.,  whose  husband  and 
father  are  Freemasons,  gave  me  a  word  of  encourage- 
ment in  the  spring.  Said  she:  "My  father,  [a  Bap- 
tist preacher]  and  husband  do  not  difler  as  much 
from  you  as  you  suppose;  but  they  are  under  obliga- 
tion, and  cannot  say  anything."  Is  it  so  then  that 
many  good  people  are  imprisoned  in  the  lodge  and 
are  waiting  for  those  that  have  the  courage  to  open 
the  prison  doors?  But  it  is  sad  to  think  that  men 
of  good  standing  should  thus  allow  their  con- 
science to  be  paralyzed.  I  suppose,  now,  that  as 
the  batteries  of  the  lodge  are  turned  by  the  Anarch- 
ists directly  against  the  very  existence  of  organized 
society,  that  many  men  will  open  their  eyes  to  the 
dangerous  character  of  secrecy.  We  have  foreseen 
the  crisis  and  predicted  it,  but  now  the  crisis  is  up- 
on us  and  all  but  the  blind  must  see.  I  only  wish 
that  I  had  pecuniary  and  physical  strength  to  con- 
tinue a  public  factor  in  the  struggle.  But  the  lack 
of  these,  I  hope,  will  never  stifle  the  voice  of 
prayer. 

1  rejoic«  that  the  Lord  has  raised  up  your  associa- 


tion to  keep  the  lodge  matter  continually  before  the 
public.  You  deserve  the  commendation  of  the 
churches  that  testify  against  the  lodge.  I  suppose 
you  know  by  our  minutes  that  it  was  by  my  motion 
that  the  lodge  evil  has  a  special  standing  committee 
in  our  Synod;  and  that  I  have  written  the  report 
with  my  own  hand  the  last  two  meetings?  You  may 
be  sure  that  whether  I  am  at  the  meetings  of  the  N. 
C.  A.  or  not,  "my  heart  is  right  with  thy  heart," 
on  the  matter  of  secrecy.  I  am  opposed  to  the  least 
compromise.  If  my  church  should  become  tolerant, 
yet  may  God  grant  that  I  may  never  bear  the  lodge 
villainy.    Yours  very  truly,  D.  S.  Faris. 


ESROD'B  OATH. 


WiNTHROP,  Ind.,  Jan.  3rd,  1888. 

Editor  of  the  Cynosure: — I  am  here  visiting 
my  aged  parents.  They  are  Christian  people,  wait- 
ing to  go  over  to  the  other  side.  Yesterday  I  went 
to  the  church  I  attended  when  a  young  man  under 
the  parental  roof.  I  saw  no  face  that  I  recognized, 
nor  were  there  any  that  attended  thirty -five  years 
ago. 

The  minister  took  the  Sabbath-school  "golden 
text"  as  his  subject,  and  gave  a  splendid  sermon 
about  the  beheading  of  John  the  Baptist.  He  talked 
long  and  eloquently  and  gave  much  sensible  ad- 
vice; he  reproved  the  sin  of  dancing,  but  failed  to 
notice  the  real  sin  that  caused  Herod  to  sin  in  tak- 
ing that  oath  and  swearing  to  do  something,he  knew 
not  what.  Because  he  failed  to  notice  this  his  sub- 
ject was  somewhat  spoiled.  Herod's  oath  was  sub- 
stantially a  Masonic  oath. 

Let  us  be  faithful  in  our  movement  against  the 
lodge,  enlightening  the  people.  It  is  possible  this 
minister  did  not  dodge  this  Masonic  part  of  the  oath 
purposely,  but  we  are  mistaken  in  the  man  if  he 
don't  make  his  mark  in  the  world,  and  it  is  to  be 
hoped  he  and  other  ministers  may  be  educated  to 
see  this  Masonic  sin,  and  not  fail  to  declare  the 
whole  counsel  of  God,  J.  S.  Hickman. 


PITH  AND  POINT. 


GREETING  FROM  GETTYSBURG. 

God  speed  you  and  bless  you  in  your  good  work  in  this 
New  Year!  Great  has  been  your  service  for  truth.  Your 
light  has  penetrated  many  dark  places  and  exposed  their 
sinful  secrets.  May  it  be  permitted  long  and  still  more 
widely  and  brightly  to  shine.  Peace  and  benediction. — 
Joel  Swartz. 

a  macedonian  crt  from  massachusetts. 

I  see  in  the  Cynosure  that  Dr.  Blanchard  is  going  with 
a  co-worker  to  talk  to  the  Vermont  people  on  secretism 
All  that  is  well,  as  also  the  movements  of  agents  of  the 
N.  C.  A.  all  over  the  West  and  South.  But  whv  cannot 
our  dear  old  Bay  State,  the  birthplace  and  cradle  of 
missionary,  Bible  and  other  Christian  enterprises  receive 
at  least  some  share  of  that  missionary  attention  from  her 
Western  brethren  of  which  she  is  now  in  suffering  need? 
Between  the  upper  and  the  nether  millstones  of  "Pro 
gressive  Orthodoxy,"  and  every  form  of  modern  secret- 
ism, the  moral  and  spiritual  life  of  the  churches  in  our 
grand  old  Puritan  Commonwealth  is  surely  waning,  and 
no  other  State  in  our  land  is  in  greater  need  of  the  kindly 
ministrations  of  the  "missionary  of  the  Cross."  May  we 
not  hope  that  ere  Dr.  B.  sets  his  face  homeward,  he  will 
come  and  give  us  at  least  a  few  blasts  from  that  Gospel 
trumpet  which  he  knows  so  well  how  to  wield!— C.  A. 
S.  Temple. 

THE    GRANGE   REVIVED   IN   VERMONT. 

Even  the  grange  is  of  more  importance  in  this  part  of 
Vermont  than  the  church,  and  I  have  known  professing 
Christians  to  go  several  miles  in  a  dark  night  to  a  grange 
lodge  when  a  prayer-meeting  was  held  near  by  their 
homes.  This  is  no  uncommon  thing.  I  like  the  Cyno- 
sure because  unlike  Masonic  ministers  it  gives  no  uncer- 
tain sound.— C.  P.  P.,  Ouilford  Center,  Vt. 

LODGERY   IN   .JAMAICA, 

It  is  wonderful  how  that  great  cancer  of  darkness  and 
heathenism  has  sent  its  rootlets  out  from  Christian  lands 
into  the  little  islands  of  the  sea.  It  is  withering,  blight- 
ing and  soul-destroying  wherever  it  goes.  May  God 
more  abundantly  bless  the  iDfluence  of  the  Cynosure. — 
JosiAH  Dillon,  Missionary  of  the  Friends. 

THE    VETERAN   SUBSCRIBERS. 

I  notice  a  request  for  the  names  of  all  that  have  taken 
the  Cynosure  from  its  first  publication.  I  have  taken  it 
ever  since  its  second  or  third  issue,  and  regard  its  senior 
editor  as  being  one  among  the  most  noble  of  this  earth. 
Long  may  he  live  to  wield  his  pen  and  tongue  in  defense 
of  a  pure  Christianity. — Gko.  W.  Champ. 

I  am  one  of  the  first  subscribers. — G.  Cutler. 

Rev.  J.  A.  Gibson,  Browington  Center,  Vt.,  has  passed 
beyond  the  need  or  reading  of  the  Cynosure  or  other 
papers.  He  died  nearly  a  year  ago.  He  took  it  from  the 
first  and  enjoyed  it  much. — Mrs.  J.  A.  Gibson. 

I  have  been  a  reader  of  the  Cynosure  from  its  starting, 
and  sold  reports  of  the  Aurora  meeting  the  preceding 
year— 1867.— R.  D.  Nichols. 

I  was  one  that  signed  for  the  Cynosure  soon  after  it 
WM  stRrted  and  the  «ditor  sent  me  all  its   back  numberi 


so  that  I  had  the  paper  from  its  first  issue.  When  I  see 
what  has  been  done,  I  can  but  exclaim,  "What  hath  God 
wrought."    To  him  be  aU  the  glory. — Joseph  Powers. 

I  sent  my  money  for  the  Cynosure  two  weeks  before 
the  first  number  went  to  press  and  have  enjoyed  it  every 
year  since.  I  send  all  my  papers  to  friends  and  made 
fifteen  others  yearly  subscribers.  Probably  this  is  my 
last  year.  I  am  86  and  dropping  down,  but  while  in  this 
tabernacle  shall  pray  for  our  cause. — Josiah  Shaw. 


Bible  Lesson. 


STUDIES  IN  THE  NEW  TESTAMENT. 

LESSON  v.— Jan.  29.— Peter  Confeesing  Christ.— Matt.  16: 
13-28. 

GOLDEN  TEXT.— Whosoever,  therefore,  shall  confess  me 
before  men,  him  will  I  confess  also  before  my  Father  which  is 
in  heaven.— Matt.  10:  32. 

[Open  the  Bible  and  read  the  lesson.^ 
COMMENTS  ON  THE  LESSON  BY  E.  E.  FLAGG. 
1.  Peter's  Confession,  vs.  13-20.  "What  think  ye  of 
Christ?"  is  the  great  question  of  the  ages  which  all  must 
answer.  Was  he  a  man  gifted  with  supernatural  powers, 
or  a  divine  Saviour?  Was  he  merely  the  world's  perfect 
example,  or  the  world's  atoning  sacrifice?  "Whom  do 
ye  say  that  I  am?"  is  Christ's  personal  question  to  every 
individual  soul,  and  he  is  as  much  interested  in  the  an- 
swer as  if  it  was  the  only  soul  in  the  universe.  Happy 
they  who  can  say  with  Peter,  "Thou  art  the  Christ,  the 
Son  of  the  living  God."  Such  an  answer  comes  only  by 
divine  revelation  from  the  Holy  Spirit.  "Thou  art  Pe- 
ter"— petros,  a  stone  from  the  living  Rock  of  Ages,  on 
which  the  church  is  built  like  an  impregnable  fortress 
against  which  the  most  furious  assaults  of  hell  are  made 
in  vain.  This  is  the  Protestant  interpretation  of  this 
much  contested  passage,  but  there  are  many  Protestants 
who  read  it  as  blindly  as  the  blindest  Romanist,  with 
never  a  thought  that  it  applies  to  them;  that  to  every 
Christian,  pastor  or  layman,  Christ  ought  to  be  able  to 
say,  "Thou  art  Peter,  a  fragment  of  me,  a  living  stone 
hewn  out  of  the  living  Rock  on  which  my  church  is 
built."  Every  one  who  takes  the  vows  of  Christ  upon 
him  is  bound  to  be  a  Peter,  a  Rock-apostle,  unmoved 
alike  by  popular  applause  or  the  wildest  clamor  of  the 
mob.  A  rock  is  firm,  changeless;  you  always  know 
where  to  find  it.  How  many  Christians  of  to  day  are 
Rock-Christians,  always  on  the  side  of  Right  whichever 
way  the  winds  of  popular  opinion  may  blow?  The  min- 
ister who  says,  "The  lodge  is  an  evil,  but  I  don't  want 
to  say  anything  about  it  for  fear  it  will  split  my  church 
and  ruin  my  influence;"  and  the  Christian  voter  "who 
prays,  'Thy  kingdom  come'  and  votes  for  rum,"  are  not 
Peters.  It  may  be  only  on  one  point  that  they  seem 
weak,  but  it  is  a  fatal  weakness.  How  can  such  expect 
to  be  built  into  that  spiritual  temple  which  is  to  stand 
forever?  The  men  who  stood  up  boldly  against  the 
slave  power  are  now  standing  up  as  boldly  against  the 
lodge  power,  while  those  who  weakly  apologized  for 
slavery  will  be  found  as  regards  popular  evils  of  the 
present  time,  apologists  still.  The  sacrifice  of  a  single 
principle  for  popularity  always  shows  a  radical  inherent 
weakness  running  through  the  whole  character,  and  un- 
fitting it  to  make  a  bold,  decided  stand  for  God  whatever 
the  question  at  stake. 

2.   The  Necessity  of  Entire  Self- Consecration,     vs.  21- 
28.     Our  Lord  was  tempted  in  all  points  like  as  we  are, 
and  when  one  of  his  followers,  for  conscience'  sake,  en  • 
ters  on  a  course  that  involves  self-denial  and  loss  of  pop- 
ularity, he  will  generally  find  a  Peter,  some  mistaken 
Christian  friend,  who  endeavors  to  turn  him  back.     Sa- 
tan finds  in  such  far  better  instruments  to  discourage 
than  all  the  scoffs  and  sneers  of  the  worldly  and  the 
profligate.     Self-denial  is  a  part  of  every  Christian's  life. 
True  happiness  follows  only  in  the  steps  of  duty.     Many 
a  disciple  of  Christ  has  enjoyed  the  truest  liberty  behind 
prison  bars.     By  stultifying  conscience  and  paying  hom- 
age to  the  god  of  this  world  men  have  added  to  the 
years  of  their  existence  while  the  worm  of  remorse  made 
their  lives  a  living  death.     "Time  wasted  is  existence, 
used  is  life"    All  time  is  wasted,  however  full  of  work, 
that  leaves  God  and  eternity  out  of  sight.     The  present 
age  is  full  of  appeals  to  the  material  part  of  man.     It  is 
a  democratic  age  when  the  golden  prizes  of  wealth  and 
fame  glitter  for  the  children  of  the  poorest;  when  youth- 
ful ambition  sees  every  avenue  open  and  hears  the  cry, 
"Go  in  and  win."    But  what  profits  it  to  be  a  Vander- 
bilt  if  he  lose  the  eternal  riches?    What  matters  it  to  the 
politician  who  reaches  the  goal  of  his  ambition,  the  Pres- 
idential chair,  if  he  has  betrayed  the  cause  of  the  poor, 
has  sold  the  truth  for  a  lie,  and  been  false  alike  to  God 
and  humanity?    When  he  stands  at  that  tribunal  where 
heaven  and  earth  are  weighed  in  impartial  scales,  he  will 
front  too  late  the  solemn  question,  "What  shall  it  profit 
a  man  if  he  gain  the  whole  world  and  lose  his  own  soul?" 


January  19,  1888 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSUBE.  ' 


ANTI-MABOmO  LB0TVRBR8. 

Gkkbral  AejsNT  and  Lbotttbbb,  J.  P. 
Stoddard,  221  W.  Madison  St.,  Chicago. 

H.  H.  Hinman,  Cynosure  office. 
Agent  for  Southern  States. 
Statb  AeKNT8. 

Iowa,  C.  F.  Hawley,  Wayne,  Henry 
Co.     Care  Rev.  Geo.  Pry. 

Missouri,  Eld.  Rufus  Smith,  Maryville. 

New  Hampshire,  Did.  S.  C.  Kimball, 
New  Market. 

Ohio,  W.  B.  Stoddard,  Columbus. 

Kansas,  Robert  Loggan,  Clifton. 

Alabama,  Rev.  G.  M.  Elliott,  Selma. 

Dbobbb  Wobkbbb. — [Seceders."! 
J.  K.  Glassford,  Carthage,  Mo. 
Othbb  Lbctubbbs. 

C.  A.  Blanchard,  Wheaton,  111. 
N.  Callender,  Thompson,  Pa. 

J .  H.  Tlmmons,  Tarentum,  Pa 

T.  B.  McCormlck,  Princeton,  Ind. 

B.  Johnson,  Dayton,  Ind. 

H.  A.  Day,  WIlliamBtown,  Mich. 

J.  M.  Bishop,  Chambersbarg,  Pa. 

A.  Mayn,  Bloomlngton,  Ind. 

J.  B.  Cressinger,  Sullivan,  O. 

W.  M.  Love,  Osceola,  Mo. 

J.  L.  Barlow,  Grundy  Center,  Iowa. 

A.  D.Freeman,  Downers  Grove,  111 
Wm.  Fenton .  8t  Paul,  Minn. 

B.  I.  Grlnnell,  Blalrsburg,  Iowa. 
Warren  Taylor,  South  Salem,  O. 
J.  8.  Perry,  Thompson,  Conn. 

J.  T.  Michael,  New  Wllmlnjrton,  Pa. 

8.  G.  Barton,  Breckinridge,  Mc. 

B.  Bametson,  HaskinviUe,  Steuben  Co,'N.  Y 

Wm.  R.  Roach,  Pickering,  Ont. 

D.  A.  Richards,  Brighton,  Mich. 

THB   CHUBCEBltl    VS.   L01*€^&RY. 

The  following  denominations  are  com- 
mitted by  vote  of  their  legislative  assem- 
blies or  by  constitution  to  a  separation 
from  secret  lodge  worship: 

Adventists  (Seventh-day.) 

Baptists — Primitive,  Seventh-day  and 
Scandinavian. 

Brethren  (Dunkers  or  German  Bap- 
tists.) 

Christian  Reformed  Church. 

Church  of  God  Northern  Indiana  El- 
dership.) 

Congregational — The  State  Associations 
of  Illinois  and  Iowa  have  adopted  resolu- 
tions against  the  lodge. 

Disciples  (in  part.) 

Friends. 

Lutherans — Norwegian,  Danish,  Swed- 
ish and  Synodical  Conferences. 

jilennonites. 

Methodists — Free  and  Wesleyan. 

Methodist  Protestant  (Minnesota  Con- 
ference.) 

Moravians. 

Plymouth  Brethren. 

Presbyterian — Associate,  Reformetl  ajid 
United. 

Reformed  Church  (Holland  Branch.) 

United  Brethren  in  Christ. 

Individual  churches  in  some  of  these 
denominations  should  be  excepted,  in  part 
of  them  even  a  considerable  portion. 

ITie  following  local  churches  have,  as  a 
pledge  to  disfellowship  and  oppose  lodge 
worship,  given  their  names  to  the  follow- 
ing list  as 

THB   ASSOCIATED   CHUKCHKS    OF  CHRIST. 

New   Ruhamah  Cong.  HamUton,  Miss. 

Pleasant  Ridge  Cong.   Sandford  Co.  Ala. 

New  Hope  ^lcth<)dIst,  Lowndes  Co.,  Mis*. 

Congregational,  ColluEfe  Springs,  Iowa. 

College  Church  of  Christ.  Wheaton,  111. 

First  Congregational,  Lclaiid,  Mich. 

8ug»r  Grove  Church,  Green  county.  Pa. 

Military  Chapel,  M.  E.,  Lowndes  county, 
Miss. 

Hopewell  Missionary  Baptist,  Lowndes  Co., 
Miss. 

Cedar  Grove  Miss.  Baptist,  Lowndes  Co., 
Miss. 

Simon's  Chapel,   M.   E.,  Lowndes  Co.,  Miss. 

Pleasant  Ridge  Miss.  Baptist,  Lowndes  Co., 
Miss. 

Brownlce  Church,  Caledonia,  Miss. 

Salem  Church,  Lowndes  Co.,  Miss. 

West  Preston  Banttet  Church,  Wayne  Co.,Pa. 

OTHBR  LOCAL  CHUBCHB8 

adopting  the  same  orinciple  are — 

Baptist  churches ;  N.  Abfngton,  Pa. ;  Meno- 
monlc,  Mondovi,  Waubeck  ana  Spring  Prairie, 
Wis. ;  Wtieaton,  lU. ;  Perry,  N.  Y. ;  Spring 
Creek,  near  Burlington,  Iowa;  Lima,  Ind.; 
ConstablevUle,  N.  Y.  The  "Good  WUl  Assocl- 
ton"of  Mobile,  Ala.,  comprising  some  twenty- 
five  colored  Baptist  churches;  Bridgewater 
Baptist  Association,  Pa.;  Old  Tebo  Baptist, 
near  Leesvllle,  Henry  Co.,  Mo. ;  Hoopeston,  111 ; 
Bsmen,  111. ;  StrykerBville,  N.  Y. 

Congregational  churches :  let  of  Oberlln,  O. ; 
Tonlca,  Crystal  Lake,  I'nion  and  Big  Woods, 
111. ;  Solsbury,  Ind. ;  Congregational  Methodlsi 
Maplewood,  Mass. 

Independent  churchc9  in  Lowell,  Country- 
man school  house  near  Lindenwood,  Marengo 
and  Streator,  lU. :  Bereaand  Camp  Nelson,  K7 ; 
Ustick,  111. ;  Clarksbarg,  Kanaaa;  State  Asaod- 
ationof  Mlniaten  ana  Ohnichu  of  ObrlitlB 
KnnwkT. 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


PROaPBOTUS  FOR  THB    TWBNTIBTH  YBAR. 

As  we  turn  over  the  leaf  for  another  year  the  Cy- 
nosure would  again  write  at  the  top  of  the  new  page: 
^^  Christ  alwayt;  Christ  only."  It  will  more  than  ever 
be  the  purpose  of  all  connected  with  the  paper  to 
make  it  a  power  for  the  coming  kingdom  of  our 
Lord,  before  which  all  the  systems  of  secret  wor- 
ship, mystery  and  iniquity  of  the  great  Babylon 
must  fall.  We  would  be  on  the  Conqurror's  side 
in  that  day — we  will  stand  for  him  now  in  the  days 
of  testimony  and  of  tribulation. 

The  Cynosure  during  1888  will  give  the  most 
earnest  attention  to  the  South.  The  National  Con- 
vention at  New  Orleans,  Feb.  17th,  and  the  effort, 
which  promises  so  much  success,  to  put 

ONE   THOUSAND   COPIES 

of  the  paper  into  the  hands  of  colored  pastors  gives 
a  direction  to  our  interests.  We  also  hope  that  the 
National  Christian  Association  will  be  able  to  put 
other  workers  into  the  Southern  field. 

The  Minor  Secret  Orders,  so-called,  will  have 

more  respect  given  to  their  insinuating  and  benumb- 
ing influence.  If  Masonry  and  Odd-fellowship  have 
felt  severely  the  attacks  upon  their  strongholds.they 
are  making  good  all  losses  by  training  up  an  army 
of  young  men  whose  convictions  are  partdyzed  in 
respect  to  secretism  by  the  swarms  of  orders  which 
cover  their  modicum  of  lodgery  with  a  bait  of  tem- 
perance, insurance,  patriotism,  good  fellowship,  bus- 
iness aid,  etc.,  etc.  The  Cynosure  will  endeavor  to 
rousfe  our  careless  churches  to  see  that  this  evil  is 
likely  to  be  worse  than  the  first. 

We  have  nearly  completed  arrangements  for  spec- 
ial Correspondence  from  the  metropoh'tan  cities 
in  different  parts  of  the  country.  Our  readers  may 
expect  letters  once  a  month.or  oftener,  from  Boston, 
New  York,  Philadelphia,  Washington,  Cincinnati, 
New  Orleans,  Denver,  San  Francisco  and  Los  An- 
geles. These  letters  will  give  graphic  pictures  of 
the  earnest  American  life  which  throbs  in  our  great 
cities,  with  especial  reference  to  the  news  of  the 
lodges  in  each. 

The  very  popular  Biographical  WoriC  of  the  Cyno- 
sure during  the  three  years  past  will  be  continued 
with  some  features  which  will  be  especially  attract- 
ive. During  the  last  year  there  have  appeared  por- 
traits of  George  B.  Cheever,  William  H.  Seward, 
Daniel  Webster,  John  Brown,  Charles  Sumner, 
Charles  Francis  Adams,  Enoch  Honeywell,  Bishop 
Hamline,  Charles  Gr.  Finney,  Howard  Crosby,  Dr.  C. 
F.  W.  Walther,  and  Alexander  Hamilton.  These 
portraits  have  been  accompanied  with  sketches 
which  have  presented  facts  of  profoundest  interest 
to  our  discussion,  collated  after  diligent  and  often 
exhaustive  search. 

Letters  from  foreign  lands  we  expect  to  be  more 
frequent  and  valuable  in  1888  than  ever.  Corre- 
spondents in  England,  Germany,  Greece,  Turkey, 
India,  West  and  South  Africa,  China  and  Mexico 
will  through  our  columns  be  in  personal  connection 
with  our  readers. 

The  Sabbath  School  department  will  contain 
the  notes  of  Miss  E.  B.  Flagg  as  last  year.  Sab- 
bath-school workers  are  to  be  congratulated  in  the 
continuance  of  this  arrangement  For  readers  of 
the  Cynosure  there  are  no  more  helpful  and  suggest- 
ive notes  published  than  these,  in  the  whole  range 
of  S.  S.  literature. 

Best  of  all  is  thejnoble  company  of  contributors 
and  correspondents  |iu  our  own  land.  We  hardly 
need  mention  them.  To  keep  in  their  company  a 
season  were 

— "worth  ten  vears  o(  common. life." 

r  We  invite  all  friends  of  the  past  to  honor  them- 
selves by  remaining  in  this  company.  The  Cynosure 
gives  you  a  noble  fellowship.  You  can  hardly  afford 
to  forsake  it.  liCt  your  name  then  be  found  on  the 
list.  Do  your  neighbor  a  gootl  turn  and  get  his 
subscription  also. 

In  advance  $1.50  i>er  ybab.  Aiftm^  th« 
"Christian  Cynohurs"  Chicago, 


K.  C.  A.  BUILDINQ  AND  OJTICX  0» 

THB  CHRISTIAN   CYNOSURE, 
tn  WIST  MADISON  STREST,  CmCAGC 


HA  "TIONAL  CHHI8  TIAH  A8B0CIA  TlOa 

Prbbidbnt.— H.  H.  George,  D.  D.,  Gen- 
eva College,  Pa. 

V1CB-PBB8IDKNT — Rev.  M.  A.  Gkiolt, 
Blanchard,  Iowa. 

Cob.  Sbc't  and  Gbnbbal  Aobnt. — J 
P.  Stoddard,  221 W.  Madison  8t.,  Chicago. 

Rbc.  Sbc't.  akd  Tebasubbb. — W.  I. 
Phillips,  221  W.  Madison  St.,  Chicago. 

DiBBCTOBS. — Alexander  Thomson,  Mi 
R.  Britten,  John  Gardner,  J.  L.  Barlow, 
L.  N.  Stratton,  Thos.  H.  Gault,  C.  A, 
Blanchard,  J.  E.  Roy,  E.  R.  Worrell,  H. 
A.  Fischer,  W.  R.  Hench. 

The  object  of  this  Association  Is: 
"To  expose,  withstand  and  remove  secret 
societies,  Freemasonry  In  particular,  and  othet 
anti-Christian  movements,  in  order  to  save  tiia 
churches  of  Christ  from  being  uepraved,  to  re- 
deem the  admlnlstr*  tion  of  justice  from  per 
version,  and  our  iw^p  ibllcan  government  m>a> 
corruption." 

To  carry  on  this  work  contributions  art 
solicited  from  every  friend  of  tne  refonn. 

Form  of  Bequest. — J  give  and  bcuueath  to 
the  National  Christian  Association,  Incorpo- 
rated and  existing  under  the  laws  of  the  State 

of   Illinois,   the  sum  of dollars  for  the 

purposes  of  said  Association,  and  for  wtii'-h 
me  receipt  of  its  Treasurer  for  the  time  being 
*liall  be  sufficient  discharge. 

THB  NATIONAL  OOITTBNTIOR. 

Pbbsidhnt.— Rev.  J.  S.  McCulloch, 
D.  D. 

Sbcbbtabv. — Rev.  Lewis  Johnson. 

STATB  AUZILIABT  ASSOCIATIONB. 

Alabama.— Pre*.,  Prof.  Pickens;  Sec,  G. 
M.  Elliott;  Treas.,  Rev.  C.  B.  Curtis,  all  of 
Selma. 

Calitobnia.— Presy^  L.  B.  Lathrop,  Hollii- 
ter;  Cor.  Sec.,  Mrs.  U.  P.  Merrill,  Woodland; 
Treas.,  C.  Ruddock,  Woodland. 

CoNNBCTicuT.— Pres.,  J.  A.  Conant,  Willi- 
mantle;  Sec,  Geo  Smith,  WDllmantlc ;  Treas, 
C.  T.  Collins,  Windsor. 

IiiiNOis.— Pres.,  J.  P.  Stoddard;  Sec,  M. 
N.  Butler;  Treas.,  W.  I.  PhlUlps  all  at  Cy- 
nosure  office. 

IHDIAHA.— Pres.,  Wmiam  H.  Flgg,  Reno 
Sec,  8.  L.  Cook,  Albion;  Treas.,  BenJ.  Ulah 
Silver  Lake. 

Iowa.— Pres.jWm.  Johnston.College  Springs ; 
Cor  Sec,  C.  D.  Trumbull,  Morning  Sun; 
Treas.,  James  Harvey,  Pleasant  Plain,  Jeffer- 
son Co. 

Kansas.— Pres.,  J.  P.  Richards,  Ft,  Scott; 
Sec,  W.  W.  McMillan,  Olathe;  Treas.,  J. 
A.  Torrence,  N.  Cedar. 

Masbaohtjsbtts.— Prea.,  8.. A.  Pratt;  Sec, 
Mrs.  E.  D.  Bailey;  Treas.,  David  Mannlng.Sr., 
Worcester. 

MiOHiSAH.- Pres.,  D.  A.  Richard^  Brighton ; 
Bec'y,    H.    A.     Day,     Willlamston;    Treas. 
Geo.  Swanson,  Jr.,  BedfoiJ. 

MnnrasoTA.- Pres.,  E.  G.  Paine,  Waalo'a'. 
Cor.  Sec,  Wm.  Fenton,  St.  Paul;  Rec  Soc'y 
Mrs.  M.  F.  Morrin,  St.  Caarles;  Treas.,  Wn» 
H.  Morrill,  St.  Charles. 

Mi8SODRi.-Pre»-.  B.  F.  Miller,  KaglevlUe 
Treas.,  William  Bc-tuchamp,  Avalon ;  Cor.  8#c 
A.  D.  Thomas,  Avalou. 

NEBRASKA.— Pres.,  8.  Austha,  Falnuoozt 
Cor.  Sec,  W.  Spooner,  Xeamey;  Tre*8. 
J  (3,  Fye. 

'Nbw  Hampshibb.- Pre.^,  C.  L.  Baker,  Man 
Chester-.  Sec,  S.  C.  Kla3*>&U,  New  Market' 
Treas    James  F.  French,  CanU>rharv. 

Nbw  YORK.-Pres.,  F.  W.  Capwell,  Dale; 
8ec'y,  John  W.^Uace,  Syracuse;  Treas.,  M. 
Merrick,  Syracuse. 

Ohio.— Pres.,  F.  M.  Spencer.  New  Concwrd; 
Rec  Sec,  8.  A.  George,  Mansiield :  Cor.  Sec 
and  Treas.,  C.  \V.  hint.  Columbus;  Agent, 
W.  B.  Stoildanl,  Columbus. 

PBinisTi-VAHiA.— Pres.,  A.  L.  Post,  Mom 
trose;  Cor.  Sec,  N.  CaUender,  ThoiapMUi 
TtSm^.W.B.  Bertelft,WUke6bMTe. 

VHUtOHT—PreTrw.  R.  Laird,  St.  Johns- 
bnrv;  See,  C  W  Potter. 

WlSOOTBDJ— Pres..  J.  W  Wood.  Baraboo; 
Sec.  W.  W.  Ames,  Menomonle;  Treas.,  M.  B, 
Brltlen,  Vienna. 


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maE  GHBISTlASr  OYHOStJKE. 


January  19, 1888 


Tht^  Christian  Cynosure. 


i.  BLANCHARD. 


Sdrobs. 


HENRY  L.  KXLL0G6. 


CEaCASO,    THUBSDATT,    JANUARY    19,    1888. 


The  New  Orleans  Convention  February  17 
TO  20,  1888. 


MORE  THAN  TWO  TEARS  AGO 
Prof.  Woodsman  wrote  urging  that  the  work  of  send- 
ing the  Cynosure  to  the  colored  pastors  be  pushed  to  the 
front  as  we  have  for  a  few  weeks  been  trying  to  do.  He 
wrote  from  luka,  Miss.,  Sept.  30,  1885,  in  these  words: 
"Many  other  reasons  could  be  given  why  the  Cynosure 
by  the  thousand,  and  tracts  by  the  million,  should  be 
sent  into  the  South  at  this  time .  If  only  the  leaders  of 
the  800,030  colored  Baptists  were  supplied,  the  whole 
South  would  be  leavened.  The  effect  would  be  nearly  as 
great  if  the  leaders  of  the  various  Methodist  bodies  were 
supplied.  One  hundred  dollars  now  would  do  more 
good  than  thousands  will  do  ten  years  from  now,  or  even 
five."  After  two  years  he  repeated  this  urgent  request 
in  his  letter  lately  printed  on  this  page.  If  the  Cynosure 
readers  could  see  with  his  eyes  the  necessity  for  this 
work  they  would  hasten  to  make  up  the  fund  for  the 
desired  one  thousand  copies  of  the  Cynosure  to  Southern 
pastors. 


Donations  to  the  Cynosuke  Ministers'  Fund  have 
been  received  at  this  office  from  nineteen  States  and 
Territories.  The  number  of  donations  from  Florida  1, 
Indiana  4,  Maryland  1,  Massachusetts  3,  Michigan  8, 
Ohio  5,  Pennsylvania  5,  Vermont  1,  California  3,  Dako- 
ta 2,  Illinois  34,  Iowa  3,  Kansas  2,  Missouri  3,  Nebraska 
2,  Wisconsin  10,  Washington  Territory  2,  Minnesota  2, 
New  York  9.  The  place  from  which  seven  donations 
came  is  not  known.  Total  number  of  donations  one 
hundred  and  seven. 


CASTING  OUT  DEVILS. 

That  evil  spirits  can  inflict  diseases  even  on  good 
men  is  proved  by  the  case  of  Job.  That  they  can 
occupy  persons  in  health  is  proved  by  their  entering 
Judas  Iscariot.  When  the  Saviour  sent  forth  his 
twelve  apostles  he  commissioned  them  to  heal  the 
sick,  cleanse  lepers,  raise  the  dead,and  as  the  climax 
of  their  commission,  "Cast  out  devils."  We  are  still 
told  to  "resist  the  devil  and  he  will  flee"  from  us. 
But  when  the  disciples  asked  Jesus  why  they  could 
not  cast  out  the  spirit  from  the  lunatic  son,  he  said, 
"This  kind  goeth  not  out  but  prayer  and  fasting." — 
Matt.  17:21. 

As  church-founding  miracles  are  no  longer  need- 
ed, the  mode  and  manner  of  our  resisting  Satan  va- 
ries, but  the  duty  remains,  and  it  seems  to  us  that 
if  ever  fasting  was  required  to  make  prayer  effectu- 
al it  is  now  when  we  are  moving  directly  to  "cast 
out  devils"  from  the  worships  of  mankind.  Judg- 
ing by  his  first  application  and  offer  to  Christ  to 
give  up  all  the  kingdoms  and  glory  of  the  world  if 
he  might  retain  its  worship,  no  movement  so  stirs 
Satan's  activity  and  stimulates  his  wrath  as  such 
meetings  as  that  proposed  to  be  held  at  New  Or- 
leans, Feb.  17th  next.  The  piety  and  prayers  of 
Northern  Christians  were  never  turned  toward  the 
South  as  they  are  now.  This  meeting  fully  recog- 
nizes the  manhood  of  the  colored  people  before  God. 
White  men  and  black  are  to  speak  on  the  same  plat- 
form. The  church  building  is  owned  by  the  Amer- 
ican Missionary  Association,  a  great  national  organ- 
ization which  spurns  caste.  Secretary  Strieby's 
very  able  paper  at  the  late  meeting  at  Portland.Me., 
insisted  with  great  force  that  neither  nationality  or 
complexion  shall  be  punished  by  ostracism  in  their 
churches  in  the  South.  In  this  they  are  antagonized 
by  the  largest  national  church  organizations;  and 
they  assail  the  ^last  entrenchment  of  Satan  in  the 
Southern  sentiment.  If  the  Gospel  is  strong  enough 
to  pull  down  caste,  which  now  keeps  Asia  and  Afri- 
ca pagan,it  can  and  will  soon  conquer  the  world. 
And  we  read,  "Woe  to  the  inhabiters  of  the  earth 
and  of  the  sea,  for  the  devil  is  come  down  unto  you 
having  great  wrath,  for  he  knoweth  he  hath  but  a 
short  time."     Kev.  12:12. 

Now  in  the  present  state  of  the  churches  we  can 
not  observe  a  united  and  general  fast.  Shall  we 
agree  on  a  day  before  the  New  Orleans  meeting  and 
fast  and  pray  as  Moses,  Christ  and  Paul  fasted 
when  seeking  great  moral  changes  on  our  globe. 
We  believe  the  Board  of  Directors  are  to  meet  a 
week  or  two  before  Feb.  17th.  If  they  are  not  to 
meet  in  season  will  brethren  send  in  their  minds  im- 
mediately on  reading  this  article?  Moses  and  Christ 


were,  as  we  are,  in  a  very  small  minority,  but  theirs 
and  the  early  Christians'  fasting  and  prayer  shaped 
the  destiny  of  the  world. 


SONS  OF  VETERANS  PRAT  FOR  THE  DEAD. 


The  resemblance  between  the  oaths  and  prayers 
in  the  Freemason  and  Sons  of  Veteran  lodges,  is  so 
marked  as  to  leave  no  room  to  doubt  their  intimate 
relationship.  In  each  the  oath  imposes  secrecy, 
succor  and  implicit  obedience  to  unknown  laws;  and 
the  fact  that  both  Masons  and  Sons  of  Veterans,  in 
using  the  forms  prescribed  pray  for  their  dead  mem- 
bers, indicates  that  the  theology  of  both  came  from 
Rome  rather  than  the  New  Testament.  Rome  re- 
quires her  adherents  to  say:  "I  profess,  likewise, 
that  in  the  mass  there  is  offered  to  God,  a  true, 
proper  and  propitiatory  sacrifice  for  the  living  and  the 
dead."  Again:  "I  constantly  hold  that  there  is  a 
purgatory,  and  that  the  souls  therein  detained  are 
helped  by  the  sufferages  of  the  faithful." 

In  the  burial  service  of  a  deceased  brother  Ma- 
son, given  by  Thos.  Smith  Webb,  (page  111,  Free- 
masons' Monitor)  he  says:  "Unto  the  grave  we  re- 
sign the  body  of  our  deceased  friend  *  *  *  and 
may  Almighty  God,  of  his  infinite  goodness,  and 
the  grand  tribunal  of  unbiased  justice,  extend  his 
mercy  towards  him  and  all  of  us,  and  crown  our 
hope  with  everlasting  bliss,  in  the  expanded  realm 
of  boundless  eternity." 

The  prayer  offered  at  the  opening  of  a  lodge  of 
Sons  of  Veterans  contains  this  sentiment:  "Keep 
green  in  our  minds  the  memory  of  those  both  living 
and  dead,  who  '  sacrificed  so  much  that  the  life  of 
our  nation  might  be  preserved;  and  deal  with  them 
[the  living  and  the  dead]  in  all  things  with  thy 
special  mercy."  Here  is  a  prayer  authorized  and 
appointed  in  which  "special  mercy"  is  asked  for  all 
the  dead  soldiers  as  much  as  for  the  living.  The 
covert  way  in  which  it  is  introduced  would  perhaps 
escape  the  notice  of  many,  but  it  is  no  less  a  fact, 
however,  that  when  a  Christian  young  man  officiates, 
using  the  prescribed  form,  he  invokes  God's  mercy  on 
all  dead  soldiers,  as  the  Mason  at  a  brothers'  funeral, 
or  devout  Catholic  at  mass,prays  for  the  Divine  favor 
upon  the  departed. 

It  is  sad  to  see  some  of  our  Christian  young  men 
swearing  away  their  manhood  by  oaths  of  implicit 
obedience  to  lodge  rules,  who  are  starting  on  the 
road  to  papal  Rome,  by  requiring  them  to  utter  or 
join  in  prayers  offered  for  dead  soldiers,  as  if  they 
were  not  already  beyond  probation  where  prayers 
in  their  behalf  would  avail  nothing. 


Mardi  Gras. — Since  this  revival  of  the  Saturnal- 
ia of  pagan  Rome  and  the  Carnival  of  papal  Rome 
begun  a  few  years  since  in  New  Orleans,  the  cities 
up  the  Mississippi  have  attempted  an  imitation, 
Memphis  with  her  festival  of  Momus  and  St.  Louis 
with  her  performance  of  the  Veiled  Prophets.  These 
carnivals,f  uU  of  brilliant  tableaux  and  gross  vulgar- 
ities, are  a  reproduction  of  one  phase  of  heathenism, 
as  the  lodge  is  of  another.  We  are  glad  to  note  an 
article  by  Rev.  B.  A.  Imes  of  Memphis  in  the  Living 
Way  giving  a  Christian  pastor's  warning  against  the 
performance  to  be  held  in  that  city  next  month.  "No 
place,"  he  says,  "can  be  demanded  for  the  Mardi 
Gras  celebration  as  an  amusement  worthy  of  pat- 
ronage by  Christian  people.  It  is  a  shame  and  a 
sin  that  this  Bacchanal  festival  is  tolerated  by  the 
people  of  this  age,  and  that  the  authorities  turn  the 
city  over  to  the  devil."  Bro.  Imes  promises  in  an- 
other article  on  the  origin  and  nature  of  the  Mardi 
Gras. 


The  New  Book  on  the  Ruling  Masonic  Rite. 
— Its  excellencies  are:  1.  That  it  carries  its  proof 
with  it.  The  leading,  trusted,  Masonic  authorities 
are  quoted,  volume  and  page.  The  foot  notes, which 
would  make  a  small  volume,  are  taken  from  the 
same  Masonic  authors,  are  a  skeleton  ritual  them- 
selves, and  are  proof  positive  that  the  revelation  is 
genuine.  So  the  reader  knows  the  whole  thirty-three 
degrees  as  well  as  if  he  looked  on  and  saw  them 
worked.  2.  The  book  sets  forth  the  true  nature  and 
object  of  the  lodge.  In  the  words  of  Dr.  Edward 
Beecher's  report  to  the  Illinois  Congregational  As- 
sociation (1867):  "By  it  Christ  is  dethroned  and  Sa- 
tan exalted." 

Its  defects  are:  1.  Repetition.  This  was  unavoid- 
able. The  degrees  repeat  one  another,  over  and 
over  again;  and  if  comments  follow  them  they  will 
repeat.  The  labor  of  both  writer  and  compiler  has 
been  immense;  and,  carefully  read  and  pondered,  it 
is  believed  it  will  do  for  the  anti-lodge  cause  what 
Weld's  "Testimony  of  a  Thousand  Witnesses"  did 
for  the  anti-slavery  cause;  which  Dr.  Leonard  Ba- 
con called,  "a  tremendous  book." 

Another  deficiency  equally  unavoidable  is  that 
there  wants  another  book  of  equal  size  to  set  forth 


the  beauties  and  glories  of  Christianity  in  contrast 
with  the  ghastly  deformity  of  the  lodge.  This,how- 
ever,  can  only  be  done  by  reducing  the  Gospel  to 
practice  in  such  stupendous  revivals  of  religion  as 
followed  the  fall  of  the  lodges  after  the  murder  of 
Morgan.  Such  revivals  will  yet  come,  when  "He 
shall  send  his  angels  to  gather  out  of  his  kingdom 
all  things  which  offend  and  them  which  do  iniquity." 
But  the  reign  of  the  lodge  and  liquor  are  bringing  in 
the  Pentecost  which  is  to  enthrone  Christ. 


— A  letter  from  Bro.  Hawley  reports  some  hin- 
drances from  drifting  snow  in  Iowa,  and  ably  re- 
views a  grand  Odd-fellow  lecture  by  Rev.  Frank 
Evans,  defender  and  champion  of  lodgery  in  Iowa. 

— The  Heart  and  Hand,  the  monthly  bulletin  is- 
sued by  Le  Moyne  Institute  of  Memphis,  Tenn., 
mentions  the  late  visit  of  Bro.  Hinman  in  that  city 
with  pleasure. 

— The  railroad  notice  in  our  paper  last  week  con- 
tained two  errors.  First  the  time  allowed  for  the 
trip  either  way  should  have  been  ten  instead  of  fif- 
teen days.  In  the  eighth  line  the  word  "route"  was 
inserted  instead  of  "rate." 

— Bro.  W.  B.  Walthall  was  interested  in  the  ap- 
peal for  Wheaton  College  in  the  Cynosure  of  Dec. 
22,  and  sends  $1.00  to  help  the  fund  therein  sug- 
gested. The  N.  C.  A.  Treasurer  informs  us  that 
another  friend  wishes  to  take  a  share  in  that  good 
effort.  We  heartily  commend  it  to  every  co-worker 
in  our  reform. 

— The  Birmingham  Free  Press,  admiring  the  ex- 
cellent portrait  of  the  editor  of  the  Cynosure  week 
before  last,  speaks  for  numerous  friends  in  Birming- 
ham and  Iowa  who  would  be  delighted  to  see  the 
likeness  of  their  "Agamemnon,"  Dr.  J.  N.  Norris, 
adorning  these  pages.  Bro.  Warrington  has  our 
hand  for  a  partnership  in  such  an  enterprise. 

— The  Iree  Methodist  of  London,  England,  pub- 
lished in  a  late  number  an  address  by  Rev.  John 
Boyes  of  Huddersfield,  our  English  correspondent. 
The  subject  was  "God's  Dealings  with  the  Children," 
and  the  occasion  the  Conference  of  Sabbath-school 
Teachers  of  Huddersfield  First  Circuit  of  which  Mr. 
Boyes  is  the  respected  superintendent  minister. 
The  address  is  an  earnest  appeal  to  the  church  to 
make  the  Sabbath-school  a  more  efBcient  agency  for 
the  salvation  and  Christian  instruction  of  the  youth. 

— Two  of  our  earnest  readers,  Edwin  B.Webster,  of 
Ortonville,  Wis.,  and  C.  A.  S.  Temple,  of  Reading, 
Mass.,  wish  to  reopen  the  discussion  of  the  Seventh- 
day  Sabbath  question  which  we  agreed  to  close  some 
time  since.  While  thanking  these  friends  for  the 
contributions  they  have  sent,  we  must  keep  to  the 
main  issue  for  which  the  Cynosure  is  established. 
Bro.  Webster  makes  an  interesting  and  original  ar- 
gument to  prove  that  the  Jewish  Sabbath  was  set 
back  one  day,  and  the  Christian  Sabbath  restores 
the  day  to  the  original  time  set  apart  in  the  Crea- 
tion. The  late  Dr.  J.  B.  Walker,  held,  on  the  con- 
trary, that  the  Jewish  Sabbath  was  set  one  day  in 
advance,  and  the  Christian  one  day  still  further. 

— Pres.  J.  S.  McCuUoch  of  Knoxville,  Tenn.,  pres- 
ident of  the  N.  C.  A.  National  Convention,  had  a 
singularly  perplexing  experience  lately.  He  was 
conducting  the  funeral  exercises  over  the  body  of 
one  of  his  students  who  was,  unknown  to  the  college 
faculty,  an  Odd-fellow,  and  part  of  the  funeral  expen-, 
ses  had  been  promised  by  the  colored  lodge. 
Shortly  after  the  servicfi  began,into  the  United  Pres- 
byterian church  marched  a  drove  of  Odd-fellows  in 
regalia  with  swords  and  poles,  who  sat  down  and 
rose  up  as  the  leader  indicated  by  banging  the  floor. 
They  made  no  further  demonstration,  and  probably 
deemed  they  had  their  money's  worth.  The  effect 
of  this  lodge  impudence  was  not  lost  upon  the  stu- 
dents present,  who  saw  a  proof  of  their  instructions 
in  college,  that  the  lodge  spirit  is  from  hell  not 
heaven. 

— Bro.  I.  R.  B.  Arnold  conducted  a  Bible  reading 
in  the  College  Hall  at  Wheaton  Sabbath  evening, 
January  8  th.  He  had  arranged  a  union  service  and 
a  very  large  audience  was  present.  The  subject^ 
"Christ  in  the  Old  Testament,"  gave  an  opportunity, 
after  the  Scripture  passages  were  read,  to  further 
explain  the  subject  by  means  of  a  fine  chart  which 
showed  in  a  striking  manner  how  Christ  was  recog- 
nized in  the  worship  of  Abel,  Noah,  Abraham,  Mo- 
ses, etc,  while  the  altars  of  Cain  and  Jeroboam 
turned  the  soul  off  from  the  only  Way  to  the  Father. 
The  explanation  of  these  worships  was  remarkable 
in  making  clear  the  difference  between  true  prayer 
to  God  and  the  mock  prayers  of  the  Sons  of  Vete- 
rans, and  all  other  lodges  who  reject  the  name  of 
Christ,  or  refuse  to  use  that  nqjne  as  he  has  com- 
manded. 


January  19, 1888 


THE  CHKISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


PERSONAL  MENTION. 

— Judge  McCullough,  of  Peoria,  is  prominently 
mentioned  as  the  Prohibition  candidate  in  Illinois 
during  the  coming  campaign. 

— Rev.  D.  C.  Martin,  late  of  Princeton,  Indiana, 
has  removed  to  Etna,  Allegheny  county.  Pa,,  where 
correspondents  will  please  address  him. 

— Rev.  A.  J.  Chittenden,  pastor  of  the  College 
Church,  Wheaton,  has  been  voted  a  six  weeks'  va- 
cation on  account  of  ill  health.  He  expects  to  at- 
tend the  New  Orleans  Convention  during  the  time. 

— Miss  Willard,  president  of  the  W.  C.  T.  U.,  is  a 
warm  personal  friend  of  John  6.  Whittier,  and 
thinks  that  the  State  should  own  the  early  home  of 
the  poet.  She  urges  the  women  of  the  country  to 
unite  and  buy  it. 

— Dr.  A.  H.  Hiatt,  of  this  city,  and  member  of 
the  Wheaton  Faculty,  expects  to  attend  the  New 
Orleans  Convention,  and  go  on  to  Los  Angeles  and 
San  Diego,  spending  some  weeks  in  California  and 
on  the  return  journey  through  Utah  and  Colorado. 

— The  address  of  Rev.  J.  T.  Michael  is  now  619 
Third  St.,  Wa8hington,D.  C, whither  he  has  removed 
from  South  Oil  City.  All  who  are  interested  in  his 
proposition  to  combat  the  lodge  in  the  Methodist 
Episcopal  church  should  read  his  letter  in  last  Cyno- 
sure. 

— Governor  St.  John,  who  last  week  returned  to 
California  to  resume  his  work  against  the  saloon, 
will  be  accompanied  on  his  trip  to  the  Sandwich 
Islands  by  his  wife  and  daughter.  In  the  latter 
part  of  June  he  will  go  to  Nova  Scotia  for  a  series 
of  engagements. 

— Rev.Edward  Mathews.whom  many  of  the  Cyno- 
sure readers  have  heard  with  interest  and  profit  in 
addresses  against  the  lodge,  is  now  in  the  Congo 
country,  whither  he  went  nearly  a  year  ago  as  a 
worker  in  the  Wm.  Taylor  mission.  He  was,  last 
fall,  on  the  swollen  river  in  a  boat  with  seven  na- 
tives when  the  current  upset  their  boat.  Bro.  Ma- 
thews had  nearly  sunk  for  the  last  time,  when  by  a 
desperate  effort  he  reached  the  capsized  boat  and 
clung  to  it  until  rescued  with  all  but  one  of  the 
natives. 

— Rev.  Dr.  Alfred  S.  Patton,  editor  and  owner  of 
the  Baptist  Weekly  of  New  York,  died  last  Thurs- 
day at-  the  residence  of  his  son-in-law  in  Brooklyn. 
In  1872  he  purchased  the  American  Baptist,  then  ed- 
ited by  Dr.  Nathan  Brown,  who  returned  to  the  mis- 
sion work  in  Japan,  and  there  died  two  years  ago. 
The  Baptist  was  a  pronounced  anti-slavery  paper 
before  the  fall  of  the  slave  system,  and  as  earnestly 
warned  against  the  lodge.  Dr.  Patton  changed  the 
name  of  the  paper  and  dropped  its  unpopular 
reform  principles  into  the  East  River.  He  was  act- 
ive as  a  pastor  until  he  became  editor,  and  was  the 
author  of  several  religious  works. 


OUR  NEW  YORK   LETTER. 


ROUTES  AND  RATES  TO  NEW  ORLEANS. 


This  is  a  question  that  interests  all  our  readers; 
especially  those  purposing  to  attend  the  seventeenth 
annual  convention  of  the  N.  C.  A.,  Feb.  17th  to  20th 
next.  There  are  different  routes,  of  course,  from 
Chicago,  and  each  has  its  special  attractions  for  in- 
dividuals desiring  to  inspect  certain  localities  or 
visit  points  or  places  for  personal  reasons.  I  have 
made  inquiry  of  agents  and  tourists  familiar  with 
routes  and  accommodations,  and  the  result  of  my 
investigation  is  indicated  by  the  fact  that  I  have  ar- 
ranged for  Bro.  Chittendon  and  Mrs.  Stoddard  and 
myself  to  go  by  the  direct  line  of  the  Illinois  Cen- 
tral railroad.  This  line  runs  through  trains  of 
coaches  and  Pullman  sleepers,  and  offers  first  class 
accommodations  in  every  respect.  Leaving  Chicago 
at  8:30  p.  M.,  the  train  reaches  Cairo  at  9:30  next 
morning.  Leaving  Cairo  at  10  a.  m  ,  the  train  ar- 
rives at  Durant,  Miss.,  11:09  p.  m.  of  the  same  day, 
and  New  Orleans  at  8:20  the  next  morning,  making 
the  trip  in  less  than  thirty-six  hours.  The  fare  for 
the  round  trip  is  $30;  tickets  good  to  return  until 
June  1st  next.  Double  berth  in  Pullman  Buffet 
Sleepers  $6,  or  $12  for  a  section.  Parties  can  stop 
over  on  these  tickets  south  of  Cairo  ten  days  in 
either  direction.  J.  P.  Stoddard, 

Gen'l.  Ag't.*N.   V.  A. 


Latkst  and  Best  Rate  to  New  Orleans. — Round 
trip  tickets  will  be  on  sale  at  $25  from  Feb.  6th  to  12th 
next,  good  to  return  until  March  lat  next.  This  will 
make  the  fare  less  than  1 1  cent  per  mile  from  Chicago  to 
New  Orleans  via  Illinois  Central  Railroad.  This  reduc- 
tion from  the  usual  rate  will  probably  be  general  through- 
out the  country  at  that  date,  but  we  are  not  able  to  speak 
positively  at  present.  Look  for  further  notice  hereafter, 
or  make  inquiries  of  railway  agents. 


Brooklyn,  Jan.  11,  1888. 
Editor  Christian  Cynosure: — An  article  in  the 
November  number,   1887,  of  the  Methodist  Review, 
by  Rev.  Richard  Wheatly,  D.  D.,  Cornwall,  N.  Y., 
on  "The  Alleged  Decay  of  the  Family,"   contains 
some  startling  facts.     Referring  to  "the  shamefully 
criminal  practice  of  pre-natal  infanticide,"  he  says: 
"The  committee  of  a  Western  State  Board  of  Health 
avows  the  conviction  'that  in  the  United  States  the 
number  of  women  who  die  from  its  immediate  effects 
is  not  less  than  six  thousand  per  annum.'     Gynecol- 
ogists affirm  that  it  is  not  maternity  which  sends  to 
them  the  largest  number  of  patients,  but  the  need- 
less refusal  of  its  responsibilities."     "In  Ohio  care- 
ful medical  investigation  has  led  to  the  conclusion 
that  prenatal  infanticide  annually  robs  the  family 
of  one-third  its  legitimate  increment.     In  the  North- 
ern States  it  is  said  to  be  more  prevalent  than  in 
Buddhist  China.    The  murder  of  adults  or  of  chil- 
dren may  be  comparatively  infrequent,  but  the  All- 
seeing  alone  knows  to  what  extent  the  destruction 
of  unborn  life  has  gone  and  is  going."     As  to  "the 
facility  and  frequency  with  which  marriage  bonds 
are  dissolved,"  he  says:  "In  1878  Connecticut  grant- 
ed   one  divorce    to    every  10.4    marriages;    Ver- 
mont, 1  to  14;  Massachusetts,  1  to  21.4;  New  Hamp- 
shire, 1  to  10.9;  Rhode  Island,  in  1882,  1  to  11; 
Maine,  in  1880,  1  to  10;  Ohio,  in  1882,  1  to  16.8; 
San  Francisco  did  yet  worse,  and  in  1881  granted  a 
divorce  to  each  5.78  marriages.     Marin  county,  Cal- 
ifornia, bears  the  banner  in  front  of  the  pestilent 
divorce   march,  or  one  divorce  for  every  two  and 
eleven-hundreths  marriages.     Legal  divorces  appear 
to  have  doubled  in  proportion  to  marriages  or  pop- 
ulation within  the  last  thirty  years."     In  some  New 
England  manufacturing  towns  "swapping  wives"  is 
not  uncommon.  Many  men  "maintain  two  families." 
He  quotes  this  passage  from  Judge  Noah  Davis: 
''A.  is  married  in  New  York,  where  he  has  resided 
for  years  and  has  a  family,  and  is  the  owner  of  real 
and  other  estate.   He  desires  divorce  and  goes  to  In- 
diana where   the  thing  is  cheap  and  easy.      Upon 
complying  with  some  local  rule,  and  with  no  actual 
notice  to  his  wife,  he  gets  a  decree  of  divorce,  and 
presently  is  married  in  that  State  to  another  wife, 
TFho  brings  him  other  children.     He  again  acquires 
new  estates;  but  tiring  of  his  second  wife  he  deserts 
her  and  goes  to  California,  where  in  a  brief  space 
he  is  again  divorced,  and  then  marries  again,  form- 
ing a  new  family  and  acquiring  new  real  and  per- 
sonal estates.  In  a  few  years  his  fickle  taste  changes 
again,  and  he  returns  to  New  York,  where  he  finds 
his  first  wife  has  obtained  a  valid  divorce  for  his 
adulterous  marriage  in  Indiana,  which  sets  her  free 
and  forbids  his  marrying  again  during  her  life  time. 
He  then  slips  into  an  Eastern  State,  takes  a  new 
residence,   acquires   real  property  there,  and  after 
a  period  gets  judicially  freed  from  his  California 
bonds.     He  returns  to  New  York,  takes  some  new 
affinity,  crosses  the  New  Jersey  line,  and  in  an  hour 
is  back  again  in  New  York,  enjoying  so  much  of 
his  estate  as  the  courts  have  not  adjudged  to  his 
first  wife,  and  gives  new  children  to  the  world .... 
He  dies  intestate."     What  is  the  legal  standing  of 
these  children?     Are  they  illegitimate?     What  of 
his  wives?     These  facts  are  a  disgrace  to  our  Chris- 
tian civilization,  and  they  cry  to  heaven  for  ven- 
geance.    God  will  surely  visit  such  a  nation  as  this. 
Last  Sabbath  evening  I  preached  in  the  Reed  Av- 
enue Presbyterian  church.  Rev.  A.  Bridges,  pastor. 
This  congregation    numbers    350    members.     The 
house  was  filled,  and  they  drank  in  National  Reform 
with  a  relish.      An  elder  said  to  me,  "All  that  is 
necessary  is  to  get  those  facts  before  the  people.    I 
wish  we  had  a  large  number  of  men  in  the  field  do- 
ing this  work." 

On  Monday  afternoon  I  heard  Dr.  Cuyler  deliver 
a  lecture  in  Union  Theological  Seminary  on  Revi- 
vals. He  pronounced  it  God's  work.  It  comes  not 
by  the  will  of  man.  Astronomers  can  tell  when  an 
eclipse  will  occur,  but  no  one  can  predict  a  revival. 
God's  sovereignty  alone  determines  its  advent  It 
consists  in  the  outpouring  of  the  Holy  Spirit.  The 
day  of  Pentecost;  the  Reformation  in  Germany  in 
the  16th  century;  the  preaching  of  Livingston  at 


could  give  for  a  revival,  was  prayer,  plain  preach- 
ing, and  personal  effort  for  souls.  He  had  nothing 
to  say  against  the  noble  work  done  by  the  evangel- 
ists; but  he  was  sure  each  pastor  should  do  his  own 
evangelistic  work.  These  evangelists  have  no  mo- 
nopoly of  the  Holy  Spirit  "When  the  day  comes 
that  pastors  must  await  the  advent  of  an  evangel- 
ist for  a  revival,  we  may  as  well  vacate  our  pulpits, 
close  up  our  theological  seminaries,  and  call  the 
work  a  failure.  Spurgeon  has  a  continual  revival. 
Young  men,  do  not  seek  an  easy  place. 

Four  accidents  have  occurred  on  the  elevated 
roads  in  the  past  month.  The  Tribune  this  morning 
thinks  we  have  had  enough.  No  more  privileges 
should  be  granted  to  build  them.  Underground 
roads  should  l)e  demanded.  Perhaps  God  is  frown- 
ing upon  their  Sabbath  desecration. 

J.  M.  Fostkr. 


TEE  N.  C.  A.  NATIONAL  CONVENTION. 


OFFICIAL   CALL. 


The  Seventeenth  Convention  of  the  National  Chris- 
tian Association  is  hereby  called  to  meet  in  the  Central 
Congregationalist  church  in  the  city  of  New  Orleans, 
Louisiana,  at  7:30  p.  m  ,  February  17lh,  1888.  An  inter- 
esting programme  has  been  arranged,  able  speakers  have 
been  secured,  and  three  sessions  will  be  held  daily,  clos- 
ing with  the  evening  of  Feb.  20  th.  Seats  are  free  and 
the  public  are  most  cordially  invited  to  attend. 

Rev.  J.  S  McCuLLOCH,  D.D.,  Pres. 

Rev.  Lewis  Johnston,  Sec'y. 


PROGRAM  FOR  NEW  ORLEANS. 


Topics  for  discussion  at  the  New  Orleans  Conven- 
tion, Feb.  17th  to  20th  next.are  given  below.  Time 
will  be  given  for  brief  volunteer  speeches  after  the 
prepared  address  on  each  topic  at  the  day  sesions. 
Friends  will  please  note  carefully  the  topics  and 
come  prepared  to  make  brief,  pithy  remarks. 

Why  I  Joined  and  why  I  Left  the  Lodge,  Elder  R  N . 
Countee . 

Origin  and  Symbolism  of  Freemasonry,  Elder  J.  F. 
Browne. 

How  Shall  we  Elucate  our  Boys  aad  Girls  for  the 
Practical  Duties  of  Life,  Rev.  L.N.  Stralton,  D.D. 

The  Real  Issue  between  the  Church  and  the  Lodge. 
Rev.  Wm.  Johnston,  D.D. 

Bible  Rsading  on  True  and  False  Worship,  Pres.  J. 
Blanchard. 

Christ  in  Civil  Government  and  the  Secret  Empire, 
Rev.  Geo.  W.  Elliott. 

Secrecy  as  a  Basis  of  Organization  and  an  Element  of 
Education  and  Reform  among  the  Common  People,  Rev.  • 
Byron  Gunner. 

The  Secret  Lodge  as  an  Agency  for  Securing  Prohibi- 
tion, Practical  Benevolence  and  Labor  Reform,  Rev.  A. 
J.  Chittenden. 

Past,  Present  and  Future  of  the  Secret  Empire  and  its 
Effect  upon  Morals,  Education  and  Civil  Government, 
Pres.  J.  Blanchard. 


PROGRAM  FOR  THE  ANNUAL  MEETING 


OF    THE    DU    PAGE    COUNTY    CHRISTIAN   ASSOCIATION   OP- 
POSED TO  SECRET   SOCIETIES,  FRIDAY,  JAN.  27,  1888. 

10:30  A.  M. — Devotional  exercises  conducted  by  Rev. 
A.  Thompson,  followed  by  an  address  of  welcome. 
11  A.  M. — Business  session. 
1:30  r.  M. — Devotional  exercises. 

2  p.  M. — Prof.C.  M.  Lowe,  on  the  work  of  the  Nation- 
al Christian  Association  in  the  South. 

3  p.  M. — W.  L.  Enlow,  on  the  Sous  of  Veterans. 

4  p.  M. — E.  Wjlie,  on  the  Rejection  of  Christ  by  tho 
Masonic  Order. 

7  p.  M. — Devotional  exercises. 

7:30  p.  M — Address  in  German  by  Rev.  R.  Menk. 

8:15  p.  M. — Address  by  Pres.  C.  A  Blanchard. 

Addresses  and  papers  are  to  be  followed  by  diecussioBS 
in  which  all  are  invited  to  participate.  Members  of  se 
cret  orders  are  specially  requested  to  attend. 


the  kirk  of  Shotts  when  500  were  converted;  the 
preaching  of  Edwards  at  Endfield,  Conn.,  "Sinners 
in  the  hands  of  an  angry  God;"  the  preaching  of 
Whitefield  in  Boston  in  1740;  the  revival  of  1858, 
when  Dr.  Beecher  preached  a  powerful  sermon,  and 
when  he  came  down  from  the  pulpit  some  one  asked 
him  how  long  it  took  him  to  write  that  discourse, 
and  he  replied,  "for  years;"  the  searching,  pun- 
gent preaching  of  Finney,  stirring  men's  hearts  as 
the  plough  turns  up  the  subsoil;  the  melting,  win- 
ning talks  of  Moody,  were  referred  to  as  illustra- 
tions. Each  of  these  men  was  himself.  Kvery  one 
differed  from  every  other.    The  only  prescription  he 


— The  date  of  the  annual  meeting  of  the  National 
Reform  Association  has  been  determined,  April  24 
to  2G.  At  its  meeting  in  September  last  the  Execu- 
tion Committee  decided  upon  Philadelphia  as  the 
place.  The  following  speakers  have  been  sccureil: 
Rev.  Herrick  Johnson,  D.  D.,  "Marriage  and  Di- 
vorce, or  Laws  Affecting  the  Family;"  "Miss  Fran- 
ces E.  Willard,  "Woman's  Work  for  Christ;"  Rev. 
O.  P.  Fitzgerald,  D.  D.,  "The  Nation  as  a  Sabbath- 
breaker."  Joseph  Cook  and  President  Julius  H. 
Seelye  it  is  hoped  will  be  present;  ex-Justice  Strong 
also  contemplates  the  preparation  of  a  paper,  should 
his  health  permit  "These  arrangements  are  an- 
nounced at  this  early  day,"  says  the  Christian  Na- 
tion, "in  order  to  awaken  a  widespread  and  mark- 
ed interest  in  the  proposed  convention,  as  the  com- 
mittee hope  to  provide  a  program  that  will  secure 
the  attendance  of  large  audiences  and  secure  a 
National  bearing." 


10 


THE  CHBJBTIAN  CYNOQJmE, 


January  19, 1888 


The  Home. 


THE  8HEPHERD  FOR  HIS  FLOCK  IB  D71NQ. 

fFrom  the  German  of  Benjamin  Schmolke.  | 
The  Shepherd  lor  his  flock  is  dying ; 

My  Lord  is  going  down  to  death ; 
For  them  the  powers  of  hell  defying, 

And  sighing  out  his  mortal  breath : 
He's  nailed  there  in  the  sinner's  place; 
Such  love  divine,  such  matchless  grace ! 

His  life  to  save  his  sheep  he's  giving, 
And  tasting  death  there  for  them  all; 

How  patient  he,  and  how  forgiving  1 
O  heart,  but  hear  his  piercing  call  1 

'Tis  finished  now,  the  offering's  made. 

Thy  sins,  thy  burden,  on  him  laid. 

The  Shepherd  dies  for  those  who  hate  him. 
For  those  who  buffet  and  despise, 

Who,  as  he  hangs  there,  loud  berate  him, 
And  fling  at  him  their  mocking  cries; 

His  life  he  pours  out  for  his  foes , 

To  save  them  from  eternal  woes. 

For  all  who  die  my  Lord  is  dying. 

It  is  the  travail  of  his  soul ; 
To  heal  Death's  hurt  his  blood  applying. 

To  make  the  bitten  sinner  whole ; 
And  when  the  lost  ones  to  him  come. 
He  bears  them  on  his  shoulders  home. 

He  dies  there,  God's  propitiation, 
He  dies  to  pay  man's  hopeless  debt. 

To  purchase  for  him  full  salvation ; 
Such  love  as  his  must  win  us  yet ! 

His  blood  atoning  and  his  Cross— 

For  these  all  else  must  be  as  dross. 

My  Shepherd  dies  1    1  must  be  living ; 

I  die  in  him,  he  lives  in  me ; 
His  death  eternal  life  me  giving ; 

I  live,  I  die,  O  Lord,  in  thee ; 
I  trust  in  thy  atoning  blood, 
O  dying  shepherd,  named  the  Good ! 

— Dr.  J .  E.  Marikin  in  Christian  Advooate. 


OUB  LORD'S  MIRACLES  OF  HEALING. 


Undoubtedly,   Christ's  miracles  of  cure  have  a 
two-fold  significance — practical  and  prophetic.  They 
effect  the  present  recovery  of  the  body,  and  they 
also  predict  the   future  redemption  of  the  body. 
Indeed,  a  miracle  under  Christ's  hand  is  generally 
but  a  parable  writ  large — a  prophecy  exhibited  in 
illuminated  text.     We  know,  from  many  Scriptures, 
that  a  wonderful  thing  is  to  be  wrought  upon  these 
bodies  of  ours   at   the  second  coming    of  Christ. 
They  are  to  be  transfigured  into  the  likeness  of  his 
glorified  body.   Happily,  the  phrase,  "our  vile  body," 
has  been  eliminated  from  our  revised  Scriptures. 
What  God  has  cleansed,  and  consecrated  to  be  the 
"temple  of  the  Holy   Ghost"  ought  not  to  be  called 
vile,  surely;  and  we  are  grateful  that  a  more  faith- 
ful rendering  of  the  original  enables  us  to  read  now, 
"Who  shall  fashion  anew  the  body  of  our  humilia- 
tion, that  it  may  be  conformed  to  the  body  of  his 
glory"  (Phil.  3:21).  This  transformation  is  predicted 
expressly  in  connection  with  our  Lord's  return  from 
glory.      In  another  Scripture,  the  agent  by  whom 
this  change  is  to  be  wrought  is  distinctly  named: 
"But  if  the  Spirit  of  him  that  raised  up  Jesus  from 
the  dead  dwelleth  in  you,  he  that  raised  up  Christ 
Jesus  from  the  dead  shall  quicken  also  your  mortal 
bodies  through  his  Spirit  that  dwelleth  in  you."   As 
Jesus,  during  his  earthly  ministry,  wrought  his  mir- 
acles "by  the  Spirit  of  God"  (Matt.  12:  28),  so  will 
he  effect  this  great  consummating  event  of  his  min- 
istry— the  resurrection  of  the  body — by  the  same 
agency. 

Now  let  us  link  these  two  parts  of  our  Lord's  re- 
demption together — that  of  healing  and  that  of  res- 
urrection— and  observe  their  relations.     Every  time 
Christ  restored  a  sick  person  he  gave  an  enacted 
prediction  of  the   final    redemption    of  the  body. 
Healing  is   partial  resurrection;  it  is  a  pulse-beat 
from  the  heart  of  Him  who  is  the  "resurrection  and 
the  life,"  giving  us  a  fore-taste  of  our  full  recovery 
at  his  appearing  and  kingdom.     Hence,  observe  that 
significant  phrase  in  Paul's  saying  about  the  groan 
ing  and  travailing  creation  (Rom.  8:  22),  "And  not 
only  so,  but  we  ourselves  also,  which  have  the  first- 
fruits  of  the  Spirit,  even  we  ourselves  groan  within 
ourselves,  waiting  for  our  adoption,  to  wit,  the  adop- 
tion of  our  body."    He  that  has  the  first-fruits  only 
longs  the  more  intensely  for  the  harvest.     And  this 
is  yet  to  come.    God's  acre  has  been  sown  thick  and 
deep  with  resurrection  seed.    Each  body  in-dwelt  by 
the  Holy  Spirit  contains  the  gem  of  immortality; 
and  when  the  time  comes  for  ita  re-animation,  it  will 
spring  forth,  and  He  that  raised  up  Christ  from  the 
dead  shall  (juicken  our  mortal  bodies  by  his  Spirit 
that  dwelleth  in  us.      But  even  now  we  "have  the 
first-fruits  of  the  Spirit."     Every  rflnewal  of  our  in- 


ward man,  every  quickening  of  our  mortal  bodies 
by  the  divine  touch,  every  miracle  of  healing  wrought 
by  our  blessed  Lord,  is  an  earnest  of  our  inherit- 
ance, a  pledge  of  the  final  redemption  of  our  bodies. 
"Now  he  that  has  wrought  us  for  the  selfsame  thing 
is  God,  who  hath  given  unto  us  the  earnest  of  the 
Spirit." 

Let  us  recall  the  striking  words  in  the  Epistle  to 
the  Hebrews,  in  which  Christians  are  spoken  of  as 
those  "who  have  tasted  the  good  Word  of  God,  and 
the  powers  of  the  age  to  come."     The  age  to  come 
is  the  resurrection  age,  the  time  of  the  redemption 
of  the  body.      We  do  not  know  the  powers  of  that 
age  simply  by  prediction  and  promise,  but  also  by 
experience.      Every  miracle  is  a  fore-taste  thereof, 
a  sign  of  its  universal  healing  and  restitution.    The 
drift-wood  and  floating  vegetation  which   met  the 
eye  of  Columbus,  as  he  was  one  day  keeping  look- 
out upon  his  ship,  assured  him  of  his  proximity  to 
the  new  world  which  he  was  seeking.     His  study  of 
geography  had  convinced  him  of  the  existence  of 
that  world.    But  now  he  tasted  its  powers;  he  saw 
and  handled  its  first-fruit.  So  it  is  with  us  voyagers 
to  the  world  to  come,  the  millennial  age,  and  "time 
of  restitution  of  all  things."      As  those  who  have 
known  and  credited  our  Lord's  miracles  while  on 
earth,  or  have  experienced  the  wonders  of  recovery 
which  he  has  wrought  as  he  still  stretches  out  his 
hand  to  heal,  we  have  tasted  the  powers  of  the  com- 
ing age.     And  it  is  very  striking  to  observe  how  in- 
variably our  Lord  joins  the  commandment  to  heal 
the  sick,  and  cast  out  devils,  with  the  commission 
to  preach  the  kingdom.     "Jesus  went  about  preach- 
ing the  Gospel  of  the  kingdom,  and  healing  all  man- 
ner of  sickness  and   all  manner  of  disease  amongst 
the  people.'       "And  as  ye  go,  preach,  saying.  The 
kingdom   of  heaven  is   at  hand.      Heal  the  sick, 
cleanse  the  lepers,  raise  the  dead,  cast  out  devils." 
Healing  and  resurrecting  and  the  casting  out  of  de- 
mons were  a  kind  of  first-fruits  of  the  kingdom,  to 
be  presented  along  with  its  announcement.     As,  to 
use  a  familiar  illustration,   the  commercial  traveler 
carries  samples  of  his  goods  as  he  goes  forth  solicit- 
ing trade,  the  Lord  would  have  his  messengers  carry 
specimens  and  tokens  of  the  kingdom  in  their  hands 
as  they    went  forth  to   announce    his    approach. 
Thomas  Erskine  says  very   truly,   therefore,   that 
"Jesus,  while  on  earth,  healed  the  sick  and  raised 
the  dead,  not  merely  to  typify  a  spiritual  healing 
and  quickening,  but  to  prove  that  he  was  indeed  the 
promised  Deliverer  by  destroying  the  works  of  the 
devil,  and  also  to  give  a  fore-taste  and  a  shadow  of 
the  ultimate  effects  of  his  redemption   upon  the 
whole  man,  body  and  soul.     And  thus  we  find  in 
the  New  Testament  that  the  healing  of  the  sick  and 
the  preaching  of  the  Gospel  of  the  kingdom  are  al- 
ways cojoined,  and  are  spoken  of  as  though  they 
meant  the  same  thing." 

Miracles  of  healing,  then,  are  an  answer  to  man's 
universal  longing  for  restoration  from  the  conse- 
quences of  the  fail, — sin,  sickness,  and  death. 
Pledges  and  foretokens  they  are  to  our  wounded  and 
suffering  humanity  that  at  his  coming  and  kingdom 
Christ  will  swallow  up  death  in  victory.  And  not 
in  humanity,  only;  even  dumb,  inanimate  nature, 
suffering  with  man  the  wounds  of  the  fall,  is  to  be 
made  glad  by  these  coming  tokens  of  deliverance. 
Goethe  beautifully  says:  "Often  have  I  had  the  sen- 
sation as  if  nature,  in  wailing  sadness,  entreated 
something  of  me,  so  that  not  to  understand  what 
she  longed  for  cut  me  to  the  heart."  But  we  under- 
stand what  she  longs  for.  "For  we  know  that  the 
whole  creation  groaneth  and  travaileth  together  in 

pain  until  now, waiting  for  our  adoption,  to  wit, 

the  redemption  of  our  body."  And  if  we  have  be- 
lieved the  miracles  of  our  Lord,  wrought  in  the  days 
of  his  flesh,  or  if  we  have  experienced  his  miracles 
wrought  in  our  own  flesh,  we  are  to  go  forth  preach- 
ing tbe  kingdom,  and  bearing  those  grapes  of  Eschol 
which  wo  have  obtained  as  an  antepast  of  that  king- 
dom, that  we  may  show  what  a  goodly  land  that  is 
where  "the  inhabitants  shall  no  more  say,  I  am  sick." 
— Dr.  A.  J.   Gordon,  in  iS.  iS.  Times. 


by  the  hand,  and  she  arose.  Her  recovery  was  in- 
stantaneous and  complete,  and  the  report  of  it  pro- 
duced a  profound  sensation,  and  many  came  from 
great  distances,  to  see  her.  Mr.  Erskine  visited  the 
house,  and  made  careful  and  prolonged  inquiry 
into  the  facts,  and  put  on  record  his  conviction  of 
the  genuineness  of  the  miracle." — Ministry  of  Heal- 
ing, Dr.  Gordon. 


A  CHILD'S  TRUST— A  TRUE  STORY. 


"In  March,  1830,  in  the  town  of  Port  Glasgow, 
on  the  Clyde,  lived  a  family  of  MacDonalds,  twin 
brothers,  James  and  George,  with  their  sisters. 
One  of  the  sisters,  Margaret,  of  saintly  life,  lay  very 
ill,  and  apparently  nigh  to  death.  She  had  received 
a  remarkable  )):ipti8m  of  the  Spirit  on  her  sick  bed, 
and  had  been  praying  for  her  brothers,  that  they 
might  be  anointed  in  like  manner.  One  day,  when 
James  was  standing  by,  and  she  was  interceding 
that  he  might  at  that  time  be  endowed  with  the  pow- 
er of  the  Holy  Ghost,  the  Spirit  came  upon  him  with 
marvellous  manifeatations.  His  whole  countenance 
was  lighted  up,  and  with  a  stop  and  manner  of  most 
indescribable  majesty,  he  walked  up  to  Margaret's 
bedside  and  addressed  her  in  these  words:  "Arise, 
and  stand  upright."   He  repeated  the  words,  took  her 


"Mother  dear,  what  is  the  matter?"  and  Ada 
looked  up  from  the  spelling  book  over  which  she 
was  bending.  "Mamma,  is  breakfast  ready,  and  oh! 
isn't  there  coffee  to-day?"  and  Edith's  beaming  face 
was  clouded  and  her  voice  pettish. 

"Hush!  Edith,  mamma  looks  troubled  this  morn- 
ing," and  Ada  drew  her  sister  to  one  side,  whisper- 
ing, "don't  take  any  notice  of  the  breakfast,  I  am 
afraid  the  rent  is  wrong  again."  "Do  you  think  she 
was  not  paid  for  all  that  sewing  last  week,  and  she 
worked  so  hard;  it  is  real  mean  then."  And  she 
stamped  her  little  foot.  "When  I  am  grown  up  I 
will  always  pay  right  off  and  then  the  poor  mother 
can  have  coffee  and  everything  else  for  her  child- 
ren." 

"My  darling,  come,  breakfast  is  ready,"  and  Mrs. 
Lynch  sat  down  to  the  table. 

"Not  much  of  a  breakfast,"  murmured  Edith, 
"only  porridge  and  bread  and  butter." 

"Oh!  Edith,  hush,"  and  poor  Ada  looked  wistfully 
at  her  mother,  who,  nevertheless,  overheard.  "I  am 
very  sorry,  Edith  dear,  but  I  am  behind  with  the 
rent  and  I  must  be  careful." 

"Didn't  Mrs.  Edwards  pay  you,  mamma?" 
"No,  dear." 

"The  mean  old  thing,"  cried  Edith. 
"Hush,  hush,  my  child,   she  does  not  probably 
know  that  I  depended  on  it  for  my  rent,  and  Ada, 
will  you  go  around  there  after  school  and  ask  for  it 
for  me?" 

"Why  yes,  mamma,  only  don't  worry.  I  guesa  I 
can  get  it." 

Ada  was  late  for  dinner  and  she  came  in  slowly, 
rather  differently  from  her  usual  bounding  step. 
"Did  you  see  Mrs.  Edwards?" 
"Oh  mamma,"  and  the  eyes  filled,  "she  went  to 
Atlantic  City  for  a  week." 

She  heard  the  low  murmur,  "Father  of  the  father- 
less, wilt  thou  help  us  now?" 

"Can't  I  do  something  to  help?"  the  child  asked, 
springing  to  her  mother's  side  and  throwing  her 
arms  around  her. 

'•No,  my  blessing,  only  help  me  to  pray  for  help." 
"Is  it  so  very  bad  this  time?" 
"I  am  behind  five  dollars,  just  the  amount  of  that 
sewing,  and  I  depended  on  it.  Mr.  Jones,  the  agent, 
told  me  last  month  that  he  could  get  higher  rent  for 
this  house,  and  if  I  was  not  prompt  in  paying,  he 
would  turn  us  out.  But  Ada,  I  ought  not  to  trouble 
your  child's  mind  with  cares  like  these!" 

"If  you  are  worried,  I  am  too,  but  I  thought  that 
we  were  getting  on  so  nicely  now." 

"So  we  were  until  Edith  had  the  measles,  then  the 
medicines  cost  a  good  deal,  and  I  could  take  no 
work  in  on  account  of  infection.  Mrs.  Martin  could 
not  wait  for  me,  and  gave  her  work  to  some  one 
else;  you  know  she  was  going  to  Europe.  Mrs. 
Spring  promised  some,  but  she  changed  her  mind 
about  having  it  done  now,  so  it  has  been  so  hard  to 
manage." 

"Mamma,  yesterday  our  lesson  was  Elijah  and 
the  ravens,  and  our  teacher  said  that  God  would  al- 
ways hear  and  deliver  anyone  who  cried  to  him  for 
help.  If  we  pray  a  great  deal  won't  he  help  you 
to  pay  the  rent?" 

"My  child,  we  will;  I  ought  not  to  doubt  Him  who, 
ever  since  your  dear  father's  death,  has  always  tak- 
en care  of  us.     We  will  pray  and  trust." 

Tuesday  came,  and  as  Ada  kissed  her  mother  be- 
fore going  to  school,  she  whispered,  I  am  praying, 
mamma." 

Sho  was  clasped  in  her  arms,  and  as  a  tear  drop- 
ped on  her  bright  hair,  the  silent  prayer  went  up, 
"Hear,  dear  Lord,  this  thy  little  one." 

Mrs.  Barron  was  in  her  handsome  bed  room  leis- 
urely preparing  for  bed,  her  mind,  in  the  meantime, 
reviewing  the  incidents  of  the  day,  its  duties,  pleas- 
ures, and  tlffc  opportunities  she  had  had  for  kind 
words  and  cheering  sympathy;  and  she  never 
neglected  such  opportunities.  Many  a  heart  had 
reason  to  bless  her  that  night  for  kindness  shown 
and  substantial  help  given.  Suddenly  the  thought 
flashed  through  her  mind,  "I  have  not  heard  of  Mrs. 
Lynch  lately,  and  those  two  dear  little  children," 
And  the  remembrance  of  sweet  little  Ada,  and  im- 
petuous bright  Edith,  for  one  mstant  recalled  her 
childless  home  with  a  pang.  "Poor  thing,  she  did 
have  a  struggle,  but  I  thought  it  was  smoother 
waters  lately.     I  will  go  and  see  her  sometime  when 


\-' 


January  19,  1888 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


11 


I  am  in  that  part  of  the  city,"  and  picking  up  a  little 
book  of  devotional  reading,  she  opened  it  where  her 
place  was  marked,  and  tried  to  concentrate  her 
thoughts.  But  strangely,  Mrs.  Lynch's  name  seem- 
ed to  dance  over  its  pages.  "I  wonder  why  I  am 
thinking  of  her.  Mrs.  King  sees  her  constantly, 
and  I  met  her  to-day,  but  she  said  nothing  about 
her;  but  I  may  as  well  stop  reading  and  go  to  bed." 
After  a  semi-dozing  state,  in  which  the  faces  of 
the  widow  and  her  two  little  girls  mingled  them- 
selves with  other  shapes  and  fancies,  she  fell  asleep, 
to  be  confronted  by  the  first  waking  thought,  "I  do 
wonder  how  Mrs.  Lynch  is  getting  on?  This  is  ab- 
surd for  poor,  innocent  Mrs.  Lynch  to  haunt  me  this 
way.  I  don't  suppose  she  has  bestowed  a  single 
thought  on  me  this  morning." 

Breakfast  over  in  the  sunny,  cheerful  room, where 
birds  sang  and  flowers  exhaled  their  fragrance,  and 
the  latter  were  often  made  little  messengers  of  mer- 
cy to  brighten  some  sick-room, — then  care  for  the 
family  needs  in  the  ordering  of  stores — and  Mrs. 
Barron  sat  down  to  her  morning  employment,  some 
artistic  work,  in  which  she  was  interested  just  then, 
feeling  that  her  duties  done  she  might  rest  in  com- 
fort. It  was  Tuesday  morning,  and  little  Ada  had 
gone  to  school  as  we  know,  after  trying  to  cheer  up 
her  anxious  mother.  But  Mrs.  Barron  knew  noth- 
ing of  this;  she  only  knew  that  the  troublesome 
question  had  arisen  again.  Mrs.  Lynch's  name 
struck  with  unerring  force  her  mental  consciousness. 
She  became  uneasy,  tried  to  abstract  her  thoughts, 
planned  engagements  for  herself  and  others,  but  in 
vain.  At  last  conscience  awoke,  "Didn't  this  mean 
something?  Is  there  not  work  to  be  done?"  She 
dropped  her  work,  "I  am  ready,  dear  Lord,  what  wilt 
thou  have  me  to  do?"  Then  rising,  she  went  to  her 
room,  changed  her  house-dress  for  a  street-dress, 
and  looking  to  her  pocket-book  that  it  was  well  sup- 
plied, she  started  on  her  errand  of  mercy.  A  long 
ride  in  the  street  cars  brought  her  to  her  desired 
neighborhood,  and  her  ring  was  answered  by  the 
lady  herself.  To  her  kind  inquiry,  "Are  you  in  any 
trouble  or  anxiety,  Mrs.  Lynch?  you  haunted  my 
thoughts  BO  last  evening  and  to-day  that  I  was  im- 
pelled to  come  and  see  you,"  the  weary  heart  of  the 
widow  burst  all  the  bounds  of  self-control  fixed  up- 
on it.  "My  God  has  sent  his  angel,"  she  exclaimed, 
"Mrs.  Barron,  I  have  been  praying  in  agony  for 
three  days  and  nights  for  some  one  to  help  me,  and 
God  has  sent  you." 

Tenderly  supporting  the  weeping  woman  into  the 
little  parlor,  Mrs.  Barron  asked  what  was  the  mat- 
ter. "1  thought  that  lately  your  troubles  were  over?" 
"They  did  seem  so  until  Edith's  8ickne8s,but  that 
threw  me  back;  and  to-day  at  twelve  o'clock,  Mr. 
Jones,  the  agent,  threatens  to  put  my  furniture  out 
of  the  house  if  I  have  not  all  the  rent,  and  my 
children  and  I  will  have  no  place  to  put  our  heads." 
Mrs.  King,  who  was  a  kind  friend  of  Mrs.  Lynch, 
came  in.  Mrs.  Barron  was  often  associated  with 
her  in  good  woiks.  "I  am  so  glad  to  see  you,"  she 
exclaimed.  "I  could  not  reach  you  in  time,  I  feared, 
and  I  have  been  vainly  trying  to  get  help  for  our 
friend  nearer  home." 

"Mrs.  Lynch,"  said  Mrs.  Barron,  cheerily,  "there 
need  be  no  further  trouble  about  rent.  Where  is 
this  Mr.  Jones'  office?" 

She  went  at  once  to  interview  that  gentleman,  and 
returned  soon.  "You  need  not  fear  now,  Mrs.  Lynch, 
he  was  very  polite  to  me  and  has  promised  to  let 
me  know  the  next  time  there  is  any  difficulty." 

Ada  came  home  from  school  to  find  her  mother 
with  a  peaceful  face  putting  the  dinner  upon  the 
table  and  singing  softly,  "The  Lord  will  provide." 
"Mamma,"  she  cried  joyfully,  "is  it  all  right?" 
"Yes,  darling,  kind  Mrs.  Barron  has  been  here  and 
paid  the  rent,  and  not  only  that,  she  and  Mrs,  King 
lent  me  a  little  sum  to  get  along  with  and  I  am  to 
pay  it  back  at  my  own  time."  "God  did  hear  our 
prayers." 

"We  should  never  doubt  again,  and  Ada,  the 
strange  part  of  it  is,  Mrs.  Barron  said  that  last  night 
and  this  morning  she  could  not  help  thinking  about 
us  so  that  she  felt  obliged  to  come  and  see  if  any- 
thing was  wrong." 

With  an  awe-struck  face  the  child  listened  and 
then  said  simply,  "It  was  God  who  made  her  think 
about  it." — Presbyterian  Journal. 


Temperance. 


A  WARNING    TO  8M0KINO   FATHBR8. 


Apropos  of  your  paragraph,  "A  Crusade  Against 
Tobacco,"  in  Saturday's  issue,  may  I  give  you,  in  as 
few  words  as  possible,  my  recent  experience  with 
tobacco  smoke.  It  may  be  a  warning  to  others.  I 
have  one  child,  a  bright  little  girl  not  yet  two  years 
old;  a  fair-haired,  blue-eyed  pet,  who  was  as  healthy 
as  the  birds  when  she  was  bom.  For  more  than  a 
year  past — ever  since  she  was  old  enough  to  be  less 
in  the  nursery  and  more  with  her  father  and  me — 
she  had  ailed  mysteriously.  I  could  not  say  she 
was  ill  yet  she  was  never  quite  well.  I  was  kept  in 
a  continual  anxiety  about  her.  The  symptoms  were 
entire  absence  of  appetite,  constant  complaints  of 
sickness,  stomach  and  digestion  out  of  order. 

Last  August  I  took  her  away  by  myself  to  a 
country  town,  where  we  stayed  two  months.  After 
the  first  week  she  flourished  like  a  young  bay  tree; 
ate  and  drank  and  played  and  slept  and  laughed, 
and  kept  me  continually  enlarging  her  clothes.  I 
took  her  home — not  so  pretty  and  delicate  in  appear- 
ance, but  rosy  and  robust.  In  one  week  all  the  old 
symptoms  reappeared:  loss  of  appetite,  dark  lines 
under  the  eyes,  listless  ways,  restless  nights.  Some 
one  suggested  that  the  neighborhood  did  not  suit 
her,  and  I  was  cogitating  how  to  take  her  away 
again,  when  she  caught  a  severe  cold  and  was  con- 
fined entirely  to  one  room  for  three  weeks.  She  re- 
covered her  general  health  completely  while  shut  in 
the  nursery.  Appetite,  spirits,  sleep — all  returned. 
It  could  not  be  the  neighborhood.  After  her  cold 
she  joined  us  down  stairs,  as  usual,  two  or  three 
times  a  day.  In  less  than  a  week  sickness,  etc.,  re- 
turned.   I  was  in  despair. 

For  nearly  three  months  I  racked  my  brains  about 
drains,  wall  paper,  milk,  water,  sauce  pans,  and 
everything  in  vain — the  child  slowly  wasted  away. 
In  my  agony  of  mind  I  noticed  one  day  that  far 
from  outgrowing  her  clothes,  as  I  had  expected, 
they  were  too  large  for  her.  The  little  thing  was 
not  eating  enough  to  keep  up  her  strength,  and  we 
could  not  coax  her  to  eat.  Yet  she  was  not  really 
sick;  she  ran  about  and  played  in  a  quiet  way,  and 
seemed  well  enough  to  those  who  had  not  seen  her 
robust. 

Suddenly  my  husband  was  summoned  to  the 
country.  A  week  after  he  had  gone  the  child  began 
to  eat  with  eager  relish.  In  a  fortnight  she  was  her 
own  happy  self,  full  of  riotous,  childish  spirits. 

"Her  father  never  saw  her  like  this,"  I  remarked 
one  evening,  when  she  was  particularly  merry  and 
mad,  and  then  the  truth  flashed  upon  me.  It  was 
his  tobacco  that  upset  her.  He  has  been  away  now 
for  a  month,  and  the  child's  limbs  daily  grew  firmer, 
rounder,  and  she  is  the  merriest,  healthiest  mortal 
possible.  He  always  smoked  after  breakfast  and  after 
lunch  with  her  in  his  room,  neither  of  us  dreaming 
it  was  injurious  to  her. 

But  for  his  providential  absence  this  time,  I  doubt 
whether  it  would  have  occurred  to  me,  and  we  might 
have  lost  our  darling — for  she  was  wasting  sadly. 
It  was  acting  like  slow  poison  upon  her. 

This  is  a  true,  unvarnished  statement,  which  my 
nurse  can  corroborate.  When  shall  we  have  a  par- 
liament that  will  dare  to  tax  our  slow  poisons  to  the 
utmost?  I  enclose  my  card  and  remain  your  obedi- 
ent servant. — E.  H.,  in  Pall  Mall  Gazette, 


In  Parsons,  Kan.,  a  city  of  10,000  inhabitants, 
there  is  not  a  man  whose  business  is  not  known,  nor 
one  who  does  not  pay  his  bills.  This  is  one  result 
of  prohibition.  The  editor  of  a  local  paper  says  : 
"  Before  we  had  prohibition  there  were  twenty-one 
saloons  in  Parsons,  and  I  had  from  one-fourth  of  a 
column  to  a  column  of  police  items  every  day. 
Now  I  can  not  get  together  more  than  half  a  column 
once  in  three  months.  We  have  no  city  debt,  and 
have  a  public  library  building,  paid  for,  which  cost 
$10,000. 


TEB  CWARETTS  MUST  GO. 


The  physicians  hereabout  are  beginning  to  talk 
as  if  the  cigarette  would  "have  to  go."     Thus  Dr. 
Wm.  A.  Hammond  tells  us,  "to  young  boys  it  is 
poison.     Everybody  knows  that  excessive  smoking 
will   stunt  the   growth  of  the   young  and  sow  the 
seeds  of  disease,  which  will  develop  in  later  years. 
Cigarettes  only  drop  the  seeds  a  little  faster.     If  a 
boy  begins  to  smoke  a  great  deal  early  in  life,  you 
may    be  sure  he  will  never  become  an  intelligent 
soul,  as  the  effects  on  his  body  will  by  alliaily  reach 
the  mind;  he   will   lose  energy   and   steadiness  of 
purpose,  and  will  become  a  vacillating,  weak  man, 
unfitted  for  the  struggle  of  life.     Cigarette  smoking 
is  like  whisky  drinking;  the  appetite  for  it  increas- 
es just  in  proportion  as  the  body  becomes  unable  to 
bear  it."     Dr.  Shrady,  who  attended  General  Grant  I 
during  his  last  illness,  says:  "The  cigarette  has  had 
much  the  same  effect  on  the  smoking  habit  in  this 
country  that  'the  growler'  has  had  on  the  drinking 
habit;  by  its  inexpensiveness  and  convenience  for 
short  smokes  it  has  spread  the  habit  among  all  class- 
es, and  comes  within  reach  of  the  bootblack  as  well 
as  the  millionaire.     Cigarette  smoking   induces   a 
condition  of  the  heart  and  digestive  organs  which 
may  cause  death  at  any  time.     The  effect  may  not 
be^noticeablejfor  years  in  a  man,  but  it  is  not  long  ' 


in  making  its  appearance  in  a  boy."  Dr.  Loomis, 
Jacob  Sharp's  physician,  also  says  he  regards  the  cig- 
arette as  a  dangerous  article,  since  its  moderate  use 
generally  degenerates  into  excess. — New  ^York  Cor. 
Phila.  Ledger. 


POISONED  BY  TOBACCO. 


A  case  of  poisoning  by  nicotine  occurred  lately 
in  Paris.  The  victim,  a  man  in  the  prime  of  life, 
had  been  cleaning  his  pipe  with  a  clasp-knife;  with 
this  he' accidentally  cut  one  of  his  fingers,  but  as  the 
wound  was  of  a  trivial  nature  he  paid  no  heed  to  it 
Five  or  six  hours  later,  however,  the  cut  finger 
grew  painful,  and  became  much  swollen;  the  inflam- 
mation rapidly  spread  to  the  arm  and  shoulder,  the 
patient  suffering  such  intense  pain  that  he  was 
obliged  to  betake  himself  to  bed.  Medical  assist- 
ance was  called,  and  ordinary  remedies  proved  in- 
effectual. The  sick  man,  questioned  as  to  the'man- 
ner  in  which  he  cut  himself,  explained  the  use  to 
which  the  pocket-knife  had  been  applied,  adding 
that  he  had  omitted  to  wipe  it  after  cleaning  the 
pipe.  The  case  was  understood,  and  the  doctors  de- 
cided amputation  of  the  arm  to  be  the^only  hope  of 
saving  the  patient's  life,  and  this  was  immediately 
done.  His  life  was  barely  saved.  No  wonder 
smokers  so  often  have  sore  and  poisoned  mouths, 
cancer  of  the  lips,  and  like  troubles. — Selected. 


BEER  DRINKERS  DANGEROUS. 


In  many  minds  there  is  a  mistaken  notion  in  re- 
lation to  the  effects  of  beer  on  the  human  system. 
Because  those  who  use  it  largely  often  become  fleshy, 
and  apparently  healthy,  the  conclusion  is  reached 
that  its  use  is  wholesome.  The  Scientific  Ameri- 
can, a  high  authority,  thus  expresses  itself  in  rela- 
tion to  the  matter : 

"For  some  years  a  decided  inclination  has  been 
apparent  all  over  the  country  to  give  up  the  use  of 
whisky  and  other  strong  alcohols,  using  as  a  substi- 
tute beer  and  other  compounds.  This  is  evidently 
founded  on  the  idea  that  beer  is  not  harmful,  and 
contains  a  large  amount  of  nutriment;  also,  that  bit- 
ters may  have  some  medical  quality  which  will  neu- 
tralize the  alcohol  which  it  conceals. 

"These  theories  are  without  confirmation  in  the  ob- 
servation of  physicians.  The  use  of  beer  is  found 
to  produce  a  species  of  degeneration  of  all 
the  organs;  profound  and  deceptive  fatty  deposits, 
diminished  circulation,  conditions  of  congestion  and 
perversion  of  functional  activities,  local  inflammation 
of  both  the  liver  and  kidneys  being  constantly  pre- 
sent. 

"Intellectually  a  stupor  amounting  almost  to  a 
paralysis  arrests  the  reason,  changing  the  highest 
f'.oulties  into  a  mere  animalism,  sensual,  selfish.slug- 
gish,  varied  only  with  paroxysms  of  anger  that  are 
senseless  and  brutal. 

"It  is  our  observation  that  beer-drinking  in  this 
country  produces  the  very  lowest  kind  of  inebriety, 
closely  allied  to  criminal  insanity.  The  most  dan- 
gerous class  of  rutfians  in  our  city  are  beer  drink- 
ers." 


SNUFF-TAKING  AMONG  TEB  ZULUS. 


On  the  snuff-taking  habit  among  the  Zulus,  Rev. 
Josiah  Taylor,  who  has  been  a  missionary  in  Africa 
over  thirty  years,  gives  the  following  account: 

"The  Zulus  make  their  snuff  of  tobacco,  dry  aloes, 
and  ashes,  grinding  it  very  fine.  It  is  exceedingly 
pungent,  causing  the  tears  to  flow  profusely  down 
their  cheeks,  which  they  wipe  off  with  a  snuffspoon 
made  of  bone  or'  horn,  this  being  their  only  hand- 
kerchief. Old  and  young  of  both  sexes  carry  snuff- 
boxes made  of  small  calabashes  tied  to  a  girdle 
around  the  waist  Sometimes  diminutive  reeds  full 
of  snuff  are  inserted  in  holes  in  their  ears. 

"When  they  meet,  after  the  usual  salutation,  'I 
see  you,  friend,*  the  snuff  is  piissed  round,  each  one 
taking  a  good  pinch.  It  is  a  nasty  habit,  and  their 
nostrils  after  this  operation  are  generally  covered 
with  filth;  and  it  is  also  injurious  to  health. 

"Zulu  men,  especially  young  men,  are  becoming 
fearfully  addicted  to  smoking;  and  I  perceive,  after 
thirty-two  years'  observation,  that  it  makes  serious 
inroads  on  their  constitution.  This  is  one  of  the 
unpleasant  results  of  European  civilization. 

"I  am  glad  to  say  thsit,  so  far  as  my  knowledge 
extends,  no  American  mi88ior.ary  in  South  Africa 
uses  tobacco  in  any  form.  We  shall  ere  long  have 
anti-tobacco  societies  in  all  our  missionary  stations, 
and  shall  fight  against  this  vile  habit  till  wo  la}'  our 
armor  down." 


I  have  four  goo<l  reasons  for  being  an  abstainer — 
my  head  is  clearer,  my  health  is  better,  by  heart  i» 
lighter,  and  my  purM  is  hsavier. — Guthrie. 


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THE  CHHISTIA17  CTNi 


January  19, 1888 


RELIGIOUS  NEWS. 


The  evangelists  Jones  and  Small  began  meet- 
ings in  Kansas  City  on  the  1st  of  January. 

— Pres.  C.  A.  Blanchard  assisted  Pastor  Abbott 
of  Geneva,  III,  last  week  in  an  interesting  revival 
service  which  has  continued  several  weeks  and  has 
brought  fifty  or  more  souls  to  Christ, 

— A  five  weeks'  protracted  meeting  with  blessed 
result  to  the  church  closed  in  the  Wesleyan  church 
at  Wheaton  a  few  days  since.  Rev.  L.  Swartz,  of 
Leaf  River,  111.,  assisted  one  week.  The  Methodist 
church  of  the  same  place  has  begun  a  protracted 
meeting.  In  the  College  a  revival  interest  has  con- 
tinued since  the  fall  opening  with  conversions  re- 
ported every  week. 

— D  wight  L.  Moody,  it  is  reported,  will  aid  Ma- 
jor Whittle  in  an  evangelistic  campaign  in  Burling- 
ton, Iowa. 

— When  Dr.  Withrow,  pastor  of  the  Third  Pres- 
byterian church  of  this  city,  reviewed,  lately,  the 
first  year  of  his  pastorate,  he  said  some  very  frank 
things  about  the  reputed  membership  of  the  church. 
After  remarking  that  during  the  year  there  had  been 
221  additions  to  the  church,  100  on  confession  of 
faith,  he  said  that  the  roll  of  members,  which  a  year 
ago  was  reported  to  be  2,300,  had  been  reduced  to 
1,200,  by  dropping  the  names  of  members  long  re- 
moved. 

— Dr.  Pentecost  and  Mr.  Stebbins  opened  evangel- 
istic meetings  in  Lawrence,  Mass.,  Jan.  1.  The  at- 
tendance is  good  and  interest  deepening  among 
Christians. 

— David  Gregg  of  Pittsburgh,  Pa.,  father  of  the 
pastor  of  Park  Street  church,  Boston,  has  made  a 
New  Year's  gift  of  $100,000  to  the  Reformed  Pres- 
byterian church  of  which  he  is  a  leading  member. 
Mr.  Gregg  is  a  Scotchman  by  birth,  seventy-six 
years  of  age,  and  has  a  fortune  of  three-quarters  of 
a  million.  A  large  part  of  his  latest  gift  will  go  to 
the  theological  seminary  of  which  he  was  treasurer 
for  twenty  years. 

— Rev.  Edward  Mathews,  remembered  for  his  la- 
bors  in  the  N.  C.  A.  work  but  now  in  the   Congo 
country,  writes  to  the  Free  Methodist  under  date  of 
October  11th  last  of  his  labors  and  prospects.     He 
says:  "Your  many  inquiries  about  the  religion  of 
this  country,  etc.,  must  be  deferred  until  the  future. 
This  much  I  can  say:  I  have  not  seen  anything  like 
piety  in  Africa,  so  far,  among  the  whites  or  natives, 
excepting  three  cases,  including  Bishop  Taylor.    Li- 
centiousness and  drunkenness  abound.     The  natives 
have  learned  the  white  man's  sins,  and  so  his  Sab- 
baths, when  he  is  not  obliged  to  work,  are  spent  in 
dancing,   drinking,   or    worse.      This  I  have   seen 
again  and  again.     Preaching  through  an  interpreter 
comes  very  natural  to  me,  and  I  am  often  blessed 
while  so  employed.     You  may  be  curious  to  know 
how  the  Bishop's  movement  prospers.      At  present 
the  outlook  is  very  dark.      And  as  to  the  boats  and 
boilers,  the  building  of  them  is  postponed  for  one 
or  more  years,  so  reads  my  "honorable  release."     I 
am  in  the  service  of  the  Sanford  Exploring  Expedi- 
tion, being  employed  in  building  and  keeping  in  re- 
pair their  boats  and  boilers  at  Kinchessa,   Stanley 
Pool.     I  may  stay  two  years  or  five,  I  do  not  know 
which,  but,  thank  God,  it  is  settled  to  meet  you  in 
heaven.     *     *     The  rainy  season  is  about  to  set  in 
now.     We  now  have  occasional  rains,  and  they  will 
increase  until  the  wet  months  are   passed.      The 
swollen  Congo  shows  that  the  rains  are  abundant  in 
the  interior.     The  river  has  risen  more  than  twelve 
feet  in  the  past  month,  and  is  swift  and  dangerous 
in  proportion." 

— The  mother  of  Mr.  Hartman,  a  Moravian  mis- 
sionary in  South  Africa,  after  her  husband's  death, 
lived  alone  for  nine  years  among  the  savage  Bush 
Negroes,  teaching  their  children,  preaching  to  them 
in  little  companies,  nursing  them  in  sickness,  facing 
death  many  a  time,  not  only  in  the  pestilential 
swamps,  where  four  missionaries  died  in  rapid  suc- 
cession, but  boldly  confronting  the  brutal  plantation 
overseers,  who  would  have  driven  her  away,  but  for 
the  clamor  of  the  slaves  who  loved  her  dearly;  liv- 
ing the  while  in  a  little  hut,  her  only  bed  a  ham- 
mock swung  between  two  posts,  often  sick  and  al- 
most dying,  and  finally  contracting  the  elephantiasis, 
a  sort  of  leprosy  which  prevails  among  the  black 
population.  She  died  in  1853,  lying  on  the  floor  in 
the  mission-house  at  Paramaribo.  All  her  children 
are  engaged  in  mission  service — the  oldest  son  in 
South  Africa,  a  daughter  in  Thibet,  and  the  other 
son,  first  in  Australia,  and  now  among  the  Indiana 
in  Canada. — Mettenger. 

— The  American  Board  of  Missions  has  informa- 
tion that  Turkey  is  revising  its  school  laws  with  the 
aim  of  suppressing  American  missionary  and  other 


foreign  schools.  The  new  law  provides  that  no 
foreigner  can  open  a  school  without  a  special  firman 
given  by  the  Sultan  himself;  and  such  documents  he 
he  is  slow  to  give.  The  law  forbids  any  Ottoman 
subject  from  attending  such  a  school  until  he  shall 
have  taken  a  course  of  religious  instructions.  The 
schools  now  existing  are  to  be  suppressed  unless 
they  conform  to  these  regulations  within  six  months. 
The  American  minister  has  protested  against  this 
law,  and  urges  other  embassies  to  join  him. 

— Mrs.  Emma  Baldwin  writes  to  the  Christian 
Conservator  of  Dayton,  of  the  great  revival  at  Cedar 
Creek,  Michigan:  "The  meeting  commenced  Decem- 
ber 17th,  and  closed  January  Ist.  The  church  was 
very  cold  and  dead.  We  asked  God  to  send  the  fire, 
and  the  people  confessed  their  sins.  The  fire  fell 
from  heaven  the  third  evening,  and  sinners  started. 
Disputes  eleven  years  old  were  settled.  One  hun- 
dred and  ten  came  to  the  altar  for  prayer.  Besides, 
eighteen  of  the  Sabbath-school  children  started  and 
many  professors  were  reclaimed,  making  in  all  not 
less  than  one  hundred  and  sixty.  The  country  was 
shaken  for  miles  around.  Infidels,  Universalists, 
moralists,  and  all  kinds  of  sinners  were  saved. 
Praise  the  Lord!  We  left  this  meeting  in  the  hands 
of  the  pastor,  Bro.  Sheldon,  with  twenty-eight  at 
the  altar  Friday  evening  and  twenty-seven  Saturday 
evening.  Some  who  had  joined  the  G.  A.  R.  Post 
came  back  to  the  church.  The  post  is  badly  wrecked. 
Several  came  out  who  will  join  the  church." 

— The  Boston  Herald  sent  to  the  various  pastors 
of  the  city,  asking  them  if  they  were  in  favor  of 
abolishing  Santa  Claus,  in  favor  of  keeping  him  as 
he  is,  or  in  favor  of  telling  the  truth  about  him. 
The  ninety-five  replies  received  are  classified  as  fol- 
lows: For  abolishing  Santa  Claus,  41;  for  keeping 
him  as  he  is,  36;  for  telling  the  truth  about  him,  18. 

— A  correspondent  writes  to  the  New  York  Wit- 


ness: "There  has  been  a  work  of  grace  at  Medina, 
Ohio,  during  two  weeks  and  a  half  beginning  Dec. 
4.  Bible  readings  and  Gospel  addresses  were  given 
by  the  Rev.  Charles  M.  Whittlesey,  of  Saratoga,  N. 
Y.  Mr.  Robert  W.  Swayne,  the  song  evangelist, 
who  resides  in  Lockport,  N.  Y.,  a  man  of  God  and 
full  of  the  Spirit,  was  especially  useful  in  the  prog- 
ress of  the  meetings.  Between  fifty  and  seventy 
souls,  perhaps  more  still,  professed  conversion. 

— The  evangelistic  services  conducted  by  the  pas- 
tor, the  Rev.  Francis  Edward  Smiley,  at  the  Whar- 
ton Street  Presbyterian  church,  Philadelphia,  have 
resulted  in  a  great  blessing  to  the  church.  At  the 
bi-monthly  communion,  Dec.  11,  forty-three  persons 
were  received  into  membership,  seven  of  whom  were 
baptized.  This  church  has  been  blessed  with  a  con- 
tinuous revival  during  the  past  eighteen  months,  and 
over  two  hundred  and  fifty  have  been  added  to  the 
roll  of  membership. 

— The  American  Missionary  Association  has 
8,616  pupils  in  its  schools  for  the  Freedmen  in  the 
South;  608  pupils  in  its  Indian  school,  and  1,044  in 
its  schools  for  the  Chinese. 

— We  remember  when  the  Rev.  A.  A.  Myers,  per- 
haps six  years  ago,  built  his  first  church  and  school 
building  in  Western  Kentucky,  at  Williamsburg, 
Whitley  county.  His  influence  banished  the  saloon, 
and  put  church  and  school  in  its  place,  entirely  ren- 
ovating the  community.  He  has  continued  to  de- 
vote himself  to  the  establishment  of  churches  in 
that  mountain  region,  and  during  the  first  week  in 
December  a  company  of  friends  of  the  American 
Missionary  Association  accompanied  him  in  a  tour 
dedicating  seven  new  church  or  chapel  buildings. 
In  one  of  these  counties,  said  a  member  of  one  of 
these  new  churches,  there  were,  during  a  period  of 
eighteen  months,  eighty-four  murders,  mostly  in 
drunken  quarrels;  and  not  very  long  ago,  while 
preaching  in  Jellico,  Tenn.,  where  one  of  these  new 
buildings  has  been  dedicated,  Mr.  Myers  heard  firing 
in  the  street,  and  went  out  and  found  four  dead 
bodies  of  men  shot  in  a  broil,  and  laid  them  out  in 
a  drug  store. — Independent. 


LITEBATUBE. 


By 


A  HaND-BooK  OF  HOMILETICS   AND   PaSTOUAL  TllEOLOOT. 

Rev.  Wilson  T.  Hogg.    T.  B.  Arnold,  Publlslier,  Chicago. 

The  merits  of  this  book  are  many;  its  de- 
fects, "few  and  far  between."  The  necessity 
of  studying  the  theory  of  preaching  is  ob- 
vious. Animals  swim  by  nature;  men  have  to 
learn  swimming  or  sailing  as  an  art.  In  this  book, 
the  writer  has  given  the  best  thoughts  of  the  best 
men,  both  on  preaching  and  pastoral  labor.  He  thus 
makes  it  a  small  library  in  itself;  and  no  young 
minister  can  read  it  without  becoming  a  better 
preacher  and  a  better  man.  His  "Call  to  Preach" 
will  give  a  young  minister  a  deeper  reverence  for 
his  calling;   and  though,  while  speaking  to  or  vis- 


iting his  people,  rules,  instances  and  ideas  of  the 
great  pulpit  orators  cited,  will  not  be  in  his  memory, 
they  exist  in  his  mind,  and  modify,  shape  and  direct 
his  discourses  and  pastoral  labor;  as,  while  the 
steam  is  what  propels  the  engine,  the  rules  of  engi- 
neering make  the  motive  power  useful  and  safe. 

There  is  nothing  in  this  whole  book  which  is  ex- 
travagant, unscriptural,  or  unsound;  so  that  the 
young  minister  who  reads  it  thoroughly,  becomes 
not  only  a  better  preacher,  but  a  wiser  and  better 
Christian.  That  the  writer  cites  Augustine,  Luther, 
Baxter,  Wesley,  Fletcher,  Edwards  and  Moody  as 
examples,  is  suflficient  guaranty  that  his  purpose  is 
not  narrow  or  sectarian ;  and,  in  brief,  the  work  is 
preeminently  fitted  for  the  object  designed  by  the 
author,  to  aid  teachers  and  pupils  in  the  science  of 
preaching  the  Gospel  of  the  Son  of  God. 

The  National  W.  C.  T.  U.  Ccnvention  at  Nashville, 
Tenn.,  in  November,  requested  Miss  Frances  E.  Willard 
to  prepare  a  volume  of  personal  reminiscences  and 
speeches,  which  should  sketch,  autobiographically,  the 
development  of  the  society  of  which  she  has  so  long 
been  the  head,  and  also  give  fuller  accounts  than  have 
yet  been  had  of  her  life  as  a  teacher  and  her  years  of 
study  and  travel  across  the  sea.  Miss  Willard  has  agreed 
to  do  this,  and  is  now  at  her  home,  Rest  Cottage  (called 
by  those  who  know  it  best,  Restless  Cottage,  by  reason 
of  the  many  women  who  there  ply  pen  and  type-writer), 
working,  as  her  varied  duties  will  permit,  upon  the  vol- 
ume, it  will  be  finely  illustrated,  and  will  be  issued  by 
the  Woman's  Temperance  Publication  Association  in 
time  for  the  fall  trade. 

Cape  Breton  Island,  ofE  Nova  Scotia,  is  described  by 
F.  M.  Endlich,  in  the  American  Magazine  for  .January. 
Aside  from  its  quaint  inhabitants  and  primitive  scenery, 
the  island  is  of  interest  on  account  of  a  projected  rail- 
road, whereby  the  ocean  trip  to  Liverpool  may  be  short- 
ened to  four  days.  "Some  Boston  Artists  and  Their 
Studios,"  by  Wm.  H.  Rideing,  is  the  first  of  a  short  se- 
ries of  papers  on  this  subject,  giving  illustrations  of  the 
style  of  noted  painters  of  that  city,  and  reproducing 
some  characteristic  specimens  both  of  their  work  and 
their  workshops.  Alice  Wellington  Rollins  explains 
what  is  meant  by  "Manual  Training  in  Schools,"  and 
demonstrates  its  need  and  value.  The  question  of 
granting  further  pensions  to  our  soldiers  is  discussed  by 
Col.  E.  H.  Ropes.  The  debt  of  our  country  to  its  de- 
fenders, and  their  increasing  needs,  are  very  plainly  set 
forth;  as  well  as  some  of  the  distinguishing  features 
which  should  be  incorporated  in  pension  legislation. 
Hamlin  Garland,  in  a  prose  sketch  of  "Huskin'  Time," 
draws  a  vivid  picture  of  his  experience  in  boyhood  on  a 
prairie  farm,  which  thousands  of  Western  readers  will 
enjoy  heartily.  The  leading  poem  of  this  number, 
"Twilight  at  Nazareth,"  is  one  of  the  best  that  Joaquin 
Miller  has  written .  It  handles  with  reverent  touch  and 
graceful  art  a  subject  dear  to  Christian  memory. 

George  Kennan's  third  Russian  Prison  paper  will  ap- 
pear in  the  February  Century,  and  is  a  description  of  the 
life  of  the  "Politicals"  in  the  famous  fortress  of  Petro- 
pavlovsk.  The  interest  of  these  papers  is  cumulative. 
In  this  forthcoming  one,  Kennan  will  describe  "The 
First  Night  in  the  Fortress,"  "Routine  of  Life  in  a  Case- 
mate," "How  Prisoners  are  Watched  and  Guarded,"  "In- 
terviews with  Relatives,"  "An  Artificial  Hiccough," 
"Prisoners'  Methods  of  Intercommunication,"  etc.  The 
first  paper  in  the  series  describing  Mr.  Kennan's  journey 
through  Siberia,  with  Mr.  Frost's  illustrations,  will  begin 
in  April.  Copies  of  the  Century  now  entering  Russia 
have  Mr.  Kennan's  articles  torn  out  of  them  by  Govern- 
ment ofiicials  on  the  frontier. 

"Which  is  the  True  American  Mother?"  asks  Babyhood 
in  the  January  issue,  after  a  number  of  contributors  have 
expressed  their  opinions  on  "Shunning  Maternity,"  and 
"The  Mother  who  is  Tired  of  Little  Children."  The 
spirit  of  this  discussion  is  an  eminently  proper  one.  No 
less  interesting  and  valuable  will  be  found  the  illustrated 
medical  articles,  "How  Children  may  Have  Sound 
Teeth,"  by  Dr.  Leslie;  and  "Children's  Heads,"  by  Dr. 
Yale.  "Worms  and  Worm  fever,"  by  Dr.  Dodge,  fur- 
nishes much  needed  enlightenment  on  this  subject. 

The  pleasant  homes  of  the  sensible  people  who  use  the 
trees  and  plants  and  flowers  of  Nature  for  their  adorn- 
ment, will  read  the  coming  numbers  of  the  American 
Garden  for  1888  with  interest  and  profit,  for  it  is  to  be 
full  of  instruction  by  practical  men  and  women  and  noted 
writers  of  many  States  and  countries,  in  the  planting  and 
arrangement  of  home  grounds;  flower  culture  indoors 
and  out  doors;  fruitgrowing  in  orchard,  vineyard,  plant 
ation  and  home  garden;  vegetable-gardening  for  home 
and  market;  greenhouse  and  conservatory  construction 
and  management;  uses  of  garden  products  in  cookery 
and  preserving,  etc.;  plants  and  flowers  in  decoration  of 
house  and  table  and  person,  etc. 

The  January  7th  issue  of  the  Library  Magazine,  the 
first  of  the  year  1888,  contains  the  following  interesting 
arliclep:  The  First  Chapter  of  Genesis,  by  Prof.  W. 
Gray  Elmslie;  Captured  Brides  in  Far  Cathay,  from 
Blackwood's  Magazine;  The  Time  it  Takes  to  Think,  by 
J.  McK.  Cattell;  Kinglake's  Invasion  of  the  Crimoa,  from 
the  Pall  Mall  Qnzetie;  Mr.  Donnelly  and  Shakespeare, 
from  the  Athen(tiim,  and  others.  The  Cynosure  and  Li- 
brary Magazine,  weekly  or  monthly,  $2  a  year  for  both. 
Lieutenant  Schwatka  tells  the  young  people  who  en- 
joy scientific  studies,  in  the  Swiss  Cross  for  January, 
about  "The  Snow-house  of  the  Eskimo."  The  article  is 
illustrated  and  is  quite  a  study  in  snow  architecture. 
The  way  of  a  grasshopper's  life,  how  cobwebs  are  made 
and  a  sketch  of  the  Hupa  Indian  tribe  are  among  the 
other  interesting  contents  of  the  number. 


jANtTART  19,  1888 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


13 


Lodge  Notes. 

i  A  suit  which  is  to  exonerate  or  condemn 

}  the  general  oflScers  of  the  Knights  of  La- 
bor is  to  be  begun  at  Philadelphia  by  the 
"antis."  An  accounting  will  be  asked 
for,  and  an  inquiry,  it  is  expected,  will  be 
instituted  by  the  court  to  determine 
whether  any  of  the  officers  have  been 
guilty  of  criminal  acts. 

Chief  Drummond,  of  the  United  States 
Secret  Service,  in  reporting  on  a  band  of 
Italian  counterfeiters  now  operating  in 
this  country,  has  called  attention  to  the 
existence  of  a  formidable  secret  organiza- 
tion originatiDg  in  Sicily,  but  having 
branches  in  New  York,  Boston,  Chicago, 
St.  Louis,  St.  Paul,  San  Francisco  and 
several  other  cities.  The  members  of 
this  society  are  described  as  assassins  and 
villians  of  the  worst  type,  engaged  in  all 
sorts  of  criminal  schemes,  but  especially 
in  the  counterfeiting  business . 

In  Canada  a  conflict  between  the  Cath- 
olic church  and  the  Knights  of  Labor 
would  not  be  so  serious  as  here.  Ac- 
cordingly, we  find  Cardinal  Gibbons  here 
the  defender  of  the  Knights,  and  in 
Quebec  Cardinal  Taschereau  is  their  foe. 
In  consequence  of  a  printers'  strike  the 
latter  Cardinal  has  written  another  letter 
strongly  urging  his  flock  not  to  join  the 
Knights,  reminding  them  that  his  former 
pastoral  condemning  the  order  ha?  not 
been  countermanded  but  only  suspended. 
He  seems  to  expect  that  the  final  decision 
will  be  against  the  Knights,  and  mean- 
while he  throws  all  the  weight  of  the 
church  against  them. 

The  provisional  committee  of  the  anti- 
administration  Knights  of  Labor  has  at 
last  decided  upon  a  plan  by  which  its 
objects  can  be  attained,  and  the  general 
officers  of  the  Knights  of  Labor  con- 
demned or  exonerated,  as  the  issue  of  the 
case  may  result.  Eminent  counsel  have 
been  consulted,  and  as  a  result  it  has 
been  decided  to  begin  a  3uit  in  equity 
against  the  general  officers  of  the  order 
for  an  accounting  of  funds,  and  also  to 
determine  whether  any  of  the  officers 
have  been  guilty  of  criminal  acts .  The 
expenses  of  the  suit  will  be  met  by  a 
fund  to  which  members  of  the  order  and 
assemblies  who  are  opposed  to  the  present 
administration  are  to  be  asked  to  con- 
tribute. Friends  of  the  administration 
say  they  are  glad  of  this  opportunity  for 
a  vindication,  and  that  they  will  contrib- 
ute their  share  of  the  expenses. 

Grand  Master  Frank  P.  Sargent,  of  the 
order  of  the  Brotherhood  of  Locomotive 
Firemen  of  the  United  States  and  Cana- 
da, has  made  some  emphatic  statements 
respecting  the  Reading  strike.  He  says: 
"As  for  the  treatment  of  J.  J.  Leahy,  of 
Philadelphia,  a  member  of  our  executive 
board,  who  is  also  a  Reading  Railroad 
employe,  and  who  refused  to  recognize 
the  strike,  all  I  can  say  is  that  it  is  abom- 
inable. My  telegram  to  him  published 
in  this  morning's  papers  explains  itself. 
It  meant  just  what  I  say.  I  will  have  no 
bulldozing  of  our  order  by  the  Knights 
of  Labor.  That  may  as  well  be  settled 
now  as  at  any  other  time.  Mr.  Leahy 
has  been  treated  shamefully.  A  social 
boycott  has  been  declared  on  him  at 
home  and  he  is  treated  as  if  he  were  a 
common  vagabond.  His  Knight  of  La- 
bor friends  will  not  speak  to  him  and  he 
cannot  get  a  shave  or  a  cigar  at  Port 
Richmond.  I  will  protect  him  to  the 
fullest  extent  of  my  ability,  as  I  indorse 
fully  the  course  he  has  taken.  We  will 
not  be  coerced  into  taking  sides  with  the 
strike  by  any  such  tactics  as  these." 


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intention,  and  to  extract  venom,  instead  of  honey,  from  the  flowers  that  seem  to 
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I'iMiple  :  all  these  strung  together  would  give  no  more  just  an  idea  of  the  Talniuil 
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LIFE 
OF 

By  Rkv.  Beunhaud  Pick,  Ph.U.   Ideal  Edition.  Sm.ill  Pica  typo,  cl.,  iWc.;  post. 
'*  Dr.  Pick  has  done  a  good  service  in  translating  tliese  extra- 

(  uionical  narratives.  They  form  a  highly  interesting  addition  to  Christian  lifeiatiMv. 
;nid  the  accompanying  notes  increase  their  value." — Lutheran  (.Hist nrr,  l'hi\i\. 

"  These  narratives  are  of  decided  value  as  nfoil  to  set  ott*  the 

brightness,  beauty,  and  simplicity  of  the  Oospels.  AVlien  one  reads  the  infinite 
al)siu'dities  of  which  even  good  men  have  been  guilty,  when  trying  to  .•iii)iplenient 
tlie  silence  of  serii>tuies  on  the  childhood  and  youth  of  our  Lorvl  :  and  cotnpan's. 
with  such  human  attem|>ts.  the  I'ji.v/ »/;•<■</  narrative,  these  apocryphal  Gospela  become 
al  once  eviiieiitial  in  value." — Pre.'^biitrriiin,  Wilmington,  N.  C. 

I'he  Literary  lievnliition   C<it<ilnijiie  {^\  jiages)  sent  free  mi  application. 

Ai.I'KN'.i  pMlilicatimis  niv  \'OTf.U  by  honk-mUrra  -nn  disfiuiiitti  nitowed  oxoeptaa  mlviTlised. 
"■•.•l<s  MMit  fur  ejrnoiinnlioti  hrforr  pit ii tin- lit ,  s;»tisfiU'lorv  ii'lcrein'e  IxMiiK  piven.  (Il>.|-.*77l 

JOHN    B.    ALDEN,    Publisher,    NEW  VOUK: 

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14 


THE  OHRISTIAH  CYNOSXTKB. 


Jantjart  19, 1888 


Home  and  Health. 

DANGER  IN  MUSTY  MEAL. 
It  has  long  been  known  that  moldy 
and  decayed  vegetable  foods  are  some- 
times productive  of  violent  disease,  but 
the  subject  has  not  received  that  amount 
of  public  attention  which  it  deserves. 
This  is  especially  the  case  respecting 
flour  and  meal.  Musty  or  stale  flour  and 
meal  are  frequently  used,  and  until  re- 
cently no  very  serious  results  have  been 
directly  traced  to  this  cause.  A  short 
time  ago,  however,  a  case  of  poisoning 
occurred  which  clearly  demonstrates  the 
exceedingly  deleterious  character  of  such 
food.  In  a  boarding-house  at  Mt.  Holy- 
oke,  Massachusetts,  forty  persons  were 
made  violently  sick  by  eating  brown- 
bread.  An  examination  showed  that  the 
meal  from  which  the  bread  was  made  was 
stale,  and  that  this  was  undoubtedly  the 
cause  of  the  sickness. 

Meal  and  flour  should  always  be  kept 
in  a  cool,  dry  place;  and  if  it  becomes 
stale  or  musty,  should  be  devoted  to  some 
other  purpose  than  human  consumption. 
—  Qood  Eeallh . 

ADULTERATED  BREAD. 

A  certain  gentleman  of  Chicago,  who 
seldom  eats  any  but  home-made  bread, 
one  day,  when  in  good  health,  partook 
at  all  three  meals  of  the  so-called  "Vien- 
na bread,"  eating  altogether  nearly  a  loaf. 
In  the  evening  he  was  troubled  with  nau- 
sea, severe  pain  in  the  stomach  and  bow- 
els, eructations,  and  persistent  heart-burn, 
which  continued  for  several  days.  An- 
alyzing carefully  the  bread  partaken  of, 
the  doctor  found  alum  in  considerable 
quantities.  The  analysis  was  confirmed 
by  Mr.  Fuller,  of  New  York,  with  the 
microscope  and  polariscope.  Alum,  says 
Dr.  Mitchell,  is  an  astringent,  and  when 
taken  constantly  in  bread,  there  is  a  de- 
crease in  the  quantity  of  secretions  in  the 
intestinal  tract,cau8ing indigestion.  The 
disagreeable  effects  of  eating  baker's 
bread,  varying  in  intensity,  according  to 
the  physical  constitution  of  an  individual, 
manifest  tberocelves  within  twenty-four 
hours. — American  Miller. 

—Many  think  that  sleep  is  lost  time. 
But  the  style  of  your  work  will  be  might- 
ily affected  by  the  style  of  your  slumber. 
Sound  Asleep  is  the  sister  of  Wide 
Awake.  Sleep  is  not  a  subtraction:  it  is 
an  addition. 

ANOTHER  CAUSE  OF  DIPHTHERIA. 

The  causes  of  diphtheria,  like  the  rem- 
edies for  the  dread  scourge,  are  without 
number.  But  it  is  as  well  that  we  con- 
sider ail  suggestions  under  that  head, 
since  no  harm  is  likely  to  result  there- 
from, even  if  no  good  should  be  pro- 
duced . 

A  writer  in  an  Eastern  exchange  re- 
ports a  prominent  doctor  as  saying  that 
the  fumes  of  kerosene,  when  a  lamp  is 
turned  low,  are  likely  to  cause  diphtheria. 
The  New  York  board  of  health  a  few 
years  ago  decided  that  to  this,  more  than 
any  other  cause,  the  prevalence  of  this 
disease  was  to  be  attributed.  This  is 
given  as  accounting  for  the  fact  that 
diphtheria  generally  begins  to  spread 
with  the  advent  of  short  days  and  long 
nights.  Children  dislike  to  go  to  bed  in 
the  dark,  and  the  kind  mother  lets  the 
lamp  remain  in  the  bedroom,  usually 
turning  down  the  flame,  so  that  the  light 
shall  not  keep  the  child  awake.  Many 
bedrooms  are  thus  semi-lighted  all  night 
and  the  windows  being  closed,  or  raised 
but  slightly,  the  atmospheric  condition  is 
simply  deathly.  A  turned  down  kerosene 
lamp  is  a  magazine  of  deadly  gas  that  the 
healthiest  lungs  cannot  safely  be  ex- 
posed to. 

Gkkase  Spots. — What  will  remove 
grease  spots  from  clothing  in  the  best 
manner,  is  a  frequent  inquiry.  There  is 
probably  nothing  better  than  equal  parts 
of  strong  ammonia  water,  ether  and  alco- 
hol. Pass  a  piece  of  blotting  paper  under 
the  grease  spot,  moisten  a  sponge  first 
with  water  to  render  it  "greedy,"  then 
the  mixture,  and  rub  with  it  the  spot. 
In  a  moment  it  is  dissolved,  saponified 
and  absorbed  by  the  sponge  and  blotter. 


NE  "W 


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BNTITLED 


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vainly  trying  every  known  remedv,  at 
laat  found  a  prescription  which  complete- 
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phalli  know  that  I  shalLinlieriti 

it.   £Sli.lr..l.  .deiLX7.i8^ 

TROHISE^ 

Contmil  flry  -way  imto'-tha 
Lord ;  trust  olsa  in  TTitti  and  Sa 
shall  bring,  it  to  pass,  j>iuDa3dl,tS. 

PRECEPT. 

In  lettarfing  and  nest  shall'yB 
lie  saved;  in  quietness  and  in 
confidenceshaU.  beyoucslrengOtu 

PBAISE. 

Tleiurn.  ^unto  thy  Test,  O  my 
soul;  for  the  ^ord  hath,  dealfi 
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Faem  Notes. 


WHAT  WILL  BURST  A  GUN. 

In  bravado  a  young  man  placed  the 
muzzle  of  his  fowling  piece  under  the 
water  and  fired  the  charge.  The  result 
was  the  bursting  of  the  barrel  near  the 
breech,  and  the  mutilation  of  his  hand. 
Another  placed  and  held  the  muzzle  of 
his  gun  square  against  a  piece  of  plate 
window  glass,  and  fired  the  charge — 
powder  and  bullet.  The  glass  was  shat- 
tered, so  was  the  gun  barrel.  Another 
instance  was  that  of  an  experimenter  who 
had  heard  that  a  cand.'e  could  be  fired 
from  the  barrel  of  a  gun  through  an  inch 
board.  He  drove  a  candle  into  the  muz- 
zle of  the  gun,  fired,  and  the  explosion 
split  the  barrel  almost  its  entire  length, 
and  did  not  even  drive  the  candle  from 
the  muzzle. 

To  Cut  Glass  in  ant  Shapjb. — Mark 
out  on  the  glass  the  line  which  is  to  be 
cut,  so  that  it  may  be  easily  followed. 
Then  heat  the  end  of  a  slender  glass  rod, 
or  of  a  rat  tail  file,  to  redness  in  the  flame 
of  a  gas  lamp,  and  bring  the  hot  end  in 
contact  with  the  glass,  a  little  in  advance 
of  the  crack,  exerting  a  little  pressure. 
The  sudden  expansion  of  the  glass  by  the 
heat  coairounicated  to  it  will  cause  the 
crack  to  jump  to  the  rod;  advance  the 
rod  a  little,  and  the  crack  will  follow. 
In  this  way,  by  moving  the  hot  point 
little  by  little,  the  crack  can  be  made  to 
follow  it  to  the  line  which  it  is  desired  to 
traverse;  and  then  by  following  this  line 
the  desired  result  can  be  attained  without 
much  diflBculty.  When  it  is  found  that 
the  crack  does  not  follow  promptly,  the 
rod  must  be  held  a  few  minutes  in  the 
flame  and  again  applied.  Care  must  be 
taken  not  to  advance  the  hot  point  too 
far  at  each  step.  With  a  little  practice 
and  the  exercise  of  patience,  a  crack  may 
be  induced  to  travel  anywhere  over  a 
glass  surface  by  this  simple  method, 
which  is  in  common  use  in  the  laboratory 
for  trimming  and  utilizing  broken  beak- 
ers and  other  glassware  which  would 
otherwise  be  useless. 

Treatment  of  New  Files. — A  new 
file  should  be  used  with  a  light  pressure 
until  the  very  thin  sharp  edges  are  worn 
off,  after  which  a  heavier  pressure  may 
be  used  with  much  less  danger  of  the 
teeth  crumbling  at  the  top  or  breaking 
off  at  the  base.  Every  flier  should  keep 
a  partially  worn  flle  to  use  flrst  on  chilled 
surfaces  or  gritty  skin  of  casting?,  or  on 
a  weld  where  borax  or  similar  fluxea  have 
been  employed,  or  on  the  glazed  surface 
of  saws  after  gumming. 

Stove  Polish. — The  fine  polish  given 
stoves  by  those  skilled  in  the  art,  is  pro- 
duced as  follows:  Have  a  thin  mixture 
of  black  varnitih  and  turpentine;  apply 
this  with  a  paint  or  varnish  brush  to  a 
portion  of  the  stove;  then  with  a  cloth 
dust  this  over  with  pulverized  British 
lustre  or  stove  polish:  then  rub  with  a 
dry  brush.  The  stove  must  be  perfectly 
cold.  The  stove  dealers  buy  the  pulver- 
ized stove  polish,  which  is  carburet  of 
iron,  in  25  lb  packages.  The  process 
conducted  in  this  manner  is  quite  brief, 
but  gives  beautiful  results. 

To  Pbevent  Iron  or  Steel  from 
Rust. — A  method  of  preventing  iron  or 
steel  from  rusting  is  to  heat  it  to  a  tem- 
perature of  boiling  water  and  cover  it 
with  a  good  coat  of  copal  varnish.  Let 
it  stand  at  this  temperature  for  half  an 
hour  or  so,  and  then  rub  off  the  varnish 
while  hot  with  a  soft  rag.  The  varnish 
fills  the  pores  of  the  iron,  thus  sheltering 
them  so  as  to  be  impervious  to  moisture. 
Another  method  is  to  heat  the  metal  so 
as  to  melt  beeswax  when  rubbed  upon  it, 
letting  it  remain,  after  being  well  rubbed, 
until  it  is  about  to  harden,  and  then  rub 
off  with  a  coarse  woolen  cloth. 

Little  Thincs  Wortii  Knowing. — 
Many  workingmcu  meet  with  little  casual- 
ties, sprains  being  very  common.  Hot 
water  is  the  best  thing  that  can  be  used 
to  heal  a  sprain  or  bruise.  The  wounded 
part  should  be  placed  in  water  as  hot  as 
can  be  borne  for  fifteen  or  twenty  min- 
utes, and  in  all  ordinary  cases  the  pain 
will  gradually  disappear.  Hot  water  ap- 
plied by  means  of  cloths  is  a  sovereign 
remedy  for  neuralgia  and  pleurisy  pains. 
For  burns  or  scalds  apply  cloths  well  sat- 
urated with  cool  alum  water,  keeping  the 
injured  parts  covered  from  the  air. 

Writino  on  Metals. — Take  half  a 
pound  of  nitric  acid  and  one  ounce  mu- 
riatic acid.  Mix  and  shake  well  together, 
and  then  it  is  ready  for  use.  Cover  the 
place  you  wish  to  mark  with  melted  bees- 
wax; when  cold,  write  your  inscription 


plainly  In  the  wax,  clear  to  the  metal, 
with  a  sharp  instrument.  Then  apply 
the  mixed  acids  with  a  feather,  carefully 
filling  each  letter.  Let  it  remain  from 
one  to  ten  hours,  according  to  the  ap- 
pearance desired;  then  wash  and  remove 
the  wax. 


CONSUMPTION  SUKELT  CUBED. 

To  the  Editor: — Please  inform  your 
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the  above  named  disease .  By  its  timely 
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THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSUBE. 


jANtTART  19,  1888 


NFws  OF  The  "Week 

WASHINGTON. 

The  President  sent  to  the  Senate  Thurs- 
day the  nomination  of  Edward  S.  Bragg, 
of  Wisconsin,  to  be  Envoy  Extraordinary 
and  Minister  Plenipotentiary  of  the 
United  States  to  Mexico . 

In  the  House  Mr.  Blount,  of  Georgia, 
from  the  Committee  on  Postofflces  and 
Post  Roads,  reported  a  bill  relating  to 
permissible  marks,  printing  or  writing 
upon  second,  third  and  fourth-class  mat- 
ter. 

The  contested  seat  which  will  attract 
the  most  attention  in  the  present  House 
is  that  of  Smalls  against  Elliott  from  the 
Seventh  District  of  South  Carolina .  Ac- 
cording to  the  census  of  1880  this  district 
contained  0,304  white  voters  and  31,203 
colored  voters .  It  is  the  product  of  the 
gerrymanders  of  the  Democratic  Legisla- 
ture of  1880,  when  the  State  was  cut  up 
in  such  a  shameful  manner  in  order  to 
return  six  Democratic  Congressmen  out 
of  a  possible  seven.  In  order  to  get  a 
large  share  of  the  Negro  population  in 
the  Seventh  District  counties  and  town- 
ships connected  only  by  strips  of  sand 
visible  at  low  tide  were  added  together . 
It  is  from  this  district  that  Elliott  holds  a 
seat  in  the  present  Congress  on  a  vote  as 
returned  of  6,498  Democratic  to  5,961  Re- 
publican .  His  seat  is  contested  by  ex- 
Congressman  Smalls,  an  educated  Negro, 
who  holds  large  property  interests  in  the 
district. 

THE   STOHM. 

Railroad  men  agree  that  the  storm  of 
Jan.  12  was  quite  the  worst  ever  known 
in  the  Northwest  for  their  business.  It 
extended  from  the  Rocky  Mountains  to 
Lake  Michigan,  but  its  worst  effects  are 
felt  in  Dakota  and  Minnesota. 

Reports  from  Huron,  of  Jan.  12  stated 
that  in  all  the  seven  years  of  the  settle- 
ment of  this  portion  of  Dakota  there  has 
been  no  storm  approaching  the  severity 
of  the  one  now  pelting  us.  The  wind 
has  been  a  mile  a  minute .  It  has  been 
impossible  to  see  across  the  street,  or  even 
half  way .  No  one  goes  out .  They  have 
j  ust  settled  down  to  wait  the  storm's  end . 
Several  children  narrowly  escaped  death 
at  noon  when  schools  were  dismissed  for 
the  day .  About  ten  of  the  children  were 
bewildred  and  lost  before  they  had  gone 
a  hundred  yards .  A  general  alarm  was 
sounded,  and  many  persons  turned  out  to 
find  them.  They  went  in  squads  of  a 
dozen,  each  man  holding  on  to  a  long 
rope  and  marching  by  the  front .  In  this 
way  each  squad  covered  about  a  hundred 
feet,  and  marching  back  and  forth,  all  but 
one  were  found .  This  one  is  believed  to 
be  perishing  to-night,  within  a  quarter  of 
a  mile  of  a  hundred  houses .  Friends  are 
prosecuting  the  search,  hoping  to  find  her . 

From  Faulkton,  D.  T.,  Jan.  13,  came 
the  report:  The  most  terrific  storm  ever 
witnessed  in  this  latitude  has  been  upon 
us  for  the  last  forty-eight  hours.  It 
reached  its  worst  yesterday,  and  from  10 
o'clock  until  dark  there  was  not  ten  min- 
utes that  buildings  on  the  opposite  side 
of  the  street  could  be  seen.  The  mercury 
gradually  dropped  to  16  below.  The 
teachers  and  most  of  the  school  of  the  two 
lower  departments  of  our  schools  were 
compelled  to  remain  in  one  of  the  school 
rooms  all  night,  provisions  being  carried 
to  them.  Ropes  were  stretched  from  the 
corner  of  Main  Street  to  the  school  house 
to  enable  those  carrying  provisions  to  go 
and  come  with  safety.  It  was  impossible 
to  reach  the  railroad  station  after  4 
o'clock,  and  the  agent  and  several  others 
were  compelled  to  remain  over  night 
without  dinner  or  supper.  No  definite 
reports  of  loss  of  life  have  been  received, 
though  it  is  believed  some  must  have  per- 
ished. 

Northern  and  Western  Iowa  suffered 
from  one  of  the  worst  snow  blockades  it 
has  known  for  years.  About  4  o'clock 
the  morning  of  the  13th  an  arctic  hurri 
cane  swept  over  that  section.  In  Du- 
buque it  amounted  almost  to  a  cyclone. 
Shutters  and  gates  were  torn  from  their 
hinges  and  hurled  hither  and  thither. 
The  gale  finally  subsided  somewhat,  and 
was  followed  by  a  cold  wave  which  sent 
the  mercury  down  to  20  degrees  below 
zero.  As  a  result  there  is  a  complete 
embargo  upon  railroad  traffic  all  over 
Northwestern  Iowa. 

The  snowfall  Thursday  was  so  heavy 
at  Superior,  Wis.,  that  some  of  the  in- 
habitants had  to  tunnel  out  of  their 
dwellings . 

At  Winnipeg,  Manitoba,  the  night  of 


the  10th  was  the  coldest  of  the  season,  the 
thermometer  going  down  below  50.  A 
man  named  McDonald,  a  carpenter,  was 
found  frozen  to  death  in  his  bed  the  next 
morning. 

Several  casualties  are  reported  from 
Omaha  of  people  being  lost  in  the  storm 
and  perishing  in  the  cold. 

Three  children  of  John  Denlinger,  of 
Garrison,  Neb.,  were  lost  on  their  way 
home  from  school  Thursday.  One  was 
frozen  to  death,  but  the  others  may  re- 
cover. 

Emil  Gilbertson,  formerly  of  Chicago, 
was  frozen  to  death  two  miles  west  of 
Hitchcock,  Dakota,  Thursday  night,  while 
on  his  way  to  his  claim. 

Later.— Reports  up  to  Monday  night 
swell  the  horrors  of  the  storm.  A  list  of 
140  dead  had  been  reported  at  that  time, 
and  as  reports  continue  to  come  in  and 
many  are  yet  missing,  it  is  feared  the  list 
will  be  sadly  lengthened. 

COUNTKT. 

Of  the  population  of  Dakota  208,000 
are  in  North  Dakota  and  360,000  are  in 
South  Dakota. 

The  Black  Hills  country  is  j  ust  recov- 
ering from  a  siege  of  weather,  said  to  be 
the  coldest  experienced  in  that  country 
by  white  men . 

The  South  Carolina  Legislature  has 
passed  a  bill  pensioning  all  disabled  sol- 
diers in  that  State  who  fought  in  the 
army  or  navy  of  the  Confederacy .  It  will 
cost  $50,000  annually. 

Resolutions  approving  the  nomination 
of  Mr .  Lamar  for  the  Supreme  Bench, 
and  inviting  Jefferson  Davis  and  his  fam- 
ily to  visit  Jackson  during  the  session, 
were  passed  Thursday  by  the  Mississippi 
Legislature . 

All  the  printers  on  the  Louisville  Cour- 
ier Journal  office  but  three  struck  Thurs- 
day night  because  a  man  formerly  em- 
ployed on  the  New  York  Tribune  was 
brought  to  instruct  them  in  the  use  of 
the  type-setting  machines.  The  man- 
agement was  prepared,  and  filled  their 
strikers'  places  with  new  men . 

The  thirteen  gas  companies  of  Boston 
are  being  organized  into  a  trust.  The 
property  of  the  syndicate  is  valued  at 
$14,000,000. 

Earthquake  shocks  were  felt  Thursday 
morning  at  Columbia,  Charleston,  Char- 
lotte, and  Summerville,  S.  C.  Loud  de- 
tonations accompanied  the  vibrations  at 
Columbia,  and  people  rushed  wildly  into 
the  street. 

The  Florida  Sub-tropical  Exposition 
was  opened  at  Jacksonville,  Fla . ,  Thurs- 
day, Jan.  12,  with  the  most  impressive 
ceremonies  and  demonstration  ever  wit- 
nessed in  the  State.  The  procession, 
which  formed  in  the  park  and  marched 
through  the  splendidly  decorated  streets 
to  the  exposition  grounds,  was  more  than 
a  mile  in  length,  and  consisted  of  large 
bodies  of  infantry  and  artillery,  headed 
by  bands  of  music,  the  Governor  and  ex- 
Governor  of  the  State,  Generals  Spinner 
and  Schofield,  the  judges  of  the  State 
and  Federal  Courts,  the  mayors  of  a 
number  of  Southern  cities,  and  a  large 
number  of  other  distinguished  citizens  in 
carriages.  The  pageant  was  witnessed 
by  fully  30,000  people. 

An  engine  on  the  Union  Pacific,  draw- 
ing a  train  of  ore  down  the  mountain 
toward  St.  Elmo,  Col.,  Wednesday  after- 
noon, became  unmanageable,  the  air 
brakes  were  useless,  and  the  train  dashed 
down  the  slope  for  six  miles  at  a  sixty- 
mile  rate,  jumping  from  the  track  at  St. 
Elmo,  instantly  killing  the  engineer  and 
fireman  in  the  wreck. 

Two  persons  wounded  in  the  railway 
accident  near  Haverhill,  Mass.,  died 
Thursday,  making  twelve  victims.  Two 
other  sufferers  are  not  expected  to  re- 
cover . 

The  Fourteenth  Regiment  Armory  at 
Columbus,  Ohio,  in  which  was  being  held 
the  exposition  of  the  Poultry,  Kennel  and 
Pet  Stock  Association, was  burned  Thurs- 
day morning.  Rifles,  uniforms,  and 
1,000  rounds  of  ammunition  were  de- 
stroyed, the  flying  bullets  making  dan- 
gerous work  for  the  firemen .  A  number 
of  valuable  dogs,  chickens,  and  pigeons 
were  cremated.  Sir  Charles,  the  finest 
St.  Bernard  in  America,  owned  by  H.  L. 
Goodman,  of  Chicago,  perished  in  the 
flames. 

At  Lima,  Ohio,  Thursday  morning 
George  Knox  was  burned  to  death,  his 
clothing  igniting  while  he  was  building  a 
flre. 


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courts,  and  social  and  religious  circles. 

There  are  In  the  United  States 

Some  200  different  Lodges, 
With  2,000.000  members, 
Costitig  $20,000,000  yearly. 

This  mighty  world  power  confronts  the  church  and  seeks  to 
rule  and  ruin  every  Christian  Reform. 

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yet  80  unpopular  and  beset  with  difficulties,  as  that  which  would 
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Bbitobial  : 

Notes  and  CommentB 

The  American  Party 

Personal  Mention 

President  Cleveland  and 
the  Pope 

CONTBIBDTIONS  : 

Moral  Heroes  (poetry)  . . . 

Freemasonry  Unscrlptaral 
and  Anti-Christian 

Church  Unity 

The  Sin  of  the  Nation. . . . 
Sblected : 

The  begal  Status  of  the 
Boycott 

Strikes  and  Lockouts 

Bentrflts  of  the  Fraterni- 
ties  

Nbw  York  Letter 

Memphis  Letter 

Boston  Letter 

Washington  Letter 

Bible  Lbsson 

Card  from  Miss  Flagg 

Notices 


Rbporm  News  : 
Midwinter  In  Texas;  The 
Iowa     Champion     of 
Lodgery  Shown  to  be  a 
Deceiver;  A  Cold  Day 
but  a  Warm  Welcome. .  4,5 
Cobbespondbnob . 
A  Lou  si  ana    State  Con- 
vention Called  for;  Sel- 
fishness and  the  Lodge; 

Pith  and  Point 6 

The  N.  C.  a 7 

Lecture  List 7 

Church  vs.  LODGB 7 

The  Homb 10 

Temperance 11 

Religious  Nbws 13 

Literatckb 12 

Lodge  Notes 13 

Markets 13 

Business 13 

Home  and  Health 14 

Farm  Notes 15 

Donations 16 

Nbws  of  thb  Wbbk 16 


Father  S.  Maguire,  formerly  an  eminent  Catholic 
priest  of  Chicago,  has  renounced  Catholicism  and 
all  orthodox  faiths,  and  together  with  Dr.  O.  H. 
Harris,  of  Newman,  III,  will  establish  a  new  church, 
to  be  known  as  "Progressive  Christians."  Father 
Maguire  is  over  seventy  years  of  age,  and  for  fifty 
years  served  in  important  departments  of  the  Prus- 
sian government,  but  he  should  be  more  economical. 
Id  Freemasonry  he  can  find  all  that  his  soul  desires 
now  that  he  has  renounced  all  religion  that  has  Christ 
in  it. 


Within  a  few  days  fires  have  broken  out  in  two  of 
the  great  public  school  buildings  of  Chicago,  and 
in  each  case  the  thousand  or  more  children  were 
marched  out  safely  and  in  general  good  order,  secur- 
ing even  their  wraps.  The  wonderful  control  of  the 
lady  teachers  in  such  an  emergency  deserves  all 
praise,  and  shows  a  steadiness  of  nerve  as  admira- 
ble as  the  devotion  of  the  Dakota  teachers  who  per- 
ished in  the  late  storm  endeaving  to  protect  their 
charge.  It  shows  also  the  capabilities  of  our  chil- 
dren under  a  proper  discipline.  But  from  these 
schools  Uie  Word  of  God  is  shut  away  by  an  infa- 
mous local  regulation  dictated  by  Catholics  and  Ger- 
man infidel  politicians.  With  the  Bible  restored  to 
its  place  as  the  text  book  of  morals  and  faith,  what 
heroic  spirits  might  not  such  children  become! 


The  series  of  county  farmer's  institutes  begun  in 
Illinois  by  the  State  Board  of  Agriculture,  are  an 
improvement  upon  the  county  fair  which  every  in- 
telligent farmer  will  be  quick  to  improve.  The  lat- 
ter has  too  generally  come  into  the  hands  of  sharp 
ers  and  jockeys,  and  men  on  the  catch-penny 
principle,  and  in  many  parts  falling  into  decay. 
These  intitutes,  held  in  a  leisure  season,  call  out  the 
best  ideas  of  practical  men  whose  exchange  of  ex- 
periences must  be  of  great  value.  Had  the  grange 
followed  such  worthy  ends  instead  of  exhausting 
the  patience  and  shocking  the  moral  sense  of  man- 
kind on  its  frivolous  secrecy  and  pagan  ceremony  it 
might  have  continued  a  power  for  good  among  our 
agriculturists. 


The  German  Crown  Prince  William,  whose  throat 
has  being  giving  more  vexation  to  the  world  of 
daily-press  readers  than  to  its  owner,  is  living  quiet- 
ly by  the  sea  at  San  Remo,  Italy.  The  London 
Illustrated  News  has  lately  published  a  number  of 
fine  engravings  which  picture  for  us  his  quiet,  home- 
like life.  It  is  said  of  him  that,  having  been 
through  three  wars,  the  Danish,  Austrian  and 
French,  he  has  become  imbued  with  a  veritable 
horror  for  the  battle  field.  Should  he  live  to  succeed 
his  aged  father,  the  Emperor,  the  stern  military  au- 
tocracy of  Bismarck  would  be  broken,  and  the  gov- 
ernment would  not  engage  in  another  such  contest 
with  the  representatives  of  the  people  for  the  exten- 
sion of  the  military  rule.  The  whole  world  has  an 
interest  in  suppressing  war  and  its  preparations. 
Let  us  therefore  pray  for  the  recovery  of  the  Crown 
Prince. 


Last  Wednesday  the  attention  of  Mayor  Roche, 
of  this  city,  being  called  to  some  of  the  more  sham- 
less  of  the  vile  theatrical  bills  posted  about  Chicago, 
an  ordinance  of  1884  prohibiting  such  indecencies 
was  hunted  up,  and  the  license  of  the  bill-posting 
company  taken  away.  It  was  restored  again  in  a 
day  or  two  on  the  good  promises  of  the  bill-stickers, 
and  hereafter  all  such  bills  must  be  submitted  to 
police  inspection.  The  Central  W.  C.  T.  U.,  over 
which  Mrs.  Carse,  the  temperance  temple  builder 
presides,  sent  the  mayor  a  hearty  vote  of  thanks: 
"for  this  movement  in  behalf  of  decency  and  purity. 
As  Christian  mothers  we  thank  you  for  thus  remov- 
ing the  temptation,  that  assails  through  the  eye, 
from  our  boys.  Be  assured,  that  in  this  and  in  all 
your  other  efl!orts  for  the  enforcement  of  law,  and  to 
make  our  city  a  safer  place  for  children  to  grow  up 
in,  you  have  our  heartfelt  sympathy,  co-operation, 
and  prayers."  While  they  had  the  ear  of  Mr.  Roche, 
they  called  his  attention  to  the  non-enforcement  of 
the  law  against  selling  tobacco  to  minors.  His  honor  is 
also  respectfully  requested  to  note  the  pictures  in 
most  of  the  cigar  stores  which  are  more  vile  and 
lewd  if  possible  than  the  theater  bills.  Can  not 
these  nuisances  be  suppressed? 


The  Reading  strike  seems  to  be  far  from  settle- 
ment. The  company  have  resumed  work  in  several 
of  their  mines  and  have  no  trouble  to  move  the  coal. 
President  Austin  Corbin  has  in  times  past,it  is  said, 
been  favorable  toward  the  labor  societies,  but  he 
seems  now  convinced  that  the  Knights  of  Labor 
cannot  profitably  run  a  railroad  which  they  do  not 
own.  The  priests  and  the  local  tradesmen  are  re- 
ported as  opposing  the  strikers;  and  the  latter  claim 
in  defense  that  the  coal  rings  are  fighting  to  kill 
their  lodge,  which  is  perhaps  true,  since  the  lodge 
began  the  black-flag  war.  This  whole  strike  busi- 
ness must  appear  most  unreasonable  to  thoughtful 
workingmen.  Last  year  884  strikes  were  reported, 
involving  340,000  men  and  costing  them  millions  of 
money.  But  four  out  of  six  of  these  strikers  gained 
their  demand,  often  at  heavy  cost.  The  old-fash- 
ioned, ready-witted  Yankee  would  never  continue 
such  a  losing  business;  and  if  as  much  thought 
were  given  toward  devising  i»  fair  means  of  settle- 
ment as  is  now  squandered  on  a  secret  order,  the  re- 
lations of  employe  and  employed  would  be  more 
happy. 


General  Beauregard  has  for  years  been  advertised 
as  superintending,  along  with  General  Early,  the 
Louisiana  StateLottery  at  New  Orleans.  A  confederate 
veteran  lately  wrote,  enclosing  a  dollar  for  a  lottery 
ticket,  saying  that  he  had  fought  under  the  General 
for  four  years,  and  he  wanted  him  to  select  a  tick- 
et that  would  draw  a  prize  in  the  lottery.  It  is 
said  that  Beauregard  sent  back  the  ticket  as  re- 
quested, but  wrote:  "My  Dear  Old  Comrade:  If 
you  will  stick  to  the  Louisiana  Lottery  you  will 
be  as  poor  as  you  were  at  the  close  of  the  cruel 
war,  and  you  will  not  have  enough  left  to  load  a 
popgun."  How  many  are  ready  to  condemn  Beau- 
regard for  his  inconsistency,  who  practice  the  same 
deception  as  reputed  members  of  the  lodge.  Beau- 
regard knows  the   lottery,  which  the  reputation  of 


his  name  is  used  to  advertise,  is  a  fraud,  and  unlaw- 
ful in  every  State  of  the  Union,  with  one  excep- 
tion; many,  who  are  esteemed  as  good  men  in  the 
church  and  in  society,  believe  the  lodge  to  be  a  lie 
and  a  fraud,  yet  allow  their  names  to  give  it  re- 
pute and  character  among  men.  0  friends,  you  whom 
the  fear  of  man  keeps  from  openly  renouncing  so 
great  an  iniquity,  how  shall  you  answer  to  God 
for  the  souls  of  our  precious  young  men  who  are 
stumbling  over  your  example  into  hell! 


MORAL  HBR0B8. 


BY     BEV.   JOEL    SWAETZ,    D.    D. 


The  patriot  and  soldier  whose  heart  does  not  quail 
In  the  fierce  battle-line  where  thousands  must  bleed. 

But  rushes  to  meet  the  thick,  murderous  hail. 
Is  honored  and  crowned  as  a  hero  Indeed. 

But  is  he  not  braver  who  follows  the  Right, 
And  follows  it  singly  wherever  'tis  shown? 

Who  combats  the  Wrong  with  courage  and  might. 
Whether  joined  by  the  crowd,  or  fighting  alonel 

Aye,  bravest  are  they,  who,  loyal  of  soul. 
Advance  to  the  fray  as  conscience  commands, 

And  press  with  their  might  right  on  to  the  goal, 
Whatever  the  Right  and  its  banner  withstands. 

Miejudged  are  they  oft,  derided  and  slain ; 

But  gentle  as  bold,  and  fearless  as  meek. 
They  calmly  endure  all  scorning  and  pain ; 

Most  joyful  in  tears,  most  mighty  when  weak. 

The  warrior  in  battle  with  daring  is  fired. 
By  numbers  who  rush  'mid  the  noise  to  the  fray : 

The  hero  of  conscience  by  Duty  Inspired, 
Win  fight,  though  alone,  till  his  life's  latest  day. 

No  trumpet,  no  cannon,  no  death-laden  air 

Is  needed  to  fire  the  languishing  soul 
Of  the  martyr  for  truth,  and  his  spirit  to  stir 

For  the  conflicts  which  He  In  his  path  to  the  goal. 

Ah,  few  are  the  fields  where  Righteousness  pleads 
With  weapons  of  steel  for  conscience  and  right ; 

And  few  are  the  heroes  on  fierce  neighing  steeds. 
Who,  emboldened  by  love,  rush  on  to  the  tight. 

The  weapons  of  Truth  are  burnished  with  light. 

And  tempered  with  grace  In  the  armory  above ; 
The  heroes  who  wield  them  are  heralds  of  peace, 
And  the  conquests  they  win  are  triumphs  of  love. 
Oettysbtirg,  Fa. 

FREEMASONRY  UN8CR1PTURAL  AND  ANTI- 
CHRISTIAN. 


BY  RBV.  B.  W.  WILLIAMS. 

Undoubtedly  the  public  have  right  to  examine 
into  the  teachings  of  Freemasonry,  and  to  observe 
the  character  and  conduct  of  its  members.  Those 
whose  eyes  have  been  opened  to  the  real  nature  and 
tendency  of  this  institution,  should  not  hesitate  to 
raise  their  voices  against  it.  Especially  do  we  need 
to  keep  it  continually  before  the  minds  of  the  peo- 
ple that  the  lodge  is  contrary  to,  and  subversive  of, 
the  Christian  religion.  This  proposition  can  hardly 
be  denied  by  any  one  who  has  given  the  subject 
careful  thought.  In  order  to  clearly  exhibit  the 
teachings  of  the  Bible  on  the  subject,  and  show  its 
antagonism  to  the  lodge,  I  offer  the  following  argu- 
ments: . 

Abgument  I. — The  Bible  represents  Jesus  Christ 
alone  as  the  foundation  and  source  of  salvation,  and 
condemns  every  humanly  devised  system  of  religion 
which  proposes  to  save  men  on  other  terms  than 
those  laid  down  in  the  Gospel.  "Believe  on  the 
Lord  Jesus  Christ  and  thou  shall  be  saved."  (Acts 
16:  31.)  "Neither  is  there  salvation  in  any  other: 
for  there  is  none  other  name  under  heaven  given 
among  men,  whereby  we  must  be  saved."  (Acts  4: 
12)  Paul  says:  "If  any  man  preach  any  other 
gospel  unto  you  than  that  ye  have  received,  let  him 
be  accursed."     (Gal.  1:9) 

That  Masonry  is  a  religion  has  often  been  shown 
from  the  testimony  of  her  leading  men.  General 
B  F  Butler,  a  Mason  of  33  degrees,  in  a  public 
speech  at  Lynn,  Mass.,  Nov.  3,  1878,  said:  "Ma- 
sonry is  a  religion  of  the  highest  and  noblest  type. 
Mackey  says:     "Masonry  is  undoubtedly  a  religious 


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January  26, 1888 


institution."  (Masonic  Jurisprudence,  page  95.) 
Again  he  says:  "The  religion  of  Masonry  is  pure 
theism."  (Lexicon,  page  404.)  Webb,  the  father  of 
American  Masonry,  declares:  "So  broad  is  the  re- 
ligion of  Masonry,  and  so  carefully  are  all  sectarian 
tenets  excluded  from  the  system,  that  the  Christian, 
the  Jew,  the  Mohammedan,  in  all  their  numberless 
sects  and  divisions,  may  and  do  harmoniously  com- 
bine, in  its  moral  and  intellectual  work,  with  the 
Parsee,  the  Confucian,  and  the  worshiper  of  Deity 
in  every  form."     (Webb's  Monitor,  page  285.) 

A  belief  in  God  constitutes  the  Masonic  creed. 
(Mackey's  Ritualist,  page  44.)  Paine  and  Voltaire 
believed  in  a  Deity,  but  were  bitter  enemies  to 
Christianity  and  the  Bible.  So  Masonry  acknowl- 
edges God,  but  rejects  his  Son.  Christ  says:  "He 
that  honoreth  not  the  Son,  honoreth  not  the  Father 
which  hath  sent  him."  (John  5:  23.)  Masonry 
teaches  salvation  by  the  common  gavel  and  good 
works,  without  Christ.  Proof:  "The  common  gavel 
is  an  instrument  made  use  of  by  operative  Masons 
to  break  off  the  corners  of  rough  stones,  the  better 
to  fit  them  for  the  builder's  use;  but  we,  as  Free  and 
Accepted  Maeons,  are  taught  to  use  it  for  the  more 
noble  and  glorious  purpose  of  divesting  our  hearts 
and  consciences  of  all  the  vices  and  superfluities  of 
life,  thereby  fitting  our  minds  as  living  stones  for 
that  spiritual  building,  that  house  not  made  with 
hands,  eternal  in  the  heavens."  (Sickel's  Monitor, 
pages  31-5  )  Quotations  might  be  multiplied;  but 
these  are  sufficient  to  show  that  Masonry  is  a  relig- 
ion, proposing  itself  as  a  panacea  for  all  human  ills, 
and  promising  salvation  without  Christ.  Thrown 
into  a  syllogism  the  argument  stands  thus: 

1.  The  Bible  condemns  any  other  religion  than 
the  Grospel  of  Christ. 

2.  Masonry  is  another  religion,  according  to  its 
own  declarations. 

3.  Therefore,  the  Bible  condemns  the  religion  of 
Masonry. 

Argument  II. — According  to  the  Bible,  it  is  the 
duty  of  the  Christian  to  "keep  himself  unspotted 
from  the  world."  (James  1:  27.)  That  is  to  say, 
he  must  not  allow  himself  to  be  contaminated  by  the 
evil  that  is  in  the  world.  Now,  when  he  joins  a  Ma- 
sonic lodge  he  enters  an  institution  composed  of  all 
kinds  of  worldly  and  wicked  men.  Among  them 
may  be  found  infidels,  Jews,  Turks,  pagans,  Mo- 
hammedans, persons  of  every  grade  of  religion 
and  irreligion,  morality  and  immorality;  including, 
it  may  be,  drunkards,  gamblers,  rakes,  libertines, 
etc.  And  no  Christian  man  can  habitually  associate 
with  such  characters  without  having  his  moral  sensi- 
bilities impaired.  He  will  necessarily  receive  spots 
from  the  world.  Hence,  he  should  keep  out  of  the 
lodge.    Notice: 

1.  The  Bible  requires  that  we,  as  Christians, 
should  keep  ourselves  unspotted  from  the  world. 

2.  In  the  associations  of  the  lodge  we  cannot  but 
receive  spots  from  the  world. 

3.  Therefore,  the  Bible  requires  that  we  should 
have  nothing  to  do  with  the  lodge. 

Arqumknt  III. — Paul  says:  "Have  no  fellow- 
ship with  the  unfruitful  works  of  darkness,  but 
rather  reprove  them."  (Eph.  5:  11.)  I  need  not 
use  many  words  in  showing  that  Masonry  is  an  un- 
fruitful work  of  darkness.  It  is  unfruitful,  because 
it  has  not  been  productive  of  good.  It  has  made  no 
great  discoveries  in  science  and  nature.  It  has  pro- 
duced none  of  the  great  inventions  of  modern  times. 
It  has  never  made  the  proud  humble,  the  disobedi- 
ent dutiful,  the  drunkard  sober,  the  dishonest  just, 
the  profligate  prudent,  the  revengeful  forgiving,  nor 
the  miserable  happy.  And  its  charitable  and  be- 
nevolent work  could  have  been  done  just  as  well 
without  secrecy,  oaths,  curses,  threats,  penalties, 
etc.  Masonry  is  a  work  of  darkness  because  its  in- 
side teachings  are  hidden  under  the  veil  of  secrecy. 
It  has  its  midnight  conclaves,  secret  grips,  myste- 
rious passwords,  etc.  If  its  objects  and  principles 
are  pure  and  noble,  why  should  they  be  kept  in 
darkness  and  secrecy?  "Men  love  darkness  rather 
than  light  because  their  deeds  are  evil."  (John  3: 
19.)     Let  it  be  observed: 

1.  We  are  commanded  in  the  Scriptures  to  have 
no  fellowship  with  the  unfruitful  works  of  darkness. 

2.  Masonry  is  an  unfruitful  work  of  darkness. 

3.  Therefore,  we  are  commanded  to  have  no  fel- 
lowship with  Masonry. 

Argument  IV. — It  is  written  in  the  Scriptures, 
"Whatsoever  ye  do  in  word  or  deed,  do  all  in  the 
name  of  the  Lord  Jesus,  giving  thanks  unto  God 
and  the  Father  by  him."  (Col.  3:  17.)  This  re- 
quires that  all  our  words  and  acts  of  worship  be  in 
the  name  of  Christ  It  is  well  known  that  the  name 
of  Christ  is  carefully  excluded  from  Masonic  prayers; 
and  in  passages  of  Scripture  used  in  Masonic  cere- 
monies, where  the  name  of  Christ  occurs  it  is  stricken 
out.  How,  then,  can  a  Christian  engage  in  such 
worship? 


1.  The  Scriptures  condemn  all  worship  not  in  the 
name  of  Christ. 

2.  The  worship  of  the  lodge  is  not  in  the  name 
of  Christ. 

3.  Therefore,  the  Scriptures  condemn  the  worship 
of  the  lodge. 

Argument  V. — Our  Lord  Jesus  Christ  said:  "I 
spake  openly  to  the  world;  I  ever  taught  in  the  syn- 
agogue and  in  the  temple  whither  the  Jews  always 
resort,  and  in  secret  have  I  said  nothing."  (John 
18:20.)  This  is  plain  and  explicit.  He  who  desires 
to  follow  the  Saviour  in  all  things  can  surely  find  no 
difficulty  in  judging  wherein  safety  appears.  The 
argument  from  this  passage,  stated  in  syllogistic 
form  is: 

1.  Secret  methods,  plans,  conclaves,  abjurations, 
etc.,  are  contrary  to  the  example  and  precepts  of 
Christ. 

2.  Masonry  is  characterized  by  secret  methods, 
plans,  conclaves,  abjurations,  etc. 

3.  Therefore,  Masonry  is  contrary  to  the  example 
and  precepts  of  Christ. 

Weatherford,  Texas, 


CEURCH  UNITY. 


BY   REV.   J.    M.    FOSTER. 


The  motto  of  the  Christian  Conference  of  the 
American  Evangelical  Alliance  was:  "Unum  corpus 
sumus  in  Christo."  (We  are  one  body  in  Christ.) 
This  suggests  the  idea  of  living  unity.  It  is  not 
such  a  unity  as  the  frost  produces  when  it  binds  up 
into  a  dead,congealed,heterogeneous  mass  stones  and 
straw,  pearls  and  pepples,  gold  and  silver,  iron  and 
clay — substances  that  have  nothing  in  common.  It 
is  not  the  unity  of  the  church  of  Rome — a  perfect 
organization,  but  wanting  in  life.  It  is  not  simply 
an  agreement  to  differ,  the  lying  down  of  the  lion 
and  the  lamb,  each  unchanged  in  nature.  It  is 
the  unity  of  life.  It  has  its  seat  in  the  heart.  It 
has  first  "one  mind,"  then  "one  mouth."  "I  will 
give  them  one  heart  and  one  way,"i3  the  promise  by 
the  prophet.  "That  they  may  be  one  as  we  are"was 
the  Saviour's  prayer.  "Of  one  heart  and  one  soul" 
is  the  apostle's  ideal.  To  realize  this  it  is  necessary: 

1.  That  there  be  agreement  as  to  the  great  doc- 
trines of  revelation.  There  are  two  classes  of  re- 
vealed truths,  fundamental  and  circumstantial.  In 
the  latter  a  forced  uniformity  is  neither  possible  nor 
desirable.  It  will  be  remembered  that  Charles  V., 
after  a  long  and  troublous  reign,  in  which  he  tried 
to  quench  the  light  of  the  reformation  and  make  all 
think  alike,resigned  his  crown  and  retired  to  a  Span- 
ish cloister.  Here  he  tried  to  make  two  time-pieces 
go  alike.  Failing,  he  exclaimed,  "What  a  fool  I 
was  to  attempt  to  make  men  think  alike,  when  I 
cannot  make  two  clocks  go  alike."  No  two  heads  of 
wheat  are  alike;  no  two  leaves,  no  two  men,  and  no 
two  Christians.  Unitj  in  variety  is  a  law  in  nature 
and  grace.  In  the  first  there  must  be  perfect  con- 
cord.    "To  the  law  and  to  the  testimony." 

At  first  the  church's  creed  was  brief  and  simple, 
embracing  a  few  of  the  leading  fundamental  doc- 
trines of  the  Bible.  But  in  process  of  time  false 
doctrines  were  promulgated,and  the  Scriptures  were 
misinterpreted  to  make  them  countenance  these  doc- 
trines; and  hence  it  became  necessary  for  the  church 
to  enlarge  her  creed  from  time  to  time,  and  declare 
distinctly  and  explicitly  the  teaching  of  Scriptures. 
The  church's  creed  arose  out  of  controversy.  It  was 
not  for  the  Bible,  but  for  her  understanding  of  the 
Bible  that  the  church  contended.  In  the  fourth  cen- 
tury the  Arian  heresy  arose.  Arius  taught  that 
Christ  was  only  a  created  being.  Accordingly,  the 
first  ecumenical  council  was  called  at  Nice  325  A.D. 
This  council  decided  that  "Christ  is  very  God  of 
very  God."  That  is  the  comer-stone  in  the  church's 
foundation.  Then  the  ApoUinarian  heresy  arose — 
the  denial  of  Christ's  perfect  humanity.  The  second 
ecumenical  council  was  called  at  Constantinople  381 
A.  D.  This  council  decided  that  the  Scriptures 
teach  that  "Christ  had  a  true  body  and  a  reasonable 
soul" — "very  man  of  very  man."  Then  the  Nestor- 
ian  heresy  arose — the  separation  of  the  two  natures 
of  Christ  into  two  persons.  And  the  third  ecumen- 
ical council  was  called  at  Ephesus  431  A.  D.  This 
council  defended  the  unity  of  Christ's  person.  Then 
the  Monophysite  heresy  arose — the  denial  of  the 
two  distinct  natures  of  Christ — and  the  fourth  ecu- 
menical council  was  called  at  Chalcedon  451  A.  D. 
This  council  decided  that  Christ  has  "two  distinct 
natures  but  one  person  forever."  It  also  gave  a  de- 
liverance respecting  the  person  and  office  of  the 
Holy  Spirit.  This  council  represents  the  high-tide 
mark  of  the  church's  attainments  in  the  early  cen- 
turies. 

These  decisions  are  granite  blocks  in  the  church's 
I  foundation.      On  the  31st  of  October,  1517,  when 


Martin  Luther  nailed  his  ninety-five  theses  to  the 
door  of  Wittemburg  Cathedral,  a  large  addition  was 
made.  Great  contributions  were  made  in  the  Chris- 
tian Institutes  of  John  Calvin,  the  Heidelberg  Cate- 
chism and  the  Thirty-nine  Articles  of  the  Church  of 
England.  The  Augsburg  Confession  represents  the 
attainments  of  the  church  in  the  First  Reformation. 
The  Westminster  Assembly  was  called  by  the  Long 
Parliament,  and  convened  in  the  chapel  of  Henry 
VII.,  July  1,  1643.  It  consisted  of  one  hundred 
and  twenty-one  clergymen  and  thirty  laymen,  ten  of 
whom  were  lords  and  twenty  commoners,  together 
with  four  clerical  and  two  lay  commissioners  from 
the  Church  of  Scotland.  The  assembly  is  described 
as  learned,  faithful  and  pious.  Their  first  act  was 
to  swear  the  Solemn  League  and  Covenant.  They 
continued  their  sessions  until  1649.  They  submit- 
ted the  Directory  of  Public  Worship  to  Parliament 
in  1644;  the  Confession  of  Faith  in  1646;  the  Short- 
er Catechism  in  1647;  and  the  Larger  Catechism  in 
1648.  They  did  not  aim  at  originality,  but  fidelity. 
It  was  not  their  purpose  to  draw  out  these  doctrines 
from  their  own  minds  as  the  spider  draws  her  web 
from  her  own  bowels,  but  only  to  gather  up  and 
state  in  systematic  order  the  doctrines  of  their  pre- 
decessors. The  doctrines  that  were  so  ably  defend- 
ed by  Luther  and  Knox  and  so  powerfully  stated  by 
Calvin  were  the  doctrines  of  Augustine,  Athanasius, 
Hubs  and  Jerome.  And  the  doctrines  of  this  assem- 
bly were  those  of  the  former  divines.  So  that  the 
Westminster  Assembly  represents  the  attainments 
of  the  church  up  to  that  time.      *      *      *      * 

2.  There  must  be  harmony  as  to  the  manner  of 
worship. 

The  finite  mind  is  not  competent  to  determine 
what  worship  will  be  acceptable  to  an  infinite  God. 
Divinely  appointed  forms  are  to  be  observed.  Mo- 
ses was  to  make  all  things  according  to  the  pattern 
shown  to  him  in  the  mount.  The  New  Testament 
church  is  to  observe  "all  the  forms  and  all  the  ordi- 
nances of  the  house."  Martin  Luther  came  out  of 
the  church  of  Rome  on  this  principle,  "We  must 
have  nothing  in  the  worship  of  God  except  what  he 
has  commanded."  The  Westminster  Assembly  de- 
cided that  "the  sins  forbidden  in  the  Second  Com- 
mandment are  the  worshiping  of  God  by  images  or 
any  other  way  not  appointed  in  his  Word." 

All  are  agreed  that  worship  consists  in  the  read- 
ing and  preaching  of  the  Word,  the  sacraments,bap- 
tism  and  the  Lord's  8upper,prayer  and  praise.  With 
reference  to  these  there  is  general  agreement  among 
the  Reformed  churches,barring  the  matter  and  man- 
ner of  praise.        *        *        *        *        *        * 

3.  There  must  be  co-operation  in  the  church's 
work. 

The  Bible  makes  no  provision  for  a  divided 
church.  These  divisions  originated  in  sin  and  have 
been  productive  of  much  harm.  And  the  time  is 
coming  when  "for  the  divisions  of  Reuben  there  will 
be  great  searchings  of  heart,"  when  the  watchmen 
on  Zion's  wall  shall  see  eye  to  eye  and  sing  togeth- 
er with  one  voice.  The  church  as  one  phalanx  should 
go  forward  against  the  common  foe.  The  keynote 
of  the  Christian  Conference  was,  "The  enemy  is 
massing  his  forces;  the  church  must  unite  her  forc- 
es to  meet  him." 

4.  There  must  be  one  spirit  of  life.  "Ye  are  the 
body  of  Christ."  "We  have  all  been  baptized  into 
one  body,  whether  we  be  Jews  or  Gentiles,"  and 
"have  all  been  made  to  drink  of  that  selfsame  Spir- 
it." The  Spirit  was  poured  out  on  Pentecost  and 
"the  multitude  of  them  that  believed  were  of  one 
heart  and  of  one  soul."  Let  the  Spirit  be  poured 
out  again  in  like  manner,  and  all  believers  will  con- 
tinue steadfast  "in  the  apostles' doctrine  and  fellow- 
ship, and  in  breaking  of  bread  and  prayers."  This 
is  the  unity  of  the  Spirit  in  the  bond  of  peace. 

Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 

■  •  * 

TES  SIN  OF   TBB  NATION. 


BY  P.    F.    TMURBER. 


Taking  an  oath  or  pledge  to  do  anything,  either 
good  or  bad,  not  knowing  what  it  is,  is  sin:  and  it 
must  be  confessed  as  sin.     See  Lev.  5:1,5. 

Not  long  ago  I  was  talking  with  a  man  who  had  tak- 
en an  oath  of  allegiance  to  support  the  Constitution 
of  the  United  States  and  of  the  State  of 
Iowa.  I  asked  him  if  he  did  not  think  that  the  ob- 
ligation which  he  had  taken  in  joining  a  secret  soci- 
ety was  unconstitutional.  To  my  surprise  he  an- 
swered, "I  don't  know  what  the  Constitution  is."  If 
we  should  ask  the  same  question  to  the  millions  of 
foreign-bom  citizens  who  have  taken  the  oath  to 
support  the  Constitution,  how  many  would  answer, 
"I  knew  nothing  about  the  Constitution  when  I  took 
the  oath  to  support  it?"  Is  not  this  the  reason  why 
so  many  of  our  foreign-bora  population  are  so  law- 
less? 


Janttart  26,  1888 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


3^ 


Here  is  the  sin,  folly  and  danger  of  this  nation. 
No  one  should  be  allowed  citizenship  and  a  vote 
who  does  not  know  the  Constitution  and  is  not  loyal 
to  it,  or  who  will  not  stand  up  for  his  neighbor's 
rights  as  well  as  his  own.  Here  is  work  for  all  who 
are  loyal  to  God  or  their  country.  Preach  the  Con- 
stitution and  the  duty  of  understanding  it  before 
they  are  sworn  to  support  it. 

No  loyal  citizen  can  Join  a  mob  to  punish  a  crim- 
inal, because  the  Constitution  declares  that  no  per- 
son shall  be  deprived  of  life,  liberty  or  property 
without  due  process  of  law.  Nor  can  he  ]oin  a  se- 
cret society  because  the  Constitution  declares  that 
the  freedom  of  speech  and  of  the  press  shall  be 
abridged  in  no  manner.  Every  obligation  taken  in 
a  secret  society  which  hinders  you  or  any  one  else 
from  speaking  and  publishing  your  honest  senti- 
ments, is  unconstitutional  and  not  binding.  Any 
person  who  has  belonged  to  a  secret  order  and  be- 
lieves it  is  a  humbug,  a  swindle,a  waste  of  time  and 
money,  or  anti-republican  or  anti-Christian,  has  a 
perfect  right  to  say  so  and  every  loyal  citizen  will 
support  him. 

What  we  want  then  is  a  public  sentiment  and  law 
which  will  require  a  man  to  understand  the  Consti- 
tution before  pledging  himself  to  support  it,  and  a 
law  to  prohibit  and  punish  the  crime  of  giving  or 
taking  an  obligation  abridging  the  freedom  of  speech, 
or  an  obligation,  the  nature  and  extent  of  which 
is  not  known  to  the  one  receiving  it  before  it  was 
taken. 


THE  LEGAL  8TATUB  OF  THE  BOYCOTT. 


As  the  United  States  Supreme  court  has  in  con- 
sideration whether  the  boycott  shall  be  considered 
a  common  conspiracy,  the  following  opinion  of 
Judge  Brown,  of  New  York,  as  quoted  in  the  Inde- 
pendent some  time  since,  will  be  read  with  interest. 
The  Independent  says: 

Judge  Brown,  of  the  District  Court  of  the  United 
States  for  the  Southern  district  of  New  York,  has 
recently  made  a  very  clear  statement  in  regard  to 
the  unlawfulness  of  boycotting.  The  case  before 
him  was  a  motion  to  vacate  the  arrest  of  John  Mc- 
Kenna,  James  E.  Quinn  and  others  styling  them- 
selves the  "Executive  Board  of  the  Ocean  Associa- 
tion of  the  Longshoremen's  Union."  These  parties 
had  been  arrested  in  an  action  brought  against  them 
by  the  "Old  Dominion  Steamship  Company,"  to  re- 
cover $20,000  damages,  as  the  result  of  a  boycott 
which  they  had  established  to  the  injury  of  the  com- 
pany engaged  in  the  business  of  a  common  car- 
rier. 

The  complaint  of  the  plaintiff  on  which  the  arrest 
was  made,  as  stated  by  Judge  Brown,  sets  forth  the 
following  facts,  as  the  cause  of  the  action  against 
the  defendants: 

"The  plaintiff  was  engaged  in  the  legal  calling  of  com- 
mon carrier,  owning  vessels,  lighters,  and  other  craft  used 
in  its  business,  in  the  employment  of  which  numerous 
workmen  were  necessary,  who,  as  the  complaint  avers, 
were  employed  'upon  terms  as  to  wages  which  were  just 
and  satisfactory.' 

"The  defendants,  not  being  in  plaintiff's  employ,  and 
without  any  legal  justification,  so  far  as  appears — a  mere 
dispute  about  wages,  the  merits  of  which  are  not  stated, 
not  being  any  legal  justification — procured  plaintiff's 
workmen  in  this  city  and  in  Southern  ports  to  quit  work 
in  a  body  for  the  purpose  of  inflicting  injury  and  dam- 
age upon  the  plaintiff  until  it  should  accede  to  the  de 
fendants'  demands,  which  the  plaintiff  was  under  no  ob- 
ligation to  grant,  and  that  such  procuremeat  of  work- 
men to  quit  work,  designed  to  inflict  injury  on  the  plain- 
tiff and  not  being  justified,  constituted  inlaw  a  malicious 
and  illegal  interference  with  the  plaintiff's  business  which 
is  actionable. 

"After  the  plaintiff's  workmen,  through  the  defend- 
ants' procurement,  had  quit  work,  the  defendants,  for  the 
further  unlawful  purpose  of  compelling  the  plaintiff  to 
pay  such  a  rate  of  wages  as  they  might  demand,  declared 
a  boycott  of  the  plaintiff's  business,  and  attempted  to 
prevent  the  plaintiff  from  carrying  on  any  business  as 
common  carriers,  or  from  using  or  employing  its  vessels, 
lighters,  etc.,  in  that  business,  and  endeavored  to  stop  all 
dealings  of  other  persons  with  the  plaintiff  by  sending 
threatening  notices  or  messages  to  its  various  customers 
and  patrons,  and  to  the  agents  of  various  steamship  lines, 
and  to  wharfingers  and  warehousemen  usually  dealing 
with  the  plaintiff,  designed  to  intimidate  them  from  hav- 
ing any  dealings  with  it  through  threats  of  loss  and  ex- 
pense in  case  they  dealt  with  plaintiff  by  receiving,  shar- 
ing, or  transmitting  its  goods  or  otherwise;  and  that  va- 
rious persons  were  deterred  from  dealing  with  the  plain- 
tiff in  consequence  of  such  intimidations  and  refused  to 
perform  existing  contracts,  and  withheld  their  former 
customary  business,  greatly  to  the  plaintiff's  damage." 

Judge  Brown,  having  thus  stated  the  cause  of  ac- 
tion as  presented  in  the  complaint  of  the  plaintiff, 
proceeds  to  state  as  follows  the  law  on  this  subject: 

"Associations  have  no  more  right  to  inflict  injury  upon 
others  than  individuals  have;  all  combinations  and  asso- 
ciations designed  to  coerce  workmen  to  become  members 
or  to  interfere  with,  obstruct,  vex  or  annoy  them  in  work- 
ing or  in  obtaining  work  because  they  are  not  members, 


or  in  order  to  induce  them  to  become  members,  or  de- 
signed to  prevent  employers  from  making  a  just  discrim- 
ination paid  to  the  skillful  and  unskillful,  to  the  diligent 
and  the  lazy,  to  the  efficient  and  the  inefficient;  and  all 
associations  designed  to  interfere  with  the  perfect  free- 
dom of  employers  in  the  proper  management  and  control 
of  their  lawful  business,  or  to  dictate  in  any  particular 
the  terms  upon  which  their  business  shall  be  conducted, 
by  means  of  threats  of  injury  or  loss,  by  interference 
with  their  property  or  traffic,  or  with  their  lawful  em- 
ployment of  other  persons,  or  designed  to  abridge  any  of 
these  rights,  are  illegal  combinations  or  associations,  and 
all  acts  done  in  furtherance  of  such  intentions  by  such 
means  and  accompanied  by  damage  are  actionable." 

This  is  a  very  clear  statement  of  the  various  spec- 
ific purposes  for  which  a  boycott  is  established;  and, 
as  Judge  Brown  holds  all  combinations  or  associa- 
tions having  these  purposes  in  view,  are  in  them- 
selves ipso  facto  "illegal,"  and  all  acts  done  in 
furtherence  of  "such  intentions  by  such  means  and 
accompanied  by  damage  are  actionable."  On  this 
ground  he  refused  to  discharge  the  defendants  from 
arrest. 

In  his  deliverance  on  the  subject,  the  Judge  said 
that  the  acts  specified  in  the  complaint,  "were  not 
only  illegal,  rendering  the  defendants  liable  in  dam- 
ages, but  also  misdemeanors  at  common  law  as  well 
as  by  section  168  of  the  Penal  Code  of  this 
State."  The  section  of  the  Code  referred  to,  provides 
that  if  two  or  more  persons  shall  conspire  together 
"to  prevent  another  from  exercising  a  lawful  trade 
or  calling,  or  doing  any  other  lawful  act,  by  force, 
threats  or  intimidation,  or  by  interfering  or  threat- 
ening to  interfere  with  tools,  implements  or  proper- 
ty belonging  to  or  used  by  another,  or  with  the  use 
or  employment  thereof,"  then  each  of  such  persons 
shall  be  deemed  guilty  of  a  misdemeanor.  This  is 
one  of  the  definitions  of  a  punishable  misdemeanor. 
The  Supreme  Court  of  Connecticut  has  recently 
decided  a  case,  in  which  it  expressed  views  similar 
to  those  of  Judge  Brown.  It  would  be  well  for 
boycotters  to  bear  in  mind  that  they  are  criminals 
and  liable  to  punishoient,  as  well  as  answerable  in 
actions  for  the  damages  which  they  may  inflict  on 
others. 


Pott,  understood  to  be  a  member  of  Parliament,  re- 
ferring to  a  Prohibition  party  meeting  held  in  Lon- 
don on  the  18th  ult,  which  met  with  little  favor, 
the  general  preference  in  England  being  for  the 
local  option  method,  says:  "The  prohibition  people 
will  vote  only  for  candidates  pledged  to  their  views, 
and  hope  to  form  a  small  party  in  Parliament  and 
imitate  Mr.  Pamell's  tactics."  He  adds:  "They 
may  have  serious  influence  on  the  politics  of  the 
future."  With  the  troublesome  Irish  question  ad- 
justed there  is  no  doubt  that  the  liquor  issue  will 
speedily  come  to  the  front  in  British  politics. 

^  •  » 

THE  BENEFITS  OF  THE  FRATERNITIES. 


STRIKES  AND  LOOKOUTS. 


The  Evening  Post,  of  New  York,  gives  the  sub- 
stance of  a  detailed  statement  made  by  the  Phila- 
delphia Ledger,  in  reference  to  the  results  of  strikes 
and  lockouts  in  Philadelphia  during  the  period  of 
nine  months,  beginning  with  July  1st,  1886,  and 
ending  February  1st,  1887. 

It  appears  from  this  statement,  that  there  were  in 
all  108  strikes;  that  in  seventeen  instances  the  em- 
ployes were  discharged  in  consequence  of  strikes, 
or  of  wage  or  shop  diflSculties;  that  nineteen  of 
these  strikes  were  successful  in  gaining  the  end 
sought;  that  six  of  them  were  satisfactorily  settled; 
that  twenty-one  of  them  were  compromised;  and 
that  sixty  of  them  were  total  failures.  Forty  of 
them  were  for  higher  wages,  and  some  twenty  of 
them  were  against  a  reduction  of  wages.  Twenty- 
five  of  them  were  by  organized  workingmen  againsi 
others  whose  discharge  they  demanded.  The  whole 
number  of  persons  thrown  out  of  employment  by 
these  strikes  was  18,123,  and  their  loss  in  wages, 
that  would  otherwise  have  been  earned  and  received, 
is  set  down  at  $1,221,750.  In  twenty-two  of  the 
strikes  none  ol  the  strikers  recovered  their  old  places; 
and  in  about  fifty  of  the  strikes  only  a  portion  of 
the  strikers  were  taken  back  by  their  former  em- 
ployers. 

There  were  also  eleven  lockouts  by  employers 
during  the  same  period,  of  which  four  were  success- 
ful, either  in  obtaining  new  hands,  or  compelling 
the  old  bands  to  accept  employment  upon  their 
terms,  while  five  were  compromised,  and  two  are 
still  pending. 

The  lesson  taught  by  these  figures,  especially  in 
relation  to  the  strikes  which  have  occurred  in  Phila- 
delphia during  the  period  in  question,  is  simply  the 
average  lesson  taught  by  all  the  strikes  in  this 
country  for  a  number  of  years.  While  the  strikers 
in  a  comparatively  small  number  of  cases  have  suc- 
ceeded in  forcing  compliance  with  their  demands,  at 
no  inconsiderable  sacrifice  to  themselves,  the  general 
rule  is  that  they  have  made  a  total  failure  to  secure 
their  ends,  with  huge  losses  in  the  way  of  wages. 
Millions  upon  millions  of  dollars  have  thus  been 
lost  within  the  last  twelve  mouths.  The  wonder  is 
that  workingmen  have  not  long  since  seen  the  folly 
of  submitting  their  liberty  to  the  arbitrary  dictation 
of  walking  delegates  and  labor  "bosses,"  who,  under 
the  disguise  of  being  friends,  are  really  their  worst 
enemies.  The  less  they  have  to  do  with  such 
friends  the  better  it  will  be  for  themselves. 


Prohibition  sentiment  is  growing  in  Great  Britain. 
The  London  correspondent  of  the  New  York  Evening 


One  of  the  claims  made  for  the  secret  orders  is 
the  benefit  to  be  derived  from  them  in  the  way  of 
aid  or  protection  or  relief.  But  this  claim  is  not 
well  founded. 

If  there  is  some  advantage  gained  by  a  member, 
it  must  be  at  the  expense  of  some  one  else,  because 
the  organization  is  not  founded  on  the  principle  of 
barter,  where  both  may  receive  benefit  from  the  ex- 
change. Then  what  is  one  man's  gain  is  another 
man's  loss.  This  gain  may  be  from  a  member  or 
members  of  the  order,  in  which  case  the  loss  is 
yielded  voluntarily,  or  it  may  be  from  them  that  are 
outside,  when  it  is  yielded  involuntarily.  In  the  first 
instance  it  is  their  own  business  and  we  do  not  be- 
grudge them;  in  the  other  case,  the  advantage  is 
gained  by  unfair  means,  by  fraud,  and  this  fraud  is 
possible  only  under  the  cloak  of  secrecy. 

The  secrecy  is  entirely  unnecessary  in  carrying 
on  their  work  of  relief.  The  paying  in  of  dues  and 
handing  out  of  relief  does  not  need  the  protection 
of  a  tyler,  or  the  guard  of  an  oath  of  secrecy.  In 
fact  this  ]»art  of  the  work  would  be  more  efficiently 
and  economically  performed,  if  it  was  all  open  to 
inspection,  as  any  other  public  enterprise.  The  ap- 
pointing of  committees  to  wait  upon  the  sick,  etc., 
needs  no  secrecy. 

There  is  a  great  disadvantage  in  keeping  all  these 
matters  covered  up,  for  there  is  more  of  a  tempta- 
tion to  extravagance  and  waste.  The  feasts  and 
suppers  and  parades  and  regalia  and  other  unneces- 
sary expenses  are  encouraged  because  the  veil  of 
secrecy  is  thrown  over  them.  If  they  were  exposed 
to  the  scrutiny  and  criticism  of  a  cold  and  unfriendly 
world,  these  expenses  would  not  grow  so  luxuriantly. 

It  is  however  in  getting  the  advantage  of  the  out- 
siders that  the  benefit  of  secrecy  is  found.  It  is  a 
mild  form  of  piracy,  a  respectable  association  of 
cheats  and  defrauders.  When  we  remember  that 
the  weak  and  sickly,  the  aged  and  young,  women 
and  the  helpless  are  excluded,  we  see  how  prepos- 
terous the  idea  that  they  need  to  proteqt  themselves 
from  the  rest  of  the  community. 

Their  ritual  and  secret  work  is  babyish  and  silly, 
but  the  excuse  that  they  need  their  secrecy  to  pro- 
tect themselves  is  still  more  babyish  and  silly. 
They  people  the  world  with  witches  and  hobgoblins 
and  in  their  frenzy  of  fear  mistake  honest,  sincere 
people  for  these,and  attack.deceive  and  defraud  them. 

Our  efforts  are  not  directed  at  their  benevolence 
or  relief.  They  may  aid  a  brother,  or  sit  up  at  night 
with  a  comrade,  and  no  one  will  object.  They  may 
glory  in  this  work  as  though  they  emulated  the 
friendship  of  Damon  and  Pythias,  and  we  will  only 
smile  at  them.  But  when  they  use  the  cloak  of  se- 
crecy as  a  means  of  defrauding  the  rest  of  us  of  our 
rights,  or  to  get  the  advantage  of  us  politically  or 
socially  or  in  any  other  way,  then  we  are  perfectly 
justified  in  attacking  that  secrecy,  in  tearing  the 
veil  of  deception  from  the  "ancient  hand-maid,"  and 
exposing  her  to  the  jeers  and  mockery  of  the  public. 
— Birmingham  Free  Press. 

One  of  the  legal  devices  hitherto  employed  by  the 
liquor  men  in  Kansas  and  Iowa  to  evade  and  thwart 
the  prohibitory  law  has  been  to  take  appeals  from 
the  State  courts  to  the  United  States  District  Court. 
The  late  decision  of  the  United  States  Supreme 
Court  will  put  an  end  to  such  dilatory  appeals.  A 
Dubuque,  Iowa,  telegram  of  the  14th  ult  says: 
"Judge  Shiras,  of  the  United  States  District  Court, 
remanded  to-day  all  the  brewery  and  saloon  cases 
before  him  to  the  State  courts.  This  was  done  at 
the  request  of  Judge  Brewer,  of  Ivansas.  Fourteen 
cases  in  all  were  remanded."  The  telegram  adds: 
"This  cuts  off  all  hope  on  the  part  of  the  liquor  man 
and  brewers  of  evading  the  final  issue  by  delays  and 
appeals.  It  is  a  victory  for  the  Prohibitionists,  and 
will  result  in  putting  to  a  speedy  test  the  virtue  of 
the  Clark  law."  Judge  Brewer  has  evidently  heard 
from  Washington,  and  the  other  brewers,  and  their 
law-defying  allies,  are  now  likely  to  come  to  grief. 

The  Eastern  insurance  companies  have  given  no- 
tice to  the  brewers  of  Dubuque,  Iowa,  that  they  can 
no  longer  take  risks  upon  their  property. 


TSU^  OHBJBTIAN  CYNOSUHB. 


Januar?  26,  1888 


OUS  NBW  TORE  LETTER. 


Editob  Christian  Cynosure: — In  the  Homiletic 
Review  for  Dec,  1887,  there  is  an  article  on  "The 
Connection  between  Church  and  State,"  by  Prof. 
Philip  Schaff,  D.  D.  Three  connecting  links  are 
mentioned :  monogamy  in  marriage,  the  weekly  day 
of  rest,  and  the  public  schools. 

1.  Marriage  is  a  civil  contract  and  a  religious 
bond,  recognized  and  sanctioned  by  both  church 
and  state  in  this  land. 

2.  The  Sabbath  is  both  a  civil  and  a  religious 
institution.  In  the  second  sense  it  belongs  to  the 
church.  The  church  tells  us  how  to  keep  the  Sab- 
bath. But  in  the  first  sense  it  belongs  to  the  State. 
The  State  must  prohibit  public  Sabbath  desecration. 
Says  Dr.  Schaff:  "Sabbath  laws  are  not  positive  and 
coercive,  but  negative,  defensive  and  protective.  The 
State  has  no  right  to  command  the  religious  observ- 
ance of  the  Sabbath,  and  to  punish  anybody  for  not 
going  to  church,  as  was  done  in  some  countries  of 
Europe.  But  the  State  is  in  duty  bound  to  protect 
the  religious  community  in  their  right  to  enjoy  the 
rest  of  that  day,  and  should  forbid  such  public  des- 
ecration as  interferes  with  this  right." 

3.  The  public  schools  are  the  creature  of  the 
State.  But  the  State  cannot  educate  without  teach- 
ing morality  and  religion.  The  Bible  in  the  public 
schools  is  the  tie  between  the  church  and  State. 
Many  are  willing  to  let  the  Bible  go  out  at  the  dicta 
tion  of  its  enemies.  But  says  the  Dr.  "It  is  better 
to  hold  on  to  the  time-honored  custom  of  holding 
up  before  the  rising  generation  day  by  day,  a  short 
and  suitable  lesson  from  the  Book  of  books:  Some 
of  the  Psalms  are  at  the  same  time  the  sublimest 
lyrical  poetry;  the  Lord's  prayer  is  the  best  of  all 
prayers;  the  Sermon  on  the  Mount  is  more  popular 
and  beautiful  than  any  moral  essay;  and  the  thir- 
teenth chapter  of  first  Corinthians  is  the  most  effect- 
ive sermon  on  charity."  He  would  have  a  compe- 
tent and  judicious  committee  select  the  passages 
most  suitable  to  be  read,  as  Dr.  Morris  of  Lane 
Theological  Seminary  has  done.  The  State  may 
not  teach  the  church's  creeds.  But  the  church 
might,  he  thinks,  very  properly  occupy  the  school 
buildings  certain  hours  for  that  purpose.  The  State 
may  teach  a  few  branches  without  touching  upon 
religion,  but  in  history  and  moral  science  it  is  im- 
possible. Says  Dr.  Schaff:  "The  ditBculty  begins 
in  history,  and  the  moral  sciences  which  deal  with 
character  touch  upon  religious  ground  and  enjoin 
the  eternal  principles  of  duty.  A  history  which 
would  ignore  God,  Christ,  the  Bible,  the  church,  the 
Reformation,  the  faith  of  the  first  settlers  of  this 
country,  wotild  be  nothing  but  a  ghastly  skeleton  of 
dry  bones.  An  education  which  ignores  the  great- 
est characters  and  events,  and  the  most  sacred  inter- 
ests in  human  life,  must  breed  religious  indifference, 
infidelity  and  immorality.  But  the  people  will  not 
allow  this  as  long  as  they  remain  religious  and 
Christian." 

Last  Sabbath  evening  I  preached  in  the  Greene 
Ave.  M.  E.  church.  Rev.  M.  McNickle,  pastor.  The 
house  was  filled.  The  closest  attention  was  given. 
I  have  heard  from  several  quarters  that  they  were 
greatly  interested  in  our  reform.  Bro.  McNickle  is 
an  Irishman  by  birth.  He  has  a  Presbyterian  mind 
and  a  Methodist  heart.  His  work  is  very  successful. 
Rev.  Mason,  of  the  Baptist  church,  was  in  the  pul- 
pit. Bro.  McNickle  said,  "I  have  here  on  my  right 
a  Baptist  brother,  one  of  the  straightest  sect;  on  my 
left  is  a  Reformed  Presbyterian,  a  Covenanter,  as 
we  called  them  in  the  old  country;  and  I  am  a 
Methodist,  dyed  in  the  wool.  But  we  are  all  one. 
The  Protestant  churches  are  more  nearly  united  than 
the  church  of  Rome  to-day.  The  tendency  to  exalt 
vital  and  fundamental  truth  and  minimize  the  cir- 
cumstantials of  our  faith  will  soon  make  us  all  one 
body  in  Christ"  After  service.  Rev.  Mason  invited 
me  to  attend  their  Baptist  preachers'  meeting, 
Monday  at  11  a.  m.,  at  No.  9  Murray  street.  New 
York  city.  Accordingly  I  went  and  was  introduced 
and  invited  to  address  them  on  National  Reform. 

At  a  conference  of  a  few  of  the  friends  of  the 
cause  last  Monday  night  it  was  resolved  to 
hold  a  State  Convention  in  New  York  city,  the  24th 
of  April.  Committees  were  appointed  with  a  view 
to  working  up  a  grand  meeting.  It  is  proposed 
there  to  organize  a  New  York  State  Association, 
auxiliary  to  the  National  Reform  Association. 

A  second  meeting  of  the  Brooklyn  ministers  and 
elders  was  held  this  afternoon  in  the  Y.  M.  C.  A. 
hall,  with  a  view  to  organizing  a  "Brooklyn  Evan- 
gelical Alliance."  A  constitution  and  by-laws  have 
been  adopted, and  Board  of  Managers  chosen.  The  ob- 
jects of  the  alliance  are  "to  manifest  and  strengthen 
Christian  unity,  to  promote  Christian  fellowship  and 
co-operation,to  study  social  problems.and  to  apply  to 
their  solution  the  principles  of  the  Gospel,  and  especi- 
ally to  reach  with  Christian  influence  the  entire  com- 


munity  without  interfering  with  the  methods  or  polity 
of  any  of  the  denominations."  The  Reformed  church- 
es were  generally  represented. 

The  blizzard  in  the  north-west  and  the  Reading  rail- 
road strike,  costing  millions  of  dollars,  directly 
or  indirectly,  show  that  God  is  thus  manifesting  his 
displeasure  with  this  nation  on  account  of  its  rebel- 
lion. "Thou  shalt  break  them  with  a  rod  of  iron; 
thou  shalt  dash  them  in  pieces  like  a  potter's  vessel. 
Be  wise  now  therefore,  0  ye  kings;  be  instructed, 
ye  judges  of  the  earth:  serve  the  Lord  with  fear,  and 
rejoice  with  trembling.  Kiss  the  Son,  lest  he  be 
angry,  and  ye  perish  from  the  way,  when  his  wrath 
is  kindled  but  a  little.  Blessed  are  all  they  that 
put  their  trust  in  him."  J.  M.  Foster. 


OUR  MEMPHIS  LETTER. 


A  visit  to  Nashville  and  Rager  Williams  University. — 
The  new  institution  founded  by  Peter  Eowe. — Its  great 
success. — An  old  antagonist  becomes  a  friend. 

Dear  Cynosure: — I  have  just  made  a  flying  trip 
to  Nashville,  Tenn.,  a  distance  of  nearly  300  miles 
from  Memphis.  It  is  the  first  trip  I  have  taken  any 
distance  alone  since  the  ever-to-be-remembered  mob 
of  1885.  God  was  with  me,  and  I  appeared  unto 
many  of  the  leading  society  men.  I  spent  my  time 
while  there  in  the  Roger  Williams  University,  the 
Baptist  school  of  the  Mississippi  Valley.  They  had 
an  excellent  meeting  in  progress,  and  I  preached  two 
sermons  and  made  two  exhortations,  each  of  which 
seemed  to  be  productive.  The  interest  manifested 
was  very  marked. 

There  are  in  this  school  nearly  200  students, 
young  men  and  ladies,  from  over  100  different  local- 
ities. I  learned  that  only  two  of  these  young  men 
adhere  to  the  lodge.  One  of  them  is  a  member  of 
the  Marion,  Ark.,church,eighteen  miles  from  this  city, 
of  whose  stand  against  the  lodge  I  wrote  you  some 
time  since.  This  young  man,  1  was  informed,  took 
a  Masonic  scarf-pin  away  from  a  fellow  student,and 
informed  him  it  was  contrary  to  the  Masonic  consti- 
tution for  him  to  wear  it,  the  young  man  mutely 
gave  up  the  pin.  I  gave  them  several  private  talks 
on  the  subjects  and  promised  to  ask  you  to  send 
them  a  few  of  Ronayne's  "Masonry  at  a  Glance," 
that  they  may  have  a  clandestine  lodge  in  theUniversi- 
ty,and  thus  put  in  a  wedge  that  will  protect  them  from 
being  swindled  when  they  come  out  of  school. 

We  have  an  excellent  beginning  of  an  anti-secret 
society  school  in  Memphis.  There  are  thirty-three 
ministers  in  attendance. 

Bro.  Woodsall  who  has  had  many  years  of  exper- 
ience, says  that  he  has  never  had  a  finer  class  to  be- 
gin with.  Many  of  the  brethren  came  from  fifty  to 
a  hundred  miles.  One  of  the  brethren  remarked 
after  the  first  lesson,  "Preparation  for  the  coming  of 
Christ,"  that  it  was  worth  coming  a  hundred  miles 
to  get  one  such  lesson  as  that.  All  are  delighted 
with  school.  Many  more  have  sent  word  that  they 
will  be  in  soon. 

I  have  just  received  a  significant  letter,  the  author 
being  the  man  who  championed  the  cause  of  the 
Mason  the  night  I  made  my  public  debate;  and 
though  he  professed  to  be  a  Methodist  divine,  he 
did  honor  to  the  cause  he  represented,  which  was 
that  of  lies.  It  is  a  private  letter,  but  it  is  too  good 
in  my  estimation  to  be  hid  under  a  bushel.  I  want 
it  published  with  a  "glory  to  God,"  and  loud  shout 
of  "Hallelujah  to  the  Lamb,  whose  blood  cleanses 
from  all  sin" : 

You  were  bo  busy  with  your  own  troubles  when  I  was 
in  Memphis  that  you  had  not  time  to  take  note  of  mine. 
Suffice  it  to  say  that  my  persecutors  made  it  so  warm  for 
me  that  I  was  compelled  to  leave  in  order  to  get  suste- 
nance for  my  family,  of  wife  and  three  little  ones.  You 
will  remember  the  argument  we  had  at  the  church,  cor- 
ner DeSoto  and  Vance.  Well,  many  sorrowful  moments 
have  I  spent  since  then ;  and  my  persecutors,  strange  to 
say,  were  those  I  defended  that  night.  I  suppose  1  de- 
served punishment  for  some  sin,  real  or  imaginary.  The 
world  would  expect  (from  what  is  said  of  secret  orders) 
that  my  persecution  would  come  from  some  other  source. 
Long  aince  I  have  known  that  you  are  right,  and  I,  too, 
am  now  praying  that  the  church  of  Christ,  and  not  se- 
cret orders,  may  unite  man  in  one  brotherhood.  I  shall 
ever  feel  grateful  to  you  as  being  the  only  friend  besides 
Prof.  Sampson  who  gave  me  substantial  aid  at  the  time 
of  my  sore  distress.  D.  E.  Johnson. 

I  consider  this  a  famous  victory  for  God.  Bro. 
Johnson  is  an  eloquent  man,  and  he  who  may  chance 
to  meet  him  in  debate  has  a  foeman  worthy  of  his 
steel.  I  pray  God  he  may  have  the  courage  to  press 
his  convictions  and  "Dare  to  be  a  Daniel." 

I  am  yet  trying  to  do  yeoman  service;  and,  God 
helping  me,  I  never  expect  to  let  go  until  he  shall 
say,  "Well  donel" 

The  entire  country  for  miles   around  is  elated 
over  Bro.  Peter  Howe's  generosity  in  aid  of  our  an- 
ti-secret society  school,  and  we  expect  that  the  col- 1 
ored   people  will  aid  us  to  the  extent  of  several' 


thousands  of  dollars  in  the  work  of  building.  Two 
colored  men  have  already  subscribed  $1,500  for  the 
work,  and  with  such  a  school  in  Memphis,  secret 
societies  will  have  their  backbone  unjointed  in  the 
Mississippi  Valley. 

Yours  at  work,        R.  N.  Countee. 


OUR  BOSTON  LETTER. 


"Forti  et  fideli  nihil  difficile."  Such  is  the  well- 
deserved  motto  which  Rev.  Dr.  Fulton  might  inscribe 
upon  the  standard  of  his  new  crusade  against  the 
enemy  of  American  institutions — "To  the  brave  and 
faithful  there  is  nothing  difficult."  His  suppressed 
book,  like  Luther's  theses,will  be  given  to  the  world. 
It  will  be  read.  Since  the  publication  of  the  Rand- 
Avery  Co.'s  frank  and  open  letter  in  the  daily  news- 
papers defining  the  cause  of  their  refusing  to  print 
"Why  Priests  should  Wed,"  and  their  subsequent 
consent,  or  rather  compulsion,  to  adhere  to  their 
contract,  the  public  has  anxiously  waited  for  the  ap- 
pearance of  the  unread  yet  celebrated  volume.  To 
the  disappointment  of  many,  however,  it  cannot  be 
bought,  because  it  cannot  be  sold.  But  like  Bishop 
McNamara's  excommunication  of  the  Pope  it  will 
be  read.     It  will  be  given  away  I 

In  the  capacious  hall  of  the  Mechanics'  Building, 
Huntington  Avenue,  Back  Bay,  New  West  End,  in 
this  city.  Dr.  Fulton  will  begin  his  crusade  around 
the  world  for  the  redemption  of  Catholics  from  Ro- 
manism. Two  mass  meetings  will  be  held  on  the 
evenings  of  the  23d  and  24th  inst.  Tickets  of  ad- 
mission will  cost  $1.00,  but  each  purchaser  will  be 
gratuitously  presented  with  a  copy  of  "Why  Priests 
should  Wed."  A  syndicate  has  contracted  for  about 
200,000  volumes,  which  will  be  disposed  of  in  the 
manner  above  mentioned.  Beginning  with  Boston 
two  mass  meetings  will  be  held  by  Dr.  Fulton  in  all 
the  principal  cities  of  the  Union  and  Europe. 

The  method  adopted  for  the  disposal  of  the  book 
will  tend  to  prevent  the  circulation  of  spurious  cop- 
ies, and  retard  the  efforts  of  the  Jesuits  to  destroy 
the  genuine.  It  will  also  place  the  book  largely  in 
the  hands  of  Protestants,  who  need  to  have  their 
drowsy  eyes  opened  almost  as  much  as  the  deluded 
victims  of  the  Great  Red  Dragon.  The  book  is 
written  more  for  Protestants  than  Catholics. 

Mechanics'  Hall  will  hold,  seated  and  standing, 
about  15,000  persons.  Among  so  large  a  number, 
it  cannot  be  doubted  that  many  Romanists  will  be 
found.  The  public  school  agitation  has  disturbed 
the  slumbers  of  this  class  more  than  is  suspected. 
But  can  this  man  draw  to  this  hall  so  large  a  num- 
ber of  citizens?  Within  a  raidius  of  five  miles  or 
thirty  minutes  travel  by  vehicle,  at  most,  there  dwell 
over  half  a  million  of  souls.  Rev.  William  W. 
Downs  several  times  in  succession  drew  this  great 
number  to  this  very  place.  Dr.  Fulton  proposes,in- 
deed,  to  raze  the  hierarchy  of  Romanism,  and  raise 
in  its  place  pure  Christianity.  He  proposes  to  de- 
throne a  fallible  man  and  enthrone  an  infallible 
Christ.  His  ultimatum  simply  is,  "the  truth  as  it  is 
in  Christ  Jesus  for  the  whole  world."  God  bless 
him,  Amen.  D.  P.  Mathews. 


—The  Freewill  Baptist  Year  Book  for  1888  shows 
a  membership  of  82,686;  net  decrease  for  the  year, 
2,119.  This  denomination  was  founded  by  Anti- 
masons  and  built  up  under  a  constitution  making 
lodgism  a  disciplinary  offence.  Of  late  years  it  has 
surrendered  to  the  lodge  and  disintegration  is  rapid- 
ly going  on.  Let  the  United  Brethren  church  take 
notice. 


Reform  News. 


MIDWINTER  IN  TEXAS. 


RocroALE,  Texas,  Jan.  16,  1888. 

No  State  in  the  Union  is  so  large,  or  has  so 
great  a  variety  of  climate  and  productions  as  Texas. 
Nowhere  are  the  variations  of  temperature  more 
sudden  and  severe.  Here  in  the  latitude  of  Austin 
the  winters  are  so  mild  that  people  raise  large  herds 
of  cattle  without  winter  feeding,  and  yet  are  liable 
to  lose  most  of  them  by  a  fierce  "norther"  which 
brings  suddenly  a  Dakota  winter. 

Such  a  time  we  are  having  at  present.  The  12th, 
13th  and  14th  were  warm  as  May.  The  sun  shone 
brightly  and  the  outdoor  air  was  a  luxury.  On  the 
evening  of  the  14th,  the  air  suddenly  became  dark 
as  though  full  of  smoke.  A  fierce  north  wind 
brought  down  the  thermometer  nearly  to  zero.  Soon 
the  air  was  full  of  a  fine,  blinding  snow.  All  night 
and  all  the  next  day  the  cold  and  snow  continued, 
though  the  wind  was  not  so  fierce;  and  now,  on  the 
16th,  the  mercury  is  but  little  above  zero,  with  sev- 
eral  inches  of  snow.     It  is  probable  that  at  least 


J^AmxART  26,  1888 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSUKE. 


half  of  the  cattle  will  die.    There  is  much  suffering  |  the  one  mediator  between   God  and  men;   but  he 


:ret 


among  the  poor  people,  for  all  houses  are  fionstruflted 
to  secure  ventilation  father  than  warmth.  Where  there 
is  Spanish  moss  the  cattle  will  subsistj  but  there  is 
nothing  else  for  them  for  seVeral"  days  at  least; 
The  Teican  people,  as  well  as  their  cattle,  suffer 
more  during  their  brief,  fierce  winter  than  people  of 
the  North.  No  religious  services  on  yesterday 
(because  of  the  cold)  were  held  in  the  churches. 

This  is  a  pleasant  town  of  1,500  inhabitants,  68 
miles  east  of  Austin,  on  the  International  R.  R.    It 
IS  in  Milam  county,  and  two  years  ago  voted  "dry," 
on  local  option.    In  the  amendment  campaign  the 
county  went  "wet,"  by  OOO  majority,  made  up  almost 
entirely  of  the  German  and  Bohemian  vote.    The 
colored  people  here  were  largely  for  the  amendment. 
On  Friday,  at  7:30  P.  M.  I  met  a  good  Congrega- 
tion at  the  chapel  of  the   Hearne   Academy,    in 
Heame.     The  meeting  was  opened  by  prayer  by 
Rev.  M.  L.  Jordan,  and  I  spoke  for  nearly  an  hour 
with  excellent  attention.    Most  of  those  present 
were  members  of  some  secret  order,  and  a  number 
of  them  expressed  themselves  convinced  by  the  ar- 
guments.   Elder  Jordan  added  his  convincing  testi- 
mony, and  it  is  hoped  and  believed  that  there  will 
be  a  great  chance  in  the  Immediate  future. 

It  was  said,  during  the  last  year  of  the  rebellion, 

that  the  Confederacy  was  but  a  hollow  shell,  and 

that  it  was  only  needful  to  penetrate  it  and  it  would 

collapse.    Gen.  Sherman  did  penetrate  it,  and  the 

collapse  was  sudden  and  complete.     What  we  need 

in  our  reform  is  a  plan  of  campaign  as  bold  and 

earnest  as  Sherman's,  and  we  shall  see  the  whole 

lodge  system  crumbling  around  us.     I  find  here  a 

spmpathetic  reception  from  Rev.  I.  Toliver,  pastor 

of  the  colored  Baptist  church.  He  is  one  of  the  leading 

colored  pastors  in  the  State  and  has  had  experience 

in  the  lodge  but  has  given  it  up  for  Christ's  sake. 

Because  of  the  inclemency  of  the  weather,  I  could 

not  address  the  people,  but  the  way  is  open  when 

any  lecturer  shall  come. 

One  of  the  reasons  given  for  the  reaction  on  the 
prohibition  question  here  was  the  non- enforcement 
of  the  local  option  law.  It  was  said  that  there  was 
but  little  difference  between  the  amount  of  drinking 
under  local  option  and  license.  But  there  was  an- 
other fact  back  of  that.  The  officers  elected  to  en- 
force local  option  were  party  politicians  and  drink- 
ing men.  The  present  city  marshal  carries  a  flask 
of  whisky  in  his  pocket.  On  meeting  me,  as  a 
stranger,  he  urged  me  to  drink  with  him.  There 
never  will  be  effective  prohibition  in  Texas  or  else- 
where until  men  who  regard  their  oath  of  office  to 
be  paramount  to  either  the  d.  mands  of  appetite  or 
fealty  to  party  are  placed  in  power.  I  expect,  D. 
v.,  to  go  back  to  Hearne,  and  thsnce  to  Houston  and 
eastward.  H.  H.  Hinman. 


TRB  IOWA 


OHAMPION  OF  LODGBRT 
TO  BE  A  DECBIVBR. 


Dear  Cynosure:— From  Richland  I  came  to  Os- 
kaloosa.  The  train  I  was  on  barely  succeeded  in 
plowing  through  the  snow  drifts.  The  violence  of 
the  storm  and  the  condition  of  the  roads  detained 
me  a  little  in  Oskaloosa,  and  then  I  went  to  New 
Sharon  in  Mahaska  county,  where  a  revival  meeting 
was  in  progress  in  the  Friends  church.  I  gave  a 
talk  in  the  afternoon  meeting  and  preached  in  the 
evening  by  invitation  of  the  evangelist  who  Was 
holding  the  series  of  meetings.  I  also  preached 
Sabbath  evening  in  the  M.  E.  church  by  request  of 
the  pastor. 

On  Monday  I  went  to  Taintor  and  visited  several 
wieuds  of  the  reform.  Some  gave  subscriptions  to 
th^j  iowa  State  association  and  some  subscribed  for 
the  Cynosure.  The  repeated  storms  and  blows  made 
it  difficult  to  travel  on  account  of  some  roads  being 
blockaded  with  snow  drifts. 

Wednesday  I  returned  to  New  Sharon.  The  Odd- 
fellows' lodge  installed  their  oflicers  that  night.  It 
was  to  be  a  public  installation,  and  Rev.  Frank 
Evans,  of  Morning  Sun  fame,  was  to  be  the  orator 
of  the  evening.  As  Mr.  Evans  is  the  champion  of 
lodgery  for  Iowa,  and  I  am  anxious  to  know  the 
truth  in  regard  to  the  lodge  system,  and  about  Odd- 
fellowship  in  particular,  I  determined  to  return  to 
New  Sharon  and  hear  all  the  good  that  could  be  said 
of  Odd-fellowship  by  this  veteran  defender  of  the 
lodge.  I  have  regarded  Odd- fellowship  as  a  part  of 
a  great  Satanic  conspiracy  to  supplant  Christ  and 
subvert  Christianity.  I  have  denounced  it  as  an 
infidel  conspiracy  against  Christ,  and  against  our 
holy  Christianity. 

With  great  care  I  listened  to  Mr.  Evans,  assured 
that  he  would  say  the  best  things  that  could  be  said 
of  Odd-fellowship,  Though  a  minister  in  the  M,  J], 
church,  he  was  there  as  an  Odd  fellow,  wearing  the 
regalia  of  the  order.  He  offered  prayer,  I  listened 
attentively  for  some  recognition  of  Christ  JesuB,  as 


prayed  as  an  Odd-fellow  and  not  as  »  Christian. 
No  one  cowld  have  gathered  from  his  prayer  that 
Jesus  Christ  has  Come  in  the  flesh,  or  that  his  is  the 
only  name  given  under  heaven  or  among  men  where- 
by wfe  cM  be  sated.  1  knew  Mr.  Evans  was  not  a 
Jew.  I  said,  caii  It  Ibw  possible  that  Odd-fellowship 
has  made  him  a  deist? 

The  installation  ceremony   followed.     I  had  not 
come  to  see  that,  and  hence  was  glad  when  it  was 
over,  and  the  "Noble  Grand"  pronounced  an  eulogy 
upon  Mr.  Evans,  and  announced  that  he  would  now 
address  us.     Mr.  Evans  labored  with  all  the  inge- 
nuity afld  sophistry  he  is  capable  of,  to  defend  Odd- 
fellowship   from   the   attacks  the  N.  C.  A.  and  its 
auxiliaries  have  made  upon  It.     He  complained  that 
the  Cynosure  had  charged  Odd-fellowship  with  being 
fin  infidel  order,  and   then  labored  to  prove  that  I 
Odd- fellowship  is  not  organized  atheism.     They  re- 
quired candidates  to  Confess  a  belief  in  God.    They 
worshiped  God,  he  said.     The  Cynosure  says   that 
Odd-fellowship  worships  a  false  god,  he  complained 
again.     And  then   he  quoted   from   the  ritual,  to 
prove  that  it  is  the  God  of  Job,  and  of  David,  that 
Odd-fellowship  worships. 

I  did  not  need  to  be  told  by  Mr.  Evans  that  Odd- 
felloWship,  as  well  as  Freemasonry,  quotes  from  the 
Bible  to  impress  its  members  with  the  idea  that  they 
are,  as  Odd-fellows,  worshiping  the  true  God.     Mr. 
Evans  cannot  have  grown  as  grey  as  he  is,  in  the 
ministry  of  the  M.  E.  church,  without  coming  to  the 
knowledge  of  the  fact  that  the  God  and   Father  of 
our  Lord  Jesus  Christ  can  only  be  approached  by 
those  who  confess  Jesus  Christ  as  their  Lord  and 
Saviour.     He  knows  that  Odd-fellowship  studiously 
ignores  Jesus  Christ  as  the  one  mediator  between 
God  and  men.     He  knows  that  grace  to  truly  repent 
towards  God,  and  the  grace   that   brings   salvation, 
can  only  come  through  Jesus  Christ;  that  no  man 
can  come  to  God  but  by  Jesus  Christ;   and  that   if 
any  man   has  not  the   Son,  that  man  has  not  the 
Father.     Why,  then,  does  he  not  accept  the  conclu- 
sion that  the  God  and  Father  of  our   Lord   Jesus 
Christ  is  not  the  God  of  Odd-fellowship.     If  the  in- 
dividual, who  has  not  the  Son,  has  not  the   Father, 
then   the  Father  is  not  the  god  of  Odd-fellowship, 
seeing  that  Odd-fellowship  studiously  ignores  the 
Son. 

Mr.  Evans,  as  an  Odd-fellow,  ignored  Christ  him- 
self, when  he  prayed.     And  he  was   not  dishonest 
enough   to  claim   that    Odd-fellowship   recognized 
Christ  as  the  Redeemer  and  Mediator.     He  only 
claimed  that  Odd-fellowship  confessed  faith  in  God, 
worshiped  God,  taught  love  to  God  and  man.    In 
other  words   he  only  argued  against  the  idea  that 
Odd-fellowship  is  organized  atheism.     But  by  his 
prayer  and  by  his  lecture  he  confirmed  the  charge 
I  that  Odd-fellowship  is  organized  deism.     He  seemed 
SHO  WN  ^  ^^  oblivious  of  the  fact  that  there  is  such  a  thing 
as  deistical  infidelity:  and  yet  he  knows  that  deism 
is  just  as  really  infidelity  as  atheism  is.     I   hazard 
nothing  in  saying  that  Mr.  Evans  knows  that  Odd- 
fellowship  is  organized  deism:  and  therefore  organ- 
ized deistical  infidelity.     He  knows  that  the  worship 
of  Odd- fellowship  is  a  fraud;   that  mercy  cannot  be 
obtained,  nor  the  regenerating   spirit  received,  by 
those  who  worship  according  to  the  deistical   ritual 
of  Odd-fellowship,    Mr,  Evans  knows  that  Odd-fel- 
lowship is  powerless  to  beget  the  love  of  God  in  the 
hearts  of  its  votaries;  that  there  is  nothing  in   its 
ceremonies,  nothing  in  its  precepts  or  teachings  to 
generate  divine  love  in  the  hearts  of   its   members. 
He  knows  that  salvation  is  not  by  ceremonies;  that 
it  is  not  by  works  of  righteousness  that  we  can  do; 
that  it  is  by  the  mercy  of  God,  obtained  in  humble 
penitence,  through  faith  in  Christ  Jesus.     He  knows 
that  those  who  worship  according  to  the   ritual  of 
Odd-fellowship  cannot  come  to  God  for  mercy;  and 
that,  therefore,  the  worship  of  Odd-fellowship  is  a 
counterfeit  worship,  deceptive,   false,   Satanic,   and 
offensive  to  God,  as  was  the  idolatry  of  the  ancients. 
Mr.  Evans  has  not  to  search  his  Bible  very  care- 
fully to  learn  that  the  false  worshipers  of  the   pro- 
phetic  times   worshiped   devils.      A  little   further 
scriptural  research  will  convince  him  that  the  false 
worshipers  of  the  apostolic  times  worshiped  devils. 
With  these  scriptural  facts  in  bis  mind,  the  conclu- 
sion will  be  irresistible,  that  the  false  worshipers  of 
o\ir  times  worship  devils.     Mr.  Evans  will  not  claim 
that  devils  are  the  true  God:   and  hence,  to  be  con- 
sistent, he  will  have  to  cease  to  criticise  the  Cynosure 
for  affirming   that   Odd-fellowship   worships    false 
gods. 

Mr.  Evans,  doubtless,  is  aware  that  Satan  is  the 
inspiration  of  all  false  worship:  and  when  he  prayed 
as  an  Odd-fellow  that  "we  (Odd-fellows)  might  put 
the  love  of  God  and  man  in  our  hearts,"  he  knew 
that  we  naturally  have  a  carnal  mind  that  is  enmity 
against  God;  and  that  we  do  not  love  God,  and  that 
we  can  not  love  God  until  we  repent  towards  him, 


and  believe  on  the  Lord  Jesus  Christ,  and  receive 
redemption  through  his  blood,  and  adoption 'as  chil- 
dren of  God,  and  God  sends  the  Spirit  of  his  Son 
Into  our  hearts,  and  the  love  of  God  is  shed  abroad 
in  our  hearts  by  the  Holy  Ghost  which  is  given  unto 
us.     Why,  then,  does  he  lend  himself  to   Satan   to 
deceive  the  people  into  assuming  that  Odd-fellow- 
ship is  love  to  God  and  man,  when   he  knows  that 
love  to  God  can  only  come  of  believing  in  Jesus, 
who  is  utterly  ignored  in  the  ritual  of  Odd-fellow- 
ship.    Why   did   he   have  the  hardihood  to  affirm 
that  if  a  man  is  a  good  Odd-fellow  all  the  angels  of 
God  cannot  keep  him  out  of  heaven,  when  he  knows 
that  Odd-fellowship  is  not  Christianity;  that  it  is 
organized  deistical  infidelity;   that   Odd-fellowship, 
therefore,  cannot  make  men  Christians:  that  it  can 
only  make  them  deists  and   Pharisees?     And   yet, 
with  cunning  craftiness,  Mr.  Evans  sought  to  deceive 
I  the  people  by  calling  their  attention  to  the  fact  that 
the  end  sought  to  be  reached  in  Christianity  is  love 
to   God   and  our  fellow  men.     Odd-fellowship,  he 
said,  teaches  love  to  God  and  our  fellow  men.     And 
so,  with  the  subtilty  of  the  serpent,  he  led  his  Odd- 
fellow hearers  to  the  conclusion  that  Odd-fellowship, 
by  its  processes,  secures  the  same  results   that  are 
realized  by  those  who  pass  through  the  processes  of 
salvation  in  the  Gospel  of   Christ:   and  hence,  if  a 
man  is  a  good  Odd-fellow,  all  the  angels  of  God  can- 
not keep  him  out  of  heaven.     Could  we  expect  an 
apostle  of  Satan  to  be  guilty  of  more  deceptive 
teaching? 

Mr.  Evans  knows  that  teaching  men  to  love  God, 
while  training  them  in  a  deistical  ritual  of  worship, 
is  just  as  deceptive  and  cruel  as  it  would  be  to  teach 
them  to  eat  and  drink  regularly  that  they  might  be 
strong  and  long-lived,  while  leading  them  into  a 
desert  where  they  must  inevitably  faint  and  perish 
with  hunger  and  thirst. 

What  is  the  matter  with  Mr.  Evans?  Is  he  wil- 
fully playing  the  role  of  an  apostle  of  deception?  or 
has  he  gone  so  far  in  the  false  worships  of  Freema- 
sonry and  Odd-fellowship  that  he  has,  himself,  come 
so  fully  under  the  mesmeric  power  of  Satan  that  a 
lie  seems  like  the  truth  to  him? 

Bro.  Evans,  has  the  light  that  was  in  you,  as  a 
Christian,  become  darkness;  and  has  the  darkness 
become  so  great  that  you  cannot  distinguish  between 
the  love  of  God  that  the  Holy  Ghost  sheds  abroad 
in  the  heart  of  the  true  penitent  believer  in  Christ 
Jesus  our  Lord,  and  the  Satanic  counterfeit  of  that 
divine  love  that  Odd-fellowship  produces?  You 
could  distinguish  the  difference  between  a  real  fire, 
and  a  picture  of  a  fire:  why,  then,  can  you  not  dis- 
tinguish between  the  love  of  God  in  the  hearts  of 
those  who  are  living  branches  of  Christ,  the  true 
vine,  and  a  word  painting  of  that  divine  love,  as 
found  in  Odd-fellowship? 

If  the  light  that  is  in  you  becomes  darkness  "how 
great  is  that  darkness."  C.  F.  Hawljy. 


A  COLD  DAT  BUT  A  WARM  WBLCOMB. 


Rockdale,  Texas,  1888. 

Dear  Cynosure: — As  I  was  preparing  to  write 
you  last  week,  an  elderly  man  called  for  Elder  Jor- 
dan. On  turning,  he  said,  "I  am  Hinman."  You 
cannot  imagine  how  glad  I  was.  I  only  write  to 
speak  of  his  stay  in  Hearne.  On  Friday  night  he 
lectured  in  the  chapel  of  the  Hearne  Academy,  to  a 
very  good  audience.  The  lecture  far  surpassed  all 
expectations,  even  of  those  who  favored  his  work. 
One  of  my  deacons  said  during  the  day,  "He  can't 
talk  to  me.  I'll  not  be  there!"  Yet  he  came  out. 
After  the  meeting  this  same  deacon  said,  with  tears 
in  his  eyes,  "I  said  1  would  not  hear  him,  but  my 
conscience  lashed  me  for  it.  I  came  and  am  con- 
victed and  converted."  He  is  treasurer  of  one  of 
the  S.  S.  of  C.  lodges,  a  kind  of  insurance  society. 
I  venture  to  say  half  of  the  colored  Baptists  of 
Texas,  or  more,  have  been  initiated  into  it.  A  great 
many  of  those  who  were  there  asked  that  I  get  Bro. 
Hinman  to  stay  and  preach  for  them.  They  pressed 
on  him  to  stay  and  give  this  truth  again. 

It  was  sad  to  hear  from  a  school  teacher,  and  a 
prominent  man,  next  day  that  some  other  man  said, 
if  he  had  two  other  men  to  go  with  him  he  would 
hang  Bro.  Hinman  and  tie  me  to  a  tree  and  whip 
me,  and  leave  me  until  next  morning  for  my  frienas 
to  let  loose.  Mr.  E.  I.  Saddler,  editor  of  one  of  our 
papers,  heard  him  telling  it  and  said,  "Yes,  I  should 
like  to  be  standing  near  with  a  good  shotgun." 
Thus,  you  see,  friends  were  made  for  our  cause. 
We  came  to  this  place  from  Hearne  to  be  with  and 
strengthen  Bro.  Toliver,  but  it  is  so  cold  we  can't 
get  out.  In  fact  it  is  the  coldest  day  wo  have  had. 
Bnx  H.  goes  on  his  way  for  New  Orleans  via  Hous- 
ton, Orange  and  New  Iberia.  I  shall  follow  on  in 
time  to  be  at  the  meeting  in  February. 

Yours  in  Jesus,  L.  G.  Jordan. 


TBM  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSTTRB. 


January  26, 1888 


CORRESPOKDENCE. 


A  LOUISIANA  STATS  CONVENTION  GALLED 
FOR. 

New  Orleans,  Jan.  15th,  1888. 

Dear  Cynosure: — Rev.  John  Q-.  Nelson,  a  Scan- 
dinavian pastor,  with  Bro.  John  Asals,  another 
white  brother,  promise  to  attend  the  National  Con- 
vention. St.  John  Divine  and  Shiloh  Baptist  church- 
es promise  to  send  two  delegates  with  their  pastors. 
I  lectured  in  both  these  churches  in  the  interest  of 
the  convention  last  week.  I  suggest  that  it  would 
be  well  to  try  and  organize  a  Christian  Association 
in  Louisiana.  Let  the  N.  C.  A.  urge  this  at  the  New 
Orleans  Convention.  If  I  could  get  into  the  coun- 
try I  would  try  to  enthuse  the  minds  of  the  people 
to  secure  that  end.  Rev.  G.  W.  Bothwell  for  presi- 
dent, Rev.  B.  Gunner  for  secretary,  and  Rev.  B. 
Dorsey  as  treasurer,  would  be  a  competent  staff  for 
a  Christian  Association  of  this  State.  I  think  Bro. 
Stoddard  will  do  well  to  come  down  here  a  week  or 
two  before  the  convention. 

I  preached  at  a  church  last  night.  After  service  egg- 
nogg,wine  and  cake  were  served  to  the  congregation. 
We  need  missionaries  here  as  well  as  in  India  and 
Africa.  I  have  written  to  Bros.  Hubbs  and  Dorsey 
about  the  National  Convention.  Politics  are  warm 
here  just  now,  the  ring  candidate  being  defeated  for 
renomination  for  governor.  So  let  us  keep  the  re- 
form rolling  on.  F.  J.  Davidson. 

■  I  m 

SELFISHNESS  AND  TEE  LODGE 


PITH  AND  POINT. 


Lincoln,  Kans. 
Editor  Christian  Cynosure: — In  a  recent  edi- 
torial in  the  Christian  Statesman,  entitled  "The  Bat- 
tle with  Anarchy,"  the  writer  concludes  with  these 
words:  "The  root  principle  of  anarchy  is  atheism. 
Every  atheist  is  logically  an  anarchist.  In  so  far  as 
any  government  by  its  practices,  its  education,  its 
drift  and  tendency  fosters  atheism,  it  fosters  an- 
archy. Any  education  which  rules  out  all  religious 
ideas  is  necessarily  atheistic.  Here  is  a  loud  call  to 
reflection  on  the  part  of  the  American  people." 

Let  us  bring  this  qustion  of  anarchy  nearer  home 
so  that  this  evil  which  threatens  our  life  as  a  nation 
may  be  more  quickly  remedied.  The  root  principle 
of  anarchy  is  selfishness;  and  this  vice,  which  is  so 
thoroughly  developed  under  the  false  name  of  secret 
societies,  has  so  many  followers  and  so  strong  a 
grasp  on  our  national  life  that  it  is  becoming  a  vital 
question  whether  or  not  the  whole  tree  has  become 
so  corrupt,  so  unfruitful  that  it  is  doomed. 

It  is  grand  to  be  loyal  to  our  country  and  its  in- 
stitutions. But  it  is  far  grander  to  be  loyal  to  our 
God  and  to  ourselves.  This  would  result  in  an  im- 
provement on  our  institutions  and  divine  blessing  on 
our  country.  Such  loyalty  tolerates  no  selfish  indul- 
gences, no  bending  from  the  path  of  duty,  no  fol- 
lowing after  false  gods,  no  going  "after  the  way  of 
our  own  heart."  Says  Chancellor  John  Hall,  in  an 
article  on  "The  Tares  Indebted  to  the  Wheat": "The 
tares  are  not  bad  doctrines  but  bad  people,  and  they 
are  allowed  to  remain  because  of  their  nearness  to 
the  good.  Had  there  been  a  dozen  righteous  in  Sod- 
om the  people  of  Sodom  would  have  been  spared 
and  probably  not  bated  one  whit  their  contempt  for 
the  righteous.  Here,  then,  is  one  among  several 
reasons  for  Grod's  endurance  of  evil  men.  It  is  not 
that  the  enemy  is  stronger  than  he.  It  is  not  that 
evil  is  in  the  ascendant  against  him.  In  conscious 
almighty  power,  in  considerate  regard  for  the  chil- 
dren of  his  love,  in  clear  view  of  the  time  when  his 
angels  will  make  a  final  separation,  and  his  govern- 
ment will  be  cleared  of  all  suspicion,  he  lets  the 
wicked  alone  because  of  their  closeness  to  the  right- 
eous." 

A  minster  of  the  M.  E.  church,  who  joined  the 
Odd-fellows,admitted  there  was  nothing  in  the  Scrip- 
tures that  sanctioned  such  action  as  joining  a  secret 
society;  that  he  thought  the  church  should  and  would 
provide  all  the  benefits  claimed  by  the  lodge;  that 
he  did  not  know  as  a  man  could  have  any  other 
motive  than  a  purely  selfish  one  in  joining.  When 
asked  if  he  would  not  write  an  article  for  the  Cyno- 
sure either  for  or  against  secret  societies,  he  said 
if  he  did  it  would  be  against  them,  and  he  did  not 
feel  that  he  could  consistently  do  that.  But  he  con- 
sidered the  views  of  the  editor  somewhat  narrow  on 
the  lodge  question.  Are  views  narrow  which  if 
practiced  would  absolutely  stop  anarchy  and  its 
evils?  that  would  undoubtedly  bring  "peace  on  earth 
and  good  will  to  men?"that  would  lead  a  man  to  live 
more  Christlike?  If  these  are  narrow  views  we  are 
certainly  becoming  too  liberal-minded. 

Would  that  the  churches  were  a  unit  under  such 
principles  as  those  of  the  National  Christian  Asso- 
ciation, and  thus  be  stronger  against  wrong. 

B.  S.  Hull. 


THB    "CTNOSUBB       PORTRAITS. 

[Our  readers  will  understand  that  such  references  to  the 
senior  editor  as  those  below  are  printed  without  his  knowl- 
edge. The  associate  editor  in  the  office  inserts  them  because 
they  are  hearty  commendations  which  it  is  not  the  nature 
of  reformers  to  suppress;  and  there  is  mutual  good  cheer 
all  around  at  such  commendations  of  work  which  we 
have  been  at  some  pains  to  have  meritorious .  ] 

I  wish  to  send  not  alone  New  Tear's  gratulations,  but 
many  thanks  for  that  splendid  surprise  to  which  you 
have  treated  the  readers  of  the  Cynosure  in  the  most 
magnificent  head  and  life-like  likeness  of  President 
Blanchard.  As  a  work  of  art  it  is  faultless;  and  as  a 
likeness  most  perfect  and  expressive.  I  think  it  cannot 
fail  to  give  great  pleasure  and  satisfaction  to  all  the  read- 
ers of  the  Cynosure  and  lovers  of  the  cause  to  which  it 
and  its  noble  editors  and  publishers  are  devoted.  May 
you  all  have  a  prosperous  and  happy  New  Tear,  is  the 
wish  and  prayer  of  your  brother  in  Christ, — Geo  .  W . 
Clark . 

I  think  all  readers  and  friends  of  the  Cynosure  must 
be  greatly  pleased  with  the  likeness  which  has  just  ap- 
peared of  its  senior  editor.  The  man  who  has  dared 
most  bravely,  and  risked  more  than  any  other,  to  step 
into  the  deadliest  breach  that  Satan  and  his  hosts  have 
made  in  the  Christian  church  so  far  this  century,  is  one 
whose  features  both  friends  and  foes  will  want  to  look 
upon .  As  a  likeness  of  Jonathan  Blanchard,  I  have 
never  seen  anything  more  satisfactory,  unless  it  was  his 
ambrotype  of  many  years  ago.  Because  of  this  "most 
lion-like  looking  man"  many  friend?  will  retain  the  first 
issue  of  the  Cynosure  of  this  year  as  one  of  their  most 
valued  souvenirs  for  1888.  The  portrait  should  be  nice- 
ly lithographed  or  engraved .  When  shall  we  have  the 
long-promised  portrait  and  biographical  sketch  of  Rev . 
John  Eankin  in  the  Cynosuref — E.  P.  Chambers. 


THE  BEST  OF  NEWS  PROM  NEW  HAMPSHIRE. 

When  I  was  approached  for  my  subscription  to  the 
salary  of  our  new  minister,  I  subscribed  on  condition 
that  the  man  does  not  belong  to  any  secret  order;  and  I 
am  happy  to  know  that  he  is  strongly  opposed  to  all — 
and  no  member  of  his  church  belongs  to  any  secret  or- 
ganization. It  is  certain  that  the  secret  societies  are  ex- 
tremely unpopular  in  this  section  of  the  State. — B .  M. 
Mason,  Moultonhoro,  N.  H, 

A   MASONIC   ADVERTISEMENT, 

If  speculative  Masonry  was  founded  in  1717,  what  is 
the  explanation  of  the  meeting  and  date  given  in  the  en- 
closed advertisement  taken  from  the  N.  Y.  Tribune? 

"Free  to  F.A.  M. — Fine  Colored  Engravings  of  An- 
cient York,  England,  where  the  first  G.  Lodge  of  Masons 
was  held  A.  D.  926.  Also  large  illustrated  Catalogue  of 
Masonic  Books  and  Goods  with  bottom  prices.  Agents 
wanted.  Pay  very  liberal.  Beware  of  spurious  books. 
Redding  &  Co.,  Masonic  Publishers  and  Manufacturers, 
731  Broadway,  New  York."— p. 

Redding  &  Co.,  like  many  Masonic  orators,  have  some- 
thing to  make  out  of  their  order,  and,  therefore,  put  in 
the  date  of  the  meeting  of  the  old  cathedral  builders, 
working  Masons,  who  were  associated  during  the  Dark 
Ages  in  guilds,  and  kept  somewhat  secret  the  methods 
of  their  art.  Speculative  Masonry  with  its  present  de- 
grees, rites,  oaths  and  initiation  began  its  course  in  1717. 


BIBLE  LESSON. 


8TUDIE8  IN  THE  NEW  TESTAMENT. 

LESSON  VI.— Feb.  5.— The  Transfiguration.— Matt.  17:1-13. 

GOLDEN  TEXT.— And  there  came  a  voice  out  of  the  cloud, 
saying,  This  Is  my  beloved  Son:  hear  him.— Luke  9:  35. 

\Open  the  BibU  and  read  the  Usson.^ 

"Jesus  taketh  Peter,  James,  and  John  his  brother 

apart:"'  from  the  other  nine  disciples,  who  were  left  at 
the  base  of  the  mountain,  as  we  see  by  the  events  of  the 
following  morning  (vers.  14-16) .  In  the  evening  Jesus 
took  these  three  choice  ones  with  him  to  spend  the  night 
in  prayer  upon  the  mountain  heights  (Luke  9:  28).  They 
were  Christ's  only  companions  in  Gethsemane  (Mark  14: 
32-42).  They  alone  witnessed  the  resurrecl-ion  of  Jai- 
ru's  daughter  (Mark  5:  37;  Luke  8:  51).— AbboK. 

These  three  were  a  sufficient  number  of  witnesses  to  at- 
test the  facts  to  the  world.  By  having  so  small  a  num- 
ber it  would  be  more  easy  to  keep,  till  after  the  resurrec- 
tion, these  views  of  Christ  from  the  multitude  who  would 
at  this  time  be  almost  certain  to  make  a  bad  use  of  them, 
by  being  led  either  to  disbelief,  or  to  looking  too  much 
at  outward  glories,  and  hence  to  trying  to  make  Jesus  an 
earthly  king. 

Luke  (9:  28)  tells  us  that  Jesus  went  up  into  the 
mountain  to  pray;  and  the  Transfiguration  took  place 
while  he  prayed.  So  it  was  at  his  baptism;  as  he  prayed 
the  heavens  were  opened  and  the  Holy  Spirit  descended 
upon  him  as  a  dove  (Luke  3:  21,  22).  Not  long  before, 
at  the  feeding  of  the  6,000,  he  had  spent  the  night  hours 
in  a  mountain  alone  praying. 

Lange  thinks  it  probable,  that,  in  consequence  of  the 
announcement  of  his  approaching  sufferings,  deep  de- 
pression had  taken  posBession  of  the  hearts  of  the  twelve. 
They  had  spent  these  six  days,  respecting  which  the  sa- 
cred records  preserve  unbroken  silence,  in  a  gloomy  stu- 
por. Jesus  was  anxious  to  rouse  them  out  of  this  feel- 
ing; and,  in  order  to  do  this,  he  had  recourse  to  prayer. 
The  glorification  of  Jesus  was  an  answer  to  prayer,  and 


the  means  employed  by  God  to  bring  about  the  desired 
result.  The  connection  between  the  prayer  of  Jesus  and 
his  Transfiguration  is  expressed  in  Luke  by  the  preposi- 
tion en  (in,  by  means  of,  his  praying),  which  denotes 
more  than  simultaneousness  (whilst  he  prayed), and  makes 
his  prayer  the  cause  of  this  mysterious  event.  —  Oodet. 
"And  was  transfigured  before  them :"  i.e.,  in  their 
presence,  while  they  were  awake,  as  Luke  specially  notes 
in  9:  32.  The  original  word  for  transfigured  is  elsewhere 
in  the  New  Testament  (except  in  the  parallel,  Mark  9:2) 
rendered  "transformed"  (as  Rom.  12:  2;  2  Cor.  3:  18), 
and  is  used  of  a  spiritual  change.  It  is  a  change  not  of 
substance,  but  of  quality  and  appearance.  The  fashion 
of  his  countenance  was  altered  (Luke),  by  being  lighted 
with  radiance,  both  from  without  and  from  within. — Al- 
ford.  The  infinite  fullness  of  the  Spirit  was  poured  out 
over  his  whole  being:  the  heavenly  glory  of  his  nature, 
which  was  still  concealed  under  his  earthly  appearance, 
now  broke  forth. — Lunge's  Leben  Jesu. 

"And  his  face  did  shine  as  the  sun."  As  Christ  took 
on  him  human  nature  and  condition  for  converse  with 
man,  so  here,  it  appears  to  me,  he  is  represented  as  tak- 
ing on  the  form  and  condition  of  the  spirits,  for  the  pur- 
pose of  communion  with  the  spiritual  world. — Abbott. 

"And,  behold,  there  appeared  unto  them  li.  e.,  the 
disciples]  Moses  and  Ellas."  Moses  and  Elijah  were  the 
appropriate  representatives  of  the  Law  and  the  Prophets. 
And  as  all  the  distinguishing  peculiarities  of  the  Law  and 
the  Prophets  pointed,  as  with  out-stretched  fingers,  to 
the  Messiah,  and  waited  for  their  accomplishment  in  his 
person  and  in  his  work,  it  is  not  to  be  wondered  at  that 
they  talked  together,  as  we  learn  from  Luke  (9:  31),  "of 
the  decease  he  should  accomplish  at  Jerusalem.  The 
decease  that  was  the  keystone  of  the  arch  of  glory. — 
Morison. 

The  subject  of  their  conversation,  his  decease  (exodus, 
departure;  i.  e.,  by  his  death  on  the  cross,  Luke  9:  31), 
would  enable  the  disciples  to  see  the  importance  and 
necessity  of  that  which  they  most  dreaded,  and  which 
was  to  them  the  greatest  mystery.  The  atonement  on 
the  cross  was  the  great  event  of  the  world's  history; 
this  was  the  real  founding  of  the  kingdom  of  God;  this 
was  the  culmination  of  the  salvation  brought  by  the 
Messiah;  this  was  the  great  act  to  which  all  the  sacrifices 
appointed  by  Moses  looked  forward,  and  which  gave 
them  meaning  and  value .  It  was  the  beginning  and 
source  of  the  world-wide  development  of  the  kingdom  of 
God,  and  of  those  glorious  times  which  the  prophets  had 
foretold . 

"Lord  it  is  good  for  us  to  be  here."  So  far  Peter  spoke 
the  simple  fact.  The  experience  was  good,  and  would 
make  him  a  stronger,  better,  more  useful  man  all  his  life 
long. 

That  experience  which  was  good  for  Peter  is  good  for 
us .  We  all  need  the  highest  and  sweetest  experiences 
of  the  love  of  Christ,  to  see  him  in  his  beauty  and  glory, 
to  glance  through  the  gates  ajar,  to  feel  the  breath  of 
heaven  and  hear  the  voice  of  God .  1.  It  widens  the 
outlook,    giving  earthly  things  their  truer  place  in  life. 

2.  It  gives  a  clearer  view  of  the  end  to  which  we  are 
working,  of  the  state  to  which  God  would  bring  all  men. 

3 .  It  helps  us  bear  our  burdens,  overcome  our  tempta  - 
tions,  do  our  Christian  work.  We  are  amid  sin,  but  we 
have  seen  the  glory  of  the  Master  able  to  conquer  it;  we 
dwell  amid  sorrows,  but  we  know  him  who  has  power  to 
transform  them;  we  see  the  work  to  be  done,  but  here  is 
new  inspiration  and  hope.  Light,  victory,  glory,  heav- 
en, shine  henceforth  on  all  the  dark  earth . 

"His  disciples  asked  him,  saying.  Why  then  say  the 
scribes  that  Elias  must  first  come?"  They  knew  that  the 
scribes,  in  their  capacity  as  interpreters  of  prophecy, 
were  wont  to  say  that  Elijah  must  first  come  before  their 
nation's  Messiah  could  appear.  They  said  this  on  the 
strength  of  Mai.   3:  1  and  4:  5.—Co%eles. 

"Likewise  shall  also  the  Son  of  man  suffer  of  them." 
That  the  scribes  did  not  recognize  and  accept  John  the 
Baptist  as  Elijah  was  no  proof  that  Elijah  had  not  come; 
neither  would  it  any  more  be  proof  that  Jesus  was  not 
the  Messiah  because  the  scribes  set  him  at  naught. 
*  »  » 

Heroic  School  Teaohirs. — There  isn't  much  to 
say  about  the  heroic  school  teachers  who  are  stified 
by  the  breath  of  the  Dakota  blizzard,  as  they  seek 
to  pilot  their  little  ones  to  a  haven  of  safety,  but 
the  memory  of  such  faithful  women  will  be  green 
even  after  man  has  discovered  means  to  avert  the 
blizzard  itself.    Mary  Connell,  a  school  teacher  near 
Cavour,  started  home  with  two  of  her  pupils,  a  boy 
and  girl.     The   boy  left  them  and  perished.      Miss 
Connell  put  her  dress  folds  about  the  little  girl  and 
made  her  walk  all  night,  sheltering  her  charge  with 
her  body.      They  were  found  next  morning  alive, 
but  terribly  frozen.      Another  teacher.  Miss  Jacob- 
son,   near  Stolof,  started  home  with  a  little  girl  and 
both   perished.      When  found,  Miss  Jacobson  was 
crouched  in  a  little  hollow  in  the  ground,  with  her 
arms  about  the  little  girl  and  her  dress  skirt  was 
wrapped  about  her.      Her  own  bonnet  was  ofl^  her 
head  and  her  hand  clutched  her  dress  at  her  throat, 
but  there  was  a  smile  on  her  face.      In  most  of  the 
school  districts  of  Yankton  county  teachers  kept  the 
children  in  all  night,  and  thus  saved  many  lives.  In 
school   district  No.  24,  the  fuel  at  the  school  house 
ran  out,  and  the  teacher  left  the  school  house,  went 
three-quarters  of  a  mile  to  Mr.  Walsh's  house,  se- 
cured a  team  and  sleigh  and  returned.      She  loaded 
the  scholars  into  the  sleigh  and  took  them  to  Mr. 
Walsh's  house  for  safe  keeping.      All  this  occurred 
after  dark. 


January  26, 1888 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


ANTI-MABOmO  LBOTVRBRB. 

Obitbbal  AeBKT  AKD  Lbotttbbb,  J.  p. 
Stoddard,  321  W.  Madison  St„  Chicago. 

H.  H.  Hinman,  Cynosure  office. 
Agent  for  Southern  States. 
Statb  AeBMTfl. 

Iowa,  C.  P.  Hawley,  Wayne,  Henry 
Co.     Care  Rev.  GJeo.  Pry. 

Missouri,  Eld.  Rufus  Smith,  Maryville. 

New  Hampshire,  Eld.  S.  C.  Kimball, 
New  Market. 

Ohio,  W.  B.  Stoddard,  Columbus. 

Kansas,  Robert  Loggan,  Clifton. 

Alabama,  Rev.  G.  M.  Elliott,  Selma. 

Dbobbb  Wobkbbb. — LSeceders.l 
J.  K.  Qlassford,  Carthage,  Mo. 
Othbb  Lbotobbbs. 

C.  A.  Blanchard,  Wheaton,  111. 
N.  Callender,  Thompson,  Pa. 
J,  H.  Tlmmons,  Tarentum,  Pa 

T.  B.  McCormlck,  Princeton,  Ind. 

B.  Johnson,  Dayton,  Ind. 

H.  A.  Day,  Wllllamstown,  Mich. 

J.  M.  Bishop,  Chambersburg,  Pa. 

A.  Mayn,  Bloomlngton,  Ind. 

J.  B.  Cresslnger,  Sullivan,  O. 

W.  M.  Love,  Osceola,  Mo. 

J.  L.  Barlow,  Grundy  Center,  Iowa. 

A.  D.Freeman,  Downers  Grove,  111 
Wm.  FentoD,  St  Paul,  Minn. 

E.  I.  Grlnnell,  Blalrsburg,  Iowa. 
Warren  Taylor,  South  Salem,  O. 
J.  8.  Perry,  Thompson,  Conn. 
J.  T.  Michael,  New  Wilmington,  Pa. 
S.  G.  Barton,  Breckinridge,  Mo. 

B.  Bametson.  Haskinvllle,  Steuben  Co,'N.  Y 
Wm.  R.  Roach,  Pickering,  Ont. 

D.  A.  Richards,  Brighton,  Mich, 

THB   OHUROHSB    VS.    LOD^SRT. 

The  following  denonunations  are  com- 
mitted by  vote  of  their  legislative  assem- 
blies or  by  constitution  to  a  separation 
from  secret  lodge  worship: 

Adventists  (Seventh-day.) 

Baptists — Primitive,  Seventh-day  and 
Scandinavian. 

Brethren  (Bunkers  or  German  Bap- 
tists.) 

Christian  Reformed  Church. 

Church  of  God  ^Northern  Indiana  El- 
dership.) 

Congregational — The  State  Associations 
of  Illinois  and  Iowa  have  adopted  resolu- 
tions against  the  lodge. 

Disciples  (in  part.) 

Friends. 

Lutherans — Norwegian,  Danish,  8w«d- 
ish  and  Synodical  Conferences. 

Mennonites. 

Methodists — Free  and  Wesleyan. 

Methodist  Protestant  (Minnesota  Gon 
ference.) 

Moravians. 

Pljnnouth  Brethren. 

Presbyterian — Associate,  Reformed  atd 
United. 

Reformed  Church  (Holland  Branch.) 

United  Brethren  in  Christ. 

Individual  churches  in  some  of  these 
denominations  should  be  excepted,  in  part 
of  them  even  a  considerable  portion. 

The  following  local  churches  have,  as  a 
pledge  to  disfellowship  and  oppose  lodge 
worship,  given  their  names  to  the  follow- 
ing list  as 

THB   A880CIATBD   OHITRCHBS   OF  CHKIST. 

New   Ruhamah  Cong.  Hamilton,  Miss. 

Pleasant  Ridge  Cong.   Saudford  Co.  Ala. 

New  Hope  Aicthodlst,   Lowndes  Co.,  Miss. 

Congregational,  College  Springs,  Iowa. 

College  Church  of  Christ,  Wheaton,  HI. 

First  Congregational,  Leland,  Mich. 

Sugar  Grove  Church,  Green  county,  Pa. 

Military  Chapel,  M.  E.,  Lowndes  county, 
Miss. 

Hopewell  Missionary  Baptist.,  Lowndes  Co., 
Miss. 

Cedar  Grove  Miss.  Baptist,  Lowndes  Co., 
Miss. 

Simon's  Chapel,  M.  E.,  Lowndes  Co.,  Miss. 

Pleasant  Ridge'Miss.  Baptist,  Lowndes  Co., 
Miss. 

Brownlce  Church,  Caledonia,  Miss. 

Salem  Church,  Lowndes  Co.,  Miss. 

West  Preston  Bactlst  Church,  Wayne  Co.,P». 
OTHBB  LOCAL  OHTTBCHBB 

adopting  the  same  principle  are — 

Baptist  churches :  N.  Ablngton,  Pa. ;  Meno- 
monie,  Mondovl,  Waubeck  and  Spring  Prairie, 
Wis. ;  Wheaton,  111. ;  Perry,  N.  Y. ;  Spring 
Creek,  near  Burlington,  Iowa;  Lima,  Ind.; 
Constablevllle,  N.  Y.  The  "Good  WUl  Assocl- 
ton"of  Mobile,  Ala.,  comprising  some  twenty- 
flve  colored  Baptist  churches;  Bridgewater 
Baptist  Association,  Pa.;  Old  Tebo  Baptist, 
near  Leesville,  Henry  Co.,  Mo. ;  Hoopeston,  HI ; 
Esmen,  111. ;  Strykersvllle,  N.  Y. 

Congregational  churches :  Ist  of  Oberlln,  O. ; 
Tonlca.  Crystal  Lake.  Union  and  Big  Woods, 
HI. ;  Solsbury,  Ind. ;  Congregational  Methodist 
Maplewood,  Mass. 

Independent  churchefl  In  Lowell,  Country- 
man school  house  near  Llndenwood,  Marengo 
and  Btreator,  HI. ;  Berea  and  Camp  Nelson,  Kj ; 
Uitlck,  111. ;  Clarksburg,  Kansas ;  State  Associ- 
ation of  Klniaten  and  Charchet  of  Christ  la 
KntaekT. 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


PROBPBCTUa  FOR  THB    TWBNTIBTH  TEAR. 

As  we  turn  over  the  leaf  for  another  year  the  Cy- 
nosure would  again  write  at  the  top  of  the  new  page: 
"Chritt  altoays;  Christ  only."  It  will  more  than  ever 
be  the  purpose  of  all  connected  with  the  paper  to 
make  it  a  power  for  the  coming  kingdom  of  our 
Lord,  before  which  all  the  systems  of  secret  wor- 
ship, mystery  and  iniquity  of  the  great  Babylon 
must  fall.  We  would  be  on  the  Conqubror's  side 
in  that  day — we  will  stand  for  him  now  in  the  days 
of  testimony  and  of  tribulation. 

The  Cynosure  during  1888  will  give  the  most 
earnest  attention  to  the  South'  The  National  Con- 
vention at  New  Orleans,  Feb.  17th,  and  the  effort, 
which  promises  so  much  success,  to  put 

ONB   THOtlSAND   COPIES 

of  the  paper  into  the  hands  of  colored  pastors  gives 
a  direction  to  our  interests.  We  also  hope  that  the 
National  Christian  Association  will  be  able  to  put 
other  workers  into  the  Southern  field. 

The  Minor  Secret  Orders,  so-called,  will  have 

more  respect  given  to  their  insinuating  and  benumb- 
ing influence.  If  Masonry  and  Odd-fellowship  have 
felt  severely  the  attacks  upon  their  8trongholds,they 
are  making  good  all  losses  by  training  up  an  army 
of  young  men  whose  convictions  are  paralyzed  in 
respect  to  secretism  by  the  swarms  of  orders  which 
cover  their  modicum  of  lodgery  with  a  bait  of  tem- 
perance, insurance,  patriotism,  good  fellowship,  bus- 
iness aid,  etc.,  etc.  The  Cynosure  will  endeavor  to 
rouse  our  careless  churches  to  see  that  this  evil  is 
likely  to  be  worse  than  the  first. 

We  have  nearly  completed  arrangements  for  spec- 
ial Correspondence  from  the  metropolitan  cities 

in  different  parts  of  the  country.  Our  readers  may 
expect  letters  once  a  month,or  oftener,  from  Boston, 
New  York,  Philadelphia,  Washington,  Cincinnati, 
New  Orleans,  Denver,  San  Francisco  and  Los  An- 
geles. These  letters  will  give  graphic  pictures  of 
the  earnest  American  life  which  throbs  in  our  great 
cities,  with  especial  reference  to  the  news  of  the 
lodges  in  each. 

The  very  popular  Biographical  Worl<  of  the  Cyno- 
sure during  the  three  years  past  will  be  continued 
with  some  features  which  will  be  especially  attract- 
ive. During  the  last  year  there  have  appeared  por- 
traits of  George  B.  Cheever,  William  H.  Seward, 
Daniel  Webster,  John  Brown,  Charles  Sumner, 
Charles  Francis  Adams,  Enoch  Honeywell,  Bishop 
Hamline,  Charles  G.  Finney,  Howard  Crosby,  Dr.  C. 
F.  W.  Walther,  and  Alexander  Hamilton.  These 
portraits  have  been  accompanied  with  sketches 
which  have  presented  facts  of  profoundest  interest 
to  our  discussion,  collated  after  diligent  and  often 
exhaustive  search. 

Letters  from  foreign  lands  we  expect  to  be  more 
frequent  and  valuable  in  1888  than  ever.  Corre- 
spondents in  England,  Germany,  Greece,  Turkey, 
India,  West  and  South  Africa,  China  and  Mexico 
will  through  our  columns  be  in  personal  connection 
with  our  readers. 

The  Sabbath  School  department  will  contain 
the  notes  of  Miss  E.  E.  Flagg  as  last  year.  Sab- 
bath-school workers  are  to  be  congratulated  in  the 
continuance  of  this  arrangement.  For  readers  of 
the  Cynosure  there  are  no  more  helpful  and  suggest- 
ive notes  published  than  these,  in  the  whole  range 
of  S.  S.  literature. 

Best  of  all  is  the  noble  company  of  contributors 
and  correspondents  iu  our  own  land.  We  hardly 
need  mention  them.  To  keep  in  their  company  a 
season  were 

—"worth  ten  years  of  commonllife." 

'  We  invite  all  friends  of  the  past  to  honor  them- 
selves by  remaining  in  this  company.  The  Cynosure 
gives  you  a  noble,fellowship.  You  can  hardly  afford 
to  forsake  it.  Let  your  name  then  be  found  on  the 
list  Do  your  neighbor  a  good  turn  and  get  his 
subscription  also. 

In  advance  $1.50  per  tear.  Address,  the 
"OoRisTiAN  Cynosure"  Chicago. 


N.  C.  A.  BUILDING  AND  OFTICB  OI 
THE  CHRISTIAN   CYNOSURE, 
121  WEST  MADISON  STREET,  CHICAGO 


HA "r ZONAL  CHRISTIAN  A880CIAII0J> 

Pbksxdbnt.— H.  H.  (Jeorge,  D.  D.,  Gen- 
eva College,  Pa. 

ViCE-PBBSiDBNT — Rov.  M.  A.  Gault, 
Blanchard,  Iowa. 

Cob.  Sbc'y  and  Qbnbbal  AesNT. — J 
P.  Stoddard,  221 W.  Madison  at.,  Chicago. 

Rbc.  Sbc'y.  and  Tbbasubbb. — W.  I. 
Phillips,  221  W.  Madison  St.,   Chicago. 

Dibbctobb. — Alexander  Thomson,  Mi 
R.  Britten,  John  iJardner,  J.  L.  Barlow, 
L.  N.  Stratton,  Thos.  H.  Gault,  C.  A. 
Blanchard,  J.  E.  Roy.  E.  R.  Worrell,  H. 
A.  Fischer.  W.  R.  Hench. 

The  object  of  this  Association  to: 
"To  expose,  withstand  and  remove  secnl 
societies,  Freemasonry  in  particular,  and  othes 
anti-Christian  movements,  in  order  to  save  the 
churches  of  Christ  from  being  t.epraved,  to  i»  ' 
deem  the  adminlstr*  tlon  of  justice  from  pep 
version,  and  our  r^p  iblican  government  from 
corruption." 

To  carry  on  this  work  contributions  ar* 
solicited  from  every  friend  of  tne  reform. 

Form  of  Bequest. — J  give  and  bequeath  to 
the  National  Christian  Association,  incorpo- 
rated and  existing  under  the  laws  of  the  State 

of    Illinois,   the  sum  of •    doUais  for  the 

purposes  of  said  Association,  and  for  wWr-h 
the  receipt  of  Its  Treasurer  for  the  time  being 
'tiaU  be  sufficient  dlscharze. 

THB  NATIOKAI.  OONYBItTION. 

Pbbsidhht.— Rev.    J.    8.  McCulloch, 
D.  D. 
Srcbetaby. — Rev.  Lewis  Johnson. 

8TATB  AUZILIABY  ASSOCIATIOira. 

AT.tBAMA.— Preg.,  Prof.  Pickens;  Sec.,  Q. 
M.  Elliott;  TreM.,  Rev.  C.  B.  Curtis,  aJl  of 
Belma. 

Cautokkix.— Pres;,  L.  B.  Lathrop,  HoUIc- 
ter ;  Cor.  Sec.  Mrs.  U.  P.  Merrill,  Woodland  • 
Treas.,  C.  Ruddock,  Woodland.  ' 

CoNNBCTicuT.— Pres..  J.  A.  Conant,  Willi 
mantle;  Sec.,  Geo.  Smith,  Wllllman tic ;  Treaa. 
C.  T.  Collins,  Windsor. 

Illinois.— Pres.,  J.  P.  Stoddard;  Sec,  M. 
N.  BuUer;  Trea«.,  W.  I.  Phllllp»  all  at  CV 
noiure  office. 

iHDLtKA..— Pre*.,  Wmiam  H.  Flgg,  Reno 
Sec,  8.  L.  Cook,  Albion;  Treas.,  Benj.  Ulah 
Sliver  Lake. 

Iowa.— Pree.,Wm.  Johnston.CoUege  Sprlnes  • 
Cor  Sec,  C.  D.  Trumbull,  Morning  Sun; 
Treas.,  James  Harvey,  Pleasant  Plain,  Jeffer- 
son Co. 

Kabbab.— Pres.,  J.  P.  Richards,  Ft  Scott* 
Sec^  W.  W.  McMillan,  Olathe;  Treas.,  j'. 
A.  Tcrrence,  N.  Cedar. 

MA88i.0HUBHTT8.— Pres.,  8.:a.  Pratt;  Sec. 
Mrs.  E.  D.  Bailey;  Treas., David  Mannlng.Sr. 
Worcester.  ' 

MiOHiQAH.— Pres.,  D.  A.  Richards,  Brighton ; 
Sec'y,    H.    A.     Day,     WUllamston;    Treas. 
Geo.  Swanson,  Jr.,  Bedfoiu. 

MiNNBSOTA.— Pres.,  E.  G.  P&lne,  Waaio'a*. 
Cor.  Sec,  Wm.  Fenton,  St.  Paul :  Rec,  SecS 
Mrs.  M.  F.  Morrill,  St.  Cnarles;  Treas.,  Wm 
H.  Morrill,  St.  Charles. 

Missouri.— Pres.,  B.  F.  Miller,  Eaglevllle 
Treas-jWllllam Beauchamp,  Avalon ;  (S)r.  8#c 
A.  D.  Thomas,  Avalon. 

Nbbiuska.— Pres.,  8.  Austin,  FalrmoOBt 
Cor.  Sec,  W.  Spooner,  Kearney;  Treas. 
J.  C.  Fye. 

Nbw  Hampshirb.— Pres.,  C.  L.  Baker,  Man' 
Chester;  Sec,  8.  C.  KhnbaU,  New  Market' 
Treas.,  James  F.  French,  Canterbury. 

Naw  York.— Pres,,  F.  W.  Capwell,  Dale: 
Sec'y,  John  Wallace,  Syracuse;  Treas.,  M. 
Merrick,  Syracuse. 

Ohio.— Pres.,  F.  M.  Spencer,  New  Concord; 
Rec  Sec,  8.  A.  George,  Mansfield;  Cor.  Sec 
and  Treas.,  C.  W.  hUit,  Columbus;  Agent, 
W.  B.  Stoddard,  Columbus. 

Phnsbtlvakia.— Free.,  A.  L.  Poat,  Mob 
troee;  Cor.  dec,  N.  Callender,  Thoapaon 
Treaa.,W.  B.  Bertels,  Wllkesbarre. 

VBBKom.— Free.,  W.  R.  Laird,  St.  Johns- 
bOTv;  Sec,  C.  W  Potter. 

WiBOOHBiM.— Pres.,  J.  W  Wood,  Baraboo; 
Sec,  W.  W.  Ames,  Menomonle;  Treaa.,  M.  B, 
Britten,  Vienna. 


8 


SHE  GHRIBTIAKT  CYNOSURE. 


Janttart  26, 1888 


Th^  Christian  Cynosure. 


J.  BLANCHARD. 


KDROB8. 


HSNRT  L.  KXLLOGG. 


OEIOAeO,   THUBBDAY,   JANUAKT  26,   1888. 


"At  Onck,"  writes  Prop.  Woodsmall. — The  dona- 
tions for  the  fund  for  sending  the  Cynoaure  to  Southern 
ministers  is  reported  on  the  16th  page.  It  is  significant 
to  note  that  a  New  Orleans  brother  is  represented  this 
week,  and  we  rejoice  that  the  sum  grows  steadily.  Read 
and  read  again  Elder  Callender's  grand  letter  below . 
Prof .  Woodsmall  has  just  sent  in  the  names  of  159  South 
em  Baptist  ministers,  who,  he  says,  "Ought  to  have 
THE  Cynosure  AT  ONCE  I"  Who  will  be  God's  agent 
to  answer  this  call? 


from  lodge  bondage — soul  bondage.  Credit  Mrs. 
Juliette  Wrighter  with  50  cents  and  me  with  $1.50. 
When  God  gives  me  more,  I  will  send  it. 

Nathan  Callbndbr. 


The 

TO  20, 

The 
good. 


New 
1888. 


Orleans  Convention  February  17 


others  against  national  sins  was  ineffectual  because 
denominational.  But  the  tendency  of  all  sects  is 
now  to  unite.  And  if  the  sects  of  Christendom 
would  to-day  "vote  as  they  pray"  the  redemption  of 
the  world  would  at  once  "draw  nigh." 


religion  that  offends  nobody,  does  nobody 


THE  AMERICAN  PARTY. 


OUR  COLORE!)  MINISTBRS'  FUND. 


Senator  Henry  Wilson,  of  Iowa,  just  re  elect- 
ed, warns  his  (Republican)  party  that  a  prohibition 
plank  must  be  put  in  its  platform  to  save  its  exist- 
ence. That  will  not  save  it.  If  it  loses  the  liquor 
vote  or  the  Prohibition  vote,  it  dies;  and  it  cannot 
keep  both. 


Dear  Editors  of  the  Cynosure: — So  deeply 
impressed  am  I  with  the  great  importance  of  send- 
ing the  Cynosure  to  the  colored  ministers  of  the 
South,  that  I  am  intensely  anxious  to  see  the  sum 
reached.  It  must  be  raised.  An  excellent  sister,  in 
whose  heart  the  fire  of  reform  is  glowing,  but  whose 
funds  are  small,  handed  me  a  half  dollar  to  which  I 
now  add  $1.50,  and  forward  with  our  prayers  that 
God  may  move  his  stewards  to  do  their  duty  in  this 
heaven-born  enterprise.  I  see  no  other  place  in  the 
vast  field  of  Christian  endeavor  where  so  much  good 
is  likely  to  result  from  the  prayerful  use  of  $1,500. 
If  the  thousands  of  the  time-serving  preachers  of 
East,  North  and  West  neglect  to  do  their  duty,  let 
the  noble  sons  of  the  South  set  the  example  for  our 
white  brethren.  Then  may  God  send  them  back  as 
missionaries  to  us,  to  help  turn  our  churches,  clergy 
and  religious  press  from  the  powers  of  darkness, 
"the  mystery  of  iniquity,"  to  serve  the  true  God. 

Cannot  our  self-sacrificing  Bro.  Hinman  enlist 
some  colored  brother  or  brethren  recently  emanci. 
pated  from  that  worst  form  of  slavery,  the  lodge,  to 
come  North  to  preach  the  Gospel  to  the  preachers 
and  churches  in  bondage  to  "the  sum  of  all  villain- 
ies," oath-bound  secrecy?  We  send  out  the  Mace- 
donian cry  to  our  white  brother  Woodsmall,  "Come 

OVER  AND  HELP  US!" 

That  such  a  reflex  influence  may  come  back  to  us, 
as  the  result  of  our  efforts  to  emancipate  our  breth- 
ren of  the  South  from  lodge  thralldom,  needs  not  a 
prophet's  eye  to  see.  Had  I  the  money  to  use  for 
that  end,  as  many  have,  this  week  should  not  end 
before  $1,500  should  go  to  send  the  Christian  Cyno- 
sure to  one  thousand  of  the  preachers  of  the  South. 

At  this  point  in  this  article  I  kneel  and  pray  that 
God  will  incline  your  hearts,  »v^ho  can  as  well  as  not, 
to  send  out  your  tens  and  twenties,  more  or  less,  as 
God  has  prospered  you.  Many  have  already  done 
nobly  and  the  sum  is  more  than  a  third  in. 

There  is  no  issue  before  the  people  paramount  to 
the  anti-lodge  issue— not  even  the  anti-saloon  move- 
ment. God  is  in  both.  The  N.  C.  A.  and  the  W.  C. 
T.  U.  ought  to  work  in  perfect  harmony.  God  grant 
they  may.  The  Christian  Cynosure  is  to-day  the 
most  important  paper  on  this  continent.  As  was 
the  Liberator  at  one  period,  on  the  slavery  question, 
so  has  stood  the  brave  Star  of  anti-lodge  reform, 
against  great  odds,  till  other  equally  brave  sheets 
like  the  elegant  little  American  chime  in  to 
lodgery  on  to  its  doom,  a  Masonic  funeral. 

Have  you  dollars  in  your  purse  that  belong  to 
this  ministers'  fund?  God  will  collect  it  somehow. 
If  you  withhold  it,  it  will  tend  to  poverty.  Are  you, 
my  dear  brother  in  Christ,  wasting  money  on  luxu- 
ries; or  on  narcotics;  or  on  the  "necessaries"  (?)  of 
life?  When  a  silver-tongued  statesman  pronounces 
tobacco  a  necessity,  not  a  luxury  merely,  then  we 
must  bow  to  such  authority,  and  fill  our  pipes  or 
mouths  with  poisons  and  puff  it  into  the  faces  of 
ladies  and  gentlemen  who  abhor  the  sinful  waste  of 
vitality,  health  and  property.  Think  of  $600,000,- 
000  consumed  annually  in  the  use  of  this  "necessi- 
ty" alone  I  Do  you  use  this  defiling  weed,  O  my 
precious  brother?  Are  you  a  good  steward?  What 
is  your  answer?  Every  dollar  is  needed  in  God's 
cause.    "Men 


Gov.  Larabee  of  Iowa,  who  was  elected  as  op- 
posed to  prohibition,  now  gives  a  glowing  testimony 
to  its  benefits  to  the  State.  The  poorer  people 
who  used  to  support  saloons,  now  support  wives 
and  children;  jails  are  empty;  court  expenses  are 
diminished,  etc. ;  and  he  recommends  a  committee 
from  the  Legislature  to  examine  drug-store  saloons 
and  to  report  on  the  execution  of  the  laws. 


General  Clinton  B.  Fisk,  as  we  have  before 
said,  though  once  a  member  of  them,  disapproves 
of  secret  temperance  lodges.  The  temperance  vot- 
ers. North  and  South,  are  fixing  their  eyes  on  him 
for  their  next  Presidential  candidate.  The  sole  ar- 
gument used  for  secret  temperance  lodges,  is  that 
"more  money  can  be  raised  by  secret  than  by  open 
societies."  That  is  true;  but  more  money  can  be 
raised  by  the  saloon  than  by  either. 
\ 


The  N.  C.  A.  Board  at  its  late  meeting  voted  in 
favor  of  the  permanent  engagement  of  Miss  Flagg, 
and  as  the  news  of  her  accident  came  suddenly 
upon  them,  and  other  business  was  pressing,  no 
measures  were  taken  to  show  a  more  substantial 
sympathy  than  a  vote  of  condolence.  The  Board 
may  not  meet  again  for  weeks,  and  a  friend  of  Miss 
Flagg's,  who  is  able  to  judge  somewhat  of  her  needs, 
suggests  that  it  is  no  more  than  a  just  appreciation 
of  her  labors  that  our  readers  make  up  a  purse  quick- 
ly to  help  her  in  this  present  emergency.  The  Cy- 
nosure editors  will  start  the  list  with  $5.  Let  us 
have  a  quick  and  generous  response.  All  sums  sent 
to  the  treasurer  will  be  acknowledged.  Miss  Flagg 
will  probably  object  to  this  arrangement  as  soon  as 
she  can,  but  let  us  be  beforehand  in  the  matter. 


help 


Harrison,  Farrington  &  Co.,  wholesale  grocers 
in  Minneapolis,  Minn.,  a  few  weeks  since,  issued  a 
circular  to  their  2,000  customers  promising  cash 
prizes  for  subscribers  obtained  for  the  Voice,  the 
Prohibition  organ  of  New  York.  Their  house  is  es- 
timated at  $200,000  by  business  men.  Their  sub- 
scribers are  men  drawn  to  them  by  business  and 
their  sentiments  average  with  those  of  business  men 
concerning  the  sale  of  liquor,  while  the  mass  of 
them  are  presumed  to  be  Republicans  or  Democrats, 
both  of  which  are  license  parties.  Mr.  Hugh  Harri- 
son, who  is  of  a  family  reputed  wealthy,  being  in- 
terviewed, says,  ministers  who  are  censured  for  si- 
lence on  Prohibition  for  fear  of  losing  salary  and 
place,  have  a  right  to  say:  "Put  yourselves  in  our 
place  before  you  blame  us  for  not  risking  the  bread 
of  our  families  by  attacking  saloons,  distilleries  and 
breweries."  He  therefore  puts  himself  in  their 
place  by  risking  the  whole  future  of  his  business, 
capital,  judgment  and  all.  We  congratulate  Mr. 
Harrison  on  his  candor,  and  the  Voice  on  its  success. 
The  whole  American  press  is  stirred  by  it. 


The  Prohibition  Success  is  promised  by  every 
sign  of  the  times;  and  it  will  be  worth  all  it  costs. 
So  was  the  fall  of  slavery  worth  all  it  cost;  though 
we  paid  for  it  in  treasure  and  in  blood.  But  the 
abolition  of  slavery  left  still  the  liquor  curse,  the 
lodge,  Mormonism,  Sabbath  breaking,  and  the  Bible 
cast  out  of  schools  in  prominent  cities  and  towns. 
If  the  saloon  should  perish  in  1892  and  leave  us  a 
godless  nation,  with  godless  schools,  and  several 
millions  of  our  best  young  men  riding  swift  to  per- 
dition over  godless  rail-roads,itmay  be  questionable 
how  much  we  have  gained.  But  if  in  addition  to  all 
this  secret  lodges  have  defiled  our  churches  by 
Christless  worship8,and  our  courts  by  godless  oaths, 
we  shall  be  left  on  a  down  grade  toward  the  grave- 
yard of  nationB,just  as  truly  as  the  same  causes  pro- 
duce similar  effects.  But  if  Americans  vote  as  our 
fathers  did  for  "A  Christian  Commonwealth"  we 
shall  not  hinder  but  help  prohibition 


.  .  The  liquor- 

men  will  not  feel  themselves  singled  out  and  brand- 

of  Israel,  help"  us  emancioate  souls  n^Wn  ?^°°'^  ''°?n"  *^*'°^*  ^^^  nation's  life.  The 
,       F    uo  emancipate  souls  noble  testimony  of  Covenanters,  Quakers  and 


some 


This  party  put  in  nomination  a  candidate  before 
it  was  named.  It  nominated  Charles  Francis  Adams 
at  Oberlin,  in  1872;  and  the  name  "American"  was 
adopted  after  full  discussion,  in  Shakespeare  Hall, 
Syracuse,  two  years  later,  in  1874.  And  though  the 
Cynosure,  its  then  sole  organ,  was  but  four  years  old 
when  it  nominated  Mr.  Adams,  a  life-long  Anti- 
mason,  and  Anti-masonic  writer,  as  was  his  father 
before  him,  yet  the  lodge  deemed  the  movement  of 
sutficient  importance  to  invent  and  circulate  the 
falsehood  that  we  had  nominated  a  Royal  Arch 
Mason,  giving  the  lodge  and  date  where  and  when 
the  degree  was  conferred.  Masons  are  secret  con- 
spirators, and  as  they  could  not  possibly  have  fear- 
ed the  vote  of  the  infant  party,  the  motive  of  this 
characteristic  falsehood  may  have  been  to  induce 
Mr.  Adams  to  anger  the  lodge  by  publishing  that  he 
was  not  now,  and  never  was,  a  Mason. 

That  nomination  was  made  at  the  instance  of  Mr. 
Philo  Carpenter,  as  young  Van  Buren  said  of  the 
nomination  of  his  father,  by  the  Free-Soilers,  "As  a 
naked  operation  of  principle,"  to  draw  public  atten- 
tion to  the  fact  that  Freemasons,  in  theory  and  in 
fact  ,owned  another  allegiance  than  that  to  the  Unit- 
ed States. 

When  this  organization  was  launched,  it  confront- 
ed all  the  Prohibition  party  now  opposes,  and  other 
evils,  compared  with  which  the  influence,  wealth, 
and  desperation  of  the  liquor-curse  are  but  trifles. 
Into  the  political  arena  we  pushed  the  Bible,  the 
Sabbath  and  the  false  worships  of  the  world.  If  any 
of  us  expected  we  were  to  go  right  on  and  "  Organ- 
ize," "Organize!"  the  people  of  the  United  States 
into  town,  county  and  State  clubs,  and  auxiliaries; 
and,  finally,  into  one  great  national  party,  we  wholly 
failed  to  comprehend  the  forces  we  had  challenged. 
Our  sole  rational  hope  of  ultimate  success,  after 
long  toil  and  sacrifice,  lay  in  this: — to  form  a 
phalanx  of  voters  who  would  vote  on  principle  and 
"by  faith,"  like  the  seraph  Abdiel, 

" unmoved. 

Unshaken,  unseduced,  unterrified," 

until  one  of  the  old  parties,  or  a  new  one  formed 
out  of  both,  would  recognize  the  Sabbath,  the 
Bible  as  a  National  book  in  schools,  as  well  as  in 
courts;  and  the  prohibition  of  liquor.  In  the  geogra- 
phy we  are  a  Christian  nation.  Our  laws  recognize  the 
Sabbath.  Our  courts  swear  witnesses  on  the  Bible. 
And  liquor-selling  is  unlawful  without  license. 
There  are  at  least  three  States  whose  laws,  unrepeal- 
ed, but  obsolete  because  unexecuted,  forbid  and 
punish  the  oaths  which  make  Masons;  and  we  be- 
lieve no  argument  has  ever  been  made  in  a  legisla- 
ture, or  put  into  print  squarely  defending  the  cursed 
system.  But  when  its  abominations,  fraud,  impo- 
sition and  swindling  demon-worship  have  been 
exposed,  the  answers  have  been  either  direct  denials 
of  proved  truths,  or  indirect  evasions,  and  com- 
plaints of  persecution. 

Thus  the  whole  American  platform  is  already 
proved  to  be  American  by  the  sanction  of  the  Amer- 
ican people.  And  as  ten  consistent  men  would  have 
saved  Sodom,  a  stern,  though  small  minority,  plant- 
ing itself  on  acknowledged  American  principles, will 
rescue  the  United  States  from  the  ruin  which  has 
wrecked  the  old  nations,  from  a  system  which  ban- 
dages a  man's  eyes  and  swears  him  to  pay  fealty  to 
the  devil.  The  reason  why  an  American  party.though 
in  a  small  minority,  must  and  will  conquer  in  the 
end,  is  that  "Truth  is  mighty  and  will  prevail."  Ten 
righteous  men,  armed  with  truth  and  standing  by 
and  voting  for  it,  are  stronger  than  millions  of  Sod- 
omites with  bandages  on  their  eyes,  whose  religion 
is  spiritual  and  actual  "whoredom,"  the  name  by 
which  the  Bible  designates  idolatry  and  false  wor- 
ship. 

The  reason  why  religion  and  morals  in  the  United 
States  backslide  every  four  years  is  because  God, 
the  Sabbath  and  the  Bible  are  eliminated  from  po- 
litical platforms  during  each  Presidential  canvass. 
When  the  Abolitionists  appealed  to  these,  slavery 
tottered;  and  when  Lincoln  called  on  the  United 
States  to  recognize  God  by  prayer  and  fasting,  it 
fell.  Let  us  practice  in  peace  the  religion  which 
Bull  Run  defeats  drove  us  to  in  war. 

But  some  excellent  men  tell  us  that  the  American 
party  is  dead!  They  are  mistaken.  It  cannot  die, 
so  long  as  there  are  ten  men  who  vote  for  its  prin- 
ciples. 

"How  far  that  little  candle  throws  Its  beame. 
So  shines  a  good  deed  In  a  naughty  world." 

Of  the  five  or  six  millions  of  voters  in  the  United 


Januabt  26, 1888 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


9 


States  at  least  one  in  three  have  sworn  or  pledged 
to  secrecy,  not  the  privacy  which  prudence  practices 
and  reason  justifles,  but  to  conceal  till  death  certain 
actions  of  men  of  all  sorts,  and  that  on  religious 
grounds.  We  started  in  with  one  little  fortnightly 
paper  against  such  odds  I  Our  progress  has  been 
amazing,  as  any  one  can  see  by  glancing  at  any  one 
of  many  papers  now.  The  prohibition  success  is 
ours.  That  flag  floated  from  our  spars  as  soon  as 
our  mast-head  rose  above  the  waters;  and,  to-day,  if 
the  case  were  fairly  stated  to  them,  a  clear  majority 
of  the  Prohibition  party  would  vote  down  secret 
temperance  lodges.  Their  great  leaders,  all  are  with 
us.  The  great  convention  which  nominated  St.  John 
and  Daniel  at  Pittsburgh,  July,  1884,  gave  our  prin- 
ciples, as  stated  by  Pres.  C.  A.  Blanchard,  rounds 
of  applause;  and,  though  one  of  the  secrecy  Prohi- 
bition leaders,  now  no  more,obiected  to  the  doctrine 
that  "Men  bound  by  secret  pledges  to  part  of  a  com- 
munity are  not  fit  to  govern  the  whole,"  the  clamor 
which  endorsed  him  was  raised  by  but  a  handful. 
The  great  body  of  the  convention,  Mr.  Daniel  among 
them,  were  in  favor  of  the  proposition  which  Mr. 
Pinch  objected  to.  And  in  that  they  coincide  with 
Dr.  Jewett,  Gough,  St.  John,  Gen.  Neal  Dow,  Gen. 
Fiske  and  others,  who  have  declared  themselves 
against  one  part  of  a  party  practising  secret  and 
others  open  measures. 


PRESIDENT  CLEVELAND  AND  THE  POPE. 


It  was  reported  last  week  from  Rome  that  the 
Americans  in  that  city  were  heartily  ashamed  of 
President  Cleveland's  messenger  to  the  Pope,  and 
were  diligently  trying  to  cover  up  the  scandal  of  his 
remissness.  But  on  Saturday  afternoon  the  Pope 
was  waited  upon  by  the  American  Catholic  delega- 
tion headed  by  Archbishop  Ryan  of  Philadelphia 
and  composed  of  three  bishops,  a  half  dozen  priests 
and  O'Connell,  the  messenger  selected  by  Cardinal 
Gibbons  for  Mr.  Cleveland.  O'Connell,  it  is  said, 
was  shunned  by  the  American  delegation  in  Rome 
who  would  have  nothing  to  do  either  with  him  or 
his  mission.  It  were  well  if  the  whole  American 
people  could  feel  a  due  measure  of  like  indignation 
toward  a  President  who  can  demean  himself  and  the 
high  office  with  which  he  has  been  intrusted  to  fol- 
low after  European  royalty  in  flattering  the  Romish 
hierarch.  There  is  much  to  be  considered  in  this 
gift  of  a  copy  of  our  Constitution.  That  document 
is  the  most  notable  result  of  the  reformation  against 
Romish  despotism  in  Europe.  Does  Leo  XIII.  now 
receive  this  document  as  an  evidence  that  his  church 
has  finally  triumphed?  Or  may  we  take  the  brighter 
view  that  it  is  given  as  an  evidence  of  the  security 
of  religious  liberty,  and  an  invitation  to  the  head  of 
the  Catholic  church  to  study  it  and  be  made  wiser 
and  better.  It  would  be  a  satisfaction  to  know  that 
President  Cleveland  had  any  designs  of  good  in  this 
affair. 


— The  latest  news  from  Miss  Flagg  is  hopeful 
of  her  recovery,  which  may  God  grant  to  be  perma- 
nent and  rapid.  She  would  have  been  able  to  con- 
fer with  Secretary  Stoddard,  had  he  gone  East  last 
week  to  attempt  the  re-establishment  of  a  New  Eng- 
land agency.  Our  readers  will  miss  her  excellent 
application  of  the  weekly  Bible  lesson  to  Christian 
reforms  for  a  few  weeks. 

— Rev.  A.  J.  McFarland,  of  St.  Clairsville,  O.,  is 
engaged  in  an  interesting  discussion  with  the  G.  A. 
R.  in  the  columns  of  the  Christian  Instructor.  The 
only  reply  which  has  been  made  to  his  condemna- 
tion of  the  order  has  been  from  a  United  Presbyter- 
ian elder.  We  hope  the  Instructor  will  continue  the 
discussion  of  this  order  which  has  made  such  In- 
roads upon  its  membership.  The  lodges  only  have 
reason  to  fear  the  light. 

— Elder  Nathan  Callender,  one  of  the  most  de- 
voted of  pastors  and  faithful  of  reformers,  wishes  to 
remove  to  the  South  for  the  benefit  of  his  health, 
and  more  perhaps  to  help  bear  a  noble  part  in  the 
revolution  going  on  among  the  Baptist  churches 
against  secretism.  He  has  written  Bro.  Hinman 
about  a  location  after  April  1.  He  may  be  addressed 
by  any  churches  wishing  his  faithful  services,  at 
Brown  Hollow,  Pa. 

— Elder  A.  Sims,  of  Tilsonburg,  Ontario,  has  or- 
ganized for  the  glory  of  God  and  the  salvation  of 
souls,  the  ISoul  Winners^  Band.  Its  efforts  are  in- 
tended to  reach  every  part  of  the  habitable  globe, 
and  to  give  abundant  scope  for  usefulness  to  every 
Christian,  irrespective  of  his  denomination,  circum- 
stances, or  place  of  abode.  A  circular,  giving  full 
particulars  of  the  operations  of  the  Band,  nature  of 
work,  condition  of  membership,  etc.,will  be  sent  free 
on  application  to  Bro.  Sims. 

— Our  readers  will  mark  with  wonder  and  delight 
the  progress  in  Japan  given  in  the  extract  from  Dr. 


Stevens'  report  on  our  10th  page.  These  swift  steps 
toward  civilization  thrill  us,  and  should  arouse  the 
churches  of  Christ  to  the  utmost  effort  to  keep  pace 
with  this  movement.  If  they  are  not  awake  to  the 
importance  of  this  crisis,  the  devil  is.  There  were 
last  year  85,000  English  and  110,000  Americans 
poured  into  Japan  last  year,  and  a  lamentably  large 
proportion  of  this  importation  consisted  of  skeptical 
and  agnostic  writings,  against  whose  poisonous 
influences  our  missionaries  have  to  contend.  Japan 
cannot  be  won  for  Christ  twenty-five  years  from 
now,  when  these  bad  seeds  have  had  time  to  germ- 
inate I 

Rbform  fob  the  Press. — Last  fall  the  superin- 
tendent of  the  department  of  the  press  for  the  Na- 
tional W.  C.  T.  U.  circulated  widely  the  following 
petition  to  the  editors  of  our  newspaper  press. 
There  is  a  great  reform  needed  in  the  conduct  of 
many  of  our  local  papers  which  instead  of  being 
conservators  of  public  morals  are  their  destroyers. 
The  petition  reads: 

Qbntlembn: — While  we  perceive  the  general  benefi- 
cent intention  of  your  great  work,  and  appreciate  to  some 
extent  the  difficulties  and  contradictions  attending  every 
step  toward  the  ideal  in  Journalism,  as  in  everything,  we 
cannot,  as  guardians  of  the  home  and  of  innocent  child- 
hood and  untaught  youth,  longer  forbear  to  plead  with 
you  by  these  sacred  interests  to  remember,  with  a  special 
sense  of  your  own  responsibility,  that  the  daily  paper 
should  enter  the  home  as  a  "Mirror  of  Civilization,"  and 
to  ask  most  earnestly  that  you  minify  the  records  of  de- 
bauchery and  crime,  that  you  may  gain  space  to  magnify 
the  world's  good  news;  to  reduce  the  records  of  pugilism 
that  those  of  philanthropy  may  be  extended,  and  ihat  by 
these  means  the  daily  press  may  become  the  wise  coun- 
sellor and  ally  of  the  home  in  its  work  of  renewing  the 
life  blood  of  the  State  from  sources  of  purity,  and  patriot- 
ism. The  daily  press  is  the  peoples'  university,  and  we 
urge  that  it  so  teach  the  lesson  of  to-day  as  to  make  the 
world  better  to-morrow. 


PERSONAL  MENTION. 


— Rev.  A.  W.  Parry,  agent  of  the  Evansville  Sem- 
inary, Wisconsin,  and  member  of  the  Illinois  State 
Executive  Committee,  is  expecting  to  attend  the 
New  Orleans  convention. 

— Secretary  Stoddard  and  wife  fled  from  blizzards 
and  ice  last  Thursday  evening  for  New  Orleans, 
where  we  hear  they  have  arrived  safely.  Rev.  A,  J. 
Chittenden  was  in  their  company. 

— Mrs.  Mary  B.  Willard,  so  long  associated  with 
her  sister-in-law  in  journalistic  and  temperance  work, 
returned  from  Germany,  reaching  New  York  last 
week.  Mrs.  Willard  was  the  first  editor  of  the 
Union  Signal. 

— Bro.  C.  F.  Hawley,  Iowa  lecturer,  announces 
that  his  postofflce  address  will  hereafter  be  at 
Wheaton,  111.  Mrs.  Hawley  is  kept  constantly  ad- 
vised of  his  movements,  and  will  promptly  forward 
all  mail  to  him. 

— Joseph  Cook  and  Miss  Frances  E.  Willard  will 
soon  begin  the  publication  of  a  new  monthly  called 
Our  Day,  which  will  be  a  record  and  review  of  cur- 
rent reform,  independent  of  political  or  denomina- 
tional control,  but  giving  special  attention  to  prohi- 
bition. 


A  CARD  FROM  MISS  FLAQQ. 

Wellesley,  Mass.,  Jan.  21st,  1888. 
Dear  Editor  of  the  Cynosure: — I  wish  to 
thank  all  the  dear  friends  of  the  reform  who  have 
written  me  so  many  kind,  sympathetic  letters  since 
ray  injury.  I  shall  not  be  able  to  answer  them  for 
some  time,  but  I  have  felt  their  prayers  and  believe 
they  are  being  answered.  My  physician  thinks  I 
am  doing  remarkably  well.  I  believe  this  affliction, 
through  the  grace  of  God,  will  result  in  my  spiritu- 
al good,  and  be  indirectly  a  source  of  good  to  oth- 
ers. I  have  seen  the  silver  lining  of  the  cloud. 
Your  sister  in  Christ,  Miss  E.  E.  Flagg. 


OUR  WASHINGTON  LETTER. 

Washington,  Jan.  20,  1888. 
There  has  been  much  anxiety  manifested  in  the 
House  of  Representatives  over  the  illness  of  Speak- 
er Carlisle,  who  was  suddenly  stricken  with  a  con- 
gestive chill  a  few  evenings  since.  The  Speaker  is 
very  highly  esteemed,  personally,  by  both  parties  in 
the  House,  and  it  was  thought  at  first  that  his  ill- 
ness was  of  such  a  serious  nature  that  he  would  not 
rally.  The  blind  Chaplain  of  the  House,  Mr.  Mil- 
burn,  made  the  Speaker  the  subject  of  his  opening 
invocation  on  Monday  morning.praying  that  his  doc- 
tor might  be  inspired  with  wisdom  and  sound  discre- 
tion, and  that  the  medicines  used  might  be  blessed. 
The  Chaplain  has  a  very  direct.original,  earnest  and 


striking  way  of  supplicating  the  Throne  of  Grace. 
Last  winter,  as  you  may  remember,he  created  some- 
thing of  a  sensation  by  his  unusual  prayers. 

The  week's  doings  in  the  United  States  Senate  em- 
brace some  notable  confirmations.  Among  the  most 
important  were,  first,  Mr.  Lamar,  to  be  a  justice  of 
the  Supreme  Court;  his  successor,  Mr.  Vilas,  to  be 
Secretary  of  the  Interior;  Mr.  Dickinson,  of  Michi- 
gan, to  be  Postmaster  General,  and  ex-Congressman 
General  Bragg,  to  be  Minister  to  Mexico. 

The  Senate,  in  secret  session,  discussed  Mr.  La- 
mar's case  for  three  hours  before  a  vote  was  reached, 
the  debate  involving  the  ofiScial  and  political  record 
of  Mr.  Lamar,  the  soundness  of  his  Constitutional 
views,  bis  age,  business  habits  and  legal  qualifica- 
tions. The  Republican  Senators  who  voted  with  the 
solid  Democratic  minority  for  the  confirmation  of 
the  ex- Secretary  were  Senators  Stewart,  Stanford 
and  Riddleberger. 

The  fact  that  these  three  Senato.rs,  to  whom  it  is 
said  Mr.  Lamar's  success  is  due,  were  not  coerced 
into  voting  against  confirmation  shows  how  the  cau- 
cus system  has  lost  its  grip  on  our  law-makers  of 
late.  A  few  years  ago  it  would  have  been  quite  in 
order  for  the  caucus  machinery  to  be  brought  into 
play,  partly  for  the  purpose  of  securing  a  rejection, 
and  partly  to  give  those  Senators  who  wanted  to 
cast  adverse  votes  a  convenient  excuse  for  doing  so 
in  case  they  should  be  called  to  account  by  their  con- 
stituents. 

By  his  defense  of  Jefferson  Davis  on  the  floor  of 
the  Senate,  and  his  many  approving  references  to 
the  position  of  the  Southern  States  in  the  civil  con- 
test, Mr.  Lamar  had  made  himself  a  shining  mark 
for  the  shafts  of  his  opponents.  The  fact  that  his 
was  the  first  case  of  the  nomination  of  a  participant 
in  secession  to  the  Court  of  Last  Appeal,  whose 
members  are  called  upon  to  settle  the  gravest  ques- 
tions of  Constitutional  law,  caused  many  Senators  to 
put  their  disapproval  on  record,  as  it  were,although 
they  had  no  expectation  of  procuring  his  defeat. 

Mr.  Dickinson,  who  was  sworn  in  and  assumed 
his  oflacial  duties  on  Monday  last,  is  the  34th  Post- 
master General  of  the  United  States.  He  has  never 
before  sought  or  held  public  office.  He  was  an  ar- 
dent supporter  of  Greely  in  1872,  and  was  so  indig- 
nant with  the  failure  of  his  party  to  give  full  sup- 
port to  the  candidate  that  he  yrrote  a  letter  to  the 
chairman  of  the  Democratic  State  Committee  re- 
nouncing his  connection  with  the  party.  He  was  an 
admirer  of  Tilden,  however,  and  in  1876  renewed 
his  interest  in  politics.  He  has  taken  a  prominent 
part  in  the  litigation  against  the  Bell  telephone  pat- 
ent, and  it  was  he  who  made  the  argument  before 
the  Supreme  Court  in  behalf  of  the  Drawbaugh  claim- 
ants. * 


NOTICES 


TEE  N.  C.  A.  NATIONAL  CONVENTION. 


OFFICIAL   CALL. 


The  Seventeenth  Convention  of  the  National  Chris- 
tian Association  is  hereby  called  to  meet  in  the  Central 
Congregationalist  church  in  the  city  of  New  Orleans, 
Louisiana,  at  7;30  p.  m.,  February  17th,  1888.  An  inter- 
esting programme  has  been  arranged,  able  speakers  have 
been  secured,  and  three  sessions  will  be  held  daily,  clos- 
ing with  the  evening  of  Feb.  20th.  Seats  are  free  and 
the  public  are  most  cordially  invited  to  attend. 

Rev.  J.  S  McCuLLOCH,  D.D.,  Pres. 

Rbv.  Lbwis  Johnston,  Sec'y. 


Latest  and  Best  Rate  to  New  Orleans. — Round 
trip  tickets  will  be  on  sale  at  $25  from  Feb.  6th  to  12th 
next,  good  to  return  until  March  Ist  next.  This  will 
make  the  fare  less  than  IV  cent  per  mile  from  Chicago  to 
New  Orleans  via  Illinois  Central  Railroad.  This  reduc- 
tion from  the  usual  rate  will  probably  be  general  through- 
out the  country  at  that  date,  but  we  are  not  able  to  speak 
positively  at  present.  Look  for  further  notice  hereafter, 
or  make  inquiries  of  railway  agents. 
•  *  m 
REFORMERS  OF  IOWA. 

The  N.C.  A. Convention  at  New  Orleans  is  to  be  held 
next  month.  ThelowaChristian  A.S80ciation  at  its  last  annu- 
al meeting appointedRev.  Wm. Johnson  ofCoUegcSprings, 
Page  county.  Iowa,  the  president  of  the  Association,  its 
delegate  to  the  Convention  at  New  Orleans.  Special 
contributions  are  needed  to  defray  his  expenses.  Let  all 
who  can  respond  immediaUli/.  Send  your  contributions 
direct  to  Dr.  Johnson,  as  the  time  is  short.  Don't  fail 
to  promptly  send  the  means  for  our  president  to  repre- 
sent us  at  the  New  Orleans  meeting.     C .  F .  Hawley, 

State  Agent  of  I.C.A. 


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THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURB. 


Janttary  26,  1888 


The  Home. 


THB  NORTHERN  LIGHTS. 


Along  the  clear  and  lolty  arch, 
With  glimmering  banners  lifted  high, 

In  brilliant  robes  they  form  and  march, 
Auroral  armies  of  the  sky. 

Some,  pale  and  spectral  as  they  shine, 
Like  spirits  wandering  near  us  seem. 

While  vaster  columns  throng  the  line, 
And  crimson  splendors  o'er  them  stream. 

The  white  and  red  o'erlap  the  blue. 
Where  flash  the  gems  of  starry  light; 

A  heavenly  host  breaks  forth  to  view. 
And  scales  the  sapphire  dome  of  night. 

Are  these  refleetions  from  the  sea 
That  wraps  and  warms  the  distant  pole, 

Whose  gleaming  waves  from  winter  free, 
Walt  the  adventurer's  daring  stroll? 

Ah,  whence  this  mingled  grand  array, 
That  half  the  concave  fills  and  sweeps? 

Qlintings  of  some  pure  sphere  are  they. 
In  the  far  space  of  upper  deeps? 

Come  these  celestial  bannered  hosts 
Within  our  dim  horizon's  bound. 

To  lure  us  to  sublimer  coasts. 
Where  hope's  ideal  realm  is  found? 

Are  they  but  shadows  of  the  world 
Where  sainted  spirits  dwell  and  sing,— 

The  twilight  of  those  skies  unfurled 
Above  the  City  of  the  King? 

Oh !  what  must  be  the  splendors  rare. 
The  hues  that  zone  that  high  abode. 

The  radiant  glories  streaming  there. 
Lit  by  the  throne  and  smile  of  God ! 

—Rev.  S.  D. 


Phelps. 


THB  JAPANESE  REVOLUTION. 


Bishop  Abel  Stevens,  D.  D.,  L.L.  D.,  who  has  re 
cently  visited  Japan,  in  a  letter  to  the  Christian  Ad- 
vocate admirably  summarizes  the  wonderful  revolt 
tion  which  that  nation  has  experienced: 

Look  at  the  late  history  of  the  country,  and  you 
will  acknowledge  that  never  has  the  historical  stu- 
dent, the  statesman,  or  the  churchman  had  to  deal 
with  a  more  extraordinary  chapter  of  events.  Our 
own  Grovernment  opened  Japan  to  the  world,  and 
began  the  unexampled  revolution  now  going  on  here 
by  Commodore  Perry's  squadron  in  1854.  Though  it 
seemed  an  hostile  interference,  the  Japanese  have 
found  it  to  be  the  most  auspicious  event  in  their  his- 
tory, and  they  have  taken  advantage  of  it  to  reor- 
ganize their  national  life.    They  have: 

1.  Abolished  their  own  dual  sovereignty,  and  de- 
throning their  Shogun,  or  Tycoon,  have  restored  to 
power  their  Mikado,  the  representative  of  the  legiti- 
mate dynasty — the  most  ancient  on  the  globe,  com- 
pared with  which  the  royal  families  of  Europe  are 
but  parvenus.  The  Japanese  dynasty  is  more  than 
2,500  years  old.  The  Shogun  usurpers  have  been  dis- 
placed after  controlling  the  country  for  more  than 
700  years.  The  last  of  them  still  lives,  but  in  retire- 
ment, an  example  of  clemency,  the  conscious  secu- 
rity, and  civilized  policy  of  the  actual  government. 

2.  They  have  thrown  off  the  strongest  system  of 
feudalism  that  history  records,  atter  it  had  existed, 
with  its  daimios  and  local  armies  and  revenues, 
longer  than  the  Shoguns.  What  it  took  two  reigns 
in  France  under  Richelieu  and  Louis  XIII.  and 
Louis  XIV.  to  initiate,  and  the  Revolution  alone 
could  complete,  has  been  effected  in  Japan  in  about 
a  quarter  of  a  century. 

3.  They  have  transformed  a  vast  and  dangerous 
military  nohle$se,  (the  Samurai,)  more  than  two  mill- 
ions strong,  into  common  citizens.  They  were  the 
«'two-8worded  men;"  one  of  the  swords  being  for  the 
famous  hara-kiri,  or  suicide  from  a  point  of  honor, 
a  more  tenacious  point  of  honor  than  the  duel  in  the 
West.  The  government,  by  adroitly  granting  the 
right  of  wearing  two  swords  to  all  citizens,  virtually 
extinguished  this  symbol  of  caste  or  noblesse,  and 
with  it  has  ceased  the  Samurai  and  the  barbarous 
hara-kiri. 

4.  They  have  established  a  single  national  army,  a 
navy,  and  a  general  {K)lice  after  the  Western  models. 
All  these  are  clothed  in  European  costume,  and 
drilled  in  European  manner.  The  police  is  pro- 
nounced the  best  in  the  world;  it  consists  mostly  of 
the  old  Samurai  and  their  sons.  They  are  the  best 
clothed  men  in  Japan,  excepting  the  high  nobility, 
arrayed  in  spotless  white,  including  the  white  caps 
and  gloves,  and  save  their  bronze  faces  they  look 
like  European  gentlemen. 

5.  They  have  organized  a  remarkable  system  of 
national  education,  which  Gen.  Grant  pronounced, 
when  here,  the  best  he  had  seen  in  his  circuit  of  the 
globe.     It  was  devised   by   an  American — David 


Murray,  LL.D.,  then  of  Rutgers  College.  It  com- 
prises primary  or  common  schools,  normal  and 
polytechnic  academies,  and  an  Imperial  University 
on  the  model  of  the  German  University. 

6.  They  have  established  a  mail  system,  and  have 
entered  into  the  "Postal  Union" — planned  and  inau- 
gurated by  an  American.  After  the  example  of 
England,  their  postal  department  includes  the  sav- 
ings-bank system,  and  the  deposits  (mostly  by  the 
poorer  classes)  for  the  last  year  amounted  to  $12,- 
500,000,  nearly  double  the  amount  of  the  preceding 
year — showing  the  rapid  growth  of  this  sign  of  civ- 
ilization. 

7.  They  have  established  a  scientific  medical  Fac- 
ulty with  native  physicians  educated  in  Europe,  and 
all  the  European  improvements  in  place  of  their  old 
medical  jugglery.  They  now  have  good  medical 
professorships  in  their  learned  institutions. 

8.  They  had  no  knowledge  of  the  public  journal 
before  the  arrival  of  Perry;  they  now  have  the  pub- 
lic press,  including  no  less  than  500  periodicals — 
dailies,  weeklies,  monthlies;  political,  literary,  scien- 
tific, and  even  humoristic. 

9.  They  have  introduced  the  steam-boat,  the  tele- 
graph, the  telephone,  etc.,  now  made  by  native 
hands.  Native  companies  navigate  the  river  and 
neighboring  seas  with  excellent  steamers,  quite  sat- 
isfactory to  foreign  travelers. 

10.  They  have  adopted  the  European  costume,  not 
only  in  the  army,  navy  and  police,  but  in  the  court, 
and  increasingly  among  the  people. 

11.  They  are  proposing  to  introduce  the  Roman 
alphabet  in  place  of  their  old  and  difficult  literary 
characters;  and  have  a  society  and  a  journal  for  the 
promotion  of  this  change. 

12.  They  are  to  have  in  1890  a  constitutional  gov- 
ernment— the  first  native  example  of  it  in  Asia. 

13.  They  have  outsped  any  State  of  Europe  in 
"Disestablishment"  (except  in  the  provincial  or  local 
case  of  the  English  church  in  Ireland),  for  they  have 
separated  Shintoism  and  Buddhism  from  the  gov- 
ernment, and  abolished  their  Administrative  Bureau 
of  Religion.  A  prince  of  the  royal  blood  used  to  be 
at  the  head  of  Buddhism,  but  the  old  religions  are 
now  left  to  stand  or  fall  by  themselves.  Universal 
toleration  prevails.  The  ancient  faiths  are  consid- 
ered barbaric  and  incompatible  with  the  new  career 
of  the  empire.  The  Government  acknowledges  itself 
to  be  without  a  religion,  and  is  considering  what 
form  of  Western  cultus  it  may  best  adopt. 

14.  They  have  legally  recognized  the  Christian 
Sabbath,  and  it  is  observed  as  a  day  of  rest  by  all 
government  offices,  the  public  schools,  banks,  etc. 
This  was  an  unopposed  concession  to  the  many  Eu- 
ropeans and  Americans  formerly  in  its  service,  but 
will  be  a  momentous  guaranteed  preliminary  for  the 
future  of  Christianity  in  the  country. 

These  are  only  some  (not  all)  of  the  remarkable 
improvements  already  made.  Though  alluded  to  in 
my  former  letter,  they  may,  I  repeat,  be  well  enough 
recalled  here;  for  they  are  the  logical  foreground  of 
our  calculations  respecting  the  coming  Christianiza- 
tion  of  the  nation,  and,  therefore,  of  the  problem 
that  we  are  hereafter  to  discuss.  Such  an  example 
of  national  self-regeneration  is  assuredly  without 
precedent  in  recorded  history,  and  it  has  gone  al- 
ready too  far  for  any  serious  retrogression.  Nearly 
all  of  these  incredible  innovations  have  taken  place 
within  about  twenty  years. 

Second.  These  advancements  have  prepared  the 
nation  for  Christianity.  With  them  has  spread  over 
the  land  the  modern  scientific  thought  of  Europe, 
and  this,  with  the  teachings  of  the  missionaries,  has 
rendered  the  old  religions  virtually  effete,  not  to  say 
ridiculous,  to  the  growing  intelligence  of  the  coun- 
try. I  have  mentioned  that  "all"  the  journals  are 
favorable  to  the  project  of  Christianization — that  the 
leading  one  (the  London  Times  of  Japan),  once  hos- 
tile to  Christianity  as  an  unpatriotic  innovation,  now 
urges  its  universal  adoption  as  a  necessity  of  the 
new  civilization,  and  of  the  full  recognition  of  Japan 
in  the  comity  of  the  Western  powers.  I  have  quoted 
from  an  educated  Japanese  writer,  who  declares  that 
he  and  his  countrymen  generally,  heretofore  opposed 
to  it,  have  undergone  a  profound  change,  and  that 
the  whole  country  is  "now  ready  and  willing  to  be 
Christianized." 

Third.  But  now,  in  presence  of  these  startling 
facts,  I  must  emphasize  that  it  is  not  so  much  from 
any  personal  or  moral  sympathy  with  Christianity 
as  from  motives  of  national  ambition  and  policy 
that  the  nation  is  so  favorable  to  it.  It  knows  it 
must  have  a  religion  of  some  kind;  it  cannot  keep 
its  old  faiths;  it  canno.t  adopt  any  other  religious 
system  of  Asia;  it  is  convinced  that  to  become  Eu- 
ropeanized  it  must  be  Christianized.  Its  one  great 
ambition  is  to  become  Europp-anized,  and  to  take  an 
honorable  position  among  the  great  civilized  powers. 
It  wishes  a  religion  which  recognizes  the  one  true 


God,  which  has  a  good  moral  code,  and  is  favorable 
to  modern  progress.  It  is  enlightened  enough  to 
see  that  Christianity  alone  has  these  conditions;  and 
it  is  determined,  therefore,  to  have  Christianity,  and 
will  have  it,  in  some  form  or  other,  in  a  very  few 
years.  Every  thing  that  tends  to  this  consumma- 
tion is  encouraged  by  the  nation. 


THINKING  OUBSBLVBa  OVER. 

"What  is  self-examination?"  asked  little  Alice. 
"Mr.  Clifford  said  something  about  it  in  his  sermon 
this  morning,  and  he  told  us  all  to  spend  a  little 
while  every  Sabbath  practicing  it — practicing  what, 
mamma?" 

"Self-examination  is  thinking  ourselves  over,"  an- 
swered Mrs.  Langton.  "You  know  how  apt  we  are 
to  forget  ourselves — what  we  did  and  thought  yes- 
terday and  the  day  before  and  the  day  before  that. 
Now,  it  is  by  calling  to  mind  our  past  conduct  that 
we  can  truly  see  it  as  it  is  and  improve  upon  it?" 

"How  must  I  do,  mamma?"  asked  Alice;  "tell  me 
how  to  begin." 

"You  may  first  think  over  your  conduct  to  your 
parents.  Have  they  had  reason  to  find  fault  with 
you  during  the  week?  if  so,  what  for?  Have  you 
disobeyed  them  or  been  sullen  toward  them?  Have 
you  made  them  glad  by  your  kindness  and  your 
faithful  and  ready  compliance  with  their  wishes? 

"The^ii  thmk  of  your  duty  to  your  brothers  and 
sisters.  Ask  yourself  how  many  you  have  made  un- 
happy. Have  you  spoken  cross  words  to  them? 
Have  you  been  angry  or  ill-natured?  Have  you  de- 
ceived them?  What  hard  thoughts  have  you  cher- 
ished in  your  heart  toward  them?" 

"Oh,  mamma,  it  would  take  me  a  great  while  to 
think  that  over,  and  I'm  afraid  it  would  not  always 
please  me.     What  next  must  I  think  of,  mamma?" 

"Faithfulness  in  your  business." 

"Business?"  said  Alice,  smiling,  "Papa  has  busi- 
ness; little  girls  haven't  any  business." 

"Oh,  yes,"  said  Mrs.  Langton;  "any  work  which 
you  have  to  do  is  your  business.  Your  studies  at 
school  are  your  employment,  in  which  you  ought  to 
be  diligent  and  faithful.  Have  you  been  so?  Do 
you  never  play  in  school?  Do  you  thoroughly  learn 
your  lessons?  Do  you  mind  what  the  teacher  says? ' 
Carefully  think  over  whether  your  conduct  is  in  all 
respects  what  a  Christian  child's  should  be." 

"I  know  a  verse  about  business,"  said  Alice.  "The 
Bible  tells  us  not  to  be  slothful  in  business,  'fervent 
in  spirit,  serving  the  Lord.'  That  means  we  must 
mind  God  in  it,  doesn't  it?  What  more  is  there  to 
think  over,  mamma?" 

"Secret  faults,"  answered  Mrs.  Langton.  "Have 
you  cherished  any  wrong  feelings  Ln  your  heart? 
Have  you  had  secret  thoughts  which  you  would  be 
soiTy  to  have  exposed? — any  envy  of  others,  any 
pride?  Have  you  harbored  unkindness?  Have  you 
been  selfish?  Have  you  neglected  to  praise  Him,  to 
pray  to  Him?  Go  over  all  this  ground  thoroughly 
and  confess  your  faults,  and  ask  the  Saviour  to  make 
your  heart  clean  and  help  you  to  love  only  what  is 
lovely." 

"But  Aunt  Jane  says  there's  no  need  of  children 
thinking,"  said  Alice. 

"Without  thinking,"  said  Mrs.  Langton,  "there 
can  be  no  improvement.  Thoughtlessness  is  the 
besetting  fault  of  youth.  It  is  this  which  makes 
young  people  giddy,  foolish,  and  vain,  and  blinds 
them  to  their  own  defects." 

Alice  sat  still  for  some  time  looking  out  of  the 
window;  then  she  came,  and  putting  her  arm  around 
her  mother's  neck  gently  said,  "Dear  mother,  I  will 
try  to  be  one  of  God's  good  children," — Christian 
Instructor. 


THB  DAILY  NBWBPAPBR. 


If  you  don't  read  the 
you've  certainly  seen  it. 


morning  paper  yourself 
There  it  is,  eight  pages, 
closely  printed  in  column  after  column.  It  is  bought 
for  four  cents,  read  or  glanced  through,  and  then 
made  into  bobtails  for  kites,  put  on  the  shelves 
under  the  jars,  or,  perhaps,  thrown  away.  Did  you 
ever  stop  to  think  of  the  money  and  labor  bestowed 
upon  a  single  issue  of  a  morning  paper? 

Let  us  take  a  well-regulated  office.  Connected 
with  this  newspaper  office  we  find  first  a  counting-room 
wherein  the  business  is  done.  This  department  is 
presided  over  by  the  business  manager.  Under  him 
are  the  advertising  and  subscription  clerks,  the  book- 
keepers and  cashiers;  and  here  is  transacted  all  the 
business  in  any  way  connected  with  the  paper.  Then 
come  the  editorial  rooms.  In  the  metropolitan  news- 
paper office  these  rooms  are  divided  under  two  heads, 
the  "Editorial  Rooms"  and  the  "City  Department." 
In  the  former  is  the  managing  editor  with  his  assist- 
ants, and  in  the  latter  the  city  editor,  having  the 


January  26, 1888 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


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reporters  in  charge.  In  the  city  department  is  gath- 
ered all  the  local  news,  and  in  the  other,  matters  of 
interest  from  outside  cities  far  and  near — from  the 
very  jumping-off  places  of  the  telegraph.  Over  both 
of  these  departments  is  the  editor-in-chief — and  if 
you  think  he  has  an  easy  time  of  it  you  haven't  be- 
gun to  think  the  truth. 

But  we  mustn  t  stop  too  long  here,  although  we 
haven't  spoken  about  the  night  editor,  who  "makes 
up"  the  paper  with  articles  approved  by  the  editor- 
in-chief,  the  telegraphic  editor,  the  night  city  editor 
(through  whose  hands  all  the  reporters'  copy  goes 
for  correction  and  cutting  down,  if  necessary),  and 
other  routine  work  of  the  editorial  rooms,  for  there 
are  the  composing  rooms  to  visit.  Here  we  find  an 
army  of  men  in  their  shirt  sleeves  setting  type  just 
as  fast  as  they  can.  The  copy  sent  up  from  the  ed- 
itorial rooms  is  given  to  a  foreman,  and  he  cuts  it 
up  and  gives  it  around  to  the  compositors,  so  each 
can  have  a  share  of  the  work.  All  the  type-cases 
are  numbered,  and  each  compositor  puts  his  number 
at  the  head  of  the  matter  be  is  setting.  When  he 
finishes  he  takes  a  proof  of  his  work  on  a  small 
press,  and  sends  his  copy  together  with  what  he  has 
set  to  the  proof-room.  In  this  room  the  men  work 
in  pairs.  One  reads  the  copy  and  the  other  corrects 
the  printer's  proof.  The  type-setter  must  then  make 
the  changes  indicated  by  the  proof-reader. 

Then  the  paper  is  "made  up,"  a  page  at  a  time,  in 
an  iron  form.  As  each  page  is  filled  it  is  sent  down 
stairs  to  the  stereotype  room.  Here  we  find  a  very 
interesting  process  and  one  which  you  must  see  if 
ever  you  have  the  opportunity.  The  stereotypers 
have  sheets  of  pulpy  paper  which  they  lay  over  the 
type;  then  with  a  mallet  they  pound  this  pulp  as 
hard  as  they  can  into  the  face  of  the  type.  When 
this  has  been  thoroughly  done  they  put  the  form  in- 
to a  steam  chest,  and  all  the  moisture  in  the  pulp  is 
dried  out,  leaving  the  surface  hard  as  wood.  When 
the  form  comes  out  of  the  steam  chest  they  lift  the 
sheet  of  dried  pulp  oQ  the  face  of  the  type,  and  a 
very  funny-looking  piece  of  work  it  is  too,  for  every- 
thing is  reversed.  Where  there  was  a  hole  in  the 
face  of  the  type  (as  in  an  o  or  an  a),  in  the  pulp 
there  is  a  protuberance.  So  it  is  with  the 
space  between  the  words  and  between  the  lines.  In 
fact,  if  a  paper  were  printed  from  this  sheet  of  pulp 
every  part  that  should  be  white  would  be  black  and 
the  black  places  white,  which  wouldn't  do  at  all.  But 
they  don't  print  from  this  hardened  sheet.  They  put  it 
into  a  thin  cylindrical  iron  form,  and  shut  a  concave 
cover  down  upon  it.  The  face  of  the  hardened  sheet 
is  toward  the  cover.  Between  this  cover  and  the 
sheet  there  is  a  small  space — perhaps  the  third  of 
an  inch — and  into  this  space  they  pour  melted  type- 
metal.  If,  when  the  pulp  were  pounded  into  the 
type  the  indentations  of  surface  were  reversed,  so 
when  the  hot  metal  is  run  into  the  mold  and  cooled, 
the  plate  comes  out  with  the  type  faces  all  right 
again,  for  the  protuberances  in  the  sheet  become 
holes  in  the  plate.  These  plates  are  made  in  cylin- 
drical form,  to  fit  on  cylinders  in  the  press. 

Within  a  few  years  the  newspaper  press  has  been 
greatly  improved.  Some  of  these  presses  print  on 
both  sides  of  the  paper  at  once,  and  deliver  six  com- 
plete copies  at  a  time! 

The  paper  comes  in  immense  rolls.  When  the 
plates  from  the  stereotype  room  are  brought  to  the 
press  room  they  are  screwed  to  the  cylinders  of  the 
press.  There  are  two  of  these  cylinders,  each  cap- 
able of  holding  on  its  surface  eight  plates  the  size  of 
the  newspaper  page  (twice  the  necessary  number,  to 
double  the  production).  When  the  plates  are  in 
place  [&  roll  of  paper  is  fastened  to  a  crane  and 
swung  in  position  over  the  press. 

The  edge  of  the  paper  is  then  drawn  down  be- 
tween cylinders,  and  the  press  is  started.  The  large 
roll  revolves  and  the  paper  is  carried  over  the  first 
great  type  cylinder,  and  along  on  tapes  to  the  second 
one,  after  which  it  winds  itself  about  a  roller  until 
six  copies  are  rolled,  when  a  knife  cuts  them  apart, 
and  the  papers  fall  to  a  platform  where  they  lie  till 
a  great  pile  has  accumulated,  when  men  come  and 
shoulder  them  and  take  them  to  the  folding  and 
mailing  rooms. 

Of  course  there  is  much  about  these  wonderful 
presses  that  we  can  not  well  explain  here. 
There  is  the  inking  process,  for  instance.  Every 
type  surface  has  to  be  inked  each  time  it  comes  in 
contact  with  the  paper,  and  as  the  presses  will  print 
at  the  rate  of  fifteen  thousand  impressions  an  hour, 
you  can  see  that  the  ink-rollers  have  to  work  with 
all  their  might  to  keep  up. 

But,  to  appreciate  these  wonderful  machines,  you 
must  see  them  for  yourselves. 

The  presses  not  only  do  all  this,  but  instead  of 
dropping  the  paper  on  the  platform  for  the  men  to 
take  away,  even  fold  them  ready  for  mailing  I  By  and 
by  they  will  be  making  machines  into  the  hopper  of 


which  the  editors  can  put  their  copy,  and  the  ma- 
chine will  set  the  type,  correct  proof,  stereotype  the 
forms,  print  the  papers  and  shoot  out  small  boys  to 
sell  them. 

In  the  folding  rooms  the  papers  are  carried  to 
men  who  count  them  into  piles  of  fifties.  By  this 
time  it  is  about  four  o'clock  in  the  morning.  The 
papers  going  out  of  town  by  the  fast  mail  trains 
have  been  sent  to  the  railroad  stations  by  great  ex- 
press wagons,  and  the  dealers  and  newsboys  about 
the  city  come  rushing  in  for  their  papers,  after  hav- 
ing purchased  tickets  of  the  man  in  the  counting 
room.  If  a  newsboy  wants  twenty  papers,  he  pays 
in  the  counting-room  and  receives  a  ticket  with  20 
upon  it.  This  he  gives  to  the  head  "counter"  and  is 
off  like  a  shot,  for  perhaps  his  route  is  away  up-town. 
A  newsboy  averages  about  one  cent  profit  on  every 
paper  he  sells. 

If  you  want  to  see  a  busy  place,  go  to  Printing 
House  Square,  New  York,  about  four  o'clock  in  the 
morning.  Wagons,  big  and  little,  are  rattling  here 
and  there,  while  men  and  boys  are  rushing  from  one 
oflSce  to  another  with  ever  increasing  piles  of  papers 
upon  their  shoulders,  until  it  seems  a  wonder  how 
they  can  stand  up  under  the  loads. 

Now  perhaps  you  can  see  a  little  of  the  trouble 
and  expense  to  which  a  newspaper  publisher  goes  to 
give  you  a  morning  paper,  yet  we  have  not  told  all. 
There  are  the  foreign  correspondents,  and  those 
looking  after  the  paper's  interests  in  all  the  princi- 
pal cities  at  home  as  well  as  abroad.  Of  the  number 
of  these  we  cannot  form  an  estimate,  but  in  the  de- 
partments through  which  we  have  gone  our  hasty 
glances  have  shown  us  something  like  a  total  of  one 
hundred  and  seventy  persons  employed  in  what 
might  be  called  the  "home  oflSce"  of  a  well  organized 
city  newspaper. — The  Christian  Union. 


AN  EXPLANATION. 


When  you  see  the  baby  walk 

Step  by  step,  and  stumble ; 
Just  remember,  now  he's  here, 
Both  his  wings  are  gone— Oh,  dear ! 

Catch  him,  or  he'll  tumble  I 

When  you  hear  the  baby  talk. 

Bit  by  bit,  aU  broken, 
Only  think  how  he  forgets 
All  his  angtl-words,  and  lets 

Wonders  go  unspoken ! 

—Samuel   W.  Duffldd. 


Temfeeance. 


KANSAS  DRUGGISTS. 


On  the  6th  inst.  Judge  (Juthrie  decided  at  Tope- 
ka,  a  esse  of  great  interest,  inasmuch  as  the  point 
raised  is  a  new  one  growing  out  of  the  enforcement 
of  the  prohibition  law,  and  has  never  before  been 
passed  upon.  Michael  Trehey  alleges  that  on  June 
4,  1887,  being  afflicted  with  a  disease  of  the  kidneys, 
he  applied  to  a  physician  for  a  prescription,  and  the 
physician  prescribed  gin  for  the  plaintiff,  to  be  used 
by  him  for  his  sickness.  Trehey  being  then  and 
there  greatly  prostrated  and  sick  with  said  disease, 
he  presented  the  prescription  to  F.  E.  Holliday,  a 
druggist,  and  requested  him  to  fill  it,  being  then  and 
there  ready  to  take  the  oath  and  make  the  affidavit 
provided  by  law  for  all  persons  who  apply  for  intox- 
icating liquors  for  medicinal  purposes.  Holliday 
refused  to  fill  the  prescription  on  the  ground  that 
the  physician  who  gave  the  prescription  to  plaintiff 
was  not  a  customer  and  never  was  in  the  habit  of 
dealing  at  the  drug  store.  Holliday's  defense  was 
that  he  refused  to  sell  to  Trehey  because  he  knew 
him  to  be  an  habitual  drinking  man,  and  he  believ- 
ed his  claim  of  kidney  disease  was  only  an  excuse. 
Trehey  brought  suit  asking  for  $500  damages.  The 
case  is  decided  to-day  in  favor  of  the  druggist.  The 
Judge  says  the  provisions  of  the  statute  make  it  the 
duty  of  the  druggist  to  exercise  the  highest  degree 
of  diligence  and  care  in  the  sale  of  intoxicating 
liquors  to  those  making  application  to  purchase  the 
same.  If  the  law  has  imposed  the  duty  on  the 
druggist  not  to  sell  intoxicating  liquors  to  any  per- 
son whom  he  believes  desires  them  to  be  used  as  a 
beverage,  or  where  he  has  reason  to  believe  the  liq- 
uor is  not  for  the  ailment  desired,  in  the  affidavit 
made  by  the  applicant,  then  it  follows  logically 
that  the  judgment  or  determination  of  a  druggist, 
though  he  may  be  mistaken,  must  be  final.  It  would 
seem  that  where  a  druggist  is  charged  with  this 
duty  he  should  resolve  every  doubt  in  favor  of  the 
law  and  against  the  applicant.  Where  the  question 
arises  whether  a  druggist  shall  accommodate  an  ap- 
plicant with  a  sale  of  intoxicating  liquor  or  risk  the 
commission  of  an  offense  again-'t  iin  laws  of  the 
State,  his  path  of  duty  is  peculiar  a  ..I  unmistakable. 


and  it  would  make  no  difference  that  the  druggist 
gave  to  the  applicant  an  illogical  or  unsatisfactory 
reason  for  refusing  to  sell  the  intoxicating  liquor. 
The  first  duty  the  druggist  owes  is  to  the  State. 
Whether  the  law  is  wise  or  unwise  the  druggist 
must  not  consider.  He  must  follow  the  law  and  ex- 
ecute it  with  fidelity.  If  he  does  not  do  so  and 
makes  a  sale  forbidden  by  the  law,  neither  his  per- 
mit from  the  Probate  judge  nor  the  applicant's  affi- 
davit, nor  both,  will  protect  him  from  the  penalties 
of  the  law. 

TBB  RESULT  OF  THE  BALLOT. 


The  use  of  the  ballot  as  an  expression  of  public 
opinion  is  the  most  effective  agency  to  bring  about 
this  moral  revolution,  and  this  is  sure  to  come;  the 
signs  of  the  times  are  full  of  encouragement.  The 
ballot  must  be  recognized  as  the  reaper  and  mower 
by  which  we  are  to  secure  this  grand  harvest  for 
God  and  humanity.  And  the  fiat  of  the  people  will 
soon  be  that  "the  saloon  must  go."  Will  the  church 
and  its  ministers  be  found  leading  the  people  in  this 
great  moral  war?  There's  a  bright  to-mororw  ahead 
of  us,  and  the  church  should  realize  its  opportunity 
to  lead  the  people  in  this  grand  movement  for  the 
prohibition  of  this  terrible  curse.  The  clergy  of 
this  country  are,  therefore,under  a  special  obligation 
to  combine  their  influence  and  use  their  opportuni- 
ties to  enforce  on  the  minds  of  their  people  the  ne- 
cessity for  immediate  effort;  they  should  inspire 
them  with  enthusiasm  and  an  active  faith  in  a  grand, 
moral,  heroic  effort  to  banish  the  sale  of  this  poison 
from  the  community  by  the  only  possible  means  by 
which  this  can  be  accomplished,  that  is,  through  a 
political  combination  of  the  people,  in  which  case 
the  whole  business  of  rum-selling  could  be  annihil- 
ated in  a  comparatively  short  time. 

But  we  must  have  no  half-way  measures,  and  no 
compromises  with  the  enemy.  On  the  part  of  the 
church  this  combination  should  be  aggressively 
prompt  to  be  effective.  As  there  are  now  not  less 
than  16,000,000  church  members  in  this  country,and 
more  than  one-fourth  of  these  are  voters,  how  quick- 
ly could  they  crush  this  enemy  of  religion,  this 
monster  of  vice  and  immorality,  if  the  ministers  of 
the  Chiistian  church  would  impress  on  their  people 
their  political  duty  on  this  issue,  with  all  their  ac- 
tive intelligence  and  Christian  zeal  I  What  a  glori- 
ous work  for  the  Christian  church!  And  what  a 
hallelujah  of  praise  and  thanksgiving  would  go  up 
all  over  the  land  for  the  deliverance  of  the  people 
from  this  terrible  incubus  on  their  Christian  civili- 
zation. And  this  can  be  brought  about  just  as  soon 
as  ministers  realize  and  do  their  duty  on  this  mo- 
mentous question. 

To  those  who  stand  on  the  walls  of  Zion,  "Watch- 
men, tell  us  of  the  night."  May  we  not  look  for  the 
watchmen  who  tell  of  the  dawn?  The  records  of 
eternity  alone  will  reveal  how  well  we  have  fulfilled 
our  part  in  bringing  about  the  grand  revolution  that 
seems  so  sure  to  come  in  the  near  future.  But 
"How  long,0  Lord;  how  long? — DemoretVt  Monthly. 

The  Queen  Regent  of  Spain  has  signed  a  decree 
regulating  the  manufacture  and  importation  of  in- 
toxicating liquors,  and  prohibiting  the  sale  of  im- 
pure alcohols  throughout  her  dominions. 

Dr.  Torel,  an  eminent  physician  of  Switzerland 
and  President  of  the  late  international  Congress 
held  at  Zurich,  has  organized  a  temperance  club 
among  the  medical  students  of  his  city. 

Arrangements  are  being  made  by  the  Central  W. 
C.  T.  U.  for  a  series  of  gospel  temperance  meetings 
to  be  held  in  this  city  in  the  near  future,  conducted 
by  Mrs.  S.  M.  I.  Henry,  National  Evangelist 

The  Rev.  A.  A.  Taylor,  a  talented  colored  man, 
who  represented  Texas  at  the  National  Prohibition 
Conference,  has  been  secured  by  the  National  Com- 
mittee as  a  lecturer  among  his  people.  He  will  take 
the  field  at  once. 

There  is  a  temperance  organization  in  the  Roman 
Catholic  Church  called  the  Confraternity  of  the 
Sacred  Thirst  At  the  solicitation  of  Cardinal  Gib- 
bons the  Pope  has  granted  indulgences  to  those  of 
the  members  of  the  Confraternity  who  recite  the 
prescribed  prayers.  The  following  is  one  of  the 
prayers: 

"0  Lord  Jesus  Christ,  we  beseech  thee,  through 
thy  burning  thirst  and  agony,  and  through  the 
dolors  of  thy  dear  Mother  at  the  foot  of  the  cross, 
to  protect  US  from  the  demon  of  intemperance  and 
the  allurements  of  intoxicating  drinks.  Oh,  what  a 
subject  of  deep  sorrow  to  Thy  Sacred  Heart  to 
know  the  many  souls  that  are  eternally  lost  by  the 
deadly  sin  of  intemperance,  who  pass  their  days  in 
sensual  pleasures  and  in  drunkenness.  They  are 
the  enemies  of  the  cross  of  Christ,  whose  end  is  de- 
struction." 


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THE  CHHISTIAN  OYHOSUBE. 


Janttaky  26, 1888 


RELIGIOUS  NEWS. 


—Rev.  M.  S.  McCord,  of  the  United  Presbyterian 
church,  Providence,  R.  I.,  received  eleven  new  mem- 
bers, Jan.  8th.  The  past  year  has  been  a  very  pros- 
perous one,  forty  members  have  been  received  and 
$3,500  has  been  raised  for  all  purposes.  Mr.  Mc- 
Cord has  been  fourteen  years  in  Providence  and 
has  won  and  held  the  confidence  and  love  of  his 
people. 

— C.  H.  Yatman,  of  Newark,  N.  J.,  has  labored 
with  success  in  Joliet  and  Evanston,  III,  St.  Louis 
and  Independence,  Mo.,  and  in  the  Moody  church  in 
this  city.  In  these  places  there  have  been  one  thou- 
sand conversions.  At  St.  Louis  he  inaugurated  a 
noon-day  prayer-meeting  for  business  men,  and  this 
has  now  become  a  permanent  institution. 

— The  Foreign  Sunday-school  Association  has  in 
twenty-five  years  aided  in  the  establishment  of  3,000 
Sunday-schools  in  Germany,  with  300,000  scholars. 
It  has  also  introduced  the  institution  into  other  Eu- 
ropean countries. 

— A  revival  in  Sandusky,  O.,  conducted  by  Messrs. 
Potter  and  Miller,  has  resulted  in  the  accession  of 
108  persons  to  the  Congregational,  Presbyterian  and 
Methodist  churches. 

— Miss  Nannie  Jones,  a  gra  duate  of  the  class  of 
'86  of  Fisk  University,  is  to  start  for  Africa  as  a 
missionary.      She  goes  under  the  auspices  of  the 

A.  B.  C.  F.  M.  (the  American  Board)  to  the  south- 
eastern part  of  Africa,about  six  hundred  miles  from 
Natal.  She  is  the  first  single  colored  woman  who  has 
been  sent  out  by  the  American  Board.  She  has  been 
adopted  by  the  Ladies'  Board  of  the  Interior,  whose 
headquarters  are  at  Chicago. 

— Monday  prayer-meetings  for  business  men  are 
now  held  in  the  Board  of  Trade  rooms,  Philadel- 
phia. Thus  far  they  are  a  success  despite  the  atten- 
tion which  a  very  vigorous  telephone  in  the  room 
constantly  needs. 

— Mr.  Sankey  is  to  make  a  tour  of  the  Southern 
States.  He  has  made  arrangements  with  Church  of 
England  people  to  return  to  Great  Britain  next  May 
and  hold  a  series  of  meetings  in  England,  Scotland 
and  Ireland. 

— When  a  few  prominent  New  York  Presbyterians 
met  in  the  house  of  Elliott  F.  Shepard  for 
Christian  consultation  they  did  more  than  talk  and 
pray.  Before  separating  they  subscribed  $60,000 
toward  forwarding  Christian  work  among  the  poor 
of  the  city,  and  propose  to  make  it  $200,000. 

— The  Bishop  of  London  reports  that  the  average 
attendance  at  Sunday  morning  service  of  the  Estab- 
lished Church  in  that  city  is  200,890;  and  the  eve- 
ning attendance  205,496.  The  population  of  London 
is  about  four  millions. 

— "Denominationalism  has  had  its  day,"  says  J. 

B.  Wasson  in  the  JSorth  American,  "and  the  era  of 
its  decadence  has  begun.  In  the  past  it  drew  men 
into  the  church,  and  in  the  future  it  will  drive  them 
out  of  the  church." 

— A  Chinese  missionary,  now  in  California,tells  a 
Los  Angeles  paper  that  the  superstition  of  the  na- 
tives, if  nothing  else,  will  keep  railroads  out  of  Chi- 
na for  years  to  come,  as  their  religion  prohibits  the 
removal  of  bodies  from,  or  interference  "vith,  graves 
of  persons  properly  buried,  and  on  every  side  are  to 
be  found  such  mounds,  the  country  being  one  vast 
graveyard. 

— Francis  Murphy,  the  temperance  lecturer,  in- 
tends to  enter  the  ministry  if  the  conference  of  the 
Methodist  church  will  accept  him.  He  already  has 
a  license  as  a  local  preacher,  which  was  granted 
him  by  the  Erie  (Pa.)  Conference  of  the  Methodist 
Episcopal  church  before  he  went  to  Europe. 

— Considerable  surprise  is  expressed  in  English 
ecclesiastical  circles,  at  the  announcement  that  the 
youngest  grandchild  of  the  Queen  was  lately 
baptized  with  Presbyterian  rites  by  a  Presbyterian 
minister. 

— Mr.  Spurgeon,  speaking  at  a  recent  prayer- 
meeting,  stated  that  at  the  close  of  1887  he  would 
have  preached  his  two  thousandth  sermon,  and  if  he 
were  spared,  he  hoped  to  commence  the  year  1888 
by  preaching  his  two  thousand  and  first. 

— There  are  122  Protestant  churches  and  places 
of  worship  in  Paris,  with  ninety-two  ministers.  Of 
these,  eighteen  churches  with  fifteen  ministers  be- 
long to  the  Reformed  church  of  France,  and  six- 
teen churches  with  nineteen  ministers,  to  the  Luther- 
an church. 

— Few  of  the  Protestant  ministers  in  France  re- 
ceive more  than  $360  a  year  from  the  State,  to  which 
a  very  small  sum  is  added  by  the  congregations. 
Even  in  the  large  cities  $800  is  considered  a  liberal 
salary. 


— The  Congregational  Club  of  Minnesota  lately 
passed  resolutions  protesting  against  the  admis- 
sion by  Congress  of  the  Territory  of  Utah 
into  the  Union  "until  the  Mormon  theocracy 
controlling  that  Territory  shall  give  credible  evidence 
of  a  genuine  abandonment  of  the  'twin  relic  of  bar 
barism,'  and  of  a  willingness  to  obey  the  present 
laws  of  Congress  respecting  that  abomination,  be- 
lieving as  we  do  that  her  present  proffered  constitution 
is  an  attempt  through  transparent  trickery  and  fraud 
to  entrench  polygamy  behind  the  bulwarks  of  State- 
hood." 

— Earnest  efforts  are  being  made  to  Christianize 
the  Indians  of  Alaska.  The  Congregationalists  have 
sent  up  a  number  of  their  men  to  engage  in  this 
work.  Dr.  Wright  of  Oberlin,  Ohio,  recently  visited 
that  country  and  gives  an  interesting  report:  "A  few 
years  ago  the  United  States  Army  was  entirely  with- 
drawn; and  the  natives  are  now  left  to  the  tender 
mercies  of  white  men,  often  of  low  morals  and  dis- 
solute lives.  Nearly  six  hundred  miners  pass  the 
eight  months'  long  winter  at  Fort  Wrangel,  and  do 
much  to  corrupt  the  Indians.  Many  of  the  latter 
sell  their  daughters  to  the  white  traders  to  lead  lives 
of  shame.  It  is  against  these  terrible  vices  of  drunk- 
enness and  immorality,  for  which  the  wicked  white 
men  are  responsible,  that  the  missionaries  have  to 
contend.  Because  Dr.  Jackson,  one  of  these  Gospel 
workers,  was  getting  the  Indian  girls  into  his  school 
and  so  out  from  under  control  of  their  wicked  fath- 
ers, the  licentious  whites  persecuted  and  even  im- 
prisoned him,  and  nearly  broke  up  his  school.  From 
185  they  succeeded  in  reducing  it  to  35.  But  these 
whites,  including  a  wicked  judge,have  been  removed 
and  now  Dr.  Jackson's  school  is  rapidly  building  up 
again.  Mrs.  McFarland  established  a  school  for  In- 
dian girls  at  Fort  Wrangel,  which  has  since  been  re- 
moved to  Sitka.  An  industrial  school,  with  68  pu- 
pils, is  also  in  operation;  and  the  Rev.  Mr.  Austin 
is  teaching  quite  a  company  of  happy  studious  Indi- 
an boys.  Southern  Alaska  is  now  the  home  of  sev- 
eral hundreds  of  the  Metlakahtla  Indians,  whom 
their  indefatigable  pastor,  Mr.  Duncan,  has  raised 
from  wild  cannibals  up  into  a  civilized  and  God-fear- 
ing community.  All  this  is  good;  but  more  ought 
to  be  done  for  these  poor  Indians,  the  wards  of  our 
government,  whom  we  ought  to  civilize,  educate  and 
Christianize. 

— The  Evangelicals  of  Hungary,  both  Lutheran 
and  Reformed,have  united  in  the  project  of  revising 
their  translation  of  the  Bible.  The  British  Bible 
Society  has  consented  to  bear  the  expenses  of  the 
revision.  Revision  is  a  thing  that  has  a  beginning 
but  no  end. 

— Russian  congregations  are  noted  for  their  at- 
tentiveness.  They  often  crowd  around  the  lectern 
and  look  over  the  priest's  book  while  the  lessons  are 
being  read.  The  lessons  are  now  read  in  modern 
Russian,  instead  of  ancient  Slavonic,  as  formerly. 
Says  a  correspondent:  "All  are  equal  in  a  Russian 
church.  Even  the  Emperor  would  have  no  right  to 
stand  before  any  other  of  the  congregation  if  he  were 
not  a  deacon,  an  office  held  by  laymen  in  Russia.  I 
have  seen  the  Grand  Duke  Constantine,  brother  of 
the  late  Emperor,  come  into  church  a  minute  or  two 
after  the  service  had  begun.  A  few  near  the  door 
who  recognized  him  made  room  for  him,but  he  stood 
among  the  crowd  in  the  middle  the  rest  of  the  time, 
in  close  proximity  to  two  Syrian  Christians  with 
their  fezzes  slipped  into  their  girdles." 


THE  DAT  OF  PRATER  AND  CHRISTIAN 
WORK  FOR  COLLEGES. 


This  last  Thursday  of  January  is  generally  ob- 
served as  the  day  of  prayer  for  our  American  Col- 
leges. We  give  herewith  a  brief  statement  of  the 
College  Young  Men's  Christian  Association's  work, 
which  is  proving,  in  many  institutions  where  religi- 
ous influence  languishes,  to  be  of  the  greatest  bless- 
ing. 

The  largest  and  most  widely  organized  college 
society  to-day  is  the  College  Young  Men's  Christian 
Association.  It  exists  in  nearly  three  hundred  in- 
stitutions in  the  United  States,  Canada,  Japan, 
China,  India,  Ceylon,  Syria  and  Turkey.  Over 
eleven  thousand  Christian  students  are  connected 
with  these  organizations. 

Each  Association  has  a  two-fold  purpose,  the 
strengthening  of  Christians  and  the  salvation  of  the 
unconverted.     The  chief  agencies  employed  are: — 

First — Bible  Study,  Small  groups  of  men  meet 
regularly  to  consider  the  cases  of  their  unconverted 
fellows  and  study  how  to  meet  their  difficulties  and 
excuses  with  the  word  of  God.  In  one  college  as 
many  as  twenty  such  Bible  training  classes  have 
been  carried  on  at  the  same  time,  with  six  or  seven 
men  in  each. 

Second— Personal  private  conversations  with  men. 


Third — Public  meetings,  in  which  the  need  and 
plan  of  salvation  are  earnestly  presented  to  the  un- 
converted men. 

Fourth — Meetings  for  prayer,  to  which  all  stu- 
dents are  invited. 

Fifth— Missionary  meetings. 

Sixth — Some  work  is  done  in  the  neighborhood  of 
the  college,  but  this  is  considered  of  secondary  im- 
portance to  direct  effort  among  the  students  them- 
selves. 

Seventh — These  Associations  co-operate  with  one 
another  by  a  system  of  intercollegiate  work  consist- 
ing of  conventions,  correspondence,  publications  and 
visitation.  The  conventions  are  held  regularly,  and 
have  been  attended  each  by  from  twenty  to  four 
hundred  students.  Ordinarily  they  last  for  two  or 
three  days.  Not  less  than  thirty  thousand  students 
have  represented  three  hundred  institutions  in  such 
conventions  since  the  work  began  ten  years  ago. 


LITERATURE. 


The  January  Coimopolitan  opens  with  one  of  the  most 
graphic  pictures  of  a  battle  between  Indian  tribes,  which 
it  was  ever  the  lot  of  a  white  man  to  write.  It  shows 
likewise  what  changes  have  been  made  in  Nebraska  with- 
in twenty  years.  Joel  Benton's  contribution  on  "The 
Book  Auction,"  Edward  King's  "Clubs  and  Club  Life  in 
Paris,"  and  Viola  Roseboro'a  "The  Italians  of  New  York," 
are  each  interesting  descriptions  of  peculiar  phases  of 
business  and  modes  of  life  in  our  cities.  Prof.  R.  A. 
Proctor  has  a  philosophical  and  suggestive  article  on  the 
mental  sensations  produced  upon  persons  separated  by 
long  distances  by  the  death  of  friends,  or  accidents  produc- 
tive of  strong  emotions. 

Nearly  all  the  wise  and  witty  sayings  about  books 
have  been  collected  in  the  Book  lovers'  Rosary.  The  fa- 
mous authors  of  all  times,  from  Socrates  to  John  G. 
Saxe,  have  contributed  to  make  it  a  charming  book  to 
snatch  up  for  an  odd  moment.  It  is  published  in  the 
Irving  Library,  paper  cover,  for  five  cents,  by  John  B . 
Alden,  New  York. 

Miss  V.  M.  Skinner,  of  St.  James  Square,  Bath,  Eng- 
land, has  added  another  to  her  excellent  series  of  "Friend- 
ly Letters . "  This  one  is  addressed  to  Lamp-lighters  and 
Light-house  Keepers,  and  derives  from  their  peculiar  oc- 
cupation such  wise  and  pious  lessons  as  are  good  reading 
for  everybody,  and  especially  for  those  addressed. 

Rev .  James  A .  O'Connor,  the  converted  priest,  contin- 
ues to  publish  at  60  Bible  House,  New  York,  the  Con- 
verted Catholic  magazine,  which  montli  by  month  con- 
tains some  of  the  most  profitable  comments  on  the  meas- 
ures and  movements  of  Romanism  which  ara  to  be  found 
in  our  periodical  literature. 

Vick's  Magazine  opens  upon  another  year  with  the 
brightness  and  joy  which  the  flowers,  of  which  it  specially 
treats,  are  ever  reminding  weary  men .  The  last  number 
is  interesting  and  instructive. 

Rev.  J. M. Foster,  our  valued  correspondent  and  con- 
tributor, reviewed  last  week  the  article  on  pre-natal  mur- 
der by  Dr.  Wheatly  in  the  Methodist  Review.  Some  time 
since  Rev.  J.  L .  Buchwalter,  of  Iowa,  sent  to  this  oflace 
a  remarkable  pamphlet  by  J.  T.  Cook,  M.  D.,  of  Cedar 
Rapids,  Iowa,  in  which  the  author  writes  with  just  se- 
verity upon  the  enormity  of  this  crime  among  American 
women.  We  would  be  glad  to  see  it  very  widely 
circulated  and  read.     It  is  sold  for  25  cents  by  Dr. Cook. 

Congress,  a  monthly  journal  devoted  to  the  arts  of  civ- 
ilization, is  a  new  literary  venture  just  begun  in  Wash- 
ington in  handsome  form  and  print.  The  initial  num- 
ber discusses  such  topics  as  our  shipping,  the  Indians, 
pensions,  ballooning,  astronomy,  the  labor  party,  labor 
and  capital.  The  remarks  of  the  editor  on  the  latter  are 
very  able  and  sound  in  their  analysis  of  the  secret  or- 
ganizations among  working  men. 


THE  TERROR   OF  SALOONKEEPERS. 


The  town  of  Fife  Lake,  Michigan,  has  a  most  cu- 
rious freak  of  humanity,  who  in  part  makes  local 
option  unnecessary.  No  one  knows  him,  and  he  has 
been  in  town  but  a  week,  but  almost  every  day  he 
makes  the  rounds  with  a  club,  compelling  every  sa- 
loon to  close  before  dark  on  pain  of  a  broken  head. 
Monday  night  he  mashed  one  man  over  the  head  and 
arm  with  an  iron  poker,  and  Saturday  night  he  end- 
ed up  by  throwing  a  beer  keg  through  the  window 
of  Goff's  restaurant  because  it  was  open.  Mr.  Goff 
will  swear  out  a  warrant  for  his  arrest.  Trouble  is 
anticipated,  however,  as  there  is  not  an  official  in  the 
township  who  dares  to  face  the  man  when  he  is  un- 
der the  influence  of  liquor,  a  condition  from  which 
he  suffers  nearly  all  the  time. 


Professor  Stewart,  of  Siberia,  estimates  that  for 
every  missionary  that  goes  to  Africa,  70,000  gallons 
of  liquor  are  sent  to  that  country. 

The  petition  to  be  presented  to  the  Queen  by  the 
women  of  England  in  favor  of  Sunday  closing  has 
obtained  about  1,250,000  signatures. 

Combination  and  organization  is  the  most  es- 
sential requisite  for  a  successful  war  on  the  liquor 
traffic. 


■'  _ 


"ags 


Janttart  26,  1888 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSUREL 


13 


NEWS  {Continued  from  16th page). 

Advices  from  the  frontier  report  fur- 
ther arrivals  of  Russian  troops.  One  in- 
fantry division  has  arrived  at  Doubno, 
another  at  Rovno.  The  work  of  fortify- 
ing Doubno  goes  on  without  cessation. 
The  condition  of  the  Russian  troops  on 
the  Galician  frontier  is  growing  worse. 
Typhus  fever  is  raging,  especially  at  camp 
Czeutoschan.  The  shelter  is  so  miser- 
able that  there  have  been  many  deaths 
from  frost  and  general  privation. 

A  body  of  prisoners  recently  en  route 
to  the  Caucasus  from  South  Russia,  un- 
der military  guard,  became  mutinous  dur- 
ing the  journey  and  were  with  great  diffl 
culty  prevented  from  escaping  en  masse. 
The  convicts  fought  desperately,  and  be- 
fore they  could  be  brought  under  subjec 
tion  eight  soldiers  and  two  gendarmes 
were  killed,  while  thirty-one  of  the  pris 
oners  were  shot  dead.  Twenty-one  pris- 
oners made  good  their  escape. 

A  dispatch  has  j  ust  reached  the  rooms 
of  the  American  Board  of  Foreign  Mis- 
sions from  Murdin,  in  East  Turkey,  stat- 
ing that  10,000  people  are  starving  there, 
and  calling  for  immediate  relief.  It  is 
also  reported  that  the  famine  at  Adana, 
in  Central  Turkey,  still  continues,  and 
the  number  who  are  suffering  increases 
daily.  Money  sent  to  Langdon  S.  Ward, 
1  Somerset  street,  Boston,  Mass.,  for  this 
purpose  will  put  bread  into  the  hands  of 
these  sufferers  within  forty-eight  hours 
from  the  time  of  its  receipt. 

The  Moscow  Gazette  indicates  the  pa- 
cific policy  of  Russia.  It  is  declared 
that  peace  is  assured  unless  provoked  by 
aggressive  acts  of  the  neighboring  coun- 
tries. It  is  protested  that  the  Russian 
armaments  are  purely  defensive.  The 
Bvet  says  that  Germany  can  concentrate 
1,000,000  men  on  the  Polish  frontier  in 
ten  days,  while  Russia's  large  area  of  ter- 
ritory renders  mobilization  diflacult.  The 
postponement  of  war  is  attributed  to  the 
irresolution  of  the  Austrian  government. 

The  Irish  policy  of  the  English  gov- 
ernment is  meeting  with  marked  disfa- 
vor. The  excitement  consequent  upon 
the  Russian  war  scare  has  abated  some- 
what. Mr.  Gladstone,  in  replying  to  a 
eulogistic  address  at  Florence,  said  he 
hoped  soon  to  witness  the  termination  of 
the  mighty  controversies  agitating  Great 
Britain . 

A  secret  tribunal  has  condemned  to 
death  the  nihilist  Tschernoff  and  seven 
other  prisoners  charged  with  an  attempt 
on  the  Czar's  life  during  his  journey  to 
the  Don  Cossack  country. 

Two  express  trains  on  the  Dutch  State 
Railroad  collided  near  Meppel.  Twenty 
six  persons  were  killed  and  many  others 
injured. 


Lodge  Notes. 

The  Supreme  Chancellor  of  the  Enights 
of  Pythias  announces  that  the  next  meet- 
ing of  the  Grand  Lodge  will  be  held  in 
Cincinnati. 

A  Masonic  school  of  instruction  is  be- 
ing held  in  Carthage,  111.,  conducted  by 
Grand  M^iter  J.  C .  Smith  of  Chicago, 
assisted  by  other  notable  members  of  the 
Masonic  fraternity  in  the  State . 

The  order  of  B'nai  B'rith,  with  a  dele 
gation  of  Masons,  laid  the  corner-stone 
of  the  Jewish  Orphan  Asylum  at  Atlanta, 
Ga.,  Jan.  18.  Prominent  Israelites  from 
various  parts  of  the  United  States  were 
present  and  the  ceremonies  were  impos- 
ing.    Governor  Gordon  made  an  address . 

John  L .  Lee,  chairman  of  the  Phila- 
delphia and  Reading  employes'  executive 
board,  Enights  of  Labor,  has  issued  an 
appeal,  "to  organized  labor  wherever 
found."  It  recapitulates  the  circumstances 
of  the  railroaders'  and  miners'  strikes 
from  the  beginning,  and  severely  criti- 
cises the  Reading  Company  for  the  course 
it  has  pursued  towards  its  employes; 
charges  conspiracy  on  the  part  of  the 
Reading  Company  and  the  Lohigh  oper- 
ators to  break  up  the  Knights  of  Labor, 
and  concludes  with  an  appeal  to  working- 
men  everywhere  to  assist  the  strikers  by 
every  means  in  their  power;  by  liberal 
contributions,  and  by  calling  meetings 
and  passing  resolutions  of  sympathy  and 
support. 

A  communication  has  reached  all  the 
grand  lodges  of  Illinois  from  Stephen 
Berry,  Templar  correspondent  of  Maine, 
inviting  members  of  •the  order  to  join  the 
correspondents  at  noon  to-morrow,  east- 
ern standard  of  time  (equivalent  to  5  v. 


M.  Greenwich),  to  drink  a  libation  pledg- 
ing to  Grand  Master  Charles  Roome.  The 
sentiment  will  be,  "To  our  Grand  Master." 
The  Grand  Master  sends  the  following  re- 
sponse: "To  all  regular  Masons  of  what- 
ever legitimate  obedience  throughout  the 
world."  The  Grand  Master  of  the  Grand 
Council  of  Select  Masters  has  divided  this 
State  into  nine  arches,  of  which  Cook 
county  forms  the  first,  in  charge  of  W .  K. 
Forsyth,  Grand  Captain  of  the  guard. 
The  second  arch,  comprising  thirteen  of 
the  northern  counties,  is  in  charge  of 
George  M.  Moulton,  Deputy  Illustrious 
Grand  Master.  This  customary  greeting 
is  universally  observed  throughout  the 
world. 

John  Hofgesang,  a  saloon  keeper  of 
Patterson,  N.  J.,  died  January  13  of  en- 
largement of  the  heart.  His  Masonic  in- 
itiation about  seven  weeks  before  was  a 
remote  cause  of  his  death.  The  master 
of  the  lodge  was  making  the  ceremony 
particularly  impressive  for  Mr.  Hofge- 
sang, both  on  account  of  his  being  a  man 
of  superior  intelligence,  and  because  he 
had  prepared  a  collation  for  the  members 
of  the  lodge  after  the  closing.  At  the 
end  of  the  first  part  of  the  ceremony  of 
the  third  degree  Mr.  Hofgesang  retired 
to  the  ante-room  in  company  with  his 
guides,  and  was  prepared  for  the  last  part 
of  the  ceremonial.  He  appeared  to  be 
much  agitated.  He  said  that  he  felt  very 
sick,  and  asked  how  much  longer  the  cer- 
emony would  last.  He  was  assured  it 
was  almost  through,  and  was  encouraged 
not  to  get  excited,  as  all  the  others  had 
passed  through  the  same  ordeal  without 
harm.  It  was  apparent  that  he  was  sick, 
but  be  stood  the  ordeal  with  fortitude, 
and  soon  he  was  raised  to  the  degree  of 
Master  Mason. At  the  end  of  the  ceremony 
he  was  so  prostrated  that  he  was  unable  to 
accompany  the  brethren  to  the  supper  he 
had  ordered,  and  while  the  others  were 
having  a  good  time  at  his  expense  he  was 
in  his  bed,  and  he  failed  from  that  hour 
until  death. 


NOTWB. 

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each  week  the  names  of  those  who  send 
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NOT  BE  ANY  CHANGE  IN  THE  PRINTED  TAB 
UNTIL  MARCH  15TH  NEXT. 


aVBaORIPTlON  LBTTEBB. 

The  following  have  made  remittances 
of  money  to  the  CywosMre  from  Jan.  16 
to  21  inclusive. 

J  T  Turnbull,  C  O  Russell,  A  W  Leach, 
J  A  Jenks,  P  B  Bates,  H  D  Jones,  J 
Hodges,  Mrs  S  J  Robison.Rev  S  D  Doug- 
lass, Mrs  M  A  Gorslive,  R  Cannning,  W 
P  King,  Rev  C  C  Harrah,  L  M  DeVilbiss, 
T  Gilmore,  W  Forsyth,  Mrs  J  Kuns,  Mrs 
G  Spies,  H  P  Chamberlin,  E  D  Conant, 
I  C  Weidler,  H  H  Richey,  Dea  M  Pierce, 
R  A  CuUor,  Miss  M  M  Ames,  H  Gaines, 
W  Hargrave,W  D  Clay,  Miss  S  A  Parley, 
Mrs  A  D  Reed.  A  Dewey,  A  I  Poord,  J 
B  Crall,  M  Caldwell,  G  A  Chapman,  J 
King,  J  Young. 

MARKET  BE  POETS. 

CHICAGO. 

Wheat— No.  3 76%         77% 

No.  3 69  70 

Winter  No  a ^  S3U 

Com— No.  8 «..     48K         49 

Oats— No.a .^^.^^..^^     32  36 

Rye— No.  2 64% 

Branperton 1.5  00 

Hay— Timothy 9  50    @14  00 

Butter,  medium  to  best 16    @     30 

Cheese 04    @     lav 

BeauB 1  25    3  2  40 

Eggs 19    @     20>i 

Seeds— Timothy* 2  30    @  2  52 

Flax 144^ 

Broomcom 02X&     ^7 

Potatoes  per  bus 60    @     90 

Hides— Green  to  dry  flint 05>^@     13 

Lumber— Common 1100    ®18  00 

Wool 13    @      36 

Cattle— Choice  to  extra 5  15    @  5  60 

Common  to  good 2  75    fit  4  90 

Hogs 4  85    @  5  75 

Sheep a  60    @  5  62 

NBW  YORK. 

Flour 3  20  @  5  60 

Wheat— Winter 90  @      '.14% 

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THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOBXTEE. 


Janttart  26, 1888 


Fakm  Notes. 


FARMERS'  DAUGHTERS. 

As  an  encouragement  to  f  armers'daugh- 
ters  to  devote  themselves  to  the  study  of 
the  sciences  relating  to  agriculture  might 
be  mentioned  the  fact  that  a  lady — Miss 
Ormerod — has  for  some  years  past  held 
the  important  and  highly  honorable  oflBce 
of  Consulting  Entomologist  to  the  Royal 
Agricultural  Society  of  England.  This 
lady  has  made  entomology  a  study  for 
many  years,  and  the  fund  of  useful  in- 
formation she  gathered  in  those  years 
soon  attracted  the  attention  of  leading 
English  agriculturists,  who  perceived  how 
important  to  their  interests  this  informa- 
tion might  be  made.  Miss  Ormerod  has 
juflt  completed  her  tenth  annual  report 
upon  damages  to  crops  by  insects,  in 
which  she  shows  that  a  prevalent  disease 
to  which  the  oat  crop  is  subject  is 
caused  by  a  parasitic  insect  in  the  root, 
and  she  hints  strongly  that  clover  sickness 
is  due  to  a  similar  cause.  If  this  sugges- 
tion should  turn  out  to  be  well  founded  it 
knocks  out  completely  the  clover  mani- 
acs, who  try  to  make  us  believe  that  clo- 
ver creates  fertility,  leaving  the  soil  richer 
than  it  was  before  the  seed  was  sown.and 
laboring  under  this  creative  effort  be- 
comes fatally  sick  and  perishes  of  exhaus- 
tion. 

It  may  be  that  Miss  Ormerod  is  right, 
for  there  are  several  analogous  facts  which 
go  to  support  her  belief.  Club  root  in 
cabbage,  finger  and  toe  in  turnip,  the 
onion  bulb  disease,  and  other  injuries 
caused  by  parasitic  insects  in  the  roots 
and  other  parts  of  plants  have  long  been 
attributed  to  exhaustion  of  the  soil  or 
something  in  the  soil  which  enfeebled  the 
plants,  until  the  true  cause  was  discov- 
ered. It  may  be  that  she  is  wrong,  and 
that  clover  sickness  is  due  to  the  exhaus- 
tion of  the  peculiar  plant  food  necsessary 
for  the  growth  of  it;  but  this  can  hardly 
be,  for  if  the  clover  crop  leaves  the  soil 
more  fertile  than  it  was  before  the  seed 
was  sown,  we  know  the  fertility  of  the 
soil  is  not  the  cause  of  it;  and,  again, 
other  crops  we  know  will  grow  year  after 
year  for  forty  years,  as  they  have  done  at 
Rothampstead  under  the  experimental 
culture  of  Sir  J.  B.  Lawes.  Logically, 
then,  clover  sickness  is  more-  likely  to  be 
due  to  some  other  cause  than  exhaustion 
of  the  soil,  and  the  discovery  of  Miss 
Ormerod  may  have  added  a  most  interest- 
ing contribution  to  our  store  of  agricul- 
tural knowledge. 

Farmers'  daughters  have  the  very  best 
opportunities  for  studying  the  natural 
sciences  relating  to  agriculture,  as  bota- 
ny, entomology,  minerology,  etc.,  and 
for  observing  the  nature  of  abnormal  ap- 
pearances in  plant  growth.  There  are 
many  useful  and  lucrative  positions  in 
agricultural  schools,  colleges,  and  exper- 
iment stations  which  they  may  fill  with 
complete  propriety  and  success.  Indeed, 
success  makes  propriety,  and  a  woman 
who  succeeds  in  any  honorable  or  useful 
enterprise  makes  its  pursuit  appropriate 
for  her  sex.  We  might  go  further  and 
fare  worse  than  to  place  some  competent 
lady  at  the  head  of  an  agricultural  col- 
lege or  experiment  station,  and  we  hap- 
pen to  know  of  one  such  estimable  lady, 
at  least,  who  would  fill  such  a  position 
most  acceptably;  and,  indeed,  she  now 
has  a  large  part  in  the  most  successful 
management  of  what  we  have  said,  in 
our  belief,  is  the  most  useful  agricultu- 
ral station  in  the  United  States,  and  is 
truly  a  helpmeet  for  her  husband,  who 
controls  the  enterprise  which  is  commonly 
known  as  "the  Rural  Experiment  Farm." 
Such  an  experiment  should  be  an  encour- 
aging incentive  to  farmers'  daughters  to 
make  a  life  study  of  some  branch  of  ag- 
ricultural science,  and  by  excelling  in  it 
do  a  most  useful  service  to  the  world, 
and  secure  honor  and  profit  to  themselves. 
The  way  is  open  and  invites  those  who 
may  to  go  in. — N.  T.   Times. 

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woodwork.  Ue  oils  all  stock  with  it  and 
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preserves  the  wood  and  brings  out  the 
grain.  Singletrees,  spokes,  and  hubs  are 
particularly  benefited.  Mailcarta,  village- 
carts,  and  wagons  made  in  natural  colors 
are  much  handsomer  if  the  wood  receives 
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absorbed  rapidly  by  the  pores  of  the 
wood  and  does  not  gum,  and  in  hot 
weather  doesn't  sweat  out.    He  uses  the 


summer  yellow  oil,  and  has  recommended 
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much  as  he  does. 


CONSUMPTION  SUKEtT  CURED. 

To  the  Editor: — Please  inform  your 
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the  above  named  disease .  By  its  timely 
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Other  makers  followed  in 
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Mason  &  Hamlin's   Piano 

Stringer  was  introduced  by 

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OTnOV  IN  MINNESOTA.— From  an  ex 
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MONTANA 


NEW  BUSINESS! 


CENTERS.— The 
building  of  rail- 
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and  fertile  country  creates  many  new  towns, 
affording  excellent  business  opportunities. 
Particulars  regarding  such  opportunities  In 
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upon  application  to  C.  H.  WARREN,  Gen.  Pass. 
Agt.,  St.  Paul,  Minn. 


PROSPEROUS.! 


North  Dakota  never 
hadbettercrops  than 
I  those  just  harvested. 
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lands  recently  surveyed,  near  excellent  coal 
fields  and  adjacent  to  railroads.  Maps  and 
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SUCCESS:! 


I ""  Are  you  mortgaged,  pay- 
ing heaving  rents,  or  run- 
'ning  behind?  Can  you 
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which  wUl  increase  in  value  several  fold  in  five 
years.  No  other  such  opportunities  existing. 
Full  particulars,  free,  upon  application  to 
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FAILURE 


OF  CROPS  Is  an  unknown 
experience  in  Central  and 
Northern  Dakota  and  Min- 
nesota. Maps  and  full  particulars  regarding 
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WHY  WORK 


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THE  CHKD3TIA19'  CYNOSURE. 


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Home  and  Health. 


THE  FOOD   OF  THE   POOR. 

Professor  W.  O.  Atwater,  in  his  article 
on  the  pecuniary  economy  of  food  in  the 
January  Century,  writes  as  follows: 
"That  the  rich  man  becomes  richer  by 
saving,  and  the  poor  man  poorer  by  wast- 
ing his  money,  is  one  of  the  commonest 
facts  in  daily  experience.  It  is  the  poor 
man's  money  that  is  the  most  uneconom- 
ically  spent  in  the  market,  and  the  poor 
man's  food  that  is  worst  cooked  at  home. 

"I  took  occasion  to  make  some  inquir 
ies  myself  among  the  Boston  market- 
men,  and  one  very  intelligent  butcher  in 
Boylston  Market,  said: 

"  'Across  the  street  over  there  is  an  es- 
tablishment which  employs  a  good  many 
seamstresses.  One  of  them  comes  to  my 
place  to  buy  meat,  and  very  frequently 
gets  tenderloin  steak.  I  asked  her  one 
time  why  she  did  not  take  round  or  sir- 
loin, which  is  a  great  deal  cheaper,  and 
she  replied,  very  indignantly,  "Do  you 
suppose  because  I  don't  come  here  in  my 
carriage  T  don't  want  just  as  good  meat 
as  rich  folks  have?"  And  when  I  tried  to 
explain  to  her  that  the  cheaper  meat  was 
Justus  nutritious,  she  would  not  believe 

me.      Now  Mr. and  Mrs. ,  who 

are  among  the  wealthy  and  sensible  peo- 
ple of  this  city,  buy  the  cheapor  cuts  of 

meat  of  me.     Mr. very  often  comes 

and  gets  a  soup  bone,  but  I  have  got 
through  trying  to  sell  these  economical 
meats  to  that  woman  and  others  of  her 
class.' 

"I  am  told  that  the  people  in  the  poor- 
er parts  of  New  York  city  buy  the  highest 
priced  groceries,  and  that  the  meat-men 
say  they  can  sell  the  coarser  cuts  of  meat 
to  the  rich,  but  that  people  of  moderate 
means  refuse  them.  I  hear  the  same 
thing  from  Washington  and  other  cities. 
A  friend  of  mine,  a  man  of  wealth,  who, 
like  his  father  before  him,  had  long  been 
noted  as  one  of  the  most  generous  bene- 
factors of  the  poor  in  the  city  where  he 
lives,  and  with  whom  I  happened  to  be 
talking  about  these  matters,  remarked: 
'For  my  family  I  buy  the  cheaper  cuts  of 
meat  because  they  are  cheaper.  My  chil- 
dren are  satisfied  with  round  steak  and 
shoulder,  even  if  they  are  not  quite  as 
tender  and  toothsome  as  sirloin.  They 
are  strong  and  healthy  and  understand 
that  such  food  is  good  enough  for  their 
parents  and  is  good  enough  for  them.' 

"I  question  whether  his  gardener  or  his 
coachman  would  be  so  entirely  ready  to 
accept  such  doctrine;  and  if  the  poor  peo- 
ple, to  whom  in  times  of  stress  his  mon- 
ey is  given  without  stint,  are  like  many 
others  of  their  class,  not  a  few  of  them 
would  be  ill  content  with  some  of  the  food- 
materials  that  appear  regularly  on  his 
table." 

DISCUSSING  AN    EGG. 

Mr.  Mathieu  Williams,  in  one  of  his 
lectures,  says:  "Everyone  who  eats  his 
matutinal  egg,  eats  a  sermon  and  a  mira- 
cle. Inside  of  that  smooth,  symmetri- 
cal, beautiful  shell  lurks  a  question  which 
has  been  the  Troy  town  for  all  the  phi- 
losophers and  scientists  since  Adam. 
Armed  with  the  engines  of  war — the  mi- 
croscope, the  scales,  the  offensive  weap- 
ons of  chemistry  and  reason — they  have 
probed  and  weighed  and  experimented, 
and  still  the  question  is  unsolved,  the  cit- 
adel unsacked.  Prof.  Bokorny  can  tell 
you  that  albumen  is  composed  of  so  many 
molecules  of  carbon  and  nitrogen  and  hy- 
drogen, and  can  persuade  you  of  the  dif- 
ference between  active  and  passive  albu- 
men, and  can  show  by  wonderfully  deli- 
cate experiments  what  the  aldehydes  have 
to  do  in  the  separation  of  gold  from  its 
complicated  solutions;  but  he  can't  tell 
you  why  from  one  egg  comes  a  little  red 
hen  and  from  another  a  bantam.  You 
leave  your  little  silver  spoon  an  hour  in 
your  egg  cup,  and  it  is  coated  with  a  com- 
pound of  sulphur.  Why  is  that  sulphur 
there?  Wonderful,  that  evolution  should 
provide  for  the  bones  of  the  future  hen  I 
There  is  phosphorous  also  in  that  little 
microcosm;  and  the  oxygen  of  the  air, 
passing  through  the  shell,  unites  with  it, 
and  the  acid  dissolves  the  shell,  thus 
making  good,  strong  bones  for  the  chick, 
and  at  the  same  time  thinning  the  prison 
walls. 

THE  CZAR  OF  RUSSIA. 

While  the  Czar  was  stopping  recently 
in  the  Castle  of  Fredensborg,  in  Den- 
mark, he  was  fond  of  taking  little  walks 
in  the  neighborhood.  One  day  he  was 
accosted  by  a  beggar  woman  with  a  child 
in  her  arms.  In  pure  Danish,  and  in  the 
roughest  manner  possible,  he  told  her  i.o 


go  away,  and  to  be  pretty  quick  about  it. 
The  poor  woman,  terrified,  started  off, 
but  was  followed  by  an  officer.  "Here, 
my  good  woman,"  said  the  officer,  as  he 
put  some  pieces  of  gold  into  her  hand,  "it 
is  the  Czar  who  sends  you  this,  and  he 
hopes  that  you  will  forgive  his  apparent 
rudeness  of  a  moment  ago.  The  fact  is, 
he  has  just  returned  from  a  visit  to  his 
children,  who  have  the  scarlatina,  and 
he  was  afraid  that  he  might  bring  the 
contagion  to  your  child,  if  he  allowed 
you  to  approach  his  person." 

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HON.  THURLOW  WEED  ON  THE  MOB 
OAN  ABDUCTION. 

This  Is  a  Rlxtoen  page  pamphlet  eomprUlng  •  lat- 
ter written  by  Mr.  Weed,  ami  read  at  the  unTelllns 
or  the  monument  erected  to  the  memory  of  Oapt. 
William  Morgan.  The  frontispiece  li>  an  engravlnc 
of  the  monument.  It  is  o  history  of  the  unlawfu 
seizure  and  confinement  of  Morgan  In  the  Oantndai 
gUB  Jail,  his  suliiequent  conveyance  by  Freemaaon- 
to  Fort  Niagara.  »nd  drowning  In  LAke  Ontario 
He  not  only  ■nbccrllKui  hl.i  namx  to  the  letter,  but 
ATTAOHia  ■»  AFTiDivrr  to  It.  .._.,. 

In  closing  his  letter  he  write* :  I  now  look  l)«c« 
through  an  Interval  of  flfty-elx  years  with  a  con- 
scious sense  of  having  been  goverued  througu  the 
"  Antl-Masonlo  Mcltement  "  by  a  sincere  desire, 
first,  to  vindicate  the  violated  lawa  of  my  country, 
and  n'Xt.  to  arrest  the  great  power  and  danceroo* 
Influeuoiw  of  "  secret  eoi-letles." 

The  pamphlet  Is  well  worth  perusing,  and  It 
doubtless  thelait  historical  article  which  this  great 
lourcallst  end  poUUolan  wrote.  (Ohloego,  Nation*! 
ChrUUkQ  AfltooUtiOD.  1    BLngle  copy,  t  oenta. 

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THS  CHRISTIAN  CYNOBUBS. 


Janttart  26, 1888 


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NFws  OF  The  week. 

WASHINGTON. 

The  National  Pure  Food  Convention 
met  in  "Washington  last  week.  About 
125  delegates  were  present,  representing 
nearly  all  of  the  leading  trade  organiza- 
tions in  the  country. 

A  number  of  gentlemen,  headed  by 
Senator  Beck  and  Representative  Butter- 
worth,  called  on  the  President  to  invite 
him  to  open  the  Centennial  Exposition  of 
the  Ohio  Valley  at  Cincinnati  next  sum- 
mer. 

The  Committee  on  Appropriations  has 
ready  the  regular  annual  pension  bill  for 
report  to  the  House.  The  bill  appropri- 
ates $80,275,500  as  follows:  For  the  pay- 
ment of  pensions,  $79,000,000;  for  fees 
and  expenses  of  examining  surgeons, 
$1,000,000;  for  salaries  of  agents,  clerk 
hire,  rents,  etc.,  $275,500. 

CHICAGO . 

The  first  discovery  of  natural  gas  from 
an  artesian  well  at  the  Cooke  brewery  in 
this  city  lately  has  been  followed  up  and 
illuminating  gas  of  fine  quality  has  been 
found  in  a  half  dozen  wells,  two  of  them 
under  the  great  retail  stores  of  Marshall 
Field  and  Mandel  Bros.  Several  firms 
are  arranging  to  test  the  quantity  and 
utility  of  the  discovery. 

Saturday  night  two  residence  build- 
ings were  burned,  imperiling  the  lives  of 
some  two  score  persons,  and  with  two 
possible  fatalities. 

The  great  West  Side  street  car  lines, 
lately  purchased  by  the  Philadelphia  syn- 
dicate which  has  about  completed  the  ca- 
ble line  over  the  North  Side,  are  now 
causing  a  lively  battle  in  the  City  Coun- 
cil. In  granting  a  new  charter  for  a  ca- 
ble road  on  the  West  Side  the  aldermen 
voted  along  with  it  a  4-cent  fare  by  tick- 
et and  that  the  company  should  pave  and 
repair  all  the  streets  that  they  use.  The 
railway  managers  refuse  the  charter,  and 
talk  of  an  elevated  road.  One  or  two 
other  companies  are  trying  to  get  a  right 
of  way  for  the  latter . 

GENERAL. 


Governor  Semple  has  signed  the  bill 
giving  the  ballot  to  the  women  of  Wash- 
ington Territory. 

The  constitutional  prohibition  amend- 
ment was  passed  in  the  Massachusetts 
Senate  Thursday  afternoon  by  a  vote  of 
25  to  8. 

Both  hosuses  of  the  Iowa  Legislature 
balloted  for  United  States  Senator  at  Des 
Moines  Tuesday,  Senator  Wilson  receiv- 
ing 58  out  of  89  votes  cast  in  the  House, 
and  30  out  of  41  in  the  Senate. 

Stockholders  of  the  Dover  (N.  H.) 
Street  Railway  Company  were  surprised 
at  their  election  Monday  to  discover  that 
Mrs.  Mary  E.  G.  H.  Dow  had  been  elect- 
ed president  of  the  road,  and  that  her 
husband  had  been  chosen  treasury. 

Gold  has  been  discovered  of  high  grade 
and  paying  quantities,  near  Omaha,  nug- 
gets brought  up  from  a  well  in  a  farm 
near  the  city  standing  the  assay  test. 

A  six-foot  vein  of  coal  was  struck  at 
Colfax,  McLean  county, III, Friday  morn- 
ing, at  the  depth  of  400  feet. 

The  mother  of  President  Garfield  is 
gradually  sinking,  and  it  is  thought  that 
she  will  not  live  more  than  a  few  days 
longer.  Mrs.  J.  A.  Garfield,  Miss  Mollie 
Garfield,  and  one  of  the  boys  are  in  Eu- 
rope. The  old  lady  is  at  Mentor  at  the 
old  homestead,  and  is  attended  by  her 
daughter,  Mrs.  Trobridge. 

ACCIDENTS.    ETC. 

In  Wyoming  county.  West  Virginia,  the 
desperadoes  known  as  the  Hatfield  gang, 
invaded  the    house  of    Simon    McCoy, 


taking  his  wife  and  son  prisoner.  The 
two  latter  were  carried  to  the  woods,  tied 
to  trees,  and  shot.  The  house  was  then 
set  on  fire,  and  McCoy  perished  in  the 
flames,  with,  as  alleged,  two  small  chil- 
dren. McCoy's  brother  and  his  family 
are  reported  to  have  been  murdered  a 
few  days  ago  by  the  same  persons. 

A  meningitis  epidemic  is  depopulating 
Asheville,  N.  C,  at  the  rate  of  a  dozen 
deaths  a  day,  all  attempts  to  check  it 
proving  futile.  Many  inhabitants  are 
leaving  town. 

A  large  boiler  in  Kastner  &  Gogan's 
flour  mill  at  Janesville,  Wis ,  exploded 
Friday  morning,  completely  wrecking  the 
structure  and  killing  two  men.  The  boiler 
had  for  some  time  been  condemned  as  in 
a  dangerous  condition. 

Three  deaths  occurred  in  a  coal  mine 
near  Minshall,  Ind.,  Tuesday,  two  men 
being  killed  by  a  premature  explosion, 
and  the  night  engineer  making  a  misstep 
and  falling  ninety  feet  down  the  shaft. 

A  box  sent  to  Judge  Woods  at  Indian- 
apolis was  examined  and  found  to  con- 
tain two  cartridges,  loose  powder,  and 
matches  carefully  prepared,  so  that  an 
explosion  would  have  been  unavoidable 
if  the  box  had  been  opened  without  sus- 
picion. There  is  no  clew  to  the  sender. 
Two  American  prospectors  were  killed 
and  two  wounded  a  few  days  since  on  the 
Taqui  River,  Mexico,  by  a  band  ef  eight 
Apaches,  who  came  upon  the  party  of 
five  prospectors  in  the  wild  region  of  the 
Sierra  Madre  Mountains. 

Friday  night  the  residence  of  Frank 
Smith,  at  Harrod,  Ohio,  took  fire  and  was 
burned  to  the  ground,  the  whole  family, 
Smith,  his  wife  and  two  children  perish- 
ing in  the  flames. 

Thursday  morning  two  men  at  the 
Standard  Plate-glass  works  inButler,Pa., 
were  almost  instantly  killed  while  plac- 
ing a  sheet  of  glass  in  position  on  the 
grinding  table .  They  were  standing  on 
the  grinding  table  when  the  grinders  were 
set  in  motion,  and  before  they  were  aware 
of  their  danger  they  were  ground  to  death. 
Seven  persons  were  drowned  in  Sand 
Lake,  near  Ennis,  Texas,  Wednesday. 
Two  young  ladies,  daughters  of  William 
Williams,  and  a  young  man  by  the  name 
of  Babbitt,  were  skating  on  the  lake, 
when  the  ice  gave  way  and  they  sunk  in 
four  and  a  half  feet  of  water.  Miss 
Babbitt  and  two  little  girls,  aged  eight 
and  fourteen  years,  daughters  of  William 
Williams,  were  drowned  in  attempting  to 
rescue  them.  A  brother  of  the  young 
ladies,  who  was  a  quarter  of  a  mile  dis- 
tant at  his  house,  ran  to  their  assistance, 
but  he  was  soon  overpowered  by  the  strug- 
gles of  those  drowning  and  he,  too,  was 
drowned . 

A  St.  Paul  paper  states  that  235  per- 
sons perished  in  the  recent  blizzard.  An 
unknown  man  was  found  frozen  to  death 
three  feet  from  the  door  of  John  Ward's 
dwelling,nearFulda,Minn.Thirty-one  chil- 
dren are  missing  in  Turner  county,  Dako- 
ta, and  seven  children  perished  in  the  vi- 
cinity of  Lennox .  Fifteen  persons  were 
frozen  to  death  in  Custer  county,  Nebras- 
ka. In  Texas  and  some  of  the  adjacent 
States  the  late  cold  spell  was  more  se- 
vere than  has  been  known  for  years. 
Deaths  from  freezing  are  reported  from 
that  State  and  even  from  Tennessee. 

Meningitis  is  epidemic  at  Asheville,  N. 
C .  A  dozen  deaths  per  day  are  reported, 
and  every  effort  to  arrest  the  dread  dis- 
ease proves  futile.  People  are  leaving 
the  town  by  the  score,  many  of  them 
going  to  Tennessee. 

At  Chippewa  Falls,  Wis.,  the  tempera- 
ture registered  60  degrees  below  zero. 

Fears  are  entertained  that  the  Michi- 
gan peach  buds  are  frozen. 

Trains  are  moving  irregularly  through 
the  northwest. 


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JUJAi  Oillj-Ci.  111.  Any  one  wishing  to  pur- 
chase should  write  to  W.  I.  PHILLIPS,  office  of 
"Christian  Cynosure,"  Chicago,  111. 

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JOHN  r.  8TEATT0N, 


FOBBIGN. 

Mr.  Gladstone  has  written  to  Senator 
Yacini  approving  his  article  on  the  appli- 
cation to  the  Papacy  of  the  principle  of 
international  neutralization .  Mr.  Qlad- 
stone  thinks  the  adoption  of  the  Sena- 
tor's suggestion  would  go  far  toward  solv- 
ing the  Roman  question. 

The  Emperor  and  Empress  Jan.  19  re- 
ceived Baron  and  Baroness  De  Rothschild 
for  the  first  time. 

While  4,000  workmen,  under  the  com- 
mand of  several  mandarins,  were  making 
a  breakwater  to  stem  the  Hoang  ho  floods, 
they  were  engulfed  by  a  luudden  rush  of 
water,  and  only  a  few  escaped. 

{Continued  on  18th  page.) 


WHEATON  COLLEGE. 

BUSINESS  EDUCATION,  MUSIC  AND  ABT. 
FUIiL  COLLEGE  COURSES. 

Winter  Term  Opens  December  6th. 
Address  C.  A.  BLANCHARD,  Pres. 

GRATEFUL-COMFORTING. 

EPPS'SGOGOA. 

BREAKFAST. 

"By  a  thorough  knowledge  of  the  natural  laws 
which  govern  the  operations  of  digestion  and  nutri- 
tion and  by  a  careful  application  of  the  flue  proper- 
ties of  well-selected  Cocoa  Mr.  Epps  has  provided 
our  ftreakfast  tables  with  a  delicately  flavored  bever- 
aiiC  which  may  save  us  many  heavy  doctors'  bias.  It 
la  bv  the  judicious  use  of  such  articles  of  diet  that  a 
constitution  may  be  gradually  built  up  until  strong 
enough  to  resist  every  tendency  to  disease.  Hun- 
dreds of  subtle  maladies  are  floating  around  us  ready 
to  attack  wherever  there  Is  a  weak  point  We  may 
escape  many  a  fatal  fhaft  by  keeping  ourselves  well 
fortified  with  pure  blood  and  a  properly  nourished 
frame."-Civil  Service  Gazette. 

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in  half-pound  tins  by  grocers,  labeled  thus: 
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When  I  say  cure  I  do  not  mean  merely  to  stop  them 
for  a  time  and  then  have  them  return  again.  Imeana 
radical  cure.  I  have  made  the  disease  of  FITS,  EPIL- 
EPSY or  FALLING  SICKNESS  a  life-long  study.  1 
(varrant  my  remedy  to  cure  the  worst  cases.  Because 
others  have  failed  is  no  reason  for  not  now  receiving  a 
cure.  Send  at  once  for  a  treatise  and  a  Free  Bottle 
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aONTENTS. 

Sditobial,  : 

Reform  News  : 

Dr.  James  McCosh 

1 

From  the  General  Agent ; 

Popery  and  Masonry 

8 

Texas  promises  to  Lead 

A  Lodge  Wake 

S 

the    Reform    Host;    A 

'JONTBIBtlTIONP  ' 

Live    County  Associa- 

An Outside  View   of  Se- 

tion ;  Among  the   Hills 

cret  Societies    I 

1 

of  8.  E.  Ohio ;   Another 

The  Despotism  of  Evil — 

2 

Word  to  the  Iowa  Lodge 

What  is  a  Revival 

2 

Champion 

4,1> 

Woman's  Day(poetry)  . . . 

3 

CORBESPOKDBNOB  : 

Selected : 

Notes  of  the  New  York 

Secret  Dynamltlsm 

2 

Churches;     Why    Zlon 

The    G.    A.    R.   and   the 

Languishes  ;To  New  Or- 

United Presbyterians.. 

3 

leans  from  Kansas  City; 

Another  Testimony  from 
the  Evangelist  Moody  . 

Pith  and  Point 

5,H 

3 

Tobacco  Doctors 

7 

Charity   as   Practiced  by 

Thb  Homb 

10 

Lodges 

3 

Tempebakcb  

U 

Bible  Lbsson 

6 

Religious  Nbws 

12 

Washington  Letter 

9 

LoBGB  Notes 

13 

LiTEBATCRE 

9 

Markets , 

13 

9 

7 

Business 

13 

The  N.C.  a 

Home  and  Health 

14 

Lecture  List    

7 
7 

In  Brief 

News  of  thb  Wbbk 

1.5 

Church  vs.  Lodgb 

16 

DR.  JA 

ME 

'S  M-G08H. 

This  truly  great  and  good  man  who,  the  readers 
of  the  ( 'ynosure  will  remember,  endorsed  the  call  of 
our  Congress  for  discussing  the  lodge,  and  who  con- 
tributed a  letter  to  that  discussion,  was  born  in 
Brechin,  Scotland,  in  1811,  and  if  he  reaches  the 
age  of  Dr.  Nott  of  Union  College,  he  has  years  of 
usefulness  and  honor  before  him  yet.     Born  near 

"The  bonny  banks  of  Ayr," 

where  Burns  caught  inspiration  from  brooks,  and 
the  bird  songs  in  their  "banks  and  braes;"  and,  bet- 
ter still,  from  a  land  which  has  furnished  in  its 
philosophers,  Reid,  Brown,  Stewart,  and  others,  the 
teachers  of  the  teachers  of  mankind,  Dr.  McCosh,  in 
comparatively  early  life,  had  gained  a  reputation  for 
scholarship  and  administrative  ability  which  made 
him  coveted  as  the  head  of  one  of  the  first  and  no- 
blest colleges  in  the  United  States.  And  his  selec- 
tion as  President  of  the  "College  of  New  Jersey"  at 
Princeton,  has  proved  one  of  the  wisest  acts  the 
governors  of  that  institution  have  ever  done  for  it. 
It  will  yet  be  regarded  as  a  benefaction  to  the  coun- 
try and  mankind. 

The  Chicago  Inter  Ocean  has  the  following  just 
and  forcible  estimate  of  him:  "As  the  head  of  this 
institution  Dr.  James  McCosh  has  shown  himself  a 
veritable  prodigy.  Besides  executive  ability  of  a 
high  order,  he  has  combined  rare  scholarship  with 
strong  religious  convictions  and  keen  human  sym- 
pathies. His  power  of  adapting  means  to  ends 
stands  out  in  striking  contrast  with  the  accomplish- 
ments of  .most  other  men.  As  an  administrator  of 
affairs  he  is  a  Grant  among  a  multitude  of  McClel- 
lans." 

This  is  the  judgment  of  a  writer  who  is  accus- 
tomed to  comp.ire  the  leaders  of  men  in  the  regions 
of  war,  politics,  and  business;  and  he  properly 
places  Dr.  McCosh  in  the  front  rank.  But  the  esti- 
mate were  truer  to  compare  him  with  John  Knox  or 


Wickliffe,  men  whose  minds  were  the  pivots  of  the 
destiny  of  nations.  What  could  even  Washington 
have  done  without  a  platform  of  American  princi- 
ples, forged  in  the  fires  of  persecution  across  the 
seas,  the  Hampdens,  Sidneys,  and  Raleighs,  who 
faced  the  scorn,  contempt,  pillories,  dungeons  and 
despotism  of  their  own  people,  and  purchased  our 
principles  for  us  with  their  lives? 

In  1843  Scotland  had  a  church  overgrown  with 
moss  and  mistletoes.  A  handful  of  nobles  owned 
the  pulpits,  and  sold  pastors  for  the  people  to  the 
highest  bidders,  and  the  people  must  hear  them  or 
secede.  A  few  fearless  and  brilliant  men,  like 
Chalmers,  Guthrie,  and  young  McCosh,  (then  only 
32  years  old)  backed  by  the  honest  Christian  people, 
who  read  their  Bibles  and  believed  them,  enlightened 


DR.   JAMES    McCOSH. 

the  nation  by  discussion,  and  produced  a  state  of 
public  sentiment  which  induced  five  hundred  pastors 
to  forsake  their  State-livings,  trusting  in  God  and 
the  Christian  people  for  their  bread.  Christian  doc- 
trine too,  as  well  as  church  government,  had  become 
fossilized.  Dr.  McCosh  wrote,  while  yet  in  early 
manhood,  his  "Divine  Government,  Physical  and 
Moral,"  which  passed  through  a  multitude  of  edi- 
tions on  both  sides  the  Atlantic.  The  book  is  both 
Scripture  and  sense.  It  neither  abridges  God's 
government  to  make  room  for  the  liberty  of  his 
creatures,  nor  suppresses  human  freedom  to  exalt 
the  government  of  God.  Like  the  Bible,  it  shows 
God's  government  to  be  infinitely  perfect,  and  the 
freedom  of  man  infinitely  free.  AH  his  other  works 
(and  he  has  written  many)  evince  the  same 
clear,  thorough,  discriminating  stateliness  of 
mind. 

Under  his  wise,  just  and  humane  administration, 
bis  college  sprung  from  an  institute  or  denomina- 
tional college  to  a  de  facto  national  university.  In- 
spired by  their  confidence  in  its  President,  several 
millions  of  dollars  flowed  in,  and  have  been  so 
wisely  applied  that  all  that  money,  expended  by  an 
exquisite  taste  can  do,  to  make  buildings  and 
grounds  useful,  stately  and  beautiful,  has  been 
done,  so  that  one  feels  exalted  by  the  spirit  of  the 
place.  And  in  its  rapid,  steady,  and  stupendous 
progress,  both  of  the  exterior  and  the  instruction  of 
the  college,  no  startling  theories,  nor  splitting  the 
hairs  of  doctrine,  nor  sectarian  appeals  have  been 
resorted  to;  nor  attempts  to  make  the  religion  of  a 
crucified  Saviour  suit  the  taste  of  the  world  which 
crucified  him. 

We  first  met  Dr.  McCosh  some  year  and  more 
ago.  Gen.  Clinton  B.  Fisk  arrived  that  day  to 
speak  in  the  large  rink  as  candidate  for  Governor 
of  New  Jersey  nominated  by  the  Prohibition  party. 
As  the  crowd  had  gathered  and  well  filled  the  rink, 
a  roar  of  applause  drew  our  delighted  attention  to 
Dr.  McCosh,  who  had  come  in  to  give  his  public 
adhesion  to  a  new  and  fva  yet  small  political  party, 
whose  principles  he  approved,  which  he  did,  calmly 


and  handsomely  in  a  few  fitting  and   appropriate 
words. 

The  very  success  of  his  administration  has  made 
its  weight  oppressive,  and  this  added  to  the  weight 
of  years,  has  made  him  twice  ask  to  be  relieved, 
which  has  been  twice  postponed.  It  is  now  said  his 
resignation  has  been  accepted,  and  he  says  be  is 
engaged  in  the  "painful"  duty  of  separation  from 
the  college  he  has  administered  to  for  some  twenty 
years.  If  he  goes  out,  it  will  be  to  other  duties. 
Every  eye  will  follow  him  with  benizons,  and  men 
will  feel  prouder  for  belonging  to  the  race  with  Dr. 
James  McCosh. 


The  two- thirds  vote  of  both  houses  of  the  Massa- 
chusetts legislature  last  week  passed  the  resolution 
favoring  constitutional  prohibition.  Before  the 
amendment  is  submitted  to  the  people  at  the  polls, 
the  legislature  must  pass  the  resolution  again  next 
year  by  the  same  vote.  Our  friends  in  the  Bay 
State  have  now  their  work  laid  out  for  them.  Let 
every  man  be  true.  In  Michigan,  where  the  pro 
hibitory  amendment  lately  failed,  the  counties  are 
coming  up  finely  into  line.  Last  week  fourteen 
had  voted  out  the  saloon,  and  some  thirty  more  are 
getting  ready  to  adopt  the  same  issue  at  the  polls. 
The  battle  for  State  prohibition  will  be  again  joined 
ere  long;  and  already  the  saloon  keepers  tremble 
for  the  result.  The  late  convictions  of  this  class  in 
prominent  river  towns  in  Iowa  convinces  them  that 
it  is  time  to  close  up  in  one  State.  When  Doomed 
was  written  over  their  doors  four  years  ago,  it  was 
written  in  letters  of  fire  that  neither  men  or  devils 
could  put  out.  One  brewer,  who  began  his  evil 
work  in  Dubuque  forty  years  ago,  and  accumulated 
a  fortune  by  it  from  the  victims  of  drink,  died  a 
poor  man  last  week.  Prohibition  brought  at  last  a 
just  retribution  for  years  of  sin  against  his  fello-v 
men. 


AN  OUTSIDE  VIEW  OF  SSCRUT  SOClETIisS. 


BY   PROP.    W.    J.    COLEMAN. 


I. — THEIR   OBLIGATIONS. 

There  are  certain  facts  and  principles  with  regir.l 
to  secret  societies  that  all  men  may  know  wittiout 
going  into  the  lodge;  facts  and  principles  which  n  > 
friend  of  secret  orders  can  deny,  because  they  are 
open  and  confessed.  Upon  these  we  propose  to  base 
our  argument  against  all  divisions  of  the  secret 
empire. 

I.  Every  man  in  entering  a  secret  society  takes 
an  oath,  or  engagement,  to  be  subject  to  its  officers 
and  to  obey  its  laws.  What  these  laws  are  and  what, 
these  officers  may  require,  he  does  not  know.  If  he 
knew  these  before  going  in,  it  would  uo  longer  be  a 
secret  society.  Now  we  believe  it  to  be  wrong  for 
any  man  to  take  an  ojith  without  knowing  before- 
hand what  he  is  going  to  swear  to.  The  man  who 
will  do  this  is  not  true  to  his  own  manhood.  No 
man  of  sense  will  take  such  a  leap  in  the  d.ark  No 
business  man  will  sign  a  note  leaving  the  amnuat 
for  which  he  is  to  be  obligated  to  be  filled  in  after- 
ward. That  there  are  officers  and  laws  in  the  lodge 
we  may  know  without  entering  its  doors.  The  list 
of  officers  elected  is  often  seen  in  the  newsp.ipers, 
and,  judging  by  the  length  of  their  titles,  they  h.ivo 
no  little  authorit}'.  Shall  we,  like  Samson,  lay  our 
head  in  the  lap  of  those  who  may  profit  by  our  weak- 
ness, and,  blindfolded,  allow  them  by  our  o.'ilh  to 
shear  away  the  secret  of  our  strength,  our  priv.Hto 
judgment?  \yill  we  put  put  our  head  in  a  yoke 
from  which  we  cannot  withdraw,  to  be  driven  wc 
know  not  where,  to  draw  we  know  not  what?  But 
especially  no  man  can  swear  such  an  oath  and  be 
consistently  true  to  his  God.  Krery  Christi-in  is 
already  bound  by  his  profession  to  take  the  Bible  as 
his  only  guide  in  faith  and  morils.  Now  he  can 
consistently  swear  obedience  to  another  law,  that  in 
any  way  affects  either  faith  or  morals,  only  when  he 
knows  that  it  recognizes  the  Bible  as  the  standard, 
and  is  in  substantial  conformity  will)  the  Word  of 
God.  To  swear  to  another  law  in  the  dnrk  is  to  ris»k 
his  allegiance  to  his  God.  After  a  min  has  a'^cepted 
Christ  as  bis  Master,  to  swear  obedience  to  another 


'Z 


THE  CHRISTIAlSr  CYNOSURE. 


February  2, 1888 


to 


power,  that,  to  say  the  least,  he  does  not  know 
be  on  Christ's  side,  is  to  cast  a  shade  of  doubt  on 
his  sincerity  as  a  Christian.  And  if  knowing  that 
infidels  and  Jews  are  members,  he  should  guess  that 
the  lodge  is  not  declared  on  Christ's  side,  this  makes 
his  oath  so  much  the  more  sinful.  Inquiry  should 
be  made  before  taking  vows,  not  after;  and  if,  in 
the  circumstances  of  the  case,  no  man  can  find  out 
beforehand  what  he  is  going  to  swear  to,  there  is  but 
one  thing  for  him  to  do,  and  that  is  not  to  swear. 

I  say,  then,  that  a  man  who  swears  to  follow  an 
unknown   leadership  and  to  obey   unknown  laws, 
goes  back  on  himself.  It  is  an  unmanly  thing  to  do. 
And  the  man  who,  after  accepting  Christ  as   his 
King  and  his  Word  as  his  law,  swears  to  unknown 
leaders  and  laws  that,  so  far  as  he  knows,  do  not 
recognize  and  profess  to  obey  that  King  and  that 
law,  goes  back  on  his  Christianity.  It  is  an  unchris- 
tian thing  to  do.     To  show  that  the  practical  conse- 
quences of  this  kind  of  an  oath,  and  to  prove  that 
my  conclusions  are  not  overdrawn,  let  us  take  up 
the  illustration  which  the  Bible  gives  of  this  sin  in 
the  case  of  Herod.   On  Herod's  birthday  the  daugh- 
ter of  Herodias  danced  before  Herod  and  the  assem- 
bled company,  and  so  pleased  Herod  that  he  prom- 
ised, with  an  oath,  to  give  her  whatsoever  she  would 
ask.    He  swore  in  the  dark.    He  did  not  know  what  she 
would  ask.  The  woman  was  very  gracef  ul,and  no  doubt 
looked   so  amiable  as  to  lead  Herod  to  think   she 
would  not  ask  anything  but  what  it  would  be  a  pleas- 
ure for  him  to  give.     But  look  out,  Herod.  Persons, 
like   things,  are  not  always  what  they  seem.     This 
dance  is  a  snare,  though  you  do  not  know  it.     It 
was  expected  that  you  would  make  just  such  a  rash 
vow  as  this,  and  though  you  do  not  know  what  she 
will  ask,  she  knows  all  the  time.      She  was  "before 
instructed  what  she  should  ask."     She  looked  very 
soft  and  sweet,  but  she  asked  that  Herod  would 
murder  the  man  that  had  rebuked  her  mother's  sin. 
She  asked  for  the  head  of  John  the  Baptist.     Now 
Herod  is  in  difficulty.     He  does  not  want  to  murder 
the   Prophet,  but  he  has  sworn  in  the  midst  of  a 
great  company  to  give  the  woman  what  she  should 
ask.     Had  he  been  an  intelligent.  God-fearing  man 
he  would   have  repudiated  his  oath.     But  he  went 
on.     When  a  man  swears  in  the  dark  he  is  serving 
an  apprenticeship  for  dark  deeds.   Christian  friends, 
do  not  swear  your  liberty  away  to  an  unknown  pow- 
er, nor  your  obedience  to  an  unknown  law.     It  is  a 
sin  against  yourself.     It  is  a  sin  against  Grod. 

m  %  ^ 

TEE  DESPOT  ISM  OF  EVIL. 


BT  H.  H.  HINMAN. 


Sin  is  not  only  alluring,  it  is  despotic.  Many  a 
young  man  who  has  been  taught  to  abhor  the  intox- 
icating draught  and  shun  the  use  of  tobacco  has  found 
himself  at  the  mercy  of  those  whose  influence  and 
importunities  were  stronger  than  he  could  resist. 
Especially  is  this  true  of  the  tobacco  habit.  He 
learns  to  smoke  in  sheer  self-defence.  He  must  do 
so  or  give  up  his  associations  and  occupation.  Sick 
with  the  nauseous  fumes  he  is  forced  to  inhale,  he 
resolves  to  submit  to  what  seems  inevitable  and  be- 
comes himself  a  devotee  to  the  morbid  appetite. 
The  men  who  thus  force  their  unclean  habits  on 
others  call  themselves  gentlemen  and  would  scorn 
the  imputation  of  having  done  a  needless  and  endur- 
ing wrong  to  a  friend  and  to  his  future  household 
and  posterity  in  succueding  generations;  and  yet, 
without  provocation,  he  inflicts  a  wrong  that  no 
words  can  adequately  express.  The  same  is  largely 
true  of  licentious  habits.  Young  men  especially  are 
the  victims  of  the  despotism  of  evil  which  they  are 
too  weak  to  resist. 

But  in  nothing  is  this  despotism  more  obvious 
and  deplorable  than  in  the  power  of  the  secret 
lotlge  system  to  compel  obedience  to  its  commands. 
That  '-the  image  of  the  beast"  "that  causeth  all, 
both  small  and  great,  rich  and  poor,  free  and  bond, 
to  receive  a  mark  in  their  right  iiand  or  in  their 
foreheads:  that  no  man  might  buy  or  sell  save  he 
who  had  the  mark,  or  the  name  of  the  beast,  or  the 
number  of  his  name,"  is  the  secret  lodge  system, 
may  not  be  regarded  as  absolutely  proved.  Yet 
practically  it  is  true.  For  all  over  the  land,  men 
are,  or  at  least  think  they  are,  forced  to  join  some 
secret  lodge,  order  or  union  as  a  condition  of  suc- 
cess. Those  who  stand  out  against  them  are  the 
exception  and  they  labor  under  many  disabilities. 

This  is  not  only  true  of  those  who  unite  in  trades 
unions,  but  is  not  the  less  true  of  teachers,  lawyers, 
editors  and  physicians,  who,  though  they  may  have 
no  distinct  guild,  must  needs  belong  to  some  of  the 
orders  and  fraternities  if  they  hope  for  popular  ap- 
proval. 

It  might  have  been  hoped  that  one  class  at  least, 
the  Christian  ministry,  would  assert  its  independ- 
ence and  "stand  fast  in  the  liberty  wherewith  Christ 


has  made  them  free,  and  be  not  entangled  with  a 
yoke  of  bondage."  Alas  I  Christian  ministers  are 
but  human;  and  while,  as  a  class,  they  are  behind 
no  other  in  moral  purity,  they  have  been  ensnared 
like  all  others  in  this  device  of  the  devil.  Multi- 
tudes of  ministers  have  joined  the  Freemasons  or 
Odd-fellows  to  get  a  better  place  and  a  higher  salary. 
They  had  been  told  that  there  was  nothing  wrong  in 
these  orders,  and  that  it  would  increase  their  influ- 
ence among  men.  They  found  their  brethren  who 
belonged  to  these  orders  occupying  high  positions 
and  felt  practically  compelled  to  join  them  in  order 
to  succeed.  Others  join  them  that  they  may  have 
an  influential  voice  in  their  management  and  prevent 
their  being  used  for  the  in j  ury  of  the  church. 

It  is  a  common  practice  among  the  colored  minis- 
ters of  the  South  to  belong  to  all  the  orders  and  so- 
cieties that  are  attended  by  the  members  of  their 
congregation.  They  have  a  two-fold  power  of  con- 
trol. Those  who  conscientiously  withhold  their 
presence  and  influence  from  these  orders,  find  them- 
selves constantly  thwarted  in  the  execution  of  disci- 
pline. Each  secret  order  to  which  any  member  be- 
longs constitutes  a  refuge  to  which  he  escapes  from 
all  the  censures  of  the  church. 

An  officer  in  a  (white)  church  in  a  Southern  city 
was  charged  with  and  believed  to  be  guilty  of  an 
infamous  crime.  He  charged  the  crime  on  the  pas 
tor  of  the  church,  and  through  the  influence  of  the 
lodge,  was  fast  turning  public  sentiment  against 
him.  This  pastor,  who  was  not  then  a  member  of 
any  order,  but  had  always  opposed  them,  told  me 
that  he  was  told  and  believed  that  the  only  way  of 
escape  was  to  join  one  of  the  powerful  orders  in 
that  city.  He  accordingly  joined  the  Knights  of 
Pythias,  and  at  once  had  hosts  of  friends,  and  his 
reputation  was  amply  vindicated.  Another,  the  pas- 
tor of  one  of  the  largest  churches  in  Houston,  Texas, 
told  me  that  he  found  the  societies  absorbing  so 
much  of  the  time  and  means  of  the  church  and  so 
influencing  and  controlling  church  discipline  that  he 
had  come  to  regard  them  as  the  greatest  obstacle  to 
the  progress  of  the  Gospel.  He  had  been  repeatedly 
told  that  If  he  would  succeed,  he  must  join  the  or- 
ders, and  though  conscientiously  opposed  to  them, 
he  had  finally  sent  in  his  name  and  fee  for  initia- 
tion into  the  Masonic  order.  He  had  been  notified 
of  his  acceptance,  but  finally  concluded  that  he 
would  not  join. 

I  need  not  say  that  good  men  who  trust  in  God 
and  "who  have  not  worshiped  the  beast,  neither  his 
image,  neither  have  received  his  mark  upon  their 
foreheads  nor  in  their  hands,"  get  the  victory;  but 
these  are  men  of  strong  faith.  They  feel  the  des- 
potism to  which  their  weaker  or  leas  informed 
brethren  submit.  May  the  Lord  in  his  providence 
break  up  this  terrible  power. 


Furthermore,a  revival  from  God  is  a  change  from 
darkness  to  light.  However  beautiful  the  structure 
and  superior  the  furnishings  of  the  elegant  mansion, 
how  dark  it  is  within  when  the  curtaius  are  closely 
drawn  and  the  blinds  tightly  closed.  So  when  the 
spiritual  eye  of  the  soul  is  blinded  by  sin,  however 
amiable  our  disposition,  superior  our  intellectual 
culture,  and  exemplary  our  deportment,  the  dark- 
ness within  makes  all  uncertain  and  life  a  burden  of 
dissatisfaction.  Opening  the  blinds  and  rolling  up 
the  window  curtaius  would  fill  the  m-insion  with 
light;  so  opening  our  hearts  to  the  reception  of 
Christ  would  fill  us  with  the  glory  of  God,  changing 
our  wintery  coldness  into  the  warmth  of  a  beautiful 
summer  day.  The  best  way  to  remove  the  frost 
from  the  windows  is  to  build  a  good  fire.  So  the 
best  way  to  remove  coldness  from  our  churches  is 
to  secure  a  good  thorough  work  of  grace  in  our 
hearts. 

Again,  it  would  produce  a  change  from  worry 
to  peaceful  rest  by  faith  in  God.  The  unrest  that 
characterizes  the  intense  rush  of  our  age  is  weak- 
ening our  physical  structure,  withering  our  iutellecT;- 
ual  vigor,  shortening  our  days  and  whirling  us  into 
many  sinful  ways  that  are  displeasing  to  God.  A 
good  revival,  such  as  followed  the  preaching  of  Da- 
vid Marks,  Charles  G.  Finney,  and  many  other  no- 
ble men,  would  break  up  this  unhealthy  excitement 
and  bring  us  to  Christ,  the  true  source  of  satisfac- 
tion to  the  soul.  Also  it  would  change  us  from  cow- 
ards to  heroes.  Fear  ensnares,  courage  makes  free. 
And  true  courage  is  born  not  of  the  flesh,  but  of  the 
Spirit  of  God,  which  enables  us  to  carry  the  banner 
of  truth  right  into  the  enemy's  camp.  Praise  the 
Lord,  the  heroes  are  not  all  dead  yet.  There  are  a 
few  left,  who,  like  Rev.  Wm.  F.  Davis,  now  in 
Charles  St.  jail,  Boston,  for  his  adherence  to  the 
right,  are  ready  to  live,  suffer,  or  die  for  the  truth. 
Yet  where  we  find  one,  we  need  hundreds;  and  God- 
given  revivals  will  give  birth  to  more  than  all  other 
agencies  combined. 

The  revivals  that  the  necessities  of  the  hour  de- 
mand, will  create  a  change  from  bigoted  stinginess 
to  large-hearted  and  intelligent  benevolence.  In 
short,  they  will  change  us  so  we  will  act  in  harmony 
with  the  pleasure  of  God,  to  the  best  of  our  knowl- 
edge and  belief.  A  revival  causing  these  changes 
is  of  God,  and  should  be  hailed  with  joy  and  thanks- 
giving. Any  other  is  of  Satan,  and  will  bring 
worldlymindedness,  weakness,pride,  discord  and  ruin 
to  the  churches. 
Guilford,  N.  H. 


SECRET  D YNA Ml TISM. 


WHA  T  IS  A    RE  VI VAL  ? 


BY   REV.    ISAAC    HYATT. 


Nothing  is  more  helpful  to  promote  all  good  and 
desirable  reforms  than  revivals.  But  it  is  well  to 
pause  and  inquire  what  constitutes  a  revival;  for  of 
all  shams,  the  greatest  and  most  disastrous  is  a  sham 
revival. 

A  revival  presupposes  the  existence  of  piety. 
Many  Christians  are  like  a  fire  almost  gone  out. 
Beside  such  a  fire  in  a  cold  day  a  man  would  freeze 
to  death,  and  in  any  kind  of  weather  starve  for 
want  of  food.  So  our  piety  may  run  so  low  as  to  be 
ineffectual  to  save  the  lost  or  nourish  the  hungry. 
It  is  very  sad  that  our  religion  is  so  very  much  like 
a  fire  that  needs  often  to  be  rekindled.  Oh,  how 
much  better  it  would  be  to  keep  our  hearts  always 
aglow  with  the  love  of  God,  our  zeal  at  the  right 
temperature,  and  our  walk  with  God  circumspect! 
Taking  things  as  they  arc  we  find  the  necessity  ur- 
gent to  work  and  pray  for  the  revival  of  the  work 
of  the  Lord. 

How  shall  we  know  when  we  have  such  a  revival? 
Oh,  for  wisdom  to  understand  the  right  answer  to 
this  important  question !  A  revival  of  the  right  sort 
is  a  change  from  sin  to  holiness.  Any  awakening 
that  does  not  produce  this  change  is  from  Satan, 
and  not  of  God.  Sin  brings  death;  holiness  gives 
life.  And  when  the  one  is  not  forsaken  and  the 
other  secured,  we  have  a  revival  that  will  do  us  no 
good,  but  very  much  harm. 

The  right  kind  of  a  revival  will  create  a  change 
from  formality  to  spirituality.  "The  letter  killelh, 
but  the  Spirit  giveth  life."  Forms,  like  dishes,  are 
necessary.  But  very  nice  dishes  with  very  poor 
food  imparts  little  comfort  to  the  hungry,  and  less 
strength  to  do  the  work  of  life.  So  elegant  meet- 
ing houses,  or  a  high  order  of  intellectual  preaching 
and  artistic  music  without  the  baptism  of  the  Holy 
Spirit  etives  us  no  comfort  or  strength  to  walk  in 
the  way  to  heaven. 


There  is  a  natural  affinity  between  secret  societies 
and  death  dealing  explosives.  The  reason  is  clear. 
These  explosives  can  be  secretly  used  to  better  ad- 
vantage in  carrying  out  the  murder-breathing  spirit 
of  secretism  with  less  probability  of  discovery  than 
other  methods  of  murder.  It  has  come  to  pass  that 
opposition  to  secret  societies,  even  those  counted  by 
some  "minor,"  and  so  innocently  harmless,  is  not 
courting  especial  personal  safety.  This  has  been 
recently  illustrated  in  the  case  of  Mrs.  R.  E  Rice, 
of  Lawrence,  Kansas.  From  a  personal  letter  re- 
ceived and  clippings  from  local  papers  sent  we 
gather  these  facts:  Mrs.  R.  E.  Rice  is  a  lady  of 
culture— a  graduate  of  Kansas  University.  Being 
thoroughly  convinced  that  secret  societies  connected 
with  institutions  of  learning  are  a  great  evil,  she 
wrote  two  articles  against  secret  societies  as  con- 
nected with  the  Kansas  University,  which  were  pub- 
lished in  the  Lawrence  Tnhime.  Soon  after  the 
publication  of  these  articles,  as  Mrs.  Rice  was  sit- 
ting quietly  and  unsuspectingly  one  evening  with 
her  family,  a  piece  of  gas  pipe  about  one  foot  in 
length,  and  scientifically  charged  with  powder  with 
fuse  attached,  came  crashing  through  the  window, 
lodging  in  the  room  where  the  family  were  gathered. 
The  fuse  had  been  lit,  but  was  evidently  extin- 
guished in  its  contact  with  the  window  glass.  The 
match  which  had  been  struck  and  partlv  burned  in 
lighting  the  fuse  was  found  outside.  Though  the 
authorities  were  notified,  both  the  police  and  t'le 
local  papers  are  inclined  to  shield  the  secret  would-be 
murderers  undtr  the  idea  that  it  was  simply  a  joke  de- 
signed for  a  little  amusement.  Bombs  with  lighted  fuse 
are  too  seriou8"jokes"U)  be  thus  lightly  treated.  All  the 
circumstances  point  clearly  to  the  offended  demon- 
spirit  of  secrecy  as  the  perpetrator  of  the  attempt- 
ed murder  after  the  model  of  the  Chicago  Haymar- 
ket  bomb-throwing.  The  fact  is,  the  spirit  of  mur- 
der is  in  organized  secretism  readv  to  be  breathed 
in  the  face  of  all  opposition.  When  its  spite  and 
recklessness  dares  the  deeds  of  death,  secrecy  seems 
to  count  it  but  innocent,  if  the  "good  of  the  order" 
is  supposed  to  be  promoted.  God  be  praised  that 
we,  as  a  people,  have  washed  our  hands  clean  from 
this  whole  secret  business,  lifting  our  standard  in 


February  2,  1888 


THE  CHRISTIAN-  CYNOSURE. 


the  name  of  Him  who  "ever  spake  openly."  Palsied 
be  the  hand  that  would  tear  down  that  reformatory 
banner  we  wave  in  the  face  of  organized  secrecy. 
The  battle  is  waxing  hot,  and  dynamite  may  hasten 
some  of  us  to  heaven,  hurled  by  the  hand  of  secret 
murderousness;  but  at  whatever  peril,  let  us  stand 
true  to  God  and  truth.  Mrs.  Rice  still  lives  to  lift 
her  voice  and  wield  her  pen  against  such  secret  com- 
binations of  midnight  murderers.  These  college 
societies  have  been  looked  upon  as  the  more  harm- 
less of  the  secret  conclaves,  but  when  assailed  by 
the  open  truth,  the  real  spirit  of  secretism  is  found 
in  these  and  all  other  societies  of  like  secret  char- 
acter. These  secret  conspirators  deem  anything 
legitimate  so  their  precious  secrets  may  be  defended, 
even  though  the  "profane"  are  made  the  victims  of 
murder-charged  bombs. —  Wesleyan  Methoditt. 


WOMAN' 8  DAT. 


BY   MRS.  L.  C.  ANDREWS. 


Lines  suggested  while  attending  the  prohibition  meeting  In 
Chicago  held  at  Battery  D,  Dec.  Ist,  18S7.  "It  1b  glorious  to  be 
a  woman,"  rang  out  clearly  from  the  rostrum  to  the  large  udl- 
ence  gathered  there.  In  compliment  to  the  efliclent  labors  of 
temperance  and  reform  women. 

Noble  women,  falter  never, 
Still  keep  calling  on  God's  name. 

Loving  women,  true  as  ever 
Raise  the  fallen,  lift  from  shame. 

Work !    The  tempter  still  is  slaying ; 

His  hosts  wild  with  anger  rage; 
But  Love's  angels  still  are  praying. 

And  with  faith  the  battle  wage. 

In  the  secret  closet  kneeling, 
Silently  she  offers  prayer, 
'      And  the  Heavenly  Father  heareth ; 
Do  not  doubt  his  presence  there. 

On  the  rostrum  plainly  dealing. 
With  the  stronghold  powers  of  sin, 

And  with  power  of  thought  amazing 
God  is  helping  her  to  win. 

Soon  the  holds  of  sin  shall  crumble,. 

Soon  the  morn  of  light  will  dawn. 

Shackles  fall  from  sin-cursed  mortals, 

Hoodwinked  eyes  behold  the  morn. 

« 

For  the  sake  of  Christ  then  labor ; 

By  the  power  of  God  be  led. 
Ye  shall  come  cfE  all  victorious. 

Ye  shall  bruise  the  serpent's  head. 

Soon  these  labors  will  be  ended. 

Care  not  then  for  blazoned  fame. 
But  the  love  our  hearts  still  cherish 
God  will  bless,  and  God  sustain. 
Waupun^  Wis. 


TEE  G. 


A.  E.    AND  THE    UNITED 
TEBIAJN    CHURCH. 


PRE  SB  T- 


The  late  action  of  the  Allegheny  United  Presby- 
terian presbytery,  on  an  appeal  from  the  congrega- 
tion at  Springdale,  Pa.,  is  justly  awakening  some 
interest  in  the  denomination.  The  presbytery  voted 
unanimously  that  the  G.  A.  R.  order  was  not  incom- 
patible with  their  ideas  of  religion.  The  inconsist- 
ency of  such  a  decision  is  being  very  clearly  estab- 
lished in  a  discussion  now  proceeding  in  the  Chris- 
tian Instructor.  Rev.  A.  J.  McFarland  of  St.  Clairs- 
ville,  Ohio,  having  written  a  criticism  on  the  order, 
based  on  such  information  as  he  had,  J  amesA.Ralston, 
an  elder  in  the  U.P.  church  at  Haye8ville,Ohio,replied. 
Bro.  McFarland's  rejoinder  we  reprint  from  the  In- 
structor as  below: 

For  some  reason  the  paper  which  contained  a  nom- 
inal response  to  my  query  about  the  oath-bound  se- 
crecy of  the  G.  A.  R.  did  not  reach  me.  But  on 
hearing  of  the  response  I  obtained  a  copy,  and  on 
reading  it  made  an  additional  effort,  with  a  neighbor, 
to  see  a  copy  of  the  ritual  us^d  in  the  G.A.R.Post  of 
this  place.  The  neighbor  requested  the  Commander 
of  the  Post  to  let  him  see  the  ritual  of  the  G.  A.  R., 
and  he  replied,  "No,  you  can't  see  it;  those  books 
are  for  our  officers  only."  Ho  then  asked,  "Did  you 
see  that  article,  that  insignificant  article,  that  Mc- 
Farland wrote  about  us?"  And  he  was  answered 
by  the  question,  "Why  didn't  you  reply  to  it?"  to 
which  he  replied,  "None  but  a  fool  would  do  that." 
He  was  then  informed  that  a  member  of  the  G.  A. 
R.,  who  is  an  elder  of  the  U.  P.  church,  had  replied 
to  it;  and  the  colloquy  then  ended  by  the  worthy 
soldier  and  commander  saying,  "Well,  he  was  a  fool 
for  that." 

"The  ritual  is  for  the  otlicers  only."  What  is  a 
ritual?  It  is  a  book  of  services,  and  whatever  kind 
of  obligation  is  imposed  upon  the  initiate  is  con- 
tained in  this  book,  which  none  but  the  otlicers  can 
use,  as  has  been  stated  by  worthy  members  of  the 
G.  A.  R.  Now  let  me  ask  in  the  utmost  candor. 
Why  does  not  some  United  Presbyterian  minister 


ual?  Is  it  not  because  they  are  bound  by  oath  to 
keep  secret,  or  rather  keep  from  the  uninitiated  the 
secrets  of  the  order?  Why  do  U.  P.  ministers  and 
elders  regard  their  obligations  to  the  G.  A.  R.  as 
paramount  to  their  obligations  to  the  church.  Facts 
show  conclusively  that  many  of  these  ministers  and 
elders,  as  well  as  private  members,  regard  their  ob- 
ligation to  the  church  as  a  mere  gossamer  thread. 
The  brother  who  pretended  to  respond  to  my  inquiry 
did  not,  to  my  mind,  manifest  that  candor  or  broth- 
erly love  which  even  one  soldier  of  the  late  war 
should  manifest  toward  another,  leaving  out  of  view 
that  which  should  exist  between  elders  and  members 
of  the  same  church.  Secretism  destroys  candor  and 
cultivates  deceit. 

What  does  the  assertion  of  brother  R,  amount  to? 
Simply  that  some  phrases  in  some  former  ritual  are 
not  in  the  one  that  is  now  used,  and  his  quite  gra- 
tuitous information  to  your  readers  that  I  have  no 
right  to  excommunicate  members  of  the  G.  A.  R. 
because  I  do  not  know  what  I  am  talking  about. 
"You  do  not  know  what  you  are  talking  about"  is  a 
very  common  expression  with  the  oath-bound  mem- 
bers of  secret  societies  when  one  finds  any  fault  with 
them.  The  brother  says  I  have  drawn  my  conclu- 
sions from  a  wrong  premise.  My  major  premise  was 
assumed,  not  stated,  because  my  argument  was  spe- 
cially for  United  Presbyterians.  But  perhaps  more 
plainness  is  necessary.  Hence  I  will  put  it  in  syllo- 
gistic form  regarding  the  argument  in  the  Declara- 
tion and  Testimony  of  the  U.  P.  church  as  sufficient 
proof  that  all  secret,  oath-bound  societies  are 
wrong.  The  minor  premise  is,  The  G.  A.  R.  is  a 
secret,  oath-bound  society.  The  conclusion  is  that 
the  G.  A.  R.  society  is  wrong.  Although  the  lan- 
guage used  was  not  the  same  in  words,  yet  the 
meaning  was  the  same.  If  any  organization  claim- 
ing to  be  part  of  the  Church  Militant  should  refuse 
to  allow  an  applicant  for  admission  the  privilege  of 
reading  its  standards  before  taking  the  vows  and 
pledging  obedience  to  its  laws  and  officers,  might  we 
not  justly  characterize  it  as  an  organization  having 
the  devil  as  its  Grand  Commander?  He  was  a  de- 
ceiver from  the  beginning.  It  was  he  who  made 
Peter  deny  the  Saviour,  and  that  with  an  oath  for 
the  purpose  of  deceiving. 

The  U.  P.  church  has  been  deceived  in  some  mea- 
sure in  regard  to  the  secrecy  of  the  G.  A.  R.,  else  I 
am  very  much  mistaken.  The  elder  says  their  rit- 
ual "contains  nothing  but  what  any  Christian  man 
can  subscribe  to."  This  reminds  me  of  the  charge 
of  the  Worshipful  Master  to  the  blinded  initiate, 
saying,  "I  assure  you,  upon  the  honor  of  a  man  and 
a  Mason,  that  in  this  obligation  there  is  nothing 
which  can  conflict  with  any  of  those  exalted  duties 
you  owe  to  God,  your  country,  your  neighbor,  your 
family,  or  yourself."  (Hand  Book  of  Masonry, 
page  35 )  Does  not  this  Worshipful  Master  and 
his  hand  book  sing  the  same  song  of  praise,  and  the 
same  key  and  tune?  What  charitable  U.  P.  can 
now  say  a  word  against  either  order?  Oh,  yes! 
Charity  covers  a  multitude  of  sins,  but  all  the  man- 
tles of  charity  that  can  be  thrown  over  those  secret, 
oath-bound  societies  cannot  screen  them  from  the 
gaze  of  Omniscience,  nor  the  light  of  truth;  for  it 
can  and  will  penetrate,  and  eventually  reveal  the  se- 
crets and  the  workings  of  the  most  hidden  order, 
where  Satan  rules  as  king,  and  is  drilling  his  follow- 
ers for  dress  parade  at  the  Grand  Eacampment  to 
which  1  referred  in  my  former  article,  and  which 
was  represented  by  Elder  Ralston  as  being  a  quota- 
tion from  the  G.  A.  R.  oath.  If  the  Prince  of  dark- 
ness had  written  the  ritual  he  would  not  have  put 
any  such  phrase  in  it,  and  of  course  I  did  not  so 
represent. 

Did  the  brother  deny  that  the  G.  A.  R.  is  an  oath- 
bound  society?  I  could  not  find  anything  of  the 
kind.  The  pretence  of  denial  without  the  reality, 
and  that  other  fact,  that  I  don't  know  what  I  am 
talking  about,  this  being  a  secret,  oath-bound  argu- 
ment, leaves  the  charge  in  full  force. 

Now  allow  me  to  ask,  "Is  not  the  Sons  of  Vete- 
rans a  secret,  oath-bound  society?"  and  to  give  my 
belief  in  answer  in  a  few  words.  This  order  is  com- 
posed of  young  men  and  boys,  mainly,  as  yet.  This 
order  is  said  to  be  founded  on  the  principles  of 
Friendship,  Charity  and  Loyalty,  and  its  ritual 
was  approved  and  promulgated  by  the  sixth  annual 
"Encampment  of  the  Commander-in-chief"  of  the 
order,  meeting  in  Des  Moines,  Iowa,  Aug.  18, 1887. 
And  the  oath  for  initiation,  as  in  this  ritual,  con- 
tains enough  for  the  condemnation  of  the  order  by 
the  true  followers  of  Christ.  "They  are  sworn  in  the 
presence  of  Almighty  God  and  brothers  of  this 
camp,"  and  "promise  and  swear,"  etc.,  and  "further 
promise  and  swear  that  I  will  carefully  guard,  and 
never  reveal,  any  of  the  secrets  of  this  order,"  etc., 
etc.  Is  not  this  enough  to  prove  it  a  secret,  oath- 
bound  order?     But  perhaps  bome  of  them  will  re- 


ANOTHER 


TESTIMONY    FROM 
QBLI8T  MOODY. 


THE    EVAN- 


In  a  discourse  Dec.  8,  1887,  during  his  late  meet- 
ings at  Pittsburgh,  D.  L.  Moody  spoke  as  follows: 
"You  cannot  walk  with  God  and  with  the  world   at 
the  same  time.     In  Jeremiah  6: 16, we  are  told  to  walk 
in  the  good  old  ways  and  we  shall  fiud  rest  for  our 
souls.     So  many  people  call  the  old  ways  puritanical 
now.     They  say  that  the  Bible  was  good  enough  for 
the  middle  ages,  but  that  the  world  has  outgrown  it. 
There  would  be  just  as  much  sense  in  talking  about 
outgrowing  the  sun.     Truth  never  grows  old.     The 
Word   of    God  is  just  as  true  to-day  as  it  ever  was. 
We  want  no  new  paths.     The  way  our   fathers  took 
is   the   best   way.     Man   never  makes  anything  by 
taking  other  ways.     They  always   lead   to  destruc- 
tion.    There   is   another  command  which  we  often 
neglect.     'Be  ye  not  unequally  yoked  together  with 
unbelievers.'     I  believe  that  one  reason  Christian 
people  have  so  little  is  that  they  are  not  separated 
from   the   world.     We   are  hand  in  glove  with  the 
world.     At  one  time  there  was  a  cry  that  the  church 
was  going  into  the  world,  but  it  is  now  all  the  other 
way.     The  world  has  poured  into  the  church  like  a 
flood.     This  has  lowered  the  standard  of  the  church 
and  it  has  lost  its  testimony  and  power.     This  com- 
mand, I  believe,  also  touches  secret  societies.     We 
have  no  right  to  go  into  societies  where  three-quar- 
ters of  the  members  are  the  world.  The  body  may  vote 
for  a  Sabbath  excursion,  as  such  bodies  often  do,  and 
in  consequence  the  Christian  is  compromised.     I  be- 
lieve that  a  believer  has  no  right  to  marry  an  unbe- 
liever.    See  how  much  sorrow  and  misery  such  mar- 
riages bring  into  the  world.     The  mirth  that  cheers 
the  world  will  freeze  the  Christian.  How  can  two  walk 
together  unless  they  agree?     I  remember  an  apple 
tree  we  used  to  have  at  home  that  stood  so  near  the 
road  that  half  its  branches  were  over  on  the  other 
side  of  the  highway.     There  anything  in   the  road 
was  considered   public  property.     It  was  an  early 
tree  and  yet  it  never  bore   ripe   fruit.     We  always 
watched  it,  and  the  moment  an  apple  begun  to  ripen 
a  club  was  shied  at  it.     That  tree  always  had  a  lot 
of   clubs   lying   under  it,  and  more  lodged  in  its 
branches.     Why  was  it  that   that   tree  never   bore 
ripe  fruit?     It  was  because  it  was  too  near  the  bor- 
der— too  near  the  world.     That  is   the  case   with 
many  Christians.     You  must  get  out  of  the  world 
if  you  want  spiritual   life   and   power.     So   many 
Christians  are   yoked   with   the  ungodly  that  they 
have  lost   their  testimony.     The   ungodly   have   a 
great  contempt  for  the  worldly  Christian." 


CHARITY  AS  PRACTICED  BY  LODGES. 


The  various  secret  societies  take  pleasure  in  pos- 
ing as  benevolent  institutions,  who  allay  the  suffer- 
ing of  the  sick,  support  the  widow  and  orphan. 
This  is  the  bait  with  which  an  increase  of  member- 
ship is  to  be  secured;  is  the  holy  mash  intended  to 
deceive  those  benevolent  at  heart.  These  are  hard 
words;  but,  sad  to  say,  they  are  true.  All  charity 
and  benevolence  lodges  boast  of  may  be  compressed 
into  the  words:  Pay  your  dues  and  we  will  pay 
ours.  When  a  case  of  sickness  or  death  is  reported 
to  a  lodge,  the  accounts  of  that  brother  are  closely 
scrutinized,  and  if  an  arrearage  of  but  a  small 
amount  is  deducted,  this  will  cause  the  "brother"  to 
lose  the  benefit  of  all  his  former  contributions  and, 
of  course,  save  expenses  to  the  lodge.  Inability  to 
pay  the  dues  is  no  excuse  in  the  charitable  eye  of 
the  lodge.  The  Knights  of  Pythias,  for  instance, 
have  the  motto,  "Friendship,  Charity,  Benevolence," 
but  in  their  "Complete  Mauual  and  Text  Book"  they 
say,  page  188:  "There  is  scarcely  a  week  that 
passes  but  what  we  hear  of  some  brother  who  has 
met  with  an  accident,  or  been  taken  sick,  and  when 
his  name  is  announced  in  the  lodge  he  is  found  to 
be  in  arrears  with  his  dues,  perhaps  only  a  few  days. 
There  are  but  few  of  our  older  members  who  cannot 
relate  some  particular  case  of  hardship,  the  result  of 
carelessness  on  the  part  of  a  brother  in  not  paying 
his  dues."  A  "particular  case  of  hardship"  i^  hence 
not  entitled  to  the  charity  of  a  lodge,  unless  all  dues 
are  paid.  How  do  such  "charitable"  principles 
which  prevail  among  the  Knights  of  Pythias  not 
only,  conform  with  the  divine  injunction,  "Love  thy 
neighbor  as  thyself?"  and  again  (Isa.  58:  7),  "Is  it 
not  to  deal  thy  bread  to  the  hungry,  and  that  thou 
bring  the  poor  that  are  cast  out  to  thy  house?  when 
thou  seest  the  naked,  that  thou  cover  him;  and  that 
thou  hide  not  thyself  from  thine  own  flesh?" — nor 
ask  him  whether  he  paid  his  dues. — Lutheran  Wit' 
ness.  I 


or  elder  publish  the  obligation  prescribed  in  the  rit-  spond,  saying,  "You  don't  know  anything  about  it" 


Canon  Wilberforce  is  reported  as  saying  in  Phil- 
adelphia that  when  a  physician  prescribed  alcohol 
for  him,  he  prescribed  the  door  for  the  physician. 


4. 


THE  CHRISTIAIxT  CYNOSUBE. 


Februart  2,  1888 


refoem  News 

FROM  THa  GENSlliL  AGENT. 


THE    ODTLO    K    IN    NBW    ORLEANS. 

New  Orleans,  La. 

The  trip  from  Chicago  to  this  city  via  the  Illinois 
Central  railroad  proved  a  very  enjoyable  one  in  every 
respect.  Accommodations  and  attendants  were  all 
that  could  be  desired  and  I  wish  to  commend  this 
direct  line  from  the  North  to  the  South  to  all  con- 
templating a  journey  to  this  land  of  perpetual 
bloom.  Those  of  our  friends  coming  to  the  Conven- 
tion here  on  the  17th,  will,  I  feel  sure,find  it  to  their 
personal  comfort  and  advantage  to  take  the  I.  C.  R. 
R.  unless  their  experiences  shall  be  different  from 
ours. 

Our  party,  comprising  Mrs.  Stoddard,  Bro.  Chit- 
tenden and  myself,  arrived  in  this  city  on  the  morn- 
ing of  the  2l8t,  safe  and  sound, having  made  the  en- 
tire journey  of  nearly  1,000  miles  in  less  than  thir- 
ty-six hours,  without  loss  of  sleep  or  special  note- 
worthy incident  by  the  way.  The  transition  from 
bleak  winter  to  balmy  spring,  and  from  snow  and 
ice  to  blooming  gardens  and  orange  trees  loaded  with 
their  golden  fruit,  in  so  brief  a  time  seems  almost 
like  magic,  but  it  is  a  palpable  realitj'  of  which  we 
cannot  entertain  a  doubt. 

Mrs.  S.  and  I  have  obtained  a  room  at  the  Chris- 
tian Woman's  Exchange,  41  Bourbon  street,  and 
have  set  up  light  housekeeping  in  a  small  way.  Bro. 
Chittenden  has  a  room  near  and  is  our  frequent  and 
welcome  guest.  The  weather  has  not  been  favora- 
ble for  getting  about  the  city  since  our  arrival,but  I 
have  seen  the  following  brethren:  Dr.  Burgess  of 
Straight  Uaiversity,  Dr.  Mitchell  and  Dr.  Marsh  of 
Leland  University,  Rev.  A.  S.  Jackson  of  the  First 
Baptist  church.  Rev.  J.  Marks  of  6th  Baptist,  Reva. 
H.  C.  Cotton,  P.  A.  Jones,  F.  J.  Davidson,  Marcus 
Dale  (M.  E  ),  S.  T.  Planton,  J.  G.  Wracks  and  By- 
ron Gunner,  and  many  others. 

I  can  scarcely  give  an  intelligent  opinion  of  the 
outlook  for  our  convention  yet,  but  I  am  hopeful. 
Much  will  doubtless  depend  upon  the  prayers  and 
attendance  of  friends  from  abroad,  and  1  earnestly 
request  the  prayers  of  all  Christians  for  the  blessing 
of  God  on  this  effort,  and  trust  that  as  many  as  pos- 
sibly can  will  sustain  the  meeting  by  their  presence, 
as  well  as  by  their  prayers.  J.  P.  Stoddard. 


TSXAB  PROMISES 


TO   LEAD 
HOST. 


THE   REFORM 


METHODISTS 


AND   BAPTISTS 
AGAINST   THE 


NEARLY 
LODGE. 


UNANIMOUS 


flection  he  found  that  he  could  not  in  good  con- 
science become  a  member.  Since  then  he  has  read 
"Finney  on  Masonry,"  and  wonders  how  any  Chris- 
tian man  could  be  connected  with  the  lodge. 

The  two  leading  colored  Baptist  pastors  were  in 
hearty  sympathy  with  our  reform.  Both  invited 
me  to  lecture  in  their  churches.  I  was  able  to 
speak  in  but  one,  of  which  Rev.  Yates  is  pastor. 

The  condition  of  the  streets  was  such  that  loco- 
motion was  almost  impossible.  The  schools  were 
suspended,  and  in  most  of  the  churches  there  was 
no  public  worship  on  the  15th  or  the  22d.  I  lis- 
tened, however,  to  an  excellent  sermon  at  the  First 
Presbyterian  church,  and  visited  several  times  the 
pleasant  rooms  of  the  Y.  M.  C.  A.,  where  I  met  a 
kind  reception  and  where  the  Cynosure  was  wel- 
comed. Nor  should  I  forget  to  mention  the  excel- 
lent school  conducted  by  Misses  Peck  and  Dizer, 
who  are  laboring  under  the  Baptist  Home  Mission- 
ary Society.  I  need  not  saj  that  they  are  in  sym- 
pathy with  our  work,  and  will  be  glad  to  circulate 
our  literature.  Their  address  is  corner  of  Bell  and 
San  Jacinto  streets,  Houston,  Texas. 

1  left  Houston  on  the  231  at  5:35  p.  m.,  and  at 
9:40  reached  the  little  city  of  Orange,  on  the  Sabine 
River.  This  is  a  lumber  region  and  abounds  in 
great  steam  saw  mills.  I  found  here  two  brethren 
who  have  been  long  identified  with  our  work.  Rev. 
J.  Hamilton  and  Mr.  Isaac  Simmons  formerly  lived 
at  Johnson's  Bayou,  Louisiana,  when  that  town  was 
nearly  destroyed  by  flood  in  October,  1886.  They 
lost  most  of  their  property  and  came  here.  They 
did  not  lose  their  faith  in  God  nor  in  his  truth,  and 
feel  as  ever  the  same  interest  ia  our  work.  It  will 
be  difficult  to  hold  any  meetings  here,  and  I  shall 
probably  go  to  New  Iberia  and  thence  to  New  Or- 
leans. H.   H.    HiNMAN. 


A  LIVE  CCUNTT  ASSOCIATION. 


The  city  of  Houston,  Texas,  is  in  the  same  lati- 
tude as  New  Orleans,  but  has  a  somewhat  cooler 
and  dryer  climate.  The  great  prairies  of  the  north, 
vhich  come  to  the  very  borders  of  the  city,  make  a 
way  for  the  "Northers"  that  the  Texans  so  much 
dread,  so  that  the  orange  and  the  oleander,  which 
usually  survive  the  winters  of  New  Orleans,  have 
here  a  very  precarious  existence.  Nevertheless,  the 
thermometer  has  not  gone  below  19  degrees  at  any 
time,  and  the  snow  remained  but  a  few  days.  For 
nearly  a  week  it  has  rained,  and  vegetation  has  fair- 
ly started  in  its  spring  growth. 

The  city  had,  according  to  a  recent  census,  36,464 
inhabitants.  It  is  about  fifty  years  old  and  is  slow- 
ly growing.  Formerly  it  had  a  good  deal  of  trade 
through  the  bayou  that  runs  down  to  Galveston 
Bsy,  but  that  trade  has  greatly  declined  and  now  it 
is  an  important  railroad  center. 

There  is  a  fair  representation  of  the  different  re- 
ligious denominations  with  usually  good  houses  of 
worship.  Among  the  colored  churches  the  Baptists 
are,  as  usual,  in  the  majority,  though  the  M.  E. 
f!hurch  is  well  represented.  Indeed,  the  Northern 
M«thodist8,  as  they  are  called  here,  have  a  much 
larger  membership  in  Texas  than  in  any  other  of 
the  colton-growing  States.  Unlike  their  brethren  in 
the  North,  they  are  beginning  to  have  a  realizing 
sense  of  the  evils  of  the  secret  lodge  system  and  are 
speaking  out  against  it.  The  presiding  elder  on  this 
district  told  me  that  he  found  it  everywhere  one  of 
the  greatest  hindrances  to  church  work.  He  says 
that  the  question  was  up  in  their  last  annual  confer- 
ence, and  ibat  from  the  bishop  down  there  was  but 
«iQe  opinion  as  to  the  pernicious  character  of  these 
orders.  One  of  the  leading  pastors  of  the  city  said 
he  had  never  joined  any  order,  but  had  found  them 
fo  great  and  obstinate  to  church  discipline  that  he 
iiid  some  time  since  concluded  to  take  the  advice  of 
some  of  his  people  and  see  how  they  could  be  man- 
aged fr.om  the  inside.  He  had  accordingly  sent  his 
ippiication  and  fee  to  a  Masonic  lodge,  and  was  I  spoke  on 


The  DuPage  County  Association,  Illinois,  is  about 
the  only  county  auxiliary  body  which  continues  to 
hold  regular  meetings.  Its  annual  meeting  in  the 
Congregational  church  at  Bartlett,  111.,  last  Friday 
was  a  spirited  and  useful  meeting,  profitable  to  all 
who  attended,  and  a  prophesy  of  many  more. 

The  Association  was  welcomed  in  a  brief  but 
happy  address  by  Rev.  Alexander  Thomson,  pas- 
tor of  the  church,  and  member  of  the  N.  C.  A. 
Board  of  Directors.  He  made  a  striking  compari- 
son of  the  lodge  oath  and  the  manner  of  its  admin- 
istration to  business  documents,  a  lease,  for  exam- 
ple. The  oath  is  taken  bit  by  bit,  a  few  words  at  a 
time.  Thus  the  Union  League  oath  had  been  doled 
out  to  himself,  and  when  all  was  over  he  could  re- 
member but  a  slight  part  of  an  adjuration  most  sol- 
emn in  its  form  of  appeal  to  God.  A  lady  of  his 
acquaintance  who  had  joined  the  grange  told  him  of 
a  like  experience.  After  the  initiation  she  remem- 
bered practically  nothing  of  the  obligation.  This 
he  believed  to  be  a  general  experience.  Yet  this  was 
the  important  part  of  the  whole  for  the  individual 
member,  since  therein  he  promised  in  a  most  solemn 
manner  to  perform  duties  which  under  the  circum- 
stances it  was  not  possible  to  remember.  No  busi- 
ness man  would  accept  or  give  a  lease  in  such  a 
way.  Business  documents  of  that  kind  are  carefully 
examined;  but  oaths,  which  the  lodge  enforces  with 
the  direst  penalties,  are  given  in  this  fragmentary 
manner.  Thousands  are  taking  upon  themselves 
such  engagements  in  a  way  that  makes  it  impossi- 
ble for  them  to  know  the  purport  of  the  whole. 

Prof.  H.  A.  Fischer,  president  of  the  organization 
responded  briefly.  The  reports  of  officers  were  re- 
ceived, showing  that  laudable  efforts  had  been  made 
during  the  year  to  increase  the  interest  in  the  reform, 
by  personal  efforts  and  correspondence.  Illustrated 
lectures  showing  the  identity  of  Freemasonry  and 
ancient  paganism  had  been  given  in  several  places 
by  I.  R.  B.  Arnold.  In  one  of  the  Congregational 
churches  of  the  county  the  pastor  reported  the  con- 
version of  a  33  degree  Mason,  who  had  belonged  to 
the  Oriental  Consistory  of  Chicago  and  to  some  fif- 
teen secret  bodies,  some  of  which  he  had  himself 
originated.  Years  ago  he  had  given  much  time  to 
the  organizing  of  lodges.  On  his  ox)nversion  he 
publicly  confessed  that  he  now  had  something  bet- 
ter than  lodgery,  and  showed  his  pastor  an  armful 
of  rituals  which  he  once  enjoyed,  but  were  now  ex- 
changed for  the  Word  of  the  true  God. 

In  the  afternoon  after  a  season  of  earnest  prayer, 
Prof.  C.  M.  Lowe  spoke  on  the  work  of  the  N.  C.  A. 
at  the  South,  showing  its  importance,  its  rapid  and 
promising  growth,  and  urging  a  hearty  co-operation 
of  ail  Christian  people  in  the  effort  to  deliver  the 
colored  churches  from  the  members  of  the  lodge. 
Mr.  W.  L.  EqIow  of  the  Senior  Class,  Wheaton, 
the  Sons  of  Veterans,  making  a  forcible 


of  self-perpetuation  by  a  kind  of  hereditary  clause; 
because  it  is  keeping  up  a  barbarous  war  spirit, 
and  fans  the  flame  of  antagonism  between  sec- 
tions of  our  own  country,  which  should  long  since 
have  been  put  out;  because  it  taught  a  false  idea  of 
patriotism;  because  it  trained  for  more  objectionable 
orders;  and  because  it  required  extra- judical  oaths 
which  God  condemned. 

The  Secretary,  Mr.  Edgar  Wylie,  conducted  a  Bi- 
ble reading  on  the  Rejection  of  Christ  by  the  Ma- 
sonic order,  which  started  a  discussion  in  which 
there  was  quite  general  participation. 

In  the  evening  Rev.  R.  Menk,  pastor  of  the  United 
Evangelical  church  in  Turner  made  an  address  in 
German  on  the  way  the  lodge  deals  with  the  revealed 
will  of  God.  He  spoke  eloquently,  and  many  in  the 
audience  listened  eagerly  to  their  fatherland  tongue. 
Pres.  C.  A.  Blanchard  followed  in  a  most  earnest 
appeal  for  Christianity,  lowing  from  the  incom- 
patibility of  the  lodge  and  the  prayer-meeting  that 
secretism  should  be  opposed. 

The  officers  elected  were:  Rev.  A.  Thomson, 
president;  John  Sutcliffe  and  Rev.  Mr.  Irion,  vice- 
presidents;  J.  N.  Bedford,  secretary;  B.  Loveless, 
treasurer;  and  twelve  township  secretaries. 


notified  that  he  had  been  accepted.     On  further  re-  argument  against  this  order  because  of  its  principle 


AMONG  THE  HILLS  OF  SOUTHEASTERN  OHIO. 

Near  Mountville,  Morgan  Co.,  O.,  ) 
Jan.  26,  1888.  f 
Dear  Cynosure: — I  am  down  here  among  the 
hills  at  the  home  of  Bro.  Jerome  Moody.  On  every 
side  of  where  I  write  the  hills  stretch  up  toward  the 
sky  until  they  appear  like  young  mountains.  They 
seem  the  larger  to  one  accustomed  to  the  level  prai- 
ries of  the  West.  While  they  would  not  seem  de- 
sirable to  me  for  cultivation,  yet  there  is  a  grandeur 
about  them  that  cannot  fail  to  attract  those  who 
love  the  picturesque.  Since  my  last  writing  I  did 
some  work  for  our  cause  at  Cedar ville  and  spent 
some  time  at  Columbus  where  I  had  the  pleasure  of 
attending  special  meetings  conducted  by  State  Sec- 
retary and  Treasurer  Rev.  C.  W.  Hiatt.  Owing  to 
a  number  of  hindrances  these  meetings  were  not  as 
largely  attended  as  some  he  has  held,  but  interest 
and  attendance  was  increasing  when  I  was  com- 
pelled to  leave.  Some  ten  had  confessed  Christ,  and 
there  seemed  to  be  a  general  looking  to  God  for  the 
outpouring  of  his  Spirit. 

Leaving  wife  and  home  on  Monday  morning, 
three  hours'  ride  found  me  sixty-five  miles  south  at 
Corning,  a  place  of  about  two  thousand  inhabitants 
whose  chief  industries  seem  to  be  mining  coal  and 
drinking  liquor.  Having  to  wait  a  few  hours  for  a 
train  to  this  place  I  made  inquiries  and  looked  about. 
I  found  there  were  twelve  saloons,  nine  lodges, 
three  churches,  three  law  offices,  and  the  number  of 
undertakers  I  did  not  learn,  but  concluded  their 
business  would  prosper  well.  Pigs  and  half-dressed, 
and  balf-Btarved  children  ran  together  in  the  streets. 
It  was  not  an  uncommon  sight  to  see  a  mother  lead- 
ing her  child  as  she  went  to  the  saloon  for  a  drink. 
The  pastors  of  the  two  Protestant  churches  [Baptist 
and  Methodist]  were  away.  I  did  not  take  time  to 
look  up  the  priest. 

Coming  to  this  place  I  received  a  cordial  welcome 
at  Bro.  Moody's  and  found  he  had  made  a  number 
of  appointments.  He  has  since  assisted  what  he 
could.  My  first  address  was  given  Tuesday  evening 
in  Bishopville,  the  town  where  Bro.  M.  was  made  a 
Mason  and  where  he  served  the  lodge  for  ten  years, 
about  seven  of  them  as  junior  and  senior  deacon. 
The  place  of  meeting  was  unfortunate.  It  was  an 
old  church  built  by  the  Wesleyans  years  ago.  It 
has  become  quite  dilapidated.  There  were  three 
women  and  some  twenty-five  men  young  and  old, 
who  shivered  around  the  stove  with  their  overcoats 
on  while  I  proceeded  to  unravel  the  mysteries  of 
one  of  the  last  resorts  of  the  devil  to  catch  men's 
souls  and  fit  them  for  their  grand  lodge,  which  they 
claim  is  above.  All  seemed  interested,  asked  ques- 
tions, and  expressed  a  desire  to  know  more  concern- 
ing this  matter.  No  Masons  appeared.  Bro.  M. 
followed  my  remarks,  testifying  to  the  correctness 
of  what  I  had  said.  The  craft  are  very  bitter  against 
him  and  of  course  defame  him  in  all  possible  ways, 
but  he  is  looking  for  the  "recompense  of  his  re- 
ward," not  in  this  world. 

Last  night  we  found  our  way  over  the  hills, 
through  the  woods  to  a  neat  little  church  owned  by 
the  Free  Methodists,  of  which  church  Bro.  M.  is  a 
member.  The  building  has  recently  been  erected 
at  a  cost  of  eight  hundred  and  fifty  dollars.  A  lit- 
tle man  by  the  name  of  Wade  came  down  here,  held 
meetings,  and  was  the  means,  under  God,  of  its 
erection.  Rain  fell  and  froze  yesterday  making  the 
hills  very  icy.  Notwithstanding  all  the  impediments 
when  we  reached  the  church  we  found  quite  a  con 
gregation  of  the  "pilgrims"  as  they  are  called.  In 
fact  I  did  not  know  where  they  all  could  come  from, 


February  2,  1888 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE- 


for  people  are   not  very  thick   down  this  way.     I  to  which  the  traveling  Mason  said  he  belonged,  to 
never  spoke  to  a  more  appreciative  audience.     After  j  ^e  collected  and  returned  to  the  lodge  of  the  lender, 
Bro.  M.  had  followed   me  with  some  very  appropri- 
ate remarks  he  thought  he  could  raise  a  collection, 


Times  gave  a  good  paragraph  to  our  movement  last 

Friday.     We  took  an  article  on  this  reform  up  to 

'  The  innocent  supervisor  anticipated  "the  pleasure  of,  { the  editor  of  the  New   York    Obterver.     The  editor 

at  no  distant  daj',  checking  out  from  the  treasury  of  i  would  have  nothing  to  do  with  this  impracticible 

Money  evidently  is  { *ii8  own  lodge,  the  money  that   he  had  loaned   to  a  j  prohibition.     They  were  dead  set  against  that.     He 


worthy  and  distressed  brother.  Judge,  then,  of  his 
j  chagrin  when,  instead  of  the  ten  dollars,  word  was 
'  returned  that  no  such  man  belonged  to  that  lodge, 

or  ever  had. 
Three  times  this  game  was  played  upon  the  su- 


believed  in  working  for  what  is  practicable,  high 
license  and  tax.  Nevertheless,  he  took  the  paper 
under  consideration. 

Monday  noon  I  attended  the  Presbyterian  Minis- 
ters' meeting  in  Dr.  Crosby's  church.     Dr.  Crafts 


but  did  not  succeed  very  well 
a  poor  crop  in  this  region. 

Though  deprived  of  many  of  the  advantages  and 
privileges  of  modern  civilization  I  think  the  people 
generally  here  are  trying  to  serve  God  and  get 
through  to  glory.     Sickness  is  very  rare.     I  am  told 

the  doctor  barely  makes  enough  to  pay  his  board  '  pervisor.  Each  time  he  was  increasingly  careful  to  !  read  an  essay  on  "How  to  get  the  Bible  studied." 
bill.  I  have  taken  a  few  subscriptions  to  our  paper  |  test  the  applicant  by  all  the  rules  known  to  the  mys-  j  He  supposed  not  one  family  in  ten  had  family  wor- 
and  expect  more  at  Mountville,  where  I  speak  to-  j  tic  art;  and  each  time  the  word  came  back,  "No  such  ship  among  professors.  While  there  is  much  study- 
night  and  to-morrow  night.  Partial  arrangements  :  ^^^  belongs  to  this  lodge  or  ever  has."  ing  about  the  Bible,  there  is  not  a  great  deal  of  ac- 
have  been  made  for  a  lecture  for  Wrightsville  for  i  "I  used  to  take  an  interest  in  Masonry,"  the  super-  curate  knowledge  of  the  contents  of  the  bwjk.  He 
Saturday  evening.  Should  this  fail,  I  expect  to '  ^'sor  repeated;  "but  it  has  been  ^luen  aioay  until  it  suggested  systematic  study,  reading  the  Bible  in 
spend  Sabbath  and  the  first  of  next  week  with  the  i^  not  worth  any  thing  any  more."  |  course  clear  through,  committing  the  Catechism,  etc. 
Friends  at  Chester  Hill.  From  thence  probably  to}  Given  away!  Yes,  that  is  the  word,  given  away.  Especially  he  urged  bringing  Sabbath-school  chil- 
Athens  Co.  I  trust  the  friends  throughout  the  •  To  accept  a  gift  is  one  thing,  and  to  practice  the  art '  drcn  into  the  public  service.  When  the  gallery  is 
State  will  improve  the  winter  days  in  pushing  the  of  a  sneak  thief  is  another  thing;  is  it  not,  Bro. '  filled  with  children  the  minister  will  be  sure  to  adapt 
work.     Much  can  be  done  by  circulating  tracts  and   Evans?     Really,  my  dear  sir,  have   you    practiced  ■  the  service  to  them.     Dr.  Worrell  said,  "Before  Gib- 


talking  with  your  neighbors  and  friends. 


W.  B.  Stoddard. 


bons  became  Cardinal  he  wrote  to  the  Pope  telling 
of   their  success   in   America.     Says  he,  'We  can 


— The  Friends  have  had  a  mission  station  in  Con 
statinople  since  1881,  when  a  young  Armenian,  who  i  ihp'J"^*'  ''9 
had  been  educated  in  England,  began  work.  In  1883  r „ t  fnn 
a  meeting  was  organized,  with  twenty  men  and  wo- 
men enrolled  as  members.  Property  was  purchased 
for  the  mission  in  1884  in  Stamboul,  at  a  cost  of 
$8,000,  and  a  dispensary  was  established,  to  which 
Moslems  as  well  as  Armenians  resort.  The  Friends 
also  have  an  industrial  school  at  Bahjijig,  sixty 
miles  fiom  Constantinople,  with  thirty  scholars. 
The  mission,  as  a  Friend  writes  us,  is  carried  on  in 
entire  harmony  with  the  work  of  the  American 
Board.  The  Friends  have  been  very  careful,  he 
writes,  not  to  open  a  mission  "to  feed  on  the  con- 
verts of  the  noble  American  Board." 


sophistry   until  you  cannot  vent  your  spleen  in  a 

little  bit  of  railing  without  charging  those  who  have 

simply  received  the  secrets  of  Odd-fellowship  when  {  manage  every  class  here  except  theSco'ch  and  Irish 

they  have  been  given  away,  with  being  sneak  thieves,  ■  Presbyterians,  who  have  committed  a  little   book 

because  they  know  how  you  teach  moral  lessons  in   they  call  the  Shorter  Catechism.     We  can  do  noth- 

I  ing  with  them,  they  are  lost.'  Let  us  hold  on  to  the 
,  i^ui,  ^ui^ugLi  v/i  this  irony,  dear  reader,  you  see '  Catechism."  Dr.  Hall  said,  "The  most  pleasant 
:  that  Mr.  Evans  missed  his  way  when  he  taught  the  duty  in  the  church  which  he  served  was  to  review 

self-righteousness  of  Odd-fellowship  as  a  substitute  i  the  lesson  with  the  Sabbath-school.  He  went  from 
i  for  the  righteousness  that  the  trulv  penitent  sinner  '  class  to  class  asking  them  questions  and  hearing 

receives  through  faith  in  our  Lord  Jesus  Christ.  Dr.  |  their   questions.     It   brings   the  children   near   to 


Correspondence. 


ANOTBBR 


WORD  TO  THE 
CHAMPION. 


IOWA  LODQE 


MR.   EVANS 


AND    THE     SDPERVISOR     MUST 
AN    UNDERSTANDING. 


COME    TO 


Dear  Cynosure; — After  listening  to  Mr.  Evans's 
address,  which  I  reviewed  in  my  last  letter,  I  went 
to  Jasper  county.  But  before  bidding  adieu  to  Mr. 
Evans,  I  want  to  tell  you  what  he  said  as  an  Odd- 
fellow about  the  secrets  of  Odd-fellowship. 

"The  secrets  of  Odd-fellowship  are  our  own,"  he 
said  proudly.  And,  then,  seemingly  with  a  mali- 
cious desire  to  hurt  the  feelings  of  that  numerous 
class  of  persons  who  have  come  to  the  knowledge 
of  these  secrets,  without  being  frightened  with 
chains  and  skeletons  and  lances,  he  compared  them 
to  "sneak  thieves." 

I  did  not  suppose  that  Bro.  Evans  was  ignorant 
of  the  fact  that  Odd-fellowship  has  been  revealed. 
But  while  I  had  no  doubt  but  what  he  knew  that  the 
secrets  of  the  order  were  out,  I  was  not  quite  pre- 
pared to  have  him  virtually  admit  the  fact,  and  man- 
ifest his  spleen  by  r.iiling  on  those  who  had  come  to 
the  knowledge  of  what  he,  as  an  Odd-fellow,  was 
pleased  to  term  "our  secrets." 

Now,  if  it  were  an  innocent  pastime,  I,  for  one, 
would  have  no  objection  to  his  diversion  of  mak- 
ing faces  and  calling  names,  even  though  it  might 
not  seem  to  me  to  be  the  most  fitting  occupation  for 
a  minister  of  the  Gospel.  But,  however  I  might 
feel  disposed  to  indulge  Bro.  Evans  in  what  seemed 
80  agreeable  to  his  tastes,  on  the  ground  that  it  was 
perfectly  harmless  to  me,  the  fact  that  this,  like  the 
religious  part  of  his" discourse  that  I  reviewed  in 
my  last  letter,  is  sophistical  and  deceptive,  should 
be  pointed  out. 

^  To  illustrate  my  thought  on  this  part  of  Mr. 
Evans's  address,  I  will  relate  an  incident  as  given 
by  a  gentleman  of  Floyd  county,  Iowa,  who  was 
one  of  the  county  supervisors  and  a  Freemason.  It 
was  given  to  a  ministerial  friend  of  mine.  The  su- 
pervisor said:  "Masonry  is  a  good  enough  institu- 
tion, and  i  used  to  take  quite  an  interest  in  it." 

"But,"  ho  added,  "it  has  been  given  away  until  it 
is  not  worth  any  thing  any  more." 

Then  he  related  how  a  Mason  came  to  him  in  his 
journey  who  had  fallen  among  thieves,  who  had 
slyly  stripped  him  of  his  pocketbook,  and  left  him 
without  the  means  to  prosecute  his  journey.  Ho 
made  himself  known  to  the  supervisor  by  the  sly 
art,  that  only  Masons  are  supposed  to  know,  and 
asked  for  a  loan  of  ten  dollars.  He  gave  his  name, 
and  the  name,  number  and  location  of  his  lodge. 
The  supervisor  loaned  hira  ton  dollars,  and  when  he 
went  to  lodge  he  put  in  his  claim  against  the  travel- 
ing brother.  His  lodge  senk  the  account  to  the  lodge 


Evans  knows,  full  well,  that  he  should  be  teaching 
the  people,  "except  your  righteousness  exceed  the 
righteousness"  of  the  Freemasons  and  Odd-fellows, 
"ye  shall  in  no  case  enter  into  the  kingdom  of 
heaven."  And  he  knows  that  he  ought  not  to  call 
those  honest  people  thieves,  who  have  innocently 
received  the  secrets  of  Odd-fellowship  when  they 
have  been  "given  away."  I  say  "knows,"  for  I  hope 
he  has  not  practiced  the  false  worship  of  the  lodge 
until  he  has  lost  the  power  to  discern  truth. 


their  pastor."     And  that  is  the 


secret  of  success. 
J.  M.  Foster. 


WHY  ZION  LANOUiaHBB. 


Ware,  Mass. 
Editor  Christian  Cfnosure: — Inquiries  are  be- 
'  ing  made  in  regard  to  the  "languishing  st^te  of 
Zion,"  not  only  in  the  East,  but  in  all  parts  of  our 
1  beloved  land,  and  I  wish  to  notice,  briefly  as  possi- 


Pitiable,  indeed,  is  the  condition  of  that  man  who  ble,  some  of  the  many  reasons  why  this  state  of 
has  practiced  the  lodge  worships  until  he  has  come  j  things  exists.  Various  opinions  have  been  given, 
so  completely  under  the  mesmeric  power  of  Satan !  some  of  which  I  believe  to  be  true,  others  to  be 
that  he  can  see  no  difference  between  the  word  paint- 1  false  and  ungrounded.  I  have  been  told  here  in 
ings  of  love  in  Odd-fellowship,  and  the  love  of  God  Massachusetts  that  the  reason  why  we  did  not  have 
that  is  really  shed  abroad  in  the  heart  of  the  hum-  "old-fashioned  revivals"  was  because  the  people 
ble  penitent,  who  has  believed  in  Jesus  Christ,  and '  were  more  enlightened  and  had  a  better  and  differ- 
received  the  gift  of  the  Holy  Ghost,  according  to  j  ent  way  of  doing  business,  an  easier  method  of  get- 
bis  promise.  But  if  a  D.  D.  should  be  beguiled  into  '  ting  people  into  the  church.  It  does  not  seem  nec- 
the  lodge,  and  should  practice  its  false  worships  { essary  to  "renounce  the  devil  with  all  his  works" 
until  he  became  so  completely  under  the  mesmeric  but  lock  arms  and  walk  right  in,  "hail  fellows  well 
power  of  Satan  that  the  lodge  counterfeits  of  relig- !  met."     That  is  what  the  "liberal"  United  Brethren 


ion  seemed  to  him  as  good  as  the  true  grace  of  our 
Lord  Jesus  Christ,  so  that  he  would  say  to  those 
who  are  seeking  to  climb  up  to  heaven  by  the  way 
of  the  lodge  instead  of  by  Christ,  "All  the  angels 
of  God  cannot  keep  you  out  of  heaven,"  it  would 
not  be  strange, after  becoming  so  spiritually  opaque, 
if  he  should  commit  the  little  blunder  of  supposing 
that  those  who  have  received  the  secrets  of  Odd- 
fellowship,  when  they  were  given  away,  are  thieves. 
And,  of  course,  when  a  man's  understanding  is 
darkened  until  he  really  thinks  that  those  who  inno- 
cently receive  what  has  been  given  away  are  thieves, 
it  is  a  relief  to  his  mind  to  say  so. 

But  the  saddest  part  of  it  all  is,  that  those  young 
men  that  Mr.  Evans  encourages  to  attempt  to  climb 
up  to  heaven  by  Odd-fellowship  instead  of  plainly 
telling  them  that  Odd-fellowship  's  a  delusion  and  a 
snare,  and  that  Christ  is  the  one  only  way  to  God  and 
heaven, — these  must,  if  in  their  blindness  they  seek 
heaven  by  the  way  of  Odd-fellowship  instead  of  by 
Christ,  hear  the  Master  say,  "He  that  climbeth  up 
some  other  way,  the  same  is  a  thief  and  a  robber." 

Oh,  my  dear  brother,  how  can  you  descend  from 
the  position  of  a  minister  of  Jesus  Christ  and  his 
glorious  Gospel  to  a  teacher  of  Odd-fellowship? 
How  can  you  substitute  its  mockeries  for  the  glori- 
ous Gospel  of  Christ,  and  thus  aid  Satan  to  delude 
and  destroy  the  souls  of  men?         C.  F.  IIawley. 


NOTES  OF  THE  NEW  YORK  AND  BROOKLYN 
UHURGHES. 

Brooklyn,  Jan.  24,  1888. 
On  Sabbath  evening  I  preached  in  the  Dutch  Re- 
formed church  on  Claremont  Ave.,  Rev.  William  D. 
Perry,  pastor.  This  congregation  was  organized  in 
1852.  They  have  a  large  church  gallery  0!i  three 
sides.  National  Reform  was  well  received.  1 
preach  three  times  every  Sabbath,  morning  acd  af- 
ternoon supplying  Rev.  Carson's  pulpit.  Paul 
"made  tents"  that  he  might  preach  the  Gospel  with- 
out being  chargeable  to  the  people.  We  do  this 
that  we  may  preach  the  mediatorial  dominion  of 
Christ  over  the  nations  in  the  pulpits  of  this  city^ 
and  not  burden  the  over-drained  treasury  of  the  Na- 
tional Reform  Association.     The   Brooklyn   Dailv 


are  trying  to  do,  or  at  least  it  is  the  commission 
platform.  I  advise  all  to  keep  off  from  it  who  do 
not  want  to  go  down,  for  the  vessel  is  not  only  a 
leaky  craft  but  has  a  traitor's  flag  hoisted.  Be»«are! 
We  see,  especially  here  in  the  East,  a  great  efl'ort 
to  fully  unite  the  church  and  the  world.  Separation 
seems  to  be  out  of  the  question,  and  in  all  the  ser- 
mons I  have  listened  to,  by  the  orthodox  ministry, 
I  have  heard  but  very  slight  reference  made  to  this 
all-important  point — "separation  from  the  world." 
In  my  view  there  is  no  plainer  command  in  the 
Bible  than  to  be  separate  from  the  world. 

Yet  this  seems  to  be  an  impossibility  with  the 
present  state  of  society  respecting  the  numerous  se- 
cret societies.  So  many  churches  court  the  favor 
of  these  orders  that  they  are  inseparably  connected. 
A  Masonic  minister  attends  church  on  Sabbath,  per- 
haps attends  other  religious  services  during  the 
week,  and  a  meeting  in  the  "lodge  room"  is  fre- 
quently interspersed.  Who  is  in  that  lodge  room? 
Not  only  infidels,  atheists,  deists,  Jews,  Arabs,  but, 
in  fact,  murderers,  robbers,  liars  and  thieves.  A 
minister  of  our  Lord  Jesus  Christ  is  there,  too,  to 
take  upon  himself  the  same  horrid  oaths  that  the 
others  have  taken.  Then  talk  of  his  preaching  Christ 
to  such  a  class  I  He  might  as  well  talk  to  so  many 
Egyptian  mummies.  They  say,  and  truthfully,  too, 
he  is  no  better  than  I  am.  He  docs  the  same  things 
in  the  lodge  room  that  I  do;  then  why  say  he  is 
better  than  1  am?  That  minister's  influence  for 
leading  souls  to  Christ,  and  getting  them  thorough- 
ly converted  to  God,  is  lo-.t.  He  may  gel  people  to 
join  the  church,  but  they  are  not  "living  epistles, 
read  and  known  of  all  men,"  but  are  dead  weights, 
standing  in  the  way  of  sinners,  and  hedging  up  the 
real  way  to  salvation.  A  Mason  of  high  standing 
in  Pennsylvania  said  to  me,  "If  such  mioisters  are 
Christians,  then  I  am,"  yet  (with  an  oath),  "they  .ire 
a  set  of  hypocrites." 

Can  we  wonder  why  Zion  languishes,  with  such 
men  as  leaders?  It  is  a  necessit)-,  for  it  wi^uld  be 
out  of  God's  order  and  plan  to  save  souls  while  they 
cling  to  "idol  worship,"  and  "regard  ioiiiuity  in 
their  hearts."  "If  I  regard  iniquity  in  my  heart  the 
Lord  will  not  hear  me."  Psalm  6G:  18. 
Repentance  toward  God  and  faith  ia  our  Lord 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE- 


Febrttary  2, 1888 


Jesus  Christ,  seeking  forgiveness  of  our  sins,  is  nec- 
essary for  our  salvation.  The  majority  who  profess 
conversion  under  such  labors,  partake  too  much  of 
of  this  unholy  influence.  They  are  ready  for  the 
theater,  horserace,  and  the  ball  roDm.  They  are 
ready  to  say,  as  one  said  to  me  not  long  since,  "I 
was  brought  up  that  way."  Talk  to  such  about 
faith  in  prayer,  and  they  seem  astonished.  Truly,  it 
can  be  said  here  in  New  England  that  the  "Amen 
corner  has  died  out,"  Not  a  vestige  is  left.  If  a 
hearty  amen,  or  glory  to  God,  should  be  heard  it 
would  be  like  a  bomb  thrown  in  their  midst. 

Another  evil,  yet  not  the  least,  is  the  manner  in 
which  the  Gospel  is  supported.  Church  fairs,  festi- 
vals, crazy  tea  parties,  grab  bags,  sales  rooms,  fish 
ponds,  and  other  things,  too  numerous  to  mention, 
are  resorted  to  in  order  that  the  preacher  may  be 
supported.  This,  too,  is  an  abomination  in  the  sight 
of  the  Lord,  and  a  great  hindrance  to  the  work  of 
the  church.  People  pay  their  taxes  or  grocery  bills 
without  any  such  parade.  Then  why  is  it  necessary 
to  resort  to  such  measures  to  support  the  Gospel? 
I  think  there  is  no  need  of  such  a  course  if  people 
would  deal  as  honestly  with  the  cause  of  Christ  as 
they  do  in  worldly  matters;  no  such  wicked,  un- 
christian measures  would  be  resorted  to.  It  truly 
is  lowering  our  standard  as  Christians.  If  a  church 
member  wants  an  extra  ornament  to  adorn  their  per- 
son, they  have  no  trouble  to  find  a  way  to  purchase 
it,  but  let  there  be  a  call  for  an  extra  dollar  for  the 
cause  of  Christ  and  the  church,  see  how  quick  ex- 
cuses will  come;  and  then  some  of  the  above  meth- 
ods come  into  requisition.  Why  not  deal  as  honest- 
ly and  uprightly  with  God,  as  you  do  with  your  fel- 
lo-vmen?  This,  too,  has  a  powerful  influence,  and 
Zion  must  larguish  under  such  administration. 

By  the  help  of  the  blessed  Jesus  I  intend  to  keep 
out  of  this  union  with  Satan,  and  stand  aloof  from 
all  such  entanglements  and  devices  of  the  enemy. 
I  wish  to  stand  alone  with  Jesus,  willing  to  be  per- 
secuted for  righteousness'  sake,  realizing  that  in  or- 
der to  be  his  disciple,  I  must  leave  all  and  follow 
him.  It  is  not  wealth  and  numbers,  but  hearts  filled 
with  love  to  God,  a  church,  pure,  consecrated  to  the 
work  of  the  Lord  and  faithful  in  labor  for  the  sal- 
vation of  the  yet  unsaved.  Then  Zion  will  flourish, 
and  scores,  yea,  hundreds  and  thousands,  will  be 
saved  and  added  to  the  church.     Mrs.  L.  M.  Hctt. 


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who  may  desire  to  attend  the  New  Orleans  conven- 
tion. The  nearest  point  to  New  Orleans  to  which 
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fifty-three  miles  from  New  Orleans,  and  the  round 
trip  rate  from  Hammond  to  New  Orleans  is  $1.65, 
making  the  entire  round  trip  from  Kansas  City  only 
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they  can  be  used  at  any  date  thereafter,  i.  e  ,  of 
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February.  Any  persons  who  may  desire  to  avail 
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me  $16  85  I  will  purchase  the  tickets  and  retain 
them  for  them  until  they  wish  to  use  them,  or  could 
mail  the  tickets  to  those  purchasing. 

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that  parties  would  be  safe  in  sending  money,  as  I 
am  not  well  known  in  the  West  (since  I  have  only 
been  West  two  weeks)  I,  would  give  Rev.  M.  A. 
Gault  or  Rev.  J.  8.  T.  Milligan  as  references,  or  any 
Covenanter  minister,  and  my  position  is  that  of 
General  Secretary  of  Home  Missions  in  the  West 
for  the  Reformed  Presbyterian  church. 

Hoping  that  these  liberal  railroad  rates  will  in- 
duce many  to  go,  I  am  yours  respectfully, 

J.  MlLLKiAN  WyLIE. 


PITH  AND  POINT. 


TEN  LECTURER8  TO    ONE    NEEDED— TRUEI  TRUEI!  TUUEII! 

You  are  making  a  grand  paper.     Every  number  seems 
to  be  better  than  the  other.       I  expect  to  spend    a  few 
days  with  Eld';r  Smi'h  and  plan  for  future  work.   Times 
seem  to  be  growing  worse  nut  this  way.      The  G.  A.  R 
and  the  G.  T  's  are  booming  in  Iowa.     We  need  ten  lee 
turers  in  the  field  for  every  one.— M.  A.  Gault. 

KNOW    YE    THE    BHiNS    OF   THE    TIMES? 

I  believe  it  is  impossible  for  any  thoughtful  man  to 
consider  the  condition  of  Europe  at  this  present  moment 


without  alarm.  Nations  beating  plowshares  into  swords, 
and  their  pruning-hooks  into  spears,  and  war — terrible 
war  in  the  near  future,  the  one  thought  of  all;  while, 
besides  the  foes  that  threaten  each  nation  from  without, 
the  grinning  skeleton  of  socialistic  secret  societies  from 
within  makes  the  future  to  thoughtful  men  simply  ap- 
palling. Nor  can  we  hope  that  the  reaction  of  the  com 
ing  conflict  will  not  be  felt  here  Surely  it  is  a  time  to 
keep  our  lamps  burning,  for  the  Lord  may  be  at  hand. 
— A.  Thomson,  Pastor  Cong'l   Church.  Bartlett,  111. 

ORGANIZING   AGAINST   LODGERT. 

I  understand  your  paper  is,  under  the  power  of  God, 
taking  strong  grounds  against  Masonry  and  secret  orders 
of  all  kinds,  but  especially  the  head  of  all  secretism, 
Freemasonry.  I  want  a  sample  copy  of  your  paper  with 
a  view  of  taking  it  and  enlarging  its  circulation  if  it  is 
what  I  hope  it  is.  Have  you  any  definite  plan  for  open 
organization  to  meet  this  foe  of  God  and  man,  called 
Freemasonry.  If  so  please  send  the  plans  or  constitution 
if  one  exists.  My  firm  belief  is  that  more  souls  are  go- 
ing on  the  broad  road  to  ruin  through  the  blinding  influ- 
ence of  this  unchristian  institution  than  any  other  one 
means. — Ira  D.  Kellogg. 

GOOD   WORDS   FOR  THE    SOUTHERN   FUND. 

We  sympathize  with  the  effort  of  the  N.  C.  A.  to  put 
one  thousand  Cynosures  in  the  families  of  the  colored 
pastors  of  the  South, and  manifest  it  by  enclosing  in  this 
an  express  order  of  $6  50,  with  prayer  that  it  may  bring 
forth  abundant  fruit. — w.  h.  g. 

Two  dollars  is  to  send  the  Cynosure  to  the  South .  It 
is  but  a  little  towards  the  thousand.  I  wish  it  was  much 
more.  May  the  Lord  bless  it  to  the  good  of  many.  I  wish 
every  family  would  take  the  Cynosure.  I  send  ours  and 
give  to  many  far  and  near.  The  Lord  bless  the  editors. 
—Mrs  P.B.  Shaw. 

a  work  of  faith. 

A  lady  says  she  has  subscribed  for  the  Cynosure  from 
the  first  number  to  the  present,  has  solicited  her  neigh- 
bors, and  three  are  now  and  have  been  many  years  sub- 
scribers. Some,  like  seed  sown  on  stony  ground  and 
among  thorns,  have  taken  the  Cynosure  awhile,  then 
stopped;  and  some  like  the  first  son  that  told  his  father 
"I  will  not,"  afterwards  repented  and  took  it.  I  have 
walked  many  miles  to  canvass  for  the  paper,  have  enter- 
tained students  sent  out  to  canvass  for  it,  have  thrown 
Cynosures  into  carriages,  and  asked  strangers  while  in 
their  carriage  if  they  would  accept  of  a  paper.  Many 
times  they  received  them  thankfully.  Where  there  were 
to  be  open-air  public  speeches,  I  would  scatter  tracts 
and  papers  before  the  audience  assembled.  While  on 
the  cars  I  took  papers  with  me,  and  as  I  had  opportunitv 
gave  to  some  one  or  left  them  in  the  car.  "In  the  morn- 
ing sow  thy  seed,  and  in  the  evening  withhold  not  thine 
band,  for  thou  knowest  not  whether  shall  prosper.either 
this  or  that,  or  whether  both  shall  be  alike  good  " — Ec- 
cles.  11  6.  "For  there  is  no  restraint  to  the  Lord,  to  save 
by  many  or  by  few." — 1  Samuel  14  6.  "Lord,  it  is  noth- 
ing with  thee  to  help,  whether  with  many,  or  with  them 
that  have  no  power."— 2  Chron.  14  11  —Mrs.  S.  B.  Al- 
len. 


Bible  Lesson. 


STUDIES  IN  THE  NEW  TESTAMENT. 

LESSON  VII.— Feb.  12.— Jesus  and  the  Little  Ones.— Matt. 
18:1-14. 

GOLDEN  TEXT.— But  Jesus  said,  SufEer  little  children,  and 
forbid  thera  not  to  come  unto  me ;  for  of  such  is  the  kingdom  of 
heaven.— Matt.  19:  14. 

[0pm  the  Bible  and  read  the  iesaou.  I 

I  From  Peloubet's  Notes.  J 

"Who  (then)  is  the  greatest  in  the  kingdom  of  heav- 
en?" Their  question  was  not.  What  elements  of  charac 
ter  make  true  greatness?  who  of  us  is  greatest?  but, Who 
of  us  shall  occupy  the  highest  place  in  your  coming  king- 
dom?—id  &6o«.  They  had  as  yet  no  other  notion  of  the 
kingdom  that  was  shortly  to  appear  than  that  it  would 
be  a  temporal  one;  that  their  Master  was  to  become  a 
powerful  prince,  with  places,  honors,  wealth,  at  his  com 
m&nd.—  Banna  This  question  grew  out  of  the  imper- 
fection of  their  character, and  a  misunderstanding  of  the 
nature  of  the  kingdom  of  heaven.  The  same  spirit  has 
wrought  unnumbered  evils  in  the  church  and  in  the 
world.— P. 

Jesus  does  not  give  them  the  answer  they  expected, 
pointing  out  the  great  ones,  but  lays  down  the  principles 
of  greatness  in  his  kingdom:  If  any  man  desire  to  be  first, 
the  same  shall  be  last  of  all,  and  servant  of  all,  simply 
because  the  desire  to  be  first,  self  seeking,  is  exactly  op- 
posite to  the  spirit  which  is  the  law  of  Christ's  kingdom, 
the  spirit  of  love,  of  self-denial,  of  helpfulness  of  others, 
of  humility.  Therefore, the  more  any  one  has  of  the  de 
sire  to  be  first,  the  I'^ss  he  has  of  Christ's  kingdom  So 
that  the  desire  to  be  first  makes  him  last  by  the  very  na- 
ture of  things.  Despotism,  self  seeking,  ambition,  ever 
make  a  man  a  slave,  a  servant  of  all.  He  is  a  slave  to 
his  ambition,  to  the  whims  and  opinions  of  other  people, 
to  circumstances. — P. 

Distinguish  between  the  strong  desire  to  impro  ve,  to 
have  large  usefulness,  to  grow  in  holiness  and  love,  and 
the  desire  to  have  more  honor  and  power  than  others. 
Aut  Ca-fiar  ant  nullus  "to  be  first  or  nothing,"  leads  to 
crimes  and  wars.  It  was  Milton's  Satan  who  said.  "Bet- 
ter to  reign  In  hell  than  serve  in  heaven."  "How  like  a 
tnounting  devil  in  the  heart  rules  the  unreined  ambi- 
tion." But  Paul's  desire  was  divine,  when  he  "pressed 
toward  the  mark  for  the  prize  of  the  high  calling  of  God 
in  Christ  Jesua'CPMl.  3:18,  14),— P. 


"Except  ye  be  converted."  The  Greek  student  should 
observe  that  the  tense  here  is  not  the  future,  but  the 
aorist,  and  represents  neither  an  act  completed  in  the  past 
time— i  e,,  it  is  not  equivalent  to,  Except  ye  had  been 
converted — nor  one  to  be  effected  in  the  future.  Except 
ye  shall  be  converted,  but  one  past  and  continuing.  Ex- 
cept ye  be  continually  turned  back  from  this  spirit  of 
self-seeking,  and  continually  take  on  the  spirit  of  a  little 
child. — Abbott. 

"And  become  as  little  children:"  not  sinless,  for  no 
children  are  sinless.  They  all  need  to  be  saved  from  be- 
ing lost,  as  we  see  a  little  further  on  (vers.  11,  14).  And 
if  none  but  the  sinless  could  enter  the  kingdom  of  heav- 
en, that  kingdom  on  earth  would  be  empty.  The  mean- 
ing is.  You  must  have  those  qualities  which  are  charac- 
teristic of  childhood,  which  make  the  ideal  childhood.  As 
Dr.  Robinson  puts  it,  "What  you  would  have  your  child 
be  to  you,  that  be  yourself  to  God . "  These  qualities  are : 
1.  humility;  2.  freedom  from  ambition,  rivalry,  or  jeal- 
ousy; 3.  tender  and  gracious  affection;  4.  perfect  trust; 
5.  obedience;  6.  a  teachable  spirit;  7.  unworldliness;  8. 
indifference  to  the  distinctions  of  rank  and  wealth. — P. 

"Whosoever  therefore  shall  humble  himself  (so  as  to 
be)  as  this  little  child  "  Humility  is  not  thinking  mean- 
ly of  one's  self,  but  being  willing,  even  with  great  pow- 
ers, to  take  a  lowly  office  and  perform  seemingly  menial 
and  insignificant  and  not  honored  service.  'The  first  is 
not  characteristic  of  childhood,  the  latter  is.  Christ's 
own  example  is  the  best  interpretation  of  his  teaching 
(John  13:3-5;  12:15;  Phil.  2:5-%).— Abbott. 

At  this  juncture  John  remembers  a  recent  occurrence, 
and  relates  it  for  Jesus's  approval.  Probably  during  their 
recent  tour  of  Galilee, two  and  two(Matt.  10:1;  Mark  6:7, 
30) ,  they  had  met  a  stranger  casting  out  devils  in  Jesus's 
name,  and  they  forbade  him  because  he  did  not  follow 
them.  The  point  was:  (1)  Here  was  a  man  doing  the 
work  of  a  disciple  in  the  kingdom,  and  yet  he  had  not 
enough  of  the  Christlike  spirit  to  follow  Jesus,  and  es- 
pecially his  chosen  twelve.  How  could  that  be  consist- 
ent with  what  Jesus  had  been  saying?  (2)  John  himself 
not  only  would  receive  Jesus,  but  he  would  refuse  to  re- 
ceive any  who  would  not  openly  follow  Jesus. 

Offending  the  Little  Ones.  Our  Lord  does  not  mean 
vexing  them,  making  them  angry,  or  ill  using  them;  but 
tempting  or  leading  them  into  evil.  The  "little  ones" 
are  the  more  ignorant  and  simple  minded,  ready  to  be- 
lieve and  do  what  others  tell  them.  In  school,  this  temp- 
tation is  to  idleness,  to  extravagance,  and  the  breach  of 
school  regulations.  It  comes  through  example,  reproach- 
es, and  laughter.  That  boy  has  gone  a  good  ways  in  the 
devil's  service  who  will  dare  to  influence  another  against 
his  father  and  mother. — Dr.  Arnold's  Rugby  School  Ser- 
mons. There  are  many  other  ways,  such  as  tempting  to 
lie,  to  drink  intoxicating  drinks,  suggesting  religious 
doubts.breaking  down  religious  habits, sneering  at  strict- 
ness of  Sabbath-keeping  and  obedience  to  parents. 

"But  woe  unto  that  man  by  whom  the  offence  com- 
eth."  who  is  guilty  of  this  most  awful  of  sins— the  lead- 
ing of  others  into  sin.  He  that  sins  himself  is  weak,  but 
he  that  leads  others  into  sin  is  devilish .  It  is  a  fiend's 
business. 

"Hand,"the  temptation  to  do  what  is  wrong, — forgery, 
stealing,  murder.  "Foot  "  going  into  forbidden  ways. 
"Halt,"  or  lame  from  the  loss  of  a  foot.  "Maimed, "from 
the  loss  of  a  hand.  "Eye,"  coveting,  lusting.  Hand, 
foot,  and  eye  are  the  most  valuable  of  our  members,  and 
often  used  proverbially  to  denote  anything  peculiarly 
dear  and  valuable;  the  dearest  objects  of  our  desires,  the 
honors,  possessions,  or  enjoyments  we  most  prize. — 
Clark. 

"Cast  into  (the)  everlasting  fire,"that  prepared  for  the 
devil  and  his  angels  (Matt.  25:41)  .  Fire  is  the  symbol 
of  the  most  terrible  torment;  and  nothing  can  put  it  out. 
The  consequences  of  sin  are  eternal. 

"In  heaven  their  angels,"  their  angels  in  heaven,  who 
are  their  ministering  spirits  (Heb.  1:14).  In  the  Old 
Testament  angels  are  represented  as  guardians  of  God's 
people  and  nations  (Ps  34:7;  Dan.  10:13,20,21);  in  the 
New,  they  are  more  particularly  represented  as  guardians 
of  individual  believers.  Our  Saviour  only  reveals  here 
the  general  fact  that  his  followers  have  their  angels 
who  are  their  attendants  and  guardians. — O.  W. 
Clark. 

'  Do  always  behold  the  face  of  my  Father,"  i  e  ,  chil- 
dren are  under  the  care  of  the  highest  order  of  angels, 
of  those  that  stand  coatinually  in  the  presence  of  God 
and  have  most  direct  and  immediate  access  to  him,— 
Cook. 

Some  have  strongly  felt  the  objection  to  the  Gospel, 
that  it  is  not  probable  that  the  Son  of  the  infinite  God 
would  leave  all  the  measureless  stars  without  redemption 
and  come  to  this  little  world,  which  is  but  a  mote  in  the 
sunbeam  compared  with  other  worlds,  and  here  become 
man  and  die  for  us,  the  almost  invisible  atoms  in  this  ob- 
scure corner  of  the  universe.  But  here  the  enigma  is 
solved.  Wherever  the  lost  are,  there  he  must  go  for 
them .  The  hearts  of  all  the  family  go  after  the  lost 
one, — P. 

"It  is  not  the  will  of  your  Father. . .  .that one  of  these 
little  ones  should  perish;"these  little  one8,a3  above, weak, 
humble  believers.  God  will  not  that  a  single  one  of 
them  should  perish — reach  the  final  state  of  the  lost. 
"Little  ones"  cannot  refer  to  all  mankind;  here,  as 
throughout,  it  includes  children.  It  warrants  the  belief 
that  children,  dying  in  childhood,  are  all  saved.  The 
parable  shows  that  it  cannot  be  on  the  ground  of  their 
innocence,  but  because  the  Son  of  man  came  to  save 
them. — Rev.  Com.  But  it  is  also  true  that  Jesus  came  to 
save  all  the  lost;  seeks  to  save  them.  God  has  done  ev- 
erything for  their  salvation  which  wisdom  and  love  can 
do.  And  those  who  are  lost  are  lost  because  they  re- 
fuse to  be  saved.  They  will  not  come  to  Jesus.  They 
resist  every  effort  divine  love  can  make  to  redeem 
them.— P. 


FlBBUART  2,  1888 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSUKE- 


AUTI-MABOmO  LBOTURBBa. 

Gbhbbal  Aqbnt  and  Lbctubbb,  J.  p. 
Stoddard,  231  W.  Madison  St.,  Chicago. 

H.  H.  Hinman,  Cynosure  office. 
Agent  for  Southern  States. 
Btatb  Agbntb. 

Iowa,  C.  F.  Hawley,  Wheaton,  Du- 
Page  Co.,  Illinois. 

Missouri,  Eld.  Rufus  Smith,  Maryville. 

New  Hampshire,  Eld.  S.  C.  Kimball, 
New  Market. 

Ohio,  W.  B.  Stoddard,  Columbus. 

Kansas,  Robert  Loggan,  Clifton. 

Alabama,  Rev.  G.  M.  Elliott,  Selma. 

Dbgbbb  Wobkbbs. — [Seceders.! 
J.  K.  Qlassford,  Carthage,  Mo. 

OTHBB  LBCTXrBBBS. 
0.  A.  Blanchard,  Wheaton,  111. 
N.  Callender,  Brown  Hollow,  Pa. 
J ,  H.  Tlmmone,  Tarentum,  Pa 
T.  B.  McCormlck,  Princeton,  Ind. 
K.  Johnson,  Dayton,  Ind. 
H.  A.  Day,  WlUiamBtown,  Mich. 
J.  M.  Bishop,  Chambersburg,  Pa. 
A.  Mayn,  Bloomlngton,  Ind. 
J.  B.  Cressluger,  Sullivan,  O. 
W.  M.  Love,  Osceola,  Mo. 
J.  L.  Barlow,  Grundy  Center,  Iowa. 
A.  D.Freeman,  Downers  Grove,  111 
Wm.  FentoD,  8t  Paul,  Minn. 
Warren  Taylor,  South  Salem,  O. 
J.  S.  Perry,  Thompson,  Conn. 
J.  T.  Michael,  Washlnj^ton,  D.  C 
8.  G.  Barton,  Breckinridge,  Mo. 
K.  Bametson,  Hasklnvllle,  Steuben  Co,  N.  Y 
Wm.  R.  Roach,  Pickering,  Ont. 
D.  A.  Richards,  Brighton,  Mich. 

THE   CEXmOHEB    VS.    LOBf^VBT, 

The  following  denominations  are  com- 
mitted by  vote  of  their  legislative  assem- 
blies or  by  constitution  to  a  separation 
from  secret  lodge  worship: 

Adventists  (Seventh-day.) 

Baptists — Primitive,  Seventh-day  and 
Scandinavian. 

Brethren  (D'lnkers  or  German  Bap- 
tists.) 

Christian  Reformed  Church. 

Church  of  God  ^^orthem  Indiana  El 
dership.) 

Congregational — The  State  Associations 
of  Illinois  and  Iowa  have  adopted  resolu- 
tions against  the  lodge. 

Disciples  (in  part.) 

Friends. 

Lutherans — Norwegian,  Danish .  S  n^l- 
ish  and  Synodical  Conferences. 

j.VIennonites. 

Methodists — Free  and  Wesieyan. 

Methodist  Protestant  (Minnesola  Coa 
ference.) 

Moravians. 

Plymouth  Brethren. 

Presbyterian — Associate,  Reformat  abd 
United. 

Reformed  Church  (Holland  Branch.) 

United  Brethren  in  Christ. 

Individual  churches  in  some  of  these 
denominations  should  be  excepted,  in  part 
of  them  even  a  considerable  portion. 

The  following  lOcal  churches  have,  as  a 
pledge  to  disfellowshjp  and  oppose  lodge 
worship,  givpn  their  names  to  the  follow- 
ing list  as 

THK    AflSOCIATKD    CHXTRCHBB    OF  CHKISt. 

New   Ruhamah  Cong.  HamOton,  Miss. 

Pleasant  Ridge  Cong.  Sandford  Co  Ala. 

New  Hope  Methodist,  Lowndes  Co.,  MIeu 

CoiifO'ciiHtionul,  College  Springs,  Iowa. 

College  Church  of  Christ,  Wheaton,  111. 

First  Congregational,  Leiand,  Mich. 

Siij;  If  Grove  Church,  Green  county.  Pa. 

Military  Chapel,  M.  E.,  Lowndes  county, 
Miss. 

Hopeweil  Missionary  Baptist.,  Lowndes  Co., 
Miss. 

Cedar  Grove  Mlse.  Baptist,  Lowndes  Co., 
Miss. 

Simon's  Chapel,  M.   E.,  Lowndes  Co.,  MIm. 

Pleasant  Ridge  MIsa.  Baptist,   Lowndes  Co., 

VliSH. 

Brownlce  Church,  Caledonia,  Miss. 
Salem  Cliurch,  Lowndes  Co.,  Miss. 
"Vest  Preston  Baptist  Church.  Wayne  Co.,Pft. 

OTHBB  LOCAL  OHTTBCHBB 

adopting  the  same  nrinciple  are — 

Baptist  churches :  N.  Ablngton,  Pa.iMeno- 
monie,  Mondovl,  Waubeck  and  Spring  Prairie, 
Wis. ;  Wheaton,  111. ;  Perry,  N.  Y. ;  Spring 
Creek,  netir  Burlington,  Iowa;  Lima,  Ind.; 
ConBtahlevllle,  N.  Y.  The  "Good  Will  Assqct- 
ton"  of  Mobile,  Ala.,  comprising  some  twenty- 
five  colored  Baptist  churches;  Bridge  water 
Baptist  Association,  Pa. ;  Old  Tebo  Baptist, 
near  Leesvlllc,  Henry  Co.,  Mo. ;  Hoopeaton,  111 : 
Esmen,  111. ;  Slrykcrsvllle,  N.  Y. 

Congregational  churches :  Ist  of  Oberlln,  O. ; 
Tonica.  Crystal  Lake,  Union  and  Big  Woods, 
111. ;  Solsbury,  Ind. ;  Oongrregational  Methodist 
Maplewood,  Mass. 

Independent  churches  In  Lowell,  Country- 
man school  house  near  Llndenwood,  Marengo 
and  Streator,  111. ;  Bereaand  Camp  Nelson,  Ky ; 
Uatlck,  111. ;  Clarksburg,  Kansas ;  State  Aesoci- 
atlon  of  Mlniater*  and  Chnrchoi  ol  Ghriit  li 
KntoekT. 


TOBACCO  UOCTOliS. 


BY   .J.    W.    IIOUGK,    .M.    1). 

IVrliups  oiu!  of  the  iuo.st  shaiuelul  and  peniicious  <^xliibi- 
lioiis  of  modem  inconsistency  is  furnished  by  the  medical 
mm  who  is  addicted  to  the  u.se  of  tobacco.  That  any  human 
being  sliould,  with  "unblushing  eil'rontery,' set  himself  up 
as  an  apostle  of  the  healing  art,  while,  at  the  same  time,  by 
depraved  indulgenees  and  sen.sual  gratilications,  he  is  habit- 
ually violating  the  natural  lawsof  life  aiul  health,  and  .set- 
ting a  vicious  example  before  a  world  looking  lo  him  as  an 
exponent  of  physiological  law,  is  .sad  evidence  of  profession- 
al depravity.  Moreover,  that  such  l)aneful  incongruity  be- 
tween the  i)rofession  aiul  practice  of  the  physician  slioi  Id  be 
regai-ded  generally  with  such  unaccountable  nouchalmice  as 
to  be  tamely  tolerated  by  the  lay  public,  wliilc!  it  merits  their 
niost  indignant  censure  and  should  provoke  Irum  them  the 
most  trenchant  castigation,  lemiiuls  the  pliilanthropi.st  that 
this  Dlthy  habit  is  one  of  (he  i)liases  of  idolatry  which  as  yet 
remains  nncriminatedby  i)nl)lic  sentiment.  That  the  tobacco 
l)est  is  one  of  the  most  grievnns  semirges  of  nu)dern  civiliza- 
tion no  fairminded  person  in  the  exercise  of  common  intel- 
ligence will  attempt  to  deny. 

The  illustrious  surgeon,  Prof.  Iligginbottom,  of  Is'otting- 
ham,  Enghind.  said :  "Tobacco  has  no  redeeming  property 
whatevei',  and  it  is  a  main  cause  of  niinitiy  our  yoimg  men, 
and  rendering  useless  the  best  efforts  of  ministeis  of  the 
gospel.  Tiie  })r()verl»ial  drunkenness  of  our  country  can  only 
be  remedied  by  laying  tlu^  axe  at  the  root  of  its  superinduc- 
ing cause — the  thirst-creating  power  of  tobacco-smoking." 

A.  L.  (Jibbon,  M.  D.,  medical  director  of  the  Naval  Acad- 
emy at  Annapolis,  writes:  "Tobacco-smoking  creates  a 
thirst  for  alcoholic  stimulants;  by  its  depressing  and  dis- 
turbing effects  on  the  nerve  centres,  it  determines  function- 
al diease  of  tiie  heart,  impairs  vision,  blunts  the  memory, 
and  prevents  mental  ai)p]ication." 

John  Lizars,  late  Professor  of  Surgery  ni  the  liojal  Col- 
lege of  .Surgeons  of  Edinburgh,  wrote:  '•Tt)bacc()-smoking 
creates  idcers  on  the  lips,  tongue  ami  tonsils;  it  produces 
vertigo,  vomiting,  (lyspei)sia,  piles,  diseased  liver,  congestion 
ol"  the  brain, ai)0])lexy,  palsy,  loss  of  memory,  insan it \, blind- 
ness, deafness,  aiul  functional  disease  of  the  lie;irt." 

Prof.  Solly,  senior  operating  surgeon  at  St.  Thoin.as'  Hos- 
pital, writes:  "'I  know  of  110  siiKjIe  vice  minch  does  so  ttnicli 
harm  as  tohacco-sinokiiuj.    It  is  a  suare<iiid  a  delusion.'' 

In  the  annual  rei)ort  of  the  Pennsylvania  Hospital  for  the 
Insane,  i)ublislied  in  1870,  seventeen  cases  of  iiisr.iiily  are 
attributed  to  the  use  of  tob.icco. 

An  eminent  London  i)hysician  states  that  a  large  percentr 
age  of  the  ca.ses  of  night-deaths — deaths  occnrrina- si'<i(ip"i" 
during  sleep — which  canu;  under  his  t)l)servation,  occurred  in 
men  addicted  to  tobacco-smoking;  and  in  whom,  he  says, 
death  was  probably  induced  by  cardiac  cessation,  from  the 
paralyzing  effect  of  tobacco  u])on  the  nerve  centres. 

Quotations  of  this  tenor  from  the  most  eminent  medical 
authorities  on  both  sides  of  the  Atlantic  might  be  multiplied 
almost  ad  injinitnm.  In  view,  then,  of  these  appalling  state- 
ments coming  f  roiii  the  most  undoul)ted  sources  of  authority 
should  not  the  parents  ami  citizens  of  every  enlighteiu'd  com- 
munity awake  to  a  jnsc  appreciation  of  the  magnitude  of 
this  evil;  and  forthwith  avail  themselves  of  their  rightful 
authority  to  prevent  the  perpetuation  of  such  a  vicious  habit, 
by  strenuously  insisting,  at  all  hazards,  upon  the  observance 
of  right  moral  and  right  physical  habits,  es2)ecialli/  on  tlie 
part  of  those  who  "set  themselves  up"  as  teachers  of  youth 
and  guardians  of  the  public  health?  In  this  way  only  can 
the  dis[)ersion  of  these  baleful  narcotic  mists  and  deadly 
vapors  from  the  face  of  society  be  effected. 

The  frightful  extent  to  which  this  pernicious  practice  pre- 
vails at  the  present  time  is  unprecedented  by  anything  to  be 
found  in  the  annals  of  recorded  time.  Tobac(u)  greets  us  at 
every  corner.  Pui)])ies  in  the  guise  of  oflicers  and  disguise 
of  gentlemen,  pnlf  their  foul  impertinence  into  ladies'  faces. 
It  is  scarcely  possii)le  to  travel  in  any  jmlilic  conveyance 
without  encountering  the  rudeness  and  boorishness  of  smok- 
er.s,  who  have  beccune  so  demoralized  by  (heir  lilthy  habit  as 
to  ignore  the  lu'oprieties  of  social  life.  As  you  ])ass  along 
the  crowded  tluu-oughfares  of  our  large  cities,  you  are  com- 
l>elled  to  inhale  the  nauseating  fumes  from  cigars  and 
pipes,  with  the  di.sgusting  rellection  (hat  you  are  taking  in 
the  foul  ellluvia  from  decayed  teeth,  lilthy  mouths  and  dis- 
eased lungs.  Here,  in  one  great  tobacco-brotherhood,  united 
by  the  strongest  narcotic  ties,  maybe  foumi  scavengers. 
//f«7f;)'.v,booi blacks,  blackguards,  and  blaiklegs, all  cbanij)ing 
siiittiug  and  pulling  in  mutual  narcotic  symi>atby — all 
Itreathing  narcotic  incense  lo  the  samelicentiousgiul. 

Toba<'co-smoke  when  drawn  into  the  nuuidi  alnsorbs  the 
putrid  emamdions  which  i(  linds  there  and  diffu.ses  (hem  in 
the  atmosplieie;  and.  moreover,  data  have  recently  been  fur- 
nished by  eminent  i)athologis(s,  which,  if  they  do  not  war- 
rant a  positin-  conrltisitni,  they  at  least  establish  a  strong 
probibilitii  in  favor  of  (he  communicability  of  certain  forms 
of  malign.iid  ulceralionof  the  nuuidi,  and  respiratory  pa.s- 
sages.  by  inhaling  the  smoke  from  a  diseased  persiui.  Isit 
not  an  appalling  rellection  (o(biid\  (h.i(  (hese  pestilential 
vai)ors  whiehare  ever  an  abomination  to  the  lovers  of  juire 
air  anil  on  whose  letli.d  wings  are  borne  at  times  the  malig- 
nant germs  of  di-^easc  aitdilealh,  should  thus  prev.ide  the 
conniion  alnmspherr  to  whieli,  iu  its  ua(iv(>  i)urity,  all 
living  creatures  have  an  iudetViisible  right? — American  Re- 
former. 


K,  C.  A.  BUILDING  AND  GFTICI  OT 
THE  CHRISTIAN   CYNOSURE, 
«81  WEST  MADISON  STREET,  CHICAGC 


JfAflONALCHRISTIAIf  AHSOGIAl  lOa 

Pkbsidbwt.— H.  H.  George,  D.  D.,  Gen 
eva  College,  Pa. 

ViCB-PBBStDBNT — Rev.  M.  A.  G&uit 
Blanchard,  Iowa. 

Cob.  SatfY  and  Gbnbbal  Aobht. — J 
P.  Stoddard,  231  W.  Madison  St.,  Chicago. 

Rec.  Sbc'y.  and  Tbbabuebb.— W.  1. 
Phillips,  321  W.  Madison  St.,   Chicago. 

Dibbcxobs. — Alexander  Thomson,  M 
R.  Britten,  John  olardner,  J.  L.  Barlow, 
L.  N.  Stratton,  Thos.  H.  Gault,  C.  A. 
Blanchard,  J.  E.  Roy,  E.  R.  Worrell,  H. 
A.  Fischer,  W.  R.  Hench. 

The  object  of  this  Association  is: 
"To  expose,  withstand  and  remove  secret 
societies,  Freemasonry  in  pari,icular,  and  otbef 
anti-Christian  novements,  in  order  to  save  the 
churches  of  Christ  from  being  uepraved,  to  » 
deem  the  admlalstr?  tion  of  lusUce  from  per 
version,  and  our  rsp  ibUcan  government  frcn 
corruption." 

To  carry  on  this  work  contributions  aw 
solicited  from  every  friend  of  tne  reform. 

Form  of  Bequest.— T  give  and  bcaueath  to 
the  National  Christian  Association,  incorpo- 
rated and  existing  under  the  laws  of  the  State 

of   Illinois,  the  sum  of dollats  for  the 

purposes  of  said  Association,  and  for  wbirfa 
me  receipt  of  its  Treasurer  for  the  time  being 
•llBll  be  sufiScIent  disch&rse 

TES  NATIOnALOONTSNTIOI). 


PBBSIDBirr.- 

D.  D. 

Skcbetabt  . 


-Rev.    J.    8.   McCullocb, 


-Rev.  Lewis  Johnson. 


8TATB  AtTZILL&BT  AfiSOCIATIOHB 

Alabama.— Pret.,  Prof.  Pickens;  Sec,  O. 
M.  Elliott;  Treae.,  Rev.  C.  B.  Curtis,  ali  of 
Selma. 

CAiiiiORinA.— Prea^  L.  B.  Lathrop,  HoUIa 
tcr ;  Cor.  Sec.  Mrs.  U.  P.  Merrill,  Woodland ; 
Treaa.,  C  Ruddock,  Woodland. 

COHNBcncuT.— Pres..  J.  A.  Conant,  Willi 
mantle;  Sec,  Geo.  Smith,  Wllllmantlc ;  Tre«. 
C.  T.  Collina,  Windsor. 

iLUifOis.— Prea.,  .T.  P.  Stoddard.  Sec,  M. 
N.  Butler;  Treaa.,  W.  L  Phillip*  all  at  Cy- 
iwsrirt  office. 

Indiana.— Pree.,  William  H.  Flgg,  Reno 
Bee,  8.  L.  Cook,  Albion;  Treaa.,  BenJ.  Ulah 
Sliver  Lake. 

Iowa.— Pre8.,Wm.Johnston, College  Springs; 
Cor  Sec,  C.  D.  Trumbull,  Momlne  Sun; 
Treaa.,  James  Harvey,  Pleasant  Plain,"  Jeffer- 
son Co. 

Kansas.— Pres.,  J.  P.  Rlcharda,  Ft-  Scott; 
Sec,  W.  W.  McMUlan,  Olathe;  Treaa.,  J. 
A.  TcTrence,  N.  Cedar. 

Masbaohcsetts.— Prea.,  8..A.  Pratt;  Sec, 
Mrs.  E.  D.  Bailey;  Treaa., David  M&nnlng.Sr., 
Worcester. 

MiCBiOAH.— Pres-.  D.  A.  Richard*,  Brighton ; 
Sec'y,    H.    A.     Day,     WUllamaton;    Treae. 
Geo.  Swanaon,  Jr.,  Bedfoiu. 

MnmasoTA.— Prea.,  E.  G.  Palno,  Waaloia 
Cor.  Bee,  Wra.  Fcnton,  St.  Paul;  Rec  Soc'y 
Mrs  M.  F.  Morrill,  St.  Caarles;  Treaa.,  Wm 
H.  Morrill,  BU  Charles. 

MIB80UBI.— Frea.,  B.  F.  Miller,  EaglevlUe 
TTeaB.]WUllan> Beauchamp,  Avalon ;  Cor.  8«c 
A.  D.  Thomas,  Avalon. 

NBBa^SBLA.- Pree.,  8.  Anetln,  Falnnouit 
Cor.  Bee,  W.        Spooner,  Soamey;   Treaa. 

J.  c.  Fyo. 

Nbw  HAiiPSHiioi.— Pree.,  C.  L.  Baker.  Man 
Chester;  Sec,  8.  C.  Khnball,  New  Market 
Tre*».,  James  F.  French,  Catitorbury. 

Nbw  Yoml— Prea.,  F.  W.  Capwell,  Dale; 
Sec'y,  John  Wallace,  Syracuse;  Treaa.,  M. 
Merrick,  Syracuae. 

Ohio.— Pres.,  F.  M.  Spencer,  New  Concord; 
Rec  Sec,  8.  A.  George,  Mansfield;  Cor.  Sec 
and  Treas.,  C.  W.  buit,  Columbus;  Agent, 
W.  B.  Stoddanl,  Columbus. 

PiNNSTLVANiA.- Pre*.,  A.  L.  Poet,  Mok 
troae;  Cor.  Sec,  N.  Callender,  Thoapaon 
Treaa.,  W.B.  Bertela/WUkoabarre. 

Vbbmont.— Pres.,  W.  R.  Laird,  St.  Johns- 
borv ;  Sec,  C.  W  Potter. 

WiBOOHMH.— Pre*.,  J.  W  Wood,  Baraboo; 
Bee,  W.  W.  Ames,  Menomonle;  Treae.,  M.  B 
Britten,  Vienna. 


8 


THE  CHKISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


Fbbruart  2,  nu 


The  Christian  Cynosure. 


J.  BLANCHARD. 


Sr>noB8. 


HSNRT  L.  KXLLOGO. 


CHICAeO,    THTjaaDAY,    PKBRUAKY   2,    1888. 


The 
TO  20, 


New 
1888. 


Orleans  Convention  February  17 


TEE  THOUaAND   COLORED  PASTORS. 


SHALL  THEY  HAVE  THBIR  PAPER? 


turies  and  almost  a  half  before  there  were  any  Jes- 
uites.  Nor  should  the  words  of  Lafayette  be  for- 
gotten, who  said,  If  the  American  Constitution  falls, 
it  will  fall  by  these  same  Jesuits,  who  since  1540 
are  the  head  secret  order  of  the  world.  The  "Holy 
Catholic  Church"  and  the  "Roman  Catholic  Church" 
are  two  organizations  that  essentially  differ. 


A  LODGE  WAKE. 


Week  by  week  generous  friends  of  the  colored  race 
answer,  Yes.  The  fund  for  this  purpose  reaches  $611.- 
04,  as  reported  on  page  13,  and  cheering  letters  show  the 
enthusiasm  in  this  enterprise  of  all  who  realize  the  nature 
of  secretism.  Every  letter  from  the  South  justifies  our 
efforts,  and  approves  the  judgment  that  no  expenditure 
of  an  equal  sum  will  bring  so  great  returns. 

The  $900  contributed  for  this  purpose  in  the  two  years 
and  a  half  after  June,  1885,  placed  the  Cynosure  in  the 
hands  of  hundreds  of  colored  pastors,  but  few  of  whom 
could  have  paid  for  it  themselves.  Note  the  grand  re- 
sults which  have  followed,  chiefly  because  of  this  work: 

1.  The  Louisiana  Baptist  State  Convention, represent- 
ing 70,000  church  members,  has  voted  against  the  lodge. 

3.  The  Texas  Baptists  will  probably  take  the  same 
stand  at  their  next  meeting . 

3.  The  Methodist  Episcopal  church  in  Texas  is  nearly 
ready  for  like  action. 

4.  So  are  the  Arkansas  Baptists,  a  prominent  Associa- 
tion having  already  so  voted. 

5.  The  same  churches  in  western  Tennessee  are  coming 
out  against  secretism. 

6.  So  in  Alabama  the  Good-will  Association  is  stand- 
ing against  the  orders. 

7.  The  Congregational  churches  all  through  the  South 
are  opposing  the  lodge,  encouraged  by  the  American 
Missionary  Association. 

8.  Two  schools  for  higher  instruction  have  been  organ- 
ized within  a  year  which  maintain  this  principle,  while 
nearly  every  institution  for  the  education  of  the  Negro 
is  open  for  instruction  of  the  students  on  the  dangers  of 
the  lodge . 

9.  Christians  at  the  North  should  hasten  this  work 
with  all  zeal,  because  the  reflex  influence  upon  their 
churches  will  soon  be  powerfully  felt. 

The  Cynosure  has  proved  the  best  agency  in  accom- 
plishing this  work  in  the  South .  A  fund  to  send  a  thou- 
sand copies  to  as  many  colored  pastors  is  being  raised. 
Dear  reader,  has  not  the  Lord  given  you  means  to  help 
it  on? 


^^Corruptio  optimi  pessima."    (The  best  people  cor- 
rupted become  the  vilest.) 

A  late  Worcester  (Mass.)  paper  gives  a  full  account 
of  a  Masonic  mock  funeral  in  honor  of  Charles  W. 
Moody,  late  secretary  of  Worcester  Lodge  of  Perf ec 
tion.  It  was  held  in  the  Masonic  hall  of  that  city, 
and  attended  by  14-degree  Masons,  Scottish  Rite, 
"leading  citizens,"  public  oflScials,  and  prominent 
Masons  of  other  rites.  The  hall  was  garnished  and 
beautified  with  flowers.  The  chair  of  the  dead  sec- 
retary, like  that  of  John  B.  Finch  in  Miss  Willard's 
memorial  services,  was  draped  in  mourning  purple; 
with  the  addition  in  this  case  of  the  "ivy  leaf"  gar- 
land of  the  heathen  god  of  drunkenness,  the  jolly 
god,  Bacchus.  A  tiny  coffin  was  placed  in  the  mid- 
dle of  the  hall,  loaded  with  flowers.  A  semi-heathen 
Congregationalist  pastor,  Lovering,  "said  prayers 
for  deliverance,"  whatever  that  may  mean;  and,  to 
astonish  gapers  and  starers,  and  show  the  awful 
superiority  and  mystery  of  Masonry,  the  paper  says, 
"The  officers  of  the  lodge  marched  in  procession 
and  took  their  respective  places;"  and  after  the  ad- 
dress, Masons  and  the  lodge  master  performed  "The 
Commemoration  of  the  Acacia"  which  must  have 
made  the  beholders  wonder,  as  we  do,  what  in  the 
world  that  was.  And  mixed  and  interspersed  with 
this  demi-heathen  devil  worship  were  sung  beauti- 
ful hymns — meant  for  Christ  when  written,  but  here 
sung  to  Satan,  such  as:  "The  Lord  is  my  Shepherd," 
and  half  a  dozen  others.  "Incense  offering  was  per- 
formed by  Rev.  J.  F.  Lovering."  And  the  services 
were  closed  with,  "Must  Jesus  bear  the  Cross  alone," 
The  little  mimic  coffin  was  then  pushed  aside,  and 
"a  social  hour  was  enjoyed  by  those  present," 

If  this  were  an  Irish  Catholic  wake  in  county 
Cork,  there  would  be  the  excuse  of  general  igno- 
rance and  long-suffered  oppression,  superstition  and 
priestcraft,  for  such  a  burlesque  on  Christian  civili- 
zation and  mockery  of  religion.  But,  no,  it  was  in 
New  England!  in  Worcester,  Massachusetts!  And  the 
paper  says,  "The  beauty  of  the  services  was  com- 
mented upon  by  all,  and  many  words  of  praise  were 
heard  for  the  committee  in  charge;"  and  "The  serv 


— Secretary  Stoddard  addressed  a  fair  audience  at 
Shiloh  Baptist  church,  New  Orleans,  last  Thursday 
evening,  and  received  the  thanks  of  many  at  the 
close,  A  colored  Methodist  conference  is  meeting  in 
the  city,  of  which  a  number  of  members  have  been 
interviewed.  All  condemned  the  secret  orders, 
though  most  had  been  among  the  initiated.  Bishop 
Warner  promises  an  opportunity  for  notice  of  the 
Convention  to  be  given,and  a  statement  of  its  objects, 

— In  one  of  the  addresses  at  the  county  conven- 
tion at  Bartlett,  III,  last  week  one  of  the  speakers 
referred  to  Birmingham,  Iowa,  as  a  community 
where  no  one  could  keep  on  the  fence  on  the  lodge 
question,  but  must  take  one  side  or  the  other. 
That  is  as  it  should  be,  and  when  a  respectable 
number  of  our  communities  come  up  to  the  same 
Gospel  ground  the  lodge  is  gone.  Birmingham  is  a 
little  city  among  the  thousands  but  out  of  her  bor- 
ders have  come  the  Free  Press,  the  Psalm-singer  and 
"In  the  Coils" — products  of  which  any  American 
town  might  be  proud. 

— Many  of  our  readers  visit  Chicago  and  wish  to 
see  the  best  features  of  a  great  city.  An  hour  or 
two  during  such  a  visit  cannot  be  better  employed 
than  in  visiting  the  cyclorama  of  Jerusalem  on 
Wabash  Ave.  As  a  work  of  art  it  far  surpasses 
any  of  the  several  battle  scenes  we  have  seen  in 
this  and  other  cities,  while  the  theme  of  the  im- 
mense painting  is  beyond  all  comparison  more  no- 
ble. So  vivid  an  idea  of  Jerusalem  during  Passover 
week,"when  our  Lord  was  crucified,  cannot  be  gained 
by  years  of  study  of  books.  The  painting  is  one 
of  the  great  attractions  of  Chicago. 

— Our  Boston  letter  last  week  told  of  the  efforts 
of  Dr.  Justin  D.  Fulton  to  arouse  that  city  to  the 
dangers  of  Catholicism.  The  excitement  was  so 
great  over  the  meetings  in  Mechanic's  Hall  that 
some  60,000  tickets  were  reported  sold  at  $1  each, 
a  book  going  with  every  ticket.  A  large  number  of 
police  were  present  to  preserve  order,  but  they  had 
nothing  to  do.  Petitions  were  largely  signed  ask- 
ing Congress  to  appoint  a  commission  on  the 
strength  of  the  allegations  in  the  new  book  to  inves- 
tigate the  practice  of  auricular  confession,  and  de- 
cide whether  it  is  calculated  to  pollute  the  morals  of 
the  people  and  undermine  the  foundation  of  our  in- 
stitutions. 

— We  call  especial  attention  to  the  reports  from 
all  quarters  on  the  condition  of  the  Knights  of  La- 
bor, as  appears  in  "Lodge  Notes"  this  week.  This 
order  has  evidently  had  its  day.      The  workingmen 


ices  were  so  well  liked  that  it  is  expected  they  will  be  of  our  cities  are  being  undeceived  in  regard  to  the 


POPERY  AND  MASONRY. 

Some  of  our  friends,  readers  of  the  Cynosure,  on 
reading  the  new  book  on  the  thirty-three  degrees 
of  Scotch  Rite  Masonry  are  puzzled  to  find  that  the 
rite  which  rules  the  Masonry  of  the  world  was  made 
by  Jesuits  and  Jews.  How  can  it  be,  since  war  to 
knife  now  exists  between  the  papacy  and  the  lodge? 

The  answer  is  this:  In  1773  Pope  Clement  XIV. 
entirely  suppressed  the  order  of  Jesuits  throughout 
the  world;  because  the  Society  of  Jesus  seized  and 
executed  the  substance  of  the  power  of  the  church 
while  the  pope  only  had  the  semblance.  That  quar- 
rel is  now  healed  and  the  two  are  one. 

So  it  will  be  with  popery  and  Masonry,  which  are 
one  in  nature  and  will  be  one  in  policy  and  in  fact. 
But  let  us  rejoice  that  their  present  battle  is  open- 
ing the  eyes  of  thousands  to  the  nature  of  both 
The  following  specimen  is  from  the  Catholic  Review 
of  recent  date: 

"Some  of  the  Masonic  sects  in  Europe  approach  diab- 
olism in  their  hatred  of  the  Catholic  church  and  in  the 
activity  and  ingenuity  of  their  propaganda  against  the 
church.  They  have  declared  a  war  to  the  knife  against 
it,  or,  to  be  more  in  keeping  with  their  teaching  and 
practice,  a  war  to  the  dagger  and  the  poison-bowl  their 
favorite  weapons.  They  manifest  a  fiendish  greed  for 
the  apostolate  of  wickedness, and  leave  no  stone  unturned 
no  infamous  device  unexhausted, that  may  tell  against  the 
church  and  draw  souls  away  from  her.  They  are  more 
encouraged  in  this  warfare  because  it  appeals  to  the 
worst  passions  of  men,  and  because  it  is  sanctioned  if 
not  actually  directed,  by  a  government  which  is  Masonic 
to  the  core." 

It  is  true,  Masons  hate  and  oppose  the  Romish 
church  for  two  reasons:  because  the  church  hates 
them,  and  also  because  the  lodge  hates  Christ  and 
refuses  to  worship  him.  But  enlightened  Christians 
do  not  hate  the  "Holy  Catholic  Church,"  but  the 
secret  order  of  Jesuits,  which  manufactured  the 
ruling  nte  of  Masonry,  and  which  now  ruSs  he 
Romish  church.  We  should  al.aya  remT.mbcr  that 
the  Holy  Catholic  Church  existed  fifteen  solid  cen 


reproduced  at  a  later  day  for  the  benefit  of  the  whole 
Masonic  fraternity" ! ! !  A  "beautiful"  funeral  to  be 
reproduced,  and  the  parts  said  and  sung  over  "for 
the  benefit  of  the  whole  Masonic  fraternity."  "In- 
cense" burned;  "The  Acacia"  commemorated,  and 
"prayer  said  for  deliverance"  (whether  for  the  dead 
secretary  Moody  from  purgatory  is  not  explained) 
by  a  semi-apostate  Congregational  pastor  I  And  all 
this  mixed  with  "Watts's  Psalms  and  Hymns,"  in 
the  Puritan  city  of  Worcester,  by  people  who  have 
been  to  New  England  district  schools! 

It  is  no  longer  wonderful  that  Mormonism  should 
spring  up  in  New  England  and  take  human  society 
back  through  the  centuries  to  the  seraglio,  bowstring 
and  bastinado  of  Constantinople,  and  the  polygamy, 
despotism  and  blood-avenging  of  Salt  Lake. 

Our  readers  are  requested  to  notice  that  this  fu- 
neral hotch-potch  is  to  be  repeated  "for  the  benefit" 
of  the  whole  Masonic  fraternity.  Now  if  there  are 
lawyers  in  Worcester  of  the  stamp  of  the  distin- 
guished and  Hon.  Judge  Merrick,  we  request  mer- 
chant S.  A.  Pratt  to  consult  some  of  them  if  such 
Masonic  "benefits"  are  not  in  the  nature  of  lottery 
"benefits"  and  mock  auctions, — schemes  to  get  money 
in  the  shape  of  dues  and  degree-fees,  upon  the  false 
pretence  of  funerals,  f.alse  worships,  etc.? 

Surely  no  farrago  of  false  religion  in  the  Taberna- 
cle at  Salt  Lake,  ever  exceeded  the  religious  medley 
in  Worcester  Masonic  Hall.  Cannot  the  good  peo- 
ple of  Worcester  be  induced  to  read  "  The  Ancient 
and  Accepted  Scottish  Rite,"  now  just  out? 


Fasting  and  Prayer. — An  aged  brother  in  New 
York  writes  in  favor  of  special  prayer  with  fasting 
for  an  especial  blessing  upon  the  New  Orleans  Con- 
vention and  a  signal  victory  over  the  enemies  of 
our  God.  Several  days  have  been  suggested,  but 
for  convenience,  as  a  time  most  likely  to  be  remem- 
bered, we  would  name  Friday,  the  17th,  the  opening 
day  of  the  Convention,  and  urge  all  whom  the  Lord's 
Spirit  80  moves  to  observe  this  day.  But  if  this  be 
not  so  convenient  for  some,  the  10th,  which  is  a 
week  earlier,  can  be  easily  fixed  in  mind.  The  time 
is  not  so  important  as  the  united  prayer  and  strong 
crying  to  God  of  his  people.  Let  us  believe  God 
and  expect  great  mercieS. 


promises  of  the  order,  and  are  falling  out  of  the 
ranks  by  thousands.  A  secret  despotism  can  never 
secure  permanent  good  to  the  cause  of  labor.  While 
workingmen  are  understanding  this  fact,  because 
there  is  a  sugar  coat  of  temperance  over  this  pois- 
onous lodge  pill,  some  of  our  temperance  workers, 
with  strange  unwisdom,  insist  on  bolstering  up  this 
order.  W.  T.  Mills,  an  aggressive  young  Prohibi- 
tionist, Zimmerman,  who  has  got  into  a  $100-a- 
month  job  as  organizer,  both  boast  of  their  connec- 
tion with  the  order;  while  Miss  Willard  herself  seems 
to  forget  important  facts  when  the  efforts  of  Pow- 
derly  for  temperance  are  remembered. 

— Bro.  Hinman's  late  visit  to  Hearne,  Texas,  is 
noticed  handsomely  in  the  Southern  Guide  of  that 
place.  Mentioning  the  leading  points  of  objection 
to  the  lodge  made  in  Bro.  Hinman's  address,  the 
editor  says:  "It  is  useless  for  us  to  s&y,  for  the  ben- 
efit of  his  hearers,  that  he  made  these  points  plain 
and  impressive,  for  we  are  free  to  admit  that  we 
have  never  heard  societies  so  accused,  neither  have 
we  heard  the  evidences  so  clearly  and  skillfully 
questioned.  To  our  mind,  he  proved  every  indict- 
ment. He  summoned  his  witnesses  from  ecclesias- 
tical and  profane  history,  and  called  upon  the  stand 
the  Saviour  and  Paul,  who  positively  testified  in  the 
affirmative,  and  by  their  sides  he  placed  the  Masons 
themselves,  whose  testimony  was  equally  as  strong. 
We  can  only  say  he  is  an  able  prosecutor,  and  will 
hurt  no  honest  man  who  hears  him.  We  listened 
with  profound  interest  and  saw  one  side  onlj ,  he  can 
surely  be  answered  by  some  men,  but  not  all  men." 


PERSONAL  MENTION. 


— Rev.  A.  J.  Chittenden  of  Wheaton,  now  in 
New  Orleans  with  Secretary  Stoddard,  is  being  much 
benefited  already  by  the  change  of  scenery  and 
climate.  An  entertaining  letter  from  him  on  New 
Orleans  will  appear  in  our  next. 

— It  is  said  that  ex-Governor  Alger, whose  liberality 
with  the  poor  of  Detroit  has  been  a  theme  of  praise, 
owns  over  100  square  miles  of  forest  land  near  Al- 
pena, on  which  there  is  standing  over  500,000,000 
feet  of  pine  timber.    So  he  may  not  yet  have  come 


Pjbbbuart  2,  1888 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE- 


up  to  the  measure  of  bis  duty.  His  example,  bow- 
ever,  should  stir  up  many  rich  men  to  good  works. 

— Old  John  Brown  is  to  be  remembered  at  the  Ohio 
Centennial  Exposition  at  Columbus  next  summer. 
One  of  the  attractions  will  be  a  department  devoted 
to  relics  of  the  hero  of  Ossawattomie  and  Harper's 
Ferry.  We  should  like  to  see  among  them  the  old 
Masonic  monitor  which  the  old  man  threw  away 
when  he  renounced  the  lodge  and  which  his  son 
Owen  picked  out  of  the  swill  barrel. 

— The  pleasant  town  of  Geneva,  some  thirty-five 
miles  from  this  city,  is  not  only  rejoicing  in  one  of 
the  most  gracious  revivals  ever  known  in  the  place, 
but  is  also  enduring  much  afUiction  from  a  Demo- 
cratic politician,  liquor  advocate  and  Freemason, 
who  has  been  serving  as  mayor,  but  by  his  outra- 
geous and  revolutionary  acts  has  roused  the  people 
to  the  point  of  impeaching  him.  A  new  election 
last  week  places  Mr.  Henry  Warfield,  a  Prohibition- 
ist, Anti  mason  and  Quaker  in  the  chair. 


Prize-fighting,  fanned  by  the  importance  given  to 
the  brutal  business  by  our  daily  press,  is  having 
quite  a  rage  in  all  our  prominent  cities.  Condemned 
by  law  everywhere,  the  press  with  strange  inconsist- 
ency fosters  these  exhibitions,  and  really  keeps  them 
alive.  Editors  should  be  {Prosecuted  as  well  as  the 
half-idiotic  and  generally  drunken  fellows  who  en- 
gage in  them.  We  are  glad  to  note  that  the  Denver 
authorities  have  taken  hold  of  a  case  in  that  city, 
and  have  found  indictments  against  some  250  per- 
sons who  attended  a  fight,  some  of  them  prominent 
politicians  in  State  and  county.  In  addition  to 
the  fine  imposed  by  law,  let  these  men  forfeit  also 
the  confidence  of  Colorado  voters. 


Our  Day,  the  journal  which  a  million  American 
readers  have  been  anxiously  expecting  from  Joseph 
Cook,  at  last  appears.  It  is  "a  record  and  review 
of  current  reform."  With  Mr.  Cook  as  editor,  and 
such  associates  8s  Miss  F.  E.  Willard  in  the  depart- 
ment of  Temperance,  Dr.  Pentecost  in  that  of 
Church  Work,  Anthony  Comstock  in  that  of  Preven- 
tion of  Vice,  Prof.  L.  T.  Townsend  of  Boston  Uni- 
versity in  that  of  Education,  Prof.  E.  J.  James  in 
that  of  Labor  Reform,  and  llev.  C.  S.  Eby  in  that 
of  Missions,  America  will  have  a  noble  magazine, 
worthy  of  a  generation  of  Christian  reformers. 
This  first  number  is  a  grand  one.  Dr.  McNiece  on 
"Shall  Utah  be  Made  a  Mormon  State?"  or  Prof. 
Townsend  on  "The  Jesuit  and  the  Public  School," 
are  either  one  alone  worth  the  annual  price  of  the 
magazine.  The  Cynoxure  from  her  long  watching 
in  the  northern  sky  hails  Our  Day.  May  its  sun  be 
as  unsetting  as  our  own  Pole-star. 


NOTICES 


TEB  N.  G.A.  NATIONAL  CONVKHTION. 


OFFICIAL   CALL. 


The  Seventeenth  Convention  of  the  National  Chris- 
tian Aseociation  is  hereby  called  to  meet  in  the  Central 
Congregationalist  church  in  the  city  of  New  Orleans, 
Louisiana,  at  7:30  p.  m.,  February  17th,  1888.  An  inter- 
esting programme  has  been  arranged,  able  speakers  have 
been  secured,  and  three  sessions  will  be  held  daily,  clos- 
ing with  the  evening  of  Feb.  20th.  Seats  are  free  and 
the  public  are  most  cordially  invited  to  attend. 

Rev.  J.  S  McCuLLOCH,  D.D.,  Prea. 

Rev.  Lewis  Johnston,  Sec'y. 


Latest  and  Best  Rate  to  New  Orleans. — Round 
trip  tickets  will  be  on  sale  at  IS.'i  from  Feb.  (Hh  to  12th 
next,  good  to  return  until  March  Ist  next.  This  will 
make  the  fare  less  than  \\  cent  per  mile  from  Chicago  to 
New  Orleans  via  Illinois  Central  Railroad.  This  reduc- 
tion from  the  usual  rate  will  probably  be  general  through- 
out the  country  at  that  date,  but  we  are  not  able  tu  speak 
positively  at  present.  Look  for  further  notice  hereafter, 
or  make  inquiries  of  railway  agents. 


RB FORMERS  OF  10  WA. 

The  N.C.  A. Convention  at  New  Orleans  is  to  be  held 
next  month.  ThcIowaChristianAssociation  at  its  last  annu- 
al meeting  appointedRev .  Wm. Johnson  ofCoUegeSprings, 
Page  county,  Iowa,  the  president  of  the  Association,  its 
delegate  to  the  Convention  at  New  Orleans.  Special 
contributions  are  needed  to  defray  his  expenses.  Let  all 
who  can  respond  immedvitiUj.  Send  your  contributions 
direct  to  Dr.  Johnson,  as  the  time  is  short.  Don't  fail 
to  promptly  send  the  means  for  our  president  to  repre- 
sent us  at  the  New  Orleans  meeting.     C .  P .  Hawlet, 

Sta(«  Agent  of  I.O.A, 


OUR  WABHINQTON  LBTTER. 

Washinoton,  Jan.  27,  1888. 

There  is  enthusiastic  interest|now  among  the  pro- 
hibition circles  of  this  city  as  well  as  throughout 
the  country,  and  notable  concert  of  action  in  the 
effort  to  drive  the  liquor  traffic  from  the  District  of 
Columbia.  Petitions  to  this  effect  have  poured  into 
Congress  from  every  State  and  Territory,  and  the 
counter  petitions  circulated  by  the  liquor  men  of 
the  District  are  something  curious  and  even  ludi- 
crous, I  may  say,  from  their  want  of  sense  and 
logic. 

From  his  pulpit  a  Washington  minister  said,  last 
Sunday,  "These  men  plead  for  liberty  in  the  conduct 
of  their  business;  they  ask  for  personal  liberty  that 
they  may  enslave  your  sons  and  deprive  them  of 
their  liberty.  They  also  raise  the  cry  that  perjury, 
fraud  and  social  corruption  would  follow  in  the  track 
of  prohibition.  This,"  he  said,  "makes  us  think  of 
the  poetical  figure  of  Satan  weeping  for  souls  that 
are  lost." 

On  the  same  day  the  liquor  traffic  was  vigorously 
attacked  from  several  of  our  city  pulpits,  notably 
that  of  the  Vermont  Avenue  Christian  church,  and 
that  of  the  North  Carolina  Avenue  church.  Mr. 
Power,  the  pastor  of  the  former,  like  most  of  the 
Washington  pastors,  is  strongly  opposed  to  high 
license,  classing  it  as  a  cowardly  compromise  with 
the  whisky  party.  He  selected  for  his  subject, 
"The  Coming  Conflict  with  the  Whisky  Power,"  and 
he  argued  that  there  was  no  regulating  the  whisky 
traffic;  that  there  is  no  alternative  but  total  exter- 
mination. He  urged  prohibition  in  the  District  as 
the  only  hope  of  the  rising  generation,  and  said  the 
cry  that  prohibition  does  not  prohibit  is  false,  for 
were  prohibition  once  strongly  entrenched  oa  our 
shores  the  death  of  the  whisky  traffic  would  quickly 
follow.  Speaking  of  the  term  fanatic,  applied  to 
temperance  workers,  Mr.  Power  stated  that  the  dic- 
tionary had  not  yet  been  compiled  that  would  con- 
tain the  word  '-temperance  fanatic."  "He  is  not 
the  coming  man,"  he  said,  "nor  the  man  that  is,  for 
we  can  never  have  such  a  creature.  Go  as  far  as 
you  will  on  the  track  of  temperance  and  you  will 
never  approach  within  sight  of  fanaticism." 

As  the  subject  is  one  of  unusual  interest  just  now, 
I  will  mention  how  another  preacher  presented  sev- 
eral new  points  in  the  matter.  He  regarded  the  pres- 
ent time  as  a  crisis.  To  be  defeated  now  meant 
eternal  defeat  for  the  temperance  people  of  the 
country.  He  said  the  cry  of  today  was  lor  national 
prohibition.  The  District  of  Columbia  is  national 
ground,  and  here  the  fight  will  be  made  that  will  in- 
fluence the  entire  country.  He  urged  that  the  exam- 
ple set  here  would  encourage  or  discourage  the  ef- 
forts of  all  the  temperance  people  working  through- 
out the  country,  and  that  though  there  were  many 
hidden  evils  behind  this  question,  when  Prohibition- 
ists once  gain  the  victory  their  triumph  will  be  com- 
plete. The  work  of  the  Woman's  Christian  Tem- 
perance Union  was  eulogized  in  the  highest  terms, 
and  the  ultimate  success  of  the  prohibition  measure 
now  before  Congress  was  predicted. 

Congress  has  had  before  it  this  week  a  good  deal 
of  miscellaneous  matter,  3uch  as  the  Pacific  railroad 
investigation;  the  delay  over  the  Congressional  Li- 
brary building;  the  Jackson,  Miss.,  outrage  resolu- 
tion, and  the  Thoebe-Carlisle  contest,  in  which  the 
Si)eaker's  title  to  his  seat  was  secured  by  a  bare 
quorum. 

The  most  important  appointments  made  by  the 
President  during  the  week  were  Marshall  McDonald 
for  Fish  Commissioner;  Mr.  Hoge,  of  Va.,  for  Dis- 
trict Attorney,  and  Mr.  Ross  of  Washingtoc  for 
our  new  Postmaster.  By  these  appointments  a  long 
agony  is  over.  There  were  a  hundred  or  more  as- 
pirants to  the  last  two  offices  mentioned,  and  the 
selections  made  seem  to  be  (juite  satisfactory  to  the 
public.  * 


LITERATURE. 


"Tub  Like  and  Wohk  op  J.  R.  W.  Sloane,  D.D."    Edited  by 
bis  son,  Prof.  William  M.  Sloane,  of  Princeton,  N.  J. 

In  this  volume  of  440  pages,  there  is  first  a  brief 
account  of  the  Covenanters  from  the  swearing  of 
the  national  covenant  in  Scotland  in  1638  to  date. 
This  passage  may  be  interesting:  "In  the  conduct 
of  church  services  they  exclude  all  written  liturgies, 
but  hold  firm  to  the  traditionary  practices  of  their 
ancestors.  They  use,  as  a  close  transcript  of  the 
original,  the  amended  metrical  version  of  the  Psalms, 
based  upon  that  of  Rouse,  and  commonly  used  by 
the  Scottish  churches;  avoiding  all  other  hymnology 
as  unscriptural,  and  not  of  divine  ordering.  Their 
praise  is  purely  congregational,  and  is  led  by  a  pre- 
centor or  a  choir  unaided  by  any  musical  instru 
ment.  In  prayer  the  use  of  Scriptural  language  for 
the  expression  of  worship  and  desire  is   well-nigh 


universal;  the  selection  and  ordering  of  the  peti- 
tions, ascriptions  of  praise,  and  acknowledgments 
of  mercy,  being,  of  course,  left  to  the  free  choice  of 
each  individual.  In  the  celebration  of  the  sacra- 
ments they  have  rigid  forms,  hallowed  by  use,  and 
suited  to  their  edification.  In  simple  dignity  they 
literally  sit  at  the  table  of  the  Lord,  and  partake  of 
the  elements  as  they  pass  from  hand  to  hand,  while 
the  pastor  admonishes  them  of  the  solemnity  and 
awful  significance  of  the  sacrificial  act.  At  due  in- 
tervals they  renew  their  covenant  with  God  to  abide 
by  their  principles,  and  serve  him  in  godly  fear. 
Its  members  have  always  refused  to  become  polit- 
ically identified  with  the  United  States  Government, 
because  its  Constitution  derived  the  powers  of  gov- 
ernment from  the  will  of  the  people,  and  not  from 
God,  according  to  the  authority  and  teaching  of 
Scripture." 

A  sketch  of  Dr.  Sloane's  ancestors  follows.  Then 
comes  the  autobiography  of  his  childhood,  his  youth 
and  early  manhood.  His  pastorate  in  New  York 
from  1856  to  1868  comes  next.  And  after  that  his 
professorship  in  Allegheny  from  1868  to  1886.  He 
was  a  prominent  figure  in  the  anti-slavery  contro- 
versy during  his  ministry  in  New  York.  He  de- 
scribes a  meeting  in  "Cooper  Institute"  Dec.  15,  1859, 
in  aid  of  "the  John  Brown  Fund."  Dr.  George 
B.  Cheever  had  spoken  but  a  few  sentences  when 
a  decently-dressed  man  sprang  up  immediately 
in  front  of  the  platform,  and  shaking  a  stout  cane 
at  the  speaker,  declared  with  horrible  Imprecations 
that  he  would  make  a  martyr  of  him.  Then  the  tu- 
mult began,  breaking  out  in  all  parts  of  the  hall  ap- 
parently at  once,  shouts,  hootings,  hissings,  cat- 
calls, groans,  "Order!  order!"  "Put  him  out!" 
"Down  with  him!"  "Go  on!"  demoniac  yells,  cheers, 
counter-cheers,  and — who  can  describe  Pandemo- 
nium? Precautions  had  been  taken  to  secure  a 
number  of  policemen:  about  thirty,  I  believe,  were 
scattered  about  the  hall.  They  did  nobly,  struggled 
bravely  with  the  rioters,  and  occasionally  plied  their 
cIubE  effectively;  but  they  were  too  few  in  number, 
and  unable  fully  to  cope  with  the  mob.  Dr.  Geo. 
B.  Cheever  stood  to  his  post;  the  friends  of  the 
meeting  encouraged  him  with  cheers  and  cries  of 
"Go  on!  go  on!"  and  he  did  go  on  until  the  last  sen- 
tence was  completed,  although  but  short  portions  of 
his  noble  speech  could  be  heard. 

During  the  greater  time  of  the  delivery  of  this 
speech,  a  large  portion,  both  of  those  in  the  audience 
and  on  the  platform,  were  on  their  feet.  It  was, 
perhaps,  about  the  time  that  this  speech  was  clos- 
ing, that  the  chief  of  police,  a  Mr.  Pillsbury,  with 
seventy-five  men  behind  him,  entered  the  hall.  The 
next  speaker  was  Wendell  Phillips.  The  stornj 
called  out  his  noblest  powers:  he  was  above  it,  as  if 
guiding  it.  One  illustration  of  this,  but  imperfectly 
recalled,  may  serve  to  give  an  idea,  although  a  faint 
one,  of  his  peculiar  power:  "  'All  that  John  Brown 
did,  was  to  endeavor  to  help  men  to  liberty.  Did 
he  do  right?'  'No!'  from  a  hundred  murderous 
throats.  'Well,  I  was  born  at  the  base  of  Bunker 
Hill,  and  I  say  he  did  do  right.  If  not,  answer,  By- 
ron, from  your  marshy  bed  at  Missolonghi,  why  did 
you  go  to  help  the  Greeks?  If  not,  answer,  Kosci- 
usko, from  your  tomb  on  the  Hudson,  why  did  you 
come  to  help  us?  If  not,  answer,  Lafayette' — 'We 
were  white  men,'  again  roared  the  many-headed 
beast.  'Yes'  (with  ineffable  scorn).  'You  were 
white  men.  Lafayette  said  if  he  had  known  that  he 
was  fighting  for  a  white  slave  republic,  he  would 
never  have  drawn  his  sword  for  America.'  " 

Dr.  Sloane  came  last.  The  Tribune  said  of  him, 
"By  describing  the  characteristics  of  the  turbulent 
element  which  had  disturbed  the  meeting  he  suc- 
deeded  in  quieting  the  rioters,  and,  in  fact,  caused 
many  of  them  to  hang  their  heads  and  leave  th« 
room."  "Virginia  hung  John  Brown,"  said  the 
rioters.  "Yes,"  responded  the  Doctor,  "but  \ir- 
ginia  cannot  furnish  ropes  enough  to  hang  the  prin- 
ciples for  which  John  Brown  died." 

He  was  invited  to  deliver  the  annual  address  be- 
fore the  Philo  and  Franklin  Literary  Sci-ieties  of 
Jefferson  College,  Aug.  6,  1S62.  His  subject  was, 
"The  Three  Pillars  of  a  Republic,"  Religion,  Law 
and  Liberty.  Here  is  a  sample  of  his  utterances: 
"The  American  engineer  who  was  employed  to  con- 
struct the  great  railway  from  St  Petersburg  to  Mos- 
cow, was  directed  to  make  out  a  diagram  of  the 
road,  and  lay  it  before  the  Emperor.  In  due  time 
it  was  completed,  and  presented  to  his  majesty  for 
inspection.  'What  is  that?'  said  the  haughty  auto- 
crat, after  looking  at  it  curiously  for  some  moments. 
'Please,  your  Majesty,'  said  the  confounded  engi- 
neer, 'that  is  the  road.'  'Road!'  exclaimed  Nicolas, 
'it  looks  more  like  a  snake.  What  are  all  those 
curves  for?'  'Sire,  replied  the  engineer,  'those 
curves  are  to  save  the  cities  contiguous  to  the  route.' 
{Continued  on  ISth  page.) 


10 


THE  CHRISTIAlSr  CYNOSURE. 


February  2, 1888 


THE  HOME. 


TRIBULATION. 


Yes,  there  u  tribulation,  but  Thy  power 

Can  blend  It  with  rejoicing.    There  are  thorns, 

But  they  have  kept  us  in  the  narrow  way. 

The  King's  highway  of  holiness  and  peace; 

And  there  vi  chastening,  but  the  Father's  love 

Flows  through  it;  and  would  any  trusting  heart 

Forego  the  chastening  and  forego  the  love? 

And  every  step  leads  on  to  "more  and  more;" 

From  strength  to  strength  Thy  pilgrims  pass  and  sing 

The  praise  of  Him  who  leads  them  on  and  on, 

From  glory  unto  glory,  even  here. 

— F.  A.  Haver  gal. 


THE  REVIVAL   WE  NEED. 


Ob,  for  a  great  and  general  revival  of  true  relig- 
ion! Not  a  burst  of  mere  excitement,  but  a  real 
awakening,  a  work  of  the  Eternal  Spirit.  This 
would  be  a  glorious  reply  to  skepticism,  and  would 
act  like  a  strong  wind  in  clearing  the  air,  and  driv- 
ing away  the  miasma  which  lurks  in  the  stagnant 
atmosphere.  There  would  then  be  small  honor  paid 
to  men  who  mar  the  Gospel  of  our  Lord,  and  truth, 
which  has  fallen  in  our  streets,  would  again  ascend 
her  throne.  Let  us  pray  for  such  a  visitation  of  the 
Holy  Ghost  with  our  whole  souls.  It  is  not  only 
desirable,  it  is  essential;  we  must  either  be  revived 
by  the  Lord  himself,  or  the  churches  will  descend 
until  error  and  ungodliness  swallow  them  up.  This 
calamity  shall  not  happen,  but  only  divine  grace 
can  avert  it. 

At  the  same  time,  we  cannot  expect  a  gracious 
revival  till  we  are  clear  of  complicity  with  the  dead- 
ening influences  which  are  all  around  us.  The  extent 
to  which  sheer  frivolity  and  utterly  inane  amuse- 
ment have  been  carried  in  connection  with  some 
places  of  worship  would  almost  exceed  belief.  We 
call  the  attention  of  our  readers  to  the  fact  that 
doctrine  has  been  the  ground  of  battle  in  the  down- 
grade struggle  which  has  been  chosen  by  our  oppo- 
nents, but  on  the  matter  of  prayer-meetings  and 
worldliness  they  have  been  prudently  silent.  Cer- 
tain of  them  have  in  this  affair  exhibited  that  dis- 
cretion which  is  the  better  part  of  valor. 

If  any  of  our  churches  have  been  guilty  in  this 
respect,  how  can  they  expect  the  divine  Spirit  to 
work  with  them?  Wherever  the  statement  which 
we  have  quoted,  or  a  similar  one,  can  be  proved,  we 
are  at  a  loss  to  know  how  conversions  can  be  looked 
for.  The  Lord  our  God  is  holy,  and  he  cannot  com- 
promise his  own  glorious  name  by  working  with 
persons  whose  grovelling  tastes  lead  them  to  go  to 
Egypt — we  had  almost  said  to  Sodom — for  their 
recreations.  Is  this  walking  with  God?  Is  this  the 
manner  in  which  Enochs  are  produced? 

It  is  a  heart-sorrow  to  have  to  mention  such 
things,  but  the  work  of  the  Lord  must  be  done 
faithfully,  and  this  evil  must  be  laid  bare.  There 
can  ')Q  no  doubt  that  all  sorts  of  entertainments,  as 
nea^'ly  as  possible  approximating  to  stage-plays, 
have  been  carried  on  in  connection  with  places  of 
worship,  and  are,  at  this  present  time,  in  high  favor. 
Can  these  things  promote  holiness,  or  help  in  com- 
munion with  God?  Can  men  come  away  from  such 
things  and  plead  with  God  for  the  salvation  of  sin- 
ners and  the  sanctiflcation  of  believers?  We  loathe 
to  touch  the  unhallowed  subject;  it  seems  so  far  re- 
moved from  the  walk  of  faith,  and  the  way  of  heav- 
enly fellowship.  In  some  cases  the  follies  com- 
plained of  are  even  beneath  the  dignity  of  manhood, 
and  fitter  for  the  region  of  the  imbecile  than  for 
thoughtful  men. 

Brethren  in  Christ,  in  every  church  let  us   purge 
out  the  things   which   weaken  and  pollute.     It  is 
clear  to  every  one  who  is  willing  to  see  it  that  laxity 
of  doctrine  is  either  the  parent  of  worldliness,  or  is 
in  some  other  way  very  near  akin  to  it.     The   men 
who  give  up  the  old  faith  are  the  same  persons  who 
plead  for  latitude  as  to  general  conduct.     The  Puri- 
tan is  not  more  notorious  for  his  orthodoxy  than  for 
his  separateness  from  the  world.     Liberal   divines 
do  not  always  command  the  respect  of  the  public 
but  they  gain  a  certain  popularity  by  pandering  to 
prevailing   tastes.     The  ungodly  world  is  so  far  on 
their  side  that  it  commends  them  for  their  liberality, 
and  rails  at  the  orthodox  as  bigots  and  kill-joys.     It 
is  a  very  suspicious  circumstance  that  very  often 
the  less  a  man  kufiws  of  the  inner  life,  and  the  less 
he  even  cares  to  speak  of  it,  the  more  heartily  he  is 
for  the  new  theology,  the  theory  of  evolution,  and 
the  condemnation  of  all  settled  doctrine.     Those 
who   would   have  a  blessing  from  the  Lord  must 
avoid  ail  this,  and  determine   to   follow   the   Lord 
fully.     Not  only  must  they  quit  talse  doctrine,  but 
they  must  receive  the  Gospel,  not  as  dogma,  but  as 
vital  truth.     Only  as  the  truth  is  attended  with  liv- 


ing faith  will  it  prove  its  own  royal  power.  Be- 
lievers must  also  sweep  the  house  of  the  leaven  of 
worldliness,  and  the  frivolities  of  a  giddy  genera- 
tion. The  evil  which  is  now  carrent  eats  as  doth  a 
canker,  and  there  is  no  hope  for  healthy  godliness 
until  it  is  cut  out  of  the  body  of  the  church  by  her 
again  repenting,  and  doing  her  first  works. 

Those  who  through  divine  grace  have  not  defiled 
their  garments  must  not  content  themselves  with 
censuring  others,  but  must  arouse  themselves  to 
seek  a  fuller  baptism  of  the  Spirit  of  God.  Perhaps 
these  evils  are  permitted  that  they  may  act  as  a 
sieve  upon  the  heap  gathered  on  the  Lord's  thresh- 
ing floor.  Possibly  they  are  allowed  that  our  apa- 
thetic churches  may  be  aroused.  We  know  already 
of  several  cases  in  which  true  ministers  have  gone 
over  the  foundation  truths  again  with  their  people, 
and  have  preached  the  saving  Word  with  clearer  em- 
phasis. In  other  cases  churches  have  been  sum- 
moned to  special  prayer  about  this  matter.  This  is 
a  good  beginning;  let  it  be  carried  out  on  the  widest 
scale.  As  one  man  let  us  cry  mightily  unto  the 
Lord  our  God,  that  he  would  arise  and  plead  his 
own  cause.  Now,  if  never  before,  let  those  who  are 
loyal  to  Jesus  and  his  Word  be  up  and  doing.  A 
boundless  blessing  is  waiting  for  the  asking.  We 
believe  in  prayer.  Let  us  pray  like  Elijahs. — G.  H. 
Spurgeon. 

TEN   THOUUAND  PER  GENT. 


be  with  me  in  paradise."  His  body  was  laid  away 
in  the  grave,  out  it  rests  as  in  its  bed  until  the 
resurrection  morning.  He  sleeps  in  Jesus,  and 
God  watches  over  his  grave.  Rispah  watched  the 
dead  bodies  of  the  sons  of  Saul  and  guarded  them 
against  the  ravenous  fowls  of  the  air.  So  God 
watches  over  the  dead  bodies  of  the  saints  and  sees 
to  it  that  none  of  their  dust  be  missing.  Yes, though 
the  grave  be  a  neglected  and  unknown  spot,  winged 
seraphs  hover  there  keeping  a  more  vigilant  watch 
than  the  Roman  soldiers  about  the  grave  of  Jesus. 
Invisible  watchers  keep  the  graves  where  the  rude 
forefathers  of  the  hamlet  sleep,  and  invisible  watch- 
ers keep  the  graves  where  our  fondest  hopes  were 
laid.  You  who  have  laid  your  dear  ones  in  their 
narrow  house  weep  not,  for  angels  guard  them  bet- 
ter than  you.  Rather  dry  your  cheeks  and  rejoice 
that  these  same  forms  will  ere  long  be  called  forth 
to  meet  the  Lord  in  the  air. — Rev.  J.  M.  Foster. 


Mr.  Stuart  dropped  into  the  office  of  his  friend 
Mr.  Morris,  in  a  mood  decidedly  depressed,  occa- 
sioned by  a  failure.  It  was  a  little  after  business 
hours,  but  Mr.  Morris  was  still  in  his  office  and 
alone.  He  laid  down  his  pen  and  greeted  his  friend 
with  a  cheerful  nod  and  a  cheerful  "How  are  you, 
Stuart?" 

"Sour  as  an  east  wind,"  was  the  response,  as  he 
looked  at  "the  beaming  countenance  of  his  friend, 
whom  he  had  known  for  many  years,  and  whose 
counsel  he  had  sought  many  a  time,  and  scarcely 
ever  been  disappointed. 

There  appeared  to  be  a  little  more  than  the  usual 
brightness  in  Mr.  Morris's  face  as  he  wheeled  his 
chair  round  and  bade  his  friend  be  seated  in  another. 
Mr.  Stuart  noticed  it  and  saidc 

"What  are  you  up  to,  Morris?  Had  some  good 
news,  eh?" 

"Oh,  no,  Stuart,"  he  replied,  "nothing  unusual  or 
new  in  particular.  I  was  only  thinking  of  a  little 
investment  I  am  just  about  making." 

"I  thought  so,"  said  Stuart,  "and  a  good  one,  I'll 
be  bound.'' 

"I  think  so,"  was  the  reply.  "What  would  you 
say  to  ten  thousand  per  cent?" 

"Ten  thousand  per  cent!     You  are  raving." 
"Not  a  bit  of  it,"  said  Morris.      "And  the  very 
best  of  security — a  regular  royal  pledge." 

"Now  I  know  you  are  crazy.  Who  ever  heard  of 
such  a  thing?" 

"Crazy?  Not  a  bit  of  it,"  said  Mr.  Morris. 
"This,"  wheeling  round  his  chair  and  laying  his 
hand  upon  a  paper  on  his  desk,  "is  a  check  which  I 
have  just  signed,  and  intend  for  a  poor  missionary 
whom  I  know.  I  have  just  heard  he  is  sick  and  in 
much  need.  The  Scripture  says  that  'he  that  hath 
pity  on  the  poor  lendeth  to  the  Lord,'  but  I  was 
never  awakened  to  the  fact  of  what  interest  he  pays 
until  yesterday,  when  our  clergyman  startled  me 
by  saying  that  he  had  promised  ten  thousand  per 
cent.  I  pricked  up  my  ears  at  the  statement,  and 
waited  curiously  to  hear  the  proof;  and  there  it  was, 
sure  enough,  in  St.  Matthew  19:  29,  'And  every 
one  that  hath  left  houses,  or  brethren  or  sisters,  or 
father  or  mother,  or  children  or  lands  for  my  name's 
sake,  shall  receive  a  hundredfold,  and  inherit  eternal 
life.'  I  was  struck  at  the  sound  of  ten  thousand 
per  cent,  but  I  figured  it  out  and  found  it  correct. 
The  preacher  was  very  much  in  earnest  as  he  de- 
clared the  Lord's  dividend.  He  was  as  enthusiastic 
as  a  stock-broker,  only  in  an  infinitely  more  noble 
cause.  I  was  very  much  impressed  at  the  time 
with  the  thought,  and  in  fact,  have  been  ever  since. 
It  was  in  my  mind  when  you  came  in.  Not  that  I 
can  lay  claim  for  a  moment  to  the  spirit  of  self- 
sacrifice  which  the  text  quoted  indicates,  but  my  gift 
to  the  poor  is  a  loan  to  the  Lord,  and  I  am  not 
afraid  but  tluit  I  shall  reap  a  good  dividend."— /Sei. 


WICKED  JIM. 
2  Tim.  4:  2. 


Last  Monday  afternoon  a  little  boy,  ten  years  old, 
was  playing  on  the  avenue.  The  street  car  came 
up,  the  horses  trampled  upon  him,  and  the  wheel 
almost  severed  the  head  from  the  borily.  He  went 
out  from  that  home  a  bright,  bounding  lad;  he  was 
carried  back  a  corpse.  How  can  that  bereaved  fam- 
ily say,  "He  doeth  all  things  well"?  It  is  the  sim- 
plest thing  in  the  world  for  Christian  faith.  Jesus 
appeared  there  on  the  avenue,  and  kissed  the  lips 
of  the  lad  and  said:  "Follow  me,  to-day  thou  shalt 


"Do  you  see  that  boy?"  said  a  policeman  just  off 
duty  on  one  of  the  down-town  streets  in  New  York 
city  to  a  man  in  whom  he  was  beginning  to  have 
confidence  as  a  Christian  worker,  "the  white-faced 
boy  in  the  doorway  across  the  alley.  Well,"  as  the 
gentleman  glanced  and  nodded,  "that  boy  has  been 
in  jail  fifteen  times.  He  is  just  out  now.  He  is 
known  as  'Wicked  Jim.'  He  is  a  good  case  for  you. 
If  you  make  anything  out  of  him  I  will  promise  to 
take  stock  in  your  religion." 

The  gentleman  smiled  pleasantly,  and  said, 
"Thank  you.  I  never  found  a  case  that  I  consid- 
ered hopeless.  That  lad  has  not  an  altogether  bad 
face;"  and  stepping  across  the  narrow  sidewalk  he 
said  abruptly, 

"Good  morning,  Jim.  Ilave  you  had  your 
breakfast?" 

"Nary  a  crust,"  replied  the  lad  in  surprise. 

"Thought  so  by  your  looks.  Come  on.  Can  you 
walk  pretty  briskly?" 

"When  it's  worth  while.  What's  up?  What  do 
you  want  with  me?" 

"I  want  you  to  be  a  better  boy.  But  here  we  are;" 
and  he  preceded  his  guest  into  an  alcove  of  a  small, 
neat  restaurant,  saying,  "Sit  down  here  opposite  me 
at  the  table  and  order  what  you  like;  we  will  talk 
later." 

Jim  availed  himself,  with  alacrity,  of  the  privilege 
given  him,  glancing  often  at  his  companion,  who  par- 
took of  his  breakfast  more  leisurely  and  in  less  quan- 
tity, reading  his  paper  meantime.  As  he  finished  his 
last  cup  of  coffee  he  said, 

"I'm  obliged  to  you;  and  I've  made  up  my 
mind  you  are  one  of  them  Sunday-school  fellers. 
Now,  boss,  it  a'n't  no  use.  I'm  'Wicked  Jim.'  I've 
been  sent  up  fifteen  times.  I'm  just  out.  There 
won't  anybody  have  nothing  to  do  with  me.  There 
a'n't  no  way  for  me  to  get  a  living  only  to  steal  it. 
You  might  just  as  well  let  me  go  and  never  think  no 
more  about  me.     I'm  'Wicked  Jim.' " 

"And  'Wicked  Jim'  you  want  to  be  to  the  end  of 
the  chapter?" 

"There  a'n't  no  help  for  it.  There  can't  nobody 
help  it." 

"God  can  help  it." 

"I  don't  know  much  about  him.  I  don't  think  he 
cares  much  about  me." 

"Oh,  yes,  he  does.  He  sent  me  this  morning  to 
give  you  a  breakfast.  I  came  up  from  the  ferry  to 
go  to  Broadway.  It  was  a  little  farther,  you  know, 
to  cross  over  and  go  around  the  block  where  I  found 
you,  but  something  seemed  to  lead  me  that  way,  and 
when  I  reached  the  corner  God  put  it  into  the  heart 
of  that  red-haired  policeman  to  point  you  out  to 
me. 

"He  must  be  tired  keeping  an  eye  on  me.  What 
makes  you  think  God  led  you  around  where  I  was?" 

"Because  it  was  a  good  influence.  Satan  might 
have  put  it  into  the  heart  of  some  one  to  find  some 
mischief  for  you  to  do.  Only  God  would  send  some 
one  to  try  to  make  a  better  boy  of  you." 

"How  can  God  make  me  good?" 
"By  converting  you." 
"What  is  that?" 

"The  beginning  is  for  you  to  want  to  be  a  Chris- 
tian, to  want  to  love  Jesus  and  be  like  him,  so  as  to 
lead  a  good,  useful  life  here  and  go  to  heaven  when 
you  die." 

"Everybody  wants  to  go  to  heaven,"  said  the  boy 
uneasily. 

"Do  you  think  they  would  like  heaven?  There 
are  Christians  in  heaven.  If  they  do  not  like  such 
society  here,  would  they  like  it  there?" 

"I  don't  know,"  said  the  boy  sadly;  "I  ha'n't 
never  had  no  chance  to  know  Christians.  I've  al- 
ways been  'Wicked  Jim/  and  been  with  them  that 


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THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE- 


was  most  as  bad  as  I,  not  quite.      I  am  so  bad  I 
don't  think  God  could  do  anything  with  me." 
"Oh,  yes,  he  could  give  you  a  clean  heart." 
"Do  you  believe  it?" 

"I  know  it;  but  you  must  first  want  a  new  heart. 
You  must  want  to  be  good  and  desire  to  lead  a  bet- 
ter life.  You  must  believe  there  is  a  God  and  that 
his  Son  Jesus  Christ  died  to  save  you." 

"I  know  about  that.  I  heard  a  man  preach  it 
once  in  a  little  country  jail  where  I  stayed  three 
months  because  I  was  tramping.  I've  thought 
about  that  Christ,  how  he  sweat  great  drops  of  blood, 
but  I  don't  see  what  good  that  did  me." 

"He  was  God.  He  knew  there  would  be  a  'Wick- 
ed Jim'  here  in  New  York  to-day  who  would  have 
to  die  and  be  punished  for  his  sins,  and  he  said, 
'Let  me  suffer  the  punishment,  and  then  if  Jim  will 
only  believe  that  I  suffered  for  him  and  will  accept  a 
clean  heart,  and  leaving  off  all  his  wicked  ways  try 
to  live  a  new  life  for  my  sake,  that  is  all  I  will  ask.' " 
"Is  that  truth,  boss?"  said  Jim,  with  his  great, 
blue,  dilated  eyes  full  of  tears. 

"Yes.  Shall  I  pray  to  him  and  ask  him  to  help 
you  to  be  a  good  boy?" 

"I  wish  you  would,"  said  the  boy;  and  he  knelt, 
sobbing,  completely  melted,  as  the  prayer,  in  simple 
language  that  he  could  understand,  went  on. 

After  awhile  he  said,  "I  feel  better.  I  feel  as  if 
'Wicked  Jim'  had  strayed  away  down  town,  and  as 
if  this  was  a  new  Jim  who  wanted  to  be  a  good  boy." 
"The  name  shall  go  with  'Wicked  Jim,'"  said  the 
missionary.  "You  are  James  hereafter.  I  shall 
call  you  James  Newlife.  Come  now  and  have  a  bath 
and  I  will  get  you  a  new  outfit  in  the  way  of  clothes;" 
and  the  gentleman  took  him  up  stairs,  for  the  restau- 
rant was  connected  with  a  mission,  and  he  was  soon 
thoroughly  transformed  in  appearance. 

He  was  a  fine-looking  lad  now,  and  hardly  seemed 
able  to  believe  his  own  eyes  when  he  saw  his  reflec- 
tion in  a  mirror. 

"I  was  shivering  when  I  stood  there  in  that  alley- 
way," he  said,  "and  was  planning  how  I  could  man- 
age to  steal  a  coat,  or  what  I  could  do  to  get  sent  up 
again." 

"I  want  to  ask  you  a  favor,"  said  his  new  friend. 
"Try  to  forget  'Wicked  Jim.'  Do  not  think  of  him; 
do  not  speak  of  him;  never  relate  any  of  his  bad 
deeds." 

James  Newlife  is  an  exemplary  Christian  man, 
fairly  educated,  in  good  business,  with  a  pleasant 
home,  well  ordered  by  a  lovely  wife. 

He  is  active  in  all  good  work,  and  has  given  evi- 
dence that  it  was  indeed  the  Lord  who  had  sent  that 
kind-hearted  brother  after  him  that  bleak  March 
morning. — Anna  A.  Preston,  in  Am.  Messsenger. 


WINTER. 


The  enow  Is  here. 

And  fuel  Is  dear, 

And  woods  are  sear. 

And  flres  bum  clear, 

And  frost  Is  here, 

And  has  bitten  the  heel  of  the  going  year. 

Bite,  froBt,  bite  I 

Tou  roll  up  away  from  the  light 

The  blue  woodlouse,  and  the  plump  dormouse. 

And  the  bees  are  stlll'd.  and  the  flies  are  klll'd, 

And  you  bite  far  into  the  heart  of  the  house. 

But  not  into  mine. 

Bite,  frost,  bite ! 

The  woods  are  all  the  searer, 

The  fuel  is  all  the  dearer, 

The  fires  are  all  the  clearer, 

My  spring  is  all  the  nearer, 

Tou  have  bitten  into  the  heart  of  the  earth. 

But  not  into  mine.  —Teimyson. 


Her  father  had  died  shortly  before  this  time. 
Proud  of  her  discovery,  she  carried  it  off  to  the  bun- 
galow, and,  having  learned  something  of  the  habits 
of  the  ostrich  in  its  native  Sahara,  she  got  some  dry 
white  sand,  put  it  into  a  lidless  box,  and  half-bury- 
ing the  egg  within  it,  exposed  the  whole,  in  the 
brightest  spot  she  could  find,  to  the  mid-day  sun, 
and  when  evening  came  she  would  transfer  it,  box 
and  all,  to  the  care  of  a  hen,  whose  eggs  she  re- 
moved each  day  for  the  purpose.  Strange  to  say, 
the  hen  took  kindly  to  the  task,  and  in  due  time  the 
monster  chick  was  hatched.  The  foster  mother  took 
to  flight  at  the  sight  of  her  offspring.  But  the  girl 
supplied  its  place,  and  the  young  ostrich  used  to 
follow  her  about,  from  place  to  place,  share  the  bun- 
galow with  her,  and  eat  off  her  table.  But  the  fatal 
day  came  when  a  new  park-keeper  was  appointed, 
and  almost  his  first  act  was  to  claim  the  bird  as  gov- 
ernment property. 

It  was  accordingly  carried  off  to  the  Government 
aviary.  The  little  girl,  broken-hearted  at  the  loss 
of  her  pet,  took  to  her  bed  and  became  seriously  ill. 
But  a  kind-hearted  military  surgeon,  who  happened 
to  be  calling  on  the  widowed  mother  to  see  if  he 
could  do  anything  for  her,  heard  the  sad  story. 
Through  his  means  it  reached  the  ears  of  Sir  John 
Lawrence  at  Simla,  who,  by  return  of  post,  ordered 
that  the  bird  should  be  at  once  restored  to  its  right- 
ful owner.  There  was  a  joyful  meeting  between  the 
two  friends;  the  little  girl  soon  left  her  bed,  and,  on 
returning  to  England  a  few  weeks  later,  with  her 
mother,  she  carried  with  her  the  gigantic  pet  which 
had  been  born  and  bred  amid  such  curious  vicissi- 
tudes. 


TEMPERANCE. 


WOMEN  DRUNKARDS.— BOW   THE7  ARE 
MADE. 


TBB  STORY  OF  AN  08TRI0E. 


While  Sir  John  Lawrence  was  Viceroy  of  India 
and  busied  with  great  affairs,  such  as  putting  700,- 
000  children  into  state-aidtd  schools,  54,000  of  the 
number  girls  who  heretofore  had  been  despised; 
also  making  wonderful  improvements  in  jails  and 
barracks,  introducing  railroads  and  telegraphs,  and 
becoming,  as  Florence  Nightingale  said,  the  father 
of  sanitary  measures  in  India,  he  yet  listened  to  the 
petitions  of  very  humble  people,  and  interested  him- 
self in  doing  kind  acts  to  the  lowly,  as  the  following 
story  will  illustrate: 

Another  anecdote  illustrative  of  Sir  John  Law- 
rence's kindliness  of  heart,  especially  where  young 
children  were  concerned,  should  he  preserved. 
Early  in  1864  an  ostrich,  domiciled  in  the  Vice- 
regal park  at  Barrackpore,  happened  to  deposit  her 
first  egg  on  the  grass,  exposed  to  the  inclement  cli- 
mate of  that  time  of  the  year,  and  the  attacks  of 
jackals  and  foxes.  It  was  picked  up  by  the  daugh- 
ter of  the  park-keeper,  a  girl  of  eight  or  nine  years 


There  are  women  who  drink.  All  drinking  wo- 
men are  not  depraved,  but  every  depraved  woman 
drinks.  Abolish  strong  drink  and  the  social  evil 
would  instantly  shrink  to  one-fourth  its  present  di- 
mensions. A  large  proportion  of  all  crime  may  be 
directly  traced  to  intemperance;  nine-tenths  of  the 
crimes  committed  by  women  are  committed  in  the 
excitement  of  intoxication,  or  are  the  fruit  of  pov- 
erty or  depravity  caused  by  drink.  The  men  who 
frame  the  laws  that  protect  the  tralBc  in  rum,  are 
laying  weak,  unfranchised  womanhood  on  the  altars 
of  political  trickery  and  lust  for  gold.  They  know 
that  women,  high-minded,  unselfish  and  pure,  had 
they  power,  would  crush  the  traffic  that  curses  their 
lives  with  bitterest  woe;  but  the  power  is  withheld 
from  the  sufferers,  and  those  who  refuse  to  let  wo- 
man share  in  the  governing  power,  insist  on  misgov- 
erning to  woman's  hurt  and  shame.  The  olddog- 
in-the-manger  story  comes  to  mind,  but  it  is  too 
feeble  a  figure  to  illustrate  this  cruel  wrong.  One 
of  the  most  repellant  features  of  the  liquor  system 
is  its  selfish,  tyrannical,  heartless,  inhuman  attitude 
toward  the  noblest  and  gentlest  part  of  God's  crea- 
tion. A  sadly  patheiic  plea  for  down-trodden  wo- 
manhood will  be  found  in  the  subjoined  statistics 
recently  published  in  Godey's  Lady's  Book  by  L.  M. 
Hall,  Superintendent  of  the  Women's  Reformatory 
Prison  at  Shelborn,  Mass.: 

Out  of  an  examination  of  204  inebriate  women  I 
have  found  that  128  began  their  drinking  by  the 
use  of  beer,  thirty-seven  by  drinking  whisky  (as 
punch  at  first  usually),  twenty  began  with  wine, 
eight  with  gin,  and  eleven  could  not  remember 
what  beverage  was  first  used.  These  young  girls, 
mill  and  shop  girls  largely,  began  by  going  to  some 
so-called  refreshment  saloon  with  their  friends,  and 
the  debutante  usually  began  by  sipping  a  little  tonic 
(made  of  hops,  sugar  and  water,  charged  with  car- 
honic  acid  gas  and  colored  with  brown  sugar);  beer 
soon  followed,  and  soon  rioting,  other  kinds  of  in- 
toxicants, recklessness  and  crime;  and  what  was  an 
innocent,  foolish  girl  yesterday,  is  to  day  a  brand- 
ed criminal,  and  all  for  a  glass  of  beer.  AlasI 
how  many  ruined  lives  I  have  seen. 

Beer  was  also  the  beverage  which  older  inebriate 
women  used  to  entice  the  younger  ones  to  drink.  A 
call  upon  one  of  these  old  sots  was  the  signal  for 
the  pitcher  of  beer  to  be  sent  for,  and  a  little  coax- 
ing and  urging  would  result  in  the  first  fatal  glass 
being  indulged  in.  The  stops  were  then  easy.  Beer 
is  the  trap  which  the  drunkard  maker  sets  for  the 
feet  of  the  unwary.  And  he  usually  mekes  sure 
of  his  prey  because  of  it  A  glass  of  raw  whisky 
would  have  presented  but  slight  attraction  to  these 
overworked,  half-fed  girls,  had  it  been  offered  to 
them  at  first.  After  that  sleeping  devil,  the  appe- 
tite for  intoxicants,  had  been  aroused  by  beer,  it  be- 
came altogether  a  different  matter,  and  at  last,  in 
many  cases,  chloroform  or  peppermint  oil  was  added 
to  the  drink  of  these  maddened  creatures,  so  furi- 


ous had  the  appetite  become  for  something  stronger. 

It  may  be  of  interest  to  note  that  out  of  the  204 
inebriate  women,  126  had  beenguilty  of  other  crimes, 
and  yet  in  but  sixteen  instances  did  the  first  com- 
mitment of  a  crime  antedate  the  habit  of  drinking. 

Of  the  beverages  first  uspd,  while  in  but  thirty- 
seven  cases  it  began  with  whisky,  in  187  it  had  be- 
come the  favorite  beverage.  Several  hopeless  drunk- 
ards, far  gone  toward  insanity,  had  never  drunk  any 
other  intoxicant  than  beer. 

One  hundred  and  thirty-two  were  committed  to 
prison  for  drunkenness,  56  for  offences  against  chas- 
tity and  public  order,  and  16  for  crimes  against  prop- 
erty. Their  ages  when  last  committed  averaged 
thirty  and  a  half  years.  Sixty-five  were  between  30 
and  41  years  of  age,  49  between  25  and  31  years  of 
age,  34  between  20  and  26  years  of  age,  30  between 
15  and  21  years  of  age.  The  remainder  were  over 
41  years  of  age. 

Many  of  the  older  ones  (;ould  not  tell  how  many 
sentences  they  had  received,  showing  the  absolute 
uselessness  of  punishing  those  poor  creatures  while 
the  temptations  are  left  in  their  way. 

To  show  the  effect  upon  the  children  of  inebriate 
parentage  I  collected  the  following:  Of  111  inebri- 
ate mothers,  33  of  whom  had  inebriate  husbands, 
408  children  were  born.  Of  these,  227  perished  in 
infancy  and  early  childhood,  and  of  the  survivers 
many  are  doomed  evidently  to  an  early  death.  In 
many  cases  the  death  of  these  children  was  indi- 
rectly due  to  the  inebriety  of  the  parents,  through 
cold,  deprivation,  etc.  Ages:  Twenty-seven  of  the 
204  women  began  to  drink  intoxicants  before  they 
were  ten  years  of  age;  11  between  the  ages  of  9  and 
15,  74  between  14  and  21,  37  between  20  and  26,  33 
between  25  and  31,  19  between  30  and  41,  3  between 
40  and  51. 

Average  age,  eighteen  and  one-half  years.  More 
than  one-half  formed  habits  of  intemperance  before 
they  were  twenty-one  years  of  age,  and  more  than 
one-third  at  the  giddy  age  of  from  fifteen  to  twenty 
inclusive. 


THE  ANTI NUISANCE  LEAGUE. 

The  recent  decision  of  the  United  States  Supreme 
Court  in  the  Kansas  prohibitory  cases  has  led  to  the 
inauguration  of  a  movement  in  this  city,  as  novel  as 
it  promises  to  be  interesting.  That  decision,  it  will 
be  recalled,  is  to  the  effect  that  a  State  has  the  right 
to  declare  the  liquor  traffic,  including  its  manufac- 
ture, a  nuisance  and  absolutely  abate  it.  Those  who 
are  behind  the  movement  alluded  to  propose  to  test 
the  applicability  of  the  common  law  against  nui- 
sances to  the  license  system  generally,  and,  by  a 
series  of  suits,  carry  the  matter  through  the  various 
State  courts,  and  up  to  the  United  States  Supreme 
Court.  The  organization  is  to  be  called  the  "Anti- 
Nuisance  League,"  and  the  membership  will  be  com- 
posed of  men  of  all  shades  of  political  belief  who 
may  agree  that  decision  affords  reasonable  ground 
for  the  belief  that  the  common  law  against  the  main- 
tenance of  nuisances  may  be  made  to  apply  univer- 
sally, including  the  liquor  traffic.  So  sanguine  are 
the  promoters  of  this  novel  proceeding  in  its  suc- 
cess, that  the  sum  of  $10,000  has  been  already 
pledged  for  the  test,  and  the  League  is  in  process  of 
formation.  It  is  also  proposed  that  these  suits  shall 
be  commenced  simultaneously  in  several  States  un- 
der the  direction  of  the  League. — Demorett's  Monthly. 
^  »  ^ 

SOME  TEMPERANCE  MAXIMS. 


Better  fall  with  Truth  than  stand  with  her  under 
your  feet. 

Until  the  old  parties  obtain  a  divorce  from  the 
Rum  Hag  they  are  not  at  liberty  to  court   Prohibi 
tionists. 

A  plank  in  a  party  platform  with  one  end  on 
Plymouth  Rock— ami  the  other  on  a  beer  barrel  is 
not  equally  supported. — Rtv.  Joel  Swartz,  Gettyi- 
hurg,  Fa. 

City  Collector  Oaahan  of  Chicago  has  refused  to 
issue  a  saloon  license  to  T.  G.  OConner,  at  the  cor- 
ner of  Harrison  Street  and  Hermitage  Avenue. 
This  was  done  in  compliance  with  a  petition  from 
all  the  professors  in  the  medical  college  in  the  vi- 
cinity, who  represented  that  the  saloon  would  have 
a  demoralizing  effect  on  their  students.  Why  can- 
not all  other  colleges  and  the  public  schools  have 
the  same  privilege? 

The  Reform  League  of  Keokuk,  Iowa,  intends  to 
rid  that  city  of  saloons  very  soon.  In  case  the  liq- 
uor men  are  driven  out  it  is  said  they  intend  to  mi- 
grate and  resume  business  at  Warsaw,  Hamilton 
and  Nauvoo,  in  Illinois  The  people  in  the  towns 
last  named  are  greatly  excited  over  the  matter,  and 
threaten  to  make  it  warm  for  the  liquor  men  in  the 
event  of  an  invasion. 


12 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


February  2, 1888 


I 


LITBBATVBE  {Continued  from  9th  page.) 

The  Emperor,  taking  a  pencil  and  placing  it  firmly 
at  a  point  on  the  paper,  says,  'That,  sir,  is  St.  Pe- 
tersburg;' then,  drawing  a  straight  line  energetically 
to  another  point,  'and  that  is  Moscow;  make  me  that 
road.'  'But  what,'  interposed  the  engineer,  'will  be- 
come of  the  cities?'  'Do  not  know,  sir;  let  the  cities 
take  care  of  themselves.'  It  is  time  to  inaugurate 
an  era  of  free  speech,  and  cease  to  pursue  the  old 
tortuous  path  for  fear  of  affecting  the  interests  of 
some  church,  society,  or  party  which  never  had  any 
right  to  exist,  which  is  even  now  nigh  unto  cursing, 
and  fit  for  nothing  but  to  be  consumed  by  God's 
judgments.  Let  them  take  care  of  themselves. 
But  let  us  see  to  it  that  we  are  faithful  to  truth, 
and  true  to  our  own  convictions  of  justice  and  right- 
eousness." Near  the  close  he  said:  "Is  it  consti- 
tutional to  save  the  life  of  the  nation?  Is  not  the 
nation  more  than  the  Constitution?  Was  not  the 
Constitution  made  for  the  nation,  and  not  the  nation 
for  the  Constitution?  The  Constitution  is  nothing 
but  a  paper — a  mere  parchment — good  for  nothing 
except  in  so  far  as  it  answers  the  great  end  for 
which  it  was  framed.  The  moment  it  fails  to  do 
this,  we  not  only  may,  but  should  cast  it  aside  and 
make  another.  If  it  were  true  that  the  Constitution 
stands  in  the  way  of  the  salvation  of  the  nation, 
then  at  once  I  would  cut  the  Grordiaa  knot,  tear  the 
Constitution  to  tatters,  and  trample  it  underfoot." 
Then  referring  to  the  raising  of  the  obelisk  in  Rome 
in  1586,  when  the  Pope  had  decreed  that  any  one 
speaking  while  it  went  up  should  die,  and  the  tackle 
failing  to  carry  it  to  its  place,  a  workman  shouted, 
"Wet  the  ropes!"  he  continued:  "Command  or  uo 
command,  law  or  no  law.  Constitution  or  no  Consti- 
tution, let  us  shout.  Wet  the  ropes!  Free  the  slaves!"' 

His  addresses  before  the  National  Reform  Conven- 
tions in  Cincinnati  and  New  York  are  full  of  inter- 
est. Here  is  a  paragraph  from  his  lecture  on  Free- 
masonry: "It  is  Mr.  John  Foster  in  his  essay  on 
popular  ignorance,  I  believe,  who  employs  an  illus- 
tration of  this  kind:  An  officer  was  sent  out  to  take 
a  fortress;  he  failed:  his  excuse  was,  that  it  was 
mud;  if  it  had  been  wood,  he  might  have  shattered 
or  burned  it;  if  it  had  been  stone,  repeated  blows 
would  have  crumbled  it;  but  the  thing  was  mud, 
and  the  balls  simply  struck  in  it,  without  doing  it 
any  injury.  Something  of  the  same  difficulty  is  en- 
countered in  dealing  with  Freemasonry:  it  has  no 
basis  of  truth  on  which  it  rests:  it  is  supported  by 
no  argument;  it  has  no  results  to  which  it  may 
point  as  a  support  to  its  pretensions;  there  it  stands, 
repeating  with  damnable  iteration  its  high-sounding 
phrases,  with  unblushing  repetition  its  exposed 
falsehoods,  and  putting  forward  its  arrogant  preten- 
sions with  as  impudent  an  assurance  as  though  its 
utter  hollowness  and  baseness  had  never  been  ex- 
posed. It  is  a  fortress  of  mud,  resting  on  the  igno- 
rance, infatuation,  and  prejudice  of  its  dupes,  on 
which  argument  is  lost.  How  shall  we  deal  with 
such  a  sham?  When  we  read  of  the  numbers  which 
this  institution  claims,  we  are  reminded  of  the  cyn- 
ical remark  of  Carlyle,  'These  islands  contain  thirty 
millions  more  or  less  of  inhabitants,  mostly  fools.'  " 
"Not  a  week  has  passed  since  a  good  man  told  me 
that  when  a  boy  he  was  in  the  village  of  Caledo- 
nia, N.  Y.;  he  went  into  the  shop  of  a  respectable 
carpenter  in  the  village;  the  man  came  into  his  shop; 
said  he,  'I  have  just  now  seen  a  sight  that  made  my 
blood  run  cold.'  It  was  Morgan  as  he  was  carried 
away  to  his  imprisonment  and  death,  a  crime  yet 
unatoned  for  and  unrepented  of,  and  chargeable  at 
this  hour  upon  the  institution  of  Masonry  in  these 
United  States." 

His  lectures  on  "Theories  of  Evolution,"  "Save 
the  Youth,"  "Preaching,"  and  "The  Theology  for 
the  Times,"  bristle  with  points  of  interest.  His  ser- 
mons on  "The  Word,"  "On  National  Sins,"  and 
"Christ  in  History,"  close  the  volume.  From  the 
first  take  this:  "When  the  celebrated  Robert  Hall 
was  reproached  with  meddling  in  politics,  he  replied, 
'The  plain  state  of  the  case  is,  the  writer  is  offended, 
not  at  my  meddling  with  politics,  but  that  I  have 
meddled  on  the  wrong  side.'  "  "  'Do  you  see  that 
leader?'  said  the  driver  of  a  stage  coach  in  England, 
to  a  gentleman  who  sat  on  the  box  at  his  side. 
'Yes,  sir;  what  of  him?'  was  the  reply.  'Well,  when 
he  comes  to  that  gate,  he  always  shies.  I  must  give 
him  something  to  think  of,'  and  coming  down  with 
a  sharp  blow  of  the  whip  upon  his  flank,  the  spirited 
creature  darts  forward,  forgetful  of  the  object  of  his 
former  alarm.  These  leaders  must  be  made  to  feel 
that  their  fear  of  disastrous  results  to  their  particu- 
lar ecclesiastical  organizations,  should  they  prove 
true  to  themselves,  to  the  oppressed  victims  of  an 
outrageous  tyranny,  and  to  God,  is  wholly  ground- 
less, or,  at  all  events,  far  from  the  greatest  misfor- 
tune that  might  befall  the  cause  of  truth  and  right- 
eousness."    Earnestness  is  essential.     "  'Why  is  it,' 


a  minister  is  said  to  have  asked  Garrick,  'that  you 
actors  produce  so  deep  an  impression  with  your 
falsehoods,  we  ministers  so  feeble  an  one  with  our 
truth?'  'Because,'  said  the  witty  actor,  'we  speak 
our  lies  as  though  they  were  true,  you  speak  your 
truths  as  though  they  were  lies.'  The  old  canon  of 
criticism,  'If  you  wish  me  to  weep,  you  must  first 
weep  yourself,'  applicable  to  all  forms  of  speech,  is 
eminently  true  of  this." 

The  book  is  invaluable.  Every  Covenanter  ought 
to  have  it,  every  Presbyterian  ought  to  study  it, 
every  Christian  would  be  blessed  in  reading  it. 
Dr.  Sloane  was  a  great,  strong,  grand  Christian;  a 
true  friend,  an  earnest  patriot,  a  calm  leader  in  the 
fury  of  the  battle,  an  eminent  preacher,  an  upright, 
straight-forward,  well-rounded,  manly  man. 

J.  M.  Foster. 

Scribner's  Magazine  for  February  is  rich  ia  illustrated 
articles,  which  are  also  of  unusual  interest  in  their  text. 
The  leading  article,  entitled  "Mendelssohn's  Letters  to 
Moscheles,"  is  the  first  of  two  which  have  been  made 
from  a  remarkable  collection  of  manuscripts  which  lias 
been  for  nearly  half  a  century  iathe  possession  of  Felix, 
the  son  of  Ignsz  Moscheles,  the  eminent  composer  and 
most  trusted  freind  of  Mendelssohn.  Another  handsome- 
ly illustrated  article  is  Professor  N.  S.  Shaler's  paper  on 
"Volcanoes,"  He  describes  in  clear,  unconventional 
language  the  theory  of  the  origin  of  volcanoes,  pictures 
some  noted  eruptions,  and  relates  some  personal  experi- 
ences during  an  ascent  of  Vesuvius.  A  feature  of  the 
article  is  an  unusually  bright  and  correct  translation  by 
Professor  J.  G.  Croswell  of  the  famous  letters  of  the 
younger  Pliny,  in  which  he  describes  the  eruption  of 
Vesuvius  in  63  A.  D.  Among  the  illustrations  are  a 
number  of  picturesque  views  of  the  great  volcanic  erup- 
tion which  occurred  a  few  years  ago  in  the  Sandwich  Is- 
lands. Joseph  B.  Bishop,  whose  paper,  read  last  winter 
before  the  Commonwealth  Club  of  New  York,  attracted 
such  favorable  notice,  writes  briefly  of  "The  Law  and 
the  Ballot,"  and  advocates  certain  measures  which  will 
tend  to  the  break-down  of  machine  rule  in  politics,  and 
lead  to  the  purification  of  the  ballot  as  an  expression  of 
the  individual  will 

Notice  was  lately  made  in  the  Cynosure  ot  Bro.  I.R.  B. 
Arnold's  Bible  reading  and  exposition  of  Christian 
prayer  at  a  union  meeting  in  the  College  Hall.Wheaton. 
The  Scripture  passages  of  this  interesting  address  have 
been  neatly  printed  on  slips  in  large  type  and  can  be  used 
by  any  ingenious  pastor  with  excellent  effect.  He  will 
send  to  all  such  pastors  the  papers  for  this  Bible  reading 
if  they  agree  to  take  up  a  collection  for  Western  Home 
Missions . 

C.  F.  Holder,  the  well  known  naturalist,  opens  the 
February  American  Magazine  with  an  illustrated  article, 
"In  the  Heart  of  the  Sierra  Madre."  The  explorer  en- 
tered the  vast  mountain  region  north  of  Pasadena  by  the 
trail  running  up  the  Arroyo  Seco,  a  canon  lying  just  to 
the  west  of  the  little  farms  of  Joha  Brown's  sons  and  of 
John  Brown  mountain,  where  his  bold  children  have  tak- 
en their  abode  in  an  eyrie  overlooking  all  the  San  Ga 
briel  valley,  Los  Angeles,  and  far  out  to  sea.  Most  of 
the  illustrations  are  of  the  scenery  of  this  canon,  but  one 
is  of  the  beautiful  fall  some  miles  up  Millard  canon, 
which  forms  a  bright  memory  in  the  mind  of  the  writer, 
who  was  guided  into  this  romantic  region  by  T.  K.  Buf- 
kin,  a  warm-hearted  friend  and  Christian  reformer.  J. 
Macdonald  Oxley  contributes  an  interesting  and  valuable 
resume  of  the  results  obtained  by  expeditions  which  the 
Canadian  government  has  recently  sent  to  explore  Hud- 
son's Bay .  The  object  of  the  explorations  is  to  determine 
the  feasibility  of  a  north-west  passage  to  the  North-west 
itself.  Mr.  Oxley  adds  an  entertaining  account  of  the 
natives  dwelling  on  the  margin  of  "The  Inland  Ocean  of 
the  North."  An  unusual  variety  of  articles  fill  up  the 
number. 

The  February  Missionary  Review  contains  a  masterly 
paper  on  Japan  by  Prof.  Knox  of  the  College  at  Tokio; 
an  intensely  interesting  Biography  of  Africa's  Martyr 
Bishop— Hannington— by  Dr.  Pierson;  a  valuable  article 
on  the  Evangelical  Alliance's  recent  grand  conference  at 
Washington,  and  another  on  the  Crisis  of  our  Country: 
"The  Progress  of  Islam,"  and  a  remarkable  paper  on 
American  missionaries  in  China  by  our  resident  minister 
there.  This  Beview  is  unsectarian,  independent,  and 
world-wide  in  its  scope.  It  presents  the  facts  and  results 
and  operations  of  missions  all  over  the  world .  It  has 
editorial  correspondents  at  every  great  centre  and  gives 
the  latest  information  from  every  field.  It  makes  a  spec 
ialty  of  statistics,  and  aims  to  give,  classified  and  tabu- 
lated, the  entire  missionary  statistics  of  the  world  from 
authentic  sources,  which  will  be  invaluable  to  every  pas 
tor  and  friend  of  missions . 


RELIGIOUS  News. 


— Bro.  B.  Loveless,  the  Wheaton  evangelist,  is 
engaged  in  meetings  at  Lyndon,  111.,  where  great 
interest  has  been  aroused,  and  many  conversions  re- 
ported. 

— C.  H.  Yatman;  ia  still  in  Peoria,  and  his  work 
is  ))le8sed  with  gracious  results,  many  conversions 
being  experienced  in  answer  to  the  prayers  of  the 
church. 

— Col.  G.  K.  Clarke  and  wife,  who  have  been  con- 
ducting the  Pacific  Garden  Mission,  Chicago,  held 
724  meetings  last  year;  3,535  persons  were  at  the 
altar,  and  many  saved. 


— As  a  result  of  a  revival  in  Cambridge,  111.,  75 
professed  conversion.  The  pastor,  W.  W.  Carr.was 
aided  by  Miss  Anna  Downey. 

— Methodism  in  Japan  is  of  only  fourteen  years' 
growth,  but  there  are  now  over  3,300  communicants 
in  the  various  Methodist  bodies.  The  Methodist 
Episcopal  church,  which  is  the  strongest,  has  30 
missionaries,  with  2,500  members. 

— Rev.  Mr.  Jackson,  pastor  of  the  First  Baptist 
church  (colored)  New  Orleans,  and  president  of  the 
Baptist  State  Convention  believes  in  refusing  ad- 
mission to  church  membership  to  members  of  secret 
lodges  and  puts  his  belief  into  practice  in  his  own 
church. 

— Dr.  Pentecost,  who  is  holding  a  protracted 
meeting  in  Lawrence,  Mass.,  is  receiving  a  warm 
response  from  the  Christian  people  of  that  city.  All 
the  churches  are  united  in  the  work.  The  audience 
during  the  last  week  numbered  five  hundred  in  the 
afternoon  Bible-reading  service,  and  from  eight  to 
eleven  hundred  in  the  evening  preaching  service. 

— Evangelist  Mills  is  holding  services  in  Philadel- 
phia. Ten  churches,  representing  seven  denomina- 
tions, unite  in  these  services,  which  are  held  eve- 
nings in  the  Central  Congregational  church  and  af- 
ternoons in  the  other  churches  in  turn. 

— Dr.  Roth,  who  some  months  ago  resigned  the 
presidency  of  Thiel  College,  has  accepted  a  call  to 
an  English  Lutheran  mission  in  Chicago.  At  the 
same  time  he  will  become  Dr.  Passavant's  assistant 
in  the  management  of  the  various  charitable  insti- 
tutions under  the  control  of  the  latter.  Dr.  Passa- 
vant  is  becoming  old  and  his  health  infirm. 

— There  is  a  great  call  now  for  foreign  teachers 
in  the  government  schools  of  Japan,  and  Mr.  D.  L. 
Moody  has  become  interested  in  sending  out  Chris- 
tian teachers  to  occupy  those  position.  Thev  will 
have  a  great  influence  on  the  future  of  Japan. 
These  teachers  will  receive  fair  salaries  from  the 
government  after  being  engaged,  but  their  expenses 
to  Japan,  and  until  they  begin  work,  must  be  paid 
by  themselves  or  friends  in  America. 

— A  few  weeks  ago  about  5,000  Protestants  of 
Cevennes,  France,  celebrated,  on  the  top  of  one  of 
the  mountains  where  their  ancestors  used  to  meet 
on  Sunday,  the  centenary  of  toleration,  signed  in 
1787  by  Louis  XVI.  The  ceremony  is  described  by 
an  eye-witness  as  singularly  impressive.  A  rustic 
pulpit  had  been  erected  on  the  summit  of  the  wild 
mountain  which  formed  there  a  plateau.  Thirty  pas- 
tors, in  black  silk  gowns,  were  seated  in  front,  and 
on  a  ridge  behind  them  the  congregation.  A  com- 
memorative stone  was  unveiled  by  the  Patriarch  of 
Cevennes,  and  pastor  Vigue,  of  the  faculty  of  Pro- 
testant Theology  of  Paris,  preached  a  sermon  on 
religious  toleration  and  kindliness.  He  took  his 
text  from  a  passage  in  St.  Paul's  Epistles  to  the 
Corinthians  on  charity. 

— The  installation  of  Rev.  Geo.  H.  Sharpley  as 
pastor  of  the  Second  Reformed  church  at  Pella, 
Iowa,  took  place  Jan.  18.  The  charge  to  the  con- 
gregation by  Rev.  Wm.  Moerdykof  the  First  Church 
showed  the  deep  interest  of  a  Hollander  in  the  suc- 
cess of  the  American  enterprise,  and  a  recollection 
of  his  earnest  counsel  will  increase  the  prosperity  of 
the  church. 

— During  the  last  thirteen  years  the  Gettysburg 
Theological  Seminary  has  graduated  177  men  who 
were  ordained  to  the  Lutheran  ministrj'.  At  pres- 
ent the  seminary  has  an  attendance  of  forty-six, 
which  is  greater  than  ever  before  in  the  history  of 
the  institution.  Of  the  graduates  of  Pennsylvania 
College  at  Gettysburg  during  the  fifty-four  years  of 
its  existence,  more  than  400  have  entered  the  min- 
istry. Sixteen  have  been  presidents  of  the  college, 
thirty-nine  professors  in  colleges  and  fifteen  profes- 
sors in  theological  seminaries. 

— The  late  William  Hilton,  who  was  a  member  of 
the  old  South  Church,  Boston,  in  his  will  bequeaths 
$50,000  each  to  the  American  Board,  the  American 
Home  Missionary  Society,  the  Massachusetts  Gen- 
eral Hospital,  Phillips  Academy,  Andover  Seminary, 
Harvard  University,  Amherst  and  Williams  Colleg- 
es; the  colleges  to  use  the  amounts  left  to  each  in 
the  education  of  needy  students.  Also,  $25,000 
each  10  the  American  Missionary  Association  and 
the  Boston  City  Missionary  Society;  and  $10,000 
each  to  the  Boston  Young  Woman's  Christian  Asso- 
ciation, the  Home  for  Little  Wanderers  and  Abbot 
Academy.  These  sums,  under  the  conditions  of  the 
will,  may  not  be  paid  in  a  number  of  years. 

— Dr.  Somerville,  of  the  Free  Church  of  Scotland, 
is  having  extraoidinary  success  in  his  evangeliza- 
tion mission  to  the  Jews  of  Austria.  His  meet- 
ings in  Vienna,  where,  contrary  to  expectation,  the 
authorities  allowed  him  to  speak,  were  crowded,  and 
a  strong  impression  was  maide,  as  at  Prague. 


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February  2, 1888 


THE  CHKISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


13 


Lodge  Notes. 

The  Detroit  Knight  Templar  Masons 
lately  had  a  banquet  in  which  the  de- 
mands of  their  stomachs  ran  up  a  bill  of 
$3,000  more  than  their  pocket  books  were 
willing  to  supply.  The  balance  was  left 
to  a  committee! 

There  was  bitter  wrangling  at  the 
meeting  last  Sunday  of  the  Central  Labor 
"Union, New  York.between  the  Knights  of 
Labor  and  their  opponents.  The  brew- 
ery engineers  who  left  the  knights  and 
organized  an  open  union  are  seeking  ad- 
mission to  the  Central  Labor  Union.  This 
is  opposed  by  the  knights  on  the  techni- 
cality that  they  have  not  been  organized 
six  months,  as  the  rules  require. 

In  the  announcements  in  a  late  single 
Chicago  daily  of  meetings  for  which  ex- 
cursion rates  were  granted  by  the  railway 
lines,  there  appear  seven  lodge  gather- 
ings thus  favored.  Among  these  are 
Grand  Army,  Odd-fellows,  Ladies  Relief, 
Good  Templars,  "Ancient  Order  of  Unit 
ed  Workmen,"  and  two  of  Lieutent  Gov 
ernor  Grand  Master  Smith's  Masonic 
schools  of  instruction  at  Carthage.Chica- 
go  and  Peoria,  111. 

A  Toronto  dispatch  says,  "The  decline 
in  the  Knights  of  Labor  as  to  numbers 
goes  steadily  on  here .  All  the  assemblies 
show  decreases,  some  to  a  very  large  ex- 
tent .  One  assembly  had  600  members  a 
year  ago,  and  now  has  only  sixty.  Five 
months  ago  there  were  in  this  city  fully 
4,000  Knights  of  Labor.  It  is  doubtful 
if  there  are  1,000  now.  Internal  dissen- 
sions and  dissatisfaction  with  the  man- 
agement of  the  order  are  alleged  as  the 
causes  of  this  remarkable  decrease." 

The  Knights  of  Labor  Assembly  atiio 
ver.N.  H, which  had  800  members  a  year 
ago,  now  has  only  sixty-eight.  Some 
members  favor  dividing  the  $4,155  in  the 
treasury  among  the  members,  but  Master 
Workman  Mellen  opposed  division.  He 
refused  to  entertain  a  motion  for  the  pur- 
pose at  a  meeting  When  he  was  about 
to  open  a  meeting,  Jan  4th,  he  was  call- 
ed to  the  door  and  arrested  in  a  suit  by 
two  members  for  alleged  libel.  Worthy 
Foreman  Pray  called  the  meeting  to  or- 
der, and  it  was  voted  to  divide  the  mon- 
ey. Mellen  obtained  bail  and  returned 
to  the  hall  just  after  the  meeting  had  ad- 
journed. He  called  another  meeting  in 
secret  session,  and  he  and  his  friends  are 
supposed  to  have  installed  the  new  offi- 
cers recently  elected,  and  who  all  stand 
by  the  master  workman. 

The  Knights  of  Labor  convention  in 
San  Francisco  Sunday  was  captured  by 
the  Socialists,  who  elected  Thomas  Pay- 
ser,  a  notorious  Socialist  as  master  work- 
man. Payser  was  mainly  instrumental 
in  getting  passed  last  week  a  resolution 
condemniHg  the  attempt  on  Louise  Mich- 
el's life,  and  alluding  to  his  martyred 
brethren  in  Chicago .  There  was  a  strong 
conservative  element  among  the  knights, 
and  they  elected  their  president  last  year; 
but  this  year  the  Socialists  succeeded  in 
suspending  a  number  of  assemblies  hos- 
tile to  them  and  reinstating  others  whose 
votes  they  wore  sure  of.  The  conserva 
lives  hope  to  reverse  this  election  when 
the  delegate  sent  here  by  Powderly,  who 
is  now  on  his  way,  makes  an  investiga- 
tion. The  order  there  has  fallen  from  a 
membership  of  several  thousand  to  400, 
and  if  the  Socialists  run  it  for  another 
year  they  will  kill  it. 

T.  B  Barry,  of  Michigan,  a  member  of 
the  Knights  of  Labor  Executive  Roard, 
was  in  Detroit  recently,  and  in  conversa 
tion  with  a  prominent  knight  stated  that 
hundreds  of  assemblies  have  not  paid  one 
cent  into  the  General  Assembly  since  the 
Minneapolis  Convention  was  rapped  into 
adjournment.  In  February,  1880,  there 
were  over  8,000  Knights  of  Labor  in 
good  standing  in  the  city  of  Detroit  To 
day  there  are  about  fifteen  hundred,  al- 
though the  estimate  has  been  placed  as 
low  as  eight  hundred.  Assemblies  are 
disbanding.some  to  become  trades  unions, 
others  with  no  special  object  in  view,  ex- 
cept to  get  away  from  the  Knights  of  La- 
bor. The  educational  features  of  the  or 
der  have  been  practically  abolished,  and 
discussions  of  the  many  phases  of  so- 
cial and  economic  questions  are  confined 
to  probably  one  or  two  assemblies.  This 
state  of  affairs  is  regretted  by  the  work- 
ingmen,  but  nevertheless  it  is  absolutely 
correct.  The  cause  of  the  wholesale  de- 
fection is  said  to  be  because  politicians, 
who  have  crept  into  the  order,  have 
sought  self-advancement  rather  than  the 
good  of  labor .  These,  it  is  alleged,  are 
numbered  by  the  score  in  every  large  city 
where  the  KnighU  of  Labor  exist. 


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THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


Pebrttary  2, 1888 


HOME  HINTS. 


ABOUT  LAMPS. 

Don't  have  in  every  room  a  beautiful 
lamp,  softened  and  shaded  so  that  it  is 
"just  light  enough  to  see  how  dark  it  is." 
The  "dim,  religious  light"  is  becoming 
and  JBSthetic,  but  somewhere,  wherever 
the  most  reading  is  done,  we  want  a  good 
strong  light.  I  have  in  my  mind  a  picture 
of  a  great  six-foot  man  whom  I  know, 
wandering  helplessly  around  from  one 
shaded,  lace  trimmed  lamp  to  another, 
trying  "to  find  a  lamp  without  a  petti- 
coat," by  which  to  read  his  evening  pa- 
per. Let  the  useful  German  student,  or 
the  Argand  drop  light,  hold  a  place  of 
honor,  especially  if  there  are  very  young 
or  old  eyes  to  bend  over  the  printed  page. 
There  are  many  lamps,  beautiful  to  light- 
en a  dark  corner,  that  are  useless  on  a 
center-table.  There  has  been  a  species 
of  carved  brass  shade  invented  lately,  set 
here  and  there  with  great  bull's-eyes  of 
colored  glass.  Beware  of  it.  It  is  fair 
to  look  upon,  but  difficult  to  read  by. 
First,  the  light  through  the  red  bull's  eye 
will  smite  your  long-suffering  optic,  and 
if  you  dodge  that  it  is  only  to  fall  to  the 
more  pensive  blue.  After  prancing 
around  one  of  these  shades  a  whole  eve- 
ning, I  went  to  bed  and  dreamed  I  was 
looking  at  fireworks. 

Rose  is  the  prettiest  all-over  color  for 
a  shade,  and  yellow  next;  blue  is  apt  to 
make  people  look  a  little  ghastly.  There 
are  all  kinds  of  crocheted,  silk,  ribbon, 
lace  and  paper  shades,  but  they  all  lose 
their  color  before  long,  if  put  on  n,x'.  to 
the  glass  shade,  and  then  they  look  so 
scorched  and  forlorn,and  show  so  plainly 
that  they  "have  seen  better  days,"  that 
one  regrets  the  time  spent  in  making 
them .  I  saw  some  pretty  shades  lately 
made  of  pink  and  yellow  crape.  They 
were  just  big  circles  of  crape, with  a  hole 
cut  in  the  middle  for  the  chimney  and 
top  of  the  shade.  The  lower  edge  was 
trimmed  with  lace.  They  fell  in  soft 
folds,  and  shaded  a  lamp  without  extin- 
guishing it.  Now  a  word  as  to  the  care 
of  lamps,  which  few  servants  understand. 
They  should  be  kept  perfectly  clean  and 
filled  every  day.  The  wick  should  be 
rubbed  off,  not  cut,  and  the  chimneys 
washed  whenever  they  are  the  least 
smoked, with  a  little  ammonia  and  water, 
which  clears  thpm  instantly.  There  is 
nothing  Ibat  will  reward  your  care  more, 
for  a  preiiy,  well-trimmed  lamp  lends 
beau'y  to  a  whole  room,  while  a  smoky, 
smelling  one  destroys  an  evening's  pleas- 
ure.— Congregadonaliat . 

THE  CALIFORNIA  REDWOOD. 

While  traveling  in  California  I  became 
acquainted  with  the  redwood  tree,  which 
there  grows  to  an  immense  size.  A  nice, 
large  new  house  was  pointed  out  to  me 
entirely  of  the  wood  from  one  of  thote 
trees;  the  fence  that  went  all  round  it  at 
some  little  distance  included.  It  is  fast 
coming  into  ute  for  house  decoration 
and  the  manufacture  of  furniture.  It 
takes  a  high  polish  and  is  as  handsome 
as  the  more  expensive  woods,  which  are 
getting  scarce.  It  is  a  good  substitute 
for  rosewood,  the  supply  of  which  is  said 
to  be  extinct.— M. A. B. 

Prof.  Brinton  says  that  the  very  best 
thing  for  a  sprain  is  to  put  the  limb  into 
a  vessel  of  very  hot  water  immediately, 
then  adding  boiling  water  as  it  can  be 
borne.  Keep  the  part  immersed  for 
twenty  minutes,  or  until  the  pain  sub- 
sides; then  apply  a  tight  bandage  and 
order  rest.  Sometimes  the  joint  can  be 
used  in  twelve  hours.  If  necessary,  use 
a  silicate  of  sodium  dressing 

Sometimes  the  lampwick  will  obsti- 
nately refuse  to  be  turned  up  in  an  or- 
derly manner.  It  will  seem  firmly  wedged 
at  one  side,  while  the  other  will  run  up 
in  a  point,  causing  weariness  and  vexa- 
tion of  spirit.  To  overcome  this  de- 
pravity take  a  new  wick,  draw  out  a  sin- 
gle thread  near  the  selvage,  and  the  wick 
will  be  found  quite  tractable  when  intro- 
duced into  the  burner.  The  cogs  will 
take  it  up  properly,  and  it  will  appear  in 
good  form  and  give  an  even  flame  when 
lighted. 

Frank  Beardsley's  little  two-year  old 
boy,  of  North  Lansing,  came  near  losing 
its  life  on  Thursday.  It  obtained  a  piece 
of  concentrated  lye  from  the  sinque  where 
Mrs.  B.  had  been  using  it,  and  ate  quite 
a  piece  of  it  before  being  discovered. 
They  were  terribly  alarmed  and  i  ent  for 
the  doctor,  and  during  the  neantime 
gave  it  large  doses  of  caster  oil  \>  hich  the 
child  would  shortly  after  each  dose  throw  ^ 


up  in  chunks  of  soap,  the  oil  uniting 
with  the  lye.  It  was  the  means  of  saving 
the  child's  life,  as  the  necessary  delay  in 
getting  a  doctor  would  have  proved  fatal 
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THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


In  Beief. 


The  inventor  of  the  original  Babcock 
flre-extinp;ui8her  died  in  an  almshouse 
the  other  day.  His  extinguisher  sudden- 
ly made  him  rich,  speedily  spoiled  him, 
and  flnally  extinguished  him. 

Thre  ■  little  boys  arrived  from  New 
South  Wales  at  New  York,  bound  to  their 
father,  Thomas  Jones,  at  Nanticoke,  Pa. 
They  were  between  the  ages  of  5  and  10 
}  ears,  and  each  had  a  tag  attached  to  his 
coat 

In  1880  a  train  on  the  Northern  Pdciflc 
was  thirty  days  in  getting  from  Fargo  to 
Bismarck,  D.  T.  The  wires  were  tapped 
and  a  newspaper  written  every  day;  and 
a  child  was  born  on  the  train  while  snow 
bound. 

Citizens  of  Buffalo  have  made  up  a 
purse  of  $100,0  jO  to  bo  presented  to  the 
first  succcbsful  inventor  of  some  practical 
method  of  utilizing  the  water  power  of 
Niagara  River.  Numerous  propositions 
have  been  received  by  the  commitlee.some 
from  the  best  engineers  in  the  country, 
who  say  that  the  power  can  be  made  use 
ful.- 

The  birth  rate  among  our  distinctively 
American  families  is  less  than  in  any 
Country  in  Europe  except  France.  On  the 
average,  the  birth-rate  among  the  fami- 
lies of  our  immigrants  is  fifty  per  cent 
greater  than  among  ourselves.  The  peo- 
pling of  America  for  ttie  future  seems  to 
be  given  over  to  the  classes  least  fitted  for 
the  duty. 

The  women  of  Paris  have  adopted  for 
the  winter  season  a  waggle  in  their  walk 
The  art  of  waggling  gracefully  in  furS  is 
being  taught  m  the  best  dancing  schools. 
The  correct  waggle  is  described  as  a  short 
sttp  and  an  unoulaling  sweep  of  the  hips 
It  IS  said  to  bi  much  more  graceful 
than  the  mannish  stride  that  prevailed 
during  the  summer. 

Carefully  prepared  statistics  give  the 
number  of  criminals  in  this  country  at 
500,000,  a  vast  army,  only  50,000  of 
whom  are  incarcerated.  Of  the  500,000 
it  is  estimated  that  one-third  arc  under 
20  years  of  age,  one-half  under  21  years 
of  age,  and  a  fraction  under  22  years  of 
age — the  chances  being  that  all  of  them 
will  continue  criminals  through  the  re- 
mainder of  their  lives . 

A  joint  special  committee  of  the  Mas- 
sachusetts Legislature  that  has  investigat- 
ed the  child-labor  system  of  the  8tate,ha8 
just  reported, recommending  that  paroch- 
ial and  other  private  schools  be  examined 
annually  by  school  committees,  who  shall 
approve  or  refuse  to  approve  them,  and 
that  the  teachers  must  hold  certificates  of 
qualification  from  the  school  committee, 
as  required  in  public  schools.  A  bill  em- 
bodying the  recommendations  was  pre- 
sented, and,  as  this  would  place  all  pa- 
rochial schools  under  charge  of  school 
committees  of  Protestant  complexion,  a 
lively  fight  is  expected. 

Elihu  Stevens,  of  Smithfield,  Me.,  is 
probably  at  the  head  of  the  largest  fami- 
ly in  the  country.  The  aged  man  still  ap- 
pears hale  and  hearty.  He  is  of  medium 
height,  quite  erect,  and  although  he  com- 
plains of  his  poor  eyesight,  he  is  still  able 
to  go  about  alone.  Before  a  recent  reun- 
ion he  drove  to  Oakland,  and  went  about 
among  bis  friends,  inviting  them  to  attend 
the  celebration.  Five  generations  of  his 
family  are  now  living.  He  was  three 
times  married, had  ten  children  by  his  first 
wife.five  by  hissecond.and  six  byhis  third. 
His  children,  grandchildren,  great-grand- 
children, and  great  great  grandchildren 
who  are  now  living  number  319. 

The  immense  buildings  of  the  Pratt  In- 
stitute in  Brooklyn,  although  not  com- 
pleted, were  in  some  departments  thrown 
open  to  the  public  Wednesday  evening, 
January  4ih.  The  buildings,  which  are 
on  Ryersnn  street,  were  erecte(i  by  Mr. 
Charles  Pratt,  for  the  purpose  of  giving 
industrial  training  to  poor  children. 
Twelve  thoueand  books  are  already  placed 
on  the  library  shelves,  and  there  is  room 
enough  for  thirty  thousand  more.  The 
reading  room  is  to  be  well  supplied  with 
current  newspapers  and  periodicals.  These 
deparlmetits,  however,  form  but  a  small 
portion  of  the  lastilute,  where  manual 
training  will,  it  is  alleged,  be  tried  upon 
a  scale  and  with  a  completencHS  never 
before  attempted 

A  most  peculiar  case  of  superstition  ex- 
ists in  York  Township,  Oliio.  A  well- 
known  farmer  named  Milar  has  always 
kept  a  fine  lot  of  cows  and  made  a  great 
deal  of  most  excellent  butter.  •  Of  late 
years  he  has  had  what  ho  terms  it,  "Witch- 


es in  the  cream, "giving  himself  and  fam- 
ily a  great  deal  of  trouble  and  great  loss. 
It  happens  about  every  two  weeks  when 
they  put  the  cream  in  the  churn  it  begins 
foaming  over  the  lop  and  refuses  togath 
er.  No  amount  of  churning  has  any  ef- 
fect toward  gathering  the  butter,  and  the 
cream  is  taken  out  and  thrown  far  away. 
The  family  attributes  the  trouble  to 
witches  brought  on  through  the  agency 
of  a  woman  in  the  neighborhood  through 
spite.     It  is  a  strange  case 

CONSUMPTION  SUJIKLY  OUKED. 

To  the  Editor:— Please  inform  your 
readers  that  I  have  a  positive  remedy  for 
the  above  named  disease.  By  its  timely 
use  thousands  of  hopeless  cases  have  been 
permanently  cured!  I  shall  be  glad  to 
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any  of  your  readers  who  have  consump- 
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February  2, 1888 


NPWS  OF  THE  WEEK. 

WASHINGTON. 

At  a  meeting  in  Washington  Wednes 
day  night, presided  over  by  Cardinal  Gib- 
bons, Bishop  Ireland  stated  that  the  cor- 
ner stone  of  the  divinity  building  of  the 
new  Catholic  University  would  be  laid  in 
about  three  months. 

Among  the  petitions  and  memorials 
presented  to  Congress  last  week  and  re- 
ferred were  the  following:  From  the  Chi- 
cago Board  of  Trade,  asking  retaliatory 
legislation  against  France  and  Germany 
for  excluding  American  meat;  several 
from  Pennsylvania  against  the  admission 
of  Utah  as  a  State  with  polygamy;  many 
petitionB  from  various  States  in  favor  of 
prohibition  in  the  District  of  Columbia. 

Democratic  members  from  the  tobacco 
growing  States  held  a  meeting  and  deter- 
mined to  ask  the  Commissioner  of  Agri- 
culture to  demand  the  resignation  of  the 
statistician  of  the  Agricultural  Depart- 
ment, because  of  his  incorrect  estimates 
on  the  tobacco  crop  last  season. 

The  Manderson  Grand  Army  pension 
bill  has  been  favorably  reported  in  the 
Senate .  It  is  similar  in  character  to  the 
vetoed  dependent  pension  bill.  A  more 
definite  method  of  fixing  dependence  is 
outlined  in  the  present  measure,  which 
also  limits  its  provisions  to  those  who 
served  in  the  late  rebellion.  The  bill  in- 
creases the  pension  of  minor  children 
from  $2  to  $5  per^nonth. 

CHICAGO . 

It  is  rumored  that  Chicago  may  have  a 
cardinal,  and  Archbishop  Feehan's  name 
is  prominently  mentioned  in  connection 
with  the  dignity. 

The  port  holes  at  the  crib  have  become 
so  blocked  with  ice  as  to  endanger  the 
city's  water  supply,  and  powerful  tugs 
have  bent  sent  to  clear  them. 

Thomas  Walsh  created  an  uproar  in 
Judge  Clifford's  court  Saturday  morning 
by  trying  to  shoot  James  Britton,  who 
had  just  been  acquitted  of  attempting  to 
assault  Walsh's  daughter  Annie. 

William  Hayes,  who  pleaded  guilty  to 
the  fatal  stabbing  of  John  Watts  about  a 
year  ago,  has  been  sentenced  by  Judge 
Horton  to  twenty  years'  imprisonment  in 
the  penitentiary .  Another  murderer  has 
just  got  a  sentence  of  35  years. 

A  delegation  of  the  citizens  of  Park 
Manor,  which  is  in  a  prohibition  district 
in  the  recently  annexed  portion  of  Hyde 
Park,  called  on  City  Collector  Onahan  to 
complain  about  a  saloon.  They  were  as- 
sured that  the  sign  would  be  pulled  down 
and  the  place  closed  up . 


GBNEBAL. 

A  national  anti-saloon  Republican  con- 
ference will  be  held  in  New  York  April 
18  and  19. 

Sir  Morrell  Mackenzie, the  distinguish- 
ed physician  who  is  now  treating  the 
throat  of  the  Crown  Prince  of  Germany, 
has  received  an  offer  of  $30,000  to  come 
to  America  to  see  a  patient  in  Michigan . 
The  jury  that  has  been  sitting  at 
Springfield,  Mo., on  the  case  of  Cora  Lee, 
accused  of  the  murder  of  Mrs.  Graham, 
brought  in  a  verdict  of  not  guilty.  The 
charges  against  Mrs.  Molloy,  the  temper- 
ance lecturer  and  mother  of  Cora  Lee,  will 
be  abandoned. 

George  H.  Clarkson,  a  Chicago  drum- 
mer, has  sued  Kansas  City  because  he 
was  sandbagged  and  robbed  there.  The 
case  is  said  to  be  without  precedent. 

The  seventh  annual  Slate  Convention 
of  the  State  Temperance  Alliance  of  Iowa 
is  called  to  meet  at  Des  Moines,  Feb.  8. 

The  funeral  of  Mrs.  Eliza  Ballou  Gar- 
field took  place  at  Mentor,  Ohio,  Mon- 
day, the  remains  being  placed  beside 
those  of  President  Garfield  in  the  vault  at 
Lake  View  Cemetery.Cleveland.the  same 
day. 

From  Galveston,  Wednesday.there  were 
shipped  to  Zanzibar,  Africa,  ten  tons  of 
superior  Texas  cotton  seed.  An  experi- 
enced planter  was  also  sent  to  instruct 
the  natives  in  the  cultivation  of  the  cot- 
ton plant. 

The  brewers  of  Milwaukee  have  in- 
formed their  employes  that  on  Jan.  20 
every  union  man  will  be  discharged. 

The  Governor  of  Mississippi  has  vetoed 
the  bill  providing  for  the  holding  of  a 
constitutional  convention. 

Professor  Nathan  Shepard,  of  Siira'  ■>- 
ga,  fell  dtad  in  the  New  York  PoBiofil  :e 
Tuesday  afternoon. 


At  a  meeting  of  the  trustees  of  Adel- 
bert  College  it  was  decided  to  refuse  ad- 
mission to  women  after  the  close  of  the 
present  year .  A  ladies'annex  is  talked  of. 

A  street  car  cable  train  became  unman- 
ageable Friday  in  Selby  avenue,  St.Paul, 
Minn., and  when  descending  St.  Anthony's 
Hill  the  cars  shot  downward  at  a  great 
speed,  ran  off  the  track,  and  were  smas^i- 
ed  to  pieces.  Three  persons  were  fatal- 
ly injured  and  fourteen  were  badly  hurt. 

The  joint  depot  of  the  New  York  Cen- 
tral, Michigan  Central  and  Grand  Trunk 
Railways  at  Niagara  Falls  was  burned 
Thursday  at  a  loss  of  $50,000,  several 
people  living  in  the  building  having  nar- 
now  escapes. 

The  jury  in  the  Barney  Kennedy  mur- 
der trial  at  Dubuque,  after  being  out  six 
teen  hours, reported  a  verdict  of  guilty  of 
murder  in  the  first  degree,  and  the  pun- 
ishment was  fixed  at  death.  Kennedy 
was  convicted  on  a  former  trial  and  sen- 
tenced to  hang,  but  secured  a  new  trial 
on  the  ground  that  one  of  the  jurors  was 
not  a  naturalized  citizen.  His  attorneys 
will  now  move  for  a  third  trial  because 
one  of  the  jurors  in  the  trial  just  conclud- 
ed became  intoxicated  during  its  prog- 
ress. 

FOEKIGN. 

John  Bright,  in  a  letter  to  the  papers, 
says  that  Mr.  Gladstone  prefers  to  main- 
tain silence  when  he  is  questioned  re- 
garding such  cases  as  the  circulation  of 
bills  attributing  the  Mitchellstown  riots 
to  Mr.  Bright  and  Mr.  ChBmberlain.  Mr. 
Bright  fears  that  Mr.  Gladstone  does  not 
object  to  the  stones  and  mud  thrown  by 
his  followers. 

Medical  reports  from  San  Remo  con- 
tinue to  speak  favorably  of  the  condition 
of  the  German  Crown  Prince. 

Two  thirds  of  the  residents  of  Dover, 
England,  composing  conservatives,  lib- 
erals, unionists,  and  independents,  have 
signed  a  "round  robin"  denouncing  the 
recent  snowballing  and  hooting  of  Mr. 
Gladstone  in  that  town  and  expressing 
regret  at  its  occurrence. 

The  boycott  has  been  pushed  to  a  cur- 
ious extreme  in  Kerry,  Ireland.  Placards 
recently  posted-  in  Rathnore  warn  all  girls 
not  to  marry  until  every  priest  in  the  dis 
trict  has  joined  the  National  League. 
Should  they  disobey  their  husbands  and 
themselves  will  be  boycotted. 

A  gigantic  conspiracy  among  post- 
ofiice  employes  has  been  discovered  in 
London,  the  object  of  which  was  the 
stealing  of  letters  and  valuables.  It  is 
said  to  have  been  so  adroitly  arranged 
that  it  is  difficult  to  detect  the  guilty  par- 
ties.    An  investigation  is  going  on. 

It  is  stated  that  warrants  have  been  se- 
cretly obtained  for  the  arrest  of  six  Irish 
members  of  Parliament  and  magistrates 
who  are  now  in  hiding. 

An  ancient-looking  stone  coffin  has 
been  discovered  at  Canterbury  Cathedral, 
which  is  supposed,  by  those  posted  on 
the  subject,  to  contain  the  bones  of  Thom- 
as a'Becket. 

Prince  Bismarck  announces  that  the 
loan  required  on  account  of  the  new  mil- 
itary bill  would  amount  to  280,000,000 
marks. 

Professor  Virchow,  in  a  letter  discuss- 
ing the  latest  phase  of  the  Crown  Prince's 
illness,  savs  he  is  of  the  opinion  that  the 
disease  is  not  cancer.  Dr.Mackenzie  de- 
clares himself  as  satisfied  with  the  pres- 
ent condition  of  the  Crown  Prince's 
health  and  says  that  there  is  a  decided 
improvement  in  every  respect  in  the  part 
of  the  Prince's  throat  where  the  previous 
growth  developed. 

A  frightfully  fatal  explosion  occurred 
in  No.  5  pit  of  the  Wellington  colliery, 
near  Victoria.British  Columbia,by  which 
upward  of  ninety  lives  were  lost.  It  was 
accompanied  by  a  report  like  that  of  a 
large  cannon ;  and  there  instantly  shot 
far  into  the  air  a  dense  mass  of  black 
smoke  and  dust,  which  converted  the 
snow-covered  ground  into  an  inky  de- 
posit. 


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Editorial  : 

Notes  and  Comments 1 

Caste     in     Christian 

Churches 8 

In  Prison  for  the  Testimo- 
ny 01  Jesus 8 

Personal  Mention 9 

CONTKIBUTIONS : 

The  Trembling  of  Nations 

(poetry) 1 

An  Outside  View  of  Se- 
cret Societies  -II 1 

The  Golden  Rule 2 

Negro  Expatriation 2 

Masonry  In    Relation    to 

Revealed  Religion 2 

Notes  of  the  Crescent  City  3 
Sblectsd : 

Near  the  Precipice 3 

War  a  Crime 3 

Letter  from  the  Congo 4 

Boston  Letter 4 

New  York  Letter 4 

Notices 5 

biBLB   LBBSON 7 

ThbN.C.A 7 


Rbform  Nkws  : 
From  the  General  Agent ; 
AnOdd-fellowChamplon 
and    Natural-born  Ma- 
sons;   The  Blizzard  in 

Iowa 4 

Cobrbsfon'dbnob  . 
Saved  by  the  Truth,  not 
by  the  Preacher ;  From 
a  Wesleyan  Pastor ;  i..o- 
cal  Option  in  Ohio;  A 
Noble  Army ;    Pith  and 

Point 5,6 

Secret    Societies     Con- 
demned     7 

Press  Comment 9 

TnaHoMB 10 

Temperance 11 

Literature 12 

Religious  Nbws 12 

Lodge  Notbs 13 

Markets 13 

Business 13 

Home  and  Hbalth 14 

In  Brief 15 

News  op  thb  Wbbk 16 


The  Ann  Arbor  (Mich.)  Courier  says  a  building 
in  that  city  is  now  being  fixed  purposely  in  antici- 
pation of  the  adoption  of  prohibition.  A  room  is 
being  fitted  up  in  the  center  of  the  building  where 
no  possible  light  or  noise  can  reach  outside  ears,and 
no  entrance  can  be  effected  unless  with  the  knowl- 
edge and  consent  of  the  outside  guard.  This  is  fit- 
ting. All  unlawful  things  are  on  a  level.  The  lodge 
meets  in  the  dark  and  behind  guarded  doors.  The 
saloon  must  be  driven  into  its  holes  and  hiding 
places.     Let  the  two  go  down  to  the  pit  together. 


Some  time  since  the  legislature  of  Tennessee 
passed  a  law  against  base  ball  playing  on  the  Sab- 
bath. The  Supreme  Court  of  the  State  has  just  de- 
cided in  favor  of  the  law,  and  the  sporting  men  of 
the  State  give  it  out,  spitefully,  that  the  game  is 
dead — no  more  base-ball  for  poor  old  Tennessee  ! 
Without  the  Sunday  game  the  business  won't  pay. 
A  business  that  depends  on  such  an  exigency  deserves 
death.  Nevertheless,  all  the  boys  who  play  for  fun 
and  healthful  recreation  will  go  on  playing  just  the 
same  and  enjoy  it  just  as  much.  In  Illinois  a  law 
against  this  Sunday  playing  is  ignored,  and  scores 
of  games  went  on  Sabbath  after  Sabbath  last  fall. 
We  hope  the  effort  of  the  Sabbath  Association  will 
be  effectual  this  year  to  stop  the  business. 


As  a  fair  example  of  a  thousand  political  slan- 
ders, the  New  York  Witness  has  exposed  a  mali- 
cious editorial  of  the  St.  Louis  Globe  Democrat 
which  quotes  as  a  celebrated  remark  of  Senator 
Gorman,  that  it  "cost  like  hell"  to  secure  St.  John's 
help  in  the  Democratic  victory  of  1884.  Senator 
Gorman^  in  a  reply  to  a  note  from  the  editor,  says 
"there  is  not  one  word  of  truth"  in  the  slander; 
and  he  hopes  all  who  know  him  will  believe  him 
incapable  of  making  such  a  statement.    The  editor 


of  the  Iowa  State  Reginter,  whose  persistent  efforts 
to  make  the  world  believe  a  similar  lie,  have  left 
nothing  behind  but  the  ugly  scars  on  that  gentle- 
man's reputation. 

A  story  which  may  seem  sensational,  yet  to  those 
who  have  studied  the  character  of  Russian  revolu- 
tionists, and  of  the  more  widely  disjeminated  Inter- 
national Society  of  Europe,  has  every  feature  of 
probability,  comes  from  London.  Th<^  Sc  Peters- 
burg correspondents  of  the  St.  Jam<;s  Goz-Me  report 
that  an  army  offioer,  who  had  been  shot  in  the  re- 
gion of  the  heart,  was  taken  to  a  hospital,  where 
the  doctors  declared  thai  his  wouod  was  mortal. 
The  officer  thereupon  admitted  thut  he  had  shot  him- 
self to  avoid  the  necessity  of  shooting  the  Czar. 
He  said  he  was  a  member  of  a  secret  society  which 
had  balloted  to  decide  who  sh-iuld  undertake  to 
assassinate  the  Czir,  and  the  choice  had  fallen  up  in 
him  Several  persons  in  the  hospital  who  over- 
heard part  of  the  corifessioa  were  immediately  ar- 
rested. Two  physicians  who  were  present  on  duty 
were  liberated.  The  full  confession  of  the  officer 
was  taken  in  writing  by  the  authorities.  Such  are 
some  of  the  exactions,  and  such  the  penalties  of 
the  secret  lodge. 

The  dispatches  Monday  morning  reported  a  re- 
sumption of  the  old  boodler  system  of  political  tax- 
ation among  the  departments  of  Washington  by 
Don  M.  Dickinson,  the  new  P.)3tm<ister  General,  and 
that  he  has  sent  $8,000  to  help  his  party  in  Michi- 
gan. We  hope  for  the  sake  of  consistency,  if  there 
is  no  regard  for  righteousness  or  honor  left,  that 
this  old  infamous  business  will  not  be  resumed  un- 
der the  administration  of  a  President  who  has  prom- 
ised much  to  civil  service  reform.  It  was,  to  ba 
sure,  surmised  that  Vilas  was  not  ready  enough  as 
a  political  organizer,  and,  therefore,  he  was  retired 
to  the  Interior  Ddpartrnf^nt,  to  make  room  for  an  ag- 
gressive politician.  If  that  is  the  game  to  be  played 
in  1888,  the  sooner  the  people  know  it  the  better. 
They  have  had  enough  of  such  business  from  both 
the  old  parties. 

The  reader  of  the  poem  on  this  page  will  be 
thrilled  with  its  eloquence,  and  moved  to  observe 
more  narrowly  the  movements  on  the  chess-board 
of  European  politics.  To  some  they  will  appear 
the  precursors  of  revengeful  war;  to  others  as  a 
grand  appearance  of  doing  something  to  satisfy  the 
people,  and  justify  the  immense  war  preparations 
that  drain  the  life  out  of  every  important  nation 
of  Europe.  Whether  for  a  blind,  or  for  a  reality, 
these  nations  have  had  enough  of  war,  and  if  by  a 
peaceful  revolution  they  could  throw  all  the  war 
business  upon  the  few  leaders  who  are  promoting 
it — pen  them  up  and  let  them  have  it  out  with  one 
another — "the  world  would  be  the  better  for  it." 
How  much  of  the  anxiety  about  the  wind-pipe  of 
Prince  William  of  Germany  is  manufactured  as  a 
war  measure,  we  are  left  also  to  conjecture.  If  we 
may  credit  the  reports,  his  wife,  the  eldest  daughter 
of  Victoria,  is  a  reformer.  She  wishes  to  make 
Germany  happy  and  prosperous  under  a  constitu- 
tional government,  like  England  under  her  mother, 
with  autocracy  and  Bismarck  abolished  and  the 
voice  of  the  people  effectually  controlling  their 
affairs.  The  old  Prime  Minister  dreads,  therefore, 
the  day  when  death  shall  sieze  the  aged  Emperor 
of  Germany.  There  is  thus  a  kind  of  tragic  inter- 
est about  the  reports  of  the  learned  doctors.  Let  us 
hope  that  so  many  of  them,  with  their  hands  at  the 
throat  of  the  Crown  Prince,  will  not  choke  him  to 
death. 


We  can  imagine  what  would  become  of  the  lodg- 
es if  their  vile,  blasphemous  or  silly  initiations  were 
performed  in  public  from  a  report  which  comes  to 
us  from  Paris.  At  Rouen,  France,  some  two  weeks 
since  a  disgraceful  scene  occurred  in  the  great  cath- 
edral, caused  by  the  sacrilegious  attempt  of  a  priest 
to  work  upon  the  superstitions  of  the  people.  He 
arranged  a  scene  in  which  he  impersonated  the  De- 
ity and  carried  on  a  dialogue  with  another  priest 
representing,  in  costume  and  sentiment,  the  Devil. 
The  congregation  hissed  the  performance,  and  final- 


ly drowned  the  voices  of  the  speakers  by  singing  the 
"Marseillaise"  and  "Eq  Revenaut  de  la  Revue."  The 
police  were  summoned  and  attempted  to  clear  the 
cathedral,  but  were  unable  to  do  so.  They  arrested 
several  of  the  congregation,  however,  and  the  disor- 
der was  finally  stopped  by  the  termination  of  the 
farce  which  provoked  it.  Suppose  the  Knight  Tem- 
plar initiation  with  its  skull,  wine  and  double  dam- 
nation were  performed  statedly  for  public  amuse- 
ment or  instruction;  or  the  burning  bush  scene  of 
the  Royal  Arch;  or  the  Jubulum  murder  of  the  Blue 
Lodge;  or  the  mummery  of  a  Good  Templar  lodge; 
cy  the  solemn  oaths  of  boys  in  the  Sons  of  Veterans 
— the  whole  lodge  business  would  be  routed  and 
driven  into  its  secret  dens  instantly.  There  is  no 
safety  for  such  business  but  in  the  "dark  places  of 
the  earth"  where  Christ  is  not.     See  Isaiah  45:19. 


THS  TREMBLING  OF  NATIONS. 


BT  REV.  ALEX.  THOMSON. 


Oh  Europe,  mother  Ehropel  why  do  you  stand  to-day 
With  bristling  steel  and  Iron  front  In  war's  accursed  array? 
Why  roar  your  thundering  forges,  but  not  to  shape  the  plow  ? 
Must  war's  Infernal  horrors  hang  forever  round  your  brow  ? 

Where  rolls  the  ley  Neva;  where  flows  the  classic  Rhine; 

Where  Norway  lifts  her  granite  brows,  and  shakes  her  mount- 
ain pine; 

Where  toils  the  Finnish  peasant  on  Bothnia's  rugged  shore, 

And  where  the  brave  and  light-haired  Dane  palls  manfully  the 
oar. 

There's  sound  o!  coming  conflict,  as  when  November  gales 
Burst  from  the  icy  mountains  where  Winter  trims  his  sails. 
And  sends  his  fleet  forerunners,  and  bids  his  trumpets  blow, 
Before  he  hurls  his  shot  of  Ice  and  musketry  of  snow. 

The  Russian  bear  Is  growling  on  his  wild  Tartar  plains. 
And  screams  the  Austrian  eagle  from  bleak  Carpathian  chains. 
And  France,  like  couchant  tiger,  lies  ready  for  the  spring. 
With  glaring  eyes  that  never  leave  the  German  eagle's  wing. 

From  where  the  lively  Belgian  toils  ever  at  his  loom ; 
From  where  the  sturdy  Hollander  keeps  eye  on  dike  and  flume ; 
From  Spain's  ancestral  castles;  from  everlasting  Rome; 
From  where  the  Turk  grasps  lance  and  sword  to  guard  hfs 
fathers'  home ; 

From  where  the  Greeks  are  stirring,  with  old  ambition's  power ; 
Where  bold  Bulgaria  trembles  at  each  succeedlnz  hour ; 
From  where  the  brave  Swiss  peasant  keeps  well  his  mountain 

wall; 
From  our  own  mother  Britain,  the  bravest  of  them  all ; 

Comes  news  of  coming  conflct  and  marshaling  of  men, 
As  if  our  mother  Europe,  mad  with  maternal  pain. 
Had  In  her  womb  a  demon,  who,  when  he  shall  have  birth, 
Will  let  infernal  furies  forth  upon  our  hapless  earth . 

O  Thou  before  whose  presence  the  trembling  nations  stand, 
What  hidden  purpose  hast  thou;  what  awful  work  on  handl 
Must  earth's  foundations  tremble  and  hell  her  furies  bring 
For  man's  great  final  trial  ere  the  coming  of  the  Kingi 
Bartlett,  III. 


AN  OUTBIDS  VIEW  OF  8SGRBT  80CIBTISS. 


BY   PROF.    W.    J.    COLEMAN. 


II. — THEIR   SKOBBTS. 

Every  secret  society  is  supposed  to  have  secrets 
that  are  to  be  kept  carefully  from  the  world.  With 
regard  to  these  secrets  we  offer  you  this  alternative. 
Either  these  secrets  consist  of  facts  and  principles 
which  are  valuable  to  all  who  know  them,  or  they 
consist  of  facU  and  principles  which  are  of  little  or 
no  value  to  anybody.  In  the  first  case,if  these  se- 
crets are  of  great  value  to  all  who  know  them,  then 
these  secret  societies  are  selfish  and  unchristian  in 
that  they  do  not  make  these  secrets  known  to  every 
one  whom  they  can  reach.  Why  should  any  man 
or  set  of  men  seek  to  keep  to  themselves  truths 
which  would  greatly  benefit  the  world?  What  delib- 
erate selfishness  it  Is  to  continue  to  do  this  genera- 
tion after  genersition.  What  a  sin  it  is  to  plan  to 
keep  the  world  in  want  of  these  treasures  of  truth 
by  obliging  every  man  who  receives  them  to  swear 
solemnly  never  to  reveal  them,  even  to  his  nearest 
friends.  It  is  true,  we  grant  men  patents  on  their 
discoveries,  but  that  is  for  but  a  limited  time,  and 
then  not  to  keep  their   inventions  hidden  from  the 


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THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


February  9, 188S 


world,  but  to  have  the  world  buy  at  such  an  increas- 
ed cost  for  a  time  as  will  pay  the  man  for  his  work. 
But  the  secrets  of  these  societies  are  never  to  be  re- 
vealed with  their  will.  Indeed,it  is  more  than  hint- 
ed that  it  is  not  entirely  safe  for  a  man  to  reveal 
these  secrets  which  on  our  supposition  are  so  valua- 
ble to  humanity.  Secret  society  men  are  in  the  hab- 
it of  calling  men  vile  names  who  reveal  these  secrets 
to  this  poor,  dark,  ignorant  world  outside.  But,says 
one,  "These  secrets  are  too  valuable  to  be  told  to 
everybody.  They  are  too  sacred.  They  would  be 
abused."  Then  they  must  be  valuable  indeed,more 
so  even  than  the  most  precious  truth  that  we  know 
of,  and  that  is  the  Word  of  God.  For  that,  as  the 
song  of  the  angels  tells  us,  was  "good  tidings  of 
great  joy,  which  shall  be  to  all  people."  Is  their 
light  more  precious  than  the  light  which  the  Son  of 
God  came  down  to  shed  abroad  upon  the  whole 
earth?  and,  if  so, why  should  it  be  hid  under  a  bush- 
el? How  contrary  is  all  this  sworn  secrecy  to  the 
command  and  example  of  the  blessed  Lord.  He 
made  himself  the  light  of  the  world,  and  commis- 
sioned his  disciples  to  go  into  all  the  world  and 
preach  the  Gospel.  What  should  we  think  of  the 
apostle  Paul  if,instead  of  preaching  the  Word  open- 
ly and  everywhere,  he  had  made  himself  the  traveP 
ing  secretary  of  a  secret  order,  and  had  told  no  one 
the  way  of  salvation  unless  they  had  sworn  an  oath 
never  to  tell  this  truth  to  any  one  out  of  the  order? 
If  secret  societies  have  secrets  of  great  value  to  the 
world,  they  are  filled  with  a  spirit  the  direct  oppo- 
site of  that  of  Christianity  that  they  do  not  make 
them  known  to  a  sinful,  suffering  race.  It  is  a  self- 
ish, uncharitable  and  unchristian  spirit  that  delib- 
erately refuses  to  do  good  to  our  neighbor  when  it  is 
in  our  power.  It  is  worldliness  incarnate  that  plans 
to  hide  our  light  from  our  neighbor  when  to  enlight- 
en him  would  make  our  light  none  the  less. 

Secondly.  If  secret  societies  have  no  secrets  that 
are  of  value,  then  their  secrecy  is  a  delusion  and  a 
snare.  This  is  a  perfectly  fair  and  conclusive  argu- 
ment. The  division  is  complete  and  leaves  no  undi- 
vided third.  These  societies  either  have  secrets,  or 
they  have  not,  and  these  secrets  are  either  valuable, 
or  they  are  not.  If  they  have  valuable  secrets,they 
violate  the  command  of  Christ,  contradict  his  exam- 
ple, and  prove  their  selfish  and  unchristian  charac- 
ter, in  that  they  make  every  effort  to  keep  them  hid- 
den from  their  neighbors.  If  they  have  no  valuable 
secrets,  their-ia  their  secrecy  a  swindle.  What  would 
you  think  if  a  number  of  respectable  Christian 
men  would  persuade  you  that  they  had  a  society 
in  which  you  would  do  well  to  seek  membership,and 
when  you  had  consented  would,  with  great  ceremo- 
ny, take  you  into  some  very  retired  place  and,  after 
swearing  you  to  eternal  secrecy,  then  tell  you  noth- 
ing of  any  value  or  importance?  Would  you  not 
think  either  that  they  were  fools,  or  that  they  were 
trying  hard  to  make  a  fool  of  you?  Whichever  horn 
then  of  the  division  the  advocates  of  secrecy  may 
take,  they  are  impaled.  Whether  they  have  secrets 
or  whether  they  have  them  not,  they  are  alike  con- 
demned. On  either  supposition  all  decent,  intelli- 
gent Christian  men  ought  to  stand  clear  and  have 
nothing  to  do  with  them. 

Geneva  College. 


THE  a  OLD  EN  RULE. 


BT  A.    B.    CURTIS. 

Deep  imbedded  in  the  inmost  nature  of  the  He- 
brew mind  was  the  idea  of  compensation.  The  wick- 
ed must  be  punished,  the  righteous  must  be  reward- 
ed. All  things,  thought  they,  must  finally  be  equal- 
ized. This  dualism,  as  it  were,  runs  all  through 
their  thinking.  Jehovah  and  Satan  are  set  over 
against  each  other.  Good  and  evil,  blessing  and 
caraing,obedience  and  transgression  are  everywhere 
contrasted.  Their  poetry  is  dualistic,  each  two  suc- 
cessive lines  set  forth  the  same  thought  by  either 
synonym  or  contrast.  Their  noun  and  verb  are  du- 
alistic also;  there  are  but  two  tenses  and  two  gen- 
ders. Their  word  for  "money"  means  literally  bal- 
ance. They  balanced  everything.  The  good  was 
the  fruitful,  the  true,  the  prosperous,  the  existent: 
the  bad  was  the  sterile,the  false.the  non-prosperous, 
the  non-existent. 

The  New  Testament  caught  the  lesson  and  wove 
it  into  the  very  web  and  woof  of  the  Christian  life. 
Christ's  idea  of  forgiveness  is  nothing  other  than  the 
Golden  Rule  applied,  between  God  and  man  on  the 
one  hand,  and  man  and  fellow-men  on  the  other. 
Peter's  question,  "How  oft  shall  my  brother  sin 
against  me  and  I  forgive  him?  till  seven  times?" 
contains  a  fundamental  error.  It  implies  that  there 
will  come  a  time  when  God  will  tire  of  keeping  the 
Golden  Rule  with  his  servants. 

To  illustrate  this  from  our  Lord's  reply  to  Peter: 


A  certain  man  was  in  debt  ten  thousand  talents.  His 
lord  forgave  him  that  debt  at  his  urgent  request. 
But  subsequent  events  showed  that,  after  all,  the 
forgiveness  was  only  nominal.  Because  the  forgiv- 
en man  refused  in  turn  to  forgive  his  own  debtor, 
his  lord's  compassionate  "I  forgive  thee  all"  was 
made  of  none  effect.  Forgiveness  can  only  come  to 
a  forgiving  spirit.  Though  God  may  nominally  for- 
give sins  in  answer  to  a  prayer  of  faith,that  answer- 
ed prayer  does  not  become  eff'ectual  until  the  forgiv- 
en person  has  himself  forgiven  an  enemy.  Nor,  in 
turn,  mark  this,  has  he  forgiven  that  enemy  more 
than  in  name  until  he  has  gone  to  him  and  sought 
a  reconciliation. 

This  world  is  a  looking-glass  to  reveal  us  to  our- 
selves. Frown  at  it  and  it  will  sour  on  you;  smile 
at  it  and  with  it  and  it  is  a  God-given  companion. 
What  is  this  but  the  Golden  Rule  all-sidedly  ap- 
plied? Every  time  we  forgive  a  fault  in  another 
the  forgiveness  of  our  Heavenly  Father  becomes 
sweeter.  Though  we  should  live  so  close  to  him 
that  no  special  forgiveness  on  his  part  were  now 
necessary,yet  the  old  one  would  be  revealed  in  a  new 
and  brighter  light  because  of  our  added  experience 
and  then  would  gush  up  into  our  soul  all  the  joy  and 
love  of  our  early  conversion.  Forgiveness  has  noth- 
ing to  do  with  "times."  Shall  I  keep  account  of 
how  many  times  I  practice  the  Golden  Rule,  hoping 
to  measure  my  goodness  by  that  means?  God's  for- 
giveness of  us  and  ours  of  our  fellows  act  and  re- 
act upon  each  other.  In  proportion  as  God  forgives 
us  we  forgive  our  enemies.  In  proportion  as  we  for- 
give our  enemies  God  forgives  us.  Neither  is  any- 
thing without  the  other.  Together  they  act  and  re- 
act preparing  the  forgiving  soul  for  a  brighter  heav- 
en. As  love  grows  strong  by  what  it  bears,  so  for- 
giveness grows  sweet  by  what  it  forgives.  When 
we  pray,  "Forgive  us  our  trespasses  as  we  forgive 
those  that  trespass  against  us,  "let  us  remember  that 
forgiveness  without  reconciliation  and  not  from  the 
heart  is  only  nominal,  and  will  not  secure  for  us  a 
union  with  the  spirit  of  Christ.  "Whatsoever  there- 
fore ye  would  that  men  should  do  to  you,do  ye  even 
so  to  them." 

New  Haven,  Conn. 


NEGRO  EXPATRIATION. 


BT   H.    H.    HINMAN. 


A  proposition  to  colonize  the  Negroes  of  the  Unit- 
ed States  in  South  America  is  now  being  mooted.  It 
is  said  that  earnest  friends  and  members  of  the  race 
are  at  the  bottom  of  the  movement  and  that  great 
results  are  expected.  But  it  may  as  well  be  accept- 
ed as  one  of  the  inevitable  things  that  any  plan  for 
the  expatriation  of  the  colored  Americans,  whether 
originating  with  Negroes  or  Caucasians,  is  doomed 
to  disappointment.  For  good  or  ill,  for  better  or 
for  worse,  the  two  races  are  here  as  permanent  fac- 
tors in  our  body  politic.  Whatever  may  be  our  con- 
ceptions of  what  would  have  been  desirable, we  must 
needs  accept  the  present  condition  of  things  as  one 
of  the  dispensations  of  Providence  with  which  it  is 
vain  to  complain.  Whether  the  relation  of  the  two 
races  shall  be  mutually  helpful  and  beneficent  will 
depend  largely  upon  their  cheerful  acceptance  of 
this  providence  and  of  the  obligations  that  grow  out 
of  it. 

Seventy  years  ago, when  the  Negro  population  was 
hut  one-fourth  what  it  now  is,  there  were  some  great 
thinkers,statesmen  and  philanthropists,who  thought 
they  saw  in  African  colonization  a  solution  of  the 
slavery  question.  They  did  not  even  then  represent 
the  best  and  highest  Christian  sentiment,  for  the 
friends  of  the  slave  soon  abandoned  the  movement 
as  both  chimerical  and  cruel.  Nevertheless,  the 
American  Colonization  Society  was  organized  under 
the  prestige  of  great  names,  and  for  more  than  half 
a  century  has  been  in  the  field.  The  net  results  are 
the  colonization  of  about  16,000  people  in  Africa 
and  the  establishment  of  a  feeble  republic  that  has 
scarce  that  number  of  civilized  citizens.  Meanwhile 
the  colored  population  has  increased  from  2,000,- 
000  to  nearly  8,000,000,  and  the  annual  increase  has 
advanced  from  60,000  to  about  240,000;  while  the 
last  annual  report  of  the  American  Colonization  Socie- 
ty shows  that  after  seventy  years  of  effort  and  or- 
ganization they  have  in  the  last  year  sent  100  colo- 
nists to  Africa  at  a  cost  of  more  than  $18,000. 

The  intelligent,  thinking  men,  both  in  the  No/th 
and  South,  have  accepted  this  verdict  of  history,and 
while  some  are  commendably  willing  to  aid  all  who 
desire  to  colonize  the  Dark  Continent,  none  are  so 
stupid  as  to  suppose  that  present  methods  can  have 
any  appreciable  effect  on  the  number  of  Negroes  in 
America.  There  have  probably  been  more  immi- 
grants within  the  last  two  years  from  Africa  than 
all  who  have  gone  from  this  coast 


it  may  seem,  a  large  proportion  of  the  white  people 
of  the  South,  and  a  few  at  the  North,  are  continu- 
ally prating  about  colonizing  the  Negro.  With 
them  expatriation  is  the  alternative  of  emancipa- 
tion. The  two  races,  say  they,  can  never  live  side 
by  side;  all  efort  to  educate  the  Negro  but  empha- 
sizes this  antagonism,  and  unless  the  Negroes  are 
removed  there  will  be  a  war  of  races  in  which  they 
will  be  exterminated.  This  feeling  finds  expression 
in  some  of  the  leading  papers  of  the  South  and  is 
the  animating  spirit  of  much  of  Southern  legisla- 
tion. They  have  no  objection  to  the  Negro,  so  long 
as  he  is  in  a  dependent  and  servile  condition,  but 
all  plans  for  the  practical  recognition  of  his  equali- 
ty as  a  citizen  are  met  with  undying  hate  and 
vague  pleas  for  some  method  for  his  removal. 

The  trouble  with  these  people  is  that  they  have 
had  centuries  of  mis-education  and  have,  in  the 
main,  radically  false  conceptions  of  what  Christian- 
ity is,  and  what  it  requires.  To  them  such  small 
matters  as  the  principles  of  political  economy,  the 
facts  of  the  census,  the  rules  of  arithmetic,  the  im- 
pulses of  humanity  and  the  Ten  Commandments  are 
as  nothing  when  put  in  competition  with  their  prej- 
udices and  desires.  It  would  be  unjust  to  say  that 
they  are  in  these  things  consciously  wicked.  They 
are  rather  to  be  pitied  as  the  victims  of  their  own 
hallucinations. 

Suppose  we  could  revive  the  colonization  move- 
ment (which  is  most  improbable),  and  suppose  we 
could  send  away  200,000  a  year.  This  is  more  than 
ten  times  the  number  that  has  been  colonized  in  sev- 
enty years,  and  yet  it  would  not  diminish  the  color- 
ed population.  They  would  still  be  increasing  on 
our  hands.  It  is  safe  to  say  that  if  it  were  possible 
to  send  200,000  emigrants  to  West  Africa  in  a  year, 
at  least  one-half  would  die  from  the  malarious  cli- 
mate and  destitution.  If  it  were  attempted  it  would 
be  simply  murder.  Nor  is  South  American  coloni- 
zation a  whit  more  practicable.  True,  the  difficul- 
ties are  not  so  great.  Africa  has  a  comparatively 
dense,and  South  America  a  sparse,population.  West 
Africa  is  very  malarious;  South  America  not  so 
much  so,  and  withal  has  governments  of  some  sta- 
bility. 

But  there  are  no  advantages  for  the  Negro  in 
South  America  that  he  cannot  have  in  a  far  greater 
degree  in  this,  his  native  land.  He  is  here  a  citizen. 
With  all  the  disabilities  he  endures  he  is  gaining  in 
numbers,  wealth,  and  especially  in  education.  Thou- 
sands of  Negroes  are  attaining  a  college  education. 
Many  of  them  are  lawyers,  physicians,  teachers,  edi- 
tors and  well-educated  ministers.  They  are  legisla- 
tors, judges  and  executive  officers;  and  though  in 
some  States  they  are  practically  denied  the  right  of 
the  ballot,  yet  even  there  they  are  gaining  in  moral 
and  social  influence.  The  power  of  race  hatred 
which  would  drive  them  from  the  land  of  their  na- 
tivity is,  when  represented  by  the  numbers  of  those 
who  cherish  it,  very  great.  But  the  facts  of  his- 
tory and  the  providences  of  God  are  all  against  it 
Men  of  intelligence  dare  not  outrage  the  moral  sense 
of  mankind  by  even  proposing  the  extradition  of  8,- 
000,000  of  people.  Meanwhile  if  any  colored  Amer- 
ican thinks  he  can  better  his  condition  or  contrib- 
ute to  the  improvement  of  his  race  by  going  to  Af- 
rica or  South  America,  by  all  means  let  him  go.  But 
let  no  man,  black  or  white,  do  violence  to  common 
sense  by  proposing  to  send  away  the  whole  race. 
New  Orleans,  La. 


MASONRY  IN  ITS  RELATION  TO  REVEALED 
RELIGION 


BY    REV.    R.    MENK,    GERMAN   EVANGELIOAIi   PASTOR. 


Masonry  pretends  to  be  a  factor  and  promoter  of 
civilization.  Its  teachings  within  the  walls  of  its 
lodges  are  said  to  be  of  a  very  scientific  character, 
so  as  to  instruct  the  initiated  in  geometry,  architect- 
ure, astronomy  and  physiology.  This  would  place 
this  institution  in  the  rank  with  universities  and  col- 
leges, and  young  men  would  save  much  trouble  and 
expense  when  going  to  these  places  of  learning  to 
get  an  education  by  joining  these  societies.  If  this 
is  true,  then  why  is  this  light  hid  in  darkness? 
Why  is  the  world  so  totally  ignorant  of  this  court 
of  learning  in  our  midst?  If  this  is  true,  if  this 
institution  is  what  it  pretends  to  be,  then  it  would 
be  unjust  to  say  anything  dishonorable  against  the 
order,  because  learning  is  a  great  factor  in  civiliza- 
tion. 

Masonry  pretends  to  be  an  agent  of  benevolence. 
Who  will  say  that  this  is  not  praiseworthy?  Be- 
nevolence is  the  very  result  of  practical  Christian 
religion,  and  is  honored  by  all  true  Christians.  But 
benevolence,  if  of  the  true  Christian  type,  must  be 
of  a  general  character,  must  be  shown  toward  all 
men  in  need  and  distress.  If  this  is  the  case,  who 
Yet,  strange  as  would  say  anything  against  the  practice  of  this  Cbriei. 


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THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE- 


lian  grace?  But  every  one  knows  that  the  benevo- 
lence of  this  system  is  limited  to  their  own  mem- 
bers. Any  one  can  testify  that  this  is  not  Christian 
benevolence. 

Masonry  pretends  to  unite  different  men  of  differ- 
ent stations  in  life  and  creed  into  one  union  of  broth- 
erhood. This  is  a  very  praiseworthy  undertaking, 
and  promotes  civilization.  But  the  greatest  thing 
of  all  is  the  kind  of  religion  by  which  this  union 
and  harmony  is  accomplished. 

Let  us  see  whether  this  is  true.  What  is  religion? 
It  is  the  true  way  by  which  man  comes  into  the  com- 
munion with  his  God  that  he  may  partake  of  all  the 
blessings  of  God  for  his  temporal,  spiritual  and  eter- 
nal welfare.  Man  is  created  for  God.  He  is  depend- 
ent upon  him  for  all  things,  and  longs  for  his  bless- 
ings, but  feels  also  his  entire  unworthiness  of  the 
same.  He  knows  himself  cast  out  of  God's  grace 
and  presence  and  feels  his  sinfulness  as  the  only 
hindrance  to  communion  with  his  Maker.  God's 
Word  shows  plainly  what  man  feels  instinctively. 
It  teaches  us  the  true  character  of  God  as  a  holy  be- 
ing, who  must  punish  sin  with  eternal  wrath;  teaches 
his  merciful  state  of  being  by  which  he  extends 
grace  to  men  who  are  corrupted  in  sin,  that  they 
may  be  redeemed  from  all  evil. 

To  redeem  man  from  this  pitiful  state  of  being, 
to  bring  him  to  his  God  and  make  him  live  forever, 
God  revealed  his  eternal  decree  of  redemption. 
Most  blessed  words  of  promise  go  forth  to  sorrow- 
ing mankind,  to  create  hope  for  a  deliverance.  God 
chose  a  people  from  all  nations  through  which 
he  would  fulfill  his  promises  of  a  Saviour.  God's 
purpose  in  giving  the  law  was  not  that  man  might  be 
his  own  Saviour  by  keeping  it,  but  to  let  Israel  and 
all  men  know  their  sin  and  their  inability  to  per- 
form what  God  commands  to  do.  Israel  failed  to 
keep  the  law  because  he  had  not  in  himself  the 
strength  to  do  it,  and  came  under  the  curse  of  the 
law.  So  a  redemption  from  this  curse  was  needed. 
God  provided  for  this  duty  his  Son.  Gal.  4:  5,  5: 
"But  when  the  fullness  of  time  was  come,  God  sent 
forth  his  Son,  made  of  a  woman,  made  under  the 
law,  to  redeem  them  that  were  under  the  law,  that 
we  might  receive  the  adoption  of  sons."  He  was  the 
real  high  priest,  to  give  himself  to  God  as  an  offering 
in  shedding  his  blood  for  the  remission  of  sin  for 
all.  This  is  the  only  offering  that  is  acceptable  to 
God,  and  none  other  is  needed.  By  his  resurrection 
from  the  dead  and  ascension  to  the  right  hand  of 
God,  his  offering  is  shown  to  be  accepted,  and  God 
commands  all  to  believe  in  him  and  be  saved.  But 
as  man  cannot  believe  out  of  his  own  will,  nor  of 
himself  be  renewed  in  heart  and  life,  God  sent  the 
Holy  Spirit  to  do  this.  His  work  on  our  hearts 
proves  that  he  brings  about  a  new  creation  in  our 
natures,  that  we  may  become  God's  real  children. 
This  is  the  revealed  religion  of  the  Bible  in  a  brief 
outline,  and  it  is  proved  true  by  all  who  have  be- 
come real  Christians. 

How  stands  Masonry  related  to  this  glorious  work 
of  God  for  the  salvation  of  men?  All  the  books  of 
lodge  instruction  show  that  they  fail  utterly  to  con- 
ceive of  this  way  of  salvation.  So  Masonry  has 
no  true  sight  of  God,  who  requires  that  his  holy  law 
be  obeyed  by  men.  As  Israel  failed  to  keep  this 
law,  how  can  Masons  keep  it?  Israel  fell  under  the 
curse  of  the  law  and  needed  a  Redeemer;  can  Ma- 
sons do  without  him?  God  ordained  Aaron  for  his 
priest  to  bring  for  Israel  the  offerings  he  command- 
ed; but  who  commanded  Masons  to  choose  a  priest, 
and  bring  through  him  the  offerings  Gad  does  not 
ask  for?  And  as  they  seem  not  to  need  the  God- 
appointed  Redeemer,  Jesus  Christ,  nor  believe  in 
him  as  our  High  Priest,  God  does  not  respect  their 
coming  to  him  by  the  way  of  their  own  priesthood, 
nor  regard  their  prayers.  But  Masonry  pretends 
to  bring  its  members  to  heaven,  and  to  set  them  be- 
side God's  true  children  who  are  there  through  be- 
lief in  Jesus;  therefore,  its  religion  is  delusion  and 
deception.  Beware,  then  I  How  can  Christians  con- 
fess Christ  in  the  church  and  deny  him  in  the  lodge 
and  hope  to  be  saved?  Do  not  draw  in  the  yoke 
with  the  unbelievers  and  fellowship  them  in  their 
iniquity,  lest  you  bear  with  them  the  wrath  of  God. 


JVBAR  THB  PBBGIPICE. 


The  great  Continental  Powers  are  all  moving  on 
to  the  brink  of  a  chasm  such  as  they  neared  a  cen- 
tury ago.  The  Continent  of  Europe  is  now  the 
greatest  armed  camp  the  world  has  ever  seen,  and 
is  daily  increasing  its  preparations  for  conflict  with 
feverish  alacrity.  There  is  one  feature  in  the  posi- 
tion which  is  phenominal  in  history,  viz.,  "That  all 
are  deliberately  and  simultaneously  getting  into  bat- 
tle array."  Every  week  brings  some  fresh  incident 
which  is  on  all  hands  interpreted  as  another  indica- 
tion of  the  approaching  storm,  while  not  a  single 
minister  or  government  seems  any  longer  to  make 


the  teeblest  t-ffort  to  suggest  conciliation  and  peace. 
Every  one  of  these  great  m'ilitant  powers,  which  can 
each  march  over  a  million  warriors  into  the  first 
line  of  fire  at  the  first  bugle  blast,  is  greedy  for  some 
territorial  honne  louche,  or  else  in  terror  of  the  neigh- 
bor which  is  determined  to  snatch  it.  France  is  re- 
solved on  the  recovery  of  Alsace  and  Lorraine,  and 
the  conviction  of  this  paralyzes  the  "honest  broker" 
of  Berlin  in  his  attempts  to  counteract  the  palpa- 
ble designs  of  Russia.  But  the  French  are  aware 
that  their  shabby  diplomatic  seizure  of  Nice  and 
Savoy  is  resented  by  Italy  as  one  of  the  most  out- 
rageous robberies  of  history.  Italy  has  her  eyes  on 
the  Trentino  also,  still  in  the  talons  of  the  Austrian 
eagle.  Thus  the  strenuous  and  constant  strain  of 
the  Italians  to  create  a  vast  army  and  splendid  navy 
very  easily  explains  itself.  And  of  the  Austrian 
order  for  a  million  repeating  rifles — horrible  weap- 
ons for  slaughter  by  arithmetic — all  the  world  is 
talking  with  mingled  wonder  and  dejection.  For 
this  means  that  Austria  does  not  flinch  from  the  ap- 
palling prospect  of  an  early  conflict  with  the  almost 
countless  Muscovite  hosts. — London  Christian  Com- 
monwealth. 


WAR  A   CRIME. 


Ten  members  of  the  British  Parliament  and  rep- 
resentatives of  various  unofficial  English  bodies 
have  waited  upon  the  President  of  the  United  States 
and  expressed  to  that  officer  the  sense  of  many 
millions  of  people  on  the  other  side  of  the  water 
that  the  time  has  come  to  make  some  practical  at- 
tempt to  do  away  with  war  as  a  method  of  settling 
difficulties  between  nations.  To  these  expressions 
the  President  has  responded  in  fitting  terms,  includ 
ing  the  conventional  reminders  that,  while  the  peo- 
ple of  the  United  States  strive  persistently  for 
peace,  none  could  fight  more  terribly  when  pushed 
to  battle.  It  may  be  felt,  with  reason,  that  the  idea 
of  international  arbitration  has  gained  in  moral 
strength.  It  must  be  remembered  that  the  Geneva 
award  was  universally  considered  unjust  to  England, 
and  that  the  Halifax  award  was  notoriously  outra- 
geous in  mulcting  America.  If,  with  these  two  un- 
lucky experiments  to  remember,  the  people  of  both 
countries  are  able  to  cany  forward  the  propaganda, 
all  men  should  rejoice.  It  is  but  a  profession,  it  is 
but  words,  at  best.  But  words  have  a  tremendous 
influence  on  the  deeds  of  men. 

War  is  a  tiny  term.  It  has  but  three  letters.  But 
within  those  three  letters  lie  hidden  all  the  evils  of 
which  man  is  capable.  In  time  of  war  not  only 
does  all  bad  become  good,  but  all  good  may  become 
bad.  In  time  of  war  the  lover  of  peace  may  be  held 
as  the  enemy  of  man.  Murder  and  robbery  stand 
out  as  virtues  to  be  particularly  admired,  and  the 
burner  of  cities,  the  executor  of  capital  sentence, 
the  expropriator  of  property,  the  unconscionable' 
despot,  gradually  assumes  the  attributes  of  a  god, 
and  petty  men  who  have  slaughtered  no  regiments 
and  burned  no  cities  walk  under  his  huge  legs,  and 
peep  about  to  find  themselves  dishonorable  graves.  It 
was  so  in  Julius  Caesar's  day.  It  was  so  in  Elizabeth's 
day,  when  Shakespeare  gave  the  language  for  it.  It 
is  so  in  our  own  day,  when  the  man  who  put  torch 
to  a  great  city  lives  to  be  welcomed  to  that  rebuilt 
metropolis  as  a  guest  who  honors  the  town  with  his 
coming. 

That  this  little  word,  war,  should  make  ambition 
virtue;  that  it  should  put  the  seal  of  legitimacy  on 
all  the  bad  acts  of  which  the  basest  human  heart  is 
capable;  that  it  should  illumine  a  man's  fame  as  no 
other  thing,  be  it  good  or  bad,  can  embelish  it,  must 
have  caused  the  philosopher  some  thought  A  great 
general,  compared  with  Shakespeare,  is  a  mere  no- 
body. He  may  o'erthrow  Osiris,  Orno,  Apis,  Isis, 
but  who  shall  care  for  it  two  thousand  years  after- 
ward? Whether  he  be  a  Cambyses,  Alexander, 
Ciesar,  Charlemagne,  Frederick,  Napoleon,  or  Grant, 
or  Von  Moltke,  his  fame  must  pale  as  other  gener- 
als crowd  upon  the  scene.  But,  in  his  own  time, 
what  is  that  strange  glory  that  so  exalts  him?  What 
makes  men  worship  him  as  if  they  thought  he  would 
outlast  Shakespeare  and  Homer?  This  habit  of 
man  can  only  be  explained  on  the  theory  that,  in  the 
tribal  times,  the  mighty  man  was  indeed  a  saviour, 
who  preserved  his  family  and  the  wives  of  his 
friends  from  death  and  slavery.  A  dog,  in  lying 
down,  revolves  many  times  and  thoroughly  exam- 
ines his  bed.  His  master  beat  down  the  long  grass 
for  a  mattress,  and  pulled  out  obnoxious  herbs  with 
his  teeth  that  his  dreams  might  be  undisturbed. 
Probably,  too,  when  a  civilized  man  bows  and  fawns 
before  a  successful  general,  or,  at  a  distance,  de- 
bates upon  the  splendor  of  that  general's  renown, 
the  admirer  is  drawn  away  from  the  realm  of  com- 
mon sense  by  animal  instincts,  which  have  persisted 
beyond  the  day  of  their  proper  use  and  need. —  Chi- 
cago Herald. 


N0TB8  OF  THB   CREaOBNT  CITY. 


BY   REV.  A.    J.   CHITTENDEN. 

Bro.  Hinman  tells  me  of  an  Englishman  who  had 
been  three  days  in  America  and  announced  himself 
to  a  London  paper  as  ready  to  give  a  description  of 
the  country.  I,  therefore,  preface  my  letters  with 
one  general  remark — "subject  to  revision  when  bet- 
ter informed."  My  first  impressions  of  a  New  Or- 
leans winter  were  very  damp.  The  last  three  days 
have  redeemed  the  reputation  of  the  city  in  the  es- 
timation of  visitors,  and  nothing  alloys  our  happi- 
ness but  the  thought  of  friends  in  the  North  ccfugh- 
ing  and  shivering.  Yet,  it  is  but  fair  to  say  that  no 
place  on  the  line  of  the  Illinois  Central  Railroad  has 
seemed  to  us  a  better  place  to  live  in  than  northern 
Illinois. 

New  York  City  and  New  Orleans  are  hardly  Amer- 
ican cities.  The  typical  Yankee  has  almost  disap- 
peared from  the  former,  and  the  typical  Southerner 
seems  to  be  almost  invisible  in  the  latter.  He  is 
found  in  his  traditional  physique  and  character  in 
the  latitude  of  Mississippi  or  Tennessee — rather 
tall,  dark-white  skin,  dark  and  black  hair,  rather 
sharp  features,  and  general  bearing  modified  by  cir- 
cumstances, which  in  the  last  two  decades  have  had 
a  telling  effect  This  city  is  said  to  represent  almost 
every  nationalitj.  Certainly  the  variety  is  sufticient 
to  furnish  a  museum  with  facsimiles.  The  colors 
range  through  the  entire  series,  and  might  be  liken- 
ed to  the  various  brands  of  syrup,  commencing  with 
pure  glucose  and  passing  into  New  Orleans  molas- 
ses, then  West  India  molasses,  till  you  reach  the 
brown-black  and  the  soot-black,  or  the  black  una- 
dulterated. Of  course  we  have  white,  German  and 
Caucasian. 

In  a  lay  meeting  at  the  Methodist  Conference  now 
in  session  the  positive  Negro  type  prevails,  and, 
judging  from  a  very  brief  hearing,  the  genuine  Ne- 
gro of  the  higher  African  descent  promises  to  equal 
or  excel  the  mulatto  in  facility  of  speech  and  gener- 
al vigor  of  thought. 

The  Negro  delights  in  parliamentary  exercises,and 
when  a  question  is  "before  the  house"  there  are 
sometimes  a  good  many  speakers  before  the  house 
also.  "I  rise,  Mr.  President,  to  a  point  of  order," 
says  one.  "The  gentleman — I  should  say,the  broth- 
er— rose  for  explanation  and  now  he  is  making  a 
speech."  The  contest  was  over  the  seating  of  a  lay 
delegate  by  "proxy."  The  chair  made  a  good  ruling 
— that  the  proxy  must  be  from  the  same  place  as 
the  original  to  be  eligible.  Bro.  B.  is  nominated  to 
attend  the  National  Conference  and  the  nominators 
urge  their  candidate  in  a  fashion  that  succeeds  well 
in  clearing  the  track  of  all  impediments. 

"I  desire  to  say,  Mr.  President,"  says  No.  l.,"that 
the  brother  whose  name  I  present  for  this  honorable 
appointment  is  eminently  fitted  to  represent  us  and 
the  interests  of  our  people  in  the  approaching  na- 
tional meeting.  He  has  already  done  much  to  se- 
cure to  us  the  respect  of  the  entire  denomination. 
When  he  was  at  the  Philadelphia  meeting,  he  was 
treated  with  genuine  courtesy,  and  in  every  way  re- 
garded as  one  of  the  great  men  of  the  occasion.  I 
hope,  therefore,  that  this  nomination  will  be  suffic- 
ient and  that  no  one.  xoill  presume  to  allow  his  name  to 
run  against  that  of  Bro.  H." 

Nominator  No.  2  endorses  the  selection  with  equal 
vigor.  "I  wish  also,  Mr.  President,  to  give  a  reas- 
on why  I  favor  the  election  of  Bro.  B.  He  repre- 
sents both  the  male  and  the  female  gender  of  the 
sect,  and  that  is  another  reason  why  we  wish  him  to 
go  to  New  York."  (He  was  a  married  man.) 

It  was  then  moved  that  the  election  be  made  unan- 
imous by  a  rising  vote.  The  scarcity  of  seats  com- 
pelled about  half  of  the  meeting  to  stand  all  the 
time,  and  the  rising  vote  was  a  success.  But  it 
doubtless  would  have  been  in  any  case. 

The  population  here  is  divided,  in  general  by 
Canal  street,  the  main  street,  about  fifteen  rods  wide, 
with  boulevard  center  and  double  horse-car  and 
steam  street-car  track.running  from  the  levee  on  the 
southeast  nearly  through  to  the  northwest  side.  On 
the  northeast  side  the  population  is  French,  German, 
Spanish,  Italian,  Irish,  etc.  The  southwest  side  is 
called  American.  The  French  side  is  mostly  Cath- 
olic and  Jewish. 

Religion  appears  in  modest  formalism  at  the  open 
cathedrals  at  all  hours,  and  in  the  synagogue  on 
Saturdays.  It  evidently  has  almost  no  saving  ertect 
on  the  minds  of  the  masses.  No  one  could  tell  at 
certain  hours  of  the  night  whether  he  were  in  a 
heathen  city  or  a  "Christian."  One  netd  not  go 
further  to  see  Paris  or  Vienna.  Vice  is  tliorougly 
impudent,  and  will  even  assault  you  in  the  day  time, 
if  you  venture  in  some  of  the  "biick  streets,"  cry- 
ing out  loud  enough  to  be  heard  twenty  rods  away. 
Policemen  are  scarce,  and  not  well  supported  by 
the  city  authorities.     One  of  them  said  this  side  of 


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THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE- 


February  9, 1888 


"the  city  is  a  hell  on  earth."  The  theaters  are,  many 
of  them  (and  their  number  is  legion),run  on  the  Con- 
tinental plan.  They  are  simply  a  composition  of 
stage,  saloon,  and  the  other  gate  to  death.  A  long 
hall  is  filled  with  men  and  girls;  the  men  mostly 
young  and  either  drinking  or  smoking;  the  girls  in 
flaming  costumes,  giving  them  the  appearance  of 
elongated  Chinese  lanterns,  or  what  might  be  called 
a  Turkish  Mother-Hubbard  over-dress,  stuffed  in 
some  way  all  round  as  if  it  were  the  stage  ballet 
costume  covered  for  the  intervals  between  the  acts. 
"Admission  Free,"  is  over  the  door,  and  so  much 
we  saw  in  three  minutes.  The  saloon  power  is  to 
be  the  doom  of  the  city  unless  it  is  driven  out  by 
law.  Abolish  that,  and  nearly  all  the  vices  which  it 
feeds  would  be  reduced  seventy  per  cent.  "The 
Old  Absinthe  Depot,  Established  in  1826."  So 
reads  one  of  the  signs  over  that  species  of  French 
saloon. 

All  through  the  city  are  scattered  little  places  ex- 
hibiting in  the  windows,  "Tickets  in  the  Louisiana 
Lottery  Scheme."  These  offices  are,  if  possible, 
more  numerous  than  the  saloons.  The  extent  of 
this  vice  must  be  fearful.  I  believe  it  to  be  as  de- 
moralizing to  the  minds  of  the  people  as  physical 
intoxicants.  There  is  really  no  sense  in  tolerating 
such  an  evil.  The  State  ought  to  be  thoroughly 
ashamed  of  it.  It  is  time  for  these  people  to  under- 
stand that  unless  they  discontinue  such  demoraliz- 
ing practices,  some  more  sober  and  enterprising  set- 
tlers will  take  possession  of  the  opportunities  of- 
fered in  this  truly  favored  portion  of  the  earth. 

There  is  more  unoccupied  land  in  the  South  than 
in  the  northwest.  And  the  tide  of  immigration  is 
setting  strong  this  way.  Nature  is  generous,  but 
she  permits  no  fooling  for  any  great  length  of  time. 
The  wise  shall  inherit  the  land. 


vans  for  the  Pool,  the  Zanzibars,  Kilandas  and  Lu- 
angos  robbed  the  natives  of  all  thej  had,  and  so 
they  have  gone  miles  from  the  trail  that  they  may 
enjoy  the  fruit  of  their  labor.  The  first  that  at- 
tracted my  attention  was  a  beautiful  yellow  flower, 
something  like  a  tulip,  but  it  grew  in  a  cluster;  it 
has  a  beautiful  purple  trimming  at  the  root  of  the 
leaf.  The  next  a  sort  of  morning-glory,  and  yet  in 
some  respects  it  resembled  a  large  fuchsia.  The 
third  has  a  delicate  leaf  and  the  flower  is  very  pretty, 
the  principal  color  is  purple,  tipped  with  yellow, 
with  yellow  and  red  petals,  with  white  fringe  at  the 
stem.  The  next  is  a  button-shaped  flower,  with  a 
dark  yellow  tip  mounted  on  a  dark  green  stem.  I 
picked  one,  also,  which  answers  to  our  little  blue 
forget-me-not.  A  few  miles  from  where  I  am  writing 
the  heathen  murdered  three  Christians  (Africans), 
simply  because  they  were  a  standing  rebuke  to  their 
ungodliness.  They  had  given  up  their  G-illey-Gillies 
(or  charms  of  various  kinds),  and  devil  worship  of 
the  place.  So  to  be  rid  of  them  they  charged  them 
with  being  bewitched  and  put  them  to  death. 

E.  Mathews. 

m  t  » 

OUR  BOSTON  LETTER. 


LETTER  FROM  THE  CONGO. 


BBO.  IDWARD   MATHEWS  ON   AFRICAN   EXPERIENCES, 


ly  seen,  the  existence  of  the  teachings  of  Dens  and 
others  must  first  be  denied.  The  book  is  a  terrible 
wedge  driven  into  Romanism,  which  must  assist  in 
splitting  it  in  twain.  D.  P.  Mathews. 


OUR  NEW  YORK  LETTER. 


Benza  Menliki,  Congo  Free  State,  Africa. 
Having  reached  this  place  I  decided  to  learn  what 
I  could  of  the  sweeping  revival  of  a  year  ago  which 
has  changed  the  hearts  and  lives  of  1,200  natives,and 
in  missionary  reports  much  is  said  about  Bro.  Rich- 
ard's great  success.  I  find  the  people  kind-hearted, 
and  they  gave  me  a  royal  reception,  I  assure  you. 
Brother  and  sister  Ingham  too  are  very  pleasant.  There 
are  some  strange  features  connected  with  their  work. 
First,  these  natives  Christiana  all  smoke,  women  as 
well  as  men.  Of  course  many  throw  this  all  away. 
"Who  art  thou  that  judgest  another  man's  servant," 
etc.?  "To  his  own  Master  he  standeth  or  falleth." 
Second,  many  of  the  men  keep  their  many  wives. 
One  of  their  most  useful  evangelists,  with  whom  I 
talked  this  evening,  and  have  met  him  before,  has 
two  wives.  The  position  taken  by  the  missionaries 
of  this  mission  is — the  Bible  does  not  condemn  the 
practice  of  living  with  their  wives,  but  God  forbids 
them  to  marry  more.  They  infer  from  Paul's  letter 
to  Timothy  touching  elders  and  deacons  having  but 
one  wife  that  the  heathen  were  permitted  to  keep 
many  wives,  but  not  to  be  officers  in  the  church.  Of 
course  I  combat  these  opinions  and  argue  that  God's 
original  plan  was,  monogamy,  one  wife,  and  his  dis- 
pleasure always  rested  on  polygamy.  But  we  read: 
"First  the  blade,  then  the  ear,  after  that  the  full 
corn  in  the  ear."  Perhaps  this  is  the  blade  experi- 
ence. 

One  thing  is  certain,  they  do  not  scruple  at  work- 
ing on  Sunday.  They  are  carrying  materials  for  a 
church  given  by  Americans,  from  "Tunduwa  to  Ben- 
za Menliki,  which  is  four  days'  walk.  I  saw  a  car- 
avan yesterday  trudging  along  with  siding,  flooring, 
and  frame  stuff.  I  inquired,  how  about"Remember 
the  Sabbath  day  to  keep  it  holy,"  etc.  The  answer 
from  one  of  the  missionaries  was,  "Oh,  there  is  no 
Sabbath  in  Africa."  It  was  evident  that  preachers 
and  converts  were  to  act  upon  the  statement,  and  so 
I  gave  my  thirteen  men  the  privilege  of  going  to 
Luri  River  with  prospect  of  shooting  an  antelope  or 
buffalo,  or  remaining  in  camp  and  remembering  the 
Sabbath. 

We  are  now  at  an  altitude  of  160  feet  above  the 
sea  level,  and  yet  some  of  the  mountains  climbed 
have  taken  us  as  much  or  more  than  that  above  the 
valley  below.  I  find  it  full  harder  on  me  to  de- 
scend than  to  ascend.  I  stand  it  well,  as  you  may 
know  from  the  fact  that  I  keep  ahead  of  my  men 
nearly  all  the  time.  1  sometimes  get  into  camp  three 
hoars  before  some  of  them. 

1  will  describe  some  of  the  flowers  I  picked  to- 
day. The  first  is  cotton,  which  I  picked  from  the 
tree  growing  wild  in  an  abandoned  village.  The 
reason  the  beautiful  spot,  abounding  with  fruit  and 
ornamental  trees, — too  lovely  for  my  pea  to  portray 
— was  abandoned  is,  that  being  on  the  trail  of  cars- 


"WHY   PRIESTS    SHOULD   WED.' 


Since  the  publication  of  Morgan's  expose  of  Free- 
masonry, no  book  has  created  greater  sensation  in 
Boston  than  Fulton's  "Why  Priests  Should  Wed." 
The  attention  it  has  received  from  the  general  pub- 
lic is  unprecedented.  Curiosity,  no  doubt,  is  in- 
creased by  the  restricted  sale  of  the  work.  Many 
who  have  not  read  it,  severely  criticise  and  condemn 
Mr.  Fulton  as  being  an  obscene  writer,  but  to  use  a 
somewhat  vulgar  phrase,  "there  is  where  they  make 
a  mistake." 

The  work  is  not  claimed  to  be  an  original  compo- 
sition, but  simply  a  compilation  of  extracts  from 
the  theological  writings  of  Dans  and  Ligouri,  which 
are  recognized  and  adopted  as  standards  of  religious 
authority  by  the  Romish  church,  and  read,  taught 
and  practiced  by  the  Catholic  clergy  throughout  the 
world.  So  vile,  so  reeking  with  obscene  teachings 
and  suggestions  is  Dens's  theology  said  to  be  that 
for  translating  and  selling  it  a  man  in  England  has 
been  sentenced  to  twenty  years  in  imprisonment. 
Mr.  Fulton  has  allowed  only  the  cleanest  portions  to 
enter  the  book,  but  so  interlarded  with  filth  are  even 
these,  that  he  is  forced  to  substitute  many  clauses 
with  black  rules  and  other  symbols  of  the  vile  char- 
acter of  the  terms  used  in  the  original.  Besides 
these  writings  Mr.  Pulton  quotes  passage  after  pass- 
age from  those  of  such  well-known  authors  as  Wil- 
liam Hogan  and  H.C.  Lea,  author  of  "Sacerdotal  Ce- 
libacy," published  by  Houghton,  Mifflin  &  Co.,  1884, 
the  confessions  of  ex-priests,  and  the  sad  experiences 
of  the  escaped  nuns,  Maria  Monk,  Edith  O'Gorman, 
and  Miss  Reed,  who  was  once  an  inmate  of  the 
Charlestown  nunnery,  which  the  indignant  citizens 
destroyed  by  fire  August  11,  1834. 

In  regard  to  the  purpose  and  character  of  the 
book,  Mr.  Fulton  says:  "To  touch  pitch  and  not  be 
defiled,  to  write  of  pollution  and  not  become  pol- 
luted, is  thought  by  many  to  be  impossible.  It 
were  so  if  it  were  not  that  behind  the  attempt  there 
shines  out  a  purpose  so  good,  so  beneficent,  and  so 
ennobling,  that  it  sanctifies  the  effort,  and  makes  it 
a  labor  of  love  "  "To  tell  the  truth  about  the  priest- 
hood, is  to  slander  them,  we  are  told.  What  is  slan- 
der? To  slander  is  to  injure  by  falsehood  malic- 
iously uttered.  To  injure  by  telling  the  truth,  for 
the  good  of  the  people,  is  not  slander,  but  the  re- 
verse." "The  books  which  exhibit  the  true  genius 
of  Popery  are  written  in  Latin  and  never  translated. 
They  are  to  be  found  nowhere  but  on  the  shelves  of 
priests.  Consequently  the  people  are  kept  in  ignor- 
ance. It  is  alarming  that  men  of  brain  and  culture 
in  the  Roman  Catholic  church  will  consent  to  this 
state  of  things.  For  the  shame  and  confusion  of 
Romanists,  Dens's  Theology  and  Ligouri's  Instruc- 
tions ought  to  be  translated,  and  placed  within  reach 
of  the  parents  of  those  children  now  exposed  to 
peril.  The  people  have  never  given  this  subject 
proper  attention.  An  evil  thought  pollutes  the  soul. 
Proofs  of  the  result  have  been  set  forth  in  these 
pages.  May  God  bless  the  truth  to  those  who  read 
it."  "To  shield  Rome,  history  must  belied,  and  the 
truth  must  remain  untold.  For,  be  it  remembered, 
J  do  not  make  facts,  but  quote  them.  Every  line  in  the 
book,  to  stoutly  opposed  as  improper,  is  taken  from 
publications,  which,  with  the  usual  rtstrictions,  may  be 
obtained  in  our  larger  and  best  libraries."  "The  facts 
in  the  book  deserve  resurrection.  They  are  bound 
now  to  have  it.  It  is  not  an  obscene  book.  A  book  is 
obscene  which  is  immoral  in  purpose,  indecent  in 
language,  causing  lewd  thoughts  of  an  impure  ten- 
dency." 

To  deny  the  statements  of  the  book,it  can  be  clear- 


Last  Thursday  evening  the  First  United  Presby- 
terian church  of  Brooklyn  celebrated  the  fortieth 
anniversary  of  the  pastor,  Rev.  D.  J.  Patterson. 
On  the  wall  back  of  the  pulpit  was  the  United  States 
flag.  On  the  right  side,  in  green,  "1848;"  on  the 
left,  in  gold,  "1888."  The  house  w.is  filled  with  in- 
terested guests.  Rev.  Shaw  opened  with  prayer. 
Revs.  Harshaw  and  Biddle  made  addresses,  Mr. 
Waters,  a  student  of  the  third  year  in  Union  The- 
ological Seminary  and  a  member  of  this  congrega- 
tion, presented  the  pastor  with  a  purse  of  $400— 
forty  ten  dollar  gold  pieces — one  for  each  year. 
A  poem  was  read  by  one  of  the  ladies.  After  sing- 
ing a  Psalm,  and  prayer  by  Rev.  Crosby,  the  audi- 
ence adjourned  to  the  lecture  room,  where  a  colla- 
tion was  served  by  the  ladies  of  the  congregation. 
Bro.  Patterson  has  done  a  good  work. 

On  Friday  morning  I  addressed  the  students  of 
Union  Seminary  on  National  Reform.  The  deepest 
interest  was  manifested,  and  after  the  address  many 
asked  questions  as  to  the  practical  bearings  of  the 
movement.  It  seemed  to  have  struck  a  responsive 
chord. 

On  Sabbath  evening  I  preached  in  the  Puritan 
Congregational  church  on  Marcy  Ave.,  Rev.  Dr. 
Ingersoll,  pastor.  This  congregation  numbers  about 
600  members,  and  we  had  that  number  in  the  audi- 
ence. "Puritanism  means  the  Reformation  re- 
formed." These  reformation  principles  took  hold 
here.  The  marked  attention  made  me  feel  that  I 
was  talking  to  friends.  The  time  has  come  for  plain, 
fearless,  truth-telling  utterances.  "Cry  aloud  and 
spare  not;  tell  my  people  Israel  their  transgressions, 
and  the  house  of  Jacob  their  sins." 

Commend  us  to  the  courage  and  fidelity  of  the  wife 
of  Rev.  John  Welsh,  the  daughter  of  John  Knox, 
who,  when  the  judge  tried  to  persuade  her  to  advise 
her  husband  to  renounce  his  principles,  held  out  her 
apron  and  said,  "I  would  rather  kep  his  head  there." 
We  want  men  of  the  John  Knox  type,  of  whom  Ham- 
ilton said,  when  his  casket  had  been  lowered,  "There 
lies  a  man  who  never  feared  the  face  of  man." 

Dr.Sloane  began  hisBoston  lecture  thus:-'It  is  related 
of  the  illustrious  English  philanthropist,  Howard, 
when  visiting  Italy  for  objects  connected  with  the 
grand  work  to  which  he  had  consecrated  his  life,that 
hedid  not  turn  aside  to  view  her  noble  galleries  of  art, 
her  magnificent  ruins,  'sublime  even  in  decay,'  or 
any  of  those  historic  scenes  where  the  fate  of  em- 
pires and  the  destinies  of  the  world  have  been  de- 
cided. The  great  Genevan  reformer,  John  Calvin, 
spent  his  life  amid  the  most  attractive  and  trans- 
porting natural  scenery;  yet  he  has  left  behind  no 
descriptions,  and  I  believe  no  direct  allusions,  even, 
to  the  sublime  tumult  of  the  rushing  Rhone,  the 
mist-enshrouded  Jura,  or  the  snowy  grandeur  of  the 
'monarch  of  the  Alps.'  Intent  upon  his  great  work 
of  organizing  the  spiritual  and  social  forces  of  the 
Reformation,  he  had  neither  time,  feelings  nor  en- 
ergy to  be  expended  upon  lighter  interests.  No  one 
standing  where  I  stand  to-day  can  be  unmindful  of 
those  hallowed  memories  that  cluster  around  this 
honored  city  of  the  Puritans.  I  do  not  forget  that 
we  are  assembled  almost  within  hearing  of  the  waves 
that  break  upon  Plymouth  Rock,  beneath  the  shad- 
ow of  Bunker  Hill  and  Faneuil  Hall;  that  these 
shores  heard  first  the  roar  of  the  enemies'  cannon, 
and  these  streets  drank  the  first  blood  in  that  mem- 
orable struggle  which  gave  independence  to  the 
American  colonies."  Let  Puritanism  be  revived  in 
America!  J-  M.   Foster. 


— During  a  special  week  of  prayer  called  by  the 
National  W.  C.  T.  U.,  meetings,  under  the  auspices 
of  the  National  Society,  will  be  held  in  Washington, 
in  the  general  interest  of  the  organization  and  of 
the  work  the  District  Union  is  doing  to  secure  a 
prohibitory  statute.  These  meetings  will  be  ad- 
dressed by  Miss  Willard  and  other  leaders  of  the 
National  W.  C.  T.  U.,  antl  will  consist  of  parlor  and 
mass  meetings,  with  Bible  readings  by  Mrs.  Han- 
nah Whittall  Smith.  They  will  close  on  Saturday, 
March  24,  and  on  Sunday,  March  25,  will  begin  a 
week's  meeting  of  the  Woman's  International  Coun- 
cil to  celebrate  the  fortieth  or  jubilee  year  of  the 
woman's  movement.  This  meeting  will  open  with  a 
sermon  by  the  Rev.  Anna  Shaw,  superintendent  of 
franchise  for  the  National  W.  C.  T.  U.,  and  many 
of  the  white  ribbon  leaders  will  be  in  attendance. 
It  is  meant  to  pass  in  review  the  achievements  of 
women  in  industry,  education,  professional  life,  phi- 
lanthropy, politics,  and  religion. 


Pebritary  9,  1888 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


NOTICES 


TRB  Jf.  O.  A.  NATIONAL  CONVENTION. 


OFFICIAL  CALL. 

The  Seventeenth  Convention  of  the  National  Chris- 
tian Association  is  hereby  called  to  meet  in  the  Central 
Congregationalist  church  in  the  city  of  New  Orleans, 
Louisiana,  at  7:30  p.  m  ,  February  17lh,  1888.  An  inter- 
esting programme  has  been  arranged,  able  speakers  have 
been  secured,  and  three  sessions  will  be  held  daily,  clos- 
ing with  the  evening  of  Feb.  20th.  Seats  are  free  and 
the  public  are  most  cordially  invited  to  attend. 

Rev.  J  S  McCuLLOCH,  D.D.,  Pres. 

Rkv.  Lewis  Johnston,  tiec'y. 


Rates  to  New  Orleans. — Regular  round  trip  tickets 
from  Chicago  to  New  Orleans  $30,  good  till  June  Ist 
During  the  present  week,  Feb.  *ilti.  to  llth.^a  special  ex- 
cursion ticket  is  sold,  good  to  return  till  March  Ist. 
Special  rates  are  generally  made  from  all  parts  of  the 
country  this  week,  and  it  is  a  good  time  to  take  the  trip. 
Special  excursion  rates  can  also  be  had  for  colonies  in 
parts  of  Louisiana  near  New  Orleans.  Advantage  may 
be  taken  of  these  low  rates  to  attend  the  convention. 


Beform  News. 


FROM  TBS  QENSRAL  AGENT. 


DOORS   OPINING   IN   NSW   ORLEANS. 

Niw  Orleans,  La.,  Jan.  30th,  1888. 
I  preached  in  two  colored  churches  yesterday  to 
attentive  audiences.  Bro  Butler  of  Shiloh  Baptist 
church  followed  with  a  strong  endorsement  of  all  I 
had  said,  and  especially  my  words  of  warning 
against  the  secret  lodge.  Bro.  Davidson  followed 
with  a  stirring  testimony  from  a  personal  knowl- 
edge, and  then  distributed  tracts  which  were  eagerly 
received  by  the  audience. 

I  visited  the  M.  E.  Conference  this  morning.  The 
Bishop  gave  me  an  opportunity  to  give  notice  of 
our  approaching  convention  and  explain  its  object. 
I  did  so  briefly  and  the  Bishop  endorsed  the  object 
and  said  substantially,  "I  desire,  brethren,  to  com- 
mend this  subject  to  your  most  prayerful  consider- 
ation. I  have  long  been  of  the  opinion  that  the  mul- 
tiplication of  these  secret  lodges  is  injuring  the 
church  and  greatly  hindering  the  cause  of  Christ 
I  belong  to  one  which  has  just  two  members,  my 
wife  and  myself,  and  I  never  have  and  never  shall 
belong  to  any  other.  There  is  of  course  a  difference 
between  societies  that  are  strictly  benevolent  and 
those  that  are  social,  but  in  my  opinion  the  church 
is  sufficient.  The  church  needs  the  time,the  thought 
and  the  money  which  goes  to  these  societies  and  I 
hope  you  will  give  to  the  Bride  of  Christ  what  just- 
ly belongs  to  her." 

The  Bishop's  remarks,  though  brief,  were  pointed 
and  received  with  marked  approval.  I  had  with  me 
a  supply  of  tracts  which  were  eagerly  received,  and 
when  they  were  exhausted  I  promised  to  return  lat- 
er with  a  supply.  Thus  we  see  the  good  hand  of 
our  God  opening  the  door  and  pointing  the  way  into 
the  midst  of  the  churches  where  we  had  least  ex- 
pected to  find  a  welcome  and  friends  of  our  special 
work. 

I  sincerely  hope  our  friends  at  the  North  who 
have  had  better  opportunities  will  make  an  effort 
and  if  need  be  a  sacrifice  to  attend  the  convention; 
and  there  may  be  some  who  cannot  attend  in  person 
who  can  nevertheless  contribute  of  their  means  to 
help  defray  expenses  of  speakers  and  other  expens- 
es incident  to  a  thorough  canvass  and  tract  distribu- 
tion of  the  city  and  points  within  reach.  Let  me  en- 
treat the  brethren  and  sisters  to  be  instant  in  prayer 
for  the  descent  of  the  Holy  Spirit  upon  the  conven- 
tion. J.  p.  Stoddard. 


AN  ODD-FELLO  W  CHAMPION  AND  NATURAL- 
BORN  MA80NS. 


80MB   IXPERIENC18    OP   THE   OHIO   AGENT. 


SuARPSBDRo,  O.,  Feb.  2d,  1888. 
Dear  CrNosuRE:— While  waiting  for.  a  train  to 
Athens  county,  I  will  note  a  few  events  of  the  recent 
past.  During  the  past  nine  days  I  have  addressed 
nine  audiences,  ranging  in  attendance  from  .^)0  to 
200.  The  best  of  attention  has  been  given,  and 
much  interest  awakened.  An  Odd-fellow,  named 
J.  G.  Carter,  attempted  a  reply  at  Mountville.  His 
speech  was  composed  largely  of  loose,  random  talk, 
with  seemingly  no  regard  for  truth.  To  illustrate: 
He  stated  that  no  Ocid-fellow  claimed  theirs  was  a 
charitable  institution;  that  the  candidate  was  told 
as  soon  as  he  entered  it  was  not  a  charitable  insti- 
tution.      When  he  had  proceeded  a  little  he   waxed 


ing  the  churches  for  not  being  as  charitable  as  their 
order.  "Why,"  said  he,  "we  paid  $142,000  last  year 
in  this  State  for  charitable  purposes,"  etc.,  etc.  He 
stated  that  "Wm.  Morgan,  whom  the  Anti's  sup- 
posed to  be  murdered  by  the  Masons,  came  down  to 
Athens  and  Amesville  lodges  and  tried  to  borrow 
money  under  false  pretences."  Having  read  the 
Grand  Lodge  report  for  this  State  I  knew  there  were 
no  lodges  at  either  of  these  places  till  long  after 
Morgan  was  murdered.  I,  of  course,  called  the  at- 
tention of  the  audience  to  the  untruthfulness  of 
many  of  his  statements,  and  he,  evidently  thinking 
discretion  the  better  part  of  valor,  did  not  attempt 
another  reply,  but  took  a  back  seat. 

Much  of  my  time  has  been  spent  in  and  around 
Chester  Hill,  a  Quaker  town  some  ten  miles  from 
Mountville.  Here  I  addressed  three  United  Breth- 
ren audiences  at  churches  known  as  Liberty,  Otter- 
bein  and  Fairview,  the  latter  at  the  special  request 
of  Bro.  Jacob  Zumbro,  who  became  so  interested  in 
the  work  that  he  walked  some  fifteen  miles  to  see 
trustees  and  advertize  the  same. 

On  Tuesday  evening  I  addressed  an  audience  com- 
posed largely  of  infidels  and  worldlings  in  Funk's 
Hall,  Chester  Hill  The  more  I  proved  that  Free- 
masonry was  a  Christ-excluding  religion,  the  better 
it  seemed  to  please  them.  About  two-thirds  of  the 
Masons  of  this  place  are  avowed  infidels.  The  own- 
er of  the  hall  told  me  he  was  teaching  his  children 
infidelity  as  fast  as  they  could  learn  it.  Mr.  Patter- 
son, the  Worshipful  Master,  endorsed  all  that  I  said 
except  ray  reference  to  initiation,  which  he  did  not 
deny.  He  took  Mackey  as  authority  and  said  his 
religion  was  deism.  In  short,  they  were  the  most 
honest  set  of  men  controlled  by  the  devil  that  I 
have  ever  met. 

As  a  result  of  this  trip  thirteen  more  families  will 
have  the  weekly  visits  of  the  Cynosure,  Some  books 
and  tracts  have  been  ordered,  and  over  a  thousand 
have  listened  to  the  subject  discussed.  Financially 
I  have  not  been  as  successful  as  at  times.  There 
seems  to  be  a  general  depression  in  finances  all 
through  this  section.  But  I  have  a  good  deal  of 
faith  in  our  Captain,  and  in  the  friends  interested 
throughout  the  State.  The  command  is,  "Sow  be- 
side all  waters  for  we  know  npt  whether  this  or  that 
will  prosper,  or  whether  they  will  be  both  alike 
good."  I  am  sure  from  the  great  interest  manifest- 
ed among  the  United  Brethren,  and  the  expressions 
of  some,  that  it  will  help  them  to  stand  loyal.  I  go 
now  to  Shade,Athens  county.and  from  thence  home. 

W.  B.  Stopdard. 


THE  BLIZZARD  IN  IOWA 


Dear  Cynosure: — From  New  Sharon  I  went  to 
Colfax,  in  Jasper  county,  i  visited  some  friends 
of  the  reform  here,  but  as  a  revival  meeting  was  in 
progress  in  the  M.  E.  church,  I  went  on  to  Bethel 
Chapel,  four  miles  from  Baxter.  Here  I  found  my 
old  friend,  Squire  R.  B.  Dawson,  a  staunch  friend 
of  our  reform.  The  pastor  of  Bethel  Chapel  had 
begun  a  series  of  meetings  before  I  arrived.  He 
invited  me  to  preach,  and  for  several  successive 
times  I  preached  Christ  and  his  Gospel,  as  opposed 
to  the  false  philosophy  of  the  lodge.  The  Lord  was 
pleased  to  bless  our  efforts.  The  interest  increased, 
and  some  began  to  turn  to  the  Lord. 

I  asked  Squire  Dawson  who  I  should  call  upon  to 
aid  the  Iowa  Association  in  carrying  forward  the 
anti-lodge  reform  work.  He  referred  me  to  A.  B 
Altman,  who  is  thoroughly  enlisted  in  the  reform, 
and  who  is  both  able  and  willing  to  help.  Said  the 
Squire,  "You  tell  Bro.  Altman  that  I  think  we  can 
each  give  $5  to  help  on  the  work."  Mr.  Altman  is 
not  the  man  to  disappoint  the  confidence  his  friends 
repose  in  him  as  a  generous  helper  in  good  works. 
He  accordingly  subscribed  $5  to  be  paid  in  a  short 
time  to  Squire  Dawson,  who  will  remit  his  own  do- 
nation and  Bro.  Altman's  to  James  Harvey,  the 
State  treasurer  at  Pleasant  Plain. 

I  left  Bethel  just  as  a  storm  was  beginning  to 
rage,  that  soon  made  the  railroads  impassable.  I 
had  become  attached  to  the  pastor,  who  is  an  earn- 
est friend  of  our  cause.  He  took  me  to  Baxter. 
Before  we  reached  there  the  storm  was  raging  vio- 
lently. Finding  that  I  could  not  make  my  railroad 
connections  as  I  desired,  I  concluded  to  enter  a 
club  of  three  and  hire  a  liveryman  to  take  us  fif- 
teen miles  to  Newton,  which  I  expected  to  reach  in 
time  to  take  a  train  for  New  Sharon.  But  the 
storm  increased  so  that  we  were  hindered  by  having 
to  shovel  to  get  through  drifts  and  by  upsetting,  so 
that  when  1  reached  the  station  I  found  that  my 
train  had  been  gone  half  an  hour.  As  it  would  be 
twenty-four  hours  before  another  would  go  on  that 
road,  if  they  went  on  time,  and  there  was  a  pros- 
pect of  a  snow  blockade  (which  really  occurred, 
so   that   it    was    five    days 


Island   to  connect   with  the  main  line  of  the   Iowa 
Central  for  New  Sharon. 

I  reached  Grinnell  at  6  p.  m.  A  train  which  was 
past  due  from  the  north  was  said  t;)  be  four  hours 
late.  I  waited  in  the  depot  until  11  p.  m.,  but  no 
train.  At  4  A.  m.  the  train  came.  I  with  others 
went  on  board.  We  waited  all  that  day  and  into  the 
following  night  before  the  train  gotfairly  under  way, 
so  as  to  reach  New  Sharon  at  1 1  p.  m. 

In  this  trip  to  Jasper  county  I  took  cold.  A  severe 
cough  set  in  so  that  I  was  in  poor  condition  for  la- 
bor. I  found  a  hospitable  home  with  Henry  Cope 
and  family,  who,  in  addition  to  the  kindness  he 
showed  me,  generously  subscribed  $5  to  aid  the 
Iowa  Association.  I  sf)oke  twice  in  the  Friends 
church  on  the  Sabbath,  and  spent  the  following  week 
in  visiting,  distributing  literature  and  securing  sub- 
scribers to  the  Gynoture.  Thirteen  copies  of  the 
paper  will  come  to  New  Sharon  office  instead  of  two, 
as  heretofore.  The  following  Sabbath  I  went  six 
miles  into  the  country  with  friend  Cobb,  and  preached 
to  a  congregation  ho  had  gathered.  In  the  evening 
I  preached  again  at  New  Sharon.  I  continued  my 
visitations  for  a  day  or  two  longer  and  then  took  my 
departure,  feeling  still  that  there  was  more  work  for 
me  to  do  at  New  Sharon,  both  personal  and  public. 

Rev.  Lambert,  the  pastor  of  the  M.  E  churcb,  was 
holding  a  series  of  meetings  for  the  promotion  of 
a  revival,  for  which  reason  I  thought  not  bast  to 
give  a  lecture  on  Freemasonry  at  that  time.  The 
severity  of  my  cold  and  cough  also  constrained  me 
to  do  the  least  possible  amount  of  public  speaking. 
On  parting  the  Friends  minister  said,  "I  am  glad 
thee  has  been  with  us." 

I  would  suggest  to  those  who  have  subscribed  to 
the  Iowa  Association  work,  and  to  those  who  are 
owing  me  for  the  Cynosure,  that  you  remit  as  fast  as 
you  can  consistently,  to  the  State  treasurer,  James 
Harvey,  Pleasant  Plain,  Jefferson  county,  Iowa. 
Those  who  are  back  on  last  year's  subscription  will 
confer  a  great  favor  by  remitting  as  promptly  as 
possible.  The  work,  dear  friends,  is  an  arduous 
one.     Give  it  a  generous  and  prompt  support. 

C.  F.  Hawlet. 


Correspondence. 


SAVED  BY  THE  TRUTH,  NOT  BY  THB 
PREACH  EH. 


Dadevillf,  Mo. 

Editor  Christian  Cynosure :— The  popular 
churches  of  our  village  have  within  the  last  few 
weeks  been  engaged  in  a  revival  effort.  During 
which  meetings  the  Gospel  in  all  its  saving  power 
was  most  fully  and  clearly  set  forth.  In  which  some 
present,  notwithstanding  their  exceptions  to  the  po- 
sition of  said  religious  bodies  on  the  popular  evils 
of  the  day,  were  made  to  rejoice  with  joy  altogether 
unspeakable,  and  full  of  glory,  even.  Amtn.  Now 
the  question  may  arise  in  the  minds  of  some,  how 
is  it  that  these  "Antis"  cannot  only  join  in  with 
these  sworn  secretists  (for,  by  the  way,  the  two  most 
prominent  preachers,  and  three  officials  of  the 
church  now  under  consideration,  are  Freemasons)  in 
religious  work,  but  appear  to  enjoy  the  same  very 
much?  Have  patience,  dear  readers,  and  I  will  try 
to  solve  the  secret  As  for  myself,  I  wish  to  say, 
were  it  not  for  the  twenty-third  of  Matthew,  and  pos- 
sibly other  passages  to  the  same  effect,  I  could  no 
more  hear  a  Freemason  preach  than  I  could  any 
other  character  whose  relations  in  life  clearly  con- 
travene the  plain  teachings  of  God's  Word. 

But  for  my  opposition  to  the  lodge  and  its  nefari- 
ous work.  In  the  first  place,  I  predicate  my  faith 
upon  the  testimony  of  a  class  of  witnesses  whose 
evidence  in  any  other  case  would  no  more  be  called 
in  question  than  is  the  emanation  of  light  and  heat 
from  the  sun.  I  refer  to  that  class  of  holy,  good 
men  who,  sometime  in  an  unguarded  hour,  became 
entangled  in  this  great  masterpiece  of  ungodliness 
in  the  world,  but  who,  on  becoming  experimentally 
acquainted  with  the  institution  itself,  in  view  of  its 
inherent  wickedness,  were  compelled,  in  order  to  re- 
tain their  moral  integrity,  to  abandon  the  whole  thing 
forever.  And  I  do  thank  God  for  the  "cloud  of  wit- 
nesses" there  are  on  every  hand  ready  to  attest  to 
the  same  thing.  But  waiving  all  this  array  of  in- 
controvertible evidence,  letting  it  all  go  for  the  time 
being,  pass  to  another  class  of  witnesses. 

I  now  refer  to  their  own  standard  writers— their 
own  learned  expositors.  And  their  testimony,  though 
startling  it  be,  is  simply  that  the  lodge,  i.  e ,  Free- 
masonry, saves  from  sin,  purifies  the  heart  and  qual- 
ifies for  heaven  (the  Grand  Lodge  above).  And  all 
this,  too,  voUhoHt  a  Christ.  The  truth  is.  this  last 
class  of  witnesses  know  not  whereof  they  affirm; 
otherwise,  all  devotees  of  the  lo<1ge  worship  at  not 
reforranotheTlmin   only  ^u..  but  at  rival  altars.      Now.  what  does  the 


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warm. 


w  nen  ne  naa  proceeuen  a  uiue  ne   waxea   so   inai   u    was    nve    aays     neiore   anoiaer    iraiu   ""v  .«,....- n  ia  nnint?      Simnlv  it 

and,  very  much  excited,  he  went  on  denounc-  ran  over  that  road),  I  went  to  Grinnell  on  the  Rock  eternal  God  say  as  toucUing  mis  poinit      o     f  y 


I 


THE  CHBISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


February  9, 1888 


is  an  IMPOSSIBILITY.  "Ye  cannot  serve  God"  and 
the  lodge,  no  more  than  you  can  "God  and  mam- 
mon." "Ye  cannot  drink  the  cup  of  the  Lord  and 
the  cup  of  devils."  Ye  cannot  honor  Christ  and  re- 
ject him  at  the  same  time. 

This  being  the  case,  how  is  it  that  the  labors  of 
such  men  are  blest  of  God  in  the  salvation  of  the 
children  of  men?     "To  the  law  and  the  testimony." 
Man  is  not  saved  by  pinning  his  faith  to  any  mor- 
tal's sleeve — by  the  character  of  any  instrumental- 
ity, whatsoever;  but  by  "repentance  toward  God,  and 
faith  in  our  Lord  Jesus  Christ."     "Christ  is  the  end 
of  the  law,  for  righteousness,  to  every  one  that  be- 
lieveth."     "By  sanctification  of  the  Spirit  and  belief 
of  the  truth."     And  thus  it  is  from  Genesis  to  Rev- 
elation.    Whenever  and   wherever  the   honest  in- 
quirer after  salvation  hears  and  complies  with  the 
conditions  thereof,  he  is  a  saved  man,  entirely  in- 
dependent of  the  character  of  the  channel  through 
which  the  truth  came  to  him,  or  the  instrument  by 
which   he   was   directed   to  the  great  Fountain  of 
cleansing.     And  the   Apostle  carries  this  solemn 
truth   farther  yet,   Philippians   1:  15,  16,  wherein 
he  says,  he  gloried  in  that  the  Gospel  was  preached, 
though  done  in  envy  and  strife,  not  sincerely,  but 
for  contention's  sake,  from  sinister  motives,  and  yet 
he  rejoiced.     Not  that  he  commended  the  characters, 
or  their  course,  who  did  so.     Why  then?     Simply 
in  that  the  truth  was  proclaimed  abroad,  and  it 
would  accomplish  good — that  whereunto  it  was  sent; 
the  salvation  of  a  lost  world,   irrespective  of  the 
character  of  the  instrumentalities  employed  in  bring- 
ing about  such  great  and   glorious  results.     Praise 
the  Lord  for  his  unbounded  goodness  to  the  children 
of  men.     True,  this  is  an  awfully  serious  subject  to 
reflect  upon,  i.  e  ,  the  possibility  of  men  oflfering  life 
and  salvation  to  their  fellows,  see  them  receive  it — 
behold  them  rejoicing  in  its  blessed  acquisition,  and 
at  the  same  time  their  connection  with  Christless 
systems,  such,  that  from  a  Bible  standpoint,  it  is 
utterly  impossible  to  accord  to  them  what  they  claim. 
Now,  while  we  attempt  not  to  sit  in  judgment  on 
any  man's  soul — that  is  exclusively  God's  preroga- 
tive and  not  man's — we  do  propose  to  "let  God  be 
true,  but  every  man  a  liar."      That  is,  poor  fallen 
man  may  profess  just  what  he  pleases,  yet  that  will 
not  and  does  not  efl^ect  anything  as  long  as  the  life, 
the  acts,  of  the  individual  contradict  his  or  her  pro- 
fession.      The  blessed  Jesus  seemed  to  anticipate 
precisely  this  difficulty,  i.  e.,  how  hard  it  would  be 
to  conceive  the  idea  that  it  were  possible  that  men 
would  assume  to  be  even  teachers  of  righteousness 
while  they  are  all  blackness  and  darkness  within — 
wolves  in  sheep's  clothing.   As  evidence  of  this  fact  I 
we  have  only  to  refer  to  his  ever-memorable  sermon 
on  the  mount,  wherein  it  is  twice  recorded,"By  their 
f  ruit8"(or  associations) "ye  shall  know  them."  Where- 
fore, since  this  is  the  unfortunate  state  of  things  in 
this  wicked  world  of  ours,  in  this  age  of  compro- 
mise and  sin,  the  proper  and  appropriate  place  of 
the  true  reformer  is   ever  to  be  found  where  he  can 
not  only  rejoice  at  the  spread  of  the  truth,  but  to 
the  extent  of  his  abilities  help  on  the  glorious  work 
of  bringing  back  an  apostate  world  to  its  Maker — 
God.     The   twenty-third  of  Matthew  has  been  re- 
ferred to  as  justification  of  the  position  vindicated 
above.     "All,  therefore,  whatsoever  they   bid  you 
observe,  that  observe  and  do;  but  do  not  ye  after 
their  works;   for  they  say  and  do  not."      Now  it  is 
an  utter   impossibility  to  do  as  "they  say,"  without 
going  to  hear  them.      Hence  not  only  the  propriety, 
but  even  the  duty  of  attending  the  ministrations  of 
men  who  fail  to  walk  as  they  talk.      Yet,  it  is  pain- 
ful to  admit  the  fact  that  while  the  truly  pious  man 
can  and  ought  to  assemble  as  above  indicated,  he 
is  grieved  to  witness  the  ignoring  of  the  applica- 
tion of  the  truth  to  any  and  all  the  popular  evils  of 
the  day.     God  help,  for  Jesus's  talce!     And  may  a 
better  day  and  state  of  things  be  speedily  ushered 
in,  is  the  ardent  prayer  of  the  very  unworthy  author 
of  the  a])Ove  tho^shls  aal  reflections.     All,  all  for 
Christ's  sake.  J.  W.  Thompson. 


To-night  I  begin  another  protracted  meeting.  I 
have  been  preaching  constantly  for  about  six  weeks 
and  have  not  failed  to  use  the  "setting  maul"  on 
"Hiram"  and  "common  gavel"  on  jacks.  When  I 
can  spare  time  I  am  promising  myself  the  satisfac- 
tion of  writing  you  a  letter  respecting  the  condition  of 
the  country  as  regards  reform.  Suffice  it  to  say  that 
the  dragon  teeth  are  producing  a  crop.  Yours  in 
Christ,  G.  T.  Dissette. 
♦  •  »i 

LOCAL  OPTION  IN  OHIO. 


Brooklyn,  N.  Y, 
Editor  Christian  Cynosure: — In  my  letter  dat- 
ed Dec.  22,  1887,  I  reported  a  remark  of  Dr.  Leon- 
ard that,  with  one  exception,  "in  not  a  single  village 
where  local  option  has  been  adopted  are  the  saloons 
closed."  Some  one  signing  himself  "Prohibition 
Republican"  replies  thus:  "This  refers  to  Ohio.  My 
knowledge  is  limited  to  three  villages  that  have 
adopted  local  option.  Mount  Victory,  Hardin  Co.,0., 
and  Rushsylvania  and  Belle  Center,  Logan  Co.,  O., 
and  the  reverend  correspondent  can  not  find  an  open 
saloon  in  any  of  the  three  villages."  I  wrote  Bro. 
Huston  for  the  facts  and  here  is  his  reply: 

"In  reply  to  your  questions  I  would  say  that  so 
far  as  I  know  Dr.  Leonard's  statement  is  true.  In 
regard  to  our  own  town  we  have  no  licensed  saloon 
inside  the  corporation,  but  just  outside  there  is  one, 
and  it  is  well  patronized.  I  am  also  confident  that 
there  are  one  or  two  drinking-places  in  town,  but 
could  not  prove  this.  There  is  one  place  that  re- 
ceives box  after  box  of  "Stomach  Bitters."  They 
have  a  pool  table  and  two  men  run  it.  The  question 
is,  how  do  they  make  a  living?  Mrs.  J.  R.  Day  of 
Rushsylvania  told  me  several  months  ago  that  li- 
quor was  sold  in  their  town.  Mr.  Ferguson  told  me 
this  morning  that  Mt.  Victory  found  out  that  the 
local  option  clause  of  the  Dow  law  did  them  no  good. 
I  believe  the  Dow  law  is  doing  Belle  Center  some 
good,  as  it  makes  drinking  disgraceful  and  unpopu- 
lar, but  our  drunkards  have  all  they  want.  The  Dow 
law  will  not  decrease  the  number  of  drunkards  very 
fast.    Respectfully,  J.  J.  Huston." 

So  it  seems  that  Dr.  Leonard  understood  what  he 
was  talking  about.  Our  "Prohibition  Republican" 
friend  will  have  to  look  into  the  matter  more  closely. 

J.  M.  Foster. 


will  be  astonished  to  find  so  much  fiction  in  it.  I  am  in 
favor  of  striking  out  everything  that  is  not  "the  truth." 
— N.  B.  Blanton. 

ONE   WITH   GOD   A   MAJORITY. 

Almost  all  our  ministers  in  East  Boston  are  Freema- 
sons. I  stand  here  alone  apparently  on  this  reform  ques 
tion.  I  do  so  wish  that  Bro.  Hinman  or  some  good  lec- 
turer could  come  to  this  place.  There  is  quite  a  revival 
of  religion  going  on  in  the  various  churches;  but  I  fear 
for  the  younger  part  of  the  converts  when  afterwards 
they  are  caught  in  the  man  traps  of  infidelity.  Why 
would  it  not  be  well  to  issue  a  tract  to  distribute,  espec- 
ially to  the  young,  to  awaken  them  to  this  alarming  feat- 
ure of  the  lodges,  to  fix  in  their  minds  a  proper  idea  of 
the  Christian  hfe,  and  thereby  keep  them  from  the  snare 
of  the  adversary. 

I  would  be  glad  to  add  my  testimony  in  the  Cynosure 
from  time  to  time  of  my  experiences  which  I  often  en- 
counter in  opposition  to  secret  societies.  I  believe  Satan 
never  invented  a  more  complete  system  to  draw  men 
from  Christ  than  Freemasonry.  We  have  many  people 
here  and  in  other  parts  who  I  believe  would  readily  em- 
brace the  truth  as  it  is  presented  in  the  Scripture,  if 
a  leader  could  come  among  them  and  give  them  an  idea 
of  the  work  now  going  on  by  the  National  Christian  As- 
sociation.— Stephen  Gkover,  East  Boston,  Mass. 


A  NOBLE  ARMY. 


Seneca viLLE,  0. 

Editor  Cynosure: — I  have  been  reading  your  ad- 
vice in  the  Cynosure,  "Best  of  all  is  the  noble  c  )m- 
pany"  that  we  are  in.  You  invite  all  friends  of  the 
past  to  honor  themselves  by  remaining  in  it.  You 
claim  that  we  can  hardly  afford  to  forsake  this  com- 
pany. I  for  one  truly  feel  that  way.  My  name  has 
been  on  your  list  from  about  the  first.  I  had  from 
one  to  two  clubs  on  that  list  about  all  the  time.  I 
believe  this  is  the  most  effectual  way  to  work  in  this 
good  cause.  Although  I  feel  myself  to  be  one  of  the 
humble  ones  I  feel  proud  to  be  in  this  company  of 
reformers,  and  am  willing  to  bear  the  reproach  with 
my  brethren.  I  feel  much  encouraged  at  the  stand 
our  leaders  have  taken  against  the  secret  fraterni- 
ties.    This  is  the  time  to  strike. 

At  the  State  Convention  at  New  Concord,  Ohio,  I 
felt  that  I  was  in  grand  company  with  God's  peo- 
ple who  were  laboring  to  put  down  the  works  of 
darkness.  I  would  like  to  be  with  them  at  the  Na- 
tional Convention  at  New  Orleans.  My  humble 
prayer  is  that  God  will  direct  his  people  in  that  great 
Convention  to  his  great  glory  and  to  the  overthrow 
of  the  works  of  the  devil.  I  want  to  help  some  in 
sending  the  Cynosure  to  ministers  in  the  South  and 
also  getting  others  to  help  in  this  good  cause. 

John  Leeper. 


united  workmen. 

Are  the  United  Workmen  to  be  regarded  as  an  oath- 
bound  secret  society?— C.  H.  Rohe. 

The  "Ancient  Order  of  United  Workmen,"  so  called, 
have  not  yet  sent  a  copy  of  their  obligation  to  the  Cyno- 
sure, 80  we  do  not  know  whether  they  invoke  the  name 
of  God  or  not,  to  help  keep  their  trifling  secrets.  They 
probably,  however,  like  Good  Templars,  Odd  fellows, 
etc.,  exact  a  "sacred  pledge,"  or  promise  on  their  "sacred 
honor,"  or  use  some  other  word  referring  to  Deity,  the 
object  being  to  impress  the  candidate  as  solemnly  as  if 
an  honest  oath  were  taken,  but  trying  to  make  it  appear 
less  objectionable  to  outsiders. 

D.  V. 

Please  answer  in  the  Cynosure  what  is  the  definition 
of  the  letters  D.  V.  which  are  sometimes  used.— A.  Q. 
Mansfield. 

They  are  the  initial  letters  for  the  Latin  phrase  Deo 
volente,  which  means  "G3d  willing." 

the  fund  for  the  southern  ministers, 

I  enclose  $15,  would  like  to  make  it  $150.— Jerome 
Howe. 

I  enclose  $10,  hoping  it  may  help  toward  delivering 
them  from  the  thralldom  of  Satan.— Amos  Dresser. 

Find  enclosed  50  cts  for  the  ministers'  fund ;  I  would 
be  glad  to  make  it  $50.  The  Cynosxire  I  prize  as  among 
my  best  friends  and  it  grows  better  and  better. — J.  S. 
Baldwin. 

veteran  subscribers. 

I  have  been  a  subscriber  from  the  first.  I  esteem  the 
paper  as  highly  now  as  ever.  Its  caurage,  Christian 
spidt,  reform  principles  and  ability  deserve  many  thou- 
sands of  readers  more  than  its  present  number.— Bishop 
Milton  Wright. 

I  have  been  a  subscriber  to  the  Cynosure  since  the  be- 
ginning; have  taken  two  copies  some  years,  and  some- 
times three.  I  also  signed  the  call  for  organizing  the 
movement.  I  am  now  in  my  821  year,  but  desire  to  see 
the  works  of  darkness  dethroned.— David  West. 

(Another.)— Samuel  Phelps,  Ehnwood,  III. 

A  constant  reader  from  the  first.— Mrs.  E.  M.  Live- 
8AY,  Nashville,  111. 

Have  been  a  constant  reader  from  the  first  and  expect 
to  be  while  life  and  reason  last.— Darius  Reynolds. 

(Another.)— Philo  Mill.vrd,  WoodhuU,  N.  T. 

(Another.)— A.  W.  Clapp,  Bllington,  N.  T. 


PITH  AND  POINT. 


FROM  A   WESLETAN  PASTOR. 


Little  River,  Kans.,  Jan.  30th,  1888. 
Dear  Editor: — You  doubtless  are  aware  that  I 
joined  the  Kansas  Conference  of  the  Wesleyan 
Methodist  church  on  my  return  from  Illinois.  This 
year  I  was  appointed  pastor  of  Little  River  circuit, 
and  am  engaged  in  the  conflict  as  never  before,  for 
the  very  knowledge  that  I  am  a  seceded  Master  Ma- 
son seems  to  turn  some  away.  But  God  has  prom- 
ised to  help  me,  and  there  shall  be  no  compromise 
with  the  "unfruitful  works  of  darkness."  Never  be- 
fore in  all  my  life  have  I  felt  more  the  importance 
and  force  of  D.  L.  Moody's  utterance:  "Give  them 
the  truth  anyway,  and  if  they  would  rather  leave  the 
churches  than  their  lodges,"  let  them  go.  "Better 
oae  with  God  than  a  thousand  without  him." 


TUB  united  PRESBYTERIANS  AND  THE  G,  A.  R, 

I  am  glad  that  you  wrote  of  the  ac  ion  of  the  Alleghe- 
ny Presbytery  on  the  G  A.  R.  I  look  with  alarm  upon 
its  advances  upon  our  (U.  P.)  church. — Prof.  J.  R.  Mil- 
LiN,  Knoxville  College, 

OUR  SACRIFICE   OF   PRAISE. 

I  see  that  some  one  in  a  late  number  of  the  Cynosure 
has  complained  in  regard  to  our  hymns  and  songs,  and 
in  particular  to  the  new  ones.  I  think  he  is  right,  for  I 
have  for  a  long  time  been  giving  the  bymn  books  of  the 
leading  churches  a  critical  examination.  Some  of  the 
hymns  are  at  least  half  made  up  of  fables  or  fiction,  and 
at  least  two  thirds  of  the  hymns  have  more  or  less  of  fic- 
tion in  them.  The  fault  is  in  the  effort  to  make  the  lines 
rhyme.  Now  the  question  is  this,  can  we  worship  God 
in  spirit  and  in  truth  by  singing  his  praise  with  songs 
that  are  a  mixture  of  truth  with  fables.  The  Scriptures 
leach  us  that  a  sacrifice  must  be  without  "spot  or  blem- 
ish." Let  any  friend  that  desires  to  know  for  himself 
make  a  thorough  examination  of  his  hymn  book  and  he 


—A  young  man  in  prison  told  a  visiting  clergyman 
that  he  learned  to  gamble  in  the  Sunday-school.  Church 
gambling  should  be  severely  punished  by  law . 

—Some  Catholics  of  Mexico  devote  the  receipts  of  a 
bull  fight  to  religious  purposes  and  some  Protestants 
gamble  with  the  same  pious  end  in  view. 

— The  Boston  Evangelical  Ministers'  Association  voted 
Jan.  9th  that  open  air  preaching  is  a  public  right,  and 
demanded  the  repeal  of  the  infamous  law  under  which 
Rev.  William  F.  Davis  is  now  in  Charles  Street  jail. 

—Bishop  D,  K.  Flickinger,  who  has  spent  many  years 
laboring  in  mission  fields  in  Germany  and  Africa,  says: 
"We  nave  no  members  of  secret  societies  either  in  Africa 
or  Germany  in  all  the  five  thousand  members  whose 
names  are  on  our  church  books.  It  has  been  and  shall 
be  our  policy  to  keep  secretists  out  of  the  church . " 

—A  very  practical  refutation  of  the  brewers'  false  as- 
sertions concerning  the  healthfulness  of  beer  is  given  by 
the  general  agent  of  the  Northwestern  Mutual  Life  Insur- 
ance Company.  la  a  letter  from  Providence,  R.I.,  re- 
plying to  an  inquiry  as  to  "What  risks  are  not  written 
by  your  company?"  he  enumerates  among  the  rejected 
"Proprietors  of  restaurants  where  liquor  is  sold,  saloon 
or  bar-keepers,  brewers,  and  others  engaged  in  the  sale  of 
liquor." 


Fbbbuabt  9,  1888 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


BIBLE  LESSONS. 

STUDIES  IN  THE  NEW  TESTAMENT. 

LESSON  VIII.— Feb.  19.— A  Lesson  on  For- 
giveness—Matt. 18:  21-35. 

GOLDEN  TEXT.— And  forgive  us  our  debts, 
as  we  forgive  our  debtors.- Matt.  6: 12. 
[Open  the  Bible  and  read  the  leeton,] 

The  question  of  the  extent  of  forgive- 
ness has  arisen  among  the  disciples.  The 
Rabbinical  law  was  to  pardon  a  man  for 
three  offenses,  but  not  for  the  fourth. 
Peter,  as  usual  the  spokesman  on  this  oc- 
casion, had  begun  to  conceive  that  there 
was  need  for  a  much  wider  reach  of  mer- 
cy, one  toward  auother.  So  he  asked  the 
Lord  a  question,  suggesting  at  the  same 
time  an  answer  by  way  of  inquiry:  Will 
it  be  a  sufficient  reach  of  charity  if  1  par- 
don my  brother  twice  as  often  as  the 
Rabbis  allow?  Even  Peter,  who  recog- 
nized his  Master  as  the  Son  of  God,  had 
not  yet  conceived  the  measure  of  grace 
that  was  in  him,  and  needed  to  learn  that 
we  should  exercise  that  grace  to  an  ex- 
tent that  never  before  entered  into  the 
heart  of  man.  It  is  no  wonder  that,  in 
answer  to  our  Lord's  reply,  Peter  should 
have  said,  as  recorded  by  another  evan- 
gelist, "Lord,  increase  our  faith!" 

In  further  elucidation  of  this  matter, 
Jesus  speaks  to  them  by  a  parable.  We 
should  not  attempt  to  press  all  parabolic 
details  into  service,  but  to  have  regard  to 
the  great  outlines. 

1.  The  Case  of  a  Sinner  Before 
God.— The  following  truths  may  be  men- 
tioned as  suggested  by  this  parable:  1. 
Ood  will  and  does  reckon  with  all  men  on 
account  of  their  sin.  We  are  subjects  to 
whom  the  King  of  kings  has  given  in 
trust  great  moral  responsibilities.  He 
has  given  us  spirit,  soul,  and  body  with 
our  being,  and  appointed  us  to  his  serv- 

i  ice;  and  any  failure  on  our  part  to  render 
to  him  whole  hearted  service  brings  us  in 
defaulters.  Some  men  are  greater  debt- 
ors than  others,  but  all  are  debtors  (Rom. 
3;  23),  and  none  may  escape  the  reckon- 
ing with  God.  2  Human  sin  is  reckoned 
as  an  enormous  debt  before  Ood.  "Ten 
thousand  talents;"  according  to  the  best 
reckoning,  about  ten  million  dollars.  An 
awful  sum  for  an  officer  to  have  embez- 
zled! And  yet  our  sin  against  God  is 
greater  than  human  comparison  could 
describe.  But  our  Lord  designs  to  illus- 
trate the  fullness  of  God's  forgiveness  and 
mercy  to  man.  3.  Every  sinner  is  a  bank- 
rupt. "He  had  not  wherewith  to  pay." 
Neither  have  we.  We  are  helpless.  No 
•works  or  righteousness  of  ours  will  meet 
the  case  (Rom  3:  20).  4.  Every  sinner 
is  amenable  to  the  law  (verse  25).  "The 
drapsry  of  this  parable,"  says  Dr.  Morri- 
son, "is  borrowed  from  the  customs  of 
olden  times.  The  idea  behind  the  dra- 
pery is  that  the  man  was  exposed  to  suf- 
fer the  extreme  penalty  of  the  law  for  his 
enormous  defalcations."  But  this  would 
be  as  nothing  to  the  "death  eternal,"  the 
"banishment  from  the  presence  of  the 
Lord,"  which  is  the  penalty  under  God's 
righteous  law  of  moral  government.  5. 
Every  sinner  h  ts  recourse  to  mercy  at  the 
hands  of  Uod  (Ps.  130: 4;  145:  8).  What 
an  unspeakable  blessing  that  God's  heart 
is  set  on  forgiveness  rather  than  punish- 
ment. The  declaration  of  the  debtor  in 
the  parable,  "I  will  pay  thee  all,"  has  no 
counterpart  in  the  doctrine  of  grace.  It 
has  in  the  movement  of  the  human  heart, 
which  seeks  forgiveness  on  the  plea  of 
a  promise  to  do  or  be  better.  5.  Every 
sinner  who  comes  before  Ood  is  met  with 
fidl  forgiveness.  Jesus  Christ  is  his  proc- 
lamation of  it  (Acts  13:  38).  It  is  not 
commonly  understood  that  G  jd's  first  and 
last  word  to  this  sinful  world  is,  "I  for- 
give you."  Whosoever,  therefore,  comes 
to  God  as  did  the  publican,  does  not  have 
to  bargain  with  the  Lord  nor  wail  for  him 
to  consider  his  case.  To  forgive  is  to  set 
a  man  free  from  the  law  and  remit  his 
obligation.  Tnis  is  what  the  Lord  di  1  to 
this  servant;  this  is  what  he  does  for  us. 

2.  The  Unmerciful  Servant  — The 
whole  moral  sense  ri^es  up  in  indignation 
at  the  subsequent  a'ltion  of  this  se  rant 
(verses  28-30).  It  is  intended  to  set  be- 
fore our  minds  the  horrible  ingrati  ude 
and  sin  on  the  part  of  Christians  in  not 
forgiving  each  other.  What  are  th  of- 
fenses of  our  brother  against  us?  Thdy 
are  but  as  the  twenty-five  dollars  to  tUu 
ten  millions.  If  Goi  has  so  fully  forgiv- 
en our  sins,  we  ought  to  forgive  those  of 
our  brethren;  and  even  then  we  shall  n  ^r 
approach  the  measure  of  forgiveneso  % 
have  ourselves  received.  1.  The  unfor 
giving  man  summoned  into  the  presence  of 
Ood ,  The  reckoning  made  with  the  m*  n 
for  his  original  defalcation  was  no  mor<9 


sure  to  come  than  the  reckoning  which 
God  will  make  with  the  forgiven  sinner 
who  does  not  forgive.  The  end  of  for- 
giveness is  not  immunity  from  sin,  but 
to  induce  a  spirit  of  forgiveness  by  bring- 
ing us  into  personal  relations  with  God. 
We  shall  be  called  upon  to  give  account 
for  the  abuse  of  grace,  as  we  were  of  the 
breach  of  law.  2.  T?ie  unforgiving  man 
is  delivered  over  to  the  jailor  till  his  debt  is 
paid.  His  Lord  had  a  right  to  be 
"wroth."  The  question  may  arise  wheth- 
er there  was  or  not  a  breach  of  word  on 
the  part  of  the  king  in  recalling  his  for- 
giveness. The  end  of  forgiveness  was 
reconciliation  and  mercy;  the  abuse  of 
that  grace  was  a  worse  sin  than  that 
which  comprised  the  original  sin,  and  so 
it  was  recalled.  He  judged  himself  un- 
worthy of  his  Lord's  gift,  and  so  lost  it. 
(See  Matt.  25:  28.)  God  is  not  mocked 
in  the  administration  of  his  grace.  3. 
The  conclusion  of  the  whole  matter  (verse 
35.)  We  are  not  to  understand  that  our 
forgiveness  of  our  brother  is  the  merito- 
rious ground  of  God's  forgiveness.  But 
the  lesson  teaches  us  that  abused  grace 
is  no  grace—  that  is,  to  those  who  seem 
to  have  received  it.  If  God's  forgive- 
ness does  not  produce  forgiveness  in  our 
hearts,  it  is  like  the  good  seed  in  thorny 
ground.  We  are  to  understand,  further, 
that  divine  forgiveness  may  be  forfeited. 
God's  gifts  and  callings  are  without  re- 
pentance, but  there  is  nothing  in  the 
economy  of  grace  that  prevents  a  man 
from  flinging  away  the  gift  of  God. 
"Counting  the  blood  of  the  covenant  an 
unclean  thing,  trampling  under  foot  the 
Son  of  God,  and  doing  despite  to  the 
spirit  of  grace."  Well  may  we  close  our 
lesson  with  the  prayer  already  alluded  to 
— "Lord,  increase  our  faitL  ! '  -  \Vord>i  ami 
Weapons. 

SECRET  BOGIBTIBa  CONDEMNED. 


BY    GREAT   MEN   IN    THE     STATE. 

Oerrit  Smith,  in  an  address,  1870: — 
Masonry  murdered  Morgan.  If  it  could 
not  conceal  his  murderers,  it  never- 
theless protected  them.  It  overrode  the 
laws  of  the  land  and  ruled  the  courts  and 
the  ballot-boxes.  Moreover,  it  is  capable 
of  repeating  the  crimes.  Why  then 
should  we  not  dread  secret  societies,  and 
do  what  we  can  to  bring  them  to  an 
end? 

William  Wirt:  "If  this  be  Masonry,  as 
according  to  uncontradicted  evidence  it 
seems  to  be,  I  have  no  hesitation  in  say- 
ing that  I  consider  it  at  war  with 
the  fundamental  principles  of  the 
social  compact,  and  a  wicked  conspiracy 
against  the  laws  of  God  and  man,  that 
ought  to  be  put  down. 

Joseph  Ritner,  governor  of  Pennsylva- 
nia, 1837: — "If  it  be  true  as  the  lament- 
ed Colden  (himself  one  of  the  initiated) 
declared  that  many  a  Mason  became  a 
great  man  but  no  great  man  ever  became 
a  Mason,  how  nearly  does  it  concern  the 
youth  of  our  country  to  pause  and  re- 
flect before  they  commit  their  present 
standing  and  future  reputation  to  the 
keeping  of  a  society,  which  for  its  cold- 
hearted  and  selfish  purposes  could  im- 
molate even  the  fame  of  Washington  at 
the  shrine  of  its  abominations." 

Lewis  Tappan,  private  journal,  18H\ — 
"Dr.  Dixwellgave  me  lectures  on  Mason- 
ry at  his  house."  "In  September  left 
the  lodge."  Letter,  Jan.  21,  1829:—  "I 
am  free  to  say  that  I  henceforth  renounce 
Freemasonry,  considering  it  a  useless  and 
profane  institution." 

George  Washington,  to  friends  in  170 Jf, 
([uoted  by  Myron  Ilolley: — "The  real  peo- 
ple occasionally  assembled  in  order  to  ex- 
press their  sentiments  on  political  senti- 
ments, ought  never  to  be  confounded 
with  permanent,  self-appointed  societies, 
usurping  the  right  to  control  constituted 
authorities,  and  to  dictate  to  public  opin- 
ion. While  the  former  was  entitled  to 
respect,  the  latter  was  incompatible  with 
all  g  )vernment,  and  must  either  sink  into 
general  dis-esteem,  or  finally  overturn  the 
established   order  of  things." 

Horace  Oreeley: — Many  persons  were 
brought  to  trial  on  account  of  the  mur- 
der of  Morgan,  but  no  one  was  judicially 
found  guilty  of  murder.  It  was  estab- 
lished by  seceding  Masons  that  the  oaths 
— at  least  in  some  of  the  highest  degrees 
— that  were  administered,  and  taken  by 
those  admitted  to  Masonic  lodges,  dis- 
qualified them  from  serving  as  jurors  in 
any  case  where  a  brother  Mason  of  like 
degree  was  a  party,  and  his  antagonist 
was  not. 


Gharlti  Francis  Adams:  "A  more  per- 
fect agent  for  the  devising  and  execution 
of  conspiracies  against  church  and  state 
ctxild  scarcely  have  been  conceived." 

Thaddeua  Stevens:  "By  Freemasonry, 
trial   by  jury  is  transformed  into  an   en 
gine  of  despotism  and  Masonic  fraud." 

Judge  Pliny  Merrick  {a  seceded  Mason) , 
— If  ever  a  Chapter  or  a  lodge  shall  es- 
tablish laws  in  conflict  with  those  of  the 
state  the  Masonic  requisition  is  obedience 
to  the  lodge  and  conflict  with  the  state: 
and  if  a  member  hesitates  at  this  humili- 
ating obedience,  his  heart  must  be  "torn 
from  his  bosom,"  his  "vitals  plucked 
from  his  body,"  and  Masonic  vengeance, 
not  satisfied  with  this  bloody  immolation, 
denies  a  resting  place  to  the  motionless 
remains,  but  they  are  to  be  "burnt  to 
ashes  and  scattered  to  the  winds." 

Samuel  C.  Pomeroy,  in  an  address, 
lS83:-"TheTe  may  be  a  broad  distinction 
between  the  good  and  the  bad  in  secret 
societies,  but  as  they  all  alike  have  oath 
bound  obligations  to  complete  oblivion  of 
all  they  do  or  say,  I  have  no  means  of 
judging  the  good  from  the  bad.  So  I  turn 
away  from  them  all  to  the  great  Teach- 
er who  said,  "In  secret  have  I  said  noth- 
ing." 

Judge  Daniel  H.  Whitney,  (renounciTig 
Mason):  While  professed  ministers  of 
the  Gospel  and  members  of  churches  are 
permitted  to  associate  themselves  with 
these  organizations,  the  task  to  apply  a 
remedy  will  be  a  hopeless  one;  and  just 
so  long  will  the  declaration  made  to  me 
not  long  since  by  a  high  Mason  and  a 
worthy  man  prove  true,  that  "a  Masonic 
lodge  is  the  strangest  medley  of  priests 
and  murderers — deacons  and  whoremas- 
ters— church  members  and  gamblers — de- 
cent men  and  loafers — drunkards  and 
rowdies,  that  the  All  Seeing-Eye  ever 
looked  down  upon." 

Hon.  Samuel  Dexter,  in  an  open  letter  to 
the  Orand  Master  of  Mass.,  1798:  "If 
there  be  no  very  important  reason  for 
upholding  Masonry  at  a  moment  like  the 
present,  there  is  a  reason  against  it.  The 
system  of  the  destroyers  of  human  virtue 
and  happiness  is  to  undermine  in  the 
dark  the  castle  that  cannot  be  carried  by 
fctorm.  Secret  agency  has  overthrown 
all  the  republics  of  Europe,  and  an  ex- 
tended, secret,  leveling,  self-created  so- 
ciety, without  any  valuable  object  of 
pursuit,  and  embracing  bad  characters  as 
well  as  good,  cannot  be  the  subject  of  ap- 
probation of  an  anxious  patriot." 

WiUiam  H.  Seward:  "Before  I  would 
place  my  hand  between  the  hands  of  oth- 
er men  in  a  secret  lodge,  order,  class,  or 
council,  and,  bending  on  my  knee  before 
them,  enter  into  combination  with  them 
for  any  object,  personal  or  political,  good 
or  bad,  I  would  pray  to  God  that  that 
hand  and  that  knee  might  be  paralyzed, 
and  that  I  might  become  an  object  of 
pity  and  even  the  mockery  of  my  fellow-, 
men." 

Wendell  PkiUipt:  "1  wish  you  success 
most  heartily  in  your  efforts  to  arouse  the 
community  to  the  danger  of  secret  soci- 
eties. They  are  a  great  evil;  entirely 
out  of  place  in  a  republic,  and  no  patriot 
should  join  or  uphold  them.  Consider- 
ing the  great  forces  which  threaten  the 
welfare  of  the  nation  in  the  next  thirty 
years,  and  how  readily  and  efficiently  they 
can  use  any  secret  organizations,  such 
should  not  be  allowed  to  exist." 

Oeorge  Washington's  Farewell  Address: 
"The  very  idea  of  the  power  and  the  right 
of  the  people  to  establish  government  pre- 
supposes the  duty  of  every  individual  to 
obey  the  established  government.  All 
obstructions  to  the  execution  of  the  laws, 
all  combinations  and  associations,  under 
whatever  plausible  character,  with  the 
real  design  to  direct,  control,  counteract, 
or  awe  the  regular  deliberation  and  action 
of  the  constituted  authorities,  are  de- 
structive of  this  fundamental  principle, 
and  of  fatal  tendency." 

Daniel  Webster:  "All  secret  associa 
tions,  the  members  of  which  take  upon 
themselves  extraordinary  obligations  to 
one  another,  and  are  bound  together  by 
secret  oaths,  are  naturally  sources  of 
jealousy  and  just  alarm  to  others;  are  es- 
pecially unfavorable  to  harmony  and  mu- 
tual confidence  among  men  living  togeth 
er  under  popular  institutions,  and  are 
dangerous  to  the  general  cause  of  civil 
liberty  and  just  government.  Under  the 
influence  of  this  conviction  I  heartily  ap- 
proved the  law,  lately  enacted  in  th«  State 
of  which  I  am  a  citizen,  for  abolishing  all 
tucb  oaths  and  obligations." 


N.  C.  A.  BUILDING  AND  OFTICE  OT 
THE  CHRISTIAN   CYNOSURE, 
S81  WX8T  MADISON  STREET,  CHICAOC 


NATION ALGH&I8TIAN  ASSOCIAIIOll 

PBBfliDBMT.— H.  H.  (3eorge,  D.  D.,  Gen- 
eva College,  Pa. 

ViCB-PBBSiDBHT — Rev.  M.  A.  Ckiult, 
Blanchard,  Iowa. 

Cob.  Sbc't  and  Gbnbral  Agbht.— J 
P.  Stoddard,  221 W.  Madison  St.,  Chicago. 

Rbc.  Sbc't.  and  Tbbabubbb. — W.  I. 
Phillips,  221  W.  Madison  St.,   Chicago. 

DiBBCTOBS. — Alexander  Thomson,  Mi 
R.  Britten,  John  Gardner,  J.  L.  Barlow, 
L.  N.  Stratton,  Thos.  H.  Gault,  C.  A. 
Blanchard,  J.  E.  Roy,  E.  R.  Worrell,  H. 
A.  Fischer,  W.  R.  Hench. 

The  object  of  this  Association  Is: 
"To  expose,  withstand  and  remove  secret 
societies,  Freemasonry  in  particular,  and  othef 
anti-Christian  movements,  in  order  to  save  the 
churches  of  Christ  from  being  uepraved,  to  r» 
deem  the  admlnlstrjUon  of  justice  from  per. 
version,  and  our  E«p  iblican  government  from 
corruption." 

To  carry  on  this  work  contributions  are 
solicited  from  every  friend  of  tne  reform. 

Form  op  Bequest. — J  give  and  boa.ueath  to 
the  National  Christian  Association,  Incorpo- 
rated and  existing  under  the  laws  of  tbe  State 

of    Illinois,  the  sum  of ■    dollai  s  for  the 

purposes  of  said  Association,  and  for  whfrh 
me  receipt  of  Its  Treasurer  for  the  time  being 
'(all  be  BUfScleut  dlscbatse. 

THB  NATIONAL  OONYBNTIOH. 

Pbbsxdbnt.— Rev.    J.    8.   McCulloch, 
D.  D. 
Skcbbtaby.— Rev.  Lewis  Johnson. 

IBTATB  AnznjABT  ASSOCIATIONS 
Alabama.— Fret.,  Prof.   Pickens;  Sec.,  G. 
M.  Elliott;  Treas.,   Rev.  C.  B.  Curtis,  all  of 
Selma. 

CAiJPOBinA.— Pres^  L.  B.  Lathrop,  Hollli 
ter;  Cor.  Sec,  Mrs.  U.  P.  Merrill,  Woodland ; 
Treae.,  C.  Ruddock,  Woodland. 

CoNNBOTicuT.— Pres..  J.  A.  Conant,  Willi 
mantle;  Sec,  Geo.  Smith,  WllllmaBtlc ;  Treu. 
C.  T.  Collins,  Windsor. 

iLUNOis.- Pres.,  J.  P.  Stoddard:  Sec,  M. 
N.  Butler;  Treas.,  W.  I.  Phillips  all  at  Cy- 
noswe  office. 

Indiana.— Pres..  WUllam  H.  Flgg,  Reno 
Sec,  8.  L.  Cook,  Albion;  Treas.,  BenJ.  LTah 
Silver  Lt^e. 

Iowa.— PreB.,Wm.John8ton,ColIege  Springs ; 
Cor  Sec,  C.  D.  Trumbull,  Morning  Sun; 
Treas  James  Harvey,  Pleasant  Plain.  Jeffer- 
son Co. ;  Lecturer,  C.  F.  Hawlcy,  Wheaton,  111. 

Kahbab.— Pres..  J.  P-  Richards,  Ft.  Scott; 
gJ^W.  W.  McMillan,  Olathe;  Treas.,  J. 
A  I'orrence,  N.  Cedar.  „    .    __ 

MASSAOHrsETTS.-Pree.,  8.  A.  Pratt;  Sec, 
MreTE.  D.  BaUey ;  Treas.,  David  Mannlng.Sr., 

^v'J^iaAH.-Pres-.  D.  A.  Richards,  Brighton ; 
hJ^v  H  A.  Day,  WUllamston;  frea^' 
n«n  Swanson,  Jr.,  Bedfoid. 

M^^^OTA  -Pre*.,  E.   G.  Palnc  Waalojm.. 
n5^  Wm.  Fenton,  St.  Paul:  liec.  Sec'y 
Mrs  M  F.  Morrin,  St.  Cnarles;  Treaa.,  Wni 

^iS'^'^SSt  F.  MlUer.  EjplevlUe 
TS.*WmiamBeauchamp.  AvalonTCbr.  S*c 
A   D  Thomas,  Avalon. 

K-«Rl3KA!-Pre8.,  8.  Austin,  FahTnooit 
Cor    Sec..  W.        Spooner,  Seamey;   Treas. 

'•Nil^HAMPSHmB.-Pres.,  C.  L.  Baker,  Man 
wpr-  Sec,  8.  C.  Kimball,    New  Market 
S^".    HamesF.  French,  CanU-rbury. 
^N^fw  Y^vS.-Pres..  F.   W.  Capwdl.   Dale; 
gec'yrJohn   WaUace,  Syracuse;   Treaa.,    M. 

**f?^?-^!^M.  Spencer.  New  Concord; 
J^^^.S^l.  OeorKe,'Mansfleld:  Cor  Sec 
S^"Treii..  C.  W.  bUtt,  Columbus;  Agent, 
WB- Stoddard,  Columbus. 

?^  W.  B.  BertelNWUkeebarre. 
^^vS^Snt  -Free.,  W.  R-  Laird,  St.  Johns- 

^'°'3;j!^^-YlT^y^  Wood,  Baraboo; 
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February  9,  1888 


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SHALL  THEY  HAVE  THKIR  PAPER? 


Week  by  week  generous  friends  of  the  colored  race 
answer.  Yes.  The  fund  for  this  purpose  reaches  $656- 
06,  as  reported  on  page  13,  and  cheering  letters  show  the 
enthusiasm  in  this  enterprise  of  all  who  realize  the  nature 
of  secretism.  Every  letter  from  the  South  justifies  our 
efEorts,  and  approves  the  judgment  that  no  expenditure 
of  an  equal  sum  will  bring  so  great  returns. 

The  $900  contributed  for  this  purpose  in  the  two  years 
and  a  half  after  June,  1885,  placed  the  Cynosure  in  the 
hands  of  huudreds  of  colored  pastors,  but  few  of  whom 
could  have  paid  for  it  themselves.  Note  the  grand  re- 
sults which  have  followed,  chiefly  because  of  this  work: 

1.  The  Louisiana  Baptist  State  Convention, represent- 
ing 70,000  church  members.has  voted  against  the  lodge. 

2.  The  Texas  Baptists  will  probably  take  the  same 
stand  at  their  next  meeting. 

3.  The  Methodist  Episcopal  church  in  Texas  is  nearly 
ready  for  like  action. 

4.  So  are  the  Arkansas  Baptists,  a  prominent  Associa- 
tion having  already  so  voted. 

5.  The  same  churches  in  western  Tennessee  are  coming 
out  against  secretism. 

6.  So  in  Alabama  the  Good-will  Association  is  stand- 
ing against  the  orders. 

7.  The  Congregational  churches  all  through  the  South 
are  opposing  the  lodge,  encouraged  by  the  American 
Missionary  Association. 

8.  Two  schools  for  higher  instruction  have  been  organ 
ized  within  a  year  which  maintain  this  principle,  while 
nearly  every  institution  for  the  education  of  the  Negro 
is  open  for  instruction  of  the  students  on  the  dangers  of 
the  lodge . 

9.  Christians  at  the  North  should  hasten  this  work 
with  all  zeal,  because  the  reflex  influence  upon  their 
churches  will  soon  be. powerfully  felt. 

The  Cynosure  has  proved  the  best  agency  in  accom- 
plishing this  work  in  the  South .  A  fund  to  send  a  thou- 
sand copies  to  as  many  colored  pastors  is  being  raised. 
Dear  reader,  has  not  the  Lord  given  you  means  to  help 


how  horrified  people,  North  and  South,  but  especially 
attheNorth.were  at  the  thought  of  white  and  colored 
people  meeting  and  associating  together.  As  long  as 
the  black  man  had  a  five  dollar  bill  left,  the  first- 
class  gambling  houses  in  our  cities  treated  him  like 
a  gentleman;  but  when  he  went  into  our  churches, 
as  one  of  them  said,  "The  nearer  heaven  I  get,  the 
more  of  hell  I  am  made  to  feel." 

This  caste  feeling  does  not  depend  on  color.  Dur- 
ing the  slavery  agitation  we  found  persons  who  had 
grown  up  in  slavery  who  were  Irish,  Spanish,  and 
Dutch  children  with  no  drop  of  negro  blood  in  their 
veins.  They  had  been  turned  into  the  slave  quar- 
ter and  treated  as  property,  and  their  owners  knew, 
but  cared  nothing  for  their  descent  till  the  Aboli- 
tionists objected.  John  Bunyan  was  despised  as  a 
"tinker"  till  his  popularity  as  a  writer  and  preacher 
placed  him  high  above  those  who  had  despised  him. 
In  Asia  people  of  low  caste  are  colored  like  the 
upper  castes,  yet  this  same  aversion  to  associate  to- 
gether prevails,  for  all  kinds  of  association  but  that 
of  vice.  Moses  had  an  Ethiopian  wife;  and  if  one 
begins  at  Washington  and  travels  south  to  Cape 
Horn,  he  will  meet  more  persons  whose  lineage  he 
cannot  tell  by  their  complexion  than  those  whom  he 
can.  It  would  seem,  therefore,  sound  wisdom  as 
well  as  sound  principle,  for  Christians  to  follow  and 
keep  close  to  the  Word  of  God.  Any  attempt  to 
keep  up  a  distinction  of  races  in  the  church  of  Christ 
is  not  only  expresbly  against  the  instruction  given 
by  Paul,  but  also  against  the  atonement  itself,  which 
saves  men  by  the  same  blood.  Let  every  such  ef- 
fort be  left  to  the  lodge,  as  John  B.  Finch  united 
the  G-ood  Templars  it  Saratoga  a  year  ago  by  estab- 
lishing white  caste  Grand  Lodges;  and  attempted  to 
sanctify  the  deed  with  a  lodge  love-feast. 


it  on? 


CA8TE  IN  CHRISTIAN   CHURCHES. 

The  Presbytery  of  Cincinnati  has  adopted  ihe 
following  by  a  nearly  unanimous  vote: 

Resolved.  That,  in  the  opinion  of  this  Presbytery,  the 
General  Assembly,  which  is  over  all  sessions,  presbyte- 
nes  and  synods,  and  where  all  are  represented  should 
have  the  liberty,  on  petition  of  a  sufflsient  number  on 
the  ground,  to  organize  or  continue  presbyteries  or  syn- 
ods on  the  same  territory  of  colored  or  white  churches 
with  their  pastors  and  such  other  ministers  as  are  labor- 
ing with  or  for  them  or  might  be  received  by  them  " 

The  Presbyterian  "Book"  is  explicit  that  the 
Bible  and  the  Bible  alone  is  the  only  rule  of  faith 
and  life— church  faith  and  church  life  as  well  as  in- 
dividual. But  it  would  be  difficult  to  find  any  pas- 
sage of  Scripture  on  which  the  above  resolution  is 
founded,  or,  indeed,  on  which  the  General  Assembly 
Itself  IS  founded.  In  1837  we  heard  Robert  J. 
Breckenridge  say,  "Nobody  pretends  there  is  any 
Divine  warrant  in  the  Bible  for  this  General  Assem- 
bly." 

But  the  Bible  forbids ca«<e  and  schism.  In  Christ 
Jesus  there  is  neither  "Greek  nor  Jew,  bond  nor 
free:  and  "Mark  them  that  cause  divisions  "  In 
Asia  the  chief  obstruction  to  Christianity  is  easte- 
rn America,  sect.  Both  are  decidedly  forbidden  ' 
In  a  district  where  there  is  ample  room  for  two 
churches  or  two  presbyteries  it  would  seem  that  no 
General  Assembly  has  ecclesiastical  jurisdiction  over 
any  portion  of  United  States  territory  to  prohibit  or 
permit  Chrisitans  to  unite  in  church  work  accordine  to 
their  convenience  or  taste.  But  caste  based  on  color  is 
or  all  kinds  most  unreasonable  and  sinful 

While  slavery  existed  the  most  delicate'  white  la- 
dies  would  employ  tbe  darkest  Negro  drivers  and  sit 
beside  them  if  room  was  wanted  in  the  carriage 
and  no  one  thought  there  was  anything  amiss! 
Black  nurses  suckled  white  children,  and  colored 
cooks  were  the  rule  in  the  slave  States.  But  when 
we  claimed  that  a  man  whose  skin  was  black  had 
any  right  to  be  free,  it  was  amusing  and  amazing 


IN  PRISON  FOR  THE  TESTIMONY  OF  JESUS. 

The  aged  and  beloved  John,  from  his  banishment 
in  bleak  Patmos,  has  sent,  in  the  Book  of  Revela- 
tion, many  messages  of  cooifort  to  the  faithful  wit- 
ness of  Boston,  our  dear  brother  William  F.  Davis, 
now  in  Charles  Street  jail  for  the  "testimony  of  Je- 
sus" on  Boston  Common,  No  less  cheering  to  him, 
perhaps,  was  the  meeting  of  the  Evangelical  Minis- 
ters' Association  in  Tremont  Temple  building  on 
the  9th  of  January,  which  is  said  to  have  been  one 
of  the  longest  and  most  interesting  in  the  history  of 
that  body.  The  subject  before  the  Association  was 
the  report  of  a  committee  of  seven  pastors  and  law- 
yers, headed  by  pastors  A.  J.  Gordon  and  A.  H. 
Plumb,  appointed  last  November  to  report  on  free 
preaching  of  the  Gospel  in  the  public  places  of  Bos- 
ton and  especially  in  the  case  of  Rev.  William  F. 
Davis,  then  in  Suffolk  jail  for  obedience  to  God  and 
conscience  in  this  matter,  rather  than  to  the  wicked 
men  who  made  or  administered  the  laws  of  the  city. 
The  report  is  most  exhaustive  and  able,  and  would 
occupy  seven  or  eight  columns  of  the  Cynosure.  It 
covers  a  most  interesting  part  of  the  religious  his- 
tory of  Boston,  showing  how  the  Common  has  from 
the  earliest  times  been  free  for  public  preaching, 
and  some  of  the  most  revered  Christian  evangelists, 
like  Whitefield,  have  proclaimed  Christ  to  the  mul- 
titudes in  that  spot.  The  history  of  the  present  case 
and  the  laws  under  which  Bro.  Davis  is  held  are 
stated,  and  the  situation  at  the  present  time  reviewed. 
"What  can  be  done?"  asks  the  report:  U)  do  noth- 
ing; (2)  take  a  half-way  course  that  will  leave  the 
matter  unsettled  and  open  for  future  trouble;  or  (3) 
agitate  for  a  repeal  of  the  law  and  secure  a  decision 
of  the  Supreme  Court  which  shall  settle  the  ques- 
tion, as  the  committee  and  Association  seemed  to 
believe  confidently,  in  favor  of  freedom  and  right- 
eousness. 

We  find  tills  long  and  able  repDrt,  as  iaterejting 
for  its  historical  statements  as  for  the  gfeat  princi- 
ple it  defends,  in  the  Morning  Star  of  the  19tb  ult., 
which  says  editorially  that  the  approval  of  the  re- 
port was  practically  unanimous,  and  resolutions  were 
adopted  appointing  a  strong  committee  to  ask  of  the 
authorities  a  repeal  of  the  offensive  ordinances,  and 
also  to  secure  the  release,  if  possible,  of  Bro.  Davis. 

This  whole  case  is  of  interest  to  every  reader  of 
the  Cynomre,  not  only  for  its  relation  to  the  princi- 
ples of  G)fepel  liberty  which  we  hold  to  be  the 
steadfast  foundations  of  our  Republic,  but  because 
the  men  most  prominent  in  the  matter  are  with  us 
on  reform  questions.  Bro.  Davis  is  an  able  volun- 
teer lecturer  against  the  lodge,  and  in  Boston  has 
assailed  the  orders  in  the  public  press.  H.  L.  Has- 
tings is  the  author  of  some  of  the  most  widely  cir- 
culated and  p.jpular  of  our  tracts.  Joseph  Cook 
and  Dr.  G  )idon  approved  the  Congress  of  Churches 
last  spring,  and  the  former  never  fails  of  a  good 
testimony   when  asked,     lu  this  meeting  of  minis 


a  lawyer,  who  had  been  at  first  in  favor  of  the  city 
ordinance.  Mr.  Cook,  says  the  Star,  referred  to  the 
imprisonment  of  Mr.  Davis,  and  declared  that  all 
Christian  preachers  were  virtually  in  jail  wi  h  him. 
He  also  said  that  in  this  local  contest  is  involved  a 
great  national  right,  and  it  should  be  carried  to  the 
national  courts  for  decision.  It  is  becoming  a  ques- 
tion whether  evangelical  Christians  in  this  country 
are  going  to  be  ruled  by  rum,  Romanism  and  red 
tape.  He  quoted  Austin  Phelpa  as  saying  that  the 
grip  of  the  Jesuit  could  be  felt  under  the  velvet 
of  the  policeman's  glove.  Cities  under  the  rule  of 
Catholic  and  rum — controlled  city  governments, 
have  very  little  open  air  Christian  preaching.  The 
right  of  free  speech  should  not  be  abridged  by  any 
such  government. 

We  cannot  forbear  to  quote  also  the  following 
just  and  noble  encomium  given  by  Mr.  Cook  in  the 
great  mass  meeting  in  Bowdoin  Square  Tabernacle 
last  November: 

"Last  summer,  Mr.  Chairman,  it  was  my  fortune  to  see 
a  Boston  jail  bird  in  the  presence  of  the  representatives 
of  ninety  one  colleges  at  Northfleld,  and  to  hear  the 
young  men  from  all  quarters  of  the  land  cheer  him  to 
the  echo  in  a  house  packed  to  the  doors,  Mr  H  L 
Hastings,  once  incarcerated  for  preaching  on  the  Com- 
mon, was  that  jail  bird.  If  he  be  in  this  audience,  I  pray 
that  a  light  from  the  sun  behind  the  sua  may  burst  upon 
his  soul's  soul,  while  we  bless  him  for  his  heroism  in  re- 
sisting an  unjust  ordinance.  (Long  applause  )  I  say 
precisely  the  same  of  that  other  martyr  of  this  ordinance, 
who  has  lately  beec  sent  to  jail  for  action  intended  to 
secure  agitation  and  to  bring  tnis  matter  to  a  test  Mr. 
Davis  was  my  college  mate.  I  have  known  him  for  more 
than  twenty  years.  Very  tender  associations  connect 
themselves  with  our  common  experiences  in  college.  He 
wag  then  what  he  is  now,  a  man  of  supreme  conscien- 
tiousness, great  courage,  and  most  incisive  straightfor- 
wardness. ...  I  knew  him  later  in  ths  the  )logical  hall.  I 
knew  him  when  he  took  his  life  in  his  hands  and  went 
into  the  North  End  of  this  city  to  work  for  the  poor.  He 
lived  in  the  misson  house  among  the  livery  stables,  breath- 
ing their  foul  air  and  the  miasma  of  the  drains  I  have 
traveled  constantly,  and  I  know  Mr.  Davis's  reputation  in 
the  West  as  the  lumbermen's  missionary  in  those  vast  for- 
ests in  Northern  Michigan,  preaching  the  Gospel  to  those 
whom  the  churches  in  the  West  neglect.  Some  of  the 
noblest  souls  on  earth  are  in  those  lumber  camps.  I 
know  more  than  one  wealthy  man  in  the  West  who  has 
contributed  to  his  mission  work  there  largely.  You  say 
he  is  not  quite  discreet  or  he  would  not  run  squarely 
against  the  city  ordinance.  Perhaps  he  is  further-sighted 
than  some  of  us.  Perhaps  he  is  more  courageous!  (Ap- 
plause.) I  know  his  wife,  and  if  there  is  a  braver  man 
than  Mr.  Davis  it  is  Mrs  Davis.  (Applause).  I  do  not 
know  that  any  who  are  dear  to  Mr.  Davis  are  here,  but  I 
cannot  repress  this  tribute  to  a  most  excellent  authoress, 
whose  books  are  well  known  to  the  Baptist  denomination 
and  far  outside  of  it.  Now  this  man  is  throttled  by  the 
city  government,  and  thrust  into  j  ail  and  trampled  on  by 
a  clique  at  the  City  Hall,  for  opposing  an  ordinance,  de- 
nying what  we  have  always  thought  to  be  our  rights  un- 
der both  our  State  and  our  national  constitution." 


Fasting  and  Prater. — Let  ail  whom  the  Lord 
moves  by  his  Spirit  to  fast  and  pray  for  the  New 
Orleans  meeting  observe,  if  possible,  either  the  10th 
or  17th  Inst.,  or  both,  and  unite  in  calling  down  a 
blessing  upon  that  meeting. 


The  N.  C.  A.  Foreign  Work. — In  this  we  are 
cheered  by  a  letter  Just  received  from  BomViay,  in 
which  the  brother,  who  will  be  our  correspondent  in 
India,  and  who  is  distributing  tracts  and  pamphlets 
widely  in  that  Empire,  expresses  great  encourage- 
ment at  the  responses  of  friends  in  America  to  his 
appeals.  

— The  brief  comments  from  our  exchanges  in  this 
number  are  worth  a  special  reading,  not  alone  for 
their  intrinsic  value,  but  because  they  are  from  un- 
wonted sources.  The  endorsement  of  the  Gonseva- 
tor  must  cheer  the  brethren  who  stand  for  a  Chris- 
tian testimony  and  discipline  in  the  United  Breth- 
ren church;  while  Miss  West's  judicious  yeteamest 
protest  against  the  Knights  of  Labor  must  check 
the  assurance  of  some  members  of  thi.s  order,  who 
presume  to  thrust  their  offensive  lodge  in  the  face 
of  Prohibitionists  at  ever}'  opportunity.  It  is  safe 
to  say  that  Miss  Willard  will  send  no  more  requests 
to  her  co-workers  to  join  this  order  to  help  on  a 
Christian  work;  if  otherwise,  such  an  appeal  to  the 
Word  of  God  as  the  nationsjl  organ  of  the  Y.  M.  C, 
Association  has  made  should  make  an  end  of  them. 

— Bro.  Fenton  has  issned  another  number  of  the 
Christian  Liberator  from  St.  Paul.  Manv  thiinks 
for  his  kind  words  on  the  Cynosure.  The  Liberator 
is  vehement  and  courageous  against  the  lo  ige  wor- 
ships. A  Baptist  conference  opposed  to  secretism 
is  suggested  by  one  of  his  correspondents. 


^  .     — The  Wesleyan  and  College  churches  of  Whea- 

ters  Dr.  A.  H.  Quint  appeared  and  seemed  to  be  the  ton  united  in  the  evening  servica  last  Sabbath  to 
only  man  or  Mason  who  raised  a  voice  of  objection. '  listen  to  a  Bible  reading  by  Pres.  J.  Blanchard- 
He  was  very  effectually  answered  by  Mr.  Pickering,   which  had  been  requested  by  some  two  score  citi, 


Februaht  9,  1888 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


zens.  Though  in  much  weakaess  he  gave  an  ad- 
drees  of  unusual  power  to  most  attentive  and  earn- 
est hearers,  whose  prayers  will  follow  his  journey 
and  be  "instant"  for  the  New  Orleans  meeting. 

— The  College  Church,  Wheaton,  appointed  five 
delegates  to  the  New  Orleans  Convention  on  the 
Sabbath,  all  of  whom  we  hope  will  attend.  The 
names  are  Pres.  and  Mrs.  J.  Blanchard,  Rev.  A.  J. 
Chittenden,  pastor  of  the  church,  Dr.  A.  H.  Hiatt, 
and  Mrs.  J.  P.  Stoddard. 

— Word  from  Bro.  Hinman,  Monday  morning, 
tells  us  that  Secretary  Stoddard  has  succumbed  to 
the  malarial  influence  of  New  Orleans  and  is  sick 
with  a  neuralgic  attack.  We  hope  it  will  be  but  tern- 
por8ry,and  that  none  will  ho  deterred  from  attending 
the  Convention  for  fear  of  a  like  experience.  Bro. 
Chittenden's  case  is  the  rule.  All  are  to  go  by  that 
and  be  benefited  in  body  and  spirit. 

— Bro.  I.  R.  B.  Arnold  is  one  of  the  "livest"  of 
Yankees.  While  giving  his  illustrated  lectures  he 
has  conceived  the  idea  of  publishing  a  pamphlet 
giving  a  brief  story  of  the  principal  gods  worshiped 
among  ancient  heathen,  showing  their  relation  to 
the  central  pagan  system  of  sun  worship,  and  fol- 
lowing the  subject  carefully  until  the  reader  finds 
himself  all  at  once  in  the  Masonic  lodge.  The  copy 
is  in  the  hands  of  the  printers,  and  we  hope  to  see 
the  pamphlet  in  the  hands  of  thousands  of  readers 
in  a  few  weeks. 

— Howe  Institute  of  New  Iberia,  Louisiana,  was 
generously  remembered  last  Sabbath.  Rev.  Byron 
Gunner,  president  of  its  Board  of  Trustees, 
preached  for  the  College  church,  Wheaton,  and  re- 
ceived a  collection  of  $55  27  in  addition  to  some  $20 
or  more  paid  last  year.  In  the  evening  he  ad- 
dressed the  Congregational  church  at  Prospect  Park, 
near  by,  of  which  Prof.  H.  A.  Fischer  of  the  N.  C. 
A.  Board  is  pastor.  The  church  is  a  small  one,  but 
it  has  "grit  and  grace."  In  a  few  minutes  the  no- 
ble sum  of  $55.54  was  raised,  and  all  went  home 
singing  the  Doxology. 

— The  Christian  Weehly  of  Mobile,  the  leading 
paper  of  the  colored  people  of  that  city  and  num- 
bering five  thousand  readers  among  them,  gives  a 
faithful  testimony  against  the  lodges  in  a  late  num- 
ber. "We  have  in  Mobile,"  the  editor  says,  "nearly 
one  hundred  societies,  and,  strange  to  say,  not  one 
of  them  is  doing  anything  for  the  help  of  the  race 
as  they  should.  Some  of  them  own  very  nice  halls, 
and  charge  big  rents  for  balls,  festivals,  etc.,  or  for 
worship.  This  is  as  far  as  they  go.  Such  powerful 
organizations  as  Love  and  Charity,  Good  Samaritan, 
Odd-fellows,  Knights  of  Tabor  and  Knights  of  La- 
bor might  do  great  good  by  beginning  some  kind  of 
enterprise — a  grocery  store,  shoe  store,  or  dry  goods 
store  could  be  set  up  by  one  of  these  organizations, 
or  by  all  of  them  jointly,  and  a  thriving  business 
done.  Up  to  this  time  these  societies  have  been 
simply  burying  their  money.  They  pay  more  for 
funerals  than  for  anything  else  except  excursions. 
More  money  ought  lo  be  given  to  the  sick  and  less 
to  the  dead,  and  perhaps  there  would  be  fewer  to 
bury.  It  is  hoped  that  some  of  the  leaders  of  these 
societies  will  wheel  them  into  the  right  channel  and 
begin  to  do  something  for  the  good  of  the  race. 
Mobile,  as  far  as  colored  enterprises  are  concerned, 
is  far  behind  any  other  city  of  its  size  in  the  United 
States.     Let  us  be  up  and  doing." 


PERSONAL  MBNTION. 


— The  editor  of  the  Cynoiure  and  Mrs.  Blanchard 
expected,  as  we  went  to  press,  to  start  for  New  Or- 
leans Tuesday  evening.  His  health  has  been  quite 
infirm  for  several  weeks,  and  it  is  hoped  the  South- 
ern visit  will  be  beneficial. 

— Samuel,W.  Small,  the  revivali3t,i8  about  to  return 
to  his  early  profession,  journaliem.  He  will  soon 
start  a  prohibition  paper  in  Washington,  and  will 
match  his  wit  and  wisdom  against  the  National  or- 
gan of  the  liquor  dealers. 

— Rev.  N.  Wardner.  editor  of  the  Wctleyan  Meth- 
odist, may  attend  the  National  Convention  at  New 
Orleans.  He  tells  his  readers  that  be  iu  going  South 
for  a  short  visit  and  will  make  his  journey  as  far  as 
Lake  Charles,  La.,  some  200  miles  west  of  New  Or- 
leans. 

— We  regret  much  to  learn  of  the  sickness  of  Mrs. 
Hodgman  of  Princeton,  111.,  one  of  the  "honorable 
women,"  of  whom  there  are  some  in  that  town  who 
are  ready  to  follow  Christ  and  minister  to  him  even 
at  the  cross.  She  has  been  six  weeks  prostrated  by 
severe  illness,  but  is  now  recovering. 

— While  pastor  Chittenden  is  rapidly  recovering 
his  usual  health  in  the  warm  Gulf  breezes,  Secreta- 
ry Stoddard  and  his  wife  do  not  find  thtm  so  con- 
genial.     Both  were  more  or  leas  indisposed  last 


week  on  account  of  the  heat,  to  them  unusual  and 
I  unseasonable.  They  express  a  hearty  desire  to  come 
North  when  their  work  is  done  in  New  Orleans. 

— Bro.  Hawley  wrestled  bravely  with  drifts  and 
blizzards  week  before  last.  Though  finally  victor 
over  old  Winter,  the  ice  King  left  a  severe  cold  and 
cough  to  keep  Bro.  H.  in  a  humble  spirit.  He 
writes  of  his  desire  to  attend  the  National  Conven- 
tion, but  as  the  Lord  does  not  favor  the  trip,  his 
prayers  will  be  given  for  a  blessing  on  the  meeting. 

— Blizzards  and  zero  weather  were  not  too  severe 
to  keep  Rev.  Byron  Gunner  of  New  Iberia,  Louisi- 
ana, in  his  Southern  home.  He  reached  Chicago 
Saturday  morning  to  assist  in  raising  a  fund  for  a 
dormitory  for  Howe  Institute.  This  is  his  first  visit 
North,  and  our  dull,  gray  weather  does  not  give  a 
favora*ile  impression  of  our  climate.  We  hope  his 
success  i  his  particular  mission  will  not  take  its 
complexion  from  our  skies. 

— Bro.  Harry  Agnew,  who  went  from  Minnesota 
to  undertake  a  faith  mission  work  with  Rev.  W.  W. 
Kelley  at  Tnhambane,  East  Africa,  is  to  be  joined 
by  a  band  of  six  who  start  about  March  1st  from 
this  country.  Thev  are  Rev.  J.  D.  Bennett  and 
wife  of  Kansas;  A.  Y.  Lincoln  and  wife  of  Kimball, 
Mich.,  Miss  F.  Grace  Allen  of  Kansas  and  Miss  Ida 
Heffoer  of  Nebraska.  They  go  out  under  the  care 
of  the  Free  Methodist  Foreign  Mission  committee, 
and  during  this  month  are  visiting  the  churches 
from  Kansas  to  New  York. 

— Elder  Boring,  an  aged  and  prominent  M.  E 
minister,  now  retired,  said  in  a  late  meeting  of  the 
ministers  of  that  denomination  that  he  did  not  like 
the  creed  of  the  Evangelical  Alliance  "because  it 
excluded  Universalists."  Elder  Boring,  it  will  be 
remembered,  is  the  Freemason  who  preached  the 
funeral  sermon  of  an  old  Christian  who  left  the  M. 
E  church  in  Wheaton  because  of  his  opposition  to 
the  lodge,  and  over  the  coffin  Elder  B.  belied  the 
convictions  of  the  mute  dead,  and  misrepresented 
them  grossly.  Such  a  condemnation  of  the  Alliance 
might  be  expected  from  such  a  source.  Another 
voice  raised  to  denounce  was  that  of  C.  G.  Trues- 
dell,  a  Freemason  and  presiding  elder. 


PBBSa   COMMENT. 


But  good  is  being  done.  In  one  strong  Mormon 
town  an  evangelist  held  a  series  of  special  meetings, 
and  as  a  result  twenty-three  persons  united  with  the 
Presbyterian  church  with  which  he  was  working 
Going  to  another  place  even  greater  numbers  were 
hopefullv  converted.  The  Christian  work  is  taking 
hold  in  Utah.  If  Congress  does  not  give  Statehood 
to  this  people,  there  is  great  hope  that  Christian  in- 
fluences will  work  great  changes  some  time. — Rev. 
A.  J.  Bailey,  in  the-  American. 

Only  the  other  day  we  were  in  the  home  of  one 
whose  husband  had  passed  from  this  life  into  the 
life  beyond.  For  years  he  had  been  a  member  of  a 
certain  lodge.  He  thought  he  was  providing  for  his 
wife  and  children.  After  his  death  it  was  found 
that  one  assessment,  or  rather  his  last  dues,  amount- 
ing to  two  dollars  and  twenty  cents,  was  not  paid. 
About  eight  or  nine  hundred  dollars  were  in  this 


We  honor  the  noble  men  and  women  connected 
with  the  Knights,  Mr.  Powderly,  Mrs.  Bryant,  Mrs. 
Rodgers,  and  many  others,  and  bid  them  Godspeed 
in  their  grand  work  for  humanity.  But  we  cannot 
help  realizing  that  they  are  so  far  in  advance  of  the 
order  they  cannot  be  taken  as  its  representatives. 
Mrs  Rodgers,  confessedly  the  ablest  "Master  Work- 
man" her  assembly  ever  had,  was  voted  down  and 
out  by  its  socialistic  element.  Only  laet  Sunday, 
when  as  representing  the  Woman's  Assembly,  she 
attended  the  semi-annual  meeting  of  the  Trades  As- 
sembly, and  protested  against  the  turbulent  action 
of  the  socialist  majority,  she  was  insulted,  after  the 
manner  of  communistic  mobs.  "Are  you  politicians 
or  are  you  men?"  she  indignantly  asked.  They 
showed  themselves  to  be  the  lowest  kind  of  saloon- 
trained  politicians  by  the  tyrannous  use  they  made 
of  their  majority  power.  Treatment  difl'ering  in  de- 
gree, not  in  kind,  is  sapping  the  very  life  force  of 
their  grand  leader,  Powderly.  Do  not  these  things 
prove  that  we  cannot  accord  to  the  organization  the 
honor  our  hearts  gladly  pay  to  some  of  its  leaders? 
In  the  East  it  seems  to  have  made  itself  paHicept 
criminis  with  the  coal  barons,  in  causing  suffering 
around  every  poor  man's  hearth — the  barons  being 
principals  in  the  crime  by  advancing  the  price  of 
coal,  while  refusing  to  advance  the  pay  for  mining 
it,  the  Knights  becoming  accessory  by  ordering  65,- 
000  men  on  a  strike  in  the  dead  of  winter.  These 
things  ought  not  so  to  be,  and  being  so  makes  us 
pause  before  indorsing  the  claims  of  the  organiza- 
tion to  being  the  friend  of  humanity.  That  these 
things  are  so  leads  to  the  writing  of  the  many  letters 
we  have  received  against  the  organization  or  against 
its  indorsement  by  the  W.  C.  T."  U. —  Union  S!gnaL 

A  short  time  since  the  Watchman,  representing 
the  Y.  M.  C.  A.  Associations,  answered  a  questioner 
on  the  matter  of  secret  societies  so  tenderly  that 
we  felt  that  the  cause  of  Christ  would  be  injured  by 
it.  But  in  another  answer  in  the  last  number  Bro. 
Van  Arsdale  wields  the  sword  of  the  Spirit  with  a 
good  courage,  thus: 

"Will  connection  with  a  secret  society  interfere 
with  Christian  work?". 

Many  a  good  Christian  belongs  to  a  secret  society; 
many  a  better  and  happier  Christian  does  not.  The 
majority  of  men  in  secret  societies  are  unsaved. 
"Can  two  walk  together  except  they  be  agreed?" 
Amos  3:  3.     How  do  we  read? 

"The  friendship  of  the  world  is  enmity  with  God." 
James  4:  4. 

"Be  ye  not  unequally  yoked  together  with  unbe- 
lievers." 2  Cor.  6:  14-18. 

Mr.  Moody  says:  "This  idea  of  yoking  oneself  up 
in  that  way  with  ungodly  men  is  abominable." 

One  great  reason  urged  in  favor  of  secret  socie- 
ties is  the  help  derived  for  the  member  and  his  fam- 
ily in  case  of  sickness  or  death.  Shall  the  Chris- 
tian join  the  world  to  get  protection  for  himself  and 
family?  Again,  what  says  the  Word?  "Woe  to 
them  that  go  down  to  Egypt  for  help."  Isa.  31:  1-3. 
"No  good  thing  will  be  withheld  from  them  that 
walk  uprightly."  Psa.  84:  11.  "Seek  first  the  king- 
dom of  God  and  his  righteousness,  and  .^11  these 
things  shall  be  added  unto  you."  Matt.  6:  33. 

From  personal  experience  and  wide  observation 
the  writer  unhesitatingly  declares  that  membership 


way  kept  from  the  widow  and  her  fatherless  chil- 
dren.     Charity  1     Charity!!      Charity   would   have  j in  any  secret  society  is  in jurious  to  the  highest  spir- 
paid   the    $2  20    and    provided    for    the    widows  |  uality,  and  thus  to  the  greatest  usefulntss  of  the 


and  orphans.  Go  on,  (Jhrittian  ( \mservator,  in  your 
opposition  to  the  lodge.  Give  us  all  the  light  you 
can.  God  declares  there  shall  nothing  be  hid  that 
shall  not  come  to  the  light.  la  this  day  of  organi- 
tions  Christian  men  and  women  must  know  with 
whom  they  "yoke"  and  fellowship.  "Ye  cannot  serve 
God  and  mammon." — Highway  of  Jlolineta, 

Another  peril  "among  false  brethren"  which  be- 
sets the  churches  of  today  is  the  membership  of 
professed  Christians  in  the  anti-Christ  secret  lodges 
which  pall  the  land,  and  shade  the  very  heavens 
with  their  darkness.  It  is  a  source  of  cheer  that 
some  Christian  churches  have  come  to  incorporate  in 
the  constitutional  law  of  the  church  non-fellowship 
with  these  demon  works  of  corrupiion.  One  of  the 
imminent  perils  of  such  reformatory  churches  is  the 
tendency  of  some  to  a  weakness  of  moral  principle, 
which  does  not  scruple  to  let  themstlves  down  to 
the  level  of  anti-Gospel  brotherhood  of  tyled  and 
curtained  seclusive  worldliness,  and  to  the  defense 
of  those  who,  in  defiance  of  church  discipline,  enter 
into  such  intrinsically  ungospcl  and  unchristian  as- 


Christian  worker.  "Whatsoever  ye  do  in  word  or 
deed  do  all  in  the  name  of  the  Lord  Jesus."  Col.  3: 
17.  "Happy  is  he  that  condemneth  not  himself  in 
that  thing  which  he  alloweth ....  for  whatsoever  is 
not  of  faith  is  sin."  Rom.  14:  22,  23. 


— A  dispatch  from  Louisville  to  the  In'er.Qcean 
says  that  the  evangelist  Moody  has  decided  to  con- 
tinue his  meetings  there  till  Feb  12.  Feb.  13  Mr. 
Moody  will  leave  for  Iowa,  accompanied  by  Mr.San- 
key,  and  join  the  well-known  evangelist.  Whittle, 
who  has  been  at  work  there  some  time.  Later 
Moody  will  probably  go  to  the  Pacific  coast.  The 
tabernacle,  which  seats  5,000  people,  has  beon 
crowded  every  afternoon  and  night  for  three  weeks. 
Mr.  Moody  had  addressed,  up  to  that  date,  at  least 
20,000  people.  Since  Sankey's  coming  hundreds 
have  been  turned  awav  every  night  and  overfljw 
meetings  have  been  held. 

— The  Armenian  communists  in  Turkey  are  hav- 
ing dilVicullies  with  the  Sultan,  as  well  as  the  Pro- 
testant Americans.      In  conscqueno^  of  the  obsta- 


sociations.    Since  the  Gospel  of  Jesus  Christ  neither  cles  put  in   his  way  the  Armenian  Patri-irch.  Mgr. 

teaches  nor  tolerates  secret  societies,  the  church  of  Vehabtdi.an,  has  resigned,  and  persists  in  having  his 

Jesus  Christ  should  neither  teach  nor  tolerate  secret  resignation  accepted.      He  has  held  the  ollice  three 

societies,  and,  in  fact,  the  church  cannot  enter  into  years. 


Huch  forbidden  fellowships  without  forfeiting  her 
claim  to  legitimate  relation  to  Christ  as  the  embodi- 
ment and  exponent  of  the  pure  truths  and  princi- 
ples of  Christ's  holy  Gospel. —  Wetleyan  Methoditt. 


— Rev.  Edward  F.  Miles,  pastor  of  the  Church  of 
the  Reformation  at  New  York,  who  disappeared  last 
December,  has  written  that  he  is  in  a  Memphis  hos- 
pital, suffering  from  nervous  prostration. 


IL. 


10 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSUKE. 


February  9, 1888 


THE  Home. 


THE  STABS  ARE  IN  THE  SKY  ALL  DAT. 


The  etars  are  in  the  sky  all  day, 
Each  linked  coll  of  Milky  Way, 
And  every  planet  that  we  know 
Behind  the  6un  Is  circling  slow ; 
They  sweep,  they  climb  with  stately  tread, 
Venus  the  fair  and  Mars  the  red, 
Saturn  engirdled  with  pure  light, 
Or  Jupiter  with  moons  of  white. 
Each  knows  his  path  and  keeps  due  tryst ; 
Not  even  the  smallest  star  is  missed 
From  those  wide  fields  of  deeper  sky 
Which  eleam  and  flash  mysteriously, 
As  if  God's  outstretched  finger  must 
Have  sown  them  thick  with  diamond  dust; 
There  are  they  all  day  long,  but  we, 
Sun-blinded,  have  no  eyes  to  see. 

The  stars  are  in  the  sky  all  day : 
But  when  the  sun  has  gone  away. 
And  hovering  shadows  cool  the  west 
And  call  the  sleepy  birds  to  rest, 
And  heaven  grows  softly  dim  and  dun. 
Into  its  darkcess,  one  by  one, 
Steal  forth  those  starry  shapes  all  fair — 
We  say  steal  forth,  but  they  were  there ! 
There  all  day  long,  unseen,  unguessed. 
Climbing  the  sky  from  east  to  west. 
The  angels  saw  them  where  they  hid, 
And  so,  perhaps,  the  eagles  did, 
For  they  can  face  the  sharp  sun-ray, 
Nor  wink,  nor  need  to  look  away ; 
But  we,  blind  mortals,  gazed  from  far, 
And  did  not  see  a  single  star. 

I  wonder  if  the  world  Is  full 

Of  other  secrets  beautiful. 

As  little  guessed,  as  hard  to  see. 

As  this  sweet  starry  mystery ! 

Do  angels  veil  themselves  in  space, 

And  make  the  sun  their  hiding  place? 

Do  white  wings  flash  as  spirits  go 

On  heavenly  errands  to  and  fro, 

While  we,  down-looking,  never  guess 

How  near  our  lives  they  crowd  and  pass? 

If  so,  at  life's  set  we  may  see 

Into  the  dusk  steal  noislessly 

Sweet  faces  that  we  used  to  know. 

Dear  eyes  that  like  stars  softly  glow. 

Dear  hands  stretched  out  to  point  the  way  — 

And  deem  the  night  more  fair  than  day. 

—  Husaii  CooUdge, 
m  I  m 

BIBLE   EVIDENGS8. 

External  proofs,  however  irrefragable,  cannot  be 
always  available.  They  imply  education  and  read- 
ing, or  the  instruction  of  others;  something  outside 
the  Bible  itself,  and  not  open  to  all.  Historical  facts, 
questions  of  argument  and  probability,  discussions 
more  or  less  abstract,  are  beyond  many,  and,  where 
within  reach,  may  be  uasatisfactorily  put,  or  may 
fail  from  the  very  idiosyncrasies  of  the  enquirer. 
Wm.  Pitt  used  to  say,  even  of  Butler's  Analogy, 
that  it  raised  more  doubts  in  his  mind  than  it  set- 
tied;  and  there  is  a  tendency  in  us  all  to  think  that 
what  takes  much  defending  is  far  towards  indefens- 
ible. To  find  a  sufficient  evidence  inside  the  Bible 
is,  then,  the  great  point:  something  within  every 
one's  mental  grasp,  requiring  no  scholarship,  ap- 
pealing to  our  own  consciousness  rather  than  to  ex- 
ternal facts;  speaking  the  universal  language  of  our 
moral  instincts.  The  lonely  settler,  far  off  in  the 
wilderness,  has  no  means  of  knowing  how  prophecy 
has  been  fulfilled,  or  how  Christianity  made  its  way 
at  first.  The  sailor,  far  off  on  the  ocean,  opens  his 
chest  at  some  rare  moment  of  leisure,  for  the  Bible 
his  mother  put  in  it,  and  reads  that  he  who  believes 
will  be  saved,  but  he  who  does  not,  will  be  con- 
demned. Oa  what  ground  can  belief  be  asked? 
Either  on  none,  or  on  some  which  he  will  find  as  he 
reads.  If  outside  proof  be  indispRnsable,  the  Bible 
must  be  imperfect,  and,  instead  of  being  supreme, 
must  hold  its  authority  from  that  by  which  its  claims 
are  established.  A  Bible,  in  that  cise,  sent  out  by 
itself,  would  he  simply  a  warrant  without  a  signa- 
ture, a  commission  without  the  seal.  But  there  is 
no  hint  of  such  a  slate  of  things  in  the  Scripture. 
It  makes  no  allowance  for  ignorance;  suggests  no 
exceptional  cases;  hut  demands  acceptance  on  its 
own  merits.  Not  a  word  is  said  of  supplementary 
proof  to  induce  belief;  it  claims  to  carry  the  grounds 
of  conviction  with  it.  Its  whole  tone  and  language 
waive  off  any  officious  support.  External  proof i, 
it,  as  It  were,  says,  "are  well  in  their  place— lamps 
to  guide  to  my  gates;  but,  even  without  them,  light 
fills  my  temple,  and  streams  out  into  the  darkness, 
for  truth  sliines  with  a  heavenly  brightness,  and  the 
Bible  is  her  peculiar  shrine."  Scripture.in  short,must 
be  Its  own  proof.  To  have  to  go  outside  for  its  war- 
rant would  be  fatal. 


In  what  does  this  inherent,  universally  patent  ev- 
idence consist?  Universally'  patent,  that  is,  to  the 
mind  open  to  hear,  for  deafness  must  blame  itself, 
not  the  summons  that  suffices  for  others.  It  must 
be  something  in  the  Bible  that  has  its  corroboration 
in  our  own  consciousness,  and,  as  such,  can  be  noth- 
ing but  the  support  of  our  moral  sense  and  natural 
instincts.  To  feel  a  thing  true  is  a  higher  security 
than  any  labored  argument;  it  endorses  it  with  the 
assent  of  our  inmost  being.  If,  then,  there  be  in 
man  an  echo  of  Christian  truth,  catching  up  its  doc- 
trines and  counsels,  and  whispering  them  back  as 
its  own  voice,  there  needs  no  more,  for  either  peas- 
ant or  prince.  To  have  our  own  nature  bear  witness 
is  as  if  God  himself  had  spoken,  for  the  instincts 
within  us  are  of  his  creation.  The  truth  written  on 
the  heart  had  the  finger  of  the  Almighty  to  trace  it, 
as  much  as  the  tables  on  Sinai. 

It  was  a  favorite  argument  of  the  Fathers,  when 
disputing  with  heathenism,  that  there  was  just  such 
a  concurrence  between  the  breast  and  the  Book. 
They  used  to  speak  of  the  testimony  of  the  soul, 
naturally  Christian,  urging  that  our  religion  was  no 
new  invention,  but  only  the  expression  of  the  long 
pent  up,  inarticulate  voice  of  humanity.  They  were 
right.  The  chimes  lie  slumbering  in  the  bell  till  the 
stroke  awakes  them;  and  what  is  harsh  clangor  at 
hand  comes  bick  from  distant  echoes  in  sweet  music. 
Christianity  is  the  tongue  that  gives  our  wishes  fit- 
ting voice;  the  soft  return,  in  articulate  clearness, 
from  the  eternal  hills,  of  the  wail  of  cries  and 
prayers  that  rises,  bewildering,  round  us. 

The  Bible  doctrine  of  Glod  is,  I  think,  sufficient 
of  itself  to  prove  a  divine  source  for  the  documents 
that  embody  it.  Compared  with  either  Pantheism 
or  heathenism,  Jehovah  alone  meets  the  cravings  of 
the  human  heart  as  to  its  God.  The  religions  of  the 
East  have  presented  both  in  their  most  elaborate 
completeness,  but  neither  satisfies  the  instinctive 
ideal  of  the  breast.  To  confound  the  creature  and 
the  Creator,  and  deify  nature  by  transfusing  the  Di- 
vinity inextricibly  through  the  vast  fabric  of  the 
universe,  turns  him  into  mere  force  and  motion,  im- 
possible to  realize  as  intelligence,  or  as  in  any  sense 
a  personal  object  of  worship.  Still  more:  it  is,  in 
fact,  a  deification  of  man  himself  as  supremely  di- 
vine; for  if  the  living  power  astir  through  all  things 
be  God,  then  man  shows  most  of  it,  by  adding  to 
mere  vital  energy  the  higher  province  of  thought 
and  will.  The  highest  manifestation  of  God  is  thus 
human  thought — and  man  is  his  own  deity.  This  is 
Hegelianism  and  modern  German  Pantheism  gen- 
erally; the  creed  which  Emerson  openly  preaches, 
and  which,  I  fear,  Carlyle,  noble,  true-hearted  and 
grand  as  he  is,  endorses.  You  have  it  in  part  in 
the  words  of  Vishnu,  a  member  of  the  Hindoo  Triad: 
"The  whole  world  is  but  a  manifestation  of  Vishnu, 
who  is  identical  with  all  things,  and  is  to  be  regard- 
ed by  the  wise,  as  not  differing  from,  but  as  the 
same  as  themselves."  Emerson  puts  it, — "I  am 
nothing,  I  see  all;  ihe  currents  of  the  Universal  Be- 
ing circulate  through  me;  I  am  part  and  parcel  of 
God."  Hegel's  formula  is — "Being  and  thought  are 
the  same;"  and  thus  God  is  a  process  continually  go- 
ing on,  but  never  accomplished;  our  thought  and 
God  are  identical — and  man  is  the  highest  mani- 
festation of  God.  A  doctrine  of  the  Divinity  which 
ends  in  finding  no  better  God  than  man  is  a  poor 
result  of  so  much  philosophy.  To  leap  at  the  stars, 
and  fasten  in  the  mud,  in  such  away,  does  not  com- 
mend itself. 

Contrast  this  with  the  Scripture  doctrine,  and  the 
infinite  .lifference  is  apparent.  Take  any  part,  there 
is  still  the  same  All-wise,  All-powerful  intelligence; 
no  mere  electric  or  magnetic  current  pervading  all 
things,  but  a  Being  endowed  with  moral  qualities, 
of  which  our  own  nature  is  a  faint,  because  injured, 
copy.  There  is  no  confounding  him  with  his  works 
for  a  moment.  Drawn  in  simple  metaphors  in  the 
earlier  books,  as  was  natural  in  the  childhood  of  the 
race,  there  are  still  the  same  grand  lines  in  the  sub 
lime  ideal:  the  God  of  Abraham  is  the  God  of  the 
New  Testament:  the  same  purity,  justice,  controll- 
ing authority  and  tender  Fatherhood,  show  in  the 
one  as  in  the  other.  The  mighty,  keystone  truth 
of  the  unity  of  the  Godhead,  that  God  is  not  only 
one,  but  the  Living  God,  is  a  gift  from  Abraham, 
through  the  Biblp,  to  the  r.ice. — F-om  Entering  on 
Life,  by  Dr.  Gei/cie. 


horizon.  Their  talk  is  of  sickness.  Even  young 
girls,  among  the  well-to-do  and  idle  classes,  compare 
symptoms  and  suggest  diagnoses  as  staple  topics  of 
conversation.  Nothing  could  be  worse,  it  seems  to 
us,  on  the  score  of  good  taste  or  of  good  health. 
As  dwelling  upon  one's  griefs  magnifies  them,  so 
dwelling  upon  one's  pains  magnifies  them.  If  the 
mind  cure  can  be  made  to  work  upon  these  morbid 
subjects,  it  must  restore  to  activity,  energies 
worse  than  wasted;  it  would  save  time  and  money; 
it  would  make  a  grave  world  into  a  joyous  one;  it 
would  multiply  past  calculations  the  sum  of  human 
happiness." 


PRESENCE  OF  MIND. 


11  ■riter'i  Bazaar  has  the  following  on  the  "Mind 
Cire."  "It  appears  to  us  a  hopeful  sign  of  a  more 
wh>  1  jsome  life  that  large  classes  of  women  take 
tiae  and  spend  money  to  hear  this  theory  of  the  re- 
ality of  a  spiritual  existence  expounded.  After  the 
poet,  they  are  discovering  that  'soul  is  form,  and 
(loth  the  body  make.'  They  are  semi-invalids. 
They  have  suffered.  They  have  allowed  their 
thoughts  to  dwell  upon  their  pains  and  limitations, 
until   these  have  come  largely  to  fill  their  mental 


Boys  and  girls,  have  you  presence  of  mind?  Per- 
haps you  think  you  have.  Many  of  us  think  we 
have,  too.  But,  after  all,  it  is  not  what  you  and  I 
think  we  would  do  if  our  house  should  take  fire,  or 
our  boat  begin  to  sink,  or  a  highwayman  confront 
us,  or  an  earthquake  yawn  beneath  us;  it  is  rather 
what  we  actually  do  when  we  are  in  the  thick  of 
such  peril  that  determines  our  presence  of  mind. 
There  are  no  persons  so  remarkably  level-headed  as 
those  who  are  free  and  easy,  out  of  the  reach  of 
danger. 

The  other  day  I  heard  a  story  of  unusual  pres- 
ence of  mind.  It  was  told  me  by  one  who  had  him- 
self received  it  from  an  officer  of  one  of  the  great 
railroads  that  cross  the  Allegheny  Mountains, 

"There,"  said  the  officer  to  my  informant,  as  both 
were  going  about  a  great,  central  station,  where  cars 
and  locomotives  were  made,  repaired  and  kept, 
"there  is  the  very  man.  If  he  -rants  any  favor  of 
the  road  he  has  only  to  ask  for  it.  The  rest  of  us 
come  and  go;  but  he  stays,  and  may  stay,  service  or 
no  service,  till  death  removes  him.  The  road  is 
grateful  to  him  and  will  always  hold  him  in  honor." 

Many  years  have  elapsed  since  the  incident  hap- 
pened; many  more  since  the  telling  of  the  tale  to 
my  friend.  The  details  and  the  coloring  vary  some- 
what as  they  pass  from  mouth  to  mouth.  No  doubt, 
when  you  have  finished  the  story,  you  will  say, 
"Why,  that  was  the  very  thing  I  would  have  done 
myself."  But  would  you  have  done  it?  Here  is 
the  story: 

Puff!  puff!  puff!  It  was  hard  work,  for  the  grade 
was  steep  and  the  train  long  and  heavy.  The  en- 
gine panted  as  if  its  strength  were  failing.  And  no 
wonder!  For  miles  and  miles  up  the  slopes  of  the 
Allegheny  Mountains  it  had  been  tugging  its  pre- 
cious burden,  and  there  were  many  miles  more  be- 
fore it  should  reach  the  summit  and  tarry  awhile  to 
regain  its  strength. 

Much  of  the  way  was  little  more  than  a  shelf  cut 
into  the  mountain  sides,  with  rising  walls  of  rock 
on  the  one  hand  and  deep  ravines  on  the  other. 
And  far  up  among  the  mountains,  often  on  the  op- 
posite sides  of  huge  and  gloomy  chasms,  the  ob- 
servant traveler  would  catch  glimpses  of  what 
seemed  to  be  the  curves  and  embankments  of  an- 
other road.  Later  he  would  be  himself  borne  over 
these  very  curves. 

These  changing  scenes  kept  the  passenger  in  a 
tremor  of  half-joyful,  half-anxious  excitement. 

"How  beautiful  that  wooded  slope! " 

"Shall  we  ever  get  to  the  top  of  the  ridge?" 

"Down  here  among  the  trees!  See  this  silvery 
cascade!" 

"Ah,  here  we  go  through  a  tunnel!" 

"That  great  bowlder  looks  as  if  the  slightest  jar 
would  bring  it  down  upon  us  I" 

"What  if  the  roadbed  should  give  way  here  like 
an  avalanche!" 

"Oh,  here  omes  some  trestle-work!  How  frail  it 
looks!  And  what  a  dizzy  height!  If  it  should 
break  under  us — oh,  dear!" 

Just  then  a  quick,  sharp  whistle  was  heard.  To 
those  that  understood  it,  it  said  imperatively: 
"Down  brakes,  and  be  quick  about  it,  too!"  In- 
stantly the  brakemen  were  straining  at  their  pasts  as 
if  every  life  were  threatened.  Indeed,  it  was  their 
duty,  on  these  hard,  treacherous  grades,  to  stand  by 
the  brakes  and  use  them  at  a  moment's  warning. 
People  thrust  their  heads  out  of  the  car  windows, 
and  some  hurried  to  the  platforms,  and  there  was  a 
deal  of  nervous  questioning.  What  was  the  matter? 
Had  an  accident  happened?  Was  there  any  dan- 
ger? Nobody  seeme^t  to  know.  Not  even  the 
brakemen  were  informed.  And  it  was  the  gift  of  a 
blessed  Providence  that  the  cause  was  not  revealed, 
else  that  moment  of  uncertainty  and  subdued  alarm 
would  have  been  one  of  anguish  and  disaster. 

E'ar  up  the  road  the  engineer  had  caught  a 
glimpse  of  an  awful  peril.  It  was  a  train  of  run- 
away freight  cars.  For  a  moment  it  was  in  plain 
higl.t  dashing  around  a  curve;  then  it  was  lost  in 
the  woods.  No  engine  accompanied  it;  there  was 
no  sign  of  life  anywhere  about  it    Nowhere  on  the 


Fbbruart  9,  1888 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


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grade  at  that  time  was  a  down  train  due.  The  cars 
were  without  control;  there  was  no  doubt  about  it, 
and  there  was  nothing  to  check  their  descent.  Al- 
ready they  were  running  furiously,  and  every  sec- 
ond their  speed  was  increasing.  A  collision  seemed 
inevitable.  The  destruction  of  life  would  be  fright- 
ful. 

What  should  the  engineer  do?  To  stop  his  train 
would  not  mend  the  situation.  To  reverse  the  en- 
gine and  go  the  other  way — there  was  hardly  time 
for  that.  Besides,  it  would  only  postpone  the  cer- 
tain result,  and  make  it  more  dreadful  because  of 
the  increased  headway  of  the  runaway  cars. 

The  engineer  viewed  the  situation  on  every  side. 
Plan  after  plan  rose  before  him;  plan  after  plan  was 
dropped.  But  it  was  all  done  with  that  wonderful 
speed  which  the  mind  shows  when  under  the  stress 
of  a  swiftly-nearing  danger.  In  that  brief  time  the 
engineer  lived  hours.  Suddenly  there  was  a  ray  of 
hope,  a  possible  plan  of  safety.  "Down  brakes!" 
he  whistled.  This  was  the  signal  to  which  we 
have  already  called  attention:  the  one  that  sent  the 
tremor  through  the  hundreds  on  the  train. 

"Free  the  engine  from  the  train!"  he  shouted  to 
the  fireman.  The  engine  was  uncoupled,  and  the 
train,  was  left  lagging  behind.  "Now  jump  for  your 
life!"  There  was  no  time  for  parley.  The  fireman 
leaped,  fell,  and  scrambled  to  his  feet  again.  Then 
the  engineer  put  on  full  steam.  Freed  from  its  bur- 
den of  coaches  the  locomotive  responded  at  once. 

"Now  fight  the  battle  for  us!"  exclaimed  the  en- 
gineer, as  he  sprang  from  the  steps.  His  quick  eye 
had  chosen  a  favorable  spot  on  which  to  alight. 
Though  thrown  headlong  with  some  force,  he  was 
on  his  feet  promptly  enough  to  see  his  train  roll  by 
at  a  lessening  speed,  under  the  full  control  of  the 
faithful  brakemen. 

That  something  serious  had  happened,  or  was 
about  to  occur,  began  to  be  clear  to  the  passengers. 
One  or  two  had  seen  the  fireman  jump,two  or  three, 
the  engineer;  and  larger  numbers  from  the  car  win- 
dows had  caught  snatches  of  men  that,  soiled  and 
bruised  and  dazed,  were  trying  to  rise  to  their  feet 
by  the  side  of  the  track.  All  was  excitement  and 
tumult.  Some  began  to  leap  from  the  cars.  For- 
tunately there  was  little  danger  now,  for  the  motion 
of  the  train  had  nearly  ceased. 

Upon  the  track,  meanwhile,  went  the  iron  mon- 
ster to  meet  the  foe  alone.  Down  the  track,  into 
full  sight,  came  the  wild  freight  cars  with  a  speed 
so  great  that  they  almost  rose  from  the  rails  as  they 
rounded  the  curves.  Nearer  and  nearer,  the  speed 
of  each  increasing.  Then  they  flew  at  each  other  in 
a  mighty,  tiger-like  rage,  as  if  there  were  blood  to 
be  shed  and  nerves  to  be  torn  asunder. 

The  crash  shook  the  hills.  A  great  roaring  cloud 
of  steam  burst  into  the  air,  while  another  of  dust 
and  dehrig  boiled  up  and  mingled  confusedly  with 
it.  Then  the  shattered  ends  of  cars  shot  out  here 
and  there  from  the  smoke,  and  a  grinding,  crackling 
mass  rose  up.  Quivering  in  the  air  a  moment,  it 
reeled,  and  then  went  crashing  down  the  embank 
ment  into  the  ravine  below.  When  the  steam  and 
the  dust  cleared  away,  there  were  the  deep,  ugly 
farrows  in  the  roadbed,  and  the  splintered  ties,  and 
the  bent  and  broken  rails,  and  the  nameless  frag- 
ments of  an  utter  wreck,  to  mark  the  scene  of  the 
fierce  encounter. 

The  gallant  engine  was  a  hopeless  ruin,  but  it  had 
done  a  noble  service.  It  had  fought  a  battle  in 
which  hundreds  of  lives  and  untold  interests  were 
at  stake,  and  it  had  won  it.  Not  a  life  of  that  pre 
cious  company  was  lost,  not  a  member  of  it  hurt  by 
so  much  aa  a  scratch.  Before  they  saw  their  peril, 
they  were  rescued  from  it;  and  yet  their  rescue  had 
hardly  been  completed  before  the  full  and  awful  na- 
ture of  that  peril  burst  upon  them,  and  stirred  them 
in  their  inmost  being. 

With  tears  of  joy  and  gratitude  they  blessed  the 
engineer,  whose  quick  wit  and  daring  plan  and  in- 
stant execution  had  saved  them  from  a  fate  that  at 
one  moment  it  seemed  beyond  human  power  to 
avert.  And  to  the  poor  locomotive  that  lay  dis- 
membered and  useless  on  the  rocks  below,  there 
went  out  a  kind  and  tender  feeling,  as  if,  in  giving 
its  life  to  save  others,  it  had  shown  something  akin 
to  the  love  and  bravery  and  sacrifice  of  a  noble  hu- 
man soul. — Frank  II.  Hill,  in  I'jngregationaliit. 


—Of  the  17,743  Fijians  inhabiting  the  Fiji  Islands, 
more  than  nine  tenths  attend  church  with  fair  regularity ; 
where  fifty  years  since  there  was  not  a  single  Christian, 
to-day  there  is  not  a  single  avowed  heathen;  all  the  Fiji 
children  are  in  the  schools;  the  schools  and  churches 
have  wholly  displaced  the  heathen  temples. 

— Petitions  are  being  circulated  in  Massachusetts  for 
the  release  of  Rev.  W.  F.  Davis  from  Charles  Street  jail 
and  for  the  repeal  of  the  infamous  law  under  which  he 
was  condemned. 


Tempeeance. 


AN  APPBAL    TO  GBRMAN   AMERICANS 


TO   INVESTIQATB  THE   BEER   QUESTION. 


The  anti-saloon  Republicans  are  doing  some  work, 
the  value  of  which  all  the  friends  of  temperance 
cheerfully  acknowledge.  Their  first  appeal  to  the  peo- 
ple wasaterrific  arraignment  of  the  saloon.  And,now, 
in  their  zeal  to  save  the  Eepublican  party  by  induc- 
ing it  to  adopt  a  position  of  thorough,  uncompro- 
mising hostility  to  the  saloon,  they  have  issued  an 
elaborate  document  with  the  foregoing  title. 

Starting  with  the  premise  that  the  mass  of  Ger- 
man Americans  are  ignorant  of  the  facts  and  argu- 
ments upon  which  the  progressive  portion  of  the 
American  people  condemn  the  use  of  beer  and  the 
saloon  where  it  is  publicly  dispensed,  the  appeal 
proceeds  to  set  forth  with  great  fulness  and  clear- 
ness the  essential  facts  of  the  argument  as  it  relates 
to  the  beer  question.  The  importance  of  the  docu- 
ment will  justify  some  quotations: 

DOES    BEER     PROMOTE   DRUNKENNESS? 

The  corner-stone  of  every  German  argument 
against  temperance  ideas  and  anti-saloon  legislation 
is  the  assertion  that  "beer  is  substantially  a  harm- 
less drink,"  and  that  "there  is  very  little  drunken- 
ness in  beer-drinking  countries." 

What  are  the  facts?  The  last  report  of  the  Na- 
tional Bureau  of  Statistics  gives  the  per  capita  con- 
sumption of  liquors  in  four  nations  (in  gallons)  as 
follows: 

Spirits.  Wine.  M'lt.  Liq. 

United    States,  1.24  .38  11.18 

Great  Britain,  l.OL  .37  32.90 

Germany,  1.14  23.78 

France,  1.32  36.88  

Although  the  figures  are  not  given  in  this  report, 
it  is  known  that  less  beer  is  drank  in  France  than  in 
the  other  countries,  and  more  wine  in  Germany  than 
in  either  Great  Britain  or  the  United  States.  But, 
while  Great  Britain  uses  less  spirits  than  the  other 
nations  and  leads  them  all  in  beer,  it  is  well  known 
that  there  is  more  drunkenness  within  her  borders 
than  anywhere  else  in  the  world — Russia  possibly 
excepted.  Germany,  which  uses  almost  as  much 
spirits  as  we  do,  and  more  than  twice  as  much  beer, 
is  called  a  "temperate  nation,"  but,  if  it  is,  alcohol 
must  be  less  potent  there  than  anywhere  else.  It  is 
well  known  that,  in  such  countries  as  Germany,  the 
sober  take  more  care  to  keep  their  intoxicated  friends 
out  of  the  clutches  of  the  police.  Moreover,  beer 
stupifies  at  an  earlier  stage  of  intoxication  than 
spirituous  liquors  do,  and,  consequently,  those  who 
become  drunk  upon  it  are  less  likely  to  become  dis- 
disorderly  and  unmanageable.  Nevertheless,  prison 
and  asylum  records  and  the  reports  of  honest  trav- 
elers tell  sad  tales  of  misery  resulting  from  drink 
in  Germany.  It  is  generally  supposed  that  beer 
drinkers  consume  very  little  alcohol,  but  many  of 
them  take  as  much  or  more  than  whisky  drinkers 
do.  Saloon  keepers  estimate  that  there  are  sixty- 
five  drinks  in  a  gallon  of  whisky.  Several  speci- 
mens of  whisky  purchased  in  prominent  New  York 
saloons  and  analyzed  by  Prof.  Draper  contained  an 
average  of  about  forty  per  cent  of  alcohol,  at  which 
rate  there  is  a  pint  of  alcohol  in  twenty  drinks. 
According  to  G.  Thoman,  the  brewers'  writer,  there 
are  twenty-six  glasses  in  a  gallon  of  beer.  At  that 
rate  fifty-nine  glasses  of  average  American  beer  con- 
tains one  pint  of  alcohol,  and  is  equivalent  to  twenty 
drinks  of  whisky — three  ordinary  glasses  of  beer 
containing  a  trifle  more  alcohol  than  one  drink  of 
whisky.  While  the  tendency  is  to  make  beer 
stronger,  it  is  the  reverse  with  whisky,  which  is  di- 
luted more  and  more,  drugs  being  used  to  cover  up 
the  fraud,  so  that  the  present  strength  of  the  whis- 
ky drank  is  probably  less  than  I  have  put  it  at. 

"The  Eflect  of  Beer  on  Those  Who  Make  and  Tse 
It,"  by  G.  Thoman,  published  by  the  United  States 
Brewers'  Association,  gives  the  statement  of  physi- 
cians who  attended  the  employes  in  several  large 
breweries,  the  object  being  to  show  that  beer  is  ben- 
eficial instead  of  hurtful.  It  says  of  these  work- 
men: "The  average  daily  consumption  of  malt 
liquors  is  25.7:5  glasses,  about  ten  pints  per  capita," 
which  makes  45G  gallons  a  year.  Ten  pints  of  beer 
contains  two-fifths  of  a  pint  of  alcohol,  equivalent 
to  one  pint  of  straight  whisky  taken  by  these  men 
every  day.  The  figures  are  startling  to  me,  but  Mr. 
Thoman  and  the  brewers  appear  to  look  on  them  as 
"a  matter  of  no  consequence;"  and  to  suppose  that 
they  show  that  "the  way  to  promote  temperance  is 
to  encourage  the  drinking  of  beer." 

DOES    BEER   INDUCE    DISEASE? 

For  along  time  the  assumption  that  beer  is  almost, 
if  not  quite,  harmless,  and  often  really  beneficial, 


was  generally  accepted  as  true.but  latterly  proof  has 
been  called  for  with  astonishing  results.  A  couple 
of  years  ago  the  Toledo  (Ohio)  lilade  had  eleven 
prominent  physicians  in  that  city  interviewed,  and 
the  testimony  of  all  was  in  substantial  accord  with 
that  of  Dr.  S.  H.  Bergen,  who  said,  "to  compass 
my  idea  in  a  few  words,  I  think  it  kills  ({uicker  than 
any  other  lir[uor."  In  its  comments  on  these  inter- 
views, the  Blade  says: 

"It  should  be  borne  in  mind  that  Toledo  is  essen- 
tially a  beer-drinking  city.  The  German  popula- 
tion is  very  large;  there  are  five  of  the  largest  and 
most  extensive  breweries  in  the  country  here,  and 
there  is  probably  more  beer  drank  in  proportion  to 
the  population  than  in  any  city  of  the  United  States! 

"The  practice  of  these  physicians  is,  therefore, 
largely  among  the  beer  drinkers,  and  they  have  had 
abundant  opportunities  to  know  exactly  its  bearing 
upon  health  and  disease.  Every  one  of  them  bears 
testimony  to  the  fact  that  no  man  can  drink  beer 
safely;  that  it  is  an  injury  to  any  one  who  uses  it 
in  any  quantity,  and  that  its  eflect  upon  the  general 
health  of  the  country  has  been  even  worse  than  that 
of  whisky." 

The  Blade  further  says:  "Life  insurance  compa 
nies  have  no  sentiment;  they  are  as  cold-blooded  as 
banks.  They  do  business  upon  strictly  business 
principles.  Their  business  is  one  based  purely  upon 
experience,  from  which  certain  inexorable  rules  have 
been  established.  A  life  insurance  company  will 
not  insure  the  life  of  a  confirmed  beer  drinker. 
Why?  Because  it  is  a  certain  fact,  as  certain  as  a 
thing  can  be,  that  the  beer  drinker  cannot  live  long 
enough  to  make  insurance  profitable  to  them .... 
These  institutions  dread  beer  more  than  they  do 
whisky,  for  its  effect  upon  the  system  is  even  worse. 
A  non-beer  drinker  at  forty  is  considered  a  good  risk; 
a  beer  drinker  at  that  age  can  get  no  insurance  at 
all.  As  we  said,  there  is  no  sentiment  in  life  insur- 
ance companies.  They  act  entirely  upon  facts  which 
are  the  result  of  experience.  Their  figures  never 
lie." 

MORAL     EFFECTS     OF    BEER, 

In  addition  to  sowing  the  seeds  of  disease  and 
death  in  the  physical  system,  beer,  in  large  quanti- 
ties, is  said  to  sodden  the  brain  and  paralyze  or  vi- 
tiate the  moral  natures  of  its  votaries.  Careful  ob- 
servers assert  that  it  is  more  brutalizing  in  its  effects 
than  either  spirituous  or  vinous  liquors,  in  partial 
proof  of  which  they  point  to  the  disproportionately 
large  number  of  German  names  among  the  perpe- 
trators of  especially  atrocious  crimes  published  in 
the  daily  papers.  While  these  facts  are  very  sug- 
gestive they  are  not  sufficiently  definite,  but  court 
records  certainly  give  solid  grounds  for  serious  re- 
flection. According  to  the  census  of  1880,  there 
were  198,595  Irish  in  this  city,  and  1G3,482  Ger- 
mans, an  Irish  excess  of  35,113;  and  the  proportion 
is  probably  about  the  same  now.  Table  F  of  the 
report  of  the  police  justices  of  New  York  city,  from 
1881  to  1886,  charges  against  the  Irish,  who  are 
generally  whisky  drinkers,  91,5-48  offenses,  and 
against  the  Germans,  who  are  mainly  beer  drink- 
ers, 26,3-19,  which  is  a  bad  showing  for  the  Irish. 
But  these  offenses  have  been  divided  into  two  tables, 
hereto  annexed,  with  singular  results.  In  the  first 
is  put  homicide,  manslaughter,  assault,  cruelty  to 
children  or  animals,  disorderly  conduct,  intoxication 
and  vagrancy,  which  are,  in  nearly  all  ca3es,presum- 
ably  the  result  of  sudden  anger  or  of  indulgence  in 
drink,  without  premeditated  intention  to  injure  or 
interfere  with  the  rights  of  others,  or  to  violate  law. 
[n  this  table  the  Irish  furnish  87,300  cases  and  the 
Germans  20,407.  Table  two  contains  forty  offenses, 
in  which  sudden  anger  is  not  the  presumable  cause, 
and  which  necessarily  imply  a  deliberate  disregard 
of  the  rights  of  others  or  a  contempt  for  law,  and 
of  these  the  Irish  committed  4,158  and  the  Germans 
5,942.  The  Irish  have  never  been  consideretl  an 
especially  law-abiding  people,  but  the  Germans  have. 
The  former  have  had  much  to  depress  them,  and  are 
proverbially  reckless  and  improvident,  while  the  lat- 
ter are  equally  noted  for  general  intelligence,  pru- 
dence and  thrift.  Under  these  circumstances,  the 
Germans  ought  to  be  especially  strong  where  the 
cold  facts  show  that  they  are  not.  While  the  masses  of 
the  Germans  are  unquestionably  upright  and  law- 
abiding  citizens,  there  is  no  getting  around  these 
court  records  How  can  they  be  accounted  for?  I 
do  not  believe  that  the  Germans  as  a  race  are  natu- 
rally more  criminally  disposed  and  law  defying  than 
others,  and  I  am  strongly  of  the  opinion  that  at  least 
a  part  of  the  reason  for  the  facts  cited  is  to  be  found 
in  the  beverage  they  consume  so  much  of.  This 
idea  is  still  further  supported  by  the  eiiually  unde- 
niable fact  that  anarchism  in  this  country  is  a  Ger- 
man fungus,  born  and  nurtured  in  beer  saloons,  and 
nowhere  else.  Is  anything  further  needed  to  stim- 
ulate inquiry? — Chrittian  iStatetman. 


12 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYlSrOSiniE. 


Fbbruakt  9, 1888 


LITEEATTJBB. 


The  Beginnikgs  of  Civilization.     By  Charles  Woodward 
Huteon.    Pp.  242.    Price,  50c.    John  B .  Alden,  New  York. 

The  author  of  this  compendious  volume  is  Pro- 
fessor of  Modern  Languages  and  acting  professor 
of  History  in  the  University  of  Mississippi.  This 
book  appears  to  be  the  result  of  class  lectures,  and 
displays  a  thorough  but  prejudiced  study  of  scraps 
of  history  of  the  early  nations  which  does  credit  to 
the  diligence  of  the  author.  Failing  to  find  for  the 
purposes  of  instruction,  a  book  that  should  briefly 
yet  widely  review  the  beginnings  of  civilized  life,  he 
has  made  one.  The  result  of  early  prejudice  is  un- 
fortunately seen  in  every  reference  to  the  descend- 
ants of  Ham,  whom  he  declares  to  be  inferior  and 
fit  for  slavery;  and  he  sums  up  all  with  the  conclu- 
sion that  the  teaching  of  the  Bible  that  all  men  are 
of  one  blood  and  from  one  pair  is  a  fable.  It  must 
be  regretted  that  the  author  should  in  this  and 
other  places  put  a  low  value  on  Scripture  authority 
or  reject  it  altogether. 

It  is  claimed  by  some  that  people  in  moderate  circum- 
stances are  prone  to  buy  the  higher  priced  grades  of 
food,  which  do  not  by  any  means  contain  the  most  nour- 
ishment for  the  money.  The  editors  rf  Science  are  anx 
icus  to  gather  as  much  information  as  possible  on  this 
point,  and  will  be  glad  to  hear  from  any  dealers  or  oth- 
ers having  information  to  give.  This  excellent  weekly 
keeps  constantly  at  work  on  live  issues.  An  electrical 
department  is  among  the  improvements  expected  in  the 
immediate  future. 

What  to  do  in  the  sudden  emergencies  of  childhood,  is 
a  question  often  asked  by  anxious  mothers  Babyhood 
for  February  answers  this  question  in  a  comprehensive 
medical  article,  which  says  what  to  do  in  cases  of  con 
vulsions,  bruises,  burns,  cuts,  foreign  bodies  in  the  ear, 
nose,  etc  An  equally  important  article  is  that  on  "Con 
tagion  and  Diaintection,"  by  Dr.  Chapin,  which  clearly 
describes  the  source  and  character  of  the  poison  of  scar 
let  fever,  diphtheria,  measles,  e'c,  and  gives  most  valu- 
able directions  concerning  the  disinfection  of  the  sick 
room,  of  the  person,  and  of  food  and  drink. 

In  the  February  8t.  Nicholas,  a  bright  number  opens 
with  a  touching  Russian  story  by  Amelia  E  Barr,  enti- 
tled "Michael  and  Feodosia."  Mr.  Charles  Henry  Webb 
contributes  a  stirring  account  of  the  "Diamond-backs  in 
Paradise,"  telling  of  the  rattlesnakes  encountered  during 
a  winter  in  Florida  In  "The  Story  of  an  Old  Bridge" 
will  be  found  a  historical  sketch  of  London  Bridge  and 
the  great  events  with  which  it  has  been  connected,  illus- 
trated with  drawings  by  Peters  and  Brennan,  and  by 
other  pictures.  The  high  tides  in  the  Bay  of  Fundy  are 
explained  in  an  amusing  story,  by  C.  F.  flolder;  Lieut 
Schwatka,  in  "How  a  Great  Sioux  Chief  was  Named," 
gives  the  origin  of  the  name  'Spotted  Tail,"  and,  inci- 
dentally, of  other  similar  appellations  among  the  Indians. 
The  Connecticut  Commissioner  of  Labor  Statistics  re- 
ports of  46  fam'les  for  October.  1887,  in  different  parts 
of  the  State,  and  embracing  29  different  occupations  and 
225  persons,  that  the  average  monthly  income  per  family 
was  $55,  the  daily  income  $1  74;  the  average  monthly 
expense  was  $60  01,  or  $1  96  per  day.  The  expenses  for 
groceries  and  vegetables  was  $928  07.  On  the  above 
startling  text,  Mr.  Charles  Barnard,  the  well  known  eco 
nomic  writer,  is  publishing  in  the  American  Garden 
Magazine,  of  751  Broadway,  New  York,  a  series  of  arti- 
cles on  THE  HOME  LOT,  for  the  purpose  of  showing  how 
a  family  of  even  so  small  an  income  as  the  above  may 
easily  become  independent  by  simply  living  within  their 
income.  It  is  a  most  instructive  and  valuable  series  of 
articles  on  home  gardening  for  all  working  people  of 
every  degree. 

While  the  February  Century  will  attract  many  by  the 
variety  of  its  contents,  American  history  is  represented 
in  two  important  papers  to  which  a  large  number  of 
readers  will  turn  first  of  all,  viz:  (1)  General  Sherman's 
study  of  "The  Grand  Strategy  of  the  War"— in  which 
there  are  interesting  comparisons  with  foreign  military 
operatiOD?,  and  characterization  of  the  relation  of  the 
different  Uoion  movements  throughout  the  war;  and  (2) 
The  Lincoln  History,  in  which  the  narrative  deals  with 
the  Confederate  Commissioners,  the  Cabinet  opinions  on 
the  re  enforcement  of  Fort  Pickens  (given  from  unpub- 
lished MS3  ),  aud  Lincoln's  correspondence  with  Sjw- 
ard,  in  which  it  was  decided  whether  the  Secretary  of 
Slate  or  the  President  should  be  first  in  the  Cabinet 
councils.  Mr.  Kennan's  series,  which  is  important 
enough  to  be  torn  by  the  Russian  censor  from  copies  of 
the  Century  sent  to  that  country,  receives  a  notable  ad- 
dition in  the  study  of  "A  Russian  Political  Prison,"  a 
terribly  pathetic  description  written  from  personal  invos 
tigalion  and  inquiry.  Tnis  series  not  only  helps  one  un- 
derstand the  Russian  situation,  but  it  is  likely  to  take  a 
deep  hold  of  the  reader.  Theodore  Roosevelt  writes, 
also  in  a  popular  vein,  of  "Ranch  Life  in  the  Far  West," 
with  inlio-ate  koowledgH  of  hi*  subject,  which  ii  largely 
the  cowbf  y.  His  article  tells  just  the  things  one  witihes 
to  know  f  f  the  subj-^ct,  and  ia  fully  and  vigorously  illus- 
trated by  Frederic  Remington,  who  himself  has  had  ex- 
perience as  a  cowboy.  Mr.  Roosevelt  says  in  conclusion: 
"The  present  form  of  stock  raising  on  the  plains  is 
doomed  and  can  hardly  outlast  the  present  century." 
"The  European  Craze  for  Decorations"  is  a  timely  article 
by  Ernst  von  Hesse  Wartegg  which  explains  somewhat 
the  American  rage  for  secret  societies.  The  badges  and 
thundering  titles  of  the  lodge  are  as  attractive  to  weak- 
^esded  people  here,  as  to  a  lordling  of  England  or  Ger 
many. 


Religiotis  News. 


— A  week  of  prayer,  beginning  March  18  and 
continuing  until  March  25,  has  been  called  for  by 
the  general  officers  of  the  National  W.  C.  T.  U.  An 
afternoon  prayer  meeting  for  women  will  be  held 
each  day,  with  two  evening  mass  meetings  during 
the  week. 

— Batavia  and  Geneva,  two  beautiful  towns  ad- 
joining on  the  Fox  river  in  this  State.are  experienc- 
ing the  most  remarkable  revivals  in  their  history. 
The  work  in  Geneva  is  about  closed,  in  Batavia  it  is 
in  full  strength.  Catholics,  infidels,  drunkards, 
thieves — nearly  all  impenitent  classes  have  been 
reached  and  persons  from  their  number  been  brought 
into  the  number  of  the  saved. 

— From  a  number  of  Wesleyan  pastors  the  Wes- 
leyan  Methodist  is  able  to  report  gracious  revivals, 
ia  which  churches  are  quickened  and  many  souls 
brought  into  the  kingdom. 

— Mr.  Moody  opened  the  fifth  week  of  his  stay  in 
Louisville  on  the  Sabbath  by  addressing  a  meeting 
especially  for  ladies  in  the  afternoon,  and  one  for 
men  alone  in  the  evening.  The  aggregate  atten- 
dance was  between  12,000  and  15,000.  Lately  the 
tabernacle  has  become  so  crowded,  thousands  being 
turned  away  nightly,  that  it  has  been  necessary  to 
hold  overflow  meetings  in  several  of  the  different 
churches.  The  meetings  close  with  special  services 
next  Sabbath. 

— Rev.  George  C.  Needham  is  now  at  work  with 
the  Memorial  Baptist  church,  Philadelphia,  the  Rev. 
Wayland  Hoyt,  D.  D.,  pastor.  Dr.  Hoyt  has  re- 
ceived a  call  to  St.  Louis  at  a  salary  of  $10,000,and 
his  Philadelphia  parish  fear  that  he  will  accept. 

— Dr.  L.  W.  Munhall  has  been  laboring  in  Balti- 
timore,  Md.  He  began  in  Buffalo  Feb.  5,  at  the 
call  of  five  leading  churches,  a  four  weeks'  cam- 
paign. 

— Rev.  Jeremiah  H.  Good,  founder  and  president 
of  Heidelberg  College,  TiflSa,  Ohio,  and  a  leader  of 
the  German  Reformed  church  in  the  West,  died  at 
Cleveland,  Jan.  25,  aged  65. 

— Rev.  Theodore  W.  Haven,  pastor  of  the  Con- 
gregational church  at  Battle  Creek,  Mich.,  who  is 
supposed  to  have  left  New  York  city  Jan.  11,  has 
not  been  seen  since,  and  no  clew  to  his  whereabouts 
can  be  discovered. 

— Rev.  S.  J.  McPherson,  pastor  of  the  Second 
Presbyterian  church,  this  city,  has  been  called  to 
the  vacant  pulpit  of  the  Madison  Avenue  Presby- 
terian church.  New  York  city,  the  next  to  the  largest 
in  the  State. 

— From  March  1  to  Jan.  1  the  missionaries  of  the 
American  Sunday-School  Union  have  established 
500  Sunday-schools  in  new  settlements  or  neglected 
communities,  and  induced  1,804  teachers  and  15,213 
scholars  to  become  members  of  these  schools.  They 
also  aided  1,914  other  schools  which  have  a  mem- 
bership of  8,259  teachers  and  74,404  scholars,  held 
3,774  meetings,  made  12,194  visits  to  families,  dis- 
tributed 4,219  Bibles  and  Testaments,  put  into  the 
hands  of  these  people  $5,478  worth  of  religious 
reading,  and  traveled  174,801  miles. 

—Mr.  Frank  H.  Long,  the  Chicago  evangelist, 
concluded  a  two- weeks'  meeting  in  the  Presbyterian 
church  in  Mt.  Vernon,  HI.,  last  week,  and  as  a  re- 
sult the  meat  shops  have  been  closed  on  Sunday, 
and  there  have  been  eighty-five  conversions  and 
seventy-five  accessions  to  the  church,  mostly  of 
young  people.  This  has  been  the  greatest  awaken- 
ing this  church  ever  experienced. 

— In  New  Mexico  and  Utah  there  are  at  least 
2,600  scholars  in  the  schools  of  the  New  West  Edu- 
cation Commission.  This  organization  had  its  ori- 
gin in  1879,  in  the  belief  that  the  establishment  of 
Christian  schools  would  be  the  most  powerful  de- 
fence that  could  be  brought  to  bear  against  the  evil 
influences  invading  the  Western  Territories.  The 
Commission  has  to-day  seven  academies  and  twenty- 
three  schools.     Its  receipts  last  year  were  $61,318. 

— The  McAll  Mission  has  opened  several  new 
halls  at  Paris,  and  also  at  St.  Germain-en-Saye,Nan- 
tes,  Antibes,  Thiers,  and  Sainte  Florence.  The 
church  at  llheims  has  opened  two  popular  halls  for 
evangelistic  and  social  work,  the  whole  expense  of 
erection  being  borne  by  the  church. 

— In  France  a  movement  is  on  foot  which  seeks 
the  enforcement  of  the  laws  against  the  sale  of  im- 
moral public? tions.  A  petition  to  be  presented  to 
the  French  Senate  praying  for  the  interference  of 
the  national  legislature  is  being  numerously  signed 
The  Protestant  journals  and  the  various  church  con- 
ferences are  lending  their  influence  to  the  move- 
ment, and  a  strong  ajipeal  is  made  to  women — moth- 
ers especially — to  join  in  the  crusade.     The  situa- 


tion has  been  aggravated  by  the  large  sale  of  Zola's 
novels. 

— A  deputation  of  the  English  Baptist  Union 
held  a  conference  with  Mr.  Spurgeon  on  the  13th 
ult.,  with  reference  to  his  withdrawal  from  the 
Union.  Mr.  Spurgeon  declared  that  he  must  still 
maintain  his  resignation.  He  suggested  that  the 
council  should  adopt  a  simple  basis  of  Bible  truths, 
such  as  are  accepted  evangelical  doctrines.  He  con- 
sidered that  the  constitution  of  the  Union  did  not 
contain  sufficient  powers  to  enable  it  to  deal  with 
members  who  disclosed  heretical  tendencies.  He 
declined  to  formally  accuse  anybody,  but  said  that 
when  he  had  spoken  of  that  which  looked  like  the 
beginning  of  a  confederacy  in  evil,  he  referred  to 
no  special  association  in  connectioa  with  which  de- 
viations from  the  Gospel  truth  could  be  discovered. 
He  would  continue  to  support  the  departments  of 
the  Union  in  which  he  was  specially  interested. 

— Late  letters  from  Bishop  William  Taylor,  says 
the  Independent,  show  that  his  scheme  of  self-sup- 
porting missions  in  Africa  is  substantially  a  coloni- 
zation scheme.  He  writes  from  Vivi,  at  the  head  of 
navigation  on  the  Lower  Congo,  where  he  has  been 
waiting  the  arrival  of  a  traction  engine  from  Liver- 
pool, and  the  passing  of  the  wet  season  to  begin  the 
work  of  transporting  his  iron  steamer,  and  the  stores 
accumulated  at  Vivi  to  the  Upper  Congo.  The 
steamer  which  arrived  at  Vivi  some  time  ago  was 
much  heavier  than  he  anticipated,  consisting,  as  we 
understand  him,  of  about  3,600  man-loads.  As 
Stanley  took  all  the  carriers  with  him  to  the  interi- 
or on  his  way  to  relieve  Emin  Bey,  the  Bishop  could 
not  procure  transportation  for  his  steamer,  and  or- 
dered a  traction  engine  from  Liverpool,  with  the 
idea  of  using  a  steam  wagon  on  Stanley's  road  as  a 
means  of  transportation.  While  ^waiting  for  the 
engine  a  wagon  was  built  at  Vivi,  and  the  Bishop 
and  his  assistants  erected  three  adohe  houses  for  the 
use  of  the  missionaries  at  points  on  the  Congo  above 
Vivi,  the  Bishop  himself  making  the  brick.  The 
new  stations  opened  are  on  the  north  bank  of  the 
Congo,  a  short  distance  apart.  It  is  the  Bishop's 
intention  to  extend  this  chain  of  stations  to  Stan- 
ley Pool.  He  will  make  Vivi  a  base  of  supplies, 
having  erected  a  warehouse  there  and  appointed  a 
missionary  as  storekeeper.  All  goods  sent  from 
Europe  or  America  for  the  mission  will  be  received 
at  Vivi,  and  distributed  among  the  stations  on  re- 
quisition. The  Bishop  says  nothing  about  evan- 
gelization, but  he  mentions  in  one  of  his  letters 
that  he  had  ordered  "an  outfit  for  six  new  schools." 
He  has,  we  understand,  eighty  missionaries,  men 
and  women,  in  his  force. 


CEURGH  MEMBERSHIP  AND  PROGRESS. 


Dr.  Dorchester,  who,  some  six  years  ago,  publish- 
ed a  book  upon  the  problem  of  religious  progres8,in 
which  the  most  elaborate  statistics  up  to  that  time 
given  to  the  public  were  presented,  is  about  to  pub- 
lish another  volume  upon  the  history  of  Christiani- 
ty in  the  United  States,  on  which  he  has  spent  much 
labor.  Ia  advance  of  the  appearance  of  this  work 
he  gives,  through  the  Christian  Advocate,  the  follow- 
ing table  of  the  numbers  of  communicants  in  the 
various  denominations  at  the  close  of  1886: 

Adventists  under  various  names 134  577 

Baptists  under  various  names,  including  985,- 

815  colored  Baptists 2  909  245 

"jJisciples,  Mennonites,  Dunkers,  etc 820.600 

Christians  and  Christian  Union  churches 267.000 

Congregationalista 436,000 

Episcopalians 423  605 

Friends 82  000 

Lutheran  and  German  Evangelicil  churches. .      990,830 
Methodists    under  various   names,   including 

1,012,729  colored  Methodists 4  265  855 

United  Brethren,  Evangelical  Association,  etc.      335  561 

Presbyterian  and  Reformed  churches 1,431,249 

Bible  Union  and  other  small  bodiea ....     '  35*859 

Aggregate  church  membership 12  132  651 

While  absolute  exactness  is  not  attainable  in  such 
statistics.  Dr.  Dorchester's  reputation  is  a  sufficient 
guarantee  that  he  has  come  as  near  the  correct  fig- 
ures as  it  was  possible  to  get. 

Another  table  gives  the  total  number  of  commu- 
nicants in  these  bodies  in  1800  as  334,872;  in  1850 
3,529,988;  in  1870,  6,673,396;  1880, 10,065,963,and 
in  1886,  12,132,651. 

The  average  annual  gain  for  the  first  50  years  was 
63,302,  for  the  next  20  years  157,170,  for  the  fol- 
lowing 10  years  339,258,  and  for  the  last  6  years 
344,449. 

The  proportiotf  of  communicants  to  population, 
which  was  only  one  in  14  5  inhabitants  at  the  begin- 
ning of  the  century,  rose  to  one  in  6  5  in  1850,  one 
in  6  7  in  1870  one  in  5.0  in  1880  and  one  in  4  8  in 
1886.— NeusYo^k  Wine$t. 


Fbbruaet  9,  1888 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


iM 


Lodge  Notes. 

For  the  first  time  in  twenty  four  years 
the  Chicago  Times  has  become  a  "union 
office,"  and  only  members  of  the  Typo- 
graphical Union  will  be  employed  there. 

A  report  from  the  Knights  of  Labor 
headquarters  in  Philadelphia  says  the  or 
der  is  again  gaining  financial  and  numer- 
ical strength.  But  from  every  part  of 
the  country  we  have  word  of  its  losses. 

The  Roman  Catholics  of  Chicago  have 
a  "court"  of  their  order  of  Foresters 
called  McMullen,  which  for  the  good  of 
the  order  dined  and  danced  with  its 
friends  till  2  o'clock  one  morning  lately. 

Clarke  &  Co.'s  Solar  Iron  "Works,  at 
Pittsburg,  resumed  operations  Friday 
with  non  union  men.  The  furnaces  and 
mills  were  closed  several  weeks  ago, 
owing  to  the  trouble  with  the  Amalgam- 
ated Association. 

The  members  of  the  Knights  of  Labor 
are  laying  the  foundation  of  an  Opera 
House.  They  will  have  an  assembly  hall 
in  the  basement  of  the  building,  and  the 
first  floor  will  be  fitted  up  for  an  Opera 
House.  This  must  be  a  hightoned  lodge 
of  laborers. 

The  executive  council  of  the  Modern 
Woodmen  of  America  concluded  its  an- 
nual session  at  Fulton,  111.,  Feb.  8.  The 
report  of  the  head  officers  shows  16  000 
members,  an  increase  of  8,000  during  the 
year,  of  which  9,000  reside  in  Illinois. 
This  is  a  kind  of  insurance  lodge. 

At  the  recent  annual  assembly  of  the 
Masonic  Veteran  Association  of  Illinois 
the  following  were  some  of  the  elected 
officers:  John  Carson  Smith,  of  Chicago, 
venerable  chief  (Smith  is  Lieutenant 
Governor  and  aspires  to  the  Republican 
nomination  for  Governor) ;  Rev.  Clinton 
Locke  and  Rev.  Henry  G.  Perry,  chap- 
lains. 

The  Grand  Lodge  of  Pennsylvania, 
Knights  of  Pythias,  was  suspended  from 
membership  by  a  court  of  high  officers 
held  in  Cincinnati,  Jan  22.  The  charge 
against  this  lodge  was  that  of  ignoring 
and  refusing  to  obey  the  mandates  and 
laws  of  the  Supreme  Lodge  of  the  Unit- 
ed States.  At  the  last  meeting  of  the  Su- 
preme Ladge  held  in  Toronto,  Canada, 
some  time  ago,  certain  amendments  were 
ordered  in  the  laws  governing  lodges  in 
general .  These  amendments  were  to  be 
made  immediately,  and  a  copy  of  the 
same  be  sent  to  the  'supreme  chancellor 
of  the  world,"  Howard  Douglass.  The 
Grand  Lodge  of  Pennsylvania  refused 
positively  to  make  the  amendments  as  re- 
quired. The  result  was  that  the  lodge 
was  suspended  from  membership.  This 
action  will  cause  a  sensation  in  Pythian 
circles,  as  the  Pennsylvania  lodge  has 
40,000  members.  The  matter  will  be 
carried  to  the  legal  courts. 

An  injunction  has  been  served  by  the 
Sheriff  at  Cleveland,  upon  W.  B.  Hill- 
man,  Grand  High  Priest  of  the  Royal 
Arch  Masons  of  Ohio.  The  order  was 
issued  at  the  instance  of  Anderson  T. 
Speer,  to  restrain  Hillman  from  prevent- 
ing the  installation  of  the  recently  elected 
officers  of  Warren  Chapter,  of  Newark. 
The  action  arises  from  the  conflict  be- 
tween the  Northern  and  Cerneau  Scottish 
rites  jurisdictions,  because  of  the  asser- 
tion of  the  Most  Worthy  Grand  Master 
at  the  last  meeting  of  the  State  Grand 
Lodge,  that  the  Cerneau  Scottish  rite  was 
"illegal,  claudestine,  and  un  Masonic." 
This  assertion  he  succeeded  in  getting  the 
Grand  Lodge  to  indorse.  Hillman  claims 
that  the  Cerneau  Scottish  Rite  Masons 
are  not  recognized  by  legitimate  Masons, 
and  were  introduced  as  a  disturbing  ele- 
ment. The  Grand  Commandery,  and  the 
Grand  Lodge  have  issued  their  edicts  that 
members  who  affiliate  with  the  Cerneau 
Scottish  Rites  Masons  shall  not  be  allowed 
to  hold  office. 

There  is  a  revolt  among  Canadian 
Knights  of  Labor  over  appointmen's 
made  hy  General  Master  Workman  Pow- 
derly  to  the  Parliamentary  Committee  of 
Canada.  The  three  appointees  are  prom- 
inent political  opponents  of  Sir  John  A. 
Macdonald's  government,  and  any  possi- 
ble good  to  be  derived  from  the  appoint 
ment  of  such  a  committee  will  in  conse- 
quence be  blocked.  The  Toronto  District 
Assembly,  at  its  last  meeting,  passed  two 
resolutions,  one  requesting  the  General 
Etecutive  Board  to  tell  why  their  letters 
on  this  subject  had  been  disregarded  and 
why  the  Canadian  order  had  been  con- 
stantly neglected,  and  the  other  demand- 
ing that  the  order  in  this  country  be  al 
ways  consulted  with  regard  to  any  ap- 


pointments made  in  Canada.  It  is  ex- 
pected other  Canadian  district  assemblies 
will  take  action  similar  to  that  of  the 
Toronto  district,  and  therefore  the  Gen- 
eral Executive  Board  will  either  have  to 
cancel  the  appointments  already  made  or 
Powderly's  appointees  will  go  to  Oltawa 
in  direct  opposition  to  the  organization 
they  are  supposed  to  represent. 


DONATIONS 


To  Uynoaure  Ministers'  Fund: 

Mrs.  H.  H.  Whittemore $     1.00 

Mrs.  B.  F.  Searles 1 .00 

Mrs.  A.  I.  Salesbury 1 .00 

Mrs   W.  Smiley 5.00 

N.Martin 29.52 

W.  W.Smith •     1.50 

Dewy  Hopkins 1 .  00 

L  L.  Buchwalter 2.00 

W.  E  Killips 3.00 

Before  reported 611.04 

Total $656.06 

N.  O.  A.  Foreign  Fund: 

A  friend,  Wheaton,  111  $     1.00 


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J  Grant,  J  B  Dodds,  R  A  Cullor,  Mrs  H 
S  Leonard,  R  A  Waldo,  Mrs  E  Waldren, 
J  R  Letts,  E  P  Webster,  B  Hutchins,  W 
M  Wylie,  J  Ward,  G  W  Porter,  S  A 
Pratt,  W  J  Pierson,  A  B  Wilkinson,  E 
Van  Fossen,  Eld  Freeman,  Rev  E  L  Har 
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kittle,  J  Mattinly,  J  A  Stegner,  D  Leggett, 
J  Craig,  D  Hopkins,  A  F  Worden,  G 
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THE   SECRET    ORDERS 


OF 


WESTERN  AERIOA. 


BY  J.  AUGUSTUS  COLE,  OF  8HAIK0AY, 
WEST  AFRICA. 


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phlet Is  a  native  of  Western  Africa,  and  is  of 
pure  negro  blood.  He  has  given  much  time 
and  care  to  the  investigation  of  the  secret  so- 
cieties and  heathen  customs  of  Western  Afri- 
ca. He  joined  several  of  the  secret  orders  for 
the  purpose  of  obtaining  full  and  correct  In- 
formation regarding  their  nature  and  opera- 
tion. His  culture  and  superior  powers  of  dis- 
crimination render  what  he  has  written  most 
complete  and  reliable. 

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Introduction  by 
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THE  INTERIOR 

OF 

SIERRA  LEONE. 

"West  Ulrica,. 


WHAT  CAN  IT  TEACH  US? 

BY  J.  AU0U8TUB  COLE, 
Of  Shalngay,  W.  A. 

"^Itli  Portrait  of  tlie  .A.utlior. 

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14 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


February  9, 1888 


Home  aot)  Heaxth. 

THE  DOMESTIC  DOCTOR. 

CROur. — Slice  onions,  and  put  sugar 
on  the  slices  in  layers — the  sirup  being 
administered.  A  sovereign  and  almost 
instantaneous  remedy. 

Bleeding  —To  stop  bleeding  take  the 
fine  dust  of  tea  and  bind  it  on  the  wound 
— at  all  times  accessible  and  easily  ob- 
tained. After  the  blood  has  ceased  to 
flow,  laudanum  may  be  advantageously 
applied  to  the  wound. 

Rbmedy  for  Ear  Aohb. — Take  a  bit 
of  cotton  batting;  put  upon  it  a  pinch  of 
black  pepper,  gather  it  up  and  tie  it;  dip 
it  in  sweet-oil  and  insert  it  in  the  ear. 
Pat  a  tUnnel  bandage  over  the  head  to 
keep  it  warm. 

Bunions — To  cure  bunions  use  pul- 
verized saltpeter  and  sweet  oil.  Obtain 
at  a  druggists  five  or  six  cents'  worth  of 
saltpeter;  put  it  into  a  bottle  with  suffi- 
cient olive  oil  to  dissolve  it;  shake  it  up 
well,  and  rub  the  inflamed  joints  night 
and  morning,  and  more  frequently  if 
painful. 

To  Cure  Corns. — Take  the  substance 
which  sticks  to  the  side  of  a  soft  soap 
barrel  after  the  soap  is  used  out,  and  mix 
with  pulverized  white  chalk  to  the  con- 
sistency of  a  salve.  Apply  every  twelve 
hours  in  a  rag  until  the  corn  is  removed. 
It  will  cure  every  case  of  corns  in  six  days. 

An  Alleged  Remedy  for  Hydropho- 
bia— When  bitten  by  a  rabid  dog  bathe 
the  wound  with  warm  vinegar  and  water, 
and  when  this  has  dried  pour  a  few  drops 
of  muriatic  acid  upon  the  bite,  which  will 
destroy  the  poison  of  the  saliva  and  relieve 
the  patient  from  all  danger.  An  old 
German  forester  discovered  the  remedy, 
which  he  said  had  been  used  successfully 
for  fifty  years. — American  Rural  Home. 

A  celebrated  physician  has  remarked 
that  every  house  ought  to  be  pulled  down 
at  the  end  of  the  sixtieth  year,  as  it  has 
by  that  time  absorbed  all  the  diseases  of 
those  who  have  lived  in  it,  believing  that 
wood  and  plaster  absorb  gases,  foul  air 
and  feverish  exhalations  as  readily  as 
milk  or  water  does.  But  as  it  is  not  prac 
ticable  to  tear  down  houses  every  half 
century  or  so,  it  is  to  be  considered  if  all 
the  wood  used  in  their  interior  construc- 
tion and  all  the  plain  surfaces  of  plaster 
should  not  be  so  thoroughly  oiled  or  var- 
nished that  the  power  of  absorption 
should  be  almost  entirely  destroyed,  and 
the  character  thus  so  changed  that  de- 
struction would  no  longer  be  desirable. 

An  absolute  non-conductor,  insensible 
alike  to  heat  or  cold,  and  absolutely  fire- 
proof, has  at  last  been  discovered  in  pul 
verized  paper.  I  tried  the  discovery  last 
winter  by  packing  the  drain  and  water- 
pipe  of  my  residence  with  it,  and  all  the 
pipes  are  on  the  outside  of  the  building, 
and  the  season  was  the  severest  of  many 
years.  My  plumbing  did  not  cost  me 
twenty- five  cents.  As  a  covering  for 
steam  pipes  it  acts  equally  as  well.  Pul- 
verized paper,  I  repeat,  is  an  absolute 
non  conductor. — Qlobe  Democrat. 

Sc4LLorBD  Potatoes.— Cut  up  cold 
boiled  potatoes  until  you  have  about  a 
quart.  Put  in  a  pan  a  generous  cup  of 
milk,  one  teaspoonful  butter.  Set  on  the 
stove  and  let  it  thicken,  then  put  a  layer 
of  potatoes  in  a  pudding  dish,  season 
with  salt  and  pepper,  and  pour  on  a  little 
of  the  gravy.  Continue  until  it  is  all 
used.  Cover  the  top  with  rolled  cracker 
crumbs  and  bits  of  butter.  Bake  twenty 
minutes. 

The  above  seems  a  nice  variety  in  the 
cooking  of  potatoes,  and  the  following  is 
apparently  a  very  good  recipe  for  bread- 
sauce,  which  ought  properly  always  to 
accompany  roast  fowl,  as  well  as  game 
and  turkey: 

Dressing  for  Fowls.— Take  as  much 
stale  bread  as  you  will  need,  pour  boiling 
water  over  and  covnr  closely  until  soft. 
Beat  up  well  until  fine,  then  add  a  lump 
of  butter,  the  size  depending  on  the  con- 
dition of  the  fowl,  whether  fat  or  lean; 
add  an  egg  for  each  fowl,  salt  and  pep 
per  to  taste,  and  put  in  enough  onion  cut 
fine  to  give  a  nice  Ikvor. 

CONSUMPTION  SIJKKLY  CURED. 

To  the  Editor:— Please  inform  your 
readers  that  I  have  a  positive  remedy  for 
the  above  named  disease.  By  its  timely 
use  thousands  of  hopeless  cases  have  been 
permanently  cured.  I  shall  be  glad  to 
send  two  bottles  of  my  remedy  fukk  to 
any  of  your  readers  who  have  consump- 
tion if  they  will  send  me  their  Express 
and  P.  O.  address.  liespectfuUy,  T  A 
Blocum,  M.  C,  181  Pearl  St.,  New  York 


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Obnbbal  AeBNT  AKD  Lbctubbb,  J.  P. 
Stoddard,  221  W.  Madison  St.,  Chicago. 
H.  H.  Hinman,  Cynosure  office. 
Agent  for  Southern  States. 

StATB   AeBNTS 

Iowa,  C.  P.  Hawley,  Wheaton,  Du- 
Page  Co.,  Illinois. 

Missouri,  Eld.  Rufus  Smith,  Maryville. 

New  Hampshire,  Eld.  S.  C.  Kimball, 
New  Market. 

Ohio,  W.  B.  Stoddard,  Columbus. 

Kansas,  Robert  Loggan,  Clifton. 

Alabama,  Rev.  G.  M.  Elliott,  Selma. 

Dbobbb  Wokkbks. — [Seceders.] 
J.  K.  Qlassford,  Carthage,  Mo. 
Othbb  Lbcturbbs. 

C.  A.  Blaiichard,  Wheaton,  111. 
N.  Callender,  Brown  Hollow,  Pa. 
J  H.  Tlmmons,  Tarentum,  Pa 

T.  B.  McCormlck,  Princeton,  Ind. 

B.  Johnson,  Dayton,  Ind. 

H.  A.  Day,  WUllamatown,  Mich. 

J.  M.  Bishop,  Chambersburg,  Pa. 

A.  Mayn,  Bloomington,  Ind. 

J.  B.  CrsBsinger,  Sullivan,  O. 

W.  M.  Love,  Osceola,  Mo. 

J.  L.  Barlow,  Grundy  Center,  Iowa. 

A.  D.Freeman,  Downers  Grove,  111 

Wm.  FentoD ,  8t  Paul,  Minn. 

Warren  Taylor,  South  Salem,  O. 

J.  8.  Perry,  Thompson,  Conn. 

J.  T.  Michael,  Washington,  D.  C 

8.  G.  Barton,  Breckinridge,  Mo. 

E.  Bametson,  HaskinviUe,  Steuben  Co,  N.  Y 

Wm.  R.  Roach,  Pickering,  Ont. 

D.  A.  Richards,  Brighton,  Mich. 

THB    OHVMGRMa     KA    LOU**^Er. 

The  following  denominations  are  com- 
mitted by  vote  of  their  legislative  assem 
blies  or  by  constitution  to  a  separation 
from  secret  lodge  worship: 

Adventists  (Seventh-day.) 

Baptists — Primitive,  Seventh-day  and 
Scandinavian. 

Brethren    (Dunkers    or   German   Bap 
tists.) 

Christian  Reformed  Church. 

Church  of  God  ^Northern  Indiana  El 
dership.) 

Congregational — The  State  Associations 
of  Illinois  and  Iowa  have  adopted  resolu- 
tions against  the  lodge. 

Disciples  (in  part.) 

Friends. 

Lutherans — Norwegian,  Danish,  S^yei 
ish  and  Synodical  Conferences. 

Mennonites. 

Methodists — Free  and  Wesleyan. 

Methodist  Protestant  (Minnesota  Oca 
ference.) 

Moravians. 

Plymouth  Brethren. 

Presbyterian — Associate,  Ref orme  I  aftd 
United. 

Reformed  Church  (Holland  Branch.) 

United  Brethren  in  Christ. 

Individual  churches  in  some  of  these 
denominations  sliould  be  excepted,  in  part 
of  them  even  a  considerable  portion. 

The  following  lOcal  churches  have,  as  a 
pledge  to  disfellowship  and  oppose  lodge 
worship,  given  their  names  to  the  follow- 
ing list  as 

THE    ASSOCIATED   CHURCHES    OF  CHRI81P, 

New    Ruhamah  Cong.  Hamilton,  Miss. 

Pleasant  Ridge  Cong.   Sandford  Co  Ala. 

New  Hope  Methodist,  Lowndes  Co.,  Mies. 

Congregational,  College  Springs,  Iowa. 

College  Church  of  Christ.  Wheaton,  111. 

First  Congregational,  Leiand,  Mich. 

Sug^r  Grove  Church,  Green  county.  Pa. 

Military  Chapel,  M.  E.,  Lowndes  county, 
Miss. 

Hopewell  Missionary  Baptist.,  Lowndes  Co., 
Miss. 

Cedar  Grove  Miss.  Baptist,  Lowndes  Co., 
Miss. 

Simon's  Chapel,   M.   E.,  Lowndes  Co.,  Mise. 

Pleasant  Ridge  Miss.  Baptist,  Lowndes  Co., 
Miss. 

Brownlee  Church,  Caledonia,  Miss. 

Salem  Church,  Lowndes  Co.,  Miss. 

West  Preston  Bantist  Church,  Wayne  Co.,P». 
OTHBB   LOCAL  CHUBCHBB 

adopting  the  same  nrinciple  are — 

Baptist  churches :  N.  Ablngton,  Pa. ;  Meno- 
monie,  Mondovl,  Waubeck  and  Spring  Prairie, 
Wis. ;  Wheaton,  lU. ;  Perry,  n!  Y7;  Spring 
Creek,  near  Burlington.  Iowa;  Lima,  Ind.; 
ConatablevUle,  N.  Y.  The  "Good  Will  Assocl- 
ton"ofMobl.e,  Ala.,  comprising  some  twenty- 
flve  colored  Baptist  churches;  Brldgewater 
Baptist  Association,  Pa.;  Old  Tebo  Baptist, 
near  Leesville,  Henry  Co.,  Mo. ;  Hoopeston,  111 : 
Esmen,  111.;  Strykersville,  N.  Y. 

Congregational  churches :  Ist  of  Oberlin,  O. ; 
Tontca.  C'ryatal  Lake.  Union  and  Big  Woods, 
111. ;  Solflbury,  Ind. ;  Congregational  Methodist 
Maplewood,  Mass. 

Independent  churche9  In  Lowell,  Country- 
man school  house  near  Lindenwood,  Marengo 
and  Streator,  111. :  Berea  and  Camp  Nelson,  Ky ; 
Ustlck,  111. ;  Clarksborg,  Kansas ;  State  Aasocl- 
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15 


In  Brier 


A..  N.  Alward  writes  to  the  Inter  Ocean 
from  Crow  Lake,  Dakota,  of  the  experi- 
ence of  a  searching  party  after  the  late 
storm:  "As  we  passed  on  and  saw  other 
little  mounds  in  the  snow,  we  approached 
them  with  a  feeling  of  awe  and  horror, 
fearing  that  they  too  contained  the  re- 
mains of  some  other  unfortunate  fellow 
being.  We  next  came  to  a  country 
schoolhouse,  with  a  teacher  and  fifteen 
scholars,  who  had  all  saved  their  lives  by 
remaining  inside  all  night.  In  an  adjoin- 
ing district,  the  teacher,  Miss  May  Hunt, 
started  from  her  school  house  during  the 
storm  with  eight  scholars,  thinking  they 
could  reach  a  farm  house  about  forty 
rods  away.  They  soon  lost  their  way, 
and  after  wandering  about  for  some  time 
they  fortunately  ran  against  a  straw 
stack.  They  dug  into  the  protected  side 
of  this  and  remained  there  all  night,  thus 
saving  their  lives,  but  the  hands  and  feet 
of  some  of  them  were  badly  frozen.  In 
Charles  Mix  county,  a  lady  teacher  started 
out  with  eighteen  scholars.  They  were 
all  found  dead  the  next  dav,  with  their 
frozen  hands  clasping  the  wire  of  a  fence, 
which  they  had  doubtless  attempted  to 
follow  as  a  guide  to  the  nearest  farm 
house.  It  is  impossible  to  make  anything 
like  a  definite  estimate  of  the  amount  of 
live  stock  that  has  been  lost.  The  storm 
was  much  more  disastrous  in  this  respect 
than  it  would  have  been  had  it  not  come 
on  so  suddenly  and  in  the  middle  of  the 
day,  when  most  of  the  farmers  had  their 
stock  out  for  water.  Animals  of  all  kinds 
became  entirely  unmanageable  when  the 
storm  struck  them.  I  know  of  several 
herds  of  which  not  a  single  one  was 
saved,  and  in  some  cases  they  were  only 
a  few  rods  from  their  stables,  but  it  was 
impossible  to  turn  them  against  the 
storm .  In  spite  of  the  combined  efforts 
of  men  and  dogs,  the  cattle  drifted  along 
with  the  wind,  and  soon  froze  to  death. 
The  prairies  are  everywhere  dotted  with 
their  carcasses.  Many  of  our  settlers  will 
be  severely  oppressed  by  their  losses." 

The  first  report  of  the  Inter  State  Com- 
merce Commission,  beyond  giving  a 
statement  of  the  work  done,  which  has 
been  largely  tentative,  embodies  impor- 
tant information  and  data  respecting  the 
sphere  of  its  operations.  The  railroad 
mileage  of  the  United  States  to  close  of 
1886  was  133.606.  The  number  of  cor- 
porations is  1,425,  but  of  these  only  700 
are  carriers.  The  cost  of  these  roads  is 
estimated  at  $7,254,995,223,  and  the 
funded  debt  of  the  companies  at  $3,882,- 
966,330.  Interest  was  paid  to  the  amount 
of  $187,356,540,  and  the  aggregate  pay- 
ment to  stockholders  in  dividends  was 
$80,094,138.  This  gives  only  a  partial 
idea  of  the  magnitude  of  the  interest 
which  the  act  undertakes  to  regulate. 
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promises  to  be  widely  beneficial.  The 
Commission  contents  itself  with  reporting 
what  it  has  done,  and  abstains  from  sug- 
gesting at  present  any  changes  in  the  law 
where  principles  seem  to  be  sound. 

Three  years  after  date,  the  floating  is- 
lands of  pumice,  thrown  up  into  the  sea 
by  the  stupendous  volcanic  eruption  at 
Krakatoa,  in  the  Java  seas,  are  found  to 
be  drifting  along  the  Indian  Ocean,  in 
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direction  west  by  south,  from  where  they 
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so  large  that  it  cannot  escape  notice,  and 
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February  9, 1888 


nfws  of  the  week 

WASHINGTON. 

The  Senate  has  passed  the  joint  resolu- 
tion of  Senator  Hoar  proposing  an  amend- 
ment to  the  C-^nstitution.  It  provides  that 
the  term  of  cffiie  of  the  President  and  of 
the  Fiftieth  Congress  shall  continue  until 
the  30th  day  of  April,  1889.  at  noon;  that 
the  Senators  whose  existing  term  would 
otherwise  expire  on  the  4lh  of  March, 
1889  (and  thereafter),  shall  continue  in 
office  until  April  30  succeeding  such  ex- 
piration ;  that  the  30th  of  April  at  noon 
shall  thereafter  be  substituted  for  the 
fourth  of  March,  as  the  commencement 
and  termination  of  the  official  term  of  the 
President,  Vice  Presideot,  Senators  and 
Representatives  in  Congress.  The  Sen- 
ate took  up  the  B.air  education  bill  last 
Tuesday  and  was  addressed  by  Mr .  Evarts 
in  its  favor.  The  people  of  this  country, 
he  said,  had  made  up  their  minds  that 
there  should  be  no  ignorance  where  it 
was  within  the  power  of  the  State  and 
within  the  proper  limits  of  the  United 
States  to  prevent  it.  If  iguorance  could 
not  be  lifted  from  the  low  level  where  it 
now  rested,  it  would  not  stay  there,  but 
would  become  lower  and  lower  and  would 
become  brutal,  savage  and  hostile.  The 
House  has  adopted  a  resolution  to  inves- 
tigate th--.  numerous  "truflls"  under  which 
monopolies  in  all  sorts  of  business  are 
hiding  and  appointed  a  committee  to  un- 
dertake the  matter. 

QBNEBAL. 

The  MiFsissippi  House  has  reported  a 
memorial  to  Congress  protesting  against 
the  passage  of  the  Senate  bill  having  for 
its  ob j  ect  the  prevention  of  the  use  of 
cotton-seed  oil  as  a  substitute  for  hog 
lard  and  proposing  to  tax  the  oil  and  the 
privilege  of  manufacturing  and  dealing 
therein.  The  memorialists  express  the 
opinion  that  cotton-seed  lard  is  a  perfect- 
ly wholesome  article,  and  should  not  be 
discriminated  against  in  favor  of  any  oth- 
er article  of  American  manufacture  or 
commerce 

The  exodus  inaugurated  at  Topeka  to 
move  colored  people  to  Central  and  South 
America  had  its  origin  in  Washington 
county,  Texas.  The  father  of  the  pro- 
ject is  8.  A.  Hack  worth,  for  many  years 
a  prominent  Republican  of  Breaham 
Texas,  but  now  residing  in  Topeka. 
Hackworth  left  Washington  county  two 
years  ago  account  of  the  race  conflict  cul- 
minating at  the  election  in  November, 
1886,  when  three  negroes  were  taken 
from  the  j  ail  and  ly  nched  by  a  mob .  Be- 
fore leavmg  Texas,  Hackworth  related 
the  d^'tails  of  his  plans  for  a  great  exodus 
as  recently  divulged  at  Topeka. 

Professor  Asa  Gray,  the  eminent  bota- 
nist, died  at  Cambridge,  Mass.,  Monday 
evening,  aged  77  years,  of  paralysis. 

Resolutions  protesting  against  the  pas- 
sage of  the  Blair  bill  in  Congress,  and 
declaring  it  to  be  an  iniquitous  measure, 
have  been  adopted  by  the  Kentucky  Leg- 
islature. 

The  Supreme  Court  of  Wisconsin  Tu-s- 
day  decided  that  the  Legislature  of  1885 
extended  to  women  the  right  to  vote  on 
school  matters  only,  and  not  at  general 
elections. 

All  letters,  petitions,  and  other  papers 
bearing  on  the  case  of  the  anarchists  are 
being  clasoified  at  Springfield  by  Gover- 
nor Oglesby's  clerks,  after  which  they 
will  be  placed  in  a  strong  trunk  and  be 
stowed  away  for  safe  keeping  in  the 
vaults  of  the  State  Department. 

Lansing,  Mich.,  gave  a  majority  of 
369  for  prohibition  at  the  local  option 
election  Tuesday.  The  majori'y  in  the 
whole  of  Ingham  county  reaches  about 
3,000. 

A  sensation  has  been  created  by 
the  report  of  the  special  commission  ap- 
pointed to  examine  into  the  safety  of  the 
Assembly  Chamber  ceiling  in  the  $16,- 
000,000  State  Capitol  at  Albany.  The 
commission  declare  that  the  massive 
stone  ceiling,  weighing  thousands  of  tons, 
must  come  down  at  once.  The  State  en- 
gineer, who  is  one  of  the  commission, 
says  that  it  is  completely  shattered  and 
may  fall  at  any  moment.  It  is  probable 
that  the  lower  house  will  make  haste  to 
secure  other  quarters. 

Two  car-loads  of  potatoes,  corn,  and 
food  were  sent  to  the  Kansas  sufferers 
Thursday  from  Pierre,  D.  T.,  the  Chicago 
and  Northwestern  R:)ad  furnishing  free 
transportation. 

The  granulating  mill  of  the  Austin 
Powder  Works,   near  Cleveland,  Ohio, 


was  blown  up  Friday  morning.  One  man 
was  killed,  and  not  a  vestige  of  the 
structure  remains,  its  site  being  simply 
marked  by  a  hole  in  the  ground.  Win- 
dows in  stores  and  dwellings  for  a  mile 
and  a  half  around  were  shattered. 

The  works  of  the  American  Paint  and 
Oil  Company  at  Cleveland  were  destroyed 
by  an  explosion  followed  by  a  Are,  Fri- 
day morning.  The  workmen  jumped 
from  the  windows  to  save  their  lives,  and 
many  persons  had  narrow  escapes.  A 
policeman  was  blown  across  the  street 
and  seriously  wounded. 

The  Belgic,  the  fourth  successive 
steamer  from  China  with  small  pox  on 
board,  was  quarantined  Thursday  at  San 
Francisco . 

An  examination  of  winter  wheat  in 
Western  Wisconsin  shows  a  small  but 
healthy  growth,  well  protected  by  the 
snow,  and  as  the  acreage  sown  was  un- 
usally  large  farmers  are  hopeful  for  a 
heavy  yield. 

The  Merced  Canal  in  California,  twen- 
ty seven  miles  long,  and  built  to  irrigate 
over  250,000  acres,  was  formally  opened 
Tuesday. 

At  Barnesville,  Ohio,  Thursday  the 
boiler  of  a  portable  saw  mill  on  Lafay- 
ette Bolan's  farm  exploded,  killing  John 
Arnold  and  Charles  Sullivan  and  danger- 
ously injuring  Benjamin  Travis,  Samuel 
Stubb,  Joseph  Stubb,  and  Frank  War- 
wick 

Five  years  ago  the  5  year  old  son  of 
Captain  W.  E  Dickinson,  of  Common- 
wealth, Wis.,  mysteriously  disappeared. 
It  is  now  reported  that  negotiations  for 
the  return  of  the  boy  for  a  ransom  are 
pending,  and  that  $10,000  has  been  de- 
manded by  the  kidnapers. 

FOBBIQN. 

The  wheat  blockade  on  the  Canadian 
Pacific  is  causing  great  dissatisfaction  in 
Manitoba,  as  is  also  the  announcement 
that  the  road  has  been  carrying  wheat 
from  Minneapolis  to  the  seaboard  for  25 
cents  per  hundred  weight,  less  than  one 
half  the  rate  from  Manitoba. 

L'Opinione  in  an  editorial  on  the  posi- 
tion of  the  Vatican  in  regard  to  Ireland 
says  there  is  small  probability  of  the 
Pope  having  any  serious  intention  of  in- 
tervening in  the  Irish  question  in  the  in- 
terest of  the  present  British  government. 
If  the  Duke  of  Norfolk  really  has  an  offi- 
cial mission  to  the  Holy  See,  nothing 
justifies  the  hope  that  it  will  succeed. 
At  moot  the  Pope  will  give  counsels  of 
prudence  and  moderation  to  the  bishops. 
He  can  do  no  more,  the  Irish  question 
being  not  a  religious  but  an  economic 
and  national  one. 

The  Duke  of  Norfolk's  mission  from 
the  Queen  to  the  Pope  is  being  subjected 
to  severe  criticisms  north  of  the  Tweed. 
Scotchmen  give  loud  expression  to  their 
disapproval  of  the  whole  business. 

The  newspapers  in  St  Petersburg  dis- 
cuss the  AustrO'German  treaty  tranquilly. 
Most  of  them  aver  that  Russia  is  equally 
desirous  of  peace,  and  wishes  to  attack 
nobody. 

The  treaty  between  Italy  and  Germany 
stipulates  that  if  France  attacks  either 
country  the  other  shall  send  an  army  of 
of  300,000  men  to  the  French  frontier. 

Some  French  papers  advocate  an  alli- 
ance of  England,  France  and  Russia 
against  the  triple  alliance.  The  Temps 
says  that  there  will  be  no  security  in  Eu 
rope  until  it  is  known  whether  Austria 
would  regard  Russian  intervention  in 
Bulgaria  as  a  casus  belli,  and  whether 
Germany  would  permit  Austria  to  settle 
such  a  quarrel  single-handed.  Le  Paris 
says  that  neither  Russia  nor  France  will 
ever  declare  war. 


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There  are  in  the  United  States 

Some  200  different  Lodges, 
With  2,000  000  members, 
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CONTENTS. 


Bditobial  : 

Notes  and  Comments 1 

Our  State  of  Seclusion. . .    8 
MaBonry  in  tbe  Anarchist 

Trial 8 

Personal  Mention 9 

Contributions  : 

The  Situation 1 

An  Outside  View   ol  Se- 
cret Societies -III 2 

Faith  Cures 3 

Influeace  of  the  Truth  on 

the  Sincere  Heart 3 

Notes  of  the  Crescent  City    4 
Sblbctbd : 
The  Jesuit  Lodge  in  Amer- 
ica.     3 

Mardi  Gras 3 

RbformNbws: 

Attention,     Pennsylvani- 

ans;     New     Points   in 

Ohio;  The  New  Orleans 

Letter ;  The  Friends  In 

Iowa 4,5 

Biblb  Lbssoh 6 

A  New  Departure  in  India..    9 


COBBBBPONSBNOB : 

The  Old  City  of  York  be- 
gins to  Read;  G.  W. 
Needles  "Gets There"; 
The  Lodge  Conspiracy 
against  American  Liber 
ties;  Pith  and  Point. . . .  5,f5 
Obituart : 

Isaac  J.  Gilbert 7 

Washington  Letter 9 

Nbw  York  Letter 12 

Secret    Societies     Con- 
demned     7 

The  N.  C.  a 7 

Church  vs.  Lodob 7 

ThbHomb 10 

Temperancb 11 

Religious  Nbws 13 

Literature 13 

LODGE  Notes 13 

Donations 13 

Markets 13 

Business 13 

Home  and  Health 14 

Farm  Notes 15 

News  of  thb  Wbbk 16 


Several  million  voters  breathed  easier  Monday 
morning  when  they  read  the  letter  of  James  G. 
Blaine  saying  that  he  will  not  be  candidate  for  Pres- 
ident. The  letter  is  sent  to  B.  F.  Jones,  chairman 
of  tbe  Republican  National  committee,  and  is  dated 
at  Florence,  Italy,  Jan,  25.  While  most  T)emocrats 
and  many  Republicans  wished  Blaine  to  run  again, 
there  is  no  doubt  a  majority  of  the  latter  party 
looked  upon  his  candidacy  with  misgiving.  The 
letter  will  open  the  gate  for  a  score  of  aspirants, 
who  could  do  nothing  while  Blaine  was  in  the  way, 
and  for  a  few  weeks  there  will  be  a  stir  in  all  sorts 
of  politics. 


Last  Friday  after  listening  to  the  arguments  of 
A.  M.  Powell  and  other  temperance  advocates,  the 
Senate  Committee  on  Education  unanimously  in- 
structed Senator  Wilson,  of  Iowa,  to  report  favora- 
bly the  bill  providing  for  the  appointment  of  a  com- 
mission of  five  to  investigate  the  alcoholic  liquor 
traffic,  its  relations  to  the  revenue  and  taxation,  and 
its  general,  economic,  criminal,  moral,  and  scientific 
aspects;  and  also  to  inquire  as  ,to  the  practical  re- 
sults of  license  and  prohibitory  legislation  for  the 
prevention  of  intemperance  in  the  several  States  of 
the  Union.  Six  times  this  question  has  been  favor- 
ably received  in  the  Senate  only  to  be  shelved  in  the 
House.  But  the  political  hacks  and  wire-pullers  in 
the  lower  body  will  soon  find  themselves  in  the 
same  defunct  condition,  if  God  will  help  us. 


Before  the  House  Committee  on  the  Liquor 
Traffic  there  was  also  a  strong  representation  of  the 
same  ciuse.  Hon.  Hiram  Price,  of  Iowa,  Governor 
Dingley,  of  Maine,  A.  M.  Powell,  Mrs.  LaFetra, 
wi*,h  a  strong  contingent  of  W.  C.  T.  U.  ladies,  ap- 
pealed to  the  committee  to  submit  a  bill  or  to  ap- 
prove the  Senate  measure  for  the  official  and  na- 


tional investigation  of  the  liquor  business.  This 
measure  has  been  urged  for  fifteen  years.  Six 
times  the  Senate  passed  it  and  as  many  times  has 
the  House  defeated  it.  The  present  House  com- 
mittee was  established  through  the  agency  of  Sam- 
uel J.  Randall,  of  Pennsylvania,  and  there  is  much 
hope  that  an  investigation  so  long  demanded  by  a 
respectable  portion  of  the  nation  will  be  underta- 
ken. 


It  is  encouraging  to  read  in  the  Republican  pa- 
pers, every  time  the  "Grand  Army  of  the  Republic" 
holds  an  important  meeting^,  the  positive  assurance 
that  the  order  is  not  political.  Thus  from  the  Chi- 
cago Evening  Journal:  "The  Grand  Army  of  the  Re- 
public is  not  a  political  body,  and  those  who  speak 
of  the  Illinois  Department  Encampment,  next  week, 
as  a  place  where  anybody's  boom  will  be  started  or 
promoted,  do  not  know  what  they  are  talking 
about."  Sometimes  the  words  are  varied  and  the 
G.  A.  R.  is  warned  to  be  careful  not  to  let  politics 
interfere  in  its  affairs.  These  frequent  and  con- 
stant notices  and  warnings  make  us  certain  that  the 
two  poles  are  not  farther  apart  than  the  G.  A.  R. 
and  political  wire-works.  But  you  must  not  ques- 
tion the  politicians  too  closely,  or  they  will  tell  you 
what  the  G.  A.  R.  is  worth  to  them. 


Dr.  Talmage's  Friday  evening  lecture  of  the  3d 
inst.,  in  which  he  entertained  some  rhapsodical 
ideas,  quite  of  the  Talmage  quality,  on  the  unity  of 
nations,  is  sharply  criticised  in  the  Boston  Record, 
by  the  hero  of  Boston  common,  Rev.  William  F. 
Davis,  now  in  Suffolk  jail,  Boston,  for  preaching 
Christ  in  the  public  places  of  that  city.  Talmage 
paints  in  triumphant  colors  "the  marriage  of  this 
land  to  "Christ,"  with  the  marriage  altar  on  the 
Rocky  Mountains,  whose  "tops  shall  be  covered 
with  vineyards  and  orchards  and  green  fields" 
through  artificial  irrigation,  and  then  Christ  "will 
take  the  hand  of  his  bride  of  nations."  Bro.  Da- 
vis shows  this  a  perversion  of  Scripture  which  in 
some  men  would  be  called  wicked;  but  in  the  pres- 
ent case  it  may  be  but  a  little  greater  extravagance 
than  trumpeting  the  advantages  of  Freemasonry 
and  life  insurance  societies,  instead  of  preaching 
the  Gospel. 

The  Masons  have  their  troubles,  comments  the 
Christian  Conservator,  on  receiving  from  some  un- 
known friend  a  pamphlet  on  the  row  among  high- 
degree  Masons  of  the  Scottish  rite,  part  of  whom 
have  control  under  Albert  Pike  claiming  descent 
from  the  infidel  Frederick  the  Great  through  Dr. 
Dalcho;  another  party  fighting  for  first  place  under 
the  Cerneau  charter  given  by  the  French  infid'.I 
Grand  Lodge  or  Orient.  The  Ohio  Masons  are 
in  much  distress  because  the  leaders  of  the 
Grand  Lodge  of  the  State  have  put  their  hand  upon 
the  Cerneau  business  to  choke  it.  The  pamphlet 
quotes  as  authority  from  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Illi- 
nois, which  is  an  annihilator  of  conscience  in  lodge 
matters:  "Liberty,  to  be  governed  by  the  dictates 
of  one's  own  conscience,  is  not  allowable  in  Mason- 
ry. A  true  and  faithful  Mason  is  to  be  governed  by 
the  laws  and  usages  of  the  order.  And  if  he  cannot 
conform  to  these  laws  and  usages,  he  can  withdraw 
from  the  order  or  be  expelled.  A  plea  of  'con- 
science' will  not  accepted." 


The  address  on  "Christian  Education,"  by  Pres. 
C.  A.  Blanchard  in  the  First  Congregational  church 
on  the  Sabbath,  was  afterward  printed  in  the  Inter- 
Ocean.  The  following  was  one  of  its  striking  para- 
graphs: "Intemperance,  fortified  by  the  greed  of  the 
seller,  the  appetite  of  the  drinker,  the  idolatry  of 
party  and  the  indifference  of  the  church;  tobacco, 
its  twin,  making  such  inroads  on  the  health  of  the 
young  men  that  Germany,  simply  to  save  the  army, 
forbids  its  sale  to  boys  under  16,  yet  used  to-day  by 
ministers,  teachers  and  parents,  swallowing  up  mil- 
lions of  money  and  injuring  body,  brain  and  heart; 
secret  societies,  monopolizing  offices,  liberating 
criminals,  stopping  railroad  trains,  murdering  men 
who  want  to  work  without  joining  a  lodge,  and 
threatening  newspapers,  banks,  churches,  and  court 


houses  with  dynamite,  yet  supported  by  ministers 
who  attend  their  dances,  drinking  festivals,  and  ride 
on  their  conclave  trains  which  go  thundering  over 
the  broken  law  of  God;  the  social  evil,  hidden  in 
its  operations,  protected  from  mention  by  its  very 
monstrosity,  yet  coming  to  light  in  divorce  courts 
and  statistics  of  murder  and  suicide,  beginning 
with  a  vile  word  and  ending  with  a  leap  into  a  blaz- 
ing hell; — all  these;  and  the  desire  to  get  riches,  but 
not  by  right,  to  make  a  display,  careless  of  the 
means  by  which  it  becomes  possible;  the  concentra- 
tion of  money  power  in  the  hands  of  a  few,  a  gi- 
gantic devil-fish  throwing  a  hundred  arms  about  the 
industrial  world,  careless  as  to  the  suffering  of  thou- 
sands so  that  greed  is  satisfied, — here  are  the  ene- 
mies which  this  generation  must  fight,  and  our  lead- 
ers are  to  be  trained  in  the  Christian  schools  which 
are  and  are  to  be." 


THE  SITUATION. 


BY  BISHOP  MILTON  WRIOHT. 


It  may  be  worth  while  to  inquire.  What  is  the  sit- 
uation of  the  nation  and  the  church  as  to  secrecy? 
There  is  no  question  that  the  lodge  controls  millions 
of  men  and  millions  of  money.  Some  of  its  orders 
have  had  and  still  have  national  recognition.  Though 
perhaps  less  rarely  they  have  also  had  church  recog- 
nition. But,  by  the  Government  and  by  leading 
statesmen,  anti-secrecy  has  no  recognition.  The 
press  of  the  nation,  and  sometimes  of  the  church, 
toadies  to  the  lodge.  The  pulpit,if  less  obsequious, 
is  not  less  subject  to  its  power.  Few  politicians  dare 
say  nay  to  its  behests,  and  many  a  preacher  of  the 
Gospel  would  turn  pale  at  the  thought  of  any  colli- 
sion with  its  operations.  It  indirectly  and  s«;retly 
officers  both  the  body  ecclesiastic  and  the  body  pol- " 
itic.  Preachers  denounce  other  forms  of  conformi- 
ty to  the  world  and  boast  their  courage  "to  declare 
all  the  counsel  of  God,"  yet  with  the  mental  reserva- 
tion that  they  let  the  lodge  alone! 

Secretism  is  on  the  alert  to  capture  every  popular 
movement,  and  generally  is  successful.  And  it  is 
wily  and  cunning  and  relentless  and  powerful  in  its 
proscription  of  all  who  oppose  its  domination.  And 
among  its  captured  battle  flags  are  the  colors  of 
many  a  host  of  Christians,  taken  while  they  slum- 
bered, or  as  they  yielded  in  shameless  surrender. 
And  while, to-day,there  is  more  emphatic  opposition, 
and  with  better  organization,  than  a  quarter  of  a 
century  ago,  the  lodge-power  has  a  greater  member- 
ship and  more  outside  support  than  ever  before. 
Well,  then,  may  the  friends  of  light  and  truth  ask 
what  is  to  be  done.  Much  has  already  been  done, 
done  in  the  right  direction  and  well  done.  Much 
is  now  being  done.  But  all  is  too  little — it  is  inad- 
equate to  the  great  work  before  us. 

It  is  quantity,  rather  than  quality,  that  is  lacking 
in  anti-secrecy  work.  It  is  scarcely  necessary  to  say 
what  needs  to  be  done.  Convention  after  conven- 
tion should  be  held.  Lectures  should  come  like  tbe 
voice  of  doom  to  secrecy  in  every  town  and  in 
every  community.  Sermons  full  of  love  of  righteous- 
ness, and  just  as  full  of  hatred  of  iniquity,  must  be 
preached  from  every  faithful  pulpit  in  the  land. 
Anti-secrecy  books  should  form  circulating  libraries, 
giving  solid  knowledge  on  the  evils  of  djirkness. 
Anti-secrecy  periodicals  should  become  household 
visitors  wherever  there  are  minds  open  to  the  recep- 
tion of  anti-secrecy  truth.  Tracts  should  speak  to 
the  thousands  and  millions,  in  season  and  out  of 
season.  And  with  all,and  above  all,  more  .and  more, 
fervent  prayer  should  go  up  for  the  help  of  the  Lord 
God.  It  is  light  and  life  only  that  are  wanting  to 
bring  the  reign  of  secrecy  to  an  end.  The  Lord  will 
help  those  who  are  zealous  for  him  and  for  the  sal- 
vation of  Zion. 

What  more  is  to  be  done?  We  must  deliver  many 
of  those  now  led  prisoners  by  secret  orders.  Many 
such  may  be  released.  But  we  must  also  prevent 
the  capture  of  thousands  for  whom  secrecy,  like  a 
beast  of  prey,  now  lies  in  wait  But  as  essential  as 
is  the  direct  reduction  of  their  numbers,  it  is  equal- 
ly essential  that  we  checkmate  them.  We  should 
break  their  control,  make  them  unpopular,  and  the 


THE  CHRISTIAlSr  CYNOSURE. 


Fbbrxjart  16, 1888 


mass  of  their  members  will  forsake  them  as  a  sink- 
ing ship  is  forsaken.  Just  as  Christianity,  if  it  can 
not  gather  every  soul  into  its  fold,  or  even  the  ma- 
jority, can  by  its  merits  exert  a  mighty  influence 
over  a  nation;  so  the  anti-secrecy  friends,  the  true 
friends  of  light,  may,  even  before  they  obtain  the 
majority,  exercise  an  influence  which  will  measura- 
bly control  in  the  government  and  in  all  the  better 
ranks  of  society.  In  many  places  it  is  already  felt. 
We  should  go  forward  with  courage.  Truth,  light 
and  the  right  are  on  our  side;  and,  blessed  be  God, 
we  know  that  we  are  on  Lord's  side.  Every  inch 
gained  is  just  so  much  of  an  eternal  victory. 
Dayton,  0. 

AN  OUTSIDB  VIBW  OF  8ECRET  SOCIETIES. 


BT  PBOF.  W.  J.  COLEMAN. 


III. — THEIR  BENEVOLBNCK. 

In  presenting  themselves  to  the  world  these  so- 
cieties call  themselves  and  like  to  be  called  "benevo- 
lent societies."  In  the  directories  of  cities,  we  find 
them  arranged  under  the  heading  of  "Benevolent 
Societies."  Harper's  Weeldy,  in  an  editorial  some 
time  ago  commenting  on  John  Qaincy  Adams,  re- 
marked it  as  one  of  the  mistakes  of  his  life  that 
he  was  led  off  by  the  popular  prejudice  against  a 
purely  benevolent  society,  i.  e.,  Masonry.  One  of 
the  main  arguments  used  by  her  orators  to  exalt 
Masonry  is  her  benevolence.  On  this  account  she 
is  styled  by  some  admirers  "the  handmaid  of  the 
church."  Men  are  many  times  led  to  join  such  so- 
cieties because  of  their  boasted  benevolence.  Let 
us  examine  this  claim  of  benevolence. 

How  far  does  the  benevolence  of  secret  societies 
go?  Does  their  charity  end  as  well  as  begin  at 
home?  Does  this  good  Samaritan  give  his  care  and 
his  money  to  the  neighbor  who  is  not  of  his  order, 
or  nation,  or  religion,  like  the  one  we  read  of  in  the 
Bibles,  or  does  this  particular  Samaritan  drink  his 
own  wine,  rub  his  oil  on  himself  and  pay  out  his 
money  only  for  his  own  entertainment?  And  the 
facts,  outside  facts  which  everybody  may  know  who 
cares  to  look,  prove  that  these  so-called  benevolent 
societies  are  benevolent  only  to  those  in  their  own 
order.  If  the  Samaritan  in  the  Good  Book  had 
been  of  their  persuasion,  he,  too,  like  the  priest  and 
the  Levite,  would  have  passed  by  on  the  other  side. 
If  they  have  anything  of  light  that  is  of  value, 
they  keep  it  to  themselves.  No  great  benevolence 
there!  Do  they  ever  send  missionaries  to  other  and 
benighted  lands  with  the  precious  truth  of  salva- 
tion? Do  they  ever  send  schoolmasters  to  the  ig- 
norant, as  to  the  neglected  Negroes  of  the  South? 
When  ignorance,  licentiousness  and  crime  make  a 
hell  of  the  lower  sections  of  our  great  cities,  do 
these  orders  ever  make  any  effort  to  lift  them  up  to 
light,  purity  and  honesty?  When  Ireland  moans 
with  famine,  when  Kansas  is  eaten  up  with  locusts, 
when  Boston  or  Chicago  is  burned  with  fire,  do 
these  orders  go  down  into  their  pockets  to  relieve 
the  sufferers  outside  the  lodges?  When  slavery  and 
rebellion  strike  at  the  foundations  of  the  Republic, 
do  the  orders  even  pass  resolutions  of  loyalty?  If 
they  have,  I  have  never  heard  of  it.  Had  they 
done  any  one  of  these  things,  it  would  certainly 
have  been  published.  They  do  not  seek  to  hide 
their  benevolence  under  a  bushel,  and  are  not  in 
this  matter  anxious  to  keep  their  right  hand  from 
knowing  what  their  left  hand  doeth. 

Then  we  must  conclude  that  their  only  benevo- 
lence is  to  themselves,  and  some  would  deny  alto- 
gether that  this  is  benevolence.  But  without 
taking  up  that  point  let  us  look  for  a  moment  at 
the  benevolence  that  is  found  in  the  order,  and  that 
we  may  be  fair,  we  will  choose  for  our  examination 
the  largest,  oldest  and  most  mature  of  all  the  se- 
cret societies,  that  of  Masonry.  A  philosophical 
writer  tells  us  that  no  plant,  man  or  institution 
should  be  judged  in  its  growing  state;  but  that  the 
right  time  for  judgment  is  when  the  thing  judged  is 
mature  and  is  brought  to  something  like  the  per- 
fection of  its  kind.  To  take  the  oldest,  largest  and 
strongest  of  these  societies  for  our  study  is  there- 
fore the  part  of  common  fairness.  Let  us  look  at 
the  conditions  of  membership  in  this  Masonic  order, 
and  consider  as  we  do  so  the  benevolence  that  is 
manfested. 

In  the  first  place,  no  one  can  get  into  the  lodge 
without  paying  a  good  round  membership  fee — 
about  twenty-five  dollars.  The  man  on  the  bottom 
round  of  the  ladder  in  life,  the  man  who  needs  a 
lift  the  most,  will  not  have  the  money  to  give,  and 
as  he  cannot  get  in,  there  is  no  benevolence  for  him. 
No  man  who  has  not  enough  of  money  to  keep  him 
for  some  time  and  a  good  deal  to  spare,  need 
apply.  Neither  will  any  one  be  admitted  unless  he 
is  quite   likely  to  be  able  to  earn  his  own  living. 


He  must  not  have  lost  an  arm,  a  leg,  or  an  eye. 
Such  losses  might  tend  to  make  him  a  burden,  so 
into  this  benevolent  society  he  cannot  enter.  An 
exception  is  made  in  favor  of  maimed  soldiers,  but 
as  such  receive  a  very  fair  pension  from  the  govern- 
ment while  they  live,  they  also  are  inexpensive  ob- 
jects of  benevolence.  Then  a  youth  under  twenty- 
one  is  not  received,  and  with  him  may  stay  out  the 
old  man  who  is  no  longer  able  to  support  himself. 
Last,  but  not  least,  the  women  are  left  out  of  this 
benevolence.  They  are  workers,  but  it  is  at  home 
where  they  do  not  take  in  money  from  the  world. 
They  are  the  weaker  vessels,  but  the  benevolence  of 
this  society  does  not  shield  them  as  a  class  from 
breakage  by  the  shocks  of  adversity.  No.  They 
go  out  into  the  highways  and  hedges  and  gather  in 
the  rich,  the  strong,  the  mature,  who  are  amply  able 
to  take  care  of  themselves.  They  leave  out  the 
poor,  the  halt,  the  blind,  the  young,  the  old,  and  the 
women.  They  confine  their  charity  to  their  own 
membership  and  those  immediately  dependent  on 
them.  Then  they  conclude  that  their  peculiar  and 
distinguishing  mark  by  which  they  are  to  be  known 
from  all  other  associations  is  their  benevolence. 
Well,  it  does  seem  as  if  there  were  a  good  deal  of 
signboard  up  over  the  front  door,  for  the  amount  of 
goods  that  are  found  on  the  shelves. 

But  there  are  societies  that  are  more  benevolent 
than  the  Masons.  Yes,  but  they  are  not  so  much  of 
secret  orders  as  Masonry.  Those  societies  with 
the  least  secrecy,  as  the  Good  Templars,  the  Grand 
Army  of  the  Republic,  or  the  Royal  Arcanum,  are 
the  most  benevolent  of  all  secret  orders.  But  these 
again  do  not  come  within  speaking  distance  of  the 
Christian  church  in  benevolence.  It  appears,  there- 
fore, that  organized  secrecy  and  benevolence  are  an- 
tagonistic the  one  to^  the  other,  and  that  the  more 
secrecy  there  is  in  a  society  the  less  benevolence; 
the  less  secrecy,  the  more  benevolence,  and  where  is 
no  secrecy,  there  is  the  most  benevolence.  We  see 
then  how  absurd  it  is  to  classify  secret  orders  as  be- 
nevolent societies.  Their  good  offices  are  restricted 
to  their  own  membership,  and,  so  far  as  possible, 
all  are  kept  out  of  that  membership  who  will  be 
likely  to  require  the  exercise  of  benevolence.  What 
would  become  of  the  world's  needy  classes,  if  left  to 
the  tender  mercies  and  benevolence  of  these  benevo- 
lent societies? 


'FAITH  CUBES: 


BY   ELDER   N.   OALLENDER. 


Only  a  few  months  ago  a  case  in  which  I  feel  the 
deepest  interest  came  under  my  observation.  A 
lady,  a  sister-in-law,  of  middle  age,  was  afflicted 
with  the  worst  form  of  dyspepsia — cancer  in  the 
stomach  was  the  diagnosis  of  the  doctors.  After 
being  given  up  by  them  as  hopeless  she  went  with  a 
few  praying  friends  and  one  of  her  attending  doc- 
tors to  the  Great  Physician,  and  was  "made  whole." 
In  September  I  saw  her  hale  and  happy  as  a  girl. 
It  was  a  veritable  cure  by  simple  faith  in  God's 
promises. 

If  God's  people  have,  as  a  rule,  lost  faith  in  di- 
vine healing,  the  misfortune,  as  well  as  the  fault,  is 
their  own.  If  there  is  only  one  cure  where  there 
should  be  scores,  it  argues  only  the  faithlessness  of 
the  people.  No  faith  and  weak  faith  are  no  new 
things  under  the  sun.  "And  he  did  not  many 
mighty  works  there  because  of  their  unbelief,"  will 
apply  to. too  many  places  and  too  many  ages. 

My  first  position  is  that  we  cannot  look  for  the 
cure  of  all  who  are  sick.  That  God  is  able  to  heal 
all  and  to  raise  the  dead  also,  is  not  to  be  doubted. 
There  never  was  an  age  since  man  became  mortal 
that  all  classes  did  not  die,  and  yet  we  presume  in 
every  single  age  of  the  world  God  has  healed  thou- 
sands in  answer  to  prayer.  God  never  surrendered  his 
sovereign  power  over  sickness  and  death  to  human 
importunity  and  volition.  God  answered  Hezekiah's 
prayer  and  added  fifteen  years  to  his  time.  He  heard 
the  prayers  of  Nineveh  and  saved  the  lives  of  a 
million  people.who  humbled  themselves  befo/e  God. 
The  holy  Paul,  however,  besought  the  Lord  thrice 
that  the  thorn  in  his  flesh  might  be  taken  away  from 
him  and  obtained  the  answer,  blessed  answer,  "My 
grace  is  sufficient  for  thee."  Full  of  faith  as  was 
Paul,  yet  he  failed  of  the  faith  cure  sought  with 
such  importunity.  Even  Jesus  sought  with  submis- 
sion the  removal  of  "this  cup"  and  "was  heard  in 
the  thing  which  he  feared."  The  thing  which  Jesus 
embraced  in  "this  cup"  was  probably  included  in 
God's  answer  to  that  prayer.  The  point  of  all  loyal 
prayer  is,  Thou  canst  if  thou  wilt.  To  thousands 
of  such  prayers,  God  responds,  "I  will;  be  thou 
clean." 

Not  long  ago  I  gave  in  public  the  fact  at  the  head 
of  this  article,  with  some  comments  on  faith  cures. 


Soon  after  a  young  lady  said  to  me.  How  is  it,elder, 
that  you  believe  so  strongly  in  faith  cures,  and  still 
are  so  afflicted  with  neuralgia?  My  answer  may,  in 
substance,  be  gathered  from  the  above  lines. 

My  second  proposition  is,that  though  all  ailments 
are  not  curable  by  faith,  yet  many  cases  are  and 
should  be  so  healed.  To  hear  a  Christian  deny  the 
correctness  of  this  position  would  greatly  surprise 
us.  Yet  the  way  the  subject  is  generally  treated 
shows  a  measure  of  unbelief,  which  will  account  for 
the  fact  that  there  are  solitary  examples  of  faith 
cures  where  there  should  be  hundreds,  because  the 
facts  of  faith  cures  are  held  in  doubt.  We  are  told 
that  the  age  of  miracles  is  gone  by.  Were  I  in- 
formed that  God  has  withdrawn  his  supervision  and 
his  power  from  this  earth  I  should  confidently  deny 
it.  Has  the  Great  Physician  withdrawn  his  "power 
on  earth  to  forgive  sins?"  His  power  to  heal  souls, 
of  transforming  souls,  raising  them  from  the  dead, 
creating  them  anew,  is  as  much  a  miracle  aS  raising 
Lazarus — yea,  to  raise  the  soul  is  the  greater  work, 
and  God  is  this  hour  doing  this  all  over  the  world. 

All  Christendom  recognizes  the  fact  of  divine  heal- 
ing, both  in  theory  and  in  practice.  Where  is  the 
Christian  who  never  prayed  for  the  recovery  of  sick 
friends?  And  how  many  times  God  has  heard  that 
prayer,  offered  "with  strong  crying  and  tears,"  you 
may  not  know.  But  that  there  are  now  living  men, 
women  and  children  spared  in  answer  to  submissive 
supplication,  there  ought  to  be  no  doubt.  What 
kind  of  a  Christian  would  he  be  who  should  see  his 
child  or  the  mother  of  his  children  go  down  to 
death's  gate  and  never  ask  God  to  heal  the  sick? 
Even  those  who  never  prayed  till  then  will,  in  such 
an  emergency,  ask  God's  people  to  pray,  and  pray 
themselves  for  the  recovery  of  their  loved  ones.  The 
same  spirit  that  carried  the  "impotent  folk"  by  the 
most  inventive  and  urgent  means  into  the  presence 
of  Jesus  to  be  healed,  would  to-day,  under  proper 
instructions,  do  the  same  thing,  with  similar  results. 
God  has  the  power  of  life,  and  the  devil  the  power 
of  death.  Shall  we  accept  Satan's  alternative  with- 
out even  an  appeal  to  the  court  of  life? 

That  unbelief  can  and  will  file  many  subtle  ob- 
jections to  all  this  we  clearly  see.  Even  Jesus  had 
to  meet  the  polemics  of  hell  with  the  argument,  "It 
is  written."  •  Let  us  follow  his  example.  It  is  writ- 
ten, down  in  our  heart,  so  indelibly  that  even  Satan 
can  not  entirely  obliterate  the  truth,  that  the  Father 
of  Life  will,  in  answer  to  prayer,  heal  the  sick.  Ac- 
cepting the  general  facts  that  all  people  will  pass 
from  this  world  either  by  death  or  by  being  trans- 
lated, and  that  God  may  not  always  restore  the  sick 
through  the  prayers  of  faith,  our  position  remains 
unimpeached,  that  "the  prayer  of  faith  shall  heal 
the  sick."  God  has  never  recalled  this  remedy  from 
this  sin-smitten  earth.  Why  should  any  think  he 
has?  While  there  is  no  intimation  of  this  there  are 
both  divine  pledges  and  facts  to  back  their  fulfill- 
ment covering  all  the  ages.  It  is  said  there  ought 
to  be  facts  enough  to  settle  the  question.  How 
many  would  settle  it?  The  atheist  cannot  find  facts 
enough  to  settle  the  question  of  the  existence  of  the 
God  of  the  Bible.  There  are  enough  to  convince  de- 
mons, and  while  "they  believe  and  tremble"  "the 
fool  says  in  his  heart  there  is  no  God." 

Many,  like  a  New  York  anarchist  lately  on  the 
witness  stand,  believe  in  a  philosophical  god,  who  is 
the  "Grand  Architect  of  the  Universe" — too  far  off 
to  be  interested  in  the  concerns  of  this  world.  Are 
not  many  religious  leaders  getting  hyper-philosoph- 
ical? If  our  philosophy  were  in  harmony  with  sci- 
entific truth  we  could  not  have  too  much  of  it.  God's 
philosophy  is  in  his  books  of  nature  and  revelation, 
and  the  two  are  in  sweet  and  eternal  harmony.  No 
fact  can  be  found  that  is  not  in  harmony  with  every 
other  fact  in  the  realm  of  nature,  revelation  and 
grace.  There  are  no  great  religious  principles  that 
cannot  be  assailed  by  unbelief.  A  blind  heart  can 
rule  God  out  of  his  dominions  in  no  time — simply 
by  refusing  to  see  and  hear. 

My  next  argument  is  that  thousands  suffer  untold 
miseries  and  many  of  these  die  before  they  should, 
for  want  of  a  Bible  faith  in  the  great  Physician. 
If  men  may  by  folly  and  wickedness  shorten  their 
own  lives,  (and  who  will  dispute  this,)  then  the 
same  may  be  done  by  staying  away  from  the  Divine 
Healer,  and  failing  of  the  right  treatment.  Right 
here  let  the  Bible  speak.  Asa,  one  of  the  very  best 
of  Judah's  rulers,  after  demolishing  idolatry,  fell  by 
trusting  men.  God  kindly  sent  a  "seer"  to  set  him 
right.  He  shut  him  up  in  prison,  in  His  rage,  and 
"oppressed  some  of  the  people  at  the  same  time." 
(2  Chron.  IG).  Like  all  Bible  accounts,  the  story  is 
short.  See  verse  12:  "And  Asa,  in  the  thirty-ninth 
year  of  his  reign,  was  diseased  in  his  feet,  until  his 
disease  was  exceeding  great:  yet  in  his  disease  he 
sought  not  to  the  Lord,  but  to  the  physicians."  See 
also  verse  13.     In  his  wars,  he  fell  by  trusting  in 


February  16,  1888 


THE  CHKlSTIAN  CYNOSURE- 


men  instead  of  the  God  of  battles,  and  then  repeated 
this  fatal  error  by  turning  from  God  to  the  physi- 
cians, "and  Asa  slept  with  his  fathers,"  etc.  Why 
not  take  to  the  best  Physician  first?  In  substance, 
the  story  of  the  woman  in  Mark  5:  25-35  is  that  of 
thousands.  Only  a  few  of  these  ever  get  near 
enough  to  Jesus  to  "touch  the  hem  of  his  garment," 
and  be  healed,  see  verses  27-34. 

In  conclusion,  allow  us  to  say  that  "faith  cures," 
though  not  in  circumstances  the  same  as  in  the  in- 
troduction of  Christianity  into  the  world,  are  not 
changed  in  the  fi;rand  principles  and  facts.  If  we 
call  the  family  doctor  at  all,  better  take  to  the  Great 
Healer  first.  He  is  near,  and  no  time  need  be  lost, 
even  if  the  family  doctor  must  be  sent  for,  as  a  part 
and  a  condition  of  the  cure.  His  prayer  may  be 
the  condition,  if  a  Christian  physician. 


THE  INFLUENCE    OF   TRUTH    ON   THE   SIN- 
CERE HEART. 


BT  RKV.  G.  M.  ELLIOTT. 

Bishop  Watson  says:  "Whosoever  is  afraid  of 
submitting  any  question,  civil  or  religious,  to  the 
test  of  free  discussion,  is  more  in  love  with  his  own 
opinion  than  with  truth." 

Apply  this  statement  to  members  of  secret  orders. 
Every  one  that  has  ever  talked  with  Freemasons,  or 
with  members  of  secret  societies  about  the  lodge, 
knows  how  unwilling  they  are  to  discuss  the  subject. 
Freemasons,  in  particular,  often  become  very  angry 
when  you  attempt  to  consider  with  them  the  princi- 
ples of  the  lodge,  and  seek  from  them  arguments  to 
support  their  position.  We  have  known  them  to  fly 
into  a  rage  and  refuse  to  talk  any  longer  on  the  sub- 
ject. Why  is  this?  Is  not  this  rather  a  proof  that 
the  position  they  assume  is  not  tenable? 

As  a  rule  Christians  are  willing  to  discuss  in  a 
friendly  spirit  their  different  convictions  with  regard 
to  the  truth  they  profess.  They  are  ever  ready  to 
explain  and  make  clear  all  the  doctrines  and  princi- 
ples of  the  particular  faith  which  they  prefer  and 
which  they  have  adopted  as  expressing  their  inter- 
pretation of  the  Scriptures.  Further,  they  are  will- 
ing to  use  every  lawful  argument  that  will  make 
every  principle  which  they  profess  perfectly  clear  to 
those  who  may  not  be  fully  acquainted  with  the  doc- 
trines of  their  belief.  Why  is  this?  Because  they 
believe  they  have  the  truth.  They  feel  that  they 
have  accepted  the  truth.  They  are  willing  to  bring 
their  deeds  to  the  light  that  they  may  be  made  man- 
ifest that  they  are  wrought  in  God.  They  are.  not 
ashamed  of  the  truth.  The  truth  makes  them  free. 
But  with  members  of  secret  societies  it  is  quite  dif- 
ferent. They  are  unwilling  to  argue  the  principles 
of  the  lodge.  They  know  they  will  not  bear  discus- 
sion and  ventilation.  They  are  convinced  that  they 
love  their  own  opinions  more  than  they  love  the 
truth. 

Herein  is  a  moral  obtuseness.  Paul  would  have 
God  be  true  though  it  made  every  man  a  liar.  But 
Masons  would  make  God  a  liar  and  his  truth  false, 
in  order  to  support  the  lodge.  Let  men  get  clear 
conceptions  of  truth  and  let  them  be  inspired  with 
a  love  for  the  truth  and  they  cannot  cleave  to  the 
lodge,  A  sincere  lover  of  the  truth  cannot  forsake 
it  for  that  which  is  false;  neither  can  he  forsake  it 
for  that  that  is  even  questionable.  Men  whose 
minds  are  enlightened  by  the  Word  of  God,  and 
whose  hearts  have  been  operated  upon  by  his  Holy 
Spirit,  will  hardly  be  more  attracted  by  the  empty 
and  unholy  ceremonies  of  the  lodge  than  by  the 
truth  and  ordinances  of  the  church. 

The  conclusion  then  is  that  these  orders  cannot 
abide  discussion.  They  cannot  stand  against  argu- 
ment supported  by  Scripture.  When  those  who  call 
themselves  Christians,  and,  unfortunately,  have  been 
entrapped  by  the  lodge,  begin  to  argue  and  discuss 
the  question,  drawing  their  weapons  from  the  armory 
of  the  Scriptures,  if  they  are  sincere,  and  are  faith- 
ful lovers  of  the  truth,  they  are  bound  to  quit  the 
lodge.  We  have  known  persons  to  leave  the  lodge, 
when  they  bacame  Christians.  We  have  known  per- 
sons to  quit  the  lodge  as  they  grew  in  grace,  and 
thereby  attained  to  clearer  views  of  truth.  There  is 
a  power  in  truth.  Where  Christ  reigns  in  the  soul, 
this  power  is  irresistible  in  its  infiaence. 

It  is  then  with  the  success  and  triumph  of  truth 
that  we  may  hope  to  sec  the  lodge  power  wane  and 
go  down.  It  cannot  stand  before  truth.  It  is  built 
on  falsehood  and  deceit.  These  cannot  dwell  in  a 
sincere  heart,  and  hence  cannot  form  a  basis  on 
which  the  fabric  of  Masonry  c in  rest.  Lit  truth 
prevail;  let  its  power  be  felt;  let  its  influence  reach 
every  heart  and  how  grand  the  church,  the  Gospel 
of  our  Lord  Jesus,  will  appear  in  the  eyes  of  all,  to 
meet  all  the  demands  of  souls! 

iSelma,  Ala. 


THE  JESUIT  LODGE  IN  AMERICA. 


I  Prof.  L.  T.  Towneend,  D.  D.,  Boston  University,  In  Our  Day 
for  January.  | 

The  steady  and  stealthy  encroachments  of  Po- 
pery in  political  matters,  and  of  late  in  educational 
affairs,  we  earnestly  denounce;  and  the  interferences 
in  these  and  other  matters«by  the  ambitious,  un- 
scrupulous, and  unsanctified  horde  of  foreign  and 
American  Jesuits  we  detest  more  than  we  have  lan- 
guage to  express. 

Before  reaching  the  school  question  we  may 
speak  a  few  words  in  general  as  to  these  ecclesiasti- 
cal intriguers. 

In  many  respects  they  are  a  remarkable  order  of 
men.  They  dress  in  all  garbs,  speak  all  languages, 
know  all  customs,  and  are  everywhere  present,  yet 
not  always  recognized.  They  are  in  South  Amer- 
ica, in  Cuba,  in  the  Canadas,  in  every  state  of 
Europe,  in  the  Indies,  in  China,  in  Japan,  in  Africa, 
and  on  the  islands  of  the  sea,  everywhere  stealthily 
at  work.  They  are  despotic  in  Spain,  constitutional 
in  Eogland,  bigots  in  Home,  idolaters  in  India; 
they  study  Confucius  in  China,  and  are  Democrats  in 
America.  They  are  Democrats  here,  because  they 
share  or  expect  to  share  the  emoluments  of  Demo- 
cratic victories.  The  dexterity  with  which  they  can 
make  political  somersaults  is  both  amusing  and  as- 
tonishing. France,  which  has  afforded  the  best  of 
opportunities  for  this  kind  of  accomplishments, 
having  been  successively  monarchical,  democratic, 
and  consular,  again  monarchical,  and  now  being  re- 
publican, in  her  form  of  government,  has  found 
Papacy  under  her  political  leaders,  the  Jesuits, 
changing  with  every  political  change.  Under  Philip 
II.,  St.  Louis,  Louis  XL,  Charles  VIII ,  Henry  IV., 
Louis  XIII.,  Louis  XtV.,  who  had  each  bowed  be- 
fore the  papal  power,  the  Jesuits  were  on  the  side 
of  monarchy.  In  the  Republic  of  1792  they  were 
republicans.  Under  Napoleon  they  were  monarch- 
ists ;  and  now  again  they  are  republicans.  They 
are  anything  whereby  they  can  the  better  control 
the  people  and  the  government.  And  their  oath  of 
allegiance  to  any  country  or  to  any  government,  as 
can  easily  be  shown,  is  worth  no  more  than  the  pa- 
per upon  which  it  is  written.  These  men  accept 
papal  infallibility,  and  with  it  the  ultramontane  in- 
terpretation of  the  power  of  the  Pope  over  the 
world;  they  hold  that  if  one  offends  the  Pope  one 
offends  God.  Their  theory,  as  stated  by  Dr.  Orestes 
Brownson,  a  Eoman  Catholic,  is  this: 

"No  ctvil  government,  be  It  a  monarchy,  an  aristocracy,  a  de- 
mocracy, or  any  possible  combination  of  any  two  or  all  of  them, 
can  be  a  wise,  just,  efBiieot,  ordurable  government.... without 
the  Catholic  church;  and  without  the  Papacy  there  Is  and  can 

be  no  Catholic  church The  state  Is  only  an  Inferior  court, 

and  Is  bound  to  receive  the  law  from  the  supreme  court."  (the 
Vatican). 

The  following  quotation  from  the  Unum  Sanctum 

of  Pius  IX  is  their  political  creed: 

"The  spiritual  sword  Is  to  be  used  by  the  church,  but  the 
carnal  sword  for  the  church.  The  one  In  the  hand  of  the 
priest,  the  other  In  the  hands  of  klags  and  soldiers,  but  at  the 
will  and  pleasure  of  the  priest.    It  Is  right  that  the  temporal 

sword  and  authority  be  subject  to  the  spiritual  power 

Moreover,  we  declare,  say,  define,  and  pronounce  that  every 
human  being  should  be  subj  =ict  to  the  Roman  pontiff." 

James  Anthony  Froude,  under  the  heading, 
"What  a  Catholic  Majority  could  do  in  America," 
shows  clearly  the  political  and  educational  inten- 
tions of  Boman  Catholicism  when  in  the  ascen- 
dency : 

'We  agree  that  the  spiritual  part  of  man  ought  to  rule  the 
material ;  the  question  is  where  the  spiritual  part  of  man  re- 
sides. The  Protestant  answers  that  it  Is  in  the  individual  con- 
science and  reason ;  the  Catholic  says  that  it  is  in  the  church, 
and  that  it  speaks  through  bishops  and  priests.  Thus,  every 
true  Cithollc  is  bound  to  think  and  act  as  his  priest  tells  him, 
and  a  republic  of  tiuo  Catholics  becomes  a  theocracy  admials- 
tered  b;  the  clergf.  It  is  only  as  long  as  they  are  a  smaU  mi- 
nority that  they  can  be  loyal  subj!ct8  under  such  a  Coastitu'ion 
as  the  American.  As  their  numbers  grow  they  will  assert  their 
principles  more  and  more.  Give  them  the  power,  and  the 
Constitution  will  begone.  A  Catholic  msj  irlty,  under  spirit- 
ual direction,  will  forbid  liberty  of  worship,  and  will  try  to  for- 
bid liberty  of  conscience.  It  will  control  education;  it  will  put 
the  press  under  surveillance;  it  will  punish  opposition  with  ex- 
comcuunlcition,  and  excommunication  will  be  attended  with 
civil  dlBabilities." 

The  United  States  are  to-day  the  paradise  of  this 
most  dangerous  order  in  the  pipal  church,  the 
Jesuits.  They  have  bjen  and  are  excluded  from 
some  countries  which  are  nominally  Catholic;  but 
here  they  have  the  same  freedom  as  that  of  our 
most  patriotic  citizens.  There  are  no  positions 
from  which  they  are  excluded.  Tlicre  are  no  na- 
tional movements  with  which  they  are  not  familiar. 
They  seem  to  have  eyes  within  and  withou!;.  They 
are  in  our  marts  of  business;  they  are  in  our  army 
and  navy;  they  are  in  our  halls  of  legislation;  they 
are  upon  our  school  committees,  the  most  sacred 
oflice  in  this  Republic,  and  we  do  not  know  who  they 
are.  Priests  and  Jesuits  in  league  are  already  as- 
suming the  government  of  our  largest  cities. 

And  it  is  freely  talked — we  do  not  know  what 
foundation  there  is  for  the  talk— that  Puritan  Bos- 
ton has  in  its  government  Roman  Catholics  who  are 


Jesuitical  lay  workers,  and  who  are  sworn  to  carry 
out  the  commands  of  this  ecclesiastical  craft  which 
is  inimical  to  every  civil  government  on  earth. 
We  should  breathe  easier  if  we  thought  these 
charges  were  untrue. 

Under  the  leadership  of  this  Jesuitical  order  the 
Roman  Catholic  church  will  be  found  to  side  with 
one  party,  then  with  another,  until  each  is  so 
weakened  that  she  can  rule  both. 

She  will  join  hands  with  infidels  against  Protes- 
tants, but  having  gained  her  object,  she  will  con- 
sign both  allies  and  foes  to  contempt  or  to  flames. 

She  will  make  contracts  and  compacts,  any  num- 
ber of  them,  but  when  she  believes  herself  powerful 
enough  to  trample  them  under  foot,  if  for  her  ad- 
vantage, she  will  do  so  without  hesitation  or 
scruple. 

We  said  a  moment  ago  that  the  Jesuits  were 
Democrats  in  the  United  States  because  of  real  or 
expected  patronage  in  some  form  from  the  Demo- 
cratic party.  They  hold  the  entire  church  member- 
ship in  support  of  that  party.  But  the  day  is  com- 
ing when  the  Democratic  party  will  feel  that  it  has 
been  a  great  fool,  the  chief  of  fools,  in  selling  itself 
to  Popery  and  the  Jesuits.  The  day  is  coming 
when  these  Jesuits  and  the  church  which  is  under 
their  tyrannical  dictation  and  domination  will  no 
longer  need  the  support  of  the  Democratic  party,  or 
when  they  can  make  better  terms  with  some  other 
party.  On  that  day  these  intolerant  ecclesiastics 
with  consummate  and  merciless  coolness  and  dis- 
patch will  cut  the  throat  of  the  unsuspecting  and 
now  triumphant  Democracy. 

Without  difficulty  we  can  imagine,  should  a  cer- 
tain prominent  Republican  who  shows  much  tender- 
ness to  Irishmen  and  papists,  be  the  next  Republi- 
can nominee  for  the  Presidency,  as  seems  likely  to 
be  the  case,  that  then  the  Democratic  party,  to  no 
purpose,  will  plead  and  gasp  for  papal  support,  but 
will  find  her  heel  on  its  vitals.  Possibly,  though,  a 
big  auction  sale  of  the  papal  vote  to  the  highest 
bidder  is  in  store  for  the  Republic  at  the  next  Pres- 
idential election. 

Why  cannot  the  two  great  political  parties  in  this 
country  unite,  or  rather  why  cannot  loyal  citizens 
in  all  the  different  parties  unite  in  unfurling  this  po- 
litical banner:  T^iere  shall  be  no  further  comprom'^e 
with  these  enemies  of  the  Republic.  Let  nothing 
more  be  talked  as  to  Democratic  or  Republican 
measures  and  victories  until  questions  relating  to 
the  independence  from  ecclesiastical  dictation  of 
hundreds  of  thousands  of  our  citizen  voters,  and 
questions  relating  to  the  education  of  our  future 
voters,  are  settled,  and  until  it  is  known  whether 
the  American  people  or  the  Pope  at  Rome  is  to  rule 
the  United  States  of  America. 

Though  the  ultimate  object  in  this  paper  is  to 
show  the  character  of  the  parochial  school  move- 
ment under  'Jesuitical  management,  yet  we  have 
deemed  it  necessary  first  of  all,  in  this  general  way, 
to  show  what  are  the  instincts  and  intents  of  these 
crafty  ecclesiastics  with  whom  the  Republic  has  to 
do.  Eaough  has  been  said  to  justify  the  statement 
that  to  thoughtful  minds  it  is  well  nigh  appalling 
that  these  most  pronounced,  unscrupulous,  and  re- 
lentless enemies  of  Protestatism  and  of  free  insti- 
tutions are  taking  in  hand  the  education,  or  rather 
the  training  (it  is  not  an  education),  of  hundreds  of 
thousands  of  our  future  citizen-voters. 


MARDl   OR  is. 


The  carnival,  which  is  filling  New  Orleans  this 
week  with  uproar  and  folly,  is  fitly  described  and 
characterized  by  Rev.  B.  A.  Imes  of  Memphis  in  the 
Living  Way  as  follows: 

Whence  comes  the  Mardi  Gras  festival? 

The  name  literally  signifies  "fat  Tuesday."  The 
French  way  of  designating  Shrove  Tuesday  which 
precedes  Ash  Wednesday  the  first  day  of  Lent 

It  has  been  extensively  celebrated  in  Rome  and 
Paris.  la  the  lat'er  city,  according  to  a  writer  in 
the  Library  of  Universal  Knowledge,  it  has  long  been 
the  custom  to  lead  in  procession  a  fat  or  prize  ox, 
(6of)//"^ra<— whence  Mardi  gras)  the  ox  is  followed 
by  a  child  in  a  triumphal  car,  the  child  being  called 
the  "butchers'  king."  The  entire  day  and  night  are 
spent  in  the  wildest  revelry,  sometimes  degenerating 
intn  unrestrained  license. 

N  ew  Orleans  and  Memphis  are  the  only  American 
cities  mentioned  as  imitating  this  foreign  exhibition 
of  clownish  debauchery.  It  is  diffi  cult  to  conceive 
of  intelligent  men  assuming  the  falie  attitudes  and 
playing  the  fool  in  the  manner  which  characterizes 
the  performances  of  the  carnival  It  is  not  less  than 
a  revival  of  heathenism  in  an  elaborate  and  expen- 
sive fashion. 

The  Kiights  of  Momus  are  leading  characters,  as 
is  that  fabled  dignitary  himself — and  who  was  Mo- 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


February  16,  1888 


mu8?  In  fabulous  history  he  is  the  god  of  raillery, 
or  the  jester  who  ridiculed  the  gods  and  men.  He 
is  the  personification  of  mocking  censure. 

The  "mystic  krewe"  of  Comus  is  another  part  of 
the  folly  revellers — and  who  is  Comus?  In  Greek 
mythology  Comus  is  the  god  of  mirth  and  he  is  rep- 
resented in  the  writings  of  Philostratus  as  a  youth 
with  wine-flushed  face,  the  child  of  Bacchus  and 
Circe.  He  is  made  like  his  father  but  more  like  his 
mother,  with  power  of  sorcery  whereby  he  could  turn 
the  human  face  into  the  brutal  form  of  some  wild 
beast,  and  while  kept  in  ignorance  of  their  changed 
condition  his  victims  were  made  to  forget  all  the 
purities  of  life,  "to  roll  with  pleasure  in  a  sensuali- 
ty."    This  is  Comus. 

Our  city  and  all  the  country  round  and  whoever 
will  come  from  abroad  are  to  be  invited  to  "such  a 
feast."  The  day  is  dedicated  by  King  Rex  and  his 
followers  to  these  gods  of  heathen  revelry  and  sens- 
ual lust,  Comus  and  Momus! 

Every  Christian  man  ought  to  know  that  these 
abominations  of  ancient  heathenism  were  very  of- 
fensive to  Jehovah.  Their  attractions  are  always  an 
alluring  combination  of  music  and  song  and  flowers 
and  wine,  and  the  scale  descends  by  graceful  steps 
to  low  and  base  sensuality  and  lust.  Why  should  a 
people  blessed  with  all  the  good  influences  which 
come  from  Christianity,  the  faith  of  our  God,  do 
anything  to  make  popular  these  heathenish  festivi- 
ties? "But  it  is  only  for  amusement"  they  will  say. 
That  is  the  pretext,but  the  men  who  subscribe  money 
to  it  mean  business. 

As  to  the  moral  side,  what  I  have  to  say  may  have 
no  weight  with  any  one  interested  in  the  festival, 
yet  I  can  not  avoid  the  conviction  nor  withhold  the 
testimony  that  these  things  both  in  origin  and  char- 
acter must  be  most  insulting  to  God. 


.N0TB8  OF  THB    OREBOENT  OITT. 


BY  RIV.  A.   J.   OHITTENDBN. 


The  visitor  who  locates  on  the  north  side  of  New 
Orleans  will  write  of  a  continental  city.  If  he 
chooses  to  room  on  the  south  (S.  W.)  side  he  will 
write  of  an  American  city.  The  two  styles  of  civil- 
ization are  nowhere  so  conspicuously  in  contrast  as 
New  Orleans.  Many  of  the  residences  of  the  Amer- 
ican side  are  beautiful  and  their  grounds  roomy  and 
well  set  with  trees.  Wooden  buildings  are  the  more 
desirable  for  residence  in  the  New  Orleans  winter, 
and  the  Yankee  element  have  discovered  the  fact  in 
time  to  provide  relatively  dry  walls  for  their  houses. 
On  St.  Charles  avenue,  either  side  is  well  enough 
built  for  the  dwellers  of  Michigan  avenue,  or  the 
North  Side,  Chicago.  But  Chicago  cannot  have 
the  magnolia  or  the  orange  tree  loaded  with  fruit  in 
January. 

Of  course  the  colored  man  is  everywhere,  but  he 
likewise  is  an  "American."  I  judge  that  he  is  gen- 
erally as  happy  as  any  other  man  here.  One  thing 
pains  me,  and  it  is  their  apparent  effort  to  repress 
their  native  emotionalism  and  characteristic  poetry 
in  obedience  to  a  new  style  of  religious  reserve 
which  they  have  come  to  regard  as  the  more  polite 
and  "high-toned."  Maybe  I  had  an  African  ances- 
ter  way  back,  where  Darwin  explored,  but  I  confess 
that  the  best  praying  and  the  best  singing  I  have 
heard  in  a  colored  meeting  was  by  some  genuine 
relict  of  the  old  plantation  times;  and  I  don't  be- 
lieve my  interest  was  all  in  the  novelty  of  the  style. 
The  ex-slave  cannot  sing  our  songs;  and  we  can't 
sing  his.  The  nearest  approach  to  a  half-way 
ground  is  in  the  Gospel  hymns,  which  the  Lord  evi- 
dently provided  as  a  kind  of  a  musical  bridge  be- 
tween the  two  races. 

The  African  Congregational  church,  under  the 
auspices  of  the  A.  M.  A.,  has  refined  its  emotional- 
ism out  just  a  little  too  much.  Now  and  then  a 
genuine  old-time  song  comes  in,  and  then  the  good 
old  mother  in  Israel,  who  might  have  been  Moses' 
wife's  sister,  will  glow  all  over  her  ebony  face,  and 
the  richest  tones  ever  uttered  by  stage  celebrities, 
did  not  surpass  in  pathos  and  spiritual  expression 
her  unsophisticated  music.  I  would  give  a  week's 
board  to  one  old  lady  to  have  my  church  hear  one 
of  her  prayers.  It  was  prayer  set  to  music.  But  it 
was  sincere,  and  therefore  it  was  above  cant.  It 
was  intelligent,  direct,  eminently  simple  and  practi- 
cal— all  in  an  angelic  wave  of  cadence,  and  with  a 
voice  utterly  inimitable  by  any  mortal  who  had  not 
been  born  and  worn  to  it  through  a  history  which 
still  lingers  in  their  music. 

Last  evening  while  the  meeting  at  the  Baptist 
church  was  waiting  for  the  hour  of  commencement, 
I  could  hear  an  occasional  timid  voice  on  the  fe- 
male side  of  the  house.  But  it  would  die  away  at 
the  end  of  a  sentence.  Again  it  would  venture  to 
"di8lurb"the  new  order  by  a  little  stronger  tone,and 


again  it  would  die  away.  Finally  some  good, gener- 
ous brother  on  the  other  side  of  the  house  took  up 
the  strain  with  a  tune  that  seemed  to  announce  "lib- 
erty to  the  children  of  God,"  and  a  genuine  outflow- 
ing of  pent-up  song  filled  the  whole  place.  I  will 
try  to  get  the  music  and  fetch  it  home,  only  it  can't 
be  printed.  "Will  you  go  down  into  Jerdan  and  be 
saved?"  was  the  song  and  the  refrain  both;  only 
each  verse  commenced  with  a  "Come  brother,"moth- 
er,  sister,  etc.,  "will  you  go — will  you  go  down  into 
Jer-dan  and  be  saved?" 

The  entire  space  behind  the  pulpit  was  covered 
with  the  scene  of  the  baptism  of  Christ,  in  which 
the  artist  had  given  John  a  somewhat  better  appear- 
ance than  Christ  himself.  It  was  not  a  bad  picture, 
though  inferior  to  those  hung  in  the  St.  Louis  cath- 
edral. And  it  seemed  to  me  that  a  shading  towards 
Catholic  reverence  for  a  scene  and  a  ceremony  was 
very  discernible  both  in  the  burden  of  the  Baptist 
song  and  in  the  choice  of  their  subject  for  the  paint- 
er. There  is  no  protection  from  rude  ritualism  ex- 
cept m  avoiding  undue  emphasis  on  any  form  or 
variation  of  custom  whether  in  government  or  sacra- 
ment. Southern  evangelism  had  become  a  semi- 
Catholic  ritualism,  from  which  some  other  Congre- 
gationalism must  lift  the  people  without  leaving 
their  heartiness  and  simplicity  behind.  But,  with 
all  the  crudities  that  have  attached  themselves  to 
the  Christianity  of  the  ex-slave,  the  lowest  form  of 
sincere  Christianity  in  this  city  is  sky-high  above 
the  reliquaries  of  heathenism  that  are  to  be  displayed 
here  next  week  in  the  Mardi  Gras  pageantry. 

Feb.  6, 1888. 


Reform  News. 


A  TTENTION,    PENNSTL  VANIANS  ! 


Some  of  our  anti-secret  friends  in  Pennsylvania 
think  that  we  should  be  doing  more  to  advance  the 
reform  in  our  State.  And  believing  that  with  a 
larger  State  organization  much  more  can  be  accom- 
plished, I  propose  with  the  aid  of  existing  State  of- 
ficers to  reorganize  the  State  Association  with  tem- 
porary officers,  until  it  shall  be  convenient  to  hold  a 
State  Convention  for  the  election  of  permanent  oflfl- 
cers  and  for  any  other  business  which  it  may  be  de- 
sirable to  transact.  I  desire  to  hear  from  every 
friend  of  the  anti-secret  cause  residing  in  the  State, 
either  by  mail  or  through  the  Cynosure, 

All  friends  writing  to  me  will  confer  a  favor  by 
naming  their  choice  for  any  or  all  of  the  following 
offices:  President,  Eastern  District  Vice-president, 
Middle  District  Vice-president,  Western  District 
Vice-president,  Treasurer,  Secretary,  Corresponding 
Secretary,  Eastern  District  Lecturer,  Middle  Dis- 
trict Lecturer,  Western  District  Lecturer,  State  Lec- 
turer. 

I  also  desire  to  have  the  name  and  address  of 
every  man  or  woman  residing  in  the  State  who  is 
competent  and  willing  to  lecture  in  his  or  her  own 
town,  city  or  county.  Any  suggestions  relating  to 
any  matter  connected  with  the  State  work  will  be 
thankfully  received  and  carefully  considered.  I 
already  have  some  very  important  suggestions  to 
lay  before  Pennsylvanians  through  the  Cynosure  if 
a  reorganization  can  be  completed.  All  persons 
writing  to  me  and  requiring  an  answer  by  mail  will 
please  enclose  a  stamp. 

Now,  friends,  let  us  hear  from  you;  and  give  us 
some  evidence  that  you  really  desire  to  oppose  se- 
cret societies.  Edward  J.  Chalfant. 

York,  Pa. 

Brown  Hollow,  Lackawanna  Co.,  Pa., ) 
Jan.  23,  1888.  j 
Dear  Friend  Chalfant: — If  you  could,  by  writ- 
ing to  reliable  men,  in  our  State,  inaugurate  the 
work  anew,  I  will  help  what  I  can,  in  any  place 
where  I  have  the  ability  to  work.  It  is  a  burning 
shame  that  our  great  State  should  lie  dormant  on 
this  vital  question.  I  am  grieved  that  it  is  thus. 
You  have  not  only  my  consent,  but  request,  to  do 
all  you  can  at  reorganization  of  the  anti-secret  forces 
of  the  State.  Nathan  Callender. 


NEW  POINTS  IN  OHIO. 


A    sermon   in   high   street   church,   COLUMBUS. 


Ashley,  O.,  Feb.  10,  1888. 
Dear  Cynosure: — I  am  working  the  region  about 
Columbus,  prior  to  a  union  meeting  of  the  German 
Lutheran  churches  of  that  city,  which  I  am  to  ad- 
dress next  week.  Beturning  from  my  trip  to  Athens 
county,  of  which  I  spoke  in  my  last,  I  spent  Sab- 
bath with  wife  at  home.  We  had  the  pleasure  of 
listening  to  a  very  excellent  sermon  given  by  Dr.  A. 
H.  Hiatt  of   Wheaton   in  his  son's  church.     His 


theme  was  the  indwelling  kingdom,  which  produces 
righteousness,  peace  and  joy  in  the  Holy  Ghost.  In 
speaking  of  the  peace  and  happiness  produced  by 
this  kingdom  he  drew  a  very  graphic  picture  of  two 
men.  The  one  poor,  and  working  hard  for  daily 
bread,  lays  aside  his  rude  impliments  of  husbandry, 
enters  bis  humble  cot  to  partake  of  a  frugal  meal; 
the  other  lives  in  a  mansion  In  which  are  heard  mu- 
sic and  dancing.  The  one  has  the  peace  of  the  in- 
dwelling Saviour,  the  other  the  perplexities  of  the 
world.  The  angel  views  the  two  and  says  of  the 
former,  behold  how  rich;  the  latter,  wretched,  poor 
and  blind.  The  two  die.  The  man  from  the  cabin 
has  a  simple  burial  attended  by  few.  The  rich  man 
is  buried  with  great  pomp  and  display.  All  the 
lodges  to  which  he  belonged  pass  extensive  resolu- 
tions of  condolence,  file  out  in  grand  procession,  go 
through  their  mummeries,  drop  sprigs  of  evergreen, 
and  ticket  the  deceased  to  their  various  grand  lodges. 
0  who  would  not  choose  the  life  and  death  of  the 
former  in  the  great  day  of  reckoning! 

Part  of  this  week  has  been  spent  at  Lewis  Center, 
Africa  and  Delaware.  In  each  of  these  places  I  have 
secured  new  Cynosure  readers.  On  Wednesday  even- 
ing I  attended  prayer  meeting  at  Africa.  (This  name 
was  given  it  in  anti- slavery  days  because  of  the  prin- 
ciples of  the  residents.)  I  spoke  of  my  mission  and 
a  vote  was  taken  requesting  me  to  return  and  lecture, 
which  I  hope  to  do  in  the  near  future.  Some  con- 
tributed to  the  State  work.  Bro.  Geo.  Richey,  a  vet- 
eran reformer,  is  serving  this  church  with  great  ac- 
ceptability. 

I  am  now  at  the  home  of  Bro.  L.  Powers.  There 
has  heretofore  been  no  opportunity  for  lectures  at 
this  point.  The  Friend  Quakers  have  just  erected 
a  meeting-house  toward  which  brethren  Whipple, 
Powers  and  other  reformers  have  paid  liberally. 
We  will  doubtless  arrange  meetings. 

So  the  Lord  opens  the  way  and  the  work  moves 
on.  "W.  B.  Stoddard. 


THE  NEW  ORLEANS  LETTER. 


brethren     STODDARD      AND     HINMAN     FIND     MANY 

FRIENDS   AND   FEW   FOES   AMONG   PASTORS 

AND   EDITORS. 


New  Orleans,  Feb.  7,  1888. 

Dear  Cynosure: — I  had  intended  to  give  the  la- 
boring oar  of  correspondence  into  the  hands  of  Bro. 
Stoddard,  while  he  is  in  the  city,  but  his  bad  state 
of  health  and  many  pressing  duties  admonish  me  to 
resume  my  work.  At  no  time  during  the  winter 
have  roses  ceased  to  bloom  in  the  gardens  here. 
Since  we  have  been  here  there  has  not  been  even  an 
approach  to  frost,  and  now  the  broad  banana  leaves, 
which  had  been  nipped  in  the  early  part  of  the  win- 
ter, are  unfolding  and  give  promise  of  the  rare  oc- 
currence here,  that  they  will  bear  some  fruit.  Vio- 
lets abound  and  now  the  white  clover  is  blossoming 
by  the  road  side. 

On  Sabbath  Bro.  Stoddard  preached  in  the  Central 
Congregational  church  to  a  good  congregation.  At 
night  I  preached  at  the  Straight  University  to  a  full 
house.  On  the  Sabbath  previous,  I  had  preached  in 
two  other  Congregational  churches,  and  during  the 
week  in  a  Baptist  church. 

Yesterday  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Stoddard  and  myself 
visited  Leland  University  and  attended  a  meeting  of 
the  colored  Baptist  ministers  of  the  city.  We  lis- 
tened to  a  very  able  lecture  by  Bro.  Mitchel,  after 
which  Bro.  Stoddard  gave  notice  of  our  approaching 
convention,  and  explained  its  objects.  We  then  vis- 
ited the  Freedmen's  Orphan  Asylum,  where  we  met 
a  large  number  of  Baptist  ministers  from  the  city 
and  other  parts  of  the  State.  Here  we  were  cord- 
ially received;  tracts  were  distributed  and  the  ob- 
jects of  our  convention  were  stated  and  explained. 
The  remarks  of  Bro.  Stoddard  were  heartily  endorsed 
by  the  chairman  of  the  meeting  and  a  warm  in- 
terest was  expressed  in  our  movement. 

We  then  visited  New  Orleans  University,  the  M. 
E.  school  for  the  colored  youth  of  the  city.  We 
were  kindly  received  by  Pres.  Atkinson,  who  ex- 
pressed his  high  appreciation  of  the  Christian  Cyno- 
sure and  an  interest  in  our  work.  He.  promised  to 
give  notice  of  the  convention.  We  met  here,  and 
had  a  pleasant  visit  with  Prof.  Lowe,  a  brother  of 
Prof.  Lowe  of  Wheaton  College,  who  also  expressed 
an  interest  in  our  movement. 

To  day  we  have  been  at  the  office  of  the  South 
■western  Presbyterian  and  the  South-western  Christian 
Advocate.  Dr.  Smith  of  the  Presbyterian  had  some 
knowledge  of  our  movement,  spoke  of  the  pleasure 
of  visiting  with  Pres.  J.  Blanchard  when  he  was 
here,  and  promised  to  write  an  editorial  notice  of  the 
Convention.  The  Methodist  editor  asked  us  to 
write  a  notice,  which  we  did,  and  he  promised  to  in- 
sert it  in  his  next  issue. 


Februaet  16,  1888 


THE  CHRISTIAlSr  CYNOSURE. 


-  We  then  called  on  Col.  Lewis,  one  of  the  leading 
Republican  politicians,  a  candidate  on  their  State 
ticket,  and  delegate  to  the  Republican  National  Con- 
vention. Col.  Lewis  is  a  high  Mason  and  intensely 
devoted  to  the  order.  Personally  he  was  very  court- 
eous, but  was  surrounded  by  a  knot  of  Masons  whose 
devotion  to  Masonry  destroyed  all  sense  of  obliga- 
tion to  be  courteous,  candid,  or  truthful.  We  did 
not  waste  much  time  in  such  company.  I  have 
found  that  whenever  in  this  city  you  get  into  a  dis- 
tinctively political  atmosphere,  of  either  political 
party,  it  is  always  redolent  of  tobacco,  whisky  and 
beer,  and  intensely  hostile  to  moral  and  social  re- 
forms. 

It  is  not  often,  especially  in  the  cities  of  the  South, 
that  I  find  people  who  are  both  able  and  willing  to 
offer  hospitality  to  an  agent  of  the  N.  C.  A.  But 
one  exception  is  Pres.  Hitchcock  of  Straight  Univers- 
ity, who  presides  so  ably  over  an  institution  now 
numbering  over  five  hundred  students,  and  who  has 
always  most  kindly  received  and  entertained  me.  I 
also  found,  much  to  my  surprise,  mv  old  time  friend 
and  brother  Mr.  C.  W.  St«rry,  of  Pontiac,  111.,  who 
is  here  with  his  family,  and  attending  to  a  valuable 
property  he  has  in  this  city.  Bro.  Sterry  has  been 
a  reader  of  the  Cynosure  for  many  years,  an  earnest 
friend  of  its  principles,  and  a  generous  contributor 
to  its  funds.  He  too  gave  me  a  cordial  welcome  to 
his  home,  and  as  it  was  nearer  than  Straight  Univers- 
ity to  our  place  for  meeting,  I  accepted  it  and  have 
been  stopping  with  him  and  bis  most  amiable  family. 
I  went  with  them  to  the  Ames  M.  E.  church  on  Sab- 
bath morning.  This  is  the  only  white  M.  E.  church 
in  the  city.  The  pastor,  Rev.  McLaughlin,  preached 
an  able  sermon.  He  had  heard  of  our  movement 
and  expressed  an  interest  in  it  and  promised  to  at- 
tend the  convention.  He  has  invited  me  to  preach 
for  his  people  next  Sabbath  evening.  The  outlook 
is  good,  but  our  trust  is  not  in  appearances  but  in 
Jehovah.  Let  prayer  be  continually  offered  for  our 
success.  H.  H.  Hinman. 


THE  FRIBNDa  IN  IOWA. 


BKO.    HAWLET  AT   OSKALOOSA. — WELCOMED   BY 
CHOROHES   AND   COLLEGES. 

Dear  Cinositre: — From  New  Sharon  I  came  to 
Oskaloosa.  Here  I  found  some  six  or  seven  of  the 
churches  holding  revival  services.  I  preached  for 
the  United  Presbyterian  and  Free  Methodist  breth- 
ren. I  found  Rev.  Morrow,  pastor  of  the  U.  P. 
church,  deeply  interested  in  the  progress  of  the  an- 
ti-secret society  reform,  and  ready  to  co-operate  in 
the  diffusion  of  literature  to  enlighten  the  people 
and  turn  them  away  from  the  snares  that  lodgery 
has  set  for  their  feet.  By  his  co-operation  the  Cy- 
nature  was  furnished  to  the  reading  room  of  the  Y. 
M.  C.  A.  of  Oskaloosa;  and  I  shall  see  that  he  has 
other  literature  for  distribution  among  the  people. 
At  the  Free  Methodist  church  the  N.  C.  A.  litera- 
ture is  freely  given  to  those  who  attend  the  church 
services. 

While  in  Oskaloosa  I  attended  a  sacramental  ser- 
vice at  the  Free  Methodist  church  with  Rev.  C.  E. 
Harroun,  chairman  of  Oskaloosa  and  Fairfield  dis- 
tricts, and  preached  in  the  evening,  besides  render- 
ing what  help  I  could  to  the  pastor  in  revival  meet- 
ings he  was  holding.  Bro.  Harroun  is  in  hearty 
sympathy  with  our  reform  work  and  will  aid  in  the 
circulation  of  anti-lodge  literature  and  in  the  hold- 
ing of  conventions. 

A  united  effort  of  all  the  churches  and  individu- 
als who  testify  against  the  lodge  is  needed  to  save 
our  churches  from  the  corrupting  domination  of 
Masonry  and  emancipate  our  courts  from  the  thrall- 
dom  of  a  secret  despotism.  Let  those  who  can  dis- 
tribute tracts  or  use  pamphlets  or  books  as  a  circu- 
lating library  in  your  locality.  Write  me  at  Whea- 
ton.  111.,  as  I  desire  to  secure  trusty  helpers  in  the 
circulation  of  anti-secret  society  literature  all  over 
the  State  of  Iowa. 

In  company  with  the  pastor  of  the  United  Pres- 
byterian church,  r  called  upon  the  pastor  of  the 
Baptist  church.  He  is  well  posted  in  the  evils  of 
lodgery,  having  spent  some  time  in  a  portion  of 
Wisconsin  where  the  lodge  system  has  been  thor- 
oughly discussed.  We  found  him  in  the  midst  of 
a  revival  meeting  and  happy  in  the  fact  that  some 
had  been  won  to  Christ. 

I  also  visited  the  pastor  of  the  Christian  church. 
He  is  not  a  lodge  man.  I  gave  him  the  Ci/noture 
with  the  understanding  that  he  will  use  it  not  only 
for  bis  own  edification  but  also  for  the  education  of 
his  church  in  the  principles  of  reform.  I  also  visit- 
ed Oskaloosa  College,  which  is  under  the  control 
and  patronage  of  the  Christian  church.  I  conversed 
with  the  president  and  found  that  he  was  not  a  mem- 
ber of  any  secret  society,  and  gave  him  some  litera- 


ture with  the  assurance  that  he  would  distribute  it 
among  the  facultv. 

I  also  visited  Pres.  Trueblood,  who  is  at  the  head 
of  Penn  College  in  Oskaloosa.  Like  Pres.  Johnson 
of  Oskaloosa  College,  Pres.  Trueblood  has  never 
been  a  member  of  any  secret  society;  and  he  is  la- 
boring with  good  success  so  to  educate  the  young 
men  of  Penn  College  that  none  of  them  will  ever 
become  members  of  any  secret  society. 

The  President  outlined  to  me  some  of  the  argu- 
ments he  had  used  in  the  education  of  his  young 
men  against  being  ensnared  by  the  lodge.  To  the 
argument  that  if  a  man  is  a  Mason  he  will  find 
friends  wherever  he  goes,  "I,"  said  he,  "oppose  the 
fact  that  I  have  traveled  across  the  continent  and 
in  Europe;  and  I  have  never  failed,simply  as  a  man, 
to  find  friends  wherever  I  have  gone.  The  logical 
deduction  drawn  by  the  students  from  this  fact  is: 
If  I,  as  a  man.can  realize  what  is  promised  to  anoth- 
er man  as  a  Mason,  why  should  I  enthrall  my  man- 
hood by  becoming  a  Mason?  Why  bind  myself  to 
keep  all  the  secrets  of  a  Master  Mason  except  those 
that  refer  to  murder  and  treason,  and  all  the  secrets 
of  a  Companion  Royal  Arch  Mason,  though  they 
refer  to  murder  and  treason?  Why,  for  the  sake  of 
an  advantage  that  I  can  have  simply  as  a  man,  join 
myself  to  a  clan  whose  covenants  are  a  conspiracy 
to  defeat  the  equal  administration  of  justice  in  the 
courts  and  the  proper  administration  of  discipline 
in  the  church?"  The  president  also  spoke  of  the 
high  pretentions  of  the  lodge  system  to  charity  and 
benevolence;  and  showed  that  their  system  of  giving 
that  they  might  receive  as  much  again  is  as  devoid 
of  the  true  charity  of  the  Gospel  as  is  the  heart  of 
an  unregenerate  man  of  the  spirit  of  Christ. 

President  Trueblood  spoke  also  of  the  faithful- 
ness of  the  Oskaloosa  Friends  to  the  principle  of 
non-fellowship  with  the  secret  orders  as  manifest  in 
refusing  membership  to  an  Odd-fellow  who  professed 
conversion  to  Christ  and  whose  wife  was  a  member 
of  the  Friends'  churoh.  So  kindly  as  well  as  firmly 
was  this  position  maintained  that  the  respect  and 
friendship  of  the  applying  Odd-fellow  was  retained 
and  he  admitted  that  a  spirit  of  self-sufficiency  or 
self-righteous  dependence  upon  their  own  works  for 
salvation  is  fostered  by  Odd-fellowship. 

I  gathered  from  the  President's  remarks  that  the 
spirit  of  revival  that  is  prevailing  in  the  Friends' 
church,  operating  to  quicken  into  life  the  long-cher- 
ished principles  of  Anti-masonry  as  held  by  the 
Friends,  has  resulted  favorably  in  separating  be- 
tween the  church  and  the  lodge.  While  I  rejoice  in 
the  prospect  that  this  church  is  to  be  free  from  the 
seductive  power  of  Masonry  and  its  kindred  orders 
I  would  appeal  to  the  Friends,  as  the  agent  of  the 
Iowa  Christian  Association,  to  aid,  as  far  as  possi- 
ble, in  freeing  less  favored  churches  from  the  cor- 
rupting thralldom  of  the  lodge  system,  that  the  or- 
ganized deism  of  Masonry  and  Odd-fellowship  and 
kindred  orders  may  not  have  the  tacit  endorsement 
that  so  many  churches  give  by  receiving  to  mem- 
bership the  impenitent  devotees  of  the  Christless 
worships  of  the  lodge  system. 

I  must  not  omit  to  mention  that  I  found  Pres. 
Trueblood  in  the  midst  of  a  cheering  revival  among 
his  students  in  Penn  College.  All  the  members  of 
the  Senior  Class  are  now  Christians,  and  I  think  he 
said  all  of  the  Junior  Class  also.  Let  us  all  unite 
in  prayer  that  everywhere  the  Spirit  of  God  may 
be  poured  out  and  the  churches  purified  and  sinners 
rescued  from  the  snares  of  Satan  and  drawn  to  Je- 

C.  F.  Hawley. 


sus. 


Correspondence. 


THE  OLD  01 T7  OF  YORK  BEOIUS  TO  BEAD. 

York,  Pa.,  Jan.  31,  1888. 

Editor  Cynosure: — In  December,  1887,  I  scat- 
tered about  six  thousand  tracts  and  other  documents 
against  secret  societies  in  this  city.  They  consisted 
mainly  of  Mr.  Moody's  tract,  "Dead  Horses,"  "Ma- 
sonry in  the  Family,"  "Boys  who  Hope  to  be  Men," 
"Sons  of  Veterans,"and  "In  which  Army  are  You?" 
I  informed  each  person  receiving  these  tracts  that 
they  were  against  secret  societies;  and  I  did  this  to 
give  all  a  chance  to  unload  their  minds  and  bless 
me  if  they  desired  to  do  so. 

Although  I  often  go  on  anti-secret  raids  in  all 
parts  of  York,  it  is  about  ten  years  since  I  stirred 
up  the  old  city  by  such  a  complete  advance  all  along 
the  line.  As  the  sly  and  cunning  sons  and  daugh- 
ters of  secrecy  and  darkness,  like  the  Hessians  at 
Trenton,  were  enjoying  life,  snug  in  their  comforta- 
ble winter  quarters,  I  crossed  the  Deleware  river,  so 
to  speak,  and  completely  discomfited  them,  horse, 
foot  and  dragoons.  The  Hessians  at  Trenton  could 
not  have  been  more  surpri8e(i  at  the  sight  of  Gen- 
eral Washington's  ragged  and  barefooted  Pennsyl- 


vania troops  on  that  cold  winter  morning  than  the 
Hessians  of  the  British  lodges  in  York  were  when 
I  charged  through  the  streets  with  my  regiment  of 
"Dead  Horses,"  one  thousand  strong,  all  neighing 
and  snorting  in  the  most  ferocious  manner.  The 
truth  is,  there  is  nothing  so  deadly  as  the  dead 
horse,  or  the  writer  who  can  make  a  terrible  cavalry 
charge  with  a  regiment  of  dead  horses.  Hereafter 
the  Freemasons  of  York  will  not  have  the  night- 
mare, it  will  be  the  dead  horse  that  will  disturb  their 
midnight  slumbers. 

While  distributing  these  tracts  I  did  not  forget 
my  precious  jewel,  which  is  the  most  unmasonic 
tongue  I  know  of.  It  kept  wagging  away  about  Jes- 
uit plots  and  conspiracies,  copperhead  folly,  the 
bloody  rebellion,concealed  deadly  sooieties,the  inglor- 
ious doctrines  and  principles  of  Freemasonry  and 
all  death-penalty  associations,  and  the  criminal  ten- 
dencies of  all  secret  organizations. 

I  think  the  forty  ministers  of  York  know  about 
forty  reasons  why  they  had  better  fortify  their 
churches  against  the  secret  lodge.  I  think  I  gave 
the  battalion  of  York  lawyers  some  new  law  points. 
I  believe  I  made  the  regiment  of  York  doctors  un- 
derstand that  the  secrecy  quacks  are  even  more  dan- 
gerous than  the  medical  quacks.  And  if  the  people 
of  York  generally  are  not  as  wide  awake  as  they 
should  be,  it  may  be  said  that  they  now  know  much 
more  than  they  did  before  I  called  upon  them. 

Hundreds  of  men  and  women  spoke  their  thoughts 
freely  against  the  lodge.  Many  young  men  told  me 
that  friends  and  relatives  have  warned  them  against 
all  secret  associations.  Many  said  they  were  now 
investing  their  money  in  building  associations  and 
other  legal  companies.  Many  denounced  the  lodge 
sharpers  in  strong  language.  And  only  a  dozen  or 
so  were  abusive  to  me,  one  of  these  being  a  childish 
old  woman. 

These  excellent  tracts  will  certainly  strengthen 
the  powerful  undercurrent  which  is  now  running 
strongly  against  the  secret  lodges;  and  I  think  it 
will  be  safe  to  date  the  downfall  of  secret  orders  in 
York  from  this  successful  effort.  Those  who  are 
engaged  in  the  business  of  hoodwinking  and  outwit- 
ting the  people  of  York  will  have  a  harder  road  to 
travel  than  McClellan's  army  had  in  its  marches 
through  the  swamps  below  Richmond.  And  "so 
moteitbel"  Edward  J.  Chalfant. 


OEO.  W.  NEEDLES ''OETa  THERE.' 


OLD  GENTRY  COUNTY  REDEEMED. 


Darlington,  Mo.,  Feb.  6,  1888. 

Editor  Cynosure: — I  have  just  returned  from  a 
trip  to  north  Gentry  county.  Spent  some  time  with 
G.  W.  Needles,  the  veteran  Anti-mason.  Fourteen 
years  ago  he  started  the  American  Freeman  with  the 
declaration  to  run  until  the  saloon  should  be  driven 
from  Albany.  He  did  that,  though  Rev.  J.  D.  Nut- 
ting was  horse-whipped  in  the  public  postoffice  by  a 
burly  saloon  ruffian.  The  fight  was  against  the  lodge 
and  the  saloon — Siamese  twins.  Rathbun,  Ronayne, 
Hinman,  Stoddard,  and  the  Blanchards,  all  have 
visited  these  parts  and  done  noble  work.  Thej  will 
be  interested  to  know  that  the  saloon  power  of  Gen- 
try county  has  met  its  Waterloo  and  that  last  Thurs- 
day Local  Option  in  this  strong  Democratic  county 
carried  by  a  majority  of  four  hundred  and  forty- 
eight  votes,  vindicating  the  years  of  agitation  and 
endeavor.  To-day  G.  W.  Needles,  whom  the  Demo- 
cratic organ  of  the  county  charges  with  being  the 
"Daddy  of  Local  Option  in  Gentry  county,"  finds  the 
majority  have  come  around  to  him  and  are  moving 
on  to  State  prohibition. 

There  are  more  outspoken  Anti-masons  in  Gentry 
county  to-day  than  ever  before  and  the  way  is  now 
open  for  increased  agitation  in  that  line.  Every 
temperance  victory  cripples  the  lodge,  so  allied  and 
sympathetic  are  rum  and  Masonry.  The  suppres- 
sion of  one  means  the  destruction  of  the  other. 
More  than  forty  Missouri  counties  are  under  local 
option  and  the  anti-lodge  agitation  is  rapidly  gain- 
ing force.  The  next  political  campaign  is  ominious 
and  the  old  parties  are  fearful  and  the  outlook  is 
foreboding.  The  friends  of  reform  are  buoyant  and 
determined  and  are  closing  up  the  ranks  and  uniting 
for  the  contest.     But  more  anon.     M.  N.  Butler. 


THE  LODGE  O0N8PIRAO7  AGAINST  AMSRl 
CAN  LIBERTIES. 


San  Francisco,  Cal. 
Editor  Christian  Cynosuri: — I  view  Freemas- 
onry as  at  war  with  the  free  institutions  of  the  Unit- 
ed States,  and  wish  the  Cynomre  success  in  all  ita 
efforts  to  arouse  the  communit}'  to  the  danger  of  se- 
cret societies.  Freemasonry  is  in  co-operation  with 
all  the  secret  societies,  and  over-rules  nearly  all  the 


6 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


Febrtjary  16,  1888 


churches.  Its  religion  is  to  tell  outsiders  lies;  and 
its  god  is  the  devil.  They  will  not  have  any  Jesus 
Christ  to  help  them  through  death. 

To  have  a  free  government  requires  all  the  intel- 
ligence and  brains  of  the  country.  But  when  a  few 
men  of  the  "Royal  Arch  Masons"  get  the  control  of 
the  government  it  always  tends  to  despotism.  This 
is  the  condition  of  the  United  States  to-day.  In  the 
summers  of  1880,  and  also  of  1884,  the  Republican 
and  Democratic  parties  had  delegations  from  the 
State  of  California  to  the  Chicago  Presidential  con- 
ventions, who  were  all  Freemasons,  without  excep- 
tion. All  the  political  oflSces  in  the  State  to-day  are 
filled  with  Masons,  as  I  believe.  I  have  every  reas- 
on to  believe  that  all  the  delegations  from  this  coast 
since  1876  have  been  Freemasons.  So  they  have 
begun  now  already  to  do  the  same  thing  over  again 
this  year.  The  Masons  have  got  their  agents  all 
over  the  city  and  country,  getting  every  man  they 
can  into  clubs.  When  these  names  are  on  the  list, 
they  have  nothing  to  do  but  vote;  it  is  immaterial 
what  they  vote,  only  so  they  vote. 

When  my  son  worked  at  building  the  Market  St. 
cable  road  there  were  100  hands  at  work  on  election 
day,  1882.  One  of  these  Masonic  agents  came  along 
with  a  roll  of  tickets  and  gave  the  men  all  tickets, 
and  told  them  to  go  and  vote.  Ninety-seven  of 
them  voted.  My  son  brought  his  ticket  to  me;  I 
have  it  now;  the  names  on  it  are  all  Masons.  The 
ninety-seven  that  voted  kept  on  at  work,  the  three 
were  discharged  the  second  day.  if  any  of  the  nine- 
ty-seven had  scratched  the  names  all  off  the  ticket  it 
would  have  been  all  the  same,  for  the  agent  sold 
them  by  the  lump.  Peter  says,  "And  through  cov- 
etousness  shall  they,  with  feigned  words,  make  mer- 
chandise of  you,  whose  judgment  now  of  a  long  time 
lingereth  not,  and  their  damnation  slumbereth  not." 
2  Peter  2:3.  The  Royal  Arch  Masons  have  not 
brains  enough  to  ran  a  government  of  60,000,000 
people  very  long. 

We  can  know  Freemasons,  on  this  coast,  by  their 
perversion  of  God's  holy  Word,  a  blasphemous  use 
of  his  name,a  profanation  of  sacred  and  holy  things, 
the  subversion  of  justice:  and  blood  and  murder  are 
found  in  it  all  over  our  country.  Dr.  Mackey,  on 
Masonic  law,  says:  "In  the  language  of  the  Grand 
Lodge  of  Texas,  an  acquittal  by  a  jury, while  it  may, 
and  should,  in  some  circumstances,  have  its  influ- 
ence in  deciding  on  the  course  to  be  pursued,  yet  has 
no  binding  force  in  Masonry.  We  decide  on  our 
rules  and  our  own  views  of  the  facts."  (page  510.) 
He  says  again:  "Where  one  party  only  is  a  Mason, 
although  the  municipal  law  will  not  consider  any 
words  as  a  justification,  and  will  proceed  to  convic- 
tion, still,  as  the  offence  is  not  infamous,  nor  the 
punishment  ignominious,  and  the  character  of  the 
order  does  not  need  to  be  vindicated,  the  lodge  will 
not  take  cognizance  of  the  act."  But  if  the  punish- 
ment is  ignominious  then  the  lodge  will  take  cogni- 
zance of  the  act.  (page  509.)  Here  we  have  Mason- 
ry declaring  itself  to  be  a  distinct  government  in  the 
United  States,  controlled  by  nothing  but  its  own 
head. 

We  do  not  believe  God  made  this  land  for  a  des- 
potic government.  This  question  now  is  very  near 
before  us.  Freemasonry  is  church  and  state.  "Our 
only  hope  is  God."  "Our  prayer  is  that  under  the 
divine  protection  Americans  who  have  been  taught 
the  lesson  of  freedom  at  the  expense  of  the  blood  of 
their  fathers  and  the  widowhood  of  their  mothers, 
will  still  be  free."  N.  Kbyser. 


PITH  AND  POINT. 


hallelujah! 

I  rejoice  in  the  progress  being  made  in  the  various  re 
forms,  and  think  Qod  hears  and  answers  prayer  offered 
by  the  growing  "praying  band"  of  reformers.  My  heart 
sings  hallelujahs  in  view  of  past  and  coming  victories. 
I  think  the  Cynosure  may  be  regarded,  and  should  be, 
one  of  the  strongest  agencies  of  power  in  forwarding 
this  great  work  of  the  nineteenth  century. — A.  D.  Free- 
man. 

this   is  what  the  cynosdre  18  doing  for  the   col- 
ored brethren. 

I  was  made  a  Mason  about  fourteen  years  ago,  in 
Union  Springs,  Ala.,  and  I  thought  I  was  all  right;  but 
when  the  Cynosure  found  its  way  to  me  I  saw  that 
I  was  wrong,  and  I  have  not  had  my  foot  inside  of 
a  lodge  since.  I  was  a  four  degree  Mason  and  master  of 
the  lodge  for  five  years.  But  when  my  eyes  were  opened 
I  turned  to  the  Lord  for  help,  and  I  sang  this  hymn: 

"Amazing  grace,  how  sweet  the  sound, 

That  Baved  a  wretch  like  me; 
I  oace  was  lost,  but  now  am  (oond, 

Was  blind,  but  now  I  see." 

The  Cynosure  has  saved  me  from  the  power  of  the 
lodge;  and  from  that  day  to  this  I  have  done  all  I  could 
against  secret  societies,  and  I  hope  to  do  more.  I  am  by 
myself  in  th^ fight.  The  Cynosure  is  all  the  help  I  have. 
When  I  get  a  number  I  then  ask  Qod  to  help  me  to  fight 


against  these  evils.  I  pray  God's  blessing  upon  the 
brother  that  sent  me  the  paper.  It  has  been  all  to  me  in 
the  lodge  fight. — E. Thornton,  Monticello,  Ark. 

Such  a  note  as  this  must  cheer  every  contributor  to  the 
Southern  fund.    Many  colored  pastors  could  give  a  sim- 
ilar testimony.     Help  on  this  good  work. 
don't  waste  a  paper. 

When  we  hear  of  colored  ministers  of  the  South,  as 
it  were  hungering  for  the  Cynosure  to  warn  and  teach 
their  brethren  the  evil  of  secret  societies,  we  pray,  Qod 
bless  the  effort  put  forth  to  raise  $1,500  for  the  benefit 
of  perishing  souls  in  the  South,  and  elsewhere.  I  al- 
ways keep  on  hand  Cynosure  tracts.  When  I  send  a  let- 
ter to  a  friend,  or  on  business,  I  enclose  from  four  to  six 
pages.  As  it  costs  me  nothing  more  than  the  one-cent 
stamp,  when  I  have  read  my  Cynosure  I  roll  it  up  and 
send  it  every  week  wherever  it  will  do  the  most  good 
The  other  day  I  received  a  letter  from  a  stranger  whom 
I  had  supplied  with  a  paper  and  tracts,  and  he  writes  to 
me  to  give  him  the  address  to  know  where  he  could  get 
anti-secret  books  or  tracts.  I  sent  him  my  paper  and 
the  Cynosure  address.  We  should  let  no  paper  like  the 
Cynosure  be  lost  or  thrown  in  the  waste  basket.  I  have 
not  the  means  as  many  have,  but  I  know  that  we  are  on 
God's  side  and  secretists  are  on  the  adversary's  side.  I 
am,  now  nearly  eighty-one  years  old,  and  have  been  an 
anti-slavery  man  ever  since  Jackson  was  President,  and 
an  advocate  of  temperance  for  fifty  years,  and  now  I 
must  soon  go  the  way  of  my  fathers,  and  those  that  have 
known  us  will  know  us  no  more. — Philip  Kribs. 

A  BLESSED   UNION   THAT    EVEN   DEATH   DID   NOT   SEVER. 

My  father,  P.  A.  Figg,  departed  this  life 
December  10th,  last,  and  my  mother  two  days 
later,  and  both  were  buried  in  the  same  grave. 
My  father  and  mother  dearly  loved  their  paper  and 
ware  always  delighted  with  its  weekly  visits,  and  were 
greatly  interested  in  the  reforms  it  advocated ;  and  I  be- 
lieve they  entertained  every  agent  and  lecturer  that  came 
to  their  neighborhood .  They  will  be  remembered  by 
brethren  Stoddard,  Levington,  Kiggins,  Cook,  and  all 
who  visited  this  part  in  the  interest  of  the  anti  secrecy  re- 
form.— W.  H.  FiGG,  Reno,  2nd. 

A  GOOD  LEAVEN  IN  CALIFORNIA. 
I  think  by  keeping  the  paper  in  the  hands  of  all  the 
ministers  that  the  sentiment  will  find  way  through  them 
to  the  people;  to  some  extent,  though,  the  churches  are 
mouth-locked  in  this  country.  Except  a  few  Wesley- 
ans  and  Free  Methodists,  I  don't  know  of  a  church  in 
this  region  that  would  allow  an  anti-secret  lecture  in  it. 
That  makes  it  hard  keeping  up  a  club  for  the  Cynosure. 
I  have  a  dry  jab  of  it.  I  feel  that  I  am  but  a  little 
leaven  in  a  big,  cold  lump,  but  I  try  to  work.  I  love 
our  cause. — L.B.Lathrof. 

STEADFAST    IN    THE   FAITH. 

I  am  the  same  Anti-mason  of  other  years,  having  seen 
no  occasion  to  change  my  convictions  on  the  question  of 
the  lodge ;  though  my  labor  has  fallen  in  other  lines  than 
in  former  days,  the  struggle  btill  goes  on. — Rev  J.  V. 
Potts. 

PRESSING   on   the    SWEDES. 

Please  send  me  one  copy  of  your  best  exposition  on 
Good  Templarism.  These  "knights"  begin  to  press  into 
our  lines,  and  we  must  do  all  we  can  to  fight  them  before 
they  gain  stronger  ground  among  our  people.  Among 
the  "liberal"  part  of  our  Swedish  people  and  among 
SwedishMethodists  andBaptists  they  have  strong  support. 
— L.  G.  Almen,  editor  Skaffaren. 

the  secret  oaths  of  JESUITISM   WANTED. 

The  article  you  printed  on  Romanism  by  Rev.  A  Smith 
of  New  York  in  your  issue  of  December  15,  1887,  was 
worth  a  year's  subscription.  I  hope  Mr.  Smith  will  con- 
tinue to  pound  away  on  Romanism  till  be  breaks  down 
the  bolted  and  muffled  doors  of  the  priests'  harems  and 
reveals  what  is  transpiring  within.  Give  us  the  Jesuits' 
oath  of  allegiance  to  the  Pope,  and  also  the  oath  of  alle- 
giance every  priest,  bishop  and  cardinal  in  this  country 
is  required  to  give  him  — John  W.Plummbr. 
THE   LODGE   A   MUMMY. 

Believe  me,  I  am  with  you  in  this  matter.  All  my  in- 
fluence in  counsel  among  Christians  goes  this  way.  Daily 
I  see  its  injury  to  the  spread  of  vital,  i.  e  ,  heart  relig- 
ion and  experience.  It  is  much  too  bad  to  pass  off  a 
mummy,  so  old  as  is  represented,  for  the  saving  Gospel, 
What  we  want  is  grace,  not  law;  the  grace  which  bring- 
eth  salvation. — Wm  J.  Wenn,  Lehigh,  Indian  Territory. 


Bible  Lesson. 


STUDIES  IN  THE  NEW  TESTAMENT. 
LESSON  IX.— Feb.  26.— The  Rich  Young  Ru'er.— Matt .  19: 
16-26 

GOLDEN  TEXT.— Ye  cannot  serve  Qod  and  mammon.— 
Matt.  6;  31. 

[Open  tht  B(ble  and  rtai  t\«  Utton.  \ 

In  this  lesson  we  have  a  serious  opening  of  the  whole 
question  of  human  righteousness  in  relation  to  eternal 
life.  Following  the  discourse  with  the  rich  young  man 
who  came  inquiring  as  to  the  conditions  of  entering  life 
eternal,  our  Lord  addresses  a  serious  discourse  to  his 
disciples  concerning  salvation.  The  chief  interest,  how- 
ever, gathers  about  the  joung  ruler. 

I.  A  HELt -RIGHTEOUS  INQUIRER,— By  this  designa- 
tion we  do  not  wish  to  excile  prejudice  against  those 
who,  like  this  young  man,  call  out  our  admiration  as  he 
did  our  Lord's,  but  who  are  yet  deplorably  deficient  and 


out  of  the  way  in  respect  to  righteousness  and  the  king- 
dom  of   Qod.      1.      An     ADMIRABLE    YOUNG     MAN.      Our 

Lord's  admiration  (Mark  10:  31)  was  not  alone  based 
upon  his  personal  morality,  but  because  of  other  rare 
and  noble  characteristics,  some  of  which  we  will  enu- 
merate, (a)  Ee  was  an  exceptionally  serious  man.  It 
was  a  rare  thing  for  one  in  his  position  to  think  of  these 
things  in  a  serious  way,  and  still  more  rare  to  apply  to 
Jesus.  In  our  day  the  young,  the  rich,  and  those  of 
high  position  are  seldom  found  deeply  interested  con- 
cerning the  things  that  belong  to  Qod,  eternity,  and 
the  soul;  abundant  worldly  possessions  hide  them  from 
the  eyes  and  crowd  them  from  the  thoughts,  (b)  He 
was,  as  far  as  he  went,  an  admirable  inquirer.  The 
rich  and  high  conditioned  do  not  often  take  their  places 
in  a  crowd  and  present  themselves  as  others  do  before  a 
great  religious  teacher;  but  this  young  man  came  run- 
ning to  Jesus  (Mark  10)  and  knelt  down  at  his  feet.  We 
find  in  him  an  extraordinary  blending  of  humility  with 
a  proud  sense  of  righteousness  which  we  know  him  to 
have  possessed.  2.  A  deficient  young  man.  Upon 
the  whole,  he  was  as  perfect  to  the  human  eye  as  he 
esteemed  himself  to  be;  still,  there  were  grave  deficien- 
cies in  his  character,  (a)  Be  was  a  very  proud  young 
man.  This  may  seem  to  be  a  contradiction  of  what  we 
have  said  as  to  his  humility;  but  his  very  humility  may 
have  been  a  part  of  his  pride.  It  is  impossible  not  to 
discover  pride  in  his  answer  in  verse  20.  And  yet  it 
would  be  impossible  for  any  human  being  unenlightened 
by  the  Spirit  of  Qod  not  to  be  proud  of  such  a  large 
measure  of  righteousness,  (b)  He  was  a  very  ignorant 
man.  While  he  had  an  admirable  knowledge  of  the 
letter  of  God's  law,  he  was  profoundly  ignorant  of  its 
true  spiritual  import.  He  did  not  see  that  the  keeping 
of  the  commandments  involved  much  more  than  the 
mere  observance  of  the  letter.  Moreover,  his  ignorance 
is  seen  in  that  he  thought  eternal  life  might  be  won  by 
his  doings  (Rom  10:  3).  (c)  He  was  an  intensely 
worldly  and  selfish  man.  When  Jesus  put  to  him,  on 
his  own  ground,  the  final  test  of  doing,  he  refused.  He 
was  unwilling  to  part  with  his  wealth  for  the  sake  of  the 
poor  neighbor  whom  he  hal  professed  to  love  as  him- 
self. Thus  do  we  see  how  much  sin  and  selfishness  may 
be  hidden  away  under  a  fair  outward  show  in  the  flish. 

II.  Self-righteousness  Unmasked. — We  have  al- 
ready opened  this  topic  in  part  bv  what  we  have  said  of 
the  young  man's  deficiencies.  Nevertheless,  it  is  worth 
our  while  to  give  some  especial  attention  to  the  gentle 
and  loving  way  in  which  Jesus  lifts  the  veil  from  the  - 
young  ruler's  heart,  and  shows  how  deceitful  and  false  it 
was  under  all  his  vaunted  goodness.  1.  Self-right- 
eousness TAKES  NO  ACCOUNT  OP  GoD,  the  Supreme 
Good.  This  is  implied  in  our  Lord's  first  reply:  If 
you  will  truly  see  that  which  is  good,  you  must  carry 
your  question  beyond  me  (that  is,  beyond  what  you  con- 
ceive me  to  be — a  mere  religious  teacher) ;  you  must  go 
directly  to  God,  and  get  your  thoughts  of  goodness 
from  him.  2.  Self-rightbousness  takes  account 
OF  outward  actions  only.  It  leaves  God  out,  and 
has  to  do  only  with  man's  relations  to  man,  and  that  in 
outward  fashion;  not  with  the  spirit  of  the  law  which 
honors  God's  character  and  the  eternal  righteousness  of 
his  moral  government.  3.  Self-righteousness  ter- 
minates UPON  self.  This  young  man  kept  the  com 
mandments  unbroken,  not  because  he  loved  his  neigh- 
bor, but  because  he  loved  himself.  It  was  all  "I."  4. 
Self  righteousness  is  often  seen  in  connection 
WITH  SOME  VERY  GRAVE  SIN.  In  the  case  of  this 
young  man  it  was  love  of  money.  We  are  not  to  under- 
stand that  this  suggestion  of  Christ  is  a  condition  of  life; 
it  was,  rather,  a  logical  conclusion  put  forth  by  him 
from  the  premises  of  righteousness  and  the  way  of  life 
advanced  by  the  young  ruler.  5.  Self  righteousness 
LACKS  DEPTH  OF  SINCERITY.  No  doubt  this  young  man 
thought  that  he  very  much  desired  eternal  life;  but  when 
it  came  to  the  point  he  cared  more  for  his  wealth  and 
his  way ;  for  he  was  not  ready  to  part  with  the  one  and 
give  up  the  other  and  come  after  Christ.  Salf -righteous- 
ness objects  to  the  condition  of  discipleship :  "Deny  thy- 
self, take  up  thy  cross,  and  come  after  me."  6.  Self- 
righteousness  PARTS  with  Christ  and  eternal  life. 
When  his  true  self  was  unmasked  he  was  filled  with  dis- 
appointment, but  not  a  sorrow  that  worked  repentance; 
"and  he  went  away,"  with  his  self-righteousness  and  his 
riches.  In  coming  to  Christ  we  must  be  prepared  to 
part  with  all  that  we  are  and  have,  that  we  may  receive 
instead,  as  a  gift,  both  a  new  life  and  new  righteousness. 

III.  Concerning  Riches  and  Salvation.— The  con- 
versation with  the  young  man  evidently  impressed  the 
disciples,  and  Christ  took  occasion  to  read  thsm  a  most 
impressive  lesson  on  the  sin  and  danger  of  riches.  1 . 
A  rich  man  shall  hardly  enter  into  the  kingdom  of 
heaven.  We  are  not  to  consider  that  wealth  in  itself  is 
sinful;  it  is  the  inordinate  love  of  money  which  sets  it 
up  as  the  chief  thing  to  be  obtained  It  is  the  spirit  of 
covetousness  that  makes  it  so  hard  for  a  rich  man  to  be 
saved;  not  because  of  the  money,  but  because  of  the 
effect  of  the  love  of  it  upon  the  nature  of  man.  There 
is  hardly  any  sin  which  men  will  not  comoiit  for  the  sake 
of  money.  Therefore,  is  it  so  deadly  a  thing  to  get  un- 
der its  power.  2  "Who  then  can  be  saved?"  Since  the 
love  of  money  is  so  universal,  affecting  not  only  the  rich, 
but  the  poor  man  who  desires  to  be  rich,  who  then  can 
be  saved?  "With  Qod  all  things  are  possible"  The 
covetous  man  can  be  saved  if  he  is  ready  to  come  to  God 
and  choose  him  rather  than  the  money.  In  other  words, 
salvation  is  a  matter  of  divine  power  and  not  of  human 
effort.  All  this  is  a  suggestive  lesson,  growing  out  of 
the  interview  between  Jesus  and  the  young  man  who 
was  rich,  and  who  lost  his  soul  because  he  loved  his 
money  better  than  life.  May  God  keep  us  from  this  and 
all  sin,  and  save  us  by  his  grace  who  cannot  save  our- 
sel  ves  by  our  own  effort  or  doings. 


^^^  '*• '-  - 


FlBBUABT  16,  1888 


THE  CHBISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


OBITUARY. 

Isaac  J.  Gilbert  of  Derby,  Connecti- 
cut, is  dead.  He  will  be  remembered  as 
one  of  the  most  earnest  and  self-denying 
of  the  supporters  of  the  reform  in  New 
England,  not  counting.it  dear  that  labor, 
money,  and  reputation,  even,  must  be 
sacrificed  that  men  might  know  the  dan- 
ger of  the  secret  lodge.  We  find  the 
following  sketch  of  his  life  in  the  Sun- 
ing  Sentinel  of  Ansonia,  Conn  ,  of  Jan- 
uary 24: 

Isaac  Jones  Gilbert  was  a  direct  de- 
scendent  of  Matthew  Gilbert,  one  of  the 
Pilgrim  Fathers,  who  came  to  this  coun- 
try in  the  Maj  flower,  and  was  a  member 
of  the  colony  which  located  the  city  of 
New  Haven.  He  was  by  occupation  a 
tanner,  and  established  his  business  on 
George  street,  which  property  has  re- 
mained in  the  possession  of  the  Gilbert 
family  until  the  present  time.  The  de- 
ceased was  the  son  of  the  Jabez  M.  Gil- 
bert, who  was  born  in  New  Haven,  in 
1781,  and  who  located  and  engaged  in 
the  tanning  business  in  Hidgefield,  Conn ., 
where  his  son  Isaac  Jones  was  born  in 
1805.  His  mother,  Betsey  Jones,  was  the 
daughter  of  John  Jones,  who  was  a  lieu- 
tenant in  the  Revolutionary  war.  Isaac 
J.  Gilbert  married  Elizabeth  Hyatt,  who 
was  a  descendant  of  Thomas  Hyatt,  whose 
name  first  appears  in  the  record  of  the 
town  of  Norwalk  in  1671.  He  was  a 
soldier  in  the  Indian  war. 

The  deceased  removed  from  Ridgefield 
to  the  town  of  Westville,  in  this  State,  in 
the  year  1830,  spending  one  year  there 
in  the  tanning  business.  The  following 
spring  he  came  to  Derby,  purchasing  the 
tannery  of  Abijah  Wallace,  and  in  this 
town  he  has  resided  for  nearly  fifty  seven 
years.  Denominationally  Mr.  Gilbert  was 
a  Methodist,  and  his  father  and  grand- 
father had  been  before  him,  and  on  com- 
ing to  Derby  he  united  with  the  little 
Methodist  society  worshiping  In  the 
school  house  at  Derby  Neck.  In  the  year 
1835,  soon  after  the  village  of  Birming- 
ham had  been  located,  the  society  decid- 
ed to  erect  a  church,  aad  the  site  was  se- 
lected on  which  the  present  edifice  now 
stands.  To  this  enterprise  Mr.  Gilbert 
gave  material  aid  and  hearty  devotion. 
He  was  chairman  of  the  building  commit- 
tee, and  the  subscription  book,  which  has 
been  preserved,  shows  that  the  heading 
was  drawn  by  him  and  contains  the  names 
of  over  seventy-five  of  the  prominent  cit- 
izens ct  the  town,  many  of  them  being 
members  of  the  other  churches. 

Mr.  Gilbert  was  an  early  and  earnest 
anti  slavery  man,  and  his  house  was  a 
station  of  the  underground  railroad,  where 
the  fugitive  who  was  so  fortunate  as  to 
arrive  there  found  welcome  and  shelter. 
In  the  early  days  of  the  total  abstinence 
movement  he  espoused  that  cause  with 
equal  zeal  and  devotion,  and  the  persecu- 
tions he  endured,  such  as  the  burning  of 
his  tannery  and  the  mutilation  of  other 
property,  and  insults  to  himself  and  his 
family,  were  proof  that  he  gave  vigo- 
rous blows  to  the  opponents  of  that  cause. 
In  all  the  other  reforms  of  the  day  in 
which  he  became  interested  be  had  the 
courage  to  be  true  to  his  convictions,  and 
though  subjected  sometimes  to  personal 
reproach  and  unjust  criticisms,  he  was 
Btill  the  relentless  opponent-  never  waver- 
ing or  yielding  his  cause,  and  those  who 
know  him  best  knew  tbat  he  was  actuat- 
ed by  no  motive  of  selfishness  or  policy. 

He  was  kind  and  sympathetic  with  the 
poor  and  oppressed.  He  had  a  generous 
and  hospitable  nature,  and  was  a  loving 
and  affectionate  father.  Jdis  zaal  in  de- 
fending the  right  had  its  source  of  inspi 
ration  in  a  genuine  Christian  character. 
His  last  davB  were  full  of  holy  joy  and 
triumph.  His  faith  in  the  promises  of 
God's  Word  was  unwavering.  Hia  prep 
arations  for  death  were  made  in  health, 
and  during  his  sickness  he  had  not  a  care 
or  a  fear,  and  his  sun  set  in  a  cloudless 
sky. 

MASONIC  OUTRAGES. 

BT  REV.  H.  H.  HINMAN. 

The  character  of  this  valuable  pamphlet  Is 
seen  from  its  chapter  headings :  I, — Masoulc 
Attempts  on  the  Lives  of  Sccedere.  II.— Ma- 
sonic Slander.  III. — Masonic  Assault  on  Free 
Speech.  IV. — Freemasonry  Among  the  Col- 
ored People.  V. — Masonic  Interference  with 
the  Punishment  of  Criminals.  V  I.  —The  Fruits 
of  the  Masonic  Institution  as  seen  In  the  Con- 
spiracies and  Outrages  of  Other  SciTt-t  Orders. 
Vll.— The  Relation  of  the  Secrt-t  Lodge  Sys- 
tem to  the  Foregoing  and  Similar  Outrages. 
prick,  postpaid,  ao  cknt8. 

National  Christian  Association, 
221  W.  Madison  St.,  Chicago. 


SECRET  SOOIETIBS  CONDEMNED 


BY  EMINENT  TESTIMONY. 

Pbes.  a.  a.  Smith,  Northweatern  Col- 
lege:— There  can  be  no  doubt  that  when 
secrecy  is  adopted  as  a  rule  of  action,  it 
has  a  demoralizing  tendency. 

Matilda  J.  Gage,  a  leader    in    the 
Woman  Svffrage  movement:  —  Masonry 
excludes  women,  not  for   any  great  se- 
crets it  may  have,  but  because  of  shame 
for  its  indecent  ceremonies . 

Rev.  T.  D.  Post,  D.  J)., of  St.  Louis, 
in  an  address  before  the  Pilgrim  Memorial 
Convention,  Chicago,  1870,  spoke  of  the 
lodge  as  setting  up  the  hollow  forms  and 
titles  of  king-craft  and  priest-craft,  that 
those  hated  foes  of  humanity  might  creep 
back  into  their  shells. 

PiiOF.  RoBisoN.— "But  not  only  are 
secret  societies  dangerous,  but  all  socie- 
ties whose  effect  is  mysterious.  The 
whole  history  of  man  is  proof  of  this  po- 
sition; in  no  age  or  country  has  there 
ever  appeared  a  mysterious  association 
which  did  not  in  time  become  a  public 
nuisance."    Proofs  of  a  Conspiracy. 

Bishop  Stevens,  ( Protestant  Episco 
pal)  in  an  address  before  Pennsylvania 
diocese,  1874,  said  he  "had  refused 
to  receive  at  the  holy  communion 
young  men  who  belonged  to  secret  soci- 
eties existing  within  the  church,  as  the 
machinery  of  these  organizations  was 
used  to  advance  the  interests  of  ritualism 
and  Romanism." 

Rev.  Dr.Krauth,  President  of  Luth- 
eran General  Council: — They  strike  at 
the  root  of  the  three  divine  institutions . 
They  bring  disturbance  into  the  family, 
the  church  and  the  state,  claiming  for 
themselves  what  God  has  conferred  on 
these  alone .  If  the  church  cannot  break 
down,  by  the  truth,  the  oath-bound  se- 
cret societies,  they  will  break  her  down 
everywhere. 

Mrs  .  C  .  B  .  Miller,  Syracuse,  N.  Y. , 
daughter  of  Victory  Birdseye,  Esq.: — 
My  father  died  in  1853.  Had  he  lived 
to  see  the  rebellion  of  1861,  I  have  no 
doubt  that  he  would  have  said  that  Free- 
masonry in  common  with  slavery  should 
bear  the  responsibility  of  that  terrible 
war;  for  by  undermining  Southern  loyal- 
ty it  brought  about  a  state  of  things 
without  which  the  rebellion  would  have 
been  impossible. 

Pres.  H.A.Thompson,  Otterbein  Uni- 
ve7  sity -.—Wb&t  a  farce  to  think  of  Christ 
organizing  an  oath-bound  association, 
admitting  members  by  a  solemn  pledge, 
in  a  secluded  room,  in  some  lonely  place, 
with  sentinels  outside  and  Inside  to  pro- 
tect from  the  vulgar  gaze,  in  order  to 
help  men  to  a  purer  life;  to  induce  them 
to  reform  and  forget  their  past  misdeeds 
and  begin  anew.  If  this  is  the  best 
method  of  saving  men,  why  did  he  not 
adopt  it  instead  of,  or  make  it  a  part  of 
the  Christian  church  which  he  himself 
instituted. 

Dh.  Adam  Clarke  :-"Have  no  fellow- 
ship" means  have  no  religious  connec- 
tion with  heathens  or  their  worship.  The 
"unfruitful  works  of  darkness"  probably 
alludes  to  the  mysteries  among  the  heath- 
ens and  the  differing  lustrations  (symbols) 
and  rites  through  which  the  initiated 
went  in  the  caves  and  dark  recesses  where 
these  mysteries  were  celebrated;  all  of 
which  be  (the  apostle)  denominates 
"works  of  darkness,"  because  they  were 
destitute  of  true  wisdom;  and  "unfruit- 
ful works"  because  they  were  of  no  use 
to  mankind;  the  initiated  being  obliged 
on  pain  of  death  to  keep  secret  what  they 
had  seen  and  heard  and  done. —  Commen- 
tary, Eph  5th  chap. 

How  then  could  they  keep  up  the 
profession  of  Christianity  or  pretend  to 
be  under  its  influence  while  they  had 
communion  with  darkness,  concord  with 
Belial,  and  partook  with  infidels?— Com. 
Cor.  6S. 

Hon.  Beman  Lintoln,  ex-Oovemor, 
Mans  : — Freemasonry,  as  a  distinct,  inde- 
pendent government  within  our  own  gov- 
ernment, and  beyond  the  control 
of  the  laws  of  the  land,  by  means 
of  its  secrecy  and  the  oaths  and  regula- 
tions which  its  subjects  are  bound  to  obey 
under  penalties  of  death,  has  occupied 
much  of  the  attention  of  the  committee. 
.  .  .  We  believe,  in  the  language  of  the 
Edinburgh  i?oci'eu,  that  all  secret  societies 
are  justly  deemed  odious,  wherever  the 
government  is  tolerably  free,  and  can 
only  be  excused  where  the  existence  of 
arbitrary  power,  foreign  or  domestic, 
leaves  no  other  means  of  escaping  from 
hopeless  slavery. 


ANTI-MA80NIO  LS0TUBBB8. 

Gbnbbal  AeBNT  AND  Lbctxtbbb,  J.  p. 
Stoddard,  221  W.  Madison  St.,  Chicago. 
H.  H.  Hinman,  Cynosure  office. 
Agent  for  Southern  States. 
Statb  AesKTS. 
Iowa,  C.  P,   Hawley,  Wheaton,    Du- 
Page  Co.,  Illinois. 
Missouri,  Eld.  Rufus  Smith,  Maryville. 
New  Hampshire,   Eld.  S.  C.  Kimball, 
New  Market. 
Ohio,  W.  B.  Stoddard,  Columbus. 
Kansas,  Robert  Loggan,  Clifton. 
Alabama,  Rev.  G.  M.  Elliott,  Selma. 

Dbobsb  WoBKBaa. — LSeceders."] 
J.  K.  Glassford,  Carthage,  Mo. 
Othbb  Lbctubbbs. 

C.  A.  Blanchard,  Wheaton,  lU. 
N.  Callender,  Brown  Hollow,  Pa. 
J ,  H.  Tlmmons,  Tarentum,  Pa 

T.  B.  McCormlck,  Princeton,  Ind. 

B.  Johnson,  Dayton,  Ind. 

H.  A.  Day,  Wllllamstown,  Mich. 

J.  M.  Bishop,  ChambersburK,  Pa. 

A.  Mayn,  Bloomlngton,  IndT 

J.  B.  Cressinger,  Sullivan,  O. 

W.  M.  Love,  Osceola,  Mo. 

J.  L.  Barlow,  Grundy  Center,  Iowa. 

A.  D.Freeman,  Downers  Grove,  111 

Wm.  FentoD .  St  Paul,  Minn. 

Warren  Taylor,  South  Salem,  O. 

J.  S.Perry,  Thompson,  Conn. 

J.  T.  Michael,  Washington,  D.  C 

8.  G.  Barton,  Breckinridge,  Mo. 

E.  BametBon,  HaskinvlUe,  Steuben  Co,  N.  Y 

Wm.  R.  Roach,  Pickering,  Ont. 

D.  A.  Richards,  Brighton,  Mich. 

THE   CHUROESB    VS.   LOD^VRT. 

The  following  denominations  are  com- 
mitted by  vote  of  their  legislative  assem- 
bli^  or  by  constitution  to  a  separation 
from  secret  lodge  worship: 

Adventists  (Seventh-day.) 

Baptists — Primitive,  Seventh-day  and 
Scandinavian. 

Brethren  (Dunkers  .or  German  Bap- 
tists.) 

Christian  Reformed  Church. 

Church  of  God  VNorthem  Indiana  El 
dership.) 

Congregational — The  State  Associations 
of  Illinois  and  Iowa  have  adopted  resolu- 
tions against  the  lodge. 

Disciples  (in  part.) 

Friends. 

Lutherans — Norwegian,  Danisk,  Swed- 
ish and  Synodical  Conferences. 

Mennonites. 

Methodists — Free  and  Wesleyan. 

Methodist  Protestant  (Minnesota  Con 
ference.) 

Moravians. 

Plymouth  Brethren. 

Presbyterian — Associate,  Reforme,!  aad 
United. 

Reformed  Church  (Holland  Branch.) 

United  Brethren  in  Christ. 

Individual  churches  in  some  of  these 
denominations  should  be  excepted,  in  part 
of  them  even  a  considerable  portion. 

The  following  local  churches  have,  aa  a 
pledge  to  disfellowship  and  oppose  lodge 
worship,  given  their  names  to  the  follow- 
ing list  as 

THB   ASSOCIATBD  CHURCHBB   OF  CHRIST. 

New    Ruhamah  Cong.  Hamilton,  Miss. 

Pleasant  Kid^e  Cong.   Sandford  Co  Ala. 

New  Hope  Jii'thtKllst,  Lowndes  Co.,  Mis*. 

Congregational,  College  Springs,  Iowa. 

College  Church  of  Christ,  vVheaton,  111. 

First  Congregational,  Leland,  Mich. 

Sugxr  Grove  Church,  Green  county,  Pa. 

Military  Chapel,  M.  E.,  Lowndes  county, 
Miss. 

Hopewed  Missionary  Baptist.,  Lowndes  Ca, 
Miss. 

Cedar  Grove  Mlse.  Baptist,  Lowndes  Ca, 
Miss. 

Simon's  Chapel,   M.   E.,  Lowndes  Co.,  Miss. 

Plcuaaut  Ridge  Mlse.  Baptist,  Lowndes  Co., 
VIlss. 

Brownlce  Church,  Caledonia,  Miss. 

Salem  Church,  Lowndes  Co.,  Miss. 

»Ve8t  Preston  Baptist  Church.  Wayne  Co.,Pa. 
OTHBB  LOCAL  CHTTBCHBS 

adopting  the  same  nrinciple  are — 

Baptist  churches :  N.  Ablngton,  Pa. ;  Menc- 
monle,  Mondovl,  Waubeck  and  Spring  Prairie, 
Wis. ;  Wheaton,  111. ;  Perry,  N.  Y". ;  Spring 
Creek,  near  Burlington,  Iowa;  Lima,  Ind.; 
Constablevllle,  N.  Y.  The  "Good  Will  Msoci- 
ton"  of  Mobile,  Ala.,  comprising  some  twenty- 
five  colored  Baptist  churches;  Brldgewater 
Baptist  Association,  Pa.;  Old  Tebo  Baptist, 
near  Leesville,  Henry  Co.,  Mo. ;  Hoopeston,  111 ; 
Esmen,  111. ;  Strykersville,  N.  Y. 

Congregational  churches :  1st  of  Oberlin,  O. ; 
Tonica.  CTyst&l  Lake,  Union  and  Big  Woods, 
IlL  ;  Solsburj-,  Ind. ;  Congregational  Methodist 
Maplewoo<l,  Mass. 

Independent  churches  in  Lowell,  Conntry- 
man  school  house  near  Llndenwood,  Mar«ingo 
and  Streator,  111. ;  Bereaand  Camp  Nelson,  Ky ; 
Ustlck,  111. ;  Clarksburg,  Kansas ;  8tat«  Associ- 
ation of  Mlnlaten  and  Chorchea  of  C3irlit  la 


N.  C.  A.  BUILDINa  AND  OITICX  01 
THE  CHRISTIAN   CYNOSURE, 
aSl  WEST  MADISON  STREET,  CHICAQC 


StAflONAL  CE&IS  TIAN  A880CIA IIOH 

Pbebidbnt.— H.  H.  George,  D.  D.,  Gen- 
eva College,  Pa. 

Vicb-prbbidbnt — Rev.  M.  A.  Gault, 
Blanchard,  Iowa. 

Cob.  Sbc'y  and  Gbnbbal  AeBNT. — J 
P.  Stoddard,  221 W.  Madisonst.,  Chicago. 

Rbc.  Sbc'y.  and  Tbbabubbb. — W.  I. 
Phillips,  221  W.  Madison  St.,   Chicago. 

DmscTOBS. — Alexander  Thomson,  Mi 
R.  Britten,  John  Gardner,  J.  L.  Barlow, 
L.  N.  Stratton.  Thos.  H.  Gault,  C,  A, 
Blanchard,  J,  E.  Roy,  E.  R.  Worrell,  H, 
A,  Fischer.  W.  R.  Hench. 

The  object  of  this  Association  is; 

"To  expose,  withstand  and  remove  secrvl 
societies,  Freemasonry  In  particular,  and  othef 
anti-Christian  movemeots,  in  order  to  save  ths 
churches  of  Christ  from  being  uepraved,  to  re 
deem  the  administration  of  justice  from  per 
version,  and  our  rjp  ibllcan  government  from 
corruption." 

To  carry  on  this  work  contributions  art 
solicited  from  every  friend  of  tne  reform. 

Form  of  Beqcest.— J  give  and  l>c<iueath  to 
the  National  Christian  ABsociation,  Incorpo- 
rated and  existing  under  the  laws  of  the  State 

of   Illinois,  the  sura  of doUats  for  the 

purposes  of  said  Association,  and  for  whirb 
foe  receipt  of  its  Treasurer  for  the  time  being 
<l)4ii  be  sufficleat  di^charae. 

THB  NATIONAL  CONYBNTIOH. 

Pbbbidbnt. — Rev.    J.    8.   McCulloch, 
D.  D. 
Sbcbetaby.— Rev.  Levris  Johnson. 
statb  auttt.tabt  associations         a 

Alabajla..— Pre*.,  Prof.  Pickens;  Sec,  Q. 
M.  EUlott;  Treas.,  Rev.  C.  B.  Curtis,  all  of 
Selma. 

Calitobnia.— PreSy^  L.  B.  Lathrop,  Hollls 
ter;  Cor.  Sec.,  Mrs.  U.  P.  Merrill,  Woodland; 
Treas.,  C.  Ruddock,  Woodland. 

CoNNBCTicuT.— Pres..  J.  A.  Conant,  WlUl 
mantle;  Sec,  Geo.  Smith,  WUllmantic ;  Treas. 
C.  T.  Collins,  Windsor. 

IiLiNOiB.— Pres.,  J.  P.  Stoddard;  Sec,  M. 
N.  Butler;  Treas.,  W.  I.  PhllUps  all  at  Cy- 
tiotntn  office. 

Indiana.— Pres.,  William  H.  Flgg,  Reno 
Sec,  S.  L.  Cook,  Albion;  Treas.,  Benj.  Ulah 
Silver  Lake. 

Iowa.— Pres.,Wm.  JohnBton,College  Springs ; 
Cor  Sec.,  C.  D.  Trumbull,  MomlTie  Sun; 
Treas.,  James  Harvey.  Pleasant  Plain." Jeff»>r- 
8on  Co. ;  Lecturer,  C.  F.  Hawley,  Wheaton,  111. 

Kahsab.— Pre*.,  J.  P.  Richards,  Ft.  Scott; 
Secj  W.  W.  McMillan,  Olathe;  Treas.,  J. 
A.  Torrence,  N.  Cedar. 

MA88ACBXJ8ETT8.— Pres.,  8.  A.  Pratt;  Sec., 
Mrs.  E.  D.  Bailey;  Treas., David  Mannlng.Sr., 
Worceeter.  ^ 

Michigan.— Pres.,  D.  A.  Richards,  Brighton ; 
Sec'y,  H.  A.  Day,  WilUamston;  Treas. 
Geo.  Bwanson,  Jr.,  Bedfoiu. 

MiHNBBOTA.— Pres.,  E.  Q.  Paine,  Wsulo'a 
Cor.  Sec.,  Wm.  Fenton,  St  Paul :  Rec  Sec'y 
Mrs.  M.  F.  MorrUl,  St.  Cnaries;  Treas.,  Wm 
H.  Morrill,  St.  Charles. 

MiBSOUKi.— Pres.,  B.  F.  Miller,  EaglevlUe 
Treas.,  William  Beauchamp,  Avalon ;  Cor.  8*c 
A.  D.  Thoma^  Avalon. 

NsBBASSA.— Pres.,  8.  Austin,  Falrmonst 
Cor.  Sec,  W.  Spooner,  Kearney;  Treas. 
J.  C.  Fye. 

Nbw  Eampshikb.— Pres.,  C.  L.  Baker,  Man 
chesur;  Sec,  8.  C.  Kimball,  New  Market 
Treas.,  James  F.  French,  Canterbury. 

N«w  York.— Pres.,  F.  W.  Capwell,  Dale; 
Sec'y,  John  Wallace,  Syracuse;  Treas.,  M. 
Merrick,  Syracuse. 

Ohio.- Pres.,  F.  M.  Spencer,  New  Concord; 
Rec.  Sec,  S.  A.  George,  Mansfield;  Cor.  Sec 
and  Treas.,  C.  W.  Hlitt,  Columbus;  Agent, 
W.  B.  Stoddard,  Columbus. 

PmHNSTLYAHiA.— Pres.,  A.  L.  Post,  Mm 
txoee;  Cor.  Sec,  N.  Callender,  ThompwB 
Treas.,  W.  B.  Bertels,  Wllkeebarre. 

Vmrmont.— Pres.,  W.  R.  Laird,  St.  Johnar 
bnry;  Sec,  C  W  Pottw.      „,,„,. 

WiBOOHSiH.— Pres.,  J.  W  Wood,  Baraboo; 
Sec,  W.  W.  Ames,  Menomoqie;  Treas.,  M.  B 
Britten,  Vienna. 


8 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSUBE. 


Fbbeuabt  16, 1888 


The  Christian  Cynosure. 


J.  BLANCHARD. 


KSROBS. 


HSNRT  L.  KXLL06G. 


CHICAeO,    THXTBBDAY,    FEBRUAKY   16,   1888. 


Ebmember  the  bequest  for  fasting  and 
PRATER,  Feb.  17th,  the  opening  of  the  New 
Orleans  Convention. 


TMS  THOUSAND    COLORED  PASTORS . 


SHALL  THBY  HAVE  THBIR  PAPBK? 

Week  by  week  generous  friends  of  the  colored  race 
answer,  Yes.  The  fund  for  this  purpose  reaches  $704.- 
26,  as  reported  on  page  13,  and  cheering  letters  show  the 
enthusiasm  in  this  enterprise  of  all  who  realize  the  nature 
of  secretism.  Every  letter  from  the  South  justifies  our 
efforts,  and  approves  the  judgment  that  no  expenditure 
of  an  equal  sum  will  bring  so  great  returns. 

The  $900  contributed  for  this  purpose  in  the  two  years 
and  a  half  after  June,  1885,  placed  the  Cynosure  in  the 
hands  of  hundreds  of  colored  pastors,  but  few  of  whom 
could  have  paid  for  it  themselves.  Note  the  grand  re- 
sults which  have  followed,  chiefly  because  of  this  work: 

1.  The  Louisiana  Baptist  State  Convention.represent- 
ing  70,000  church  members,  has  voted  against  the  lodge. 

2.  The  Texas  Baptists  will  probably  take  the  same 
stand  at  their  next  meeting. 

3.  The  Methodist  Episcopal  church  in  Texas  is  nearly 
ready  for  like  action. 

4.  So  are  the  Arkansas  Baptists,  a  prominent  Associa- 
tion having  already  so  voted. 

5.  The  same  churches  in  western  Tennessee  are  coming 
out  against  secretism. 

6.  So  in  Alabama  the  Good-will  Association  is  stand- 
ing against  the  orders. 

7.  The  Congregational  churches  all  through  the  South 
are  opposing  the  lodge,  encouraged  by  the  American 
Missionary  Association. 

8 .  Two  schools  for  higher  instruction  have  been  organ- 
ized within  a  year  which  maintain  this  principle,  while 
nearly  every  institution  for  the  education  of  the  Negro 
is  open  for  instruction  of  the  students  on  the  dangers  of 
the  lodge . 

9.  Christians  at  the  North  should  hasten  this  work 
with  all  zeal,  because  the  reflex  influence  upon  their 
churches  will  soon  be  powerfully  felt. 

The  Cynosure  has  proved  the  best  agency  in  accom- 
plishing this  work  in  the  South .  A  fund  to  send  a  thou- 
sand copies  to  as  many  colored  pastors  is  being  raised. 
Dear  reader,  has  not  the  Lord  given  you  means  to  help 
it  on? 


OUR  STATS  OF  SECLUSION. 


[Note. — The  following  was  written  for  a  double 
purpose:  for  the  readers  of  the  Cynosure  and  a  morn- 
ing lecture  to  the  students  of  Wheaton  College,  who 
received  it  with  much  favor.  The  English  writer, 
whose  theory  it  expands  and  applies,  is  eminently 
original;  there  is  nothing  like  it] 

Some  fifty  years  ago  a  popular  and  highly  orig- 
inal writer,  whose  books  were  widely  read  in  Eng- 
land and  America,  wrote  a  thesis  with  the  above 
title  of  very  great  beauty  and  force.  The  drift  of 
it  was,  that  we  are  fallen  into  a  state  of  seclusion: 
1.  From  God;  2.  From  other  worlds;  3.  From  the 
generations  before  and  after  us;  4.  From  each  other; 
and  5.  From  our  own  selves. 

1.  The  philosophic  poet  uttered  sense  as  well  as 
Scripture  when  he  said  that  in  Eden, 

"God  walked  with  man,  joint  tenant  of  the  shade." 
It  would  seem  that  our  race  were  destined  to  im- 
mortality without  the  intervention  of  death;  that 
angels  were  to  be  their  companions,  and  infinity 
their  home.  That  we  are  now  in  seclusion  from 
these  we  need  no  revelation  to  tell  us.  "Our  iniqui- 
ties have  separated"  between  us  and  our  God  and 
"our  sins  hid  his  face  from  us,"  goes  without  prov- 
ing; true,  even  if  Isaiah  had  not  said  it  (59:  2); 
whosoever  remembers  his  first  attempt  to  pray, 
knows  it. 

2.  And  it  is  equally  obvious  that  we  are  shut  from 
surrounding  worlds  and  their  occupants;  if,  indeed, 
they  have  occupants,  which  is  left  to  probability 
and  inference.  Doubtless  it  had  been  as  easy  to 
have  made,  of  the  myriad  worlds,  one  vast,  contin- 
uous continent;  and,  in  that  case,  the  inhabitants, 
however  remote,  might  have  learned  of  each  other's 
existence,  the  fact,  if  not  the  mode.  But  now  our 
telephones  do  not  reach  them.  Whether  those 
spheres,  like  ours,  contain  minds  which  reason,  and 


hearts  that  throb,  must  yet  be  left  to  conjecture. 
Whether  even  the  bright  angels,  who,  from  their 
skyey  solitudes,  dart  into  and  across  our  horizon, 
"shouting  for  joy"  at  the  creation  of  our  earth,  bring- 
ing messages  of  mercy  or  wrath,  hymning  our  Sav- 
iour's advent,  comforting  him  in  his  agony,  bending, 
by  legions,  over  his  cross,  and  waiting  to  execute 
his  will, — whether  these  superior  creatures  have 
local  attachments  and  homes,  like  ourselves,  in  any 
of  those  shining  worlds,  they  never  deign  to  tell  us. 
We  are  "secluded"  from  them.  They  visit  our  world 
as  a  province  in  rebellion  is  visited  by  loyal  messen- 
gers. Our  intercourse  with  them  is  limited  by  their 
official  errands,  and  they  never  tell  us  where  they  fly 
to  when  they  go  home. 

3.  And  we  are  not  only  shut  off  from  surrounding 
worlds  by  distance,  moral  and  material,  but  even 
on  this  world  of  ours,  we  are  secluded  from  the  gen- 
erations which  precede  us  and  which  follow  us. 
True,  history  brings  us  some  straggling  beams  across 
the  narrow  ocean  of  the  past,  from  coast  lights  on 
the  other  side.  But  these  only  illumine  and  make 
visible  the  crests  of  its  billows,  viz.:  conquerers, 
kings  and  courts.  How  little  do  we^  can  we,  know 
of  the  masses  of  Assyria,  Greece,  Rome,  Carthage, 
or  even  England,  Ireland  and  Wales,  in  the  time  of 
Alfred?  or  even  of  the  generation  on  whose  heels 
we  are  treading  in  the  march  of  time?  How  few 
fathers  tell  their  children  of  their  own  faults  and 
follies;  still  fewer  their  errors,  vices  and  sins.  Chil- 
dren have  to  learn  by  bitter  experience  to  avoid  or 
escape  the  ten  thousand  mistakes  on  which  there  is  a 
chasm  of  silence  between  their  parents  and  them- 
selves. Nor  can  history  here  afford  us  much  aid. 
The  history  of  the  generation  which  is  now  dying  is  not 
yet  written  as  it  will  stand  a  hundred  years  hence; and 
the  generation  now  being  born  have  not  yet  made 
their  record. 

So  we  are  secluded  from  both  past  and  future; 
and  Pope  has  well  said  of  man: 

"Placed  on  this  Isthmue  of  a  middle  state, 
A  being  darkly  wise,  or  rudely  great, 
He  hangs  between,  in  doubt  to  act  or  rest ; 
In  doubt  to  deem  himself  a  god  or  beast." 

4.  And  another  great  poet,  more  familiar  than 
Pope  with  the  right  side  of  human  nature,  has  shown 
that  we  are  equally  ignorant  of  our  next  neighbor, 
as  of  the  people  of  the  planets: 

"And  men  are 


finite  creatures  have  positively  no  relation  to  the 
Infinite  God.  A  ton  or  the  planet  Jupiter  is  no 
nearer  infinite  in  weight  than  an  ounce  or  a  feather. 
God  is 

"As  full,  as  perfect  in  an  hair  as  heart; 
As  full,  as  perfect  in  vile  man  that  mourns, 
As  the  rapt  seraph  that  adores  and  burns. 
To  him  no  high,  no  low,  no  great,  no  small : 
He  fills,  he  bounds,  connects  and  equals  all." 

And  the  Babel-builders  of  to-day  have  the  same 
impious  and  vain  object  with  those  of  old,  to  super- 
cede, set  aside,  and  find  substitutes  for  the  one  only 
Mediator,  Christ,  by  whom  sinners  can  ascend  to 
God:  and  Masonry  is  the  latest  form  of  these  Anti- 
christs. All  who  climb  by  them,  Christ  has  said, 
are  "thieves  and  robbers." 


What  they  name  not  to  themeelyes 

And  trust  not  to  each  other."  — Byron. 

Which  disciple  could  have  predicted  that  Judas 
would  sell  Jesus  for  silver,  an  hour  before  it  was 
done?  or  who  could  have  guessed  the  many  ten  thou- 
sand crimes  which  blacken  the  daily  press? 

5.  And  Peter  as  little  knew  himself  as  he  did 
Judas.  That  was  one  of  the  most  sensible  prayers 
ever  made,  "Cleanse  thou  me  from  secret  faults;" 
— that  is  from  faults  unknown  to  myself.  So  true 
is  it  that  we  are  excluded  from  ourselves. 

Now,  if  we  could  see,  as  Jacob  saw,  a  ladder,  which 
Masons  mimic,  reaching  into  heaven,  and  angels  as- 
cending and  descending  upon  it;  or  if,  with  John,  a 
door  opened  into  heaven  should  admit  us  to  view  its 
inhabitants, — this  would  not  break  the  walls  of  our 
seclusion  and  admit  us  to  Infinity,  to  God  I  But 
Christ  "proceeded  forth  and  came  from  God."  John 
8:  42.  He  is  the  "Alpha  and  Omega"  of  eternity. 
This  breaks  up  our  seclusion.  This  fits  him  to  be 
the  "One  Mediator"  between  God  and  men,  and, 
therefore,  "He  is  able  to  save  to  the  uttermost  all 
that  come  to  God  by  him,"  which  no  finite  man  or 
angel  could.  If  the  Saviour  were  created,  he  would 
owe  all  the  duty  he  could  do  to  his  Creator,  and  so 
could  not  bear  an  ounce  of  our  sins,  without  sink- 
ing eternally  under  a  just  law  which  eternally  com- 
mands all  that  is  right,  and  forbids  all  that  is  wrong. 
Thus  he  is  not  only  the  Saviour,  but  the  only  Sav- 
iour; the  same  "from  everlasting  to  everlasting," 
"over  all,  God  blessed  forevermore." 

We  can  now  see  why  and  how  the  spurious  lodge 
worbhips  of  the  world  would  eternize  our  state  of 
seclusion  by  dispensing  with  Christ.  They  make 
our  heavens  brass  and  earth  iron  (Deut.28:23).  They 
coop  us  up  in  this  little  hemisphere  of  space,  and 
condemn  us  to  worship  its  usurping  god.  And  even 
if  our  visible  horizon  should  give  way  and  reveal  to 
us  myriad  worlds  beyond  and  their  inhabitants,  by 
none  or  all  of  these  could  we  be  restored  to  God.  For 
none  of  all  of  them  "proceeded  forth  and  came  from 
God."  And  "again,"  he  says,  "I  go  to  my  Father, 
and  ye  see  me  no  more. "John  16:10.  There  was  but 
one  being  ever  in  the  Universe  who  could  truth- 
fully say  this,  and  that  one  is  Christ.  Hence  the 
whole  impious  drift,  tenor,  and  pretense  of  Mason- 
ry, from  the  first  or  Apprentice  degree  to  the  last,is 
to  restore  man  to  God,  under  the  name  of  "Light," 
for  "God  is  Light,"  or  "Truth,"  or  "the  Word."  But 


MASONRY  IN  THE  ANARCHIST  TRIAL. 

The  papers  have  all  along  been  quite  unsparing 
of  the  eccentricities  of  Mrs.  Hortensia  MacGreal 
Black,  wife  of  Capt.  W.  P.  Black,  chief  of  the  coun- 
sel for  the  anarchists  of  Chicago.  Her  personal  in- 
terest in  the  condemned  men,  constant  attendance 
in  their  trial,  and  aid  of  themselves  and  their  friends, 
combined  with  the  sixty  curs  which  she  fed  and 
maintained  at  her  home  at  Park  Ridge  just  north  of 
the  city — all  combined  to  make  her  an  object  of  un- 
fortunate interest. 

Rev.  William  Fenton  of  St.  Paul  has  told  the 
Cynosure  readers  of  his  personal  acquaintance  with 
the  Black  family,  when  its  head,  years  ago,  was  an 
elder  in  a  Presbyterian  church  on  the  South  Side, 
and  their  house  was  a  regular  meeting  place  for  ho- 
liness assemblies.  He  endeavored  to  leaven  these 
meetings  with  a  little  truth  against  the  lodge,  and 
found  Captain  Black  a  Mason,  but  Mrs.  Black  read 
somewhat  on  the  subject.  Whether  their  refusal  to 
receive  the  truth  at  that  time  was  the  first  step  in 
their  present  sad  decline  we  may  not  say.  It  no 
doubt  had  a  serious  effect  upon  their  characters 
when  they  refused  to  accept  Christ  in  these  princi- 
ples of  righteousness,  and  follow  his  example  when 
on  earth. 

It  has  not  been  generally  known  that  any  of  the 
anarchists  were  Freemasons.  All  belonged  to  some 
"group"  of  their  "International"  society,  some  to 
the  Lehr  und  Wehr  Verefn,  Parsons  had  been  a  Good 
Templar,  and  with  one  other,  we  believe,  belonged 
to  the  Knights  of  Labor  and  to  some  of  the  labor 
unions.  These  latter  orders  sympathized  with  him 
by  a  majority  vote.  But  Mrs.  Black  tells  it  all  in 
a  letter  on  dogs,  her  ancestors,  etc.,  in  the  Journal 
of  last  Friday.     She  closes  thus: 

anabchists  and  masons. 

Another  thing.  Some  one  asked  the  Journal  if  any 
of  the  anarchists  were  Masons,  and  you  replied  no. 
That  isn't  true.  Albert  Parsons  was  a  Mason.  I  saw 
him  give  the  "sign  of  distress"  when  he  made  his  dying 
speech.  I  have  wondered  why  no  Mason  except  my  hus- 
band regarded  that  solemn  appeal  to  their  rigid  vows. 
But,  then.  Masonry  amounts  to  very  little,  as  a  bond 
among  men,  in  the  North.  Here  it  seems  only  a  matter 
of  feasting,  shows  and  conclaves — a  mere  public  affair. 
In  the  South  it  meant,  at  least  in  my  day,  a  bond  of 
brotherhood.  My  father  was  a  very  high  Mason.  I 
don't  know  if  you  have  that  order  here,  but  a  special 
lodge  would  be  convened  for  him,  and  he  wore  a  long, 
trailing  cloak  of  velvet. 

There  I  Enough  for  this  time,  but  I  want  you  to  pub- 
lish this,  because  it  will  be  interesting  to  a  great  many 
people.  Hortensia  MacGreal  Black. 

That  seems  to  be  conclusive  evidence.  The  Ma- 
sonic appeal  was  for  once  given  in  vain.  Should 
not  Mr.  Grinnell,  then  prosecuting  attorney  and  a 
high  Mason,  not  be  Masonically  tried  for  not  re- 
sponding to  it?  Under  the  law  of  hi3  order  he  was 
sworn  so  to  do.  And  to  how  many  more  Masons 
did  Parsons  make  the  same  appeal?  How,  too,  did 
Mrs.  Black  come  \o  know  this  secret  sign^from 
books,  or  her  father,  or  her  husband?  If  from  the 
latter,  why  is  he  not  called  to  the  bar  of  the  lodge 
to  answer  for  revealing  its  "secrets?" 

These  questions  may  be  interesting  to  Masons; 
but  to  the  public,  since  every  one  may  know  all  these 
potential  secrets  for  a  trifle,  they  are  a  matter  of 
comparative  indifference.  They  prove  that  Masonic 
obligations  are  a  rope  of  sand  or  of  steel  just  ac- 
cording to  the  caprice  of  the  lodge  members. 


— A  brief  note  from  Secretary  Stoddard  written 
Friday  says  that  his  health  is  improving  and  he  is 
able  to  help  in  the  preparatory  work  of  the  Conven- 
tion. Mrs.  Stoddard  is  busy  also  in  W.  C.  T,  U. 
work,  joining  the  N,  C.  A.  cause  with  it.  Brethren 
Hinman  and  Davidson  are  visiting  the  suburban 
towns,  and  all  are  encouraged  with  the  outlook. 

— Bro.  I.  B.  Shaw,  editor  of  the  Michigan  Holiness 
Record,  Grand  Rapids,  has  invented  a  new  block  for 
stereotype  and  electrotype  plates,  which  is  wall  re- 
commended for  simplicity,  safety,  economy  of  cost 


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FsBBUAar  16, 1888 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE- 


and  time  and  general  utility  as  superior  to  any  oth- 
er. It  will,  we  hope,  find  a  wide  introduction  among 
printers.  Bro.  Shaw  has  been  compelled  to  forego 
much  work  as  an  evangelist  this  winter  because  of 
his  work  in  the  printing  office. 

— A  note  from  the  publisher  of  the  Chrutian  Con- 
servator of  Dayton,  received  Monday  morning,bring8 
the  good  news  that  either  Bishop  M.Wright  or  Rev. 
Wm.  Dillon  would  probably  be  at  the  New  Or- 
leans convention;  also  that  some  of  the  Indiana 
brethren  have  the  matter  under  favorable  considera- 
tion. 

— Joseph  Cook  began  his  thirteenth  season  of  the 
Boston  Monday  lectureship  last  week  Monday,  Feb- 
ruary 6,  in  the  Tremont  Temple,Bo8ton.  Mr.  Cook, 
in  view  of  various  current  religious  perils  and  other 
signs  of  the  times,  has  chosen  for  the  general  topic 
of  this  course,  "God  in  the  Bible."  The  preludes 
on  leading  reforms  will  be  continued. 

— The  Band  of  Hope  which  has  been  successfully 
maintained  for  years  in  the  N.  C.  A.  building  by 
Mrs.  M.  E.  Cook  continues  week  by  week  with  a 
good  attendance.  Their  anniversary  meetings  are 
very  happy  gatherings,  and  the  Band  is  receiving 
recognition  among  the  churches  as  a  most  beneficial 
agency  among  the  children  of  the  neighborhood, 
some  of  whom  seem  to  be  otherwise  neglected. 

— The  trustees  of  Princeton  College  accepted  the 
resignation  of  Dr.  McCosh  last  Thursday,  to  take 
e£^ect  at  the  end  of  the  present  college  year.  He 
will  remain  at  the  head  of  the  School  of  Philosophy. 
The  board  also  elected  Prof.  Francis  L.  Patton  to 
sucseed  Dr.  McCosh.  Prof.  Patton  became  best 
known  to  the  public  in  1873-6  as  editor  of  the  Inte- 
rior and  prosecutor  of  Prof.  Swing  in  this  city.  He 
is  a  learned  and  eloquent  man,  but  a  pitiable  con- 
servative in  questions  of  Christian  reform. 

— The  auditing  committee  of  the  Wesleyan  church 
in  a  long  report  covering  nearly  a  page  in  the  last 
Wesleyan  Methodist  shows  the  circulation  of  the 
church  organ  to  be  5180,  and  that  the  average  for 
four  years  has  been  but  little  below  that  figure.  This 
is  a  good  list,  which  we  should  like  to  see  increased 
as  well  as  our  own,  and  no  delinquents  in  it.  The 
brethren  of  the  committee  will  suffer  a  word  of  ad- 
monition. For  the  benefit  of  the  friends  of  the  de- 
nomination let  their  next  report  be  more  clear  in 
its  statements.  They  raise  rather  more  questions 
than  they  answer. 


PBR80NAL  MENTION. 


— Pres.  L.  N.  Stratton  expects,  as  we  write,  to 
start  Wednesday,  the  15th,  for  the  National  Conven- 
tion, which  he  will  address.  Mrs.  Stratton  hopes  to 
accompany  him. 

— Pres.  C.  A.  Blanchard  spoke  last  Sabbath  morn- 
ing to  a  large  audience  in  the  First  Congregational 
church  (Dr.  Goodwin)  this  city,  on  the  subject  of 
Christian  education,  with  special  reference  to  Whea- 
ton  College. 

— Rev.  William  Johnson,  D.D.,  of  College  Springs, 
Iowa,  expected  to  start  for  New  Orleans  early  this 
week.  He  addresses  the  National  Convention  Sat- 
urday evening,  on  the  "Real  Issue  between  the 
Church  and  the  Lodge." 

— Pres.  and  Mrs.  J.  Blanchard  started  Wednesday 
instead  of  Tuesday  evening  as  stated  in  our  last. 
They  reached  New  Orleans  safely  on  Friday.  Both 
were  in  rather  precarious  health,  but  in  good  spirits 
on  leaving,  and  all  had  hope  that  the  journey  would 
be  beneficial. 

— Dr.  A.  J.  Jutkins,  National  Secretary  of  the 
National  Prohibition  Executive  Committee,is  taking 
a  few  weeks'  rest  in  a  trip  to  the  Pacific  coast,  and 
Samuel  D.  Hastings  of  Madison,  Wis.,  treasurer  of 
the  same  committee,  is  attending  to  the  duties  at  the 
headquarters  in  this  city. 

— Bro.  Parry,  of  the  Evansville,  Wis.,  Seminary, 
took  his  leave  of  us  Thursday  evening  for  New  Or- 
leans and  a  temperature  that  would  not  venture  20 
below  zero  for  three  successive  days  in  the  middle 
of  February.  He  will  be  a  most  valuable  accession 
to  the  workers  at  the  Convention. 

— Dr.  R.  B.  McDonald,  the  well-known  temperance 
worker  of  San  Francisco  and  president  of  the  Pa- 
cific Bank,  was  lately  shot  at  by  his  daughter-in-law 
in  a  family  difficulty.  Our  San  Francisco  corre- 
spondence told  us  of  the  case.  Mrs.  McDonald  was 
acquitted  in  the  trial  that  followed,  though  it  is  said 
the  evidence  was  mainly  against  her.  She  is  not  a 
Mason;  Dr.  McDonald  used  to  be,  though  we  hope 
he  lost  interest  years  ago  in  the  order. 

— Our  dear  brother  Clark  of  Detroit  declares  that 
he  will  never  be  too  old  to  journey,  talk  and  sing 
for  the  Master.    He  could  not  sleep  with  another 


convention  going  on  among  the  people  for  whom 
his  life  has  been  so  largely  given — so  he  was  away 
Monday,  singing  as  he  journeyed  of  the  "Good  Time 
Coming"  "A  Hundred  Years  Hence"  or  less.  He 
will  remain  in  the  South  after  the  Convention,  visit- 
ing the  colored  churches  as  last  year  with  an  evangel 
of  song. 

— Dr.  McGlynn,  in  his  lecture  last  Sunday  even- 
ing in  the  Academy  of  Music,  again  defied  the 
papal  hierarchy.  An  audience  of  about  three  thou- 
sand, filling  the  great  auditorium  in  every  part, 
followed  his  sentences  with  enthusiastic  applause. 
When  the  orator  asserted:  "They  (the  hierarchy) 
wouldn't  take  me  back  unless  I  made  a  retraction, 
which  would  shame  my  manhood  and  shame  you, 
and  injure  the  great  cause  in  which  we  are  all  as- 
sociated for  the  benefit  of  our  fellows.  And  now, 
I  don't  want  to  go  back,  and  so  help  me  God,  I  will 
not  go  back  on  any  such  conditions,"  profound  emo- 
tion was  manifested  by  almost  frantic  applause  and 
sobs  and  tears. — Intelligencer. 


Bro.  J.  AuQUSTOS  Cole  of  the  Wesleyan  African 
mission  was  detained  in  this  country  until  January 
4th,  partly  because  of  ill-health.  He  writes  from 
England  to  the  Wesleyan  Methodist  of  his  journey 
thither,  and  of  the  English  Wesleyans,  who  as  our 
readers  probably  know  are  more  nearly  like  our 
Methodist  Episcopal  church  than  any  other  Ameri- 
can sect.  In  the  following  incident  we  are  pleased 
to  see  that  he  does  not  hide  his  light  under  a  bushel: 
"English  Wesleyan  Methodism  is  still  alive  and  act- 
ive, and  is  substantially  the  same  with  the  American, 
except  that  the  English,  or,  rather,  many  of  the  pas- 
tors, believe  in  serving  God  and  mammon;  in  belong- 
ing to  the  church  and  the  lodge;  in  administering  the 
Lord's  Supper  on  a  Sabbath,  and  the  next  evening 
drinking  wine  from  a  human  skull  in  Masonic  tem- 
ples. But  as  a  general  rule  there  are  less  Masons  in 
this  connection  than  in  other  churches.  I  am  only 
astonished  that  it  is  not  made  a  test  of  membership. 
I  was  speaking  to  a  brother  about  it  this  afternoon, 
and  told  him  to  bring  up  the  question  in  the  next  an- 
nual conference,  and  propose  anti-secrecy  as  a  test  of 
membership.  He  was  startled,  and  said,  '0,  no, 
brother  Cole!  you  want  me  either  to  split  my  head 
or  split  the  Wesleyan  church.'  I  told  him,  'What 
of  that?  If  your  head  is  split  for  truth  you  will 
only  die  as  a  martyr;  and  if  the  Wesleyan  church  is 
split  on  account  of  truth  it  will  never  split  heaven.' 
To  this  he  replied  a  hearty  Methodistic  'Amen.'  " 


A  NEW  DEPARTURE  IN  INDIA. 


Good  people  in  America  will  be  glad  to  hear  of 
any  step,  even  the  smallest,  toward  reaching  India's 
millions.  Here  is  an  "effectual  door"  which  the 
Lord  has  opened  before  us  during  the  past  year. 
We  call  it  our 

"COLPORTEUR-EVANGELISM." 

What  is  it?  (1)  An  experienced  and  devoted  man 
selling  books  and  tracts  from  station  to  station  and 
from  house  to  house;  (2)  preaching  to  persons  and 
parties  wherever  possible,  and  (3)  scattering  tracts 
and  papers  everywhere. 

What  books?  First  of  all  those  on  Christian  ex- 
perience and  work — that  is,  repentance,  salvation, 
holiness  and  soul-saving.  Then,  such  special  works 
as  are  most  needed. 

What  special  methods?  Hard  work  and  self- 
denial.  C.  E.  takes  a  large  box  of  stock,  ordering 
more  as  needed.  A  loaded  "cartridge-box"  of  books 
at  his  side,  10  to  20  lbs.  Sells  for  cash  only.  Never 
travels  nor  sells  on  Sundays. 

What  success  already?  The  last  six  months  our 
man  has  sold  over  Rs.  900.  Considering  that  much 
of  this  is  in  small  books,  tracts,  etc.,  and  that  much 
has  been  given  away  besides,  it  means  a  large  circu- 
lation of  the  best  literature.  But  remember  that 
the  selling  of  books  is  only  a  part  of  our  Colporteur- 
Evangelist's  work.  His  equally  important  mission 
is  to  preach  the  Gospel  directly,  and  this  he  does  in 
every  station  and  to  hundreds  of  souls  every  month. 

What  co-operation  and  support?  C.  E.  acts  with 
liberty,  yet  in  close  concert  with  headquarters.  As 
the  books  belong  to  the  Watchman  Repository,  care- 
ful accounts  are  kept  and  reports  made.  C.  E.  is 
self-supporting,  t.  e  ,  ho  is  to  earn  his  living  and  rail- 
way fare  through  the  good  he  does  to  the  people. 

What  profits  and  prospects?  "Much  every  way," 
except  financially.  The  high  rates  of  exchange, 
freights,  etc.,  also  donations,  losses,  printing,  clerk- 
hire,  etc.,  make  it  impracticable  for  our  Repository 
to  depend  merely  upon  its  sales.  We  expect  wide- 
awake souls  to  see  that  this  is  as  necessary  a  part 
of  God's  plan  of  evangelizing  India  as  any  other. 

Pray  for  us  and  our  work,  and  for  more  workers 
and  means,  that  the  word  of  the  Lord  may  have  free 


course  and  be  glorified  in  India  more  than  ever  be- 
fore. The  Manager, 

India  Watchman,  Bombay. 


OUR  WASHINGTON  LETTER. 

Washington,  Feb.  10,  1888. 

Representative  Hayes,  of  Iowa,  who  was  attacked 
by  some  of  the  prominent  temperance  women  of 
Washington  for  his  course  in  refusing  to  oresent  to 
Congress  a  prohibition  petition  tor  the  District  of 
Columbia  from  the  people  of  his  State,  holds  firmly 
to  the  position  he  has  taken.  He  reiterates  his  be- 
lief that  it  is  officious  and  meddling  for  citizens  of 
the  different  States  to  petition  Congress  for  specific 
action  in  respect  to  the  local  affairs  of  this  District 
They  tell  him  that  the  national  capital  and  the  Dis- 
trict of  Columbia  belong  to  the  nation,  that  they 
are  only  dealing  with  their  own.  Mr.  Hayes,  as  an 
Iowa  judge,  it  will  be  remembered,troubIed  his  State 
with  decisions  against  the  prohibitory  amendment 
which  did  not  stand  in  the  Supreme  Court. 

On  Sabbath  afternoon  Sam.  P.  Small,  the  evan- 
gelist, talked  on  prohibition  in  the  District  to  an 
overflowing  congregation  in  the  Congregational 
church  in  this  city.  He  declared  his  intention  to 
work  for  prohibition  here  as  long  as  he  had  a  dollar 
and  life.  He  said  the  Congressman  from  Iowa  had 
followed  in  the  footsteps  of  Mr.  French,  of  Ken- 
tucky, who  denied  the  right  of  Congress  in  the  past 
to  receive  petitions  praying  for  emancipation  in  the 
District,  but  who  was  fought  to .  a  finish  by  John 
Quincy  Adams  and  defeated. 

The  District  of  Columbia  is  on  the  highroad  to 
municipal  perfection  and  it9  attainment  of  that  end 
is  only  a  matter  of  time  if  Congress  will  only  do  half 
what  it  is  asked  to  do  in  its  behalf.  The  House 
committee  having  its  interests  in  charge  has  just  re- 
ported favorably  a  bill  making  it  unlawful  for  any 
person  in  the  cities  of  Washington  and  Georgetown 
to  bet,  gamble  or  make  books  and  pools  on  the  re- 
sult of  any  trotting  or  running  race  of  horses,  or 
boat  race  or  race  of  any  kind,  or  on  any  election,  or 
contest  of  any  kind,  and  providing  fine  and  impris- 
onment for  any  violation  of  the  provisions  of  the  act. 

There  is  a  probability  also  of  the  Capital  being 
spared  in  the  future  from  any  more  monstrosities  in 
the  name  of  art.  The  ;tsthetic  Senator  from  Massa- 
chusetts, Mr.  Hoar,  presented  a  bill  for  the  appoint- 
ment of  a  national  art  commission,  composed  of 
fourteen  members,  whose  duty  it  shall  be  to  pass 
upon  the  artistic  merit  of  pictures,  statuary,  monu- 
ments, etc.,  purchased  or  erected  by  the  Govern- 
ment. When  this  much  needed  commission  gets  to 
work  it  is  devoutly  to  be  hoped  that  it  will  doom 
some  of  the  bronze  equestrian  absurdities  which 
disfigure  the  broad  avenues  of  this  beautiful  city. 

A  gathering  which  filled  the  Bijou  theatre  a  few 
evenings  since  was  highly  gratifying  to  the  friends 
of  the  temperance  cause  in  this  city.  The  people 
had  assembled  to  hear  Bishops  Keane  of  Richmond 
and  Ireland  of  Texas  discuss  the  t&mperance  ques- 
tion. That  the  gathering  was  practically  of  one 
mind  was  shown  at  the  close  of  the  meeting,  when, 
with  the  exception  of  about  two  dozen,  every  one 
pledged  himself  to  abstain  from  liquor  for  one  year. 
The  speakers  argued  that  the  man  who  sells  liquor 
is  an  active  party  to  all  the  crime,  misery  and  suf- 
fering  produced  by  it.  The  evil  needed  to  be  hand- 
led with  a  force  that  would  be  used  to  put  down  a 
rebellion. 

It  is  now  thought  there  is  little  doubt  that  the 
Senate  Committee  to  which  the  bill  for  prohibition 
in  this  District  has  been  referred  will  make  a  favor- 
able report  on  the  same.  Not  that  the  majority  of 
the  Committee  reallj  favor  prohibition,  but  it  is  be- 
ing so  earnestly  agitated  at  this  time  that  the  ma- 
jority deem  it  advisable  to  give  the  Senate  an  oppor- 
tunity to  act  upon  the  question. 

The  penny  postage  scheme  hsis  just  met  with  a 
rebuff  from  the  Senate  Committee  on  Post-officesi 
The  Chairman — Senator  Sawyer — stated  that  it  wm 
not  thought  prudent  to  attempt  to  reduce  postage 
at  present  The  Post-office  Department  was  still  run- 
ning behind,  and  it  was  thought  better  to  wait  until 
it  was  self-sustaining  before  any  further  reduction 
was  attempted.  Senator  Hoar  wanted  to  have  put 
on  record  his  belief  that  it  was  the  duty  of  the  Gov- 
ernment and  the  interest  of  the  people  to  hav«  post- 
age reduced  to  one  cent  He  believed  the  Depart- 
ment would  rapidly  become  self-sustaining  at  that 
rate;  but  even  if  not  the  direct  benefit  in  binding 
the  country  closer  together  would  more  than  com- 
pensate for  any  deficit.  Senator  Beck.of  Kentucky, 
who  introduced  the  bill, said  he  could  not  understand 
how  the  Government  could  afford  to  carry  bonnets 
and  harness  and  merchandise  all  over  the  country 
for  a  cent  an  ounce  and  not  be  able  to  carry  the  peo- 
ple's information  at  the  same  rate.  * 


10 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSUR^!. 


Febrttart  16, 1888 


THE  HOME. 


THE  FOOL'S  PRATBB. 

The  royal  feast  was  done;  the  king 

Sought  some  new  sport  to  banish  care, 
And  to  his  jester  cried :  "Sir  Fool, 

Kneel,  now,  and  make  for  us  a  prayer  1" 

The  jester  doffed  his  cap  and  bells, 

And  stood  the  mocking  court  before ; 
They  could  not  see  the  bitter  smile 

Behind  the  painted  grin  he  woie. 

He  bowed  his  head  and  bent  the  knee 

Upon  the  monarch's  silken  stool ; 
His  pleading  voice  arose :  "O  Lord, 

Be  merciful  to  me,  a  fool !" 

"No  pity.  Lord,  could  change  the  heart 
From  red  with  wrong  to  white  as  wool; 

The  rod  must  heal  the  sin ;  but.  Lord, 
Be  merciful  to  me,  a  fool! 

"  'Tis  not  by  guilt  the  onward  sweep 

Of  truth  and  light,  O  Lord,  we  stay ; 
'Tis  by  our  follies  that  so  long 

We  hold  the  earth  from  heaven  away. 

"These  clumsy  feet,  still  in  the  mire. 

Go  crushing  blossoms  without  end ; 
These  hard,  well-meaning  hands  we  thrust 

Among  the  heart-strings  of  a  friend. 

"The  ill-timed  truth  we  might  have  kept. 
Who  knows  how  sharp  it  pierced  and  stungi 

The  word  we  had  not  sense  to  say— 

Who  knows  how  grandly  it  had  rungl 

"Our  faults  no  tenderness  should  ask, 
The  chastening  stripes  must  cleanse  them  all; 

But  for  our  blunders -oh  1  in  shame 
Before  the  eyes  of  heaven  we  fall. 

"Earth  bears  no  balsam  for  mistakes; 

Men  crown  the  knave,  and  scourge  the  fool 
That  did  his  will;  but  thou,  O  Lord, 

Be  merciful  to  me,  a  fool  1" 

The  room  was  hushed ;  in  silence  rose 

The  king,  and  sought  his  garden  cool, 
And  walked  apart,  and  murmured  low, 

"Be  merciful  to  me,  a  fool?" 

—Edward  R.Sill. 


HOW  A  TOUHG  JEW  FOUJfl)  CBJUdT. 


A  very  intelligent  Jew  in  the  city  of  Montreal, 
whose  father  was  a  wealthy  banker  in  Germany,  re- 
lated his  Christian  experience  in  a  fellowship  meet- 
ing, the  substance  of  which,  in  his  broken  English, 
was  this: 

"The  Spirit  of  de  Lord  take  hold  of  my  heart  in 
my  fader's  house  in  Germany.  He  makes  me  feel 
so  bad,  I  could  not  eat  my  food  or  take  my  rest. 

"My  fader  said  to  me,  'Why  you  no  be  happy? 
You  mope  round,  just  so  miserable  as  can  be.  Plen- 
ty of  money,  why  you  no  be  happy?' 

"I  say,  'Fader,  I  find  no  place  for  my  soul.  De 
money  won't  buy  a  place  for  my  soul.  I  lie  down 
and  die  one  day,  and  den  what  good  de  money  to 
me,  and  where  go  my  poor  soul?' 

"By-and-by  I  reads  in  a  paper  about  one  Dr.  F.,  a 
Jewish  Ribbi  in  Canada,  dat  find  Messiah.  I  says 
to  myself,  'I  go  to  Canada  to  find  dat  Rabbi  dat  find 
Messiah.'  When  I  come  to  Canada,  I  ask  de  first 
thing,  'Where  is  Dr.  F.?'  and  dey  tell  me  dat  he  live 
in  de  city  of  Hamilton.  When  I  go  to  de  city  of 
Hamilton  he  not  at  home.  I  no  find  him  for  two 
weeks.  Then  one  man  show  him  me  at  a  public 
meeting,  and  I  look  at  him  till  de  meeting  was  out, 
and  as  he  come  I  say  to  him,  'You  Dr.  F?' 
"'Yes.' 

"  'You  Jewish  Rabbi?' 
"'Yes.' 

"  'You  find  Messiah?' 
"  'Yes." 

"  'Well,  you  give  me  two  lessons,  and  I  pay  you.' 
"Dr.  F.  say,  'Come  to  my  house,  and  I  give  you 
many  lessons,  and  not  charge  anything.' 

"But  I  say,  'Oh,  no,  Dr.  F.'  And  he  talk  to  me 
and  talk  to  me  and  talk  to  me,  but  I  no  find  Mes- 
siah. 

"Den  I  go  to  de  Catholic  church  and  talked  to  de 
priest  to  find  Messiah.  De  priest  he  tell  me  about 
de  baptism  and  de  holy  water,  and  I  say,  'Go  away 
wid  you  water,  I  wants  to  find  a  place  for  my  soul.' 
"Den  I  go  back  to  Dr.  F.,  and  he  say,  "You  He- 
brew scholar?  Now,  take  your  Hebrew  Bible  and 
read  what  our  ancient  prophets  say  about  Messiah. 
Take  your  i)3n  and  write  down  de  exact  description 
dey  give  of  him,  especially  in  the  fifty-third  chapter 
of  Isaiah;  and  when  you  getde  prophetic  directions 
how  to  find  Messiab.take  your  Greek  Testament  and 
search,  and  you  will  find,  as  face  answers  face  in  a 
mirror,  so  de  New  Testament  answers  to  de  01d,and 
dat  everything  de  old  prophets  say  about  Messiah 
was  fulfilled  in  the  person  of  ^esus  of  Nazareth. 


When  your  judgment  be  convinced,  den  bow  down 
on  your  knees  and  pray  to  God  in  the  name  of  Je- 
sus, and  you  find  Messiah  in  your  heart.  He  save 
you  from  all  your  sins.' 

"So  I  followed  de  instructions  dat  Dr.  F.  he  did 
give  me,  and  my  judgment  he  got  convinced,  and  I 
bow  on  my  knees  and  cry,  '0  Got  of  Abraham,l8aac 
and  Jacob,  Got  of  my  faders,  I  pray  to  dee  in  de 
name  of  dy  dear,  suffering  Son  Jesus  Christ;  I  be 
convinced  from  dy  holy  books  of  de  Old  and  New 
Testament  dat  he  be  Messiah  which  dow  hast  sent 
into  de  world  to  save  sinners.  Dow  knows  what  a 
great  sinner  I  am;  but  Jesus  comes  to  save  de  chief 
of  sinners.  I  trust  my  soul  to  him;  I  believe  he  can 
save  me.  0  Got,  have  mercy  on  my  poor  soul,  and 
save  me  from  my  sins  for  Jesus's  sake.  I  believe 
all  dow  has  say  about  Jesus,  and  I  take  him  as  m^ 
Saviour.' 

"While  I  pray  I  feel  more  and  more  bad,  and  I 
tot  my  poor  soul  he  must  go  to  hell.  Den  I  say,  if 
Jesus  Christ  bore  my  sins  in  his  own  body  and  re- 
deemed my  soul  with  his  own  blood,  my  soul  he  no 
need  to  go  to  hell.  Den  I  give  my  soul  to  Jesus,  I 
believe' in  Jesus,  and  just  so  quick  as  lightning  I 
finds  Messiah.  He  save  me  from  my  sins;  he  fill  my 
soul  with  unspeakable  joy.  My  soul  he  find  a  home 
in  Jesus.  He  abide  in  Jesus  now  for  tree  years,and 
I  know  him  more  and  more,  and  love  him  wid  all 
my  heart." 

He  proceeded  to  tell  of  some  remarkable  answers 
to  prayer  he  had  experienced,  and  such  was  the  art- 
less simplicity  of  his  story,  and  the  light  and  unc- 
tion of  the  Holy  Spirit  shining  through  his  broken 
utterances,  that  between  laughing  and  weeping  for 
joy  when  he  sat  down  there  were  few  dry  eyes  in 
that  large  assemblage.  He  was  at  that  time  engaged 
as  a  colporteur  and  Bible  reader  to  his  people  of 
different  languages  in  Montreal. — Selected, 


CHOKED  CHRISTIANS. 


In  the  parable  of  the  sower  our  Lord  points  out 
one  class  of  hearers  whom  he  likens  to  soil  over- 
grown with  thorns.  It  evidently  represents  rich 
and  naturally  productive  soil.  The  seed  sown  in  it 
was  well  received  and  sprang  up,  but  brought  forth 
no  fruit  to  perfection.  This  is  Luke's  account; 
Matthew  and  Mark  say  that  such  hearers  become 
"unfruitful,"  whether  altogether,  or  in  the  sense  of 
imperfect  and  shriveled,  we  are  not  careful  to  in- 
quire; we  suppose  unfruitful  in  the  sense  that  salt 
is  not  good  if  it  has  lost  its  "savor,"  and  a  light  is 
of  no  service  if  it  is  set  "under  a  bushel"  or  turned 
into  darkness  by  an  outward  life  that  obscures  it. 
At  any  rate,  we  have  a  picture  here  of  a  certain 
type  of  Christian  life  that  is  very  sad  to  contem- 
plate. 

The  trouble  seems  to  be  that  the  soil  was  not 
well  prepared  before  the  seed  was  sown.  It  was 
not  cleared  of  thorns.  Let  us  look  at  some  of 
these  thorns  and  see  what  they  are  that  choke  the 
good  seed.  Men  and  women  have  essayed  to  enter 
upon  a  Christian  life  without  clearing  their  lives 
and  hearts  of  the  thorns  that  are  indigenous  to  the 
flesh.  They  forget  that  God  has  commanded  "the 
wicked  to  forsake  his  way,  and  the  unrighteous 
man  his  thoughts,"  before  returning  unto  him. 

Forsaking  and  clearing  them  out  of  life  does  not 
mean  that  we  are  to  bring  about  a  complete  moral 
renovation  of  our  lives  before  we  may  return  to  the 
Lord  and  obtain  mercy;  but  that  we  are  to  look  at 
these  things  frankly,  and  choose  between  them  and 
God,  and  in  mind,  purpose,  and  affection,  forsake 
them;  recognize  them  as  things  foreign  to  the  char- 
acter and  thought  of  a  child  of  God,  and  renounce 
them.  The  alien  who  comes  to  this  country  and 
becomes  an  American  citizen,  leaves  his  country, 
and  then,  alter  he  comes  here,  he  renounces  his 
allegiance  to  the  land  and  potentate  of  his  birth; 
the  sinner  who  accepts  Christ  and  God  has  first  to 
renounce  his  allegiance  to  his  old  life  and  master 
and  then  forsake  them.  If  this  renunciation  of  sin 
is  not  heartily  attended  to,  the  taking  on  of  the 
Christian  profession  is  much  as  the  oath  of  alle- 
giance taken  by  the  anarchist,  who  seeks  to  engraft 
upon  his  new  citizenship  all  the  odious  doctrines 
and  practices  which  he  failed  to  leave  behind  him 
when  he  came  to  this  country.  Such  will  never  be- 
come good  Americans.  The  thorns  and  briers 
which  they  have  not  forsaken  will  forever  spring 
up  and  choke  all  ideas  of  true  liberty  and  good  cit- 
izenship. 

It  is  in  this  way  that  so  many  professors  of  re- 
ligion become  unfruitful.  All  the  good  impulses 
and  holy  purposes  with  which  they  started  out,  per- 
haps in  all  good  sincerity,  to  serve  God  have  been 
choked  by  the  growth  of  the  thorns  which  they 
failed  to  forsake.  The  thorns  spring  up  and  choke 
them.    In  some  cases  a  life  that  is  well  cleared  of 


these  upon  beginning  the  Christian  life  has  been 
choked  by  the  after  incoming  of  the  thorns.  Mark 
tells  us,  in  his  version  of  this  parable,  that  the 
cares  of  this  world,  and  the  deceitfulness  of  riches, 
and  the  lusts  of  other  things  entering  in,  choke  the 
word,  and  it  becometh  unfruitful."  It  would  seem, 
then,  that  there  is  a  double  danger  of  being  choked 
by  these  thorns:  a  danger  that  lies  in  wait  as  we 
enter  in — that  is,  a  disposition  to  enter  upon  the 
Christian  profession  without  deliberately  forsaking 
all  wicked  ways  ;  and  a  danger  that  threatens  us — 
the  peril  of  these  things  entering  in  our  lives  after 
we  have  entered  into  the  kingdom. 

It  is  a  dreadful  thing  to  be  choked.  Those  who 
have,  either  by  accident  or  design,  suffered  partial 
strangulation,  tell  us  that  it  is  one  of  the  most 
dreadful  experiences.  It  must,  to  the  all-seeing  eye 
of  God,  be  a  dreadful  thing  to  behold  so  many  of 
his  children  gasping  for  a  breath  of  life,  being 
choked  by  the  evil  weeds,  thorns,  and  tares  indigen- 
ous to  the  flesh  or  diligently  planted  there  by  the 
enemy  of  souls  while  they  sleep. 

Perhaps  it  will  be  well  to  suggest  the  things 
which  do  most  choke  these  weedy  professors.  Oar 
Lord  gives  a  list  of  them:  "The  cares  of  this 
world,"  "the  deceitfulness  of  riches,"  "the  pleasures 
of  this  life,"  "and  the  lusts  of  other  things."  Look 
at  this  catalogued  list  of  deadly  thorns.  "The 
cares  of  this  world"  have  swallowed  up  many  a 
thousand  professors,  who  have  forgotten  that  they 
were  the  children  of  God,  and  have  given  them- 
selves to  anxious  care  about  what  shall  be  eaten, 
and  wherewithal  shall  the  body  be  clothed;  more 
who  have  "made  haste  to  be  rich,"  or  have  made 
riches  their  goal  of  life;  while  others  have  given 
themselves  up  to  the  pleasures  of  this  life;  and 
still  others,  who,  in  general,  allow  the  lusts  of  the 
flesh  and  of  the  eye  to  dictate  to  them  in  all  their 
earthly  life.  Let  us  be  warned  by  these  very  sug- 
gestive pictures  and  teachings  of  our  Lord,  and 
look  to  our  lives  and  see  if  there  be  any  of  these 
evil  thorns  "springing  up"  or  "entering  in,"  to  mar 
and  hinder  the  work  of  God  and  choke  his  good 
seed. — Independent. 

LITTLE  KATIE'S  HOME. 


It  was  snowing  fast.  Little  Katie  looked  out  of 
the  window  and  rejoiced.  There  was  only  one  pane 
of  glass  in  the  window  through  which  Katie  could 
see  the  snow:  an  old  hat  was  crushed  into  one,  a 
bundle  of  rags  in  another,  and  bits  of  paper  were 
pasted  over  the  cracks  in  the  rest:  still,  the  air  crept 
in  and  made  the  room  very  cold.  Why  was  Katie 
glad  to  see  the  snow?  Ohl  there  would  be  plenty 
of  work  for  her  to  do!  The  crossings  would  need 
to  be  cleaned,  and  she  and  her  broom  could  earn 
many  a  penny.  So  Katie  and  her  mother  ate  their 
scanty  supper,  thinking  that  the  snow  would  bring 
them  something  better  to-morrow.  They  did  not 
light  the  lamp;  it  was  so  cold  and  cheerless  in  the 
little  room;  but,  gathering  together  the  few  cover- 
ings they  had,  the  mother  and  child  hid  away  in  the 
heap  of  straw  that  served  as  a  bed,  and  sleep  soon 
made  them  forget  both  the  cold  and  hunger. 

Yes,  there  was  plenty  of  work  for  Katie,  and  a 
good  many  pennies  were  earned.  Pity  that  some  of 
the  kind  hearts  passing  over  Katie's  crossing  could 
not  have  looked  into  Katie's  dreary  home:  maybe 
the  window-panes  might  have  been  mended  and  a 
good  supper  provided;  but  He  who  sees  the  sparrows 
saw  little  Katie,  and  sent  her  just  what  she  most 
needed. 

All  day  long  Katie  worked  busily.  How  her  eyes 
brightened  when  a  five  cent  piece  came  instead  of  a 
penny!  One  lady  said  she  had  no  more  pennies; 
"Would  a  little  book  do  instead?"  Katie  took  it; 
there  were  no  pictures  in  it — ju^t  a  little  white  book 
of  verses.  She  read  the  title:  "The  Old,  Old  Story;" 
and  then  she  put  it  in  her  pocket  for  the  crossing 
must  be  swept.  "It  must  be  nice,"  thought  Katie; 
"for  the  lady  spoke  so  kindly,  and  said  she  was  sure 
I  would  like  it  'The  Old,  Old  Story.'  I  wonder 
what  it  is."  And  when  nobody  was  passing,  Katie 
took  it  out  and  glanced  over  its  pages.  "Oh,  it's 
about  'Jesus  and  his  love;'  if  I  could  see  him  I  would 
ask  him  if  he  loves  me.  Why,  here  it  says,  'The 
message  is  for  thee' — that  must  be  me;  and  here  in 
the  last  verse  it  says,  'We  shall  see  him  soon — in 
our  home  above.'  "  Katie  was  leaning  on  her  broom 
as  she  read,  and  did  not  notice  that  any  one  was 
passing  until  a  voice  startled  her  by  asking,  "Do  you 
like  the  little  book,  my  child?"  It  was  the  lady 
who  had  given  it;  she  was  on  her  homeward  way — 
walking  toward  the  Great  Home  all  the  while. 

"I  was  wondering,"  said  Katie,  "if  'our  home' 
means  one  for  me,  too.  Mother  and  I  would  like  to 
go  there,  for  we  haven't  a  very  good  home  here. 
Do  you  think  Jesus  loves  mother  and  me?" 


fBBauARY  16,  1888 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSUKE. 


11 


"Yes,  dear,  I  know  he  does.  He  has  a  place  in 
his  beautiful  home  for  you  both,  and  he  will  surely 
take  you  there,  if  you  will  let  him." 

"But  I  will,  indeed  1  will!"  And  the  child  looked 
earnestly  into  the  lady's  face.  "I  wish  you  would 
tell  me  all  about  it;  oh,  there  is  some  one  at  my  cross- 
ing!" She  was  running  away,  but  the  lady  held  her 
fast  until  she  learned  Katie's  name  and  where  she 
lived. 

It  was  growing  late  and  there  Were  many  coming 
and  going.  Katie  was  kept  so  busy  that  she  forgot 
about  the  little  book — even  about  the  "home,"  and 
all  the  new,  glad  thoughts.  The  lamps  were  lighted, 
and  Katie's  mother  would  be  watching  for  her.  A 
whole  handful  of  pennies  had  been  gathered!  Katie 
put  her  hand  into  her  pocket  to  feel  them — the  little 
book  was  there  too.  Back  came  the  thoughts  of 
"home"  and  "love."  "I  wonder  where  it  is,  and 
what  it  is  like,"  thought  Katie,  as  she  turned  away 
from  the  crossing,  pretty  tired  from  her  day's  work. 

Down  the  avenue  walked  little  Katie,  peeping  in 
at  the  windows  where  bright  lights  came  through 
the  open  shutters.  She  stopped  before  a  window 
that  was  low  down — such  a  beautiful  room  she 
looked  into!  No  old  hat  was  crushed  into  the  win- 
dow; the  glowing  fire  lighted  up  the  rich  carpet  and 
furniture,  making  all  look  warm  and  comfortable. 
A  group  of  children  were  gathered  there,  the  father 
in  their  midst,  with  a  golden  head  nestled  closely  to 
him,  and  little  arms  about  his  neck. 

"Oh,  how  lovely!"  sighed  little  Katie,  from  her 
watching-place  outside.  "I  wish  I  had  such  a  home! 
I  wonder  if  the  home  my  little  book  tells  of  is  like 
this,  and  does  Jesus  love  so?  I  would  like  to  go  to 
his  home;  perhaps  mother  and  I  could  be  as  happy 
there  as  these  little  children  are  here.  I'll  go  home 
and  talk  to  mother  about  it;"  and  Katie  ran  on  as 
fast  as  her  tired  feet  would  carry  her. 

They  lighted  the  lamp  to-night;  they  had  a  better 
supper,  and  they  forgot  the  little  draughts  of  air 
that  came  in  through  the  broken  window-panes. 
Katie's  little  book  was  read  and  reread. 

"The  lady  said  it  was  all  true,  mother," 

"Yes,  my  child,  I  know  it  is;  why  didn't  we  think 
more  about  this  home  before?  I  will  read  you 
about  it,  Katie,  in  the  Bible;"  and  she  brushed  the 
dust  from  the  long-neglected  Bible,  and  they  sat 
down  and  read  together. 

It  was  late  when  they  hid  away  again  in  the  straw 
bed;  but  they  did  not  feel  lonely  to-night,  for  they 
kneeled  down  together — the  mother  and  child — and 
told  all  to  Jesus:  asked  him  to  take  them,  save  them, 
keep  them,  teach  them.  The  mean  little  room 
seemed  like  a  home  now,  for  he  had  come  to  abide 
with  them. 

Katie  does  not  sweep  the  crossings  now;   she  has 

found   better   work.     The  window-panes  are  whole 

and  clean,  and  the  room   looks   neat   and  cheery. 

Katie  and  her  mother  sing  at  their  work: 

"I'm  but  a  stranger  here,— 
Heaven  Is  niy  home !" 

It  does  not  make  them  sad  now  to  look  in  at  the 

windows  of  a  beautiful  home.     They,  too,  have  one, 

only  they  must  wait  »  little  while  for  it.     The  lady 

who  gave  the  book  is  Katie's  true  friend;  but  they 

have  found  a  still  better   Friend,  "who   will   never 

leave   them,  nor  forsake  them;"  One  who  "changes 

not;"  they  know  that  he  is  preparing  a  home   for 

them,  "that  where  he  is  they  may  be  also." 

Remember  now  thy  Creator  in  the  days  of  thy 
youth,  while  the  evil  days  come  not,  nor  the  years 
draw  nigh,  when  thou  shalt  say,  I  have  no  pleasure 
in  them.— Eccl.  12:  1. — N.  Y.  Observer. 


COST  OF  A  LBAD  PENCIL. 


"What  does  it  cost  to  make  a  lead  pencil?"  que- 
ried a  reporter  of  the  New  York  ISun.  "First  lot  me 
tell  you  how  we  make  a  pencil,"  said  the  manufac- 
turer. "See  this  fine  black  powder?  That's  graph- 
ite. It  cost  twenty-five  cents  a  pound.  This  white 
substance  is  German  clay.  It  come  across  the  ocean 
as  ballast  in  sailing  vessels,  and  all  it  costs  us  is 
freight.  We  mix  this  clay  and  this  powder  togeth- 
er and  grind  them  in  a  mill,  allowing  a  moisture  to 
be  added  during  the  process,  until  the  two  are  thor- 
oughly assimilated  and  are  reduced  to  a  paste  about 
the  consistency  of  putty. 

"This  paste  we  press  into  these  dies,  each  one  of 
which  is  the  size  of  a  pencil  lead,  except  in  length. 
There  are  four  leads  in  one  of  these.  After  they 
are  pressed  we  cut  them  into  the  proper  length,  and 
bake  them  in  an  oven  kept  at  very  high  heat.  There 
we  have  the  lead  made.  Its  hardness  is  regulated  by 
the  greater  or  less  amount  of  clay  we  mix  with  the 
graphite — the  more  clay  we  put  in,  the  harder  the 
lead. 

"The  cedar  we  use  comes  principally  from  the 


swamps  of  Florida.and  is  obtained  entirely  from  the 
fallen  trees  that  lie  there.  The  wood  is  delivered  to 
us  in  blocks  sawed  to  pencil  lengths,  some  thick  to 
receive  the  lead,  and  others  thin  for  the  piece  that 
is  glued  over  the  lead.  The  blocks  are  sawed  lor 
four  pencils  each.  They  are  grooved  by  a  saw,  the 
groove  being  the  place  where  the  lead  is  to  lie. 

"The  leads  are  kept  in  hot  glue,  and  are  placed  in 
the  grooves  as  the  blocks  are  ready.  When  that  is 
done,  the  thin  block  is  glued  fast  to  the  thick  one. 
When  dry,the  blocks  are  run  through  a  machine  that 
cuts  the  pencils  apart  Then  they  are  run  through 
a  machine  that  shapes  and  burnishes  them  and  they 
are  ready  to  be  tied  in  bunches,  boxed  and  put  out. 

"The  different  grades  in  value  are  made  by  finer 
manipulation  of  the  graphite.  Here  is  a  pencil  that 
is  about  the  average  quality  used  in  every  day  bus- 
iness. It  cost  a  little  more  than  one-quarter  of  a 
cent  to  get  it  ready  for  market.  We  sell  it  to  deal- 
ers at  one  hundred  per  cent  profit,  and  the  dealer 
makes  much  more  than  that.  Of  this  grade  an  ope- 
rator and  the  machinery  will  easily  make  2500  a 

day."  • 

Temperance. 


ANOTHER  MARTYR  TO  PROHIBITION. 

New  Canaan,  Conn.,  Jan.  27. — A  most  heinous 
rum  murder  was  committed  in  this  town  Wednesday 
afternoon,  adding  another  to  the  list  of  martyrs  to 
the  cause  of  enforcing  prohibitory  laws.  The  town 
has  been  under  no-license  for  some  years,  and  the 
law  has  had  energetic  friends,  a  Law  and  Order  So- 
ciety having  been  formed.  Contraband  liquors  have 
been  seized,  and  saloonists  are  now  under  bonds  to 
appear  before  the  Supreme  Court. 

One  of  the  indicted  saloonists  is  Jacob  Scheele,  a 
German,  who  was  one  of  the  greatest  offenders  and 
is  also  a  most  brutal  and  despicable  ruffian.  He 
came  from  New  York,  where  he  had  trouble  with  the 
police  and  his  saloon  was  broken  up.  He  was  also 
driven  out  of  Norwalk.  In  consequence  of  a  dis- 
graceful row  in  Scheele's  place  last  Sunday  a  war- 
rant was  issued  for  his  arrest,  and  Constable  Louis 
Drucker  went  on  Wednesday  afternoon  to  serve  it. 

Scheele  met  Drucker  with  a  double-barreled  shot- 
gun. Drucker  drew  his  revolver  and  kept  him  at 
bay,  and  then  went  for  assistance.  Returning  with 
four  others,  he  again  attempted  to  arrest  Scheele. 
The  latter,  thrusting  the  gun  out  of  an  upper  win- 
dow, took  deliberate  aim,  fired,  and  Constable 
Drucker  fell  dead.  Scheele  then  attempted  suicide. 
He  was  found  dangerously  wounded,  but  it  is 
thought  now  that  he  will  recover. 

The  greatest  excitement  has  prevailed  since  the 
tragedy,  and  but  for  the  assassin's  perilous  condi- 
tion he  would  surely  have  been  lynched. 

Constable  Drucker  was  a  most  faithful  officer, 
elected  to  his  office  three  years  ago.  He  discharged 
his  duties  so  well  that  at  the  last  election  he  was  re- 
elected, being  the  only  man  on  the  Democratic  ticket 
who  won.  He  had  the  vote  of  the  Christian  and  temper- 
ance element,  and  especially  the  Prohibitionists,  who 
felt  that  although  he  was  not  himself  a  temperance 
man  he  could  be  relied  on  to  do  his  duty. —  (jorres- 
pondence  N.  Y.  Voice. 


HO  W  ED  WA  RBS  CO  UNTF  WAS  SA  VED. 

It  is  said  that  forty  years  ago  in  Edwards  county, 
111.,  an  old  Cumberland  Presbyterian  minister  went 
into  every  school  district  in  the  county  and  taught 
the  boys  and  girls  temperance,  and  pledged  them  to 
total  abstinence  and  for  prohibition.  Edwards 
county  at  that  time  was  a  great  drinking  place,  and 
its  case  seemed  almost  a  hopeless  one.  But  this 
humble  and  faithful  soul  saw  a  work  to  be  done,  and 
he  did  it,  though  he  was  doubtless  called  crank  and 
f  jnatic.  Ten  years  went  by,  and  those  children  he 
taught  and  pledged  were  grown  up,  and  lo!  behold, 
it  was  a  temperance  army  that  said  to  the  saloon, 
"Go!"  and  go  it  had  to.  And  for  nearly  thirty  )'ears 
that  county  has  been  rid  of  that  abominable  besom 
of  destruction.  Edwards  county  has  been  blessed; 
her  taxes  are  light,  her  paupers  are  few.  She  has 
sent  but  one  man  to  the  penitentiary  in  twenty-five 
years,  and  he  got  liquor  in  another  county  that 
caused  him  to  commit  the  crime.  Dear  friends,  do 
you  go  to  work  with  the  children,  if  you  can  see  no 
other  work  to  do,  and,  as  in  Edwards  county  so  in 
other  counties,  the  children  shall  drive  the  saloon 
out.  Drunkards  we  can  seldom  reform,  but  we  can 
save  the  children  and  stop  the  making  of  drunkards 
out  of  them,  and  in  a  few  years  we  shall  find  them 
our  best  soldiers  in  the  warfare  for  temperance,  for 
God  and  home  and  native  land.  So  to  work,  to 
work,  at  once.    Let  no  precious  time  be  wasted. — 


ANCIENT  LICENSE  LAWS. 

Forasmuch  as  drunkenness  is  a  vice  to  be  abhorred 
of  all  nations,  especially  of  those  who  hold  out  and 
profess  ye  Gospel  of  Jesus  Christ,  and  seeing  any 
strict  law  against  ye  sin  will  not  prevail  unless  ye 
cause  be  taken  away,  it  is  therefore  ordered  by  this 
court : 

1.  No  person  whatever  shall sell  any  wine  un- 
der a  quarter  cask but  only  to  such  taverners  as 

are  licensed  by  ye  court  to  retail  wine 

2.  Yt  no  taverner  be  licensed  to  sell  wine,  but 
shall  first  pay  a  fine  to  ye  treasury,  and  a  yearly 
rent  for  his  said  license  also. 

3.  Yt  ye  constabled  have  power to  search  any 

house  suspected  to  sell  wine  contrary  to  ye  order; 
also,  any  taverner  or  other  person  yt  shall  inform 
against  any  transgressor  of  ye  order  shall  have  half 
of  ye  fine  for  his  encouragement. — Matiachusettt  Bay 
Colony,  IGJfG, 

^  %  m 

The  National  Prohibition  Committee  have  issued 
a  call  for  the  National  Convention  at  Indianapolis, 
June  6,  1888.  The  call  says:  "All  citizens  who 
believe  that  the  traffic  in  intoxicating  drink  is  a  dis- 
grace and  a  national  scourge,  that  it  is  destitute  of 
wealth-producing  power,  robs  labor,  destroys  capital, 
breeds  lawlessness  and  fosters  anarchy,  seeks  to, 
and  already  to  an  alarming  extent  does,  dominate 
in  municipal.  State  and  national  governments,  that 
it  threatens  the  safety  of  our  homes  and  ought  for- 
ever to  be  prohibited;  who  believe  that  to  abolish 
the  saloon  will,  in  a  great  measure,  abolish  poverty, 
assist  in  solving  the  labor  question,  purify  politics 
and  add  to  the  solidity  of  our  institutions;  who  be- 
lieve that  this  desirable  reform  needs  for  its  con- 
summation the  respectable  agency  of  a  political 
party,  clearly  committed  thereto  as  a  matter  of  prin- 
ciple; who  favor  a  general  and  progressive  system 
of  popular  education;  who  would  amend  our  election 
laws  to  secure  greater  purity  of  the  ballot;  who  stand 
for  a  free  ballot  and  a  fair  count  for  the  white  man 
North  and  the  black  man  South;  who  favor*the  ele- 
vation of  American  laborers;  who  would  foster  our 
agricultural  interests;  who  believe  that  the  ballot  in 
the  hands  of  women  will  be  the  death  knell  to  the 
liquor  trade,  in  short  all  citizens  who  are  agreed  upon 
the  wisdom  and  necessity  of  a  separate  political  ac- 
tion in  order  to  secure  the  overthrow  of  the  rum 
power,  are  requested  to  unite  in  sending  representa- 
tives to  the  convention." 

Gov.  St.  John  is  turning  things  upside  down  in 
California.  The  Los  Angeles  Thnss  has  the  follow- 
ing to  say  about  his  address  there  Jan.  8  : 

"The  lecturer  entered  into  the  subject  of  the  everf- 
ing,  picturing  the  vice,  crime,  poverty  and  unhappi- 
ness  which  follows  in  the  wake  of  intemperance, 
with  such  vividness  and  coloring  that  his  listeners 
could  readily  recall  scenes  met  with  in  their  every- 
day life.  The  speaker  drew  a  picture  of  the  boy's 
first  glass  to  the  last  scene  at  the  drunkard's  death, 
and  referred  to  the  apathy  of  leading  statesmen  to 
this  most  important  question  of  prohibition.  Ho 
felt  assured  that  the  day  is  at  hand  when  this  ques- 
tion will  be  the  all-important  cjuestion  of  all  right 
minded  and  Christian  people.  The  women  of  the 
W.  C.  T.  Unions  are  doing  a  noble  work,  and  so 
great  is  the  success  that  is  attending  their  efforts 
that  the  time  is  not  far  distant  when  the  brewers 
and  saloon  keepers  will  no  longer  have  any  weight 
in  the  political  world. 

"The  lecturer  was  applauded  often  during  the 
evening  and  the  lecture  was  pronounced  one  of  the 
most  interesting  ever  listened  to  by  the  Los 
Angeles  temperance  people." 

In  retaliation  for  the  hard  fight  being  made  by  the 
temperance  people  of  Leeds  county,  Ontario,  eleven 
buildings  have  been  burned  at  Irish  Creek,  the 
Methodist  church  and  a  tannery  have  been  burned 
at  Kemptville,  and  five  constables  have  been  stoned 
and  assaulted.  Dr.  Ferguson,  M.  P.,  and  three 
others,  one  of  them  a  minister,  were  assailed  and 
threatened  with  murder,  and  two  deacons  of  a  Bap- 
tist church  have  been  warned  to  dismiss  their  min- 
ister or  have  their  church  burned.  The  temperance 
people  are  undismayed,  however,  and  have  had 
forty  or  fifty  tavern  keepers  fined,  have  sent  three 
offenders  to  the  ponitentiary,  and  have  had  the  as- 
sailants of  the  constables  fined  $800. 

King  John  of  Abyssinia  has  such  a  horror  of  to- 
bacco that  he  has  issueil  a  decree  according  to  which 
any  one  of  his  subjects  detected  in  the  use  of  the 
weed  shall  be  punished  by  having  his  lips  or  h<8 
no3«  cut  off. — Sandy  Hill  Herald. 

And  our  own  Jim  Blaine  classes  it  among  the 
necessaries  of  life,  and  favors  removing  the  revenue 
tax  imposed  upon  the  weed.  Verily,how  great  states- 
men disagree  on  thij  subject  of  international  im- 
portance.— aSaratoga  Eagle, 


12 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


February  16, 1888 


OUB  NBW  TORE  LBTTBR. 


SHALL   THE   POPE   RULE  THE  NATIONS? 


Editor  Christian  Ctnosure: — The  Nineteenth 
Century,  for  Jan.,  1888,  has  an  article  entitled  "Leo 
thirteenth  and  the  Civil  Power."  It  is  of  value 
only  as  showing  the  alarming  influence  of  the  pa- 
pacy today.  The  author,  Herbert,  Bishop  of  Sal- 
ford,  does  not  deceive  us  in  pointing  to  the  cat-like 
paw  of  the  present  pontiff.  Beneath  the  white 
glove  of  peace  is  the  red  hand  of  tyranny.  Here 
are  some  of  his  statements,  "When  Napoleon  had 
incorporated  Rome  with  his  empire  and  had  locked 
up  Pius  VII.  within  the  walls  of  Savona,  he  de- 
clared in  a  memorable  conversation  with  Prince 
Metternich,  that  it  was  his  intention  to  establish  the 
pontiff  in  an  exalted  position  of  dignity  and  inde- 
pendence. He  then  unfolded  his  plans.  He  would 
bring  the  Pope  to  Paris;  he  would  give  him  a  palace 
in  the  neighborhood  of  the  capital  with  a  zone  of 
neutral  territory;  he  would  transfer  from  Rome,  as 
in  fact  he  did,  the  archives  of  the  Holy  Office  and 
of  Propaganda;  he  would  surround  the  Pope  with 
the  sacred  college  of  cardinals;  would  allow  him  to 
send  forth,  to  receive  envoys  and  ambassadors,  and 
would  guarantee  to  him  a  civil  list  of  six  mil- 
lions of  francs.  He  would  treat  him  with  sovereign 
honors.  'Placed  near  Paris,'  he  continued,  'the 
Pope  will  find  himself  more  in  the  center  of  'the 
Catholic  world — nearer  to  Vienna,  Lisbon  and  Mad- 
rid— than  when  he  resided  in  Rome.'  "  Metternich 
saw  that  Napoleon,  with  the  Pope  under  his  thumb, 
would  be  master  of  Europe;  and  he  replied:  "My 
master  will  give  the  Pope  twelve  millions.  Will  you 
consent?"  "The  proposal  which  Napoleon  failed 
to  carry  out  has  been  accomplished  under  the  King 
of  Italy.  The  law  of  guarantees  of  1871  has 
thrown  into  legal  form  the  plan  sketched  in  1810." 
The  Pope  is  "the  religious  head  of  225,000,000,  who 
form  the  larger  part  of  the  modern  democracy." 
As  a  majtter  of  fact,  the  civil  powers  of  the  world 
are  for  the  most  part  in  direct  relations  with  the 
Holy  See.  All  the  great  states  of  the  continent  ac- 
credit ambassadors  or  ministers  to  the  Vatican. 
Fifteen  different  governments  treat  diplomatically 
with  the  Pope,  and  even  distant  China  and  Japan 
desire  to  establish  relations  with  him.  Not  only 
Catholics,  therefore,  but  Protestant,  non-Christian 
and  pagan  countries  believe  it  to  be  their  interest  to 
recognize  and  treat  with  a  spiritual  power  which  is 
one  of  the  de  facto  phenomena  of  the  world.  Lord 
John  Russell  established  relations  with  Pius  the 
Ninth;  Mr.  Gladstone's  government  felt  the  need  of 
renewing  them.  The  present  government  is  under- 
stood to  recognize  their  importance.  The  papacy 
was  never  more  influential.  Bismarck  said  in  1872, 
"We  are  not  going  to  Canossa,"  out  he  is  there  to- 
day. Premier  Salisbury  sends  Morley  and  Ripon  to 
invoke  the  aid  of  the  Vatican  in  subduing  belliger- 
ant  Ireland.  President  Cleveland  bids  for  the 
Catholic  vote  in  America  by  sending  "His  Holi- 
ness" a  jubilee  present.  We  need  a  Luther  to 
arouse  the  Lord's  hosts  against  the  incoming  foe. 

Friday  evening  I  heard  Rev.  T.  De  Witt  Talmage, 
D.  D.,  lecture  in  his  tabernacle.  He  is  a  wonderful 
man.  Five  thousand  people  crowd  in  there  to  hear 
him  every  Sabbath.  He  has  been  there  almost 
twenty  years.  There  were  500  out  this  evening. 
The  moment  he  opens  his  mouth  you  feel  the  power 
of  his  wonderiul  magnetism.  He  said:  "The  con- 
gress of  scientists  at  Washington  settled  the  me- 
ridian so  that  we  have  the  same  o'clock  the  world 
over.  Pekin,  St.  Petersburg  and  London  are 
nearer  to  us  to-day  than  Poughkeepsie  fifty  years 
ago.  The  German  and  French  languages  are  com- 
peting for  Europe.  One  of  them  will  eventually 
swallow  up  the  other.  Then  that  language  will  com- 
pete with  the  English  for  the  world.  The  English 
will  gain  the  day.  Christ's  kingdom  will  be  set  up 
in  America.  When  Columbus  and  his  120  men 
left  Spain  in  their  three  ships,  they  first  took  the 
sacrament.  When  they  landed  they  knelt  down  and 
dedicated  the  new  world  to  God.  The  Huguenots  in 
Carolina,  the  Hollanders  in  New  York,  and  the  Pu- 
ritans in  ^ew  England  did  the  same.  This  land  has 
been  dedicated  to  God.  Let  Christ's  kingdom  be 
established  here,  and  all  the  world  will  follow  the 
example.  This  world  began  with  a  theocracy,  per- 
sonal relation  to  God.  Why  not  end  in  a  Christoc- 
racy,  personal  relation  to  Christ. 

Sabbath  evening  I  preached  in  the  Summerfield 
M.  E.  church,  Greene  and  Washington  avenues,  Rev. 
W.  L.  Phillips,  pastor.  This  is  a  congregation  of 
550  members.  They  have  a  fine  building.  Last 
fall  they  spent  $5,000  in  repairing  it.  Some  of  the 
prominent  city  ctUcials  worship  here.  National  Re- 
form called  out  many  expressions  of  approval. 

J.  M.  Foster. 


Reiigiotjs  News. 


— Frank  W.  Smith,  the  evangelist  whose  enthusi- 
astic speeches  were  a  feature  of  the  Elgin  Sabbath 
convention  last  fall,  is  to  aid  in  revival  services  in 
Crystal  Lake  and  Algonquin,  111.,  beginning 
Wednesday  of  this  week. 

— Mr.  Henry,  a  carriage  dealer  of  Chicago,  has 
been  one  of  the  leaders  in  the  great  revivals  at  Ge- 
neva and  Batavia,  111.  Of  the  latter  a  local  paper 
says:  "The  revival  meetings  have  been  most  phe- 
nomenal, and  the  interest  and  feeling  are  unabated. 
Batavia  has  not  experienced  such  an  awakening  in 
many  years,  if  indeed  at  all.  There  have  been  up- 
wards of  one  hundred  conversions,  and  many  have 
been  reclaimed  to  ways  of  righteousness.  It  has 
become  almost  useless  for  merchants  to  keep  their 
stores  open  after  7  o'clock  in  the  evening,  as  the 
streets  are  deserted  and  the  meetings  are  crowded." 

— Messrs.  Moody  and  Sankey  closed  their  work 
in  Louisville,  Ky.,  on  the  Sabbath  with  meetings  in 
the  afternoon  and  night.  Long  before  the  hours  an- 
nounced for  the  beginning  of  the  services  the  im- 
mense auditorium  of  the  tabernacle  was  crowded, 
and  thousands  were  turned  away,  unable  to  gain  ad- 
mission. A  collection  was  taken  up  for  the  benefit 
of  the  mission  in  the  city  conducted  by  Steve  Hol- 
combe,  the  reformed  gambler,  and  between  $3,000 
and  $4,000  raised.  Mr.  Moody,  in  speaking  of  his 
labors,  said:  "I  am  much  pleased  with  the  results, 
and  consider  that  the  services  have  been  blessed  in 
a  full  degree." 

— Rev.  C.  E.  Hansen,  pastor  of  the  Swedish  Lu- 
theran Emanuel  church,  Rockford,  111.,  has  resigned 
his  position  here  and  will  go  to  Denver,  Col.  His 
place  has  been  filled  by  Rev.  C.  Roos,  of  Pueblo, 
Col. 

— Rev.  P.  Moerdyk  of  Grand  Rapids,  Mich.,  has 
lately  been  instrumental  in  forming  a  ministerial 
union  among  the  Holland  Reformed  churches  of 
Western  Michigan.  Revs.  Moerdyk  and  Lepeltak, 
who  are  well  remembered  for  their  opposition  to  the 
lodge  in  the  General  Synod  of  the  church  eome  years 
ago,  are  prominent  members  of  the  body. 

— Pastor  D.  Simon  of  the  Lutheran  church  at 
Prospect,  Ohio,  has  been  offered  the  position  as 
principal  of  a  seminary  at  Hickory,  N.  C,  and  while 
willing  to  accept  the  call  his  congregation  refused  to 
permit  the  change. 

— The  Baptist  and  Congregational  churches  at 
Kewanee,  111.,  have  been  having  gracious  revival 
seasons.  In  the  latter  forty-three  were  recently  re- 
ceived by  vote  into  the  church,  thirty-three  on  con- 
fession. This  makes  145  which  have  been  received 
during  three  years,  116  of  them  on  confession.  The 
membership  is  now  306, 

— Rev.  Dr.  W.  H.  French  of  Cincinnati  assisted 
lately  in  dedicating  a  new  United  Presbyterian 
church  in  Delhi,  Ohio. 

— Rev.  Dr.  J.  B.  Lee,  of  Bovina,  N.Y.,  attended  a 
meeting  of  the  New  York  State  Prohibition  commit- 
tee at  Utica  where  he  offered  and  advocated  two  res- 
olutions,' the  first  expressing  determined  opposition 
to  every  effort  of  the  rum  traffic  to  deprive  us  of 
any  part  of  the  Sabbath;  the  second  deprecating  the 
holding  of  any  strictly  political  meetings  on  the 
Lord's  day.    Both  were  adopted. 

— Dr.  Lewis  Davis  of  Dayton  spent  several  days 
recently  at  Westerville,  Ohio,  and  assisted  in  the 
services  by  which  the  day  of  prayer  for  colleges  was 
observed  in  Otterbein  University.  He  delivered 
also  the  monthly  lecture  in  the  college  chapel. 

— Cheering  intelligence  comes  to  us  just  as  we  go 
to  press,  says  the  last  Free  Methodist,  from  brother 
Shemeld  at  Estcourt  (South  Africa).  In  a  letter  to 
brother  Eby  dated  December  19,  he  writes  that  he 
intended  shortly  to  baptize  five  native  converts  who 
had  never  been  in  a  meeting  until  the  mission  was 
established  at  Estcourt.  He  also  tells  of  a  whole 
congregation  of  natives  arising  to  say  that  they 
"trusted  in  Jesus." 

— Thfire  seems  to  be  a  well  founded  hope  for  an 
early  union  of  the  Reformed  church  in  America 
and  the  Reformed  church  in  the  United  States,  for- 
merly known  as  "Dutch"  and  "German"  Reformed. 
A  meeting  of  the  committees  of  conference  ap- 
pointed by  the  two  Synods  of  the  churches,  was  re- 
cently held  in  New  York.  While  its  proceedings 
were  only  initiatory,  the  fraternal  and  earnest  spirit 
by  which  they  were  characterized,  aflords  reason  to 
hope  that  a  union  of  the  churches  represented  in 
the  conference  will  be  eflfected  at  an  early  day  on  a 
basis  cordially  accepted  by  both.  At  this  meeting 
arrangements  were  made  for  a  public  convention  to 
be  held  in  Philadelphia  some  time  in  March  next, 
at  which  carefully  considered  papers  upon  the  sub- 


ject of  the  proposed  union  will  be  read  by  promi- 
nent and  influential  men  of  both  churches,  and  an 
opportunity  will  be  offered  for  a  fall  discussion  of 
the  various  phases  of  the  subject. 

— The  Kentucky  Legislature  has  empowered  the 
deacons  of  the  Methodist  church  to  elect  ushers 
upon  whom  shall  be  conferred  full  police  authority 
to  maintain  order  during  the  services. 

— Rev.  Mr.  Raber  is  holding  a  series  of  very  suc- 
cessful evangelical  meetings  at  Rochester,  Ind.  He 
is  being  assisted  by  Ed  Steiner,  a  prominent  Hebrew, 
who  some  time  ago  renounced  Judaism  and  em- 
braced the  Christian  faith. 

— The  centenary  of  the  first  General  Assembly  of 
the  Presbyterians  of  the  United  States  will  be  cele- 
brated next  May.  Presbyterians  throughout  the 
country  are  much  interested,  and  are  making  great 
efforts  to  mark  the  event  by  raising  $1,000,000  to 
add  to  the  fund  for  the  benefit  of  superannuated 
ministers,  and  the  needy  windows  and  children  of 
deceased  ministers  belonging  to  that  society. 

— While  women  are  wanted  in  almost  every  mis- 
sion field,  there  seems  to  be  a  peculiarly  urgent  call 
for  them  in  Southern  Europe,  particularly  in  Italy. 
Evangelical  schools  of  higher  female  education  are 
wanted  to  satisfy  the  awakening  desire  of  the  nobler 
born  Italian  young  women,  who  are  beginning  to 
recognize  what  such  institutions  have  done  for  their 
sex  in  England  and  America.  It  is  a  hopeful  sign 
that  dissatisfaction  with  the  convent  system  of  educa- 
tion is  growing,  and  an  institution  planted  there  now 
with  the  aim  and  spirit  of  Mt.  Holyoke  or  Wellesley 
would  be  a  powerful  factor  in  the  regeneration  of 
these  papal  lands. 

— The  Japanese  women  of  Osaka  have  formed  a 
"Ladies'  Christian  Association,"  and  at  a  recent 
meeting  in  the  Y.  M.  C.  A.  hall  in  that  place,  an 
audience  composed  of  ladies  only  is  said  to  have 
numbered  over  1,000. 

— An  association  has  been  incorporated  in  St. 
Louis,  consisting  of  a  number  of  Latheran  gentle- 
men of  that  city,  who  propose  to  establish  a  school 
conducted  after  the  German  gymnasiums,  and  to  bs 
called  "Walther  College,"  in  honor  of  the  late  Dr. 
Walther  whose  portrait  and  history  appeared  in  these 
columns  last  November. 


LITEEATTJBE. 


In  the  death  of  Prof.  Asa  Gray  of  Harvard  University, 
not  America  alone,  but  the  world  loses  one  of  its  great 
scientists.  Few  men  have  contributed  more  to  his  special 
department,  that  of  botany,  than  he .  His  researches  and 
writings  cover  nearly  the  whole  field,  and  his  text  books 
make  his  name  familiar  to  every  student.  For  forty  years 
he  has  been  preparing  a  descriptive  work  upon  the  plants 
of  North  America,  which,  though  scarcely  more  than  half 
completed,  is  a  monument  to  his  industry  and  scientific 
attainments.  To  him,  more  than  to  any  other  student 
and  investigator,  is  due  the  establishment  and  acceptance 
of  the  natural  system  in  botanical  science.  Along  with 
most  botanists  Prof.  Gray  early  accepted  the  L»arwiniah 
hypothesis,  yet  ever  held  it  in  a  form  consistent  with  be- 
lief not  only  in  a  personal  God,  but  in  the  creeds  of  the 
Christian  church.  Not  least  among  his  just  titles  to  fame 
is  the  work  he  did  in  thus  reconciling  what  so  many.both 
among  scientists  and  Christians,  represent  as  necessarily 
antagonistic.  For  forty-five  years  Prof.  Gray  was  a 
member  of  the  First  Congregational  church  of  Cambridge, 
and  his  pastor  bears  testimony  how  reverently  and  faith- 
fully he  bore  his  part  in  its  worship  and  its  work.  It  is 
a  high  tribute  to  a  life  of  nearly  four  score  when  it  can 
be  said  by  his  pastor  of  many  years,  as  is  the  case  of  this 
learned  scientist,  that  "Certain  as  he  is  to  live  in  his  works, 
even  more  than  for  that  which  he  has  done,  will  he  be 
remembered  and  revered  for  what  he  was." — Intelligencer. 

Vick'a  Magazine  for  February  is  full  of  advice  about 
Qeraneums,  Chrysanthemums,  Orchids,  and  house  plants 
and  their  culture  in  general;  and  students  will  read  with 
pleasure  the  second  part  of  "Botanizing  on  the  Great  Ka- 
nawha." 

"Woman"  very  appropriately  devotes  much  space  to 
the  Young  Women's  Christian  Association  of  New  York, 
whose  work  of  education,  improvement  and  charity  is 
carried  on  from  their  beautiful  building  at  No.  7  East 
Fifteenth  street .  The  various  departments  are  stored 
with  useful  and  valuable  hints  for  women  workers  of  all 
ranks  and  classes. 

The  March  Century  will  contain  the  story  of  "Colonel 
Rose's  Tunnel  at  Libby  Prison,"  told  by  one  of  the  one 
hundred  and  nine  Union  ofiicers  who  escaped  on  the 
night  of  February  9,  1864.  The  successful  construction 
of  this  tunnel,  dug  from  a  dark  corner  of  the  cellar  of 
the  prison,  through  fifty  feet  of  solid  earth, — the  only 
tools  being  two  broken  chisels  and  a  wooden  spittoon  in 
which  to  carry  out  the  dirt — was  one  of  the  most  re- 
markable incidents  of  the  war .  Colonel  Rose,  to  whose 
indomitable  will  and  perseverance  the  success  of  the 
scheme  was  due,  is  now  a  captain  in  the  16th  United 
States  Infantry,  and  of  the  fourteen  men  who  assisted 
him  in  digging  the  tunnel,  eleven  are  still  living.  The 
narrative  in  the  March  Century,  which  is  illustrated, 
forms  one  of  the  untechnical  papers  supplementing  the 


fEBBUARY  16,  1888 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


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War  Series,  and  it  is  said  to  be  one  of  the 
most  romantic  records  that  the  Ceniv/ry 
has  ever  printed. 

The  English  Illustrated  Magazine  for 
February  is  somewhat  domestic  in  char- 
acter. Harrison  Weir's  description  of 
fowls  is  rather  English  than  American, 
but  is  entertaining  and  instructive;  so 
also  is  "The  Weasel  and  his  Family." 
"Coaching  Days  and  Coaching  Ways"  is 
continued  with  its  fulness  of  illustra- 
tion of  old  English  sights,  and  sketches 
of  old  incident  and  history.  Prof.  Min- 
to  s  story  of  the  Peasant's  Rebellion  in  the 
time  of  Richard  II.  and  of  Wickliffe 
loses  none  of  its  interest.  It  gives  some 
instructive  lessons  to  the  student  of  social 
and  political  economy. 

Dr.  Pierson'ssketchof  Prof.  P.P.  Bliss, 
who  went  down  with  his  devoted  wife  at 
at  Ashtabula  in  1876,  is  an  attractive 
feature  of  Words  and  Weapons  for  Feb- 
ruary, from  whence  we  are  borrowing 
Sabbath-school  lesson  notes  during  Miss 
Flagg's  confinement.  It  is  a  truthful, 
pathetic  narrative  with  an  excellent  esti- 
mation of  the  great  singer's  powers.  Dr. 
Pentecost's  contributions  to  this  number 
are  good  for  every  Christian's  home  read- 
ing. 

The  revival  of  the  Romish  discussion 
by  President  Cleveland's  ill-advised  pres- 
ent to  the  Pope,  finds  an  able  advocate 
in  Father  O'Connor's  magazine,  the  Con- 
verted Catholic.  The  latest  phases  of  the 
discussion  are  considered  in  an  original 
way.  If  all  pastors  would  read  this  mag- 
azine they  would  find  abundant  material 
for  frequent  and  profitable  instruction  of 
their  people. 

In  Harris's  New  Seed  Catalogue  for 
1888  there  is  a  valuable  article  on  the  sub- 
ject of  Fertilizers  for  the  Garden  from 
ihe  pen  of  Joseph  Harris.  There  is  no 
more  reliable  authority.  The  catalogue 
is  free  to  all  who  send  their  address  on  a 
postal  card  to  Joseph  Harris  Seed  Co., 
Moreton  Farm,  Rochester,  N.  Y. 

The  Stoiss  Cross  tells  its  youthful  read- 
ers something  about  the  productions  of 
Gautemala  with  illustrations  of  its  singu- 
lar vegetation.  Major  J.  Wesley  Pow- 
ell's address  in  memory  of  the  late  Prof. 
Spencer  F.  Baird  has  also  a  place. 

Gregory's  Seed  Catalogue  for  '88,  Mar- 
blehead,  Mass.,  maintains  the  reputation 
of  this  celebrated  seedsman.  But  few 
men  in  this  business  have  originated  so 
many  valuable  varieties  of  vegetables  as 
J.  J.  H.Gregory. 

*  ■  fc 

Lodge  Notes. 

The  Royal  Adelphia,  a  society  which 
has  Detroit  for  its  birthplace,  has  extend- 
ed almost  over  the  entire  country.  Con- 
claves are  now  being  organized  in  Ohio. 

The  annual  meetings  of  the  Iowa  De- 
partments Grand  Army  of  the  Republic, 
Sons  of  Veterans,  and  Woman's  Relief 
Corps  will  be  held  at  Cedar  Rapids  April 
11  and  12. 

The  annual  reception  by  the  Greek  let- 
ter fraternities  of  the  State  University  at 
Madison,  Wis  ,  was  held  Friday  evening, 
and  was  an  exceedingly  swell  affair,  say 
the  dispatches,  participated  in  by  about 
seventy  couple.  One  reason  for  supplant- 
ing Dr.  John  Bascom,  who  so  ably  pre- 
sided over  the  University,  was  his  dislike 
of  the  lodge. 

The  Mystic  circle  is  the  name  of  a  soci- 
ety organized  in  various  portions  of  De- 
troit about  two  years  ago.  It  has  gone 
out  of  txistcnce  in  the  place  of  its  na- 
tivity, but  finds  people  in  other  places 
ready  to  be  duped.  Its  local  bodies  are 
called  "rulings,"  and  "the  Supreme  Rul- 
ing," which  in  the  language  of  ordinary 
people  would  be  a  term  to  be  used  with 
reverence,  is  only  a  kind  of  grand  lodge. 
Thebutt  welders.lap-welders.socket  mak- 
ers.aod  helpers  employed  attheContinent- 
al,  Pennsylvania,  Pittsburg,  and  National 
Tube  Works  at  Pittsburg,  to  the  numbtr 
of  1,000  have  made  application  to  the 
Amalgamated  Association  of  Iron  and 
Steel  Workers  for  a  charter.  At  present 
they  are  connected  with  the  Knights  of 
Labor.  They  have  decided  to  leave  that 
organization  and  form  a  lodge  of  the 
Amalgamated  Association. 

At  a  meeting  on  Sunday  of  last  week  in 
New  York  of  the  Central  Labor  Union, 
the  Maltsters'  Union  complained  that  the 
brewery  firm  of  F.  and  M .  Scharef er  are 
using  Milwaukee  noc  union  malt.  It  was 
reported  that  the  firm  would  give  up  the 
use  of  the  objectionable  malt  if  all  the 
other  brewers  in  the  city  do  so.     The 


matter  was  referred  to  the  arbitration 
committee.  There  was  received  from  the 
National  Union  of  Brewery  Employes  a 
list  of  all  the  places  where  Milwaukee 
beer  is  sold  in  New  York,  Brooklyn  and 
Jersey  City .  Copies  were  sent  to  all  la- 
bor organizations  in  these  cities  with  a 
request  not  to  patroniz^^  those  places. 
This  looks  hopeful  to  see  the  lodge  boy- 
cotting the  saloon.  There  are  some  good 
friends  to  whom  we  commend  the  item. 
But  after  all  it  is  only  Satan  casting  out 
Satan . 

The  Southern  Ovide  of  Hearne,  texas, 
seems  to  be  one  of  the  blind  leaders  of 
whom  the  Lord  warns  us  if  we  follow 
we  shall  be  ditched.  In  a  late  number 
it  has  this  commendation  of  a  lodge  mis- 
sionary, who,  though  a  preacher  of  the 
Gospel  of  Christ,  now  appears  as  an 
emissary  of  the  devil:  "Rev.  J.  Harvey 
Jones,  S.  G.  W.  C.  Templa  of  the  Grand 
United  order  of  Good  "Templars  of  the 
world,  contemplates  at  the  coming  meet- 
ing of  the  Colored  Men's  State  Conven- 
tion, producing  matter  for  the  organira- 
tion  of  an  order  among  colored  people 
that  will  concentrate  our  people  in  a  good 
cause.  As  far  as  we  can  learn  from  Elder 
Jones  the  order  is  to  include  three  impor- 
tant features :  1 .  Temperance.  2.  Insur- 
ance. 3.  Labor.  The  order  will  answer 
a  great  demand  on  part  of  our  people  in 
America." 


aUBSGBIPTlON  LBTTBRB. 


The  following  have  made  remittances 
of  money  to  the  Cynosure  from  Feb.  6 
to  11  inclusive. 

A  Cunningham,  W  E  Killips,  R  Hodg- 
man,  Mrs  E  Brooks,  DJMasson,  F  Fletch- 
er, J  Killough,  J  C  Young,  C  McUroy,  J 
Berry.H  N  Crosby,J  Ackart.T  H  George, 
J  Walters,  D  S  Coyner,  C  C  Martin,  Rev 
J  Excell,  S  Strotber,  J  H  Wilcox,  W  Ral- 
ston, G  B  Hench,  A  H  Caldwell,  H  N 
Waldo.  J  C  Cole,  C  Lander,  C  C  Hayden, 
E  A  Washburn.  P  Gates,  B  Doolittle,  S 
McMurdy,  A  Ramsay,  Miss  A  Richey, 
Mi8s  A  Coe,  J  J  Moore,  J  S  Hubbs,  A  C 
Badgley,  J  Swichard,  A  C  Bundy,  I  F 
Thurber,  O  HofEer,  P  D  McNab,  S  Hig- 
ginson,  S  Bingham,  R  W  Kirkwood,  A 
J  McFarland,  Peter  Guthrie,  A  Oliver.Jr, 
H  T  Ferguson,  W  A  McCray,  M  Patter- 
son, A  G  Shafer.Mrs  M  A  Waterman, Rev 
H  G  Leeper,  T  C  Kirkwood,  W  Duncan, 
A  Muzzy,  J  W  Baldridge,  J  Hodson,  Mrs 
M  Thomas,  S  H  Evans,  Rev  R  C  Wylie, 
8  Waite,  Mrs  U  P  Merrell,  L  Wood,  T 
Hartley,  T  Hodge,  I  Jackson,  J  Schou- 
ten,  Mrs  J  A  Coleman. 


MARES T  RBP0RT8. 

CHICAGO. 

Wheat— No.  2 76  78 

No.  3 66  67 

Winter  No  a SOJ^a     81 

Com-No.  a ^..     48  a     48>i 

Oats— No.a * 31  34 

Rye— No.a 61 

Bran  per  ton 15  50 

Hay— Timothy 9  50  @13  50 

Butter,  medium  to  best 13  @     29 

Cheese 05  &     15 

Beans 1  25  ^  2  40 

Begs 19  @     21 

Beeds-Tlmothy 2  10 

Flax 138  145 

Broomcom 02>^@     f? 

Potatoes  per  bus 60  ©     90 

Hides— Green  to  dry  flint 05>^@     13 

Lumber— Common 11  00  ®18  00 

Wool 13  @     36 

Cattle— Choice  to  extra 4  65  @  5  65 

Commontogood 2  SO 

Hogs 4  4''  @  5  80 

Sheep 8  00  g  5  15 

NEW  YORK. 

Flour 8  20    (3  5  60 

Wheat— Winter 89>i@     935^ 

Spring 89>i 

Com 58K@     61 

Oats 39    (a      48 

Bggs ?^  ^      ?5 

Butter... 15  ®     S4 

Wool.^..^« 09  84 

BLAN8AB  CITY. 

Cattle. .►^.^^►.^...-.^..^-^  1  30  a  4  80 

Hogs I...... «._->- 8  00  a  6  45 

■fciii).-..       .              8  .'iO  «  4  65 


Minnesota  Leads  the  World 

with  lior  Hi  lick,  <l;iiry  nwiX  Kniin  prodiiots. 
2,000,000  acrei*  lino  timber,  funning  ami  gra/iiiK 
lands,  ft(ljiu.'ent  to  railroad,  for  sale  choap  on 
oasv  terms.  For  maps,  prices,  rites,  etc., 
address,  J.  Hookwalter.  Land  Commissioner,  or 
C.  H.  Warren,  Ueneral 
Passenner  Agent,  St. 
Panl,  Minn. 
AaU  for  Book  H. 


DONATIONS 

To  Cynosure  Ministers'  Fund: 

J.  Walters  $     .50 

A. C. Bundy 1.50 

Jas.  S.  Hubbs 3. .50 

Andrew  Ramsay 3 .  50 

Mrs.  Geo.  Bent 1.00 

Jno.C.  Cole 4.00 

S.  Higginson 1 .00 

A.  Muzzy 20 

Lewis  Wood 1 .  50 

Mrs. Gertrude  Spies 10.00 

W.T.Wilson 50 

C.P.  Potter  1.50 

Chas.  Webber 5.00 

A.Dorcas 6.00 

D.S.  Dean 8.50 

Before  reported $656.06 

Total $704.26 

OUR.   CLXJB   LIST. 


PERSECUTION 


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The  llnf  of  Pooksiinil  Trtctuforsulf  hy  the  Nation 
iLCiiuisTiAN  A830CIATION  Look  It  ovor CRrefully 
knil  aeo  If  there  Is  not  eomethln>  you  want  for  yonr- 
lelf  or  for  your  friend.  Band  io«  »""  »Ktsi«»aet» 
V]  W  Uasiiab  %TMMrS-  CmiOAf- 


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February  16, 1888 


Home  and  Health. 

USEFUL  HINTS. 

Rubbing  with  celery  is  said  to  remove 
the  smell  of  onions  from  the  hand. 

Highly  polished  brass  may  be  kept  ab- 
solutely bright  and  free  from  tarnish  by 
thinly  coating  the  articles  with  a  varnish 
of  bleached  shellac  and  alcohol. 

If  a  bedstead  creaks  at  each  movement 
of  the  sleeper,  remove  the  slats  and  wrap 
the  ends  of  each  in  old  newspapers. 
This  will  prove  a  complete  silencer. 

Never  wash  a  jelly  bag  with  soap,  or  a 
strainer  cloth,  a  pudding  bag  or  dump 
ling  nets.      The  next  thing  that  is  put 
into  or  passed  through  these  things  will 
surely  taste  of  the  flavoring  of  alkali. 

To  tell  cake  in  the  oven,  draw  it  gent- 
ly forward  and  put  the  ear  close  to  the 
loaf;  if  it  is  not  done  there  will  be  a 
little  sputtering  sound;  when  it  is  thor- 
oughly baked  there  will  be  no  sound . 

To  brighten  a  Brussels,  or  any  carpet 
that  is  faded,  sponge  in  a  mixture  of  one 
part  oxgall  to  two  parts  water.  This  is 
excellent.  A  lady  recently  bought  a 
much-faded  carpet  (Brussels)  at  a  second- 
hand store,  and  restored  it  to  almost  its 
original  beauty  in  this  way. 

To  remove  "red  mites"  from  canaries 
hang  a  piece  of  new  white  flannel  in  the 
cage  at  night,  next  the  perch,  so  that  it 
shades  the  bird  from  the  light.  In  the 
morning  you  will  find  a  few  mites  on  the 
flannel;  wash,  or  put  in  a  new  piece  the 
following  night,  and  continue  doing  so 
until  they  are  all  removed.  It  is  also 
well  to  scald  the  cage.  The  perches 
should  be  of  red  cedar  wood. 

BREAD-MAKING. 
Bread  is  the  "staff  of  life  "  It  has  been 
calljsi  the  "sovereign  of  the  kitchen  ;"it  is 
the  most  important  article  of  food,  in  the 
eyes  of  a  good  housekeeper,  for  not  a  sin- 
gle meal  is  complete  without  it,  and  we 
are  pretty  sure,  if  we  see  good,  home- 
made bread  on  the  table,  to  find   all  the 
other  food  well  cooked.  With  good  judg- 
ment and  proper  manipulation,  five  large 
loaves  of  superfine  bread  can  be  made  of 
seven   pounds  of  flour  and    a  two  cent 
cake  of  compressed  yeast.     They  will  be 
sweet,  light,  substantial  and  nourishing, 
and  will  be  highly  satisfactory  to  the  pal- 
ate as  well.    The  time  to  make  it  will  be 
considered   of  little    value,    when  once 
home-made  bread  has  been  substituted 
for  the  baker's  loaf.     It  is  very  easy  to 
make  bread  after  the  following  directions. 
If  strictly  followed  there  is  no   "luck" 
about  it,  it  is  sure  to  be  good.     Put  one- 
third  of  a  cake  of  compressed  yeast  to 
soak  in  a  cup  of  warm  water  for  an  hour 
or  more.     Into  a  warm  pan  or  bowl  sift 
two  heaping  quarts  of  flour,   one  large 
spoonful  of  sugar  and  the  same  of  salt. 
Now  into  one  pint  of  warm  water  put 
one  spoonful  of  lard  and  allow  it  to  melt. 
The  lard  makes  the  bread  tender,  and  the 
sugar  takes  the  raw  flivor  from  the  flour. 
Stir  this  pint  of  water  into  the  flour,  and 
also  stir  in  the  yeast,  softened  and   dis- 
solved in  the  cup  of  water.      This  is  all 
the  liquid  required  for  two  loaves;  but  do 
not  stir  it  into  all  the  flour,  but  into  a 
portion  only,  in  the  middle  of  the  pan. 
This  is  "setting  the  sponge."  Allow  three 
hours  at  least  for  it  to  rise,  keeping  it 
warm  and  well  covered.     Then  mix  all 
the  flour  into  the  sponge,   put  in  the 
hands  and  work  and  knead  it  for  thirty 
minutes,  into  a  large,  round  mass,  smooth 
and  pufEy.     Add  no  more  flour,  except  to 
keep  the  hands  from  sticking.      Cover 
well  and  keep  in  a  warm  place  over  night . 
In   the  morning  divide  into  two  equal 
parts:  make  them  shapely,   but  handle 
now  as  little  and  lightly  as  possible  Bake 
in  buttered  tins,  five  by  ten  inches  in  size, 
and   square  cornered,  as  then  the  slices 
can  be  uniform,  whereas  in  round  tins 
they  cannot  be.     Set  the  two  loaves  in  a 
warm    place  to  rise:  an   hour  ought  to 
double  their  size.     When  they  are  ready, 
after  scoring  twice  each  way  across  the 
top,    for    a  moderate  oven,  where  they 
should  have  a  steady  fire  and  remain  one 
hour.      The    scoring  prevents  the  sides 
from  cracking  and  improves  the  shape  of 
the  loaves.      When  done,   remove  from 
the  tins,  stand  tbe  loaves  on  one  side  and 
cover  with  a  cloth  till  cold.     If  the  crust 
has  baked  too  hard  or  too  brown,  wring 
a  napkin  out  of  cold  water  and  lay  upon 
it  and  cover  closely.      This  sufllciently 
softens  the  crust.      A  tin  box  is  best  for 
keeping  bread-      Stale  slices  make  better 
toast  than  fresh  bread.     There  are  many 
ways  of  using  stale  bread,  bo  there  is  no 
need  of  wasting  any. 


Potato  bread  is  much  thought  of  by 
some,  and  it  certainly  has  the  merit  of 
keeping  moist  longer  than  other  kinds; 
but  bread  as  good  as  it  should  be  is  soon 
eaten .  In  order  to  make  it  the  potatoes 
should  be  boiled,  well  done,  peeled, 
mashed  exceedingly  fine,  stirred  into  the 
water  for  the  bread,strainedinto  the  flour, 
and  then  the  dissolved  yeast  added;  then 
proceed  as  with  the  plain  bread. 

Water  makes  better  bread  than  milk, 
and  milk  adds  uselessly  to  the  cost. 

Plain  people,  those  who  depend  upon 
their  food  for  health  and  strength  for 
their  daily  labor,  and  women  who  have 
the  care  of  providing  the  table,  as  well 
as  spending  the  money  therefor,  will  find 
that  by  making  their  own  bread,  besides 
having  a  more  nutritious,  wholesome  ar- 
ticle than  can  be  bought,  they  have  scored 
a  strong  point  in  economy,  also.  This  is 
but  one  of  the  many  ways  of  saving  mon- 
ey, or  rather,  living  well  on  a  little.  One 
would  not  believe  how  good  a  table  can 
be  set  with  a  few  dollars,  by  judicious  in- 
vestment of  them  Even  pies  and  pud- 
dings, "fit  to  set  before  the  king,"  do  not 
really  cost  as  much  as  might  be  supposed 
when  all  the  items  are  counted  up.  More 
than  the  material,  the  way  it  is  put  to- 
gether tells,  and  the  wife  who  really  has 
the  interests  of  husband  and  home  at 
heart,  will  spare  no  pains  to  buy  the  most 
and  best  for  her  money,  and  having  made 
her  purchases,  in  learning  how  to  make 
the  best  possible  use  of  them. — Katherine 
Armstrong,  in  Independent. 


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Faem  Notes. 

THRIFTY  SWEDISH  FARMERS. 

At  Stanton,  Iowa,  there  ia  a  coopera- 
tive  store  run  by  a  branch  of  the  Farm- 
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and  five  clerks,  and  is  playing  havoc  with 
the  trade  of  the  old  merchants  of  the 
village.  The  store  was  started  last  May, 
»  the  enterprise  of  a  society  incorporated 
last  winter  as  the  Montgomery  Farmers' 
Industrial  Association.  A  report  was 
made  at  the  annual  meeting  of  the  asso- 
ciation, which  shows  that  the  sales  of  the 
store  have  been  large  and  mainly  for 
cash.  By  frequent  turning  of  the  capi- 
tal invested,  a  profit  of  fifty  per  cent  on 
the  capital  stock  is  reported  for  the  eight 
months  the  store  has  been  running. 
Elated  with  their  success,  the  Farmers' 
Association  will  add  agricultural  imple- 
ments to  the  business,  and  are  talking 
also  of  starting  a  bank.  Scott  township 
has  a  considerable  population  of  Swedes, 
and  nearly  all  the  members  of  the  asso- 
ciation are  of  that  nationality. 

A  Word  about  the  Children's  Gar- 
den.— Let  the  children  have  a  piece  of 
the  cleanest  and  most  easily  worked  and 
dryest  and  earliest  land  in  the  whole  gar 
den.  Let  it  be  well  worked  and  got 
ready  for  them.  Land  that  has  been 
thoroughly  manured  a  year  or  two  previ- 
ous is  best.  Do  not  manure  it  this  year, 
but  make  it  rich  by  sowing  broadcast, 
early  in  the  spring,  four  or  five  pounds 
each  of  superphosphate  and  nitrate  of 
soda  to  the  square  rod.  Such  a  soil  will 
be  free  from  weeds  and  much  pleasanter 
for  the  children  to  dig  and  hoe  and  rake, 
than  a  soil  filled  with  ordinary  manure, 
and  will  produce  a  much  more  luxuriant 
growth. 

Show  the  children  how  to  prepare  the 
land  and  plant  the  seeds.  Last  spring  we 
happened  into  a  celebrated  lawyer's  gar- 
den, and  found  the  nurse  and  the  chil- 
dren sowing  flower  seeds  in  a  border  on 
the  side  of  the  walk.  A  large  quantity 
of  fresh  manure  had  been  spadea  in  and 
the  surface  was  rough.  The  nurse  girl 
was  raking  the  lumps  of  manure  onto  the 
grass  and  trying  to  make  it  smooth  and 
level.  She  made  the  border  hollow  in 
the  center  with  the  sides  as  high  as  the 
grass  and  the  stone  coping.  The  children 
were  making  holes  four  or  five  inches 
deep  and  dropping  the  seeds  into  them. 
We  told  the  nurse  that  those  seeds  came 
from  us,  and  asked  her  to  let  us  have  the 
rake  and  we  would  show  her  how  to 
plant  them.  We  ran  the  rake  along  the 
edge  of  the  grass  and  pulled  the  soil 
toward  the  center,  and  broke  the  lumps 
and  left  the  surface  rounding  and  smooth, 
and  then  made  a  few  shallow  circles  and 
showed  the  children  how  to  sow  the  seed 
and  cover  them  with  a  thin  layer  of  soil. 
It  did  not  look  quite  so  much  like  the 
work  of  a  vigorous  hen,  but  we  could 
not  help  thinking  that  it  was  too  bad  to 
ask  children  and  a  nurse  girl  to  do  work 
which  taxed  the  skill  of  an  old  gardener. 
TheJoaepJi  Harris  Catalogue. 

Ease  and  Benefit  of  Dehorning  — 
A  Vermont  correspondent  of  the  Mirror 
and  Farmer  relates  that  on  the  25th  of 
April  last  ho  dehorned  his  bull,  two 
vicious  cows,  the  terror  of  the  herd,  three 
yearlings  and  four  calves-  They  showed 
signs  of  very  little  pain,  and  when  let 
loose  went  directly  to  eating  and  chewing 
their  cuds.  The  cows  were  fresh  in  milk 
and  did  not  shrink  in  the  quantity  at  all, 
as  he  could  see,  but  their  spirits  were 
broken  and  they  were  quiet  and  inoffens- 
ive. The  bull  had  the  conceit  all  taken 
out  of  him;  he  is  no  longer  a  man-killer, 
and  is  driven  by  the  cows  not  yet  de- 
horned, but  which  will  be  before  win- 
ter opens.  This  seems  strong  testimony 
in  favor  of  dehorning. 

Warming  Poultry  Food  — Experi- 
enced poultry  breeders  appreciate  the 
importance  of  warming  the  food  given 
to  the  poultry  during  the  cold  weather, 
but  many  farmers  as  well  as  novices  do 
not  eeem  to,  as  they  do  not  practice  it. 
Our  method  is  to  warm  all  the  food, 
whether  mixed  or  cracked  or  fed  whole 
In  feeding  whole  corn  warm  it  thorough- 
ly in  the  oven,  nearly  parching  it,  and 
then  let  it  cool  off  suflicieutly  to  admit 
of  the  fowls  eating  it  without  discomfort. 
The  cooked  food  which  is  fed  from  time 
to  time  should  be  given  warm,  and  when 
necessary,  warmed  over  from  time  to 
time.  It  is  surprising  what  a  difference 
warm  food  will  make  in  the  supply  of 
eggs  during  the  continuance  of  cold 
weather,  and  especially  so  if  the  fowls 


are  well  sheltered  and  properly  cared  for 
otherwise. 

Fowls  in  Cold  Weather.— Accord- 
ing to  good  practical  authority,  when  the 
cold  weather  begins  the  capacity  of  the 
hens  for  finding  a  portion  of  their  food 
will  be  lessened:  hence,  they  must  be 
supplied  by  the  poultryman.  Not  only 
will  ground  oyster  shells  and  gravel  be 
necessary,  but  green  food  and  water. 
Green  food  is  easily  obtained  by  using 
finely  chopped  clover,  which  should  be 
steeped  in  boiling  water  and  fed  early 
in  the  morning. 

Onions  from  Seed  — The  secret  of 
raising  good  onions  is  to  sow  the  best  of 
seed  early  in  the  spring.  The  land  must 
be  rich  and  the  crop  kept  free  from 
weeds.  If  the  weeds  once  get  the  start 
of  the  onions,  you  will  have  "scallions" 
or  thick  necked  onions-  The  Joseph 
Harris  Seed  Co.,  Moreton  Farm,  Roch- 
ester, N.  Y.,  are  large  onion  growers, 
and  they  recommend  the  use  of  super- 
phosphate and  nitrate  of  soda  for  onions 
and  other  garden  crops.  In  their  new 
catalogue  for  1888  they  give  directions 
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to  support;  he  deals  with  facts  as  he  finds  them:  he 
forllQes  bis  assertions  by  arrays  of  demonstrative 
statistics.  The  work  Is  among  the  best  of  the  kind 
If  It  Is  not  the  best  that  we  have  seen.  While  It  li 
scarcely  possible  for  It  to  be  put  In  the  hands  of  all 
our  wage-workers,  we  wish  It  could  be  read  by  every 
one  of  them."— Chicago  interior. 

Extra  Cloth  60o.,  Paper  SOe. 

Address.  W.  I.  PHILLIPS, 

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THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


Fkbrtjart  16, 1888 


N7WS  OF  The  Week 

CHIOAGO. 

The  papers  report  a  pitiful  case  of  sick- 
ness and  destitution  in  the  outskirts  of 
the  city.  A  carpenter  long  sick  and  un- 
able to  support  a  family  of  eight  was 
found  with  them  in  a  starving  condition 
last  week.  Relief  was  immediately  furn- 
ished the  unfortunate  but  worthy  family, 
but  not  from  the  secret  "charitable  or- 
ders . " 

Work  on  a  new  water  tunnel  for  the 
supply  of  the  city  was  begun  Dec.  15th. 
A  shaft  was  sunk  75  feet  when  quicksand 
flowed  in  and  half  tilled  it.  At  ihe  depth 
of  90  feet  three  tunnels  will  start:  one 
to  go  out  four  miles  under  the  lake,  and 
two  others  to  pumping  works,  one  to  the 
south  and  one  west  under  the  river,  each 
a  mile  long. 

The  festival  of  the  Music  Teachers' 
National  Association,  to  be  given  next 
July  at  the  Exposition  Building  under 
the  direction  of  Theodore  ThomaS;  is 
awakening  considerable  interest.  Re- 
hearsals will  begin  on  Monday  evening, 
March  19. 

The  Cooke  Brewery  Company  has 
nearly  completed  their  machinery  for 
utilizing  the  flow  of  natural  gas.  No 
doubt  is  entertained  as  to  the  continuity  I 
of  the  flow,  and  the  gas  will  soon  be  ap- 
plied for  practical  purposes. 
The  murder  of  A .  J.  Snell,  a  well  known 
and  very  wealthy  real  estate  owner  on 
the  West  Side  last  week,  gave  a  shock  to 
the  city.  Two  burglars  broke  into  his 
house,  robbed  the  safe  in  the  basement, 
and  were  ransacking  the  parlors  when 
discovered  by  Mr.  Saell.  They  shot  him 
dead  and  escaped.  There  is  abundant 
condemnation  of  the  police  management 
which  has  changed  hands  from  corrupt 
Democratic  politicians  to  Republican, 
nearly  as  bad. 

COUNTRY. 

Dakota's  lowest  temperature  in  five 
years  was  reached  yesterday — 56  degrees 
below  zero  at  Pembina, 

The  packing-house  of  Dupont's  pow- 
der works,  near  Wilkesbarre,  Pa.,  ex- 
ploded with  a  terrific  shock  this  forenoon, 
demolishing  the  building  and  killing  four 
men. 

Mrs.  Sarah  J.  Robinson,  charged  with 
having  caused  the  death  of  several  mem- 
bers of  her  family  with  poison,  who  has 
been  on  trial  in  Boston,  was  to  day  de- 
clared "guilty  of  murder  in  the  first  de- 
gree." 

Four  frame  dwellings  at  Kutztown, 
Pa.,  were  totally  destroyed  by  fire  Thurs- 
day morning,  and  John  Hopp  and  his 
daughter,  aged  fifteen  years,  and  a  son 
aged  nine  years,  were  burned  to  death. 
The  houses  were  occupied  by  four  fami- 
lies and  several  were  severely  burned. 
All  of  them  suffered  intensely  from  the 
extreme  cold  while  seeking  shelter.  It  is 
thought  that  the  fire  was  caused  by  Hopp, 
who  was  intoxicated. 

An  explosion  in  the  Dupont  Powder 
Works  at  Wapwallopin,  Pa.,  Friday  fore- 
noon, blew  four  men  to  pieces  and 
wounded  forty  others,  a  dozen  of  whom 
are  not  expected  to  recover.  Nearly  every 
building  in  the  place  was  wrecked,  and 
for  miles  around  the  effect  of  the  detona- 
tion was  felt.  Chimneys  fell  from  houses 
at  Nanticoke  and  Wanamic,  and  children 
ran  shrieking  from  the  school  buildings. 
Almost  every  window  in  Shickshenny 
was  smashed,  and  citizens  were  thrown 
to  the  ground  by  the  shock. 

Concerning  the  loss  of  life  in  the  re- 
cent storm,  Railroad  Commissioner  N.  T. 
Smith  of  Dakota  says:  "As  far  as  learned 
the  following  is  an  authentic  summary  of 
the  loss  of  life  in  the  recent  storm:  Beadle 
county,  9;  Bonhomme,  19;  Codington,  3; 
Jerauld,  6;  Clark,  2;  Edmunds,  6;  Brown, 
5;  Baud,  7;  Kingsbury,  3;  Lincoln,  29; 
Spink,  4;  Turner,  18;  Yankton,  3;  total, 
114." 

Two  men  were  digging  up  some  dyna- 
mite, which  had  been  buried  to  protect 
it  until  wanted  to  use  in  a  gas  well  near 
Bellcvue,  Ohio,  Friday,  when  one  of 
them  struck  the  explosive  material  with 
his  pick.  The  explosion  instantly  killed 
the  two  men,  and  caused  such  a  shock  as 
to  suggest  an  earthquake  at  Tiffin,  San- 
dusky, Put-in-Bay,  and  other  points  in 
that  locality. 

The  explosion  of  the  boiler  of  a  trac- 
tion engine  in  the  woods  in  Liberty  town- 
ship,  near  Wabash,   Ind.,  Friday  after- 


noon, caused  the  death  of  three  men,  all 
frightfully  mutilated  by  flying  iron. 

FOBBIGH. 

The  peace  with  whichBismarck's  speech 
of  last  week  invested  the  European  situ- 
ation, says  the  Inter  Ocean,  has  passed 
away;  it  is  now  believed  that  there  was 
really  nothing  pacific  in  it  beyond  leav 
ing  the  Czar  the  alternative  of  peace  or 
war.  If  the  Berlin  official  press  were 
not  bridled,  its  opinion  on  the  situation 
would  be  found  to  concur  in  Russia's  con- 
victions that  war  is  inevitable  The  sin- 
cerity of  the  Czar's  desire  for  peace  is 
not  doubted,  but  it  is  known  that  influ- 
ences surround  him  and  he  is  unable  to 
withstand  the  pressure  in  the  direction  of 
war.  The  ostentatious  efforts  of  the 
Berlin  and  Vienna  governments  at  recon- 
ciliation are  taken  at  their  face  value. 
Military  activity  continues  in  full  swing 
on  every  side.  The  most  significant  feat- 
ure on  the  German  side  is  the  extension 
of  the  strategic  railways  on  the  eastern 
frontier. 

Bismarck's  triumph  on  the  military  bill 
resulted  in  weakening  the  opposition 
spirit,  and  adding  to  the  cohesion  of  the 
government  groups  on  other  questions. 
The  only  check  the  government  has  sus- 
tained has  been  on  the  anti-socialist  bill. 
Socialists  throughout  the  country  are,  in 
consequence,  celebrating  the  event.  At 
Stettin,  Qrabout,  and  Altdam  a  minor 
state  of  siege  prevails  under  the  socialist 
laws.  An  attempt  was  made  to  assassin- 
ate Police  Commissary  Hempel  at  Wal- 
steim.  Several  arrests  have  been  made 
in  connection  with  the  shooting.  One 
ball  pierced  the  Commissary  in  the  right 
knee. 

Within  his  own  circle  the  Czar  eulo- 
gizes Bismarck's  speech.  Official  opinion 
holds  that  the  Chancellor's  words  and 
diplomacy  are  irreconcilable.  In  the  eyes 
of  the  Czar's  advisers  the  Austro-Hunga- 
rian  league  of  peace  continues  to  be  an 
offensive  allegiance  against  Russia.  A 
counter-alliance  to  this  league  is  urged. 

An  avalanche  which  occurred  on  the 
line  of  the  Arlberg  railway  buried  the 
Laugen  Station  and  a  mail  train.  Two 
thousand  men  are  at  work  attempting  to 
rescue  the  imprisoned  persons.  Two 
large  avalanches  have  blocked  a  tunnel 
on  the  line,  and  it  will  probably  be  a 
week  before  it  is  again  opened,  despite 
the  efforts  of  a  large  number  of  the  troops 
and  workmen  who  are  engaged  in  remov- 
ing the  snow. 

The  German  Crown  Prince,  who  had 
a  surgical  operation  performed  on  his 
throat  Thursday,  was  reported  to  be  "un- 
easy and  feverish"  the  next  day,  but  bet- 
ter Saturday. 

The  government  police  in  London  are 
making  arrests  in  that  city  of  Irish  Na- 
tionalist members  of  Parliament,  accused 
of  violating  the  law  against  the  home-rule 
agitation. 


8PIKB  THBIR  QUN8. 

A  few  dollars  expended  in  purchasing 
tracts  and  scattering  them  about  through 
the  community  will  perhaps  do  more  to 
spike  the  guns  of  noisy  secretists  than 
anything  else  that  could  be  suggested. 
Men  have  heard  the  lodges  praised  so 
often  and  so  boldly,  that  they  have  come 
to  believe  that  they  are  what  they  pro- 
fess to  be.  It  is  high  time  that  the  war  is 
carried  intoAfrica  itself.  This  is  the  work 
which  the  N.  C.  A.  has  in  view,  and 
would  be  glad  to  push  forward  in  every 
quarter  of  the  land .  Who  will  help  to 
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various  movements  of  the  lodge  as  they  appear  to  public  view, 
and  reveals  the  secret  machinery  of  corruption  In  politics, 
courts,  and  social  and  religious  circles. 

There  are  In  the  United  States 

Some  200  different  Lodges, 
With  2,000.000  members. 
Costing  $20,000,000  yearly. 

This  mighty  world  power  confronts  the  church  and  seeks  to 
rule  and  ruin  every  Christian  Reform. 

No  Christian  Reform  Movement  of  the  day  Is  so  necessary, 
yet  so  unpopular  and  beset  with  difficulties,  as  that  which  would 
remove  the  dark  pall  of  oaths,  dark-lantern  meetings,  secret 
signs,  mysterious  and  pagan  worship  about  altars  conde^jned 
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CONTENTS. 


Editorial  : 

Notes  and  Comments 

Editorial  Correspondence. 

Gover.  inent  Secrecy 

State  Rights  and  Secret- 
Ism  

Personal  Mention 

CONTKIBDTIONS  : 

The    Fls>ierman'8  Dream 

(poetry) 

A  Clerical  Secret  Society. 
An  Outside  View   of  Se- 
cret Societies  -  IV 

Vote  as  you  Pray 

Selected : 
The   United  Presbyterian 
Liberal   Party  and  the 

Lodge 

Apostate  Christians,  the 
Lodge  can  Save  you  — 

Press  Comment 

Secret  EMriRE: 
Patriotic  Order  of  the  Sons 

of  America 

New  Youk  Lettek 

Washington  Letter. 


Rbpobm  News  : 
From  the  General  Agent ; 
AVhat    of    the    Night, 
Ohio? 5 

CORRBSPONDBNOB  • 

An  Encouraging  Fact;Re- 
form  Notes;  A  Word  of 
Advice  to  Honest  Ma- 
sons; Nebraska  Colleg- 
es need  Help ;  Pith  and 

Point 5,6 

Bible  Lbsson 7 

Obituauy 7 

Tbb  N.  C.  a 7 

Lecture  List 7 

Church  vs.  Lodge 7 

The  Homb 10 

Temperance H 

Religious  Nbws 12 

Literature 12 

LODGE  Notes 13 

Markets 13 

Business 13 

Home  and  Health 14 

In  Brief 15 

Nawa  op  tbb  Wbbk 16 


Judge  Noonan  of  St.  Louis  has  given  a  decision 
which  will  be  music  to  the  ears  of  the  numerous 
secret  society  treasurers  who  are  expecting  to  de- 
camp with  the  funds  of  their  lodges.  The  Iron  Hall 
is  a  secret  insurance  order  with  headquarters  in  In- 
dianapolis. Suit  was  brought  in  St.  Louis  to  de- 
termine whether  it  should  be  subject  to  the  insur- 
ance laws  which  govern  the  open  organizations  in 
the  same  business.  Judge  Noonan  decides  the 
lodge  not  subject  to  law— in  fact,  so  far  as  their 
principal  business  is  concerned  they  are  lawless 
bodies.  The  secret  organizations  claim  a  great  vic- 
tory. Their  joy  only  betrays  their  evil  nature. 
None  but  blacklegs  and  thieves  should  be  plessed 
with  such  a  condition  so  long  as  laws  are  just  and 
wise. 


An  encouraging  evidence  that  the  intelligent 
people  of  the  country  are  awake  to  the  menace  of 
statehood  for  Mormondom  is  seen  in  the  very  able 
discussions  of  the  system  in  the  public  press.  Ten 
or  twelve  years  ago  the  objection  of  polygamy  was 
paramount.  We  are  coming  to  know  that  that  fea- 
ture of  the  Mormon  system  is  not  the  fundamental 
difficulty,  but  the  domination  of  a  priesthood  over  a 
degraded  and  bigoted  people  sworn  to  obedience  or 
death  by  the  lodge  oaths  of  the  Endowment  House. 
A  paper  in  the  Congregationnlist  of  Boston,  by  Rev. 
M.  W.  Montgomery,  of  Minneapolis,  is  one  of  the 
notable  contributions  to  this  discussion.  So  are 
also  Rev.  R,  G.  McNiece's  paper  in  Our  Day  for 
January,  and  two  articles  in  the  Inlcrior  of  February 
2,  on  "Statehood  for  Utah,"  and  "Mormonism  as  an 
Ecclesiastical  Power." 


The  press  reports  that  anarchists  are  renewing 
their  organization  and  effort  in  this  city.  Some 
three  weeks  ago  a  group  met  in  the  back  room  of  a 
saloon  on  Clybourne  avenue  on  the  North  Side, 
which  will  hold  secret  meetings  regularly.  On  a  Sab- 
bath still  later,  another  group  was  formed  in  a  sa- 
loon in  the  southwest  part  of  the  city.  Another 
group  was  formed  the  same  day  which  will  hold 
open  meetings  for  public  discussion  and  meet  in  se- 
cret to  transact  their  business.  All  these  groups 
have  united  in  putting  forth  a  circular  which  begins: 
"The  blood  of  our  innocent  brothers  slain  in  Chi- 
cago crieth  from  the  ground,"  and  closes  with  an 
appeal  to  "Be  ready  when  the  trumpet-call  of  the 
revolution  sounds  the  signal."  It  is  also  reported 
that  one  of  the  most  prominent  of  European  anarch- 
ists, an  Englishman  whose  real  name  is  secret,  is 
coming  to  Chicago  to  take  editorial  charge  of 
August  Spies'  paper,  the  Arbiter  Z^itung,  which  was 
the  headquarters  of  conspiracy  before  the  4th  of 
May  massacre.  He  proposes  to  make  the  sheet 
the  organ  of  the  most  advanced  revolutionary 
ideas,  and  will  keep  out  of  a  quarrel  with  the  police 
as  long  as  he  can.  All  good  citizens  will  hope  this 
may  not  be  long.  These  men  will  find  that  Mayor 
Harrison  is  no  longer  ruler  in  Chicago,  and  we  hope 
the  city  may  never  know  his  like  again. 


Daniel  E.  Sickles,  whose  name  first  became  a 
household  word  because  of  a  bloody  tragedy  in 
Washington,  and  afterward  through  his  valor  and 
skill  as  a  Union  General,  is  now  an  old  man.  His 
judgment  has  been  matured  by  wide  observation, 
and  the  fervor  of  his  political  zeal  tempered  by  ex- 
perience. He  was  first  a  Democrat,  after  the  war  a 
Republican,  and  in  1884  he  voted  for  Cleveland.  A 
few  days  ago  he  is  said  to  have  made  the  following 
statement:  "The  war  of  the  rebellion  was  really  a 
whisky  war.  Yes,  whisky  caused  the  rebellion  1  I 
was  in  the  Congress  preceding  the  war.  It  was 
whisky  in  the  morning — the  morning  cocktail — aCon- 
gress  of  whisky-drinkers.  Then  whisky  all  day; 
whisky  and  gambling  all  night.  Drinks  before  Con- 
gress opened  its  morning  session,  drinks  before  it 
adjourned.  Scarcely  a  committee  room  without  its 
demijohn  of  whisky,  and  the  clink  of  the  glasses 
could  be  heard  in  the  Capitol  corridors.  The  fights 
— the  angry  speeches — were  whisky.  The  atmos- 
phere was  redolent  with  whisky — nervous  excite- 
ment seeking  relief  in  whisky,  and  whisky  adding 
to  nervous  excitement.  Yes,  the  rebellion  was 
launched  in  whisky.  If  the  French  Assembly  were 
to  drink  some  morning  one  half  the  whisky  con- 
sumed in  any  one  day  by  that  Congress,  France 
would  declare  war  against  Germany  in  twenty  min- 
utes." 


The  case  of  the  German  Crown  Prince  Frederick 
William,  at  San  Remo,  became  more  serious  some 
days  ago,  and  his  physicians  were  constrained  to 
perform  the  difficult  operation  of  tracheotomy,  or 
the  insertion  of  a  silver  tube  in  the  wind-pipe  to  al- 
low proper  breathing.  The  patient  is  doing  well 
under  their  treatment.  The  London  Illustrated 
News  has  for  some  weeks  had  an  artist  correspond- 
ent at  San  Remo,  whose  sketches  are  of  great  inter- 
est, because  of  the  importance  of  the  health  of  the 
Pritice  to  Germany  and  the  peace  of  Europe.  A  wri- 
ter in  the  forthcoming  March  Century  is  of  a  differ 
ent  opinion  respecting  the  intiuence  of  Bismarck  in 
the  case  of  the  accession  of  Frederick  William.  The 
popular  impression  is  that  his  wife,  Victoria  of  Eng- 
land, would  supercede  the  old  Chancellor  with  a  con- 
stitutional government  and  an  era  of  peace.  The  Cen- 
tury writer  is  of  the  opinion  that  so  long  as  Bis- 
marck is  Chancellor, — that  is,  so  long  as  he  lives, 
for  no  new  Kaiser  will  be  likely  to  take  the  respon- 
sibility of  displacing  him, — things  will  probably 
continue  to  run  in  the  accustomed  course.  A  ques- 
tion for  Germany  is,  who  or  what  is  there  to  replace 
Bismarck  when  he  too  disappears?  There  is  no 
minister  living  whose  measures  have  been  so  often 
defeated  in  Parliament  as  Bismarck's;  but  as  he  is 
responsible  only  to  the  King  and  Kaiser,  the  Ger- 
man Parliament  cannot  drive  him  from  office  by  any 
direct  or  implied  vote  of  want  of  confidence. 


THB  FianERMAlTB  DREAM. 


BT  THB  LATE  GEN.  J.  W.  PHELPS. 


The  rocks  are  Imaged  in  the  lake ; 
Nor  winds  nor  waves  the  silence  break ; 
White  cities  o'er  the  waters  gleam. 
And  nature's  self  seems  in  a  dream. 
As  dreaming  there  a  fisher  lay. 
Who'd  caught  no  flsh  the  live-long  day. 

Around  from  every  hill  and  elen 
Rose  mem'rles  of  heroic  men ; 
And  grandly  towering  over  all, 
A  moantaln  like  a  pedestal, 
Had  borne  a  monarch  to  the  skies, 
A  nation's  solemn  sacrifice. 

But  with  high  deeds  the  hero  now 

No  longer  wreath'd  that  mountain's  brow ; 

For  In  God's  heritage  so  fair. 

The  cunning  fox  had  made  his  lair, 

And  altar  fires  lay  cold  and  dead 

Beneath  the  foreign  conq'ror's  tread. 

The  dreamer  saw  a  form  appear 
From  out  the  waters,  and  draw  near; 
It  stopp'd  before  him  on  the  bea:h, 
A  cloud  in  shape,  a  man  In  speech, 
And  said  "Awake  I  and  follow  me, 
And  cast  your  net  In  life's  deep  sea." 

Three  fishers  rose  and  followed  on. 

Through  the  bright  fields  of  air  and  sun, 

Till  on  a  pedestil  they  st  nd 

High  o'er  a  siu-accursed  land ; 

And  there  the  cloud  in  words  of  grace 

With  other  clouds  talked  face  to  face. 

And  as  they  fell  like  drops  of  rain 
Those  gracious  words  on  vines  and  grain, 
These  ripen'd  into  wine  and  bread 
On  which  all  famlsh'd  souls  are  fed; 
And  death,  uprising  from  its  shroud, 
For  life  immortal  blessed  the  cloud. 

Not  in  dew  alone  or  shower 
Fell  those  gracious  words  of  power; 
Against  a  crag  its  side  was  rent, 
Wherefrom  its  very  life  was  spent  : 
Still  glowing  in  Immortal  day 
And  blessing  still  it  passed  away. 

The  fisher  woke ;  and  near  him  stood 
A  cloud-like  Image  oflE'ring  food ; 
For  lo !  live  coals  were  at  Its  feet 
And  on  them  fish  enough  to  eat. 
Nay,  not  enough  alone,  but  more ; 
The  net  when  cast  came  full  to  shore. 

Yea,  full  before  the  fisher's  sight 
There  stood  the  cloud  of  Horeb's  height,— 
The  cloud  baptismal  that  had  glow'd 
To  show  escaping  slaves  the  road. 
The  same  that  filled  the  temple  when 
God's  fire  came  down  to  dwell  with  men. 

The  fisher  was  awake  at  last ; 
The  dawn  had  come  and  night  was  past; 
Strange  was  the  vision,  strange  as  true. 
That  vanished  from  his  waking  view; 
But  stranger  still,  that  morning  dream. 
Made  all  things  else  unreal  seem. 


A  CLERICAL  SECRET  aOCIETT. 
BY  aSV.  JOHN  BOYIS. 

A  curious  secret  society  is  in  course  of  formation 
among  the  English  clergy  for  the  supply  of  written 
or  lithographed  sermons.  Many  laymen  envy  the 
privilege  of  the  preacher— that  is,  articulate  laymen, 
who  are  charmed  with  the  music  of  their  own  voice' 
and  who  look  upon  the  pulpit  with  the  same  feel- 
ings as  the  excluded  Peri  looked  upon  Paradise. 
No  secular  rostrum,  no  platform  to  which  the  average 
speaker  can  lay  claim,  can  compare  with  the  pulpit, 
for  there  the  speaker  has  all  his  own  way.  The  ser- 
mon lime,  with  its  enforced  armistice  of  controversy, 
with  the  triumph  of  one  side  taken  for  granted,  must 
be  to  many  an  enviable  position.  The  members  of 
our  congregations  are  forbidden  by  a  spirit  of  de- 
corum from  interruption  and  from  going  away  be- 
fore the  sermon  is  finished. 

There  are  many  cases,  however,  where  the  clergy 
get  tired  of  this  weekly  drain  upon  their  resources* 


'2 


THE  CHRISTIAN"  CYNOSURE. 


Fbbbuary  23, 1888 


occasionally,  because  the  people  complain  of  the 
sameness  of  the  sermons  and  want  of  something 
fresher  and  more  inspiring.  For  the  relief  of  these 
tired,  dull,  or  idle  clerics,  a  variety  of  expedients 
have  been  adopted,  and  among  others  the  buying  of 
sermons.  A  friend  of  ours,  some  time  ago  when  in 
London,  called  to  see  an  old  school-fellow  who  was 
manager  of  a  sermon  repository.  The  postman 
called  with  a  number  of  letters,  when  the  manager 
shortly  said  to  our  friend,  "Just  listen  to  this,  it  is 
from  a  clergyman:  'Dear  Sir: — Send  me  by  return 
of  post  one  dozen  lithographed  sermons,  light,  and 
airy,  suitable  for  these  hot  afternoons.'  " 

Serious  objections  have  been  offered  to  this  cus- 
tom, for  it  has  occasionally  happened  that  several 
neighboring  clergymen  have  been  supplied  with  the 
same  sermons,  which  has  given  rise  to  the  suspicion 
that  they  have  been  stealing  from  the  same  place. 
A  case  has  been  furnished  where  three  clergymen 
who  were  supplying  a  vacant  pulpit  preached  the 
same  sermon  in  the  same  pulpit  on  successive  Sab- 
baths. When  the  text  was  announced  the  third  day, 
the  clerk,  who  could  bear  it  no  longer,  interrupted 
the  clerical  orator  with  the  words,  "Nay,  sir,  let's 
have  summat  fresh,  for  we're  not  half  as  bad  as  ye 
think  we  are." 

This  new  society  offers  for  the  modest  sum  of  five 
shillings  per  year  to  supply  monthly  packets  of  four 
Sermcna  Corpora.  These  skeletons  are  not  intended 
to  be  preached  as  they  stand,  though  they  may  be 
in  an  extremity.  Still  the  composition  is  to  be 
treated  as  a  framework.  The  manuscript  will  have 
alternate  pages  blank  for  any  remarks  of  the  preach- 
er. These  outlines  will  not  contain  any  doctrinal 
or  disputable  matter,  but  simply  be  "useful,  prac- 
tical, church  sermons."  The  blank  pages  may  be 
utilized  for  all  special  teaching.  The  same  frame- 
work may  be  used  for  the  setting  forth  of  views  ac- 
cording to  the  ecclesiastical  leanings  of  the  preacher. 

A  curious  and  interesting  aspect  is  the  elaborate 
precautions  to  be  taken  for  the  prevention  of  detec- 
tion in  the  use  of  these  skeletons.  Circulars  will  be 
sent  to  a  certain  number  of  clergymen  in  each  dio- 
cese— only  one  in  a  given  locality — and  time  allowed 
for  a  reply  before  sending  to  any  one  else.  The 
first  applicant  from  each  district  will  be  entered  as 
a  subfecriber,  and  on  no  account  will  any  other  from 
that  district  be  entered.  The  extreme  secrecy  of  the 
movement  is  an  acknowledgment  that  something  is 
wrong  in  the  system.  It  is  difficult  and  perhaps 
impossible  for  the  average  clergyman  to  furnish  one 
or  two  fresh  and  original  discourses  per  week,  on 
the  duties,  difiJculties,  dangers  and  helps  of  the 
Christian  life.  But  where  is  the  need  of  the  secre- 
cy? Why  not  borrow  openly  instead  of  secretly, 
and  good  sermons  instead  of  bad  ones?  The  treas- 
ure-house of  pulpit  literature  is  well  stocked  with 
sermons  of  the  highest  rank,  sermons  that  have  in 
them  a  perennial  freshness,  and  which  the  onward 
flow  of  the  ages  will  never  make  old. 

Hudderifidd,  Eng.,  Jan.,  1888. 


AN  0VT8IDB  VIEW  OF  8SCRBT  800IBTIB8. 


BT  PaOF.  W.  J.  COLEMAN. 


IV. — THEIR  BEOTHEBLY  LOVE. 

These  secret  societies  present  themselves  and 
desire  to  be  considered  as  formed  for  the  pur- 
pose of  securing  brotherly  kindness  among  men. 
They  call  one  another  brother,  comrade  and  com- 
panion, and  talk  of  the  bonds  of  fraternal  union. 
The  orators  of  these  orders  urge  upon  the  public 
the  benefits  to  be  obtained  by  joining  this  commu- 
nity of  "brothers  true,"  because  they  are  filled  with 
such  loyalty  to  one  another  that  a  member  will  sel- 
dom lack  for  aid  in  time  of  need.  If  a  man  is 
going  on  a  journey,  he  is  exhorted  to  join  because 
his  badge  or  grip  will  find  him  friends  whenever  he 
goes.  If  he  is  starting  in  business,  he  is  urged  to 
join  because  these  secret  order  men  will  patronize 
their  own  people.  It  will  secure  him  customers  to 
belong  to  this  society.  If  a  man  is  about  to  enlist 
in  the  army,  he  is  invited  to  join,  because  if  he  is 
captured  by  the  enemy,  some  "brother"  there  will 
help  him. 

After  some  years  of  absence  from  a  town  in 
which  I  had  attended  school,  I  returned,  and  while 
in  conversation  with  an  old  schoolmate  who  had  en- 
tered on  the  practice  of  law,  I  noticed  the  square 
and  compass  on  his  coat,  and  said,  "So  you  belong 
to  the  Masons?" 

"Yes,"  he  answered,  a  little  reluctantly. 

"1  thought  that  you  were  too  sensible  a  man  to  do 
that,"  said  I;  and  he  answered,  "As  a  lawyer,  I  of 
course  have  some  political  aspirations,  and  there  is 
no  use  of  a  man  who  is  not  a  Mason  trying  to  get 
anything  in  politics  in  this  town."  | 


A  young  man  of  my  acquaintance  went  to  a 
physician  for  some  medicine  for  a  cold.  He  came 
home  full  of  life.  After  taking  one  dose  of  the 
medicine  he  fell  into  a  stupor,  and  after  the  second 
dose,  given  an  hour  later,  he  died.  He  was  a 
strong,  hearty  man  at  nine  o'clock,  and  a  corpse  at 
eleven  the  same  evening.  The  medicine  was  found 
to  be  so  strong  with  aconite  that  a  man  in  perfect 
health  who  touched  it  with  the  end  of  his  tongue, 
lost  the  power  of  speech  for  several  minutes.  Af- 
ter the  coroner's  jury  were  impanneled  the  doctor 
and  hio  counsel  came  to  attend  the  investigation. 
This  jury  which  consisted  in  part  of  Masons  was 
soon  discharged  and  a  second  impanneled  which 
consisted  wholly  of  Masons,  and  the  doctor  was 
cleared.  Owing  to  the  obstructions  which  were 
raised  on  every  hand,  it  was  found  impossible  to 
get  the  case  before  the  courts. 

Among  the  illustrations  of  the  brotherly  kind- 
ness of  the  secret  orders,  as  told  by  Masonic  ora- 
tors, are  the  following  incidents:  A  Union  soldier, 
taken  prisoner  by  Mosby,  was  chosen  along  with  sev- 
eral others  to  be  shot  in  retaliation  for  some  al- 
leged unjust  executions  on  the  part  of  Union  offi- 
cers. The  condemned  prisoner  made  the  sign  of 
distress  to  his  confederate  guard,  and  soon  he  was 
removed  from  the  number  to  be  shot  and  another 
was  substituted  in  his  place.  This  was  the  effect  of 
the  brotherly  kindness  of  his  order.  Again,  when 
railroads  were  new  in  the  country  and  the  western 
termini  were  great  points  for  the  shipping  of  grain, 
thirty-seven  teams  were  waiting  at  one  time  to  have 
loads  accepted  and  taken  by  the  dealer,  when  a  Ma- 
son came  behind.  Soon  he  gave  the  sign  to  the 
buyer  who  was  also  one  of  the  brethren,  and  all 
those  before  had  to  wait  while  the  ^ain  of  the  Ma- 
son was  received  out  of  its  turn.  This  is  a  chosen 
illustration  of  the  brotherly  character  of  the  lodge. 

The  point  in  all  this  is  that  the  members  of  these 
lodges  reject  all  claims  to  fair  and  honest  dealing, 
as  founded  on  a  common  humanity;  reject  all  claim 
to  brotherhood  in  that  all  men  are  men  and  worthy 
of  fair  treatment;  turn  aside  from  the  law  of  God 
who  is  the  Father  of  us  all,  and  with  a  partiality 
the  motive  of  which  is  generally  carefully  concealed 
at  the  time,  defrauds  other  men  of  their  rights  in 
order  to  help  a  brother  in  the  lodge.  Instead  of 
bringing  in  the  era  of  brotherly  kind- 
ness, it  brings  in  the  era  of  systematic 
and  deliberate  partiality.  Instead  of  seeking 
to  unite  our  race  by  deeds  of  mutual  love, 
it  plans  to  sacrifice  the  general  interests  of  hu- 
manity to  the  advantage  of  brethren  in  the  lodge. 
By  it  men  aim  to  gain  and  hold  positions  not  on 
worth  or  skill,  but  on  the  fact  that  they  have  gone 
through  a  certain  initiation.  Its  final  result  is  not 
the  introduction  of  a  general  reign  of  brotherly 
kindness,  but  to  form  a  secret  conspiracy  of  selfish- 
ness. Take  their  own  argument.  Thirty -seven  men 
stood  back  while  one  man,  a  Mason,  who  came  later, 
had  his  wheat  unloaded.  It  was  an  unjust  act,  and 
it  showed  meanness  on  the  part  both  of  the  one 
that  gave  the  favor  and  of  the  one  that  received  it. 
And  that  man  who  gave  the  hailing  sign  of  distress 
to  a  brother  Mason  who  was  a  guerilla  and  had  his 
brother  soldier  shot  in  his  place,  what  kind  of  a 
man  was  he?  But  if  any  man  is  unjust  and  selfish 
in  his  heart  and  does  not  care  how  he  gains  the  ad- 
vantage, if  so  be  that  he  may  get  it,  then  this  is  the 
very  kind  of  brotherly  kindness  that  will  suit  him. 
For  this  reason  it  may  often  be  that  an  exposure  of 
the  nature  of  these  orders  will  increase  their  mem- 
bership, for  while  one  unselfish  Christian  man  may 
come  out  of  them,  two  selfish  men  may  be  found 
who  will  say,  "Well,  if  all  this  is  so,  that  they  hold 
to  one  another  regardless  of  the  rights  of  others, 
that  is  the  very  thing  for  me;  I'll  join."  Our  appeal 
is  to  Christians,  to  those  who  try  to  love  their 
neighbor  as  themselves,  who  do  not  want  an  unfair 
advantage  over  any  one  and  who  do  not  want  to 
give  such  advantage  to  another.  We  appeal  to  the 
man  who  believes  in  the  Lord  Jesus  Christ,  who 
came  not  to  be  ministered  unto,  but  to  minister;  to 
the  man  who  trys  to  do  to  others  as  he  wishes 
others  to  do  to  him,  and  we  beseech  him  to  study 
the  quality  of  this  brotherly  kindness.  Is  it  ac- 
cording to  the  example  of  Christ  and  the  command 
of  God?  If  it  is  not,  then  the  lodge  is  no  place  for 
him.  Its  brotherhood  is  not  his  brotherhood  and 
its  kindness  is  not  his  kindness.  As  a  secret  mo- 
nopoly, seeking  to  grasp  to  itself  all  of  this  world, 
he  can  have  no  sympathy  with  it.  As  an  underhand 
plan  to  push  selfish  interests,  that  works  in  the 
dark  and  fights  all  investigation,  he,  as  a  child  of 
the  light  and  of  the  day,  will  bear  faithful  testimony 
against  it.  No,  it  is  not  in  the  lodge  room  that  men 
learn  of  the  power  of  that  love  that  fulfills  the 
whole  law. 

Geneva  College,  Pa. 


VOTB  AS  TOU  PBAT. 


BY  M.  N.    BUTLBB. 


The  secret  lodge  question  is  the  greatest  problem 
of  the  century.  No  other  has  stirred,  is  stirring, 
and  will  stir  the  American  people  like  it.  The  dis- 
cussion is  everywhere.  People  see  and  feel  the  all- 
pervading  influence  of  oath-bound  lodgery.  A  few 
still  roll  up  their  eyes  like  ducks  in  a  thunder 
storm,  when  the  preacher  mentions  secret  societies 
in  the  pulpit,  and  we  blush  that  there  are  some  so- 
called  ministers  of  the  Gospel  so  far  fallen  that  they 
attempt  to  justify  organized  secretism  by  the  Bible. 
So  it  was  a  few  years  ago  when  slavery  was  preached 
from  the  pulpit  and  backed  by  Bible  proof.  God 
pity  such  moral  monstrosities.  The  same  theologi- 
cal sophistry  that  would  justify  human  slavery  and 
drunkard-making  would  doubtless  justify  Mormon 
polygamy  and  secret  societies.  Such  religious 
teachers  will  bear  watching.  They  pray  God's  will 
to  be  done  on  earth  as  it  is  in  heaven,  then  they  go 
to  the  polls  and  vote  their  old  party  tickets  from 
"dogpelter"  to  "Beelzsbub." 

A  man  may  be  a  patriot  and  not  a  Christian,  but 
the  Christian  who  is  not  a  patriot  is  a  sham.  Can 
any  Christian  tell  us  why  he  is  a  Republican  or  a 
Democrat?  Is  there  any  real  difference  between 
the  old  parties?  There  was  a  time  when  there  was  a 
difference.  It  was  before  the  war  during  the  sla- 
very agitation;  it  was  during  the  rebellion  when  the 
loyal  blood  was  flowing  in  rivers;  it  was  after  the 
war  during  reconstruction.  But  for  the  last  six- 
teen years  where  is  the  difference?  Don't  they 
agree  on  civil  service?  Are  they  not  the  same  to- 
ward polygamy?  Both  are  badly  split  up  on  the 
tariff  question  and  both  agree  that  John  Chinaman 
must  go.  If  John  was  a  voter  both  old  parties 
would  be  down  on  their  knees  in  dirt  begging  him 
to  stay. 

For  the  most  part  are  not  the  old  party  platforms 
idle  harangues  on  dead  issues?  They  change  base 
so  often,  that  to  change  headings  and  dates,  he  is  a 
smart  man,  who  can  tell  one  from  th'e  other.  Their 
motto  seems  to  be  to  pay  no  attention  to  the  essen- 
tials, dwell  largely  on  the  non-essentials,  and  give 
it  to  the  Prohibitionists.  You  will  notice  that  often 
the  same  party  in  one  State  does  not  agree  with  itself 
another.  For  instance,  not  long  since  the  Iowa 
Republicans  were  howling  themselves  hoarse  on 
temperance,  a  stalwart  administration  at  Washing- 
ton was  sitting  down  to  a  dozen  kinds  of  wine,  and  a 
Republican  Congress  adjourning  in  a  big  Sunday 
drunk;  so  drunk  that  if  newspapers  chronicle  the 
truth  the  little  page  boys  had  to  lead  drunken 
Congressmen  to  and  from  halls.  In  Kansas  Green- 
backism  and  Democracy  go  hand  in  hand,  but  over 
in  Missouri  Greenbackism  and  Republicanism  are 
supposed  to  be  Siamese  twins.  North,  the  cry  is 
Ku-Kluxism,  South,  it  is  the  fatherhood  of  God  and 
the  brotherhood  of  man. 

The  politicians  come  to  us  in  dead  men's  shoes: 
they  are  always  telling  us  what  men  in  their  graves 
have  done.  They  promise  everything  and  perform 
nothing.  A  leading  Republican  to-day  is  a  Demo- 
cratic candidate  to-morrow.  A  State  went  Republi- 
can last  election  only  to  give  a  handsome  Demo- 
cratic majority  in  the  next.  Just  before  last  elec- 
tion the  Republicans  were  sure  that  if  the  Demo- 
crats went  into  power  the  rebel  war  debt  would  have 
to  be  paid,  the  negroes  would  go  back  into  bondage, 
and  the  whole  country  would  go  to  the  dogs.  Many 
pious  Republicans  believed  it  and  stood  around  for 
months  with  their  hands  in  their  pockets  expecting 
to  hear  something  burst,  and  they  have  been  howl- 
ing mad  ever  since  because  the  country  didn't  go 
to  smash.  The  Democrats  had  been  making  prom- 
ises for  twenty-four  years  and  never  expected  to 
have  to  fulfill  them.  They  would  turn  the  rascals 
out,  give  us  better  laws  and  bring  relief  and  pros- 
perity to  the  people.  To  their  astonishment  Cleve- 
land was  elected.  The  rebel  war  debt  has  not  been 
paid,  the  negroes  have  not  been  resold  and  the 
Democrats  are  carrying  out  the  same  financial 
policy  the  Republicans  inaugurated.  How  many 
bad  laws  have  been  repealed?  how  many  for  the 
relief  of  the  people  have  been  enacted? 

The  glorious  Republican  party  at  this  moment  is  a 
study  for  an  artist.  It  reminds  one  of  the  fellow 
who,  suddenly  bereft  of  his  reason,  went  about  his 
work  as  usual  to  the  astonishment  of  his  friends. 
Decapitated  chickens  have  been  known  to  strut 
around  for  a  time  and  even  try  to  crow.  Although 
the  grand  old  party  is  morally  and  politically  bank- 
rupt, yet  it  talks  and  acts  as  if  it  still  owned  and 
run  the  country.  Hon.  John  Sherman  has  a  Presi- 
dential bee  in  his  bonnet  and  is  early  in  the  field 
with  the  worn-out  cry  of  "shotgun  policy,  tissue 
ballots   and  illiteracy."      Are   not  New   York,  In- 


Fkbbuaet  23,  1888 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


diana,  and  other  doubtful  States  too  far  Morth  for 
such  argument?  The  "Plumed  Knight,"  defeated 
by  Northern  votes,  in  spite  of  a  quarter  of  a  century 
of  Republican  supremacy,  prestige  and  power  be- 
hind him,  runs  out  of  his  European  retreat  to  sound 
the  newborn  philosophy  that  "tobacco  is  a  neces- 
sity," and  approving  the  sin  tax  of  the  damnable 
liquor  traflSc. 

And  now  we  are  to  have  a  rehash  of  the  thread- 
bare tariff  twaddle.  What  is  there  in  it,  anyhow? 
Anything  that  will  turn  an  honest  man  into  a  thief, 
a  truthful  man  into  a  liar,  or  a  kind  and  loving 
father  into  a  hypocrite  or  a  brute?  Where  does  the 
Bible  say  one  word  on  civil  service,  the  tariff  or  bo- 
gus butter?  It  does  say  "woe  unto  him  that  giveth 
his  neighbor  drink,  that  puttest  thy  bottle  to  him 
and  maketh  him  drunken."  "Wine  is  a  mocker  and 
strong  drink  is  raging  and  whosoever  is  deceived 
thereby  is  not  wise."  "And  have  no  fellowship  with 
the  unfruitful  works  of  darkness  but  rather  reprove 
them."  And  so  on,  line  upon  line  and  precept  upon 
precept.  Are  you  ready  to  throw  a  ballot  right  into 
the  teeth  of  Almighty  God  by  voting  to  license 
these  evils,  by  voting  for  whisky  men  and  meas- 
ures? 

Politicians  can  no  more  rise  above  their  platforms 
than  a  stream  can  rise  above  its  fountain  head. 
Drink  the  high-licenee  Republican  whisky  and  it 
will  make  you  a  drunkard  and  send  you  to  per- 
dition. Drink  the  low-license  Democratic  whisky 
and  the  result  is  the  same.  Rev.  Sam.  P.  Small 
says  he  staid  with  the  Democratic  party  till  it  took 
him  within  one-half  mile  of  hell.  We  know  noble 
fellows  who  stayed  with  Republican  whisky  until  it 
took  them  clear  to  hell.  The  temperance  man  has 
no  choice  when  it  comes  to  the  old  parties.  They 
are  like  the  two  boys  in  Sunday-school.  One  says, 
"Jack,  where  are  you  in  the  catechism?"  "I'm  in 
original  sin.  Where  be  you,  Tom?"  "0,  I'm  way 
past  redemption."  The  Democratic  party  is  in 
original  sin.  The  Republican  party  is  about  three 
years  past  redemption.  If  it  took  the  Republican 
party  a  fourth  of  a  century  to  do  nothing  toward 
prohibition,  how  long  would  it  take  it  to  rid  the  na- 
tion of  the  rum  curse?     Ask  us  something  easy. 

Where  are  the  Christian  voters  of  America?  Do 
they  know  there  is  a  God  and  a  judgment?  Have 
the  church  people  any  individual  responsibility  to 
Almighty  God?  Is  it  not  time  to  call  a  halt?  The 
courts,  the  insurance  companies  and  the  railroads 
demand  practical  temperance.  Is  it  not  about  time 
for  the  churches  to  demand  a  practical  Christianity 
at  the  polls  instead  of  a  conniving,  tippling  follow- 
ing? 

To  the  world,  this  loose  voting  by  church  mem- 
bers is  becoming  a  stumbling  block.  May  the  elec- 
tion of  1888  find  every  orthodox  church  up  to  the 
mark.  Let  the  pension  go.  Grant  vetoed  the 
equalization  bounty  bill  and  signed  the  back  salary 
grab.  Let  Blaine,  and  Sherman  and  Allison  rage 
about  confederate  brigadiers  and  rebel  office  hold- 
ers. Who  sent  old  Mosby  to  China;  another  rebel 
as  American  minister  to  Peru;  a  third  to  Russia; 
put  Key  in  the  cabinet,  and  a  hundred  other  ex- 
rebels  into  office,  and  wound  up  by  confirming  La- 
mar? A  black  Republican  Senate.  Americans, 
stop  wallowing  in  such  party  corruption  and  insin- 
cerity. Vote  for  "God,  and  Home  and  Native 
Land,"  a  campaign  or  two. 

Darlington,  Mo. 


THS  UHITBD   PRB8B7TBR1AH  LIBERAL 
PARTY  AND  THB  LODGB. 


Will  it  continue  to  maintain  its  ascendency? 
The  answer  to  this  question  depends  much  upon 
the  skill  with  which  the  extreme  liberal  party  con- 
duct Iheir  opposition  to  the  distinctive  principles  of 
the  church.  They  will  not  boldly  assert  their  pur- 
pose at  once  to  expunge  them  from  the  standards, 
or  to  treat  them  as  a  dead  letter.  This  would  be 
to  arouse  opposition  among  themselves.  They  who 
are  set  upon  acccmplishing  a  difficult  purpose  usually 
find  opportunities  for  skillful  management.  It  is  not 
difficult  to  see  how  under  such  management  our  arti- 
cle on  secret  societies  may  become  as  useless  as  if  it 
bad  never  been  written.  The  attention  of  the 
General  Assembly  and  of  several  of  the  lower 
courts  of  the  church  has  been  directed  to  a  leading 
and  popular  secret  society  in  the  land — the  Grand 
Army  of  the  Republic.  There  is  no  cjuestion  that 
it  is  a  secret  society.  We  believe  it  is  "oath-bound." 
Whether  this  be  true  or  not,  it  is  plainly  condemned 
by  our  testimony  which  is  not  limited  to  oath-bound 
associations,  but  includes  those  who  impose  upon 
their  members  an  obligation  to  obey  a  code  of  un- 
known laws.  The  assembly  has  refused  to  say 
that  this  association  comes  under  the  ban  of  our 
testimony.    Several   lower  court-  have  taken  the 


same  position.  Ministers  and  elders  whose  busi- 
ness it  is  to  apply  the  principle  of  the  article 
against  secret  societies  have  connected  themselves 
with  the  order.  It  is  not  difficult  to  see  what  will 
be  the  result  in  regard  to  our  article,  when  its  ad- 
ministration is  so  largely  in  the  hands  of  members 
of  this  order.  Liberalism  is  doing  its  work  effectu- 
ally, and  the  great  majority  are  looking  on  with  ap- 
parent unconcern. —  Christian  InttriLctor. 


OUR  NBW  YORK  LBTTBR. 


Editor  Christian  Cynosure: — Rev.  Dr.  Mere- 
dith of  the  Tompkins  Avenue  church,  Brooklyn, 
teaches  the  Sabbath-school  lesson  in  his  own  pulpit 
every  Tuesday  evening.  His  church  is  filled  with 
teachers  from  all  parts  of  the  city  every  week.  It 
was  my  privilege  to  hear  him  last  Tuesday.  He  is 
a  perfect  master  of  the  situation.  He  carries  all  be- 
fore him.  Here  are  some  of  the  thoughts  expressed. 
We  must  never  be  childish,  but  always  childlike. 
The  church  has  got  Christ's  command,  "Be  as  little 
children,"  wrong  end  to.  The  church  has  been  say- 
ing to  the  children.  Except  you  become  old  men  and 
women  you  cannot  come  in.  The  lambs  are  left  out- 
side the  fold  to  freeze.  The  Catholic  church  takes 
care  of  its  children.  The  Protestant  church  must 
learn  this  lesson.  "It  must  needs  be  that  offences 
come."  They  are  in  the  world.  But  do  not  yield. 
Rather  lose  an  eye,a  hand,afoot,anything  most  dear, 
than  lose  your  principles  or  be  untrue  to  yourself. 

Ou  Wednesday  evening  I  heard  Rev.  Dr.  Storrs 
preach  in  his  church.  His  audience  is  the  cream  of 
the  city.  You  would  think  the  men  were  bankers 
and  the  women  principals  in  the  High  Schools.  He 
is  a  large  man,  with  massive  head,a  wonderful  com- 
mand of  language,  and  great  thoughts  to  match  it. 
He  said  we  ought  to  live  in  a  prayerful  attitude  of 
spirit.  The  infidel  stands  outside  the  temple  and 
criticizes.  The  believer  stands  within  and  sees  the 
beauty  and  glory.  He  is  in  the  secret  of  God's  tab- 
ernacle. Many  Christians  are  content  to  stay  down 
in  the  meadows.  Only  a  few  ascend  the  mountain 
tops  of  communion  with  God.  The  deepest  love  is 
unexpressed.  Language  is  too  feeble  to  convey  it. 
The  highest  music  is  inaudible.  The  silence  of 
heaven  will  first  impress  the  believer.  Its  glories 
will  daze  him  and  he  cannot  speak.  The  best 
thoughts  of  the  soul  cannot  be  expressed  in  words 
in  prayer.  On  the  occasion  of  the  thirty-fifth  anni- 
versary of  his  pastorate,  more  than  six  years  ago, 
his  congregation  presented  him  with  a  purse  of  $35,- 
000.  That  was  a  life-time  heart-warmer.  It  is  in 
striking  contrast  with  another  congregation  here 
which  has  asked  their  paator  to  resign,  not  because 
he  has  been  unfaithful,  but  because  some  want  a 
more  "tony  pastor."  The  congregation  that  does 
that  is  judicially  blind,  and  gets  a  blot.  "The  men 
who  banished  Aristides  because  they  were  tired  of 
hearing  him  called  'the  Just'  have  their  lineal  de- 
scendants." 

On  Thursday  evening  I  preached  in  the  Knox 
Presbyterian  church,  2nd  Ave.  and  72nd  St.,  New 
York,  Rev.  D.  G.  Wylie,  pastor.  This  congregation 
is  growing  rapidly.  Monday  morning  I  heard  Rev. 
Dr.  Spence,  secretary  of  the  Church  Extension 
Board,  deliver  a  lecture  before  the  M.  E.  preachers' 
meeting  on  "The  Gospel  for  the  Poor."  He  said. 
By  the  end  of  this  century  there  will  be  3,000,000 
in  New  York,  98  per  cent  of  whom  will  not  own 
their  own  homes.  The  vital  question  is,  how  is  the 
church  going  to  get  the  Gospel  to  them?  She  can't 
afford  to  be  without  these  poor  souls.  At  noon  I 
heard  the  Presbyterian  ministers  discuss  "the  el- 
der." They  could  not  agree  as  to  whether  the  "rul- 
ing elder"  and  "preaching  elder"  were  two  things  or 
one.  This  week  we  have  called  upon  sixteen  pas- 
tors in  the  interests  of  National  Reform.  Among 
these  were  Kev.  Henry  I.  Van  Dyke,  D.  D.,and  Rev. 
R.  S.  Storrs,  D.  D.,  with  both  of  whom  I  had  an  ex- 
ceedingly pleasant  conversation. 

Rev.  Thomas  S.  Hastings,  D.  D.,  has  been  chosen 
president  of  Union  Theological  Seminary  to  succeed 
the  late  Rev.  Boswell  D.  Hitchcock,  D.  D.;  Rev. 
Francis  L.  Patton,  D.  D.,  LL.  D.,  has  been  unani- 
mously chosen  president  of  Princeton  University  to 
succeed  Dr.  McCosh.  These  two  men  will  make 
wise  and  judicious  leaders  of  two  leading  institu- 
tions in  this  land. 

Tuesday  night  in  the  Brooklyn  Academy  of  Mu- 
sic the  question  was  debated  under  the  auspices  of 
the  Prohibition  party,  "Does  the  temperance  reform 
require  a  National  Prohibition  Party?"  Gen.Clinton 
B.  Fiske,  lately  candidate  for  Governor  of  New  Jer- 
sey, sustained  the  affirmative,  and  Dr.  H.  K.  Carroll 
the  negative.  The  'tribune  published  the  speech  of 
the  latter.  That  paper  is  shouting  itself  hoarse  for 
the  Crosby  High  License  bill,  now  before  the  Leg- 
islatur  lat  Albany.     It  insists  that  the  measure  will 


kill  at  least  2,000  out  of  the  8,000  saloons  in  New 
York  city.  England  licenses  houses  of  ill-fame. 
They  call  it  the  "Contagious  Diseases  Act."  That 
roots  out  a  few  of  the  vile  dens.  But  it  serves  to 
make  the  others  all  the  more  respectable.  Now  do 
not  allow  this  to  turn  your  intellectual  stomachs. 
License  grogshops,  and  then  license  inns  of  prosti- 
tution. If  it  is  good  for  society  to  license  the 
breach  of  the  Sixth  and  Eighth  Commandments, 
then  it  ought  to  be  good  to  license  the  breach  of  the 
Seventh  Commandment  also. 

On  Sabbath  evening  I  preached  in  the  Protestant 
Methodist  church,  beyond  Broadway,  Rev.  E.  L.  Da- 
vis, pastor.  They  have  a  very  large  church  edifice, 
and  are  working  hard  to  fill  it.  Our  country  is 
worth  saving.  It  was  originally  devoted  to  God  by 
our  fathers.  Let  me  quote  a  passage  from  an  arti- 
cle in  the  Tribune  of  Dec.  30,  1876:  "In  regard  to 
the  famous  Declaration  of  Independence  adopted  in 
May  30, 1775,  at  Charlotte,  the  county  seat  of  Meck- 
lenburg county,  in  the  colony  of  North  Carolina,  an 
impression  has  been  created  that  the  step  was  the 
work  of  Scotchmen.  The  truth  is  that  they  were 
grandsons  and  grSat-grandsons  of  men  who  had  emi- 
grated from  Scotland  to  the  Province  of  Ulster  in 
the  north  of  Ireland  more  than  a  hundred  years  be- 
fore. Inheriting  the  proverbial  Scotch  industry, 
thrift,  integrity,  moralitj,  intelligence,  courage,  per- 
sonal, political  and  religious  independence,  and  ac- 
quiring more  genial  and  enthusiastic  qualities  from 
their  Irish  associations  and  cDnnectjpna,  they  devel- 
oped into  that  peculiar  and  remarkable  race  'the 
Scotch-Irish  Presbyterians.'  It  is  a  fact  not  gener- 
ally-known that  in  the  year  1636,  soon  after  their 
establishment  in  Ulster,  some  of  these  emigrants 
projected  a  settlement  in  New  England.  They  are 
spoken  of  by  Cotton  Mather  as  a  Scotch  colony. 
In  the  month  of  September  of  that  year  the  Eagle- 
wing  sailed  from  Lock  Fergus  for  the  Merrimac 
River  with  140  passengers,  including  the  celebrated 
preachers,  Robert  Blair,  John  Livingston,  James 
Hamilton  and  John  McClelland.  The  vessel  was 
driven  back  by  stress  of  weather,  and  the  next  year 
these  ministers  returned  to  Scotland,  where  they 
affiliated  with  the  still  more  famous  Johnston  of 
Waniston  and  Alexander  Henderson,  and  became 
prominent  in  the  commotions,  civil  and  religious, 
which  led  to  the  subversion  of  the  English  throne 
and  the  execution  of  its  treacherous  occupant.  Two- 
thirds  of  a  century  later,  in  consequence  of  persecu- 
tion from  a  government  which  in  some  sense  owed 
its  existence. to  the  heroism  shown  at  the  terrible 
siege  of  Londonderry  and  the  crowning  victory  of 
the  Boyne,  the  emigration  from  Ulster  to  this  coun- 
try begaain  earnest,  and  from  about  the  year  1720 
swarm  followed  swarm  from  the  great  hive,  some  of 
the  emigrants  stopping  in  New  England  and  New 
York,  but  the  greater  part  passing  into  the  upper 
regions  of  Pennsylvania,  Virginia  and  the  Carolinas. 
From  these  have  come  some  of  the  most  eminent 
men,  and  families  particularly,  in  the  South  and 
West.  J.  M.  Foster. 


The  following  quotation  is  from  Prof.  Phelps' 
"Studies  of  the  Old  Testament."  '-Said  one  man  of 
the  world  whose  misfortune  it  was  to  have  a  'gay 
parson'  for  his  pastor,  'Our  pastor  is  a  capital  fel- 
low, a  born  wit,  a  splendid  mimic;  he  keeps  the 
table  in  a  roar;  and  in  the  pulpit  he  is  not  afraid  to 
make  us  laugh.  Said  his  friend,  'Suppose  that  you 
had  lost  your  only  child,  or  that  you  were  about  to 
die.'  'Well,'  was  the  reply,  'to  tell  you  the  truth,  he 
is  the  last  man  that  I  should  want  to  see  them. 
Still,  he  is  a  capital  fellow.'"  Alas  there  are  too 
many  ministers  of  this  sort  "He  is  jolly,"  said  a 
friend  to  me  of  a  certain  clergyman,  whom  she  had 
met  at  a  wedding.  "You  would  not  take  him  for  a 
minister."  And  this  she  said  of  him  approvingly, 
as  though  it  were  something  in  his  favor.  Alas! 
both  for  him  and  for  her. — N.  Y.  Obtervtr. 


A  dispatch  from  Des  Moines,  Iowa,  says  that  in 
the  legislature  last  Monday  afternoon,  Mr.  Redman 
left  the  chair  and  took  his  desk  upon  the  floor  for 
the  purpose  of  introducing  a  temperance  bill.  It 
proved  to  be  the  bill  agreed  upon  by  the  Woman's 
Christian  Temperance  Union,  and  ia  in  opposition 
to  what  is  known  as  the  Custer  bill,  which  is  in- 
tended to  take  the  sale  of  liquor  away  from  drug- 
gists and  put  it  in  the  hands  of  county  agents.  The 
Redman  bill  introduced  taday  differs  from  the 
Custer  measure  in  that  it  leaves  the  sale  with  the 
druggists  under  about  the  same  restrictions  imposed 
upon  county  agents  by  the  Custer  bill.  The  Senate 
Committee  on  the  Suppression  of  Intemperance  met 
this  morning  and  decided  upon  an  atlverse  report 
on  Schmidt's  license  bill,  fashioned  after  the  Ne- 
braska law. 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


Pebrtjart  28,  1888 


THE  SECRET  Empire. 


PATRIOTIC  ORDER   OF  THE  SONS  OF 
AMERICA. 


BY   H.    H.    HINMAN. 

This  secret  order  claims  to  have  been  organized 
in  1847,  and  was  a  child,  or  possibly  the  mother,  of 
the  Know  Nothings,  and  it  proposes  precisely  simi- 
lar objects.  These  are  prof essedly,  "the  inculcation 
of  pure  American  principles,  opposition  to  foreign 
interference  with  State  interests  in  the  United  States 
of  America,  the  cultivation  of  fraternal  love,  the 
preservation  of  the  Constitution  of  the  United  States 
and  the  encouragement  of  free  education." 

These  objects,  in  common  with  those  professed 
by  the  Ku  Klux  and  MoUie  Maguires,  are  just  and 
noble.  No  secret  order  of  which  I  have  any  knowl- 
edge proposes  any  other  than  lawful  purposes.  Our 
objection  to  the  whole  secret  lodge  system  is  not 
against  the  objects  they  propose,  but  rather  that 
yery  often  these  are  not  the  real  object8,and  oftener 
still,  the  methods  by  which  they  seek  to  carry  them 
out  are  impracticable  and  illegitimate.  Thus  Free- 
masonry declares  that  its  objects  are,  among  others, 
"to  teach  piety,  morality  and  science."  But  these 
are  not  the  real  objects  of  the  order,  and  if  they 
were,  the  method  of  promotion  is  inadequate  and 
absurd. 

So  with  the  order  under  consideration.  Whether 
these  are  the  real  objects  or  not, — whether,  like  the 
Kqow  Nothings  who  professed  the  same  things, 
there  are  not  ulterior  objects  quite  inconsistent  with 
those  professed.  One  thing  is  certain,  that  we  do 
not  want  a  secret  society  to  promote  liberty  and 
patriotism.  It  would  be  more  likely  to  destroy  than 
to  promote  them.  Eternal  vigilance  is  indeed  the 
price  of  liberty,  and  the  experience  of  the  world  is 
that  it  has  oftenest  been  subverted  and  destroyed 
by  secret  combinations  organized  professedly  for 
its  own  defence. 

The  great  patriots  and  statesmen  who  have  done 
so  much  to  promote  civil  liberty  have  not  been  se- 
cret conspirators,  but  those  rather  whose  patriotic 
labors  were  as  open  as  the  day  and  whose  appeals 
were  to  the  moral  sense  of  all  mankind.  The  Great 
Founder  of  all  national  liberty  and  true  patriotism 
"ever  spake  openly,"  and  declared  that  "he  that 
doeth  truth  cometh'  to  the  light,  that  his  deeds  may 
be  manifest  that  they  are  wrought  in  God," 

Conceding  that  those  living  under  a  despotism  may 
have  a  plausible  excuse  for  a  secret  combination, 
no  such  occasion  exists  in  our  own  land,  and  an  or- 
der which  like  this,  proposes  "to  wield  a  controlling 
hand  in  shaping  the  future  career  of  our  nation,"  if 
secret,  will  be  regarded  as  a  conspiracy,  rather  than 
a  national  defence.  If  "it  impels  a  constant  and  vigi- 
lant watch  over  the  country's  laws,  and  affirms  its 
determination  that  they  shall  "neither  be  broken 
nor  continued  by  home  traitors  or  alien  malcon- 
tents," it  has  a  noble  object,  but  one  that  can  be 
much  better  performed  by  the  Law  and  Order 
Leagues,  or  by  the  civil  authorities.  It  tends 
greatly  to  discredit  this  profession,  that  we  have 
never  heard  of  this  order  in  connection  with  the  en- 
forcement of  the  laws,  and  that  the  Know  Nothings 
who  made  a  similar  profession  were  guilty  of  terri- 
ble riots  and  monstrous  violations  of  liberty  and 
law.  It  is  quite  probable  that  the  members  of  this 
order  are  average  law-abiding  citizens,  and  that  all 
this  gasconade  is  not  meant  for  hypocrisy,  but 
simply  for  embellishment  to  cover  up  the  design  of 
another  secret  life  insurance  society  on  the  assess- 
ment plan,  which  really  is  just  what  this  order  ac- 
tually is.  Such  societies  pay  some  dividends  and 
are  organized  to  secure  them. 

There  are  three  degrees  in  the  order:  Subordi- 
nate, or  Red;  Council,  or  White;  Commandery,  or 
Blue.  Boys  are  eligible  in  the  Red  and  White  de- 
grees at  16  years;  but  in  the  Commandery  not  till 
21.  Its  ceremonies  and  regalia  are  founded  on  the 
history  of  our  country.  Its  terms  of  insurance  are 
about  the  same  as  those  of  several  other  orders 
when  declarations  are  before  the  public.  It  is  said 
that  "these  rates  have  been  adopted  after  a  close 
study  of  the  science  of  insurance,  and  experience 
shows  that  no  organization  is  safe  that  promises  to 
do  more  at  less  assessmentB."  This  is  doulotless 
true,  and  for  those  contemplating  life  insurance, 
thequestion  is  simply  whether  they  will  choose  a  se- 
cret and  irresponsible  company  on  the  assessment 
plan,  or  one  regulated  by  law,  and  open  to  State  in- 
spection. 

A  part  of  the  claptrap  by  which  this  tlimsy 
scheme  is  invested  is  in  what  it  says  about  aliens 
and  education.  No  one  can  become  a  member  who 
is  not  a  native  American.  This  is  no  great  hardship 


to  those  of  foreign  birth,  who  have  a  score  of  other 
similar  orders  open  to  them,  and  are  at  liberty  to 
organize  more;  but  it  is  with  bad  grace  that  the  de- 
scendants of  foreigners  should  in  a  patriotic  order 
discriminate  against  all  their  fathers  and  elder 
brothers.  Think  of  a  16year  old  boy  shutting  out 
his  father  because  he  was  born  in  Great  Britain,  and 
who  doubtless  knows  ten  times  as  much  of  patriot- 
ism as  his  hopeful  child  I 

The  plea  for  purely  secular  education,  uninflu- 
enced by  sectarian  considerations,  means,  when 
boiled  down,  simply  atheistic  education.  Christian 
edfication,  as  understood  and  defined  by  this  class 
of  writers,  is  always  "sectarian."  It  is  this  class  of 
people  that  rule  out  the  Bible  as  the  one  book  whose 
influence  is  to  be  deprecated  and  destroyed.  Sectarian- 
ism,whether  in  churches  or  schools,  is  truly  an  evil, 
and  it  goes  without  saying  that  the  funds  raised 
from  the  entire  people  ought  not  to  be  used  to  pro- 
mote divisions  among  Christians.  But  all  schools 
and  governments  ought  to  be  Christian,  for  Chris- 
tianity lies  at  the  foundation  of  our  republican  gov- 
ernment and  of  our  civilization. 

As  between  a  Christian  school  under  sectarian  in- 
fluences and  an  atheistic  school,  while  both  are  to  be 
deprecated,  the  preference  is  a  thousand-fold  in  fa- 
vor of  the  former.  Dr.  Crosby  says,  "We  have  no 
hesitation  in  writing  secret  societies  among  the 
quackeries  of  the  age."  Surely  there  are  few  that 
are  more  pretentious  and  less  deserving  than  this 
weak  appeal  to  selfishness  under  the  guise  of  patri- 
otism and  loyalty.  It  is  said  to  have  105,000  mem- 
bers in  all  parts  of  the  Union. 


PRESS   COMMENT. 


"APOSTATE  CHRISTIANS,"   TEE  LODGE  ONLY 
CAN  SAVE  TOUl 


i  good  friend  in  Ohio  finds  the  following  in  the 
onic  Review  of  Cincinnati  for  February,  1884, 
Eacch  T.  Carson,  Sovereign  Grand  Inspector  Gen- 
eral, editor.  It  has  been  read  by  several  who  wish 
it  it  to  be  seen  by  the  readers  of  the  Cynosure.  The 
significant  acknowledgment  of  the  Christian  pro- 
fession of  the  opponets  of  the  lodge,  the  severity  of 
their  Masonic  sentence,  the  only  means  of  salvation 
which  this  Masonic  writer  provides  for  them,  and 
the  utter  impossibility  of  their  even  attaining  Ma- 
sonic salvation,  are  points  of  great  significance  to 
which  we  call  the  special  attention  of  the  reader: 

"The  enemies  of  Freemasonry  are  to  be  found 
among  men  professing  to  be  Christians,  and  scarcely 
anywhere  else.  While  we  believe  that  there  are 
some  true  Christian  men  who  are  opposed  to  the 
order  for  one  reason  or  another,  yet  the  enemies  of 
the  fraternity,  men  who  slander  and  malign  the 
brethren,  and  exhaust  the  vocabulary  of  epithets 
and  expletives  in  defaming  the  institution,  can 
hardly  be  said  to  exemplify  the  sweet  spirit  of 
Christ,  or  practice  the  gentle  amenities  of  his  grace. 
The  organized  enemies  of  the  institution  carry 
their  hatred  and  malignity  to  the  extreme  of  most 
slanderous  utterances  concerning  the  brethren;  and 
these  organized  enemies,  who  form  societies  and 
publish  papers  in  the  interest  of  Anti-masonry, 
make  very  loud  and  ostentatious  claims  to  pre-emi- 
nence as  Christians.  Our  readers  may  be  surprised 
to  learn  that  the  following,  taken  from  a  recent 
number  of  one  of  their  papers,  is  only  a  feeble 
specimen  of  the  kind  of  language  they  are  accus- 
tomed to  use.  Speaking  of  the  Masonic  brother- 
hood, the  writer,  a  minister  of  the  sweet  Gospel  of 
Jesus,  says: 

"  'Should  a  single  ray  from  the  sun  of  righteousness 
penetrate  their  dark  abode  their  boasted  lifi;ht  would  go 
out  in  the  blackness  of  darkness  forever.  Their  truth 
would  be  seen  to  be  falsehood;  their  virtue  the  most  de- 
grading habits  of  vice;  their  religion  the  worst  form  of 
idolatry;  their  chastity  only  lewdness;  their  boasted  be- 
nevolence and  charity,  covetousness  and  theft;  their 
great  love  for  the  brotherhood,  hatred  and  murder,  on 
the  slightest  provocation;  and  all  their  good  deeds  only 
works  of  darkness: — in  short,  their  institution  would  be 
turned  inside  out  and  left  standing  on  its  head,  a  monu- 
ment of  man's  depravity,  a  stench  in  the  nostrils  of  the 
Christian  world,  and  a  hies  and  by-word  to  all  coming 
generations.' 

"  We  ask  pardon  of  our  readers  for  presenting 
this  specimen  of  the  foul  utterances  of  men,  pro- 
fessing to  be  Christians,  concerning  the  fraternity. 
We  do  it  for  the  purpose  of  showing  to  what  re- 
sorts of  vituperation  and  falseness,  apostate  Chris- 
tians and  haters  of  mankind  will  descend.  Now 
nothing  but  the  lodge  can  save  such  men.  But  the 
door  of  the  lodge  is  shut  to  them,  because  their 
manhood  is  nowhere  near  the  standard  required  for 
admission.  A  man  who  could  write  as  above  would 
be  more  easily  denied  the  benefits  of  Masonry  than 
the  privileges  of  the  church.  Such  a  man  might 
take  the  holy  sacrament,  but  he  could  not  stand  with 
the  brethren  at  the  altar  of  the  lodge." 


The  story  started  by  a  Chicago  paper  that  "a  se- 
cret society  was  organized  in  the  West  to  secure  the 
nomination  of  General  Gresham  for  the  Presidency 
or  in  case  of  failure  to  throw  the  doubtful  States  to 
the  Democrats,"  is  a  roorback.  Such  a  scheme  has 
not  Jeen  inaugurated  by  Judge  Gresham  or  by  any 
of  his  friends.  The  Brooklyn  2^imes,  speaking  of 
it,  well  says,  "If  this  mysterious  movement  in  favor 
of  Judge  Gresham  has  any  existence,  the  circles  do 
well  to  .guard  their  password,  for  Judge  Gresham 
would  be  the  first  to  forbid  them  the  use  of  his 
name  if  any  hint  of  their  'sworn  obligations'  came 
to  his  ears." — InterOcean. 

Secret  oath-bound  societies  are  the  works  of  the 
Evil  One.  They,  under  the  shield  of  secrecy,  com- 
mit all  manner  of  crimes.  Scarcely  a  week  passes 
but  the  papers  give  accounts  of  crimes  committed 
by  wicked  men  under  the  sanction  of  secrecy, — men 
who  shelter  themselves  behind  the  horrible  cut, 
throat  oaths  of  some  secret  criminal  clan.  Recent 
papers  give  a  thrilling  account  of  innocent  men  be- 
ing tortured  and  put  to  death  in  Virginia  bj  the 
Roane  Co.  "Regulators"  who  have  terrorized  the 
county  by  their  hellish  deeds.  Rev.  Thos.  P.  Ryan, 
a  noted  Methodist  minister,  was  brutally  murdered 
last  October,  40  miles  from  Parkersburg,  being  shot 
down  by  the  members  of  this  secret  cath-bound 
order  in  the  presence  of  his  own  family.  Two  or 
three  days  after  that,  three  young  men,  Robert  and 
George  Duff  and  Chester  Coon,  were  taken  out  of 
their  homes  and  hanged  by  men  who  it  is  believed 
belonged  to  the  "Regulators,"  who  did  it,  as  is 
thought,  to  cover  their  own  crimes;  just  as  in  the 
far  West  innocent  men  are  sometimes  lynched  as 
horse  thieves  by  the  men  who  did  the  stealing  to 
divert  public  attention  from  them  and  their  crimes. 
This  "consolidated  band"  had  their  grips  and  secret 
passwords  after  the  style  of  the  Masons  and  Odd- 
fellows and  met  frequently  in  secret  session  and 
planned  their  lawless  deeds.  Thirty-seven  members 
are  known. — Sandy  LaJa  News. 

The  following  account  of  a  duel  between  Freema- 
sons, illustrates  the  mythical  "brotherly  love"  of  the 
order:  "The  trouble  among  the  Freemasons  has  cul- 
minated in  a  duel.  For  reasons  that  are  not  known 
the  Regio  Lodge  of  Scottish  Rite  Masons  and  the 
Templar  Masons  have  been  hostile  for  many  months. 
The  Scottish  Rite  has  an  organ  which  is  directed  by 
Mr.  Ermilo  G.  Canton,  who  has  reached  the  thirty- 
third  degree  in  Masonry.  This  periodical  spoke 
strongly  against  the  acts  of  the  members  of  Regio 
Lodge,  calling  them  deserters  and  perjurers.  The 
Cruz  Templar,  organ  of  the  Templars,  sallied  forth 
in  defense  of  the  lodge,  and  one  of  the  latter's  mem- 
bers sent  a  challenge  to  Mr.  Canton.  The  latter  re- 
fused to  fight  with  the  challenger  or  any  other  mem- 
ber of  the  Regio  Lodge,  as  he  considered  them  be- 
neath him.  He  said,  however,  that  if  there  was  any 
Templar  who  would  take  it  upon  himself  to  send  the 
challenge,  it  would  be  accepted  with  pleasure.  Af- 
ter a  long  correspondence  it  was  determined  that 
there  was  no  other  solution  than  a  meeting  between 
Jesus  Toledo  of  the  Templar  Encampment  and  Mr. 
Ermilo  G.  Canton  of  the  Scottish  Rite.  The  duel 
took  place  on  Friday  morning  at  9:30  o'clock  on  the 
ground  of  the  military  school  of  sharpshooters  on 
the  plains  of  San  Lazaro."  It  is  further  recorded 
that  one  of  the  men  was  shot  in  the  leg,  but  not  ser- 
iously hurt.  This  is  Freemasonry  in  Mexico. — 
American,  Washington. 

The  American  Federation  of  Labor  has  recently 
been  in  session  in  Baltimore.  During  this  session  a 
bitter  antagonism  was  manifest  towards  the  Knights 
of  Labor.  Yet  the  two  organizations  maintain  es- 
sentially the  same  principles  and  seek  the  same 
ends.  Both  aim  at  the  elevation  of  labor,  better 
wages  for  workingmen  and  fewer  hours  of  toil, 
which  they  rightly  argue  the  perfection  and  multi- 
plication of  machinery  makes  possible.  Where- 
fore, then,  the  hostility?  It  is  because  of  the  very 
matter  which  certain  philosophers  and  doctrinaire 
statesmen,  and  some  theologians,  affect  to  believe  of 
no  consequence — the  form  of  government.  It  hath 
been  said  by  old  timers  that  it  makes  no  difference 
how  people  are  governed  so  they  are  governed  well. 
Without  stopping  to  inquire  whether  this  is  not  a 
begging  of  the  whole  question  we  note  that  men  are 
coming  more  and  more  to  deny  it.  Even  the  man 
who  governs  himself  very  badly  is  better  content, 
and,  paradoxical  as  it  may  seem,  is  better  governed 
than  if  some  guardian  should  govern  him  better. 
Society  recognizes  this,  and  not  till  a  man  has 
abandoned  self-government  and  becomes  a  danger- 
ous outlaw,  does  society  deprive  him  of  his  auton- 
omy— his  individual  ''Home  Rule." 

The  principle  applies  as  directly  to  the  govern- 


February  23,  1888 


THE  CHRISTIAN"  CYNOSURE. 


ment  of  communities,  States  and  trades  as  it  does  to 
individuals.  As  it  is  best  that  the  central  sovereign 
power  shall  invade  individual  self-government  only 
so  far  as  the  public  welfare  demands,  so  it  should 
only  interfere  to  that  extent  in  local  self-government. 
The  old  theory  of  government  was  that  the  individ- 
ual existed  for  the  State;  the  province  for  the  em- 
pire; the  new  theory  is  that  the  State  exists  for  the 
individual  and  the  empire  for  the  province.  It 
claims  that  the  largest  possible  amount  of  auton- 
omy shall  be  left  with  the  subordinate  local  or- 
ganizations, and  this  is  the  great  principle  upon 
which  must  be  realized  the  "federation  of  the 
world"  and  which  must  govern  the  "parliament  of 
man."  It  is  upon  this  point  that  the  Federation  of 
Labor  is  at  outs  with  the  centralization  of  the 
Knights  of  Labor,  and  it  is  to  this  principle  that 
the  Federation  attributes  its  rapid  growth;  as  the 
report  of  the  committee  puts  it,  "to  the  avowed 
purpose  of  the  Federation  to  allow  each  trade  to 
govern  itself." — Chistian  Standard. 


Reform  news. 


FROM  TEB  OENRRAL  AQBNT. 


The  Trip  from  Chicago  to  Aew  Orleans — The  City  and 
its  Churches — 1  he  Carnival  Preparations — Various 
Helpers  and  Hncouragement. 

[Note — This  letter  should  have  reached  Chicago 
in  time  for  last  number,  but  was  held  in  the  New 
Orleans  postoffice  for  postage. — Ed.] 

New  Orleans,  Feb.  9, 1888. 

Ill  health  has  prevented  me  from  reporting  more 
frequently  and  fully.  Fifty-six  grains  of  quinine, 
blue  pills  and  various  other  remedies,  under  the 
kindly  ministrations  of  wife,  the  skilful  directions 
of  Dr.  Hinman  and  the  consolations  of  our  beloved 
pastor,  have  assured  my  recovery  and  a  good  degree 
of  vigor  for  the  work  of  the  convention  so  near.  I 
have  been  scouting  the  field  and  mapping  out  the 
work  in  general,  but  with  special  reference  to  our 
annual  gathering.  Looking  over  the  lines  of  rail- 
road from  the  great  Northwest  to  this  city,  I  find 
that  the  Illinois  Central  takes  precedence  of  all 
others  in  the  estimation  of  tourists.  In  fact,  it 
seems  to  be  about  the  only  line  spoken  of  by  the 
people  here  as  furnishing  direct  and  desirable  con- 
nection with  Chicago  and  contiguous  cities.  Leav- 
ing Chicago  at  8:30  o'clock,  p.  m,,  one  sees  very 
little  of  the  country  until  reaching  Cairo  the  next 
morning.  The  entire  train  crosses  the  Ohio  river  on 
a  float  landing  at  the  small  station  of  Wickliffe  on 
the  Kentucky  side.  Passing  through  Bardwell  and 
Arlington  and  coming  to  Clinton,  we  find  a  live  and 
enterprising  town  of  1,500  inhabitants,  and  still 
further  on,  Fulton  at  tiie  southern  border  of  the 
State  is  a  city  of  3,000,  with  indications  of  a  wide- 
awake, go-ahead  population.  Entering  Tennessee, 
we  pass  over  a  smooth  track,  through  a  varigated 
country,  interspersed  with  towns,  farms  and  wood- 
lands to  Jackson,  with  its  estimated  population  of 
10,000  and  its  Female  College,  Baptist  Southwest- 
ern University  and  other  educational  advantages, 
claimed  to  equal  any  of  the  kind  in  the  State.  At 
Holly  Springs,  Mississippi,  supper  is  served  at  the 
superb  dining  hall  of  the  company  where  every  at- 
tention is  given  to  the  wants  and  convenience  of  pat- 
rons. 

From  this  point  the  scenery  is  invisible  until  the 
dawn,  and  if  you  have  been  thoughtful  enough  to 
secure  a  birth  in  one  of  the  Euperb  sleepers  of  the 
Central  trains  you  may  resign  yourself  to  the  keep- 
ing of  a  kind  Providence  under  the  efficient  manage- 
ment of  the  road,  and  after  a  quiet  night's  rest  look 
out  in  the  early  morning  upon  green  fields,  blooming 
gardens  and  orange  trees  loaded  with  their  golden 
fruitage.  At  least  such  was  my  experience  on 
the  morning  of  January  2 1st  last.  We  were  near- 
ing  the  Crescent  City,  and  at  8:20  our  train  halted 
at  the  depot,  having  made  the  entire  trip  in  less 
than  thirty-six  hours. 

We  were  soon  in  the  midst  of  a  bustling  throng, 
rushing  to  and  fro  on  the  streets  of  this  great  city. 
Securing  rooms  at  the  Christian  Woman's  Exchange, 
we  entered  into  the  earnest  work  of  preparation  for 
the  convention. 

THECHIIROIIE.S. 

I  have  visited  and  spoken  in  seven  different 
houses  of  worship,  and  met  a  large  number  of  min- 
isters both  in  public  and  private.  I  have  visited 
the  leading  universities  and  professors  in  the  city, 
and  without  exception  have  been  cordially  received. 
1  do  not  recall  a  colored  pastor  whom  I  have  met 
wha  has  not  at  some  time  been  connected  with  one 
or  more  of  the  secret  orders,  nor  do  I  recollect  one 
who  has  not  expressed  the  opinion  that  they  were 
not  a  great  damage  to  the  church  and  hindrance  to 


the  cause  of  Christ.  Most  of  them  have  been  sup- 
plied with  programmes  of  the  convention  and  with 
circulars  and  tracts,  and  have  promised  to  give  no- 
tice on  Sabbath  and  distribute  literature  among 
their  people.  A  number  of  persons  not  down  for 
set  speeches,  have  expressed  a  desire  to  speak  of 
their  own  experience,  and  I  anticipate  this  as  one  of 
the  most  interesting  and  useful  features  of  the 
meeting.  I  feel  confident  that  I  risk  nothing  in 
saying  the  colored  ministers  of  this  city,  as  a  rule, 
and  in  all  denominations  are  tired  of  the  secret 
lodges  and  would  be  heartily  glad  to  see  them 
abolished  as  effectually  and  eternally  as  was  the 
other  system  of  slavery  by  the  war.  Many  are 
suff'ering  a  bondage  of  consciecce  and  conviction 
which  they  loathe  and  which  they  will  not  long  en- 
dure, and  I  am  looking  for  grand  revelations  and 
results  to  follow  our  work  here  in  the  South.  It  is 
truly  a  mission  field,  offering  the  grandest  opportuni- 
ties with  every  promise  of  speedy  results,  and  I  am 
persuaded  that  friends  need  only  to  understand  the 
condition  to  most  heartily  respond  to  the  call. 

ONE    ABSORBING   THEME. 

The  one  absorbing  theme  is  Mardi  Gras,  for  which 
the  most  extensive  preparations  are  in  progress. 
Stores,  shops,  private  dwellings  and  the  streets  are 
being  put  in  order  for  the  great  event  so  soon  to  oc- 
cur. Along  Canal,  the  principal  street  of  the  city, 
balconies  are  being  strengthened  with  extra  sup- 
ports, and  every  available  niche  and  corner  along 
the  line  of  procession  supplied  with  seats,  and 
everybody  is  hoping,  and  the  devout  worshipers  of 
"King  Carnival"  are  praying  for  favorable  weather 
and  a  crowd. 

As  indicated  on  the  surface,  the  great  bulk  of 
New  Orleans  population  has  a  "single  eye  and  a 
single  heart"  to  festivity  and  gain.  This  is  not 
true  of  all,  for  God  has  in  this  city  a  chosen  people 
who  sacrifice  and  labor  and  sufl^er  for  the  truth.  As 
opportunity  and  strength  would  permit,  I  have  been 
searching  them  out  until  I  have  a  list  already  giv- 
ing promise  of  success. 

Brothers  Hinman,  Davidson  and  Chittenden  have 
been  efficient  workers,  and,  indeed,  Bro.  H.  and  D. 
have  taken  the  laboring  oar  since  neuralgia  took 
possession  of  me.  Mrs.  Stoddard  has  not  been  idle 
in  the  line  of  the  W.  C.  T.  U.  work  which  she  com- 
bines with  our  special  reform  to  some  extent.  She 
has  assisted  in  reorganizing  one  Union,  has  been 
cordially  received  by  the  workers  here,  has  spoken 
at  several  of  their  meetings,  and  has  other  appoint- 
ments to  fill  before  returning  home.  Several  of  the 
ladies  have  expressed  sympathy  with  the  work  of 
the  N.  C.  A.  and  no  one  has  objected  to  its  men- 
tion in  connection  with  the  Temperance  reform. 
We  were  invited  to  a  social  at  the  residence  of  Elder 
Cole,  pastor  of  the  First  Baptist  church  in 
New  Orleans,  and  a  brother  of  Major  Cole,  so  well 
known  as  an  evangelist  throughout  the  North  and 
West.  The  Elder  and  Mrs.  Cole  expressed  hearty 
sympathy  with  our  work  and  hope  to  attend  the  con- 
vention. J.  P.  Stoddard. 


WHAT  OF  THE  NIQHT,  OHIO? 


A     GLANOE     ACROSS      THE      EASTERN      BORDER  —  THE 
FRIENDS    IN    ALEXANDRIA — A    GOOD    MEET- 
ING   IN    COLUMBUS. 

Columbus,  O.,  Feb.  17,  1888. 

The  last  Cynosure  has  just  come  to  hand.  I  re- 
joice to  see  that  friends  in  Pennsylvania  are  rekin- 
dling the  fires  that  have  burned  so  brightly  in  other 
days.  There  is  no  good  reason  why  thij  Slate 
should  not  lead  the  hosts  of  reform,  as  in  the  mem- 
orable days  of  Governor  Ilitner,  when  to  be  a  Mason 
was  to  be  a  companion  of  rascals  or  murderers. 
Often,  when  on  the  eastern  border  of  this  field 
allotted  me,  I  have  been  tempted  to  step  over  the 
line  and  try  to  bring  to  action  the  latent  sentiment 
I  feel  confident  lies  dormant  among  those  hills.  I 
trust  there  may  be  a  general  response  to  the  appeals 
of  brethren  Callender  and  Chalfant  Mrs.  Stodilard 
and  I  have  been  talking  of  making  a  short  visit  to 
her  father,  living  near  Pittsburg,  soon.  Should  we 
be  of  any  service  to  the  friends  in  that  section  we 
would  help  what  we  could  to  get  the  movement 
started. 

We  have  great  reason  to  praise  God  for  the  way 
our  reform  progresses  in  this  State.  Light  is  shin- 
ing. Clouds  are  vanishing.  Steadily  and  surely 
public  sentiment  is  being  moulded.  By  the  multi- 
plicity of  secrets'on  sale,  the  market  is  being  over- 
stocked, ^en  are  finding  skeleton  shows  not  very 
profitable  at  ten  dollars  apiece.  They  are  stopping 
to  think.  Their  ears  are  open  to  hear  the  truth, 
"and  the  truth  shall  make  you  free." 

Last  Sabbath  morning  I  addressed  a  good  audi- 


ence in  the  Wesleyan  church  (Rev.  White,  pastor) 
near  Alexandria.  In  the  afternoon  I  accompanied 
Bro.  White  to  a  Congregational  mission  church 
north  of  Alexandria,  where  he  preached  a  powerful 
sermon  from  the  text,  "He  calleth  for  thee."  Some 
eight  children  accepted  the  Saviour  at  the  close. 
At  his  request  I  filled  the  pulpit  in  the  evening. 
There  was  a  large  attendance,  and  I  think  gootl  was 
accomplished.  Bro.  J.  M.  Scott  of  this  place  is  act- 
ive as  ever  in  reform  work.  He  remembered  our 
cause  with  a  V.  Some  half  dozen  new  names  were 
added  to  our  <  'ynosure  list  there. 

The  union  meeting  of  the  young  people  of  the 
German  Lutheran  churches  of  this  city,  which  I  had 
the  pleasure  of  addressing  last  evening,  was,  in  my 
opinion,  one  of  the  most  far-reaching  in  its  results 
of  any  I  have  addressed  for  some  time.  The  house 
was  well-filled  with  an  intelligent,  interesting  people. 
No  less  than  seven  ministers  were  among  the  num- 
ber. Rev.  Beck,  pastor  of  this  church,  introduced 
me  to  the  audience  and  took  charge  of  the  collection 
at  the  close.  I  suggested  in  regard  to  the  collec- 
tion, that  perhaps  it  would  be  well  not  to  take  it  up 
until  the  following  evening  as  some  might  not  be 
prepared.  "No,"  said  he,  "we'll  take  a  collection 
both  evenings."  He  evidently  has  an  eye  to  busi- 
ness. When  the  collectors  went  round  it  was  found 
they  received  seven  dollars  and  seventy  cents. 
Judging  from  appearances  the  church  will  not  hold 
those  who  will  wish  to  attend  to-night.  Let  me  say 
to  those  who  do  not  wish  to  "get  left"  in  the  on- 
ward march  of  reform:  Come  early  and  get  a  front 
seat. 

Columbus,  Feb.  18. — The  meeting  of  last  night 
was  in  every  sense  a  success.  The  house  was 
crowded  with  eager  listeners.  Some  fifty  stood  dur- 
ing the  lecture,  unable  to  get  seats.  Others,  not 
finding  accommodations,  went  away.  Judging  from 
expressions  of  congratulation  and  frequent  inquiries 
I  feel  confident  it  will  not  be  devoid  of  good  result 
The  collection  amounted  to  $8.13,  making  $15.83 
contributed  by  these  friends  on  the  two  evenings. 
Revs.  Beck,  Rohe  and  others  endorsed  my  work  and 
said  they  wished  to  have  such  lectures  at  least  once 
a  year.  W.  B.  Stoddard. 


AH  BNCOURAOINQ  FACT. 


Editor  Christian  Cynosure: — Some  fifteen 
years  ago  your  humble  correspondent  broke  the  ice 
on  the  lodge  question  in  Thompson,  Susquehanna 
county,  and  Preston,  Wayne  county.  Pa.  There  he 
was  hooted  at  and  defamed  and  almost  mobbed  at 
some  points.  At  Starrucca,  WayuR  county,  a  point 
some  five  miles  from  the  others  mentioned.  Eld.  J. 
W.  Howe  was  assailed  in  a  fiendish  manner,  in  person 
and  in  reputation.  Now,  under  the  labors  of  our  Free 
Methodist  brethren,  in  the  very  center  of  this  region 
of  antagonism  to  Anti-masonry,  God  is  blessing  these 
brethren  with  a  revival,  under  the  efficient  labors  of 
Bro.  Southworth,  and  some  of  the  very  persons  who, 
eighteen  years  ago,  were  in  the  forefront  to  oppose'us, 
are  most  active  members  of  his  class.  These  people 
have  the  courage  to  act  up  to  their  convictions  on 
the  lodge  question,  as  on  other  living  issues.  God 
bless  such  religious  bodies  all  over  the  earth. 

Permit  one  incident.  Some  twelve  or  more  years 
ao-o  a  man,  somewhat  prominent  in  his  community 
as  a  public  man,  challenged  your  correspondent  to  a 
discussion  of  the  lodge  (luestion,  leaving  me  to  de- 
fine the  subject  to  be  discussed.  I  stated  the 
question  thus  in  substance:  ^'Resolved,  That  spec- 
ulative Freemasonry  is  a  false  and  an  anti-Christian 
religion,  and  as  such  ought  to  be  disfellowahiped  by 
all  Christians."  My  opponent  took  the  negative 
and  did  his  best.  Now  this  same  brother  is  in  fel- 
lowship with  this  same  proposition,  and  very  active 
in  the  Free  Methodist  class.  These  brethren  nobly 
and  bravely  nail  this  thesis  to  their  banners.  Other 
similar  facts  in  said  region  proclaim  progress  to 
the  right.  God  speed  the  people  who  have  strength 
to  live  up  to  their  convictions. 

Nathan  Callender. 


— One-half  the  population  of  New  York  City  are 
reckoned  as  Protestants  (1)00,000);  of  these  but 
250,000  at  most  are  considered  to  be  regular  or  oc- 
casional attendants  upon  religious  service,  while  yet 
there  is  one  church  to  2,4(58  inhabitants.  In  Cleve- 
land one-quarter  of  the  population  are  non-attend- 
ants. It  is  generally  estimated  that  at  least  forty 
per  cent  of  our  city  population  attend  no  place  of 
worship.  The  Connecticut  Bible  Society  canvassers 
have  found  14,838  families  who  avowed  that  they 
had  no  connection  with  any  church,  and  16,219 
children  not  in  Sunday-school,  figures  which  are  said 
to  fall  below  the  actual  facts,  which  many  are 
ashamed  to  admit. 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSUKE. 


Fkbruart  23,  1888 


COKRESFONSENCE. 


REFORM  NO  TBS. 


Blanchard,  Iowa. 
Joseph  Cook  has  written  a  letter  cordially  endors- 
ing the  National  Reform  movement.  It  recalls  my 
experience  with  Joseph  Cook  at  the  St.  Joseph  Con- 
vention a  few  years  ago.  He  was  to  lecture  in  St. 
Joseph  the  evening  of  the  day  our  convention 
closed,  and  in  Kansas  City  the  evening  before.  I 
saw  him  on  his  way  to  Kansas  City,  gave  him  a 
programme  of  our  convention  and  requested  him  if 
he  came  back  in  the  afternoon  to  come  irf  and  help 
us,  and  if  he  could,  to  give  us  a  word  of  endorse- 
ment in  the  prelude  of  his  lecture. 

When  he  returned  to  St.  Joseph  the  next  after- 
noon, he  came  up  from  his  hotel  to  the  Francis  St. 
Methodist  church,  where  we  were  assembled.  The 
church  was  about  half  full.  Mr.  Cook  opened  the 
door  and  surveyed  us  for  a  minute,  and  then  turned 
away.  He  evidently  thought  he  could  not  risk  his 
reputation  in  such  a  crowd.  The  president  of  the 
Y.  M.  C.  A.  who  waited  on  him  at  the  hotel,  said  to 
me  afterward,  "Mr.  Cook  is  opposed  to  your  move- 
ment" I  asked,  "How  do  you  know?"  He  said, 
"He  told  me  so."  That  evening  I  reported  Mr. 
Cook's  lecture  in  shorthand  for  the  Gazette,  by  re- 
quest of  the  editor.  Sure  enough  he  did  not  forget 
us  in  his  prelude.  This  was  his  language:  "A  con- 
vention of  reformers  has  just  adjourned  in  your 
city.  I  hope  these  men  will  get  all  they  ask,  but  I 
want  them  to  get  it  through  the  church,  and  not 
through  the  state."  The  common  misconception 
was  in  his  mind  that  we  were  blending  civil  with 
ecclesiastical  functions,  or  trying  to  coerce  con- 
sciences in  matters  of  mere  church  polity.  A  little 
further  on,  he  said,  as  if  he  had  the  Covenanters  in 
his  eye,  "I  would  have  a  man  fined  if  he  did  not 
vote  without  good  reason." 

Since  then  Joseph  Cook  has  visited  the  Christian 
iStatetman  office,  and  had  his  prejudices  removed. 
The  logic  of  events  and  the  current  of  moral  reform 
has  done  much  to  bring  Mr.  Cook  into  line. 

I  believe  it  is  a  mistake  to  run  so  much  after  men 
of  reputation.  About  the  only  way  to  float  them 
off  is  to  raise  the  stream  of  public  sentiment.  I 
must  quote  here  from  a  private  letter  received  from 
Bro.  H.  W.  Johnston,  of  the  Washington  American, 
just  after  the  renowned  Evangelical  Alliance  Con- 
vention met  there.  He  said:  "But  on  the  whole, 
Bro.  G.,  it  struck  me  that  they  were  mostly  kid- 
gloved  pastors  of  popular  churches — stall-fed  minis- 
ters who  dealt  with  the  questions  under  discussion 
merely  from  a  scholarly  and  theoretical  standpoint. 
And  I  imagined  that  if  a  volley  of  real  aggressive 
Christianity  had  been  fired  into  that  assembly,  the 
word,  'Rats,  to  your  holes  I'  would  have  been  the  or- 
der." A  convention  like  this,  denouncing  third 
party  Prohibitionists,  and  refusing  to  hear  from 
either  the  National  Reform  or  National  Christian 
Association,  indicate  that  they  are  belated  in  the 
ages,  and  ignorant  of  the  first  principles  of  true  re- 
form. 

Last  week  I  had  the  privilege  of  addressing  a  fine 
audience  in  the  College  Chapel  at  College  Springs. 
There  was  scarcely  a  vacant  seat,  and  Dr.  Kennedy 
in  introducing  me  to  the  audience,  spoke  of  the 
cause  in  terms  of  the  highest  commendation.  He 
is  a  grand  good  man — none  of  your  barn-turret,  tin- 
rooster  sort  of  reformers.  He  has  now  on  the  roll 
165  students.  The  institution  is  steadily  gaining  in 
influence  and  attendance.  I  do  not  think  any  col- 
lege in  the  State  can  surpass  it  in  thorough,  practical 
instruction,  economy  in  expenses,  and  a  moral  com- 
munity. I  am  sure  I  have  found  no  community 
that  will  turn  out  as  well  to  a  reform  lecture.  Some 
one  dropped  $5  in  the  collection  box;  my  suspicion 
rested  upon — well,  I  will  not  say  who. 

Last  Sabbath  evening  I  preached  at  a  union  serv- 
ice in  the  M.  E.  church  at  Coin,  and  in  the  U.  P. 
church  in  the  morning.  The  people  turn  out  well. 
There  is  a  strong  Good  Templars  lodge  here,  and  no 
Cynoiuret  or  IStatetmani  are  taken.  I  found  none 
who  had  advanced  farther  in  politics  than  the  Re- 
publican party.  Josh  Billings  says  to  preachers, 
"If  you  do  not  strike  oil  in  thirty  minutes,  quit  bor- 
ing," but  I  bored  for  sixty  minutes  with  each  ser- 
mon, and  only  struck  oil  to  the  amount  of  a  $2.95 
collection.  But  even  that  is  better  than  Page  Cen- 
ter, Iowa,  where  a  few  Sabbaths  ago  1  bored  for  the 
same  length  of  time  and  only  struck  it  to  the  amount 
of  $1.65. 

There  is  no  State  in  the  Union  perhaps  where 
there  is  so  much  genuine  hatred  of  the  Prohibition 
party  as  in  Iowa.  It  is  only  here  and  there  you  can 
find  a  minister  or  church  member  who  prefers  a 
party  recognizing  God,  his  law  and  his  Sabbath  to  a 
party  that  does  not.     And  where   men's  religio-po- 


litical  convictions  go  no  deeper  than  that,  you  can- 
not expect  to  reach  their  pocket-books.  "I  like  that 
kind  of  religion  that  puts  up  the  money,"  was  what 
a  commercial  fellow  said  to  me  recently.  He  said, 
"There  are  too  many  church  members  who  are  good 
at  praying  and  talking  Jesus,  but  they  will  not  put 
up  the  money;  then  there  are  others  who  can't  pray 
or  talk  Jesus,  but  they  put  up  the  money  every 
time."  Let  us  remember  that  a  true  God-fearing, 
prayer-meeting  religion,  is  inseparable  from  a  debt- 
paying  religion.  M.  A.  Gault. 


A   WORD  OF  ADVICE  TO  E0NB8T  MA80N8. 

Martvillb,  Mo. 

You  say  when  you  are  convinced  you  ought  to 
leave  the  fraternity,  you  will  do  so.  This  letter  is 
to  make  that  duty  plain  before  you.  I  am  to  con- 
vince you,  by  quoting  from  your  own  book,  what 
Masonry  teaches.  There  is  room  for  a  few  samples 
only;  I  could  give  many. 

"They  teach  that  when  one  enters  the  lodge  he 
leaves  the  world  behind."  There  is  a  little  truth  in 
this,  I  admit.  As  the  great  majority  of  the  world 
cannot  get  into  a  lodge,  when  a  man  becomes  a  Ma 
son  he  leaves  all  these  behind;  only,  however,  for  a 
short  time,  for  as  soon  as  he  gets  out  of  the  lodge, 
we  find  him  not  only  in  the  same  world,  but  he  is 
the  same  sinner  as  when  he  went  in! 

Brother  minister,  they  teach  that  when  you  are 
about  to  join  the  lodge,  you  are  "in  darkness,  help- 
lessness and  ignorance.  Having  been  wandering 
amid  the  errors  and  covered  over  with  the  pollutions 
of  the  outer  and  profane  world,  you  come  seeking 
the  new  birth."  You  ministers  in  the  lodge  know 
in  your  own  case  that  this  is  not  true.  You  say 
that  when  you  enter  the  lodge  you  "have  spiritual 
light  by  virtue  of  a  new  birth."  This,  you  all  know, 
is  a  very  plain  falsehood. 

"Masonry  is  the  excellency  of  Christianity."  If 
there  is  one  word  of  truth  in  this  statement  then  in- 
fidels, who  condemn  Christianity,  may  be  correct. 
For  if  Masonry  is  the  cream  of  our  holy  religion, 
what  must  the  rest  of  it  be? 

Finally  they  claim  "that  every  real  Mason  is  a 
true  Christian."  Let  me  say,  the  very  opposite 
must  be  true.  A  real  Mason  who,  for  the  sake  of 
harmony  in  the  lodge,  will  ignore  Jesus  Christ,  can- 
not be  a  true  Christian! 

Now  every  honest  Mason  in  this  enlightened 
world  knows  what  I  have  said  is  true.  Therefore 
come  out  like  men,  and  confess  all  the  facts  in  your 
case.  "For  to  him  that  knoweth  to  do  good  and 
doeth  it  not,  to  him  it  is  sin."  Yours  till  every  yoke 
is  broken.  R.  Smith. 


NEBRASKA  COLLEGES  NEED  HELP. 


Inman,  Neb.,  Feb.  8,  1888. 
Editor  Christian  Cynosure: 

Dear  Brother: — I  received  the  first  number  of 
the  Christian  Cynosure  and  have  taken  it  ever  since, 
with  the  exception  of  a  few  numbers  after  the  Chi- 
cago fire;  and  with  my  present  feelings  shall  take 
it  as  long  as  I  am  able  to  pay  for  and  see  to  read  it. 

I  cannot  understand  why  there  can  be  no  anti- se- 
crecy work  done  in  our  State.  There  is  certainly  a 
good  deal  of  "anti"  sentiment  through  the  State.  I 
find  among  the  people  a  goodly  number  who  are  be- 
ginning to  wake  up  to  the  evils  of  secrecy.  At  Gates 
College  (Neligh)  the  students  have  been  discussing 
the  subject,  with  some  good  results  as  I  hope,  al- 
though one  of  the  Faculty  has  been  cable-towed  into 
the  lodge.  At  the  State  University  at  Lincoln  some 
of  the  members  of  a  secret  literary  society  broke  off 
and  organized  an  open  society  and  the  open  society 
seems  to  be  doing  the  most  successful  work.  Other 
institutions  may  be  in  like  circumstances. 

Now  would  it  not  be  well  for  some  one  to  visit 
these  institutions  and  render  some  aid  to  those 
young  men  who  are  seeking  for  light?  Some  thor- 
ough work  done  at  these  educational  centers  might 
create  a  demand  for  more  work  in  other  places.  The 
Masons  are  about  to  organize  in  our  village  and  a 
lew  good  lectures  would  create  considerable  interest 
at  the  present  time.  Some  of  us  would  be  glad  to 
see  you  out  here  on  a  mission  of  that  kind  if  your 
time  and  ability  will  allow  you  to  do  so.  Of  course 
the  pay  will  amount  to  little  or  nothing  so  far  as 
money  is  concerned,  but  it  ^ight  result  in  great 
good  to  the  cause.  J.  MoCliery. 

m  •  m 
PITH  AND  POINT. 


BOOKS   FOR  THB  FRTBNDB   MISSION   IN  THB  WB8T  INDIES. 

It  is  with  pleaeure  that  I  acknowledge  the  receipt  of 
the  books  and  tracts  from  thee.  Thanks.  I  read  the 
Cynosure  with  interest  and  hand  it  to  others.  The  work 
and  influence   of  the  lodge   are  confined  mostly  to  the 


towns  on  this  island.  The  business  men  and  officers,  I 
am  told,  are  nearly  all  lodge  members.  Secrecy  is  al- 
ways to  be  looked  upon  with  suspicion  whatever  its  pre- 
tensions may  be;  and  the  greater  its  pretensions  are  for 
good  the  more  subtle  and  suspicious  it  is.  Success  to 
the  National  Christian  Association — Jo&iah  Dillon, 
Manchioneal,  Jamaica. 

LECTURES   NEEDED   IN   8TAKK    COUNTY,    OHIO. 

I  have  taken  the  Cynosure  from  the  very  first  issue  and 
would  not  like  to  be  without  it  one  week.  We  prize  it 
beyond  all  others.  When  it  first  started  I  was  presiding 
elder  and  sent  in  a  good  many  subscribers.  Our  church 
was  not  so  demoralized  then;  now  a  large  majority  of 
the  members  in  this  conference  are  what  we  call  "liber- 
al," professing  to  be  opposed  to  secrecy,  but  willing  to 
take  all  secretists  into  church  fellowship.  I  suppose  my 
Cynosure  is  the  only  one  in  this  part  of  the  country.  I 
wish  we  could  have  some  lectures  here .  I  would  help 
what  I  could. — Rev.  J .  Excell,  Mmaville,  0. 

A  blessing   goes    WITH    THIS   WIDOW'S   MITE. 

I  have  been  reading  Nathan  Callender's  letter,  and 
want  to  help  the  Southern  ministers.  I  am  a  widow  of 
ten  years,  have  a  good  home  but  not  much  money,  and 
am  near  ninety  years  old.  I  am  a  subscriber  to  the  Cy- 
nosure and  like  it.  I  am  praying  lor  your  success. 
Please  accept  one  dollar  for  the  ministers'  fund. — Han- 
nah Paddleford,  Barnet,  Vermont. 

Many  read  Elder  Callender's  thrilling  appeal  with  emo- 
tions like  those  of  this  aged  saint  of  the  Lord,  but  with- 
out the  same  purpose  to  do  for  the  poor  churches  of  the 
South.  Be  admonished,  brethren,  by  the  above  and  act 
as  the  Lord  bids  you. 

VETERAN  SUBSCRIBERS. 

Times  are  pretty  close  with  me,  and  this  is  about  the 
first  money  I  have  had  lor  three  months,  and  I  send  it  to 
you  as  above  for  it  seelns  to  me  I  can't  get  along  with- 
out the  Cynosure.  I  would  rather  'eat  less,  if  I  must  to 
save  money  to  pay  for  so  valuable  a  paper.  Also  find 
$1.50  for  renewal  of  J.L's.  subscription  to  the  Cynosure. 
He  has  taken  it  from  the  beginning,  and  though  in  his 
ninety-second  year  feels  that  he  cannot  get  along  with- 
out its  weekly  visits.  He  says  the  paper  was  good  to 
start  on,  but  grows  better  and  better  as  the  years  go  by, 
and  he  bids  ycu  God-speed. — Q.  M.  R.,  Albion,  0. 

LODGES    SWARMING. 

We  have  a  society  formed  here  that  styles  itself  the 
Improved  Order  of  Red  Men.  They  have  taken  in  every- 
thing good,  bad  and  indifferent.  A  society  of  grangers 
has  started  up  also,  and  everything  that  will  pay  dues  is 
taken  in,  it  makes  little  difference  what.  If  you  have 
anything  showing  the  workings  of  these  orders  I  would 
like  it  very  much. — Burton  Doolittle. 

NO   painting  with  SUCH     FRIENDS   BY   OUR    SIDE. 

Your  paper  is  looked  for  from  week  to  week  and  read 
with  as  much  interest  in  my  home  as  any  paper  that  we 
take.  Every  Christian  and  patriot  should  be  deeply  in- 
terested in  your  effort  to  combat,  to  the  overthrowal,  the 
lodge  system,  including  all  secret  societies  requiring  a 
pledge  of  secrecy  of  the  members.  Don't  be  discouraged ; 
every  reform  measure  against  organized  wickedness  must 
grow  slowly;  but  truth,  right  and  light  will  ultimately 
prevail  over  error,  wrong  and  darkness. — Rev.  H.  Y. 
Lebper. 

from  one  op  bro.    harris's  converts. 

I  have  been  a  reader  of  the  Christian  Cynosure  for  a 
short  time.  I  had  already  abandoned  secret  societies.  I 
first  joined  the  Knights  of  Pythias  after  strong  persua- 
sion. It  let  me  out  without  my  $40.  I  promised  Rev. 
C.  L.  Harris  I  would  not  have  to  do  with  any  more  such 
frauds.  I  was  next  led  into  the  Universal  Brotherhood. 
Since  reading  the  Cynosure  I  thank  God  I  have  some- 
thing to  help  me  out,  only  I  began  reading  it  two  years 
too  late. — J.  J.  MooRE,  Jackson,  Miss. 

FROM   A  MAN   ON   THE    WATCH-TOWER. 

In  reading  over  the  paragraphs  in  "Pith  and  Point"  I 
find  many  things  which  deeply  interest  me.  In  God's 
providence  I,  too,  am  one  of  the  patrons  of  the  brave  and 
true  Cynosure,  from  its  very  beginning.  Some  months 
prior  to  my  knowledge  of  the  enterprise,  which  started 
the  N.  C.  A.  and  the  Cynosure,  I  planted  my  feet  on  the 
only  bed-rock  of  anti-secretism,,  non-fellowship  with  lodg- 
ery  socially,  religiously  and  politically.  Of  course,  this 
brought  up  the  "power  of  darkness"  in  full  force  against 
the  few  who  took  this  rock  for  a  "sure  foundation." 
We  met  all  sorts  of  opposition,  save  "resisting  unto  blood 
striving  against  sin."  While  casting  about  to  select  my 
armor  for  the  conflict,  just  in  the  nick  of  time,  through 
the  agency  of  Joseph  Power  of  blessed  memory,  I  learned 
of  the  existence  of  the  Cynosure,  the  "Liberator"  in  this 
"irrepressible  conflict."  That  God  was  in  that  little  eye- 
opener  I  could  not  doubt.  I  had  next  to  no  information 
on  the  lodge  question,  and  knew  not  where  to  find  it  till 
then.  I  had.somehow,  already  managed  to  find  out  enough 
of  the  subject  to  see  clearly  enough  to  know  thatlodgery 
was  contrary  to  all  the  noble  instincts  of  free  and  un- 
trammeled  manhood.  Many  times  was  I  solicited  to  join 
different  orders  (?),  including  Masons  and  Odd- fellows, 
the  former  with  an  offered  bribe  (increased  salary),  but 
"none  of  these  things  moved  me."  Among  ten  papers 
which  I  am  using  to  be  informed  on  living  issues,  all 
good,  the  Cynosure  is  the  last  I  should  drop.  Next  to  it 
is  the  clean,  elegant,  little  American  of  D.  C,  Gf)d  bless 
the  noble  souls  where  they  have  their  birth.  Had  I  health 
and  funds  to  use,  I  should  go  to  the  annual  meeting  at 
New  Orleans.  God  bless  it  and  all  in  attendance. — Na- 
than Callendbr, 


Frbbuart  23,  1888 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


BIBLE  LESSOlfS. 


STUDIES  IN  THB  NEW  TESTAMENT. 

LESSON  X.— March  4.— Christ's  Last  Jour- 
ney to  Jerasalem.— Matt.  20: 17-29. 

GOLDEN  TEXT.— The  Son  of  Man  came 
not  to  be  ministered  unto,  but  to  minister, 
and  to  give  his  life  a  ransom  for  many.— Matt. 
20:  28. 

lOpm  tht  Bible  and  read  the  leslon.^ 
I  From  Words  and  Weapons.  | 

As  Jesus  and  his  disciples  neared  Jeru- 
salem, on  their  way  to  the  Passover  Feast, 
our  Lord  took  them  apart  from  others  in 
the  way,  and  intimated  with  great  plain- 
ness the  things  which  should  happen  to 
him  there,  and  for  which,  as  yet,  they 
were  but  poorly  prepared .  The  sequel 
shows  how  very  little  they  took  in  the 
significance  of  the  communication,  either 
as  concerning  themselves  or  him . 

I.  Christ  Foretells  h*  Death  .  — 
This  is  now  the  third  time  that  our  Lord 
brings  to  the  attention  of  his  disciples 
the  fact  of  his  coming  death  and  resur- 
rection. (See chapters  16:  21,  and  17:  22, 
23.)  In  the  communication  in  our  lesson 
to-day  we  have  an  intimation  of  his  three 
great  characters  or  offices.  1.  Jesus  as 
prophet.  We  here  find  him  teaching  the 
disciples,  foretelling  the  treachery  of  Ju- 
das, and  so  forewarning  him,  foretelling 
the  action  of  the  chief  priests  and  scribes, 
and  also  the  part  which  the  Romans 
would  have  in  the  matter;  for  at  their 
hands  he  would  be  mocked,  scourged  and 
crucified.  2.  Jesus  as  priest.  Behold 
how  quietly  and  willingly  he  goes  forth 
to  that  dread  hour  when,  with  his  own 
life,  he  should  make  atonement  for  the 
sins  of  the  people.  How  little  did  those 
disciples  comprehend  the  deep  signifi- 
cance of  his  coming  death.  How  little, 
after  all,  have  we  understood  the  awful 
and  sublime  depths  of  the  mystery 
of  that  self-sacrifice  of  Christ! 
Let  us  pray  God  that  we  may 
more  and  more  enter  into  the  fellowship 
of  his  cross,  by  it  to  be  crucified  to  the 
world  and  the  world  to  us.  3 .  Jesus  as 
king.  "And  the  third  day  he  shall  rise 
again."  The  resurrection  is  the  opening 
of  the  door  to  his  kingdom  and  the  uplift- 
ing of  the  gates  to  his  glory.  Whatever 
the  depression  and  gloom  of  the  cross, 
we  must  never  allow  its  dark  shadows  to 
come  between  us  and  the  resurrection 
glory  of  our  King.  If  we  follow  him 
through  his  ministry  of  teaching  and  take 
up  his  and  our  cross,  we  shall  be  raised 
together  with  him  and  be  partakers  of 
his  glory. 

II.  The  Carnal  Prayer  of  the  Sons 
OF  Zebedee. — This  is  not  the  first  time 
that  Christians  have  sought  their  own 
carnal  desires  just  under  the  shadow  of 
the  cross .  It  is  a  sad  commentary  upon 
human  nature  that,  immediately  upon 
this  prophetic  address,  two  of  the  most 
honored  disciples  should  prefer  to  the 
Saviour  a  request  in  which  all  the  ele- 
ments of  selfishness  are  manifested.  Still, 
it  is  only  fair  to  mention  two  bright  feat- 
ures in  their  prayer:  They  had  faith  in 
his  coming  kingdom,  notwithstanding  its 
present  dark  prospects;  and  they  were 
courageous  in  their  purpose  to  take,  at 
any  cost  of  suffering,  the  places  which 
they  sought  for  themselves.  Their  prayer 
was  answered  and  not  answered.  It  was  an  - 
swered  in  that  ourLord  heard  and  refused  it 
for  their  sakes.  The  refusal  of  our  prayers 
is  as  really  their  answer  as  granting  would 
be.  When  given  for  our  best  good,  the 
"No"  is  a  far  better  answer  than  "Yes" 
would  be.  But  our  Lord  said  to  his  dis- 
ciples. Your  prayer  shall  be  answered  in 
a  measure;  so  far  as  it  has  in  it  an  ele- 
ment of  holy  ambition  it  shall  be  granted 
you ;  so  far  as  ye  go  bravely  through  suf- 
fering you  shall  have  the  legitimate  re- 
ward of  those  sufferings.  Just  as  we  can 
only  truly  fill  the  places  on  earth  for 
which  we  are  (jualified,  so  we  cannot  fill 
places  in  heaven  for  which  we  are  not 
spiritually  qualified.  There  every  one 
will  find  his  true  place. 

III.  TuuK  AND  False  Greatness  — 
It  is  not  wrong  to  be  ambitious,  only  we 
need  to  have  clear  and  correct  ideas  as  to 
true  and  false  greatness.  To  illustrate 
this,  Jesus  sets  two  examples  before  his 
disciples:  1.  The  false  idea  of  greatness 
(verse  25).  Acco'^ding  to  the  world's 
idea  of  greatness,  it  consists  in  external 
position  and  mere  authority  and  power  to 
lord  it  over  th'"^o  under  one.  But  this 
shall  not  be  pn  Bniong  you.  Take  your 
thoughts  frr>tn  all  worldly  ideas  of  great- 
ness in  my  hingdom,  for  it  is  of  a  differ 
cnt  kind  altogether.  2.  The  true  idea  of 
greatness   (verses  26,    27).       Our  Lord 


points  to  himself  as  the  example  of  this 
new  principle  of  greatness,  which  was  the 
reversal  of  all  human  ideas.  To  be  great 
in  Christ's  kingdom  is  to  honor  and  serve 
some  one  else.  To  him  who  hath  no  eyes 
to  see  the  invisible  things  of  the  king- 
dom, no  exposition  would  make  Christ's 
teaching  on  this  point  clear.  "Within  the 
circle  of  the  kingdom  of  heaven  the  loft- 
iest is  the  lowliest,  and  the  lowliest  the 
loftiest.  He  who  stoops  down  to  minis- 
ter, steps  up  as  he  stoops  down.  He  steps 
up  by  stepping  down.  It  is  so  much  no- 
bler to  do  good  than  to  get  good.  It  is 
so  much  more  glorious  to  glorify  than  to 
be  glorified.  To  be  serviceable  is  a  far 
greater  glory,  in  the  moral  sphere  of 
things,  than  to  be  served.  He,  therefore, 
who  is  most  serviceable  is  in  the  sublim- 
est  position . " 


OBITUARY. 

Hiram  Harvey  died  at  his  home  in 
the  town  of  Fulton,  Rock  county,  Wis- 
consin, January  30,  1888. 

He  was  born  \n  Rockingham  county. 
New  Hampshire,  May  16,  1806.  When  a 
young  man  he  moved  to  Maine,  where  in 
1836  he  was  married  to  Miss  Hannah 
Burnham,with  whom  he  lived  nearly  fifty 
years.  In  1862  he  came  to  Wisconsin 
with  his  family  and  settled  on  the  farm 
where  he  died.  In  early  life  he  made  an 
open  profession  of  faith  in  Christ,  re- 
ceived the  ordinance  of  baptism  and 
united  with  the  Free  will  Baptists,  in 
which  faith  he  died.  He  had  been  a  very 
patient  sufferer  the  greater  part  of  his 
life,  and  when  the  messengtr  came  for 
him  he  said,  "I  am  axious  to  go." 

His  wife  and  four  children  preceded 
him  to  the  better  world;  one  child  remain- 
ing to  tread  life's  pathway  alone.  A 
large  concourse  of  people  assembled  to 
pay  the  last  tribute  of  respect  to  one  of 
Fulton's  oldest  settlers. 

He  was  a  radical  anti-secretist,  a  sub- 
scriber to  the  Cynosure  from  the  time  he 
first  heard  of  it,  or  about  eleven  years. 
It  was  always  a  welcome  visitor  to  his 
home,  as  were  also  the  anti-secrecy  work- 
ers. Although  he  had  never  seen  the  sen- 
ior editor  of  the  Cynosure,  yet  he  loved 
him  as  a  very  dear  friend. 

Our  reform  has  lost  a  warm  supporter; 
his  zeal  remaining  unabated  to  the  last . 
One  by  one  we  are  passing  away,  and  as 
we  follow  these  veterans  of  the  Cross  to 
the  silent  tomb,  God  grant  that  it  may  in- 
spire us  with  a  new  zeal  for  the  cause, 
knowing  that  we,  too,  shall  soon  be  called 
home.  M.  8.  Harvey. 


Mrs.  Ann  Eitbley  died  at  Sharon, 
Wis.,  Jan.  31,  1888,  aged  53  years. 

The  subject  of  this  memoir  was  born 
in  the  city  of  Utica,  Oneida  county.  New 
York.  Moving  with  her  parents  in  the 
year  1850  to  the  State  of  Wisconsin  they 
settled  at  Sharon,  Walworth  county.  Sis- 
ter Kiteley  was  a  consistent,conscientiou8, 
Christian  woman.  She  was  converted  to 
God  at  the  age  of  eighteen  years,  and  has 
since,  by  her  life,  adorned  the  doctrine  of 
salvation  by  faith,  through  Jesus  Christ 
our  Lord. 

For  many  years  she  has  been  a  strong 
anti-secretist,  and  her  voice  and  means 
both  have  been  used  against  the  avrful 
wickedness  of  the  monster  evil.  Nor 
would  she  tolerate  or  support  it  in  the 
church,  but  because  of  it  absented  her- 
self from  the  church  of  which  she  was  a 
member,  and  attended  one  in  which  it  is 
not  suffered.  Sister  Kiteley's  name  might 
not  have  been  much  heard  in  connection 
with  this  cause,  but  her  power  has  been 
felt  by  the  enemy,  the  sinews  of  war  hav- 
ing been  supplied  by  her  to  more  than  one 
of  the  champions  thereof.  She  was  pos- 
itive and  decided  in  her  hatred  to  this  gi- 
gantic fraud,  and  more  than  one  Masonic 
preacher  has  been  brought  to  confusion 
by  her  boldly  denouncing  it  in  the  minis- 
try and  church.  She  has  been  gathered 
to  her  reward,  fully  ripe  in  Christian  life 
and  experience,  leaving  a  large  circle  of 
relatives  and  friends  to  mourn  her  loss. 
C.  Webber. 


CONSUMPTION  SIIKKI.Y  OITRBU. 

To  the  Editor: — Please  inform  your 
readers  that  I  have  a  positive  remedy  for 
the  above  named  disease.  By  its  timely 
use  thousands  of  hopeless  cases  have  been 
permanently  cured.  I  shall  be  glad  to 
send  two  bottles  of  my  remedy  free  to 
any  of  your  readers  who  have  consump- 
tion if  they  will  send  me  their  Express 
and  P.  O.  address.  Respectfully,  T.  A. 
Slocum,  M.C..  181  Pearl  St.,  New  York. 


ANTI-MABOmO  LSOTURSBB. 

General  AesNT  akd  Lbctobbb,  J.  P. 
Stoddard,  221  W.  Madison  St.,  Chicago. 
H.  H.  Hinman,  Cynosure  office. 
Agent  for  Southern  States. 
Statb  AeBNTS. 
Iowa,  C.  F.   Hawley,  Wheaton,    Du- 
Page  Co.,  Illinois. 
Missouri,  Eld.  Rufus  Smith,  Maryville. 
New  Hampshire,   Eld.  S.  C.  Kimball, 
New  Market. 
Ohio.  W.  B.  Stoddard,  Columbus. 
Kansas,  Robert  Loggan,  Clifton. 
Alabama,  Rev.  G.  M.  Elliott,  Selma. 

Dbobbb  Wobkbbb. — [Seceders.l 
J.  K.  Glassford,  Carthage,  Mo. 
Other  Lbctubbbs. 

C.  A.  Blanchard,  Wheaton,  lU. 
N.  CaUender,  Brown  Hollow,  Pa. 
J ,  BL.  Tlmmons,  Tarentum,  Pa 

T.  B.  McCormlck,  Princeton,  Ind. 

B.  Johnson,  Dayton,  Ind. 

H.  A.  Day,  Wllllamatown,  Mich. 

J.  M.  Bishop,  Chambersburg,  Pa. 

A.  Mayn,  Bloomlngton,  InoT 

J.  B.  Cresslnger,  Sullivan,  O. 

W.  M.  Love,  Osceola,  Mo. 

J.  L.  Barlow,  Grundy  Center,  Iowa. 

A.  D.  Freeman,  Downers  Grove,  111 

Wm.  Fenton .  St  Paul,  Minn. 

Warren  Taylor,  South  Salem,  O. 

J.  8.  Perry,  Thompson,  Conn. 

J.  T.  Michael,  Washington,  D.  C 

8.  G.  Barton,  Breckinridge,  Mo. 

E.  Bametson.  Hasklnvllle,  Steuben  Co,  N.  Y 

Wm.  R.  Roach,  Pickering,  Ont. 

D.  A.  Richards,  Brighton,  Mich. 


THB    0HURCHS8    Vd.    LOIt^^RY. 

The  following  denominations  are  com- 
mitted by  vote  of  their  legislative  assem- 
blies or  by  constitution  to  a  separation 
from  secret  lodge  worship: 

Adventists  (Seventh-day.) 

Baptists — Primitive,  Seventh-day  and 
Scandinavian. 

Brethren  (Dijnkers  or  German  Bap- 
tists.) 

Christian  Reformed  Church. 

Church  of  God  Northern  Indiana  El 
dership.) 

Congregational — The  State  Associations 
of  Illinois  and  Iowa  have  adopted  resolu- 
tions against  the  lodge. 

Disciples  (in  part.) 

Friends. 

Lutherans — Norwegian,  Danish,  S«r«d- 
ish  and  Synodical  Conferences. 

jMennonites. 

Methodists — Free  and  Wesleyan. 

Methodist  Protestant  (Minnesota  Coo- 
ference.) 

Moravians. 

Plymouth  Brethren. 

Presbyterian — Associate,  Reformoil  aod 
United. 

Reformed  Chiirch  (Holland  Branch.) 

United  Brethren  in  Christ. 

Individual  churches  in  some  of  these 
denominations  should  be  excepted,  in  part 
of  them  even  a  considerable  portion. 

The  following  iocal  churches  have,  as  a 
pledge  to  disfellowship  and  oppose  lodge 
worship,  given  their  names  to  the  follow- 
ing list  as 

THE   ASSOCIATKD    CHTJRCHES    OP  CHRIST. 

New   Ruhamah  Cong.  Hamilton,  Miss. 

Pleasant  Ridge  Cong.   Sandford  Co.  Ala. 

New  Hope  Nlethodlst,  Lowndes  Co.,  Mlsr 

Congrogatioual,  College  Springs,  Iowa. 

College  Church  of  Christ.  \\Ticaton,  HI. 

First  Congpregational,  Leland,  Mich. 

8ug«r  Grove  Church,  Green  county.  Pa. 

Military  Chapel,  M.  E.,  Lowndes  county, 
Miss. 

Hopeweil  Missionary  Baptist.,  Lowndes  Co., 
M1b.s. 

Cedar  Grove  Miss.  Baptist,  Lowndes  Co., 
Miss. 

Simon's  Chapel,   M.   E.,  Lowndes  Co.,  Misa. 

Pleasant  Ridge  Miss.  Baptist,  Lowndes  Co., 
Vflss. 

Brownlpc  Church,  Caledonia,  Miss. 

Salem  Church,  Lowudcs  Co.,  Miss. 

West  Preston  Bantlst  Church,  Wayne  Co., Pa. 
OTHBB  LOCAL  OHUBCHBB 

adopting  the  same  nrinciple  are- 
Baptist  churches :  N.  Abmgton,  Pa. ;  Meno- 
monle,  Mondovl,  Waubeck  and  Spring  Prairie, 
Wis. ;  Wheaton,  111. ;  Perry,  N.  T. ;  Spring 
Creek,  near  Burlington,  Iowa;  Lima,  Ind.; 
ConstablevUle,  N.  Y.  The  "Good  Will  Assocl- 
ton"  of  Mobile,  Ala.,  comprising  some  twenty- 
five  colored  Baptist  churches;  Bridgewater 
Baptist  Association,  Pa,;  Old  Tebo  Baptist, 
near  Leesville,  Henry  Co.,  Mo. ;  Hoopeeton,  111 ; 
Esmen,  111. ;  Strykersvllle,  N.  Y. 

Congregational  churches :  Ist  of  Oberlln,  O. ; 
Tonlca,  CTystal  Lake,  Union  and  Big  Woods, 
111. ;  Solsbury,  Ind. ;  Congregational  Methodist 
Maplewood,  Mass. 

Independent  churche9  in  Lowell,  Country- 
man school  house  near  Llndenwood,  Mar«ngo 
and  Streator,  III. ;  Bereaand  Camp  Nelson,  Ky ; 
Ustlck,  111. ;  Clarksburg,  Kansas;  SUte  Assod- 
aUonof  Mlniitera  and  CbarchM  of  Christ  la 
K.Mtmekr. 


M.  C.  A.  BUILDING  AND  OFTICE  Of 
THE  CHRISTIAN   CYNOSURE, 
tW  WEST  MADISON  STREET,  CHICAGC 


IXA  "TIONAL  CHMia  TIAN  ASSOC  I  A  7109 

PRBBiDBirr.— H.  H.  George,  D.  D.,  Gen- 
eva College,  Pa. 

ViCB-PRBBiDBNT — Rev.  M.  A.  Gault, 
Blanchard,  Iowa. 

Cob.  Sbo't  and  General  Asbnt. — J 
P.  Stoddard,  221 W.  Madison  St.,  Chicago. 

Rbc.  Sbo't.  and  Trbasubbb.— W.  I. 
Phillips,  221  W.  Madison  St.,   Chicago. 

DiBBCTOBfl. — Alexander  Thomson,  Hi 
R.  Britten,  John  Gardner,  J.  L.  Barlow, 
L.  N.  Stratton,  Thos.  H.  Gault,  C.  A. 
Blanchard,  J.  E.  Roy,  E.  R.  Worrell,  H. 
A.  Fischer,  W.  R.  Hench. 

The  object  of  this  Association  Is: 
"To  expose,  withstand  and  remove  secret 
societies.  Freemasonry  in  particular,  and  othei 
anti-Christian  movements,  in  order  to  save  th« 
churches  of  Christ  from  being  aepraved,  to  re 
deem  the  admini6tr»tion  of  justice  from  per 
version,  and  our  rep  ibllcan  government  from 
corruption." 

To  carry  on  this  work  contributions  are 
solicited  from  every  friend  of  tne  reform. 

Form  of  Bequest.— 7  give  and  bcaueath  to 
the  National  Christian  Association,  Incorpo- 
rated and  existing  under  the  laws  of  the  State 
of    Illinois,  the  sum  of  ■    dollars  for  the 

purposes  of  said  Association,  and  for  whirh 
the  receipt  of  Us  Treasurer  for  the  time  being 
liaU  be  sufficient  dlfichame. 

THB  national  OONYBNTIOH, 

PsBaiDBiiT.— Rev.    J.    S.  McCulloch, 
D.  D. 
Sbcbbtaby. — Rev.  Lewis  Johnson. 

BTATB  AXmLIABT  AS80CIATION8 

ALABAMA.— Pres.,  Prof.  Pickens;  Sec,  O. 
M.  Elliott;  Treas.,  Rev.  C.  B.  Curtis,  all  of 
Selma. 

Caxjtobnia.— Pres^  L.  B.  Lathrop,  Hollla 
ter ;  Cor.  Sec.,  Mrs.  U.  P.  Merrill,  Woodland ; 
Treas.,  C.  Ruddock,  Woodland. 

CoNNBCTicuT.— Pres..  J.  A.  Conant,  Willi 
msintlc;  Sec,  Geo.  Smith,  Wllllmantlc ;  Treas. 
C.  T.  CollhM,  Windsor. 

Illinois.— Pres.,  J.  P.  Stoddard;  Bee,  M. 
N.  Butler;  Treas.,  W.  I.  Phillips  all  at  Cy- 
nosurt  office. 

INDLINA.— Pres.,  WUllam  H.  Flgg,  Reno 
Sec,  S.  L.  Cook,  Albion;  Treas.,  Ben].  Ulsh 
Stiver  Lake. 

Iowa.— Pres.,  Wm.Johnston.CoUege  Springs: 
Cor  Sec.,  C.  D.  Trumbull,  Morninji  sSn; 
Treas.,  James  Harvey,  Pleasant  Pl.iln,  Jeffer- 
son Co. ;  Lecturer,  C.  F.  Hawlev,  Wheaton,  111. 

Kansas.— Pres..  J.  P.  Richards,  Ki.  bcoci; 
Becy  W.  W.  McMillan,  Olathe;  Treas.,  J. 
A.  "Torrence,  N.  Cedar. 

Massaohdbbtts.- Pres.,  S.  A.  Pratt;  Sec, 
Mrs.  E.  D.  Bailey;  Treas., David  Mannlng.Sr., 
Worcester. 

MiOHiGAH.— Pres.,  D.  A.  Richards,  Brighton : 
Sec'y,  H.  A.  Dav,  WUllamston;  Treas. 
Geo.  Bwanson,  Jr.,  Bedfoia. 

MiNNBsoTA.— Pres.,  S.  O.  Paine,  Waslo'a". 
Cor.  Sec.,  Wm.  Fenton,  St.  Paul ;  Rec  Sec'y 
Mrs.  M.  F.  Morrill,  St.  Cnarles;  "Treas.,  wi 
H.  Morrill,  8t.  Charles. 

Missouri.- Pres.,  B.  F.  Miller,  EaglevlUe 
Trea8./Wllllam  Beauchamp,  Avalon ;  (S>r.  8f  c 
A.  D.  Thomas,  Av&lon. 

Nbbrabka.— Pres.,  8.  Austin,  Falrmooit 
Cor.  Sec,  W.  Spooner,  Kearney;  Treas. 
J.  C.  Fye. 

NbwHampshirb.- Pres.,  C.  L.  Baker,  Man 
Chester;  Sec,  8.  C.  Kimball,  New  Market 
Treas.,  James  F.  French,  Canterbury. 

Nmw  York.— Pres.,  F.  W.  Capwell,  Dale; 
Sec'y,  John  Wallace,  Syracuse;  Treas.,  M. 
Merrick,  Syracuse. 

Ohio.— Free.,  F.  M.  Spencer,  New  Concord; 
Rec  Sec,  8.  A.  George,  Mansfield;  Cor.  Sec 
and  Treas.,  C.  W.  Hliit,  Columbus;  Agent, 
W.  B.  Stoddard,  Columbus. 

Pbnnstlvania.— Pres.,  A.  L.  Post,  Moi 
trose;  Cor.  Sec,  N.  Callender,  ThoapaM 
Treas., W.B.  BartelSiWUkesliarre. 

Vbbmont.— Pres.,  W.  R.  Laird,  St  Johns- 
bury;  Sec,  C.  W  Pott«r. 

WrsooNSiN.— Pres.,  J.  W  Wood,  Baraboo; 
Sec,  W.  W.  Ames,  Menomonle;  Trcae.,  M.  K 
Britten,  Vienna. 


8 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


Pbbruart  23,  1888 


The  Christian  Cynosure. 


J.  BliANCHARD. 


XSROBB. 


HKNRT  L.  KSLL0G6. 


OHIOAeO,    THXJBflDAT,    FEBRUARY   23,   1888. 


THE  THOUaAND   COLORED  PASTOBa. 


8HALL  THEY  HAVE  THKIR  PAPER? 


Week  by  week  generous  friends  of  the  colored  race 
answer,  Yes.  The  fund  for  this  purpose  reaches  $719.- 
26,  as  reported  on  page  13,  and  cheering  letters  show  the 
anthusiasm  in  this  enterprise  of  all  who  realize  the  nature 
of  secretism.  Every  letter  from  the  South  justifies  our 
sfEorls,  and  approves  the  judgment  that  no  expenditure 
Df  an  equal  sum  will  bring  so  great  returns. 

The  $900  contributed  for  this  purpose  in  the  two  years 
tud  a  half  after  June,  1885,  placed  the  Cynosure  in  the 
haads  of  huudreds  of  colored  pastors,  but  few  of  whom 
could  have  paid  for  it  themselves.  Note  the  grand  re- 
iults  which  have  followed,  chiefly  because  of  this  work: 

1,  The  Louisiana  Baptist  State  Convention,repre8ent- 
ing  70,000  church  members.has  voted  against  the  lodge. 

2.  The  Texas  Baptists  will  probably  take  the  same 
stand  at  their  next  meeting . 

8.  The  Methodist  Episcopal  church  in  Texas  is  nearly 
ready  for  like  action. 

4.  So  are  the  Arkansas  Baptists,  a  prominent  Associa- 
tion having  already  so  voted. 

5.  The  same  churches  in  western  Tennessee  are  coming 
out  against  secretism. 

6.  So  in  Alabama  the  Qood-will  Association  is  stand- 
ing against  the  orders. 

7.  The  Congregational  churches  all  through  the  South 
are  opposing  the  lodge,  encouraged  by  the  American 
Missionary  Association. 

8.  Two  schools  for  higher  instruction  have  been  organ- 
ized within  a  year  which  maintain  this  principle,  while 
nearly  every  institution  for  the  education  of  the  Negro 
is  open  for  instruction  of  the  students  on  the  dangers  of 
the  lodge . 

9.  Christians  at  the  North  should  hasten  this  work 
with  all  zeal,  because  the  reflex  influence  upon  their 
churches  will  soon  be  powerfully  felt. 

The  Cynosure  has  proved  the  best  agency  in  accom- 
plishing this  work  in  the  South .  A  fund  to  send  a  thou- 
sand copies  to  as  many  colored  pastors  is  being  raised. 
Dear  reader,  has  not  the  Lord  given  you  means  to  help 
it  on? 


EDITORIAL  CORREaPONDENCB. 


New  Orleans,  Feb.  17,  1888. 

The  New  Orleans  papers  are  thrilling  their  read- 
ers on  the  subject  of  immigration  to  the  South. 
The  Times- Dtmocr at  announces  the  arrival  of  a 
colony  of  eight  families  from  Iowa,  under  conduct 
of  an  emigration  agent  en  route  for  south-western 
Louisiana  in  the  vicinity  of  Lake  Charles;  and  the 
same  paper  in  another  column  mentions  two  South- 
em  immigration  agents,  now  returned  from  the 
North,  one  prospecting  for  a  location  of  a  colony  of 
three  hundred  families,  and  the  other  a  still  larger 
number,  who  can  sell  their  farms  at  from  fifteen  to 
fifty  dollars  per  acre,  and  purchase  good  farm  lands 
in  a  softer  climate,  free  from  snow  and  blizzards,  at 
five  or  ten  dollars  per  acre. 

.lust  twenty- five  years  ago,  in  war  times,  these 
Northerners  would  have  been  dreaded  as  Norway 
pirates  once  were  in  England,  and  perhaps,  shot  as 
spies.  Now  they  are  wooed  and  welcomed  as  future 
tax-payers,  "friends  and  fellow  citizens."  These 
and  swarms  of  like  facts  are  opening  wide  the  eyes 
of  the  South  to  the  fact  that  slavery  was  the  dog  in 
the  fable,  who  did  not  eat  the  hay  himself,  or  let 
the  ox  eat  it  Thus  "Tempora  mutantur  et  nos 
mutamur  cum  illis."  Times  change  and  we  with 
them. 

There  are  guano  companies  with  partners  in  Bos- 
ton shipping  the  manure  from  the  bird-islands  of 
the  Carribean  Sea,  which  flocks  of  birds  have  left 
there  ever  since  the  flood,  to  renovate  the  old  fields 
of  which  Tom  Corwin  said,  "The  soil  turns  pale 
wherever  the  slave  sets  down  his  black  foot."  And 
the  papers  tell  us  that  this  guano,  made  liquid  by 
the  addition  of  water,  makes  those  old  worn-out 
lands  give  splendid  crops,  and  smile,  after  harvest, 
with  new  vegetable  growth  to  be  turned  under  to 
give  strength  for  another  yield.  The  farms  left  by 
these  immigrants  in  the  North  will  be  filled  by  new 
immigrants,  and  the  children  of  their  neighbors  the 
next  year,  and  so  leave  no  vacancies  there:  and  the 
grand- children  of  the  Northern  soldiers  buried  in 
the  eighty-two  government  cemeteries  here  in  the 


South,  will  wonder  what  their  fathers  fought  about. 
"So  humanity  rolls  onward."  But  it  gives  one  food 
for  musing  to  see  here  in  this  city  splendid  statues 
to  General  Andrew  Jackson  and  JRobt.  E.  Lee,  both 
now  popular  idols,  and  to  reflect  that  one  of  these 
heroes  swore  "by  the  Eternal"  that  he  would  hang 
John  C.  Calhoun  "higher  than  Haman"  if  he  didn't 
stop  teaching  the  very  doctrine  that  Gen.  Lee  fought 
out  so  bravely.  J.  Blanchard. 


GOVERNMENT  8ECREC7. 

The  attack  on  the  traditional  executive  session  of 
the  Senate  has  of  late  years  been  a  singular  revela- 
tion of  inconsistency.  Not  long  before  John  A. 
Logan  died  he  moved  that  this  session  be  open  to 
reporters  and  its  secrecy  abandoned.  We  called 
attention  at  the  time  to  the  remarkable  fact  that  a 
politician,  who  was  a  leader  in  at  least  two  orders 
and  taking  all  the  Masonic  degrees  he  could  buy  or 
borrow,  was  the  mover  in  this  cause  against  govern- 
ment secrecy.  Last  week  the  debate  of  this  ques- 
tion was  renewed.  A  new  extradition  treaty  with 
Great  Britain  is  in  progress,  and  as  it  is  supposed 
to  be  important  to  the  welfare  of  Irish  revolutionists 
who  may  be  seeking  immunity  in  America,  the  poli- 
ticians who  have  to  take  heed  to  their  Irish  vote  are 
uneasy. 

The  fight  was  opened  by  Senator  Riddleberger  of 
Virginia,  who  announced  his  determination  to  let 
out  the  secrets  of  executive  session  little  by  little 
in  the  open  session.  As  he  cannot  be  prevented  in 
this  there  was  a  slight  sensation.  He  had  his  re- 
ward next  day  when  the  Clan  na  Gael  lodges,  an 
order  deep  in  revolutionary  plots,  placed  on  his  desk 
a  large  and  handsome  floral  harp. 

The  discussion  was  afterward  continued  by  sev- 
eral Senators,  Teller  of  Colorado  leading  thedem  and 
for  a  change.  The  secret  sessions  of  the  Senate  he 
declared  to  be  entirely  unrepublican,  and  should  be 
abandoned,  except  perhaps  in  case  of  a  treaty.  He 
protested  that  there  should  be  no  secrets  and  the 
nation  should  know  what  their  servants  are  doing. 

This  has  an  excellent  appearance  of  saying  some- 
thing, and  as  Mr.  Teller  is  a  .83  degree  Mason,  and 
one  of  the  favored  few  who  control  the  innermost 
circle  of  lodgery  where  Albert  Pike  sits  supreme,  he 
gives  us  occasion  for  surprise.  A  particular  exam- 
ination of  his  argument  shows  its  animus.  He  does 
not  object  that  the  doors  of  the  Senate  be  closed  and 
treaties  and  nominations  discussed  in  private;  but 
he  demands  that  the  record  then  made  of  speeches 
and  votes  be  made  public,  so  that  each  member's 
constituents  may  mark  him  for  favor  or  rejection  in 
the  future.  This  is  exactly  right,  and  if  we  were  sure 
Mr.  Teller  had  not  some  political  scheme  behind  his 
fair  words  we  would  applaud  him.  The  end  he  ad- 
vocates is  at  least  right,  and  we  hope  to  see  it  se- 
cured. In  fact,  the  executive  session  is  but  little 
better  now  than  the  ordinary  private  management  of 
important  business.  It  is  carried  to  excess  in  that 
the  record  is  not  made  public  at  times  for  years, 
when  it  can  be  of  no  possible  interest  or  importance. 
Except  for  this  it  would  resemble  only  the  privacy 
of  ordinary  business,  or  the  family,  and  differs  as 
much  from  the  sworn  secrecy  of  the  lodge  as  wis- 
dom from  folly. 


aTATE  RIGHTa  AND  8BCRBTiaM. 


This  week  there  is  a  trial  in  progress  in  Louisville, 
Kentucky,  of  extraordinary  nature.  The  history  of 
the  States  has  nothing  like  it;  and  as  it  involves  a 
secret  society  in  a  question  of  rights  between  States, 
it  demands  our  attention. 

For  years  the  western  countries  of  West  Virginia 
have  been  vexed  with  bands  of  secret  brigands, 
under  various  names  of  "Red  Men,"  "Regulators," 
"Consolidated  Band,"  etc.  It  is  some  two  years 
sicca,  under  the  first  title,  they  were  supposed  to 
have  been  suppressed;  but,  like  the  Bald  Knobbers 
of  Missousri,  who  have  again  begun  their  Ku  Klux 
work,  the  distemper  in  the  social  body  of  the  State 
keeps  breaking  out  in  new  spots. 

Last  October  the  murder  of  Rev.  Thomas  P.  Ry- 
an, a  Methodist  minister  of  some  local  note,  living 
in  Roane  county  some  forty  miles  from  P^rkers- 
burg,  roused  the  authorities  to  suppress  the  vendet- 
ta. The  murder  was  one  of  great  atrccity,  in  the 
presence  of  the  victim's  family,  and  was  soon  fol- 
lowed by  the  lynching  of  three  young  men,  Robert 
and  George  Duff  and  Chester  Coon.  It  is  now  be- 
lieved the  lynchers  and  the  murderers  were  the  same 
parties  and  one  crime  was  committed  to  cover  the 
other. 

It  was  not  until  January  last  that  the  detectives 
were  able  to  give  the  facts  about  this  case.  They 
reported  that  after  the  war  several  families  from 
Virginia  settled  upon  land  in  Roane  county  which 


they  neither  bought  or  leased.  To  "protect  their 
rights"  as  squatters  they  formed  a  secret  society, 
which  grew  apace,  as  all  such  organizations  are  lia- 
ble to  do,  and  ceased  to  act  only  on  the  defensive. 
They  began  to  attempt  running  the  neighborhood 
according  to  the  Ku  Klux  code.  Their  number 
grew  to  thirty-seven  and  their  organization  was  com- 
plete, with  oaths  of  secrecy,  passwords,  etc.  They 
met  weekly  and  renewed  their  oaths  as  often  to  di- 
vulge nothing  on  penalty  of  death.  At  one  meeting 
they  voted  on  lynching  six  men,  one  being  a  detec- 
tive. The  resolution  failed  by  a  narrow  vote.  The 
proposition  was  renewed  and  again  lost.  Members 
began  to  drop  out  after  the  Ryan  murder.  The  de- 
tectives show  letters  warning  prominent  citizens  to 
leave.  These  warnings  are  all  signed  "Regulators" 
and  are  addressed  to  men  and  women.  The  common 
form  is  to  threaten  the  destruction  of  property,  mu- 
tilation of  the  body,  or  other  outrageous  conduct. 
The  slightest  offense  on  the  part  of  any  one  was 
punished  with  a  warning,  and  the  persons  warned 
generally  found  it  wise  to  leave.  The  grips  and  oth- 
er secret  signs  of  the  band  are  given.  The  forefia- 
ger  of  the  right  hand  placed  around  the  thumb  is 
the  signal  for  a  meeting  when  it  was  dark,  and  the 
same  finger  thrust  into  the  hand  that  a  meeting  was 
to  be  held  at  once  and  in  the  daytime. 

The  inter- State  trouble  arose  from  a  vendetta  in 
which  the  West  Virginia  band  was  led  by  the  Hat- 
fields,  and  their  victims  were  a  McCoy  family  in 
Pike  county,  Kentucky,  several  of  whom  were  mur- 
dered or  injured  and  their  dwelling  burned.  The 
local  authorities  rallied,  and  sent  a  posse  under 
command  of  one  Phillips,  himself  a  murderer,  which 
seized  Valentine  Hatfield  and  eight  comrades  and 
confined  them  in  Pikeville  jail.  The  friends  of  the 
Regulators  appealed  to  their  governor  who  demanded 
the  release  of  citizens  of  West  Virginia.  Governor 
Buckner  of  Kentucky  refused,  and  after  several  at- 
tempts to  secure  their  release  by  writs  of  habeas  cor- 
pus, etc.,  the  matter  was  arranged  for  trial  before 
Judge  Barr  of  the  United  States  District  court  in 
Louisville.  The  State-rights  question  is  rather  a 
quibble  than  a  matter  of  importance;  but  so  much 
may  be  made  of  it  as  to  hide  the  crime  of  secretly 
combining  under  false  oaths  against  the  welfare  of 
society  and  actually  committing  atrocious  crimes 
under  this  organization. 


The  Convention. — The  first  word  from  New  Or- 
leans, after  the  opening  of  the  National  Convention 
Friday  evening,  was  a  dispatch  from  Secretary  Stod- 
dard Monday  noon  as  follows:  "J.c<«  26:  22;  Exodus 
15:  6.  Brethren,  pray/or  us."  These  passages  read: 
"Having  therefore  obtained  help  of  the  Lord,  I  con- 
tinue unto  this  day  witnessing  both  to  small  and 
great,  saying  none  other  things  than  those  which  the 
prophets  and  Moses  did  say  should  come."  "Thy 
right  hand,  0  Lord,  is  become  glorious  in  power: 
thy  right  hand,  0  Lord,  hath  dashed  in  pieces  the 
enemy."  It  must  be  inferred  from  this  message 
that  the  prayers  of  many  friends  have  been  heard, 
and  the  Convention  was  progressing  with  harmony 
and  success. 


Cornelius  Vanderbilt,  the  most  liberal  of  that  cel- 
ebrated family,  and  an  active  man  in  the  religious 
and  philanthropic  circles  of  New  York,  is  strenu- 
ously opposed  to  the  sale  of  liquor  anywhere  near  a 
railroad  station.  As  much  of  Mr.  Vanderbilt's 
property  is  in  railroads  this  opinion  can  be  appre- 
ciated by  everybody.  But  why  should  not  such  a  re- 
striction be  worth  as  much  for  every  school  as  for 
railway  stations.  Why  not  truly,  for  every  Ameri- 
can home?  If  for  the  public  good,  railway  men 
should  not  be  brought  into  peculiar  temptations, 
neither  should  the  children,  and  neither  should  our 
families.  Mr.  Vanderbilt  ought  to  be  a  Prohibition- 
ist. 


Henry  George  and  Dr.  McGlynn  are  out,  and 
their  Anti-poverty  Society  will  soon  fulfill  the  proph- 
ecies of  more  pragmatical  theorists.  The  trouble 
has  been  some  time  coming  to  a  focal  point.  Wheth- 
er the  reports  of  George's  suci;ess  in  annihilating 
poverty  with  $100,000  ahead,  or  his  endorsement  of 
President  Cleveland,  or  Father  McGlynn's  eflfort  to 
pack  committees  had  either  or  all  of  them  an  influ- 
ence in  the  case,  at  least  the  other  party  was  out- 
maneuvered  by  McGlynn,  and  George  announces  his 
withdrawal  from  the  United  Labor  party.  This 
movement,  though  projected  with  much  that  was 
untrue  in  theory,  has  been  of  undeniable  value  in 
the  discussion  that  is  to  finally  relieve  our  social 
fabric  of  the  incubus  of  monopoly. 


"If  a  woman  have  long  hair  it  is  a  glory  to  her," 
writes  Paul  to  the  Corinthian  church;  and  we  can 
imagine  his  indignation  at  the  street- walkers'  fash? 


Fkbboaby  23,  1888 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE- 


ion  adopted  by  many  young  women  who  pull  their 
front  locks  over  their  foreheads  as  if  to  conceal  a 
lack  of  something  behind.  Judge  Duffy  put  a  strict 
interpretation  on  this  fashion  of  "bangs"  the  other 
day,  when  he  said  to  four  young  girls  who  stood  be- 
fore him:  "Look  at  your  hair  down  on  your  fore- 
heads. What  makes  you  wear  it  that  way  like  a 
goat?  It  gives  you  away.  You  will  go  to  the  Island 
for  a  month." 


—Mrs.  L.  M.  Hoyt,  Box  276,  "Ware,  Mass.,  asks 
that  some  kind  friend  among  the  Cynosure  readers 
favor  her  with  a  loan  of  $50.  This  request,  which 
is  made  with  much  reluctance,  is  made  necessary  by 
the  illness  of  Mr.  Hoyt,  who  is  a  United  Brethren 
minister,  and  the  pressure  of  the  lodge  upon  them. 
If  any  friend  can  aid  a  family  which  we  believe  to 
be  entirely  worthy,  they  will  please  write  as  above. 

— One  of  the  most  atrocious  of  murders  was 
committed  in  this  city  a  fortnight  since.  A  laborer 
in  a  brewery,  formerly  a  saloon  keeper,  after  eating 
dinner  with  his  family  murdered  his  wife  in  the 
most  fiendish,  cold-blooded  manner.  The  only  ex- 
planation the  wretch  gave  the  officers  was  an  inco- 
herent story  of  difficulty  in  his  lodge,  of  which  both 
he  and  his  wife  were  members.  He  claimed  that 
through  her  influence  he  was  expelled.  He  was  of 
a  cruel  temper  and  wanted  the  possession  of  her 
property. 

— Homer  James,  the  treasurer  of  Hyde  county, 
Dakota,  was  arrested  for  appropriating  $10,000  of 
the  public  funds  to  his  own  account.  A  legal  inves- 
tigation showed  that  James  was  a  good-natured, 
free-handed  politician  who  was  always  ready  to 
lend  money  to  a  iriend,  and  he  had  thus  passed  out 
the  county  funds  to  the  above  amount,  taking 
neither  receipt,  note  or  bond  of  any  kind.  After 
this  he  was  discharged  as  a  strictly  honest  person  I 
If  the  Masons  of  Highmore  do  not  know  something 
more  of  this  case  than  they  have  allowed  in  the  pub- 
lic prints,  we  are  much  mistaken. 

— Letters  from  New  Orleans  regret  the  anticipat- 
ed absence  from  the  convention  of  President  Mc- 
CuUoch  of  Knoxville,  Dr.  Wm.  Johnston  of  College 
Springs,  Rev.  G.  M.  Elliott  of  Selma  and  Rev. Byron 
Gunner,  who  are  detained  by  sickness  or  other  good 
reasons.  The  unexpected  arrival  of  Rev.  J.  S.  T. 
Milligan  of  Kansas,  who  is  an  host  in  himself,  gives 
much  relief  from  the  disappointment.  Rev.  L.  T. 
Jordan  from  Texas  had  also  arrived  and  all  were 
encouraged  to  begin  the  Convention  Friday  evening 
with  good  hope  of  its  success.  The  New  Orleans 
daily  press  promise  fair  dealing,  and  the  visitation 
of  churches  and  tract  distribution  was  proceeding 
finely. 

— Last  week  Tuesday,  after  a  single  week's  sick- 
ness, Mrs.  Alexander  Thomson,  wife  of  the  pastor 
of  the  Congregational  church  of  Bartlett,  111.,  and 
one  of  the  most  valued  contributors  to  the  Cynosure, 
was  taken  home  to  God.  Her  death  was  unexpected, 
as  the  nature  of  her  disease  was  not  clearly  appre- 
hended by  the  consulting  physicians.  She  has  been 
for  some  ten  years  a  faithftil  companion  to  Bro. 
Thomson  and  mother  to  three  children  left  with  him 
after  a  former  sore  bereavement.  She  was  buried 
amid  the  scenes  of  her  girlhood  a  few  miles  away. 
Rev.  Walter  A.  Ferris  of  Dundee  preaching  an  im- 
pressive funeral  sermon.  The  sympathy  of  all  our 
readers  will  be  given  an  aftlicted  brother,  for  whom 
we  pray  that  sustaining  grace  which  the  Lord  only 
can  give  by  his  Spirit. 

— The  New  York  Independent  notices  the  new 
book  on  the  Scotch  Rite  in  Masonry  thus:  "Pres.  J. 
Blanchard  of  Wheaton  College,  for  the  latest  step 
in  the  war  on  Masonry  that  he  has  accepted  as  his 
life-work,  edits,  in  two  volumes  16mo.,  the  Scottish 
Rite  Masonry  Illustrated ....  We  agree  with  Dr.  Ba- 
con that  these  rituals  are  the  dreariest  of  all  dreary 
nonsense,  and  we  utterly  fail  to  comprehend  how 
any  considerable  part  of  mankind  can  endure  them 
except  upon  the  principle  which,  with  some  change, 
we  may  contrive  to  draw  from  Dryden's  lines: 
'There  is  a  pleasure  sure  in  being  dull,  which  none 
but  dullness  knows.'  "  If  it  were  also  "dreary  non- 
sense" to  the  lodge  members  our  duty  and  the  duty 
of  the  Independent  toward  the  lodge  worship  would 
be  easily  fulfilled.  But  what  answer  shall  we  give 
to  our  Judge  since  it  is  far  otherwise? 

— Rev.  Byron  Gunner  and  Miss  Farley  have  been 
diligent  in  their  agency  for  Howe  Institute,  New 
Iberia,  La.  From  two  Presbyterian  churches  in 
Chicago  they  have  a  $50  donation  each,  and  the  case 
has  been  laid  before  three  Congregational  churches 
with  perhaps  equal  success.  They  have  also  from 
several  individuals  assurance  of  generous  aid  in  the 
near  future.  The  Congregational  ministers  have 
given  them  this  kind  endorsement; 


The  Chicago  Congregational  Ministers'  Union  has  list- 
ened with  interest  to  the  claims  of  Howe  Institute,  New 
Iberia,  La.,  as  presented  by  Miss  Farley  and  Rev.  Byron 
Gunner.  This  Institue  is  located  in  a  very  destitute  part 
of  the  State,  and  being  undenominational  is  admirably 
suited  to  meet  the  evident  demand  of  the  neighborhood. 
We  cordially  commend  our  friends,  who  are  soliciting 
aid  for  this  institution,  to  all  who  are  interested  in  the 
Christian  education  and  elevation  of  the  colored  people. 
We  sincerely  hope  that  they  will  obtain  sufficient  money 
to  meet  the  present  urgent  necessity. 

F.  D.  Rood,  8ec'y. 

N.  H.  Whittlesey,  Pres. 
*  •  * 

PBRBONAL  MENTION. 


— Dr.  McCosh  of  Princeton  College  was  given  a 
reception  the  other  evening  by  the  Penn  Club  of 
Philadelphia. 

— Rev.  H.  T.  Barnaby  of  the  Michigan  United 
Brethren  conference,  and  one  of  the  loyal  brethren, 
has  been  severely  ill  but  is  now  recovering. 

— Rev.  J.  T.  Hobson,  who  formerly  published  an 
Anti-masonic  monthly  at  Hartsville,  Indiana,  is  now 
secretary  of  the  Indiana  U.  B.  conference. 

— The  Living  Way  says  that  Prof.  H.  Woodsmall 
is  in  very  feeble  health,  yet  he  continues  at  his  post, 
teaching  the  pastors'  class  in  the  Normal  School  at 
Memphis. 

— A  letter  from  Secretary  Stoddard  written 
Wednesday  last  mentions  the  much-improved  health 
of  the  Cynosure  editor  and  of  Mrs.  Blanchard  in  the 
genial  climate  of  New  Orleans. 

— Rev.  A.  F.  Dempsey  of  Michigan  went  South 
last  week  by  way  of  Chicago  and  this  office.  He 
expected  to  attend  the  National  Convention  and  re- 
main for  a  time  in  Louisiana  for  his  heath,  which  is 
impaired. 

— Dr.  J.  N.  Norris  of  Birmingham,  who  has  been 
called  a  Nestor  among  the  Iowa  Anti-masons,  is 
slowly  recovering  from  a  severe  illness  which  has 
prostrated  him  all  winter;  and  now  his  excellent 
wife  after  caring  for  him  is  in  turn  attacked  with 
disease.  We  hope  to  write  soon  of  her  recovery 
also  if  the  Lord  will. 

— It  is  generally  acknowledged  by  the  temperance 
workers  that  the  oldest  veteran  in  the  ranks  of  the 
reform  to-day  is  General  A.  W.  Riley,  the  wealthy 
and  dearly  beloved  citizen  of  Rochester,  N.  Y.,  who 
attended  our  convention  in  this  city  in  1884,  and 
whose  portrait  appeared  in  the  Cynosure,  June  5th 
of  that  year.  He  will  be  93  years  old  March  19,  and 
is  still  active  in  the  promotion  of  temperance.  Dur- 
ing his  life  he  has  given  8,000  temperance  addresses 
(400  in  Europe),  and  6,000  drunkards  have  signed 
the  pledge  and  received  a  medal  from  him.  The 
mother  of  Miss  F.  E.  Willard,  now  bearing  the  hon- 
ors of  eighty-three  years  of  influence  for  temperance, 
tells  with  pride  of  her  signing  the  pledge  after  lis- 
tening to  an  address  by  General  Riley  in  a  country 
school-house  where  she  was  a  "school  marm." 

— Dr.  Norris  writes  "with  a  trembling  hand"  a 
tribute  to  his  "very  dear  friend.  President  J.  Blan- 
chard," whose  portrait,  cut  from  the  January  5th 
Cynosure,  he  has  nicely  framed  on  his  center-table 
to  be  shown  with  "pleasure  and  pride"  to  friends 
and  visitors.  The  note,  which  we  are  safe  in  print- 
ing since  the  subject  of  it  is  far  away,  runs  thus: 

"At  last  somebody  has  placed  the  friends  of  re- 
form throughout  the  country  under  lasting  obliga- 
tions for  having  printed  in  the  Cynosure  the  life-like 
picture  of  President  Blanchard,  the  senior  editor  of 
that  paper.  Pres.  Blanchard  has  always  stood  in 
the  breach,  and  has  spent  a  long  life  in  battling  for 
the  triumph  of  unpopular  reforms — one  of  which,  at 
least,  he  has  lived  to  see  consummated — that  of  anti- 
slavery.  As  a  citizen,  and  a  teacher,  he  has  taken 
great  interest  in  the  aflairs  of  the  country  and  of 
the  world.  He  has  strong  opinions  on  many  na- 
tional questions,  and,  whether  by  pen,  or  by  speech, 
he  tells  them  out  fparlessly.  He  has  this  great  ad- 
vantage over  many — he  can  always  m:ike  one  under- 
stand just  what  he  means,  and  on  which  side  he  is. 
He  is  a  man  of  backbone,  indomitable  will,  inde- 
fatigable perseverance,  and  in  argument  he  can  and 
does  strike  and  that  strongly  against  what  he  be- 
lieves to  be  error.  Impartial  history  will  record  the 
name  of  Jonathan  Blanchard  as  the  greatest  re- 
former of  the  nineteenth  century.  His  noble  feat- 
ures should  be  preserved  and  handed  down  through 
a  less  perishable  medium  than  the  pages  of  the 
Christian  ( ynosure.  J.  N.  NoRRls. 


— Within  the  empire  of  China  there  are  now  la- 
boring the  representatives  of  38  foreign  missionary 
societies,  numbering  in  all  919  missionaries,  44t)  of 
whom  are  men.  The  ordained  native  laborers  num- 
ber 40;  the  unordaincd,  1,296.  There  are  now 
over  28,000  communicants. 


005  WASHINGTON  LBTTBB. 

Washington,  Feb.  17,  1888. 

The  Blaine  letter  of  declination  created  quite  a 
stir  in  political  circles  here.  Interest  in  it  was  par- 
ticularly intense  in  the  Senate,  for  quite  a  number 
of  the  Senators  have  had  the  Presidential  bee  buzz- 
ing around  them.  Senators  Hawley,  Sherman,  Alli- 
son and  a  few  others  were  even  congratulated, laugh- 
ingly, that  the  path  to  the  Presidential  nomination 
had  been  so  happily  opened  to  them.  General  Sher- 
idan's name  has  also  been  very  favorably  mentioned 
in  this  connec;tion.  But  his  most  intimate  friends 
here  take  special  pains  to  represent  him  as  entirely 
free  from  the  Presidential  mania.  They  say  that 
the  measure  of  his  ambition  is  filled  with  the  office 
he  now  holds.and  that  he  has  no  intention  of  plung- 
ing into  political  strife.  The  General  has  also  very 
happily  settled  the  question  by  emphatically,  and 
wisely  too,  following  the  example  of  Mr.  Childs  of 
Philadelphia,  refusing  to  think  of  accepting  the  per- 
plexing burdens  of  the  Presidential  office  and  affirm- 
ing that  he  would  not  accept  a  nomination. 

The  week's  work  in  Congress  so  far  makes  a  poor 
showing.  Both  the  Senate  and  House  have  accom 
plished,  it  would  seem,  less  than  usual.  There  are 
a  quartette  of  Territories  knocking  loudly  for 
admission  to  the  sisterhood  of  States,  and  an  en 
abling  act  will  soon  be  reported,  which  will  probably 
be  passed  before  the  session  ends.  An  "enabling 
act"  does  not  enable,  strictly  speaking.  As  Mr. 
Springer  says  (he  is  the  Chairman  of  the  Committee 
on  Territories),  it  is  simply  an  act  of  encourage- 
ment. After  such  encouragement,  the  Territory 
forms  a  State  Constitution,  constructs  the  machin- 
ery for  State  government,  prepares  for  admission 
into  the  Union  as  a  State,  and  demands  it.  The  as- 
pirants alluded  to  are  Dakota,  Montana,  Washing- 
ton and  New  Mexico.  I  did  not  mention  Utah,which 
did  not  wait  for  Congress  to  give  her  the  initiative. 
The  people  of  Utah  held  their  Territorial  convention, 
adopted  a  State  Constitution,  and  now  demand  ad- 
mission to  the  Union.  While  some  Congressmen 
would  be  glad,  no  doubt,  to  put  Utah  on  the  list,the 
public  interest  in  the  Mormon  question  will  incline 
them  to  move  very  carefully;  tUere  are  too  many 
explosive  elements  in  the  question  to  permit  great 
risks. 

The  Blair  educational  bill  which  has  had  such  a 
long  and  tempestuous  voyage  through  the  Senate 
has  at  last  passed  that  body  again,  by  a  vote  of  39 
to  29.  The  bill  has  occupied  much  valuable  time 
during  three  Congresses,  and  has  gained  no  converts 
in  the  Senate  wing.  A  comparison  of  this  last  vote 
with  that  of  two  years  ago  shows  that  the  longer  the 
measure  has  been  talked  of  the  weaker  it  has  grown. 
Every  Senator  who  voted  against  before,  voted 
against  it  on  this  last  occasion,  while  some,  includ- 
ing Senators  Kenna,  Blackburn,  Voorhees  and 
Spooner,  who  voted  were  in  fav\£?  of  it  two  years 
ago,  voted  against  it  on  Wednesday.  It  is  believed 
by  many  that  the  bill  will  stand  no  chance  of  getting 
safely  through  the  House.  Senator  Blair  himself 
made  the  closing  speech  on  his  cherished  measure, 
and  made  a  spirited  attack  upon  the  Jesuits  for 
their  opposition  to  the  common  school  system. 

The  Department  of  Superintendecce  of  the  Na- 
tional Educational  Association  have  been  holding  a 
convention  in  this  city  for  the  past  three  days  and 
the  meeting  attracted  prominent  educators  here  from 
all  parts  of  the  United  States.  The  daily  sessions 
and  the  subjects  discussed  have  been  highly  enter- 
taining to  all  persons  interested  in  educational  mat- 
ters. Among  the  speakers  Charles  H.  Ham  of  Chi- 
cago made  a  strong  appeal  for  departments  of  man- 
ual training  in  public  schools.  Messrs.  Howland 
and  Parker  of  Illinois,  J.  G.  Kennedy  of  San  Fran- 
cisco and  Senator  Wm.  Stewart  of  Nevada  are 
among  the  speakers. 

Last  Sabbath  was  an  unusually  busy  day  among 
the  temperance  workers  of  Washington.  Large 
meetings  were  held  and  stirring  addresses  were 
made  in  dittorent  parts  of  the  city.  Notable  au^ong 
the  speeches  made  for  prohibition  in  the  District 
were  those  of  Congressmen  Cutcheon  of  Missouri, 
and  E.  B.  Taylor,  of  Ohio.  A  Washinglonian  says 
that  some  of  the  bills  pending  in  Congress  in  rela- 
tion to  the  l>istrict  cf  Columbia  are  calculated  to 
create  the  impression  that  parents  in  this  city  desire 
the  Federal  Government  to  take  charge  of  their 
children.  He  was  alluding  particularly  to  a  bill  in- 
troduced by  Senator  Chase,  of  Rhotie  Island,  pro- 
viding that  tobacco  shall  not  be  sold  in  any  form 
to  residents  of  the  District  who  are  under  sixteen 
years  of  age.  If  such  a  measure  is  as  productive  of 
good  as  in  other  parts  of  the  country,  the  fathers 
and  mothers  of  this  city  may  be  thankful  for  a  pa- 
ternal government  '*' 


10 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


Fbbrxtart  23,  1888 


The  Home. 


CHILDISHNBSa. 


My  little  Bon,  who  looked  from  thoughtful  eyes, 

And  moved  and  spoke  in  quiet,  grown-up  wise. 

Having  my  law  the  seventh  time  disobey'd, 

I  struck  him,  and  dismissed 

With  hard  words,  and  unkiss'd ; 

His  mother,  who  was  patient,  being  dead. 

Then,  fearing  lest  his  grief  should  hinder  sleep, 

I  visited  his  bed. 

But  found  him  slumbering  deep, 

With  darkened  eyelids,  and  their  lashes  yet 

From  his  late  sobbing  wet. 

And  I,  with  moan. 

Kissing  away  his  tears,  left  others  of  my  own ; 

For,  on  a  table  drawn  beside  his  head, 

He  had  put  within  his  reach 

A  box  of  counters  and  a  red-veined  stone, 

A  piece  of  glass  abraded  by  the  beach, 

And  six  or  seven  shells, 

A  bottle  with  bluebells. 

And  two  French  copper  coins  ranged  there  with  careful  art, 

To  comfort  his  sad  heart. 

So,  when  that  night  I  pray'd 

To  God,  I  wept,  and  said : 

Ah,  when  at  last  we  lie  with  tranced  breath, 

Not  vexing  Thee  in  death. 

And  Thou  rememberest  of  what  toys 

We  made  our  joys. 

How  weakly  understood 

Thy  great  commanded  good. 

Then,  fatherly  not  less 

Than  1  whom  Thou  has  molded  from  the  clay, 

Thou'lt  leave  Thy  wrath  and  say, 

"I  will  be  sorry  for  their  childishness." 

— Coventry  Paiinore. 


THE  BIB  LB  FOR  STUDY  AND  U8B. 


BT   RBV.   J.   M.    FOSTER. 


Last  Thursday  evening  Rev.  A.  T.  Pierson,  D.  D., 
of  Philadelphia,  delivered  an  address  in  the  Y.  M. 
C.  A.  Hall,  on  "The  Study  and  Use  of  the  Bible." 
Aggasiz  said,  "I  have  no  time  to  make  money." 
So  he  had  no  time  to  make  speeches — he  only 
talked.  Corresponding  to  our  bodily  senses  we 
have  two  additional,  the  sense  of  the  mind,  which  is 
reason,  and  the  sense  of  the  soul,  which  is  con- 
science. Our  spiritual  faculties  are  dyed  in  sin, 
but  if  we  sincerely  follow  these  two  senses,  God  will 
lead  us  into  life.  We  have  a  more  sure  word  of 
prophecy  whereto  we  do  well  that  we  take  heed, 
until  the  day  dawn  and  the  day  star  arise  in  our 
hearts."  After  service  in  Detroit,  a  young  man 
came  into  Dr.  Pierson's  study. 
Lj"Are  you  here  in  the  interests  of  your  soul  ?" 
G"yes,  if  I  have  any  " 

G"I  do  not  wish  to  trifle.  If  I  can  help  you  as  a 
physician  of  souls  I  shall  be  glad  to  do  so.  What 
are  your  symptoms?" 

"I  was  passing  your  church,  heard  the  music, 
came  in  and  heard  you  preach.  I  was  convinced 
that  you  believed  in  what  you  said,  and  that  your 
faith  made  you  happy.  I  believe  nothing  and  am 
miserable." 

"  Do  you  not  believe  the  Bible  to  be  God's 
word?" 

"No." 

"  Do  you  believe  there  is  a  God?" 

"I  do  not  know." 

"  Will  you  promise  me  to  take  four  verses  of 
Scripture  and  go  home  and  read  and  study  them?" 

These  were  given:  John  5:39.  "Search  the 
Scriptures,  for  in  them  ye  think  ye  have  eternal 
life,  and  they  are  they  which  testify  of  me." 
Matt.  6:6.  "But  thou,  when  thou  prayest,  enter 
into  thy  closet,  and  when  thou  hast  shut  thy  door, 
pray  to  thy  Father  which  is  in  secret;  and  thy 
Father  which  seeth  in  secret  shall  reward  thee 
openly."  John  7:17.  "If  any  man  will  do  his 
will,  he  shall  know  of  the  doctrine."  Matt.  11: 
29.  "Take  my  yoke  upon  you,  and  learn  of  me, 
for  I  am  meek  and  lowly  in  heart;  and  ye  shall  find 
rest  unto  your  souls."  The  next  Sabbath  he  came  a 
joyful  believer.  For  the  last  seven  years  he  has 
been  preaching  the  Gospel. 

The  Bible  is  composed  of  66  books,  divided  like 
Isaiah.  The  first  thirty-nine  chapters  are  history, 
the  next  twenty-seven  are  prophecy.  This  corre- 
sponds with  the  books  of  the  Old  and  New  Testa- 
ment. It  was  written  by  forty-two  diflferent  men, 
living  over  a  period  of  1500  years.  They  wrote  in 
at  least  three  different  languages,  represented  every 
variety  of  culture,  position  and  occupation; 
and  yet  their  writings  make  a  perfect  unit. 
This  can  only  be  explained  on  the  hypothesis 
that  a  Divine  mind  acted  through  these  writers. 
"Holy  men  of  old  spake  as  they  were  moved  by  the 


Holy  Ghost."  The  argument  from  prophecy  is  im- 
pregnable. Only  ten  infidels  have  tried  to  answer 
it,  Porphyry  and  Voltaire.  They  said  the  prophecy 
is  so  much  like  the  event  that  it  must  have  been 
written  after  it  occurred.  There  are  666  prophecies, 
333  of  which  refer  to  Christ.  He  illustrated  by  a 
tree  on  the  blackboard.  The  germ  is  in  Genesis, 
third  chapter:  "The  seed  of  the  woman  shall  bruise 
the  serpent's  head."  From  the  first  branch 
sprang  Seth,  from  this  Enoch,  from  this  Noah,  from 
this  Abraham,  from  this  Isaac,  from  this  David, 
and  so  on  until  the  Messiah.  Then  the  time.  From 
the  time  of  the  going  forth  of  the  command  to  re- 
build Jerusalem  after  the  captivity  to  the  Messiah 
was  to  be  70  weeks, — 490  years.  From  the  decree 
of  Darius  to  the  birth  of  Christ  was  457  years. 
Add  the  33  years  of  his  life  and  you  have  490.  The 
place.  Out  of  all  nations  Judah  was  taken;  out  of 
the  cities,  Bethlehem;  of  the  several  Bethlehems, 
Bethlehem  Ephratah.  These  branches  form  "the 
plant  of  renown."  Looking  upon  it,  it  blazes  with 
the  fire  of  the  Holy  Ghost,  and  we  put  off  the  shoes 
from  our  feet. 

The  first  chapter  of  Genesis  corresponds  with  all 
the  discoveries  of  geology.  First  water,  then 
waters  above  divided  from  the  waters  beneath,  the 
heaving  of  the  land,  the  grass,  flowers,  trees,  the 
fishes,  mammals,  and  at  last,  man.  Moses  was  a 
God-taught  geologist.  Isaiah  said.  The  stirs  are 
like  the  sand  of  the  sea,  innumerable.  In  the 
whole  sweep  the  natural  eye  can  not  discern  100,000 
stars.  Modern  telescopes  bring  into  view  hundreds 
of  millions,  and  convince  us  that  this  is  only  the 
border  land  of  creation.  Isaiah  was  a  heaven- 
taught  astronomer.  Light  is  simply  vibration. 
Sound  is  also  vibration.  Eighteen  vibrations  per 
second  is  the  lowest  that  can  be  detected.  Above 
that  the  ear  cannot  discern  them.  But  then  the  eye 
begins  to  discern  them  in  the  colors  of  the  rain- 
bow. When  they  increase  they  become  the  white 
light.  "The  morning  stars  sang  together" — the 
word  means  vibrate.  Job  was  a  Divinely-instructed 
philosopher. 

The  Bible  ought  to  be  studied  by  books.  Ascer- 
tain who  wrote  the  book,  to  whom,  what  for,  etc. 
Take  Ruth.  The  central  idea  is  redemption.  The 
redeemer  must  be  the  kinsman  of  the  debtor. 
Christ  is  our  elder  brother.  Also  outside  of  the 
family  and  capable  of  lifting  up.  Christ  is  the 
Son  of  God-,  and  able  to  save  to  the  uttermost. 
Take  Esther.  God's  providence  is  pictured,  even  in 
the  smallest  matters.  "The  king  could  not  sleep." 
The  name  of  God  is  not  in  it,  because  God  hides 
himself  in  providence.  The  scenes  change  on  the 
stage,  but  you  do  not  see  the  hand  that  moves 
them.  God  works  in  providence,  but  we  see  him 
not.  He  exalts  Mordecai  and  hangs  Haman.  Take 
the  epistle  to  Philemon.  Only  a  letter  from  Paul, 
a  prisoner,  to  a  slaveholder,  as  to  his  servant  Oaesi- 
mus.  Onesimus  had  run  away  and  likewise  stolen 
from  his  master.  He  goes  to  Paul.  Paul  sends 
uim  back  with  this  letter,  praying  Philemon  to  re- 
ceive him  as  a  "son  beloved,"  what  he  does  for 
Onesimus  he  would  be  doing  for  him,  and  "if  he 
have  wronged  ihee,  let  that  be  to  my  account." 
Christ  is  our  intercessor.  He  entreats  for  us  before 
God,  assumes  all  our  obligations,  asks  God  to  re- 
ceive us  as  himself.  Dr.  Pierson  held  the  audience 
closely  for  two  hours. 

^  ■  ^ 

A  BIBLE  ALBUM. 


The  following  may  prove  a  useful  hint  to  mothers 
who  don't  know  just  what  to  do  with  the  little  ones 
on  Sabbath  afternoons:  Provide  yourself  with  a 
scrap-book  of  generous  proportions,  well  bound, 
and  with  white  or  cream-tinted  pages.  Avoid  those 
which  are  filled  with  leaves  of  pink  and  blue,  as 
those  tints  do  not  form  so  good  a  background  for 
the  pictures  to  be  pasted  on  their  surface.  Save  the 
pictures  which  come  to  the  house  with  advertise- 
ments and  catalogues;  also  it  is  a  good  plan,  after 
everybody  has  finished  reading  them,  to  cut  pictures 
from  the  beautiful  illustrated  weeklies.  You  will 
find  there  a  great  variety  to  choose  from,  and  will 
be  as  rich  as  the  possessor  of  a  gallery  of  art. 
Wood  engravings  in  these  days  are  so  fine  and  so 
various  in  design  that  such  a  scrap-book  as  I  have 
in  mind  may  be  very  lovely  if  they  are  only  used. 
But  children  are  fond  of  colored  pictures,  too,  and 
tastefully  introduced  they  will  add  to  the  beauty  of 
the  collection. 

"Why  do  you  call  it  a  Bible  album?"  does  some 
one  inquire.  Because  every  picture  is  to  be  accom- 
panied either  by  a  text  of  Scripture,  a  stanza  of  a 
hymn,  or  both,  selected  by  the  children,  and  written 
in  a  bold,  plain  hand  by  the  one  whose  penmanship 
is  most  legible.  The  selection  of  this  explanatory 
verse  is  always  an  interesting  feature;  and  if  birds. 


flowers,  palms,  stones,  bits  of  landscape,  etc.,  are 
under  inspection,  the  little  students  will  find  out 
how  much  the  Bible  has  to  say  about  all  these. 
And  added  attraction  will  be  given  the  album  in  ju- 
venile eyes  if  its  ultimate  destination  be  some  chil- 
dren's hospital  or  asylum.  "When  this  is  finished," 
they  will,  say,  "mamma  intends  sending  it  to  a  little 
crippled  child,  who  will  be  so  glad  to'enjoy  these 
pretty  pictures  and  to  read  these  lovely  verses!"  I 
have  seen  a  family  happily  engaged  for  months  in 
filling  one  of  these  scrap  books,  and  oh!  the  glad- 
ness when  completed,  at  last,  it  was  packed  up  and 
sent  to  carry  on  its  mission  of  good  among  the 
poor  and  the  sick! 


THE  AGONIES  OF  AGNOSTICS. 

Agnosticism  ignores  both  faith  and  knowledge — 
it  advocates  negatives  and  uncertainties,  hence  both 
science  and  religion,  being  positive  systems,  are 
clouded  in  the  minds  of  its  devotees.  It  strives  to 
maintain  a  theology  without  a  God,  a  creed  without  - 
a  Bible,  and  a  religion  without  a  devotion,  and  thus 
it  presents  to  the  world  a  mass  of  doubts  and  de- 
nials. It  is  not  a  profitable  business  in  any  sense 
of  the  word,  and  financially  it  seems  to  be  quite  an 
expensive  luxury. 

A  change  being  made  in  the  management  of  an 
infidel  paper  in  Chicago,  the  man  who  has  hitherto 
supported  it  out  of  his  own  pocket,  comes  to  the 
front  with  the  statement  that  during  the  last  eleven 
months  this  promising  sheet  has  cost  him  sixteen 
thousand  dollars!  It  also  transpires  in  the  same 
connection  that  Boston  infidelity  has  been  obliged 
to  keep  its  sheets  in  the  wind  by  private  donations. 

All  of  this  goes  to  show  that  agnostic  publica- 
tions do  not,  in  the  language  of  country  newspapers, 
"supply  a  long  felt  want."  It  shows  that  they  are 
not  needed  by  the  people.  They  bring  us  neither 
hope  nor  comfort;  they  supply  us  with  no  needed 
element  in  our  natures;  they  bring  us  neither  the 
bread  nor  the  water  of  life. — Mrs.  H.  V.  Reed,  in 
Union  Signal. 

.*  •  *i 

A  SELF-WITNESSING  BIBLE. 
2  Cor.  If.  2. 

A  gentleman  approached  the  fruit  stand  of  an 
Italian  woman,  whom  he  found  very  intently  en- 
gaged in  reading  a  book, 

"What  are  you  reading  there,  my  good  woman, 
that  seems  to  interest  you  so  much?"  he  inquired. 
"The  Word  of  God,"  said  the  woman.  "The  Word 
of  God?  Who  told  you  that?"  "God  told  me  him- 
self," answered  the  woman.  "God  told  you?  How 
did  he  do  that?  Have  you  ever  talked  with  God? 
How  did  he  tell  you  that  was  his  word?"  Not 
being  accustomed  to  discuss  questions  of  theology, 
the  woman  was  a  little  confused.  Recovering  her- 
self she  said:  "Sir,  can  you  prove  to  me  there  is  a 
sun  up  there  in  heaven?"  "Prove  it?"  said  the 
man,  "Why  do  you  ask  me  to  prove  it.  It  proves 
itself.  It  warms  me  and  I  see  its  light;  what  better 
proof  can  anyone  want^"  The  woman  smiled  and 
said:  "Just  so:  you  are  right.  And  that  is  just 
the  way  God  tells  this  book  is  his  Word.  I  read  it, 
and  it  warms  me  and  gives  light.  I  see  him  in  it, 
and  what  it  says,  is  light  and  warmth  which  none 
but  God  can  give;  and  so  he  tells  me  it  is  his 
Word.  What  more  proof  do  I  need?" — Br.  Jos.  A. 
Sdss. 


FORBEARING  ONE  ANOTHER  IN  LOVE: 

Alice  entered  her  room  with  a  scowl  on  her  face 
and  petulantly  threw  her  books  on  the  bed.  It  was 
very  easy  for  her  room-mate,  who  was  busily  engaged 
with  her  studies,  to  see  that  she  was  unusually  an- 
noyed and  out  of  temper. 

With  quick,  impatient  movements  she  searched 
about  the  room. 

"Seems  to  me  your  things  take  up  a  wonderful 
amount  of  room,  Ruth,"  she  said,  crossly. 

"Do  they?"  said  Ruth,  very  pleasantly.  "Well,  I 
don't  mean  to  take  any  more  than  my  share.  I'll 
settle  them  back  into  closer  quarters  when  I've  done 
this  lesson." 

'•You  promised  me  you'd  water  my  ivy  this  morn- 
ing when  I  was  so  busy,"  said  Alice,  in  a  voice 
which  showed  it  a  comfort  to  have  something  to 
find  fault  with.     "It's  all  drying  up." 

"0,  I  forgot  it.  I'll  do  it  this  moment,  Alice.  I 
was  thinking  that  I'd  wash  the  leaves  off,  too,  they 
always  seem  to  me  to  shine  out  a  thanksgiving  for 
it.  I'm  sorry  I  didn't  do  it  before,  but  I  don't  be- 
lieve its  dry  enough  to  hurt  it." 

"I  wonder  where  my  pencil  is,"  said  Alice,  still 
continuing  her  hunt  about  the  room.  "I  believe  you 
have  it,  Ruth.     That  one  looks  exactly  like  mine." 


FlBBTJABY  23,  1888 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


11 


"No,  it  isn't,  dear,  but  I'll  help  you  look  for 
yours." 

She  got  up  and  searched  industriously  until  Alice 
exclaimed: 

"0!  I  believe  I  lent  it  to  Janet  Ware  in  the  class 
room.  How  I  wish  people  would  return  things  they 
borrow." 

"Never  mind,"  said  Ruth,  "I'll  be  done  with  my 
examples  in  a  few  minutes  and  then  you  can  have 
mine." 

"I^wonder  if  you  want  the  whole  window,"  growled 
Alice,  with  an  injured  tone  joining  the  cross  one. 

"Excuse  me,"  cried  Rulh,  "what  a  rude  thing  1 
am  to  take  it  all!  Come,  Alice,  there's  plenty  of 
room  for  both  of  us,  I'm  sure." 

Alice  fussed  restlessly  about  for  a  few  minutes 
longer  and  then  seated  herself  near  Ruth,  looking 
so  fixedly  at  her  as  to  cause  her  presently  to  raise 
her  eyes  inquiringly. 

"Are  you  always  this  kind  of  a  girl?"  asked  Alice 
in  answer  to  her  look. 

"What  kind  of  a  girl?" 

"This  kind.  I  came  Jnto  the  room  fifteen  or 
twenty  minutes  ago  cross  enough  to  drive  anybody 
away  from  me.  I've  done  nothing  but  snap  at  you 
and  disturb  and  annoy  you  ever  since  I  came.  The 
girl  I  roomed  with  last  would  have  gathered  up  her 
books  with  an  air  of  high  dignity  and  with  a  'When 
you  are  less  disagreeable,  Miss  Garland,  I  will  re- 
turn,' would  have  swept  majestically  out  of  the 
room.  And  the  girl  before  that  would  have  given 
me  snap  for  snap  and  snarl  for  snarl,  until  we  should 
have  got  into  a  first-rate  quarrel  and  not  spoken  for 
days.  But  you  have  given  me  a  pleasant  word  for 
every  crabbed  one  and  a  smile  for  every  scowl. 
Why  don't  you  give  me  as  good  as  I  send?" 

Ruth  laughed  at  the  rattling  speech,  but  a  sober 
look  took  ihe  place  of  the  merriment  as  she  said 
affectionately: 

"Why,  dear,  I  don't  want  to  give  th*?  devil  a 
stronger  hold  on  you  than  he  has  already." 

"What!" 

"Yes,  I  mean  it,"  said  Ruth,  unable  to  repress  a 
smile  at  her  room-mate's  look  of  half-horror,  half- 
amazement.  "It  sounds  dreadfully,  I  know;  but  I 
learned  it  from  one  of  the  dearest  old  Christians  I 
have  ever  seen,  and  she  wouldn't  say  it  if  it  wasn't 
so." 

"What  did  she  mean?  And  was  it  she  that 
taught  you  to  stand  my  ill-temper  like  an  angel?" 

"O,  I  fancy  it  would  take  more  even  than  dear 
Aunt  Faith's  teaching  to  make  me  angelic,"  said 
Ruth,  laughing.  "But  I  will  try  to  tell  you  how 
she  used  to  talk,  dear,  and  then  you  will  understand 
what  I  mean." 

"My  mother  died  when  I  was  a  very  little  girl, 
and  left  me,  with  my  two  brothers  and  two  sisters, 
with  no  one  but  servants  to  look  after  us  for  several 
years.  It  is  no  use  for  me  to  tell  you  what  a  quar- 
relsome little  set  we  grew  to  be.  I  don't  know  what- 
ever would  have  become  of  us  if  Aunt  Faith  hadn't 
come  to  take  a  little  pity  on  us. 

"I  remember  that  one  of  the  first  things  she  tried 
to  teach  us  was  the  beauty  of  loving  and  trying  to 
be  kind  to  each  other,  and  she  always  made  a  spe- 
cial point  of  our  being  forbearing  with  any  one  who 
was  out  of  temper. 

"  'Don't  sin  against  each  other  by  making  a  bad 
matter  worse,  dears,'  she  would  say. 

"  'When  we  poor  mortals  give  way  to  these  evil 
tempers  of  ours,' — the  dear  soul  always  said  'we'  in 
talking  to  us;  just  as  it  she  knew  what  it  was  to  be 
in  a  bad  temper  I — 'the  devil  gets  a  very  strong  hold 
on  us.  Do  not  let  us,  by  word  or  deed,  help  him  to 
make  that  hold  stronger.  What  can  be  sweeter  or 
more  Christ-like  than  for  us  by  our  patience  and 
forbearance  to  hold  out  a  helping  hand  to  those  we 
love.  Must  not  the  devil  rejoice  when  we,  by  irri- 
tating words,  add  fuel  to  the  flame  of  anger  burning 
in  a  poor  heart?'  " 

"Yes,  indeed;  she  used  very  strong  words,  and 
she  meant  them,"  went  on  Ruth.  "And  I  am  sure 
they  did  us  good.  The  time  had  been  when  a  cross 
word  from  one  of  us  would  have  set  all  the  others 
on  edge,  and  how  we  would  sting  and  irritate  each 
other! — we  who  ought  to  have  loved  each  other  all 
the  more  tenderly  for  being  left  motherless.  But 
Aunt  Faith  impressed  it  upon  us  that  the  Lord 
would  hold  us  accountable  for  the  sin  which  we 
made  darker  in  the  hearts  of  otbers,  when  we  might, 
instead,  help  them  over  a  rough  place  by  a  few  gen- 
tle, patient  words." 

"It  is  a  hard  thing  to  do,  though,"  said  Alice; 
"but  it's  a  pity  that  more  of  us  girls  don't  think  as 
you  do  about  it,  Ruth.  Time  and  again  I've  got  in- 
to such  a  temper  that — well,  it's  just  as  you  say. 
It  seemed  as  if  the  devil  had  me  rigbt  in  his  grasp; 
as  though  I  hadn't  a  bit  of  power  except  to  say  an- 
gry words.     And  then  some  one  would  tease  me  un- 


til I  felt  full  of  hate  and  bitterness  and  said  the 
very  worst  things  I  could." 

"Poor  girl!"  said  Ruth,  caressingly. 

"Oh,  I  don't  deserve  your  pity,"  said  Alice,  "for 
I've  done  the  same  by  others  often,  and  when  I 
came  in  just  now  after  being  kept  in  for  failing  in 
my  Latin,  it  would  have  been  just  so  with  me  except 
for  your  blessed  patience." 

"Then  let  us  try  the  better  plan,  dear,"  said  Ruth 
affectionately.  "When  we  see  people  weak  and 
ready  to  fall  do  not  let  us  lay  a  stumbling-block  in 
their  way.  Let  us  try  what  a  kindly  hand-grasp 
will  do,  and  a  word  of  good  cheer  to  stir  up  the 
good  in  their  hearts,  and  to  help  them  trample  down 
the  evil,  for  the  sake  of  the  Master  who  bears  so 
much  from  us." — Selected. 


LITTLB  BY  LITTLE. 


Step  by  step  the  Alpine  climber 

Presses  upward  sure  and  slow, 
Till  bis  feet  are  firmly  planted 

Id  the  realm  of  endless  snow. 

Blow  on  blow  the  sculptor  fashions 

Roughness  Into  symmetry, 
Till  the  dark  rock  gleams  with  brightnesi 

In  Its  new-bom  majesty. 

Touch  by  touch,  the  picture  groweth 

Into  beauty,  life,  and  light, 
Tin  a  wondrous  revelation 

Bursts  upon  the  raptured  sight. 

Stroke  by  stroke  the  clock  aye  rlngeth 

Welcomes   to  eternity. 
Adding  warning  unto  warning 

To  the  heart  in  me  and  thee.  , 

Word  by  word  the  book  Is  written 

With  its  tale  of  woe  or  weal, 
Tin  the  throbbing  thoughts  like  music 

Through  the  trembling  spirit  steal. 

Wave  on  wave  the  wild  tide  creepeth 

Farther  on  and  up  the  shore, 
Till  the  stranded  boats  are  floating 

Free  and  buoyant  as  before. 

Such  Is  life  In  all  Its  phases, 

Little  things  make  up  the  great. 
Therefore,  scorn  them  not,  but  make  them 

Stepping-stones  to  heaven's  gate. 

— Rev .  W.  J.Mathatnx,  in  London  Freeman. 


Temfebance. 


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INFAMOUS  TACTICS  OP  THE  LIQCOB  INTEREST. 


Thirty-three  States  and  Territories,  containing 
over  half  the  population  of  the  country,  now  re- 
quire scientific  temperance  instruction  in  the  pub- 
lic schools. 

This  is  mainly  due  to  the  Women's  Christian 
Temperance  Union,  under  the  leadership  of  the 
national  superintendent  of  this  branch  of  their 
work,  Mrs.  Mary  H.  Hunt,  of  this  State. 

Desperate  endeavors  are  now  being  made  by  liq- 
uor-dealers and  book-publishers  friendly  to  them,  to 
nullify  this  instruction,  by  introducing  text-books 
which  do  not  comply  with  the  law,  and  which,  by 
showing  only  the  evils  of  the  excessive  use  of  in- 
toxicants, pra(!tically  encourage  moderate  drinking, 
and  in  some  cases  positively  commend  it,  by  de- 
scribing its  exhilarating  effects. 

In  this  endeavor,  as  in  the  original  opposition  to 
the  legislation,  charges  are  made  that  the  Women's 
Temperanc;3  Union  is  in  league  with  some  school 
book  ring,  to  make  money  from  the  sale  of  particu- 
lar books;  and  this,  while  these  ladies  are  eager  to 
induce  every  publisher  to  revise  his  books,  so  they 
can  endorse  and  commend  them,  and  while  they  are 
constantly  ongaged  in  efforts  to  this  end. 

Of  all  these  slanderous  accusations  none  has 
been  more  groundless  than  the  attempt  of  the  Min- 
nesota Stale  text-book  commission  to  justify  their 
adoption  of  text-books  satisfactory  to  the  liquor 
dealers,  by  trying  to  impeach  the  personal  integrity 
of  Mrs.  Hunt,  one  of  the  noblest  of  all  unselfish 
women,  and  to  convict  the  Women's  Temperance 
Union  of  fraudulent  methods  and  sordid  aims. 
These  slanders  were  promptly  and  publicly  refuted 
on  the  spot,  by  the  testimony  of  many  witnesses  of 
the  highest  respectability,  embracing  the  officers  of 
the  State  temperance  organization  and  such  promi- 
nent citizens  as  Gen.  A.  B.  Nettleton  and  others.  So 
conclusively  was  this  done  that  many  reputable 
journals,  which  had  given  currency  to  the  charges, 
publicly  retracted  them.  All  Minnesota  knows  that 
ihe  official  statement  of  the  State  t<:x'l)0ok  commis- 
sion is  unsupported  by  fact. 

And  now,  such  is  the  gree*!  •*".!  nnscrupulous- 
ness  of  the   liquor  dealers   av     l   publishers  who 


pander  to  them,  that  they  have  taken  these  reputed 
Minnesota  accusations  against  Mrs.  Hunt  and  the 
Women's  Christian  Temperance  Union  and  the  re- 
tracted statements  concerning  them  by  the  Minne- 
sota newspapers,  and  having  republished  them  in'a 
little  pamphlet  of  attractive  appearance  with  confi- 
dent and  triumphant  comments,  as  if  they  were  true 
and  conclusive.  They  are  at  this  moment  flooding 
the  State  of  Massachusetts  with  them  in  order  to 
influence  the  choice  of  text-books  in  our  schools. 

The  undersigned,  speaking  for  the  interests  of 
truth  and  good  morals,  desire  to  say  to  the  people 
of  Massachusetts,  and  especially  to  superintendents 
of  schools,  to  whom  these  republished  calumnies 
may  come,  that  documents  refuting  them  in  detail, 
can  be  obtained  by  addressing  either  of  us  at  Bos- 
ton. Signed,  Daniel  Doechbstir, 

Albert  H.  Plumb, 
Joseph  Cook. 


From  reliable  statistics  it  is  learned  that  the 
amount  of  beer  consumed  in  Chicago  last  year  was 
1,674,146  barrels.  The  brewers  received  for  this 
$6  per  barrel,  or  $10,044,876.  The  saloon-keeper 
sells  it  so  as  to  realize  $24  a  barrel,  making  the 
total  cost  to  the  consumers  over  $40,000,000. 

The  National  Temperance  Society  is  pushing  its 
work  among  the  colored  people  of  the  South  with 
more  vigor  than  ever  before.  In  addition  to  the 
work  in  schools  and  for  ministers  it  has  five  colored 
men  constantly  at  work  among  their  own  people, 
and  several  others  on  special  occasions. 

It  is  noteworthy  as  illustrating  the  relation  of 
foreign-born  citizens  to  the  liquor  traffic  in  this 
country,  that  in  Philadelphia  recently,  out  of  865 
liquor  licenses  placed  for  hearing  before  the  court, 
669  of  the  applicants  were  foreigners  and  196 
Americans.  This  proportion  would  hold  good  in 
most  of  our  larger  cities. 

Mrs.  I.  A.  McClees,  Superintendent  of  the  Depart- 
ment for  Soldiers,  is  taking  steps  toward  the  sup- 
pression of  beer  selling  in  the  soldier's  homes  in 
Dayton,  Ohio,  and  elsewhere.  She  is  conferring 
with  officials  of  the  government  with  reference  to 
presenting  a  bill  to  Congress,  and  will  go  to  Wash- 
ington soon  in  the  interests  of  the  measure. 

Professor  George  Bunge,  professor  of  Physiologi- 
cal Christianity  in  the  University  of  Basle,  is  a 
total  abstainer  of  many  years'  standing.  He  has 
won  over  to  total  abstainers  a  band  of  students, 
formerly  his  pupils  at  Basle,  but  how  scattered 
abroad  and  sowing  scientific  temperance  truth  in 
the  Universities  of  Heidelberg,  Slrassburg  and 
Leipsic. 

The  Scott  act  is  being  enforced  at  a  fearful  cost  in 
Leeds  and  Renfrew  counties,  Canada.  Eleven  build- 
ings at  Irish  Creek  and  a  Methodist  church  and 
tannery  at  Kemptville  have  been  burned,  and  five 
constables  have  been  assaulted  and  stoned  by  sa- 
loon sympathizers.  Dr.  Ferguson,  M.  P.,  and  three 
others  have  been  threatened  with  murder,  and  the 
deacons  of  a  Baptist  church  are  warned  to  dismiss 
their  minister  or  have  their  church  building  burned. 
Forty  to  fifty  tavern-keepers  have  been  fined,  three 
sent  to  the  penitentiary,  and  the  constables'  assail- 
ants fined  $800. 

Think  over  it:  Governor  Larrabee,  of  Prohibi- 
tion Iowa,  called  attention  in  his  recent  message  to 
the  decrease  of  criminal  cases  in  the  courts,  and  sug- 
gests a  decrease  in  the  number  of  courts.  Mayor 
Hewitt,  of  New  York,  about  the  same  time,  calls  at- 
tention to  the  accumulation  of  cases  of  violation  of 
the  excise  laws,  and  suggests  the  creation  of  a  new 
court  to  deal  with  these  cases  —  Voice. 

A  great  and  glorious  work  of  Gospel  temperance 
is  still  being  carried  on  in  southern  California  by 
the  noted  temperancg  evangelist.  Col.  George  Wood- 
ford. For  two  weeks  in  December  meetings  of 
prayer  and  consecration  were  held  every  day  for  one 
hour  or  more.  Each  evening  Col.  Woodford  gave  a 
lecture,  full  of  the  spirit  and  teachings  of  Christ 
He  spoke  with  great  tenderness  to  bis  fallen  broth- 
ers, urging  them  to  seek  Jesus  as  their  only  safe- 
guard against  the  temptations  of  strong  drink.  He 
has  been  a  great  help  to  professing  Christians  here. 
From  us  he  went  to  Lompoc,  doing  the  same  noble 
work.  Many  there  are  trying  to  live  aright,  as  the 
result  of  his  efforts  among  them.  San  Louis  Obispo 
says  "the  temperance  revival  is  moving  grandly  for- 
ward." Ventura  county  is  being  refreshed  at  pres- 
ent by  his  earnest  labors  among  them.  So  it  is  all 
along  the  line;  God  is  blessing  Col.  Woodford's  ef- 
forts to  save  the  fallen.  Let  us,  as  Christians,  see 
that  in  every  way  possible  we  further  the  good 
work  going  on  in  our  State.  We  need  the  help  of 
just  such  a  Christian  leader  in  the  cause  of  temper- 
ance.— Faci/ic 


^Pi 


12 


THE  CHRISTIAN-  CYNOSURE. 


February  23,  1888 


RELIGIOUS  News. 


The  evangelist  L.  W.  Munhall  began  a  four 

weeks'  term   of  meetings  in  Buffalo  on  the  4th  of 
February. 

— Dr.  Pentecost  is  now  conducting  meetings  at 
Norwich,  Connecticut. 

— The  evangelist  George  K.  Little  has  been  con- 
ducting meetings  in  Des  Moines,  Iowa,  and  is  happy 
in  numbering  near  forty  souls  converted. 

— At  Geneva,  Kansas,  the  labors  of  a  lady  evan- 
gelist among  the  Friends,  Susan  C.  Berry,  have  been 
blessed  in  the  salvation  of  some  seventy-five  persons. 

— The  Kansas  City  papers  say  that  the  work  of 
the  evangelist  Jones  ruined  the  theaters  of  the  city 
for  January  and  they  were  unable  to  recover  before 
the  Catholic  and  Episcopalian  patrons  were  taken 
off  by  their  season  of  Lent. 

— Our  Banner,  the  New  ^ork  monthly  devoted  to 
the  principles  of  the  Reformed  Presbyterian  church, 
gives  in  its  February  number  the  excellent  sermon 
of  Rev.  David  McFall  of  Boston,  at  the  dedication 
of  the  new  building  erected  by  the  First  church  of 
New  York  city  of  which  Rev.  J.  C.  K.  Milligan  is 
pastor.  The  new  church  is  located  on  One  Hundred 
and  Nineteenth  Street,  far  to  the  north  of  the  old 
building  which  was  sold  in  1884.  For  three  years 
the  congregation  met  in  a  hall,  the  lamented  Dr.  A. 
M.  Milligan  preaching  for  them  the  first  sermon  in 
this  hired  room.  It  was  his  last  sermon,  though  he 
lived  in  great  feebleness  for  more  than  a  year. 
The  building  is  a  fine  one,  and  built  at  great  econo- 
my of  expense. 

— The  scattered  and  neglected  people  of  the 
mountain  regions  of  our  Eastern  and  Southern 
States  have  a  missionary,  called  of  God,  to  visit 
them  in  their  homes  and  tell  them  of  Christ.  His 
name  is  Joseph  X.  Dillier.  He  is  at  present  in  this 
city,  but  will  start  in  the  early  spring  with  a  com- 
panion, a  young  man  named  Hammond,  who  is  con- 
strained to  join  in  this  good  work.  These  brethren 
have  undertaken  a  work  of  faith  and  should  not 
lack  for  encouragement  from  the  churches. 

— Many  friends,  says  the  Pacific  of  San  Francisco, 
who  expected  Mr.  D.  L.  Moody  to  visit  this  coast 
within  the  next  few  weeks  will  be  disappointed  to 
learn  that  interference  with  his  plans  will  prev.ent 
his  reaching  here  this  season.  The  San  Francisco 
Evangelistic  Committee  received  a  communication 
from  Mr.  Moody  a  few  days  ago,  stating  that  he 
would  be  detained  in  the  Middle  States  until  late  in 
February,  and  could  not  possibly  reach  California 
before  March  1st,  and  would  be  obliged  to  leave  the 
coast  so  as  to  reach  New  England  not  later  than 
April  10th.  Under  these  circumstances  Mr.  Moody 
urgently  requested  the  Evangelistic  Committee  to 
release  him  from  his  engagement  this  season,  but 
promi^ed  to  give  several  months  to  the  coast  next 
year. 

— Mr.  E.  H.  Gammon,  of  Batavia,  III,  some  few 
years  ago  being  deeply  interested  in  the  work  of  the 
Freedman's  Aid  Society  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal 
church  in  the  South,  erected,  at  his  own  expense 
mainly,  handsome  buildings  for  a  theological  school, 
to  prepare  colored  men  for  the  ministry  of  that 
church,  near  Atlanta,  Ga.  The  institution  has  since 
been  incorporated  under  the  name  of  the  Gammon 
School  of  Theology.  Mr.  Gammon  gave  the  school 
$20,000,  the  income  of  which  has  been  devoted  to 
the  support  of  its  professors  and  teachers;  the  bal- 
ance of  the  expense  of  maintaining  the  school  being 
paid  by  the  Freedman's  Aid  Society.  A  few  days 
since  Mr.  Gammon  donated  the  equivalent  of  $180,- 
000,  as  a  peroetual  endowment  of  the  institution. 
The  total  of  '§200,000  goes  into  the  hands  of  the 
trustees  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal  church,  and  the 
income  is  to  be  forever  devoted  to  the  support  of 
the  faculty  of  the  school. 

— Several  weeks  ago  the  workers  in  connection 
with  the  Chicago  Evangelization  Society,  of  which 
D.  L.  Moody  is  president,  began  a  series  of  meetings 
in  the  Belden  Avenue  Presbyterian  church,  the  out- 
come of  which  has  been  a  union  of  effort  reach 
the  non-churchgoing  masses  in  and  around  Deering, 
a-  suburb  north  of  the  city.  The  meetings  began 
Feb.  0,  and  have  been  carried  on  every  night,  the 
bouse  being  packed,  in  spite  of  the  cold  weather. 
The  interest  is  apparently  growing,  and  the  preach- 
ing of  the  Gospel  to  the  masaes  has  been  eminently 
successful. 

— There  has  been  a  remarkable  revival  in  Wilber- 
force  University.  The  interest  began  at  the  close  of 
the  week  of  prayer  and  grew  steadily.  For  two  days 
recitations  were  suspended.  The  entire  Christian 
body  of  the  school  and  community  gave  themselves 
wholly  to  the  work.  Students  and  pitizens  who  had 
passed  through  previous  revivals  untouched,  went 


down  in  tears  and  penitence.  The  Y.  "M.  C.  A.  was 
especially  active,  holding  a  noon  service  daily  and 
rendering  efficient  organized  aid.  Forty  were  con- 
verted, and  fifty-two  added  to  the  church.  More 
than  ninety-eight  per  cent,  of  the  students  are  pro- 
fessed Christians;  only  two  are  outside  the  fold. 

— The  hundred  Evangelical  churches  of  Louisville 
have  had  an  average  increase  of  ten  members  each 
as  the  result  of  the  Moody  meetings.  Among  the 
converts  is  Jesse  Hammond,  who  is  reported  to 
ha-ve  been  a  notorious  gambler.  He  was  indicted  a 
number  of  times.  He  attended  one  of  Mr.  Moody's 
services  to  scoff,  but  left  in  a  sober  frame  of  mind. 
He  went  again  and  again,  and  finally  professed  con- 
version. 

— The  Rev.  Dr.  H.  M.  Scudder,  now  of  Nugata, 
Japan,  in  a  private  letter,  says:  "We  rejoice  every 
day  that  the  Lord  has  graciously  brought  us  here. 
There  is  ample  field  for  ten  times  more  than  I  can 
do.  I  enjoy  the  work.  Am  studying  the  language. 
I  lecture  on  the  life  of  Christ  in  an  incipient  college 
which  is  supported  by  the  Japanese,  and  has  many 
bright  lads  in  it.  At  the  last  communion  there 
were  eighteen  new  ones  admitted  (I  mean  in  the  na- 
tive church)  and  there  will  be  more  than  that  next 
time.  The  work  goes  forward  and  we  expect  to  see 
great  results.  My  health  is  improving.  I  am 
stronger  and  more  vivacious  than  when  I  came. 
Mrs.  Scudder  is  as  frisky  and  happy  as  a  gazelle. 
My  son  and  daughter  are  full  of  joy  in  the  work." 

— The  First  Baptist  church  for  colored  people  in 
the  South  was  organized  one  hundred  years  ago  in 
Georgia.     Their  anniversary  will  occur  January  20. 

— ^^The  institution  of  Rev.  H.  Grattan  Guinness, 
in  London,  has  just  sent  100  missionaries  to  Africa, 
and  500  during  the  last  14  years.  He  has  at  pres- 
ent 100  missionary  students,  and  on  an  average 
sends  out  a  missionary  to  some  part  of  the  great 
mission  field  every  week  in  the  year. 


LITERATTJRE. 


The  Fablbs  of  Florian.  Translated  into  BngHsh  verse  by 
Gen.  J.  W.  Phelps,  late  member  of  the  Vermont  fllstorical 
Society,  author  of  "A  History  of  Madagascar,"  etc.  With 
numerous  very  fine  illustrations  by  J.  J.  Grandville.  Ele- 
gantly bound  in  fine  cloth,  gilt  edges,  ornamented,  price  $1, 
postage  12c. 

LooBiNE :  A  Tkagedt.  By  Algernon  Charles  Swinburne.  Pp. 
60.    Price  20  cts. 

LuciLK.    By  Owen  Meredith.    Pp.  172.    Price  25  cts. 

The  Pbogress  of  Learning.  By  George  Lansing  Taylor, 
S.  T.  D.    Pp.  46.    Price  25  cts 

These  four  books  of  poems  are  late  issues  from 
the  publishing  house  of  John  B.  Alden,  New  York, 
and  all  are  furnished  to  the  public  at  the  exceed- 
ingly low  rate  for  which  his  imprint  has  become  a 
synonym.  The  first  named  is  beautifully  printed 
and  bound.  Florian's  Fables  are  here  first  trans- 
lated we  believe  from  the  French  for  American 
readers,  many  of  whom  have  learned  to  esteem  the 
now  lamented  translator  for  his  able  and  voluminous 
contribution  to  the  literature  of  an  unpopular  re- 
form. Gen.  Phelps  was  a  fine  French  scholar,  and 
the  New  Testament  in  that  language  was  one  of  his 
most  constant  companions  during  the  last  part  of 
his  life.  While  in  the  army  he  translated  a  consid- 
erable volume  upon  the  dangerous  nature  of  secret 
societies.  And  that  he  held  a  versatile  pen  the  fine 
fancy  and  versification  of  the  poem  printed  on  the 
first  page  of  this  issue  is  excellent  proof.  Of  the 
Fables,  LaHarpe  says  with  just  admiration:  "Good 
of  every  description  prevails  in  this  collection. 
You  find  here  some  fables  of  touching  interest, 
others  of  a  sweet  and  playful  humor,  others  of  a 
biting  subtilty,  and  still  others  in  a  loftier  strain 
without  being  above  that  of  the  fable.  The  poet 
understands  how  to  vary  his  colors  with  the  sub- 
jects; he  can  describe  and  converse,  relate  and  mor- 
alize. We  nowhere  feel  the  effort  and  are  always 
sensible  of  the  meter."  A  writer  in  the  London 
Quarterly  Review  moved  with  a  like  enthusiasm 
writes  of  them:  "The  feelings  with  him  are  never 
exalted  at  the  expense  of  virtue.  His  women  are 
tender  without  licentiousness,  and  his  heroes  daring 
without  violating  the  laws  of  their  country,  or  ques- 
tioning the  existence  of  their  Creator.  He  combines 
the  morality  of  Fenelon  with  the  enthusiasm  of 
Rousseau  or  St.  Pierre.  His  writings  derive  an  ad- 
ditional charm  from  his  glowing  descriptions  of  the 
beauties  of  nature.  He  seems  tenaciously  to  uphold 
the  poetical  connection  between  rural  life  and  moral 
purity,  and  loves  to  annex  to  tales  of  love  and 
hardihood  their  appropriate  scenery  of  rivers,  woods, 
and  mountains."  The  illustrations  of  the  volume 
are  original,  artistic  and  pleasing,  excellently  telling 
the  story  of  the  text. 

Locrine  is  the  latest  work  of  one  of  the  first  of 
living  English  poets.  His  several  previous  works 
have  given  this  writer  the  vinhappy  reputation  of  be- 


longing to  the  "fleshly  school"  of  poetry,  and  those 
even  who  most  admire  his  power  of  poetical  ex- 
pression, and  the  rich  coloring  of  his  lines,  must  de- 
plore their  sensuous  tone.  This  tragedy  is  in  five 
acts,  and  but  seven  characters  are  employed.  The 
jealousy  of  an  injured  wife  supplies  the  key-note; 
and  while  the  penalty  for  iniquity  is  sufficiently  se- 
vere to  afford  adequate  warning,  yet  the  constant 
recrimination  of  virtue  tends  to  fasten  the  sym- 
pathy of  the  reader  upon  the  wrongdoer.  There 
are  numberless  fine  passages  in  the  poem,  pleasing 
the  ear  with  their  music  and  the  mind  by  their 
thought. 

Lucile  was  regarded  one  of  the  most  remarkable 
English  poems  of  its  daj.  It  was  one  of  the  ear- 
liest of  the  works  which  made  the  name  of  Owen 
Meredith  (Lord  Lvtton)  celebrated;  and  will  long 
deserve  to  be  read  for  the  fascination  of  its  style 
and  its  strong  characterization  of  scenes  in  the  so- 
cial life  of  European  nobility. 

The  Progress  of  Learning  is  a  poem  delivered  by 
Dr.  Taylor  at  the  Centennial  of  Columbia  College, 
New  York,  April  13th,  1887.  The  volume  is  dedi- 
cated to  the  learned  and  revered  President  Bar- 
nard; and,  though  prepared  for  a  particular  occa- 
sion which  might  seem  to  limit  the  imagination  and 
scope  of  the  poem,  will  be  found  happily  disap- 
pointing in  this  respect.  Colutnbia  itself  occupies 
but  a  small  space,  and  that  is  given  to  historic  per- 
sonages of  interest  to  all  Americans,  whose  patriot- 
ism will  be  kindled  into  a  flame  by  the  apostrophe 
to  our  free  institutions  and  the  impassioned 
sketches  of  the  great  men  who  have  arisen  under 
them,  to  in  turn  maintain  them  for  posterity. 

It  is  reported  that  Mrs.  General  Grant  and  her  son  Fred, 
are  part  owners  of  the  Cosmopolitan  Magazine.  All 
friends  of  good  and  chaste  literature  beseecn  them  to  in- 
terpose and  allow  no  more  such  disgusting  illustrations 
as  appear  in  the  February  number  of  the  magazine  with 
Theodore  Child's  account  of  the  French  ballet.  There- 
deeming  feature  of  the  article  is  that  instead  of  having 
a  vicious  tendency  it  excites  an  abhorrence  of  the  theater 
and  the  opera  of  which  such  accessories  are  a  prominent 
part.  What  a  picture  of  a  young  life  which  might  be 
beautiful,  full  of  joy  and  goodness  and  usefulness  is  this 
which  we  quote!— "A  dancer  has  to  spend  so  much  time 
in  training  her  feet  that  she  has  none  left  to  train  her 
mind.  And  as  a  clever  historian  of  the/oj/er.M.deBoigne, 
says,   'What  would  be  the  good  of  training  a  dancer's 

mind?' Other  peculiarities  of  a  dancer  are,  that  she 

has  not  time  to  be  daughter,  wife  or  mother;  she  is  a 
dancer.  She  is  religious;  she  goes  to  church  on  Sundays; 
almost  always  she  wears  religious  medals  and  talismans, 
and  believes  in  fortune -telling;  and  she  rarely  goes  to 
bed  without  drawing  her  horoscope  with  a  pack  of  play- 
ing cards.  A  dancer  always  has  a  moiJier  and  sometimes 
a  father.  In  her  turn,  too,  she  is  often  a  mother  without 
being  a  wife;  she  is  not  married,  but  she  belongs  to  the 
Opera,  which  in  Paris  is  considered  to  be  equivalent. 
The  greatest  joy  of  the  dancer  is  rest,  rest  of  limb  and 
rest  of  face.  Not  to  be  obliged  to  smile,  what  bliss  I 
Thus  it  happens  that  a  dancer  is  never  happier  than  when 
she  looks  sad."  Prof.  Boyesen's  articles  on  the  Crown 
Prince  of  Germany  and  international  copyright,  Lieut. 
Schwatka  on  "Wintering  in  the  White  Zone,"  and  J.  M. 
Oxley's  "Hunting  and  Trapping  in  Canada"  are  good 
and  profitable  and  help  atone  for  the  ballet  business. 

General  Lew  Wallace,  whose  "Ben  Hur"  has  secured 
such  wonderful  popularity,  is  possibly  not  entitled  to  the 
undivided  honors  of  its  authorship;  at  any  rate  he  is  for- 
tunate in  having  in  his  wife,  Susan  E.  Wallace,  a  help- 
meet of  hardly  less  literary  skill  than  himself.  A  vol- 
ume from  Mrs.  Wallace's  pen,  which  is  to  be  published 
early  in  the  spring,  entitled  "The  Land  of  the  Pueblos," 
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American  antiquities  and  history,  as  well  as  to  general 
readers  who  enjoy  breezy  descriptions  of  western  life 
and  scenery  as  viewed  by  one  exceptionally  well  quali- 
fied to  see  and  describe  them.  The  position  of  General 
Wallace  as  governor  of  New  Mexico*  before  becoming 
our  Minister  to  Turkey,  gave  Mrs.  Wallace  the  best  of 
opportunities  to  study  the  life  of  to-day,  and  also  the 
extraordinary  and  curious  pre-historic  life  of  which 
glimpses  can  be  seen  in  the  many  monuments  of  the 
Pueblos.  The  volume  is  to  be  published  by  .John  B.  Al- 
den, New  York. 

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tains ten  papers  on  the  "Literature  of  Missions,"  on  such 
subjects  as  "The  Apparent  Waste  of  Missions,"  the  "Life 
of  Brainerd"  (editorials);  "The  Principle  of  Christian 
Missions,"  by  Dr.  Behrends;  "The  Miracles  of  Missions," 
"Missions  to  Koman  Catholic  Countries,"  by  Caamber- 
lain  of  Brazil;  "Joseph  llabicowitch,  the  Jewish-Chris- 
tian Leader,"  by  Prof.  Schodde,  etc.  The  Monthly  Bull- 
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ffEBBUARY  23,  1888 


THE  CHHISTIAN"  CYNOSURE. 


13 


Lodge  Notes. 

The  Grand  Council  of  the  Order  of 
Royal  Templars  of  Temperance  convened 
at  Shelby ville,  III,  Tuesday. 

A  warrant  was  issued  at  Philadelphia 
Tuesday  for  the  arrest  of  David  B.  Hilt, 
treasurer  of  Philadelphia  Lodge,  Order  of 
Elks,  who  is  short  in  his  accounts  $6  000. 

George  H.  Thomas  Post  G.  A.  R.  held 
its  annual   reception  at  the  First  Regi 
ment  Armory  in  this  city;  fully  300coup 
les  devoting  their  best  energies  to  danc- 
ing and  its  pleasures. 

The  lockout  of  shoemakers  at  Cincin 
nati  has  resolved  itself  into  a  fight  be- 
tween Knights  of  Labor,  District  Assem- 
bly  No.    48  contending   for  supremacy 
against  National  Assembly  No  218. 

The  "Godfrey. Weil zel"  G.  A.  R  Post 
gave  their  annual  maequerade  ball  at 
Lester's  Academy,  Chicago  The  supper 
was  served  by  theWi>man's  Relief  Corps. 
The  Sons  of  Veterans  were  present  in 
force. 

The  "Tri  City  Odd-fellowa  Anniver- 
sary Association"  has  been  formed  at 
Rock  It.land,Ili,  comprising  all  the  lodges 
of  Rock  Island,  Davenport,  and  Moline. 
The  organiziiion  is  for  the  purpose  of 
holding  a  celebration  on  April  20  of  each 
year,  the  anniversary  of  the  establish- 
ment of  Odd  fellowship  in  America. 

The  Illinois  G.  A.  R  Thur;>day  elected 
Colonel  Sexton  of  Chicago  Depa-'tment 
Commander  and  decided  to  meet  next 
year  in  Springfield.  The  service  pension 
rebolniiMn  was  defeated,  and  the  depend 
ent  pension  bill,  now  before  Coogrees, 
was  approved;  nevcrthelfcf-8  the  advocates 
of  the  former  elec  ed  f very  representa- 
tive to  the  Grand  Encampment  at  Colum 
bus. 

The  first  regular  session  of  the  general 
executive  board  of  the  l£nights  of  Libor 
h'-ld  this  year  was  begun  in  Pailadelphia, 
Feb  6  to  coQ'inue  for  at  least  'en  days 
Only  Mr  Piwderly  aad  Ira  Ailesworth 
were  absent  The  board  indor-ed  the 
strike  of  the  Rdading  Riilrond  employes, 
both  railroaders  and  miners,  and  the  mor- 
al, if  not  the  financial  aid  of  the  order, 
will  be  brought  to  bear  in  favor  of  the 
strikers. 

The  Grand  Lodge  of  the  Ancient  Or- 
der of  United  Workmen  atSt.Lou's  unan- 
imously adopted  the  report  of  a  commit- 
tee to  the  tff  ct  that  the  order  dies  not 
come  within  the  scope  of  the  State  insur- 
ance law,  and  that  it  will  not  incorpo- 
rate under  it.  Henry  L.  Rogers  of  St. 
Louis  was  re  elected  Grand  Master  Work 
man  for  the  fourth  time,  and  William  C. 
Richardson  and  John  D.  Vincel  were  re- 
spectively re-elected  Grand  Recorder  and 
Grand  Receiver.  The  latter  is  well  known 
as  a  leading  Mason,  and  was  late  Grand 
Master  of  Missouri. 

The  Grand  Army  of  the  Republic  in 
Illinois  makes  the  following  showing  of 
membership:  In  good  standing  Dec.  31, 
1886,  25,443;  gained  by  muster  in,  9,016; 
by  transfer,  647;  by  reinstatement,  2  206: 
by  delinquent  reports,  588.  Aggregate, 
37,900.  Lost  by  death.  313;  by  honor- 
able discharge.  194;  by  transfer,  737;  by 
suspension,  2,798;  by  dishonorable  dis- 
charge, 42;  by  delinquent  reports,  3  980; 
total  loss,  8,064.  liemaining  in  good 
standing  Dec.  31.  1887,  29  830;  net  gain 
during  1887,4  398;txpended  for  charity, 
$10  C64  14.  The  wash  receipts  of  the 
department  during  the  year  ending  Feb. 
1,  1888,  from  all  sources,  are  as  follows: 
Charter  fees,  ^^.llO;  per  capita  tax,$5.593  - 
65;  sale  of  supplies,  14. 48.'). GO;  total,  :^10.- 
583  05;  total  expenditures,  $i), 860.68. 
The  loss  by  suspension  is  practically  a 
secession.  Members  for  one  reason  or 
another  give  up  the  order.  The  propor- 
tion is  about  one  in  ten.  And  if  the  loss 
by  delinquent  reports  is  for  like  reason, 
it  shows  that  one  in  every  five  of  the  old 
soldiers  weary  of  politics  and  lodgery  in 
such  a  mixture. 


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Is  there  anything  in  this  world  so  vile 
As  the  pestilent  presence  of  potent  bile? 
We  have  it,  we  hale  it,  we  all  revile 
The  noxious  nausea,  as  did  Carlyle. 
But  why  bewail  what  soon  is  mended? 
Take  P.  P.  P.  and  have  it  ended. 
All  praise  the  power  of  "Pierce's  Pellet," 
Wise  people  buy  and  druggists  sell  it. 

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our  wage-workers,  we  wish  It  conid  be  road  by  evarf 
one  of  them."— Chicago  Interior. 

Extra  Cloth  60o.,  Paper  SOe. 

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U  W.  MadlBon  8t,  Chicago,  Ilia. 


14 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE- 


Fbbrttaey  23,  1888 


Home  and  Health. 

HOUSE-PLANTS. 

The  way  house-plants  thrive  on  the 
dregs  of  coffee  left  at  breakfast  is  admi- 
rable. Bowker  itself  hardly  turns  out 
stronger  leafage  or  such  thick  bloom. 
The  grounds  are  a  good  mulch  on  the  top 
of  the  soil,  but  a  little  care  must  be  given 
not  to  let  them  sour  and  get  musty  in 
coolish,  damp  weather 

The  great  trouble  with  house-plants, 
greater  than  errors  in  watering,  is  letting 
the  pots  be  exposed  to  the  sun.  The 
fibrous  roots  soon  grow  to  the  side  of  the 
pot,  and  these  are  baked  in  full  sunshine, 
trebly  hot  coming  through  glass,  which 
condenses  its  rays;  the  root  tips  are  soon 
killed.  The  whole  ball  of  earth  is  baked 
over  and  over,  daily,  and  yet  people 
wonder  why  they  don't  succeed  with 
house-plants.  Shade  the  sides  of  the  pots 
always,  either  by  plunging  into  a  box  of 
sand,  moss,  cocoa  fiber  or  ashes,  or  place 
a  thin  board  on  edge  across  the  front  of 
the  plant  shelf,  that  will  come  almost  to 
the  top  of  the  pots.  Let  the  plants  have 
the  sun,  but  shade  the  pots.  A  good  way 
to  screen  them  is  to  set  each  pot  in  one 
one  or  two  sizes  or  more  larger,  filling 
the  space  with  moss  or  sand. 

The  best  gardeners  say  that  the  porous 
common  pots  are  not  so  good  for  house- 
plants  as  those  glazed  or  painted  outside. 
The  reason  is  that  evaporation  is  constant 
from  the  sides  of  the  porous  pots,  and 
the  roots  ar<j  not  only  drier  but  colder 
for  it. —  Vick's  Magazine. 

VINES  IN  THE  ROOM. 

Few  running  plants  are  prettier  for 
house  decoration  than  those  commonly 
known  under  the  general  name  of  ivy. 
The  German  Ivy,  Senecio  scandens,  is  a 
rapid  grower,  but  will  not  bear  the  cold 
as  well  as  the  Eoglish  Ivy,  which  is  the 
only  real  ivy  of  the  plants  I  am  now  no- 
ticing. 

The  English  Ivy,  if  well  treated,  will 
live  for  many  years.  A  friend  of  mine 
has  one  about  fifteen  years  old,  the  larg- 
est one  I  ever  saw.  She  keeps  it  on  the 
piazza  in  summer;  in  the  fall  it  is  re- 
moved to  the  cellar.  The  ivy  is  wound 
around  two  tall  stakes  which  are  thrust 
into  the  soil  in  the  keg  which  contains 
the  plant.  Water  is  given  occasionally 
during  the  winter.  If  one  has  an  Eng- 
lish Ivy  which  seems  to  be  dying,  and  its 
leaves  wither  and  fade,  they  must  not  be 
picked  off,  but  must  be  left  to  drop  off . 
If  the  leaves  are  picked  off  when  they 
show  signs  of  decay,  the  tiny  leaf-bud  at 
the  stem,  so  small  as  to  be  unnoticed, will 
be  liable  to  be  killed;  but  if  let  alone,  a 
new  leaf  or  shoot  will  come  out  of  each 
one. 

The  Coliseum  Ivy,  Linaria  cymbalaria, 
is  beautiful  when  growing  in  a  hanging 
pot  at  the  window.  It  is  easily  raised 
from  seed  or  cuUings. 

The  ivy  geraniums  are  very  desirable 
for  house-plants,  both  on  account  of 
their  leaves  and  their  flowers. —  Vicl^a 
Magazine. 

A  Fine  Climbing  Plant. — People 
seeking  a  nice  climbing  plant  are  advised 
that  there  is  none  in  cultivation  that  sur- 
passes the  smilax  in  the  graceful  beauty 
of  its  foliage  and  orange  fragrance  of  the 
flowers.  Its  peculiar  wavy  formation 
renders  it  one  of  the  most  valuable  of  all 
plants  for  vases  or  hanging  baskets,  as  it 
can  be  used  either  to  climb  or  droop,  as 
required.  In  cut  flowers,  particularly  for 
wreaths,  it  is  now  considered  indispens- 
able by  all  florists.  It  is  very  highly 
prized  by  ladies  in  the  dressing  of  their 
hair  on  festive  occasions;  flowers  white. 
Soak  the  seed  in  warm  water  for  twelve 
hours,  plant  in  pots,  and  in  a  moist,  warm 
place. 

HEALTH    HINTS. 

Glycerine,  which  is  the  sweet  principle 
of  fats,  should  never  be  used  in  its  pure 
state  on  chapped  hands  or  lips.  Dilute 
with  water  and  it  will  no  longer  be  irri- 
tating to  the  skin  or  to  mucous  mem- 
branes. 

A  very  pleasant  drink  may  be  made  for 
lick  people  from  current  jelly.  It  is  re- 
freshing and  grateful  to  the  palate  and 
may  be  made  as  follows:  Take  two  large 
spoonfuls  of  current  jelly,  and  mix  it 
with  a  little  warm  water;  then  put  in  one 
gill  of  syrup,  squeeze  two  or  three  lem- 
ons in,  and  let  the  rest  be  water;  taste  and 
make  it  to  your  palate,  putting  a  little 
cochineal  in  to  make  it  of  a  fine  color; 
strain  it  through  a  sieve,  and  it  is  fit  for 

UM. 


LOOK  AND   lilVJE! 

My  lady  reader,  don't  pass  me  by  with 
the  unkind  remark,  "Only  an  advertise- 
ment." I  may  do  you  good.  I  may  un- 
fold to  your  view  the  "pearl  of  great 
price."  I  may  be  the  means  of  restoring 
to  you  health  and  happiness  I  surely 
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nervousness  or  female  weakness,  and  will 
act  upon  my  suggestion.  I  bring  to  your 
notice,  with  every  confidence  in  its  mer- 
its, a  remedy  especially  compounded  to 
meet  just  the  requirements  of  your  case 
— Dr.  Pierce's  Favorite  Prescription,  bid- 
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in  its  praise! 

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THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


15 


In  Brief. 

Archdeacon  Parrar  has  received  a  check 
for  $2,500  from  Mr.  George  W.  Childsof 
Philadelphia,  for  the  purpose  of  aiding  in 
contributing  to  a  memorial  window  to 
Milton  in  Westminster  Abbey.  The  poet 
Whittier  has  written  four  lines  for  an  in- 
scription. The  window  will  be  complet- 
ed at  once. 

A  commercial  traveler  wishing  to  get 
advantage  of  a  clergyman  who  occupied 
the  same  compartment,  asked  him  if  he 
had  ever  heard  that  in  Paris  as  often  as  a 
priest  was  hanged  a  donkey  was  hanged 
at  the  same  time.  The  victim  of  the  joke 
replied  in  his  blandest  manner:  "Well, 
then,  let  us  both  be  thankful  that  we  are 
not  in  Paris."  Loud  laughter  on  the  part 
of  the  fellow-passengers.  Our  commer- 
cial friend  changed  cars  at  the  next  sta 
tion.—  Reichsbote, 

At  the  Comstock  silver  mines  in  Vir- 
ginia City  mining  science  has  reached  its 
highest  point,  according  to  a  San  Fran- 
cisco newspaper,  which  says  that  there 
they  carry  water  down  a  vertical  shaft  to 
the  depth  of  1,700  feet,  and  then  gear  it 
back  to  the  surface,  running  the  gigantic 
mills  by  the  1,700  foot  pressure.  When 
the  plan  was  suggested  to  enginetra  of 
Europe  they  laughed  at  it;  but  now  it's  a 
proved  success,  and  furnishes  a  power 
immeasurably  greater  and  cheaper  than 
anything  hitherto  applied  to  mining. 

A  public  test  took  place  at  the  Chester 
rolling  mills  of  the  new  device  for  saving 
of  fuel  and  the  improving  of  iron.  The 
process  is  simply  the  spraying  of  fine  coal, 
reduced  by  the  cyclone  pulverizer  to  a 
powder,  into  a  chamber  attached  to  the 
furnace,  in  which  the  combustion  is  so 
perfect  that  all  the  waste  hitherto  occur- 
ring in  smoke  and  ashes  is  entirely  obvi- 
ated .  The  general  result  showed  a  sav- 
ing of  between  40  and  50  per  cent  in 
coal,  a  saving  of  50  per  cent  in  time  of 
heating  the  furnace,  and  a  greatly  im- 
proved quality  of  iron. 

The  cruel  sport  of  bull  fighting  has  been 
revived,  and  the  following  is  considered 
of  enough  importance  to  be  telegraphed 
from  the  city  of  Mexico:  "Two  bull  fight- 
ers have  been  injured,  one  fatally.  The 
first  case  was  that  of  Saleri  at  Paebla, 
who,  while  jumping  over  a  bull  with  the 
aid  of  a  pole  on  Sunday  afternoon,  was 
caught  on  the  bull's  horns  and  impaled, 
dying  in  the  presence  of  the  spectators. 
The  second  case  was  that  of  a  bull- fight- 
er here,  who  on  the  same  afternoon  was 
gored  seriously.  The  press  generally 
condemns  the  revival  of  bull-fighting, 
but  is  unable  to  make  any  impression  on 
the  public,  which  continues  to  flock  to 
the  arena  on  Sundays,  bull-fighting  on 
other  days  being  now  forbidden." 

The  annual  report  of  the  New  York 
Central  Railroad  Company  shows  that 
during  the  year  1887  there  were  221  per- 
sons killed  on  its  lines,  and  459  injured. 
Of  the  killed  61  were  employes,  and  of 
the  injured  312.  Half  of  the  injured 
employe8(153)were  hurt  and  5  were  killed 
coupling  trains  Two  were  killed  and  6 
injured  by  striking  bridges.  Six  passen- 
gers were  killed  and  17  injured  in  jump- 
ing on  or  oil  moving  trains.  The  Central 
has  856  engines,  538  first-class  passenger 
cars,  and  in  all  979  cars  in  its  passenger 
service,  and  has  33,206  freight  cars.  The 
total  out-payment  for  wages  was  $5,984- 
317.  The  total  earnings  for  the  year  were 
$35,297,056— the  greatest  in  its  history. 
The  stockholders  number  9,561,  or  1,453 
less  than  in  1885. 

The  great  financial  strength  of  the  treas 
ury  and  the  great  extent  of  the  Govern 
ment's  fiscal  operations,  than  can  be  ob- 
tained from  a  statement  of  mere  figures, 
has  given  us  this  ingenious  illustration. 
If  the  gold  held  by  the  treasury  were 
placed  on  scales  it  would  be  found  to 
weigh  519  tons,  and  if  packed  into  ordin- 
ary carts,  one  ton  to  each  cart,  it  would 
make  a  procession  two  miles  long,  allow- 
ing twenty  feet  of  space  for  the  move- 
ment of  each  horse  and  cart.  Measured 
as  the  gold  was,  the  silver  would  weigh 
7,396  ton8,andthe  services  of  7,396  horses 
and  carts  would  be  required  to  transport 
it.  The  procession  would  cover  twenty- 
one  miles  in  length.  E.xtending  these 
calculations  and  comparisons  to  the  inter 
estbearing  debt,  equally  interesting  re- 
sults were  obtained.  The  public  debt 
reached  the  highest  point  in  August,  1865, 
when  it  was  $2,381,530,295.  The  vast- 
ness  of  this  sum  is  better  realized  when, 
as  before,  it  is  reduced  to  ton"  In  this 
instance  it  would  represent  70,156   tons 


of  silver,  which  would  make  a  procession 
of  carts  extending  from  Richmond,  Va  , 
to  a  point  twelve  miles  north  of  Philadel- 
phia, the  distance  being  266  miles.  The 
interest-bearing  debt  has  now — twenty- 
two  years  later — been  more  than  one  half 
paid.  In  other  words  the  Government 
has  reduced  its  bonded  debt  at  the  aston- 
ishingly rapid  rate  of  $2,007  for  every 
second,  or  for  every  swing  of  the  pendu- 
lum for  the  entire  period  from  August 
31,  1865,  to  July  31,  1887.  The  world's 
history  furnishes  no  such  parallel  of  the 
recuperation  and  material  progress  on  the 
part  of  a  country,  and  of  integrity  on  the 
part  of  a  government. — Standard. 
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A  MILHONAIIU5    IN  A  MINUTE. 

Instances  are  on  record  where  toilers  in 
gold  mines  and  diamond  fields,  who,  by 
one  turn  of  a  spade,  a  single  movement 
of  the  hand,  have  been  transformed  from 
penniless  laborers  to  millionaires.  But 
they  were  not  so  lucky  as  is  the  consump- 
tive who  finds  a  means  of  restoration  to 
health,  who  learns  that  the  dread  disease 
from  which  he  suffers  is  not  incurable. 
Dr.  Pierce's  Golden  Medical  uiscovery 
will  cure  consumption  (which  is  lung 
scrofula),  and  nothing  else  will.  For  all 
diseases  of  the  blood,  such  as  blotches, 
pimples,  eruptions,  scrofulous  sores  ^nd 
swellings,  it  is  unequaled. 

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THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


Fbbrxtabt  23, 1888 


NFWs  OF  The  week. 

WASHINGTON. 

The  President  expects  to  leave  Wash- 
ington Tuesday  for  a  short  visit  to  Flor- 
ida. He  will  be  accompanied  by  Mrs 
Cleveland  and  the  Secretary  of  the  Navy 
and  Mrs.  Whitney  and  Colonel  and  Mrs. 
Lamont.  The  party  will  go  by  special 
train,  and  no  stops  will  be  made  unless 
it  be  an  hour  at  Savannah  for  a  drive 
through  the  city.  Oae  day  will  be  spent 
at  Jacksonville  and  one  at  St.  Augustine. 
The  party  will  return  to  Washington  Sat- 
urday. 

The  House  Committee  on  Commerce 
has  decided  to  report  favorably  the  bill 
to  charter  the  Nicaragua  Canal  Company. 
The  committee  inserted  two  amendments 
in  the  original  bill,  the  first  requiring  a 
majority  of  the  directors  of  the  company 
to  beAmerican  citizens,  and  the  second  pro- 
viding that  the  president  of  the  company 
shall  be  a  citizen  and  resident  of  theUnited 
States . 

The  House  Committee  of  Indian  Af- 
fairs decided  to  report  a  bill,  providing 
for  the  division  of  the  great  Sioux  Rss- 
ervation  of  Dakota  into  separate  reser- 
vations, and  the  relicquishment  of  the 
Indian  title  to  theremimder.  Theprao 
tical  effect  of  the  measure,  if  it  becomes 
a  law,  will  be  to  open  to  settlement  11,- 
000,000  acres  of  the  23,000  000  acres  com- 
prising the  Great  Sioux  Reservation  in 
Dakota. 

CHICAGO. 

The  murder  of  A  J.  Snell  and  frequent 
burglaries  ia  the  city  have  led  Mayor 
Roche  to  agk  thereaignation  o/  the  Chief 
of  Police  E'jersold,  and  Geo.B.  Hubbard 
■  is  appointed  in  his  stead.  The  lack  of 
discipline  in  the  police  force  is  the  com- 
plaint. 

Young  Lee,  who  shot  S.  S.  Rawson, 
the  banker,  on  the  steps  of  the  Third 
Presbyterian  church  several  months  ago, 
has  been  sentenced  to  eighteen  months 
imprisonment  in  the  County  Jail  by  Judge 
Clifford.  Riwson  is  slowly  recovering 
from  his  almost  fatal  wounds. 

August  Hetzke  was,  Fridiy,  in  Judge 
Clifford's  court,  found  guilty  of  the  mur- 
der of  his  little  stepson,  and  his  punish- 
ment fixed  at  death  by  hanging.  The 
murder  was  committed  in  June  Hetzke 
beating  the  boy  to  death  with  a  strap. 

Two  rewards  of  $2,000  each  have  been 
offered  for  the  arrest  of  William  B .  Tas- 
cott,  the  supposed  murderer  of  Amos  J. 
Snell,  the  millionaire.  The  police  have 
evidence  which  they  believe  will  hang 
the  man,  and  are  confident  he  will  soon 
be  caught.  He  is  the  wayward  son  of  a 
well-to-do  family  on  the  West  Side. 

A  tunnel  to  be  constructed  anywhere 
between  Lake  and  Twelfth  streets  within 
the  next  five  years,  a  double  roadway 
bridge  at  Madison  street,  a  single  road- 
way bridge  at  Washington  street,  and 
twenty  five  ride  tickets  for  $1  were  the 
requirements  imposed  by  the  West  Side 
Committee  on  Streets  as  a  condition  for' 
granting  the  West  Side  cable  street  rail- 
way franchise. 

OOUNTRT. 

At  4:50  Sunday  afternoon  a  cyclone 
BtruckMt.Vernon,Ill.,from  the  northwest, 
and  sweeping  around  in  a  half-circle 
leveled  half  the  town  to  the  ground.  The 
remainder  caught  fire,  and  as  there  was 
a  strong  wind  blowing  the  flames  soon 
got  beyond  the  control  of  the  fire 
department.  The  situation  was  a  startling 
one.  High  above  the  whistling  of  the 
wind  and  the  fierce  crackling  of  the  flames 
could  be  heard  the  shrieks  and  groans  of 
the  dying.  All  over  the  ruined  part  of 
the  town  could  be  seen  bodies  half  buried 
beneath  the  ruins.  Assistance  was  secured 
from  Evansville,  Ind.,  and  other  points 
and  the  fire  was  subdued.  Churches,  the 
school  building,  court  house,  and  most  of 
the  business  houses  were  more  or  less 
demolished,  and  in  the  evening  the  dead 
were  believed  to  number  li."),  and  the 
in j  ured  were  numbered  all  the  way  from 
KXJ  to  2r)0.  Mt.  Vernon  is  a  town  of 
some  2,200  inhabitants,  and  is  the  county 
seat  of  Jefferson  county. 

The  Dakota  Territorial  Superintendent 
of  Public  Instruction  proposes  to  compile 
a  complete  list  of  those  who  perished  in 
Dakota  during  the  fatal  snowstorm  of 
Jan.  12  The  statistics  are  being  gatj£- 
ered  by  county  superintendents  of 
schools. 

The  Philadelphia  Public  Ltdr/er  pub- 
lishes an  editorial  from  its  proprietor, Mr. 


George  W.  Chllds,  who  emphatically  re- 
peats his  refusal  to  be  a  candidate  for 
President,  or  to  be  voted  for,  and  adds 
that  he  would  be  compiled  to  decline  the 
ot&ce,  honorable  and  exalted  as  it  is,  if 
by  any  chance  in  the  chapter  of  unfor- 
seen  events  he  should  happen  to  be 
elected. 

Letters  have  passed  between  represent- 
atives of  the  strikers  and  the  Reading 
management  looking  to  a  resumption  of 
work,  and  it  is  believed  that  the  pits  will 
again  soon  be  manned.  The  wages  ques- 
tion will  be  arbitrated  after  the  miners 
resume  work,  and  no  man  will  be  barred 
out  who  has  been  quiet  and  orderly  dur- 
ing the  troubles. 

Terrible  destitution  has  been  discovered 
among  the  striking  miners  at  Shenan- 
doah, Pa.,  several  families  having  been 
without  food  for  two  days.  Most  of  the 
contributions  intended  for  them  were  ab- 
sorbed by  the  railroaders  for  whose  benfit 
they  struck,  and  who  have  been  living  in 
clover  while  they  suffered. 

Four  men  entered  the  bank  at  Cisco, 
Texas,  Wednesday,  took  charge  of  the 
cashier  and  other  officials, collected  $6,000 
in  cash,  then  locked  the  officers  in  a  back 
yard  and  decamped,  firing  their  revolvers 
as  their  wagons  dashed  through  the 
streets. 

A  Grand  Trunk  passenger  train  from 
Toronto  collided  with  a  freight  near 
Hamilton,  Ontario,  Thursday  afternoon, 
wrecking  both  engines  and  hurling  ex- 
press and  baggage  cars  down  a  fifty-foot 
embankment.  The  fireman  of  the  ex- 
press and  a  freight  brakeman  were  killed, 
and  two  others  were  seriously  injured. 

A  derrick  used  in  building  an  elevated 
railroad  fell  upon  a  street  car,  in  Brook- 
lyn Tuesday  morning,  killing  four  men 
and  wounding  nine  others.  It  is  believed 
that  four  of  the  latter  cannot  recover. 

At  St  Marie,  111  .Mrs  Shelley,  the  wife 
of  a  farmer,  took  aim  with  what  she  sup- 
posed was  an  empty  musket,  at  Edward 
Dugy,  and  pulled  the  trigger.  The  weap 
on  was  loaded  with  buckshot,  and  the 
upper  portion  of  the  victim's  head  was 
blown  off. 

A  skiff  containing  eight  persons  was 
submerged  by  the  swells  of  a  steamer  a 
short  distance  below  New  Orleans,  and 
seven  of  those  on  board  were   drowned. 

Drunken  Hungarians  overturned  a 
lamp  at  Silver  Brook,  Pa  .Saturday  night, 
and  the  place  catching  fire  five  men  and 
a  girl  were  burned  to  death,  and  other 
persons  are  not  expected  to  recover. 

A  party  of  Hungarians  at  Spring  Gar- 
den, near  Mt  Pleasant,  engaged  in  a  row 
and  two  of  their  number  were  shot,  one 
of  them  being  fatally  wounded.  After 
the  fight  Constable  John  T.  Stauffer  went 
to  the  place  to  arrest  the  offenders,  when 
the  excited  foreigners  pounced  upon  him 
with  hatchets  and  cut  him  badly  about 
the  face.  He  was  carried  home  in  an  un- 
conscious condition,  but  he  will  recover . 

-    FOBBIGN. 

The  Pope  has  requested  Cardinal  Sim- 
eoni  to  advise  the  Irish  bishops  to  preach 
to  the  people  of  Ireland  respect  for  the 
laws  and  to  maintain  a  calm,  prudent  line 
of  conduct.  The  Pope  also  announced 
his  intention  to  send  to  Ireland  a  perma- 
nent apostolic  legate. 

Seven  persons  were  buried  by  the  ava- 
lanche which  has  blocked  the  end  of  St. 
Gothard  Tunnel. 

The  socialists  at  Amsterdam  made  a 
demonstration  against  the  militia  law 
Thursday.  Bodies  of  socialists  paraded 
the  streets  and  strongly  denounced  the 
law.  The  police  interfered  and  dispersed 
the  crowd.  Several  were  in j  ured,  and  a 
number  of  arrests  were  made. 

The  Jesuits  have  presented  to  the  Pope 
the  sum  of  40,000  pounds  as  the  Peter's 
Peace  contribution  of  their  order.  Va- 
rious valuables  which  were  presented  to 
the  Pope  as  jubilee  offerings,  and  which 
were  on  exhibition,  have  been  stolen 
from  the  Vatican.  Among  the  stolen  ar- 
ticles are  a  chalice  valued  at  2,000  pounds, 
some  gold  snuff  boxes,  and  several  pairs 
of  slippers. 

Two  Protestant  citizens  of  Spain  have 
been  condemned  to  six  months'  imprison-   J 
ment  for  refusing  to  kneel  before  the  Viati- 
cum.  The  Liberal  newspapers  arc  indig- 
nant at  this  display  of  intolerance. 

An  explosion  which  occurred  in  the 
Kreuzgraben  coal  mine,  near  Kaiserslan- 
tern,  Bavaria,  killed  forty  persons.  Thir- 
ty-six men  were  rescued. 


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CONTENTS. 


Bditobtal  : 
The  Evangf  list  Munhall. . 
Editorial «  orrespondence. 

An  Era  of  Strikes 

John  Brown,  Jr 

CoNTRiBtmoNS  : 
Infidelity,    epiritlem   and 

the  Lodge 

Notes  of  the  Crescent  City 

A  Cure  for  Cowardice. . . 

The  National  Convention 

Adi)re88  of  Pres.   J.  Blan- 

chard  

Rei  orf  of  Proceedings  — 

Letter  duTing  the  meeting 

Rbforh  New»: 

The  Maine  Christian  Asso- 

ctatlOD ;  i;rom  the  Wew 

Hampshire  Agent 


COKBBSPONDKNOH : 

Signs  of  the  Times;  The 
^ord  of  God  is  not 
Bound ;  Pith  and  Point.  5  6 

BiBLB  Lbsson 6 

Washington  Lettbe 12 

New  YoKK  Letter 12 

Obitoart 7 

Secret    Societies     Con- 
demned     7 

The  N.  C.  a 7 

ThbHomh 10 

Temperance U 

Religious  Nbws 12 

i.ODGE  Notes     13 

Home  and  Health 14 

In  Brief 15 

News  of  THB  Wbbk Ifi 

Markets 13 


TBK  XVANOBLIST  MUNHALL. 


The  career  of  this  servant  of  God  is  a  remarkable 
proof  that  it  is  "not  by  might  or  by  power,"  but  by 
the  Spiritof  God  that  great  labors  are  done  for  the 
church  of  Jesus  Christ.  The  grace  that  could 
come  upon  a  business  man  of  Indianapolis,  and 
cause  him  to  quit  his  money  getting  and  be- 
come an  agent  of  spiritual  blessing  to  millions,  is 
surely  from  heaven;  though  that  agent  may  not  be 
learned  in  the  schools  nor  be  consecrated  by  an 
ecclesiastical  formula. 

Leander  W.  Munhall  was  born  in  Zanesville,  Ind., 
June  7,  1843,  and  will  soon,  therefore,  be  forty-five 
years  old.  Much  of  his  youth  was  spent  in  Cin- 
cinnati, whither  his  parents  removed  when  he  was 
nine  years  old.  Though  a  member  of  a  Christian 
family,  he  grew  up  regardless  of  their  God,  and  was 
the  companion  of  idle,  pleasure-loving  young  men, 
and  with  them  he  went  the  rounds  of  city  life  in  Cin- 
cinnati and  Indianapolis,  where  he  afterward  resided. 
In  this  life  of  frivolity  and  folly  he  frequented  those 
places  where  many  of  his  companions  were  taking 
their  first  steps  to  ruin.  When  he  was  about  fifteen 
years  of  age,  an  event  occurred  which  made  a  per- 
manent impression  on  his  character,  and  though  af- 
terward apparently  effaced  for  a  time,  re-asserted  its 
influence  and  eventually  redeemed  it  from  the  down- 
ward forces  which  were  threatening  it  with  disaster. 
It  was  the  death  of  his  father.  He  was  one  day 
summoned  to  the  chamber  in  which  his  revered 
parent  lay,  in  what  proved  to  be  his  fatal  illness. 
With  the  solemnity  that  comes  to  all  with  the  ap- 
proach of  death,  the  father  spoke  to  his  son  about 
his  future  in  this  world  and  the  next.  Conscious 
that  the  boy  would  soon  be  left  without  a  father's 
watchful  care  in  the  midst  of  a  world  full  of  temp- 
tations, he  begged  him  to  give  his  heart  to  Christ 
and  to  consecrate  his  life  to  God.  At  the  close  of 
his  affectionate  appeal  the  father  had  the  boy  kneel 
down  at  his  bedside,  and  there  solemnly  commended 
him  to  God  and  gave  him  his  blessing.  That  scene 
was  never  forgotten.  Dr.  Munhall  has  said  often  in 
later  years,  as  he  has  surveyed  his  past  career,  "<An< 
too*  the  turning  point  in  my  tifr-."  At  first,  however, 
and  for  some  time  after  his  father's  death,  it  sec^med 
as  if  the  boy  was  unmindful  of  the  solemn  admoni- 
tion, and  in  spite  of  it  was  bent  on  evil  courses. 


Well  would  it  have  been  for  young  Munhall,  and 
great  joy  might  it  have  given  his  father  if  these  sol- 
emn paternal  counsels  bad  not  been  delayed  till  a 
dyipg  bed.  The  risk  is  too  great,  and  parents  should 
never  for  a  moment  forget  that  they  cannot  too 
early  begin  that  personal  instruction  in  righteous- 
ness which  shall  forestall  the  summons  of  death. 
Happily  the  grace  of  an  infinite  God,  acting  witb 
the  years  of  parental  example  upon  the  conscience 
and  the  natural  temperament  of  the  youth,  held  him 
back  from  the  worst  forms  of  dissipation.  He  was 
finally  led  by  the  Spirit  of  God  to  resolve  upon 
leading  a  new  life.  This  decision  was  arrived  at 
while  spending  a  Sabbath  morning  with  some  com- 
panions. Rising  from  the  table  at  which  he  sat,  he 
went  directly  home,  hunted  up  his  Bible,  and  in  the 
solitude  of  his  own  room  gave  himself  up  to  reading. 


DR.    L.    W.   MUNHALL. 

meditation  and  prayer.  He  did  not  stir  out  of  doors 
all  that  day.  He  sought  earnestly  for  light  and 
strength,  and  that  night  he  entered  into  the  joy  of 
acceptance — the  consciousness  of  forgiveness  through 
Christ  and  the  assurance  of  sonship  with  God.  He 
lost  no  time  in  applying  for  membership  in  a  Chris- 
tian church,  and  from  that  time  on  he  has  never 
wavered  in  his  Christian  profession. 

About  three  months  afterward  young  Munhall 
heard  the  call  of  his  country  and  enlisted  in  the  Union 
army.  During  the  war  he  passed  unharmed  through 
twenty  engagements,  protected  by  the  angeU  of 
God.  His  experience  in  the  service  was  valuable  in 
developing  his  powers  and  furnishing  his  mind  with 
many  incidents  which  he  uses  forcibly  to  illustrate 
his  preaching. 

Before  the  war  began  he  had  gone  through  a  pre- 
liminary course  of  medical  study,  and  on  coming 
back  to  civil  life  he  took  up  the  profession  of  surgi- 
cal dentistry  which  he  practiced  in  Indianapolis  for 
nine  years.  He  thus  acquired  his  title|  which  is 
sometimes  misunderstood  as  of  ecclesiastical  charac- 
ter. Though  his  practice  in  his  profession  in- 
creased so  rapidly  that  his  receipts  reached  the  com- 
paratively large  sum  of  $360  a  month,  and  his  time 
was  to  be  valued  at  that  rate,  he  reserved  a  large 
portion  of  it  for  Christian  service.  He  accepted 
the  position  of  president  of  the  local  Young  Men's 
Christian  Association,  and  threw  himself  into 
the  work  at  considerable  cost  of  time  and  labor. 
The  new  openings  which  this  office  afforded  him  for 
Christian  usefulness,  were  occupied  as  they  pre- 
sented themselves,  and  they  eventually  encroached 
upon  his  time  to  a  degree  that  left  him  but  little  for 
the  exercise  of  his  profession.  Finally  he  aban- 
doned it  ikitogether  on  being  offereti  the  post  of 
State  Secretary  of  the  Y.  M.  C.  A.  This  office  he 
held   for  ten  years,  working  in  it  with  indefatigable 


energy.  During  the  latter  p?rt  of  that  period,  four 
months  of  each  year  were  devoted  to  evangelistic 
work,  the  rest  of  the  year  being  occupied  with  office 
duties. 

The  blessing  of  God  was  evidently  given  to  his 
work  as  an  evangelist,  and  he  was  impelled  to  de- 
vote more  of  his  time  to  the  great  work  of  soul-sav- 
ing, and  finally  in  October,  1885,  he  laid  aside  all 
else  that  he  be  unhindered  in  this  mission  to  which 
'he  Spirit  of  God  evidently  called  him.  His  first 
great  success  was  during  the  succeeding  winter  in 
various  cities  and  towns  in  California  closing  with 
meetings  that  continued  for  several  weeks  in  Sin 
Francisco.  Here  after  a  Bible  reading  in  the  Y.  M. 
C.  A.  Hall  the  writer  first  met  him  He  was  then 
about  leaving  the  city  and  on  the  Sibbath  following 
gave  his  farewell  address  in  Dr.  Gibson's  United 
Presbyterian  church  on  Mason  Screet.  The  evidence 
that  his  work  had  been  thorough  was  not  wanting. 
The  vices  that  beset  church  members:  Sabbath- 
breaking,  dancing,  the  theater,  etc.,  he  had  rebuked 
in  the  name  of  the  Lord,  and  with  the  severity  which 
he  saw  the  case  demanded  in  a  great  city  so  full  of 
open  vice.  Not  a  few  were  displeased  with  his 
plainness  of  speech,  but  the  work  was  of  great  ben- 
efit to  all  the  churches. 

Eirly  in  June  he  came  to  Denver  and  assisted  by 
the  sweet  singer,  Charles  Herald,  continued  meet- 
ings for  a  month  in  which  the  churches  united  in  a 
large  rink.  All  were  greatly  revived.  It  was  here 
he  first,  so  far  as  reported  to  the  Cynosure,  began  to 
testify  against  the  lodge  evil  along  with  others  that 
assail  the  church. 

In  the  early  part  of  1887  Dr.  Munhall  commenced 
a  series  of  meetings  in  Brooklyn  Tabernacle  (Dr. 
Talmage's)  At  that  time  he  was  comparatively  un- 
known in  the  cities  of  New  York  and  Brooklyn,  but 
as  the  work  at  the  Tabernacle  went  on,  the  name  of 
the  evangelist  who  was  drawing  the  vast  crowds 
there  and  whose  words  were  being  blessed  to  the 
conversion  of  so  many  was  on  all  lip3.  Men  who 
went  out  of  curiosity  went  again  and  again,  and 
came  away  changed  for  time  and  eternity. 

Since  that  time,  in  Boston,  Toronto,  Columbus, 
Cleveland,  and  other  cities  Dr.  Munhall  has  labored 
with  much  success.  The  editor  of  Knox  College 
Monthly  says:  "Dr.  L.  W.  Munhall  is  one  of  the  best 
evangelists  Toronto  has  ever  heard.  He  belongs  to 
the  Moody  type.  He  has  not  had  the  experience  and 
lacks  some  of  Moody's  power,  but  he  is,  perhaps,  a 
more  thorough  Bible  student  and  is  certainly  a  bet- 
ter exegete.  He  is  sound  in  theology  and  reverenc- 
es the  Bible.  He  says  nothing  calculated  to  weaken 
the  icliuence  of  the  ministry,  and  honors  the  regular 
pastorate.  He  cares  little  for  mere  feeling,  and  de- 
tests the  buffoon." 

Of  his  convincing  testimony  against  the  secret 
orders  in  his  meetings  at  Columbus,  Ohio,  the 
agent  of  the  State  Christian  Association  wrote  to  the 
Cynosure  with  enthusiasm  last  November.  Dr. 
Munhall  has  had  personal  experience  of  the  inside 
of  several  lodges,  and  his  warnings  have  that  tone 
of  conviction  which  gainsayers  do  not  care  to  dis- 
pute. His  testimony,  however,  like  Mr.  Moody's, 
falls  short  in  this  respect:  it  is  not  concerned  with 
the  causes  which  in  the  lodge  produce  the  effects  of 
dissipation,  neglect  of  the  church,  worldliness  and 
infidelity.  They  object  to  these  effects  only.  It 
may  be, — it  must  be  that  they  see  more  or  less 
clearly  the  wickedness  of  the  oaths  and  blasphemies 
of  secretism,  but  prefer  to  speak  only  of  those  more 
open  and  public  characteristics  which  everybody 
of  candor  will  confess  to  be  of  evil  tendency.  It  is 
well  that  they  object  to  these,  as  corrupting  the  soul 
and  keeping  it  from  God;  but  if  this  were  all  that 
should  be  said  against  the  orders  the  tide  of 
loilgery  would  sweep  on  with  hardly  a  check  and 
soon  even  these  voices  of  warning  would  be  hushed. 
The  fact  that  the  lodge  is  assailed  fundamentally  in 
its  character  as  a  false  worship,  makes  it  possible 
for  these  brethren  to  speak  as  plainly  for  Clirist  as 
they  do  against  the  system.  We  thank  God  for  the 
boldness  be  has  given  th»^m,  and  pray  thit  they,  by 
the  Holy  Spirit,  may  be  so  (>nabled  to  preach  that 
we  shall  see  such  results  as  followed  Paul's  presK^h- 
ing  at  Epbesus.     Acts  19:  19. 


'A 


l^Effi  CHKISTIAN  CYKOSimE. 


March  1, 1888 


INFIDBLITT,  SPIRITISM  AND    THE  LODGE. 


BY  REV.  A.  H.  SPRINQSTBIN. 


Infidelity  is  always  one,  in  fact,  though  its  meth- 
ods are  various.  Robed  in  sophistry,  it  often  palms 
itself  off  as  philosophy.  Dressed  up  in  a  ritual,  it 
frequently  appears  as  a  religion.  In  some  instances 
it  depends  chiefly  on  a  specious  title  to  commend 
itself  to  the  unsuspecting. 

Infidelity  is  a  lie,  and  in  its  methods  it  is  a  fraud, 
for  it  is  a  system  of  deception.  The  trap  is  always 
concealed,  and  the  bait  is  always  something  appar- 
ently good.  There  is  never  in  the  name,  profession, 
or  outward  appearance,  anything  to  indicate  the 
real  character  or  design  of  error.  All  this  is  forci- 
bly illustrated  by  the  following  incident: 

A  Spiritualist  camp  meeting  was  held  at  Saranac, 
Mich.  Bro.  P.  asked  me  to  accompany  him  to  the 
ground.  My  first  thought  was,  that  it  would  be 
very  unwise  to  attend  such  a  meeting,  but  instantly 
the  Lord  told  me  to  go.  I  took  a  seat  in  the  back 
part  of  the  congregation.  Mr.  S.,  who  had  been  a 
Baptist  preacher,  delivered  a  metaphysical  address 
on  "Obsessions."  Capt.  B.,  with  much  earnestness 
and  severity,  chided  the  Spiritualists  for  their  want 
of  religion.  He  said  that  philosophy  reasons,  but 
religion  sings.  Spiritualism  had  become  a  dry  philos- 
ophy— there  was  no  religion  about  it.  That  large 
congregation  could  not  even  sing  a  religious  melody; 
they  tried  several  times  and  failed.  Said  he:  As  phi- 
losophers, we  have  taken  the  field — have  won  the 
belt;  no  one  ventures  a  reply  any  more,  unless  it  be 
some  ignorant  country  priest.  But  we  have  no  re- 
ligion; if  we  had  we  could  sing.  If  there  were  a 
lot  of  Methodists  here  there  would  be  some  singing, 
for  they  have  religion." 

A  leading  Spiritualist  came  to  me  and  strongly 
urged  me  to  go  forward  and  address  the  congrega- 
tion. I  refused,  but  told  him  that  I  would  like  to 
ask  a  question.  He  went  to  the  stand  and  whis- 
pered to  some  of  the  leaders.  The  president  rose 
and  announced  that  there  was  a  Methodist  preacher 
present  who  desired  to  speak.  The  lecturers  rose  to 
their  feet  and  cried,  "Let  the  gentleman  come  for- 
ward," and  the  call  became  general  and  clamorous. 
With  some  difficulty  I  got  their  consent  to  stand 
where  I  was.  I  assured  them  that  I  would  be  very 
willing  to  make  a  speech  after  my  question  should 
be  disposed  of. 

The  lecturers,  mediums  and  officers  were  all 
seated  on  a  long  plank  in  the  pulpit,  all  being  ready 
for  my  question.  I  stood  on  a  seat  and  said,  "Mr. 
8.  stated  that  there  was  no  intelligent,  personal  God; 
that  God  and  the  vital  forces  of  nature  are  one  and 
the  same.  He  stated,  further,  that  the  word  spirit 
was  from  the"Latin,  spiro,  to  breathe;  hence  spirit 
and  breath,  or  air,  were  identical;  and  there  was, 
therefore,  no  personal,  intelligent  spirit.  Mr.  S.,  is 
this  your  belief?" 

He  cried  out,  "It  is." 

"But  do  you,  as  a  Spiritualist,  believe  this?" 

He  said,  "Yes." 

"Is  this  the  belief  of  all  the  Spiritualists  pres- 
ent?" 

With  one  voice,  they  shouted,  "Yes." 

"Is  this,  then,  the  doctrine  of  Spiritualism?" 

They  all  answered,  "Yes,  it  is." 

"  But  are  you  willing  to  have  it  known  that  that 
is  the  doctrine  of  Spiritualism?"  They  said  that 
they  were  anxious  to  have  the  whole  world  know 
that  Spiritualists,  as  such,  held  and  advocated  this 
tenet  as  a  vital  and  fundamental  truth. 

Pointing  to  Mr.  S.  I  said,  "You  have  a  badge — a 
square  and  compass;  does  that  mean  that  you  are  a 
Freemason?" 

"Yes,"  said  he,  "I  am  a  Mason,  and  I  am  not 
ashamed  of  it." 

Said  I,  "The  president,  Mr.  H.,  has  the  same 
badge.    Is  he  a  Mason?" 

He  replied,  "Yea." 

I  continued,  "Mr.  S.  and  Capt.  B.  have  three 
links.     Does  that  mean  that  they  are  Odd-fellows?" 

They  answered,  "Yes,  and  we  are  proud  of  it." 

"  Well,"  said  1,  "As  Spiritualists,  you  believe  that 
Q<A  and  nature  are  identical,  and  that  spirit  is 
breath  or  air;  as  Masons  and  Odd-fellows,  do  you 
say  the  same?     This  is  my  question." 

All  was  painfully  still. 

In  a  moment,  I  said,  "Perhaps  I  am  the  ignorant 
country  priest  referred  to  by  Capt.  B.,  but  I  insist 
on  an  answer."  There  was  a  great  amount  of  sup- 
pressed excitement. 

I  continued,  "My  name  is  A.  H.  Springstein;  1 
live  in  this  town.  I  was  a  Master  Mason,  but  I  have 
renounced  Masonry,  and  Masons  accuse  me  of  lying 
because  I  teach  that  Masonry  is  infidelity.  Odd-fel 
lows  especially  protest  that  their  order  is  in  harmony 
with  the  Bible.     I  shall  hold  the  Masons  and  Odd- 


fellows accountable  for  your  utterance.  You  must 
be  called  to  account  by  the  lodge,  or  lodge  men  will 
be  driven  to  confess  that  secretism  is  a  conspiracy 
against  the  truth  of  God." 

At  that,  Capt.  B.  jumped  to  his  feet  and  con- 
tended that  I  had  no  right  to  call  any  man  to  ac- 
count, for  the  only  law  that  should  govern  men  was 
inclination  or  impulse.  He  declared  that  every 
man  had  ''a  perfect  right  to  do  just  as  he  pleased. 
Though  he  was  furiously  excited,  he  saw,  as  did  all 
the  rest,  that  he  was  granting  me  the  fullest  liberty 
to  expose  Masonry.  He  stopped  short,  and  with 
vengeance  in  his  eyes,  he  spit  out,  "Unless  you 
cross  my  path."  That  part  was  Masonry,  and 
everybody  saw  it.  But,  instead  of  answering  my 
question  or  calling  for  a  speech,  they  all  rose  up  and 
there  was  the  wildest  confusion. 

The  lodge  men  shyed  off,  but  the  crowd  gathered 
around  me  in  search  of  "light."  A  leading  medi- 
um worked  her  way  through  the  crowd  and  said, 
"Where  is  the  gentleman?  I  must  shake  hands 
with  him." 

Taking  my  hand,  she  said,  "I  want  to  tell  you 
that  a  man  who  can  pass  through  such  a  scene  in 
the  manner  you  have  done,  has  something  unusually 
good  in  store  for  him  in  the  higher  spheres  in  the 
other  world." 

I  replied,  "That  good  thing  in  store  for  me  is  a 
crown  of  glory,  purchased  by  the  blood  of  Christ; 
and  I  have  the  witness  in  my  heart  that  I  am  an 
heir  through  Christ  to  the  heavenly  inheritance." 
Said  she,  "I  am  glad  to  hear  it." 

The  meeting  was  across  the  river,  half  a  mile 
from  town.  As  we  left  the  ground  the  president 
took  my  arm,  and  as  we  walked  along  he  told  me 
that  I  had  told  the  truth  about  Masonry.  Said  he, 
"It  would  be  debasing  to  a  dog  to  go  through  the 
blue  lodge  degrees  as  I  took  them." 

I  asked  him  why  he  did  not  come  out.  Said  he, 
"I  would  not  stay  in  a  day  but  for  the  use  I  can 
make  of  it." 

Conclusion: 

1.  Freemasonry  and  Spiritualism  are  substan- 
tially the  same. 

2.  They  are  both  essentially  and  thoroughly  bad. 
Pontiac,  Mich. 


NOTES  OF  THE    ORE  SOB  NT  OITT. 


THE   MARDI   QRAS  CARNIVAL. 


BY  REV.  A.   J.   CHITTENDEN. 

I  hardly  know  whether  a  description  of  the  Mardi 
Gras  pageantry  would  be  worth  writing  or  reading. 
It  memorializes  nothing  historic,  deals  with  almost 
nothing  that  is  real  or  true,i3  diseased  in  its  poetry, 
abnormal  in  its  art,  dehumanizing  like  all  masque- 
rades— I  might  say  monkey-izing — and  enormously 
wasteful  of  money,  enthusiasm  and  artistic  genius. 

The  conceptions  of  the  street  displays  were  of  the 
legendary  mythical  kind,  in  which  the  natural  is 
racked,  twisted,  distorted  and  transmigrated  into 
the  preternatural,  subnatural  and  infernal. 

In  the  day  time  it  was  a  rather  popular  represent- 
ation of  the  flower  kingdom,  with  human-sized  rep- 
resent ition  of  all  the  reptiles  and  insects  that  infest 
that  fair  kingdom  in  Louisiana.  At  night  it  was 
dragons,  serpents,  burning  mountains  and  devils, 
mermaids  in  the  sea  and  submarine  scenes  wonder- 
fully realistic  and  truly  astonishing.  There  were 
m£(8ked  men  and  women  gorgeously  dressed  (or  un- 
dressed) on  every  "float,"  some  mounted  on  thrones, 
some  on  horses,  others  half  submerged,  and  others 
still  just  out  of  hell  in  the  side  of  a"burning  mount- 
ain." 

These  floats,  including  the  day  and  evening  dis- 
play, represented  about  one  thousand  dollars  each, 
aad  there  were  I  judge,  without  counting,  about  fifty 
of  them.  The  aggregate  cost  is  reported  as  high  as 
$60,000  and  $75,000.  Of  course  this  money  passes 
somewhat  into  the  hands  of  the  poor  people  who 
prepare  carts,  masks  and  costumes,  also  to  mechan- 
ics, ball-room  tailors,  and  numberless  trades  and 
traflics.  But  it  is  a  poor  apology  for  any  annual 
convocation  to  simply  make  work  for  the  poor. 
Things  that  are  trulj  good  in  themselves  also  give 
employment  to  the  needy.  That  plea  alone  would 
vote  for  an  epidemic,  to  give  work  for  coffia-makers, 
grave-diggers  and  shroud-makers.  A  conllagration 
makes  work;  so  does  a  deluge.  I  am  compelled  to 
regard  the  whole  affair  as  deified  ipoH — a  species  of 
idolatry  originating  with  those  who  are  "lovers  of 
pleasure  more  than  lovers  of  God." 

This  carnival  was  imported  from  Paris  by  the 
sons  of  wealthy  New  Orleans  families,sent  there  for 
education.  Paris  and  Vienna,  with  other  Mediter- 
ranean cities,  received  it  as  the  modernized  saturn- 
alia favored  by  the  Romish  church  and  popish  gov- 


ernments— which  have  always  found  amusement  the 
cheapest  way  of  managing  a  poor  and  ignorant  peo- 
ple. 

Further  back,  in  the  classic  times,  it  was  the  re- 
ligion of  the  heathen,  whose  religious  enthusiasm 
was  the  fascination  of  the  infernal.  In  other  times 
this  mask  wearing  protected  the  audacious  citizen 
who  chose  to  burlesque  the  pretentions  of  royalists. 
His  pranks,  like  those  of  the  court  fool,  were  re- 
garded as  lightly  as  possible,  and  the  dumb  speech- 
es of  the  masqueraders  were  their  annual  parliament 
that  expressed  much  feeling  but  passed  no  laws. 

But  there  is  another  side  of  this  mask  affair  that 
is  a  study  for  the  moralist.  Why  should  people 
crave  the  opportunity  of  hiding  their  personality  on 
certain  occasions?  For  these  carnivals  are  invari- 
ably interluded  with  the  midnight  ball  en  matqtie. 
What  is  that  peculiar  interest  that  people  have  in 
holding  the  hand  of  another  incognito?  Is  there  an 
intoxication  in  secrecy,  that  loves  it  for  its  own 
sake?  Is  there  a  kind  of  generic  inter- sexual  aban- 
don of  feeling  or  sentiment  that  would  be  restrained 
under  common  social  law  if  the  parties  were  indi- 
vidualized and  known?  These  performances  cer- 
tainly have  to  be  classed  among  "the  unfruitful(?) 
works  of  darkness."  Certain  it  is  that  every  sin- 
mill  in  this  city  was  run  at  the  highest  pressure  of 
devil  power  that  could  possibly  be  used  on  the  weak, 
the  wanton  and  the  wicked.  Saloon  gates  were 
flung  wide  open  and  the  meek-eyed  police  did  not 
see  them.  Theaters  attached  to  them  outdid  the 
"midsummer  night's  dream."  All  grades  of  people, 
men  and  women  in  flaming  dress,  were  reeling  on 
the  btreets  or  shouting  inebrious  nonsense.  The 
only  really  pretty  thing  about  it  all  was  the  inno- 
cent glee  of  the  children  in  the  day  time.  It  was  a 
great  day  for  them. 

The  mask  is  a  success  in  making  the  human  look 
hideous — which  itself  is  a  sin.  It  surprises,  and 
when  unsuspected  pleases  for  a  moment.  Because 
it  is  more  easily  overdone  than  any  other  sport,  it 
easily  disgusts  the  better  mind  and  has  really  no 
apology  while  there  are  so  many  other  ways  of  pass- 
ing time.  One  irreparable  fault  in  it,  as  an  art,  is 
the  fact  that  no  mask  can  make  a  live  man  or  wom- 
an look  well.  An  animated  body  with  a  dead,  mo- 
tionless and  emotionless  face  is  simply  the  abomin- 
able in  art.  Hundreds  of  fine  looking  men  and  bet- 
ter looking  women  stood  on  every  block,  gazing  on 
the  gorgeous  scenery  of  the  floats."  Not  a  single 
good  looking  person  stood  on  them.  Their  kings 
and  queens  were  flat  and  silly  faced.  The  enthusi- 
asm of  the  people,  too,  fell  far  short  of  our  expecta- 
tion. Christian  enthusiasm  will  regenerate  the 
sports  of  any  people. 


A  CURE  FVU  {.,uw.a.JiDIOB, 


BY    B.   E.    FLAGG. 


How  many  times  the  Bible  asserts  of  idols  that 
they  are  nothing,  less  than  nothing  and  vanity;  but 
while  the  African  savage  believes  in  the  reality  of 
his  fetish,  he  bows  before  it  in  as  abject  terror  as  if 
it  were  actually  gifted  with  all  the  baleful  powers 
he  attributes  to  it.  So  Masonry  in  itself  is  nothing, 
its  oaths  are  null,  its  secrets  empty  as  the  east  wind, 
but  while  its  Grand  Master  can  delude  the  unthink- 
ing multitude  into  believing  the  reverse  of  this,  its 
nightmare  spell  of  terror  will  remain  unbroken.For  in- 
vest the  simplest  thing  with  mystery,  make  a  bugaboo 
of  it,and  it  becomes  terrible. The  fear  which  besets  so 
many  people  at  any  mention  of  the  lodge  is  as  base- 
less as  the  fear  to  pass  a  graveyard  after  dark. 
How  shall  this  spiritual  cowardice  be  conquered?  I 
know  of  but  one  way, — to  keep  in  the  light.  The 
veriest  coward  alive  cannot  be  frightened  by  the 
sight  of  a  white  sheet  in  the  daytime. 

In  Him  is  no  darkness  at  all — He  who  walks  in 
the  midst  of  the  seven  golden  candlesticks,  whose 
eyes  are  as  a  flame  of  fire  to  pierce  through  every  ref- 
uge of  lies.  But  it  makes  a  vast  deal  of  difference 
whether  we  walk  side  by  side  in  the  intimacy  of 
loving  companionship,or  whether  we  follow  afar  off; 
for  the  light  is  all  before  and  the  shadows  all  behmd. 
They  stretch  long  and  darkling  and  eerie  over  the 
way  of  the  fearful  and  the  doubting  and  the  half- 
hearted and  the  halting  between  two  opinions.  Such 
live  on  a  kind  of  debatable  ground,  the  haunt  of 
specters.  Anybody  who  lingers  there  may  expect 
to  see  goblins.  This  is  the  true  philosophy  of  that 
nameless  dread  which  invests  Masonic  oaths  and 
Masonic  secrets  in  the  eyes  of  pastor  and  layman. 
I  affirm  unhesitatingly  that  because  it  is  only  the 
Image  of  the  Beast,  because  it  is  only  a  warfare 
against  specters  and  not  against  men,  by  so  much 
does  it  afford  a  more  crucial  test  of  courage;  and  if 
they  who  are  equal  to  the  contest  are  as  yet  only  a  Gid- 
eon's band,  it  is  no  matter  for  wonder,  still  less  for 


March  1, 1888 


THE  CHKISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


discouragement.  The  church  is  still  the  star-crowned 
woman  of  the  Apocalypse,  hated  of  the  dragon,  but 
unconquerable;  and  the  refuge  of  the  saints  is  still, 
in  Luther's  sublime  words,  "under  heaven;"  where- 
ever  their  Father  reigns,  wherever  his  love  extends, 
wherever  his  ministers  of  sun    and  wind  do  his 

pleasure. 

*  ■  » 

THE  1^  ATIONAL  COE  YENTION. 


ADDRESS  BT  PRE8.  J.   BLANGHARD,  AT 
JUBW  0RLBAS8,  FEB.  20,  1888. 

This  is,  indeed,  an  extraordinary  meeting.  We 
are  met  tonight  here,  near  the  center  of  our  Amer- 
ican continent,  and  the  longest  continuous  belt  of 
land  on  the  globe,  to  consider  our  American  institu- 
tions, what  endangers  them  and  what  may  preserve 
them. 

We  are  here,  not  only  in  a  commercial  center  be- 
tween Labrador  and  Cape  Horn,  but  also  in  a  center 
of  all  shades  of  human  complexion,  and  all  sorts  of 
society,  from  civilized  to  savage.  If,  as  seems  now 
not  unlikely  to  occur,  railroads,  telegraphs,  tele- 
phones, and  other  inventions  not  yet  bom,  shall 
soon  make  the  people  of  North  and  South  America 
next  neighbors  to  each  other;  and  if  the  tall,  stal- 
wart, dark-brown  Patagonians  shall  be  conversing 
with  the  short,  swarthy,  copper-hued  Esquimaux, 
over  wires  9,000  miles  long;  and  if,  at  the  same 
time,  the  yellow  Chinaman  in  Alaska,  should 
chance  to  be  talking  with  Negroes  in  Brazil,  their 
wires  would  cross  each  other  over  our  heads  neay 
this  "Crescent  City" — where  we  meet.  And  if  these 
remote  neighbors  should  be  Christians  and  Ameri- 
cans, not  knowing,  or  not  caring,  that  some  wore  the 
^hue  of  their  great  Confucius,  and  others  the  complex- 
ion of  the  sable  hero  of  St.  Domingo,  Toussaint  L' 
Ouverture,  so  celebrated  by  Whittier  and  Words- 
worth; and  should  we  take  the  telegrams  from  their 
wires,  their  silent  gliding  messages  would  mean  that 
"God  hath  made  of  one  blood  all  nations  of  men  to 
dwell  on  all  the  face  of  the  earth;  and  hath  deter- 
mined the  times  before  appointed,  and  the  bounds  of 
their  habitations — that  they  should  seek  the  Lord,  if 
haply  they  might  feel  after  him  and  find  him, 
though  he  be  not  far  from  every  one  of  us."  Acts 
17:  26-27.  And  if  our  Saviour  stood  with  us  to- 
night as  he  stood  in  the  synagogue  at  Nazareth, 
he  might  say  to  us  as  to  them,  "This  day  is  this 
scripture  fulfilled  in  your  ears." 

If  we  are  to  aid  men  to  come  to  Christ,  we  are 
indeed  opportunely  met.  For  we  are  here,  as  Paul 
"stood  in  the  midst  of  Mar's  Hill,"  to  show  the 
diflference  between  religion  and  idolatry,  false 
worship  and  true.  And  if  there  ever  was  a  fitting 
time  and  place  to  seek  the  Lord,  to  learn  the  relation 
of  our  nation  to  his  kingdom, — nay,  to  "find"  the 
Lord  himself,  to  embrace  him  by  faith  and  yield  a 
loving  obedience  to  his  reign,  this  would  seem  that 
time  and  place. 

In  this  city,  where  the  worst  passions  of  the  worst 
war  once  raged  hottest,  there  are  not  probably  ten 
intelligent  persons  who  would  wish  the  results  of 
the  war  reversed.  Among  these  results  are:  the 
rise  of  the  anti-liquor  reform,  the  perfect  pacifica- 
tion of  the  States,  and  the  gradual  reconciliation 
of  races  and  sections.  Slavery  was  a  perpetual 
menace  and  terror.  Some  of  us  here  are  old  enough 
to  remember  the  annual  agony  of  the  West  India 
Islands,  as  Christmas  time  approached.  Planta- 
tions used  to  be  thinned  and  blackened  by  execu- 
tions, massacres  and  burnings;  and  infant  slaves 
were  taken  in  to  sleep  in  mansions  to  save  those 
mansions  from  being  burned  with  their  owners  at 
night.  All  that  terror  has  forever  passed  away. 
Fifty-four  years  ago  (Aug.  1,  1834),  eight  hun- 
dred thousand  slaves  in  those  islands  knelt  down, 
and  when  the  clock  had  tolled  the  hour,  rose  up 
freedmen,  shouting,  "Glory  to  God." 

Even  in  our  country,  so  new  and  vast  that  slavery 
had  not  had  time  to  show  all  the  terrors  of  its  na- 
ture, we  remember  the  Nat.  Turner  insurrection  in 
Virfi;inia,  which  furnished  sixty  white  corpses  for  a 
single  funeral !  Yet  a  full  quarter  of  a  century  has 
passed  since  our  slavery  fell,  and  instead  of  the  hor- 
rors which  both  North  and  South  predicted  would 
follow  emancipation,  the  fruit  of  righteousness  has 
been  peace,  quietness  and  assurance,  as  proclaimed 
by  the  prophet  Isaiah, 

A  Tennessee  Judge  said  the  other  day,  "The  col- 
ored people  have  laid  us  under  obligation.  I  left 
my  family  in  the  care  of  my  servants,  fought 
three  years  in  the  confederate  service,  and," — point- 
ing to  his  fine  buildings,  "I  came  home  and  found 
all  safe  under  their  hands."  The  experience  of  the 
Southern  judge  is  not  singular.  The  colored  people 
in  our  States  and  islands  are  two  or  three  million 


more  than  the  whole  people  of  Ireland;  and  there 
have  been  more  tumults  in  Ireland  in  a  single  year 
than  in  our  country,  the  West  Indies  included,  in  a 
quarter  century  of  emancipation.  The  demeanor  of 
the  freedmen  has  falsified  all  the  predictions  of  evils 
which  were  to  follow  freedom.  We  have  hung 
anarchists  for  warring  on  government;  but  they 
were  not  colored  anarchists. 

Nor  can  it  be  said  that  the  Christian  deportment 
of  the  millions  emancipated  has  been  owing  to  their 
lack  of  capacity  or  courage.  Seventy-three  years 
ago,  Jan.  8tb,  1815,  a  battalion  of  negro  soldiers 
fought  under  General  Jackson  in  the  battle  of  New 
Orleans,  and  they  received  the  high  commendation 
of  that  great  chieftain  for  their  share  in  the  bravery 
and  enthusiasm  which  won  that  resplendent  victory; 
and,  moreover,  two  hundred  thousand  colored 
troops,  at  the  close  of  our  civil  war,  stacked  their 
arms,  which  they  had  borne  with  honor,  were  mus- 
tered out,  and  went  home — if  indeed  they  had 
homes.  And  the  history  of  the  human  race  does  not 
furnish  a  parallel  to  the  peace  and  progress  which 
have  followed  civil  changes,  at  once  so  radical  and 
so  vast. 

Allowing  all  we  must  for  the  infirmities,  sins,  and 
miseries  which  have  followed,  and  may  yet  follow  our 
terrible  civil  convulsions,  history  will  pronounce  the 
peaceful  results  which  have  followed  to  be  honora- 
ble alike  to  both  parties,  and  especially  honorable 
to  the  party  which  has  suffered  most.  For  if  "to  err 
is  human"  to  forgive  is  certainly  "divine."  In  the 
words  of  an  eminent  American,  "We  stand  here  on 
the  grave  of  buried  prejudices."  We  have  crossed 
the  red  sea  of  slavery.  Let  us  now  see  if  we  can 
escape  from  the  dismal  swamps  of  the  lodge. 

The  eloquent  Presbyterian,  Dr.  Thomas  G.  Thomas, 
used  to  insist  that  "slavery  was  the  last  hope  of  the 
devil."  But  it  slavery  was  Satan's  last  hope  for 
gaining  America,  and  so  governing  the  world,  it 
would  seem  that  in  his  struggle  with  Christ  for  the 
world's  worship  the  lodge  is  his  "last  ditch."  And 
the  tokens  brighten  that  he  is  soon  to  be  driven 
from  that.  For  Africa  has  been  the  cross-bearing 
continent  since  the  African  "Simon  the  Cyrenian" 
was  compelled  by  his  crucifiers  to  bear  Christ's 
cross.  The  Negro  has  been  at  the  bottom  of  the 
races,  and  in  moving,  both  in  Africa  and  here  in 
America,  to  reach  and  rescue  him  from  the  lodge- 
worships  of  idolatry,  God  is  kindling  his  fire  at  the 
bottom  of  the  human  grate.  And,  this  done,  the 
earth  will  soon  be  ablaze  with  his  glory.  It  surely 
looks  as  if  the  lodge  is  the  devil's  "last  ditch"  in 
his  war  on  our  race. 

Religion,  like  every  good  thing,has  its  counterfeit. 
An  opposition  god  appears  in  Eden  to  deceive 
Eve.  He  is  called,  "that  old  serpent  the  devil  and 
Satan"  (Rev.  21:2),  and  the  split  which  he  inaugu- 
rated continues  still.  Cain  invented  his  religion, 
while  Abel  worshiped  "6y  faith."  Cain's  offering  was 
Masonic,  "the  fruits  of  the  earth."  Abel's  was 
Christian,  a  symbol  of  Christ.  Cain's  religion  was 
ceremonies.  Abel's  lamb  was  Christ,  the  "Lamb 
slain  from  the  foundation  of  the  world."  These  two 
altars,  Cain's  and  Abel's,  stand  out  before  the  ages, 
representing  false  religion  and  true. 

A  South  Sea  Indian  used  to  set  up  a  log  on  end, 
smear  it  with  berries,  kill  his  hog,  throw  it  down  be- 
fore his  idol  and  go  away  satisfied.  Every  rap  of  a 
lodge  gavel,  every  question  and  response,  every  cer- 
emony,in  short,  in  secret  lodges  or  out,which  is  done 
to  enforce  obligation,  appease  conscience,  or  procure 
favor  from  unseen  powers,  which  is  not  enjoined  in 
the  Bible,  but  self-projected  or  invented  by  men,  is 
but  a  repetition  of  that  Indian's  worship  of  his  log. 
Now  such  a  worship,  whether  performed  in  a 
church,  convent,  lodge-room  or  African  jungle,takes 
the  mind  nowhere  and  lands  it  upon  nothing.  Nor, 
even  if  the  act  or  ceremony  is  Bible-enjoined,  is  it 
any  better  if  the  worshiper  rests  in  it,  and  does  not 
come  unto  God.  '^Qui  haeret  inlitera,  haeeitin  cortice." 
And  no  finite  mind  can  go  to  the  infinite  God  with- 
out a  mediator  to  take  it  to  him.  A  human  soul, 
attempting  to  reach  the  infinite  God  without  a  medi- 
ator, is  like  a  child  launching  at  midnight  on  a 
shoreless  ocean  without  a  pilot  or  compass  or  a  light 
by  which  to  see  a  compass,  hoping  to  reach  shore 
where  there  is  no  shore,but  infinite  distance.  Christ 
is  that  "one  Mediator."  The  inference  of  Nicode- 
mus  is  exact:  "No  man  can  do  these  miracles  that 
thou  doest  except  God  be  with  him."  That  is  to 
say,  Christ  exercised  divine  power  and  so  was  and  is 
"God  manifest." 

The  Jesus  Christ  of  the  New  Testament  is  the  Je- 
hovah of  the  Old  Testament  "Moses  and  the  proph- 
ets" wrote  of  him.  Abraham  saw  his  day;  and  John 
proclaimed  him  to  the  multitudes  and  pointed  him 
out!  And  from  Eden,  where  he  was  proclaimed  the 
Serpent-bruiser  to  come,  to  the  "Come,  Lord  Jesus" 
of  the  Revelation,  he  appears  throughout  "the  ex- 


press image  of  (Jod's  person;"  so  that  "he  that  hath 
seen  Christ  hath  seen  the  Father." 

Thus  the  principle  of  idolatry,  in  its  endless  di- 
versities, is  one,  viz  ,  rtjecting  Christ.  And  this  the 
lodge  does  by  omitting  him  altogether  where  nam- 
ing him  would  be  worship,  or  by  offering  him  lodge 
worship  fit  only  for  devils. 

But  may  not  pagans  be  blindly  honoring  Christ? 
The  answer  is.  No.  Paganism  is  not  Christianity, 
nor  are  pagans  Christians.  Nobody  bslieves  they 
are.  Paul  in  the  first  chapter  of  Romans  abundant- 
ly shows  that.  So  if  Freemasonry  is  paganism,  it 
deprives  men  of  access  to  God  by  Christ,  and  is 
therefore  opposition  to  God  and  goodness.  And 
Fkkemasonry  is  paganism.  The  proof  is  this,  if 
any  proof  is  needed.  The  learned  Warburton,  quot- 
ed approvingly  by  the  Encyclopedia  of  Dr.  Albert 
G.  Mackey,  gives  this  direct  testimony:  "Each  of 
the  pagan  gods  (Div.  Legation,  I,  2:4)  had,  besides 
the  public  and  open,  a  secret  worship  paid  to  him, 
to  which  none  were  admitted  but  those  who  had 
been  selected  by  preparatory  ceremonies,  called  ini- 
tiation." This  is  explicit.  Every  pagan  shrine  was 
a  lodge.  (Mackey's  Encyclopedia,  Art.  Mysteries 
Ancient ) 

But  were  they  Masonic  mysteries?  Hear  Dr. 
Mackey  again:  "Egypt  has  always  been  considered 
the  birthplace  of  the  mysteries.  This  system  was 
disseminated  throughout  Greece  and  Rome  and  other 
countries  of  Europe  and  Asia,giving  origin,  .to  that 
mysterious  association  which  is  now  represented  by 
the  institution  of  Freemasonry."  (Encyclopedia,  Art 
Egyptian  Mysteries.) 

This,  again,  is  explicit  Freemasonry  is  born  of 
Egyptian  paganism,  the  vilest  of  all  pagani3m,which 
has  by  its  brute-worship  sunk  Egyptians,  whose  an- 
cestors built  the  Pyramids,  to  the  starved  and  mort- 
gaged serfs  of  a  handful  of  London  capitalists,  and 
this  paganism  is  put  by  the  highest  Masonic  author- 
ities above  Christianity  as  more  ancient  and  more  ven- 
erable. This  attempt  to  plant  Egyptian  Masonry  in 
the  United  States  is  only  equaled  in  insolence  by 
the  Mormon  attempt  to  plant  Asiatic  and  Afric  in 
seraglios  in  the  heart  of  America,  giving  each  nabob 
as  many  women  as  he  has  money  to  sustain!  And 
this  shameless  lodge  assures  its  stripped  and  blind- 
ed candidates  that  it  has  nothing  in  it  opposed  to 
Christianity;  and  Mormonism  names  itself  a  "church 
of  Jesus  Christ,"  while  scouting  Christ's  holy  law  of 
marriage  and  sinking  men  from  families  into  herds, 
where  each  master-beast  is  lord  of  his  harem.  One 
feels  himself  degraded  by  reasoning  with  such  peo- 
ple. 

Gen.  Albert  Pike,"Sovereiga  Grand  Commander" 
of  Masons,  has  translated  for  Masonic  uses  two 
large  volumes  of  this  Asiatic  heathenism  from  the 
Vedas  and  Zend  Avesta,  one  of  800,  the  other  of 
1,200  pages,  which  are  still  unpublished  manuscripts. 
These  are  books  of  the  old  Hindu  and  Hindu-Per- 
sian religions,  the  moral  meanness  of  which  would 
appear  at  once  to  the  American  masses  if  they  could 
read  them.  It  is  sufficient  for  us  to  notice  that  mil- 
lions in  Asia  and  in  Africa  who  believe  in  those  re- 
ligions go  naked  or  but  pirtially  clad,  and  millions 
toil  without  a  full  meal's  vic-uals  from  one  year  to 
another,  while  their  nobles  and  princes  send  their 
children  to  us  around  the  globe  for  the  knowledge 
which  is  to  be  had  in  our  cjmmoa  schools.  Tne 
American  traveler,  Bayard  Taylor,  in  his  "China, 
India  and  Japan,"  explains  the  philosophy  of  their 
degradation. 

Mr  Taylor  says:  "The  principle  of  their  religion 
not  being  the  love  of  God  but  fear  of  the  devil,they 
contrive  to  propitiate  their  neglected  Satans  once  a 
year  by  a  terrible  thumping  of  tom-toms  and  sputter 
of  fireworks  lasting  three  or  four  days."  These 
poor  people  worship  devils,  and  of  course  become 
like  the  gods  they  worship.  And  yet  we  have  lodg- 
es in  nearly  every  town  and  hamlet  between  the  oceans 
whose  leaders  boast  their  derivation  from  African 
pagans.  Of  course,  these  lodges  send  no  missiona- 
ries to  the  heathen.  Christian  missions  are  a  mis- 
take. Why  send  missionaries  to  enlighten  those 
from  whom  the  lodge  draws  its  light?  Christianity 
is  a  mistake.  Christ  was  no  more  than  Confucius, 
and  Paul  was  a  bigot  to  disfellowship  them.  Moses 
was  a  madman  to  execute  three  thousand  calf-wor- 
shipers, who  got  their  cattle-worship  where  Masons 
got  their  Freemasonry — from  Egyptian  priests. 
Ezekiel  was  a  fanatic  to  condemn  those  pious  sun- 
worshipers,  who  crept  into  the  temple  to  practice 
their  rites.as  Masons  take  their  funerals  into  Christ's 
churches,  when  they  h.-ive  halls  of  their  own.  (Ezek. 
8:6.)  Why  could  not  Ez  kid  mind  his  preaching  to 
the  Hebrew  captives  by  the  river  Chebar,  and  "let 
other  folk's  religion  alont?  '  The  answer  is:  Because 
they  defiled  the  sanctuary  of  God  by  introducing 
secret  false  worships.  They  had  driven  God  from 
his  own  temple  by  infiltrating  idolatries.     They  had 


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March  1, 1888 


driven  off  those  very  captives  to  whom  Ezekiel  was 
preaching  by  running  down  society  till  the  nation 
was  incapable  of  self-defence.  They  had  multiplied 
religions  till  no  one  knew  what  god  to  swear  a  wit- 
ness by,  or  which  oath  to  keep.  There  was  no  se- 
curity for  property,  no  sacredness  in  marriage; 
"No  pledge  was  sacred  and  no  home  was  sweet." 

And  just  so  sure  as  we  copy  these  Hebrew  idolatries 
the  savannas  of  our  Mississippi  will  yet  be  as  des- 
olate as  the  barren  hills  of  Judea. 

There  is  nothing  in  idolatry  to  keep  the  popular 
mind  from  sinking,  and  so,  like  other  unsupported 
things,  it  sinks.  This  explains  the  sinkage  of  the 
pagan  nations.  Their  first  idols  were  the  heavenly 
bodies;  their  last,  four-footed  beasts  and  creeping 
things.  This  is  the  condition  of  Asia  and  Africa 
to-day.  But  the  Bible  lifts  up  mind  by  setting  be- 
fore it  the  true  and  living  God,  infinite,  immutable, 
eternal;  and  making  him  accessible  through  Christ. 
It  gives  us  a  law  of  supreme  love  to  God  and  equal 
love  to  man  so  condensed  that  the  little  heart  of  a 
child  can  hold  it,  yet  so  comprehensive  that  worlds 
can  move  in  it  in  harmony.  It  reveals  to  us  pardon 
for  sin  through  a  Saviour  and  a  Holy  Spirit  to  help 
us  to  obtain  it,  and  thus  lays  clear  and  substantial 
ground  for  that  "rest  to  the  soul"  promised  by  the 
Saviour  to  all  who  come  unto  him.  And  as  the 
angel  inhabitants  of  other  worlds  were  with  Christ 
in  his  agony  and  seem  to  have  been  bending  over 
him  by  legions  as  he  hung  on  the  cross;  and  as  Christ 
himself  was  both  God  and  man,  he  has  laid  foun- 
dations for  the  stability  of  his  government  wide  as 
the  universe  and  provided  for  the  elevation  and  hap- 
piness of  men  eternal  as  his  own  nature. 

The  secret  lodge  system  reverses  all  this.  It  al- 
lows its  dupes  more  gods  than  Egypt  had  plagues. 
Provided  the  candidates  will  worship  the  god  of  the 
lodge  they  may  worship  whatever  else  they  please, 
and  they  are  initiated  all  the  same.  If  faithful  to 
Masonry  they  are  declared  "free  from  sin."(IVIackey 
Lex.,  p.  16.)  The  firs't  commandment,  "Thou  shalt 
have  no  other  gods  before  me,"  is  not  only  set  aside 
but  coolly  defied  by  the  lodge,  which  declares  its 
faithful  members  "free  from  sin,"  no  matter  how 
many  gods  they  worship,  or  what  vile  rites  they 
practice,  human  sacrifices  included.  There  is  but 
one  person  or  being  in  the  universe  who,  in  terms, 
is  excluded  from  the  "religion  of  Masonry,"  which 
all  Masonic  authorities  declare  to  be  "pure  theism" 
or  deism,  and  that  one  person  is  our  Lord  Jesus 
Christ.  True,  if  the  Christian  Mason  hides  his  Sav- 
iour by  his  silence,  the  lodge  does  not  molest  him. 
But  deism  excludes  the  worship  of  Christ,  and  Ma- 
sonry is  organized  deism.  Thus  the  secret  lodge 
system  provides  neither  pardon  for  sin,  peace  on 
earth  or  good  will  to  men;  and,by  dropping  the  Me 
diator,  takes  away  the  only  plank  by  which  men 
may  reach  and  enter  the  life  boat  of  the  uni 
verse. 

This  horrible  system  now  spreads  its  shroud  over 
the  earth.  The  Reformation  drove  nearly  all  secret 
lodges  from  Germany  and  Scandinavia,  and  Europe 
and  America  were  comparatively  free  from  them. 
But  a  mighty  reaction  has  taken  place,  and  the  sun 
and  the  air  seem  darkened  with  their  smoke.  The 
Masons  own  the  huge  temples,  and  detail  from  their 
lodges  committees  of  their  own  members  to  join, 
strengthen  and  guide  their  numerous  progeny, whose 
name  is  legion.  Politic3,bu8iness,reforms  and  relig- 
ion,— they  light  like  the  vampires  of  the  West  Indies 
on  all  human  interests.temporal  and  eternal,and  suck 
their  life-blood,  as  the  vampires  are  fabled  to  suck 
the  blood  of  people  in  their  sleep,  while  they  softly 
fan  them  with  their  wings.  There  are  colored 
churches  in  Chicago  which  have  three  of  these  secret 
societies  in  each,  one  for  little  children,  another  for 
youth,  and  a  third  for  adults,  all  paying  monthly 
dues,  and  all  pledged  to  secrecy, — parents  from 
children,  children  from  parents.and  Christians  from 
each  other.  There  are  eighty-eight  such  lodges  in 
Chicago,  eighty-four  in  Louisville,  one  hundred  in 
Mobile,  a  like  number  in  New  Orleans,  and  near  a 
hundred  in  Washington  City.  They  out-number 
our  churches  everywhere,  depraving  them  by  their 
false  worships;  and  by  their  secret  oaths  and  obliga- 
tions they  are  sinking  our  court-houses  into  popular 
contempt.  They  are  thus  turning  the  American  peo- 
ple into  secrecy-mongers,  conjurers,  sorcerers,  sooth- 
sayers and  sleightrof-hand  men, — all  under  the  reign 
of  "the  rulers  of  the  darkness  of  this  world  " 

These  lodges,  it  scarcely  need  be  said,  are  not  of 
God's  planting,  and  He  whose  word  is  firmer  than 
the  heavens  and  the  earth  hath  said,  they  "shall  be 
rooted  up."  There  is  no  cause  to  fear  their  multi- 
tude. When  Judea  was  overrun  with  lodge  altars, 
and  God  had  there  but  one  single  altar,  and  that 
broken  down,  Elijah  offered  one  brief  prayer  and 
"the  fire  of  the  Lord  fell,"  and  the  heart  of  that 
wayward  nation  was  "turned  back  again."     And  the 


time  would  fail  to  speak  of  the  sudden  national  re- 
forms under  the  good  kings  Hezekiah,  Josiah,  Asa, 
and  Jehoshaphat;  and  of  similar  reformations  in 
Scotland,EngIand, Germany  and  in  the  United  States, 
where  45,000  Masons  left  their  lodges  at  one  time 
in  the  short  space  of  four  or  five  years.  And  there 
is  nothing  in  the  millennial  purposes  of  God  to  pre- 
vent his  granting,now  as  well  as  then,national  deliver- 
ances to  faith.  The  Psalmist  in  times  of  darkness  and 
danger  was  wont  to  "consider  God's  wonders  of  old." 
But  we  have  modern  wonders  to  consider.  It  is  only 
seventy-three  years  since,  four  miles  below  this  city, 
nine  thousand  of  the  flower  of  British  troops,  the 
conquerors  of  Europe,  fled  before  half  their  number 
of  raw  American  militia,  hastily  gathered  from  the 
States  along  the  Gulf,  and  imperfectly  drilled  and 
armed;  leaving  two  thousand  six  hundred  dead  on 
the  field  to  the  American's  thirteen.  The  race  is 
not  always  to  the  swift,  nor  the  battle  to  the  strong, 
but  God  is  the  judge,  and  if  we  purge  out  from  our 
churches  this  old  leaven  of  idolatry  and  hypocrisy 
"One  shall  chase  a  thousand  and  two  pat  ten  thousand 
to  fiight,"not  indeed  with  weapons  of  iron  and  steel, 
but  "with  the  mild  arms  of  truth  and  love"  "made 
mighty  by  the  living  God." 

At  the  fall  of  slavery  our  whole  continent  felt  the 
jar  from  Greenland  to  Cape  Horn,  and  every  good 
cause  lifted  up  its  head.  The  fall  of  the  saloon 
must  soon  follow,  and  when  the  sale  of  liquor 
ceases,  nine  hundred  millions  of  dollars  a  year, 
with  hosts  of  recaptured  human  energies,  saved 
from  drunkenness  and  crime,  will  at  once  be  avail- 
able for  reform.  Then  look  where  we  now  stand. 
Our  mighty  continent,  one-quarter  of  the  land  on 
our  globe,  contains  only  one  in  fourteen  of  its  pop- 
ulation, and  millions  are  coming  to  us  to  "feel 
after  Christ  if  haply  they  may  find  him."  Let  us 
beseech  God  that  the  secret  lodges,  into  which 
Christ  never  entered,  may  not  defeat  the  object  of 
these  millions  coming  to  us.  Nor  should  we  fail  to 
notice  that  though  the  colored  people,  whose  guests 
we  are  to-night,  and  of  whose  virtues  we  have  spo- 
ken, have  been  ensnared  into  their  worships  by 
those  devils  who  inhabited  and  run  the  slave-sys- 
tem; yet  they  are  now  wheeling  off  from  the  lodges 
by  platoons  and  battalions;  and  when  our  national 
illiteracy,  both  white  and  colored,  is  cured  by  pop- 
ular education,  and  the  children  shall  read  and 
learn  that  our  Freemasonry,  the  type,  model,  mother 
of  all  our  secret  abominations,  was  manufactured 
by  Jesuits  in  Paris,  and  by  Jews  in  Charleston, 
South  Carolina;  and  when  once  our  colored  people 
have  learned  all  that  their  race  have  suffered  from 
those  secret  orders,  they  will  -ehrink  from  the  grip 
of  the  lodge,  as  from  the  bite  of  a  snake,  and  we 
shall  all  unite  in  the  hallelujah  chorus  of  the  Battle 
Hymn  of  the  Republic: 

"Let  the  hero  born  of  woman  crush  the  serpent  with  his  heel, 
Since  tiod  is  marching  on." 


THE  REPORT  OF  PROGBBDINQb. 


The  Seventeenth  National  Convention  of  the  Na- 
tional Christian  Association,  met  as  provided  by  the 
Board  of  Directors  Feb.  17th,  1888,  at  7:30  o'clock 
p.  M.,  in  the  Central  Congregational  church.  New 
Orleans.  In  the  absence  of  Pres.  J.  H.  McCullough 
of  Knoxville,  Tenn.,  the  meeting  was  called  to  order 
by  General  Secretary  Stoddard,  and  Rev.  J.  S.  T. 
Milligan,  Vice-president  for  Kansas,  was  called  to 
the  chair,  and  Rev.  A.  W.  Parry  of  Evansville,  Wis- 
consin, was  elected  secretary.  A  passage  of  Scrip- 
ture was  read  and  the  congregation  united  in  sing- 
ing, "All  hail  the  power  of  Jesus's  name."  Pres. 
J.  Blanchard  then  offered  prayer,  which  he  prefixed 
by  a  few  remarks  upon  the  issue  to  be  discussed  in 
the  convention,  namely,  the  worship  of  God  through 
Christ,  as  Mediator,  by  the  agency  of  the  Holy  Spir- 
it; or  the  worship  of  Satan  through  human  inven- 
tions. 

Rev.  G.  W.  Bothwell,  pastor  of  the  church,  gave 
an  address  of  welcome  in  which  he  spoke  of  the  ac- 
tion of  the  officials  of  the  church  as  having  voted 
the  use  of  their  audience  room  to  the  convention,  al- 
though themselves,  some  of  them,  were  members  of 
secret  orders.  He  also  spoke  of  several  questions 
which  he  deemed  important,  among  them  that  of  se- 
cret societies.  He  welcomed  the  brethren  in  behalf 
of  the  church  and  asked  from  the  audience  a  fair 
and  patient  hearing. 

President  Milligan  responded  on  behalf  of  the 
convention,  recognizing  the  courtesy  of  the  church, 
and  setting  forth  the  object  of  the  meeting.  The 
number  and  influence  of  the  secret  orders  is  a  men- 
ace to  our  civil  and  religious  institutions,and  to  com- 
bat them  the  people  need  to  cultivate  virtue,  moral- 
ity and  truth  as  the  basis  of  reform,  and  the  recogni- 
tion of  Jesus  Christ  and  his  law  as  the  only  ground  of 
hope  for  peace  on  earth  and  justice  among  men.  He 


invited  members  of  secret  orders  to  participate  in 
the  discussions.  Rev.  J.  P.  Stoddard,General  Agent, 
gave  a  brief  statement  of  the  work  of  the  National 
Christian  Association,  and  spoke  particularly  of  its 
publications.  Committees  on  Enrollment,  resolu- 
tions, devotional  meetings,  finance,  nominations,and 
relation  of  the  church  to  the  lodge. 

SATURDAY. 

At  9  A.  M.  devotional  exercises  of  half  an  hour 
were  led  by  Secretary  Stoddard.  The  first  business 
of  the  convention  was  an  address  by  Elder  R.  N. 
Countee  of  the  Tabernacle  church,  Memphis,  on 
"Why  I  Joined,  and  Why  I  Left  the  Lodge."  He 
spoke  for  two  hours  in  a  most  interesting  and  con- 
vincing manner.  The  speaker  has  promised  at  the 
earnest  request  of  the  convention  to  furnish  this  ad- 
dress for  publication. 

In  the  afternoon  after  opening  execises,  George 
W.  Clark  of  Detroit,  who  reached  the  convention 
about  10  A.  M.,  sang  one  of  his  soul-stirring  solos. 
Pres.  L.  N.  Stratton  of  Wheaton,  111.,  made  some  re- 
marks on  the  investigation  of  the  Morgan  abduction 
by  the  civil  authorities  of  New  York,  and  G.  W. 
Clark  confirmed  the  statement  from  his  personal  ob- 
servation. 

Elder  J.  F.  Browne,  principal  of  Howe  Institute, 
New  Iberia,  La.,  then  addressed  the  convention  on 
the  "Origin  and  Symbolism  of  Freemasonry,"  using 
a  series  of  charts  to  illustrate  his  argument,  and 
making  much  use  of  Masonic  authorities,  by  which 
he  made  a  complete  demonstration  of  the  pagan  ori- 
gin of  the  so-called  mysteries  of  Masonry,  which 
have  furnished  a  model  for  all  other  modern 
li)dges. 

Rev.  H.  H.  Hinman,  N.  C.  A.  agent  for  the 
South,  then  made  an  address  on  the  "Similarity  and 
Relation  of  the  Secret  Orders  to  each  other."  They 
were  similar:  1st.  In  that  all  were  selfish  in  their 
professed  benevolence. 

2.  They  all  require  obedience  to  unknown  obli- 
gations of  secrecy  as  a  condition  of  membership. 

3.  They  all  profess  to  conceal  valuable  truths. 

4.  They  all  lead  to  and  practice  falsehood. 

5.  In  denying  alike  the  rights  of  family,  church 
and  State. 

6.  They  deny  the  right  of  private  Judgment. 

7.  They  make  their  covenant  paramount  and  ir- 
revocable. 

At  the  close  of  this  address,  Mr.  C.  F.  Ladd, 
"Grand  Master"  of  the  colored  Masons  of  Louisiana, 
arose  and  said  that  the  argument  was  all  upon  one 
side  of  the  question,  and  in  fairness  the  other  should 
heard.  He  was  reminded  that  the  hand-bills  re- 
quested members  of  lodges  to  attend  and  give  an 
expression  of  their  opinions,  but  if  he  wished  a  pro- 
longed debate  a  time  would  be  set  for  it.  It  was 
then  voted  to  invite  any  responsible  Christian  per- 
son to  discuss  the  anti-Christian  character  of  Free- 
masonry on  Tuesday.  J.  P.  Stoddard,  J.  F.  Browne 
and  G.  W.  Bothwell  were  appointed  a  commit- 
tee to  arrange  with  Mr.  Ladd  for  the  details  of  the 
debate.  They  reported  the  following  agree- 
ment: 

New  Oblbans,  La.,  Feb.  18,  1888. 

It  is  hereby  agreed  between  "Grand  Master"  C.  F. 
Ladd,  and  J,  P.  Stoddard,  J.  Franklin  Browne  and  Pres. 
G.  W.  Bothwell,  representing  the  17th  Annual  Conven- 
tion of  the  National  Christian  Association,  that  said  CF. 
Ladd,  or  his  representatives,  shall  discuss  with  persons 
selected  by  said  committee,  at  10  a.  m.  on  the  21st  inst., 
the  following  proposition,  said  C.F.  Ladd,  or  his  repre- 
sentatives, taking  the  affirmative;  the  discussion  to  be 
governed  by  rules  to  be  adopted  by  said  committee  and 
an  equal  committee  to  be  chosen  by  said  C.F.  Ladd. 

Proposition:  Affirmed,  That  Freemasonry  is  not  an 
anti-Christian  institution. 

J.  Fkanklin  Brownb, 
J.  P.  Stoddard, 
Q.  W.  Bothwell, 

Joseph  Dupret, 

The  evening  session  was  opened  with  prayer  and 
singing  by  George  W.  Clark.  The  first  address  of 
the  evening  was  by  President  L.  N.  Stratton  of 
Wheaton  Theological  Seminary  on  the  "Necessity  of 
Christian  Educators  Instructing  the  Young  as  to  the 
Nature  and  Workings  of  the  Secret  Orders,"  The 
president  of  the  convention  spoke  instead  of  Rev. 
Dr.  Johnson  of  College  Springs,  Iowa,  who  was  de- 
tained by  sickness,  on  the  "Real  Issue  between  the 
Church  and  the  Lodge."  His  argument  was  based 
on  the  distinctions  between  the  two  systems:  (1)  in 
the  objects  of  their  worship;  (2)  in  their  acceptance 
of  the  mediation  and  administration  of  Jesus  Christ; 
(3)  in  the  rule  and  authority  of  government  recog- 
nized by  them,  ttie  church  taking  the  Word  of  God 
which  the  lodge  does  not 

SABBATH  SEBVIOIS. 

On  the  Sabbath,  according  to  an  arrangement  by 


Committee 
for  the  N.  C.  A. 

Committee  for 


March  1,  1888 


THE  CHBISTIAN  CYNOSURE- 


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the  committee  on  devotional  services  the  following 
appointments  were  filled  as  follows: 

R.  N.  Countee  at  Straight  University  and  Com- 
mon St.  Baptist  church.  J.  P.  Stoddard  at  Auster- 
litz  St.  Baptist  church.  H.  H.  Hinman,  First  Afri- 
can Baptist  church.  A.  W.  Parry  at  Mallalieu  M. 
E.  Chapel  and  Villery  St.  Congregational  church. 
J.  F.  Browne,  Mallalieu  Chapel  and  Austerlitz  St, 
Baptist  church.  G.  W.  Clark,  LeHarpe  St.  church 
and  Central  Congregational  church.  A.  F.  Dempsey, 
Valance  St.  church  and  Thompson  Chapel.  L.  Ot. 
Jordan,  Felicity  St.  church  and  St.  Mark's  church. 
A.  J.  Chittenden,  St.  Charles  Ave.  M.  E.  church.  J. 
S.  T.  Milligan,Union  M.  E.  Chapel.  L.  N.  Stratton, 
Spain  St.  Congregational  church. 

In  the  afternoon  Pres.  J.  Blanchard  conducted  a 
Bible  reading  in  the  Central  Church  on  the  subject 
of  "True  and  False  Worship." 

MONDAY. 

President  Milligan  read,for  an  opening  Scripture, 
Romans  13th,  making  appropriate  comments.  Rev. 
H.  H.  Hinman  offered  prayer.  The  convention  vot- 
ed to  send  a  dispatch  to  the  Cynosure  office  contain- 
ing a  few  appropriate  passages  of  Scripture  to  indi- 
cate the  progress  and  success  of  the  meeting. 

Brethren  Parry,  Jordan,  Dempsey  and  Clark  re- 
ported that  they  were  well  received  the  day  before 
in  the  several  churches  in  which  they  preached,  and 
in  every  case  where  the  object  of  the  convention  was 
mentioned  it  was  heartily  endorsed.  Elders  Evans 
of  Morgan  City,  L.  M.  Lee  of  Berwick  City,  Daniel 
Clay  of  Terre  Bonne,  L.  W.  Oldfield,  C.  F.  Marshall, 
presiding  elder,  and  others,  spoke  of  the  good  they 
had  personally  received  from  the  convention,  and 
pledged  their  hearty  support  to  the  cause  which  it 
represented.  All  these  brethren  but  Elder  Clay  had 
been  or  were  at  the  time  members  of  some  secret 
order. 

Rev.  J.  S.  T.  Milligan  then  took  up  the  topic 
which  would  have  been  discussed  by  Rev.  G.  M, 
Elliott  of  Selma  had  not  sickness  prevented  his  at- 
tendance. "The  Recognition  of  God  in  Civil  Gov- 
ernment and  the  Secret  Empire"  was  a  favorite  top- 
ic with  this  eloquent  speaker.  At  the  conclusion  of 
this  address  Rev.  W.  P.  McLaughlin  of  the  Ames 
M.  E.  church,  St.  Charles  Avenue,  B.  Boezinger, 
First  German  M.  E.  church,  and  P.  T.  Robidoux, 
French  M.  E.  church,  (all  white)  each  encouraged 
the  convention  by  a  very  hearty  endorsement  of  its 
work. 

In  the  afternoon  Rev.  A.  J.  Chittenden  of  the  Col- 
lege Church,  Wheaton,  spoke  on  "Secrecy  as  a  Hin- 
drance to  Securing  Prohibition,  Practical  Benevo- 
lence, and  Labor  Reform.  He  showed  that  the  poor 
of  the  churches  would  have  been  comparatively  free 
from  the  seductions  of  the  lodges  had  there  been  less 
money  wasted  in  sect  di  risions  and  more  care  shown 
for  'the  temporal  wants  of  her  members  with  the 
money  thus  saved.  In  regard  to  the  secret  combi- 
nations of  laborers,  he  acknowledged  likewise  a  fail- 
ure on  the  part  of  governments  to  restrain  the 
powers  that  oppress  the  poor,  and  that  the  mistaken 
methods  adopted  for  their  relief  from  competition 
in  wages  are  faults  for  which  the  powers  that  be  are 
most  to  be  blamed;  that  if  the  iniquitous  combina- 
tions of  the  rich  had  been  forbidden  by  law,  the 
combinations  of  the  poor  would  have  had  no  exist- 
ence. But  as  agencies  for  relieving  either  them- 
selves or  the  public  they  were  condemned  for  the 
following  reasons: 

1.  They  could  never  lead  the  great,  thoughtful 
public,  whose  alliance  is  absolutely  necessary  to  suc- 
cess, because  the  public  will  always  regard  such 
methods  as  dangerous,  and  the  state  of  society  en- 
gendered by  them  as  more  to  be  feared  than  the 
evils  to  be  removed  by  them. 

2.  They  have  prejudiced  the  public  mind  against 
a  good  cause  by  injuring  the  public  interests  in 
strikes  and  conflicts,  before  the  people  had  been  fa- 
vored with  a  quiet  and  healthy  discussion  of  needed 
reforms.  They  have  also  been  the  indirect  cause  of 
the  useless  loss  of  life  and  the  destruction  of  vast 
amounts  of  property. 

3.  They  would  not,  if  successful,  leave  us  a  dem- 
ocratic state  of  society,  but  rather  a  rule  over  the 
majority  by  the  invisible  caucus  machinery  of  the 
lodge. 

4.  The  moral  and  religious  character  of  all  such 
promiscuous  association  of  men  in  secret  is  certain 
to  produce  a  degenerate  and  selfish  danism,  and  the 
subjugation  of  individual  responsibility  to  the  au- 
thority of  the  superior  officer  in  the  lodge  attacks 
all  republican  institutions  at  their  very  foundation. 

5.  The  obligation  to  call  all  sorts  of  men  "broth- 
ers" is  the  surrender  of  the  sacred  import  of  that 
word  in  Christian  usage,  and  therefore  unlawful  to 
the  followers  of  Christ. 

Miss  J.  B.  Moore  of  Point  Coupe,  La.,  and  Miss 
Ida  Gross,  New  Orleans,  each  read  papers  personally 


endorsing  the  work  of  the  convention  and  showing 
from  the  various  standpoints  of  pecuniary  interest, 
social  demand  and  religious  obligation  that  Chris- 
tian women  should  not  belong  to  secret  societies. 
These  papers  were  received  with  enthusiasm  and  by 
vote  copies  were  requested  for  publication  in  the 
Cynosure,  the  Living  Way,  the  Southwestern  Advocate 
and  the  Baptist  N.  0.  Advocate. 

The  committee  on  resolutions  then  reported.  To 
their  first  report  additions  were  requested  on  Social 
Purity,  the  Sabbath  and  Tobacco.  The  full  report 
as  adopted  is  as  follows: 

RESOLUTIONS. 

Whereas,  It  is  abundantly  evident  that  the  secret 
lodge  system  in  its  practical  effects  absorbs  the  means 
and  impairs  the  influence  of  the  church  and  lowers  the 
character  of  its  members,  thereby  sapping  the  founda- 
tion of  civil  society;  and, 

Whereas,  It  is  always  liable  to  be,  and  often  is,  used 
for  the  perversion  of  justice,  therefore, 

Resolved,  That  we  view  with  sorrow  and  alarm  the 
prevalence  of  secret  societies,  and  deem  it  the  duty  of 
all  people,  both  as  Christians  and  citizens,  to  have  no 
fellowship  with  these  "unfruitful  works  of  darkness,  but 
rather  reprove  them." 

2.  That  secret  societies  have  no  warrant  in  human  ne- 
cessity, in  the  Word  of  God,  in  the  examples  of  the  Di- 
vine Master,  of  any  of  the  holy  men  of  ancient  times, 
and  that  the  pretension  that  Freemasonry  or  any  of  the 
secret  societies  are  sanctioned  by  the  Bible  is  an  arro- 
gant falsehood,  invented  to  entrap  the  ignorant  and  de- 
ceive the  unwary. 

3.  That  we  regard  Freemasonry  as  the  fruitful  mother 
of  all  the  subsequent  secret  orders .  Its  ceremonies  are 
both  silly  and  wicked;  its  oaths  immoral  and  profane;  its 
religion  unchristian  and  soul-destroying;  and  that  it  is 
in  a  large  degree  responsible  for  all  the  outrages  of  the 
other  secret  orders. 

4.  That  the  welfare  of  laboring  men  can  be  best  pro- 
moted by  making  their  own  and  their  employers'  inter- 
ests identical ;  that  we  deplore  all  secret  combinations  as 
promoting  antagonism,  violence  and  crime,  and  we  hold 
that  the  better  administration  of  government,  in  which 
all  have  a  voice,  including  arbitration  and  co-operation, 
are  the  true  remedies  for  our  labor  troubles. 

5 .  That  the  traffic  in  intoxicating  drinks  is  an  enor- 
mous evil  and  the  fruitful  source  of  wretchedness  and 
crime;  that  the  license  system  has,  after  centuries  of  trial, 
failed  as  a  remedy,  and  tends  rather  to  protect  and  per- 
petuate it,  and  that  while  we  do  not  undervalue  moral 
suasion,  we  demand  the  prohibition  of  the  importation, 
exportation,  the  manufacture  and  sale  of  all  that  can  in- 
toxicate, and  will  give  effect  to  our  demands  by  our 
prayers,  our  labors  and  our  votes. 

6.  Whereas,  The  lottery  system  has,  with  great  una- 
nimity, been  regarded  as  immoral  and  destructive  to  the 
public  good;  and. 

Whereas,  Nearly  all  the  States  have  prohibited  it  by 
law,  and  it  is  now  proposed  to  prohibit  the  circulation  of 
lottery  advertisements  in  the  mails;  and. 

Whereas,  The  Louisiania  State  Lottery  works  great 
injury  not  only  to  her  own  citizens,  but  is  a  fruitful 
source  of  dissipation  and  crime  in  all  the  other  States; 
therefore. 

Resolved,  That  we  respectfully  ask  the  Legislature  of 
this  State  to  repeal  the  charter  of  the  State  Lottery,  and 
prohibit  its  doings  by  law. 

7.  Resolved,  That  we  greatly  deplore  the  complicity  of 
ministers  of  religion  with  the  foregoing  evils;  that  the 
signs  of  the  times,  we  believe,  indicate  an  important 
crisis  in  the  affairs  of  this  nation  and  of  the  world;  and 
that  there  must  be  greater  faithfulness  if  we  would  be 
true  watchmen  on  the  walls  of  Zion. 

Resolved,  That  this  Convention  regards  the  common 
use  and  traffic  in  tobacco  as  a  twin  vice  with  the  liquor 
crime,  and  as  not  only  a  useless  and  wicked  waste  of 
time  and  money,  a  filthy  and  loathsome  habit,  unbecom- 
ing the  dignity  and  decency  of  rational  and  intelligent 
beings,  but  as  positively  injurious  to  the  physical,  moral 
and  spiritual  health  and  welfare  of  individuals  and  soci- 
ety, and  we  kindly  urge  upon  all  men  to  abstain  from  iis 
use,  and  do  all  in  their  power  to  do  away  with  this  per- 
nicious vice,  and  save  our  youth  and  our  country  from  its 
demoralizing  and  degrading  effects. 

Resolved,  That  the  exceeding  prevalence  of  the  sin  of 
licentiousness,  and  the  deplorable  fact  that  in  Eome  of 
our  cities  houses  of  prostitution  are  licensed  and  protect- 
ed by  law,  while  in  others  they  are  allowed  to  practice, 
with  brazen  effrontery,  such  deplorable  deeds  of  wicked- 
ness, regardless  of  all  laws  whether  Divine  or  human, 
calls  for  a  most  earnest  protest  by  all  Christians  and  good 
citizens,  and  demands  our  most  fervent  prayers  and  ef- 
forts to  save  our  land  from  this  terrible  evil  and  its  effect 
on  posterity. 

Resolved,  That  we  hereby  endorse  the  work  of  social 
purity  undertaken  by  the  W.  C.  T.  U.  and  the  "White 
Cross"  movement,  and  all  similar  efforts  by  Christian 
workers;  and  we  pledge  our  prayers  and  our  best  efforts 
for  their  success. 

Resolved,  That  the  prevailing  desecration  of  the  Sab  - 
bath  by  the  nominal  Christian,  by  societies,  corporations 
and  the  general  government,  is  assailing  the  foundations 
of  morality  and  religion,  endangering  every  right  of  the 
laboring  man,  neutralizing  the  efforts  of  the  Christian 
church,  and  threatening  the  ruin  of  society  by  defying 
the  laws  of  nature  and  the  wrath  of  an  offended  Ood. 

Elder  A.  L.  Jackson  rose  to  present  the  following 
item  of  great  interest,  a  minute  adopted  at  the  regu- 
lar weekly  meeting  of  the  colored  Baptist  pastors,  as 
a  mark  of  sympathy  and  encouragement: 


resolution  of  the  weekly  conference  of  baptist 

PASTORS. 

New  Orleans,  Feb.  20,  188«. 

Whereas,  We  are  convinced  of  the  anti-Christian  ten- 
dencies of  secret  societies,  especially  those  existing  under 
the  titles  of  Masonry  and  Odd  fellowship;  and, 

Whereas,  It  is  our  bcunden  duty  as  Christian  minis- 
ters to  contend  against  whaterer  is  unfriendly  to  the  in- 
terest of  the  cause  of  Christ:  therefore, 

Be  it  resolved  that  we  cheerfully  and  heartily  endorse 
the  an ti  secret  movement  as  conducted  by  the  National 
Christian  Association,  and  for  their  encouragement  we 
pledge  ourselves  to  be  their  co-workers  in  the  future  as 
we  have  been  in  the  past.  Yours,  respectfully  submitted, 
A.  S.  Jackson,  JohnW.Gray.Jr., 

Moderator  oit  Dist.  Bapt.  Ass'n.      Wm.  Pendleton. 
John  Marks,  C.  F.  Fisher, B  D. 

Pres.  Bapt.  State  Convention,        John  Baptists, 
J.  W.  WOMACK,  Guy  Beck, 

L.  C.  Simon,  S.  S.  Gray, 

John  Helvy,  J.  M.  Carter, 

Jonas  Henderson,  Wm.  Jackson, 

Teacher  in  Leland  University,         George  Smith 
Henry  White,  A.  F.  Dorsby, 

8.  N.  WiNSLow,  Isaac  Scott. 

The  committee  on  nominations  reported  and  the 
report  was  accepted  as  follows: 

President,  Rev.  J .  S .  T ,  Milligan,  Denison,  Kanaas. 
Secretary,  Rev. R.N. Countee,  Memphis,  Tenn. 
Vice  Presidents:  Alabama,  Rev.  G.M.Elliott,  Selma. 
California,  Rev.H.T.Besse,  San  Jose. 
Connecticut,  J.A.Conant,  Willi  mantle. 
Dakota,  Rev. Robert  Hardie,  Millette. 
Indiana,  W.H.Figg,  Esq.  [deceased]. 
Iowa,  Rev. Wm. Johnston,  College  Springs. 
Kansas,  Rev.  J. A. Richards,  Fort  Scott. 
{Continxud  on  9th  page.) 


Correspondence. 


BIGNS  OF  TEB  TIMB8. 

Sabetha,  Kansas. 

Editor  Christian  Ctnosurk:— It  seems  to  me 
in  looking  over  the  whole  national  field,  religiously 
and  politically,  that  as  a  nation  we  have  arrived  at  a 
crisis.  A  decision  must  be  made  between  right 
and  wrong,  light  and  darkness.  Old  issues 
have  had  their  day.  The  old  "bloody  shirt"  wave 
has  had  its  terrors.  There  never  should  have  been 
a  bloody  shirt  if  we  as  a  nation  had  obeyed  God  and 
undone  the  heavy  burdens  and  let  the  oppressed  go 
free.  It  is  a  shame  to  the  nation  that  they  have 
such  recollections  to  flaunt  in  the  face  of  any 
American  political  party.  It  has  lost  its  power  to 
elect  Presidents  any  longer.  Other  issues  are  now 
pressing  themselves  to  the  front,  and  the  nation 
must  give  heed  to  them  or  the  curse  of  God  will 
surely  visit  us.  Such  are  the  temperance  question, 
the  anti-secret  question  and  the  acknowledgment  of 
the  Lord  Jesus  Christ  in  the  Constitution  of  the 
United  States  as  being  the  Supreme  Ruler  of  the  na- 
tions. 

God  says,  "Happy  is  that  nation  whose  God  is 
the  Lord;"  again  he  says,  "the  nation  that  will  not 
serve  him  shall  perish."  Now  we  have  come  to  a 
point  where  national  life  or  national  death  is  star- 
ing us  in  the  face,  and  what  do  the  two  old  politi- 
cal parties  propose  to  do  about  it?  They  propose  to 
bury  all  those  reform  questions  out  of  sight  Can 
Christians  vote  for  those  parties  and  be  guiltless? 
They  must  remember  blood  is  shed  every  day  in 
the  year  by  the  ungodly  license  laws,  passed  by 
these  two  old  parties,  and  faithful  men  of  God  have 
written  volumes  and  preached  and  lectured  all  over 
the  land  on  this  great  subject  of  prohibition.  Some 
of  them  have  given  their  lives  for  the  cause,  and  their 
blood  is  to-day  crying  from  the  ground  for  ven- 
geance. Will  a  just  God  bear  always  after  he  has 
given  us  so  much  light?  Nay,  verily,  his  soul  will 
be  avenged  on  such  a  nation  as  this.  Can  we  close 
our  eyes  as  Christianb  to  the  wailing  and  woe  of  the 
helpless  women  and  children,  and  to  the  blood  that 
is  being  shed  by  drunken  men  almost  daily,  and 
give  our  vote  to  parties  that  have  sold  out  to  the 
devil  to  do  his  hellish  work  by  licensing  and  trying 
to  make  it  appear  respectable?  And  we  ask,  as  the 
Philistines  asked  Samson,  wherein  lieth  their  great 
strength.  We  answer,  that  secret  orders  are  the 
chief  agencies  in  perpetrating  all  this  calamity  and 
woe  on  the  land.  Most  of  the  men  engaged  in  the 
liquor  traffic  will  be  found  members  of  secret  or- 
ders under  the  penalty  of  their  oatiis.  Dear  Chris- 
tian brethren  of  these  United  States,  shall  we 
tamely  submit  to  all  this  iniquity  that  is  coming  in 
upon  us  like  a  flood?  No,  never;  let  us  arise  in  the 
name  and  strength  of  Israel's  God  and  raise  up  a 
standard  against  it  and  bring  good  men  to  the 
front,  as  Gen.  Fisk  and  Hon.  Samuel  C.  Pomeroy, 
who  are  free  from  all  lodge  oaths.  Let  them  be  our 
standard-bearers  for  President  and  Vice-President 
of  the  United  States. 


6 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


March  1, 1888 


Ib  it  not  evident  to  the  observation  of  the  reflect- 
ing mind  that  God's  displeasure  is  being  manifested 
in  this  land  for  the  last  six  or  eight  years  in  those 
dreadful  cyclones  that  have  swept  over  us,  the  awful 
earthquakes  that  have  rocked  the  solid  ground  in  so 
many  places,  the  winter  storm  that  lately  swept 
over  a  vast  portion  of  the  country,  bringing  death 
and  desolation  to  hundreds  of  men,  women  and 
children  and  thousands  of  beasts;  the  drouth,  the 
cattle  plague?  men  have  carried  much  seed  to  the 
field  and  gathered  but  little  into  the  garner.  As  a 
nation  we  have  forgotten  God  and  sowed  to  the 
wind  and  are  reaping  the  whirlwind,  and  now  it  re- 
mains to  be  seen  whether  we  will  repent  by  obeying 
God  in  electing  men  fearing  God  and  hating  covet- 
ousness.  Well  did  Solomon  say,  "When  the  wicked 
bear  rule  the  people  mourn."  God  ordained  civil 
government  and  it  is  rightfully  his,  and  we  have 
been  putting  wicked  secret  lodge  worshipers  into 
office  who  have  led  the  government  away  into  in- 
iquity. How  is  it  that  the  professed  Christian 
church  does  not  come  up  to  the  help  of  the  Lord  in 
this  battle  against  principalities  and  powers  and 
against  the  rulers  of  the  darkness  of  this  world. 

John  Thompson. 


PITH  AND  POINT. 


'THE  WORD  OF  GOD  18  NOT  BOUND." 


Cell  18,  Chablis  St.  Jail,  \ 
Boston,  Mass.,  Feb.  4,  1888.      ) 

Editor  Christian  Cynosure: — In  thy  sketch  of 
Alexander  Hamilton,  last  November,  thou  dost 
notice  that  he  "was  the  leading  mind  in  secur- 
ing our  Constitution  and  the  union  of  the  di- 
vided States  into  a  nation."  It  was  no  accident 
that  this  child  of  a  French  Huguenot  wielded  a  con- 
trolling hand  in  framing  the  Constitution  of  the 
United  States,  an  instrument  which  has  been  shak- 
ing the  idols  of  tyranny  in  the  old  world  from  their 
pedestals  during  the  past  hundred  years  faster  than 
all  the  priests  of  Dagon  could  set  them  up 
again. 

When  the  perfidious  Anthony  of  Navarre  openly 
defended  the  slaughter  of  sixty  and  wounding  of 
two  hundred  defenceless  worshiping  Huguenots  at 
Vassy  by  the  bloody  Duke  of  Guise,  in  utter  defi- 
ance of  the  Edict  of  January,  1562,  which  guaran- 
teed liberty  of  public  worship  to  the  Huguenots, 
Beza  propheticidly  replied,  "Remember,  sire,  that 
the  church  is  an  anvil  on  which  many  a  hammer  has 
been  broken."  In  1572  the  deliberately  planned 
massacre  of  the  Huguenots  on  the  night  of  St.  Bar- 
tholomew occurred.  Immediately  afterwards,"Pope 
Gregory  XIII.  and  his  cardinals  went  in  procession 
to  the  church  of  St.  Mark,  not  to  deprecate  in  sack- 
cloth and  ashes  the  divine  vengeance  on  a  guilty 
people,  but  'to  render  solemn  thanksgivings  to  God 

for  the  great  mercy  which  he  had  vouchsafed 

to  the  See  of  Rome,  and  to  the  whole  Christian 
world.'  A  picture  of  the  massacre  was  added  to  the 
embellishments  of  the  Vatican,  and  by  the  pontiff's 
order  a  golden  medal  was  struck  to  commemorate  to 
all  ages  the  triumph  of  the  church  over  her  ene- 
mies." [Lectures  on  the  History  of  France.  Sir 
James  Stephen.  Vol.  II.,  p.  47.  London,  Longman, 
Brown,  Green,  Longmans  &  Roberts,  1857.] 

By  such  measures,  culminating  in  the  comprehen- 
sive legal  (!)  disfranchisement  of  a  million  Hugue- 
nots by  Richelieu  and  the  loss  by  exile  and  torture 
and  death  of  two  hundred  and  fifty  thousand  under 
the  dragonnades  of  Louis  XIV.,  French  Roman 
Catholic  despots  taught  the  common  people  to  hate 
ecclesiastical  tyranny,  and  the  patient  anvil  becacae 
a  terrible  hammer.  The  Constitution  of  the  United 
States  is  logically,  chronologically,  historically  and 
genealogically  God's  answer  in  government  to  the 
misgovernment  practiced  by  papal  rulers  during 
centuries.  It  is  no  accident  that  in  the  first  Article 
of  the  United  States  Constitutional  Bill  of  Rights  it 
is  declared :  "  (y'lmgrets  shall  malce  no  law  respecting  an 
entabluhment  of  religion  or  prohibiting  the  free  (xerdse 
thereof."  It  is  no  accident  that  a  Roman  Catholic, 
rum-selling  city  council  reveres  a  revolutionary,  re- 
actionary ordinance  of  their  own  creation  above  this 
fundamental  precept  of  our  general  Government. 
The  issue  in  debate  over  this  Boston  gag  by-law  is 
the  largest  that  can  be  raised  in  this  country,  and  if 
the  mobocrats  can  establish  their  ordinance  they 
will.  And  if  they  do,  constitutional  law,  which  is 
the  foundation  of  all  our  laws  and  the  bulwark  of 
our  liberties,  is  gone.  Then  the  nation  itself  will 
ceaae  to  have  a  reason  for  existence  and  is  practi- 
cally at  an  end. 

That  conclusion  I  will  do  my  little  best  to  retard 
by  God's  grace.  God  save  the  Commonwealth  of 
Massachusetts  and  the  Constitution  of  the  United 
States  of  America.  Uinc  haec  vincula.  For  this  I 
am  in  bonds.     Sincerely  thy  brother  in  Christ, 

W.  F.  Davis. 


THB   VETERAN    BUBSCRIBKHS. 

Within  please  find  two  dollars,  which  put  to  the  Cyno- 
sure fund  for  colored  ministers  in  the  South.  I  have 
been  a  reader  of  the  Cynosure  ever  since  it  first  began; 
and  expect  to  be  as  loDg  as  I  live.  I  consider  it  one  of 
the  best  and  most  essential  Christian  papers  in  the  land. 
It  breathes  the  spirit  of  true  religion  and  piety.  It  is  a 
faithful  and  true  witness  on  all  questions  of  moral  re- 
form. I  admire  its  mild,  and  yet  fearless  spirit  in  rebuk- 
ing all  sin  and  wrong;  and  the  open  and  faithful  man- 
ner in  which  it  pleads  for  the  good  of  humanity  and  for 
truth,  purity  and  righteousness. — I.  L.  Buchw alter. 

ANOTHER . 

I  have  been  a  reader  of  the  Cynosure  from  it3  earliest 
existence;  am  now  in  my  eightieth  year  and  expect  it  to 
be  a  weekly  visitor  during  my  life.  I  count  it  a  privi 
lege  to  record  my  testimony  here  in  its  favor.  It  is  com- 
petent, truthful,  fearless  and  uncompromising  with  error; 
moral  in  its  tone  and  Christian  in  its  teachings. — John 
Crabs. 

We  have  taken  the  Cynosure  from  the  first,  and  are 
"life  members."  We  live  ia  a  lodge  and  whisky  village, 
where  nearly  all  are  either  indifferent  or  are  lodge  mem- 
bers. I  wish  some  one  able  to  command  respect  could 
visit  this  place  and  open  up  things  that  are  supposed  to 
be  hidden,  and  bring  the  secret  things  of  darkness  to 
light  and  the  Bible  standard. — S.  A,  Smith,  Hutchinson, 
Minn. 

MUCH  religion  BUT  NO   CHRIST. 

We  know  a  preacher  who  not  long  ago  attended  a 
public  installation  of  the  A  O.  U.  W.  (Ancient  Order  of 
United  Workmen) :  an  insurance  order,  it  claims  to  be . 
"They  tried,"  he  said,  "to  make  it  very  religious,  and 
spoke  with  much  reverence  of  the  Bible  which  lay  open 
in  the  center  of  the  room.  But  I  noticed  that. . .  .none 
of  the  prayers  hinted  at  a  Mediator,  much  less  did  they 
mention  the  name  of  Christ.  Going  before  the  throne 
by  themselves  1  The  amount  of  ignorance  is  truly  alarm- 
ing. That  lodge  was  a  church  to  many  in  it;  and  coun- 
terfeit though  it  be,  as  good  or  better,  in  their  estimation, 
tkan  the  church  of  Christ.  If  they  wish  insurance  let 
them  have  it,  but  let  them  quit  trying  to  counterfeit  the 
church  of  the  Lord  Jesus  Christ." — t.  h. 

THE  LODGE    HEATHENIZING. 

The  Presbyterian  church  here  is  at  a  low  ebb.  Thirty- 
two  years  ago,  when  we  left  here  to  go  to  Oregon,  there 
was  not  a  Freemason  belonging  to  the  church,  but  the 
old,  staunch  members  have  all  crossed  over  on  the  other 
side,  and  the  people  now  are  quite  different.  They  use 
the  lower  room  of  the  church  house  for  a  school  room, 
and  the  upper  room  for  a  Masonic  hall  and  to  preach  in. 
All  three  of  the  elders  of  the  church  are  Masons.  Oh, 
what  a  change  I  I  have  visited  this  church  neighborhood 
pretty  thoroughly  for  over  two  months,  and  have  found 
but  one  family  where  I  stayed  all  night  that  kept  up  fam- 
ily worship  at  night. — J.  B.  Stowell,  Cane  Spring,  Mo. 

FROM    THE    northeast    STATE. 

A  large  lodge  of  grangers  once  here  is  now  entirely 
gone  and  nothing  heard  of  them.  Odd -fellows  have 
flourished  for  a  season,  but  now  are  in  low  condition. 
Three  men,  to  my  knowledge,  have  given  it  up  and 
speak  against  it.  Two  old  Masons  have  died  of  late; 
one  of  them  had  considerable  notice  taken  and  was  hur- 
ried by  the  order,  though  he  did  not  leave  a  good  record; 
the  other  was  not  noticed  as  a  Mason.  But  few  as  yet 
dare  to  take  the  Cynosure  or  to  read  it,  or  converse  about 
the  lodge.  There  has  been  much  sly  work  going  on  in 
the  lodge,  selling  liquor  on  the  sly,  and  the  law  is  not  put 
in  force,  on  account  of  the  lodge.  One  man  was  got 
into  the  lodge  and  his  wife  did  not  know  it  for  many 
months .  The  Masons  knew  it  all  over  the  country,  and 
he  was  voted  into  office  as  a  county  commissioner,  the 
Masons  keeping  the  people  in  the  dark  concerning  his 
Masonry.  Most  of  our  county  officers  and  State  officers 
are  secret  men,  as  far  as  I  can  discover.  I  have  distrib- 
uted tracts  all  over  this  part  of  the  country,  and  I  want 
some  more}  especially  the  new  ones,  and  those  that  are 
straight  to  the  point. — Isaac  Jackson,  Harrison,  Maine. 


BIBLE  Lesson. 


8TUDIB8  IN  THB  NEW  TESTAMENT. 
LESSON  XL— March  IL— Christ  Entering  Jeruealem.— Matt. 
21:1-16. 

GOLDEN  TEXT.— Blessed  be  he  that  cometh  in  the  name  of 
the  Lord.— ?•».  118:26. 

iOptntht  Biblt  andr«<idthtUston.'\ 
I  From  Peloubet's  NoteB.J 

"And  a  colt  with  her . "  This  was  probably,  in  their 
eyes,  significant,  as  showing  that  he  who  used  the  colt 
did  80  in  his  own  right,  and  not  as  filling  a  place  which 
others  had  filled  before  him. — Plumptre.  Animals  not 
previously  used  for  labor  were  accounted  specially  pure 
and  fit  for  sacred  services.  Hence  only  oxen  unused 
to  the  yoke  were  offered  on  the  altar. — Eitto.  Our  Lord's 
birth,  triumph,  and  burial  were  to  be  in  this  alike. — Al- 
ford. 

"Ye  shall  say,  The  Lord  hath  need  of  them."  The 
Lord,  their  master  and  teacher,  and  the  Lord  Jehovah, 
whose  Bon  and  prophet  he  was.  The  account  leads  to 
the  inference  that  the  owner  of  the  ass  was  an  adherent 
of  Jesus,  who  had  perhaps  not  yet  declared  himself. 
The  number  of  such  secret  followers  was  probably  very 
large. — Cam.  Bible. 


"And  straightway  he  will  send  them."  He  will  give 
permission  to  the  disciples  to  take  them.  Jesus  and  his 
disciples  had  passed  along  this  road  so  many  times  that 
doubtless  the  owners  knew  them  well  and  could  trust 
them. 

"Which  was  spoken  by  (or  through)  the  prophet." 
The  name  of  the  prophet  is  not  mentioned,  the  quo- 
tation being  in  fact  a  combination  of  two  prophecies 
(Isa.  62: 11;  Zech.  9:  9),  both  announcing  the  coming  of 
the  Saviour  to  Jerusalem,  and  both  fulfilled  on  this  occa- 
sion.— Cook. 

"Set  him  thereon."  The  outside  of  this  triumph  was 
very  mean.  He  rode  upon  an  ass's  colt,  which  made  no 
figure.  This  colt  was  borrowed.  Christ  went  upon  the 
water  in  a  borrowed  boat,  ate  the  Passover  in  a  bor- 
rowed chamber,  was  buried  in  a  borrowed  sepulcher, 
and  here  rode  on  a  borrowed  ass. — Matthew  Henry. 
But  he  blessed  and  transfigured  them  all,  returning  them 
a  hundredfold  better  than  when  he  took  them.  This  is 
the  only  known  instance  on  which  Jesus  rode. 

Tears  amid  the  Rejoicing — As  they  reach  the  sum- 
mit of  the  Mount  of  Olives  the  glories  of  Jerusalem  in 
all  its  splendor  burst  upon  Jesus's  view.  Here,  accord- 
ing to  Luke  (19:  41),  though  others  shouted,  his  own 
soul  was  full  of  sorrow,  and  he  wept  over  the  city:  (1) 
on  account  of  their  sins;  (3)  because  of  the  sorrows  and 
and  desolation  that  were  to  come  upon  it.  "He  was 
crossing  the  ground  on  which,  a  generation  later,  the  tenth 
Roman  legion  would  be  encamped,  as  part  of  the  besieg- 
ing force  destined  to  lay  all  the  splendor  before  him  in 
ashes."  Even  in  the  midst  of  our  rejoicing  over  the  tri- 
umphs of  Christianity,  we  should  weep  over  those  who 
refuse  to  come  and  be  saved. 

Jesus  the  Prince  of  Peace.— The  triumph  on  this 
day  was  the  triumph  of  the  Prince  of  Peace.  1.  In  its 
methods.  The  kingdom  of  Christ  is  one  of  moral  influ- 
ences. "Truth  is  his  scepter;  love,  his  force.  He  not 
only  dispenses  with,  but  disowns  all  force.  Christ's 
kingdom  has  been  extended  to  every  land,  and  has  o  nly 
been  hindered  by  the  force  sometimes  used  to  extend  or 
to  secure  it.  Meet  error  with  truth,  injustice  with  honor, 
selfishness  with  love,  and  you  will  understand,  by  attain- 
ing, something  of  that  meek  majesty  of  Christ  which 
has  proved  so  omnipotent." — R.  Olcner.  2.  In  its  results. 
Jesus  has  come  to  bring  peace  into  all  the  world  by  right- 
eousness. His  reign  will  bring  peace  into  the  soul,  now 
a  troubled  seat  of  war,  into  the  community  so  often  ar- 
rayed in  contending  factions;  between  nations,  and  every- 
where; peace  which  passes  understanding,  and  which 
flows  like  a  river. 

The  force  Jesus  here  used  was  his  moral  power.  "Je- 
rome regards  this  as  the  most  wonderfulof  the  miracles, 
and  supposes  that  a  flame  and  starry  ray  darted  from  the 
eyes  of  the  Saviour,  and  that  the  majesty  of  the  Godhead 
was  radiant  in  his  countenance."  But  the  power  was 
that  of  fearless  faith,  and  a  righteous  cause,  acting  upon 
louls  conscious  of  their  guilt.  "It  is  conscience  that 
makes  cowards  of  us  all" 

This  expulsion  of  evil  from  the  temple  was  a  type  of 
Qod's  moral  cleansings:  (1)  Of  the  soul,  which  was 
made  to  be  a  temple  of  God,  a  house  of  prayer;  (2)  of 
the  church,  where  everything  which  mars  its  purpose  as 
the  house  of  God  for  all  people,  all  selfish  ends,  all  world- 
ly seeking,  must  be  cast  out.  Before  every  Pentecostal 
revival,  and  multitudes  of  conversions,  there  is  a  cleans- 
ing of  God's  temple,  "which  temple  ye  are;"  (3)  of  the 
redeemed  world,  from  which  everything  that  is  evil  must 
be  cast  out  (Rev  21:27) 

It  is  right  and  natural  that  a  house  of  prayer  should  be 
a  house  of  healing  and  of  mercy.  It  shows  God's  feel- 
ings toward  men;  it  attracts  men  to  God. 

As  soon  as  the  evils  are  cast  out  of  God's  temple,  a 
river  of  mercy  flows  in.  Then  the  changed  soul  and  the 
purified  church  abound  in  deeds  of  mercy,  of  healing, 
and  of  salvation. 

These  deeds  of  mercy  are  a  specimen  of  what  Christ 
is  ever  doing  through  his  church .  Wherever  a  pure 
church  is,  there  is  kindness  to  the  poor,  healing  to  the 
sick,  help  for  the  unfortunate. 

Whenever  God  cleanses  the  temple  of  a  human  soul, 
he  also  heals  that  soul  of  its  various  evils. 

"And  the  children  crying  in  the  temple,  and  saying, 
Hosanna  to  the  Son  of  David."  Many  of  those  who,  on 
the  day  before,  had  greeted  the  Saviour  with  shouts  of 
Hosanna,  would  be  in  the  temple  court;  and  they  would 
cheer  enthusiastically  with  the  same  "Homnna,"  as  they 
saw  him  doing  the  Messiah's  work,  in  the  temple,  of 
cleansing  and  healing.  The  shouts  would  echo  and  re- 
echo as  the  crowds  of  desecrators  fled  before  one  man, 
as  one  after  another  blind  men  went  to  him  groping  and 
came  away  seeing,  and  the  lame  who  went  limping  came 
away  running  and  leaping.  The  enthusiam  was  at  its 
highest.  E7en  the  children  felt  the  wondrous  power; 
and  having  been  taught  at  an  early  age  to  join  in  temple 
services,  they  now  took  up  the  strain,  and  shouted  and 
sang,  "Hosanna  to  the  Son  of  David." 

The  church  should  take  the  best  care  that  the  children 
should  join  in  the  services  of  praise.  They  should  ar- 
range their  services  and  build  their  edifices  so  that  the 
children  can  thus  have  part.  The  older  people  will  flad 
that  thus  praise  is  perfected.  The  Gospel  preached  in 
so  direct  and  simple  a  manner,  the  doctrines  stated  in  so 
clear  and  simple  a  form  that  children  can  understand 
them,  the  services  so  devotional  and  helpful  that  children 
can  be  uplifted  by  them,  will  most  help  the  largest  num- 
ber of  people. 

— Elder  Jonathan  Woodman  died  in  North  Tewksbury, 
Mass.,  Jan.  18,  aged  ninety.  He  had  preached  the  Gos- 
pel over  seventy  years.  He  was  an  opposer  of  secret 
societies  but  the  wickedness  of  his  associates  silenced  his 
testimony. 


March  1, 1888 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


OBITUARY. 

Wbslbt  Richbt  died  at  his  home  in 
Oakland  City,  Indiana,  on  the  5th  ofOo- 
tober last,  in  his  75th  year.  His  last  ill- 
ness was  of  but  a  little  more  than  tvro 
weeks,  and  up  to  that  he  had  been  in 
usual  good  health .  As  a  member  of  the 
Congregational  church  he  was  faithful  in 
his  duties  as  a  Christian,  and  believed  that 
hifl  testimony  should  be  given  against 
every  iniquity  that  exalts  itself  against 
Christ  and  his  church.  He  was  always 
earnestly  upholding  Christian  reforms,  and 
strenuously  opposed  Freemasonry.  To 
this  cause  he  gave  much  thought  and  also 
abundantly  of  his  means.  He  will  be  well 
remembered  by  Secretary  Stoddard,  S  L. 
Cook,  J.  T.Klggings,  and  by  many  other 
readers  of  the  Cynosure.  In  his  home 
he  was  a  loving  husband  and  kind  father. 
A  wife  and  daughter  remain  among  the 
mourning  friends  whose  sorrow  was 
heavy  to  be  borne,  but  the  love  of  a  pity- 
ing Saviour  was  like  a  healing  balm  to 
the  wounded  heart,  and  they  are  able  to 
feel  a  peaceful  resignation  to  the  Lord's 
will. 


SBVRB  T  HOG  IE  TIKii  CONDEMNED 


Samuel  Mobse  died  at  the  age  of  73, 
at  his  home  in  Southbridge,  near  WorceB- 
ter,  Mass  ,  Nov.  17,  1887. 

He  will  long  be  remembered  as  a  most 
public-spirited  citizen,  having  warmly  at 
heart  the  best  welfare  of  the  people,  and 
carrying  out  his  convictions  in  every  pub 
lie  act.  He  saw  the  danger  to  the  church 
and  the  nation  in  the  saloon  and  the  lodge 
and  was  never  afraid  that  his  voice  should 
be  heard  against  these  evils.  He  always 
favored  prohibition,  and  would  distrib- 
ute ballots,  if  there  were  any,  while  the 
polls  were  open.  If  none  were  in  town 
he  would  write  one  out  to  suit  himself, 
and  then  cast  it — audit  counted,  too. 
He  also  was  opposed  to  all  secret  socie- 
ties, especially  Freemasonry,  and  would 
often  debate  on  the  various  influences 
brought  to  bear  upon  a  community  by 
these  societies.  He  ably  co-operated 
with  Pres.  C.  A.  Blanchard  when  he  la- 
bored in  Massachusetts  in  1871,  and  later 
with  other  workers.  He  had  been  con- 
fined to  his  home  for  over  a  year  before 
death  came  to  release  him  from  the  pains 
of  disease  and  the  cares  of  this  life,  for 
rest  in  Christ.  He  will  long  be  remem- 
bered by  his  fellow  townsfolk  for  his 
manly,  upright  course  and  outspoken 
convictions. 


CONSUMPTION  CURABLE. 

It  cannot  be  too  often  impressed  on 
every  one  that  the  much  dreaded  con- 
sumption (which  is  only  lung  scrofula)  is 
curable,  if  attended  to  at  once,  and  that 
the  primary  symptoms,  so  often  mistaken 
as  signs  of  diseased  lungs,  are  only  symp- 
toms of  an  unhealthy  liver.  To  this  or- 
gan the  system  is  indebted  for  pure  blood, 
and  to  pure  blood  the  lungs  are  indebted 
no  less  than  to  pure  air  for  healthy  action. 
If  the  former  is  polluted,  we  have  the 
hacking  cough,  the  hectic  flash,  night- 
sweats,  and  a  whole  train  of  symptoms 
resembling  consumption.  Rouse  the 
liver  to  healthy  action,  by  the  use  of  Dr. 
Pierce's  Golden  Medical  Discovery,  take 
healthy  exercise,  live  in  the  open  air,  and 
all  symptoms  of  consumption  will  dis- 
appear. For  weak  lungs,  spitting  of 
blood,  shortness  of  breath,  chronic  nasal 
cktarrh,  bronchitis.asthma.severe  coughs, 
and  kindred  affections,  it  is  a  most  won- 
derful remedy. 


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by  gbbat  men  in  the  church, 

«Rev.  Thomas  H.  Stockton,  D.D.:— 
Religion  is  as  open  as  the  sky  and  bright 
as  the  sun.  As  a  man,  an  American,  and 
a  Christian,  I  love  true  manhood,<»true 
Americanism  and  true  Christianity  too 
well  to  approve  of  secret  institutions  of 
any  kind. 

L.  L  Hamline,  Bishop  M  B.  church, 
in  his  diary,  ISJfS:  "North  Ohio  Confer 
ence  has  progressed  very  rapidly  till  this 
time,  but  Masonry  and  Odd  fellowship 
have  arrested  us."  At  another  time:  "I 
have  enjoyed  and  suffered  much  during 
its  session.  Masonry  and  Odd-fellowship, 
a  bane  in  the  midst  of  us,  have  done  us 
mtichevil." — Life,  pp.  323,  J^.  ^ 

jA  M  Milligan,  D.D  : — Thus  I  have 
shown  that  Masonic  oaths  and  obligations 
are  not  obligatory;  that  God  has  no  part 
in  them;  that  they  are  a  profanation  of 
his  ordinance  of  tbe  oath,  and  a  usurpa  - 
tion  of  the  prerogative  of  government 
under  the  wrath  of  an  insulted  God  and 
the  ban  of  outraged  society:  a  great  sin 
to  make  them  but  no  sin  to  brjak  them. 

Rev.  J  P.  Lytle,  D  D.  :— We  could 
fill  a  volume  with  extracts  of  the  same 
tenor,  showing,  as  these  have  shown  that 
Freemasonry  is  a  distinct  and  positive 
religion  with  a  promise  of  palvation;  yet 
rej(  cling  and  denying  the  Lord  Jesus;  a 
religion  which  claims  to  hive  borrowed 
its  principles  and  rile.^  from  those  heath- 
en institutions  so  abhorrent  to  God  and 
corrupting  to  men.  ft"' 

*  Rev.  Joshua  Bradley,  a  renouncing 
Mason: — A  lying  spirit  is  abroad,  and 
speaks  through  all  Masonic  presses,  and 
this  spirit  irflaences  all  who  hate  the 
truth,  and  will  make  them  wax  worse  and 
worse,  till  sudden  destruction  shall  over- 
whelm those  workers  of  iniquity,  to  the 
astonishment  of  every  beholder.  Then 
Masonry  will  rise  no  more  to  trouble 
Zion.  and  spread  delusion  and  death  amid 
civilized  nations.  ♦ 

C.  B.  Ward,  missionary  in  India:  — 
When  men  get  saved  out  here  they  get 
out  of  the  lodge  of  necessity.  We  are 
personally  arquainted  with  a  barrister,  a 
doctor,  a  loc  tmotive  fireman,  a  station- 
master  on  arailwa^r,  a  principal  of  a  high 
srhool,  a  commissary  officer,  a  military 
officer,  and  others  who  when  saved  at 
once  quit  the  lodge  for  Christ's  Bake 
without  any  one  saying  much  to  thrm. 
The  evil  of  the  institution  is  too  apparent 
to  need  pointing  out  in  India.  t 

Joseph  S.  Christmas,  Pastor  Bowery 
Presbyterian  church.  New  York,  1830: — If 
these  remarks  should  meet  the  eye  of  any 
follower  of  the  Redeemer  who  still  wor- 
ships at  the  altar  of  Masonry,  I  beg  him 
once  more  to  consider  whether,  impos  d 
on  by  the  mock  solemnities  of  the  lodge 
and  the  pompous  pretensions  of  the  crttft. 
he  is  not  really  attempting  to  effect  aeon- 
cord  between  Christ  and  Belial;  and 
whether  he  does  not  owe  it  to  the  souls  of 
Masons,  to  the  honor  of  the  church  of 
Christ,  and  to  the  good  of  mankind,  to 
come  out  and  be  separate.  ^^ 

Drs  Leon.vrd  Woods,  Erenezer 
Porter  and  Tho-mas  H.  Skinner.  Pro- 
fessors  at  Andover  to  the  Massachusetts 
legislature: — Praying  for  a  full  investi- 
gation into  the  nature,  language,  cere- 
monies, and  form  of  rehearsing  extra-jii 
dicial  oaths  in  Masonic  bodies;  and  if 
f  )und  to  be  such  as  the  Memorialists  dc 
scribe  them,  that  a  law  may  be  passed 
i)rohibiting  the  future  administration  of 
^laionic,  and  such  other  extra  judici*' 
I'lths,  as  tend  to  weaken  the  sanctions  oi 
tvil  oaths  in  courts  of  justice;  and  pray 
also  for  the  repeal  of  the  charter  granted 
hy  this  Commonwealth  to  the  Grand 
Lodge  of  Massachusetts  ^ 

^Rev.  Moses  Thatcher:— Our  Saviour 
declared  to  the  Jewish  high  priest,  "I  spake 
openly  to  the  world;  and  in  secret  have  I 
said  nothing."  What  now  would  be 
thought  of  the  church  if  she  should'lyle" 
her  doors,  impose  obligations  in  secret, 
and  place  a  perpetual  smil  upon  the  lip' 
of  her  mcmbris?  Would  it  auy  longe' 
be  believed  that  hor  ho\e  object  is  to  pr  > 
mote  tho  rclifjion  of  tho  Gospel?  Now  if 
the  church,  whii;h  is  ttio  purest  lio'ly  on 
earth,  could  not  and  would  not  he  iru^l-tl 
as  a  secret  society,  who  can  hi  .mo  con- 
scientious anil  judicious  men  for  drawing 
tho  conclusion  that  any  secret  society,  of 
whatever  description, is  altogether  unnec 
ossary  and  cannotexist  without  becoming 
an  object  of  suspicion.if  not  an  engine  of 
wickedneas.  ^  '^ 


Chakles  C.  Poote: — What  would  the 
introduction  of  Chr'st  into  Mohamme- 
danism be,  but  its  annihilation?  And 
thus  would  it  be  with  Masonry. 

Pastor  Fisch,  of  Paris,  lS73:^The 
church  in  America  must  stand  as  one 
man  against  Masonry  or  be  destroyed.  «. 
'*Rev.  Jcel  Swartz,  D.  D.,  a  renounc- 
ing Mason:— Ita  (Freemasonry 's)  relig- 
ion is  anti-Christian  ...  Its  prayers  are 
blasphemous.  ...  Its  use  of  the  Bible  is 
sacrilegious.  .  . .  The  whole  is  a  com- 
pound of  Judaism  and  paganism. 

Moses  Stuart,  Professor  in  Andover 
Theological  beminary,  Mass,  1834:  —For: 
a  long  time  I  neither  knew  nor  cared 
about  the  subject;  but  recent  attention  to 
it  has  filled  me  with  astonishment;  and  aa 
to  somethings  contained  in  it,  with  horror. 
The  trifling  with  oaths  and  with  the  awful 
name  of  the  ever  blessed  God,  is  a  feature 
which  I  cannot  contemplate  but  with  the 
deepest  distress. 

*  John  Wesley,  June,  1773:  —I  went  to 
Ballymena  and  read  a  strange  tract  that 
professes  to  discover  "the  inmost  lecesses 
of  Freemasonry,"  said  to  be  "translated 
from  tbe  French  original  lately  published 
at  Berlin."  I  incline  to  think  it  is  a  gen- 
uine account.  Only  if  it  be,  I  wond'  r  the 
author  is  suffered  to  live.  If  it  be,  what 
an  amazicg  banter  upon  all  mankind  is 
Freemasocry. — N.  T.  Christian  Advocate, 
February,  I884.  ^ 

^Alexander  Campbell: — I  know  uo 
Temperance,  Odd-feliow  or  Freemason 
fraternity  that  does  not  recognize  r, 
brotherhood  with  the  world.  "They  are 
of  the  world,  they  speak  of  the  world  and 
ihe  world  heareth  them."  Christians, 
though  in  the  world,  are  not  of  it.  Any 
union,  then,  for  moral  purposes  with  tho 
world  that  brings  us  to  commune  relig- 
iously with  it,  by  the  laws  and  usages  of 
the  institution  itself,  is  opposed  to  the 
law  and  kingdom  of  Jesus  Christ.         f 

">  Charles  G.  Finney. — God  demands 
and  the  world  has  a  right  to  expect,  that 
the  church  will  take  due  action  and  bear 
a  truthful  testimony  in  respect  to  this  in- 
stitution. She  cannot  now  innocently 
hold  her  peace.  The  light  has  come.  Fi- 
delity to  God  and  to  the  souls  of  men  re- 
quire that  the  church,  which  is  the  light 
of  the  world,  should  speak  out,  and 
shoud  take  such  action  as  will  plainly  re- 
veal her  views  of  the  compatibility  or  in- 
compatibility of  Freemasonry  with  the 
Christian  religion. 

*  Nathaniel  Colver,  former  pastor 
Tremont  Temple,  Boston: — I  am  free  to 
eay  that  it  is  my  deliberate  opinion  that 
the  vicious  character  of  Masonry  and  its 
guilt-concealing  and  barbarous  oaths  are 
such,  as  not  only  to  release  all  from  their 
bonds,  but  also  to  lay  upon  them  the  sol 
emn  obligation  to  tear  off  its  covering 
and  expose  its  enormity.  I  regard  it  as 
Satan's  masterpiece,  a  terrible  snare  to 
men.  It  sits  at  this  moment  as  a  night- 
mare on  all  the  moral  energies  of  our 
government,  and  utterly  paralyzes  the 
arm  of  justice. 

Dwioht  L.  Moody: — Give  them  the 
truth  anyway,  and  if  they  would  rather 
leave  their  churches  than  their  lodges  the 
sooner  they  get  out  of  the  churches  the 
better.  I  would  rather  have  ten  mem- 
bers who  were  separated  from  the  world 
than  a  thousand  such  members.  Come 
out  from  the  lodge.  Better  one  with  Go  I 
than  a  thousand  without  him.  We  must 
walk  with  G  >d  and  if  only  one  or  two  go 
with  us  it  is  all  right.  Do  not  let  d  )wn 
the  standard  to  suit  men  who  love  their 
crret  lodges  or  have  some  darling  sin 
(hey  will  not  give  up. 

Henry  Tatem,  an  eminent  Bapiitit 
pastor.   Providence,  It.  I.,  183^: — It  w  s 

I  )out  fourteen  years  ago  that  I  was  tirst 
initiated  into  the  lodge      Within  a  few 

nonths  after,  I  advanced  to  tho  R  y  il 
Arch  degree,  and  sometime  after  I   took 

I  he  degrees  of  Knighthood,  as  they  are 
(.alli  d      I  well  remember  the  horror  of 

ny  feelings  when  the  bandage  w.as  taken 
'rom  my  eyes  and  I  found  myself  partly 
>i  iked,  with  men  standing  artniad  nn 
>ointing  at  mo  the  implements  of  death 
^nd  a  human  skull  .>wa8  handed  me  t; 
'tink  from,  and  I  was  required  to  repea' 
V  n'e,  awful  in  themselves,  and  which  I 
'innot  distinctly   recollect,   but  which  I 

II  lievo  to  have  been  tho  same  I  find  given 
n   tho  explanation  of  that   ccrcinony  in 

B  TLanl'ri  Light  on  Masonry.  Frnni  ilisil 
lime  I  absented  myself  from  the  1  >dgn 
and  chapter.  My  mind  was  afterward-* 
l<d  by  degrees  to  an  examination  int) 
Masonry,  which  I  am  now  satisfied  is  re- 
pugnant to  th«  gpirit  of  the  rsligioa  vt 
ChiiMi.  *  f* 


N.  C.  A.  BUILDING  AND  OFFICE  01 
TEE  CHRISTIAN   CYNOSURE, 
191  ^IST  MADISON  STREET,  CEICAGC 

If  A  rjONJ  L  CEBIS  TIA  N  A  880CJA  7J0J» 

Pbebidbst-H.  H.  George,  D.  D.,  Gen 
eva  College,  Pa. 
YicB-FBEsiDBM — Bev.  M.  A.  Gault, 

Blanchard,  Iowa. 

Cob.  Skc'y  and  GshSBAL  Agbmt.— J 
P.  Stoddard,  221  WJMadisonst.,  Chicago. 

RhC.    Sbc'Y.  AND    TbBA8X)BBB.— W.   I. 

Phillips,  221  W.  Madifion  St.,   Chicago. 

DiBBCTOBB. — Alexander  Thomson,  M 
R.  Britten,  John  Gardner,  J.  L.  Barlow, 
L.  N.  Stratton,  Thos.  H.  Gault,  C.  A. 
Blanchard,  J.  E.  Roy,  E.  R.  Worrell,  H. 
A.  Fischer,  W.  R.  Bench. 

The  object  of  this  Association  Is: 
"To  expose,  withstand  and  remove  secrel 
societies,  Freemasonry  In  particular,  and  othel 
anti-Christian  raovements,  in  order  to  save  tha 
churches  of  Chrifit  from  being  aepraved,  to  re 
deem  the  adminlstrytion  of  justice  from  per 
version,  and  our  Kp  iblican  government  from 
corruption." 

To  carry  on  this  work  contributions  are 
solicited  from  every  friend  of  tne  refonn. 

Form  of  Bequest. — J  give  and  bequeath  to 
the  National  Christian  Association,  Incorpo- 
rated Hud  existing  under  the  laws  of  the  State 

of   Illinois,  the  sum  of dollars  lor  the 

purposes  of  said  Association,  and  for  wbtrh 
}he  receiot  of  Its  Treasurer  for  the  time  bein|^ 
^iall  be  sufficient  dlscharse. 

TBB  nATICKALCONVBKTION. 

Fbbsidbvt.— Rev.  J.  8.  McCuUcch* 
D.  D. 

Skcbetaby.— Rev.  Lewis  Johnson. 

ETATB   At'XIIUBT  ASfCCTATICBS 

AiiBiMA— Tr»B..  Prof.  Pickens;  Sec.  Q, 
M.Elliott;  Treof.,  Rev.  C.  B.  Curtis,  all  of 
Selma. 

CiuiOBKiA.— Frei^  L.  B.  Lathrop,  Eollli 
ter;  Cor.  Sec,  Mrs.  U.  P.  Merrill,  Wccdlsnd : 
Treas .,  C.  Ruddcck,  Woodland. 

CoHNBCTictJT.— Free..  J.  A.  Consnt,  Willi 
mantle;  Sec,  Geo.  Smith,  WUUmantlc;  Treaf. 
C.  T.  Collins,  Wicdeor. 

IiiiKOis.— Free.,  J.  P.  Stoddard  Bee,  M 
N.  Butler;  Treas.,  W.  I.  PblUlpe  all  at  Cv- 
no*ure  office. 

ISDiAHA.— Pres.,  William  H.  Figg,  Reno 
Sec,  8.  L.  Cook,  Albion ;  Treae.,  BenJ.  Uleh 
Sliver  Lake. 

IOWJi.—PTeB.,'Wm  Johnston. CoUepe  Srrlnes- 
Cor  Sec,  C  D.  Trumbull,  Mornlrij?  g^j^l 
Trea».,  James  Harvey.  Pleasatit  PIsjId,  Jeffer- 
eon  Co. ;  Lecturer,  C.  F.  Hawley,  Wheaton,  111. 

Kassas.— Pre»..  J.  P.  RIcha"rde,  Ft  Scott- 
Secj  W.  W.  WcMlllan,  Olathe;  Treae.,  J 
A.  "Tcrrence,  N.  Cedar. 

MA88ACHr8rTT8.— Fre».,  8.  A.  Pratt;  Sec. 
Mre.  E.  D.  Bailey;  Trcaf., David  MannlDg.Sr. 
Worcester.  ' 

Michigan.— Pres.,  D.  A.  RIcl  ards,  Briehtcn  • 
Sec'y.  H.  A.  Day,  WIlllametoD;  Tnta. 
Geo.  Swaneon,  Jr.,  Bedfoiu. 

MiHNBSCTA— Prfs.,  E.  Q.  Fslne,  Waelo'a' 
Cor.  Pec.  Vm.  Fcnttn,  St  Paul :  Ksc.  Sec''y 
Mrs.  M.  F.  Morrill,  St.  Ciiarlce;  Trcaj...  Wb' 
H.  Morilll,  St.  Cb8rle». 

M188CCK1  -Pre*.,  B.  F.  Miller,  Eagleville 
Treae..  Wllllem  Beanchamp,  Avalon ;  Cor.  Brc. 
A.  D.  Thomas,  Avalon. 

N1BBA8BA.— Free  ,  8.  Auetln,  Falnnoni  I 
Cor.  Sec,  W.        Bpconer,  Kearney;   Treia.- 
J.  C.  Fye . 

Maine  -Prrs.,  Isaac  .Tfcbi-on,  Harrlaoii; 
Sec,  I.  D  Ilalnis.  Dexttr;  Treae.,  H.  W. 
Goddard,  Wtst  Sidney. 

NbwBampshimb.— Free.,  C.  L.  Baker,  Man' 
cheeter;  Sec,  8.  C.  Kimball,  New  Market' 
Treae.,  James  »•'.  French,  Canterbury. 

Nbw  Yokk.— Prte.,  F.  W.  Cap  well,  Dale: 
Sec'y,  John  Wallace,  Syraci'fc;  Treae.,  M. 
Merrick,  Byracnee. 

Ohio.— Free.,  F.  M.  Sjifiiccr.  New  Concord; 
Rec  Sec,  S.  A.  George,  MaiiPtleld;  Cor.  Sec. 
iind  Treas..  C  W.  1  la!t.  ( oliuubus;  Agent, 
W.  B.  Stoddard,  Columbra. 

PBHN8Tl.v*Nii.— C^r.  Sec,  N.  Callrnder, 
T>cDpi»r  ;  Treae.,  W.  B.Bcrtele,  Wllkeebarrr. 

VlBMONT.— Frcf.,  W.  K.  Laird,  St.  Jotne- 
bnry;  Sec,  C.  W  Potter. 

WiB00if8Ji»  — Fri.8..  J.  W  Wood,  Barmtoo; 
Sec,  W.  W.  Ames,  Menomonte ;  Treae.,  M.  B 
Britten,  Vienna. 

i^>4£ATON  COLLCGE  LiaHARY 
^iiMton,  lUinoii 


8 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


Mabch  1, 1888 


The  Christian  Cynosure. 


J.  BLANCHARD. 


Xdrobb. 


HENRY  L.  EXLLOOa 


OEICAeO,   THXJBBCA'S,   MAECH  1.   1888. 


EDITORIAL    C0RRB8P0NDBNCE. 


New  Orleans,  Feb.  22,  1888. 

Deab  CyNOsuBE: — Yesterday  closed  our  conven- 
tion with  a  debate  proposed  by  Masons,  who  saw 
clearly  that  the  lodge  was  rapidly  losing  ground. 
We  were  disappointed  by  the  sickness  and  absence 
of  some  prominent  men;  but  God  sent  others  in 
their  places.  Rev.  Dr.  Milligan,  of  Kansas,  presi- 
ded— spoke  with  great  power  and  acceptance,  both 
in  convention  and  in  the  debate  in  which  Dr.  Strat- 
ton  ably  presided.  Mr.  Hinman,  our  "beloved 
physician,"  prescribed  for  us  when  ill,  and  spoke 
and  drew  up  our  resolutions.  Prof.  J.  F.  Browne, 
of  Howe  Institute,  New  Iberia,  La.,  altogether  out- 
did himself  in  the  debate.  He  was  clear,  calm,  for- 
cible and  carried  conviction  to  all. 

Rev.  R.  N.  Countee,  of  Memphis,  gave  a  speech 
worth  coming  to  New  Orleans  to  hear.  As  he  had 
been  through  the  Masonic  mills  and  knew  their 
work  by  experience,  his  denunciations  were  terrible, 
and  the  Masons  hated  him,  ecoflfed  at  him,  and  ut- 
tered dark  threats  about  having  his  "record  here  in 
New  Orleans,"  etc.,  etc.,  as  if  they  contemplated  his 
assassination  or  something  equally  terrible.  This 
stirred  up  the  lodge  claquers  on  the  skirts  of  the 
crowd;  and  it  looked  for  a  few  minutes  as  though 
there  would  be  a  row,  and  this  by  colored  men 
against  those  whose  prayers  and  toils  had  helped 
awaken  this  guilty  nation,  and  had  snatched  these 
men  from  the  slave- pen  and  auction-block.  But 
their  leading  speaker,  Dr.  Dale,  quieted  the  noisy 
rioters  and  order  was  restored.  Rev.  Mr.  Countee 
appeared  admirably;  and  those  in  the  North  who 
have  helped  him  have  reason  to  be  proud  of  him 
But  he  still  needs  our  prayers  that  God  will  give 
him  gentleness  as  well  as  firmness,  and  shield  him 
from  the  lodge  whose  god  is  a  "liar  and  murderer 
from  the  beginning,"  whose  very  prayers  are  blas- 
phemy, and  whose  religion,  like  that  of  their  "twin 
relic  of  barbarism,"  Mormonism,  is  assassination. 

Rev.  Mr.  Chittenden  spoke  ably  and  well;  Rev. 
Mr.  Dempsey  aided  materially  in  the  testimonies  of 
the  convention;  Rev.. Mr.  Parry,  as  scribe,  held  the 
pen  of  a  ready  writer;  Pres.  L.  N.  Stratton  came 
from  his  Wheaton  theological  class  to  address  us 
earnestly  on  the  vast  importance  of  informing  the 
minds  of  our  youth  in  the  principles  of  Christian 
reform 

But  the  leading  charm  of  the  convention  was  the 
large  number  of  colored  pastors,  who  had  all  been 
in  lodges,  and  who  listened  to  the  facts  and  princi- 
ples brought  out,  as  to  a  new  revelation  from  God. 
The  Louisiana  Baptists,  whose  "name,"  said  their 
leader.  Dr.  Jackson,  "is  legion,"  adopted  and  read  to 
us  a  full  and  cordial  endorsement  of  the  work  of 
the  National  Christian  Association,  The  paper  will 
be  found  in  the  Cynosure.  Their  zeal  was  mani- 
fested by  a  little  incident.  Three  ministers  who 
were  out  when  the  conference  meeting  at  Leland 
University,  adopted  the  paper,  drew  up,  signed  and 
presented  to  us  their  request  to  have  their  names 
added  to  that  important  paper.  The  Baptist  people, 
sixty  years  ago,  were  the  leaders  in  the  anti-secret 
reform.  But  that  reform  took  the  shape  of  a  po- 
litical party,  and  the  leaders  avoided  whatever 
would  endanger  success  in  an  election.  But  our  in- 
dictment is  now  drawn  in  the  name  of  Christ  and 
Christianity,  and  it  is  not  going  back. 

At  the  close  of  the  debate,  as  I  left  the  church 
after  a  short  farewell  speech,  the  Grand  Master  of 
colored  Masons  in  Louisiana,  who  acted  for  the 
lodge,  followed  me  to  the  sidewalk  to  bid  us  a 
friendly  adieu,  and  said  he  was  thankful  to  have 
met  men  who  so  ably  explained  and  defended  their 
cause.  The  Masons  who  spoke  against  me  in  the 
debate  are  the  leading  colored  Republicans  in  New 
Orleans.  They  think  Blaine  is  insincere  in  with- 
drawing his  name,  and  only  wants  to  be  nominated 
by  acclamation  by  the  convention  next  June;  and 
they  think  that  Grover  Cleveland's  stand  for  a  re- 
duced tariff  will  elect  Blaine.  The  folly  of  this  hope 
is  amazing.  They  all  say  the  vote  for  St.  John  in 
1884  would  have  elelected  Blaine,  but  being  cast  for 
.  St.  John  defeated  him.  They  all  see  and  say  that 
the  Prohibition  vote  has  steadily  increased  during 
the  whole  four  years,  and  they  know,  too,  that  Gen. 
Clinton  B.  Fiske  will  draw  all  the  votes  St.  John 
got,  and  all  the  great  rapid  and  constant  increase 
since.  This,  by  their  own  showing,  breaks  the 
back  of  the  Republican  party  Equare  in  two,  leaving 
nothing  for  it  but  a  speedy  death.    It  never  can  or 


will  elect  another  candidate.  A  leading  Republi  • 
can  here  who  fought  through  the  war,  said  last 
night  that  the  next  successful  party  will  be  made 
of  the  fragments  of  the  two  old  parties. 

I  suggested  a  side  mass  meeting  of  the  American 
party,  but  the  debate  and  the  Republicans  put  it  off. 
But  I  moved  to  amend  an  anti-liquor  resolution,  by 
adding,  "and  we,  the  convention,  will  endeavor  to 
give  effect  to  our  principles,  ly  our  prayers,  our  la- 
bors, AND  OUR  VOTES," 

This  stirred  the  water  from  the  bottom,  but  no 
one  plead  for  the  Republican  party.  The  able  and 
influential  Dr,  Jackson  said  he  "should  vote  a  mixed 
Republican  ticket;  that  is,  he  would  scratch  liquor- 
ites  and  Masons  as  not  good  Republicans,  So,  at 
least,  we  understood  him,  while  Countee,  of  Ten- 
nessee, and  Jordan,  of  Texas,  said  they  should  vote 
Prohibition,  simple  and  pure. 

I  never  saw  so  clearly  the  wisdom  of  keeping  up 
a  distinct  "American  Party,"  Our  resolutions  con- 
demn not  only  the  lodge  and  liquor,  but  Sabbath 
breaking,  lotetries,  and  houses  of  ill-fame,  which  ru- 
mor says  New  Orleans  is  deeply  cursed  with.  Now 
the  Prohibition  party  already  begins  to  toady  for 
the  vote  of  secretists,  and  as  they  look  more 
and  more  for  success  at  the  polls,  they  will  more 
and  more  shun  to  oppose  those  other  evils  which 
must  give  way  before  we  reach  that  "  Grand  concep- 
tim  of  our  American  Fathers,  a  Christian  Common- 
wealth." 

If  the  Prohibition  convention  next  June  does  not 
nominate  a  clean  ticket,  we  must  put  an  American 
ticket  in  the  field  and  vote  it.  My  amendment 
passed  unanimously,  J,  b. 


John  Brown,  Jr  ,  the  eldest  son  of  the  hero  of 
Harper's  Ferry,  is  on  his  way  to  Southern  Califor- 
nia, to  visit  his  brothers  Jason  and  0  wen,  and  sister 
Mrs.  Thompson,  in  their  eyrie  in  the  Sierra  Madre 
mountains  north  of  Pasadena.  Mr.  Brown  has  long 
lived  at  Put-in-Bay,  Ohio.  He  tarried  two  weeks  in 
Chicago,  and  made  two  public  addresses  on  "Rum, 
Tobacco  and  Labor,"  Last  Sabbath  he  spent  at  Na- 
perville,  III,  visiting  his  old  school-teacher  Dr,  A, 
A,  Smith,  late  president  of  Northwestern  College, 
Naperville.  In  the  evening  Mr.  Brown  addressed  a 
large  congregation  of  students  and  citizens.  While 
in  the  city  the  Cynosure  editor  called  on  him  at  his 
hotel  and  he  also  visited  our  office,  the  interchange 
of  views  and  experiences  being  of  great  interest 
and,  we  hope,  not  without  mutual  profit,  ^r. 
Brown's  recollection  of  his  father's  renunciation  of 
Freemasonry  is  very  clear.  The  system  had  become 
most  corrupt,  and  there  is  no  doubt  about  the  mur- 
der of  Morgan  by  the  order.  All  the  children  sym- 
pathized with  the  father's  sentiment;  but  an  incident 
in  Kansas  in  1857,  when  he  was  expecting  death  at 
the  hands  of  the  Missouri  lodges  of  Border  Ruffians, 
called  the  attention  of  Mr.  Brown  in  a  peculiar  way 
to  Freemasonry,  and  not  long  afterward,  when  in 
Ohio,  he  was  persuaded  to  join  that  order  and  he 
now  wears  its  badge,  as  well  as  of  the  G.  A.  R 
But  he  has  never  studied  the  principles  of  secretism 
with  discrimination,  and  when  an  explanation  was 
made  of  these  principles  from  the  Christian  stand- 
point, he  approved  them,  and  shaking  hands  heart- 
ily with  us  in  the  office,  said  as  he  departed,  "I  be- 
lieve I  am  with  you." 


An  Era  of  Strikes. — The  cyclone  at  Mount 
Vernon,  111.,  with  its  thirty-seven  victims,  opens  the 
year  1888  with  foreboding.  Of  so  early  and  so  fatal 
a  storm  in  the  West  there  is  probably  no  record. 
The  great  strike  of  the  engineers  and  firemen  on  the 
Chicago,  Burlington  and  Qaincy  railroad  begun  Mon- 
day morning  is  like  the  storm.  It  is  the  first  great 
strike  on  that  line;  the  first  for  years  set  on  foot  by 
the  "Brotherhood  of  Engineers,"  assisted  by  the 
firemen;  one  of  the  most  far-reaching  in  its  results 
if  it  shall  continue;  and  one  of  the  most  uncalled 
for  so  far  as  the  public  can  judge  from  the  state- 
ments of  both  parties.  It  is  a  question  of  how 
wages  shall  be  paid,  rather  than  of  the  amount. 
The  men  ask  that  all  engineers  and  firemen  of  every 
grade  be  paid  alike  by  the  mile.  The  company  wish 
to  grade  the  pay  to  the  experience  of  the  men  and 
the  difficulty  of  the  run,  which  varies  in  different 
parts  of  their  lines.  To  the  public,  which  is  inter- 
ested in  the  safety  of  travel,  the  rules  of  the  road 
seem  wisest.  To  jeopardize  the  business  of  a 
large  section  of  country  it  ie  too  narrow  a  question, 
and  the  moderation  that  has  controlled  the  affairs  of 
the  engineers'  order  for  eleven  years  should  have  led 
them  to  take  less  precipitous  measures.  The  lodge 
question  has  not  so  much  to  do  with  the  case.  The 
company  will  use  the  quarrel  between  the  Brother- 
hood and  Knights  of  Labor  to  its  advantage.  The 
former  has  not  helped  the  Knights  in  their  strikes, 
and  will  not  expect  much  assistance  now. 


— Every  Cynosure  reader  will  rejoice  with  us  in 
that  Miss  Flagg  is  regaining  strength.  Of  this  her 
article  on  another  page  is  a  cheering  token. 

— Secretary  Stoddard  visited  the  conference  of  the 
African  M.  E.  church  in  New  Orleans  last  Friday 
and  spoke  on  invitation,  says  the  limes-Democrat. 

— Revs.  A.  J.  Chittenden  and  A.  W.  Parry  returned 
from  New  Orleans  last  Friday  morning,  and  Pres. 
L.  N.  Stratton  was  expecting  to  start  north  in  the 
company  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Stoddard  on  Tuesday. 

— President  C.  A.  Bianchard  addressed  a  large 
union  meeting  in  the  Methodist  Episcopal  church, 
Wheaton,  Sabbath  morning  in  behalf  of  Wheaton 
College.  Friends  of  the  institution  responded  with 
a  subscription  of  over  $800. 

— President  and  Mrs.  Bianchard  are  stopping  in 
New  Orleans  with  relatives  of  Gov.  McEnery,  who 
are  all  opposed  to  secret  societies.  One  of  the  la- 
dies of  the  household  goes  in  a  few  weeks  to  Japan 
as  a  missionarj  under  appointment  from  the  Presby- 
terian Board. 

— Rev.  H.  J.  Becker,  formerly  of  California,  is 
soon  to  begin  a  long  tour  through  Europe,  Egypt 
and  the  Holy  Land,  and  the  Conservator  of  Dayton 
has  engaged  him  as  correspondent.  We  congratu- 
late the  editors  on  this  good  fortune.  These  letters 
will  be  most  entertaining  and  instructive,  and  Bro. 
Becker  will  have  his  eyes  open  to  whatever  facts 
will  illustrate  the  lodge  worships  of  America. 

— With  the  aid  of  Bro.  Parry,  secretary  of  the 
National  Convention,  a  report  of  the  proceedings  has 
been  prepared  for  the  present  paper.  There  waits 
yet  for  next  week  the  storj  of  the  discussion  of 
Tuesday,  which  was  an  occasion  of  soul-stirring  in- 
terest, and  in  the  estimation  of  the  New  Orleans 
brethren  killed  the  lodge  among  the  colored  people 
of  that  great  city.  Secretary  Stoddard's  letter,  re- 
ceived as  we  were  nearly  ready  for  press,  describes  the 
scene,  but  has  reluctantly  been  put  over.  In  its  re- 
sults this  last  convention  is  declared  to  be  the  great- 
est ever  held  by  the  National  Association. 

— Rev.  Alexander  Thomson  of  Bartlett,  III,  was 
assisted  on  the  Sabbath  by  Bro.  W.  I.  Phillips,  N. 
C.  A.  treasurer,  who  preached  the  morning  discourse. 
Bro.  Thomson's  pastoral  work  seems  to  be  eminently 
successful.  The  church  is  in  a,  continual  revival 
spirit,  souls  are  coming  to  Christ  continually.  The 
young  people's  prayer  meeting  is  attended  by  some 
forty  persons  which  is  probably  a  very  large  propor- 
tion of  the  population  of  the  town  of  that  age.  The 
recent  death  of  Mrs.  Thomson  is  a  great  loss  to  peo- 
ple as  well  as  pastor,  as  she  entered  actively  and 
with  sincere  pleasure  into  these  efforts  for  the  church 
of  Christ. 

— Rev.  Dr.  J.  E.  Roy  addressed  the  Prospect  Park 
church  and  the  College  church,  Wheaton,  Sabbath 
morning  and  evening  on  the  work  of  the  American 
Missionary  Association.  The  collections  amounted 
to  some  $70  and  committees  were  appointed  to  so- 
licit still  further.  The  evening  address  was  remark- 
ably interesting  and  instructive.  Dr.  Roy,  with  the 
aid  of  Bro.  I.  R.  B.  Arnold,  exhibited  large  pictures 
telling  the  story  of  the  work  of  the  Association 
among  Indians,  Chinese  and  Freedmen.  The  posi- 
tion of  the  A.  M.  Association  in  warning  the  colored 
churches  against  the  lodge  was  heartily  approved  by 
the  congregation. 

— The  following  testimony  to  the  work  of  Dr. 
Munhall  in  Brooklyn  Tabernacle  was  given  by 
Dr.  Talmage  in  the  Christian  Herald:  "Dr.  L.  W. 
Munhall,  the  evangelist,  and  Professor  and  Mrs. 
Towner,  the  Gospel  singers,  have  now  concluded  a 
series  of  six  weeks'  meetings  in  Brooklyn  Taberna- 
cle. Between  two  and  three  thousand  people  have 
professed  conversion.  Upwards  of  six  hundred 
have  already  joined  the  church  of  which  I  am  pastor. 
But  the  service  was  cosmopolitan,  and  many  have 
gone  to  connect  themselves  with  other  churches  in 
this  city  and  other  cities  and  other  lands.  The  work 
has  been  characterized  by  quietude,  solemnity,  pro- 
found conviction  for  sin  and  positive  decision  for 
Christ,  leaving  no  doubt  as  to  the  regenerated  heart. 
Dr.  Munhall  has,  with  tremendous  power,  enthralled 
the  attention  of  the  people  from  first  to  last  His 
manner  and  words  are  beyond  criticism,  and  accept- 
able to  all.  He  is  a  magnetic  speaker,  and,  in  a 
good  sense,  dramatic,and  always  evangelical.  When 
he  opens  his  Gospel  Ijatteries,  loaded  with  exegesis, 
argument,  illustration  and  anecdote,  the  hearer  must 
either  surrender,  or  retreat  into  hopeless  obduracy. 
Though  we  have  had  but  three  days  of  pleasant 
weather  since  the  meetings  began,  the  church  has 
been  thronged  with  great  audiences,  and  at  his  Sab- 
bath preaching  multitudes  have  been  unable  to  get 
inside  the  building." 


Makch  1,  1888 


THE  CHKISTIAN  CYNOSUKE. 


TSB  NATIONAL  CONVENTION  REPORT  {Con- 
tinued from  5th  page.) 

Louisiana,  Rev . H . C . Green,  New  Orleans. 

TennesBee,  Rev.  J.  H.  McCullough,  D . D . ,  Knoxville. 

Massachusetts,  S.A.Pratt,  Worcester. 

Michigan,  Rev.D.  A,  Richards,  Brighton. 

Minnesota,  Prof. E.G. Paine,  Wasioja. 

Missouri,  G . W . Needles,  Albany. 

Nebraska,  Rev. E.B.Graham,  Omaha. 

New  Hampshire,  Rev . 8 . C . Kimball,  New  Market. 

New  York,  F.W.Capwell,  Dale. 

Ohio,  Rev.  S.A.George,  Mansfield. 

Oregon,  T .  S .  La  Due,  Clackamas . 

Pennsylvania,  Rav.N.Callender,  Brown  Hollow. 

Vermont,  Rev.W.R. Laird,  St . Johnsbury . 

Wisconsin,  Rev. W.W.Warner. 

Mississippi,  C.W.Dobbs,  D.D. 

District  of  Columbia,  Hon .  8 .  C .  Pomeroy,  Washington. 

Georgia,  Prof  .C.W.Francis. 

New  Jersey,  W.V.D.Kinsey,  Dover. 

Texas,  Rev. L.G.Jordan,  Hearne. 

Maryland,  Wm .  K .  Wright,  Elkton . 

Arkansas,  Rev. Lewis  Johnson,  Pine  Bluff. 

Florida,  J.F.Galloway,  Okahumpka. 

Illinois,  Pres.L.N.Stratton,  Wheaton. 

Rhode  Island,  A.M.Paull,  Providence. 

Maine,  Isaac  Jackson. 

Kentucky,  John  G.Fee,  Berea. 

Colorado,  Rev .  T .  Q .  Bliss,  Denver . 

Utah,  Rev.R.G.McNiece,  Salt  L»ke  City. 

Washington  Territory,  E.F.Sox,  Seattle. 

In  the  evening  Eider  J.  F.  Browne  gave  a  abort 
Bible  reading  on  John  2  and  prayer  was  offered  by 
Elder  Daniel  Clay,  the  congregation  joining  in  sing- 
ing the  23d  Psalm.  The  address  of  the  evening 
was  by  Pres,  J.  Blanchard,  editor  of  the  Christian 
Ci/nosure,  which  was  voted  to  be  printed,  and  ap- 
pears on  another  page  of  this  paper. 

Brethren  Chittenden  and  Hinman  presented  the 
following  resolutions  which  were  heartily  voted: 

Resolved,  That  we  rejoice  to  learn  that  a  goodly  num- 
ber of  Christian  churcties  are  entirely  free  from  the  un- 
cleanly vice  of  tobacco  ut in g,  and  that  we  urge  all  other 
churches  to  emulate  them  in  this  duty  of  cleansing  the 
temple  of  the  Lord. 

Resolved,  That  we  commend  the  Christian  Cynosure, 
the  organ  of  the  N.C.A.,  and  urge  on  all  the  friends  of 
the  reform  its  continued  and  enlarged  support. 

The  convention  was  also  cheered  by  the  endorse- 
ment of  its  work  contained  in  the  following  request: 

Believing  that  the  Annual  Meeting  of  the  National 
Christian  Association  in  our  city  has  accomplished  great 
good  for  the  purity  and  power  of  Christianity,  we  cor- 
dially invite  the  Association  to  hold  their  annual  session 
next  year,  if  practicable,  in  this  city. 
boylk  dohsey,  s  .  h .  norwood, 

H.C.Green,  M.  C.  B.  Mason, 

F .  Isaac,  E  Lyon, 

J.F.Marshall,  Wm  W.  Davis, 

J .  W .  Gray,  Jr  ,  S .  T .  Clanton. 

A  prayer  and  benediction  closed  the  meeting,  and 
the  seventeenth  national  convention  adjourned. 

DELEGATES. 

Rev.  W.  W.  Davis,  Rev.F.  Isaac,  Rev.  L.  Evans,  Bro. 
p.  J.  Davidson,  Rev.  Wm  Bradford,  Rev.  A.  F.  Jackson, 
Bro.  L.  C.  Simon,  Leland  University,  Rev.  S.T  Clanton, 
Rev.  J.  W.  Womack,  Rey.C.  L.  Fisher,  Mrs.  0.  B  Clan- 
ton, Miss  K,  D.  Sherwood,  Rev.  Eli  Johnson, 
Rev.  I.  L  Lowe,  Rev  B.  Boezinger,  Rev.  I.  Hall, 
C.  H.  Claiborne,  Rev.  J.  S.  T.  Milby,  J.  L  Wimby,  Rev. 
P.  J.  Robidoux,  Miss  Gross,  Rev.  A.  C.  Green,  Rev. 
Marshall,  Rev.  J.  H.  Fleming,  Bro.  Samuel  Johnson.Rev. 
L.M.Oldfleld,  Rev.  M.  L.  Berger,  D.  D.,  Straight  Uni- 
versity, Mrs .  M .  L .  Berger,  Henry  Taylor,  Rev .  R .  H .  Nor- 
wood, Rev.  E.  Lyons,  Rev.  W.  P.  McLaughlin,  pastor 
Northern  M.  E.  church,  Charles  Ave.,  Thos.  Columbus, 
New  Orleans. 

A.  J.  Chittenden,  Rev.  J.  Blanchard,  Mrs.  J.  Blanch- 
ard, Rev.  L.  N.  Stratton,  D.  D.,  Wheaton,  111. 

J.  P.  Stoddard,  Mrs.  J.  P.  Stoddard,  Chicago,  111. 

Rev.  A.  W. Parry,  Evansville,  Wis. 

Rev.  A  F.  Dempsey,  Jackson,  Mich. 

H.H. Hinman,  Washington,  D  C. 

Rev.  Wm.  Hamilton,  St.  Sophia,  La. 

Rev.  H.  Henderson,  Miss  A.  O'Keefe,  Plaquemine,  La. 

Rov.  D.  Clay,  Terre  BDune,  La. 

Rev.  B.  Dorsey.  Dorseyviile,  La. 

Geo.  W.  Clark,  Detroit,  Mich. 

Rev.  R.N.  Countee,  Memphis,  Tenn. 

J.  Franklin  Browne,  New  Iberia,  La. 

Mies  J.  P.  Moore,  Point  Coupe,  La. 

Rev  L.  G.  Jordan,  Hearne,  Texas. 

C.  W.  Sterry,  Pontiac,  111. 


FROM  NEW  ORLEANS  DURING  THE  CON- 
VENTION. 

Nbw  Orleans,  Feb.  20,  1888. 

DiAR  Cynosure: — Though  the  attendance  on  our 
convention  has  not  been  large,  it  has  been  fair,  and 
the  interest  from  the  first  well  sustained.  Rev.  J. 
8.  T.  Milligan  of  Kansas  has  ably  presided,  and  his 
address  Friday  night  on  taking  the  chair  was  one  of 
marked  ability.  So  also  was  the  statement  of  the 
history  and  objects  of  the  Association. 

The  church  where  the  convention  is  being  held  is 
central,  large  and  pleasant.    The  pastor,  Rev.  Dr. 


Bothwell,  has  given  us  words  of  welcome  and  cheer, 
and  has  facilitated  our  work.  The  three  addresses 
of  Saturday  that  were  of  special  interest  were  by 
Bro.  R.  IS.  Countee  at  10:30  a.  m.,  on  "Why  I 
Joined  and  Why  I  Left  the  Lodge;"  by  Bro.  J.  F. 
Browne  at  2:30  p.  m.,  on  "The  Origin  and  Symbol- 
ism of  Masonry,"  and  Rev.  L.  N.  Stratton  at  8  p.  m.,  on 
"The  Relation  of  Christian  Instruction  to  the  Secret 
Lodge  System."  All  were  able,  but  the  interest 
especially  centered  in  Bro.  Countee's  address,  as  it 
was  largely  the  statement  of  personal  experience. 
It  was  this  and  Bro.  Browne's  that  specially  stirred 
the  wrath  of  the  Masons  and  called  on  the  Grand 
Master  of  the  colored  Grand  Lodge  of  the  State, 
who  complained  that  the  presentation  was  altogether 
one-sided  and  challenged  discussion.  At  his  request 
to-morrow  (Tuesday)  has  been  set  apart  for  discus- 
sion, and  Bros.  Milligan,  Countee  and  Browne  have 
been  chosen  to  discuss  the  question,  "Is  Freemason- 
ry opposed  to  the  Christian  religion?"  One  of  the 
effective  speeches  was  by  Rev.  A.  8.  Jackson,  pastor 
of  the  Common  St.  Baptist  church.  Bro,  Jackson 
has  been  Deputy  Grand  Master  and  Chaplain  in  the 
lodge.  He  felt  that  he  could  not  be  a  Christian 
minister  and  be  a  Mason.  Elder  Jordan,  from 
Hearne,  Texas,  also  gave  excellent  testimony,  and 
so  did  many  others.  Pres.  J.  Blanchard  gave,  a 
most  excellent  Bible  reading  on  Sabbath  at  2:30 
p.  M.,  which  was  listened  to  with  great  attention. 

The  committee  on  devotional  exercises  assigned 
each  of  the  ministers  from  abroad  to  some  city  pul- 
pit. My  lot  was  cast  with  the  "African  Baptist 
church,"  the  oldest  and  perhaps  the  largest  colored 
church  in  the  city.  I  met  a  large  congregation  and 
was  impressed  with  the  earnest  spirit  of  devotion 
manifested  by  the  people.  My  remarks  were  large- 
ly on  the  lodge  question,  and  these  met  a  hearty  re- 
sponse. I  saw,  however,  several  prominent  Masons 
in  the  congregation  who  evidently  did  not  relish 
what  was  said.  We  trust  this,  the  last;  day  of  our 
convention,  will  be  one  of  interest.  Yours  in 
Christ,  H.  H.  Hinman. 


Reform  news. 


THE  MAINE  CHRISTIAN  ASSOCIATION 


According  to  previous  notice,  the  Maine  Stale 
Christian  Association  was  organized  in  Sprague's 
Hall,  Dexter,  Me.,  Jan.  30,  1888,  under  the  follow- 
ing constitution: 

Whereas,  Our  Lord  Jesus  Christ  commanded  his  disci- 
ples to  preach  the  Gospel  to  every  creature,  and  whereas 
this  is  not  fully  accomplished  by  the  existing  agencies: 

Therefore,  We,  the  undersigned,  not  being  ashamed  of 
our  Lord  or  his  Word,  and  desiring  above  all  things  the 
glory  of  God  and  the  salvation  of  our  fellowmen,  do 
hereby  associate  ourselves  for  Christian  work  under  the 
following: 

CONSTITUTION. 

Article  i.  This  association  shall  be  called  the  Maine 
Christian  Association,  and  shall  be  auxiliary  to  the  Na- 
tional Christian  Association. 

Article  ii.  The  object  of  this  association  shall  be  to 
proclaim  and  publish  pure  Christianity,  Bible  holiness 
and  sound  morality. 

Articles  hi,  iv  and  v.  Relates  to  officers,  their  du- 
ties and  time  of  meeting. 

Article  vi.  Any  Christian  in  sympathy  with  the 
objects  of  this  association  may  become  a  member  by 
signing  this  conslitution. 

Article  vii.  Membership  in  any  secret  organization, 
being  forbidden  by  Lev.  5:  4;  2  Cor.  6:  14,  15,  16;  Eph. 
5:11,  12,  and  being  antagonistic  to  the  impartial  benev 
olence  taught  in  the  New  Testament,  is  incompatible 
with  membership  in  the  association. 

Article  viii.  Relates  to  amendments. 

The  foregoing  constitution  was  adopted  and  the 
following  ofBcers  chosen  for  the  ensuing  year: 

President,  Elder  Isaac  Jackson  of  Harrison. 

Vice-presidents:  Elder  J.  S.  Rice  of  North  Pow- 
nal,  Elder  Jeremiah  Hill  of  Springvale. 

Secretary,  I.  D.  Haines  of  Dexter. 

Treasurer,  Henry  W.  Goddard,  West  Sidney. 

Executive  Committee:  M.  T.  Jackson,!.  D.  Haines, 
H.  W.  Goddard,  0.  G.  Cobb,  J.  Howard  Brown. 

The  Executive  Committee  immediately  engaged 
and  commissioned  Jllder  L.  E.  Pendleton  of  West 
Winterport  as  State  Home  Missionary  and  Evangel- 
ist, who  will  commence  work  at  onca. 

Friends  in  Maine  have  for  years  felt  the  need  of 
a  State  Association, but  being  widely  separated  have 
heretofore  failed  to  organize.  The  scandalous  dis- 
play of  sectarian  wickedness  and  lodge  depravity, 
working  hand  in  hand  in  Dexter  to  crush  vital  piety 
out  of  the  earth,  aroused  the  Lord's  true  children  to 
action.  It  was  our  privilege  to  be  present  and  assist 
in  christening  this  nineteenth  auxiliary  to  our  grand 
old  National  Christian  Asscciatiou. 

Let  united  prayer  be  offered  by  the  Lord's 
true  children  all  over  tl^e  land  that  the  Maine  Chris- 


tian Association  may  be  in  the  Lord's  hands  a  pow- 
erful agency  for  moral  reform  and  for  arousing  the 
professed  church  from  worldliness,  lethargy  and 
formalism  to  be  indeed  the  Bride  of  Christ,  "found 
of  him  in  peace,  without  spot  and  blameless."  2 
Peter  3:14. 


FROM  THE  NEW  HAMPSHIRE  AGENT. 

By  invitation  I  have  spent  the  past  month  in 
Dexter,  Ccrinna  and  West  Sidney,  Maine.  I  spent 
three  weeks  in  Dexter,  assisting  Pastor  I.  D. 
Haines  in  evangelistic  work.  Elder  L.  E.  Pendle- 
ton, recently  appointed  Home  Missionary  of  Maine, 
aided  us  for  about  two  weeks.  I  have  never  seen 
the  power  of  the  Holy  Spirit  so  manifested  in  fill- 
ing the  hearts  of  believers  with  joy  and  peace,  in 
smiting  sectarian  evil  doers  with  misery,  and  in 
leading  honest  inquirers  out  of  darkness  into 
Christ's  marvelous  light.  I  have  witnessed  a  more 
extensive  work  of  grace,  but  never  one  so  deep, 
thorough  and  blessed.  Pastor  Haines  can  say  with 
Paul,  "a  great  door  and  effectual  is  opened  unto  me, 
and  there  are  many  adversaries."  There  were  half 
a  dozen  cases  of  divine  healing  during  the  meetings. 
More  than  half  of  those  who  have  turned  to  the 
Lord  are  heads  of  families  and  in  nearly  every  case 
at  once  commenced  family  prayer.  On  the  last 
Lord's  day  we  spent  at  Dexter,  we  administered 
the  communion  with  unspeakable  blessing  to  all. 
I  held  two  meetings  at  Corinna  and  three  at  West 
Sidney.  I  also  lectured  to  crowded  and  attentive 
audiences  in  Dexter  and  Sidney  on  the  relation  of 
the  secret  fraternities  to  the  church.  The  Lord 
specially  owned  and  blessed  this  truth.  I  conversed 
and  prayed  with  about  120  families,  introduced  re- 
ligious papers  in  over  fifty  families,  distributed 
about  5U0  pages  of  tracts,  and  preached  about 
forty-five  times.  I  consider  it  one  of  the  most 
blessed  months  of  my  life.  I  was  much  refreshed 
in  spirit  and  kept  m  almost  perfect  health.  I  am 
much  indebted  to  John  Pennington  and  wife  for 
supplying  all  my  temporal  wants  in  a  truly  Chris- 
tian manner  at  Dexter.  Joseph  Smith  and  wife 
did  the  same  at  Corinna;  H.  W.  Goddard  and  wife 
at  West  Sidney.  The  Lord  has  rewaided  and  will 
reward  them,  according  to  his  riches  in  glory. 
Other  friends  showed  kindly  interest  but  lacked  op- 
portunity. The  Lord's  special  mercy  followed  me 
in  all  my  journey  and  kept  my  soul  in  wondrous 
peace  and  my  body  in  robust  health.     Ps.  103:  1-3. 

S.  C.  Kimball, 


KANSAS  READERS,   TAKE  NOTE. 

2o  the  friends  and  followers  of  Jesus  as  op- 
posed to  devil  worship: — Whereas  the  National 
Christian  Association  met  in  New  Orleans  on  the 
17th  day  of  February,  1888,  we  felt  it  our  duty  as 
well  as  our  privilege  to  send  as  our  chief  represen- 
tative our  brother  and  president  of  the  Kansas  State 
Christian  Association,  Rev.  J.  S.  T.  Milligan.  As 
it  will  cost  about  $25.00  to  defray  his  ex- 
penses, we  ask,  in  the  name  of  the  Kansas  State 
Christian  Association,  a  liberal  donation  from  the 
friends  in  Kansas.  Pastors,  please  present  this 
claim  to  your  congregations  and  take  up  collections 
for  the  same  and  remit  to  J.  A.  Torrence,  Denison, 
Jackson  Co.,  Kansas. 

I  will  make  acknowledgment  of  all  donations  with 
name  of  congregations  and  persons  who  contribute 
in  the  Cynosure.  J.  A.  TORRENCK,  Treat. 


PENNSYLVANIA,  ORGANIZE! 

Rev.  J.  C.  Young  of  Custer  City,  Pa.,  responds 
heartily  to  the  call  for  the  re-organization  of  the 
Pennsylvania  work.  He  writes:  '"Bless  the  Lord,  I 
am  Willi  ag  to  do  what  I  can.  I  have  long  felt  that 
Illinois,  Iowa,  Ohio,  etc.,  have  been  loully  calling 
to  Pennslyvania,  'What  meanest  thou,  O  sleeper! 
Arise,  call  on  thy  God.'  There  are  a  few  slumber- 
ers  in  this  section  who  have  once  in  awhile  stretched 
and  yawned  but  fallen  back  to  sleep  again,  and 
while  asleep  the  minor-order  net  has  been  drawn  over 
some  of  them,  and  they  are  dreaming  they  are 
as  much  oi)posed  to  secret  societies  as  anybody,  and 
so  talk  in  their  sleep  sometimes.  God  bless  your 
efforts,  Bro.  Chalfant.     Count  me  a  little  one. 

J.   C.    YODNQ. 

— Bro.  T.  K.  Bufkin,  our  dear  Quaker  friend  in 
Pasadena,  Cal.,  has  dropped  the  work  of  house 
building  which  was  becoming  too  severe  for  his 
strength,  and  has  opened  a  real  estate  otffce  in  the 
Post  Office  block  of  that  city.  None  of  our  readers 
who  visit  that  part  of  California  should  fail  to  call 
on  him. 


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THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


March  1,  1888 


The  Home. 


THE  LOVE   OF  OOD. 


Like  a  cradle  rocking,  rocking, 

Silent,  peaceful,  to  and  fro, 

Like  a  mother's  sweet  looks  dropping 

On  the  little  face  below, 

Hangs  the  green  earth,  swinging,  turning, 

Jarless,  noiseless,  safe  and  slow. 

Falls  the  light  of  God's  face  bending 

Down  and  watching  us  below. 

And  as  feeble  babes  that  sufler. 
Toss  and  cry  and  will  not  rest. 
Are  the  ones  the  tender  mother 
Holds  the  closest,  loves  the  best ; 
So  when  we  are  weak  and  wretched, 
By  our  sing  weighed  down,  distressed. 
Then  it  is  that  God's  great  patience 
Holds  us  closest,  loves  us  best. 

O  great  heart  of  God  I  whose  loving 
Cannot  hindered  be  or  crossed. 
Will  not  weary,  will  not  even 
In  our  death  Itself  be  lost- 
Love  divine !  of  such  great  loving. 
Only  mothers  know  the  cost — 
Cost  of  love,  which  aU  love  passing, 


Gave  a  Son  to  save  the  lost. 


-Saxe  Holm . 


THB  PRA7BB  IN  THB  DBBP  OANON. 

Some  time  about  the  year  1867,  three  men,  Baker, 
Strole  and  White,  were  searching  the  river  beds  in 
Colorado  for  gold.  The  rivers  there  are  different 
from  other  rivers  in  the  country.  They  do  not  run 
between  green  banks,  with  trees  or  corn-fields  on 
either  side,  and  so  near  that  we  can  always  see 
them,  and,  if  we  wish,  wade  in  them.  They  run 
deep  down,  hundreds,  in  some  places  thousands,  of 
feet  down  out  of  sight,  between  great  walls  of 
rock.  Imagine  a  range  of  mountains  split  length- 
ways from  their  ridge  to  the  root,  and  a  river  flow- 
ing far  down  at  the  very  bottom  of  the  split,  and 
tumbling  over  precipices  and  rushing  wildly  through 
the  darkness.  That  is  the  way  the  rivers  of  Colora- 
do flow. 

One  morning  the  three  men  I  have  named,having 
slept  over  night  at  the  entrance  to  one  of  these 
slits,  which  in  that  country  are  called  canons,  were 
coming  up  the  steep  sides  of  the  canon  to  continue 
their  search  tor  gold.  As  they  came  near  the  sur- 
face the  wild  war-whoop  of  the  Indians  burst  on 
their  ear,and  at  the  same  time  a  shower  of  arrows 
and  bullets  fell  on  them.  Baker  was  hit,  and,  as  it 
turned  out,  so  sorely  that  he  died.  And,  as  he  .was 
captain,  he  cried  to  the  other  two  to  escape  for 
their  lives.  But  they  were  loyal  men  and  stood  by 
their  dying  captain,  facing  the  cruel  savages  and 
beating  them  back,  until  the  last  quiver  of  his 
strong  body  told  them  he  was  dead.  Then  they 
fled  back  into  and  down  the  canon  or  deep  slit  in 
the  rocks  through  which  the  river  ran.  And 
thither  the  Indians  were  afraid  to  follow. 

At  a  bend  of  the  river  they  found  some  driftwood, 
plenty  and  strong  enough  to  make  a  raft.  And  with 
ropes  and  horse-harness  they  had  they  made  a  raft, 
and  tying  a  bag  of  provisions  to  it,  they  launched 
into  the  unknown  stream.  Never  raft  sailed  on  that 
stream  before.  As  they  went  on  the  darkness  be- 
came nearly  as  great  as  that  in  a  tunnel;  only,  far 
up,they  could  see  a  thin  line  of  blue  sky,over  which 
for  one  short  half-hour  in  the  day  the  sunlight  passed. 
Then  night  came  and  there  was  total  darkness.  High- 
er and  higher  rose  the  walls  on  either  side  as  they 
sailed  further  on.  At  one  place  they  reached  the 
height  of  a  mile.  Meanwhile  the  little  raft  sped  on, 
but  on  a  terrible  voyage.  The  turns  in  the  river 
were  frequent,  and  the  falls  and  whirlpools  terrible. 
The  men  clung  to  the  raft  for  dear  life,  the  one 
keeping  it  from  bumping  against  the  sides,  the  oth- 
er guiding  it  with  a  pole. 

Only  the  night  before  their  captain  had  told  them 
at  the  foot  of  the  canon,  if  it  could  be  reached,  was 
a  village  called  Caville.  And  the  hope  of  the  two 
men  was  that  they  might  arrive  before  long  there. 
But  one  day  passed,  another,  a  third,  a  fourth,  in 
the  terrible  darkness,  on  the  terrible  stream,  and 
Caville  was  not  reached.  On  the  fourth  day,  as  the 
raft  was  caught  by  the  rushing  stream  and  dashed 
round  a  sharp  bend  in  the  canon,  it  went  to  pieces, 
and  Strole,  trying  to  guide  it  with  his  pole,  was 
tossed  into  the  roaring  whirl  of  waters,  gave  a  loud 
shriek,  and  was  seen  no  more. 

White  was  now  alone  and  with  a  broken  raft.  A 
feeling  of  despair  and  terror  came  over  him;  he 
wished  he  had  fallen  in  the  fight  with  the  Indians  as 
Baker  had  done.  He  felt  the  temptation  to  throw 
himself  in  the  seetbing  waters  and  end  his  sorrows 
where  Strole's  had  ended.  But  the  good  Lord  had 
something  better  in  store  for  him.      He  helped  him 


to  put  away  those  evil  thoughts  and  bind  the  raft 
together  again.  This  time,  that  Strole's  fate  might 
not  happen  to  him,  he  tied  himself  to  the  raft.  But 
when  he  searched  for  the  bag  of  provisions  it  was 
gone.  And  thus  tied  to  the  raft  in  the  awful  gloom 
on  the  awful  stream,  without  companion,  without 
food,  the  poor  man  launched  once  more.  Alast  he 
was  caught  in  a  whirlpool,  fiercer  and  stronger  than 
that  which  had  swallowed  Strole.  The  raft  was 
whirled  round  and  round  and  round.  The  thought 
came  to  him  that  he  should  whirl  on  there  till  raft 
and  he  sank.  "This  is  the  end,"  he  said  to  himself. 
He  grew  dizzy;  he  fainted. 

When  he  came  to  himself  he  glanced  upward.  The 
rocks  rose  nearly  a  mile  on  either  side.  A  red  line 
along  the  open  showed  that  it  was  evening.  Then' 
the  red  changed  to  black,  and  all  was  dark.  And 
then  and  there,  in  that  terrible  depth,  in  that  thick 
darkness,  and  amid  the  roaring  of  the  whirling  and 
rushing  of  waters,  this  poor  man  found  God.  "I 
fell  on  my  knees,"he  told  afterward,"and  as  the  raft 
swept  round  in  the  current  I  asked  God  to  help  me. 
I  spoke  as  if  from  my  very  soul,  and  said,  '0  God, 
if  there  is  a  way  out  of  this  fearful  place,  show  it  to 
me;  take  me  to  it.'  "  He  was  still  looking  up  with 
his  hands  clasped,  when  he  felt  a  different  move- 
ment in  the  raft,  and  turning  to  look  at  the  whirl- 
pool, it  was  behind,  and  he  was  floating  down  the 
smoothest  current  he  had  yet  seen  in  the  canon.  Six 
days  more  and  he  came  to  a  bank  where  the  rocks 
disappeared  and  some  Indians  lived.  From  them 
he  received  food  and  started  once  more  on  his  voy- 
age; and  three  days  later  he  came  to  Caville  and  to 
the  homes  of  white  men,  where  his  troubles  came  to 
an  end. 

It  was  a  terrible  voyage,  the  most  terrible,  per- 
haps, ever  sailed  by  man;  but  it  had  this  good  for 
White;  it  put  the  thought  and  faith  of  God  into  his 
heart.  When,  in  after  days,  he  told  the  story  to  Dr. 
Bell,  who  records  it  in  "Across  America,"  his  voice 
grew  husky  as  he  described  the  awful  scene  in  the 
whirlpool,  the  appeal  to  God,  and  God's  loving  and 
helpful  reply. — Dr.  A.  McLeod  in  llluttrated  Chris 
tian  Weekly, 

m  %  ^ 

A  HBLL  ON  EARTH. 


ning  flash,  throws  a  vivid  and  fearful  light  on  its 
pages  and  brings  up  in  terrible  array  the  sins  and 
crimes  of  the  past,  filling  the  soul  of  the  guilty  with 
horrors  more  fearful  than  tongue  can  tell.  "Be 
sure  your  sin  will  find  you  out"  is  not  only  the  mo- 
nition of  Moses  to  Israel,  but  the  solemn  declara- 
tion of  God  to  every  transgressor.  Some  may  not 
know  it  by  experience  till  the  day  of  final  judgment, 
but  multitudes  have  known  it  in  their  lifetime;  or  if 
not  before,  then  on  the  bed  of  death,  when  its 
truth  has  sent  horror  to  the  soul. — American  Met 
senger. 


"Whether  there  is  or  is  not  a  hell  in  the  other 
world,  I  know  by  experience  there  is  one  here  on 
earth,  for  I  'feel  what  must  be  the  torments  of  the 
damned!"  So  said  a  convicted  criminal  on  his  way 
to  the  State's  prison,  to  which,  after  a  full  and  fair 
trial,  he  had  been  sentenced  for  years. 

He  had  ruined  the  bank  of  which  he  had  been  the 
trusted  officer,  embezzling  its  funds  and  swindling 
not  only  its  stockholders  and  depositors,  but  also 
the  widows  and  orphans  whose  little  all  was  in  the 
institution  he  had  wrecked  by  his  villainy. 

And  is  not  such  the  intense  and  horrible  experi- 
ence of  not  a  few  who  are  transgressors  against 
both  God  and  man?  Judas,  in  the  horrors  of  re- 
morse, cries  out,  "I  have  sinned  in  that  I  have  be- 
trayed innocent  blood,"  and  driven  by  the  fierce 
pangs  of  an  accusing  conscience  goes  and  hangs 
himself.  Bessus,  the  Grecian,  tears  down  the  nests 
of  the  birds  about  his  h«use,  saying  they  were  all 
the  while  accusing  him  of  the  murder  of  his  father. 
Prof.  Webster,  awaiting  his  trial  for  murder,  com- 
plains that  his  fellow-prisoners  were  all  the  time 
screaming  to  him  from  their  cells,  "You  are  a 
bloody,  guilty  man!"  when  the  only  accusing  voices 
were  the  echoes  of  his  own  guilty  conscience. 
Cicero  declares,  "It  is  the  dishonesty,  the  wicked- 
ness, the  crimes  of  the  wicked,  that  are  as  flames 
and  firebrands  and  furies  to  their  souls."  Voltaire, 
with  almost  his  dying  breath,  cries  out  to  his  physi- 
cian, "I  shall  go  to  hell,  and  you  will  go  with  me." 
Paine,  in  the  horrors  of  his  last  illness,  begs  not  to 
be  left  alone — to  have  some  one,  even  a  child,  stay 
with  him — for  he  said,  "It  is  hell  to  be  left  alone." 
Charles  IX  ,  who  gave  the  order  for  the  massacre  of 
St.  Bartholomew's  Day,  exclaimed  as  he  was  expir- 
ing, "What  blood  I  what  murders  1  How  will  all 
this  end?  What  shall  I  do?  I  am  lost  forever!  I 
know  iti"  Talleyrand  in  his  last  hours,  when  asked 
how  he  felt,  replied,  "I  am  suffering  the  pangs  of  the 
damned!"  And  said  Sir  Thomas  Scott  as  his  last 
hours  drew  near,  "Till  this  moment  I  believed  there 
was  neither  a  God  nor  a  hell.  Now  I  know  and  feel 
that  there  are  both,  and  I  am  doomed  to  perdition 
by  the  just  judgment  of  the  Almighty."  And  New- 
port, rising  on  his  elbows  when  dying,  exclaimed, 
"Oh,  the  insufferable  pangs  of  hell!"  and  falling 
back  expired. 

Some  have  suggested  "that  memory  is  the  book 
of  judgment,"  from  whose  record  the  entire  life 
shall  finally  be  disclosed  and  unfolded  at  the  last 
great  day.  Whether  this  be  so  or  not,  certain  is  it 
that  Bomstimes  in  this  life  eonscience,  as  by  a  light- 


PBATING  IN  HALF  A  ROOM. 


In  a  large  and  respectable  school  near  Boston, 
two  boys,  from  different  States  and  strangers  to  each 
other,  were  compelled  to  room  together.  It  was  the 
beginning  of  the  term,  and  the  students  spent  the 
first  day  in  arranging  their  room  and  getting  ac- 
quainted. When  night  came  the  younger  of  the 
boys  asked  the  other  if  he  did  not  think  it  would  be 
a  good  idea  to  close  the  day  with  a  short  reading 
from  the  Bible  and  a  prayer.  The  request  was  mod- 
estly made,  without  whining  Oi.-  cant  of  any  kind. 
The  other  boy,  however,  bluntly  refused  to  listen  to 
the  proposal. 

"Then  you  will  have  no  objection  if  I  pray  by 
myself,  I  suppose?"  said  the  younger.  "It  is  my 
custom,  and  I  wish  to  keep  it  up." 

"I  don't  want  any  praying  in  this  room,  and 
won't  have  it  I"  retorted  his  companion. 

The  younger  boy  rose  slowly,  walked  to  the  mid- 
dle of  the  room,  and  standing  on  a  seam  in  the  car- 
pet which  divided  the  room  nearly  equally,  said 
quietly: 

"Half  of  this  room  is  mine.  I  pay  for  it.  You 
may  choose  which  half  you  will  have.  I  will  take 
the  other,  and  I  will  pray  in  that  half  or  get  another 
room.  But  pray  I  must  and  will,  whether  you  con- 
sent or  refuse."  The  older  boy  was  instantly  con- 
quered. To  this  day  he  admires  the  sturdy  inde- 
pendence which  claimed  as  a  right  what  he  had 
boorishly  denied  as  a  privilege.  A  Christian  might 
as  well  ask  leave  to  breath  as  to  ask  permission  to 
pray.  There  is  a  false  sentiment  connected  with 
Christian  action  which  interferes  with  their  free  ex- 
ercise. If  there  is  anything  to  be  admired,  it  is  the 
manliness  that  knows  the  right  and  dares  to  do  it 
without  asking  any  one's  permission. — YoutVt 
Companion, 

WHEN  DOES  SPRING  BEGIN? 


Get  a  flat  piece  of  wood  about  two  inches  wide 
and  eight  inches  long,  also  a  ten-penny  nail.  Drive 
the  nail  into  the  wood  close  to  one  end  and  half 
way  between  the  sides.  Drive  it  only  far  enough  to 
make  it  stand  upright  in  the  wood.  At  exactly  12 
o'clock  place  the  wood  on  a  level  window-seat  at  a 
south  window.  This  piece  of  wood  and  a  nail  are 
just  as  much  a  piece  of  scientific  apparatus  as  any 
in  your  school  cabinet.  By  its  aid  you  can  make  a 
series  of  scientific  experiments  and  become  a  real 
student  of  nature. 

Place  the  wood  with  the  nail  towards  the  sun  in 
such  a  position  that  its  shadow  falls  on  the  center 
of  the  board.  Then  make  a  pencil  mark  on  the 
wood  showing  just  how  long  the  shadow  is  at  pre- 
cisely twelve  o'clock.  The  next  day  or  the  next 
sunny  day  at  precisely  the  same  time  try  it  again, 
placing  the  wood  in  exactly  the  same  place  as  be- 
fore. Here  is  a  discovery.  The  shadow  is  a  little 
longer  or  a  little  shorter  than  before.  Repeat  this 
observation  once  a  week  for  a  month,  and  the 
change  in  the  shadow  will  be  very  plain.  If  the 
observations  are  made  once  a  week  through  Decem- 
ber and  January  a  curious  fact  will  be  noted.  The 
shadow  will  grow  longer  and  longer  till  just  before 
Christmas  when  it  will  begin  grow  shorter  and 
shorter.  This  change  in  the  direction  in  which  the 
shadow  grows  from  week  to  week  marks  the  begin- 
ning of  spring  in  the  United  States. 

In  New  England  we  call  it  mid-winter.  It  is 
wintry  out  of  doors,  yet  the  season  has  really 
turned  and  spring  has  set  out  on  her  travels  over 
the  land.  In  about  a  week  after  Christmas  she  will 
land  on  the  tip  end  of  Florida  and  the  coast  of 
Texas,  way  down  by  the  Rio  Grande.  The  precise 
date  at  which  the  change  comes  is  the  twenty-first  of 
December.  After  that  day  it  is  spring.  It  may  be 
cold  weather  all  over  the  country  east  of  the  Rocky 
Mountains.  There  may  be  snow  as  far  South  as 
Charleston  or  Memphis,  while  the  mountains  round 
Chattanooga  are  white  almost  down  to  the  low  val- 
leys. Still  farther  South  the  ground  may  be  wet, 
cold,  the  air  chilly.     For  all  that  it  is  really  spring. 

The  big  star  on  which  we  live  has  begun  to 
change  its  position.  It  looks  towards  that  great  star 


March  1, 1888 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


11 


we  call  the  sun  in  a  different  direction.  Every 
shadow  in  the  Union  grows  shorter  at  noon,  day  by 
day.  The  days  grow  slowly  longer  and  the  sun  sets 
every  night  a  little  more  to  the  right  as  you  face  the 
sunset  In  spite  of  stormy  wind  and  snow  like 
wool  and  hoar-frost  scattered  like  morsels,  the  aver- 
age temperature  slowly  rises.  The  first  buds  begin 
to  swell  way  down  in  Florida,  the  first  green  grass 
soon  appears  on  the  coast  of  Texas.  The  fringe  of 
green  grows  wider  and  wider.  The  first  birds  ar- 
rive on  the  coast  along  the  gulf  of  Mexico.  Then 
more  arrive,  and  finding  the  coast  filled  up  with 
nests,  they  fly  over  and  settle  a  little  back  from  the 
water.  Then  more  fly  over  the  first  part  and  begin 
to  build  nests  further  up  from  the  South.  The 
green  wave  of  grass  spreads  up  the  Mississippi  and 
along  the  coast  of  Georgia.  The  snow  may  stretch 
down,  like  a  white  cape,  between  Georgia  and  the 
Carolinas  and  Tennessee,  along  the  mountains,  yet 
it  begins  to  melt  at  the  lower  end  and  grows  shorter 
week  by  week. 

Of  what  help  is  it  to  know  this?  In  the  North  it 
is  winter  out  of  doors  till  April.  Down  cellar  by  the 
furnace  you  find  a  potato  resting  perhaps  near  a  damp 
spot  on  the  floor.  The  potato  knows  it  is  spring,  and 
even  in  the  dark  opens  its  eyes  and  begins  to  grow. 
White  shoots  appear,  as  if  stretching  out  a  pale 
finger  to  clasp  the  hand  of  spring.  It  has  felt  the 
spring,  though  the  snow  flies  out  of  doors.  This 
brings  us  to  a  hint  of  the  truth.  The  spring  really 
begins  soon  after  Christmas,  and  all  plants  and  ani- 
mals know  it.  Any  plant  or  seed  protected  from 
the  cold  will  begin  to  grow  if  it  can  get  a  little 
water. 

Here  is  the  point.  After  the  season  turns  spring 
begins  in  every  sunny  window.  Every  plant  will 
now  grow,  while  before  Christmas  it  only  seemed  to 
stand  still  or  barely  keep  alive.  Now  you  can 
bring  up  the  plants  stored  in  the  cellar  and  they 
will  soon  turn  green.  They  know  it  is  spring,  and 
if  the  room  is  warm,  will  surely  grow.  The  days 
are  growing  longer,  there  is  more  sunshine  and  more 
heat.  As  the  plant  grows  it  needs  more  and  more 
light  and  beat.  Therefore,  everything  is  just  right. 
It  seems  to  feel  it  is  nov7  safe  to  start,  for  spring  has 
come. 

Now  IS  the  time  to  plant  seeds  in  little  wooden 
boxes  in  the  house.  It  is  spring  in  the  house,  and 
any  seed  will  grow  naturally  and  vigorously,  because 
it  feels  the  advancing  spring  right  through  the  glass 
of  your  window.  Try  it  and  see.  You  will  be  sur- 
prised to  find  how  much  quicker  seeds  start  in  Jan- 
uary than  in  November,  how  much  faster  all  young 
plants  grow.  We  may  think  in  mid-winter  the 
spring  will  never  come,  when  really  it  is  spring  al- 
ready.—  Wide  Awake. 

NOABa  OARPENTERa. 


Tempesance. 


A  OLORIOUa  BATTLE  WON. 


"Henry,"  asked  the  elder  of  the  younger  brother, 
"do  you  know  what  became  of  Noah's  carpenters?" 

"Noah's  carpenters!"  exclaimed  Henry;  "I  didn't 
know  that  Noah  had  any  carpenters." 

"Certainly  there  must  have  been  many  ship-car- 
penters at  work  for  a  long  time,  to  have  constructed 
such  a  vessel.  What  became  of  them,  think  you, 
when  all  the  fountains  of  the  great  deep  were  brok- 
en up,  and  the  windows  of  heaven  were  opened?" 

Though  Noah's  carpenters  were  all  drowned,there 
are  a  great  many  of  the  same  stock  now  alive;  of 
those  who  contribute  to  promote  the  spiritual  good 
of  others,  and  aid  in  the  upbuilding  of  the  Redeem- 
er's kingdom,  but  personally  neglect  the  great  salva- 
tion. 

Sabbath-school  children,  who  gather  in  the  poor, 
or  contribute  their  money  to  send  tracts  and  books 
to  the  destitute,  or  to  aid  the  work  of  missions,  and 
yet  remain  unconverted,  are  like  Noah's  carpenters. 

Teachers  in  Bible  classes  and  Sunday-schools.who 
point  their  pupils  to  the  Lamb  of  God,  but  do  not 
lead  the  way,are  like  guide-boards  that  tell  the  road 
but  are  not  travelers  on  it;  or  like  Noah's  carpent- 
ers, who  built  an  ark,  and  were  overwhelmed  in  the 
waters  that  bore  it  aloft  in  safety. 

Careless  parents,  who  instruct  their  children  and 
servants,  as  every  parent  should,  in  the  great  doc- 
trines of  the  Gospel,  yet  fail  to  illustrate  these  doc- 
trines in  their  lives,  and  seek  not  a  personal  interest 
in  the  blood  of  Christ,  are  like  Noah's  carpenters, 
and  must  expect  their  doom. 

Wealthy  and  liberal  but  unconverted  men,  who 
help  to  build  churches  and  sustain  the  institutions 
of  the  Gospel,  but  who  "will  not  come  unto  Christ 
that  they  may  have  life,"  are  hewing  the  timbers  and 
driving  the  nails  of  the  ark  which  they  are  too  proud 
or  too  careless  to  enter. 

Moralists  who  attend  church  and  support  the  min- 
iatry,  but  who  do  not  receive  into  their  hearts  the 
Gospel  they  BUBtain,are  like  Noah's  carpenters. — Stl. 


He  stood  with  a  foot  on  the  threshold 

And  a  cloud  on  his  boyish  face, 
While  his  city  comrade  urged  him 

To  enter  the  gorgeous  place. 

"There's  nothing  to  fear,  old  fellow  1 

It  isn't  a  lion's  den ; 
Here  waits  you  a  royal  welcome 

From  lips  of  the  bravest  men." 

'Twas  the  old,  old  Toice  of  the  tempter 

That  sought  in  the  old.old  way, 
To  lure  with  a  lying  promise 

The  innocent  feet  astray. 

"You'd  think  it  was  Blue  Beard's  closet 

To  see  how  you  stare  and  shrink  I 
I  tell  you  there's  nought  to  harm  you; 

It's  only  a  game  and  a  drink  1" 

He  heard  the  words  with  a  shudder, 

It's  only  a  game  and  a  drink  I 
And  his  lips  made  bold  to  answer, 

"But  what  would  my  mother  think  1" 

The  name  that  his  heart  held  dearest 

Had  started  a  secret  spring. 
And  forth  from  the  wily  tempter 

He  fled  like  a  hunted  thing. 

Away  1  till  the  glare  of  the  city 

And  its  gilded  halls  of  sin 
Are  shut  from  his  sense  and  vision, 

The  shadows  of  night  within. 

Away  1  till  his  feet  have  bounded 
O'er  fields  where  his  childhood  trod; 

Away !  In  the  name  of  virtue 
And  the  strength  of  his  mother's  God ! 

What  though  he  was  branded  "coward  1" 

In  the  blazoned  halls  of  vice, 
And  banned  by  his  baffled  tempter, 

Who  sullenly  tossed  the  dice, 

On  the  page  where  the  angel  keepeth 

The  record  of  deeds  well  done, 
That  night  was  the  story  written 

Of  a  glorious  battle  won. 

And  he  stood  by  his  home  in  the  starlight — 

All  guiltless  of  sword  and  shield— 
A  braver  and  nobler  victor 

Than  the  hero  of  bloodiest  field  1 

~M.  A.  MaiUand  in  N.  T.  Observer. 


TBETOTALIBM  IN  RUaaiA. 


One  of  the  leading  journals  of  Kussia,  the  St. 
Petersburg  Zeitung,  has  a  remarkable  article  in  ad- 
vocacy of  the  abandonment  of  intoxicants,  with  ci- 
tations from  a  powerful  pamphlet  by  Dr.  Bunge,  a 
native  Russian.  From  an  English  translation  by  Jo- 
seph MalJus  we  quote  the  following  telling  words: 

"So  to-day,  during  the  fast,  we  make  use  of  the 
favorable  opportunity  it  affords  us  for  a  little 
preaching  upon  this  wide-spread  source  of  misery; 
preaching  whose  aim  is  to  revive  the  crusade 
against  our  national  enemy — an  enemy  which  has 
been  often  preached  about  and  assailed,  with  insig- 
nificant results,  and  has  never  been  overthrown. 
We  know  of  certain  ideas  in  relation  to  movements 
which  are  not  unheard  of  in  public,  but  we  do  not 
at  this  moment  join  in  that  war-cry  which  has  been 
so  often  heard  that  we  are  weary  of  it,  'The  German 
is  the  foe  I' — a  cry  which  the  great  Skobeloff  once 
raised  with  a  powerful  voice,  and  which  his  petty 
imitators  are  so  frequently  repeating  in  public  and 
through  the  press.  No,  we  are  brought  to  the  con- 
viction that  Russia's  great  foe  is  not  the  German.  It 
is  alcohol  which  is  the  dangerous  foe  to  Russia  and 
to  the  Russian  nation — an  enervating,  depraving, 
consuming  foe,  and  one  fatal  to  the  best  powers  of 
our  people. 

"We  take  the  field  then  against  spirits,  against  al- 
cohol in  all  its  forms;  and  we  find  weapons  for  this 
struggle  in  an  excellent  pamphlet  of  Dr.  Buoge, 
who  is  professor  of  physiological  chemistry  at 
Basle,  and  is  a  countryman  of  ours  from  Dorpat 

"Professor  Bunge  first  of  all  views  alcohol  from 
the  physiological  standpoint.  He  shows  that  in  the 
broader  sense  alcohol  is  no  means  of  nourishment; 
that  the  warmth  arising  from  the  combustion  of  al- 
cohol in  the  system  of  a  drinker  gives  no  living 
force,  for  the  increase  of  warmth  on  the  one  hand  is 
neutralized  by  the  increased  departure  of  warmth 
on  the  other  hand.  The  thermometer  proves  that 
alcohol  lessens  the  temperature  of  the  body.  All 
the  effects  of  brandy,  which  are  usually  regarded  as 
mere  stimulation,  are  really  symptoms  of  both 
physical  and  mental  paralysis,  under  the  guise  of  se- 
renity and  vivacity  of  mind.  The  beginning  of 
this  brain-palsy  at  once  shows  itself  in  hasty  ges- 
ticulations which  are  accompanied  by  an  increased 


pulse  and  quicker  beating  of  the  heart.  Under  the 
influence  of  intoxicants  the  man  talks  aimlessly;  he 
gesticulates,  he  waxes  hot,  and  thus  accelerates  the 
beating  of  the  heart.  The  feeling  of  weariness, 
which  so  often  occasions  the  desire  for  alcohol,  is 
also  paralysis." 

The  paper  then  goes  on  to  declare  more  fully  its 
settled  campaign  of  hostility  to  the  traffic  and  use 
of  alcoholic  liquors.  The  utterance  is  significant  of 
a  grand  onward  step  in  a  country  where  temperance 
doctrines  have  heretofore  had  scarcely  a  foothold  or 
a  hearing.  The  verdict  of  travelers  in  Russia  bears 
out  the  sweeping  assertions  of  this  journal  as  to 
the  fearful  ravages  of  intoxicants  among  all  classes 
there.  May  this  voice,  crying  in  the  wilderness, 
awaken  many  an  echo  !  What  if  Tolstoi  should 
write  a  novel  that  would  work  for  the  slaves  of  al- 
cohol in  that  land  what  "Uncle  Tom's  Cabin"  did  in 
this  country ! 

Kansas  has  already  saved  $12,000,000  through 
prohibition,  but  who  can  estimate  what  she  has 
saved  in  happy  homes  and  protected  manhood? 

The  population  of  Chicago  has  increased  from 
1882  to  1887  about  25  per  cent.  The  consumption 
of  beer  has  increased  97  per  cent,"  and  arrests  have 
increased  38  per  cent. 

On  January  1  a  law  went  into  effect  in  New  Hamp- 
shire, by  which  twenty  voters  can  assert  any  place 
where  liquors  are  kept  for  ssile  to  be  a  nuisance,  and 
which  carries  the  case  before  the  Supreme  Court 
The  defense  has  to  prove  the  place  is  not  a  nuisance. 

A  gentleman  in  England  has  started  an  "Indus- 
trial Inebriate  Home,"  to  be  a  refuge  for  the  drink- 
smitten  who  desire  to  reform.  He  provides  "cheer- 
ful, healthful,  constant  occupation,"  with  plain  food 
and  daily  religious  exercises.  Meantime  he  makes 
no  charges,  the  labor  being  in  some  degree  a  return 
for  the  benefits  received. 

Mr.  Robert  Graham  of  New  York  city  has  with 
great  care  ascertained  the  following  facts:  "Preced- 
ing the  Presidential  election  of  1884,  there  were 
held  in  New  York  city  1,002  political  conventions — 
Congressional,  assembly,  aldermanic,  primary,  etc. 
— 283  of  which  were  held  apart  from  saloons,  ninety- 
six  next  door  to  saloons,  and  633  in  saloons." 

Francis  Murphy  has  been  spending  a  week  among 
the  striking  coal  miners  in  Pennsylvania.  From  his 
observation  he  thinks  that  the  miners  have  made  a 
mistake.  Mr.  Murphy  says  that  he  has  been  on  a 
strike  for  eighteen  years,  and  it  has  paid  because  it 
was  a  strike  against  whisky,  the  worst  enemy  of  the 
workingman.  He  thinks  that  whisky  is  to  blame  for 
many  hot  headed  resolves  that  lead  to  strikes.  There 
is  no  man  who  has  more  influence  with  workingmen 
than  Mr.  Murphy,  and  it  might  be  a  good  thing  for 
the  Pennsylvania  people  to  send  him  among  the 
miners  to  help  them  out  of  their  own  light  that  they 
may  see  that  violence  does  not  win  sympathy  in 
strikes. 

It  has  come  to  be  that  four  drinks  of  whisky  are 
almost  equivalent  to  one  murder.  Two  men  had  an 
altercation  in  a  drinking  and  gambling  saloon  of 
Chicago  the  other  day.  One  of  them,  swearing  dire 
vengeance,  went  up  to  the  bar  and  called  for  a  glass 
of  whisky.  It  was  given  him.  He  called  for  another; 
that  also  was  passed  over  the  counter  by  the  vender 
of  the  vile  stuff.  Another  and  still  another  were 
called  for  and  given.  Then  the  man  was  insane 
enough  to  do  anything.  A  moment  later  he  had  put 
a  bullet  through  a  man's  heart,  and  the  wrong  man 
at  that  If  the  law  lets  the  keeper  of  that  den  or 
the  dealer-out  of  that  poison  go  free,  then  is  either 
something  wrong  with  the  law  or  with  its  \.  xeoutors. 
—  Chicago  /Standard. 

A  delegation  of  the  professors  and  directors  of 
the  medical  colleges  on  the  West  Side,  Chicago, 
called  on  the  Mayor  to  protest  against  the  location 
of  a  saloon  at  the  corner  ^f  West  Harrison  street 
and  Hermitage  avenue,  because  of  the  effect  it  would 
have  on  their  students.  The  medical  people  thought 
they  could  rest  easy  on  this  point  when  Collector 
Oaahan  refused  the  license  a  few  weeks  ago.  The 
place  is  owned,  however,  by  Mr.  Sennott,  Clerk  of 
the  Probate  Court  who  was  himself  a  saloon  keeper 
before  he  was  elected  to  his  present  iK)8ition,  and  it 
is  said  he  was  attempting  to  bring  enough  political 
influence  to  bear  on  the  Mayor  to  comiicl  him  to 
issue  the  license.  The  Mayor,  however,  yesterday, 
definitely  refused  to  grant  the  license.  Tiils  is  a 
very  important  decision  on  the  part  of  the  Mayor 
and  City  Collector,  as  it  establishes  an  entirely  new 
precedent  in  granting  saloon  licences — something 
akin  to  local  option.  Heretofore  it  has  been  cus- 
tomary for  the  city  to  grant  a  saloon  license,  no  dif- 
ference where  located,  if  "good  moral  character' 
were  vouchsafed  for  the  keeper. — Inter  Ocean. 


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THE  CHRISTIAJT  CYNOSURE. 


March  1, 1888 


OUS  WASHINGTON  LETTER. 

Washington,  Feb.  24,  1888. 
Editok  Christian  Ctnosube:— The  President 
and  Mrs.  Cleveland,  with  a  select  party,  are  spend- 
ing a  few  days  in  Florida.  While  the  committees 
from  the  rival  cities  were  holding  their  meetings  in 
Washington,  for  the  purpose  of  selecting  the  time 
and  place  for  the  National  Democratic  convention, 
the  President  had  gone  from  their  sight  and  was  in- 
haling the  perfumes  of  magnolias  and  orange  blos- 
soms in  the  far-away  land  of  flowers.  There  were 
large  delegations  from  San  Francisco,  St.  Louis, 
Chicago,  New  York,  Cincinnati,  Cleveland,  Toledo, 
and  other  cities,  each  of  which  had  hopes  of  captur- 
ing the  nominating  convention.  These  throngs  of 
sight-seers,  together  with  the  fine  weather,  which  al- 
ways has  the  effect  of  enticing  the  residents  of 
Washington,  en  masse,  out  of  doors,  gave  the  streets 
of  the  city  more  life  than  had  been  seen  for  many 
weeks. 

One  of  the  most  notable  happenings  in  Congress 
this  week  was  the  defeat  by  the  House  of  the  Hoar 
resolution,  passed  by  the  Senate,  changing  the  date 
of  Inauguration  Day  and  the  beginning  of  the  Con- 
gressional terms,  from  March  4th  to  April  30th. 
This  was  by  a  vote  of  129  to  128.  Some  of  the 
members  opposed  the  change  because  they  did  not 
like  innovations  on  established  customs.  The  peo- 
ple of  this  city  were  especially  disappointed  with 
the  vote.  The  present  arrangement  for  the  begin- 
ning of  Congressional  sessions  is  positively  bad  in 
some  of  its  features  and  inconvenient  in  others,  and 
the  4th  of  March  falls  in  the  most  fickle  season  of 
the  year  as  regards  weather  in  this  latitude.  It  is 
now  hoped  that  Mr.  Crain  of  Texas  who  strongly 
antagonized  the  Hoar  resolution  with  one  of  his  own 
providing  for  the  opening  of  Congressional  sessions 
on  the  first  Monday  in  January,  will  succeed  in  car- 
rying his  proposition. 

At  the  two  hours'  prohibition  hearing  on  last  Sat- 
urday, given  by  the  Senate  committee  on  the  Dis- 
trict of  Columbia,  several  noted  advocates  of  pro- 
hibition made  speeches,  among  them  Miss  Frances 
Willard.  Her  plea  was  full  of  touching  pathos. 
She  said  she  was  not  accustomed  to  hearings  of  this 
kind,  but  she  felt  inspired  to  speak  by  that  invisi- 
ble throng  which  was  pleading  in  pathetic  tones 
for  the  protection  of  the  American  home  against  the 
saloon.  She  was  impressed,  she  said,  at  the  mo- 
ment, with  the  words  of  De  Tocqueville  when  he 
said  that  life  was  neither  a  matter  of  pleasure  or 
pain,  but  a  serious  business  to  be  made  the  most  of. 
She  did  not  propose  to  question  the  motives  of  liq- 
uor dealers,  but  to  argue  the  case  on  its  merits. 
"Under  the  license  system,"  she  said,  "the  saloon 
keeper  is  a  legalized  citizen;  under  prohibition,  an 
outlaw.  It  was  not  claimed  that  prohibition  would 
entirely  prohibit,  but  that  it  is,  neverthelessj  the 
most  efifective  way  of  dealing  with  the  evil.  Laws 
against  gambling,  murder,  larceny,  etc ,  do  not  en- 
tirely prevent  those  crimes,  yet  no  one  will  say  that 
they  ought  to  be  repealed  on  that  account."  She 
continued,  "You  may  smile  at  my  ideas  of  govern- 
ment, but  I  consider  that  just  as  a  mill  turns  out 
flour  and  a  college  graduates,  so  government  should 
produce  protection  for  life,  limb  and  property.  In 
so  far  as  it  does  this  it  deserves  praise,  and  in  so 
far  as  it  fails,  condemnation." 

The  reading  of  a  newspaper  article  showing  the 
good  eflect  of  prohibition  in  Kansas,  which  was 
written  some  time  ago  by  Senator  Ingalls,Chairman 
of  the  committee  which  was  being  addressed, brought 
a  burst  of  applause  from  the  Prohibitionists  pres- 
ent. 

Representative  Simmons  of  North  Carolina  has 
introduced  another  Blair  Educational  bill  (this  one 
appropriates  $65,000,000  for  education),  and  Rep. 
Brower  of  North  Carolina  has  asked  the  House  to 
instruct  the  Committee  on  Education  to  report  back 
the  Blair  bill  inHide  of  a  month. 

There  is  little  doubt  that  Washington  will  be  the 
city  fixed  upon  for  the  centennial  of  the  inaugura- 
tion of  our  first  President  and  the  quadri  centennial 
of  the  discovery  of  America.  Six  bills  have  been 
introduced  looking  to  a  Congress  of  American  na- 
tions for  commercial  and  other  purp08es,and  in  every 
one  of  them  Washington  is  designated  as  the  place. 
The  $300,000  asked  of  Congress  for  the  centennial 
is  to  be  devoted  to  the  entertainment  ot  the  presi- 
dents, chief  justices  and  ministers  of  the  fifteen 
Spanish-American  republics,  who  will  be  here  as  the 
guests  of  the  government.  * 


— The  one  hundredth  anniversary  of  the  birth  of 
Adoniram  Judson  will  occur  August  9,  1888.  In 
commemoration  of  this  event  it  is  proposed  to  erect 
a  Judson  Memorial  Church  in  Mandalay,  the  capital 
of  Upper  Burmah. 


OUR   NEW  TORE  LETTER. 

Editor  Christian  Cynosure: — Monday  evening, 
Feb.  13,  was  celebrated  in  Brooklyn,  New  York,  Co- 
lumbus, Ohio,  and  elsewhere  as  the  anniversary  of 
the  birth  of  Abraham  Lincoln.  Many  of  his  mem- 
orable sayings  were  recalled:  "I  believe  this  gov- 
ernment cannot  endure  permanently  half  slave  and 
half  free."  "With  public  sentiment,  nothing  can 
fail;  without  it,  nothing  can  succeed.  Conse- 
quently, he  who  molds  public  sentiment  goes  deeper 
than  he  who^enacts  statutes  or  pronounces  decisions. 
He  makes  statutes  and  decisions  possible  or  impos- 
sible to  be  executed."  When  he  submitted  his 
Emancipation  Proclamation  to  his  Cabinet,  he  gave 
as  his  last  reason,  "I  have  promised  my  G-od  that  I 
will  do  it."  Secretary  Chase  asked  the  import  of 
that.  "I  made  a  solemn  vow  before  God,  that  if  Gen. 
Lee  should  be  driven  back  from  Pennsylvania,  I 
would  crown  the  result  with  the  declaration  of  free- 
dom to  the  slaves."  "If  it  please  Almighty  God 
that  the  wealth  that  has  been  piled  up  by  two  hun- 
dred and  fifty  years  of  unrequited  toil  shall  all  be 
taken  away,  and  for  every  drop  of  blood  drawn  by 
the  lash  a  corresponding  one  shall  be  drawn  by  the 
sword,  still  we  must  say,  the  judgments  of  the 
Lord  are  true  and  righteous  altogether." 

But  it  was  not  so  much  what  Lincoln  said,  as 
what  he  was,  that  gave  him  such  power.  The  char- 
acter of  "honest  old  Abe"  is  stamped  upon  the 
American  nation,  and  it  will  remain  forever. 

Last  Sabbath  night  I  preached  on  National  Re- 
sponsibility in  the  Nostrand  Ave.  M.  E.  church, 
Rev.  Prince,  pastor.  This  is  a  large  new  brick 
building.  More  than  600  people  were  out,  and  the 
audience  was  alert  and  interested  throughout.  At 
least  a  dozen  met  us  at  the  pulpit  stairs,  shaking  our 
hand  vigorously  and  blessing  our  work.  "That 
ought  to  be  preached  all  over  this  land,"  said  one. 
Another,  "Every  Methodist  preacher  ought  to  be  in- 
doctrinated with  those  principles."  "God  bless 
you,  brother.     Come  again." 

The  Presbyterian  Ministers'  Association  Monday 
discussed  the  Sabbath-school  teacher;  the  paper  de- 
scribed the  ideal  teacher.  In  talent,  natural  and  ac- 
quired, and  in  consecration  he  was  to  be  a  secondary 
preacher.  In  a  secondary  sense  he  should  receive 
episcopal  orders  and  be  set  apart  by  the  session. 

The  seats  in  Dr.  Talmage's  church  were  recently 
sold  at  auction.  This  church  has  heretofore  boasted 
that  their  seats  were  free.  The  editor  of  the  Chris- 
tian Advocate  last  week  thus  animadverts  upon  it,  in 
an  editorial  entitled,  "Mammon  in  the  church."  "A 
few  years  ago  Dr.  Talmage's  Tabernacle  made  its 
boast  that  its  seats  were  free,  and  that  was  one  of  the 
attractive  elements  which  drew  large  numbers  from 
other  denominations.  In  a  short  time  it  was  al- 
leged that  the  freeness  of  the  seats  was  only  a  pre- 
tense; that  persons  were  expected  to  subscribe  an 
amount  about  equal  to  what  the  seat  would  be 
worth  if  the  pews  were  rented;  and  if  they  did  not 
they  were  frozen  out.  Questions  of  veracity  were 
raised  as  to  the  harmony  between  statements  made 
from  the  pulpit  and  actual  practices.  The  presby- 
tery wrestled  with  those  questions;  but  now  not 
only  are  the  pews  rented,  but  the  greatest  abomina- 
tion which  ever  entered  a  Protestant  church,  and 
one  which  Lyman  Abbott  felicitated  Plymouth 
church  on  getting  rid  of.  is  in  full  blast.  A  pew 
whose  fixed  valuation  is  $90  brought  a  premium  of 
$750,  and  another  whose  rental  is  fixed  at  $100 
brought  a  premium  or  $575.  Nine  brought  premi- 
ums of  $100  and  upward.  The  Tabernacle  is  a  big 
institution,  run  on  business  principles;  big  build- 
ing, big  organ,  big  crowd,  big  rental,  and, — Mr.  Tal- 
mage.  It  is  a  pity  that  such  a  huge  establishment 
should  set  up  such  an  auction-block  on  seats  in  the 
house  of  God.  It  is  the  worst  form  in  which  Mam- 
mon invadea  the  church,  and  peculiarly  inimical  to 
the  growth  of  genuine  influence  over  the  uncon- 
verted, the  working  classes,  and  especially  the  de- 
votedly religious  who  are  always  free  from  ostenta- 
tion and  unhappy  where  it  exists." 

The  storm  at  Mt.  Vernon,  111.,  killing  perhaps 
forty,  leaving  hundreds  homeless,  is  another  evi- 
dence of  God's  displeasure  with  this  nation.  An 
eye-witness  says,  "It  was  all  over  in  a  minute.  The 
thing  that  most  impressed  me  was  the  destruction 
of  the  county  court  house,  a  fine  three-story  brick 
building.  The  court  house  stood  in  a  promi- 
nent place  and  could  easily  be  seen  almost  from  the 
tower  to  the  ground.  It  looked  to  me  as  though  the 
huge  pile  of  brick  and  mortar  had  been  struck  by  a 
gigantic  battering-ram,  or  by  a  big  club  in  the 
hands  of  a  power  strong  enough  to  knock  it  down 
at  a  single  blow.  It  seemed  to  collapse  all  at  once, 
spread  out  and  bury  the  buildings  surrounding  it." 
Can  we  fail  to  see  the  hand  of  God  in  that? 
Brooklyn,  Fth.  20,  1888.  J.  M.  FosTBB. 


Belioiotjs  News. 


— At  the  late  conference  in  the  City  of  Mexico  of 
all  Protestant  missionaries  in  that  country.  Rev. 
Henry  M.  Bissell,  brother  of  Mrs.  W.  I.  Phillips, 
presided  at  one  of  the  sessions.  He  is  located  at 
La  Barca  and  is  under  engagement  to  the  American 
Board. 

— A  revival  in  Sandusky,  Ohio,  conducted  by 
Messrs.  Potter  and  Miller,  has  resulted  in  the  acces- 
sion of  one  hundred  and  eight  persons  to  the  Con- 
gregational, Presbyterian  and  Methodist  churches. 

— The  General  Conference  (quadrennial)  of  the 
Methodist  Episcopal  church  will  meet  in  New  York 
May  1,  in  the  Metropolitan  Opera  House.  The 
eighty-five  boxes  are  to  be  let  to  defray  the  expenses 
of  rental. 

— The  First  Baptist  church,  Minneapolis,  Minn., 
made  a  canvass  of  one  hundred  blocks  in  its  vicinity, 
and  found  that  while  nearly  all  the  children  were  in 
Sabbath- school,  about  half  the  people  did  not  at- 
tend church. 

— In  Japan  native  converts,  with  average  wages 
of  less  than  25  cents  a  day,  contributed  last  year 
$27,000  to  mission  work.  One  man  gave  $10,000 
to  build  a  school,  under  the  care  of  the  American 
Board.  During  the  year  3,640  adults  were  baptized, 
making  a  total  membership  of  14,815.  There  are 
now  193  organized  churches,  64  of  them  self-sup- 
porting. 

—The  William  Taylor  Transit  Fund  and  Building 
Fund  Society  has  a  self-supporting  work  in  South 
America,  begun  eight  years  ago,  embracing  four 
well-established  missions  in  Chili,  and  property  in 
churches,  parsonages  and  schools  worth  about  one 
hundred  thousand  dollars.  There  are  incipient 
church  organizations,  one  with  a  membership  of 
thirty-six,  and  there  have  been  about  three  thousand 
pupils  in  these  schools  with  from  600  to  1,000  chil- 
dren under  tuition  now.  These  schools  are  patron- 
ized by  the  most  influential  classes,  from  the  Presi- 
dent of  the  Republic  down.  There  are  also  stations 
in  Brazil. 

— Some  years  ago  a  party  of  twenty  persons,  says 
the  Moravian,  mostly  from  Chicago,  some  of  them 
Mr.  Moody's  helpers,  started  on  a  mission  to  the 
Holy  Land.  They  have  been  joined  by  English 
sympathizers,  and  form  a  community  with  a  com- 
mon purse.  A  letter  in  the  Boston  Advertiser 
speaks  favorably  of  them.  Simple  allegiance  to 
Christ  and  practical  well-doing  constitute  their  pro- 
fession and  purpose.  Their  type  is  so  unselfish  and 
unworldly,  their  relief  of  the  poor  and  sympathy 
with  every  class  have  been  so  spontaneous  and  sin- 
cere, that  they  have  won  the  appreciation  of  Mo- 
hammedan and  Bedouin  alike,  an  even  the  wretched 
fellaheen  sing  their  praises.  Some  Temanite 
Jews  from  Arabia  have  been  helped  by  their  minis- 
try, and  the  fierce  transjordanic  tribe  of  the 
Adawns  welcome  their  teachings.  The  leader  of 
this  part  was  H.  G.  Spafford,  a  well  known  lawyer 
and  (Christian  worker. 


COMPARATIVE  GROWTH  OF  CHURCHES  AND 
POPULATION. 


The  following  tables  which  appear  in  the  Chris- 
tian Intelligencer,  not  only  refute  the  statistics  of 
some  book-makers,  but  are  much  more  an  occasion 
of  rejoicing  in  the  God  of  our  salvation. 

The  growth  of  the  churches  since  1880,  exhibited 

in  the  accompanying  tables,  is  a  c inclusive  answer 

to  the  not  infrequent  allegation  that  the  Protestant 

churches  are  losing  ground. 

Mln-  Communl- 

TBAR.  Churchee.  isters.  cants. 

1800 3,030  3,651  361.872 

1850 43,072  25,.555  3,R29,9SS 

1S70 70,148  47,609  6,673,396 

1880 97,090  69,870  10,065,963 

1886 112,744  83,854  12,133,651 

IMCRBASB  OP  COMMUNICANTS  BY  FEKIODS. 

Communl-  Average 

PERIODS.                    Tears.          cants.  yearly. 

1800-1850 50              3,165,116  63,302 

1850-1870 20               3,143,408  157,170 

1870-1880 10              3,892,587  339,258 

1880-1836 6              2,066,698  344,449 

On  the  basis  of  58,420,000  population  for  1886, 

as  estimated  by  Government  Actuary  Elliott,  and 

the  population  for  previous  periods  as  given  in  the 

United  States  Census,  we  have  in 

1800  one  communicant  in  14.5  Inhabitants. 
1850    "  '•  "     6.5  " 

1870    "  "  "57  " 

1880    "  "  "     5.0  " 

1886    "  "  "     4.8 

There  is  nof7  one  Evangelical  Prot«stant  church 
in  518  inhabitants,  and  one  minister  in  692  inhabi- 
tants.     From     1850    to   1886   the"  population   in- 

1  ereased  152  per  cent.,  and  the  communicants  243 

I  per  cent 


Makoh  1,  1888 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


13 


Lodge  Notes. 

D .  R .  Locke,  editor  of  the  Toledo  Blade, 
and  well  known  as  the  author  of  the 
"Nasby"  letters,  died  on  the  15th  ult.  The 
Masons  performed  their  ceremonies  at 
his  grave. 

At  Philadelphia  lately  the  corner  stone 
of  a  handsome  monument  to  the  poet 
Qoethe  was  laid  with  Masonic  ceremonies. 
This  was  an  appropriate  work  for  the 
order  when  we  remember  Goethe's  irre- 
ligion . 

Near  Springfield,  Mo.,  Thursday  night, 
Albert  Adair  and  his  brother-in-law,  L . 
JKenworthy,  were  called  from  their  house, 
seized  by  five  men,  tied  to  a  tree,  and 
whipped  with  switches.  The  Bald-Knob- 
bers  were  recognized  and  arrested . 

Major  Sanderson,  the  well-known 
Orange  leader,  and  member  of  Parlia- 
ment for  North  Armagh,  in  a  speech  at 
Brighton  Wednesday  night  declared  that 
as  long  as  the  men  of  Ulster  had  right 
hands  to  strike  with  the  Nationalists 
would  never  reign  over  them. 

The  general  executive  board  of  the 
Knights  of  Labor  adjourned  to  April 
9,  after  assigning  different  members  to 
various  parts  of  the  country  for  the  pur- 
pose of  furthering  the  interests  of  the 
order.  Powderly  will  go  to  the  northern 
peiinsula  of  Michigan  and  to  Ontario; 
Bailey  to  Pennsylvania,  Ohio,  West  Vir- 
ginia, and  possibly  Mississippi:  Maguire 
to  Cincinnati;  Carlton  first  to  Southern 
Ohio,  thence  to  Florida,  and  Ayles worth, 
through  Kansas  and  Missouri,  to  com- 
plete unfinished  business.  It  was  stated 
that  no  further  action  had  been  taken  in 
reference  to  the  Reading  railroaders' 
strike. 

The  Night  Riders  or  White  Caps  of 
Oreen  county,  Ind . ,  again  took  the  law 
into  their  own  hands  a  few  nights  ago  at 
Bloomfleld.  As  usual,  thrashing  was  re- 
sorted to,  and  the  parties  to  be  thus  vis- 
ited with  summary  punishment  were 
Noah  and  Fannia  Good  and  Sam  Pierce. 
The  three  named  have  repeatedly  been 
warned  to  leave  the  vicinity.  Six  or  eight 
of  the  White  Cap  band  called  at  the  house 
of  the  Goods,  and  taking  Noah  and  Sam 
Pierce  to  a  clearing  near  the  house,  ap- 
plied the  regular  chastisement  by  means 
of  supple  hickory  switches,  with  which 
each  of  the  party  was  provided.  Leav- 
ing two  of  the  gang  to  watch  the  whipped 
men,  the  woman  was  brought  out,  and 
while  the  punishment  was  as  thorough  as 
that  administered  to  the  men,  shingles 
were  used  in  place  of  switches  Having 
accomplished  the  object  in  view,  the 
White  Caps  then  left  the  place,  not,  how- 
ever, before  giving  their  victims  a  firm 
order  to  leave  the  country  without  delay. 


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E  F  Torrence.L  M  Lam8on,T  Spaulding, 
D  Brown.  D  Steele,  T  U  Patterson,  I  Bliss, 
G  W  Prith,  J  Lehman,  Rev  B  F  Worrell, 
Rev  Parry. 


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Total,  $744.91 


8 PIKE  THBIR  GUNS. 

A  few  dollars  expended  in  purchasing 
tracts  and  scattering  them  about  through 
the  community  will  perhaps  do  more  to 
spike  the  guns  of  noisy  secretists  than 
anything  else  that  could  be  suggested. 
Men  have  heard  the  lodges  praised  so 
often  and  so  boldly,  that  they  have  come 
to  believe  that  they  are  what  they  pro- 
fess to  be.  It  is  high  time  that  the  war  is 
carried  intoAfrica  itself.  This  is  the  work 
which  the  N.  C.  A.  has  in  view,  and 
would  be  glad  to  push  forward  in  every 
quarter  of  the  land.  Who  will  help  to 
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Pasta<Mt«r  of  Keyntono    I/0(Ige  Ko.    63V 
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WE8T  AFRICA. 


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ILLUSTRATED. 

The  ooranlofe  revised  rli-.i        '         r  

ment  nntl  Kebekali  ( liullc' ' 

ted.  anil  Kimmnleeil  to  lir  , 

•keteiioftlieiirifii  h'..i,„  . 

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authorities,  s!  f 

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'"■'  'ks"  furnished  hyt tie  Sovrn-lm'Gr»nd 

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.  /■  ■  .    ...■,.  „,..'.en  H  (») 

All  orders  promptly  lUlod  by  the 
NATIONAL  CHRISTIAN  A8SOOIATI»a 


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II 


14 


THE  CHRISTLAJSr  CYNOSirRE. 


March  1, 1888 


HOME  AITD  HEALTH. 

HEALTH  ALPHABET. 

A— 8  soon  »B  yo«  are  up,  shake  blanket  and 
sheet ; 

B— etter  be  without  shoes  than  sit  with  wet 
feet; 

C— hlldren,  If  healthy,  are  active,  not  still; 

D— amp  beds  and  damp  clothes  will  both  make 
you  111 ; 

E— at  slowly  and  always  chew  your  food  well ; 

F— reshen  the  air  in  the  house  where  you 
dwell; 

G— arments  must  never  be  made  too  tight ; 

H — omes  should  be  healthy,  airy  and  light ; 

I — f  you  wish  to  be  well,  as  you  do,  no  doubt, 

J — ust  open  the  windows  before  you  go  out ; 

K — eep  your  rooms  always  tidy  and  clean ; 

L — et  dust  on  the  furniture  never  be  seen ; 

M— uch  illness  Is  caused  by  the  want  of  pure 
air; 

N — ow  open  your  windows  be  ever  your  care ; 

O-ldrugs  and  old  rubbish  should  never  be 
kept; 

P— eople  should  see  that  their  floors  are  w«ll 
swept ; 

Q— ulck  movements  in  children  are  healthy  and 
right; 

R— emember,  the  young  cannot  thrive  with- 
out light ; 

S-  ee  that  the  cistern  is  clean  to  the  brim; 

T— ake  care  that  your  dress  is  all  tidy  and 
trim ; 

U — se  your  nose  to  find  if  there  is  a  bad  drain ; 

V— ery  sad  are  the  fevers  that  come  from  Its 
train ; 

W— alk  as  much  as  you  can  without  feeling  fa- 
tigue; 

X— erxes  though  a  king  could  walk  many  a 
league; 

T~our  health  is  your  wealth,  which  your  wis- 
dom must  keep ; 

Z— eal  will  help  a  good  cause,  and  the  good 
you  will  reap .  —Ex. 


HELPFUL    HINTS. 


The  quickest  way  to  copy  with  pen  or 
pencil  is  to  put  a  flat,  heavy  weight  upon 
the  upper  edge  of  the  paper  on  which 
you  write,  to  hold  it  firm  and  leave  both 
hands  free.  Then  place  the  matter  to  be 
copied  flat  on  the  desk  at  the  left,  so  as 
to  bring  it  as  near  as  possible  to  the 
blank  paper.  With  a  finger  of  the  left 
hand  keep  your  place  in  the  book  or 
MS.  as  you  write,  and  you  will  find  gen- 
erally that  you  can  copy  quite  as  fast  as 
you  can  compose.  For  a  paper-weight 
a  heavy  oblong  rectangular  piece  of  brass 
or  glass  is  most  effective. 

Most  men  when  they  want  to  insert  a 
leaf  in  a  book  put  mucilage  on  both  sides 
of  the  leaf's  inner  edge,  put  it  in  the  de 
sired  place,  shut  the  book,  and  let  the 
mucilage  dry.  Afterward,  when  they 
come  to  use  the  book,  they  find  it  hard 
to  read  the  words  at  the  very  inside  of 
the  pages,  and  later  on  they  wonder  why 
that  leaf  will  not  stay  stuck  in.  The 
trouble  is  that  they  went  to  work  in  the 
wrong  way.  The  difliculties  can  be  ob- 
viated very  easily.  When  you  wish  to 
insert  a  leaf,  turn  over  a  third  or  a  half- 
inch  of  the  edge  of  the  paper.  Put  the 
mucilage  only  on  the  outer  side  of  the 
little  flap  thus  made,  taking  care  to  get 
none  on  the  rest  of  the  paper.  Then  in- 
sert the  leaf  and  shut  the  book.  When 
it  is  opened,  if  the  outer  edges  of  the 
sheet  have  been  trimmed,  it  will  be 
found  to  all  intents  and  purposes  a  new 
leaf,  as  flexible  and  durable  as  any  other 
in  the  volume. —  Tht  Writtr. 

AIBINO   ROOMS. 

It  is  a  great  mistake  that  the  whole 
house,  particularly  sleeping  rooms  and 
the  dining  room,  receives  little  ventila- 
tion and  purifying  of  the  air,  when  it 
can  be  done  with  so  little  trouble  and  no 
expense.  A  pitcher  of  cold  water  placed 
on  a  table  or  bureau  will  absorb  all  the 
gasses  with  which  the  room  is  filled  from 
the  respiralion  of  those  eating  or  sleep- 
ing in  the  apartment  Very  few  realize 
how  important  such  purification  is  for  the 
health  of  the  family,  or,  indeed,  under- 
stand or  realize  that  there  can  be  any 
impurity  in  the  rooms,  yet  in  a  few  hours 
a  pitcher  of  cold  water— the  colder  the 
more  effective — will  make  the  air  of  the 
room  pure,  but  the  water  will  be  unfit  for 
use.  In  bed  rooms  a  pail  or  pitcher  of 
of  water  should  be  always  kept,  and 
changed  often  if  any  one  stays  in  the 
room  during  the  day;  certainly  be  put  in 
fresh  when  the  inmates  retire.  Such  wa- 
ter should  never  be  drank,  but  either  a 
covered  pitcher  or  glass  bottle  with  a 
■topper  should  be  used  for  drinking  wa- 


ter, and  always  be  kept  closely  covered. 
Impure  water  causes  more  sickness  than 
even  impure  air,  and  for  that  reason,  be- 
fore using  water  from  a  pump  or  reservoir 
for  drinking  or  cooking,  one  should  pump 
or  draw  out  enough  to  clear  the  pipes  be- 
fore using  it,  particularly  in  the  morning, 
after  the  water  has  been  standing  in  the 
pipes  all  night. — Commercial  Gazette . 

Advice  to  HotrsEKEEPEKS. — Ceilings 
that  have  been  smoked  by  a  kerosene 
lamp  should  be  washed  off  with  soda 
water. 

The  surest  test  of  a  frozen  orange  is  its 
weight.  If  it  is  heavy  in  the  hand  it  has 
not  been  frozen. 

Use  good  soap  in  the  kitchen,  as  it  saves 
the  hands. 

When  a  felon  first  begins  to  make  its 
appearance,  take  a  lemon,  cut  off  one  end, 
put  the  finger  in,  and  the  longer  it  is  kept 
there  the  better. 

Flour  should  be  kept  in  a  barrel,  with 
a  flour  scoop  to  dip  it  and  a  seive  to  sift 
it. 

Drain  pipes,  and  all  places  that  are  sour 
or  impure,  may  be  cleansed  with  lime  wa- 
ter or  carbolic  acid. 

For  a  cold  in  the  chest,  a  flannel  rag 
rung  out  in  boiling  water  and  sprinkled 
with  turpentine,  laid  on  the  chest,  gives 
the  greatest  relief. 

Cold  sliced  potatoes  fry  and  taste  better 
by  sprinkling  a  spoonful  of  flour  over  them 
while  frying. 

Rub  the  teakettle  with  kerosene,  and 
polish  wish  a  dry  flannel  cloth. 

Bent  whalebone  can  be  restored  and 
used  again  by  simply  soaking  in  water  a 
few  hours,  then  drying  them. 

To  clean  carpets — Go  over  them  once  a 
week  with  a  broom  dipped  in  hot  water, 
to  which  a  little  turpentine  has  been  add- 
ed. Wring  a  cloth  in  the  hot  water  and 
wipe  under  pieces  of  furniture  too  heavy 
to  be  moved . 

When  the  rubber  rollers  of  your  wring- 
er become  sticky,  as  they  very  often  do 
after  wringing  flannel,  rub  with  kerosene 
and  wipe  dry,  and  they  will  be  nice  and 
smooth. 


A8I.G£P   ON  THE  BAII.BOAD  TRACK. 

A  little  child,  tired  of  play,  had  pil- 
lowed his  head  on  a  rail  and  fallen  asleep. 
The  train  was  almost  upon  him  when  a 
passing  stranger  rushed  forward  and 
saved  him  from  a  horrible  death .  Per- 
haps you  are  asleep  on  the  track,  too. 
Tou  are,  if  you  are  neglecting  the  bil- 
iousness and  constipation  which  trouble 
you,  in  the  hope  that  you  will  "come  all 
right."  Wake  up,  or  the  train  will  be 
upon  you!  Constipation  is  too  often  the 
forerunner  of  a  general  "breaking  up." 
Dr.  Pierce's  Pleasant  Purgative  Pellets 
will  regulate  your  liver,  stomach  and 
bowels,  and  restore  your  system  to  its  nor- 
mal condition. 


LOW    RATES    TO    PACIFIC    COAST. 

The  new  agreement  between  the  trans- 
continental lines  authorizes  a  lower  rate 
to  Pacific  coast  points  via  the  Manitoba- 
Pacific  route  than  is  made  via  any  other 
line.  Accommodations  flrst-class.  For 
rates,  maps  and  other  particulars,  apply 
to  C.  H.  Wakren,  General  Passenger 
Agent,  St.  Paul,  Minn.,  or  H.  B.  Tupper, 
Dist.  Pass.  Agent,  232  South  Clark  St., 
Chicago. 


CATARRH  CURED. 


A  clergyman,  after  years  of  suffering 
from  that  loathsome  disease,  catarrh,  and 
vainly  trying  every  known  remedy,  at 
last  found  a  prescription  which  complete- 
ly cured  and  saved  him  from  death.  Any 
sufferer  from  this  dreadful  disease  send- 
ing a  self-addressed  stamped  envelope  to 
Prof.  J.  A.  Lawrence,  212  East  9th  St., 
New  York,  will  receive  the  recipe  free  of 
charge. 

An  Excellent  Eoute. 

Tourists,  misiness  men,  settlers  and  others 
desirinR  to  reach  any  plate  in  Central  or  Norlli- 
ein  Montana.,  IJakoia,  Mirniesota,  or  Pnyct 
Sound  an<l  Pacidc  Coast  points  should  invosti- 
Kate  rPKarding  the  rate^  and  advantages  offered 
by  this  route.  A  rate  from  ChicaKO  or  Kt.Paul  to 
Puget  Ro\nKl  or  Pacific  Coast  points  $G.001o\ver 
than  via  any  other  line  is  guaranteed.  Accom- 
noda-H    ■  ST:PAUL  M     t'O"^ 

first-Bfl     Minneapolis     m.   cia.sK. 

]IeIen:iHfl     _   _.  giM^  ^    Mk    ('''i^"<^ 

ton,iWi  RAILWAY.  O^^Mon- 

tana;  Watertown,  Aberdeen,  Ellendalo,  Koit 
Buford  and  Bottlnea\i,  Dakota,  are  a  few  of  tl.„ 
principal  points  reached  via  recent  extensions  of 
this  road.  For  maps  or  other  information  ad- 
dress (;.  H.  Wauiien,  General  Passenger  Agent, 
St.  Paul,  Minn., or  H.  E.  Tupper.Dist.  Passenger 
Agent  ''.'Ja  South  Clark  St.,  Chicago, 
Send  tor  new  map  of  Northwest. 


VERYTHINC 

FOR    THE 


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THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSimE. 


15 


In  Brief. 

Mrs.  General  J.  A.  Garfield  and  Mrs. 
General  U.  S.  Grant  are  both  wealthy 
widows  who  draw  a  pension  of  nearly 
|100  a  week. 

An  English  engineer  proposes  by 
means  of  electricity  to  condense  the  solid 
part  of  smoke,  and  send  the  solidified 
part  back  to  the  furnace . 

General  John  C .  Black,  Commissioner 
of  Pensions,  draws  one  of  the  largest  pen- 
sions enjoyed  by  any  soldier — $25  a  week. 
Comrade  Black  won  his  pension  by  act- 
ual service,  by  disability  incurred  therein. 

Certain  hollows  in  hard  sandstone  near 
Lima,  Peru,  were  ascribed  by  Lyell  to 
ancient  aea-action  before  the  rocks  were 
elevated  above  ocean  level.  A  resident 
observer,  however,  finds  the  hollows  to 
be  still  increasing  in  size  and  number,  and 
believes  them  to  be  due  to  cleavage  caused 
by  the  growth  of  lichen  which  live  on 
the  rock . 

Coal  to  Succeed  Cattle  in  Wto- 
MiNG. — "The  world  at  large  doesn't  know 
it,"  said  Capt.  Murrin,  "but  Wyoming 
has  the  biggest  coal  fields  in  the  United 
States,  more  iron  ore  than  can  be  found 
anywhere  else  on  earth,  big  lakes  of  soda, 
more  oil  than  we  could  possibly  use,  veins 
of  copper  ore,  and  stone  and  marble  quar- 
ries. The  Territory  has  wonderful  natu- 
ral resources,  and  these  will  be  developed 
before  long.  The  cattle  days  are  gone, 
the  hundreds  and  hundreds  of  miles  of 
wire  fences  on  government  land  will  be 
torn  down,  and  the  Territory  will  drop  far 
down  on  the  list  of  cattle  producers.  The 
business  has  really  retarded  the  develop- 
ment and  growth  of  the  Territory,  and  it 
may  be  for  the  best  after  all."  Kansas 
City  Times. 

The  fact  that  fifteen  to  twenty-five 
steamers  a  month  are  now  arriving  at 
the  mouth  of  the  Congo  illustrates  the 
growth  of  commerce  in  that  region  since 
Stanley  showed  the  importance  of  the 
great  river.  One  ocean  steatner  has  al- 
ready ascended  the  river  to  Boma,  fifty 
miles  from  the  sea,  and  the  best  channels 
are  being  marked  by  buoys,  so  that  deep 
draught  vessels  may  safely  navigate  the 
lower  river.  Little  hotels  for  the  enter- 
tainment of  travelers  have  been  built  at 
Banana  and  Boma.  One  reason  why 
the  whites  on  the  lower  river  enjoy  far 
better  health  than  formerly,it  is  said,is  be- 
cause they  have  discarded  canned  meats 
and  now  raise  their  own  beef .  Cattle 
thrive  finely  at  Boma,  and  it  takes  a  steer 
every  three  days  to  feed  the  whites  who 
are  now  living  at  that  station. 

Lord  Palmerston  once  made  use  of 
some  very  effective  pauses  which  he  could 
not  have  prepared  beforehand,  and  these 
are  worth  quoting  in  conclusion.  While 
electioneering  at  Taunton  he  was  greatly 
troubled  by  a  butcher  who  wanted  him  to 
support  a  certain  Radical  policy.  At  the 
end  of  one  of  his  Lordship's  speeches  the 
butcher  called  out:  "Lord  Palmerston, 
will  you  give  me  a  plain  answer  to  a  plain 
question?"  After  a  slight  pause  Lord 
Palmerston  replied:  "I  will."  The  butch- 
er then  asked:  "Will  you  or  will  you  not 
support  this  measure — a  Radical  bill?" 
Lord  Palmerston  hesitated,  and  then,  with 
a  twinkle  in  his  eye,  replied:  "I  will" — 
Then  he  stopped.  Immediately  the  Radi- 
cals cheered  trenxendously,  '  'not, "  contin 
ued  his  Lordship  Loud  Conservative 
cheers.  When  these  ceased  Lord  Palmer- 
ston finished  his  sentence — "tell  you." 
He  then  immediately  retired. — Cham- 
bers Journal. 

An  American  paper,  the  Fireman's 
HtrcM,  predicts  a  terrible  disaster  in  the 
oil  regions  of  the  United  States,  if  the 
tapping  of  gas  wells  is  allowed  to  go  on 
at  its  present  rate  without  check  or  su- 
pervision of  any  sort.  A  fearful  explo- 
sion of  natural  gas  took  place  in  China 
some  two  hundred  years  ago,  it  appears, 
tearing  up  and  destroying  a  district  and 
leaving  a  large  inland  sea— that  now 
known  on  the  maps  as  Lake  Fu-Chang. 
Should  such  an  accident  occur  in  the 
United  States,  there  will  be  such  an  up- 
heaval, the  Herald  believes,  as  will  dwarf 
the  most  terrible  earthquake  ever  known. 
The  country  along  the  gas-belt  from  To- 
ledo through  Ohio,  Indiana  and  Ken- 
tucky will  be  ripped  up  to  the  depth  of 
from  1,200  feet  to  1,400  feet,  leaving  a 
chasm  through  which  the  waters  of  Lake 
Erie  will  come  howling  down,  filling  the 
Ohio  and  Mississippi  Valleys  and  blotting 
them  out  forever. — London  St.  James'  Qa- 
aette. 


A  Blasphemer's  Death. — The  Lenox 
(Iowa)  Time  Table  relates  the  death  of  a 
man  in  Taylor  county  under  the  follow- 
ing circumstances:  "A.  W.  Pullie,  living 
in  the  northwest  part  of  the  county,  met 
an  untimely  death  on  Wednesday  of  last 
week.  He  was  a  man  well  known  in  this 
community  and  quite  wealthy .  A  week 
ago,  when  the  first  blizzard  came,  he 
made  use  of  the  expression,  that  'if  there 
was  such  a  being  as  God  Almighty,  he 
was  without  love  or  feeling  for  humanity 
or  he  would  not  send  such  storms  upon 
them,'  at  the  same  time  declaring  that  if 
another  such  storm  came  he  would  go  to 
a  climate  that  had  never  been  cursed  with 
such  storms,  and  escape  the  vigilance  of 
the  Almighty.  The  storm  came  on  Tues- 
day morning,  and  he  began  preparation 
for  departure.  Securing  a  large  trunk 
he  packed  it,  and  Wednesday  morning 
went  to  load  it  into  the  wagon  to  haul  to 
Villisca  where  he  expected  to  take  the 
afternoon  train.  He  had  one  end  of  the 
trunk  in  a  wagon-box  and  was  raising 
the  other  end  from  the  ground  when  his 
feet  slipped  from  under  him,  the  sharp 
edge  striking  him  upon  the  neck  as  he  lay 
upon  the  ground.  His  neck  was  broken, 
and  he  died  almost  instantly . " 


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THE  CHRISTLAJN"  CYNOSURE. 


March  1, 1888 


NFWS  OF  THE  WEEK 

COUNTBY. 

William  Wilson  Corcoran,  the  million- 
aire philanthropist,  died  at  Washington 
Tuesday  morning,  aged  89. 

The  National  Democratic  Committee 
on  Thursday  selected  St.  Louisas  the 
place  of  holding  the  convention,  and 
changed  the  time  of  meeting  from  July  3 
to  June  5. 

The  output  of  coal  during  1887  in  the 
second  anthracite  district  of  Pennsylva- 
nia reached  5,043,515  tons,  an  increase 
over  1886  of  810,060  tons.  In  mine  ac- 
cidents fifty-two  men  were  killed  and 
146  wounded. 

The  canvass  of  New  Orleans  being 
made  by  the  Committee  of  One  Hundrtd 
to  revise  the  registration  has  already  re- 
sulted in  finding  about  24,000  names 
illegally  registered,  though  not  all  fraud- 
ulently. Between  15,000  and  20,000  will 
be  thrown  out. 

Initial  meetings  were  held  at  Boston 
Thursday  in  a  movement  looking  to  the 
erection  of  a  memorial  to  Wendell  Phill- 
ips. General  Butler  made  the  principal 
speech,  and  alleged  that  the  "war  of  the 
rebellion  was  principally  inspired  by  the 
voice  and  pen  of  Phillips  "  The  size  and 
enthusiam  of  the  meetings  augurs  the 
success  of  the  movement. 

Excessive  cigarette  smoking  killed 
James  Copely,  a  Cleveland,  Ohio,  bar- 
tender, Friday.  He  smoked  a  hundred 
cigarettes  daily  at  times,  inhaling  the 
smoke,  and  a  post  mortem  showed  that 
his  body  was  saturated  with  nicotine. 

Two  masked  men  took  possession  of 
a  Southern  Pacific  train  in  Arizona  Wed- 
nesday night,  just  after  leaving  Stein's 
Pass,  uncoupled  the  engine  and  express 
car  from  the  rest  of  the  train,  and  after 
going  a  mile  futher,  robbed  Wells,  Fargo 
&  Co.'s  express  car  of  all  valuables. 

Under  the  new  law,  Francis  Herbert, 
who  assaulted  a  13 -year-old  girl,  was,  at 
Detroit,  Friday,  sentenced  for  life  in  the 
penitentiary  at  hard  labor. 

In  convention  at  Providence,  R.  I, 
Wednesday,  the  Prohibitionists  nominat- 
ed a  State  ticket,  George  W.Gould  head- 
ing the  list  as  nominee  for  governor. 

The  affirming  of  the  decision  of  the 
lower  court  in  the  barbed  wire  patent 
case  by  the  United  States  Supreme  Court 
is  the  occasion  of  general  rejoicing  all 
over  Iowa.  Letters  of  congratulation  are 
pouring  in  upon  the  lawyers  who  so  ably 
and  persistently  fought  in  defense  of  the 
Iowa  farmers  The  decision  of  the  upper 
court  practically  terminates  the  life  of 
barbed  wire  monopoly . 

The  Cunard  and  other  steamship  com- 
panies are  said  to  be  arranging  to  run 
extra  steamers.  It  is  expected  that  there 
will  be  a  large  increase  in  Irish  immigra- 
tion this  year. 

The  orthodox  faction  of  Anshe  Emeth 
congregation  at  Cleveland  have  demand 
ed  the  resignation  of  Rabbi  Philo,  who 
has  made  some  changes  in  religious  cus- 
toms that  are  said  to  be  opposed  to  an- 
cient rites.  The  Rabbi  refuses  to  re- 
sign, and  legal  proceedings  are  threat- 
ened. 

The  worst  steamboat  explosion  that  has 
^occurred  for  years  took  place  Monday 
morning  at  South  Valhjo,  Cal.,  about 
forty  people  being  killed  and  several 
wounded.  The  steamer  that  blew  up  was 
used  to  transfer  passengers  from  the 
main  line  of  the  Central  Pacific  Railway 
to  the  Napa  Valley  Branch  that  runs 
through  the  wine  districts  to  Calistoga. 
About  sixty  seven  people  were  on  board, 
mainly  workingmen  who  were  going  over 
to  the  factories  on  the  Contra  Costa 
shore.  A  moment  after  the  sound  of  the 
explosion  a  sheet  of  flame  shot  high  into 
the  air.  Those  on  deck  at  the  time  were 
hurled  overboard  by  the  force  of  the  ex- 
plosion and  several  were  killed  outright 
by  being  struck  by  pieces  of  the  debris, 
which  were  sent  flying  in  all  directions. 

At  East  Greenwich,  R.  L,  Saturday 
night,  the  well  owned  by  Mr.  Allen  was 
poisoned,  and  an  attempt  was  made  to 
blow  up  the  house  of  the  Rev.  O.  W. 
Still,  a  Baptist  minister  Both  men  have 
been  waging  war  upon  the  saloons. 

An  explosion  in  a  quarry  at  Duluth, 
Minn  ,  Wednesday  morniog,  wounded  a 
dozen  men.  It  is  not  expected  that  two 
of  the  victims  can  recover. 

It  is  reported  from  Spencer  county,  In- 
diana, that  the  cyclone  which  demolished 


Mt.  Vernon,  111.,  Sunday,  dipped  down 
near  Heilmann,  a  small  hamlet,  unroof- 
ing houses,  overturning  barns,  complete- 
ly demolishing  many  and  killing  stock. 
The  only  person  reported  injured  was 
Mrs.  John  Eastman,  who  was  buried  in 
the  ruins  of  her  home  and  fatally  hurt. 

Adjutant  General  Vance  notified  Qjv- 
ernor  Oglesby  Tuesday  that  thirty-seven 
persons  had  been  killed  at  Mount  Ver- 
non by  the  cyclone  and  that  eighty  were 
wounded,  twenty  of  whom  are  in  a  seri- 
ous condition. 

At  Sioux  City,  Iowa,  Tuesday,  in  the 
case  of  the  driver  of  a  brewery  wagon, 
charged  with  violation  of  the  prohibitory 
law,  the  jury  returned  a  verdict  of  not 
guilty. 

Two  Mormon  elders,  named  Douglass 
and  Fuller,  have  been  operating  in  the 
section  of  country  between  Memphis  and 
the  Tennessee  River  for  the  last  mont  a . 
A  few  days  ago  they  went  into  Madison 
county,  Tennessee,  and  called  on  the  pas- 
tor of  the  Cumberland  Presbjterian 
church  at  Denmark.  Saturday  they  asked 
to  be  allowed  to  hold  services.  The  pas- 
tor found  out  who  they  were  and  report- 
ed the  fact  to  the  citizens,  and  they  or- 
dered the  polygamous  teachers  to  leave 
the  town  under  penalty  of  receiving  a 
coat  of  tar  and  feathers. 

Before  a  legislative  committee  at  Bos- 
ton Tuesday  Mrs.  Charlotte  Smith  and 
others  made  charges  that  many  intelli- 
gence cfflces  were  sending  girls  to  hous- 
es of  ill-repute,  and  that  Inspector  Bur- 
leigh was  in  league  with  the  procurers . 
The  statements  of  fifty  alleged  victims 
were  submitted,  and  in  some  instances 
their  stories  were  corroborated. 

FOBBION. 

The  association  of  the  chambers  of  com- 
merce of  the  United  Kingdom  have  unan- 
imously passed  a  resolution  advocating 
an  arbitration  treaty  with  the  United 
States  for  the  settlement  of  all  difflnul- 
ties  that  may  arise  between  that  country 
and  England. 

It  is  stated  that  Austria  agrees  with 
Russia  in  holding  that  Prince  Ferdinand's 
presence  ia  Bulgaria  i=i illegal,  but  recog- 
nizes his  election  to  the  throne  as  legal . 
Italy  is  said  to  have  declared  that  she  will 
CO  operate  with  England  and  Austria  in 
any  action  they  may  take  in  regard  to 
Bulgaria. 

Mr.  Phelps,  the  American  Minister,  had 
a  long  interview  Wednesday  with  Lord 
Salisbury  on  the  subject  of  the  fisheries 
treaty,  the  text  of  which  was  before  them. 
Lord  Salisbury  expressed  approval  of  the 
substance  and  form  of  the  document. 

During  a  heavy  rainstorm  the  large 
house  U9ed  as  headquarters  of  the  Elev- 
enth Regiment  of  Mexican  troops  at  Cruz 
de  Piedras,  Sonora,  fell  in.  Four  soldiers 
were  instantly  killed  and  a  large  number 
mortally  wounded,  while  nearly  half  the 
regiment  suffered  injury.  In  addition 
many  were  prostrated  by  illness  in  conse- 
quence of  exposure  to  the  severe  weather. 


FREE  TRACTS 


Will  be  furnished  to  those  who  desire  in- 
formation or  who  will  distribute  them 
where  they  will  do  the  most  good. 

There  are  in  stock  now  a  large  number 
of 

"FREHMA80NBT  IN    THB   FAMILY." 

This  is  especially  interesting  to  ladies. 

"TO   THE   BOYB   WHO   HOPB   TO   BB   MEN." 

It  is  illustrated  and  will  please  the 
school  children. 

"SELLING  DBAD   H0R8B8." 

You  can  always  get  the  attention  of 
farmers  or  men  who  are  interested  in 
horses  with  this  tract. 

"MOODY   ON    8ECBBT    SOCIETIES" 

leads  Christians  to  separation. 

A  limited  number  of  two  new  tracts 
will  be  sent  to  any  who  need  them. 

"THE   SONS   OF   VETERANS," 
"IN     WHICH     ABMY    ARE     YOU?" 

Remember  these  tracts  will  be  sent  you 
freely.  But  any  who  wish  to  contribute 
to  this  Free  Tract  Fund  are  earnestly  re- 
quested to  do  BO. 

Ought  you  not,  once  a  year  at  least,  to 
put  a  tract  into  each  one  of  your  neigh- 
bor's houses?  Will  you  send  for  a  supply 
soon? 


POWDER 

Absolutely  Pure. 

This  powder  never  varies.  A  marvel  of  purity, 
strength  and  wholesomeness.  More  economical  than 
the  ordinary  kinds,  and  cannot  be  sold  In  competi- 
tion with  the  multitude  of  low  test,  short  weight, 
alum  or  phosphate  powders.  Sold  onlyln  cans. 
Royal  Baking  Povtdbb  Co.,  106  Wall-st.,  N.  Y 

WHEATON  COLLEGE. 

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There  are  In  the  United  States 

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WUh  2,000  000  members, 
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CONTENTS. 


Bditobial  : 

Notes  and  Comments 1 

Cbtcatro  Jesuits  and  Bos- 

tm  Masons 8 

Prohibition  Notes 8 

Personal  Mention 8 

CONTBTWUTtONS  : 

The  Moral  Argument  for 

Prohibition 1 

Tangled  Talk  3 

The  NAT]O^JAL  Convention: 
The  Utbate  of  Tuesday; 
Secretary  Stoddard's  ac- 

coun;.  3,4 

Rbfobm  News  : 
The    Southern    Lecturer 
Home  for  Vacation;  The 

Iowa  Report 4 

Bible  Lesson 6 


COBBBSPONDBNOB : 

Stand  ng  by  the  Truth  in 
New  Orleans;  Chlcigo, 
Awake;  Our  For<»lE:n 
Mission    Letter;     Pith 

and  Point 5  6 

New  York  Letter 9 

Wheat  on  College 9 

Obituart 7 

Farm  Notes 7 

The  N.  C.  a 7 

The  Homb 10 

Tbmperancb 11 

Religious  Nbws 12 

Literature 12 

Home  and  Health 14 

News  OF  THB  Wbbk 16 

Markets 13 

Business 13 


The  first  Chinaman  in  Kansas  to  apply  for  nat- 
uralization was  Lee  Sing,  of  Wichita.  The  District 
Court  refused  his  application  under  the  anti-Chinese 
laws  by  which  Congress  denies  naturalization  to  the 
Chinatnan.  Lee  Sing  has  been  in  Wichita  ten  years 
and  has  acquired  some  property.  He  pronounces 
hia  treatment  "shabee."  But  the  atheist  drunken 
anarchist  slaps  the  Congressman  on  the  back  and 
pronounces  the  arrangement  firstrate. 


A  new  society  for  boys,  called  by  the  singular 
name  "Knights  Excelsior,"  has  been  organized  in 
the  Lincoln  Park  Congregational  church  of  this  city. 
Its  aim  is  to  gather  in  boys  of  intemperate  parents 
and  teach  them  lessons  of  industry  and  good  citi- 
zenship. This  is  an  excellent,  a  blessed  work,  but 
why  go  to  the  lodge  to  find  a  name?  In  it  is  the 
beginning  of  an  evil  education,  preparing  these  sus- 
ceptible boys  to  accept  the  irreligious  principles 
which  such  lodge  names  generally  represent.  Dan- 
iel's band  would  never  have  stood  their  test  and 
been  an  example  for  all  young  men  in  all  time  if 
they  had  paraded  themselves  in  Babylon  as 
"Knights  Excelsior." 


Two  messages  came  last  week  from  the  Pope. 
On  the  anniversary  of  his  coronation  he  replied  to 
the  congratulation  of  Cardinals  in  an  animated 
speech,  in  which  he  lamented  his  humiliating  posi- 
tion under  the  Italian  government  which  he  bewailed 
as  unbearable.  The  government  did  not  prohibit 
the  late  festival  of  jubilee,  indeed,  but  not  because 
it  did  not  wish  to.  No  respect  for  the  papacy  pre- 
vented an  interdict.  The  Catholic  world,  he  said, 
must  understand  the  situation.  No  arrangement 
with  the  government  was  possible  until  the  independ- 
ence of  the  papacy  was  restored.  The  other  mes- 
sage is  a  flattering  recognition  of  the  Irish  National 
League  in  this  country.  Friday  John  Fitzgerald, 
of  Lincoln,  Nebraska,  president  of  the  League,  and 
Patrick  Egan,  ex  president  of  the  same  city,  re- 
ceived by  mail  a  special  blessing  from  the  Pope. 
This  will  encourage  them  greatly  in  raising  money 
to  keep  up  the  agitation  in  Ireland.  Has  the  Pope 
anything  to  hope  from  the  success  of  the  Parnell 
movement? 


John  Bunyan  was  never,  perhaps,  in  Paris,  but 
he  might  have  borrowed  some  picture  of  that  city 
which  he  had  before  him  when  he  wrote  of  "Vanity 
Fair."  Through  all  her  vicissitudes  of  triumph, 
siege,  revolution,  mob,  massacre  and  famine,  that 
gay  city  still  gives  a  gay  world  its  fashions,  and  is 
never  satisfied  until  mankind  is  staring  at  some  new 
specimen  of  her  ingenuity  or  folly.  The  Masons 
of  France  awhile  since  confounded  the  order  in 
other  lands  by  audaciously  striking  out  the  name  of 
Deity  from  their  ritual.  Now  they  propose  (at  least 
the  scheme  is  worthy  the  order)  a  peculiar  exhibi- 
tion next  year.  They  are  to  open  a  new  Pantheon, 
but  it  will  be  a  Pandemonium.  It  will  be  an  exhi- 
bition of  all  religions  that  exist  or  have  existed  on 
the  globe.  Idols,  monuments,  sacred  books,  etc., 
etc.,  are  to  be  gathered  for  display — a  grand  fair  of 
devils  and  their  worship.  The  French  government 
pays  one-third  the  expenses  of  this  horrid  show.  If 
only  they  will  not  throw  a  Parisian  glamour  over 
the  show,  but  let  these  religions  be  seen  in  all  their 
reality  of  initiations,  bulls,  tortures,  inquisitorial 
dungeons  and  murders,  cannibalism,  Mormon  jug- 
glery, priestcraf  t  and  licentiousness,  the  world  might 
be  the  better  for  it.  It  does  men  good  to  see  the 
devil  as  he  is.  But  these  French  Masons  will  make 
him  look  like  an  angel  of  light,  even  as  their  lodges 
attempt  in  our  own  midst. 


THB  MORAL  AROUMBNT  FOR  PROHIBITIOB. 


In  connection  with  this  strange  conception  we 
find  it  quoted  in  an  exchange  that  France,  in  spite 
of  her  republicanism,  which  one  day  banishes  the 
^suit  lodge  and  next  day  repents  of  it,  is  becom- 
ing more  and  more  antagonistic  to  Christianity. 
Especially  in  the  matter  .of  education  strenuous  ef- 
forts are  made  by  the  authorities  to  exclude  the 
religious  element  entirely.  The  municipal  council 
of  Paris  recently  set  apart  12,000  francs  to  pay  a 
professor  of  "biological  philosophy,"  who  is  to 
demonstrate  to  the  scholars  that  man  cannot  have 
been  created  by  God.  Heretofore  religious  instruc- 
tion was  at  least  allowed  in  the  public  schools  of 
Paris,  although  parents  were  charged  twenty  francs 
extra  per  year  if  their  children  took  part  in  it. 
But  even  this  has  now  been  forbidden.  The  result 
of  the  whole  matter  is  that  parents  with  positive 
religious  conviction  are  taking  their  children  out  of 
the  public  schools  and  are  establishing  private 
schools,  and  this  is  the  very  game  of  the  priest. 
Poor  people,  grinding  between  the  millstones  of 
lodgery  and  popery! 


The  great  strike  of  the  engineers  and  firemen  on 
the  Chicago,  Burlington  and  Qaincy  road  opens  this 
week  as  far  from  settlement  as  at  first.  Every  day 
the  managers  of  .the  road  are  engaging  scores  of 
men,  and  by  Saturday  night  had  their  passenger 
trains  nearly  all  running  and  freight  had  begun  to 
move.  They  were  confident  that  the  road  would  be 
under  full  service  in  a  few  days  more.  Accidents 
were  to  have  been  expected  from  new  and  untried 
men,  but  few  have  occurred;  no  fatalities.  Mr. 
Arthur,  of  the  Engineer's  Brotherhood,  would  have 
compromised  and  ordered  his  men  back,  but  the 
company  refused  to  turn  off  the  new  men  to  whom 
they  had  given  pledges.  The  bitter  feeling  between 
the  Brotherhood  and  the  Knights  of  Labor  is  seen  in 
a  statement  drawn  up  by  G.  L.  Eastman,  "National 
Organizer"  of  the  Knights,  endorsed  by  the  Read- 
ing employes,  which  accuses  Arthur  of  perpetrating 
a  great  wrong  on  their  order,  and  states  by  author- 
ity that  the  Knights  have  adopted  the  law  of  retalia- 
tion. There  are  threatenings  from  the  New  York 
and  Minneapolis  engineers  that  the  whole  Brother- 
hood must  be  withdrawn  from  every  road  in  the 
country  if  necessary  to  carry  their  end.  They  see 
that  defeat  in  this  great  struggle  with  the  Burling- 
ton road  means  a  blow  to  their  order  from  which 
they  will  never  recover;  just  as  the  Wabash  strike 
two  years  ago  was  a  deadly  blow  for  the  Knights  of 
Labor.  If  they  are  rash  enough  to  defy  the  public 
and  stop  all  trafllj  by  railroad,  it  may  be  a  blessing 
by  rousing  the  nation  to  put  down  this  secretism  in 
the  trades.  Were  it  not  for  this  feature  of  their 
organization  defiance  and  unreasonableness  among 
men  and  employers  would  nearly  cease. 


BT  BIV.  E.  0.  W7LII. 

In  the  New  Princeton  Review  for  July,  1887,  is  an 
article  by  Sanford  H,  Cobb,  entitled  "The  Theory  of 
Prohibition."  The  main  purpose  of  the  article  is  to 
reprove  Prohibitionists  for  using  the  moral  argu- 
ment in  maintaining  their  position  with  reference  to 
the  liquor  traffic.  He  says  the  theme  naturally 
falls  into  two  parts;  civil  law  and  moral  precept 
His  position  is  that  these  two  aspects  are  logically 
quite  distinct  and  in  some  respects  antagonistio. 
They  have  little  or  nothing  in  common.  Law  and 
morals  have  nothing  to  do  with  each  other.  This 
distinction,  he  says,  is  continually  disregarded.  Oae 
rarely  hears  an  argument  for  prohibition  that  does 
not  draw  its  strongest  plea  from  moral  considera- 
tions. He  says,  "This  state  of  things  shows  a  most 
lamentable  confusion  of  ideas,  resulting  in  much  il- 
logical and  unchristian  argumentation." 

The  author  admits  the  possibility  of  maintaining 
the  principle  of  prohibition,  but  denies  the  pro- 
priety of  using  the  moral  argument.  "The  only 
justifying  ground  for  a  prohibitory  law,  if  found  at 
all,  must  be  found  in  the  principles,  not  of  morality, 
but  of  political  economy."  He  gives  five  reasons 
why  the  moral  argument  ought  not  be  used  in  favor 
of  a  prohibitory  law. 

1.  The  moral  argument  either  supposes  all  drinking, 
and  consequently  all  selling,  to  basinful,  and  should 
therefore  be  prohibited  by  statute,  or  the  abuse  of 
intoxicants  by  some  is  sinful,  and  therefore  they 
should  be  prohibited  to  all.  Ha  denies  that  all 
drinking  is  sinful,  and  maintains  that  to  deprive  all 
of  the  use  of  intoxicants  by  statute  because  soma 
abuse  them  is  a  violation  of  the  law  of  Christian 
liberty. 

2.  The  moral  argument  is  contrary  to  Christian 
morality.  Philosophy  teaches  that  you  cannot 
make  men  virtuous  by  compulsion,  and  Christian 
morality  says  you  ought  not  to  try,  and  that  you 
should  not  if  you  could. 

3.  The  use  of  the  moral  argument  is  a  confession 
of  failure  or  of  hopeless  weakness  on  the  part  of 
Christianity.  It  declares  that  spiritual  power  must 
be  supplemented  by  civil  law  in  order  to  redeem 
the  world. 

4.  It  shows  impatience.  Those  who  use  it  are  in 
too  great  haste  to  realize  the  reign  of  righteousness. 

5.  Its  advocates  do  not  go  far  enough.  If  the 
state  may  suppress  one  sin,  because  it  is  sin,  it  may 
suppress  all  other  sins  for  the  same  reason. 

I  will  not  attempt  to  take  up  these  arguments  in 
order,  but  will  simply  set  forth  the  moral  argument 
for  prohibition  as  I  understand  it  This  method 
will,  I  think,  enable  any  one  to  see  that  it  is  Mr. 
Cobb  and  not  Prohibitionists  who  are  illogical,  con- 
fused and  unchristian  in  argument 

1.  The  moral  argument  maintains  that  it  is  wrong 
to  license  any  evil.  It  is  maintained  that  the  sa- 
loon system  is  evil  and  only  evil,  and  that  con- 
tinually. It  has  not  one  redeeming  feature.  It 
breaks  every  precept  of  the  Decalogue.  It  sets  at 
defiance  statute  laws  designed  to  suppress  or  regu- 
late it  It  obeys  no  law  except  the  dictates  of  sel- 
fishness and  greed.  The  only  way  in  which  it  can 
be  kept  within  the  limits  of  law  is  to  allow  saloon- 
keepers to  dictate  the  law  themselves.  It  is  both  a 
moral  and  physical  evil.  It  is  morally  wrong  for 
the  state  to  license  evil.  Though  the  tratUj  were 
only  a  material  and  not  a  moral  evil,  it  would  be 
morally  wrong  for  the  state  to  license  it  This  is 
evident  from  the  nature  of  license.  It  has  been  de- 
cided by  high  legal  authority  that  license  implies 
the  right  to  control,  even  to  the  extent  of  suppress- 
ing entirely.  By  a  license  law  the  government  as- 
sumes responsibility  for  the  traffic.  So  loagasit 
keeps  in  the  bounds  of  the  law  it  enjoys  the  protec- 
tion of  the  government  The  first  step  in  the  moral 
argument  does  not  at  all  say,  as  Mr.  Cobb  main- 
tains it  does,  that  the  traffic  should  be  suppressed  be- 
cause it  is  sinful.  It  maintains  the  sinfulness  of 
the  traflic,  but  upon  this  fact  it  simply  builds  an  ar- 
gument against  license.  The  principle  involved  is 
that  we  are  not  to  be  partakers  with  other  men's 


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THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSITBE. 


March  8, 1888 


sins.  If  it  is  wrong  for  me  to  keep  a  saloon,  it  is 
wrong  for  me  to  be  a  partner  with  a  saloon-keeper 
in  that  business,  though  he  does  all  the  buying  and 
selling. 

But  the  government  does  much  more  than  this. 
It  throws  its  protection  around  the  saloon,  and  as 
far  as  in  its  power  lies,  makes  the  business  respect- 
able. Mr.  Cobb  makes  the  mistake  of  supposing 
that  Prohibitionists  never  open  their  mouths  ex- 
cept to  shout  "Prohibition."  He  thinks  they  in- 
tend every  argument  to  count  directly  in  favor  of  a 
prohibitory  law.  The  truth  is,  there  are  obstacles  in 
the  way  of  prohibition,  and  part  of  their  energy  is 
directed  against  them.  It  is  maintained  that  if  any 
business  is  in  itself  sinful,  this,  apart  from  all  other 
considerations,  is  a  reason  why  the  government 
should  protect  it. 

2.  The  moral  argument  declares  that  it  is  wrong 
to  make  money  or  derive  a  revenue  from  that  which 
is  evil.  An  effort  has  sometimes  been  made  to  jus- 
tify a  license  fee,  a  tax,  or  a  revenue  on  the  ground 
that  it  is  of  the  nature  of  a  fine.  But  a  fine  is 
levied  for  violating  law  after  the  deed  has  been 
committed.  But  the  license,  tax,  or  revenue  is  col- 
lected upon  a  business  carried  on  under  the  sanc- 
tions and  enjoying  the  protection  of  law.  The  gov- 
ernment becomes  a  partner  in  the  business  by  de- 
riving financial  profit  in  any  of  the  above-mentioned 
methods. 

3.  The  moral  argument  maintains  that  the  state 
should  suppress  the  traffic  in  intoxicating  drinks 
because  the  traffic  is  a  public  evil.  We  wish  the 
position  now  taken  to  be  clearly  understood.  We 
have  before  declared  the  traffic  to  be  a  moral  and 
physical  evil.  For  both  these  reasons  it  should  not 
be  licensed,  nor  should  the  state  derive  a  revenue 
from  it.  We  do  not  now  say  that  the  state  is 
bound  to  prohibit  the  traffic  because  it  is  in  itself 
sinful;  but  because  it  is  a  public  evil. 

If  a  thing  is  evil  in  itself,  we  have  a  reason  why 
the  state  should  not  pursue  such  a  course  as  to  be- 
come responsible  for  that  sin.  This  is  a  reason 
why  secret  associations  should  not  be  chartered,  but 
no  reason  for  suppressing  them.  The  reason  for 
this  is  because  they  are  an  evil  of  a  public  nature, 
They  are  a  continual  menace  to  the  rights  of  other 
people,  and  to  the  safety  of  the  state  itself.  The 
inherent  evil  of  the  liquor  traffic  is  all  the  reason 
we  need  for  opposing  license,  tax  and  revenue,  but 
no  reason  at  all. for  prohibition.  In  this  Mr.  Cobb 
is  right.  We  must  not  use  an  argument  for  pro- 
hibition which  proves  too  much.  If  the  saloon  may 
be  suppressed  because  of  the  general  fact  that  it 
has  inherent  evil  qualities,  everything  else  that  has 
inherent  evil  qualities  may  be  suppressed  for  the 
same  reason.  It  thus  would  become  the  duty  of  the 
state  to  suppress  all  moral  evil.  And  as  a  conse- 
quence it  should  demand  all  moral  good.  Mr.  Cobb 
does  well  to  oppose  this  position.  But  it  is  not  the 
position  taken  by  any  Prohibitionists,  so  far  as  their 
arguments  are  known  to  me.  But  Mr.  Cobb  opposes 
it  by  taking  another  position  equally  untenable.  If 
in  the  nations  of  Europe  in  a  past  age,  governments 
have  gone  too  far  in  suppressing  moral  evil  and  re- 
quiring moral  good,  and  thus  became  the  agents  of 
persecution,  many  now,  like  Mr.  Cobb,  go  to  the  op- 
posite extreme,  and  rule  out  all  moral  questions 
from  the  sphere  of  politics. 

Mr.  Cobb  admits  the  possibility  of  the  right  of  the 
state  to  prohibit  the  drink  traffic,  but  not  for  moral 
reasons.  "The  liquor  laws  have  not  been,  nor  could 
they  be  enacted  because  the  use  or  abuse  of  liquor 
is  immoral,  but  because  the  use  or  abuse  of  it  is  in- 
jurious to  society.  If  such  abuse  did  not  threaten 
the  public  peace  and  create  enormous  burdens  of 
taxation  for  the  support  of  courts,  prisons,  reforma- 
tories and  asylums;  if  it  were  not  the  fruitful 
mother  of  crimes;  if  the  immorality  of  this  abuse 
were  unattended  by  any  material,  physical  or  social 
ill-consequences,  to  the  jeopardizing  of  the  public 
good  there  would  be  no  ground  for  interference  by 
the  state." 

On  the  main  position  here  advocated,  namely  that 
the  state  may  suppress  the  traffic  in  intoxicants 
because  their  abuse  is  a  material  evil  to  the  public, 
we  will  all  agree  with  Mr.  Cobb.  But  he  certainly 
means  to  deny  that  the  state  may  suppress  what 
injuriously  affects  public  morals.  On  this  we  disa- 
gree with  him.  Many  of  our  Sabbath  laws, 
our  laws  against  blasphemy,  our  divorce  and  anti- 
polygamy  laws  are  directed  against  moral  evils. 
Not  because  they  are  sins  in  themselves,  but  be- 
cause they  affect  injuriously  the  morals  of  society. 
Material  and  moral  good  and  evil  are  so  closely 
connected  in  the  history  of  the  human  family  that 
it  is  impossible  to  put  them  asunder  in  the  argu- 
ment. It  is  folly  to  say  the  state  would  have  no 
right  to  interfere  with  a  moral  evil  if  no  material, 
physical  or  social  ill-consequences  resulted.     While 


God  sits  on  the  throne,  material  ill-consequences 
will  fall  upon  men  and  nations  as  a  judgment  for 
moral  evil.  The  individual  man  should  be  virtu- 
ous, both  because  it  is  right  and  to  escape  the 
threatened  judgment.  The  state  should  take  care  of 
public  morals  both  to  avoid  the  material  ill-conse- 
quences, and  because  it  is  right  to  do  so.  If  the 
state  may  suppress  an  evil  only  because  of  its  ma- 
terial, physical,  or  social  ill-consequences,  is  it  to 
wait  until  it  is  known  whether  such  consequences 
follow  before  the  act  of  suppression  is  resorted  to? 
If  so,  why  may  not  the  state  pursue  the  same  course 
with  the  social  evil,  gambling  and  all  other  forms 
of  vice?  Why  does  the  state  suppress  the  trade  in 
impure  literature  and  forbid  its  transmission 
through  the  mails?  Dire  consequences  of  a  mate- 
rial, physical  and  social  nature  no  doubt  follow  the 
circulation  of  this  kind  of  literature,  and  the  state 
is  not  foolish  enough  to  try  the  experiment  of  vio- 
lating the  law  of  purity  to  see  what  form  and  de- 
gree of  judgment  God  would  mete  out  to  it  before 
suppressing  it.  Does  the  state  suppress  in  this  case 
solely  because  of  the  material,  social  and  physical 
consequences  to  be  feared?  Or  has  it  a  regard  for 
the  moral  state  of  society?  I  maintain  that  the 
state  ought  to  protect  itself  from  harm,  both  mate- 
rial and  moral.  It  should  protect  its  citizens,  both 
from  material  and  moral  harm.  It  has  a  right  to 
crush  out  an  evil  whether  material  or  moral,  just  at 
the  point  where  it  affects  injuriously  the  rights,  ma- 
terial or  moral,  of  citizens  or  of  the  state  itself. 

4.  The  moral  argument  maintains  that  the  sup- 
pression of  the  liquor  traffic  is  a  service  the  state 
is  bound  to  render  the  cause  of  public  morals.  Mr. 
Cobb  says  that  the  principle  involved  in  prohibition 
is  adverse  to  the  spirit,  the  method,  and  the  aim  of 
Christian  morals.  While  Christian  morals  desire 
and  seek  the  reduction  of  vice  and  the  promotion 
of  virtue,  it  is  adverse  to  the  method  of  prohibition 
by  law.  "The  ideal  of  Christian  manhood  is  in 
spiritual  and  moral  power;  in  inward,  gracious 
strength,  not  external  safeguards;  in  the  self-con- 
trol of  manly  virtue;  not  in  continuous  pupilage  to 
superior  restrictive  negations;  in  the  victory  that 
overcometh  the  world,  not  the  safety  of  the  coward 
who  runs  away  from  the  battle."  ^ 

Along  with  some  things  which  are  true  in  th« 
quotation  there  is  more  that  is  utterly  wrong,  and 
the  argument  it  contains  is  utterly  fallacious.  Af- 
ter every  temptation  to  vice  is  removed  that  can  be 
removed,  there  is  still  opportunity  enough  left  to  de- 
velop "ideal  Christian  manhood,"  to  exercise  the 
"self-control  of  manly  virtue"  and  to  obtain  "the 
victory  over  the  world."  There  will  still  be  enough 
of  the  "world"  left  for  us  all  to  fight.  There  will 
still  be  altogether  too  much  of  it  for  some.  The  de- 
velopment of  virtue  does  not  demand  that  we  be  ex- 
posed to  such  an  overshadowing  curse  as  the  drink 
evil.  It  is  well  for  virtue  to  be  tried.  "My  breth- 
ren, count  it  all  joy  when  ye  fall  into  divers  tempta- 
tions." But  the  trouble  with  the  saloon  is  that  it 
takes  hold  of  the  young  and  tries  them  before  they 
have  any  virtue.  It  utterly  precludes  Christianity 
from  any  fair  opportunity  to  develop  Christian 
manhood.  Prohibition  would  restore  to  the  church 
the  chance  of  which  the  saloon  has  robbed  her. 
Mr.  Cobb  is  utterly  mistaken  in  saying  that  this  is 
opposed  to  the  spirit  of  Christian  morals.  Is  Chris- 
tianity antagonistic  to  the  idea,  the  ends  and  methods 
of  civil  government?  If  Mr.  Cobb  is  right,  it  is. 
But  this  is  an  utter  misapprehension  of  the  origin 
and  idea  of  government  and  the  spirit  of  Chris- 
tianity. The  church  and  the  state  are  of  the  same 
divine  origin.  They  occupy  different  spheres  and 
employ  different  methods.  But  there  is  no  sort  of 
antagonism  between  them.  The  church  may  say, 
"I  employ  no  force.  My  weapons  are  spiritual,  but 
the  state  may  use  force,  and  I  instruct  my  members, 
as  civil  officers,  to  employ  the  arm  of  law  to  sup- 
press evils  that  injuriously  affect  the  public.  I  even 
require  that  the  state,  instead  of  putting  barriers  in 
my  way  in  licensing  and  protecting  evil,  give  me  as 
clear  a  field  as  possible?" 

Suppose  we  admit  that  the  duty  of  removing  vice 
devolves  exclusively  upon  the  church.  Must  the 
state  make  this  task  as  hard  as  possible  by  shield- 
ing and  upholding  vice  and  making  it  respectable? 
May  this  be  done  on  the  plea  that  the  result  will  be 
a  higher  type  of  "Christian  manhood?"  Can  we  ex- 
cuse such  a  course  by  saying  that  though  fewer  will 
be  virtuous,  they  will  have  a  more  "manly  virtue" 
because  of  gaining  the  victory  over  a  more  terrible 
foe?     This  is  what  Mr.  Cobb's  argument  implies. 

In  opposition  to  all  this  it  is  enough  to  say  that 
while  the  methods  of  the  state  are  not  the  same  as 
those  of  the  church  they  are  not  unchristian  or  anti- 
Christian.  In  fact,  the  state  exists  in  the  provi- 
dence of  God  as  a  servant  of  Christian  morality. 
The  nation   and  kingdom   that  will  not  serve  the 


church  is  threatened  with  ruin.  Instead  of  Chris- 
tian morality  being  in  antagonism  to  the  principle 
of  prohibition,  it  really  demands  it.  It  demands  as 
clear  a  field  for  the  putting  forth  of  its  power  as 
possible.  True,  it  can  do  wonders  in  the  midst  of 
difficulties,  but  the  difficulties  are  not  desirable,  they 
act  as  a  hindrance.  God  has  ordained  the  state  to 
be  the  right  arm  of  power  in  the  work  of  subduing 
the  world  to  his  Son.  "The  powers  that  be  are 
ordained  of  God.  Rulers  are  not  a  terror  to  good 
works  but  to  the  evil.  If  thou  do  that  which  is  evil, 
be  afraid,  for  he  beareth  not  the  sword  in  vain?" 

5.  Finally,  the  moral  argument  requires  that  the 
law  of  God  be  taken  as  the  standard  of  legislation 
on  all  moral  issues  that  arise  in  the  political  sphere. 
We  have  heard  it  until  our  ears  are  weary  of  the 
sound,  that  expediency  is  the  rule  to  be  followed  by 
the  state.  Now  it  is  true  that  the  rule  of  expediency 
has  much  to  do  in  the  political  sphere,  but  when  ex- 
pediency is  set  over  against  the  moral  law  and  the 
state  required  to  choose,  we  say  let  expediency  be 
thrown  to  the  dogs.- 

Webster  defines  expediency  as  "fitness  or  suita- 
bleness to  effect  a  purpose  intended,  desirableness, 
advantage."  As  a  secondary  meaning  he  gives 
the  "quality  of  aiming  at  selfish  or  inferior 
good  at  the  expense  of  that  which  is  higher;  self- 
interest,  self-seeking,  often  opposed  to  moral  recti- 
tude." In  which  of  these  senses  is  it  the  rule  of 
action  for  the  state?  If  in  the  second,  we  must  re- 
pudiate the  position  entirely.  If  in  the  first,  the 
moral  law  is  still  to  be  the  standard  of  legislation 
on  moral  Issues.  I  appr^end  that  what  is  meant 
by  the  advocates  of  expediency  is,  that  the  state  is  to 
be  guided  by  what  will  conduce  to  the  well-being  of 
the  state.  It  is  to  legislate  not  with  a  view  to  what  is 
right  or  wrong,but  with  a  view  to  what  will  be  for  the 
public  good.  I  think  there  is  much  confusion  here 
in  the  minds  of  many.  As  we  have  already 
shown,  the  moral  law  does  not  determine  what 
subjects  are  proper  for  legislation.  Some  questions 
of  morals  are  not  in  the  political  sphere.  If  the 
moral  law  were  the  guide,  therefore,  in  deter- 
mining the  sphere]  of  legislation,  nothing  in  the 
whole  field  of  morals  would  be  excluded.  Expe- 
diency in  the  best  sense  is  to  determine  what  the 
sphere  of  legislation  is.  It  may  also  determine  the 
form  of  the  legislation  on  questions  of  an  economic 
character. 

But  suppose  expediency  decides  that  we  must 
have  legislation  on  a  moral  question.  May  we  then 
oppose  expediency  to  the  moral  law,  and  lay  the 
latter  aside?  Mr.  Cobb  and  many  others  will  say 
that  every  such  question  has  a  material  as  well  as  a 
moral  side,  and  only  the  material  side  comes  into 
politics.  Let  us  see.  The  state  makes  law  on  the 
divorce  question.  Christ  made  a  law  on  the 
same  question  "Every  one  that  putteth  away 
his  wife,  saving  for  the  cause  of  fornication,  maketh 
her  an  adulteress."  When  the  state  becomes  a 
party  to  the  separation  of  husband  and  wife  for 
other  reasons,  is  there  no  violation  of  this  law?  No 
theory  of  government  can  practically  banish  morals 
from  the  political  sphere.  Though  expediency  may 
determine  when  a  moral  issue  is  in  politics,  when  it 
is  once  in,  the  moral  law  is  to  be  the  standard  of 
legislation. 

Applying  this  reasoning  to  the  liquor  traffic,  it  be- 
comes evident  that  expediency  in  the  best  sense  is 
to  determine  when  we  need  law  on  the  liquor  traffic, 
but  it  cannot  determine  fully  the  kind  of  law.  The 
moral  law  comes  in  and  forbids  any  infraction  of 
its  precepts  in  the  name  of  expediency.  It  there- 
fore forbids  license,  high  or  low,  tax,  revenue  or 
any  other  device  by  which  the  public  treasuries  are 
filled  with  the  price  of  blood,  and  schools  of  crime 
protected  by  law  and  barriers  placed  in  the  way  of 
the  church.  Let  Prohibitionists  use  the  moral  ar- 
gument for  all  it  is  worth.  It  is  the  only  argument 
that  will  reach  the  conscience.  And  what  we  need 
in  politics  is  conscience.  It  is  the  only  effective 
weapon  against  high  license.  And  the  means 
which  Satan  is  now  using  most  effectively  to  deceive 
the  nation  is  high  license. 

Ray,  Ind. 

Concerning  communion  wine,  we  commend  the 
following  to  the  learned  brethren  who  insist  upon 
the  fermented  article  as  necessary  to  the  perfection 
of  the  service.  Dr.  Ellis,  of  this  city,  says  that 
while  in  Egypt  he  "visited  the  American  missiona- 
ries at  Cairo,  and  was  told  by  them  that  when  they 
told  the  Copts,  who  are  the  descendants  of  the  early 
Christians  of  Egypt,  that  the  Western  churches  were 
in  the  habit  of  using  fermented,  or  'shop-wine,'  as 
the  Copts  called  it,  as  a  communion- wine,  'they  were 
horrified  at  the  idea.'  One  of  the  missionaries  said 
that  the  wine  used  by  the  societies  under  their  charge 
was  prepared  by  the  Copts,  who  were  members,  by 


Maboh  8,  1888 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


soaking  raisins  in  water  and  pressing  the  juice  from 
them.  The  day  cannot  be  far  distant  when  the 
members  of  the  Christian  churches  of  our  land  will 
be  as  much  horrified  at  the  idea  of  using  an  intc^i- 
eating  wine  at  the  most  Holy  Supper  as  are  the  poor, 
isolated,  down-trodden  remnants  of  the  early  Chris- 
tian church  in  Egypt. — Baptist  Weekly. 


TANQLBD  TALK. 


It  is  now  a  number  of  years  since  I  first  recog- 
nized that  "secret  societies  are  a  powerful  factor  in 
social,  political,  and  sometimes,  I  am  afraid,  in  relig- 
ious life." 

It  was  on  this  wise:  A  cousin,  a  fine,  manly,  but 
,  Christless  man,  pursuing  a  lucrative  profession, 
urged  me  to  become  a  Freemason.  The  Word  of 
God  is  the  young  man's  guide  (Ps.  119:  9).  That 
saved  me.  At  once,  certain  of  the  divine  princi- 
ples which  had  been  lying  more  or  less  dormant,  be- 
came aroused — yea,  more,  combatative.  As  they 
slowly  cooled  and  crystalized,  they  took  the  form  of 
many  other  crystals,  hecagonal. 

1.  ^^For  Christ's  sake,"  "doing  all  to  the  glory  of 
God,"  is  the  motto  of  every  trvs  Christ  child.  Could  I 
serve  my  Master  more  efficiently  by  becoming  a 
Mason?  iThe  lodge  met  in  a  saloon  ("The  Black 
Ball").  Many  of  its  representative  men  were  inimi- 
cal to  piety,  and  patrons  of  the  dram-shop.  Thus  I 
concluded  that  I  could  not  help  Christ's  cause  amid 
such  environment. 

2.  /Separation.  "Wherefore  come  out  from  among 
them,  and  be  ye  separate."  This  would  have  truly 
been,  and  I  know  was  a  mixed  multitude.  So  I 
turned  to  Nehemiah  13:  3.  That  settled  it.  0! 
what  unholy  alliances  exist  to-day,  which  even  have 
a  moral  and  elevating  aim,  but  because  of  their 
Christie  and  Satanic  elements,  lack  cohesion,  and 
are  but  ropes  of  sand.  Do  not  evil  that  good  may 
come.  O !  that  Christians  would  work  only  on  the 
lines  laid  down  in  the  Word. 

3.  Christless.  "Whatsoever  is  not  of  faith  is  of 
sin."  No  faith,  because  no  Christ  for  faith  to  trust  in. 
I  say  no  faith,  advisedly.  I  know  that  the  great 
lesson  of  all  secret  societies,  and  of  Masonry  in  par- 
ticular, is  faith — BJT  FAITH  IN  MAN.  A  mistaken 
faith  is  often  worse  than  none  at  all. 

4.  tSecret.  The  real,  best  and  most  valuable  se- 
cret, the  Lord's,  is  for  the  true  man.  "The  secret  of 
the  Lord  is  with  them  that  fear  him."  In  fact,  it  is  an 
open  secret.  But  just  here  is  the  foolishness  of 
the  secret  society  devotee.  He  keeps  his  valuable 
knowledge  to  himself.  My  friend,  if  these  secrets 
be  as  valuable  as  you  think  they  are,  be  a  true  phi- 
lanthropist, be  really  benevolent  and  enrich  the 
world  with  them.  We  cry  in  vain,  but  console  our- 
selves.    "The  world  by  its  wisdom  knew  not  God." 

5.  Fraudulent.  Benevolence  is  the  great  object  of 
secret  societies.  Benevolence  and  morality — twin 
angels — the  highest  attributes  of  Deity,  and  the  es- 
pecial characteristics  of  the  secret  orders  I  AvauntI 
How  wicked !  The  very  portions  of  humanity  which 
need  these  blessings  are  denied  them  by  Freema- 
sonry. Come  in,  thou  poor,  sightless  one,  thou  who 
hast  never  seen  the  light.  Thou  askest  bread. 
They  give  thee  a  stone.  Come  in,  thou  poverty  strick- 
en. Dust  thou  ask  a  fish?  Lo,  here  is  a  serpent.  Come 
in,  thou  Ethiopian.  Thou  desirest  an  egg.  Behold, 
a  scorpion!  Where  are  the  ameliorating  agencies 
of  Freemasonry?  Echo  answers.  Where? 

6.  Blasphemous.  They  usurp  the  throne  of  religion. 
The  devil  is  an  angel  of  light.  Anti-Christ  is  veiled 
as  Jesus. 

Sometime  ago  I  received  a  letter  from  two  men 
personally  known  by  me  as  two  of  the  profanest  of 
a  fearfully  profane  town.  They  were  tDe  chaplains 
of  two  respective  secret  organizations.  They  asked 
me  to  conduct  a  united  religious  service  over  a  num- 
ber of  bodies  which  had  been  suddenly  quieted  by 
the  after-damp  of  a  colliery  explosion.  Of  course 
I  declined.  I  saw  them  at  the  grave-yard.  They 
were  quarreling  profanely  for  priority.  Yet  shortly 
afterward  they  dared  impiously  to  turn  their  faces 
God-ward  and  address  Ilim  who  is  of  too  pure  eyes  to 
behold  iniquity.  Their  service  (burial)  makes  every 
member  of  the  order  a  Christian;  asks  that  God 
may  give  grace  to  follow  the  departed  to  the  realms 
of  light!  Only  one  of  those  dead  was  known  to  be 
friendly  to  Christ.  One  who  had  been  an  influen- 
tial member  of  a  lodge,  now  a  corpse,  had  publicly 
wished  me  and  all  Christians  in  bell  but  two  days 
before,  and  1  was  requested  to  unite  with  those  chap- 
lains in  seeking  grace  to  follow  the  man  to  the 
realms  of  light?  or  the  shades  of  Gehenna?  Oh, 
what  a  patient  God  is  ours!  I  feel  jealous  for  him 
with  a  great  jealousy.  But  I  must  leave  off  and 
ask  you,  good  readers,  at  some  other  time  to  listen 
to  "Obion." 

Lehigh,  Indiana  lerritory. 


THE  I^ATIONAL  COE VEISTTION. 


TEE  DBBATB  OF  TUB8DAT,  FEB.  21. 


BEPOBTES  BT  THE  8ECBETABY,  BEV.  A,  W.  FABRY. 


The  hour  appointed  for  the  discussion  of  the  ques- 
tion, "Resolved,  that  Freemasonry  is  not  an  anti- 
Christian  institution,"  having  arrived,  by  request  of 
president  Milligan,  Rev.  L.  N.  Stratton  took  the 
chair.  After  the  agreement  had  been  read,  C.  F. 
Ladd,  "Grand  Master,"  arose  and  said:  "As  I  un- 
derstand it,  in  this  discussion  no  reference  is  to  be 
made  to  the  inner  workings  of  the  order,  nor  are  any 
of  the  secrets  to  be  revealed." 

J.  P.  Stoddard  replied:  "I  do  not  so  understand 
it.  The  fraternity  are  at  liberty  to  pursue  what 
course  they  please;  we  do  not  require  them  to  tell 
any  of  their  secrets.  We  ought  to  have  the 
privilege  of  pursuing  what  course  loe  please  in  our 
discussion  of  this  question." 

Mr.  Ladd  assented  to  this,  and  the  time  of  each 
speaker  was  limited  to  thirty  minutes. 

Rev.  Marcus  Dale,  an  M.  E.  pastor  in  the  city, 
was  called  on  to  open  the  debate.  He  requested 
that  the  proposition  to  be  discussed  should  be  put 
in  the  positive  form,so  that  he  might  know  the  argu- 
ments aganist  the  lodge;  it  might  result  in  his  conver- 
sion. He  was  not  present  to  antagonize  merely,  he 
desired  to  know  the  truth.  This  suggestion  was 
readily  assented  to,  and  Rev.  J.  S.  T.  Milligan 
opened  the  debate. 

He  said  that  Freemasonry  was  not  designed  to  be 
a  Christian  institution.  It  was  not  conducted  in  the 
name  or  spirit  of  Christ.  The  spirit  of  Christian- 
ity is  expressed  in  the  following  Scriptures:  "Come 
out  from  among  them  and  be  separate."  "Whatso- 
ever ye  do,  whether  in  word  or  deed,  do  all  in  the 
name  of  the  Lord  Jesus."  "Go  ye  into  the  streets 
and  lanes  of  the  city,  and  bring  in  hither  the  poor, 
and  the  maimed,  and  the  halt,  and  the  blind." 
"Swear  not  at  all."  "In  secret  have  I  said  nothing." 
"Let  your  light  so  shine  before  men  that  they,  see- 
ing your  good  works,  may  glorify  your  ,Father  which 
is  in  heaven."  Freemasonry  is  opposed  to  these  Di- 
vine principles.  It  is  a  fraternity  of  ministers,  sa- 
loon keepers,  assassins,  Jews  and  Mohammedans. 
It  rejects  the  mediation  of  Jesus  Christ,  the  source 
of  all  authority  and  power.  It  is  unmasonic  to  use 
that  name, which  is  above  every  name,  in  the  prayers 
and  ritual  of  the  order.  It  excludes  the  halt,  the 
blind,  and  every  one  who  has  a  physical  defect.  It 
is  a  system  that  requires  all  initiated  into  it  to  swear 
that  they  "will  always  conceal  and  never  reveal," 
and  binds  the  obligation  with  horrid  and  brutal 
oaths;  and  while  it  claims  to  be  a  true  handmaid  to 
religion,  still  hides  its  light  under  a  bushel,  and  be- 
hind closed  doors. 

Rev.  Marcus  Dale  was  then  called,  and  opened  the 
debate  for  the  fraternity.  He  said:  I  have  not  been 
here  before  to  listen  to  the  brethren  in  their  discussion 
of  this  question.  I  desired  to  have  the  subject  opened 
by  the  other  side,  thinking  perhpas  that  I  might  be 
convinced.  But  I  am  not  yet  converted,  and  I  am 
as  fully  persuaded  as  I  was  when  I  came  here  that 
Freemasonry  is  not  anti-Christian  in  its  character. 
The  speaker  just  now  said  that  the  name  of  Jesus 
Christ  was  eliminated  from  the  prayers  of  our  order. 
There  are  degrees  that  are  founded  upon  the  cruci- 
fixion of  Christ;  no  Jew  or  unbeliever  in  the  Chris- 
tian religion  can  enter  those  degrees.  No,  sir,  it  is 
not  true  that  the  order  rejects  Jesus  Christ.  All 
men  \vho  join  come  of  their  own  free  will,  their 
right  of  private  judgment  is  not  interfered  with.  I 
can  prove  from  the  Bible  that  there  is  nothing  wrong 
in  secrecy.  Solomon  says:  "A  talebearer  revealeth 
secrets,  but  he  that  is  of  a  faithful  spirit  conceal- 
eth  the  matter."  "A  prudent  man  concealeth  knowl- 
edge; but  the  heart  of  fools  proclaimeth  foolishness." 
Your  president  said  that  the  order  had  oaths;  I  say 
that  the  best  men  that  ever  lived  took  oaths.  Abram, 
the  father  of  the  faithful,  said  to  his  eldest  servant, 
"Swear  by  the  Lord  God  of  heaven  that  thou  shalt 
not  take  a  wife  unto  my  son  of  the  daughters  of 
the  Canaanites  among  whom  I  dwell."  Solomon 
said  in  his  prayer  at  the  dedication  of  the 
temple,  "If  any  man  tresspass  against  his 
neighbor,  and  an  oath  be  laid  upon  him  to  cause 
him  to  swear,"  etc.  Moses  says  if  a  neighbor  loses 
an  ox  "take  an  oath."  Ezekiel  says,  "Go  tell  them 
as  I  live,  saith  the  Lord."  This  was  an  oath.  God 
does  not  want  us  to  take  false  oaths.  Much  has 
been  said  about  coming  out  from  among  them  and 
being  separate.  Jesus  Christ  came  among  sinners. 
He  never  could  have  saved  them  if  he  had  not  done 
so.  The  mission  of  the  church  is  to  save  sinners. 
Suppose  we  come  out,  where  would  the  poor  sinners 
be?     We  must  get  close  to  the  sinners  if  we  would 


save  them.  We  must  put  the  leaven  in  the  meal. 
This  institution  of  Freemasonry  is  very  ancient, 
and  began  in  erecting  magnificent  fabrics  and  edifi- 
ces. It  teaches  that  God  is  the  Creator  of  all  men 
and  things.     A  Mason  can  never  be  atheistical. 

During  this  address  the  friends  of  the  lodge  ap- 
plauded frequently,  and  thought  that  the  argument 
produced  was  unanswerable.  They  were,  however, 
surprised  when  J.  F.  Browne,  principal  of  Howe  In- 
stitute, New  Iberia,  followed,  and  in  a  cx)l  and  em- 
phatic manner  showed  up  the  fallacies  of  the  last 
speaker's  position. 

He  said:  Freemasonry  professes  to  make  men 
good.  Mr.  Dale  admits  that  bad  men  belong  to  it; 
it  is,  therefore,  a  failure.  I  propose  to  prove  from 
Masonic  authorities  that  the  name  of  Christ  is  left 
out  because  it  is  un-Masonic  to  use  it.  Christ  is 
not  left  out  of  anything  where  he  is  put  in.  He 
then  quoted  from  Webb's  and  Sickle's  monitors  and 
Mackey's  Ritualist  to  show  that  in  1  Peter  2:3,  4, 
5,  6,  and  2  Thess.  3:  6,  12,  the  omission  was  an  in- 
tentional one.  As  to  there  being  degrees  wibere 
the  name  of  Christ  is  permitted,  1  acknowledge  it 
This  is  in  what  is  known  as  the  Knight  Templar  de- 
grees. The  highest  Masonic  authorities  (here  he 
read  from  them)  claim  that  the  Knights  and  the 
chapter  degrees  are  not  a  part  of  Masonry.  The 
use  they  make  of  the  crucifixion  scene  is  merely  a 
drama,  a  mimic  theater,  a  sacrilegious  performance. 
A  man  has  to  take  a  number  of  degrees  from  which 
Christ  is  excluded,  before  he  reaches  Knight  Tem- 
plarism.  Dr.  Pierson  says  in  his  "Traditions,"  page 
30,  "If  we  would  be  Masons  we  must  yield  private 
judgment."  When  a  candidate  approaches  the  door 
of  the  lodge  room,  with  a  hoodwink  over  his  eyes, 
a  cable-tow  around  his  neck  or  his  body,  and  in  a 
half -clad  condition,  he  does  surrender  his  right  to 
private  judgment.  It  was  said  by  Rev.  Mr.  Dale 
that  it  was  necessary  that  a  tyler  stand  at  the  door 
to  keep  out  improper  characters.  But,  brethren, 
the  same  tyler  stands  there  to  keep  out  the  D.  D. 
and  the  good  Baptist  deacon,  as  well  as  the  libertine. 
There  is  no  discrimination. 

Rev.  Marcus  Dale  came  forward  to  speak  again, 
as  Rsv.  Mr.  Hurley,  who  was  expected,  was  not 
present 

He  said:  This  rejection  of  Jesus  Christ  is  an  im- 
portant point.  Now  we  all  know  that  in  Eoglish 
grammar  we  have  what  we  call  ellipsis.  Prolong  it 
a  little  and  you  get  the  preposition  and  the  noun. 
Now  if  the  name  of  Christ  is  omitted  it  is  merely 
an  ellipsis.  The  landmarks  of  Freemasonry  point  to 
Christ 

This  statement  caused  considerable  merriment 
among  the  brethren  of  the  convention,  and  even  the 
speaker  laughed,  and  evidently  did  not  believe  his 
own  statement. 

He  said  further:  A  man  cannot  accept  of  God  with- 
out accepting  of  Jesus  Christ  Adam,  Sath,  Noah, 
and  Abram  were  all  Masons.  Seth  erected  two  pil- 
lars, and  engraved  upon  them  the  truths  contained 
in  Masonry. 

Here  the  speaker  seemed  to  be  at  a  loss  for  some- 
thing to  say,  and  closed  with  a  flowery  tribute  to  the 
institution;  telling  us  that  it  would,  like  "Moses's 
bush,  be  unconsumed  in  fire;"  and  notwithstanding 
the  hatred  of  men  would  survive  the  "wreck  of  mat- 
ter and  the  crash  ot  worlds."  Mr.  Dale  occu- 
pied but  fifteen  minutes  of  the  time  allotted  to  him, 
and  sat  down  amid  the  cheers  of  the  fraternity. 
.  The  third  speaker  for  the  affirmative  was  Elder 
R.  N.  Countee  of  Memphis,  a  seceding  Mason.  He 
said:  The  cause  you  are  trying  to  defend  must  be 
a  glorious  one,  when  vou  can  find  only  one  man  to 
speak  in  its  behalf.  You  claim  to  be  defending  se- 
crets. These  secrets  have  been  exposed  sinoi  Mor- 
gan's time,  a  space  of  sixty -seven  years.  I  think 
in  the  defence  of  secrets  you  are  too  late.  The  se- 
crets of  all  these  orders  are  dead  horses.  These 
orders  are  every  one  of  them  swindling  institutions. 
They  tend  to  deception.  You  can  buy  at  the  door 
books,  sold  by  this  Association,  for  seventy-five 
cents  which  contain  all  that  I  or  you  ever  got  for 
twenty  dollars.  Now  the  lotlge  cheated  me,  and  it 
cheats  everyone  of  you,  out  of  nineteen  dollars  and 
twenty-five  cents.  We,  as  a  race,  have  emerged  from 
one  slavery  to  another.  The  former  was  nothing  com- 
pared with  this  tyranny.  We  are  here  to  discuss 
principles,  not  men;  to  give  a  post  morttvi  examina- 
tion of  the  system.  We  are  here  to  frown  down 
these  anti-Christian  institutions.  Freemasonry  is  a 
religion;  it  has  its  altar, worship,  priests,  and  prayers. 
Often  a  horse  jockey  is  the  Most  Worshipful  Mas- 
ter. A  gambler  often  says  prayers.  An  unclean 
and  ungodly  man  is  sometimes  the  bearer  of  the 
Bible  in  the  public  processions.  I  ask,  is  this  the 
religion  of  Jesus  Christ,  who  was  holy  and  separate 
from  sinners?     No;  this  is  a  false  religion. 

These  scathing  statements  produced  a  stir  in  the 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


Mabch  8, 1888 


files  of  the  brotherhood,  which  caused  some  noise 
and  clamor  for  a  little  time.  Grand  Master  C.  F. 
Ladd  and  Rev.  Marcus  I>ale  arose  and  requested  the 
members  of  their  order  to  be  quiet  and  listen  pa- 
tiently to  the  speaker  on  the  floor.  This  was  very 
commendable  in  these  gentlemen.  Had  it  not  been 
for  their  timely  advice  and  the  firmness  of  President 
Stratton,  we  should  have  had  a  Masonic  uproar. 
When  the  turmoil  had  ceased  Bro.  Countee  pro- 
ceeded. 

C  He  said :  There  are  but  few  of  our  colored  men 
that  know  what  Freemasonry  is.  The  brethren  of 
the  fraternity  have  violated  their  obligation  in  invit- 
ing and  participating  in  this  discussion. 
^  At  this  point  in  the  address  some  persons  present 
undertook  to  stop  the  speaker,  who,  thinking  it  best 
to  desist  from  further  remarks,  after  expressing  his 
good  will  for  those  present,  took  his  seat. 

Mr.  C.  F.  Ladd  was  the  next  speaker  for  the  lodge. 
He  said:  I  am  very  sorry  that  the  little  unpleasant- 
ness has  occurred.  It  is  unfortunate  that  the  Asso- 
ciation put  Bro.  Countee  up  to  debate  this  question. 
I  expected  the  brethren  would  not  listen  to  him. 
Bro.  Countee  is  right  when  he  said  that  if  our  first 
lesson  had  been  heeded  we  would  have  kept  away 
from  this  discussion.  It  is  un-Masonic  to  speak  or 
debate  this  question.  On  entering  a  lodge  a  man 
has  to  recognize  a  supreme  being.  We  receive  in 
our  lodges  in  this  State  no  one  who  is  a  liar,  thief, 
or  gambler.  It  seems  to  me  that  if  such  was  the 
complexion  of  the  lodges  in  Tennessee,  Bro.  Coun 
tee,  after  having  had  the  otBces  so  long,  should  have 
brought  it  up  on  a  higher  plane.  We  are  a  hand- 
maid of  Christianity.  Masonry  was  established 
long  before  Christ,  hence  cannot  recognize  him. 
We  claim  to  be  a  society,  not  a  religion.  This  sys- 
tem prepares  men  for  the  world  to  come.  There  are 
seven  degrees  in  Masonry,  and  no  Jew  can  become 
a  Knight  If  Masonry  were  not  a  handmaid  of  re- 
ligion, it  would  have  been  destroyed  long  ago.  We 
purpose,  in  our  ceremonies,  to  bring  men  from 
darkness  to  light,  and  to  free  them  from  sin. 

Mr.  Ladd  here  called  on  Col.  Lewis,  a  hotel-keep- 
er, to  finish  for  the  defence. 

Mr.  Lewis  said:  I  think  the  Masons  have  made  a 
good  defence,  and  one  which  no  one  can  overthrow. 
We  have  our  opinions,  and  I  presume  we  will  ad- 
here to  them.  I  am  surprised  that,  with  the  ability 
these  men  manifest,  they  did  not  discuss  this  ques- 
tion with  men  of  the  white  race.  We  have  these 
shows  coming  and  going.  Here  we  have  a  show  of 
cheap  literature.  In  all  these  cheap  shows  they 
must  have  some  actor.  Mr.  Countee  seems  to  be 
the  clown  and  the  actor  for  this  show.  Mr.  Coun- 
tee's  record  is  known  by  us,  and  we  could  read  it  to 
you  if  it  was  necessary.  If  it  was  not  for  these  se- 
cret organizations,  we  could  not  look  after  our  poor, 
nor  bury  our  dead.  Oar  organizations  ameliorate 
and  allay  the  unfortunate  and  sad  conditions  we  find 
in  society.  One  of  the  objections  raised  here  was 
that  the  name  of  Christ  is  not  mentioned.  We  don't 
find  the  name  of  Christ  in  the  Lord's  prayer.  Such 
an  objection  is  too  silly  for  me  to  speak  of.  If  this 
Association  wishes  to  sell  cheap  literature,  you  are 
on  the  right  track.    Keep  at  it. 

Kev.  J.  S.  T.  Milligan  spoke  again  for  the  affirma- 
tive. 

He  said:  We  have  had  here  today  a  specimen  of 
the  order  observed  in  the  lodge.  Christ  is  "Ottr 
Father  which  is  in  heaven."  Isaiah  said  of  him, 
that  he  should  be  called  "The  Everlasting  Father." 
The  peculiar  characteristic  of  early  Christians  was 
that  they  offered  prayers  to  Christ.  Every  dollar 
invested  in  massive  Masonic  temples,  paraphernalia, 
and  lodge  dues  drains  from  the  funds  of  the  church. 
If  Freemasonry  is  a  handmaid  to  Christianity  it 
should  put  itself  in  subordination  to  Christ,  who 
has  the  "government  upon  his  shoulders."  The 
facts  are  that  it  teaches  salvation  by  obedience  to 
Masonic  law  instead  of  faith  in  Christ.  Where  are 
these  two  pillars  to  which  refereccs  has  been  made 
by  the  opposition?  Who  has  got  them?  What  we 
want  is  "lively  stones,"  built  up  in  a  spiritual  house. 
The  Jews  were  before  Christ.  He  came  to  them  and 
they  rejected  him.  They  did  it  to  their  own  injury. 
Freemasonry  purposely  rejects  the  Son  of  God,  as 
shown  by  the  highest  Masonic  authorities.  We  be- 
lieve in  judicial  oaths,  and  all  of  the  oaths  referred 
to  in  the  Bible  are  judicial.  They  are  in  the  name 
of  the  Deity.  The  oath  of  Moses  had  reference  to 
civil  jurisprudence,  not  to  "always  conceal  and  never 
reveal."  We  object  to  the  character  of  Masonic 
oaths.  They  are  extra  judicial.  No  one  has  aright 
to  administer  an  oath  but  the  civil  magistrate,  the 
power  ordained  of  God.  These  oaths  have  append- 
ed to  them  the  most  fearful  penalties,  to  be  inflicted 
on  those  who  violate  their  vows.  In  the  fifth  liba- 
tion the  candidate  drinks  wine  out  of  a  human  skull, 
and  in  connection  with  it  drinks  to  himself  double 


damnation.  The  Christian  religion  is  not  propa- 
gated by  the  sword.  The  Knight  Templars  swear 
to  defend  it  with  such  an  instrument.  How  con- 
trary to  the  teachings  of  the  Prince  of  Peace. 

At  the  conclusion  of  Bro.  Milligan's  address  Mr. 
Ladd  arose  and  stated  that  the  agreement  had  been 
met,  and  so  far  as  the  fraternity  was  con  earned  the 
debate  was  ended.  Some  of  their  number  retired 
from  the  room,  but  most  of  them  remained  to  hear 
Prof.  J.  F.  Browne  make  the  closing  speech  for  the 
affirmative.  This  address  was  a  very  able  one,  and 
consisted  of  quotations  from  the  most  reliable  Ma- 
sonic authorities,  answering  every  objection  raised 
by  the  champions  of  the  fraternity.  Bro.  Browne 
has  wonderful  power  as  a  debatef,  and  when  he 
strikes  he  hits  hard.  This  speech  settled  the  ques- 
tion with  several  who  up  to  this  time  had  been  un- 
convinced. 

The  Ecane  that  followed  will  never  be  forgotten. 
It  was  two  o'clock,  and  most  of  us  were  tired  and 
hungry;  but  one  after  another  testified,  so  that  we 
did  not  adjourn  until  five  o'clock  p.  m.  It  is  impos- 
sible to  report  all  the  testimonies  that  were  given  in 
defence  of  the  truth.    I  note  only  a  few. 

Rev.  M.  C.  B.  Mason,  pastor  of  Mallalieu  M.  E. 
chapel,  stepping  up  to  Bro.  Countee  and  grasping 
his  hand,  said:  Dear  brother,  the  sympathy  of  all 
God-fearing  people  is  with  you.  I  want  to  share 
with  you  in  your  persecution.  I  have  been  a  Ma- 
son, but  never  knew  until  today  that  it  was  un-Ma- 
sonic to  use  the  name  of  Christ  in  the  lodge.  I  am 
out,  never  to  return.  There  are  yet  7,000  people  who 
have  not  bowed  the  knee  to  Baal. 

Rev.  A.  S.  Jackson,  pastor  of  Common  Street 
Baptist  church,  and  ex-Deputy  Grand  Master  and 
Chaplain  of  the  Masonic  lodge,  then  addressed  the 
body  and  made  some  very  emphatic  statements. 
Bro.  Jackson  is  Grand  Master  Ladd's  pastor,  and 
has  been  associated  with  him  in  the  work  of  initiat- 
ing several  of  the  brethren,  who  were  present,  into 
the  sublime  (?)  degrees  of  Freemasonry.  He  is 
the  leading  Baptist  minister  in  the  city  of  New  Or- 
leans, and,  therefore,  his  actions  and  words  carry 
with  them  a  great  deal  of  weight.  Among  some  of 
the  excellent  things  he  '^aid  were  these:  "I  have 
come  to  a  definite  conclusion  in  regard  to  this  mat- 
ter. I  have  been  opposed  for  some  time  to  the  out- 
side workings  of  secret  orders.  From  henceforth, 
by  the  help  of  God,  I  will  preach  against  secretism 
and  all  sin,  as  I  know  it.  I  take  this  stand,  not 
because  these  brethren  are  white.  It  was  Bro.  Coun- 
tee's  trouble  that  converted  me.  The  bullet  that  he 
carries  in  his  head,  shot  by  the  hand  of  a  would-be 
assassin  and  would-be  Mason,  or  instigated  by  the 
fraternity,  killed  all  the  Masonry  in  me.  If  I  must 
go  as  Stephen  did,  as  the  early  Christian  preachers 
did,  I  am  willing.  With  Paul,  I  am  ready  to  die 
for  the  Lord  Jesus.  I  am  not  afraid  to  be  sacrificed 
for  the  sake  of  the  truth,  for  I  have  confidence  in 
the  power  of  truth.  I  am  going  to  combat  this  thing, 
not  as  a  bully  but  as  a  Christian.  I  am  being  gird- 
ed with  Divine  strength.  Brethren,  I  am  glad  you 
came.    You  have  done  us  good." 

Rev.  J.  Lindsay,  a  licentiate  preacher  in  the  Bap- 
tist church,  arose  at  this  point  and  said  that  he  had 
been  converted  during  the  debate.  He  thanked  the 
Lord  and  the  brethren  for  bringing  to  him  this  light. 

Bro.  McKeever,  a  Baptist  deacon,  said  he  was  con- 
vinced of  the  wrong  of  secret  orders,  because  of 
their  balls  and  wine  suppers,  and  it  was  to  him  the 
"seat  of  the  scornful."  I  am  glad  to  see  these  min- 
isters coming  out. 

Rev.  J.  F.  Marshall,  presiding  elder  in  the  M.  E. 
church,  said  that  he  had  spoken  to  a  great  number 
of  ministers,  regarding  the  work  of  the  N.  C.  A., 
and  the  object  of  this  convention,  and  only  three 
had  spoken  against  it. 

Revs.  Davis,  Green,  Bradford,  Lyon,  Claiborne, 
Evans,  Clay,  Davidson,  Davis,  and  several  others 
gave  in  their  testimony  against  the  lodge  and  those 
that  belonged  to  the  order  said  that  they  would  from 
this  time  sever  all  allegiance  to  secret  organizations. 

Rev.  M.  L.  Berger,  D.  D.,  Professor  of  Theology 
in  Straight  University,  with  his  devoted  Christian 
wife  encouraged  us  very  much  with  their  presence, 
and  gave  us  hearty  endorsement.  Just  before  the 
close  of  this  interesting  service  Dr.  Berger  stepped 
to  the  front  and  made  some  very  appropriate  re- 
marks. He  said:  I  have  no  inside  knowledge  of 
secrecy.  President  Garfleld  told  me,  when  a  stu- 
dent at  Williams  College,  that  there  was  a  great  deal 
about  secret  societies  that  was  clannish.  I  have  no 
quarrel  with  any  man,  but  I  have  with  the  institu- 
tion. I  believe  it  does  the  church  harm.  It  is  the 
duty  of  the  church  to  look  after  its  sick  and  dying. 
It  is  the  height  of  impertinence  for  any  organiza- 
tion to  come  in  between  the  pastor  and  the  people. 
While  I  was  laboring  in  San  Francisco  I  attended  a 
funeral  at  the  Masonic  temple.    The  Chaplain  of  the 


lodge  undertook  to  read  a  portion  of  Scripture,  but 
he  was  so  inebriated  that  he  could  not  read  without 
making  serious  mistakes.  I  was  disgusted.  We 
must  get  away  from  these  affiliations  of  darkness; 
away  from  these  grips  and  secret  signs.  They 
should  have  no  place  in  our  Republic.  It  is  our 
duty  to  enlighten  the  people,  and  show  them  how 
these  secret  orders  interfere  with  the  church.  Dr. 
Hitchcock  has  truly  said:  "The  church  is  the  mother 
of  all  reform."  All  secret  combinations,  no  matter 
what  their  profession  may  be,  are  useless  in  their 
character.  We  can  do  better  without  than  with 
them. 

The  following  resolutions  were  then  offered  and 
adopted: 

Sesolved,  That  it  is  the  sense  of  this  audience  that  the 
proposition,  "Resolved  that  Freemasonry  is  an  anti- 
Christian  institution,  has  been  fully  sustained." 

Four  persons  only  voted  in  the  negative.  Secre- 
tary Stoddard  presented  the  following,  which  was 
adopted: 

Sesolved,  That  we  commend  the  candor  and  fairness 
shown  by  Mr.  C.  P.  L-idd,  in  inviting  and  participating 
in  a  discussion  of  the  Masonic  system,  and  while  extend- 
ing to  him  our  thanks  for  the  past,  we  express  the  hope 
that  the  discussion  will  become  general,  and  will  always 
be  conducted  in  a  Christian  spirit. 

A  vote  of  thanks  was  tendered  J.  P.  Stoddard 
and  H.  H.  Hinman  for  their  faithful  labors  in  work- 
ing up  this  convention,  also  Rev.  G.  W.  Bothwell  and 
the  trustees  of  Central  Church,  for  the  use  of  their 
church  edifice. 

President  J.  Blanchard  made  some  farewell  re- 
marks, in  which  he  referred  to  the  apparent  insult 
offered  by  Col.  Lewis.  He  was  deeply  moved,  and 
it  was  with  difficulty  that  he  could  give  utterance  to 
his  thoughts.  Every  one  was  deeply  effected  by  the 
words  of  this  devoted  and  faithful  servant  of  Jesus 
Christ. 

Rev.  Bradford  took  up  the  thought,  and  in  a 
most  eloquent  and  earnest  manner  expressed  the 
kind  feelings  of  the  colored  people  toward  the  white 
men  who  were  so  deeply  interested  in  their  welfare. 

After  a  little  miscellaneous  business  and  prayer, 
this  day's  work  was  ended. 

As  near  as  the  secretary  could  ascertain,  between 
forty  and  fifty  Christian  ministers,  representing  the 
Baptist,  Congregational,  Methodist  and  independ- 
ent churches  of  the  city,  put  themselves  on  record, 
most  of  them  for  the  first  time,  as  enemies  to  the 
lodge  and  all  that  is  anti-Christian.  A  Methodist 
pastor,  himself  a  Mason,  remarked  to  the  writer 
that  the  convention  was  the  death  blow  to  secretism 
among  the  colored  people  in  the  South;  for,  said  he, 
all  the  men  that  give  moral  tone  to  these  orders 
have  left,  or  will  now  do  so. 


8BCBSTART  BTODDARD'S  ACCOUNT. 


New  Orleans,  Feb.  24,  1888. 

If  to  attempt  the  impossible  is  presumption,  I 
ought  not  to  venture  upon  an  effort  to  convey  any 
adequate  idea  of  the  last  session  of  the  grand  con- 
vention which  closed  here  Tuesday  afternoon.  It 
began  by  fervent  prayer  and  closed  with  victory  and 
shouting,  and  the  echoes  are  still  heard  among  the 
churches.  Each  meeting  was  characterized  by  a  de- 
votional spirit,  and  while  arguments  were  strong  and 
testimonies  pointed,  there  was  scarcely  an  unfortu- 
nate word  or  untimely  expression  on  the  part  of  an 
N.  C.  A.  speaker  from  first  to  last,  to  mar  the  effect 
of  truth,  and  give  the  opposition  advantage. 

The  debate  was,  however,  the  feature  of  the  oc- 
casion. It  did  more  to  establish  the  doubting  and 
bring  the  wavering  to  take  a  decided  stand  than  all 
that  preceded.  There  was  from  the  first  a  marked 
increase  of  interest;  but  the  acceptance  of  Grand 
Master  Ladd's  tender  of  a  discussion  by  the  N.  C. 
A,  with  arrangement  for  a  special  session  to  accom- 
modate the  "brethren,"  gave  a  new  impetus  to  the 
movement.  The  attendance  was  largely  increased, 
and  an  opportunity  thus  afforded  to  reach  some  who 
had  stood  aloof  until  the  hour  for  discussion  came. 

The  two  opening  addresses,  both  affirmative  and 
negative,  received  respectful  attention,  and  it  was 
only  when  Bro.  Countee  took  the  stand  that  the  bois- 
terous element  came  to  the  surface.  After  several 
interruptions  Bro.  Countee  wisely,  I  think,  declined 
to  proceed;  when  Mr.  Ladd  spoke  briefly  and  with 
apparent  candor  and  sincerity.  He  was  followed  by 
Col.  Lewis,  a  politician  hotel-keeper  (with  a  bar  at- 
tached), and  making  no  pretensions  to  Christianity, 
who  spoke  like  a  "rabble-rousing  politician,"  saying 
some  very  bitter  things.  At  the  close  of  this  speech 
the  opposition  seemed,  by  common  consent,  to  rest 
their  case,  and  the  rougher  element  withdrew,  with 
the  apparent  purpose  of  "stampeding"  the  audience. 
If  such  was  their  purpose  it  was  a  signal  failure. 
Quiet  being  restored,  Bros.  Milligan  and  Browne 


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Maboh  8, 1888 


THE  CHRISTIAlSr  CYNOSURE. 


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brought  forth  their  strong  reasons,  while  the  men 
of  brain  and  piety  listened  and  were  convinced. 

When  the  time  came  to  hear  from  the  "pews,"  a 
a  scene  began  which  surpasses  description.  The 
entire  audience  was  moved  by  one  spirit,  and  a  half- 
score  and  more  were  on  their  feet  at  the  same  time, 
seeking  recognition  by  the  chair.  Renunciation 
after  renunciation  came  in  quick  succession,  and 
one  after  another  of  the  "strong  young  men" 
walked  to  Bro.  Countee,  and,  while  grasping  his 
hand  in  theirs,  avowed  their  hatred  of  what  they 
had  once  loved,  in  words  that  would  grace  the  speech 
of  a  Fred.  Douglass  or  John  B.  Gough,  and  some 
even  asked  to  share  the  approbrium  that  had  been 
heaped  upon  him,  and  pledged  their  lives  in  defence 
of  his  person  and  his  right  to  speak. 

It  was  a  scene  long  to  be  remembered;  and  while 
I  cannot  give  the  number  who  renounced  and  testi 
fied  against  the  secret  system,  I  feel  safe  in  putting 
it  at  more  than  twenty-five.  It  was  a  staggering 
blow  to  the  opposition,  and  they  are  beginning  to 
realize  it.  Bro.  Countee  had  been  engaged  to  preach 
in  Bro.  Jackson's  church  in  the  evening,  but  under 
the  circumstances  it  was  deemed  by  his  friends  the 
part  of  prudence  that  he  should  not  appear  again  in 
public  at  present,  and  a  number  of  the  pastors  and 
friends  accompanied  him  to  the  depot,  where,  with 
Bro.  Milligan,  he  left  for  his  home  on  a  5:20  p.  m. 
train.  Bro.  Jackson  explained  to  his  people  why 
Bro.  Countee  was  absent  and  left  results  for  the 
Lord's  ordering.  It  is  fairly  presumable  that  even 
the  bad  cause  of  secrecy  will  gain  little  credit  in 
New  Orleans  or  elsewhere  by  attempting  the  sup- 
pression of  free  speech,  and  resorting  to  threats  of 
violence  if  a  man  and  minister  dares  preach  the 
preaching  that  his  Master  bids  him. 

Bro.  Francis  J.  Davidson  has  been  of  great  ser- 
vice to  the  cause  here,  and  is  now  canvassing  among 
the  churches  and  ministers  with  tracts  and  Cyno- 
sures.  The  expense  of  this  convention  will  be  near- 
ly or  quite  $200  in  excess  of  receipts,  but  I  feel  that 
no  money  has  been  better  invested,  and  I  trust  some 
of  the  friends  who  are  able  will  send  what  they  are 
willing  to  give  to  Treasurer  W.  I.  Phillips,  Chicago. 
The  African  M.  E  Conference  is  now  in  session  in 
this  city.  Bishop  A,  W.  Wayman,  D.  D.,  presiding. 
I  dropped  in  a  few  moments  and  was  introduced  to 
the  Bishop,  and  by  him  to  the  conference,  and  hope 
to  spend  some  time  with  them  later  when  they  get 
fairly  organized.  J.  P.  Stoddard. 


BEFOfiM  NEWS. 


TEB   80UTHBRN   LEOTURBR  HOME    FOR    A 
VAUATIOJU. 


Florida's    Chautauqua — Savannah's    Oala  day — Imprea 
siona  of  the  JSatiunal  Convention  —  Ihe  Sstimalion  of 
Freemasonry  among  ihe  JSeqroes — Washington  Hotes. 

Savannah,  Ga.,  Feb.  23,  1888. 

Dear  Cynosure: — 1  left  New  Orleans  at  8:10 
p.  M.  of  the  2l8t  and  reached  here  in  a  little  over 
twenty-four  hours  by  a  very  pleasant  route.  One  of 
the  finest  places  I  saw  was  De  Funiak  Springs, 
West  Florida,  where  is  the  Florida  Chautauqua.  We 
stopped  twenty-five  minutes  and  saw  a  young  city 
made  up  of  large  new  buildings  and  in  striking  con- 
trast with  many  of  the  sordid  little  places  that  are 
stuck  here  and  there  in  the  pine  woods.  There 
were  assembled  the  elite  of  the  literary  and  relig- 
ious world.  It  was  easy  to  see  from  their  coun- 
tenances and  appearance  that  they  were  superior 
people.  A  band  of  music  entertained  us  while 
we  stayed.     The  place  has  many  rural  attractions. 

At  Savannah  I  found  all  the  hotels  crowded  to 
their  utmost  capacity.  President  Cleveland  had 
just  left,  and  to  day  is  a  grand  procession  in  honor 
of  Sergeant  Jasper,  of  Revolutionary  memory.  I 
got  in  at  a  respectable  boarding  house,  but  in  the 
night  a  drunken  man,  who  had  mistaken  my  bed  for 
bis  own,  came,  and  with  curses  and  threatenings  at- 
tempted to  pull  me  out.  I  had  to  alarm  the  whole 
house;  but  finally  he  said  he  would  forgive  me  for 
getting  into  his  bed,  and  hoped  he  hadn't  hurt  my 
feelings. 

This  morning  I  visited  Beech  Institute,  the  school 
of  the  A.  M.  A.  They  have  about  250  students 
under  the  care  of  Miss  Holmes,  assisted  by  six 
other  teachers.  By  invitatioQ  I  addressed  the  stu- 
dents on  the  lodge  question  and  had  most  respsctf  ul 
attention.  I  also  called  on  the  Congregational  pas- 
tor, Rav.  L.  B.  Maxwell,  a  graduate  of  Atlanta 
University,  and  a  cultured  gentleman.  He  ex- 
pressed sympathy  and  interest  in  our  work.  This 
is  one  of  the  most  beautiful  of  the  Southern  cities, 
and  I  expect,  God  willing,  to  visit  it  again  and  ad- 
dress some  of  the  large  colored  churches,  some  of 
which  number  several  thousand  members.  To  day 
the  city,  notwithstanding  the  rain,  is  covered  with 


bunting  and  greatly  enjoying  the  display.  I  gofrom 
here  to  Charleston,  Wilmington,  Richmond  and 
Washington. 

Washington,  Feb.  27. — The  New  Orleans  conven- 
tion served  to  demonstrate  both  the  strength  and 
the  weakness  of  the  secret  lodge  system.  Its 
strength  was  manifested  in  keeping  many  away  by 
all  the  various  forms  of  terrorism  that  it  knows  how 
to  exercise  over  its  members,  and  those  dependent 
on  its  patronag».  This  kept  away  large  numbers 
who  were  expected  to  attend  and  influenced  many 
who,  as  pastors  of  churches,  were  much  in  sympa- 
thy with  the  objects  for  which  we  met.  Race  preju- 
dice kept  many  away.  It  was  hardly  to  be  expected 
that  a  mixed  convention  in  a  Southern  city  would  be 
attended  by  many  white  people.  Nevertheless  the 
attendance  was  fair  and  a  number  of  the  white  city 
pastors  came  in  and  expressed  their  sympathy  with 
our  work.  Their  weakness  was  shown  in  their  evi- 
dent surprise  that  their  system  should  be  attacked, 
and  their  utter  inability  to  adopt  any  line  of  de- 
fence. Most  of  those  connected  with  these  orders 
had  never  heard  of  any  objections  to  the  system, 
except  on  account  of  the  abuses  which  grow  out  of 
it.  These  were  supposed  to  pertain  to  the  minor 
societies.  With  great  unanimity,  the  people  have 
regarded  Freemasonry  as  very  ancient,  thoroughly 
religious  and  highly  respectable.  I  have  been  re- 
peatedly told  how  King  Solomon  and  Saint  John 
the  Baptist  and  Evangelist  (you  know)  were  Ma- 
sons, "and  so  were  all  the  good  men  of  ancient  and 
modern  times."  The  only  line  of  defence  that  col- 
ored Masons  have  been  called  to  take  is  that  their 
Masonry  is  just  as  ancient  and  honorable,  and 
comes  from  the  same  source  as  the  white  man's. 
When  they  found  that  this  was  conceded,  and  that 
the  attack  on  the  system  was  because  of  its  relations 
to  Christianity  and  the  Christian  church,  they  were 
utterly  confounded. 

I  was  greatly  interested  in  the  experience  of  Bro. 
W.  B.  Stoddard  in  the  lecture  field  in  Ohio.  On  one 
occasion  he  found  that  the  more  clearly  he  proved 
the  Masonic  system  to  be  anti-Christian,  the  better 
pleased  were  the  Masons  and  their  sympathizers. 
Why  should  they  not  feel  so?  They  manifestly 
hated  Christ  and  habitually  blasphemed  his  name; 
and  why  should  they  find  fault  with  a  system  that 
put  intentional  dishonor  on  him? 

I  have  had  similar  experience  on  several  occa- 
sions, but  not  so  in  the  South.  Faulty  as  is  the 
character  of  Southern  people  in  many  respects, 
they  have  their  virtues;  and  all,  both  white  and 
colored,  especially  the  latter,  pay  at  least  an  out- 
ward respect  to  Christianity  and  its  Divine  Lord. 
When  they  found  that  it  was  Freemasonry  especially 
that  was  assailed,  the  Grand  Master  supposed  him- 
self quite  able  to  defend  it,  and  expected  an  easy 
victory.  He,  with  others,  had  supposed  that  if  Free- 
masonry, like  the  Roman  Pantheon,  made  room  for 
Christianity,  in  common  with  the  other  religions  of 
the  world  it  could  not  be  opposed  to  it.  The  mis- 
take was  the  same  that  all  men  make  who  do  not 
understand  Christianity.  It  asks  not  a  place,  but 
the  place:  that  '-the  kingdom  shall  be  given  to  the 
saints  of  the  Most  High  and  that  they  shall  possess 
the  kingdom."  When  it  was  plainly  shown  that 
Masonry  purposely  ruled  out  the  name  of  the  Divine 
Master  from  its  hymns,  its  prayers  and  its  Scripture 
readings,  the  effect  was  most  powerful  and  convinc- 
ing. 

Nor  could  the  argument  against  being  "unequally 
yoked  together  with  unbelievers,"  be  any  more  suc- 
cessfully opposed.  Of  course  this  argument  has  no 
weight  with  those  who  do  not  profess  to  belong  to 
the  Christian  church.  They  have  no  occasion  to 
"come  out  from  among  them  and  be  separate."  But 
to  the  professed  Christian  it  has  great  force.  No 
sophistry  can  justify  their  uniting  in  another 
brotherhood  which  is  not  the  brotherhood  of  Christ, 
and  another  religious  worship  in  which  unbelievers 
as  well  as  believers  are  expected  to  unite. 

For  these  reasons  I  think  the  South  altogether  the 
more  hopeful  field  for  the  prosecution  of  our  re- 
form. There,  as  elsewhere,  the  field  is  "white  al- 
ready for  the  harvest."  In  this  city  the  difficulties 
are  far  greater.  These  men  and  women  may  havH 
good  standing  in  the  church  and  fill  important  po- 
sitions though  they  visit  the  theaters,  dance,  play  at 
cards,  drink  wine,  or  attend  the  lodge.  To  those 
whose  moral  vision  is  so  dim  that  they  can  see  no 
harm  in  some  of  these,  it  is  not  expected  that  they 
will  see  much  harm  in  others. 

The  question  of  amusements  was  discussed  yes- 
terday in  the  Sabbath-school  of  the  First  Presbyte- 
rian church,  and  the  conclusion  reached  was  that 
these  were  all  matters  about  which  Christians  differ, 
and  that  every  one  should  do  what  is  right  in  his 
own  eyes,  and  no  one  should  question  his  privilege 
to  do  so.     Why   they  should  not  accord  the  same 


right  of  conscience  to  the  Mormon  polygamist  was 
not  explained.  Nevertheless  the  anti-secrecy  re- 
form has  made  a  marked  progress  in  this  city.  In 
the  Central  Union  Mission,  where  there  cma  to- 
gether the  most  earnest  and  aggressive  Christians, 
there  is  but  one  opinion  as  to  the  character  and  in- 
fluence of  the  lodge  system.  Strangers  who  visit 
the  city  sometimes  speak  of  some  of  the  secret  or- 
ders in  a  way  which  implies  no  disapproval;  but 
among  the  regular  Christian  workers,  they  are  not 
unfrequently  talked  about. 

The  death  of  W.  W.  Corcoran,  the  millionaire 
philanthropist,  is  the  special  and  sad  topic  of  inter- 
est. To  day  he  is  being  followed  to  the  grave.  He 
was  eminently  respected  in  private  life,  gave  largely 
to  benevolent  objects,  and  on  several  occasions  ren- 
dered important  aid  to  the  National  Government 
No  one  claims  that  he  gained  his  great  wealth  by  il- 
legitimate means,  or  that  he  oppressed  the  poor. 
Nevertheless,  it  will  not  be  forgotten  that  his  sym- 
pathies were  with  the  rebellion  to  such  an  extent 
that  he  incurred  the  just  suspicion  of  baing  an 
enemy  to  the  government  It  is  said  that  nothing 
but  the  personal  friendship  of  Charles  Sumner  saved 
his  property  from  confiscation.  Doubtless  this  was 
an  error  of  judgment  which  the  people  of  this  city 
have  long  since  condoned.  The  great  Art  Gallery 
and  the  Louise  Home  will  remain  as  noble  monu- 
ments of  his  munificence. 

Oae  of  the  far-reaching  effects  of  the  Esmond's 
Act  for  the  suppression  of  polygamy  in  Utah,  is 
that  it  is  made  an,  etficient  means  for  the  suppres- 
sion of  vice  in  this  city.  There  have  been  a  num- 
ber of  arrests  recently,  and  it  is  greatly  to  be 
hoped  that  Mr.  Edmonds  and  the  National  Congress 
built  more  wisely  than  they  knew,  since  they  aimed 
a  boomarang  at  Utah,  which  strikes  back  at  the 
filthiness  of  this  wicked  place.  If  Senator  Piatt's 
Prohibition  bill  shall  become  a  law,  there  will  have 
been  made  an  immense  stride  in  the  direction' of 
moral  improvement.  H.  H.  Hinman. 

■  » ■ 

THE  IOWA  REPORT. 


aOOD   MKETINQS   in  MONBOE   COONTr. 

Feb.  23,  1888. 

Dear  CrNOsuRE:— From  Oskaloosa  I  came  to 
Hickory  in  Monroe  county,  and  called  upon  that 
staunch  friend  of  reform,  Henry  Elder,  at  whose 
house  I  am  always  made  welcome.  From  there  I 
went  to  Avery  and  visited  Rev.  Mr.  Thompson,  the 
pastor  of  the  Hickory  Grove  Covenanter  church,  and 
also  Mr.  Acheson.  the  pastor  of  the  Seceder  church 
near  Hickory  Station. 

It  was  arranged  that  I  should  preach  in  Avery, 
in  the  Miner's  Institute,  a  hall  that  is  occupied  on 
the  Sabbath  by  the  M.  E.  church.  By  the  evening 
of  Sabbath  the  appointment  had  become  well  circu- 
lated, and  a  good  audience  was  out  to  hear  the  Word. 

An  appointment  was  made  for  a  general  discus- 
sion of  the  lodge  question  on  Tuesday  night,  at 
which  time  Rev.  Mr.  Acheson  opened  the  meeting 
with  prayer.  I  then  addressed  the  meeting,  and 
was  followed  by  Rev.  Mr.  Thompson  and  Mr.  Ache- 
son. Questions  also  were  asked  and  remarks  made 
by  some  of  the  Methodist  brethren,  who  were 
Knights  of  Labor. 

According  to  appointments  made,  I  went  the 
next  night  to  Half-way  Prairie  and  lectured  and  dis- 
(  Continued  on  12lh  page. ) 


Correspondence. 


STANDING  BY  THE  TRUTH  IN  NSW 
ORLEANS. 

New  Orleans,  Feb.  27,  1888. 

Masonry  has  long  been  hideous  to  me,  but  I  am 
learning  more  of  its  brutal  and  barbarous  nature 
every  time  its  true  inwardness  comes  to  the  light  It 
was  with  great  pleasure  and  profit  that  I  listened  to 
a  sermon  last  evening  by  Rev.  A.  S.  Jackson.  It 
was  clear,  pointed  and  scriptural.  It  was  one  in  a 
series  of  services  held  in  his  church,and  at  the  close 
four  penitents  presented  themselves  for  prayers. 
Their  requests  were  remembered  in  two  most  ear- 
nest prayers  by  the  deacons,  in  which  I  believe  every 
devout  Christian  present  heartily  joined. 

After  the  usual  order  of  the  evening  the  pastor 
said  he  had  something  he  wished  to  say  to  his  peo- 
ple. He  referred  to  the  happy  relations  that  had 
existed  between  them  for  six  years  and  to  the  unan- 
imous call  they  had  but  recently  given  him  to  re- 
main with  them  another  year.  He  spoke  of  the  con- 
vention that  had  recently  been  held  in  Central 
Church,  in  which  be  had  taken  part,  and  added  that 
he  was  glad  it  had  occurred.  He  said  it  had  come 
to  his  knowledge  that  some  of  his  brethren  had  tak- 


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HE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE- 


Mabch  8, 1888 


en  exceptions  to  the  course  he  had  taken,  and  said 
unpleasant  things  about  him.  He  regretted  to  lose 
the  good  opinion  of  his  brethren,  and  thought  such 
a  sudden  change  a  little  remarkable.  He  was  out 
as  soon  as  he  was  in  the  lodge,  and  had  often  ex- 
pressed his  views  privately  to  his  brethren  for  three 
years  and  had  advised  them  not  to  join  the  secret 
orders.  He  had  refused  positions  tendered  him  in 
the  lodges,  and  refused  to  admit  their  parades  and 
celebrations  into  his  house  of  worship  on  the  Sab- 
bath. He  had  noted  their  effect  on  the  spirituality 
of  church  members  and  was  thoroughly  convinced 
that  the  church  as  a  body  and  the  members  in  par- 
ticular had  suffered  from  their  effect.  He  felt  it  his 
duty  to  speak  out  and  warn  his  people  against  that, 
as  other  sins;  and  whatever  course  those  differing 
with  him  might  take,  he  should  "obey  Otod  rather 
than  men,"  and  take  the  consequences.  If,  as  had 
been  threatened  by  some,  an  attempt  was  made  to 
starve  him  out,  he  was  prepared  to  meet  them  on 
that  ground,  and  his  family  were  willing  to  share 
with  him.  He  said  he  had  well  considered  his  posi- 
tion and  that  he  stood  on  the  rock,Christ  Jesus.and 
should  never  go  back. 

He  referred  to  Bro.  Countee  and  explained  why 
he  did  not  preach  as  advertised  on  the  previous  Tues- 
day evening.  He  knew  Countee  in  his  home,  and 
loved  him  as  a  brother,  and  spoke  strongly  against 
the^way  he  was  treated  in  the  convention  and  the  at- 
tempt that  was  being  made  to  blacken  the  character 
and  injure  the  influence  of  one  of  God's  ministers. 
He  said  he  should  use  his  liberty  in  selecting  his 
own  texts  and  the  lines  of  thought  he  should 
present,  but  had  not  decided  just  what  course  he 
should  take  with  those  who  were  in,  but  should  do 
what  he  could  to  prevent  others  from  joining.  He 
reminded  them  of  God's  promises  of  protection  to 
his  servants  and  of  his  judgments  upon  those  who 
opposed  them  in  the  performance  of  duty,  and  gave 
a  faithful  warning  against  interfering  with  any  who 
felt  it  duty  to  come  out  and  be  separate  from  sin. 

He  did  not  use  the  term  secret  societies,  and  I  do 
not  profess  to  give  his  words,  only  some  of  the 
points  he  made,  which  indicate  the  position  he  took, 
and  proposes,  by  the  help  of  God,  to  maintain.  No 
one,  not  even  the  Grand  Master,  who  lietened  atten- 
tively, could  mistake  Bro.  Jackson's  meaning  or  the 
particular  sin  he  had  in  mind.  His  manner  was 
calm,  but  firm  as  a  rock.  His  expressions  were  mild 
but  pointed,  and  not  a  man,  woman  or  child  in  that 
large  audience  doubted  the  sincerity  or  unyielding 
purpose  of  this  man  of  God  to  stand  by  his  convic- 
tions at  whatever  cost.  Let  us  pray  for  Bro.  Jack- 
son, for  he  will  need  great  grace  to  "endure  to  the 
end"  of  this  conflict  into  which  he  has  just  entered 
in  earnest.  J.  P.  Stoddard. 


CRIGAQO,  AWAKBf 


Mabysville,  Mo. 
My  advice  to  the  people  of  Chicago  is  this:  At 
once  take  lawful  steps,  in  harmony  with  the  United 
States  Constitution,  to  put  such  brakes  on  the  new 
movements  of  the  anarchists  in  your  city  as  will 
plainly  convince  them  that  it  is  unconstiuttional  to 
blow  up  cities,  towns,  homes  and  men.  God  has 
the  right  to  blow  them  down,  but  the  devil  should 
be  taught  to  wait  God's  time;  for  he  once  confessed 
he  did  not  want  to  be  tormented  before  the  time. 
My  plan  is  this: 

1.  Call  out  Gideon's  three  hundred  and  surround 
them.  They  can  learn  from  God  how  to  cast  the 
devils  cut  of  them.  I  would  have  them  manage  so 
as  to  keep  the  devils  out  of  the  hogs;  for  they 
would  run  them  all  into  the  lake  and  choke  them  to 
death. 

2.  If  there  are  a  few  the  devils  will  not  leave  cast 
them  into  prison — devils  and  all.  Then  I,  for  one, 
will  agree  to  go  and  preach  to  those  terrible  spirits 
in  prison,  and  give  them  one  more  chance  to  be 
pulled  out  of  the  fire.  I  have  hopes  of  them.  Be 
it  remembered  bj  all  you  who  live  in  Chicago,  if 
you  do  not  take  steps  at  once  to  stop  that  anarchist 
paper,  and  close  those  secret  meetings,  you  better 
get  ready.as  they  sa},"When  the  trumpet  sounds  the 
signal."  R.  Smith. 


OUR  FORE IQ If  MI8810N  LETTER. 


Bombay,  India,  Jan.  27,  1888.  * 
My  Dear  Brother: — Permit  me  to  thank  our 
dear  friends  of  the  National  Christian  Association 
for  the  kind  donation  of  books  and  tracts  which  they 
have  sent.  It  may  seem  a  very  small  supply  for 
"all  Asia"  to  send  only  two  or  three  cubic  feet  of 
reading  matter  upon  your  special  line  of  work.  But 
we  remember  how  the  five  loaves  and  two  fishes  fed 
a  multitude,  and  we  expect  this  small  stock  of  read- 
ing m»tt«r  to  do  «D  iminanM  Bmoant  of  good> 


As  I  before  suggested,  I  shall  circulate  the  tracts 
and  leaflets  largely  through  the  newspapers.  You 
see  one  sewed  in  with  the  present  issue  of  the 
Watchman.  I  shall  have  this  done  with  other  mag- 
azines, and  thus  they  will  be  spread  abroad  largely 
over  the  land.  This  will  create  a  demand  for  the 
books,  and  the  supply  you  have  kindly  sent  me  will 
serve  as  an  initial  supply.  The  cash  I  receive  from 
the  sales  of  these  books  will  all  be  applied  in  adver- 
tising the  crusade  against  the  dominion  of  secrecy, 
and  in  publishing  information  about  the  secret  king- 
doms. 

It  may  seem  presumption  to  call  this  small  labor 
a  "Foreign  Mission  Departmenf'of  your  Association, 
but  such  it  really  is.  I  am  sure  it  will  cheer  the  peo- 
ple of  God  who  are  working  so  hard  against  the 
works  of  darkness  in  our  native  land  to  feel  that 
they  are  co-laborers  with  us  in  the  great  conflict 
here. 

You  are  aware  that  the  power  of  Masonry  in  the 
British  Empire  is  strengthened  by  the  great  influ- 
ence of  the  royal  family.  The  Prince  of  Wales  is 
the  head  centre  of  the  order.  His  brother,  the  Duke 
of  Connaught,  is  the  present  commander  of  the 
Bombay  Army,  and  he  also  is  a  great  leader  of  Ma- 
sonic mummeries.  The  glittering  tinsel  and  ritual 
of  Freemasonry  seem  to  suit  well  the  "pomp  and 
circumstance"  of  regal  display. 

We  have,  as  you  see,  a  great  fight  on  hand  here 
against  both  native  and  English  heathenism,  and  we 
trust  that  the  people  of  God  in  America  will  "come 
up  to  the  help  of  the  Lord  against  the  mighty,"  and 
by  their  prayers  and  practical  sympathy  strengthen 
the  hands  of  those  who  are  the  messengers  of  God 
and  his  church  in  these  Eastern  lands.  Yours  in 
victory,  W.  J.  Gladwin. 


PITH  AND  POINT. 


THE   MAXWELL  MURDER  CASE. 

Extract  from  a  letter  received  in  this  city  from  a 
preacher  of  the  Gospel:  "I  see  that  Masonry  is  being 
used  in  an  attempt  to  defeat  the  ends  of  justice  in  the 
Maxwell  case,  St.  Louis.  He  has  been  condemned  by  all 
the  courts  to  be  hung  for  the  murder  of  Preller.  The 
present  effort  is  to  overcome  our  governor  and  get  the 
sentence  commuted.  I  am  growing  heartily  indignant. 
Are  we  to  have  no  protection?  Let  the  Masons  take  care; 
they  have  no  right  to  seek  to  overturn  the  decision  of  the 
highest  court  in  the  land.  These  efforts  however  may 
open  the  eyes  of  the  people  a  little  wider."  Yes,  but 
what  will  be  said  now  that  this  Masonic  effort  to  thwart 
the  delayed  execution  of  this  notorious  murderer  has 
been  successful?    What  next?— t.  h. 

A   GRIEVOUS  waking. 

The  minister  of  the  Baptist  church  here  joined  the  Ma- 
sonic lodge  and  it  waked  them  up  in  the  church.  He  has 
left  here,  but  it  has  set  them  to  thinking,  and  therefore 
they  want  more  light  and  go  West  instead  of  East  for  it. 
— T.  Hudson,  Woleottville,  Ind. 

THE  veterans. 

If  I  am  not  mistaken  I  have  taken  the  Cynosure  ever 
since  the  third  number  was  published,  with  the  exception 
of  one  or  two  short  intervals.  Without  any  exception  it 
is  the  best  religious  and  reform  paper  for  the  family  in 
my  judgment  I  ever  saw.  I  have  six  children,  three 
daughters  and  three  sons;  all  heartily  endorse  the  princi- 
ples advocated  by  the  Cynosure;  for  which  I  give 
praise  to  God.  God  bless  the  editor  and  all  connected 
with  the  work— John  Motter,  Lyons,  Kansas. 

Mr.  Armour  desires  me  to  say  that  he  has  been  a  sub- 
scriber for  the  Cynosure  from  the  beginning. — p.  h.  w., 
Sterling,  Kansas. 

IN   EARNEST  FOR  PROHIBITION. 

As  I  am  a  faithful  reader  of  the  Cynosure  and  see  so 
many  calls  for  workers  in  the  temperance  cause,  it  has 
induced  me  to  take  up  my  pen.  We  take  three  papers; 
I  think  the  Cynosure  is  the  best  and  my  prayer  is  that  it 
may  be  circulated  throughout  these  low  lands  of  sin  and 
sorrow.  As  I  was  reading  in  our  last  Gazette  I  came 
across  a  place  where  it  said  "free  whisky  and  nobody's 
business."  I  threw  it  down  and  said  that  was  too  bad  for 
anybody  to  read.  I  am  a  prohibitionist  through  and 
through,  and  I  would  to  God  that  everybody  in  this 
broad  land  would  say  the  same.  My  daily  prayer  is  that 
the  Lord  may  send  conviction  and  conversion  to  every 
saloon  keeper  O  Christians  everywhere,  be  on  bended 
knees  asking  God  to  remove  this  great  curse  from  our 
land;  for  see  the  fathers,  see  the  mothers  and  the  children 
sinking  down.  Christians,  pray  that  holy  manna  may  be 
showered  all  around.  I  trust  the  day  is  not  far  distant 
when  the  flag  of  our  country  will  wave  in  the  breeze  of 
peace  and  quietude. — Mary  Ellis,  New  Mwrtinsburg, 
Ohio. 

ENGLISH   LAW   AND   SOCIAL   PURITY. 

Your  esteemed  correspondent  J.  M.  Foster,  in  whose 
letters  I  take  great  delight,  to  my  mind  states  an  error  in 
"Our  New  York  Letter"  in  issue  of  23d  Feb.  instant. 
He  says  "England  licenses  houses  of  ill  fame.  They  call 
it  the  Contagious  Diseases  Act."  In  the  first  place  the 
"Contagious  Diseases  Acts  (Women)"have  been  repealed 
for  several  years.  Second,  they  never  were  considered  a 
ilMBM  to  "bouB«a  of  ill-fame  r  their  most  ardent  advo- 


cates never  urged  for  them  more  than  sanitary  measures. 
Third,  the  acts  were  not  universal,  but  for  certain  mili- 
tary and  seaport  towns  of  England  and  Ireland.— J.  C. 
Young,  Custer  City,  Pa. 

Note. — The  British  government  continues  the  opera- 
tion of  that  obnoxious  law  in  the  East  Indies. 

BEMEMBERS   THE   MORGAN  TIMES. 

I  am  now  nearly  seventy-nine  years  of  age;  have  been 
opposed  to  secrecy  from  my  youthful  days.  My  father 
was  a  Mason.  He  never  denied  the  murder  of  Morgan 
by  the  Masons,  but  seemed  to  think  because  he  had  noth- 
ing to  do  with  it,  he  was  not  guilty  in  the  matter.  But 
his  companion  and  children  could  but  see  the  evil  effects 
of  Masonry  on  his  morals  and  finances.  The  system  was 
popular  then  because  its  dreadful  oaths,  penalties  and 
crimes  were  not  generally  known,  but  the  nature  of  the 
lodge  was  fully  shown  in  Morgan's  Exposition,  and  in 
his  taking  off.  I  have  been  a  subscriber  for  the  Cynosure 
from  its  commencement,  and  expect  to  be  while  life  and 
reason  are  granted  me. — Darius  Reynolds,  Seneca,  Lake 
Co..  Fla. 


Bible  Lesson. 


STUDIES  IN  THK  NEW  TESTAMENT. 

LESSON  XII.— March  18.— The  Son  Rejected.— Matt.21 :  33-46. 

GOLDEN  TEXT.— He  came  unto  his  own,  and  his  own  re- 
ceived him  not.— John  1 :  11. 

yOpm  the  BibU  and  read  tJie  lesmn.] 

[From  Peloubet'B  Notes. J 

"There  was  a  certain  householder  which  planted  a 
vineyard."  The  opening  words  at  once  suggest  a  com- 
parison with  Isaiah  (5:  1-7).  No  doubt  our  Lord  here 
takes  up  the  prophecy  there,  the  more  willingly  building 
on  the  old  foundations,  that  his  adversaries  accused  him 
of  destroying  the  Law.  The  image  of  the  kingdom  of 
God  as  a  vine-stock  or  as  a  vineyard  runs  through  the 
whole  Old  Testament  (Dent.  32:  32;  Ps.  80:  8-16;  Isa.  5: 
1-7;  27: 1-7;  Jer.  2:  21;  Ezek.  15:  1-6;  19:  10);  and  has 
this  especial  fitness,  that  no  property  was  considered  to 
yield  so  large  a  return  (Cant.  8:  11,  12).  None  was 
therefore  of  such  price  and  esteem.  It  no  doubt  belongs 
to  the  fitness  of  the  image,  that  a  vineyard  does,  if  it  is 
to  bring  forth  richly,  require  the  most  diligent  and  never- 
ceasing  care;  that  there  is  no  season  in  the  year  in  which 
much  has  not  to  be  done  in  it.  Yirgil  presses  this  very 
strongly  in  words  not  unworthy  to  be  kept  in  mind  by  all 
to  whom  a  spiritual  vineyard  has  been  committed.  (See 
Georg.  2;  397-419.) — Trench.  The  vineyard  represents 
the  kingdom  of  God  as  realized  (1)  in  the  Jewish  nation, 
(2)  in  the  spiritual  Christian  church,  and  (3)  in  the  indi- 
vidual soul.  This  kingdom  is  in  each  case  planted  by 
God,  and  is  his  by  creation,  by  preservation,  and  by  re- 
demption.— P.  A  ministerial  charge  is  a  vineyard;  so  is 
a  Sunday  school  class;  so  is  church  membership;  so  is 
wealth;  so  is  knowledge. — R.  Olover.  Every  blessing  of 
the  world — the  Gospel,  the  truths  of  redemption,  the  in- 
fluences of  the  Spirit,  natural  talents,  spiritual  gifts,  prov- 
idential opportunities — is  the  vineyard  God  has  given  us 
to  cultivate. — P.  The  husbandmen  represent  the  rulers 
of  the  Jews  (ver.  45) ;  but  the  people  as  a  whole,  a  nation 
or  a  church,  are  included  (ver.  43) — ScJiaff.  And  also 
each  person  to  whom  God  has  committed  powers,  oppor- 
tunities, and  influences  for  the  building  up  the  kingdom 
of  God  in  the  world  and  in  his  own  soul. — P. 

"He  sent  his  servants."  Every  special  call  to  love  and 
serve  God,  every  servicie  at  the  church,  every  providence 
of  God,  every  voice  of  the  Holy  Spirit,  every  season  of 
revival,  is  a  servant  whom  God  sends  to  us  for  the  fruits 
that  are  due  him. — P. 

"That  they  might  receive  the  fruits  of  it."  The  fruits 
were  obedience,  love,  righteous  living,  teaching  the  true 
God  to  the  nations,  etc. — Olshav^en.  We  have  always  to 
pay  rent  for  every  privilege.  For  their  land  the  Jews 
must  pay  the  rent  of  national  purity,  justice,  patriotism; 
for  their  spiritual  privileges,  the  rent  of  faith  and  obedi- 
ence; for  office,  the  rent  of  service  to  God  and  man. 
Every  one  has  some  vineyard  which  he  is  to  work,  not 
exclusively  for  his  own  pleasure,  profit,  or  honor,  but 
for  the  furtherance  of  God's  cause.  From  every  such 
vineyard — as  pastoral  charge,  Sunday-school  class,  office 
in  the  church,  church  membership — we  may  extract  that 
which  will  enrich  ourselves.  For  every  such  vineyard 
we  must  pay  a  rent  to  God.  And  when  we  do,  we  shall 
find  that  no  part  of  the  produce  pays  ourselves  so  well  as 
that  we  pay  to  him. — R.  Olover. 

"Took  his  servants,  and  beat  one,  killed  another,  and 
stoned  another."  Some  of  the  prophets  were  not  merely 
maltreated,  but  actually  put  to  death.  Thus,  if  we  may 
trust  Jewish  tradition,  Jeremiah  was  stoned  by  the  exiles 
in  Egypt,  Isaiah  sawn  asunder  by  Ring  Manasseb;  and, 
for  an  ample  historical  justification  of  tbis  description, 
see  Jer.,  chaps.  87,  38;  1  Kings  18:  13;  22:  24-27;  2  Kings 
6;  31;  21. 16;  2  Chron.  24:  19-22;  36: 16;  and  also  Acts  7: 
52 ;  and  the  whole  passage  finds  a  parallel  in  the  words  of 
the  apostle  (Heb.  11:  Z%).— Trench. 

"He  sent  other  servants."  The  conduct  of  the  "lord 
of  the  vineyard"  is  a  vivid  representation  of  God's  deal- 
ings with  man.  It  is  a-  faithful  picture  of  his  merciful 
dealings  with  the  Jewish  church.  It  is  a  no  less  faithful 
picture  of  his  gracious  treatment  of  the  Gentile  churches. 
They  have  repeatedly  tried  him  by  false  doctrines,  super- 
stitions, and  contempt  of  his  word.  Yet  he  has  repeat- 
edly granted  them  seasons  of  refreshing,  raised  up  for 
them  holy  ministers  and  mighty  reformers,  and  not  cut 
them  off,  notwithstanding  all  their  persecutions.  We 
have  probably  little  idea  of  the  extent  of  our  obligations, 
and  of  the  number  of  gracious  messages  which  the  lord 
of  the  vineyard  is  oonatantly  wnding  to  our  loula.  Mer- 
oiM  b«for«  oonTcnion*  meralM  •tvn  conreriion,  meroi*! 


Maboh  8,  1888 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE- 


at  every  step  of  their  journey  on  earth, 
will  be  revealed  to  the  minds  of  saved 
saints,  and  make  them  ashamed  of  their 
own  thanklessness. — Byle. 

"But  last  of  all  he  sent  unto  them  his 
son."  It  is  only  by  placing  together  the 
three  accounts  that  we  can  understand 
the  full  beauty  and  power  of  this  passage. 
"Then  said  the  lord  of  the  vineyard.  What 
shall  I  do?  Having  yet  therefore  one 
son,  his  well-beloved,  he  said,  I  will  send 
my  beloved  son.  He  sent  him  also 
last  unto  them,  saying.  They  will  rever- 
ence my  son."  This  was  the  last  and 
crowning  effort  of  divine  mercy;  after 
which,  on  the  one  side,  all  the  resources 
even  of  heavenly  love  are  exhausted,  on 
the  other  the  measure  of  sins  is  perfectly 
filled  up — Trench. 

"Let  us  kill  him,  and  let  us  seize  on  hia 
inheritance."  A  sort  of  faith  in  the 
greatness  of  Christ  is  at  the  root  of  the 
intense  hatred  men  feel  toward  him. 
They  know  him  to  be  the  heir,  feel  Christ's 
divine  right  to  rule  them,  that  he  is  man's 
best  teacher,  highest  example,  rightful 
Lord;  and  yet  this  knowledge  increases 
opposition.  Lord  Byron  said  of  the  Gos- 
pel, whose  guidance  be  would  not  accept, 
"The  worst  of  it  is,  I  believe  it." — R. 
Olover, 

"And  they  caught  him,  cast  him  out  of 
the  vineyard,  and  slew  him"  on  the  cross 
of  Calvary.  They  killed  that  they  might 
possess;  but  it  was  the  shortest  road  to 
entire  loss.  Those  who  reject  Christ  in 
order  that  they  may  keep  possession  of 
themselves,  their  pleasures  and  hopes, 
have  taken  the  shortest  and  surest  way  to 
lose  them. — P 

"The  stone  which  the  builders  rejected 
has  become  the  head  of  the  corner."  A 
reference  to  the  union  of  Jews  and  Gen- 
tiles in  Christ,  as  in  Eph.  2:  19-22,  may 
be  included  (so  Alford);  but  the  main 
thought  is  that  the  Messiah,  even  if  re 
jected  by  the  "builders,"  should  become 
the  corner-stone  of  the  real  temple  of 
God  (his  new  spiritual  kingdom). — 
Bchaff.  Every  temple  that  is  to  stand,  be 
it  nation  or  church  or  individual  soul, 
must  have  Christ  for  the  corner-stone,  or 
it  will  perish.  For  the  time  is  coming 
when  Jesus  shall  be  king  of  all  in  heaven 
and  on  earth. — P. 

"And  whosoever  shall  fall  on  this 
stone,"  etc.  They  fall  on  the  stone  who 
are  offended  at  Christ  in  his  low  estate 
(Isa.  8:  14;  53:  2;  Luke  2:  34;  4: 29;  John 
4:  44) ;  of  this  sin  his  hearers  were  already 
guilt; .  They  on  whom  the  stone  falls 
are  those  who  set  themselves  in  self-con- 
scious opposition  against  the  Lord;  who, 
knowing  what  he  is,  do  yet  to  the  end 
oppose  themselves  to  him  and  to  his 
kingdom.  These  shall  not  merely  fall 
and  be  broken;  for  one  might  recover 
himself,  though  with  some  present  harm, 
from  such  a  fall  as  this;  but  on  them  the 
stone  shall  fall  as  from  heaven,  and  shall 
grind  them  to  powder. — Trench. 


OBITUAEY. 


Elder  John  G.  Miller  died  at  his  home 
in  Coulterville,  Illinois,  May  18,  1886, 
aged  72  years. 

He  was  born  at  Ryegate,  Vermont,  in 
1813,  and  in  1827  moved  to  Randolph 
county,  Illinois.  He  united  with  the 
church  by  public  profession,  in  the  Eden 
congregation,  but  at  the  organization  of 
Church  Hill  congregation  he  was  chosen 
and  ordained  to  the  eldership,  which  of- 
fice he  held  until  his  death.  He  leaves  a 
wife  and  several  children  in-the  com- 
munion of  the  church  to  which  his  own 
life  was  so  tenderly  devoted.  Among 
the  resolutions  adopted  by  Church  Hill 
session  on  the  death  of  Elder  Miller,  was 
the  following:  "We  bear  witness  to  the 
faithfulness  of  our  brother  in  contending 
for  the  crown  rights  of  King  Jesus,  and 
defending  the  testimony  of  the  church; 
his  tendbrness  in  dealing  with  the  erring, 
his  wisdom  as  a  counsellor,  his  prompt- 
ness in  performing  the  work  assigned 
him  by  the  session  or  congregation,  his 
love  for  and  punctuality  in  attending 
upon  Gospel  ordinances  and  church 
courts.  His  place  in  the  sanctuary.  Sab- 
bath-school, prayer-meeting  and  session 
was  seldom  vacant,  and  he  was  always 
on  time  " 

"Some  of  the  points  in  Elder  Miller's 
Christian  life,"  writes  Bro.  James  Math- 
ews, "deserve  notice  He  was  an  earnest 
and  zealous  supporter  of  the  Cynosure 
and  its  principles.  Having  been  a  sub- 
scriber nearly  from  the  first,  ho  showed 
me  the  first  copy  I  ever  saw  of  the  paper, 
then  in  four-page  form.     He  urged  me  to 


take  it.  Said  he,  it  is  a  small  paper,  but 
it  advocates  great  principles.  He  was 
the  means  of  placing  the  Cynosure  in 
many  families.  He  gave  his  papers  to 
every  one  in  his  town  (Coulterville)  who 
would  read  them.  Masons  and  Christians 
alike,  and  had  many  interesting  discus- 
sions and  arguments  and  some  strange 
experiences  with  the  fraternity.  He  was 
kind  and  courteous  to  all,  and  left  a  good 
impression  even  on  those  that  opposed 
him.  He  went  about  doing  good  and  in 
such  a  manner  as  to  gain  the  esteem  and 
good  will  of  all,  and  had  fast  friends 
even  among  Freemasons." 


Pasm  Notes. 


LESS     LAND     AND     LARGER     YIELDS 
NEEDED. 

It  is  not  in  additional  acreage  that  the 
progressive  farmer  must  look  for  his 
gains,  but  in  making  less  land  yield  more 
substance.  This  means,  primarily,  the 
bestowing  of  more  labor  upon  small 
areas;  and  to  the  average  farmer  this 
seems  synonymous  with  neglect  of  his 
larger  acreage  of  grain.  To  harmonize 
these  apparently  conflicting  methods  is 
the  task  of  the  intelligent  farmer  of  to- 
day. The  two  principal  methods  by 
which  the  value  of  the  product  of  a  lim- 
ited portion  of  our  acreage  can  be  in- 
creased, are:  the  growing  of  vegetable 
supplies  for  our  home  markets  through- 
out the  season;  and  the  growing  of  field 
crops  of  vegetables  for  shipment  to  city 
markets  in  the  fall  and  winter.  The  first 
of  these  is  particularly  applicable  to  those 
farmers  who  are  located  near  medium- 
sized  towns — say  of  from  three  thousand 
to  ten  thousand  population.  Regular 
market-gardeners  usually  locate  near  the 
larger  cities;  and  these  smaller  towns  are 
dependent  for  their  supply  of  spring  and 
summer  vegetables  upon  the  scant  sur- 
plus of  some  farmers'  gardens  or  upon 
shipments  from  the  cities.  The  second 
method  noted  can  be  advantageously 
pursued  by  such  as  are  located  near  cities, 
as  their  entire  product  can  be  there  dis 
posed  of  to  a  wholesale  merchant;  or  by 
those  remote  from  cities  but  near  rail- 
roads over  which  their  crops  can  be 
shipped  in  bulk  to  the  city  commission 
dealer. — American  Agriculturist  for 
March. 

— The  following  preparation  applied 
to  the  surface  will  prevent  any  rusting 
on  plows  or  any  other  metal  surfaces : 
Melt  one  ounce  of  resin  in  a  gill  of  lin- 
seed oil,  and  when  hot  mix  with  two 
quarts  of  kerosene  oil.  This  can  be  kept 
on  hand  and  applied  in  a  moment  with  a 
brush  or  rag  to  the  metal  surface  of  any 
tool  that  is  not  going  to  be  used  for  a 
few  days,  preventing  any  rust,  and  sav- 
ing much  vexation  when  the  time  comes 
to  use  it  again. 

SHORT  STOPS. 

The  last  snow  is  the  best  bed  for  grass 
seed. 

Any  fool  can  farm — so  long  as  his 
money  and  credit  last. 

Water  is  often  mistaken  for  disease 
among  the  new  litters. 

The  crop  that  makes  the  profit  is  the 
crop  that  beats  the  average. 

Tiling  has  doubled  some  men's  farms 
— not  broader,  but  twice  as  deep. 

Straight  rows  are  more  pleasing  to  the 
eye  and  less  tiresome  to  the  hand. 

The  oldest  resident  can't  remember 
when  a  green  fodder  crop  came  amiss. 

Jack  Frost  about  stakes  and  posts  is 
making  work  for  the  maul  ,on  top  of 
them. 

Foresight  is  so  much  more  valuable 
than  hindsight  because  it  is  so  much 
scarcer. 

Wind,  rot,  and  a  breachy  animal,  like 
the  measles,  always  find  the  weakest  spot. 

Better  begin  the  spring  with  only  one 
pair  of  trousers  than  without  a  grindstone. 

While  condemning  that  which  deserves 
it,  don't  forget  to  commend  work  well 
done. 

The  man  who  leans  upon  novelties  is 
apt  to  fall  into  a  very  old  thing — a  pau- 
per's grave. 

The  doctor  who  rejoices  at  clean  prem- 
ises and  good  gardens  loves  his  neighbor 
as  himself. 

Work  is  hard  to  drive,  but  if  you  will 
put  yourself  ahead  of  it  it  will  follow 
without  trouble. 

Last  year's  corn  stalk  will  be  a  trouble- 
some neighbor  to  the  roots  of  this  year's 
corn  plants. 

If  a  much  distended  udder  threatens 
garget,  put  the  cow  on  dry  feed  end  milk 
her  before  oalving. 


Corn  planted  before  the  ground  was 
warm,  caught  a  cold  that  made  it  bilious 
looking  all  summer.  tm^^ 

The  man  who  scours  his  plows  in  the 
spring  does  his  only  hard  work  on  the 
highway  at  that  time. 

'The  bleat  of  the  disowned  lamb  ac- 
cuses, not  its  dam,  but  an  incompetent  or 
a  careless  shepherd- 

A  day  gained  in  the  spring  will  be  of 
more  value  than  the  ideas  caught  floating 
around  the  stove  in  the  village  store. 

"Steady  pulling  doesn't  bear  on  galled 
shoulders  and  chafed  sides,"  thought  the 
horse  while  the  unoiled  harness  was 
buckled  on. 

Early  to  plow  and  early  to  reap. 
The  granaries  all  with  golden  grain  heap. 

If  the  horses  are  frisky  do  not  turn 
them  in  the  lot  together  while  they  are 
fresh  shod.  They  are  apt  to  injure  each 
other  with  the  sharp  calks. 

Galls  are  rtrely  seen  on  the  horses' 
shoulders  bathed  night  and  morning  with 
strong  salt  water,  beginning  a  month 
before  the  spring  plowing.  In  warm 
weather  use  sweat-pads  under  the  collars. 
— American  Agriculturist  fw  March. 


WOMAN    AS    A    MARTYR. 

History  records  the  sufferings  of  count- 
less martyrs,  and  we  read  of  them  with 
wonder  and  sympathy.  But  there  are 
living  to  day  in  our  midst  thousands  of 
other  martyrs  who  have  far  stronger 
claims  upon  our  consideration — women 
who  are  sufferers  from  those  ailments 
peculiar  to  their  sex,  our  wives,  daugh- 
ters and  sisters,  perhaps,  whose  lives  are 
an  unremitting  round  of  suffering.  "Is 
there  no  relief?"  they  cry.  Yes,  there  is; 
Dr.  Pierce's  Favorite  Prescription  will 
remove  that  "dragging-down"  feeling, 
will  banish  that  backache,  will  restore 
every  function  to  its  normal  condition. 
To  all  sufferers  from  female  complaints — 
and  their  name  is  Legion — we  say:  get 
the  "Prescription"  at  once;  it  will  be 
worth  far  more  than  its  weight  in  gold  to 
you. 

CONSUMPTION  SURELY  CURED. 

To  the  Editor: — Please  inform  your 
readers  that  I  have  a  positive  remedy  for 
the  above  named  disease .  By  its  timely 
use  thousands  of  hopeless  cases  have  been 
permanently  cured .  I  shall  be  glad  to 
send  two  bottles  of  my  remedy  freb  to 
any  of  your  readers  who  have  consump- 
tion if  they  will  send  me  their  Express 
and  P.  O.  address.  Respectfully,  T.  A. 
Slocum,  M.  C,  181  Pearl  St.,  New  York. 

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Puget  Sound  or  Pacific  Coast  points  $5.00  lower 
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tte  receipt  of  Its  Treasurer  for  the  time  being 
*l)all  be  BufiScient  dlscbarae. 

THB  NATIONAL  CONYBNTION. 

PBBSiDwira.— Rev.  J.  8.  T.  Milligan, 
Denison,  Kans. 

Skcrbtabt.— Rev.  R.N.CouDtee,Mem- 
phis,  Tenn. 

btatb  auziliabt  associationb. 

Alabama.— Pre*.,  Prof.  Pickens;  Sec,  O. 
M.  EUIott;  Treas.,  Rev.  C.  B.  Curtis,  ijl  of 
Selma. 

Galiiobnia.— Presy^  L.  B.  Lathrop,  HoUla 
ter ;  Cor.  Sec,  Mrs.  U.  P.  Merrill,  Woodland ; 
Treae.,  C.  Ruddock,  Woodland. 

CoNNBCTictJT.— Pres..  J.  A.   Conant,  Willi, 
mantle;  Sec,  Geo.  Smith,  WUUmantlc ;  Treat. 
C.  T.  Collins,  Windsor. 

IixTNOis.— Pres.,  J.  P.  Stoddard;  Sec,  M 
N.  Butler;  Treas.,  W.  I.  Phllllpi  all  at  Cy- 
noswt  office. 

Indiana.— Pres.,  William  H.  Fieg,  Reno 
Sec,  S.  L.  Cook,  Albion;  Treas.,  BenJ.  Uiob* 
Silver  Lake. 

Iowa.— Pres.,Wm.  Johnston.College  Srrlnes  • 
Cor  Sec,  C.  D.  Trumbull,  Morning  Sun- 
Treas.,  James  Harvey.  Pleasant  Plain.  Jeflfer- 
son  Co. ;  Lecturer,  C.  F.  Hawlev,  Wheaton,  III 

Kansah.- Pres.,  J.  S.  T.  Mllfigan,  Denison- 
Sec,  8.  Hart,  Leconiptou;  Treas,,  J.  A.  Tor- 
rence,  Denison. 

Massachcsbtts.— Pree.,  S.  A.  Pratt;  Sec. 
Mrs.  E.  D.  BaUey ;  Treas.,  David  Mannlng,Sr., 
Worcester. 

Michigan.— Pree.,  D.  A.  Richards,  Briirhton  • 
Sec'y.  H.  A.  Day,  Willlamston;  Treaa.' 
Qeo.  Swanson,  Jr.,  BedfoiJ. 

MiNNBSOTA.— Pree.,  E.  Q.  Paine,  Waslo'a 
Cor.  Sec,  Wm.  Fen  ton,  St.  Paul :  Rec.  Sec'y 
Mrs.  M.  F.  Morrill,  St.  Cnarles;  Treas.,  Wb' 
H.  Morrill,  St.  Charles. 

Missouri.— Pre*.,  B.  F.  Miller,  Eaglevllle" 
Treas.,  William  Beauchamp,  Avalon ;  Cor.  Sfc' 
A.  D.  Thomas,  Avalon. 

Nbbraska.— Pres.,  S.  Austin,  FairmooitP 
Cor.  Sec,  W.  Spooner,  Kearney;  Treas.1 
J.  C.  Fye. 

Maine -Pros,  Isaac  Jackson,  Harrison; 
Sec,  I.  D.  Haines,  Dexter;  Treas.,  U.  W. 
Goddard,  West  Sidney . 

Nbw  HAnrsaiK*.-  -Pres.,  C.  L.  Baker,  Man' 
Chester;  Sec,  S.  C.  Kimball,  New  Market' 
Treas.,  James  /.  French,  Canterbury. 

Naw  York.— Pres.,  F.  W.  Capwell,  Dale; 
Sec'y,  John  v>'allace,  Syracuse;  Treas.,  M. 
Merrick,  Syracuse. 

Ohio.— Pres.,  F.  M.  Spencer,  New  Concord; 
Rec  Sec,  S.  A.  Georee,  Mansiicld;  Cor.  Sec 
and  Treas.,  C.  W.  biAit,  Columbus;  Agent, 
W.  B.  Stoildard,  Columbus. 

Pmnnstlvania.- Cor.  Rec,  N.  Callender, 
ThonpMD ;  Treas.,  W.  B.Bertels,  WUkeebarre. 

VaKMONT.- Pres.,  W.  R.  Laird,  8U  Johns- 
bury  ;  8«.,  C  W  Potter. 

WlBOOBreiN.— Pres.,  J.  W  Wood,  Baraboo; 
Sec,  W.  W.  Ames,  MeDomonU;  Tr«M.,  U..  R* 
BrifMOi  Vienna. 


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8 


THE  CHRISTIAJSr  CYNOSURE. 


March  8, 1888 


The  Christian  Cynosure. 


J.  BLANCHARD. 


Bditobb. 


HENBT  L.  KKLLOGG! 


OEIOAeO,   THUBSDAT,   MABCH  8,   1888. 


TMB  TH0U8ANJ)  COLORED  PA8T0BB. 


BHAIiL   THET  HAVE   THEIB  PAPER? 


Week  by  week  generous  friends  of  the  colored  race 
answer,  Yes.  The  fund  for  this  purpose  reaches  $744  91, 
as  the  treasurer  reports  and  cheering  letters  show  the 
enthusiasm  in  this  enterprise  of  all  who  realize  the  nature 
of  secretism.  Every  letter  from  the  South  jastifies  our 
efEorts,  and  approves  the  judgment  that  no  expenditure 
of  an  equal  sum  will  bring  so  great  returns. 

The  $900  contributed  for  this  purpose  in  the  two  years 
and  a  half  after  June,  1885,  placed  the  Cynosure  in  the 
hands  of  hundreds  of  colored  pastors,  but  few  of  whom 
could  have  paid  for  it  themselves .  Note  the  grand  results 
which  have  followed,  chiefly  because  of  this  work: 

1.  The  Louisiana  Baptist  State  Convention  represent- 
ing 70,000  church  members  has  voted  against  the  lodge. 

3.  The  Texas  Baptists  will  probably  take  the  same 
stand  at  their  next  meeting. 

3.  The  Methodist  Episcopal  church  in  Texas  is  nearly 
ready  for  like  action. 

4.  So  are  the  Arkansas  Baptists,  a  prominent  associa- 
tion having  already  so  voted. 

5.  The  same  churches  in  western  Tennessee  are  coming 
out  against  secretism. 

6.  So  in  Alabama  the  Good-will  Association  is  stand- 
ing against  the  orders. 

7.  Many  of  the  Congregational  churches  in  the  South 
are  opposing  the  lodge,  encouraged  by  the  American 
Missionary  Association. 

8.  Two  schools  for  higher  instruction  have  been  or- 
ganized within  a  year  which  maintain  this  principle,  while 
nearly  every  institution  for  the  education  of  the  Negro 
is  open  for  instruction  of  the  students  on  the  dangers  of 
the  lodge. 

9.  Christians  at  the  North  should  hasten  this  work  with 
all  zeal,  because  the  reflex  influence  upon  their  churches 
will  soon  be  powerfully  felt. 

The  Cynosure  has  proved  the  best  agency  in  accom 
plishing  this  work  in  the  South.    A  fund  to  send  a 
thousand  copies  to  as  many  colored  pastors  is  being 
raised.    Dear  reader,  has  not  the  Lord  given  you  means 
to  help  it  on? 


CHICAGO  JE8VITB  AND  B08T0N  MAa0N8. 


Eight  years  ago  this  month,  when  the  National 
Convention  was  held  in  Boston,  free  speech  against 
the  lodge  was  a  commodity  not  in  that  market.  It 
was  not  to  be  had  for  «'love  or  money;"  for  we  tried 
both.  And  we  are  not  indebted  to  the  powerful 
Catholic  influence  in  that  city,  which  imprisons  men 
for  preaching  on  the  Common,  for  any  aid  or  com- 
fort in  the  struggle  against  the  pretended  foe  of 
Rome. 

The  headquarters  of  Dr.  Justin  D.  Fulton's  cru- 
sade against  popery  are  in  Boston,  where  his  great 
success  with  his  book,  "Why  Priests  Should  Wed," 
began,  as  our  Boston  correspondent  wrote  us  some 
weeks  ago.  Dr.  Fulton  began  to  speak  in  this  city 
on  Monday  of  last  week  in  the  First  Methodist 
church.  Mr.  Bolton,  the  pastor  of  that  church,  had 
preached  a  sermon  the  day  before  for  the  benefit  of 
a  lodge  called  the  Patriotic  Sons  of  America,  an 
anti-Catholic  society.  Tuesday  the  Romanists  got 
in  their  work  and  made  such  disturbance  as  nearly 
to  break  up  Dr.  Fulton's  meeting.  Next  night  Bol- 
ton, who  fights  the  Catholics  with  the  lodge,  bolted 
the  door  on  Dr.  Fulton,  who  fights  them,  like  a  man, 
in  the  open. 

There  was  much  quiet  sympathy  with  the  sup- 
pressed movement,  but  comparatively  little  man- 
ifestation of  it  since  Dr.  Fulton  and  his  manager 
seemed  able  to  carry  on  their  own  battle.  Their  ad- 
vertisements filled  columns  of  the  daily  press.  Mon- 
day night  of  this  week  they  opened  again  in  Battery 
D.,  where  they  had  room  for  thousands  and  promise 
of  police  protection. 

This  incident  is  but  one  feature  of  the  Jesuit  plot 
against  our  Republic.  They  would  suppress  free 
speech,  as  they  did  in  the  sixteenth  century.  They 
have  practical  control  of  the  Indian  Bureau  to-day. 
Two  years  ago  they  managed  thirty-eight  out  of  the 
fifty  schools  supported  by  the  Government  among  the 
Indians,  ard  they  now  have  control,  it  is  believed, 
of  even  a  greater  proportion.  Close  by  here,  iii 
Notre  Dame,  Indiana,  in  connection  with  their  great 


university,  built  by  money  wrung  from  the  business 
men  of  Chicago,  the  Jesuit  lodge  has  set  up  an  in- 
dulgence market,  like  that  of  Tetzel  which  Luther 
smote  in  1517.  A  German  Catholic  paper,  the 
Gemtmde  Blatt,  prints  the  following: 

"Consecrated  rosaries,  giving  the  owner,  if  he  is  in  a 
state  of  grace,  for  every  devout  'Pater  Noster'  and  'Ave 
Maria,'  remission  of  500  days  in  addition  to  that  of 
Brigid  of  100  days  and  the  blessing  of  the  holy  father, 
gifts  of  grace  to  be  offered  also  for  poor  souls,  can  be 
had  from  the  reverend  fathers  of  the  holy  cross  at  Notre 
Dame,  Ind.  Those  desiring  to  order  them  will  apply  to 
Rev.  A.  Granger,  C.  S.  C,  Notre  Dame,  Ind.  Not  less 
than  one  dozen  can  be  ordered,  and  the  order  must  be 
accompanied  by  the  sum  of  $1  for  expenses." 

We  have  not  room  to  more  than  refer  to  Prof. 
Townsend's  fearful  arraignment  of  the  Jesuit  lodge 
in  the  two  numbers  of  Our  Day  now  issued.  Those 
articles  should  be  read  in  every  family,  Protestant  or 
Catholic.  The  land  must  be  awakened  on  this  ques- 
tion, until  we  understand  that  this  evil  is  funda- 
mental, and  we  can  never  be  truly  a  free  people 
while  our  President  and  the  vast  machinery  of  our 
political  parties  is  subservient  to  Rome. 


Prohibition  Notes. — It  is  one  of  the  hopeful 
signs  of  the  times  which  the  old  parties  must  not 
disregard  that  for  the  first  time  in  the  history  of 
Kansas  City  the  saloons  were  closed  last  Sabbath. 
Not  one  was  open,  front  or  rear.  Saturday  the  Law 
and  Order  League  gave  notice  of  the  enforcement  of 
the  law,  the  police  authorities  issued  proper  or- 
ders; and  knowing  that  sharp  prosecution 
would  follow,  it  is  reported  that  not  a  dealer  dared 
attempt  to  sell  liquor  all  day.  Bravo,  Kansas  City ! 
Thank  also  your  neighbors  across  the  Kansas  bor- 
der for  helping  to  this  good  result.    If  this  can  be 

done  one  day  it  can  another. In  Indianapolis,  too, 

the  Prohibitionists  are  moving  for  the  entire  eradi- 
cation of  the  saloon  nuisance.  The  dealers  are 
alarmed  and  preparing  to  fight  in  the  courts.  The 
approaching  National  Convention  of  the  Prohibi- 
tion party  warrants  friends  in  the  city  to  be  active 

and  new  temperance  societies  are  being  formed. 

The  appointment  of  the  National  Democratic  con- 
vention at  St.  Louis,  June  5,  has  made  new  and  un- 
pleasant complications.  The  National  Prohibition 
Committee  meeting  in  Chicago,  Dec.  1st  last,  fixed 
on  June  6th.  They  hoped  to  be  in  the  field  so 
much  earlier  than  the  old  parties  as  to  have  the  ben- 
efit of  their  action  in  its  influence  on  individual 
voters  and  conventions.  The  papers,  too,  will  be  so 
full  of  the  Democratic  business  on  the  6th  that 
little  space  will  be  left  for  the  Indianapolis  meeting. 
It  is,  therefore,  proposed  to  meet  in  May,  a  week  or 
two  earlier.  The  change  will  probably  be  made. 


In  Chicago  we  hail  another  Prohibition  paper,  the 
Chicago  Prohibitionist,  a  weekly  published  by  the 
Cook  County  Central  Committee  of  the  Prohibition 
party.  It  is  a  bright  little  paper  and  deserves  to 
grow,  so  long  as  it  keeps  to  the  right  line  of  clean- 
handed Prohibition,  until  it  becomes,  like  the  Voice 
of  New  York,  a  national  exponent  of  a  great  party 
of  Christian  principle. 


How  St.  Louis  got  the  Democratic  National  Con- 
vention is  a  standing  joke  in  the  political  papers. 
Among  the  excellent  reasons  why  the  gathering 
should  be  held  in  the  Bridge  city  were  the  follow- 
ing: (1)  Beer.  (2)  More  Beer.  (3)  Still  Morb 
Bbeb.  President  Cleveland  is  a  mighty  man,  but 
he  must  remember  old  dog  Tray. 


will  take  up  the  matter  under  Dr.  Jenkins,  the  pas- 
tor, and  the  Congregational  church  at  Rockford  is 
much  interested  and  will  take  some  share  in  the  en- 
terprise. 

— The  Watchman  of  Bombay,  India,  comes  to  us 
across  continents  and  oceans  with  an  N.  C.  A.  tract 
securely  stitched  inside  the  cover,and  our  letter  from 
India  on  the  6  th  page  assures  us  that  the  whole  edi- 
tion bears  thus  a  messenger  to  thousands  of  readers 
testifying  against* the  orders.  This  is  a  good  work 
and  the  friends  in  America  must  stand  by  Bro. Glad- 
win in  this  earnest  effort  to  publish  the  truth  in  the 
great  Eastern  Empire  of  Victoria. 

— Bro.-  W.  B.  Stoddard,  the  Ohio  agent,  after  sev- 
eral days  canvassing  in  Chillicothe,  Lyndon,  South 
Salem,  Greenfield  and  Jamestown,  started  with  Mrs. 
Stoddard  for  Pittsburgh  on  Thursday,  where  they 
will  visit  her  father's  family  and  see  what  can  be 
done  for  the  reform  in  Eastern  Ohio  and  Western 
Pennsylvania.  A  letter  written  from  Pittsburgh  in- 
dicates that  there  is  much  work  demanded  and  he 
may  remain  in  the  vicinity  several  weeks. 

— Many  of  the  old  residents  of  Chicago  have 
marked  with  regret  the  removal  of  the  old  dwelling 
which  was  for  so  many  years  the  Chicago  home  of 
Philo  Carpenter.  For  a  generation  the  tides  of  busi- 
ness have  swept  by  on  either  side  until  the  city  has 
grown  for  miles  to  tiie  westward.  Still  the  old  home 
stood,  holding  its  place  in  the  center  of  a  goodly 
block,  as  if  guardian  angels  were  preserving  it  from 
the  encroachments  of  trade.  There  was  something 
tender  and  venerable  about  the  place,  and  no  doubt 
Mr.  Carpenter  regretted  to  see  it  disturbed.  Here 
his  family  was  reared,  and  Mr.  Hildreth,  the  form- 
er N.  C.  A.  treasurer,  occupied  it  for  years;  and  in 
one  of  its  quiet  rooms  Mr.  Carpenter  met  the  N.  C. 
A.  Executive  Committee  after  the  great  fire  of  '71. 
But  the  old  house  was  fast  going  to  decay  and 
must  be  moved  while  it  could  hold  together.  The 
block  will  probably  be  divided  among  the  heirs  of 
Mr.  Carpenter's  estate,  and  ere  long  fine  buildings 
will  cDver  from  sight  a  thousand  memories  of  early 
Chicago;  but  the  share  that  old  home  has  borne  in 
establishing  the  truth  of  Jesus  Christ  in  anti-slav- 
ery days  and  in  our  own  time  will  never  be  forgotten. 

— In  a  recent  note  in  these  columns  it  was  stated 
that  the  county  treasurer  of  Hyde  county,  Dakota, 
was  a  defaulter  to  a  large  amount,  which  is  not  fully 
determined  as  yet,  but  estimated  to  be  from  ten  to 
twenty  thousand  dollars.  The  management  of  such 
things  in  Dakota  is  marvelous.  The  defaulter  went 
scot  free,  labeled,  This  is  an  honest  man;  only  he 
was  too  good-natured  and  free-handed  as  a  politician 
and  office-holder  in  charge  of  public  money.  We 
imagined  he  was  well  lodged,  and  the  supposition 
was  correct.  He  is  a  Freemason,  Odd-fellow  and 
Good  Templar.  A  majority  of  the  county  board 
are  secretists.  The  sheriff  is  a  Freemason,  an  Odd- 
fellow and  a  Grand  Army  man; and  he  is  reported  as 
saying  that  he  would  never  turn  a  key  on  ex-treas- 
urer James.  The  Territorial  auditor  is  investigat- 
ing matters,  and  it  is  found  that  the  defalcation  is 
larger  than  first  reported.  The  money  is  supposed 
to  have  been  largely  used  in  purchasing  political  in- 
fluence in  the  different  townships,  and  the  stealing 
is  regarded  as  that  of  a  secret  ring  rather  than  that 
of  one  man.  The  indignation  of  the  people  is  ris- 
ing, and  it  is  reported  that  an  order  has  been  issued 
to  re-arrest  James,  who  is  now  in  Iowa. 


— The  readers  of  the  Cynosure  must  be  congratu- 
lated in  securing  such  an  argument  tor  the  prohibi- 
tion of  the  liquor  traffic  as  Rev.  R.^C.  Wylie  writes 
for  them  in  this  number.  Its  reasoning  is  most  able, 
and  as  it  is  not  especially  a  "third-party"  document 
it  will  not  offend  the  tender  feelings  of  any  one. 

— The  Cynosure  has  also  secured  a  new  contribu- 
tor whose  first  article  proves  that  he  will  be  one 
whom  we  shall  highly  esteem.  "Orion"  is  a  Pres- 
byterian minister  of  wide  travel  and  experience, 
now  residing  in  the  Indian  Territory.  He  is  heart- 
ily with  us  against  the  lodge  and  will  be  a  giant,  like 
his  pseudonym,  in  our  moral  confiict. 

— Secretary  Stoddard  lighted  on  a  bonanza  in  the 
old  book  stores  of  New  Orleans  in  the  way  of  Ma- 
sonic Grand  Lodge  reports  during  the  war.  A 
glance  shows  their  value  in  determining  the  com- 
plicity of  the  lodge  with  the  treason  of  the  South. 
These  documents  should  be  thoroughly  examined, 
and  their  valuable  contents  given  to  this  generation. 

— In  a  few  days'  visit  to  Beloit,  Rockford  and 
Freeport,  cities  near  Chicago,  Rev.  Byron  Gunner 
received  donations  of  some  $75  in  cash,  a  windmill, 
and  some  valuable  tools  for  Howe  Institute,  New 
Iberia,  la.     The  Presbyterianj^church  of  Freeport 


PBR80NAL  MBNTION. 


— Secretary  and  Mrs.  Stoddard  reached  Chicago 
Friday  morning  in  company  with  President  Strat- 
ton.  The  return  trip  was  without  incident,  and  all 
are  in  improved  health. 

— President  J.  Blanchard  was  last  week  regaining 
his  strength  which  had  been  somewhat  overtaxed 
during  the  New  Orleans  convention  and  by  subse- 
quent labors.  He  left  New  Orleans  last  week  for 
New  Iberia  and  other  points  west  of  New  Orleans. 

— Gov.  St.  John  proposes  to  leave  San  FranciscD 
April  5  for  Hawaii,  Sandwich  Islands,  and  to  return 
May  13.  The  Hawaiian  friends  believe  that  with 
about  a  week's  work  in  Honolulu  and  a  speech  at 
some  other  points,  they  may  be  able  to  abolisli  the 
liquor  traffic  from  the  kingdom. 

—The  death  of  R.  G.  Patton,  of  Monmouth,  111., 
January  9  th  last,  removed  to  his  reward  one  of 
God's  faithful  men  of  testimony.  He  was  a  promi- 
nent Prohibitionist,  and  an  earnest  promoter  of  the 
reform  against  the  lodge.  The  Christian  Statesman 
publishes  his  portrait  and  biography. 

— A  late  note  from  Bro.  M.  N.  Butler,  brings  the 
unwelcome  news  that  his  wife  has  been  two  weeks 
sick  and  confined  to  her  bed,  and  his  two  little  girls 
have  also  beeif  sick.    We  hope  to  learn  soon  of  the 


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3?3» 


Maboh  8, 1888 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


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recovery  of  all  the  circle  so  dear  to  bim.  Though 
confined  at  home  Bro.  Butler  keeps  his  pen  busy,  and 
our  readers  will  profit  by  his  work. 

— The  Republican  papers  are  clamoring  that  Gen- 
eral Clinton  B.  Fisk  has  disqualified  himself  for 
Presidential  candidate  on  the  Prohibition  ticket  by 
endorsing  the  local  option  bill  passed  by  the  Repub- 
licans in  the  Jersey  Legislature.  General  Fisk 
probably  knows  what  he  is  about,  and  uses 
his  good  sense  where  an  ordinary  politician  goes  by 
party  claque. 

— Rev.  Mr.  Woodsmall,  says  th^-^eadand  Hand, 
published  at  LeMoyne  Institute,  Memphis,  finds  a 
home  with  the  teachers  of  the  school  for  the  remain- 
der of  his  present  stay  in  Memphis;  an  arrangement 
which  we  are  sure  will  be  mutually  agreeable.  God's 
work  in  this  world  is  one  work,  and  it  is  good  that 
his  workers  in  different  fields  can  fraternizd  and  help 
one  another. 

— Ex  Senator  Bruce  spoke  on  the  Race  Problem 
in  Farwell  Hall,  this  city,  last  Thursday.  Speaking 
of  the  tokens  of  the  elevation  and  growing  intelli- 
gence of  the  blacks,  he  said  they  were  forming 
Freemason,  Oid-fellow  and  Knights  of  Pythias 
lodges.  Mr.  Bruce  is  too  intelligent  a  man  to  speak 
so  inconsiderately.  He  should  know  that  this 
lodge  business  is  degrading  his  people,  and  it  should 
be  with  shame  that  he  should  confess  their  fault. 

— Bro.  A.  W.  Parry,  agent  of  the  Evansville,  Wis., 
Seminary,  deserves  a  unanimous  and  universal  vote 
of  thanks  for  his  etficiency  as  secretary  and  press 
reporter  for  the  National  Convention.  He  not  only 
kept  the  daily  record  and  reported  for  the  New  Or- 
leans press,  but  assisted  in  the  Cynoture.^epott  of 
the  convention  proceedings  last  week,  and  wrote  out 
entire  the  interesting  account  of  the  discussion 
which  our  readers  have  been  waiting  for  almost  with 
impatience. 


Notice. — Rev.  Francis  J.  Davidson,  of  New  Or- 
leans, has  been  employed  as  colporteur  and  agent 
for  the  National  Christian  Association  in  the  South- 
west. He  is  authorized  to  take  subscriptions  for  the 
Christian  Cynosure  and  orders  for  books  in  the  line 
of  our  work.  He  will  keep  on  hand  at  his  residence, 
152  Clara  Street,  New  Orleans,  a  limited  supply  of 
anti-lodge  literature  and  will  give  prompt  attention 
to  all  communications  addressed  to  him  respecting 
his  work.  We  bespeak  for  our  Bro.  Davidson  a 
helping  hand  from  the  ministers  and  churches  on 
his  field  of  labor,  and  feel  confident  that  in  going 
forth  to  "sow  beside  all  waters"  he  is  responding  to 
the  call  of  his  Master,  who  has  laid  upon  his  soul 
this  work.  J.  P.  Stoddabd,  Sec.  N.  C.  A. 


WEB  A  TON  COLLEGE. 


The  winter  term  of  this  institution  closes  on  Fri- 
day, March  9th,  and  the  spring  term  opens  Tuesday, 
March  20  th.  There  are  at  present  one  hundred  and 
seventy-five  pupils  in  attendance,  nearly  forty  of 
them  being  in  the  College  classes,  about  one  hun- 
dred of  them  on  preparatory  work  and  the  remain- 
der being  engaged  on  music  and  art.  The  year  thus 
far  has  been  one  of  quiet,  steady  growth  and  the 
outlook  for  the  spring  term  is  encouraging. 

There  has  been  little  sickness  among  students; 
several  members  of  the  Faculty  were  for  a  few  days 
hindered  from  their  classes  by  diphtheretic  difficul- 
ties, but  all  are  now  in  health.  The  location  of  the 
College  is  particularly  favorable;  epidemic  disease  is 
almost  unknown,  and  during  the  last  twenty-seven 
years  no  death  has  occurred  among  those  in  actual 
attendance  at  the  College. 

A  few  more  young  ladies  can  be  accommodated 
in  the  College  building.  The  location  of  the  school, 
the  advantages  offered  in  modern  languages,  the  ex- 
tended and  thorough  character  of  the  College  cours- 
es, the  Bible  study  and  earnest  Christian  character 
of  the  institution  commend  it  to  the  consideration 
of  those  who  desire  a  thorough  and  comprehensive 
training.  We  earnestly  desire  young  gentlemen  and 
ladies  who  are  in  earnest  about  work  as  students. 
No  idlers,  tobacco-users,  frivolous,  or  evil-minded 
persons  are  knowingly  retained.  The  business  of 
the  College  is:  1st,  Religion;  and  2nd,  Honest,  hard 
work  at  study.  All  those  interested  in  such  a  school 
are  invited  to  visit  it  or  send  stamp  for  catalogue. 
Address,  Chas.  A.  Blanohard,  PresH. 


— The  midnight  mission  of  Copenhagen  has  col- 
lected in  three  months  as  many  as  150,000  signa- 
tures to  an  address  which  will  be  presented  to  the 
government,  demanding  the  abolition  of  the  State 
regulation  of  vice.  This  is  in  addition  to  a  ladies' 
petition,  which  steps  short  at  demanding  a  govern- 
ment commission  to  study  the  question. 


OUR   NEW  YORK  LETTER. 

Feb.   28th,  1888. 

Editor  Chkistian  Cynosube:— Dr.  Meredith  lec- 
tured last  Thursday  evening  in  the  Y,  M.  C.  A.  Hall 
on  "The  Study  and  Use  of  the  Bible,"  to  a  large  au- 
dience. Three  things  are  necessary  in  such  study: 
Intelligence,  honesty  of  purpose  and  faith  in  its 
teachings.  The  multiplication  of  commentaries 
and  helps  is  not  an  unmixed  good.  The  Bible  is  a 
plain,  common-sense  book  and  each  one  should  study 
it  for  himself.  There  are  mysteries  in  it,  but  if  we 
obey  we  shall  obtain  the  light.  "If  any  man  will  do 
his  will,  he  shall  know  the  doctrine." 

Only  a  believer  is  a  competent  witness  as  to  the 
truth  of  the  Bible.  It  is  remedial.  It  offers  a  cure 
for  sin,  and  only  those  who  have  tried  it  know  any- 
thing about  it.  "The  natural  man  receiveth  not  the 
things  of  the  Spirit,  neither  can  he  know  them,  be- 
cause they  are  spiritually  discerned."  A  man  is 
brought  into  court  charged  with  murder.  Another 
comes  forward  to  testify.  The  judge  asks  him, 
"Did  you  see  this  man  commit  the  murder?"   "No." 

"Do  you  know  anything  about  the  case?"     "No." 

"Then  what  are  you  here  to  testify  against  him 
for?" 

"1  feel  that  he  is  guilty." 

"You  go  away.     You  are  no  witness." 

That  is  the  infidel  testifying  against  the  Bible. 
He  doesn't  know  what  he  is  talking  about. 

A  man  makes  a  chart  of  the  Atlantic  coast,  the 
rocks,  shoals,  and  sand  bars,  all  marked.  An  indi- 
vidual from  beyond  the  Mississippi  river,  who  never 
saw  the  sea,  comes  forward  and  says,  "That  is  not  a 
true  chart,  for  the  name  of  Samuel  Smith  is  written 
on  one  corner,  and  I  can  prove  that  he  is  not  the 
author  of  it." 

"Well,  what's  the  difference  who  made  it;  the 
question  is,  is  it  a  true  chart?" 

"It  cannot  be  a  true  chart,  for  it  is  dated  1884, 
and  I  can  prove  it  was  not  made  until  1887." 

"What's  the  difference  when  it  was  made!  Is  it  a 
true  chart?  Do  you  know  anything  about  the 
places  marked  ?" 

"Oh,  no.    I  never  saw  the  sea." 

"Well,  you  go  back  beyond  the  Mississippi." 

An  old  sea  captain  comes  up  and  says,  "That  is 
a  true  chart.  I  have  been  over  the  places  marked, 
and  every  thing  is  correct." 

You  are  willing  to  listen  to  him.  Now  the  Bible 
is  a  chart  of  the  sea  of  life.  The  infidel  is  the  ig- 
noramus prating  about  "the  mistakes  of  Moses"  and 
the  inaccuracies  which  he  fancies  he  detects  in  dates 
and  names.  The  Christian  is  the  sea  captain  who 
has  tried  it.  "0,  taste  and  see  that  God  is  good." 
Who  ever  heard  of  a  mother  calling  her  sons  and 
daughters  to  her  bed-side  in  her  dying  hour  and  say- 
ing: "Thirty  years  ago  I  accepted  the  Bible  as 
God's  book  and  have  tried  to  follow  its  teachings. 
But  I  find  I  was  mistaken,  and  I  warn  you  against 
that  book."  Not  a  single  case  can  be  produced. 
How  many  thousands  can  be  produced  on  the  other 
side! 

Last  Sabbath  afternoon  1  preached  on  the  Sab- 
bath question  in  the  Willoughby  Avenue  Reformed 
Presbyterian  church.  Two  Baptist  ministers  were 
present.  We  had  a  much  larger  turnout  than 
usual.  The  hearts  of  the  faithful  are  trembling  for 
the  Sabbath.  Railroad  corporations,  their  presi- 
dents, stock-holders,  oflQcers,  engineers,  brakemen, 
drivers,  conductors,  have  all  conspired  to  break 
down  our  Sabbath.  A  church- member  in  this  city 
is  a  conductor  on  the  street  car.  He  was  remon- 
strated with  because  he  worked  on  the  Sabbath. 

"I  must  support  my  family.  It  is  either  work  on 
Sabbath  or  lose  my  position." 

Why  not  steal;  that  is  only  a  violation  of  the 
Eighth  Commandment.  The  Eighth  Commandment 
is  no  more  sacred  than  the  Fourth.  There  are  some 
families  in  this  city  occupying  high  placas  in  so- 
ciety, where  the  wife  and  mother  goes  regularly  to  a 
house  of  ill-repute  and  sells  her  body  for  merchan- 
dize that  they  may  have  the  means  to  maintain  their 
position.  That  is  only  a  breach  of  the  Seventh 
Commandment  That  is  no  more  sacred  than  the 
Fourth. 

"Will  a  man  rob  God,  yet  ye  have  robbed  me, 
even  this  whole  nation."  We  take  his  time.  Why 
must  the  bell-punch  be  hung  around  the  neck  of 
every  street  car  conductor?  Because  their  em- 
ployers know  that  a  man  who  habitually,  knowingly 
and  wilfully  breaks  the  Sabbath-day  cannot  be 
trusted.  Every  time  that  bell  punch  comes  down  it 
sounds  out  "thief."  The  company  deliberately  cuts 
the  jugular  vein  of  their  employes'  morality  in  re- 
quiring them  to  break  the  Sabbath,  and  then  they 
hang  the  badge  of  the  thief  upon  his  neck — all  for 
the  sake  of  a  little  gain.  This  is  a  disgrace  to  our 
Christian  civilization.     And  the  churches  that  tole- 


rate such  a  thing  in  their  members  are  guilty  before 
God. 

Sabbath  evening  I  preached  in  the  York  Street 
M.  E.  church.  Rev.  Corcoran,  pastor.  This  is  the 
original  down-town  church.  There  was  a  full 
house  and  the  usual  close  attention.  The  Metho- 
dists take  to  National  Reform  as  naturally  as  ducks 
to  the  water.  I  have  not  received  such  a  warm  re- 
ception in  many  a  month.  Dr.  Henry  I.  Van  Dyke 
told  me  1  was  doing  wrong  in  preaching  three  times 
every  Sabbath.  But  no  consideration  of  a  personal 
nature  could  induce  me  to  forego  these  glorious  op- 
portunities to  preach  the  crown  rights  and  royal 
prerogatives  of  the  Lord  Jesus  Christ.  I  believe 
God  is  blessing  the  work,  for  the  door  is  wide  open, 
my  health  was  never  better,  and  the  hearts  of  his 
people  are  opened  to  contribute  the  m-^ans.  L^t  his 
name  be  praised.  The  New  York  We-kly  Witness 
gave  over  a  column  to  discuss  National  Reform  Feb. 
8th. 

The  strike  on  the  Schuykill  cost  both  sides  per- 
haps $4,000,000.  We  are  reminded  that  a  pyramid 
in  Egypt  which  served  as  a  monument  to  one  of  the 
kings  took  360,000  men  twenty  years  to  build  it. 
The  royal  palace  of  Peru  took  20,000  men  fifty  years 
build  it;  and  the  royal  palace  in  Mexico  took  200,000 
men  fifty  j  ears  to  build  it.  At  the  rate  of  wages  paid 
in  America  the  workmen  on  the  pyramid  would  have 
received  three  thousand  millions  of  dollars. 
They  only  received  two  cents  per  day.  Per- 
haps the  trades  unions  and  Kaights  of  Labor  are 
becoming  oppressive  to  honest  capitalists.  It  is 
only  when  employer  and  employe  are  actuated  by 
the  spirit  of  brotherly  love  and  are  willing  to  faith- 
fully apply  the  Golden  Rule  that  "the  rich  and  the 
poor  meet  together." 

The  Presbyterian  Ministers'  Meeting  last  Monday 
discussed  "the  Cathedral  and  the  Parish."  The 
paper  told  the  truth  in  a  laughing  way.  Dr.  Hall 
said  the  cathedrals  on  the  British  Isles  were  not  the 
outgrowth  of  Protestantism.  They  were  built  by 
the  Catholic  church,  and  when  the  Roman  Catholic 
authority  was  repudiated  and  their  property  con- 
fiscated, these  cathedrals  were  on  the  hands  of  the 
Established  church  and  they  tried  to  make  the  best 
of  them.  The  parish  system  would  be  impossible 
here  in  a  Republic.  But  for  escb  minister  to  have  a 
certain  territory  for  which  he  is  responsible  has 
very  great  advantages.  Presbyterianism  should  be 
emphasized.  Another  brother  said,  we  must  dis- 
tinguish between  the  cathedral  and  episcopacy.. 
The  cathedral  is  not  primarily  a  place  for  preach- 
ing, but  the  seat  or  palscj  of  the  bishop,  who.  in 
the  Prelatic  Establishment,  has  civil  authority.  The 
two  ideas  of  centralized  authority  and  individual 
congregational  responsibility  meet  in  Presbyterian- 
ism. J.  M.  Foster. 


The  Turkish  Famine.— The  latest  news  from 
the  famine  districts  in  Turkey  received  at  the  rooms 
of  the  American  Board  Feb.  25  is  that  thousands 
who  had  sold  even  their  clothing  for  food  are  now 
both  hungry  and  naked.  Missionaries  on  the  Cilic- 
ian  Plain  can  think  of  little  else  than  the  sufferings 
of  the  people.  The  government,  though  in  one  or 
two  sections  hindering  the  work  of  relief  on  accDunt 
of  a  false  charge  that,  the  "missionaries  were  buying 
Protestants,"  is  supplying  the  farmers  with  seeds 
and  with  some  provisions,  while  the  contributions 
from  America  and  England  are  being  distributed 
with  great  care.  It  is  astonishing  how  far  a  small 
sum  will  go  toward  relieving  distress.  Numerous 
instances  are  given  where  the  sum  of  $75  or  $30  has 
brought  unspeakable  relief  to  a  whole  village  of 
starving  people.  At  Adana  some  400  men  are  giv- 
en work  at  15  cents  each  per  day,  and  on  this  pit- 
tance they  manage  to  keep  alive  not  only  themselves 
but  about  400  others  dependent  upon  them.  A  suit 
of  clothes  can  be  furnished  for  $1  50.  Four  thou- 
sand dollars  a  month  for  the  next  three  months  are 
imperatively  needed  to  meet  the  most  pressing  of 
the  calls  from  Central  Turkey  alone,  and  the  famine 
in  Eastern  Turkey  shows  no  sign  of  abatement.  In 
the  name  of  our  common  humanity  let  these  calls  for 
aid  be  responded  to  at  once.  Contributions  may  be 
forwarded  through  Lmgdon  S.  Ward,  Treasurer  of 
the  American  Board,  No.  1  Somerset  St.,  Boston 
Mass. 


—The  Bap'iit  Wetk'v  of  New  York,  the  successor 
of  the  old  American  B.iptist,  beloved  by  so  many 
faithful  men  while  in  charge  of  Dr.  Nathan  Brown, 
has  become  the  Ckrittim  Inquirer,  since  the  recent 
death  of  Dr.  Patton.  The  new  paper  is  a  union  of 
the  Weekly  and  the  Gospel  Age.  Revs.  J.  B.  Calvert 
R.  T.  Middleditch,  R.  S.  MacArthur,  L.  A.  Crandali 
and  John  Humpstone  form  its  able  editorial  corps, 
and  it  promises  to  take  a  place  among  the  ablest  re- 
ligious journals  of  the  country. 


10 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE- 


March  8, 1888 


THE  Home. 


A  MOTHER' 8  LOVE. 

Judges  5:  28. 


BY  A.  B.  CUBTIS. 


O'er  Tabor's  height  the  setting  sun 

Had  cast  his  last  faint  ray, 
■While  mighty  deeds  of  Zebulun 

Had  crowned  the  closing  day. 

A  queenly  mother  stands  alone 

With  sadness  in  her  eyes, 
And  through  the  lattice  a  low  moan 

Comes  mingled  with  her  sighs. 

The  twilight  shades  were  brooding  o'er 

The  fields  of  nestling  grain. 
As  through  the  window  zephyrs  bore 

These  words  of  love  and  pain,— 

"Where  is  my  son,  my  Sisera? 

Why  stays  his  chariot  sol 
Hath  Deborah's  band,  a  tool  of  Jah, 

To  Jabin's  hosts  brought  woe?" 

Fair  maidens  press  on  every  side 
And  strive  to  soothe  her  fears,— 

"Your  son  will  come  at  eventide 
And  turn  to  smUes  these  tears." 

But  each  face  tells  the  tale  she  fears; 

Her  woes  come  back  amain ; 
"My  son,  my  son,  staff  of  my  years. 

Return  to  me  again." 

And  still  the  mother  stands  alone. 

The  sad  tears  in  her  eyes. 
While  through  the  lattice  a  low  moan 

Comes  mingled  with  her  sighs. 


SPIRITUAL  DTN AMITE. 


"How  is  it  with  thee  to-day,  sister?" 

Mrs.  Hart  looked  up  from  her  sewing-machine, 
whose  rattle  had  prevented  her  from  hearing  the  door 
open. 

"Father  Price!  How  glad  I  am!"  And  she  sprang 
up,  holding  out  both  hands  to  welcome  the  vener- 
able old  man,  whom  she  had  learned  to  revere,  as 
well  as  love,  from  her  early  childhood. 

Rev.  Joab  Price  was  one  of  those  country  clergy- 
men of  the  elder  time,  who  was  content  to  live  and 
die  in  a  small  and  lonely  parish  on  a  meager  salary, 
straitened  oft-times  for  clothes  to  wear  and  food  to 
eat;  but  bound  to  his  people  by  such  anxious  love, 
such  a  spiritual  paternity,  that  he  would  as  soon  have 
left  his  children  according  to  the  flesh,  or  his  patient 
wife,  as  the  flock  for  whom  he  had  prayed  and  toiled 
ever  since  he  entered  the  ministry,  and  began  his 
first  pastorate  in  Plowden.  Wife  and  children  had 
both  left  him  now.  He  was  past  the  allotted  years 
of  man,  but  he  was  still  "Father  Price"  to  all  the 
people  of  Plowden,  and  to  the  many  men  and  wo- 
men who  had  gone  out  from  the  still  waters  and 
green  pastures  of  that  pleasant  village  among  the 
hills  to  dwell  elsewhere.  Sarah  Allen  was  the  daugh- 
ter of  one  of  his  deacons,  and  was  born  on  the  same 
day  with  his  own  daughter.  A  bright,  gay,  willful 
child  she  was,  as  different  from  his  placid,  obedient 
Ruth  as  one  child  could  be  from  another;  but  they 
loved  each  other  the  better  for  that  difference. 
When  Sarah  married  Harry  Hart,  a  young  merchant 
in  Kingston,  Ruth  really  pined  for  her  comrade; 
and  when  Ruth  was  smitten  with  one  of  those  mys- 
terious and  deadly  fevers  that  spring  up  now  and 
then  among  our  New  England  hills,  in  spite  of  keen, 
pure  air  and  the  clear  water  of  granite  springs,  and 
gave  up  her  sweet  soul  to  the  Father  above,  whom 
she  had  loved  and  served  from  her  childhood,  Sarah 
Hart  mourned  her  only  less  than  her  parents  did, 
for  she  was  the  sole  sister  she  had  ever  known. 
And  it  was  under  Father  Price's  ministry  that  Sarah 
began  to  lead  a  Christian  life,  and  joined  the  church 
on  earth.  It  had  been  his  wise  counsel  that  had 
taught  and  encouraged  her  so  long  as  she  lived  in 
Plowden;  and,  on  her  annual  visits  to  her  home,  she 
had  counted  on  seeing  him  almost  as  much  as  on 
the  visit  to  her  own  father  and  mother. 

But  now  for  three  years  there  had  been  no  one  ai 
home  for  Sarah  to  visit,  and  Father  Price's  wife  and 
his  two  sons  were  all  laid  by  Ruth  in  the  village 
graveyard.  He  had  many  things  to  tell  Sarah,  and 
her  tears  fell  fast  as  he  told  them,  though  his  be- 
nign face  was  placid  and  serene,  as  befltted  one  who 
waited  on  the  very  edge  of  the  river  for  the  messen- 
ger to  take  him  over,  having  already  received  his 
token,  "At  evening  time  it  shall  be  light"  When 
they  had  well  recalled  and  reviewed  what  had  passed 
during  their  separation,  Father  Price  turned  his  be- 
nign face  toward  Sarah;  his  soft  yet  keen  eyes  fixed 
themselves  on  hers. 

"How  in  Jt  now  with  your  bouI,  Sar»h?"  he  asked 
tenderly. 


Tears  sprang  afresh  into  Mrs.  Hart's  eyes. 

"O  Father  Price,  I  don't  know  what  to  tell  you 
I  believe  I  am  a  Christian  woman,  but  I  have  got 
such  a  temper!  You  don't  know  what  it  is  to  have 
such  a  temper  as  mine.  It's  just  like  gunpowder; 
the  least  spark,  and  out  it  flies,  and  I  am  so  ashamed, 
so  bitterly  sorry,  for  I  know  people  think — I  have 
more  than  once  known  that  they  said — 'And  she  pro- 
fesses to  to  be  a  Christian  with  such  a  temper!' 
Father  Price,  I  do  try;  I  do  endeavor  to  keep  hold  of 
it,  but  it  takes  me  by  surprise;  it  shames  and  grieves 
me;  I  am  not  consenting  unto  it.  I  feel  sometimes 
as  if  I  were  possessed  by  an  evil  spirit" 

"Lay  nothing  to  the  charge  of  others,  my  child, 
not  even  to  the  messengers  of  Satan.  You  have  a 
birthright  to  this  temper;  it  was  a  trait  of  them  who 
went  before  you.  Do  not  despise  it,  either;  what 
doth  the  old  divine  say?  'Anger  is  one  of  the  sin- 
ews of  the  soul;  he  that  wants  it  hath  a  maimed 
mind.'  Use  your  temper  for  God,  Sarah,  and  it  will 
do  good  instead  of  harm." 

"Use  my  temper  for  God!"  said  the  astonished 
woman,  unable  to  believe  her  ears. 

"Yes,  even  so.  Take  the  analogy  of  earthly 
things:  gunpowder,  dynamite,  were  first,  it  may  be, 
used  for  evil,  for  war,  for  murder;  but  see  what 
service  they  have  been,  nevertheless,  to  the  world  of 
man.  How  have  they  laid  low  mountains  and  hills, 
and  so  exalted  valleys;  made  crooked  ways  straight 
and  rough  places  plain,  preparing  in  the  desert  a 
highway  for  our  God,  that  so  the  glory  of  the  Lord 
may  be  revealed.  Look  at  the  barriers  they  have 
swept  away  between  heathendom  and  Christendom, 
and  then  remember  the  Word:  'Surely  the  wrath  of 
man  shall  praise  thee  I'  'Be  ye  angry  and  sin  not; 
let  not  the  sun  go  down  upon  your  wrath.'  There  is 
a  way  to  use  every  trait  inherent  in  our  nature  for 
the  glory  of  God,  my  child." 

"I  want  to  do  it,  Father  Price;  I  do  want  to  live 
for  and  in  Christ,  but  I  don't  know  about  this.  Oh, 
how  I  have  shuddered  over  those  texts  in  the  Bible 
that  rebuke  anger,  and  tell  of  the  meek  and  lowly 
Jesus!  It  does  seem  as  if  I  never,  never  could  be 
like  him!" 

"Sarah,  do  you  remember  the  day  when  Christ  en- 
tered the  temple,  and  overthrew  the  tables  of  the 
money-changers?  Or  the  time  when  he  rebuked  the 
scribes  and  Pharisees?  He  was  in  all  points  tempted  as 
we  are,yet  without  sin.  I  doubt  not,nay,I  fully  believe, 
that  in  his  mortal  body  were  sown  the  seeds  of  evil, 
that  his  divine  spirit  might  show  us  how  to  over- 
come them;  yea,  as  far  as  man  can,  I  know  what 
unspeakable  horror,  what  agony  of  conflict  the  ad- 
herence of  sin  to  his  human  garment  must  have 
wrought  in  the  God  who  dwelt  with  men,  and  suf- 
fered their  evil  inheritance  to  company  with  his 
stainless  purity.  But  see  how  he  used  the  temper 
that  belonged  to  his  manhood;  not  to  confound  his 
enemies,  not  to  resent  his  injuries,  but  to  scorch 
and  chase  from  before  him  greed,  hypocrisy  and 
uncleanliness.  He  made  it  a  power  to  work  good, 
not  a  weapon  of  offense.  Do  the  like,  in  your  meas- 
ure, my  child,  with  your  temper;  look  to  your  Mas- 
ter every  hour;  open  not  your  mouth  for  your  own 
good,  to  assail  your  enemies,  or  abuse  them  who 
persecute  you,  if  such  there  be;  but  open  it  wide 
with  holy  indignation  at  all  evil,  all  injustice,  all 
wrong  doing;  make  your  wrath  into  spiritual  dy- 
namite, wherever  you  can  so  prepare  the  way  of  the 
Lord  through  any  high  hill,  or  across  any  darksome 
depth  of  valley.  You  do  some  work  in  and  for 
your  church,  I  suppose?" 

"Yes.  I  have  a  class  in  Sunday-school,  and  one 
in  the  mission  school." 

"Then  I  doubt  not,"  said  Father  Price  smiling, 
"that  you  will  need  to  explode  your  dynamite  often 
where  soft- words  of  peace  would  be  wasted  and 
thrown  before  swine." 

"Oh,  if  I  can  only  remember!  It  seems  still  so 
hard  to  curb  such  a  flash  as  my  temper  is." 

"Sarah,  the  Lord's  time  is  eternity.  Even  below, 
be  works  with  small,  persistent,  atomic  forces;  have 
patience  with  Sarah  Hart  In  the  fulness  of  time 
IS  a  word  we  should  dwell  on  more.  Perhaps  it  will 
help  you  to  know  that  every  word  you  say  repeats 
my  own  experience.  I  have  striven  with  the  pas- 
sion of  wrath  from  my  youth  upward;  I  shall  be 
struggling  therewith  till  I  leave  the  flesh.  My  watch- 
word is,  'He  is  my  defense;  I  shall  not  be  greatly 
moved.'  For  he  hath  opened  my  eyes  even  as  the 
t'yes  of  the  prophet  Elisha's  servant;  and  behold, 
the  mountain  is  full  of  chariots  and  horses  of  fire 
round  about  me,  and  i  know  that  they  who  are  with 
me  are  more  than  them  that  be  against  me." 

The  tremulous  old  voice  thrilled,  and  grew  steady 
as  a  trumpet  note,  and  the  dim  eyes  lit  up  with  the 
fire  of  love  and  faith  as  Father  Price  spoke. 

Mrs.  Hart  oould  but  wonder  and  revere.  It  was 
the  last  time  she  erer  saw  her  wise  and  beloved 


friend.  He  went  home  to  Plowden  from  her  house, 
and  very  shortly  afterward  home  to  heaven  from  his 
earthly  tenement;  but  the  lesson  he  left  was  an  abid- 
ing help  to  Sarah  Hart  She  found  it  hard  enough 
to  silence  the  quick  speech  of  anger  at  trivial  short- 
comings, unintended  slights,  unkind  words  or  deeds 
by  which  she  suffered,  for  a  long  time.  It  was  hard 
to  keep  her  lips  closed  when  the  hot  wave  of  wrath 
dashed  against  them;  sometimes  she  left  the  room, 
fled  to  her  chamber,  and  there  with  bended  head  im- 
plored strength;  and  the  very  consciousness  of  speak- 
ing to  the  Master  changed  the  attitude  of  her  soul 
and  calmed  its  tumult  In  the  air,  even  of  the  outer 
temple,  evil  dies  of  nostalgia;  for  it  is  the  breath 
of  prayer  ascending  and  its  answer  descending  that 
flUs  that  court  with  life,  and  sin  does  not  find  it  na- 
tive air.  So  day  after  day,  persistent,  if  not  always 
patient,  Sarah  kept  on  her  way;  and  there  came 
many  a  time  when  she  found  the  use  of  the  spirit- 
ual dynamite  Father  Price  had  spoken  of,  and  which 
she  kept  stored  for  legitimate  uses.  Once,  on  the 
round  of  visits  she  made  to  her  mission-class  schol- 
ars, as  she  groped  her  way  up  the  dark  and  filthy 
staircase  of  a  tenement  house  she  was  stopped  on  a 
landing  by  wild  screams  and  entreaties  from  a  door 
at  her  side. 

"Oh,  don't!  Don't  ye!  Oh,  father,  don't  kill  her!" 
with  a  chorus  of  groans,  oaths  and  blows  smother- 
ing the  heart-broken  appeal.  Mrs.  Hart  opened  the 
door  at  once;  there  lay  a  wan,  wasted  girl  of  fifteen 
on  a  dirty  bed,  her  hands  clasped  in  entreaty,  her 
face  streaming  with  tears  and  convulsed  with  terror, 
and  between  her  and  the  door  a  thin,  delicate  woman 
writhed  in  the  strong  grasp  of  a  drunken  brute  who 
held  over  her  the  handle  of  a  broken  broom,  just 
about  tC>  descend  on  the  shoulders  of  his  wife  as  he 
turned  to  see  who  came  in.  Then  the  anger  of  Mrs. 
Hart's  soul  rose  in  might;  it  seemed  to  her  like  fire 
in  her  veins  instead  of  blood;  her  feet  flew.  Only 
those  who  have  felt  the  like  possession  can  know, 
or  tell,  what  it  is  that  makes  the  flesh  light  as  smoke, 
and  the  spirit  a  flaming  fire.  Without  one  thought 
of  fear  or  danger,  she  sprang  at  the  man's  arrested 
arm,  wrenched  his  weapon  from  his  hand,  and 
poured  upon  him  a  stream  of  righteous  indignation 
in  hot  words  that  struck  shame  into  his  brain,  and 
cowed  the  brutality  that  was  elementally  a  coward's, 
the  low  nature  of  a  man  who  could  strike  a  woman. 

It  was  the  opening  of  a  new  interest  for  Mrs. 
Hart;  she  found  the  man  to  be,  as  might  have  been 
expected,  a  drunkard;  that  day  furious  because  his 
wife's  scant  earnings  had  been  spent  for  food  for  their 
dying  child,  instead  of  drink  for  him.  He  was  aston- 
ished at  the  interference  of  this  slight  young  wo- 
man who  had  no  fear  of  him,  and  respected  her  for 
what  he  called  her  "pluck;"  and  the  two  poor  wo- 
men were  ready  to  fall  at  her  feet,  for  it  was  the  be- 
ginning of  deliverance  to  them.  A  year  after,  when 
the  daughter  had  lain  months  in  her  peaceful  grave, 
this  man — clothed  and  in  his  right  mind — came  up 
to  the  altar  and  confessed  Christ,  and  dated  his  first 
impression  of  the  power  and  reality  of  religion  to 
courage  of  the  Christian  woman  who  had  not  feared 
his  rough  anger.  Here  was  evidently  the  province 
of  Sarah  Hart's  "spiritual  dynamite." 

Again,  its  force  helped  her  to  break  up  a  ring  of 
boys,  two  of  them  from  her  own  class,  who  were 
surveying  and  urging  on  a  dog  fight,  just  as  she 
came  round  the  corner  of  a  street  into  Potter's 
Court,  one  of  the  slums  where  her  work  lay.  Her 
hands  had  force  enough  to  grasp  Jim  Pierce  by  the 
collar  and  drag  him  out  of  the  ring;  and  her  clear, 
forceful  voice  was  heard  in  a  torrent  of  disgust  and 
reproach,  ringing  through  the  air  till  every  boy  slunk 
or  sneaked  off,  and  the  miserable  dogs  ran  off  yelp- 
ing from  their  unwilling  conflict. 

"Ki!"  said  Sammy  Pierce,  Jim's  bigger  brother. 
"Didn't  them  eyes  o'  her'n  snap  an'  shine?  I  felt 
some  as  though  I  was  struck  by  lightnin'  when  she 
begun  for  to  jaw  us.  Crickey!  she's  some  punkinsi 
You  bet  the'  a'int  nobody  agoin'  to  be  sassy  nor 
bumptious  round  whe/e  she  is!" 

"The'  isn't  nobody  goin'  to  be  mean  nor  hard, 
neither,  ef  she  gets  at  'em!"  echoed  Jimmy. 

"I'd  ruther  ketch  the  flat  of  mar's  hand  acrost  my 
chops  forty  times  than  hev  Mis'  Hart  speak  as 
though  I  was  about  too  great  a  cuss  to  be  'round. 
I  tell  ye,  she  means  it  every  time!" 

Yet  in  her  own  home  Harry  wondered  what  new 
sweetness  and  strength  had  visited  his  "peppery 
little  wife,"  as  he  used  to  call  her.  The  children 
ceased  to  look  at  her  when  they  transgressed,  as  if 
shrinking  from  a  sharp  word  or  a  quick  slap,  for 
they  received  neither;  the  servants  learned  to  respect 
and  love  her,  for  she  had  learned  that  great  lesson 
of  an  honest  Christian  life,  that  there  is  not  only  a 
requirement,  but  a  possiblity,  of  "bringing  into  cap- 
tivity every  thought  to  the  obedience  of  Ohrist."— - 
Roie  lerry  Cooke,  in  Congrefationoli$t, 


Maboh  8,  1888 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


11 


QUB8TI02i8. 

Can  you  put  tfie  spider's  web  back  In  Its  place 

That  once  has  been  swept  away? 
Can  you  put  the  apple  again  on  the  bough 

^hlch  fell  at  our  feet  to-day? 
Can  you  put  the  lUy-cup  back  on  the  stem, 

And  cause  It  to  live  and  grow? 
Can  you  mend  the  butterfly's  broken  wing 

That  you  crushed  with  a  hasty  blow? 
Can  you  put  the  bloom  again  on  the  grape, 

And  the  grape  again  on  the  vine? 
Can  you  put  the  dewdrops  back  on  the  flowers, 

And  make  them  sparkle  and  shine? 
Can  you  put  the  petals  back  on  the  rose? 

If  you  could  would  It  smell  as  sweet? 
Can  you  put  the  flower  again  In  the  husk, 

And  show  me  the  ripened  wheat? 
Can  you  put  the  kernel  back  In  the  nut. 

Or  the  broken  egg  In  the  shell? 
Can  you  put  the  honey  back  In  the  comb, 

And  cover  with  wax  each  cell? 
Can  you  put  the  perfume  back  In  the  vase 

When  once  It  has  sped  away? 
Can  you  put  the  corn-sllk  back  on  the  com. 

Or  down  on  the  catkins?  say. 
You  think  my  questions  are  trifling,  dear? 

Let  me  ask  another  one : 
Can  a  hasty  word  ever  be  unsaid, 

Or  a  deed  unkind  undone?  —  Wide  Awake. 


MR.  "TBN  MINVTBB." 


A  touching  story  is  told  of  the  late  Prince  Napo- 
leon. He  had  joined  the  English  army,  and 
was  one  day  at  the  head  of  a  sqaad  riding 
horseback  outside  of  the  camp.  It  was  a  danger- 
ous situation.  One  of  the  company  said:  "We 
had  better  return.  If  we  don't  hasten  we  may  fall 
into  the  hands  of  the  enemy."  "Oh,"  said  the 
prince,  "let  us  stay  here  ten  minutes  and  drink  our 
coffee."  Before  the  ten  minutes  had  passed,  a 
company  of  Zulus  came  upon  them,  and  in  the 
skirmish  the  Prince  lost  his  life.  His  mother, 
when  informed  of  the  facts,  in  her  anguish  said: 
"That  was  his  great  mistake  from  his  babyhood. 
He  never  wanted  to  go  to  bed  at  night  in  time,  nor 
to  arise  in  the  morning.  He  was  ever  pleading  for 
ten  minutes  more.  When  too  sleepy  to  speak,  he 
would  lift  up  his  two  little  bands  and  spread  out  his 
ten  fingers,  indicating  that  he  wanted  ten  minutes. 
On  this  account  I  sometimes  called  him  "Mr.  Ten 
Minutes." 

How  many  have  lost  not  only  their  lives,  but 
their  precious  souls,  by  this  sin  of  procrastination  I 
When  God  calls  we  should  promptly  obey. — Illus- 
trated Christian  Weekly. 


THB    HARD    PROBLBM. 


I  know  of  a  boy  who  was  preparing  to  enter  the 
junior  class  of  the  New  York  University.  He  was 
studying  trigonometry  and  I  gave  him  three  exam- 
ples for  his  next  lesson.  The  following  day  he  came 
into  my  room  to  demonstrate  his  problems.  Two 
of  them  he  understood,  but  the  third — a  very  diffi- 
cult one — he  had  not  performed.  I  said  to  him, 
"Shall  I  help  you?" 

"No,  sir.  I  can  and  I  will  do  it  if  you  give  me 
time." 

I  said,  "I  will  give  you  all  the  time  you  wish." 

The  next  day  he  came  into  my  room  to  recite 
another  lesson  on  the  same  study. 

"Well,  Simon,  have  you  worked  that  example?" 

"No,  sir,"  he  answered;  "but  I  can  and  will  do  it 
if  you  give  me  a  little  more  time." 

"Certainly,  you  shall  have  all  the  ti  me  you  de- 
sire." 

I  always  like  those  boys  who  are  determined  to  do 
their  own  work,  for  they  make  our  best  scholars,  and 
men,  too.  The  third  morning  you  should  have  seen 
Simon  enter  my  room.  I  knew  he  had  it,  for  his 
whole  face  told  the  story  of  his  success.  Yes,  he  had 
it,  notwithstanding  it  had  cost  him  many  hours  of 
the  severest  mental  labor.  Not  only  had  he  solved 
the  problem,  but,  what  was  of  infinitely  greater  im- 
portance to  him,  be  had  begun  to  develop  mathe- 
matical powers,  which,  under  the  inspiration  of  "I 
can  and  I  will,"  he  has  continued  to  cultivate,  until 
to-day  he  is  a  professor  of  mathematics  in  one  of 
our  largest  colleges,  and  one  of  the  ablest  mathe- 
maticians of  his  years  in  our  country. 

My  young  friends,  let  your  motto  ever  be,  "If  I 
can,  I  will. — Evangelist. 


The  heart  that  is  not  entrusted  to  Him  for  search- 
ing will  not  be  undertaken  by  Him  for  cleansing;  the 
life  that  fears  to  come  to  the  light  lest  any  deed 
should  be  reproved  can  never  know  the  blessedness 
and  privileges  ot  walking  in  th«  light.—*/'.  R,  Haver' 
gcdt 


Teuperance. 


"YOUNG  FBLLBR,   TOVBB  A-FIRE,   THBRB!" 


BY  W.  F.  DAVIS. 


It  was  a  crisp  morning  on  the  29th  of  November, 
1881. 

Having  held  a  Gospel  Temperance  meeting  with 
the  men  of  Bennett's  Camp  the  evening  before,  Bro. 
Mills  and  I  had  walked  down  to  the  track  of  the 
Saginaw  Bay  and  Northwestern  Logging  R.  K,  and 
were  waiting  for  the  next  logging  train  to  take  us  to 
Pinconning,  Michigan,  near  the  shore  of  Lake  Hu- 
ron. 

Several  stout  woodsmen  near  us  were  trundling 
pine  logs  upon  the  skidways  beside  the  railroad, 
when  an  old  man  appeared,  walking  down  the  track, 
accompanied  by  a  boy  of  seventeen.  Smoke  was 
pouring  from  the  mouth  of  the  man,  but  this 
seemed  to  surprise  no  one.  A  glance  of  the  camp- 
men  at  the  boy,  however,  from  whose  right  hip- 
pocket  smoke  was  also  issuing,  led  one  of  them  to 
shout,  "Young  feller,  you're  a  fire,  there!" 

The  lad  quickly  pulled  a  pipe  from  the  smoking 
pocket,  and  beat  out  the  fire  from  his  olothing, 
which,  having  caught  from  his  pipe,  had,  until  the 
woodsman's  warning,  smouldered  unobserved. 

This  little  incident  occasioned  me  to  wonder 
greatly — 

1.  That  any  one  should  be  more  alarmed  to  see 
smoke  coming  from  a  man's  pocket  than  from  his 
mouth. 

2.  That  the  consumer  of  tobacco  in  pipes  and  ci- 
gars seems  to  forget  that  every  time  he  puffs 
smoke  from  his  mouth  he  burns  a  hole  in  his  pocket. 

3.  That  so  many  behave  as  though  their  health  is 
better  than  they  need,  and  therefore  deliberately 
and  repeatedly  poison  themselves. 

4.  That  persons  of  usually  neat  habits  will,  by 
tobacco-smoking,  make  of  themselves  nuisances  to 
others. 

5.  That  the  wide  extent  of  this  evil  should  occa- 
sion any  one  to  think  lightly  of  it. 

6.  That  so  many  should  pretend  that  it  is  neces- 
sary to  practice  that  which  everybody  knows  needs 
to  be  abandoned. 

Young  fellow  I  Old  fellow!  Any  fellow  who  may 
be  "afire  there,"  God  designed  your  person  and  your 
purse  for  a  nobler  sacrifice  than  to  become  a  holo- 
caust upon  the  altar  of  the  filthy,  unhealthy  and 
unwealthy  tobacco  abomination. 

"Thy  words  were  found  and  I  did  eat  them;  and 
thy  word  was  unto  me  the  joy  and  rejoicing  of 
mine  heart;  for  I  am  called  by  thy  name,  O  Lord 
God  of  hosts."— Jer.  15:  \Q.—  lract. 


$453,790,000  PAID  FOR   WATBR. 

How  far  do  the  by-products  of  brewing  make  up 
the  confessed  loss  from  the  shrinkage  of  grain  in 
malting?  This  shrinkage  is  about  twenty-eight 
per  cent.  One  brewer  tells  me  that  the  sale  of  the 
by-products,  brewers'  grain,  kilndust  or  sprouts  and 
yeast  will  not  make  up  even  one-sixteenth  of  the 
loss. 

As  the  shrinkage  is  stated  at  nearly  twenty- 
eight  per  cent,  we  may  fairly  conclude  that  there  is 
a  net  loss  of  twenty-five  per  cent  in  malting  alone. 

Another  question  is,  what  is  the  cost  of  the  water 
and  alcohol  respectfully  in  the  total  of  alcoholic 
beverages  used  in  this  country  annually? 

Prof.  Felix  Oswald  states  from  the  statistics  of 
the  Treasury  Department  that  the  year's  average 
for  the  past  ten  years  of  the  nation's  drink  bill  is: 

Whisky  and  other  distilled  liquors $428,000,000 

Wines 59,000,000 

Ale  and  beer 140,000,000 

Total 1624,000,000 

The  honest  estimate  for  evasions  of  revenue  is  15 
per  cent,  adding  for  this  to  above  figures  we  get — 

Whisky,  etc $492,000,000 

Wines 64,400,000 

Ale  and  beer 161,000,000 

Total 1717,600,000 

Allowing  50  per  cont  as  average  for  the  alcohol  in 
distilled  liquors,  12.}  per  cent  for  wines  and  6  per 
cent  for  beer,  we  find  that  of  the  total  drink  bill 
of  $717,600,000,  there  was  paid— 

For  alcohol $263  810,000 

For  water 453,700,000 

On  the  supposition  that  the  alcohol  is  the  useful 
and  valuable  part  of  such  drinks.  1  have,  it  will 
be  seen,  made  such  a  liberal  allowance  for  its  pres- 
snce  in  the  various  drinks  that  I  am  confident  the 
flgUTM    glT«n     for    it    inolods    th«    ndaa    of 


whatever  other  substances,  sugars,  tastes,  smell, 
etc.,  are  in  the  drinks  and  that  in  fact  the  nation 
pays  in  its  drink  bill  of  $717,600,000,  at  least  $453,- 
790,000  for  the  water  in  such  drinks. 

In  the  foregoing  alcohol  and  water  have  been 
reckoned  at  the  same  value  per  gallon.  Giving  al- 
cohol its  commercial  value  would  of  course  change 
the  figures.  For  the  use  it  is  put  to  its  value  is 
nil,  the  water  only  of  the  drink  being  a  true  nutri- 
ment.— Law  and  Order. 


In  Louisville,  Kentucky,  last  year,  there  were  893 
arrests,  700  of  which  were  cases  of  drunkenness. 

A  certain  area  of  New  York  City  comprises  a 
population  of  360,000  and  contains  31  Protestant 
churches  and  3,018  saloons. 

A  W.  C.  T.  U.,  the  first  ever  organized  in  Mexico, 
has  just  been  formed  in  the  City  of  Mexico.  The 
meetings  will  be  conducted  in  the  Spanish  lan- 
guage in  order  to  reach  the  Mexican  women  for 
whom  the  work  was  instituted. 

Cedar  Bapids,  Iowa,  a  city  that  next  to  Sioux 
City  has  had  the  most  rapid  growth  of  any  in  the 
State,  had,  in  the  days  of  license,  seventeen  hard 
worked  policemen.  Novr  it  has  only  eight,  and  the 
most  they  have  to  do  is  to  preserve  eternal  vigi- 
lance. 

Senator  Chace  has  introduced  in  the  Senate,  and 
Mr.  Hemphill  in  the  House,  a  bill  prohibiting  the 
selling  or  giving  away  of  tobacco  in  the  District  of 
Columbia  to  persons  under  16  years  of  age,  under  a 
penalty  of  thirty  days'  imprisonment  or  $25  fine. 

James  Albert,  the  winner  of  the  six  days'  walking 
match  in  New  York  City,  made  a  speech  in  which 
he  expressed  the  belief  that  total  abstinence  was 
the  prime  factor  in  his  success.  A  local  paper,  in 
commenting,  says:  "His  bit  of  oratory  made  a 
good  temperance  appeal." 

The  city  of  Boston  has  nine  rum-sellers  in  its 
council,  and  five  men  engaged  in  the  same  business 
are  members  of  the  State  Legislature.  The  police 
of  the  State  last  year  made  30,681  arrests,  19,640  of 
which  were  for  drunkenness  and  violation  of  the 
liquor  laws. 

At  Madison,  Wisconsin,  on  New  Year's  Eve  a 
committee  of  Y.  M.  C.  A.  workers  visited  24  out  of 
62  of  the  saloons  of  that  town,  and  found  in  them 
232  men  between  the  ages  of  16  and  40.  At  tha 
same  time  there  was  a  big  spree  going  on  at 
Turner's  Hall  where  about  1,000  men  were  either 
drinking  or  drunk. 

The  Anti-Prohibition  Society  of  Milwaukee  brew- 
ers and  liquor  dealers,  has  sent  the  following  letter 
to  Senators  Sawyer  and  Spooner:  "Considering 
that  there  are  now  pending  before  the  Senate,  or  will 
be  submitted  to  its  decision,  several  bills  in  favor  of 
prohibitory  laws  for  the  District  of  Columbia,  the 
undersigned  Board  of  Directors  of  the  Wisconsin 
State  Anti-Prohibition  Association,  have,  as  repre- 
sentatives of  12,000  members,  resolved  to  request 
you  respectively,  as  their  representatives  in  the 
United  States  Senate,  to  use  all  your  influence  to 
protect  the  perfect  enjoyment  of  personal  liberty  in 
the  District  of  Columbia  by  opposing  such  bills 
tending  to  oppress  personal  liberty  Respectfully, 
P.  V.  Deuster,  President;  Andrew  F.  Fruelich,  Re- 
cording Secretary." 

Senator  Ingalls  in  the  Chautauqnan  for  February: 
"Prohibition  is  so  rigidly  enforced  in  Kansas  that 
there  is  not  an  open  dramshop  or  saloon  from  the 
Missouri  River  to  Colorado.  The  consumption  of 
alcoholic  liquors  has  not  ceased.  A  vast  amount  of 
beer  whisky  and  other  intoxicants  is  imported  sur- 
reptitiuously  by  individuals  and  convivial  associa- 
tions.Tbe  drug  stores  dispone  of  immense  quantities  of 
bitters  and  elixirs  for  indigestion  and  malaria, 
which  seem  to  be  si  trmingly.  prevalent  in  localities 
heretofore  considered  remarkably  salubrious;  but 
the  barroom  has  disappeared.  I  am  not  a  lieliever 
in  prohibition  as  a  practical  remedy  for  the  evils  of 
intemperance.  It  diminishes  but  does  not  destroy 
them.  The  appetite  that  craves  induigcn  J  will  be 
gratified,  often  at  the  expense  of  other  moral  re- 
straints which  are  barriers  and  safeguards  of  so- 
ciety. My  disbelief  in  prohilntion  renders  me  a 
more  disinterested  observer  of  its  results,  and  I  do 
not  hesitate  to  ssy  that  though  attended  with  some 
deplorable  tendencies,  it  has  been  of  great  advantage 
to  the  State,  both  morally  and  from  the  material 
and  economic  standpoint.  Very  few,  if  any  of  its 
citizens  would  willingly  return  to  the  dominion  of 
the  dramshop,  with  its  attendant  crime,  disorder 
and  social  misery.  Whether  the  i)eople  would  pre- 
fer prohibition  to  high  license,  I  am  not  sure;  but 
between  prohibition  and  free  whisky  they  would  be 
praoticallj  oauiimotu  for  prohibition." 


12 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSUBE. 


Mabch  8, 1888 


BBFOBM  NEWS  (^Continued  from  5th  page). 
tributed  literature.     I  was  kindly  entertained  ^ile 
here  at  the  home  of  J.  H.  McRissick.     He  and  his 
wife  are  noble-spirited  Christian  people. 

The  next  forenoon  I  spent  in  visiting  Wm.  Grey. 
He  is  ardently  devoted  to  the  anti-secret  society  re- 
form. He  has  done  much  to  circulate  anti-lodge 
literature  in  the  past,  and  1  was  glad  of  the  oppor- 
tunity to  visit  him  and  invite  his  co-operation  in 
oirrying  forward  the  Iowa  work.  I  also  called  upon 
John  Wilson.  Each  of  the  parties  named  gave  sub- 
stantial tokens  of  their  interest  in  the  reform. 

I   had  visited  the  Dunker  minister  at  Cuba  and 
arranged  with  him  to  announce  a  lecture  for  me  at 
the  Cuba  school-house,  one-half  mile  distant  from 
his  church,  on   Thursday  night.     At  the  time  ap- 
pointed I  went  to  Cuba  to  lecture,  and  to  my  sur- 
prise I  found  the  Dunker  church  lighted  up,  and  a 
congregation  gathering  there.     I  inquired  what  it 
meant  and  learned  that  one  of  their  ministers  had 
come  from  Des  Moines,  who  was  held  in  high  repute, 
and  an  appointment  had  been  made  for  him.     As 
the  arrangements  for  my  lecture  had  been  made  with 
the  pastor  of  the  Dunker  church,  and  my  lecture  had 
been  published  by  him,  and  was  intended  for  his 
congregation,  I  felt  as  though  it  was   hardly  worth 
while  to  go  on  another  half  mile  to  the  school-house. 
But,  thinking  that  possibly  a  few  might  come  to  the 
lecture,  1  concluded  to  go  over  and  explain  the  mat- 
ter to  them.     To  my  surprise,  I  found  that  a  good 
congregation  had  gathered,  who  were  anxious  that  I 
should  lecture  according  to  appointment,  which  I 
did.     The  D ankers  were  not  there,  as  I  had  hoped, 
but  Presbyterians,  Methodists  and  citizens  generally. 
I  told  them  the  secret  lodge  system  is  one  great 
wedge  driven  by  Satan   between   its  votaries  and 
Christ  to  separate  them  from  God  and  heaven.     I 
showed  that  Freemasonry  and  its  kindred  orders 
were   Satanic  substitutes  for  the  religion  of  Christ. 
I  showed  that  the  secret  lodge  system  is  a  Satanic 
conspiracy  to  popularize  deistical  infidelity;   and 
hence  that  no  person  who  comprehends  the  situation 
will  give  aid  and^comfort  to  the  devil,  by  joining  or 
holding  fellowship  with  the  Freemasons,  Odd-fellows, 
Koights  of  Pythias  or  any  other  infidel  society,  who 
acknowledges  Christ  Jesus  as  his  Lord  and  Saviour, 
or  even  cherishes  a  respect  for  our  holy  Christianity. 
An  Oid-fellow  who  was  present  arose  immediately 
on  the  coacluaion  of  my  lecture  to  defend  the  secret 
society  system.     He  seemed   anxious   to  throw  a 
shield  over  Freemasonry.     I  had  mainly  assailed 
Masonry  as  exhibited  in  her  manuals  and  monitors, 
and  taught  by  her  representative  men,  especially 
those  who  have  been  appointed  by  her  Grand  Lodges 
to  instruct  the  brethren,  and  who  have  put  their  in- 
structions in  book  form  for  the  more  permanent  edi- 
fication of  the  "craft."     He  opened  his  remarks  by 
saying,  "I  would  like  to  ask  the  gentleman;"  but 
went  right  on  with  his  interrogative  declamation, 
without  giving  me  any  chance  to  answer.    He  spoke 
as  though  the  books  I  had  quoted  were  forgeries, 
gotten  up  by  the  enemies  of  Masonry;  and  with  great 
declamatory  power  he  asked,  "Is  it  possible  that  the 
millions  of  good  men  in  this  country  and  England 
and  in  Europe,  who  are  members  of  the  Christian 
churches,  would  adhere  to  Masonry  if  they  were  for- 
bidden to  pray  in  the  name  of  Christ?"     He  con- 
fessed that  he  was  not  a  Mason;  he  knew  nothing, 
he  said,  of  Masonry;  but  he  was  an  Odd-fellow,  and 
he  could  recommend  the  young  men  to  join  the  Odd- 
fellows, and  the  Knights  of  Pythias,  and  the  For- 
esters.    The  lodge  sympathizers  seemed  frantic  with 
delight,  especially  when  he  called   in  question  the 
authenticity  of  the  Masonic  works  from  which  I  had 
quoted.     They  cheered  so  wildly  that  it  seemed  at 
one  time  as  though  the  "hells  were  risen  up"  and  we 
were  to  have  pandemonium  on  earth. 

I  had  listened  quietly  to  his  fiery  utterances,  and 
when  he  had  finished  I  asked  the  champion  if  he  had 
examined  the  books  from  which  I  quoted,  giving  the 
name  of  the  author,  the  title,  and  the  page,  so  as  to 
know  that  the  quotations  were  not  correctly  made; 
or  that  the  books  were  not  published  at  Masonic 
publishing  houses,  and  covered  with  Masonic  em- 
blems, and  endorsed  by  high  Masonic  authority  as 
the  genuine  works  of  their  reputed  authors?  He 
confessed  that  he  had  not;  that  be  knew  nothing  of 
them. 

It  was  interesting  to  see  how  suddenly  the  bal- 
loon, which  had  been  icflated  to  such  dimensions, 
collapsed;  and  the  spirit  oi  exultation  was  gone,  as 
the  mortifying  fact  began  to  be  realized  that  he  had 
spoken  words  without  knowledge.  I  then  took  up 
the  question  he  had  raised,  whether,  if  the  rituals  of 
Freemasonry  and  Odd-fellowship  are  deistical,  the 
church  members  and  ministers  of  England  and 
America  would  belong  to  these  orders.  Questions 
were  asked  by  other  gentlemen,  and  answered.  A 
quantity  of  literature  was  distributed,  and  the  meet- 


ing adjourned  in  a  very  quiet  manner.  The  de- 
fender of  the  lodge  came  to  me  and  shook  my  hand 
and  said,  "I  beg  pardon,  sir,  I  did  not  mean  to  in- 
sult you."  And  so  I  left,  with  an  open  door,  through 
which  I  may  return  again  if  the  Lord  please. 

C.  F.  Hawlet. 


Eeligiotis  News. 


LiTEBATTJfiE. 


— The  Moody  and  Sankey  revival  meetings  began 
at  Sioux  City,  Iowa,  Feb.  22,  in  the  old  skating  rink, 
which  was  packed  at  all  the  meetings,  and  hundreds 
were  unable  to  gain  admission.  Over  two  hundred 
clergymen  from  neighboring  towns  were  in  attend- 
ance. 

—Rev.  D.  McAllister,  D.  D.,  of  the  Pittsburgh 
Reformed  Presbyterian  church,  sailed  on  Saturday, 
March  33,  in  company  with  Mr.  Henry  O'Neill,  of 
New  York,  for  a  visit  to  the  mission  fields  of  Syria, 
and  to  attend  the  Council  of  Reformed  churches  in 
London  July  next. 

— The  revival  services  in  the  Friends  church,  at 
Whittier,  California,  have  cloeed.  There  were 
twenty-five  professed  conversions. 

— J.- W.  Butler  reported  to  the  late  Protestant 
General  Assembly  in  Mexico,  the  following  sta- 
tistics: "There  are  18  different  missions  in  the 
Mexican  Republic;  11  different  denominations;  123 
foreign  workers;  12,135  communicants;  adherents 
about  30,000;  there  have  been  59  martyrs;  there  are 
88  ordained  native  preachers,  and  65  unordained. 

— At  Kioto,  Japan,  there  are  550  students  in  the 
training  school  of  the  American  Board,  64  of  whom 
are  in  the  theological  department. 

— A  general  conference  on  Foreign  Missions  is 
to  be  held  in  June  next.  This  meeting  to  celebrate 
a  Century  of  Missions  grows  in  magnitude  and  im- 
portance. There  is  a  prospect  of  a  gathering  of  an 
unprecedented  number  of  representatives  from  al- 
most all  the  missionary  societies  of  the  world.  Be- 
tween eighty  and  ninety  societies  in  Britain,  Amer- 
ica and  the  Continent  have  already  intimated  their 
intention  of  sending  delegates  to  the  meetings  to  be 
held  in  Exeter  Hall,  London,  beginning  on  the  9  th 
and  continuing  to  the  19th  of  June. 

— Before  the  establishment  of  the  British  Bible 
Society  there  existed  only  about  thirty-three  trans- 
lations of  the  entire  Bible,  although  there  were  a 
good  many  partial  ones.  Now  the  number  of  entire 
translations  is  eighty-three,  and  of  the  New  Testa- 
ment alone  171. 

— A  great  revival  has  recently  been  experienced 
at  the  Ohio  Wesleyan  University.  President  Payne 
held  religious  services  with  the  students  every  after- 
noon and  evening  for  two  weeks.  Seventy-five  pro- 
fessed conversion  and  hundreds  of  others  were  led 
to  a  higher  plane  of  Christian  experience. 

— It  is  prescribed  by  law  that  each  year  4,000  cop- 
ies of  the  Bible  and  10,000  of  the  New  Testament 
be  distributed,  when  needed,  in  the  German  army. 
Since  1859  there  have  been  distributed  in  this  way 
143,000  complete  Bibles  and  700,000  New  Testa- 
ments. The  emperor  appoints  a  special  officer  to 
attend  to  this  matter. 

— Nearly  one  thousand  people  have  attended  the 
Akron,  Ohio,  revival  meetings  each  night,  and  al- 
ready between  200  and  300  have  professed  conver- 
sion. Evangelist  Patterson  has  greatly  stirred  the 
people,  and  many  who  cannot  be  drawn  into  a  church 
attend  the  rink  mass  meetings. 

— The  Reformed  Episcopal  church,  now  of  about 
fourteen  years'  existence,  numbers  some  30,000  ad- 
herents, 100  clergymen  and  ten  bishops. 

— The  Presbyterian  church  of  which  Rev.  Dr. 
John  Hall  is  the  pastor  supports  three  missions  in 
and  about  New  York  city,  and  on  a  few  Sundays 
ago  took  up  a  collection  of  $12,000  for  them. 

— The  money  given  by  the  women  of  the  Presby- 
terian church  in  the  United  States  during  the  past 
sixteen  years  amounts  to  $2,150,000— representing 
the  entire  support  of  more  than  two  hundred  wo- 
men missionaries,  two  hundred  native  Bible  readers, 
and  more  than  one  hundred  and  fifty  schools. 

— The  Archbishop  of  Canterbury,  as  the  Premier 
of  the  Eaglish  Established  church,  has  called  a  meet- 
ing of  all  the  bishops  of  the  church  for  July  3  of 
the  present  year  atLambethPalace,the  residence  of  the 
Bishop  of  London.  The  object  of  the  convention  is  to 
discuss  ways  and  means  to  remedy  the  evils  endanger- 
ing Christianity  and  society.especially  intemperance, 
immorality,  polygamy  and  socialism. 

— The  Gospel  missionaries  of  the  W.  C.  T.  U.  in 
the  lumber  camps  of  Michigan  and  Wisconsin  have 
been  doing  a  grand  work  through  the  winter.  Many 
camps  have  been  visited  and  scores  of  lumbermen 
have  been  converted. 


"Wht  PfiiESTs  Should  Wed." — Rsv.  Dr.  Ful- 
ton's new  book  on  Romanism  seems  destined  to  be- 
come one  of  the  most  celebrated  of  these  times. 
When  the  old  and  highly  esteemed  publishing  house 
of  Rand  Avery  Company  of  Boston  decided  that  it 
would  not  print  the  book,on  the  ground  that  its  con- 
tents were  so  obscene  as  to  be  unfit  for  its  female 
compositors  and  proof-readers  to  set  the  type  or  read 
the  proofs,  it  was  generally  supposed  that  Dr.Fulton 
woulJ  give  up  its  publication.  But  his  friends  came 
forward  and  said  that  he  should  not  be  crushed.that 
his  work  should  not  be  stopped,  and  that  his  book 
should  be  printed.  He  was  advised  to  allow  its  pag- 
es to  be  modified  by  the  substitution  of  awfully  sug- 
gestive  plates  for  those  facts  wbic^  were  supposed 
to  be  too  obscene,  and  thereby  gain  all  the  strength 
of  his  original  book  without  the  risk  of  violating  the 
laws  for  the  suppression  of  immoral  and  obscene 
literature.  Its  contents,  were  the  book  made  in  the 
commonest  form,and  had  it  been  printed  in  the  qui- 
etest manner  possible,  would  have  attracted  world- 
wide attention,for  it  is  brimful  of  statements  which, 
if  true,  should  arouse  every  American  to  the  need 
of  some  instantaneous  action.  But  can  Dr.  Fulton 
be  mistaken?  Can  he  be  uttering  and  printing 
falsehoods?  It  would  seem  as  though  he  must  know 
of  the  things  about  which  he  writes  and  talks  so 
freely.  He  has  had  a  career  of  nearly  forty  years 
as  a  clergyman  and  throughout  his  whole  lifetime 
he  has  always  been  esteemed  for  his  fearless  denun- 
ciations of  wrongs  and  vices.  He  has  gone  forth 
from  his  family,  his  parish  and  his  friends  to  do 
what  he  believes  to  be  his  specially  ordained  work, 
and  in  spite  of  the  eff  jrts  to  crush  hi?  work  and  to 
suppress  his  book  he  seems  likely  to  maintain  him- 
self nobly  before  all  the  world,  and  to  secure  for  his 
book  a  circulation  never  before  heard  of  in  the  an- 
nals of  book-making.  The  book  has  queer,  black 
borders,  with  the  indicative  insignia,  black  edges, 
striking  illustrations,  gaudy  covers  in  cloth,  illumi- 
nated in  black,  white  and  red,  w'th  terrible  designs. 
Price  $1  50.  A.  A.  Woodbridge,  publisher,  Box  161, 
Boston,  Mass. 

A  narrative  papsr  of  thrilling  detail  in  tbe  March  Cen- 
tury/is  Captain  Frank  E.  Moraa's  account  of  the  plan- 
ning, mishaps,  and  finally  successful  execution  of  the 
tunnel  at  Libby  Prison,  the  narrator  having  been  one  of 
the  party  who  escaped.  The  article  is  illustrated.  The 
Lincoln  History  also  reaches  to  the  beginning  of  the  war 
and  deals  with  "The  Call  to  Arms,"  the  story  of  Sumter 
being  retold  authoritatively,  the  narrative  being  as  be- 
fore, with  the  aid  of  unpublished  material,  and  of  in- 
tense interest.  Mr.  Eennan  continues  his  revelations  in 
regard  to  the  Russian  state  prisons,  the  details  of  which 
are  remarkable  for  interest  and  bear  every  evidence  of 
authenticity.  An  interesting  incident  related  by  Mr. 
Kennan  is  ihe  celebration  in  the  House  of  Detention  at 
St.  Petersburg  of  the  Centennial  Fourth  of  July.  In 
"The  Home  Ranch,"  Mr.  Theodore  Roosevelt  gives  a 
continuation  of  his  graphic  papers  on  the  daily  life  of  a 
ranchman,  accompanied  by  illustrations  by  Frederic 
Remington,  done  from  the  life,  and  of  striking  faithful- 
ness in  detail.  Mrs  van  Rensjelaer's  paper  in  the  "Eag 
lish  Cathedral"  series  is  devoted  to  Salisbury.  Mr.  John 
Bigelow  gives  an  interesting  biographical  paper  in  bis 
"Franklin's  Home  and  Host  in  France,"  the  host  being 
M.  Dooatien  Le  Ray  de  Chaumont.  The  unpublished 
letters  from  Franklin,  Adams,  and  others  help  to  com- 
plete the  record  of  this  friendship.  The  illustrations  in- 
clude portraits  of  Franklin,  M.  de  Chaumont,  and  a 
drawing  by  Victor  Hugo  of  the  house  occupied  by  Frank- 
lin This  number  contains  also  two  full  page  portraits 
of  Bismarck,  one  after  the  bnst  by  Roth,  the  other  (which 
appears  as  a  frontispiece)  is  from  a  photograph  and  shows 
the  Chancellor  in  his  garden  with  his  two  hounds.  A 
paper  by  the  Rev.  T.  T.  Munger  considers  a  pressing 
question  under  the  title  of  'Immigration  by  Passport." 

The  second  number  of  Cur  Bay  blazes  with  light  like 
the  first.  Prof.  Eimund  J  James,  of  the  University  of 
Pennsylvania,  is  editor  of  the  department  of  Labor  Re- 
form. He  discusses  the  "Socialists  and  Anarchists  of  the 
United  States"  in  an  article  with  such  candor,  philoso- 
phy, clearness  and  force,  that  the  reader  feels  the  pro- 
found satisfaction  that  this  writer  does  not,  for  the  sake 
of  making  out  a  case,  overlook  or  neglect  any  single  fac- 
tor of  the  great  problem  of  social  philosophy  as  related 
to  labor.  Prof.  Townsend  of  Boston  University  wri'es 
again  of  the  Jesuit  lodge.  He  swings  the  battle-axe  of  a 
Cceur  de  Leon.  The  strategies,  the  refuges  of  lies  are 
laid  open  by  his  strokes.  Tne  fearful  indictment  he  lays 
upon  the  Roraieh  priesthood  is  in  this  article  called  out 
by  the  repeated  and  desperate  attacks  of  Rome  upon  our 
public  schools.  J,  Macdonald  Ozley,  an  a'tache  of  the 
Dominion  Government,  and  a  frequent  and-popular  con- 
tributor to  our  American  magaziciCB,  writes  on  the  Fish- 
eries Qaestlon.  From  Joseph  Cook  we  have  the  first 
Monday  Lecture  of  this  year,  "Did  Christ  Teach  by  In- 
spiration," with  a  prelude  on  "Assassination  as  a  Weap- 
on of  the  Saloon,"  with  special  reference  to  the  Haddock 
case.     Published  at  28  Beacon  St ,  Boston.     $2  per  year. 

In  oddition  to  the  monthly  Library  Magazine  which 
is  largely  an  eclectic,  Mr.  John  B.  Alden  of  New  York 
last  week  issued  the  first  number  of  an  illustrated  week- 


March  8, 1888 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSUEE. 


13 


ly  entitled  Literature.  Maurice  Thomp- 
Bon  contributes  "Some  Notes  of  Creole 
Literature.  The  Hat  of  new  books  and  of 
index  of  magazine  literature  is  a  valu- 
able addition.    $1  per  year. 

Artistic  Modern  Bouses  of  Low  Cost. — 
The  Co  operative  Building  Association  of 
New  York  send  out  another  book  of  de- 
signs by  Shoppell.  These  are  sixty  in 
number  and  vary  from  the  six  room  cot- 
tage costing  $600  to  the  large  house  of 
ten  or  twelve  rooms  costing  $4  000.  Full 
building  specifications  are  furnished  with 
any  plan  for  an  architect's  fee.  It  is  in- 
teresting to  note  the  changes  that  have 
been  made  within  a  few  years,  combining 
anistic  exterior  effects  with  greater  econ- 
omy and  convenience  of  inside  arrange- 
ment. A  majority  of  the  plans  in  this 
publication  are  some  combination  of  the 
square  style,  which  always  gives  most 
room  for  the  money. 


NEWS  (Continued  from  16th  page). 

season  and  the  diflQculty  in  procuring 
workmen  he  can  hardly  insure  the  com- 
pletion of  the  canal  in  1890.  The  state- 
ment shows  that  110.000  000  francs  were 
in  hand  Jan.  1,  1888.  Pending  the  de- 
cision of  the  government  regarding  the 
lottery  loan  it  has  been  decided  to  pro- 
ceed with  a  third  issue  of  bonds  of  1  000 
francs  each  to  the  value  of  600,000,000 
francs. 

A  dispatch  from  Baracoa,  Cuba,  eighty 
miles  from  Havana,  states  that  a  mother 
murdered  her  four  children  in  cold  blood. 
She  chopped  off  the  heads  of  two  of  them 
with  a  hatchet,  and  the  other  two  she 
held  in  a  tub  of  water  until  drowned,  and 
then  cut  them  up.  She  said,  when  ar- 
rested and  taken  to  jiil,  that  the  devil 
tempted  her  to  the  crime. 

OGScial  news  was  received  at  London 
Friday  that  the  condition  of  the  German 
Grown  Prince  is  alarming.  Upon  receipt 
of  this  intelligence  the  Lord  Chamberlain 
communicated  with  the  Q  leen  and  was 
ordered  to  prepare  to  postpone  the  re- 
ceptions at  the  shortest  notice.  Arrange- 
ments are  being  made  privately  to  trans- 
port the  German  Crown  Prince  to  Berlin. 
On  account  of  the  animosity  felt  in  Ber- 
lin, Dr.  MacEetzie  will  not  accompany 
the  prince,  but  will  proceed  direct  to 
London.  A  dispatch  from  San  Rsmo  to 
ttie  J^o'th  Uirman  Gazette  sajs  that  per- 
sons who  have  seen  the  Crown  Prince 
state  that  he  looks  many  years  older  than 
when  he  left  Berlin.  His  beard  is  white 
and  he  has  become  very  thin,  weighing 
now  hardly  154  pounds.  His  handwrit- 
ing, however,  is  as  clear  and  firm  as  ever. 
He  has  written  bis  will  and  a  political 
testament  for  his  son,  Prince  William. 

A  South  American  Congress  will  be 
held  at  Montevideo  beginning  July  18, 
having  for  its  principal  object  the  mak- 
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questions  of  international  rights  pending 
between  South  American  countries. 


SYMPTOMS    OF    CATARRH. 

A  profuse  and  many  times  excessively 
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Catarrh  Remedy  cures  catarrh  in  its  worst 
forms  and  stages.  It  is  pleasant  to  use, 
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Influence*  of  "  secret  fiK'letle"." 

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THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOStJBE. 


March  8, 1888 


Home  and  Health. 

HOW  THEY  BEGAN  HOUSEEJIEPING. 

Mr.  Toungman  of  St.  Anthony  Hill 
married  a  very  pretty  and  sweet  little 
lady  a  few  days  ago,  and  he  furnished  a 
house  to  establish  her  in  as  soon  as  the 
nuptials  were  completed.  He  was  con- 
gratulating himself  on  having  bought 
everything  that  would  be  needed  in  the 
proper  running  of  a  well-organized 
household,  and  was  not  a  little  surprised 
the  second  morning  after  the  wedding  by 
his  wife  handing  him  a  card  on  which 
was  written  a  list  of  articles  which  she 
requested  him  to  bring  home  when  he 
came  from  work.     The  list  ran  as  follows : 

Stove-polish. 

Hard  soap. 

Oatmeal. 

Curtain  fixtures. 

Picture  hooks  and  cord. 

Coal  sieve. 

Rolling  pin. 

Dust-pan. 

Broom. 

Stove  brush. 

Paper  eight  ounce  tacks. 

Mr.  Youngman  reads  over  the  list,  and 
tries  to  remember  that  he  bought  all  of 
these  things  when  he  furnished  the  house, 
but  he  can't. 

"Hadn't  you  better  go  down  with  me 
and  order  them  yourself,  darling?"  he 
says. 

"No,  no,  dear,"  she  replies.  "You  can 
get  them  well  enough." 

"But  I  might  not  get  just  what  you 
want,"  he  suggests. 

"O,  you  goose,"  she  says,  smilingly, 
throwing  her  arm  around  his  neck  and 
dropping  a  kiss  on  his  lips;  "you  know 
I'd  be  satisfied  with  anything  you  buy 
me. 

"I  wouldn't  be  single  again  for  any- 
thing," mused  Mr.  Youngman,  as  he 
tripped  lightly  down  stairs. 

That  noon  Mr.  Youngman  brought 
home  the  desired  articles  and  laid  them 
on  the  table.  Mrs.  Youngman  looked 
over  the  articles,  and  said: 

"0,  Willi  whal'd  you  get  this  kind  of 
stove  polish  for?  It  isn't  half  so  good  as 
the  other.  And  this  soap!  Why,  my 
mother  never  would  have  that  brand  in 
the  hoQBe.  How  much'd  you  pay  for  this 
oatmeal?" 

"Twenty  five  cents." 

"Twenty  five  cents!  Why,  you  can 
get  splendid  oatmeal  at  Schwab's  for  15 
cents  a  package." 

"Those  curtain  fixtures  are  an  inch  too 
wide  for  the  windows.  I  wonder  you 
didn't  know  that." 

"0,  you  got  green  picture  cord,  didn't 
you?  Well,  I  won't  use  it.  I  always 
want  red  picture  cord." 

"That  ooal  sieve  is  too  coarse.  It'll  let 
half  the  good  coal  through  it.  Why 
didn't  you  think  of  that?" 

"That  rolling  pin  is  altogether  too 
heavy.     I  wanted  a  light  one." 

"I  was  in  hopes  that  you'd  get  a  bronze 
dust  pan  instead  of  this  yellow  one." 

"That  broom  is  too  heavy.  A  lighter 
one  would  have  done  just  as  well,  and  it 
wouldn't  have  cost  so  much." 

"The  bristles  in  that  stove  brush  are 
too  stiff.     I  wanted  a  softer  one." 

"O,  Will,  why  didn't  you  get  galvan- 
ized tacks?  Those  iron  ones  rust  out  so 
quick.     They  ain't  good  at  all." 

Mr.  Youngman  waits  until  his  young 
wife  gets  through,  and,  wondering  what 
has  brought  such  a  change  over  her  since 
morning,  puts  his  arm  around  her  and 
says: 

"What  is  the  matter  with  my  little 
wife?" 

Her  dainty  head  falls  on  his  shoulder, 
and  between  the  sobs  that  shake  her 
slight  frame,  she  says: 

"Wi-Will,  I  fe  eel  so  ba-bad.  I  wanted 
to  make  some  bi-bibiscuit  this  noon, 
a-a  and  got  the  wawawater  and  sa  sa-alt 
and  ye-yeyeast;  but  there's  something 
mi-mi-missing,  and  I  can't  think  whawha- 
what  it  is." 

Mr.   Youngman  smiled  quietly,    and, 
clasping  his  young  wife  to  his  watch 
pocket,  he  placed  his  lips  to  her  ear  and 
whispered  "Flour." 

SWEEPING  BY  THE  DAMP  CLOTH  SYS- 
TEM. 

Helen  Campbell  claims  that  sweeping 
is  far  less  a  frequent  need  than  is  sup- 
posed. The  dust  must  be  removed,  but  a 
damp  cloth  is  a  key  to  its  removal,  and 
the  (lamp  cloth  system  a  saving  of  much 
hard  labor  as  well  as  wear  and  tear  to  the 
carpets.  Says  the  authority  mentioned: 
"Put  a  spoonful  of  ammonia  in  half  a 


pail  of  warm  water,  and  wipe  the  carpet 
with  a  cloth  wrung  out  from  this  water. 
The  dust  is  removed,  the  colors  freshened 
and  every  stray  moth — a  possibility  every- 
where in  these  days  of  furnaces — finds  a 
sudden  end.  Fluff,  insidious  and  uncon- 
querable, forming  itself  in  mysterious 
rolls  under  beds  and  in  corners,  is  reduced 
to  its  lowest  terms,  sinks  into  almost  im- 
palpable unpleasantness  before  the  damp 
cloth,  instead  of  sailing  triumphantly  be- 
fore the  broom.  The  broom  will  still  be 
an  essential,  but  as  servant,  not  monarch, 
and  even  where  one  cannot  afford  a  car- 
pet sweeper  need  never  again  involve  the 
amount  of  hard  work  associated  with  it. 

— To  keep  cake  from  sticking  to  the 
pan,  without  using  paper,  after  greasing 
the  pan,  sift  a  little  flour  in,  then  turn  it 
over  and  shake  out  all  that  you  can. 


A   VOtCNTARY    STATEIUCENT. 

The  writer  of  this  paragraph  once  had 
an  elder  and  only  brother.  Brought  up 
together,  we  were  almost  inseparable, 
hopeful  and  ambitious.  Exposure  planted 
the  seeds  of  consumption  in  the  elder, 
and  in  a  few  weeks,  in  the  month  of 
May,  "good  store  of  flowers  were  stuck 
round  about  his  winding-sheet."  Every 
attention  and  every  remedy  that  love 
could  give  or  obtain  were  unavailing. 
Since  that  sad  day, I  have  learned,  through 
the  most  trustworthy  authority  and  from 
experience  in  its  use,  that  a  real  remedy 
now  exists,  that  of  Dr.  Pierce,  called  the 
"Golden  Medical  Discovery."  A  thou- 
sand pities  that  it  was  not  discovered  ages 
ago,  but  how  thankful  the  present  gener- 
ation should  be  that  it  can  now  avail  itself 
of  so  potent  a  remedy. 


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Nj-ws  OF  The  Week 

WASHINGTON. 

President  Cleveland  on  Tuesday  di- 
rected that  the  new  military  post  at 
Highwood,  near  Chicago,  be  known  and 
designated  as  Fort  Sheridan. 

The  national  debt  statement,  issued 
Thursday  afternoon,  shows  that  the  re- 
duction of  the  public  debt  during  the 
month  of  February  amounted  to  $7  756,- 
366  Total  cash  in  the  Treasury,  $572,- 
390.989. 

Ex  Justice  Strong  of  the  United  States 
Supreme  Court,  questions  the  constitu- 
tionality of  the  Blair  Educational  bill, 
and  expresses  the  opinion  tha'  his  views 
are  those  of  his  former  associates,  now 
on  the  Bench.  This  is  a  strong  argument 
against  the  measure  and  will  exercise  no 
liitle  icflaence. 

At  the  evening  session  of  the  lower 
House  of  Congress  Friday  twenty  five 
pension  bills  were  passed. 

The  Secretary  of  the  Treasury  is  ad- 
vised of  an  organized  movement  for  the 
emigration  of  German  convicts  to  this 
country,  and  has  taken  steps  to  guard 
against  the  landing  of  all  such  passen- 
gers. 

OHICAGO. 

Emma  Lang,  a  pretty  Geman  girl  16 
years  of  age,  living  at  318  Cl>' bourn  ave- 
nue, committed  suicide  yesterday  by  tak- 
ing 'Rough  on  Rats."  A  severe  whippicg 
the  night  before  by  her  mother,  in  the 
prefence  of  the  whole  family,  drove  her 
to  the  deed. 

Chicago  has  raised  over  $15,000  for  the 
affl  cted  people  of  Mt.  Vernon,  111. 

A  change  in  the  city  engineer  has  made 
way  for  discovering  numerous  peculations 
and  gross  mismanagement.  The  big  en- 
gines which  were  the  pride  of  Grand 
Master  Cregier  are  almost  ready  to  be 
condemned. 

COUNTBY. 

Washtenaw  county,  the  first  in  Michi- 
gan to  vote  asrainst  prohibition,  gave  a 
m&jority  of  1,550  for  the  "wet"  ticket. 
Thirty  counties  in  the  State  have  voted 
for  the  new  law.  Berrien  county,  Tues- 
day, adopted  the  local  prohibition  law  by 
a  plurality  of  535.  Enmet  county  gives 
a  plurality  of  233  in  favor  of  prohibition. 
The  law  enacted  by  the  last  Legislature 
of  Wisconsin,  permitting  drunkards  to 
be  sentenced  to  the  inebriate  asylum,  was 
Tuesday  declared  invalid  by  the  State 
Supreme  Court,  on  the  ground  that  the 
statute  virtually  makes  drunkenness  a 
crime. 

Samuel  Morrison,  an  Indiana  surveyor 
and  pioneer,  died  at  Indianapolis  Thurs- 
day on  his  90th  birthday.  His  first  re- 
corded achievement  was  a  map  of  Indi- 
ana, pub.ished  in  1816;  the  one  he  was 
proudest  of  was  a  map  of  Yicksburg  sent 
to  General  Grant,  in  which  he  claimed 
he  originated  the  plan  of  the  capture. 

The  Supreme  Court  at  Montgomery, 
Ala  ,  decided  the  act  establishing  a  col- 
ored university  to  be  unconstitutional,  on 
the  ground  that  the  money  appropriated 
was  part  of  a  fund  which  had  been  de- 
clared by  the  constitution  to  be  for  com- 
mon schools,  and  which  could  not  be 
used  for  a  university. 

Miss  Clara  Barton,  president  of  the 
Red  Cross  Association  of  the  United 
States,  accompanied  by  Dr.  Hubbel, 
field  agent  of  the  Association,  and  Mrs. 
Dr.  Debrur,  of  Evansville,  is  visiting  Mt. 
Vernon,  111.  Miss  Barton  comes  in  re- 
sponse to  an  invitation  of  the  Relief  Com- 
mittee. After  a  personal  inspection  of 
the  ruins  she  expressed  great  surprise  at 
the  extent  of  the  damage,  aud  says  it  ex- 
ceeds her  expectditions;  that  the  loss  of 
life  is  greater.and  the  number  of  wounded 
larger,  and  the  situation  generally  much 
woise  than  she  supposed. 

While  a  farmer  named  Miller  and  his 
wife  were  at  church  Monday  night  at 
Fairhaven,  Minn  ,  their  house  was  burned 
and  their  three  children,  aged  13,  10,  and 
7,  perished  in  the  flimeB. 

New  Yoikers  have  seldom  witnessed 
such  swift  destruction  by  fire  as  that  of 
Thursday,  when  all  the  big  factory  build- 
ings in  the  block  east  of  Lexiogiun  ave- 
nue and  between  Forty  first  and  Forty- 
second  streetp,  were  wiped  out  of  sight 
in  less  than  an  hour  Put  of  the  ele- 
vated railroad  on  Foriy-second  Street 
was  wrecked.  There  was  great  excite- 
ment in  the  neighborhood,  particularly 
in  the  Hospital  f  ^r  Ruptured  and  Crip- 


pled Children,  which  was  for  a  time  in 
danger.  The  losses  amounted  to  about 
$1,000,000.  Several  persons  were  in- 
j  ured,  and  for  a  time  there  was  a  belief 
that  some  lives  had  been  lost. 

The  Union  Square  Theater,  at  New 
York,  was  totally  destroyed  by  fire  Tues- 
day afternoon,  and  the  Morton  House, 
adjoining,  was  badly  damaged.  Six  fire- 
men were  severely  injured  and  burned, 
being  caught  under  the  falling  roof  of 
the  theater,  and  many  of  the  guests  and 
employes  of  the  hotel  had  narrow  es- 
capes.    The  loss  is  estimated  at  $750,000. 

News  reached  Houston,  Texas,  Tues- 
day, of  a  terrible  tragedy  at  Spanish 
Camp,  a  disreputable  place  sixty  miles 
from  Houston,  of  the  burning  of  a  negro 
cabin  by  whites,  who  killed  five  of  the 
negroes  as  they  ran  out  and  wounded 
another,  while  two  were  burned  in  the 
flames.  No  arrests  have  been  made. 
The  cause  of  the  crime  is  said,  to  be  a 
suit  over  the  title  of  the  land  where  the 
negroes  lived,  which  had  just  been  de- 
cided in  their  favor. 

The  case  of  Horace  Murray,  sentenced 
in  Kalamszoo,  Mich.,  Tuesday,  to  fifty 
years'  imprisonment  for  the  rape  of  his 
9- J  ear  old  cousin,  was  the  second  case 
tried  under  the  new  age  of  consent  law 
of  last  winter.  The  first  was  that  of 
Francis  Herbert,  who  received  a  life  sen- 
tence for  assaulting  Anna  Myers. 

The  Ohio  Houee  Frid  ly  passed  a  meas- 
ure to  close  saloons  on  Sunday  through- 
out the  State  by  a  vote  of  70  to  20. 

The  land  and  emigration  agent  of  the 
Mobile  and  Ohio  Railroad,  sold  a  tract  of 
51,000  aces  of  farming  and  grazing  land 
situated  thirty  four  miles  north  of  Mob^e. 
The  purchasers  are  well  known  residents 
of  St.  Louis,  Shelbyville,  III,  and  Vin- 
cennes,  Ind.,  who  intend  to  build  a  large 
hotel  on  the  property  and  start  a  town  to 
be  called  Deer  Park. 

Dr.  McGlynn  was  granted  a  permanent 
injunction  at  New  York  Friday  restrain- 
ing Henry  George  and  his  followers  from 
incorporating  the  Anti  poverty  Society. 

Athens,  Ga,,  was  much  aroused  Friday 
when  it  was  publicly  made  known  that 
Mormon  elders  had  suddenly  appeared 
and  were  getting  ready  to  issue,  cheap 
excursion  tickets  to  Utah.  The  matter 
will  be  immediately  investigated.  In  the 
meantime  the  elders  will  probably  disap- 
pear. It  is  thought  that  several  converts 
have  been  made  recently. 

At  Clinton,  Iowa,  Friday  afternoon, 
Mrs.  Frank  Brown  and  her  babe  were 
fatally  burned  by  their  clothing  taking 
fire  from  an  exploded  kerosene  lamp. 

A  cyclone  struck  Newton,  Kansas,  at  5 
o'clock  Friday.  The  cloud  approached 
from  the  southwest.  The  north  wing  of 
the  carriage  works  was  unroofed  and 
William  J.  Lacey,  in  attempting  to  run 
from  the  building,  was  caught  by  the  fall- 
ing roof  and  instantly  killed.  A  cluster 
of  dwellings,  nine  in  number,  in  the 
southeast  part  of  the  city,  was  struck  by 
the  storm  and  seven  of  them  totally  de- 
stroyed, and  in  the  wreck  of  one  of  them 
two  ladies  were  caught  and  one  is  thought 
to  be  fatally  injured.  Reports  from  the 
country  ad  j  acent  to  the  city  are  that  sev- 
eral houses  were  destroyed. 

FOBBIQH. 

A  large  number  of  unemployed  work- 
ingmen  engaged  in  a  riot  at  Rome  Thurs- 
day. Bake  shops  were  broken  into  and 
pillaged,  and  the  police  who  attempted 
to  arrest  the  rioters  were  driven  away 
with  stones.  Finally  the  mob  was  dis- 
persed by  troops.  Many  of  the  rioters 
were  arrested.     No  blood  was  shed. 

The  negotiations  between  the  Vatican 
and  Russia  have  proved  fruitless.  Rus- 
sia demanded  impossible  concessions, 
stipulating  that  Catholic  Bishops 
throughout  Russia  should  be  appointed 
by  the  Czar;  that  the  Russian  language 
should  be  exclusively  used  in  Catholic 
churches  in  Russia,  both  in  preaching 
and  catechizing,  and  that  the  offspring  of 
mixed  marriages  thould  be  educated  in 
the  orthodox  Russia  church. 

M.  de  Lesseps,  in  his  report  to  the  ex*- 
tra  meeting  of  the  Panama  Canal  Com- 
pany in  Paris,  states  that  the  ill  will  of 
the  opponents  of  the  canal,  which  re- 
sulted in  compelling  the  company  to  bor- 
row money  at  a  higher  rate  of  interest 
than  was  expected,  is  the  only  cause  of 
the  in  ;reased  cost  and  of  the  intimidation 
of  certain  of  the  company's  contractors. 
Owing  to  the  prevalence  of  the  rainy 
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The  Burlington  Strike 

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Misdirected    Urgency  for 

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In  Memoriam  (Poetry) . . . 
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A  Hero  Falls  In  Battle; 
The  Order  of  United 
Workmen ;  The  Penn- 
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and  Point 6 

Farm  Notes 7 

The  N.  C.  a 7 

Secret    Societies     Con- 
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The  Home 10 

Temperance 11 

Religious  News 12 

Literature  12 

lodge  Notes 13 

Home  and  Health 14 

News  op  the  Week 16 

Markets 13 


In  their  Monday  meetings  some  months  ago,  the 
ministers  of  several  of  the  religious  denominations 
in  this  city  petitioned  the  mayor  and  common  coun- 
cil to  close  all  saloons  located  within  one  square  of 
all  houses  of  worship  and  of  the  public  schools  of 
the  city,  unless  such  saloons  were  licensed  by  re- 
quest of  a  majority  of  the  legal  voters  residing 
within  the  distance  of  one  square  of  the  church 
building  or  school.  The  appeal  was  in  such  general 
terms  that  the  city  officers  promptly  ignored  it,  but 
the  other  day  when  the  faculty  of  a  medical  college 
asked  that  no  saloon  be  licensed  within  8  certain 
distance  of  their  institution,  Mayor  Roche  granted 
the  request  immediately.  Let  us  try  again  for  the 
public  schools. 

Chairman  Dickie,  of  the  National  Prohibition 
Committee,  has  officially  announced  that  the  time  of 
meeting  of  the  National  Prohibition  Convention  in 
Indianapolis  has  been  changed  from  June  6  to  May 
30.  Professor  Dickie  states  as  the  reason  for  this 
change  that,  "from  both  the  United  Press  and  the 
Associated  Press  we  learn  that  it  will  be  impossible 
to  secure  adequate  reportorial  and  telegraphic  ser- 
vice and  newspaper  apace  to  properly  report  two 
National  conventions  at  the  same  time.  This  fact, 
together  with  the  general  desire  of  leading  prohi- 
bitionists to  have  our  convention  at  an  early  date, 
has  induced  the  executive  committee  to  take  such 
action." 


In  the  campaign  of  1884  the  platforms  of  the 
Prohibitionists  of  the  District  of  Columbia  and  of 
Cincinnati  were  widely  commended  because  they 
feared  not  to  speak  with  disfavor  of  the  secret  ma- 
nipulations of  the  lodge  in  politics.  The  declara- 
tion of  the  District  Union,  published  in  the  Ameri- 
can last  week,  reiterates  the  decision  of  four  years 
ago,  "that  confidence  in  politics  can  only  be  pre- 
served by  perfect  openness,  as  opposed  to  all  secret 


methods."  This  proposition  is  so  self-evident  that 
he  must  be  too  warped  and  prejudiced  to  be  a  Pro- 
hibitionist who  denies  or  opposes  it.  The  whole 
platform  is  ably  drawn. 


While  we  are  trying  to  rouse  our  grave  and  punc- 
tilious Senate  to  appreciate  the  demands  of  present 
reform  and  slough  ofif  the  traditional  secret  session, 
let  us  ask  in  the  name  of  justice  and  of  the  Repub- 
lic that  no  more  agents  of  monopolies,  rings  or 
lodges  be  sent  to  misrepresent  American  patriotism 
in  that  body.  "Behind  every  one  of  half  of  the  poitly 
and  well  dressed  members  of  the  Senate,"  says  the 
Chicago  Tiihune  "can  be  seen  the  outline  of  aome 
corporation  interested  in  getting  or  preventing  leg- 
islation, or  of  some  syndicate  that  has  invaluable 
contracts  or  patents  to  defend  or  push."  The 
Times  of  New  York  is  even  more  explicit  in  its 
charges:  "There  are  sitting  in  the  Senate  of  the 
United  States  sixteen  Senators  who  owe  their  elec- 
tion entirely  to  the  indirect  use  of  money  and  the 
exercise  of  corporate  power  and  influence  of  their 
respective  States.  Why  mince  words.  The  Demo- 
cratic party  can  not  throw  stones  at  the  Republican 
harlot.     They  are  not  without  sin." 


Dr.  Fulton  attempted  again  to  address  the  peo- 
ple of  Chicago  on  the  evils  of  Romanism  last  week. 
Battery  D.  was  engaged  for  Monday  evening,  but 
the  thousands  who  gathered  before  the  door  found 
it  closed.  It  was  explained  that  the  new  police 
superintendent  Hubbard  had  interfered  and  pre- 
vented the  meeting.  His  story  is  that  several  influ- 
ential men, — whose  names  he  keeps  in  his  own  pos- 
session, like  a  good  Mason — called  on  him  with  the 
assurance  that  there  would  be  a  great  row  if  the 
meeting  went  on.  In  the  interest  of  the  peace  of 
the  city,  he  asked  that  the  hall  be  closed.  But 
there  are  other  explanations  which  are  not  so  flat- 
tering of  Mr.  Hubbard's  bravery  as  even  his  own. 
The  fact  is,  doubtless,  the  word  of  priests  and  poli- 
ticians weighed  more  than  official  duty  or  patri- 
otism. There  seemed  to  be  no  disturbing  element 
among  the  people  who  assembled,  and  no  one  of 
them  feared  trouble.  Mr.  Hubbard  will  always  find 
men  to  protect  Ingersoll  in  his  abuse  of  religion; 
but  if  the  valuable  American  commodity  of  free 
speech  in  Chicago  is  to  be  at  the  disposal  of  the 
chief  of  police,  Mayor  Roche  must  find  one  who  has 
at  least  got  aback  bone. 


We  commend  to  Mr.  Hubbard  the  example  of 
Mayor  Hewitt  of  New  York.  As  everybody  knows 
the  17th  inst  is  "St.  Patrick's  day"  and  the  Irish  are 
to  be  out  "awearing  of  the  green,"  while  Orange- 
men fret  to  fly  at  them  with  brick-bats  and  curses. 
Irish  politicians  dominate  in  New  York  and  they  have 
sent  up  word  to  Albany  for  Governor  Ilill  to  come 
down  and  grace  their  show.  He  humbly  replies  that 
he  will  obey,  for  he  is  holding  his  hat  for  Presiden- 
tial chestnuts.  Then  Mayor  Hewitt  was  visited.  The 
delegation  asked  him  to  review  the  parade  and  re- 
minded him  that  Irishmen  vote  the  Democratic  tick- 
et and  made  him  Mayor.  The  reply  they  got  stunned 
them  like  the  tap  of  a  shillalah:  "I  may  be  a  can- 
didate for  Mayor  or  for  President  next  fall  [with  a 
smile],  and  may  want  all  the  Democratic  votes  I  can 
get.  The  Irish  votes  cast  for  any  particular  candi- 
date in  this  city  would  elect  him.  But  for  the  pur- 
pose of  getting  this  vote  I  will  not  come  down  to 
the  level  of  reviewing  any  parade  because  of  the  na- 
tionality of  its  members — either  Irish,  Qerman,  or 
Italian.  I  will  review  no  parades  except  those  I  am 
officially  called  on  as  Mayor  to  review." 


The  old  Emperor  William  passed  away  Friday 
morning,  sincerely  mourned  by  the  Qerman  people, 
and  amid  expressions  of  sympathy  from  every 
quarter  of  the  globe.  None  were  more  sincere  than 
from  France,  whose  people  are  touched  with  gener- 
ous emotion  at  the  spectacle  of  a  venerable  monarch 
sinking  into  the  gravf^,  and  the  Prince,  his  succes- 
sor, struggling  manfully  with  a  fatal  disease  while 
in  his  prime.  For  the  moment  war  and  vengea'nce 
are  forgotten.     The  new  Emperor  Frederick  and  the 


Empress  Victoria,  eldest  daughter  of  A'ictoria  of 
England,  returned  to  Berlin  Monday  from  Italy. 
He  may  also  succumb  in  a  few  weeks,  and  upon  his 
son.  Prince  William,  a  young  man  of  twentv-five,  all 
eyes  now  center,  and  great  hopes  rest.  Bismarck 
looks  upon  him  as  a  future  leader;  and  many  Ger- 
mans, since  the  young  man  joined  a  Protestant 
society  of  Berlin  which  is  endeavoring  to  counteract 
anarchy  with  religion  among  the  working  classes, 
have  prayed  with  hope  that  he  might  be  a  man 
whom  the  Lord  hath  chosen. 


SECRET  SOCIETIES  AR«  AN  INJURY  TO   THB 
CHURCH  OF  CHRIST. 

PAPER    BY  MISS   JOANNA  P.    MOORK,  LELAND  UNIVKB- 
SITT,  BEFORE  THE  NEW  ORLEANS  CONVENTION. 


God's  church  as  he  organized  it  is  the  only  agency 
needed  to  carry  forward  his  work.  There,  all  the 
forces  should  be  marshalled  that  are  needed  to  fight 
sin  and  Satan  in  all  their  forms,  and  the  great  Cap- 
tain of  our  salvation  should  have  all  the  glory. 
The  soldiers  must  be  actuated  only  by  pure,  unsel- 
fish motives.  They  must  have  the  "mind  of  Christ." 
But  as  soon  as  we  take  the  unconverted  ino  our 
ranks  to  help,  then  we  upset  all  God's  plans.  A 
mixed  multitude  always  brings  confusion.  The 
formation  of  societies  by  Christians  should  be 
carefully  guarded,  or  they  will  open  the  door  for 
the  world  to  come  in. 

Our  reform  societies,  such  as  those  for  temper- 
ance, missions,  anti-secretiem,  etc.,  seem  to  have 
grown  out  of  the  fact  that  the  church  was  not  doing 
her  duty.  They  have  acted  like  a  committee 
within  the  church  to  do  the  work  of  the  church,  and 
therefore  were  a  part  of  the  church.  But  in  so 
many  instances  the  churches  did  not  respond  to  the 
eflbrts  of  these  good  men  and  women  to  purify  the 
church.  Hence  these  organizations  have  been 
obliged  to  go  forward  with  their  work  independent 
of  the  sanction  of  many  of  the  churches.  But  the 
best  of  all  the  churches  were  with  them.  It  was 
the  work  of  the  church,  because  the  workers  were 
church  members,  and  the  great  head  of  the  church 
had  the  glory  and  the  honor  of  the  work  done,  but 
how  much  better  it  would  have  been  had  the  church 
itself  done  the  work! 

A  Christian  friend  once  told  me  that  he  could  not 
have  gone  all  over  this  world  eo  safely  had  he  not 
been  a  Mason — they  had  helped  and  protected  him 
all  the  way.  I  replied,  "I  do  not  know  how  far  Ma- 
sonry has  extended,  but  surely  not  far  beyond  the 
Christian  religion.  The  password,  Christ  Jesus, 
ought  to  open  all  hearts  and  homes.  It  does  so  for 
me,  and  to  me  it  seems  wicked  to  exalt  any  name 
above  the  n.;me  of  Christ.  Besides,  when  I  re- 
ceive this  kindness  for  Christ's  sake,  I  have  the  con- 
sciousness that  the  poorest  disciple  has  the  same 
privilege  without  paying  money  for  it,  and  God 
gets  all  the  glory;  but  with  you  Masonry  gets  the 
glory." 

To  »  certain  extent  the  church  has  been  to  blame 
for  this.  Nearly  all  secret  and  benevolent  societies 
have  been  formed  to  protect  us  when  in  trouble  and 
care  for  us  when  sick.  The  church  has  not  used 
the  hospitality  the  Bible  requires.  She  has  in  so 
many  cases  failed  to  remember,  "Bear  ye  one 
another's  burdens,  and  so  fulfill  the  law  of  Christ" 

But  the  great  evil  is  that  these  societies  went  out- 
side of  the  church  and  mixed  up  with  the  world. 
We  have  in  this  State  and  other  States  a  number  of 
so-called  benevolent  societies,  not  secret  They  are 
the  result  of  the  lukewarmness  and  negligence  of 
the  church  as  regards  her  duty  to  the  poor.  All 
they  do  should  have  been  done  by  the  church.  A 
treasury  should  be  formed  and  a  systematic  waj'  of 
caring  for  the  sick  and  poor  and  burying  the  dead 
should  all  be  inside  of  the  church.  We  need  this 
work  to  keep  our  hearts  aglow  with  the  pure  love  of 
benevolence;  Christ  should  be  our  inspiration  in 
work  for  the  poor.  0,  it  is  a  sweet— it  is  a  grand 
thing  to  do  a  kindness  to  a  poor  person,  feeling, 
"Inasmuch  as  ye  have  done  it  unto  the  least  of 
these  my  brethren,  ye  have  done  it  unto  me!" 

How  close  this   brings  us  to  Christl     What  a 


THE  CHRISTIAIT  CYTiTOSITRE. 


March  15, 1888 


blessing  comes  to  the  church  through  this  loving 
work  for  God's  poor  I  That  suffering  brother  does 
not  need  help,  more  than  I  need  to  give  it,  in  order 
that  I  may  grow  in  grace  and  become  more  like 
Jesus.  This  care  for  the  poor  is  a  great  means  of 
grace,  of  which  the  church  has  been  robbed  by  the 
formation  of  these  outside  societies. 

All  that  is  good  in  any  of  these  societies  they 
have  stolen  from  the  Christian  religion  and  given  to 
Baal  the  honor  which  belongs  to  God.  It  takes 
away  the  Christian  sweetness  of  this  benevolent 
work.  When  the  members  of  these  societies  re- 
ceive a  kindness  they  say,  "I  paid  my  monthly  fees. 
Tou  have  a  right  to  take  care  of  me,  so  come 
right  along  and  do  it." 

These  are  not  secret  societies,  but  they  are  train- 
ing schools  for  the  secret  orders.  At  first  they 
were  only  formed  of  church  members,  but  now  they 
take  in  the  unconverted  and  are  often  controlled  by 
them.  Many  of  them  wear  a  regalia  and  bury  their 
dead  with  as  much  pomp  and  parade  as  do  the  se- 
cret orders.  Cannot  you  see  that  they  prepare  the 
way  for  secret  societies? 

All  these  organizations,  secret  and  non-secret, 
seem  to  have  only  one  object  in  view,  namely, 
taking  care  of  No.  1.  They  are  purely  selfish  from 
beginning  to  end.  There  is  no  Christ  in  it  at  all. 
We  want  the  "love  of  Christ  to  constrain"  every 
Christian  heart  to  rescue  the  perishing,  care  for  the 
dying  and  push  forward  every  good  work.  No  in- 
difference on  the  part  of  the  recipient  can  cool  this 
love,  because  it  gets  its  inspiration  from  the  never- 
failing  fountain  of  God's  love.  What  is  there  in 
any  worldly  organization  that  any  Christian  wants? 
Is  not  Christ  his  satisfying  portion?  If  a  child  of 
God  goes  out  into  the  world  for  help  or  amuse- 
ment he  is  sure  to  get  wounded.  We  have  one  very 
common  way  of  going  oat  into  the  world  to  get 
money  for  the  church  and  for  God's  cause  in  gen- 
eral. This  has  wounded  many,  and  well  nigh 
killed  the  spirituality  of  the  church.  "Come  out 
and  be  ye  separate." 

The  one  thought  that  I  want  to  leave  with  you 
and  in  my  own  heart  is  this:  All  that  is  done  for 
God's  cause  and  the  good  of  mankind  should  be 
done  through  his  own  organization,  the  church.  If 
you  give  the  work  into  any  other  hands,  you  rob 
the  church  of  her  strength,  of  her  glory.  You  take 
the  Christian's  money  and  the  Christian's  labor  and 
lay  it  on  the  altar  of  Baal.  The  world  gets  the 
praise  due  to  God's  name.  A  great  injury  has 
been  done  to  the  cause  of  Christ.  The  power  of 
the  church  is  weakened.  She  is  even  treated  with 
contempt,  and  we  are  told  over  and  over  again, 
"other  societies  will  do  more  for  me  than  the 
church  will."  God  help  us  to  see  this  dangerous 
point  I 

1  accept  this  anti-secret  society  as  a  part  of  the 
church, —  the  best  and  purest  part,  the  part  that  has 
seen  the  great  evil  of  Christians  mixing  up  with 
the  world,  and  are,  therefore,  united  for  the  purpose 
of  purifying  God's  church,  rather  than  forming 
another  society.  I  am  with  you  heart  and  hand.  I 
can  only  do  a  very  little,  but  I  want  to  do  my  very 
little  with  as  much  earnestness  and  enthusiasm  as  if 
the  success  of  the  whole  work  depended  solely  on 
my  efforts. 

Finally,  my  brethren,  "Be  strong  and  of  good 
courage,  and  do  it.  Fear  not  nor  be  dismayed,  for 
the  Lord  God,  even  my  God,  will  be  with  thee.  He 
will  not  fail  thee,  nor  forsake  thee,  until  thou  hast 
finished  all  the  work  for  the  service  of  the  house  of 
the  Lord."     1st  Chron.  28:  20. 


LIMITATIONS  OF  TUB  RIOHT  OF  OON- 
BGIBNGB. 


BT   BBV.    H.    H.    HINMAN. 


In  the  Sabbath-school  of  one  of  our  leading 
churches  there  recently  occurred  quite  a  discussion 
as  to  the  relation  of  professed  Christians  to  amuse- 
ments: such  as  theater-going,  dancing  and  card-play- 
ing; and  though  wine-drinking,  tobacco-using  and 
membership  iu  the  lodge  were  not  mentioned,  they 
might  have  all  been  included.  With  scarcely  a  dis- 
senting voice,  it  was  decided  that  these  were  mat- 
ters of  conscience,  about  which  the  individual  Chris- 
tian should  exercise  bis  freedom,  and  that  no  one 
had  a  right  to  lay  down  any  absolute  rule  for  his 
conduct. 

It  seemed  to  me  that  they  might  with  equal  pro- 
priety have  gone  a  step  farther,  and  included  duel- 
ing, slave-holding,  gambling,  polygamy  and  numer- 
ous other  practices  that  either  we  or  have  been  tol- 
erated in  the  professed  Christian  church,  and  upon 
which  the  consciences  of  Christians  are  not  equally 
enlightened. 

It  is  manifest  that  this  freedom  of  conscience,  or 


right  ot  private  judgment,  in  matters  of  faith  and 
practice,  which  is  the  central  idea  of  Protestantism, 
has  its  limitations.  While  we  cannot  admit  the 
idea  of  an  infallible  pope  or  church,  we  must  and 
do  admit  that  there  are  great  landmarks,  both  of 
doctrine  and  morals,  that  no  one  can  transcend  with- 
out a  forfeiture  of  his  right  to  the  Christian  name, 
and  that  there  is  a  general  consensus  of  Christian 
morality  which,  though  it  may  vary  in  different  ages 
and  under  different  circumstances,  does  constitute  a 
practical  tribunal,  which  all  believers  are  bound  to 
respect.  Honest  differences  there  doubtless  may  be, 
both  as  to  doctrine  and  practice.  Such  differences 
existed  in  the  primitive  church,  and  apostolic  rule 
was  toleration.  "One  believeth  he  may  eat  all  things; 
another  (hat  is  weak  eateth  herbs.  Let  not  him  that 
eateth  despise  him  that  eateth  not;  and  let  not  him 
that  eateth  not  judge  him  that  eateth;  for  God  hath 
received  him."  "One  man  esteemeth  one  day  above 
another;  another  esteemeth  every  day  alike.  Let 
every  man  be  fully  persuaded  in  his  own  mind." 
Rom.  4:  3,  5. 

So  there  have,  all  down  the  ages,  been  questions 
of  Scriptural  interpretation  and  religious  opinion, 
about  which  all  men  may  exercise  their  rights  of 
judgment.  Such  questions  as.  Who  are  the  subjects 
and  what  should  be  the  mode  of  baptism?  What  is 
true  of  the  doctrines  of  election,  decrees  and  of  the 
saints'  perseverance?  After  endless  discussion. 
Christians  equally  excellent,have  continued  to  dif  er. 
Upon  such  questions  there  has  come  to  be  a  univer- 
sal agreement  of  toleration,  and  no  one  is  denied 
Christian  fellowship  on  account  of  the  views  he  en- 
tertains. 

But  there  is  another  class  of  questions,  the  decis- 
ion of  which  depends  not  so  much  on  men's  intel- 
lectual apprehension  of  doctrine  as  on  their  knowl- 
edge of  the  nature  and  extent  of  the  Divine  law.  They 
are  questions  of  morals  and  not  of  opinion  merely. 
The  difference  in  conviction  and  course  of  conduct 
on  this  class  of  questions  has  been  even  more 
marked  than  in  the  former  class.  But  it  was  a  dif- 
ference like  that  about  the  shape  of  the  earth  and  its 
relation  to  the  heavenly  bodies;  a  knowledge  of  the 
facts  of  the  science  brought  immediate  changes. 

The  Christian  church  once  tolerated  dueling.  The 
trial  by  battle  was  once  considered  a  Christian  meth- 
od of  settling,  not  only  international,  but  individual 
disputes.  Some  devout  Christian  men  have  been 
slave-holders  and  slave-dealers.  Men  of  unques- 
tionable piety  have  been  polygamists,  dram-drinkers 
and  dram-sellers.  There  are  to-day  people  who  most 
sincerely  trade  in  lottery  tickets,  visit  the  theater 
and  belong  to  the  lodge.  And  yet  these  are  not 
questions  about  which  there  is,  as  in  the  other  class, 
the  right  of  private  judgment,  for  they  are  all  ca- 
pable of  settlement  by  a  simple  knowledge  of  the 
truth.  A  man  may  honestly  think  that  the  earth  is 
flat,  and  that  the  sun  revolves  round  it,  but  a  better 
acquaintance  with  the  science  would  make  him  think 
differently.  Men  may  have  been  quite  sincere  in 
defending  slavery,  polygamy  and  war,  but  it  is  only 
because  tiiey  had  an  imperfect  and  perverted  con- 
ception of  their  obligations  to  God  and  humanity. 
When  the  men  of  science  have  demonstrated  a 
truth  in  astronomy  or  geology  they  do  not  accord 
the  right  of  private  judgment  to  those  who,  because 
of  their  ignorance,  honestly  dissent.  No  one  will 
forbid  Elder  Jasper  the  right  to  say,  "The  sun  do 
move;"  but  very  few  would  think  his  opinion  as 
worthy  of  respect  as  that  of  Sir  Isaac  Newton. 
People  dance,  play  cards,  go  to  the  theater  and  the 
Masonic  lodge  because  of  their  low  and  poor  con- 
ception of  the  nature  of  Christian  obligation.  Those 
who  have  attained  to  a  better  type  of  Christian  ex- 
perience have  had  such  spiritual  enlightenment  that 
they  do  see  and  know  that  these  things  are,  at  least, 
hurtful  to  spiritual  progress.  We  would  scarcely 
admit  Bro.  Jasper  as  a  judge  in  astronomy,  and 
would  not  hesitate  to  brush  aside  the  opinions  of 
those  who  defend  his  theory,  regarding  them  as  en- 
titled to  no  consideration.  So  we  may  rightfully 
treat  the  defenders  of  the  theater  and  the  lodge. 
If  we  look  to  those  who  have  profound  knowledge 
of  science,  as  the  teachers  and  leaders  of  public 
opinion  on  scientific  questions,  so  we  may  also  look 
to  the  conclusions  of  eminent  Christians  who  have 
given  this  subject  of  amusements  a  careful  investi- 
gation. 

No;  it  is  not  a  matter  of  private  judgment  wheth- 
er a  Christian  shall  dance,  go  to  the  theater,  join 
the  lodge  or  drink  wine.  The  fact  that  other  Chris- 
tians do  these  things  and  defend  their  conduct  does 
not  make  it  so.  The  consensus  of  the  Christian 
world  (at  least  the  truest  and  best  part  of  it)  con- 
demns these  things  as  wrong,  and  as  obstacles  to 
the  coming  of  the  kingdom  for  which  we  pray. 

So  far  as  the  toleration  of  these  practices  in  the 
Christian  church  is  concerned,  there  is  certainly  no 


right  of  conscience.  People  do  not  dance,  go  to  the 
theater,  drink  wine,  or  belong  to  the  lodge  from  any 
sense  of  duty.  When  selfishness  suggests  with- 
drawal they  withdraw,  and  have  no  compunctions  of 
conscience.  The  practice  of  these  things  is  an  of- 
fence to  the  brethren  and  an  occasion  of  stumbling 
to  the  weak.  An  enlightened  conscience  would  con- 
demn it  for  this  reason,  if  for  no  other;  and  it  is 
not  the  unenlightened  but  the  spiritually- minded 
whose  voice  should  be  heard.  Least  of  all,  should 
moral  imbeciles  be  placed  in  the  position  of  teach- 
ers of  Christian  ethics. 
Washington,  D.  C. 


TEE  OONSTITUTION,  BOSTON  COMMON  AND 
TRB  J B SUITS. 


BY   AN  OLD    LAWYER. 

That  the  Pilgrim  Fathers  and  Mothers  were  de- 
voted Christians  is  proved  by  those  most  valued  in- 
struments: The  Declaration  of  Independence;  the 
Articles  of  Confederation;  the  Cgnstitution  of  the 
United  States;  the  Act  of  Virginia,  1783;  the  Deed 
of  Cession  from  Virginia,  1784;  the  Ordinance 
Passed  by  Congress,  "setting  under"  the  Articles  of 
Confederation  of  the  United  States,  July,  1787;  and 
the  Act  of  Virginia,  1788.  All  remarkable  as  being 
done  "in  the  year  of  our  Lord,"  evidently  intend- 
ing to  convey  to  coming  generations  that  the  Gov- 
ernment of  these  United  States  is  founded  upon 
Christian  principles;  love  being  the  foundation  stone 
upon  which  the  whole  governmental  edifice  is  built. 
Acknowledging  Christ  as  the  Saviour  of  mankind 
by  calling  him  "our  Lord,"  is  a  wonderful  testimo- 
ny appearing  spread  out  upon  the  records  of  these 
United  States — to-day  a  living  evidence  that  they 
clung  to  the  promises  of  God  to  be  fulfilled  in  them 
and  in  succeeding  generations,  as  they  should  con- 
tinue to  follow  after  their  blessed  Lord. 

What  a  rebuke  this  should  be  to  the  present  infi- 
del legislators  of  the  land!  They  are  the  men  who, 
with  their  coadjutors,  are  sapping  the  foundations 
of  the  bulwark  of  our  liberties,  civil  and  religious. 
There  is  not  a  State  Legislature  in  the  Union  that  is 
not  polluted  with  them.  There  is  an  abhorrence, 
and  open  disregard  among  such  men  of  the  words 
Anno  Domini.  It  is  looked  upon  as  a  burden  to 
write  them;  and  if  written,  it  is  considered  at  most 
a  superfluity  and  meaningless  designation;  whereas 
the  opposite  is  the  fact.  The  figures  1887  are  with- 
out signification  as  they  stand,  but  if  we  write:  A. 
D.,  1887;  B.  C,  1887;  or  A.  M  ,1887,  then  there  is  a 
definite  signification.  Anno  Domini,  1887;  before 
Christ,1887;andJ.ano  il/Mrerfi,1887, signifying  respect- 
ively, "the  year  of  our  Lord,"  '-Before  Christ,"  and 
"the  year  of  the  world." 

No  wonder  then  that  the  infidel  City  Council  in 
Boston  in  1885  passed  an  ordinance  making  "publio 
preaching  of  the  Gospel  on  Boston  Common  a  crim- 
inal act."  Under  this  ordinance  one  W.  F.  Davis 
was  sent  to  Charles  Street  Jail  in  the  city  of  Bos- 
ton, "suffering  persecution  for  freely  preaching  the 
blessed  Gospel  of  the  Lord  Jesus  Christ  in  places 
of  common,  public  resort  in  the  principal  city  found- 
ed by  the  Pilgrim  Fathersl"  Where  are  John  Han- 
cock, Samuel  Adams,  John  Adams,  Gerry,  Dana, 
Lovell  and  Samuel  Holden,  who,  for  the  State  of 
Massachusetts,  signed  the  Declaration  of  Independ- 
ence and  the  articles  of  Confederation?  Such  per- 
fidy in  a  city  honored  like  Boston,  as  being  found- 
ed by  the  Pilgrim  Fathers,  is  enough  to  sink  it  like 
Sodom  and  Gomorrah  into  utter  infamy. 

Imagine  the  court  before  whom  the  Davis  cases 
must  come  for  trial  listening  to  the  several  wit- 
nesses testifying  that  Davis  did  preach  on  the  Bos- 
ton Common  on  such  and  such  Sundays,  and  Davis 
himself  admitting  the  same  to  be  true  and  that  he 
had  no  license  from  the  Boston  Fathers  for  doing 
so,  and  the  court  desires  to  sustain  the  city  ordin- 
ance,— how  can  the  court  close  its  eyes  to  the  exist- 
ence of  the  Constitution?  This  is  something  courts 
are  bound  to  take  notice  of.  Judges  and  justices, 
being  sworn  to  support  the  Constitution,  they  can- 
not ignore  its  requirements  and  provisions  no  mat- 
ter how  ignorant  of  these  the  attorneys  representing 
the  prosecution  or  defence  may  be.  A  law  or  ordin- 
ance is  vulnerable  or  not,  according  as  it  agrees 
with,  or  contravenes,  the  Constitution.  If  the  ordin- 
ance abridges  any  right  secured  by  the  Constitution, 
Ik  cannot  stand.  It  must  yield  to  its  superior.  Da- 
vis was  denied  the  use  of  the  Common,  notwith- 
standing it  was  a  pl&ce  laid  off,  set  aside,  and  re- 
served, for  the  special  use  and  benefit  of  the  inhab- 
itants of  Boston,  where  they  could  congregate  in 
numbers  great  or  small,  few  or  many,  as  time  or 
occasion  might  call.  It  was  a  reservation  for  the 
pleasure  and  enjoyment  of  the  people  of  the  city, 
but  not  to  anj  particular  person  more  than  another, 


Maboh  15, 1888 


THE  CHRISTLiN  CYNOSURE. 


or  to  a  greater  or  less  number  of  individuals.     It  j 
was  a  place  ot  public  resort  for  one  person  as  much  | 
as  for  a  thousand.     If,   then,  Davis  was   prevented  , 
from  preaching  thereon  it  was  a  denial  of  his  rights  j 
guaranteed   him   by  the  Constitution,  and  to  which 
the  people  have  bound  themselves  to  assist  each 
other  against  all  force  offered  to  or  attacks  made 
upon  them,  "or  any  of  them,  on  account  of  religion,  or 
any  other  preterite  whatever" 

The  Common  was  a  place  of  public  resort.  Davis 
had  a  constitutional  right  to  be  there  if  he  chose. 
He  had  a  right  to  address  such  of  the  people  as 
chose  to  listen  to  him.  It  was  a  Constitutional 
right  alike  to  him  and  every  person  who  should 
"demean  himself  in  a  peaceable  and  orderly  manner, 
never  to  be  molested  on  account  of  his  mode  of  wor- 
ship or  religious  sentiments."  (Article  I.,  Ordin- 
ance of  1787.) 

Davis  had  a  constitutional  right  to  teach  and  edu- 
cate the  people  in  religion  and  morality  because 
"religion,  morality  and  knowledge"  are  "necessary 
to  good  government  and  the  happiness  of  mankind." 
Any  law  or  ordinance  that  cuts  off  or  abridges  any 
one  or  more  of  these  is  unconstitutional  and  cannot 
be  sustained  before  any  court  that  knows  its  duty 
and  will  do  it.  It  was  equally  a  denial  of  the  Con- 
stitutional rights  and  liberties  of  all  who  may  have 
assembled  around  Davis  to  listen  to  him  preaching, 
to  prevent  him  doing  so  even  if  they  did  so  out  of 
pure  curiosity  or  to  laugh  at  and  ridicule  him.  If 
on  the  other  hand  some  desired  to  listen  for  the 
purpose  of  gaining  knowledge,  they  also  had  an 
equal  right  to  hear  and  enjoy  his  preaching,  no 
matter  how  different  in  character  that  enjoyment 
might  be  to  either  class  of  the  listeners,  and  no  law 
or  ordinance  can  stand  before  the  Constitution  that 
thus  seeks  to  strike  at  the  foundation  of  the  bulwark 
that  secures  to  us  our  liberties,  and  such  must  be 
the  language  of  every  State  Constitution  and  the 
aim  of  all  legislative  enactments  or  city  ordinances 
within  these  United  States  touching  the  personal 
rights  and  liberties  of  her  people,  who  are  the  bene- 
ficiaries of  these  trusts,  W.  F.  Davis  and  those  on 
the  same  mission  included. 

It  looks,  however,  at  present  as  if  the  time  was 
drawing  near,  very  near,  when  these  rights  and  lib- 
erties so  sacred  and  dear  to  the  American  citizen  will 
soon  be  things  of  the  past.  Papacy  comes  boldly  to 
the  front,  and  through  one  of  its  orators  in  the  first 
German  Catholic  Convention  assembled  at  Chicago, 
in  a  gathering  from  all  quarters  of  3,000  people,  in 
unmistakeable  language  declares  and  publishes  to  the 
world  in  open  meeting,  "That  the  Catholics  should 
support  the  Pope  hy  secret  obedience,  and  if  NECES- 
8ABT,  BY  BE8I8TANCE,  COMPEL  THE  TEMPORAL 
AUTHORITIES  TO  MAKE  THE  REQUIRED  CONCESSIONS." 

A  few  years  ago  at  a  political  meeting  down" 
East,  a  person  hastily  it  was  thought  cried  out, 
^'•Rum,  Romanitm  and  Rebellion."  Now  it  is  here, 
and  here  with  a  vengeance  in  its  threefold  capacity. 
The  great  pests  ot  society  have  invariably  been 
found  clinging  to  the  Catholic  church.  Under  her 
shelter  crimes  are  committed  with  impunity. 
Courts  and  juries  are  dictated  to  by  her  favorite  vo- 
taries, and  her  confessional  chambers  are  legalized 
places  of  concealment  for  the  most  horrid  of 
crimes.  Popery  is  rampant,  and  Pope  Leo  XIII.  is 
coming  to  establish  bis  See  in  the  United  States  and 
have  a  monument  erected  to  his  Holiness  in  New 
York  I  Why,  it  does  look  as  if  it  was  true,  as  Pope 
Gregory  XVI.  once  said,  that  "Ae  voat  nowhere  com 
pletely  the  Popeexcfpt  in  North  America."  Does  not 
this  account  for  the  utterance  of  that  deliberate  and 
brazen  untruth  spoken  by  President  Spaunhorst  at 
the  close  of  this  first  convention  of  German  Roman 
Catholics,  that,  "as  freedom  in  the  United  States 
had  supported  Catholicism,  so  would  the  Catholic 
church  be  the  salvation  of  this  great  country. 
Had  it  not  been  for  the  assistance  of  the  Catholic 
church  in  years  gone  by,  freedom  in  fhis  country  might 
long  since  have  perished."  God  help  the  United 
States  if  the  freedom  of  her  people  depends  upon 
the  autocrat  of  Rome.  Is  not  this  an  attempt  to 
put  the  lie  upon  our  articles  of  confederation,  and 
our  Stat«  and  United  States  Constitutions? 

Chicago. 

DIVORGB  AND  MORALS. 


BT    RXV.  J.    H.    FOSTER. 


In  the  Bibliotheca  Sacra  for  January,  1888,  there 
is  an  article  on  "Some  Relation  of  Divorce  to  Social 
Morality,"  by  Rev.  Alexander  R.  Merriam,  Grand 
Rapids,  Mich.  He  gives  a  brief  historical  sketch 
showing  that  lax  marriage  laws  and  licentiousness 
went  hand  in  hand  in  Greece  and  Rome;  animad- 
verts upon  the  celibacy  and  refusal  to  divorce  in  the 
Oatholic  church,  and  the  revolt  of  the  Reformers  on 


the  continent  and  the  Puritans  of  New  England 
which  led  to  the  opposite  extreme  of  laxness;  and 
mentions  this  growing  injustice  that  "good  women, 
who  will  not  touch  the  harlot  with  their  little  fin- 
gers, yet  suffer  the  society  and  advances  of  men 
who  make  harlots." 

Then  come  the  facts.  "Divorces  have  doubled  in 
proportion  to  marriages  in  the  thirty  years  from 
1850  to  1880.  In  Connecticut  it  had  become  in  the 
latter  year  one  divorce  to  every  ten  and  four-tenths 
marriages;  in  Rhode  Island  one  to  eleven;  in  Mas- 
sachusets  one  to.  twenty-one;  in  Maine  one  to  ten; 
in  Vermont  one  to  fourteen;  for  all  New  England 
about  one  to  fourteen.  In  twenty-nine  counties  in 
California  in  a  recent  year,  an  investigation  found 
one  divorce  to  seven  and  four- tenths  marriages.  In 
San  Francisco  in  one  year  one  to  five  and  seven- 
tenths,  and  in  one  solitary  county  in  California  as 
low  as  one  to  three.  Iq  Ohio  the  number  has  in- 
creased since  1870  ninety-five  per  cent,  while  mar- 
riages have  increased  only  twenty-nine  per  cent,  and 
population  only  thirty  per  cent.  Bishop  Gillespie, 
of  Michigan,  collected  a  few  years  ago,  facts  from 
thirty-four  counties,  which  show  about  one  to  thir- 
teen. I  have  personally  obtained  from  the  proper 
oflOicers  in  Grand  Rapids  the  fact  that,  from  Octo- 
ber, 1884,  to  October,  1885,  one  divorce  was 
granted  to  four  and  a  half  marriages,  as  the  record 
of  Kent  county.  For  1886,  from  the  figures  so  far 
collected,  it  will  be  about  one  to  six,  making  Kent 
county  one  of  the  banner  counties  in  the  country  in 
its  disgraceful  record  against  the  home." 

Judge  Jennison,  of  Michigan,  calls  this  "the  dry 
rot  of  our  society,  eating  out  its  life  with  awful  cer- 
tainty, however  strong  and  prosperous  the  surface 
may  appear."  But  the  showing  against  the  Protest- 
tants  is  worse  when  we  remember  that  the  Catholics 
grant  no  divorces.  Also  mark  this  fact:  In  Massa- 
chusetts "between  1860  and  1880  the  population  in- 
creased 45  per  cent,  marriages  increased  25  per 
cent,  and  divorces  145  percent."  The  same  is  true 
throughout  New  England  and  presumably  else- 
where.    And  this  should  be  noted  likewise. 

Families,  especially  among  the  better  classes, 
are  smaller  than  formerly;  so  that  we  have  to  face 
the  combined  force  of  four  facts,  viz:  (I)  Popula- 
tion is  rapidly  increasing,  and  yet  (2)  there  are 
fewer  marriages  in  proportion  to  population;  (3) 
more  divorces  in  proportion  to  marriages;  (4) 
smaller  families  in  marriages." 

"The  problem  then  is:  Fewer  families  formed  in 
proportion  to  population;  more  homes  broken  up  in 
proportion  to  those  made;  smaller  families  raised  in 
marriage,  especially  among  the  better  classes;  ig- 
norance and  indifference  to  this  whole  question 
among  our  better  Protestant  citizens;  and  yet  the 
lower  classes,  with  their  irreligious  and  socialistic 
ideas  of  the  family  life  pushing  their  way  up  in  a 
free  and  unrestricted  state,  and  threatening  to  domi- 
nate legislation  of  the  land  on  this  as  on  other  mat- 
ters.    Here  is  our  problem.     Is  it  not  a  vital  one?" 

As  to  present  regulations  he  says:  "South  Caro- 
lina allows  no  divorce  at  all;  New  York  allows  only 
the  one  cause.  Massachusetts  gives  nine  grounds 
and  Michigan  seven.  Other  States  vary  from  three 
or  four  to  ten.  Some  of  the  States,  after  enumerat- 
ing a  long  list  of  grievances  which  may  sunder  the 
bond,  add  yet  an  omnibus  clause,"  unlimited  discre- 
tion of  the  court.  A  divorce  granted  in  any  State 
is  legal  in  every  other.  After  narrating  a  flagrant 
case  a  man  designated  it  "consecutive  polygamy"' 
as  contrasted  with  the  "contemporaneous  polygamy" 
of  Utah.  A  uniform  National  Divorce  Law  is 
needed.  The  writer  urges  in  cases  of  incompata- 
bility  the  vigorous  use  of  legal  separation  "from 
board  and  bed"  as  the  best  possible  means  of  future 
reconciliation. 


M18DIRBCTBD  VROSSOT  FOR  FUND8. 


There  is  an  urgent  and  constant  demand  for  funds. 
Every  department  of  the  work  of  saving  men  calls 
for  money  with  an  urgency  and  emphasis  that 
presses  down  upon  the  souls  of  conscientious  Chris- 
tians with  the  weight  of  the  atmosphere.  The  call 
is  for  foreign  and  home  missions,  for  colleges  and 
schools,  for  the  education  of  ministers,  for  building 
churches  and  parsonages,  for  the  support  of  super- 
annuated minisiers, — well,  if  I  should  mention  every 
object  for  which  funds  are  solicited  it  would  fill  the 
whole  sheet.  One  home  missionary  society  is  in 
debt  $25,000,  and  it  requires  $55,000  per  month  to 
supply  the  present  number  ot  missionaries  in  the 
field;  and  this  is  no^  received  and  churches  have 
been  given  up. 

Then  there  is  a  loud  call  for  funds  to  educate  and 
train  more  ministers,  while  there  is  not  money  enough 
contributed  to  sustain  those  already  in  the  field.  A 
small  number  of  conscientious  Christians  have  re- 


sponded, and  have  practiced  rigid  self-denial  to 
save  money  to  meet  these  calls.  Children  have 
given  their  pennies  and  widows  their  nickels,  boys 
their  quarters  and  poor  laborers  their  dollars,  and 
still  the  cry  is  louder  and  louder,  and  the  destitution 
is  greater  and  greater,  and  the  work  seems  to  go 
backward  instead  of  forward,  and  still  the  pressure 
grows  heavier  upon  this  small  class  of  warm-hearted 
Christians. 

Is  there  not  something  wrong  in  this  procedure? 
Is  this  the  way  the  work  of  God  should  be  done? 
Does  Christ  want  any  more  churches  and  ministers 
and  colleges,  and  professors  and  teachers,  like  the 
great  average  of  those  that  now  exist?  Are 
they  doing  Christ's  work  of  saving  sinners? 
When  Luther  and  Melancthon  had  a  controlling  in- 
fluence in  Germany,  Christians,  churches,  and  col- 
leges did  the  work  of  Christ;  and  who  would  not 
aid  with  the  last  penny  the  work  as  carried  on  by 
those  devoted  servants  of  Christ?  Men  of  all 
classes  rushed  to  their  support,  and  they  counted  not 
their  lives  dear.  Not  only  their  money — their  lives 
were  devoted.  The  Wesleys  and  WhitQelds  did 
Christ's  work  in  Christ's  way,  and  both  Europe  and 
America  felt  their  power,  and  both  men  and  money 
were  at  their  command.  Finney,  Cowles  and  others, 
worked  with  Christ  with  his  Spirit  and  in  his 
methods,  and  Oberlin  rose  like  magic  in  the  wilds 
of  Ohio  and  towers  above  colleges  of  over  a 
century's  growth,  the  peer  of  the  oldest  institutions. 
Christians  can  afford  to  give  money  and  labor  and 
time  and  prayers  to  build  institutions  like  this.  All 
these,  from  Luther  down  to  Finney,  preached  unpop- 
ular truths.  They  faced  the  world  and  stood  by 
Christ,  and  preached  his  truth  and  attacked  every- 
thing that  opposed  it.  They  said  with  Peter  and 
John,  "Whether  it  be  right  to  hearken  unto  God, 
or  unto  you,  judge  ye."  Are  the  colleges,  churches 
and  ministers  that  we  are  called  upon  to  build,  of 
this  stamp,  and  jwill  they  do  Christ's  work  in  this 
way?  Plainly,  does  Christ  want  any  more  of  this 
kind?  I  speak  not  of  the  exceptional  ones  that  are 
struggling  in  a  right  direction,  but  the  great  aver- 
age, just  such  as  are  proposed  to  be  built. 

Doubtless  the  world  would  be  blessed  and  Christ 
would  rejoice  to  have  the  whole  earth  planted  with 
institutions  and  churches  that  would  do  his  work  in 
his  spirit  and  his  way.  But  does  he  want  any  more 
such  as  the  great  average  are  and  such  as  we  are 
called  upon  to  build?  There  is  money  enough  in 
the  possession  of  professed  Christians  to  do  it.  But 
are  they  called  upon,  or  are  they  expected  to  do  it? 
Nay,  verily.  There  is  more  money  given  by  pro- 
fessors of  religion  to  build  up  secret  societies  tuan 
would  be  necessary  to  carry  the  Gospel  to  every 
part  of  the  globe,  and  say  nothing  of  their  wicked- 
ness, their  ruinous  character,  their  perfect  obstruc- 
tion of  the  progress  of  the  work  of  saving  men 
There  is  not  a  minister  or  professor  in  the  average 
church  or  college  we  are  called  upon  to  give  money 
to  build,  that  will  speak  what  they  know  to  be  truth 
in  this  matter,  and  say  they  have  no  right  to  give 
the  Lord's  money  in  this  way,  that  every  p«nny 
must  he  given  to  do  Christ's  work  in  his  own  way. 
No,  but  they  will  press  the  uninformed,  conscien- 
tious disciples  of  Christ  to  deny  themselves,  and 
practice  a  rigid  economy  to  build  churches  and  raise 
up  and  support  ministers  to  supply  them,  that  will 
use  the  most  of  the  Lord's  money  to  support  these 
institutions  of  Satan. 

Where  is  the  minister  or  college  ofBcer  that  dare 
say  what  he  knows  to  be  true  in  this  matter?  It  is 
true  there  are  some  exceptional  men  who  will  do  it, 
and  there  are  many  who  will  speak  with  bated 
breath,  in  an  undertone,  what  ought  to  be  spoken 
boldly  on  the  house  top;  and  the  enemy  of  Christ 
knows  their  cowardice  and  pusillanimity.  Professors 
of  religion  pay  out  more  money  for  tobacco  than 
would  be  necessary  to  send  the  Gospel  to  the  desti- 
tute everywhere,  and  who  is  there  that  will  not  say 
that  tobacco  is  not  only  useless,  but  a  decided  in- 
jury? Few  pretend  to  doubt  it,  and  yet  the  men 
who  will  tell  the  people  the  truth  about  this  matter 
and  insist  that  tbe  Lord's  money  can't  be  used  in 
this  way  can  be  counted  on  your  fingers.  But  the 
great  majority  go  right  on,  pressing  the  consci- 
entious children  of  God  to  deny  themselves  and 
give  to  build  up  churches  and  colleges  that  will  per- 
petuate this  most  pernicious  and  harmful  practice. 

Is  it  not  time  to  call  for  a  pause  and  look  over 
this  whole  subject  and  see  wliat  Christ  wants  his 
people  to  do,  and  how  he  wants  them  to  do  it?  Is 
it  not  plain,  when  we  are  required  to  choose  Christ 
with  the  loss  of  all  things,  that  in  building  churches 
or  other  institutions  for  him,  we  must  expel  from 
them  all  secret  lodges  and  tobacco-using  and  e\ery 
kindred  vice?  On  a  basis  like  this.  Christian  insti- 
tutions and  churches  will  be  clothed  with  power. 
God's  people  will  rally  to  their  support  and  money 


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will  flow  like  streams  at  flcx)d-tide  and  banks  over- 
flowing. Treasurers  of  mission  societies  will  be 
full.  Missionaries  will  be  sustained  in  every  part 
of  the  earth.  The  Gospel  will  be  preached  to  every 
creature,  and  the  kingdoms  of  this  world  will  be- 
come the  kingdom  of  the  Lord  and  his  Christ. 

FfiiEND  OF  Missions, 


IN  MSMORIAM. 


MRS.   ELVIRA    M.   THOMSON. 


A  life  was  In  ths  noon  of  strength ; 

Behind,  the  way  was  rough  and  steep,— 
A  journey  of  a  weary  length, 

Beset  by  many  a  robber  keep. 

Yet  on  she  went  from  height  to  height, 

With  half  a  life  of  battles  won, 
Till  o'er  her  pathway  fell  the  light 

From  lands  that  He  beyond  the  sun. 

More  gently  rounded  grew  the  hills 
O'er  which  her  future  pathway  led, 

And  sweetly  musical  the  tills 
That  o'er  the  soft  green  uplands  sped. 

The  gloomy  rocks  receding  far, 
That  long  had  walled  her  narrow  way, 

Let  In  the  light  of  moon  and  ttar. 
And  gle*mings  of  the  coming  day. 

Hope,  smiling,  woke,  —abrupt  and  bold, 
A  huge,  b^ack,  mountain  barrier  rose ; 

And  from  Us  frowning  summit  rolled 
The  banner  of  the  king  of  foes. 

Unsealed  the  awful  summit  lay. 
The  pilgrim's  onward  way  to  bar; 

Yet  was  there  one  dark,  tunneled  way, 
T'was  lighted  by  a  single  star. 

She  raised  her  face,  it  caught  the  gleam 
Of  hope  triumphant  o'er  her  fear; 

And  when  she  viewed  that  one  star's  beam, 
We  watched  and  saw  her  disappear. 

Her  work  is  done,  her  rest  is  won. 
No  more  of  toil  or  doubt  or  fears; 

The  lives  she  blessed  must  follow  on 
Wheieone  day  Is  a  thousand  years. 


PBRSONAL  MENTION. 

— Rev.  C.  F.  Hawley,  Iowa  agent,  was  last  week 
with  his  family  in  Wheaton  for  a  short  visit. 

— Rev.  S.  A.  George,  of  Mansfield,  Ohio,  late 
Secretary  of  the  State  Association,  read  a  paper  on 
the  Christian  Sabbath,  before  the  Pdstor's  Associa- 
tion of  the  city.  It  is  an  able  argument,  and  was 
considered  of  so  much  interest  that  it  was  published 
in  the  Mansfield  Daily  Herald  of  next  morning. 

— John  J.  Whittier  is  pre-eminently  the  temper- 
ance and  reform  poet,  and  the  work  of  his  life  ap- 
peals strongly  to  the  Woman's  Christian  Temper- 
ance Union.  Miss  Willard  suggests  to  them  as  a 
tribute  of  respect  that  Whittier's  old  home  in  Hav- 
erhill be  purchased  and  preserved.  This  is  a  \ery 
appropriate  suggestion. 

— Rev.  W.  R.  Cox,  United  Presbyterian  pastor  at 
Lenox,  Iowa,  lately  preached  an  able  sermon  on 
prayer,  in  which  he  took  boldly  the  ground  that  be- 
cause of  our  indifference  as  a  nation  to  the  liquor 
traffic,  when  the  party  conventions  were  called  upon 
in  1880  to  act  against  it,  God  turned  away  his  ear 
from  hearing  our  prayer  for  President  Garfield  when 
he  was  shot  by  Guiteau. 

— Dr.  J.  L.  Withrow,  who  came  from  Boston  to 
take  charge  of  the  Third  Presbyterian  church  in  this 
city,  is  nearly  alone  in  his  approval  of  the  C.  B. 
and  Q,  engineers'  strike.  Last  year  when  the  "Broth- 
erhood" met  in  this  city.  Dr.  Withrow  inviteri  their 
lodge  to  his  church  and  patronized  thera  famously, 
to  the  discredit  of  the  brotherhood  of  Christ,  which 
he  is  supposed  to  maintain  against  all  illegally  for- 
sworn organizations. 

— Bro.  Edward  Mathews,  from  whose  African  ex- 
periences we  hoped  to  hear  once  a  month,  has  gone 
on  a  trip  far  into  the  interior  of  the  Congo  country 
and  will  not  be  heard  from  probably  for  three 
months.  We  regret  that  our  readers  and  Bro. 
Mathews'  family  must  forego  his  interesting  letters 
for  so  long  a  time,  but  we  must  all  pray  that  he  may 
be  protected  while  on  this  difficult  and  dangerous 
journey  and  be  able  to  aid  materially  in  opening 
the  way  for  the  missionary  and  the  Word  of  Life. 
— Rev.  B  F.  Mills,  who  is  become  Dr.  Pentecost's 
associate,  is  a  new  evangelist,  whose  sermons,  says 
Wordt  and  Weapont,  are  clear  and  olose  expositions 
of  the  great  principles  which  underlie  the  proclama- 
tion of  the  Gospel.  His  appeal  is  to  the  reason  and 
conscience  rattier  than  to  the  emotions.  In  many 
respects  bis  sermons  and  manner  remind  those  who 


were  familiar  with  him  of  the  late  Dr.  Finney.  His 
success  has  been  very  great,  and  his  ability  and 
spirit  are  heartily  commended  and  approved,  espe- 
cially by  the  ministers  of  the  churches  among  which 
he  has  gone  preaching  the  Word. 

— Dr.  L.  W.  Munhall,  who  is  one  of  the  best-known 
of  the  evangelists,  has  closed  a  series  of  most  suc- 
cessful meetings  with  the  Methodist  churches  in 
Baltimore,  and  is  now  at  work  in  Bufl[alo.  He  goes 
thence  to  Cincinnati  for  two  months  to  work  with 
the  Methodist  churches  in  that  city.  Dr.  Munhall  is 
a  very  positive  man,  has  ideas  of  his  own,  and  presses 
them  with  tremendous  vigor  upon  the  hearts  and 
consciences  of  his  hearers.  By  ideas  of  his  own  is 
not  meant  extra  scriptural  views,  but  that  he  has  a 
well  thought  out  scheme  of  truth  which  he  has  drawn 
from  the  Bible,  and  which  he  regards  as  essential  to 
success  in  winning  men  to  Christ.  He  is  peculiarly 
successful  with  his  men's  meetings,  which  are  a 
specialty  in  all  his  evangelistic  work. —  Words  and 
Weapons. 

OUR  WASHINGTON  LETTER. 

A  bill  has  been  introduced  in  the  Senate  by  Sena- 
tor Gorman,  for  remodeling  the  U.  S.  Patent  Office 
and  its  laws.  This  seems  timely  in  connection  with 
the  wail  that  is  coming  up  from  inventors  all  over 
the  country  to  the  effect  that  they  cartnot  get  pat- 
ents, mingled  with  the  wail  of  the  patent  lawyers 
that  they  are  powerless  under  the  existing  state  of 
affairs  in  the  Patent  Office,  where  work  is  months 
and  months  in  arrears.  In  the  spring  of  1884  the 
U.  S.  Patent  Office  made  a  spurt  and  did  an  enor- 
mous*amount  of  work.  The  then  Commissioner  of 
Patents  hoped  to  be  retained  by  Mr.  Cleveland,  and 
he  issued  an  order  that  those  examiners  who  were 
behind  with  their  work  should  work  additional  hours 
until  they  had  cleared  their  dockets.  The  way  those 
examiners  worked  both  during  regular  and  extra 
hours  had  more  edification  in  it  than  was  ever 
claimed  by  a  mountebank  for  his  side  show.  In  six 
weeks  those  who  had  been  four  and  five  months  in 
arrears  had  caught  up,  and  it  was  possible  for  an 
inventor  to  get  his  patent  in  a  week  or  ten  days 
after  application.  That  Commissioner  of  Patents 
ought  to  have  been  retained,  and  it  is  not  too  late 
to  reappoint  him.  The  present  Commissioner,  Mr. 
Hall,  is  an  educated,  intelligent  man,  so  erudite,  in- 
deed, that  the  patent  lawyers  cannot  get  at  the 
meaning  of  his  rulings.  He  ought  to  have  retire- 
ment and  leisure  to  write  abstract  treaties  on  the 
divisions  of  applications.  His  presence  is  an  ob- 
struction to  business,  and  his  genius  is  not  in  accord 
with  a  practical  people  and  a  progressive  age. 

The  Senate  Committee  on  Foreign  Relations 
lately  gave  a  respectful  hearing  to  Dr.  Theodore  L. 
Cuyler,  president  of  the  National  Tempet-ance  So- 
ciety of  New  York,  and  W.  T.  Hornaday  of  the 
Smithsonian  Institute,  who  spoke  with  much  effect 
in  regard  to  the  suppression  of  the  liquor  traffic  now 
carried  on  from  this  country  to  Africa  and  the  Pacific 
Islands.  * 

PROHIBITION    IN    THE   DISTRICT 

has  received  an  apparent  backset  from  the  unfavor- 
able report  of  the  Senate  Committee  on  Mr.  Piatt's 
bill.  But,  like  the  attempt  to  dam  up  the  Missis- 
sippi, the  on-rushing  sentiment  is  not  to  be  arrested, 
but  goes  forward  with  an  impulse  all  the  stronger 
for  the  effort  at  restraint.  It  is  proposed  to  give 
the  people  a  chance  to  vote  on  local  option,  and  an 
opportunity  to  determine  for  themselves  what  shall 
be  the  law.  Such  an  enactment  would  be  better 
than  nothing.  A  vigorous  campaign  for  prohibi- 
tion in  the  District,  however  it  might  result,  would 
do  much  good.  It  would  affect  the  large  colored 
population,  many  of  whom  are  scarcely  reached  now. 
Buo  to  the  earnest  aggressive  workers,  this  action 
looks  like  an  evasion.  It  is  well  known  that  the 
best  Christian  sentiment  demands  prohibition,  and 
that  there  could  be  no  question  presented  that  would 
array  so  completely  the  vicious  element  on  one  side 
and  the  pure  and  peace-loving  on  the  other,  ae  this. 
Congress  has  been  appealed  to  over  and  over  again, 
by  the  people  of  the  District,  and  is  at  no  loss  to 
know  what  are  the  convictions  of  the  better  classes 
of  society,  and  of  all  who  are  not  under  the  control 
of  a  morbid  appetite,  or  a  sordid  self-interest 

Wednesday  there  was  a  notable  meeting  under  the 
auspices  of  the  W.  C.  T.  U.  in  the  First  Congrega- 
tional church,  presided  over  by  ex-Governor  Long 
of  Massachusetts,  and  addressed  by  Congressmen 
Kerr  of  Iowa,  and  M.  C.  Cutchen  of  Michigan;  also 
by  Mrs.  La  Fetra,  president  of  the  W.  C.  T.  U.,  Mrs. 
Russell,  Miss  Chase  and  Mr.  Faxon.  It  was  note- 
worthy that  while  all  pleaded  for  prohibition,  all 
the  Congressmen  abstained  from  any  allusions  to 
political  action.     Not  so  with  the  ladies  and  Mr. 


Faxon;  both,  in  their  speeches  and  their  resolutions 
(which  were  most  emphatic),  looked  toward  political 
prohibition.  Last  night  I  listened  to  an  admirable 
address  by  Mrs.  Hunt  in  the  Waugh  M.  E.  church 
on  Capitol  Hill,  and  the  whole  city  fairly  bristles 
with  aggressive  temperance  work. 

The  mutual  boycott  of  the  Knights  of  Labor  and 
the  brewers  is  a  conflict  that  will  be  regarded  with 
great  complacency,  if  not  with  extreme  satisfaction, 
by  all  lovers  of  justice  and  good  order.  For  some 
time  past  the  Knights  have  declared  a  boycott  on 
certain  breweries  and  the  beer  that  they  make,  wher- 
ever sold;  and  now,  in  retaliation,  the  brewers  have 
determined  to  boycott  the  Knights  by  dismissing 
them  from  their  service  wherever  employed,  and 
hiring  only  nonunion  men.  Such  a  conflict  cannot 
but  result  in  an  immense  benefit,  however  it  may  re- 
sult. If  the  Knights  shall  adhere  to  their  pledge 
to  drink  only  such  beer  as  their  order  has  manu- 
factured, they  will  make  an  immense  saving  in  time, 
money,  and  morals.  If  they  are  compelled  to  en- 
gage in  some  other  employment  than  brewing,  they 
will  be  so  far  removed  from  temptation  and  the  in- 
fluence of  a  mo3t  demoralizing  business.  If  the 
brewers  shall  be  crippled  in  their  business,  no  one 
will  weep  over  it;  and  if  they  succeed  in  breaking 
up  the  organization  of  the  Knights,  there  will  be  an 
immense  gain  to  the  great  army  of  non  union  labor- 
ers who  are  sorely  oppressed  by  the  action  of  the 
Knights.  Whatever  may  be  the  result  it  will  be  a 
benefit  to  humanity. 

Congress  is  wrestling  with  the  tariff  question.  All 
parties  see  and  concede  that  there  must  be  a  reduc- 
tion of  the  national  revenues;  the  only  question 
seems  to  be  where  it  shall  be  made.  There  seems  to 
be  a  purpose  to  so  change  the  duties  on  sugar  as 
not  to  offend  the  sugar  planters  and  to  conciliate 
those  who  demand  reduction.  The  duties  on  sugar 
ought  to  be  removed.  There  is  no  one  article  so 
universally  consumed  by  all  classes,  the  rich  and  the 
poor,  on  which  we  pay  so  large  a  tax  for  our  privi- 
lege of  buying  and  consuming.  All  tariff  duties 
are  an  invasion  of  the  natural  right  of  all  men  to 
buy  in  the  markets  where  they  can  buy  the  cheap- 
est, and  sell  where  they  can  sell  the  best.  All  tar- 
iffs are  framed  tor  the  benefit  of  the  few  at  the  ex- 
pense of  the  many;  but  in  no  other  instance  is  the 
few  that  are  to  be  benefited  so  small  and  the  num- 
ber to  bear  the  burden  so  large  as  in  the  matter  of 
sugar  duties.  If  it  were  not  for  the  hope  of  making 
political  capital  for  one  party  or  the  other,  there 
would  be  no  trouble  in  making  the  adjustment. 

H.   H.    HiNMAN. 


OUR    NEW  TORE  LETTER. 


AN    INTERESTING     REVIEW   OF   THE   CHUaCHBg     AND 
THEIR    WORK. 


Editor  Christian  Cynosure: — Last  Sabbath 
evening  I  preached  on  National  Reform  in  the  Lee 
Avenue  Congregational  church.  Rev.  Henry  A.  Pow- 
ell, pastor.  His  congregation  has  a  membership  of 
over  500.  There  was  a  great  houseful — 700  paople. 
They  listened  for  an  hour  with  the  closest  attention. 
After  service  Bro.  Powell  said:  "I  have  always 
scouted  the  idea  of  God  in  the  Constitution  as  be- 
ing of  any  value.  But  the  way  you  presented  it  to- 
night no  Christian  can  be  against  it.  You  began  at 
the  foundation,  the  supremacy  of  the  Divine  law, 
and  built  up  until  your  conclusion  is  inevitable.  I 
am  with  you  throughout.  I  am  glad  you  came,  and 
that  I  have  heard  what  you  said.  I  wish  to  have 
you  back  again." 

Bro.  Powell  has  had  a  wide  expsriencs.  He  was 
born  a  Hixite  Quaker,  baptized  a  Methodist,  or- 
dained a  Presbyterian  minister,  installed  as  pastor 
of  a  Dutch  Reformed  church  on  Bushwlck  Avenue, 
where  he  served  for  seven  years,  and  for  the  last 
five  years  has  been  pastor  of  the  Lee  Avenue  Con- 
gregational church.  He  "has  accepted  the  Chap- 
laincy of  the  47th  Regiment,  N.  G.  S.  N.  Y.,  to  suc- 
ceed Dr.  Newland  Maynard." 

The  General  Assembly  of  the  Presbyterian  church 
proposes  to  raise  a  large  sum  for  Ministerial  Relief. 
A  few  weeks  ago  a  meeting  was  held  in  the  interests 
of  this  object  in  New  York,  in  the  Brick  church. 
Rev.  Dr.  Van  Dyke,  pastor.  Dr.  Crosby  said:  "A 
singular  division  of  the  people  of  Christ's  kingdom 
is  made  by  Isaiah.  He  calls  them  'Churls'  and  'Lib- 
erals.' The  churl  looks  after  his  own  spiritual  in- 
terests and  neglects  those  of  his  neighbor;  the  lib- 
eral is  one  whose  soul  is  so  full  of  love  that  hecin- 
not  help  but  go  out  and  give  and  minister  to  others. 
The  liberal  givers  in  t  e  church  are  always  the  few. 
Notwithstanding  the  fact  that  he  has  to  spend  years 
in  hard  study  and  preparation  for  his  work,  the  av- 
erage salary  of  the  Presbyterian  minister  in  this 
country  was  less  than  $700.    In  this  city,  where  the 


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THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


Doini'sters  are  better  paid  than  in  the  country,  there 
would  seem  to  be  no  use  for  a  provision  for  old  age, 
but  it  was  for  the  ministers  in  the  vast  territory  out- 
side of  the  cities'  this  help  was  needed.  Even  in 
this  city  there  are  ministers  who,  notwithstanding 
their  eminent  qualifications,  only  receive  $1,200  per 
year,  with  no  chance  to  lay  up  a  competence  for 
years  of  declining  health  and  age." 

The  Dr.  related  an  instance  of  finding  in  a  poor, 
filthy  lodging  bouse  in  Chatham  street  a  broken-down 
minister,  who  was  compelled  to  live  in  such  a  place 
because  he  could  get  his  room  for  twenty-five  cents 
per  day.  "This  minister  had,  during  thirty  years, 
in  all  weathers,  and  most  of  the  time  on  foot  for 
lack  of  means  to  keep  other  conveyance, 
gone  up  and  down  in  the  wilds  of  Ne- 
braska and  Dakota  doing  the  Master's  work,  and 
had  planted  over  thirty  churches.  On  one  of  his 
trips  he  suffered  a  sunstroke,  and  when  seventy 
years  old  found  himself  a  helpless  occupant  of  a 
twenty-five  cent  lodging  house — he  who  had  done  so 
much  for  our  church  and  our  common  Lord;  he  our 
brother  and  fellow  laborer."  The  Dr.  had  gotten 
him  a  comfortable  resting  place  in  the  Bruen  Home 
at  Perth  Amboy,  where  a  few  months  ago  he  died. 
The  mother  of  this  old  minister,  aged  ninety-three 
years  and  a  recipient  of  charity  in  Vermont,  wrote 
to  Dr.  Crosby  pouring  out  her  earnest  thankfulness 
for  his  kindness  to  her  "boy."  This  "boy"  of  sev- 
enty years  is  not  an  exceptional  case. 

Drs.  Hall  and  Paxton  followed  with  eloquent  ap- 
peals. Mr.  Warner  Van  Norden  spoke  last.  He 
said:  "The  city  of  New  York  supports,  through  its 
Board  of  Charities  and  Correction,  and  not  includ- 
ing criminals,  sixteen  thousand  persons.  These 
persons  are  unfortunate  or  lazy  or  shiftless,  or  have 
brought  themselves  to  beds  of  sickness  very  often 
by  their  own  acts.  Seventy  per  cent  of  them  are 
foreigners,  and  yet  the  city  regards  it  as  a  duty  to 
take  care  of  them.  It  costs  the  city  about  two  hun- 
dred dollars  per  year  to  support  each  one  of  these 
unfortunates.  The  Presbyterian  church  is  support- 
ing either  wholly  or  in  part  532  persons,  of  whom 
220  are  fathers  (ministers),  and  312  mothers  and 
orphans.  It  costs  the  church  for  each  one  of  these 
persons  less  than  two  hundred  dollars  per  year.  In 
the  first  instance  New  York  City's  dependents  have 
done  nothing  for  the  city,  nothing  for  the  good  of 
its  people;  on  the  contrary,  in  many  cases  they  have 
led  debased  lives  and  have  injured  others.  In  the 
instance  of  these  good  men  of  the  church's  care, 
they  have  worked  long  and  hard,  and  striven  in 
many  ways  to  build  up  the  church  and  do  good  to 
men.  In  their  strenuous  efforts  for  us  and  ours 
they  have  fallen.  These  men  are  educated  and  ac- 
customed to  all  that  is  highest  and  best  for  man's 
use  in  the  world;  and  yet  they  uncomplainingly  live 
on  this  pittance,  less  than  New  York  gives  her  pau- 
pers, and  will  do  so  unless  the  church  gives  more 
money  to  use  in  this  good  cause  of  relief.  And 
who  are  these  ministers  and  their  families?  They 
are  our  fathers,  mothers  and  members  of  our  own 
families;  and  it  is  not  for  charity  we  give  to  this 
cause;  it  is  for  love  to  our  own  families.  We  have 
loved  them  all  our  lives  in  this  service,  and  will  do 
so  in  their  old  age.  It  is  for  such  a  cause  this  per- 
manent fund  is  to  be  raised." 

A  Young  Ladies'  Christian  Association  has  been 
organized  in  Brooklyn.  Monday  evening  a  mass 
meeting  was  held  in  the  Y.  M.  C.  A.  hall  in  its  in- 
terests. Ex-Mayor  Lowe  presided.  Addresses 
were  delivered  by  Drs.  Meredith,  Storrs,  and  Cham- 
berlin.     The  house  was  filled  to  overflowing. 

The  Brooklyn  Evangelical  Alliance  has  divided 
the  city  into  thirteen  districts,  and  the  churches  of 
each  section  are  being  organized  into  branch  allian- 
ces. For  every  100  members  there  is  one  supervi- 
sor, and  for  every  supervisor  ten  visitors.  Each 
community  will  be  divided  into  as  many  districts  as 
there  are  supervisors,  and  each  district  will  be  as- 
signed to  the  care  of  one  supervisor.  Then  each 
district  will  be  divided  into  fields,  and  each  field 
will  be  assigned  to  a  visitor,  who  shall  learn  the 
church  preferences  of  the  non-church-goers  whom 
he  visits,  and  extend  to  them,  in  the  name  of  the 
Alliance,  an  invitation  to  attend  the  nearest  church 
of  that  denomination,  and  the  names  will  be  sent 
to  the  pastor  of  the  church.  It  is  to  be  hoped  the 
machine  will  work.  But  the  Great  Eastern  on  the 
sea  is  not  a  circumstance  to  this;  and  that  was 
too  large. 

The  twenty  fifth  anniversary  of  the  pastorate  of 
Rev.  Dr.  Howard  Crosby  in  the  Fourth  Avenue 
Presbyterian  church  was  celebrated  Tuesday  night. 
Dr.  Joseph  T.  Smith  of  Baltimore  presided.  Drs. 
Cuyler,  Pierson,  Schaff,  Brown,  Stoddard,  Mitchell 
and  others  were  on  the  platform.  Dr.  Crosby  was 
installed  there  March  1,  1861.  Then  there  were  285 
members;  now  they  have  1,564,  of  whom  554  wor- 


ship in  their  two  missions,  and  1,000  in  the  home 
church.  The  church  is  the  fifth  in  size  of  the 
6,500  churches  of  the  denomination.  Their  char- 
itable gifts  average  $15,000  a  year;  the  congrega- 
tional expenses  are  also  $15,000.  Dr.  Crosby  has 
made  his  mark  as  a  scholar,  reformer  and  preacher. 
He  was  Chancellor  of  the  New  York  City  Univer- 
sity for  years.  He  is  yet  young.  His  eye  is  not 
dim,  nor  his  natural  force  abated.     J.  M.  Fosteb. 


aOMB  ROADS  LBADINO  TO  ROMS. 

The  "poor  prisoner"  in  the  Vatican,  who  has  an 
income  oi  only  five  million  a  year  and  lives  in  a  pal- 
ace containing  several  hundred  rooms,  has  recently 
celebrated  his  fiftieth  priesthood  jubilee.  His  friends 
have  remembered  him  in  his  poverty  and  it  will  not 
be  necessary  for  him  to  eat  dry  crusts  and  drink  on- 
ly water  for  many  a  day  to  come.  His  jubilee  gifts 
are  said  to  be  worth  about  $12,000,000,  and  with 
$2,800,000  in  money  amount  to  a  total  of  $14,800,- 
000.  Among  these  gifts  are  90,000  bottles  of  wine, 
for  the  storage  of  which  a  new  room  has  to  be 
built.  The  packing-cases  in  which  all  these  presents 
came  number  about  4,000  and  many  of  them  are 
still  at  the  railroad  station  in  Rome.  They  are  to 
be  placed  in  a  museum  for  public  exhibition  at  the 
Vatican.  It  is  announced  that  a  large  part  of  the 
money  contributed  to  the  Pope  will  be  given  to  var- 
ious charitable  institutions. — Lutheran  Standard. 

The  present  Pope  owed  his  election  to  tha  Jesuits. 
In  return  for  this  favor  he  has  "revoked  the  bull  and 
encyclicals"  by  which  their  order  was  suppressed. 
The  Jesuits,  through  the  Pope,  are  now  the  controll- 
ing force  in  Romanism; — the  most  dangerous  class 
of  men  in  the  whole  world;  worse  than  socialists, 
than  nihilists,  than  anarchists.  These  last  make  no 
secret  of  their  purpose  to  destroy  all  that  the  best 
men  throughout  the  world  are  trying  to  build  up. 
The  Jesuits  aim  at  the  same  thing,  but  are  working 
always  under  ground.  The  Pope's  jubilee  was  a 
silly  farce;  a  flaunting  in  the  face  and  eyes  of 
Christendom  of  the  moth-eaten  splendors  of  medie- 
val man-worship.  The  really  serious  matter  people 
in  these  days  have  to  think  about  is  the  fact  that 
Anti -Christ  is  not  yet  dead. —  Chicago  Standard. 

The  title  page  of  Cleveland's  present  to  the  Pope 
bears,  in  the  handwriting  of  the  President,  the  fol- 
lowing inscription:  "Presented  to  His  Holiness, 
Pope  Leo  XIII.,  as  an  expression  of  congratulation 
on  the  occasion  of  his  sacerdotal  jubilee,  with  the 
profound  regard  of  Grover  Cleveland,  President  of 
the  United  States,  through  the  courtesy  of  his  emi- 
nence, Cardinal  Gibbons,  Archbishop  of  Baltimore." 
The  following  page  bears  an  American  eagle  in  gold- 
en colors,  and  beneath  it  the  words:  "The  Constitu- 
tion of  the  United  States,  adopted  Sept.  17,  1787." 
On  the  following  pages  appear  the  articles  and 
amendments.  The  present  was  prepared  under  the 
supervision  of  ex-Major  Grace,  of  New  York. 

Mr.  H.  Grattan  Guinness  says  in  his  book  on  Ro- 
manism and  the  Reformation:  "Fifty  years  ago 
there  were  not  500  Roman  priests  in  Great  Britain; 
now  there  are  2,600.  Fifty  years  ago  there  were  not 
500  chapels;  now  there  are  1,575.  Fifty  years  ago 
there  were  no  monasteries  at  all  in  Great  Britain; 
now  there  are  225.  There  were  even  then  16  con- 
vents, but  there  are  now  over  400  of  these  barred 
and  bolted  and  impenetrable  prisons,  in  which  15,- 
000  English  women  are  kept  prisoners  at  the  mercy 
of  a  celibate  clergy.  And,  strangest  of  all, England, 
who  once  abolished  monasteries  and  appropriated  to 
national  uses  the  ill-gotten  gains  of  Rome,  is  now 
actually  endowing  Romanism  in  her  empire  to  the 
extent  of  over  a  million  of  money  per  annum.  The 
exact  amount  is  £1,052,657." 

The  Chief  Anarchist. — It  is  amusing,  in  the 
light  of  historical  facts,  to  read  the  grandiloquent 
claims  made  by  one  of  the  speakers  in  Cooper  Un- 
ion at  the  late  celebration  there  of  the  Pope's  jubi- 
lee. The  gentleman  in  question  said  "that  the  time 
had  come  when  all  good  men  who  dreaded  anarchy 
and  socialism  were  looking  to  the  Catholic  (papal) 
church  as  the  only  bulwark  of  religion  and  civiliza- 
tion." The  strange  comment  upon  this  is  that  the 
present  Pope  is  in  open  revolt  against  his  own  gov- 
ernment. Theoretically  he  may  claim  to  be  the  cure 
for  all  anarchy,  but  practically  he  is  the  greatest  liv- 
ing representative  of  a  refusal  to  submit  to  the  laws 
and  the  government  of  his  own  native  land. —  Church- 
man, 


Beeobm  News. 


— The  Baptist  Mission  in  the  Shantung  Province, 
China,  have  in  the  single  district  of  Tsingcheu  Fu 
fifty-five  churches,  all  self-supporting,  ministered  to 
by  native  pastors  and  teachers,  who  maintain  them- 
selves entirely,  not  drawing  any  of  their  support 
from  the  funds  of  the  society. 


OniO  AND  PENN8TLVAN1A. 

PiTTSBUBGH,  Pa ,  March  10,  1887. 

Deab  Ctnosdbe: — It  seemed  best,  after  consul- 
tation with  part  of  the  Ohio  State  officers,  for  Mrs. 
Stoddard  and  myself  to  visit  friends  in  this  State  at 
this  season,  hoping  at  the  same  time  to  do  some  ef- 
fectual work  for  our  cause. 

Since  our  arrival  a  week  ago  we  have  been  made 
very  welcome  everywhere,  and  much  interest  has 
been  expressed  in  our  work.  Owing  to  the  many 
suppers  and  parties  given  in  our  honor,  I  have  had 
very  little  time  for  canvassing  and  personal  work.  A 
very  interesting  meeting  was  held  in  the  Reformed 
Presbyterian  church  on  Thursday  evening  at  Wil- 
kinsburg,  the  home  of  Mrs.  Stoddard's  father.  I 
attribute  the  large  attendance  |to  her  popularity. 
Every  seat  in  the  house  was  taken,  no  less  than  500 
being  present. 

A  lecture  for  Monday  evening  has  been  arranged 
in  what  is  known  as  the  Eighth  Street  Reformed 
Presbyterian  church  of  this  city.  The  late  Dr.  A.  M. 
Milligan  was  for  many  years  their  beloved  pastor. 
His  memory  and  work  will  not  soon  be  forgotten. 
The  lecture  is  to  be  given  under  the  auspices  of  the 
Young  Peoples'  Christian  Endeavor  Society  of  this 
church.  They  are  advertising  and  doing  all  in  their 
power  to  make  it  a  success.  I  have  a  long  list  of 
pastors  on  whom  I  hope  to  call  to-day.  Other  lec- 
tures are  in  tow.  W.  B.  Stoddabd. 


THB  DEBATE  AT ENOXVILLB,   TSNN. 


As  announced  in  the  January  number  of  Aurora, 
the  Knoxville  College  monthly,  a  debate  took  place 
in  that  city  a  few  days  before  Pres.  McCullough  and 
his  associates  were  compelled  to  close  the  institution 
because  of  the  prevailing  sickness.  The  last  Aurora 
has  an  editorial  on  the  discussion,  which  may  have 
been  in  some  sense  a  disappointment,  but  in  the  end 
its  fruit  must  appear.     The  Aurora  says: 

"The  question,  'Resolved,  that  oath-bound,  secret 
societies  are  detrimental  to  the  Negro  race,'  was  dis- 
cussed in  the  Independent  church,  Knoxville,  on  the 
evening  of  February  21st.  Affirmed  by  two  stu- 
dents from  the  college;  denied  hy  two  citizens  of 
Knoxville. 

"The  speeches  on  the  affirmative  were  dignified, 
logical,  and  honest.  For  the  intelligence,  truth,  man- 
liness, and  morality  of  the  speeches  on  the  nega- 
tive the  audience  may  answer.  If  the  lodge  sys- 
tem stands  in  need  of  such  defense  as  it  received  on 
that  occasion,  it  has  great  need  to  be  secret,  to  be  in 
the  dark,  to  crouch  behind  barred  doors  and  armed 
guards.  No  wonder  the  mouths  of  its  members  are 
closed  with  oaths  horrible  enough  to  freeze  the  blood 
of  a  cannibal.  Christian  Masons  and  Odd-fellows 
listened  that  evening  without  protest  to  an  audience 
laugh  and  yell  their  applause,  while  Jesus  Christ 
and  his  church  were  treated  with  ribaldry  and  scorn 
by  the  defenders  of  secretism.  If  the  members  of 
the  lodge  had  hissed  and  driven  such  monstrous, 
shocking  blasphemy  from  the  rostrum  (which  would 
have  been  the  case  if  the  lodge  were  a  good  institu- 
tion), we  would  have  supposed  that  they  felt  them- 
selves misrepresented  by  those  speakers,  and  they 
would  thus  have  shown  some  belief  in  and  respect 
for  their  order.  Every  Christian  lodge-man  repre- 
sented there  that  night  lies  under  charge  of  tramp- 
ling under  foot  the  Son  of  God.  When  will  all 
Christians  unite  to  teap  this  hell-born  dragon  from 
the  heart  of  the  government,  trom  the  neck  of  the 
church?  Good  men  are  in  the  lodge,  but  they  are 
taken  in  by  fraud.  The  serpent  told  Eve,  'Thou 
ahalt  not  surely  die;'  and  so  the  serpent  stands  at 
every  lodge  door  to  tell  the  unwary  victim  that  there 
is  no  obligation  'inconsistent  with  any  duty  we  owe 
to  self,  family,  country,  mankind,  or  to  our  Creator,' 
that  is,  'Thou  shalt  not  surely  die,'  at  the  same  time 
artfully  concealing  the  fact  that  by  its  own  creed  it 
would  send  every  member  of  it  to  perdition;  for 
while  it  claims  to  save  souls,  it  turns  Christ  out  of 
doors.  A  good  man,  knowing  what  it  is,  would  no 
more  enter  the  lodge  as  a  member  than  he  would  en- 
ter the  lion's  den.  Let  good  men  and  bad  men  in 
the  lodge  read  2  Thess.  2:11  and  beware." 


— From  the  Patrol,  a  lively  prohibition  sheet  in 
Geneva,  III.,  it  appears  that  the  Loyal  Legion,  the 
secret  order  of  the  officers  of  the  Union  army,  holds 
its  meetings  regularly  on  the  Sabbath  day  in  that 
town.  On  the  other  hand  the  W.  C.  T.  U.,  realizing 
the  great  neglect  of  Sabbath  observance  in  the 
place,  have  begun  to  agitate  for  better  things.  May 
the  women  have  grace  to  stop  not  only  the  Sabbath- 
breaking  of  the  lodge,  but  the  lodge  itself. 


^ 


6 


IHE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


March  15, 1888 


FROM  THE  NEW  ORLEAHIB  PASTORS.         \ 

Niw  Orleans,  La.,  March  2cl,  1888. 

Dbar  Ctnosuri: — I  have  attended  the  First 
District  Baptist  Association  in  Gretna  and  distrib- 
uted tracts  and  copies  of  the  Cynosure.  I  could 
have  distributed  fully  100  copies  of  the  paper.  I 
saw  Rev.  Thomas  Pie,  African  Methodist  Episcopal 
pastor  of  Greenville,  who  thinks  our  reform  a  nui- 
sance, and  that  every  man  of  intelligence  should  be 
either  an  Odd-fellow  or  Freemason.  He  thinks  se- 
cret societies  the  upbuilding  of  Christ's  church.  I 
have  been  invited  to  lecture  in  the  country  and  ex- 
pect to  go  thither  as  soon  as  possible.  The  harvest 
truly  is  ready,  hut  laborers  are  few. 

I  called  on  Rev.  A.  J.  White,  formerly  of  Nash- 
ville, Tenn.,  and  a  seceding  Mason.  He  gives 
praise  to  God  for  the  late  convention,  and  trusts  to 
see  lodgeism  fall.  The  secretists  here  are  trying  to 
make  it  appear  that  our  convention  was  a  Demo- 
cratic Bchtme  to  defeat  the  Republican  nominees  in 
April,  or  at  least  some  of  them  are  circulating  such 
reports;  but,  thanks  be  to  God,  the  people  are 
being  awakened  to  see  the  Baal  worship  of  lodgery 
Revs.  Jackson  and  Green  are  thoroughly  awake  and 
working  to  slay  the  giant  Goliath  (the  lodge)  by  the 
Word  of  God.  I  have  a  long  list  of  pastors,  includ- 
ing Prof.  Dr.  Berger  and  J.  G.  Nelson,  I  expect 
D.  V. ,  to  send  to  the  Cynoiure  for  publication  next 
week. 

I  met  Rev.  Wm.  Ksrbach,  German  Evangelical 
pastor  of  the  Seventh  district.  He  highly  appreci- 
ates the  work,  and  was  sorry  that  he  did  not  know 
of  the  late  N.  C.  A.  convention.  I  gave  him  a  copy 
of  the  Cynomrt  and  expect  to  get  his  subscription. 

I  expect  to  preach  for  Rev.  L.  W.  Oldfield,  Pres- 
byterian pastor,  Sabbath  evening,  and  attend  the 
Freedman's  Baptist  Association  next  week  in  Car- 
roUton.  We  appreciate  the  visit  of  Bros.  Stoddard, 
Stratton,  Browne  and  others  and  regret  that  their 
stay  was  so  brief.  Mrs.  Stoddard  made  many 
friends  here  among  our  people.  An  Odd-fellow 
met  me  this  evening  and  boasted  that  an  Odd-fel- 
low's thanks-giving  sermon  would  be  preached  at 
the  old  Baptist  church  next  Sabbath,  but  with  all 
their  boasting,  the  altars  of  Baal  must  surely  fall. 
Every  plant  our  heavenly  Father  hath  not  planted 
will  surely  be  rooted  up.  F.  J.  Davidson. 


Correspondence. 


A  HERO  FALLS  IN  BATTLE. 


SODDEN   DBAIH   OF    PROP.    W.    H.    WOODSMALL. 


Memphis,  March  5,  1888. 

Dkar  Cynosure: — I  intended  to  have  written 
you  last  week  after  my  visit  to  New  Orleans,  but 
so  many  things  have  crowded  upon  my  time  that  I 
have  been  unable  to  do  so.  My  brother  still  lies  in 
a  very  precarious  condition,  and  this  fills  us  with 
continual  anxiety. 

Our  school  has  a  very  heavy  blow  in  the  sudden 
death  of  Bro.  W.  H  Woodsmall.  He  passed  away 
very  quietly  on  Monday  evening,  the  27th  ult.,  sit- 
ting in  his  cbair  conversing  with  Prof.  Vaun,  one 
of  the  faculty  of  the  school. 

Bro.  Woodsmall  has  labored  in  the  South  more  ex- 
tensively among  the  colored  people  than  any  one  I 
know  of.  His  work  has  been  mostly  in  Alabama, 
Arkansas.  Mississippi,  Tennessee,  Georgia  and  Lou- 
isiana. He  was  one  of  the  most  self-sacrificing  men 
I  ever  met.  His  main  purpose  of  life  seemed  to 
aim  at  helping  the  down-trodden  race. 

I  first  met  him  in  1874,  and  since  then  nearly 
every  year;  for  the  last  three  years  we  have  been 
co-workers.  He  came  to  my  house  immediately 
after  I  was  mobbed  by  the  Masons,  August,  1885, 
and  after  looking  at  the  numerous  bullet  holes, 
shattered  windows  and  general  havoc  perpetrated 
by  the  secret  society  minions,  he  gave  me  two  dol- 
lars and  said:  "Take  this;  put  in  some  of  these  win- 
dows, and  1  will  help  you  to  fight  against  these  evil 
institutions." 

Bro.  Woodsmall  was  untiring  in  his  efforts,  and 
no  amount  of  persuasion  could  induce  him  to  let  go 
his  work  and  take  a  rest.  I  bad  labored  with  him 
for  two  weeks  prior  to  my  going  to  New  Orleans  to 
lot  me  have  his  Bible  class  and  go  home  and  rest; 
and  his  answer  was  invariably,  "No!  I  will  close  my 
term  on  the  first  of  April  and  then  go  home  until 
fall."  His  heart  was  fixed.  I  visited  him  on  Fri- 
day after  he  went  to  his  room,  and  be  told  me  of 
his  plans;  be  admitt::d  that  be  was  feeble,  but  he 
would  not  give  up. 

^  The  school  is  being  carried  on  in  our  church,  and 
be  bad  his  headquarters  opposite,  with  one  of  the 
members  of  the  same,  until  two  weeks  ago,  when  he 


removed  to  a  place  opposite.the  Le  Moyne  Institute 
Teachers'  Home,  at  which  Home  he  died  sitting  in 
a  chair.  Monday  was  the  only  day  he  had  lost  from 
his  work  during  the  last  four  months.  He  had  a 
doctor  call  and  see  him  in  the  afternoon,  who  in- 
formed him  that  he  could  live  but  a  few  days;  and 
he  said,  "Well,  none  but  the  good  Father  can  do  me 
any  good  now."  He  asked  for  a  light,  and  in  a  few 
moments  he  had  passed  away. 

We  are  moving  on  with  our  school  work,  and 
through  the  same  we  will  leaven  the  country  for 
miles  around  against  the  influence  of  the  secret  em- 
pire. The  secretists  are  having  a  warm  time  among 
themselves  just  now,  and  will  have  a  very  interest- 
ing lawsuit  in  a  few  days,  involving  a  minister,  who 
was,  during  the  reign  of  mobocracy.  Deputy  Grand 
Master  of  the  Masonic  fraters  of  the  State  of  Ten- 
nessee. I  will  send  you  the  particulars  as  they  de- 
velop. 

I  have  had  several  letters  from  New  Orleans  since 
I  came  home,  and  many  are  rejoicing  over  the  work 
done  by  the  N.  C.  A.  May  God  push  on  the  work 
and  save  my  people  from  the  deception  of  secret 
societies.     Yours  for  the  cause,    R.  N.  Countee. 


THE   ORDER  OF  UNITED    WORKMEN. 


Custer  Cirr,  Pa. 

In  "Pith  and  Point"  of  Feb.  9th  C.  H.  Rohe  asks: 
"Are  the  United  Workmen  to  be  regarded  as  an 
oath-bound,  secret  society?"  Allow  me  (if  to  the 
point)  to  quote  from  the  "Guide"  as  reproduced  in 
the  Protector  of  March  3,  1886  (the  italics  are  mine): 
"The  A.  0,  U.  W.  is  founded on  the  rock  of  fra- 
ternity and  backed  by  the  sacred  obligations  of  up 

wards  of  200,000  men It  depends  not  for  its 

security  upon  stocks. . . .,  but  upon  the  bond  of  fra- 
ternity among  men,  which  has  been  proved  since  the 
world  began  to  be  the  only  sure  foundation  [?], 
That  subtle  spirit  of  fraternity  which  has  carried 
Forestry  and  Masonry  triumphantly  through  times 
that  have  destroyed  governments,  and  through  panics 
that  have  caused  the  death  of  many  gen- 
erations of  business  corporations,  is  the  same 
spirit    which    gives     strength     and    greatness    to 

the  A.  0.  U.  W How  strong  these  obligations 

are  is  illustrated  by  the  recent  act  of  the  jurisdic- 
tion of  Pennsylvania,  expressive  of  the  opinions  of 
over  14,000  of  our  membership,  who,  finding  that 
their  charter  through  the  law  might  deprive  them 
of  the  legal  right  to  contribute  to  this  fund,  sur- 
rendered their  charter  and  exist  as  a  part  of  our 
fraternity  on  their  obligations  alone." 

In  the  same  Protector  I  read:  "Every  member 
upon  his  entrance  takes  an  obligation  to  obey  the 
laws  now  in  force  or  hereafter  exacted  \_sic,  probably 
means  enacted],  and  signs  an  agreement,  the  condi- 
tions of  which  are  so  clear  that  no  acceptable  appli- 
cant can  misunderstand  the  terms  if  he  reads  them." 

Indulge  me  a  little  further,  for  this  must  be  where 
the  charity  comes  in:  "When  all  our  members  are 
conscious  of  the  fact  that  our  plan  of  cheap  and 
practical  protection  is  only  possible  when  conducted 
not  as  a  business  enterprise  for  profit,  but  because 
of  our  sincere  regard  for  the  welfare  of  our  fellow- 
men,  selfishness  will  be  softened  by  fraternity  [obli- 
gated fraternity,  forsooth],  and  good  fellowship  will 
lead  us  to  better  appreciate  the  system  and  the  bless- 
ings it  confers." 

I  suppose  some  of  our  facetious  U.  B.  Commis- 
sion men  would  not  call  this  oath-bouod,  but  I  must 
confess,  in  my  dullness,  I  do.  J.  C.  Young. 

*  *  m 
THE  PENNS  YL  VAN  I  A  RE  VIVAL. 


I  Letter  to  E.  J.  Chalfant.J 

Montrose,  Pa.,  Feb.  21,  1888. 

I  am  heartily  glad  that  you  have  been  moved  to 
awaken  a  new  interest  in  the  anti-secret  cause  in 
Pennsylvania.  Whatever  I  may  be  able  to  do  to 
further  this  important  work  shall  be  cheerfully  un- 
dertaken. May  you  find  great  success  in  the  ef- 
fort and  have  many  friends  rally  to  and  enlist  in 
this  enterprise  from  all  parts  of  the  State. 

Although  Pennsylvania  has  been  a  favorite  and 
prolific  hunting  ground  for  the  originators  and 
propagators  of  secret  orders  and  rituals,  there  are 
yet  a  goodly  number  of  upright  men  who  have  not 
been  duped,  corrupted  and  drawn  into  these  traps 
and  dens  and  selfish  clans  of  darkness  and  trickery. 

An  earnest  canvass  will,  1  hope,  bring  together 
many  of  these  untrammeled  free  souls  to  protest 
and  act  against  the  midnight,  owlish  and  wily  forces 
of  secretism.  Send  out  an  appeal  for  all  to  enroll 
themselves,  and  also  to  seek  to  secure,  each  one  in 
his  own  locility,  as  many  co-workers  and  sympathi- 
zers as  possible.  I  find  more  freemen  than  I  ex- 
pected in  view  of  the  many  orders  that  exist. 

At  present  I  am  distributing  tracts  in  our  county 


seat;  and  am  also  endeavoring  to  enlighten  minds 
by  conversation  and  discussion.  It  is  a  good  thing 
also  to  put  a  tract  or  two  in  letters,  when  writing  to 
friends  or  on  business.  I  know  a  young  man  who 
has  been  kept  out  of  the  lodge  by  the  counsel  of  a 
minister  in  casual  conversation.  The  Lord  encour- 
age, help  and  bless  you  in  the  work.   • 

Yours  truly,  James  W.  Raynor. 


PITH  AND  POINT. 


TWO   CAXIFORNIA   PBIBND3. 

I  saw  a  copy  of  your  paper  by  accident,  and  with  such 
sledge  hammer  blows  as  you  give  secret  societies,  I  think 
you  will  be  able  to  take  the  bcales  from  the  eyes  of  many 
who  are  now  in  the  dark.  I  want  a  copy  of  your  paper 
for  one  year,  and  if  I  could  afEord  it,  would  subscribe  for 
a  dozen,  and  distribute  tbem  about  for  the  good  I  think 
they  would  do  A  friend  concurs  in  the  above,  and  we 
could  write  and  talk  for  hours  on  this  subject  of  secrecy, 
that  we  think  is  such  a  curse  to  humanity. — Letter  from 
Santa  Cruz,  Cal. 

from  an  ILLINOIS  PASTOR. 

The  more  I  look  into  secrecy  and  see  its  workings  in 
church  and  politics  I  get  more  diegusted,  and  cannot  help 
doing  all  I  can  in  my  limited  and  weak  way  to  destroy 
the  devil's  bulwarks.  I  have  an  example  in  my  own  con- 
gregation where  a  man  who  has  been  a  member  so  far  in 
church  and  also  of  Masons  and  Odd  fellows  and  G.  A.  R., 
who  says  he  will  leave  the  church,  but  not  the  lodges; 
and  another  one  who  yet  tries  to  take  a  respectable  place 
in  church  and  is  also  a  6.  A.  R.  man  and  has  made 
threats  trying  to  silence  me ;  but  God  helping  me  he  can- 
not do  it,  nor  any  other  lodge  man  unless  they  can  cause 
my  death. 

from  boston  jail 

In  a  letter  to  a  brother  in  Chicago,  Wm.  F.  Davis,  the 
prisoner  for  peacefully  preaching  the  Gospel  on  Boston 
Common,  speaks  thus: 

"As  to  the  stand  I  have  taken  here,  it  was  the  only 
Biblical  position,  and  the  Word  of  God  points  out  the 
only  safe  position.  The  Gospel  would  never  have  been 
preached  on  earth  after  Christ  went  to  heaven  if  his 
apostles  bad  not  set  at  naught  the  highest  human  civil 
and  ecclesiastical  law  in  Jerusalem  and  throughout  the 
world. . .  Now  the  amazing  audacity  of  the  enemies  of 
God's  Gospel  in  Boston  appears  in  their  attempt  to  set 
aside  by  the  decree  of  a  solitary  city  ordinance  (a  pre- 
sumptuous solecism)  the  settled  law  of  Christendom,  and 
the  constitutional  law  of  this  nation  and  State  by  a  single 
stroke  of  illegal  outlawry.  As  a  citizen  and  Christian 
my  obligation  is  instant  and  permanent,  to  testify  against 
this  lawlessness  and  anti-Christianity. ...  I  am  not  at  lib- 
erty to  fight  with  carnal  weapons,  or  sue  the  city,  as  I 
have  been  advised  to  do,  for  $10,000  damages.  I  am  at 
liberty  to  rejoice  in  tribulation  and  persecution  for  Christ's 
sake  and  witness  to  all  in  the  j  .til  of  his  loving  kindness 
and  truth.    He  will  take  care  of  the  testimony." 

WAS   not  at   new   ORLEANS. 

I  failed  to  meet  the  N  C.  A,  Convention  at  New  Or- 
leans. My  wife's  health  being  very  poor  prevented  my 
going.  The  lodge  continues  to  prosper,  notwithstanding 
I  circulate  considerable  literature  throughout  the  coun- 
try. This  country  needs  a  live  lecturer  to  teach  the  peo- 
ple.— Dr  Jesse  Ward,  Partridge,  Ala. 

A   HELPER  for  THE   POOR. 

I  have  been  a  reader  of  your  paper  for  several  years, 
and  being  fully  convinced  that  it  is  a  mighty  instrument 
in  the  hands  of  God  for  pulling  down  the  strongholds  of 
sin,  I  read  it  with  much  interest,  considering  it  as  having 
the  spirit  of  the  true  Christian  reformer,  reproving  the 
unfruitful  works  of  darkness,  and  faithfully  warning 
those  who  would  sell  their  manhood  for  a  mess  of  pot- 
tage. Find  enclosed  five  dollars  for  the  worthy  purpose 
of  enlightening  those  whom  the  prince  of  darkness  would 
lead  to  the  lodge  below.  The  enemy  is  at  work  trying  to 
enlist  new  recruits,  using  the  lodge  and  the  saloon  as  re 
crulting  offlces,  knowing  that  if  they  are  found  there 
they  may  easily  be  led  captive  by  time  at  his  will.  When 
will  those,  who  have  taken  Christ  as  the  Captain  of  their 
salvation,  hear  him  saying  "Come  out  from  among  them, 
and  touch  not  the  unclean  thing  and  I  will  receive  you." 
— Tnos.  W.  Smiley,  Monmouth,  111. 

A   NOBLE   EFFORT. 

An  old  lady  of  Ligonier,  Ind.,  enfeebled  by  years,  but 
of  unconquerable  spirit,  writes  thus  of  her  personal  work: 

I  have  done  the  best  my  health,  the  weather  and  con- 
dition of  roads  would  admit.  Enclosed  is  the  result  of 
two  weeks'  labor — one  day  selling  and  receiving  nothing. 
I  did  not  expect  such  a  task,  although  I  knew  that  secret- 
ism had  taken  a  relapse  in  our  place.  I  have  not  been 
over  the  place,  but  am  too  much  exhausted  to  do  more 
at  this  time.  As  you  will  see,  I  solicited  for  the  Minis- 
ter's Fund,  and  while  it  is  not  as  much  as  was  desirable, 
yet  it  was  cheerfully  given;  and  with  God's  blessing,  will 
accomplish  much.  I  also  distributed  prohibition  and 
anti  secret  literature.— Rufin a  Fry. 

not  to  be  subpabsed. 

In  reply  as  to  who  were  the  first  subscribers  to  the  Oy- 
nosure,  I  would  j  ust  say  I  have  taken  it  from  the  very 
first  number;  and  more  still,  I  have  ordered  the  paper 
for  the  balance  nf  my  life.  How  is  that?  Can  anyone 
heat  this  record f  I  make  missionaries  of  all  mj  Cyno- 
tvres  by  distributing  them.— J.  S. Hickman. 


Maboh  15, 1888 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


Faem  Notes. 


WOODMAN,  SPARE  THAT  TRK. 

Soooer  or  later,  writes  B.  P.  Powell  in 
the  Independent,  Americans  will  learn  the 
value  of  their  forests;  but  not  until  vast 
mischief  has  accrued  to  agriculture  and 
climate  besides  the  loss  of  timber.  A 
recent  writer  on  forests  and  climate,  or, 
as  he  calls  it,  "Climate  Culture,"  states 
his  argument  forcibly  in  this  way:  "If 
rain  comes  at  the  right  times  and  in  suf- 
ficient quantity  the  farmer  will  cut  200 
tons  of  hay  where  in  a  dry  season  he  will 
cut  but  100  tons.  The  loss  for  the  dry 
season  is  from  1,000  to  1.500  dollars. 
Another  farmer  harvests  2,000  bushels  of 
wheat  if  the  rain  is  perfectly  regulated; 
and  if  not  he  gets  500  bushels.  He  has 
1,500  dollars  trembling  in  the  balance. 
If  a  half-million  of  farmers  are  similarly 
situated  there  are  750,000,000  dollars  at 
stake."  This  statement  of  the  case  he 
does  not  alBrm  is  intended  for  the  actual 
loss  of  any  single  season,  but  as  showing 
the  possibilities  at  stake;  while  a  large 
fraction  of  the  amount  is  each  season  an 
actual  loss.  The  question  arises.  Are  we 
helpless  to  meet  and  master  the  problem? 
At  present  we  know  no  means  to  regulate 
to  any  degree  the  fall  of  rain  except  by 
forest  culture.  The  writer  goes  on  to 
urge  on  every  farmer  to  plant  trees,'to 
plant  double  and  treble  rows  around  his 
farm.  But  it  is  evident  very  few  will 
thus  act  for  the  general  good  unless  com- 
pelled to  do  so.  The  work  must  be  taken 
up  by  the  State.  At  present  there  is  no 
line  of  work  that  should  have  the  super- 
vision of  the  Department  of  Agriculture 
more  carefully  than  the  cultivation  and 
protection  of  forests.  We  cannot  adopt 
the  paternal  system  of  European  govern- 
ments, but  we  can  protect  ourselves  from 
individual  selfishness  that  is  so  far  reach- 
ing in  its  evil  effects  as  the  ruthless  waste 
of  forests.  Our  railroads  must  be  pre- 
vented by  very  stringent  legislation  from 
carelessly  setting  on  fire  millions  of  acres 
each  year.  Missouri  and  one  or  two 
other  States  have  recently  made  provis- 
ionary  statutes  on  this  point.  There  is 
no  reason  why  the  spark-arrester  should 
not  be  always  employed. 

The  railroad  has  proved  to  be  a  very 
destructive  agency  in  o'her  ways.  Not 
only  does  it  cut  through  the  forests  for 
the  purpose  of  laying  its  track,  but  any 
one  who  has  traveled  over  a  new  line  has 
been  oppressed  with  the  vast  waste  in 
every  direction.  For  hundreds  of  miles 
he  may  travel  when  his  eye  is  seldom  out 
of  sight  of  decaying  logs  and  blasted 
trees,  often  vast  forests  burned  up  into 
stumps  simply  for  clearage.  The  wood 
cannot  yet  be  hauled  to  market  profita- 
bly, and  is,  therefore,  burned  on  the  spot. 
Trees  are  girdled  to  make  them  dry,  and 
then  the  fire  is  applied.  But  this  is  not 
merely  a  waste  but  an  in  j  ury  to  the  whole 
country  in  the  way  of  tending  to  droughts 
and  preventing  regularity  of  rainfall. 

A  recent  lecture  given  at  the  National 
Museum  at  Washington,  by  Fernow,  un- 
dertakes to  show  the  need  of  forest  pro- 
tection and  forest  culture  for  the  fourfold 
reason:  (1)  Forests  furnish  our  material 
in  the  industries ;  (2)  they  are  regulators 
of  climatic  conditions;  (3)  they  are  regu- 
lators of  hydrologic  conditions  influenc- 
ing the  waterfljw  in  springs,  brooks  and 
rivers;  (4)  they  are  regulators  of  soil 
conditions.  "The  national  interest  in  the 
business  of  forestry  is  based  on  the  influ- 
ence of  the  forests  on  climate,  waterflow 
and  soil."  "The  forest  acts  precisely  like 
a  large  sheet  of  water  as  a  starting  point 
of  local  winds  by  which  the  characteris- 
tics of  the  forest  climate— greater  humid- 
ity— are  communicated  to  the  surround- 
ings." "But,  by  far  the  most  important 
function  of  the  forest  lies  in  the  preser- 
vation of  soil  humidity;  and  in  the  stor- 
age and  equable  distribution  of  the  water 
capital  of  the  earth.  The  moss  and  leaf 
mold  act  as  a  sponge  taking  up  all  the 
atmospheric  water  which  reaches  them, 
and  only  gradually  give  up  the  same  to 
the  soil  from  which  it  reappears  as  springs, 
rivulets,  brooks,  forming  the  great  water 
reservoir  of  agricultural  lands,  and  giving 
up  its  accumulations  gradually  through- 
out the  season  when  most  needed.  While 
the  large  floods  are  probably  to  a  great 
extent  due  to  cosmic  causes  yet  the  defor- 
estizdtion  at  heads  of  streams  must  have 
aggravated  the  evil,"  and  by  washing 
away  soil  have  pauperized  fertile  hills 
and  valleys,  an  evil  which  can  be  reme- 
died as  has  been  demonstrated  by  the 
reforestization  accomplished  in  France. 

But  beyond  all  and  above  all  other 
issues  is  the  effect  of  forest  culture  and 


forest  destruction  on  sanitary  conditions. 
In  some  sections  of  New  England  it  is 
well  known  that  agues  and  malarial  fevers 
have  set  in  since  the  destruction  of  the 
vast  chestnut  forests  for  charcoal  and  the 
waste  following  the  multiplication  of 
railroads,  and  the  vast  cuttings  caused  by 
the  opening  up  of  profitable  markets. 
The  general  principle  of  co-operation 
established  in  Nature  between  the  vegeta 
ble  and  animal  kingdoms,  whereby  the 
carbonic  gases  destructive  to  the  animal 
are  absorbed  by  the  foliage  of  trees  and 
plants  is  well  known.  No  town  can 
overlook  the  value  of  trees  for  this  result 
alone.  It  is  a  matter  of  health  rather 
than  of  esthetics  to  see  to  it  that  the 
streets  are  well  lined  with  shade  trees. 
Your  orchards  near  the  house  not  only 
furnish  fruit  but  keep  the  air  pure. 
There  is  a  vast  ignorance  on  this  subject, 
many  actually  supposing  that  dampness 
of  streets  is  caused  by  trees.  They  pre- 
vent the  sun  working  on  your  streets  that 
have  no  sewerage,  in  such  a  manner  as 
to  rapidly  dry  them  and  send  miasmatic 
vapors  into  your  lungs.  Sewerage  and 
plenty  of  trees  are  the  best  life  insurance 
you  can  secure.  Feraow  insists  that  it  is 
demonstrable  that  the  terrible  floods  of 
the  Ohio  Valley  are  owing  in  large  part 
to  deforestization.  Si,  also,  the  forma- 
tion of  the  great  sand  dunes  about  Lake 
Michigan,  as  also  the  growing  barrenness 
of  the  Adirondack  region,  where  the  soil 
is  now  being  washed  into  the  Hudson  so 
fast  that  the  river  at  Albany  can  scarcely 
be  kept  open  to  navigation 

Fernow  quotes  from  MuUer  words  that 
cover  the  cape  as  any  honest  man  should 
view  it.  He  says:  "I  regard  the  forests 
as  a  heritage  given  us  by  Nature,  not  for 
spoil  nor  to  devastate,  but  to  be  wisely 
used,  reverently  honored  and  carefully 
maintained.  I  regard  the  forests  as  a 
gift  intrusted  to  any  of  us  only  for  tran- 
sient care  during  a  short  space  of  time, 
to  be  surrendered  to  posterity  again  as  an 
unimpaired  property,  with  the  increased 
riches  and  augmented  blessings  to  pass  as 
a  sacred  patrimony  from  generation  to 
generation."  This  reverent  voice  of  Na- 
ture and  of  ourselves  as  trustees  only  of 
the  world,  not  as  absolute  owners,  it  is 
difficult  for  an  American  to  feel.  He 
looks  on  his  land  as  his  own,  and  its  trees 
he  may  burn  or  waste  without  the  least 
responsibility,  anywhither.  Above  all, 
he  has  a  right,  in  his  estimation,  to  trans 
form  all  things  into  cash.  That  he  has 
any  responsibility — an  actual  legal  as 
well  as  moral  obligation— to  posterity  he 
must  yet  learn  to  feel. 

It  is  hardly  possible  to  close  any  dis- 
cussion of  this  question  without  reference 
to  the  recent  and  terrible  suffering  in  our 
Northwestern  States  from  lack  of  fuel 
and  lack  of  wind-breaks.  Dakota  will 
remain  practically  an  object  of  terror  and 
uninhabitable  to  the  degree  necessary  to 
bring  it  into  line  with  the  older  States 
until  forests  have  been  planted  and  grown 
that  will  prevent  the  unbroken  sweep  of 
winds.  Nor  must  we  forget  that  by  for- 
est destruction  we  have  led  the  way  to 
the  destruction  of  some  fruits  that  we 
could  once  raise  in  the  Eastern  States. 
The  climate  is  not  colder,  but  the  winds 
with  their  drying  influence  sweep  with 
freedom  where  they  were  formerly  bro- 
ken. In  this  section  fifty  years  ago  I 
have  seen  large  orchards  of  quinces;  but 
now  we  are  obliged  to  hide  a  tree  in  the 
angle  of  our  houses  if  we  expect  fruit. 
The  apple-tree  is  also  dried  to  the  ex- 
treme, and  then  the  frost  grapples  with 
it  and  weakens  it  for  early  destruction. 
It  is  known  to  horticulturists  that  trees 
or  buds  can  endure  five  or  six  degrees 
more  of  cold  in  a  moist  than  in  a  dry 
atmosphere. 


'iBVRETboClKnu.C}  Vo^DHMiSKl) 


SKUENTAKY    HABItS. 

In  this  age  of  push  and  worry,  the  busi- 
ness man  and  the  professional  man  are 
alike  unable  to  devote  any  adequate  time 
to  exercise.  In  the  daily  round  of  toil 
and  pleasure,  no  suitable  provision  is 
made  for  that  important  function,  and 
the  result  is  that  men  of  sedentary  habits 
become  subj  ect  to  many  forms  of  ailments 
arising  from  a  torpid  or  sluggish  liver. 
Constipation,  sick  headache,  biliousness 
and  dyspepsia  are  all  due  to  the  improper 
action  of  the  liver.  Dr.  Pierce's  Pleasant 
Purgative  Pellets  cure  these  troubles  by 
restoring  the  liver  to  its  normal  con'lition. 

HAVE  rOU  jb' A  AMI  NED 

The  lint  of  Book!  and  Trscta  for  naif  by  flip  Vation- 
ALCuBisTiAjf  Ahsooiation.  Look  It  over  carefullf 
kndsee  If  thercla  noMomeMilng  you  want  for  your 
lelf  or  for  your  friend.  S«nd  for  fnii  — niMtnatt 
ta  W.  Habuom  tttaan 


BT  GBBAT  MEN  IN  TBB  CHURCH. 

Rev.  John  Todd,  PUtiifidd,  Ma«».:-^ 
Unhesitatingly  I  give  my  UeciUed  disap- 
probation of  what  I  deem  secret  societies 
ia  college  end  elsewhere.  I  have  never 
known  any  good  results  from  them  which 
could  not  have  been  attained  in  some 
other  more  appropriate  way,  and  I  have 
known  great  evils  resulting  from  them. 

Howard  Crosby,    Chancellor   Univer 
city  of  li/eu)    York,  1H70: — We  have  no 
hesitation     in     writing    secret    societies 
among  the  quackeries  of  the  earth. 

Idem,  1SS6: — The  secret  lodge  system 
belongs  to  despotisms  and  not  to  democ- 
racies. Whatever  in  it  is  not  babyish  is 
dangerous. 

Rev.  Matthew  L.  R.  Pkurii<e,  D.D  . 
Auburn  Theological  tieminari/,  Rkv.  Joel 
Parker  and  Rkv.  (.  uauncey  Eddy:  — 
Having  formerly  associated  with  Free- 
masons, we  deem  it  our  duty,  publicly  to 
•  leclare  that  the  system  of  Freemasonry  is 
in  our  judgment,  of  a  tendency  on  the 
whole  pernicious  to  the  moral  habits,  and 
laagerous  to  the  civil  and  religious  insti- 
'utions  of  our  country. 

Rkv.  Levi  Chase,  Fall  River,  Mass.:  — 
Tne/juestion  has  been  asked  by  Masons, 
who  wish  to  asperse  the  char-ict^rs  of 
those  who  have  renounced  Masonry, 
"Why  did  not  they  renounce  it  be- 
fore?" For  one,  I  will  give  them  the  rea 
son  why  I  did  not.  The  Masonic  oaths 
locked  my  tongue  in  silence —death,  in 
all  its  horrid  shapes  and  frightful  forms, 
stared  me  in  the  face — I  considered  the 
oaths  binding. 

Rev.  C.  D.  BuRr.iNOHAM,  in  history  of 
the  UtnesKe  M.  U  Conft)ence,l,%0: — This 
new  element  of  didcoid  (O  id  fellowship) 
Ofgan  to  introduce  itself  ia  our  church, 
professedly  as  a  mutual  insurance  com 
pany  agai.ast  temporal  want,  and  a  newly 
<li8covered  and  remarkably  successful 
Gospel  apoliance  for  bringing  the  world, 
reformed  and  saved  into  the  church. 
But  our  people  very  naturally  looked 
upon  it  with  au»picion,  dreading  its  power 
as  a  Hecret  agency  acing  through  affiliated 
societies,  and  iloubtiog  i's  utility  as  a 
financial  scheme.  They  feared  it  would 
drag  the  rhurch,  debased  and  corrupted, 
into  the  world. 

Rev.  Joel  Mann,  arenouncing  Mason: 
— Although  portions  of  the  Gospel  are 
interwoven  with  its  forms,  I  conceive 
that  Masonry  presents  fmlse  grounds  of 
hope;  leads  men  to  depend  on  their  own 
defective  righteousness;— to  expect  the 
favor  cf  God  without,  the  interposition  of 
a  Redeemer,  and  even  without  repeat- 
ance;  and  thus  has  a  most  injuri  lus  infla 
ence  on  their  eternal  interests.  Under 
the  most  favorable  circu'nsian''es.  which 
in  any  place,  hive  attendei  Misonry,  it 
has  occasioned  a  great  waste  of  time  and 
money,  whict  might  and  ou:^ht  to  have 
been  employed  for  better  purposes.  And 
furthermore,  it  interferes  materially  with 
domestic  religious  duties. 

Rkv.  Aarox  Lkland,  formerly  Lieut. 
OoDirnor  of  Vermunt  awl  lif.ituty  (irand 
Maxter  of  the  Maxonic  Grand  Lodge  (to  a 
Baptist  association):  —[la  stated  thai  the 
tlrst  objection  which  presented  its  If  to 
his  mind  was  the  practice  nf  praying  for 
the  soul  of  a  brother  Mason  after  he  had 
been  dead  two,  three,  and  sotiiedmcs  four 
day«— that  he  persisted  in  the  pricii:u  for 
a  short  season  to  the  injury  of  his  con- 
science— that  it  was  a  Rimish  custom, 
and  he  never  wou'd  preach  at  the  bc.ial 
of  a  Mason  wh"'n  Masonic  forms  and  cus- 
toms were  attended  to  —that  he  never 
would  preach  to  a  lodge  of  Mas  >ns  as 
Huch,  and  that  he  was  ashamed  that  he 
had  ever  participa'ed  in  the  principles 
and  practices  of  the  insti  ution. 

Elder  David  Bernard:— I  solemnly 
r  -nounce  all  fealy  to  Masonry,  and  do 
most  earnestly  beseech  my  brethren  in 
Christ  Jesus,  of  every  name,  to  come  ort 
and  bear  unequivocal  testimony  against 
it.  Think,  O  think,  deir  Chriitians,  that 
hundreds  and  thou-ands  of  precious  and 
immortal  souls  will  be  lost  forever,  unless 
they  return  and  repent,  but  that  the  name 
of  the  precious  Jesus  is  rejected,  your 
Saviour,  your  precious  and  adorable  Sav- 
iour taken  away—  the  cause  of  your  bleed- 
ing Redeemer  injured— the  hands  of  tne 
wicked  strengthened,  and  the  Almighty 
God  dishonored!  And  O,  let  me  entreat 
you  in  the  mercy  and  bowels  of  Jesus 
Christ,  to  refljct  that  you  have  to  answer 
for  the  blood  of  those  who  shall  find  also, 
when  it  shall  be  forever  too  late,  th^ 
Masonry  is  not  a  Saviour!  ^ 


N.  C.  A.  BUILDING  AND  OFTICl  Of 
THK  CHRISTIAN   CTN08UR£, 
191  WI8T  MADISON  STRBET,  CBICAGC 


«A  TIOSAL  VEMIH  TiAN  ASSOC  JAllOA 

PBKeiDBMT.— H.  H.  George,  D.  D.,  Gen- 
eva College,  Pa. 

Vicb-pbkbideht — Rev.  M.  A.  Gault. 
Blanchard,  Iowa. 

Cob.  Sbc'v  and  Gbnbbal  Aobbt.— J 
P.  Stoddard,  221  W.  Madison  St.,  Chicago. 

Rbc.  Sbc'y.  and  Tbbasubbb. — W.  I. 
Phillips,  221  W.  Madiflon  St.,   Chicago 

Dibbctobb. — Alexander  Thomson,  Mi 
R.  Britten,  John  tiardner,  J.  L.  Barlow, 
L.  N.  Stratton.  Thos.  H.  Gault,  C.  A. 
Blanchard,  J.  E.  Roy,  E.  R.  Worrell,  H. 
A.  Fischer.  W.  R.  Hencb. 

The  object  of  this  Association  Is: 
"To  expose,  withstand  and  remove  secret 
societies,  Freemasonry  In  particular,  and  othe! 
anti-Christian  movements,  In  order  to  save  th* 
churches  of  Christ  from  being  uepraved,  to  re 
deem  the  admlnlstr*  tion  of  justice  from  per- 
version, and  our  rep  ibUcan  government  from 
corruption." 

To  carry  on  this  work  contributions  M» 
solicited  from  every  friend  of  tne  reform. 

Form  op  Bequest. — J  give  and  bequeath  to 
the  National  Christian  Association,  Incorpo- 
rated and  existing  under  the  laws  of  the  State 

of    Illinois,  the  sum  of  doUats  for  the 

purposes  of  said  Association,  and  for  wbirh 
ue  receipt  of  its  Treasurer  for  the  time  behig 
tiall  be  sufficient  discharoe. 

THB  HATIOHAL  COHTBy^OH. 

PPHSiD^ ^T— Re7.  J.  8.  T.  Milligan, 
Denison,  Eans. 

Srcrbtabt.— Rev.  R.N.Couttee.Mem- 
phis,  Tenn. 

BTATB  AX7XILIABT   A890CTATIOKP. 

Alabama.— Pre*.,  Prof.  Pickens;  Sec.,  8. 
M.  Elliott;  Treae.,  Rev.  C.  B.  Cnrtto,  all  of 
Bel  ma. 

California.— Pres.,  L.  B.  Lathrop,  HolU* 
ter ;  Cor.  Sec,  Mrs.  U.  P.  Merrill,  Woodland ; 
Treae.,  C.  Ruddock,  Woodland. 

CoNNBcncTiT.- Free..  J.  A.   Conant,  Willi, 
mantle;  Sec,  Geo.  Smith,  WUllmantlc ;  Tre*». 
C.  T.  CoUlns,  Whadsor. 

IiLiNOis.— Pres.,  J.  P.  Stoddard:  Sec,  M. 
N.  Butler;  Treas.,  W.  L  PhJlllpi  all  at  Cy- 
norurt  ofBce. 

Indiana.— Pres.,  WUlUm  H.  Tigg,  Reno 
Sec,  B.  L.  Cook,  Albion;  Treae.,  Ben].  Ulsbt 
Silver  Lake. 

lowA.— PTe8.,Win  Johnston, CoUejre Springs* 
Cor  Sec.,  C.  D.  Trumbull,  MornlTip.  gun' 
Treao.,  Jantiec  Harvey.  Pleasant  Plain.  .Tefff»r! 
son  Co. ;  Lecturer,  C.  F.  Hawlpv,  Wheaton,  111 

Kaj"9>*  -Pree.. .'  8.  T.  Milligan,  Denison- 
Sec,  8.  Hart,  Lecompton;  Treae.,  J.  A.  Tor- 
rence,  Denison. 

MARSACHi'Brrrs.- Pre*..  S.  A.  Pratt:  Sec. 
Mrs.  K.  p.  Bailey;  Treae.,  David  Mannlng.Sr., 
Worcester. 

Michigan.— Pree.,  D.  A.  Richards,  Brisrhton  • 
Bec'y.  H.  A.  Day.  WUliameton ;  Treas.' 
Geo.  Swanson,  Jr.,  Bedfoid. 

MiNUMCTA— T^es.,  E.   Q.  Patne.  Werlo'a 
Cor.  Pfc.Vm    Fentrn.  8t   Paul:  Rec.  Sec''y 
Mrs.  M.  F.  Morrill,  St.  Charles;  Treae.,  Wni 
H.  Morrill,  St.  Charlee. 

MiBBorRi— Pres..  B.  F.  Miller,  BaflevlUe 
Treae..  William  Beauchamp,  Avalon ;  Cor.  8f  c, 
A.  D.  Thomas,  Avalon. 

Nbbkaska.- Pree.,  8.  Auetln,  KalnnonilT 
Cor.  Sec,  W.  Bpooner,  Kearney:  Treae.' 
J.  C.  Fye.  ' 

Mainb  -Pres,  Isaac  iTackson,  Harrieon" 
Sec.  1.  D  HaUus,  Dexter;  Treae.,  H.  W. 
Goddard,  West  Sidney. 

Nbw  Bampsbikb.— Pree.,  C.  L.  Baker,  Man' 
Chester:  Sec.,  S.  C.  Kimball,  New  Market' 
Treae.,  James  .•'.  Frencli,  Canterbury. 

Nbw  Yokk.— Pree.,  F.  W.  Capwell,  Dale: 
Bec'y,  .lohn  Vv'allace,  Syracuee;  Treae.,  It, 
Merrick,  Bvracuee. 

Ohio.— Pree.,  F.  M.  Spencer,  New  Concord; 
Rec.  Sec,  S.  A.  George,  Mansfield:  Cor.  Sec 
end  Treae..  C.  W.  hliiit,  Columbus;  Agent, 
W.  B.  St^Hldanl,  Columbu^. 

Pbsrstlvanta— Cor.  Sec,  N.  Callender, 
Thonpun  ;  Treae.,  W.  B.Bertele,  Wllkeeberre. 

VBBjftBT.— Free.,  W.  R.  Laird,  St.  Johne- 
bnry;  Sec,  C.  W  Potter. 

wiBCOsein  —Pree.,  J.  W  Wood,  Baratoo; 
Sec,  W.  W.  Ames,  Menomonle ;  Treas.,  M.  B 
Britten.  Vienna. 


8 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


March  15, 1888 


The  Christian  Cynosure. 


i.  ULANOHAKD 


XDITOBS. 


HBNKT  L   K.XiJj06G 


..B'lt.A60     TEUisStA^      MABCH    15.    1888 


THBl  TBOUaAND  GOLORBD  PAUTOBS 


SHALL  THEY  HAVE  THBIR  PAPER? 


Week  by  week  generous  friends  of  the  colored  race 
answer,  Yes.  The  fund  for  this  purpose  reaches  $774  36 
as  the  treasurer  reports  and  cheering  letters  show  the 
enthufiasm  in  this  enterprise  of  all  who  realize  the  nature 
of  secretism.  Every  letter  from  the  South  justifies  our 
tfEor'8,  and  approves  the  judgment  that  no  expenditure 
of  an  equal  sum  will  bring  so  great  returns. 

The  $900  contributed  for  this  purpose  in  the  two  years 
and  a  half  after  June^  1885,  placed  the  Cynosure  in  the 
hands  of  hundreds  of  colored  pastors,  but  few  of  whom 
could  have  paid  for  it  themselves.  Note  the  grand  results 
which  have  followed,  chiefly  because  of  this  work: 

1  The  Louisiana  Baptist  State  Convention  represent- 
ing 70,000  church  members  has  voted  against  the  lodge. 

2.  The  Texas  Baptists  will  probably  take  the  same 
Bland  at  their  next  meeting. 

3  The  Methodist  Episcopal  church  in  Texas  is  nearly 
ready  for  like  action. 

4.  So  are  the  Arkansas  Baptists,  a  prominent  associa- 
tion having  already  so  voted. 

5  The  game  churches  in  western  Tennessee  are  coming 
out  against  secretism. 

6.  So  in  Alabama  the  Good-will  Association  is  stand- 
iag  8 gainst  the  orders. 

7.  Many  of  the  Congregational  churches  in  the  South 
are  opposing  the  ledge,  encouraged  by  the  American 
Missionary  Associatiou. 

8.  Two  schools  for  higher  instruction  have  been  or- 
ganized within  a  year  which  maintain  this  principle  while 
neatly  every  iuslitution  for  the  education  of  the  Negro 
is  open  for  instruction  of  the  students  on  the  dangers  of 
the  lodge. 

9.  Christians  at  the  North  should  hasten  this  work  with 
all  zeal,  because  the  reflex  influence  upon  their  churches 
will  soon  be  powerfully  felt. 

The  Cynosure  has  proved  the  best  agency  in  accom 
plishing  this  work  in  the  South.     A  fund  to  send  a 
thousand  copies  to  as  many  colored  pastors  is  being 
raised.     Dear  reader,  has  not  the  Lord  given  you  means 
t )  help  it  on? 


EDITORIAL    CORREaPONBBNCB. 


Baldwin,  St.  Mary's  Parish,  La., 
March  5,  1888 
Dear  Cynosurb: — Day  before  yesterday  we  left 
New  Orleans,  after  three  weeks'  stay,  and  came  to 
this  old  parish,  100  miles  on  the  Southern  Pacific, 
and  if  I  can  convey  to  our  readers  the  thrilling  im- 
pressions which  persons  and  facts,  past  and  present, 
have  given  Mrs.  B,  and  myself,  they  will  not  grow 
drowsy  over  this  letter. 

THE  m'enerts, 
with  whom  we  stopped  m  the  city,  are  relatives 
of  the  present  Governor  McEnery,  whose  office 
is  to  be  struggled  for  in  the  election  on  the 
17lh  of  April  next,  by  Henry  Clay  Warmoth,  who 
was  the  Rf  publican  Governor  twenty  years  ago, 
when  the  State  was  in  the  condition  of  chaos  as 
the  mountain-top3  of  a  new  era  were  slowly  appear- 
ing. The  family  who  entertained  us  in  the  city  are, 
of  course,  Democrats,  Bourbons  of  the  old  regime. 
They  are:  Mother  McEnery;  her  sisLer  just  gone  a 
missionary  to  Japan;  a  widowed  daughter  who  is  a 
brilliant  writer  for  the  reviews;  a  younger  daughter, 
teacher  in  the  city  schools,  and  two  young  men 
(sons)  in  Government  employ  in  the  Custom  House 
and  Post  Office.  This  excellent  family  were  good 
people  in  slavery,  and  they  are  better  now  the  blind- 
ing blight  of  slavery  is  fallen  oQ.  All  are  consistent 
Christian  Presbyterians,  left  fatherless  seventeen 
years  ago;  but  by  the  blessing  of  God  on  the  ef- 
forts of  their  keen,  dark-eyed  little  mother,  all 
whose  ideas  and  reasonings  are  taken  from  the 
Bible,  they  are  an  ornament  to  society  and  a  bless- 
ing to  their  race. 

DB.   8.    LOOAN 

was  called  to  see  me  in  a  violent  bilious  attack; 
and  when  better,  I  returned  bis  call.  It  was  the 
meeting  of  opposite  poles,  Vermont  and  South 
Carolina.  He  was  born  and  educated  to  his  profes- 
sion in  Charleston,  S.  C.  ThreS  brothers  of  them 
stood  by  the  guns  which  battered  Sumter.  The 
youngest,  Gen.  C.  M.  Logan,  now  a  lawyer  in  New 


York,  was  the  youngest  general  in  the  Confederate 
army.  They  fought  through  the  war,  from  Sumter 
to  Appomatox.     Of  course  I  was  interested. 

"Doctor,"  I  asked,  "Will  you  tell  me  how  you 
view  the  whole  matter  now?  Do  you  wish  the 
South  had  conquered?  Do  you  wish  slavery 
back?" 

"No,  sir.  No  intelligent  person  wishes  slavery 
back.  It  was  a  great  mistake  to  suppose  we 
'fought  for  the  nigger?'  We  fought  as  Gladstone 
and  the  Irish  are  fighting,  for  'Home  Rule.'  Then, 
too,  we  were  afraid  what  the  negroes  might  do,  if 
let  loose.  We  trembled  for  our  own  women  and 
children,  which  fears  are  now  removed  by  the  be- 
havior of  the  blacks.  And  we  were  never  so  strong 
as  a  nation  as  we  are  now;  and,  by  immigration 
from  the  North,  ws  are  hourly  growing  stronger. 
Nor  do  I  see  how  slavery  ever  could  have  been  abol- 
ished but  by  war." 

The  above  are  his  ideas,  and  mostly  his  words. 
I  inly  thanked  God  that  through  our  long  national 
agony  I  had  meekly  stood  at  my  post,  insisting  that 
''the  property-holding  of  men  was  a  sin,"  till  we  di- 
vorced American  missions  from  American  slavery. 
Then  God  put  the  whole  case  upon  issue;  and  the 
Northern  mobs  who  burnt  Independence  Hall,  mur- 
dered Love  joy  and  the  rest,  and  followed  us  with 
the  hatred  of  pro-slavery  ministers,  and  that  slander 
which 

"Outvenoms  all  the  worms  of  Nile," 
these  same  Northern  mobs,  and  their  hireling 
preachers  (now  turned  furious  Abolition  chaplains) 
went  South  to  fill  eighty-two  Southern  cemeteries 
with  Northern  dead.  And  I  inly  exclaimed,  "Even 
so.  Just  and  true  are  thy  ways.  Lord  God  Al- 
mighty." My  acquaintance  with  this  gentlemanly 
and  accomplished  physician,  who  has  come  up  out 
of  the  very  crater  of  the  slavery-rebellion,  has 
filled  me  with  transport  and  faith  for  the  future  of 
our  great  country,  Lst  us  hope  that  the  sun-burst 
of  evangelism;  the  clear,  strong  war  of  prohibition 
on  our  Niagara  of  liquor;  the  uprising  for  God's 
and  the  laborer's  Sabbath;  and,  above  all,  the  light 
of  God  now  poured  in  upon  the  dark  lodge  dens  of 
devil-worship  may  save  us  from  the  doom  of  Judea, 
may  bring  in  the  millennial  dawn  upon  us,  as  that 
happy  people   whose  God  is  the  Lord  Jesus  Christ. 

GILBERT  SEMINARY. 

.  From  New  Orleans  here  we  crossed  seventy  or 
eighty  miles  of  continuous  swamp,  flmked  with  huge 
cypress  trees,  and  underbrush  hung  with  funeral 
moss.  In  these  swamps  fugitive  slaves  have  been 
known  to  domicile  for  twenty-five  years,  amid  adders, 
water  snakes,  moccasins  and  alligators.  From  such 
swamps  Osceola  and  his  Seminoles  were  drawn  out 
by  a  violated  U.  S.  flag  of  truce,  and  Gen.  Taylor 
ended  "The  Florida  War."  These  old  cypresses 
may  now  drop  their  swinging,  moss-crape  funeral 
badges.  Ihere  are  no  slaves  here  now!  The  alliga- 
tors have  grown  civil,  and  the  reptiles  seem  to  have 
lost  half  their  venom.  I  am  writing  by  a  pleasant 
fire  from  the  cypress  wood  of  these  interminable 
swamps  which  we  have  left  miles  back;  and  are 
now  here  on  dry  land  in  the  midst  of  old  sugar  and 
rice  plantations. 

Here,  a  mile  back  from  the  depot,  is  Gilbert  Sem- 
inary. This  is  its  history.  Twenty-two  years  ago, 
a  French  Catholic  in  New  Orleans  gave  ten  thousand 
dollars,  conditioned  that  other, thousands  should  be 
given  to  build  up  a  home  for  the  orphans  of  Union 
soldiers.  This  old  sugar  plantation  of  1,500  acres 
was  bought  and  a  brick  "Home  for  Orphans" 
erected.  These  orphans  grew  up.  There  was  no 
war  to  make  more  orphans.  The  spirit  of  specula- 
tion seized  the  place;  liquor  was  sold  in  two  places 
on  the  premises;  a  cyclone  blew  down  the  orphan 
home,  the  sugar  mill  burst  its  boiler,  and  a  mort- 
gage of  $5,000  and  a  floating  debt  of  ten  or  twelve 
thousand  more  stood  ready  to  wipe  out  the  mem- 
ories of  the  place. 

Rev.  W.  D.  Godman  was  chosen  secretary  by  the 
Orphan  Union  and  came  out,  like  Nehemiah,  to 
survey  the  ruins.  Hon.  Mr.  Gilbert  of  Connecticut 
gave  $5,000  for  a  seminary  building.  Dr.  Godman 
organized  a  band  of  colored  singers,  after  the  man- 
ner of  the  Jubilee  Band  of  Tennessee,  raised  $7,000, 
sold  a  fraction  of  the  land,  paid  up  the  debts,  and 
there  are  two  nice  buildings  here  in  use,  with 
another  being  finished.  Last  year  three  hundred 
and  seventy-five  colored  students  received  instruc- 
tion here.  No  debt  is  incurred,  and  but  $1,000 
needed  to  complete  and  furnish  the  new  building, 
which  will  be,  doubtless,  filled  with  students  as  soon 
as  done. 

If  I  had  seen  this  magnificent  sight  rise  like  an 
exhalation  from  the  earth,  it  could  hardly  have 
astonished  me  more.  I  am  now  in  this  Christian  in- 
stitution the  third  day.  The  students  are  all  sedate, 
cheerful,  orderly  as  the  wheels  of  a  clock,  and  every 


one  is  at  work.  Seriously,  we  are  charmed  with 
Gilbert  Seminary;  and  Dr.  Godman  has  hope  for  aid 
to  establish  fifty  primary  schools  as  feeders  for  the 
seminary,  and  to  lift  the  entire  population  in  these 
once  old  grave-yards  of  slavery  to  the  high  level  of 
American  citizenship.  I  was  puzzled  to  understand 
the  tranquility  and  order  of  hundreds  of  young  peo- 
ple, lately  "caught  wild,"  till  I  made  the  acquaint- 
ance of  Mrs.  Godman  and  their  daughter  Inez.  The 
secret  was  then  explained. 

Mrs.  Godman  is  sister  of  Wirt  Dexter,  Esq.,  of 
Chicago,  She  is  the  grand-daughter  of  Hon.  Sam- 
uel Dexter,  the  eminent  Puritan  statesman  of  Bos- 
ton, whom  Webster  so  splendidly  eulogized  in  the 
United  States  Senate.  Her  brother,  Wirt  Dexter, 
was  named  by  their  Anti-masonic  father  for  William 
Wirt,  Anti-masonic  candidate  for  the  Presidency  in 
1832;  and  she  inherits  from  her  father  and  grand- 
father his  abhorrence  of  the  secret  lodge,  as  well  as 
the  rare  executive  ability  of  the  race.  Their  daugh- 
ter Inez,  now  a  young  lady,  inherits  the  calm  piety 
of  Dr.  Godman  and  the  burning  genius  and  tireless 
energy  of  her  mother  and  grand-mother  who  now 
lives  in  Chicago. 

Dr.  Godman  properly  abstains  from  active  parti- 
sanship in  politics  here,  which  are  mingled  with 
State-bonds  and  local  finances.  But  the  candidate 
for  Secretary  of  State,  to  be  voted  for  April  17th, 
is  a  student  of  Dr,  Godman,  a  colored  young  law- 
yer, who  is  now  canvassing  the  State  for  Warmoth 
and  the  Republican  ticket. 

Gov.  Warmoth  came  here  at  the  close  of  the  war, 
and  of  course  was  abused  as  "a  carpetbagger," 
He  has  now  boldly  opened  the  campaign  to  revive 
the  Republican  party  in  the  face  of  the  history  of 
the  past.  His  sugar  sold  this  year  for  about  $100,- 
000,  and  as  he  has  lived  here  above  twenty  years  his 
title  to  citizenship  is  as  good  as  the  majority  of  the 
voters.  Amid  the  convulsions  of  the  15th  Amend- 
ment, Warmoth,  then  a  young  man,  was  stabbed 
and  thrown  in  the  streets  of  New  Orleans,  and  his 
antagonist  had  him  by  the  throat.  He  succeeded 
in  knocking  bis  antagonist's  knife  from  his  hand. 
A  Southern  lady  passing  kicked  the  knife  to  War- 
moth, who  grasped  it,  and,  though  down  and  under, 
killed  his  assailant.  The  coroner's  jury  found  the 
killing  to  have  been  done  in  self-defence.  His  re- 
turn to  the  candidacy  after  twenty  years,  of  course, 
makes  a  profound  impression.  It  is  to  be  hoped 
that  Northern  immigration  and  the  progress  of  ideas 
have  put  Ku-Klux,  White  Leagues,  Regulators,  etc., 
etc.,  out  of  fashion;  and  as  the  colored  people  are 
all  Republicans,  and  Warmoth  is  immensely  popu- 
lar with  the  whites,  besides  being  very  talented,  he 
may  be  elected. 

I  give  these  facts  to  our  readers  because  they  are 
intensely  interesting  and  bear  on  American  politics; 
though  we,  of  course,  shall  push  steadily  for  re- 
form.    We  leave  for  New  Iberia  in  a  few  hours. 

J.    B. 


PROF.  H.    WOODSMALL. 


Our  colored  brethren  of  the  South  will  never  know 
how  much  they  have  lost  in  the  death  of  this  devot- 
ed and  heroic  man.  We  have  not  before  us  the  his- 
tory of  his  life,  but  during  the  eight  years  he  has 
been  known  to  the  Cynosure  it  has  been  a  record  of 
singular  fidelity,  self-denial,  and  patient,  wise  and 
forbearing  labor  for  the  elevation  of  a  race  crushed 
down  by  oppression  into  ignorance,  vice  and  super- 
stition. 

During  Bro.  Hinman's  first  journey  among  the 
Southern  churches  and  schools,  in  1880,  he  called  at 
Selma  where  Rev.  G.  M.  Elliott  was  conducting  the 
mission  and  school  for  the  Reformed  Presbyterian 
church.  Here  he  met  Prof.  Woodsmall,  then  a  teach- 
er in  a  Baptist  institution  in  that  city.  He  hailed 
Bro.  Hinman  and  bis  mission.  Having  himself  been 
through  the  degrading  ceremonies  of  Masonry,  he 
realized  their  danger  to  the  black  race. 

Later  his  mission  to  this  people  was  enlarged,  as 
he  became  a  traveling  secretary  for  the  Baptist  mis- 
sion board,  visiting  all  parts  of  Mississippi,  Louis- 
iana, Arkansas  and  part  of  Tennessee,  and  possibly 
other  States.  His  plan  of  holding  institutes  among 
the  colored  pastors  was  a  wise  provision  for  their  in- 
struction. These  were  training  schools  in  pastoral 
work,  theology,  Bible  study  and  practical  efforts  for 
the  salvation  of  men.  Each  one  provided  excellent 
opportunities  for  careful  instruction  in  regard  to  the 
lodge  system;  and  many  pastors  of  that  denomina- 
tion doubtless  can  bless  him  for  his  faithfulness  on 
this  question. 

All  this  time  he  co-operated  with  the  National 
Association  in  putting  into  the  hands  of  these 
pastors  such  literature  as  would  enlighten  them 
more  fully  on  the  nature  of  the  lodge.  In  1886 
he  came  North  with  Rev.  R.  N.  Countee  of  Mem- 


March  15, 1888 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE- 


phis,  and  attended  the  annual  business  meeting  of 
the  N.  C.  A.  and  /iddressed  audiences  in  this   city  , 
and  in  Wheaton.  I 

Mr.  Howe  of  Wenona,  III,  had  great  confidence  ] 
in  Prof.  Woodsman,  and  finally  arranged  to  estab- 
lish a  permanent  institute  at  Memphis  to  continue 
the  excellent  method  of  instruction  adopted  among 
the  Baptist' pastors.  He  gave  $10,000  to  start  this 
work,  and  here  Bro.  Woodsmall  spent  his  last  en- 
ergies in  establishing  this  school  and  instructing 
its  classes.  His  health  had  for  years  been  fail- 
ing, but  he  kept  at  his  work  to  the  last  moment. 
Bro.  Countee's  letter  tells  of  the  end  that  came  at 
last  to  the  toil  and  anxiety  of  this  faithful  heart, 
when  the  Lord  said,  Come  up  higher.  Among 
those  servants  of  the  King  who  shall  be  made  rulers 
over  many  things  we  shall  see  at  last  the  name  of 
this  brother,  for  no  talent  given  him  was  hidden  in 
a  napkin  or  buried  in  the  earth. 


TBS  BURLINGTON  STRIKE. 


Two  weeks  have  passed  and  both  the  railway 
managers  and  the  strikers  hold  out.  The  local  bus- 
iness otthe  road  is  being  very  largely  resumed,  but 
when  loaded  cars  were  consigned  to  other  roads  en- 
gineers refused  to  draw  them.  As  the  Inter-state 
law  compels  this  to  be  done  the  C.  B.  &  Q.  company 
had  the  fight  in  their  own  hands  and  could  have 
forced  the  other  roads  to  comply.  Had  the  engi- 
neers in  such  a  case  made  a  general  strike  it  would 
have  been  fatal  to  their  secret  order,  for  an  indig- 
nant public  would  have  suppressed  it.  As  it  is,  the 
press  generally  condemns  them,  and  none  more  se- 
verely and  ably  than  the  agricultural  papers. 

But  an  appeal  was  made  to  the  U.  S.  district 
court  by  the  company  to  enjoin  Mr.  Arthur  of  the 
brotherhood  from  further  interference,  and  to  com- 
pel receiver  McNulta  to  take  cars  consigned  to  the 
Wabash  road.  Pending  this  trial  there  is  a  lull.  In 
Omaha  Judge  Dundy  has  decided  against  the  strike 
under  this  law. 

In  Congress  the  strike  has  been  recognized,  and 
Mr.  White,  of  Indiana,  has  moved  a  committee  of 
investigation  and  settlement,^  Before  the  com  mi  t- 
tte  is  chosen  the  strike  may  be  over,  as  a  number  of 
leading  roads  have  notified  their  engineers  that  they 
shall  take  Burlington  cars  loaded  with  through 
freight.  The  boldness  of  the  brotherhood  is  much 
tamed.  Arthur  now  denies  that  he  can  order  the 
men  to  strike,  and  claims  no  power  over  their  indi- 
vidual action,  though  this  has  been  his  boast  up  to 
the  day  an  injunction  was  asked. 

An  incident  of  the  strike  was  the  address  of  May- 
or Hewitt  of  New  York  last  Wednesday,  before  the 
alumni  of  Williams  College,  in  which  he  denounced 
the  use  of  autocratic  power  by  labor  leaders  in  these 
emphatic  terms: 

'What  is  all  the  tyranny  of  the  past  compared  with  the 
claim  which  is  deliberately  made  in  this  country  now, 
that  it  shall  be  in  the  power  of  one  man— call  him  Pow- 
derly  or  call  him  Arthur  or  call  him  what  you  will — to 
paralize  the  entire  industry  of  the  United  States!  Was 
there  ever  in  the  history  of  man  a  despot  who  laid  claim 
to  any  such  power  as  that?  Where  at  any  time  in  the 
hiatory  of  the  race  has  it  happened  that  a  conclave  of  ten 
or  twelve  delegates  should  be  sitting  in  a  room,  as  they 
are  to  night,  to  determine  whether  the  bread  and  the  fuel 
and  the  necessities  of  life  should  be  withheld  from  those 
who  are  ready  to  work  and  are  working  for  the  support 
of  themselves  and  their  families?  Who  is  to  stand  up  in 
this  crisis  and  reach  the  truth?  If  the  men  who  have 
been  trained  in  college  in  the  mathematics,  in  the  hu- 
manities are  cowards,  and  because  they  want  votes  are 
afraid  to  get  up  and  preach  the  truth,  then  God  save  the 
Republic,  for  man  cannot  do  it.  Hence  I  want  the  grad 
uates  of  the  colleges  of  the  country  to  understand  that 
they  have  a  high  mission— a  greater  one  than  Peter  the 
Hermit  thought  he  had  when  he  led  the  hosts  of  the 
Crusaders  to  rescue  the  holy  sepulcher.  Ah,  that  is  a 
sacred  spot,  but  there  is  something  more  sacred  than  that. 
It  is  the  right  of  men  to  govern  themselves,  to  be  their 
own  masters  and  not  to  be  the  slaves  of  irresponsible 
power  sitting  in  secret  and  usurping  the  function  of 
Qovernmtnt." 


CoLOBPHOBiA  Routed  by  Episcopalians.— For 
ten  or  twelve  years  the  question  of  the  admission 
of  colored  delegates  to  the  pjpiscopal  diocesan  con- 
vetion  has  agitated  the  representative  churchmen  in 
South  Carolina.  There  are  only  two  or  three  negro 
Episcopal  churches  in  the  State.  The  bono  of  con- 
tention, however,  has  been  St.  Mark's  church,  in 
Charleston.  The  majority  of  the  clergymen,  in- 
cluding the  bishop,  have  been  in  favor  of  admitting 
the  St.  Mark's  delegates.  The  laymen  have  been 
equally  solid  against  it.  Year  after  year  St,  Mark's 
church  would  send  its  representatives  to  knock  at 
the  door  of  the  convention,  only  to  be  turned  away. 
Finally  a  native  colored  man  was  ordained  and  in- 
stalled as  rector  of  St.  Mark's.  At  the  last  conven- 
tion the  bishop  ruled  that  all  clergymen  in  good 


standing  were  canonical,  and  constitutional  mem- 
bers, and  entitled  to  their  seats  without  submitting 
their  credentials  to  a  committee.  Then  followed 
three  days  of  wrangling,  all  efforts  to  get  to  busi- 
ness being  in  vain.  Even  a  bishop's  patience,  how- 
ever, has  some  limit,  and  finally,  after  meekly  and 
mildly  submitting  to  three  days  of  parliamentary  bull- 
dozing, he  put  his  foot  down  firmly.  He  gave  his 
ruling  on  a  question  and  turning  a  deaf  ear  to  all 
motions  to  "appeal  from  the  decision  of  the  chair" 
directed  the  clerk  to  go  on  with  the  reading  of  the 
minutes.  This  brought  on  the  crisis.  There  was  a 
hurried  consultation  among  the  laymen,  and  then 
a  venerable  delegate  arose  and  announced  that  his 
parish  had  decided  to  withdraw  from  the  conven- 
tion. Four  venerable  lay  churchmen  thereupon 
stalked  down  the  aisle  followed  by  the  blessing  of 
the  much-badgered  bishop,  who  said:  "Good- by, 
brethren;  God  be  with  you,"  A  stampede  followed, 
and  then  there  was  a  counting  of  noses.  It  was 
found  that  although  a  large  number  of  delegates 
had  withdrawn,  there  was  still  a  quorum  left.  The 
business  was  hurriedly  disposed  of  and  the  conven- 
tion adjourned  after  selecting  Anderson  as  the  place 
of  meeting  of  the  convention  of  1888. 


— A  letter  from  Miss  E.  E.  Flagg  to  Secretary 
Stoddard,  written  with  a  feeble  hand,  tells  of  her 
gradual  recovery.  She  is  able  to  sit  up  for  a  little 
while  and  is  gaining  slowly  the  strength  she  has 
lost.  She  hopes  that  by  the  first  of  Jane  she  will  be 
able  to  undertake  active  work  for  the  reform,  car- 
rying out  the  plans  already  contemplated  by  the 
Board, 

— The  address  of  Miss  Moore,  of  Leland  Univer- 
sity, before  the  National  Convention,  which  we  take 
great  pleasure  in  publishing  this  week,  is  an  earnest 
and  able  paper,  and  will  be  read  as  it  was  received, 
with  warm  approval.  We  expect  to  publish  Pres. 
L.  N.  Stratton's  speech  next  week  and  others  as  fast 
as  they  can  be  obtained,  Bro.  Hinman  took  his  ad- 
dress on  to  Washinglon  and  it  appears  in  the  Amer- 
ican of  last  week. 

— A  letter  from  a  United  Presbyterian  brother  in 
Canada  asks  for  adyice  in  securing  a  pastor  for 
an  important  church  who  shall  be  true  to  the  testi- 
mony of  the  Word  of  God  and  of  the  church  disci- 
pline. Such  an  inquiry  alarms  us,  and  should  alarm 
the  whole  body  of  that  great  denomination.  Is  it, 
indeed,  true  that  any  of  its  pastors  are  unfaithful  to 
their  testimony?  that  so  great  a  body  of  them  are 
so  disaffected  that  churches  desiring  faithful  men 
find  difficulty  in  obtaining  them? 

— Bro.  W,  B.  Stoddard  and  his  young  wife  have 
been  royally  entertained  by  relatives  in  Pittsburgh, 
and  he  writes  with  enthusiasm  of  the  openings  for 
lecture  work  in  the  city  and  vicinity.  He  was  to 
speak  in  Wilkinsburg  Thursday  evening,  and  in  the 
Covenanter  church,  Pittsburgh,  of  which  Dr.  A,  M, 
Milligan  was  so  long  pastor,  Monday  evening.  He 
was  also  hoping  to  secure  a  union  meeting  in  the 
same  church  soon.  The  absence  of  the  pastor,  Dr, 
McAllister,  deprives  him  of  a  warm  co-ad jutor  in 
this  enterprise, 

— It  should  help  our  good  citizens  of  Chicago  to 
understand  somewhat  of  the  mysteries  surrounding 
the  mismanagement  of  our  police  force  when  they 
remember  that  the  acting  Chief  of  Police  Hubbard, 
Inspector  Bonfield,  Lieut.  Fitzpatrick  and  others  are 
Freemasons.  A  few  weeks  ago  the  official  days  of 
the  Inspector  seemed  to  be  numbered,  but  after  the 
Snell  murder  Mayor  Roche  was  forced  by  public 
opinion  to  ask  the  resignation  of  Ebersold,  then  the 
Chief.  The  Mayor  is  a  great  lodge  man,  and  a  Ma- 
sonic coterie  has  control  of  the  police  force, 

— The  trades  unions  of  Reading,  Pa.,  composed  of 
such  bodies  as  the  printers,  hatters,  molders,  bakers, 
carpenters,  hod-carriers,  cigarmakers,  barbers,  etc., 
have  organized  themselves  into  a  body  known  as 
the  Trade  and  Labor  Council,  which,  it  is  estimated, 
represents  eighteen  hundred  men.  They  do  not  af- 
filiate with  the  Knights  of  Labor.  During  the 
Reading  strike  they  passed  a  resolution  in  which 
they  "severely  condemn  the  Brotherhood  of  Locomo- 
tive Engineers  for  their  very  ready  offer  of  assist- 
ance to  the  company  in  the  present  difficulties 
on  the  road,  merely  for  the  purpose  of  seeking  re- 
venge." 

— The  India  Watchman  of  Bombay  comments 
upon  the  temperance  movement  among  American 
Grand  Lodges  very  shrewdly:  "After  the  murder 
of  Capt.  Morgan  by  the  Freemasons,  the  order  be- 
came unusually  pious  to  gain  back  its  character. 
Strong  drink  has  made  such  ravages  among  them 
that  some  are  now  struggling  to  counteract  its 
power,  A  grand  lodge  in  America,  under  the 
mighty  power  of  the  temperance  movement,  issued 


an  order  against  admitting  saloonkeepers  to  their 
order.  Of  course  there  is  great  opposition.  As 
the  lr>dges  in  India  are  'right  grand'  drinking  clubs, 
they  may  take  warning." 

— The  Pittsburgh  daily  press  reports  a  discourse 
by  Pres.  H.  H.  George  of  Geneva  College,  in  the 
Central  Reformed  Presbyterian  church  of  Alleghe- 
ny City,  on  the  subject,"Why  I  am  Opposed  to  Secret 
Societies."  He  had  five  principal  objections.  The 
first  was  their  secrecy;  second,  some  of  them  take 
the  place  of  religion;  third,  they  claim  to  assert 
and  exemplify  religion;  fourth,  they  administer  oaths 
in  an  illegal  and  immoral  manner;  and  fifth,  they 
are,  both  in  principle  and  practice,  a  hindrance  to 
the  true  growth  of  the  church  and  state.  Dr.  George 
made  a  powerful  and  impressive  address,  which  we 
hope  he  will  have  an  opportunity  to  repeat  occa- 
sionally in  Pittsburgh  and  vicinity. 

— The  trouble  with  the  United  Presbyterian  breth- 
ren begins  probably  with  the  Grand  Army  of  the 
Republic.  This  order  was  discussed  at  some  length 
in  the  General  Assembly  which  met  in  St,  Louis 
three  years  ago,  and  the  result  was  a  rule  which 
ought  fairly  to  be  construed  as  opposed  to  this  or- 
der. It  is  not,  however,  in  many  quarters,  and  es- 
pecially by  the  city  churches.  Even  Dr,  W,  T.  Meloy, 
of  this  city,  who  has  in  the  past  co-operated  in  the 
efforts  to  suppress  the  lodge,  was  led  to  give  coun- 
tenance to  secretism  by  preaching  a  sermon  before 
the  G,  A.  R.  on  a  recent  Sabbath;  the  Godfred  Weit- 
zel  post  of  this  city  meeting  in  their  hall  and  march- 
ing in  a  body  to  the  United  Presbyterian  church, 

— The  Aurora,  the  monthly  publication  of  Knox- 
ville  College,  notices  a  debate  on  the  question, 
^'Resolved,  that  oath- bound  secret  societies  are  detri- 
mental to  the  colored  race,"  This  debate  came  about 
from  a  challenge  of  gentlemen  in  the  city  of  Knox- 
ville.  Our  readers  will  regret  to  learn  that  on  ac- 
count of  the  prevalence  of  typhoid  fever  the  fac- 
ulty was  constrained  to  close  the  institution  on 
the  24th  of  February.  Several  of  the  faculty  had 
been  sick  and  a  large  proportion  of  the  students  had 
already  gone  home.  Pres.  McCullough  was  unable 
to  attend  the  New  Orleans  Convention  because  of 
this  calamitous  sickness.  We  hope  the  usefulness 
and  success  of  this  fine  school  will  not  be  seriously 
interrupted  by  this  severe  providence. 

— The  Knoxville  College  Aurora  judges  most 
truly  of  the  influence  of  the  lodges  which  in  some 
quarters  of  the  United  Presbyterian  church  are  en- 
dured, in  others  pitied,  and  in  others,  alas!  even 
embraced:  "The  admission  of  the  so-called  G.  A.  R. 
into  the  church  admits  all  other  lodges  by  the  logic 
and  necessity  of  the  case.  The  lodge  system  from 
the  Grange,  Greek  letters,  G.  A.  R ,  down  through 
Odd-fellowship  and  Masonry,  is  a  unit,  a  secret  em- 
pire; and  the  lodges  of  whatever  name  differ  only 
in  the  degree  of  their  wickedness  and  the  extent  of 
their  power,  Satan  is  founder  of  them  all,  and  he 
laughs  to  aee  good  men  (deceived)  leagued  with  bad 
men  to  do  his  evil  work.  The  church  and  the  lodge 
are  implacable  foes.  One  must  destroy  the  other. 
Which  shall  it  be?" 


N.  G.  A.  BOARD  MBBTINQ. 


Saturday  morning  the  National  Board  met  at  the 
call  of  the  chairman,  eight  members  being  present 
After  prayer  by  Dr.  Roy,  Secretary  Stoddard  made 
his  report  of  the  New  Orleans  Convention  and  its 
expenses.  His  report  was  approved,  and  the  deficit 
of  $71.45  was  voted  to  be  paid.  The  contract  with 
Bro.  Francis  J.  Davidson  as  colporteur  agent  in  the 
Southwest  was  approved,  and  his  engagement  until 
the  annual  meeting  in  June  was  voted.  The  very 
valuable  services  of  Bro,  A.  W.  Parry  as  secretary 
and  reporter  of  the  convention  proceedings  was  cor- 
dially recognized  and  a  portion  of  bis  expenses  at 
the  meeting  assumed. 

Secretary  Stoddard  found  in  the  old  book  stores 
of  New  Orleans  a  valuable  collection  of  Grand  Lodge 
reports,  numbering  some  fifty  books  and  pamphlets. 
It  was  voted  to  put  these  in  the  N,  C,  A.  library  in 
the  Cynosure  office,  A  verbal  report  of  the  commit- 
tee on  Washington  building  was  heard  and  the  com- 
mittee continued. 

At  the  request  of  Bro.  Hinman  the  Board  voted 
to  send  copies  of  President  Finney's  book  to  the 
members  of  the  graduating  classes  of  Howard  and 
Wayland  Universities  at  Washington. 

The  matter  of  prize  essays  war  called  up,  and  the 
work  of  the  committee  was  reported.  Being  iacom- 
plete  the  committee  was  continued  and  the  time  ex- 
tended until  September  1st  next  for  the  preparation 
of  the  essays.  It  was  voted  that  circulars  ba  issued 
without  delay  and  brethren  Worrell,  Hench  and 
Kellogg  requested  to  act  as  a  sub-committee  to  pro- 
vide for  the  method  of  award. 


10 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


March  15, 1888 


THE  Home. 


PBBFBCT  TEROUGH    SUFFSBIHGa. 

Hebrews  2:  10. 


I  aeked  the  Lord  that  I  might  grow 
In  faith,  and  love,  and  every  grace; 
Might  more  of  his  salvation  know. 
And  seek  more  earnestly  his  face. 

'Twas  he  who  taught  me  thus  to  pray, 
And  he,  I  trust,  has  answered  prayer; 
But  It  has  been  in  such  a  way 
As  almost  drove  me  to  despair. 

I  hoped  that  In  some  favored  hour. 
At  once  he'd  tnswer  my  request; 
And  by  his  love's  constraining  power, 
Subdue  my  sins  and  give  me  rest. 

Instead  of  this,  he  made  me  feel 
The  hidden  evils  of  my  heart ; 
And  let  the  angry  powers  of  hell 
Assault  my  soul  In  every  part. 

Yea,  more,  with  his  own  hand  he  seemed 
Intent  to  aggravate  my  woe ; 
Crossed  all  the  fair  designs  I  schemed, 
Blasted  my  gourds,  and  laid  me  low. 

"Lord,  why  is  thisi"  I,  trembling,  cried; 
"Wilt  thou  pursue  thy  wormtodeathi" 
"  'Tis  In  this  way."  the  Lord  replied, 
"I  answer  prayer  for  grace  and  faith. 

"These  inward  trials  1  employ, 
From  self  and  pride  to  set  thee  free ; 
And  break  thy  schemes  of  earthly  joy, 
That  thou  may'st  seek  thy  all  in  me." 

—  John  Newton,  1779. 


PM  UNINQ. 


My  neighbor,  Sadoc  Smith,  has  had  a  great  deal 
of  trouble.  His  only  son,  who  was  just  old  enough 
to  help  him,  died  suddenly  a  few  weeks  ago.  One 
of  his  best  horses  fell  and  was  so  crippled  that  they 
had  to  shoot  him.  He  himself  has  been  sick  for  a 
long  time,  and  is  just  able  to  get  out  and  begin  to 
take  care  of  his  orchard.  As  I  drove  bv  the  other 
day  he  was  near  the  road  pruning  a  peach  tree.  I 
said,  "Good-morning,  Sadoc,  I  am  glad  to  see  you 
out  here,     I  hope  that  you  are  quite  well  again." 

"No,  I  am  not  well.  I  feel  weak  and  miserable. 
But  I  had  to  come  out  and  try  to  get  the  orchard  in 
order,  or  we  will  have  no  fruit.  I  can't  understand 
why  I  have  such  a  hard  time,  when  my  neighbors 
are  well  and  prosperous.  What  have  I  done  to  bring 
all  these  trials  and  afflictions  upon  me?" 

I  did  not  know  what  to  say  at  first,  for  it  had 
been  a  mystery  to  me  as  well  as  to  him.  For  though 
Sadoc  has  his  faults,  like  the  rest  of  us,  he  is  really 
one  of  the  best  men  in  the  neighborhood.  But  as  I 
looked  at  the  tree  he  was  pruning,  I  remembered 
our  Saviour's  parable  of  the  vine  in  the  fifteenth 
chapter  of  John,  and  I  said: 

"Sadoc,  what  is  the  matter  with  that  Crawford? 
It  seems  to  me  to  have  made  a  splendid  growth  since 
last  year,  and,  if  I  remember  right,  it  bore  several 
boxes  of  excellent  fruit.  Why,  then,  are  you  saw- 
ing and  cutting  it  so?  See,  it  is  actually  bleeding! 
It  looks  as  if  it  were  being  severely  punished.  If 
it  had  a  human  heart  and  voice  would  it  not  cry  out. 
Master,  what  have  I  done,  that  you  cut  off  my  ten- 
der shoots  and  mangle  and  torture  me?  A  stranger 
watching  you  as  he  passed  by  might  think  that  you 
were  a  savage,  and  these  trees  enemies  that  you  had 
captured  and  were  wreaking  your  vengeance  upon." 

Sadoc  looked  at  me  in  surprise.  He  did  not  un- 
derstand what  I  was  driving  at;  so  he  said,  "You 
have  an  orchard  of  your  own,  and  you  know  that 
we  have  to  prune  our  trees,  or  they  will  run  all  to 
wood  and  we  will  get  no  fruit." 

"So,  then,  it  is  because  you  like  that  peach  tree, 
and  rejoice  in  its  vigorous  growth,  and  expect  it  to 
yield  you  a  valuable  crop  next  year,  that  you  are 
pruning  it?" 

"Of  c:)urse.  But  why  do  you  tell  me  what  every- 
body knows?" 

"Because  you  don't  seem  to  remember  it  when 
yon  look  at  the  work  of  the  Divine  Husbandman. 
Qod  says  that  he  deals  with  us  just  as  we  deal  with 
our  trees.  Ynu  have  often  read  the  fifteenth  chap- 
ter of  John.  You  remember  the  second  verse,  'Every 
branch  in  me  that  beareth  fruit,  he  purgeth  [prun- 
eth]  it,  that  it  may  bring  forth  more  fruit,'  He 
don't  prune  the  unfruitful  branches,  but  the  fruitful 
ones.  The  motives  in  pruning  are  affection  and 
hope.  We  love  tLe  vine  or  tree  for  what  it  has 
done.  We  see  in  it  greater  possibilities  of  fruitful- 
ness,  and  we  want  to  help  it  to  do  better  in  the  future 
than  it  has  done  in  the  past.  And  Qod  prunes  us 
because  he  loves  us,  and  because  he  would  have  us 
glorify  him  by  bearing  much  fruit.  For  there  is  a 
tendency  in  all  of  us,  like  that  in  your  peach  trees, 


to  excessive  wood-growth.  By  wood-growth  I 
mean  temporal  prosperity.  When  a  man  is  left  to 
himself  he  becomes  carnal  in  his  thoughts  and  de- 
sires. He  wants  to  have  as  much  sensual  enjoyment 
as  he  can,  and  to  get  all  the  material  good  that  he 
can.  He  forgets  that  he  is  a  child  of  God,  an  heir 
of  immortality,  and  that  he  is  planted  in  this  world 
to  bear  fruit  unto  holiness.  Hence  God  has  come  to 
us,  just  as  we  go  to  our  fruit  trees,  and  cut  us  back. 
His  object  is  to  make  us  better  men  and  better 
Christians.  You  prune  your  trees  for  symmetry  as 
well  as  for  growth.  There  are  some  trees  that  seem 
to  know  how  to  shape  themselves.  They  grow  grace- 
fully if  you  let  them  alone.  But  most  of  our  trees, 
and  especially  our  fruit  trees,  straggle  if  left  to 
themselves.  They  send  out  too  many  shoots  on 
one  side.  They  send  out  too  many  branches  that 
cross  each  other,  and,  hence,  chafe  each  other.  And 
it  is  so  with  us.  Our  characters  are  not  symmetri- 
cal. Our  growth  is  one-sided.  Some  of  us  are  gnarled 
all  over  with  prejudices.  We  need  the  shaping 
hand  of  the  Husbandman,  as  the  block  of  marble 
needs  the  skill  and  toil  of  the  sculptor  to  become  a 
statue  that  thousands  will  admire.  You  know,  Sa- 
doc, that  we  are  not  to  grow  in  this  earth-orchard 
forever.  God  will  transplant  us  one  day  into  his 
Paradise  above.  He  can't  have  any  ill-shaped, 
crooked  trees  up  there.  Hence,  he  must  trim  and 
prune  us  now.  The  Lord  loves  you,  my  brother, 
and  that  is  why  he  chastens  you.  He  loves  you 
better  than  he  loves  me.  These  trials  are  the  tokens 
that  he  sees  in  you  great  possibilities  of  spiritual 
growth  and  fruitfulness," 

"But  why  don't  the  Lord  prune  my  neighbors, 
too?  There  is  Jonas  Jones,  everything  that  he 
touches  turns  to  gold,  A  little  cutting  back  might 
do  him  some  good," 

"Perhaps  not.  Why  did  you  skip  that  large  tree 
at  the  other  end  of  the  row?  It  needs  pruning  more 
than  any  of  the  rest," 

"Oh,  that  tree  is  of  no  account.  All  the  fruit  it 
bears  is  gnarly  and  worthless,  I  have  tried  all  sorts 
of  experiments  with  it  in  vain.  So  now  I  am  going 
to  let  it  grow  until  it  is  big  enough  for  firewood,  and 
then  I'll  cut  it  down," 

"Yes,  and  may  not  that  be  the  Husbandman's 
idea  in  regard  to  some  of  the  trees  in  the  human 
orchard?  Would  you  or  I  want  to  be  let  alone  be- 
cause we  were  determined  not  to  yield  to  the  loving 
discipline  of  our  Heavenly  Father?  Let  us  thank 
him  that  he  does  not  let  us  alone." — Rusticus  in  the 
Occident. 


PATTIB  SUNSEINB. 


You  see,  Pattie  was  like  a  bit  of  bright  sunshine 
— the  brightest  sunshine  you  ever  saw — wherever 
she  went.  Full  of  sparkling  laughter,  merry  words, 
quick  sympathies  and  kind  thoughts,  she  seemed  to 
brighten  every  place  she  entered,  and  to  bring  with 
her  an  atmosphere  of 'Sunny  brightness  and  summer 
cheer  even  in  the  gloomiest  moments  and  dreariest 
weather.  At  home  or  at  school,  it  was  always  the 
same.  Our  Pattie  Sunshine  was  wanted  every- 
where; moreover,  was  always  willing  to  show  her 
bright  face  and  accord  her  help.  When  Tom's  ball 
was  lost  or  Jack's  kite  torn,  if  baby  cried  and  was 
troublesome,  or  mother  had  a  headache,  Pattie's 
quick  eyes,  skillful  fingers,  coaxing  looks,  or  cool 
little  hands  would  seem  to  set  matters  right  at 
once. 

Every  one  in  Drentham  village  knew  Pattie  Sun- 
shine, and  she  in  return  knew  every  body.  Old 
Mother  Brown,  who  lived  in  the  little  cottage  just 
across  the  common,  and  was  visited  by  Pattie  regu- 
larly every  week,  knew  her  step,  and  her  old  face 
would  brighten,  and  the  number  of  wrinkles  and 
creases  in  her  withered  cheeks  seem  to  grow  fewer, 
when  Pattie's  brisk  little  trot  was  heard  up  the  gar- 
den walk.  Even  Toby,  the  old  blind  dog  who  kept 
Mother  Brown  company,  pricked  up  his  ears  and 
wagged  his  tail,  directly  Pattie  clicked  the  latch  of 
the  little  garden  gate. 

And  then  there  was  Mrs.  Burns,  who  lived  next 
door  to  Mrs.  Bi'own,  and  who  had  a  little  crippled 
daughter  told  by  the  doctors  that  she  would  never 
again  be  able  .to  walk  or  play  with  the  other  chil- 
dren. Mr.  Burns,  too,  whose  heart  was  so  often 
filled  with  sad  thoughts,  and  whose  face  betokened 
his  troubles  and  fears,  was  always  quite  cheerful  and 
h»ppy  after  the  little  chat  with  Pattie,  which  he 
often  had;  for  Pattie  would  frequently  carry  a  little 
bunch  of  flowers  from  her  own  garden  plot,  or  some 
little  gift  for  the  sick  child,  or  would  spend  her  half 
holiday  reading  aloud  her  last  new  story-book. 

She  assisted  an  old  lady,  Mrs.  Eicaards,  who  had 
been  to  visit  her  daughter,  at  the  other  end  of  the 
village,  and  was  caught  in  the  rain  while  returning 
home  across  the  common.    Pattie,  walking  home 


with  her  new  umbrella,  had  overtaken  the  poor  old 
woman  struggling  with  the  wind  and  rain,  and  in- 
sisted on  helping  her  home  and  carrying  one  of  her 
packages, 

"Law,  Miss  Pattie,"  said  the  delighted  Mrs,  Rich- 
ards, "you  mustn't  wait  to  walk  long  wi'  me,  I'm 
that  slow  you  will  be  as  long  agen  o'  getting  home; 
and  wi'  a  feather  in  your  hat,  too!  But,  there  you're 
a  real  Miss  Sunshine,  as  the  folks  say,  and  true 
enough  it  be." 

In  spite  of  the  feather  in  her  hat,  Pattie  stayed 
to  help  the  old  woman  along;  and,  even  if  the  feather 
did  get  wet,  why  she  could  curl  it  again,  and  have 
the  pleasure  of  knowing  she  had  cheered  one 
worthy  old  friend  and  won  heartfelt  thanks  beside. 

Now,  my  dear  little  readers,  I  must  not  tell  you 
any  more  about  Pattie;  but  I  cannot  finish  this  little 
sketch  without  asking  you  if  you  will  not  make  up 
your  mind  to  be  a  Miss  Sunshine,  too.  Lucy  Sun- 
shine, or  Jane  Sunshine,  or  even  Araminta  Sun- 
shine, sounds  just  as  nice  as  Pattie  Sunshine;  and  I 
feel  sure  that,  if  you  once  earn  the  name,  your  de- 
light will  be  so  great  that  you  will  always  deserve  it 
afterward. 

Take  for  your  motto,  as  Pattie  did,  the  beautiful 
little  verse  of  Charles  Kingsley: ' 


Do  the  work  that's  nearest. 
Though  it's  dull  at  whiles : 

Helping,  when  you  meet  them. 
Lame  dogs  over  stiles. 


— iSunlight. 


NATURAL  OAti. 


On  the  western  shore  of  the  Caspian,  a  narrow 
tongue  of  land  but  twenty  miles  broad  from  sea  to 
sea,  thrusts  itself  far  out  into  the  waves  of  this  rem- 
nant of  the  great  ocean,  that  once  covered  the  step- 
pes of  the  Ural  and  Volga.  It  is  the  Aspheron  Pe- 
ninsula, the  continuation  of  the  mighty  Caucasus 
Mountains,  as  they  plunge  beneath  the  sea.  From 
this  peninsula,  as  well  as  on  the  islands  that  stretch 
beyond  it,  and  even  from  the  sea  itself,  strange 
lights  have  flared  for  centuries.  When  they  were 
first  lighted  no  man  can  tell;  but  as  they  flamed  on 
through  ages,  fed  by  a  mysterious  and  inexhaustible 
fuel,  is  it  a  wonder  that  tradition  held  that  they 
were  lighted  by  Noah,  as  he  came  down  from  the 
neighboring  Ararat,  and  that  prophecy  foretold  that 
they  would  burn  on  to  the  end  of  the  world? 

For  2,500  years  at  least,  this  flame  has  been  burn- 
ing, and  during  all  thi3  time,  so  it  is  asserted,  it  has 
lighted  the  prayers  of  the  priests  of  the  purest  re- 
ligion known  to  the  heathen  world — the  Fire  Wor- 
shipers, Here  they  built  an  altar,  and  upon  it, 
through  all  these  centuries,  a  long  succession  of 
priests  has  tended  the  sacred  flame  with  holy  ardor 
and  watchful  care.  To  them  it  was  the  fire  symbol 
of  the  eternal  and  omnipotent  God  they  worshiped, 
and  to  them  and  to  the  awe-struck  votaries  of  their 
mysterious  faith,  the  region  became  known  as  the 
"Land  of  Eternal  Fire."  , 

But  the  demands  of  modern  industry  have  over- 
thrown the  altar  and  driven  its  priests  from  its  side. 
The  vigil  is  at  an  end.  The  eternal  fire  has  gone 
out,  but  in  another  and  far-off  land  it  has  been  re- 
kindled, not  as  a  symbol  of  worship,  but  to  bring 
warmth  and  cheer  to  more  than  twice  ten  thousand 
Christian  homes;  for  the  mystic  flame  of  the  Caspi- 
an, before  which  the  Magi  bowed  in  silent  awe,  was 
the  fire-light  from  the  same  natural  gas  that  burns 
to-day  in  so  many  of  the  homes  of  this  Western 
world. 

Natural  gas,  it  thus  appears,  is  no  new  product. 
Three  thousand  years  ago,  the  Chinese  found  gas 
three  thousand  feet  below  the  earth's  surface,  when 
drilling  salt  wells,  and  have  been  piping  it  through 
bamboo  pipes,  just  as  we  do  through  iron  ones,  and 
burning  it  in  clay  burners  as  we  burn  it  in  lava  tips 
or  brass,  Caa sar  warmed  his  shivering  hands  at  the 
glowing  flame  of  the  Fontaine  Ardente,  in  Gaul,with 
the  same  satisfaction  and  comfort  that  many  a  sove- 
reign of  this  Western  republic  experienced  in  warm- 
ing his  at  his  gas  fire  the  cold  mornings  last  winter. 

Nor  has  the  natural  gas  neglected  to  give  mankind 
frequent  intimations  of  its  awful  power  in  these 
years  of  the  past.  The  deadly  fire-damp,  that  tells 
in  the  dread  rumble  and  the  quivering  earth  that 
death  and  destruction  are  abroad  in  the  mine,  is  the 
same  natural  gas  that  we  take  into  our  workshops 
and  homes,  and  which,  like  a  willing  giant,  serving, 
not  ruling,  does  willing,  useful  work. 

When  natural  gas  first  made  its  presence  known 
in  this  country  cannot  be  stated.  The  Indians, 
and  possibly  the  Mound  Builders  before  them,  must 
have  had  knowledge  of  some  of  the  many  surface 
indications,  of  the  leaks  from  the  gas  reservoirs  that 
are  so  common  in  the  valleys  of  the  upper  Ohio,  and 
which  for  centuries  have  told  of  the  existence  of 


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this  gas.  Unlike  its  twin  brother,  petroleum,  it 
was  not  bom  to  this  upper  world  but  to  pass  away 
at  its  birth.  It  took  no  recognizable  part  in  those 
striking  and  mysterious  scenes,  the  petroleum  burn- 
ing at  weird  midnight  over  the  waters  of  Oil  Creek, 
which  so  impressed  the  early  French  missionaries  as 
they  journeyed  down  the  Alleghany  to  the  Ohio. 

However,  there  are  records  of  its  presence  here, 
going  back  more  than  a  hundred  years.  The  burn- 
ing spring  in  the  Kanawha  Valley  of  West  Virgin- 
ia, which  once  belonged  to  Washington,  is  one  of  the 
earliest  known  recorded  sources  of  gas  in  this  coun- 
try. In  1821,  the  little  village  of  Fredonia,  New 
York,  was  lighted  with  gas  from  a  shallow  well,  and 
a  little  after,  the  light-house  at  Barcelona,  a  harbor 
on  Lake  Erie.  Twenty  years  after  Fredonia's  first 
use,  a  salt  manufacturer  of  the  Kanawha  Valley 
burned  it  under  his  "salt  blocks."  As  early  as  1838, 
it  was  used  in  a  dwelling  house  in  Findlay,  Ohio. 
From  an  early  date  in  the  history  of  the  develop- 
ment of  the  oil  region  of  Pennsylvania,  the  gas, 
which  generally  accompanies  the  oil,  has  been  used 
in  drilling  wells,  pumping  oil,  and  for  light  and  heat 
in  the  towns  and  villages  near  the  wells.  Until  1883, 
few  wells  had  been  bored  for  gas.  Nearly  all  gas 
wells  had  been  struck  while  boring  for  petroleum. 

Notwithstanding  these  earlier  uses,  it  was  not 
until  the  introduction  of  the  gas  from  the  Murrys- 
ville  well  into  Pittsburgh,  but  three  years  ago,  that 
natural  gas  began  to  assume  the  importance  as  a 
fuel  which  it  now  possesses.  At  that  time  its  fu- 
ture was  not  dreamed  of.  Two  or  three  rolling  mills, 
glass  works  here  and  there,  possibly  a  score  of  in- 
dustrial establishments,  all  told,  and  a  few  dwelling 
houses  used  the  gas  for  fuel.  To  day  it  cooks  the 
food  of  thirty  thousand  families  and  warms  as  many 
homes;  it  puddles  the  iron  and  rolls  the  steel;  it 
melts  the  glass,  it  burns  the  pottery;  it  drills  the 
wells  and  pumps  the  oil  and  refines  it;  it  furnishes 
carbon  for  ink,  for  paint,  and  for  electric  lamps;  it 
raises  the  steam  in  many  thousand  industrial  works. 
In  a  word,  it  is  the  fuel  for  domestic  purposes  and 
for  use  in  the  arts  wherever  it  can  be  obtained,  and 
so  much  superior  is  it  to  coal,  that  cities,  with  coal 
at  their  very  doors,  pipe  the  gas  sixty  or  seventy 
miles  for  use  in  their  homes  and  workshops. 

And  what  is  this  natural  gas?  There  is  a  re- 
markable series  of  compounds  of  hydrogen  and  car- 
bon known  as  the  paraffines.  Some  of  these  are 
solid  at  ordinary  temperatures,  as  paraffiae  wax, 
others  are  liquid,  while  still  others  are  gaseous. 
Our  American  petroleum  is  composed  almost  en- 
tirely of  liquid  paraffine,  holding  solid  paraffiae  in 
solution,  while  natural  gas,  which  is  so  intimately 
associated  with  petroleum  as  to  be  scarcely,  if  ever, 
absent  when  that  is  present,  is  chiefly  the  first  of  the 
series  of  gaseous  paraffiaes,  methane  (0  Ht),  the 
marsh  gas  of  the  stagnant  pool,  the  light,  carburet- 
ed hydrogen  of  the  chemist,  the  explosive  fire  damp 
of  the  miner.  With  this  marsh  gas  is  mixed  quite 
a  number  of  other  gases,  chiefly  ethane,  another  of 
the  paraffines,  considerable  hydrogen,  and,  at  times, 
nitrogen,  a  little  olefiant  gas,  the  illuminating  gas  of 
our  cities,  with  small  amounts  of  carbonic  oxide, 
carbonic  acid  and  oxygen. 

Analyses  given  seem  to  show  that  the  proportions 
of  the  various  gases  vary  most  remarkably.  This 
is  one  of  the  most  interesting  and  inexplicable  facts 
in  connection  with  natural  gas.  The  gas  from  the 
same  well,  coming  from  the  same  storehouse,  will, 
in  two  diflerent  ways,  show  most  marked  changes  in 
composition.  Four  samples  of  gas  were  taken  from 
the  same  well  near  Pittsburgh,  on  four  different  days. 
In  one  of  these  samples  there  was  but  forty-nine 
and  one-half  per  cent  of  marsh  gas,  in  another  sev- 
enty-two and  one-fifth  per  cent,  while  the  hydrogen 
in  the  two  samples  was  thirty-six  per  cent  and  twen- 
ty and  five-eights  per  cent,  respectively.  It  is  no 
wonder  that  with  this  great  variation  in  composi- 
tion the  gas  does  not  give  as  great  a  heat  at  some 
times  as  at  others. 

Usually  the  gas  has  little  or  no  odor.  This  is  one 
of  the  dangers  connected  with  its  use.  It  might  es- 
cape into  a  room  in  suflQcient  quantities  to  form  an 
explosive  mixture  without  indicating  its  presence. 
There  is,  however,  a  slight  odor  to  the  gas  when 
burning,  that  cannot  be  described,  but  which  is  soon 
recognized  by  those  using  it.  Some  gas  has  a  dis- 
tinct smell  of  petroleum,  while  that  from  certain 
deposits,  the  Findlay,  for  example,  very  soon  an- 
nounces its  presence  by  a  marked  odor  of  ancient 
eggs,  caused  by  the  sulphureted  hydrogen  it  con- 
tains.— Joseph  D,  Weeks,  in  the  Chautauquan. 


The  Racine,  Wis.,  Exposition  Association  has 
passed  a  resolution  that  no  permit  shall  be  granted 
by  the  directors  of  the  association  for  the  sale  of 
intoxicating  drinks,  or  for  games  of  chance  upon 
the  grounds. 


Tempebance. 


THE  aUPRBME  COURT  DBOIBION  ON  PROHI- 
BITION. 


I  From  prelude  to  Joseph  Cook's  Monday  lecture.  1 

And  now,  exercising  a  freedom  to  which  you  are 
accustomed  in  this  place,  and  which  I  hope  none  of 
you  will  mistake  for  partisan  heat  or  personal  dis- 
courtesy, I  beg  leave  to  raise  the  question,  so  old 
and  yet  new  with  every  hour,  what  are  we  to  do  about 
this  mischief? 

First  of  all  let  us  with  united  voice  praise  God  for 
the  recent  decision  of  the  Supreme  Court  of  the 
United  States  on  prohibition.  [Prolonged  applause.] 
I  hold  in  my  hand  an  official  copy  of  this  celebrated 
decision,  sent  to  me  by  Justice  Harlan  a  few  days 
ago,  and  I  have  had  the  honor  of  doing  my  little 
utmost  in  distributing  it  to  the  public.  It  is  a  docu- 
ment of  considerable  legal  dryness,  but  every  word 
of  it  should  be  studied  by  every  friend  of  temper- 
ance and  of  law  and  order. 

What  are  the  chief  points  settJpd  by  the  decision 
of  the  Supreme  Court  in  the  Kansas  prohibition 
cases? 

1.  The  constitutionality  of  State  prohibition  of  the 
liquor  traffic,  without  compensation  for  property 
thereby  injured  or  destroyed,  is  unanimously  affirmed 
by  the  Supreme  Court.     [Applause.] 

2.  The  right  of  trial  by  jury  is  declared  forfeited 
in  prohibition  States  for  violators  of  the  temperance 
law.  The  liquor  traffic  can  be  suppressed  by  injunc- 
tion proceedings  without  trial  by  jury. 

3.  It  is  within  the  police  power  of  a  State  to  pro- 
hibit the  private  manufacture  of  intoxicating  liquors 
by  any  citizen  for  his  personal  use. 

I  venture  to  take  time  to  read  a  few  sentences 
from  the  decision  itself  to  justify  these  propositions, 
and  because  these  authoritative  words  open  a  new 
era  in  temperance  legislation.  The  Supreme  Court 
says: 

"That  legislation  by  a  State  prohibiting  the  manu- 
facture within  her  limits  of  intoxicating  liquors,  to 
be  sold  there  or  bartered  for  general  use  as  a  bever- 
age, does  not  necessarily  infringe  any  righ.,  privi- 
lege, or  immunity  secured  by  the  Constitution  of  the 
United  States,  iff  made  clear  by  the  decisions  of  this 
court,  rendered  before  and  since  the  adoption  of  the 
fourteenth  amendment." 

That  great  amendment  was  intended  as  a  shield 
for  the  slave  after  he  became  a  free  man,  and  the 
hope  of  the  liquor  traffic  was  that  it  might  be  used 
as  a  shield  for  the  whisky  syndicate  of  the  Republic. 
This  decision  also  says: 

"The  entire  scheme  of  prohibition,  as  embodied  in 
the  constitution  and  laws  of  Kansas,  might  fail  if 
the  right  of  each  citizen  to  manufacture  intoxicating 
liquors  for  his  own  use  as  a  beverage  were  recog- 
nized. Such  a  right  does  not  inhere  in  citizenship, 
nor  can  it  be  said  that  government  interferes  with 
nor  impairs  any  one's  constitutional  rights  of  liberty 
or  of  property,  when  it  determines  that  the  manufac- 
ture and  sale  of  intoxicating  drinks  for  general  or 
individual  use  as  a  beverage  are,  or  may  become, 
hurtful  to  society,  and  constitute,  therefore,  a  busi- 
ness in  which  no  one  may  lawfully  engage ....  This 
conclusion  is  unavoidable,  unless  the  fourteenth 
amendment  of  the  Constitution  takes  from  the  States 
of  the  Union  those  powers  of  police  that  were  re- 
served at  the  time  the  original  Constitution  was 
adopted.  But  this  court  has  declared,  upon  full 
consideration,  that  the  fourteenth  amendment  had 
no  such  effect." 

Let  us  praise  Almighty  Providence  for  a  decision 
as  beneficial  in  the  conflict  with  the  saloon  as  the 
Dred  Scott  decision  was  injurious  in  the  conflict 
with  slavery.     [A.pplause.] 

What  is  likely  to  be  the  effect  of  this  decision  in 
the  future  of  the  temperance  reform? 

1.  The  decision  immensel}  discourages  the  liquor 
traffic  by  hanging  over  it  the  Damocles  sword  of 
possible  and  lawful  confiscation. 

2.  It  immensely  encourages  both  statutory  and 
constitutional  prohibition. 

3.  It  does  this  for  both  State  and  nation. 

4.  It  greatly  facilitates  the  execution  of  prohib- 
itory laws,  and  makes  it  wholly  the  fault  of  the  peo- 
ple if  prohibition  does  not  prohibit. 

5.  It  is  a  decision  for  the  whole  country. 


ROTAL  PRINGBB  AND  TEBIR  PIPB8. 


One  of  the  greatest  deprivations,  says  the  London 
Ke/'eree,  which  the  Crown  Prince  has  bad  to  endure 
is  the  loss  of  his  pipe.  "Unser  Fritz"  was  always  a 
great  smoker,  and  he  dearly  loved  to  blow  a  cloud 
from  a  big  bowled  wooden  pipe,  which  the  Princess 
Royal  carried  for  him  with  her  own  fair  hands.    The 


Crown  Princess — unlike   Mrs.  Carlyle — has   always 
encouraged  her  husband  to  smoke  at  home. 

Of  late  the  poor  Prince  has  had  his  pipe  taken  out 
of  his  mouth.  His  ailment  has  literally  put  bis  pipe 
out.  Not  only  must  he  not  smoke  himself,  but  he 
cannot  breathe  the  air  that  is  impregnated  with  to- 
bacco, and  so  his  sons,  when  they  come  to  see  him, 
have  to  Bmr>ke  out  of  doors.  It  is  due  to  this  fact 
that  San  Remo  at  one  time  mustered  among  its  at- 
tractions a  royal  Prince  with  a  brier-root  pipe  per- 
petually in  his  mouth.  Prince  Henry,  the  Crown 
Prince's  second  son,  smokes  bis  pipe  in  the  English 
fashion,  and  smokes  it  morning,  noon,  and  night. 
You  could  meet  him  when  be  was  at  San  Remo 
strolling  about  after  breakfast  with  a  well  colored 
English  short  clay  or  cutty.  In  the  afternoon  he 
made  just  this  sacrifice  to  fashion — be  changed  the 
clay  for  a  brier-root. 

The  gigantic  whisky  monopoly  will  strenuously 
resist  the  reduction  of  the  whisky  tax  by  Congress. 
They  do  not  deny  having  an  enormous  lobby  and 
bribery  system,  but  rather  boast  of  their  power. 
The  railway  bribery  kings  will  very  probably  pool 
issues  with  the  whisky  ring  in  this  and  all  other 
matters  during  the  coming  campaign. 

A  petition  signed  by  1,132,608  women  and  girls 
has  been  presented  to  Queen  Victoria  asking  that 
all  saloons  in  England  be  closed  on  Sunday.  The 
leading  reason  for  presenting  this  petition  is  that  it 
has  been  statistically  proved  that  the  majority  and 
the  greatest  of  crimes  are  committed  on  Sunday. 

Eli  Perkins  writes  to  the  N.  Y.  American  Banker 
that  "the  hundreds  of  little  railroads  in  Kansas  are 
being  built  by  individuals  who  possess  capital.  The 
boom  is  wonderful  and  due  to  prohibition.  Kansas 
used  to  send  out  $22,000,000  for  beer  and  whisky 
but  now  saves  $18,000,000  of  that  for  new  business 
enterprises  and  improvements."  It  is  a  wonder 
that  grogshop  States  can  get  along  at  all:  only  the 
temperate  people  render  it  possible. 

A  loyal  white-ribboner,  now  sojourning  in  Paris 
writes  of  the  quiet  temperance  work  being  done  in 
that  city  of  magnificence.  Pastor  Rocbat,  of  Ge- 
neva, has  been  holding  a  series  of  temperance  meet- 
ings, which  were  largely  attended  and  far-reaching 
for  good.  At  a  drawing-room  meeting  the  need  of 
a  temperance  coffee  hous6  was  discussed.  A  Qua- 
ker gentleman  of  York,  England,  who  was  present, 
offered  to  contribute  toward  the  founding  of 
this  enterprise  if  sufficient  evidence  is  given  that 
the  temperance  people  of  Paris  desire  such  an  es- 
tablishment. 

Senator  Brown,  of  Georgia,  has  another  ally  in 
his  movement  for  the  abolition  of  the  internal  rev- 
enue taxes.  After  some  debate  the  petition  said  to 
represent  the  views  of  200,000  women  who  are 
members  of  the  Woman's  Christian  Temperance 
Union  of  the  country  has  been  lodged  in  the  Senate, 
praying  for  the  repeal  of  the  internal  revenue  laws. 
The  theory  upon  which  this  petition  is  based  is  that 
througl>  these  laws  the  United  States  Government 
now  sanctions  traffic  in  alcoholic  drinks,  and  thus 
legalizes  the  inciting  cause  of  intemperance,  and 
that  without  such  a  National  license  the  cause  of 
temperance  would  be  promoted  in  that  some  States 
at  least  would  have  the  ix)wer  to  absolutely  prohibit 
the  sale  of  intoxicants.  These  petitioners  claim 
that  the  most  serious  obstacle  which  the  Prohibi- 
tionists meet  now  in  the  so-called  Prohibitionist 
States  arises  from  the  fact  that  the  United  States 
licenses  the  sale  of  liquors,  and  that  by  means  of 
these  licenpes  the  Prohibition  laws  of  these  States 
are  often  effectively  defeated. 

Mr.  Moody,  in  one  of  his  addresses  in  which  he 
was  speaking  of  the  appetite  for  rum,  said:  "I 
heard,  in  a  little  meeting  after  the  prayer  meeting, 
yesterday,  a  man  who  said  that  be  had  been  a  con- 
firmed drunkard  for  thirty  years,  but  he  came  here 
a  week  ago  to-day,  and  the  God  of  heaven  took 
away  his  appetite  for  strong  drink,  and  his  face 
shone  with  joy  as  he  told  what  God  had  done  for 
him,  soul  and  body.  Now  tba*:,  I  think,  is  super- 
natural. I  should  like  to  have  any  one  explain  how 
such  a  thing  can  be  done  by  natural  causes. 

"I  know  there  are  a  great  many  who  doubt  these 
witnesses,  and  if  a  man  had  told  me  five  years  ago 
that  a  man  could  be  a  drunkard  for  twenty  or  forty 
years,  and  then  have  his  appetite  for  liquor  sud- 
denly taken  away,  1  should  not  have  believed  him. 
I  have  always  believed  that  God  could  save  i 
drunkard,  but  I  supposed  that  he  would  have  to 
carry  that  appetite  down  to  the  grave,  fighting 
against  it  all  the  time.  But  I  find  that  God  is  abls 
to  destroy  the  works  of  the  devil  thoroughly,  and 
this  appetite  is  surely  one  of  the  works  of  the 
devil." 


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THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


March  15, 1888 


REIIGIOTIS  NEWS. 


A  very  gracious  and  powerful  revival  has  come 

upon  the  Congregational  church  of  Dundee,  111.,  of 
which  Rev.  W.  L.  Ferris  is  pastor.  Bro.  Ferris  has 
been  aiding  in  revival  work  also  in  a  country  neigh- 
borhood near  by.  He  has  lately,  thank  God,  been 
constrained  by  the  Spirit  to  testify  plainly  against 
the  secret  orders. 

— At  Charleston,  III,  there  has  been  a  great  in- 
gathering of  souls,  over  100  converted.  Bro.  M.  L. 
Haney,  the  evangelist,  has  been  assisting  for  some 
two  weeks,  and  writes  cheeringly  to  the  Banner  of 
Holiness  of  the  gracious  power  of  the  Spirit  upon 
many  souls. 

— Word  from  Fall  River,  Mass.,  to  the  Christian 
Worker  of  this  city,  Feb.  13,  says:  "The  revival 
here  is  wonderful.  It  is  estimated  there  were  400 
conversions  yesterday,  as  men  count.  The  men's 
meeting  last  night  numbered  over  2,000;the  women's 
1,500.  The  meeting  to-night  in  the  Central  Congre- 
gational church  was  one  of  great  power. 

— From  the  reports  of  revivals  in  the  Guide  to 
Holiness  the  following  estimates  of  conversions  show 
that  the  Lord  has  been  merciful  to  many:  Iroquois, 
111.,  3  75;  Peru,  Kans.,  175;  West  Beatrice,  Nebr.,80; 
Hood,  Ark.,  85;  Lamed,  Kans.,  260;  San  Jose,  Cal, 
100;  LaPorte,  Ind ,  141;  Porte  City,  Iowa,  102; 
Buchtel,  0  ,  245;  Portland,  Me.,  100;  Paterson,  N.  J., 
40;  Fowlerville,  Mich.,  30  to  40;  Jane  Street  church, 
New  York,  135. 

— Clinton  B.  Fisk,  the  prohibitionist  leader, 
while  with  a  committee  looking  at  "Tammany  Hall" 
with  a  view  of  selecting  it  for  the  meeting  of  the 
Methodist  Episcopal  General  Conference,  when  he 
objected  to  the  price,  was  told  by  the  proprietor, 
"Why,  you  can  make  almost  enough  out  of  the  bar 
to  pay  the  rent." 

— D.  L.  Moody  said  to  a  large  audience  at  Louis- 
ville, that  a  man  came  to  him  for  aid  in  a  worthy 
charity,  that  this  solicitor  had  heard  that  he  was 
getting  $100  a  night.  Moody  told  him  that  if  he  got 
$100  a  night  he  would  give  $1,000  to  his  charity. 
He  tben  said  to  the  audience,  "You  needn't  pay  me 
a  penny  is  you  don't  want  to.  If  you  can  find  any 
committee,  either  in  Europe  or  America,  that  ever 
got  my  services  by  offering  me  money,  I  will  give 
$10,00  to  you.  God  delivered  me  from  the  love  of 
money  when  he  took  me  from  my  business.  I  have 
my  failing,  but  thank  God,  it  is  not  the  love  of 
money.  We  want  you,  not  your  money.  We  want 
your  souls." 

— The  Lutheran  missionaries  from  Hermanns- 
burg,  Pastor  Harm's  old  church,  in  1887  baptized 
1,483  heathen  at  the  different  stations  among  Zulu 
and  Bassuto  negroes  of  Southern  Africa.  The 
number  of  baptized  members  in  their  churches  is 
now  10,800.  The  services  and  sermons  are  in  the 
languages  of  the  natives,  but  the  tunes  used  are  the 
old  chorals  of  the  Fatherland. 

— The  first  Congo  church  in  the  Congo  Free  State 
was  organized  in  November  of  last  year,  and  there 
are  now  1,062  converts  in  the  Congo  Mission. 

— Ceylon  is  sending  forth  missionaries  from 
among  her  own  people.  Two  young  natives,  one  of 
them  a  Buddhist  convert,  have  left  the  island  to 
join  the  new  Wesleyan  Mission  in  Upper  Burmah. 

— The  Queen  of  Madagascar  recently  attended 
the  opening  services  of  two  Christian  churches  at 
Ambokimanaga.  In  fourteen  years  700  Protest- 
ant chapels  have  been  built  in  Madagascar,  making 
the  number  now  1,200.  There  are  8,000  Protestant 
communicants,  and  all  the  churches  are  self-support- 
ing. 

— The  following  statement  will  show  the  extent 
of  the  Swedish  mission  field,  in  which  the  various 
mission  associations  are  laboring:  The  Fatherland 
government  mission,  established  in  1865,  has  the 
following  stations  among  the  Abyssinians  and 
Gallas:  McKuUa,  near  Massana,  Arkiko,  and 
Djuinua,  employed  eight  Swedish  missionaries  and 
ten  native  assistants.  In  the  central  provinces  of 
Indi*,  the  society  has  the  following  stations:  Nar- 
singpur,  Sagar,  Belul,  Tjindavara,  Tjittaljeri,  Nim- 
pani,  where  ten  Swedish  missionaries  and  eight  na- 
tive assistants  are  employed. 

— Rev.  J.  L.  S^^ewart,  of  the  Southern  Presbyte- 
rian Mission  in  China,  in  a  review  of  the  progress  of 
the  Gospel  in  China,  gives  these  special  points  of 
encouragement:  "Books  for  the  study  of  the  Eng- 
lish language  and  on  the  Western  science,  written 
in  Chinese,  meet  with  an  extensive  and  increasing 
demand.  A  dozen  daily  newspapers,  all  founded 
within  fifteen  years,  are  obtaining  a  wide  circulation 
throughout  the  empire.  These  are  spontaneous  ap- 
peals on  the  part  of  the  heathen  Chinese  for  more 


light.  Add  to  this  the  voluntary  attendance  on  the 
hundreds  of  schools  and  chapels,  wherever  opened 
in  the  empire;  their  respectful  attention  to  the 
preaching  of  the  Word,  to  the  quiet  talks  by  the  road- 
side, in  their  places  of  business,  and  in  their  homes, 
and  it  sums  up  a  mass  of  evidence  that  the  Chinese 
mind  is  in  an  attitude  of  attention  and  inquiry." 

— Probably  one  of  the  oldest  Christian  church 
buildings  in  the  world  is  the  Bangund  church  in 
Norway,  the  age  of  which  is  800  years.  The  pa- 
goda-like structure  is  covered  with  shingles  and  an 
inch  or  two  of  tar.  Runic  inscriptions,  interesting 
to  scholars,  are  on  the  building. 

— It  is  reported  that  one-third  the  churches  in 
Maine  are  cjosedon  account  of  lack  of  support,  and 
one-half  the  people  of  the  State  are  non-church-go- 
ers. The  returns  from  the  canvass  show  that  out 
of  1,362  churches  in  the  State,  417  are  vacant.  Out 
of  the  vast  collection  of  excuses  it  is  found  that 
spite  and  personal  differences  are  the  foundation  for 
much  of  the  absenteeism.  The  following  figures 
show  how  the  different  denominations  are  affected: 
Union  churches,  15  with  pastors  and  17  vacancies; 
Congregational  churches,  156  with  pastors  and  76 
vacancies;  Baptist,  121  with  pastors  and  98  vacan- 
cies; Free  Baptist,  159  with  pastors  and  81  va- 
cancies; Methodist,  270  with  pastors  and  38  va- 
cancies; Universalist,  35  churches  with  pastors  and 
56  vacant  pulpits;  Quaker,  8  churches  open  and  4 
closed;  "Christian,"  43  churches  open  and  12 
closed;  Episcopalian,  29  churches  open  and  8 
closed;  Catholic,  48  churches  open  and  8 
closed;  Advent,  15  churches  open  and  16  closed; 
Unitarian,  15  churches  open  and  3  closed.  Besides 
these  there  are  one  Luutheran,  one  Free  church,  one 
Christ's  Faith  church,  two  Jewish  synagogues,  two 
Christ's  Disciples,  three  Presbyterian,  one  New  Je- 
rusalem church,  and  two  Shaker  churches  open. 

— Eighty-six  years  ago  the  honorable  directors  of 
the  East  India  company  placed  on  solemn  record: 
"The  sending  of  Christian  missionaries  into  our 
Eastern  possessions  is  the  maddest,  most  expensive, 
most  unwarrantable  project  that  was  ever  proposed 
by  a  lunatic  enthusiast."  A  few  months  since  Sir 
Rivers  Thompson,  Lieutenant-Governor  of  Bengal, 
said:  "In  my  judgment.  Christian  missionaries 
have  done  more  real  and  lasting  good  to  the  people 
of  India  than  all  other  agencies  combined."  So 
great  is  the  difference  between  the  fears  of  prejudice 
and  the  facts  of  God's  hand. 

— A  remarkable  change,  it  is  said,  has  come  over 
Campanha,  one  of  the  largest  cit'^s  of  the  province 
of  Minas-Geraes,  in  Brazil,  11  the  past  fourteen 
years.  It  used  to  be  noted  for  its  strenuous  profes- 
sion of  Catholicism,  the  religion  of  the  State.  A 
Protestant  missionary,  who  merely  sought  to  pass 
through  the  city,  without  attempting  to  hold  any 
service,  was  beset  by  a  mob  and  stoned  and  left  for 
dead.  Now  there  is  a  vigorous  Protestant  church  in 
Campanha,  and  the  people  have  broken  away  from 
Catholicism  in  large  numbers,  and  those,  too,  of  the 
higher  classes. 

— The  chief  supporter  of  the  Chinese  Mission  in 
Corea  is  Ah  Hok,  a  wealthy  and  generous  China- 
man, who  a  few  years  ago  gave  $10,000  to  the 
Anglo-Chinese  College  at  Foochow,  and  more  re- 
cently $1,000  to  a  church  at  Hongkong.  He  gave 
$1,000  to  the  Corean  mission,  and  himself  accom- 
panied the  two  Chinese  missionaries  who  went  out. 


LITERATURE. 


Ctclopbdia  of  Universal  Literature,  presenting  Blograph 
leal  and  Critical  Notices,  and  specimeng  from  the  writings  of 
eminent  authors  of  all  ages  and  all  nations.  Vol.  YIII.  Pp. 
,480.    Price,  SO  cents.    John  B.  Alden,  New  York. 

The  continuation  of  this  library  of  reference  in 
literature  extends  from  Ferreira  to  Gayarre,  and  in- 
cludes notices  of  such  notable  names  as  Ferreira, 
the  Portuguese  poet;  Henry  M.  Field,  American  jour- 
nalist and  author;  James  T.  Fields,  American  pub- 
lisher and  author;  Geo.  P.  Fisher  and  Wilbur  Fisk, 
American  theological  writers;  John  Fiske,  Ameri- 
can scientist;  Flammarion,  French  author  of  "The 
Wonders  of  the  Heavens;"  Mary  Halleck  Foote, 
American  artist  and  author;  John  Forster,  English 
biographer;  Charles  James  Fox,  English  statesman; 
George  Foxe,  of  "The  Book  of  Martyrs"  fame; 
Sir  Philip  Francis  (the  famous  Junius);  Benjamin 
Franklin,  American  statesman,  philosopher  and  phi- 
lanthropist; E.  A.  Freeman,  and  J.  A.  Froude,  the 
English  historians;  John  C.  Fremont,  our  "Path- 
finder" for  the  millions  across  the  continent  and  for 
the  Republican  party  in  1856;  Wm.  Lloyd  Garri- 
son, the  Abolitionist  editor,  etc.,  etc.  We  have 
been  accustomed  to  regard  Franklin  not  so  much  a 
literary  man  as  a  statesman  and  philosopher,  but 
twenty  pages  are  given  to  his  writings,  which  proves 


the  generous  disposition  of  the  compiler  of  this  val- 
uable work  of  reference. 

Among  the  cheaper  editions  issued  by  Mr.  Alden 
are  George  MacDonald's  Home  Again  (6  cents)  and 
the  Chronicles  of  the  Schonherg- Cotta  Family  by 
Elizabeth  Charles.  This  latter  volume  is  one  of  the 
most  remarkable  works  of  modern  fiction,  if 
indeed  it  can  be  called  a  work  of  fiction,  for 
"Uncle  Tom's  Cabin"  and  Miss  Flagg's  popular 
volumes,  "Between  Two  Opinions,"  and  "Holden 
with  Cords,"  are  no  less  so.  It  is  a  charming,  a 
wonderful  book,  sketching  the  great  Reformation  of 
the  Sixteenth  Century  from  the  outlook  of  humble 
homes,  and  the  cells  of  monks  and  cloisters  of  nuns, 
where  its  light  penetrating  brought  life  to  souls 
near  dead  with  their  burdens  of  superstition  and 
will-worship  and  falsehoods  palmed  off  for  religion. 
This  edition  is  marred  by  very  careless  proof-read- 
ing, but  as  the  price  is  only  15  cents  it  should  be 
read  by  the  millions  as  an  antidote  for  the  aggres- 
sions of  Romanism. 

Mrs.  Caudle's  Curtain  Lectures.  By  Douglas  Jerrold.  Pp. 
132.    New  York.    John  B.  Alden. 

It  was  in  1841,  when  on  the  staff  of  Punch,  the 
comic  paper  of  London,  that  Douglas  Jerrold  con- 
tributed to  its  columns  the  famous  Caudle  Lectures. 
It  is  said  of  Jerrold's  wit,  that  like  a  flint,  every 
stroke  brought  fire  from  him,  and  from  this  volume 
we  are  very  ready  to  believe  that  his  reputation  as  a 
social  wit  was  much  greater  than  as  a  writer.  It  is 
but  a  compilation  of  humor  of  this  class  most  droll 
and  captivating.  It  has  almost  become  an  English 
classic,  and  as  an  aid  to  mental  relaxation  can 
hardly  be  excelled. 

Dr.  Pentecost  announces  in  March  Words  and  Weapons 
that  Rev.  B.  Fay  Mills,  whose  labors  as  an  evangelist 
have  been  greatly  blessed,  will  be  associated  with  hioi 
in  the  editorial  management  of  the  magazine.  It  is  the 
purpose  to  make  the  magazine  the  most  unique  and  dis- 
tinctive organ  of  evangelistic  and  all  aggressive  Christian 
work  in  this  country.  The  magazine  will  be  enlarged 
and  divided  into  departments,  in  which  original  and 
helpful  editorials  and  contributed  articles  will  appear, 
bearing  on  the  work  of  pastors,  evangelists,  and  Chris- 
tian lay  workers;  fresh  and  living  illustrations  of  life  and 
truth,  gathered  from  the  field  of  conflict,  will  be  supplied; 
and  carefully  digested  reports  of  the  aggressive  Christian 
work  going  forward  throughout  the  country  will  be  given 
each  month.  Dr.  Pentecost's  sermon  on  "Unconditional 
Surrender,"  Dr.  Pierson's  sketch  of  Astley  Cooper,  the 
late  Earl  of  Shaftesbury,  and  a  tabulated  view  of  the 
Scripture  teaching  on  the  judgment,  are  portions  of  this 
number  deserving  of  special  mention.  This  excellent 
monthly  ought  to  have  a  place  on  the  table  of  every  pas- 
tor, church  officer,  and  Sabbath-school  teacher.  New 
York.     $1  50  per  year. 

The  English  Illustrated  Maaazine  is  most  thoroughly 
British,  but  has  for  that  reason  an  added  attraction.  The 
speculative  and  conjectural  has  little  place,  and  we  may 
see  with  wonderful  distinctness  the  habits  and  appear- 
ances of  our  ancestors,  and  mark  their  struggles  that  hava 
given  us  liberty.  The  number  opens  with  a  quaint  por- 
trait of  Queen  Elizabeth,  copied  from  an  original  pre- 
sented by  the  Queen  to  Sir  Henry  Sidney.  Penshurst, 
the  home  of  the  Sidneys,  gives  a  title  to  the  first  article. 
"The  English  Art"  is  a  brief  history  illustrated  with  fine 
specimens  of  drawings  and  water  colors.  "Coaching 
Days  and  Coaching  Ways"  is  continued  and  must  be  quite 
popular  with  old  English  readers.  Prof.  Minto's  story 
shows  how  the  Wat  Tyler  rebellion  in  the  time  of  Rich- 
ard II.  was  organized  by  a  kind  of  secret  society  process. 

Frost,  insects  and  birds  are  the  worst  foes  of  both  the 
practical  and  amateur  gardener.  So  Mr  Charles  Barnard 
— florist,  economist  and  one  of  the  editors  of  the  Genturj 
magazine — has  invented  a  very  practical  and  exceeding 
simple  arrangement  for  the  protection  of  plants,  which 
can  be  made  for  about  fifteen  cents.  In  a  recent  test  in 
February,  the  temperature  beneath  it  was  65  deg.  when 
the  thermometer  stood  at  32  deg.  outside.  This  inven- 
tion is  not  patented,  but  has  been  purchased  by  the 
American  Garden  of  751  Broadway,  New  York,  who 
will  present  it  gratis  to  the  gardening  public  of  America. 
This  greatest  of  gardening  magazines  is  only  $1  per  year. 

The  frontispiece  of  St.  JMc/iolas  for  March  is  an  ex- 
quisite engraving  of  "Babie  Stuart,"  by  T.  Johnson,  from 
Van  Djck's  well  known  painting.  The  first  article,  "An 
Ancient  Haunt  of  Pirates,"  contains  an  interesting  de- 
scription of  a  journey  through  the  little  known  region 
where  the  celebrated  Laflttes,  Pierre  and  Jean,  carried  on 
their  privateering.  The  trip  was  taken  by  Eugene  V. 
Smalley,  and  the  artist,  E  W.  Kemble,  and  the  latter  has 
made  many  characteristic  drawingd  illustrating  his  com- 
panion's account  of  the  trip.  Ernest  E.  Thompson  has 
contributed  a  novel  and  attractive  paper  showing  what 
a  naturalist  may  read  from  "Tracks  in  the  Snow,"  and 
the  tracks  are  reproduced  so  that  the  readers  may  draw 
conclusions  for  themselves.  Julian  Ralph,  in  "A  Pig 
that  Nearly  Caused  a  War,"  makes  an  authentic  and 
amusing  addition  to  the  history  of  the  difficulty  with 
Great  Britain  concerning  San  Juan  Island.  And  there 
are  scores  more  of  bright  pages  for  young  readers. 

Diphtheria  is  now  such  a  common  disease  that  it  is  of 
the  utmost  importance  for  every  mother  to  have  some 
idea  of  its  symptoms  and  character.  An  article  in  the 
March  number  of  Babyhood  supplies  all  the  information 
which  it  is  possible  to  give  in  a  popular  form  concerning 
that  scourge  of  the  nursery.    The  article  is  by  Dr .  Chapin, 


Maboh  15, 1888 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


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Professor  of  Diseases  of  Children  at  the 
W'oman's  Medical  College,  of  New  York, 
and  is  thoroughly  practical.  It  gives 
plain  directions  for  the  examination  of 
the  throat,  which  it  is  insisted  should  be 
made  in  every  case  of  illness  in  children. 
A  number  of  illustrations  help  to  make 
clear  the  difference  between  simple  ton- 
silitis  and  diphtheria,  and  the  changes  in 
the  appearance  of  the  tonsils  in  both  dis- 
eases. The  March  number  is  for  sale  by 
newsdealers  everywhere  at  15  cents. 

The  Prairie  Farmtr  of  this  city  with 
its  well-known  enterprise  has  just  issued 
a  number  on  Farm  Renting.  Of  the  five 
million  farms  in  the  United  States,  at 
least  1,-300,000  (or  over  25  per  cent)  are 
occupied  by  Lessees.  Then  there  are, 
besides,  at  least  a  million  owners  of  the 
rented  farms.  These  two  classes  and 
their  families  are  dependent  upon,  or  at 
least  interested  in,  the  proper  renting  of 
the  farms — in  all,  probably  over  ten  mill 
ion  persons. 

Of  all  the  seed  catalogues  Peter  Hen 
derson  has  the  finest.  No  expense  seems 
to  have  been  spared  for  colored  chromos, 
and  his  patrons  know  he  has  been  one  of 
the  first  of  the  list  of  seedsmen.  "Every- 
thing for  the  Garden"  is  an  inspiration 
for  everyone  who  has  a  patch  of  land  ; 
and  the  cost  (25  cents)  is  but  a  trifle  to 
a  good  garden.  This  price  for  the  cata- 
logue is  deducted  from  the  first  order  for 
seeds, 

Vick's  Magazine  calls  upon  its  readers 
to  be  ready  for  spriog  work  in  garden, 
vineyard  and  greenhouse.  "The  Meeting 
of  Horticulturists,"  "Improvement  of 
Home  Grounds"  and  floral  articles  will  be 
read  with  profit. 


Lodge  Notes. 

Fred.  Grant,  CaL,  has  jained  the  Sons 
of  Veterans. 

The  National  Association  of  Bakers,  in 
session  at  St.  Louis,  have  approved  the 
action  of  the  Chicago  Union,  No.  49,  in 
its  fight  against  the  anarchist  members; 
but  also  adopted  a  resolution  denouncing 
the  hanging  of  Spies  et  al  as  a  judicial 
murder. 

It  is  reported  that  the  early  dissolution 
of  the  Chicago  Trades  and  Labor  Assem- 
bly is  foreshadowed  owing  to  the  ultra- 
socialistic  element.  The  unions  repre 
senting  the  sailors  and  bricklayers  have 
withdrawn.  It  is  still  supported  by  the 
Knights  of  Labor. 

The  officers  of  the  various  Masonic 
bodies  of  Chicago  will  meet  in  the  hall  of 
Apollo  Commandery,  78  Monroe  Street, 
Monday  evening,  March  19,  to  organize 
a  Masonic  Board  of  Relief  for  the  city. 
So  the  lodges,  it  seems,  are  not  managing 
their  charitable  enterprises  so  wisely  as 
they  boBst. 

Grand  Master  J.  C.  Smith,  of  the  Ma- 
sonic fraternity  of  Illinois,  opened  one  of 
a  series  of  schools  of  instruction  in  Ma- 
sonry lately  in  Rock  Island.  The  school 
continued  for  three  days,  the  afternoons 
being  devoted  to  instruction  and  the 
evenings  to  work.  A  large  number  of 
visiting  Masons  attended. 

The  Scotch  Rite  Masons  in  this  city 
had  their  last  dance  of  the  season  last 
Thursday  evening  in  Battery  D  armory. 
This  select  crowd  of  32  degree  Masons, 
"Sublime  Princes  of  the  Royal  Secret," 
found  the  excitement  of  the  dance  some- 
what tame  and  added  a  litile  gambling 
by  means  of  progressive  eucbre. 

At  a  special  meeting  of  Assembly  No. 
9,852,  Knights  of  Labor,  of  Mahoney 
Plane,  Pa ,  it  was  unanimously  voted 
that  the  late  strike  on  the  Reading  road 
was  a  hasty  and  impetuous  m  stake.  The 
executive  committee  was  condemned  for 
not  declaring  the  strike  off.  and  it  was 
agreed  to  withdraw  from  the  Knights  of 
Labor. 

Of  all  the  candidates  for  Governor  rep- 
resenting the  Republi^.an  party,  writes  a 
correspondent  of  the  Inter  Ocean,  every 
one  is  an  active  Grand  Army  man — 
Smith,  McNulta,  Connelly,  Rinaker, 
Fifer,  Wright.  But  Smiih  has  the  lead 
in  Masonry  and  Odd-fellowship.  He  is 
now  Grand  Master,  and  has  been  living 
on  lodgery  for  years. 

Out  in  Kansas  they  have  a  new  order 
with  a  broad,  breezy  nam-«  suited  to  the 
climate  and  landscape  of  the  prairies— 
the  Grand  Brothers.  There  is  only  one 
lodge  ia  the  State  and  none  in  any  other 
States  and  Ness  City  has  all  the  glory  of 
it.  It  is  an  order  for  mutual  assistance 
and  the  elevation  of  society — like  all  the 


rest.  It  elevates  society  by  grand  street 
parades  and  masked  balls.  Soon  the 
people  will  learn  the  sequence  of  such 
affairs. 

At  Marshalltown,  lo^a,  where  a  memo- 
rable State  Anti-Masonic  Convention 
was  once  held,  the  Masonic  side  show 
called  "Nobles  of  the  Mystic  Shrine,"  of 
Cedar  Rapids,  Iowa,  met  at  the  Masonic 
Club  to  confer  the  degrees  upon  eighty 
candidates  from  Templar  and  thirty- 
second  degree  Masons  throughout  Central 
Iowa.     A  great  banquet  closed  the  affair. 

Bill  Walker,  the  chief  of  the  Bald  Knob 
gang,  was  found  gailty  of  murder  in  the 
first  degree  in  the  Taney  County  Court, 
Springfield,  Mo.,  Friday,  and  sentenced 
to  be  hanged.  The  jury  was  out  just 
thirty  minutes  The  crime  for  which  he 
was  found  guilty  was  the  murder  over  a 
year  ago  of  George  Green  and  William 
Evens,  two  prominent  farmers  of  Taney 
County.  These  men  had  in  some  way 
given  offense  to  the  Bald  Knobbers,  and 
Walker  led  an  assault  on  their  houses. 
Each  was  dragged  from  his  bed  and  mur 
dered  before  his  family.  The  crime  was 
one  of  the  most  bloodthirsty  that  ever 
disgraced  the  Southwest. 

Jacob  Burg  has  sued  Garden  City 
Lodge,  No  389,  I.  O  O.  F.  of  Chicago  to 
compel  it  to  show  cause  why  he  was  ex- 
pelled and  to  secure  money  alleged  to  be 
due  him  on  sick  benefits  Burg  was  ex- 
pelled from  the  lodge  because  he  had  in- 
sulted a  lodge  brother  and  neglected  to 
appear  in  person  for  examination.  But 
he  says  his  expulsion  was  the  result  of 
spite  work.  He  kept  a  boarding  house 
and  used  about  $10  worth  of  groceries 
everyday.  He  bought  these  goods  for  a 
long  time  of  Gustave  Leders  and  Henry 
Amberg,  who  were  each  lodge  brothers. 
He  was  not  satisfied  with  the  goods  they 
gave  him  and  the  prices  they  charged  aiid 
quit  trading  with  them.  They  complained 
that  he  was  not  showing  the  proper 
brotherly  feeling  toward  them,  and  he 
told  them  he  would  trade  where  he 
pleased,  Odd  fellowship  or  no  Odd  fellow- 
ship In  this  retort  consisted  the  insult, 
according  to  Burg.  Leders  was  the  high- 
est officer  in  B  urg's  lodge  and  Amberg  a 
prominent  member,  and  they  together 
secured  his  explusion.  The  attorney  for 
Garden  City  Lodge  said  Burg  could  se- 
cure satisfaction  before  the  Grand  Lodge, 
and  wished  him  to  trust  to  the  tender 
mercies  of  the  order. 

Charles  Ray,  Robert  Duke,  and  Colum- 
bus Andrews,  three  of  the  negro  Bald 
Knobbers  who  overpowered  Albert  Adair 
and  L  J  Ki  n  worthy  a  fe«r  nights  since, 
took  them  from  their  home,  five  miles 
southeast  of  Springfield,  Mo  ,  ind  bru- 
tally whipped  them  until  they  could 
scarcely  walk,  were  tried  before  Judge 
Evans  here  to  day  and  fined  $50  and 
sentenced  to  from  ten  days  to  six  months 
in  the  county  jail.  The  punishment  is 
considered  very  light  for  the  atrocious- 
ness  of  the  crime.  The  trial  of  Pike 
Thompson,  another  of  the  negro  Bald 
Knobbers,  was  continued.  The  nine 
white  Bald  Knobbers,  indicted  for  mur- 
der in  the -first  degree  for  killing  Charles 
Green  and  William  Elens  in  Christian 
county,  on  the  11th  of  last  March,  have 
been  arraigned  thtf  third  time  in  the  Cir- 
cuit Court  at  Ozark,  which  began  yester- 
day The  men  are:  Bull  Creek  Dave 
Walker,  chief  of  the  Bald  Knobbers;  C. 
A  Simmons,  the  Baptist  preacher;  Wil- 
liam Walker,  John  Matthews,  James 
Matthews,  Wiley  Matthews,  Amos  Jones, 
William  Newton,  and  William  Stanley. 
A  severance  was  granted  the  accused,  the 
Sheriff  ordered  to  summons  a  venire  of 
120  men,  and  the  work  was  begun  to  day 
of  selecting  the  jury  to  try  the  case  of 
William  Walker,  the  7  year  old  son  of 
the  Bald  Knobber  chief,  who  was  shot  in 
the  leg  at  the  time  (jreen  and  Bdens  were 
murdered. 

CONSUMPTION  8UKULT  OURKD. 

To  the  Editor:— Please  inform  your 
readers  that  I  have  a  positive  remedy  for 
the  above  named  disease.  By  its  timely 
use  thousands  of  hopeless  cases  have  been 
permanently  cured.  I  shall  be  glad  to 
send  two  bottles  of  my  remedy  fkkk  to 
any  of  your  readers  who  have  consump- 
tion if  they  will  send  me  their  Exoress 
and  P  O.  address.  Respectfully,  T  A 
Slocum.  M.  C  .  181  Pearl  St..  New  York. 

Uxl\±j   lOU  JbAAMliMLh 

Tlie  lint  of  Books  and  Tracts  for  Bnlf  by  tlieN*Tiow- 
AL  Christian  Absooiation.  Look  It  over  carefully 
tod  see  If  there  Is  not  somethlDB  you  want  for  your- 
lelf  or  for  your  friend.  Bandic  tnii  MOaJMrnaM 
Ql  W.  Rasuoa  Btxkr.  Omu* 


NB  W8  (  Cofliinued  from  IGth  page) . 

He  was  injured  inwardly  and  hacked,  cut, 
and  bruised  all  over  the  body.  Chicago 
has  sent  nearly  $25,000  to  the  sufferers. 

FOBBIQH. 

In  the  House  of  Commons  Friday,  a 
motion  against  a  hereditary  House  of 
Lords  was  negatived  by  a  vote  of  223  to 
163  The  motion  was  supported  by  Sir 
William  Vernon  Harcourt,  Mr  Morley, 
Mr.  Childers,  Sir  George  Treveloan,  and 
the  Gladstonians  generally,  as  well  as  the 
Parnellites. 

By  the  foundering  of  a  ship  from  Aus- 
tralia, loaded  with  wool,  on  the  south 
coast  of  England,  twelve  lives  were  lost. 

Forty  persons  are  reported  killed  by  a 
steamer  explosion  at  Cartagena,  South 
America.  The  vessel  was  a  little  excur- 
sion boat,  and  with  a  pleasure  party  had 
gone  up  the  river  Digue.  Nearly  all  of 
the  passengers,  about  forty  people  in  all, 
were  killed.  The  owner  of  the  vessel, 
says  one  report,  is  a  brother  of  the  Presi- 
dent of  the  Republic,  and  doubtless  on 
this  account  the  true  facts  of  the  catas- 
trophe will  never  be  known. 

The  United  States  war  steamer  Eater- 
prise,  armed  with  six  cannon,  has  arrived 
at  Tangiers,  Morocco,  to  demand  the  im- 
mediate release  of  a  native  Moor,  who 
has  become  a  naturalized  citizen  of  the 
United  States,  who  is  confined  in  a  Moor- 
ish prison  in  violation  of  international 
law.  Not  only  is  the  Moor's  release  de- 
manded, but  the  Moorish  Government  is 
required  to  give  due  satisfaction  for  the 
man's  illegal  arrest. 


DONATIONS 


To  Cynosure  Ministers'  Fund: 

Geo    Anderson 3 .  00 

Ann  C.  Clawson .05 

Mary  Cam .10 

Emma  Caldwell 05 

L.  McConnel 10 

Clara  Loveland .50 

L  N.Young 10 

Alice  McDowell 25 

J.  B   Foltz .05 

H  Green 25 

Wm.  Galbreth 10 

Sarah  Carr 25 

J.  C.  Sack 20 

A  lady 40 

E  P.  Townsley 1 .00 

S  Simpson 3.00 

R.  P.  Brorup 1.00 

Increase  Leadbetter 10.00 

D.  Horning 1 .  55 

Sam'l  Bushby  . . : 50 

Mrs.  Lizzie  Hinsdale 1 .  00 

Miss  A.  E.  Hinsdale 1 .00 

J  F.  Ames 5.00 

Before  reported $744.91 

Total $774.36 


SUBSCRIPTION  LBTTSaa. 


The  following  have  made  remittances 
of  money  to  the  Cynosure  from  March  5 
to  March  10  inclusive. 

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THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSTTKE. 


Maboh  15, 1888 


Home  akd  Health. 


ABOUT  WASHING. 

A  housekeeper  writes  to  the  Syracuse 
Journal:  "I  have  recently  learned  of  a 
new  method  of  washing  which  has  so 
simplified  my  own  labor  that  I  am  anx- 
ious to  extend  the  information.  The 
method  is  this:  Soak  the  clothes  over 
night  in  warm  water,  soaping  the  more 
soiled  parts.  In  the  morning  put  over 
the  boiler  halt  full  of  water,  into  which 
put  three  tablespoonfuls  of  kerosene  oil 
and  enough  soap,  shaved  from  the  bar, 
to  make  good  suds.  If  oil  is  seen  on  top 
the  water  add  more  soap.  In  this  water 
put  the  cleanest  clothes  and  stir  briskly 
about,  being  careful  not  to  crowd  the 
boiler,  as  it  is  necessary  to  have  the 
water  percolate  freely  among  the  clothes. 
Aiter  they  have  boiled  about  five  minutes, 
take  out  into  water  as  hot  as  can  be  borne 
by  the  hands.  The  more  soiled  parts  may 
require  slight  rubbing  on  the  board;  pass 
from  this  water  through  two  rinsing  wa- 
ters. It  is  better  that  the  first  should  be 
hot.  As  water  is  added  to  the  boiler,  add 
a  proportionate  amount  of  oil  and  soap. 
The  more  soiled  clothes  will  require  a 
little  longer  boiling.  If  the  work  is 
properly  done  there  will  be  no  oder  left 
from  the  oil.  By  this  method  the  soap 
and  oil  are  made  to  do  the  work  of  the 
hands  and  do  it  satisfactorily,  too.  There 
is  an  element  in  kerosene  which  enables 
it  to  disintegrate  dirt,  and  in  fact  petro- 
leum forms  a  constitutent  part  of  many 
popular  washing  fluids.  I  would  not  ad 
vise  any  to  try  this  without  some  personal 
supervision." 

Washing  Fluid. — One  tablespoonful  of 
■oda  and  one  teacup  of  coal  oil  to  ten 
gallons  of  water. 

Washing  Fluid.  — One  half  a  bar  of 
hard  soap,  one  ounce  each  of  saltpeter 
and  borax  dissolved  in  four  quarts  of 
water;  when  cold  add  five  ounces  of  spir- 
its of  ammonia.     Bottle  and  use  as  soap. 

Washing  Fluid  — Equal  parts  of  tur- 
pentine and  ammonia.     Add  to  water. 

A  teaspoonful  of  turpentine  boiled  with 
your  white  clothes  will  aid  the  whitening 
process. 

Ox  gall  soap  is  an  excellent  article  for 
colored  goods  and  flinnela.  Take  one 
pint  of  gall,  cut  into  it  two  pounds  of  bar 
soap,  and  add  one  quart  of  boiling  water. 
Boil,  and  pour  out  to  cool,  cut  in  squares. 
Add  to  the  suds  used  for  washing.  Ox 
gall  soap  can  also  be  bought  in  small 
cakes  like  toilet  soap. 

To  wash  colored  table  linen  use  tepid 
water  with  a  little  powdered  borax;  wash 
quickly,  using  but  little  soap;  rinse  in 
tepid  water  containing  boiled  starch;  dry 
in  the  shade,  and  when  almost  dry,  iron. 

Black  stockings  should  be  washed  in  a 
cool  lather  of  plain  white  soap,  a  little 
ammonia  and  rain  water. 

To  wash  faded  cambrics  or  calicoes, 
boil  ten  pared  potatoes  in  six  quarts  of 
water  and  strain  it  though  a  hair  sieve, 
then  wash  the  dress  in  it  without  soap, 
the  potato  cleansing  and  stiffening  both 
Or,  a  tablespoonful  of  beef's  gall  to  a 
pail  of  hot  suds  may  be  used.  Mourning 
calicoes  should  be  soaked  in  perfectly 
clear  water  till  no  more  dye  comes  out, 
even  if  two  or  three  days  are  needed. — 
Htlen  Campbell. 

Ammonia  may  be  used  instead  of  soap 
for  goods  liable  to  fade  Black  pepper 
put  in  the  water  in  which  buff,  gray,  or 
black  dresses  are  washed  will  preserve 
the  color. 

OVER-DRESSED  CHILDREN. 

There  is  nothing  so  painful  to  my  mind 
(unless  it  be  the  sight  of  a  caged  wild 
bird)  than  to  witness  the  discomfort  of 
an  over  dressed  child.  I  refer  to  those 
children  who  are  not  to  the  manner  born. 
To  the  little  street  arabs,  who  play  all 
week  untrameled  by  fashion  and  make 
mud  pies  to  their  hearts'  content,  who  on 
Sunday  or  a  holiday  are  decked  out  in 
unaccustomed  finery,  taken  for  a  walk 
or  ride,  on  car  or  boat,  with  their  parents 
What  visible  discontent  and  rebellion  is 
displayed  in  every  one  of  their  childish 
features.  How  impatiently  they  carry 
their  fine  feathers  I  What  a  mutinous 
frown  clouds  the  little  face  when  a  fond 
and  admiring  mother  smooths  the  fine 
plush  coat,  or  re  ties  the  gaudy  sash,  and 
admonishes  it  for  the  fiftieth  time  not  to 
run  for  fear  of  falling,  or  not  to  sit  down 
)est  something  be  crumpled  and  not  to 
lean  backward  or  forward,  on  account  of 
ribbons  or  feathers  I 

When  I  see  a  child  overloaded  with 
finery  that  a  poor,  hard-working  mother 


can  ill  afford,  I  do  not  ascribe  it  so  much 
to  the  mother's  affection  as  to  the  pleas- 
ure she  takes  in  gratifying  her  own  vanity. 

As  for  the  child,  she  is  either  unhappy 
from  the  restraint  imposed  on  her,  or  she 
has  learned  to  take  a  pride  in  her  gay 
clothes,  in  which  case  she  minces,  eyes 
the  passers  by  to  see  what  impression  she 
makes,  and  is  so  foolishly  self  conscious 
that  she  is  a  thousand  times  more  un- 
lovely than  she  would  have  been  in  the 
plainest  garb. 

Habits,  good  and  bad,  are  almost  always 
formed  in  childhood,  and  many  an  unwise 
mother  thus  fosters  in  her  child  a  love  of 
dress  that  in  after  years  may  lead  to  her 
ruin. — M.  E.  B. 


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THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


Maroh  15, 1888 


Npws  OF  The  week. 

WASHINGTON. 

The  new  Chinese  treaty  will  be  signed 
within  a  few  days  by  Secretary  Bayard 
for  the  United  States  and  by  the  Chinese 
Minister  for  the  Flowery  Kingdom.  This 
treaty,  it  is  understood,  contains  very 
rigid  provisions  against  the  importation 
of  Chinese  laborers.  It  will  probably 
meet  with  strong  opposition  from  the  Pa- 
cific Coast  Senators,  mainly  on  the  ground 
of  the  privilege  it  accords  to  the  Chinese 
who  have  accumulated  $1,000  worth  of 
property. 

The  joint  resolution  recently  passed  by 
the  House  accepting  the  invitation  of  the 
French  Republic  to  take  part  in  the  In- 
ternational Exposition,  to  be  held  in 
Paris  in  1889,  was  reported  favorably 
Wednesday  from  the  committee  on  For- 
eign Relations. 

The  House  Committee  on  Commerce, 
has  authorized  a  favorable  report  on  the 
bill  to  provide  a  system  of  postal  tele- 
graphy. The  bill  appropriates  $8,000,- 
000  for  the  purposes  of  the  act,  and  places 
the  general  supervision  of  the  system 
under  a  fourth  assistant  Postmaster  Gen- 
eral. The  rates  of  tarifiE  for  20  word  tele- 
grams are  10  cents  for  500  miles  or  less 
and  20  cents  for  500  to  1,000  miles,  with 
proportionately  increased  rates  for  longer 
distances. 

The  bill  providing  for  the  opening  of 
the  great  Sioux  Reservation  passed  the 
House  Wednesday  without  division  or 
opposition.  There  is  great  rejoicing 
among  tiakota  real  estate  land  sharks. 

Thomas  J.  Potter,  general  manager  of 
the  Union  Pacific  Road,  died  Friday 
morning  at  Washington.  Mr.  Potter  was 
formerly  Vice  President  and  General 
Manager  of  the  Chicago,  Burlington  and 
Quincy  Railroad,  and  for  the  past  two 
years  has  been  Vice  President  and  Gen- 
eral Manager  of  the  Union  Pacific.  He 
was  regarded  as  one  of  the  most  success- 
ful practical  railway  officers  in  this  coun- 
try. Be  grew  up  on  the  C,  B  &  Q.  road 
from  a  lineman. 

Secretary  Fairchild  in  his  report  sub- 
mitted to  Congress  early  in  December, 
estimated  that  the  Treasury  surplus 
would  reach  $140,000,000  by  the  end  cf 
the  present  fiscal  year.  It  is  now  stated 
at  the  Treasury  Department  that  owing 
to  heavy  receipts  during  the  past  few 
months,  the  estimate  then  submitted  will 
prove  to  be  too  small,  and  that  the  sur- 
plus at  the  end  of  June,  1888,  will  prob- 
ably reach  the  sum  of  $155,000,000. 

The  House  Friday  proceeded  to  the 
further  consideration  of  the  omnibus  war 
claim  bill.  The  amendment  agreed  to  in 
committee  of  whole,  after  a  protracted 
debate,  appropriating  $20,000  for  the 
relief  of  the  Protestant  Episc6pal  Theo- 
logical Seminary  and  High  School  of  Vir- 
ginia, was  again  the  subject  of  discus- 
sion, being  earnestly  opposed  by  several 
members.     It  passed  by  a  strong  vote. 

CHICAGO, 

Commissioner  Swift  has  condemned 
the  Washington  Street  tunnel,  and  or- 
dered it  closed  up.  Engineer  Northway 
after  a  careful  inspection  reported  that  it 
was  in  a  shaky  condition  and  it  was  pos- 
itively dangerous  to  use  it  The  tunnel 
was  constructed  in  1867,  and  was  two 
years  ago  given  up  to  the  street  railway. 

The  Inter  Ocean  Rjpid  Transit  Rail- 
road Company,  capital  $7,500,000,  was 
incorporated  at  Springfield,  111.,  Wednes- 
day to  build  elevated  lines  on  the  West 
Side,  Chicago. 

The  town  of  Hyde  Park  is  now  verily 
part  of  the  city  of  Chicago.  The  Slate 
Supreme  Court  has  pronounced  its  decis 
ion,  sustaining  the  legality  of  the  election 
by  which  that  town  merged  itself  with 
the  city.  The  city  of  Chicago  now  ex- 
tends from  the  south  line  of  Lake  View 
southerly  to  the  Indiana  State  line- 
about  twenty-two  miles  long  from  its 
northern  to  southern  limits.  From  east 
to  west  the  city  is  about  five  miles  wide. 

COUNTRY. 

To  better  conserve  the  interests  of 
Americans  engaged  in  mining  and  com- 
merce, it  is  slated  that  General  Bragg, 
the  new  Minister  to  Mexico,  will  endeavor 
to  negotiate  a  aew  treaty  of  friendship, 
commerce,  and  navigation. 

The  Prohibitionist  majority  of  the  At- 
lanta (Qa  )  Board  of  Aldermen  Thursday 
rejected  the  ordinance  for  free  books  in 
the  public  schools  because  the  books  have 


to  be  purchased  with  money  accruing 
from  saloon  licenses.  The  measure  had 
been  passed  by  the  Council. 

A  lively  tilt  in  the  Ohio  legislature  grew 
out  of  the  reconsideration  of  the  Owen 
Sunday  closing  bill.  The  Hamilton 
County  (Cincinnati)  delegation  are  down 
on  the  bill,  and  declared  that  if  it  becomes 
a  law  the  city  of  Cincinnati  will  give 
5,000  Democratic  majority  at  the  next 
election.  The  Sunday  closing  legislation 
does  not  appear  to  be  a  Republican  meas 
ure,  but  is  urged  by  fully  half  of  the 
Democratic  members. 

Efforts  are  being  made  to  have  locomo 
live  engineers,  like  marine  engineers, 
licensed  and  controlled  by  the  govern- 
ment. It  is  said  that  a  bill  has  been  pre 
pared  on  the  subject,  and  will  be  sub- 
mitted to  Congress. 

Claus  Spreckels,  the  sugar  king,  ad- 
vises farmers  to  cultivate  beets,  and  says 
the  manufacture  of  beet  sugar  will  yet 
prove  one  of  the  great  industries  of  the 
country. 

The  new  office  of  the  Evening  Union, 
Springfield.  Mass.,  was  burned  out  about 
4  o'clock  Wednesday  afternoon,  and  the 
blaze  was  attended  with  the  most  sicken- 
ing horror  ever  witnessed  in  this  city,  six 
of  the  employes  meeting  a  terrible  death, 
most  of  them  jumping  from  the  fifth 
story  and  being  crushed  into  a  shapeless 
mass  below  Six  others  were  badly  in- 
jured, one  of  whom  ha3  since  died. 

Miss  Louisa  M.  Alcott,  the  famous  au- 
thor of  "Little  Women"  and  other  stories, 
died  at  her  home  in  Boston  Highlands, 
Tuesday  morning.  Her  father,  A.  Bron- 
son  Alcott,  the  Concord  philosopher,  ex- 
pired on  the  Sabbath  before,  and  as  she 
was  born  on  the  anniversary  of  his  birth- 
day, it  is  deemed  singular  that  she  should 
have  followed  him  so  soon  to  the  grave. 

At  Bradford,  Pa.,  Tuesday  morning,  a 
masked  man,  named  Kimball,  jumped 
over  the  railing  in  the  Bradford  National 
Bank  and  seized  the  money  on  the  desk 
of  the  cashier.  He  shot  the  latter 
through  the  hips,  on  his  attempting  to 
hold  him,  ran  from  the  bank,  and,  after 
being  pursued  some  distance  by  citizens, 
turned  and  shot  a  butcher,  and  then 
killed  himself.  The  other  men  were  both 
fatally  hurt.  Kimball  had  been  drinking 
heavily. 

A  sharp  shock  of  earthquake  was  felt 
at  Los  Angeles,  Cal.,  March  7,  being  the 
severest  for  eighteen  years.  No  damage 
was  done,  but  houses  were  badly  shaken 
and  people  ran  into  the  streets  in  fright. 

At  Omaha,  Friday,  Judge  Dundy,  of 
the  United  States  District  Court,  issued 
an  order  temporarily  enjoining  the  Union 
Pacific  Railroad  Company  and  its  engi- 
neers from  refusing  to  perform  their  du- 
ties under  the  luter  State  Commerce  law, 
which  requires  them  to  receive  freight 
and  passengers  from  connecting  lines, 
and  enjoining  the  engineers  of  the  Union 
Pacific  from  organizing  or  combining  to 
direct  any  strike.  The  arguments  on  a 
motion  to  make  the  order  of  injunction 
permanent  will  be  heard  next  Monday, 
on  which  day  arguments  on  a  similar 
motion  will  be  heard  by  Judge  Gresham 
at  this  city. 

Louisiana  is  preparing  to  organize  an 
immigration  bureau.  A  committee  just 
appointed  will  submit  an  act  to  the  Leg- 
islature in  May. 

The  two  elections  held  in  Massachusetts 
Monday  resulted  very  satisfactorily  to  the 
Prohibitionists.  Out  of  fifty  five  towns 
in  the  eastern  part  of  the  State  only  eight 
voted  for  license. 

Fire  broke  out  in  the  Methodist  Uni- 
versity, at  Mitchell,  Dak.,  at  3  o'clock 
Friday  morning  from  the  spontaneous 
combustion  of  oily  rags  in  the  art  rooms. 
There  were  forty  inmates,  including  the 
faculty,  students  and  servants.  All  but 
ten  escaped  without  trouble.  Four  young 
men  jumped  from  the  second-story  win- 
dows; four  others  and  a  professor  jumped 
from  the  third  story,  and  another  profes 
sor  descended  from  the  roof  by  a  clothes- 
line. One  died  in  two  hours,  three  are 
believed  to  be  fatally  hurt,  and  six  others 
were  badly  wounded.  The  financial  loss 
is  $50,000,  and  the  insurance  aggregates 
$7,500. 

The  last  and  twenty  seventh  victim  of 
the  terrible  Mount  Vernon,  111.,  jyclone 
to  be  relieved  of  his  sufferings  was  Peter 
Hillicrop,  the  Louisville  and  Nashville 
RailroaJ  engineer,  who  died  Friday.  He 
was  on  his  engiae  at  Mt.  Vernon  when 
the  cyclone  swept  down  upon  that  city. 
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SOPfG-S 

FOR  THE  TIMES. 

Containing  eome  Sixty  FBOHIBITION,  be- 
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Miscellaneous  Songs.  The  whole  comprising 
over 

T-WO    HUNDRED 

CHOICE  and  SPIRIT-STIBBINQ  S0N08, 

ODES,  HYMNS,  ETC.,  ETC.. 

By  the  well-known 

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The  collection  is  Dedicated  to  HUMANITY 
to  TEMPERANCE,   PROHIBITION,  and  to 
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HON.    THT7RL0W    WEED  ON   THE  MOB 

GAN  ABDUCTION. 

This  iB  a  sixteen  psRe  pamphlet  oomprigiusr  a  '«>, 
ter  written  by  Mr.  Weed,  and  read  at  the  unvelllns 
0.'  the  monument  erected  to  the  memory  of  Oapi, 
William  Morgan.  The  frontispiece  Is  an  engraving 
of  the  monument.  It  is  a  history  of  the  unlawfi: 
Beizure  and  confinement  of  Morgan  in  the  OBnauilii- 
euB  jail.  hIsBubsequent  conveyance  by  Froeransor 
to  Fort  Niagara,  and  drowning  In  Lake  Ontarlc 
He  not  only  oubscrlbeB  his  name  to  the  letter,  bu, 

ATTA0BK9  HIS  AFFIDAVIT   tO  It.  .... 

In  cloHlng  his  letter  he  writes:  I  now  look  bac 
through  an  interval  of  flft  j-b1x  years  with  a  con 
BclouB  Bense  of  having  been  goTorned  througn  the 
••  Antl-Masonio  excitement"  by  a  sincere  desire 
first,  to  vindicate  the  violated  laws  of  my  countrj 
and  n  xt.  to  arrest  the  great  power  and  dangoroui 
Influencegof"  secret  societies." 

The  pamphlet  IB  well  worth  peruBlng,  and  U 
doubtless  thelB6t  historical  article  whloh  this  grea. 
tournallet  and  poUUclan  wrote.  [Ohloago,  Natlona. 
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Christian  Cynosure. 


Vol.  XX.,  No.  27. 


'in  BBOBST  HAVa  1  SAID  IfOTHING.  "—Jem*  (Thrift. 


CHICAGO,  THUKSDAY,  MAKCH  22,  1888. 


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CONTENTS. 


Bditobial  : 

A  Word  on  the  Prohibition 
Party 8 

The  College  Church, 
Wheaton 8 

The  Engln  eer's  Strike 8 

A  Revolution  we  can  En- 
dorse      8 

Personal  Mention 9 

Contributions  : 

Professor  WoodsmBll 1 

Is  the  Prohibition  Party  a 
Safe  Investment? 1 

Bribery  and  Corruption  In 
N.  Y.  Politics 2 

Our    Public    Schools    In 

Danger 2 

Rbtobm  Nbwb: 

The  Singing  Missionary  In 
the  South;  Bro.  Clark 
Reports  for  Hlmsell; 
Tide  Still  Rising  in  New 
Orleans  ;  Ready  for 
Work  in  Iowa;  Hearty 
Response  from  Pitts- 
burgh  4,5,12 


The  National  Convention  : 
Address   of   Pres.  L.   N. 
Stratton 3 

COBBBBPONDBNOB : 

Texas  Secretists  Angry; 
Fire  Spreading  from 
New  Orleans ;  Zeal  Rises 
Above  Poverty ;  From 
Bishop  Kephart's  Ma- 
sonic   Neighbors;    Pith 

and  Point 5,6 

BiBLB  Lbsson 6 

Obittjart 7 

In  Bbibf 7 

Washington  Letter 9 

New  York  Letter 9 

The  Home 10 

Temperance H 

Religious  Nbws 12 

Literature 12 

LODGE  Notes 13 

Donations 18 

Business 13 

Mabkets 13 

Home  and  Ubalth 14 

News  op  thb  Wbbe 16 


PB0FB8B0R  W00D8MALL. 


ANOTHBB   TRIBUTE   TO   THIS   DEVOTED   MAN. 


BT   REV.    B.    A.   IMES. 


Editor  Cynosure: — Before  your  last  issue  you 
should  have  had  word  of  the  death  of  Rev.  H. 
Woodsmall,  which  occurred  here  Monday  evening, 
Feb.  27th.  Your  readers  are  familiar  with  his  name 
and  work;  but  it  was  not  generally  known,  perhaps, 
that  while  laboring  faithfully  as  the  agent  of  the 
Baptist  Missionary  Society,  Prof.  Woodsmall  suf- 
fered constantly  from  poor  health.  He  was  in  pain 
much  of  the  time  during  several  years  past. 

The  effect  of  wounds  received  while  serving  in  the 
army,  during  the  late  war,  clung  to  him;  and,  added 
to  this,  the  malarial  atmosphere,  and  an  increasing 
tendency  to  pulmonary  disease,  were  more  than  a 
match  for  him  in  spite  of  an  iron  will  and  a  deeply 
consecrated  purpose  of  heart. 

During  the  past  winter  he  had  given  up  the  gen- 
eral field  work  in  order  to  aid  in  establishing  the 
proposed  Institute  encouraged  by  Mr.  Howe  of  Illi- 
nois with  his  generous  gift.  A  Bible  class  of  near- 
ly forty  young  men  already  in  the  ministry  was 
gathered  for  a  much  needed  course  of  instruction, 
and  it  was  in  the  fond  hope  of  completing  a  course 
of  lessons  with  this  class  that  the  dying  teacher  per- 
severed, against  the  advice  of  friends,  who  could 
see  that  the  "silver  cord"  was  well-nigh  broken. 

It  was  his  aim  to  go  to  his  family  in  Indiana  as 
soon  as  he  could  give  up  the  class,  which,  as  he  re- 
marked to  the  writer,  was  the  most  interesting  class 
of  the  kind  he  had  ever  instructed.  But  at  that 
time,  a  month  before  the  end  came,  the  least  exer- 
tion in  walking  caused  him  to  gasp  for  breath.  He 
came  in  this  very  feeble  condition  to  the  LeMoyne 
Teachers'  Home,  and  requested  that  he  might  get 
his  meals  there,  having  secured  a  room  across  the 
street.  Just  opposite. 

"Do  not  take  me  for  my  own  sake,  but  for  the 
work's  and  for  the  Lord's  sake,"  said  he. 

It  was  his  hope  that  with  their  boarding  arrange- 
ments he  might  secure  more  favorable  conditions 
than  formerly,  where  his  meals  were  brought  to  him 
and  he  ate  alone  as  near  to  his  class  room  as  pos- 
sible. 

On  Saturday,Feb.  25th,for  the  first  time  he  did  not 
go  to  meet  the  class,  but  as  it  was  near  by  be  at- 
tended our  Sabbath  morning  worship,  and  the  next 


evening,  after  having"  complained  of  increasing 
weakness  and  straiige  symptoms,  a  physician  who 
was  called  told  him  that  there  was  little  hope.  He 
said,  "I  am  in  my  Father's  hands." 

He  would  have  taken  a  boat  for  the  North  that 
day,  but  there  was  no  strength  for  that,  and  at  the 
close  of  the  day  his  brave  and  faithful  heart  was 
still.  Next  day  his  body  was  carried  from  Prof. 
Steele's  room  to  the  Tabernacle  Baptist  church 
(Mr.  Countee's),  where  appropriate  funeral  services 
were  held,  the  teachers  and  many  of  the  pupils  of 
the  two  schools  being  present.  The  remains  were  tak- 
en by  Prof.  Vann  to  Richmond,  Indiana,  to  be  re- 
ceived by  his  wife  and  friends  for  burial.  Alto- 
gether, a  sad  experience,  mingled  with  much  that  is 
cause  for  thanksgiving  to  God. 

What  a  lesson  of  heroic  consecration  in  his  life 
and  work  I  For  about  fifteen  years  he  labored,  first 
a  teacher  at  Selma;  then  general  missionary  in  Ala- 
bama, Mississippi,  Arkansas,  Tennessee  and  Louisi- 
ana, preaching,  lecturing,  holding  institutes  and 
training  Bible  classes.  The  importance  and  magni- 
tude of  the  work  grew  upon  his  zealous  hands  and 
heart.  He  was  genuinely  Baptist  in  doctrinal  views 
and  denominational  preferences,  and  yet  in  his  pres- 
ence you  discovered  the  Christian  rather  than  the 
sectarian.  Probably  no  man  holds  more  firmly  and 
positively  his  personal  convictions  of  truth  than 
did  this  man  of  Qod,  and  this  fact  made  it  all  the 
more  admirable  that  apart  from  prescribed  regula- 
tions of  his  church,  he  was  genial,  tolerant,  and 
manifested  the  spirit  of  Christ  like  love. 

One  prominent  feature  of  his  work  gave  him  pe- 
culiar satisfaction,  as  he  related  to  me  only  a  few 
days  before  his  departure,  and  that  was  the  effect- 
ual manner  in  which  he  had  awakened  the  minds  of 
many  ministers  throughout  this  valley  on  the  sub- 
ject of  secret  societies  as  rivals  of  the  church  of 
Christ,  and  practically  injurious  to  the  church.  It 
came  in  naturally  with  the  study  of  Scripture,  and 
discussion  of  the  nature  and  work  of  the  church 
as  a  divine  institution.  He  always  felt  as  one  pre- 
pared with  the  armor  of  truth  and  with  its  polished 
shaft, to  pierce  right  through  the  sophistries  of  these 
false  religions.  He  was  personally  acquainted  with 
nearly  all  the  colored  Baptist  ministers  in  these  five 
or  six  States,  and  knew  of  many  who  had  given  up 
the  lodge,  and  also  those  who  were  deeply  convicted 
as  to  their  duty  upon  the  subject. 

Thus  "not  shunning  to  declare  the  whole  counsel 
of  God,"  he  looked  to  the  day  of  account  with  a 
deep  and  unfailing  peace  of  mind.  In  his  personal 
association  with  our  people  he  was  naturally  com- 
manding in  tone,  as  one  who  expected  to  govern 
and  direct,  where  he  had  the  right  so  to  do,  yet  with 
entire  respect  for  every  one.  He  betrayed  no  air 
of  refined  contempt  for  those  whom  he  labored  to 
lift  up — a  failing  which  sometimes  greatly  mars  the 
good  which  a  teacher  or  missionary  in  any  position 
may  seek  to  do.  Thus  maintaining  his  own  dignity 
he  drew  out  the  love  and  respect  of  those  whom  he 
called  brethren  in  Christ. 

I  would  say  more,  but  you  will  no  doubt  have 
letters  from  Mr.  Countee  or  others  ere  this  reaches 
you;  but  I  have  written  so  much  because  at  best  our 
highest  tribute  of  honor  and  love  falls  short  of  just- 
ice to  the  memory  of  this  worthy  man.  "And  I 
heard  a  voice  from  heavec  saying  unto  me  write: 
Blessed  are  the  dead  who  die  in  the  Lord ....  yea, 
saith  the  Spirit.tbat  they  may  rest  from  their  labors 
and  their  works  do  follow  them." 

Hemphis,  March  IS,  1888. 


lb    THE   PROHIBITION  PABTT  A   SAFB    PO- 
LITICAL INVBBTMBNTT 


BT  A.  H.  8PRING8TEIN. 


The  people  of  God  are  expected  to  be  deeply  in- 
terested in  the  welfare  of  their  country.  They  can 
never  be  indifferent,  and  sometimes  they  cannot  in- 
nocently be  neutral.     The  present  is  such  a  time. 

Several  vital  moral  questions  have  found  their 
way  into  politics  and  have  become  political  issues. 
Faithful  Christians  are  reformers.  Should  they  give 
their  activities  a  political  shape?     Should  they  con- 


nect themselves  with  a  political  party?  Should  they 
vote? 

If  you  say  yes  to  these  questions,  another,  not  so 
easily  answered,  arises,  namely,  What  party  shall 
we  join  and  how  shall  we  vote?  The  answers  to 
this  last  question  are  various  and  conflicting,  be- 
cause men  do  not  see  alike.  I  am  speaking  to  re- 
formers— to  those  who  would  rather  lose  all  they 
have  on  earth  than  do  wrong. 

As  to  the  end,  all  agree;  the  perplexing  question 
is  that  relating  to  means.  Politically  speaking, 
there  are  two  reform  projects,  mainly,  the  American 
or  Anti-masonic  party,  and  the  Prohibition  party. 
Which  of  these  is  preferable?  It  may  be  inferred 
that  these  two  parties  are  respectively  the  same 
everywhere.  Speaking  of  political  incidents  con- 
nected with  the  New  Orleans  Convention,  editor 
Blanchard  says,  "I  never  saw  so  clearly  the  wisdom 
of  keeping  up  a  distinct  American  party."  He  says, 
too,  "The  Prohibition  party  already  begins  to  toady 
for  the  vote  of  secretists."  This  is  truly  startling. 
I  have  for  some  time  thought  that  if  reform  work 
was  to  take  a  political  shape,  the  American  party 
was  the  only  one  that  could  consistently  be  sup- 
ported. Yet,  it  has  seemed  to  me  that  reformers 
were  giving  their  preference  largely  to  the  Prohibition 
party.  This  course  is  adopted  by  the  masses  of 
Prohibitionists  in  their  honest  zeal  for  the  overthrow 
of  the  saloon  system. 

About  172,000  votes  were  cast  in  this  State  in 
favor  of  the  Constitutional  amendment  —  though 
many  refused  to  vote  for  the  amendment  on  account 
of  its  communion-wine  feature;  yet  Prof.  Dickie  re- 
ceived about  25,000  votes  in  Michigan  in  the  last 
Presidential  campaign.  Many  of  the  amendment 
votes  were  cast  by  members  of  the  old  parties.  Yet 
there  is  another  fact,  and  it  has  not  been  mentioned 
in  the  reports,  as  the  following  statement  will  show: 

The  Prohibition  party  of  Michigan  has  nominated 
many  Freemasons  for  office,  and  has  never  objected 
to  any  candidate  on  account  of  his  lodge  connection: 
and  no  notice  has  been  taken  of  the  respectful  and 
urgent  protests  that  have  been  made.  Consequently, 
many  have  been  driven  to  withhold  their  votes,  while 
many  others  have  been  induced  to  vote  for  Baal- 
worshipers,  saying,  "Let  us  unite  and  close  up  the 
saloons,  then  we  will  turn  our  attention  to  the 
lodges." 

But  cannot  they  see  that  they  are  doing  for  the 
lodge  what  it  cannot  do  for  itself?  Is  it  not  evident 
too  that  a  bad  habit  or  a  bad  traffic  cannot  be  as  ob- 
jectionable as  a  false  religion?  And  shall  the  dis- 
ciples of  Christ,  under  any  pretext  of  doing  good, 
become  the  abettors  of  the  sworn  enemies  of  the 
truth  of  the  Gospel?  If  the  leading  saloon  men  and 
the  Prohibition  leaders  are  or  shall  become  Masonic 
brothers  or  fellow  conspirators.the  Masonic-prohibi- 
tion party  will  be  doomed.  Why  has  the  Masonic 
order  declared  for  temperance  or  prohibition  all  at 
once?  To  get  a  new  lease  of  life,  of  course.  The 
serpent  has  only  changed  its  skin. 

"Local  Option"  is  the  live  and  troublesome  public 
question  in  this  State,  at  present,  Oakland  county 
held  its  third  party  conference  in  this  city  a  week 
ago.  State  organizer  Taylor  said  that  local  option 
was  not  prohibition,  in  fact  It  was  a  Republic  in 
dodge  of  the  prohibition  issue.  Voting  whisky  out 
of  a  county  was  only  driving  it  into  another  county. 
It  was  driving  the  rattlesnake  out  of  your  dooryard 
into  your  neighbor's  yard  to  bite  your  neighbor's 
children.  He  insisted  that  nothing  could  be  mean- 
er than  that. 

Yet  the  conference  passed  a  resolution  pledging 
them  to  do  that  very  thing — to  vote  the  prohibition 
side  of  the  local  option  question  in  the  event  of  an 
opportunity,  and  Mr.  Taylor  dictated  the  action. 

In  the  afternoon  session  it  was  shown  that  the 
reform  was  endangered  by  its  connection  with  secret 
societies.  R.  B.,a  Methodist  preacher,  immediately 
took  the  floor  and  said, "I  am  sorry  that  Bro.Spring- 
stein  has  ventured  to  make  war  on  a  good  scx^iety.  I 
am  a  member  of  the  Masonic  fraternity,  and  have 
taken  all  the  degrees  up  to  32Qd.  My  M-isonic  ob- 
ligations require  me  to  be  a  good  prohibitionist,  and 
they  do  not  require  me  to  do  anything  wrong  " 

Elder  Long  called  him  to  order,  and  the  chairman 


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TITE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


March  22, 1888 


stopped  him.  He  then  made  an  excited  speech,  in 
which  he  predicted  the  complete  and  early  triumph 
of  the  third  party. 

Now,  the  people  of  this  vicinity  know  what  Ma- 
sonry is,  yet  they  applaud  the  epetch  of  a  32-degree 
Masonic  preacher  in  face  of  the  fact  that  they  had 
just  listened  to  a  statement  of  the  Masonic  oaths.by 
one  who  spoke  from  personal  knowledge.  Of 
course  there  was  a  sensation,  but  the  Anti-masonic 
prohibitionists  contented  themselves  with  private  re- 
marks. Passing  over  the  important  questions  sug- 
gested by  Elder  Bird's  Masonic  confession  of  faith, 
the  reader  must  be  informed  that  the  Michigan  pro- 
hibition organ,  the  Center,  owned  and  edited  by  a 
preacher,  advertises  a  "dancing  academy"  as  well 
as  secret  temperance  societies.  Yet,  those  prohibi- 
tionists constantly  exhort  us  to  vote  as  we  pray. 
Paul  said,  "I  pray  that  ye  do  no  evil." 

I  must  ask  the  Anti-masonic  prohibitionists  to 
listen  to  the  famous  John  B.  Finch.  He  says,  "I 
am  a  member  of  a  party,  and  if  it  wriggles  and 
twists  on  a  public  question, I'll  get  out  of  it  and  de- 
nounce it.  This  idea,  of  two  evils  choose  the  less,  I 
think,  is  one  of  the  most  misleading  of  our  times. 
Suppose  you  went  into  a  place  for  a  glass  of  lemon- 
ade with  an  egg  in  it,and  the  proprietor  said, 'I  have 
not  any  fresh  eggs,  but  I  have  one  bad  one  and  one 
spoiled  one,'  which  one  would  you  choose?  I  think 
jou  would  say,  'I'll  wait  until  the  hen  lays.'  "  That 
is  to  say,  he  will  not  vote  for  or  with  a  party  partly 
good  and  partly  bad.  But,  if  a  Christ-rejecting  re- 
ligion is  not  much  more  repulsive  to  your  conscience 
than  a  spoiled  egg  is  to  your  palate,  you  must  be  a 
moral  monstrosity. 

The  Prohibition  party  has  no  Anti-masonic  fea- 
ture, but  the  American  party  has  a  prohibition 
plank.  Therefore,  Anti-masons  must  either  keep  out 
of  politics  or  sustain  the  American  party.  Will  you 
"go  with  a  multitude  to  do  evil?" 

Pvntiac,  Mich. 

BRIBE RT  AND    CORRUPTION  IN  NBW  YORE 
POLITICS. 


burden  falls  equally  upon  all  tax  payers.  But  be- 
sides these  men  there  was  probably  an  average  of 
forty-five  employed  under  pay  in  each  election  dis- 
trict, nominally  to  distribute  the  ballots,  making 
36,540  for  the  812  election  districts.  In  the  city 
there  are  in  round  numbers  200,000  voters;  there- 
fore, one  man  in  every  five  among  the  voters  was  in 
the  pay  of  the  party  machine.  The  hiring  of  so 
many  men  was  not  at  all  necessary.  It  is,  really, 
indirect  bribery."  Eighty  million  ballots  were  print- 
ed and  distributed;  only  one  million  and  two  hun- 
dred thousand  were  used.     This  is  waste. 

What  is  the  remedy  ?  "It  is  for  the  State  to  as- 
sume the  duty  of  printing  and  distributing  ballots, 
as  well  as  counting  them.  The  best  suggestion  that 
has  been  made  is  that  a  separate  ballot  should  be 
printed  for  each  oflQce  to  be  filled,  and  that  upon 
this  ballot  should  be  placed  the  names  of  all  candi 
dates  nominated  by  a  certain  number  of  voters.  One 
of  these  ballots  would  be  furnished  to  each  voter, 
who  would  erase  from  it  the  names  of  all  but  the 
candidate  for  whom  he  wished  to  vote,  this  opera- 
tion being  performed  in  a  compartment  where  he  is 
in  absolute  privacy,  so  that  no  one  but  himself  knows 
what  his  vote  is.  The  ballot  is  then  deposited  in 
the  proper  box  in  the  usual  manner.  This  would 
make  it  impossible  to  intimidate  the  voters,  and  it 
would  be  practically  equivalent  to  requiring  ability 
to  read  as  a  qualification  to  voting,  which  would  not 
be  a  bad  thing  in  itself." 

This  i3  the  method  that  is  pursued  in  Australia, 
and  substantially  in  England,  and  similar  methods 
of  balloting  have  been  tried  with  the  best  results  in 
various  countries  of  Europe.  "A  candidate  in  Eng- 
land is  allowed  but  a  single  election  agent,  and  with- 
in a  given  time  after  the  election  he  is  required  to 
file  a  feworn  statement  of  all  expenditures,  together 
with  vouchers  therefor,  and  any  falsification  in 
this  return  is  punishable  by  very  stringent  pen- 
alties, which  are  very  strictly  enforced.  The  result 
has  been  to  make  bribery  almost  a  lost  art  in  the 
election  of  British  members  to  Parliament,  and  that 
similar  results  would  follow  a  law  of  that  kind  here 
cannot  be  reasonably  doubted." 


BY   REV.   J.   M.    FOSTER. 


The  Baptist  Quarterly  Review  has  an  editorial 
called  out  by  the  suggestion  iuTourgee's  book  "that 
the  caucus  and  the  machine"  in  politics  be  legalized. 
New  York  city  is  taken  as  an  illustration  of  the 
danger  cf  such  a- move.  "In  the  first  place,  let  us 
begin  at  the  beginning,  the  obtaining  of  a  nomina- 
tion. The  prime  requisite  for  this  is  a  'barrel.' 
Either  the  candidate  or  some  of  his  friends  must  be 
willing  and  able  to  'put  up'  a  round  sum  of  money 
in  order  to  gain  a  nomination  for  any  prominent 
office."  The  following  schedule  of  prices  shows  the 
actual  assessments  that  were  made  by  one  party 
machine  at  the  last  elections  upon  the  candidates 
for  the  (ffices  named:  Two  Supreme  Court  Judges, 
$20,000  each;  Criminal  Judge,  $10,000;  two  City 
Court  Judges,  $5,000  each;  seven  District  Court 
Judges,  $3000  each;  Surrogate,  $10,000;  District 
Attorney,  $10,000;  Comptroller,  $25,000;  seven 
State  Senators, $5, 000  each;twenty-four  Assemblymen, 
$1,500  each;  twenty-four  Aldermen,  $1,000  each; 
President  Board  of  Aldermen,$2  500.  Total,$223,000. 
Higher  prices  were  sometimes  demanded;  and  if  we 
compare  these  sums  with  the  salaries  per  annum  of 
each  cfBcial  it  will  be  seen  that  in  only  one  or  two 
cases  is  the  assessment  less  than  an  entire  year's 
salary  of  the  tifice  for  which  nomination  is  sought. 
"In  cases  where  the  te«m  of  office  is  long,  or  where 
the  opportunities  for  making  money  corruptly  are 
very  great,  the  assessment  is  correspondingly  large. 
Thus,  a  Supreme  Court  Judge  whose  term  is  four- 
teen years,  is  assessed  $20,000,  it  being  calculated 
that  out  of  a  salary  of  $17,500  a  year  he  can  easily 
save  the  amount  of  the  assessment  during  his  term 
of  office.  A  State  Senator,  whose  salary  is  $1,500, 
is  taxed  $5,000." 

These  assessments  are  to  meet  "the  legitimate  ex- 
penses of  an  election."  Here  are  some  of  them: 
"There  are  great  political  meetings  to  be  held,  at 
which  nottd  speakers  address  the  crowds,  and  are 
paid  therefor  liberal  sums.  There  are  processions  and 
fireworks.  There  is  the  printing  and  distributing 
of  the  ballots.  There  is  the  advertising  of  polling 
places  in  the  daily  papers.  There  is  printing  and 
distribution  of  speeches  and  other  documents  in- 
tended to  influence  the  opinions  of  voters.  The  pay 
of  clerks  at  political  headquarters,  who  attend  to 
the  large  correspondence  and  who  send  out  ballots 
to  the  voters  through  the  mails,  must  also  be  pro- 
vided for  in  this  way." 

In  the  last  election  about  1,200,000  ballots  were 
cast  in  New  York.  'The  city  employed  in  the  work 
of  receiving  and  counting  the  ballots  5,684  persons. 
These  are  paid  out  of  the  public  treasury,  and  the 


OUR  PUBLIC  SCHOOLS  IN  DANGER. 


BY   AN   OLD    LAWYER. 

Ye  Pilgrim  Fathers,  why  did  you  flee  from  the 
thralldom  and  tyranny  of  the  king  of  Great  Britain? 
Was  it  to  deliver  yourselves  and  your  children  and 
your  children's  children  over  to  the  rule  and  domi- 
nation of  the  "Scarlet  Woman,"  "the  Mother  of  Har- 
lots and  abominations  of,  the  earth,"  instead  of 
bringing  them  into  a  land  of  civil  and  religious  lib- 
erty and  light?  Is  the  Protestant  world  asleep? 
Will  its  people  not  take  warning  and  rise  in  their 
might  and  protect  their  religious  freedom  and  civil 
rights  and  uphold  the  glorious  charter  of  their  lib- 
erties? The  tocsin  is  sounded.  "Catholics  should 
compel  (if  necessary)  the  temporal  authorities  to 
make  the  required  concessions"  to  the  Pope,  not  in 
Italy  alone,  but  the  world  over,  wherever  he  can  get 
a  foothold.  It  is  said  "the  German  Catholics  in  the 
United  States  recognize  three  obligations, — the  nat- 
ural one  of  nationality,  that  of  Catholicism,and  that 
of  American  citizenship."  Any  man  of  ordinary 
understanding  may  see  at  a  glance  that  this  cannot 
be  true.  The  German  Roman  Catholic  may  recog- 
nize the  first  two  obligations,  but  they  are  incom- 
patible with  the  third — they  are  irreconcilable. 
The  duties  pertaining  to  Roman  Catholicism  and  to 
American  citizenship  run  counter  to  each  other; 
they  are  opposite  in  principle  and  character;  they 
necessarily  pull  in  different  directions  and  can  never 
form  a  union,  and,  therefore,  he  who  is  a  good  and 
true  Roman  Catholic  cannot  be  a  true  and  good 
American  citizen.  He  cannot  serve  the  Pope  and 
uphold  the  U.  S.  Constitution  too.  The  duties  re- 
quired of  him  in  each  case  are  too  antagonistic  to 
each  other.  He  will  be  forced  to  hold  to  the  one 
and  despise  the  other. 

Here  is  the  autocracy  of  the  papal  power  unmis- 
takably described  by  Kaiser  o?  Detroit,  Mich.  He 
says,  "Centralization ^was  necessary  for  the  govern- 
ment of  the  church;"  and  that  "the  popes  employed 
force  and  severity  or  mildness  and  persuasion  at 
will  and  according  to  the  requirements  of  the  cir- 
cumstances;" and  that  "it  was  in  this  truly  human 
accommodation  to  circumstances  that  the  strength  of 
the  Catholic  church  lay."  Just  so;  everybody  that 
is  not  hand  and  glove  with  the  Pope,  "at  his  will," 
must  be  under  his  anathema.  Is  it  not  a  shame  to 
Protestants  that  the  Bible  has  been  thrown  out  of 
our  public  schools?  It  is  clear  that  Roman  Cathol- 
icism is  itching  all  over  to  get  control  of  our  public 
schools.  The  papal  magnates  of  Chicago  dictated 
to  and  manipulated  the  Board  of  Education,  and  so 


excluded  the  Good  Book  from  being  a  part  of  our 
public  school  education,  intending  thereby  a  severe 
blow  to  Protestantism  in  preventing  its  growth. 
This  blow  was  intended  to  strike  deep  and  at  the 
very  root  of  Protestantism  and  draw  the  young 
therefrom  into  the  meshes  of  the  Romish  church, 
which  course  has  added  much  to  her  prospects  for  the 
future  over  and  above  the  hope  she  has  of  strength- 
ening herself  from  her  nursery  of  youths  under 
her  own  tuition.  The  result  of  the  course  taken  with 
our  public  schools,  is,  that  a  large  proportion  of  our 
school  children  are  already  well  advanced  in  infidel- 
ity, and  others  of  them  drift  off  into  Roman  Cathol- 
icism. Well  did  Mr.  Tappert  say  in  the  third  reso- 
lution endorsed  by  the  German  Catholic  convention 
of  Chicago:  "To  whom  the  school  belongs,  to  him 
belongs  the  future."  There  is  an  old  saying  that 
carries  with  it  a  wonderful  deal  of  meaning;  it  is 
this:  The  old  parochial  "Domini"  used  to  boast  that 
"in  the  school  he  ruled  the  children,  and  at  home 
the  children  ruled  the  parents,"  Quite  so.  This  is 
just  what  is  wanted  by  the  Roman  priesthood.  Its 
every  aim  is  to  this  end.  Just  listen  to  what  Father 
Koeberle  of  St.  Paul,  Minn,,  says  in  the  later  Ocean 
of  the  8th  of  August  last  on  this  important  question, 
speaking  "with  special  reference  to  the  development 
of  Catholic  youths,  he  said  he  wanted  the  children 
to  be  under  the  control  of  the  priests  so  that  the  lat- 
ter might  have  full  control  of  the  pupils.  He  ex- 
horted his  hearers  to  go  home  and  exert  their  influ- 
ence for  good  in  the  education  of  the  young" — by 
the  priests,  of  course. 

Kaiser  of  Detroit  "objected  to  monarchical  pro- 
fessors with  their  diseased  brains."  He  said,  "the 
church  called  for  discipline,  for  obedience  and  in 
this  was  the  strength  of  the  Catholic  church."  In 
this  he  is  most  assuredly  correct,  and  no  one  will 
dispute  him.  Then  he  recites  evidence  of  obedience 
of  the  Catholic  bishops,  ministers  and  all  in  ofi3ce 
trusting  wholly  to  the  infallibility  of  the  Pope. 

Who  cannot  see  in  all  this  the  cool  and  careful 
calculations  of  priestcraft  to  reduce  the  whole  human 
family  on  this  continent  to  that  terrible  thralldom 
that  deprives  a  human  being  of  the  right  to  think, 
judge  and  act  for  himself  without  the  let  or  hinder- 
ance  of  Pope,  bishop,  priest,  cowled  monk,  or  other 
functionaries  of  the  "Scarlet  Woman" — "the  great 
whore  of  Babylon  who  has  made  the  nations  drunk 
with  the  wine  of  her  fornications."     Rev.  17. 

A  little  reflection  cannot  but  make  it  palpable  to 
the  most  casual  observer  that  popery  is  the  sworn 
enemy  to  all  civil  and  religious  liberty,  and  at  this 
moment  is  advancing  with  a  rapidity  that  ought  to 
be  alarming  to  all  Protestants.  It  needs  to  be  un- 
derstood distinctly  that  it  is  a  mere  pretext,  a  blind, 
on  the  part  of  the  Pope  that  he  claims  territorial 
dominion  over  Italy  only.  Be  aware  that  "he  who 
ages  ago  had  the  whole  earthly  portion,  is  now  un- 
mistakably renewing  his  claim  to  all  territorial  and 
spiritual  dominion  the  world  over,  and  is  taking  the 
most  active  measures  possible  in  all  parts  of  Chris- 
tendom to  which  he  has  access,  to  recover  them,"  and 
to  this  end,  at  the  late  convention  held  here,  the  Ger- 
man Catholics  and  the  Romish  priests  together,  in 
the  most  adroit  manner,  forged,  and  hammered  into 
shape  on  the  anvil  of  popish  infallibility,  and  tem- 
pered it  off  in  the  cunningly  devised  resolutions  of 
the  German  Catholic  Union — a  great  entering  wedge, 
with  which,  in  the  near  contemplated  future,  to  up- 
root our  noble  and  free  institutions  of  learning  and 
wrench  from  this  people  their  most  sacred  and  con- 
stitutional rights  and  force  everything  to  become 
subservient  to  the  will  and  work  "of  a  domineering, 
whorish  woman,"  Ezek.  16:  30.  "God  save  Ameri- 
ca" when  her  hour  of  trial  comes. 

At  Guatemala  in  Central  America  last  September 
(1887)  the  Catholic  Archbiship  of  that  place  with 
some  of  his  friends  who  are  opposed  to  that  govern- 
ment, which  is  republican  in  form,  left  there  for  San 
Francisco  for  the  purpose  of  procuring  means  to 
bring  about  a  revolution  against  Barrilos,  the  Presi- 
dent of  Guatemala,  because  the  Government  had  de- 
clined to  "declare  against  the  Protestant  church" 
just  established  there  by  the  Rev.  Clark  Hill  of  this 
country.  (See  Inter  Ocean,  Sept.  21,  1887.)  Such  do- 
ings of  the  church  of  Rome  so  close  to  our  doors 
ought  not  to  be  lost  sight  of.  They  have  more  than 
ordinary  significance. 

Surely  then  it  behooves  every  loyal  American  citi- 
zen, who  desires  to  retain  a  republican  form  of  gov- 
ernment in  these  United  States,  to  ponder  the  pres- 
ent attempt  of  Pope  Leo  XIII.  through  his  minions 
in  this  country  to  insinuate  himself  into  favor 
amongst  aa.  independent  people  already  glorious  in 
honor,  power  and  achievements  as  a  noble  and  aspir- 
ing nation,  and  come  to  the  front  at  once  and  arrest 
the  further  driving  of  that  damnable  wedge  of  Rom- 
ish iniquity  into  the  bulwark  of  our  freedom. 

Chicago, 


Maboh  22,  1888 


THE  CHRISTIAlSr  CYNOSURE. 


DUTY  OF  CEB18TIAN  BBU0AT0R8  IN  BBF- 
ERENGS  TO  SECRET  SOCIETIES. 


ADDRESS   OP   PRES.    L.   N.    STRATTON   BEFORE   THE 
NEW   ORLEANS   CONVENTION. 


Some  men  would  say,  "It  is  of  course  the  duty  of 
the  Christian  educator  to  join  secret  societies,  and 
to  induce  his  friends  and  students  to  do  so.  It  will 
bring  him  popularity,  multiply  his  friends  among 
the  outlying  masses  and  worldly  men  whom  he  wants 
to  influence.  It  will  help  him  into  positions  of  hon- 
or and  trust,  and  be  stirrups  for  his  feet  and  a  war- 
horse  between  them.  If  he  gets  into  trouble  it  will 
help  him  out.  He  can  rely  upon  the  friends  of  his 
fraternity  to  be  arms  and  armor  to  him,  and  over 
every  man  who  would  oppose  him  shall  be  dropped 
a  big  galvanized  iron  extinguisher,  and  'ye  ancient 
and  honorable'  religious  teacher  can  sweep  his  wide 
swath  onward  without  fear  or  favor.  'And  when,' 
as  the  colored  orator  said,  'when  he  falls,  he  will  fall 
all  kivered  wid  vict'ry,  an'  rise  to  wear  de  long 
white  robe  in  de  great  gittin'  up  mornin',  when  de 
general  roll  is  called,  and  will  walk  de  shinin'  streets 
in  silver  slippers  down  to  de  tassalated  pavements 
where  de  golden  sunrise  throws  its  glory  ober  de 
seat  of  de  great,  grand,  pontificaI,magnifical,puissant 
architect  of  de  universe  in  de  grand  lodge  above.'  " 

Now  this  sounds  beautifully  and  to  many  it  would 
seem  cruel  to  break  the  fanciful  vision.  It  rocks  as 
gently  as  a  gay  gondola  floating  in  a  South  Sea 
dream.  But  the  sweep  of  Niagara's  torrent,  or  the 
dreaded  Maelstrom  on  the  coast  of  Norway  are  as 
fascinating  as  fatal.  So  please  follow  me  a  little 
while  and  I  will  attempt  to  turn  as  much  as  a  "dim 
religious  light"  upon  this  question. 

The  following  conversation  I  heard  as  I  stood  in 
the  washroom  of  our ,  tourists' car.  A  competing 
line  magnate  said:  "This  Illinois  Central  Eailroad 
has  never  had  a  particle  of  enterprise  about  it.  Its 
equipments  are  the  merest  bagatelle  in  comparison 
to  the  rolling  stock  of  the  Rook  Island,  Burlington, 
Northwestern  and  Milwaukee  systems.  It  is  more 
than  twenty  years  behind  the  present  date.  If  it 
had  kept  step  with  its  opportunities  there  wouldn't 
have  been  a  parallel  line  built  or  a  compalny  dreamed 
of  competing  with  it  for  a  generation.  See  her  road 
bed,  tracks,  depots  and  cars." 

I  quietly,  and  in  rather  a  dramatic  manner,  re- 
marked to  a  colored  porter  who  overheard  the  con- 
versation: "If  a  body  don't  like  this  line,  he  .can  take 
the  competing  line,  I  suppose." 

The  porter  hung  to  the  marble  stand  as  he  stooped 
and  replied  with  the  wise  philosophy  of  Brudder 
Gardner,  president  of  de  Lime  Kiln  Club,  "Well, 
Jedge,  dat's  de  way  changes  is  brought  about — by 
kickin'." 

SHAMS. 

This  world  is  full  of  shams.  Oar  children  in  the 
North- land  sing: 

"When  softly  fall  the  feathery  flakes, 

To  hide  the  withered  grasses, 
It  Is  a  time  for  buckwheat  cakes, 

And  New  Orleans  molasses." 

But  coarse  sorghum  of  the  prairies  is  often  work- 
ed off  upon  the  credulous  children,  and  butter 
made  from  a  herd  of  Texas  animals  and  pronounced 
oleomargarine  slips  into  the  place  of  the  dairy  prod- 
uct. 

Shams  began  back  yonder  in  Eden  when  the  chat- 
tering serpent  said  to  mother  Eve,  "The  Lord  doth 
know  that  in  the  day  thou  eatest  thereof  thou  shalt 
not  surely  die."  He  snatched  away  the  truth  and 
slipped  a  bogus  coin  into  the  place  of  the  pure  gold- 
en one.  The  teacher  of  theojogy  soon  discovers 
these  wiles  of  the  devil,  and  traces  his  trail  down 
among  the  broken  wrecks  and  ruins  which  mark  his 
path  through  the  ages.  And  in  what  especial  par- 
ticular do  you  suppose  Satan  would  as  soon  deceive 
as  in  worship.  It  is  true  he  might  put  covetous  de- 
sires of  the  flesh,  love  of  the  world,  or  love  of  self 
into  a  human  heart  and  rain  it;  but  that  is  a  little 
narrow  personal  fact  in  comparison  to  the  turning 
of  a  human  soul  in  its  adoration  against  the  Father 
because  against  the  Son,  and  seems  like  the  fatal 
sin  against  the  Holy  Qhost. 

THE   CASE   OP   CAIN   AND   ABEL. 

The  religious  teacher  observes  that  away  back  up 
the  rivers  of  time  under  the  live-oaks  or  palm  trees 
near  the  gates  of  Eden,  Abel,  the  shepherd,  who  did 
mixed  farming,  and  Cain,  the  great  grain-growing 
farmer  of  the  North,  met  upon  a  common  level  with 
equal  advantages  and  erected  their  altars  of  worship. 
Tde  altars  were  doubtless  much  alike.vine-wreathed, 
flower-decked  and  fruit-crowned;  they  were  beauti- 
ful memorials  of  that  early  ago.  Cain's  was  no 
doubt  as  fitting  as  Abel's.  But  Abel  had  upon  his 
altar  a  bleeding  lamb.     By  this  he  seemed  to  say, 


"O  righteous  God,  I  am  a  sinner.  Have  mercy 
upon  me  I  I  am  lost  for  two  worlds  I  Save  my  strick- 
en soul!"  By  this  bleeding  lamb  innocence  was 
suffering  for  guilt,  and  the  Saviour,  Jesus,  the  Lamb 
slain  from  the  foundation  of  the  world  was  typified. 

Cain,  on  the  other  hand,  seemed  to  say,  "There  is 
my  altar — the  fruit  of  the  ground.  Take  that  and  be 
satisfied.  That  is  the  way  I  pay  my  rent."  Paul 
says,  "Abel  offered  unto  God  a  more  excellent  sac- 
rifice than  Cain,  by  which  he  obtained  witness  that 
he  was  righteous,  God  testifying  of  his  gifts,  and 
by  it  he,  being  dead,  yet  speaketh."  Heb.  11:4.  As 
no  word  Abel  ever  syllabled  was  written  by  a  hu- 
man pen,  "he  speaketh"  in  a  pious  example.  He 
speaks  to  us  from  that  far-off  past  to-night  in  favor 
of  a  true,  pure  and  unmixed  spiritual  worship.  It 
was  upon  the  sacrificial  substitution  of  this  offering 
that  his  works  were  accepted  as  righteous,  and  his 
life  accounted  as  pure  as  though  he  had  never  com- 
mitted a  sin,  God  "testifying"  from  the  witness 
stand  before  the  judgment  seat  in  his  behalf.  It 
was  upon  this  sacrificial  passport  that,  when  his 
body  fell  in  the  garden  path,his  spirit  rose. 

There  is  a  law  in  Nature  that  places  everything  in 
strata  according  to  its  quality — rocks,  earth,  water, 
air,  clouds,  ether,  light.  According  to  this  law, 
when  Abel's  body  fell  his  spirit  arose.  Its  gravita- 
tion turned  the  other  way.  His  was  the  first  human 
spirit  that  ever  passed  out  of  a  human  body.  He  was 
the  first  fruits  of  those  who  lost  the  earthly  paradise 
who  were  to  pass  into  the  heavenly;  the  first  human 
soul  redeemed  by  the  blood  of  Christ,  a  curiosity  to 
angels  and  a  wonder  in  heaven.  See  him  as  he  as- 
cends. Ranks  of  cherubim  and  seraphim  and  heav- 
enly harpers  divide  their  ranks  to  right  and  left,  and 
archangels  part  the  heavenly  hosts  as  he  passes  up 
nearer  the  throne,  singing  as  he  goes,  "Unto  him 
that  hath  loved  me  and  washed  me  in  his  own  blood, 
and  made  us  kings  and  priests  unto  God,  to  him  be 
glory  and  dominion  and  power  forever  and  ever." 
There  was  no  sham  or  fraud  about  that.  That  was 
the  true  elevation  and  advancement  of  a  soul  to  the 
realms  of  a  higher  sphere  without  the  "shock  of  en- 
trance," or  the  cable-tow  of  Blue  Lodge  or  Royal 
Arch. 

A  DISPUTE — THE  PALSE  AND  TRUE. 

From  the  first  step  the  false  religion  disputes 
every  inch  of  ground  with  the  true.  When  open 
opposition  would  not  do,  false  teachers  have  started 
in  to  make  a  religion  so  similar  to  the  original  as  to 
deceive  the  very  elect.  False  religions  have  always 
been  better  adapted  to  natural  tastes  of  the  human 
heart  than  the  self-denials  of  the  true.  It  has  al- 
ways required  less  self-sacrifice  and  self-abnegation 
to  worship  Mammon  or  Moloch  than  Christ,  the 
world's  Redeemer;  just  as  it  costs  less  to  feed,  clothe 
and  care  for  a  wax  baby  with  a  whistle  in  its  breast 
and  a  saw  dust  stuffing  in  its  vitals  than  a  real  baby. 
If  there  is  no  self-denial  in  it  there  is  no  value  in  it. 
It  is  the  trial  that  makes  the  endurance.  There  is 
never  a  sailor  without  a  storm.  An  old  mariner 
said,  "I  like  a  little  head  wind,  it  makes  the  furnaces 
draw."  The  true  religion  tests  the  faith  and  fervor 
of  the  soul.  Good  Thomas  Guthrie  said,  "It  re- 
quires no  skill  or  courage  to  float  down  stream.  A 
dead  fish  can  do  that;  but  let  a  man  turn  his  back 
upon  the  world  and  head  up  stream  and  he  has  all 
hell  to  fight." 

LODOS    RELIGION. 

Men  sometimes  say,  "I  do  not  need  to  go  to 
church;  we  have  worship  in  our  lodge;  it  is  better 
than  the  church;  they  are  not  so  sober  and  sancti- 
monious like:  they  don't  bother  a  man  so  much 
about  his  politics  or  his  religion."  I  tell  you  this 
kind  of  a  church  man  who  don't  want  to  be  troubled 
about  his  religion  is  worth  about  as  much  as  a  light- 
ning bug  would  be  in  furnishing  a  summer's  sun- 
light to  a  cornfield  or  cotton  plantation.  You  are 
all  aware  what  that  man's  religion  is  worth.  As 
the  Spirit  said  to  the  Quaker,  "He  who  religiously 
sets  his  heart  upon  the  color  of  a  button  upon  his 
coat,  that  man's  religion  is  worth  about  the  price  of 
a  button." 

But  when  a  man  sees  himself  as  the  member  of  a 
body,  the  Bride  of  Christ,  he  adoringly  exclaims, 
"My  Divine  Lover  came  all  the  long,  lone  journey 
from  heaven  to  win  bis  bride.  He  left  the  divine 
bosom  of  his  Eternal  Father  to  lie  a  feeble  infant 
on  a  frail  woman's  breast.  Son  of  God,  he  quit  the 
throne  of  the  universe,  and  assumed  the  guise  of 
humanity  to  be  cradled  in  a  manger  and  murdered 
on  a  cross.  In  his  people  be  found  a  bride  who  was 
deeply  in  debt,  and  paid  it  all;  under  sentence  of 
death  and  he  died  for  her;  a  lost  creature  clad  in 
rags,  and  took  for  her  robes  from  his  own  royal 
wardrobe  and  led  her  homeward.  To  win  her  he 
shed  his  tears,  to  wash  her  shed  his  blood:  in  her 
poverty  endowed  her  with  all  things,  and  made  her 
by  adoption  a  full  queen  and  heir   to   his   Father's 


estate,  as  the  will  runs,  'heirs  with  God  and  joint 
heirs  with  Jesus  Christ,'  and  'if  so  be  that  [here- 
after] we  suffer  with  him  that  we  may  also  be  glori- 
fied together.'  "  And  now  our  member  of  the  neg- 
lected church  and  beloved  lodge  says,  "I  would  give 
up  my  church  before  my  lodge;  I  would  throw  up 
my  engagement  as  a  Christian  and  let  the  whole 
thing  go,  before  I  would  give  up  my  lodge."  This 
proves  the  terrible  grip  of  the  lodge  upon  its  mem- 
bership; it  shows  the  fascinations  of  its  secretism; 
it  proves  that  Christianity  has  a  rival  and  foe  in  the 
worshipful  lodge;  it  proves  that  the  lodge  eats  the 
vital  love  and  religious  affection  out  of  the  hearts  of 
those  who  give  their  time,  interests  and  money  to 
the  secret  lodge. 

Various  influences  fascinate  and  fasten  a  man  to 
a  secret  brotherhood.  It  matters  not  what  has  been 
the  primal  cause — so  long  as  there  is  a  cause,  and 
he  gives  his  affections  to  the  wanton  maid  he  meets, 
instead  of  to  the  true  and  lawful  object  of  his  affec- 
tions— the  home,  the  state  and  the  church. 

FASCINATION   OF   SECRETISSf. 

There  is  a  fascination  about  the  secrecy.  It  mat- 
ters nothing  about  the  blasphemy  of  the  oaths,  he 
is  hoodwinked  and  does  not  see  "how  blue  it  looks," 
as  he  swears  and  swear*,  many  times  over  and  over, 
saying  repeatedly,  "Furthermore  do  I  promise  and 
swear,"  until  the  prophet  might  well  again  declare, 
"Because  of  much  swearing  the  land  mourneth." 
It  may  be  the  candidate  is  only  anxious  to  secure 
the  advantages  of  care  when  sick,  aid  when  travel- 
ing and  burial  when  dead.  Hence  he  pays  in  a  lib- 
eral sum,  sometimes  several  hundred  dollars,  while 
he  lives,  dies  after  a  brief  illness  perhap?,  and  his 
wife  has  presented  to  her  the  bill  for  the  burial. 
Perhaps  he  attends  the  lodge  to  learn  the  curious 
secrets  and  learns  the  mysteries  of  the  enchantments 
of  the  lodge.  But  he  learns  meanwhile  the  private 
doors  to  drug  stores  and  saloons  and  other  places 
less  reputable,  and  learns  at  last  that  he  is  in  the 
power  of  a  giant  appetite  which  gripes  and  grips 
and  grinds  him,  hand-cuffs  him  and  marches  him 
into  the  prison  of  giant  despair.  It  matters  nothing 
if  the  original  purpose  which  led  up  the  winding 
stairs  was  paved  with  honest  intentions  and  railed 
about  and  paled  in  with  the  most  fascinating  en- 
chantments. For,  mind  you,  he  who  goes  up  that 
winding  stairs  will  not  be  likely,  with  equal  sim- 
plicity and  honor,  to  come  down  again. 

FALSE   KNOWLEDGE    UNDESIRABLE. 

When  the  devil  beguiled  Eve  it  was  with  the 
view  of  gathering  for  her  the  fruit  of  that  tree  of 
knowledge  of  good  and  evikwhich  she  had  better 
been  without.  It  was  not  that  she  suffered  for 
something  to  eat,  and  could  get  nothing  elsewhere. 
It  was  not  that  there  was  but  little  of  that  variety  of 
fruit,  and  it  would  cut  the  crop  short  to  eat  of  it, 
but  it  was  rebellion — rebellion  against  the  best  and 
central  government  of  the  universe.  There  are  cer- 
tain classes  of  knowledge  we  had  better  be  without. 
They  lie  in  the  pathway  of  evil  and  sin.  Don't  go 
around  the  block  in  the  pathwav  of  temptation. 
Keep  as  far  as  you  can  from  it.  Drive  as  far  as 
you  can  from  the  edge  of  the  precipice.  Do  not  try 
to  show  that  you  can  whirl  your' wheel  within  six 
laches  of  the  abyss. 

A  stage  toiled  wearily  up  the  Sierra  Nevadas. 
When  at  length  at  the  top  the  driver  cracked  his 
whip  over  the  leaders  and  the  horses  sprang 
into  activity,  and  the  great  rocking  coach  rumbled 
down  the  narrow  dugways  beneath  shelving  rocks 
and  above  yawning  chasms,  the  value  of  the  brake 
on  which  the  driver,  like  an  organist,  varied  the  pres- 
sure of  his  foot,  was  discussed  by  the  passengers. 
When  halting  at  a  watering  trough,  a  nervous  lady 
asked  the  driver  the  question,  "What  will  become 
of  as  if  that  brake  gives  out?"  The  driver  replied, 
"That  depends  altogether  how  you  have  lived  in 
this  world."  Men  will  find  that  to  sow  to  the  wind 
will  bring  a  whirlwind  harvest,  and  that  there  is 
harvest  grown  from  the  seed  of  a  clamoring  imagi- 
nation that  they  better  be  without. 

A  man  says,  "I'll  go  to  the  New  York  Central 
park  and  see  the  menagerie."  As  he  approaches  he 
hears  the  great  Bengal  tiger  growl,  and  the  Numid- 
ian  lion  roar,  and  the  American  panther  scream. 
He  passes  the  snarling  hyenas,  darts  under  the 
ropes,  opens  the  great  cage  door  and  the  uncivilized 
lion  whirls  a  merciless  paw  over  his  head  and 
snatches  it  off  and  the  Bengal  tiger  tears  his  body 
into  shreds  through  the  bars  of  his  cage,  and  the 
voracious  beasts  have  not  for  a  moment  seemed  to 
catch  upon  the  idea  that  this  innocent  man,  who 
used  to  bo  on  earth,  was  simply  in  pursuit  of 
knowledge,  the  knowledge  of  natural  history.  Such 
knowledge  has  been  rebellion  ever  since  the  days 
of  Eden.  You  better  be  without  it.  Don't  go  to 
the  lodge  to  learn  it    God  requires  of  you  perfect 


Bbte^. 


'i'HE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


March  22, 1888 


1 


obedience.  You  give  a  portion  of  your  devotions 
to  a  Clirifltless  God  when  he  says,  "Thou  shalt  have 
no  other  God  before  me."  You  say,  "Daughter  bring 
me  an  orange,"  and  she  runs  away  and  brings  you 
an  apple,  and  you  say,  "No,  an  orange,"  and  away 
she  goes  and  brings  you  a  lemon.  Now  it  is  not  the 
value  of  the  orange  for  which  you  care  so  much, 
but  what  makes  that  lump  in  your  throat  is,  that 
your  little  girl  has  a  constant  tendency  to  do  what 
you  do  not  want  her  to  do.  So  the  human  heart  is 
constantly  by  nature  clamoring  for  a  substitute  for 
the  true  and  genuine  religion  of  the  Lord  Jesus 
Christ. 

CLAIMS  OP  THE  BIBLK  VBR8US  FRBBMASONKT. 

The  Bible  claims  to  be  the  Book  of  God  and  a 
revelation  of  his  will  to  man.  But  the  Masonic 
lodge  proposes  to  be  as  much.  When  Moses  per- 
formed various  miracles  from  God  in  the  presence 
of  Pharaoh,  it  is  written  that  "the  Egyptians  did  so 
with  their  enchantments." 

The  apostle  said,  "There  is  none  other  name  under 
heaven  given  among  men  whereby  we  must  be  saved 
than  the  name  of  Jesus  only;"  and  again,  "Jesus 
Christ  hath  power  on  earth  to  forgive  sin,"  But  in 
Mackey's  Lexicon  of  Freemasonry,  a  Masonic  text 
book  of  very  high  authority,  on  page  16,  he  says: 

"AcAciAN,  a  term  derived  from  [the  Greek]  akakia 
"innocence,"  and  sigaifyiag  a  Mason,  who,  by  living  in 
strict  obedience  to  the  obligations  and  precepts  of  the 
fraternity,  is  free  from  sin." 

FREEMASONRY  A  RIVAL  WORSHIP. 

Now  here  is  some  rival  institution  which  proposes 
to  do  the  very  thing  for  the  souls  of  men — "free 
them  from  sin,"  which  the  Bible  claims  can  alone 
be  done  by  Jesus  Christ.  Is  it  not,  therefore,  a  ri- 
val? Jesus  says,  "No  man  cometh  unto  the  Father 
but  by  me."  Now  is  there  any  other  way  to  the 
Father  and  to  heaven?  Mackey's  Masonic  Ritual- 
ist says,  page  131:  "Thus  the  lecture  in  the  third 
degree  closes  with  the  cheering  promise  of  a 
blessed  immortality  beyond  the  grave."  Jesus 
says,  "He  that  climeth  up  any  other  way  the  same  is 
a  thief  and  a  robber."  Sickels's  Monitor,  published 
by  the  Masonic  Publishing  Company,  432  Broome 
St.,  New  York,  says  on  page  97:  "We  now  find 
man  complete  in  morality  and  intelligence  with  the 
STAT  OF  RELIGION  added,  to  insure  him  of  the  pro- 
tection of  Deity  and  to  guard  him  from  ever  going 
astray."  (Once  in  Masonic  grace  always  in  grace.) 
He  proceeds,  "These  three  degrees  thus  form  a 
perfect  and  harmonious  whole;  nor  can  we  con- 
ceive that  anything  can  be  suggested  more  which 
the  soul  of  man  req»res."  Here  you  have  attain- 
ments beyond  which  it  is  not  possible  or  needful  to 
pass,  if  the  claims  of  secret  societies  are  true.  A 
thousand  passages  might  be  quoted  from  genuine 
secret  society  works  to  prove  true  the  assertion  that 
I  make,  that  these  secret  societies,  especially  Free- 
masonry, professes  to  save  men's  souls  without  any 
Jesus  Christ.  Now  you  may  search  through  these 
rituals,  guides,  hand-books  and  manuals  of  Free- 
masonry, but  nowhere  will  you  find  the  name  of 
Jesus  Christ,  the  world's  Redeemer,  in  any  prayer 
up  to  Blue  Lodge  Masonry.  In  the  Scottish  rite, 
neither  up  to  the  Royal  Arch  nor  to  the  highest  de- 
grees, is  there  a  prayer  or  passage  of  Scripture 
quoted  which  mentions  the  name  of  that  Lord 
Jesus  Christ  on  whom  our  hopes  of  heaven  de- 
pend. 

A  casual  observer  would  look  through  one  of 
these  Masonic  manuals  or  guides  and  say,  "It  must 
be  a  good  thing,  there  are  so  many  passages  and 
long  quotations  from  the  Bible."  But  go  back 
and  hunt  there  for  a  passage  containing  the  name 
of  Jesus.  Either  passages  are  quoted  not  contain- 
ing that  name,  or  if  such  are  quoted  they  are 
printed  with  the  name  of  Christ  omitted.  If  a 
Freemason  is  here,  who  has  a  Masonic  Monitor, 
and  will  bring  it  to  me,  I  will  show  him  in  it  pas- 
sage after  passage  of  Scripture  which  in  the  Bible 
contains  the  name  of  our  Lord  Jesus  Christ,  and  in 
the  Masonic  monitor,  guide,  manual  or  hand-book 
is  printed,  pretending  to  be  Bible,  with  the  name  of 
his  Saviour  left  out.  Now  when  you  cut  the  name 
of  my  Saviour  out  of  my  Bible  you  may  have  the 
rest  of  it. 

MASONIO    ARROOANGK. 

Masonic  works  state  that  Freemasonry  is  a  re- 
gion. See  quotations  already  made  and  also  ob- 
serve its  arrogance.  It  pretends  to  save  its  devo- 
tees. It  has  its  temples,  its  altars,  its  prayers,  its 
censers,  its  incense,  its  ofticiating  priests,  and  claims 
to  send  its  dying  members  to  the  grand  lodge 
above,  with  Christ  rejected.  It  climbs  up  some 
other  way  without  a  "By  your  leave,  sir,"  to  the 
King  Eternal  on  the  throne,  and  Christ  says,  such 
are  "thieves  and  robbers."  He  also  says,  "No  man 
oometh  unto  the  Father  but  by  me."     Christ  is  the 


door  of  the  sheep  and  says,  "Whosoever  entereth  by 
me  shall  go  in  and  out  and  find  pasture."  Men  are 
fond  of  finding  false  systems.  But  Paul  said, 
"Other  foundation  can  no  man  lay  than  that  which 
is  laid — Jesus  Christ,  the  Righteous. 

The  secret  pretender  who  offers  salvation  without 
Christ  hath  an  arrogance  like  that  Indian  chief  in 
British  America  who  stalks  out  of  his  hovel  every 
morning,  bids  the  sun  "hey-dey"  and  points  out  to 
him  the  course  he  may  take  that  day  in  the  heavens; 
or  like  that  king  in  Calmuc  Tartary,  whose  trump- 
eters, after  he  has  dined,sound  before  his  palace  gate 
their  trumpets  to  give  notice  to  all  the  kings  of  the 
earth  that  the  Great  Cham  has  finished  his  dinner, 
and  all  the  rest  of  the  potentates  and  emperors  of 
the  earth  are  at  liberty  now  to  go  to  dinner. 

ITS   INNOCENT   PRETENSE   IS  ITS  DANGER. 

Does  it  really  give  any  man  a  standing  to  belong 
to  a  Christian  church  and  at  the  same  time  hold  a 
membership  in  such  an  institution  as  a  secret  lodge 
which  claims  to  save  men's  souls  and  yet  rejects 
from  its  worship,  by  its  standard  rules,  the  mention 
of  the  world's  Redeemer,  Jesus  Christ?  Can  a 
beggar  justly  and  safely  reject  a  righteous  king's 
request  and  remain  secure?  Can  a  hungry  man 
obstinately  and  safely  refuse  his  necessary  food? 
Can  a  traveler  walk  off  the  abyss  of  the  Merced  at 
the  Yosemite  valley  and  fall  three-quarters  of  a 
mile  and  hope  to  escape  unhurt?  Then  a  man  can 
not  belong  to  a  Christian  church  and  to  a  Christ-re- 
jecting institution  and  hope  to  be  saved.  Does  not 
such  a  religion  stand  out  as  a  sham  and  a  fraud? 
They  may  picture  King  Solomon  in  goose-yoke  and 
paper  horse-collar,  may  hang  an  Irish  linen  apron 
on  his  front,  they  may  crown  his  head  with  cocked 
hat  and  ostrich  plumes,  put  a  soda  fountain  behind 
his  door  and  a  beer  cellar  under  his  palace,  but  that 
will  not  make  it  harmless  to  make  an  idol  altar  in 
the  Temple  of  God  in  the  holy  city  Jerusalem.  It 
may  look  very  harmless  to  have  a  secret  society  in 
the  church,  as  it  did  an  idol  altar  in  the  temple. 
But  have  you  in  mind,  that  at  the  most  harmless 
and  innocent  moments  of  sin,  there  is  the  most 
danger?  Mr.  Spurgeon  says,  if  the  devil  should 
appear  at  his  door  with  hoofs  and  horns  and  pitch- 
fork, he  would  get  pitched  from  the  balcony  if  he 
(Spurgeon)  could  do  it.  But  the  devil  knows  better 
than  to  make  such  an  appearance.  So  he  appears, 
perhaps,  with  one  kid-glove  removed,  his  neck-scarf 
laid  across  his  srm,  his  silk  hat  in  his  right  hand, 
and  wearing  all  the  demeanor  of  a  gentleman  J 
would  be  inclined  to  invite  him  right  in. 

You  will  remember  that  Troy  in  the  Pelopenessus 
was  for  ten  years  besieged  by  the  fleets  and  forces  of 
the  Hellenes.  Worn  and  wearied  by  long  continued 
application,  they  seemed  heartily  to  wish  that  they 
had  not  begun  the  siege.  Many  bold  dashes,  made 
sometimes  by  Ulysses,  sometimes  by  Achilles, 
again  by  the  great  Agamemnon  himself,  or  finally 
was  every  Trojan  made  to  tremble  when  Ajax  drew 
the  sword.  But  all  was  to  no  purpose.  A  happy 
thought  finally  struck  the  council  of  war  and  they 
sent  for  Philoctates.  He  killed  Paris,  the  Trojan 
leader,  and  ^Eneas,  another  leader,  made  his  escape. 
Minerva,  the  goddess,  inspired  Epeus  to  construct  a 
huge  wooden  horse  and  place  him  on  wheels,  a  high 
toy.  This  was  done  and  a  hundred  of  the  bravest 
soldiers  were  quartered  within  him.  Then  the  siege 
was  raised,  the  ships  reladen,  the  tents  and 
barracks  on  the  shore  were  burned  by  the  departing 
army,  and  they  sailed  away  to  Tenedos.  They 
acted  as  though  they  had  given  up  the  whole  effort. 
But,  Christian  friend,  remember  your  enemy  is 
most  dangerous  just  when  he  seems  to  be  most 
harmless.  The  Trojans  broke  down  their  walls  and 
drew  the  great  toy,  the  wooden  horse,  within  the 
city.  A  debate  arose  as  to  what  to  do  with  the  cap- 
tured trophy.  Some  said,  burn  it;  others  said,  let 
us  throw  it  down  from  the  rocks  of  the  precipice. 
Others  urged,  let  us  consecrate  it  to  Minerva.  This 
they  did,  and  the  festivities  were  opened.  Sinon, 
upon  a  forged  tale,  was  admitted  as  a  fugitive  Hel- 
lenist. He  raised  torches;  the  ships  returned  from 
Tenedos,  and  the  shore  again  soon  swarmed  with 
advancing  soldiers.  The  hundred  men  within  heard 
the  shouts  of  their  fellows  and  came  forth  to  keep 
the  way  open,  and  Troy  fell  amid  the  em- 
blazonry of  its  glory,  and  at  the  hour  of  its 
triumph.  So  let  the  church  and  the  soldiers  of  the 
cross  beware,  lest  in  the  hour  of  their  greatest  fan- 
cied security,  they  may  be  secreting  within  her 
walls  the  secret  conclave  which  shall  swarm  with 
belligerents  and  keep  the  way  open  for  the  entry  of 
the  world  without.  We  must  keep  the  church  pure, 
her  hands  clean  and  her  raiment  white.  Then 
shoulder  to  shoulder,  hand  to  hand,  and  foot  to  foot, 
with  swords  drawn  and  shields  lapped,  we  will  as 
God's  faithful  army  press  onward  in  the  battle,  till 


from  tower  and  battlement  and  dome  shall  the 
shouts  of  the  sons  of  heaven  proclaim  the  victory 
won. 


Eetorm  News. 


TEB  BINGINO  MISSION  ART  IN  THE  SOUTH. 

New  Orleans,  La.,  Mar.  13,  1888, 

Editor  Christian  Cynosure  : — Mr.  George  W. 
Clark  is  a  wonderful  man,  both  physically  and  psy- 
chically. Having  reached  the  age  of  75  years,  his 
hand  does  not  tremble  yet  and  his  knees  do  not 
shake.  There  he  stands,  with  the  elasticity  of  the 
youth,speaking  with  eloquent  gesticulation  and  with 
the  dignity,  mildness  and  experience  of  age.  In 
praising  the  heavenly  gift  of  water,  so  pure  and 
fresh  and  clear  as  heaven  itself,  he  holds  up  a  tumb- 
ler filled  to  the  rim  and  not  a  single  drop  of  this 
restless  and  fugitive  element  flies  from  the  cup  he 
holds.  True,  as  he  stands  by  cold  water,  so  stands 
cold  water  by  him.  He  may  appreciate  this  gift  of 
God,  but  water  on  its  side  does  also  appreciate  this 
friend's  song  and  speech,  not  by  stimulating  him  a 
few  moments  only,  as  alcohol  would  do,  but  by  giv- 
ing him  strength,  health  and  power. 

There  he  stands — this  man,  clean  and  free  from 
the  poison  of  nicotine  and  alcohol,  and  speaks  and 
sings  two  hours  and  more  in  a  voice  that  every  one 
in  the  audience  can  hear,  and  in  a  way  that  you 
never  get  tired  of  listening  to;  and  having  done  he 
goes  to  another  place  and  sometimes  to  a  third  on 
the  same  day  and  does  the  same. 

Mr.  Clark  lectured  twice  in  my  congregation,  the 
First  German  M.  E.  church  in  New  Orleans.  His 
subject  was  "Liquor  and  Tobacco."  In  his  first  lec- 
ture he  showed  by  means  of  scientific  charts  the  ef- 
fect of  liquor  and  tobacco  on  the  stomach.the  heart, 
the  liver,  the  kidneys,  the  eyes,  the  blood  and  the 
whole  nervous  system.  He,  moreover,  illustrated 
his  subject  by  facts  taken  from  daily  life  showing 
how  such  and  such  a  person  suffered  and  died  an 
early  death  by  the  terrible  influence  of  alcohol  and 
nicotine.  These  facts  speak  for  themselves;  but 
everybody  knows  they  do  not  speak  loud  enough, 
for  they  are  constantly  suppressed  by  the  tobacco 
and  liquor  dealers  and  by  their  customers.and  there- 
fore they  need  somebody  who  speaks  them  out,  cries 
them  out  and  sings  them  out  to  the  world.  Mr. 
Clark  is  the  man  called  from  God  to  do  this  work. 
In  his  second  lecture  Mr.  Clark  showed  the  influence 
of  liquor  and  tobacco  on  the  social  and  moral  life. 
He  gave  about  a  dozen  instances,  which  were  each 
of  them  facts  of  history,  showing  the  terrible  influ- 
ence of  that  evil  on  the  whole  human  life. 

I  am  convinced  that  these  lectures  made  a  deep 
and  wholesome  impression  upon  our  young  folks 
and  I  know  that  even  some  of  our  older  brethren 
were  very  much  profited  by  what  they  heard.  One 
young  man  gave  up  smoking  entirely.  Another 
saved  thirty-five  cents  in  the  week  after  the  first  lec- 
ture, and  another  is  giving  it  up  by  degrees.  My 
hope  and  desire  was  that  after  the  second  lecture 
old  and  young  should  have  been  willing  to  do  the 
will  of  God  and  to  leave  alcohol  and  tobacco  alone, 
no  matter  in  what  form  or  shape  these  poisons  may 
present  themselves. 

I  am  much  indebted  to  Mr,  Stoddard  for  having 
recommended  Mr,  Clark  to  me,  and  if  this  valiant 
champion  of  temperance  should  need  any  recommen- 
dation for  my  German  brethren  in  Texas,  where  he 
intends  to  go,  I  should  be  very  much  pleased  to  do 
it  by  these  lines.  But  methinks  there  is  no  need  of 
that.  Oaly  look  in  the  face  of  this  venerable  gen- 
tleman; he  speaks  for  himself. 

God  bless  you,  dear  brother  Clark,  and  give  you 
many  more  years  to  live  and  to  work  for  the  benefit 
of  your  fellow  men  and  for  the  glorj  of  our  blessed 
Saviour.  B.  Bobzingbr. 


BRO.  CLARK  REPORTS  FOR  HIMSELF . 

New  OaLBANS,  La.,  Mar,  8,  1888, 
I  am  speaking  and  singing  every  day  and  night, 
sometimes  twice  a  day.  There  were  fine  audiences 
at  Leland  University  yesterday,  and  last  night  at  the 
St.  Mark's  Baptist.  I  have  spoken  at  the  Freed- 
man's  Baptist  conference,  and  tonight  am  to  be  at 
Shiloh  Baptist  church.  Saturday,  Sunday  and  Mon- 
day I  go  to  New  Iberia;  and  next  week  into  Texas 
for  a  series  of  meetings. 

I  miss  some  whom  I  hoped  to  meet,  but  shall 
never  see  the  dear  face  again  until  we  greet  each 
other  on  the  fair  banks  of  Deliverance.  Dear  broth- 
er Woodsmall,  he  ceased  from  his  labors  suddenly 
last  week  at  the  LeMoyne  Institute  at  Memphis, 
He  was  one  of  the  most  indefatigable  "laborers,"  in- 
deed, that  I  ever  knew, — sincere,  earnest,  devoted, 
ceaseless, — we  cannot  say  "tireless,"  for  he  was 


Makoh  22,  1888 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE- 


Ured  all  the  time,  but  could  not  take  time  to  rest. 
One  lung  gone,  the  other  almost  gone,  he  coughed 
and  struggled  for  breath,  and  yet  worked  away  with 
the  harness  on  until  he  dropped  in  the  furrow.  Our 
labors  together  in  the  Southwestern  States  last  win- 
ter were  severely  trying,  yet  feeble  as  he  was  he 
bore  the  ordeal  bravely  and  uncomplainingly  for 
Christ's  sake,  and  the  poor  colored  people.  He  has 
done  a  great  work  for  them.  I  know  of  no  one  who 
can  fill  his  measure  on  their  behalf.  He  wrote  me  a 
short  time  before  his  death  to  come  South  and  join 
him  again  this  winter,  still  determined  to  work  on. 
But  the  Master  has  "called  him  up  higher." 

Gko.  W.  Clark. 


TEE  TIDE  8TILL  RlBIhQ  IN  NEW  ORLEANS. 

New  Orleans,  La. 

Dear  Cynosure: — Although  the  majority  of  the 
Baptist  ministers  in  this  State  are  anti-secretists, 
there  seem  to  be  a  few  that  yet  love  darkness  rath- 
er than  light.  The  Oddfellows  had  a  thanksgiving 
sermon  preached  at  the  Old  Baptist  church  of  this 
city  Sabbath  evening,  Mar.  4th,  after  sacrament. 
Although  the  pastor  of  this  church,  Rev.  J.  L.  Burl, 
it  is  said  has  renounced  the  lodge,  yet  he  tried,  so  I 
am  told,  to  prove  in  his  sermon  tliat  Odd-fellowship 
is  founded  on  the  Bible,  and  there  is  no  harm  in  se- 
crecy. Satan  always  tries  to  pervert  the  mind  and 
deceive  the  thoughtless  ones  by  the  mock  use  of  the 
Scriptures,  and  turning  the  truth  of  Grod  into  a  lie. 

The  secretists  are  boasting  of  this  as  a  triumph 
over  us  Anti-masons.  Satan  always  makes  a  loud 
noise  and  boasts  of  victory,  especially  when  he 
knows  that  his  strongholds  are  gradually  giving  way. 
The  secretists  know  very  well  they  are  losing  their 
foothold,  so  they  must  make  a  loud  noise  to  be  heard. 

I  attended  the  Freedman's  Baptist  Association 
Mar.  6th  and  spoke  to  many  of  the  ministers  and 
distributed  many  tracts  and  Cynosures.  One  pastor, 
Rev.  J.  Miller,  of  .Jeanerette,  La.,  besought  me  to 
give  him  a  Masonic  book.  It  would  be  of  great  help 
to  him  in  opposing  secretism.  He  subscribed  for 
the  Cynosure  and  I  gave  him  a  book.  Several  sisters 
who  were  present  belong  to  secret  societies,  but 
promised  to  read  the  tracts  and  give  secretism  a 
careful  study. 

The  following  has  been  carefully  prepared  to  hand 
to  Rev.  A.  S.  Jackson: 

The  undersigned,  believing  that  secret  societies  are  in- 
juring the  church  and  cause  of  Christ,  by  separating 
brethren  and  encouraging  practices  and  teaching  doc- 
trines not  authorized  by  the  Scriptures,  desire  to  unite 
ourselves  in  an  undenominational,  non-partisan  Chris- 
tian organization  for  mutual  council,  encouragement  and 
assistance  in  opposing  and  exposing  the  secret  lodge  sys- 
tem. We  learn  with  satisfaction  that  Rev.  A.  S.  Jack- 
son, Rev.  J.  F.  Marshall,  Rev.  B.  Boezinger,  and  Rev. 
H.  C.  Green  were  appointed  at  the  late  meeting  of  the 
National  Christian  Association  a  committee  to  call  a 
meeting  and  submit  a  plan  for  organization.  We  respect- 
fully request  said  committee  to  call  said  meeting  at  as 
early  a  day  as  is  in  their  judgment  practicable.     Signed: 

Rev.  Quy  Beck,  pastor  First  Free  Mission  Baptist 
church,  seventh  district. 

Rev.  George  Butler,  pastor  Shiloh  Baptist  church, 
Gouldsborough. 

Rev.  J.  T.  Granderson,  pastor  Pilgrim  Baptist  church. 
Grand  Prairie,  La. 

Rev.  J.  W.  Womack,  pastor  Mount  Moriah  Baptist 
church,  New  Orleans. 

C.  W  Sterry.  221  Baronne  St. 

Rev.  Wm.  W.  Davis,  pastor  St.  Mark's  Fourth  Baptist 
church. 

Rev.  C.  H.  Claiborne,  pastor  Spain  St.  Congregational 
church. 

Rev.  I.  H.  Hall,  pastor  Morris  Brown  A  M.  E.  church. 

Rev.  Martin  L.  Berger,  D.  D.,  pastor  Straight  Univer- 
sity Congregational  church. 

Rev.  H .  C.  Green,  pastor  Shiloh  Baptist  church,  first 
district,  N.  C. 

Rev.  A.  J.  White,  453.1  Jackson  St. 

Rev.  John  G.  Nelson,  159  Clio  St., pastor  Scandinavian 
church. 

Rev.  W.  P.  Forest,  pastor  St.  James  M.  E.  church,  St. 
Charles  parish. 

Rev.  Wm.  Hamilton,  pastor  Baptist  church,  St.  So- 
phia, La. 

Rev.  H.  P.  Kelly,  Algiers,  La.,  pastor  4th  St  Baptist 
church. 

Rev.  C.  Pierson,  pastor  Baptist  church,  English 
Turn,  La. 

Rev.  Bazile  Dorsey,  pastor  St.  John  Baptist  church, 
Dorseyville,  La. 

Rev.  J.  Miller,  pastor  Baptist  church,  Jeanerette,  La. 

Francis  James  Davidson,  colporteur  N.  C.  A.,  152 
Clara  St. 

I  preached  Sabbath  evening  at  the  colored  Pres- 
byterian church.  Rev.  L.  W.  Oldfield,  pastor.  Bro. 
Clark  lectured  on  temperance  in  St.  Mark's  Fourth 
Baptist  church  Wednesday  evening.  The  audience 
was  fair  and  attention  good,  although  the  rumites, 
beerites,  tobaccoites,  etc.,  were  largely  represented. 
Bro.  Clark  and  I  attended  the  Freedman's  Baptist 


Association  on  the  8th.  There  were  about  250  per- 
sons present.  Bro.  Clark  sang  and  lectured  on  tem- 
perance and  secret  societies  for  an  hour. '  He  was 
often  interrupted  while  speaking  with  "Yes,  yes!" 
"True,  brotherl"  "That's  a  fact!"  etc.  I  distributed 
about  fifty  Cynosures  and  a  lot  of  tracts  and  took 
one  subscriber. 

Bro.  Clark  sung  and  lectured  last  night  at  Shi- 
loh Baptist  church.  The  house  was  well  packed 
and  the  lecture  well  received.  Bro.  Clark  leaves  to- 
morrow for  New  Iberia.  His  songs  and  lectures 
will  long  be  remembered  here  by  our  people.  They 
will  surely  be  as  bread  cast  upon  the  water.  May 
God  bless  him  and  crown  his  labors  with  abundant 
success.  F.  James  Davidson. 


READY  FOR  SPRING   WORK  IN  IOWA. 


BRO.    HAWLEY   MUD-BOUND — AN  INCIDENT   OF    ABOLI- 
TION  DAYS— ODD-FBLLOW  SLAVE- CATCHING. 


March  12,  1888. 

Dear  Cynosure. — From  Cuba  I  went  to  the  Cas- 
tle school  house.  Rev.  Mr.  Acheson  accompanying 
me,  and  gave  a  lecture  there.  The  following  Sab- 
bath was  a  rainy  day.  I  attended  the  Covenanter 
church.  Rev.  Thompson,  pastor,  and  after  the  ser- 
mon gave  a  short  address  on  the  relation  of  the  se- 
cret orders  to  the  church.  On  Monday  I  went  to 
the  place  where  I  had  lectured  last,  and  there  and 
in  the  adjoining  neighborhood  secured  seven  new 
subscribers  to  the  Cynosure. 

Owing  to  the  fact  that  I  was  threatened  with  a 
blockade  of  mud,  and  that  nearly  three  months  had 
passed  since  I  was  at  home  to  visit  my  family,  I  de- 
cided not  to  continue  my  labors  in  Monroe  county 
longer  at  present,  and  turned  eastward  to  Salem  in 
Henry  county,  calling  upon  those  staunch  friends  of 
reform,  Isaac  Gibson  and  Zackariah  Foss.  From 
Salem  I  went  to  Chestnut  Hill,  and  preached  in  the 
Friends  church  Sabbath  morning,  and  at  a  mission 
point  in  the  evening.  On  Monday  night  I  lectured 
in  the  Friends  church  of  Chestnut  Hill. 

From  there  I  was  conveyed  to  Denmark,  in  Lee 
county,  by  Rev.  Mr.  Hull.  But  mud  and  rain  seemed 
to  stand  in  the  way  of  successful  work,  and  so  with 
the  aid  of  Bro.  Hull  I  reached  Burlington  where  1 
took  the  train  for  Wheaton,  III,  where  I  am  enjoy- 
ing a  delightful  reunion  with  the  loved  ones  of  my 
home  circle. 

Last  Sabbath  I  preached  twice  for  Dr.  Stratton  of 
(^Continued  on  12th  page.) 


Correspondence. 


TEXAS  SECRETISTS  ANGRT  AND   THREAT- 
ENING. 


San  Antonio,  Texas,  March  9,  1888. 

Dear  Cynosure: — I  came  here  shortly  after  re- 
turning from  New  Orleans,  I  never  knew  before 
the  great  power  secrecy  had  on  its  subjects.  While 
here  Rev.  S.  Kurlock,  the  founder  of  the  S.  S.  of  C. 
(Seven  Stars  of  Consolidation)  and  who  gives  hit 
whole  time  to  organizing  lodges,  came  to  the  city. 
He  was  to  lecture  at  the  Methodist  church  on  "The 
Stumbling-blocks  of  the  Negro." 

I  went  to  hear  him.  He  spoke  of  all  the  bad  acts 
of  his  race  and  said  they  were  worse  now  than  before 
the  war;  adding  that  what  was  needed  was  societies. 
He  said  Masonry  had  preserved  the  Bible  at  one 
time.  After  his  long  talk  he  offered  the  S.  S.  of  C. 
as  a  remover  of  the  "stumbling-blocks,"  He  never 
referred  to  the  "blood  of  Christ,"  which  alone 
cleanses  from  all  sin. 

In  his  remarks  he  said  they  intended  to  make  it 
warm  for  all  who  opposed  secret  societies,  and  a 
general  response  came  from  leading  members  of  the 
different  churches.  This  was  directly  to  me,  as  I 
had  been  distributing  tracts. 

Next  day  I  met  Rev.  A,  Grant,  the  pastor  of  the 
same  church,  who  is  one  of  our  leading  men,  and  an 
aspirant  for  the  bishoprick  at  the  General  Confer- 
ence of  the  A.  M.  E.  church.  He  began  a  tirade  on 
me.  After  I  defined  my  position  he  said  he 
would  not  read  the  paper  and  tracts  published  by 
the  N.  C.  A.  He  added  that  he*  had  always  had  a 
high  opinion  of  me,  but  now  he  could  not  even  re- 
spect me  as  a  brother.  I  told  him  I  would  discuss 
the  matter  with  him  on  Bible  grounds,  to  which  he 
replied  he  did  not  want  to  see  me  hung  and  there- 
fore would  not  discuss  it  with  me. 

Here  under  the  shadow  of  the  Alamo  where 
Crockett  fell,  where  Bishop  Turner  was  mobbed  by 
a  drunken  crowd,  I  was  threatened  by  a  minister  be- 
cause I  offered  to  assert  my  convictions.  This  same 
prominent  minister  said  he  had  more  faith  in  Col. 
IngersoU  than  half  the  preachers. 

I  distributed  what  papers  I  could,  and  found  sev- 


eral friends  who  are  in  sympathy  with  our  work, 
but  the  people  are  so  tied  up  in  these  lodges  that 
they  are  afraid  to  speak  against  any  of  their  ugly 
acts,  as  the  following  will  show: 

An  Odd-fellow  killed  a  man  recently  and  the  lodge 
is  credited  with  robbing  the  law  of  its  man.  The 
secretary  of  one  of  the  lodges  at  their  Sunday  meet- 
ing, cursed  ministers.  Christians  and  sinners  as  if 
they  were  dogs,  because  they  asked  an  inspection  of 
his  books,  and  yet  they  go  on  in  F.  L.  and  T.  On 
the  4th  inst.  they  turned  out,  rented  a  hall,  called 
them  a  pastor  and  held  services  as  any  other  congre- 
gation. 

Many  with  whom  1  talked  are  opposed  to  the 
lodge,  but  as  I  myself  was  once,  they  know  not  how 
to  shake  it  off.  Rev.  A.  A.  Rivers  of  this  place  has 
never  joined  the  lodge,  and  is  against  it,  but  not 
out-spoken.  The  two  preachers  with  closed  eyes 
and  hearts  refused  to  hear  what  God  says  against 
the  lodge,  and  pronounced  upon  me  a  curse  similar 
to  that  of  Rome  on  Dr.  McGlynn.  Rev.  Toliver  is 
at  work  for  the  cause  and  God  is  giving  him  power 
with  men. 

I  go  to-day  to  attend  our  Foreign  Mission  Board 
meeting  at  his  church,  and  hope  to  do  something  for 
our  cause.  The  spirit  worked  up  and  exhibited  by 
these  ministers  caused  my  wife  and  friends  to  fear 
some  of  the  lodge  folk  would  attempt  to  do  me  some 
bodily  harm.  The  tracts  were  well  read.  Knots  of 
men  could  be  seen  for  several  days  on  the  streets, 
one  reading  to  the  others.  I  am  sure  good  was 
done.  I  was  pastor  here  some  years  ago,  and  many 
whom  I  baptized  turned  from  me  when  they  knew  I 
had  left  the  lodge. 

Since  our  meeting  at  New  Orleans  I  was  told  that 
the  names  of  all  who  are  in  sympathy  with  us,  are 
sent  to  the  brotherhood  (?),  so  says  Bro.  Grant. 
This  is  used  to  intimidate.  When  I  asked  my  broth- 
ers for  a  "Thus  saith  the  Lord"  for  their  assertions, 
they  said  theirs  was  a  matter  of  history,  God  will 
help  the  right.  Pray  for  us.  The  Convention  greatly 
strengthened  me  for  the  war.  I  truly  hope  Bro. 
Hinman  will  again  visit  Texas.  I  am  yours  in 
Jesus,  L.  G.  Jordan. 


I'HE  FIRE  SPREADS  FROM  NEW  ORLEANS. 


TWO   LETTERS   FROM   MORGAN   CITY,   LA. 


I  am  a  reader  of  your  paper  and  a  worker  in  the 
reform  army.  I  was  converted  from  the  Masonic 
lodge  four  years  ago  through  the  instructions  of 
your  most  valuable  paper.  I  have  had  great  oppo- 
sition from  the  lodgites;  but  never  yield  an  inch. 
I  live  eighty  miles  from  New  Orleans  in  a  little 
country  town  of  about  five  hundred  inhabitants,  and 
in  this  small  number  of  inhabitants  we  have  thirteen 
different  lodges  including  Masons,  Odd-fellows, 
Knights  of  Pythias,  and  hosts  of  others.  I  belong 
to  a  Baptist  church  that  declares  against  all  secret 
societies.  The  pastor  of  my  church  attended  the 
New  Orleans  Convention  held  by  the  N.  C.  A.  He 
was  delighted  with  its  proceedings,  especially  with 
Bro.  Countee's  statements. 

I  would  thank  you  very  kindly  for  a  few  free 
tracts.  I  think  I  can  use  them  to  some  advantage 
to  the  reform  cause.  The  society  people  are  put  to 
their  wits'  end,  studying  how  to  offset  the  infiuence 
of  the  convention,  because  a  goodly  number  are 
leaving  the  lodges.  Among  this  number  is  to  be 
found  Rev.  M.  C.  B.  Mason,  whom  I  assisted  to  ini- 
tiate. Alex.  Oliver. 

A   DANIEL'S    BAND. 

I  have  been  reading  your  valuable  paper,  the 
Cynosure,  through  the  kindness  of  dear  Brother  A. 
Oliver,  Jr.,  and  through  its  God-sent  columns  I  have 
been  convinced  that  no  man,  woman  or  child  can  be 
a  consistent  Christian  and  be  a  member  of  secret 
societies,  I  can  say  from  personal  knowledge  that 
they  are  detrimental  to  the  cause  of  Christ  I  was 
a  member  of  the  Odd-fellows  for  five  years,  but 
thanks  to  the  Lord  I  have  been  delivered  from  the 
jaws  of  this  monster.  The  order  prevails  in  this 
community. 

Though  I  am  unable  to  compete  with  those  who 
defend  the  cause  of  the  lodge  because  I  am  un- 
learned (tll^ugh  I  read  and  write),  but  thanks  be  to 
God  I  have\his  promise,  "If  any  man  lack  wis- 
dom, let  him  ask  of  God,  who  giveth  to  all  men 
liberally  and  upbraideth  not"  I  have  no  money  to 
give  to  help  the  reform  cause  on,  but  you  have  my 
prayers, 

I  wanted  to  attend  the  convention  at  New  Or- 
leans, but  was  unable.  My  pastor  attended  and  is 
enthused  over  the  meeting.  He  is  determined  to  be 
numbered  with  the  reformers.  You  can  judge  how 
it  ie  at  this  place  with  Bro,  Oliver  and  myself 
being  the  only  two  young  men  in  town  who  have 


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2HE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


Mabch  22, 1888 


declared  against  the  secret  societies;  but  after  read- 
ing of  the  glorious  work  of  the  reformer  brethren 
elsewhere,  we  cry  out  with  the  apostle  Paul, 
"Thanks  be  to  God,  who  giveth  us  the  victory 
through  our  Lord  and  Saviour  Jesus  Christ."  We 
take  courage  and  go  forward. 

May  the  blessings  of  God  crown  the  reform  work 
with  abundance  of  success.  My  earnest  prayer  to 
God  is  that  all  dark  things  that  tend  to  cramp  the 
Gospel,  be  brought  to  light  and  exposed  as  was  the 
abduction  of  Captain  Morgan. 

Edwakd  D.  Simms. 


lodge?  Is  it  not  a  time  to  ask,  "Who  is  on  the 
Lord's  side?"  and  for  those  implicated  to  answer 
when  such  suspicions  are  avowed? 

J.  P.  Stoddakd. 


Bible  Lesson. 


PITH  AND  POINT. 


2EAL  R1BB8  ABOVE  POVERTY. 

Little  River,  Rice  Co.,  Kans. 

Editor  Christian  Cynosure: — I  have  distrib- 
uted every  tract  sent  me,  and  have  three  more 
places  to  supply;  the  people  have  turned  out 
tn  masse  to  hear  the  anti-christian  character  of  se- 
cret societies  discussed,  and  I'm  only  fairly  started 
now.  I  announce  two  weeks  in  advance  that  I  shall 
speak  on  this  subject,  and  when  the  people  turn  out 
I  distribute  the  tracts.  The  result  is  that  the  peo. 
pie  are  getting  their  eyes  opened  on  the  subject  and 
are  anxious  for  tracts. 

Money  is  the  scarcest  article  on  these  wind- 
swept plains.  I  have  five  large  congregations  and 
am  among  the  people  all  the  time,  and  to  relate  the 
straits  that  some  of  our  people  are  in  would  seem 
an  exaggeration.  Think  of  taking  three  persons 
to  keep  up  the  only  wretched  fire  in  a  houseful  of 
children  I  One  goes  out  and  cuts  corn-stalks  out  of 
the  field;  another .  hauls  them  in  and  cuts  them  in 
stove  lengths,  and  a  third  stuffs  the  cook-stove, 
which  is  barely  sufficient  to  warm  the  house.  Coal 
is  worth  from  $6.50  to  $7.50  per  ton,  and  I  have 
bought  just  as  good  in  Wheaton,  111.,  for  $3.50  per 
ton.  Cattle  and  horses  in  a  great  many  places 
have  succumbed  to  starvation  and  cold.  One  thing 
yet  remains  to  these  poor  people,  and  that  is  hope. 

Small-pox  is  raging  in  all  the  towns  around  us, 
and  there  is  a  case  in  this  town  not  more  than  one 
hundred  and  fifty  yards  from  our  home  where  I  now 
write.  Each  of  these  towns  have  declared  a  quar- 
antine against  the  rest.  Business  is  flat,  because 
communication  is  cut  off  from  surrounding  towns. 

My  regards  to  all  friends,  and  tell  them  "I  know 
in  whom  I  hare  believed."  One  of  these  days  this 
anti-lodge  reform' wfll  open  a  crack  in  mother  earth 
for  its  enemies,  worse  and  wider  than  the  one  which 
opened  in  the  days  of  Korah,  Dathan  and  Abiram. 
And  if  these  things  die  a  natural  death,  "then  the 
Lord  hath  not  spoken  by  me."  Let  the  wedge 
enter.     Yours,  thumping  on  the  wedge, 

G.    T.  DiSSETTE. 


FROM  BISHOP  EEPHART8  MA80NI0  NEIGH- 
BORS. 


Is  it  true  that  Bishop  E.  B.  Kephart  has  changed 
his  views  in  regard  to  Freemasonry  and  kindred 
orders?  I  am  led  to  make  this  inquiry  by  a  con- 
versation recently  had  with  a  near  neighbor  of  his. 
A  gentleman  and  his  wife  and  daughter  occupied  a 
birth  near  Mrs.  Stoddard  and  myself  on  our  return 
trip  from  New  Orleans.  I  learned  that  they  were 
from  Toledo,  Iowa,  and  much  interested  in  the  col- 
lege there;  that  they  knew  several  people  with 
whom  I  had  an  acquaintance,  and  that  they  dis- 
tinctly recollected  the  meetings  in  their  court  house, 
when  several  years  ago  Mr.  Ronayne  opened  a  lodge 
and  publicly  worked  the  first  and  third  degrees  of 
Masonry.  The  gentleman  said  Bishop  Kephart's 
house  was  very  near  to  his,  and  that  their  relations 
were  intimate.  When  I  spoke  of  the  Bishop's 
record  on  the  anti-secrecy  line,  and  mentioned  bis 
speech  in  Farwell  Hall,  and  that  he  had  encour- 
aged the  discussion  at  Western,  Iowa,  and  partici- 
pated in  several  conventions,  the  man  expressed 
great  surprise.  He  had  never  heard  any  expression 
from  the  Bishop  averse  to  the  lodge;  said  he  par- 
ticipated in  some  public  meeting  of  the  orders  ad- 
dressed by  a  distinguished  M.  E.  minister  at  their 
town;  and  that  he  did  not  believe  the  Bishop  was 
DOW  opposed  to  the  Masons. 

I  thought  it  strange  that  a  near  neighbor  and  in- 
timate friend  who  took  a  deep  interest  in  the  col- 
lege should  be  in  such  utter  ignorance  of  the  Bish- 
op's record  and  views  on  so  important  and  distinct- 
ive a  feature  of  the  U.  B.  faith,  unless  the  Bishop 
had  "put  his  light  under  a  bushel,"  or  "snuffed  it 
out"  altogether. 

If  the  light  that  is  in  the  Bishop  be  darkness,  so 
that  his  "intimate  friend"  stumbles  into  grievous 
error,  how  is  it  with  Bro.  M.  S.  Drury  and  the  col- 
lege? Are  they  blind  leaders  of  the  blind  in  this 
great  contest  between  Christ  and  bis  bride,  the 
church,  and  Satan   and   his   bride,  the   Christless 


BRO.    RAYNOK   TO   BEGIN    WORK  IN    PENNSYLVANIA. 

I  trust,  also,  a  good  Providence  will  permit  me  to  do 
some  lecture  work  in  this  part  of  our  State;  I  purpose  to 
expose  secret  orders  in  our  county  seat.  I  have  a  list  of 
150  names  of  ministers,  all  opposed  to  the  lodge,  and 
over  fifty  of  them  seceders  from  Masonry.  I  would  en- 
deavor to  have  every  known  friend  of  the  cause  send  a 
list  of  all  other  friends  so  that  we  may  know  our  forces. 
Please  send  me  tracts  for  distribution,  if  you  can  spare 
such  as  you  advertise  recently. — Jab,  W.  Raynor. 

HOW   THEY     SWARM, 

Secret  societies  are  making  some  progress  in  our  vil- 
lage. We  have  had  the  G.  A.  R.  running  for  some  years. 
Now  the  Sons  of  Veterans  are  trying  to  attract  the  atten- 
tion of  the  public.  A  lodge  of  Good  Templars  was  or- 
ganized this  winter  after  repeated  failures.  The  Grand 
Worthy  Chief  Templar  of  the  State  favored  us  with  the 
presence  of  his  exalted  person,  delivered  a  series  of  lec- 
tures, ending  with  the  organization  of  a  lodge.  The 
lodge  I  think  is  a  small  one  and  keeps  very  quiet.  There 
is  a  Grange,  too,  but  I  don't  know  whether  it  is  dead  or 
alive.  The  lodge  of  Knights  of  Honor  is  dead. — W.  W.  T., 
Huntstille,  Ohio. 

THE   CONVENTION    REPORT   IN    GERMAN. 

The  success  at  the  National  Convention  held  in  New 
Orleans  as  reported  in  the  last  number  of  your  esteemed 
paper  is  quite  encouraging.  I  sincerely  believe  that  the 
Cynosure  is  doing  a  good  and  grand  work  for  the 
good  cause .  By  next  mail  I  will  send  you  a  sam- 
ple copy  of  our  paper,  Ghristlicher  Bundesbote.  I  have 
thought  of  translating  the  report  of  the  National  Con- 
vention for  the  paper. — I.  A.  Sommer. 

We  sincerely  hope  our  brother  editor  will  make  this 
translation.  There  are  secret  lodges  composed  almost 
entirely  of  Germans,  and  there  should  be  more  printed 
in  the  German  language  against  them. 

ONE    WITH     GOD   A  MAJORITY. 

Secrecy  holds  the  ground  here.  The  churches  and 
papers  are  mouth-locked,  and  as  we  have  no  lectures,  the 
work  goes  hard.  I  am  comparatively  alone  here,  but 
God  is  with  me.  I  am  seventy-three  years  old,  but  I  hope 
to  live  to  see  the  tide  turned  on  secrecy  as  I  have  seen  it 
on  slavery. — L.  B.  Lathrop,  HoUister,  Gal. 

FROM   THE  KNOXVILLE   CONVENTION   SECRETARY. 

I  am  rejoiced  to  hear  of  the  success  of  the  New  Or- 
leans Convention,  and  only  sorry  that  I  was  not  present 
to  enjoy  it;  yet,  so  it  is,  no  soldier  can  be  present  at  every 
"famous  victory."  The  reports  of  the  Convention  cause 
many  to  look  as  though  they  had  heard  the  knell  of 
their  final  doom.  God  bless  you  and  your  labors  and 
prosper  the  Cynosure  and  N.  C.  A. — (Rev.)  Lewis 
Johnston. 

fifteen  tears  and  yet  grows  better. 
Inclosed  please  find  three  dollars  for  the  Ministers' 
Fund  for  the  South.  Let  those  who  sit  in  darkness,  of 
every  clime,  have  the  light!  I  have  read  the  Cynosure 
for  over  fifteen  years,  and  it  grows  more  interesting  all 
the  time ;  the  two  articles  on  the  second  page  of  Febru- 
ary 23  are  worth  the  subscription,  and  so  true.  I  take  a 
good  paper  for  every  day  in  the  week  (except  Sunday), 
and  I  would  rather  give  up  any  of  them,  or  all  of  them, 
than  the  Cynosure.  When  I  gel  hold  of  it  these  winter 
evenings,  I  can  neither  stop  to  eat  or  sleep  until  I  have 
gone  through  it.  May  God  bless  and  prosper  the  cause 
of  righteousness,  as  I  know  he  will, — S.  Simpson,  Oar- 
field,  Washington  Territory. 

A   MASSACHUSETTS    VETERAN. 

Dear  Bro. — Enclosed  are  ten  dollars  for  the  Cynosure 
to  be  sent  to  the  Southern  ministers.  The  instant  our 
faithful  worker,  Robert  Mansfield,  told  me  of  the  Cyno- 
sure I  paid  him  for  it.  A  few  copies  I  think  had  been 
printed.  There  will  be  some  copies  paid  for  for  some 
one  to  read  after  my  work  is  done. — Increase  Lead- 
better. 

tract  work  in  california. 
I  have  distributed  over  2.000  of  your  tracts  in  lowa.and 
now  I  have  the  names  of  the  different  ministers  that  I 
wish  to  send  to  and  some  business  men.  Oh,  how  I 
wish  I  had  ten  thousand  pages!  I  could  make  them  do 
good.  I  could  tell  you  of  many  incidents  of  the  tracts 
I  have  already  distributed.  One  highly  educated  young 
man  in  a  good  office  said  to  me  after  reading  the  tract 
about  Wm.  H.  Seward  and  our  government,  "Oh,  I  am 
BO  glad  I  read  it,  for  I  had  intended  to  join  the  Masons; 
but  now  I  never  can," — 8.  L.  W.,  Santa  Maria,  Oal. 

A    GOOD    KANSAS    TOWN. 

We  are  doing  all  we  can  for  the  good  cause  you  advo- 
cate in  your  paper.  The  Knights  of  Pythias  organized 
here  last  week,  and  we  are  getting  up  a  club  for  the  ex- 
position book,  which  will  accompany  this  letter.  This 
is  the  only  secret  order  we  have  here  in  our  town,  and 
we  want  to  overpower  it.  I  am  distributing  all  the  pa- 
pers I  can,  and  we  want  a  lot  of  tracts  to  distribute. 
Also  we  want  a  lot  of  anti-secret  men  to  settle  here, 
both  farmers  and  business  men.  We  have  a  fine  town 
and  a  fine  county.  Any  persons  wishing  to  change  their 
location  please  address  me  at  Macksville,  Stafford  countr, 
Kansas,  and  I  will  give  all  the  information  desired. — M. 
E.  Becktell. 


STUDIES  IN  THE  NEW  TESTAMENT. 

LESSON  I.— April  1.— The  Marriage  Feast.— Matt.  23: 1-14. 

GOLDEN  TEXT.— Blessed  are  they  which  are  caUed  unto 

the  marriage  supper  of  the  Lamb.— Rev.  19 :  9. 1 

yOpen  tht  Bible  and  read  the  Iwsok.] 

IFrom  Words  and  Weapons.] 

In  our  last  lesson  we  saw  the  action  of  the  Jewish 
nation  in  rejecting  Jesus  as  their  Messiah  and  King.  In 
the  parable  before  us  to-day  we  see  the  grace  of  God, 
notwithstanding,  making  a  marriage  feast,  bidding  to  it 
these  same  Jews,  and  making  them  the  preferred  guests. 
A  earful  reading  of  the  Acts  of  the  Apostles  will  give  us 
these  details  in  the  actual  events  which  followed  the  res- 
urrection of  our  Lord. 

I.  The  Marriage  Feast.— The  kingdom  of  heaven 
is  that  reign  of  grace,  so  intimately  connected  with  the 
earth,  so  vitally  necessary  to  man,whose  operations  cover 
both  heaven  and  earth  and  ext3nd  from  time  into  eternity. 
The  King  who  made  this  feast  is,  of  course,  God  the 
Father;  he  in  whose  honor  it  was  given,  Christ  the  Son; 
and  the  servants  sent  forth  to  bid  the  guests,  the  Apos- 
tles. In  substance  and  reality  the  marriage  feast  is  the 
marriage  supper  of  the  Lamb  (Rev.  19:  9),  and  the  bride 
and  the  worthy  guests  are  identical. 

II.  To  THE  Jew  First. — The  apostles,  during  our 
Lord's  ministry,  were  not  to  go  in  the  way  of  the  Gen- 
tiles Dor  into  any  city  of  the  Samaritans,  and  after  the 
resurrection  they  were  to  begin  at  Jerusalem.  It  was  not 
till  after  the  final  rejection  of  the  Gospel  by  the  Jews  at 
the  stoning  of  Stephen  that  it  was  preached  to  the  Gen- 
tiles. Even  after  Paul  was  sent  to  carry  the  Gospel  to 
the  great  outside  world,  he  always  first  preached  to  the 
dispersed  Jews.  In  the  third  verse  we  note  a  reference 
to  the  long  and  continuous  work  of  the  prophets.  Now 
that  the  feast  was  actually  prepared,  these  preferred 
guests  are  notified  that  the  time  is  at  hand;  but  that  first 
invitation  under  the  Gospel  dispensation  was  rejected. 
"Again  he  sent  forth  other  servants,"  with  special,  ur- 
gent message;  and  this  second  invitation  is  a  display  of 
patient  grace  on  the  one  hand  and  authoratative  com- 
mand on  the  other.  A  king's  invitation  is  both  in  the 
nature  of  a  distinguished  favor  and  an  imperative  com- 
mand. God  invites  us  to  accept  his  grace,  but  also  com- 
mands us,  and  all  men  everywhere,  to  repent.  Refusal 
in  the  light  of  this  double  mandate  of  grace  and  author- 
ity is  ungrateful  and  contumacious.  "And  they  would 
not."  This  expression  indicates  simply  the  deliberate 
action  of  the  will  in  rejecting  Christ.  In  John  5:  40, 
and  Matt.  23:  37,  we  find  a  commentary  upon  this  clause 
of  the  parable.  "But  they  made  light  of  it."  Thinfe  of 
making  light  of  that  grace  of  God  which  has  occupied 
his  eternal  purpose,  which  was  consummated  in  the  ap- 
palling sacrifice  of  Christ  on  Calvary,  which  has  occu- 
pied the  Father,  Son  and  Holy  Ghost  from  all  eternity, 
and  upon  the  acceptance  or  rejection  of  which  depends 
our  eternal  destiny!  The  motwe  for  rejecting  the  invi- 
tation (verse  5) .  God  offered  to  them  the  honor  and 
everlasting  blessedness  of  participating  in  the  marriage 
supper  of  the  Lamb,  but  they  preferred  the  things  of 
earth  to  the  things  of  heaven.  The  secret  of  all  sin  is 
the  substitution  of  the  will  and  way  of  the  intelligent 
moral  creature  for  the  will  and  way  of  God;  the  sign  of 
conversion  is  the  reversal  of  all  this,  and  finds  expression 
in  the  question,  "Lord,  what  wilt  thou  have  me  to  do?" 
It  is  worthy  of  remark  that  the  two  instances  in  the  par- 
able may  represent  those  who  have  already  amassed  a 
fortune — the  one  with  the  farm;  and  thoSe  who  are  en- 
gaged in  getting  a  fortune — the  one  who  went  to  his 
merchandise.  And  the  remnant  took  his  servants  and 
entreated  them  spitefully  and  slew  them.  This  repre- 
sents the  attitude  and  action  of  the  baser  sort.  The 
spirit  that  led  men  to  crucify  the  Lord  of  Glory  will  not 
hesitate  to  despitefully  entreat  his  servants.  The  spirit 
is  the  same  whether  it  manifest  itself  in  contemptuous 
reviling  or  open  violence. 

III.  And  Also  to  the  Gentiles.  The  Acta  of  the 
Apostles  closes  the  history  of  the  offer  of  salvation  to 
the  Jews  as  such;  henceforth  they  have  no  distinct  or 
preferred  privileges  under  the  Gospel.  (See  also  Acts 
28:  23-31  )  The  universal  invitation.  The  highways 
indicate  the  great  world  thoroughfares,  the  broad  streams 
of  population,  down  which  the  Gospel  was  sent  during 
the  early  ages  and  down  which  it  has  been  going  ever 
since.  Wherever  people  are,  there  the  grace  of  God  in 
Christ  is  freely  proclaimed.  The  "good  and  bad"  who 
were  gathered  to  the  feast  does  not  refer  alone  to  moral 
distinction,  but  to  those  outward  distinctions  observable 
among  men.  The  man  without  the  wedding  garment. 
It  was  the  custom  of  the  host  to  provide  every  one  of 
his  guests  with  a  wedding  garment;  to  refuse  it  was  to 
insult  the  host  and  unfit  the  person  for  participation  in 
the  ceremonies.  The  wedding  garment  provided  for  sin- 
ners is  the  "righteousness  of  saints"  (Rsv.  19:  3-9).  We 
easily  understand  this  to  signify  the  work  of  the  Holy 
Ghost  in  justification  and  regeneration.  Some  men  re- 
pudiate this  and  seek  to  enter  "in  their  own  clothes,"  but 
they  will  be  awaktned  from  their  delusion  when  He 
comes  who  judges  the  secrets  of  men's  hearts.  The 
phrase,  "not  having  on  a  wedding  garment,"  carries  with . 
it  a  charge  of  having  rejected  it  and  presumptuously  en- 
tered without  it  "Except  we  be  born  again"  we  cannot 
enter  in.  We  may  come  among  believers  on  earth,  but 
in  heaven  every  man  will  be  revealed,  of  what  sort  he 
is — whether  of  grace  or  nature.  The  presumptuous  pro- 
fessor cast  out.  At  the  challenge  of  the  king  he  was 
speechless.  So  will  all  be  who  presumptuously  set  aside 
the  plain  teachings  and  requirements  of  the  Gospel  con- 
cerning repentance,  conversion,  and  regeneration,  aid 
essay  to  enter  heaven  without  the  imputed  and  imparted 


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THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


righteousnesB  of  Jesua  Christ.  Whatever 
else  the  term  "outer  darkness"  may  mean, 
we  know  that  it  is  separation  from  God, 
Christ,  and  the  sayits.  It  is  that  "with- 
out" in  the  moral  universe  spoken  of  in 
Rev.  22:  15. 

We  are  taught  by  this  parable  that  it 
is  all  one  whether  we  reject  Christ  out 
and  out  as  the  Jews  did,  or  pretend  to 
accept  him  while  refusing  his  work  of 
grace  for  us  on  the  cross.  A  formal  pro- 
fessor of  religion  is  no  better  off  than  an 
open  unbeliever. 


OBITTTAEY. 


Linus  Clahk  died  at  his  home  in 
Oreen  Oak,  Michigan,  Jan.  18,  1888, 
aged  nearly  75  years . 

He  came  to  Michigan  from  the  State 
of  New  York  in  1833  and  settled  on  the 
farm  where  he  died.  He  soon  openly 
professed  faith  in  Christ  and  was  one  of 
the  founders  of  the  Free  Will  Baptist 
church  near  his  home,  of  which  he  re- 
mained a  member  and  liberal  supporter 
until  his  death.  He  identified  himself 
with  the  reforms  of  the  day.  Was  an 
out  spoken  an ti  slavery  man,  being  fre- 
quently called  a  "BlackAbolitionist."  He 
early  joined  the  ranks  of  the  anti  secret- 
ists,  and  by  his  fearless  denunciation  of 
all  secret  societies,  especially  Masonry, 
called  upon  himself  the  dislike  and  oppo- 
sition of  many  of  that  fraternity.  What- 
ever he  thought  to  be  wrong  he  was  de- 
cided in  opposing.  He  has  been  a  sub 
scriber  of  the  Cynosure  from  nearly  if 
not  quite  the  first  issue,  and  loved  it; 
choosing  it  before  other  papers  to  be  read 
to  him  during  the  first  of  his  illness,  as 
long  as  he  felt  able  to  listen  to  reading. 
He  sent  for  and  voted  the  ticket  of  the 
American  platform,  standing  alone  that 
year  in  his  town.  The  next  year  he  was 
encouraged  by  a  few  votes  from  others. 
He  was  an  earnest  supporter  of  the  tem- 
perance cause.  Truly  the  reform  move- 
ment has  lost  a  warm  supporter.        C. 


IN  Brief. 

Samuel  Spencer,  who  has  been  made 
president  of  the  Baltimore  &  Ohio  rail- 
road at  a  salary  of  $25,000  a  year,  was  a 
rodman  earning  a  scant  salary  only  a  few 
years  ago.  He  is  not  yet  forty  years 
old. 

When  a  settler  in  the  Northwest  Terri- 
tory wants  to  go  back  to  Ontario  to  be 
married,  the  Canadian  Pacific  railroad 
sells  him  a  matrimonial  ticket  at  the 
usual  rate,  and  on  presenting  the  reiurn 
coupon  and  a  marriage  certificate  he  is 
entitled  to  free  transportation  for  his 
bride. 

The  new  Maine  law  forbidding  chil- 
dren less  than  twelve  years  of  age  to  work 
in  the  mills,  and  requiring  that  all  be- 
tween the  ages  of  twelve  and  fifteen  shall 
have  at  least  sixteen  weeks'  schooling 
each  year,  has  increased  the  attendance 
at  the  schools  remarkably,  as  the  mill  su- 
perintendents find  when  they  take  the 
ages  of  operatives. 

There  were  lynched  during  the  year 
1887  in  the  United  States  no  fewer  than 
123  persons.  Of  the  various  States  and 
Territories  Texas  leads  the  list,  with  fif- 
teen lynchings,  and  Mississippi  is  enti- 
tled to  second  place  with  fourteen  to  her 
credit.  All  the  victims  were  male8,eighty 
of  them  being  Negroes. 

Miss  H.  Frances  Parmalee,  formerly 
teacher  of  the  girls'  school,  Kioto,  Japan, 
under  care  of  the  American  Board  of 
Commissioners  for  Foreign  Missions,  has 
prepared  an  appeal  to  Japanese  women 
who  are  adopting  European  dress,  warn- 
ing them  against  those  things  in  connec 
tion  with  it  which  are  detrimental.  This 
has  been  signed  by  Mrs.  Garfield,  Mrs. 
Cleveland,  Mrs.  Alice  Freeman  Palmer, 
Miss  Smith,  Principal  of  Wells  College; 
Dean  Bodley,  of  Philadelphia  Medical 
College,  Miss  Blanchard,  of  Mt.  Holyoke 
Seminary;  Ramabai,  Miss  Willard  and 
Miss  West,  and  sent  to  Japan  for  publi- 
cation in  newspapers  there. 

A  poor  washerwoman  in  St.  Joseph, 
Mo.,  was  seriously  injured  by  stepping 
upon  a  charged  wire  beloDging  to  the 
Electric  Light  Company,  which  the  said 
company  carelessly  allowed  upon  the 
ground.  The  injured  woman  obtained 
judgment  in  the  United  States  Court  for 
$4,999  (it  ought  to  have  been  $5,000), 
but  the  wealthy  corporation  came  up  with 
a  blubbering  motion  for  a  new  trial, 
which  the  judge  promtly  denied,  and  told 


the  gentlemen  flatly  that  "it  was  one  of 
the  most  worthy  cases  for  sustaining 
judgment  which  ever  came  to  his  notice." 
What  a  figure,  for  a  rich  syndicate  to  be 
driven  from  the  judgment  seat  with  the 
stinging  rebuke  tnat  they  were  too  dis- 
honest to  do  justice  in  the  plainest 
easel 

After  you  get  angry  and  stop  your  pa 
per,  juBt  roke  your  finger  in  water,  pull 
it  out  and  look  for  the  hole.  Then  you 
will  know  how  sadly  you  are  missed.  A 
man  who  thicks  a  paper  cannot  survive 
wilhout  his  support  ought  to  go  off  and 
stay  awhile.  When  he  comes  back  half 
his  friends  will  not  know  that  he  wes 
gone,  end  the  othtrhalf  will  not  care  a 
ceu»,  while  the  world  at  large  feept  no  ac 
count  of  bis  movement.  You  will  find 
things^ou  c  in  not  endorse  inevtry  paper. 
Even  the  Bible  ii  rather  pla'n  and  hi  s 
Eome  prt-tty  Lard  licbs.  If  ^ou  were  to 
get  mid  aid  burn  jour  B  ble,  the  hun- 
dreds of  pre-ses  would  still  go  on  print- 
ing it;  and  when  ^ou  stop  30ur  paper 
acd  call  the  edi  or  name',  the  paper  will 
still  bspubl'shed, and  wha'  is  more — you'l 
read  it  on  the  sly. — Exchajige. 

It  is  generally  supposed  that  the  Sphinx 
is  hewn  out  of  a  large,  isolated  rock 
which  overlooked  the  plain;  but  M.  Mas- 
pero's  researches  suggest  that  it  is  a  work 
still  more  stupendous.  He  has  proved 
that  the  Sphinx  occupies  the  center  of  an 
amphitheater,  forming  a  kind  of  rocky 
basin,  the  upper  rim  of  which  is  about 
on  a  level  with  the  head  of  the  animal. 
The  walls  of  this  amphitheater,  wherever 
visible,  are  cut  by  the  hand  of  man.  It 
seems  probable,  therefore,  that  in  the  be- 
ginning there  was  a  uniform  surface  of 
rock  in  which  an  artificial  valley  had  been 
excavated,  so  as  to  leave  in  the  middle  a 
block  out  of  which  the  Sphinx  was  finally 
hewn.  The  excavations  now  being  car- 
ried on  will  doubtless  verify  the  exist- 
ence of  the  plmth  shown  on  the  old 
paintings,  and  also  furnish  evidence,  by 
the  ornamentation  of  the  plinth,  of  the 
true  age  of  the  monument.  M.  Maspero 
is  inclined  to  assign  it  to  a  very  great  an- 
tiquitv.  possibly  higher  than  the  enrly 
dynasties -that  i-,  than  the  firat  period 
of  Egyptian  history.  As  the  rcrult  of 
Ja^t  winter's  work  the  sind  round  the 
Sphinx  has  alrcidy  boon  lowertd  by  abDut 
thirty  meter*. 

IT  IS  NOT  UNLAWFCI..     • 

Congress  has  enacted  no  law  to  restrain 
a  person  from  going  about  in  a  badly 
constipated  condition,  or  with  a  distress- 
ing sick  headache,  rush  of  blood  to  the 
head,  bad  taste  in  the  mouth,  bilious 
complaint,  or  any  kindred  difficulty;  but 
the  laws  of  health  and  comfort  wUl  sug- 
gest to  any  one  so  afiiicted,  the  wisdom 
of  hastening  to  the  nearest  druggist  for 
a  25-cent  vial  of  Dr.  Pierce's  Pleasant 
Purgative  Pellets— the  most  potent  of 
remedies  for  all  disorders  of  the  liver, 
stomach  and  bowels.  Purely  vegetable, 
pleasant  to  take,  and  perfectly  harmless. 


aPIEB  THEIR  GUSa. 

A  few  dollars  expended  in  purchasing 
tracts  and  scattering  them  about  through 
the  community  will  perhaps  do  more  to 
spike  the  guns  of  noisy  sccretists  than 
anything  else  that  could  be  suggested. 
Men  have  heard  the  lodges  praised  so 
often  and  so  boldly,  that  they  have  come 
to  believe  that  they  are  what  they  pro- 
fess to  be.  It  is  high  time  that  the  war  is 
carried  intoAfrica  itself.  This  is  the  work 
which  the  N.  C.  A.  has  in  view,  and 
would  be  glad  to  push  forward  in  every 
quarter  of  the  land.  Who  will  help  to 
doit? 


Low  Rates  to  Pacific  Coast, 

Tlio  new  (iRrconu'iit  bi.>t,\Vioii  the  tran.scontl- 
noulal  linos  iiutlioiizos  a  lowor  riito  to  Pacilio 
i^oust  points  via  tho  Manitoba- I'lU'lllc  rout« 
tliiin  i.s  luuilo  vlanny  otiior  liiio.  Fivcuiont  ex- 
cursions. Accomrnodiitions  llrsti"liis8.  For 
iMtea,  nmps,  and  otluT, 
I'articuliirs,  apply  to  V. 
It.  Wakuen,  Oener.al 
I'assenKer    Agent,     St. 

i'aul,  Minn. 


aniFdbA 


THE  BROKEN  SEAL; 

Or  Personal  Beminiscences  of  the  Abdnotioa 
and  Mnrder  of  Capt.  Wm.  Morgan. 
By  Samnel  D.  Greene. 

Ono  of  tho  most  IntprectliiKlmoka  cvor  puMlBhed.  In 
cloth. 7.'ici'ni»;  pcrdozrn.lT.M.  P«pcrcovor»,40centi; 
per  (io/.on,  t^i.-V). 

Thin  di'i'ply  IntorcBtlnit  nsratlvpshowi  wh»t  MuBon- 
ry  h«8  done  Bnd  la  c»p«liU'  of  dolnu  In  tho  Court h,  »nd 
bow  had  nu'n  control  tlio  jjooti  nion  In  tho  Kxtgo  and 
protect  their  own  member*  when  sullty  of  Rroat 
•wlmei.    For  ul«  kt  an  W.Mapi'OM  St..  Chioaoo,  b» 

THB  HATIOMAL  OSQUATIAlil  AaglxUATiAi- 


ASTI-MABOmO  LSOTUBBBS. 
Gbhbbal  AeBNT  AND  Lbctubbb,  J.  p. 
Stoddard,  221  W.  Madison  St.,  Chicago. 
H.  H.  Hinman,  Cynosure  office. 
Agent  for  Southern  States. 
Statb  AeBNTB. 
Iowa,  C.  F.    Hawley,  Wheaton,    Du- 
Page  Co.,  Illinois. 
Missouri,  Kid.  Rufus  Soiith,  Maryville. 
New  Hampshire,   Bid.  S.  C.  Kimball, 
New  Market. 
Ohio,  W.  B.  Stoddard,  Columbus. 
Kansas,  Robert  Loggan,  Clifton. 
Alabama,  Rev.  G.  M.  Elliott,  Selma. 

Dbgbbb  Wobkbbs. — LSeceders.l 
J.  K.  Qlassford,  Carthage,  Mo. 

OTHBB  LBCTXmBBS. 

C.  A.  Blanchard,  Wheaton,  111. 
N.  Callender,  Brown  Hollow,  Pa. 
3.  H.  Tlmmons,  Tarentum,  Pa 

T.  B.  McCormlck,  Princeton,  Ind. 

K.  JohnBon,  Dayton,  Ind. 

H.  A.  Day,  Wllllamstown,  Mich. 

J.  M.  Bishop,  Chambersburg,  Pa. 

A.  Mayn,  Bloomington,  Ind. 

J.  B.  Cresslnger,  Sullivan,  O. 

W.  M.  Love,  Osceola,  Mo. 

J.  L.  Barlow,  Grundy  Center,  Iowa. 

A.  D.  Freeman,  Downers  Grove,  111 
Wm.  Fentot) .  8t  Paul,  Mltm. 
Warren  Taylor,  South  Salem,  O. 

J.  8.  Perry,  Thompson,  Conn. 
J.  T.  Michael,  WashlnjftoD,  D.  C. 
8.  G.  Barton,  Breckinridge,  Mo. 

B.  Bametson,  Hasklnvllle,  Steuben  Co,  N.  Y 
Wm.  R.  Roach,  Pickering,  Ont 

D.  A.  Richards,  Brighton,  Mich. 

TMS   OMUEOMWB    VS.   LdiD^SRT. 

The  following  denominations  are  com- 
mitted by  vote  of  their  legislative  assem- 
blies or  by  constitution  to  a  separation 
from  secret  lodge  worship: 

Adventists  (Seventh-day.) 

Baptists — Primitive,  Seventh-day  and 
Scandinavian. 

Brethren  (Dunkers  or  German  Bap- 
lists.) 

Christian  Reformed  Church. 

Church  of  God  Northern  Indiana  El- 
dership.) 

Congregational — The  State  Associations 
of  Illinois  and  Iowa  have  adopted  resolu- 
tions against  the  lodge. 

Disciples  (in  part.) 

Friends. 

Lutherans — Norwegian,  Danlsk,  S  (Rad- 
ish and  Synodical  Conferences. 

Mennonites. 

Methodists — Free  and  Wesleyan. 

Methodist  Protestant  (Minnesota  Con 
ference.) 

Moravians. 

Plymouth  Brethren. 

Presbyterian — Associate,  Reformeil  and 
United, 

Reformed  Church  (Holland  Branch.) 

United  Brethren  in  Christ. 

Individual  churches  in  some  of  these 
denominations  should  be  excepted,  in  part 
of  them  even  a  considerable  portion. 

The  following  local  churches  have,  as  a 
pledge  to  disfellowshlp  and  oppose  lodge 
worship,  given  their  names  to  the  follow- 
ing list  as 

THE    ASSOCIATBD   CHXTRCHKS    OF  CHRIST. 

New   Ruhamah  Cong.  Hamilton,  Miss. 

Pleasant  Ridge  Cong.   Sandford  Co-  Ala. 

New  Hope  \iethodl8t,  Lowndes  Co.,  MIm. 

Congregational,  College  Springs,  Iowa. 

College  Church  of  Christ,  Wheaton,  III. 

First  Congregational,  Lelaud,  Mich. 

8ug«r  Grove  Chiu"ch,  Green  county.  Pa. 

MQltary  Chapel,  M.  E.,  Lowndes  county, 
Miss. 

Hopeweil  Missionary  Baptist,  Lowndes  Co., 
Miss. 

Cedar  Grove  Miss.  Baptist,  Lowndes  Ca, 
Miss. 

Simon's  Chapel,  M.   E.,  Lowndes  Co.,  Miss. 

Pleasant  Ridge  Miss.  Baptist,  Lowndes  Co., 
Vlise. 

Brownlce  Church,  Caledonia,  Miss. 

Salem  Church,  Lowndes  Co.,  Miss. 

West  Preston  Bantist  Chtirch,  Wayne  Ca.Pa. 
OTHBB  LOCAL  0HUBCHB8 

adopting  the  same  principle  are — 

Baptist  churches :  N.  Ablngton,  Pa. :  Meno- 
monle,  Mondovl,  Wanbeck  and  Spring  Prairie, 
Wis. ;  Wheaton,  111. ;  Perry,  N.  Y. ;  Spring 
Creek,  near  Burlington,  Iowa ;  Lima,  Ind. ; 
ConBUhlevUle,  N.  Y.  The  "Good  Will  Assod- 
ton"of  Mobile,  Ala.,  comprising  some  twenty- 
flve  colored  Baptist  churches;  Bridgewater 
Baptist  Association,  Pa.;  Old  Tebo  Baptist, 
near  LeesvlUe,  Henry  Co.,  Mo. ;  Hoopeeton,  111 ; 
Esmen,  111. ;  StrykersvUle,  N.  Y. 

Congregational  churches :  Ist  of  Oberlln,  O. ; 
Tonlca,  CTystal  Lake,  Union  and  Big  Woods. 
III. ;  Solsbury,  Ind. ;  Congregational  Methodist 
Maplewood,  Mass. 

Independent  churchefl  In  Lowell,  Country- 
man school  house  near  Llndenwood,  Marengo 
and  Streator,  111. ;  Bereaand  Camp  Nelson,  Ky ; 
Dstlck,  lU. ;  Clarksburg,  Kansas;  BUto  Associ- 
ation Of  Minliterf  andChoiehM  of  OhrUtis 
Krataekv. 


N.  C.  A.  BUILDING  AND  OFTICS  OF 
THE  CHRISTIAN   CYNOSURE, 
SSI  WEST  MADISON  STREET,  CHICAGO 

NA  TIONAL  CESI8  TiAJi  AS80CIA  7I0Jt 

PBBBiDBjrr.— H.  H.  Gteorge,  D,  D.,  Gen 
eva  College,  Pa. 

ViCB-PBESiDBHT — RoY.  M.  A.  Gault, 
Blanchard,  Iowa. 

Cob.  Sbc^y  and  Gbnbbal  Asbnt — J 
P.  Stoddard,  221 W.  Madisonst.,  Chicago 

Rbc.  Sbc'y.  and  Tbbabttbbb. — W.  I 
Phillips,  221  W.  Madison  St.,   Chicago 

DiBBCTOBS. — Alexander  Thomson,  H 
R.  Britten,  John  Gardner,  J.  L.  Barlow, 
L.  N.  Stratton,  Thos.  H.  Gault,  C.  A. 
Blanchard,  J.  E.  Roy,  E.  R.  Worrell,  H. 
A.  Fischer,  W.  R.  Hench. 

The  object  of  this  Association  la: 
"To  expose,  withstand  and  remove  secifll 
■ocietles.  Freemasonry  In  pa'-tlcuiar,  and  otheJ 
anti-Chrlstlan  movements,  In  order  to  save  th« 
churches  of  Christ  from  being  cepraved,  to  re 
deem  the  atiminlatr?  Uon  of  ]U8tlce  from  per 
version,  and  our  r^p  ibllcan  government  m>m 
corruption." 

To  carry  on  this  work  contributions  are 
solicited  from  every  friend  of  tne  reform. 

Form  of  Beqitest. — J  give  and  bccueath  to 
the  National  Christian  Association,  Incorpo- 
rated and  existing  under  the  laws  of  tbs  State 

of   Illinois,  the  simi  of dollai  s  for  the 

purposes  of  said  Association,  and  for  wb'/'h 
me  receipt  of  its  Treasurer  for  the  time  being 
^aH  be  sufficient  dlschanze. 

THB  NATIDNAL  COM  VKMTIOH. 

Prbsidbwt.— Rev.  J.  8.  T.  Milligan, 
Denison,  Kans. 

Skcrbtaby.— Rev.  R.N.Couiitee,Mem- 
phiB,  Tenn. 

STATB  AITXILIABY  AS80CIATI0RP. 
Alabama.— Prea.,  Prof.   Pickens;  Sec,  G. 
M.  Elliott;  Treas.,   Rev.  C.  B.  Curtis,  all  of 
Selma. 

Calttoehia.— Pres^  L.  B.  Lathrop,  Hollii 
ter;  Cor.  Sec,  Mrs.  U.  P.  Merrill,  Woodland; 
Treas.,  C  Ruddock,  Woodland. 

CoNNBCTiccT.— Pres..  J.  A.  Conant,  Willi 
mantle;  Sec,  Geo.  Smith,  WllUmantlc;  Treat. 
C.  T.  Collins,  Windsor. 

Illinois.— Pres.,  J.  P.  Stoddard;  Sec,  M. 
N.  Butler;  Treaa.,  W.  I.  PhUllps  all  at  Cy 
nofure  office. 

Indiana.— Pres.,  WUllam  H.  Figg,  Reno 
Bee,  8.  L.  Cook,  Albion;  Treas.,  BenJ.  Ulsh 
BUver  Lake. 

lowA.— Pre8.,Wm  Johnston, College  Springs  • 
Cor  Bee.,  C.  D.  Trumbull,  Morning  Snn; 
Treas.,  James  Harvey.  Pleasant  Plain.  .Jeffer- 
son Co. ;  Lecturer,  C.  F.  Hawley,  Wheaton,  111. 

Kansab.- l^es.,  J.  S.  T.  Milligan,  Denison- 
Bee,  8.  Hart,  Lecompton;  Treas.,  J.  A.  Tor- 
rence,  Denison. 

Masbaohosbttb.— Pres.,  S.  A.  Pratt;  Set. 
Mrs.  E.  D.  BaUey ;  Treas.,  David  Mannlng,8t., 
Worcester. 

Michigan.— Pres.,  D.  A.  Richards,  Brighton 
Bec'y,  H.  A.  Day,  WUllamston;  Treaa. 
Geo.  Bwanson,  Jr.,  BedfoiJ. 

Minnbsota  — Pres.,  E.  Q.  Paino,  Ws«loja 
Cor.  Sec.  Wm.  Fenton.  St  Paul :  Rec,  Sec'y 
Mrs.  M.  F.  Morrill,  St.  Caaries;  Treaa.,  Wn 
H.  Morrill,  St.  Charles. 

MiBBOURi.— Pres.,  B.  F.  Miller,  Eaglevllle 
Treas. /WUllam  Beauchamp,  Avalon ;  Cor.  8f  c. 
A.  D.  Thomas,  Avalon. 

Nbbbibka.- Pres.,  8.  Anstln,  Falrmooit 
Cor.  Sec.,  W.  Bpooner,  Kearney;  Treas. 
J.  C.  Fyo. 

Mainb  -Pres.,  Isaac  Jackson,  Harrison; 
Sec,  1.  D.  Haines,  Dexter;  Treas.,  H.  W. 
Goddard,  West  Sidney. 

Nbw  HAMFSHiKa.— Pres.,  C.  L.  Baker,  Man 
Chester;  Sec,  8.  C.  Kimball,  New  Market 
Treas.,  James  /.  French,  Canterbury. 

Nbw  York.— Pres.,  F.  W.  Capwell,  Dale; 
Sec'y,  John  Wallace,  Syracuse;  Treaa.,  M. 
Merrick,  Syracuse. 

Ohio.— Pres.,  F.  M.  Spencer,  New  Concord; 
Rec.  Sec.,  8.  A.  George,  .Mansfield;  Cor.  Sec 
and  Treas..  C.  W.  hUtt,  Columbus;  Agent, 
W.  B.  Stoddard,  Columbos. 

PBNHBTLyANiA.— Cor.  8ec,  N.  Callender, 
Thonpi 90 ;  Treas.,  W.  B.  Bertele,  Wilkesbarre. 

ViBMOHT.— Pres.,  W.  R.  Laird,  St.  Johns- 
bury;  Bec,C.  W  Potter. 

WiBOOHBiN— Pres.,  J.  W  Wood,  Baraboo; 
Sec,  W.  W.  Ame^  Menomonie;  Treaa.,  M.  B 
Britten,  Vienna. 


8 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


Maboh  22, 1888 


The  Christian  Cynosure. 


i.   BLAKGHARD 


BsnOBS. 


HKMR7  L.  KSLLOGG 


CEICAeO,    XHDBSDAY,    MABCH   22,   1888. 


IT  PAYS. 


The  investment  which  the  Cynosure  has  asked  the 
friends  of  the  reform  to  make  in  circulatingf  1,000  copies 
among  colored  pastors  in  the  South  continues  to  return 
heavy  dividends.  Please  turn  back  a  few  pages,  and 
note  the  number  of  letters  from  the  South,  showing  how 
the  truth  goes  on  conquering  and  overturning  since  the 
New  Orleans  Convention.  The  need  of  following  up 
this  important  meeting  is  most  urgent.  Brethren  realize 
this,  and  the  report  this  week  of  donations,  on  page  13, 
brings  up  the  sum  total  to  $834. 76.  This  is  a  good  ad- 
vance, over  one-half  the  amount  needed.  We  give  the 
report  with  good  cheer.  Many  brethren  in  the  South 
are  noting  these  figures  eagerly  week  by  week.  They 
mean  an  important  factor  in  the  redemption  of  their 
churches.  The  New  Orleans  pastors  are  going  on  to 
secure  permanent  results  from  the  Convention.  The 
same  work  must  be  done  in  other  cities  and  States.  But 
the  Cynosure  must  go  before  and  prepare  the  way.  Prat, 
brethren,  for  this  effort,  and  as  the  Lord  has  prospered 
you,  give  with  joy. 


A   WORD  ON  THE  PROHIBITION  PARTY. 

The  article  by  Rev.  A.  H.  Springstein  on  our  first 
page  must  not  be  passed  by  unread.  We  must  add 
to  his  plea  for  earnest  work  a  few  words  from  El- 
der J.  L.  Barlow,  which  comes  to  the  office  via  Louis- 
iana.    He  says: 

"I  have  read  with  some  interest  of  late  years 
hints  as  to  calling  the  American  party  again  into 
action.  I  have  been  surprised  to  see  no  response 
from  our  numerous  friends.  Allow  me  to  say  that 
I  know  of  nothing  along  this  line,  which  would  suit 
me  better  than  to  see  our  party  on  its  feet  again. 
I  have  weighed  all  other  existing  parties  in  the  bal- 
ances, and  to  me  they  are  found  wanting.  I  am 
practically  disfranchised  at  present.  The  Prohi- 
bition party  as  pres^ent  managed  does  not  command 
my  confidence,  though  I  have  been  an  unfaltering 
prohibitionist  for  thirty-six  years  or  more.  I  could 
wish  that  our  party  was  once  more  in  the  field,  with 
its  'war  paint'  on,  never  to  lower  its  colors  till 
victory  shall  crown  our  efforts.    - 

"A  few  years  since,  my  voice  had  a  little  potency 
with  our  friends;  now  it  might  be  unheeded,  if 
heard.  You,  at  least,  know  me,  and  it  may  not  dis- 
please you  to  know  that  one  so  insignificant  as  my- 
self, gives  you  a  cheering  word  for  the  blasts  you 
have  blown,  as  I  have  hinted  above." 

In  the  long  interval  since  the  American  party,  as 
an  organization,  has  taken  any  part  in  public  affairs, 
our  discussion  of  means  and  measures  must  be  very 
much  a  personal  matter,  and  this  writing  does  not 
assume  any  other  character. 

The  questions  raised  by  these  brethren  are  practi- 
cal and  must  have  careful  consideration. 

1.  We  assume  that  a  majority  of  those  who  en- 
dorsed the  American  movement  in  1884  wish  that 
party  to  maintain  its  organization. 

2.  There  will  be  a  difference  of  opinion,  as  then, 
respecling  the  wisdom  of  co-operating  with  the  Pro- 
hibition party.  But  as  time  passes  we  believe  the 
wisdom  of  the  effort  begun  at  Pittsburgh  last  cam- 
paign is  being  vindicated.  The  most  serious  word  we 
have  to  say  is  like  the  criticism  Dr.  J.  B.  Walker 
used  to  make  on  the  Friends.  "The  greatest  fault 
I  find  with  the  Quakers,"  said  he,  "is  that  they  do 
not  bring  their  principles  to  bear  upon  outsiders  as 
they  should.  They  are  so  excellent  and  useful 
that  there  ought  to  be  aggressivo  work  for  their 
promulgation." 

We  have  not  been  duly  aggressive  for  American 
principles,  or  we  should  not  now  hear  complaints 
that  the  Prohibition  party  ignores  the  lodge  ques- 
tion. There  is  positive  evidence  that  it  does  not. 
Mr.  Chaffin,  head  of  the  Good  Templars  of  Wiscon- 
sin, and  the  "oflox"  of  the  Prohibition  Conference 
last  fall,  lately  published  a  letter  in  several  Prohibi- 
tion papers  attacking  our  position,  though  exposing 
his  great  ignorance  of  what  the  opponents  of  the 
lodge  propose.  Mills,  who  boasted  that  he  was  a 
Knight  of  Labor  in  the  same  Conference,  will  soon 
be  ashamed  of  his  relation;  as  we  hope  Miss  Wil- 
Isrd  already  regrets  her  advice  a  year  ago  that  Pro- 
hibitionists join  that  order,  since  it  is  fast  sinking 
out  of  public  respect.  We  are  learning  more  and 
more  of  the  pronounced  opposition  to  the  lodge  of 


many  leading  Prohibitionists.  It  is  wisdom  to  stand 
by  them  and  make  their  influence  more  effective.  In 
his  Providence  God  removed  Mr.  Finch  from  the 
National  chairmanship.  He  had  already  become  so 
offensive  in  that  position  that  there  was  a  revolt 
against  his  management,  for  he  was  devoured  by  a 
personal  ambition.  St.  John  doubtless  learned  some 
facts  of  importance  in  Southern  California,  the  Pro- 
hibition end  of  the  State,  concerning  the  manage- 
ment of  the  Good  Templar  order  by  Finch:  and  a 
man  of  his  honesty  of  purpose  must  have  been 
alarmed  lest  the  same  ruinous  agency  be  operating 
among  Prohibitionists. 

Since  God  has  brought  Prohibition  to  the  front 
it  is  wisdom  to  help  on  that  movement,  unless  in 
some  quarters  the  lodge  gains  a  temporary  suprem- 
acy. Then  we  must  protest.  But  there  is  too  much 
principle  in  that  party  to  endure  lodge  rule,  and  we 
look  upon  any  lapse  from  a  virtuous  position  as  but 
momentary.  The  party  has  a  firmer  footing  on  our 
platform  than  four  years  ago,  and  there  will  be  no 
more  Pittsburgh  performances. 


The  College  Church,  Wheaton,  called  on 
Tuesday  last  a  council  of  ministers  and  churches  to 
consult  on  the  advisability  of  renewing  toward  it 
the  fellowship  of  the  Congregational  churches. 
This  step  was  taken  after  much  prayer  and  the  ear- 
nest advice  of  friends  in  those  churches.  Dr.  Good- 
win of  the  First  Church,  Chicago,  was  chairman  of 
the  council,  which  at  the  very  outset  met  a  motion 
to  dissolve  by  Prof.  Boardman  of  this  city,  because 
of  the  limitations  of  the  call.  Most  of  the  brethren 
took  a  more  liberal  view  of  the  case  and  voted  to 
continue,  but  finally  adjourned  after  advising  that 
another  letter  missive  be  sent  which  should  cover 
all  questions  of  the  past  struggles  of  the  church, 
with  a  view  of  settling  them  in  a  Christian  way,  and 
another  meeting  be  held  in  about  two  weeks.  This 
advice  was  very  acceptable  to  the  church,  as  efforts 
have  been  made  for  ten  years  to  have  these  matters 
reviewed  in  an  honorable  way.  This  council  is  of 
interest  to  all  our  readers,  because  the  difficulties 
which  we  hope  may  be  reviewed  grew  out  of  a  Ma- 
sonic attack  on  the  College  in  1877,  which  resulted 
in  a  division  of  the  church.  That  the  lodge  ques- 
tion is  in  the  front  now  is  very  evident;  as  one  of 
the  delegates  remarked  last  week,  "I  am  neither  a 
Mason  or  an  Anti-mason,  but  it  is  plain  enough  that 
the  lodge  is  at  the  bottom  of  this  business,"  We 
urgently  ask  all  our  readers  to  remember  the  church 
and  the  council  in  prayer  to  our  God,  against  whose 
truth  men  can  do  nothing. 


The  Locomotive  Engineers. — The  decisions  of 
Judge  Gresham.  of  Chicago  and  of  Judge  Dundy  in 
Omaha  have  given  little  hope  to  the  striking  engi- 
neers of  the  Burlington  road.  They  insist  that  law 
must  be  enforced.  Men  can  leav5  their  work  if  they 
choose,  but  conspiracies  and  combinations  to  inter- 
fere with  legitimate  business  they  have  no  right  to 
form.  Freight  engineers  on  the  Union  Pacific  at  Coun- 
cil Bluffs  left  work  Wednesday  on  pretense  of  sick- 
ness. They  returned  next  day.  The  engineers  and- 
firemen  on  the  vast  system  of  the  Atchison,  To- 
peka  and  Santa  Fe  Railroad  Company  went  out  on 
a  strike  at  4  o'clock  Thursday  afternoon.  The 
strike  created  intense  excitement  and  surprise  in 
Kansas  City,  but  the  strike  was  ordered  by  some 
one  in  authority.  The  men  professed  ignorance  of 
the  issuing  of  any  such  orders  and  said  they  had 
quit  because  they  were  "tired."  P.  M.  Arthur,  chief 
of  the  engineer's  order,  professed  also  profound  ig- 
norance, nor  could  any  one  find  out  the  slightest 
reason  for  the  strike.  In  fact  the  position  of  the 
men  was  so  absurd  and  their  action  so  infamously 
unjust,  that  Arthur  sent  word  Sunday  afternoon  to 
the  men  to  go  back.  This  strike  has  had  the  good 
effect  to  still  further  enlighten  the  public  on  the 
danger  of  such  secret,  irresponsible  and  despotic 
organizations  as  the  lodge  provides  for  working- 
men  as  a  constant  menace  to  public  welfare.  There 
will  be  no  safety  or  assurance  on  our  lines  of  rail- 
way travel  until  they  are  abolished;  and  the  good 
sense  of  the  men  should  do  this  before  the  people 
rise  upon  them  in  anger. 


A  Revolution  We  Can  Endorse. — The  Christian 
Weekly,  of  Mobile,  Alabama,  in  an  enumeration  of 
the  difficulties  under  which  the  colored  churches  la- 
bor, puts  the  lodge  question  in  for  one.  The  writer 
only  looks,  however,  upon  their  capacity  to  swindle 
their  constituents:     He  says: 

"Too  much  money  has  left  the  South  and  flowed 
into  the  pockets  of  colored  men  in  the  North  and 
West.  Our  wives,  daughters,  sisters  and  mothers 
have  toiled  over  the  washtub,  burned  over  the  iron- 
ing table  and  cook  stove  to  keep  in  ease  and  luxury 


the  wives  and  daughters  of  Northern  bishops  and 
big  Northern  B.  Y.  High  Cockalorums  of  societies 
until  we  are  tired  of  it.  And  'Aunt  Hagar's  chil- 
dren' have  got  'curious'  and  woi't  drive  any  more 
•worth  a  cent.'  The  Knights  of  Wise  Men  swindle 
scooped  thousands  out  of  our  people,  and  they 
justly  owe  one  thousand  dollars  to  a  widow  of  one 
of  our  foremost  men  and  will  not  pay  her  a  cent. 
These  are  some  of  the  causes — and  their  name  is 
legion — which  led  to  the  revolt  of  these  leading 
churches.  The  people  have  been  so  fleeced  by 
strangers  and  foreigners,  and  the  Northern  negro 
has  put  on  so  many  swell  airs  and  so  contempt- 
uously treated  some  of  our  best  people  while  trav- 
eling in  the  North,  after  getting  our  money,  until 
we  have  become  indignant,  and  treating  lightly  the 
request  and  wishes  of  the  people  has  raised  their 
righteous  indignation.  The  Northern  colored  peo- 
ple are  all  on  the  beat." 


— Secretary  Stoddard  is  announced  in  the  daily 
papers  as  we  go  to  press  to  speak  in  the  N.  C.  A. 
building  Monday  evening  on  the  New  Orleans 
convention  and  its  results  among  the  colored 
churches. 

— Rev.  W.  P.  Ferries,  pastor  of  the  Free  Method- 
ist church  on  Mozart  street  near  Armitage  Ave.,  in 
the  northwest  part  of  Chicago,  has  arranged  for  an 
address  by  Secretary  Stoddard  in  that  church  on  Fri- 
day evening  of  this  week. 

— Bro.  Hinman  left  Washington  on  Tuesday,  the 
13th,  and  proceeded  directly  to  Atlanta,  Georgia. 
On  Thursday  he  addressed  the  students  of  Clarke 
University  and  Gammon  Theological  School,  Meth- 
odist institutions.  He  expected  to  go  on  to  Augusta 
and  Savannah  and  then  turn  northward. 

— Bro.  Blachly,  a  student  in  the  Chicago  Congre- 
gational Seminary,  made  an  application  of  a  class 
topic  to  the  irreligion  of  the  lodge  last  Friday,  and 
an  arrangement  was  made  to  discuss  next  Friday 
the  question.  Should  ministers  preach  on  secret  so- 
cieties from  the  pulpit?  Not  a  few  of  the  students 
are  favorably  inclined  to  the  lodge. 

— Aunt  Hannah  Paddleford,  of  Monroe,  N.  H., 
who  is  in  her  ninetieth  year,  is  spending  a  busy 
winter.  Since  the  cold  weather  set  in  last  fall  she 
has  knit  nine  pairs  of  stockings,  seven  pairs  of  mit- 
tens and  one  pair  of  logmen's  leggings,  besides 
spinning  all  the  yarn  she  used.  The  good  old  lady 
is  interested  also  in  the  N.  C.  A.  work  in  the  South. 
She  lately  sent  a  dollar  for  the  Cynosure  Southern 
fund. 

— We  have  it  on  unquestionable  authority  that  at 
a  recent  fnneral  (not  in  Illinois)  a  non-Mason  min- 
ister was  requested  by  Masons  to  read  one  of  their 
prayers.  He  excused  himself,  and  another  was  then 
asked  and  did  read  the  Masonic  prayer.  He  was, 
however,  chagrined  to  be  shown  afterwards  that  it 
was  a  Christless  prayer,  and  said  that  he  would 
never  again  be  so  imposed  upon.  Let  our  friends 
circulate  our  tracts  and  papers  and  dispel  the  igno- 
rance yet  sadly  prevailing  respecting  the  paganism 
of  lodgery. 

— Rev.  Byron  Gunner  left  Chicago  last  Friday 
morning  for  his  home  in  Louisiana  by  way  of  Weno- 
na,  where  he  will  visit  Mr.  Howe,  the  generous  pat- 
ron of  Howe  Institute,  New  Iberia.  His  agency  has 
been  fairly  successful,  having,  with  Miss  Farley, 
raised  between  $500  and  $600  and  secured  other 
gifts  of  value  to  the  Institute,  as  a  piano  from  Mrs. 
Cheney,  daughter  of  Mr.  Carpenter,  and  a  lathe  and 
wind-mill  from  Rockford.  Miss  Farley  is  now  in 
Detroit,  hoping  to  secure  the  whole  amount  needed 
to  fit  up  two  dormitories. 

— Dr.  E.  P.  Goodwin,  in  the  First  Congregational 
church  in  this  city,  on  the  Sabbath,  while  announc- 
ing Secretary  Stoddard's  address  of  Monday  eve- 
ning, said,  "I  do  not  say  much  about  the  lodges,but 
I  do  not  believe  in  them."  He  added  that  wives  sel- 
dom desired  their  husbands  to  attend  the  secret  or- 
ders, and  their  influence  in  the  churches  was  injuri- 
ous. Bro.  Stoddard  had  spoken  to  him  about  the 
New  Orleans  Convention  and  its  great  influence  for 
good  among  the  colored  churches,  and  he  was  very 
willing  to  make  the  announcement  One  of  the 
greatest  hindrances  to  the  progress  of  the  Gospel 
among  those  churches  was  the  prevalence  of  the 
lodges. 

— A  large  union  meeting  of  the  several  churches 
was  held  in  Wheaton  Sabbath  evening,  and  was  ad- 
dressed bj  Miss  Millie  A.  Hand,  a  teacher  of  the 
New  West  Commission  among  the  Mormons.  Miss 
Hand  has  been  two  years  or  more  engaged  in  school 
work,  and  for  several  months  has  been  raising 
money  to  build  free  school  houses.  The  fund  for 
one  is  raised,  and  that  for  another  is  well  ad- 
vanced.   Miss  Hand  is  one  of  the  most  captivating 


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THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSUEJE. 


and  instructive  speakers  on  this  question  that  we 
have.  She  has  a  peculiar  faculty  of  making  facts 
eloquent.  The  secret  work  of  the  Mormon  leaders 
is  most  difficult  to  meet  and  overcome,  not  only  in 
school  work,  but  in  the  public  measures  taken  by 
government  to  suppress  the  polygamous  system. 
The  collection  amounted  to  $50.  Churches  or  com- 
munities that  wish  to  hear  about  Utah  cannot  do 
better  than  send  for  Miss  Hand,  in  care  of  the  New 
West  Commission,  151  Washington  St.,  Chicago. 


PERSONAL  MENTION. 


— Pres.  C.  H.  Kiracofe  of  Hartsville  University 
has  been  nominated  for  Superintendent  of  Public 
Instruction  by  the  Prohibitionists  of  Indiana. 

— On  Sabbath  morning  Pree.  C.  A.  Blanchard 
preached  in  the  First  Baptist  church  of  Chicago.Rev. 
P.  S.  Henson,  pastor.  In  the  evening  he  spoke  in 
the  Moody  church,  and  will  continue  to  preach  there 
during  a  temporary  absence  of  pastor  6oss.  Mr. 
Moody  is  expected  there  next  Sabbath. 

— The  Cynosure  editor,  now  in  New  Iberia,  Loui- 
siana, writes  of  the  possibility  of  a  visit  to  Florida 
before  retarniug  North.  On  account  of  the  debili- 
tating effects  of  warm  weather,  he  does  not  rapidly 
recover  strength,  but  is  enlarging  his  acquaintance 
and  is  more  and  more  impressed  with  the  value  of 
the  Cynoiure  among  the  colored  pastors. 

— A  movement  was  begun  lately  in  Boston  to 
erect  a  memorial  building  in  honor  of  Wendell  Phil- 
lips. At  one  of  the  meetings  where  this  plan  was 
inaugurated  General  Butler  spoke  in  high  eulogy  of 
Phillips,  though  until  the  war  he  was  a  political  en- 
emy. Butler  said  the  war  of  the  rebellion  was  main- 
ly inspired  by  the  voice  and  pen  of  the  great  Aboli- 
tion orator. 

— Rev.  W.  Q-.  Waddle,  pastor  of  the  United  Pres- 
byterian church  of  New  Athens,  Ohio,  understands 
getting  at  business  when  need  be  without  minding 
line  fences  and  square  corners.  Some  weeks  ago 
be  announced  from  his  pulpit  that  he  would  gladly 
receive  new  subscriptions  or  renewals  for  the  Cyno- 
lure.  God  bless  such  pastors  I  Would  there  were 
hundreds  where  now  there  are  one. 

— Alexander  V.  Sill,  an  Anti-mason  of  the  Mor- 
gan days,  died  at  his  home  at  St.  Charles,  111.,  last 
Thursday,  at  the  age  of  87.  He  was  for  many  years 
postmaster  and  justice  of  the  peace;  and  perhaps 
because  of  his  official  relations  was  quite  reticent 
about  the  lodge.  The  Cynosure  endeavored  to  get 
from  him  some  account  of  his  experiences,  and  es- 
pecially his  recollections  of  the  Morgan  abduction, 
but  without  success. 

— Bro.  D.  P.  Cawkins  of  Minnesota,  who  was  in- 
terested in  the  discussion  of  the  seventh-day  Sab- 
bath in  these  columns  two  years  ago,  has  written  a 
book  in  which  he  demonstrates  that  "the  Sabbath 
was  never  made  known  to  man,  until  given  to  Moses 
for  Israel  alone,"  and  that  "God  never  required 
mankind  outside  the  Jewish  church  to  keep  a  Sab- 
bath or  rest-day."  He  wishes  some  friend  to  pub- 
lish the  volume  for  him. 

— Word  has  just  come  from  a  daughter  in  Onta- 
rio, Ohio,  that  Eider  John  Finney,  who  long  lived 
at  Mansfield,  is  dead.  He  passed  on  to  his  God  and 
Saviour  in  January  last.  None  who  attended  the 
Oberlin  Convention  in  1872  will  forget  the  enthu- 
siasm of  this  noble,  whole-souled  man  for  the  cause. 
He  was  frequently  at  the  Ohio  meetings,  and  was  a 
large  contributor  to  the  treasuries  of  State  and  .Na- 
tional Associations. 

— Rev.  J.  D.  Gehring  of  Parkville,  Mo., a  Presby- 
terian brother  whose  contributions  are  well  remem- 
bered in  the  past,  has  for  more  than  a  year  been 
compelled  to  remit  all  literary  efforts  because  of  his 
health.  He  suffers  continually  and  sometimes  se- 
verely from  the  effect  of  a  wound  received  during 
the  war.  His  health  being  now  somewhat  improved 
he  hopes  to  remove  to  a  milder  climate  and.if  possi- 
ble, undertake  work  for  prohibition. 

— The  Worcester  Daily  Spy  not  long  since  pub- 
lished an  account  of  the  New  England  Protective 
Union  which  open^  a  cooperative  store  on  Front 
Street  in  that  city  forty  years  ago  last  January  25th. 
The  Union  fortunately  set^ured  for  its  business 
agent  Mr.  Samuel  A.  Pratt,  then  a  young  man  of 
of  26,  whose  integrity,  agreeable  manners,  and  good 
management  have  carried  on  this  enterprise  with 
marked  success  and  profit  to  the  members  of  the 
Union,  while  every  other  oganization  of  the  kind 
has  failed,  and  it  is  the  sole  survivor  of  the  New 
England  Unions.  This  is  such  a  tribute  to  Bro. 
Pratt  as  a  business  man  as  is  seldom  written,  and 
we  are  happy  to  add  that  as  a  Christian  reformer 
his  record  i»  equally  good. 


OUR  WASHINGTON  LETTER. 

Washington,  March  16,  1888. 

The  National  Capital  has  known  next  to  nothing 
about  the  rest  of  the  world  for  the  past  few  days  in 
consequence  of  the  storm  which  visited  it  in  com- 
pany with  the  severest  blizzard  of  the  winter. 
Boreas  gave  it  such  a  shaking  up  as  it  has  not  seen 
for  years.  Not  only  were  telegraph  poles  and  wires 
blown  down,  but  wagons  and  horses  were  overturned 
and  trees  torn  up  by  the  roots  all  over  the  city.  Of 
the  latter  some  were  large  and  had  stood  the  storms 
of  nearly  half  a  century. 

The  storm,  by  the  way,  has  given  fresh  life  to  the 
demand  for  underground  wires  as  opposed  to  aerial 
telegraph  lines.  General  Greely  of  the  Signal  Of- 
fice said  he  hoped  this  storm  would  carry  conviction 
to  Congress  that  the  overhead  wires  ought  to  be 
abolished,  except,  perhaps,  for  local  work.  A 
strong  plea  will  be  made  for  underground  wires 
when  the  Government  once  decides  to  establish  the 
contemplated  postal  telegraph  system.  The  ex- 
penditure would  be  very  great  at  first,  of  course,but 
in  a  few  years  the  money  saved  from  the  cost  of  re- 
pairs would  more  than  amount  to  the  original  out- 
lay, so  many  think.  The  only  wire  in  this  city 
which  withstood  the  storm  was  an  underground  pos- 
tal telegraph  line  running  to  Baltimore. 

The  latest  tariff  bill  introduced  in  the  house  was 
Mr.  Randall's  revenue  bill,  upon  which  he  has  been 
at  work  and  has  employed  the  efforts  of  tariff  ex- 
perts for  many  months.  It  strikes  out  the  tobacco 
tax,  reduces  the  whisky  tax,  and  makes  but  small 
change  in  custom's  duties.  The  Republican  leaders 
do  not  admit  that  they  like  it.  They  will  not  say 
that  they  intend  to  adopt  it.  The  majority  of  the 
Democrats  ridicule  it. 

Again  this  week  the  Senate  was  treated  to  a 
batch  of  petitions  praying  for  prohibition  in  the 
District  of  Columbia.  Although  no  action  has 
been  taken  on  the  local  option  question  here,  it  is 
understood  that  several  members  of  the  Senate 
District  Committee  have  that  subject  under  consid- 
eration, and  that  a  variety  of  plans  have  been  sug- 
gested. There  is  a  strong  sentiment  in  favor  of 
making  every  adult  resident  of  Washington,  both 
male  and  female,  eligible  to  vote  upon  the  question. 

The  Prohibitionists  of  the  District  of  Columbia 
are  in  no  wise  discouraged  by  the  rebuff  with  which 
the  Piatt  bill  for  prohibition  in  the  District  met  late- 
ly. They  did  not  expect  a  very  much  better  fate 
for  the  bill  at  present,  but  the  question  will  not 
"down"  any  more  than  Banquo's  ghost,  but  will 
continue  to  confront  Congress  and  the  Executive 
until  victory  be  won.  When  Senator  Piatt  presented 
in  the  Senate  the  other  day  several  more  petitions 
in  favor  of  prohibition  in  the  District,  he  referred 
to  one  signed  by  .374  citizens  here,  saying  that  it 
had  been  stated  by  some  of  the  city  papers  that  the 
petitions  sent  to  the  Senate  for  prohibition  in  the 
District  had  been  signed  by  women  and  children. 
He  mentioned  that  the  one  in  his  hand  from  local 
citizens  was  signed  by  many  men  of  high  business 
standing.  He  added  that  he  was  always  proud, 
however,  to  present  such  petitions  from  women. 

The  last  week  of  this  month  will  be  the  "Woman's 
week"  in  Washingtoue^^  Prominent  women  workers, 
who  have  in  charge  the  arrangements  for  the  Inter- 
national Council  of  Women  to  be  held  here,  have 
for  several  weeks  been  immersed  in  the  preliminary 
business  of  the  conference.  The  busiest  prepara- 
tions are  in  progress,  and  they  are  careful  to  tell 
you  that  it  is  in  no  sense  a  woman  suffrage  conven- 
tion. Women  who  never  thought  specially  of  wom- 
an suffrage  are  coming  to  take  part,  delegates  from 
associations  across  the  Atlantic,  all  sorts  of  associa- 
tions in  which  women  work.  It  will  be  one  of  the 
most  important  and  influential  gatherings  of  women 
the  world  has  ever  seen. 

The  evangelization  of  Washington  has  been  be- 
gun in  earnest,  it  would  seem,  by  some  of  the  Chris- 
tian workers.  On  last  Sunday  afternoon  the  dirty 
windows  of  the  dingy  old  Police  Court  room  lighted 
an  unwonted  scene.  A  placard  on  the  railing  in 
front  of  the  building  announced  that  the  Woman's 
Christian  Temperance  Union  would  hold  a  Gospel 
meeting  there  at  3  o'clock.  When  the  ladies  en- 
tered and  began  the  services  quite  a  crowd  gathered. 

Bishop  Paret  confirmed  thirty-four  people  at  As- 
cension church  on  last  Sunday.  When  they  walked 
up  to  the  chancel  among  their  number  was  a  single 
Chinaman,  the  first  of  the  race  to  unite  with  a 
Christian  church  in  Washington.  He  was  one  of 
the  pupils  of  the  Chinese  Sabbath-school  which  has 
been  in  operation  at  that  church  for  over  a  year. 
He  united  with  the  other  candidates  in  the  solemn 
renewal  of  the  baptismal  vows  and  kneeled  at  the 
chani-el  rail  between  a  manly  looking  young  Ameri- 
can and  a  young  girl  dressed  in  pure  white.        * 


OUR  NEW  TORE  LETTER. 


Bhookltn,  Mar.  14,  1888. 

Editor  Cdbistian  Cynosdrb: — Sabbath  night  I 
preached  in  the  Greene  Ave.  Baptist  church,  Rev.  S. 
G.  Nelson, pastor.  It  rained  very  hard  and  the  audi- 
ence.was  not  as  large  as  usual,  sometbing  over  200. 
The  interest  was  deep.  I  am  persuaded  that  we  need 
more  preaching  of  the  law. 

I  am  reminded  of  the  preaching  of  Rev.  James 
Glendenning,  at  Oldstone,  North  of  Ireland,  shortly 
after  the  Ulster  settlement.  A  historian  says:  "He 
was  a  man  who  would  never  have  been  chosen  by  a 
wise  assembly  of  ministers,  nor  sent  to  begin  a  ref- 
ormation in  this  land,  for  be  was  little  better  than 
distracted,  yea,  afterwards,  did  actually  distract. 
Yet  this  was  the  Lord's  choice  to  begin  the  admira- 
ble work  of  God,  which  I  mention  on  purpose  that 
all  men  may  see  how  the  glory  is  only  the  Lord's  in 
making  a  holy  nation  in  this  profane  land,  and  that 
it  was  not  by  might,  nor  by  power,  nor  by  man's 
wisdom.but  by  my  Spirit,says  the  Lord.  At  Oldstone, 
God  made  use  of  him  to  awaken  the  consciences  of  a 
lewd  and  secure  people  thereabouts.  Seeing  the 
great  lewdness  and  ungodly  sinfulness  of  the  peo- 
ple, he  preached  to  them  nothing  but  law,wratb,  and 
the  terrors  of  God  for  sin.  And  in  very  deed  for 
this  only  was  he  fitted,  for  hardly  could  he  preach 
any  other  thing.  But,  behold  the  success !  For  the 
hearers,  finding  themselves  condemned  by  the  mouth 
of  God  speaking  in  his  Word,  fell  into  such  anxiety 
and  terror  of  conscience  that  they  looked  on  them- 
selves as  altogether  lost  and  damned,  as  those  of 
old  who  said,  'Men  and  brethren,  what  shall  we  do 
to  be  saved?'  And  this  work  appeared  not  in  one 
single  person  or  two,  but  multitudes  were  brought 
to  understand  their  way.and  to  cry  out,  'What  shall 
we  do?'  I  have  seen  them  myself  stricken  and 
swoon  with  the  Word;  yea,  a  dozen  in  one  day  car- 
ried out  of  doors  as  dead,  so  marvelous  was  the 
power  of  God  smiting  their  hearts  for  sin,  condemn- 
ing and  killing.  And  this  spread  through  the  coun- 
try to  admiration,  so  that  in  a  manner,  as  many  as 
came  to  hear  the  Word  of  God  went  away  slain  with 
the  words  of  his  mouth.  For  a  short  time  this  work 
lasted  as  a  sort  of  disease  for  which  there  was  no 
cure,  the  poor  people  lying  under  the  spirit  of  bond- 
age, and  the  poor  man  who  was  the  instrument  of 
it,  not  being  sent,  it  seems,  to  preach  the  Gospel  so 
much  as  the  law,  they  lay  for  a  time  in  a  most  de- 
plorable condition,  slain  for  their  sin,  and  knew  no 
remedy."  Blair,  Livingstone  and  others  came  over 
and  preached  the  Gospel,  and  a  great  harvest  was 
gathered. 

Dr.  Edwards  preached  in  Endfield,  Conn.,  1838. 
When  he  entered  the  church  he  found  the  audience 
given  to  levity.  His  text  was  "Their  foot  shall  slide 
in  due  time."  His  theme  was,  Sinners  in  the  hands 
of  an  angry  God.  As  he  proceeded  his  hearers 
were  subdued,  then  alarmed.  They  caught  hold  of 
the  backs  of  the  pews  and  braces  and  pillars  of  the 
house,  and  many  cried  out  in  fear,  so  sensibly  did 
they  feel  that  they  were  sliding  into  ruin.  The 
minister  in  the  pulpit  clutched  the  skirt  of  Dr.  Ed- 
ward's coat  and  said,  "Mr.  Edwards,  is  not  God  mer- 
ciful as  well  as  just?"  Five  hundred  were  convert- 
ed, and  the  wave  rolled  on  until  30,000  were  brought 
to  Christ.  "The  law  is  our  schoolmaster  to  lead  us 
to  Christ" 

Rev.  Glendenning  was  first  settled  at  Carrickfer- 
gns.  He  was  advised  to  leave  there  because  the 
place  was  so  important  and  go  to  Oldstone,  a  very 
obscure  place.  The  hand  of  God  was  in  the  change. 
Edwards  was  compelled  to  leave  his  congregation 
likewise.  God  takes  care  of  his  banished  ones.  The 
Emperor  Adrian  banished  the  Apostle  John  to  Pat- 
mos,  and  God  gave  him  the  Revelation.  Luther  was 
a  prisoner  for  a  year  in  Wartburg  castle,  and  he 
there  translated  the  Bible  into  German,  the  best 
work  of  his  life.  John  Knox  was  binishcd  from 
Si- Jtland  by  Qaeen  Mary  and  God  led  him  to  Geneva 
where  he  found  Calvin.  Theee  are  important  facts 
for  these  days,  when  it  is  so  common  for  congrega- 
tions  to  drive  out  their  faithful  pastors.  The  New 
York  KvangelUt  has  published  several  articles  setting 
forth  how  alarmingly  prevalent  tbis  is  becoming. 
Let  no  persecuted  minister  be  afraid.  What  they 
mean  for  evil  God  means  for  good.  Joseph  must 
be  gotten  into  Ejiypt  some  way.  The  Lord  has  need 
of  him  there.  "Fear  not  to  go  down  into  Egypt.  1 
will  surely  go  with  thee  down  into  Egypt." 

Monday's  blizzard  in  New  York  was  unprecedent- 
ed. All  business  was  suspended,  elevated  and  sur- 
face street  cars  stopped;  trains  could  neither  leave 
nor  enter  the  city;  telegraph  and  telephone  wires 
were  down.  This  is  the  Word  of  God:  "I  will  blow 
upon  them."  "Is  there  evil  in  the  city  and  the  Lord 
hath  not  done  it?"  J.  M.  Fostkr. 


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THE  CHEISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


March  22, 1888 


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THE  Home. 


OlfB  OF  TBE8B  DATS. 

One  of  these  days  It  will  all  be  over, 

Sorrow  and  mirth,  and  our  loss  and  gain, 
Meetings  and  partings  of  friend  and  lover, 

SunsSlne  of  pleasure  and  cloud  of  pain; 
One  of  these  days  will  our  hands  be  folded, 

One  of  these  days  will  our  work  be  done, 
Finished  the  pattern  our  thoughts  have  moulded. 

Ended  our  labors  beneath  the  sun. 

One  of  these  days  will  the  heart-ache  leave  ub, 

One  of  these  days  will  the  burden  drop ; 
Never  again  shall  the  hope  deceive  us, 

Never  the  hindrance  our  progress  stop. 
Freed  from  the  chill  of  the  vain  endeavor, 

Winged  with  the  power  of  endless  life. 
One  of  these  days  we'll  forget  forever 

All  the  defeats  of  the  earthly  strife. 

One  of  these  days  we  shall  know  the  reason 

Haply  of  much  that  perplexes  now ; 
One  of  these  days,  In  the  Lord's  good  season, 

Seal  of  His  peace  shall  adorn  the  brow. 
Blessed  when  brought  out  of  tribulation ; 

Lif  ced  to  dwell  in  the  Lord's  own  light, 
Happy  to  share  In  the  great  salvation, 

Well  may  we  watch  through  the  passing  night 

One  of  these  days  the  darling  faces 

Vanished  here  from  the  household  band. 
Haul  ting  yet  our  familiar  places, 

Wooing  us  yet  to  the  better  land. 
Smiling  then  in  the  light  of  heaven. 

Once  again  will  be  all  our  own. 
One  of  these  days  'twill  to  us  be  given 

To  stand  with  our  darlings  before  the  throne. 

Patiently  then  our  cross  we'll  carry, 

•  Joyously  onward  daily  fare ; 

What  though  the  word  of  the  King  may  tarry. 

One  of  these  days  He  will  wa?it  us  there. 
One  of  these  days  1    Some  pearl-bright  morning? 

One  of  these  days  1    Some  golden  nooni 
Or  the  evening  gray  or  the  midnight  warning? 

Even  so,  Lord,  come  late  or  soon. 

Come,  Beloved,  and  find  us  serving, 

Come,  we  cry  with  our  longing  soul. 
Come  to  save  from  our  faithless  swerving, 

Come  to  touch  us  and  make  us  whole. 
"Till  He  cornel"  'tis  our  song  and  story; 

On  3  of  these  days  Its  thrilling  chord, 
Echoing  through  the  immortal  glory, 

We  shall  lift  to  our  risen  Lord. 

— Margaret  E,  Songster. 


AFRAID  OF  A  SHADOW. 


BY  MARGARET  J    PRESTON. 


We  were  spending  Sunday  in  Torquay,  the  pretty 
Devonshire  port  which  stretches  so  gracefully  along 
the  curves  of  Tor  Bay.  The  place  has  many  asso- 
ciations which  made  it  interesting,  apart  from  all  its 
beautiful  scenery  of  land  and  shore.  It  was  natural 
to  call  to  mind  that  in  one  of  the  tall  houses,  about 
half-way  up  the  wide  street  that  fronts  the  quay, 
Elizabeth  Barrett  was  living,  a  secluded  invalid, 
when  she  witnessed  from  the  windows  on  which  we 
looked  the  sad  catastrophe  which  left  its  impress 
upon  her  life — that  of  the  drowning  before  her  eyes 
of  her  favorite  broiher  and  a  young  friend,  by  the 
capsizing  of  their  boat,  just  shortly  after  they  had 
stepped  from  the  quay.  Those  who  know  anything 
about  the  inner  history  of  this  beautiful  life  will  re- 
member that  so  great  was  the  poignancy  of  the 
young  poet's  grief,  that  for  fifteen  months  she  was 
never  able  to  be  removed  to  her  home  in  London. 
In  this  secluded  chamber,  which  overlooked  the 
lovely  bay  that  had  engulfed  so  much  that  was  pre- 
cious to  her,  many  a  tender  poem  was  written  which 
has  since  helped  to  build  up  her  world-wide  fame. 

The  readers  of  Augustus  Hare's  "Memorial  of  a 
Quiet  Life," — a  book  which  has  commended  itself 
to  such  multitudes  of  American  hearts — will  not 
have  forgotten  the  beautiful  character  of  Lucy  Stan- 
ley, (the  youngest  sister  of  Dean  Stanley)  who  was 
married  to  the  younger  brother  of  Augustus  and 
Julius  Hare.  Torquay  is  closely  associated  with 
her  memory,  for  during  the  latter  years  of  her  life 
she  lived  on  her  estate  near  Torquay,  and  was  so 
conversant  with  the  whole  neighborhood  that  she 
gives  vivid  glimpses  of  its  be->uties  in  her  many  let- 
ters ecattered  through  the  Memorials.  "Abbot's 
Kerswell,"  she  writes,  "the  two  Tors,  and  all  the 
high  ground  one  sees  from  Rockend — wild  expanses 
of  moorland  heath,  distant  hills  and  villages,  Teign- 
mouth  water,  and  beautiful  Bradley  woods;  how  sur- 
passingly lovely  all  isl" 

It  was  here,  too,  that  Charlotte  Elliott,  the  author 
of  one  of  the  most  popular  hymns  in  the  English 
language,  "Just  as  I  am,"  lived,  and  here  did  her 
noble  work.     Devonshire  is  also  closely  associated 


with  the  memory  of  Augustus  Toplady;  and  not  far 
from  Torquay  is  said  to  be  the  spot  where  he  wrote 
his  immortal  hymn,  "Rock  of  Ages."  We,  there- 
fore, had  poetic  and  Christian  associations  filling 
our  minds  as  we  walked  about  the  streets  of  this 
pretty  Devonshire  town.  To  me  Torquay  had  a 
tender  memory  still;  for  in  one  of  its  quiet  ceme- 
teries lay  buried  a  lovely  young  English  friend, 
whose  going  hence  had  left  the  world  less  bright  for 
those  who  stayed  behind. 

The  air  was  palpitating,  that  fair  Sunday  morn- 
ing, with  the  rich  melody  of  the  Sunday  bells;  we 
Joined  a  great  throng  of  people  and  were  swept 
along  in  their  current  to  one  of  the  largest  dissent- 
ing chapels  of  the  place.  We  soon  found  ourselves 
in  a  comfortable  and  substantial  house  of  worship, 
which  the  good  Anglicans  refuse  to  allow  the  name 
of  church.  The  house  was  filled  with  a  quiet  and 
orderly  congregation.  The  regular  minister  was 
absent,  and  in  bis  place  officiated  a  young  Scotch 
clergyman,  who  gave  us  one  of  the  most  delightful 
sermons  I  ever  heard  preached  in  a  foreign  land. 
His  manner  was  simplicity  itself;  but  he  had  a  vivid 
and  dramatic  way  of  putting  things  that  made  each 
listener  feel  as  if  be  was  singling  him  out  and  ad- 
dressing himself  specially  to  him.  His  text  was  the 
twenty-third  Psalm,  of  which  he  gave  a  fine  running 
commentary.  When  he  came  to  the  verse,  "Though 
I  walk  through  the  valley  of  the  shadow  of  death," 
he  abruptly  paused  and  said,  "I  am  a  Scotchman; 
let  me  tell  you  a  little  incident  that  occurred  not 
long  ago  in  the  Scottish  parish  where  I  was  labor- 
ing." He  leaned  from  the  pulpit  and,  with  the 
sweetest  of  Scotch  accents  began,  in  a  low,  tender 
voice: 

"I  was  sitting  in  my  study  one  Saturday  evening, 
when  a  message  came  to  me  that  one  of  the  godliest 
among  the  shepherds  who  tended  their  flocks  upon 
the  slopes  of  our  Highland  hills  was  dying,  and 
wanted  to  see  the  minister.  Without  loss  of  time  I 
crossed  the  wide  heath  to  his  comfortable  little  cot- 
tage. When  I  entered  the  low  room  I  found  the  old 
shepherd  propped  up  with  pillows  and  breathing 
with  such  difficulty  that  it  was  apparent  he  was  near 
bis  end. 

"  'Jean,'  he  said  to  his  wife,  'gie  the  minister  a 
stool  and  leave  us  for  a  bit,  for  I  wad  see  the  min- 
ister alone.' 

"As  soon  as  the  door  had  closed  he  turned  the 
most  pathetic  pair  of  gray  eyes  upon  me  I  had  ever 
looked  into  and  said,  in  a  voice  shaken  with  emotion, 
'Minister,  I'm  dying,  and — and — I'm  afraidi' 

"I  began  at  once  to  repeat  the  strongest  promises 
with  which  God's  Word  furnishes  us;  but  in  the 
midst  of  them  he  stopped  me — 

"  'I  ken  them  a','  he  said  mournfully,  'I  ken  them 
a';  but  somehow  they  dinna  gie  me  comfort.' 

"  'Do  you  not  believe  them?' 

"  'Wi'  a'  my  heart!'  he  replied  earnestly. 

"  'Where,  then,  is  there  any  room  for  fear,  with 
such  a  saving  faith?' 

"  'For  a'  that.  Minister,  I'm  afraid — I'm  afraid!' 

"I  took  up  the  well-worn  Bible  which  lay  on  his 
bed  and  turned  to  the  psalm  which  I  have  read 
to  you  to-day.  'You  remember  the  twenty-third 
Psalm?'  I  began. 

"  'Remember  it?'  he  said  vehemently,  'I  kenned 
it  lang  afore  ye  were  born;  ye  need  na'  read  it;  I've 
conned  it  a  thousand  times  on  the  hillside!.' 

"  'But  there  is  one  verse  which  you  have  not 
taken  in.' 

"He  turned  uppn  me  with  a  half  reproachful  and 
even  stern  look.  'Did  I  na'  tell  ye  I  kenned  it  every 
word  lang  afore  ye  were  born?' 

"I  slowly  repeated  the  verse,  'Though  I  walk 
through  the  valley  of  the  shadow  of  death,  I  will 
fear  no  evil,  for  thou  art  with  me." 

"  'You  have  been  a  shepherd  all  your  life,  and  you 
have  watched  the  heavy  shadows  pass  over  the  val- 
leys and  over  the  hills,  hiding  for  a  little  while  all 
the  light  of  the  sun.  Did  these  shadows  ever  frighten 
you?' 

"  'Frighten  me?'  he  said  quickly,  'Na,  na!  Davie 
Donaldson  has  Covenanter's  bluid  in  his  veins;  nei- 
ther shadow  nor  substance  could  weel  frighten  him.' 

"  'But  did  these  shadows  never  make  you  believe 
that  you  would  not  see  the  sun  again — that  it  was 
gone  forever?' 

"  'Na,  na,  I  couldna  be  sic  a  simpleton  as  that.' 

"  'Nevertheless,  that  is  just  what  you  are  doing 
now.'     He  looked  at  me  with  incredulous  eyes. 

"  'Yes,  I  continued,  'the  shadow  of  death  is  over 
you,  and  it  hides  for  a  little  the  Sun  of  Righteous- 
ness, who  shines  all  the  same  behind  it;  but  it's  only 
a  shadow;  remember,  that's  what  the  Psalmist  calls 
it;  a  shadow  that  will  pass,  and  when  it  has  passed, 
before  you  will  be  the  everlasting  hills  in  their  un- 
clouded glory.' 
"The  old  shepherd  covered  bis  face  with  his  trem- 


bling hands,  and  for  a  few  minutes  maintained  an 
unbroken  silence;  then,  letting  them  fall  straight 
before  him  on  the  coverlet,  he  said,  as  if  musing  to 
himself,  'Aweel,  aweell  1  hae  conned  that  verse  a 
thousand  times  amang  the  heather,  and  I  never  un- 
derstood it  so  afore — afraid  of  a  shadow!  afraid  of 
a  shadowl'  Then,  turning  upon  me  a  face  now 
bright  with  an  almost  supernatural  radiance,  he  ex- 
claimed, lifting  his  hands  reverently  to  heaven,  'Aye, 
aye,  I  see  it  a'  now!  Death  is  only  a  shadow — a 
shadow  with  Christ  behind  it — a  shadow  that  will 
pass — na,  na,  I'm  afraid  nae  mairi'  " 

It  is  not  possible  that  any  words  of  mine  should 
have  power  to  reproduce  to  the  eye  or  mind  of  the 
reader  the  tone,  the  attitude  and  the  vivid  rendering 
of  this  little  incident.  But  as  the  people  wended 
their  way  home  that  Sunday  through  the  streets  of 
Torquay,  not  a  few,  I  am  sure,  repeated  to  themseves 
the  words  of  the  old  shepherd,  and  gathered  comfort 
therefrom:  "Na,  na,  I'm  afraid  nae  mair  !" — Ghrit- 
tian  Intelligencer. 

*  •  » 

Dr.  Talmage  says:  "I  have  come  to  believe  that 
anything  is  possible  if  God  helps  since  what  1  saw 
at  Beth-Shan  faith  cure  in  London,  England,  two 
summers  ago.  While  the  religious  service  was  go- 
ing on.  Rev.  Dr.  Boardman — glorious  man!  since 
gone  to  his  heavenly  rest — was  telling  the  scores  of 
sick  people  present  that  Christ  was  there  as  of  old 
to  heal  all  diseases,  and  that,  if  they  would  only  be- 
lieve, their  sickness  would  depart.  I  saw  a  woman 
near  me,  with  hand  and  arm  twisted  by  rheumatism, 
and  her  wrist  was  fiery  with  inflammation,  and  it 
looked  like  those  cases  of  chronic  rheumatism  which 
we  have  all  seen  and  sympathized  with,cases  beyond 
all  human  healing.  At  the  preacher's  reiteration  of 
the  words:  'Will  you  believe?  Do  you  believe?  Do 
you  believe  now?'  I  heard  this  poor  sick  woman  say, 
with  an  emphasis  which  sounded  through  the  build- 
ing: 'I  do  believe.'  And  then  she  laid  her  twisted 
arm  and  hand  out  as  straight  as  your  arm  and  hand 
or  mine.  If  I  had  seen  one  rise  from  the  dead,  I 
would  not  have  been  much  more  thrilled.  Since 
then  I  believe  that  God  will  do  anything  in  answer 
to  our  prayer  and  in  answer  to  our  faith,  and  he  can 
heal  our  bodies,  and  if  our  soul  is  all  twisted  and 
misshapen  of  revenge  and  hate  and  inflamed  with 
sinful  proclivity,  he  can  straighten  that  also  and 
make  it  well  and  clean." — Ex. 


THE  STOHB  LAMB. 


A  German  clergyman,  Pastor  O'Feuke,  tells  a 
story  in  a  very  interesting  book  of  his  about  things 
which  have  really  happened  to  him,  or  which  he  has 
met  with  in  his  travels.  In  1865  he  stood  before 
the  beautiful  Roman  Catholic  Chapel  of  Werden  an 
der  Ruhr,  in  Germany,  waiting  for  the  key  to  be 
brought  that  the  door  might  be  unlocked  for  them 
to  enter.  While  they  waited  they  saw  something  on 
the  ledge  of  the  roof  which  they  found  to  be  a  carved 
stone  lamb,'  and  began  to  wonder  what  it  meant  up 
there.  So  they  asked  an  old  woman  who  was  hob- 
bling along  a  little  way  off  if  she  could  tell  them 
about  it,  and  she  replied,  "Yes,"  and  then  related 
why  it  had  been  placed  in  that  strange  place. 

"Many,  many  years  ago,"  she  said,  "where  that 
lamb  now  stands,  a  man  was  busy  repairing  the  roof 
of  the  chapel  who  had  to  sit  in  a  basket  fastened  by 
a  rope  as  he  worked.  Well,  he  was  working  in  this 
manner  one  day  when  suddenly  the  rope  which  held 
the  basket  gave  way,  and  he  fell  down,  down  from 
the  great  height  to  the  ground  below!  Of  course 
every  one  who  saw  the  dreadful  accident  expected 
that  the  man  would  be  killed,especially  as  the  ground 
just  there  was  covered  with  sharp  stones  and  rocks 
which  the  workmen  were  using  for  building.  But 
to  their  great  astonishment  he  rose  from  the  ground 
and  stood  up  quite  uninjured!  And  that  was  how 
it  happened;  a  poor  lamb  had  wandered  quite  up  to 
the  side  of  the  chapel,  in  search  of  the  sweet  young 
grass  which  sprung  up  among  the  stones,  and  the 
man  had  fallen  on  the  soft  body  of  the  lamb — it 
had  saved  his  life,  for  he  had  escaped  with  the  mere 
fright,and  with  not  so  much  as  a  finger  broken.  But 
the  poor  lamb  was  killed  by  his  heavy  fall  upon  it. 
So,  out  of  pure  gratitude,  ther  man  had  the  stone 
lamb  carved  and  set  up  as  a  lasting  memento  of  his 
escape  from  so  fearful  a  death,and  of  what  he  owed 
to  the  poor  lamb." 

Do  you  not  think  this  is  a  beautiful  story?  Does 
it  not  remind  you  of  the  story  of  the  Lord  Jesus,  the 
Lamb  of  God,  who  was  slain  for  us  that  we  might 
live  forever?  Never  forget  that  "he  was  wounded 
for  our  transgressions,  he  was  bruised  for  our  iniq- 
uities." And  let  us  copy  the  poor  man's  example 
in  being  truly  thankful,  and  showing  we  are  so.  He 
could  not  do  anything  more  for  the  lamb  which  had 
so  wonderfully  saved  his  life  than  make  a  little 


March  22, 1888 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSUKE. 


11 


monament  or  memento  of  what  it  had  done.  But 
there  is  much  that  we  can  do  for  the  Lamb  of  God 
who  was  slain  for  us.  We  can  love  him  for  what 
he  has  done,  and  we  can  give  him  the  one  thing  he 
wants  from  us.  Do  you  ask  what  it  is  for  which 
even  the  God  of  glory  longs,  he  who  has  all  the 
riches  of  the  world,  and  to  whom  heaven  and  earth 
belong?  He  says:  "My  son,  give  me  thine  heart" 
— Rtformtd  Church  Missionary. 


BLBPHANTS  AT  WORE. 

Lazy  and  clumsy-looking  as  the  elephant  appears 
in  our  menageries,  where  it  is  merely  an  object  of 
curiosity,  in  Asia  it  is  as  useful  an  animal  as  the 
horse,  and  is,  indeed,  employed  in  a  greater  variety 
of  ways. 

There  are  few,  if  any,  tasks  which  a  horse  can  be 
trusted  to  perform  without  careful  and  constant 
guidance;  whereas  the  elephant  is  frequently  given 
as  much  independence  of  action  as  a  man  would 
have  for  the  same  work.  This  is  notably  the  case 
in  the  lumber-yards  of  Rangoon  and  Maulmein, 
where  the  entire  operation  of  moving  and  piling  the 
heavy  timber  is  performed  by  male  elephants  with- 
out any  special  supervision  by  the  keepers. 

The  logs  to  be  moved  are  teakwood,  which  is  very 
heavy.  They  are  cut  into  lengths  of  twenty  feet, 
with  a  diameter  or  perhaps  a  square,  of  about  a  foot. 
An  elephant  will  go  to  a  log,  kneel  known,  thrust 
his  tusks  under  the  middle  of  it,  curl  bis  trunk  over 
it,  test  it  to  see  that  it  is  evenly  balanced,  and  then 
rise  with  it  and  easily  carry  it  to  the  pile  which  is 
being  made.  Placing  the  log  carefully  on  the  pile 
in  its  proper  place,  the  sagacious  animal  will  step 
back  a  few  paces  and  measure  with  his  eye  to  deter- 
mine whether  or  not  the  log  needs  pushing  one  way 
or  another.  Tt  will  then  make  any  necessary  altera- 
tion of  position.  In  this  way,  without  a  word  of 
command  from  its  mahout,  or  driver,  it  will  go  on 
with  its  work. 

.  To  do  any  special  task,  it  must,  of  course,  be 
directed  by  the  mahout;  but  it  is  marvelous  to  see 
how  readily  this  great  creature  comprehends  its  in- 
structions, and  how  ingeniously  it  makes  use  of  its 
strength.  If  a  log  too  heavy  to  be  carried  is  to  be 
moved  a  short  distance,  the  elephant  will  bend  low, 
place  his  great  head  against  the  end  of  the  log  and 
then  with  a  sudden  exertion  of  strength  and  weight 
throw  his  body  forward  and  fairly  push  the  log 
along;  or,  to  move  the  log  any  great  distance,  he  will 
encircle  it  with  a  chain  and  drag  his  load  behind  him. 

As  a  rule,  however,  the  work  of  dragging  is  done 
by  the  female  elephants,  since,  having  no  tusks,  they 
cannot  carry  logs  as  the  male  elephants  do.  A  man 
could  hardly  display  more  judgment  in  the  adjust- 
ment of  the  rope  or  chain  around  a  log,  nor  could  a 
man  with  his  two  hands  tie  and  untie  knots  more 
skillfully  than  they  do  with  their  trunks. — ISt.  Nich- 
olas. 

NEVER  8 WEAR. 

1.  It  is  mean.  A  boy  of  high  moral  standing 
would  almost  as  soon  steal  a  sheep  as  to  swear. 

2.  It  is  vulgar — altogether  too  low  for  a  decent  boy. 
.3.  It  is  cowardly — implying  a  fear  of  not  being 

believed  or  obeyed. 

4.  It  is  ungentlemanly.  A  gentleman,  according 
to  Webster,  is  a  genteel  man — well-bred,  refined. 
Such  a  man  will  no  more  swear  than  go  into  the 
street  to  throw  mud  with  a  chimney- sweep. 

5.  It  is  indecent — offensive  to  delicacy,  and  ex- 
tremely unfit  for  human  ears. 

6.  It  is  foolish.  "Want  of  decency  is  want  of 
sense." 

7.  It  is  abusive — to  the  mind  which  conceives  the 
oath,  to  the  tODgue  which  utters  it,  and  to  the  person 
at  whom  it  is  aimed. 

8.  It  is  venomous — showing  a  boy's  heart  to  be  a 
nest  of  vipers;  and  every  time  he  swears  one  of  them 
sticks  out  its  head. 

9.  It  is  contemptible — forfeiting  the  respect  of  all 
the  wise  and  the  good. 

10.  It  is  wicked — violating  the  divine  law,  and 
provoking  the  displeasure  of  Him  who  will  not  hold 
him  guiltless  who  takes  his  name  in  vain. — Balti- 
more Methodist. 


Teufesance. 


Little  Molly  was  indulging  in  the  luxury  of  a 
copious  crying  spell,  when  the  spectacle  of  a  mili- 
tary procession  in  the  street  dammed  the  fountain 
of  her  grief.  A  sparkle  came  into  her  eyes,  and 
her  lips  uttered  exclamations  of  delight.  But  the 
relief  was  but  momentary.  No  sooner  had  the  pro- 
cession vanished  than  she  was  heard  remarking  to 
herself:  "What  was  I  crying  about — what  was  I 
crying  about?  O,  now  I  know."  [Goes  on  boo- 
hooing  for  half  an  hoar.] — Harper's  Bazar. 


THE  FAILURE    OF  HIOH  LIOBNBE    IN    GUI- 
OAGO. 

The  high  license  law  was  enacted  June  15,  1883, 
and  went  into  effect  July  1,  1883.  The  $52  per  year 
licenses  ran  out  June  16,  1883.  Before  the  new 
$500  license  law  took  effect,  the  saloon-keepers  were 
allowed  to  take  out  licenses  for  the  balance  of  the 
fiscal  year  ending  May  1,  1884,  for  $103.  From 
May  1,  1884,  until  May  1,  1886,  a  period  of  two 
years,  a  beer  license  for  $150  was  issued.  These 
are  included  in  the  total  number  given  for  those 
years.  Since  May,  1,  1886,  all  licenses  issued  have 
been  at  the  uniform  rate  of  $500  per  year. 


Amt.  of 

Bbls.  of 

Drunks 

■• 

License 

No.  Of 

Beer 

and  Ulsur- 

Total 

Year. 

Fee. 

Saloons. 

Consumed. 

derllcB. 

Arrests. 

1882 

t52 

3,849 

8T2  228 

18.045 

»i,SO 

isa 

103 

3,682 

%3.652 

21,416 

.37,187 

ISM 

500 

S.336 

1,0J5,W2 

33  080 

39,131 

1885 

.'00 

3.584 

1,115,6^3 

1'5,407 

40,998 

1880 

500 

•3,587 

1,3111,00(1 

26,067 

44,2«1 

1887 

500 

t4,I93 

l,CT4,l4(i 

27,632 

46,505 

•For  the  last  period  of  the  fiscal  year  ending  May  1, 1887. 
tForthc  second  period  of  the  (Is'al  year  ending  Dec.  1,  1887.    Those  Is- 
sued for  the  first  period  ending  AugusD  1, 1837,  were  3,773. 

This  makes  the  showing  for  high  license  still 
worse  than  before,  based  upon  these  official  figures, 
which  I  obtained  myself  from  the  Police  Headquar- 
ters. 

Increase  of  population  from  1882  to  1887, 35  per 
cent;  increase  in  number  of  arrests  for  drunken- 
ness and  disorder  during  the  same  period,  53  per 
cent;  increase  in  total  of  arrests,  41  per  cent. 

The  figures  in  reference  to  the  consumption  of 
beer  for  the  year  1882,  up  to  and  including  the 
year  1885,  I  obtained  from  the  Chicago  Inter-Ocean 
of  July  30,  1886.  They  were  carefully  prepared 
by  that  paper,  and  have  been  republished  many 
times  since,  and  never  questioned  to  my  knowledge. 
The  amount  consumed  in  Chicago  was  arrived  at 
by  adding  to  the  total  product  of  the  Chicago  brew- 
eries to  the  amount  manufactured  in  Milwaukee  and 
sold  in  Chicago.  Some  of  the  beer  manufactured 
in  Chicago  is  shipped  outside —perhaps  about  ten 
per  cent  of  the  total  amount  —but  it  is  estimated 
that  the  amount  consumed  in  Chicago,  which  is  made 
at  Waukegan,  Joliet  and  other  places  outside  of 
Milwaukee,  is  a  fair  offset  to  this  amount. 

The  Assistant  Secretary  of  the  Chicago  and  Mil- 
waukee Brewers'  Association,  who  keeps  an  office  in 
Chicago  for  the  Association,  and  devotes  his  whole 
time  to  the  business  of  the  Association,  is  probably 
the  best  authority  on  this  subject  of  any  one.  In 
order  to  get  the  most  reliable  information  about 
the  amount  consumed  in  Chicago,  I  applied  to  him. 
Whilst  he  was  very  polite  to  me,  he  declined  to  give 
me  the  information  I  sought,  because,  he  said,  he 
feared  that  his  employers  would  not  like  it.  But 
he,  however,  admitted  in  the  course  of  the  conver- 
sation that  if  I  could  ascertain  the  amount  of  Mil- 
waukee beer  sold  in  Chicago,  and  then  should  add 
that  to  the  total  amount  produced  by  the  Chicago 
breweries,  the  sum  total  would  be  a  substantially 
correct  aggregate  of  the  beer  consumed  here. 

I  found  in  the  Chicago  tribunes  annual  trade  re- 
view, published  January  2,  1887,  just  the  informa- 
tion I  needed,  to  show  me  the  amount  consumed  in 

1886  and  1887.  This  trade  review  is  prepared  with 
great  care  by  the  Iribune,  as  I  found  by  interview- 
ing the  commercial  editor  of  that  paper.  The  fig- 
ures I  give  in  the  above  table  for  the  years  1886  and 

1887  were  taken  from  this  trade  review,  which 
showed  the  total  amount  of  Milwaukee  beer  sold 
here  and  the  amount  made  here.  I  think  the  fig- 
ures, therefore,  can  be  depended  upon. 

In  order  that  I  might  satisfy  myself  thoroughly 
of  the  correctness  of  these  figures  as  to  the  con- 
sumption of  beer  in  Chicago,  I  called  upon  the 
editor  of  The  Western  Brewer,  a  monthly  publica 
tion  devoted  to  the  beer  interests,  published  here. 
He  showed  me  his  published  statistics  of  the  beer 
made  by  the  Chicago  brewers  in  the  last  ten  years, 
up  to  May  1,  1887.  His  tables  are  only  brought 
down  to  May,  1887,  and  do  not  show  for  the  calen- 
dar year,  but  for  the  fiscal  year  ending  May  1,  each 
year.  Here  are  the  figures  for  the  number  of  bar- 
rels of  beer  made  in  Chicago  from  May  1,  1881,  to 
May  1,  1887: 


1N,S2 

ISSl 

l'^i( 

IS-i'i 

1S8<; 

lSr.7 

«4J,(k-i2 

o;i'.,i.">:i 

7i;i.i,'^ 

819.410 

S?.(,99:. 

l,17J,!f. 

He  estimated  that  of  the  total  number  of  barrels 
shown  by  his  table  to  have  been  manufactured  in 
Chicago  from  May  1,  1886,  to  May  1,  1887, 
1,000,000  of  them  were  consumed  in  Chicago.  He 
did  not  have  the  statistics  of  the  amount  sold  in 
Chicago  which  was  made  outside.  But  he  told  me 
that  he  thought  the  amount  consumed  last  year  in 
Chicago  would  be  between  1,300,000  and  1,400,000 
barrels.  But  taking  his  figures  of  the  amount  made 
in  Chicago  in  1882  and  the  amount  made  in  1886-7 
(to  May  1,  1887)  it  shows  an  increase  of  81  per  cent 


The  greater  part  of  this  last  year,  as  well  as  in  pre- 
vious jears,  was  consumed  in  Chicago. 

My  estimate  of  450  glasses  of  beer  to  the  barrel 
is  about  25  per  cent  less  than  the  number  of 
average  glasses  (foam  and  all)  which  a  saloon-keeper 
expects  to  get  out  of  a  barrel.  But  I  allowed  this  25 
per  cent  to  offset  the  "bucket  trade"  of  saloons 
where  beer  is  sold  for  less  than  five  cents.  The 
brewers  received  for  the  1,674,146  barrels  consumed 
here  last  year,  $6  per  barrel,  or  $10,044,876.  Three 
hundred  per  cent  advance  on  the  brewer's  price  by 
the  saloon-keeper,  who  has  to  pay  his  high  license 
tax,  rent  and  bar-keeper's  salary,  and  support  him- 
self out  of  his  profits,  is  not  an  unreasonable  esti- 
mate. They  expect  to  get  $24  out  of  every  four 
kegs,  or  one  barrel.  This  would  make  the  total 
cost  to  the  consumers  of  over  $10,000,000.  I  think 
my  estimate  of  the  amount — $37,668 — is  inside  the 
mark.  Samoel  W.  Packard. 


PLAIN  TALK  FROM  BISHOP  IRELAND. 


The  Baltimore  Catholic  Mirror,  in  a  report  of  a 
lecture  by  Rt.  Rev.  Bishop  Ii^land  of  St.  Paul  be- 
fore 1,100  people  in  St.  John's  church,  that  city, 
gives  his  words  as  follows: — "It  is  my  judgment  that 
nothing  is  destined  to  elevate  the  Irish  people  and 
Catholic  church  more  than  this  total  abstinence 
movement.  Make  Irishmen  teetotalers  and  you 
make  the  greatest  people  on  earth.  A  new  era  is 
dawning  for  the  Irish  race,  for  Ireland  sober  is  Ire- 
land free.  Out  of  the  eighty  NationalistJts  in  Par- 
liament, forty  are  teetotalers.  Here  the  Irishman  is 
peculiarly  fortunate.  There  is  no  prejudice  against 
his  faith  or  nationality.  The  American  people  look 
to  the  Irish  element  for  help  and  succor.  Where 
socialistic  and  communistic  attempts  have  been 
made  the  Irish  have  been  on  the  right  side  of  law 
and  order.  But  while  some  Irishmen  have  succeed- 
ed here  to  lofty  positions  there  have  been  too  few 
for  our  numbers,  and  it's  on  account  of  drink.  You 
won't  find  many  Irish  names  over  dry  goods  stores 
and  banks,  but  placarded  over  the  dens  of  hell — the 
saloons — you'll  find  many  names  of  old  Irish  kings 
and  chieftains.  I  tell  you,  Irishmen  are  made  for 
something  better  than  to  sell  poison  over  a  counter. 
Yet  these  men  get  rich  and  strong,  and  run  politics, 
and  become  pillars  of  the  church.  I  was  asked  once 
to  preach  on  St.  Patrick's  Day,  and  I  felt  proud  of 
the  invitation.  Oh!  I  gave  it  to  whisky  and  I  hor- 
rified the  pastor.  He  said:  'You'll  ruin  me;  the 
pillars  of  my  church  are  liquor-sellers.'  After  the 
sermon  I  went  to  see  the  parade,  and  I  found  every 
marshal  a  saloon-keeper.  Today,  in  that  town,  out 
of  300  or  400  saloon-keepers  but  three  or  four  are 
Irish.  You  talk  of  the  power  of  the  President  or 
the  Mayor.  Nonseuse,the  power  is  the  saloon  keep- 
er. How  can  the  people  hold  us  in  high  esteem 
whftn  this  is  the  case?  Talk  about  Irish  landlords' 
tyranny.  He  will  at  least  leave  a  few  potatoes,  but 
the  saloon-keeper  takes  every  cent  Look  how  many 
Irishmen  are  brought  up  every  day  in  the  police 
court  Look  at  the  almshouses.  Whisky  does  it. 
'Oh,'  you  say,  'these  are  not  Irish.  They  assume 
Irish  names.'  You  must  go  and  talk  to  them;  you'll 
find  them  the  genuine  stuff.  We  want  the  help  of 
the  women.  I  believe  in  a  wife  being  dutiful,  but 
when  a  man  comes  home  smelling  of  whisky  she 
ought  to  make  things  as  lively  as  possible." — Irish 
World. 


The  European  countries  spend  their  millions  on 
armies  and  navies,  but  spend  more  on  intoxicating 
drinks.  A  German  statistician,  in  speaking  of  the 
liquor  traffic,  says:  Germany  spends  between  500,- 
000,000  and  600,000,000  francs  annually  for  her 
armies,  but,  2,200,000,000  francs  for  drinks— i.  e,, 
more  than  four  times  as  much.  The  French  spend 
three  times  as  much  for  liquors  as  for  their  soldiers, 
and  the  English  four  times  as  much,  and  the  Bel- 
gians over  ten  times  as  much.  Truly  such  figures 
furnish  a  good  temperance  argument 

In  round  numbers  the  consumption  of  distilled 
spirits,  domestic  and  imported,  in  this  country,  is 
shown  to  have  increased  from  43,000,000  gallons  in 
1840  to  72,000,000  in  1886;  of  wine,  from  4,800,000 
gallons  to  22,000,000;  and  of  malt  liquors,  from 
23,000,000  to  642,000,000.  The  consumption  per 
capita  during  the  same  period  decreased  as  regards 
distilled  npirita  from  about  2^  gallons  to  about  1^ 
gallons;  while  it  incres<>ei',  as  regUids  wines,  from 
2i)  to  .38  gallons,  and  of  malt  liquors,  from  less 
than  1.^  to  more  than  11  gallons. 

A  poisonous  distillation  from  potatoes,  known 
among  the  negroes  as  "Death,"  is  exported  from  the 
Christian  ports  of  Bremen  and  Hamburg  for  sale 
among  the  barbarians  of  Africa. 


f. 


12 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


Maboh  22, 1888 


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REFORM  NE  W8  ( Contintied  from  5th  page)  . 

Wheaton  Theological  Seminary.     But  soon,  as  a  sol- 
dier for  Jesus,  I  must  return  to  my  labor  in  Iowa. 

Friends  of  reform  in  Iowa,  I  appeal  to  you  as 
patriots,  philanthropists  and  Christians  to  come  up 
to  the  help  of  the  Lord,  and  aid  in  the  liberation  of 
your  fellow  citizens  from  the  despotism  of  the  lodge. 
Why  should  intelligent  freemen,  who  have  a  consti- 
tutional right  to  equality  before  the  law,  submit  to 
to  be  ruled  by  secret  rings  and  clans? 

While  at  Chestnut  Hill,  Henry  county,  I  stopped 
with  a  God-fearing  man,  who,  in  other  days,  was  en- 
snared into  the  lodge,  and  became  an  Odd-fellow. 
He  spoke  of  a  time  when  he  had  a  suit  in  the 
circuit  court.  He  sought  a  private  interview  with 
the  judge,  who  was  an  Odd-fellow,  and  asked  for 
legal  counsel.  The  judge,  ignoring  his  oath  of 
cflSce,  espoused  the  cause  of  his  brother  Odd-fellow, 
who,  following  the  advice,  gained  his  suit. 

Believing  that  his  cause  was  just,  my  friend 
was  not  shocked  at  the  time  (as  he  afterwards  was 
when  his  eyes  were  opened)  at  seeing  the  judge, 
under  the  mystic  power  of  his  clannish  obligations 
and  associations,  converted  into  an  advocate.  But 
the  following  circunfttance  was  blessed  of  God  to 
break  the  spell  of  the  lodge  demon,  and  to  stimulate 
him  to  assert  his  liberty  as  a  freeman  and  a  Chris- 
tian. He  was  an  Abolitionist,and  was  wont  to  shel- 
ter and  aid  the  panting  fugitive  who  was  fleeing 
from  his  master  to  the  protection  of  the  British 
flag. 

One  night  there  came  to  his  door  a  dusky  son  of 
toil, who,  with  his  eye  fixed  upon  the  North  Star,fled 
from  his  oppressor.  He  fed  and  sheltered  him;  gave 
him  directions  ,and  sent  him  on  his  way.  Follow- 
ing his  trail  came  the  slave's  master  and  a  fellow 
planter  with  him.  They  inquired  for  the  fugitive, 
but  elicited  no  information.  The  master  then  made 
himself  known  as  an  Odd-fellow;  and  constrained  by 
his  obligation  to  his  fellow  clansman,  my  informant 
betrayed  the  confidence  of  the  fleeing  slave,  and 
gave  such  information  to  his  pursuers  as  led  to  his 
capture  and  return  to  bondage.  From  this  circum- 
stance his  moral  nature  received  a  shock  that  awoke 
his  slumbering  conscience  and  caused  him  to  throw 
ofl  the  yoke  of  Odd-fellowship  and  assert  his  liber- 
ty as  a  man  and  a  Christian  to  walk  in  all  good  con- 
science before  God,  unbiased  by  the  obligations  of  a 
secret  clan. 

Men  and  brethren  of  Iowa,  you  will  not  see  Jus- 
tice perverted,  moral  obligations  nullified  and  Christ 
supplanted,  and  not  come  to  the  rescue.  Do  not 
wait  to  be  called  upon  by  the  agent,  but  send  in 
your  donations  to  the  treasurer  of  the  Iowa  Associ- 
ation to  aid  in  carrying  forward  the  reform  work  in 
the  State. 

Be  as  prompt  as  you  can  in  paying  your  subscrip- 
tions to  the  Cynosure  and  to  the  State  work.  Send 
the  money  as  soon  as  possible  to  James  Harvey, 
Pleasant  Plain,  Jefferson  county,  Iowa,  the  treasurer 
of  the  Iowa  Association,  that  we  may  not  be  hin- 
dered by  lack  of  funds  from  vigorously  prosecuting 
the  reform  work. 

Let  those  who  wish  lectures  or  who  will  aid  in 
the  distribution  of  literature,  or  in  getting  subscrib- 
ers to  the  (jynoture,  write  me  to  Wheaton,  Dupage 
county.  III.  By  personal  effort,  by  liberal  contribu- 
tions, and  by  united  and  believing  prayer  we  shall, 
with  the  weapon  of  truth  made  mighty  by  the  Holy 
Ghost,  pull  down  these  strongholds  of  Satan,  whose 
name  is  "legion."     Your  agent  and  fellow-worker, 

C.  F.  Hawlby. 


A  HEARTY  RBaPONSB  FROM  PITTSBUROH. 

Pittsburgh,  Pa.,  March  15,  1888. 

DsAB  CYNOsuaE: — I  mail  herewith  thirty-five  new 
yearly  subscriptions,  thirty  of  which  have  been 
taken  in  this  city  and  Allegheny.  I  have  but  com- 
menced on  the  work  that  is  much  needed,  and  might 
be  done  here.  While  visiting  friends  I  have  not 
been  idle,  but  have  endeavored  to  use  opportunities 
afforded,  as  .results  will  show.  The  old  saying 
"work  before  pleasure,"  often  conveys  a  wrong  idea. 
To  the  Christian  reformer  work  is  pleasure.  The 
humblest  work  if  done  to  the  glory  of  God  will  not 
fail  of  its  reward. 

Owing  somewhat  to  the  storm  which  commenced 
on  Sabbath  and  continued  until  last  evening  my  lec- 
ture on  Monday  was  not  largely  attended,  some  150 
perhaps  were  present.  A  few  sympathizers  with  the 
lodge  present  became  angry,  so  it  was  not  without 
results. 

Mr.  J.  H.  Hanna,  a  gentleman  who  has  done  much 
for  our  cause  in  other  days,  made  himself  known  to 
me,  and  is  now  endeavoring  to  arrange  other  lectures 
for  next  week  in  United  Presbyterian  churches. 
There  seem  to  be  a  large  number  of  lecturers  here 


at  this  time.  The  interest  of  reformers  is  chiefly 
centered  in  temperance  work.  Licenses  are  granted 
the  saloons  every  May.  It  is  hoped  under  the  pres- 
ent State  law  to  close  a  large  number  this  year. 

Mrs.  S.  and  1  start  for  New  Alexandria,  West- 
moreland Co.,  in  the  morning  where  we  spend  Sab- 
bath. I  think  a  lecture  has  been  arranged  for  Mon- 
day evening.  Returning  early  next  week  I  w"ll  fill 
any  appointments  that  may  be  made  here  before  re- 
turning to  Ohio.  W.  B.  Stoddard. 


Religious  News. 


— The  Moody  and  Sankey  revival  meetings  began 
in  Sioux  City,  Iowa,  Wednesday,  Feb.  22,  in  the  old 
skating  rink,  which  was  packed  at  all  the  meetings, 
and  hundreds  were  unable  to  gain  admission.  Over 
two  hundred  clergymen  from  neighboring  towns  were 
in  attendance. 

— There  are  now  in  Germany  3  000  Sunday- 
schools,  with  30,000  teachers  and  300,000  scholars, 
where  twenty-five  years  ago  there  was  not  one.  This 
important  statement  was  made  at  a  recent  meeting 
of  the  Foreign  Sunday-school  Association  in  the 
Fifth  Avenue  Presbyterian  church  of  New  York. 
Here  is  a  grand  field  for  work  on  the  continent  of 
Europe. 

— Under  the  direction  of  Dr.  L.  W.  Munhall,  a 
series  of  union  revival  meetings  has  just  been  held 
in  Buffalo.  The  first  services  were  on  Sunday,  Feb- 
ruary 5,  and  the  last  Tuesday  evening  March  6. 
Four  churches  united  in  the  work — the  Central  Pres- 
byterian, the  Hudson  Street  Baptist,  the  Asbury 
Methodist  and  the  First  Congregational.  The  meet- 
ings were  in  the  first-named  church,  the  largest 
Protestant  church  edifice  in  the  city.  Dr.  Munhall 
was  assisted  for  the  first  ten  days  by  Professor  and 
Mrs.  Turner,  and  during  the  last  two  weeks  by  the 
Wilson  family,  all  most  attractive  and  helpful  sing- 
ers. This  form  of  union  revival  meetings  is  some- 
thing new  in  Buffalo  city  and  there  was  evident,  for 
a  few  days,  a  feeling  of  unfamiliarity  and  curiosity. 
This  soon  gave  place  to  an  earnest  spirit,  and  the 
common  judgment  of  pastors  and  people  is  that  the 
work  has  been  helpful.  Over  six  hundred  "dedica- 
tive  cards"  have  been  received  expressing  preference 
for  seventy-one  different  churches.  The  afternoon 
Bible  Readings  were  a  marked  feature  of  the  move- 
ment. The  attendance  at  all  the  services  was  large, 
and  on  Sundays  the  ushers  were  obliged  more  than 
once  to  close  the  doors. 

— To  the  great  regret  af  his  congregation,  the 
Rev.  Moses  Smith,  D.D.,  of  the  Woodward  Avenue 
Congregational  church  of  Detroit,  Mich.,  has  re- 
signed his  pastorate.  Since  Dr.  Smith  has  had  charge 
of  the  church  325  persons  have  been  welcomed  into 
its  fellowship,  and  it  is  now  the  largest  church  of  the 
denomination  in  Detroit. 

— The  colored  Baptists  of  Tennessee  do  not  pro- 
pose to  allow  anti-Prohibitionists  to  occupy  any  of 
their  pulpits.  Their  State  Convention  has  adopted 
the  following  resolution:  ^'Resolved,  That  no  minis- 
ter be  allowed  to  preach  the  Gospel  who  fought 
Prohibition  during  the  late  canvass.  They  will  not 
be  recognized  hereafter  by  this  Convention." 

— A  native  merchant  in  Foo  Chow,  who  has  in  his 
employment  one  thousand  Chinamen,  was  converted. 
A  total  cessation  from  Sunday  trade  being  insisted 
upon  the  missionaries  as  a  test  of  church  fellowship, 
Mr.  Ahok  gladly  complied.  Although  his  non- 
Christian  partners  in  business  naturally  objected,  he 
went  so  far  as  to  offer  on  his  own  account  full  seven 
days  wages,  to  all  who  would  abstain  from  Sabbath 
toil,  and  who  would  give  attention  to  the  religion 
that  he  had  learned  to  prize  so  much. 

— The  American  missionaries  in  Western  Persia 
among  the  Nestorians  write  that  the  poverty  and 
distress  which  have  been  felt  for  six  months  past 
have  now  reached  the  sharpness  of  actual  famine. 
The  Rev.  J.  H.  Shedd  writes  under  date  of  Decem- 
ber 31,  1887;  "Unless  we  have  some  means  in  our 
hands  to  help  our  starving  brethren  and  sisters  in 
Christ  we  shall  have  the  double  anguish  of  seeing 
them  in  starvation  and  of  being  powerless  to  relieve 
them.  We  greatly,  direly,  need  $3,000  or  $4,000  to 
relieve  those  who  have  no  bread."  This  sum  is 
named  as  needed  immediately  to  meet  the  necessi- 
ties of  the  native  Christians  in  the  churches  and 
congregations  under  the  care  of  the  missionaries. 
The  Rev.  F.  G.  Coan  writes:  "One  thousand  of 
these  will  die  before  spring  without  help." 

— J.  H.  Dunbar,  a  convict  from  Wyoming  Terri- 
tory, was  pardoned  out  of  the  Illinois  penitentiary 
by  Gov.  Moonlight  of  Wyoming.  Dunbar  was  noted 
when  he  first  came  to  the  prison  for  bis  shocking 
profanity,  but  under  the  ministrations  of  Chaplain 
Walker  he  was  converted.      Since  his  change  of 


heart  he  has  been  an  earnest  assistant  of  the  chap- 
lain in  his  good  work,  and  he  will  be  sadly  missed. 

— In  a  town  in  Mississippi  a  man  who  had  for  a 
long  time  run  a  gambling  place  without  molestation, 
recently  reformed  and  began  to  preach  as  an  evan- 
gelist. He  was  promptly  arrested  by  the  lynx-eyed 
guardians  of  society  for  preaching  without  a  license. 

— Prince  Barclay  of  Russia,  who  was  dismissed 
from  the  army  of  his  country  by  the  Czar  for  allow- 
ing his  child  to  be  christened  in  the  Lutheran  faith, 
has  now  been  notified  that  the  infant  will  be  taken 
from  him  by  the  government  unless  he  consents  to 
have  his  child  rechristened  in  the  Greek  rite. 


LITEBATUBE, 


Stories  of  the  Gods.  Brief  sketches  from  the  Mythology 
of  Rome,  Greece,  Egypt,  India,  Persia,  Phrygia,  Scandinavl*, 
Africa  and  America,  showing  the  Relations  and  Unity  of  Past 
and  Present  Systems.  By  I.  R.  B.  Arnold.  National  Chris- 
tian Association,  Chicago. 

This  handsome  pamphlet  has  a  mission,  and  we 
are  confident  it  will  be  circulated  by  scores  of  thou- 
sands, and  read  by  many  who  would  reject  a  work 
devoted  to  secret  societies  only.  The  object  of  the 
author  is  suflSciently  indicated  in  the  title;  and  the 
whole  work  is  a  recapitulation  of  his  popular  lec- 
tures by  which  thousands  have  been  led  to  see  how 
that  the  heathen  systems  of  all  ages  are  once  in  their 
philosophy  and  often  in  very  form.  The  inquiry 
is  not  extended  into  their  theology  or  history;  but 
taking  up  the  relations  which  may  be  most  readily 
understood  in  a  popular  lecture,  the  likenesses  are 
pointed  out  in  plainest  terms.  This  will  be  a  most 
valuable  work  to  put  into  the  hands  of  the  young 
because: 

1.  It  takes  up  the  mythology  of  ancient  nations, 
always  an  attractive  topic  for  young  people. 

2.  Instead  of  setting  forth  all  the  revolting  and 
demoralizing  details  of  these  stories,  the  philo- 
sophical or  poetical  ideas  on  which  they  are  based 
are  pointed  out  in  briefest  terms,  and  their  relation 
to  the  pagan  worships  is  the  sole  idea  which  is  fixed 
in  the  mind  of  the  reader. 

3.  This  work  being  carefully  and  fully  done,  the 
unity  of  these  systems  with  the  lodge  worship  of 
our  day  is  shown  with  remarkable  force  and  clear- 
ness; so  that  no  reader  can  go  through  the  argu- 
ment candidly  without  a  belief  which  he  cannot  shake 
off,  that  the  systems  of  natural  religion,  beginning 
with  Cain  and  continued  to  the  present  worship  of 
Hiram  Abiff,  are  one  in  reality. 

The  low  price  of  t«n  cents  allows  every  one  to 
have  this  work  and  assures  its  wide  circulation. 

The  principal  article  in  the  Marcb  Woman  is  a  thrill- 
ing recital  of  some  of  the  horrors  and  abominations  of 
polygamy,  written  by  Kate  Field,  whose  investigations 
of  Mormonism  have  shed  so  much  light  upon  the  iniqui- 
ties of  that  institution.  The  story  Miss  Field  relates  is 
literally  true,  and  reveals  in  lurid  colors  the  deceptions 
and  brutalities  which  women  in  Utah  encDunter  at  the 
hands  of  their  "saintly"  lords  and  masters.  An  enter- 
taining local  sketch,  descriptive  of  the  Isle  of  Wight  in 
the  winter  season,  is  contributed  by  Sarah  L.  Roys. 
Frederick  Schwatka,  whose  literary  fame  bids  fair  to 
eclipse  his  celebrity  as  a  daring  Arctic  explorer,  de- 
scrilaes  in  lively  style  the  Alaska  seal  fisheries.  Thomas 
Stevens,  who  traveled  around  the  globe  on  a  bicycle, 
gives  an  entertaining  account  of  the  manner  in  which 
women  in  Afghanistan  are  kept  so  absolutely  in  the 
background  as  to  justify  the  traveler  in  bestowing  upon 
that  region  the  name  of  "The  Womanless  Land."  The 
several  departments,  as  "Our  Society,"  "Helps  and  Hints 
for  Mothers,"  "What  to  Wear,"  "Societies  for  Christian 
work,"  "Temperance,"  etc.,  etc.,  are  maintained  with 
their  usual  vigor,  the  most  noteworthy  departure  being 
the  beginning,  in  the  March  issue,  of  a  Cooking  and 
Household  Department  by  Miss  Juliet  Corson,  enti- 
tled "The  Table,"  the  value  of  which  will  be  readily  ap- 
preciated by  the  public. 

Who  are  the  Anarchists?  What  is  their  doctrine? 
Why  would  they  overthrow  society  and  government,  and 
what  do  they  wish  to  substitute?  These  are  questions 
frequently  asked  by  thoughtful  citizens.  An  article  by 
Z  L.  White  in  the  March  number  of  the  American 
Magazine,  answers  such  inquiries,  and  shows  the 
depth  and  virulence  of  the  disease  of  which  the 
Haymarket  murders  were  only  a  symptom.  Two  of 
the  little  known  religious  communities  in  Pennsylvania, 
the  Harmonites  and  the  Moravians,  have  their  quaint 
customs  and  peaceful  abodes  described  in  illustrated  ar- 
ticles. A  letter  from  Rev.  John  A.  Cass  advocates  a 
somewhat  startling  method  of  depleting  the  surplus  in 
the  National  Treasury.  He  proposes  to  extend  the  pen- 
sion system  to  wounded  and  disabled  Confederate  sol- 
diers. The  scheme  is  urged  on  the  broad  ground  of  hu- 
manity. A  handsomely  illustrated  article,  by  Charles 
Ellis,  describes  the  beautiful  scenery  about  the  island 
and  straits  of  Mackinac,  and  gives  much  of  the  history 
and  Indian  tradition  which  cluster  about  this  interesting 
locality. 

The  Stoiss  Cross  for  March  has  attractive  and  well 
illustrated  articles  on  "A  Hindu  Town"  and  "Cataracts 
and  Rapids  of  the  Congo,  which  present  very  attractively 


F 


Maboh  22, 1888 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSUKE. 


13 


the  characteristics  of  the  one  and  the 
dangers  of  the  other.  Other  scientific 
matter  in  form  for  young  people's  reading 
fllls  the  number. 

For  some  years  Prof.  B.  H.  Roberts 
has  published  at  Rochester  a  magazine 
for  young  people,  intended  to  instruct 
rather  than  amuse,  and  to  strengthen  the 
the  character  rather  than  paso  the  time. 
The  publication  has  lately  passed  into 
the  hands  of  T.  B.  Arnold,  publisher  of 
the  Fret  MetJiodiat  of  Chicago,  and  comes 
out  in  new  and  attractive  form  as  the 
Toung  People's  World.  Rev.  John  Har- 
den is  editor.  Among  the  contributors 
we  notice  the  name  of  Rev.  H  A  Thomp 
8on,late  president  of  OtterbeinUniversity. 
There  is  a  place  for  this  magazine,  and 
we  hope  it  will  fill  it  and  be  well  sus- 
tained. 


NBW8  (Continued  from  16th  page). 

1887  the  governor  observed  everywhere 
the  destitution  and  ruin  among  the  peo- 
ple, and  suggesting  the  necessity  of  an 
early  investigation  and  measures  for  re- 
lief, and  requesting  the  people  to  express 
an  opinion  as  to  whether  the  destitution 
was  caused  by  economical  condition,  or 
whether  the  cocial  life  of  the  people  is 
the  root  of  the  evil.  The  Moscow  Oa- 
zette  says  that  it  suspects  that  the  circu- 
lar is  a  forgery,  but  if  it  is  genuine, 
it  asks  whether  this  is  the  begin- 
ning of  a  universal  suffrage  in  Rus- 
sia, and  summoning  of  the  old  states  gen- 
erally. 

Serious  reports  concerning  the  German 
Emperor's  condition  are  again  in  circu- 
lation. His  despondency,  which  has  been 
increased  by  the  change  from  the  blue 
sky  of  San  Remo  to  the  severe  frost  and 
deep  snow  of  Berlin,  causes  great  anx- 
iety. 

The  whole  northern  and  eastern  por- 
tion of  Germany  has  been  visited  by  a 
very  severe  snow  storm.  There  is  so 
much  ice  that  communication  with  Swe- 
den has  been  suspended  for  ten  days  and 
with  Denmark  for  six  days.  The  Swed- 
ish envoys,  appointed  to  attend  the  fu- 
neral of  Emperor  William  could  not 
reach  Berlin.  Disastrous  floods  are  re- 
ported throughout  Hungary.  Thirty  vil- 
lages have  been  ruined  and  the  town  of 
Szathmar  Nemeth  has  been  partly  de- 
stroyed. The  towns  of  Bekes  and  Csaba 
are  menaced,  and  the  inhabitants  are 
struggling  for  their  lives  against  the 
overflow  of  the  river  Koros.  Many  houses 
have  fallen. 

A  pamphlet  condemning  in  moderate 
terms  Russia's  reactionary  policy  and 
predicting  internal  disasters,  is  being 
circulated  in  the  highest  circles  of  St. 
Petersburg.  The  pamphlet  is  remarkable 
for  the  elegance  of  its  language.  The 
police  have  so  far  failed  to  discover  the 
authors  of  the  work. 

The  anniversary  of  the  insurrection  in 
Paris  was  celebrated  by  the  communists 
with  the  usual  banquets.  A  notable 
feature  of  the  gatherings  was  the  denun- 
ciation of  General  Boulanger  in  which 
the  speakers  indulged.  The  royalist 
papers  and  papers  representing  nearly 
every  shade  of  opinion  are  dead  against 
him. 


Lodge  notes. 

The  forty-first  anniversary  of  the  estab- 
lishment of  the  Harugari  order  was  cele- 
brated by  five  South  Side  lodges  in  Chi- 
cago. This  is  a  German  relief  and  aid 
lodge. 

The  Supreme  Council  Royal  Arcanum 
filed  a  bill  of  interpleader  in  the  Superior 
Court  in  this  city  to  decide  who  is  enti- 
tled to  a  $3,000  policy  on  the  life  of  a 
member  of  lodge  No.  450. 

Thirty-flve  resident  members  of  the 
Sigma  Chi  College  secret  society  banquet- 
ed at  the  Richelieu  last  night.  What 
they  did  besides  dine  is  oue  of  the  mys- 
teries which  no  member  will  divulge. — 
Inter  Ocean, 

Henry  K.  Wheeler  of  Philadelphia, 
Supreme  President  of  the  Order  of  Tonti, 
came  to  Chicago  last  week  to  hold  a  dis- 
trict convention. MayorJohn  A.Roche  was 
called  out  to  make  an  address  and  a  ban- 
quet closed  the  affair. 

A  meeting  of  the  Washington  mem- 
bers of  the  Chi  Psi  Fraternity  organized 
a  Wdshingion  Alumni  Association,  elect- 
ing Senator  Palmer  of  Michigan  presi- 
dent and  General  F.  D.  Sewall,  vice- 
president.  Don  M.  Dickinson,  Postmas- 
ter General,  member  of  the  Chi  Psi  Chap- 


ter of  the  University  of  Michigan,  was 
present  at  the  meeting. 

The  Household  of  Ruth,  No.  44,  Grand 
United  Order  of  Odd  fellows  (colored), 
held  its  thirteenth  anniversary  entertain- 
ment lately  in  this  city.  Rev.  Jordon 
Chavis  made  a  few  remarks,  in  which  he 
scored  the  members  for  their  desire  to 
dance  on  such  occasions,  and  hoped  they 
would  be  able  to  get  through  the  even- 
ing without  tacking  a  ball  on  the  end  of 
the  entertainment. 

A  few  days  since  a  prominent  Indiana 
iJemocrat,  Dr.  J.  W.  Stone,  was  arrested 
on  a  charge  of  murder.  k  is  claimed 
that  he  killed  a  Union  soldier  named  Pol- 
lard during  the  war  at  the  bidding  of  the 
Knights  of  the  Golden  Circle.  Accord- 
ing to  the  confession  o'  Quackenbush,  he 
and  Stone  were  detailed  by  the  lodge  to 
murder  Pollard  to  prevent  his  serving 
draft  papers  on  Anderson,  another  mem- 
ber of  the  lodge.  A  plot  was  also  laid 
to  murder  all  officers  serving  draft  papers. 

Some  months  ago  John  E.  Gill  and  sev- 
eral officers  of  the  Shoemakers  Assembly 
of  Knights  of  Labor  were  held  in  bail 
on  complaint  of  Ogden  Hart.  The  charge 
against  them  was  conspiracy.  It  was 
alleged  that  they  drove  Hart  out  of  New 
York  and  kept  their  promise  to  prevent 
him  from  getting  work  anywhere.  The 
prisoners  obtained  a  writ  of  habeas  cor- 
pus, and  Judge  Barrett,  before  whom  the 
matter  was  tried,  wrote  a  scathing  opin- 
ion and  submitted  the  papers  in  the  case 
to  the  District  Attorney,  suggesting  that 
they  be  given  to  the  grand  jury.  He  dis- 
missed the  writ  of  habeas  corpus.  The 
knights  appealed,  and  the  General  Term 
of  the  Supreme  Court  has  j ast  affirmed 
Judge  Barrett.  Judge  Brady,  who  wrote 
the  opinion,  deprecates  strikes,  and  says 
that  the  evidence  makes  out  a  prima  facie 
case  of  conspiracy. 

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Dr.H.Neal 3.00 

C.  C  ommissaris .50 

Jas  Brandt 50 

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Pet.  Minton 50.00 

J. K  Weber 1.00 

Wm.  Sharick • 1 .00 

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Ira  Mettler $2.00 

C.Reynolds 50 

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THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


March  22, 1888 


Home  aot)  Health. 

TRAINING  CHILDREN. 
The  time  is  past  when  it  ifl  considered 
faBhionable  for  a  joung  lady  to  be  ua- 
skilled  in  domestic  duties,  and  the  decla- 
ration on  her  part  of  entire  ignorance  no 
longer  surrounds  her  with  angelic  glam- 
our. While  each  child  is  being  taught 
little  lessons  in  housekeeping  by  its  moth- 
er, it  is  being  taught  those  higher  les- 
sons in  life,  lessons  which  will  ever  be 
useful  to  it.  The  girl  should  not  only 
learn  industry  and  thriftiness,  but  the 
nutritive  and  chemical  value  of  princi- 
ples of  cooking.  She  should  learn  the 
relation  of  acids  and  alkalis,  the  laws  of 
fermentation,  the  eifect  of  putting  meat 
into  hot  or  cold  water,  the  time  and  ease 
of  digestion  of  the  articles  prepared  for 
the  table,  and,  most  of  all,  the  laws  of 
health  and  the  prevention  of  disease. 
The  boy  will  find,  in  his  little  duties  about 
the  home,  how  many  discouragements  a 
mother  often  meets  with,  and  how,  with 
his  helping  hand,  he  can  lighten  her  la- 
bors, and  at  the  same  time  learn  how 
much  pluck,  cheerfulness,  self-reliance 
and  infinite  patience  a  woman  must  pos- 
sess to  be  a  successful  housekeeper. 

Medicinal  Use  of  Vegetables. — 
The  large,  sweet  onion  is  very  rich  in 
those  alkaline  elements  which  counteract 
the  poison  of  rheumatic  gout,  says  the 
Medical  Record.  If  slowly  stewed  in 
weak  broth,  and  eaten  with  a  little  pep- 
per, it  will  be  found  to  be  an  admirable 
article  of  diet  for  patients  of  studious 
and  sedentary  habits.  The  stalks  of  the 
cauliflDwerhave  the  same  value,  only  too 
often  the  stalk  of  a  cauliflower  is  so  ill- 
boiled  and  unpalatable  that  few  persons 
would  thank  you  for  proposing  to  them 
to  make  part  of  their  diet  consist  of  so 
uninviting  an  article.  Turnips,  in  the 
same  way,  are  often  thought  to  be  indi- 
gestible, and  better  suited  for  cows  and 
siieep  than  for  delicate  people,  but  here 
the  fault  lies  with  the  cook  quite  as  much 
as  the  root.  The  cook  boils  the  turnip 
badly,  and  then  pours  some  butter  over 
it,  and  the  eater  of  such  a  dish  is  sure  to 
be  the  worse  for  it.  Try  a  better  way. 
What  shall  be  said  of  our  lettuces?  The 
plant  has  a  slight  narcotic  action,  of 
which  a  French  old  woman,  like  a 
French  doctor,  well  knows  the  value, 
and  when  properly  cooked  it  is  really  very 
easy  of  digestion. 

We  would  remark,  in  addition,  that 
the  serving  up  of  turnips  unmashed  is  a 
practice  fit  only  for  savages.  Moreover, 
half  the  turnips  (or  more  likely  three- 
fourths  of  them)  sent  to  market  are, 
from  their  color  and  strong  flivor,  fit 
only  for  cattle.  Turnips  for  the  table 
should  be  as  white  as  snow,  and  ns  deli- 
cate in  flavor  as  vegetable  marrow.  The 
finest  turnips  we  ever  tasted  were  in  Bel- 
gium, where  the  perfect  irrigation  of  the 
country  by  canals  and  cross-ditches  af- 
fords the  turnip  all  the  moisture  which, 
more  than  any  other  vegetable  except 
radishps,  it  requires.  Belgian  butter,  too, 
is  faul.less  when  got  at  first  hand  in  the 
country.  Pure  white  turnips  should  be 
much  more  cultivated  than  they  are;  we 
get  tbem  occasionally,  but  far  too  rarely, 
in  Halifax.  Many  housekeepers  would 
far  sooner  pay  a  higher  price  for  them, 
than  a  lower  one  for  the  coarse-flavored 
yellow  root  one  sees  everywhere. 

We  go  even  further  than  the  Medical 
Journal  with  regard  to  the  stalks  of  the 
caul. flower.  We  actually  prefer  them,  we 
mean  also  the  thick  part  of  the  outer 
leaves,  when  not  tough  and  stringy,  to 
the  white  head  itself,  but  we  are  doubt- 
less in  a  conspicuous  minority  in  the  pe- 
culiarity of  our  individual  taste.— [Ad. 
Critic  "1 

A  famous  doctor  says:  "Eat  a  good 
bowl  of  mush  and  milk  for  your  break- 
fast, and  you  will  not  need  any  medicine. 
Indian  corn  contains  a  large  amount  of 
nitrogen,  has  qualities  anti-constipating 
and  is  easily  assimilated.  It  is  cheap  and 
has  great  nutritive  properties.  A  course 
of  Indian  meal  in  the  shape  of  johnny- 
cake,  hoecake,  corn  or  ponebread  and 
mueh,  relieved  by  copious  draughts  of 
pure  cow's  milk,  to  which,  if  inclined  to 
dyspepsia,  a  little  limo  water  may  be  add- 
ed, will  make  a  life  now  a  burden  well 
worth  the  living,  and  you  need  no  other 
treatment  to  correct  your  nervousness, 
brighten  your  vision,  and  give  you  sweet 
and  peaceful  sleep ." 


A  WOMAN'S   CHARMS 

soon  leave  her,  when  she  becomes  a  vic- 
tim to  any  one  of  the  various  disorders 
and  peculiar  "weaknesses"  that  are  pe- 
culiar to  the  fair  sex.  The  condition  of 
tens  of  thousands  of  women  to  day  is 
pitiable  in  the  extreme;  they  are  weak, 
bloodless  creatures,  a  prey  to  mental  an- 
guish and  bodily  pain ;  in  a  word,  "broken- 
down,"  from  any  one  of  numerous  causes. 
To  this  unhappy  multitude  we  strongly 
urge  the  use  of  Dr.  Pierce's  Favorite  Pre- 
scription, an  infallible,  world  famed  rem- 
edy, for  all  "female"  irregularities  and 
"weaknesses,"  and  which  restores  the 
worst  sufferer  to  vigorous  health,  and  re- 
invests her  with  all  the  charms  of  figure, 
face  and  complexion,  that  receive  such 
willing  homage  from  man. 


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March  22, 1888 


NFWs  OF  The  Week 

WASHIKGTON. 

A  bill  to  provide  a  method  for  the  set- 
tlement by  arbitration  of  controversies 
between  interstate  railroads  and  their  em- 
ployes, was  introduced  b^  Senator  Blair 
Friday.  It  is  the  bill  passed  by  the  last 
Congress,  but  which  failed  to  receive  the 
signature  of  the  President.  A  new  sec- 
tion is  added  which  makes  it  unlawful 
for  employes  to  strike  until  after  the  rail- 
road has  failed  for  five  days  to  comply 
with  a  request  for  arbitration. 

THK    GKKAT    STORM. 

The  heaviest  snowstorm  for  many  years 
prevailed  at  New  Nork  last  week  Mon- 
day, large  drifts  forming  which  caused 
a  suspension  of  traffic.  Butting  collis- 
ions occurred  on  the  Third  Avenue  Ele- 
vated and  on  the  Brooklyn  Elevated 
roads,  in  the  former  case  the  engineer 
being  killed  and  a  number  of  passengers 
injured.  The  blizzard  increased  toward 
night,  when  all  trains,  street  cars  and 
ferries  were  stopped  The  hotels  were 
filled  with  people  from  the  suburbs,  who 
were  unable  to  get  home;  and  of  the  fifty 
mail  trains  due,  but  two  arrived.  The 
blockade  was  only  partly  raised  on  Tues* 
day.  No  wires  were  working,  the  wind 
blew  furiously,  and  not  a  train  reached 
the  depots  during  the  day.  Elevated 
trains  ran  at  intervals,  but  street  car  travel 
was  blocked,  and  on  account  of  ihe  heavy 
ice  the  ferryboats  made  few  trips.  Many 
persons  crossed  Eist  River  on  the  ice 
from  Brooklyn  to  New  York.  Fire  in  a 
Forty  third  street  tenement  drove  out  sev- 
eral families,  many  escaping  scantily 
dressed.  A  great  number  of  trains  were 
reported  stalled  between  stations  on  the 
Hudson  River  and  Harlem  roads.  Busi- 
ness was  generally  suspended,  and  many 
suffered  because  the  usual  supplies  of 
provisions  of  some  kinds  failed.  Hun- 
dreds were  frost-bitten  and  many  per- 
ished. RDScoe  Conkling  was  among  the 
number  who  narrowly  escaped  death, 
while  walking  from  Wall  street  to  24th. 
The  storm  prevailed  from  Washington  to 
Massachusetts  and  seemed  to  be  heaviest 
in  New  Jersey,  where  along  some  lines  of 
railway  drifts  ten  feet  deep  and  a  mile 
long  were  encountered.  Telegraph  lines 
were  all  down  the  poles  impeding  the 
trains  and  street  travel  in  cities. 

Owing  to  the  stoppage  of  trains  caused 
by  the  snowstorms,  all  collieries  in  the 
Lackawanna  and  Wyoming  Valleys  sus- 
pended operations  Wednesday.  Portions 
of  the  tracks  of  the  Delaware,  Lacka- 
wanna and  Western  road  are  covered  to 
a  depth  of  twenty -five  feet,  and  no  trains 
were  run  to  New  York  before  the  end  of 
the  week. 

Eighteen  New  York  pilot  boats  which 
were  out  during  the  storm  were  not  heard 
from  for  days,  while  nine  were  wrecked, 
the  crews  being  rescued  and  landed  at 
Sandy  Hook. 

It  is  believed  that  twenty  persons  per- 
ished in  Essex  county,  New  Jersey,  dur- 
ing the  recent  storm.  At  New  Haven, 
Conn.,  seven  persons  perished;  and  there 
were  over  twenty  deaths  in  towns  adja- 
cent to  New  Haven,  while  hundreds  of 
people  suffered  from  frost-bites. 

John  Henrinan  of  Milltown,  N.  J., 
perished  in  the  blizzard.  His  children 
were  found  starving,  while  his  wife  lay 
d«ad  in  bed. 

It  is  estimated  that  the  financial  loss  to 
JTew  York  city  by  the  storm  will  be 
$7,000  OOO.and  that  the  loss  to  the  States 
involved  will  reach  $20,000. 

A  number  of  vessels  were  sunk  by  the 
•torm  at  Delaware  Breakwater,  and  it  is 
reported  that  twenty-five  persons  per- 
lihed. 

Id  clearing  the  roads  of  snow  there  were 
numerous  fatal  railway  accidents,  five  be- 
ng  reported  in  one  day. 

A  Dalaware,  Lackawanna  and  West- 
ern passenger  train  tumbled  down  a 
thirty-foot  embankment  at  Tracy's  Bridge, 
near  Binghamton,  NY.,  at  2:1.'5  Friday 
morning.  The  cars  caught  fire  and  were 
consumed.  A  man  perished  in  the  flames; 
a  half-dozen  passengers  are  probably  fa- 
tall;  hurt,  and  many  others  were  wounded. 

COUNTRY, 

The  Indiana  Prohibition  State  Conven- 
tion at  Indianapolis,  Thursday,  nomin- 
ated the  Rev.  J.  8  Hughes  for  governor 
and  adopted  a  platform  demanding  strict 
prohibition  and  woman  suffrage.  Elec- 
tora-at-large  and  delegates-at  large  were 


chosen,  and  four  members  of  the  W.  C. 
T.  U.  were  added  to  the  State  Central 
Committee. 

The  New  York  Irish  societies  having 
arranged  to  raise  an  Irish  flag  above  the 
City  Hall  on  St.  Patrick's  Day,  Mayor 
Hewitt  issued  an  order  that  the  flags  of 
the  United  States  and  of  the  State  and 
city  of  New  York  and  no  other  be  dis- 
played on  that  day. 

At  New  Orleans,  La.,  Friday,  the 
United  States  Grand  Jury  brought  indict- 
ments against  officers  of  the  Illinois  Cen- 
tral for  discrimination  against  New  Or- 
leans in  favor  of  Lowell,  Mass.,  in  trans- 
portation of  cotton  from  Holly  Springs 
and  Canton,  Miss. 

The  channel  of  the  Ohio  River  five 
miles  above  Steubenville  is  said  to  be 
completely  blocked  with  sunken  coal- 
barges.  Over  400,000  bushels  of  coal 
are  being  scoured  by  the  muddy  waters. 

Farmers  at  Winchester,  Ohio,  Wednes- 
day night,  tarred  and  feathered  two  Mor- 
mon elders,  and  then  chased  them  to  the 
Ohio  River,  which  the  fugitives  safely 
crossed. 

At  Woodland  Mills,  Tenn.,  Thursday 
morning,  Eli  Daire,  a  Negro  under  arrest 
for  burning  a  barn,  and  being  taken  by 
rail  to  the  Hickman  jail,  was  taken  from 
the  car  by  masked  men  and  hanged  to  a 
tree. 

Henry  Bergh,  founder  and  President  of 
the  Society  for  the  Prevention  of  Cruelty 
to  Animals,  died  at  New  York  Monday 
morning,  aged  65. 

H.  C.  Leavitt,  one  of  the  men  impli- 
cated in  the  murder  of  the  Rev.  Haddock 
at  Sioux  City,  Iowa,  is  under  sentence  to 
hang,  April  30,  for  the  murder  of  a  cow- 
boy over  a  game  of  cards  at  Dodge  City, 
Kansas,  to  which  place  he  went  after 
leaving  Sioux  City. 

Investigation  into  the  abuses  of  con- 
vict miners  at  Coal  Hill,  Ark.,  show  that 
convicts  have  been  beaten  and  flogged  to 
death;  that  Warden  Gafford  has  made  a 
practice  of  making  the  men  fight;  and 
that  in  one  case  he  caused  a  desperado 
to  kick  a  fellow  convict  to  death.  The 
people  are  greatly  excited,  and  threaten 
to  lynch  Gafford. 

Mormon  elders  have  been  discovered 
working  in  the  remote  rural  districts  of 
the  Bototourt  county,  Va.  They  have 
made  many  converts,  among  them  an  in- 
telligent farmer,  Mr.  Ferguson,  and  it  is 
expected  that  a  large  number  will  emi- 
grate to  Utah.  Many  threats  have  been 
made  against  the  elders  in  the  county, 
and  they  have  been  notified  to  leave  or 
they  will  be  dealt  with  by  Judge  Lynch. 

Seventh  day  Adventists  at  Battle  Creek, 
Mich.,  are  agitating  the  establishment  of 
denominational  schools  for  their  children 
to  attend  in  preference  to  the  public 
schools. 

A  terrible  accident,  causing  the  d<eath 
of  twenty-two  persons  and  the  serious 
injury  of  about  forty  more,  happened 
on  the  Savannah,  Florida  &  Great  West- 
ern railroad  at  Blackshear  Saturday  morn- 
ing. The  vestibule  fast  mail,  called  the 
"Cuban"  train,  which  runs  through  from 
New  York  to  Tampa,  Fla  ,  went  through 
the  trestle  at  Hurricane  River  and 
plunged  forty  feet  to  the  ground  beneath. 
The  wreck  was  a  fearful  one,  every  car 
except  the  private  coach  of  E  B.  Wilbur, 
president  of  the  Lehigh  Valley  road,  be- 
ing crushed  to  splinters.  The  accident, 
it  is  supposed,  was  caused  by  the  bag- 
gage car  getting  off  the  track. 

FOBBISN.  , 

The  autograph  letter  from  the  Pope  to 
Emperor  Frederick  expresses  the  deep 
sorrow  at  the  death  of  a  monarch  who, 
it  says,  was  animated  by  the  friendliest 
feelings  toward  the  Catholic  church.  The 
Pope  thanks  Emperor  Frederick  for  cher 
ishing  sentiments  which  eive  assurance 
that  the  relations  between  Prussia  and  the 
Vatican  shall  become  more  and  more 
friendly. 

A  snowstorm  Thursday  greatly  inter- 
fered with  railway  traffic  in  the  north  of 
England  and  Scotland.  Several  trains 
have  been  buried  in  snowdrifts.  The  pai- 
sengprs  on  a  stalled  train  between  Sun- 
derland and  Hartlepool  were  compelled 
to  spend  the  night  in  the  cars. 

Seventeen  thousand  copies  of  a  circular 
purporting  to  have  been  issued  by  the 
Governor  of  Saratoff,  were  distributed 
tbroughout  that  province  March  13,  stat- 
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CONTENTS. 


Bditokial: 

Notes  and  CommentB 1 

The  Sabbath  Question. ...  8 

The  Case  of  Mr.  Davis 8 

The  Lodge  War  on  a  Rail- 
road    8 

Personal  Mention 9 

CONTBIBUnONS  : 

Appeal  of  Christian  Wom- 
en (Poetry) 1 

Spiritual  Enlargement ...    1 
Romanism  and  Masonry . .     2 
Should  Christian  Women 
Belong  to  Secret  Socle- 
ties  2 

Many  Partners  In  a  Bad 

Business 3 

Sblected : 
Qod's    Charity    and    the 

Devll'8  Charity.... 3 

Sbcbet  Empirb  : 
The   Engineer's   Brother- 
hood      3 

BiBLB  Lbsson 6 

Nbw  Youk  Lkttbr 9 

Washington  Lkttbb 9 

HOUB  AND  UBALTH 7 


Rbfobm  Nbws: 
From  Washington  to  Geor- 
gia; The  Singing  Mis- 
sionary In  New  Iberia; 
Making  Good  the  Losses 
In  New  Orleans;  Home 
Again  from  Pennsylva- 
nia  4,  .5, 12 

COBBBSPONDBNOB ; 

Prohibition  of  Lodge  and 
Liquor  in  Texas;  Shall 
the    Lodge    Have    the 
Money;  Pith  and  Point..    6 
Secret    Socibties     Con- 
demned      7 

The  N.  C.  a 7 

Lectdrb  List 7 

Church  vs.  Lodgb 7 

ThbHobib 10 

Tempebancb 11 

Religious  News 12 

Literature 12 

Lodge  Notes 13 

Farm  Notes 14 

News  of  thb  Wbbk 16 

Business 13 

Markets 13 


The  CommissiODers  of  the  Cincinnati  Centennial 
Exposition  have  resolved  that  it  shall  be  closed  on 
the  Lord's  day.  It  is  reported  that  the  reasons 
given  are  in  brief  that  "it  would  not  pay,"  and  some 
criticise  the  Board  for  so  ignobly  regarding  the 
Sabbath.  But  the  words  have  a  double  meaning, 
and  will  meet  the  objections  of  the  beer-drinking 
Germans  who  fill  a  considerable  quarter  of  the  city, 
while  every  one  who  loves  and  honors  the  day  knows 
that  its  desecration  is  spiritual  bankruptcy.  At 
the  same  time  such  an  expression  is  demoralizing. 
This  exposition,  taking  in  as  it  does  the  "Ordinance 
of  1787,"  should  have  some  positive  religious  fea- 
tures, also  fitly  commemorating  that  great  act  of 
our  early  Congress. 


The  Undergraduate  of  Middlebury  College,  Ver- 
mont, says  that  Prof.  Knowlton,  a  Middlebury  grad- 
uate of  1884,  and  now  connected  with  the  National 
Museum  in  Washington,  has  been  appointed  to 
make  a  collection  of  college  fraternity  badges  for 
the  Museum.  Now  if  the  management  of  that  great 
and  expensive  institution  which  the  people  are  heav- 
ily taxed  to  sustain,  have  the  wisdom  of  owls  they 
will  go  on  with  this  lodge  collection.  Some  day 
they  will  be  able  to  show  the  admiring  people  the 
hoodwinks,  slippers,  dirty  drawers,  cable-tows,  set- 
ting mauls,  skeletons,  skulls,  cofllns,  chains,  rubber 
spikes,  and  the  whole  disgusting  paraphernalia  of 
lodgery  well  preserved  in  glass  cases  for  the  profit 
and  instruction  of  the  dear  people.  But  really  if 
the  National  Museum  has  no  better  business  than 
this,  won't  some  one  please  dump  it  into  some  mud- 
hole  to  fill  up  the  street. 


The  Labor  party  of  Alabama  is  among  the  first 
to  begin  spring  work.  At  a  State  convention  at 
Montgomery,  last  week,  the  representatives  of  this 
party  called  upon  all  who  "seek  the  emancipation  of 
labor"  to  join  them;  and  then  proceeded  to  vote 
down  a  resolution  in  favor  of  prohibition!  Such  a 
party  will  not  emancipate  labor  till  the  workingmen 
are  all  dead.    There  are  other  parts  of  their  plat- 


form built  with  rotten  or  warped  timber.  Men 
must  not  be  compelled  to  pay  "for  the  use  of  God's 
free  gifts."  Our  laboring  men  cannot  succeed  with 
the  exploded  theories  of  Henry  George,  or  the  va- 
garies of  Terence  Powderly,  who  demands  that  the 
coal  mines  of  Pennsylvania  be  siezed  and  managed 
by  the  State.  The  platform  demands  "complete 
ownership  and  control"  of  railroads  and  telegraph 
lines,  which  is  another  theory  of  communism  fast 
fading  out.  A  good  many  people  in  Chicago  are 
ready  to  believe  that  a  private  corporation  would 
manage  even  their  postoffice  better  than  the  govern 
ment;  and  we  all  can  see  that  government  regula- 
tion for  railroads  is  a  more  satisfactory  solution  of 
the  railway  question  than  government  ownership. 
The  great  mass  of  American  laborers  are  unor- 
ganized; that  is,  are  not  sworn  into  secret  lodges — 
they  cannot  stand  on  such  a  platform. 


The  Pittsburgh  papers  print  lists  of  applicants  for 
license  to  sell  liquor,  by  the  page,  with  the  announce- 
ment that  the  applications  will  be  considered  on  a 
certain  day  in  court.  For  several  days  last  week 
this  interesting  business  proceeded  in  the  license 
court.  The  Law  and  Order  Society  and  the  W.  C. 
T.  U.  were  ready,  and  the  applicants  were  severally 
put  upon  the  rack,  before  the  court  passed  upon 
them.  It  may  be  questioned  whether  this  is  the 
best  way  to  bring  liquor  dealers  into  court.  It  makes 
bad  blood  without  cutting  the  throat  of  the  saloon 
business.  When  the  dealer  is  brought  before  a 
judge  let  it  be  to  finish  up  his  business.  We  hope 
for  the  day  when  the  lodges  will  be  brought  to  time 
for  selling  fraudulent  secrets  in  the  same  way. 


Since  the  letters  of  Mr.  Blaine  and  Eobert  Lincoln 
withdrawing  their  names  from  the  Presidential  can- 
vass, Senator  Allison  of  Iowa,  and  Judge  Gresham, 
of  the  United  States  District  Court  in  this  city,  have 
become  centers  of  interest.  Iowa  is  rallying  around 
her  favorite  son,  as  Ohio  stands  by  Sherman's  fiag, 
and  New  York  hy  DePew's.  To  Judge  Gresham's 
aid  comes  a  very  unexpected  ally — the  Knights  of 
Labor.  Maguire,  leader  of  that  order  in  New  York, 
declares  that  of  all  persons  named  by  either  party 
the  Judge  is  most  acceptable  to  the  K.  of  L.  They 
say  that  he  is  not  'oound  by  the  corporations  in  the 
late  decision  on  the  Burlington  strike,  and  he  is 
strong  with  labor  organizations  everywhere.  That 
decision  gave  no  hope  to  the  engineer's  brotherhood, 
and  could  not  be  interpreted  as  for  or  against  cor- 
porations. We  doubt  not  the  Knights  of  Labor  as 
an  order  would  be  a  most  unwelcome  ally,  if  Judge 
Gresham  really  has  Presidential  intentions. 


The  sudden  death  of  Chief  Justice  Waite  last 
Friday  morning  causes  many  misgivings  for  the 
future.  If  Mr  Cleveland's  first  choice  for  the  Su- 
preme Bench  was  Mr.  Lamar,  what  will  be  his  sec- 
ond ?  It  is  j  ustly  a  cause  of  alarm  that  the  names  of  Vilas 
and  Dickinson,of  the  Cabinet,are  among  the  first  men- 
tioned for  the  vacant  place.  Judge  Waite's  death 
was  unexpected,  even  by  his  family,  none  of  whom 
were  with  him  when  he  died.  He  attended  a  recep- 
tion on  the  Saturday  night  previous  and  took  cold, 
but  was  in  court  Monday.  The  family  physician 
was  not  called  until  Wednesday,  and  a  fatal  termin- 
ation of  the  disease  was  not  apprehended.  Judge 
Waite  was  a  lawyer  of  fine  education  and  wide  ex- 
perience, both  in  his  profession  and  in  public  life. 
He  became  Chief  Justice  of  the  Supreme  Court  by 
appointment  of  President  Grant  in  1874.  While  he 
was  not  a  great  jurist,  as  was  Marshall,  yet  he  had 
not  Marshall's  opportunities,  nor  had  he  such  im- 
portant issues  to  decide  as  Mr.  Chase.  But  it  must 
be  remembered  of  him  with  gratitude  that  he  was 
among  the  three  who  dissented  from  the  decision 
of  last  Monday  against  the  Northwestern  railway, 
in  a  suit  to  compel  that  road  to  take  beer  into  Iowa 
as  freight.  The  company  refused  because  of  the 
State  law,  and  the  lower  court  sustained  them.  The 
Supreme  Court  says  a  State  law  cannot  regulate 
inter-state  traflic.  The  general  government  thus 
becomes  an  agent  to  break  down  State  prohibition. 
The  demand  for  national  legislation  against  the 
traffic  will  now  have  a  new  force. 


APPEAL  OF    CHRISTIAN    WOMEN,    AND    AN- 
SWER BT  REV.   V.  B.  LICENSE,  D.  D. 


by  ALEXANDER  TH0M80K. 


Church  of  the  living  God,  help  to  save 

Our  drowning  boys  from  a  drunkard's  grave. 
Men  and  brethren,  hear  ye  not 

Despair's  wild  cry  from  the  drowning  throat, 
Out  where  the  thundering  surf  of  the  shore 

Beats  on  the  cold,  cruel  rocks,  that  gore 
With  their  lances  of  flint?    And  the  souls  of  men 

Call  dying  to  you,  but  are  calling  In  vain. 

Men  In  the  life-boat,  what  will  ye  do 

For  thesouls  that  are  perishing  full  In  your  view? 
Will  ve  pray  to  our  God  who  Is  mighty  to  save 
With  your  idle  oars  In  the  mountain  wave ; 
While  the  life-boat  moves  like  a  thing  adrift 

For  the  winds  to  shake  and  the  waves  to  lift— 
And  hope  gives  out,  and  the  light  of  day. 
From  souls  not  a  cable's  length  away  J 
bbplt  of  bev.  v.  h.  license,  d.  d. 
Dear  ladles,  have  patience,  great  movements,  you  know 

On  this  nether  world  have  always  been  slow; 
This  earth  for  a  long  six  thousand  years 

Has  been  reaping  a  harvest  of  sorrow  and  tears; 
With  the  wines  of  the  past  and  the  drinks  of  our  time 

Has  Satan  been  paving  the  ages  with  crime, 
And  how  can  we  hope  In  our  own  little  day 
To  drive  such  a  deep-rooted  evil  away? 

But  listen,  dear  ladles,  this  much  we  will  do. 
While  keeping  the  end  of  the  journey  In  view; 

We'll  vote  for  restriction.    Five  hundred  at  least 
The  foe  of  religion,  the  devil's  high  priest, 

Shall  give  for  the  right  which  we  vote  at  the  polls 
To  build  up  an  altar  and  sacrifice  souls. 

Then  none  but  the  rich  shall  for  license  apply, 

And  all  the  small  dealers  must  perish  and  die ; 
While  the  gleam  of  the  gas  jet  and  light  of  the  moon 

Shall  gild  with  their  glory  the  palace  saloon ; 
And  then,  noble  sisters,  your  boys  shall  go 

To  hell, If  they  must,  with  a  first-class  show. 
But  time  presses  hard,  let  us  watch  and  pray 

And  work  for  the  Master.    Dear  ladles,  good  day. 


SPIRITUAL   ENLARGEMENT. 


BY   MBS.   A.   I.    KELLOQQ. 


Are  we  always  to  move  in  the  same  groove  which 
our  fathers  have  made  and  expect  no  new  thing  un- 
der the  sun?  A  strange  question  to  ask  to-day,  in 
view  of  what  has  been  wrought  in  this  nineteenth 
century!  Yes,  I  know  wonderful  things  have  come 
to  pass  in  these  latter  days,  and  one  wonders  where 
it  will  end,  as  they  consider  the  uses  of  steam,  of 
electricity,  of  natural  gas,  of  the  wonderful  labor- 
saving  machinery  which  has  wrought  a  revolution 
in  all  the  world  of  mechanical  activity. 

But  this  is  only  material  enlargement,  the  per- 
fecting of  that  which  was  already  begun;  and  at 
this  the  world  marvels — as  well  it  may.  Surely 
Franklin  would  wonder;  and  Fulton  would  marvel; 
and  Stephenson  stand  amazed  at  the  expansion  of 
which  their  thoughts  were  capable,  of  the  wonderful 
fruitage  from  the  seeds  which  they  scattered.  But 
these  seed  thoughts,  which  these  men  were  en- 
abled to  scatter,  were  not  their  own;  they  had 
their  origin  in  the  Divine.  The  thoughts  were  the 
thoughts  of  God,  and  he  only  knows  their  limits, 
or  when  he  will  say,  "Hitherto  shalt  thou  go,  but  no 
farther."  And  while  we  rejoice  and  are  glad  at  the 
display  of  human  genius,  we  do  not  forget  that  it 
is  only  indirectly  that  these  things  lay  hold  upon 
eternal  things;  and  that  degenerate  human  nature  is 
woBt  to  pervert  that  which  is  good,  and  to  turn  it 
to  the  profit  of  Anti-Christ,  so  that  the  progress 
which  might  hasten  the  coming  of  the  "Kingdom," 
is  made  an  obstacle. 

I  have  watched  the  coming  of  a  railway  train  at 
night,  and  as  it  rushed  forward  with  its  blazing  eye 
and  its  angry  breath,  as  if  chafing  under  the  re- 
straint that  forces  a  pause,  it  has  seemed  to  me  as 
if  it  might  be  a  messenger  of  destruction  from  the 
"bottomless  pit,"  and  as  if  he,  "who  hath  his  name 
Apollyon,"  was  looking  with  his  evil  eye  through 
the  round  window,  glaring  defiance  at  the  world. 
Of  course,  this  was  idle  fancy;  the  engine  was  only 


THE  CHRISTIAN"  CYNOSURE. 


March  29, 1888 


an  iron  horse,  which  if  harnessed  and  driven  by  the 
servants  of  Christ  might  help  on  his  work,  while 
doing  the  appointed  work  for  which  it  was  made. 

But  is  it?  Who  looks  through  the  round  window 
with  a  sardonic  grin  on  every  excursion  train  run  in 
defiance  of  the  laws  of  God  and  man  on  the  Lord's 
day,  knowing  well  that  it  is  only  a  question  of 
time  till  the  men  whom  he  has  seduced  to  steal  God's 
holy  day,  will  commit  the  lesser  sin  of  stealing  from 
those  that  employ  them,  and  so  he  works  the  ruin 
of  both?  To  each  he  promises  material  good,  and 
so  they  worship  him,  and  to  each  he  is  equally  false. 
Is  not  this  Anti-Christ,  of  whom  we  have  heard  that 
he  should  come?  Already  there  are  many  Anti- 
christs. 

And  how  is  it  in  the  realm  of  thought?  Ahl  how 
glad  the  day, 

"When  Guttenberg  made  thought  cosmopolite, 
And  stretched  electric  threads  from  mind  to  mind." 
God's  people  rejoiced  in  the  hastening  of  the  com- 
ing kingdom;  God's  holy  Word  could  now  be  multi- 
plied, and  scattered  far  and  wide  till  all  the  earth 
should  learn  the  glad  tidings.  No  wonder  that  faith 
looked  up  expectant  before  the  printing  press.  But 
Anti-Christ  saw  in  it  a  new  element  of  power.  His 
servants,  too,  could  learn  to  print,  and  so  they  did. 
And  who  controls  the  daily  press  to-day,  if  it  be  not 
Anti-Christ?  What  power  else  would  dump  at  the 
street  door  of  Christian  homes  such  garbage,  raked 
from  the  slums  of  our  cities,  to  be  used  as  mental 
food  for  our  sons  and  daughters?  Who  else  but  he 
could  glory  in  the  ruin  wrought  by  the  poison  thus 
set  free  to  taint  the  moral  atmosphere  until  it  be- 
comes so  vitiated,  and  the  moral  sense  of  Christian 
people  is  so  benumbed  that  they  donotcall  a  scaven- 
ger, but  instead  read  as  if  they  relished  disgusting 
details  of  the  crimes  committed  in  the  vilest  dens 
and  filthiest  corners,  which  should  only  be  spoken 
of  in  whispers  in  the  ear  of  those  who  are  clothed 
with  authority  to  bring  the  perpetrators  to  justice? 
Yes,  who  but  Anti-Christ  could  gloat  over  such  a 
state  of  things?  Is  the  picture  overdrawn?  Ahl 
we  know  it  is  not. 

True,  Christian  people  support,  in  a  way,  denom- 
inational papers,  which  are  clean  and  wholesome, 
appearing  weekly.  But  these  are  lights  in  the  up- 
per windows  while  the  cellars  and  the  streets  wreak 
with  odors  of  the  pit.  And  what  is  the  remedy? 
The  Scripture  must  be  fulfilled,  and  AntiChrist  is 
here.  Yes,  the  Scripture  must  be  fulfilled,  that  thus 
it  should  be.  But  should  the  elect  be  deceived,  in- 
stead of  trying  the  spirits?  If  the  enemy  comes  in 
like  a  flood,  where  are  the  people  of  God  through 
whom  the  Spirit  of  the  Lord  should  lift  up  a  stand- 
ard against  him?  Thechuichesof  Jesus  Christ  must 
become  more  aggressive.  Instead  of  resting  satis- 
fied with  adorning  their  barracks  and  building  mon- 
uments to  their  own  honor  and  glory,  they  must  use 
their  money  to  buy  and  use  a  controlling  interest 
in  publishing  companies.  They  must  get  possession 
of  the  daily  press.  They  must  stop  competing  with 
the  world  in  its  follies,  in  its  games  and  its  pleas- 
ures, knowing  that  "the  friendship  of  the  world  is 
enmity  with  God." 

God's  people  must  be  satisfied  to  be  a  "peculiar 
people,"  to  come  out  from  the  world  and  be  sepa- 
rate; to  make  no  compromises  with  the  enemy,  but 
to  march  by  their  own  standard,  steady  and  true, 
being  clad  in  the  armor  which  alone  is  proof  against 
the  wiles  of  the  enemy.  "For  we  wrestle  not  against 
flesh  and  blood,  but  against  principalities,  against 
powers,  against  the  rulers  of  the  darkness  of  this 
world,  against  spiritual  wickedness  in  high  places; 
and  the  weapons  of  our  warfare  are  not  carnal  [the 
church  should  remember  this],  but  mighty  through 
God  to  the  pulling  down  of  strongholds."  When 
the  church  shall  realize  her  high  calling,  and  that 
she  is  in  the  world  as  Christ  was  in  the  world,  to 
save  the  world,  she  will  rise  from  the  dust  and  put 
on  her  beautiful  garments.  Then  will  come  enlarge- 
ment such  as  the  world  has  never  seen.  Then  will 
the  kingdom  speed  toward  the  blessed  consumma- 
tion when  "the  kingdoms  of  this  world  shall  become 
the  kingdoms  of  our  Lord  and  of  his  Christ;  when 
be  shall  take  to  himself  his  great  power  and  shall 
reign  forever  and  ever." 

The  purposes  of  God  shall  stand;  and  he  can 
raise  up  agencies  to  do  his  will.  But  he  has  or- 
dained that  certain  things  shall  be  accomplished 
through  the  agency  of  his  people,  and  having  chosen 
his  instruments  no  others  are  needed.  How  won- 
derful the  privilege,  and  how  solemn  the  message 
that  comes  to  every  one  that  has  enlisted  in  his 
service:  "Go  ye  into  all  the  world  and  preach  the 
Gospel  to  every  creature."  That  is,  wherever  you 
are,  preach  by  word  and  deed  until  he  come.  There 
is  a  center  of  influence  wherever  a  Christian  is  found. 
When  the  command  was  given  to  the  disciples  at 
the  first,  Jerusalem  was  the  center  from  which  the 


world  was  to  be  reached  with  the  glad  tidings;  but 
the  time  has  come  when  neither  in  Samaria,  nor 
yet  in  Jerusalem,  do  we  seek  the  center  of  Gospel 
influence;  but  wherever  a  group  of  Christians  is 
fouud  who  worship  the  Father  in  spirit  and  in  truth 
there  is  light  ^hich  may  flash  its  rays  to  the  ends 
of  the  earth.  God  the  Father,  God  the  Son,  and 
God  the  Holy  Ghost,  are  working  in  and  through 
and  by  his  people,  so  far  and  so  fast  as  they  are 
ready  and  willing  lor  the  service. 

"Thy  Kingdom  come." 

Denver,  Col, 


ROMANISM  AND  MASONRY. 


BY   AN   OLD     LAWTEE   AND   BX-MASON. 

Is  it  not  clear  to  the  Protestant  mind  that  through 
such  principles  as  were  promulgated  through  the 
late  German  Catholic  Convention  in  Chicago,  a  foun- 
dation is  being  laid  that  will  result  in  the  greatest, 
most  bloody  and  terrible  revolution  this  continent 
has  ever  seen,  and  purely  the  result  of  usurpation 
and  tyranny  under  the  dogmas  taught  by  the  church 
of  Rome  in  her  religion?  Unless  the  rights  of  the 
people  under  the  Constitution  are  guarded  and  pro- 
tected, the  dominion  of  popery  would  be  worse  than 
the  rule  of  anarchism;  for  nothing  but  the  dogmas 
of  the  Romish  church  would  be  tolerated  within  our 
borders.  The  press  would  be  bridled  and  a  gag 
thrust  into  the  mouth  of  every  person  who  would 
dare  take  issue  with'  the  pope  or  the  church  on  a 
question  of  polity,  either  civil  or  religious.  There 
would  be  something  more  terrible  throughout  the 
land  than  imprisoning  itinerant  preachers  like  Rev. 
William  F.  Davis  of  Boston  Common  notoriety. 
No  one  would  be  permitted  to  preach  any  where  on 
any  day  without  first  having  taken  holy  orders  from 
his  holiness  the  pope,  nor  would  one  be  permitted 
to  hold  devotional  exercises  in  his  own  house,  or 
with  his  own  family,  without  a  crucifix  before  him, 
with  other  addenda  of  popish  trumpery. 

Indeed,  liberty  and  freedom  of  speech  are 
now  greatly  declining,  as  we  have  just  witnessed 
in  Chicago  during  the  first  and  second  weeks  of 
March,  1888,  in  preventing,  by  intimidation,  Rev. 
Dr.  Justin  D.  Fulton  from  speaking  against  Roman- 
ism. Especially  will  this  be  the  case  wherever 
preaching  or  speaking  runs  counter  to  Freemasonry 
and  Roman  Catholicism.  Although  these  bodies 
are,  to  a  certain  extent,  at  swords'  points  with  each 
other,  the  Romish  church  claiming  the  sole  right  to 
wear  the  miter  and  other  insignia  of  her  episcopacy, 
while  the  Masonic  body  claims  to  be  the  owner  of 
the  miter  and  all  the  other  paraphernalia  of  the 
order,  by  divine  right;  yet,  because  they  plough  in 
the  same  furrow,  sow  the  same  seeds  of  idolatry, 
and  harrow  them  in  with  the  same  "bulls,"  they  are 
necessarily  tending  to  one  end  in  respect  to  our  in- 
stitutions. The  Mason  goes  to  heaven  on  his  good 
works,  while  the  Roman  Catholic  gets  there  for  a 
consideration,  by  special  order  of  the  pope. 

Hear  what  Rome  said  a  few  years  ago  on  this 
point:  "We  declare,  alfirm,  define,  and  pronounce 
it  necessary  to  salvation,  for  every  human  creature  TO 
BE  80BJEOT  TO  THE  RoMAN  PoNTiFF."  (Cardinal 
Manning.)  Again,  hear  how  she  would  throttle  and 
damn  every  one  who,  without  her  permit,  would 
dare  teach  perishing  souls  to  "search  the  Scriptures;" 
that  "they  are  they  which  testify  of  Christ"  (John 
5:  39);  and  that  "the  Father  judgeth  no  man,  but 
hath  committed  all  judgment  unto  the  Son," — and 
not  to  the  pope — and,  "He  that  heareth  Christ's 
word  and  believeth  on  him  that  sent  him,  hath  ever- 
lasting life,  shall  not  come  into  condemnation,  but 
hath  passed  from  death  unto  life,"  without  any  or- 
der, edict  or  decree  of  the  pope,  notwithstanding 
his  pronounced  anathama — "accursed  be  those  very 
crafty  and  deceitful  societies,  which  thrust  the  Bible 
into  the  hands  of  the  inexperienced  youth,"  said 
Pope  Pius  IX. 

The  right  to  teach,  use  or  hold  the  Bible,  Rome 
claims  that  exclusively  for  her  priests,  saying,  "No 
Bible  shall  be  held  or  read  except  by  priests.  No 
Bible  shall  be  sold  without  a  license,  except  upon 
the  pains  and  penalties  of  that  mortal  sin  that  is 
neither  to  be  forgiven  in  this  world  nor  in  the  next." 
—  Cjuncil  of  Trent.  And,  again,  hear  her  restric- 
tions under  former  decretals,  reiterated  in  substance 
at  the  late  convention  in  Chicago:  "Moreover,  we 
confirm  and  renew  the  decrees  delivered  in  former 
times  by  apostolic  authority,  against  the  publication, 
distribution,  reading  and  possession  of  books  of  the 
Holy  Scriptures  translated  into  the  vulgar  tongue." 
— Fope  Gregory  XVI.  Hear,  again,  what  a  bishop 
has  to  swear  to  against  all  who  dare  differ  with  the 
doctrines  of  Rome. 

The  New  York  lablet,  a  strong  Catholic  organ, 
gives   us  one  good  reason  why  the  Catholic  parish 


schools  prosper  so  well  in  America.  It  says,  "that 
Father  Walker  would  as  soon  administer  the  sacra- 
ment to  a  dog  as  to  Catholics  who  send  their  chil- 
dren to  the  public  schools."  And  this  the  lablet 
heartily  endorses;  and  further  says  that  this  "is  only 
what  has  been  said  over  and  over  again  by  the  bish- 
ops in  their  pastorals  all  over  the  world."  Papacy 
don't  want  the  simple  way  of  salvation  to  be  known. 
The  pope  dare  not  say  to  sinners  as  John  says:  "If 
we  confess  our  sins  he  [Christ]  ia  faithful  and  just 
to  forgive  us  our  sins,  and  to  cleanse  us  from  all 
unrighteousness."     1  John  1:  9. 

Anything  that  disturbs  the  equilibrium  of  Rome 
affects  Masonry,  to  a  greater  or  less  extent — neither 
will  dare  to  look  at  itself  in  the  mirror  of  truth, 
nor  say  with  Paul,  that  "I  have  not  shunned  to  de- 
clare unto  you  all  the  counsel  of  God," — "and  the 
ministry  which  I  have  received  of  the  Lord  Jesus, 
to  testify  the  Gospel  of  the  grace  of  God."  Acts  20: 
24,  27.  This  is  "the  foundation  the  apostles  and 
prophets"  built,  "Jesus  Christ  himself  being  the 
chief  corner-stone,"  and  not  a  pope.  Eph.  2:  20. 
Not  so  with  Masonry;  its  true  basis  is  laid  in  mythol- 
ogy; and  Romanism  also  robes  herself  in  some  of 
the  old  cast-off  robes  of  paganism,  places  a  miter  on 
her  head  and  calls  herself  "the  church  of  God" 
(2  Cor.  1:  1),  and  her  pope  the  infallible  vice-gerent 
of  God. 

The  difference  between  the  Mason  and  the  Roman 
Catholic  comes  about  as  near  the  definition  given  by 
the  Scotch  ploughman,  a  Highlander  named  Muckle 
Donald,  on  being  asked  by  his  master,  who  was 
standing  at  the  cheek  of  the  bothy  fire  having  a  re- 
ligious discussion  with  bis  ploughmen  one  winter's 
evening, — "Donald,  what  do  you  think  is  the  differ- 
ence between  purgatory  and  hell?" 

"Hough,  mon,"  says  Donald,  "a'  the  difference 
between  purgatory  and  hell  is  a  paper  wall,  an'  whan 
the  priest  lean'd  his  back  to't  he  fell  through't." 

Masonry  makes  its  brag  that  it  stands  behind  the 
throne,  and  Catholicism  declares  she  is  the  only 
church,  and  none  outside  of  her  can  get  to  heaven. 
The  unconverted  Jew  and  Gentile  can  sit  lovingly 
in  the  same  Masonic  lodge,  the  religion  of  which 
they  consider  good  enough  without  Christ  -to  get 
them  into  heaven  at  last. 

Chicago, 

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SHOULD     CHRISTIAN     WOMEN    BELONG    TO 
SECRET  SOCIETIES  f 


PAPER  BY  MISS  GROSS  OF  NEW  ORLEANS  BEFORE  THE 
NATIONAL  CONVENTION. 


This  is  a  question  of  importance  equal  to  any  now 
before  the  public.  I  will  give  my  personal  experi- 
ence of  secret  societies.  In  1879  I  joined  a  secret 
society  known  as  Tabernacle,  No.  6,  and  I  indeed 
became  very  prominent  in  this  society,  and  learned 
much  of  its  customs.  I  thought  no  other  organiza- 
tions excelled  secret  societies.  In  fact  I  thought 
them  real  Divine  institutions,  until  a  careful  study 
of  God's  Word  and  much  prayer  convincad  me  that 
these  orders  were  one  of  Satan's  chief  instruments 
to  pervert  the  use  of  the  Bible  and  tempt  Christians 
into  error. 

God  says,  "Let  us  make  man  in  our  image." 
Gen.  1:  26.  Now  if  God  made  man  in  his  own  im- 
age, he  meant  that  man  should  serve  him  in  truth. 
God  told  Adam  not  to  eat  the  forbidden  fruit,  but 
Satan  tempted  him  by  saying.  It's  no  harm.  Well 
might  we  trace  the  first  secret  society  back  to  Eden, 
and  it  was  organized  by  Satan,  with  one  candidate. 
Eve.  He  initiated  Eve  into  the  dark  mysteries  of 
sin;  and  her  promised  knowledge  turned  to  be  ban- 
ishment from  that  beautiful  garden  to  grope  her 
way  in  darkness  (sin).  Secret  societies  promise  to 
initiate  women  into  the  mysteries  of  hidden  light, 
but  lol  when  she  reaches  the  ante-room,  she  is  hood- 
winked, deceived  and  placed  in  a  position  to  keep 
secrets  from  the  husband  of  her  heart,  and  child  of 
her  bosom. 

I  ask  again,  friends,  should  Christian  women — 
should  we  join  secret  societies,  and  forever  hail  and 
never  reveal  we  know  not  what?  Jesus  said,  "I 
spake  openly,  and  in  secret  have  I  said  nothing." 
John  18:  20.  Again  he  said,  "God  made  them  male 
and  female,  for  this  cause  shall  man  leave  his  father 
and  mother  and  cleave  to  his  wife,  and  they  shall  be 
one  flesh.  So  then  they  are  no  more  twain  but  one 
flesh:  what,  therefore,  God  hath  joined  together  let 
no  man  put  asunder."  Mark  10:  6-9.  Now  secret 
societies  seek  to  put  wife  and  husband  asunder  by 
pledging  the  wife  to  conceal  from  her  husband. 

Again,  dear  Christians,  should  women  join  secret 
societies?  God  said,  "Be  ye  not  unequally  yoked 
together  with  unbelievers,  for  what  fellowship  hath 
righteousness  with  unrighteousness,  and  what  com- 
munion hath  light  with  darkness."      2  Cor.  6:  14. 


Maboh  29,  1888 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYKOSUKE. 


Bat  secret  societies  compel  the  Christian  to  call  the 
lewd,  brother  and  sister.  God  said,  "It  is  a  shame 
even  to  speak  of  what  things  they  do  in  secret." 
Eph.  5:  12.  Now,  indeed,  when  we  read  God's 
Word  and  pray  over  it,  and  then  study  the  character 
of  secret  "institutione,"  it  seems  to  me  to  be  a  shame 
for  women  to  join  secret  orders.  May  God  help  the 
Christians  to  cry  aloud,  "Come  out  from  among 
them,  and  be  ye  separate,  saith  the  Lord." 


MANY  PARTNERS  IN  A  BAD  BV8INB88. 


BY   EEV.   J.    M.    FOSTER. 

The  Jews  were  required  to  build  battlements  to 
their  houses,  and  any  casualties  occurring  through 
the  neglect  of  this,  were  chargeable  to  the  owner. 
Prohibition  is  the  battlement  God  requires  the  state 
to  build,  and  until  this  is  done,  the  government  is 
accountable  for  the  destruction  of  life  and  property 
by  the  liquor  traffic.  Indeed,  as  it  stands,  our  gov- 
ernment is  a  party  in  this  wrong.  Every  gallon  of 
whisky  sells  for  $1.10.  On  this  the  government  col- 
lects 90  cents  revenue.  That  is,  the  government  is 
nine-elevenths  partner.  Every  officer  from  the 
President  down  to  the  justice  of  the  peace,  and 
every  voter,  all  have  gone  into  the  liquor  business, 
nine-elevenths  partner.  This  iniquitous  policy 
should  be  abandoned  and  the  divine  law  of  prohibi- 
tion adopted. 

1.  As  the  guardian  of  public  rights  the  state  should 
prohibit.  The  old  Roman  proverb  was,  "the  public 
safety  is  supreme  law."  The  government  prohibits 
the  carrying  of  concealed  weapons  on  the  ground 
that  the  public  safety  is  endangered  thereby.  The 
erection  of  noisome  vitriol  works  or  powder  maga- 
zines is  forbidden  within  the  city  limits  for  the  same 
reason.  On  the  same  principle  the  liquor  traffic 
should  be  prohibited.  "Rulers  are  not  a  terror  to 
good  works  but  to  the  evil.  He  is  the  minister  of 
God  to  thee  for  good,  a  revenger  to  execute  wrath 
upon  him  that  doeth  evil." 

'  2.  As  the  guardian  of  the  nation's  resources  the 
state  should  prohibit.  The  liquor  traffic  destroys 
annually  40,000,000  bushels  of  nutritious  grain, 
enough  to  make  600,000,000  four-pound  loaves,  79 
for  every  family  in  the  United  States.  It  costs  our 
nation  directly  $900,000,000  a  year.  It  employs 
over  500,000  men  in  manufacturing  and  selling  in- 
toxicants, and  they  are  withdrawn  from  useful  occu- 
pations. It  creates  600,000  drunkards,  and  they 
are  withdrawn  from  useful  occupations.  These 
1,100,000  men  employed  at  $1.50  per  day  would 
earn  $450,000,000  a  year.  That  is  an  addition  to 
our  drink  bill.  Then  the  maintenance  of  the  pau- 
pers and  criminals  created  by  it  costs  $200,000,000 
more.  Our  nation's  drink  bill  is  over  $1,500,000,000 
annually.  Nero  fired  the  city  of  Rome  and  played 
the  fiddle  while  the  destruction  went  on.  Our  gov- 
ernment has  turned  loose  the  liquor  traffic  upon  this 
nation  and  then  plays  the  fiddle  to  the  tune  of  $95,- 
000,000  revenue  a  year.  This  is  betraying  a  public 
trust.     God  will  surely  visit  the  iniquity. 

.3.  As  the  guardian  of  the  lives  of  the  people  the 
state  should  prohibit.  The  city  quarantines  against 
contagious  diseases.  Drunkenness  is  the  worst  kind 
of  a  disease.  The  liquor  traffic  creates  it.  Quaran- 
tine against  it.  The  state  prohibits  murder.  The 
drink  system  murders  more  than  60,000  of  our  citi- 
zens every  year.  Kill  a  man  with  gunpowder  and 
you  hang.  Kill  60,000  with  alcohol  and  it's  a  busi- 
ness. This  wholesale  murder  should  be  prohibited. 
The  sea-devil  is  the  terror  of  fishermen.  It  comes 
up  under  their  boat  and  throws  its  arms  over  its 
sides  and  carries  all  down.  The  only  remedy  is  to 
take  the  hatchet  and  chop  of!  the  arms,  and  this 
must  be  done  instantly.  The  liquor  traffic  is  the 
sea-devil  in  the  waters  of  human  society.  The  sa- 
loons are  the  arms.  They  are  upon  the  ship  of  state. 
The  only  remedy  is  to  take  the  hatchet  of  the  law 
and  cut  them  off. 

4.  As  the  divinely  appointed  agent  for  punishing 
crime  the  state  should  prohibit.  The  testimony  of 
judges  from  Sir  Mathew  Hale  down  is  to  the  effect 
that  the  liquor  traffic  causes  from  four-fifths  to  nine- 
tenths  of  all  criminal  and  other  offenses.  The  report 
of  the  Temperance  Union  for  1838  says:  "Intem- 
perance cuts  down  youth  in  its  strength  and  old  age 
in  its  weakness.  It  breaks  the  father's  heart,  be- 
reaves the  doting  mother,  extinguishes  natural  affec- 
tions, erases  conjugal  love,  blots  out  filial  attach- 
ments, and  blights  parental  hopes.  It  creates  weak- 
ness, not  strength;  disease,  not  health;  death,  not 
life.  It  makes  wives  widows,  children  orphans, 
fathers  fiends,  and  all  paupers.  It  feeds  rheuma- 
tism, nurses  gout,  welcomes  epidemics,  invites  chol- 
era, imports  pestilence,  and  embraces  consumption. 
It  covers  the  land  with  ignorance,  idleness  and 
crime.     It  engenders  strifes,  fosters  quarrels,  and 


nourishes  riots.  It  is  the  blood  of  the  gambler,  the 
element  of  the  burglar,  the  prop  of  the  highwayman, 
and  the  support  of  the  midnight  incendiary.  It  fills 
your  penitentiaries  and  furnishes  victims  for  the 
gallows.  It  countenances  the  liar,  respects  the 
thief  and  esteems  the  blasphemer.  It  violates  obli- 
gations, reverences  fraud  and  honors  infamy." 

5.  As  the  guardian  of  the  family  the  state  should 
prohibit.  The  Greeks  fought  twenty  years  before 
Troy  in  the  interests  of  the  home.  Rome  fell  be- 
cause she  did  not  guard  the  home.  The  liquor  traf- 
fic is  coiling  around  the  home  like  the  serpents  of 
Laocoon  and  crushing  out  the  life.  It  must  be  de- 
stroyed. It  is  a  crime  to  manufacture  and  sell  in- 
toxicating drinks  as  a  beverage.  Our  brewers,  dis- 
tillers and  saloonkeepers  are  criminals.  Lord  Ches- 
terfield, that  cool-headed  statesman,  calls  them  "art- 
ists in  human  slaughter."  When  Mohammed  re 
turned  to  Mecca,  six  years  after  the  hegira,  he  saw 
360  idols  in  the  streets,  and  pointing  to  them  with 
his  sword  he  said,  "Truth  has  come,  let  iniquity  go 
down."  So  the  government  should  point  to  the 
248,992  saloons  in  this  land  and  say,  "Truth  has 
come,  let  these  abominations  go  down." 

Brooklyn. 

CATHBRINB  BOOTH  ON  GOD' 8  OHARITT  AND 
DEVIL' 8  CHARITY. 


The  devil's  charity  is  the  very  antipode  of  God's. 
It  does  not  care  much  about  righteousness.  Quiet- 
ness is  its  beau  ideal  of  all  that  is  lovely  and  excel- 
lent. It  says  "Let  us  be  q^uiet;  you  must  not  dis- 
turb the  peace  of  the  church."  It  cries.  Peace! 
Peace!  when  there  is  no  peace.  It  says,  "We  cannot 
help  these  evils.  Every  man  must  look  after  him- 
self; we  are  not  responsible  for  our  neighbor."  It 
knows  very  often  that  there  are  continents  of  dirt 
underneath  "things"  and  "systems"  and  men  which 
it  chooses  to  fraternize;  but  then  it  is  covered  up, 
and  so  it  says,  "Let  it  alone,  we  cannot  have  a 
smudge."  Let  it  alone.  Peace,  Peace.  Never 
mind  righteousness;  the  church  must  be  supported, 
if  the  money  does  come  out  of  the  dried-up  vitals  of 
drunkards  and  harlots;  never  mind,  we  must  have  it. 
Never  mind  if  our  songs  are  mixed  with  the  shrieks 
of  widows  and  orphans  of  the  dying  and  damned ! 
Sing  away,  sing  away,  and  drown  their  voices. 
Never  mind;  we  cannot  have  it  looked  into,  rooted 
out  and  pulled  up.  Peace;  we  must  have  peace. 
And  they  call  you  as  Ahab  did  Elijah,  the  disturber 
of  Israel,  if  you  dare  touch  the  sore  place  and  ex- 
hibit their  putrefying  wounds  and  bruises;  and  when 
you  say  to  them,  "The  law  of  life  is,  do  unto  others 
as  ye  would  they  should  do  unto  you,"  they  impu- 
dently turn  upon  you  and  say,  "But  we  are  not  ex- 
pected to  be  made  perfect  in  this  life,"  and  so  they 
hide  their  abominations  and  throw  a  thicker  cover- 
ing over  their  filth  and  on  it  goes. 

This  is  the  devil's  charity,  and  the  more  the  bet- 
ter for  his  purpose.  But  the  charity  and  the  wis- 
dom which  is  from  above  is  first  PURE,  and  then 
peaceable.  I  would  rather  be  in  euerlatting  warfare 
in  company  with  that  which  is  fair  and  true  and 
good  than  I  would  walk  in  harmony  with  that  which 
is  vile  and  hollow  and  rotten  and  destined  for  the 
bottomless  pit.  The  Lord  help  tou  to  make  the 
same  choice — godlinets. 


When  the  gavel  of  the  President  of  the  Senate 
and  the  Speaker  of  the  House  of  Representatives 
falls  upon  the  desk  at  exactly  12  o'clock  each  day, 
flags  are  at  the  same  moment  hoisted  upon  the  poles 
that  rise  from  the  crests  of  the  cupolas  on  both  ends 
of  the  Capitol.  The  moment  that  either  the  Senate 
or  the  House  adjourns  the  flag  on  that  wing  of  the 
building  goes  down.  One  has  only  to  get  a  view  of 
the  Capitol  to  know  if  either,  or  if  both  Houses  of 
Congress  are  in  session.  The  flag  duty  is  performed 
by  the  oldest  employe  of  the  Capitol,  John  Chaun- 
cey,  who  came  to  Washington  with  Thaddeus  Ste- 
vens, "the  Great  Commoner;"  and  when  the  latter 
became  so  weak  that  he  could  scarcely  walk,  Chaun- 
cey  used  to  carry  him  up  and  down  the  marble 
stairways  to  and  from  his  carriage.  It  was  to  him 
that  the  statesman  made  the  remark  since  quoted, 
when  he  was  carrying  him  into  the  House  one  morn- 
ing as  usual:  "Chauncey,  I  wonder  who  will  carry 
me  when  you  are  gone?" 

Mr.  Chauncey  has  been  in  the  employ  of  the 
House  ever  since,  and  another  duty  of  bis  is  to  see 
that  the  Republican  members  are  all  in  their  places 
when  an  important  vote  is  taken.  The  Democrats 
have  for  the  same  duty  on  their  side  of  the  Hall  a 
man  by  the  name  of  Ike  Ilill,  and  these  two  know 
the  haunts  and  habits  of  every  member  of  the  House. 
If  a  vote  is  to  be  taken  at  midnight  it  is  the  duty  of 
Chauncey  and  Hill  to  see  that  the  members  of  their 
respective  parties  are  present  or  paired. 


The  Seceet  Empike 


THE  ENGINEER'S    BROTHERHOOD 

The  great  strike  on  the  Chicago,  Burlington  and 
Quincy  railroad,  now  practically  over,  has  called 
attention  as  never  before  to  the  Brotherhood  of  Lo- 
comotive Engineers,  of  which  P.  M.  Arthur  is  the 
bead.  We  find  in  the  Omaha  Z>ai7y  Republican  of 
the  19th  inst.,  the  following  able  and  conservative 
review  of  the  leading  principles  of  the  order,  and 
exposition  of  illegal  and  fallacious  arguments  by 
which  it  assumes  the  right  to  inflict  incalculable 
damage  to  the  general  public  by  strikes  and  boy- 
cotts. The  Inter-State  Commerce  law  has  indirectly 
defeated  them  in  the  present  instance.  But  the  peo- 
ple must  demand  more  stringent  regulations,  by 
which  a  railroad  strike  or  boycott  shall  be  made  a 
criminal  offense,  and  put  both  managers  and  men 
under  such  bonds  as  will  compel  obedience.  The 
formation  of  secret,  sworn  combinations  should  be 
also  forbidden.  Without  this  the  engineers  would 
never  venture  so  desperately  as  in  the  present  case. 
The  Republican  says: 

It  originated  by  the  brotherhood  of  engineers  de- 
manding the  abolishment  of  all  classification,  and  a 
slight  increase  in  wages.  This  brotherhood,  it 
might  be  well  to  remark,  dates  its  origin  from  1863. 
it  was  originally  intended  to  be  a  society  of  a  social 
and  charitable  character  only,  having  for  its  object 
the  improvement  of  locomotive  engineers  as  a  body. 
It  inculcates  the  principles  of  sobriety  and  fidelity 
among  the  important  class,  and  has  accomplished 
good  work  in  providing  for  their  sick  and  destitute. 
It  has  grown  rapidly,  until  now  it  includes  among 
its  members  the  great  majority  of  the  locomotive 
engineers  of  the  country,  and  possesses  a  large 
amount  of  accumulated  funds,  and  it  has  headquar- 
ters in  all  the  important  cities  of  the  country,  and  is 
held  together  by  a  central  organization  of  salaried 
officers. 

More  recently  the  brotherhood  has  made  itself,  as 
Mr.  Arthur  has  freely  remarked,  somewhat  unfor- 
tunately notorious  by  its  active  participation  in  sev- 
eral railroad  strikes.  These  have  almost  universally 
been  successful,  through  the  strength  of  its  re- 
sources, the  esprit  du  corps  of  the  association,  and 
more  especially  from  the  fact  that  it  has  not  scru- 
pled to  use  as  a  weapon  the  position  its  individual 
members  held  as  trusted  agents  in  a  work  of  mod- 
ern distribution.  These  strikes  have  always  been 
marked  by  the  same  characteristic  modus  operandi. 
The  corporations  between  whom  and  whose  em- 
ployes the  difficulty  has  arisen  have  declined  to  ac- 
cept the  offered  mediation  of  the  recognized  head  of 
the  brotherhood.  Their  strike  has  thereupon  been 
authorized.  Without  this  permission  this  strike  is 
impossible,  for  if  it  is  attempted  the  organization  at 
once  exerts  itself  to  fill  the  place  made  vacant,  and 
to  break  the  strike  down.  The  permission  to  strike, 
on  the  other  hand,  carries  with  it  the  assurance  that 
the  large  resources  of  the  brotherhood  shall  be  de- 
voted to  securing  success,  and  all  those  engaged  in 
it  at  once  pass  from  the  service  of  the  corporation 
to  that  of  the  brotherhood,  which  undertakes  to  pro- 
vide for  them  until  the  recusant  corporation  suc- 
cumbs. Or  in  case  it  holds  out  successfully,  until 
the  strikers  can  secure  other  situations.  In  every 
instance,  regardless  of  the  season  of  the  year  or 
public  convenience,  the  strike  takes  place  at  a  fixed 
hour.  All  trains  are  abandoned  by  their  engineers, 
wherever  they  may  happen  to  be. 

So  far  as  the  organization  is  concerned,  a  state  of 
warfare,  within  the  letter  of  the  law,  between  it  and 
the  railroad  corporation — an  enemy,  as  Mr.  Arthur 
terms  it — then  ensues. 

The  single  object  of  its  members  is  to  paralyze 
its  opponents,  to  stop  the  whole  movement  of  travel 
and  traffic  on  its  lines,  and  compel  its  submission. 
That  they  may  the  more  quickly  succeed  in  doing 
this  they  whollj  ignore  the  rights  and  interests  of 
the  public.  They  consider  that  the  responsibility 
for  the  consequences  rests  upon  the  corporation 
from  its  refusal  to  yield.  Every  means  short  of 
open  violation  of  law  is  in  practice  regarded  as 
legitimate  to  prevent  others  from  taking  the  places 
of  those  who  have  struck. 

The  immediate  cause  of  the  strike  on  the  Bur- 
lington was  the  classification,  or  the  manner  in 
which  the  Burlington  paid  its  engineers.  They  say 
engineers  who  have  had  a  long  and  honorable  rec- 
ord and  service,  proving  themselves  to  be  compe- 
tent and  thoroughly  reliable  in  their  profession, have 
been  paid  more  by  the  Burlington  road  than  recent- 
ly promoted  firemen.  This  has  been  the  custom  for 
years  of  the  roads  and  the  brotherhood  has  fully  ac- 
cepted it.  But  within  the  last  year  or  two,  the  in- 
ferior men,  new  and  incompetent  engineers  have  ob- 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


March  29, 1888 


tained  a  majority  in  the  brotherhood,  and  are  deter- 
mined to  blot  out  all  classifications. 

In  proof  of  this,  I  only  have  to  refer  to  the  report 
of  the  railroad  commissioners  of  the  State  of  Massa- 
chusetts made  in  1887  to  the  legislature  of  that 
State  relative  to  a  difference  existing  between  the 
brotherhood  and  the  Boston  and  Maine  railroad. 
The  ultimatum  presented  by  the  brotherhood  there- 
in acknowledged  that  engineers  should  be  classified, 
asking  that  those  having  served  three  years  or 
longer  should  receive  $3.75  for  each  hundred  miles; 
those  having  served  two  years  and  under  three, 
$3.25;  and  those  serving  only  for  their  first  year, 
$2.75  for  each  hundred  miles.  This  rule  was  evi- 
dently right,  for  if  the  profession  of  an  engineer  is 
Buch  that  perfection  can  be  reached  the  first  year, 
then  it  is  a  profession  of  less  merit  than  the  brother- 
hood should  be  willing  to  acknowledge. 

The  engineers  are  not  responsible  for  the  running 
of  any  railroad.  If  an  accident  happens,  or  dam- 
ages result,  either  to  person  or  property,  the  rail- 
road companies  are  held  responsible,  not  only  for 
the  acts  of  engineers,  but  for  all  other  employes. 

The  Burlington  management  insist  that  they  have 
a  right  to  manage  their  own  business  in  their  own 
way,  and  refuse  to  abolish  this  classification.  Mr. 
Arthur  said,  "If  you  can  fill  the  positions  vacated 
by  our  brotherhood,  all  well  and  good;  we  won't 
work."  The  Burlington  thereupon  proceeded  at 
once  to  fill  the  1,800  places  made  vacant  by  the 
striking  engineers.  Now,  the  strikers  insist  that 
the  Burlington  shall  not  only  re-employ  the  striking 
engineers,  but  that  it  shall  commit  the  crime  of  dis- 
charging its  present  employes  who  have  taken  their 
places,  and  are  now  earning  an  honest  living. 

The  term  "scab"  is  a  favorite  one  with  the  broth- 
erhood; but  to  my  way  of  thinking,  a  scab  engineer 
is  made  of  the  same  flesh  and  blood  and  has  the 
same  necessities  as  has  the  ortiiodox  engineer.  He 
has  to  eat,  sleep,  have  clothes,  breathe  the  air,  and 
is  entitled  to  all  of  the  God-given  rights  of  this  free 
country,  the  same  as  if  he  belonged  to  the  royal  or- 
der of  brotherhood  engineers. 

Neither  the  Burlington,  nor  any  other  road,  can 
force  men  to  work  for  them;  nor  can  the  brother- 
hood force  the  Burlington,  nor  any  other  road,  to 
employ  them  unless  they  so  desire.  Under  our  law 
it  takes  two  to  make  a  contract;  but  in  order  to  over- 
rule that  plainest  principle  of  commercial  ethics, 
what  do  the  brotherhood  do?  When  they  find  that 
their  strike  iq  a  failure,  they  resort  to  the  boycott. 
Having  already  struck  on  one  or  two  other  roads 
for  receiving  Burlington  freight,  they  threaten  a 
universal  strike  and  a  complete  paralyzing  of  all 
the  commercial  interests  of  the  country,  thereby 
showing  that  they  are  not  the  friends  of  any  other 
class  of  people  than  themselves. 

In  speaking  of  this  feature  of  the  case,  the  com- 
missioners of  Massachusetts,  in  their  report  before 
referred  to,  make  use  of  the  following  pertinent  and, 
to  my  mind,  very  sensible  suggestions: 

"The  commissioners  believe  they  speak  within  bounds  and 
say  only  what  It  Is  their  duty  to  say,  when  they  express  their 
belief  that  the  condition  oX  affairs  disclosed  in  our  railroad  sys- 
tem, as  the  result  of  the  strike,  of  the  12th  inst.,  is  wholly  in- 
compatible with  the  public  interests.  The  railroads  of  Massa- 
chusetts are  Its  arteries.  If,  to  secure  some  trivial  and  private 
end,  either  party  to  a  conflict  undertakes  to  wantonly  stop  the 
flow  through  those  arteries,  It  becomes  a  question,  not  between 
private  parties,  but  between  the  commobwealth  and  a  public 
enemy.  Undoubtedly  the  employes  of  a  corporation  have  a 
rlftht  to  leave  Its  service.  They  can  do  so  singly  or  in  a  body. 
The  community,  however,  has  also  rights  In  the  matter.  These 
employes  have  no  right  to  take  out  trains  loaded  with  innocent 
travelers,  perhaps,  as  In  the  recent  Grand  Trunk  strike,  In  the 
most  Inclement  season  of  an  inclement  climate,  with  the  delib- 
erate Intention  In  certain  contingencies  of  stopping  the  train 
and  abandoning  It  at  a  given  hour.  A  pilot  migbt  as  well 
'  strike'  and  abandon  his  ship  on  a  lee  shore  I  If  such  an  act  Is 
not  a  criminal  offense,  it  should  be  made  one.  If,  however, 
employes,  in  a  reasonable  and  proper  manner,  with  a  due  re- 
gard to  their  obligations  to  the  public,  have  a  right  to  leave  the 
service  of  the  corporation,  on  the  other  hand  the  corporation  has 
an  ecjual  right  to  go  Into  the  labor  market  and  employ  substi- 
tutes in  the  place  of  those  who  have  so  left  its  8ervlce,and  those 
substitutes  are  entitled  to  protection  In  working  for  It.  They 
have  a  right  to  be  guarded  from  Intrusion  while  in  the  line  of 
their  duty,  as  well  as  from  Insults  and  violence." 

The  action  of  the  brotherhood  in  attempting  a 
universal  boycott  against  the  Burlington  road  is 
plainly  contrary  to  the  law,  both  the  common  and 
statutory  law  of  the  United  States.  A  clause  in  the 
interstate  commerce  bill  reads  as  follows: 

"Every  common  carrier  subject  to  the  provisions  of  this  act, 
shall  according  to  their  respective  powers,  afford  all  reasonable, 
proper  and  equal  facilities  for  the  Interchange  of  traffic  between 
Uielr  respective  lines  for  receiving,  forwarding  and  delivering 
passengers  and  property  to  and  from  their  several  lines  and 
those  connecting  therewith." 

Now,  an  interpretation  of  this  statute  has  recently 
been  made  by  Judge  Gresham  in  the  case  of  the 
Burlington  road  against  General  McNulta,  the  re- 
ceiver of  the  Wabash,  when  his  engineers  had  refused 
to  accept  Burlington  freight.  And  this  decision  set- 
tles the  question  whether  a  railroad  may  lawfully 
Buspend  reciprocal  relations  with  a  connecting  road 
through  fear  of  precipitating  a  strike.  The  duty  of  a 
railroad  as  a  common  carrier  is  plainly  stated.     It 


must  receive  and  deliver  freight  that  may  come  to 
it  in  the  regular  course  of  business,  and  it  is  no  ex- 
cuse for  the  failure  to  perform  this  obligation  to 
urge  that  to  comply  with  the  demand  will  involve 
the  road  in  labor  troubles.  Judge  Gresham's  decis- 
ion plainly  and  unequivocally  carries  this  doctrine 
to  the  end. 

The  strikers  assume  that  one  party  may  rightfully 
force  another  to  enter  into  a  contract  and  compel 
them  to  accept  whatever  terms  it  may  dictate.  Such 
an  assumption  is  no  more  admissable  than  the  theo- 
ry that  "might  makes  right."  Either  party  has  a 
right  to  propose  the  conditions  of  a  contract  and  the 
other  has  a  right  to  decline.  It  is  essential  to  the 
law  of  freedom  of  contract  that  both  parties  be  at 
liberty  to  propose  terms,  or  to  reject  them — to  enter 
into  a  contract  or  not,  as  they  may  choose.  But  this 
is  not  the  position  assumed  by  the  brotherhood. 
They  assume  that  they  have  a  right  to  propose 
terms,  and  that  the  other  party  has  no  right  to  re- 
fuse, but  must  succumb  to  their  dictatorial  man- 
dates. And  they  have  sought,  and  are  still  seeking, 
to  force  the  company  to  employ  them  upon  their 
own  terms. 

This  is  a  plain  statement  of  this  case,  whether  the 
brotherhood  shall  be  permitted  to  overrule  the  stat- 
utory law  of  the  United  States  and  the  common  law 
of  our  land  by  conspiring  to  paralyze  and  destroy 
the  business  of  the  country — making  a  local  strike 
on  the  BurliBgton  system  a  public  calamity,  or 
whether  the  great  principle  of  free  agency  between 
the  two  parties  shall  be  held  essential  to  a  contract. 
The  right  to  propose  terms  does  not  include  the 
right  to  force  another  to  accept  them  and  compel 
him  to  enter  into  a  contract  against  his  will.  Each 
party  has  a  right  to  contract  or  not,  and  the  attempt 
of  either  to  force  the  other  against  his  will  and  to 
terms  to  which  he  does  not  willingly  consent  is 
wrong  as  well  as  unlawful. 

In  order  to  carry  out  their  unlawful  purposes,  the 
brotherhood  notify  the  other  companies  that  they 
must  not  obey  the  law  of  Congress  which  requires 
them  to  interchange  traffic  with  the  Burlington. 
Some  of  the  companies  sought  to  make  this  notifica- 
tion justify  their  course  on  the  ground  that  if  they 
do  not  heed  it  their  own  engineers  will  go  out. 
They  assume  that  the  strikers  intend,  if  need  be,  to 
exercise  the  power  of  their  organizations  to  compel 
other  companies  to  assist  them  into  coercing  the 
Burlington  to  enter  into  a  contract  against  its  will 
— threatening  to  put  a  stop  to  all  traffic  over  vast 
connecting  systems,  not  in  vindication  of  their  right 
of  contract  or  of  any  conceivable  right,  but  for  the 
undisguised  purpose  of  striking  down  the  freedom 
of  contract  and  forcing  themselves  as  employes  on 
their  own  terms  upon  a  company  whose  service  they 
have  left,  and  which  does  not  want  to  employ  them 
again.  Incidentally,  if  this  scheme  be  carried  out, 
if  this  unlawful  purpose  is  accomplished,  a  success- 
ful assault  will  be  made  upon  one  of  the  most  cher- 
ished rights  of  every  man.  If  these  organized  strikes 
should  succeed  it  would  also  cause  a  loss  to  manu- 
facturers and  shippers  generally  throughout  the 
length  and  breadth  of  the  country,  among  popula- 
tions enough  for  an  empire.  It  would  inflict  a  loss 
and  bring  distress  into  every  class  of  life.  The 
common  laborer  would  be  thrown  out  of  employ- 
ment, his  family  would  be  distressed  for  the  neces- 
saries of  life,  the  wheels  of  commerce  would  stand 
still,  and  all  would  be  a  state  of  chaos,  with  nothing 
but  suffering  and  misery. 

If  an  organization  has  become  so  great  that  it  as- 
sumes to  be  greater  than  the  laws  of  our  country, 
caring  not  for  statutes  and  legal  obligations,  gov- 
erned by  mere  conclaves,  directed  by  secret  resolu- 
tions, controlled  by  secret  laws— I  say,  if  such  an 
organization  exists  in  this  country,  the  sooner  it  is 
destroyed  the  better  it  will  be  for  the  well-being  of 
society. 

As  I  remarked  before,  I  have  no  more  interest  in 
the  Burlington  road  than  any  other  citizen  of  the 
United  States,  but  I  regard  the  organization  of  the 
brotherhood  of  engineers  as  conspirators  in  their 
conduct  against  every  principle  which  goes  to  make 
a  community  orderly,  prosperous,  and  happy. 

The  question  of  pay  with  the  Burlington  road 
was  and  is  nothing.  It  is  a  great  underlying  ques- 
tion. It  is  the  question  of  all  questions.  Shall 
the  great  corporations  of  this  country  be  controlled 
by  secret  organizations  which  stop  at  no  reasonable 
limit  in  attempts  to  enforce  their  demands? 

It  is  not  a  question  with  the  Burlington  road  half 
so  much  as  it  is  a  question  with  these  people  of  the 
United  States  whether  law  and  order  shall  control, 
or  whether  secret  trades  unions  shall  win  the  victory. 

It  is  certainly  time  to  call  a  halt  upon  those  or- 
ganizations, and  to  reflect  upon  the  warnings  of 
Washington's  farewell  address,  in  which  he  says: 

'All  obstructions  to  the  execution  of  the  laws,  all  combina- 


tions and  associations,  under  whatever  plausible  character,  with 
the  real  design  to  direct,  control,  counteract  or  awe  the  regular 
deliberation  and  action  of  the  constituted  authorities,  are  de- 
structive of  this  fundamental  principle,  and  of  fatal  tendency. 
They  serve  to  organize  faction,  to  give  it  an  artificial  and  extra- 
ordinary force— to  put  in  the  plaoe  of  the  delegated  wlU  of  the. 
nation,  the  will  of  a  party,  often  a  small  but  artful  and  enter- 
prising minority  of  the  community ;  and,  according  to  the  altern- 
ate triumphs  of  different  parties,  to  makt  the  public  administra- 
tion the  mirror  of  the  ill-concerted  and  incongruous  projects  of 
faction,  rather  than  the  organof  consistent  and  wholesome  plans 
digested  by  common  councils  and  modified  by  mutual  Interests. 
"However  combinations  or  associations  of  the  above  descrip- 
tion may  now  and  then  answer  popular  ends,  they  are  likely,  in 
the  course  of  time  and  things,  to  become  potent  engines,  by 
which  cunning,  ambitious  and  unprincioled  men  will  be  enabled 
to  subvert  the  power  of  the  people,  and  to  usurp  for  themselves 
the  reins  of  government,  destroying  afterwards  the  very  engines 
which  have  lifted  them  to  unjust  dominion." 


Befobm  Xews. 


FROM  WASHINGTON  TO  GEORGIA. 

Prohibition  Delegates — Education  at  Atlanta  — The  Uni- 
versity and  caste  prejudice — Excellent  Meetings — Br. 
Munhall  at  Macon — Social  Ostracism. 

Atlanta,  Ga. 

Dbar  Cynosurk: — I  left  Washington,  D.  C,  on 
the  13th  at  11:25  A.  M.  On  the  evening  of  the  12th 
I  attended  a  meeting  of  the  Prohibition  Union  of 
the  District,  at  the  large  fine  hall  at  the  corner  of 
4^  Street  and  Pennsylvania  Avenue,  which  has  been 
rented  and  fitted  up  by  the  Union.  If  the  growth  of 
the  Prohibition  party  in  the  country  is  to  be  meas- 
ured by  its  growth  in  Washington  it  is  surely  on  the 
high  road  to  success.  Four  years  ago  the  Union  was 
organized,  but  it  was  with  great  effort  that  it  could 
be  kept  alive.  Notwithstanding  the  extreme  cold 
(about  the  worst  of  the  winter)  and  the  icy  streets, 
there  was  a  full  attendance  of  both  men  and  women, 
and  much  interest.  Mr.  H.  D.  Moulton,  president 
of  the  Union,  and  Major  Walker,  formerly  chief  of 
the  police,  were  chosen  delegates  to  the  Indianapo- 
lis convention,  alternates  Mrs.  La  Fetra  and  Rev. 
Baldwin.  The  officers  were  re-elected.  It  was  cu- 
rious to  see  the  editor  of  the  National  View,  th*t 
formerly  advertised  for  the  saloons  and  commended 
their  "drinks,"  now  seeking  for  election  as  delegate 
to  the  Prohibition  convention.  Let  us  hope  that  the 
View  has  reformed. 

I  need  not  speak  of  the  unprecedented  storm  and 
cold  in  the  North-east.  It  prevailed  all  over  Vir- 
ginia; but  twenty-five  miles  south  of  Washington 
there  was  no  snow.  I  came  by  the  Piedmont  Air 
Line,  an  excellent  route  and  speedy.  When  we 
struck  South  Carolina  we  found  the  peach  trees  in 
full  bloom,  but  on  the  west  side  of  the  mountains 
the  season  is  not  so  much  advanced.  The  peach 
crop  here  will  be  diminished  by  the  frost  of  Tues- 
day night,  but  not  destroyed,  as  many  trees  are  not 
yet  in  bloom.  To-day  the  weather  is  lovely,  though 
fires  are  still  enjoyable. 

There  is  something  in  the  air  of  Atlanta  that  be- 
tokens, if  it  does  not  inspire,  thrift  and  enterprise. 
It  is  a  growing,  bustling  city.  The  new  State  House, 
that  promises  to  be  a  stately  building,  is  well  under 
way,  but  will  be  months  if  not  years  in  reaching 
completion.  A  ride  of  over  three  miles  on  the  street 
cars  brings  one  to  Clarke  University  and  the  Gam- 
mon Theological  School,  the  excellent  institutions 
of  the  M.  E.  church,  established  for  the  education 
of  colored  youth  and  the  theological  training  of  the 
colored  ministry.  They  have  some  fine  buildings 
and  everything  betokens  prosperity.  I  visited  the 
Theological  school,  and  found  about  sixty  students 
in  attendance,  several  of  whom  are  pastors  in  the  city. 

On  the  15th,  by  invitation  of  Pres.  Thirkield,  I 
addressed  the  students  and  had  a  most  attentive 
hearing.  The  president  expressed  his  hearty  con- 
currence with  what  had  been  said,  and  entire  sym- 
pathy with  our  work. 

This  excellent  seminary  has  been  endowed  by 
Bev.  E  H.  Gammon  of  Batavia,  111.,  by  the  gift  of 
$200,000.  The  bequest  was  conditioned  on  its  be- 
ing a  separate  and  independent  institution.  There 
are  at  present  three  professors  and  a  fourth  is  to  be 
appointed.  In  spite  of  much  opposition  from  the 
old  pro-slavery  and  Negro-hating  spirit  of  the  South, 
and  of  some  internal  dissensions  growing  out  of  the 
old  order  of  things,  there  is  a  most  substantia, 
growth  of  the  M.  E.  church  in  the  South,  and  they 
are  doing  an  admirable  work  in  the  cause  of  educa- 
tion. 

Clarke  University  was  never  more  prosperous. 
Pres.  Thayer  tells  me  that  a  smaller  percentage  than 
heretofore  belong  to  secret  societies,  and  that  the 
question  of  their  usefulness  and  propriety  is  fre- 
quently discussed. 

I  also  visited  Atlanta  University,  now  under  the 
care  of  Prof.  C.  N.  Francis,  acting  president.  It 
has  now  enrolled  520  students,  twenty-five  per  cent 
more  than  ever  before.    These  are  under  the  in 


March  29, 1888 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSITKE. 


stniction  of  twenty-three  teachers  and  professors. 
In  spite  of  the  efforts  of  Mr.  Glenn  and  the  men  of 
his  stamp  (which  includes  Gov.  Gordon)  the  institu- 
tion is  not  dead,  but  more  alive  and  prosperous  than 
ever  before.  The  remarkably  well  equipped  Indus- 
trial department  publishes  a  symposium  of  the  dis- 
cussion which  arose  out  of  the  Glenn  bill.  This 
will  (a  few  years  hence,  when  the  Georgia  cranks 
recover  their  reason)  be  very  interesting  reading. 
It  seems  to  have  been  well  known  and  perfectly 
understood  for  more  than  fourteen  years  that  it  was 
a  fundamental  principle  in  the  institution  that  no 
one  should  be  excluded  on  account  of  race  or  color. 
This  did  not  prevent  the  State  from  voting  (out  of 
funds  received  from  the  General  Government)  an 
annual  appropriation  of  $8,000.  It  was  not  until 
the  terrible  outbreak  of  colorphobia  last  year  that 
it  was  seen  to  be  necessary  to  send  Christian  moth- 
ers to  the  chain  gang,  because  that  in  addition  to  a 
work  of  great  beneficence  to  the  people  of  Georgia, 
they  were  teaching  six  of  their  ovm  children.  It  was 
found  that  the  moral  sense  of  mankind  was  too 
strong  for  them  and  the  Glenn  bill  failed,  but  they 
took  awav  all  State  aid  and  put  an  additional  bur- 
den on  Northern  benevolence.  Prof.  Bumstead  is 
now  North  soliciting  aid.  Sixteen  thousand  dollars 
are  asked,  and  it  is  hoped  that  a  permanent  endow- 
ment will  be  raised. 

I  was  most  kindly  received  by  Pres.  Francis,  and 
welcomed  to  the  hospitalities  of  the  institution. 
Prof.  Chase  also  greeted  me  kindly  and  expressed 
bis  sympathy  with  the  work  in  which  I  am  engaged. 
It  is  arranged  for  me  to  address  the  students  at  At- 
lanta to-night.  I  am  also  to  speak  to  the  students 
of  the  Baptist  Theological  school  on  Monday,  and 
in  the  First  Congregational  church  on  Sabbath  even- 
ing. Truly  the  Lord  is  making  the  way  plain.  I 
expect  next  week  to  go  from  here  to  Augusta,  Ga., 
and  thence  to  Savannah.  From  there  1  intend  to 
turn  northward. 

Maoon,  Ga.,  Mabch  21. — My  visit  to  Atlanta 
could  not  have  well  been  pleasanter  or  more  profit- 
able. I  was  there  five  days,  and  the  weather  was 
delightful.  I  spoke  five  times,  and  during  most  of 
my  stay  was  most  hospitably  entertained  at  Atlanta 
University.  On  Sabbath  I  preached  at  the  Univer- 
sity in  the  morning  to  the  assembled  students  and 
faculty;  at  three  p.  m.,  I  took  part  in  their  Sabbath- 
school;  and  at  7:30  p.  m.  preached  for  Rev.  E. 
Kent  in  the  First  Congregational  church  to  a  full 
house,  from  Eph.  5:  11.  This  is  one  of  the  neatest 
and  most  commodious  houses  of  worship  in  the  city, 
and  the  church  is  fairly  prosperous.  The  able  pas- 
tor, who  has  long  been  in  sympathy  with  our  re- 
form, requested  me  to  speak  specially  on  the  lodge 
question,  as  some  of  his  members  were  involved 
in  its  meshes. 

I  had  a  most  attentive  and  respectful  hearing, 
and  the  sympathy  of  most  of  those  present.  I  was 
heartily  thanked  by  the  pastor  and  a  number  of  the 
leading  members  of  the  church,  who  said  that 
the  things  I  had  said  were  just  what  they  had  long 
been  contending  for.  Others  thought  them  "hard 
sayings."  One,  who  was  a  Mason,  suggested  that  I 
had  some  spurious  Masonic  books,  and  that  I  knew 
nothing  of  real  Masonry.  The  discussion  will  do 
good.  The  lodge  question  has  been  up  for  discus- 
sion among  the  students  of  both  Clarke  and  At- 
lanta Universities,  and  there  has  been  a  good  deal 
of  careful  study  of  the  subject  by  some  of  the  stu- 
dents. Such  discussions  always  result  in  one  way. 
The  life  of  Masonry  is  in  its  silence  and  secrecy. 

On  Monday  morning  I  visited  the  Baptist  Normal 
and  Theological  Seminary.  It  has  about  150  stu- 
dents, all  young  men.  This  school  is  under  the 
care  of  Rev.  Samuel  Groves,  D.  D.,  assisted  by 
four  other  professors,  and  is  doing  a  good  work. 
Seven  years  ago,  when  I  first  visited  Atlanta,  I  was 
welcomed  at  this  school,  and  my  testimony  had 
an  attentive  consideration.  Now  there  seemed  to 
be  but  one  voice  and  one  mind  among  the  students 
and  faculty.  I  had  an  excellent  hearing  and  a 
hearty  endorsement  by  the  President.  Ten  expect 
to  graduate  from  the  Theological  department. 

At  2:30  p.  M.  I  took  the  train  for  Macon,  about 
105  miles  South.  The  intervening  country  is  a  fair 
farming  region,  mainly  devoted  to  cotton  raising. 
The  farmers  were  busy  in  preparing  their  ground 
and  planting  their  crops.  I  was  glad  to  see  that 
large  attention  is  given  to  fruit-growing  and  the 
peach  and  pear  orchards  loaded  with  blossoms  be- 
token a  full  crop.  We  reached  this  old  city  at  6:30, 
and  I  found  comfortable  quarters  at  the  Southern 
Hotel,  which,  I  am  sorry  to  say,  like  every  other 
has  a  large  bar  well  stocked  with  liquors.  So  much 
of  Georgia  is  "dry"  that  the  devil  has  to  put  in  an 
extra  amount  of  effort  in  the  "wet"  towns  in  order 
to  keep  up  his  work.  He  evidently  succeeds  in  this 
city.     Macon  has  a  beautiful  location,  very  broad 


streets  without  pavements,  and  some  fine  public 
buildings.  A  fine  new  market  house  is  just  com- 
pleted. It  is  a  typical  Southern  city  and  is  said  to 
be  slowly  growing. 

Dr.  Munhall  is  here  holding  a  series  of  meet- 
ings in  the  leading  Baptist  church.  Though  the 
work  has  but  just  begun,  a  considerable  interest  has 
been  awakened.  On  the  afternoon  of  the  20th  I  at- 
tended one  of  his  Bible  readings.  In  spite  of  the 
constant  rain  the  attendance  was  good,  and  I  was 
amply  repaid  in  the  very  lucid  and  impressive  way 
he  talked  about  the  grace  of  assurance. 

I  visited  the  Lewis  Normal  School  under  the  pat- 
ronage of  the  American  Mission  Association.  This 
excellent  institution  has  for  a  number  of  years 
done  a  good  work  and  is  now  flourishing.  I  have 
nowhere  seen  a  more  thorough  and  admirable  drill. 
By  direction  of  the  principal  the  students  assem- 
bled in  the  chapel,  and  I  addressed  them  for  forty- 
five  minutes  on  the  lodge  question.  The  pastor  of 
the  Congregational  church.  Rev.  S.  Rose,  who  was 
present,  expressed  his  sympathy  with  our  work. 
An  Industrial  department  has  recently  been  added 
to  this  school,  and  during  the  coming  summer  it  is 
expected  that  a  large  new  school  building  will  be 
erected. 

I  should  be  glad  if  I  could  say  nothing  but  good 
of  the  Georgia  people,  but  in  some  things  they  are 
persistently  barbarous.  At  Atlanta  I  met  a  Scotch 
Canadian  of  fine  culture  and  excellent  Christian 
character  who  had  been  forced  to  give  up  a  promis- 
ing school  because  in  private  conversation  he  had 
expressed  the  opinion  that  character  rather  than 
color  should  be  the  basis  of  social  recognition. 
After  years  of  faithful  labor  for  the  good  of  this 
city,  the  Christian  ladies  of  the  Lewis  School  are  as 
perfectly  ostracised  as  though  they  were  Irish 
servant  girls.  Their  fine  New  England  culture 
counts  for  nothing  here. 

The  infamous  lease  system  by  which  convicts  are 
worked  and  whipped  to  death  is  one  of  the  relics 
of  the  slave  system.  Just  now  a  case  in  court 
shows  that  a  negro  convict  was  kept  in  camp 
all  winter  almost  without  any  covering,  and  that 
he  froze  his  feet  so  badly  that  one  had  to  be  ampu- 
tated to  save  his  life.  Surely  these  things  are  hor- 
rible. 

This  morning  I  have  called  on  the  pastor  of  the 
leading  colored  Baptist  church  which  has  1,300 
members.  He  says  that  his  church  and  the  entire 
community  is  honey-combed  with  secret  lodges; 
that  they  greatly  embarrass  the  work  of  the  church ; 
and  that  there  is  no  reason  to  hope  for  prosperity 
until  their  influence  is  stayed.  He  had  heard  of 
my  work  in  Augusta  last  year,  and  assured  me  of 
his  hearty  sympathy.  I  go  this  morning  to  Sa- 
vannah. H.   H.   HiNMAN. 


THE  BIIfGING  MISaiONART  AT  NEW  IBERIA. 


Marshall,  Texas,  March  17,  1888. 

Dear  Editor:— I  left  New  Orleans  after  having 
delivered  over  twenty  addresses  and  sung  over  fifty 
times  in  the  churches,  universities  and  Baptist  and 
Methodist  conferences  in  that  motley  city;  and  to 
generally  large  and  very  attentive  audiences,  both 
black  and  white.  My  fusilades  have  been  mostlj 
aimed  at  the  wicked,  wasteful,  demoralizing  and  de- 
grading liquor,  tobacco  and  secret-society  vices  that 
paralyze  the  energies,  rob  the  families,  and  ruin  the 
bodies  and  souls  of  their  victims  for  time  and  eter- 
nity. 

At  New  Iberia  I  had  a  hearty  welcome  from  Bro. 
Browne,  the  worthy  principal  of  the  Howe  Institute. 
I  spoke  six  times  there,  the  audience  increasing 
every  evening,  and  the  last  night  all  could  not  get 
seats.  The  quiet  and  fixed  attention  which  this  peo- 
ple gave  was  most  gratifying  and  encouraging. 
They  not  only  need,  but  receive  instruction  gladly. 
This  Howe  Institute  is  well  and  favorably  located; 
has  three  acres  of  grounds;  a  large,  pleasant  build- 
ing, conveniently  and  nicely  furnished  off,  with  the 
exception  of  two  rooms  in  the  upper  story,  which 
are  very  much  needed  for  pupils,  who  have  to  be 
turned  away  for  want  of  accommodation.  They 
have  a  building  also  outside,  but  near,  partly  fin- 
ished, which  they  very  much  need  as  a  boarding 
house;  but  this,  also,  they  cannot  complete  for 
want  of  money.  They  have  had  to  dismiss  teach- 
ers for  the  want  of  means  to  pay  them,  and  this 
throws  a  heavy  burden  upon  Prof.  Browne,  who  is 
himself  suffering  for  the  want  of  back  salary  un- 
paid. The  institution  is  in  immediate  and  pressing 
need  of  $500  or  a  $1,000  to  complete  its  buildings 
and  pay  its  devoted  teachers  and  make  it  an  ettlcient 
and  successful  school. 

Come,  now,  who  will  respond  to  this  urgent  de- 
mand? Ye  stewards  of  the  Lord's  money,  may  the 
Lord  open  your  hearts  so  you  will  open  your  purses. 


The  generous  Peter  Howe  has  already  given  the 
building  and  grounds.  Oh,  remember,  ye  monied 
men  who  save,  what  you  give  away,  you  keep;  what 
you  keep,  you  lose  I  Geo.  W.  Clark. 

MAKINQIQOOD  THE   LOaSES  IN  NEW    m 
ORLEANS.  'aj 


New  Orleans,  La.,  March  15,  1888. 

Dear  Cynosure: — To-day  has  been  a  day  of  se- 
cret demonstration  with  the  lodgeites.  Mr.  Benja- 
min Hale  was  buried  to-day.  He  was  a  prominent 
Freemason,  Odd-fellow,  Knight  of  Pythias,  Taber- 
nacleist  and  Harmonian,  also  a  prominent  member 
of  Wesley  chapel  (M.  E.)  church.  Of  course  Mr. 
Hale  was  not  "financial"  in  all  of  those  orders,  but 
knowing  as  well  as  they  do  that  they  must  make  a 
grand  display  to  deceive  the  simple,  or  they  will 
soon  go  to  pieces,  there  was  an  unusually  large  pro- 
cession behind  a  poor  man's  remains.  Rev.  F.  T. 
Chinn  officiated,  while  Rev.  Wm.  Davis  carried  an 
open  Bible  veiled  in  crape.  Revs.  M.  Dale,  M.  E. 
Brower,  E.  Augustus  and  Dr.  R.  Thompson,  D.  D., 
were  noticed  in  the  procession,  while  Grand  Master 
Ladd  was  a  conspicuous  figure.  The  secretists  have 
promised  to  give  widow  Hale  $300  very  soon.  This 
is  to  induce  others  to  join.  It  was  noticeable  to 
see  the  secretary  of  a  leading  Baptist  church  lead- 
ing the  procession.  He  was  the  only  prominent 
Baptist  wearing  a  secret  uniform.  As  the  Masons 
passed  the  corner  of  Gravier  and  Baronne  streets, 
several  yelled  at  once,  "Look  at  dat  feller!"  "Look 
at  dat  feller!"  pointing  at  me.  The  Odd-fellows 
carried  more  of  their  lodge  implements  than  they 
have  used  before  in  public;  such  as  ancient  harps, 
timbrels,  bow  and  arrows.  Holy  Bible,  crank  with  a 
"Dove,"  (mockery  of  the  Holy  Ghost),  axe,  fetters, 
etc. 

I  preached  at  Freewill  Baptist  church  last  Sab- 
bath and  lectured  two  hours  on  Freemasonry  as  a 
hindrance  to  Christianity.  Many  and  loud  were 
the  amens,  though  a  few  seemed  offended.  The  se- 
cretists had  circulated  the  news  that  I  had  been  run 
out  of  the  city,  but  Rev.  Guy  Watson  had  the 
church  filled  with  hearers  despite  their  boasting  and 
lies.  I  have  promised  to  lecture  on  the  same  sub- 
ject next  Sabbath  at  7:30  p.  m.  at  Orleans  Street 
Baptist  church.  Rev.  John  Holmes,  pastor. 

I  clip  from  the  Louisiana  Standard  of  to-day  the 

following: 

"(Masonic  E.  A.  W.)  We  are  here  aeain,  and  will  let  you 
hear  from  us  weekly,  the  Antis  to  the  contrary  notwiihstandln?. 
The  Grand  Lodge  met,  transacted  Its  business,  elected  Its  offi- 
cers and  adjourned,  and  met  the  Antls  just  the  same  Eureka 
Chapter  No  4,  R.  A.  M.,  met  on  Saturday  night  last,  and  led 
(10)  ten  lambs  from  Babylon  to  Jerusalem,  who  seem  to  be  will- 
ing to  go  up  higher,  and  will  celebrate  Easter  in  spite  of  the 
Antis.  We  learn'  that  the  Knights  Templar  contemplate  cele- 
brating Easter  at  one  of  the  up-town  churches  with  all  the 
pomp  and  dignity  becoming  the  event  of  the  resurrection  of  our 
Saviour.  (Look  out,  Antis.)  The  argument  of  Sir  Dale  at  the 
convention  of  the  money  changers  would  convince  everybody 
but  the  hide-bound  Antis,  who  were  kicked  out  for  some  cause 
or  other,  but  they  wou'd  not  hear  him." 

Note  it  is  evidently  known  that  this  would-be 
Masonic  political  paper  hath  not  spoken  one  word 
that  would  bear  examination.  Mr.  Dale  actually  did 
not  believe  his  own  statement,  for  he  very  readily 
admitted  that  the  three  first  degrees  are  the  only 
genuine  degrees  in  Masonry;  and  that  they  were 
compelled  to  recognize  the  Jews  and  Mohammedans 
as  brethren  in  these  three  degrees.  The  Antis  sat 
quiet  and  listened  with  patience  to  all  the  defenders 
of  lodgery  had  to  say.  We  listened  with  quietness 
even  to  Col.  James  Lewis;  but  every  Anti-masonic 
speaker  was  interrupted  by  the  secretists.  The  Ma- 
sons and  Odd-fellows  anticipate  raising  the  late  wid- 
ow Hale's  endowment  to  $500.  The  many  lodges  in 
this  city  will  of  course  soon  pay  this  first  widow  of 
a  Mason  since  the  N.  C.  A.  Convention;  but  this  $500 
will  only  be  a  seductive  bait  to  the  weak-minded. 
Rev.  Dr.  Vincent,  an  ex-Mason,  thinks  all  worldly 
societies  a  hindrance  to  the  church.  Pray  for  our 
deliverance.  I  have  become  more  of  a  target  for 
secretists  than  ever  before. 


March  17,  1888. — I  met  a  very  prominent  minis- 
ter to-day,  a  friend  of  Prof.  Phillips  of  Nashville, 
Tenn.  He  said:  "Sir.I  was  deceived  by  the  Masons, 
and  joined  them  years  ago;  but  it  happened  that  a 
Master  Mason  of  my  town  ruined  the  character  of 
a  young  lady  by  promising  to  marry  her,  but  after 
deceiving  her  he  refused  to  marry  her.  This  young 
lady  was  the  daughter  of  a  prominent  merchant  and 
an  Anti-mason.  I  made  the  proper  sttldavit  and  had 
him  summoned  before  the  lodge,  but  the  lodge  de- 
cided that  the  father  of  the  girl  was  unknown  (all 
Masons  understand  this);  but  I  insisted  that  this 
gentleman  was  a  business  man  of  our  town,  and  his 
daughter  was  raised  up  here  with  us,  and  we  do  all 
know  him.  But  the  lotige  finally  voted  to  discharge 
the  man,  and  prosecute  me  for  violating  my  Masonic 
obligation.      I  thereupon  asked  bow   much  I  owed 


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\rHE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSUKE. 


March  29, 1888 


them.  The  secretary  said  seventy-five  cents.  I  paid 
it,  took  my  card  and  bid  them  farewell  forever.  I 
tell  you,  sir,  I  am  Anti-masonic  from  my  heart." 

This  is  only  a  specimen  of  what  all  secret  lodges 
will  do.  F.  J.  Davidson. 


PROHIBITION    OF   LODGE    AND   LIQUOR   IN 
TEXAS. 


THE    ONLT   SPEAKER   AMONG   THE   COLORED    VOTERS. 


Caldwell,  Texas,  March  17,  1888. 

Dear  Ctnosure: — Since  I  wrote  you  last  I  vis- 
ited Cameron.  Here  I  found  Elder  Lights  of  Bryan, 
who  preaches  there  once  in  each  month.  He  is  a 
reader  of  the  Cynosure  and  says  he  is  loving  it  more 
and  more.  Cameron  is  a  quiet  little  city,  and  almost 
every  family,  white  and  colored,  owns  their  own 
homes.  They  have  five  churches,  two  of  which  are 
colored,  built  in  connection  with  the  lodge,  the 
Methodist  with  the  Odd-fellows,  and  the  Baptist 
with  the  Brothers  of  Friendship  (U.  B.  F.)  Here  I 
did  what  I  could  for  reform,  speaking  on  prohibi- 
tion to  quite  a  large  crowd  at  the  court-house. 
After  an  hour's  talk  I  canvassed  the  crowd  and 
found  some  strong  Republicans,  but  the  better 
thinking  part  promised  to  vote  for  General  Fisk. 
The  meeting  was  a  profitable  one. 

In  this  meeting  I  saw  more  the  need  of  work 
among  my  people.  As  I  spoke  of  the  old  parties, 
some  sat  and  were  afraid  to  say  yes  or  no  to  any 
questions.  They  are  truly  wedded  to  their  party; 
but  a  majority  are  anxious  for  the  truth,  and  are 
willing  to  help  make  the  country  better.  The  reform 
movement  against  the  lodge  or  saloon  is  unpopular. 
The  people  will  hear,  but  the  thing  is  too  new  to 
take  well. 

At  Caldwell  I  found  "a  great  number  of  societies. 
Among  them  are  "The  Eastern  Star,"  and  "Seven 
Stars  of  Consolidation."  The  presiding  elder  of  the 
A.  M.  E.  church  of  this  district  is  to  be  here  on  the 
19  th  inst.  to  work  up  a  Masonic  lodge.  I  have 
given  out  tracts  and  said  what  I  C3uld  to  warn  the 
people  against  its  formation. 

In  speaking  of  the  power  of  the  lodge  to  one  of 
the  presiding  elders,  he  took  me  by  the  hand  and 
said,  "I  have  felt  its  power  already,"  He  pointed 
to  men  who  because  of  their  allegiance  to  the  lodge 
they  were  given  the  best  places,  while  he  and  his 
family  were  put  off  in  the  woods  to  live  if  they 
could.  He  says  he  intends  to  stand  up  for  God  if 
it  costs  him  his  bread.  He  is  above  the  average  of 
preachers  among  our  people,  but  has  withstood  the 
lodge.  We  have  many  more,  but  they  are  generally 
whipped  into  line  by  those  over  them.  This  dear 
brother  needs  our  prayers.  I  spoke  to  quite  a 
crowd  on  prohibition,  and  aimed  to  show  the  evil 
effects  of  liquor  on  society,  and  also  the  great  sin  of 
the  license  system  and  our  responsibility  as  voters. 
After  reading  extracts  from  the  "Supreme  Court 
decision,"  and  the  Prohibition  platform,  I  showed 
that  each  regarded  the  liquor  traflQc  as  a  nuisance, 
and  that  the  National  Prohibition  party  was  the 
only  party  now  asking  the  voters'  support  that 
would  sweep  every  vestige  of  the  curse  from  our 
land.  Rev.  Lewis  Wilson  was  the  first  to  stand  up 
and  declare  himself  for  prohibition  first,  last  and 
at  all  times,  and  others  followed.  If  our  prohibi- 
tion friends  will  spend  some  time  among  my  people 
they  will  help  swell  the  ranks  of  the  Prohibition 
party.  There  is  not  a  person  in  Texas  speaking 
among  them  but  myself,  and  I  am  doing  it  of  my 
own  accord.  It  may  be  that  after  the  meeting  of 
the  convention  in  Waco  on  the  25th  of  April,  they 
will  put  some  one  in  the  field.  Wherever  a  few 
Prohibitionists  are  found.  Gen.  Fisk's  name  is  the 
only  one  mentioned  for  the  Prohibition  standard- 
bearer.  The  people  are  beginning  to  think  for 
themselves  on  tbe  questions  of  interest  to  our  coun- 
try. We  praise  God  for  this.  As  long  as  I  can 
^ai^e  money  to  get  over  the  country,  I  shall  lift  up 
roy  voice  against  the  liquor  traflQc.  Yours  for  re- 
form, L.  G.  Jordan. 


tion.  I  cried  out  within  my  soul,  "Oh,  my  God, 
must  I  always  be  bound  by  these  terrible  oaths?" 
The  answer  came,  "No,  I  will  redeem  you."  Like  a 
flash  of  lightning,  I  was  cleansed  from  Masonry. 
Praise  God  I  My  idol  was  gone.  I  now  loathed 
Masonry.  How  clearly  I  saw  its  dark  and  hellish 
ways  leading  men  down  to  hell,  and  they  thinking 
they  are  on  their  way  to  heaven! 

Time  passed  on.  I  received  notice  from  the  lodge 
to  pay  all  back  dues,  some  $8, 1  believe.  My  money 
all  belonged  to  the  Lord,  flow  was  I  to  pay  it — 
pay  God's  money  into  the  hands  of  the  devil?  How 
could  I?  The  Free  Methodists  say  I  should  have 
paid  the  dues  first,  then  left  the  lodge.  The  Lord 
took  me  out  of  the  lodge  first.  I  never  thought  of 
the  dues  until  the  lodge  reminded  me  of  them.  Now 
Masonry  deceived  me  from  the  beginning.  I  offered 
to  leave  the  matter  before  any  justice  in  the  county, 
but  they  would  not,  but  preferred  charges  for  non- 
payment of  dues,  and  for  condemning  Masonry. 

I  have  not  patd  those  dues  and  shall  not  until 
God  gives  the  command. 

Now,  dear  Cynosure,  am  I  right  or  wrong?  Will 
the  Cynosure  hold  up  my  hands  in  this  matter. 

D.  Benjamin. 

Certainly  we  will,  brother.  The  lodge  began  by 
defrauding  you,  and  will  never  do  anything  else. 
Nothing  is  due  to  the  order  or  its  members  but  to 
pray  for  them,  and  endeavor  to  save  them  from  the 
snare  of  the  devil  into  which  they  have  fallen. — Ed. 


Bible  Lesson. 


BHALL  TEB  LODGE  HAVE  TUB  MONEY? 


Seymour  Lake,  Mich. 

Dear  Editor: — Again  I  appeal  to  the  Cynosure 
for  help.  The  Masonic  devil  is  after  me  in  a  new 
form.  Let  me  explain:  I  joined  the  Freemasons 
in  the  fall  of  1867,  and  the  M.  p].  church  the  winter 
of  1868.  Of  course  I  "backslid,"  but  continued 
with  the  church. 

Four  years  ago  I  promised  God  if  he  would  for- 
give my  sins  he  should  have  my  time  and  property. 
The  first  thing  1  had  to  give  up  was  tobacco,  and 
while  talking  with  a  Mason  there  was  something 
said  that  displeased  him.  He  drew  his  hand  across 
his  throat,  warning  me  of  the  penalty  of  my  obliga- 


PITH  AND  POINT. 


A   TKUE   MAN   BEADY. 

An  inquiry  "fr  om  a  United  Presbyterian  brother"  in 
your  ifsue  March  15,  1888,  page  9,  would  likely  be  an- 
swered by  Collins  &  Co., of  the  Christian  Instructor, \522 
Chestnut  street,  Philadelphia,  Pa.,  if  the  writer  chooses 
to  write  to  them.  If  it  is  the  matter  of  secrecy  on  which 
he  wants  a  faithful  witness,  then  as  a  Christian  and  a 
Christian  minister,  as  also  a  subscriber  to  the  Christian 
Cynosure,  I  would  not  be  afraid  to  stand  examination  at 
his  hands  myself.  Some  in  our  church  are  alarmed  about 
the  safety  of  this  as  well  as  some  other  principles  of  our 
profession.  Yours  for  freedom  from  all  entanglements 
except  the  yoke  of  Christ. — Joseph  McKel vet,  Blair, 
Hancock  Co.,  W.  Va. 

HOW  ELDER  BANCROFT  HBABD  TBB  NEWS 

Bro.  Bancroft  of  Wisconsin  was  first  introduced  to  the 
Cynosure  at  my  fireside  in  Richland  county,  while  travel 
ing  as  agent  for  the  American  Bible  Society.  I  have 
spent  pleasant  hours  with  him.  He  has  changed  on  some 
views  he  held  then,  but  not  on  the  great  question  of  op- 
posing secrecy.  God  bless  him,  with  all  the  rest  of  the 
workers  for  Christ.  Put  my  name  down  as  a  veteran.  I 
feel  that  I  would  like  to  have  cut  in  the  marble  slab  that 
may  mark  my  resting  place,  "He  was  opposed  to  Free- 
masonry."— John  Motteb. 

A  vbteban  subscriber  and  his  "cynosube"  acquaint- 
ances. 

My  health  will  not  admit  of  my  doing  much  in  the  way 
of  new  subscribers.  I  am  interested  in  the  success  of 
the  Cynosure;  have  taken  it  from  the  beginning.  My 
son  subscribed  for  it  the  first  year,  and  I  have  since  and 
expect  to  while  I  live.  The  Christian  spirit  which  char- 
acterizas  all  its  productions  I  consider  superior  to  any 
other  source  and  second  only  to  the  Bible  in  its  salutary 
influences.  It  has  made  me  acquainted.in  one  sense, with 
scores  of  brethren  and  sisters  in  Christ,  whom  I  take 
home  to  my  heart  as  God's  dear  children,  and  whom  I 
should  rejoice  to  meet  in  the  present  life;  but  if  I  am  not 
thus  blest  I  trust  I  shall  in  the  future.— C. Reynolds. 

GOOD  TEMI'LABS. 

After  we  have  succeeded  in  having  prohibition  for  two 
yearsin  the  town  of  Vernon,  Waukesha  Co.,  Wis  ,the  Good 
Templars  have  felt  constrained  to  do  something  for  us, 
and  so  have  organized  a  lodge.  Rev.  Mr.  Clark  of  Janes- 
ville  has  been  the  agent  in  the  work.  Bro.  Faris  and  I 
have  protested,  and  considerable  feeling  has  been  mani- 
fested in  the  matter.  As  a  result  arrangements  are  being 

made  to  debate  the  question  some  time  next  month 

Would  it  not  be  well  for  the  Cynosure  to  find  out  how 
much  of  the  $6,000  subscribed  at  the  Prohibition  confer- 
ence in  Chicago  last  winter  was  by  the  lodges?  Also 
give  a  history  of  the  Prohibition  party  and  the  relation 
of  the  lodges  to  it.  They  here  claimed  to  be  the  found- 
ers of  it.  — J .  B .  G . ,  Vernon,  "Wis . 

Note  .  — The  only  lodge  subscription  in  the  Conference 
was  by  a  little  oli  man  in  the  gallery  named  Thomas 
Moulding,  who  announced  a  pledge  of  $100  from  the 
Grand  Lodge  of  Sons  of  Temperance  of  Illinois.  T.C. 
Richmond,  the  prominent  Good  Templar  candidate  from 
Wisconsin  who  ran  for  chairmanship  of  the  National 
Committee  and  got  two  or  three  votes,  promised  $100 
from  a  Prohibition  club  in  his  State,  but  there  was  noth 
ing  to  show  that  he  spoke  in  the  name  of  the  order. 

Uriah  Copp.hea d  of  Illinois  Good  Templars  and  Treas- 
urer of  the  Supreme  Lodge  of  the  Universe,  in  his  last 
report  speaks  of  the  influence  of  the  order  in  originating 
the  party,  but  is  guarded  in  his  language  and  does  not 
make  an  absolute  cUim.  His  report  was  printed  in  the 
Wisconsin  Good  Templar  of  Madison,  Wis . 


STUDIES  IN  THE  NEW  TESTAMENT. 
LESSON  II,  Second  Quarter. —April  8. 
SUBJECT. -Christ's  Last   Warning.— Matt.    23:27-39. 
GOLDEN  TEXT.— Create  In  me  a  clean  heart,  O  God,  and 
renew  a  right  spirit  within  me.— Ps.51 :10. 

{Open  the  BMt  and  read  the  lesson.] 

I  From  Peloubet's  Notes.  | 

There  is  nothing,  by  common  consent  of  all  men  who 
are  entitled  to  judge  upon  the  matter,  in  all  eloquence, 
ancient  and  modern,  to  compare,  for  grandeur  of  male- 
diction, for  moral  nobleness,  for  intellectual  insight, with 
the  eloquence  of  this  denunciation  of  Christ's.  How  it 
rolls  and  scorches  like  floods  of  liva. — Joseph  Parker. 

"Scribes  and  Pharisees."  In  the  scribes  and  Pharisees 
we  see  ignorance,  hypocrisy,  pride,  insolence,  selfishness, 
rapacity,  a  restless  desire  for  the  applause  of  men.and  an 
overbearing  contempt  for  all  but  themselves.  In  Christ 
we  see  knowledge,  wisdom,  meekness,  gentleness,  gener- 
osity, sincerity,  perfect  disinterestedness,  elava'ed  piety, 
and  unbounded  benevolence  toward  all,  however  hum- 
ble or  poor  Gentle  and  peaceful  as  our  Saviour  wa8,he 
could  not,  without  being  false  to  himself  and  his  mission, 
have  refrained  from  affixing  the  brand  of  his  indignant 
reprobation  on  characters  and  conduct  such  as  theirs. 
His  whole  character  constrains  us  to  regard  them  as  the 
well-weighed  "words  of  truth  and  soberness,"  wrung 
from  him  by  the  sight  of  the  widespread  and  enduring 
mischief  which  these  self -constituted  leaders  of  the  peo- 
ple were  entailing  upon  their  unhappy  followers.  —  W.L. 
Alexander,  D.  D. 

"Even  so  ye  also."  Note  that  Jesus  spoke  this  to  the 
faces  of  the  guilty  ones,  not  behind  their  backs.  He  was 
no  backbiter.  The  hard  truths  he  was  compelled  to  ut- 
ter were  spoken  to  the  guilty  ones  themselves,  and  at  the 
cost  of  the  speaker's  life.  Note,  too,  that  Jesus  could 
speak  such  words  as  follow,  because  he  knew  what  was 
in  the  hearts  of  men. 

"Wee  unto  you, . . .  .because  ye  build  the  tombs  of  the 
prophets."  Among  the  Mohsimmedans  it  is  a  common 
way  of  showing  respect  for  any  distinguished  man  to 
build  a  tomb  for  him.  By  doing  this,  they  profess  re- 
spect for  his  character  and  veneration  for  his  memory.  So 
the  Pharisees,  by  building  tombs  in  this  manner,  profess- 
edly approved  of  the  character  and  conduct  of  the 
prophets,  and  disapproved  of  the  conduct  of  their  fath- 
ers in  killing  them. — Barnes. 

"Wherefore  ye  be  witnesses  unto  yourselves,"  etc.;  by 
your  plotting  to  kill  me,  a  prophet,  you  show  that  while 
you  profess  to  differ  from  your  fathers,  by  building  their 
tombs,  in  reality  you  are  doing  j  ust  what  they  did.  For 
that  verv  afternoon  they  had  been  plotting  against  Jesus 
(Matt.  21.45,  46;  23: 15).  So  Calvin  says  of  the  corrupt 
church  in  his  day:  "Let  them,  then,  adorn  the  images  of 
the  saints  as  they  please,  with  incense,  candles,  flowers, 
and  every  kind  of  pomp.  If  Peter  were  now  alive,  they 
would  tear  him  in  pieces;  Paul  they  would  bury  with 
stones;  and  if  Christ  himself  were  yet  in  the  world,  they 
would  burn  him  with  a  slow  fire." 

"Ye  serpents."  "Representing  their  cunning.insidious, 
deceitful  and  depraved  character,  their  hurtful  and  pois- 
onous influence."  "Forever  hissing  at  the  heels  of  the 
holy."  "Generation  of  vipers:"  offspring,  brood  of  vi- 
pers.—0".  W.  Clark. 

"That  upon  you  may  come."  Denoting  the  intent  of 
God,  not  merely  the  result  It  was  in  God's  plans  to 
bring  the  final  punishment  upon  this  generation. 

"All  these  things  shall  come  upon  this  generation."  Re- 
ferring to  the  fearful  calamities  to  come  upon  the  Jewish 
people,culminating  in  the  destruction  of  Jerusalem, about 
forty  years  later.  The  punishment  was  a  national  one. 
But  the  individuals  of  the  last  generation  received  no 
more  than  their  just  due,  nor  of  the  former  less,  since 
another  world  completes  the  individual  punishment. — 
Rev.   Com. 

"O  Jerusalem,  Jerusalem."  How  ineffably  grand  and 
melting  is  this  apostrophe!  It  is  the  very  heart  of  God 
pouring  itself  forth  through  human  flesh  and  speech.  It 
is  this  incarnation  of  the  innermost  life  and  love  of  Dei- 
ty, pleading  with  men,  bleeding  for  them, an  1  ascending, 
only  to  open  his  arms  to  them,  and  win  them  back  by  the 
power  of  this  story  of  matchless  love, that  has  conquered 
the  world,  that  will  yet  "draw  all  men  unto  him,"  and 
beautify  and  ennoble  humanity  itself. — J.  F.,  and  B. 

"Behold,  your  house  is  left  unto  you  desolate."  Your 
house  is  left  to  you:  I  leave  it;  and  therefore  it  is  deso- 
late. The  Saviour's  reference  is  to  his  own  leaving  or 
departure, — a  leaving  that  involved  the  penal  departure 
of  his  Father  as  the  Head  o.f  the  theocracy.  The  Jewish 
theocracy  was  to  be  a  theocracy  no  longer.  "Ichabod" 
was  to  be  its  name.  The  Jews  henceforth,  instead  of 
being  the  people  and  kingdom  of  God,  would  be  a  mere 
Semitic  nationality,  under  the  dynasty  of  the  Herods  or 
under  no  dynasty  at  all.  Their  temple  would  be  an  emp- 
ty edifice,  dedicated  to  the  empty  celebration  of  an  emp- 
ty ritual. — JUorison. 

'Ye  shall  not  see  me  henceforth  "  He  now  closed  his 
public  ministry  among  them.  They  saw  him  no  more  in 
his  Messianic  ministration  and  work.  After  his  resurrec- 
tion he  appeared,not  to  all  the  people.but  to  chosen  wit- 
nes8e8(A.cts  10:41)— G.  W.  Clark. 

"Till  ye  shall  say.  Blessed  is  he  that  cometh  in  the 
name  of  the  Lord:"  that  is,  till  you  shall  recognize  me  as 
your  Me8siah,a8  the  multitudes  did  on  his  triumphal  en- 
try,quoting  from  Ps.  118.26(8ec  Matt.  21:9).  Some  time 
the  Jews  will  be  converted,  and  hail  Jesus  as  their  King, 
and  will  be  restored  in  some  way  to  be  a  people  of  the 
living  God.  They  were  not  left  without  a  star  of  hope, 
even  in  the  dense  darkness  of  this  hour. 


March  29, 1888 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


Home  and  Healtr 

HOT  WATBR  FOR  PLAHT8. 

It  is  a  fortunate  circumstance  that  a 
plant  will  endure  a  scaldiog  heat  that  is 
fatal  to  most  of  its  minute  enemies. 
Water  heated  to  the  boiling  point,  poured 
copiously  over  the  stem  of  an  enfeebled 
peach  tree,  and  allowed  to  stand  about 
its  collar,  will  often  Lave  the  happiest 
restorative  effects.  Trees  showing  every 
symptom  of  the  yellows  have  often  been 
rendered  luxuriantly  green  and  thrifty 
again  by  this  simple  means.  The  heat  is 
presumably  too  much  for  the  fungus 
which  had  infested  the  vital  layers  of  the 
tree,  immediately  under  the  outer  bark. 

The  Loadon  florists  recommend  hot 
water,  up  to  145  °  F.,  as  a  remedy,  when 
plants  are  sickly  owing  to  the  soil  sour- 
ing— the  acid,  absorbed  by  the  roots,  act- 
ing as  a  poison.  The  usual  resort  is  to 
the  troublesome  job  of  repotting.  When 
this  is  not  necessary  for  any  other  reason 
it  is  much  simpler  to  pour  hot  water  free- 
ly through  the  stirred  soil;  it  will  pres- 
ently come  through  tinged  with  brown. 
After  this  thorough  washing,  if  the  plants 
are  kept  warm,  new  root  points  and  new 
growth  will  soon  follow. 

A  lady  friend  had  a  fine  callain  a  three 
gallon  pot,  which  showed  signs  of  ill 
health.  On  examination  the  outer  por- 
tion of  the  filling  was  found  mouldy,  it 
being  in  large  part  fresh  horse  manure . 
As  repotting  was  inconvenient,  the  plant 
being  in  flower,  hot  water  was  freely 
used;  it  killed  the  mould,  and  the  plant 
began  to  revive  and  was  soon  all  right . 
—  Vick's  Magazine. 

Farm  Homes. — In  diBCuseing  this  sub- 
ject one  of  the  speakers  at  a  Farmers' In- 
stitue  in  Missouri  pertinently  said  that 
the  privilege  of  the  farmer  was  to  make 
his  home  a3  pleasant  and  comfortable  a3 
possible.  He  should  supply  the  house 
with  all  the  conveniences  and  labor  saving 
appliances.  The  grounds  should  be  kept 
neat  and  all  unsightly  objects  removed 
or  hidden.  A  warm,  cheerful  and  well- 
lighted  room,  with  a  table  covered  with 
books  and  papers,  tends  to  keep  the  chil- 
dren at  home.  A  farmer  clear  of  debt 
and  possessed  of  a  clear  conscience,  a 
comfortable  home  and  a  happy  wife  and 
children  is  the  happiest  man  on  earth. 

Care  of  House  Plants.— One  great 
enemy  of  house  plaats  is  dust,  says  a 
floral  authority.  Whether  the  plants  are 
at  the  windows  or  upon  a  staad  or  table 
contrive  some  means  of  covering  them  at 
sweeping  time.  A  curtain  of  some  light 
material  can  be  suspended,  and  kept  from 
touching  the  plants  by  the  aid  of  thin 
sticks  placed  in  some  of  the  larger  pots. 
Don't  remDve  the  cover  till  all  the  dust 
has  settled.  Some  persons  use  newspa- 
pers, which, although  better  thin  no  cov- 
er at  all, yet  is  only  a  slovenly  proceeding. 

Coffee  acts  upon  the  brain  as  a  stimu- 
lant, inciting  it  to  increased  activity  and 
producing  sleeplessness;  hence,  it  is  of 
great  value  as  a  a  antidote  to  narcotic 
poisons.  It  is  also  supposed  to  prevent 
too  rapid  waste  in  the  tissues  of  the  body 
and  in  that  way  enables  it  to  support  life 
on  lees  food.  These  effects  are  due  to 
the  volatile  and  also  to  a  peculiar  crys- 
tallizable  nitrogenous  principle,  termed 
caffeine.  The  leaves  of  the  plant  like- 
wise contain  ths  same  principle,  and  the 
inhabitants  of  the  island  of  Lumatsa  pre 
fer  an  infusion  of  the  leaves  to  that  of  the 
berries.  Its  essential  qualities  are  also 
changed,  the  heat  causing  the  develop- 
ment of  the  volatile  oil  and  peculiar  acid 
which  gives  aroma  and  flavor. — Scientif- 
ic American. 

WuoopiNQ  Cough.— If  the  head  be 
held  back  and  the  flagers  dipped  in  cold 
water,  and  the  water  thrown  off  into  the 
throat,  as  eoon  as  one  drop  reaches  the 
throat  the  spasm  will  cease. 

A  Garglb  for  Sore  Throat. — Make 
one  half  plot  strong  sage  tea;  to  this  add 
two  tablespoonfuls  of  honey,  two  tea- 
spoonfuls  of  powdered  alum,  and  one 
teaspooaful  of  borax.  Gargle  three  or 
four  times  a  day. 

Cral  ashes,  mixed  with  salt  water  to  a 
stiff  paste,  will  harden  like  a  rock,  and 
this  paste  is  excellent  to  fill  cracks  in 
stoves,  and  it  can  be  used  to  line  a  coal 
or  Boapstone  stove. 


LITTLE,  "BUT  KNOUOU," 

as  Mercutio  said  of  his  wound.  We  re- 
fer to  Dr.  Pierce's  little  Pellets,  which 
are  small,  swift  and  sure,  in  cases  of  sick 
headache,  biliousness,  conatipation,  and 
indigestion. 


BE  CBS  T  BOGIE  TIBB  CONDEMNED. 


BY   GREAT  MEN  IN   THE     STATE. 

George  Washington,  in  a  letter  written 
1  year  before  his  death:  "I  preside  over 
no  lodge,  nor  have  I  been  in  one  more 
than  once  or  twice  during  the  last  thirty 
years." 

President  Millard  Fillmore,  J.  C.  Spen- 
cer and  others:  "The  Masonic  fraternity 
tramples  upon  our  rights,  defeats  the  ad- 
ministration of  justice,  and  bids  defiance 
to  every  government  which  it  cannot  con- 
trol." 

Chief  Justice  John  Marshall:  "The  in- 
stitution of  Masonry  ought  to  be  aban- 
doned as  one  capable  of  much  evil  and 
incapable  of  producing  any  good  which 
might  not  be  effected  by  safe  and  open 
means." 

John  Quincy  Adams:  "I  am  prepared 
to  complete  the  demonstration  before 
God  and  man,  that  the  Masonic  oaths, 
obligations  and  penalties  cannot  by  any 
possibility  be  reconciled  to  the  laws  of 
morality,  of  Christianity,  or  of  the  land." 

General  A.  W.  Riley: — I  hold  that  the 
difference  between  the  Christian  and  a 
heathen  religion  is,  that  one  has  morality 
and  the  other  has  not.  And  when  our 
churches  refuse  to  speak  of  such  subjects 
as  slavery,  liquor-selling  and  secret  socie- 
ties, they  are  becoming  heathen  religions; 
that  is,  religions  without  morals . 

Charles  Francis  Adams:  "Every  man 
who  takes  a  Masonic  oath  forbids  himself 
from  divulging  any  criminal  act,  unless 
it  might  be  murder  or  treason,  that  may 
be  communicated  to  him  under  the  seal 
of  fraternal  bond,  even  though  such  con- 
cealment were  to  prove  a  burden  upon  his 
conscience  and  a  violation  of  his]bounden 
duty  to  society  and  to  his  God . " 

Charles  Sumner:  "1  find  two  powers 
here  in  Washington  in  harmony,  and  both 
are  antagonistical  to  our  free  institutions, 
and  tend  to  centralization  and  anarchy — 
Freemasonry  and  Slavery;  and  they 
must  both  be  destroyed  if  our  country  is 
to  be  the  home  of  the  free,  as  our  ances- 
tors designed  it." 

Disraeli,  Lord  Beaconsfidd;  In  conduct- 
ing the  governments  of  the  world  there 
are  not  only  sovereigns  and  ministers, but 
secret  orders  to  be  considered,  which  have 
agents  everywhere — reckless  agents,  who 
countenance  assassination,  and,  if  neces- 
sary, can  produce  a  massacre . " 

General  J,  W.  Phdps: — All  secret  or- 
ganizations are  links  of  one  and  the  same 
chain  which  binds  men  to  evil  and  not  to 
good.  The  Masonic  lodge  is  the  parent 
source  from  which  all  similar  modern  or- 
ganizations have  emanated  and  this  lodge 
is  now  in  active  operation  in  every  city 
and  considerable  ^lage  of  the  country 
swaying  our  parties  and  churches;  filling 
our  oflBces,  secular  and  divine,  with  its 
partisans;  shaping  our  political  destinies; 
and  teaching  a  spurious  and  corrupt- 
ing morality  subversive  both  of  the  Chris- 
tian religion  and  of  free  institutions. 

ThurUm  Weed:  "I  now  look  back 
through  an  interval  of  fifty-six  years  with 
a  conscious  sense  of  having  been  gov- 
erned through  the  Anti-masonic  excite- 
ment by  a  sincere  desire,  first  to  vindicate 
the  violated  laws  of  my  country,  and  next 
to  arrest  the  great  power  and  dangerous 
influences  of  secret  societies." 

A.  M.  Sullivan,  Irish  Leader:  I  had  not 
studied  in  vain  the  history  of  8ecret,oath- 
bound  associations.  I  regarded  them  with 
horror.  I  knew  all  that  could  be  said  as 
to  their  advantages  in  revolutionizing  a 
country,  but  even  in  the  firmest  and  best 
of  bands  they  had  a  direct  tendency  to 
demoralization  and  are  often  on  the 
whole  more  perilous  to  society  than  opeu 
tyranny." 

Eon.  Edward  Blake,leader  in  Canadian 
Parliament,  March,  ISSJ^:  "1  am  not  in 
favor  of  State  recognition  of  any  secret 
societies.  I  have  never  joined  one,though 
many  of  my  best  friends  are  members  of 
secret  societies.  But  I  believe  the  ten- 
dency of  secrecy  itself  to  be  injurious.  I 
believe  that  it  brings  with  it  the  possibili- 
ty of  evil;  I  believe  that  it  involves  a  cer- 
tain amount  of  sacrifice  of  individuality 
and  independence,  and  gives  very  great 
facilities  for  the  misleading  of  members 
by  designing  leaders-very  great  and  mis- 
chievous facilities  for  that  purpose."  "I 
believe  that  a  great  deal  of  the  trouble, 
social  and  political,  that  has  occurred  in 
those  countries  [Europe  and  America]  is 
due  to  secret  societies." 


ANTIMABOmO  L30TVBBRB. 
Gbnbbal  AeBHT  AHD  Lbctubbb,  J.  p. 
Stoddard,  221  W.  Madison  St.,  Chicago. 
H.  H.  Hinman,  Cynosure  office. 
Agent  for  Southern  States. 
Statb  AeBNTfl. 
Iowa,  C.  F.   Hawley,  Wheaton,    Du- 
Page  Co.,  Illinois. 
Missouri,  Eld.  Rufus  Smith,  Maryville. 
New  Hampshire,   Eld.  S.  C.  EimbaU, 
New  Market. 
Ohio,  W.  B.  Stoddard,  Columbus. 
Kansas,  Robert  Loggan,  Clifton. 
Alabama,  Rev.  G.  M.  Elliott,  Selma. 

Dbobbb  Wobkbbs. — [Seceders.] 
J.  E.  Glassford,  Carthage,  Mo. 
Othbb  Lbctubbbs. 

C.  A.  Blanchard,  Wheaton,  111. 
N.  Callender,  Brown  Hollow,  Pa. 
J,  H.  Tlmmons,  Tarentum,  Pa 

T.  B.  McCormick,  Princeton,  Ind. 

B.  Johnson,  Dayton,  Ind. 

H.  A.  Day,  WllllamBtown,  Mich. 

J.  M.  Bishop,  Chambersburg,  Pa. 

A.  Mayn,  Bloomington,  Ind. 

J.  B.  CresBlnger,  Sullivan,  O. 

W.  M.  Love,  Osceola,  Mo. 

J.  L.  Barlow,  Grundy  Center,  Iowa. 

A.  D.  Freeman,  Downers  Grove,  111 

Wm.  Fenton .  8t  Paul,  Minn. 

Warren  Taylor,  South  Salem,  O. 

J.  8.  Perry,  Thompson,  Conn. 

J.  T.  Michael,  Washington,  D.  C. 

S.  G.  Barton,  Breckinridge,  Mo. 

E.  Bametson.  Hasklnvllle,  Steuben  Co,  M.  T 

Wm.  R.  Roach,  Pickering,  Ont. 

D.  A.  Richards,  Brighton,  Mich. 

TEE   CEJmCEEB    V8.    LOD€^SRT. 

The  following  denominations  are  com- 
mitted by  vote  of  their  legislative  assem- 
blies or  by  constitution  to  a  separation 
from  secret  lodge  worship: 

Adventists  (Seventh-day.) 

Baptists — Primitive,  Seventh-day  and 
Scandinavian. 

Brethren  (Dunkers  or  German  Bap- 
tists.) 

Christian  Reformed  Church. 

Church  of  God  Northern  Indiana  El 
dership.) 

Congregational — The  State  Associations 
of  Illinois  and  Iowa  have  -adopted  resolu- 
tions against  the  lodge. 

Disciples  (in  part.) 

Friends. 

Lutherans — Norwegian,  Danish,  S*v«ti- 
ish  and  Synodical  Conferences. 

Mennonites. 

Methodists — Free  and  Wesleyan. 

Methodist  Protestant  (Minnesota  Con 
ference.) 

Moravians. 

Plymouth  Brethren. 

Presbyterian — Associate,  Reformetl  ajid 
United. 

Reformed  Church  (Holland  Brsnch.) 

United  Brethren  in  Christ. 

Individual  churches  in  some  of  these 
denominations  should  be  excepted,  in  part 
of  them  even  a  considerable  portion. 

The  following  local  churches  have,  as  a 
pledge  to  disfellowship  and  oppose  lodge 
worship,  given  their  names  to  the  follow- 
ing list  as 

THE   ASSOCIATED   CHURCHES    OF  CHRIST. 

New   Ruhamah  Cong.  Hamilton,  Miss. 

Pleasant  Ridge  Cong.  Sandford  Co  Ala. 

New  Hope  \iethodlst,  Lowndes  Co.,  M1b4. 

Congrepatlonal,  College  Springs,  Iowa. 

College  Church  of  Christ.  XVheaton,  111. 

First  Congregational,  Leland,  Mich. 

8uK»r  Grove  Church,  Green  county.  Pa. 

Military  Chapel,  M.  E.,  Lowndes  county, 
Miss. 

Hopewell  Missionary  Baptist,  Lowndes  Ca, 
Miss. 

Cedar  Grove  Miss.  Baptist,  Lowndes  Ca, 
Miss. 

Simon's  Chapel,  M.  B.,  Lowndes  Co.,  Mist. 

Pleasant  Ridge  Miss.  Baptist,  Lowndes  Co., 
Miss. 

Brownlee  Church,  Caledonia,  Miss. 

Salem  Church,  Lowndes  Co.,  Miss. 

\Vest  Preston  Bantlst  Church,  Wayne  Co.,Fa. 
OTHBB  LOCAL  OEUBCHBB 

adopting  the  same  nrinciple  are — 

Baptist  churches :  N.  Ablngton,  Pa.  jMeno- 
monie,  Mondovi,  Waubeck  and  Soring  Prairie, 
Wis. ;  Wheaton,  111. ;  Perry,  N.  Y. ;  Snrlng 
Creek,  near  Burlington,  Iowa;  Lima,  Ind.; 
ConsUblevUle,  N.  Y.  ITie  "Good  Will  Assocl- 
ton"  of  Mobile,  Ala.,  comprlaing  some  twenty- 
flve  colored  Baptist  churches;  Brldgewater 
Baptist  Association,  Pa.;  Old  Tebo  Baptist, 
near  Leesville,  Henry  Co.,  Mo. ;  Hoopeaton,  III ; 
Esmen,  111. ;  Strykersvllle,  N.  Y. 

Congregational  churches :  lat  of  Oberlin,  O. ; 
Tonlca.  Crystal  Lake,  Union  and  Big  Woods, 
111. ;  Solsbury,  Ind. ;  Congregational  Methodist 
Maplewood,  Mass. 

Independent  churches  In  Lowell,  Country- 
man school  house  near  Llndenwood,  Mar«ngo 
and  Streator,  111. :  Bereaand  Camp  Nelson,  Ky ; 
Uttlck,  111. ;  Clarksburg,  KanBaa;  Bute  AmocI- 
atlon  01  Minltten  and  Chorchea  mt  Chriat  1b 
KntaiekT. 


N.  C.  A.  BUILDrNG  AND  GITICE  Ol 
THE  CHRISTIAN   CYNOSURE, 
aai  WEST  MADISON  STREET,  GHICAGK. 


NA  "TIONAL  CHRIS  TiAN  A880CIA IIOB 

Prbbidbkt.— H.  H.  Gteorge,  D.  D.,  Gen 
eva  College,  Pa. 

ViCB-PBBBiDBHT — Rev.  M.  A.  Gaolt, 
Blanchard,  Iowa.  * 

Cob.  Sbc't  and  Gbnbbal  Asbht. — J 
P.  Stoddard,  221 W.  Madison  St.,  Chicago. 

Rbc.  Sbc't.  and  Thbabubbb. — W.  I 
Phillips,  221  W.  Madison  St.,   Chicago 

DrBBCTOBB, — Alexander  Thomson,  M 
R.  Britten,  John  Gardner,  J.  L.  Barlow, 
L.  N.  Stratton,  Thos.  H.  Gault,  C.  A. 
Blanchard,  J.  E.  Roy,  E.  R.  Worrell,  H. 
A.  Fischer,  W.  R.  Hench. 

The  object  of  this  Association  la: 
"To  expose,  withstand  and  remove  secret 
Bocieties,  Freemasonry  in  particular,  and  othef 
anti-Christian  movements,  in  order  to  save  tha 
churches  of  Christ  from  being  uepraved,  to  re 
deem  the  adminlstr*  tlon  of  ]ustice  from  per 
version,  and  our  r^p  jblican  government  from 
corruption." 

To  carry  on  this  work  contributions  ar« 
solicited  from  every  friend  of  tne  reform. 

Form  of  Bequest. — J  elve  and  bccueath  to 
the  National  Christian  Association,  incorpo- 
rated and  existing  under  the  laws  of  the  State 

of   Illinois,  the  sum  of fioUai  s  for  the 

purposes  of  said  Association,  and  for  whirh 
me  recelnt  of  Its  Treasurer  for  the  time  being 
*tiall  be  sufficient  dischatse. 

THB  national  OONYXNTIOH. 

Pkbbidwnt.— Rev.  J.  8.  T.  Milligan, 
Denison,  Eans. 

Sbcrbtaby.— Rev.  R.N.Countee,  Mem- 
phis, Tenn. 

btatb  auziliabt  associations 

Alabama.— Prea.,  Prof.  Pickens;  Sec,  Q. 
M.  Elliott;  Treae.,  Rev.  C.  B.  Curtis,  all  of 
Selma. 

Califobnia.— Pree.,  L.  B.  Lathrop,  Hollla 
ter ;  Cor.  Sec.  Mrs.  U.  P.  Merrill,  Woodland ; 
Treaa.,  C.  Ruddock,  Woodland. 

ComiBCTicuT.— Pres..  J.  A.  Conant,  Willi 
mantle;  Sec,  Geo.  Smith,  WUllmantlc ;  Treaa. 
C.  T.  CoUlna,  Windsor. 

iLUNOis.— Pre*.,  J.  P.  Stoddard  Sec,  M. 
N.  Butler ;  Treaa.,  W.  I.  PhiUlps  all  at  Gy 
ntmtrt  office. 

Indiana.— Prea.,  William  H.  Flgg,  Reno 
Sec,  8.  L.  Cook,  Albion;  Treaa.,  BenJ.  Ulah 
Silver  Lake. 

low  A.— Pre6.,Wm  Johnston.College  Springs ; 
Cor  Sec,  C.  D.  Trumbull,  Mornlne  Sun; 
Treaa.,  James  Harvey,  Pleaiuint  Plain.' Jeffer- 
son Co. ;  Lecturer,  C.  F.  Hawley,  Wheaton,  111. 

KaN8>«.— 1*^8.,  J.  8.  T  Milligan,  Denison; 
Bee,  S.  Hart,  Lecompton;  Treaa.,  J.  A.  Tor- 
rence,  Ueulson. 

MASSACHDSETTfl.— Pree.,  8.  A.  Pratt;  Sec, 
Mra.  E.  D.  Bailey;  Treaa., David  Mannlng,8i., 
Worcester. 

Michigan.— Prea.,  D.  A.  Richarda,  Brighton  ; 
Bec'y,  H.  A.  Dav,  Willlamston;  Treaa. 
Geo.  Swanson,  Jr.,  Betlfoiu. 

Minnbsota.— Pres.,  E.  Q.  Paine,  Waaloja 
Cor.  Sec.  Wm.  Femon,  St.  Paul;  Rjc  8ec»y 
Mrs.  M.  F.  Morrill,  St.  Cnarlea;  Treaa.,  Wm 
H.  Morrill,  St.  Charles. 

Missouri.— Prea.,  B.  F.  Miller,  Ea<r!evll)e 
Treaa.,  William  Beauchamp,  Avalon ;  Cor.  B*c. 
A.  D.  "Thomae,  Avalon. 

N1BBA.8KA.— Prea.,  8.  Anatln,  Falrmonit 
Cor.  Sec,  W.        Spooner,  Kearney;   T^eaa.' 
J.  C.  Fye. 

Maine— Pres,  Isaac  Jackson,  Harrison; 
Sec,  I.  D.  Haines,  Dexttr;  Treaa.,  H.  W. 
Goddard,  West  Sidney. 

Niw  HAMP8E1HB.— Prea,,  C.  L.  Baker,  Man 
Chester;  St-c,  3.  C.  Kimball,  New  Market 
Treas.,  Jaiues  »>'.  French,  Canterbury. 

Nbw  Yoke.- Pres.,  F.  W.  Capwell,  Dale; 
Sec'y,  John  Wallace,  Syracuse;  Treaa.,  M. 
Merrick,  Syracuse. 

Ohio.— ?ree.,  F.  M.  Sjiencer,  Now  Concord; 
Rec  Sec,  8.  A.  George,  Manstield;  Cor.  Sec. 
and  Treas.,  C.  W.  bUii,  Columbus;  Agent, 
W.  B.  Stoddard,  Columbus. 

Pbnnstlvasia.- Cor.  Sac,  N.  Callender, 
Thonpaoe ;  Treaa.,  W.  B.Bettela,  Wllkeebarre. 

Vbbmont.— Prea.,  W.  R.  Laird,  fiU  Jobna- 
bury ;  Bee,  C.  W  Potter. 

WisooHBiH.— Pres.,  i.  W  Wood,    Baraboo; 
Sec,  W.  W.  Amea,  Menomooie;  Treaa.,  M.  B 
Britten,  Vienna. 


*i)«uUv^, 


8 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


March  29, 1888 


The  Christian  Cynosure. 


J.  BLANCHARD. 


Xdrobb. 


HKNRT  L.  KXLLOGO 


CHIOACK),   THUBBDAY,   MABCH  29,   1888. 


ONE  MORE  APPEAL. 


When  that  wise  and  timely  plan  to  send  1,000 
copies  of  the  Cynosure  to  our  Southern  brethren  in 
the  ministry  was  proposed,  my  hopes  were  sanguine 
that  the  full  amount  would  be  subscribed  by  the 
first  of  April,  1888.  Truly,  a  "great  and  effectual 
door  is  opened"  for  us  to  glorify  God  in  this  grand 
project  We  should,  by  no  means,  fall  below  the 
mark,  but  aim  higher  still.  There  are  more  than 
one  thousand  colored  ministers  to  whom  the  Cynosure 
ought  to  go  by  our  contributions,  but  let  us  by  all 
means  reach  that  mark.  By  that  time  so  much  fruit 
of  the  enterprise  will  appear  that  many  more  help- 
ers we  hope,  will  come  up  with  the  widow  of  ninety 
years,  and  swell  the  number  of  copies  sent  to  the 
Southern  brethren  to,  at  least,  two  thousand.  When 
we  contemplate  the  Southern  field  as  white  for  the 
harvest,  as  so  strikingly  manifest  by  the  meetings 
lately  held  in  New  Orleans  and  other  cities  and 
districts  in  the  South, 

WB    SHOULD   PEOSECUTE   THE    WOEK    WITH    DOUBLE 
VIQOE. 

Let  the  emancipation  proclaimed  by  the  immortal 
Lincoln  be  ratified  by  the  N.  C.  A.  army  of  braves 
by  extending  liberty  and  proclaiming  it  to  the  cap- 
tive souls.  Liberty  to  the  bodies  of  those  dear  breth- 
ren is  simply  the  initial  to  liberty  to  the  soul — that 
is,  to  the  man.  When  men,  colored  or  white,  come 
to  know  the  facts  of  vital  interest  to  them,  they  will 
no  longer  help  fill  up  the  lodges.  They  will  follow 
the  noble  example  of  the  brethren  in  New  Orleans, 
••come  out  from  among  them,"  by  the  thousands  in- 
stead of  scores. 

I  am  glad,  more  so  than  language  can  express, 
that  the  Southern  Baptists  are  coming  out  in  whole 
conventions  and  associations.  God  will  bless  them, 
if  men  curse  them,  for  their  manly  decisions.  I 
shall  send  those  resolutions,  passed  by  those  bodies, 
to  our  afraid  Baptists  of  the  North — to  the  Ameri- 
can Baptist  Publication  Society  and  National  Baptist. 

That  the  brave  decisions  of  Southern  Christians, 
against  the  lodge,  will  help 

EMANCIPATE    OUR  NOETHEEN    OHUECHES 

is  not  a  fiction.  It  vnll  come.  We  shall  see  our  no- 
ble brethren,  of  all  shades,  from  white  to  black, 
helping  to  knock  off  the  shackles  of  lodgery  from 
these  churches  and  ministers  who  have  not  the  cour- 
age of  their  convictions — and  they  are  legion. 

The  N.  C.  A.  has  just  sent  me,  free,  for  free  dis- 
tribution, a  package  of  tracts.  The  Moody  tract, 
Finney  tract,  etc.,  are  a  power  for  good.  There  is 
not  will  power  enough  over  the  eye  and  the  ear  to 
Bhut  off  all  the  light  that  such  tracts  shed.  Thanks 
to  the  N.  C.  A.  for  said  eye-and-ear  openers.  Send 
them  out  broadcast,  brethren;  and   ye  heralds  of 

truth,  SCATTER   THEM. 

Now,  brethren  of  the  reforms,  let  me  once  more 
suggest,  that  we 

DOUBLE   UP. 

1  will,  and  trust  God  for  the  means.  How  many 
will  duplicate?  I  imagine  I  hear  voices,  like  the 
Bound  of  many  waters,  saying,  I  WILL.  Then  those 
who  have  not  yet  put  to  a  shoulder  respond.  Leave 
room  fvr  me.  God  bless  you  for  such  music.  It 
will  make  the  grandest  doxology.  Praise  Him  I  Try 
Him  herewith,  and  see  if  the  windows  of  heaven  do 
not  open  and  pour  you  out  a  blessing  that  there  shall 
not  be  room  to  receive.         Nathan  Callendie. 


A  Colorado  judge  has  decided  that  a  man  is  in 

duty  bound  to  tell  his  wife  where  he  spends  his 
evenings  when  he  is  away  from  home.  This  is  not 
favorable  to  the  lodges,  and  if  the  wife  was  a  wise 
woman  and  the  law  was  well  applied  it  would  cut 
off  some  membership  from  the  orders. 


THE  SABBATH  QUESTION. 

It  is  strangely  difficult  for  men  to  adhere  to  the 
Word  of  God,  even  Christian  men,  and  ministers. 
If  there  is  any  one  commandment  which  is  clear 
and  explicit  beyond  the  possibility  of  misunder- 
standing it  is  the  Fourth.  If  there  is  any  one  of 
the  ten  which  is  binding  on  the  Christian  con- 
science, that  one  is.  Yet  the  conscience  of  the 
churches  has  been  so  seared  on  this  subject  that  we 
have  only  the  fragment  of  a  rest  day  left,  and 
Mammon  and  Bacchus  are  seeking  to  take  it  away 
also. 

The  trouble  has  arisen  from  the  attempt  to  se- 
cure the  second  table  of  the  law  and  lets  the  first 
take  care  of  itself.  The  main  business  of  govern- 
ment is  generally  held  to  be  the  protection  of -life 
and  property.  The  magistrate  is  not  a  minister  of 
God  to  men  for  good,  but  he  is  a  policeman  to  wink 
at  the  licensed  saloon-keeper  and  pound  and  bang 
and  lock  up  the  wretched  drunkard  or  thief. 

All  this  results  as  we  might  anticipate.  There  is 
no  way  to  make  the  second  table  of  the  law  good 
when  the  first  is  broken  to  pieces.  If  men  do  not 
fear  God  they  will  not  regard  man.  If  men  wor- 
ship other  gods  than  God  in  Christ,  they  will  steal 
and  commit  adultery  and  murder.  If  men  will  not 
keep  the  Sabbath,  but  on  the  contrary  will  turn  it 
into  a  day  of  money-making  or  pleasure-seeking, 
then,  just  so  sure  as  God  rules,  they  will  find  the 
unbridled  passions  of  the  multitude  turning  the  six 
days  of  the  week  into  arson,  burglary,  assassina- 
tion and  public  plunder. 

We  are  led  to  this  line  of  thought  by  a  study  of 
the  editorial  pages  of  our  religious  weeklies,  and 
the  usual  run  of  topics  for  sermons.  It  seems  to 
have  passed  out  of  the  minds  of  men  that 
God  has  rights  or  makes  requirements  of  men.  So- 
ciological, philosophical  and  biographical  subjects 
seem  most  attractive;  and  even  when  themes  like 
the  Sabbath  question  are  taken,  the  tendency  is  to 
discuss  them  wholly  from  the  human  standpoint. 
The  question  is  not,  what  does  God's  law  require 
about  the  Sabbath, — about  the  liquor  shop?  0  no  I 
It  is,  what  will  be  best  for  men?  What  will  be 
best  for  society  ?  How  will  it  turn  out  if  we  do  so? 
The  result  is  that  in  great  measure  the  idea  of  a 
divine  law  and  a  coming  judgment  are  fading  out  of 
the  minds  of  men.  Vice  walks  the  street  unblush- 
ing, crime  goes  to  church,  murder  receives  a  cer- 
tificate of  good  character  from  a  judge,  and  men 
who  outrage  women  on  the  street  are  convicted  by 
juries  and  sent  out  free  by  courts  and  prosecuting 
attorneys.  The  ojily  remedy  is  a  return  to  God's 
law,  and  ministers  have  power  to  apply  this  remedy 
and  create  a  public  conscience  if  they  will. 

We  trust  that  every  one  to  whom  this  may  come 
will  interest  himself  in  the  petitions  of  the  Sabbath 
Association  of  Illinois  which  are  now  being  sent 
out.  Over  thirty  thousand  ministers  have  already 
been  reached.  Will  not  all  Christian  men  help  in 
this  matter. 


lips  would  have  been  equal  to  the  task,  himself 
alone,  but  he  has  gone  over  to  the  majority. 

It  remains  that  Christian  people  throughout  the 
country  feed  and  clothe  his  family  so  long  as  the 
Boston  churches  allow  kim  to  be  kept  in  jail  as  if 
he  were  a  common  thief.  Money  can  be  sent  to 
Rev,  H.  L.  Hastings,  47  Comhill,  Boston,  for  him, 
and  we  trust  that  our  subscribers  who  can  do  so  will 
help  him  in  his  fight  for  a  free  Gospel.  "I  was  in 
prison  and  ye  came  unto  me." 

Joseph  Cook,  in  the  Prelude  to  his  198th  Mon- 
day lecture  in  Tremont  Temple,  made  a  noble  con- 
tribution to  the  discussion  of  the  great  underlying 
principles  of  American  freedom,  taking  Mr.  Da- 
vis's case  for  his  text  on  "Free  Speech  on  Public 
Grounds."  The  address  is  printed  entire  in  Zion's 
Herald  of  the  21st  inst.  The  great  lecturer  main- 
tains that  the  obnoxious  ordinance  which  has  im- 
prisoned Mr.  Davis  is  liable  to  dangerous  perversion 
aiid  has  been  so  perverted;  a  hardship  to  the  poor; 
unnecessary,  unreasonable,  unprecedented  and  un- 
politic,  and  should  be  abolished. 


THE   LODGE  WAR  WITH  A   RAILROAD. 


THE  0A8E  OF  MR.  DAVIS. 

Rev.  Wm.  F.  Davis,  who  is  now  in  the  Charles 
Street  Jail,  Boston,  has  been  repeatedly  mentioned 
in  these  columns.  We  return  to  his  case  at  this 
time  because  he  is  still  imprisoned,  and  also  because 
his  family  require  the  assistance  of  the  Christian 
public,  the  husband  and  father  having  been  for 
more  than  half  a  year  in  the  jail. 

His  offense  was,  as  all  will  remember,  preaching 
the  Gospel  of  Jesus  Christ  on  the  Lord's  day  on 
Boston  Common.  He  was  offered  a  police  permit 
to  hold  the  services  but  declined  it  on  the  ground 
that  to  permit  implied  the  right  to  forbid.  He  holds 
that  the  right  to  preach  the  Gospel  in  an  orderly 
and  quiet  way  is  one  of  the  rights  of  man  with 
which  no  government  has  the  right  to  interfere,  and 
he  refused  to  recognize  such  a  pretense  of  authority 
by  receiving  permission  to  preach. 

He  has  several  times  been  arrested  and  fined,  as 
also  were  H.  L.  Hastings,  Rev.  Dr.  A.  J.  Gordon 
and  others.  At  last  he  was  sent  to  jail  for  a  year 
and  has  now  served  out  one-half  of  this  time.  His 
family  meanwhile  are  not  rich  in  this  world's  goods 
and  are  in  a  measure  dependent  upon  Christians 
who  sympathize  with  them  in  the  sill'ctions  of  the 
Gospel. 

Whether  or  no  hia  action  was  the  wisest, 
we  feel  certain  that  he  was  right  in  his  purpose. 
The  spirit  of  the  old  New  England  must  linger,  if 
at  all,  like  coals  under  ashes,  or  he  would  long  since 
have  been  sent  out  free.  It  is  getting  to  be  New 
Ireland  rather  than  New  England;  and  sluggers,  gin- 
venders,  and  politicians  seem  to  hold  the  places  of 
influence  where  ministers  of  the  Gospel  and  states- 
men once  swayed  the  public  mind.     Wendell  Phil- 


P.  M.  Arthur  of  the  Engineer's  Brotherhood  late- 
ly gave  out  that  the  Burlington  strike  was  a  life  and 
death  struggle  for  his  secret  lodge.  If  the  engi- 
neers lose  the  fight  they  have  inaugurated  against 
the  Burlington  system,  said  he,  it  means  death  to 
their  organization.  The  brotherhood  commands 
now  from  $300,000  to  $500,000,  and  as  much  more 
can  be  raised.  Therefore,  the  men  are  in  a  fighting 
position.  And  yet  they  realize  that  if  a  break 
comes  in  the  ranks,  that  the  order  will  retrograde 
and  become  such  a  one  as  that  now  organized  by 
the  conductors — an  insurance  compsiny. 

The  Reading  Company  has  just  overcome  the 
great  strike  of  the  Knights  of  Labor  order;  and 
the  Burlington  road  seemed  to  have  about  recovered 
from  the  blow  aimed  by  the  engineers.  But  when 
the  switchmen  struck  without  a  word  of  warning  or 
complaint  early  Saturday  morning,  the  railway 
managers  understood  they  had  the  whole  system  of 
secret  lodges  to  fight.  The  brotherhood  leaders 
profess  dense  ignorance  of  the  new  movement,  but 
it  is  on  all  sides  understood  to  be  a  bargain;  just 
as  Arthur  and  Powderly  made  a  truce  and  stand  by 
each  other. 

The  strike  takes  out  about  500  men  all  along  the 
line  of  the  road,  and  effectually  stops  all  freight 
business.  If  the  company  overcome  this  new  trou- 
ble, the  brakemen  are  ready  for  the  word  from  the 
head  of  their  secret  sworn  league.  It  is  a  fight 
with  the  whole  lodge  system  represented  by  the  la- 
bor societies. 

This  action  of  the  switchmen  will  incense  public 
opinion  against  these  societies,  and  especially 
against  the  Engineer's  Brotherhood,  which  is  the 
controlling  cause  in  the  whole  affair.  The  public 
mind  was  long  since  made  up  that  the  strike  was  a 
failure,  and  without  the  support  of  popular  sympa- 
thy or  the  justification  of  any  sound  principle,  the 
continuation  of  the  strike  can  be  best  explained  by 
the  remark  of  Arthur,  quoted  above.  The  discus- 
sion of  means  for  the  prevention  of  strikes  will  be 
renewed,  and  candid  men  will  conclude  the  first 
step  to  be  the  abolition  of  the  secret  lodge. 


— A  National  Conference  on  the  Christian  Princi- 
ples of  Civil  Government  will  be  held  in  Associa- 
tion Hall,  Philadelphia,  on  the  24th,  25th  and  26th 
days  of  April  next,  in  connection  with  the  annual 
meeting  of  the  National  Reform  Association. 

— The  adjourned  meeting  of  the  N.  C.  A.  Board 
on  Saturday  was  unable  to  do  any  business,  several 
members  being  detained  thus  preventing  a  quorum. 
Funerals  called  away  Presidents  Blanchard  and 
Stratton,  the  former  being  present,  however,  for  a 
few  minutes. 

— Secretary  Stoddard  spoke  to  a  good  audience  in 
the  Free  Methodist  church  on  Mozart  Street  in  the 
northwestern  part  of  this  city  last  Friday  evening. 
An  incident  of  the  meeting  was  the  awakening  of  a 
sincere  young  Scotchman  who  had  joined  the  Knights 
of  Labor,  under  the  supposition  that  this  was  the 
only  way  to  contend  with  monopolies — just  as  Good 
Templars  wickedly  persuade  temperance  men  to  join 
them  as  the  best  way  of  fighting  the  rum  power. 
But  when  the  light  of  the  Word  of  God  was  turned 
upon  the  order  the  young  man  was  astonished,  for 
he  professed  to  follow  Chrijst.  This  effect  upon  his 
mind  was  increased  by  the  remarks  of  Dr.  Strouble, 
who  had  also  and  for  like  reasons  joined  the  K.  of 
L.,  but  saw  the  cunning  deception  of  the  devil  in 
the  whole  business  and  left  the  order,  though  still 
fighting  the  monopolies. 


Maboh  29,  1888 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


— Bro.  Davidson  sends  from  New  Orleans  a  little 
bill  which  reads: 

"CouRSB  OF  Sermons  by  Pastor  A.  8.  Jackson,  Com- 
mon Street  Baptist  church.  Peeling  very  deeply  my  re- 
sponsibility before  God  to  rightly  instruct  my  flock  and 
congregation  in  all  social,  moral  and  religious  questions 
'which  agitate  the  public  mind,  I  shall  preach  four  ser- 
mons on  Present  Social  Evils  and  the  Duty  of  the  Church, 
beginning  on  next  Sunday  evening,  March  25,  at  7  p.m  , 
and  continuing  through  April  (first  Sunday  excepted) 
each  Sabbath  evening.    Let  all  who  love  truth  attend." 

So  the  good  work  goes  on.  Bro.  Jackson  is  wise- 
ly beginning  a  most  important  work  of  instruction, 
so  that  men  may  not  blindly  follow  or  stubbornly 
oppose  the  truth.  This  is  a  most  needful  step  in 
the  work  of  separating  the  believers  in  Jesus  Christ 
from  the  "unequal"  fellowship  with  unbelievers  in 
the  lodge.     May  the  Lord  bless  this  effort. 

m  m  ^ 

PBR80NAL  MBNTION. 


— Elder  S.  C.  Kimball,  of  the  New  Hampshire 
State  Association  and  editor  of  the  Christian  Wit- 
ness, began  meetings  at  Weatogue,  Conn.,  on  the 
20th. 

— Rev.  J.  T.  Michael,  who  has  for  a  time  been 
living  in  Washington  City,  has  removed  to  Scran- 
ton,  Pa.,  and  may  be  addressed  at  1533  Caprouse 
avenue. 

— The  Mormon  Elder,  Cornish,  whose  brutal  des- 
potism over  some  of  the  remote  communities  in 
northern  Michigan  was  assailed  by  Rev.  Wm.  F. 
Davis,  the  Boston  Common  hero,  about  a  year  since, 
is  again  heard  from.  He  was  lately  unfolding  his 
infamous  system  at  Oscoda. 

— The  Weshyan  Methodist  announces  the  death  of 
Mrs.  Charles  Merrick,  of  Syracuse.  Her  loss  will  be 
deeply  felt  among  the  brethren  in  that  city,  tor  she 
.was  an  excellent  woman,  whose  children  rise  up 
and  call  her  blessed;  and  they,  at  the  same  time, 
are  an  honor  to  her  faithful  and  pious  culture. 
Bro.  Merrick  has  the  sincere  sympathy  of  all  his 
friends  in  this  office. 

— An  interesting  letter  from  Rev.  A.  J.  Bailey  of 
Ogden,  Utah,  brother  of  Rev.  E.  D.  Bailey  of  the 
Washington  American,  gives  very  instructive  partic- 
ulars of  church  work  among  the  Mormons.  It  is 
written  in  response  to  a  contribution  from  this  of- 
fice. Some  weeks  ago  the  College  Church  Sabbath- 
school  at  Wheaton  voted  to  send  Bro.  Bailey  a  part 
of  their  missionary  collections. 

— The  Living  Way  of  last  week  reports  the  death 
of  S.  L.  Countee,  brother  of  R.  N.  Countee,  pastor 
of  the  Tabernacle  Baptist  church,  which  occurred 
on  the  19th  inst.  His  disease  was  consumption,  but 
there  was  no  development  of  any  lunsj  trouble  until 
the  attack  of  the  hired  assassins  of  the  lodge  on 
the  night  of  October  18,  1885.  At  that  time  Mr. 
S.  L.  Countee  was,  with  others,  accompanying  his 
brother  home  from  church,  when  the  party  was  fired 
into.  One  lady  was  hit  and  both  the  brothers  with 
buckshot.  The  deceased  was  struck  between  the  shoul- 
ders with  a  shot — R.  N.  Countee  yet  has  a  ball  in  the 
back  of  his  head.  The  insidious  disease  soon 
made  itself  known,  and  no  remedy  seemed  able 
to  stop  it.  For  a  long  time  the  brother  has  been 
expecting  his  departure,  and  was  ready  to  meet  his 

Lord. 

■  »  » 

OVR  NEW  YORK  LETTER. 


Brooklyn,  Mar.  19,  1888. 

Editor  Christian  Cynosurk: — William  Blsck 
Steel  writes  in  the  North  American  Revitw  for  March 
on  the  "Workingman's  Sabbath,"  He  says:  "Dr. 
Felix  L.  Oswald,  in  his  article  on  'The  Coming  Civ- 
ilization,' speaks  as  follows  concerning  the  Sabbath 
of  the  future  for  workingmen:  'The  workingmen  of 
the  future  will  most  emphatically  protest  against 
mediaeval  methods  of  government  interference  with 
legitimate  rewards  of  industry,  as,  for  instance,  by 
the  suppression  of  public  recreation  on  the  only  day 
when  about  ninety-nine  per  cent  of  our  laborers  find 
their  only  chance  of  leisure.'  If  the  workingmen  of 
the  future  are  wise  they  will  do  nothing  towards 
breaking  down  the  legal  restrictions  which  are  still 
thrown  around  Sabbath  observance  in  this  country. 
They  ought,  on  the  contrary,  to  use  all  their  influ- 
ence to  preserve  the  Sabbath  as  a  day  of  complete 
rest.  The  workingman  surely  needs  one  day  of 
rest  out  of  seven.  The  introduction  of  public  amuse- 
ments on  Sabbath  would  diminish  the  respect  and 
reverence  with  which  we,  as  a  nation,  have  always 
regarded  that  day,  and  it  would  be  but  a  short  time 
before  the  Lord's  day  would  be  completely  secular- 
ized. 

"As  a  proof  of  this,  take  the  Sabbath  of  the  pres* 
ent  in  France  and  Germany.  In  those  countries  is 
realized  Dr.  Oswald's  ideal  of  the  workingman's 


Sabbath.  There  is  an  unlimited  license  in  regard 
to  amusements,  and,  what  seems  to  follow  as  a  nec- 
essary consequence,  an  almost  unlimited  license  in 
regard  to  business.  From  the  statistics  lately  col- 
lected by  the  Prussian  government,  we  learn  that  of 
the  500,1 5G  manufacturing  establishment  of  all  kinds 
in  those  provinces,  57.75  per  cent  were  operated  on 
Sabbath.  Of  the  147,318  establishments  interested 
in  trade  and  transportation  in  29  provinces,  77  per 
cent  were  operated  on  Sabbath. 

"In  France  the  case  is  not  quite  so  bad,  but  it  is 
well  known  that  the  amount  of  business  transacted 
on  Sabbath  in  Paris  is  immense.  In  each  of  these 
countries  thousands  of  laborers  and  clerks  labor 
from  one  week's  end  to  another  without  any  oppor- 
tunity for  rest,  recreation,  or  self-improvement. 
What  a  strain  this  must  be  on  wearied  muscles  and 
overwrought  nerver,  and  how  intensely  must  the 
tired  laborers  long  for  one  day  in  seven  in  which  to 
take  rest!  But  he  has  voluntarily  reduced  himself 
to  this  degraded  condition,  and  there  is  no  redress 
for  him  now,  for  if  he  refuses  to  work  on  Sabbath 
his  employer  dismisses  him,  and  secures  some  one 
who  will. 

"Now,  does  the  American  workman  propose  to  fol- 
low the  example  of  his  French  and  Qerman  brother? 
It  will  be  a  sad  day  for  himself  and  his  country 
when  he  does  so.  Already  is  there  a  strong  tenden- 
cy here  towards  the  secularization  of  the  Sabbath. 
Many  of  our  railroad  companies  run  their  freight 
and  passenger  trains  on  that  day,  and  if  their  em- 
ployes refuse  to  work  they  are  promptly  discharged. 
O'iher  corporations,  and  even  private  individuals 
are  following  in  the  wake  of  the  railroad  companies. 
Nothing  would  please  avaricious  capital  and  grasp- 
ing monopoly  better  than  to  see  a  complete  secular- 
izition  of  the  Sabbath  in  the  United  States,  and  noth- 
ing would  tend  more  towards  the  degradation  and 
demoralization  of  our  working  classes,  and  through 
them  of  the  whole  country." 

The  high  license  bilf  is  to  be  voted  on  at  Albany 
next  Tuesday,  with  a  reasonable  prospect  of  defeat. 
High  license  has  been  adopted  in  Illinois,  Minne- 
sota, Dakota,  Missouri,  Pennsylvania,  and  New 
Jersey.  In  the  State  first  mentioned  the  saloons 
have  been  reduced  from  14,000  to  9,000.  In  Phila- 
delphia they  have  been  lessened  2,500.  But  who 
does  not  know  that  drinking  is  just  as  prevalent, 
and  yet  more  respectable  than  before?  Louisiana 
licenses  a  lottery.  Why  not?  Utah  licenses  po- 
lygamy. Indiana  licenses  "consecutive  polygamy." 
Why  not?  This  principle  is  tinctured  with  the  ma- 
lignant and  diabolical  spirit  of  the  pit.  Prohibition 
is  the  only  legitimate  remedy. 

On  Sabbath  evening  I  preached  in  the  Troop  Ave- 
nue Presbyterian  church.  Rev.  L.  R.  Foote,  pastor. 
This  is  a  congregation  of  over  800  members.  Bro. 
Foote  is  a  laborious  and  successful  pastor.  We  had 
a  large  and  attentive  audience.  I  preached  on  the 
mediatorial  dominion  of  Christ  over  the  nations. 
Mr.  Russell  W.  McKee,  the  President  of  the  Sab- 
bath-Bchool  Union,  gave  a  hearty  endorsement.  He 
wishes  me  to  send  him  National  Reform  documents 
that  he  may  read  upon  the  subject.  Hon.  Darwin 
R.  James,  member  of  Congress  from  this  district, 
suggested  that  a  bill  be  prepared  for  Congress  em- 
bodying the  proposed  amendment  It  might  not  go 
through  the  first  or  second  time,  but  keep  it  up 
and  when  it  was  reported  favorably  by  the  judicial^ 
committee,  the  Congress  would  pass  it.  And  then 
it  would  be  submitted  to  the  State  legislatures.  He 
was  heartily  in  favor  of  the  movement  and  would 
give  us  help  in  the  matter.  There  was  quite  a 
sprinkling  of  politicians  out.  It  was  good  soil  for 
seed- sowing.  A  great  many  young  men  were  out; 
and  they  are  the  ones  to  reach.         J.  M.  Foster 


Colonel  Switzer,  of  the  National  Bureau  of  Statis- 
tics, states  that  at  the  request  of  the  National  Drug- 
gists' Association,  he  has  just  concluded  an  investi- 
gation as  to  the  proportion  of  the  liquor  consumed 
yearly  in  this  country,  used  in  the  arts  and  manu- 
factures. He  has  found  that  this  percentage,  instead 
of  being  50  as  had  been  claimed,  or  even  30,  was 
only  7.2  per  cent.  Colonel  Switzer  also  said  the 
annual  consumption  of  strong  drink  in  the  United 
States  averaged  an  annual  cost  of  147  to  every  man, 
woman,  and  child. 

When  Christ  was  preachins;  by  the  sea,  at  the 
time  he  borrowed  Peter's  boat  for  a  pulpit,  the  quese 
tion  of  the  hour  was  not  "how  to  reach  the  masses?'- 
but  bow  shall  the  masses  reach  the  Master?  The 
Lord  borrowed  Peter's  boat,  but  he  never  remains 
long  in  any  one's  debt  Peter  filled  two  boats  with 
the  subsrtiuent  draft;  and  our  capacity  would  need 
to  be  doubled  to  receive  his  blessings  did  we  conse- 
crate to  his  use  what  we  have  and  what  we  are. — 
H,  L.  Hastings. 


OUR  WA8HING TON  LETTER. 

Congress  has  given  no  attention  to  the  question 
of  Prohibition  since  last  week  when  Senator  Col- 
quit,  of  Georgia,  who  has  taken  quite  a  prominent 
part  in  the  Prohibition  movement  in  his  State,  in- 
troduced a  local  option  bill  in  the  Senate.  It  pro- 
vides for  a  local  option  election  in  the  District  of 
Columbia,  whenever  10,000  inhabitants  of  the  dis- 
trict shall  petition  the  Chief  of  Police  to  order 
such  an  election. 

A  member  of  the  Senate  District  Committee  sug- 
gested that  it  would  be  more  business-like  to  ob- 
tain an  expression  of  opinion  through  the  Police 
Department  by  a  general  canvass  of  the  city.  In 
this  way  the  sentiment  of  the  people  could  be 
nearly  enough  determined  as  for  or  against  Prohi- 
bition to  afford  Congress  a  safe  guide  for  its  future 
legislation  without  resorting  to  the  questionable 
machinery  of  a  popular  election.  It  is  understood 
that  Senator  Spooner,  of  Wisconsin,  favors  a  high 
license  system,  and  that  he  is  preparing  a  bill  to 
that  effect  which  he  will  introduce  soon. 

A  New  Hampshire  Congressman  has  just  given  a 
surprise  to  Washington  political  circles  by  develop- 
ing the  title  of  "Reverend."  The  Universalist 
Church  of  our  Father,  in  this  city,  which  is  now 
without  a  pastor,  is  taking  trial  sermons  from 
different  preachers.  On  last  Sunday  the  service 
was  conducted  and  the  sermon  delivered  morning 
and  evening  by  Representative  McKinney.  The 
Rev.  Congressman  made  a  very  favorable  impres- 
sion, and  from  the  comment  passed  by  leading 
church  members,  it  would  not  be  surprising  if  he 
were  called  to  the  pastorate  of  this  church. 

In  the  early  part  of  this  week  there  was  a  great 
crowd  in  the  United  States  Supreme  Court  room  to 
hear  the  decision  in  favor  of  the  Bell  Telephone 
Company.  The  court  held  that  there  was  nothing 
to  show  that  any  one  had  invented  an  apparatus 
prior  to  that  invented  by  Bell,  although  vibration 
by  electricity  had  been  transmitted  by  wire  prior  to 
1854.  It  held  that  Bell  discovered  the  principle 
and  perfected  it  There  is  nothing  requiring  the 
operation  of  instruments  before  the  patent  issues. 
It  is  the  practicability  of  the  process  that  is  to  be 
shown. 

The  W.  C.  T.  U.  are  holding  a  week  of  prayer  in 
this  city  with  daily  services  at  different  churches. 
Miss  Francis  Willard  takes  a  prominent  part  in 
these  meetings. 

The  Prohibitionists  of  the  city  are  full  of  activ- 
ity in  their  hall  at  the  corner  of  Pennsylvania  Ave- 
nue and  4^  street  The  Prohibition  Union  holds 
its  regular  meetings  here  every  Wednesday  evening, 
led  by  Mr.  A.  A.  Wheelock,  Major  Walker  and 
others.  It  is  an  interesting  proof  that  much  of 
the  old  anti-slavery  spirit  is  inherited  by  these  re- 
formers, in  the  fact  that  the  little  weekly  sheet  they 
are  publishing  is  called  the  Abolitionist.  It  is  is- 
sued from  the  office  of  the  American,  and  its  col- 
umns are  full  of  spirit  Its  object  is  set  forth  to 
be  the  taking  of  higher  ground  on  the  Prohibition 
question,  and  to  secure  harmony  among  the  tem- 
perance people  of  the  District,  without  antagoniz- 
ing any  particular  temperance  organization. 

One  of  the  striking  features  of  the  Woman's 
Congress  is  the  variety  of  labors  and  methods  of  oc- 
cupation represented  in  the  list  of  subjects  to  be 
considered.  There  are  to  be  p?pers  and  addresses 
on  kindergartens,  hospitals,  education,  general  and 
professional,  prison  reform,  suffrage,  social  purity, 
Indians,  missions,  home  and  foreign,  etc.,  and  all 
these  are  to  be  considered  with  reference  to  the  re- 
lation of  woman  to  them.  It  was  thought  a 
few  years  ago  that  no  assembly  or  convention  of 
women  could  be  called  or  held  unless  suffrage  or 
church  mission  work  were  the  attracting  subjects. 
Chicago  women  will  be  well  represented  by  Miss  F. 

E.  Willard,  Mrs.  L.  A.  Hagans,  Mrs.  Matilda  B. 
Carse,  the  Temperance  Temple  builder,  Mrs.  Jennie 

F.  Willing,  Mrs.  Elizabeth  Boynton  Harbert  Dr. 
Mary  Weeks  Burnett  and  Dr.  Sarah  Hackett  Steven- 
son. * 


Mr.  Moody  recently  finished  a  series  of  sixty-two 
sermons  in  Louisville.  At  the  closing  meeting  he 
took  up  the  question  of  one  of  the  audience,  who 
wanted  to  know  what  authority  a  church  had  to  turn 
out  a  member  for  "simply  selling  whisky."  He 
made  a  strong  answer,  and  in  course  of  it  had  some 
radical  things  to  say.     He  said: 

"We  have  got  to  make  this  business  disreputable. 
You  needn't  begin  to  equirm  around  and  say,  'I 
have  friends  in  the  whisky  business  myself.'  They 
oughtn't  to  be  in  it  God  pity  the  minister  who 
hasn't  got  backbone  enough  to  fight  it  Some  of 
them  say,  'I'll  lose  my  pulpit'  Suppose  you  do — 
you'll  find  forty  more  open  for  you," 


'•<em£«. 


10 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSTTKE. 


March  29, 1888 


Tee  Home. 


MY  SAGRIFIGB. 


Laid  on  the  altar,  O  my  Lord  divine, 

Accept  my  gift  this  day,  for  Jesus'  sake. 
I  have  no  jewels  to  adorn  thy  shrine, 

Nor  any  world-famed  sacrifice  to  make ; 
But  here  I  bring,  within  my  trembling  hand. 

This  will  of  mine— a  thing  that  seemeth  small— 
And  thou  alone,  O  Lord,  canst  understand 

How,  when  I  yield  thee  this,  I  yield  mine  all. 
Hidden  therein,  thy  seaiching  gaze  can  see 

Struggles  of  passion  -visions  of  delight- 
All  that  I  have,  or  am,  or  fain  would  be — 

Deep  loves,  fond  hopes,  and  longings  infioUe; 
It  hath  been  wet  with  tears  and  dimmed  with  sighs, 

Clenched  in  my  grasp  till  beauty  it  hath  none; 
Now  from  thy  footstool,  where  it  vanquished  lies, 

The  prayer  ascendetb,  "May  thy  will  be  done." 
Take  it,  O  Father,  ere  my  courage  fail, 

And  merge  It  so  in  thine  own  will  that  e'en 
If  In  some  desperate  hour  my  cries  prevail. 

And  thou  give  back  my  gift,  it  may  have  been 
So  changed,  so  purified,  so  fair  have  grown. 

So  one  with  thee,  so  filled  with  peace  divine, 
I  may  not  know  or  feel  it  as  mine  own. 

But,  gaining  back  my  will,  may  find  it  thine. 

— Selected . 


THB  HOLT  8PIRIT  IN  VS  AND  ON  U8. 

The  frequently  repeated  prayer  by  Christians, 
that  God  would  "send  the  Holy  Spirit,"  "give  us  the 
Holy  Spirit,"  "baptize  us  with  the  Holy  Spirit," 
"anoint  us  afresh  with  the  Holy  Spirit,"  and  many 
other  such  petitions,  almost  always  raise  the  query 
in  the  minds  of  some,  as  to  whether  such  prayers 
do  not  question  the  fact  of  the  abiding  presence  of 
the  Comforter  in  and  with  his  people.  "For,"  they 
urge,  "did  not  our  Lord  say:  'and  I  will  pray  the 
Father,  and  he  shall  give  you  another  Comforter, 
that  he  may  abide  with  you  forever;  even  the  Spirit 
of  Truth,  whom  the  world  cannot  receive  because  it 
seeth  him  not,  neither  knoweth  him;  but  ye  know 
him;  for  he  dwelleth  with  you  and  shall  be  in  you?' 
Is  not  this  a  specific  promise  that  the  Holy  Spirit 
shall  take  up  a  permanent  residence  in  the  heart  of 
every  believer?  and,  if  so,  is  it  not  an  impeachment 
of  the  truth,  or  a  denial  of  the  fulfillment  of  this 
promise,  if  we  ask  God  to  send  us  the  Spirit,  or 
anoint  us  with  the  Spirit,  or  baptize  us  afresh  with 
the  Spirit?  If  we  have  the  Spirit  already,  how  can 
we  expect  to  receive  him?" 

Nevertheless,  it  remains  true  to  Christian  experi- 
ence that  these  Christians  who  seem  most  full  of 
the  Spirit,  are  they  who  most  frequently  pray  for 
the  anointing  or  baptism  of  the  Spirit,  and  seem 
most  deeply  to  realize  the  neer'  of  such  anointing 
from  time  to  time.  Moreover,  there  are  many  pas- 
sages in  the  New  Testament  that  lead  us  to  believe 
that  there  is  a  supplemental  gift  of  the  Holy  Spirit 
not  included  in  the  promise  of  the  Comforter. 
There  are  other  passages  which  clearly  indicate  that 
the  same  disciples  received  from  the  Father  and 
from  Jesus  separate  gifts  of  the  Holy  Spirit.  As, 
for  instance,  after  his  resurrection  he  met  and  talked 
with  his  disciples  (before  they  went  up  to  Jerusa- 
lem); and  it  is  recorded  that  he  gave  them  his  bless- 
ing in  these  words:  "Then  said  Jesus  unto  them. 
Peace  be  unto  you;  as  my  Father  hath  sent  me,  even 
80  send  I  you.  And  when  he  had  said  this,  he 
breathed  on  them  and  saith  unto  them.  Receive  ye 
the  Holy  Ghost."  Certainly  here  was  a  giving  of 
the  Holy  Ghost.  The  last  words  of  Luke's  Gospel 
probably  refer  to  the  same  fact,  for  there  we  read: 
"Behold,  I  send  the  promise  of  the  Father  upon 
you"  (Luke  24:  49);  then  "he  led  them  forth  as  far 
as  to  Bethany  and  lifted  up  his  hands  and  blessed 
them,  and  was  parted  from  them  and  carried  up  into 
heaven;  and  they  worshiped  him,  and  returned  unto 
Jerusalem  with  great  joy,  and  were  continually  in 
the  temple,  praising  and  blessing  God."  Surely  this 
is  the  account  of  the  giving  of  the  Comforter,  which 
indeed  they  received  just  as  he  was  leaving  them. 
Their  great  jiy  and  the  fullness  of  praise  which 
they  gave  to  God  were  the  evidence  that  they  had 
received  the  Holy  Spirit. 

Looking  a  little  farther,  we  find  two  distinct  prom- 
ises: one  of  the  coming  of  the  Holy  Spirit  as  the 
Comforter,  to  dwell  in  them  and  walk  in  them,  and 
to  teach  and  guide  them  and  inspire  their  prayers; 
the  other  of  a  coming  as  an  anointing  power  to  fit 
them  for  service.  John  the  Baptist  declared,  that 
while  he  baptized  his  disciples  with  water,  there 
cometh  Ooe  who  would  baptize  them  with  fire  and 
the  Holy  Ghost.  Luke  twice  records  the  promise, 
that  while  tarrying  in  prayer  at  Jerusalem  they 
should  be  anointed  with  power  from  on  high  after 
the  Holy  Ghost  came  upon  them.  (Matt.  H:  11;  Luke 
24:  49;  Acts  1:  5,  11.)     While  there  is  some  difflcul 


ty  in  separating  the  fulfillment  of  these  promises 
one  from  the  other,  it  still  remains  to  be  seen  very 
clearly  that  the  coming  of  the  Holy  Ghost  to  dwell 
in  them  as  the  Comforter,  and  the  falling  of  the 
Holy  Ghost  upon  them  at  Pentecost  were  two  differ- 
p.nt  matters.  The  gift  of  the  Holy  Ghost  on  the 
day  of  Pentecost  was  preliminary  to  the  public  serv- 
ice of  the  disciples,  and  not  only  accredited  them  in 
connection  with  the  phenominal  manifestation  of  the 
tongues  of  fire  and  gift  of  miraculous  speech,  but 
endowed  them  with  spiritual  power  and  great  bold- 
ness, so  that  these  heretofore  uneducated  men  were 
apparently  transformed  into  the  ablest  of  speakers, 
and  from  being  feeble  and  timid  they  became  phe- 
nominal in  boldness  and  courage.  Moreover,  we 
find  that  this  Pentecostal  gift  was  repeated  to  them 
after  a  few  days.  The  chief  priests  and  rulers  be- 
ing enraged  at  the  boldness  o^  their  preaching,  in 
which  they  charged  home  upon  them  the  murder  of 
the  Lord  Jesus,  threatened  them  and  charged  them 
to  preach  no  more  in  Jesus's  name.  Being  under 
restraint  at  the  time,  and  full  of  fear  from  the  peo- 
ple, they  did  nothing  more  than  threaten.  Then  it 
was  that  the  disciples  gathered  together  again,  and 
after  another  season  of  prayer  and  praise,  "the  place 
was  shaken  where  they  were  assembled  together, 
and  they  were  all  filled  with  the  Holy  Ghost,  and 
spake  the  word  of  God  with  boldness."  (A.cts  4:31.) 
This  anointing  or  filling  with  the  Holy  Ghost  was 
repeated  to  the  disciples  during  the  entire  apostolic 
period,  although  the  minute  descriptions  of  it  fade 
away  into  mere  references,  as  when  the  apostle  de- 
clared more  than  once  that,  "the  hand  of  the  Lord 
was  with  us." 

On  this  line  of  inquiry  into  this  subject  it  may  be 
seen  that  there  are  two  phases  of  the  Spirit's  mission 
to  the  disciples  of  Jesus.  One  gift  was  for  personal 
comfort  and  edification;  the  other  was  for  power  in 
Older  to  service.  One  gift  was  to  them  as  the  chil- 
dren of  God;  the  other  was  to  them  as  the  disciples 
of  Jesus  Christ.  One  gift  was  permanent  and  abid- 
ing; the  other  was  for  the  time  being,  and  renewed 
again  and  again  in  answer  to  the  prayers  of  the 
disciples,  as  they  had  need  of  special  help  from 
heaven.  One  gift  ministers  personal  assurance  to 
us  in  the  comforts  of  communion  and  personal  spir- 
itual walk,  the  other  serves  to  keep  us  humble  be- 
fore God  and  always  dependent  upon  him  for  power 
for  service.  It  is  more  than  probable  that  many 
Christians  have  the  Comforter,  who  are  not  anoint- 
ed with  the  Holy  Ghost  as  the  great  power  of  God 
from  on  high.  It  is,  however,  perfectly  clear  that 
it  is  the  will  of  God,  that  all  children  of  his  shall 
also  be  anointed  "with  power  from  on  high,"  in  or- 
der that  they  may  do  the  work  of  disciples  of  Jesus; 
and  it  is  a  great  sin  on  the  part  of  Christians  to  rest 
content  with  the  presence  of  the  Comforter,  and 
neglect  to  seek  after  and  wait  for  this  second  gift 
of  the  Holy  Ghost.  It  is  for  the  lack  of  this  anoint- 
ing of  the  Holy  Ghost  that  there  is  so  little  power 
in  the  church,  and  so  little  etficiency  in  the  preach- 
ing of  the  Word. — Independent. 


PERPETUAL  PRESENCE  OF  CBR18T. 


A  Christian  should  make  his  Saviour  a  perpetual 
companion,  every  day  of  the  week.  Christ  oflfers  to 
walk  with  him  in  every  day's  journey  of  life.  What 
companionship  so  enlivening  and  so  purifying  as 
his?-  Who,  also,  can  so  "make  our  hearts  to  burn 
within  us"  by  the  way?  Christ's  presence  with  be- 
lievers is  one  of  the  best  preventives  from  sin,  one 
of  the  best  stimulators  to  duty.  Jesus  is  "made 
unto  us  sanctification"  as  well  as  redemption.  That 
is,  his  is  a  spirit  of  business.  And  when  we  live  in 
hourly  communion  with  Jesus  it  has  a  tendency  to 
make  us  holy.  The  sense  of  Christ's  immediate 
presence  is  a  perpetual  check  upon  our  lusts — a  per- 
petual spur  to  our  self-indolence.  Are  we  provoked 
to  cutting  words  or  irritating  retorts?  One  look 
from  the  gentle,  all-forgiving  Jesus  should  be  enough 
to  seal  the  lip  and  to  smooth  the  ruffled  brow.  Are 
we  ever  tempted  to  keen  bargains  and  over-reaching 
in  business'?  Selfishness  says:  "All  fair;  others 
do  it;  it  is  the  custom  of  our  trade."  But  what  will 
the  pure  and  holy  Jesus  say?  How  will  our  account 
books  look  to  him  when  he  "audits"  them?  And  so 
on  through  the  calendar  of  duties  and  the  circle  of 
daily  temptations.  With  my  Saviour  beside  me, 
how  will  1  dare  to  play  the  coward,  or  the  cheat,  or 
the  trifler,  or  the  sensualist,  or  the  trickster?  No- 
where will  Christ's  presence  be  more  cheering  and 
sustaining  than  in  the  weariness  of  the  sick  room, 
or  under  the  silent  shadows  of  a  great  bereavement. 
"Christ  comes  to  me  in  the  watches  of  the  night," 
said  the  bed-ridden  saint,  Haliburton.  "He  draws 
aside  the  curtains,  and  says,  'It  is  I;  be  of  good 
cheer;  be  not  afraid.'  Here  I  lie  pained  without 
pain;  without  strength,  and  yet  strong."     And  when 


the  last  farewells  have  been  spoken  in  the  dying 
hour,  this  never-failing  Friend  will  sweetly  whisper, 
"Fear  not,  I  am  with  thee.  Where  I  am  ye  shall  be 
also.  Having  loved  my  own,  I  will  love  them  unto 
the  end." — Messiah's  Herald. 


FULLNESS  IN  CHRIST. 


"Have  you  got  it?"  is  a  question  often  asked  now. 
I  remember  being  asked  this,  and  I  could  not  help 
replying,  "I  have  got  Him,  and  with  Him  all  the  its." 
God  does  not  give  us  Christ  piecemeal,  but  wholly. 
We  have  a  whole  Christ,  or  no  Christ.  Now,  while 
God  does  not  give  us  a  single  blessing  apart  from 
Christ,  yet  in  and  with  him  we  have  all  spiritual 
blessings.  As  a  matter  of  fact,  that  is  true  to  every 
believer,  but  as  a  matter  of  experience,  it  is  not  al- 
ways so.  "I  have  lost  my  peace,"  groaned  a  saint 
one  day.  We  replied,  "Have  you  lost  your  Saviour?" 
"Oh,  nol"  "Well,  then,  he  is  our  peace."  "I  for- 
got that."  Just  so,  lose  sight  of  Christ,  and  away 
go  your  feelings;  and  the  way  not  to  get  your  feel- 
ings back  is  to  look  for  them;  the  way  to  get  them  is 
not  to  look  for  them,  but  to  look  to  him. 

Remember  there  is  in  Christ  for  you  a  fullness  of 
acceptance,  therefore  do  not  doubt  him;  there  is  full- 
ness of  peace,  therefore  trust  him;  there  is  fullness 
of  life,  therefore  abide  in  him;  there  is  fullness  of 
blessing,  therefore  delight  in  him;  there  is  fullness 
of  power,  therefore  wait  upon  him;  there  is  fullness 
of  grace,  therefore  receive  from  him;  there  is  full- 
ness of  love,  therefore  be  taken  up  with  him;  there 
is  fullness  of  teaching,  therefore  learn  of  him;  there 
is  fullness  of  joy,  therefore  rejoice  in  him;  there  is 
fullness  of  fullness  in  him,  therefore  be  full  in  him ; 
there  is  fullness  of  riches,  therefore  count  upon  him; 
there  is  fullness  of  strength,  therefore  lean  upon 
him;  there  is  fullness  of  light,  therefore  walk  with 
him;  and  there  is  fullness  of  energy,  therefore  be 
subject  lo  him. — 1.  E.  Marsh,  in  Swor^  and  Trowel. 


SATURDAY  NIGHT. 


Placing  the  little  hats  all  in  a  row, 
Ready  for  church  on  the  morrow,  you  know ; 
Washing  wee  faces  and  little  black  fists, 
Getting  them  ready  and  fit  to  be  kissed; 
Putting  them  into  clean  garments  and  white, — 
That  is  what  mothers  are  doing  to-night. 

SpylDg  out  holes  in  the  little  worn  hose, 
Laying  by  shoes  that  are  worn  thro'  the  toes; 
Looking  o'er  garments  so  faded  and  thin — 
Who  but  a  mother  knows  where  to  begin? 
Changing  a  button  to  make  it  look  right — 
That  is  what  mothers  are  doing  to-night. 

Calling  the  little  ones  all  round  her  chair. 
Hearing  them  lisp  forth  their  soft  evening  prayer 
Telling  them  stories  of  Jesus  of  old, 
Who  loves  to  gather  the  eheep  to  his  fold ; 
Watching,  they  listen  with  childish  delight- 
That  Is  what  mothers  are  doing  to-night. 

Creeping  so  softly  to  take  a  last  peep. 
After  the  little  ones  all  are  asleep ; 
Anxious  to  know  if  the  children  are  warm. 
Tucking  the  blankets  round  each  litt'.e  form ; 
Kissing  each  little  face,  rosy  and  bright — 
That  is  what  mothers  are  doing  to-night. 

Kneeling  down  gently  beside  the  white  bed, 
Lowly  and  meekly  she  bows  down  her  head, 
Praying,  as  only  a  mother  can  pray, 
"God  guide  and  keep  them  from  going  astray." 

—  Watchman. 

m  »  m 

WHY  JOHNNY  LIKED  THE  MINISTER. 


"Oh,  wasn't  that  a  good  minister  we  had  to-day?" 
said  Johnny. 

"Yes,  very  good.  Which  sermon  did  you  like 
best?"  said  the  mother. 

"Oh,  I  don't  know.  It  wasn't  the  sermons  alto- 
gether that  I  mean." 

"What  then?" 

"Why,  he  prayed  for  Sunday-schools  and  boys  so 
good;  I  never  heard  any  one  pray  so  much  for  boys. 
Most  of  them  do  not.    That  is  why  I  liked  him." 

"Do  you  like  to  be  prayed  for?" 

"Why  yes,  of  course  I  do." 

"The  minister  prayed  to-day  that  all  the  boys 
might  be  Christ's  boys.     Did  you  like  that?" 

"Yes,  and  I  prayed  as  hard  as  I  could  that  1 
might  be.  When  we  hear  people  praying  for  us  it 
makes  us  think  it  is  about  time  to  be  praying  for 
ourselves.  If  children  don't  like  to  say  much  about 
good  things,  I  guess  they  all  like  to  have  the  minis- 
ter remember  them.  1  always  watch  and  see  if  they 
pray  for  young  folks;  if  they  don't  I  think  they 
won't  have  much  in  the  sermon  either.  Then,  of 
course,  I  don't  listen  as  well  as  I  should  if  I  thought 
there  was  something  for  me." — Sel. 


Maboh  29,  1888 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


11 


A  QIRL  IN  CHINA. 

When  between  six  and  eight  years  of  age,  my 
girl-cousins  took  that  step  which  affected  all  their 
after-lives.  At  that  age  all  well-born  Chinese  misses 
have  their  feet  bound.  It  is  a  fashion  they  are 
obliged  to  follow;  if  they  do  not  they  would  not  be 
recognized  as  ladies  when  they  grow  up,  and  they 
would  become  a  disgrace  to  their  families.  Chinese 
aristocrats  are  as  proud  and  jealous  of  their  good 
name  as  the  bluest-blooded  of  European  nobles. 
Anything  that  lowers  them  in  the  eyes  of  their  neigh- 
bors is  carefully  guarded  against.  Accordingly, 
only  the  daughters  of  poor  and  humble  parents  are 
permitted  by  society  to  retain  the  feet  as  nature  be- 
stowed them. 

The  process  of  binding  is  a  gradual  one.  From 
first  to  last  bands  are  wound  around  the  tender  feet 
to  prevent  their  growth;  but  at  first  shoes  are  worn 
nearly  as  large  as  their  natural  size;  in  a  year  or 
so  the  shoes  will  have  to  be  smaller,  and  as  they  de- 
crease in  size  till  they  attain  to  three  or  two  and  a 
half  inches  in  length,  so  shoes  are  made  to  fit  the 
lessened  foot.  But,  oh,  the  suffering  that  goes  with 
it!  This  has  never  been  exaggerated  in  any  ac- 
count. Many  a  time  have  I  heard  my  cousins  groan 
with  pain  as  the  tortures  of  binding  were  being  un- 
dergone. Yet,  strange  to  say,  those  girls  would  not 
have  had  exemption  from  the  process  on  that  ac- 
count. To  be  ranked  as  servants,  working  girls? 
Not  they.  The  Chinese  young  lady  chooses  to  be 
fashionable  even  though  she  undergo  torture  for 
several  years  and  incur  helplessness  for  life. 

Don't  imagine,  however,  that  Chinese  ladies  are 
unable  to  move.  They  can,  most  of  them,  walk  short 
distances.  But  it  is  true  that  the  spirit  is  taken  out 
of  them  by  this  species  of  suffering,  and  that  they 
are  oppressed  by  a  sense  of  physical  helplessness 
and  dependence. 

The  work  that  little  girls  in  China  is  light;  trifling 
things  about  the  cooking,  such  as  shelling  of  peas 
or  assorting  of  greens,  were  given  over  to  my  girl- 
cousins.  Between  meals  the  little  girls  were  taught 
to  sew,  embroider  and  to  spin  flax.  They  were  never 
so  happy  as  when  a  group  of  them  sat  together  at 
work;  one  would  tell  a  story,  another  would  follow 
with  a  ballad,  singing  it  with  that  peculiar  plaintive 
tone  which  is  considered  a  part  of  the  ballad's 
charm.  My  cousins  were  early  taught  to  read  and 
write,  and  in  company  with  us  boys,  until  they  were 
eleven  or  twelve;  then  they  were  thought  too  old 
to  be  left  in  the  society  of  boys  very  much;  especial- 
ly was  it  so  after  some  young  strangers  came  to  our 
school,  which  was  established  in  the  men's  living- 
rooms. 

In  closing  this  chapter  I  wish  to  call  attention  to 
the  fact  that  Chinese  girls — though  you  may  think 
they  lead  a  humdrum  sort  of  life,  though  it  be  true 
that  they  are  strangers  to  the  exciting  gayeties  en- 
joyed by  American  girls — are  usually  contented  and 
think  their  lot  a  pleasant  one.  It  is  the  custom,  I 
am  aware,  to  represent  Chinese  young  ladies  as  lan- 
guishing in  their  apartments  and  contemplating 
with  tearful  eyes  the  walls  that  confine  them.  To 
be  sure,  they  do  not  have  that  excess  of  liberty  by 
which  some  American  girls  are  spoiled;  yet  they 
are  not  kept  under  lock  and  key.  They  have  that 
liberty  which  is  consistent  with  our  ideas  of  propri- 
ety. They  make  visits,  they  call  on  their  neighbors, 
they  go  to  theaters,  they  see  the  sights,  they  witness 
boat-races,  and  so  many  pleasant  and  social  things 
besides.  But  whatever  they  do,  there  is  always  this 
limit — they  are  not  permitted  the  acquaintance  of 
young  men.  And  when  they  are  married,  they  are 
restricted  to  the  society  of  their  husbands.  You 
perhaps  think  their  life  is  a  failure.  They  look  upon 
the  sort  of  life  that  American  girls  lead  as  very  im- 
proper.—  Christian  Union. 


Temfebanck 


TEE  LAMAR  FAMILY. 


It  is  always  an  important  epoch  in  our  our  history 
when  a  vacancy  occurs  in  the  highest  judicial  tribu- 
nal of  our  Nation.  If  there  is  a  position  on  earth 
whose  occupants  should  be  far  above  and  beyond 
political  scheming  and  political  strife  it  is  that  of  a 
Chief  Justice.  The  imperative  necessity  of  having 
men  here  whose  garments  have  never  been  soiled  by 
treason  or  tainted  with  crime  is  recognized  by  every 
thinking  man  and  woman.  The  Supreme  Court  of 
the  United  States  should  be  filled  by  the  very  best 
legal  and  judicial  talent  in  the  country,  regardless 
of  the  politics  of  the  administration.  Not  only  this, 
but  it  should  be  filled  by  men  who  are  morally  clean 
and  physically  pure.  Give  us  purity  and  moral 
strength  on  the  Supreme  Bench  if  we  are  denied  it 
in  all  other  positions  of  public  trust  and  public 
honor.  The  Lamar  family  has  been  prominent  in 
Southern  politics  for  a  generation,  but  they  have 
been  politicians  with  all  that  the  word  implies. 
They  have  never  stemmed  the  tide  of  public  corrup- 
tion; they  have  never  been  prominent  in  any  reform. 
They  have  never  sacrificed  personal  interest  for  pub- 
lic good.  They  have  been  timeserving  men,  riding 
into  office  upon  some  popular  move,  regardless  of 
the  methpds  by  which  that  move  was  produced.  It 
will  be  remembered  that  Mr.  Albert  Lamar  was  at 
one  time  the  Secretary  of  the  late  Confederate  Con- 
gress, and  he  is  himself  quoted  as  authority  for  an 
incident  which  aptly  illustrates  their  political  meth- 
ods. At  the  convention  held  at  Milledgeville,  Ga., 
to  decide  whether  or  not  that  State  should  secede 
from  the  Union,  Herschel  N.  Johnson,  who  was,  per- 
haps, the  finest  speaker  in  the  State,  was  making  a 
noble  effort  to  save  Georgia  to  the  Union.  Mr.  La- 
mar is  reported  as  saying,  "Johnson  made  a  speech 
that  day  in  January,  1861,  which  was  the  grandest 
effort  of  his  life.  We  felt  the  temple  of  our  creation 
falling  around  our  heads.  It  became  necessary  to 
break  up  the  line  of  that  tremendous  speech,  and  we 
proposed-  an  adjournment,  conceding  that  Johnson 
might  go  on  after  dinner.  It  was  then  resolved  to 
give  him  a  dram  that  should  break  his  command 
over  his  topic.  There  was  some  old  brandy  in  the 
hotel,  and  I  made  a  toddy  of  it  without  water,  very 
palatable,  very  tremendous.  He  drank  it,  and  when 
we  met  again  he  could  not  go  on,  his  memory  was 
weak,  his  words  ran  together,  the  convention  got  to 
laughing  at  him,  and  Toombs  carried  it  by  storm." 

Mr.  Lamar  must  have  congratulated  himself  on 
that  day's  work  when  lie  saw  hundreds  and  thou- 
sands of  men  fall  in  consequence  of  it.  He  must 
have  congratulated  himself  on  that  diabolical  sug- 
gestion of  brandy  and  sugar  that  wrecked  poor 
Georgia's  best  friend  in  her  hour  of  need.  How 
many  political  conventions  have  been  conquered  by 
such  means?  How  many  elections  have  been  car- 
ried by  brag  and  beer,  by  bribery  and  brandy?  A 
terrible  serpent  has  been  nursed  in  the  bosom  of  our 
Republic  —a  serpent  that  is  wrecking  the  lives  and 
honor  of  her  children. — Mrs.  11.  V.  Reed,  in  the  Inter 
Ocean. 


"LOBS  JB8U8  OFTEN  COMB  HERB T" 

A  little  five-year-old  child  of  poverty,  being  shown 
over  a  home  of  great  wealth,  as  she  saw  the  rich  car- 
pets and  sumptuous  furnishings,  looked  up  into  the 
face  of  the  mistress  and  said:  "I  should  think  Jesus 
must  come  here  very  often,  it  is  such  a  nice  house 
and  such  a  beautiful  carpet.  He  comes  to  our 
bouse,  and  we  don't  have  any  carpet  I  am  sure  he 
must  come  here  very  often;  doesn't  he?"  Receiving 
no  answer  she  repeated  the  question,  and  the  answer 
was,  "I  am  afraid  not."  Soon  the  child  went  home, 
but  her  bit  of  a  sermon  remained,  and  that  night  the 
lady  repeated  it  to  her  wealthy,  worldly  husband, 
telling  him  the  touching  incident,  and  it  resulted  in 
both  husband  and  wife  seeking  Christ  and  opening 
their  hearts  and  home  to  him.  It  is  the  word  spoken 
from  the  heart  for  Jesus,  and  followed  by  the  Spirit, 
that  does  the  work,  whether  the  preacher  be  child  or 
orator, 


BOSTON'S  FAMOUS  DOO. 


There  is  a  large  Newfoundland  dog  in  Boston  that 
has  suddenly  become  famous  through  his  brilliant 
efforts  in  the  cause  of  temperance  reform.  He  is 
the  property  of  a  well-known  young  man  about 
town  whose  habits  were  more  or  less  intemperate. 
To  his  dog,  his  constant  companion,  his  bad  habits 
extended,  and  every  morning  when  the  owner  would 
come  down  town  to  take  up  his  stand  in  the  hotel 
lobby  and  reading-room,  enjoying  the  proximity  to 
the  bar,  the  dog  would  always  insist  on  going  into 
Young's  Hotel  and  on  having  his  beer  also.  First 
it  was  only  an  occasional  sip,  soon  a  whole  glass, 
then  two  both  morning  and  evening,  until  it  was 
pretty  evident  that  the  animal  was  on  the  verge  of 
being  gathered  to  his  fathers.  He  became  most  dis- 
solute, and  though  often  boozy,  like  all  old  topers, 
it  took  a  lot  to  make  him  drunk.  A  few  days  since 
the  owner  went  one  morning  into  a  spa  and  got  a 
phosphate;  one  was  offered  the  Newfoundland  and 
he  refused,  whereupon  he  was  offered  a  glass  of 
milk.  He  wanted  more,  and  his' master  paid  for  it 
The  march  to  the  hotel  was  then  begun  as  usual, 
but  the  dog  seemed  anxious  to  keep  away,  and 
finally,  when  about  entering  the  bar,  he  made  such 
strenuous  efforts  to  get  his  master  away  that  out  of 
curiosity  he  followed  him  back  to  the  spa  and  saw 
the  dog  go  gleefully  up  to  where  he  got  his  milk. 
He  wouldn't  take  his  until  his  master  took  a  glass, 
and  then  seemed  delighted  at  what  he  had  done. 
Suffice  to  say  the  owner  did  not  get  back  to  the  ho 
tel  that  day;  and  ever  since  the  dog  has  positively 


refused  to  enter  any  portal  that  looks  like  a  bar- 
room or  hotel,  and  makes  frantic  efforts  to  get  his 
master  back  to  the  spa. 

The  effect  on  the  gentleman  has  been  remarkable. 
He  has  accepted  the  example  set  by  the  dog,  and 
when  very  thirsty  he  makes  a  break  for  the  spa  to 
get  some  milk.  This  has  worked  so  successfully 
that  last  evening  he  formally  announced  to  his 
friends  that  he  had  decidedly  sworn  off,  and  confines 
his  dissipation  to  the  drink  selected  by  his  four- 
footed  teacher.  The  milk-drinking  attracts  much 
attention  every  morning. — Hel. 


HO  W  MEN  DRINK  FARMS. 


The  Plowman,  in  a  characteristic  way,  tells  how 
men  "drink  farms:"  "My  homeless  friend,  with  the 
chromatic  nose,  while  you  are  stirring  up  the  sugar 
in  that  ten-cent  glass  of  gin,  let  me  give  you  a  fact 
to  wash  it  down  with.  You  say  you  have  for  years 
longed  for  the  free,  independent  life  of  the  farmer, 
but  have  never  been  able  to  get  enough  money  to- 
gether to  buy  a  farm.  But  that  is  just  where  you 
are  mistaken.  For  several  years  you  have  been 
drinking  a  good  improved  farm  at  the  rate  of  one 
hundred  square  feet  a  gulp.  If  you  doubt  this  state- 
ment, figure  it  out  yourself.  An  acre  of  land  con- 
tains forty-three  thousand  five  hundred  and  sixty 
square  feet.  Estimating,  for  convenience'  sake,  the 
lands  at  $43.56  per  acre,  you  will  see  that  brings 
the  land  to  just  one  mill  per  square  foot;  one  cent 
for  ten  square  feet.  Now  pour  the  fiery  dose  and 
imagine  you  are  swallowing  a  strawberry  patch. 
Call  in  five  of  your  friends  and  have  them  help  gulp 
down  that  five-hundred  foot  garden.  Get  on  a  pro- 
longed spree  some  day,  and  see  how  long  a  lime  it 
requires  to  swallow  a  pasture  large  enough  to  feed 
a  cow.  Put  down  that  glass  of  gin,  there's  dirt  in 
it — one  hundred  square  feet  of  good,  rich  dirt,  worth 
$43.56  per  acre." 


A  STORM  BREWING. 


A  late  number  of  Bonfort's  Wine  and  Spirit  Cir- 
cular, says:  "Nearly  all  the  prominent  Kentucky 
distillers  have  outside  interests  to  which  they  give 
a  considerable  portion  of  their  attention,  and  to 
which  they  can  turn  should  prohibition  ever  settle 
its  destructive  fangs  upon  this  State."  Those  "prom- 
inent Kentucky  dealers"  certainly  are  wise  in  mak- 
ing provision  for  their  future  support  They  seem 
to  foresee  a  storm,  and  they  are  reefing  their  sails 
before  the  fury  of  the  tempest  descends  upon  them. 
They  have  sufficient  cause  for  apprehension.  Pro- 
hibition is  gaining,  and  before  many  years  it  will  be 
strong  enough  to  wipe  the  liquor  traffic  out  of  ex- 
istence.— Southern  Evangelist. 

m  I  m 

FATHER  TAAFE,  WHO  SMOKED  A  HUNDRED 
A  DAY. 


Father  Taafe,  who  has  been  a  Catholic  priest  at 
Flemingsburg,  Ky.,  two  years,  has  apparently  be- 
come temporarily  deranged  by  smoking  cigarettes. 
He  recently  confessed  a  misdemeanor  and  paid  a 
fine  to  escape  scandal,  as  he  said.  Inquiry  showed 
he  had  committed  no  misdemeanor.  Father  Hickey, 
of  Maysville,  hearing  this,  called  on  Taafe,  who  de- 
nied having  paid  any  fine.  Even  when  confronted 
with  the  evidence  he  remembered  nothing  of  it. 
Taafe  had  been  smoking  cigarettes  very  freely,  some 
times  a  hundred  a  day,  and  it  is  feared  it  will  be 
necessary  to  take  him  to  an  infirmary. — Sel. 


Prohibition  is  making  great  strides  in  Dakota. 
One  hundred  and  fifty  saloons  have  been  closed  in 
Fargo  alone,  and  sixty-four  counties  have  banished 
the  saloon  under  local  option. 

The  City  Council  of  Atlanta,  Ga.,  has  black-listed 
nine  white  drunkards  and  prohibited  the  sale  of  liq- 
our  to  them  under  penalty  of  $500  fine  or  thirty 
days  in  jail.  One  of  the  drunkards  has  begun  a  suit 
against  the  city  for  defamation  of  character  in  being 
blacklisted. 

The  Turks,  who  are  prohibitionists  by  order  of 
the  Koran,  are  working  to  abolish  saloons  kept  by 
ttie  "Christians"  in  Constantinople.  All  drinking 
places  within  250  feet  from  the  houses  of  Turkish 
worship  have  been  ordered  to  be  closed,  and  the  po- 
lice are  enforcing  the  decree. 

Russia,  England  and  Sweden  are,  it  seems,  the 
only  three  countries  in  the  world  where  a  decrease 
in  the  drinking  habits  of  the  people  is  noted.  In 
Russia  the  decline  has  been  one-half,  in  Sweden  one- 
third,  and  in  England  one-eighth.  All  the  other 
countries  from  which  returns  are  given,  including 
Central  Africa,  South  America,  and  even  China, 
show  a  largely  augmented  bill. 


12 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE- 


Makoh  29, 1888 


REFORM  NEWS   (Continued). 

HOMB    AGAIN    FROM    WEBTERN  PENN8TL- 
VANIA. 


Columbus,  0.,  March  23,  1888. 

Dear  Cynosure: — Mrs  Stoddard  and  I  reached 
this  city  last  evening.  I  had  thought  to  have 
stopped  for  some  work  on  the  eastern  border  of  the 
State,  but  as  our  stay  in  Pennsylvania  was  longer 
than  anticipated  it  seemed  best  to  return  at  once. 

I  doubt  if  there  is  a  field  in  the  union  that  will 
yield  better  results  for  labor  than  the  one  just  left. 
As  to  churches  the  cities  of  Pittsburgh  and  Alle- 
gheny are  eminently  Presbyterian.  There  is  a 
solidity  of  character  and  firmness  of  determination 
about  these  people,  typical  of  Scotch  and  Scotch- 
Irish  Presbyterians.  There  are  as  many  kinds  of 
reformers  as  there  are  varieties  of  natures.  Some 
impulsive,  others  morose.  Without  discredit  to  re- 
formers wherever  found,  I  may  safely  say  if  you 
want  one  who  will  stick  by  you,  rain  or  shine,  seven 
days  in  the  week,  take  one  of  the  old  Scotch-Irish 
Covenanters  who  can  sing  the  119th  Psalm  through 
without  tiring;  who  can  attend  church  every  Sab- 
bath from  9  till  -i,  sitting  on  a  straight-backed,  cush- 
ionless  seat;  who  thoroughly  believes  in  the  perse- 
verence  of  the  saints — and  you  have  your  man. 

It  was  our  privilege  while  in  Allegheny  to  listen 
to  a  number  of  trial-sermons  given  by  young  men 
who  are  soon  to  be  licensed  to  preach  in  the  Re- 
formed Presbyterian  church.  Their  productions 
evinced  diligence  in  study,  and  the  earnestness  with 
which  they  were  given,  their  fitness  for  their  calling. 
Mr.  R.  J.  Gault,  whose  brother  M.  A.  is  well  known 
as  a  contributor  to  our  paper,  extended  me  a  cordial 
invitation  to  present  our  work  to  the  young  men  of 
the  Seminary  in  a  series  of  lectures  next  year.  I 
hope  to  comply  with  this  request. 

My  last  lecture  at  New  Alexandria  was  attended 
with  much  interest  The  church  was  well  filled. 
Collection,  $5.05.  A  friend  in  writing  of  it,  said: 
"The  people  up-town  to-day  are  like  hornets.  He 
told  them  the  truth  and  it  bites."  The  Methodist 
minister,  accompanied  by  his  wife,  attended.  Prior 
to  the  lecture  he  said  he  was  a  Mason,  and  had 
never  seen  anything  wrong  in  it.  If  he  should  see 
anything  wrong  he  would  leave.  I  have  not  heard 
of  his  leaving;  perhaps  his  sight  is  not  good.  We 
had  thought  to  have  arranged  lectures  for  United 
Presbyterian  churches  in  the  city,  but  other  matters 
demanding  the  attention  of  the  people  made  it 
seem  unadvisable  at  present.  I  was  assured  that 
lectures  would  ',be  very  acceptable  at  a  future  time. 

In  returning,  we  leave  with  many  pleasant  mem- 
ories and  over  forty  new  readers  of  our  paper.  We 
should  have  been  glad  to  have  remained  longer  in 
this  promising  field,  but  justice  to  friends  in  Ohio 
impelled  our  return.  W.  B.  Stoddabd. 


Religious  News. 


— Mr.  Moody  preached  morning  and  evening  to 
an  overflowing  crowd  of  thousands  in  the  Chicago 
Avenue  church  in  this  city  on  the  Sabbath. 

— A  conference  of  a  number  of  clergy  and  laity 
of  the  Episcopal  Diocese  of  South  Carolina  have 
agreed  upon  a  plan  of  settlement  for  the  admission 
of  colored  clergy  to  the  diocesan  convention  of  this 
State,  which  has  caused  so  serious  a  disagreement 
in  the  Episcopal  church.  The  plan  provides  for 
the  organization  of  a  separate  missionary  jurisdic- 
tion for  colored  churches. 

— Evangelist  C.  H.  Yatman  lately  closed  a  series 
of  meetings  at  Peoria.  Eleven  hundred  names  of 
converts  were  handed  in.  Mr.  Yatman  has  insti- 
tuted a  Soul  Winners'  League  in  which  each  mem- 
ber pledges  himself  to  try  and  win  one  or  more  souls 
to  Christ.  At  the  first  meeting  a  thousand  souls 
were  pledged  for. 

— Special  meetings  have  been  held  at  Slaterville, 
Utah,  by  Rev.  A.  J.  Bailey,  pastor  at  Ogden,  with 
crowded  houses  every  evening.  Many  who  have 
been  opposed  to  the  Bible  and  religion  have  been 
completely  won  from  their  prejudices,  and  a  feeling 
WIS  expressed  by  all  that  the  Gospel  preached  was 
what  they  needed.  • 

— The  Lutheran  Synod  of  Missouri,  which  thor- 
oughly excludes  members  of  secret  lodges,  and  rep- 
resents Lutberanism  of  the  strictest  type,  has  931 
ministers  and  620  parochial  school  teachers,  who 
respectively  have  the  care  of  459,376  baptized  mem- 
bers and  teach  71,504  children.  There  is  a  total  of 
1,424  churches  and  544  preachinj?  places,  with  266,- 
000  communicant  members.  Only  678  of  these 
churches  are  officially  connected  with  the  Synod, 
though  served  by  pastors  of  the  Synod.  Last  year 
there  were  33,391  baptisms,  and  13,724  were  con- 


firmed. The  twelve  districts  of  the  Synod  contrib- 
uted offerings  for  education,  orphans  and  widows, 
synodical  treasury  and  missions  amounting  to  $107,- 
463  71  of  which  $32,589.62  was  devoted  to  the 
Home  Missions. 

— An  association  has  been  formed  by  the  Swedes 
in  Philadelphia  for  the  purpose  of  recovering  for 
the  Swedish  Lutherans  the  old  "Gloria  Dei"  church, 
built  in  the  year  1700  by  the  Swedish  settlers.  The 
last  Swedish  Lutheran  pastor  of  the  church  was 
the  learned  Dr.  Nils  Catlin,  who  died  in  Philadel- 
phia in  1831.  He  is  said  to  have  petitioned  the 
Archbishop  of  Upsala  to  send  a  young  pastor  to  this 
congregation.  But  this  was  not  done;  and  the  Epis- 
copal church  took  possession  of  this  and  four  other 
churches,  built  with  Swedish  money  for  Swedish 
Lutherans.  Prominent  men,  as  the  Swedish  Consul 
Lars  Westergaard,  Rev.  M.  J.  Englund,  and  Hon. 
W.  H.  Staake,  have  taken  the  matter  in  hand. 

— Very  encouraging  news  come  from  Societies  of 
Christian  Endeavor  in  missionary  lands.  The  annual 
report  of  the  Woman's  Board  of  Missions  says  that 
the  society  connected  with  the  school  in  Osaka,  Ja- 
pan, is  reaching  out  helping  hands  in  all  directions. 
Each  Christian  girl  has  pledged  herself  to  take  three 
"un-Christian  girls  as  her  special  charge  and  lead 
them  to  Christ;  and  to  speak  to  at  least  one  other 
every  day."  In  Tilly-pally,  Ceylon,  the  girls  con- 
nected with  the  society  go  out  to  evangelistic  meet- 
ings, at  which  they  do  the  singing,  while  others 
speak  and  pray.  In  Samokov,  Turkey,  the  Chris- 
tian Endeavor  Society  has  been  the  means  of  devel- 
oping character,  and  is  fruitful  of  good.  In  Hono- 
lulu much  earnest  work  has  been  done  by  the  soci- 
ety connected  with  the  Central  Union  church,  and 
within  a  year  nearly  $100  has  been  contributed  for 
missionary  purposes. 

— Bolivia,  which  has  an  area  of  500,000  square 
miles  and  a  population  of  2,000,000,  is  without  a 
single  Protestant  missionary.  Two  American  teach- 
ers, encouraged  by  Bolivian  gentlemen  and  recom- 
mended by  the  Presbyterian  Board  of  Missions,  ex- 
pect soon  to  establish  a  school  in  La  Paz,  the  cap- 
ital. 

— The  native  Christians  of  Japan  contributed  the 
past  year  more  than  $15,000  to  mission  work. 

— There  are  now  in  the  mission  field  2,400  un- 
married ladies,  besides  probably  an  equal  number 
of  the  married.  In  the  early  days  of  missions  it 
was  not  thought  a  woman  could  enter  the  ranks  of 
mission  workers  except  as  the  wife  of  a  missionary. 

— The  remarkable  spread  of  Protestantism  in 
in  South  Russia,  says  a  foreign  paper,  is  causing 
great  consternation  among  the  authorities  there,  and 
probably  attempts  will  be  made  to  put  it  down  by 
violent  means.  The  police  are  instructed  to  keep 
strict  watch  over  all  that  transpires,  and  to  leave  no 
new  methods  untried  to  prevent  the  spread  of  the 
Gospel,  and  to  keep  the  people  in  ignorance  of  its 
truths. 

— There  is  a  great  change  regarding  the  position 
of  women  in  Japan.  Many  who  a  few  years  ago 
looked  with  contempt  on  woman  are  now  anxious  to 
raise  her  to  the  same  level  as  in  Western  nations. 
The  desire  to  have  girls  educated  has  worked  in  fa- 
vor of  Christianity,  since  it  is  not  considered  safe 
to  send  girls  to  any  but  a  Christian  school.  All  the 
mission-schools  for  girls  at  Tokio  are  overcrowded. 

— Dr.  Pierson  of  Philadelphia,  so  useful  with  pen 
and  by  speech,  recently  declared  that  for  thirteen 
years  the  barrenness  of  his  ministry  was  owing  to 
the  worship  of  idols.  "God  said  to  me,  'If  you  will 
give  up  the  idol  of  literary  applause,  and  give  your- 
self to  rescuing  the  perishing,  I  will  give  you  souls.' 
I  said,  'I  will  do  it!'  Within  eighteen  months  God 
gave  me  more  sonls  than  in  the  eighteen  years  that 
had  gone  before." 

— Miss  Tucker,  of  Adana,  a  missionary  of  the 
American  Board  in  the  part  of  Asiatic  Turkey  were 
famine  reigns,  writes  with  reference  to  the  help  sent 
from  this  country:  "The  feeling  that  the  religion  of 
Christ  is  the  only  true  one  is  rife  among  the  recipi- 
ents of  relief,  and  among  hundreds  who  only  stand 
back  and  look  on  at  the  relief  work.  Moslems,  Ar- 
menians and  Greeks  are  almost  daily  heard  to  say, 
'Theirs  is  the  religion  of  kindness,  the  true  religion, 
else  why  should  they,  away  there -in  America,  care 
how  many  of  us  die  of  starvation?  Our  leaders  do 
not  care.'  "  There  is  no  way  to  preach  the  Gospel 
of  Jesus  Christ  so  powerfully  as  by  living  out  its 
precepts.  If  all  Christians  could  be  induced  to 
adopt  the  Divine  precept,  "Thou  shalt  love  thy 
neighbor  as  thyself,"  as  the  motto  of  their  live8,and 
to  so  act  that  everybody  who  knew  them  would  be 
convinced  that  they  were  honestly  trying  to  carry  it 
out,  skepticism  would  die  out  for  want  of  nourish- 
ment, and  the  multitudes  would  be  drawn  to  Christ 


as  by  magnetic  power.     "I,  if  1  he  lifted  up,  will 
draw  all  men  unto  me." 

A  Missionary  Hero  and  Model. — Rev.  George 
Bowen,  whose  death  occurred  at  Bombay,  India,  on 
the  5  th  of  February,  was  not  only  one  of  the  best 
known  and  most  useful  of  American  missionaries 
abroad,  but  was  a  man  of  remarkable  personal  qual- 
ities and  independent  character.  His  devotion  to 
the  heathen  cause  in  religion  was  shown  by  his  re- 
fusal to  draw  his  salary,  after  having  spent  but  one 
year  in  India,  on  the  ground  that  he  would  have 
more  influence  among  the  heathen  if  he  were  not 
possessed  of  a  stated  income.  Mr.  Bowen  was  born 
in  this  country  in  1816.  At  the  age  of  seventeen 
he  was  led  to  doubt  the  truth  of  Christianity  by 
reading  Gibbon's  history.  For  eleven  years  he  was 
an  unbeliever,  but  was  converted  at  the  death-bed 
of  a  lady  to  whom  he  was  greatly  attached.  His 
father  was  a  man  of  wealth,  but  the  son  determined 
to  sacrifice  his  home  and  prospects,  and  to  devote 
himself  and  his  whole  life  to  the  missionary  service 
among  the  heathen.  He  proceeded  to  India  in 
1846,  in  connection  with  the  American  Board  of 
Missions.  After  he  refused  to  draw  further  com- 
pensation for  his  labors  at  the  end  of  his  first  year 
he  earned  his  living  by  giving  private  lessons  for 
an  hour  or  two  daily.  He  was  often  pressed  to  ac- 
cept the  means  of  making  himself  more  comforta- 
ble, but  steadfastly  refused.  For  many  years  he 
actually  lived  in  the  native  bazaars  and  among  the 
sadly  degraded  population  until  requested  to  become 
secretary  of  the  Religious  Tract  Society,  at  whose 
depot  he  afterwards  resided,  managing  its  affairs 
without  pay,  in  addition  to  his  other  labors. 


LITERATTTRE. 


Prohibition  Bells  and  Songs  of  thb  New  Crusade.  Com- 
piled by  the  Sliver  Lake  Quartette.  Price,  30  cents,  hoard 
covers;  20  cents,  paper  covers.    Funk  &  Wagnalls,  New  York. 

Old  Andrew  Fletcher  of  Saltoun  wrote  two  centu- 
ries ago:  "I  know  a  very  wise  man  that  believed 
that,  if  a  man  were  permitted  to  make  all  the  bal- 
lads, he  need  not  care  who  should  make  the  laws  of 
a  nation."  If  the  character  of  a  political  party  is 
not  made  by  its  campaign  songs,  it  is  at  least  indi- 
cated by  them.  The  vulgar  and,  with  the  Demo- 
crats, the  immoral  sentiments  of  the  party  outcries 
were  a  sure  index  to  the  party  character.  No  one 
who  has  heard  the  thrilling  music  of  Mr.  Mead's 
Silver  Lake  Quartette  will  forget  it.  This  is  their 
book.  These  bells  are  not  muffled;  they  give  out 
no  uncertain  sound.  They  vnll  be  heard  throughout 
the  land,  for  they  call  to  better,  purer  living  both 
by  the  individual  and  the  State. 

Professor  W.  Q.  Sumner,  in  an  article  on  "The  First 
Steps  Toward  a  Millennium,"  in  the  Cosmopolitan  for 
March,  says  that  the  questions  that  confront  the  student 
of  social  science  narrow  themselves  down  to  the  question 
of  population.  There  are  not  perhaps  too  many  peo- 
ple who  are  sound  physically  and  mentally,  but  there  are 
too  many  people  who  ought  never  to  have  been  born  be- 
cause of  their  mental  and  physical  feebleness.  The  lat 
ter  are  the  fruit  of  imprudent  marriages,  which  Profes- 
sor Sumner  denounces  with  severity.  They  give  rise  to 
most  of  our  "Social  Problems,"  which  are  apt  to  be 
solved  by  the  interference  of  the  state.  Such  interfer- 
ence, he  says,  aggravates  the  evils  that  it  is  designed  to 
cure.  If,  therefore,  we  are  to  call  upon  the  state  to  do 
anything,  it  ought  to  be  called  upon  to  prevent  impru- 
dent marriages;  but  this  work,  Professor  Sumner  says, 
very  few  entrust  to  the  state. 

Rev.  J.  Max  Hark,  D.  D.,  a  prominent  member  of  the 
Moravian  church,  an  editorial  writer  for  the  Christian 
Union,  the  Sunday  School  Times  and  other  papers,  has 
prepared  a  work  on  the  Unity  of  the  Truth  in  Christian- 
ity and  Evolution.  The  subject  is  treated  in  a  manner 
that  reminds  one  of  the  Duke  of  Argyll's  Reign  of  Law, 
and  Prof.  Drummond's  Natural  Law  in  the  Spiritual 
World.  A  well-known  critic  who  has  read  the  manu- 
script pronounces  it  superior  to  either;  if  it  can  reason- 
ably be  compared  to  these,  thousands  of  readers  will  ac- 
cord it  a  hearty  welcome. 

The  current  number  of  Scrihner's  Magazine  is  rich  in 
portraits:  Napoleon,  Wellington,  Leigh  Hunt,  Barry 
Cornwall,  Keats,  Shelley;  the  scientists  Henry,  A.rago, 
Ampere  and  Siemens;  Mendellsohn  and  bis  wife.  Mr. 
John  C.  Ropes,  whose  studies  of  the  life  and  work 
of  Napoleon  entitle  him  to  a  place  of  authority  contrib- 
utes the  first  part  of  a  paper  on  Waterloo.  No  battlefield 
in  the  world  probably  has  been  so  often  reviewed,  yet 
we  have  here  one  of  the  clearest  and  most  succint  sketch- 
es of  the  strategy  of  all  three  armies  engaged  in  that  de- 
cisive battle.  Mrs.  Field's  "Shelf  of  Old  Books"  is  full 
of  pleasant  reminiscences  of  Hunt,  Cornwall  and  Keats. 
The  history  of  the  electric  motor  is  verv  happily  told 
from  the  first  discovery  by  Faraday  in  1821  to  the  pres- 
ent wonderful  development.  "Mendellsohn'a  Letters  to 
Moschelle8"is  continued  with  fac  simile  reproductions  of 
the  famous  musician's  composition. 

The  Missionary  Review  of  the  World  for  April  comes 
to  us  freighted  with  the  richest  treasures  of  missionary 
thought  and  life  and  information.  The  "Literature"de- 
partment  contains  ten  articles  on  such  important  topics 


March  29,  1888 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


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as  Paul's  Missionary  Principles,  David 
Brainerd's  Character,  The  Bible  in  India, 
The  Miracles  of  Missions,  Mission  Work 
in  Papal  Europe, The  Great  World  Coun- 
cil, Condition  of  Females  in  India,  and 
others,  by  the  editors,  Dr.  Chamberlain 
of  India,  Dr.  Clark  of  Italy,  and  other 
writers.  The  correspondence  section  is 
full  of  interest, and  so  of  the  Internation- 
al, conducted  by  Dr.  Gracey.  Dr.  Pier- 
son  makes  the  Monthly  Concert  part  in- 
dispensable to  pastors  and  churches.  The 
Monthly  Bulletin  and  Intelligence  depart- 
ments show  the  on-goings  of  the  entire 
missionary  world.  The  "Statistics"  are 
marvels.  The  "Notes  on  recent  Mission- 
ary Books"  and  "Elitorial  Notes  on  Cur- 
rent Topics"  are  numerous, trenchant  and 
valuable.  Funk  &  Wagnalls.  New  York. 
$3.00  per  year. 


Lodge  Notes. 

An  assembly  of  Knights  of  Labor  in 
the  Shenango  Valley,  under  district  as- 
sembly No.  199,  has  been  suspended. 
Cause,  that  unpardonable  sin  of  all  secret 
cliques,  non-payment  of  dues. — Bandy 
Lake  lietos. 

Thomas  B.  McGuire,  a  leading  Knight 
of  Labor  and  member  of  the  '49  Club,  of 
New  York,  is  credited  with  saying  that, 
of  all  the  Presidential  candidates  now  be- 
fore the  people,  Judge  Gresham  is  the 
most  acceptable  to  the  Knights  of  Labor. 

The  kicking  shoemakers  of  Cincinnati 
who  refused  to  obey  the  orders  of  Dis- 
trict Master  Workman  Cavanaugh,  of 
District  48,  Knights  of  Labor,  and  re- 
turn to  work,  and  who  have  been  declared 
out  of  the  order,  held  a  mass  meeting  and 
resolved  to  continue  in  rebellion  against 
the  Master  Workman  and  his  orders. 

State  Commissioner  of  Insurance  of 
Missiouri  Alfred  Carr  to- day  brought  suit 
against  the  Ancient  Order  of  United 
Workmen  under  the  law  governing  and 
restricting  insurance  companies  in  this 
State.  This  order  decided  in  convention 
recently  held  in  St. Louis  that  they  would 
refuse  to  comply  with  the  law  on  the 
ground  that  they  were  not  an  insurance 
company .  A  short  time  ago  the  Order 
of  the  Iron  Hall  defeated  the  Commis- 
sioner, but  he  now  claims  to  have  better 
grounds. 

The  trouble  in  the  brewing  trade  at 
Milwaukee  has  proved  more  expensive 
to  the  National  Brewers'  Union  than  was 
expected.  Reports  show  that  since  No- 
vember the  union  has  paid  over  $80,000 
to  idle  members  of  the  Milwaukee  organ- 
ization. The  union  has  made  a  change 
in  its  attitude  toward  the  men  who  refus- 
ed to  quit  work  when  ordered .  It  now 
promises  to  regard  them  as  members  in 
good  standing,  who  are  at  work  with  the 
permission  of  the  union.  It  is  believed 
that  this  action  will  add  2,000  votes  to 
the  labor  ticket. 

The  Globe  Publishing  company,  incor- 
porated and  contemplating  the  publica- 
tion of  a  Democratic  newspaper  in  Chi- 
cago, has,  it  is  said,  encountered  opposi- 
tion in  its  business  arrangements  from 
the  Typographical  Union.  Its  publisher 
conducted  the  Times  as  a  strictly  non- 
union establishment,  and  it  is  the  inten- 
tion of  himself  and  his  partners  to  run 
the  projected  Democratic  journal  on  the 
same  plan.  Local  labor  union  Democrats 
say  that  the  paper,  if  started  with  non- 
unionists,  will  demoralize  all  prospects 
of  union  between  the  labor  and  Demo- 
cratic parties. 

About  forty  of  the  cases  on  the  trial 
docket  for  the  second  term  of  the  United 
States  District  Court  at  Springfield,  Mo., 
are  against  members  of  the  notorious 
Bald  Kaobbers'  organization,  who  are 
held  for  brutally  whipping  and  intimidat- 
ing men  and  driving  them  from  their 
homesteads  on  government  lands  in  Chris- 
tian and  Douglass  counties.  The  United 
State  authorities  have  similar  cases 
against  the  nine  Bald  Knobbers  in  jail  at 
Ozark  for  the  atrocious  murder  of  Charles 
Green  and  William  Edens,  in  Christian 
county  a  year  ago,  two  of  whom  have  al- 
ready been  convicted  of  murder  in  the 
first  degree.  Both  the  State  and  United 
States  authorities  show  a  positive  deter- 
mination to  completely  wipe  out  the  law- 
less organization,  and  they  have  already 
put  an  effectual  stop  to  the  midnight 
meetings  and  nefarious  work  of  the  mem- 
bers. 

Mayor  Hewitt  of  New  York  denied  he 
is  a  protector  of  trusts,  as  stated  in  Mr.T. 
V.  Powderly'a  paper,  Journal  of  United 


Labor,  and  boldly  accuses  Mr.  Powderly 
of  lying. 

The  Government  has  made  provision 
for  reimbursing  the  negroes  who  lost  their 
all  by  the  failure  of  the  Freedman's  Bank 
in  Washington.  These  are  some  of  the 
societies  which  had  accounts  with  the 
bank: 

Junior  Rising  Sons  and  Daughters  of 
the  Vineyard. 

Resolute  Daughters  of  Joshua. 

Benevolent  Sons  of  the  Young  Army 
Shining. 

Loving  Daughters  of  Paradise . 

Young  Rising  Sons  of  Ham. 

Sisters  of  the  Lord's  Delight  Society. 

Heavenly  Called  Laborers  of  the  Vine- 
yard. 

Originating  Sons  and  Daughters  of  Bus- 
iness. 

United  Sons  and  Daughters  of  Rising 
Morning  Star. 

Benevolent  Daughters  of  Weeping 
Mary  Society. 

Grand  United  Sons  and  Daughters  of 
thfi  Living  Council  of  the  Cross. 

Young  National  Daughters  of  Phoenix. 

Infant  Daughters  of  Love. 

United  Sons  of  Adam. 

Loving  Daughters  of  the  Sepulchre  — 
Voice. 


aVBBORIPTlON  LBTTBRB. 


The  following  have  made  remittances 
of  money  to  the  Cynosure  from  March  19 
to  March  24  inclusive. 

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CONSUMPTION    CUBABIiS. 

Since  the  fact  that  consumption  is  both 
preventable,  aad  in  its  earliest  stage  cur- 
able, it  has  lost  much  of  its  terror.  If 
the  first  symptoms  are  at  once  recognized 
and  the  proper  remedy  applied,  very  few 
if  any  one  need  die  of  consumption, 
which  is  really  lung  scrofula.  Like  many 
other  diseases  this  formidable  one  grows 
out  of  impure  blood, and  this,in  turn,from 
a  diseased  liver.  Hence,  we  have  the 
hacking  cough,  the  pains  in  chest, the  in- 
flamed lungs,  and  all  the  symptoms  of 
hastening  consumption,  all  the  result  of 
depraved  blood  and  a  diseased  liver.  The 
use  of  Dr.  Pierce's  Golden  Medical  Dis- 
covery will  arrest  all  such  symptoms,  re- 
store the  liver  to  healthy  action,  and  send 
streams  of  pure  blood  into  every  organ. 
Of  druggists. 


MARKET  RSP0RT8 

CHICAGO. 

Wheat— No.  a 7.5|/ 

No.  3 70  @     71 

Winter  No  S 81 

Com— No.  a 49V 

Oatt— No.a ~, ^^^     30  a     35 

Rye— No.  a 60 

Branperton 15  50 

Hay— Timothy 8  00  @14  00 

Butter,  medium  to  best 13  ®     29>^ 

Cheese 05  @     \5 

Beans 1  25  @  2  85 

BggB I6W 

Seed»— Timothy 2  10         2  52 

Flax 188         145 

Broomcom 02>^@     f>7 

Potatoes  per  bus 7.5  @      97 

Hides— Green  to  dry  flint 05>^@     18 

Lumber— Common 1100  ^18  00 

Wool 13  (a      36 

Cattle— Choice  to  extra 5  tt^  @  5  .'iO 

Common  to  good 2  lU         4  75 

Hogs 4  9>  @  5  4.'-. 

Sheep 4  25  Q  6  10 

NEW  YORK. 

Flour 8  20  a  5  60 

Wheat— Winter 89  @     94>i 

Spring 88 

Com .W  @     61 

Oata 37  (^      45 

BgKB.. ISX 

Butter 15  3     sa 

Wool ^ 09  84 

KANSAS  CITT. 

Cattle a  00  a  4  95 

Hogi  .....^ ..,^ a  75  a  6  15 

•k*M     .  .  „ a  00  •  5  40 


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March  29, 1888 


Fakm  Notes. 

OVBHPHODUCTION   OP   CATTLE. 

There  is  clearly  an  over  production  in 
the  cattle  business,  and  it  interests  every 
tax  paying  and  renting  farmer  in  the 
United  States  who  raises  a  calf.  This  ov- 
erproduction is  a  serious  drawback, espec- 
ially to  the  cattle  raiser  in  the  great  corn- 
growing  States.  Cattle  have  depreciated 
in  value  so  rapidly  that  they  can  hardly 
be  raised  with  profit  on  lands  worth 
twenty-five  dollars  per  acre  and  upward. 
The  result  is  being  fslt  far  and  wide; 
money  is  borrowed  on  mortgages  in  the 
hope  of  better  prices  which  do  not  come. 
The  direct  cause  of  this  has  been  the  use 
of  foreign  capital  in  the  cattle  raising 
business  on  the  public  domain,  rent  free 
and  tax  free.  Powerful  cattle  companies 
can  afford  to  lose  twenty-five  per  cent  of 
the  increase  of  their  herds,  and  then  be 
ahead  of  the  man  who  raises  cattle  on  his 
own  land.  The  use  of  the  Government 
land  for  stock  raising  purposes  retards 
rather  than  assists  the  settlement  of  the 
extreme  western  States  and  Territories. 
Home-seekers  do  not  care  to  go  where 
they  are  likely  to  be  persecuted,  or  to 
have  their  crops  overrun  by  herds  of  cat- 
tle. There  is  a  remedy  for  this.  Let 
Congress  prohibit  the  unpaid  use  of  the 
public  lands  for  grazing  purposes  as 
strictly  as  it  prohibits  the  poor  settler 
from  taking  timber  from  the  public  lands 
to  build  his  cabin  with,  or  to  keep  his 
family  from  freezing. — Am,  Agricultur- 
ist. 

ASHES   FOR  TREES. 

A  simple,  homely  remedy  for  many  tree 
ailments  and  enemies  is  wood  ashes,  or, 
if  not  to  be  had, coal  ashes  with  a  sprink- 
ling of  lime— but  ashes;  ashes  to  be  used 
freely  before  mulching  (against  frost  or 
drouth);  after  mulching,  that  no  tree 
enemies  may  harbor  therein,  thp  mulch- 
ing itself, when  gathered  up,  to  be  burned 
and  returned  to  the  trees.  Young  trees 
should  have  plenty  of  iron  filings  or  cin- 
ders around  the  roots  when  planted.  If 
the  iron  is  not  needed  it  will  not  be  ab- 
sorbed, therefore  there  can  be  no  harm 
in  its  use. —  Tick's  Magazins. 

Ira  Lonsberry,  of  Fowlerville,  Mich., 
last  fall  bought  a  pig  that  weighed  j  ast 
exactly  150  pounds.  He  put  it  into  a  pen 
and  fed  it  for  ninety-three  days,  when, 
after  being  butchered  and  thoroughly 
dressed,  it  weighed  364  J  pounds.  At  the 
time  of  killing  it  was  thirteen  months 
old, and  was  fed  in  the  ninety-three  days 
about  seven  bushels  of  corn,  the  balance 
of  the  feed  given  it  being  carrots. 

When  the  cattle  are  put  on  the  grass 
too  early  both  are  injured. 

The  note  that  is  not  due  till  two  years 
will  be  harder  on  you  than  the  note  due 
in  a  year. 

Counting  our  chickens  before  they  are 
hatched  would  not  be  so  bad  did  we  first 
candle  the  eggs. 

The  successful  farmer  is  the  one  that 
makes  ten  per  cent  on  the  money  he  has 
lost  through  mistakes. 

The  horse  with  plenty  of  currycomb 
outside  and  oats  inside  doesn't  show  his 
ribs  before  midsummer. 

It  is  a  poor  rule  that  won't  work  both 
ways;  nevertheless,  both  lending  and 
borrowing  are  unprofitable. 

None  but  a  good  farmer  can  make 
eight  per  cent  on  borrowed  money;  and 
he  is  the  last  farmer  to  do  it 

Bad  tempered  cows,  dull  plows,  and 
weak  fences  ought  to  be  evils  unendura- 
ble, for  they  are  not  immovable. 

The  man  who  allows  the  rivulets  to  get 
his  manure  is  always  sure  that  the  gov- 
ernment is  robbing  the  people. 

What  doth  it  profit  a  man  if  he  keeps 
the  weeds  down  on  his  farm  and  allows 
them  to  grow  on  the  highway? 

Extend  the  house  cleaning  into  the  cel- 
lar, and  make  the  work  more  thorough 
where  shirking  would  be  least  seen. 

Better  have  your  heart  in  your  work 
and  eighty  acres,  than  a  quarter  section 
and  be  at  odds  with  your  occupation . 

There  are  now  a  hundred  rivulets  on 
the  farm,  yet  it  is  cheaper  to  give  the 
animals  drink  from  a  well  protected  from 
surface  water. 

It  is  a  false  notion  that  is  responsible 
for  greivous  evil,  that  a  cheap  teacher  is 
good  enough  for  the  summer  term.because 
all  the  pupils  are  small. 

It  is  better  to  take  a  little  liver   medi- 
cine than  to  grumble  and  feel    blue,  and 
the  man  who  has  bad   frui's  during  the 
winter  will  not  need  the  medicine. 
Qood  highways  are  impossible  as  long 


as  the  highway  tax  is  worked  out  by  the 
tax  payers.  Collect  the  tax  in  money  and 
let  the  work  publicly  to  the  lowest  re- 
sponsible bidder. — Am.  Agriculturist. 


HER  FAULT. 


If  she  is  made  miserable  by  day  and 
sleepless  at  night  by  nervous  headache, 
pains  in  the  back,  easily  grieved,  vexed 
or  made  tired,  or  is  suffering  from  any  of 
those  wasting  functional  disorders  pecul 
iar  to,  women,  such  as  prolapsus,  ulcera- 
tion, leucorrhea,  morning  sickneas,  or 
weakness  of  the  stomach,  etc., a  brief  self 
treatment  with  Dr.  Pierce's  Favorite 
Prescription  will  convince  her  of  the  fol- 
ly of  enduring  misery  that  can  be  so  eas- 
ily, pleasantly  and  radically  cured.  Drug- 
gists. 


CATARRH  CURED. 

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from  that  loathsome  disease,  catarrh,  and 
vainly  trying  every  known  remedy,  at 
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CONSUMPTION  SUKEI-X  CURED. 

To  the  Editor: — Please  inform  your 
readers  that  I  have  a  positive  remedy  for 
the  above  named  disease .  By  its  timely 
use  thousands  of  hopeless  cases  have  been 
permanently  cured .  I  shall  be  glad  to 
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any  of  your  readers  who  have  consump- 
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ments of  the  Irtilge  as  th-  y  appear  to  pulillc  view,  and 
reveals  the  secret  maelKnery  of  corruption  In  poli- 
tics. ourtH,  and  six-lnl  and  religious  crcles.  In  ad- 
vance, tlM  per  year. 

National  ChriBtian  Association. 

Ill  W.  MtMamatimmit^n,  HL 


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THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


March  29, 1888 


Npws  OF  The  Week 

WASHINGTON. 

Morrison  R.  Waite,  Chief  Justice  of  the 
Supreme  Court  of  the  United  States,  died 
Friday  morning  at  Washington  of  ty- 
phoid pneumonia,  after  an  illness  of  a  few 
days.  Both  houses  of  Congress  adjourn- 
ed out  of  respect  to  the  memory  of  the 
deceased,  and  committees  were  appoint- 
ed to  attend  the  funeral.  The  Supreme 
Court  also  adjourned,  and  President 
Cleveland  issued  a  proclamation  ordering 
that  the  Government  buildings  be  draped 
for  three  days,  and  that  flags  be  placed  at 
half-mast  on  the  day  of  the  funeral.  Mrs. 
Waite  is  absent  in  California,  and  no  ar- 
rangements for  the  funeral  can  be  made 
untU  her  return. 

Ex-President  Andrew  D.  White  an- 
nounces that  the  corner  stone  of  the  new 
library  building  at  Cornell  University  will 
be  laid  by  President  Cleveland  in  June. 

The  President  has  sent  the  new  Chinese 
treaty  to  the  Senate.  Its  main  features 
have  been  published.  It  is  understood 
that  the  President  recommends  in  his  mes- 
sage of  transmittal  that  the  injunction  of 
secrecy  be  at  once  removed  from  the 
treaty.  The  treaty,  by  its  terms,  runs 
twenty  years.  A  Chinese  laborer  who 
has  $1,000  worth  of  property  here,  or  that 
amount  due  him,  or  who  has  a  lawful 
husband  or  wife  or  a  parent  or  child  here 
may,  if  ab8ent,return  within  one  year,or, 
if  detained  by  illness,  the  time  may  be 
extended  to  two  years.  No  other  Chi- 
nese laborers  may  come  in  on  any  terms . 
Chinese  merchants,  scholars  and  students 
may  come  only  when  provided  with  cer- 
tificates issued  by  an  American  consul. 
The  treaty  binds  this,  country  to  pay  to 
the  Chinese  minister  $276,000  within  one 
year,  which  sum  shall  be  accepted  as  a 
full  settlement  of  all  claims  against  the 
United  States  or  her  citizens  for  loss  or 
injury  suffered  by  Chinamen  here. 

The  bill  introduced  by  Mr.  Fr ye  to  ap- 
ply the  laws  of  the  several  Scates  relating 
to  the  sale  of  distilled  and  fermented  li- 
quors to  such  liquors  when  they  have 
been  imported  as  well  as  when  manufac- 
tured in  the  United  States  was  reported 
adversely  by  Senator  George  from  the 
Committee  on  Judiciary. 

STRIKES. 

Non-union  workmen  at  the  Terre 
Haute,  Ind.,  car  shops  have  been  carry- 
ing revolvers  to  protect  themselves  from 
strikers.  Friday,  however,  two  of  them, 
in  a  quarrel  over  work,  used  their  revol- 
vers on  each  other,  probably  with  fatal 
effect  to  one. 

At  Fulton,  111 ,  Friday,  brotherhood 
strikers  threw  coal  and  stones  at  some  of 
the  new  engineers  and  firemen  who  re- 
fused to  stop  work.  Two  men  were  hit, 
though  not  seriously  hurt. 

Fifty  citizens  of  Aurora,Ill.,  in  a  peti- 
tion to  the  Board  of  Railroad  Commis- 
sioners Friday,  stated  their  belief  that 
engineers  unfit  and  incompetent  to  per- 
form their  duties  were  running  trains 
through  that  place,  thereby  endangering 
the  lives  and  property  of  patrons,  and 
asked  an  investigation. 

At  St.  Joseph,  Mo .,  Friday  morning,  a 
new  Burlington  engineer,  in  going  to  the 
round  house  and  passing  a  crowd  of  strik- 
ers and  their  sympathizers,  was  struck  on 
the  head  with  a  blunt  instrument  by  some 
one  in  the  crowd,  whose  identity  is  still 
unknown,  and  can  not  recover. 

A  few  minutes  past  midnight  Saturday 
morning  the  switchmen  on  the  Chicago, 
Burlington  and  Quincy  Railroad  stopped 
work  in  this  city.  Their  lodge  had  unan- 
imously resolved  that  the  switchmen 
would  not  switch  cars  for  engines  driven 
by  other  than  brotherhood  engineers.  The 
strike  was  spreading. 

COUNTRY. 

Farther  investigation  of  the  treatment 
of  Arkansas  convicts  in  the  Coal  Hill 
mines  reveals  brutalities  even  more  hor- 
rible than  at  flrat  reported.  Warden 
Scott  whipped  75  men  in  one  night  till 
til  were  bleeding.the  men  had  gone  with 
out  shoe?  all  winter,  one  had  been  mur- 
dered in  cold  blood  by  order  of  the  fugi- 
tive warden,  Gafford. 

The  flood  at  Millbury,  Mass.,  necessi- 
tated a  removal  of  prisoners  from  the 
jail,where  the  water  is  now  six  feet  deep. 
Some  of  the  citizens,  it  is  said,  actually 
had  to  swim  out  of  their  houses.  The 
central  portion  of  the  town  of  Uzbridge 
is  also  flooded. 


Henry  Bergh,  nephew  of  the  lately  de- 
ceased founder  of  the  Sooiety  for  the  Pre- 
vention of  Cruelty  to  Animals,  has  been 
unanimously  elected  president  of  the  so- 
ciety. 

A  conductor  on  a  Mississippi  railroad 
refused  to  permit  Roderick  Lowry,  a 
nephew  of  Governor  Lowry,  to  ride  on 
the  governor's  family  pass,  which  result- 
ed in  a  row, and  also  in  exposing  the  fact 
that  the  governor  is  guilty  of  a  misde- 
meanor under  the  State  laws.  It  appears 
that  he  holds  passes  on  all  the  roads  in 
the  State,  the  penalties  for  which  are  se- 
vere. The  railroads  too  are  liable  to  a 
fine  of  $5,000. 

A  terrible  electric  storm  visited  north- 
ern Georgia  Wednesday  night.  In  Fair- 
burn  both  the  colored  churches  were  de- 
molished, shade  trees  uprooted  and  other 
damage  done.  Near  Austelle  a  house 
was  blown  on  a  negro  blackimith,killing 
him.  At  Gainesville  the  colored  Baptist 
church  was  completely  demolished.  Cal- 
houn suffered  most  in  north  Georgia.  It 
was  visited  by  a  terrible  funnel-shaped 
cyclone  which  cut  a  swath  seventy-five 
yards  wide  through  the  middle  of  the 
town,  taking  in  the  court  house  and  sta- 
tion. 

A  Chattanooga  dispatch  says:  The 
storm  was  much  more  serious  and  wide- 
spread in  its  destruction  than  at  first  re- 
ported .  It  seems  to  have  formed  in  the 
vicinity  of  Calhoun  and  pursued  a 
northeasterly  direction  throueh  north 
Georgia  and  into  and  beyond  East  Ten- 
nessee, bounding  across  to  the  Chilhowee 
Mountains,  and  was  next  heard  of  near 
Loudon,  Tenn.,  on  the  East  Tennessee 
road,  80  miles  northeast  of  Chattanooga, 
traveling  from  Calhoun,  Ga  ,  to  Loudon, 
Tenn.,  a  distance  of  100  miles,  in  about 
30  minutes.  Many  persons  were  believed 
to  be  killed  or  injured. 

Arrangements  are  being  made  by  the 
colored  people  of  the  Northwest  for  the 
celebration  at  Columbus,  Ohio,  Sept.  23, 
of  the  ordinance  of  1787,  giving  freedom 
to  the  race  in  the  Northwest  Territory, 
and  President  Lincoln's  Emancipation 
Proclamation. 

FOBIieN. 

While  a  performance  was  in  progress 
at  the  Banquet  Theater,  Oporto,  Portu- 
gal, Tuesday  night  an  explosion  of  gas 
occurred  and  the  theatre  took  fire  and 
was  destroyed.  The  house  was  full  of 
spectators  at  the  time;  eighty  bodies  have 
been  taken  from  the  ruins.  Most  of  those 
burned  were  in  the  third  row  of  boxes 
and  galleries,  where  whole  families  were 
suffocated.  There  was  a  terrific  struggle 
at  the  door  when  the  spectators  tried  to 
escape.  Large  numbers  were  suffocated 
and  trampled  upon .  Many  on  reaching 
the  street  were  so  injured  that  they  vom- 
ited blood. 

Sunday  Emperor  Frederick  attended 
the  services  in  the  chapel  at  Charlotten- 
burg.  He  is  in  good  spirits  and  contiues 
to  improve. 

Low  lying  districts  along  the  banks  of 
the  rivers  Elbe  and  Vistula  are  inundat- 
ed. The  village  of  Dornitz  is  isolated  in 
the  midst  of  a  great  lake.  A  number  of 
soldiers  from  the  nearest  garrison  after 
arduous  efforts  succeeded  in  reaching 
there  with  a  supply  of  food  for  the  inhab- 
itants, but  fifteen  of  them  were  drowned 
in  the  attempt.  Further  attempts  to  re- 
lieve numerous  villages  in  a  similar  posi- 
tion are  being  made.  The  fiood8,it  is  es- 
timated, cover  200  square  miles  of  terri- 
tory, and  alarming  rumors  of  the  extent 
of  damage  done  are  circulated. 

The  late  German  Emperor's  will  shows 
that  his  total  savings  do  not  exceed  $12,- 
500,000.  The  larger  portion  of  the  prop- 
erty is  left  to  increase  the  crown  treasure 
or  general  fund  of  the  crown  established 
by  his  father. 

The  opinion  prevails  in  England  that 
in  spite  of  all  the  sympathy  expressed  for 
Germany  by  Russia  the  latter  power  in- 
tends to  become  aggressive  as  soon  as 
the  weather  permits .  Authentic  advices 
from  Russia  state  that  two  generals  fresh 
from  the  war  councils  at  St.  Petersburg 
have  said  that  hostilities  will  commence 
in  May . 

The  Chinese  papers  confirm  the  reports 
of  the  disastrous  earthquake  in  the  prov- 
inces of  Tuman  and  Syechuen.  Several 
cities  were  destroyed,  and  about  20,(K)0 
lives  lost.  The  latest  reports  from  the 
scene  of  the  Yellow  River  fioods  place 
the  number  of  lives  lost  at  100,000,  and 
the  total  number  of  sufferers  from  the  in- 
undation will  reach  double  that  figure. 


POWDER 

Absolutely  Pure. 

This  powder  never  varies.  A  marvel  of  purity, 
strength  and  wholesomeness.  More  economical  than 
the  ordinary  kinds,  and  cannot  be  sold  In  competi- 
tion with  the  multitude  of  low  test,  short  weight, 
alum  or  phosphate  powders.  Sold  onlyln  cans. 
BoYAX  BAEme  Powdbb  Co.,  106  Wall-st.,  N.  T 

Baccalaureate  Sermon, 


BT  FEES.  J.  BLANGHAED, 

Is  the  rdigious,  as  the  Washington  speech  was 
the  pditiccU,  basis  of  the  anti-secret  reform. 
Several  hundred,  in  pamphlet,  can  be  had  at 
two  cents  [one  postage  stamp]  each,  or  ten  for 
ten  cents  in  stamps.  Please  order  soon,  fo* 
Colleger,  S'^mioarles,  and  High  Schools. 


"|?/^T>  C  A  1  17  House  and  Lot  In  Wheaton 
Xv^Xv  (jx\.XjSli,  111.  Any  one  wishing  to  par- 
chase  should  write  to  W.  I.  PHILLIPS,  office  of 
"Christian  Cynosure,"  Chicago,  111. 

I  CURE  FITS! 

"When  1  say  care  I  do  not  mean  merely  to  stop  them 
for  a  time  and  then  have  them  return  again.  I  mean  a 
radical  cure.  I  have  made  the  disease  of  FITS,  EPIL- 
KPSY  or  FALLING  SICKNESS  a  life-long  study.  1 
warrant  ray  remedy  to  cure  the  worst  cases.  Because 
others  have  failed  is  no  reason  for  not  now  receiving  a 
care.  Send  at  once  for  a  treatise  and  a  Free  Bottle 
of  my  infallible  remedy.  Give  Express  and  Post  Office. 
HTG*  root,  I>X«  C  183  Pearl  i!5t.  New  York. 

FOR  SALE. 

HOMES  IN  WHEATON.— I  have  for  sale  several 
fine  lots  with  shade  trees,  also  some  residences  on 
high  ground  near  College  campus.      Address, 

E.  WHIPPLE,  Wheaton,  111 


WHEATON  COLLEGE. 

BUSINESS  EDUCATION,  MUSIC  AND  AET. 

FUIiL,  COI^LEGE  COURSES. 

Winter  Term  Opens  December  6th. 
Address  C.  A.  BLANGHARB,  Pres. 

GRATEFUL-COMFOETING. 

EPPS'SGOCOA. 

BREAKFAST. 

"By  a  thorough  knowledge  of  the  natural  laws 
which  govern  the  operations  of  digestion  and  nutri- 
tion, and  by  a  careful  application  of  the  fine  proper- 
ties of  well-selected  Cocoa.  Mr.  Epps  has  provided 
our  breakfast  tables  with  a  delicately  flavored  bever 
ane  which  may  save  us  many  heavy  doctors'  bills  It 
Is  by  the  judicious  use  of  such  articles  of  diet  that  a 
constitution  may  be  gradually  built  up  until  strong 
enough  to  resist  every  tendency  to  dfseaRe.  Hui? 
dreds  of  subtle  maladies  are  floating  around  us  ready 
to  attack  wherever  there  Is  a  weak  point  We  may 
escape  many  a  fatal  shaft  by  keeping  ourselves  well 
fortified  with  pure  blood  and  a  properly  nourished 
frame."— Civil  Service  Gazette. 

Made  simply  with  boiling  water  or  milk.  Sold  only 
In  half-pound  tins  by  grocers,  labeled  thus: 

JAMES  EPPS  &  CO.,Homoeopathlc  Chemists 
London,  England.   ' 


BIBLE  RE^DINGT, 

Showing  the  Life  of  Christ  as  Written  by  the 

OLD    TESTAMENT     PROPHETS. 

Text:    St.  John  5:  39. 

-     PRICK,    lO     CENTS. 

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The  C  YNOS  Z7"i?.5  represents  the  Christian  movement  against 
the  Secret  Lodge  System ;  discusses  fairly  and  fearlessly  the 
various  movements  of  the  lodge  as  they  appear  to  public  view, 
and  reveals  the  secret  machinery  of  corruption  in  politics, 
courts,  and  social  and  religious  circles. 

There  are  in  the  United  States 

Some  200  different  Lodges, 
With  2,000.000  members, 
Costing  $20,000,000  yearly. 

This  mighty  world  power  confronts  the  church  and  seeks  to 
rule  and  ruin  every  Christian  Reform. 

No  Christian  Reform  Movement  of  the  day  is  so  necessary, 
yet  80  unpopular  and  beset  with  difficulties,  as  that  which  would 
remove  the  dark  pall  of  oaths,  dark-lantern  meetlnes,  secret 
signs,  mysterious  and  pagan  worship  about  altars  condemned 
by  the  word  of  the  Living  God. 

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S  UBE  should  be  your  paper  in  addition  to  any  other  you  may 
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Because  it  is  the  representative  of  the  reform  against  the 
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Editobial  : 

Notes  and  Comments 1 

Editorial  Correspondence.    8 

The  Wheaton  Council 8 

Personal  Mention 12 

CONTBIBUTIONS  : 

Temperance  Thoughts 
from  a  Sailor's  Mission.    1 

General  Phelps  as  a  Re- 
former      3 

Good  Advice  from  Suffolk 
Jail 2 

Secretlsm  In  the  West  In- 
dies     2 

A  Cry  from  India 2 

Will  the  Old  Parties  Sup- 
press the  Saloon? 3 

Press  Comment 3 

Ouii  Boston  Letteu 4 

Rbform  Nbwb: 

Where  Sherman  Met  the 
Sea;  The  New  Orleans 
Letter  ;  Progress  in 
Pennsylvania 4, 5 


CORBKSPONDBNCB : 

A  Texas  Fight  with  the 
Twin  Demons;  Friend- 
ship, Love  and  Trutn  in 
Texas;  Missionary Wo-k 
in  Mormondom ;  From 
Bro.  Countee ;  Pith  and 

Point 5,6 

Bible  Lesson 6 

Washington  Lettbb 9 

Obituary 7 

Farm  Notes 7 

Secret    Societies     Con- 
demned     7 

The  N.C.  a 7 

ThbHomb 10 

Temperance 11 

Religious  Nbws 12 

Literature 12 

Lodge  Notes 13 

Donations 13 

Home  and  Health 14 

News  of  thb  Week 16 

Markets 13 


The  present  week,  from  April  Ist  to  8  th,  has  been 
set  apart  by  the  World's  Sabbath  Observance  Prayer 
Union  as  a  week  of  special  prayer  for  the  better  ob- 
servance of  the  Sabbath.  Pastors  are  requested  to 
preach  on  the  subject,  and  the  excellence  of  the 
suggestion  will  appeal  to  all  sincere  Christians,  who 
can  but  view  with  alarm  the  present  condition  of 
our  country  and  especially  of  its  metropolitan  cen- 
ters. 


While  the  nation  mourns  the  loss  of  a  Chief  Jus- 
tice whose  fidelity,  industry  and  ability  have  been 
an  honor  to  the  high  office,  it  is  with  some  satisfac- 
tion that  we  see  no  notice  of  a  secret  lodge-  in  the 
public  processions  at  his  funeral.  While  Judge 
Waite  gave  no  public  expression,  thai  we  are  aware 
of,  on  the  lodge  question,  yet  the  evidence  seems 
good  that  he  may  be  classed  against  them,  as  are 
his  predecessors  Jay,  Ellsworth,  Marshall  and 
Chase.  God  grant  that  the  nation  may  never  be 
dishonored  by  the  presence  on  the  Supreme  Bench 
of  men  sworn  to  the  alien  and  despotic  lodge  sys- 
tem. 


Our  Methodist  brethren  seem  to  be  leading  the 
churches  in  the  war  on  the  saloon.  Their  zeal  for 
prohibition  is  almost  in  proportion  to  their  deplor- 
able relations  to  the  lodge.  We  honor  them  for 
what  they  do  for  the  truth,  and  trust  that  it  is  only 
a  promise  of  their  earnestness  against  Freemasonry 
when  once  detestation  for  the  lodge  rises  into  pop- 
ular favor.  The  Kansas  annual  conference  in  To- 
peka  the  other  day  passed,  almost  unanimously,  a 
resolution  declaring  in  favor  of  National  prohibi- 
tion and  refusing  to  support  any  party  which  does 
not  stand  squarely  upon  a  temperance  platform. 
They  demanded  also  the  following  legislation:  1.  A 
law  providing  that,  in  Prohibition  States,  the  collect- 
ors of  internal  revenue  shall  be  forbidden  to  issue 
tax  permits  for  the  sale  of  liquor,  except  to  those 
who  have  been  duly  authorized  by  the  State  to  sell 
intoxicants  for  the  purposes  permitted  by  State  law. 
2.  A  law  prohibiting  the  sale  of  liquor  in  the  Dis- 
trict of  Columbia,  upon  the  miltary  reservations,  in 
the  Territories  and  wherever  the  United  States  exer- 
cises authority.  3.  A  law  enacting  that  the  sale  of 
liquors  shall  be  subject  to  the  laws  of  the  State  in 
which  the  liquors  are  to  be  consumed,  so  that  man- 


ufacturers and  dealers  in  non-prohibition  States  shall 
be  forbidden  to  transport  liquors  into  prohibition 
States  except  under  such  limitations  as  may  be  pre- 
scribed by  the  prohibitory  laws  there  in  force.  4 
The  early  submission  of  an  amendment  to  the  Con- 
stitution of  the  United  States  prohibiting  the  im- 
portation or  sale  of  intoxicating  liquors,  except  for 
medicinal,  mechanical  or  scientific  purposes. 


The  late  two  days'  strike  of  the  Santa  Fe  engi- 
neers was  a  new  revelation  of  the  unreasonable  con- 
trol of  the  lodge  over  labor.  And  because  they  had 
absolutely  no  cause  for  their  action  but  a  lodge  ob- 
ligation, they  were  soon  shamed  into  giving  up  the 
fight  Last  Thursday  here  in  Chicago  a  Burlington 
engine  drew  a  train  of  new  cars,  belonging  to  the 
Milwaukee  and  St.  Paul  road,  to  the  yards  of  the 
latter.  The  St.  Paul  switchmen  attacked  the  train, 
throwing  it  off  the  track  and  injuring  all  on  board. 
They  then  left  their  work  in  a  body,  and  Fiiday 
about  midnight  a  secret  meeting  broke  up  with  a  re- 
solve to  strike  which  will  take  out  engineers,firemen, 
switchmen,  brakemen  and  some  conductors.  The 
switchmen  on  the  Pan  Handle  road  are  also  out,  and 
there  is  a  panic  in  the  air.  P.  M.  Arthur,  head  of 
the  engineers'  brotherhood,  has  returned  to  Cleve- 
land, it  is  supposed  either  to  avoid  the  officers  of 
the  law,  who  might  soon  trouble  him,  or  to  prepare 
his  resignation,  since  he  sees  nothing  but  disaster 
for  his  order. 


Since  the  above  was  written  on  Saturday  the  air 
has  been  full  of  ugly  and  threatening  rumors.  The 
city  authorities  are  making  laudable  efforts  to  keep 
the  peace,  but  only  the  presence  of  a  largg  police 
force  in  several  switching  yards  prevents  violence. 
The  men  of  the  Ft.  Wayne  road  are  practically  out, 
while  already  the  St.  Paul  strikers  manifest  repent- 
ance. A  dastardly  attempt  was  made  to  wreck  a 
passenger  train  by  throwing  a  switch  just  as  it  ap- 
proached. One  car  off  the  track  and  passengers 
badly  shaken  up  «7as  all  the  damage.  It  was  ex- 
pected Ijhat  after  the  election  of  Tuesday  the  crisis 
would  come.  The  managers  are  preparing  as  best 
they  may  for  it.  They  understand  that  to  dally 
longer  with  unreasonable  men  will  not  do.  The 
Burlington  strike  was  virtually  over  two  weeks  ago. 
The  road  was  again  in  fair  running  order.  The  men 
who  left  it  were  beaten,  but  failing  to  overcome  that 
company  the  whole  lodge  system  of  the  railroads  is 
combining  against  the  public  interes.t  in  a  guerilla 
warfare  on  the  commerce  of  Chicago  and  the  West. 
The  menace  to  "tie  up"  every  road  that  obeys  Unit- 
ed States  law  by  interchanging  cars  is  criminal. 
These  men  propose  to  play  the  part  of  dictators,and 
should  understand  that  their  threats  will  not  be  tol- 
erated. Arthur,  it  is  believed.finds  the  "hot  heads" 
in  control  and  has  left  the  city.  He  lately  gave  out 
that  these  men  wanted  every  road  in  the  country 
tied  up.  It  lay  in  his  power  "to  stop  railway  traffic 
in  the  United  States  entirely,"  but  he  refused  to  do 
so.  If  his  claim  is  a  good  one,  it  is  the  duty  of  the 
people  to  take  from  him  and  his  sworn  clique  a  pow- 
er which  would  not  be  entrusted  to  any  court  or  leg- 
islature. To  longer  suffer  it  to  be  held  by  a  secret 
lodge  of  irresponsible,  and  possibly  unreasonable, 
men  is  suicidal. 


The  decision  of  the  United  States  courts  in  this 
city  and  Omaha, while  not  directed  especially  at  the 
labor  orders,  yet  gave  them  plainly  to  understand 
that  law-breakers  would  be  punished.  The  effect 
has  been  good;  but  there  is  an  opinion  more  widely 
felt  day  by  day  there  must  be  more  stringent  laws 
to  protect  the  public  from  railroad  strikes,  whether 
provoked  by  managers  or  men.  On  this  important 
question  the  New  York  Independent  lately  says:  "If 
law  can  furnish  any  remedy  sgainst  strifters.it  must 
be  in  the  way  of  restraining  them  from  confederat- 
ing together  and  combining  for  the  purpose  of  or- 
ganizing strikes  and  carrying  them  into  effect  This 
comes  within  the  province  of  a  court  of  equity,  pro- 
vided it  be  a  proper  legal  remedy  at  all.  It  is  un- 
doubtedly true  that  every  employe  has  a  right  to 
(luit  the  work  of  his  employer  if  he  chooses.  But 
whether  a  large  number  of  employes  may  combine 


to  do  this  simultaneously,  and  thus  organiz3  a  gen* 
eral  strike,  presents  a  different  question.  It  is, 
moreover,  a  question  which  the  law  in  this  country 
will  have  to  consider,  and  settle  through  the  agency 
of  legislatures  and  courts.  The  action  of  strikers  is 
forcing  it  upon  public  attention." 

TBMPBRANCB  THOUGHTS  FROM  A  SAILORS 
Mission. 


BT   J.   F.    AVERY,    PASTOR    MARINRBS'   TEMPLl, 
NEW   YORK. 

Thomas  Carlyle  wrote,  "No  man  oppresses  thee, 
O  free  and  independent  franchiser,  but  does  not  this 
stupid  pewter  pot  oppress  thee?  Thou-art  the  thrall 
of  no  saloon,  but  art  thou  not  the  bond-slave  of  this 
pot  of  heavy  wet?  Yet  thou  pratest  of  thy  liberty !" 
Let  us  not  use  our  liberty  to  vote  for  the  mainte- 
nance of  a  traffic  which  robs  others  of  their  liberty 
and  homes.  We  can  sympathize  with  a  friend  who 
kicked  a  cask  and  said:  "I  wonder  how  many  drunks 
and  curses  are  inside!"  The  wholesale  business  is 
respectable,  is  it?  Alcohol  is  made  from  destruc- 
tion, it  tends  to  destruction,  and  ends  in  destruction; 
moderate  drinker,  beware!  If  you  all  stop  drink- 
ing, the  250,000  liquor  saloons  in  the  United  States 
will  soon  be  closed.  There  will  be  no  drunkards 
in  this  great  city  or  tlsewhere  in  this  new  world. 

The  bitter  cries,  the  cruelest  woes,  of  New  York 
city  are  caused,  beyond  denial,  by  strong  drink. 
The  wise  Irishman  said,  "The  only  safe  way  of  drink- 
ing is  to  leave  off  before  you  begin."  Every  saloon 
has  two  sides;  only  one  of  them  is  the  safe  side,  and 
that  is  the  outside.  From  the  door  can  be  traced 
the  serpent's  trail  to  ruined  and  sin-blighted  homes; 
thence  to  the  prison,  the  poor-house  and  the  pau- 
per's grave.  It  is  calculated,  by  the  truthfulness  of 
facts  and  figures,  that  there  are  to-day  nearly  1,000,- 
000  drunkards  in  the  United  States,  and  3,000,000 
women  and  children  are  suffering  cruelty  of  the  keen- 
est, meanest  kind  continually.  The  wounding,  sin, 
shame  and  misery  caused  is  an  agonizing  aggregate 
inexpressible;  measurable  only  by  Jehovah,  whose 
ear  and  eye  of  pity  can  grasp  such  vastness.  No 
drunkard  or  drunkard-maker  can  t  nter  the  kingdom 
of  God.  Read  1  Cor.  6:10.  Nearly  100,000  drunk- 
ards are  said  to  die  every  year.  Who  is  respons- 
ible? Does  it  pay  to  make  drunkards?  It  is  said, 
counting  the  revenue  to  the  government  from  the 
drink  traffic  at  $100,000,000  per  year,  the  govern- 
ment receives  $1,000  on  every  man  who  dies  a  drunk- 
ard. Dare  we  cast  our  votes  as  Christians  for  such 
revenue? 

The  following  facts  were  recently  given  at  one  of 
our  Gospel  temperance  meetings  at  the  Mariners' 
Temple  by  a  young  man  who  saw  the  count  and  wrote 
the  figures: 

On  Christmas  day,  1886,  1,580  prisoners  were 
confined  in  Sing  Sing  penitentiary.  The  following 
question  was  asked  while  they  were  enjoying  their 
Christmas  dinner:  How  many  of  you  can  say  that 
drink  (intemperance)  has  been  the  cause  of  your 
imprisonment?  One  thousand,  two  hundred  and 
thirty -three  prisoners  arose;  347  remainetl  seated; 
they  were  moderate  drinkers. 

The  next  question  was:  How  many  of  you  have 
Christian  parents,  received  a  Christian  training,  and 
have  at  the  present  time  parents,  brothers  and  sis- 
ters living?  One  thousand,  three  hundred  and  sixty- 
two  arose,  218  remained  seated. 

The  next  question  was:  What  are  those  two 
hundred  and  eighteen  men  who  remained  seated? 
Out  of  the  218,  102  had  never  known  a  mother's 
care,  having  received  no  education  whatever;  parents 
died  when  they  were  infants,  and  brought  up  in 
foundling  homes;  left  their  places  at  the  age  of 
eight,  anil  the  streets  were  their  future  home.  At 
the  age  of  twelve  each  one  of  these  found  himself 
in  the  House  of  Refuge,  from  there  to  States  prison. 
One  hundred  and  sixteen  had  been  brought  up  by 
parents  who  were  drunkards  and  criminals  them- 
selves, and  were  brought  up  in  crime  and  taught  in 
the  profession  of  crime,  as  they  called  it  Not  one 
of  these  218  men  could  read  or  write;  never  attend- 
ed a  church,  unless  compelled  to  do  so  by  prison 
rules.     That  is  what  intemperance  has  done. 


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THE  CHRISTIAN  CYISTOSURE. 


April  5,  1888 


GENERAL  PHELPB  AB  A  REFORMER. 


BT  CECIL   H.    C0TT8  HOWARD. 

Since  the  publication  of  the  brief  memoir,  which 
the  writer  penned  some  months  ago,  new  thoughts 
have  arisen  in  connection  with  the  life  of  General 
John  Wolcott  Phelps  which  may  perhaps  be  most 
fittingly  embodied  in  an  article  for  the  Cynosure.  We 
all  know  that  the  lapse  of  years  serves  to  strengthen 
many  preconceived  ideas  in  some  cases;  in  others 
to  do  away  with  them  and  substitute  new  matter,  per- 
haps, if  our  environments  have  changed.  We  may 
safely  assert,  however,  that  those  impressions  which 
are  most  enduring  from  earliest  remembrance  are 
most  often  true. 

My  thoughts  of  General  Phelps  from  earliest  rec- 
ollection have  always  been  that  he  was  a  reformer. 
He  embodied  more  perfectly  all  that  the  word  means 
than  any  other  one  thing.  He  was  an  accomplished 
scholar,  but  his  scholarship  only  helped  him  the  bet- 
ter to  carry  out  his  ideas  as  a  reformer.  The  same 
might  be  said  of  all  his  accomplishments.  He  was 
proficient  in  all  these,  but  they  were  so  blended  in 
his  character  as  a  reformer  that  they  were  lost  in 
the  greater  merits  of  those  purposes  that  the  good 
man  sought  to  accomplish.  Ills  hatred  of  secret 
societies  was  deep  and  lasting.  With  many  men 
that  would  have  been  the  end.  Not  so  with  him.  If 
there  was  an  evil  to  be  remedied  he  must  lend  his 
aid;  mind  and  soul  and  body  must  bend  to  the  ac- 
complishment of  it,  and  if  success  was  attained,  well 
and  good.  If  apparent  defeat,  he  had  at  least  done 
his  duty  like  a  man. 

I  have  heard  many  say,  "He  was  too  conscien- 
tious." There  is  the  point!  Men  love  to  be  good 
externally  in  many  cases,  but  when  it  comes  to  car- 
rying all  their  theories  or  ideas  into  practice  that  is 
too  much.  They  deal  in  superficialities.  Perhaps 
some  will  esteem  this  eulogistic,but  we  believe  those 
who  best  knew  General  Phelps  will  realize  as  they 
grow  older  that  whatever  he  was  he  was  not  super- 
ficial. Id  this  we  do  not  mean  to  convey  the  impres- 
sion that  his  was  an  isolated  case  as  regards  this  par- 
ticular, but  in  comparison  with  the  vast  multitude 
of  men  in  the  world  who  do  not  pretend  to  free 
themselves  from  the  world's  superficialities. 

The  following  extracts  from  letters  on  various 
subjects  may  serve  to  illustrate  anew  his  intensity  of 
feeling:  "I  stand  with  the  few  on  religious  grounds 
that  Freemasonry  is  a  wicked,  blasphemous  joke, 
trifling  with  and  perverting  the  most  serious  and  sa- 
cred interests  of  life,  without  which  interest  tenderly 
and  sacredly  preserved  society  is  but  a  wilderness, 
filled  with  savage  brutes." 

Again,  "Let  us  separate  from  the  others  and  .fall 
together,  if  we  must  fall." 

"If '  our  country  can  digest  the  Masonic  lodge 
without  a  war-fever,  in  which  it  must  lose  all  that 
constitutes  its  life,  it  will  be  by  the  virtue  of  a  mir- 
acle of  religious  potency,  and  not  by  political  acu- 
men." 

iij  giving  these  terse  quotations  to  show  his 
thoughts  as  a  reformer,  it  may  perhaps  be  but  right 
to  say  that  his  written  thoughts  were  in  conversa- 
tional style.  They  give  an  accurate  idea  of  his  firm- 
ness of  purpose  and  eloquent  spirit.  In  reading 
his  translations  of  Florian's  Fables  from  the  French, 
one  who  has  known  him  intimately  must  be  im- 
pressed, not  only  with  his  scholarship,  but  also  with 
the  bent  of  his  life  purpose.  Aiming  always  for  the 
good,  the  true,  and  the  beautiful,  who  shall  measure 
his  infiuecce  for  good? 

May  the  omnipotent  Heavenly  Father  speed  the 
day  when  there  are  more  such  men  to  push  forward 
his  work  in  the  world. 

Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 

m  ■  m 

OOOD  ADViVa,  J> l^kjul    tiUFFOLE  JAIL. 

As  for  Bro.  A.  H.  Springstein's  question  in  the 
Cynoture  of  March  22d,  I  am  moved  to  make  a  few 
comments  on  our  duties  as  Christian  citizens. 

Fint.     In  this  country  the  voter  is  king. 

a.  The  character  of  the  kingdom  is  the  net  product 
of  the  characters  of  the  kings. 

b.  The  man  who  does  not  vote  throws  away  hit  vote, 
and  itiuB  fails  to  impress  his  character  upon  the 
kingdom. 

c  The  man  who,  on  whatever  pretext,  votes  for 
men  or  principles  which  he  cannot  heartily  endorse, 
votes  to  prostitute  and  degrade  his  country. 

d.  The  voter  who  casts  his  ballot  for  godly  men 
to  govern  in  the  fear  and  love  and  knowledge  and 
obedience  and  faith  of  God,  is  a  Christian  politi- 
cally. 

K)r.corid.  We  cannot  neglect  our  political  duties 
and  be  gutltlesu.      The  doom  of  the  servant  who 


wrapped  his  lord's  money  in  a  napkin  awaits  politi- 
cal shirks. 

Third.  The  highest,  deepest  and  strongest  factor 
in  government  is  the  moral  factor. 

Fourth.  The  secret  of  the  power  of  the  moral 
factor  is  true  testimony,  or  testimony  to  the  truth. 

Fifth.  This  Power  is  really  irresistible.  It  is 
God  in  government. 

Sixth.  Every  man  who  votes  for  the  ideal  Chris- 
tian government  in  elections  "sv^eeds."  His  suc- 
cess is  the  more  marked  and  remarked,  the  fewer 
such  voters  there  are  near  him. 

Seventh.  To  vote  for  Freemasons  to  hold  the  offi- 
ces of  government,  at  the  bidding  of  the  Prohibi- 
tion, or  Republican,  or  Democratic,  or  any  other 
party,  is  Judas  Iscariotism. 

Eighth.  Nominate  godly  men  for  office.  We  bet- 
ter make  up  our  ticket  from  the  Bible  characters 
than  put  in  nomination  any  wicked  contemporaries. 
Sincerely,  W.  F.  Davis. 


heaven  in,  so  that  those  who  have  eyes  may  see  the 
hideousness  of  the  whole  falsehood  with  the  mask 
torn  off.  JosiAH  Dillon. 


A  CRT  FROM  INDIA. 


COME  OVER  AND  HELP  FS. 


BEGRETISM  IN  THE  WEST  INDIES. 


LETTER   PROM   THE   FRIENDS'   MISSION. 


Manohioneal,  Jamaica,  W.  I. 

Editor  Christian  Cynosure: — If  you  will  look 
at  your  maps  of  North  America  in  latitude  eighteen 
degrees  to  eighteen  degrees  and  thirty  minutes  north, 
and  longitude  seventy-six  degrees  and  thirty  minutes 
to  seventy-eight  degrees  west,  you  will  find  the  little 
Island  of  Jamaica  but  a  mere  dot  compared  with 
the  United  States;  only  144  miles  long  and  49  miles 
in  its  greatest  width.  Kingston  is  the  capital  on 
the  south,  where  old  Port  Royal,  the  former  capital, 
was  once  destroyed  by  an  earthquake  at  the  time 
it  was  said  to  be  the  richest  and  wickedest  spot  on 
earth.  Some  of  the  houses  may  yet  be  seen  be- 
neath the  waves  of  the  sea  that  now  cover  the  spot 
where  it  stood. 

The  mountain  and  water  scenery  of  the  Island  are 
grand;  the  highest  mountain  rising  to  an  altitude 
of 7,360feet  above  the  sea.  All  sorts  of  tropical  fruits 
grow  here  in  profusion,  with  wild  flowers  and  five 
hundred  varieties  of  ferns  to  add  to  its  beauty.  Per- 
petual spring  and  summer  make  the  climate  most 
delightful.  But  it  is  a  garden  of  Eden  after  the 
fall.  The  great  mass  of  the  six  hundred  thousand 
population  are  ignorant,  superstitious  and  wicked. 
There  are  a  number  of  churches  and  about  six  hun- 
dred schools.  About  one-fourth  of  the  people  pro 
fess  some  connection  with  the  churches.  The  Bap- 
tist, Wesleyan  and  Episcopalian  are  the  largest  and 
most  influential  churches  on  the  Island. 

In  1836,  when  the  slaves  were  freed,  the  wealth  of 
the  Island  was  withdrawn  by  the  English  planters, 
and  the  freed  people  were  left  in  abject  poverty,  and 
are  still  very  poor.  Eleven  hundred  rum  shops  dis- 
grace the  fair  Island,  and  filch  from  the  poor  peo- 
ple their  hard  earnings,  leaving  the  poor  victims  of 
drink  hungry,  and  only  clothed  in  rags.  But  in  ad- 
dition to  that.  Freemasonry,  Odd-fellowship  and 
other  allied,  secret  conspiring  associations  spread 
their  dark  mantles  like  a  death  pall  over  the  already 
dark  and  ignorant  minds  of  the  people,  enslaving 
body,  soul  and  spirit.  This  is  especially  so  in  the 
towns  and  centers  of  population. 

At  Manchioneal  an  Odd-fellow's  lodge  was  opened 
last  summer  with  a  large  enrollment  of  members, 
many  of  them  from  the  Wesleyan  church.  The 
Wesleyan  minister  joined,  and  then  his  members 
said,  "Well,  its  a  good  thing  or  our  minister  wouldn't 
join."  But  some  of  his  members  had  enough  of 
Gospel  light  and  good  sense  to  know  that  the  un- 
fruitful works  of  darkness  were  not  good,  but  to  be 
reproved;  and  their  reproof  of  the  minister  was  so 
sharp  that  he  reluctantly  withdrew  from  the  lodge. 

The  lodges  promise  great  things  in  charity  I  Well; 
yee.  One  poor  man  joined,  and  in  order  to  pay  his 
assessment  had  to  sell  his  saddle.  A  young  man 
joined  whose  old  mother  lived  in  a  comfortable  house 
which  they  wanted  for  a  lodge  room.  The  poor  old 
woman  did  not  want  to  give  it  up,  but  by  the  per- 
suasion of  her  son,  and  the  minister  telling  her  that 
it  was  a  good  thing,  and  the  lodge  promising  to 
build  her  another  comfortable  house,  she  was  in- 
duced to  give  it  up,  and  allow  herself  to  be  put  into 
an  «ld  hut,  never  to  see  the  promised  house  built, 
but  died  last  week  with  old  age,  exposure,  disease 
and  grief.  Oh,  yes  I  the  charitables  came  out  and  at- 
tended her  funeral,  dressed  in  black  with  three  links 
on  their  coats.  Charity  f  Yes,  such  charity  as  vul- 
tures give  to  lambd,  and  wolves  to  harmless  sheep. 
Such  orders  need  secrecy  to  hide  their  nothingness, 
with  oaths  and  horrid  penalties  to  bind  the  chains 
of  darkness.  But  then  the  angel  comes,  and  the 
great  d«Oant  doors  of  darkness  and  sin  open  of  their 
own   accord,   lets  a  streaming  flood  of  light   from 


Dear  Editor: — Allow  me  through  your  columns 
to  have  a  plain  talk  with  your  thousands  of  readers. 
First,  I  want  to  say  to  all  my  countrymen,  that  we 
stand  as  your  representatives  before  the  people  of 
the  East.  We  Westerners  who  are  living  and  work- 
ing in  Asia  are  in  a  sense  "ambassadors"  who  rep-  | 
resent  the  Christian  lands  of  America  and  England  ■ 
before  the  many  millions  of  non-Christian  people  in 
Asia.  The  tens  of  thousands  of  proud,  worldly,  av- 
aricious, wicked  men;  yes,  and  women,  too,  who 
come  from  Europe  to  India,  represent  our  Western 
lands  and  people  as  being  godless  and  base.  It  re- 
mains for  us  who  follow  God  to  represent  the  Chris- 
tianity which  is  the  great  blessing  of  our  nations. 
But,  alas,  we  are  a  minority,  humanly  speaking, 
though  by  faith  we  are  a  majority. 

We  want  more  workers  in  Ind'a.  As  I  write  these 
letters.  I  confess  that  my  earnest  desire  is  to  stir  up 
some  godly  men  and  women  to  come  to  India  and 
work  for  Jesus.  Many  who  cannot  come  themselves 
could  assist  those  who  can  and  in  various  ways  help 
us  in  this  great  work.  India  is  so  far  away  from 
America  that  it  looks  worse  than  climbing  the  Alps 
to  come  out  here.  Very  well,  I  ask  none  to  come 
who  have  not  "faith  to  remove  mountains,"  or  at 
least  "wings  of  faith,"  to  fly  over  the  mountains! 

Dear  Editor  and  dear  Pastors,  do  not  think  that  I 
am  coming  into  your  folds  to  entice  away  some  of 
your  sheep!  No.  Rather  you  will  share  with  me  the 
deep  desire  for  India's  salvation,  so  that  you  will 
gladly  let  me  plead  the  cause  of  India  before  your 
people,  and  if  the  Lord  calls  any  of  your  dear  ones 
this  way,  you  should  give  your  sons  as  gladly  as 
Abraham  placed  Isaac  upon  the  altar,  and  your 
daughters  as  heartily  as  Laban  gave  Rebekah  in 
marriage  to  the  rich  young  Isaac. 

Now  a  word  to  all  the  young  people.  For  years  I 
shrank  from  entering  into  the  very  responsible  Gos- 
pel work.  After  nearly  twenty-five  years  of  hard 
work,  I  now  say  that,  had  I  known  beforehand  the 
pain  and  joy,  the  battles  and  victories,  instead  of 
fleeing  like  Jonah  (mentally)  I  should  rather  have 
pleaded  with  the  Lord,  "Here  am  I,  send  me." 
There  is  nothing  better  than  to  offer  yourselves  as  a 
living  sacrifice.     Come  to  India  if  you  can. 

You  ask  about  qualifications.     They  are  two: 

1.  A  saved  soul. 

2.  A  good  brain  full  of  solid  sense.  I  do  not  say 
"common  sense:"  in  foreign  mission  work,you  want 
some  uncommon  sense.  The  first  chapter  of  Proverbs 
and  Eph.  1:17,  etc., tell  you  where  and  how  you  can 
get  this  extraordinary  wisdom. 

We  want  workers  to  come,  not  expecting  a  fat 
salary,  but  simply  their  expenses.  The  China  Inland 
Mission  is  conducted  upon  this  plan.  During  1887 
Hudson  Taylor  took  one  hundred  men  from  England 
to  China  upon  those  terms.  Then  we  want  some  who 
will  work  for  their  own  support,  something  after  the 
plan  of  William  Taylor  in  Africa.  To  make  it  prac- 
tical, I  will  state  some  of  our  immediate  wants.  And 
there  are  other  openings  for  earnest  workers  all 
through  India. 

I  want  two  men  as  "Colporteur  Evangelists."  I 
have  two  already  in  the  field.  One  of  them  is  a 
brother  from  Missouri.  Years  ago,  he  was  a  colpor- 
teur of  the  Bible  Society,  and  afterward  an  evangel- 
ist in  Texas.  I  would  set  two  more  at  work  to-day 
if  I  had  them.  Anj'  who  wish  to  come  for  this  work 
may  please  write  to  me  direct  and  also  write  to  the 
editor  of  the  Cynosure,  informing  him  that  you  have 
applied  to  me  and  giving  him  references  by  which  he 
may  make  inquiries  regarding  your  fitness  for  the 
work.  This  labor  of  love  is  explained  in  the  follow- 
ing statement.  Other  openings  for  work  will  be  pre- 
sented in  future  letters. 

COLPORTEUR    EVANGELISM    IN   INDIA. 

1.  What  is  it?  (1)  Selling  books  and  tracts  from 
station  to  station  and  from  house  to  house;  (2) 
preaching  to  persons  and  to  parties  wherever  possi- 
ble, and  (3)  scattering  tracts  and  papers  every- 
where. 

2.  What  books  ?  First  of  all  those  on  Christian 
experience  and  work,— that  is.  Repentance,  Salva- 
tion, Holiness  and  Soul-saving.  Then,  such  special 
works  as  are  most  needed.  We  have  received  a 
small  stock  upon  "secrecy,"  and  so  our  traveling 
agents  are  taking  National  Association  truths  to  the 
people  of  India. 

,i.  What  special  methods  f  Hard  work  and  self- 
denial.     C.  E.  takes  a  large  box  of  stock,  ordering 


April  5,  1888 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE- 


more  as  needed.  A  loaded  "cartridge-box"  of  books 
at  his  side,  ten  to  twenty  pounds.  Sells  for  cash 
only.     Never  travels  nor  sells  on  Sundays. 

4.  What  success  already  f  The  last  two  months 
■  our  man  has  sold  over  Rs.  400  (a  rupee  is  about 

47  cents).  Considering  that  much  of  this  is  in 
small  books,  tracts,  etc.,  and  that  much  has  been 
given  away  besides,  it  means  a  large  circulation  of 
the  best  literature.  But  remember  that  the  selling 
of  books  is  only  a  part  of  our  colporteur  evangelists' 
work.  His  equally  important  mission  is  to  preach 
the  Gospel  directly,  and  this  he  does  in  every  sta- 
tion and  to  hundreds  of  souls  every  month. 

5.  What  co-operation  and  support  ?  The  colporteur 
evangelist  acts  with  liberty.yet  in  close  concert  with 
headquarters.  As  the  books  belong  to  the  Watch- 
man Repository,  careful  accounts  are  kept  and  re- 
ports made.  He  is  self-supporting,  i.  e.,  he  is 
to  earn  his  living  and  railway  fare  through  the  good 
he  does  to  the  people. 

6'.  What  profit!  and  prospects?  "Much  every  way," 
except  financially.  The  high  rates  of  exchange, 
freights,  etc.,  also  donations,  losses,  printing,  clerk- 
hire,  etc.,  make  it  impracticable  for  our  Repository 
to  depend  merely  upon  its  sales.  We  expect  wide- 
awake souls  to  see  that  this  is  as  necessary  a  part 
of  God's  plan  of  evangelizing  India  as  any  other. 
As  a  union  evangelistic  mission  this  work  expects 
the*cordial  co-operation  of  all  good  people. 

7.  What  neeeds  ?  We  need  more  workers  and  a 
large  stock  of  books.  We  long  to  extend  this  line 
of  labor  among  the  natives  also. 

Men  of  any  nationality  who  are  full  of  faith,  wis- 
dom and  the  Holy  Ghost,  and  who  glory  only  in  the 
cross  of  Christ  (see  Acts  6:3,  5  and  Gal.  6:14)  are  in- 
vited to  correspond  with  the  undersigned.  There  is 
also  work  for  women  of  like  faith  and  zeal  in  other 
departments  of  our  mission. 

Pray  for  us  and  our  work  and  for  more  workers 
and  means,  that  the  Word  of  the  Lord  may  have 
free  course  and  be  glorified  in  India  more  than  ever 
before.  W.  J.  Gladwin, 

India  Watchman  Office,  Bombay,  India. 


WILL  TBS  OLD  PART  I  BE  SUP  PRE  88  THE 
SALOON? 

ADDRESS     BY    REV.    ALEXANDER    THOMSON   AT    THE 
WHEATON   PROHIBITION   CONFERENCE. 


Scott  says,  where  a  good  reason  cannot  be  given 
why  a  man  should  do  a  thing,  that  is  one  good  rea- 
son why  it  should  not  be  done.  If  a  good  reason 
can  be  given  for  believing  that  prohibitory  laws  will 
be  enacted  and  enforced  by  either  of  the  old  parties, 
I  should  consider  it  unwise  to  continue  the  organi- 
zation of  a  third  party;  for  the  increase  of  parties 
always  multiplies  popular  excitement  and  expense. 
But  if  no  sufficient  reason  can  be  shown  for  such  a 
belief,  then  it  becomes  evident  that  a  third  party  is 
a  necessity  to  men  and  women  determined  to  secure 
the  extermination  of  the  saloon. 

Let  us  first  examine  the  affirmative  of  this  ques- 
tion. There  are  two  States  in  the  Union  where  pro- 
hibition has  been  carried  as  a  party  measure,  and 
the  law  to  very  considerable  extent  enforced.  These 
States  are  Kansas  and  Iowa.  But  in  both  these 
States  we  find  this  condition  of  affairs:  Where  their 
borders  touch  on  whisky  States  there  is  drunkenness 
all  along  such  borders;  and  in  many  of  their  large 
cities  the  law  is  what  South  Carolina  said  the  tariff 
law  should  be  in  the  days  of  Jackson — null  and 
void.  The  first  is  easily  accounted  for  by  the  motto 
on  the  banner  at  the  Chicago  Convention:  "Local 
option  is  a  failure;  it  is  too  local  and  too  optional;" 
also  by  this  other  fact,  that  if  a  man  has  a  block 
of  coal  touching  him  on  one  side  and  a  well-tarred 
plank  on  the  other,  he  may  find  it  a  rather  difficult 
matter  to  keep  clean. 

But  what  can  account  for  the  fact  that  when  a  law 
has  been  passed  by  a  large  majority  of  a  State,  as 
was  the  case  with  the  temperance  law  in  Iowa,  that 
in  certain  sections  of  that  State  that  law  is  abso- 
lutely defied?  Has  the  old  error  of  nullification  be- 
come among  our  Northern  States  an  actual  fact? 
Has  a  sweeping  majority  in  the  whole  State  lost  its 
power  in  refractory  sections?  If  so,  there  is  open 
and  successful  rebellion  in  the  land.  This,  of  course, 
we  do  not  for  a  moment  believe.  The  explanation 
will  have  to  be  sought  elsewhere.  We  believe  it  will 
be  found  to  be  this:  that  though  prohibition  was  a 
party  measure  both  in  Kansas  and  Iowa,it  was  and  is 
opposed  bitterly  by  many  claiming  to  be  members 
of  that  party;  who,  although  they  did  not  see  fit  to 
go  outside  their  party  lines  and  oppose  the  measure, 
have  continued  with  ceaseless  vigilance,  and  in  act- 
ive alliance  with  the  party  opposing  the  measure,  to 
obstruct  the  enforcement  of  a  law  which  they  do  not 
favor. 


Does  any  one  believe  that  if  the  whole  Republi- 
can party  in  Kansas  and  Iowa  would  use  the  full 
power  of  the  government  to  crush  the  saloon,  that  it 
could  not  be  done?  If  so,  then  you  ought  to  be  a 
monarchist,  for  popular  government  is  a  failure. 

What  has  been  said  of  the  Republican  party  in 
Kansas  and  Iowa,  may  be  said  with  certain  limita- 
tions about  the  Democratic  in  Georgia  and  Missouri. 
There  the  Democrats  have  taken  up  prohibition  as 
a  party  measure  by  counties,  and  in  many  cases  have 
been  successful  not  only  in  enacting  laws,  but  in 
securing  their  enforcement  to  a  large  extent.  But 
as  we  have  seen,  the  argument  which  will  apply  to 
Kansas  and  Iowa,  will  apply  with  even  greater  force 
to  Georgia  and  Missouri.  This,  we  believe,  to  be 
practically  the  affirmative  side  of  this  question. 
Now,  does  the  fact  that  two  or  three  Republican 
States  and  two  or  three  Democratic  States,  where 
temperance  laws  have  been  enacted  by  a  divided 
party  and  partially  enforced,  justify  us  in  believing 
that  the  whole  nation  can  be  delivered  from  the  curse 
of  intemperance  by  either  of  these  parties,  a  major- 
ity in  each  of  which  favor  either  the  open  or  re- 
stricted sale  of  liquor?  For  an  unprejudiced  mind 
there  is  but  one  answer  to  this  question. 

Let  us  now  take  up  the  negative  side  of  this  sub- 
ject. In  this  country  there  are  three  principal 
ways  by  which  we  may  reach  the  opinions  and  prin- 
ciples of  an  organized  body  of  men.  There  are  the 
views  of  its  leaders,  the  views  of  its  party  press  and 
its  latest  declaration  of  principles  as  formulated  in 
convention  assembled.  Along  this  line  we  will  try 
to  understand  what  the  Prohibitionists  may  expect 
from  the  two  old  parties. 

It  will  be  admitted,  I  suppose,  that  James  G. 
Blaine  is  a  Republican,  and  that  to  a  large  degree  he 
represents  the  opinions  of  his  party.  His  latest 
utterance  is  for  a  continuation  of  the  liquor  tax, 
which  is  a  government  permit  or  indulgence  to  com- 
mit what  every  thoughtful  man  knows  to  be  a  great 
wrong.  We  Protestants  hold  up  our  hands  with 
holy  horror  at  Tetzel  selling  his  indulgences,  and 
yet  this  United  States  Government  is  to-day  selling 
indulgences  to  the  black  crimes  of  robbery  and  mur- 
der (for  the  dram  shop  embraces  both),  and  this 
Mr.  Blaine  endorses.  It  will  not  be  denied  that 
Chauncey  M.  Depew  is  a  Republican.  At  a  recent 
banquet,  given  by  the  most  prominent  Republicans 
of  New  York,  at  which  this  gentleman  was  expected 
to  make  the  principal  speech,  they  had  thirteen  dif- 
ferent kinds  of  liquor,  according  to  the  New  York 
press.  Had  any  of  our  Prohibitionists  been  present 
at  that  banquet  to  present  our  cause,  no  doubt  the 
gentlemanly  Republicans  would  have  offered  to  treat, 
for  if  they  were  such  a  dry  set  that  they  needed  thir- 
teen different  kinds  of  liquor  to  satisfy  them,  they 
would  surely  think  that  such  a  severe  and  general 
drouth  would  extend  to  the  Prohibitionists. 

It  is  but  lately  that  agents  of  the  prohibitory 
party  in  Washington  sought,  by  personal  conversa- 
tion with  the  national  leaders  of  both  parties,  to  as- 
certain their  views  on  prohibition.  Of  course  the 
result  was  as  might  have  been  expected.  It  was 
high  license  or  local  option;  but  in  most. cases  de- 
termined opposition  to  making  prohibition  a  party 
issue. 

Next,  let  us  notice  the  party  press.  In  New  York 
the  IVibune  is  the  great  thunderer.  Those  who  know 
it,  will  not  accuse  it  of  rolling  forth  much  prohibi- 
tion thunder.  There  was  a  day  when  the  Tribune 
was  a  temperance  paper;  when  a  mightier  hand 
wielded  its  editorial  pen.  I  do  not  much  believe  in 
spiritualism,  for  if  spirits  could  come  back  from  the 
other  world  old  Horace  Greelev  would  return  and 
make  such  a  racket  about  that  Tribune  building  that 
Whitelaw  Reid  would  think  the  Day  of  Judg- 
ment had  come.  There  is  no  statement  too  menda- 
cious, no  act  too  mean  or  contemptible  for  the  Tn'b- 
une  when  it  appears  in  the  field  against  the  Prohibi- 
tionists. 

Coming  to  our  own  Chicago  I  was  in  the  habit  of 
reading  the  'hibune,  but  being  in  favor  of  prohibi- 
tion myself,  I  did  not  like  it  very  well.  I  have  hon- 
estly tried,  perhaps  in  a  weak  way,  to  be  a  Chris- 
tian gentleman,  and  I  must  say  it  was  not  very  pleas- 
ant to  be  called  a  crank  and  a  fanatic.  I  knew  that 
Seaton  was  a  crank,  and  Oaman  Digma,  the  great 
robber  of  the  African  desert,  was  a  fanatic,  and  I 
did  not  like  to  be  placed  in  such  company.  So  I 
changed  over  to  the  Inter  Ocean— when,  behold!  I 
am  just  as  big  a  crank  and  fanatic  as  ever,  and,  if 
possible,  the  Evening  Journal  makes  me  out  to  be  a 
more  utterly  abominable  man  than  either  Tribune 
or  Inter  Ocean.  I  think  they  will  all  speedily  come 
round,  however,  to  the  very  correct  position  taken 
by  Mr.  Halsted  ^f  the  Cincinnati  Gazette,  that  it  is 
time  to  stop  trying  to  fool  the  Prohibiiionists.  They 
should  go  to  work  fighting  them  with  pitchforks, 
pistols  and  butcher-knives.     What  a  wonder  he  left 


out  dynamite.  Quite  right,  Mr.  Httlst«d;  now  that 
you  can  fool  us  no  longer,  we  ought  to  expect  the 
pistols  and  butcher-knives. 

What  did  the  last  National  Republican  Conven- 
tion do  in  regard  to  prohibition?  Absolutely  noth- 
ing. The  leaders  of  the  prohibitory  party  tried  to 
secure  some  kind  of  recognition,  but  utterly  failed; 
and  when  Senator  Blair,  that  noble  anti-saloon  Re- 
publican, endeavored  to  speak  in  their  behalf,  his 
voice  was  drowned  by  a  chorus  of  yells  that  savored 
of  the  bar-room.  If  a  friend  came  to  my  home 
seeking  aid  in  a  certain  course  of  action  and  I  sim- 
ply ignored  him,  would  he  expect  much  aid  from  me? 

Again,  what  has  been  said  of  the  Republicans  in 
regard  to  the  views  of  their  leaders,their  party  press 
and  their  convention,  can  be  said  with  even  more 
force  about  the  Democrats.  President  Cleveland 
went  out  of  his  way  when  in  Wisconsin  last  fall  to 
insult  the  whole  prohibitory  sentiment  of  the  coun- 
try by  openly  going  into  a  brewery  and  twice  pub- 
licly drinking  of  its  fountain  of  curses.  And  while 
there  are,  as  among  the  Republicans,a  few  noble  ex- 
ceptions,among  the  leaders  of  the  Democratic  party 
it  is  well  known  that  the  overwhelming  majority  are 
against  prohibition,  and  many  of  them  from  person- 
al reasons.  If  the  Democratic  press  is  not  quite  so 
hard  on  third  party  men,  if  it  does  give  us  an  occa- 
sional pat  on  the  back,of  course  we  thoroughly  com- 
prehend it.  It  is  the  monkey  kindly  patting  the  eat 
with  whose  paws  it  hopes  to  pull  the  chestnuts  out 
of  the  fire;  and  when  the  day  comes  that  the  cat 
eats  the  chestnuts  herself,  we  all  know  there  will  be 
a  very  mad  monkey. 

In  regard  to  their  last  National  Convention  the 
Democrats  gave  no  uncertain  sound.  Like  the  dev- 
il in  the  garden  of  Eden,  they  placed  themselves  on 
record  as  being  opposed  to  all  sumptuary  laws. 

And  now,  finally,  if  the  leaders  of  our  great  par- 
ties were  friends  to  prohibition  in  the  small  section 
of  the  Union  which  they  govern,there  at  least  prohi- 
bition would  be  properly  enforced.  The  thirteen 
hundred  saloons  in  the  District  of  Columbia,  and 
one  gin  palace  in  the  very  Capitol  reared  by  the  peo- 
ple's money  is  the  forcible  and  damning  comment 
on  their  views  of  prohibition.  0  men  and  brethren, 
mothers  and  sisters  of  America,  when  God  is  flooding 
the  land  with  great  waves  of  light  on  this  question, 
shall  we  sit  in  darkness  till  the  light  is  withdrawn 
and  his  judgments  begin! 


A  Tyrannical  Order. — The  papers  report  the 
"escape  of  two  sisters  from  the  Ursuline  Convent  at 
Pittsburgh."  The  account  says  "the  bishop  had 
been  consulted,  and  his  orders  were  emphatic  that 
they  must  be  found  at  any  cost  and  tuken  back  to 
their  Oakland  home."  Is  it  possible  that  any  relig- 
ious order  will  be  allowed  to  exercise  such  tyranni- 
cal power  as  this  in  America?  If  inmates  of  a 
church  prison  rebel  against  their  incarceration  and 
escape,  what  right  has  a  bishop  to  bring  them  back 
against  their  will?  Evidently  the  bishop  has  for- 
gotten in  what  country  and  in  what  century  he  lives. 
The  account  reads  like  a  chapter  out  of  the  history 
of  the  middle  ages. — Southern  Evangelist, 

The  Order  of  the  Indian  Commissioner  For- 
bidding THE  Native  Languaqe  in  Schools— Re- 
member this  order  is  issued  in  the  United  States, 
not  in  Turkey,  or  China,  or  Japan,  or  Slam;  and  it 
is  issued  in  the  nineteenth  century,  inste.id  of  back 
in  the  dark  ages;  it  is  approved  and  affirmed  by  a 
President  of  60,800,000  free  people,  instead  of  by 
a  barbarous  autocrat.  In  the  words  of  the  New 
york  Mail  and  Express:  "There  is  scarcely  another 
country  on  earth  where  missionaries  are  forbidden 
to  teach  the  Bible  in  the  native  tongue;  and  for 
such  a  thing  as  this  to  occur  in  America  is  one  of 
the  most  remarkable  things  that  has  happened  in 
the  nineteenth  century." — Pittsburgh  Chronicle  Tele- 
graph. 

FaSEMASONRY  LeANINQ  ON  GeOROE  WASHING- 
TON.— It  is  a  failing  cause  which  buttresses  itself  by 
names  which  do  not  belong  to  it.  The  Freemasons 
of  Virginia  have  secured  a  charter  "for  the  erection 
in  Fredericksburg  of  a  Masonic  Temple  as  a  memor- 
ial of  the  character  of  George  Washington,  who  was 
made  a  Mason  in  Lodge  4  in  Richmond  on  the  4th 
of  August,  1753."  It  is  well  known  that  George 
Washington  was,  in  his  youth,  initiateil  as  a  Mason. 
It  is  just  as  well  known  that  he  afterwards  ceased  to 
attend  the  lodge  or  to  maintain  any  connection  with 
the  order.  This  fact  he  stated  in  a  letter  which  has 
been  often  published.  The  frequent  attempt  of  Ma- 
sonry to  identify  his  illustrious  name  with  their  or- 
der is  a  piece  with  their  claim  of  Salomon  as  their 
founder  and  of  John  the  Baptist  and  of  John  the 
apostle  as  members  of  the  craft. — Christian  Statet- 


inan. 


\m]^  cHHistiAK  cnsrosiTRE. 


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AtRiL  6, 1888 


OUB  BOSTON  LBTTBB. 


THK   FIGHT   AGAINST    ROME    IN   BOSTON. — THE   CTNO- 
SDKE    COMMENDED. 


The  devil-head  of  evil  in  this  world  consists  of 
the  trinity  of  Rum,  Romanism  and  Lodgery,  and 
the  word  which  the  last  R.  of  Dr.  Burchard's  initial 
triplets  represents — rebellion,  is  simply  a  conse- 
quence of  the  existence  of  these  cardinal  factors  in 
evil. 

In  this  city  rum  has  its  unflinching  opponents, 
and  even  Romanism,  in  this,  its  most  invulnerable 
stronghold,  has  its  undaunted  assailants;  but  not 
even  a  Quixote  is  found  in  the  field  against  lodgery, 
an  evil  more  subtle  than  all  other  elements  com- 
bined. 

We  need  a  leader  in  the  fight  against  the  lodge 
system  in  this  city.  The  drunkard,  and  even  the 
saloon-keeper  hangs  his  head  in  shame  and  attempts 
no  denial  of  the  effect  of  intemperance;  the  Roman- 
ist listens,  and  sometimes  argues  or  crosses  himself 
and  retires;  but  the  lodgeman,  with  all  the  impu- 
dence of  his  sovereign  master,  the  devil,  defies,  denies 
and  endeavors  to  squelch  free  speech.  Endeavors,  I 
said;  nay,  he  doesequelch  it.  I  have  seen  him  doit 
in  one  of  our  largest  halls,  in  defiance  of  the  repre- 
sentatives of  law. 

"Who  is  there  among  us"  bold  enough  to  lay  seige 
to  the  cit&del  of  secretism  in  this  lodge-ridden  me- 
tropolis? But  then,  where  could  such  a  person 
speak?  No  hall  would  be  opened.  Speech-making 
is  not  allowed  in  the  thoroughfares— and  the  Com- 
mon is  altogether  out  of  the  question. 

But  Romanism  and  not  secretism  is  my  topic  this 
week.  Protestants,  and  all  lovers  of  liberty,  should 
be  exceeding  joyful  because  of  the  good  being  done 
in  the  fight  against  the  harlot  of  the  Tiber. 

Mrs.  M.  L.  Shepherd,  the  converted  nun,  lectures 
every  Thursday  afternoon  and  evening  to  overflow- 
ing audiences  in  Tremont  Temple.  This  nun  is 
really  an  exceptional  woman.  Keen,  witty,  logical 
and  philosophical,  she  draws  to  her  feet  many  of 
our  most  intellectual  citizens.  By  her  sweetness 
and  gentleness  of  manner  she  wins  the  obdurate 
Romanist,  and  many  converts  are  made.  Her  knowl- 
edge of  the  papacy,  doctrinally,  politically  and  his- 
torically is  really  wonderful.  At  the  close  of  her 
discourses  questions  of  all  kinds  bearing  upon  the 
subject  are  allowed,  and  successfully  answered,  often 
to  the  discomfiture  of  many  would-be  discomfort- 
ing inquirers.  Without  doubt,  Mrs.  Shepherd  is 
thoroughly  converted,  a  fact  which  deeply  impresses 
all  who  hear  her;  and  one  Catholic  Bishop  has  said 
that  he  feared  this  nun  and  the  open  Bible  she  inev- 
itably holds  in  her  hand  more  than  any  other  antag- 
onist. The  Romanists  of  this  city,  also,  seem  to 
hold  her  in  dread.  She  charges  the  Glohe  with  re- 
fusing to  print  notices  of  her  lectures.  To  show 
that  the  Jesuits  seem  to  intimidate,  if  they  do  not 
absolutely  control  the  press,  Rev.  W.  Kellaway  states 
that  even  that  conservative  Republican  paper,  the 
Journal,  has  succeeded  in  imitating  its  Democratic 
contemporary  a  few  doors  north.  In  other  words, 
Mr.  Kellaway  affirms  that  the  Journal  actually  de- 
clined to  publish  notices  of  his  anti-Romanist  lec- 
tures in  Horticultural  Hall. 

The  friends  of  Dr.  Fulton  and  the  Reformed  Cath- 
olics of  this  city  have  united,  and  will  issue  in  about 
one  week  the  first  number  of  a  representative  organ, 
to  be  known  as  the  Free  Press.  A  very  interesting 
meeting  of  the  projectors  of  this  new  publication 
was  held  a  few  evenings  ago  in  Arlington  Hall.  Rev. 
Mr.  Kellaway,  who  will  have  editorial  management, 
noticing  your  correspondent  in  the  audience,  mo- 
tioned that  a  vote  of  thanks  be  given  to  the  Chris- 
tian Cynosure  for  the  articles  it  has  published,  from 
time  to  time,  concerning  the  work  in  this  city,  and 
the  imprisonment  of  Rev.  Mr.  Davis.  A  storm  of 
applause  followed  the  motion. 

Evangelist  Leyden,  a  converted  Catholic,  is  one  of 
the  most  vigorous  and  radical  opponents  of  Rome  1 
ever  met.  He  stands  at  the  head  of  the  rapidly  in- 
creasing body  known  here  as  the  Reformed  Catho- 
lics. In  conjunction  with  Mr.  Kellaway  he  holds 
meetings  in  Music  Hall  every  Sunday.  The  testi- 
monies of  some  of  these  Reformed  Catholics  are  very 
interesting.     I  will  briefly  cite  one  instance. 

One  young  man  stated  that  he  became  too  inquis- 
itive in  regard  to  the  source  of  power  the  priests 
pretend  to  have  in  the  confessional.  He  ventured 
to  ask  his  confessor  one  day  how,  when  and  where 
he  received  power  to  forgive  sins.  "Young  man," 
replied  the  priest,  "you've  too  much  brains."  He 
next  advised  him  to  cease  from  such  inquisitiveness. 
But  the  brainy  joung  man's  eyes  were  opened.  He 
concluded  that  if  the  church  of  Rome  discounted 
brains,  he  would  get  out  where  there  would  be  a 
premium  on  such  an  indispensable  possession.     He 


couldn't  afford  to  allow  Romanism  to  stunt  them,  so 
he  came  out,  but  is  unconverted  to  Christ. 

Mrs.  Shepherd  declares  that  many  of  the  clergy 
as  well  as  the  laity  would  leave  Rome  could  they 
find  some  temporary  asylum  from  the  persecution 
which  always  follows  Romish  seceders.  She  is  now 
agitating  a  movement  to  provide  such  a  place,  which 
meets  with  much  approval  from  Protestants  inter- 
ested in  anti-Catholicism.  The  story  of  Mrs.  Shep- 
herd's conversion  is  very  entertaining,  and  she  has 
several  times  been  urged  to  repeat  it.  She  will  close 
her  lectures  here  next  May, 

Some  person,  presumably  a  Romanist,  has  smash- 
ed with  a  brickbat  one  of  the  large  and  expensive 
plate  glass  windows  of  Benj.  F.  Bradbury's  drug 
store,  corner  of  Washington  and  Winter  streets, 
where  are  displayed  stacks  of  Fulton's  book  "Why 
Priests  should  Wed."  Across  the  shattered  pane 
Mr.  Bradbury  has  pasted  the  inscription,  "The  hook 
still  lives."  The  affair  is  the  talk  of  the  town,  and 
the  book  is  thus  receiving  a  splendid  free  advertise- 
ment. D.  P.  Mathews. 


A  Secret  Shame. — I  live  in  a  little  town  called 
Smithport,  in  which  there  are  four  licensed  hotels 
and  bottling  works,  three  of  which  are  being  con- 
ducted by  members  of  the  Grand  Army  lodge,  and 
also  the  minister  of  the  M.  E.  church  belongs  to  the 
same  organization.  The  man  that  was  the  chaplain 
was  one  of  the  wickedest  men  in  the  place.  How 
true  the  words  of  the  Master,  where  he  says  light 
has  come  into  the  world  but  men  have  chosen  dark- 
ness in  preference  to  light,and  they  love  to  assemble 
themselves  together  in  secret  places,  for  their  deeds 
are  evil  and  they  are  ashamed  to  come  to  the  light. 
"Have  no  fellowship  with  the  unfruitful  works  of 
darkness,  but  rather  reprove  them,  for  it  is  a  shame 
even  to  speak  of  those  things  which  are  done  of 
them  in  secret." — John  R.  Barr  in  the  Wesley  an 
Methodist, 


Waldeck,  Germany,  has  a  law  forbidding  the 
granting  of  a  marriage  license  to  a  person  who  is 
addicted  to  intemperance. 


Reform  News. 


WEBBB  8HEBMAN  MBT  THE  SEA. 

The  attractions  of  Savannah — The  churches — Good  re- 
port of  the  Congregationalists,  but  the  Baptist  bi  ethren 
deep  in  the  lodge  pit. 

Savannah,  Mar.  26, 1888. 

Dear  Cynosure:— Savannah,  Georgia,  was  visit- 
ed by  both  John  Wesley  and  George  Whitefield,and 
was  the  scene  of  their  labors.  Whitefield  also  la- 
bored and  died  in  New  England.  It  was  here  that 
Wesley  must  have  formed  his  opinions  of  slavery, 
which  he  declared  to  be  "the  sum  of  all  villainies." 
This  is  one  of  those  places  which  nature  made  for  a 
city,  and  which,  but  for  slavery,  would  have  been 
what  it  may  yet  become,  the  great  emporium  of  the 
Southeast. 

Nearly  fifteen  miles  up  the  river  from  its  mouth 
there  is  a  considerable  island,  the  main  channel  be- 
ing on  the  southwest  side.  Opposite  this  island  is 
a  high  bluff  on  the  south,  and  a  vast  savannah  on 
the  north  and  east.  It  was  on  this  bluff  that  the 
city  was  built,  having  an  excellent,  natural,  deep- 
water  harbor,  and  an  elevated  but  level  location.  For 
two  hundred  years  it  has  been  an  important  port,and 
from  here  sailed  the  first  steamship  that  ever  crossed 
the  ocean.  Savannah  has  grown  steadily  since  the 
war  and  now  has  many  fine  streets  and  buildings,  a 
multitude  of  small  parks  and  one  fine  one,and  quite 
a  number  of  monuments,  the  most  conspicuous  be- 
ing to  Gen.  Greene,  Count  Pulaski,  Sergeant  Jasper, 
and  to  the  Confederate  dead.  The  soil  of  the  city 
and  vicinity  is  sandy,  and  in  the  suburbs  is  largely 
devoted  to  market  gardening.  There  are  great 
fields  of  peas  that  are  just  beginning  to  be  picked 
for  the  market. 

I  visited  "The  Hermitage,"  a  typical  plantation 
of  the  olden  time.  Several  pictures  of  the  place  ap- 
pear in  the  Century  of  a  year  or  two  ago,  and  I  rec- 
ognized the  place  at  once.  An  avenue  a  mile  long, 
bordered  with  great  live  oaks,  whose  branches  shut 
together  over  the  top,  and  whose  limbs  are  draped 
with  the  ever-present,  sombre  Spanish  moss,  leads 
up  to  the  fine  old  mansion.  On  each  side  of  the  ave- 
nue, but  far  enough  away  not  to  spoil  the  effect, were 
the  brick  cottages  thatconstituted  the  Negro  quarters. 
They  were  smalI,one  story,aud  have  long  since  been 
abandoned.  On  one  side,  back  from  the  rest,  was 
the  house  of  the  Negro  driver.  It  was  two  stories 
and  overlooked  the  others.  On  tke  other  side,  near- 
er the  mansion  and  in  a  much  nicer  building,  lived 
the  white  overseer.  Close  to  the  great  house  was 
the  hospital  and  dispensary  where  the  sick  slave  was 


cared  for,  and  near  by  these  were  a  multitude  of 
out-buildings  for  various  ends.  There  is  now  a 
wild  profusion  of  shrubbery  and  flowers,  and  there 
seem  to  have  been  some  fine  old  orange  trees  untif 
the  cold  winters  of  seven  and  four  years  ago  killed 
them.  The  whole  place  is  gone  to  decay,andi8  simp- 
ly kppt  by  some  colored  people  for  the  owners,  who 
live  in  the  city  and  come  here  on  convivial  occi- 
sions.  The  great  cotton  and  rice  fields  that  gave 
employment  to  the  hundreds  of  slaves  have  now  be- 
come forests. 

Near  by  are  the  city  waterworks,  where  from  a 
large  number  of  artesian  wells  great  engines  pump 
the  bright,  pure  water  into  a  great  tower  that  sup- 
plies the  city.  I  have  nowhere  seen  a  purer  or  more 
abundant  water  supply. 

Next  we  visited  a  great  cotton-seed  oil  mill  where 
the  seed  is  first  divested  of  the  remainder  of  the 
cotton  which  adheres  to  it  (and  which  is  made 
into  batting)  and  then  ground  and  pressed  into 
cakes  for  the  food  of  cattle.  The  oil  that  is  ex- 
tracted has  already  become  an  important  article  of 
trade.  Mixed  with  lard  it  is  greatly  used  as  food, 
and  while  it  cheapens  the  product,  does  not,  I  think, 
impair  its  value  as  an  article  of  diet.  It  is  well  that 
cotton-seed  oil,  like  oleomargarine,  should  be  sold 
for  what  it  is.  It  is  not  well  that  they  should  be 
taxed. 

I  also  visited  the  Telfair  Academy  of  Arts  and 
Science.  This  is  a  fine  building,admirably  kept,and 
has  a  fine  collection  of  statuary  and  paintings.  As 
compared  with  the  Corcoran  Art  Gallery  of  Wash- 
ington, it  is  less  costly  and  smaller,  but  is  certainly 
a  fine  collection  and  well  worthy  of  the  city. 

Beech  Institute  is  the  fine  Normal  School  of  the 
American  Missionary  Association,with  260  studeLts, 
eight  teachers,  and  admirably  managed  by  Miss 
Holmes,  the  able  superintendent.  A  second  time  I 
addressed  the  school  on  the  lodge  question  with,  I 
hope,excellent  results.  Some  of  the  largest  colored 
churches  in  America  are  here.  One  Baptist  church 
claims  5,000  members,  and  another  3,000.  Some  of 
the  pastors  are  able  men  and  are  doing  what  they  can 
to  develop  a  more  intelligent  as  well  as  a  more  ear- 
nest piety.  The  First  Congregational  church  has 
an  able  pastor,  who  graduated  at  Atlanta,  and  at 
Hartford  in  theology.  Another  colored  Congrega- 
tional church  on  the  border  of  the  city  has  a  colored 
pastor  educated  in  Germany,  and  who  speaks  Ger- 
man well.  Both  of  these  are  opposed  to  the  lodge, 
though  one  of  them  was  made  a  Mason,  and  has 
been  Grand  Secretary  of  the  Grand  Lodge  of  the 
State.  His  church  has  now  no  secret  society  mem- 
bers. All  the  other  pastors  are,  1  believe,  Masons 
or  Odd-fellows,  or  both.     It  is  a  hard  field. 

On  Sabbath  morning,  the  25th,  I  preached  to  a 
good  congregation  in  the  First  Congregational 
church,  I  dwelt  to  a  considerable  extent  on  the  duty 
of  separation  from  the  secret  lodge  system.  A  num- 
ber of  the  members  responded  most  heartily  and 
thanked  me  for  my  timely  words.  At  7:30  p.  m.  I 
lectured  in  the  Woodville  Congregational  church  to 
a  full  house.  I  had  the  closest  attention,  and  near- 
ly all  were  in  sympathy  with  my  remarks.  This 
morning  (26th)  I  walked  into  the  city,and  addressed 
the  Baptist  Ministers'  Union.  Every  one  is  a  Free- 
mason, and  one  has  been  Grand  Master  of  the  State. 
Several  other  ministerial  brethren  were  present.  I 
had  excellent  attention  for  more  than  an  hour, 
though  often  pressed  with  questions.  On  the  whole, 
the  course  of  those  who  heard  me  was  kind  and 
courteous,  if  not  candid.  I  trust  that  good  was 
done.     I  go  from  here  to  Charleston,  S.  C. 

H,  H,  Hinman, 


THE  NEW  0BLBAN8  LETTBB. 


churches  tbt  opening  for  discussion. 


New  Orleans,  La.,  March  24, 1888. 

I  preached  last  Sabbath  evening  on  the  religion  of 
Masonry.  We  had  a  very  good  and  quiet  congre- 
gation,although  the  fraternities  were  well  represent- 
ed, and  several  left  the  church  while  I  was  going 
through  the  Fellowcraft  obligation.  Rev.  John 
Holmes,  the  pastor,  heartily  endorsed  the  sermon. 

Rev.  Dr.  Manning,  Freewill  Baptist  Missionary 
from  Michigan,  is  preparing  for  the  annual  meeting 
of  the  Freewill  Baptists  in  this  State  here  in  April. 
Rev.  R.  Keudricks  of  Amite  City,  La.,  pastor  of 
the  Freewill  Baptist  church  of  that  town  and  a  se- 
ceded secretisi,  is  in  the  city.  He  knew  nothing  of 
the  N,  C.  A.  and  had  never  seen  the  Cynosure.  I 
have  promised  him  to  come  up  the  Slst  of  March 
and  lecture  on  secretism.  He  is  quite  sure  if  I  come 
that  some  of  his  people  will  give  up  secrecy.  He 
says  Rev.  Antoine  Washington,  an  African  Zion  M. 
E.  preacher,  planted  Odd-fellowship  and  other  se- 
cret orders  in  Amite  City. 


Apbil  6,  1888 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


I  purpose  to  attend  the  5th  District  Baptist  Asso- 
ciation on  Wednesday,  April  4th.  1  have  promised 
(D.  V.)  to  preach  at  Mount  Moriah  Baptist  c&urch 
and  at  St.  Matthew  Baptist  church  on  the  Sab- 
bath. 

Rev.  A.  S.  Jackson  purposes  to  open  fire  on  the 
secret  fort  of  lodgery  the  last  Sabbath  in  March.  1 
have  not  obtained  very  many  Cynosure  subscribers 
this  week,  but  have  done  much  visiting  and  had 
private  conversations  on  the  secrecy  question.  The 
Masons  are  loud  in  their  boasting  of  celebrating 
Easter  in  a  large  uptown  M.  E.  church. 

The  Ueraldfit  which  Rev.  A.  S.  Jackson  is  editor, 
has  a  column  of  its  last  issue  devoted  to  anti-secrecy, 
but  to  my  astonishment  it  very  strongly  defends  the 
Knights  of  Labor,  by  saying  that  their  cause  is  a 
righteous  one. 

No  intelligent  man  can  justly  deny  but  what  the 
laborer  is  worthy  of  his  hire,  and  that  he  is  as  much 
entitled  to  the  protection  of  the  law  as  the  capitalist; 
but  meanwhile  we  do  not  think  the  secret  lodge  the 
proper  place  to  arbitrate  labor.  We  trust  our  anti- 
secret  brethren  will  wake  "up  to  oppose  secrecy,  even 
if  it  come  in  form  and  with  the  tongue  of  the  tempter 
in  the  Garden  of  Eden.  I  have  well  nigh  distribut- 
ed all  the  copies  of  the  Cynosure  and  tracts  in  my 
possession.  Mr.  S.  S.  Bu'^ts,  formerly  K.  of  R  and 
S.  of  the  Pride  of  Louisiana  lodge.  No.  3,  K.  of  P., 
said  to  me  this  evening,  "I  .tell  you  the  Cynosure 
has  got  me  studying  over  this  thing."  Mr.  Butts's 
family  are  strongly  opposed  to  lodgery.  We  trust 
he  may  see  its  evils  and  renounce  it. 

LODGE   PERSECUTION, 

Whereas  I  have  suffered  persecution  as  an  evil- 
doer for  preaching  the  Gospel  of  the  blessed  Son  of 
God;  and  whereas  said  persecutions  have  come  from 
members  of  secret  societies  or  their  sympathizers; 
and  whereas,  since  the  late  National  Christian  Con- 
vention held  in  Central  Church  of  this  city,  cer- 
tain gentlemen,  members  of  secret  80cieties,have  be- 
gun a  tirade  on  me  and  are  circulating  frivolous  re- 
ports that  I  was  expelled  from  the  "Pride  of  Louisi- 
ana" Lodge,  No.  3,  K.  of  P.,  for  embezzlement,  etc , 
I  feel  it  is  my  duty  as  a  Christian  and  a  minister  of 
the  Gospel  to  set  myself  aright  before  the  well- 
thinking  public.  I  will  not  go  back  to  expose  cer- 
tain things  respecting  the  joint  picnic  given  by  thg 
then  four  lodges  of  Knights  of  Pythias  of  this  city 
in  April,  1882,  but  I  will  only  ask  my  secret  breth- 
ren what  became  of  the  $4  00  T  paid  in  1883  for  your 
complimentary  banner?  Where  is  the  $4.00  I  paid 
to  the  P.  L.  Lodge,  K.  of  P.  in  1883,  October  and 
November?  The  $4  00  I  paid  on  the  banner  was  a 
gift,  but  the  $4  00  I  paid  to  the  lodge  in  October 
and  November  of  1883  was  all  and  the  only  money  I 
held  for  them  before  or  since  the  fourth  Thursday  of 
November,  1883. 

Now,  dear  brethren,  there  is  a  law  for  all  embez- 
zlers to  be  tried  and  if  I  was  an  embezzler  of  lodge 
funds  five  years  ago,  why  did  you  gentlemen  not 
carry  me  to  law;  why  do  you  wait  five  years  to 
charge  a  Christian  with  embezzlement,  only  because 
you  believe  him  to  have  been  instrumental  in  getting 
so  many  others  to  leave  your  dark  lodges  after  being 
convinced  of  your  secret  folly? 

I  will  not  criticise,  but  submit  this  to  the  consid- 
eration of  my  brother  preachers.  If  the  lodge 
brethren  want  me  to  reveal  anything  connected  with 
certain  cases  I  am  prepared  to  expose  it.  Yours  for 
the  pure  Gospel  of  Jesus, 

Francis  J.  Datidson. 


PROGRSaa  IN  PBNNaTLVANlA. 

York,  Pa. 

Since  the  great  task  of  reorganizing  the  anti-becret 
workers  of  Pennsylvania  was  begun  I  have  been 
cheered  by  many  signs  of  progress.  There  seems 
to  be  a  strong  desire  to  do  all  that  can  be  done  to 
push  this  old  Commonwealth  into  her  proper  posi- 
tion, with  her  old  motto,  "Virtue,  Liberty,  and  Inde- 
pendence," rubbed  up  and  dusted  off  so  that  all  can 
read  it. 

Our  friends  at  PittsJiurgh  are  wide  awake,  and 
seem  to  realize  that  the  time  has  come  to  do  hard 
work  for  civil  and  religious  liberty.  This  old  city 
is  famous  for  her  smoke;  but  I  am  mistaken  if  it  is 
not  also  full  of  true  Protestant  faith  (or  fire).  There 
is  generally  genuine  fire  where  there  is  so  much 
genuine  smoke. 

Dr.  J.  C.  Miles  of  Dalton  says:  "I  hope  and  trust 
that  the  efforts  being  put  forth  to  suppress  these 
mighty  evils  will  ultimately  succeed,  but  the  devil 
seems  to  have  general  control.  If  universal  prohi- 
bition could  be  established,  other  reforms  would  bo 
more  easily  accomplished."  Anti-secret  reformers 
who  oppose  the  use  of  "fire-water"  are  wise;  for  a 
sot  or  rowdy  cannot  do  much  for  freedom. 


W.  B.  Bertels  of  Wilkesbarre  says:  "Anything  I 
can  do  to  help  on  the  anti-secret  work  I  will  do.  I 
am  with  the  movement  to  do  all  I  can." 

Rev.  J.  T.  Michael  writes  from  Washington,  D  C, 
as  follows:  "I  feel  intensely  interested  in  the  Penn- 
sylvania work." 

Edward  H.  Magill,  president  of  Swarthmore  Col- 
lege, Swarthmore,  Delaware  county,  says:  "Friends 
do  not  encourage  secret  societies  of  any  kind."  I 
expect  to  receive  much  aid  and  encouragement  from 
the  many  thousands  of  Friends  in  the  great  city  of 
Brotherly  Love  and  in  all  parts  of  Penn's  old  col- 
ony. Pennsylvania  belongs  to  Freedom  and  not  to 
Freemasonry.  The  Society  of  Friends  only  need 
"more  light"  on  tte  subject  of  secret  societies  to 
arouse  them  to  the  most  energetic  action.  Nothing 
could  be  more  antagonistic  to  the  principles  of  the 
Friends  than  all  the  principles  and  practices  of  Jes- 
uitism, Masonry  and  secret  orders  of  every  descrip- 
tion. 

No  State  in  the  Union  contains  so  many  men  and 
women  who  are  intensely  opposed  to  Romanism,  rum, 
rebellion,  rings  and  secret  societies  as  the  old  State 
that  William  Penn  established  solely  for  the  sake 
of  civil  and  religious  liberty.  Let  every  Pennsyl- 
vanian  go  to  work  with  energy  to  recapture  our 
grand  old  Commonwealth  from  the  sly  and  crafty 
craftsmen  of  the  Romish  lodge  and  Roman  Catholic 
church.  Priestcraft  and  kingcraft  have  no  legal 
claim  to  a  single  inch  of  Pennsylvania  soil.  The 
time  for  action  has  come.  Pennsylvanians,  are 
you  ready?  Edward  J.  Chalfant. 


Correspondence. 


A  TEXAS  FIOET  WITH   TUB  TWIN  DEMONS. 


Anderson,  Texas,  March  26,  1888. 

Dear  CyNOSURE: — After  an  illness  of  several  days 
I  am  up  and  at  work  again.  Since  I  wrote,  on  my 
way  here,  I  stopped  at  Bryan.  Here  I  visited  Prof. 
A.  H.  Colwell,  a  former  student  of  Straight  Univer- 
sity, of  New  Orleans.  He  has  been  a  member  of 
the  Odd-fellows'  lodge.  He  appeared  excited  on 
learning  my  mission.  "Why,  Bro.  Jordan,  it  must 
take  a  great  amount  of  manhood  for  one  to  stand  up 
against  the  lodge,"  said  he.  He  kept  me  talking  a 
long  time,  and  took  the  tracts  with  great  interest. 
He  is  a  good  "  Anti."  He  introduced  me  to  his  pas- 
tor. Rev.  W.  H.  Hopkins,  a  seceded  member  of  the 
craft  and  pastor  of  the  A.  M.  E.  church.  He,  too, 
is  out-spoken  against  the  evils  of  the  lodge. 

Our  work  is  being  felt  all  over  this  State.  Bro. 
Clark  is  in  the  northern  part,  where  I  was  to  join 
him,  but  have  been  unable.  I  am  preaching  here, 
and  my  people  love  me  and  have  unshaken  confi- 
dence in  my  sincerity  in  whatever  I  undertake. 
After  services  yesterday  I  announced  that  I 
would  speak  on  Monday  night  at  the  court-house. 
That  was  all  right.  So  I  posted  my  bills;  subject, 
"How  shall  we  Prohibit  the  Liquor  Traffic?"  Poli- 
ticians began  to  squirm.  One  of  my  brothers  came 
to  see  me,  saying,  "The  white  folks  are  just  acuss- 
ing,"  and  asked  that  I  would  not  speak,  as  my  bread 
and  meat  depended  upon  my  keeping  quiet  on  that 
subject.  My  reply  was,  "We  were  kept  in  the  worst 
form  of  slavery  known  to  history,  longer  than  we 
would  have  been  if  the  people  could  have  been  made 
to  hear.  Men  were  killed  to  stop  their  mouths;  but 
as  soon  as  Douglass,  Garrison,  Blanchard,  Clark, 
Phillips  and  others  could  get  the  ear  of  the  good 
people  of  this  country,  they  were  heard,  and  they 
conquered.  And  if  the  people  can  get  loose  from 
their  old  parties  long  enough  to  hear,  they  will  arise 
and  free  themselves  from  this  great  curse.  Let  them 
hear."  He  agreed,  so  I  am  to  talk  to-night.  Pray 
for  our  success. 

I  am  learning  more  about  the  power  of  these  twin 
devils.  Several  of  our  pastors  are  being  choked  into 
silence.  It  would  be  a  blessing  to  the  ministry  and 
our  cause  if  Bro.  Hinman  or  some  agent  could  be 
kept  here  a  while.  It  strengthens  us  who  are  try- 
ing to  fight  the  "powers  of  darkness."  Letters  have 
been  sent  all  over  this  State  defining  my  position, 
but  as  yet  I  cannot  say  I  have  met  any  real  resist- 
ance. But  I  see,  as  I  never  saw  before,  God  is 
truly  on  the  side  of  right.     I  am  yours  in  Jesus, 

L.  G.  Jordan. 


FRIENDSHIP.  LOV/e   AND   TRUTH  AS   PRAC- 
TICED IN  CORPUS  CURISTl,   TEXAS. 


"Chained  to  no  parly's  arbitrary  sway, 

But  cling  to  truth,  where'er  she  leads  the  way." 

The  Fourth  of  March  is  a  great  day  in  Texas 
among  colored  Odd-fellows.  I  am  not  a  member  of 
any  order  or  church,  but  under  the  above  principle 
I  favor  the  cause  of  God  wherever  it  has  a  footing, 


and  I  am  not  afraid  to  denounce  wrong  wherever  it 
lifts  up  its  hydra  head.  Of  the  instance  which  I  now 
record,  if  I  did  not  give  my  unqualified  condemna- 
tion I  belief  the  rocks  would  cry  out. 

The  population  of  colored  people  in  Corpus 
Christi  is  not  over  300,  and  in  the  midst  of  this 
small  collection  of  inhabitants  there  are  lodges  of 
Masons,  Odd-fellows,  U.  B.  F.s,  S.  M.  T.s.  Seven 
Stars,  S.  S.  of  C,  and  one  or  two  other  Jim  Crow  or- 
ders. These,  together  with  the  African  Methodist, 
Congregational,  Methodist  Episcopal,  Free-will  and 
Missionary  Baptists— five  churches  and  seven  or 
eight  lodges  to  be  supported  by  these  three  hundred 
colored  people.  It  is  evident  that  some  of  these 
bodies  must  suffer,  either  the  church  or  lodge.  I 
am  satisfied  it's  the  church  that  suffers,  and  what  I 
say  has  come  under  my  own  personal  observation. 
Every  one  of  these  churches  are  poor,  groveling, 
half-supported,  and  utterly  unable  to  feed  a  minis- 
ter, say  nothing  about  supporting  one.  All  church- 
es are  in  debt;  while,  on  the  other  hand,  the  lodges, 
with  scarcely  an  exception, arc  blooming.  Members 
of  the  church  refuse,  in  many  instances,  to  render 
their  dues  to  the  church  of  Christ,  but  give  the  last 
cent  to  the  lodge,  denying  themselves  aad  children 
of  bread  and  raiment.     Is  this  right? 

On  the  first  Sunday  in  March  the  G.  U.  O.  of 
O.  F.  turned  out  to  hear  the  annual  sermon  deliv- 
ered by  the  talented,  refined  and  Christian  gentle- 
man. Rev.  J.  Harvey  Jones,  A.  M.,  presiding  elder 
of  the  Corpus  Christi  District  of  the  A.  M.  E. 
church.  The  sermon  was  profound,  and  showed 
that  much  time  had  been  spent  in  its  preparation. 
This  gentleman  was  asked  to  remain  and  preach  for 
these  very  Oddfellows;  and,  notwithstanding  the 
sacrifice  made  by  this  elder  refusing  to  go  on  to  his 
district,  after  the  sermon  was  preached  the  collec- 
tion was  taken  up,  and  these  very  Odd-fellows  lov- 
ingly took  half  of  the  money  collected,  it  being  only 
$6  50,  and  put  it  in  their  treasury,  to  the  contumely 
of  the  elder  and  disgust  of  the  audience.  The  ser- 
mon preached  last  year  for  them  was  delivered  by  a 
man  of  no  learning,  who  told  them  that  the  Negro 
race  came  from  monkeys,  and  that  the  great  grand- 
daddy  of  Odd-fellows  was  a  monkey.  How  is  this 
for  F.  L.  and  T.  in  Corpus  Christi,  Texas!  All  of 
this  I  can  prove,  and  more  too.  X.  Y.  Z. 

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MISSIONARY  WORK  IN  MORMONDOM. 


Ogden,  Utah,  March  22,  1888. 

Dear  Brother: — Yesterday  I  received  a  letter 
from  my  father  with  one  dolla;  enclosed  from  you 
for  our  Ogden  church,  with  a  request  that  I  write 
to  you  of  our  work. 

Ogden  is  the  second  city  in  size  and  commercial 
and  political  importance  in  Utah.  It  has  a  popula- 
tion of  8,000,  more  than  half  Mormon.  The  Mor- 
mons carry  every  election,  though  the  non-Mormons 
hope  to  win  in  a  few  years.  They  are  gaining 
strength.  Half  the  business  is  in  non-Mormon  hands; 
and  the  Mormon  officials  feel  the  pressure  of  out- 
side influences,  and  yield  to  it  when  they  must. 

The  public  schools  are  actually  Mormon  schools, 
as  much  so  as  Christian  schools  are  non-Mormon. 
There  are  no  free  schools  here;  tuition  being  re- 
quired in  the  public  school.  A  tax  is  raised  but  it 
will  not  half  support  the  schools.  Poor  children 
are  admitted  free  in  public  and  private  schools. 

The  non-Mormons  are  generally  irreligious.  Infi- 
delity and  spiritualism  have  a  strong  hold.  The 
church  attendance  is  small,  and  churches  weak. 
Our  Congregational  policy  is  to  hold  a  few  centers 
and  work  out  from  them  as  far  as  possible.  The 
New  West  Commission  has  a  strong  academy  here, 
and  we  have  a  church  half  built.  The  church  will 
have  a  seating  capacity  of  over  four  hundred,  open- 
ing all  rooms  for  special  ccjasions. 

The  work  is  an  experiment  in  one  sense,  for  we 
do  not  know  who  will  respond  to  the  Gospel.  But 
we  shall  preach  the  Gospel  whether  men  will  hear  or 
forbear.  On  the  principle  that  a  rock  cannot  be 
broken  with  a  tack-hammer,  we  are  preparing  to 
to  strike  blows  equal  to  the  resistance  they  must 
overcome.  This  is  our  need  of  a  church.  We  do 
reach  the  people,  not  in  wonderful  ways,  but  by  pa- 
tient, faithful  work.  The  town  feels  the  influence 
of  our  work.  I  preach  in  three  outside  places  regu- 
larly, and  hope  to  preach  occasionally  atother  pjints. 
In  one  place  I  held  special  meetings;  infidelity  was 
strong;  but  now  the  infidelity  does  not  keep  the 
people  from  our  meetings.  We  have  overcome  their 
prejudices,  and  we  feel  hopeful  for  the  salvation  of 
many  people  in  that  place.  In  the  other  communi- 
ties the  same  conditions  exist  in  general,  only  the 
work  has  been  carried  on  for  a  longer  time. 

We  reach  the  non-Mormon  elements  about  as  sin- 
ners in  other  places  are  reached.  It  is  a  hard,  slow 
process  to  convert  wicked  people,  and  change  the 


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JHE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE- 


April  5, 1888 


character  of  a  community.      But  that  problem  is 
here  what  it  is  elsewhere. 

As  to  the  Mormons — we  are  not  making  very 
much  headway  in  the  larger  towns,  or  in  Ogden,  at 
least,  though  we  do  reach  some.  In  the  country 
places  we  have  Mormons  in  large  numbers  in  our 
meetings.  We  have  no  startling  conversions  from 
Mormonism;  but  the  leaven  is  working,  and  the 
Mormon  church  has  not  the  strong  hold  that  it  once 
had.  If  you  can,  in  thought,  combine  the  power 
of  the  Catholic  church  over  its  people  with  the 
power  of  an  oath-bound  secret  lodge,  and  work  such 
machinery  in  the  midst  of  a  people  whose  ignorance 
leads  them  to  superstition  rather  than  faith,  you  can 
know  something  of  the  Mormon  problem  to  be  solved 
by  Christian  work. 

But  against  all  this  we  are  making  some  headway. 
In  a  ladies'  meeting  in  our  society  a  stranger  was 
saying  some  hard  things  against  Mormonism,  when 
she  explained  her  boldness  by  saying,  "I  suppose  I 
may  speak  freely  here,  for  there  are  no  Mormons  in 
this  company."  But  more  than  half  the  company 
had  been  Mormons.  Wecannotsay  just  howthe work 
grows  now,  for  generally  those  who  come  out  from 
Mormonism  come  slowly;  at  first  holding  their 
church  lightly  and  then  leaving  altogether. 

Pray  for  us  that  we  may  have  faith  to  open  our 
mouths  for  Christ,  and  preach  the  Word  boldly  as 
we  ought  to  preach  it.     Yours  in  Christ, 

Amos  Judson  Bailey. 


FROM  OUR  AFFLICTBD  BROTHER  GOUNTBB. 


Memphis,  March  23,  1888. 

DxAB  Cynosure: — I  intended  to  have  furnished 
you  with  a  copy  of  my  New  Orleans  speech  before 
this  time,  but  constant  watching  at  the  bedside  of 
my  brother  has  incapacitated  me  for  a  revision  of  the 
same.     You  shall  have  it,  D.  V.,  for  the  next  issue. 

After  weeks  of  weary  watching  and  waiting,  the 
Master  has  again  laid  his  hand  upon  us,  and  my 
sell-sacrificing  brother  has  gone  home  to  rest.  His 
death  was  hastened  by  the  ball  he  received  between 
his  shoulders  the  night  when  the  Masons  attempted 
my  assassination.  It  lodged  near  the  right  lung,  and 
its  irritating  influence  precipitated  an  attack  of  con- 
sumption from  which  he  died  on  Monday,  the  19tih, 
at  7:15  p.  m. 

On  Sunday  night  he  said  to  me,  "I  am  going 
home  to-night,  I  think."  On  Monday  morning  I  said 
to  him  in  a  playful  way,  "You  did  not  get  home  last 
night."  He  said,  "No,  but  I  wish  that  I  had;"  and 
pre  another  night  had  sped  its  way  he  passed  away 
to  rest. 

During  my  bitter  warfare  with  the  lodge  he  was 
constantly  by  my  side,  and  was  always  ready  to 
jeopardize  his  own  life  to  save  mine.  He  was  shot 
because  he  was  walking  behind  me.  He  would  say, 
"The  people  can  spare  me  better  than  they  can  you." 
I  would  say  to  him,  "You  ought  not  to  get  behind 
me;  you  might  get  shot,  and  then  you  are  not  a 
Christian."  He  would  reply,  "Better  that  I  should 
die  any  time  than  you.  You  can  care  for  my  fam- 
ily, and  God  will  take  care  of  you."  One  year  after- 
ward be  embraced  a  hope  in  Christ,  and  since  the 
death  of  our  mother,  Nov.  6,  1887,  not  five  months 
ago,  he  has  been  anxious  to  go  home  and  be  at  rest. 

A  few  day  prior  to  his  death  he  called  us  all 
around  his  bedside,  and  to  each  of  the  five  members 
of  his  family  he  gave  a  charge,  and  admonished 
them  as  to  how  they  should  live.  I  then  asked  him 
if  there  were  no  parting  words  for  me.  He  gave  me 
all  five  of  his  family  to  care  for,  and  amid  tears  of 
joy  he  put  his  hands  around  my  neck,  and  said,  "You 
have  been  the  best  brother  that  ever  lived.  God  bless 
youl"     And  now  1  feel  completely  broken  up. 

This  much  has  been  written  to  you  amid  intervals 
of  tears.  I  felt  when  brother  passed  away  as  though 
the  solid  earth  had  slipped  from  under  my  feet. 
Such  feelings  of  weakness  I  have  never  before  ex- 
perienced. I  know  God  doeth  what  is  best  in  his 
sight,  but  I  cannot  rally  only  for  a  little  while.  I 
am  aware  that  he  tempers  the  wind  to  the  shorn 
lamb,  and  I  look  to  him  to  by-and-by  raise  the  cloud 

I  read  this  morning  an  account  of  the  continued 
good  work  in  New  Orleans,  and  I  could  but  say, 
"Glory  to  God  in  the  highesti"  I  have  all  my  broth- 
er's family  of  five  to  care  for,  and  I  ask  all  of  the 
dear  Christian  friends  to  help  me  bear  this  burden 
Pray  for  me.  R.  N.  Codntee. 


PITH  AND  POINT. 


MOBE  LODGE  THAH  LAW  ASD  OBDBB. 

The  Boil  here  is  of  a  Btrong  nature,  and  don't  bring 
foith  a  very  large  crop  of  refcrm  of  any  kind.  But  in 
the  way  of  "joining,"  we  are  having  a  "boom."  A  man 
that  has  rot  joined  ie  as  rare  as  a  white  blackbird.     There 

a  law  and  order  society  here,  to  which  the  ministers 


have  all  been  invited,  time  and  again;  but  they  never 
come,  they  are  too  busy!  That  may  be:  but  some  time 
since  the  Masons  had  their  installation  of  officers  in  the 
Presbyterian  church,  and  after  this  ceremony  they  ad- 
journed to  the  hotel  to  supper,  where  the  evening  was 
spent  making  speeches,  and  eulogizing  what  some  of 
them  certainly  knew  nothing  about.  All  of  the  minis- 
ters of  the  city  were  invited,  and  all  attended,  I  believe, 
and  made  speeches.  The  Law  and  Order  Society  don't 
have  supper  after  they  transact  their  business.  Then 
Paul  says,  "To  the  weak  became  I  as  weak,  that  I  might 
gain  the  weak.  I  am  made  all  things  to  all  men,  that  I 
might  by  all  means  save  some."  But  after  looking  over 
the  field,  I  guess  the  lodge  is  a  few  lengths  ahead,  and 
increasing  its  lead,  while  the  church  will  come  in  for 
second  premium.  We  had  a  faithful  champion  on  the 
Lord's  side.  Rev.  Wallace  of  the  United  Presbyterian 
church,  but  he  has  gone  to  San  Diego,  Cal. — A  Cbank, 
Bellaire,  Ohio. 

GOOD   work   appreciated. 

I  want  to  see  an  anti  secret  Prohibition  canSirlate 
nominated  and  pushed  for  all  the  csuse  is  worth.  You 
have  got  some  excellent  correspondents,  especially  J.  M. 
Foster  and  Hiriman  always  give  something  readable.  I 
hope  Miss  E.  E.  Flagg  will  soon  be  ready  for  work  again. 
She  is  a  second  Mies  Willard,  only  more  uncompromising. 
— (Rev.)  Joel  Warner. 

MICHIGAN    SPIRITUALISTS. 

In  your  paper  of  March  1st  there  appears  an  article 
from  Rev.  A.  H.  Springstein  in  which  he  gives  an  ac 
count  of  a  collcquy  between  himself  and  the  leaders  of 
a  spiritualistic  meeting  in  which  the  said  A  H.  Spring- 
stein everlastingly  got  away  with  and  utterly  dumb- 
four  ded  and  confounded  his  opponents  and  silenced 
them  to  such  an  extent  that  "all  was  painfully  still."  but 
that  "there  was  a  great  amount  of  siappressed  excitement  " 
He  sajs:  "  'Is  this  then  the  doctrine  of  Spiritualism?' 
They  all  answered,  'Yes,  it  is.' "  Now  the  leading  Spir- 
ituals's  and  all  Spiritualists  declare  that  they  have  no 
doctrine,  no  creed,  nor  no  belief  as  a  sect  or  body  other 
than  that  the  spirits  of  the  dead  can  communicate  with  the 
living.  That  constitutes  spiritualism;  and  a  man  may 
be  and  frequently  is  a  Christian  Spiritualist  believing  all 
the  tenets  and  doctrines  of  some  orthodox  church,  or  he 
may  be  an  infidel  Spiriiualist,  or  he  may  be  anything  he 
wants  to  be.  Although  I  have  been  "raised  from  a  dead 
level  to  a  living  perpendicular"  symbolical  to  the  resur- 
rection of  Christ,  yet  I  cannot  see  very  much  to  condemn 
in  your  paper,  but  much  to  ponder  on;  and  I  must  own 
that  it  has  set  me  thinking  in  a  different  channel  in  re- 
gard to  Masonry  than  I  ever  thought  I  would. — Joseph 
F.  Clarke,  M.  D.,  Walkertown,  Kans. 

Note. — Two  passages  were  omitted  from  the  above 
letter:  one  containing  offensive  allusions  to  Bro.  Spring- 
stein, which  being  from  an  entire  stranger  were  unkind; 
the  other  inviting  an  indiscriminate  discussion  of  spirit- 
ualism, for  which  our  columns  are  not  open.  It  is  pos 
sible  that  the  writer  is  not  so  well  informed  in  the  creed 
of  that  system  as  he  supposes.  We  are  glad  to  know  the 
citadel  of  the  lodge  in  his  breast  is  not  impregnable,  and 
hope  he  will  continue  to  read  and  profit  by  the  Cynosure. 

AN   APPEAL  from    TEXAS. 

Your  paper  is  doing  an  inestimable  good  here.  The 
pastor  of  the  leading  church  here  has  once  been  a  Mason 
but  has  "come  out  from  among  tbem"  and  is  greatly  in 
need  of  light,  such  light  as  the  Cynosure  conveys.  He 
had  never  seen  a  copy  of  the  paper  until  I  gave  him 
mine  to  read.  He  can  do  a  world  of  good  among  our 
people  toward  discouraging  them  in  worshiping  tho  lodge 
He  is  a  Baptist  minister  and  is  very  intelligent.  I  told 
him  about  Rev.  Countee,  and  his  bold  position  which  he 
took  against  the  lodge  a  few  years  ago,  and  he  is  anxious 
to  see  Countee's  views  in  print.  There  is  no  better  place 
for  an  agent  of  the  N.  C.  A.  to  work  than  Dallas,  for 
this  is  a  city  of  secret  societies. — J.  W.  Roberts,  Dallas, 
Texas. 

AN   AMERICAN   MARTYR. 

What!  Has  our  free  country  martyrs?  Yes,  indeed 
Martyrs  make  brightest  stars  in  history,  and  the  United 
States  is  making  history.  "But  stars  are  best  seen  in  dark 
ness.  So  it  has  been,  is  now,  and  shall  be  hereafter. 
Lodgery  has  had  its  Morgans.  Slander  and  jails  and 
murder  attended  the  John  Browns  and  Lovejoys  of  free 
dom  for  the  slaves;  saloonery  murdered  Haddock;  and 
Romanism  jails  Davis  for  peaceably  preaching  the  Gos- 
pel on  Boston  Common !  The  color  of  law  is  too  trans- 
parent to  cover  the  demoniacal  features  of  the  gratified 
persecutors,  but  the  cowardly  time-serving  party  politi- 
cians shut  their  eyes  and  wait  the  popular  changes,  anx- 
ious only  to  secure  their  party  temporary  victory.  Oh 
ye  blind!  how  can  you  escape  the  eagle's  claws!  Awake, 
Americans,  and  proiliim  again  to  the  whole  world  that 
yours  is  a  free  country,  where  the  Gospel  of  Christ  can 
be  freely  preached,  and  that  your  freedom  cannot  be 
longer  infringed  upon  by  the  sf  rvants  of  the  Pope  under 
the  hypocritical  pretense  of  obedience  to  their  manipu- 
lated, tampered  with,  municipal  American  law.  But 
there  is  a  higher  law  tban  the  law  of  any  nation.  The 
law  of  God  must  ever  be  held  supreme  over  any  majority 
in  any  nation.  And  if  Cicsar  wrongly  imprisons  his  sub- 
jects the  Christian  must  then  rise  superior  to  his  civil 
rights  as  the  victim  in  Boston  jail  has  done,  and  esteem 
it  a  privilege  and  glory  to  obey  God  rather  than  man. 
Yes,  Wm.  F.  Davis  is  a  sufferer  for  righteousness'  sake  in 
a  double  sense — the  one  as  an  American  exercising  his 
rights  against  an  unjust  local  law,  and  the  other  as  the 
faithful  servant  of  Uim  whose  kingdom  is  not  of  this 
world.— T.  H. 


Bible  Lesson. 


STUDIES  IN  THB  NEW  TESTAMENT. 

LESSON  III,  Second  Quarter. —April  15. 

SUBJECT.— Christian  Watchfulness.— Matt.  24:  43-5'. 

GOLDEN  TEXT.— And  what  I  say  unto  you  I  say  unto  all, 
Watch.— Mark  13:  37. 

yOpm  the  Bible  and  read  the  le^son.l 

I  From  Notes  in  United  Presbyterian  Bible  Teacher,  j 

1.  The  Duty  of  Watchfulness. — Vs.  42-44.  1.  The 
Duty  Itself— Yb.  42.  The  word  "watch"  means  (1)  To 
keep  awake  For  an  example  of  its  use  in  this  sense  see 
1  'Thess.  5:  6,  "Therefore  let  us  not  sleep,"  etc.  (2)  To 
be  vigilant,  or  watchful  (a)  against  temptation  (1  Peter 
5:  8);  (b)  for  opportunities  of  usefulness,  Eph.  5:  16, 
"Look  therefore  carefully  how  ye  wi^.lk ....  buying  up  the 
opportunity,"  etc.  (margin  of  Rev.  Ver  )  (3)  This  com- 
mand requires  not  only  wakefulness  and  watchfulness, 
but  also  fidelity.  "Whatsoever  thy  hand  flndeth  to  do, 
do  it  with  thy  might,"  Eccl.  9:  10.  We  must  not  only 
keep  awake,  but  we  must  obey  orders  when  awake. 

We  should  carefully  guard  against  all  irreverent,  un- 
kind, untrue,  impure  and  idle  words.  "But  I  say  unto 
you,  That  every  idle  word  that  men  shall  speak,  they 
shall  give  account  thereof  in  the  day  of  judgment." 
Matt.  12:  36. 

We  should  guard  against  sinful  and  foolish  actions; 
for  in  the  judgment  every  one  will  receive  "according  to 
his  deeds,"  Rom.  2:  6. 

We  should  guard  against  all  improper  thoughts;  "for 
as  he  thinketh  in  his  hean't,  so  is  he,"  Prov.  23:  7. 

We  should  be  watchful  as  to  our  company;  for  "evil 
communications  corrupt  good  manners,"  1  Cor.  15:  33. 

We  should  watch  the  heart  itself,  seeking  to  have  it 
renewed  and  sanctified  daily,  for  it  is  the  fountaia  of  all 
thoughts,  words  and  actions.  "Keep  the  heart  with  all 
diligence;  for  out  of  it  are  the  issues  of  life,"  Prov.  4:  23. 

When  are  some  of  the  times  when  we  should  especially 
watch  ?  It  was  after  the  greatest  victory  ever  given  to  the 
ten  tribes  that  the  Lord  sent  the  message  to  Ahab,  "Go, 
strengthen  thyself,  and  mark,  and  see  what  thou  doest; 
for  at  the  return  of  the  year  the  king  of  Syria  will  come 
up  against  thee,"  And  so  he  did,  and  gained  the  victory 
by  fair  promises  and  flattery.  The  king  had  need  to 
watch  "himself,"  as  the  prophet  warned  him.  Failing 
to  do  so,  he  was  overcome.  Attention  has  often  been 
called  to  the  fact  that  eminent  men  have  been  overcome 
at  their  strongest  point.  Moses  lost  his  meekness.  Job 
his  patience,  Abraham  his  trustful  spirit,  Elijah  his  cour- 
age, Samson  his  great  strength,  David  his  pureness  of 
heart,  Peter  his  boldness .  When  we  feel  strongest,  then 
we  have  greatest  need  to  watch.  We  should  also  watch 
our  weak  points.  No  chain  is  stronger  than  its  weakest 
link.  No  fortification  is  stronger  than  its  weakest  point. 
A  fence  will  serve  but  little  purpose  if  the  bars  be  left 
down.  No  character  is  stronger  than  its  weakest  spot, 
and  the  devil  knows  bravely  where  the  weak  points  are. 
We  need  to  have  on  "the  whole  armor  of  God,"  and  be 
skilled  in  its  use,  if  we  would  be  steadfast  and  victori- 
ous. And  the  time  never  comes  in  this  present  life  when 
the  Christian  can  safely  lay  aside  his  armor,  or  relax  his 
vigilance.  What  Christ  says,  he  says  not  only  to  all,  but 
he  says  it  for  all  times,  "WATCH." 

2.  Reasons  Assigned.  (1)  Because  of  trials  and  expo- 
sure to  temptations  and  trials.  Watch,  therefore — be- 
cause of  what  he  had  j  ust  said.  He  had  shown  that  great 
trials  and  temptations  should  come  upon  the  church. 
He  had  shown  that  judgments  were  liable  to  fall  upon 
the  heedless  and  impenitent  at  any  moment  (2)  Be- 
cause of  the  coming  of  the  Lord.  For  ye  know  not  what 
hour  your  Lord  doth  come  Three  things  are  implied  in 
this  statement,  (a)  The  Lord  will  certainly  come  again. 
No  truth  is  made  more  prominent  in  ScripUir?.  Read 
Acts  1:  11;  Mark  8:  38;  1  Thess  5:  2;  Jude  14;  R3v.  1:  7, 
etc.  The  Lord's  Supper  is  a  pledge  of  his  second  com- 
ing, "till  he  come,"  1  Cor.  11:26.  (b)  The  time  of  his 
coming  is  uncertain,  Mark  13:  32;  1  Thess.  5:  2;  Rev. 
16:15. 

II.  The  Faithful  Servant  Rewarded. — Vs.  45-47. 
1.  His  Faithfulness.— Yb  45,  46.  (1)  Assurance  of  his 
Lord's  return.  He  is  "faithful  and  wise" — he  knows  that 
his  Lord  may  come  at  any  time,  and  he  seeks  to  have 
things  in  readiness.  (2)  His  proper  sense  of  responsi- 
bility. He  realizes  that  "his  Lord  made  him  ruler  over 
his  household," — not  for  his  own  personal  enrichment, 
but  "to  give  them  meat  in  due  season,"— that  he  might 
be  a  blessing  to  others  (3)  His  fidelity  'o  his  Lord's 
commands,  v.  46.  When  7ie  cometh  shall  find  so  doing  — 
Watching  and  working  just  as  directed,  dealing  faithfully 
with  every  trust. 

2  Bis  Reward. — V.  47.  Be  sliaU  make  him  ruler  over 
all  his  goods — Christ's  rewards  will  far  exceed  the  meas- 
ure of  his  servants'  fidelity.  "Faithful  in  a  few  things — 
made  ruler  over  many  things,"  Matt.  25:  21. 

HI.  The  Unfait)iful  Servant  Punished  — Vs  48- 
51.  1.  Bis  Unfaithfulness —Yb  48,  49.  (1)  His  unbe- 
lief.— V.  48.  tihall  say  in  his  heart,  My  Lord  delayeth, 
etc.  Such  unbelief  in  the  heart  is  the  root  of  all  un- 
faithfulness in  the  life.  If  we  lived  always  in  full  view 
of  the  judgment  seat,  with  the  certain  expectation  of 
Christ's  coming  again,  how  much  more  careful  we 
would  be!  (2)  His  abuse  of  trust.— V.  49.  (a)  Oppres- 
sion and  injustice.  Shall  begin  to  smite,  etc.  Instead  of 
using  his  position  for  the  welfare  of  others,  he  injures 
them  (b)  Dishonesty  and  selfishness.  And  to  eat  and 
drink.  He  uses  his  Master's  goods  for  his  own  imme- 
diate gratification,  instead  of  for  the  good  of  those  over 
whom  he  was  placed,  and  for  tho  Master's  interests. 

2.  His  Punishment.— Yb.  50,  51.  It  was  (1)  sudden 
and  unexpected.  V.  50.  The  lord  of  that  servant  shcUl 
come,  etc.    He  shall  surprise  him  in  his  wickedness,  in 


April  5,  1888 


THE  CHRISTIAN  OYNOSUHE- 


the  midst  of  the  proofs  of  his  unfaithful- 
ness; and  shall  leave  him  no  opportunity 
to  redeem  himself.  "The  wicked  is  driv- 
en away  in  his  wickedness,"  Prov.  14:  32. 
It  will  be  too  late  to  bpgin  to  be  faithful. 
(2)  Torrible  and  irrepealable.  V.  31. 
Shall  cut  Mm  asunder — literally,  "shall 
rut  him  in  two."  This  terrible  form  of 
execution  was  sometimes  practised,  See 
2  8am.  12:31;  Heb  11:37.  Sis  portion 
with  hypocrites— Wh&t  that  portion  is 
may  be  seen  by  recalling  verse  33  of  last 
lesson.  He  was  appointed  a  hypocrite's 
portion  because  he  vas  one  indeed,  pre- 
tending to  be  the  Lord's  steward,  yet. 
serving  no  one  but  himself.  Weeping 
and  gnashing —'Esipresiive  of  the  most 
bitter  agony  and  the  deepest  despair. 


OBITTTARY. 


Mks.  Caroline  Worth  died  of  paraly- 
sis March  15  1888,  at  hur  residence  in 
Starksboro,  Vt.,  in  her  78  ih  year.  She 
was  the  second  wife  of  William  Worth, 
who  for  several  years  had  licen  a  con- 
stant subscriber  to  the  Christian  Cyno- 
sure, and  bad  been  zealous  in  advocating 
its  principles  and  teachings,  and  in  so- 
liciting subscriptions.  Since  his  death 
Mrs.  Worth  has  been  no  less  interested 
in  the  opposition  to  secretism  or  the  suc- 
cess of  the  paper  than  was  her  husband, 
although  for  several  years  she  had  been 
deprived  of  the  pleasure  of  reading  on 
account  of  failing  sight.  She  was  a 
woman  of  superior  excellence,  and  was 
loved  and  respected  by  all  who  knew  her. 
She  was  a  consistent  Christian  and  a 
cheerful  giver  of  her  limited  means  for 
the  support  of  the  Gospel  and  for  other 
benevolent  purposes,  and  will  be  greatly 
missed  by  those  who  were  most  inti- 
mately acquainted  with  her.  B.     ' 


rARM  NOTES. 


WINTER  KILLING  OF  FRUIT  TREES. 

There  is  a  wide  difference  in  the  hardi- 
ness of  different  varieties  of  fruit  trees. 
Some  varieties  endure  severe  freezing 
better  than  others  A  variety  that  lives 
one  winter  may  die  the  next,  because  of 
the  changes  surrounding  it;  and  so  a  ten- 
der variety  may  live,  when  one  naturally 
more  hardy  dies.  Sudden  changes  often 
work  disastrously.  This  was  seen  in  the 
winter  of  1853-54  in  a  belt  of  country 
extending  from  New  York  to  Michigan. 
Quince  trees  and  pear  trees  on  quince 
stocks  were  greatly  injured  by  rapid  sue 
cessions  of  very  warm  and  intensely  cold 
weather.  The  result  was,  that  nearly  all 
the  trees  that  were  not  sheltered  were 
destroyed,  or  so  weakened  that  they  con- 
tinued to  die  till  late  in  the  summer. 

The  warmth  had  promoted  sap  circula- 
tion, and  the  sap,  suddenly  freezing, 
formed  little  crystals  in  the  wood,  which 
lacerated  the  fibers  by  every  motion  of 
the  swaying  trees.  This  cause  may  be 
supplemented  by  such  a  freezing  aad 
thawing  of  the  limbs  and  branches  as 
dries  the  life  out  of  them  Tn  all  such 
cases  the  injury  to  trees  will  be  in  pro- 
portion to  the  exposure,  and  so  the  pro 
lection  of  good  wind  breaks  is  of  great 
importance.  In  that  memorable  season 
of  such  wide  spread  loss,  those  trees  that 
chanced  to  be  sheltered  from  the  winds 
escaped.  It  was  also  observed  that  the 
loss  was  not  so  ereat  with  trees  on  clayey 
soil  that  shed  oS  the  water,  as  on  sandy 
soil  that  was  filled  with  water. 

A  wise  precaution  against  winter  kill 
ing  in  sections  where  there  is  danger,  is 
not  to  cultivate  late  in  the  season.  The 
culture  that  stimulates  a  late  growth  of 
soft  wood  that  does  not  ripen  before  the 
severity  of  winter  sets  in  is  to  be  avoided. 
The  immature  wood  is  easily  injured,  the 
cells  are  ruptured  by  freezing  and  thaw 
ing,  and  the  disorganized  cells  in  spnng 
are  no  longer  able  to  perform  their  olfloe. 
Secure  an  easy  growth  of  wood  that  will 
ripen  in  time  to  be  ready  for  all  changes 
of  weather,  and  you  will  have  compira- 
live  security    -i4»i«ncan  AgriciiUuriat. 

CARKOTfl  FOR  HORSES. 

It  is  not  alone  nor  chiefiy  the  nutrition 
in  carrots  that  makes  them  valuable  feed 
for  horses  and  other  stock  in  winter. 
They  have  an  admirable  ctTectin  keeping 
the  bowels  open,  loosening  the  bile,  and 
thus  promoting  healthful  circulation  of 
the  blood.  A  stalled  horse  kept  on  dry 
feed  through  the  winter  becomes  bilious, 
just  as  human  beings  do  who  lead  seden- 
tary lives.  We  have  not  got  into  the 
habit  of  doBing  horses  for  biliouBnesa, 


nor  need  we.  A  mesa  of  carrots  daily, 
with  half  the  usual  amount  of  grain,  will 
keep  a  horse  in  better  working  order  than 
oats  without  the  roots.  In  most  places 
carrots  can  be  bought  by  the  quantity  at 
about  half  the  price  of  oats,  and  pay  the 
grower  well  at  that, — American  Cultiva- 
tor. 

What  the  busy  Bee  Produces. — It 
is  estimated  by  an  expert  apiarist  that  the 
annual  production  of  honey  in  this  coun- 
try ranges  in  value  from  $15,000,000  to 
$20,000,000,  while  that  of  wax  is  about 
$1,000,000,  Not  more  than  eight  or  ten 
per  cent  of  those  favorably  situated  for 
bee  keeping  are  engaged  in  the  pursuit. 
If  even  one  half  of  those  thus  situated 
were  so  engaged  the  annual  product 
would  now  fall  below  $75,000,000  or 
$80,000,000  in  value.  Though  this  may 
be  an  optimistic  view,  there  is  no  doubt 
that  many  farmers  and  others  not  now 
engaged  in  bee-culture  could  make  the 
business  profitable  by  giving  it  careful 
study  and  attention. 

How  TO  Feed  Meal.— Prof.  L.  B.  Ar- 
nold, the  dairy  expert  and  author,  has 
satisfied  himself  by  experiments  that  meal 
if  fed  alone  to  neat  cattle  will  at  once 
pass  into  the  fourth  stomach;  but  that  if 
the  hay  or  straw,  whether  cut  or  whole, 
be  wet  and  the  meal  sprinkled  on  it  the 
meal  will  be  chewed  over  with  the  cud 
and  go  through  all  the  digestive  proc- 
esses, and  give  much  better  returns. 
This  should  be  noted  by  stock  feeders. 

Green  Stable  Manure. — This  ma- 
nure seems  to  be  coming  to  the  fore,  or 
at  least  gaining  favor.  According  to  the 
New  England  Homestead,  late  experiments 
with  green,  coarse  stable  manure,  in  com- 
parison with  well  decomposed  stable  ma- 
nure and  several  kinds  of  commercial 
fertilizers,  have  resulted  for  the  third 
year  in  producing  the  larg-  st  crops  where 
green  manure  was  applied,  at  the  Rhode 
Island  State  Farm.  And  it  adds:  "Have 
we  under-estimated  heretofore  the  value 
of  green  manure?  These  experiments 
would  lead  to  this  conclusion.  It  is  to 
be  hoped  the  experiments  will  be  contin 
ued  and  enlarged,  for  they  promise  im- 
portant and  practical  results." 

Active  Fowls  Lay  Best. — The  hen 
that  is  active,  scratches  vigorously,  and 
seems  anxious  to  be  always  searching  for 
food,  is  usually  the  one  that  is  a  good 
layer.  It  is  this  quality — activity — that 
makes  the  Leghorns  so  prolific,  as  they 
rarely  become  too  fat,  and  are  always 
productive  when  properly  kept.  The 
slow,  clumsy  fowl  fattens  very  readily, 
and  often  breaks  down  when  in  the  prime 
of  life.  Activity  is  the  only  good  char- 
acteristic in  the  common  fowls,  and 
sometimes  enables  them  to  thrive  under 
adverse  circumstances.  So  proclaims  the 
poultry  essayist  of  the  Mirror  and  Farm- 
er, a  good  authority. 


WHAT    AIT.S    YOU  ? 

Do  you  have  obstruction  of  the  nasal 
passages,  discharges  from  head  and 
throat,  sometimes  profuse,  acrid  and 
watery,  at  others,  thick,  tenacious,  mu- 
cous, purulent,  bloody,  putrid  and  offens- 
ive; dull,  heavy  haadache  most  of  the 
time,  with  occasional  "splitting  head- 
aches;" are  your  eyes  weak,  watery,  or 
inflamed:  is  there  ringing  in  the  ears, 
with  more  or  less  deafness;  do  you  have 
to  hack,  cough  and  gag,  in  your  efforts 
to  clear  jour  throat  in  the  morning;  do 
you  expectorate  offensive  matter,  scabs 
from  ulcers,  perhaps  tinged  with  blood; 
is  your  voice  changed  and  is  there  a 
"nasal  twang"  to  it;  is  your  breath  offens- 
i7e;  are  your  senses  of  taste  and  smell 
impaired?  If  you  have  all  or  any  con- 
siderable number  of  these  symptoms,  you 
are  suffering  from  that  most  common  and 
dangerous  of  maladies— chronic  nasal 
catarrh.  The  more  complicated  your 
disease  has  become,  the  greater  the  num- 
ber and  diversity  of  symptoms.  No  mat- 
ter what  stage  it  has  reached,  Dr.  Sage's 
Catarrh  Remedy,  which  is  sold  by  drug- 
gists at  only  50  cents,  will  cure  it.  The 
manufacturers  of  this  wonderful  remedy 
offer,  in  good  faith,  $50()  for  a  case  of 
this  disease  which  they  cannot  cure. 


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BY   ORBAT  urn  in   THE     STATS. 

George  Waahington(\.o  Gov.Trumbull).- 
"Masonry  is  a  benevolent  institution, 
which  may  be  employed  for  the  best  or 
worst  purposes . " 

Edward  Everett:  "A.  secret  society  so 
widely  diffused  and  connected  as  this 
puts  a  vast  power,  capable  of  the  most 
dangerous  abuse,  into  hands  irresponsi- 
ble to  the  public." 

Richard  Rush:  Hooker,  personify- 
ing law,  eloquently  exclaims,  "her  seat 
is  the  bosom  of  God,  her  voice  the  har- 
mony of  the  world;  everything  on  earth 
does  her  homage,  the  highest  is  not  be- 
yond her  control,  the  least  as  claiming 
her  protection,"  Masonry  has  overset 
this  primordial  system.  She  has  dethron 
ed  this  image  of  God  upon  earth.  To 
ririnstate  it  over  so  insolent  a  victor,  we 
must  have  a  political  organization.  There 
is  no  other  way  of  assaulting,  there  is  no 
other  hope  of  vanquishing,  there  need  be 
no  other  dream  of  humbling  such  a  foe . 
It  fights  with  desperation . 

Wendell  Phillips:  "History  shows  them 
perverting  justice,  stopping  at  no  crime 
to  protect  and  conceal  their  mummeries; 
controlling  politics  for  selfish  and  person- 
al ends,  and  interfering  with  great  dan- 
ger in  national  emergencies.  Every  good 
citizen  should  make  war  on  all  secret  so- 
cietii  9,  and  give  himself  no  rest  until  they 
are  forbidden  by  law  and  rooted  out  of 
existence." 

John  Hancock:  "1  am  opposed  to  all 
secret  associations." 

James  Madison:  "From  the  number 
and  character  of  those  who  now  support 
the  charges  against  Masonry,  I  cannot 
doubt  that  it  is  at  least  susceptible  of 
abuse,  outweighing  any  advantages 
promised  by  its  patrons." 

General  U.  8.  Orant: — All  secret,  oath- 
bound  political  parties  are  dangerous  to 
any  nation,  no  matter  how  pure  or  how 
patriotic  the  motives  and  principles  which 
first  bring  them  together. 

Myron  HoUey  of  New  York:  — "Such  a 
rebellion  Freemasonry  has  raised.  It  has 
violated  the  dearest  rights  of  nature,  and 
the  most  sacred  enactments  of  our  laws, 
and  this  in  a  spirit  manifestly  treasonable, 
for  it  has  done  this  in  pursuance  of  sol- 
emn, deliberate  and  voluntary  obligations 
to  a  foreign  government, — I  mean  its  own 
— a  government  far  more  alien  to  that 
which  claims  our  allegiance  than  any 
which  has  ever  afflicted  mankind  " 

Eon.  Ezra  Butler,  ex  Oovernor  of  Ver- 
mont:—One  Masonic  obligation  requires 
that  a  Mason  shall  vote  for  a  brother  in 
preference  to  any  other  person  of  equal 
qualifications.  Is  not  this  political  Ma- 
sonry? The  Masons  in  Vermont  are 
about  one-twentieth  part  of  the  freemen, 
and  they  hold  about  three  fourths  of  all 
the  important  ofldces  in  the  State.  Is  this 
owing  to  their  superior  fitness,  or  to  po- 
litical Masonry  ? 

William  H.  Beward:  "Before  I  would 
place  my  hand  between  the  hands  of  oth- 
er men  in  a  secret  lodge,  order,  class,  or 
council,  and,  bending  on  my  knee  before 
them,  enter  into  combination  with  them 
for  any  object,  personal  or  political,  good 
or  bad,  I  would  pray  to  God  that  that 
hand  and  that  knee  might  be  paralyzed, 
and  that  I  might  become  an  object  of 
pity  and  even  the  mockery  of  my  fellow - 
men." 

Wendell  Phillips:  "I  wish  you  success 
most  heartily  in  your  cfforta  to  arouse  the 
community  to  the  danger  of  secret  soci 
eties.  They  are  a  great  evil;  entirely 
out  of  place  in  a  republic,  and  no  patriot 
should  join  or  uphold  them.  Consider 
ing  the  great  forces  which  threaten  the 
welfare  of  the  nation  in  the  n^xt  thirty 
years,  and  how  readily  and  efflciently  they 
can  use  any  secret  organizations,  such 
should  not  be  allowed  to  exist." 

Oeorge  WoMhington's  Fare%odl  Addrett: 
"The  very  idea  of  the  power  and  the  right 
of  the  people  to  establish  government  pro 
supposes  the  duty  of  every  individual  t  ■ 
obey  the  established  government  All 
obstructions  to  the  execution  of  the  laws. 
all  combinations  and  associations.  und<  r 
whatever  plausible  character,  with  th'' 
real  de.'*ign  to  direct,  control,  counteract, 
or  awe  the  regular  deliberation  and  action 
of  the  constituted  authorities,  are  de 
structive  of  this  fundamental  principle, 
nnd  of  fal«]  tendency." 


N.  C.  A.  BUXLDINQ  AND  OFTICl  OI 
THB  CHKISTIAN   CYN08URI, 
«81  WX8T  MADISON  8TRKKT,  CHICAQC 


HA'TIONALCRRISTlAN  A  8  HOC  I Al  ION 

Pbbsidbkt.— H.  H.  G«orge,  D.  D.,  Gen 
eva  College,  Pa. 

ViCB-PBEBiDBNT— Rev.  M.  A.  Gault, 
Blanchard,  Iowa. 

Gob.  SscfT  and  Gbkbral  AeBKT. — J 
P.  Stoddard,  221 W.  Madison  St.,  Chicago. 

Rbc.  Sbc't.  and  Tbbabubbb. — W.  I. 
Phillips,  221  W.  Madison  St.,   Chicago 

Dibbctobs. — Alexander  Thomson,  M 
R.  Britten,  John  clardner,  J.  L.  Barlow, 
L.  N.  Stratton,  Thos.  H.  Gault,  C.  A. 
Blanchard,  J.  E.  Roy,  E.  R.  Worrell,  H. 
A.  Fischer.  W.  R.  Hench. 

The  object  of  this  Association  Is: 
"To  expose,  withstand  and  remove  secret 
■ocietieB,  Freemasonry  In  particular,  and  othef 
anti-Christian  raovements,  in  order  to  save  th« 
churches  of  Christ  from  being  uepraved,  to  re 
deem  the  admlnistr*  Uon  of  justice  from  pei^ 
version,  and  oiir  r?p  ibllcan  government  from 
corruption." 

To  carry  on  this  work  contributions  are 
solicited  from  every  friend  of  tne  refonn. 

Form  of  Bequest. — 7  give  and  l>CQueath  to 
the  National  Christian  Association,  Incorpo- 
rated and  existing  under  the  laws  of  the  State 

ol    Illinois,  the  sum  of dollars  for  the 

purposes  of  said  Association,  and  for  whi/~h 
fce  receipt  of  its  Treasurer  for  the  t'me  heln; 
^all  be  sufficient  dlscbarse 

TSB  HATIONAL  COM  VBKTIOH. 

Prbsidw'tt.- Rev.  J.  8.  T.  Milligan, 
Denison,  Kans. 

Sbcretabt.— Rev.  R.N.Countee,Mem- 
phia,  Tenn. 

8TATB  AUZXLIABT  ABSOCLATIOKB. 

Alabama.— Prei.,  Prof.  Pickens;  Sec,  G. 
M.  Elliott;  Treas.,  Rev.  C.  B.  Curtis,  all  of 
Belma. 

Calttobhia.— Pres^  L.  B.  Lathrop,  HoUli 
ter ;  Cor.  Sec,  Mrs.  U.  P.  Merrill,  Woodland ; 
Treas.,  C.  Ruddock,  Woodland. 

CoNNBCTicuT.— Pres..  J.  A.  Conant,  Willi 
mantle;  Sec,  Geo.  Smith,  WilUmantlc ;  Treaa. 
C.  T.  Collins,  Windsor. 

iLLiKOis.— Pres.,  J.  P.  Stoddard;  Sec,  M. 
N.  Butler;  Treae.,  W.  I.  Phllllpi  all  at  Cy- 
nosurt  office. 

IijDiAiiA.— Pres.,  William  H.  Flgg,  Reno 
Sec,  S.  L.  Cook,  Albion;  Treas.,  BenJ.  Ul«h 
Silver  Lake. 

Iowa.— Pre8.,Wm.  Johnston.CoUege  Springs ; 
Cor  Sec,  C.  D.  Trumbull,  Mominj?  Sun; 
Treas.,  James  Harvey.  Pleasant  Plain,  Jeffer- 
son Co. ;  Lecturer,  C.  F.  Hawlev,  Wheaton,  111. 

Kahs*s.— Pres.,  J.  8.  T.  Mllflgan,  Denison; 
Sec,  S.  Hart,  Lecompton;  Treas.,  J.  A.  Tor- 
rence,  Denison. 

llASSACHUSBTrs.— Pres.,  S.  A.  Pratt;  Sec, 
Mrs.  B.  D.  Bailey;  Treas., David  Mannlng.Sr., 
Worcester. 

MiOHieAS.— Pres.,  D.  A.  Richards,  Brighton ; 
Bec'y,  H.  A.  Day,  Wllllamston;  Treat. 
Geo.  Bwanson,  Jr..  Bedfoiu. 

MrNwasoTA.— Pree.,  B.  Q.  Paine,  Waslo'a 
Cor.  Sec,  Wm.  Fen  ton,  St.  Paul :  R«c  Soc'y 
Mrs.  M.  F.  Morrill,  St.  Cuarles;  "Treas.,  Wn 
H.  Morrill,  St.  Charles. 

MisaotrHi.— Pre*..  B.  F.  Miller,  EaslevUJe 
Treaa-iWllllam  Beauchamp,  Avalon ;  C»r.  B*c 
A.  D.  Thomas,  Avalon. 

NaBRABKA.— Pres.,  S.  Austin,  Falrmooit' 
Cor.  See,  W.  Bpooner,  Kearney;  Treas. ■ 
J.  C.  Fye. 

Mainb  -Pres.  Isaac  Jackson,  Harrison; 
Sec,  I.  D.  Haines,  Dexter;  Treas.,  H.  W. 
Goddard,  Vr'est  Sidney. 

Niw  Hampshikb.— Pres.,  C.  L.  Baker,  Man' 
Chester;  Sec,  8.  C.  Kimball,    New  Market 
Treas.,  James  »•'.  French,  Canterbury. 

Niw  York.— Pres.,  F.  W.  Capwell,  Dale; 
Bec'y,  John  Wallace,  Syracuse;  Treas.,  M. 
Merrick,  Syracuse. 

Ohio.— Pres.,  F.  M.  Spencer,  New  Concord; 
Rec  Sec,  8.  A.  Georse,  Mansfield;  Cor.  Sec. 
and  Treas.,  C.  W.  UUtt,  Columbus;  Agent, 
W.  B.  Stoddard,  Columbus. 

P»iCHSTi.VAiriA.— Cor.  Sec,  N.  Callander, 
TbompMo ;  Treaa.,  W.  B.Bertels,  Wilkesbarre. 

Ybbkoht.— Pre*.,  W.  R.  Laird,  St.  Johns- 
bory;  8«e.,  O.  W  Potter. 

WiBOOHSTB  —Pros..  J.  W  Wood,    Baraboo; 
Sec,  W.  W.  Ames,  Menomonle;  Treat.,  M.  R 
^  Britten.  Vienna, 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


April  6, 1888 


The  Christian  Cynosure. 


/.  BLANCHARD. 


iDROBft. 


HSNR;  L.  KXLLOttG 


OHICASO,    THUB8DA¥,    APBIL   5,    1888 


ALMOST  TWO-THIRDS. 

E'<ler  Callender's  stirring  appeal  of  last  week  was  not 
lost,  as  the  treasurer's  report  of  donations  on  page  13 
speaks  in  eloquent  figures.  One  good  brother  and  his 
wife  in  the  far  Northwest  have  deliberately  and  prayer- 
fully concluded  that  the  effort  against  the  lodge  prom- 
ises most  success  in  the  circulation  of  the  Cynosure  in 
the  South,  and  they  send  on  one-fifteenth  part  of  the 
amount  now  asked.  May  they  find  their  reward,  both 
here  and  hereafter.  Our  correspondence  from  the  South 
shows  how  in  ever-widening  circles  this  question  is  be- 
coming of  greatest  interest  among  the  colored  churches. 
L^t  us  not  be  satisfied  with  smiting  twice  or  thrice; 
but  strike  till  the  Syrian  host  of  the  lodge  be  overthrown. 


EDITORIAL  GORRttSPONDBNGB. 

New  Iberia,  La.,  March  24,  1888. 

We  have  been  here  near  three  weeks,  and  I  have 
written  little  except  letters.  Seven-tenths  of  the 
population  of  this  old  parish  (county)  are  blacks. 
It  was  originally  settled  by  French,  when  Jefferson 
bought  Louisiana  Territory  eighty  years  ago.  The 
language  heard  in  the  streets  now  is  almost  all 
French,  and  until  reconstruction  French  was  spoken 
in  the  courts.     Now  English  predominates. 

I  have  seen  and  conversed  with  the  mayor  of 
Iberia,  and  he  has  introduced  me  to  the  leading 
members  of  the  bar,  to  the  president  of  the  parish 
school  board,  judge  of  the  court,  and  other  leading 
men.  I  have  also  made  a  pleasant  acquaintance 
with  the  M.  E.  pastor  (white),  and  have  attended  his 
and  the  Episcopal  churches.  I  have  preached  in 
the  colored  Congregational  church  (Rev.  Mr.  Gun- 
ner's), and,  of  course,  have  met  the  leading  mem- 
bers. Hon.  Joseph  A.  Breaux,  the  candidate  of 
both  Democratic  and  Republican  parties  for  State 
Superintendent  of  Instruction,  to  be  voted  for  April 
17,  introduced  me  to  the  white  high  school  here,  and 
Mr.  Wm.  R.  Burke  took  me  to  two  city  schools,  one 
white,  the  other  colored,  having  180  pupils  each. 

These  city  schools  have  sprung  up  since  recon- 
struction, and  are  greatly  quickened  and  pushed 
forward  by  the  Howe  Institute  here,  and,  generally, 
by  Northern  efforts  to  wipe  out  colored  illiteracy 
through  the  South.  Mr.  Burke,  local  school  super- 
intendent here,  is  of  Irish  extraction.  His  parents 
went  into  Texas,  while  it  was  a  Mexican  province; 
escaped  from  their  cabin  when  it  was  burnt  by  In- 
dians; and  he  has  been  here  in  Iberia  from  his  birth. 
All  the  white  gentlemen  named  above  are,  of  course. 
Democrats;  and  I  am  pleased  to  see  them  all  seek- 
ing to  beat  the  Republican  party  in  educating  the 
blacks.  Mr.  Burke  surprised  me  in  his  remarks  to 
the  180  colored  children  in  the  colored  school,  by  a 
handsome  laudation  of  Lincoln  as  their  great  friend 
and  patron,  and  Gen.  U.  S.  Grant  as  the  greatest 
general  of  his  age.  This  to  colored  city  pupils,  and 
spoken  by  a  gentleman  who  fought  under  Lee,  and 
who  has  been  a  Democratic  office-holder  for  years  1 
The  explanation  is  this:  the  black  voters  are  a  great 
majority  in  these  old  parishes,  and  if  they  vote  solid 
for  the  Republican  party,  and  their  votes  are  counted, 
the  Democrats  are  forever  in  a  dead  minority. 
Grover  Cleveland  will  not  endorse  and  protect  the 
shot-gun  and  false-count  policy.  The  Ku-klux  are 
getting  OMt  of  fashion.  The  leading  men  are  hold- 
ing immigration  conventions  to  draw  Northern 
farmers  and  capital  South.  The  only  argument  for 
"^Ae  White  Man's  Government"  was  that  the  whites 
bad  the  talent  and  intelligence,  and  that  "the  ignor- 
ance of  a  country  has  no  right  to  rule  its  intelligence." 
Now,  then,  seeing  the  North  bent  on  educating  the 
blacks;  and  knowing  that  wealth  will  follow  intelli- 
gence, and  give  the  educated  blacks  the  ascendency 
in  power  as  well  as  in  numbers,  the  Democrats  are 
striving  to  make  the  Negroes  their  friends,  and  here 
they  are  succeeding.  The  deputy  clerk  of  the  court 
here  is  a  colored  man.  So  is  the  janitor  of  the 
court  house;  and  I  saw  three  Negroes  on  the  jury, 
wedged  in  among  the  whites  in  the  jury-box. 

The  only  difficulty  here,  as  in  the  North,  will  be 
that  the  Bible  and  its  author,  God,  will  be  ruled  out 
of  the  public  schools  by  politicians,  where  there  are 
Jews  and  infidels  to  object,  and  thus  leave  these 
schools  without  a  standard  ot  law  or  morals.  But  a 
few  Howe  Institutes  scattered  through  the  South 
will  salt  the  rest.  A  godless  school  is,  at  best,  an 
intellectual  mob.  And  when  Christ  and  the  Bible 
are  excluded,  the  lodge-god,  who  has  neither  law  nor 


Gospel,  will  sink  the  schools  to  a  level  with  its  own 
paganism. 

When  I  consider  the  origin  of  society  in  these  old 
slave  plantations,  I  am  absolutely  pleased  with  the 
men  I  find  at  the  head  of  affairs  in  this  town  of  New 
Iberia.  The  fountains  of  morals  here  were  two: 
Paris  and  slavery.  In  Paris  (France)  brothels  are 
licensed,  and  the  wretched  women  are  examined  by 
surgeons  to  protect  men  from  their  diseases.  This 
horrible  affront  to  God  and  immolation  of  women< 
was,  some  years  ago,  adopted  in  St.  Louis.  If  St. 
Louis  could  adopt  a  regulation  so  infamous,  French 
society  here,  with  its  laboring  class  degraded  and 
held  as  property,  could  hardly  be  expected  to  have 
just  views  of  the  crimes  of  whoredom  and  concubin- 
age, or  even  the  revolting  crime  of  incest.  Along 
this  Gulf  belt,  in  slavery  times,  crimes  of  this  damn- 
ing hue  were  sanctioned  by  the  slave  system.  Now, 
I  am  indebted  for  what  knowledge  I  have  of  these 
social  horrors  to  prominent  white  citizens,  who  ab 
hor  them  as  we  do.  Then  the  anarchist  class, which 
curses  Chicago,  are  not  wanting  here,  both  black 
and  white.  These  keep  up  Sunday  horse-races  and 
cock  pits.  But  the  citizens  of  whom  I  inquired, 
thus  far,  despise  them. 

J.  B 


THB  WEB  A  TON  COUNCIL. 


As  Rev.  Dr.  Boardman,  of  the  Chicago  Theolog 
ical  Seminary,  said  at  Wheaton  lately,  "We  are  on 
historic  ground.  Another  council  was  held  here  ten 
years  ago  and  its  record  has  gone  out  among  the 
churches."  The  meeting  of  Tuesday,  March  27, 
1888,  will  also  be  historical,  and  will  forever  be 
remembered  with  holy  joy  by  most  of  the  partici- 
pants, as  that  of  1878  has  been  with  regret. 

The  importance  of  the  meeting  of  the  27th  was 
not  underestimated.  The  result  of  the  council  of 
two  weeks  previous  left  no  doubt  that  a  review  of 
all  the  old  difficulty  would  be  had  in  some  form,  and 
a  final  decision  made  which  would  supercede  every 
other,  since  it  was  of  the  nature  of  a  mutual  council. 
Though  called  by  the  College  Church,  it,  by  advice 
of  the  meeting  of  the  13th,  called  all  the  churches 
of  Elgin  Congregational  Association,  among  the  num- 
ber the  Congregational  church  of  Wheaton,to  which 
was  extended  the  unusual  courtesy  of  being  invited 
to  judge  in  a  difficulty  in  which  it  was  one  of  the 
parties  concerned.  Beside  the  Elgin  Association 
the  pastors  of  the  churches  of  Galva  and  Granville, 
111.,  and  of  the  First  Chuich  of  Chicago  were  pres- 
ent, with  Rev.  A.  Ethridge,  State  evangelist.  Such 
a  meeting  as  this  the  College  Church  had  long  de- 
sired; and,  knowing  that  the  control  and  particular 
direction  of  such  a  meeting  must  be  with  the  Lord, 
in  order  that  the  greatest  good  should  result  to  the 
churches  of  Christ  near  and  far,  to  this  end  there 
was  earnest  and  prevailing  prayer. 

The  council  assembled  with  the  representatives  of 
twenty  churches  present,  seventeen  pastors  being 
in  the  number.  Dr.  E.  P.  Goodwin  of  Chicago  was 
chosen  moderator  and  Rev.  C.  S.  Leeper  of  Batavia  sec 
retary.  Organization  being  completed  the  chairman 
spoke  tenderly  of  finding  a  little  company  at  prayer 
as  he  entered  the  room,  and  the  first  words  he  heard, 
that  the  will  of  the  Lord  might  be  done,  ought  to 
be  the  keynote  of  the  council.  At  his  suggestion 
some  time  was  spent  in  prayer,  and  it  was  evident 
that  the  Holy  Spirit,  who  had  been  invoked,  was 
present  in  power. 

These  exercises  being  concluded  the  council  took  up 
the  business  which  had  occasioned  its  call.  The  church 
was  asked  to  make  its  statement  by  its  representa- 
tives, and  Pres.  C.  A.  Blanchard  read  for  the  com- 
mittee the  following  brief  paper,  stating  that  the 
part  of  the  paper  relating  to  the  history  of  the 
church  he  would  not  read  unless  asked  for  by  the 
council: 

"JJKAR  Bkethrkn:— The  College  Church  of  Christ  at 
whose  request  you  are  assembled  is  a  company  of  believ 
ers  in  Jesus  Christ  who  have  met  in  this  building  since 
1860.  Our  manual,  which  you  have  in  hand,  contains 
our  Covenant.  Articles  of  Faith  and  Rules  of  Order  to- 
gether with  Questions  for  Self  Examinacion,  etc.  These 
we  suppose  lo  resemble  similar  provisioDs  for  church 
order  in  other  self  governing  bodies  of  believers,  and 
have  not  been  essentially  changed  since  the  time  when, 
as  members  of  the  First  Church  of  Christ  in  this  place, 
we  were  connected  with  Elgin  Association.  We  have  a 
body  of  elders  whose  duties  are  those  of  a  Prudential 
Committee.  The  oflice  in  some  form  is  in  all  our  churches ; 
we  prefer  the  New  Testament  name,  which  was  also  used 
by  the  early  churches  of  our  order.  Our  testimony 
against  practical  evils,  especially  secret  societies,  corres- 
ponds with  the  deliverances  of  Elgin  Association,  the 
State  Association  of  Illinois,  the  Directors  of  the  Ameri- 
can Missionary  Association,  the  First  Church  of  Oberlin 
and  many  other  Congregational  churches.  We  submit 
to  your  candid  consideration  this,  our  church  manual, 
believing  that  you  will  find  it,  for  substance,  scriptural 


and  correspondent  with  the  judgment  of  our  most  wise 
and  pious  leaders. 

We  were  advised  some  time  since  to  call  simply  a  rec- 
ognition council  which  should  consider  the  church  in  its 
present  condition,  and  omit  all  refei  ence  to  the  painful 
memories  of  past  years.  We  did  so,  but  as  soon  as  it 
met  we  were  told  that  our  letter  was  faulty  in  that  it 
omitted  jutt  what  we  had  been  advised  to  omit.  We 
were  advised  to  widen  the  scope  of  our  letter  and  increase 
the  number  of  churches  called.  We  have  done  so  and 
in  answer  to  our  request  you  are  here.  We  thank  you 
for  your  presence,  and  believe  that  God's  Spirit,  holy  and 
wis^and  true,  has  come  with  you.  We  ask  that  you  take 
such  a  course  in  examination  as  seems  to  you  judicious, 
and  if  you  believe  it  to  be  true  that  we  are  a  body  of  be- 
lievers, self-governing,  orthodox,  evangelical  and  seek- 
ing the  purity,  peace  and  prosperity  of  the  churches  of 
Jesus  Christ,  we  ask  you  to  so  certify  to  the  world. 

The  manual  of  the  church  was  then  taken  up  for 
examination  and  the  different  sections  approved 
unanimously.  When  the  testimonies  were  read  two 
or  three  brethren  objected  to  their  approval  because 
they  condemned  secret  societies.  But  it  was  voted 
without  dissent,  after  a  slight  discussion,  that  "we 
recognize  the  right  of  any  Congregational  church 
to  make  such  testimonies  as  it  may  deem  proper." 

It  was  then  moved  to  take  up  the  question  of 
membership,  and  that  subject  was  referred  to  a  com- 
mittee consisting  of  Dr.  Goodwin,  Rev.  C.  C.  Harrah, 
Rev.  A.  Ethridge,  Rev.  G.  R.  Milton  and  Dea.  John 
C.  Carr.  The  only  question  raised  before  the  com- 
mittee was  as  to  the  relation  sustained  to  the  two 
churches  by  the  senior  editor  of  the  Cynosure.  The 
representatives  of  the  College  Church  held  that  this 
brother  had  been,  since  the  division  of  the  First 
Church  of  Christ  in  January,  1878,  one  of  its  mem- 
bers; that  if  there  had  been  any  form  of  discipline 
by  the  minority  part  of  the  said  church  after  its  di- 
vision, such  an  act  was  attended  neither  with  l^gal 
trial,  nor  was  it  by  advice  of  the  ex-parte  council, 
and  was,  therefore,  null  and  void;  and,  further,  that 
if  this  alleged  act  of  discipline  bad  been  ecclesias- 
tically regular  or  warranted  by  any  ill-doing,  the 
relation  of  the  editor  to  the  First  Congregational 
church,  according  to  its  own  claim,  was  terminated 
more  than  ten  years  ago. 

The  representatives  of  the  First  Congregational 
church  contended  that  though  they  had  withdrawn 
fellowship  and  dropped  his  name  ten  years  since, 
he  was  still  considered  a  member  of  their  church 
under  censure. 

The  committee  in  view  of  these  conflicting  opin- 
ions and  after  consultation  with  the  committees  of 
the  two  churches,  prepared  a  paper,  which,  while  not 
in  all  respects  the  view  of  either  party,  was  accept- 
ed by  both  as  a  possible  settlement  of  a  long  aad 
painful  difference.     This  paper  reads  thus: 

Whereas,  It  appears,  in  considering  the  facts  relating 
to  the  First  Congregational  church  of  Wheaton  and  the 
College  Church  of  Christ,  that  the  College  Church  sup 
posed  the  relation  of  President  J.  Blanchard  to  the  First 
Congregational  church  was  severed  by  said  church  on 
March  7,  1878,  in  its  action  wherein  it  said,  "This  church 
hereby  withdraws  its  fellowship  from  the  said  J.  Blan- 
chard, and  that  its  watch  and  care  over  him  now  ceases ;" 
and 

Whereas,  On  the  other  hand,  the  First  Congrega- 
tional church  has  had  the  opinion  that  in  some  sense  he 
was  still  a  member  and  amenable  thereto;  and 

Whereas,  The  two  churches  have,  notwithstanding 
such  difference,  gone  on  harmoniously  in  their  work,  and 
have  alike  enjoyed  the  blessing  of  the  Master,  and  dem- 
onstrated that  there  is  good  reason  for  the  existence  of 
both  organizations;  therefore,  be  it 

Resolved,  That  the  council  recommend,  as  an  adjust- 
ment of  all  difliculties,  the  following:  1.  That  President 
J.  Blanchard  sign  the  following  statement: 

Whereas,  During  the  controversies  of  the  past  ten 
years,  more  or  less,  between  myself  and  the  late  Professor 
J.  C.  Webster,  and  in  particular  at  a  certain  meeting  of 
the  Executive  Committee  of  Wheaton  College,  in  1877,  I 
made  certain  statements  which  have  been  generally  re- 
garded as  reflecting  upon  the  moral  character  of  Profes- 
sor Webster,  and  now  disowning  the  construction  put 
upon  such  statement?  and  particularly  upon  my  remark 
that  Professor  Webster  was  mentally  and  morally  incom- 
petent, I  retract  the  statement  as  interpreted,  and  affirm 
that  I  regarded  him  as  a  Christian  man. 

2.  That  when  this  paper  is  filed  with  the  Clerk  of  the 
First  Congregational  church,  that  church  shall  consider 
matters  of  difference  as  settled,  and  shall  enter  such  a 
record  upon  its  minutes. 

3.  That  council,  having  examined  the  manual  of  the 
College  Church,  expresses  its  approval  thereof;  and,  upon 
the  basis  of  agreement  heretofore  proposed,  recommends 
the  admission  of  the  church  to  the  fellowship  of  the  Elgin 
Association. 

This  result  was  submitted  to  the  council  after  a 
prolonged  sitting  of  the  committee,  and  it  was  heard 
with  profound  relief.  There  seemed  to  be  no  need 
for  remark;  a  disagreeable  debate  was  avoided,  and 
the  result  was  unanimously  adopted.  It  was  a  mo- 
ment of  breathless  interest,  and  nothing  could  have 
been  more  appropriate  than  the  devout  prayer  of^ 
fered  by  the  moderator.  The  council  then  ad^ 
journed, 


Afbil  5,  1888 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


It  is,  as  we  understand,  occasion  for  devout  thanks- 
giving to  God  that  so  large  and  influential  a  body, 
in  which  the  First  Congregational  church  of  Whea- 
ton  was  itself  present  by  pastor  and  delegate,  should 
have  been  of  one  mind  upon  the  question  submitted, 
and  we  trust  that  the  recommendations  or  the  coun- 
cil being  carried  out  in  good  faith,  this  division 
among  the  Lord's  people  may  be  thoroughly  healed. 

REMARKS. 

The  Cynoture  deems  it  just  that  a  word  should 
be  said  for  its  senior  editor,  respecting'  a  decisfon 
affecting  him  personally  and  made  in  his  absence. 
Of  course  neither  he,  nor  the  College  Church  are 
responsible  for  the  following  comments  : 

1.  Our  readers  will  properly  inquire  whether  it  be 
true  that  their  editor  has  for  a  period  of  years  re- 
fused to  right  a  wrong,  real  or  supposed.  It  is  a 
great  satisfaction  to  present  the  following  facts: 

a.  In  the  meeting  of  the  College  Board  in  1877 
President  Blanchard  put  into  the  hand  of  Rev.  Wm. 
G.  Pierce,  a  member  of  the  Board  opposed  to  him, 
a  writing  which  said: 

Whereas,  Jan.  10,  1877,  at  a  meeting  of  the  Execu- 
tive Committee  of  Wheaton  College,  statements  were 
made  by  Prof.  Webster  and  replied  to  by  President 
Blanchard,  in  which  each  used  words  which  reflected  un 
favorably  on  the  other;  this  is  to  certify  that  at  a  sub- 
sequent meeting  of  these  gentlemen  with  each  other,  to- 
wit,  Feb  8,  1877,  each  of  these  gentlemen  agreed  to  re 
call  all  utterances  whatever  against  each  other  on  that 
occasion,  and  to  wish  the  same  unsaid. 

Thi?  we  find  in  the  Chicago  Tiibune  of  June  28, 
1877. 

h.  In  an  address  March  24,  1878,  in  Wheaton  he 
said: 

Soon  after  this  meeting  Jan  10th,  I  went  to  Prof. 
Webster's  by  advice,  for  personal  reconciliation.  He  de- 
clined to  converse  with  me  unless  before  witnesses.  I 
suggessed  Messrs.  Mather  and  Taylor. 

We  four  met  at  my  house  in  February,  when  I  wrote  a 
reconciliation  paper,  setting  forth  that  in  calling  him 
"morally  incompetent"  four  years  before,  I  did  not  mean 
to  call  him  "immoral;"  and  that  I  would  sign  a  mutual 
paper  with  him  wishing  eveiything  unkind  between  us 
un&aid. 

These  statements  show  the  past,  and  are  predict- 
ive of  the  future. 

2.  The  unanimous  vote  of  the  council  upon  the 
testimonies  in  the  manual  of  the  church  bears  the 
encouraging  interpretation  that  this  is  a  declaration 
that  it  is  consistent  with  Congregational  order  that 
individual  churches  may  testify  against  the  lodge, 
and  enforce  their  testimony  by  discipline.  The  tes- 
timonies of  the  College  Church  are  against  intoxi- 
cating drinks,  secret  societies,  tobacco  and  narcotics, 
and  dancing.    That  on  the  lodge  reads  thus: 

"Being  fully  persuaded  Ihat  secret  societies  are  in  their 
nature  hostile  to  the  Gospel  of  Christ,  members  of  such 
societies  who  may  desire  to  unite  with  this  church  will 
be  required  to  abandon  them." 

When  thest  were  read  two  or  three  brethren  ob- 
jected. One  wished  to  ignore  the  second.  As  a 
member  of  secret  societies  he  did  not  approve  the 
article.  There  were  members  of  secret  orders  in 
all  our  churches.  The  invitation  to  come  and  pass 
upon  this  testimony  placed  some  members  of  the 
council  in  an  unpleasant  position,  fie  wished  to 
avoid  having  anything  at  all  to  say  about  it.  Anoth- 
er did  not  see  how  a  church  having  such  a  rule  could 
be  fellowshiped  by  Congregational  churches,  since 
it  would  not  receive  some  of  their  members. 

Other  brethren,  however,  gave  better  advice.  It 
has  been  the  custom  for  Congregational  churches  to 
protest  as  they  saw  fit  against  prevalent  and  popular 
evils.  The  church  at  Princeton,  Illinois,  over  which 
Owen  Lovejoy  was  a  long  time  pastor,  had  such  a 
testimony  against  slavery,  refusing  fellowship  to 
slave-holders.  That  church  stood  almost  alone  for 
a  time,  but  in  the  providence  of  God  all  the  others 
have  come  up  to  that  standpoint.  It  seems  neces- 
sary often  that  an  advanced  position  be  taken  by  a 
church  on  Christian  reforms,  and  as  time  passes 
other  churches,  one  by  one,  come  to  the  same 
belief. 

As  the  discussion  seemed  likely  to  be  very  dam- 
aging to  the  secret  orders,  those  who  objected  to 
the  church  regulation  were  glad  to  drop  it,  and  no 
adverse  vote  was  noticed  by  the  chairman. 

To  the  significance  of  this  vote  we  wish  to  call  the 
attention  of  our  readers.  It  is  not  a  declaration 
either  for  or  against  the  lodge,  but  it  does  declare 
that  it  is  according  to  Congregational  order  for  local 
churches  to  adopt  and  enforce  a  testimony  against 
the  lodge  if  they  so  elect.  There  have  been  few 
decisions  of  such  importance  upon  this  question  by 
representative  Congregational  bodies. 

3.  It  has  been  suggested  that  our  note  of  two 
weeks  ago  should  be  explained  in  its  reference  to 
Masonic  attacks  on  Wheaton  College  and  Church  in 
J877-8.    There  were  on  both  sides  of  that  atruggle 


persons  sincerely  opposed  to  secret  societies;  and 
Professor  Webster,  who  is  named  above,  was  of  that 
number,  as  were  others  who  sympathized  with  him 
The  senior  editor  of  the  Cynoture  was  at  that  time 
the  President  of  the  College;  and,  so  far  as  known, 
all  of  those  who  stood  with  him  were  more  or  less 
active  opponents  of  the  lodge.  Respecting  these 
facts  there  will  probably  be  no  diflerence  of 
opinion. 

»  It  is  true,  however,  that  beside  these  two  parties 
there  was  a  third,  and  that  the  third  aided  the  first, 
as  we  believe,  because  of  its  hope  of  destroying  the 
College,  or  at  least  its  power  against  the  lodge.  This 
third  party  was  the  Masonic  party  which  in  various 
effective  ways  fomented  the  strife  and  took  part  in 
the  difficulty  from  beginning  to  end.  It  was  still  in 
the  name  of  secret  societies  that  objection  was  made 
to  the  College  Church  only  last  Tuesday. 

It  may  not  be  directly  pertinent  to  this  topic,  but 
is  it  not  a  marvel  that  our  colleges,  seminaries  and 
churches  can  see  the  lodge  organization  extending 
downward  from  the  Jesusits,  Masons  and  Odd- 
fellows through  every  occupation  and  grade  of  soci- 
ety until  it  seeks  to  control  the  whole  country,  and 
at  the  same  time  make  no  protest?  No  country  was 
ever  yet  ruined  without  the  consent  of  the  clergy. 
We  earnestly  hope  that  from  all  our  educational  in- 
stitutions such  a  flood  of  light  may  be  thrown  upon 
these  conspiracies  against  society  and  law,  and  such 
an  indignant  protest  rise  against  these  supplanters 
of  the  church  of  Jesus  Christ,  that  the  College  at 
Wheaton  may  be  robbed  of  its  honorable  pre-emi- 
nence in  this  respect. 


— A  portrait  and  sketch  of  Professor  Woodsmall 
would  have  appeared  in  this  number,  but  it  was  im- 
possible for  the  engraver  to  complete  his  work  in 
time.  The  work  could  have  been  done  in  cheaper 
form  on  time,  but  the  Cynosure  readers  deserve  the 
best,  and  so  does  the  memory  of  so  noble  a  man,  so 
we  wait  a  week, 

— We  regret  exceedingly  to  see  that  Elder  Browne, 
our  neighbor  of  the  Bible  Banner,  fears  a  temporary 
suspension  of  that  journal  to  prevent  a  debt.  The 
Banner  has  its  two-week's  annual  vacation,  and  its 
friends  meantime  are  asked  to  take  hold  of  the  sub- 
scription list,  so  there  may  be  no  break  in  its  ex- 
cellent work.     We  hope  they  will  outdo  themselves. 

— Mr.  S.  W.  Packard,  the  able  lawyer  of  this  city 
whose  tfl'orts  for  Prohibition  have  become  national, 
asks  a  correction  or  two  in  his  article  on  High  Li- 
cense in  Chicago  in  the  Cynosure  of  two  weeks  ago. 
The  number  of  saloons  in  this  city  May  1,  1887, 
should  have  been  written  3,687,  and  Dec.  1,  4,103. 
At  the  close  of  the  article  Mr.  Packard's  estimate  of 
the  cost  of  liquor  to  the  drinkers  of  Chicago  is  $37,- 
668,000  instead  of  $37,668.  We  regret  such  mis- 
takes should  have  crept  into  the  copy  from  which 
we  printed. 

— Among  our  exchanges  the  Advance  of  this  city 
and  the  Midland  of  Omaha  have  put  on  new  spring 
styles  in  type  and  head-dress.  Their  many  other  at- 
tractions are  thus  enhanced.and  every  eye  that  rests 
upon  their  fair  pages  is  pleased.  We  suggest  kind- 
ly to  both  that  it  is  time  to  turn  their  attention 
anew  to  the  secret  lodges.  Especially  the  Midland, 
organ  of  a  church  that  excludes  them  and  edited  by 
men  who  have  written  so  ably  as  Bro.  Graham  in 
"In  the  Coils,"  and  lectured  so  eloquently  as  Bro. 
McNary  on  this  question,  may  justly  be  expected  to 
give  us  something  fresh  and  strong  on  this  subject. 
We  speak  thus  of  the  Midland  without  requiring 
any  the  less  of  the  Advance,  which  should  be  a  lead- 
er for  righteousness. 

— At  Dundee,  111.,  not  long  since,  Seth  Hill,  a 
former  member  of  the  Masonic  lodge,  died  and  was 
buried.  He  had  not  met  with  the  lodge  for  years, 
and  was  generally  known  as  having  withdrawn  from 
the  order.  Indeed,  he  had  stated  publicly  in  a  prayer 
meeting  that  he  was  opposed  to  the  lodge.  Elder 
Clifford,  a  superannuated  Methodist  minister, 
preached  the  funeral  soi'mon,  and  took  great  pains 
to  hold  forth  upon  the  glorious  character  of  Mason- 
ry, and  to  say  that  the  brother  whom  they  mourned 
was  always,  in  public  and  private,  ready  to  be  known 
as  a  Mason,  as  if  he  felt  honored  by  the  relation. 
Such  falsehood,  aggravated  by  the  surroundings  of 
death,  and  without  danger  of  denial  from  lips  for- 
ever sealed,  is  shocking;  but  it  occurs  too  frequently. 
A  member  of  one  of  our  grand  juries  in  the  U.  S. 
court  of  this  city  was  surprised  to  find  his  name 
printed  in  the  roll  of  Freemasons  of  his  town, 
though  he  had  openly  denounced  the  order  for  years. 
So  Elder  Boring  of  the  M.  K.  church,  in  preaching 
at  the  funeral  of  Mr.  Wheeler  in  Wheaton,  falsified 
the  character  of  the  dead  brother,  who  had  left  the 
M.  E.  church  because  of  bis  hatred  of  the  lodge  and 
worshiped  with  the  Fre«  Methodist  brethren. 


017.8  WASHINGTON  LETTBR. 

Washington,  March  30,  1888. 
This  is  "woman's  week"  in  Washington,  and  a 
Washington  letter  of  this  date  with  the  Interna- 
tional Council  of  women  left  out  would  be  an 
anomaly.  Still  with  the  space  allowed  me  even  the 
merest  epitome  of  proceedings  would  be  an  impos- 
sibility. The  Council  has  been  in  full  sail  for  five 
days;  there  have  been  three  sessions  each  day,  with 
half  a  dozen  speakers  on  the  programme  of  each 
session,  so  that  you  see  I  could  not  even  mention 
the  names  of  the  delegates  to  this  convention  with 
the  subjects  discussed  by  each  without  giving  a  list 
of  such  a  character  as  would  prove  to  be  very  mo- 
notonous reading. 

But  really  the  women  are  having  a  good  time  and 
an  interesting  time  in  Albaugh's  Opera  House. 
The  city  is  full  of  distinguished  women  from  every- 
where, and  this  is  by  far  the  most  important  gath- 
ering of  women  the  world  has  ever  seen.  They 
come  from  the  farthest  limits  of  America,  and  from 
across  the  ocean,  from  England,  France,  the  Scan- 
dinavian Peninsula,  and  from  far  away  Finland. 

The  object  of  the  Conference  is  to  improve  the 
condition  of  woman  in  the  Church,  the  State  and 
the  Home.  And  the  wide  scope  of  the  topics  under 
discussion  gives  unusual  interest  to  the  proceedings. 
The  improvement  of  their  political  condition  is  only 
one  of  the  matters  to  be  considered,  and  the  atten- 
tion given  to  their  notable  advances  in  other  lines 
of  development  has  drawn  to  the  city  certain  repre- 
sentative women  and  has  added  to  the  audiences  a 
number  of  hearers  who  would  not  be  attracted  if  the 
crusade  had  but  a  single  end  in  view. 

Nothing  that  pertains  to  woman  is  foreign  to  the 
business  of  the  Conference,  and  this  comprehensive- 
ness of  plan,  involving  a  review  of  what  has  been 
accomplished  in  all  lines  of  development,  gives  to 
the  gathering  a  cheerful  and  congratulatory  tone, 
which  might  be  wanting  if  political  conditions  alone 
were  considered. 

It  was  on  Tuesday  that  Philanthropies  were  dis- 
cussed. The  subject  of  temperance,  coming  under 
this  head,  brought  upon  the  stage  many  women  not- 
ed for  their  work  in  this  cause,  Miss  Frances  E. 
Willard,  the  president  of  one  of  the  most  wonderful 
ojganization  that  ever  sprang  into  existence,leading 
with  a  strain  of  eloquence  which  held  her  audience 
in  chains,  broken  only  by  applause.  She  mentioned 
that  there  were  now  forty  district  departments  and 
10,000  unions.  SaM  she:  "We  have  sharpened  our 
weapons  in  sight  of  the  enemy,  and  they  are  about 
ground  to  an  edge.  We  want  a  national  prohibition 
amendment  against  the  liquor  traffic,  the  Esau  and 
Ishmaelite,  the  social  pariah  of  this  land." 

Hannah  Whithall  Smith,  another  woman  known 
throughout  the  country  for  her  share  in  Gospel  tem- 
perance work,  diplomatically  inveigled  her  audience 
into  endorsing  en  masse  a  resolution  calling  the  gov- 
ernments of  the  civilized  world  to  protect  the  Congo 
Free  State  from  the  flood  of  poisonous  gin  which 
was  being  poured  in  upon  the  unsuspecting  and  bib- 
ulous natives.  The  resolution  was  adopted  unani- 
mously, for  the  good  lady  refrained  from  calling  a 
negative  vote,  on  the  ground  that  it  would  be  an  in- 
sult to  suppose  that  any  one  present  would  vote  no. 
The  public  buildings  all  over  the  city  are  again 
draped  with  emblems  of  mourning,  this  time  for  the 
late  Chief  Justice  of  the  United  States.  The  Waite 
obsequies,  which  were  simple,  but  imposing,  took 
place  on  Wednesday,  at  noon,  in  the  hall  of  the 
House  of  Representatives.  They  were  attended  by 
both  Houses  of  Congress  and  the  higher  govern- 
ment officials  who  occupied  the  floor  of  the  House, 
while  the  public  galleries  were  filled  with  the  fami- 
lies of  Senators  and  Representatives,  two  tickets  of 
admission  having  been  issued  to  each  Senator  and 
member  of  Congress  for  distribution.  The  reserved 
galleries,  such  as  the  President's,  the  Press  and  the 
Diplomatic,  were  occupied  by  those  for  whom  they 
are  set  aside.  The  remains  were  sent  to  Toledo,  ac- 
companied by  six  of  the  Associate  Justices,  a  Con- 
gressional committee  and  part  of  the  Ohio  delega- 
tion in  Congress. 

It  is  probable  the  House  will  begin  debate  on  the 
Mills  tariff  bill  to-day  and  that  the  discussion  will 
last  until  the  last  of  May,  when  the  measure  will 
either  be  defeated  or  passed  by  that  body.  From 
present  indications  it  would  not  be  safe  or  wise  to 
venture  a  more  encouraging  prediction.  * 


— The  Mormons  have  a  bureau  of  observation  and 
for  lobby  purposes  in  Washington.  It  is  now  send- 
ing out  all  over  the  country  pamphlets  printed  in 
New  York,  written  by  "a  resident  of  Utah,"  pre- 
senting very  plausible  but  deceptive  reasons  for  ad- 
mitting that  mass  of  social  filth  into  the  Union  as  a 
State. 


10 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


April  5, 1888 


TEE  HOME. 


RETBOaPBGTION. 

Life's  pilgrim  looks  from  peak  to  peak, 

Across  a  hazy  vale  of  years, 
In  whose  soft  light  he  loves  to  seek 

Each  desert  step  or  fount  of  tears. 

Each  obvious  cliff  or  stream  or  hill, 

Which  marks  the  intervening  way, 
Though  distant,  seems  familiar  still. 

But  fairer  in  the  grand  survey. 

Thus  do  the  long  recedirg  years, 

Contracting  into  months  and  days, 
Throw  o'er  life's  rugged  tolls  and  tears 

A  softening  and  a  golden  haze. 

'Tls  but  the  large  events  we  see 
Which  turned  our  feet,  as  round  a  slope, 

Down  thro'  some  vale  of  agony, 
Or  up  some  sun-lit  cliff  of  hope. 

Thanks  for  the  hazy,  golden  hue, 
Which  rounds  the  angles  of  the  past. 

And  from  the  whole  presents  a  view 
So  mellow  and  bo  sweet  at  last. 

Thus  may  the  charity  of  friends, 
Broad  as  the  bending  heavens  above, 

Drop  where  each  pilgrim's  journey  ends 
The  softening  raantlo  of  its  love. 

-  Joel  ISmariz,  D.  i>.,  in  N.  Y.  Observer. 


A F TBR   MANY  DATS. 


A   TRUB    STORY. 


"Why  fire  you  so  grave  and  silent  this  evening, 
Charlotte?"  asked  Doctor  Hammond,  laying  down 
the  liook  he  had  been  reading,  and  looking  across 
the  table  at  his  young  wife,  whose  fair  head  was 
bent  over  some  sewing  on  her  lay. 
'I  have  been  thinking,  Herman." 
"And  is  that  such  an  unusual  thing,  Charlotte?" 
Mrs.  Hammnod  smiled. 

"No;  but  perhaps  1  have  never  before  thought 
seriously  of  my  duties  in  life,  Herman.  I  have 
gone  on  from  day  to  day,  enjoying  my  pleasant 
home  and  its  comforts,  and  rejoicing  in  my  many 
friends,  without  thinking  that  I  ought  to  make  some 
return  for  all  the  good  gifts  heaven  has  showered 
upon  me." 

"You  have  always  .done  your  duty  as  a  wife  and 
mother,  Charlotte." 

"Yes;  but  that  is  not  enough.  T  have  been  self- 
ish in  thinking  only  of  my  own,  Herman.  I  did  not 
realize  how  pelfish,  or  how  little  I  had  done  for  the 
interests  and  welfare  of  those  outside  the  pale  of  my 
affections  until  to-day." 

"And  to-day  you  awoke  to  a  realization  of  your 
short-comings?" 

"Yes,  and  quite  by  accident.  Mrs.  Perley  came 
this  morning  to  ask  me  to  go  out  with  her  to  do  some 
shopping,  and  on  the  way  down  town  she  took  me 
in  to  see  Miss  Ford,  who  lives  on  Olive  street,  and 
who  had  sent  for  her  on  business.  I  hesitated  at 
first  about  going  in;  but  Mrs.  Perley  insisted  on  it, 
and  said  Miss  Ford  was  always  glad  to  see  any  one, 
having  been  confined  to  her  bed  with  spinal  trouble 
for  fourteen  years.  But  she  is  not  in  the  least 
peevish  or  ill-natured.  I  thought  her  lovely;  so  gen- 
tle, so  sweet  and  kind,  so  thoughtful  of  others.  And 
she  accomplishes  the  most  wonderful  amount  of 
work.  It  seems  almost  incredible  that,  afflicted  as 
she  is,  she  can  do  so  much.  She  has  a  class  of  wo- 
men three  times  a  week  whom  she  teaches  to  sew 
and  embroider,  and  twice  a  week  she  gives  lessons 
in  painting  to  half  a  dozen  young  girls  who  are  anx- 
ious to  become  teachers,  and  are  too  poor  to  pay  for 
instruction.  She  has,  too,  a  Bible  class  of  young 
girls,  who  come  to  her  every  Sunday  afternoon;  and 
she  is  interested  greatly  in  the  Home  Mission  Soci- 
ety. Mrs.  I'erley  says  her  fingers  are  never  idle  a 
moment.  Think  what  an  amount  of  (;ood  she  must 
accomplish,  Herman,  and  how  useless  is  my  life 
compared  to  hers!  I  felt  humiliated  and  ashamed 
as  1  reflected  on  it,  and  realized  how  much  valuable 
time  I  had  spent  in  making  fashionable  calls  and 
reading  novels.  I  want  to  do  better.  I  can't  be 
satisfied  after  this  unless  I  lead  a  less  selfish  life; 
but  I  don't  know  where  or  how  to  begin." 

"In  my  opinion  you  have  enough  to  do  in  caring 
for  your  house  and  children,  Charlotte.  I  fear  you 
would  soon  weary  of  teaching  poor  people  how  to 
sew  and  read." 

"Perhaps  so,  Herman;  but  that  is  no  reason  why 
I  should  not  make  a  trial.  I  am  not  particular 
al)Out  the  kind  of  work.  I  only  want  to  feel  that 
in  doing  it  I  am  working  for  the  good  of  others,  and 
not  suiting  my  own  desires  and  tastes." 

'Ijook  (or  tiu-  work  and  jou  will  find  it,  Charlotte. 
There  will  be  no  difUculty  on  that  score." 


"And  you  are  willing  to  have  me  go  outside  my 
home  to  find  it?" 

"Yes;  for  I  am  sure  you  will  never  neglect  your 
home  or  children,  however  zealous  you  may  become 
in  working  for  others.  I  have  entire  confidence  in 
your  discretion  and  prudence." 

At  this  moment  there  was  a  ring  at  the  door-bell, 
and  the  doctor  was  called  into  his  oflQce  to  see  a  pa- 
tient; so  the  conversation  terminated,  greatly  to  lit- 
tle Mrs.  Hammond's  regret,  for  she  seldom  had  an 
opportunity  for  a  quiet  talk  with  her  husband.  He 
had  a  large  practice,  and  was  devoted  to  his  pro- 
fession, allowing  it  to  absorb  him  more  than  his 
wife  thought  prudent, 

Mrs.  Hammond  continued  to  follow  the  train  of 
thought  which  her  visit  to  Miss  Ford  had  suggest- 
ed, and  tried  to  determine  in  what  way  she  could 
carry  out  her  desire  to  be  useful.  But,  earnestly 
as  her  mind  dwelt  upon  the  subject,  she  was  unable 
to  arrive  at  any  conclusion. 

The  next  morning  as  she  was  returning  from 
market,  she  chanced  to  pass  through  the  street  on 
which  the  Emergency  Hospital  was  situated,  and  as 
she  reached  a  point  opposite  the  door,  she  stopped 
suddenly,  struck  by  an  idea. 

"Harriet,"  she  said  to  her  servant  who  was  fol- 
lowing behind  her  with  the  marketing,  "You  can  go 
the  rest  of  the  way  alone;  I  want  to  go  in  here  for 
a  little  while." 

She  felt  very  shy  as  she  demanded  admittance  to 
the  hospital,  and  her  confusion  increased  when  she 
was  asked  what  patient  she  desired  to  see. 

"I  am  simply  a  visitor,"  she  explained,  "I  have 
never  before  been  in  a  hospital,  and  I  know  no  one 
here." 

She  was  allowed  to  enter  all  the  wards,  and  as  she 
passed  through  them,  deeply  moved  by  the  signs  of 
suffering  on  every  hand,  she  thought  how  terrible  it 
must  be  for  anyone  once  accustomed  to  the  refine- 
ments and  comforts  of  a  home,  to  be  obliged  to  pass 
weeks,  and  perhaps  months,  in  such  a  place;  for 
this  was  years  ago,  before  hospitals  were  the  com- 
fortable, cleanly,  even  luxurious  asylums  we  have 
now.  As  this  reflection  passed  through  her  mind 
she  noticed  on  a  bed  not  far  from  her,  a  young  man 
of  perhaps  twenty-five  years  of  age.  He  was  pale, 
wan  and  much  emaciated;  but  there  was  something 
very  attractive  about  his  face,  and  an  appealing  look 
in  his  large  brown  eyes  that  touched  Mrs.  Ham- 
mond's sympathies  at  once.  She  recognized  the 
fact  that  he  was  a  gentleman,  and  some  impulse 
moved  her  to  ask  him  how  it  happened  that  he  was 
in  the  hospital. 

He  seemed  touched  by  her  kindly  interest,  and 
told  her  that  he  was  a  young  clergyman,  without 
money  or  friends,  and  had  come  to  St.  Louis  to  ob- 
tain employment.  Failing  in  this,  and  being  much 
reduced  in  health  by  lack  of  means  to  procure  proper 
food,  he  had  fallen  an  easy  prey  to  disease,  and  had 
been  seized  with  a  low  fever,  from  which  he  had 
only  just  begun  to  recover. 

"If  I  were  only  at  home — in  the  home  I  used  to 
have  before  my  mother  died,"  he  said  in  concluding 
his  story,  "I  would  soon  grow  strong  again.  But  as 
things  are  now  I  have  no  desire  to  live,  and  find  it 
almost  impossible  to  eat  or  sleep  in  this  place." 

Mrs.  Hammond  talked  to  him  a  little  while  longer, 
and  then  hurried  home.  Her  husband  was  in  his 
office,  and  she  was  fortunate  in  finding  him  alone. 
She  told  him  about  the  young  minister,  and  then 
proffered  her  request — she  wanted  to  bring  him  to 
her  own  home  and  nurse  him  back  to  health.  The 
doctor  demurred  at  first,  seeing  many  objections  to 
the  plan;  but  when  he  found  how  earnestly  his  wife 
desired  it,  and  how  eager  she  was  to  embrace  this 
opportunity  to  do  good,  he  gave  his  consent;  and  an 
hour  later  young  Mr.  Lester  was  brought  away  from 
the  hospital  and  established  in  the  best  bed-room  in 
Dr.  Hammond's  house. 

Though  she  had  had  no  experience  in  nursing, 
Mrs.  Hammond  carried  out  her  project  bravely  and 
well.  She  had  a  kind,  warm,  generous  heart,  and 
she  found  ample  scope  for  hef  energies  in  waiting  on 
Mr.  Lester,  planning  for  his  comfort,  and  preparing 
with  her  own  hands  delicacies  calculated  to  tempt 
his  capricious  appetite.  She  did  not  weary  of  her 
charge,  and  felt  fully  repaid  for  the  care  and  trouble 
she  had  undergone  when  Mr.  Lester  was  able  to  go 
out  once  more,  and  declared  that  he  owed  his  recov- 
ery entirely  to  her. 

Doctor  Hammond,  who  had  large  influence,  in- 
terested himself  in  the  young  man,  and  at  length 
secured  for  him  the  charge  of  a  small  church  in  a 
village  in  northern  Missouri,  to  which  he  went  as 
soon  as  his  strength  was  fully  restored. 

"Never,  as  long  as  I  live,  can  I  forget  you  or  your 
great  kindness,  Mrs.  Hammond,"  he  said  when  he 
parted  with  the  doctor  and  his  wife.  "I  feel  that 
but  for  you  1  would  have  died  in  that  hospital,  so 


utterly  had  I  lost  all  desire  to  live,  and  so  terrible 
was  my  sense  of  weakness  and  loneliness.  But  you 
came  to  me  like  an  angel  from  heaven,  and  though 
I  am  not  able  to  make  you  any  return,  save  in  words, 
for  what  you  have  done  for  me,  the  bread  you  have 
cast  upon  the  waters  may  return  to  you  after  many 
days.  Heaven  never  fails  to  reward  such  nobility 
as  you  have  shown." 

He  little  imagined  how  singularly  his  prediction 
would  be  fulfilled.  For  several  years  Mrs.  Hammond 
corresponded  at  intervals  with  Mr.  Lester,  but  at 
length  lost  sight  of  him,  for  an  increasing  family 
and  the  charitable  duties  in  which  she  had  extens- 
ively engaged,  occupied  her  attention  to  the  exclusion 
of  her  correspondence.  Ten  years  passed,  and  she 
did  not  know  whether  Mr.  Lester  were  living  or 
dead,  and  her  memory  rarely  reverted  to  him.  Then 
her  husband  started  out  on  a  business  trip  to  Mich- 
igan, where  he  owned  heavy  interests  in  lumber. 
Much  of  the  journey  had  to  be  taken  in  a  stage- 
coach; and  one  evening,  on  a  desolate,  rough  road, 
the  coach  was  overturned,  and  Dr.  Hammond's  right 
arm  was  broken  just  above  the  wrist.  Had  he  been 
at  home  the  hand  could  have  been  saved;  but  he 
knew  that  under  the  circumstances  now  surrounding 
him,  he  must  lose  it.  He  was  conveyed  to  the  near- 
est settlement,  and  found  a  room  at  a  wretched  log 
tavern,  destitute  of  every  comfort  and  convenience. 

Here  was  performed  the  most  trying  operation  of 
his  surgical  experience,  |for,  with  the  most  ordinary 
tools,  rusted  from  long  disuse,  he  was  forced  to  di- 
rect the  amputation  of  his  hand.  As  may  well  be 
imagined,  the  operation  was  one  of  terrible  agony, 
requiring  the  most  wonderful  courage,  and  when  it 
was  over  the  doctor  was  completely  prostrated. 

He  was  lying  in  his  miserable  room  the  next  morn- 
ing, feeling  ill  and  wretched,  when  the  door  opened 
and  a  gentleman  entered,  with  outstretched  hand, 
and  the  cry,  "Dr.  Hammond,  don't  you  know  me?" 

It  was  Mr.  Lester,  who  had  heard  of  the  accident, 
and  feeling  sure  it  was  his  old  friend  who  had  met 
with  the  injury,  had  hastened  to  offer  his  help  and 
sympathy.  The  time  had  come  when  he  could  make 
some  return  for  the  kindness  he  had  received  ten 
years  before.  He  was  comfortably  situated  in  a 
flourishing  village  four  miles  away,  and  to  his  pleas- 
ant home  Doctor  Hammond  was  removed  at  once, 
and  tenderly  nursed  and  cared  for  until  he  was  well 
enough  to  proceed  on  his  journey. 

"So  you  see,  my  dear,"  the  doctor  said  when  giv- 
ing his  wife  the  history  of  his  accident,  "the  bread 
you  cast  upon  the  waters  ten  years  ago,  returned  to 
you  after  many  days.  What  I  would  have  suffered 
had  I  been  forced  to  remain  in  that  desolate  tavern, 
I  dare  not  think.  As  an  angel  of  mercy  you  ap- 
peared to  Mr.  Lester  in  the  hospital  ten  years  ago, 
and  as  an  angel  of  mercy  he  appeared  to  me  when  he 
entered  the  door  of  my  miserable,  dark,  uncomfort- 
able room,  and  took  me  to  his  delightful  home.  I 
felt  then  how  deeply  grateful  I  ought  to  be  that  you 
had  cast  that  bread  upon  the  waters  so  many  years 
before." — Florence  B.  HaUowell,  in  the  ISlandard, 


MAKE  THE  BEST  OF  TOURSSLF. 


The  preacher's  voice  was  clear  and  intense.  A 
young  woman  sat  listening,  to  whom  life  seemed  a 
burden.  As  those  words,"Make  the  best  of  yourself," 
flashed  forth,  she  felt  as  though  they  were  hurled  at 
her.  She  makethe  best  of  herseltl  How  could  she? 
The  rest  of  the  sermon  was  unheard.  It  was  as  if 
a  diamond  had  been  thrown  into  her  lap.  This  was 
all  she  needed.  I  said  the  sermon  was  unheard,  yet 
there  did  enter  into  her  consciousness  another  flash- 
ing sentence:  "Every  man  has  the  right  to  make  the 
best  of  himself." 

Had  you  been  looking  at  the  young  woman  you 
would  have  seen  a  new  and  strange  expression  come 
into  her  face,  just  such  a  change  as  might  come  in 
to  the  face  of  a  dying  man  if  he  should  suddenly 
find  the  fabulous  elixir  of  life.  She  leaned  her  head 
forward  on  the  back  of  the  pew  before  her  and  sat 
very  still,  but  from  her  heart  went  up  a  cry,  "Lard, 
help  me  to  make  the  best  of  myself.  Lord,  I  will 
make  the  best  of  myself,  with  thy  help." 

At  last  came  the  benediction,  and  she  rose  up 
Then  as  the  congregation  poured  out,  she  followed' 
with  the  crowd.  Near  the  door  stood  an  old,  decrep- 
it woman,  in  worn  and  shabby  garments.  Her 
hands  were  wrinkled  and  large-jointed.  She  was  a 
shy,  half  frightened  woman,  who  had  strayed  into 
this  large  church  and  now  stood  back,  half  awed  by 
its  grandeur  and  the  immense  mass  of  people. 

Gail  Bruce  liked  dainty  people  and  dainty  things 
of  all  kinds,  and  she  shrunk  with  a  horror  from  any- 
thing that  was  uncomely.  But  as  her  eye  fell  upon 
the  old  woman,3he  suddenly  sent  up  a  prayer,"Lord, 
help  me  to  make  the  most  of  myself  in  ail  the  hu- 


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11 


manities,  in  love,  and  in  tenderneBS.      And,  Lord, 
bless  that  old  woman." 

When  Gail  reached  her,  she  stretched  out  her  own 
well-gloved  hand  and  touched  the  old  woman's  arm 
with  a  tenderness  that  thrilled  her  frame;  then  slip- 
ping her  hand  in  hers,  she  said, — 

"We  are  glad  to  see  you  here,  and  hope  you  will 
come  again." 

The  old  lady  looked  up  with  a  pleased  smile,  and 
said  it  was  a  "fine  church  and  she  liked  the  minis- 
ter." 

When  Gail  passed  out  there  was  on  her  face  a  re- 
flex gladness.  Seeing  it,  several  people  uncon- 
sciously held  out  their  hands  to  her,  who,  as  a  rule, 
only  bowed. 

She  went  home,  and,  kneeling,  said,  "Help  me  to 
help  others.  Help  me  to  do  some  kind  deed  every 
day.  Help  me  to  grow  like  Christ,so  that  I  may  be 
my  best.     Amen." 

That  was  the  beginning  of  a  great  change  in  Gail 
Bruce.  Every  morning  she  took  up  the  day  with  the 
prayer,"Lord,  help  me  this  daj  to  do  something  for 
others  I  Help  me  this  day  to  make  some  one  happi- 
er I  Help  me  this  day  to  make  the  best  of  myself." 
Many  a  gentle  answer  she  returned  when  her  ner- 
vous temperament  would  have  prompted  a  quick 
word. 

One  little  thing  she  tried  to  do  especially — that  was 
to  carry  a  bright  and  cheery  face;  to  give  a  pleasant 
word  whenever  she  could.  This  was  hard  for  her  to 
do  at  first,  for  she  possessed  by  inheritance  an  in- 
clination to  morbidness  and  melancholy.  But  she 
shook  it  ofl  as  best  she  could,  and  gave  her  "Good 
morning"  or  "Good  evening"  with  a  hearty  grace 
and  a  pleasant  countenance,  even  though  the  neces- 
sary effort  cost  her  no  little  self-denial.  But  con- 
tinued perseverance  in  little  kindnesses  wrought  ef- 
fectually upon  her  nature;  and  the  change  at  every 
degree  contributed  to  the  answer  of  her  prayer. 

And  the  effects  of  this  change  were  not  only  visi- 
ble in  her  own  increased  happiness,  which  was  very 
great,  so  that  life  itself  seemed  a  new  thing,but  they 
were  also  seen  and  felt  in  all  around  her.  Harry, 
her  twelve-year-old  brother,  suddenly  ceased  to 
"tease  her  life  out  of  her"  as  he  felt  the  warmth  of 
her  loving  interest  for  him,  and  said  to  her  after  a 
long  struggle  with  himself: 

"Gail,  I'm  sorry  I  opened  your  letters  and  tied 
knots  in  your  thread,  and  have  done  so  many  bad 
things;  I  begin  to  feel  like  trying  to  make  a  man  of 
myself."  And  right  there  were  all  the  old  scores 
settled,  and  vows  of  eternal  friendship  mentally 
made. 

"Ask  God  to  help  you  to  make  the  best  of  your- 
self," were  her  parting  words.  And  the  heart  which 
all  these  years  had  found  so  much  time  to  fret  over 
disappointments  and  personal  grievances  was  now 
filled  with  impulses  of  kindness,  and  led  willing 
feet  and  bands  to  the  lowly  homes  where  shadows 
were  lying,  bringing  sunbeams  of  mercy  and  hope- 
fulness. She  filled  her  place  in  the  church,and,hav 
iug  taken  up  her  neglected  music  she  soon  relieved 
the  Sabbath-school  organist,  who  was  sickly  and 
overburdened,  and  the  sweet  tones  of  music  as  they 
swelled  up  from  a  heart  full  of  love  and  gratitude 
went  forth  to  cheer  and  gladden  whoever  they 
reached.  Thus  led  and  assisted  by  the  grace  and 
Spirit  of  the  Master  almost  imperceptibly  her  prayer 
was  answered,  and  she  learned  to  make  the  best  of 
herself  in  the  quiet  way  of  common  and  every-day 
me.—Sel. 


Temperance. 


WINS  OR  WAR. 

Mr.  John  Bright,  in  a  recent  speech  of  great 
force,  said  that  Great  Britain,  during  the  last  two 
hundred  years,  had  not  been  engaged  in  one  war  that 
could  not  have  been  honorably  avoided.  Close  in- 
vestigation of  the  present  causes  of  each  conflict 
would  probably  show  that  the  illustrious  Quaker 
spoke  the  truth. 

On  the  back  of  this  the  Paris  correspondent  of 
the  Times  wrote  to  the  journal  he  represents  that  he 
would  stake  his  place— worth  £6,000  a  year — and 
reputation  on  the  fact  that  the  present  Czar  is  a 
confirmed  drunkard.  He  quotes  the  following 
words,  uttered  in  his  hearing  "by  a  very  eminent 
Austrian  statesman":  "Everything  now  depends 
upon  the  Czar,  who  drinks,  and  who  is  very  near  to 
delirium  tremens.  As  he  may  at  any  moment  com- 
mit some  act  of  folly,  Austria  must  make  ready  for 
war."  He  further  declared  it  to  be  "certain"  that 
the  Czar  lately  slapped  the  face  of  a  gentleman  who 
approached  him  at  the  head  of  a  deputation  from 
Ijithuania.  Moreover,  that  the  eccantricities  of  the 
Czar  are  sucj  as  to  make  the  settlement  of  any 
question  by  the  way  of  diplomacy  impossible. 


Bismarck  is  also  known  to  imbibe  freely.  It  is 
asserted  that  during  the  delivery  of  his  recent 
speech,  demanding  a  large  increase  in  the  German 
srmy,  he  consumed  nine  glasses  of  brandy-and- 
water.  From  his  youth  up  Bismarck  has  been  a 
deep  drinker.  He  has  been  known  to  boast  of 
drinking  a  quart  of  wine  without  removing  the  cup 
from  his  lips,  and  he  drinks  freely  every  day.  Such 
a  brain  as  he  inherited  would  have  been  capable  of 
better  thoughts  and  wiser  schemes  if,  perhaps,  it 
bad  not  been  kept  half  paralyzed  for  fifty  yeara  by 
alcoholic  poison. 

Mr.  Kinglake,  the  historian  of  the  Crimean  War, 
attributes  to  wine  the  invasion  of  the  Crimea  by 
the  British  army.  He  asserts,  on  the  authority  of 
eye  witnesses  (and  the  statement  has  never  been  de- 
nied), that  the  dispatch  which  caused  Lord  Raglan 
to  invade  the  Crimea  was  read  over  and  disposed  of 
by  the  British  Cabinet  when  the  members  were  in  a 
drunken  sleep  after  dinner.  These  are  his  words: 
"Before  the  reading  of  the  paper  had  long  contin- 
ued, all  the  members  of  the  Cabinet,  except  a  small 
minority,  were  overcome  with  sleep.  For  a  moment 
the  noi?e  of  a  tumbling  chair  disturbed  the  repose 
of  the  Government,  but  presently  the  Duke  of  New- 
castle resumed  the  reading  of  his  drafts,  and  then 
again  the  fatal  sleep  descended  upon  the  eyelids  of 
the  Ministers." 

The  historian  relates  that  later  in  the  evening  the 
Duke  of  Newcastle  made  another  attempt  to  get 
Ministers  to  listen  to  his  dispatch,  but  again  drows- 
iness prevented.  Not  a  letter  of  the  draft  was  al- 
tered. It  was  afterwards  ascertained  that  it  was 
the  uncompromising  phrases  of  the  dispatch  which 
caused  Lord  Raglan  to  believe  that  the  Cabinet 
meant  him  to  invade  the  Crimea,  which  was,  for 
every  reason  of  war  and  policy,  a  bad  movement. 
Mr.  Kinglake,  in  speaking  of  this  hideous  crime,  in- 
volving the  loss  of  seven  hundred  thousand  lives, 
and  money  enough  to  have  made  them  all  happy 
and  contented  citizens,  calls  the  wine  which  they 
had  been  drinking  at  dinner  "a  narcotic  substance," 
which  had  brought  upon  the  brains  of  the  Govern- 
ment an  irresistible  torpor. 

A  Paris  paper  recently  published  a  jocular  article 
upon  a  certain  Celestin  Nicole,  whom  it  calls  "the 
Providence  of  the  orators  of  the  Chamber  of  Depu- 
ties," since  it  is  Celestin  Nicole  who  supplies  these 
orators  with  drink  while  they  are  speaking. 

"Without  his  assistance,"  says  the  author,  "how 
many  speakers  would  be  powerless  to  bring  their 
discourses  to  a  conclusion." 

To  some  members  he  brings  only  a  glass  of  sugar 
and  water;  to  others,  hot  coffee;  to  others,  beer.  To 
some  he  conveys  a  glass  of  sugared  water,  with  a 
little  cordial  in  it.  Others  drink  claret  during  their 
speeches;  some  "absorb  with  delight  that  horrible 
liquid  which  the  English  call  porter  and  the  Ameri- 
cans black  beer."  Some  take  seltzer  water;  others 
seltzer  and  Marsala;  others  a  cup  of  tea  with  rum  in 
At.  A  few  prefer  lemonade,  with  or  without  a 
"stick;"  while  some  orators  boldly  follow  the  exam- 
ple of  Bismarck,  and  take  brandy. 

When  we  consider  that  the  most  important  effect 
of  alcohol  upon  the  brain  is  to  weaken  its  highest 
faculty,  which  is  judgmenf,  and  that  this  faculty  of 
judgment  is  the  one  supremely  precious  in  a  states- 
man, we  can  form  some  conception  of  its  fatal  in- 
fluence upon  the  politics  of  recent  centuries,  during 
which  alcoholic  drinks  have  been  brought  within  the 
reach  of  the  leanest  purse,  and  made  so  seductive 
as  to  lure  all  but  the  most  refined  appetites. — iSel. 


S UMPTUA RT  LA  Wb. 


Rev.  Sam  Small  answers  in  a  most  masterly  and 
ludicrous  manner  the  popular  objections  raised 
against  prohibition. 

When  he  came  to  speak  of  those  who  oppose  it  be- 
cause, as  they  said,  it  was  a  sumptuary  law,  he  was 
exceedingly  facetious  and  witheringly  sarcastic.  He 
told  the  audience  that  the  country  now  had  one 
sumptuary  law— a  law  passed  by  a  Democratic 
House  and  a  Republican  Senate  and  signed  by  the 
man  from  Buffalo,  Grover  Cleveland,  therefore  both 
political  parties  were  committed  to  it.  He  referred 
to  the  law  passed  by  Congress  against  oleomargar- 
ine or  bogus  butter. 

Oleomargarine  had  not  poisoned  anybody,  had 
not  made  anybody  drunk,  had  not  caused  any  hus- 
band to  whip  his  wife  and  children,  had  not  impov- 
erished any  families.had  not  created  any  riots  or  in- 
stigated any  murders — in  fact,  oleomargarine  had 
not  done  anything  except  greased  the  poor  man's 
bread  so  that  he  could  swallow  it  better,  and  the 
Congress  of  this  great  nation  had  gone  to  work  and 
solemnly  enacted  a  law  forl.idding  the  manufacture 
of  oleomargarine,  and  the  President  signed  the  law. 
"There's  a  sumptuary  law  for  you,"  said  he. 


Whisky  poisons,  whisky  kills,  whisky  fills  crimi- 
nal dockets  and  the  penitentiary,  whisky  debauches 
the  intellect  and  ruins  the  health  of  the  American 
people,  and  every  foreigner  who  wants  to  make  it 
his  home  must  abide  by  the  laws  of  the  land  and  the 
voice  of  its  loyal  citizens  or  be  knocked  into  fits  by 
the  club  of  justice  and  advancement. 

When  we  have  the  prohibition  question  settled 
the  next  thing  in  order  should  be  to  constitute  a 
committee  of  the  whole  of  the  nation  to  seriously 
consider  the  propriety  of  admitting  on  our  shores 
any  more  foreigners,  who  are  the  cause  of  all  the 
trouble  now  in  the  country. 


ONE  OLA 88  OF  WINE  TOO  MUOB. 


A  glass  of  wine  changed  the  history  of  France  for 
nearly  twenty  years.  Louis  Phillippe,  King  of  the 
French,  had  a  son,  the  Duke  of  Orleans,  and  heir  to 
the  throne,  who  always  drank  only  a  certain  num- 
ber of  glasses  of  wine,  because  even  one  more  made 
him  tipsy.  On  a  n^emorable  morning  he  forgot  to 
count  the  number  of  his  glasses  and  took  one  more 
than  usual.  When  entering  his  carriage  he  stum- 
bled, frightening  the  horses  and  causing  them  to 
run.  In  attempting  to  leap  from  the  carriage  his 
head  struck  the  pavement  and  he  soon  died.  That 
glass  of  wine  overthrew  the  Orleans  rule,  confiscat- 
ed their  property  of  £20,000,000,  and  sent  the  whole 
family  into  exile. —  Chamber's  Journal. 
«  <  »  » 

THE  TREMEND0V8  PERIL  IN  HIGH LICSN8B. 


High  license  pretends  to  decrease  the  profits,  but 
in  reality  it  vastly  augments  them,  by  contracting 
the  business  into  the  hands  of  a  comparative  few, 
who  reap  tremendous  gains,  and  who,  by  the  facility 
with  which  they  can  combine  and  concentrate  their 
forces,  wield  immense  political  power.  And  this 
may  be  done,  too,  without  decreasing  to  any  appre- 
ciable extent  the  number  of  saloons.  How  it  is  ac- 
complished is  shown  by  a  letter  written  by  City  Col- 
lector Onahan,  of  high  license  Chicago,  to  the  May- 
or of  that  city,  Jan.  3.  After  admitting  that  high 
license  "has  not  greatly  reduced  the  number  of  sa- 
loons;" but  claiming  that  it  has  "arrested  and  pre- 
vented an  overwhelming  increase,"  he  adds  the  fol- 
lowing startling  statements: 

"At  present  the  bonds  for  3,000  saloons  are  sign- 
ed by  the  different  brewers,  who  likewise  pay  for 
more  than  one  half  the  whole  number  of  licenses  is- 
sued, or  over  2,000  licenses.  These  bonds  cannot 
be  challenged,  as  the  brewers  are  generally  wealthy 
and  responsible,  but  it  may  be  questioned  whether 
it  is  in  accord  with  sound  public  policy  to  allow  the 
security  for  the  saloons  to  be  in  the  control  of  a  lim- 
ited though  powerful  class,  whose  efforts  and  inten- 
tions are  steadily  and  unceasingly  directed  to  the 
extension  of  the  saloon  traffic." 

The  result  of  throwing  three-fourths  of  the  traftij 
into  the  bands  of  these  few  wealthy  brewers  has 
been  disastrous  in  the  extreme.  Nowhere  in  Amer- 
ica has  the  saloon  so  dominated  in  politics  as  in 
Chicago,  and  the  court  records  show  a  steady  and 
appalling  increase  of  crime  ever  since  the  high  li- 
cense law  went  into  effect —  Voice. 


In  a  letter  to  A.  S.  Barnes  &  Co.,  a  native  Hinda 
writes:  "The  Hindus  of  India  are  a  proverbially  so- 
ber race.  Alcohol  is  not  even  known  among  their 
higher  classes.  For  instance,  I  am  a  grown-up  per- 
son of  forty-one,  and  up  to  this  time  I  have  not  seen 
other  kinds  of  liquor  excepting  beer,  port  wine,  and 
brandy,  and  these,  also,  I  have  seen  either  at  Eng- 
lishmen's tables  or  as  prescribed  by  doctors  train^ 
under  the  English  system.  My  parent8,who  are  the 
other  side  of  sixty,  have  perhaps  seen  none  of  them. 
This  sober  race,  the  Englishmen,  are  fast  demoral- 
izing by  spreading  the  drink  curse  far  and  wide. 
My  feelings  amount  almost  to  agon}'  when  I  contem- 
plate this.  But  we  are  helpless.  We  have  no  hand 
over  our  laws,  consetiuently  we  cannot  control  the 
evil.  Native  public  opinion  has  pronouncetl  itself 
with  unmistakable  unanimity  against  the  Govern- 
ment policy,  but  no  heed  is  paid  to  it.  The  consid- 
eratioi  that  seems  to  be  paramount  with  the  Govern- 
ment is,  'Revenue.'  "  is  not  this  pathetic? — Union 
ISignal. 

A  well-known  banker,  three-score  and  ten,  was  at- 
tacked by  pneumonia  last  May.  It  was  a  severe 
case;  but  in  ten  days  he  was  convalescent;  in  five 
weeks  he  was  out,  looking  and  feeling  almost  as 
well  as  ever.  His  physician  said  he  saved  him  be- 
cause he  had  no  tobacco  or  liquor  to  fight  The 
stimulants  he  needed  acted  like  a  charm.  As  soon 
as  possible  he  ceased  their  use,  saying,  "I  may  be 
sick  again;  then  I  want  to  bo  free  from  them  that 
Ihey  may  do  1  heir  work."  Yoimg  men,  make  a  note 
of  this. — N.  Y.  Christian  Advocate, 


12 


THE  CHBISTIAJSr  CYNOSUKE. 


April  5, 1888 


PBSaONAL  MENTION. 


Private  letters  from  Pres.  J,  Blanchard  lead  us 

to  expect  his  return  with  Mrs.  Blanchard  from  New 
Orleans  during  the  present  week. 

— Bro.  A.  W.  Parry,  who  was  secretary  of  the  late 
New  Orleans  Convention,  has  just  returned  from  a 
visit  to  Henry  and  Bureau  counties  in  this  State. 
He  is  laboring  to  endow  the  seminary  at  Evansville, 
Wisconsin. 

— Bro.  A.  D.  Zaraphonithes,  the  Greek  missiona- 
ry, who  has  been  spending  the  winter  in  New  York, 
expects  to  visit  the  West,  and  will  reach  this  city 
during  this  week  to  spend  a  few  days  here  and 
among  friends  at  Wheaton. 

— Rev.  H.  J.  Becker  of  Akron,  Ohio,  whose  let- 
ters from  foreign  parts  began  in  the  Dayton  Con- 
servator  of  March  23,  has  five  other  gentlemen  in 
his  company,  most  of  them  clergyman.  Together 
they  travel  through  Europe  and  the  East. 

— The  Inter  Ocean  of  Friday  publishes  a  portrait 
of  Lewis  6.  Clark,  our  old  friend  of  "Uncle  Tom's 
Cabin"  fame,  who  visited  Chicago  some  four  years 
ago  and  addressed  several  audiences  in  this  city  and 
vicinity.  A  little  sketch  of  his  eventful  life  is  also 
given. 

— Elder  J.  L.  Barlow  was  visiting  friends  at 
Wheaton  last  week.  He  was  suffering  from  a  se- 
vere cold  which  nearly  prostrated  him  and  forced  a 
suspension  of  pastoral  labor.  He  expects  to  re- 
main at  Grundy  Center,  Iowa,  not  longer  than  June 
1st.  The  lodge  is  strong  in  that  place  and  has 
been  able  to  secure  an  adverse  vote  against  Bro. 
Barlow  at  a  small  meeting.  He  would  be  glad  to 
begin  correspondence  with  some  Baptist  church 
where  his  convictions  respecting  the  lodge  will  have 
the  sympathy  of  the  people.  Write  him  at  Grundy 
Center,  Iowa. 

— In  the  February  Home  Missionary  Rev.  Jere- 
miah Porter,  the  first  minister  who  preached  regu- 
larly in  Chicago,  writes  of  his  assisting  lately  at  a 
communion  service  here,  and  making  the  following 
remark:  "Fifty-four  years  ago  it  was  my  privilege 
to  administer  the  Lord's  Supper  in  Chicago,  when 
there  were  only  four  hundred  people  in  the  town; 
and  the  last  male  member  of  that  primitive  church 
of  this  city,  except  myself  (then,  and  to  the  ecd  of 
life,  'Good  Deacon  Philo  Carpenter'),  died  last  year. 
My  wife  is  one  of  the  three  women  still  living  who 
were  at  that  communion."  Since  Mr.  Porter  wrote 
the  above,  his  wife,  who  had  so  long  walked  by  his 
side  in  life,  has  been  called  to  her  rest. 


Reliqiotis  News. 


— The  United  Presbyterian  church  began  its  work 

in  India  in  1885  with  one  missionary — and  to-day  it 

has  68  stations,  35  missionaries,  136  native  helpers, 

and  over  4,000  communicants. 

— Nearly  every  evening  in  a  Bombay  bazaar  may 

be  seen  two  blind  Christians  reading  from  a  Hindu- 
.  Stan  New  Testament,  printed  in  raised  letters,  to 

large  audiences  of  Hindus  and  Mohammedans,  who 

marvel  at  the  strange  sight. 

— A  remarkable  spiritual  awakening  is  reported  in 

the  Syrian  Presbyterian  missions.       In  some  towns 

there  are  from  forty  to  sixty  inquirers.     Among  the 

converts  are  several  Mohammadans. 

— A  revival  of  great  power  has  been  prevailing  in 

the  Wilberforce  University,  Xenia,  O.     Every  lady 
student  converted,   and  every  young  man  except 

three.       Such  was  the  interest  for  two  days  that 
studies  were  suspended. 

— Two  years  ago  Mr.  C.  W.  I'ritchard,  editor  of  the 
(Jhrittian  Worker  and  member  of  the  N.  C.  A.  Board, 
made  a  carefully  prepared  statement  of  the  number  of 
Friends  in  America,  taking  his  figures  from  the  pub- 
lished minutes  of  the  ten  yearly  meetings.  The 
number  was  6'J,475.  Of  these,  53,310  were  west  of 
the  Allegheny  Mountains,  and  16,165  east  of  this 
line.  He  has  just  made  another  computation,  and 
finds  from  the  minutes  of  1887  that  the  number  is 
72,'.)<!8,  an  increase  in  the  two  years  of  3,493,  The 
increase  in  the  Western  yearly  meetings  has  been 
3,271;  in  the  Eastern,  222. 

— A  Union  Conference  of  delegates  from  all  the 
Woman's  Foreign  Missionary  Societies  of  the  Friends 
in  America  is  to  be  held  at  Indianapolis,  beginning 
March  31st,  to  continue  five  days.  Next  to  the 
General  Conference  held  at  Richmond,  Ind.,  last  fall 
this  will  bo  the  most  important  church  meeting  of 
the  Friends  for  many  years.  Friends'  Women's  So 
cieties  for  missionary  work  are  of  recent  origin,  the 
first  being  that  of  the  Western  Yearly  Meeting,  In- 
dians, organized  in  1881.  Since  that  similar  asso- 
ciatioQs  have  been  formed.     College  Societies  are 


also  formed  at  Earlham  College,  Indiana,  and  Wil- 
mington College,  Ohio.  The  membership  of  these 
societies,  as  reported  in  1886,  was  3,892,  and  they 
had  at  that  time  raised  $27,840.  They  are  support- 
ing, or  aiding  in  the  support  of  missionaries  in 
Syria,  China,  Japan,  Mexico,  Jamaica,  and  among 
the  American  Indians.  The  organization  has  led  to 
the  establishment  of  a  missionary  paper,  the  Friend's 
Missionary  Advocate,  of  Chicago,  edited  by  Esther 
Tuttle  Pritchard.  All  the  societies  above  named  are 
to  be  represented  in  the  conference,  and  the  well- 
arranged  program  of  practical  topics,  together  with 
the  names  of  eminent  speakers,  promises  an  occa- 
sion of  unusual  profit  and  interest. 

— Revival  services  in  the  Methodist  churches  at 
St.  John,  N.  B.,  have  resulted  in  nearly  400  conver- 
sions. At  the  early  morning  class  in  the  Centenary 
church  on  Sunday  before  last,  there  were  nearly 
100  men  present,  and  the  attendance  at  the  Sunday- 
school  in  the  afternoon  was  the  largest  at  any  ses- 
sion since  the  great  fire  of  1877.  The  services  still 
continue  and  with  increasing  attendance. 

— Kansas  has  been  greatly  blessed  with  the  re- 
vival spirit.  It  is  reported  that  the  probationary 
list  in  the  Methodist  churches  will  receive  additions 
before  the  first  of  March  of  at  least  10,000  to 
12,000. 

— The  Presbyterian  church  at  Hempstead,  Long 
Island,  claims  to  be  the  first  Presbyterian  church 
organized .  in  America,  and  the  date  of  this  organ- 
ization is  said  to  be  1644.  It  is  not  to  be  supposed 
that  the  church  building,  erected  over  two  centuries 
ago,  is  standing  to-day.  That  building  was  seized 
during  the  Revolutionary  war  by  British  soldiers, 
who  converted  it  into  a  stable  for  a  time,  and  it  was 
afterward  destroyed  by  fire.  But  the  church  organ- 
ization, it  Is  claimed,  never  died,  and  has  existed 
since  1644. 

— The  city  of  Winnipeg,  Manitoba,  vies  with  Tor- 
onto for  the  honor  of  having  the  most  quiet,  orderly 
Sabbath.  It  has  a  population  of  23,000,  with  church 
accommodations  for  15,000.  On  the  Lord's  day  the 
churches  are  full,  all  houses  of  business  are  closed, 
and  no  street  railway  is  operated. 

— A  Presbyterian  missionary  in  China  is  author- 
ity for  the  statement  that  more  money  is  spent  in 
one  year  in  a  single  province  of  that  empire,  in  build- 
ing and  repairing  temples  in  the  worship  of  idols 
and  in  the  propagation  of  unbelief,  than  the  Pres- 
byterian church  gives  annually  for  carrying  the  Gos- 
pel to  the  ends  of  the  earth.  This  comparison  may 
have  a  touch  of  exaggeration  about  it;  but  well- 
authenticated  cases  of  the  lavish  expenditures  by 
the  heathen  in  their  worship  of  strange  gods,  as  well 
as  the  frequently  reported  instances  of  the  liberal- 
ity of  native  Christians,  are  enough  to  make  many 
of  us  at  home  blush  when  we  contrast  them  with 
our  own  scanty  contributions. — Congregationalist. 

— Congregationalism  seems  to  flourish  upon  South- 
ern soil,  says  the  Associate  Reformed  Presbyterian. 
Finding  New  England  too  narrow  for  its  aggresive 
spirit,  it  is  moving  westward  and  southward.  Four 
years  ago  there  were  four  churches  in  Florida.  To- 
day there  are  thirty-five.  It  is  likely  to  receive  a 
considerable  reinforcement  from  a  number  of  "Con- 
gregational Methodist"  churches  in  Georgia,  Ala- 
bama, and  other  Southern  States.  These  churches 
number  about  350,  and  over  fifty  have  already  voted 
to  become  Congregational. 

— The  Jesuits  are  building  a  large  college  at  a 
cost  of  $100,000  in  the  northern  suburbs  of  Denver. 
The  location  is  one  of  the  finest  in  the  vicinity  of 
the  city. 


LITEBATTJKE. 


Thb  Lomb  Pbizb  Essays.— No.  I.  Healthy  Homes  and  Foods 
for  the  Working  Classes.    By  Victor  C.  Vaughn,  M.D.,Ph  D. 

No.  2.  The  Sanitary  Condition  and  Necessities  of  School-Houses 
and  School  Life.    By  D.  F.  Lincoln,  M.  D. 

No.  3.  Disinfection  and  Individual  Prophylaxis  against  Infec- 
tious Diseases.    By  Geo.  M.  Sternberg;,  M.  D.,  U.  S.  A.rmy. 

No.  4.  The  Preventable  Causes  of  Disease,  Injury  and  Death  In 
Aoaerlcan  Manufactories  and  Worlcshops,  and  the  best  means 
and  Appliances  for  Preventing  and  Avoiding  Them.  By  Geo. 
H.  Ireland. 

The  American  Public  Health  Association,  a  vol- 
untary organization,  comprising  in  its  ranks  physi- 
cians, clergymen,  teachers,  engineers,  manufactu- 
rers,— in  fact,  intelligent  men  and  women  of  all 
classes, — has  labored  for  years  to  correct  the  evils 
growing  out  of  the  old  order  of  things,  and  to  bring 
home  to  the  people  the  sort  of  knowledge  that  is 
needed  to  save  life  and  avert  disease.  Heartily  aid- 
ed by  the  press,  the  Association  has  done  much 
good  work  at  its  annual  meetings  held  in  different 
parts  of  the  country.  Still,  only  a  small  propor- 
tion of  the  country  could  be  reached  in  this  way. 
Three  years  ago,  however,  a  philanthropic  member 
of  the  Association,  Mr.  Henry  Lomb  of  Rochester, 


offered  prizes  for  essays  upon  topics  of  vital  inter- 
est to  every  intelligent  person  having  any  regard  to 
the  preservation  or  life  and  health.  The  subjects 
selected  and  the  successful  competitors  for  the  prizes 
are  as  noted  above.  Although  the  treatment  of  the 
subjects  in  these  essays  is  popular  in  tone,  and  easi- 
ly understood  by  any  one,  the  teaching  is  sound  and 
thorough;and  while  the  most  rigid  scientific  demands 
for  accuracy  are  complied  with,  the  whole  matter  is 
made  clear  and  comprehensible  to  the  most  ordina"y 
understanding.  Through  the  means  furnished  the 
Public  Health  Association,  it  is  enabled  to  offer 
these  valuable  works  at  a  price  almost  ridiculously 
low.  They  may  be  obtained  at  the  book-stores,  or 
of  Dr.  Irving  A.  Watson,  Secretary,  Concord,  N.  H., 
at  the  following  rates:  Single  copies.  No.  1,  ten  cents; 
Nos.  2,  3,  and  4,  five  cents  each.  The  entire  four 
essays  in  pamphlet  form  twenty-five  cents,  or  in  cloth 
binding  at  fiftr  cents  or  seventy-five  cents,  accord- 
ing to  style  of  binding  and  paper.  Dr.  Sternberg's 
Essay  has  been  published  in  German,  French  and 
Flemish,  and  Dr.  Vaughn's  in  German.  Mr.  Lomb 
could  not  do  a  more  benevolent  act  than  to  provide 
that  such  books  be  written  and  published.  What 
working  people  need  now  is  a  good  store  of  practi- 
cal instructions  as  to  the  care  of  their  homes,  bodies 
and  surroundings.  No  one  can  read  these  essays 
without  feeling  that  he  can  do  more  to  help  work  off 
disease  and  maintain  his  health. 

The  current  number  of  Cur  Bay  will  open  of  itself  to 
Joseph  Cook's  Monday  lecture.on  lospiration,  and  the 
Prelude  on  Utah  and  Mormonism  demanding  State- 
hood. These  topics  are  discussed  with  a  breadth  and 
force  and  eloquence  of  diction  which  hold  the  atteation, 
and  quicken  the  pulse  of  the  reader.  Miss  Willard  dis- 
cusses the  prospective  platform  of  the  Prohibition  party, 
holding  that  it  must  begin  with  God  as  the  Bible  does. 
The  out-lawing  of  the  drink  traffic,  woman's  ballot,  dis- 
franchisement of  the  drunkard,  reform  in  the  method  of 
voting,  the  civil  service,  Indians,  polygamy,  tariff,  inter- 
national arbitration  and  wise  measures  against  monopo- 
lies and  to  secure  justice  to  labor,  are  the  different 
planks.  Anthony  Comstock,  who  has  just  gained  a  case 
against  a  prominent  New  York  picture  dealer,  writes  on 
the  "Helps  and  Hindrances  in  the  Suppression  of  Vice." 

Scribner's  Magazine  has  made  preparations  for  inter- 
esting the  entire  railway  fraternity  of  America.  It  will 
shortly  begin  the  publication  of  a  series  of  articles  on 
railways,  based  on  the  great  importance  and  wide  inter- 
est of  the  subject,  shown  by  the  fact  that  in  the  United 
States  there  are  about  150,000  miles  of  railway,  nearly 
one  half  the  total  in  the  world,  although  the  population 
of  this  country  is  only  about  one-thirtieth  of  that  on  the 
globe.  These  roads  have  cost  more  than  $8,500,000,000, 
and  their  earnings  for  the  year  1887  were  about  $900,- 
000,000,  of  which  two  thirds  was  expended  in  maiate- 
nance.  In  the  State  of  Illinois  alone  there  are  more  than 
50,000  people  who  are  dependent  upon  railways  for  their 
occupation.  The  articles  prepared  for  Scribner's  will 
treat  the  whole  subject  from  a  point  of  view  of  popular 
interest. 

The  March  Library  Magazine  is  an  unusually  hand- 
some number,  and  its  contents  will  be  attractive  to  a 
large  class  of  readers.  In  ethics  and  philosophy  these 
are  some  of  the  titles:  "The  Higher  Life:  How  is  it  to 
be  Sustained,"  "The  Catholic  Saientiflc  Congress," 
"Rright  and  Wrong,"  "Parseeism  and  Buddhism."  In 
social  topics:  "Charity  Bazaars,"  "The  London  Unem- 
ployed and  the  Donna,"  "Agricultural  Distress  in 
Eagland "  In  biography,  history  and  literature: 
"Shakesperian  Curiosities,"  "Literary  Voluptuaries," 
"Percy  B.  Shelley,"  "Canadian  'Habitans'  in  New  Eng- 
land." Current  events:  "Moves  on  the  European 
Chessboard,"  "Railroads  in  China,"  "Mountain  Floods," 
"The  Inundation  in  China." 

The  long  looked  for  days  have  come,  when  the  gar- 
dening plans  of  winter  are  to  be^put  in  practical  opera- 
tion. 'The  pleasure  and  healthfulness  of  gardening  we 
all  need,  and  the  love  of  it  is  inherent  in  every  man  and 
woman.  As  a  practical  helper  we  rejoice  in  that  beau- 
tiful, reliable  and  eminently  practical  journal  of  garden- 
ing. The  American  Garden,  which  comes  to  us  each 
month,  laden  with  the  good  things  of  the  flower  border, 
the  shrubbery,  the  vegetable  garden,  the  orchard,  the 
vineyard  and  plantation,  as  well  as  the  beautiful  lawn, 
conservatory  and  window  garden.  In  the  April  issue  is 
"An  Open  Letter  on  the  Planting  of  a  Small  Place  in 
the  Suburbs,"  which  is  just  what  is  wanted  by  thousands 
of  country  dwellers. 

The  American  edition  of  the  London  Illustrated  News 
for  March  31,  is  a  commemorative  number.  A  splendid 
portrait  of  the  late  German  Emperor  is  accompanied  by 
page  after  page  of  tine  portraits  and  illustrations  of  the 
scenes  connected  with  so  import  ant  an  event  to  the  Ger- 
man nation  as  the  death  of  the  aged  William. 

Vick's  April  Magazine  begins  with  the  garden,  and 
what  is  necessary  for  a  good  garden  the  reader  of  this 
monthly  will  not  fail  to  find.  Among  the  articles  and 
notes  on  flowers  we  notice  something  on  Larkspurs,  Be- 
gonias, Primroses,  Lillies,  Roses,  Geraniums,  etc. 

The  April  number  of  Babyhood  contains  several  med- 
ical articles  of  interest  to  mothers.  An  elastic  gate  for 
the  nursery  door,  a  hanging  medicine-chest,  a  crib  guard, 
and  other  nursery  helps  and  novelties  are  described  and 
illustrated;  and  much  useful  advice  is  given  regarding 
"Gritting  the  Teeth,"  "A  Railway  Journey  Before  or 
After  Delivery,"  "Worms,"  "Dark  Rings  about  the  Eyes,'' 


Apbil  &,  1888 


MCE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOStJEE. 


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'Tellow  Spots  on  the  Teeth,"  and  many 
other  nursery  problems.  In  "The  Moth- 
ers' Parliament"  will  be  found  a  rather 
striking,  and  we  believe  very  much  mis- 
taken, protest  against  religious  precocity 
on  the  part  of  children. 

The  opening  article  in  the  April  Cenhi- 
ry  is  to  be  a  description  of  the  Palestine 
of  to-day,  by  Edward  L  Wilson,  illus- 
trated with  a  great  number  of  engravings 
made  from  Mr.  Wilson's  photographs. 
The  article  will  appear  at  a  time  when 
students  of  the  International  Sunday- 
school  lessons  are  especially  interested  in 
these  scenes. 

Rev.  G.  T.  Cooperrider  has  written  a 
tract  defending  the  position  of  the  Luth- 
eran church  in  maintaining  close  com- 
munion. Those  who  are  interested  in 
the  discussion  of  this  question  can  obtain 
the  pamphlet  at  the  Lutheran  Book  Con- 
cern, Columbus,  0. 

From  the  edition  of  Geo.  P.  Rowell  & 
Co.'s  "American  Newspaper  Directory," 
published  April  2d  (its  twentieth  year), 
it  appears  that  the  Newspapers  and  Pe- 
riodicals of  all  kinds  issued  in  the  United 
States  and  Canada,  now  number  16,310 
showing  a  gain  of  890  during  the  last  12 
months  and  of  7,136  in  10  years. 

The  publishers  of  the  Directory  assert 
that  the  impression  that  when  the  pro- 
prietor of  a  newspaper  undertakes  to 
state  what  has  been  his  exact  circulation, 
he  does  not  generally  tell  the  truth  is  an 
erroneous  one:  and  they  conspicuously 
oiler  a  reward  of  $100  for  every  instance 
in  their  book  for  this  year,  where  it  can 
be  shown  that  the  detailed  report  re- 
ceived from  a  publisher  was  untrue . 


Lodge  Notes. 

Rumors  prevail  at  Pittsburg  that  the 
puddlers  propose  to  withdraw  from  the 
Amalgamated  Association,  and  reorgan- 
ize the  order  of  the  'Sons  of  Vulcan." 

At  his  reception  by  Kit  Carson  Post,  G. 
A.  R.,  at  Washington  Wednesday  night, 
Senator  Ingalls  said  that,  if  the  G.  A.  R. 
men  were  in  any  place  maligned  he 
should  defend  them,  and  that  nothing 
should  deter  him  from  denying  that  the 
organization  is  the  debtor  of  the  nation. 

At  a  secret  meeting  in  Boston  of  large 
manufacturers  of  doors,  uash,  and  blinds 
in  New  York,  New  Jersey  and  Pennsyl- 
vania, a  combination  was  formed,  with 
the  object  of  advancing  prices  and  regu- 
lating production.  Each  manufacturer 
will  pay  into  the  pool  a  certain  sum  of 
money,  which  will  be  forfeited  if  the 
rules  of  the  "combine"  are  broken. 

Judge  Bailey  of  Chicago  has  filed  a 
decision  of  interest  to  secret  societies  in 
the  case  of  the  administratrix  of  Charles 
A.  Avery  against  the  Supreme  Council  of 
the  Royal  Arcanum.  Avery  was  insured 
in  Allen  Council,  No.  49,  of  Milwaukee, 
and  deceived  the  medical  examiner.  It 
transpired  after  his  death  that  he  had 
cerebro  spinal  meningetis  and  nearly  died 
of  convulsions  two  months  before  his 
application  and  examination.  The  court 
decided  from  this  evidence  that  Avery's 
administratrix  had  no  right  to  recover  on 
his  policy. 

The  State  executive  board  of  the  Mas- 
sachusetts Knights  of  Labor  has  issued  a 
call  to  all  district  and  local  assemblies 
not  attached  to  a  district  to  elect  dele- 
gates to  the  State  convention  of  the  or- 
ganization, to  be  held  in  Boston,  April 
15.  The  attitude  of  Master  Workman 
Powderly  toward  strikes  and  his  proposi- 
tion to  place  lecturers  in  the  field,  that  the 
working  people  may  receive  a  more  thor- 
ough education  on  labor  questions,  will 
be  discussed.  The  probaoility  is  that 
Powderly  will  receive  a  most  hearty  in- 
dorsement by  Massachusetts  Knights  of 
Labor. 

John  Matthews,  the  Bald  Knobber  in- 
dicted for  complicity  in  the  murder  of 
Charles  Green  and  William  Edens,  closed 
in  the  Circuit  Court,  at  Ozark,  Mo.,  on 
March  24th,  and  the  jury  were  out  only 
a  few  minutes  before  returning  a  verdict 
of  murder  in  the  first  degree.  Matthews 
is  the  third  Bald  Knobber  convicted  of 
the  same  atrocious  crime  and  there  are 
six  others  in  jail  at  Ozark  awaiting  trial 
on  the  same  indictment.  Swift  judgment 
like  this  would  soon  sweep  away  the  dis- 
grace of  midnight  lodge  marauders,  who 
scourge,  torture  and  kill  innocent  persons 
for  some  mere  personal  grudge. 

Mr.  W.  0.  Huckett,  who  is  secretary  of 
more  organizations  and  societies  than  any 
other  man  in  Kansas  City,  says  the  Star 


of  that  city,  not  excepting  John  Sullivan, 
is  the  scribe  of  the  Masonic  Board  of  Re- 
lief here.  In  every  large  city  in  the 
United  States  and  Canada,  with  the  ex- 
ception of  Kansas  City,  there  it  what  is 
known  ai  a  Nest  of  Owls,  composed  of 
the  members  and  ex  members  of  the  Ma- 
sonic board  of  relief.  It  is  now  proposed 
to  organize  such  a  nest  hire,  and  Mr. 
Huckett  has  been  selected  as  the  one  to 
take  the  first  step  toward  forming  it. 
The  Supreme  International  Nest  of  Owls 
of  the  United  States  and  Canada  will 
meet  in  St  Louis  on  Saturday.  During 
its  session  Mr.  Huckett  will  receive  a  <\e 
gree.  His  invitation  to  the  session  and 
subsequent  banquet  bears  the  inscription: 
"Come  and  roost  in  Nest  No.  1.  Satur- 
day, March  31,  1888." 


DONATIONS 


To  Cynosure  Ministers'  Fund: 

Rev.  J.  L.  Barlow $    8.00 

Mrs.  A.  E.  Stoddard 1 .  50 

Mrs  C.  R.  Clerk 1.00 

Mrs  Jas.  Haire 50 

J.  B.  Galloway 25 

Moses  Shay 1.00 

Samuel  A.  Pratt 3.40 

Rufus  Johnson 100.00 

0.C.  M.Bates 5.00 

J.  Decker 1.00 

D.  Hyde  1.50 

Before  reported |884.76 

Total $952.91 


BUBaCRIPTlON  LBTTBRa. 


The  following  have  made  remittances 
of  money  to  the  Cynosure  from  March  26 
to  March  31  inclusive. 

W  W  Bradford,  S  Bushnell,  Rev  W  A 
Limbocker,  J  Ferguson,  8  A  Pratt,  Rev 
B  M  Amsden,  A  Brink,  A  F  Smith,  0 
Kalz,  A  W  Hall,  L  D  Brown,  W  F  Davis, 
G  M  Smith,  Mrs  A  Stone,  Z  Graves,  Mrs 
S  Harris,  M  Belzaer,  H  Mathews,  J 
Decker,  E  J  Cbalfant,  G  V  Bohrer,  J 
Cozier,  Mrs  A  Spies,  W  Hamlyn. 


THE    KEY    OF    SUCCESS 

is  a  good  memory,  without  which  the 
student,  business  man  or  scientist  loses 
what  he  gains.  Prof.  Loisette's  wonder- 
ful discovery  enables  his  pupils  to  learn 
any  book  in  one  reading.  Endorsed  by 
Prof.  Richard  A.  Proctor,  the  astrono- 
mer, Hon.  W.  W.  Astor,  late  U.  S.  Min- 
ister to  Italy,  Hon.  John  Gibson,  Presi- 
dent Judge  19th  Judicial  District,  Pa., 
Hon.  Judah  P.  Benjamin,  the  famous 
jurist,  and  hundreds  of  others  who  have 
all  been  his  pupils.  The  system  is  taught 
by  correspondence.  Classes  of  1087  at 
Baltimore,  1,005  at  Detroit,  and  1,500  on 
return  visit  to  Philadelphia.  Address 
Professor  Loisette,  237  Fifth  Avenue, 
New  York,  for  prospectus. 


To  turn  gray  hair  to  its  natural  color 
and  beauty,  use  Hall's  Vegetable  Sicilian 
Hair  Renewer,  the  best  and  most  reliable 
preparation  science  has  given  us. 

MARKET  RBPORTa. 

CHICAGO. 

Wheat— No.  8 n% 

No.  3 70  &     71 

Winter  No  8 81 

Com— No.  a .51^0      52 

OatB— No.8 «^.^^^„     34  Q      353,^ 

Rye— No.  a 61 

Branperton ^ 15  50 

Hay— Timothy 8  00  ©14  00 

Butter,  medium  to  best 13  @     so 

Cbeeee 05  &     15 

Beans 1  25  @  2  85 

8eedfr-^'riiinothy«  ....'.'.' .' .' .'.'.'.'  2  10        a  52 

Flax 1  38         1  45 

Broomcom f>^X®     f^? 

Potatoes  per  bus 75    @      97 

Hides— Green  to  dry  flint 05>^^     13 

Lumber- Common 1100    ®18  00 

Wool 13    (|      36 

Cattle— Choice  to  extra 5  0.5    @  5  60 

Commontogood 2  10         4  75 

Hogs 4  91    @  5  60 

Sheep 4  25    ^  6  20 

NEW  TORK. 

Flour 8  ao  3  5  60 

Wheat— Winter 89  @      935^ 

Spring 88 

Com f>\H®     63 

Oats ^ 37  Qg      4.^ 

Igg8..»...^^^ «^.«,  18X 

Batter ^ ^...     15  3     88 

Wool,^^.,^ 09  34 

KANSAS  CITT. 

Cattle...^,.^^^..,^^....^  a  00  a  5  00 

Hogt .>^ a  7.')  2  5  85 

IkMt..^ — ...^.  «..^ 8  ."H)  #  5  50 


Best  of  Ail 

Cough  medicines,  Aj-t-r's  Cherry  Pec- 
toral is  in  greater  demand  than  ever. 
Ko  preparation  for  Tliroat  and  Lung 
Troubles  is  so  prompt  in  its  effects,  so 
agreeable  to  the  taste,  and  so  widely 
known,  as  tliis.  It  is  the  family  medi- 
cine in  tliousands  of  households. 

"I  have  oufTered  for  years  from  a 
bronchial  trouble  that,  wlienever  I  take 
cold  or  am  exposed  to  inclement  weath- 
er, sliows  itself  liy  a  very  annoying 
tickling  sensation  in  the  throat  and  by 
difficulty  in  breathing.  I  have  tried  a 
great  many  remedies,  but  none  does  so 
well  as  Ayer's  Cherry  Pectoral  which 
always  gives  prompt  relief  in  returns  of 
my  old  complaint."  — Ernest  A.  Hepler, 
Inspector  of  Public  Roads,  Parish  Ter- 
re  lionne.  La. 

"  I  consider  Ayer's  Cherry  Pectoral  a 
most  important  remedy 

For  Home  Use. 

I  have  tested  its  curative  power,  in  my 
family,  many  times  during  the  past 
thirty  years,  and  have  never  known  it 
to  fail.  It  will  relieve  the  most  serious 
affections  of  the  throat  and  lungs, 
■whether  in  children  or  adults."  —  Mrs. 
E.  G.  Edgerly,  Council  Bluffs,  Iowa. 

"Twenty  years  ago  I  was  troubled 
with  a  disease  of  the  lungs.  Doctors 
afforded  me  no  relief  and  considered 
my  case  hopeless.  I  then  began  to  use 
Ayer's  Cherry  Pectoral,  and,  before  I 
had  finished  one  bottle,  found  relief.  I 
continued  to  take  this  medicine  until  a 
cure  was  effected.  I  believe  that  Ayer's 
Cherry  Pectoral  saved  my  life."  — 
Samuel  Griggs,  Waukegan,  111. 

"Six  vears  ago  I  contracted  a  severe 
cold,  which  settled  on  my  lungs  and 
soon  developed  all  the  alarming  symp- 
toms of  Consumption.  I  had  a  cough, 
night  sweats,  bleeding  of  the  lungs, 
pains  in  chest  and  sides,  and  was  so 
prostrated  as  to  be  confined  to  my 
bed  most  of  the  time.  After  trying 
various  prescriptions,  without  benefit, 
my  physician  finally  determined  to  give 
me  Ayer's  Cherry  Pectoral.  I  took  it, 
and  the  effect  was  magical.  I  seemed 
to  rally  from  the  first  dose  of  this 
medicine,  and,  after  using  only  three 
bottles,  am  as  well  and  sound  as  ever." 
—  Rodney  Johnson,  Springfield,  111. 

Ayer's  Cherry  Pectoral, 

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THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


April  5, 1888 


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Home  and  Health. 

THE    STOMACH  — ADVICE   IN    REGARD 
TO  ITS  TREATMENT. 

An  old  New  Yorker,  who  was  brought 
up  in  hotels  and  restaurants,  and  knows 
all  about  eating,  gave  some  points  to  a 
reporter  of  the  nun  the  other  day  about 
the  way  for  a  man  to  make  friends  with 
his  stomach. 

"There  are  two  big  mistakes  tha  al- 
most all  persons  make,"  said  he.  "One 
is  that  they  don't  eat  the  right  things, 
and  the  other  is  that  what  they  do  eat 
they  don't  eat  right. 

When  a  man  has  dyspepsia,  his  stomach 
is  always  with  him,  and  he's  always  con- 
scious of  it.  He  can't  sleep.  His  food 
doesn't  taste  right.  Boils  break  out  over 
him.  He  is  morbid.  All  his  friends 
seem  to  have  deserted  him,  and  some 
day  he  goes  out  and  blows  his  brains  out, 
and  the  public  and  the  newspapers  say 
he  had  business  troubles.  Business 
troubles  I  Why,  what  does  a  man  care 
for  business  troubles  when  his  stomach's 
all  right?  If  his  stomach  is  right  his 
head  will  be  clear,  and  he'll  prosper.  No 
glutton  or  dyspeptic  can  stand  up  along 
side  of  a  man  with  a  sound  stomach  and 
a  clear  head. 

"When  you  got  up  this  morning  what 
did  you  do?  Went  right  off  to  breakfast 
and  filled  yourself  with  your  nose  in  the 
papers,  and  your  mind  wandering  over 
the  earth.  You  don't  know  what  you 
ate  or  how  much,  or  how  long  it  took 
For  all  the  gord  it  did  you,  you  might  as 
well  have  swallowed  bacon  and  corn- 
bread,  or  turkey  and  buckwheat  cakes, 
or  any  other  mixture  that  would  take  up 
space  in  your  stomach.  Then,  while  you 
ate,  you  gulped  down  ice  water  and  cof- 
fee alternately,  and  when  you  got  through 
you  lit  your  cigar  and  went  down  town, 
glad  you  had  done  part  of  the  work  of 
the  day. 

"That's  not  breakfasting.  It's  loading 
up  your  stomach,  and  it's  worse  for  you 
than  if  you  hadn't  eaten  anything.  Then 
you  have  a  headache  and  feel  bad,  and 
wonder  why  it  all  is.  It's  because  you 
don't  pay  as  much  attention  to  your 
stomach  as  you  do  to  your  office  boy. 
Your  stomach  takes  its  revenge  by  mak- 
ing you  wretched.  To  squelch  it  you 
pour  a  lot  of  liquor  into  it  and  gulp  some 
ice  water  on  that,  with  a  cracker  or  pret- 
zel and  a  bit  of  cheese.  What  sort  of  a 
mixture  is  that?  Just  imagine  the  cheese, 
and  rum,  and  pretzel,  and  think  that 
something  inside  of  you  has  to  get  away 
with  that.  Your  stomach  ought  to  be 
your  friend,  but  if  you  go  to  pitching 
into  it  it  11  show  fight,  and  you  may  as 
well  understand  that  it  will  get  the  best 
of  it. 

"When  you  get  up  in  the  morning  take 
a  big  drink  of  water.  Your  system  wants 
water  first.  An  engine  isn't  fired  up  and 
then  some  water  let  into  the  boiler. 
Clean  your  teeth  and  let  the  water  run 
from  the  spigot  while  you're  doing  it. 
Then  drink  a  pint  of  it.  Use  common 
hydrant  water;  no  ice,  no  salt,  no  mineral 
water.  Ordinary  water  is  good  enough 
for  an  ordinarily  healthy  man.  Keep 
away  from  diugs  and  pills,  and  give  your 
'  stomach  a  show. 

"If  you  are  in  a  hurry  to  read  the  pa- 
pers read  them  before  breakfast.  When 
you  sit  down  to  the  breakfast  table  be 
happy;  you're  going  to  do  something 
pleasant.  Breakfast  isn't  a  penalty  im- 
posed on  you  or  a  task  to  be  performed 
as  soon  as  possible,  but  a  pleasant,  en- 
joyable occasion.  Try  and  have  some- 
body talk  to  you,  and  talk  yourself. 
Laugh.  Start  off  with  fru'.t— some  or- 
anges, say.  Then  eat  some  fish  and  stale 
bread,  or  stale  rolls,  or  toast.  If  y,)U 
want  anythiog  more  eat  some  meat.. 
Take  your  time  to  it  all.  I  stay  at  the 
table  for  an  hour,  and  eat  all  the  time 
Don't  eat  much,  but  take  your  time  to  it. 
If  you  haven't  time,  eat  less  The  time 
you  spend  at  breakfast  will  be  saved  over 
and  over  again  during  the  day. 

"A  man's  ntomach  is  his  friend,  and  if 
he'll  only  treat  it  kindly  the  first  half  of 
the  (lay,  it  will  show  its  appreciation  and 
stick  by  him  at  night." 


DETKCTIVK.S    WANTKD, 

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Medical  Discovery  Las  been  used  for  tor- 
pid liver,  indigestion,  impure  blood,  or 
consumption  in  ita  early  stages,  without 
giving  immediate  and  permanent  relief; 
provided,  of  course,  that  the  directions 
have  been  reasonably  well  followed. 


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To  the  Editor: — Please  inform  your 
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means  of  safety.  Universally  acknowl- 
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facturers for  many  years. 


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Freemasonry  Illustrated.  A  complete 
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ME  CHKTSTIAN  CYNOStJEE. 


April  5, 1888 


NFWS  OF  THE  WEEK 

WASHINGTON. 

A  bill  appropriating  $5  000  to  defray 
the  expenses  of  the  funeral  of  Chief  Jus- 
tice Waite  was  passed  by  Congress  Mon- 
day. The  burial  took  place  at  Toledo, 
Ohio,  on  ThuKday. 

A  bill  to  amend  the  naturalization  law 
so  as  to  require  would-be  citizens  to 
make  oath  that  they  are  not  polygamists, 
anarchists,  or  communists,  was  intro- 
duced in  the  House  to-day  by  Represent- 
ative Stewart  of  Georgia. 

The  R3V.  R.  W.  Montgomery,  repre- 
Benting  the  Home  Missionary  Society  of 
the  Congregational  church,  addressed  the 
Senate  Committee  on  Territories  this 
morning  in  opposition  to  the  admission 
of  Utah  and  in  favor  of  legislation  to 
puppress  the  evils  of  Mormonism.  He 
favored  the  Utah  commission  bill,  or,  if 
that  could  not  be  passed,  then  the  Pad- 
dock bill,  which  vesta  tb 3  appointment  of 
school  officers  in  the  hands  of  the  Gov- 
ernor. 

COUNTKT. 

At  the  centennial  at  Marietta,  Ohio, 
April  7,  the  principal  address  will  be  de- 
livered by  Senator  Hoar,  of  Massachu- 
setts. William  Henry  Smith,  General 
Manager  of  the  Associated  Press,  will 
also  deliver  an  address. 

The  number  of  hogs  packed  in  the 
West  during  the  winter  season  is  esti- 
mated by  the  Cincinnati  Price  Current  at 
.5  900,000,  a  decrease  from  last  year  of 
about  539,000  head.  The  prospective 
hog  supply  points  to  a  decrease  of  13  per 
cent 

The  Northwestern  Railroader,  of  Min- 
neapolis, Minn  ,  publishes  a  summary  of 
the  entire  cost  of  the  Western  rate  war 
now  ending  to  the  railroad  companies  in- 
volved. There  have  been  just  fifty  work- 
ing days  since  the  first  cut  was  made,  and 
the  loss  has  been  $15,000  000  in  that 
time.  The  loss  on  business  in  and  out  of 
the  two  cities  of  St.  Paul  and  Minneapo- 
lis alone  has  been  nearly  half  a  million 
dollars. 

Near  Manchester,  Conn.,  Wednesday 
morning,  at  the  approach  to  the  bridge 
over  the  Hockanum  River,  a  locoaaotive 
drawing  a  New  York  and  New  England 
train  exploded,  killing  the  fireman  and 
fatally  scalding  the  engineer. 

John  D.  Gillet,  the  cattle  king  of  Illi- 
nois, father-in  law  of  Governor  Oglesby 
and  David  T.  Littler,  had  a  second  stroke 
of  paralysis  at  his  home  at  Elkhart,  111., 
Wednesday,  and  is  very  low.  Mr.  Gillet 
is  69.  and  his  wealth  is  estimated  at  $2,- 
500,000. 

Reports  of  a  cyclone  that  devastated 
Ninnescah,  Mo.,  Saturday  evening  have 
just  been  received.  Nearly  every  build- 
ing in  the  village  was  wrecked  or  dam- 
aged, the  total  loss  being  $30  000.  One 
woman  is  reported  killed. 

The  barks  Emigrant,  Vesuvius,  and 
Mabel  Stoddard,  salt  laden  for  Glouces- 
ter, Mass.,  have  been  given  up  as  lost. 
Forty  five  men  are  supposed  to  have  per- 
ished. 

Another  Negro-lynching  epidemic  has 
broken  out.  Theodore  Calloway,  a  Ne- 
gro murderer,  was  taken  from  jail  at 
Siyneville,  Ala.,  Thursday  night,  and 
hanged  in  front  of  the  court  house,  the 
mob  departing  after  riddling  his  body 
with  bullets.  John  Wood  was  lynched 
at  Denison,  Texas,  Wednesday,  for  ab- 
ducting a  white  girl,  Amelia  Wilson. 

The  grand  jury  reported  at  New  York, 
Wednesday,  that  the  elections  in  the 
Eighth  Assembly  District  were  controlled 
by  professional  criminals,  and  that  voters 
had  been  systematically  terrorized.  They 
had  decided,  however,  not  to  indict  the 
minor  offenders,  so  &i  not  to  put  the  more 
prominent  crooks  on  their  guard,  but  ad 
vise  that  a  more  searching  examination 
be  had. 

Four  United  States  soldiers,  of  a  party 
just  recruited  at  Davis  Island,  N.  Y., 
jumped  from  a  train  between  Cleveland 
and  Toledo,  Wednesday  intending  to  de- 
sert, and  one  was  killed.  Ten  others  at 
Toledo  announced  that  they  would  de- 
sert, claiming  that  they  were  savagely 
treated  and  half  starved. 

Freeport,  111.,  is  excited  over  mysteri- 
ous fires  that  have  been  breaking  out 
spontaneously  in  the  house  of  Louis 
Uildebrand,  in  the  fioors  or  walls,  some- 
times before  the  eyes  of  puzzled  investi- 
gators, but  no  cause  can  be  assigned. 


Near  Forrest,  Ohio,  Thursday  after- 
noon the  six  children  of  Farmer  Jacob 
Kraus  found  and  ate  some  wild  parsley, 
[parsnip]  from  tbe  effects  of  which  one 
aied  during  the  night  and  the  others 
cannot  recover. 

Much  alarm  is  felt  in  Brooklyn  over  the 
prevalence  of  contagious  diseases  and  the 
number  of  fatal  cases  The  malignant 
form  of  diphtheria  has  broken  out  in  tev- 
eral  places,  and  no  ihsory  of  its  cause, 
whether  it  is  due  to  sewer  gas  from  the 
street,  coal  gas  from  furnaces,  or  the 
melting  of  piles  of  snow,  seems  to  be  ac- 
cepted by  physicians.  Fatal  cases  have 
been  reported  in  well  ventilated  houses, 
having  no  sewer  or  water-pipe  connec- 
tions. 

FOBBieN. 

The  French  Cabinet  was  defeated  Fri- 
day before  the  Radicals  in  the  French 
Chamber  of  Deputies.  The  issue  on  the 
revision  of  the  constitution  was  squarely 
made,  and  the  supporters  of  the  Presi- 
dent and  Cabinet  were  outvoted.  The 
fact  that  the  President  and  ministry  were 
a  unit  in  opposition  to  revision  and  in 
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ROBERT  G.  PATTON. 


It  was  early  in  September  in  1884  that  this  vener- 
able, yet  stalwart,  man  came  to  the  office  of  the  Ci/- 
nosure  for  a  long  consullation  with  the  editors  upon 
the  political  questions  then  ranged  in  battle  line  for 
the  approaching  election.  As  member  of  the  Na- 
tional Committee  of  the  Prohibition  party,  and  an 
earnest  opposer  of  the  lodge,  his  interest  amounted 
almost  to  anxiety  respecting  the  co-operation  of  the 
American  party.  His  interview  resulted  in  mutual 
confidence.  It  was  no  small  satisfaction  to  know 
that  such  a  friend  ir&s  among  the  Prohibition  ad- 
visers; and  he  was  gratified  with  our  confidence  in 
St.  John  and  Daniels.  Mr.  Patton  died  at  his  home 
in  Monmouth,  Illinois,  on  the  !)th  of  February  last. 
The  following  sketch  was  prepared  by  his  son  for 
the  Christian  /Statesman,  to  which  paper  we  are  also 
indebted  for  the  portrait : 

"Born  at  Cherry  Fork,  Ohio,  March  17th,  1808, 
the  subject  of  this  sketch  was  of  Scotch-Irish  descent, 
and  was  reared  in  the  Covenanter  faith,  to  the  early 
teachings  and  discipline  of  which  may  be  due  much 
of  the  strength  of  purpose  that  characterized  his 
after  life.  He  early  connected  himself  with  the  Cov- 
enanter church  presided  over  by  the  Rev.  David 
Steel— at  that  time  little  known  to  the  world  of  let- 
ters— and  at  once  became  the  staunch  friend  and 
supporter  of  his  pastor  in  the  church  controversies 
of  the  time;  this  friendship  lasted  throughout  life. 

"Trained  to  a  rugged  sense  of  manliness  in  men, 
he  was  a  reformer  in  the  best  sense  of  the  term  and 
was  quick  to  espouse  the  cause  of  the  oppressed. 
Once  his  convictions  led  the  way,  he  never  wavered 
in  his  devotion  to  the  cause  he  served,  nor  flinched 
from  the  responsibility  of  his  chosen  position.  To 
the  courage  of  his  convictions  were  added  rare  phys- 
ical bravei-y,  strength  and  endurance,  and  the  open- 
ing siienes  in  our  national  tragedy  which  ended  at 
Appommatox,  furnished  the  opportunities  for  the 
early  development  of  those  splendid  qualities  that 
distinguished  his  whole  life. 

"In  the  dark  days  of  'ante-bellum'  times  when  few 


had  the  courage  to  voice  their  sentiments  if  opposed 
to  the  slave  aristocracy  of  the  South,  he  openly  and 
boldly  declared  himself  an  Abolitionist.  He  was 
connected  with  the  Underground  Railway  in  Ohio 
for  the  assistance  of  fugitive  slaves  to  Canada  and 
freedom,  was  co-worker  with,  and  the  trusted  lieu- 
tenant of  the  noted  John  Rankin,  and  was  of  the 
party  who  furnished  safe  escort  for  the  woman 
'Eliza'  whom  Harriet  Beecher  Stowe  gave  to  the 
world  in  'Uncle  Tom's  Cabin.' 

"In  the  public  affairs  of  life  he  was  a  central  fig- 
ure in  the  community  in  which  he  lived,  a  ready  and 
forcible  debater,  and  a  dangerous  adversary,  for  he 
dealt  only  with  facts  and  was  always  equipped  with 
the  necessary  data  to  sustain  his  position.     A  nat- 


ROBERT    G.   PATTON. 


ural  leader  of  the  people,  he  never  sought  public 
honors  for  himself,  for  he  cared  nothing  for  the 
plaudits  of  men;  possessing  in  a  remarkable  degree 
the  endowments  of  a  great  leader  he  preferred  rath- 
er the  kindergarten  of  politics  to  the  leadership  of 
the  masses,  believing  that  primary  education  on  all 
subjects  of  importance  was  essential  to  thorough 
conviction  and  the  intelligent  use  of  the  franchise. 
Had  he  chosen  politics  as  a  profession,  however,  he 
would  undoubtedly  have  been  heard  in  the  councils 
of  the  nation. 

"He  was  openly  and  avowedly  opposed  to  all 
forms  of  secret  societies  and  courted  the  fullest  pub- 
licity of  his  attitude.  To  him  the  existence  of  secret 
organizations  was  a  standing  menace  to  church  and 
state  and  the  well-being  of  society.  His  religious 
views,  on  all  questions  of  public  polity  were  of  the 
rugged  wholesome  type  and  he  carried  them  into 
every  walk  of  life.  While  he  did  not  impose  them 
upon  others  at  inopportune  moments,  no  one  could 
be  long  in  his  society  without  feeling  intuitively  that 
he  was  in  the  presence  of  .in  earnest,  fearless  and 
faithful  Christian  gentleman. 

"Although  a  Covenanter,  he  afterwards  connected 
himself  with  the  Associate  Reformed  church  and 
later  with  the  United  Presbyterian  denomination. 
Always  a  strong  churchman,  these  changes  were 
made,  no  doubt,  at  the  time  because  of  the  fact  that 
no  church  of  his  original  faith  was  maintained  in 
the  communities  in  which  he  lived  after  removing 
from  Ohio. 

"He  was  married  to  Melinda  Mclntyre  in  1827, 
and  in  1847  he  emigrated  to  Illinois  and  settled 
with  his  family  at  Peoria,  where  he  immediately 
joined  hands  with  Mark  Aikin,  Jonathan  K.  C'.K)per 
and  others  of  anti-slavery  proclivities  and  may  be 
said  to  have  been  literally  in  at  the  birth  of  the  Re- 


publican party  in  that  State.  Through  all  its  early 
struggles  he  was  prominent  in  its  councils,  and  when 
its  triumph  brought  civil  war,  he  lent  his  best  efforts 
to  the  emergency  and  sent  three  sons  to  represent 
him  in  the  struggle  for  the  maintenance  and  perpe- 
tuity of  our  institutions.  When  the  sword  had  for- 
ever settled  the  rights  of  mankind  under  our  flag, 
he  turned  to  the  Social  problems  of  the  hour,  and 
was  among  the  first  to  espouse  the  cause  of  temper- 
ance. A  believer  in  radical  measures,  he  early  saw 
the  danger  of  compromise  with  the  liquor  traffic  and 
at  once  declared  for  prohibition  and  the  necessity  of 
a  third  party  movement. 

"To  the  cause  of  prohibition  he  undoubtedly  gave 
the  best  efforts  of  his  life.  To  him  it  was  the  polit- 
ical child  of  his  declining  years,  and  kindled  a  sa- 
cred fire  in  his  heart;  to  it  he  gave  his  best — the 
wisdom  of  his  years,  his  most  fervent  prayers,  his 
thought  and  his  speech.  His  late  years  were  en- 
tirely given  up  to  its  promotion,  and  he  wished  life 
prolonged  only  that  he  might  witness  its  triumph. 


Bismarck  threatened  to  resign  last  week  and  Eu- 
rope trembled  as  if  from  an  earthquake  shock.  The 
new  German  Empress  is  supposed  to  have  some  in- 
fluence with  her  sick  husband.  Alexander  of  Bat- 
tenburg,  last  year  driven  from  the  Bulgarian  throne, 
wants  to  marry  her  daughter.  Next  he  will  want  a 
kingdom,  and  Russia  will  get  ready  for  war.  Any- 
how Bismarck  hates  the  affair,  but  he  will  get  be- 
yond his  depth  in  diplomatic  waters  if  he  interferes 
with  a  mother  in  marrying  off  her  daughters. 


Now  that  the  great  railway  strike  is  practically 
over,  let  every  right-thinking  man  second  Powderly's 
late  proclamation  that  it  is  time  to  give  up  the  strike 
and  the  boycott  and  pay  some  attention  to  educa- 
tion. Of  course  the  chief  of  the  Kaighta  of  Libor 
means  the  kind  of  education  which  he  can  direct; 
but  there  are  sources  of  information  which,  happily, 
the  lodge  cannot  control.  It  is  an  opportunity  not 
to  be  lost,  to  turn  the  attention  of  employers  to  their 
obligations  to  God  and  man  to  maintain  the  sancti- 
ty of  the  Sabbath;  and  of  the  laborer  to  the  fact 
that  if  he  swears  himself  into  a  secret  lodge  he  has 
put  upon  his  neck  the  yoke  of  a  despot. 


The  Chicago  Times  gathered  from  several  States 
and  published  last  Saturday  the  opinions  of  thou- 
sands— farmers,  business  and  professional  men — on 
the  strike.  An  overwhelming  majority  condemned 
it,  and  sustained  the  Burlington  company.  Of  the 
rest  a  very  few  only  express  themselves  without 
qualification  as  sympathizing  with  the  strikers  and 
desiring  their  success.  The  most  of  them  think 
that  there  is  wrong  on  both  sides,  or  that  the  com- 
pany acted  too  hastily  in  terminating  negotiations. 
The  reader,  says  the  'Jim^s,  will  bo  surpriseil  to  see 
that  a  large  proportion  of  those  expressing  the 
warmest  sympathy  with  the  strikers  are  bankers  and 
capitalists.  A  less  surprising  fact  is  the  great  una- 
nimity with  which  the  farmers  condemn  the  strik- 
ers, and  declare  that  the  company  should  fight  the 
battle  to  the  bitter  end, and  thus  settle  the  question, 
once  for  all,  whether  the  owners  of  property  or  their 
employes  shall  control  it  Farmers,  as  a  class,  are 
at  once  self-reliant  and  law-abiding,  and  have  little 
patience  with  strikers  and  their  peculiar  methods. 


There  is  much  ado  among  the  saloonists  and  pol- 
iticians to  find  the  evidences  of  the  failure  of  pro- 
hibition,*nd  to  show  how  wonderful  are  the  results 
of  high  license.  Under  restriction  a  few  saloons 
have  been  closed  in  this  city  and  State,  but  no  one 
sup(x>ses  there  is  less  drinking  —figures  show  an  in- 
crease, rather.  S)  also  in  Pennsylvania.  But  in 
Iowa,  in  a  portion  of  the  State  where  3,000  saloons 
flourished  before  prohibition  went  into  effect,  there 
yet  remain  but  tvoenty-jour,  which  exist  for  a  little 
longer  in  spite  of  the  law.  Why  should  not  our 
restrictionist  friends  take  notice  of  this  fact — 2,976 
out  of  3,000  saloons  abolished  in  prohibition  Iowa  — 
and  be  as  glad  of  it  as  the  rest  of  us?  Oa  the  con- 
trary, they  not  only  refuse  to  see,  but  even  act  as 
though  they  regretted  the  glorious  fact.  "Ye  blind 
guides!  who  strain  at  a  gnat  and  swallow  a  camel." 


2 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE- 


April  12, 1888 


18  TEE  BBLIOION  OF  MASONRY  8UFFI- 
•    CIBNTt 


BY   REV.    DAVID   THOMPSON. 

The  question  is  not  whether  Freemasons  are 
saved;  for  we  believe  that  some  of  them  are  saved 
by  faith  in  Christ  as  their  Redeemer.  These,  how- 
ever, are  saved,  not  by  the  Masonic  religion,  but  in 
spite  of  it. 

That  we  may  understand  the  question,  it  is  nec- 
essary to  know  what  the  religion  of  Masonry  is. 
According  to  some  of  its  expositors  it  is  a  universal 
religion.  If  this  definition  has  any  meaning,it  must 
signify  such  religious  principles  as  are  common  to 
all  religions,  so  that  the  members  can  all  harmoni- 
ously work  together  in  the  lodge.  As  a  matter  of  fact 
Christians,  Jews,  Mohammedans,  Mormons,  Deists, 
Buddhists  apd  Parsees  can  all  unite  in  the  mysteries 
of  the  order.  The  principles  that  are  common  to 
all  these  must  be  exceedingly  few  and  shadowy. 

It  would  be  very  interesting  to  the  public  if  the 
expounders  of  this  religion  would  tell  us  what  these 
common  principles  are.  A  single  principle  is  all 
that  we  are  able  to  discover,  viz, that  there  is  a  god. 
But  the  Masonic  oracle  is  silent  as  to  the  character 
of  their  god;  whether  there  is  only  one  such  being 
or  several;  what  is  his  nature  and  attributes;  is  he 
a  spirit  or  is  he  material;  is  he  limited  in  time  and 
space,  power,  knowledge,  etc.?  What  are  his  rela- 
tions to  the  Universe?  Has  he  created  it  or  is  it 
self -existent  and  eternal?  Does  he  govern  the  var- 
ious objects  that  exist?  Does  he  require  any  wor- 
ship from  men?  If  so,  where  is  that  worship  pre- 
scribed? Is  it  in  the  sky  above,  or  in  the  earth  be- 
neath? or  has  he  left  it  to  the  fraternity  to  devise 
it;  and,  if  so,  how  do  they  know  that  it  will  be  ac- 
ceptable to  him,and  that  he  will  reward  them  for  it? 
Has  the  Masonic  god  given  his  devotees  a  system 
of  moral  government?  If  so,  where  is  it  revealed, 
and  has  it  any  sanctions,  any  rewards  or  punish- 
ments? 

Let  the  admirers  of  this  universal  religion  answer 
all  or  at  least  some  of  the  foregoing  inquiries.  Let 
them  give  a  reason  of  the  hope  that  is  in  them,  if 
they  expect  to  make  proselytes  of  thinking  people. 
Surely  they  do  not  presume  that  sensible  people 
will  "go  it  blind,"  in  renouncing  Christianity  and 
adopting  this  universal  religion. 

Waiting  for  an  answer  to  the  foregoing  queries, 
we  will  now  present  some  objections  to  this  univer- 
sal religion.  We  cannot  adopt  it  because  the  Chris- 
tian religion  meets  every  want  of  the  soul.  It  re- 
veals to  us  the  object  of  adoration  as  "a  spirit,  infi- 
nite, eternal  and  unchangeable  in  his  being, wisdom, 
power,  holiness,  Justice,  goodness  and  truth,"and  as 
the  Creator  and  Preserver  of  all  things,and  the  mor- 
al governor  of  all  intelligent  creatures.  And  while 
it  reveals  to  us  our  fallen  and  ruined  condition  it 
does  not  leave  us  to  perish  in  despair;  but  it  further 
reveals  a  plan  by  which  "mercy  and  truth  meet  to- 
gether and  righteousness  and  peace  embrace  each 
other," — a  plan  by  which  God  can  be  just  while  he 
justifies  the  ungodly  who  believe  in  Christ.  Chris- 
tianity differs  from  all  other  religion  in  providing  an 
atonement  for  sin.  We  here  take  for  granted  that 
all  men  are  sinners.  The  question  then  arises,"How 
shall  mortal  man  be  just  with  God?"  Under  a 
sense  of  sin  and  liability  to  punishment,  the  anx- 
ious inquiry  is  raised,  "Wherewith  shall  I  come  be- 
fore the  Lord  and  bow  myself  before  the  high  God? 
Shall  I  come  before  him  with  burnt  offerings,  with 
calves  of  a  year  old?  Will  the  Lord  be  pleased 
with  thousands  of  rams,  or  with  ten  thousands  of 
rivtrs  of  oil?  Shall  I  give  my  first  born  for  my 
transgre8sion,the  fruit  of  my  body  for  the  sin  of  my 
soul?"  No  such  costly  sacrifices  could  make  an 
atonement  for  the  sin  of  the  soul;  and  yet  "without 
shedding  of  blood  there  is  no  remission;"  but  the 
blood  of  bulls  and  goats  could  not  take  away  sin. 
Christ,  by  appointment  of  God,  the  Father,"bare  the 
sins  of  many  and  made  intercession  for  the  trans- 
gressors." By  this  appointment  he  was  "made  sin 
for  us,  who  knew  no  sin,  that  we  might  be  made  the 
righteousness  of  God  in  him."  He  bore  our  sins  in 
his  body  on  the  tree.  These  are  some  of  the  Scrip- 
ture expressions  employed  in  reference  to  the  sub- 
stitution of  Christ  for  men. 

But  that  men  may  be  benefited  by  what  he  has 
done  and  suffered  for  them,  it  is  necessary  that  they 
exercise  faith  in  him  as  their  substitute.  God,  the 
Father,  hath  set  him  forth  to  be  a  propitiation 
through  faith  in  his  blood  for  the  remission  of  sins. 
His  blood  is  a  fountain  opened  to  the  house  of  Da- 
vid and  to  the  inhabitants  of  Jerusalem  for  sin  and 
•for  uncleanness;  and  such  is  its  efficacy  that  it 
cleanses  from  all  sin.  Zech.  13:1;  1  John  1:7.  By 
a  Divine  constitution  Christ  is  made  of  the  Father 


wisdom,  righteousness,  sanctification  and  redemp- 
tion to  his  people. 

Thus  we  see  that  light  and  immortality  are 
brought  to  light  by  the  Gospel.  The  Gospel  plan 
of  salvation  is  exclusive  of  all  others.  Christ  is  the 
new  and  living  way  into  the  holiest  of  all;  but 
there  is  no  other  way  of  approaching  a  holy  God. 
John  14:6.  "There  is  one  God  and  one  Mediator 
between  God  and  men,  the  man  Christ  Jesus."  1 
Tim.  2:5.  ■  Again  we  are  infallibly  assured  that 
"there  is  no  other  name  under  heaven  given  among 
men  whereby  we  must  be  saved,  neither  is  there  sal- 
vation in  any  other."  Acts  4:12.  "If  righteousness 
came  by  the  law,  Christ  had  died  in  vain.  If  a  law 
had  been  given  whereby  we  might  have  life,  verily 
righteousness  should  have  been  by  the  law." 

Between  this  religion  of  the  Bible  and  the  boast- 
ed universal  religion  of  Masonry  where  can  we  find 
a  single  point  of  contact?  The  Christian  religion 
saves  by  grace  through  faith  in  a  Redeemer;  but  as 
the  Masonic  religion  rejects  him  as  the  unbelieving 
Jews  before  Pilate  cried  out,  "Not  this  man,  but 
BarrabasI"  it  has  no  part  or  lot  in  the  salvation  of 
Christians.  It  is  a  religion  of  works.  Now  "by  the 
works  of  the  law  no  flesh  shall  be  saved."  "As 
many  as  are  of  the  works  of  the  law  are  under  the 
curse,  for  it  is  written.  Cursed  be  every  one  that 
continueth  not  in  all  things  written  in  the  book  of 
the  law  to  do  them."  This  curse  then  must  rest  on 
Masons  and  all  others  who  go  about  to  establish 
their  own  righteousness.  The  works  of  Masons  in 
their  lodges  are  not  such  as  are  enjoined  in  the  mor- 
al law,  but  unmeaning  comments  on  mechanics' 
tools.  What  merit  in  the  sight  of  God  can  there  be 
in  descanting  on  the  uses  of  a  mason's  compasses, 
levels,  squares,  plumb  lines,  trowels,  trestle-boards, 
etc.?  What  virtue  is  in  them,  more  than  in  those 
of  tailors,shoemakers,  blacksmiths,  coopers,  carpen- 
ters, farmers,  etc.?  A  lively  imagination  might  dis- 
cover great  mysteries  in  the  implements  employed 
by  these  and  many  other  pursuits.  But  what  has 
this  to  do  with  the  pardon  of  sin  and  acceptance  as 
righteous  before  the  righteous  Ruler  of  the  Uni- 
verse? 

Instead  of  going  to  the  Word  of  God  for  their  code 
of  morals,  they  go  to  a  chest  of  mechanics'  tools. 
But  even  if  they  did  take  their  code  of  ethics  from 
the  Bible,  their  obedience  to  it  could  not  save  them, 
since  it  is  "not  by  works  of  righteousness  which  we 
have  done,  but  according  to  his  mercy  he  saved  us 
by  the  washing  of  regeneration  and  renewing  of  the 
Holy  Ghost." 

In  the  same  word  of  prophecy  we  are  told  that"he 
that  honoreth  not  the  Son,honoreth  not  the  Father." 
John  5:23.  Consequently  they  dishonor  both  Father 
and  Son,and  how  then  can  they  be  saved?  Again, we 
are  assured  that  "he  that  believeth  not  the  Son  shall 
not  see  life,  but  the  wrath  of  God  abideth  on  him? 
John  3:36.  Does  not  the  religion  of  Masonry  ig- 
nore this  worthy  name,  by  which  we  are  called?  Is 
it  so,  then,  that  the  Masonic  religion  in  rejecting 
the  ete/nal  Son  of  God  exposes  its  followers  to  the 
wrath  of  the  Almighty?  "It  is  a  fearful  thing  to 
fall  into  the  hands  of  the  living  God."  "Whoknow- 
eth  the  power  of  his  anger?"  Will  professors  of 
the  Christian  religion  add  that  Christless  religion 
to  the  true?  Will  they  thus  risk  their  eternal  sal- 
vation? It  is  for  a  lamentation  that  some  of  them 
are  more  attached  to  the  lodge  than  to  the  church 
of  God.  The  church  contains  the  members  of  God's 
family,  his  servants  and  friends.  What  madness  is 
it  for  any  to  leave  it,  or  stay  out  of  it,  when  its 
doors  are  opened  for  their  admission? 

The  anti-Christian  character  of  Freemasonry  will 
further  appear  by  considering  the  profane  and  blood- 
thirsty character  of  the  oaths  which  the  candidates 
for  the  different  degrees  are  required  to  take.  The 
oath  of  secrecy  is  profane,  since  it  binds  the  candi- 
date to  "always  conceal  and  never  reveal"what  may 
be  immoral,  but  which  the  good  of  society  requires 
to  be  made  public  and  punished.  God,  to  whom  an 
appeal  is  made  in  swearing,  requires  that  the  juror 
"shall  swear  in  truth,  in  judgment,  and  in  righteous- 
ness." Jer.  4:2.  In  the  Masonic  oath  the  Judgment 
is  never  consulted.  The  oath  is  consequently  pro- 
fane, and  we  are  assured  that  the  Lord  will  not  hold 
him  guiltless  that  takes  his  name  in  vain.  It  is 
further  profane  and  superstitious  as  it  is  taken 
kneeling,  with  the  right  hand  on  a  compass  and 
square  placed  on  a  Bible,  as  if  swearing  by  them 
instead  of  swearing  by  the  Almighty. 

We  further  object  to  the  Masonic  religion  that  it 
is  intrinsically  tel/i$h.  Were  it  not  for  this  trait  of 
its  character  it  would  not  exist  for  a  single  decade. 
When  members  of  the  order  wish  to  draw  young 
men  into  the  order,  the  appeal  is  uniformly  made  to 
the  selfish  principle  of  our  nature.  The  young  man 
is  told  that  he  will  have  friends  to  aid  him  wherev- 
er he  may  go.       This  lerm,  aid,  may  be  construed 


very  extensively — to  pecuniary  aid,  election  to  of- 
fice, procuring  lucrative  employment,  patronage  in 
business,  favorable  decisions  in  lawsuits,  etc.  This 
aid  is  to  be  given  not  to  Christ's  disciples,or  the  de- 
serving, but  to  members  of  the  fraternity,  who  invi- 
olably have  kept  their  secrets,  whatever  their  relig- 
ious or  moral  character  may  be. 

The  benevolence  of  the  Christian  religion  is  a 
complete  contrast  to  this  organized  selfishness.  It 
requires  us  to  do  good  unto  all  men  as  we  have  op 
portunity,"but  especially  to  the  household  of  faith." 
Masonry  says  nothing  about  all  men;  but  merely 
those  who  can  give  the  secret  signs  and  passwords. 
The  doors  of  God's  house  or  church  are  open  to 
human  beings  as  such,  regardless  of  age,  or  sex,  or 
condition  in  life,  rich  or  poor,  learned  or  unlearned, 
bond  or  free — they  are  all  equally  welcome.  How 
different  is  the  invitation  to  enter  the  Masonic 
lodge?  Its  doors  are  fast  closed  against  the  great 
majority  of  the  human  family.  It  excludes  the  fe- 
male sex,  the  young  and  the  old,  the  poor  who  can 
not  pay  initiation  fees  and  monthly  dues,  the  dis- 
eased— the  "withered,  halt  and  blind."  If  it  has  any 
claim  to  be  a  benefit  to  men,  why  not  admit  all  to 
participate  in  its  benefits?  If  it  is  good,  all  should 
join  the  order;  then  there  would  be  no  secrets,  since 
all  would  be  in  possession  of  them. 

If  any  professing  Christians  who  belong  to  the 
order  should  read  this  article,  let  them  carefully 
consider  their  duty  to  withdraw  from  it.  "0  my 
soul,  come  not  thou  into  their  secret,  unto  their  as- 
sembly,my  honor,  be  not  thou  united."  "Why  halt 
ye  between  two  opinions?  If  the  Lord  be  God  wor- 
ship him;  but  if  Baal,  then  worship  him."  "As  for 
me  and  my  house  we  will  serve  the  Lord."  "He  that 
doeth  evil  hateth  the  light,  neither  cometh  to  the 
light,  lest  his  deeds  should  be  reproved.  But  he 
that  doeth  truth  cometh  to  the  light  that  his  deeds 
may  be  manifest  that  they  are  wrought  in  God." 

Monmouth,  III. 


WOMAN  SUFFRAOB. 


BY  REV.  M.  A.  aAULT. 


Dr.  Theodore  L.  Cuyler  writes  in  the  New  York 
Evamgelist:  "We  can  say  frankly  to  our  temperance 
brethren,  that  if  they  attempt  to  lash  the  wise  proj- 
ect of  prohibition  of  saloons,  and  the  foolish  project 
of  female  suffrage  inseparably  together,  they  will 
encounter  fatal  opposition.  They  will  repel  tenfold 
more  sensible  voters  than  they  will  win.  Their  most 
eloquent  and  logical  advocate.  Dr.  Herrick  Johnson, 
is  as  intensely  opposed  to  the  Lucy  Stone  and  Eliza- 
beth Cady  Stanton  doctrines  of  woman  suffrage  as  I 
am.  Nineteen-twentieths  of  our  Presbyterian  min- 
isters will  never  cast  a  vote  which  is  nominally  only 
for  prohibition,  and  yet  is  really  a  vote  for  burden- 
ing womanhood  with  civil  government.  What  is 
true  of  our  church,  is  true  of  the  Episcopal,  Re- 
formed, Baptist,  Congregationalist  and  the  most  in- 
fluential portion  of  the  Methodist  church." 

A  United  Presbyterian  minister  in  Iowa  once 
said:  "If  the  choice  is  between  woman  suffrage  and 
the  saloon,  I  will  take  the  saloon  every  time." 
President  McAfee  of  Park  College,  Mo.,  while  kindly 
commending  my  lectures  before  the  students,  yet 
took  occasion  to  strongly  condemn  woman  suffrage. 
A  Presbyterian  minister  of  Greenfield,  Mo.,  said  to 
me  recently:  "If  the  time  ever  comes  when  my  wife 
will  go  to  the  ballot  box,  I  shall  then  immediately 
apply  for  a  divorce."  And  a  Presbyterian  pastor  at 
Springfield,  Mo.,  was  so  prejudiced  against  woman 
suffrage  that  he  refused  to  touch  the  local  option 
question,  if  the  Woman's  Christian  Temperance 
Union  had  anything  to  do  with  it. 

Now  in  the  name  of  common  sense,  what  is  there 
that  bodes  such  frightful  disaster  to  the  country  in 
allowing  women  to  go  to  the  ballot  box.  Ever  since 
I  have  been  able  to  think  upon  this  subject,  I  have 
thought  it  would  be  a  happy  day  for  our  govern- 
ment, when  responsibility  for  its  administration 
would  rest  equally  upon  women.  When  no  oath  is 
required  to  a  Constitution  ignoring  Christ  in  govern- 
ment, there  is  no  reason  why  women  should  not 
have  the  ballot  equally  with  men.  In  the  Cove- 
nanter church  in  which  I  have  been  schooled  from 
infancy,  I  do  not  know  a  minister  who  does  not  be- 
lieve in  women's  right  to  the  ballot.  The  late  Dr. 
J.  R.  W.  Sloane  and  Dr.  A.  M.  Milligan  held  strongly 
to  this  doctrine.  Often  have  I  heard  the  latter 
preach  it  from  his  pulpit  while  I  was  a  student  in 
Allegheny  City.  Bro.  T.  P.  Stevenson  and  Bro. 
David  McAllister,  now  the  leaders  in  the  National 
Reform  movement,  have  always  taught  equal  suf- 
frage for  women,  and  so  do  the  active  workers  in 
our  association. 

We  believe  that  in  the  Bible,  God  has  given  a 
form  of  government  to  the  family,  to  the  church  and 


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to  the  state;  and  that  in  neither  is  it  good  for  man 
to  be  alone,  but  that  God  designs  that  women  as 
well  as  men  should  share  in  the  government  of  each. 
Those  only  who  have  neglected  the  study  of  the  Bi- 
ble as  a  text-book  in  government  can  deny  this.  In 
the  republican  government  which  God  gave  Israel, 
women  took  part  in  the  election.  Their  elections 
then  were  by  acclamation  instead  of  by  ballot,  and 
we  find  the  women  shouting  for  David  when  he  and 
Saul  were  running  for  President,  and  Mrs.  Deborah 
was  President  of  the  United  States  of  Israel  during 
a  term  of  forty  years. 

In  forming  political  relations  the  ruled  have  the 
same  right  to  give  their  consent,  as  the  ruler.  Vot- 
ing is  a  subjective,  as  well  as  sovereign  right,  and 
women  being  subjects  as  well  as  men,  have  the  same 
right  to  vote.  The  Declaration  of  Independence  in 
saying  that  government  is  by  and  for  the  people, 
and  that  its  power  of  administration  is  derived  from 
the  consent  of  the  government,  requires  that  women 
should  have  an  equal  voice  in  government  with  men, 
for  are  they  not  a  part  of  the  people,  and  a  part  of 
the  governed?  Does  not  the  principle  of  no  taxa- 
tion without  representation,  require  that  women  who 
are  largely  property  holderi^  should  have  a  voice  in 
the  government?  Does  not  the  fourteenth  amend- 
ment of  the  National  Constitution,  which  declares 
that  "all  persons  born  or  naturalized  in  the  United 
States  and  subject  to  the  jurisdiction  thereof,  are 
citizens,"  etc.,  carrj  with  it  woman  suffrage?  Mr. 
Brigham,  the  author  of  this  amendment,  declares 
that  the  word  "persons"  was  designed  to  include  the 
women  as  well  as  the  men.  But  women  are  as  well, 
and  even  better  qualified  by  intelligence,  morality 
and  religion  than  men,  to  vote.  As  members  of  our 
churches  they  outnumber  the  men  almost  two  to 
one.  The  girl  graduates  far  outnumber  the  boys  in 
our  schools  and  colleges.  Their  brains  are  not  so 
benumbed  and  stupefied  with  whisky  and  tobacco. 
The  men  are  in  an  overwhelming  majority  in  our 
prisons,  and  almost  all  those  in  the  dramshops  are 
men.  Where  have  we  any  record  of  a  woman's 
brewers'  association,  of  a  woman's  liquor  or  personal 
liberty  league?  Are  they  not  greatly  in  the  majority 
in  temperance  and  all  good  works? 

We  have  every  reason  to  believe  that  if  women 
could  share  the  ballot  with  men,  the  death  knell  of 
the  liquor  traffic  would  be  rung  at  the  first  election. 
Well  do  the  liquor  men  know  this,  for  they  wage 
the  most  determined  opposition  against  woman  suf- 
frage. Women  are  far  less  complicated  than  men 
with  political  ambition  and  intrigue  and  could  be 
trusted  to  give  a  purer  vote.  It  is  more  difficult  for 
them  to  earn  a  livelihood  and  they  have  far  deeper 
interests  at  stake,  and  their  natural  love  of  home  is 
leading  the  very  best  women  in  our  land  to  ask  in 
overwhelming  numbers  for  the  ballot.  Shall  the 
request  be  granted  is  one  of  the  vital  and  uppermost 
questions  which  the  nation  must  take  up  and  decide. 
And  we  are  confident  it  will  be  decided  in  favor  of 
God  and  humanity — on  the  side  of  equal  suffrage 
for  women. 

Blanchard,  Iowa, 


SOME  NATIONAL  QUBSTIONB. 


B7   KEY.    J.    M.    FOSTEB. 


The  discussions  of  the  General  Christian  Confer- 
ence held  in  Washington,  Dec.  7  to  9,  1887,  are  re- 
produced in  a  book  of  420  pages  entitled  "National 
Perils  and  Opportunities."  Let  me  give  your  read- 
ers a  taste  of  the  good  things  it  contains. 

Dr.  McPherson,  on  "The  City  as  a  Peril,"  quotes 
Carlyle's  exclamation,  "What  a  fermenting  vat  lies 
simmering  and  hidden  in  the  city!"  and  Victor  Hu- 
go's words:  "The  history  of  men  is  reflected  in  the 
history  of  the  sewers,  and  the  Gemonia3  narrated 
the  story  of  Rome.  The  drain  in  old  Paris  is  the 
meeting  place  of  all  exhaustions  and  all  experiments; 
political  economy  sees  there  a  detritus,  and  social 
philosophy  a  residuum.  It  was  in  the  sewer  of 
Paris  that  Jean  Valjean  found  himself."  Then  he 
adds:  "The  tenement;  is  a  kind  of  open  cesspool, 
both  material  and  moral;  and  we  need  take  but  two 
steps  even  from  the  refined  parlor  itself  to  the  home 
of  the  deadly  sewer  gas.  Christianity  must  never 
forget  that  the  soul's  destiny  is  closely  linked  with 
that  of  the  body.  Christs's  mission  included  mira- 
cles of  healing  as  well  as  preaching  the  Gospel  to 
the  poor.  The  peril  of  the  city  may  thus  fortify  it- 
self behind  the  complications  of  our  two-fold  na- 
ture." 

Dr.  Pierson,  on  "Estrangement  from  the  Church," 
said:  "A  kid  glove  is  a  non-conductor.  It  will  not 
answer  to  come  into  contact  with  the  people  unless 
you  come  into  contact  with  them  on  their  own  plane. 
I  can  mention  a  man  to-day  who  is  conducting  a  co- 
lossal business  and  who  is  a  man  of  great  wealth. 


and  yet,  in  a  church  for  the  people  and  of  the  peo- 
ple, he  is  absolutely  on  a  plane  with  every  other 
man,  and  you  would  never  know  that  he  owns  a  dol- 
lar from  anything  in  his  manner,  mien,  dress  or 
habits  to  proclaim  a  man  of  wealth  or  the  conductor 
of  a  colossal  business.  It  is  one  thing  for  a  man  to 
build  a  chapel  for  the  poor,  and  a  very  different 
thing  to  put  himself  in  the  midst  of  the  enterprise 
and  go  there  on  a  level  with  the  poor  man.  And  ev- 
ery poor  man  knows  the  difference." 

Bishop  Coxe  distinguished  between  Ultramontan- 
ism  and  the  Roman  Catholic  church.  The  former 
was  the  foe  of  our  Republic.  The  Jesuits  had  been 
expelled  from  the  kingdoms  of  Europe.  "Even 
Pius  the  Ninth,  in  his  better  days,  banished  them 
from  Rome."  They  are  a  menace  to  our  civil  and 
religious  liberties. 

Dr.  McArthur  began  on  "The  Saloon"  thus:  "Go- 
ing down  Sixth  Avenue,  New  York,  a  little  time 
ago,  I  saw  a  door  over  which  were  these  words,  'Sa- 
loon. A.  Blessing.'  This  struck  me  as  being  some- 
what inaccurate.  A  man  named  Blessing  ought 
surely  to  be  in  some  other  business.  Had  the  in- 
scription read,  'Saloon,  A  Curse.'it  would  have  been 
nearer  the  truth;  had  it  read,  'Saloon,  the  Greatest 
Curse  on  this  Earth,'  the  words  would  have  been 
literally  true.  In  another  pan  of  the  same  city  there 
is  a  saloon  which  is  properly  named.  Over  its  main 
entrance  are  the  words,  'Hell  Gate.'  In  connection 
with  this  title  there  might  be  given  a  part  of  the  in- 
scription which  Dante  places  over  the  gate  of  his 
hell: 

"  'Through  me  ye  enter  the  abode  of  woe; 

Through  me  to  endless  sorrow  are  ye  brought ; 

Throue;h  me  amid  the  souls  accursed  ye  go, 

All  hope  abandon,  ye  who  enter  here.' 

"It  is  impossible  to  find  language  which  will  truly 
state  how  great  a  curse  the  saloon  is." 

Dr.  Strong,  on  "Methods  of  Co-operation,"  said: 
"At  Saratoga,  a  year  and  a  half  ago,Pre8ident  Seel- 
ye  called  attention  to  the  fact  that  some  great  focal 
idea  controls  the  thinking  of  the  various  ages;  that 
for  the  first  three  centuries  of  the  Christian  era  that 
idea  was  God;  that  during  the  fourth  and  fifth  cen- 
turies that  idea  was  man;  that  next  came,  logically, 
the  doctrine  of  union  between  God  and  man,  or  the 
doctrine  of  salvation;  that  next  came,  naturally,  the 
doctrine  of  human  brotherhood.the  relations  of  man 
to  man  and  that  this  has  been  the  growing  question 
since  the  Reformation." 

A  former  speaker  used  this  illustration:  "Robert 
Peel  gave  his  daughter  a  magnificent  riding  habit 
on  her  nineteenth  birthday,  and  attired  in  the  em- 
broidered gown  she  rode  side  by  side  with  him  in 
the  parks  of  London.  She  had  scarcely  returned 
home  before  she  was  taken  ill  with  the  most  malig- 
nant form  of  typhus  fever,  and  in  ten  days  was  laid 
to  rest  in  the  churchyard.  And  the  secret  is  a  very 
simple  one.  The  poor  seamstress  in  a  garret  in  one 
of  the  slums,  while  she  was  embroidering  that  gar- 
ment looked  upon  a  husband  shivering  in  the  par- 
oxysm of  chills  and  she  took  the  half-finished  gar- 
ment and  laid  it  over  him;  and  the  garment  took 
up  the  germs  of  fever  and  conveyed  them  from  the 
hovel  of  the  poorest  to  the  palace  of  the  peer.  And 
so,  beloved  friends,  we  are  bound  together  in  one 
bundle  of  social  life;  and  if  we  neglect  the  poorest 
and  the  lowest,society  will  avenge  herself  in  the  de- 
struction of  the  highest  and  the  richest  and  the  most 
cultivated." 

The  work  is  full  of  valuable  instruction  as  an  egg 
is  full  of  meat.  It  would  be  valuable  in  every  Chris- 
tian home  in  the  land.    Every  one  should  read  it. 

WORDS  FOR  TEB  HOUR. 

Can  perpetual  oath-bound  secrecy  be  defended 
from  a  social,  political,  or  Christian  stand-point? 
No.  Let  the  most  cunning  and  crafty  man  in  the 
world  enter  the  rotten  hulk  of  any  secret  clan  as  its 
pilot  and  defender,  launch  it  forth  upon  the  open 
sea  of  agitation,  free  discussion,and  thorough  inves- 
tigation, and  he'll  be  sure,  sooner  or  later,  to  find 
both  himself  and  his  rickety  craft  irretrievably 
swamped  beneath  the  surging  billows  of  righteous 
popular  contempt. — Birmingham  Free  Press. 

A    LISBON    FOR   WOBKMKN. 

Thursday  morning  a  special  to  the  Republican 
from  Lincoln  gave  an  account  of  the  suicide  of  D. 
Van  Buskirk,  a  bricklayer.  The  dispatch  stated 
that  Van  Buskirk  was  a  good  workman,  but  he  had 
been  out  of  employment  for  several  months  and  be- 
came despondent.  The  dispatch  added  that  "he  was 
a  member  of  the  union,  and  because  of  some  work 
he  did  on  the  side  he  was  called  a  'scab'  by  some  of 
his  fellow  workmen.  This  depressed  him  seriously. 
He  could  have  got  work  in  Omaha  at  good  wages,  if 
he  had  not  been  afraid  of  being  called  a  scab.  This 
fear  kept  him  idle  until  everything,  even  to   his 


wife's  sewing  machine,  was  sold  out  of  the  house. 
His  wife  went  East  about  Christmas  to  visit  her  pa- 
rents, and  since  then  he  had  lived  in  the  most  ab- 
ject poverty,  months  without  coffee  or  meat  or  pota- 
toes, and  days  without  a  fire." 

Now  comes  a  second  chapter.and  sad  enough  it  is. 
Yesterday  a  letter  came  to  Lincoln  addressed  to  Van 
Buskirk.  It  was  opened  and  found  to  be  from  his 
wife,  and  dated  at  a  town  in  Bradford  county,  Penn- 
sylvania. When  it  was  written  her  husband  was 
still  alive,  and  Mrs. Van  Buskirk  informed  him  that 
she  had  found  a  place  to  work,  and  would  leave  her 
boy  with  her  mother;  inquired  if  he  had  found  em- 
ployment yet;  and  said  she  would  send  him  half 
she  had,  which  CDnsisted  of  ten  cents  in  money  and 
a  sheet  of  writing  paper.  When  the  letter  reached 
Lincoln  the  poor  fellow  had  been  two  days  dead  by 
his  own  act. 

Van  Buskirk  was  willing  to  work,and  able  to  sup- 
port a  family;  but  he  was  sensitive,  and,  bound  by 
the  ties  of  the  organization  of  which  he  was  a  mem- 
ber, he  let  his  family  suffer  and  took  his  own  life. 

"The  Republican  knows  of  no  better  comment  upon 
this  sad  tragedy  than  to  repeat  the  question  asked 
in  these  columns  two  or  three  days  ago:  Do  young 
men  who  organize  strikes  ever  stop  to  think  what  a 
sacrifice  they  ask  of  men  who  have  families  when 
they  call  upon  them  to  quit  work?  The  man  who 
loves  his  wife  and  children  can  know  no  deeper 
pang  than  that  which  wrings  bis  heart  when  he  sees 
them  suffer  want  through  any  act  of  his.  If  he  has 
the  moral  courage  he  will  break  the  ties  that  bind 
him,  and  give  his  first  allegiance  to  those  to  whom 
he  owes  it.  Labor  unions  should  think  of  these 
things,  and  only  force  the  issue  when  all  other  re- 
sorts fail. — Omaha  Republican. 

OBGANIZED   REBELLION. 

The  organized  rebellion  against  the  government 
of  the  United  States,  having  for  its  object  the  seiz- 
ing upon  and  control  of  property  to  which  the  law- 
less organization  has  no  shadow  of  right,  goes  on 
apace,  with  the  usual  violation  of  personal  rights 
and  destruction  of  property  incident  to  a  state  of 
war.  This  situation  cannot  continue.  Either  the 
government  must  vacate  its  prerogatives  and  turn 
them  over  to  a  self-constituted  dictatorship,  or  it 
must  see  to  it  that  the  laws  are  obeyed  and  that  the 
rights  and  interests  of  the  people  are  protected. 
There  will  not  be  the  least  difficulty  in  obtaining 
any  just  legislation  that  may  be  needed  to  repress 
the  tyranny  of  incorporations — especially  of  those 
which  are  entrusted  with  great  national  interests, 
like  the  railroads.  There  is  no  necessity  within  the 
limit  of  justice  for  these  conspiracies  to  paralyze 
the  commerce  of  the  people.  The  demand  which 
they  make  to  possess  and  control  what  does  not  be- 
long to  them  is  incipient  anarchism.  This  mischief 
is  accomplished  by  a  few  social  demagogues  who 
fatten  while  their  victims  starve.  If  they  were  out 
of  the  way  the  sympathy  of  the  people  would  turn 
ardently  and  decisively  in  favor  of  the  workingman 
in  any  just  demand  which  he  could  make.  As  it  is 
his  cause  is  contaminated  with  anarchy,  defiance  of 
law  and  contempt  for  the  rights  of  the  people. — 
Interior. 

THE  SLAVERY  OP  THE  LODGE. 

If  one  organization  has  a  right  to  use  violence  in 
compelling  men  to  desist  from  work  at  prices  that 
are  satisfactory  to  them,  then  an  equal  right  must 
exist  on  the  part  of  another  organization  to  compel 
men  to  work  at  prices  that  are  not  satisfactory  to 
them.  The  war  put  an  end  to  the  latter  guilty  fal- 
lacy; the  former  will  never  be  allowed  to  make  prac- 
tical assertion  of  itself. 

"The  people  perish  for  lack  of  knowledge."  Two 
thousand  years  of  experience  has  not  educated  the 
people  up  to  the  knowledge  of  that  great  truth  which 
the  Emperor  Marcus  Aurelius  Antoninus  expressed 
in  homely  phrase,  "that  which  is  not  good  for  the 
swarm,  neither  is  it  good  for  the  bee  "  What  is  not 
good  for  the  nation  as  a  whole  is  not  good  for  any 
part,  nor  for  any  member  of  any  part  of  it  The 
greed  of  capital,  as  now  exemplified  in  "trusts,"  and 
once  in  combinations  of  men  who  held  property  in 
man,  and  now  also  in  the  greed  of  combinations  of 
labor  that  seek  to  destroy  or  hinder  the  lawful  op- 
eration of  capital,  are  all  and  e(iually  hostile  to  the 
general  welfare,  and  therefore  to  the  welfare  of  any 
separate  man. 

What  a  heritage  of  poverty  and  ignorance  slavery 
has  left  to  the  South.  What  a  heritage  of  poverty 
and  ignorance  government  by  a  monopoly  has  left 
to  Eastern  India,  and  what  a  legacy  of  misfortune 
government  for  monopolies  has  left  to  Spain.  What 
a  dreadful  bequest  the  brief  government  by  a  com- 
mune has  left  to  France.  It  is  not  to  be  thought  of 
that  the  United  States  will  submit  «o  a  rule  of  fac- 
tion.    The  courts   are   making  this  ^lear  enough. 


4 


THE 


CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


April  12, 1888 


The  questions  of  combinations  of  labor  or  capital 
are  not  to  be  considered  as  they  affect  each  other, 
but  as  they  affect  the  people.  Trade  is  not  to  be 
crippled  by  "trusts,"  nor  is  the  right  of  any  man  to 
accept  work  on  terms  that  are  satisfactory  to  him- 
self to  be  abridged  or  interfered  with  by  any  organ- 
ization of  any  kind  whatsoever.  Nor  is  any  organ- 
ization to  be  free  to  conspire  against  the  public  wel- 
fare in  any  manner. — Inter  Ocean. 


OUR  NEW  TORE  LETTER. 

Editor  Christian  Cynosure: — Nebuchadnezzer 
in  his  dream  saw  a  great  image;  the  height  of  it 
reached  to  heaven.  Daniel  gave  him  this  interpret- 
ation of  it:  The  head  of  gold  meant  the  Chaldean 
Empire;  the  arms  of  silver  represented  the  Medo- 
Persian  Empire;  the  belly  and  thighs  of  brass  the 
Grecian  Eepublic;  the  legs  of  iron  the  Roman  Em- 
pire in  its  Latin  and  Greek  forms;  and  the  ten  toes 
the  ten  kingdoms  of  Europe.  The  king  beheld  until 
a  little  stone,  cut  out  without  hands,  smote  the  im- 
age on  its  feet,  and  it  became  as  chaff  of  the  sum- 
mer threshing  floor  and  was  carried  away  of  a  rush- 
ing mighty  wind;  and  the  little  stone  became  a  great 
mountain  and  filled  the  earth.  This  image  repre- 
sented the  world  powers.  This  little  stone  repre- 
sented the  mediatorial  reign  of  the  Lord  Jesus  Christ. 
As  the  stone  smote  the  image  and  destroyed  it,  so 
the  kingdom  of  Christ  will  overcome  the  world  pow- 
ers; and  as  the  little  stone  became  a  mountain  and 
filled  the  earth,  so  the  kingdom  of  Christ  will  ulti- 
mately become  universal. 

"His  large  and  great  dominion  shall, 

From  sea  to  sea  extend ; 
It  from  the  river  shall  reach  forth, 

Unto  earth's  utmotst  end." 

Last  Sabbath  was  generally  observed  here  as 
Easter.  Flowers  and  music  were  generally  provided 
in  the  churches.  Dr.  John  Hall  of  the  Fifth  Ave- 
nue New  York  Presbyterian  church  was  an  excep- 
tion. The  crowds  who  went  there  expecting  to  see 
banks  of  flowers  and  hear  a  specially  prepared  pro- 
gram of  music  were  disappointed. 

DR.  HALL   IS  RIGHT. 

The  church  is  committing  a  sin  in  these  excessive 
Easter  decorations.  Every  Sabbath  is  a  commemo- 
ration of  the  resurrection  of  the  Lord. 

On  Sabbath  evening  I  preached  in  the  Central  M. 
E.  church,  South  Fifth  street,  Rev.  Robert  Crook, 
pastor.  This  is  a  fine  congregation,  and  National 
Reform  was  received  with  a  heartiness  that  did  me 
good.  I  have  lately  seen  a  sight  that  moves  my 
heart  A  little  congregation,  all  of  whom  are  very 
poor  except  one  man,  and  they  depend  upon  him 
largely  for  support.  They  cannot  keep  a  pastor 
when  they  get  one,  for  this  money  king  falls  out 
with  him.  That  congregation  would  be  stronger 
without  him.  An  editorial  in  one  of  our  religious 
papers  is  suggestive  in  this  connection: 

"The  meanest  sort  of  a  church  member  is  the  one  who 
pays  liberally  and  then  wants  to  dictate  the  policy  of  the 
congregation.  He  holds  his  large  subscription  as  a  men- 
ace. The  feeble  folk  hesitate  to  do  what  their  judgment 
approves  for  fear  of  losing  the  fifty  dollars  which  are 
welcome.  So  this  petty  tyrant  enjoys  his  notorious  do- 
minion for  a  season  and  the  cause  suffers.  Providence 
frequently  removes  the  obstructionist  to  that  place  where 
the  wealth  of  this  world  and  its  mischief  are  unknown. 
At  times  the  people  tire  of  the  imposition  and  plainly 
tell  the  'squire'  that  he  has  lorded  it  long  enough  over 
them.  He  is  bidden  to  take  his  gold  and  keep  it,  or  bow 
to  the  will  of  the  majority.  (Generally  he  cuts  off  his 
grant,  thereby  showing  that  he  waB  only  purchasing  in- 
fluence with  his  money.  The  handful  of  earnest  believ 
ers  finds  no  loss  for  his  departure.  To  their  astonish- 
ment the  income  is  greater,  because  the  incubus  is  cast 
off.  This  one  man  power  is  the  ruin  of  many  a  congre 
gation.  Grace  does  not  always  make  the  rich  humble 
and  willing  to  take  a  back  seat.  The  oppressed  ought 
not  to  be  afraid  to  rise  against  their  oppressor." 

The  Brooklyn  Evangelical  Alliance  is  not  having 
smooth  sailing  in  the  evangelistic  work  undertaken. 
A  protest  has  been  raised  because  Universalists  and 
Unitarians  have  not  been  invited  to  join  in  the  work 
of  house  to  house  visitation.  It  is  strange  that  such 
a  protest  should  be  raised.  The  evangelical  churches 
could  not  he  expected  to  give  aid  and  comfort  to 
those  who  are  radically  opposed  to  their  testimony. 
As  well  expect  the  National  Christian  Association  to 
unite  with  the  Masons  in  getting  recruits  for  the 
two  societies  which  are'  diametrically  opposed  to 
each  other.  J.  M.  Foster. 


OUR  WASHINGTON  LETTER. 

Washington,  April  6,  1888. 

The  great  International  Council  of  Women  has 
gone  but  its  echoes  linger,  while  friends  and  ene- 
mies speak  respectively  of  its  triumphs  and  failures. 
The  representative  women  of  America  and  Europe 
who  attended  are  enthusiastic  over  the  convention 
as  a  grandlj  successful  affair  in  every  way,  even 
financially,  and  as  one  which  gives  promise  of  re- 
sults which  will  be  of  historical  interest  and  impor- 
tance. 

Fifty-three  different  organizations  of  women  were 
represented  at  this  council  by  eighty-seven  speakers 
and  delegates  from  England,  Franca,  Norway,  Den- 
mark, Finland,  India  and  the  United  States.  The 
subjects  of  education,  philanthropies,  temperance, 
industries,  legal  conditions,  social  purity,  political 
conditions  and  religion  were  discussed.  No  restric- 
tion was  placed  upon  the  fullest  expression  of  the 
most  widely-divergent  views  upon  these  vital  ques- 
tions of  the  age.  The  delegates  think  that  it  is 
cause  for  rejoicing  that  the  sessions,  both  executive 
and  public,  were  absolutely  without  friction. 

In  the  Official  Statement  made  for  the  public  it 
was  the  unanimous  voice  of  the  Council  that  all  in- 
stitutions of  learning  and  of  professional  instruction, 
including  theology,  law  and  medicine,  should  be  as 
freely  opened  to  women  as  to  men;  that  opportuni- 
ties for  industrial  training  should  be  as  generally 
and  as  liberally  provided  for  one  sex  as  for  the  oth- 
er; that  in  all  avocations  in  which  both  men  and  wo- 
men engage  equal  wages  shall  be  paid  for  equal 
work,  and  that  an  enlightened  society  should  de- 
mand as  the  only  adequate  expression  of  the  high 
civilization  which  it  is  its  office  to  establish  and 
maintain,  an  identical  standard  of  personal  purity 
for  men  and  women. 

On  Monday  last  the  Senate  committee  on  woman 
suffrage  granted  a  hearing  to  various  advocates  of 
the  cause  who  had  come  to  attend  the  Council,  and 
the  ladies  fairly  raided  the  Capitol.  The  assemblage 
overflowed  the  commitee  room  and  spread  into  the 
corridors,  while  those  in  the  rear  stood  on  chairs  in 
their  anxiety  to  catch  every  word  that  was  uttered. 
The  committee,  composed  of  Senators  Cockrell, 
Blair,  Palmer,  Bowen,  Chace  and  Sawyer,  seemed 
well  entertained  by  this  delegation  of  fair  speakers, 
all  of  whom  were  in  favor  of  immediate  and  unre- 
stricted suffrage,  the  ladies  from  foreign  countries 
urging  that  the  United  States  lead  in  this  progres- 
sive work  by  means  of  a  Constitutional  amend- 
mect. 

The  House  of  Representatives  has  defeated  Mr. 
Crain's  resolution  changing  Inauguration  Day  to 
April  30th,  but  the  Senate  has  passed  the  bill  pro- 
viding for  the  celebration  at  Washington  in  1889  of 
the  Constitutional  centennial.  The  House  will 
doubtless  do  likewise,  so  that  next  year  the  Capital 
is  likely  to  be  the  scene  of  a  most  interesting  and 
important  exposition  by  the  representatives  of  the 
people  and  governments  of  the  Western  Continent. 
Senator  Blair,  the  author  of  the  Educational  bill, 
thinks  the  District  of  Columbia  ought  to  have  a  Sen- 
ator and  Representatives  in  Congress  according  to 
its- population,  and  has  proposed  an  amendment  to 
the  Constitution  to  this  end.  * 


she  had  seen  in  the  papers,  but  whose  address  she 
did  not  know.  Both  her  husband  and  herself  were 
drawn  into  the  secret  lodge  system,  but  soon  became 
disaffected,  as  pious  people  are  when  they  see  "the 
mystery  of  iniquity."  Thus  God  is  raising  up  his 
faithful  witnesses  in  every  part  of  the  land  where 
the  light  is  kindled  and  bidding  us  go  on  undis- 
mayed to  victory.  J.  P.  Stoddard. 


BEAF  EARS  IN  CHARLESTON. 


Reform  News. 


The  Rev.  Edward  Everett  Hale  said  in  a  recent 
letter:  "It  is  quite  clear  to  me  that  there  is  less 
drunkenness,  more  disposition  to  purity,  a  higher 
tone  of  public  sentiment  about  crime  than  there  was 
en  years  ago," 


CHICAGO  WORE. 

Rev.  *Wm.  Harrison  is  pastor  of  a  colored  Baptist 
church  on  the  West  Side,  Chicago.  He  has  a  com- 
modious house  of  worship  and  an  intelligent,  wide- 
awake people.  He  is  not  favorable  to  secret  socie- 
ties although  I  was  told  a  number  of  his  members 
belong.  They  believe  in  free  discussion  and  are 
willing  to  listen  to  a  fair  presentation  of  the  sub- 
ject. 

On  Sabbath  evening  I  gave  them  soine  account  of 
tbe  New  Orleans  Convention  and  the  condition  of 
the  people  and  the  work  going  on  there  in  the  line 
of  anti-lodge  reform.  Some  listened  with  little  im- 
patience, but  the  greater  part  were  in  sympathy  with 
their  brethren  at  the  South  who  have  resolved  no 
longer  to  fellowship  "the  unfruitful  works  of  dark- 
ness." 

Among  those  who  came  forward  to  speak  words 
of  approbation  was  a  lady  who  lived  with  Mrs.  Stowe 
and  furnished  one  of  the  characters  in  that  wonder- 
ful book,  "Uncle  Tom's  Cabin."  Her  name  is  Em- 
meline  Hall,  the  widow  of  a  former  pastor  of  the 
church,  and  apparently  a  lady  of  refinement  and 
earnest  piety.  She  knew  Dr.  Lyman  Beecher  well, 
and  had  seen  all  his  children  while  living  in  Dr. 
Stowe's  family  at  Walnut  Hills,  Cincinnati.  She 
supix)ses  herself  to  be  a  relative  and  perhaps  the 
sister  of  Bro.  Lewis  Clark  of  Detroit,  whose  name 


Notes  of  the  city — The  evangelist  Tatman — Avery  Insti- 
tute, A.  M.  A.,  stands  by  the  lodge — A  welcome  among 
Methodists  and  Presbyterians  at  Orangeburg. 

Oranqeborg,  S.  C,  March  31,  '88, 

Dear  Cynosure: — There  are  three  natural  divis- 
ions of  the  State  of  South  Carolina,  quite  unlike 
each  other  in  climate  and  productions:  the  mount- 
ain belt,  adapted  to  grasses  and  grain-growing;  the 
great  corn  and  cotton  region  of  the  center;  and  the 
low-lying  rice  country  of  the  coast.  In  this  last  the 
country  is  flat, the  rainfall  is  great,  and  Spanish  moss, 
palmetto*  and  live  oaks  are  abundant.  The  wealth 
of  this  region  is  largely  in  the  phosphate  beds,  out 
of  which  are  exhumed  great  numbers  of  shark's 
teeth  (some  of  enormous  size)  and  other  remains  of 
the  period  when  this  was  but  a  part  of  the  sea. 

Charleston  has  the  natural  location  for  a  city,  but 
not  for  a  large  one.  The  space  between  Ashley  and 
Cooper  rivers  is  not  large  enough  for  a  great  city, 
and  the  country  lying  back  is  too  low.  A  few  nice 
new  buildings  are  being  erected,but  in  the  main  the 
city  but  holds  its  own.  It  is  a  nice  old  city — at  least 
some  parts  of  it.*  The  fine  statue  of  Calhoun,  with 
its  great  granite  pedestal,  in  which  he  is  represent- 
ed standing  above  in  the  attitude  of  pleading  for  a 
bronze  image  of  South  Carolina,  is  beautiful  and  ap- 
propriate. The  monument  stands  near  the  center  of 
"The  Green,"  which  is  green  only  in  part;  the  most 
of  it  is  covered  with  asphalt. 

Just  now  the  religious  world  of  Charleston  is  all 
engaged  in  Holy  Week  and  preparations  for  Easter. 
The  effect  is  not  quite  so  demoralizing  as  Christmas, 
but  it  is  the  same  in  kind.  All  religious  institutions 
which  are  simply  of  human  invention  are  pretty 
sure  to  be  used  for  worldly  and  selfish  ends  rather 
than  the  honor  of  the  Lord.  We  have  enough  to  do 
in  observing  those  things  which  the  Scriptures  com- 
mand. 

Mr.  C.  H.  Yatman,  the  evangelist,  is  laboring  in 
the  city  with  varied  results.  I  heard  one  of  his  dis- 
courses and  was  more  impressed  with  his  ability 
than  the  excellence  of  his  methods.  I  heard  also 
Prof. J.  C.  Price  on"The  Plague  Spot  of  the  Nation," 
which  he  defined  as  the  use  and  traffic  in  intoxicat- 
ing drinks.  That  his  speech  was  able  and  eloquent 
goes  without  saying,  but  surely  it  was  not  logical, 
for  he  indicted  both  of  the  old  parties  as  being  con- 
trolled by  the  liquor  interest,  and  yet  he  deprecated 
the  formation  of  a  new  party  and  thought  all  temper- 
ance effort  should  be  non-partisan.  He  seemed  to 
forget  that  moral  convictions  on  any  great  question 
of  public  interest  must  necessarily  crystallize  into 
political  action. 

I  found  some  warm  friends  of  our  reform  in 
Charleston,  but  among  that  number  was  not  the 
principal  of  the  Avery  Institute,  the  school  of  the 
American  Missionary  Association.  As  the  sole  ex- 
ception, so  far  as  I  know,  he  takes  the  ground  that 
secret  societies  are  legitimate  and  useful,  and  to  op- 
pose them  is  pernicious  folly.  I  was  greatly  sur- 
prised to  find  an  employe  of  the  A.  M.  A.  who  was 
so  sensitive  on  this  question. 

Finding  that  the  time  for  work  was  not  opportune 
I  left  for  Orangeburg,  about  eighty  miles  northwest 
and  about  500  to  600  feet  above  the  sea.  It  is  a 
pleasant  town  of  3,000  inhabitants  and  the  seat  of 
Claflin  University,  the  excellent  school  of  the  M.  E. 
church.  I  was  most  kindly  received  by  Pres.  Dun- 
ton,  who  thanked  me  for  the  work  I  did  here  last 
year  and  wishes  more  in  the  same  line.  Two  of  the 
professors  who  a  year  ago  were  favorable  to  Mason- 
ry were  convinced  by  the  books  sent  by  the  N.  C.  A. 
and  now  are  in  hearty  sympathy  with  our  work.  The 
school  now  has  over  COO  students  and  has  some  pe- 
culiarities. The  students  are  enabled  to  board  in  a 
common  hall  at  a  cost  of  but  seventy-five  cents  per 
week  each.  They  do  not  complain  either  of  the 
quantity  or  quality  of  the  board.  As  it  is  a  State 
Normal  school  there  is  especial  attention  given  to 
methods  of  teaching.  The  more  advanced  students 
teach  night  schools  made  up  of  the  younger,  and 
thus  have  practice  as  well  as  theory.  This  work  of 
teaching  is  divided  so  that  all  can  bear  a  part,  and 
yet  all  is  under  careful  supervision.  This  plan  re- 
quires a  great  amount  of  labor,  but  is  fruitful  in  ex- 
cellent results.  I  also  visited  the  Presbyterian 
school  under  the  care  of  Rev.  Mr.  Johnson,  Mrs. 
Johnson,  and  one  other  lady  teacher.      They  ex- 


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Apbil  12,  1888 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSUKE. 


pressed  their  hearty  sympathy  with  my  work.and  by 
request  I  addressed  the  school  on  the  lodge  ques- 
tion. I  am  expected  to  speak  this  afternoon  to  the 
assembled  students  and  to  preach  twice  to-morrow. 

H.   H.   HiNMAN. 


TBREATBNED  ASBASaiNATION. 


OUB  NEW  ORLEANS  AGENT  ASSAILED  AT  AMITE  CITr, 
BDT   FORTUNATELY  ESCAPES. 

New  Orleans,  La.,  March  27, 1888. 

Dear  Cynosure: — I  attended  the  Bethel  Union, 
A.  M.  E.,  Mount  Moriah,  Colwell,  and  St.  Matthew 
Baptist  churches  last  Sunday.  Rev.  A.  A.  Price,  the 
A.  M.  E.  pastor,  is  both  an  Odd-fellow  and  Mason. 
He  has  not  been  inside  an  Odd-fellow's  lodge  for 
ten  years,  but  he  is  "financial"  in  the  Masons.  He 
is  an  intelligent  man  but  does  not  think  it  wise  to 
do  away  with  the  lodges  altogether.  They  should  be 
revived  and  reformed.  After  conversing  with  him, 
he  said,  "Well,  yes,  secret  societies  are  in  a  great 
measure  wrong." 

I  next  visited  Mount  Moriah  Baptist  church.  The 
pastor  and  his  deacon  are  both  strong  anti-secretists. 
The  pastor  has  passed  33  degrees 

I  next  visited  the  Colwell  Baptist  church  and 
found  the  pastor.  Rev.  Spoils,  a  high  Mason.  He 
very  strongly  denounced  Odd-fellowship  and  Pyth- 
ianism,  but  could  see  no  harm  in  Masonry.  His 
deacon,  though  a  seceder,  could  see  no  harm  in  se- 
crecv.  But  Bro.  J.  W.  Womack  and  I  went  through 
the  Fellow-craft  and  Master's  obligations  snd  quot- 
ed several  Scriptures.  He  said,  as  did  also  Rev. 
Price, that  he  had  never  given  secrecy  a  careful  con- 
sideration, but  promised  to  look  into  the  matter. 
Deacon  J.  B.  McClellan  subscribed  for  the  Cynosure, 
and  I  am  invited  to  preach  at  this  church  Thursday 
evening. 

I  met  Rev.  J.  W.  Hilton,  pastor  First  St.  M.  E. 
church.  He  had  heard  of  the  convention;  but 
thought  secrecy  all  right.  However,  he  subscribed 
for  the  Cynosure.  I  next  visited  St.  Matthew  Bap- 
tist church  at  7:30  p.  m.  The  church  was  in  deep 
mourning  for  its  pastor.  Rev.  J.  W.  Anderson,  an 
out-and-out  anti  secretist.  His  church  very  decent- 
ly buried  him  without  lodge  help.  Now  on  Tues- 
day the  deacon  of  this  church,  Bro.  Isaac  Powell, 
also  an  anti-lodge  man,  lies  awaiting  burial.  The 
lodge  thought  to  boast,  but  the  church  is  prepared 
to  bury  him  also. 

Mr.  Humes,  a  member  of  a  prominent  Baptist 
church  and  a  high  Mason,  informed  me  to-day  that 
the  Masons  believe  I  was  the  cause  of  the  late  N.  C. 
A.  Convention  being  held  here,  and  they  intend  to 
put  me  out  of  the  way.  I  am  in  receipt  of  an  inter- 
esting letter  from  a  seceding  Odd-fellow  of  Bayou 
Goula,  La.,  requesting  me  to  come  that  way  with  re- 
form books  and  tracts. 

March  31st. — I  preached  at  Colwell  Baptist 
church  Thursday  evening.  The  pastor,  Rev.Milton 
Spoils,  though  a  Freemason,  said  to  his  congrega- 
tion, "Bro.  Davidson  has  certainly  told  you  the 
truth.  He  has  preached  the  Gospel,  and  you  can't 
dispute  it;  and  if  we  want  to  constrain  sinners  to 
come  to  Christ,  we  must  clear  up  the  road."  Rev. 
A.  D.  Johnson  followed  my  sermon  with  a  hearty 
endorsement,  after  which  an  earnest  appeal  was 
made  to  the  sinners.  Three  came  forward  and  de- 
sired to  be  prayed  for. 

The  Freewill  Baptist  District  Association  met  to 
day;  Rev.  Dr.  Manning  of  Michigan  called  the  meet- 
ing to  order.  The  sentiment  of  this  association 
seems  to  be  one  against  Baal-worship.  Dr.  Manning 
thinks  the  lodges  are  foes  to  the  church. 

The  First  District  (Quarterly  Conference  of  the 
Freewill  Baptists  of  this  State  met  March  30.  Rev. 
Dr.  E.  S.  Manning  of  Michigan  was  moderator.  1 
attended  the  conference  on  Saturday,  the  3l8t,  and 
was  introduced  as  the  representative  of  the  N.  C.  A. 
The  moderator  gave  me  a  few  minutes  to  speak  of 
our  reform  work  South.  I  spoke  of  the  object  of 
the  N.  C.  A.  and  how  the  secret  lodge  system  was 
injuring  the  churches.  There  were  about  twelve 
churches  represented  by  iheir  pastors  and  deacons, 
and  every  one  very  heartily  endorsed  what  I  said 
against  lodgery  by  a  rising  vote.  Dr.  Manning  gave 
some  startling  thoughts  of  the  murdering  of  Mor- 
gan and  spoke  of  his  hatred  of  Masonry  ever  since, 
although  he  said  many  friends  bad  tried  to  get  him 
to  join  a  secret  lodge  as  they  thought  it  would  help 
him  in  his  traveling,  but  the  doctor  thought  Jesus 
excels  all  the  secret  lodges.  I  distributed  tracts  and 
Cynosures  to  all  present;  yea,  and  they  were  gladly 
received,  many  receiving  them  never  having  heard 
of  the  N.  C.  A. 

Hammond,  La.,  April  2. — 1  left  New  Orleans  Sat- 
urday for  Amite  City,  sixty-eight  miles  north.  Rev. 
R.  Kendrick,  who  extended  me  invitation  to  preach 


at  his  church  Sabbath  evening  on  the  "Religion  of 
Masonry,"  was  detained  at  Ponchatoula  sick,  and 
could  not  be  with  us;  but  his  hospitable  wife  and 
his  deacon  very  kindly  received  me.  I  attended 
Sabbath-Echool  at  Union  Freewill  Baptist  church  at 
9  A.  M.,  and  preached  at  the  Little  Zion  M.  E. 
church.  Rev.  S.  Thomas,  pastor,  at  11  a.  m.  Bro. 
Thomas,  is  an  out-and-out  anti-lodge  man.  Here  I 
met  Rev.  Riley  Vernon.  Bro.  Thomas  desired  me 
to  say  something  against  the  lodge.  So  in  the  clos- 
ing of  my  sermon  I  spoke  of  the  troubled  state  of 
the  churches,  because  of  the  lodge  taking  the  money 
of  the  people  and  turning  away  their  heart  from  the 
truth,  and  besought  those  present  to  walk  in  the 
light  and  have  no  fellowship  with  iniquity.  A  mem- 
ber of  Odd-fellows  present  thought  I  had  insulted 
his  lodge. 

I  attended  covenant  meeting  at  Union  Baptist 
at  3  p.  M.,  and  preached  there  at  7:30  o'clock — or  at 
least  I  attempted  to  preach.  At  7:30  p.  m.  as  I  en- 
tered into  the  pulpit,  the  following  letter  was  handed 
to  me: 

letter  of  warning. 

Amite  City,  La. 

My  Dkar  Friend: — We  heard  you  preached  a  splen- 
did sermon  lo  day,  but  we  think  you  went  a  little  to d  far. 
We  are  living  very  peaceful  and  would  not  like  to  be  dis- 
turbed here.  A  minister  should  not  knotr  anything 
when  he  is  in  the  pulpit  but  Christ  and  him  crucified. 
We  (the  lodge)  do  not  profess  to  be  a  church,  and  if 
you  have  ever  been  in  an  Odd-fellow  lodge  you  know 
that  if  you  obey  the  laws  that  you  are  not  wrong.  This 
is  something  I  do  not  like  to  do,  but  it  disgusts  me  (us) 
to  hear  a  good  sermon  and  then  kill  it  off  denouncing 
other  orders,  when  we  all  know  that  the  church  of  the 
living  Qod  is  ahead  of  all.  Please  preach  the  holy  Gos- 
pel and  leave  us  alone. . . .  (No  name  signed.) 

On  receiving  this  letter  I  read  it  and  asked  the 
Christians  if  it  was  right  for  the  world  to  dictate  to 
a  minister  what  he  should  preach.  I  stated  that  I 
had  said  nothing  to  offend  them.  My  appeal  was  to 
my  Christian  brethren  to  come  out  from  worldlings 
and  be  separate;  and  I  could  not  see  as  a  minister 
where  I  had  a  right  to  desist  preaching  the  true 
Gospel  and  preach  to  gratify  man.  I  had  said  noth- 
ing only  what  I  could  prove  by  God's  Word. 

The  lodge  members  here  became  so  disorderly  I 
had  to  sit  down.  Rev.  R.  Vernon  spoke  a  few 
words,  that  Paul  and  other  apostles  were  persecuted 
for  the  truth,  yet  he  did  not  say  one  word  about  the 
lodge.  The  secretiats  were  all  astir.  There  was 
not  standing  room  for  the  people.  One  young  man 
had  his  pistol  out  in  church.  The  deacons  asked 
for  a  collection.  Loud  and  many  were  the  cries, 
"Come  again,  brother,  and  tell  us  the  truth."  The 
lodgeites  became  more  and  more  boisterous,  but 
Bro.  Brown,  Revs.  Thomas  and  Vernon  and  a  num- 
ber of  sisters  surrounded  me  30  the  angry  men 
could  not  shoot  me.  Some  one  opened  fire,  and  I 
barely  escaped  being  shot.  Although  some  of  the 
angry  lodge  Negroes  rumored  it  that  I  was  a  War- 
moth  politician,  not  one  white  man  would  join  them 
in  their  inhuman  acts.  Bud  Williams,  a  blasphe- 
mous young  fellow,  and  a  Methodist  Negro  preacher 
with  a  company  searched  Amite  City  for  me.  I  had 
to  walk  fifteen  miles  to  take  the  train  at  this  place, 
as  the  secretists  had  sworn  that  I  could  not  take  the 
train  at  Amite. 

1  am  resting  here  with  Rev.  Levi  Thompson,  pas- 
tor of  a  Baptist  church  here.  He  belongs  to  two 
lodges,  but  thinks  they  treated  me  wrong  in  Amite. 
This  is  a  beautiful  town  of  some  800  inhabitants 
with  two  white  and  two  colored  churches,  and  three 
colored  lodges.     No  liquor  is  sold  here. 

New  Orleans,  April  3rd.— I  arrived  at  4  p.  .m. 
Conductor  W.  P.  Marrette  on  the  train  said  he  heard 
of  my  troubles  in  Amite  City  this  morning,  but  he 
says  the  white  people  there  are  too  genteel  to  pay 
attention  to  those  Negroes,  although  they  are  trying 
to  make  the  whites  believe  you  are  a  Warmoth 
politician;  but  I  did  not  believe  them.  If  some  of 
the  whites  had  been  in  the  church  last  night  they 
would  have  protected  you. 

Amite  is  a  splendid  summering  place  for  North- 
erners. There  is  one  Baptist,  one  Methodist,  one 
Episcopal,  one  Presbyterian  and  one  Roman  Catho- 
lic church,  all  white;  two  /ion  M.  E,  one  Baptist, 
colored;  six  saloons,  four  white  secret  societies, 
three  colored  lodges  and  one  benevolent  association, 
colored.  If  the  good  citizens  of  Amite  will  clean 
out  lodgery  and  the  saloon  Amite  City  will  be  Lou- 
isiana's paradise,  but  if  those  good  (Christians  will 
allow  a  set  of  young  roughs  at  the  mouth  of  revolv- 
ers and  point  of  dirks  to  drive  a  minister  out  of 
their  quiet  little  city  it  will  discourage  rather  than 
encourage  strangers.  I  distributed  about  three  hun- 
dred tracts  and  ( 'i/nomres  in  Union  Baptist  church 
Sabbath  evening  despite  lodge  cruelty,  and  obtained 
several  Cynosure  readers. 

Francis  J  Davidson. 


COBRESPONDENCE. 


SWBDISH  B VENTS  OF  IH 2 BREST. 

Rock  Island,  III. 

Editor  Christian  Cynosure: — In  your  issue  of 
March  22d  you  have  a  short  article  about  Prince 
Barclay  de  Tolly,  how  he  was  persecuted  by  the  Rus- 
sian government.  The  story  is  somewhat  old.  I 
have  just  seen  in  a  papgr  from  Swedea  that  the 
higher  authorities  sinca  then  have  suspected  that 
this  step  was  taken  by  some  hyper-orthodox  digni- 
tary, and  have  given  the  prince  to  understand  that 
he,  by  a  petition  of  grace,  may  have  his  grade  in 
the  army  back,  and  that  his  old  father  may  aUo  be 
advanced.  The  notice  can,  therefore,  now  be  cor- 
rected. 

I  will  let  you  have  an  interesting  item  about  the 
Good  Templars  in  Sweden.  An  old,  renowned  cham- 
pion for  temperance,  in  speech  and  writing,  well  ac- 
quainted to  all  Swedes  both  sides  of  the  ocean.  Gen- 
eral Consul  C.  A.  Berg,  at  Stockholm,  had  united 
with  the  order;  now  he  has  quit  it,  declaring  that 
he  cannot  pray  with  a  society  which  will  work  for 
a  good  purpose  but  denies  the  divine  truth.  His 
example  will  probably  be  followed  by  many  upright 
Christians  in  Sweden,  ministers  and  others.  The 
reason  is,  that  the  head  chief  of  the  Swedish  branch 
of  the  order,  Mr.  Wrawrinsky,  has  declared  that  "if 
the  God  of  the  religious  people  is  the  true  God,  he, 
Wrawrinsky,  is  a  God-denier."  Several  papers 
formerly  supporting  it,  now  declare  against  it,  say- 
ing that  the  secretism  is  only  a  bait  on  the  hook  to 
entice  plain  people.  "What  is  won?"  the  papers 
ask,  if  one  is  turned  from  alcoholism,  but  in  the 
place  of  it  is  to  take  a  poison  that  will  make  his  case 
ten-fold  worse.  The  Swedish  branch  of  the  Good 
Templars  also  intends  to  separate  from  the  English 
and  American  part,  more  than  27,000  kroner  having, 
in  small  gifts,  been  taken  out  of  Sweden,  the  most 
of  it  from  the  poorer  classes,  to  be  used  for  the  or- 
der elsewhere. 

Another  thing:  I  suppose  you  know  that  the  sec- 
ond son  of  King03carIL(also  named  03car)is  about 
to  marry  a  pious  lady  of  the  English  nobility,  a  Miss 
Munck.  It  has  taken  the  Prince  two  years — in  which 
he  avoided  the  company  of  his  beloved  one— to  win 
over  on  his  side  his  parents  and  his  oldest  brother, 
the  Crown  Prince.  He,  himself  a  pious  man,  work- 
ing personally  amongst  the  soldiers  of  the  Royal 
Guards  and  the  destitute  people,  first  won  his  pious 
aunt,  the  Princess  Eugenie  and  the  consent  of  his 
mother.  A  year  ago,  when  that  pious  lady,  who  is 
very  sickly,  was  to  undergo  a  dangerous  operation, 
she  took  a  farewell,  as  if  dying,  from  her  husband 
aud  children;  but  she  lived,  and  the  parents  since 
tried  to  persuade  the  young  Prinos  not  to  fulfill  his 
purpose,  but  in  vain.  The  wedding  is  to  be  per- 
formed in  a  plain  way  at  Barnemouth,  England, 
where  the  Qaeen  and  the  two  young  people  have 
been  for  a  month  or  more.  They  are  to  be  wedded 
by  a  Swedish  minister.  Rev.  Beskow,  in  whose  pri- 
vate school  the  Prince  once  was  instructed.  Oscar 
will  lose  his  title  of  "Royal  Highness,"  his  appan- 
age and  inheritance  right  to  the  throne  by  his  step. 
He  will  be  now  a  common  citizen  of  Sweden,  and  an 
officer  of  the  Marine  or  Fleet  which  he  was  from  his 
youth.  He  will  take  his  residence.when  married, on  a  lit- 
tle estate  with  a  very  plain  building  in  the  neighbor- 
hood of  Carl8krona.Hi3AuntEugenie,many  years  ago, 
built  a  residence  at  Gobland  with  an  orphanage  at- 
tached, where  she  lives  every  summer.  This  estate 
she  has  bequeathed  to  her  nephew,  that  he,  after  her 
death,  may  continue  her  benevolences.  That  the 
Scandinavian  people  both  sides  of  the  mountains 
are  very  glad  of  the  step  of  Prince  Oscar  is  easily 
understood. 

When  all  monarchs  and  dignitaries — Emperor 
William,  Queen  Victoria,  President  Cleveland,  with 
the  Shah  of  Persia,  adorning  the  Beast,  presented 
their  gifts  to  the  Pope  at  his  jubilee  as  priest.  King 
Oscar  II.  of  Sweden  was  one  amongst  two  or  three 
exceptions.  He,  being  semiotliclall}'  reminded  to 
be  one  in  the  row,  answered  with  dignity,  that  a 
sovereign  of  a  Protestant  people  could  have  noth- 
ing to  do  with  the  Pope  at  this  occasion.  Yours  in 
Christ,  Andrew  II,  Cervine. 


UNITED  BRSTHRBN  FATHERS  AND  SONS. 


Eshcol,  Perry  Co.,  Pa. 
Dear  Ctnoiiurb: — I  cannot  tell  j'ou  how  much  I 
appreciate  your  visits.  You  are  always  welcome  to 
uiy  humble  home,  bringing  me  cheer,  omTort  and 
blessings,  for  which  I  am  truh'  thankful.  You  keep 
mo  posted  in  reference  to  the  battle  going  on  betweeen 
light  and  darkness,  truth  and  error,  secret  lodge 
night  and  open  day  light.      You  encourage  me  to 


8 


::^HE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


April  12, 1888 


continue  the  fight  in  the  rank  and  file  of  the  increas- 
ing army,  and  assure  me  that  victory  will  be  on  the 
Lord's  side,  though  it  may  require  a  terrible  strug- 
gle; but  with  Jesus  as  our  leader  we  will  certainly 
win,  for  he  has  never  lost  a  battle.  Praise  the  Lord, 
O  my  soul,  for  the  prospect,  in  waiting  the  grand 
result,  when  this  demon  secrecy  will  be  conquered 
to  the  glory  of  God. 

Encouragement  comes  once  in  a  while,  when  we 
meet  a  man  saved  to  Christ  and  from  the  lodge. 
Being  in  Hagerstown,  Maryland,  I  .took  the  oppor- 
tunity to  visit  the  United  Brethren  Conference  then 
in  session,  and  part  of  two  days  I  looked  in  upon 
its  workings.  What  a  change  has  come  over  this 
U.  B.  church  in  thirty  years  in  more  than  one  way. 
Many  of  the  fathers  having  died,  the  sons  have  gone 
to  housekeeping.and  as  a  rule  a  new  order  of  things 
has  been  brought  about;  the  simplicity  of  olden 
time  has  measurably  departed,  so  that  one  who  used 
to  take  part  in  conference  work  finds  little  now  to 
interest  and  profit;  formality,  money  and  popularity 
are  with  many  the  leading  features.  How  this  state 
of  things  makes  one  enquire  for  the  old  paths  in 
which  our  fathers  trod. 

I  called  on  and  spent  some  time  with  my  old 
friend.  Dr.  Shade.  I  made  his  acquaintance  several 
years  ago,  and  learned  to  love  him.  The  Lord  con- 
verted and  sanctified  him.saved  him  from  the  lodge, 
tobacco  and  the  world.  I  find  him  well  saved. 
Thank  the  Lord  for  a  salvation  that  saves  to  the  ut- 
termost! He  maintains  his  Christian  dignity  on  all 
these  points,  and  especially  secrecy. 

Is  it  not  remarkable  that  the  U.  B.  church,  espec- 
ially the  Commissioners,  who  have  the  "brains," 
should  fall  back  into  darkness,  when  hundreds  who 
have  been  hoodwinked  are  coming  out  and  declaring  I 
against  the  orders.  I  spoke  of  the  Cynosure  to  this 
brother,  but  he  had  not  so  much  as  heard  that  it  had 
an  existence,  but  desired  to  see  it.  Please  send  him 
a  copy.     Very  truly,  I.  C.  Weidler. 


occult  and  mystic  way,  alluded  to  the  part  played 
by  Masonics  in  the  capture  of  the  outlaws.  I  did 
not  hear  him  utter  the  word  Masonry.  Indeed  the 
word  Masonry  in  the  estimation  of  respectable, 
thoughtful,  intelligent  people  is  coming  to  be  re- 
garded as  a  synonym  of  rascality.  But  the  Masonic 
venom  injected  by  the  devout  allusion  of  last  even- 
ing into  the  minds  of  the  morally  oblique  and  Ma- 
sonically  inclined  ought  to  be  met  by  an  antidote — 
the  rascally  principles  of  the  Masonic  institution. 
By  virtue  of  the  Masonic  murder  of  Captain  William 
Morgan,  William  Miller  of  Belfast,  Ireland,  and 
many  others;  and  by  virtue  of  the  sworn  murderous 
character  of  Freemasonry  every  Freemason  carries 
in  his  own  heart  the  stain  of  murder.  And  unless 
that  stain  is  removed  by  repentance,  confession,  and 
the  blood  of  Christ,  and  a  renewal  of  heart,  he,  too, 
will  meet  the  vengeance  of  awful  justice  in  God's 
day  of  doom.  "Not  every  one  that  saith  unto  me. 
Lord,  Lord,  shall  enter  into  the  kingdom  of  heaven." 
Matt.  7:  21.  W.  Fenton. 


Bible  Lesson. 


PITH  AND  POINT. 


SHALL  WB  SUPPORT   THE  PROHIBITION 
PARTY? 


MoNTMORENCi,  Ind.,  Apr.  2,  1888. 
On  the  26  th  ult.  it  was  my  happy  privilege  to  hear 
the  Hon.  Jasper  G.  Hughes  of  Irvingville,  Marion 
county,  Indiana,  lecture  on  prohibition  in  the  city 
of  LaFayette.  He  is  Prohibition  nominee  for  gov- 
ernor of  the  State;  A  few  of  us  had  met  that  day 
in  W.  C.  T.  U.  Hall,  where  he  lectured  at  night,  to 
organize  against  liquor  men  or  parties.  Not  a  doz- 
en did  we  have  at  the  meeting,  but  by  a  liberal  dis- 
tribution of  handbills  we  had  a  full  house  at  night. 
I  don't  know  how  to  speak  well  enough  of  Mr. 
Hughes  or  his  lecture.  He  has  a  resemblance  to 
Charles  Sumner.  His  logic  is  like  that  of  John 
Stuart  Mill;  his  religion  and  politics  like  a  Paul  of 
Tarsus,  reasoning  about  temperance,  righteousness, 
and  a  judgment  to  come  with  the  cogency  of  a  sun- 
glass that  burns  with  the  light  of  truth  right  through 
a  man's  soul. 

Spending  the  evening  with  him  I  learned  that  he 
is  a  Christian  minister,  never  having  joined  any  se- 
cret organization,  and  emphatically  in  heart  against 
all  lodgism.  His  lecture  was  a  public  coming  out 
for  God  and  Christ  and  righteousness  in  all  politics 
and  all  things  with  which  we  have  to  do. 

Now  a  word  to  my  Anti-masonic  friends  about 
supporting  the  Prohibition  party.  Let  me  say,  it 
has  the  same  God  in  it — pleading  for  the  right 
against  the  greatest  national  wrong — as  our  Ameri- 
can party.  And  if  all  the  friends  of  Prohibition 
are  not  educated  by  the  Cynosure  and  other  means 
up  to  our  standard  of  right  we  cannot  consistently 
refuse  to  join  them  when  they  are  right  as  far  as 
their  knowledge  goes,  and  if  they  are  thus  far  right, 
it  is  evidence  to  us  that  they  will  ultimately  reach 
our  standard  of  truth  and  righteousness;  for  if  God 
is  with  the  party  (and  I  know  he  is,  for  it  has  de- 
clared for  him  in  its  very  first  plank)  he  will  bring 
it  to  the  acknowledging  of  the  truth  in  due  time. 
Let  us  not  hesitate  a  moment  about  supporting  the 
Prohibition  party,  for  in  doing  so  we  are  supporting 
the  main  support  of  our  own  American  party. 

L,  D.  Brown. 


LODGE  POISON. 

St.  Paul,  Minn.,  March  30,  1888. 

Editor  Christian  Cynosure: — Last  evening, 
under  the  auspices  of  the  Y.  M.  C.  A.,  the  public 
was  entertained  by  a  literary  treat  from  an  old  pio- 
neer, N.  P.  Langford,  Esq  ,  relating  to  events  of  a 
quarter  of  a  century  ago  transpiring  in  the  then  far 
West  concerning  the  .murder  of  Lloyd  McGruder 
and  his  party,  the  capture  of  the  murderers  and  the 
vengeance  of  awful  justice  in  their  execution. 

In  the  course  of  the  narrative  the  speaker,  in  an 


THK  VETERANS. 

I  cannot  do  without  the  Cynosure.  I  think  I  have 
taken  it  from  the  first,  or  nearly  the  first,  number.  It 
has  become  a  necessity  to  me,  and  I  don't  want  to  do 
without  it.  I  bid  you  Godspeed  in  your  labor  of  love  for 
the  race.    God  bless  you. — Thomas  C.  Radabauqh, 

ANOTHER   OLD   FRIEND. 

I  have  been  a  reader  of  the  paper  nearly  ever  since  its 
first  publication,  and  I  am  well  satisfied  that  the  cause 
advocated  is  just  and  most  worthy,  and  one  that  should 
interest  every  Christian  church  and  every  honest  man  on 
I  earth,  wherever  Christ's  Gospel  has  been  proclaimed.  I 
was  living  in  Yates  county.  New  York,  at  the  time  Mor- 
gan was  abducted  and  murdered.  I  well  remember  the 
great  excitement  caused  by  his  untimely  death.  A  part 
of  the  people  took  sides  for  justice  and  humanity,  and 
part  with  the  secret  fraternity. — O.  C.  M.  Bates. 

ANOTHER, 

J.  M.  Stevenson  has  been  a  subscriber  to  the  Cynosure 
since  its  first  existence;  has  done  much  work  to  extend 
its  circulation;  at  different  times  has  sent  clubs  of  ten 
and  under,  paying  for  a  number  of  them  himself.  '  He 
thinks  the  paper  one  of  the  best  published  on  the  reform 
and  would  not  like  to  do  without  it. — J.  T.  8  ,  Washing- 
ton, Iowa. 

BETTER  DATS    IN   ARKANSAS. 

We  have  some  twelve  Protestant  Christian  churches 
here  with  a  membership  varying  from  1,300  to  a  church 
down  to  seventy-five.  All  the  churches  are  in  a  pros- 
perous condition.  The  white  Methodists  South  are  build- 
ing a  fine  church  edifice,  to  cost  over  $15,000.  Our  city 
schools  are  run  on  the  order  of  the  city  schools  in  the 
East.  The  colored  schools  are  filled  with  able  teachers. 
There  are  many  reforms  recently  commenced  among  the 
people,  and  on  a  whole  we  are  looking  for  better  things. 
When  Bro.  Clark  was  down  at  this  place  I  promised  him 
to  start  a  reform  paper  if  he  would  aid  us.  We  launched 
our  little  journal  August  20th,  1887,  and  we  have  no 
reason  to  complain.  Our  subscription  list  is  good  and 
home  adveitisements  are  better.  Our  paper  is  chaste  in 
its  language  and  Kepublican  in  its  politics.  I  would 
like  our  Northern  white  friends  to  read  our  sentiments. 
The  Cynosure  is  our  welcome  visitor  and  is  read  with 
much  interest.  Many  changes  are  coming  among  the 
colored  ministry  of  the  South,  and  we  are  pleased  to  say 
they  are  for  the  better. — A.  M.  Middlebrooks,  Pine 
Bluff,  Ark. 

THE   BOSTON    COMMON   CASE. 

William  F.Davis  has  been  confined  for  several  months 
in  the  jail  in  Boston  {"the  cradle  of  our  liberty")  for 
peaceably  preaching  the  Gospel  on  the  Common  of  that 
city— a  right  inherited  from  the  time  of  the  Pilgrim  Fath- 
ers. He  has  had  a  small  volume  printed  which  gives  the 
facts  and  the  legal  bearings  of  the  injustice  which  he 
suffers  for  his  faithfulness  to  Christ  and  the  country. 
Paul  appealed  to  Csesar;  Davis  appeals  to  the  sovereign 
people  of  this  favored  land  against  the  wrong  done  them 
in  his  person  by  the  powers  of  Anti-Christ,  which  now 
rule  the  city  of  Boston  through  Romanism,  Rumism, 
and  their  tools.  Will  the  people  shut  their  eyes  to  the 
facts  until  convulsions  again  torture  our  whole  country  ? 
The  small  volume  concludes  with  these  solemn  words  of 
warning:  "Against  the  free  public  preaching  of  God's 
Gospel  to  the  common  people  on  the  common  lands  of 
this  Commonwealth  there  is  and  there  can  be  no  .;ust 
law!" — T.  n. 

ENCOURAGEMENT   FROM    MEN    WHO    KNOW    MASONRY. 

An  old  man  on  hearing  the  tract  read  entitled,  "His- 
tory of  Masonry,"  said  of  the  author  of  a  statement  there 
in,  "Don't  you  know  he  is  liable  to  have  his  head  taken 
off?"  Later  he  said  that  Freemasonry  (the  first  three 
degrees)  is  like  three  trunks;  the  third  or  smallest  within 
the  second  in  size,  and  that  inside  the  largest.  The  En- 
tered Apprentice  in  Freemasonry  only  discovers  the  sec 
ond  trunk;  the  Fellowcraft  the  third,  and  the  Master 
Mason  the  emptiness  of  the  third.  At  another  time,  on 
hearing  my  report  of  a  colporteur  trip,  he  said,  "Praise 
the  Lard,  the  day  of  hi?  glory  is  coming!"  Another  man 
who  at  first  said  I  better  quit  circulating  anti-secrecy 
documents,  said  later,  "If  you  can  do  any  good,  do  it." 
Both  these  men  were  Freemasons,  the  former,  one  of 
those  who  withdrew  after  the  Morgan  abduction.— R.  D. 
Nichols. 


STUDIES  IN  THE  NEW  TESTAMENT. 
LESSON  IV,  Second  Quarter.— April  22.      . 
SUBJECT.— The  Ten  Virgins.— Matt.  25:  1-13. 
GOLDElSr  TEXT.— And  they  that  were  ready,  went  In  with 
him  to  the  marriage;  and  the  door  was  shut.— Matt.  25;  10. 
\,Open  the  Biblt  and  rtad  tht  l«tsim.\ 
I  From  Peloubet's  Notes.  1 

The  Marriage  Customs  of  the  East.  The  para- 
ble of  the  ten  virgins  is  based  upon  the  marriage  customs 
of  the  East,  to  which  many  allusions  occur  in  Scripture. 
The  essence  of  the  marriage  ceremony  consisted  in  the 
removal  of  the  bride  from  her  home  to  that  of  her  future 
husband.  The  bridegroom  proceeded,  late  in  the  even- 
ing, attended  by  his  friends,  or  "groomsmen"  (eee  Judg. 
14: 11;  Matt.  9:  15;  John  3:  29),  to  the  bride's  dwelling, 
where  she  awaited  him,  attired  in  white  robes  (Rev.  19: 
8),  embroidered  with  gold  (Psa.  45:  13)  and  perfumed 
(Psa.  45:  8),  adorned  with  jewels  (Isa.  61:  10),  and  at- 
tended by  her  "bridesmaids"  (Psa.  45:  14).  The  whole 
company  then  went  in  procession  by  torchlight  to  the 
bridegroom's  house,  being  joined  on  the  way  by  parties 
of  invited  guests  (the  virgins  of  the  parable),  all  carry- 
ing torches  or  lamps. — Stock. 

The  ten  virgins  symbolize  the  whole  professed  body 
of  the  followers  of  Christ,  including  the  true  disciples 
and  those  who  have  made  the  profession  without  the 
possession  of  true  religion.  As  Abbott  says:  "The  par- 
able represents  the  virgins  as  they  appear  to  the  bystand- 
er, the  disciples  as  they  appear  to  the  world." 

"Which  took  their  lamps."  In  the  utterly  dark  streets 
of  an  Asiatic  city  every  one  who  goes  forth  at  night  is 
expectfcd,  and  in  modern  Jerusalem  is  strictly  required  by 
the  authorities,  to  carry  a  light. — Broadus, 

The  lamp,  with  its  flame,  symbolizes  whatever  is  out- 
ward in  the  profession  of  Christianity. — Trench. 

"And  five  of  them  were  wise,  and  five  were  foolish." 
The  whole  church  at  the  time  of  Christ's  coming  (as  it 
is  at  all  times)  will  be  divided  into  these  two  classes, 
nominal  and  real  Christians. — Rev.  Com. 

"Wise:"  prudent,  intelligent,  foreseeing,  with  good 
judgment.  To  be  an  earnest  Christian,  doing  the  Lord's 
will,  busy  in  his  service,  filled  with  his  spirit,  and  thus 
prepared  for  his  coming,  is  true  wisdom. 

"Foolish:"  stupid,  lacking  in  discretion  and  fore- 
thought, without  good  judgment  and  common  sense. 
Such  is  a  true  description  of  those  who  are  merely  pro- 
fessors of  religion,  who  have  no  real  spiritual  life,  but 
content  themselves  with  the  husks  of  religion,  without 
its  inner  blessedness  or  outward  usefulness. 

"But  the  wise  took  oil  in  their  vessels  with  their  lamps." 
Observe  that  in  the  outset  no  distinction  is  visible  be- 
tween the  wise  and  foolish  virgins;  both  have  lamps 
burning,  but  the  wise  have  the  lasting  supply  of  oil 
(grace),  the  foolish  have  not.  So  in  the  church  no  visi- 
ble line  separates  those  whose  light  is  fed  by  their  own 
resolution  from  those  whose  dependence  is  a  continual 
supply  of  daily  grace  from  God. — Abbott. 

Observe  that  the  wicked  servant  in  the  parable  (Matt. 
24:  48)  thinks  the  Lord  delays,  so  watches  not  for  his 
coming;  here  the  foolish  virgin  thinks  he  is  coming  im- 
mediately, so  makes  no  provision  of  oil;  an  indication 
that  a  sinful  heart  can  find,  in  directly  contrary  beliefs, 
excuses  for  the  same  real  neglect. — Abbott. 

The  foolish  virgins,  therefore,  are  those  who  have  had 
some  feelings  of  attachment  to  the  Lord  Jesus,  and  cer- 
tain impulses  Christ-ward,  to  which  they  yielded  at  the 
time,  but  they  are  not  constant.  Their  emotion  was  a 
real  thing,  and  when  they  were  acting  upon  it  you  could 
not  call  them  hypocrites;  but  it  was  not  the  right  thing. 
They  were  animated  by  impulse  alone,  not  by  principle 
and  conviction.  Their  religion  was  a  thing  of  the  sur- 
face. In  the  parable  of  the  Sower  they  are  represented 
by  the  seed  which  fell  upon  rocky  ground.  "The  same 
is  he  that  heareth  the  word,  and  anon  with  joyreceiveth 
it;  yet  hath  he  not  root  in  himself,  butdureth  for  awhile; 
for  when  tribulation  or  persecution  ariseth  because  of  the 
word,  by  ^nd  by  he  is  offended"  (Matt.  13:  5,  6,  20,  21). 
They  are  represented  also  by  those  who  built  a  tower, 
and  were  unable  to  finish  (Luke  14;  28-32— ITffi.  M. 
Taylor. 

The  wise  virgins  are,  of  course,  true  Christians,  whose 
hearts  have  been  renewed,  who  are  filled  with  the  love 
of  Jesus,  and  live  in  the  spirit;  who,  "in  their  union  to 
the  Holy  Spirit,  formed  by  their  faith  in  Christ,  and 
maintained  by  their  constant  study  of  his  Word,  their 
habitual  dependence  on  him  in  prayer,  and  their  contin- 
uous obedience  to  his  commands,  have  that  unfailing 
supply  of  strength  by  which  they  are  sustained  in  every 
duty  and  prepared  for  every  emergency." 

The  Coming  of  the  Bridegroom.  This  parable  will 
obtain  a  wider  application  if  we  keep  in  memory  that, 
while  it  is  quite  true  that  there  is  one  great  coming  of 
the  Lord  at  the  last,  yet  not  the  less  does  he  come  in  all 
the  great  crises  of  his  church,  at  each  new  manifestation 
of  his  Spirit;  and  at  each  of  thc^e,  too,  there  is  a  sepa- 
ration among  those  who  are  called  by  his  name,  into 
wise  and  foolish,  as  they  are  spiritually  alive  or  dead. 
Thus  at  Pentecost,  when  by  his  Spirit  he  returned  to  his 
church,  he  came;  the  prudent  in  Israel  went  in  with  him 
to  the  feast;  the  foolish  tarried  without  Thus,  too,  he 
came  at  the  Reformation.  Each  of  these  was  an  exam- 
ple of  what  shall  be  more  signally  fulfilled  at  the  end. 
Trench.  He  comes  to  us  at  every  great  crisis  of  our 
lives:  at  the  opening  of  some  great  opportunity,  in  the 
hour  of  great  trouble,  in  the  hour  of  death. 

Character  Revealed  by  Emergency.  It  is  in  mo- 
ments of  surprise  that  a  man's  true  self  comes  out  to 
view.    Nothing  will  more  correctly  reveal  what  is  in  a 


Apbil  12,  1888 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE- 


man  than  the  coming  upon  him  of  some 
crushing  and  unlooked-for  crisis  (as  peril 
of  army  to  general,  or  storm  to  mariner, 
affliction,  commercial  crisis).  It  was  a 
shrewd  remark  of  Andrew  Fuller,  that  a 
man  has  only  as  much  religion  as  he  can 
command  in  trial.  In  mercy  the  minor 
surprises  have  been  sent  to  show  ourselves 
to  us  before  the  last  and  greatest  one.— 
Wm.  M.  Taylor. 

"But  go  ye  rather  to  them  that  sell:" 
to  the  only  and  true  source  of  supply. 
In  the  interpretation  this  can  only  be  to 
God  and  Jesus  Christ,  who  alone  can  give 
the  new  heart  and  the  true  preparation 
for  heaven.  "The  true  interpretation  is 
found  in  Isa.  55: 1  and  Rev.  3;  18  " 

Spiritual  Qualities  not  Transfer- 
able. Personal  character  cannot  be 
given  by  one  man  to  another.  You  can- 
not give  me  your  patience  to  support 
me  in  the  hour  of  my  anguish.  I  cannot 
give  you  my  courage  for  the  discharge 
of  dangerous  duty.  There  is  much,  in- 
deed, we  can  and  ought  to  do  for  each 
other.  But  we  cannot  give  to  any  one 
the  qualities  which  we  ourselves  possess, 
but  in  which  he  is  deficient. —  Wm.  M. 
Taylor. 

And  the  Door  was  Hhut.  1 .  There 
are  abundant  opportunities  and  pressing 
invitations  to  enter  the  kingdom.  2. 
There  comes  a  time  when  it  is  too  late  to 
enter.  3.  This  is  a  fact  of  nature,  as 
well  as  a  truth  of  the  Word.  There  is  a 
tendency  to  fix  the  character,  so  that  one 
will  not  change.  In  the  misuse  of  the 
body  there  comes  a  time  when  it  is  im- 
possible to  ward  oS  disease.  Age  comes 
on,  and  it  is  impossible  to  learn  music  or 
a  new  business.  4  We  shut  the  door 
against  ourselves.  No  oae  but  ourselves 
is  to  blame  for  our  not  entering.  5.  We 
shut  the  door  by  neglecting  to  be  prepared 
to  enter. 

"I  know  you  not:"  I  do  not  recognize 
you  as  belonging  to  the  procession  and  to 
the  guests.  They  had  not  obtained  the 
oil;  they  were  not  prepared  to  enter.  To 
the  marriage  feast  (heaven)  none  are  ad- 
mitted without  light  (holiness),  which  can 
be  sustained  only  by  oil  (divine  grace) 
(Eph.  5:  5;  Heb.  12:  U).—Abhott.  The 
door  was  shut  as  much  for  the  security 
and  joy,  without  interruption,  of  those 
within,  as  for  the  lasting  exclusion  of 
those  without  (Gen.  7:  16;  Rev.  3:  12).— 
Trench. 

"Watch,  therefore,"  etc. :  for  in  a  very 
important  sense  the  Son  of  man  is  coming 
to  us  every  hour  of  every  day.  Each  new 
hour  brings  us  new  duties  and  new  re- 
sponsibilities from  him.  Have  we  risen 
to  the  occasion?  There  is  a  constant 
process  going  on  within  us,  either  of  in- 
vigoration  or  deterioration;  and  if  we 
meet  Christ  continually,  as  he  comes  to 
us  in  the  common  duties  of  a  common 
day,  we  shall  not  be  dismayed  at  last, 
when  he  comes  in  state,  with  the  flaming 
outriders  of  his  Majesty. —  William  M. 
Taylor .  , 


Home  and  Health. 

the   acids  of  fruits. 

Mr.  George  W.  Johnson,  in  Chemistry 
of  the  World,  in  describing  the  vegetabfe 
food  of  the  world,  says  the  grateful  acid 
of  the  rhubarb  leaf  arises  from  the  malic 
acid  and  bin-oxalate  of  potash  which  it 
contains;  tne  acidity  of  the  lemon,  orange 
and  other  species  of  the  genus  citrus  is 
caused  by  the  abundance  of  citric  acid 
which  their  juice  contains;  that  of  the 
cherry,  plum,  apple  and  pear,  from  the 
malic  acid  in  their  pulp;  that  of  goose- 
berries and  currents,  black,  red  and 
white,  from  a  mixture  of  malic  and  citric 
acids;  that  of  the  grape  from  a  mixture 
of  malic  and  tartaric  acids;  that  of  the 
mango  from  citric  acid  and  a  very  fugi- 
tive essential  oil ;  that  of  the  tamarind  from 
a  mixture  of  citric,  malic  and  tartaric 
acids;  the  flavor  of  the  asparagus  from 
aspartlc  acid,  found  also  in  the  root  of 
the  marsh-mallDw;  and  that  of  the  cu- 
cumber from  a  peculiar  poisonous  ingre- 
dient called  fungin,  wbich  ia  found  in 
all  fungi,  and  is  the  cause  of  the  cucum- 
ber being  offensive  to  some  stomachs.  It 
will  be  observed  that  rhubarb  is  the  only 
fruit  which  contains  bin-oxal  ate  of  potasn 
in  conjunction  with  an  acid.  It  is  this 
ingredient  which  renders  this  fruit  so 
wholesome  at  the  early  commencement 
of  the  summer,  and  this  is  one  of  the 
wise  provisions  of  nature  for  supplying 
a  blood  purifier  at  a  time  when  it  is  likely 
to  be  most  needed.  Beet  root  owes  its 
nutritious  quality  to  about  nine  per  cent 
of  sugar  wnich  it  contains,  and  its  flavor 


to  a  peculiar  substance  containing  ni- 
trogen mixed  with  pectic  acid.  The 
carrot  owes  its  fattening  powers  also  to 
the  sugar,  and  its  flavor  to  a  peculiar 
fatty  oil;  the  horse  radish  derives  its 
flavor  and  blistering  power  from  a  vola- 
tile acrid  oil.  The  Jerusalem  artichoke 
contains  fourteen  and  a  half  per  cent  of 
sugar  and  three  per  cent  of  inulin(a  vari- 
ety of  starch),  besides  gum  and  a  pecul- 
iar substance  to  which  its  flavor  is  owing; 
and  lastly,  garlic,  and  the  rest  of  the  onion 
family,  derive  their  peculiar  odor  from  a 
yellowish,  volatile,  acrid  oil ;  but  they  are 
nutritious  from  containing  nearly  half 
their  weight  of  gummy  and  glutinous 
substances  not  yet  clearly  defined. 
sunflowers  and  malaria. 

The  sunflower  has  long  been  popularly 
supposed  to  be  a  preventive  of  malarious 
diseases.  The  opinion  is  well  founded, 
and  for  the  reason  that  hairy,  soft-leaved 
plants  are  supposed  to  greedily  take  up 
malarial  gases.  The  sunflower  has  broad 
leaves,  and  in  relation  to  the  size  of  the 
plant  a  large  leaf  surface.  The  leaves  of 
the  sunflower  were  long  considered  to  be 
a  specific  for  asthma,  when  dried  and 
smoked  in  a  pipe.  The  value  in  this 
direction  has  not  yet  been  successfully 
controverted.  We  recommend  the  plant- 
ing of  the  sunflower  freely  about  the 
house  in  all  regions  where  malarial  em- 
anations are  likely  to  be  found.  This  is 
always  the  case  in  all  prairie  regions,  or 
those  when  the  original  sod  is  turned. 
The  seeds  are  produced  in  profusion,  form 
a  fattening  food  for  poultry,  and  may  be 
fed  to  all  farm  animals  occasionally  with 
profit.  The  stalks  broken  up  make  ex- 
cellent kindlings  for  fires,  and  thus  every 
portion  of  the  plant  may  be  put  to  good 
use. 

When  raised  in  regular  field  rows,  plant 
four  feet  apart  between  rows  by  twelve 
inches  in  the  row.  Cultivate  precisely  as 
you  would  Indian  corn.  When  the  heads 
are  ripe  cut  and  carry  to  the  threshing 
floor,  or,  cut  partially  off  and  let  them 
hang  down  on  the  stalk  until  dry  and 
then  thresh  The  stalks  may  be  cut  next  to 
the  ground  and  stacked  up  until  wanted 
for  fuel. — Farm  Field  and  btockman. 

HOW   TO   TRAVEL    SAFELY   IN   AFRICA, 

Professor  Oscar  Lenz  has  just  returned 
from  Africa,  and  looks  none  the  worse 
for  his  long  and  fatiguing  journey.  He 
has  remained  in  excellent  health  since  he 
left  Europe,  and  this  he  attributes  to  his 
observance  of  dietary  rules.  He  never 
ate  raw  fruit,  or  drank  unboiled  water. 
He  lived  mostly  on  rice,  chicken,  and  tea. 
Wine  and  spirits  he  did  not  touch .  He 
was  also  careful  to  avoid  bathing  in  the 
rivers  and  pools  of  clear,  cool  water,  so 
tempting  to  travelers,  but  which  so  often 
give  deadly  chills.  He  dressed  in  fiannels, 
and  exposed  himself  as  little  as  possible 
to  night  air.  In  this  way  he  passed  un- 
scathed through  regions  infected  with 
marsh  fevers,  ague  and  small  pox. 

Almost  the  whole  of  his  journey  across 
the  African  Continent  was  performed  on 
foot.  In  general  the  demeanor  of  the 
natives  in  all  regions  was  most  friendly. 
He  always  made  it  a  point  to  avoid  any- 
thing that  might  alarm  them.  He  ex- 
hibited no  weapons,  and  endeavored  to 
show  by  his  manner  and  language,  and 
by  the  ready  offer  of  presents,  that  he 
came  as  a  friend.  It  is  his  boast  that  he 
has  never  had  to  use  a  firearm  for  defence 
against  a  human  being. 

HOW    HK     SAVED    A    CHOKING     CHILD. 

A  correspondent  writing  from  Reno, 
Nev.,  to  the  Sacramento  Union,  tells  how 
he  saved  the  life  of  a  child.  He  writes: 
"I  was  engaged  in  hauling  wood  from  a 
timber  ranch  to  Austin,  Reese  River,  Ne- 
vada. There  was  a  house  over  the  sum- 
mit from  the  above  place,  where  resided 
two  families  belonging  to  the  wood- 
choppers,  and  on  arriving  in  sight  of  the 
house  a  woman  came  out  and  beckoned 
me  to  make  haste,  that  something  was 
wrong.  I  did  so,  and  just  in  time,  for 
the  other  woman  came  out  holding  a 
child  in  her  arms,  apparently  dead.  It 
was  black  in  the  face.  She  told  me  the 
child  had  been  eating  pine-nuts,  and  had 
got  a  shell  in  its  throat,  had  choked,  and 
was  dying.  I  immediately  got  a  piece  of 
board  about  four  feot  long  and  placed  it 
across  the  door-sill.  She  sat  the  child 
on  one  end  and  I  tipped  the  other,  mak- 
ing a  sudden  jar  which  caused  the  shell 
to  pass  downward,  and  gave  the  child 
immediate  relief.  No  person  can  imag- 
ine how  overjoyed  that  mother  was  for 
saving  her  only  child.  I  know  of  several 
cases  in  which  this  process  has  proved 
suoceaaful." 


ANTIMABOmO  LBOTURBRB. 
Qbnsbal  AeBKT  Aim  Lbctubbb,  J.  P. 
Stoddard,  281  W.  Madison  St.,  Chicago. 
H.  H.  Hinman,  Cynosure  office. 
Agent  for  Southern  States. 
Statb  AesNTS. 
Iowa,  C.  F.    Hawley,  Wheaton,    Du- 
Page  Co.,  Illinois. 
Missouri,  Eld.  Rufus  Smith,  Maryville. 
New  Hampshire,   Eld.  8.  0.  Kimball, 
New  Market. 
Ohio,  W.  Bj  Stoddard,  Columbufl. 
Kansas,  Robert  Loggan,  Clifton. 
Alabama,  Rev.  G.  M.  Elliott,  Selma. 

Dbobbb  Wobkkbb. — [Seceders-l 
J.  K.  Glassford,  Carthage,  Mo. 
Otbxb  Lbctubsbs. 

C.  A.  Blanchard,  Wheaton,  111. 
N.  Callender,  Brown  Hollow,  Pa. 
J,  H.  TlmmonB,  Tarentum,  Pa 

T.  B.  McCormlck,  Princeton,  Ind. 

K.  JolmBon,  Dayton,  Ind. 

H.  A.  Day,  WlUlamstown,  Mich. 

J.  M.  BlBhop,  Chambersburg,  Pa. 

A.  Mayn,  Bloomlngton,  Ind. 

J.  B.  CreBBlnger,  Sullivan,  O. 

W.  M.  Love,  OBceola,  Mo. 

J.  L.  Barlow,  Gnindy  Center,  Iowa. 

A.  D.Freeman,  Downers  Grove,  111 
Wm.  FentoD.  8t  Paul,  Minn. 
Warren  Taylor,  South  Salem,  O. 

J.  8.  Perry,  ThompBon,  Conn. 
J.  T.  Michael,1583  Capouse  Av.8cranton,Pa. 
8.  G.  Barton,  Breckinridge,  Mo. 

B.  BametBon.  Haeklnvllle,  Steuben  Co,'N.  Y 
Wm.  R.  Roach,  Pickering,  Ont 

D.  A.  Richards,  Brighton,  Mich. 

THE   OHXmCHEE    VS.   LOD^SRT. 

The  following  denominations  are  com- 
mitted by  vote  of  their  legislative  assem- 
blies or  by  constitution  to  a  separation 
from  secret  lodge  worship: 

Adventists  (Seventh-day.) 

Baptists — Primitive,  Seventh-day  and 
Scandinavian. 

Brethren  (Dunkers  or  German  Bap- 
iists.) 

Christian  Reformed  Church. 

Church  of  God  \Northem  Indiana  El 
dership.) 

Congregational — The  State  Associations 
of  Illinois  and  Iowa  have  adopted  resolu- 
tions against  the  lodge. 

Disciples  (in  part.) 

Friends. 

Lutherans — Norwegian,  Danisk,  Sw»d- 
ish  and  Synodical  Conferences. 

iMennonites. 

Methodists — Free  and  Wesleyan. 

Methodist  Protestant  (Minnesota  Con 
ference.) 

Moravians. 

Plymouth  Brethren. 

Presbyterian — Associate,  Reformoil  and 
United. 

Reformed  Church  (Holland  Branch.) 

United  Brethren  in  Christ. 

Individual  churches  in  some  of  these 
denominations  should  be  excepted,  in  part 
of  them  even  a  considerable  portion. 

The  following  local  churches  have,  as  a 
pledge  to  disfellowship  and  oppose  lodge 
worship,  given  their  names  to  the  follow- 
ing list  as 

THE    ASSOCIATED    CHURCHK8    OF  CHRIST. 

New   Ruhamah  Cong.  Hamilton,  Miss. 
Pleasant  Ridge  Cong.  Sandford  Co.  Ala. 
New  Hope  ilethodlst,  Lowiides  Co.,  Mis*. 
Cong^rcgatlonal,  College  Springs,  Iowa. 
College  Church  of  Christ,  ^V■lleaton,  111. 
First  Congregational,  Leland,  Mich. 
Sugar  Grove  Church,  Green  county,  Pa. 
Military  Chapel,   M.    E.,   Lowndes  county. 
Miss. 
Hopewell  Missionary  Baptist.,  Lowndes  Co., 

MlSR. 

Cedar  Grove  Miss.  Baptist,  Lowndes  Co., 
Miss. 

Simon's  Chapel,   M.   E.,  Lowndes  Co.,  Miss. 

Pleasant  Kldgo  Miss.  Baptist,  Lowndes  Co., 
VIIbs. 

Brownlee  Church,  Caledonia,  Miss. 

Salem  Church,  Lowndes  Co.,  Miss. 

West  Preston  Bantlst  Church,  Wayne  Cc.Pa. 
OTHER  LOCAL  CHTTBCHB8 

adopting  the  same  nrinciple  are — 

Baptist  churches :  «.  Ablngton,  Pa. ;  Meno- 
monle,  Mondovl,  Waubeck  and  Spring  Prairie, 
Wis. ;  Wheaton,  111. ;  Perry,  N.  Y. ;  Spring 
Creek,  near  Burlington,  Iowa ;  Lima,  Ind. ; 
ConsUblevUle,  N.  Y.  The  "Good  Will  Assocl- 
ton"of  Mobile,  Ala.,  comprising  some  twenty- 
five  colored  Baptist  churches;  Brideewater 
Baptist  Association,  Pa.;  Old  Tebo  Baptist, 
near  LeesvlUe,  Henry  Co.,  Mo. ;  Hoopeston,  III ; 
Esmen,  111. ;  Strykersvllle,  N.  Y. 

Congregational  churches :  Ist  of  Oberlln,  O. ; 
Tonlca,  CTystal  Lake,  Union  and  Big  Woods, 
111. ;  Solsbury,  Ind. ;  Congregational  Methodist 
Maplewood,  Mass. 

Independent  churches  In  Lowell,  Country- 
man school  house  near  Llndenwood,  Marengo 
and  Streator,  111. :  Bereaand  Camp  Nelson,  Ely; 
Ustlck,  111. ;  Clarksburg,  Kansas ;  SUte  Assod- 
atlonot  Mlnlaten  andCharchM  sf  Uhrlstis 
KatMky. 


N.  C.  A.  BUILDING  AND  OFFICl  Of 

THE  CHRISTIAN   CYNOSURE, 
181  WEST  MADISON  STREET,  CHICAGC 


NA  TIONAL  CERI8  TlAN  ASSOC  IA  TIOB 

Pbebidbnt.— H.  H.  George,  D.  D.,  Gen 
eva  College,  Pa. 

ViCB-PBBSiDBNT — Rev.  M.  A.  Gault, 
Blanchard,  Iowa. 

Cob.  Sbc^t  and  Gbnbral  Aeanr. — J 
P.  Stoddard,  221 W.  Madison  St.,  Chicago. 

Rbc.  Sbc't.  and  Tbbasubbb. — W.  I. 
Phillips,  221  W.  Madison  St.,    Chicago. 

Debbctobs. — Alexander  Thomson,  H 
R.  Britten,  John  iJardner,  J.  L.  Barlow, 
L.  N.  Stratton,  Thos.  H.  Gault,  0.  A. 
Blanchard,  J.  E.  Roy,  E.  R.  Worrell,  H. 
A.  Fischer,  W.  R.  Hench. 

The  object  of  this  Association  Is: 

"To  expose,  withstand  and  remove  secret 
societies,  Freemasonry  In  particular,  and  othel 
anti-Christian  movements,  in  order  to  save  tbs 
churches  ol  Christ  from  being  cepraved,  to  re 
deem  the  admlnlstrjUon  of  justice  from  per- 
version, and  our  r?p  iblican  government  from 
corruption." 

To  carry  on  this  work  contributions  are 
solicited  from  every  friend  of  tne  reform. 

Form  of  Bequest. — 7  give  and  bccueath  to 
the  National  Christian  Association,  Incorpo- 
rated and  existing  under  the  laws  of  the  8tat« 

of   Illinois,  tlie  sum  of '    doUats  for  the 

purposes  of  said  Association,  and  for  whi'-h 
toe  receipt  of  its  Treasurer  for  the  time  being 
^all  be  sufficient  dlscharse. 

THB  NATIOHAL  CONTBHTIOR. 

PBBSiDwwr.- Rev.  J.  8.  T.  Milligan, 
Denison,  Kans. 

Sbcretabv.— Rev.  R.N.Countee.Mem- 
phis,  Tenn. 

STATE  AUXILIABY  ABSOCIATIONB. 

Alabaxa.— Pre*.,  Prof.  Pickens;  Sec.,  O. 
M.  Elliott;  Treae.,  Rev.  C.  B.  Curtis,  all  of 
Selma. 

CAiJVORinA.— Pres^  L.  B.  Lathrop,  Hollli 
ter;  Cor.  Sec,  Mrs.  U.  P.  Merrill,  Woodland; 
Treas.,  C.  Ruddock,  Woodland. 

CoNNHCTicuT.— Pres..  J.  A.  Conant,  Will! 
mantle;  Sec,  Geo.  Smith,  WUllmantlc ;  Treaa. 
C.  T.  CoUln^  Whndsor. 

Illinois.— Pres.,  J.  P.  Stoddard;  Sec,  M. 
N.  Butler;  Treaa.,  W.  I.  PhllUps  all  at  Cv 
nature  office. 

Indiana.— Pres.,  William  H.  Flgg,  Reno 
Sec,  8.  L.  Cook,  Albion;  Treas.,  BenJ.  Ulah 
SUver  Lake. 

Iowa.— Pre8.,WmJohn6ton,ColIeite  Springs; 
Cor  Sec.,  C.  D.  Trumbull,  Morning  Bun; 
Treas.,  James  Harvey.  Pleasant  Plain.  Jeffer- 
son Co. ;  Lecturer,  C.  F.  Hawlcv,  Wheaton,  111. 

Kansas.— Pres..  J.  8.  T.  Mllflgan,  Denison; 
.Bec.,S.  Hart,  Lecompton;  Treas,,  J.  A.  Tor- 
rence,  Denison. 

Massaohdsbtts.— Pres.,  8.  A.  Pratt;  Sec., 
Mrs.  E.  D.  Bailey;  Treas.,  David  Mannlng,8r., 
Worcester. 

MiOHioAN.— Pree.,  D.  A.  Richards,  Brighton  ; 
Bec'y,  H.  A.  Day,  WlUlamston;  Treaa. 
Geo.  Bwanson,  Jr.,  BedfoiJ. 

MiNNBSOTA.— Pres.,  E.  G.  Paine,  Waoio.'a 
Cor.  Sec,  Wm.  Fenton,  St.  Paul :  Rec  Ssc'y 
Mrs.  M.  F.  Morrill,  St.  Cnarles;  Treat.,  Wn 
H.  Morrill,  St.  Charles. 

MissoUKi.— Pres.,  B.  F.  Miller,  EaglevlUe 
Treas.,  William  Beauchamp,  Avalon ;  Cor.  6tc 
A.  D.  Thoma^  Avalon. 

Nbbbabka.— Pree.,  8.  Austin,  Falnnonzt' 
Cor.  Bee,  W.  Bpooner,  Seamey;  Treaa.'. 
J.  C.  Fye. 

Mainb— Pros.,  Isaac  Jackson,  Harrison; 
Sec,  1.  D-  Haines,  Dexter;  Treas.,  H.  W. 
Goddard,  West  Sidney. 

Nbw  Hampshikb.— Pres.,  C.  L.  Baker,  Man ' 
Chester;  Bee,  8.  C.  Kimball,  New  Market' 
Treas.,  James  /.  French,  Canterbury. 

Nbw  York.— Prea.,  F.  W.  Capwell,  Dale; 
Sec'y,  John  Wallace,  Byracuse;  Treaa.,  M. 
Merrick,  Syracuse. 

Ohio.— rree.,  F.  M.  Spencer,  New  Concord; 
Rec  Sec,  8.  A.  George,  Manstield ;  Cor.  Sec. 
and  Treas.,  C.  W.  HUtt,  Columbus;  Agent, 
W.  B.  Stoildard,  Columbus. 

Pbnnstlvania.— Cor.  Sec,  N.  Callender, 
Thompeen ;  Treaa.,  W.  B.Bertels,  WUkesbarre. 

Vbbmont.— Prea.,  W.  R.  Laird,  8U  Johna- 
bury ;  Bee,  C.  W  Potter. 

WI500H8IN.— Prea.,  J.  W  Wood,  Baraboo; 
Sec,  W.  W.  Ames,  MenoinoBUvTrM*.,  U.  R 
Britten,  Vlaana. 


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THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


April  12, 1888 


The  Christian  Cynosure. 


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To  no  poatoflace  in  the  United  States  are  so  many  cop 
ies  of  the  Cynosure  sent  as  to  New  Orleans.  February 
1st  fifteen  names  were  on  our  list  there;  two-thirds  from 
our  ministers'  fund;  now  there  are  a  hundred  and  over, 
and  nearly  all  subscribed  for  on  the  spot.  Bro.  David- 
son ssnds  a  list  every  week,  and  the  reform  goes  on  from 
strength  to  strength.  The  ministers'  fund  sent  about 
twenty  copies  during  1887.  They  helped  to  the  National 
Convsntion;  the  Convention  helped  to  this  grand  list; 
and  this  will  help  the  churches  out  of  the  lodge  rut. 
This  work  we  must  continue  to  our  utmost  ability.  As 
fast  as  the  fund  grows  (see  page  13)  the  Cynosure  is 
sent  on  to  the  colored  pastors.  Lat  us  put  the  paper  in 
the  hands  uf  a  thousand  before  June. 


EDITORIAL  CORRESPONDENCE. 

New  Iberia,  La.,  March  29,  1888. 

I  have  not  only  conversed  with  the  city  officials 
and  leading  citizens  here,  but  have  been  shaved  by 
five  different  barbers  to  get  ideas  and  information 
from  the  bottom  of  society  as  well  as  from  the  top. 

My  hopes  for  the  future  of  the  United  States  in- 
crease as  my  acquaintance  with  the  South  is  en- 
larged. There  is  less  difference  between  the  people 
of  the  two  sections  than  I  had  supposed.  There  are 
patriots  and  philanthropists  here  as  well  as  in  the 
North,  but  the  debris  of  slavery  and  the  war  have 
given  the  South  far  more  difficulties  to  surmount; 
and  there  are 

BLACK  ROUGHS 

a^  well  as  white  here. 

About  a  year  since,  a  worthless  Negro  near  where 
I  write,  had  a  wife  who  supported  him  by  her  labor, 
while  he  spent  hia  time  gambling.  He  had  not  even 
the  excuse  of  drunkenness,  but  cruelly  beat  his  wife 
to  make  her  give  him  money  to  gamble  with.  She 
had  75  cents,  and  he  wanted  it.  She  refused  to  let 
him  have  it,  as  she  wanted  bread  for  the  family. 
He  went  home  from  the  gambling  hell,  broke  and 
crazed  with  the  gambling  furor;  and,  as  she  refused 
to  get  him  the  money,  he  got  a  rope  and  heavy  raw- 
hide, tied  her  up  and  cut  her  up  horribly.  As  she 
was  either  stunned  and  senseless  by  the  scourging, 
or  resolved  not  to  get  him  the  money,  (none  but 
their  little  girl  was  present)  he  got  a  razor  and  cut 
her  throat  from  ear  to  ear.  The  neighbors  found 
her  in  that  ghastly  condition,  dead,  and  the  rope, 
razor  and  rawhide  lying  on  the  floor  in  her  blood. 
He  is  now  in  States  prison  under  sentence  for  life. 
Why  he  was  not  hung  does  not  appear.  But  it  is 
noticeable  that  people,  where  human  life  is  cheap, 
and  murders  and  lynchings  common,  shrink  from 
infliciing  death  when  demanded  by  justice  and  the 
law  of  God,  when  there  is  no  popular  or  personal 
rage  to  urge  to  do  it.  Then  Louisiana  is  the  only 
State  whose  laws  license  lottery  gambling;  and  the 
lesser  gambling  hells  are  still  open  here.  To  hang 
their  victims  would  reflect  on  the  mills  which  turn 
out  such  demoniac  work. 

This  wife-murderer  is  not  the  only  specimen  of 
Negro  depravity.  Many  go  to  the  saloons  as  soon 
as  they  get  a  shilling  for  their  labor,  and  white  men 
sell  them  liquor.  I  have  been  in  the  court-house  an 
hour  or  two  for  several  days  and  most  of  the  cases 
tried,  while  I  was  there,  were  against  blacks  for 
petty  larceny.  The  Negroes  work  for  liquor  and 
steal  for  bread;  and  it  would  be  instructive  to  com- 
pare the  license  money  paid  by  the  saloons,  and  the 
criminal  expen8e3  paid  by  the  parish  (county)  to 
punish  their  thieving,  hunger-bitten  customers. 

WHITE   ROUGHS. 

A  gassy,  swaggering  barber,  who  passes  for  a 
white  man,  said  to  me:  "A  white  man  took  a  nig 
ger  to  a  soda  fountain,  and  called  for  two  glasses  of 
soda.  The  clerk  told  him  niggers  were  not  allowed 
to  drink  soda  there.  Had  I  been  there,  I  should 
have  given  the  Negro  a  glass  of  soda,  and  broke  the 
glass  over  the  white  man's  head."  (The  white  man 
was  Mr.  Jerome  Howe,  and  the  colored  man  was  a 
respicted  minister  of  the  Gospel ) 

Aa  the  barber  got  under  way  in  talk  he  said: 
''We  went  down  to  Tbibodeaux  parish  last  Novem- 
ber and  put  a  parcel  of  them  niggers  where  they 
never'll  come  back  to  trouble  white  folks." 

"What  had  they  done?  "  I  asked. 

"They  struck  for  wages." 

"Did  you  kill  them  for  striking?" 


"D— n  them,  we  killed  them  for  fun,"  said  he. 
"They  are  reptiles:  there's  nothing  human  about 
them." 

A  night  or  two  afterward  a  Baptist  missionary 
woman  called  on  us,  who  said  she  had  been  all  over 
the  parish  of  Thibodeaux,  and  had  held  meetings 
among  the  people  and  knew  them  well.  This  was 
her  story :  She  said  the  planters  in  that  parish  had 
worked  the  Negroes,  as  when  they  were  slaves,  for 
what  they  chose  to  give  them,  thinking  it  beneath 
them  to  bargain  with  Negroes.  The  planters  made 
their  own  terms  among  themselves.  An  agent  of 
the  Knight»of  Labor  initiated  them  and  their  "Mas- 
ter" ordered  them  to  strike.  The  poor  creatures 
obeyed;  quit  the  plantations  and  went  to  the  village; 
and  outside  Knights  sent  them  supplies  to  live  on. 
The  planters  felt  or  feigned  fears  of  an  insurrec- 
tion, though  not  one  Negro  of  them  all  had  a  gun. 
The  planters  applied  to  Gov.  McEnery,  who  ordered 
out  the  militia  to  "quell  the  insurrection."  A  force 
was  gathered  from  Iberia  and  up  as  far  as  to  Shreve- 
port,  and  went  down  to  Thibodeaux,  seized  colored 
people  in  houses,  unarmed  and  unorganized,  singly, 
and  by  twos  and  threes;  took  them  into  the  streets 
and  told  them  to  "run;"  and  shot  them  as  they 
ran.  And  once  at  it,  they  shot  every  colored  man 
they  met  till,  our  missionary  said,  no  one  knew  how 
many  were  killed.  They  would  have  killed  more, 
but  humane  white  people  secreted  and  saved  many. 
She  knew  one  white  woman  who  secreted  and  saved 
eleven,  and  those  who  were  saved  fled  the  parish. 
Others  went  back  to  the  plantations  to  work  under 
the  planters. 

This  Baptist  missionary  woman  is  sustained  by  a 
respectable  missionary  society  in  New  York,  and  is 
reputed  a  woman  of  piety  and  veracity  by  a  multi- 
tude of  people  of  the  various  religious  denomina- 
tions. Her  narrative  confirms  the  story  of  the 
barber,  given  above,  of  his  own  exploits. 

REMARKS. 

1.  The  Haddock  murder  and  screening  of  his 
slayers  in  Sioux  City,  Iowa,'  equalled  in  infamy, 
though  not  in  extent,  this  slaughter  of  unarmed 
people  in  Thibodeaux  parish.  The  Gambrell  mur- 
der by  Hamilton  in  Mississippi  is  a  similar  case. 

2.  There  were  humane  people  in  Thibodeaux 
who  abhorred  that  wholesale  butchery;  so  there  are 
all  over  the  South. 

3.  The  murdered  were  Knights  of  Labor  obeying 
orders.  And  Mr.  Powderly  recognized  black  Knights 
at  Richmond,  Va.,  and  says,  "A  wrong  done  to  one 
is  done  to  all."  What  have  he  and  his  Knights  done 
for  the  families  of  these  poor  creatures?  Have  they 
even  petitioned  President  Cleveland  to  send  a  mar- 
shall  there? 

4.  How  charmingly  secret  societies  protect  labor 
and  laborers! 

MISCEGENATION. 

Hon.  Fred.  Douglass,  reputed  to  be  worth  some 
hundred  thousand  dollars,  married  Helen  Pitts,  a 
handsome  white  woman,  and  Grover  Cleveland, 
Democratic  President  of  the  United  States,  notified 
him  of  a  diplomatic  dinner,  given  to  the  ministers 
of  the  governments  of  the  world;  and  that  he  (Doug- 
lass and  lady)  were  expected  to  be  guests,  and  they 
were.  Some  of  us  remember  when  Democratic  mobs 
assailed  Abolitionists  with  the  hue  and  cry  "Amal- 
gamation!" — though  a  few  years  before,  Richard  M. 
Johnson,  Democratic  Vice  President,  had  a  family 
of  colored  children  by  his  slave-woman,  whom  he 
recognfzed  in  public  as  his  children.  It  did  not  in- 
jure Col.  Johnson's  popularity  with  the  Democrats. 
Yellow  Chinamen  marry  white  women;  and  Major 
Bridger  has,  or  recently  had,  daughters  by  a  equaw 
of  the  Saake  tribe  of  Indians,  in  the  high  schools  of 
Missouri.  Women  teachers  sent  South  by  mission- 
ary societies  to  teach  colored  children  were  hissed 
and  shunned  if  they  "associated"  with  the  parents 
of  their  scholars;  and  a  Democratic  justice  of  the 
peace  dragged  Rev.  George  Storrs  from  his  knees 
while  praying  in  an  Abolition  meeting,  and  good 
Democrats  justified  him  with  theory  of  "Amalgama- 
tion!" 

I  am  writing  here  in  a  town  of  intelligent  Ameri- 
can people  who  would  turn  pale  if  they  were  sus- 
pected or  accused  of  "associating"  with  people 
called  "colored,"  though  it  might  be  difficult  to  tell 
whether  they  were  colored  or  white  people.  As  peo- 
ple are,  and  of  right  ought  to  be,  free  to  choose  or 
refuse  their  associates,  this  State  caste  feeling  would 
do  no  hurl  if  it  was  not  carried  to  absolute  persecu- 
tion and  proscription,  and  establishing  a  state  of 
society  conflicting  with  the  law  of  Cbrist,  whose 
kingdom  forbids  caste.  An  iron  law  or  custom,  as 
in  Asia,  putting  one  class  or  set  of  people  above  an- 
other, lifts  up  vice  with  one  hand  and  strangles  vir- 
tue with  the  other.  In  such  society,  a  girl  exalts 
her  standing  by  prostituting  herself  to  a  man  of  the 


upper  caste;  and  if  the  man  has  property,  he  does 
not  degrade  himself  by  the  whoredom  which  is 
blasted  by  woe-trumpets  from  the  beginning  of 
God's  Word  to  the  end. 

In  my  Southern  travels  I  know  of  many  cases 
where  men  have  raised  children  by  yellow  or  dark- 
faced  concubines  and  lose  no  credit  with  women  who 
profess  to  be  Christian  ladies;  but  if  smitten  by 
conscience  and  God's  Word,  those  men  attempt  to 
remove  the  brand  of  bastardy  from  their  guiltless 
children,  by  marrying  their  mothers,  these  would-be 
ladies  brand  the  attempt  to  obey  the  law  of  God  and 
mercy  to  the  children  with  opprobrium! 

If  this  matter  is  sifted  to  the  bottom  it  amounts 
to  this:  When  Douglass  married  Helen  Pitts,  every 
marriageable  colored  girl  feared  that  if  it  became 
fashionable  for  black  men  to  marry  white  women, 
their  chances  for  marriage  would  be  diminished,  and 
every  colored  mother  who  had  marriageable  daugh- 
ters, was  enraged  at  Douglass,  as  one  doctor  hates 
another  who  gets  his  patients;  and  white  women 
prefer  to  wink  at  whoredom  with  colored  women  for 
a  like  selfish  reason.  They  do  not  wish  persons 
now  beneath  them  should  share  honorable  marriage 
with  themselves,  lest  if  they  should  equal  them  in 
virtue  and  intelligence,  a  white  face  should  cease  to 
be  a  badge  of  superiority. 

But  this  rage  and  rancor  in  white  women  or  black, 
always  defeats  its  own  end.  This  violent  hatred  of 
colored  complexion  during  slavery,  has  begun  to 
whiten  the  faces  of  the  colored  race  in  the  South, 
while  in  the  North,  in  all  the  States  where  I  have 
traveled  and  observed,  where  the  law  of  Christ  regu- 
lates society,  people  consult  their  taste  and  taste  is 
so  far  governed  by  popular  sentiment  that  such 
mixed  marriage  is  exceedingly  rare.  "Godliness  is 
profitable,  having  promise  of  the  life  that  now  is, 
and  of  that  which  is  to  come." 

AT   HOME   AGAIN. 

If  the  readers  of  the  Cynosure  had  seen  and  heard 
all  that  my  eyes  and  ears  have  beheld  and  heard  in 
the  last  two  months,  they  would  be  filled  with  de- 
vout thanksgiving  to  God  and  hope  for  the  country. 
We  shall  endeavor  to  lend  them  our  eyes  and  ears. 
As  the  jar  of  car-riding  night  and  day  is  still  in  our 
nervous  system,  we  shall  attempt  but  little  now. 
Next  week  we  will  give  them  an  address  on  Congre- 
gationalism; especially  its  decline  from  the  first  to 
the  sixth  denomination  in  the  United  States,  read 
bifore  the  Louisiana  State  Congregational  Associa- 
tion, New  Orleans,  April  4th  inst;  with  other  grave 
matters. 

Had  our  readers  been  with  us  and  affected  by  the 
"things  seen"  as  we  have  baen,  these  are  some  of 
the  impressions  they  would  have  received: 

1.  Devout  gratitude  to  God  for  the  overthrow  of 
slavery.  There  is  now,  in  one  town  visited,  a  man 
who  whipped  a  slave  to  death.  The  slave,  to  avoid 
the  torture  of  a  savage  overseer,  would  run  into  the 
swamps,  and  live  among  the  alligators  and  mocca- 
sin snakes.  He  wa^  taken  after  six  months  absence. 
The  owner's  son  told  him  he  would^  kill  him;  took 
him  to  the  stable,  pinioned  and  beat  him  till  he 
ceased  to  breathe.  The  murderer  is  now  a  member 
of  the  Episcopal  church  in  good  standing  in  the 
community  I 

2.  You  would  still  see  indescribable  atd  unspeak- 
able oppression  of  the  blacks  still  extant.  Ku-klux- 
ism  still  exists,  and, 

"Even  In  its  ashes  live  Its  wonted  fires." 

The  old  Ffench  slave-holding  custom  of  coacubinage 
is  still  practiced  by  prominent  whites.  And  when 
colored  churches  insist  that  such  mothers  shall 
marry  or  withdraw  from  their  communion,  if  the 
white  fathers  yield  to  the  law  of  God  and  love  of 
their  children,  and  consent  to  marry  and  so  put 
their  offspring  within  the  protection  of  legal  wed- 
lock, they  are  threatened  with  notices  to  leave.  And 
white  women  who  wish  to  be  considered  "ladies"  are 
among  the  most  bitter  assailants  of  such  attempts 
to  purify  churches  and  protect  children  from  the 
curse  of  bastardy — which  children  are  often  hand- 
somer and  better  than  their  own!  Yet  those  very 
"ladies"(?)  have  made  no  objection  to  associating 
with  the  men  who  practice  this  concubinage  with 
the  blacks.  Bat  thanks  to  God  and  the  fall  of  slav- 
ery,* the  best  and  often  the  most  prominent  men  gave 
us  this  information,  and  say  that  the  law  of  God  is 
displacing  these  evils  of  the  old  slavery  regime. 

3.  Had  you  been  with  us,  strange  to  tell,  you 
would  find  in  your  heart  an  actual  sympathy  with 
and  compassion  for  the  persecuting  whites.  If  you 
read  Secretary  Stoddard's  information  gathered  from 
the  book  stands  in  New  Orleans,  you  w'll  see  that 
the  white  masses  South  were  dragged  into  the  war 
by  the  Masonic  lodges,  which  invented  facts  to  in- 
flame and  deceive  them — and  that  both  armies, 
Union  and  Confederate,  were  ruled  by  the  lodge  till 


April  12,  1888 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


they  came  to  a  few  men  like  Grant.  And  when 
these  Confederate  troops  came  home  to  poverty  un- 
utterable, they  found  the  State  and  municipal  gov- 
ernments in  the  hands  of  Northern  men  like  Wm. 
Pitt  Kellogg  of  Star  Route  notoriety,  elected  by  ex- 
slaves  who  could  not  read  their  ballots!  And  the 
Union  otflcera,  who  were  Masons,  helped  drag  the 
Southern  whites  into  the  war,  and  then  put  them 
under  the  power  of  their  ignorant  slaves.  What 
would  we  of  the  North  have  done  if  we  had  found 
ourselves  in  their  predicament?  I  could  give  names 
of  Northern  Masons,  Generals  in  the  Union  army, 
who  went  into  convention  in  New  Orleans,  and  voted 
to  justify  the  shooting  of  400  Republican  voters — 
which  Gen.  Sheridan  reported  to  Grant  as  "premedi- 
tated slaughter!"  "Every  despotic  system,"  said 
Sheridan,  the  orator,  in  the  impeachment  of  Warren 
Hastings,  "is  twice  cursed.  While  it  exists,  it  is 
responsible  for  the  misery  it  engenders;  and  when 
broken  up,  as  it  must  be,  it  causes  all  the  horrors 
which  follow."  The  lodge  hatched  the  rebellion, 
and  waged  the  war.  It  took  both  sides  in  the  war. 
And  but  for  the  Anti-masons,  like  Grant,  would 
have  swamped  free  government  and  given  us  Alex- 
ander H.  Stephen's  "Empire  with  slavery  for  its 
corner-stone."  j.  b. 


THB  WEBATON  COUNCIL. 


The  senior  editor  of  the  Oynoture  had  no  part  in 
the  two  church  councils  lately  held  at  Wheaton; 
wrote  nothing,  buggested  nothing  for  either  of  them. 
He  first  saw  the  result  of  the  second  council  in  the 
New  Orleans  Times-Democrat,  telegraphed  to  that 
paper.  The  councils  were  called  to  recognize  the 
Wheaton  College  church.  The  illegal  expulsion  of 
the  editor  by  a  church,  and  his  ten  year's  suspen- 
sion by  Elgin  Association  were  not  considered,  and 
he  is  now  a  member  of  that  body  under  suspension, 
and  quietly  awaiting  its  action. 

The  council  itself  was  presented  by  the  associate 
editor  in  last  week's  Cynosure.  It  was  evidently 
called  of  God  and  conducted  in  the  Spirit  of  Christ; 
and  its  moderator,Dr.  Goodwin,  has  laid  every  mem- 
ber of  the  churches  under  obligations  of  gratitude 
for  his  fidelity  and  ability.  The  paper  prepared  to  be 
signed  as  an  end  of  strife  had  already,  in  fact,  been 
signed  years  ago;  but  it  was  at  once  signed  and  re- 
turned again  as  requested  by  the  Council.  Now  all  that 
remains  is  to  provide  for  a  thorough  visitation  of  all 
the  churches  and  to  seek  a  general  revival  of  relig- 
ion, without  which  no  reform  work  or  action  of 
councils  will  do  any  permanent  good. 


REMOVAL  OF  THB  "AMERICAN." 

In  the  editorial  notes  of  the  Amtrican  for  April 
4th,  we  read: 

"The  headquarters  of  the  American,  after  May  Ist, 
will  be  at  930  Pennsylvania  Avenue,  in  the  building 
of  the  Central  Union  Mission.  We  are  now  publish- 
ing three  papers,  the  aggregate  circulation  of  which 
is  10,000.  We  have  in  contemplation  one  more,  of 
which  we  shall  speak  by  and  by." 

We  are  in  receipt  of  letters  asking  about  the 
above  removal.  The  above  notes  will  explain  the 
matter  and  answer  the  letters. 

When  Prof.  Bailey  left  Wheaton  College,  where 
he  was  a  popular  instructor,  he  gave  as  his  reason 
that  he  "felt  called  to  the  work  of  an  evangelist," 
which  work  he  followed  for  a  time;  and  he  is  pursu- 
ing in  Washington,  as  the  above  shows,  the  same 
line  of  labor.  He  is  soon  to  issue  four  papers.  He 
now  issues  three  from  the  N.  C.  A.  Washington 
building.  He  belongs  to  the  Assembly  Presbyteri- 
an church,  which  fellowships  Masonry;  and  a  few 
remarks  against  the  lodge  some  time  since  by  Bro. 
O.  C.  Bailey  in  the  Central  Union  Mission  produced 
an  explosion.  The  American  of  late  reports  some 
favorable  changes  by  a  "silent  revolution  ;"but  there 
are  no  such  reports  of  enthusiasm  against  the  lodge 
as  Bro.  Hinman  and  Secretary  Stoddard  first  sent 
from  the  capital,  and  if  the  Mission's  gospel  wagon 
should  teach  a  lodge-excluding  religion  in  the  streets 
of  Washington  it  needs  no  prophet  to  tell  us  that 
that  wagon  would  cease  to  run. 

Now  the  Washington  building  was  bought  with 
money  entrusted  to  the  N.  C.  A.  Board  to  teach  a 
lodge-excluding  religion;  to  have  religious  meetings 
in  that  building  where  Free  Methodists,  Wesleyans, 
Covenanters,  Quakers  and  others  can  speak  and 
pray  against  the  lodge  and  not  be  considered  intrud- 
ers or  fanatics.  This  is  the  reason  of  the  change. 
The  Board  of  Directors  last  September  notified  the 
American  Publishing  Company  that  at  the  close 
of  the  present  engagement,  Jute  1,  the  N.  C.  A. 
would  retain  the  income  of  the  building.  They  have 
never  ordered  or  requested  Prof.  Bailey  to  leave, 
but  insisted  that  the  work  of  the  National  Christian 


Association  must  be  done  in  that  building;  and  that 
work  is  a  lodge-excluding  Christianity.  Prof.  Bailey 
in  "the  building  of  the  Central  Union  Mission"  will 
be  at  homo.  The  American  will  not  cease  to  con- 
demn the  lodge,  and  the  three  other  papers  will 
seek  to  promote  the  salvation  of  men  in  union  with 
Christians  who  fellowship  Masons  and  members  of 
other  secret  orders. 

In  brief,  the  change  going  on  at  Washington  is 
merely  the  overflowing  of  our  work  into  new  chan- 
nels. The  Cynosure  expects,  as  it  always  has  done, 
to  second  and  sustain  Prof.  Bailey's  able  writing 
against  the  secret  orders.  But  it  will  also  sustain 
the  National  Board  of  Directors  in  their  endeavor 
to  consecrate  the  Washington  building  as  was  orig- 
inally designed  to  a  religion  at  our  national  capital 
which  will  speak,  pray  and  vote  openly  against  the 
lodge.  

Our  Portrait  for  April  was  postponed,  as  no- 
ticed last  week,  expecting  that  the  engraver  would 
finish  a  fine  likeness  of  the  beloved  Prof.  Wood- 
small  in  season  for  this  number.  He  has  not  done 
so,  and  that  portrait  will  not  appear  until  the  first 
May  issue.  The  sketch  and  likeness  of  this  week 
well  represent  the  character  and  features  of  an  ear 
nest  patriot.  Christian  and  reformer,  who,  though 
not  so  well  known  to  the  Cynosure  readers,de8erves 
to  be  ever  remembered  by  them  for  noble  qualities 
of  mind  and  heart. 


Lodge  Assassins  at  "Work.— Since  Bro.  Coun- 
tee's  escape  from  lodge  enemies  in  Memphis  we 
have  understood  that  colored  members  of  the  secret 
orders  were  ready  to  Morganize  any  one  of  their 
number  who  should  separate  himself  from  them, and 
oppose  them.  Bro.  F.  J.  Davidson,  whose  volun- 
tary efforts  for  over  a  year  in  Louisiana  have  been 
known  to  our  readers,  has,  since  the  National  Con- 
vention, redoubled  his  labors,  and  proves  to  be  a 
dilligent  and  efficient  worker.  His  late  providential 
escape  at  Amite  City  is  told  in  his  letter  elsewhere. 
In  another  letter,  written  on  the  4th  inst.,  he  says 
he  has  received  a  letter  from  the  white  citizens  of 
Amite  City  "denouncing  the  actions  of  the  colored 
Odd  fellows  and  requesting  me  to  send  printed  no- 
tices to  be  placed  up,  and  come  back  and  they  will 
meet  me  at  the  depot  and  assure  me  protection." 
Thank  God  for  such  friendliness.  Lst  the  co.  .red 
brethren  also  stand  by  the  truth  and  those  who  pro- 
claim it,  and  there  will  soon  be  but  one  opinion  in 
the  town  on  the  lodge. 

Later. — A  letter  dated  on  the  7th,  received  ss  we 
prepare  for  press,  is  very  hopeful.  He  says:  "I 
have  received  a  letter  from  Rev.  R.  Kendricks  of 
Amite  City,  urging  me  to  return  and  lecture  on  se- 
crecy, stating  that  the  good  citizens  have  got  the 
names  of  all  the  last  Sunday  would-be  murderers, 
and  intend  to  prosecute  them  to  the  fullest  extent  of 
law.  Take  courage,  brethren,  'the  battle  is  the 
Lord's.' " 


Bishop  Ireland  of  the  Catholic  church  was  brought 
from  Si.  Paul  to  Chicago  last  week  to  give  a  free 
lecture  in  the  fineet  hall  in  the  city  on  temperance. 
The  daily  press,  which  has  no  love  for  the  Prohibi- 
tion movement,  gave  abundant  free  advertising  of 
the  meeting  and  printed  the  address  next  morning 
almost  entire.  Their  conversion  to  temperance 
seemed  astonishing,  but  was  explained  when  it  ap- 
peared the  Biahop  argued  for  high  license.  Who 
paid  the  several  hundred  dollars  expanses  of  that 
meeting? 


Last  Friday,  on  the  second  day  of  the  annual 
Mormon  Conference  at  Salt  Lake  City,  urgent'calls 
were  made  for  the  payment  of  tithing  to  meet  heavy 
church  expenses.  Rudger  Clawson,  who  had  been 
convicted  of  polygamy  and  pardoned  by  President 
Cleveland  after  three  years'  imprisonment,  said  he 
was  convicted  for  obeying  the  law  of  God,  and  he 
saw  300  of  his  brethren  come  there  for  the  same  of- 
fense, and  200  go  from  prison.  "But  1  feel  first 
rate  now.  I  am  not  one  whit  discouraged,  and  have 
just  as  much  faith,  yea,  even  greater,  than  four 
years  ago;  and  if  necessary  I  would  offer  my  life  for 
the  Gospel's  sake.  When  Christ's  servants  go  to 
prison  rather  than  obey  an  unjust  law,  Christ  will 
be  with  them.  The  Lord  has  revealed  to  us  the 
principle  of  celestial  marriage,  and  by  bis  help  we 
will  honor  it,  and  not  make  a  promise  to  abandon 
this  any  more  than  any  other  principle  of  our  faith. 
One  is  just  as  necessary  and  good  as  another,  and 
all  should  be  honored  alike.  And  this  I  ask  in  the 
name  of  Jesus.  Amen."  The  voice  of  the  meeting 
was  for  polygamy  now  and  ever.  Statehood,  constij 
tution,  courts  and  Congress  to  the  contrary  not- 
withstanding. 


— The  good  town  of  Wheaton  rejoices  in  two  vic- 
tories in  answer  to  prayer.  The  church  council,  by 
removing  all  the  questions  of  difference  of  ten  years 
ago,  and  removing  the  charges  against  the  former 
administration  of  the  College,  was  directed  in  an- 
swer to  prayer.  Last  Monday  at  the  village' election 
the  license  party  gave  up  the  fight,  and  put  up  no 
ticket.  Every  vote  was  "straight."  An  ex-saloon 
keeper  was  lately  fined  $400  for  selling  hard  cider. 
It  was  his  second  offense  and  the  fine  was  big  enough 
to  stop  him.  The  Wheaton  friends  must  now  move 
on  to  new  victories  for  their  faith. 

— The  last  number  of  the  Earnest  Christian  of 
Rochester,  N.  Y.,  has  an  able  article  by  Rev.  A.  H. 
Springstein  of  Michigan  on  his  "Induction  into  the 
Masonic  Lodge,"which  would  be  a  valuable  tract  for 
general  circulation. 

— Saturday  last  two  staunch  friends  of  the  N.  C. 
A.  and  liberal  supporters  of  its  work  passed  from 
earth— Peter  Minton  of  Ohio  and  Evan  Jones  of 
Illinois.     "Help,  Lord,  for  the  godly  man  ceaseth." 


PERSONAL  MENTION. 


— Among  the  delegates  to  the  Illinois  State  Pro' 
hibition  Convention  soon  to  be  held  in  Springfield 
are  the  Cynosure  publisher,  W.  I.  Phillips,  and  Rev. 
Wm.  Morrow  of  Bloom,  HI. 

— Darius  Reynolds  and  his  wife  of  Belvidere,  111., 
are  on  their  way  home  from  Florida,  where  they 
have  passed  the  winter.  This  remarkable  old  couple 
are  filling  well  the  measure  of  their  days  with  good 
work  for  the  Master. 

—Rev.  Dr.  J.  G.  Carson  has  resigned  his  profes- 
sorship in  the  United  Presbyterian  Theological  Sem- 
inary at  Xenia,  Ohio.  It  is  surmised  by  the  friends 
of  5lonmouth  College  that  President  McMichael 
will  be  taken  from  them  to  fill  the  vacancy. 

— Mrs.  F.  W.  Capwell  of  Dale,  New  York,  has 
been  for  several  weeks  quite  low  with  fever,  so  that 
there  were  doubts  of  the  result.  Her  daughter,  a 
trained  and  skillful  nurse,  came  on  from  New  York 
city,  and  rendered  most  excellent  service,  so  that  en- 
tire recovery  is  now  hoped  for. 

— Bro.  A.  D.  Zaraphonithes,  the  Greek  missionary, 
reached  Chicago  with  his  interesting  family  last 
Tuesday.  They  are  spending  a  week  in  Wheaton 
with  old  friends,  and  on  Sabbath  Bro.  Zaraphonithes 
spoke  in  the  W.  C.  T.  U.  Gospel  meeting  and  in  the 
College  chapel.  Mrs.  Zaraphonithes  will  remain 
with  her  relatives  in  Peoria  county,  Illinois,  while 
he  is  raising  a  fund  to  establish  an  industrial  school 
in  Greece. 

— A  letter  from  Bro.  W.  B.  Stoddard,  Ohio  agent, 
says  that  Peter  Minton  of  Millville,  who  has  for 
years  been  among  the  strongest  supporters  of  the 
Ohio  State  Association,  is  very  low  with  erysipelas, 
the  disease  affecting  his  head,  and  rendering  hope  of 
his  recovery  exceeding  small.  The  brethren  in  Ohio 
will  learn  this  serious  news  with  genuine  regret. 
God  in  mercy  may  yet  turn  back  a  disease  that 
seems  to  bailie  human  skill. 

— Rev.  Rufus  Johnson,  who  has  been  connected 
with  the  Midland  ever  since  the  removal  of  that  jour- 
nal from  St.  Louis  in  1886,  has  retired,  and  John  J. 
Ashenhurst  of  Wooster,  Ohio,  becomes  associate 
editor  and  business  manager.  Bro.  Johnson  has 
had  considerable  experience  in  newspaper  work, 
having  published  local  papers  at  Blanchard,  Iowa, 
and  elsewhere.  He  has  always  been  faithful  to  the 
testimony  of  the  United  Presbyterian  church, 
against  secretism,  and  can  look  back  upon  a  good 
record  for  Christ. 

— Mrs.  Irene  Stoddard,  mother  of  our  General 
Agent,  celebrated  her  93d  birthday  at  his  home  in 
Wheaton  on  the  Slst  of  March.  In  the  afternoon 
she  entertained  a  company  of  elderly  women, -Mrs. 
Prof.  Baker,  Mrs.  S.  B.  Allen,  Mrs.  Dodge,  and 
others,  and  in  the  evening  walked  half  a  mile  to  the 
College  to  a  concert  and  back.  Mrs.  Stotidard  came 
from  Connecticut  to  Illinois  in  18156  and  has  for  over 
fifty  years  been  connectetl  with  the  Baptist  church. 
She  retains  her  mental  faculties  with  groat  clearness 
and  may  be  counted  on  the  right  side  of  every  great 
moral  question.  She  continues  her  habit  of  early 
rising  and  spends  the  whole  day  in  reading,  knitting 
and  other  useful  employment,  believing  that  it  is  a 
sin  for  any  one,  even  at  her  age,  to  waste  time  in 
idleness  or  to  indulge  in  "foolish  jesting  which  is 
not  convenient"  The  anti-secrecy  and  prohibitory 
movements  have  in  her  a  warm  supporter,  and  the 
c(jloretl  people  a  true  friend,  and  no  worthy  object 
appeals  to  her  in  vain  for  sympathy  or  aid  accord- 
ing to  her  means;  and  she  patiently  waits  for  the 
time  of  her  departure  to  be  forever  with  the  Lord. 


10 


THE  CHEISTIAN  CYNOSUKE. 


Apeil  12, 1888 


THE  Home. 


HYMN  OF  RB8T. 

Come,  all  ye  weary,  worn,  and  Bin-defiled, 
The  day  of  whose  deliverance  hath  not  smiled  — 
Who  toll  on,  sorrow-laden,  sore  distressed. 
Come  unto  me,  and  I  will  give  you  rest  1 

Come,  ye  who  seek,  through  all  the  world  of  sin. 
The  precious  treasure  only  found  within ; 
Clasp  your  eternal  jewel  of  the  breast. 
Come  unto  me,  and  I  will  give  you  rest ! 

Come,  ye  for  whom  the  human  love  hath  proved 
A  longing  to  be  infinitely  loved. 
Whose  hearts  yet  hover  round  some  empty  nest. 
Come  unto  me,  and  I  will  give  you  rest ! 

Come,  ye  who  suffer  through  the  lone,  long  night, 
And  grope  for  day  with  sad,  tear-blinded  sight; 
I  am  the  sun  Ihat  sets  not  In  the  west, 
I  bring  you  healing,  and  will  bring  you  restl 

Come  all  who  bear  the  cross  where  I  have  trod ; 
Who  climb  the  same  ascent  to  God, 
Bowed  down  to  see  the  prints  my  feet  have  pressed, 
Come  unto  me,  and  I  will  give  you  rest  I 

When  storms  arise,  and  seas  of  trouble  roll, 

I  will  be  near  to  save  the  sinljing  soul; 

Each  wave  that  breaks  shall  lift,  dilate  your  breast. 

And  In  their  motion— I  will  give  you  rest. 

— Sunday  Magatiiu. 


THE    WILLFUL    GIFTS   AND    THB    DI800N- 
GERTBD    DEACON 8. 

It  was  a  lovely  June  Sabbath,  one  of  those  days 
when  we  say  with  Lowell,  "June,  dear  June,  now 
God  be  praised  for  June!"  To  walk  or  drive  to 
church  was  delightful  through  spicy  country  roads, 
under  the  arched  ways  made  by  the  woven  tree-tops. 
What  an  air  of  calm  over  the  landscape,  and  how 
fresh  were  the  maidens,  and  how  strong  were  the 
young  men  who  gathered  with  the  old  men  and 
children  at  the  church ! 

It  was  not  long  after  the  congregation  had  dis- 
posed themselves  quietly,  before  a  shade  of  disap- 
pointment might  have  been  observed  creeping  over 
the  assembled  worshipers.  An  audience  has  its 
phases  of  expression  no  less  truly  than  a  human 
countenance,  and  sometimes  shows  its  moods  quite 
as  unrestrainedly  as  a  willful  child.  The  disquiet- 
ing element  was  the  fact  that  a  stranger  occupied 
the  pulpit,  instead  of  the  young  and  popular  minis- 
ter who  had  pleased  them  so  much  of  late.  Besides, 
the  hymns  and  the  prayer  began  to  indicate  the 
theme  of  the  day — one  not  so  agreeable  to  this  con- 
gregation as  it  should  have  been. 

When,  arriving  at  the  sermon,  the  speaker  an- 
nounced himself  as  the  agent  of  the  Foreign  Mis- 
sionary Society,  the  disappointment  turned  to  dis- 
satisfaction. The  day  seemed  to  grow  warmer. 
Fans  began  to  flutter.  Some  of  the  older,  harder- 
worked  brethren  seemed  to  court  repose  in  their 
attitudes  as  far  as  the  unfamiliarity  of  their  Sab- 
bath suits  and  the  unyielding  uprightness  of  the 
pewback  would  allow.  The  speaker  began  to  feel 
the  loss  of  unspoken  sympathy  and  quick  respon- 
siveness from  his  audience.  In  fact,  an  onlooker 
would  not  have  imagined  that  the  most  inspiring 
theme  on  which  a  human  tongue  could  utter  divine 
and  immortal  thoughts,  was  the  theme  to  which 
these  people  were  listening.  There  is  a  dullness 
unconnected  with  a  want  of  hearing  in  the  natural 
ear.  Had  the  inward  ear  of  that  people  been  open 
on  this  particular  morning  they  might  have  heard 
sweet  and  wonderful  notes  struck,  and  listened  to 
some  spiritual  chords,  such  as  are  for  the  most  part 
alien  to  our  earth;  for  he  who  spoke  was  a  deeply 
taught  disciple  in  the  things  that  belong  to  our 
peace,  though,  like  St.  Paul,  in  presence  he  was  base 
and  contemptible  among  them. 

Were  there  none  who  felt  a  thrill  of  sympathetic 
love  aa  he  pleaded  for  those  who  had  never  so  much 
as  heard  that  there  were  any  "good  things?"  Some 
indeed  drank  in  his  words,  and  saw  in  each  dusky, 
debased  idolater  a  pearl  for  whom  the  great  Mer- 
chantman gave  his  all— a  soul  that  might  shine  like 
a  star  for  ever  and  ever;  but  for  the  most  part  this 
church  was  uneducated  in  the  wonderful  science  of 
world  conversion,  unaccomplished  in  the  art  of  giv- 
ing, unactuated  by  the  knowledge  that  "giving  is 
worship." 

The  sermon  at  length  ended.  The  contribution 
plates  were  passed.  Up  to  this  time  everything  had 
been  much  as  usual  in  the  service,  unless,  indeed, 
there  was  a  greater  degree  of  apathy  than  sometimes 
prevails.  Still  the  increasing  heat  of  the  day,  and 
the  matter,  and  the  man,  would  explain  that,  but  not 
the  phenomena  I  am  about  to  describe.  As  I  said, 
the  plates  were  passed.  Deacon  Jones  came  first  to 
Mr.  Blake's  pew,  one  of  the   wealthy   men   of   the 


church.  This  gentleman  had  taken  from  his  pocket- 
book  a  two-dollar  bill.  He  laid  it  on  the  plate,  say- 
ing to  himself  as  he  did  so,  "I  hope  this  will  last 
one  while.  It  is  very  uncertain  where  all  this  money 
goes  to;  but  it  will  not  do  for  me  to  let  the  plate 
pass." 

What  was  his  surprise,  while  the  thought  was  in 
his  mind,  to  see  the  bill,  in  the  most  mysterious 
manner,  silently  leave  the  plate  and  waft  itself  back 
to  his  pocket-book,  still  open  in  his  hand.  His  first 
thought  was;  "Well,  I  am  glad  to  get  my  money 
again."  His  next:  "I  wonder  if  anybody  saw  that?" 
Glancing  around  he  saw  no  evidence  that  anybody 
was  regarding  him  or  his  actions.  The  deacon  went 
on  as  composedly  as  ever,  and  Mr.  Blake  felt  intense- 
ly relieved.  Still  no  bill  was  on  the  plate.  Miss 
Blake,  the  eldest  daughter,  next  deposited  a  fifty- 
cent  piece,  unconsciously  thinking:  "It's  just  so 
much  gone,"  when  a  sharp  rap  on  the  rim  of  her 
porte-monnaie,  and  a  metallic  click  revealed  the 
half-dollar  again  in  her  possession.  With  a  quick 
blush,  she  said,  "I  will  not  try  it  again;  somebody 
might  see  me."  So  she  quickly  slipped  it  into  the 
pages  of  the  hymn  book  in  her  lap. 

Miss  Jennie,  as  youngest,  usually  brought  up  the 
rear  in  the  matter  of  the  family  giving.  Her's  was 
a  ten-cent  piece.  She  put  it  in  without  a  thought 
about  the  money  or  its  destination — thoughts  enough 
of  a  certain  kind  she  har" ;  just  now  they  were  so 
concentrated  on  a  certain  somebody  in  the  choir, 
that  she  hardly  noticed  how  quickly  the  little  piece 
was  her's  again. 

Now  it  was  Mrs.  Blake's  turn,  and  a  dollar  to  be 
sacrificed  to  the  cause  lay  in  her  hand.  "How  often 
these  collections  do  come!  There's  our  Woman's 
Society,  too,  to  which  I  am  pledged." 

"But  what  is  this?"  she  thought,  breathlessly, 
"Deacon  Jones  has  gone  by  without  my  money;  I 
was  sure  I  put  that  money  on  the  plate.  Yet  here 
it  is  in  my  hand." 

As  you  see,  at  this  rate,  the  plate  was  not  filling 
very  fast.  Directly  behind  the  Blakes  sat  Farmer 
Freeman.  He  had  not  had  a  very  successful  year. 
This  past  week  a  mortgage  had  fallen  due,  and  he 
certainly  had  reason  for  feeling  pretty  poor.  How- 
ever, for  decency's  sake,  he  had  laid  hold  of  a  very 
slippery  quarter,  and  had  just  put  it  on  the  plate, 
when,  seeing  its  emptiness,  he  said  to  himself: 

"I  had  two  minds  about  that  quarter,  and  ef  I'd  a 
seen  that  Lawyer  Blake  didn't  give  anything,  I'd  a 
kep'  it  anyway!     Ef  he  can't  give,  I  guess  I  can't!" 

While  the  thought  was  in  his  mind,  back  came  the 
furtive  quarter,  as  if  in  answer  to  his  unspoken  idea. 

The  mysterious  connection  between  the  inner, 
half -conscious  thoughts  and  motives  of  these  various 
givers,  and  the  return  action  of  the  money,  I  did  not 
immediately  perceive.  It  was  not  long,  however, 
before  some  old  words  seemed  to  revive  in  my 
memory.  "The  Lord  loveth  a  cheerful  giver."  "Of 
every  man  that  giveth  willingly  with  his  heart  ye 
shall  take  an  offering." 

So  far  in  effect  there  had  been  no  offering.  At 
least  the  plate  was  as  bare  as  when  the  deacon  be- 
gan his  round.  I  watched  with  some  anxiety  to  see 
how  he  would  fare  as  he  went  on  his  way.  The 
farmer's  wife  came  next,  and  she  was  ready. 

"How  little  it  is,"  she  said,  as  she  laid  her  modest 
ten  cent  piece  on  the  empty  plate.  "And  the  first 
thing  there,  too.  But  it  is  my  own  earning  for  this 
very  Sabbath,  from  that  extra  egg  money.  I  want 
it  to  go  for  Bibles,  and  to  help  buy  some  of  those 
'Wonderful  Books'  the  missionary  told  of.  I  am 
sure  a  Bible  will  comfort  the  heathen.     It  does  me." 

The  diminutive  disk  of  silver  lay  smiling  up  at 
the  deacon,  and  he  was  cheered. 

After  passing  several  pews  with  varying  results 
as  to  the  aggregate  sum,  the  surprised  people  feel- 
ing a  sense  of  discomfort  and  embarrassment  as 
their  money  promptly  found  its  way  again  to  their 
pockets.  Deacon  Jones  came  to  a  little  bowed  figure 
in  black — not  a  blackest  black,  but  a  black  from 
which  time  had  drawn  its  darkest  particles,  and  left 
it  gray  and  weather-beaten.  It  was  a  hand  in  a  poor 
glove  that  took  a  quarter  out  of  a  shabby  purse,  and 
when  it  came  out,  nothing  was  left,  and  it  was  quite 
possible  nothing  would  be  there  for  some  time  after, 
"for  she  of  her  want  did  cast  in  all  that  she  had, 
even  all  her  living." 

What  was  that  little  halo  that  seemed  to  hover 
over  that  quarter  of  a  dollar  as  it  lay  in  a  rest  of 
undisturbed  content  on  the  not  too-well  filled  plate? 
The  halo  began  to  glow  and  expand  into  letters  of 
light,  and  I  spelled  out  this  sentence,  "For  the  love 
of  Christ  constraineth  me." 

So  the  deacons  passed  on  down  the  aisles.  As- 
tonishment, not  unmixed  Trith  a  kind  of  wholesome 
fear  similar  to  that  experienced  by  Joseph's  breth 
ren  when  they  found  their  money  in  their  sack's 
mouth,  prevailed.     Each  individual  who  was  so  un- 


expectedly refunded  was  alone  aware  of  it.  Others 
saw  but  the  generally  meager  look  of  the  plate. 

Now,  on  Deacon  Smith's  plate  is  deposited  an  en- 
velope by  an  elderly  man.  No  outward  sign  indi- 
cates to  the  curious  how  much  or  what  it  contains. 
Within  is  a  check  for  $100.  The  envelope,  with  its 
generous  inclosure,  makes  no  movement  to  return 
to  the  kindly-faced  gentleman.  When  he  extended 
his  hand  the  thought  flashed  into  his  mind:  "What 
a  bubble  on  the  surface  of  my  unspeakable  grati- 
tude is  this!  How  impossible  for  me  to  pay  in  the 
most  infinitessimal  degree  for  God's  great,  free  gift 
to  me?" 

And  these  old  words  rang  in  his  ear: 

"When  I  stand  with  Christ  in  glory. 
Looking  o'er  life's  finished  story,. 
Then,  Lord,  shall  I  fully  know. 
Not  till  then,  how  much  I  owe  1" 

"Yes,  I  am  his— body,  soul,  money,  all  belonging 
to  my  faithful  Saviour.  Stewards  of  the  manifold 
grace  of  God,  he  calls  us.  Lord,  use  this  money  to 
thy  own  glory!" 

I  could  hardly  keep  both  deacons  in  view  at  once, 
and  I  had  been  watching  the  one  nearest  me.  Now 
my  eye  was  caught  by  the  glitter  of  a  five-dollar 
gold  piece  on  the  other  side  of  the  church.  It  had 
no  sooner  touched  the  plate,  than  it  rebounded  as  by 
a  secret  spring  to  the  hand  of  a  very  fashionably 
dressed  young  man,  evidently  from  the  city.  He 
was  a  young  and  successful  broker  from  New  York, 
spending  the  Sabbath  in  his  native  town. 

He  had  not  been  aware  that  this  was  Missionary 
Sabbath,  and  consequently  had  not  been  expecting 
to  give. 

"However,"  he  said  to  himself,  "I  sha'n't  feel  it. 
That  was  a  pretty  large  per  cent  I  made  this  week." 

"No,"  the  money  seemed  to  say  in  returning; 
"you  will  not  feel  it,  for  I  shall  not  go." 

In  one  of  the  last  pews  were  two  of  the  brightest, 
most  eager  little  faces  that  ever  watched  for  a  con- 
tribution plate,  and  it  did  seem  as  if  the  deacon 
never  would  get  to  them!  Their  pennies  almost 
flew  into  the  deacon's  eyes  in  their  indecorous  haste 
to  reach  the  plate.  Those  were  well-earned  pennies, 
and  more  than  that  they  were  intelligent  pennies, 
for  the  little  people  had  somehow  made  them  un- 
derstand that  they  were  to  go  far  across  the  water, 
to  buy  the  Book  that  tells  how  the  loving  Saviour 
had  taken  little  children  in  his  arms  and  blessed 
them  to  give  to  little  ones  who  had  never  heard 
about  the  wonderful  and  beautiful  things  that  he 
did.  I  thought  then  of  that  word  of  the  apostle: 
"He  that  giveth,  let  him  do  it  with  simplicity."  So, 
again,  the  children  proved  another  word,  even  that  of 
the  Lord  himself,  that  we  must  become  as  little  chil- 
dren, if  we  would  enter  in,  even  to  the  least  act  of 
giving  in  a  way  acceptable  to  him. 

It  had  been  a  curious  scene  to  me  as  I  looked  at 
the  mysterious  process,  safe  in  my  own  obscurity. 
I  was  fairly  fascinated  with  the  desire  to  see  how 
each  particular  piece  of  money  would  deport  itself. 
These  were  all  people  I  knew  well,  and  although  it 
was  possible  to  say  pretty  accurately  how  each  one's 
money  would  behave,  yet  there  were  some  great  sur- 
prises to  me.  And  the  number  of  thoroughly  sur- 
prised people  was  not  limited  to  one! 

It  usually  went  by  families  I  noticed.  If  the 
father's  and  mother's  money  came  back  to  them,  so 
did  the  children's.  But  not  always.  There  was 
Captain  Prescott's  family.  While  the  gifts  of  the 
other  members  of  the  family  flew  back  with  alacrity 
to  them,  the  money  his  daughter  gave  remained. 
Still  that  was  natural.  She  always  was  different 
from  the  others,  always  thoughtful  of  others,  while 
her  father — well,  my  fancy  darted  back  to  the  streets 
of  Jerusalem,  and  the  long- robed  Pharisee  that  I 
saw  standing  on  the  corner  of  the  street  with  his 
trumpeter  before  him,  had  exactly  Captain  Prescott's 
features  under  his  turban. 

"That  they  may  have  glory  of  men."  "To  be 
seen  of  men."     "Their  reward." 

I  certainly  heard  these  words,  but  I  do  not  know 
who  could  have  spoken  them. 

At  last  the  collecting  was  done.  The  final  hymn 
was  sung,  and  the  congregation  dispersed.  There 
were  some  burning  pocket-books  and  some  burning 
cheeks,  too,  but  each  preserved  a  religious  compos- 
ure and  kept  his  secret  to  himself. 

But  it  was  so  good  to  get  out  where  the  air  was 
stirrifig. 

"How  close  it  was  in  the  church  this  morning." 

"Intolerable!     And  then  an  agent!" 

But  I  observed  these  remarks  were  made  only  by 
those  who  had  something  on  their  minds,  like  a  se- 
cret that  was  too  much  for  them. 

Deacon  Smith  and  Jones  usually  counted  the 
money  after  service.  A  peculiar  look  passed  be- 
tween them,  as  the  falling  off  in  the  sum  became 
evident. 


April  12, 1888 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


11 


««We  shall  have  to  take  up  another  collection  to 
make  our  pledges  for  the  year  good,"  said  Deacon 
Smith. 

"Or  else  ask  the  Lord  to  make  this  go  a  good 
ways,"  said  Deacon  Jones. 

The  minister  of  the  morning  had  come  down  from 
the  pulpit  and  was  standing  near  them. 

"I  believe  the  Lord  always  sorts  his  money  at  one 
time  or  another.  Perhaps  he  has  sorted  this  before 
it  came  into  the  plates,"  said  he. 

"What  do  you  mean?"  asked  Deacon  Jones. 

"Only  this.  The  bare  material  can  never  buy  the 
spiritual.  Gold  and  silver  and  bills  must  be  trans- 
muted before  they  can  ever  be  the  means  of  saving 
souls.  That  which  is  given  without  love,  without 
heart  and  without  prayer  and  consecration,  without 
faith,  may  go  to  mission  fields;  but  could  we  trace 
that  money  we  should  find  from  it  no  deep  spiritual 
outcome.  Could  we  trace  a  dollar  of  this  kind  we 
should  see  its  fruitfulness. 

"There  are  always  two  kinds  of  money  in  a  con- 
tribution plate,  the  fruitful  and  the  fruitless.  I 
should  not  wonder  if  this  were  of  the  former  kind." 

It  could  not  be  possible  that  the  heat  of  the  day 
had  overcome  me,  and  I  had  been  dreaming.  At 
all  events,  just  then  I  am  sure  I  heard  Deacon  Smith 
say,  as  he  handed  the  money  to  the  minister: 

"I  cannot  understand  our  having  so  small  a  con- 
tribution this  morning.  There  was  a  good  congre- 
gation, and  our  June  collection  is  generally  the 
largest." 

The  minister's  reply  made  me  feel  sure  that  he, 
as  well  as  I,  had  seen  the  whole  occurrence,  that  I 
had  not  been  dreaming;  but  that  we  had  had  the 
corner  of  an  invisible  veil  lifted,  and  had  been  per- 
mitted a  glimpse  at  those  hidden  and  obscure  mys- 
teries of  the  mind,  called  "springs  of  action,"  and 
had  seen  their  results  in  working. 

He  said,  as  he  took  the  money:  "Do  not  give 
yourself  the  least  trouble  on  that  account.  Brother 
Smith.  I  sometimes  feel  about  a  small  collection 
as  I  do  about  a  small  congregation  on  a  stormy  day, 
they  are  the  chosen  and  picked  ones,  and  I  have 
pretty  good  reason  to  believe  that  this  money  is  of 
the  thoroughly  assorted  kind,  and  is  going  to  do  a 
work  out  of  all  proportion  to  its  size." — Independent, 


TEE  LITTLE  SEEDS. 


Tiny  Beeds,  tiny  seeds,  under  the  ground. 
Are  you  awake  when  the  storm-winds  sound? 
How  do  you  know  when  the  snowflakes  throngi 
What  do  you  dream  of  the  winter  long? 

Little  one,  little  one,  warm  Is  our  bed. 
Soft  is  the  coverlet  over  each  head . 
Sometimes  we  dream  of  the  birds  and  the  bees. 
The  blue,  sunny  sky,  and  green,  waving  trees. 

Spring  may  come  early  or  late ; 

Through  dark  winter's  blight 

We'U  creep  to  the  light. 
So  we  wait,  little  one,  so  we  wait. 

Tiny  seeds,  tiny  seeds,  do  you  not  miss 
The  soft,  sighing  breeze  and  the  sunbeam's  kiss? 
The  chirp  of  the  cricket,  in  noonday  heat? 
All  that  made  summer  fair  and  sweet? 

Little  one,  little  one,  we  are  content, 
We  may  not  see,  but  the  s^y's  o'er  us  bent  I 
Soon  win  the  tap  of  the  whispering  rain 
Tell  that  the  Giver  needs  us  once  again. 

Then  be  it  early  or  late. 

For  each  flake  of  snow 

A  flower  will  grow  I 
So  we  wait,  little  one,  so  we  wail. 


-a.  IS.  Times. 


FAITHFUL  FRIENDS. 


Many  a  story  is  told  of  the  noble  St.  Bernard 
having  saved  travelers  while  trying  to  trace  their 
way  through  blinding  snow,  or  of  the  gentle  New- 
foundland plunging  into  the  water  to  rescue  a  little 
child  from  drowning.  They  have  watched  beside 
the  cradles  of  babies  and  have  protected  households 
from  burglars.  The  Newfoundland  is  famed  for  his 
affectionate  and  gentle  nature,  as  manifested  to 
those  be  loves,  but  if  called  upon  to  protect  them 
he  seems  changed  to  the  fiercest  creature.  One 
Newfoundland  dog,  which  was  a  great  pet  in  a 
household  where  there  many  little  people,  was  given 
the  name  of  "Danger,"  because  of  bis  watchfulness, 
not  only  at  night,  but  in  the  day  time  as  well.  The 
home  was  in  a  retired  country  place,  and  as  it  was 
on  the  water's  edge,  strangers  were  very  often  apt 
to  trespass.  Danger  would,  perhaps,  be  lying 
quietly  on  the  piazza  asleep,  but  the  sound  of  a 
step  on  the  gravel  walk  aroused  him  at  once,  and  if 
he  found  it  to  be  that  of  one  whom  he  did  not  know, 
but  a  supposed  intruder,  he  would  spring  up  with  a 
ferocious   growl,   and   was   ready  for  action,  but  a 


word  from  those  he  knew  and  loved  would  calm  him 
at  once.  Whenever  the  children  went-  in  bathing. 
Danger  was  also  on  hand,  waiting  on  the  beach  for 
them,  and  he  would  bring  them  the  sticks  which 
they  threw  as  far  away  in  the  river  as  they  could. 
It  seemed  as  if  he  dearly  loved  the  water,  and  would 
never  tire  of  swimming  as  long  as  it  pleased  his 
little  friends  to  send  him. 

Another  friend  of  these  little  people  was  a  great 
English  mastiff,  and  although  devoted  to  the  chil- 
dren, he  did  not  so  willingly  allow  them  to  pet  and 
caress  him.  These  huge  mastiffs  are  of  very  ancient 
English  origin,  and  there  is  also  another  species 
from  Thibet.  The  dogs  are  large,  powerful  creat- 
ures, of  ferocious  natures;  they,  however,  are  very 
fond  of  their  masters,  but  are  not  demonstrative. 

The  Newfoundland  dogs  are  the  reverse  of  the 
mastiff  in  disposition,  for  they  are  gentle,  patient 
and  very  affectionate  in  their  natures.  They  are 
thorough  water  dogs,  and  their  power  for  swimming 
is  very  great.  Besides  the  large,  shaggy  dog,  with 
broad,  noble  head,  and  gentle,  intelligent  face,  and 
black  and  white  in  color,  is  a  smaller  species,  black, 
with  smaller  head. —  Vicki  Magazine. 


T£MPE£ANC£. 


RUM'S  RUINOUS  REION 


Hackl  hack!  hack!  The  dull,  uncertain  strokes 
of  an  unskilled  workman's  axe  reverberated  through 
the  white  birch  grove,  through  the  fiercely  whirling 
snow  of  a  winter's  day.  Strange,  unwonted  sight, 
in  a  land  of  boasted  civilization!  A  woman  swings 
the  axe!  A  woman  clad  in  a  scant  calico  dress,rag- 
ged  shoes,  stockings  with  no  bottoms,  was  essaying 
with  queer  little  unskilled  strokes,  to  fell  the  trees 
near  the  miserable  wreck  of  a  house.  She  worked 
as  awkwardly  as  only  a  woman  brought  up  to  in- 
door work  and  laboring  under  the  double  infliction 
of  pain  and  weakness  can,  sometimes  stopping  to 
press  one  hand  to  her  side,  and  at  others,  to  wipe 
her  freezing  tears  from  her  blurring  sight.  When  a 
tree  fell  she  hacked  till  it  was  fitted  for  stove  wood. 
HackI"lttKjk!  hack!  till  her  children  shouted  again 
and  again,  "Come,  mother,  come;  you've  chopped 
enough;  baby's  starving,  and  we're  freezing." 

Despite  their  frenzied  cries,  despite  the  cold,  des- 
pite the  mortal  anguish  only  a  mother  may  know, 
she  worked  on  till  the  sun  went  down  on  the  short, 
dreary,  freezing  winter  day.  Then  laying  down  the 
axe  she  loaded  her  frail  arms  with  all  they  could 
hold  of  the  lead-like,  frozen  sticks  and  slowly  en- 
tered the  bouse,  well  knowing  she  would  not  be  able 
to  leave  it  on  the  morrow.  Here  were  her  babes,her 
very  life,  one,  two,  three,  four,  five,  six,  seven,  eight, 
nine,  ten — each  and  every  one  dear  to  her  noble 
heart  as  are  your  tender  ones,  favored  mother, 
crouched  over  the  dying  fire  in  the  black,  cooling 
stove,  bare-footed,  half-naked,  with  hunger-pinched 
faces,  and  blue  claw-like  hands;  some  were  crying 
vociferously,  while  some  only  moaned  in  low,  plain- 
tive tones  of  cold  and  hunger. 

For  two  weeks  these  eleven  had  subsisted  on  the 
milk  of  one  cow,  and  turnips.  The  cow  had  come 
so  short  of  food  as  to  be  fed  from  their  straw  beds. 
After  giving  the  starving  children  the  milk  and 
feeding  the  dumb  giver  the  last  armful  of  straw  in 
their  beds,  she  built  a  fire  and  sat  down  to  warm  her 
frozen  feet.  First,  she  took  off  one  thin  petticoat 
and  pinned  it  about  the  shoulders  of  the  oldest  child 
and  putting  off  her  shoes  and  ragged  stockings  for 
its  feet,  sent  it  off  to  the  wood  pile  to  bring  in  the 
wood  she  had  chopped. 

The  fire  burned  up  bright  and  warm  and  the  fam- 
ished children  cuddled  down  beside  the  stove  under 
their  scant  bed-covers.and  forgot  their  woes  in  sleep. 
Not  so  the  tired,  starving  mother.  She  took  a  tur- 
nip and  sat  up  to  scrape  it  as  she  warmed  her  froz- 
en feet.  Ere  the  morning  dawned  another  babe  was 
added  to  the  ten  starving  beside  her. 

Think  of  this  true  picture,mothers,  you  who  have 
passed  the  fiery  ordeal  of  motherhood  amid  the  lux- 
uries of  warmth,  food,  clothes,  comforts,  husband, 
friends  and  physicians— think  of  this  frail.starving, 
frozen  woman  alone  with  the  rayless  midnight  and 
her  mortal  anguish.  Have  you  forgotten  with  what 
grateful  avidity  you  seized  a  cup  of  hot  tea  held  by 
the  hand  of  ministering  friends?  Contrast  that  mo- 
ment of  grateful  refreshment  with  the  empty,craving 
stomach  of  this  long-famished  creature,  comforted 
only  by  the  cold,  scraped  turnip,8he  would  have  per- 
haps given  worlds  for  a  taste  of  had  it  not  then  been 
frozen.  Can  you  not  drop  a  tear  over  this  poor 
neighbor?  My  own  (Idw  like  summer  rain  as  I 
write. 

You  will  ask  where  this  "brute  of  a  husband, "the 
father  of  eleven  children,was  at  such  a  time.  Hushl 


indignant  matron!  Name  not  one  of  the  "lords  of 
creation"  in  such  a  tone! 

I'll  whisper  it  in  your  ear;  be  careful  your  busy 
tongue  reveal  not  the  secret.  He  was  only  down  to 
Passadumkeag  on  a  little  bit  of  a  spree,  lasting  a 
couple  of  weeks  or  so!  They  can  drink  or  let  it 
alone,  you  know;  so  we  must  not  say  anything  about 
their  doing  either,  lest  we  get  to  saying  it  on  the 
wrong  side  and  pop  over  into  prohibition.  One  of 
that  heretical  party  is  all  this  good  Republican  town 
can  tolerate. 

Two  or  three  days  after  the  new  babe  came  to  the 
poor  woman  a  neighbor  learned  and  reported  her 
condition.  A  noble  Scot  came  gallantly  to  her  re- 
lief with  food,  clothes  and  firewood.  The  eager, 
starving  children  crowding  about  the  hunger-queller 
could  not  be  fed  carefully  enough  to  save  them  from 
the  reaction  consequent  upon  repletion  after  famine. 
Tears  flowed  so  thickly  over  the  cheeks,  of  sonsy 
Scoth  build,  that  one  poor,  naked  starvling  got  just 
a  cake  too  much,  and  though  the  physician  was 
called,  its  little  life  went  out  a  sacrifice  to  the  god 
Bacchus  to  whom  the  nations  of  earth  deem  it  nec- 
essary to  sacrifice  so  many  human  lives  yearly. — 
Portland  (Me.)  Herald. 


The  consumption  of  beer  in  Germany  is  reported 
to  have  amounted  to  41,325,000  hectolitres  in  1885. 
This  would  give  an  average  of  ninety  litres  (about 
200  pints)  a  year  to  every  man,  woman  and  child  in 
Germany. 

The  Franz  Brewery,  at  Sioux  City,  Iowa,  man- 
aged by  John  Arensdorf  at  the  time  of  the  Haddock 
murder,  was  leased  the  other  day  to  be  used  as  a 
butter  and  egg  depot.  The  soul  of  Haddock  is 
marching  on. 

"A  new  use  for  the  tobacco  plant  has  been  dis- 
covered. Its  stem  and  waste,  it  is  claimed,  are 
equal  to  linen  rags  in  the  manufacture  of  paper." 
A  California  paper,  commenting  on  the  above,  says, 
"Better  take  all  the  tobacco  and  use  it  in  making 
paper,  and  there  will  be  few  people  in  poverty  and 
rags." 

There  is  no  use  in  cutting  down  the  day's  labor 
from  ten  to  eight  hours,  if  the  two  hours  gained 
are  spent  in  a  rum-hole.  There  would  be  no  use  in 
making  arbitration  compulsory,  if  one  of  the  parties 
was  likely  to  be  kept  from  obeying  the  decision  by 
liquor.  There  would  be  no  use  in  handing  over  all 
the  property  in  the  world  to  laboring  men,  if  they 
drink  as  they  do  now.  They  would  soon  dissipate 
it,  and  add  nothing  to  the  store. — N.  Y.  Nation. 

Joseph  Cook,  of  Boston  Monday  lecture  fame,  in 
"Recent  Vindications  of  Total  Abstinence,"  shows 
that  Temperance  Life  Assuranca  Societies  were  first 
inaugurated  in  England  in  1849,  by  Mr.  R.  Warner, 
and  then  gives  us  the  history  of  the  United  King- 
dom Temperance  Provident  Institution,  the  Scottish 
Temperance  Company,  the  Connecticut  Mutual  Life 
Insurance  Company,  and  others  of  a  like  kind.  In 
each  instance  he  quotes  the  official  reports  of  these 
societies  to  show  how  favorable  are  the  statistics  of 
mortality  to  the  total  abstainer  as  against  the  mod- 
erate drinker.  Just  to  give  one  instance,in  the  cise 
of  the  first-named  society  above,"from  188G  to  1883 
the  number  of  expected  deaths  in  the  Temperance 
and  General  sections  was  2,879  and  4,741;  the  num- 
ber of  actual  deaths  was  respectively  2,035  and  4,- 
640,  or  about  70  and  97  per  cent,  showing  a  much 
larger  death  rate  in  the  General  section." 

What  habit  is  there  more  productive  of  laziness, 
improvidence,  wastefulness  and  self-indulgence  than 
the  drink  habit?  We  might  quote  this  page  full  of 
testimonies  on  this  point— testimonies  from  the 
keepers  of  almshouses,  from  officers  of  charity  or- 
ganizations, from  prison  officials,  from  police  mag- 
istrates. But  we  prefer  to  leave  it  to  every  reader's 
experience.  He  must  be  a  blind  man  who  has  not 
seen  over  and  over  again  the  results  ot  drink  on  the 
moral  qualities  of  men  and  women.  No  other  habit 
can  be  named  so  utterly  subversive  of  those  quali- 
ties that  win, competence.  Scientists  like  Dr.  Mauds- 
ley  in  "Mental  Diseases,"  l>r.  Ribot  of  France,  Dr. 
Richardson  and  Dr.  Willard  Parker  have  time  and 
again  pointed  out  that  one  of  the  most  inevitable 
effects  of  alcohol  is  its  impairment  of  the  will.  The 
money  that  drink  takes  from  a  man's  pocket  is  the 
least  of  its  robberies.  It  takes  also  his  power  to  re- 
place the  money.  Brain  cells,  nerves,  tissues,  mus- 
cles, are  all  impaired,  and  in  the  end  the  victim  be- 
comes physically,  mentally  and  morally  utterly  in- 
competent as  a  wage-earner.  It  is  because  prohibi- 
tion strikes  at  this  cause  of  individual  debasement 
that  as  a  remedy  for  poverty  it  stands  forth  the  un- 
approachable chief.  The  single  tax  will  not  do  this. 
Free  trade  or  protection  will  not  Government  con- 
trol of  railroads  will  not — Voice. 


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12 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


April  12, 1888 


BELIGIOUS  NEWS. 


The  First  United  Presbyterian  church  of  Mon- 
mouth, 111.,  Rev.  Dr.  T.  H.  Hanna.pastor,  will  begin 
building  a  $25,000  church  as  soon  as  weather  per- 
mits. 

— Bro.  C.  R.  Hunt,  pastor  of  the  Dayton  Chapel 
Wesleyan  church,  Clarence,  Iowa,  rejoices  in  the 
favor  of  God  upon  his  pastoral  labors  and  the  addi- 
tion of  a  score  or  more  to  the  membership. 

— Rev.  F.  M.  Spencer,  D.  D.,  late  president  of 
Muskingum  College,  Ohio,  has  been  conducting  a 
series  of  meetings  in  the  First  United  Presbyterian 
church,  Washington,  Iowa.  Nine  members  were  re- 
ceived into  the  church  at  its  last  communion. 

— Rev.  S.  A.  Manwell,  a  graduate  of  Wheaton 
College  and  Theological  Seminary, is  located  at  Pitts- 
ford,  Mich.  He  has  had  an  almost  constant  revival 
interest  in  his  church  during  the  fall  and  winter. 

— Rev.  D.  F.  Shepardson,  well  known  as  an  evan- 
gelist among  the  Wesleyan  brethren,  is  now  in  San 
Jose,  California.  He  is  fitting  up  a  hall  in  the  city 
to  open  meetings  for  revival  and  holiness  work. 

—Rev.  O.  C.  Bedford,  of  Viola,  III,  has  had 
another  extensive  revival  work,  at  which  some  forty 
or  more  have  started  for  the  kingdom. 

— Messrs.  Moody  and  Sankey  conducted  Christian 
conventions  recently  in  Burlington,  Ottumwa,  Cedar 
Rapids  and  Sioux  City,  Iowa.  Every  where  crowded 
houses  were  the  rule^  and  no  building  was  sufficient- 
ly large  to  accommodate  them.  Mr.  Sankey  went 
to  Huron,  Dakota,  and  held  a  meeting  in  the  inter- 
est of  the  American  S.  S.  Union,  and  had  planned  to 
do  the  same  in  Sioux  Falls  and  other  places,  but 
the  blizzards  prevented  the  running  of  trains  and 
interfered  with  the  meetings  which  had  been  planned 
by  E.  B.  Stevenson.  Mr.  Moody  spent  a  few  days 
in  Nebraska,  holding  a  meeting  at  Hastings,  and 
went  thence  to  Denver,  where  he  held  meetings  for 
a  week,  and  then  went  to  Leadville  for  another  week. 
Rev.  C.  F.  Goss,  of  the  Chicago  Avenue  church, 
Chicago,  Joined  him  at  Leadville. 

— A  good  degree  of  religious  interest  has  devel- 
oped in  the  New  England  Conservatory  of  Music  in 
Boston,  since  the  Rev.  C.  C.  Kimball,  D.  D.,  assumed 
his  duties  as  a  sort  of  pastor  there  last  fall.  There 
are  between  four  and  five  hundred  resident  students, 
and  on  a  recent  Sabbath  evening  about  twenty-five 
expressed  their  purpose  to  begin  a  Christian  life. 

— It  is  said  that  negotiations  are  being  opened 
with  the  Treasury  Department  at  Washington  with 
reference  to  the  admission  of  the  Chinese  delegates 
to  the  Methodist  General  Conference.  Says  the  Cal- 
ifornia Christian  Advocate:  "The  Rev.  Sia  Sek  Ong, 
the  ministerial  delegate,  is  ac  able,  polite,  Christian 
gentleman  and  a  minister  of  many  years'  service. 
He  is  also  a  graduate  of  the  Government  University, 
having  won  the  degree  of  sauts  oy,  or  'excellent  tal- 
lent,'  which  gives  him  a  position  among  the  literati 
of  the  country.  Mr.  Tiong-a-Hok,  the  lay  delegate, 
is  a  wealthy  merchant.  He  was  a  contributor  to  the 
late  Paris  Exposition  and  to  the  Centennial  at  Phil- 
adelphia. He  has  a  large  business.  He  has  a  na- 
tive and  an  English  residence  most  elegantly  fur- 
nished, in  which  he  has  entertained  all  the  foreign- 
ers, mercantile  and  cllicial,  in  Foochow  in  royal  style. 
Before  he  united  with  the  church  he  gave  $10,000 
to  our  mission.  He  has  since  given  $1,000  to  sup- 
port the  mission  to  Corea.  As  a  heathen  man  he 
supported  a  foundling  asylum  of  100  girls.  His 
purse  is  always  open  in  all  times  of  public  calam- 
ity, floods,  famine,  or  pestilence.  Mr.  Ahok  gives 
a  certain  percantage  of  his  profits  to  every  worker 
in  his  establishments,  from  bead  clerk  tooflice  boy." 

— Rev.  George  Greenfell,  lately  returned  from  the 
Congo,  reports  "Christianity  spreading  even  where 
missionaries  have  not  labored.  As  he  approached 
one  town  in  which  no  Baptist  missionary  had  ever 
labored,  he  saw  a  band  of  native  evangelists  com- 
ing out  of  it  to  preach  the  Gospel  to  their  native 
brethren,  and  that  town,  a  few  years  ago,  was  sunk 
in  heathenism." 

— The  first  church  has  been  organized  in  Corea 
in  connection  with  the  American  Protestant  mission. 
Fifteen  members  are  enrolled,  and  others  are  call- 
ing for  baptism.  Though  contrary  to  Corean  law, 
the  government  is  reported  as  raising  no  question. 
It  is  hut  a  score  of  years  sicca  the  organization  of 
a  Christian  church  in  .lapan  was  not  only  contrary 
to  the  law,  but  would  have  been  visited  with  severe 
punishment,  yet  to-day  there  are  more  than  15,000 
church  members  in  that  empire. 

— At  this  time,  says  the  Inter  Ocean,  there  are 
twenty-six  Women's  Foreign  Missionary  Socieiies  in 
the  United  States,  with  15,867  auxiliary  societies, 


besides  3,454  bands  of  girls  and  young  ladies  en- 
gaged in  the  same  work.  The  statistics  of  twelve 
of  the  societies  only  are  at  hand,  but  they  show  that 
from  lyeo  to  1886  they  have  sent  in  money  to  the 
foreign  field  $8,571,706.  If  the  record  of  all  could 
be  had,  the  showing  would  be  one  to  which  the 
Christian  women  of  the  nation  might  well  point  with 
pride.  In  1880  in  the  foreign  field  there  were  1,792 
ordained  missionaries.  In  ]  887  there  were  2,395, 
with  13,398  native  workers.  In  1880  there  were 
205,132  communicants  in  foreign  mission  churches; 
in  1887  there  were  332,060.  In  1880  there  were 
65,825  scholars  in  mission  schools;  1887  there  were 
151,914.  This  gathering  into  schools  of  the  boys 
and  girls  is  one  of  the  most  encouraging  signs  of 
progress  in  mission  work,  as  by  far  the  largest  class 
of  pupils  are  in  the  most  hopeless  districts,  100,- 
560  of  them  being  in  Asia  and  26,214  in  Africa. 

— The  students  of  the  United  Presbyterian  Theo- 
logical Seminary  in  Allegheny,  Pa.,  have  secured 
the  Rev.  John  Hall,  D.  D.,  to  preach  the  annual 
missionary  sermon  before  them  in  May. 

— It  is  now  definitely  decided  that  the  next  Na- 
tional Convention  of  the  Society  of  Christian  En- 
deavor will  be  held  in  the  Armory  Hall  of  Battery 
D,  Chicago,  July  5-8.  Though  the  date  and  city  of 
the  Convention  were  fixed  at  the  last  Convention  at 
Saratoga,  it  was  proposed  at  first  to  hold  the  meet- 
ing in  Union  Park  Church,  which  had  been  kindly 
offered.  The  societies,  however,  have  increased  so 
rapidly  during  the  past  year  that  it  is  thought  that 
no  church  in  the  city  can  hold  the  expected  dele- 
gates, and  the  trustees  have  been  obliged  to  engage 
Battery  D,  which  in  many  respects  is  admirably 
suited  to  such  a  convention. 

— Two  Chinamen,  one  a  Christian,  the  other  a 
heathen,  had  their  eyes  operated  upon  for  cataract. 
After  the  bandages  were  removed  and  they  were  al- 
lowed to  be  in  dim  light,  the  Christian  held  a  praise 
meeting  with  his  fellow  Christians.  His  eyesight 
was  restored,  and  he  became  a  preacher.  The  other 
held  a  feast,  drank  whisky,  and  ruined  his  eyes  be- 
yond recovery. 

— The  representatives  of  the  Methodist  church  in 
Washington  are  not  satisfied  with  the  recent  letter 
of  President  Cleveland,  which  seeks  to  justify  the 
policy  of  the  administration  in  its  prohibition  of  the 
use  of  Indian  languages  in  the  schools.  Dr.  Swin- 
dell says:  "The  letter  of  President  Cleveland  will 
not  satisfy  the  church,  for  in  a  free  State  the  church 
will  not  brook  any  interference  with  its  religious  in- 
struction whether  it  be  German,Latin  or  Dakota  lan- 
guage, and  this  interference  with  the  rights  of 
Americans,  whether  Roman  Catholic  or  Protestant, 
will  not  be  tolerated.  The  church,  will  not  take 
kindly  to  a  plan  that  makes  the  charch  subservient 
to  a  goveinment  agent  and  gives  him  discretionary 
powers  to  decide  how  many  native  ministers  shall 
be  allowed  to  minister  to  the  spiritual  needs  of  their 
people.  These  new  rules  have  caused  much  trouble 
already,  and  will  no  doubt  hamper  the  missionary 
work  of  the  church,  and  to  a  large  extent.  Where 
a  mission  school  is  maintained  by  the  church  inde- 
pendently of  the  government,  it  should  be  allowed 
to  teach  as  it  best  sees  fit  accordingly  to  the  needs 
of  the  people.  This  is  now  denied  us.  The  govern- 
ment treats  the  Indians  as  if  they  were  a  criminal 
class.    They  are  not  that." 


Not  Baal  WoasHiPEBs. — There  are  those  in  the 
church  who  will  not  worship  Baal — they  are  the  un- 
conquerables.  And  we  rejoice  to  believe  that  the 
number  is  not  inconsiderable.  Neither  specious 
reasoning,  persuasion  or  denunciation  can  get  them 
to  bend  tlie  knee  at  the  unholy  shrine.  Heap  upon 
them  opprobrious  epithets,  such  as  "cranks,"  "fan- 
atics,'  or  "fools."  Ostracise  them,rule  them  out  of 
jour  genteel  circles,  denounce  them  from  the  pulpit, 
but  still  they  are  invincible.  They  have  no  railing 
to  return  for  railing;  they  will,  with  a  Christly  spir- 
it, do  good  to  those  that  despitefuUy  use  them — but 
they  will  not  participate  in  the  modern  revelries. 
They  cannot  be  persuaded  that  to  play  "A  Divorce 
Case"  in  a  church,  as  has  been  done,  is  equal  to  a 
prayer  meeting  or  class  meeting.  No,  no!  hands 
off — such  people  will  not  worship  Baal!  They  are 
God's  elect  ones. —  Guide  to  Holiness. 

An  item  is  going  the  rounds  of  the  press,  to  the 
effect  that  whisky  is  now  manufactured  out  of  old 
rags.  Wo  see  nothing  remarkable  about  this.  Jlv- 
ery  one  knows  that  nearly  all  the  old  rags  now  in 
the  country  are  manufactured  out  of  whisky,  and 
there  is  no  apparent  reason  why  the  process  of  con- 
version may  not  work  as  well  one  way  as  another; 
from  whisky  to  rags  and  from  rags  to  whisky. 
What  a  beautiful  business  it  is! — N.  Y.  Observer. 


LITEBATUBE. 


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The  Thoughts  OF  Marcus  Aurelius.  Translated  by  George 
Long.    Pp.  18S.    John  B.  Alden,  New  York. 

The  student  of  philosophy  will  need  no  introduc- 
tion to  this  work  which  has  been  often  published, 
but  never  in  so  popular  a  form.  The  Emperor  Au- 
relius was  the  flower  of  the  Stoic  philosophy.  He 
was  born  in  A.  D.  121,  became  Emperor  of  Rome  in 
161,  was  initiated  into  the  Masonic  mysteries  of 
Eleusis  about  175,  Though  a  moralist  whose  ex- 
cellence surprises  all  ages  he  was  a  persecutor  of 
the  Christian  church,  and  Polycarp  was  one  of  the 
martyrs.  A  fine  biography  accompanies  the  trans- 
lation, which  will  always  be  an  interesting  study. 

The  first  article  in  the  April  Century  is  by  Edward  L. 
Wilson,  the  well-known  photographer,  and  is  descrip- 
tive of  the  natural  and  other  features  of  Palestine  "From 
Dan  to  Beersheba."  A  great  number  of  illustrations, 
mainly  from  photographs,  are  presented  and  will  be  of 
special  interest  to  the  teachcra  and  students  of  the  Inter- 
national Sunday-School  Lessons.  The  article  in  the  im- 
portant series  on  Prussian  politics  and  despotism  is  on 
the  Russian  Penal  Code,  the  severe  provisions  of 
which  are  here  briefly  explained,  and  are  an  astonishing 
revelation  to  free-born  Americans.  The  prescriptive 
laws  governing  religious  matters  as  here  represented  are 
such  as  might  have  been  promulgated  by  a  pope  of  the 
14th  century.  This  paper  is  the  last  of  Mr.  Kennan's 
introductory  series,  and  will  be  followed  in  the  May  num- 
ber by  the  first  illustrated  article  in  the  main  series,  which 
will  give  the  results  of  the  Centwy'a  expedition  into  Si- 
beria. The  present  installment  of  the  Life  of  Lincoln 
is  on  'The  National  Uprising"  for  the  preservation  of 
the  Union;  the  political  and  military  relation  of  Balti- 
more to  the  situation  is  also  fully  described.  A  further 
chapter  is  devoted  to  the  condition  of  things  in 
Washington  itself  at  the  outbreak  of  the  Rebellion,  in 
which  occurs  a  most  pathetic  passage  describing  Lin- 
coln's anguish  of  mind  at  the  extraordinary  dangers  men- 
acing the  country  and  the  capital.  The  "Round  Up"  on 
a  cattle  ranch  is  described  in  a  graphic  way  by  Theodore 
Rosevelt  and  is  illustrated  with  spirit.  An  illustrated 
article  on  the  "American  Inventors  of  the  Telegraph" 
tells  the  inside  story  of  the  invention,  especially  bring- 
ing out  the  services  rendered  to  the  enterprise  by  Alfred 
Vail.  Mr.  Vail's  extremely  important  connection  with 
the  invention  is  here  for  the  first  time  fully  and  author- 
itatively told.  The  article  will  be  a  surprise  to  the  larger 
part  of  the  public. 

The  April  number  of  the  English  Illustrated  Magazine 
contains  an  article  on  the  "Spanish  Armada"  by  Mr.  W. 
H.  K  Wright,  with  reproductions  of  John  Pine's  en- 
gravings after  the  tapestry  hangings  in  the  House  of 
Lords.  Miss  Balch,  continuing  her  "Glimpses  of  Old 
English  Homes,"  gives  an  account  of  Arundel  castle, 
which  has  been  revised  by  the  duke  of  Norfolk,  by  whose 
permission  the  historical  portraits  are  now  for  the  first 
time  published.  Prof.  Minto's  story  of  the  great  upris- 
ing of  the  commons  in  the  time  of  Richard  II.,  tells  of 
crude  signals  used  in  gathering  their  secret  meetings. 

Science  (weekly)  has  recently  added  two  new  depart- 
ments,— one  on  electrical  science,  in  which  every  week 
is  given  a  resume  of  the  progress  in  the  application  of 
electricity  in  the  arts.  This  is  conducted  by  one  of  the 
able  electrical  engineers  of  the  country.  The  other  new 
depaiture  is  in  giving  each  week  information  of  the  pro 
gress  of  the  scientific  work  cirried  on  under  the  direc- 
tion of  the  United  States  Government.  This  news  is 
collected  by  an  experienced  correspondent  at  Washing- 
ton. 

The  first  number  of  America,  a  new  Chicago  weekly, 
is  just  out.  It  presents  a  distinguished  list  of  contribu- 
tors, and  the  matter  is  varied  in  interest,  well  written 
throughout,  and  distinctively  American.  It  promises  to 
be  a  journal  worth  reading.  It  is  published  by  the  Amer- 
ican Publishing  Company. 

The  Stoisa  Cross,  the  popular  science  magazine  which 
contains  the  reports  of  the  Agassiz  Association,  in  its 
April  number  gives  an  illustrated  article  on  "Who  were 
the  Goths?"  and  another  on  "The  Geology  of  the  Sea- 
Ploor." 

Literature,  an  illustrated  weekly  'magazine,  has  cer- 
tainly successfully  taken  the  field  as  the  popular  literary 
journal  of  America.    Its  great  variety  of  contents,  handy 


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form,  and  choice  illustrations,  make  it 
exceedingly  attractive.  Poremost  Amer- 
ican authors  are  among  its  contributors. 
Mrs.  Susan  E  Wallace,  wife  of  the  author 
of  "Ben  Hur,"  and  quite  as  charming  a 
writer  as  her  husband,  has  papers  in  two 
current  issues  on  "The  Poetry  and  Mu 
sic  of  the  Arabs."  For  a  specimen  copy 
(free),  address  John  B.  Alden,  publisher, 
393  Pearl  St.,  New  York. 

The  Pacific  Eealtli  Journal  of  Oakland, 
Cal,  besides  its  general  department  which 
is  well  filled  with  useful  and  practical 
matter,  has  a  temperance  department  in 
which  radical  ground  is  taken  against 
narcotics  as  well  as  stimulants. 


Lodge  Notes. 

The  founding  of  the  Grand  Army  of 
the  Republic  on  April  6,  1866,  was  cele- 
brated on  Friday  evening  at  Decatur,  111., 
by  a  reunion  of  i>ecatur  Post,  No.  1,  the 
first  post  instituted. 

The  Patrons  of  Husbandry  have  or- 
ganized a  "trust"  in  Tuscola  county.  111., 
under  the  agreement  that  all  shall  trade 
with  one  merchant,  who  shall  charge  a 
profit  of  not  over  ten  per  cent  of  the  in- 
voice price. 

.  The  labor  organization  of  Jefferson 
county,  Alabama — Knights  of  Labor, 
Wheel,  Alliance,  Trade  Union  and  other 
societies— met  in  convention  in  Birming- 
ham on  Saturday  and  nominated  a  full 
county  and  legislative  ticket.  The  Dem- 
ocratic County  Convention  will  meet  on 
Saturday  next. 

Minneapolis.Minn  ,ba9  ten  Grand  Army 
posts,  with  a  membership  of  about  1,400. 
It  is  estimated  that  at  least  6,000  ex- 
Union  soldiers  are  residents  of  Minneap- 
olis; less  than  one-fourth  are,  therefore, 
sworn  into  this  secret  lodge.  This  pro- 
portion will  probably  hold  good  through 
out  the  country. 

District  Assembly  24,  Knights  of  Labor 
of  Chicago,  it  was  announced  a  few  days 
ago,  had  given  up  their  headquarters 
owing  to  lack  of  funds.  The  district 
machinery  was  captured  by  the  anti 
Powderly  faction  at  the  election,  and  the 
membership  has  fallen  off  rapidly.  There 
are  now  but  little  over  1,000  members, 
while  in  1886  it  had  22,000. 

Some  time  ago  Bakers'  Union  49,  the 
Swedish  Bakers'  Union  and  the  Central 
Labor  Union  of  Chicago  declared  a  boy- 
cott against  John  Koessler.  They  issued 
a  circular  in  three  languages,  saying 
Koessler  employed  scabs  and  warning 
people  to  beware  of  his  bread.  George 
Sims  belonged  to  the  unions  and  was 
arrested  while  distributing  the  circulars. 
The  unions  employed  counsel  and  fought 
Sims's  case  through  several  hearings  in 
the  police  court.  The  justice  delivered 
quite  a  lengthy  opinion,  and  went  fully 
into  the  facts  and  the  law  of  the  case, 
citing  similar  cases  from  other  States,  and 
winding  up  by  holding  the  accused  over 
to  the  Crimiaal  Court  upon  the  charge  of 
criminal  conspiracy. 

When  Low  Yete,  leader  of  the  chief 
highbinder  society  on  the  Pacific  Coast, 
was  buried  in  San  Erancisco  lately,  1,500 
men  turned  out  in  martial  array  and  gave 
the  dead  chief  the  most  imposing  Chinese 
funeral  seen  in  this  city.  "The  procession 
included  300  hacks  and  fifty  express  wag- 
ons, all  crowded  with  Celestials.  There 
were  several  bands  that  played  native 
music,  and  two  bodies  of  armed  men 
with  shields  and  banners.  A  picture  of 
the  dead  man  was  borne  before  the  hearse, 
which  was  drawn  by  four  black  horses. 
Low  Yete  was  over  eighty  years  old,  and 
for  thirty  years  had  been  chief  of  the 
ChCR  Kong  Tong  Society,  that  has  15,- 
000  members.  He  tied  from  China  when 
the  Tai  Ping  rebellion  collapsed,  and  had 
never  dared  to  return. 


DONATIONS 


Catarrh,  when  chronic,  becomes  very 
offensive.  It  is  impossible  to  be  other- 
wise healthy,  and,  at  the  same  time, 
afilicted  with  catarrh.  This  disagreeable 
disease,  in  its  most  obstinate  and  danger- 
ous forms,  can  be  cured  by  the  use  of 
Ayer'e  Sarsaparilla. 

Minnesota  Leads  the  World 

Wlttl  lior  RtKi'k,  (l:iir\-  iiiiil  uruin  proiliicts. 
2,000,000  ftcron  lim- 1  imliiT,  tanning  unci  Rrii/iim 
Jancls,  ailjai'ont.  to  lailroiul,  tor  salo  rlipap  on 
easy  terms.  For  mnp.i,  prices,  rifos,  oto., 
address,  J,  Boofcwnlti'r,  Land  Commissioner,  or 
C.  H.  Warren,  fieneral  ■  m  «Ti«iut 
Pasgenaer  Agent,  St. 
Paul,  Sllnn. 
Aak  for  Book  H.         if  ■  " "  "jwii.** w ■ 


To  Cynosure  Miniatera'  Fund: 

Peter  Howe |  3. .50 

A.G.M ; 5.00 

John  Pierce .50 

Robt.  Gunn 5.00 

J.  McClery 1.00 

E.P.Chambers 1.00 

J.  S  Rice 1.50 

Before  reported 952 .  91 

Total $970.41 

To  N.  G.  A.  Foreign  Fund: 

A.  E    Hinsdale $1 .00 

Mrs.  Hinsdale 1 .00 

aUBSORIPTlON  LBTTBRB. 


The  following  have  made  remittances 
of  money  to  the  Cynosure  from  April  2  to 
7  inclusive; 

E  A  Baron,  J  W  Snively,  D  N  Down- 
ing, J  K  Alwood,  T  W  Russell,  A  H  Te- 
beau,  R  Johnson,  T  S  Parvin,  T  B  Wil- 
son, A  Worman,  A  Stevens,  S  Stutzman, 
J  G  Scott,  P  Howe,  W  J  Wesler,  IDaboll, 
J  B  White,  C  Williams,  D  R  Patterson, 
Mrs  J  K  Pierson,  N  S  Smith,  S  Allen, 
Rev  G  L  Paine,  Mrs  I  Stoddard,  Rev  W 
M  Harrison.  J  Gam,  Rev  S  Collins,  E  P 
Chambers,  F  A  Taylor,  J  Day,  W  R  Mor- 
ley,  D  J  Ellsworth,  D  Glaspie,  G  Crook, 
G  W  Pitts,  Mrs  L  Hess,  G  Harvey,  C  A 
Webb. 


CONSUMPTION  SUKELY  OUR£D. 

To  the  Editor:— Please  inform  your 
readers  that  I  have  a  positive  remedy  for 
the  above  named  disease .  By  its  timely 
use  thousands  of  hopeless  cases  have  been 
permanently  cured.  I  shall  be  glad  to 
send  two  bottles  of  my  remedy  free  to 
any  of  your  readers  who  have  consump- 
tion if  they  will  send  me  their  Express 
and  P.O.  address.  Respectfully,  T.  A. 
Slocum,  M.  C,  181  Pearl  St.,  New  York. 


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The  foriher  proprietor  of  Dr.  Sage's 
Catarrh  Remedy,  for  years  made  a  stand- 
ing, public  offer  in  all  American  news- 
papers of  $500  reward  for  a  case  of  ca- 
tarrh that  he  could  not  cure.  The  pres- 
ent proprietors  have  renewed  this  offer. 
All  the  druggists  sell  this  Remedy, together 
with  the  "Douche,"  and  all  other  appli- 
ances advised  to  be  used  in  connection 
with  it.  No  catarrh  patient  is  longer  able 
to  say,  "I  cannot  be  cured."  You  get 
$500  in  case  of  failure . 


MARKS T  RS PORTS. 

CHICAGO. 

Wheat— No.  2 7.'".  a     78 

No.  3 71  @     73 

Winter  No  8... 81 

Com— No.  2 51V 

Oat«— No.a .^ 31Ka     35 

Rye— No.a 601^ 

Branperton l.";  50 

Hay— Timothy 8  00  @14  00 

Butter,  media  m  to  best 13  &     2<) 

Cheese 05  @     1.5 

Beans 1  25  @  2  85 

EkKS 15  W 

Seeds— Timothy* 2  10  2  .52 

Flax 138  145 

Broomcom 0^hi&     C7 

Potatoes  per  bus 75  @      97 

Hides— Green  to  dry  flint &5>^^      1 3 

Lumber— Common 1100  ^18  00 

Wool W  @      :K) 

Cattle— Choice  to  extra 5  0.">  @  .5  4") 

Common  to  good 2  10  4  80 

Hogs 4  9>  a  .'i  45 

Sheep 2  ,10  @  c,  M 

NBW  YORK. 

Flour 8  20  @  5  60 

Wheat— Winter 89  @      92^^ 

Spring 88 

Com 63  @     tt4W 

Oatfl 37  fy      45 

Kggs 19 

Butter ^..^ .      15  @     .98 

Wool,^^ .     ,          09  34 

KANSAS  CITT. 

Cattle .^^.., 2  00  a  4  90 

Hogs ..^ «^ 3  00  3575 

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THE  CHEISTIAJ?"  CYNOSURE. 


April  12, 1888 


Faem  Notes. 

DWAKF    APPLE    TREES. 

A  pretty  thing  in  a  garden  is  a  nicely 
trained  young  dwarf  apple  tree,  or  a  row 
of  them.  They  can  be  led  into  any  de- 
sired shape,  and  it  is  lasting  amusement 
and  recreation  to  the  amateur  gardener 
to  guide  them  into  fanciful  forms  which 
does  not  debar  them  from  giving  him  en- 
joyable fruit,  always  handsomer  and 
finer  than  is  usual  on  large  trees .  The 
sap  has  not  far  to  travel  painfully  through 
thousands  of  cells  and  against  gravity  to 
reach  the  leaves  from  the  root  points, 
and  so  the  leaves  are  completer,  and  the 
fruit  better  fed  than  on  the  big  trees. 

It  used  to  be  common  in  the  neat 
Freach  gardens,  and  probably  is  yet,  to 
Bee  rows  of  dwarf  apple  trees  trained 
like  low  horizontal  fences  at  the  back  of 
flower  borders,  separating  them  from  the 
vegetable  ground.  In  other  places  they 
would  stand  here  and  there  at  intervals 
in  the  borders,  their  shoots  pinched  into 
pyramidal  form  or  left  long,  but  reduced 
in  number  and  trained  to  wires,  giving 
them  the  shape  of  letters  or  figures  of  dif- 
ferent kinds.  To  an  admirer  of  handsome 
fruit  nothing  of  the  kind  can  be  more  de 
lightful  than  the  products  of  these  trees. 
—  Vick's  Maqazine. 

ABBOR     DAT. 

Fifty  years  ago  there  was  a  spring- 
time holiday  known  at  Williams  College, 
Massachusetts,  as  "Tree  Day,"  when  the 
students  betook  themselves  to  the  Berk- 
shire hills  and  woods,  and  came  home 
laden  with  trees  which  they  planted  in  the 
college  grounds  and  the  village  streets. 
The  custom  survived  until  a  few  years 
ago,  and  may  still  survive.  It  resulted 
in  making  that  beautiful  valley  a  very 
forest  of  foliage.  Similar  customs  pre- 
vailed in  many  other  New  Eagland  towns. 
"Arbor  Day,"  known  to  the  laws  of  so 
many  States,  had  its  origin  not  merely 
in  the  idea  of  beautifying  hamlets  and 
homesteads,  but  in  increasing  the  forest 
area.  The  Nebraska  Agricultural  Society 
first  set  the  ball  in  motion  in  1874,  audit 
is  claimed  that  the  people  planted  twelve 
million  trees  that  year,  and  that  now  the 
State  has  more  than  a  hundred  thousand 
acres  of  planted  forest.  The  same  year 
the  Iowa  Horticultural  Society  recom- 
mended the  planting.  In  Minnesota  the 
work  began  in  1876,  and  more  than  one 
million  five  hundred  thousand  trees  were 
planted.  Michigan  fell  into  line  in  1881 ; 
Ohio  in  1883;  West  Virginia  in  1883,  and 
later  New  Jersey,  New  Hampshire,  New 
York,  Vermont,  Georgia,  Idaho,  Penn- 
sylvania, Florida  and  several  other  States. 
In  all  of  these  the  practice  is  popular, 
and  is  resulting  in  great  good,  with  the 
promise  of  greater.  At  the  present  session 
of  the  New  York  State  Legislature  a  bill 
has  been  presented  which  is  designed  to 
give  a  fresh  and  vital  interest  to  "Arbor 
Day"  as  a  children's  festival.  It  provides 
that  the  children  of  the  public  schools 
shall  be  assembled  on  the  first  of  May, 
and  that  their  teachers  shall  encourage 
them  in  the  planting,  preservation  and 
protection  of  trees  and  shrubs,  and  in- 
struct them  in  the  best  methods.  Already 
"Arbor  Day"  has  proved  to  be  an  educa 
lor.  The  school  children  are  interested 
in  its  observance,  and  they  learn  much 
concerning  the  uses  and  the  growth  of 
trees.  These  beautify  country  and  town, 
and  pave  the  way  for  a  bonanza  in  lum- 
ber before  many  years.  Let  the  good 
work  go  on,  and  a  perpetual  supply  of 
timber  will  be  maintained. — American 
Agriculturist. 

Frkk  vs.  Slave  Labor. — Attention 
has  been  recently  directed  to  the  fact  that 
the  revenues  of  South  Carolina  for  the 
past  year  from  agriculture,  manufactures 
and  mines  have  been  nearly  twice  as 
great  under  free  labor  as  they  were  un- 
der slavery.  Such  testimonies  as  this 
convince  even  former  slave  holders  of  the 
advantages  of  free  labor,  and  causes  them 
to  rejoice  that  slavery  is  abolished.  And 
yet  the  ccftee  planters  of  Brazil  are  op- 
posing the  abolition  of  slavery  on  the 
ground  that  it  would  be  impossible  to 
compete  with  other  countries  under  other 
conditions. 

A  Point  as  to  Farm  Animals.— The 
temper  of  a  farm  animal  is  an  element  in 
determining  its  value  that  is  rarely  given 
the  consideration  it  m^rita,  wisely  ob- 
served a  writer  in  the  Western  Plowman 
The  value  and  ueefulness  of  such  an  ani- 
mal, he  adds,  depends  almost  as  much 
upon  mental  as  upon  physical  character- 
ifltica.      A  horse  may   be  muscular  and 


active,  but  if  it  uses  its  muscles  and  shows 
its  activity  by  kicking  the  other  horses, 
by  running  away  with  the  wagon  or  plow 
whenever  the  opportunity  offers,  or  by 
getting  over  the  best  fence  on  the  farm, 
it  is  of  less  value  than  a  horse  with  less 
muscle  and  activity,  and  more  religion. 

A  young  man  in  Battle  Creek,  Mich., 
named  Stevens  struck  a  horse  a  slight 
blow  on  the  mouth  with  the  back  of  his 
hand  six  months  ago,  making  a  trifling 
abrasion  of  the  skin  by  coming  in  contact 
with  the  horse's  teeth.  His  hand  and  arm 
soon  became  swollen,  and  a  sub-cuticle 
channel  about  two  inches  in  width  soon 
formed, extending  in  a  zigzag  course  from 
the  hand  to  the  elbow.  An  occasional  erup- 
tion occurs  from  which  a  watery  pus 
trickles  forth.  The  case  has  received  the 
attention  of  the  best  physicians  in  the 
city,  but  to  no  avail.  It  has  the  appear- 
ance of  a  genuine  case  of  glanders  re- 
produced in  man  by  inoculation  from  a 
glandered  horse,  and  creates  much  inter- 
est among  the  profession. 
•  •  • 

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sold  for  ten  thousand  dollars  at  public 
auction  five  years  ago,  and  I  intended  to 
buy  it,  but  was  too  sick  with  headache 
to  attend  the  sale,  and  it  is  now  worth 
fifty  thousand  dollars."  If  he  had  known 
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lets they  would  have  removed  the  cause 
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A  clergyman,  after  years  of  suffering 
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vainly  trying  every  known  remedy,  at 
last  found  a  prescription  which  complete- 
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New  York,  will  receive  the  recipe  free  of 
charge. 


"I  wonder  Grimes  has  any  friends — 
His  manner  grows  so  surly: 

No  matter  where  we  chance  to  meet. 
Or  whether  late  or  early, 

'Tis  just  the  same:  he  cannot  stay. 
And  barely  answers  a  'good  day.' " 

Now  this  is  a  sad  case  of  misconcep- 
tion. It  is  not  Grimes's  disposition  which 
is  at  fault,  but  his  liver.  He  can't  appear 
jolly  when  he  feels  miserable.  If  he 
would  take  Dr.  Pierce's  Golden  Medical 
Discovery,  the  great  liver,  stomach  and 
bowel  regulator,  he  would  soon  be  the 
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to  himself  and  the  world  generally. 

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the  lodge  given  in  connection  with  his 
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catalogue.  The  price  is  only  ten  cents 
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Freemasonry  Illustrated.  A  complete 
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THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


April  12, 1888 


NFWS  OF  THE  WEEK 

THE    STRIKE. 

Last  week  Tuesday  a  local  election 
gave  a  quiet  day  among  the  anxious  rail 
road  managers,  and  the  worst  was  ex- 
pected next  day.  The  Milwaukee  and 
St.  Paul  road  had  temporarily  laid  cff 
5,000  men  until  the  strike  in  their  Chica- 
go yards  was  settled.  The  Lake  Shore 
road,  which  changed  off  a  large  part  of 
its  force  for  non-union  men  in  the  strike 
of  1886,  only  felt  safe.  Tuesday  after- 
noon a  large  meeting  of  1,200  strikers 
was  held.  Cooler  heads  from  points  out- 
eide  the  city  advised  them,  and  after  some 
conference  with  the  road  superintendents 
there  was  an  unconditional  surrender. 
Business  has  resumed  its  usual  tone.  The 
Burlington  road  has  no  further  trouble 
except  from  an  occational  attempt  at 
violence,  and  its  engineers  are  beginning 
to  come  back. 

Owing  to  a  falling  off  in  business 
caused  by  the  strikes,  500  freight  em- 
ployes on  the  Western  division  of  the 
New  York  Central  have  been  suspended. 

The  official  statement  of  the  South- 
western Railway  Association  for  the  first 
and  second  weeks  of  March  shows  that 
the  Chicago,  Burlington  and  Qaincy 
earned  in  that  period  leas  than  $1,000  on 
through  and  competative  business  be- 
tween Chicago  and  Kansas  City  and  com- 
mon points.  It  is  estimated  that  thegroES 
earnings  of  the  road  will  fall  off  over 
$1,200,000  for  the  month. 

Railway  employes  at  Clinton,  Iowa,  are 
threatening  to  boycott  all  merchants  who 
ship  goods  over  the  '  Q"  railroad,  and  it 
is  whispered  that  the  merchants  will  boy- 
cott the  "Q." 

COUNTBY. 

United  States  Judge  Jackson  decided 
Friday  at  Louisville  that  Kentucky  can 
keep  and  try  the  prisoners  from  West 
Virginia  involved  in  the  Hatfleld-McCoy 
murders. 

A  call  for  a  convention  is  to  be  held  at 
Topeka,  May  1,  for  the  purpose  or  or- 
ganizing the  farmers'  trust  Circulars 
have  been  sent  to  the  governors  of  all 
the  States  west  of  the  Mississippi,  and  to 
Illinois,  and  to  Wisconsin,  to  send  dele- 
gates to  the  convention. 

As  a  result  of  the  liquor  prosecutions 
in  Concord,  N.  H.,  every  saloon  has  been 
closed,  the  proprietors  refusing  absolutely 
to  make  any  sales. 

Heavy  floods  have  been  experienced  in 
Wisconsin  and  Iowa.  The  Shell  Rock 
river,  swollen  by  heavy  rains,  overflowed 
its  banks  at  Rock  Falls,  Iowa,  Thursday 
night,  and  carried  #iway  a  mill-dam  and 
a  barn  and  three  houses  were  demolished 
by  floating  ics.  The  occupants  were  all 
rescued  Friday  morning. 

Mrs.  Mary  Sharp  of  Wanemic,  Pa., 
was  engaged  in  manufacturing  whisky, 
when  the  pot  containing  it  toppled  over 
into  a  hot  fire.  The  fluid  blazed  up,  set- 
ting Are  to  her  clothing,  and  she  was 
burned  to  death.  Three  of  her  children, 
who  tried  to  save  her,  were  also  burned, 
and  will  die.  The  husband  and  father, 
John  Sharp,  who  was  at  work  at  the  time, 
is  reported  to  have  become  insane. 

The  nitro  glycerine  mills  of  the  Fowler 
Company,  situated  at  Miller's  Station, 
Ind.,  a  small  town  on  the  Baltimore  and 
Ohio  and  the  Lake  Shore  and  Michigan 
Southern  railroads,  exploded  with  terrific 
force  Friday  forenoon,  while  the  men 
were  drawing  the  mixture  into  the  vats, 
killing  the  three  men  who  were  in  the 
building  at  the  time.  The  t.\  plosion  was 
caused  by  friction  in  moving  the  vats. 
The  shock  was  felt  in  Crownpoint.  twenty 
five  miles  away. 

The  Mexican  authorities  are  erect- 
ing dams  on  the  Rio  Grande,  oppo- 
site El  Paso,  Texap,  the  effect  of  which 
will  be  to  deflect  the  current  of  the  river 
and  wash  away  a  portion  of  £1  Paso. 
The  citizens  of  the  latter  place  will  en- 
ter a  formal  protett. 

The  river  at  Des  Moines,  Iowa,  was 
higher  Sunday  than  for  seven  years,  and 
still  rising.  It  was  feared  the  entire 
south  part  of  the  city  would  be  sub 
merged.  Tha  Diagonal  railroad  bridge 
was  moved  from  its  foundation  and  will 
likely  go  down.  Hundreds  of  men  and 
teams  were  at  work  raising  levees. 

At  Albuquerque,  N.  M.,  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
J.  W.  Reynolds  were  walking  along  the 
street,  Mr.  Reynolds  carrying  an  over- 
coat on  bis  arm.     A  loaded  revolver  fell 

om  one  of  ita  pocketA,  struck  on  the 


MEMORY 

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SUCCESS 

Wholly  unlike  iirtilioial  HyHteuiK. 

Cure  oi'  lulotl  wunflerinKT. 

Any  hook  leHrnecl  In  one  reading. 
CliisHeaof  1087  at  naltliiiore,  1005  al  Pi^li-olt, 
l/iOO  nl  riilladelpliln, liirKe  classes  of  Columbia  Law 
hHidcnls.  al  Yalp,  Wcllcsley,  Ohurllu,  University  of 
I'cnn  ,  Mli-hlKan  Unlvcrsltv,  Cliaiilaii(|ua.  i-i-.  A-c.  Kii- 
(|i.rm-il  liy  liirnAiti)  I'Kiicroii,  I  he  Scientist,  lions. W. 

W.  AsTOR.  .JlDAll    }".  iiRN.lAMIN,    .1  IKl^e  O  IltsON,  Df. 

Hkown.  K.  il.  Cook,  I'rlnclpal  N.  V.  State  Normal 
('olli'Ki',  iVc    The  system  Is  peifeelly  tauijlU  by  oor- 
respoiiilencc.    I'ni.-ipeetiis  post  frkk  from 
I'ltiiK    I.OISKTTi;,  a;  Finii  Avenue,  New  York. 


For  tho 
bo  lie  lit 
of  those 


CHEAP  EXCURSIONS. 

looknm  tor  new  locations  or  investiiu'iits,  seiiii- 
moiitlily  excursions  hiive  been  arriiimed,  at  one 
fare  (or  tlic  rouiul  trip,  to  all  points  in  Diikola 
and  Minnesota.  Tickets  llr  t  cliisa  and  pood  tor 
31)  days.  For  maps  unci  iurther  particulars  ad- 
dress C.  H.  ■WAiittro.v,  »  ■  „,SL'r*"S,.  4 
General  PaRsnn«er  Ei  ^ '^"i^'^i^'L  A 
Ageut,  Bt.  Paul ,  M  lun.    IM  A  N  I T  U  B  iX 


HAVE  rOU  EXAMINED 

The  list  of  Books  anil  Trictsforsal^  hy  thoNATTon 
ALCiiRisTIAS  Association.  Look  it  over  carefully 
kDd  aee  If  tbereU  Dot  aometblns  you  want  for  your 
•elf  or  for  roar  friend.  Band  lo'  fnu  natKiaciu  :/ 
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hammer  and  was  discharged.  The  ball 
entered  Mrs.  Reynolds's  body  on  her  left 
side,  rauged  upward,  passing  directly 
through  the  heart,  killing  htr  instantly, 
and  came  out  at  the  right  shoulder. 

FORBIGH 

The  Manitobans  have  gained  their 
point  in  the  matter  of  the  railway,  the 
Canadian  government  having  floally 
yielded.  The  indemnity  to  be  paid  to  the 
Canadian  Pacific  for  the  damage  to  this 
infringement  upon  its  chBrier,  it  is  said, 
will  be  from  six  to  eight  millions  of  dol- 
lars The  Manitobans  will  at  once  pro 
ceed  with  the  building  of  their  road, 
which  will  connect  them  with  the  Amer- 
ican roads 

Queen  Victoria  is  now  in  Florence, 
Italy.  The  Enaperor  and  Enpress  of 
BrszU  visited  her  Friday.  Qaeen  Victo- 
ria and  Piince  and  Piincess  Henry  of 
Bitteuburg  afterward  partook  of  lunch- 
eon with  the  King  and  Qaeen  of  Italy  at 
the  Pitli  Palace. 

A  recent  Oriental  mail  to  London 
brings  some  particulars  of  the  earthquake 
in  China  just  before  Christmas.  Fifteen 
thousand  people  perished  in  the  course 
of  the  four  days,  during  which,  at  uncer- 
tain inteivals  the  shocks  continued.  The 
capital  district  of  Yunan  is  said  to  be 
absolutely  one  mass  of  ruins.  More 
than  five  thousand  persons  were  killed 
by  the  falling  of  houses  At  Lainon, 
another  Chinese  town,  the  effect  on 
buildings  has  been  neaily  as  terrible,  with 
the  additional  horror  of  the  earth  yawn- 
ing till  a  frightful  chasm  was  produced, 
from  which  red  colored  water  was  ejected. 
The  shaking  of  the  earth  seems  to  have 
been  followed  by  a  subterranean  convul- 
sion of  the  most  awful  kind.  Further 
north,  at  Lo  Chan,  where  ten  thousand 
met  their  doom,  the  aspect  of  the  country 
has  been  completely  changed.  Lage 
tracts  of  land  suddenly  disappeared  In 
the  course  of  the  visitation,  and  in  their 
place  lakes  formed. 

The  repressive  policy  of  the  British 
Government  was  given  a  vigorous  trial 
in  Ireland  Sunday.  At  Kilrush  an  at- 
tempt to  hold  a  public  meeting  brought 
out  the  military  and  police,  and  ten  per- 
sons were  seriously  injured  with  batons 
and  bayonets.  At  Loughrea  the  redoubt- 
able editor,  William  O'Brien,  was  adver- 
tised to  make  an  address,  but  his  audi- 
ence was  dispersed  by  force,  Mr.  O'Brien's 
challenge  to  the  police  to  arrest  him  in- 
stead of  maltreating  the  people  being 
disregarded.  There  was  also  a  disturb  - 
ance  at  Enuis,  in  which  several  people 
were  hurt  and  fifty  arrests  made. 

The  German  Emperor's  condition  gives 
rise  to  serious  alarm.  The  cough  is  aug- 
mented, and  he  suffers  from  nervous  ex- 
citement. The  Empress  has  gone  to 
Posen  to  inquire  into  the  condition  of 
the  sufferers  by  the  recent  floods.  It  is 
said  that  250  villages  are  submerged,  and 
15,000  people  shelterless.  The  giving 
away  of  the  dykes  at  Darshe  caused  a 
large  loss  of  life.  A  famine  is  threatened 
in  Posen,  Pomerania,  and  Silesia,  and 
the  number  of  persons  emigrating  to 
America  will  soon  be  enormously  in- 
creased. 


POWDER 

Absolutely  Pure. 

Tills  powder  never  varies.  A  marvel  of  purity, 
strength  and  wholesomeness.  More  economical  than 
the  ordinary  kinds,  and  cannot  be  sold  in  competi- 
tion with  the  multitude  of  low  test,  short  weight, 
alum  or  phosphate  powders.  Sold  only  In  cans. 
Royal  Baking  Powdbb  Co..  106  'Wan-st.,  N.  Y 


House  and  Lot  In  Wheaton 


rOrv  oAljJli.  111.  Any  one  wishing  to  pur- 
chase should  write  to  W.  I.  1-HlLLlPS,  office  of 
"Christian  Cynosure,"  Chicago,  III 

I  CURE  FITSl 

When  I  say  cure  I  do  not  mean  merely  to  stop  them 
for  a  time  and  then  have  them  return  again.  I  mean  a 
radical  cure.  I  have  made  the  disease  ot'  FITS,  EPIL- 
EPSY or  PALLING  SICKNESS  a  life-long  study.  1 
warrant  my  remedy  to  cure  the  worst  cases.  Because 
others  have  failed  is  no  reason  for  not  now  receiving  a 
cure.  Send  at  once  for  a  treatise  and  a  Free  Bottle 
of  my  infallible  remedy.  Give  Express  and  Post  OSBce. 
H.  6.  ROOT,  M,  C,  183  Pearl  St.  New  York. 


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Winter  Term  Opens  D-cember  6th 
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THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE, 


The  C  TJfOS  CT^.^  represents  the  Christian  movement  against 
the  Secret  Lodge  System;  discusses  fairly  and  fearlessly  the 
various  movements  of  the  lodge  as  they  appear  to  public  view, 
and  reveals  the  secret  machinery  of  corruption  In  politics, 
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There  are  In  the  United  States 

Some  200  different  Lodges, 
With  2,000,000  members, 
CosUng  $20,000,000  yearly. 

This  mighty  world  power  confronts  the  church  and  seeks  to 
rule  and  ruin  every  Christian  Reform. 

No  Christian  Reform  Movement  of  the  day  Is  so  necessary, 
yet  BO  unpopular  and  beset  with  difficulties,  as  that  which  would 
remove  the  dark  pall  of  oaths,  dark-lantern  meetings,  secret 
signs,  mysterious  and  pagan  worship  about  altars  condemned 
by  the  Word  of  the  Living  God. 

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CHICAGO,  THURSDAY,  APRIJL  ly,  1888. 


Wholi  No.  938. 


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CONTENTS. 


Bditobial  : 

NoteB  and  Comments 1 

The  Secret  Foe  of  Congre- 

gatioDallsm 8 

COTJTKIBDTIONS  : 

vital  Points  of  Difference 
Between   Masonry   and 

Christianity 2 

Decoration  Day 3 

Seventy-seven  (poetry). ..  2 
Letters  from  the  Congo. .  3 
Sblectsd : 
Is  the  G.  A.  R.  an  Oath- 
bound  Society 3 

Grand  Army  Frauds 3 

N.  C.  A.  Board  Meeting. ...  4 

LITBBA.TI7RB 6 

DIBLB    LBSSON 7 

In  Bribf 7 

ThbN.C.  A...  7 

ThbHohb 10 


Rbfobm  Nbws  : 
The  Song  Missionary  in' 
Texas ;  Among  the  Car- 
olina CollCi^es .  More  and 
Better  from  New  Or- 
leans;  From  the    Otilo 

Agent 5,9 

Cobbbspondbnob  : 
Prohibition  and  Reform 
In  Texas;  Peril  and  Sal- 
vation; Don't  Pay  for 
More  Swindling ;  Public 
Profession,  Secret  Deni- 
al; Pith  and  Point 5,6 

Temperancb 11 

Obitcaut 12 

Kbligioos  Nbws 12 

Farm  Notes 14 

News  of  thb  Wbbk 16 

Markets 13 

Business 13 


THB  THOUSANDTH  MILS  POST 


in  the  fund  for  sending  the  Cynosure  South  is  passed,  as 
appears  from  the  following  report  of  donations  from 
Treasurer  Phillips: 

DONATIONS . 

To  Cynosure  Ministers'  Fund: 

Burdett  Fuller $  1.00 

S.C.Taylor 2.00 

N.  P.  Eddy 50.00 

Before  reported 970.41 

Total $1,023.41 

That  sends  682  papers  for  a  year  to  the  colored  min- 
isters. Read  elsewhere  how  these  brethren  are  leading 
for  Christ  against  his  foes  in  Louisiana.  For  next  week 
there  waits  more  good  news  of  the  same  kind.  We  bless 
God  and  take  hope. 


Last  week  we  noted  some  features  of  the  annual  Mor- 
mon Conference  at  Salt  Lake  City,  and  that  the  spirit 
of  the  meeting  was  full  of  rebellion  and  strong  for  po- 
lygamy. The  conference  closed  Wednesday  last.  Pres- 
ident Woodruff,  in  behalf  of  the  twelve  apostles, 
read  the  usual  epistle  from  them,  which  did  not  dif- 
fer materially  from  those  of  former  years.  The  late 
John  Taylor,  in  presenting  the  epistle,  used  to  inter- 
pret it  with  a  vigorous*  advocacy  of  the  hateful  Mor- 
mon doctrine;  but  Woodruff  adroitly  avoided  refer- 
ence to  that  subject.  His  remarks  were  in  strong 
contrast  with  the  rantings  of  Clauson,  and  evidently 
were  an  attempt  to  keep  up  a  fair  show  in  a  line 
with  the  movement  for  Statehood. 


predictions  that  have  been  figured  out  to  this  numer- 
ical result  is  fabulous.  In  the  same  way  Freema- 
sonry has  been  proved  to  be  the  fulfillment  of  proph- 
ecy. If  our  indictment  of  the  lodge  depended  only 
upon  such  arguments  we  might  well  be  about  other 
business. 


The  workmen  in  the  breweries  of  Chicago  and 
New  York  have  caught  the  strike  fever,  now  that 
the  railroads  are  quiet.  Oscar  Neebe,  the  anarchist 
now  in  penitentiary  for  life,  organized  these  men  in 
Chicago,  and  connected  their  order  with  the  Central 
Labor  Union,  which  was  a  hot-bed  of  anarchy.  The 
brewers  claim  that  their  business  has  been  virtually 
taken  out  of  their  hands  and  managed  by  this  Union. 
The  demands  of  the  anarchists  finally  caused  a  pro- 
test and  the  men  quit  work — that  is  the  German- 
speaking  part.  The  men  were  satisfied  with  their 
wages;  their  only  fight  was  for  their  lodge.  The  re- 
joicing of  the  temperance  people  is  deep,  but  may 
not  be  long,  as  the  English-speaking  men  refuse  to 
strike,  and  the  brewing  of  death  goes  on. 


A  union  meeting  of  Chicago  pastors  of  different 
denominations  met  in  Farwell  Hall  Monday  morn- 
ing to  discuss  the  question  of  Sabbath  desecration. 
Dr.  E.  P.  Goodwin  presided  and  made  a  strong 
speech  in  favor  of  the  movement,  in  which  he  held 
the  radical  ground  that  all  stores,  shops,  manufac- 
tures, railroads  and  street  cars  should  cease  to 
transact  business  on  the  Lord's  day.  Drs.  Little, 
Ridgeway,  Edwards,  Pres.  C.  A.  Blanchard  of  the 
.Illinois  State  Sabbath  Association,  Hon.  J.  B.  Grin- 
nell  and  others  spoke  upon  various  phases  of  the 
subject.  Resolutions  were  adopted  asserting  the 
moral  obligation  of  the  Sabbath,  urging  the 
discussion  of  its  supremacy  in  pulpit,  press  and  ec- 
clesiastical gatherings,  and  appointing  a  committee 
of  fifteen  to  wait  upon  railway  and  newspaper  man- 
agers and  others  who  employ  workmen  seven  days 
in  the  week  to  protest  against  this  violation  of  the 
law  of  God.  Another  meeting  will  be  held  on  the 
27th  inst.,  when  it  is  expected  that  Secretary  Josiah 
Strong  of  the  Evangelical  Alliance  will  give  an  ad- 
dress. 


Andrew  Carnegie  is  well  known  as  proprietor  of 
great  iron  works  about  Pittsburg  and  a  writer  of 
force  and  ability  on  political  and  economical  sub- 
jects. His  views  of  the  labor  question  have  seemed 
much  in  sympathy  with  those  of  workingmen. 
When,  therefore,it  was  lately  announced  that  he  was 
about  to  adopt  profit  -  sharing  in  his  works, 
there  was  much  interest  and  a  general  approval  of 
the  decision.  His  proposition,  however,  was  not  so 
liberal,  though  sufficiently  generous  for  an  experi- 
ment. The  employes  of  his  steel  works  are  on  a 
strike.  He  proposed  that  they  be  paid  on  a  vary- 
ing scale  proportioned  to  the  profits  of  the  business, 
such  profits  being  estimated  by  mutual  representa- 
tives. A  minority  of  the  men  are  Knights  of  Labor, 
who  claim  that  "the  fundamental  laws  of  their  or- 
der will  be  violated"  by  such  an  arrangement.  They 
have  refused  it,  and  are  able,  by  their  secret  organi- 
zation, to  prevent  the  unsworn  majority  from  ac- 
cepting the  offer.  Mr.  Carnegie  has,therefore,clo8ed 
his  mills  for  several  months,and  refuses  to  have  any 
dealing  with  the  Knights  as  a  body.  From  Mr. 
Carnegie's  prominence  in  politics  and  society  this 
strike  has  much  importance.  He  is  a  man  of  abili- 
ty and  wealth,  and  has  leisure  to  plan  for  working- 
men  something  better  than  a  sworn,  secret  cabal 
with  Terence  Powderly  for  its  despot. 


An  English  prophet  has  discovered  that  the  nu- 
merical value  of  the  letters  of  the  name  "Boulanger" 
in  Greek  is  just  666,  and  prophesies  that  the  spec- 
tacular French  General  is  to  play  a  leading  part  in 
affairs  between  this  time  and  the  Second  Advent  of 
Christ,  which  is  to  occur  at  3  o'clock  in  the  after- 
noon of  March  5, 1896.    The  number  of  astonishing 


The  prolonged  and  expensive  dead-lock  in  the 
House  of  Representatives,  which  was  broken  last 
Friday,  was  over  a  bill  to  refund  from  the  Federal 
Treasury  tb  direct  tax  levied  on  the  States  and 
Territories  in  1861,  to  raise  money  for  carrying  on 
the  war.  The  act  of  1861  provided  that  a  tax  of 
$20,000,000  be  apportioned  among  the  inhabitants 
of  the  several  States  and  Territories.  Of  this  amount 
about  $17,500,000  was  collected,  leaving  a  balance 


due,  mostly  from  the  Southern  States,  of  about  $2,- 
500,000.  In  some  of  the  Southern  States  then  in 
rebellion,  collections  were  made  in  some  instances 
from  the  property  of  individuals.  The  theory  upon 
which  the  proposal  to  refund  is  based,  is  that  the 
uncollected  tax  still  stands  on  the  Treasury  books 
as  a  debt,  which  must,  in  justice  to  all  concerned, 
be  collected  or  else  the  tax  already  collected  should 
be  refunded  to  the  proper  States  and  Territories. 
The  opponents  of  the  bill  take  the  position  that  as 
the  levies  were  made  on  individuals  in  the  Southern 
States,  the  only  fair  course  would  be  to  find  those 
individuals  and  reimburse  them  directly.  They  also 
oppose  it  because  the  cotton  tax,  which  drew  nearly 
$70,000,000  from  the  Southern  States,  the  constitu- 
tionality of  which  is  still  hotly  disputed,  has  ntver 
been  repaid. 


The  report  on  the  Washington  building,  voted  to 
be  printed  in  these  columns,  was  prepared  to  meet 
an  inquiry  which  arose  in  the  minds  of  several 
members  of  the  National  Board,  who  were  not  fa- 
miliar with  the  opening  of  the  Washington  enter- 
prise. They  wished  to  be  satisfied  respecting  the 
question  raised  by  some  brethren,  whether  the  Na- 
tional Christian  Association,  after  raising  the  money 
and  paying  for  the  building,  had  any  further  right 
therein  or  control  of  the  property.  The.  investiga- 
tion was  most  rigid,  was  perfectly  satisfactory,  and 
we  hope  will  answer  the  objections  made  by  a  few 
brethren  to  the  resumption  of  the  plan  upon  which 
the  fund  was  raised  and  the  building  secured.  They 
have  perhaps  forgotten  in  the  lapse  of  years  the  cir- 
cumstances under  which  the  fund  was  raised,  and 
that  it  was  a  trust  which  the  N.  C.  A.  has  no  choice 
but  to  fulfill.  The  National  Board  cannot,  there- 
fore, abandon  the  original  plan,  though  it  has  for 
two  or  three  years  been  postponed  in  order  to  assist 
in  starting  the  American  with  the  money  received 
from  rents.  That  the  Board  simply  postponed  this 
work  might  have  been  shown  from  the  records  of 
several  meetings  in  1885.  Last  August  the  Board 
requested  Bro.  E.  D.  Bailey  of  the  American  to  de- 
vote his  time  entirely  to  the  reform,  but  he  did  not 
wish  to  leave  other  engagements;  and  the  Board 
then  published  its  purpose  to  resume  the  agency  in 
June,  1888,  when  the  income  of  the  building  will 
again  be  applied  to  the  purposes  for  which  it  was 
purchased. 


The  notable  features  of  the  late  Woman's  Inter- 
national Council  in  Washington  have  been  men- 
tioned in  our  columns  with  approval,  but  we  do  not 
propose  that  a  worm  in  the  apple  shall  be  eaten  with 
the  rest.  Elizabeth  Cady  Stanton  was,  next  to 
Miss  Anthony,  the  moving  spirit  of  the  meeting, 
la  one  of  her  addresses  she  is  reported  to  have  said 
in  these  exact  words:  "The  time  is  not  far  distant 
when,  if  men  do  not  do  justice  to  women,  the  wo- 
men will  strike  hands  with  labor,  with  socialists, 
with  anarchists,  and  you  will  witness  the  scenes  of 
the  French  Revolution  acted  over  again  iu  this  Re- 
public." This  violent  and  unwomanlv  threat  was 
not  from  a  Parisian  "petroleuse."  Parhaps  Mrs: 
Stanton  did  not  mean  what  she  said.  We  hope 
she  did  not  It  is  not  a  beautiful  picture — Ameri- 
can women  striking  hands  with  Most  and  Spies. 
One  foolish  and  willful  young  Chicago  woman  failed 
in  the  attempt  But  Mrs.  Stanton  may  have  meant 
it  She  tells  a  characteristic  story  of  herself  when 
she  was  a  girl  of  twelve.  She  used  to  see  her  father, 
Judge  Cady,  administer  law  from  the  bench,  and 
refer  to  his  books  to  form  his  decision.  She  thought 
to  help  these  decisions  to  a  proper  end,  therefore, 
by  going  through  his  law  library  and  tearing  out 
and  burning  those  pages  containing  principles  or  de- 
cisions that  displeaseid  her.  She  discovered  much 
that  was  offensive  to  her  youthful  taste,  and  nearly 
ruined  the  library  before  she  was  discovered  and  her 
efforts  to  reform  the  world  were  checked.  It  is  well 
known  that  Mrs.  Stanton  is  the  author  of  sentiments 
that  border  on  infidelity  and  deride  the  church.  We 
doubt  whether,  in  her  old  age,  she  is  a  more  safe 
guide  for  our  mothers,  wives,  sisters  and  daughters 
than  she  was  for  her  father's  court  when  a  child. 


THE  CHRISTIAN-  CYNOSURE- 


April  19, 1888 


VITAL  POINTS  OF  DIFFBRBSGB  BETWEEN 
MA80NBT  AND  CHRIBTIANITT. 


BY  REV.  J.  K.  ALWOOD. 

God  said,  "My  people  perish  for  lack  of  knowl- 
edge." This  is  doubtless  the  case  with  many  in  this 
age  of  learning.  They  start  well  in  religion,  but  are 
drawn  away  with  decoying  secretists,  run  a  useless 
career,  and  end  in  ruin.  There  are  several  vital 
points  of  difference  between  our  holy  Christianity 
and  Freemasonry,,  which  may  easily  be  known,  and 
ought  to  be  known  and  constantly  remembered  by 
all.     Note  the  following  important  points: 

1.  In  Christianity  Gkritt  it  the  light.  Not  so  in 
Masonry,  nor  any  other  secret  order  as  such.  True, 
Eobert  Morris  in  his  Dictionary  of  Masonry  informs 
us  that  the  Bible  is  "termed  the  first  great  light  in 
Masonry."  But  he  also  informs  us  that  the  carpen- 
ter's "square  is  termed  the  second  great  light,"  and 
"the  compass,  the  third."  This  shows  us  that  the 
Bible  is  put  on  a  level  with  the  carpenter's  square 
and  compass  in  the  lodge,  and  the  three  are  used 
simply  as  emblematic  furniture.  This  will  be  clear 
when  we  read  on  page  208  of  Chase's  Digest  of  Ma- 
sonic Law,  that  "Masonry  has  nothing  whatever  to 
do  with  the  Bible.  It  is  not  founded  on  the  Bible; 
if  it  was,  it  would  not  be  Masonry;  it  would  be  some- 
thing else."  Albert  G.  Mackey  in  his  Masonic  Lex- 
icon, page  402,  says,  "The  religion  of  Masonry  is 
pure  theism."  That  is,  it  is  unmixed  deism.  This 
was  the  religion  of  Thomas  Paine,  who  fought  the 
Bible  and  Christianity  with  all  his  might,  and  of 
Charles  Darwin,  author  of  the  theory  of  evolution. 
We  know  that  nearly  or  quite  all  the  eligible  Jews 
in  this  country  are  Masons;  and  all  Jews  reject 
Christ.  Thomas  Smith  Webb,  in  his  standard  mon- 
itor, pages  14,  15,  informs  us  that  Masonry  "unites 
the  distant  Chinese,  the  wild  Arab,  the  American 
savage,  the  Briton,  German  and  Frank,  and  men  of 
the  most  opposite  tenets  and  the  most  contradictory 
opinions  in  one  indissoluble  bond  of  affection."  It 
is  absurd  to  suppose  that  Christ  can  be  the  light  of 
savage,  pagan,  Jewish,  deistic  rejecters  of  the  Son 
of  God.  Mackey  says:  "The  Persians  consecrated 
fire,  as  containing  the  principle  of  light,  and  the 
Druids  worshiped  the  sun  as  its  eternal  source. 
Freemasons,  too,  travel  in  search  of  spiritual  light 
which  can  be  found  only  in  the  East,  from  whence 
it  springs."  All  Masonic  "light  springs  from  the 
East"  end  of  the  lodge,  where  the  despotic  Master 
rules.  "Theism"  accepts  no  light  from  Christ.  The 
Jew  spurns  it,  re-echoing  the  voice  of  his  ancestors: 
"Let  him  be  crucified."  "The  wild  Arab,"  Moham- 
medan, "the  savage,"  the  Paines  and  Darwins  ridi- 
cule it.  Yet  all  these  are  delighted  with  the  Masonic 
light  "in  the  East."  Thus  any  one  can  see  that  the 
twe  systems  do  not  walk  in  the  same  kind  of  light. 
With  Isaiah,  "Let  us  walk  in  the  light  of  the  Lord." 

2.  Christianity  builds  all  its  hopes  on  the  blood 
of  Christ.  But  Masonry,  by  proclaimiug  the  transit 
of  its  departed  "deists,"  Jews,  and  other  rejecters 
of  Christ  "to  the  Grand  Lodge  above,"  proclaims 
also  that  the  blood  of  Christ  has  nothing  to  do  with 
the  salvation  of  souls,  but  is  a  futile,  unholy  thing, 
and  the  apostles  were  foolish  in  talking  of  salvation 
through  that  blood. 

3.  The  bond  of  Christian  union  is  "the  love  of 
God  shed  abroad  in  our  hearts  by  the  Holy  Ghost 
which  is  given  unto  us."  But  "theistic,"  that  is, 
deistic  Masonry,  having  "nothing  whatever  to  do 
with  the  Bible,"  and  suited  to  the  tastes  of  all  reject- 
ers of  Christ,  cannot  possibly  possess  "the  love  of 
God  shed  abroad  in  the  heart  by  the  Holy  Ghost." 
Morris  tells  us:  "It  is  the  obligation  that  makes  the 
Mason,  and  the  only  difference  between  one  Masou 
and  another  consists  simply  in  the  fact  that  one 
keeps  his  obligation  better  than  another."  "The 
Masonic  obligation  is  of  a  nature  scarcely  distin- 
guishable from  oaths."  "Every  Mason  is  under  an 
obligation  to  obey  the  laws  of  the  lodge  and  the 
Grand  Lodge."  (Die,  Art.,  Obligation.)  "An  affirm- 
ation is  not  esteemed  equivalent  to  an  oath  in  Ma- 
sonry, however  it  may  be  in  common  law,  and  is 
not  legitimate  in  the  workings  of  the  lodge."  (Art., 
Affirmation.)  Here  it  is  made  perfectly  clear  that 
administering  the  oath  is  a  part  of  "the  workings  of 
the  lodge,"  and  that  "every  Mason  is  under  an  oath 
to  obey  the  laws  of  the  lodge  and  the  Grand  Lodge," 
all  of  which  laws  were  entirely  "hid  from  him"  when 
he  took  the  oath  to  obey  them. 

But  our  present  point  is  that,  so  far  from  the  love 
of  God  being  any  part  of  the  bond  of  union  in  Ma- 
sonry, "it  is  the  oath  that  makes  the  Mason,"  and 
holds  him  in  obedience  to  laws,  known  or  hidden, 
and  clans  him  with  men  who  may  be  intensely  hate- 
ful to  him.  "The  oath,"  with  its  penalties,  is  the 
bond  of  union. 

4.  In  Christianity  Christ  is  "the  life."     Not  so  in 


Masonry,  as  attest  the  large  Jewish  and  other  anti- 
Christian  elements,  and  many  of  the  wickedest  men 
in  our  country.  Jesus  said,  "In  secret  have  I  said 
nothing."  "What  I  tell  you  in  darkness  that  speak 
ye  in  light:  and  what  ye  hear  in  the  ear  that  preach 
ye  upon  the  house  tops.  And  fear  not  them  which 
kill  the  body."  There  is  no  secrecy  life  in  Christ: 
no  life  for  secret  societies.  His  rule  here  quoted 
would  destroy  them  all  suddenly  if  applied.  Clan- 
ism  is  its  life. 

5.  Christianity  courts  investigation  and  seeks  pub- 
licity for  every  item  there  is  in  it.  Masonry  conceals 
all  but  its  few  good  deeds.  By  its  delight  in  pro- 
claiming these  abroad,  it  tacitly  confesses  that  it 
would  proclaim  all  if  all  were  of  the  same  character. 
It  publishes  its  good  acts  because  they  are  good. 
The  others  belong  to  its  "Esotery."  Jesus  said, 
"Every  one  that  doeth  evil  hateth  the  light."  These 
have  an  "Esotery."  Jesus  had  none;  for  his  deeds 
were  all  good:  hence  he  needed  none. 

6.  Christianity  borrows  no  drapery  from  any  other 
system.  Masonry,  though  it  "has  nothing  to  do 
with  the  Bible,"  and  though  "its  religion  is  deism," 
yet  it  borrows  the  cloak  of  Christianity,  on  all  its 
funeral  occasions,  installations,  in  its  monitors, 
lexicons,  and  general  literature.  By  this  means  it 
deceives  the  unwary,  whose  consciences  are  yet  ten- 
der, and  gains  reputation  among  Christians.  In 
Turkey  it  borrows  the  cloak  of  Mohammedanism, 
and  the  Koran  "is  one  of  the  three  great  lights." 
Farther  east  it  borrows  of  Buddhism. 

7.  Christianity  requires  every  one  at  all  times  to 
do  right  only,  and  never  consent  to  wrong  in  any 
way.  But,  according  to  one  of  the  monitors,  and 
many  seceders,  the  Royal  Arch  requires  the  assist- 
ance and  keeping  of  secrets  for  one  another  by  com- 
panions, "whether  they  be  right  or  wrong,  murder 
and  treason  not  excepted."  (Richardson's  Mon.  p. 
70,  and  Bernard's  Light.) 

8.  Christianity  excludes  none  because  they  are 
young,  or  old,  or  black,  or  too  poor  to  pay  fees  and 
dues,  or  defective  in  body  or  limb,  or  are  ladies. 
But  the  "Ancient  Landmarks"  of  Masonry  eacludes 
all  these;  no  matter  how  pious,  or  learned,  or  wise 
they  may  be.  Their  room  is  reserved  for  those  who 
need  no  help,  though  they  are  very  wicked  "Jews, 
Mohammedans,  or  savages." 

9.  Christianity  never  takes  away  the  freedom  of 
conscience  by  putting  a  man  "under  an  obligation 
to  obey  laws"  that  are  "hid  from  him."  All  secret 
societies  do  this,  in  plain  violation  of  God's  law, 
which  declares,  "If  a  soul  swear,  pronouncing  with 
his  lips  to  do  evil,  or  to  do  good,  whatsoever  it 
be  that  a  man  shall  pronounce  with  an  oath,  and  it 
be  hid  from  him;  when  he  knoweth  of  it,  then  he 
shall  be  guilty  in  one  of  these.  And  it  shall  be, 
when  he  shall  be  guilty  in  one  of  these  things,  that 
he  shall  confess  that  he  hath  sinned  in  that  thing." 
(Lev.  5:  4,  5.)  No  man,  or  set  of  men,  has  a  right 
to  give  or  take  such  a  promise  as  the  awful  Judge 
here  prohibits.  And  right  here  all  secret  combina- 
tions and  all  their  adherents  and  apologists  are 
guilty  every  hour. 

Morenci,  Michigan. 

^  •  *■ 

'   DECORATION  DAT. 


BY   REV.    H.   n.    HINMAN. 


I  see  it  is  proposed  by  chairman  Dickie,  and  heart- 
ily endorsed  by  the  Voice,  that  the  National  Prohi- 
bition Convention  at  Indianapolis  shall  celebrate 
Decoration  Day  by  a  reunion  of  the  "Blue"  and  the 
"Gray,"  and  a  common  consecration  to  the  united 
interests  of  the  whole  country,  and  especially  to  the 
suppression  of  the  liquor  traffic.  Such  a  union,  for 
such  an  object,  is  certainly  most  desirable.  Every- 
thing that  tends  to  the  abatement  of  past  animosi- 
ties, the  promotion  of  a  truly  national  feeling,  and 
especially  whatever  tends  to  exalt  the  interests  of 
morality  and  humanity  above  mere  devotion  to 
party,  is  certainly  of  great  utility. 

Such  a  celebration  of  Decoration  Day  might  be  a 
real  good,  and  if,  as  proposed,  it  takes  on  this  char- 
acter it  will  indicate  a  long  step  in  the  direction  of 
a  purer  national  morality.  But  such  is  not  the  usual 
manner  of  celebrating  this  anniversary;  very  largely 
it  is  used  to  glorify  war  and  the  deeds  of  warriors. 
It  has  tended  rather  to  promote  than  remove  the  old 
hatreds  and  the  sectional  strife.  Above  all  it  has 
been  used  to  glorify  the  bravery  of  men  who  rushed 
to  the  shock  of  battle,  and  to  lead  those  of  unstable 
minds  to  think  that  this  kind  of  courage  was  a 
crown  of  glory,  and  a  passport  to  heaven.  Minis- 
ters of  religion,  as  well  as  others,  have  in  their  gran- 
diloquent oratory  represented  the  fallen  soldier,  who 
made  not  the  slightest  pretensions  to  faith  in  a  Di- 
vine Saviour,  and  who  died  in  the  endeavor  to  kill 
as  many  as  possible  of  his  enemies,  as  being  a  mar- 


tyr and  as  transferred  to  the  realms  of  eternal  bliss. 

Now  I  would  by  no  means  detract  from  the  honor  j 
of  those  who  from  truly  patriotic  motives  (even 
though  they  were  mistaken  as  to  the  rightfulness  of 
their  methods)  responded  to  the  call  of  their  coun- 
try. There  were  men  in  both  the  Union  and  Con- 
federate armies,  who,  in  their  general  and  private 
character,  were  not  simply  brave,  but  were  truly 
noble  and  excellent.  The  sad  thing  is,  that  such 
men  should  have  been  engaged  in  the  business  of 
killing  each  other,  and  that  they  should,  because  of 
difference  of  opinion,  have  appealed  to  the  arbitra- ; 
ment  of  war.  War  is  barbarism.  It  cannot  be: 
civilized,  nor  conducted  on  Christian  principles. 
Like  human  slavery,  its  abuses  are  inherent  in  the 
system.  Like  the  liquor  traffic,  all  attempts  at  reg- 
ulation but  perpetuate  the  evil.  There  is  but  one 
remedy  for  war,  and  that  is  abolishment  and  the 
substitution  of  peaceful  methods  of  settlement. 
But  one  of  the  greatest  obstacles  to  the  abolition  of 
war  is  the  glorification  it  receives  at  the  hands  of 
writers  and  orators.  The  false  glitter  that  is  thrown 
over  its  horrible  cruelties  makes  it  possible  to  keep 
up  the  terrible  system  under  which  the  nations  are 
groaning  with  burdens  that  are  unspeakable. 

By  all  means  let  the  soldiers  of  tQe  Blue  and  the 
Gray  come  together  and  clasp  fraternal  hands,  but 
let  it  not  be  to  glorify  war.  Let  them  rather,  like 
the  sons  of  Noah,  weep  with  mutual  contrition  over 
their  past  sin;  and  walking  backwards  cast  the  man- 
tle of  oblivion  over  the  nation's  folly  and  shame. 

McLeansville,  N,  C. 


SBVBNTT-SBVEN. 


TO  BEV.  C    C.  rOOTB  ON  HIS  BIBTHDAT. 


"The  hoary  head  Is  a  crown  of  glory,  if  found  In  the  way  of 
righteousness." 

The  years  have  passed  with  noiseless  tread, 
Tin  numbering  seventy  terms  and  seven, 

Since  tenderly  a  mother  said : 
"To  me  a  little  child  is  given. 

"As  lite  at  best  is  but  a  span, 
My  baby  shall  be  trained  and  taught 

That  man  must  toil  for  brother  man ; 
That  life  has  battles  to  be  fought." 

From  the  safe  shelter  of  her  arms, 
Tears  chasing  smiles  in  soft  surprise. 

At  childhood's  joys  and  swift  alarms 
He  looked  with  large  and  wondering  eyes. 

In  youth,  on  noble  deeds  intent, 

He  vowed  the  giant,  Sin,  to  slay; 
And  as  the  cycles  came  and  went. 

They  found  him  foremost  in  the  fray. 

The  hapless,  hunted,  fleeing  slave. 
Would  stoop  to  kiss  his  garment's  hem ; 

For  like  the  Christ  who  died  to  save, 
He  ventured  all  to  succor  them. 

When  travel-stained,  and  spent,  and  worn. 
Despairing,  though  his  cause  were  just. 

His  faltering  steps  were  still  up-borne 
By  woman's  love  and  hope,  and  trust 

Not  here  the  story  of  his  life 

Can  be  unfolded— nor  is  mine 
The  pencil  to  portray  the  strife, 

Victorious  by  help  Divine. 

To  others  though  it  now  be  given 

The  sword  of  Gideon  to  wield. 
No  sweeter  boon  he  asks  of  Heaven, 

Than  strength  to  till  the  Master's  Held. 

To-day,  upon  his  silvered  head 

We  see  a  crown  of  glory  rest, 
For  long  his  steps  with  steady  tread 

"The  way  of  righteousness"  have  pressed. 

Yet  in  the  radiant  "Morning  Land" 

More  glorious  far  that  crown  shall  be. 
When  with  the  ransomed  he  shall  stand 
And  sing  the  song  of  victory. 

Miss  S.  £.  Adams. 
Detroit,  JUlch.,  March  30th,  1888. 


But  what  about  secret  societies?  Will  we  let 
them  in?  What,  with  their  foresworn  oaths,  their 
dangerous  promises,  their  sun-worahip,  their  naked 
deism,  their  secret  combination  of  heterogeneous  el- 
ements of  Christians  and  pagans,  of  deists  and  pan- 
theists, accustomed  to  fall  down  together  before  the 
shrines  of  Baal  and  Ashteroth,  and  sit  side  by  side 
with  them,  knowingly  and  approvingly,  at  Cbrist's 
table?  I  for  one  have  rot  got  that  far  down  the 
ladder  yet,  whose  foot  rests  in  the  filthy  mire  of  de- 
mon-worship. I  know  Satan  with  a  lie  in  his  mouth 
stands  ready  to  offer  all  the  kingdoms  of  the  world 
to  the  United  Presbyterian  church  if  she  will  onlf 
bestow  this  homage  on  him.  But  he  is  as  much  ad< 
ceiver  now  as  when  Jesus  was  upon  earth,  and  not 
any  more  of  a  landlord.— iJet).  J.  II.  Leiper  in  Ch  * 
ticm  Instructor. 


April  19,  1888 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSUKE- 


LETTERS  FROM  TEE  CONGO. 


SKETCHES   OP   PERSONAL   OBSERVATION   AND   EXPE- 
RIENCE   IN   THE   AFRICAN   INTERIOR. 

I  am  just  reminded  by  a  salutation  from  a  "Hous- 
er"  (soldier  from  Lagos  Island)  that  this  is  New 
Year's  morning.  A.  D.  1887  with  its  record  has  fled 
and  our  Father  deigns  to  trust  us  still  with  time, 
precious  time.  Taking  a  retrospective  view  of  1887 
I  have  much  to  regret  but  more  for  which  to  be 
thankful,  bec£tuse  of  God's  mercy.  Praise  the  Lord  I 

I  am  just  rnllying  from  a  run  of  fever.  In  this 
country  we  have  no  doctors  near  to  whom  to  run,^but 
we  who  know  how  run  to  God  for  help,  and  put 
in  good  time,  especially  when  we  get  sick.  The 
weather  is  not  too  hot  nor  too  wet.  At  present  it 
seems  like  early  June  weather  in  America.  I  have 
two  Bangalla  spears,  and  expect  to  obtain  more  on 
my  trip. 

The  natives  take  no  interest  in  a  change  of  relig- 
ion, which  means  to  them  a  change  of  mode  of  liv- 
ing, with  their  grass  huts  without  chimneys  or  win- 
dows, furniture  or  crockery,  with  the  privilege  of 
going  when  and  where  they  please.  The  native 
considers  himself  better  off  in  his  present  state.  I 
have  visited  the  villages  at  all  hours  of  the  day  and 
some  in  the  evening  to  ascertain  whether  the  people 
worshiped  at  all  or  not.  The  nearest  to  a  discovery 
I  have  made  was  on  this  wise:  At  Ki-Gambu,  join- 
ing Kinchessa  on  the  West,one  evening  as  I  sat  with 
the  chief  I  saw  women  come  from  their  huts  and  go 
to  a  certain  bush  and  pluck  a  few  leaves,  muttering 
the  while  and  closing  the  left  hand  so  as  to  form  a 
hollow.  They  pushed  these  leaves  one  at  a  time 
down  between  the  thumb  and  forefinger  and  then 
popped  them  with  the  right,  and  walked  back  to 
their  huts  and  lit  their  pipes.  I  have  been  particu- 
lar in  my  investigations  so  far  and  have  not  found 
a  man  yet  that  prayed  to  anything. 

Games  of  chance  are  participated  in  by  all,and  at 
all  times  children  are  to  be  found  around  the  "Elna" 
board.  This,  to  look  at,  reminds  me  of  "Debbs," 
which  we  used  to  play  for  diversion.  Here  it  is  al- 
ways for  money,  which  may  be  Mataku  (brass  rod), 
shells,  beads,  cloth  or  handkerchiefs.  "Boi-li"  is 
very  popular.  They  form  of  clay  either  an  oblong 
or  round  vessel  with  a  small  earthen  vessel  imbed- 
ded in  the  center,  but  the  rim  is  left  perhaps  the 
eighth  of  an  inch  above  the  surface.  Now,  with  a 
large  bean,  they  smooth  the  surface  until  it  shines. 
Each  player  puts  up  a  certain  number  of  beads  and 
they  are  so  arranged  as  to  obstruct  an  entrance  to 
the  earthen  dish  in  the  center.  A  small  bean.round 
and  polished,  is  now  taken  between  the  thumb  and 
forefinger,  and  from  the  rim  of  the  clay  vessel  it  is 
sent  rolling  down  over  the  beads  to  the  center.  The 
player  clasps  his  hands  sharply  as  if  to  secure  suc- 
cess, and  if  it  fails  the  expression  of  disappointment 
is  quite  evident.  This  is  repeated  by  each  in  turn 
nntil  some  one  succeeds  in  securing  the  prize.  Ga- 
ke  is  very  similar  to  our  dice,  and  as  they  make  the 
throw  they  clasp  their  hands  and  wait  the  issue. 
These  and  other  games  are  constantly  going  on  in 
all  the  villages. 

The  elder  women  are  hoeing  or  watching  the  stalls 
in  the  market.  The  babies  are  thoroughly  smeared 
with  a  red  pigment  and  grease  from  head  to  foot, 
and  thie  being  kept  up  givMS  the  skin  a  beautiful 
tint;  and  this  is  how  I  account  for  the  variety  of 
skin  among  the  African  tribes. 

Jan.  28. — Seeing  I  am  nearly  through  with  my 
job  of  putting  the  steamer  with  its  apparatus  together 
I  thought  I  ought  to  write  and  correct  statements 
made  in  my  last  letter.  My  loss  of  heAring  was  a 
detriment  to  me  as  an  engineer,  and  I  am  not  going 
to  the  Kasia  river.  I  am  not  at  all  sorry  now,tbough 
I  felt  a  little  bad  at  first.  I  have  seen  all  of  Af- 
rica— yes,  all  of  the  world,  I  care  to  see  and  shall  be 
glad  when  the  time  comes  to  say.  Good-bye,  Congo. 

The  steamer  I  am  putting  together  is  thirty-seven 
feet  long,  seven  feet  broad  and  3  feet  deep.  It  is  a 
flat-bottomed  craft  and  what  is  called  a  stern  wheel- 
er or  driven  by  a  paddle  wheel  behind.  I  never  did 
such  a  job  before,  but  I  am  prospering  finely.  The 
engine  may  bother  me  some,  but  God  can  and  does 
help  me.  My  health  is  good  and  my  courage  does  not 
fail.  Praise  the  Lord.  I  work  eight  hours  per  day 
as  follows:  rising  at  6  a.  m.  I  take  my  bath  of  tepid 
water.  I  then  set  my  men  to  work  and  take  break- 
fast. About  7:30  or  8  I  get  to  work  in  earnest  and 
continue  until  noon.  1  then  bathe  and  put  on  all 
clean  clothes  for  dinner.  We  rest  until  2  r.  m  ,then 
put  on  our  working  clothes  and  at  4:30  get  a  cup  of 
tea;  then  work  until  about  6.  After  work  my  boy 
has  the  bath  of  tepid  water  ready,  and  I  put  my 
working  clothes  to  air  out  doors,  and  put  on  a  light 
suit,  which  consists  of  a  flannelette  shirt,  a  pair  of 
light  print  pants,  clean  socks  and  white  shoes,  with 


a  checked  print  short  coat  and  a  native  grass  skull- 
cap. At  about  7  p.  M.  we  dine,  and  I  assure  you 
our  food  is  of  the  best  imported  stuff  with  a  small 
mixture  of  native  food.  Eight  of  us  white  men  eat 
together,  but  my  being  deaf  keeps  me  from  hearing 
much  that  would  be  neither  pleasant  nor  profitable. 
I  am  not  at  all  at  home,nor  can  I  settle  down  to  a  sec- 
ular life.  If  God  spares  me  to  get  again  where  peo- 
ple can  understand  me,  I  shall  preach  as  I  never 
have.  I  am  happier  in  the  vineyard  than  any- 
where. Oh,  it  is  painful  to  see  the  things  I  see  and 
yet  be  powerless  to  help.  Pray  for  me  that  God  will 
give  me  the  privilege  again  of  preaching  his  glori- 
ous Gospel.  Edward  Mathews. 


la  THE  0..A.  R.  AN  OATH-BOUND  SOCIETY T 

We  notice  an  article  in  the  Midland  of  last  week 
under  the  above  caption,  by  G.  R.  8.  The  question 
I  wish  to  raise  is  this:  Can  ministers,  elders  and 
members  of  the  United  Presbyterian  church  con- 
sistently unite  with  the  secret  fraternity  of  the 
Grand  Army  of  the  Republic  without  violating  their 
profession  and  vows?  We  believe  it  must  be  evi- 
dent to  every  intelligent  member  of  the  United 
Presbyterian  church  that  membership  in  this  secret 
order  is  a  violation  of  her  standards,  as  understood 
and  interpreted  when  they  were  adopted  by  the 
church  at  her  organization.  Membership  not  only 
in  oath-bound  societies,  but  where  a  promise  or 
pledge  is  required,  is  equally  a  violation  of  the  law 
of  the  church  and  the  law  of  Christ.  The  oath- 
bound  has  the  additional  aggravation  of  profaning 
the  ordinanca  of  an  oath.  G.  R.  S.  seems  to  assume 
that  membership  in  a  secret  order  is  no  violation  of 
his  profession  as  a  United  Presbyterian  unless  it  is 
oath-bound.  If  this  is  his  view  be  ought  to  learn  at 
once  "that  his  assumption  is  wonderfully  wide  of 
the  truth."  The  Fifteenth  article  of  our  Testimony 
declares  "That  an  oath,  or  an  obligation  to  obey  a 
code  of  unknown  laws,  is  inc3nsistent  with  the  gen- 
ius and  spirit  of  Christianity."  Please  examine  the 
argument  and  illustration  as  published  under  this 
Fifteenth  article  in  the  Testimony,  which  was 
adopted  to  "serve  as  a  guide  to  the  meaning  of  the 
article;"  see  last  paragraph  of  the  Introduction  to 
the  Testimony. 

This  is  in  accord  with  the  deliverances  of  the 
General  Assemblies  of  '83  and  '84: 

"liesolved,  That  this  Assembly  do  most  earnestly  aod  affec- 
tionately exhort  all  the  members  of  this  Church  to  abstain  from 
connecting  themselves  with  any  secret  associations,"  etc.,  on 
account  of  their  injurious  effects  on  society,  and  "they  do  espec- 
ially urge  ministers  and  elders  of  this  Church  to  use  their  influ- 
ence to  keep  our  members  from  an  incorporation  with  them." 
Vol.  3,  page  539,  Minutes  of  1883. 

"Jiesolved  2.  That  our  people  are  hereby  most  earnestly  entreat- 
ed to  remember  that  by  their  profession  they  have  come  under 
solemn  obligations  to  Christ  to  oppose  Secret  Societies."  Vol.  5, 
page  40,  Minutes  of  1884 ;  page  190  of  U.  P.  Digest. 

I  give  these  quotations  to  show  that  it  is  a  new 
departure  in  the  United  Presbyterian  church  to  take 
the  position  that  the  secret  order  must  be  oath 
bound  for  membership  in  it  to  be  a  violation  of  our 
standards. 

Now,  as  to  the  G.  A.  R.  At  this  writing  I 
hold  in  my  hand  the  "Ritual  of  the  Grand  Army 
of  the  Republic,  Headquarters  Omaha,  Neb.,  March, 
1883."  This  is  not  "a  myth,"  or  "a  fanciful  imag- 
ination." This  ritual  came  into  my  hands  through 
a  grand  soldier  of  the  Grand  Army,  who  was  in- 
duced to  apply  for  membership  in  the  so-called  G. 
A.  R.,  and  went  so  far  in  the  initiatory  course  as  to 
be  satisfied  that  joining  it  was  a  violation  of  his 
profession;  and,  being  a  loyal  United  Presbyterian, 
he  declined  to  go  through  the  process.  On  the  third 
page  of  the  ritual,  "Directions  to  Post  Command- 
ers": "Should  any  officer  or  commander  who  has 
been  intrusted  with  the  rituals  or  cards  allow  the 
same  to  go  into  the  possession  of  any  person  not 
duly  authorized  to  receive  them,  it  shall  be  sufficient 
cause  for  dishonorable  discharge."  '  5lh.  No  one 
shall  be  admitted  during  the  opening  muster  in,  or 
closing  exercises."  (c )  "Commander,  we  meet  iu 
Fraternity,  Charity  and  Loyalty."  "The  chaplain 
will  now  invoke  the  divine  blessing."  Then  follows 
a  long  prayer  that  winds  up  as  follows:  "And  at 
last  receive  us  into  that  grand  army  above  where 
thou,  O  God,  art  the  Supreme  Commander."  This 
prayer  has  no  reference  to  Christ,  or  a  Mediator. 
It  is  just  like  the  Mason's  speaking  of  the  Grand 
Lodge  above. 

We  now  come  to  the  initiation,  or  "muster  in,"  of 
new  members.  After  some  formality  the  O.  D.  ad- 
dresses the  applicants:  "Are  you  ready  to  take 
upon  yourselves  a  solemn  obligation,  which  will  not 
interfere  with  your  duty  to  your  God,  your  country, 
your  neighbor,  or  yourselves?"  They  answer,  "1 
am."  This  explanation  of  the  nature  of  the  obliga- 
tion is  in  keeping  with,  and  modeled  after.  Freema- 
sonry and  Odd-fellowship,  and  not  yet  known  to  the 
recruits.     Now  after  considerable  formality,  such  as 


you  find  in  all  secret  orders,  the  new  members,  or 
recruits,  are  conducted  to  the  altar  and  receive 
charges  from  the  Commander.  "C.  to  recruits:" 
"You  stand  at  this  altar,  where  you  have  listened  to 
ilolemn  prayer  to  the  Great  Father  of  us  all.  I  beg 
you  to  reflect  that  this  is  no  unmeaning  ceremony, 
but  that  the  obligation  you  now  assume  is  a  pledge 
which  one  comrade  gives  to  another,  solemnly  call- 
ing upon  God  to  witness  the  sincerity  of  his  vow." 
Again:  "We  bid  you  welcome  in  Fraternity,  Char- 
ity and  Loyalty,  until  the  assembling  of  the  Grand 
Army  of  the  Republic  above."  "You  will  receive 
from  the  O.  D.  the  grip,  signs,  and  counter-signs  of 
our  order." 

Much  more  might  be  quoted,  but  it  would  occupy 
too  much  space.  I  ask,  will  G.  R.  S.,  of  the  Midland, 
or  elder  Ralston,  of  Hayesville,  either  of  them,  come 
before  the  public  over  his  full  signature  and  say 
that  I  have  misrepresented  the  ritual  from  which  I 
quote?  It  won't  do,  brethren,  to  use  the  old  Ma- 
sonic argument,  "You  don't  know  anything  aboat 
the  G.  A.  R."  I  db  know  many  among  the  "grand" 
soldiers  that  served  in  the  war,  who  have  refused  to 
connect  with  the  G.  A.  R.,  it  being  a  secret  order. 
I  don't  wonder  that  G.  R.  S.  suggests  at  the  close  of 
his  article  to  quit  agitating  the  order,  and  let  it  alone. 
We  never  fear  agitation  only  when  we  are  on  the 
wrong  side  of  a  question.  I  am  very  sorry  that  a 
United  Presbyterian  Presbytery  has  of  late  taken  ac- 
tion in  favor  of  the  order.  But  we  need  not  be  sur- 
prised at  this,  when  we  find  that  some  pastors  have 
Masons  in  their  churches,  and  make  no  effort  to  rem- 
edy it.  When  one  important  landmark  of  the  church 
is  removed  it  seems  to  cause  a  disregard  for  the  re- 
maining laws.  My  earnest  suggestion  to  all  my  breth- 
ren is,  that  we  stand  aloof  from  all  secret  orders,  and 
be  loyal  to  our  church,  to  our  solemn  vows,  and  to 
Christ.  Yours  in  open  fraternity. — James  Davoion 
of  Washington,  Iowa,  in  the  Christian  Instructor, 


GRAND  ARMY  FRAUDS. 

Reports  are  current  that  government  officials  here 
have  discovered  a  conspiracy  among  certaia  mem- 
bers of  the  Grand  Army  to  rob  the  government  by 
false  pension  claims.  An  investigation  of  certain 
Grand  Army  posts  discovered  a  widespread  con- 
spiracy. A  prominent  member  of  the  G.  A.  R.  was 
interviewed  by  a  reporter  of  the  New  York  Timet. 
He  said: 

"Some, of  the  worst  scums  of  the  earth  managed  to  get  In 
some  posts  and  their  element  grows  strong,  while  respectable 
members  who  do  not  care  to  associate  with  them  sr.ay  away 
from  meetings.  This  feeling  has  led  to  the  state  of  afliirs  in  a 
certain  lodge  in  this  city.  The  bad  element  cjntrolled  it  and 
were  linked  together  to  work  the  pension  'racket'  for  all  it  was 
worth,  stopping  at  nothing  to  accomplish  their  purpose.  Fur- 
thermore, they  even  furnished  money  to  defend  Darling,  Cole- 
man and  Stephens,  arrested  for  presenting  fraudulent  claims, 
on  the  ground  that  they  were  being  persecuted,  and  by  this  claim 
good  men  were  compelled  to  assist  in  carrying  out  the  scheme. 
The  public  was  appealed  to  in  the  name  of  the  'old  veterans,' 
but  nothing  was  mentioned  about  a  defense  fund,  and  honest 
men's  money  was  given,  but  not  for  the  purpose  for  which  It 
was  used." 

Another  highly-respected  old  soldier  said: 

"I  am  heartily  glad  that  this  thing  will  be  investigated.  It  is 
rotten  to  the  core,  or  at  least  it  appears  to  be,  and  the  men  that 
are  into  it  do  not  show  acything  else.  I  have  had  suspicions 
for  a  long  time,  but  the  tracks  were  so  thoroughly  covered  that 
1  could  not  see  the  crookedness.  I  understand  that  the  govern- 
ment has  suflicient  evidence  to  make  the  wholesile  arrests,  and 
that  many  of  the  persons  implicated  are  being  eontlnuilly  shad- 
owed, and  win  be  arrested  after  the  Patters  jn  case  is  con- 
cluded." 

This  case  presents  a  phase  of  lodge  history  very 
common  throughout  the  country.  Evil-minded  men, 
crooked  men,  rascals,  in  fact,  "scums,"  get  into  the 
lodges  from  Masonry  down  to  the  G.  A.  R.  Honest 
and  decent  men  get  disgusted  with  such  affiliations 
and  quit  attending  the  meetings,  but  keep  up  their 
membership  and  pay  their  dues.  The  "scums  '  are 
in  their  glory  then.  They  can  run  the  lodge  to  suit 
themselves,  they  have  the  character  and  good  stand- 
ing of  these  stay-at-home  members  to  back  them  up, 
and  they  also  have  their  dues  to  help  them  keep  in 
running  order.  The  result  is  quite  frequently  just 
as  the  G.  A.  R.  men  quoted  say  it  has  been  in  cer- 
tain G.  A.  R.  posts.  "Good  men  were  thus  com- 
pelled to  assist  to  carry  out  their  schemes." 

We  do  not  blame  the  decent  men  for  getting  dis- 
gusted and  staying  at  home,  but  they  should  re- 
nounce their  membership  under  such  circumstances 
and  quit  paying  dues.  Their  skirts  would  then  be 
clear  of  being  brothers  in  the  iniquity  and  the  lodge 
would  be  weakened  in  reputation  and  financial  stand- 
ing. 

While  men  retain  memberships  in  lodges  they 
ought  to  attend,  for  a  man  ought  to  be  faithful  in 
all  good  works.  If  it  is  not  a  gootl  place,  he  ought 
to  withdraw  his  name  and  remove  his  obligation. 
While  he  remains  a  member  he  is  still  yoked  and  is 
responsible  for  the  evil  done  by  the  lodge  as  a  lodge. 
He  only  is  free  when  he  renounces  his  membership 
and  his  covenant. —  Tke  American,  Washington. 


'THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


April  19, 1888 


Jf.  C.  A.   BOARD   MBETINQ. 

The  Board  of  Directors  met  on  Saturday  morning 
in  Carpenter  Hall  and  transacted  an  unusual  amount 
of  business.  Rev.  George  Warrington,  being  pres- 
ent, was  invited  to  sit  as  a  corresponding  member. 
The  report  of  a  committee  on  the  Washington  Build- 
ing, appointed  some  time  since,  was  read.  The  com- 
mittee who  examined  the  records  and  prepared  it 
were  Pres.  L.  N.  Stratton,  Rev.  Alexander  Thomson 
and  Secretary  J.  P.  Stoddard.  It  was  adopted  unan- 
imously with  no  material  change,  and  voted  to  be 
printed. 

The  Secretary  and  General  Agent  was  instructed 
to  go  to  Washington  to  take  charge  of  the  property 
and  interests  of  the  Association  at  the  proper  time. 
The  Board  voted  a  series  of  brief  instructions  to 
agents  presented  by  the  Treasurer.  Bro.  M.  N.  But- 
ler, having  signified  his  readiness  to  again  engage 
in  lecture  work,  the  General  Agent  was  instructed 
to  make  a  contract  with  him. 

On  account  of  ill  health  Dr.  J.  E.  Roy  felt  con- 
strained to  resign,  with  kind  words  for  his  relations 
to  the  Board.  T.  B.  Arnold  of  the  Free  Methodist, 
Chicago,  was  appointed  by  vote  to  take  the  place. 
A  paper  addressed  to  the  secretaries  of  the  Ameri- 
can Missionary  Association  upon  the  Southern  work 
of  the  two  societies  was  read  and  referred  to  a  com- 
mittee. The  members  of  the  Board  and  others  signed 
a  request  to  Mr.  F.  W.  Capwell,  chairman  of  the 
American  National  Committee,  to  call  as  early  as 
possible  a  meeting  of  all  voters  who  could  not  sup- 
port lodge  men  at  the  polls. 

.  The  report  of  the  Washington  committee  is  as 
follows: 

REPOHT    OF    THK    COMMITTEE    ON    THE    WASHINGTON 
BUILDING. 

To  the  National  Christian  Association  Board  of 
Directors: — Your  committee,  to  whom  was  referred 
the  matter  of  the  tenure  and  occupancy  of  the  prop- 
erty at  215,  4^  St.,  N.  W.,  Washington,  D.  C,  known 
as  the  "Washington  Building,"  beg  leave  to  report 
as  follows: 

We  have  consulted  the  N.  C.  A.  records  and  the 
current  literature  concerning  the  progress  of  the 
Washington  movement.  The  first  mention  of  the 
Washington  matter,  found  in  the  records  of  the  N. 
C.  A.  Board  of  Directors,  under  date  of  Nov.  29, 
1882,  is  as  follows: 

"The  General  Secretary  read  letters  from  Senator  Pom- 
eroy  on  &  headquarters  in  Washington  D.  C  ,  for  this  re- 
form .  The  Secretary  also  reported  his  obervations  there. 

"Voted,  That  in  the  judgment  of  this  Board  it  is  ex- 
pedient to  secuie  property  in  Washington  as  a  headquar- 
ters for  this  reform. 

"Voted,  That  the  General  Secretary  be  instructed  to 
take  such  steps  as  in  his  judgment  are  best  in  reference  to 
securiLg  such  property  for  headquarttra  in  Washington. 

"Voted,  That  the  General  Secretary  be  instructed  to 
call  the  next  annual  convention  in  Washington  if  it  be 
deemed  expedient. 

"Voted,  That  the  Board  of  Directors  of  the  National 
Christian  Association  tender  a  vote  of  thanks  to  ex-Sen 
ator  S.  C.  Pomeroy  and  Milton  Ford,  Esq., for  the  atten- 
tion given  to  our  proposed  purchase  of  real  estate  in  the 
city  of  Washington,  and  request  them  to  co  operate  with 
Secretary  Stoddard  in  securing  such  a  property  " 

Report  of  the  General  Agent,  adopted  at  the  N.  C. 
A..  Annual  Meeting,  June  21, 1883,  on  "Washington 
Enterprise:" 

Rev.  H.  H  Hinman,  by  request  of  a  few  friends,  visit- 
ed Washington,  D.  C  ,  immediately  after  the  Batavia 
Convention.  He  began  his  work  by  distributing  tracts 
among  the  people  on  the  streets  and  holding  meetings 
wherever  places  could  be  secured. 

"Under  his  able  and  judicious  management  a  move- 
ment was  inaugurated  which  has  already  attained  to  un- 
expecttd  success.  At  Bro.  Hinman's  request,  and  with 
the  approval  of  your  Board.I  visited  Washington.looked 
over  the  field,  made  the  acquaintance  of  valuable  friends 
and  assisted  Bro.  Hinman  at  meetings  hell  in  the  City 
Hall.  The  importance  of  Washington  as  a  strategic 
point.and  the  strength  of  our  opponents  in  their  concen- 
trated force  there,  were  two  things  that  deeply  impress- 
ed me.  It  was  also  clear  to  my  mind  that  by  no  human 
possibility  could  our  reform  obtain  a  vantage-ground 
under  the  guns  of  the  enemy  and  maintain  its  position 
without  first  possessing  itself  of  a  location  and  b  uilding 
suited  to  its  needs." 

In  the  Cynosure  of  Oct.  19,  1882,  Agent  H.  H. 
Hinman  writes  from  Washington  as  follows: 

"By  invitation  I  addressed  them  (the  Washington 
Christian  Associat'on)  and  some  time  was  spent  in 
considering  ways  to  promote  our  reform.  Two 
things  were  suggested:  That  we  have  an  agency 
here  like  that  in  New  England,  and  that  one  or  mor« 
colporteurs  be  employed  to  distribute  the  publica- 
tions of  the  N.  C.  A.  It  is  believed  that  a  consid- 
erable part  of  the  expense  could  be  raised  here.  In 
view  of  the  great  influence  that  Washington  exerts 
"o  •>  m/ral  nrd  political  center,  it  seems  to  me  most 
eminently  desirable." 


To  the  Cynosure  of  Nov.  2,  1882,  General  Agent 
J.  P.  Stoddard  writes: 

"A  brief  call  on  Senator  S.  C.  Pomeroy  was  very 
satisfactory.  His  counsels  and  those  of  Mr.  Gibson 
and  a  few  other  practical  business  men  whom  I  have 
met,  have  been  of  great  service  to  me.  They  enter 
heartily  into  our  plans  and  I  hope  to  report  matters 
of  interest  before  the  week  ends.  My  own  conviction 
and  that  of  Bro.  Hinman  and  all  the  friends  I  have 
met  here  is,  that  we  should  take  a  permanent  stand 
and  maintain  it.  Much  care  is  required  in  laying 
foundations,  but  it  will  pay  in  the  end." 

From  the  General  Agent  in  the  Cynosure  of  Nov. 
9,  1882: 

"A  few  men  of  means  here  are  willing  to  co-oper- 
ate with  the  National  Christian  Association  in  estab- 
lishing permanent  quarters,  and  they,  with  others 
who  will  be  found,  would  contribute  quite  a  sum  in 
support  of  any  judicious  plan  based  on  'rock  bot- 
tom' that  gives  reasonable  promise  of  healthy 
growth,  however  slow.  In  my  judgment  there  is 
not  another  point  in  the  whole  land  at  which  so 
many  can  be  reached  from  all  parts  of  our  own  and 
other  countries." 

The  General  Agent  writes  to  the  Christian  Cyno- 
sure otiiov.  16,  1882: 

"Shall  we  plant  a  standard  in  Washington?  To 
do  this,  in  my  judgmept,  two  or  three  things  are  in- 
dispensable: 

"1.  The  fees-simple  of  suitable  headquarters  must 
be  secured,  so  as  to  avoid  the  possibility  of  being 
driven  from  the  field  or  seriously  annoyed  by  timid 
or  unfriendly  landlords. 

"2.  The  people  away  from  the  center  must  be 
reached  and  constantly  informed  of  what  is  going 
on  at  the  headquarters  of  the  nation  and  of  the  se- 
cret empire. 

"3.  Prof.  E.  D.  Bailey,  or  some  other  capable  ju- 
dicious man,  must  be  stationed  and  equipped  where 
he  can  gather  facts  and  report  regularly  every  week 
through  our  Chicago  organ. 

"The  first  may  be  secured  by  the  safe  investment 
of  a  few  thousand  dollars;  the  second  by  the  circu- 
lation of  the  organ  of  our  reform,  and  the  third  by 
the  appointing  and  the  anointing  of  a  man  whom 
God  shall  choose." 

From  the  General  Agent  in  the  Cynosure  of  Jan 
4,  1883: 

K*  *  *  ita  readers  will  be  pleased  to  know  that 
arrangements  for  a  Washington  department  of  the 
National  Christian  Association  are  well  under  way, 
and  that  movements  at  our  nation's  capital  will  be 
noted  and  reported  by  a  live  man  already  on  the 
ground."    This  referred  to  Joseph  Bowes,  Esq. 

In  the  Cynosure  of  Jan.  11,  1883,  the  General 
Agent  writes: 

"God  has  opened  an  effectual  door  and  thereby 
indicated  his  will.  A  house  and  lot,  less  than  three 
blocks  from  the  capital  *  *  *  is  within  our  reach. 
The  title  is  said  to  be  perfect,  and  it  can  be  bought 
for  $7,000  cash. 

"Where  is  the  money  to  come  from?  I  answer: 
Five  thousand  dollars  have  already  been  provided 
for,  on  condition  the  whole  sum  is  raised. 

"Who  will  own  the  property?  You  ask  the  ques- 
tion as  a  business  man,  and  wish  to  know  who  will 
look  after  the  property  if  purchased.  I  answer:  It 
will  be  deeded  to  the  National  Christian  Association, 
to  be  used  for  a  branch  office  and  quarters  for  the 
Washington  department  of  its  work,  and  will  of 
course  be  controlled  as  other  property  of  the  Asso- 
ciation is." 

Joseph  Bowes,  Esq.,  Washington,  D.  C,  to  the 
Christian  Cynosure,  Feb.  22,  1883: 

"The  friends  of  the  cause  here  are  greatly  encour- 
aged by  the  action  of  the  National  Association  in 
purchasing  this  property.  It  is  to  them  the  signal 
of  succor  in  a  struggle  that  has  been  sustained 
against  overwhelming  odds.  It  will  bring  many  to 
our  ail  who  are  now  hid  away  discouraged,  and  will 
be  the  commencement  of  the  work  of  raising  such  a 
beacon  light  as  will  be  seen  from  the  utmost  corners 
of  the  land.  It  is  felt  here  that  we  work  on  a  van- 
tage ground  such  as  is  presented  by  no  other  city  of 
the  Union,  for  if  we  only  can  get  the  minds  of  those 
who  congregate  at  the  capital  strongly  leavened 
with  the  principles  of  anti-secretism  there  is  no 
point  from  which  it  will  operate  more  quickly 
throughout  the  whole  mass  of  the  people  than  this." 

Action  of  the  Board  of  Directors,  April  13,  1883: 

"Voted.To  request  Mr.  Gault  to  prepare  such  legal  pa- 
pers as  are  neceesary  to  enable  the  N.  C.  A.  to  secure  the 
Washington  property  as  soon  as  a  sufllcieut  amount  has 
been  paid  for  the  same. 

"Voted.To  instruct  the  treasurer  to  pay  to  the  General 
Agent  any  money  contributed  for  the  Washington  Build- 
ing as  it  shall  be  ncsded." 

Action  of  the  N.  C.  A.  Annual  Meeting,  June  21, 
1883: 


"We  recommend:  1.  That  the  General  Secretary  make 
a  deed  of  the  Washington  property  purchased  for  the  use 
of  the  N.  C.  A.  to  said  corporation  and  that  said  corpo- 
ration assume  the  General  Agent's  obligation  to  Vice- 
Admiral  Rowen  for  said  property. 

"2.  We  recommend  that  there  be  established  in  the  city 
of  Washington  a  paper,  to  be  published  by  a  j  oint  stock 
company,  and  that  so  soon  as  may  be  the  various  State 
American  party  papers  be  consolidated  in  the  same. 

"3.  Respecting  the  care  of  the  building  in  Washington 
we  recommend:  (a)  That  such  rooms  as  are  required  be 
set  apart  to  the  uses  of  the  Association  by  the  General 
Agent.  (6)  That  such  other  rooms  as  may  be  in  the 
building  be  rented  at  current  rates,  (c)  -That  the  Board 
of  Directors  be  instructed  to  employ  some  competent  per- 
son or  persons  to  take  charge  of  the  building  continuous- 
ly, and  that  at  such  time  as  they  may  see  fit  they  send 
President  J.  Blanchard  to  Washington  to  act  for  the 
cause,  paying  him  therefor  at  the  rate  of  one  thousand 
dollars  a  year  and  expenses,  unless  he  be  paid  for  hia 
services  as  editor,  in  which  case  he  shall  receive  his  ex- 
penses only." 

Editorial  letter  in  Cynosure  of  March  1,  1883: 

"Mr.  Stoddard  has  requested  me  to  correspond 
with  papers  in  several  States  and  to  confer  with  ex- 
Senator  Pomeroy  on  the  organization  and  interests 
of  the  American  party.  We  are  receiving  letters 
proposing  a  newspaper  company  to  start  a  'National 
American'  paper  at  Washington." 

From  the  General  Agent  in  Cynosure  of  March  1, 
1883: 

"Is  it  wise  to  agitate  the  question  of  a  political 
organ  at  Washington,  and  the  organization  of  a 
stock  publishing  company  there  in  a  building  on  which 
there  is  a  mortgage?" 

Editorial  letter  from  Washington  in  Cynosure, 
March  8,  1883: 

"This  house  is  purchased  to  give  the  country  news 
from  Washington,  which  is  not  strained  through  Ma- 
sonic sieve8;to  put  the  platform  of  the  American  party 
before  the  American  people; to  extract  the  lodge-virus 
from  every  church  in  this  city  which  does  not  fully 
worship  'the  god  of  this  world.' " 

From  Report  of  the  General  Agent  adopted  at 
the  N.  C.  A.  Annual  Meeting,  June  21,  1883: 

"To  meet  the  increasing  demand  for  information  on 
this  subject,  not  furnished  by  the  general  press,  a  num- 
ber of  small  monthlies  have  been  started  in  different 
States  devoted  to  the  advocacy  of  the  American  party  and 
its  platform.  These  have  each  a  local  and  limited  cir- 
culation, and  I  would  respectfully  suggest  an  expression 
by  this  body  of  your  opinion  as  to  the  feasibility  of  an 
effort  to  unite  these  several  papers  as  the  basis  of  a  na- 
tional organ  to  issue  from  political  headquarters  at  Wash- 
ington, under  the  management  of  a  joint  stock  publish- 
ing company,  o''e""''z'^d  for  that  uurpose,  which  shall  be 
independent  and  ulf -controlling." 

Action  of  the  N.  0.  A.  Board  of  Directors,Oct.  13, 
1883: 

"The  General  Agent  read  a  paper  upon  the  permanent 
agency  at  Washington.  The  paper  being  considered,  ar- 
ticle by  article  was  adopted  as  follows: 

"  WTiereas,  It  is  the  judgment  of  this  Board  that  E.  D 
Bailey  is  a  suitable  and  most  available  man  to  take  charge 
of  the  building  purchased  for  the  N.  C.  A.  at  No.  215 
4^  St.,  Washington,  D.  C;  and, 

"  JTAereas, There  Is  an  unpaid  balance  on  said  property 
which  it  is  desirable  to  cancel  at  the  earliest  possible 
date;  and, 

"Whereas,  A  number  of  friends  of  the  N.  C.  A.  have 
signified  a  willingness  to  unite  in  a  joint  stock  company 
to  publish  a  paper  advocating  the  principles  embodied  in 
the  platform  of  the  American  party;  and, 

"  W7iereas,The  time  has  come  for  a  more  thorough  and 
systematic  organization  of  the  anti  secrecy  friends;  there- 
fore, 

"Resolved,  That  we  appoint  Rev.  E.  D.  Bailey  to  co- 
operate with  the  General  Agent  in  the  Washington  de- 
partment of  our  work,  (1)  In  taking  charge  of  our  in- 
terests and  renting  such  portions  of  the  Washington  build- 
ing as  are  not  required  for  the  Association's  use.  (2)  To 
solicit  funds  to  pay  the  indebtedness  remaining  on  the 
said  property.  (3)  That  he  be  authorized  to  co-operate 
with  such  friends  as  may  be  enlisted  in  the  formation  of 
a  joint  stock  company  to  publish  a  paper  advocating  the 
principles  of  the  American  party,  to  lecture, organize  and 
do  such  other  work  as  the  anti-secrecy  cause  may  require, 
and  further, 

Resolved,  That  when  such  joint  stock  company  is 
organized  and  ready  to  enter  upon  the  publication  of  a 
paper  as  above  stated,  we  recommend  that  the  said  com- 
pany be  allowed  the  use  of  rooms  for  composition  and 
office  free  of  charge  until  the  annual  meeting  of  the  N. 

C.  A.  in  Junej_1.884. 

"Resolved,  That  we  deem  it  highly  important  that  E, 

D.  Bailey  enter  at  once  upon  the  work  of  raising  fundi 
to  clear  the  building  of  debt  and  the  organization  of  a 
joint  stock  company,  and  that  he  make  his  headquarters 
in  Washington  as  soon  as  arrangements  can  be  made  to 
accommodate  the  parties  interested. 

"Voted,  That  the  above  paper  is  adopted  with  the  dis- 
tinct understanding  that  this  Board  assumes  or  expects  to 
assume  no  authority  whatever  in  or  over  the  joint  stock 
company  when  it  shall  be  formed;  our  only  purpose  be- 
ing to  assist  in  the  formation  of  the  company." 

Agent  E.  D.  Bailey  reports  from  Washington  in 
the  Cynosure  of  Nov.  8,  1883: 

"In  accordance  with  the  request  of  the  Board  I 


April  19, 1888 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSUKE. 


came  here  as  soon  as  prior  engagements  would  allow. 

My  enthusiasm  has  arisen  ever  since  my  arrival 

There  are  more  good  things  to  be  noted  than  I  had 
supposed.  We  held  a  consultation  meeting  last 
evening  and  organized  a  Washington  Executive 
Committee  to  oversee  the  work  here  and  push  on  the 
organization  elsewhere." 

The  American  Publishing  Company  of  Washing- 
ton, D.  C,  was  organized  December  25,  1883,  and 
obtained  its  charter  from  West  Virginia,  January  2, 
1884,  as  reported  by  E.  D.  Bailey  in  the  Cynosureot 
January  3  and  17,  1804. 

Action  of  the  N.  C.  A.  Board  of  Directors,  Feb. 
9,  1884: 

"The  General  Agent  reported  the  conditioa  of  the 
Washington  fund  and  the  amount  already  paid  on  the 
Wafhington  building. 

"Voted, That  the  Board  appropriate  the  amount  necea- 
sary  to  complete  the  payment  on  the  Washington  prop- 
erty and  authorize  the  General  Agent  to  draw  on  the 
treasury  for  the  necessary  funds." 

Mr.  Bailey  became  the  agent  of  the  American 
Publishing  Company  and  his  official  relations  with 
the  N.  C.  A.  ceased. 

In  February,  1884,  the  General  Agent  rented  the 
unreserved  portions  of  the  Washington  Building  to 
the  American  Publishing  Company. 

At  the  next  meeting  of  the  N.  C.  A.  Board  of  Di- 
rectors, Mr.  Bailey's  last  statement  of  claims  against 
the  Association,  as  its  agent,  was  allowed.  At  this 
Board  meeting,  June  12,  1884,  the  following  vote 
was  also  passed: 

"Voted,  That  the  arrangement  with  the  agent  of  the 
American  Publishiog  Company  to  rent  him  the  Washing- 
ton building  for  $50  00  per  month  for  four  months  end- 
ing with  June,  1884,  be  ratified." 

AID   QBANTBD   TO    THE   AMERICAN    PDBLISHING   COM- 
PANY. 

The  first  grant  by  the  N.  C.  A.  was  office  and  com- 
position rooms  free  of  rent. 

At  the  annual  meeting  in  June,  1884,  prominent 
members  of  the  American  Publishing  Company,  as 
well  as  of  the  N.  C.  A.,  asked  the  Association  to 
help  the  American  Publishing  Company  during  the 
year  to  come  to  the  amount  of  one-half  of  the  net 
income  of  the  Washington  Building,  which  was 
granted,  and  the  Board  of  Directors  were  instructed 
as  follows: 

"Voted,  To  instruct  the  Board  of  Directors  respecting 
the  Washington  building  that,  after  reserving  the  use  of 
one  room  for  the  N.  C.  A.  and  such  others  as  are  neces 
sary  for  the  publishing  work  of  the  American  Publishing 
Company,  the  net  income  of  the  building  be  then  equally 
divided  between  the  treasuries  of  the  N.  C.  A.  and  the 
American  Publishing  Company." 

At  the  annual  meeting  in  June,  1886,  the  agent 
of  American  Publishing  Company  asked  the  Asso- 
ciation to  grant  the  whole  net  income  of  the  Wash- 
ington Building  for  the  coming  year,  as  the  life  of 
the  ^m€rtca7i  depended  upon  it.  This  request  was  also 
granted. 

In  June,  1887,  the  N.  C.  A.  Annual  Meeting  re- 
ceived a  report  from  the  agent  of  the  American  Pub- 
lishing Company,  in  which  he  says: 

"If  in  the  judgment  of  the  friends  who  hear  this 
report  the  American  shall  continue  to  exist  and  be 
unhampered  in  its  mission,  I  would  respectfully  ask 
that  the  same  arrangement  about  the  Washington 
Building  which  prevailed  last  year  be  continued. 
Nothing  less  than  this  will  suffice.  If  you  think  the 
building  and  income  can  be  better  used,  I  shall  sub- 
mit cheerfully  to  your  judgment,  but  the  fate  of  the 
American  hangs  upon  your  action." 

Action  of  the  Annual  Meeting  June,  1887,  on  the 
above  request: 

"That  we  are  not,  without  further  informatioh,able  to 
say  whether  in  our  judgment  the  work  done  by  the 
American  is  the  best  possible  return  for  the  amount  of 
money  invested  in  the  building  or  not. 

"We  advise  that  the  present  arrangement  with  Bro. 
Bailey  be  continued  until  otherwise  ordered  by  the 
Board  of  Directors,  to  whom  we  advise  the  question  as 
to  the  disposition  of  that  building  be  referred." 

In  pursuance  of  the  foregoing  instructions  the 
Board  of  Directors  have  made  careful  investigation 
of  the  matter  committed  to  them;  the  report  of 
this  committee  being  a  part  of  their  labors  in  this 
matter. 

In  view  of  the  facts  above  recited,  we  believe  it 
the  duty  of  the  N.  C.  A.  to  use  the  Washington 
Building  for  the  purposes  originally  intended. 

We  recommend  that  our  Washington  representa- 
tive be  empowered  to  contract  through  Rev.  E.  D. 
Bailey  with  the  American  Publishing  Company  for 
I  space  during  the  coming  year  to  the  amount  of  two 
hundred  dollars,  on  condition  that  the  American  con- 
tinue, as  now,  to  assist  in  the  mission  of  the  N.  C. 
A.,  and  give  to  said  representative  space  not  less 
than  fifty  columns,  during  the  year,  to  be  uged  in 
promoting  our  work. 


Reform  News. 


THE  80NO  MiaaiONART  IN  TEXAS. 


Dallas,  Texas. 

Editor  Christian  Cynosure: — Rev.  George  W. 
Clark  of  Detroit,  Michigan,  delivered  three  of  his 
celebrated  lectures  here,  one  at  the  Baptist  church 
Saturday  night,  March  31,  and  two  at  the  Congrega- 
tional church  during  the  Sabbath  following. 

Bro.  Clark  is  now  seventy-iix  years  old,  yet  he 
can  hold  an  audience  spell-bound  for  hours.  He 
assailed  intemperance,  secret  societies  and  the  caste 
spirit.  He  exhorted  the  colored  people  to  save  their 
means  and  buy  homes,  educate  themselves  and 
build  up  their  churches.  Let  nothing  come  between 
you  and  your  duty  to  Christ,  said  he.  He  showed 
that  the  lodge  and  whisky  were  the  greatest  foes 
with  which  we  colored  people  have  to  encounter. 
He  illustrated  by  his  charts  the  evil  effect  of  tobac- 
co and  whisky  upon  the  internal  organs.  He  took 
a  glass  of  pure  cold  water  and  held  it  up  before  his 
audience,  illustrating  the  principles  of  temperance. 
With  a  voice  as  resonant  as  a  bell  be  sang  some  of 
his  "Reform  Melodies." 

The  result  of  his  visit  and  labor  here  is  beginning 
to  be  realized  already.  Several  persons  have  given 
up  smoking  and  drinking.  We  wish  Bro.  Clark 
abundant  success  in  his  grand  work,  and  bespeak 
for  him  a  cordial  welcome  among  our  people 
throughout  the  South.        Yours  truly, 

(Rev.)  J.  W.  Roberts. 


AMONG  THE  CAROLINA  O0LLEOE8. 

The  Cynosure  Bead  and  Appreciated  and  Bro.  Hinman 
Welcomed  by  Pi eshyteriana  and  Baptists. —  The  Union 
of  Presbyterians,  North  and  South. 

Concord,  N.  C,  April  6,  1888. 

Dear  Ctnosurb: — My  stay  at  Orangeburg,  S.  C, 
was  most  pleasant  and,  I  hope,  profitable.  The  660 
students  of  Claflin  University  constitute  the  largest 
colored  school  I  have  seen  in  the  South.  I  spoke 
nearly  an  hour  in  the  crowded  chapel.  At  the  con- 
clusion Prof.  Town^nd  gave  his  experience  as  a 
Mason,  confirming  all  I  had  said  about  the  order, 
and  expressing  deep  regret  that  he  had  ever  been 
beguiled  into  its  covenants.  I  also  addressed  the 
students  of  the  Presbyterian  school,  preached  in  the 
Presbyterian  church  Sabbath  afternoon,  and  at  night 
spoke  on  temperance  to  a  full  house  in  the  M.  E. 
church. 

Monday  morning  I  left  for  Columbia,  and  on 
reaching  there  went  directly  to  Benedict  Institute, 
the  large  and  excellent  school  under  the  patronage 
of  the  Baptist  Home  Missionary  Society.  I  was 
most  cordially  received  by  Pres.  C.  E.  Becker,  who 
invited  me  to  stay  until  next  morning,  when  I  could 
have  an  opportunity  to  address  the  school.  They 
have  had  a  prosperous  year,  with  over  300  students 
and  a  considerable  theological  class.  They  had  been 
pleased  with  the  Cynosure  and  the  books  sent  by 
the  N.  C.  A.,  which  had  been  read  by  the  students 
to  much  profit.  The  ample  and  fine  grounds  and 
the  large  and  commodious  buildings  make  it  one  of 
the  most  desirable  places  for  a  school  I  have  seen. 
Mrs.  Benedict,  a  Christian  lady  from  Rhode  Island, 
through  whose  munificence  the  school  was  planted 
and  the  buildings  in  part  erected,  was  there.  She 
had  been  spending  the  winter  in  Columbia.  1  hope 
there  may  be  more  Christian  women  who  will  be 
equally  large  hearted. 

I  spoke  to  tht  assembled  school  for  about  fifty 
minutes  and  had  excellent  attention.  The  president 
added  a  few  words  of  approval.  Afterwards  I  at- 
tended his  theological  class,  and  was  much  interest 
ed  in  the  discussion  of  the  question  of  natural  and 
moral  ability. 

At  noon  I  went  across  to  Allen  University,  the 
school  of  African  M.  E.  church,  under  the  care  of 
Pres.  Morris.  There  are  none  but  colored  officers 
and  teachers  in  this  institution.  It  has  bad  a  pros- 
perous year,  and  has  now  about  250  students,  in- 
cluding a  tlieological  department  They  are  doing 
an  excellent  work,  but  are  greatly  in  need  of  more 
and  better  buildings.  I  was  cordially  received  by 
the  president,  who  assembled  the  entire  school  in  a 
long  hall,  where,  for  want  of  seats,  they  remained 
standing,  and  gave  excellent  attention  during  the 
forty  minute?  in  which  I  presented  my  indictment 
of  the  lodge.  Among  them  were  a  number  of  pas 
tors  from  the  city  and  vicinity,  some  of  whom  were 
Masons;  but  I  think  all  received  my  talk  pleasantly. 
The  Cynosure  is  appreciated  here  and  is  doing  good. 
^  At  2  V.  M.  I  left  for  Winnsboro,  N.  C,  thirty 
miles  north.  Here  I  was  disappointed  in  not  find- 
ing Rev.  Mr.  Richardson,  and  in  learning  that  his 
school  has  been  given  up.  I  called  on  two  of  the 
paators.     Rev.  J.  T.  Watkins,  PrMbyterian  pastor, 


is  in  hearty  sympathy  with  us.  He  has  had  experi- 
ence in  Odd-fellowship  and  is  thoroughly  tired  of 
the  whole  system.  The  A.  M.  E.  pastor  is  a  Mason, 
and  was  disposed  to  be  very  reticent 

1  stayed  over  night,  and  went  next  morning  to 
Chester,  where  is  Brainard  Institute,  the  excellent 
Presbyterian  Seminary  under  the  care  of  Rev.  S. 
Loomis.  It  has  a  beautiful  location,  good  build- 
ings, and  a  new  one  in  process  of  erection.  They 
enrolled  last  year  326  pupils.  Dr.  Loomis  was,  as 
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Correspondence. 


PROHIBITION  AND   RUFORM  IN  TEXAS. 


Anderson,  Texas,  April. 

Dear  Cynosure:— Since  last  writing,  I  have  vis- 
ited Huntsville,  the  site  of  one  of  the  State  prisons. 
Huntsville  is  forty  miles  away,  and  I  stopped  over 
at  Prairie  Plains.  Here  I  met  Rev.  G.  B.  Ovis,  who 
was  initiated  an  Odd  fellow  more  than  two  years 
ago.  Like  every  other  pastor  who  is  ready  to  tell 
the  truth,  he  admitted  the  wickedness  of  the  whole 
business.  He  said  he  had  paid  more  than  $75  00 
into  his  lodge, — more  than  he  had  paid  in  the  church 
during  all  the  years  he  had  been  a  member.  He 
wiped  his  hands  and  regrets  that  ever  he  stooped  so 
low  as  to  unite  with  men  td  hold  midnight  meetings 
and  swindle  his  brothers  of  their  earnings.  He  has 
a  large  family  and  says  he  feels  that  he  ought  to 
be  punished  for  swearing  to  keep  secrets  from  his 
wife  and  children  whom  he  prizes  above  every  other 
earthly  thing.  Bro.  Ovis  says,  God  helping  him,  no 
one  will  ever  blind-fold  him  with  another  lodge.  He 
is  above  the  average  of  our  pastors.  Though  he 
lives  here,  he  preaches  at  Huntsyille.  He  accom- 
panied me  on  to  that  city.  I  preached  twice  on  Sab- 
bath, Aoril  1st,  and  spoke  on  prohibition  on  Mon- 
day night. 

I  ought  to  say  here  that  no  one  sends  me  to  spsak, 
nor  does  any  one  pay  me.  The  subject  of  reform 
is  very  unpopular,  but  out  of  love  for  a  people  who 
need  instruction  as  much  or  more  than  anything  else, 
in  God's  name  I  go,  and  have  been  going  for  thir- 
teen months. 

In  this  time  of  quietude  the  people  hear  many, 
who  were  shouting  against  prohibition  in  our  State 
campaign,  say  they  will  not  vote  for  General  Fisk. 
I  called  to  see  several  white  men  who  were  strong 
Prohibitionists  last  summer,  who  say  they  will  have 
nothing  to  do  with  it  any  more.  They  are  going 
with  their  respective  parties.  The  city  election 
came  off  while  we  were  there,  and  a  Christian  gen- 
tleman, one  who  gave  money  and  worked  to  carry 
prohibition  last  year,  was  elected  mayor,  and  a 
preacher  was  elected  recorder,  though  each  are  Dem- 
ocrats now.  There  are  few  saloons  here,  and  they 
seem  to  do  a  poor  business.  Huntsville  is  one  place 
where  the  liquor  lords  did  not  elect  the  city  officers. 
There  are  few  lodges  there,  but  Freemasons  have 
recently  organized. 

I  visited  the  prison;  it  was  a  pitiful  sight  In  the 
superintendent's  office  I  met  a  colored  woman  whose 
time  was  out  and  a  certificate  of  release  given. 
With  tears  of  joy  she  exclaimed,  "Thank  God,  I  am 
free  again  I"  We  are  working  and  praying  that  the 
cause  of  crime  may  be  stopped,  and  if  the  cause  is 
stopped  the  effect  is  sure  to  follow.  Of  all  nations 
who  need  prohibition,  I  think  my  people  need  it 
most  Every  other  nationality  seems  to  get  a  hold  in 
the  soil  quicker  than  we,  though  we  felled  the  for- 
est and  uprooted  the  stumps. 

I  read  with  great  regret  Bro.  Countee's  troubles. 
God  alone  can  heal  the  wounded  heart  We  shall 
not  forget  him  in  our  prayers. 

It  will  soon  be  time  for  the  meeting  of  our  associ- 
ations; there  are  twenty-five  of  them.  With  a  good 
agent  in  Texas  an  abundant  harvest  can  be  gar- 
nered for  the  Master.  I  shall  do  all  I  can,  and  hold 
up  the  arm  of  any  one  who  will  coma.  We  are 
getting  ready  for  the  State  and  National  Prohibition 
Conventions.  The  former  meets  in  Waco  on  the 
25th  inst  I  shall  be  there,  if  it  is  only  to  show 
which  side  I  am  on.  God  bless  all  our  (>ff->rts  for 
good.  L.  G.  Jordan. 

^  I  m 

FBRIL  AND  SALVATION. 


Kingston,   III. 

Dear  Cynosure: — In  view  of  the  perilous  times 
that  are  upon  us  as  a  nation,  as  seen  in  the  wir  of 
1861,  and  specially  since  the  great  Cincinnati  riot  a 
few  years  ago,  originating  in  the  bailing  signs  of 
distress  from  the  Masonic  and  other  secret  societies, 
I  am  constrained  to  a  few  words  for  your  con- 
sideration. 

This  secret  empire  power  is  dereloping  to  an 
alarming  extent.     (S««  Jer.  9th.)     There  are  many 


J 


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2HE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


April  19, 1888 


prominent  cases  where  the  secret  societies  have 
been  emboldened  to  screen  men  guilty  of  the  great- 
est crimes.  The  power  of  this  hailing  sign  of  dis- 
tress must  be  considered  and  acted  upon  promptly, 
else  we  find  ourselves  as  a  nation  in  the  same  state 
as  was  the  house  of  Israel,  if  Adonijah  had  been  al- 
lowed to  keep  the  reins  of  government  in  place  of 
his  brother  Solomon.  These  facts  give  the  ignor- 
ant and  the  low,  base  and  vile,  opportunity  to  take 
a  position  hostile  to  the  welfare  of  the  best  govern- 
ment on  earth.  All  the  disasters  that  are  growing 
out  of  strikes,  boycotts,  anarchists,  etc.,  are  trace- 
able to  the  hailing  sign  of  distress. 

There  is  no  other  way  for  us  to  do  as  a  people 
but  to  put  on  the  brakes  of  prohibition  to  stop  the 
downward,  course.  Thank  God,  this  can  be  done  as 
easy  as  the  putting  of  Solomon  in  possession  of  the 
government  instead  of  Adonijah.  I  imagine  that 
the  rule  in  Absalom's  hands  represents  Masonic 
rule,  Adonijah  the  Odd-fellow  rule,  and  that  of 
American  principles  is  like  Solomon,  put  in  posses- 
sion of  the  government  by  the  prayer  to  the  king 
with  corresponding  effort.  The  prayers  and  efforts 
put  forth,  I  trust,  with  repentance  for  the  past  neg- 
ligence, this  nation  can  be  saved  from  ruin  within 
the  next  six  months.  What  will  be  the  harvest  of 
the  secret  lodge  sowing  if  it  be  allowed  to  grow  a 
few  seasons  longer?  May  God  help  us,  who  have 
"tasted  the  good  word  and  the  powers  of  the  world 
to  come,"  to  consider  th6  fiery  billows  in  depraved 
hearts  that  are  rolling  beneath  the  best  interests  of 
family,  church  and  state  I 

The  lodgeites  have  no  more  interest  in  our  gov- 
ernment than  Absalom  had  in  securing  power  over 
the  house  of  Israel.  I  feel  that  our  ruin  is  as  sure 
as  was  the  city  of  Nineveh,  which  was  saved  by  the 
preaching  of  one  man,  if  we  fail  to  show  repentance 
within  the  next  six  months.  The  word  of  the  Lord 
is  coming  to  this  great  nation  through  the  mouth  of 
his  servants  of  the  N.  C.  A.,  and  may  be  as  grand 
in  its  results  as  in  the  two  cases  above  mentioned 
if  we  work,  pray  in  faith,  and  vote  right.  Yours 
for  the  glorious  cause  of  truth  and  righteousness, 

M.  L.  Worcester. 


DON'T  PAT  FOR  MORE  SWINDLING. 

Colby,  Kan.,  April  10,  1888. 

Editor  Cynosure: — If  you,  for  instance,  attempt 
to  sell  me  forty  bushels  of  wheat  for  a  certain  sum, 
and  then  deliver  me  forty  bushels  of  oats  instead 
(of  half  the  value),  is  there  not  a  law  by  which  I 
can  be  made  to  pay  you  under  our  contract?  If 
not,  then  if  you  agree  to  communicate  to  me  certain 
things  as  secret  as  the  grave  (you  say)  for  a  stipu- 
lated sum,  of  which  I  shall  have  the  benefit;  and  if 
the  pay  comes  regularly  every  quarter;  and  then  I 
find  out  that  the  world  in  general  knows  all  about 
this  secret,  and  cease  to  pay  the  stipulated  sum,  do 
I  in  such  case  defraud?  and  where  is  the  law  in  the 
book  of  God  or  out  of  it? 

I  paid  thirty  one  dollars  for  such  secrets  in  Illi- 
nois and  soon  after  could  buy  the  same  on  the  streets 
for  twenty-five  cents, — verbatim,  as  the  lodge  gave 
to  me.  To  be  strictly  honest  in  the  sight  of  God, 
the  lo'dge  would  pay  back  every  dollar  it  takes,  or 
swindles,  out  of  the  unsuspecting.  la  the  Cynosure 
of  March  29,  a  brother  says  the  Free  Methodists 
said  be  ought  to  pay  up,  then  leave  the  lodge.  I 
am  a  Free  Methodist  and  I  wrote  to  him  that  the 
lodge  is  the  one  to  pay.  It  is  the  one  that  swindled. 
I  don't  believe  in  paying  Satan's  agents. 

In  the  Berean  Lesson  leaf  for  April  8  is  a  picture 
that  looks  so  familiar.  I  wonder  how  it  came  about 
that  it  was  put  there.  Every  Odd-fellow  in  the 
churches,  using  the  leaf  will  know  it.  It  is  a  pic- 
ture of  the  blind  every  member  puts  on  when  he  is 
initiated.  The  lesson  leaf  truthfully  calls  it,  "Ily- 
pocrity."  ^  An  ex-Odd. 


PUBLIC  PR0FB88I0N.  8B0RET  DENIAL. 

DUARTE,  Cal. 

Editor  Chbirtian  Cynosure: — You  have  been 
sending  mo  the  Cynosure  now  for  a  few  months,  for 
which  I  return  you  my  earnest  thanks.  I  esteem  it 
as  one  of  my  best  papers.  It  harmonizes  with  the 
Gospel,  and  with  all  just  moral  convictions  of  truth 
Ever  since  the  Morgan  tragedy  I  have  entertained  a 
deep  aversion  for  those  secret  lodges  so  prevalent  in 
our  land,  especially  so  for  the  Masonic  lodge.  If 
this  lodge  be  not  antichrist,  pure  and  simple,  I  do 
not  know  what  anti-Christ  is.  They  ignore  the  only 
Mediator  between  God  and  man.  They  turn  him 
out  in  the  cold  and  lock  the  door  on  him.  Jews  and 
pagans  can  do  no  worse.  How  any  Christian  can 
enter  such  a  place  is  something  I  cannot  divine 
They  either  don't  think, or  they  possess  very  strange 
I;  «l««tic  noQvciennva:    To  >)enjr  Cbrint  ncorstljr  and 


acknowledge  him  publicly  is  bare-faced  hypocrisy. 
Herein  is  Christ  "wounded  in  the  house  of  his 
friends."  Can  Christians  intimately  associate  with 
the  enemies  of  the  cross  of  Christ?  This  is  a  moral 
absurdity,  a  plain  contradiction. 

I  know  from  observation  and  experience  that  a 
large  part  of  those  belonging  to  the  Masonic  lodge 
are  infidels,  skeptics  and  drunkards.  The  lodge  is 
their  idol,  their  refuge  and  only  hope.  Some  few 
years  ago,  while  living  in  a  town  in  Illinois  recently 
visited  with  a  most  terrible  cyclone,  I  urged  the 
claims  of  the  Gospel  upon  one  of  the  leading  Ma- 
sons of  the  place,  and  his  duty  to  the  church  of 
Christ.  He  replied,  "Sir,  I  belong  to  a  society  good 
enough  for  me." 

This  man,  like  many  others  of  his  kind,  never 
entered  a  church  door.  He  was  lawyer,  vulgar  and 
profane.  This  very  man,  with  three  other  promi- 
nent Masons,  were'  found  in  collusion,  swindling  the 
general  government.  As  soon  as  the  matter  was  dis 
covered,  they  left  the  place  for  parts  unknown.  I 
lived  at  the  same  time  in  the  same  community. 

When  I  said  to  another  leading  member  of  the 
lodge  here,  that  Masons  were  guilty  of  the  murder 
of  Morgan,  he  said  he  deserved  to  be  killed.  In 
this  same  community,  not  a  few  of  the  members  of 
the  Methodist  church  belonged  to  either  the  Odd- 
fellows or  Masons,  and  when  their  pastor  in  several 
sermons  endeavored  to  expose  the  evils  of  the  lodge, 
as  well  as  their  unfaithfulness  to  the  church,  they 
became  mortally  offended,  and  withdrew  their  sup- 
port. The  minister  could  do  nothing  better  than 
leave.  Lodge  men  are  just  as  intolerant  as  the 
Roman  Catholics.  They  cannot  bear  to  be  called  in 
question.  They  profess  to  take  the  Bible  for  a 
basis,  and  march  in  procession  with  this  open  Bible; 
and  yet  Jesus  Christ,  whom  they  repudiate,  "is  the 
light  of  the  glory  of  God  the  Father."  He  who  re- 
jects the  Son,  rejects  the  Father  also. 

B.  Lbffler. 

^  I  m 

PITH  AND  POINT. 


LITESATXTRS. 


KNI6HT  TBMPLAK8  MOCKING  CHBIIT. 

We  have  just  had  a  Eaight  Templar  Easter  parade  in 
our  church  (Ist  Baptist)  in  opposition  to  my  ear- 
nest protest.  I  obtained  some  copies  of  tracts  Nos.  11 
and  14.  Theee  I  used  quite  vigorously,  provoking  a  ser- 
mon in  rebuke  from  Hosea  7: 8:  "Ephraim  is  a  cake  not 
turned."  This  is  all  understood  as  an  attack  upon  my- 
self for  objecting  to  this  innovation  on  Baptist  usage, and 
in  persisting  in  calling  attention  to  the  one  subject  of  or- 
ganized secrecy.  I  think  the  day  is  not  far  distant  when 
I  can  serve  the  cause  of  Christ  more  by  withdrawing 
from  than  by  laboring  iii  a  lodge-ridden  body. — H.  D. 
Whitcomb,  Bloomington,  III. 

GOOD  for  prohibitionists. 
I  am  getting  five  Prohibition  papers  besides  the  Gyno 
sure,  but  I  think  it  is  the  best  paper  of  the  whole  lot.  I 
like  the  doctrine  it  advocates  because  I  think  secret  or- 
ders or  societies  are  a  curse  to  this  or  any  other  country. 
I  used  to  belong  to  one  myself.  I  wish  you  God  speed 
in  exterminating  them.  I  will  try  and  get  some  new 
subscribers. — Geo.  W.  Pritts. 

JAMES  OWKN  AND  THE  FRIENDS'  TESTIMONY. 

I  forward  for  publication  the  testimony  of  our  beloved 
friend,  James  Owen,  in  Iowa  Yearly  meeting  of  Friends 
in  1870.  The  question  was,  "Shall  our  testimony  against 
secret  societies  be  made  more  stringent?"  He  said,  "I 
know  as  much  about  Freemasonry  as  any  person  that  is 
not  a  member  and  I  assert  that  the  name  of  Christ  is  not 
in  their  forms  of  prayer,  and  hence  it  is  an  infidel  insti- 
tution." The  amendment  carried  and  Freemasonry  was 
made  a  test  of  membership.  His  powerful  ministry  will 
long  be  remembered  both  in  this  country  and  in  Europe. 
He  quietly  fell  asleep  in  Jesus  in  his  home  at  New  Prov- 
idence, Iowa,  and  was  buried  there.  I  visited  his  grave 
a  few  years  past  and  copied  in  my  day  book  the  follow- 
ing inscription  from  his  grave  stone: 

"James  Owen,  died  let  month,  9th  day,  1871,  aged  48  years,  10 

months  and  37  days. 

"Oh,  call  it  not  death,  Itis  life  begun ; 
For  the  waters  are  passed,  the  home  Is  won. 
The  ransomed  spirit  has  reached  the  shore 
Where  they  weep  aad  suffer  and  sin  no  more, 
I  am  safe  In  my  Father's  house  above. 
In  the  place  prepared  by  my  Saviour's  love. " 

"  He  was  a  beloved  minister  ia  the  Society  of  Friends. — 

JoBEPH  Fbazier. 

THE  BOSTON  EVANGELIST  FOR  KKFORMED  ROMANISTS. 

Please  send  the  Cynosure  to  Thomas  E.  Leyden.evan- 
gelist  ...  He  was  twenty-eight  years  a  Romanist  and  is 
now  doing  good  service  in  trying  to  lead  other  deluded 
children  of  that  darkness  into  the  light  of  the  Gospel. 
He  has  been  preaching  on  the  afternoons  of  the  Lord's 
Day,  during  the  past  month,  in  Music  Hall,  which  is 
crowded  to  overflowing  at  every  service,  many  being  un- 
able to  gain  admittance.  It  is  seated  for  3,200;  500  ex- 
tra seats  were  put  in  last  Lord's  Day.  All  were  filled  and 
all  the  standing  room  besides;  so  that,  as  it  is  estimated, 
about  5,000  were  there.  The  Romanists  have  forced  the 
battle  here,  and  if  they  are  not  the  absolute  masters  of 
the  situation,  which  they  claim  to  be,  the  fact  will  be 
dltoovered,  for  the  controveriy  has  begun,  and  in  ear- 
nMt.-^WM.  7.  DAtts,  Svffflk  Birut  Jail,  Boston, 


View  op  the  State  of  Edkope  dubing  the  Middle  Ages. 
By  Henry  Hallam.  L.L.  D.,  F.S.A  S.  Four  volumes  bound 
In  two.  Price,  half -morocco,  $3.50.  John  B.  Alden,  New  York. 

The  celebrated  author  and  historical  student  who 
began  the  publication  of  this  great  work  in  1815 
and  completed  it  in  1848,  wrote  not  for  his  genera- 
tion alone.  He  seems  to  have  no  successor.  His 
impartiality  and  truthfulness  are  stamped  upon  these 
volumes,  and  during  his  life  were  sometimes  a 
source  of  provocation  to  partisan  spirits.  Yet  he 
took  part  with  Wilberforce  and  others  for  the  aboli- 
tion of  slavery  and  in  other  benevolent  movements. 
No- subsequent  histories  of  the  times  treated  in  these 
volumes  have  been  able  to  displace  them  in  the  pub- 
lic esteem.  No  writer  upon  constitutional  govern- 
ment has  been  able  to  surpass  their  learning,  or  excel 
in  candor  and  that  judicial  spirit  everywhere  mani- 
fested in  the  discussions  of  this  great  work.  Ma- 
cauley,  always  a  spirited  party  leader  and  one  of  the 
most  popular  of  historians,  speaks  with  enthusiasm 
of  Hallam's  high  qualifications,  his  great  industry, 
various  and  profound  knowledge,  steady  impartial- 
ity and  freedom  from  exaggeration.  A  peculiar  val- 
ue is  given  to  this  edition  from  the  multitude  of 
illustrations  which  are  copies  of  rare  old  prints, 
tapestries,  etc.,  dating  back  often  for  centuries,  and 
showing  the  state  of  pictorial  art  during  the  times 
treated  in  the  history.  If  the  assumptions  of  Ma- 
sonic orators  were  true,  we  should  expect  to  find  in 
these  volumes  some  notice  of  so  powerful  an  influ- 
ence in  society  as  Freemasonry;  but  the  learned 
writer  seems  to  have  found  so  little  influence,  even 
by  the  societies  of  cathedral  builders,  in  the  affairs 
of  society  and  the  state  that  they  seem  not  to  be 
mentioned.  These  volumes  are  finely  printed  and 
beautifully  bound,  and  yet  the  price  places  them 
within  reach  of  all.  A  four-volume  edition  in  cloth 
is  sold  for  $1.75.  For  some  readers,  especially  stu- 
dents, the  latter  has  especial  conveniences. 

"  Woman"  has  now  reached  its  fifth  number.  We 
should  judge  its  departments  for  practical  hints  and  ad- 
vice more  valuable  than  the  stories  and  illustrated  arti- 
cles. Of  the  latter  "A  Zulu  "Wedding"  and  "An  Island 
and  an  Idyl,"  a  sketch  of  Grand  Manan  island  at  the 
mouth  of  the  bay  of  Fundy,  are  profusely  illustrated. 
Of  the  departments  one  can  not  go  far  astray:  "Helps 
and  Hints  for  Mothers,"  "Home  Decoration,"  and  "Soci- 
eties for  Christian  Work,"  are  among  the  best. 

In  Woids  and  Weapons  Dr.  Pentecost  does  not  hesitate 
to  speak  again  of  the  lodge  among  the  hindrances  to 
Christian  work.  His  discourse  on  "The  Christian  and 
the  Modern  Dance"  is  one  of  the  best  arguments  on  this 
question  which  from  time  to  time  vexes  the  churches. 
Pastors  who  are  unfortunately  obliged  to  meet  it  will  do 
well  to  circulate  a  few  copies  of  this  number  of  Words 
and  Weapons.  ut.  Pentecost  also  discusses  "Union 
Revival  Meetings  as  an  aid  toward  Christian  Unity"  ear- 
nestly as  becomes  an  evangelist  of  so  wide  experience 
and  success.  The  department  of  news  from  the  evangel- 
ists is  a  valuable  addition  to  the  magazine. 

Another  number  of  the  London  Illustrated  News  is  de- 
voted to  the  interesting  historical  scenes  attending  the 
death  of  the  German  Emperor  William  and  the  succes- 
sion of  Frederick.  The  splendid  two-page  portrait  of  the 
latter  is,  like  that  of  his  father  in  the  previous  number, 
one  of  the  finest  specimens  of  the  engraver's  art.  Two 
other  two  page  pictures  and  numerous  smaller  ones 
with  very  full  accounts  of  the  funera'  and  sketches  of 
both  William  and  Frederick  fill  up  a  22  page  paper. 

The  Converted  Catholic  in  its  last  number  contains 
Father  O'Connor's  letters  to  Cardinal  Gibbons  and  has  a 
further  argument  on  "The  Pope  in  Politics."  "The 
Church  of  Rome  not  the  Church  of  Christ,"  "Our  Coun- 
try and  our  Duty,"  "Typical  Catholic  Saints,"  "Siint 
Patrick,"  and  "The  Bible,"  (the  latter  by  Rev.  John  Lee, 
author  of  the  pamphlet  on  Catholic  Persecution)  are 
among  the  articles  which  will  be  found  of  much  value 
and  interest.  James  O'Connor,publi8her,60  Bible  House, 
New  York. 

The  Library  Magazine  for  April  shows  continued  im- 
provement and  enlargement  An  article  by  Minister 
Phelps  in  the  Nineteenth  Century  on  the  "Cons  itution  of 
the  United  States"  will  be  read  with  great  interest  by 
Americans.  "The  Higher  Eiucation  of  Women"  is  an- 
other topic  which  is  most  timely  since  the  Washington 
council  of  women. '  In  biography  and  criticism,  articles 
on  "Ralph  Waldo  Emerson,"  "John  Raskin  and  his 
Works."  and  "Shakespeare  or  Bacon;"  and  on  pMitical 
and  religious  questions, "Islam  and  Chrlstiaaity  in  ladia," 
"The  Balance  of  Naval  Power  in  Europe,""Eagli8h  and 
American  Federalism,"  and  "Tlie  Extraordinary  Condi- 
tion of  Corsica"  will  be  read  with  care,  as  will  also  Prof. 
Huxley  on  "The  Struggle  for  Existence." 


Thirty-two  saloon  licenses  were  taken  out  at  Lin- 
coln, Neb.,  Wednesday,  and  eight  more  are  in  the 
mill.  Each  saloon-keeper  paid  into  the  treasury  of 
the  school  district  $1,000.  The  $40,000  will  enable 
the  Board  of  Education  to  complete  a  large  school 
building.  Let  there  be  an  inscription  cut  in  this 
buildMig,  "Built  by  Lioensiag  Grime." 


Apkil  19,  1888 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


BIBLE  LESSONS. 


STUDIES  IN  THE  NEW  TESTAMENT. 
LESSON  V,  Second  Quarter.— April  29. 
SUBJECT.— The  Talents.— Matt.  25: 14-30. 
GOLDEN   TEXT.— Be  thou  faithful  unto 
death  and  I  will  give  thee  a  crown  of  life.  Rev. 
a:'0. 

lOpen  the  BibU  and  read  the  letton.  1 
1  From  Words  and  Weapons.  | 

This  is  another  parable  relating  to  our 
Lord's  second  coming,  and  the  relation 
of  profepsing  disciples  to  that  event. 

The  Servants  and  their  Tbust. — 
God  has  no  sons  who  are  not  servants. 
Jesus  himself  was  at  once  the  beloved  son 
and  the  beloved  servant.  It  is  well  for 
us,  while  we  are  rejoicing  in  the  privi- 
leges of  sonship.to  be  careful  not  to  neg- 
lect the  responsibilities  of   stewardship. 

1.  The  Bervants'  trust.  "And  he  deliv- 
ered unto  them  his  goods."  That  is,  he 
made  over  to  them,  for  the  purpose  of 
trade,  the  portion  of  his  substance  which 
he  had  reserved  to  be  so  used.  (See  Eph. 
4:8.)  The  gifts  or  talents  here  spoken  of 
are  not  natural  abilities, but  what  is  add- 
ed by  way  of  grace.  All  along  our 
Christian  life,  according  to  our  faithful- 
ness, God  confers  more  and  more  grace 
upon  us,  in  the  use  of  all  of  which  we  are 
required  to  be  faithful. 

2.  The  measure  of  the  trust.  "Accord- 
ing to  his  several  abilities."  This  distin- 
guishes clearly  between  natural  and  con- 
ferred talents.  God's  gifts  to  us  are  not 
arbitrary,  but  wisely  bestowed  according 
to  our  ability  to  make  the  best  use  of 
them.  It  is  easily  seen  that  in  selecting 
his  servants  in  past  ages  he  has  not  made 
mistakes.  The  men  selected  for  great 
trusts  were  all  men  of  great  natural  abil- 
ity. The  Christian  merchant  is  given 
larger  gifts  than  his  Christian  bookkeep- 
er or  porter. 

3.  The  universality  of  the  trust.  The 
man  who  received  one  talent  did  not 
have  so  great  ability  as  the  man  who  re- 
ceived five;  nevertheless,he  wasnot  over- 
looked in  the  distribution.  And  it  is  ob- 
served that  one  talent  in  that  time  would 
equal  about  $5  000  in  our  day,  so  that  we 
may  conclude  that,  to  the  least  gifted,  a 
large  comparative  trust  is  committed.  It 
will  not  do,in  the  face  of  this  parable,for 
any  disciple  to  attempt  to  excuse  himself 
from  service  to  Christ  on  the  ground  that 
he  has  neither  talent  nor  ability. 

How  THE  Servants  were  Reckoned 
WITH. — Let  no  disciple  for  a  moment 
suppose  that  his  stewardship  will  be 
overlooked,  however  great  or  however 
insignificant  he  may  be(2  Cor.  5:10;  Eph. 
6:8;  Rev.  22:12).  It  will  be  noticed  that 
this  judgment  refers  to  service  and  stew- 
ardship, not  life,  (Compare  1  Cor.  3: 
9-16). 

1.  Of  the  first  and  second  servants. 
Their  coming  and  report  were  frank  and 
fearless  but  not  boastful.  If  we  have 
done  our  Lord's  work  faithfully  we  need 
not  fear  to  come  before  him  and  give  ac- 
count; and  one  may  speak  of  his  success 
and  yet  not  be  otherwise  than  humble . 

2.  0(  the  third  servant.  Alas, what  an 
account  is  here!  Conscious  of  his  un- 
faithfulness, he  begins  to  frame  ex^.uses 
which  were  as  wicked  as  they  were  false, 
imputing  to  his  lord  that  for  which  there 
was  no  foundation.  But  this  is  charac- 
teristic of  the  servants  he  typifies,  who 
will,  if  possible,  lay  the  blame  of  their 
failure  upon  some  one  else.  When  a 
Christian  alleges  that  Christ's  demands 
upon  him  for  service  are  unfair  and  hard 
we  may  bo  sure  that  bo  is  spiritually 
slothful  and  at  heart  wicked. 

I  Ftom  the  Christian.  | 

The  lesson  of  the  parable  is  obvious. 
The  Master  who  has  gone  away  is  the 
Lord  Jesus  Christ.  The  servants  to  whom 
he  has  committed  his  possessions  are  his 
people.  The  command  to  them  is  to  trade 
or  occupy  till  be  shall  come.  The  talents 
are  all  those  gifts,  graces, qualities,  abili- 
ties, opportunities  and  privileges  which 
the  Lord  has  bestowed  upon  us.  The 
duty  of  the  servant  as  one  who  has  been 
purchased  by  the  MaUer.and  is  absolute- 
ly his, is  to  make  the  best  possible  use  of 
everything  entrusted  to  his  care,  so  that 
gifts  may  increase,  opportunities  multi- 
ply, good  extend  and  be  perpetuated. 
The  reward  assigned  need  not  be  the 
governing  of  literal  citics.as  the  gifts  en- 
trusted were  not  literal  talents  of  silver 
or  gold ;  but  the  reward  indicates  the  fu- 
ture dignity  and  glory  of  the  people  of 
God,  when  those  who  have  been  faithful 
OTW  K  few  thiagi  ber*  ihall  b«  mad*  rul- 


ers over  many  things  hereafter,  and  shall 
reign  with  Christ  in  power  and  glory  and 
majesty  eternal.  The  time  of  reckoning 
is  when  the  Master  shall  return  and  call 
his  servants  to  give  up  their  account  to 
him.  Then  shall  every  man  give  an  ac- 
count of  himself  to  God. 

One  solemn  lesson  is  the  special  dan- 
ger of  people  with  one  talent.  There  are 
persons  who  are  constantly  belittling 
their  abilities,  murmuring  that  they  have 
not  greater  opportunities,  and  envying 
others  who  are  more  fortunate.  The 
Master  doubtless  knew  something  of  this 
man, that  he  was  unfaithful  and  slothful, 
and  that  it  was  unsafe  to  confide  to  him 
any  important  trust.  Still  he  thought  he 
would  try  him  with  one  talent;  he  did, 
and  he  proved  unfaithful,  and  was  cast 
out  of  his  master's  presence . 

There  are  thousands  of  people  who  are 
constantly  asserting  that  they  have  but 
one  talent,  and  can  do  but  very  little.  It 
is  bad  when  a  man  cannot  do  much;  it  is 
worse  when  he  will  not  do  anythiiig.  The 
man  with  one  talent  is  in  special  danger. 
This  man  had  hard.envious  and  unthank- 
ful thoughts.  He  counted  his  master 
hard  and  unreasonable.  Second,  he  hid 
his  talent.and  idled  away  his  time.  Third, 
at  the  reckoning  day  he  sought  to  defend 
himself  and  his  course  of  action  by  slan- 
dering his  master,  and  finally  he  received 
the  condemnation  of  the  wicked  and 
slothful  servant,  who  is  cast  into  outer 
darkness  where  there  is  weeping  and 
gnashing  of  teeth.  The  one  talent  is 
taken  away  from  the  man  who  would  not 
improve  it,  and  is  given  to  a  man  who 
had  made  good  use  of  every  opportunity. 
The  man  who  has  done  little  will  do  less; 
the  man  who  has  done  much  is  the  man 
who  is  likely  to  do  more.  A  man  wish- 
ing some  work  done  in  haste  was  told  to 
give  it  to  the  busiest  man  in  the  office. 

There  are  people  who  tliink  the  ab- 
sence of  the  little  they  can  do  will  never 
be  noticed.  It  might  not  be  noticed  by 
men,  but  there  is  one  who  oversees  all, 
and  who  notices  everything.  There  is  a 
story  that  when  Sir  Michael  Costa  was 
conducting  the  rehearsal  of  a  great  or 
chestra  and  chorus,  as  the  hundreds  of 
voices  blended  with  the  rolling  of  drums 
and  the  thunder  of  the  organ,  the  clash 
of  cymbals  and  the  sounds  of  various  ia- 
struments,  one  musician  who  played  the 
little  piccolo,  thinking  he  was  unnoticed, 
ceased  to  play.  The  great  conductor 
stopped,  flung  up  his  hands  and  hushed 
the  chorus  and  cried  out,  "Where  is  the 
piccolo?"  God,  who  hears  the  chirp  of 
every  sparrow,  the  cry  of  every  raven 
and  the  sigh  of  every  child,  knows  pre- 
cisely what  we  do,  and  will  not  forget 
our  faithfulness  nor  excuse  our  neglect. 


IN  Brief. 


The  most  high  toned  dynasty  in  the 
world  is  that  of  Japan,  according  to  a 
Japanese  lecturer  in  the  Berlin  Academy 
of  Oriental  Languages.  The  Mikado  is 
descended  from  the  gods,  and  is  the  121st 
of  his  race.  The  national  religion,  Sin- 
loism,  possesses  8,000,000  gods  and 
saints,  and  there  are  136,000  temples. 

When  a  lady  once  told  Archbishop 
Sharpe  that  she  would  not  communicate 
religious  instruction  to  her  children  until 
they  had  attained  the  age  of  discretion, 
the  shrewd  prelate  replied,  "Madam,  it 
you  don't  teach  them  the  divel  will." 

A  notable  conclusion  of  the  report  of 
the  Massachusetts  Labor  Statistics  is  that 
all  the  remunerative  work  of  the  State,of 
whatever  kind,  could  have  been  done,  if 
all  had  had  employment,  in  307  days  of 
8.99  hours  per  day.  That  is,  that  the  to- 
tal product  of  all  the  manufactories, 
farms,  etc ,  would  have  been  the  same 
under  a  nine-hour  system,  providing  all 
had  had  steady  employment. 

It  is  estimated  by  Professor  Kirchoff,of 
Halle,  that  the  language  most  spoken  on 
the  globe,  for  the  last  thousand  years  at 
least,  is  Chinese,  for  it  is  without  doubt 
the  only  one  which  is  talked  by  over 
400,000,000  of  the  human  race.  The 
next  language  most  in  use,  but  at  a  very 
great  distance  behind  Chinese, is  Hindu- 
stani, spoken  by  over  UK),O00.0(K).  Then 
follow  English.spoken  by  about  100,000,- 
000;  Russian,  over  70,000,000;  German, 
over  57,000.000,  and  Spanish,  over  47,- 
000,000. 

Among  the  curiosities  recently  acquir- 
ed by  a  San  Francisco  museum  are  a 
number  of  mummies,  found  imbedded  in 
a  stratum  of  lime  in  Mexicojust  south  of 
Ui«  4rl"0Ba  Ua0.  Judging  from  tlMlr  po- 


sition they  must  have  died  in  terrible  ag- 
ony. One  of  the  bodies  is  that  of  a  wo- 
man and  her  ears  are  ornamented  with 
tubes  stuck  through  them.  They  are  cov 
ered  with  a  coarse  netting  composed  of 
grass  and  the  bark  of  trees.  They  are  sup- 
posed to  have  lain  in  the  dried-up  state  at 
least  800  years,  and  it  is  not  known  to 
what  race  they  belonged.  The  perfect 
form  of  a  rat  appears.which  shared  their 
burial  place. 

The  Philadelphia  American  says:  Re- 
cent instances  go  to  show  that  the  tele- 
phone ia  likely  to  become  a  much  more 
important  instrument  than  was  supposed. 
We  have  now  telephone  communication 
for  long  distances,  and  it  seems  to  be 
maintained  under  atmospheric  conditions 
which  put  an  end  to  telegraphy.  In  the 
recent  storm  there  was  not  a  telegraph 
line  at  work  between  Philadelphia  and 
New  York.  But  the  telophone  connect- 
ing the  two  cities  continued  to  work, and 
was  even  used  by  the  authorities  of  the 
railroads  for  their  necessary  messages." 

An  important  discovery  of  coal  was 
made  a  few  days  ago  in  Northern  Mexi- 
co, near  the  Rio  Grande,  200  miles  south 
east  of  El  Paso.  The  discovery  is  on 
lands  belonging  to  Ex-Governor  Celse 
Gonzales,  of  Chihuahua.  The  out-crop- 
pings  of  an  immense  coal  bed  were  fol- 
lowed for  ten  leagues  until  they  disap- 
peared in  a  small  range  of  mountains. 
Specimens  of  the  coal  were  tested.  The 
result  was  so  gratifying  that  Governor 
Gonzales  started  at  once  for  the  City  of 
Mexico  to  buy  lands  adjoining  these 
which  he  now  owns. 

A  Bright  Addition.  —  Speaking  of 
George  Washington  always  reminds  me 
of  that  good  story  of  how  Mr.Evarts  told 
Lord  Coleridge,  when  they  were  at 
Mount  Verjon,  ihe  legend  of  Washing- 
ton throwing  a  dollar  across  the  Rappa- 
hannock. "But,"  objocted  Coleridge, 
"the  Rappahannock's  a  broad  stream." 
"Yes,"  retorted  Mr.  Evarts,  "but  you 
must  remember  that  a  dollar  went  further 
in  those  days."  At  a  dinner  party  not 
long  ^go,  Mr.  Evarts  was  chaffed  a  little 
about  the  many  stories  attributed  to  him 
by  the  newspapers,  and  incidentally  this 
one  was  praised  as  his  best.  "Oh,"  said 
Mr.  Evarts  modestly,  'I  don't  say  all  the 
good  things  that  are  credited  to  me.  Ev- 
ery now  and  then  some  anonymous  news- 
paper paragraph  says  a  wittier  thing  than 
any  of  us.  Now,  what  I  might  have  said 
to  Lord  Coleridge  was  that  it  was  not  so 
strange  that  George  Washington  threw  a 
dollar  across  a  river  since  he  threw  a  sov- 
reign  across  the  sea. 

In  Mr.  Kennan's  Russia^  paper  in  the 
March  Century,  a  chapter  is  devoted  to 
the  touching  story  of  the  celebration  of 
the  Centennial  Fourth  of  July  (1876)  by 
the  prisoners  in  the  House  of  Detention 
in  St.  Petersburg.  As  early  as  the  first 
week  in  June  the  three  hundred  "politi- 
cals" therein  confined  began  to  make 
preparalions  for  the  celebration  by  re- 
questing relatives  who  visited  them  to 
send  to  the  orison  blue  and  red  handker- 
chiefs, red  flinnel  underclothes,  etc, and 
before  July  1st  almost  every  prisoner  had 
a  roughly  made  American  flag,  or  a  few 
strips  of  red, white  and  blue  cloth, and  an 
inch  or  two  of  candle.  Hours  before  the 
first  midnight  cannon  announced  the  be- 
ginning of  the  great  nalional  celebration 
in  Philadelphia,  hundreds  of  flags  and 
streamers  were  fluttering  from  the  grated 
windows  of  the  prison;  and  the  prison 
guards, who  had  never  heard  of  the  Dec 
laration  of  Independence  and  did  not 
comprehend  the  significance  of  the  re- 
markable outbreak,  were  busy  hushing 
the  cheers  and  seizing  the  streamers.  At 
intervals  through  the  day  flags  were  hung 
out,  and  at  night  the  prison  windows 
were  illuminated  by  the  persistent  cele- 
brators  of  American  independence. 


Thin  hair  thickened,baldnes8  cured, and 
gray  hair  made  to  return  to  its  youthful 
color  by  th<^  use  of  Hall's  Vegetable  Sic- 
ilian Hair  Ronewer. 


N.  C.  A.  BUILDING  AND  OITIC*  OI 
THI  CHRISTIAN   CTNOSURE, 
tSl  WK8T  MADISON  STREET,  CHICAGC 


•nOO  NUT  CAI.LKU  KOK. 

It  seems  strange  that  it  is  necessary  to 
pcrsuaio  men  that  you  can  cure  their  dis 
\  eases  by  offcrirg  a  premium  to  the  man 
who  fails  to  receive  benefit.  And  yet  Dr. 
Sage  undoubtedly  cured  thousands  of 
cases  of  obstinate  catarrh  with  his  "Ca- 
tarrh R8medy,"who  would  never  have  ap 
plied  to  him, if  it  had  not  been  for  his  of 
fer  of  ihc  above  sum  for  an  incural))o 
case    Who  ii  ti>«  next  biddir  for  cur«  or 

OMhT 


It  A  'TJOIfAL  CHIII8  TiAN  A880CIA  HQS 

Phbbidbht.— H.  H.  George,  D.  D.,  (Jen 
eva  College,  Pa. 

VicB-PRBsiDBNT — Rcv.  M.  A.  Qaolt, 
Blanchard,  Iowa. 

Cob.  SBcfT  and  Gbnbbal  Asbkt. — J 
P.  Stoddard,  221  W.  Madison  St.,  Chicago 

Rbc.  Sbc't.  and  Trbasubbb. — W.  I. 
Phillips,  221  W.  Madison  St.,   Chicago. 

DiBBCTOBS. — Alexander  Thomson,  M 
R.  Britten,  John  <3ardner,  J.  L.  Barlow, 
L.  N.  Stratton,  Thos.  H.  Gault,  0.  A. 
Blanchard,  J.  E.  Roy,  E.  R.  Worrell,  H. 
A.  Fischer,  W.  R.  Hench. 

The  object  of  this  Association  la: 
"To  expose,  withstand  and  remove  secret 
locleties,  Freemasonry  In  particular,  and  othes 
anti-Christian  movements,  in  order  to  save  tha 
churches  of  Christ  from  being  cepraved,  to  » 
deem  the  admlnlstr*  tion  of  justice  from  pe*. 
version,  and  our  r<;p  iblican  govenunent  froo 
corruption." 

To  carry  on  this  work  contributions  are 
solicited  from  every  friend  of  tne  reform. 

Form  of  Bequest. — J  elve  and  bequeath  to 
the  National  Christian  Association,  Incorpo- 
rated and  existing  under  the  laws  of  the  State 

of    Illinois,  the  sum  of  •    dollars  for  the 

purposes  of  said  Association,  and  for  wbfrh 
toe  receipt  of  its  Treasurer  for  the  time  belnf 
"tiall  be  BufBclent  discharge. 

THX  NATIONAL  OOKYBHTION. 

pBBSiDTiwr.— Rey.  J.  8.  T.  Milligan, 
Denison,  Kans. 

Skcretabt.— Rev.  R.N.Countee.Mem- 
phis,  Tenn. 

BTATB  AnznjABT   ASSOCIATIOHS. 

Alabama.— Pre*.,  Prof.  Pickens;  Sec,  G. 
M.  Elliott;  Treae.,  Rev.  C.  B.  Curtis,  all  of 
Selma. 

Cautobnia.— Pres^  L.  B.  Lathrop,  HollU 
ter ;  Cor.  Sec,  Mrs.  U.  P.  Merrill,  Woodland  • 
Treas.,  C.  Ruddock,  Woodland. 

Connhcticut.— Free..  J.  A.  Conant,  Willi 
mantle;  Sec,  Geo.  Smith,  Wllllman tic ;  Treat. 
C.  T.  Collins,  Windsor. 

IiiJHOis.— Pres.,  J.  P.  Stoddard  Sec,  M. 
N.  Butler ;  Treas.,  W.  I.  Phllllpt  all  at  Cy 
nature  ofBce. 

Indiana.— Pres.,  WUllam  H.  Fieg,  Reno 
Sec,  S.  L.  Cook,  Albion;  Treas.,  Ben].  LTsh 
Silver  Lake. 

Iowa.— Free., Wm  Johnston.College Sprint's- 
Cor  Sec,  C.  D.  Trumbull,  Morning  Sun; 
Treas.,  James  Harvey.  Plea.iant  PJain,  Jeffer- 
son Co. ;  Lecturer,  C.  F.  Hawlev,  Wheaton,  111 

Kansas.— Pres.,  J.  8.  T.  Milligan,  Denison- 
Sec,  S.  Hart,  Lecompton;  Treas.,  J.  A.  Tor- 
rence,  Denison. 

Massaohdbbtts.- Pre*.,  8.  A.  Pratt;  Sec  , 
Mrs.  K.  D.  Bailey;  Treas., David  ManninK.Si. 
Worcester. 

MiOHiGAH.— Free.,  D.  A.  Richards,  Briehtoo  - 
Sec'y,  H.  A.  Day,  WUliamston;  Tre»».' 
Geo.  Swanson,  Jr.,  Bedfoiii. 

MiNNBBOTA.- Pres.,  B.  Q.  Paino,  Waslo't 
Cor.  Sec,  Wm.  Fenton,  St  Paul ;  Rec.  Sec'v 
Mrs.  M.  F.  Morrill,  St.  C&arles;  Treas.,  Wb 
H.  Morrill,  St.  Charlea. 

Missouri.- Pre*.,  B.  F.  Miller,  KaglevlUe 
Treas.,  William  Boauchamp,  Avalon ;  Cor.  See. 
A.  D.  Thomas,  Avalon. 

NBBRA8KA.— Pre*.,  S.  Austin,  Falrmonit 
Cor.  Sec,  W.        Spooner,  Kearney;   Treas.' 
J.  C.  Fye. 

Maine  -Pres,  Isaac  Jackson,  Harrison - 
Sec,  I.  D.  Haines,  Dexter;  Treas,,  H.  wl 
Ooddard,  West  Sidney. 

N»w  Hahpshihb.— Pres.,  C.  L.  Baker,  Man 
Chester;  Sec,  8.  C.  KlmbaU,  New  Market 
Treae.,  James  S.  French,  Canterbury. 

Niw  York.— Free.,  F.  W.  Capwell,  Dale; 
Sec'y,  John  Wallace,  Syracuse;  Treae.,  M 
Merrick,  Syr-tcuse. 

Ohio.— Pres.,  F.  M.  Spencer,  New  Concord- 
Rec.  8ec.,S.  A.  George,  Manslleld;  Cor.  Sec. 
and  Treas.,  C.  W.  Hlitt,  Columbus;  Agent 
W.  B.  Stoddard,  Columbun. 

PBirNSTLVANiA.- Cor.  Sec,  N.  Callender 
ThonpMD ;  Treaa.,  W.  B.Bertels,  Wllkesbarre. 

VnufOHT.— Prea.,  W.  R.  Laird,  St.  JoUd*- 
bury;  Sec,  C.  W  Pott«r.  • 

WUOOireiS.— Pres.,  J.  W  Wood,  Baraboo; 
Sec,  W.  W.  Amee,  Mcaomonl*;  Tr«M.,  M.  M 
Brttira,  yi«BB». 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


April  19, 1888 


The  Christian  Cynosure. 


i.  BLANCHARD. 


XDROBS. 


HKNRT  L.  ICXLLOOO. 


CHIGASO     THOBeOAt.    APHIL    19.    1888. 


If  history  and  experience  prove  or  can  prove  any- 
thing, Ihey  prove  that  a  country  which  tolerates 
slavery  will  be  governed  by  it;  and  that  churches 
whichfellowship  Masonry  will  be  governed  by  the 
lodge.  In  1620,  twenty  slaves  landed  at  James- 
town, Vd.  They  became  four  millions  and  ruled 
the  Unitfd  States  till  1863.  So,  sixty  years  ago. 
Masonry  fell,  from  the  Atlantic  to  the  frontiers 
"West.  The  churches  tolerated  it,  and  the  lodge  now 
rules  the  United  States,  church  and  state. 


The  Chicago  Times,  April  9  th,  quotes  from  the 
Railway  Conductor's  Monthly,  as  follows:  "The 
members  of  the  order  of  Railway  Conductors  object 
to  making  themselves  slaves  to  any  man  or  body  of 
men;  and  we  submit  that  membership  in  a  striking 
organization  is,  simply,  a  species  of  slavery." 

The  Monthly  goes  on  to  say  of  the  laborer  ordered 
to  strike:  ''He  must  obey,  and  hazard  the  loss  of 
situation,  home,  friends,  society  and  everything  he 
holds  dear  on  earth,  because  the  gang  have  got  the 
control,  and  he  must  obey,  each  member  simply 
taking  the  place  of  a  piece  in  a  great  machine  to  be 
operated  by  a  man  unknown." 

This  is  sensible.  Now  if  the  Times  will  go  further 
and  show  how  secrecy  aggravates  this  "slavery"  to 
unknown  superiors,  and  turns  this  "gang"  into  ban- 
dits as  well  as  slaves,  it  will  deserve  public  thanks 
from  all  good  citizens. 


General  Master  Workman  Powderly  argues 
in  the  Journal  rf  United  Labor  that  the  Govern- 
ment should  own  and  operate  the  anthracite  coal 
fields,  and  furnish  that  species  of  fuel  to  the  peo- 
ple of  the  United  States  at  a  fixed  price.  This  might 
benefit  the  burners  of  anthracite.  But  what  of  the 
interminable  beds  of  bituminous  coal?  Must  these 
lie  unused,  or  must  Government  take  these,  too, 
and  cover  the  railroads  of  the  United  States  with 
its  cars,  and  then  own  the  roads  to  avoid  swindling 
charges  for  its  freights?  How  long,  at  this  rate, 
would  it  be  before  "Government"  must  hold  the 
stirrup  for  every  man  to  mount  his  horse?  If  Mr. 
Powderly  would  disavow  his  "secrecy  and  obedience," 
and  work  for  laborers  in  the  light,  like  other  honest 
people,  he  would  see  that  individual  enterprise  would 
run  the  coal  fields  and  cars  better  than  politicians 
and  Government  cflScials,  and  save  us  from  the  ar- 
mies of  sheriffs  and  policemen  which  his  govern-, 
ment  coal  would  inake  necessary.  His  sworn  obe- 
dience to  absolute  power  in  the  Knights  of  Labor 
so  besots  his  mind  that  absolute  power  is  his  reme- 
dy for  all  evils;  and  if  his  ideas  should  prevail 
every  housewife  would  soon  need  a  constable  to 
churn  her  butter. 


THE  SECRET  ¥0E  OF  nONOREQATIOhALISM. 

At  the  late  meeting  oi  ine  Louisiana  State  Con- 
gregational Association  in  the  Central  church.  New 
Orleans,  April  4th,  the  editor  of  the  Cynosure  read 
by  rt  quest  the  following  paper  before  the  body,  and 
it  was  also  requested  that  it  be  printed: 

Jesus  Christ  is  in  whattver  rf  religion  he  has  ap- 
pointed: whether  doctrine,  church- government,  or  rites; 
and  Satan,  the  god  of  this  world,  inhabits  all  the  rest. 

This  is  the  key  which  explains  the  rise  and  fall, 
progrt  88  and  decline  of  all  religions  on  earth,  from 
the  family  of  Adam  to  this  hour.  It  is  the  object 
of  this  puppr  to  apply  this  key  to  the  history  of  the 
people  called  Congregalionalists  in  Europe  and  the 
United  Slates.  God  raised  up  a  poor  monk,  Luther, 
U)  free  the  rpligi<in  of  Euro|)e  from  the  dominion  of 
the  Pope.  Luther  contended  for  faith  in  Christ; 
bis  followers  fought  for  Lutheranism.  He  for  the 
truth;  they  for  the  sect  which  was  founded  on  it. 
And  Coleridge  has  said  that  since  the  middle  of  the 
U)'h  c-er'urv.  the  reformation  has  not  advanced  one 
step  in  Europe. 

But  sectarianism  was  not  all,  or  the  chief  cause, 
of  the  decline  of  Protestant  Christianity  before 
popery.  The  main  reliance  of  the  devil  against 
Christ  has  been,  and  still  is,  secret  societies — promis- 
lag  salvation  by  ceremonies  invented  by  men. 

Ignatius  Loyola  formed  a  secret  society  in  an  un- 
derground chapel  beneath  the  Church  of  the  Mar- 
tyrs, in  Paris,  France,  and  called  it  "The  Society  of 
Jesus."  It  first  took  twenty-eight  days  to  initiate  a 
Jesuit.  But  tUe  initiation  was  so  severe  that  it  has 
been  reduced  to  fourteen  days.  In  1640j  this  sod 
«ty  wHit  a>iihori«ed  by  tbe  Fop«  (P«ul  III.).     Tbii 


was  twenty-three  years  after  Luther  began  his  re- 
formation; and  this  secret  order  nearly  swamped  it. 
But  the  Jesuits  became  so  destructive  to  religion 
and  government,  that  all  Europe  cast  them  out,  and 
in  1773,  July  21st,  Pope  Clement  XIV.  suppressed 
the  order  throughout  the  whole  world.  But,  by 
their  secret  practices,  they  crept  back  into  power, 
and  the  Jesuits  now  are  ruling  and  ruining  the 
"Holy  Catholic  Church." 

This  order  of  Jesuits  is  now  the  head  secret  soci- 
ety of  the  world;  and  though  the  popes  have  con- 
demned Freemasonry,  the  Jesuits  formed  the  "Rite 
of  Perfection,"  of  twenty-five  degrees,  in  the  Jesuits' 
College  of  Clermont  in  Paris  (1754),  which  now 
forms  most  of  the  Scottish  Rite  of  thirty-three  de- 
grees, which  today  governs  all  the  Freemasonry  of 
the  world.  In  so  far  the  Freemasonry  of  the  world  to- 
day is  the  work  of  Romish  priests;  and  though  pro- 
hibited by  Pope  Leo  Xllltb,  is  permitted  by  his 
priests. 

The  authority  for  these  fearful  facts  is  taken 
from  standard  Masonic  writers,  given  in  two  vol- 
umes on  the  Scottish  Rite,  just  issued  by  Ezra  A. 
Cook,  of  Chicago,  111. 

Let  us  now  come  to  Congregationalism.  Luther 
in  Germany  nearly  freed  religion  from  the  Pope; 
and  Henry  VIII.  in  England  freed  it  from  priests, 
monks  and  convents.  And,  during  the  reign  of  his 
daughter,  Queen  Elizabeth,  a  people  called  "Puri- 
tans," and  "Pilgrims,"  arose  in  Nottinghamshire 
and  Scrooby  Manor  in  North  England.  These  were 
afterward  called  Congregationalists,  because  each 
congregation  did  its  own  voting — governed  itself. 
They  did  not  intend  to  be  called  Congregationalists, 
but  simply  "churches  of  Christ;"  and,  to  this  day, 
the  first  church  in  New  Haven,  Conn.,  of  which  the 
distinguished  Dr.  Leonard  Bacon  was  long  pastor, 
is  not  called  "  Congregational  ist,"  but  simply  "the 
First  Church  of  Christ"  in  New  Haven.  They  in- 
tended that  all  other  churches,  believing  in  Christ, 
should  be  numbered  with  them,  and  form  one  broth- 
erhood. They  recognized  their  baptisms  and  re- 
received  their  members.  The  Baptists  are  as  con- 
gregational as  the  Congregationalists;  and,  if  they, 
and  Lutherans,  Presbyterians,  Methodists,  etc.,  were, 
in  every  place,  numbered  according  to  their  dates, 
together,  first,  second,  third  churches  of  Christ,  etc., 
they  might  still  retain  their  peculiarities  and  all  be 
one  in  Christ  Jesus.  This  the  Congregationalists 
originally  hoped.  They  even  recognized  the  Church 
of  England,  whose  bishops  put  them  in  pillories  and 
prisons,  cut  off  their  ears,  and,  by  their  persecutions, 
drove  them  to  Holland  and  thence  to  America. 
The  name  Congregational  does  no  hurt,  as  a  mere 
name  of  a  society  in  law  to  own  a  church.  But 
when  used  as  the  name  of  a  sect,  it  is  sin.  The 
Puritans  never  intended  it. 

These  Congregational  Puritans  spread  in  England, 
and  their  first  society  in  London  was  broken  up,  and 
sixty-four  men,  women  and  children,  were  impris- 
oned in  Newgate  and  Gilt  Spur  Compten  for  meet- 
ing to  worship  God  as  we  do  now,  without  leave  of 
bishop  or  king.  They  fled  by  Holland  to  this  coun- 
try and  founded  our  Republic.  Each  church  settled 
a  township,  which  was  governed  by  its  "town  meet- 
ing." Several  towns  became  a  county;  several 
counties  a  State;  and  the  States  became  the  "United 
States  of  America." 

John  C.  Calhoun  said:  "The  man  who  digs  the 
money  out  of  the  earth,  who  makes  it  by  his  labor, 
has  a  title  to  it  which  is  good  against  the  universe." 
Congregationalism  rests  on  that  ground.  It  holds 
that  those  who  give  the  money,  build  the  church 
and  support  the  pastor,  are  more  apt  to  be  right  in 
doctrine  and  discipline,  than  preachers,  assemblies, 
and  conferences,  which  meet  at  a  distance,  and  are 
often  influenced  by  ambition,  or  the  love  of  money 
and  pre-eminence.  But  the  ground  on  which  Con- 
gregationalism rests  is  the  Word  of  God,  which  rec- 
ognizes the  independence  of  local  churches. 

How  happens  it  then  that  the  Congregationalists, 
who  were  once  the  first  denomination  in  this  coun- 
try, have  sunk  lo  the  fifth  or  sixth;  and  now  one 
fourth  of  their  churches  are  without  pastors,  and 
one-fourth  of  their  ministers  are  unemployed  in 
ministerial  labors?     I  answer,  first,  negatively: 

1.  It  is  not  because  Congregationalists  do  not 
give  money.  They  started  the  American  Board  in 
1810,  and  the  first  Home  Missionary  Society  in  1816, 
which  two  now  receive  near  a  million  dollars  annu- 
ally. Congregationalists  have  given  more  in  pro- 
portion to  their  numbers  than  any  other  Christian 
people. 

2.  Nor  is  it  because  they  are  an  ignorant  or  weak 
people.  They  have  founded  colleges  and  schools  all 
over  the  United  States. 

The  causes  which  have  sunk  Congregationalists 
are  many;. as: 

1.  New  England  people  were  opposed  to  eUvery. 


The  first  slaves  ever  landed  in  Massachusetts  were 
sent  back  to  Africa  at  the  expense  of  the  State. 
The  first  modern  Abolitionist  society  was  started  in 
Boston;  and  Jefferson  Davis  proposed  to  his  Con- 
gress in  Montgomery,  "the  reconstruction  of  the 
Union  with  New  England  left  out" 

2.  Then,  also,  Congregationalists  trere  not  a  sect; 
had  no  worldly  church  government,  and  so  joined 
other  denominations  wherever  they  went. 

3.  But  this  is  not  all  that  has  caused  the  relative 
decline  of  Congregationalism  in  this  country.  Free- 
masonry, which  now  covers  Europe  and  the  United 
States  like  a  poisonous  shroud,  is  as  opposed  to  Con- 
gregationalism as  despotism  is  opposed  to  liberty, 
or  death  to  life.      The  first  breach  which  ended  in 
separation  and  independency,  was  caused  by  Hoop- 
er's refusing  the  popish  habits  as  inventions  of  Anti- 
Christ.    But  those  priest  garments  were  nothing  to 
the  rig  of  Masonic  priests.  (Neal's  Puritans,  L,  52  ) 
And   Bradshaw,  cited  by  Bancroft  (His.  U.  S.,  L, 
279)  says,  "The  Puritans  held  that,  'To  institute  and 
ordain  any  mystical  rites  or  ceremonies  of  religion 
*  *  is  gross  superstition' "  (Neal's  Puritans  I.,  248), 
and,  therefore,  "unlawful."     Hence  the  lodge  is  the 
secret  deadly  foe  of  Congregationalism.  This  explains 
the  relative  decline  of  that  denomination,   which 
followed  the  introduction  of  the  lodge.      The  first 
Masonic  lodge  introduced  into    this  country  was 
started  in   Massachusetts  in  1733;  and  the  lodge 
slowly  corrupted  the  church  leaders  in  and  about 
Boston.      A  monument  to  the  Pilgrims  was  started 
awhile  since  on  Burial  Hill  near  Plymouth  Rock, 
and  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Massachusetts  went  down 
and  laid  the  corner-stone  with  Christ's  date,  "A.  D." 
supplanted  by  Satan's  date,  "A.  L  ,"  as  the  Grand 
Architect  of  the  Universe."      In  that  Grand  Lodge 
were    Unitarians,    deists,   Universalists,   and  out- 
right infidels,  who  never  entered  churches  where 
Christ  was  worshiped!      The  late  pastor  of  the  his- 
toric "Old  South  Church"  was  a  Master  Mason;  and 
the  statistician  of  the  denomination,  who  was  prom- 
inent in  the  late  Congregational  Council  in  Chicago, 
in  the  American  Board  meeting  at  Springfield,  and 
the  late  meeting  of  the  American  Missionary  Asso- 
ciation at  Portland,  Maine,  is  a  Master  Mason  of 
thirty-two  degrees.  He  has  drunk  "the  cup  of  devils," 
invoking  double  damnation  on  his  soul  if  he  reveals 
their  secrets,  and  he  has  voted  for  the  party  that 
supported  slavery  down  to  Buchanan.       And  many 
Congregational  pastors  are  following  this  man  into 
the  Christless  lodges,  and  brothering  in  secret  with 
infidels,  blacklegs  and  scoffers  at  religion.      "And 
the  Lord  saw  it  and  abhorred  them,  because  of  the 
provoking  of  his  sons  and  daughters."  Deut.  32:  19. 

While  these  things  are  transpiring  in  the  North,  the 
millions  of  freed-people  in  the  South  are  following  the 
example  of  theseNorthern  corrupters  of  Congregation- 
al churches,  and  Congregational  pulpits  and  presses 
are  silent  while  the  lodges  are  sucking  out  all  the 
spirituality  of  the  churches.  There  is,  as  you  see, 
in  this  city  of  New  Orleans,  and  out  of  it,  a  perfect 
deluge  of  secret  societies,  with  their  false  and  Christ- 
less  altars  all  over  the  South,  drawing  in  young 
men  by  thousands,  their  money  by  millions,  and  their 
time  by  life-times. 

But,  blessed  be  God,  though  this  "enemy  has 
come  in  like  a  flood,"  the  Spirit  of  God  has  lifted  up 
a  standard  against  him;  and  the  South  now  seems 
to  give  promise  of  saving  the  North;  and  if  the  Con- 
gregational churches,  North  and  South,  shall  shake 
off  these  accursed  vipers  which  have  fastened  on 
their  hands,  as  the  vipers  on  Paul's,  the  old  Puritan 
spirit  will  arise  against  the  lodge  as  it  did  against 
slavery,  and  salvation  will  flow  down  our  streets 
like  a  mighty  river;  new  prophets  will  arise,  like 
Isaiah,  Jeremiah  and  Ezekiel;  and  "ye  shall  be 
ashamed  of  the  oaks  ye  have  desired"  (to  hold  pic- 
nics under  by  night),  "and  the  gardens  which  ye 
have  chosen."  Isa.  1:  29.  And  "those  that  seek 
unto  familiar  spirits  shall  be  driven  away.''  Isa.  8: 
19.  Some  new  Ezekiel  shall  rebuke  the  spiritual 
whoredoms  of  this  day  (Ezek.  16);  and  Christ  shall 
"send  forth  his  angels  and  gather  out  of  his  king- 
dom all  things  that  offend,  and  them  which  do  in- 
iquity." Matt.  13:  41.  Some  modern  Elijah  shall 
call  down  fire  from  heaven,  even  the  fire  of  the 
Holy  Ghost,  and  our  guilty  nation  forsake  its  false 
altars,  fall  down  on  their  faces  and  proclaim,  "The 
Lord  he  is  the  God!" 


I 


— Rev.  J.  A.  Mackelvey,who  has  been  engaged  in 
prohibition  work  in  Indiana,  has  returned  to  Chica- 
go.    Mrs.  Mackelvey  has  been  ably  assisting  him. 

— Bro.  M.  N.  Butler  has  for  some  weeks  been 
kept  at  home  by  sickness  in  his  family.  Their  re- 
covery releases  him,  and  his  letter  to  the  General 
Agent  about  taking  up  the  work  again  was  aoted 
upon  by  the  N.  0.  A.  Board  last  Satarday. 


Apbil  19, 1888 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


— Rev.  C.  F.  Damon,  agent  for  Orleans  College, 
Nebraska,  is  in  Chicago  endeavoring  to  raise  a  few 
thousand  dollars  to  tide  the  institutioa  over  a  press- 
ing debt.  This  institution  is  under  control  of  the 
Free  Methodist  church,  and  stands  by  the  banner  of 
Christ. 

— Rev.  C.  C.  Foote  of  Detroit  passed  into  his  78th 
year  on  the  30  th  of  March,  and  his  numerous 
friends  in  Detroit  suitably  celebrated  the  occasion. 
Our  readers  have  a  share  of  the  good  things  of  the 
day  in  the  beautiful  poem  by  Miss  S.  E.  Adams, 
which  we  have  the  pleasure  of  printing  on  the  sec- 
ond page. 

— Among  the  welcome  visitors  at  the  Cynosure 
oflSce  last  week  were  E.  F.  Sox  of  Albany,  Oregon, 
one  of  the  substantial  business  men  of  the  far  north- 
west State  and  related  by  marriage  to  Dr.  Norris  of 
Birmingham,  Iowa;  also  Rev.  Louis  Auger,  pastor 
in  Detroit  of  one  of  the  churches  of  the  Grande 
Ligne  Mission  for  French  Catholics. 

— Bro.  Philip  Bacon  writes  of  the  success  of  the 
special  meetings  held  in  Weatogue,  Conn.,  by  Elder 
8.  C.  Kimball  of  New  Hampshire.  The  work  was 
continued  three  weeks,  a  number  were  oonverted, 
and  Christians  were  much  revived  in  faith.  A  Sab- 
bath-school was  organized,  and  the  brethren  hope  to 
hold  a  weekly  service  for  Christian  worship. 

— The  reform  bard,  Bro.  George  W.  Clark,  writes 
from  Marshall  in  northeastern  Texas,  that  he  is  still 
"on  the  wing,"  somewhat  worn  and  weary  and  ready 
to  droop  with  the  heat  which  is  driving  him  north- 
ward. He  has  spoken  fifty  times  in  public  meetings 
and  sung  on  three  times  as  many  occasions  since 
the  National  Convention  at  New  Orleans  Feb.  17th 
— a  good  record  for  seventy-six  years. 


MICHIGAN  BOLDIBRS,  ATTENTION  I 


To  the  Orand  Army  of  this  Republic: 

Greeting: — A.8  soldiers  of  the  crosa  of  Chriat,  enliat- 
ed  to  strive  against  all  sin,  we  propose  to  hold  an 
Anti- Secret  Convention  at  Silem, Washtenaw  Co.Mich., 
beginning  May  22,  in  the  evening,  at  7:30  oclock. 

Let  there  be  a  grand  rally,  with  every  soldier  at  hia 
post. 

A  more  extended  call  aoon .  Let  all  interested  watch 
for  it.     Remember  the  date,  May  22,  23,  24,  1888. 

D.  A.  Richards,  Fres. 
H.  A.  Day,  Sec'y. 


REFORM  NEWS  {Continued  from  5th  page). 

heretofore,  personally  very  hospitable  and  kind,  but 
does  not  feel  interested  in  our  movement,  and  does 
not  favor  discussion,  though  he  has  no  sympathy 
with  the  lodge  system. 

At  4  p.  M.  I  left  for  Gastonia,  N.  C,  which  place 
was  reached  at  about  7  i>.  m.  I  had  a  pleasant  visit 
with  Rdv.  E.  J].  Bsyce,  the  veteran  Associate  Re- 
formed Presbyterian  minister,  whose  sympathies 
are  with  every  good  work,  but  who  is  specially  ear- 
nest for  the  Prohibition  party,  i  stayed  at  the 
hotel  and  left  at  four  next  morning  for  Charlotte, 
N.  C,  which  we  reached  in  the  early  dawn.  After 
two  hours'  waiting  I  went  over  to  Biddle  Universi- 
ty, where  I  was  most  cordially  received  by  Pres. 
Johnson,  and  most  hospitably  entertained.  This 
school,  with  its  fine  buildings  and  able  faculty,  is 
under  the  patronage  of  the  Presbyterian  Board  of 
Missions,  and  is  their  most  important  school  in  the 
South.  It  is  exclusively  for  young  men,  and  de- 
signed especially  for  the  training  of  ministers. 
Nearly  all  the  colored  Presbyterian  pastors  in  the 
South  are  graduates  from  this  institution.  Pres. 
Johnson  and  his  co-professors  seem  all  to  be  in  cor- 
dial sympathy  with  our  work. 

At  9  o'clock  we  went  to  the  fine  chapel  where  we 
met  the  assembled  faculty,  about  180  young  men, 
and  several  pastors  who  had  come  to  attend  the 
Catawba  Presbytery,  which  was  to  convene  in  the 
Presbyterian  church  near  by.  By  request  of  Pres. 
Johnson  I  addressed  the  assembly  for  about  forty 
minutes  and  had  undivided  attention.  We  theu 
went  over  to  the  Biddleville  church  where  the  Pres- 
bytery had  convened.  I  found  them  to  be  an  Intel 
ligent  body  of  men,  and  representing  the  better  re- 
ligious element  of  this  region  of  couotry.  I  was 
invited  to  sit  as  a  corresponding  member,  and  was 
given  an  opportunity  to  present  the  work  and  claims 
of  the  N.  C.  A.  The  proceedings  were  interesting, 
though  all  spoke  of  trials  and  hardships  as  well  as 
success.  I  found  that  quite  a  number  were  readers 
of  the  Cynosure,  and  prized  it  as  an  aid  in  their 
work. 

Colored  Presbyterian  churches  are  generally 
smaller  than  those  of  other  denominations,  and  the 
pastors  get  a  rather  meager  support.  Besides  pay- 
ing for  a  denominational  paper  they  can  do  little 
more,  and  if  they  get  our  paper  they  will  have  to 
r«o«iTe  it,  in  part  at  le»st,  as  a  donation.      I  know 


of  no  cheaper  or  better  way  of  promoting  our  re- 
form than  to  send  the  Cynosure  to  these  intelligent 
and  cultured  ministers. 

From  what  I  can  learn  there  is  little  prospect  of 
re-union  between  Northern  and  Southern  Presbyte- 
rians. It  seems  to  me  as  undesirable  as  it  is  im- 
probable. With  the  present  feeling  in  the  South- 
ern church  there  can  be  no  union  unless  Northern 
Christians  consent  to  a  color  line,  both  in  the  church- 
es and  the  ministry.  Several  of  the  professors  at 
Biddle  have  been  missionaries  in  India.  They  can 
see  no  reason  for  opposing  caste  there,  and  adopting 
it  here. 

The  moderator  of  the  Catawba  Presbytery  was 
Rev.  D.  J.  Satterfield,  principal  of  Scotia  Female 
Seminary  of  Concord,  N.  C.  At  6  p.  m.  I  took  the 
cars  with  him  for  that  place,  twenty-three  miles, 
where  I  have  since  enjoyed  their  kind  hospitalities. 
Scotia  Seminary  is  also  under  the  care  of  the  Pres- 
byterian Board  of  Home  Missions.  They  have  fine 
buildings,  about  250  students,  with  thirteen  teach- 
ers. Last  night,  by  invitation,  I  addressed  the  stu- 
dents, briefly,  as  I  was  very  weary.  To-day  I  have 
visited  diflerentrecitation  rooms  and  have  been  more 
than  gratified  with  the  excellent  drills.  The  presi- 
dent tells  me  that  they  have  been  obliged  to  reject 
many  applications  for  want  of  room,  and  that  they 
greatly  need  enlarged  facilities.  In  five  days,  end- 
ing last  night,  I  have  visited  six  institutions  of 
learning  and  epoken  seven  times.  I  am  thankful, 
but  weary,  and  must  have  some  rest. 

H.    H.    HiNMAN. 


MORE   AND    BETTER  FROM  NEW  ORLEANS. 

Lodge  Ku  klux  Repudiated — The  Louisiana  State  Congre- 
gational Association  unanimously  Vote  against  the 
Lodge. 

New  Orleans,  La,,  April  6,  1888. 

Dear  Cynosure: — It  seems  as  though  Rev.  M. 
Dale  must  be  the  only  ministerial  defender  of 
lodgery  in  New  Orleans.  The  Knights  Templar 
(colored)  had  their  Easter  celebration  at  his  church 
last  Sabbath,  I  am  told  that  he  again  attempted  to 
prove  that  Freemasonry  is  not  an  anti- Christian  in- 
stitution. He  said,  any  man  or  minister  that  says 
Masonry  is  anti-Christian  is  a  fool.  He  said  God 
himself  was  a  Mason;  and  he  attempted  to  prove  it 
by  saying  that  God  created  man,  and  man  estab- 
lished Masonry;  hence  God  being  the  Creator  he 
must  have  been  a  Mason.  Masonry,  he  added,  is 
doing  what  the  church  can't  and  never  will  do;  that 
is,  it  is  binding  all  men  in  one  universal  brother- 
hood. This,  he  said,  the  church  can't  do  because 
it  is  not  universal  but  sectarian.  Some  are  Bap- 
tist, Methodist,  Presbyterian,  Congregational,  etc., 
but  Masonry  is  one  and  universal;  hence  Masonry 
is  Masonry  everywhere.  The  speaker  said  a  man 
must  first  become  moral  before  he  could  be  convert- 
ed, and  that  is  just  what  Masonry  is  doing,  making 
men  moral  and  preparing  them  for  conversion. 
Many  of  the  lodge  men  think  Rev.  Dale's  remarks 
have  ruined  Masonry. 

I  am  in  receipt  ot  a  letter  from  Amite  City,  where 
the  Negro  Odd-fellows  tried  to  mob  me  last  Sunday. 
Here  is  the  letter: 

Amite  City,  La.,  April  2nd,  1888. 

Dear  Brother:— I  am  requested  by  the  white  citizens 
of  this  town  to  ask  you  to  cume  back  and  they  would  as- 
sure you  protection.  If  you  will  come  let  them  know 
or  myself,  and  they  say  that  if  it  is  necessary  they  will 
neet  you  at  the  depot.  They  want  you  to  come,  for  the 
colored  people  pretend  that  the  whites  engaged  in  a  se- 
cret plot  to  mob  you,  and  the  whites  deny  the  assertion. 
I  hope  you  will  come,and  I  think  you  will  be  safe  if  you 
do  conclude  to  come.  We  have  been  consulting  over  the 
matter,  and  we  can  prove  that  you  have  done  no  crime 
worthy  of  being  treated  as  you  have  been.  If  you  do 
come  let  me  know  and  send  up  sooae  notices  and  I  will 
post  them  up  for  you.     Your  brother,        R.  Vkrnon. 

Bro.  V.  is  the  young  minister  that  protected  me 
to  the  very  last  moment  Sunday  uight,  and  even 
walked  with  me  down  the  railroad  below  GuUett's 
Mills.  It  was  Bro.  Vernon's  house  that  Budd  Will- 
iams and  a  Methodist  preacher,  with  their  blood- 
thirsty assassiQS,  surrounded  at  about  twelve  Sunday 
night,  and  commanded  sister  Vernon  to  tell  them 
where  I  was.  This  will  about  kill  out  the  Negro 
lodges  of  Amite  City. 

I  have  letters  from  both  Bayou  Goula  and  Mor- 
gan City,  urging  me  to  come  thither  as  soon  as  pos- 
sible. The  fruit  is  ripening  all  over  the  State.  Tlie 
Masons  themselves  are  denouncing  Mr.  Dile's  would- 
be  Masonic  sermon  of  last  Sabbath. 

The  State  Conference  of  Congregational ists  met 
Wednesday,  April  4th,  at  Central  Church.  Presi- 
dent J.  Blanchard  read  an  interesting  paper  on  lodge 
worship,  which  was  unanimously  approved,  as  I  am 
informed,  with  one  single  exception.  Dr.  R.  Hilch- 
oook  of  Straight  Uaiversity,  who  dsoouaoed  all  that 


was  said,  stating,  "Its  a  pack  of  lies."  I  attended 
the  Association  and  was  introduced  and  very  heart- 
ily received  as  an  N.  C.  A.  agent,  and  was  invited 
to  participate  in  their  discussions.  A  number  of 
pastors  and  delegates  spoke  their  cDnvictions  against 
lodgery,  and  two  brethren,  applying  for  licensures, 
decided  to  give  up  their  secret  lodges  and  preach  the 
Gospel  of  separation. 

The  Association  adjourned  at  one  o'clock  for 
lunch,  and  the  ladies  had  everything  prepared.  In 
the  afternoon.  Prof.  M.  L.  Berger  being  moderator, 
after  prayer  and  transacting  other  business,  the  fol- 
lowing were  examined  for  licensures:  Joseph  A. 
Rusbaw,  David  Sutton,  J.  H.  Haynes,  Reuben  Bay- 
kins  and  Wm.  C.  Brown.  They  were  very  closely 
questioned  about  tobacco,  liquor  and  secret  societies; 
Revs.  Gunner,  Clay,  Claiborne  and  Butler  stating 
that  they  could  not  conscientiously  vote  to  grant 
their  request  as  long  as  they  were  guilty  of  either 
of  the  above.  Bro.  Sutton  thought  it  hard  to  give 
up  his  lodge,  but  finally  consented  to  do  so. 

The  following  resolution  was  unanimously  adopt- 
ed, not  one  voting  nay: 

Resolved,  That  an  organization  which  requires  an  oath 
or  pledge  of  secrecy  of  its  candidates,  prior  to  admission, 
is  thereby  different  from  and  opposed  to  a  church  of 
Christ  and  a  republican  State,  and  we  exhort  all  of  our 
members  to  have  no  fellowship  with  these  unfruitful 
works  of  darkness,  but  rather  to  reprove  them 

Resolved,  further.  That  this  Association  will  not  license 
or  ordain  a  minister  who  is  not  separate.or  who  will  not 
separate  himself  from  all  oath-bound  secret  organiza- 
tion!. 

The  above  was  offered  by  Revs.  B.  Gunner  and  J. 
L.  Wimby.  Dr.  Berger  very  strongly  endorsed  the 
resolution.  Bro.  Zemar,  a  deacon  of  Central  Church, 
at  first  opposed  it,  but  finally  supported  it. 

God  is  working  on  our  part,  brethren.  Cheer  up! 
Cheer  up  I    We'll  gain  the  day.    F.  J.  Davidson. 

FROM   THE  OHIO  STATE   AGENT. 


dbath  of  peter  minton. 


Gebmantown,  0.,  April  12,  1888. 

Dear  Cynosure: — Since  my  last  I  have  visited 
New  California,  Hamilton,  Millville,  Oxford,  College 
Corner,  College  Hill,  Glencoe  and  Cincinnati.  As 
my  work  has  been  largely  in  the  canvassing  line,  a 
detailed  account  would  be  uninteresting  to  the  gen- 
eral reader.  In  most  of  the  above  places  1  had  pre- 
viously lectured  and  secured  Cynosure  readers.  I 
find  the  seed  sown  is  growing.  At  New  California 
I  found  the  United  Presbyterian  church  in  excellent 
working  condition.  Bro.  E.  E.  Cleland,  the  pastor, 
has  been  greatly  blessed  in  the  conversion  of  a  large 
number  of  the  young  people.  Some  fifty  have  re- 
cently united  with  the  church.  At  Millville  the  peo- 
ple were  greatly  stirred  on  the  temperance  question. 
A  vote  was  taken  in  Ross  township  under  the  new 
local  option  law.  The  anti-saloon  party  were  de- 
feated by  seven  votes.  Though  defeated  they  do  not 
feel  at  all  discouraged,  as  the  vote  showed  a  great 
advance  in  their  favor.  They  received  over  a  hun- 
dred votes  more  than  were  given  for  the  constitu- 
tional amendment.  At  the  request  of  the  presi- 
dent I  addressed  the  young  people's  temperance  so- 
ciety of  this  place.  A  vote  of  thanks  was  tendered 
by  the  society. 

Millville  has  also  been  blessed  during  the  past 
winter  with  a  great  visitation  of  Gobi's  power  in  the 
conversion  of  many  souls.  Among  this  number  is 
Harvey  Minton,  a  former  associate  at  Wheaton  Col- 
lege, at  whose  home  1  have  always  received  a  cor- 
dial welcome. 

His  father,  Bro.  Peter  Minton,  has  gone.  After  a 
brief  illness  of  eight  days,  he  passed  peacefully 
"through  the  valley  of  the  shadow  of  death."  We 
shall  miss  him  greatly  in  our  work.  His  memory 
will  be  cherished  by  many  who  have  received  his 
assistance  in  their  efforts  against  the  lodge.  Oh, 
that  his  mantle  might  fall  on  some  Klisha,  that  the 
cau!*e  he  loved  may  advance  untrammeled! 

On  Sabbath  evening  I  spoke,  by  invitation  of  the 
pastor.  Rev.  G.  H.  Trebel,  in  Zion's  Lutheran  church, 
Hamilton.  U  was  estimatoii  that  bL't^rcen  four  aud 
five  hundred  were  present.  A  collection  amounting 
to  $11.37  was  taken  up  for  our  cause.  A  number 
of  tracts  were  distributed  and  more  want«ii  than  I 
was  able  to  supply.  My  plan  for  the  near  future  is 
as  follows:  Go  to  Dayton  to-morrow  and  on  to 
Jamestown  for  Sabbath;  spend  next  week  in  Clin- 
ton and  Warren  counties  as  the  way  may  0()en 
among  the  Friend  tiaakers;  the  Sabbath  following 
I  have  arranged  to  spend  with  Bro.  McClanahan  at 
tlie  Sycamore  U.  P.  church.  To  the  friends  at  Ash- 
ley, Orange  Station,  and  other  points  near  Colum- 
bus, I  would  Siy,  I  have  not  forgotten  you,  but  will 
c^me  to  your  towns  for  work  sf  mv  <'arlubt  lon- 
veaienoe.  W.  B.  Stood arp. 


10 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSUKE. 


April  19,  1888 


The  Home. 


HBLPINQ  TIMB. 


"The  poor  ye  have  always  with  you,  and  whensoever  ye  will  ye 
iiMy  do  them  grood."— Mark  14 :  7. 

Out  la  the  gloom  of  night, 
Out  in  the  winds  and  wet, 
You  might  hear  the  tread  of  tired  feet. 
Tramping  wearily  down  the  street- 
Out  in  the  wind  and  wet. 

Out  in  the  friendless  world. 

Out  in  the  pitiless  cold, 
A  hapless  wanderer  has  to  roam, 
Far  from  shelter  and  far  from  home — 

Out  In  the  pitiless  cold. 

Out  in  the  howling  wind. 

Out  in  the  drifting  snow, 
With  a  rag  of  a  shawl  to  keep  her  warm, 
A  woman  is  braving  the  winter  storm  — 

Out  in  the  drifting  snow. 

Dry  and  glassy  her  eye. 

Faint  and  sinking  her  heart, 
In  a  garret  alone  she  lies  at  last. 
Like  a  sodden  flower,  'neath  Autumn's  blast — 

Faint  and  sinking  her  heart. 

There  through  the  rifted  cloud, 

Fitful  the  moonbeams  fall. 
Gilding  a  moment  her  upturned  face, 
Faded,  yet  fair,  with  a  tender  grace — 

Fitful  the  moonbeams  fall. 

The  work  long  sought  Hes  by, 

"No  money  till  a'l  's  due," 
So  this  starving  creature  was  harshly  told 
By  one  who  had  weaUh  of  yellow  gold— 

No  money  till  all  is  done. 

Long  and  toilsome  the  task. 
But  not  one  stitch  did  she ; 
For  angels  came  to  that  lonesome  room, 
And  bore  her  far  from  Its  chilly  gloom- 
So  not  a  stitch  did  she  1 

Far  from  want  and  cold, 

Far  from  wind  and  wet. 
Sheltered  and  safe  in  the  Heavenly  fold, 
She  is  watched  and  tended  with  love  untold — 

Far  from  wind  and  wet. 

Beyond  all  human  aid. 

We  can  not  help  her  now. 
The  time  for  needing  that  is  past. 
She  resteth  satisfied  at  last— 

We  can  not  help  her  now. 

But  stretch  a  saving  hand 

To  other  suifering  souls. 
And  let  all  succor  and  aid  be  given 
Now  on  this  side  of  hope  and  Heaven— 

To  other  suffering  souls. 

The  helping  time  is  short, 

The  privilege  is  great, 
And  when  the  Master  shall  say  to  thee : 
"I  count  it  all  as  it  done  to  Me," 

The  recompense  is  great. 

— Loicdoii  ChrUUan, 


THE  CHARITY  OF  EARLY  GHRI8TIAN8. 


One  of  the  most  striking  results  of  the  new  spirit 
of  philanthropy  which  Christianity  introduced  is 
seen  in  the  copious  charity  of  the  primitive  church. 
Amid  the  ruins  of  ancient  palaces  and  temples, 
theaters  and  baths,  there  are  none  of  any  house  of 
meicy.  Charity  among  the  pagans  was,  at  best,  a 
fitful  and  capricious  fancy.  Among  the  Christians 
it  was  a  vast  and  vigorous  organization,  and  was 
cultivated  with  noble  enthusiasm.  And  the  ^reat 
and  wicked  city  of  Rome,  with  its  fierce  oppressions 
and  inhuman  wrongs,  afiorded  amplest  opportunity 
for  the  Christ-like  ministrations  of  love  and  pity. 
There  were  Christian  slaves  to  succor,  exposed  to 
unutterable  indignities  and  cruel  punishment,  even 
unto  crucifixion  for  conscience'  sake.  There  were 
often  martyrs'  pangs  to  assuage,  the  aching  wounds 
inflicted  by  the  rack  or  by  the  nameless  tortures  of 
the  heathen  to  bind  up,  and  their  bruised  and 
broken  hearts  to  cheer  with  heavenly  consolation. 
There  were  outcast  babes  to  pluck  from  death. 
There  were  a  thousand  forms  of  suflering  and  sor- 
row to  relieve,  and  the  ever-present  thought  of 
Uim  who  came,  not  to  be  ministered  unto  but  to 
minister,  and  to  give  his  life  a  ransom  for  many, 
was  an  inspiration  to  heroic  sacrifice  and  self-de- 
nial. And  doubtless  the  religion  of  love  won  its 
way  to  many  a  stony,  pagan  heart  by  the  winsome 
spell  of  the  saintly  charities  and  heavenly  benedic- 
tions of  the  persecuted  Christians.  This  sublime 
principle  has  since  covered  the  earth  with  its  insti- 
tutions of  mercy,  and  with  a  passionate  zeal  has 
sought  out  the  woes  of  man  in  every  land,  in  order 
to  tEeir  relief.  In  the  primitivo  church  voluntary 
•eUcetiOB*  w*r«  ragalarljr  nikd*  (or  tht  poor,  tba 


aged,  the  sick,  the  brethren  in  bonds,  and  for  the 
burial  of  the  dead.  All  fraud  and  deceit  was 
abhorred,  and  all  usury  forbidden.  Many  gave  all 
their  goods  to  feed  the  poor.  "Our  charity  dis- 
penses more  in  the  streets,"  says  Tertullian  to  the 
heathen,  "than  your  religion  in  all  the  temples." 
He  upbraids  them  for  offering  to  the  gods  only  the 
worn-out  and  useless,  such  as  is  given  to  dogs. 
"How  monstrous  is  it,"  exclaims  the  Alexandrian 
Clement,  "to  live  in  luxury  while  so  many  are  in 
want."  "As  you  would  receive,  show  mercy,"  says 
Chrysostom;  "make  God  your  debtor,  that  you  may 
receive  again  with  usury."  The  church  at  Antioch, 
he  tells  us,  maintained  three  thousand  widows  and 
virgins,  besides  the  sick  and  poor.  Under  the  per- 
secuting Decius  the  widows  and  infirm  under  the 
care  of  the  church  at  Rome  were  fifteen  hundred. 
"Behold  the  treasures  of  the  church,"  said  St. 
Lawrence,  pointing  to  the  aged  and  poor,  when 
the  heathen  prefect  came  to  confiscate  its  wealth. 
The  church  in  Carthage  sent  a  sum  equal  to  four 
thousand  dollars  to  ransom  Christian  captives  in 
Numidia.  St.  Ambrose  sold  the  sacred  vessels  of 
the  church  of  Milan  to  rescue  prisoners  from  the 
Goths,  esteeming  it  their  truest  consecration  to  the 
service  of  God.  "Better  clothe  the  living  temples 
of  Christ,"  says  Jerome,  "than  adorn  the  temples  of 
stone."  "God  has  no  need  of  plates  and  dishes," 
said  Acacius,  bishop  of  Amida,  and  he  ransomed 
therewith  a  number  of  poor  captives.  For  a  simi- 
lar purpose  Paulinas  of  Nola  sold  the  treasures  of 
his  beautiful  church,  and  it  is  said  even  sold  himself 
into  African  slavery.  The  Christian  traveler  was 
hospitably  entertained  by  the  faithful;  and  before 
the  close  of  the  fourth  century  asylums  were  pro- 
vided for  the  sick,  aged,  and  infirm.  During  the 
Decian  persecution,  when  the  streets  of  Carthage 
were  strewn  with  the  dying  and  the  dead,  the 
Christians,  with  the  scars  of  recent  torture  and  im- 
prisonment upon  them,  exhibited  the  nobility  of  a 
Gospel  revenge  in  their  care  for  their  fever-smitten 
persecutors,  and  seemed  to  seek  the  martyrdom  of 
Christian  charity,  even  more  glorious  than  that 
they  had  escaped.  In  the  plague  of  Alexandria  six 
hundred  Christian  parabolani  periled  their  lives  to 
succor  the  dying  and  bury  the  dead.  Julian,  the 
heathen  emperor,  urged  the  pagan  priests  to  imi- 
tate the  virtues  of  the  lowly  Christians. 

Christianity  also  gave  a  new  sanctity  to  human 
life,  and  even  denounced  as  murder  the  heathen 
custom  of  destroying  the  unborn  child.  The  ex- 
posure of  infants  was  a  fearfully  prevalent  pagan 
practice,  which  even  Plato  and  Aristotle  permitted. 
We  have  had  evidences  of  the  tender  charity  of  the 
Christians  in  rescuing  these  foundlings  from  death, 
or  from  a  fate  more  dreadful  still — a  life  of  infamy. 
Christianity  also  emphatically  affirmed  the  Al- 
mighty's "canon  'gainst  self-slaughter,"  which  crime 
the  pagans  had  even  exalted  into  a  virtue.  It  taught 
that  a  patient  endurance  of  suffering,  like  Job's,  ex- 
hibited a  loftier  courage  than  Cato's  renunciation  of 
life.—  W.  H.  Withrow. 


CHRISTIAN   GIVING   FOR  MISSIONS. 


"Christian  Giving  for  Missions,"  says  the  For- 
eign Missionary,  "needs  more  conscience,  more  char- 
acter, and  more  discrimination.  It  needs  a  new 
life,  a  new  baptism,  and  a  new  power.  It  needs  to 
be  permeated  with  mightier  love,  richer  faith,  and 
stronger  prayer.  It  is  now  fashioned  more  by  a 
Ipve  of  this  world  than  of  that  which  is  to  come. 
It  is  shaped  more  by  earthly  than  by  heavenly  prin- 
ciples. It  is  brought  too  little  within  the  sweep  of 
the  cross,  and  too  much  under  the  dominating  influ- 
ence of  time  and  sense.  It  has  too  much  of  self, 
and  too  little  of  Christ.  The  revival  needed,  to  be 
permanent,  and  telling  upon  the  destiny  of  the  world, 
must  be  in  this  direction, — one  that  will  make  the 
believer  to  see  and  know  that  he  is  not  his  own,  and 
that  this  includes  possession  as  well  as  profession." 

All  this  is  true,  but  when  men  are  brought  under 
the  influence  of  the  heavenly  principles  contained 
in  the  Word  of  God,  will  not  the  missionary  system 
need  reconstructing?  While  twenty  different  de- 
nominations have  their  mission  headquarters  on  the 
public  square  of  a  single  heathen  city,  and  twenty 
different  Christian  sects  are  supporting  and  paying 
their  oilicials  to  perpetuate  and  extend  to  foreign 
lands  the  senseless  and  unscriptural  divisions  which 
curse  the  Christianity  of  to-day,  are  intelligent  and 
thoroughly  consecrated  business  men  likely  to  give 
with  Christian  liberality,  so  long  as  a  portion,  at 
least,  of  their  hard-earned  money  is  to  be  used  for 
sustaining  such  sects  and  separations  which  the 
Saviour  never  originated,  and  which  the  Scriptures 
expressly  reprove  and  forbid?  Frequently  nothing 
but  the  poverty  of  the  people  binders  quarreling 
oxta  (rom  "»M»lBg  oUur  dlTicioiui  nnd  buildiag  up 


other  rival  interests,  and  thus  increasing  the  evil 
that  now  exists. 

Let  missionaries  and  societies  and  churches  wheel 
into  line  as  followers  of  the  Lord,  doing  what  he 
commands,  and  both  money  and  men  will  be  found 
to  do  all  needed  work  both  in  the  home  and  foreign 
fields.  And  when  worldlings  and  sectarians  go  to 
the  rear,  and  the  true  children  of  God  are  united  in 
one,  as  the  Saviour  prayed,  then  the  world  will  be- 
lieve and  know  that  Christ  is  sent  of  God,  and  be- 
lieving men  will  find  life  through  his  name. — Armory. 


THE  POOR  HAVE  YE  ALWAYS. 

The  church  cannot  afford  to  get  away  from  the 
poor.  It  would  be  wicked  if  it  were  even  good  pol- 
icy. The  church  was  created  for  the  poor,  with  all 
their  cares  and  grievances,  and  it  is  our  business  to 
hear  those  grievances  that  have  facts  in  them,  and 
not  to  despise  even  the  vagaries  that  are  set  toward 
a  better  life.  The  rich  we  do  not  always  have  in 
the  church,  but  we  do  have  the  poor;  one  is  a  shift- 
ing factor,  and  the  other  is  a  constant  quantity  in 
the  equation  of  life.  And  among  the  poor  must 
ever  be  found  the  pillars  of  the  church,  while  the 
poor  are  the  rich  in  prospect.  Time,  that  spoils 
and  saves  all  things,  says,  "turn  about  is  fair  play," 
and  is  ordering  men  down  from  the  heads  of  their 
classes,  and  ordering  up  those  at  the  foot.  The 
ministry  can  allay  the  growing  hatred  of  organized 
labor  toward  the  church  by  joining  with  the  labor- 
ing classes  heartily  in  all  their  efforts  towards  tem- 
perance, all  efforts  toward  the  educational  better- 
ment of  themselves  and  their  children,  by  being  ever 
ready  to  intervene  for  arbiters,  to  urge  them  to  im- 
prove their  condition  by  claiming  their  Sabbath. 
The  church  must  turn  these  erring  men  toward  her- 
self or  they  will  be  lost;  and  we  must  do  it  quickly. 
Both  propitious  time  and  blessed  opportunity  have 
been  already  lost. — Presbyterian. 

m  »  » 
THE  RAVEN'S  MESSAGE. 


"Pierre's  late  to-night,"  said  a  stout,  sun-burned 
woman,  who  was  standing  at  the  door  of  a  log  hut 
on  a  small,  rocky  islet  in  the  middle  of  the  Rhone. 
"I  do  hope  nothing  has  happened  to  him;  he's  so 
terribly  venturesome  since  he  got  a  boat  of  his  own." 

"Pooh,  pooh!"  answered  her  husband.  "He'll 
come  back  all  right,  never  fear.  It's  only  proper 
that  my  boy  should  be  a  ferryman  like  his  father, 
and  so  he  must  learn  to  manage  a  boat.  See,  yon- 
der he  comes,  rowing  like  any  boatman  I" 

"But  whatever  has  he  brought  with  him?"  cried 
Madame  Lenoir,  in  amazement. 

What,  indeed?  At  first  sight  the  sturdy  little 
twelve-year-old,  who  came  skimming  toward  them 
across  the  broad,  shining  stream,  appeared  to  be 
wearing  a  huge,  black  overcoat,  torn  almost  in  two. 
But  a  second  glance  showed  the  strange  object  to  be 
a  raven  nearly  as  big  as  himself,  which  hung  loosely 
over  his  shoulders,  as  if  either  dead  or  badly  hurt. 

"See  what  I've  got,  mother!"  cried  he,  gleefully. 
"I  found  it  in  the  wood  yonder,  with  its  wing  broken. 
At  first  it  snapped  at  me,  and  wouldn't  let  me  touch 
it,  but  it's  quiet  enough  now.     Isn't  it  a  big  one?" 

"Oh,  you  dreadful  boy !"  cried  his  mother.  "What 
do  you  think  we're  going  to  do  with  a  great,  ugly 
thing  like  that  about  the  house?  and  who's  going  to 
feed  it,  pray?" 

"Why,  mother,  you  know  you  always  say  that  this 
house  of  ours  on  the  island  is  just  like  an  ark;  and 
Noah  had  a  raven  in  his  ark  ttiat  he  used  to  send 
flying  about,  and  why  shouldn't  we?  Besides,  we 
can  teach  him  to  carry  messages  for  us,  like  that 
one  that  Father  Gregoire  told  us  about  the  other 
day." 

"Well,  there's  something  in  that,"  said  Jean  Le- 
noir, laughing,  "and  as  for  feeding,  a  raven  can  pick 
up  his  own  living  any  day;  and,  besides,  we  have 
always  plenty  of  odds  and  ends  of  fish.  Bring  him 
in,  my  boy,  and  we'll  see  what  we  can  do  with  him." 

The  broken  wing  soon  healed,  and  in  a  few  months 
Pierre's  raven  (named  "Christopher,"  in  honor  of  the 
ferryman's  patron  saint)  had  become  famous  through 
the  whole  country-side.  Many  a  bright  silver  franc 
did  Pierre  pick  up  at  the  village  fairs  by  making 
the  bird  go  througti  the  tricks  which  he  had  taught 
it;  and  when  once  it  had  learned  to  carry  messages, 
the  people  along  the  river  gave  it  so  many  that  the 
postman  used  often  to  threaten  it  jokingly  with  a 
summons  before  the  magistrates  for  taking  away  his 
business. 

Even  Pierre's  mother  got  reconciled  to  the  "great 
ugly  thing"  at  last;  more  especially  as  the  good 
priest  of  the  parish.  Father  Gregoire,  was  very  fond 
of  it,  and  hever  came  to  see  them  without  bringing 
eomething  good  Id  bis  poeket  tof  "oar  friand  Ohri»' 
topbafi" 


April  19, 1888 


THE  CHRISTIAN  OYNOSUKE. 


11 


So  matters  went  on  till  one  night  in  the  early 
spring,  when  Jean  Lenoir,  coming  home  after  a  hard 
day's  work,  paused  for  a  moment,  as  he  got  out  of 
his  boat,  to  notice  a  strange,  leaden  dimness  that 
overhung  the  hills  along  the  eastern  sky. 

"It  must  be  raining  hard  up  in  the  mountains," 
said  he  to  himself,  and  then  thought  no  more  about  it. 

But  at  daybreak  next  morning  he  was  awakened 
from  a  dream  of  being  at  sea  in  a  storm,  which 
seemed  strangely  real  even  after  he  was  broad  awake. 
Doors  were  banging,  windows  rattling,  timbers  creak- 
ing and  groaning,  mingled  with  a  roaring  and  dash- 
ing as  if  Niagara  had  been  let  loose  close  to  his  ear. 
Hardly  knowing  what  he  did,  he  sprang  to  the  door 
and  threw  it  open,  and  instantly  started  back  as  if 
he  had  been  shot. 

Tke  water  was  wi*hin  afoot  of  the  doorsilll 

Worse  still,  it  was  plainly  rising  higher  every 
moment.  The  Rhone,  swollen  by  the  heavy  rains 
and  the  sudden  melting  of  the  mountain  snows,  had 
burst  its  banks  and  come  down  in  full  flood,  driven 
by  such  a  gale  as  had  not  blown  in  those  parts  since 
the  great  storm  ten  years  before.  All  sorts  of  things 
went  whirling  past  upon  the  yellow  foam — drowned 
sheep,  hurdles,  beams,  boxes  and  uprooted  trees, 
upon  one  of  which  crouched  a  poor,  little  shivering 
dog,  wailing  pitiously  for  the  help  no  one  could  give. 

Jean's  first  thought  was  for  his  boat;  but  both  it 
and  the  shed  in  which  it  was  moored  were  gone  as 
if  they  had  never  been.  Sick  at  heart,  he  clambered 
up  into  the  loft  after  his  wife  and  son,  just  as  the 
water  came  flooding  in  over  the  doorsill. 

Meanwhile  an  anxious  crowd  had  gathered  on  the 
opposite  bank,  eager  to  help  the  imperiled  family  on 
the  island.  But  how  was  this  to  be  done?  No  boat 
could  live  in  that  boiling  flood,  and  it  seemed  hope- 
less to  think  of  getting  a  rope  across. 

The  strongest  man  could  not  sling  a  stone  so  far. 
A  kite  would  be  instantly  torn  to  shreds  by  the  wind, 
and  they  had  no  means  of  sending  across  either  an 
arrow  or  a  bullet. 

Poor  Father  Gregoire  ran  wildly  from  man  to  man, 
imploring  them  to  save  his  friends,and  meeting  every- 
where the  same  despairing  shake  of  the  head.  And 
still  the  water  rose  higher,  and  higher,  and  higher. 

Suddenly  Pierre  put  his  mouth  close  to  his  fath- 
er's ear,  and  screamed  with  all  his  might  through 
the  deafening  uproar: 

"Father— Christopher ! ' ' 

Catching  his  son's  idea  in  a  moment,  the  ferry- 
man hastily  rummaged  out  a  roll  of  twine,  one  end 
of  which  Pierre  fastened  around  the  leg  of  the  bird, 
which  was,  indeed,  about  to  become  in  terrible  earn- 
est what  they  had  called  it  in  jest,  "the  raven  sent 
forth  from  the  ark." 

"Food,  Christopher  I"  shouted  the  boy,  pointing  to 
the  opposite  shore;  and  instantly  the  raven  out- 
spread its  broad,  banner-like  wings,  and  swooped 
forth  into  the  storm,  while  a  stifled  cry  broke  from 
the  gazing  crowd  as  they  watched  its  flight. 

Twice  all  seemed  lost,  as  poor  Christopher  was 
almost  beaten  down  into  the  raging  waters  beneath; 
but  the  brave  bird  persevered,  and  catching  a  mo- 
mentary lull  in  the  fury  of  the  storm,  struggled 
across  the  space,  and  fell  exhausted  on  the  bank. 

A  stout  farmer  sprang  forward  to  seize  the  string 
tied  to  the  bird's  leg,  and  instantly  half  a  dozen 
eager  hands  were  at  work  on  the  cord  attaching  to 
it.  Communication  was  thus  established  with  the 
island,  and  in  less  than  half  an  hour  the  three  Cru- 
soes  in  the  ferryman's  hut  were  drawn  safely  ashore, 
just  as  the  whole  house  fell  crashing  into  the  swollen 
river.  , 

After  this,  the  raven  became  a  greater  favorite 
than  ever,  and  from  that  day  every  one  called  him 
"Christophe  L?;  Courrier"  (Christopher  the  Messen- 
ger).— David  Ker,  in  Golden  Days. 


A  GOOD  NAME. 


"A  good  name  is  rather  to  be  chosen  than  great 
riches."  Even  unscrupulous  men  know  the  worth 
of  good  principles  that  cannot  be  moved. 

A  gentleman  turned  off  a  man  in  his  employ  at 
the  bank,  because  he  refused  to  write  for  him  on 
Sunday.  When  asked  afterward  to  name  some  relia- 
ble person  he  might  know  as  suitable  for  a  cashier 
in  another  bank,  he  mentioned  this  same  man. 

"You  can  depend  upon  him,"  he  said,  "for  he  re- 
fused to  work  for  me  on  the  Sabbath." 

A  gentleman,  who  employed  many  persons  in  his 
establishment,  said:  "When  I  see  one  of  my  young 
men  riding  for  pleasure  on  Sunday,  I  dismiss  him 
on  Monday;  I  know  such  an  one  cannot  bo  trusted. 
Nor  will  1  employ  any  one  who  even  occasionally 
drinks  liquor  of  any  kind." 

Boys,  honor  the  Lord's  day  and  all  the  teachings 
of  the  Bible,  and  you  will  not  fail  to  And  favor  with 
(^od  and  with  ibikb  nUot 


Temfebance. 


SUMPTUARY  LAWS   AND    OLEOMARGARINE. 


The  Supreme  Court  of  the  United  States  rendered 
an  opinion  April  9th  on  what  is  commonly  known 
as  the  oleomargarine  case. 

This  case  brings  up  for  review  a  judgment  of  the 
Supreme  Court  of  Pennsylvania  sustaining  the 
validity  of  a  statute  of  that  commonwealth  making 
it  unlawful  for  any  person  to  manufacture,  sell,  or 
offer  for  sale  any  butter  or  cheese  or  article  designed 
to  take  the  place  of  these  articles  produced  from  any 
compound  other  than  unadulterated  milk  or  cream. 
The  plaintiff  was-  convicted  of  a  violation  of  this 
statute  and  took  an  appeal,  basing  it  on  the  ground 
that  the  statute  was  in  violation  of  the  fourteenth 
amendment  to  the  Constitution,  and  that  the  article 
sold  was  a  new  invention  not  deleterious  to  the  pub 
lie  health. 

The  Court  holds  that  it  is  entirely  wit&in  the  po- 
lice powers  of  the  Soate  to  protect  the  public  health 
and  that  the  questions  whether  the  manufacture  of 
oleomargarine  is,  or  may  be,  conducted  in  such  a 
way  as  to  require  the  suppression  of  the  business 
rather  than  its  regulation,  are  questions  of  fact  and 
of  public  policy  which  belong  to  the  legislative  de- 
partment to  determine.  If  all  that  can  be  said  of 
this  legislation  is  that  it  is  unwise  or  unnecessarily 
oppressive,  their  appeal  is  to  the  legislature  or  to 
the  ballot-box,  not  to  the  judiciary.  The  Court  also 
says  it  cannot  assent  to  the  argument  that  if  this 
statute  is  sustained  then  nothing  stands  in  the  way 
of  the  destruction  by  the  legislative  department  of 
the  constitutional  guarantees  of  liberty  and  proper- 
ty The  answer  to  this  argument  it  holds  is  that 
the  judiciary  department  is  bound  not  to  give  effect 
to  statutory  enactments  that  are  plainly  forbidden 
by  the  Constitution.  The  objection  that  the  statute 
denies  the  equal  protection  of  the  laws  is  also  held 
to  be  untenable  for  the  reason  that  the  same  penal- 
ties and  burdens  are  imposed  upon  all  persons  en- 
gaged in  the  same  business.  The  judgment  of  the 
lower  court  against  the  patent  butter  dealer  was 
aflfirmed,  but  Judge  Field  dissented.  The  same 
judgment  would  hold  very  clearly  against  intoxicat- 
ing liquor,  and  the  late  decision  in  favor  of  ship- 
ping liquor  into  a  prohibitory  State,  thus  breaking 
down  the  very  laws  affirmed  above,  is  an  amazing 
thing  to  plain  people. 

^  •  » 

TEE  EFFSOT  OF  THE  SUPREME  COURT 
DECISION. 


ALLOWED   TO  MAKE   BEBR   IN   IOWA. 


At  the  January  session  of  the  board  of  supervi- 
sors all  permits  to  sell  liquor  in  Woodbury  county 
were  refused,  although  there  were  numerous  appli- 
cants. By  an  arrangement  made  between  the  Law 
and  Order  League  and  the  two  breweries  they  were 
to  be  allowed  until  May  to  dispose  of  the  stock  on 
hand,  and  permits  to  that  effect  were  issued  to  the 
Franz  Brewing  company  and  to  R.  Qelzer.  Three 
wholesale  houses  were  also  given  time  in  which  to 
close  out.  The  latter  have  since  violated  the  law  so 
flagrantly  that  arrests  followed,  and  they  moved 
their  stocks  across  the  river  to  Nebraska  to  escape 
confiscation.  Franz's  brewery  has  been  transformed 
into  a  butter  and  egg  depot,  and  only  the  Selzer  es- 
tablishment remains. 

Last  night,  just  before  the  adjournment  of  the 
board  of  supervisors,  SeJzer  went  before  them  and 
asked  for  a  new  permit  for  one  year.  This  was  re- 
fused, but  later  his  permit  was  extended  to  Jan.  1, 
1889,  and  he  will  again  begin  manufacturing.  The 
action  of  the  board  caused  great  surprise  to  the  tem- 
perance element,  and  much  indignation  is  expressed. 
A  member  of  the  board  of  supervisors  said:  "Ac- 
cording to  the  recent  Supreme  Court  decision  liquor 
can  be  shipped  in  from  points  outside  the  State,  and 
the  board  concluded  to  let  Selzer  manufacture." 

Sini'PINa    LIQDOR    INTO   IOWA. 

Following  the  example  set  by  several  other  rail- 
roads, the  Illinois  Central  has  issued  a  (.-ircular  ad- 
dressed to  its  agents  and  connections  which  sets 
forth  that  the  company  will  receive  and  deliver  ship- 
ments of  all  kinds  of  liquors  for  transportation  from 
points  outside  of  the  State  of  Iowa  to  points  within 
that  State  and  from  points  in  Iowa  to  points  outside. 
No  such  shipment  will  be  received  originating  at  and 
destined  to  points  within  the  State  of  Iowa  unless 
there  is  delivered  to  the  company's  agent  a  certifi- 
cate under  the  seal  of  the  auditor  of  the  county  in 
which  the  point  of  destination  is  located,  showing 
that  the  consignee  has  authority  granted  him  by 
the  board  of  supervisors  of  the  county  to  sell  intox- 
icating liquors  in  auch  county.  Intoiiratlng  liquors 
nftj  b«  «bipp«d  <roia  on*  point  in  Xowa  to  noothsr 


point  in  the  same  State  when  consigned  to  a  regis- 
tered pharmacist,  providing  that  a  permit  for  each 
shipment  be  issued  by  the  auditor  in  the  county  in 
which  the  point  of  destination  is  located.  The  per- 
mit must  specify  the  packages  and  kinds  of  liquors 
to  be  transported. 

This  rule  is  made  in  accordance  with  the  recent 
United  States  Supreme  Court  decision,  which  sets 
forth  that  under  the  Interstate  Commerce  law  no 
State  can  prevent  the  shipment  of  any  kind  of  mer- 
chandise within  its  borders. 


EVADING  TEE  PROEIBITORT  LAW. 


Jim  Jones,  a  noted  ex-saloon-keeper  of  Sioux 
City,  Iowa,  has  gone  to  Canada  to  arrange  for  the 
shipment  of  liquors  which  he  will  sell,  despite  the 
State  prohibitory  law.  He  has  secured  a  room  where 
he  proposes  to  sell  the  imported  liquors  openly. 
Many  other  saloon  keepers  who  have  been  driven 
out  of  the  business  will  follow  his  example,  and  are 
already  renting  rooms  for  this  purpose.  Able  legal 
counsel  say  there  is  no  way  in  which  such  sale  can 
be  prevented  so  long  as  the  imported  liquor  remains 
in  the  original  packages. 

NO  BREWERIES  IN  KANSAS. 

The  decree  in  the  Ziebold  &  Hagalin  brewery 
case,  in  which  the  United  States  Supreme  Court  re- 
cently sustained  the  constitutionality  of  the  prohib- 
itory law  of  Kansas,  was  signed  Wednesday  by 
Judge  Brewer,  of  the  United  States  Circuit  Court. 
The  exceptions  to  the  decree  of  the  defendants,  that 
the  decision  of  the  Supreme  Court  did  not  prohibit 
them  from  manufactring  beer  to  be  sold  in  other 
States,  was  overruled,  and  the  United  States  Marshal 
was  today  ordered  to  close  up  their  brewery  at 
Atchison  as  a  nuisance.  These  were  the  last  of  the 
Kansas  brewers  to  hold  out  against  the  prohibitory 
law,  and  Kansas  is  now  very  dry. 

^  a  ^ 

A  LETTER  ON  '•WINES." 


Rev.  W.  J.  Taylor  of  Wardsville  has  another  able 
letter  in  the  Toronto  Mail  in  reply  to  Rev.  Dr.  Jew- 
ett  on  the  question  of  "Bible  Wines."  After  a  dis- 
cussion of  some  important  facts  and  Scripture  quota- 
tions Rev.  Mr.  Taylor  presents  a  forcible  argu- 
ment in  the  following  paragraph:  "Turning  from 
Holy  Writ,  let  me  ask  why  I  should  drink  the 
wine  of  commerce?  To  my  certain  knowledge  much 
of  the  'best  port'  is  made  in  London,  entirely  from 
chemicals;  is  shipped  to  Oporto,  there  labeled  and 
cobwebbed,  and  sent  back  to  the  English  market, 
where  it  finds  a  ready  sale!  Why  should  I  drink 
'wine,'  when,  on  the  authority  of  the  Wines  of  Cali- 
fornia (a  wine  dealers'  paper)  I  find  that  'ninety-nine 
out  of  every  one  hundred  dealers  in  these  "wines" 
are  selling  stuff  made  right  in  New  York  by  chem- 
ical processes.  Two  manufacturers  make  more  than 
15,000  gallons  a  month!'  Why  should  I  drink  wine 
when  such  an  eminent  and  respected  physician  as 
Sir  Henry  Thompson  says,  'Don't  take  your  daily 
glass  of  wine  under  any  pretext  of  its  doing  you 
good;  take  it  frankly  as  a  luxury  which  must  be 
paid  for;  some  loss  of  health,  or  of  mental  power, 
or  of  calmness  of  temper,  or  of  judgment'  The 
Edinburgh  Medical  ami  Surgical  Review  says:  'All 
wines  are  only  different  forms  of  poisonous  articles.' 
Two  thousand  of  the  leading  medical  men  of  Great 
Britain  recently  signed  a  paper  to  the  same  effect. 
The  scientific  testimony  upon  this  point  is  ably 
summed  up  by  Dr.  Kerr,  who  says,  'it  is  beyond 
human  power  to  demonstrate  what  are  the  effects  of 
a  minute  dose  of  any  poison;  .but  in  the  same  sense 
as  we  call  strychnine  and  prussic  acid  a  poison  do 
we  designate  alcohol,  and  in  no  other.'  "  These 
thoughtful  and  scholarly  lectures  ought  to  be  widely 
read  and  studied. — Sel. 


The  State  Prohibition  Convention  of  California 
adopted  a  platform  at  San  Francisco  April  5lh.  It 
declares  the  Prohibition  party  of  California  is  in 
alliance  with  the  National  Prohibition  party  and  de- 
mands the  extinction  of  the  manufacture,  import, 
export,  transport,  and  sale  of  all  intoxicating  bever- 
ages, enforced  by  effective  preventive  pledges.  It 
concedes  the  right  to  manufacture  for  medicinal  and 
mechanical  uses,  but  for  nothing  else.  The  platform 
hails  with  pleasure  the  cultivation  of  the  grape  in 
this  State  as  a  most  pleasant,  healthful,  and  remu- 
nerative occupation,  and  indicates  that  there  will 
always  be  a  good  market  for  raisins,  sirups,  canned 
fruits,  and  fresh  grapes,  but  denounces  the  prostitu- 
tion of  the  grape  industry  to  the  manufacture  of 
wine,  brandy,  or  other  intoxicating   liquors.     The 

f>latform  declares  that  women  should  have  the  olect- 
ve  franchlie,  and  demand*  ao^^miDeDt  oootrol  nt 
rnJltowJ'  "Mud  t«)e0rArh«< 


12 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE- 


April  19, 1888 


1 


OBITUARY. 


GEN.  A   W.  RILEY. 

General  A  .  W  .  Riley,  the  oldest  of  the  great  tem- 
perance orators,  died  at  his  home  in  Rochester,  N.  Y., 
on  the  2nd  inst.,aged  ninety-three  years. 

The  portrait  above  appeared  first  in  the  Cynosure  of 
June  5,  1884,  a  few  days  before  the  national  convention 
of  the  American  party  in  Farwell  Hall,  which  nominated 
Pomeroy  and  Conant.  Qen.Riley  attended  this  conven- 
tion as  a  delegate  and  addressed  it.  He  was  always  a 
reformer,  and  during  a  long  and  busy  life  was  associated 
with  such  men  as  Samuel  Carey,  Frederick  Douglass, 
Qerritt  Smith,  Myron  Holley  and  Thurlow  Weed.  He 
came  to  Rochester  in  1816  and  has  been  intimately  asso- 
ciated with  all  the  interests  of  the  city  during  its  growth. 
As  a  temperance  lecturer,  he  traveled  more  widely  in 
Europe  and  America,  speaking  against  the  drink  traffic, 
than  perhaps  any  other  man  except  Gough;  and  in  the 
rise  and  development  of  the  Prohibition  party  he  took 
the  keenest  interest,  blessing  God  that  he  had  lived  to 
see  the  cause  so  dear  to  his  heart  prospering  among  the 
best  people  of  the  nation.  At  his  burial  the  citizens  of 
Rochester  without  respect  of  rank  or  sex  united  with 
the  Prohibitionists  to  do  him  honor. 


Peter  Minton  was  born  in  the  province  of  Connaught, 
Ireland,  July  4th,  1811,  and  died  at  his  home  in  Butler 
county,  Ohio,  April  7th,  1888,  aged  76  years.  His  pa- 
rents were  Catholics,  and  his  early  training  was  in  that 
faith.  Not  being  satisfied  with  the  surroundings  and  op- 
portunities of  hiH  mother  country.he  migrated  to  Ameri- 
ca when  about  18  years  of  age.  At  the  advice  of  a  friend 
he  went  immediately  to  Pennsylvania  and  found  employ- 
ment on  a  farm.  About  two  years  later  he  came  on  foot 
to  Butler  county,  Ohio,  where  he  has  since  made  his 
home.  Being  thrown  into  the  company  of  brethren 
Flickinger  and  Kumler,  of  the  United  Brethren  church, 
he  was  naturally  lead  to  worship  with  them,  and  was 
converted  while  attending  a  camp  meeting  at  Blue  Rock. 
For  forty  five  years  he  has  been  an  active  member  in 
this  branch  of  the  church. 

On  the  13th  of  December  he  was  married  to  Hannah 
Conklin.  To  them  were  born  ten  children,  seven  of 
whom  (two  boys  and  five  girls)  remain  to  mourn  his 
departure,  the  mother  and  three  children  having  preced- 
ed him  to  the  better  land.  The  seven  remaining  children 
are  married  and  well  situated.  All,  I  think,  are  profess- 
ing Christians. 

It  has  been  my  privilege  to  visit  and  council  with  Bro. 
Minton  several  times  and  to  be  at  his  bedside  during  his 
last  hours.  I  have  observed  him  to  be  eminently  a  man 
of  firm  convictions  and  clear  perceptions.  The  latter 
quality  has  doubtless  added  much  to  his  business  success. 
He  attributed  this,  however, to  the  guidance  of  the  Lord, 
whom  he  consulted  in  all  important  business  transactions. 

He  has  always  felt  a  great  interest  in  all  reforms  of 
church  or  state.  This  lead  him  to  active  participation  in 
the  anti-slavery  struggle,  and  later  in  the  anti-secrecy 
movement,  to  which  he  has  devoted  much  of  his  means. 
While  he  has  been  especially  interested  in  maintaining  the 
rule  against  lodgery  in  the  church  of  his  choice,  and  has 
there  made  liberal  contributions,  yet  we  have  been  often 
cheered  by  his  timely  aid. 

Buffering  for  years  with  a  cancer  he  bore  it  without 
complaint.  The  immediate  cause  of  death  was  erysipe- 
las in  the  head.  He  was  confined  to  his  bed  but  eight 
days.  Although  unconscious  much  of  the  time,  when  I 
spoke  to  him  of  Christ,  he  replied,  "He  is  my  only  hope. 
I  have  been  trying  to  ferve  bim  these  forty  years."  Dr. 
Davis  and  Bishop  Wright  officiated  at  the  funeral,  the 
doctor  preaching  from  the  very  appropriate  words  re- 
corded in  Rev.  14.13:  "And  I  heard  a  voioe  from  heav- 
en, saying  unto  me,  Write,  BlMUd  «ro  th*  dead  which 


die  in  the  Lord  from  henceforth:  yea,  saith  the  Spirit, 
that  they  may  rest  from  their  labors;  and  their  works  do 
follow  them."  The  remains  were  interred  in  the  beauti- 
ful cemetery  at  Hamilton,  beside  his  beloved  wife,  there 
to  await  the  resurrection  of  the  just. 

W.  B,  Stoddard. 


Evan  Jones,  whose  decease  was  noted  last  week,  was 
a  native  of  Wales.  He  came  to  the  United  States  when 
twenty-seven  years  of  age;  married  Miss  Catherine  Ev- 
ans at  Cincinnati  in  1850;  removed  soon  after  to  Ogle 
Co.,  111.;  and  died  at  the  home  of  his  daughter,  Mrs. 
Lynn,  in  Englewood,  on  the  7th  inst.,  in  the  72  ad  year 
of  his  age.  He  leaves  a  widow,  one  son,  and  three 
daughters,  who,  with  a  large  circle  of  friends,  mourn 
their  loss,  which  they  confidently  believe  is  to  him  an  in 
finite  gain.  Of  this  world's  goods  he  had  a  competency, 
accumulated  by  years  of  industry,  but  bis  chief  treasures 
were  "laid  up  where  moth  and  rust  doth  not  corrupt." 
Though  engaged  for  more  than  a  quarter  of  a  century  in 
the  cultivation  and  care  of  a  600  acre  farm, he  fouad  time 
to  read  extensively  and  always  kept  posted  on  the  great 
living  questions  of  the  day.  He  was  first  a  Christian, 
which  to  him  meant  patriotism,  integrity  and  every  so- 
cial and  civil  virtue.  He  was  a  radical  Abolitionist  be- 
fore the  war,  and  an  incident  during  the  war  will  fairly 
illustrate  his  character.  His  membership  was  with  a 
church  having  a  few  influential  men  who  were  strongly 
opposed  to  the  war.  The  pastor,  a  young  maa,  avoided 
any  allusion  in  his  sermons  to  the  then  all-absorbing 
topic  of  the  civil  conflict.  When  presented  with  the  an 
nual  subscription  paper  for  the  pastor's  support  he  de- 
clined giving  any  pledge,  but  said,  "If  our  pastor  will 
preach  a  sermon  defining  his  position  in  this  conflict, and 
pointing  out  the  duty  of  his  members,  I  will  double  my 
usual  subscription;  but  until  he  takes  sides  with  the  reb 
el  or  with  the  Union  army,  I  will  not  give  one  dollar  to 
sustain  him."  He  had  no  patience  with  preachers  or 
politicians  who  dodged  living  issues.  He  admired  cour- 
age and  independence  and  was  a  firm  and  devoted  friend 
of  the  Cynosure  and  its  senior  editor,  with  whom  he  had 
acted  as  an  Abolitionist,  and  in  other  great  reforms  for 
more  than  thirty  years.  He  gave  liberally  of  his  means 
to  the  work  of  the  N.  C.  A.  and  Wheaton  College,  and 
sent  his  children  to  the  College  to  obtain  their  education. 
He  was  an  honored  member  of  the  Normal  Park  Con- 
gregational church  at  the  time  of  his  death,  and  his  fun- 
eral was  attended  by  the  pastor,  Rev.  H.  C.  Granger. 
His  remains  were  taken  to  Middle  Creek,  III ,  near  his 
old  home,  for  interment,  where  they  await  the  "resurrec- 
tion of  the  just."  J.  P.  Stoddard. 


Religious  News. 


MItiSlON  WORK  IN  GREECE. 


liETTEE  PBOM  BRO.  A.  D.  ZARAPHONITHES. 


New  York,  N.  Y.,  Mar.  17,  1888. 

Dear  Editor: — Concerning  our  plans  for  the 
future  in  Greece  our  friends  in  America  would  like 
to  know;  we  therefore  make  this  statement. 

The  Greeks,  as  all  know,  from  the  time  that  Paul 
preached  to  them  until  the  present  day,  have  been 
religious  and  superstitious.  For  the  Christian  re- 
ligion many  of  them  laid  down  their  lives  in  the 
time  of  the  Turkish  rule.  Though  they  are  super- 
stitious and  inclined  to  many  forms  and  ceremonies 
which  lead  almost  to  idolatry,  yet  they  are  intelli- 
gent, so  that  when  the  truth  is  impressed  in  their 
hearts  and  they  comprehend  it,  they  are  ready  again 
to  stand  as  firmly  on  the  other  side.  Wherever  you 
put  him,  the  Greek  is  ready  to  fight  even  unto  death, 
whether  on  the  side  of  the  true  religion  or  a  false. 

I  have  been  laboring  on  the  island  of  Andros  for 
eight  years  and  a  half;  and,  although  I  have  not  re- 
mained without  fruit,  yet  the  results  have  not 
equalled  my  desire  or  expectation.  I  have  appeared 
before  the  people  not  as  a  hireling  sent  into  their 
midst,  but  as  an  independent  laborer.  Now  the  re- 
sult of  my  experience  and  the  experience  of  the 
Rev.  H.  J.  Van  Lennep,  D.D.,  who  was  born  and 
raised  among  the  Greeks,  and  labored  among  the 
Eastern  people  as  a  missionary  under  the  American 
Board  for  thirty  years,  is,  that  the  only  remedy  for 
the  Greeks  and  for  all  these  nationalities,  is  to  es- 
tablish schools,  and  especially  Industrial  Schools. 
Many  of  the  American  people  agree  that  the  best 
way  to  convert  the  nations  is  through  schools.  So 
that  you  can  instruct  them  and  at  the  same  time  im- 
press the  truths  of  the  Gospel  in  their  hearts. 

In  the  large  cities  of  Greece,  as  Athens  and  Syra, 
there  is  not  much  need  of  such  a  school;  but  the 
islands  of  the  Cyclades,  or  as  they  are  sometimes 
called,  "The  Twelve  Islands,"  are  entirely  destitute 
of  any  such  advantages,  hence  the  more  need  of 
such  an  institution.  Syra,  which  is  the  capital  of 
these  islands,  is  the  only  city  where  there  are  maay 
advantages  for  the  poor. 

We  want  to  build  this  Industrial  School  on  t'le 
west  side  of  the  island  of  Andros  near  the  sea-sh  )re, 
so  we  will  have  the  Cyclaides  on  one  side  and  some 
of  the  Sporades  on  the  other.  Not  only  are  these 
islands  destitute  of  any  such  adva  tages;  but,  with 
a  f«w  exceptioaa,  the  people  are  poor  and  not  able 


to  give  to  their  children  any  kind  of  an  education, 
or  support  them,  or  give  them  a  start  in  life  either 
by  marrying  their  daughters  or  by  starting  their 
sons  in  business.  Every  child  is  obliged  to  leave 
home  as  soon  as  he  is  eight  or  ten  years  old  and 
work  to  support  himself;  and  the  girls  especially 
have  a  hard  time.  In  the  whole  sixty-five  villages 
of  Andros,  there  are  only  five  or  six  girls'  schools 
and  they  are  situated  in  the  principal  towns  of  that 
island.  Three  of  these  girls'  schools  have  been 
established  within  the  last  three  years.  So  the  girls 
leave  home  in  perfect  ignorance  of  everything  and 
go  as  servants  to  the  diflferent  cities,  Athens,  Syra, 
Constantinople,  and  even  as  far  as  Alexandria  in 
Egypt.  And  during  these  first  two  or  three  years, 
these  girls  get  nothing  but  their  poor  food  and  very 
poor  clothing.  It  takes  them  ten  or  fifteen  years  to 
earn  their  dowry,  and  after  all  these  years  of  toil 
they  are  not  allowed  to  have  much  to  say  as  to 
whom  they  shall  be  married,  and  are  very  often 
married  to  quite  worthless,  drinking  fellows.  If 
they  have  children  the  wife  is  sent  to  some  of  these 
cities  which  I  have  mentioned  to  earn  money  as  a 
wet  nurse,  and  her  own  offspring  are  left  to  the 
mercy  of  strangers  and  without  any  home  training. 
If  they  have  no  children,  the  wife  goes  as  a  servant. 
Even  if  some  of  the  mt)thers  do  not  have  to  leave 
home,  they  have  to  help  with  the  outdoor  work,  such 
as  reaping  with  the  sickle,  carrying  on  their  backs 
two  or  three  miles  large  baskets  of  figs  and  grapes, 
loads  of  bushes  and  wood  to  supply  their  fires.  So 
they  have  but  little  time  to  look  after  or  teach  their 
children. 

In  one  island  called  Eabia,  close  to  Attica  on 
the  stormy  Doro  pass,  which  is  the  largest  island  of 
Greece,  are  many  poor  people.  Some  of  them  are 
shepherds  and  some  are  farmers.  These  people,  it 
seems,  cannot  get  a  living  by  their  flocks  or  from 
their  farms,  and  they  take  their  daughters,  while  they 
are  quite  young,  to  the  cities  of  these  different 
islands  and  hire  them  out  for  five  or  ten  years,  and 
the  father  takes  the  money  in  advance.  The  money 
which  he  gets  for  ten  years  will  not  exceed  fifty 
dollars;  but  he  may  accept  even  less  money  than 
that.  After  all  these  years  of  service  the  girl  has 
nothing  of  her  own  but  a  few  clothes,  and  she  is 
free  again  to  go  back  to  visit  her  parents.  If  she 
gets  married  on  her  return  home,  she  will  get  from 
her  parents  a  few  goats  or  sheep  and  a  piece  of 
rocky  land  which  will  not  produce  grain  enough  to 
keep  the  family  in  flour  more  than  a  month.  When 
these  girls  fall  into  the  hands  of  degraded  masters, 
they  return  to  their  parents  in  disgrace.  This  is 
the  condition  of  the  girls. 

The  boys  have  more  advantages  for  schooling; 
but  if  they  wish  to  have  anything  more  than  the 
barest  necessaries  of  life,  they  must  go  the  cities  to 
work  as  servants,  or  learn  some  trade;  and,  as  with 
the  girls,  so  with  the  boys,  they  cannot  get  any 
wages  at  first,  and  it  is  years  before  they  can  save 
something  for  themselves. 

We,  therefore,  seeing  the  pitiful  condition  of  the 
girls  and  boys,  and  of  the  aged,  with  prayers  and 
supplications  to  God  have  decided  to  come  to 
America  and  put  all  these  facts  in  the  ears  of  Chris- 
tian people  here,  and  we  believe  that  God  will  open 
their  hearts  to  have  pity  on  these  poor  people  and 
do  something  to  better  their  condition.  If  we  can 
establish  an  Industrial  School  and  teach  the  girls 
reading,  writing,  cooking,  laundry  work,  needle 
work  and  weaving,  and  the  boys  tailoring,  iron- 
work, carpentering  and  sboemaking,  so  that  when 
they  go  to  the  cities  they  will  be  ready  to  receive 
good  wages,  we  shall  be  doing  them  a  great  good 
and  thus  their  hearts  will  be  opened  to  receive  the 
truths  of  the  Gospel  which  we  shall  teach  them.  If 
we  do  not  supply  their  bodily  wants  we  cannot  reach 
their  souls.     This  has  been  tried  and  found  to  be  true. 

We  repeat  again  that  we  expect  to  establish  an 
Industrial  School,  and  by  this  we  mean  a  Christian 
school,  in  one  of  these  islands;  but  would  to  God 
that  we  could  establish  one  in  every  one  of  these 
islands. 

We  believe  that  God  will  provide  the  means  to 
build  this  school,  and  supply  also  the  different 
things  which  are  needed  to  carry  on  such  a  school 
and  also  teachers  to  come  and  help  us  in  this  work. 
As  God  has  provided  for  us  during  the  last  eight 
years  and  a  half,  so  we  believe  that  he  will  provide 
for  the  future. 

Greece  has  gone  back  almost  to  idolatry  and  infi- 
delity and  we,  therefore,  the  evangelicals  of  Greece, 
believe  that  she  must  taught  agaiu  the  truths  of  the 
Christian  religion  or  perish.  Yours  with  Christian 
love,  Anastasios  D.  Zaraimionithes. 


— The  Wesleyan  conference  meeting  April  2d  in 
Syracuse,  New  York,  resolved  uDabimously  in  favor 
of  a  more  vigorous  administration  of  discipline  with 


Apeii,  19, 1888 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSUKEJ. 


13 


reference  to  the  lodge.  Rev.  J.  N. 
Bedford  met  with  unexpected  success 
in  presenting  the  case  of  Wheaton 
Theological  Seminary. 

— The  present  Prime  Minister  of 
the  Sandwich  Islands  is  an  earnest 
Christian.  When  he  visited  Berlin, 
in  connection  with  a  commercial 
treaty,  it  was  his  practice  to  attend 
Bible  readings  on  Sunday  nights,  and 
he  found  it  easy  to  decline  diplomatic 
invitations  on  the  Lord's  day. 

— According  to  the  tables  of  the 
Rev.  Daniel  Dorchester,  D  D.,  of  the 
evangelical  denomination  for  1886, 
the  total  of  churches  or  congregations 
in  the  United  States  was  112,744;  of 
ministers,  83,854;  and  communicants, 
12,132,051.  That  is  one  Evangelical 
Protestant  church  in  every  518  inhab- 
itants. 

— The  total  income  of  London  char- 
ities in  1887  was  four  millions  and  a 
half  of  money.  Of  this  a  million  is 
spent  on  foreign  missions.  Another 
three-quarters  of  a  million  is  spent  on 
Bible  and  tract  societies  and  "home" 
missions.  The  hospitals  have  an  in- 
come of  a  little  more  than  half  a  mill- 
ion.    The  sums  are  pounds  sterling. 

— Last  October  the  Presbytery  of 
New  York  decided  to  again  open  up 
Cooper  Union  hall  every  Sunday  even- 
ing for  evangelistic  services  for  the 
masses.  Mr.  Charles  Herald,  the  sing- 
ing evangelist  so  well  known  in  Chi- 
cago, was  invited  to  conduct  the  cam- 
paign. God  has  put  his  seal  on  the 
work  in  a  remarkable  manner.  Start- 
ing with  an  audience  of  600  it  has 
grown  week  by  week  until  now  from 
1,200  to  1,500  people,  two-thirds  of 
whom  have  not  been  in  the  habit  of 
attending  any  church,  attend  the  serv- 
ices. Over  150  names  have  been 
given  in  from  persons  receiving  a 
blessing,  starting  in  the  new  way. 
Hopes  are  entertained  that  the  neces- 
sary funds  may  be  provided  to  keep 
the  work  up  the  year  round. 

— Mr.  Sankey  is  soon  to  make  a 
tour  of  the  Southern  States.  He  re- 
turns to  England  in  May  for  a  series 
of  meetings  through  Great  Britain. 

— Rev.  Walter  A.  Ferris,  pastor  at 
Dundee,  III,  is  taking  a  brief  rest  at 
Atlanta,  Georgia,  after  seven  weeks 
of  revival  meetings,  in  which  a  great 
work  was  done  for  the  church.  Among 
the  converts  was  an  infidel  husband 
and  wife,  whose  hatred  of  religion 
was  fearful.  The  church  gave  Bro. 
Ferris  $226  to  help  his  vacation,  and 
a  mission  church  a  few  miles  away 
added  over  $60  to  the  fund. 


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the     belief    that 
the  public  are  anxious  to  get  their  seed  directly  fro  in  the 
Browcr.  Kalslngalarge  proportion  of  my  seed  enables 
me  to  warrant  Its  freshoiss  and  purity,  as  see  my  Vege- 
table and  Flower  Si  cd  Cutalopue  for  188K,  FKKK 
forfvirry  Honaiid  daughter  of  Adam.    It  Is 
liberally  illuBtratid  Willi  encravlngh  made  directly 
from  photographs  of  vegetables  grown  on  my  teed 
farms.    Hesldes  an  Immense  variety  ofstandard seed,  you 
win  find  In  It  some  valuable  new  vegetables  not  found  In 
y  other  catalogue.    As  the  original  Introducer  of  the 
Eclipse  Keet,  Burbank  and  Early  Ohio  Potatoes,  Hubbard 
Squash,  Deephead  Cabbage,  Cory  Corn,  and  a  score  of  other 
valuable  vegetables,    I  Invite  the  patronage  of  the  publ'T. 

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14 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


April  19, 1888 


Faem  Notes. 


GBA85ES    FOR   HAY. 

In  order  to  make  hay  of  the  best  qual- 
ity it  is  important  to  cut  at  the  pioper 
stage,  and  generally  the  nearer  we  are 
able  to  do  this,  the  better  will  be  the  re- 
sults. On  this  account  care  should  be  ex- 
ercised in  mixing  the  seed  when  sowing 
for  meadows  to  get  varieties  that  will 
ripen  at  the  same  time.  If  not,  one  will 
certainly  fail  to  secure  hay  of  the  best 
quality,  for  the  reason  that  some  will  be 
ready  to  cut  when  the  rest  will  be  either 
too  ripe  or  too  green.  Take  clover,  red 
top  and  timothy.  Generally  clover  rip- 
ens considerably  earlier  than  either  of 
the  other  two,  while  red  top  ripens  last. 
If  the  clover  is  cut  when  it  would  make 
the  best  hay,  the  timothy  or  red  top  will 
be  too  green,or  if  we  let  the  clover  stand 
until  the  others  are  fit  to  cut,  it  will  be 
entirely  too  ripe.  Either  if  cut  at  the 
best  stage  will  make  a  feed  of  the  very 
best  quality,  but  when  cut  too  green  or 
allowed  to  stand  too  long,  the  quality  is 
considerably  impaired. 

On  account  of  the  liability  to  lodge,  it 
is  often  of  considerable  benefit  to  clover 
to  have  a  good  grass  growing  with  it  to 
act  as  a  support,  but  at  the  same  time  it 
is  an  object  to  select  and  use  varieties 
that  ripen  at  nearly  the  same  time. 

Orchard  grass  and  tall  meadow  oat 
grass  both  ripen  at  the  same  time  as  clo- 
ver, and  for  this  reason  are  more  desira- 
ble to  mix  with  clover  than  either  red 
top  or  timothy,  and  when  cut  before  they 
are  too  ripe,  they  make  a  good  quality  of 
hay,  so  that  in  selecting  grass  seed  to  be 
sown  with  red  clover,  either  of  these  are 
preferable  to  red  top  or  timothy.  For 
pasture,  a  variety  of  grasses  are  prefera- 
ble, but  for  meadows  it  is  usually  best 
not  to  have  many  unless  they  are  varie- 
ties that  will  ripen  together.  On  this  ac- 
count timothy  should  be  sown  alone  as 
well  as  red  top.  These  five  varieties  are 
usually  sown  for  hay,  and  are  also  used 
for  pastures,  but  for  nay  care  should  be 
taken  to  sow  only  those  that  ripen  togeth- 
er, while  with  pasture  grasses  we  want  a 
diversified  growth  and  season  of  ripen- 
ing, so  as  to  have  a  supply  of  grass  as 
long  as  possible. — N.J.8.  in  Farm,Field 
*  and  Stockman. 

PERMAKKNT  PASTURES. 

With  the  development  of  the  higher 
forms  of  husbandry  in  this  country,  the 
laying  down  of  land  to  permanent  pas- 
tures is  becoming  an  important  feature 
of  farm  practice^i.  e.,  in  all  States  east 
of  the  Missouri  river.  Our  pastures  have 
heretofore  been  sadly  neglected,  so  much 
so  that  in  many  instances  the  word"pa8- 
ture"  is  become  synonomous  with  the 
poorest  land  of  the  farm.  Successful 
dairying  and  stock-breeding,  however, 
demand  better  grazing.  There  is  a  vast 
margin  for  improvement  and  increased 
profits,  between  the  three  to  five  acres 
per  cow  of  some  of  our  older  States,  and 
the  two  to  three  cows  per  acre  of  Hol- 
land. As  land  increases  in  money  value 
its  feeding  capacity  must  be  improved  in 
order  that  it  may  be  used  for  pasturage 
with  profit.  Many  efforts  at  pasture 
making  in  this  country  have  failed  for 
very  simple  reasons,  among  which  is  the 
custom  of  scattering  a  little  seed  over  a 
worn  out  pasture  and  letting  it  remain  on 
the  surface,  or  simply  harrowing  it  in. 
Again  the  land  has  simply  been  plowed 
and  re  seeded  without  any  effort  at  en- 
richment or  proper  drainage  or  proper 
pulverization,  such  as  is  thought  indis- 
pensable for  growing  any  other  crop  than 
grass.  The  way  to  make  a  good  pasture 
is  to  plow  the  land  thoroughly,  and  har- 
row and  pulverize  it  as  if  for  corn;  if  it 
is  poor  in  fertility  it  must  be  enriched. 
Then  grassts  are  to  be  selected  which 
are  best  adapted  to  the  soil,  and  the  se  - 
lection  must  be  so  made  that  a  succession 
of  grasses  will  keep  the  pasture  green  the 
season  through;  or,  if  convenient,  it  is 
well  to  have  one  pasture  for  early  and 
late  feeding,  and  another  for  summer 
feeding. 

For  early  and  late  pasture  the  follow- 
ing mixtures  are  recommended  per  acre 
in  pounds: 

For  early  pasture:  blue  grass,  8;  timo- 
thy, 0;  orchard  grais,  6;  white  clover,  1. 

For  summer  pasture:  timothy,  6;  or; 
chard  graes,  C;  red  clover,  4. 

For  lighter  soils  of  the  North  and 
East:  timothy,  0;  taller  oat  grass,  10; 
Rhode  Island  bent,  4 ;  orchard  grass,  3; 
white  clover,  1;  red  cloTer,  2;  Alslke  clo- 
ver, 1. 


For  wet  soils  in  the  North:  blue  grass, 
5;  red  top,  5;  fowl  meadow  grass,  4;  rye 
or  ray  grass,  4;  white  clover,  1;  Alsike 
clover,  1. 

Prof.  E.  M.  8helton,of  the  Kansai  Ag- 
ricultural College,  who  has  tested  over 
200  species  of  forage  plants  during  the 
last  ten  year8,find8  the  following  to  have 
proved  the  best  grasses  and  clovers  for 
that  State,  in  order  named:  (1)  Orchard 
Grass,  (2)  Alfalfa,  (3)  Taller  Oat  Grass 
(Avena  elatior),  (4)  red  clover,  (5)  Taller 
Fescue  {Featuca  elatior).  These  he  sajs 
are  the  only  species  safe  in  Kansas.  As 
a  mixture  he  recommends  orchard  grass, 
IJ  bushels,  clover,  6  lbs.  per  acre.  Al- 
falfa and  taller  fescue  grasses  must  be 
sown  alone,  and  he  thinks  the  game  of 
taller  oat  grass. 

To  make  a  pasture  quickly  the  grass 
seeds  should  be  sown  alone,  without 
grain,  and  not  be  grazed  the  first  year, 
but  be  cut  for  hay,  twice  if  possible,  in 
order  to  force  a  large  development  of 
roots.  To  renovate  an  old  pasture  it  is 
best  to  cultivate  it  for  a  year  to  some 
well  manured  hoed  crop .  This  is  an  ex- 
pensive process,  but  it  is  effectual  in  kill- 
ing out  a  great  number  of  weeds.  A 
good  way  also  is  to  harrow  the  surface 
with  a  sharp  harrow  and  then  sow  a  va- 
riety of  seeds,  with  200  or  300  pounds  of 
bone  dust  per  acre;  or  spread  on  some 
fine  compost,  then  give  the  whole  a  thor- 
ough harrowing  and  leave  it  alone.  When 
the  grasses  show  signs  of  running  out.say 
every  five,  seven  or  ten  years,  it  is  well 
to  sow  a  variety  of  grass  seeds  on  the  sur- 
face and  drag  a  light  harrow  over  the 
pasture,  applying  at  the  same  time  a 
dressing  of  bone  dust. — Eiram  Sibley's 
Catalogue. 


CONSUMPTION  SUKEtY  CURED. 

To  the  Editor: — Please  inform  your 
readers  that  I  have  a  positive  remedy  for 
the  above  named  disease .  By  its  timely 
use  thousands  of  hopeless  cases  have  been 
permanently  cured.  I  shall  be  glad  to 
send  two  bottles  of  my  remedy  free  to 
any  of  your  readers  who  have  consump- 
tion if  they  will  send  me  their  Express 
and  P.O.  address.  Respectfully,  T.  A. 
Slocum,  M.  C,  181  Pearl  St.,  New  York. 


Enlarging  the  Scope  of  a  Magazine. 

Rev.  B.  Fay  Mills,  the  well-known 
evangelist,  has  been  engaged  as  an  asso- 
ciate editor,  with  Rev.  Dr.  Geo.  F.Pente- 
cost, of  Words  and  Weapons  for  Chris- 
tian Workers,  a  monthly  magazine  pub- 
lished at  251  Brodway,  New  York,  devot- 
ed to  religious  work.  Mr.  Miih  has  been 
engaged  in  pursuance  of  a  plan  to  make 
Words  and  Weapons  the  most  unique  and 
distinctive  organ  of  the  evangelistic  and 
all  the  aggressive  Christian  work  in  this 
country.  It  will  contain  each  month  re- 
ports of  meetings  conducted  by  all  the 
tried  evangelists,  and  also  contributions 
from  the  most  successful  pastors  and  lay 
men.  It  will  also  contain  a  large  number 
of  pointed  illustrations,  drawn  from  inci- 
dents recently  occurring  in  the  inquiry 
room.  The  magazine  in  its  new  form  will 
appear  about  April  first. 

"She'8  Much  Older  than  her  Husband." 

We  heard  a  young  girl  make  the  above 
remark  the  other  day  about  a  lady  with 
whom  we  are  slightly  acquainted.  It  was 
not  true,  yet  the  lady  in  question  actual- 
ly does  look  five  years  older  than  her 
huEband,  although  she  is  really  several 
years  his  junior.  She  is  prematurely 
aged,  and  functional  derangement  is  the 
ciuse.  Dr.  Pierce's  Favorite  Prescription 
would  care  her,  and  should  be  recom- 
mended to  her,  and  to  othera  who  are  in 
the  same  condition  If  the  reader  of  this 
chances  to  be  a  similar  sufferer,  let  her 
get  the'Prescription."  It  will  bring  back 
her  lost  beauty,  and,  better  still,  it  will 
remove  all  those  distressing  symptoms 
which  have  made  life  a  burden  to  her  so 
long.  Money  refunded  if  it  don't  give 
satisfaction.  See  guarantee  printed  on 
bottle  wrapper. 


Where  Are  You  Going? 

Whnn  do  you  start?  Where  from  7  How  oiany 
In  your  party?  What  amount  of  freight  or 
l)iiKK!iKO  have  you  7  What  route  do  you  prefer? 
Ujioii  receipt  of  an  au.swer  to  the  aljovo  ques< 
tioiis  you  will  be  furnished,  free  of  cxpentie,  with 


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ANfTOBi 


llie  lowest 

maiKf,  time 

pliietB,  or 

aljle  inform- IVI        railway, 

will  Have  trouble,  time  and  money 

evil  in  person  wlure  necessary. 

ready  to  answer  above  questions  Bhuiild  cut  out 

and  preserve  this  notice  for  fnturo  refcniioe.    It 

may  bocomo  useful.    Address  C.  II.  Wauben, 

General  Posaeneer  Asent.  it.  Paul,  Minn., 


rates,  also 
tables.pam- 
otlier  valu- 
ation which 
AReiits  will 
P.'vrttcs  not 


Constipation 

Demands  prompt  treatment.  The  re- 
sults of  neglect  may  be  serious.  Avoid 
all  harsh  and  drastic  purgatives,  the 
tendency  of  wliicli  is  to  wealien  the 
bowels.  Tlie  best  remedy  is  Ayer's 
Pills.  Being  purely  vegetable,  their 
action  is  prompt  and  their  effect  always 
beneficial.  They  are  an  admirable 
Liver  and  After-dinner  pill,  and  every- 
where endorsed  by  the  profession. 

'.'  Ayer's  Pills  are  highly  and  univer- 
sally spoken  of  by  the  people  about 
liere.  I  make  daily  use  of  them  in  my 
practice."  — Dr.  I.E.  Fowler,  Bridge- 
port, Conn. 

"  I  can  recommend  Ayer's  Pills  above 
all  others,  having  long  proved  their 
value  as  a  cathartic  for  myself  and 
family."  —  J.  T.  Hess,  Leithsville,  Pa. 

"  For  several  years  Ayer's  Pills  have 
been  used  in  my  family.  We  find  them 
an 

Effective  Remedy 

for  constipation  and  indigestion,  and 
are  never  without  them  in  the  house." 
—  Moses  Grenier,  Lowell,  Mass. 

"I  have  used  Ayer's  Pills,  for  liver 
troubles  and  indigestion,  during  many 
years,  and  have  always  found  them 
prompt  and  efficient  in  their  action."  — 
L.  N.  Smith,  Utica,  N.  Y. 

"  I  suffered  from  constipation  which 
assumed  such  an  obstinate  form  that  I 
feared  it  would  cause  a  stoppage  of  the 
bowels.  Two  boxes  of  Ayer's  Pills  ef- 
fected a  complete  cure." — D.  Burke, 
Saco,  Me. 

"  I  have  used  Ayer's  Pills  for  the  past 
thirty  years  and  consider  them  an  in- 
valuable family  medicine.  I  know  of 
no  better  remedy  for  liver  troubles, 
and  have  always  found  them  a  prompt 
cure  for  dyspepsia."— James  Quinn,  90 
Middle  St.,  Hartford,  Conn. 

"Having  been  troubled  with  costive- 
ness,  which  seems  inevitable  with  per- 
sons of  sedentary  habits,  I  have  tried 
Ayer's  Pills,  hoping  for  relief.  I  am 
glad  to  say  that  they  have  served  me 
better  than  any  other  medicine.  I 
arrive  at  this  conclusion  only  after  a 
faithful  trial  of  their  merits."  — Samuel 
T.  Jones,  Oak  St.,  Boston,  Mass. 

Ayer's  Pills, 

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THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


April  19, 1888 


NFWs  OF  The  "Week. 

WASHINGTON. 

The  right  to  buy  ships  in  the  markets 
of  the  world  and  sail  them  under  the 
American  flag  without  the  payment  of 
duties  is  granted  in  a  bill  agreed  upon  by 
the  majority  of  the  HouEe  committee  on 
merchant  marine  and  fisheries.  It  is  alto 
contemplated  that  no  duty  shall  be  paid 
upon  materials  entering  into  the  con- 
struction of  vessels  built  in  the  United 
States. 

After  a  dead  lock  for  eight  days  final 
action  on  the  direct  tax  bill  has  been 
postponed  until  Dec.  6.  This  was  the  re- 
sult of  the  action  of  the  Democratic  cau- 
cus and  it  is  believed  really  provides  for 
the  passage  of  the  bill.  If  the  direct  tax 
bill  becomes  a  law  the  lobby  commission- 
ers of  the  different  States  will  receive  all 
the  way  from  5  per  cent  to  50  per.cent  of 
the  money  refunded. 

Certain  swords  belonging  to  the  wid- 
ow and  children  of  Gen.  James  Shields 
are  to  be  bought  by  the  Government  for 
$♦0,000.  Shields  was  an  Irish  Freema- 
son who  challenged  Abraham  Lincoln  to 
a  duel.  Mies  Virginia  Lewis  offers  a 
sword  of  Washington  for  $20,000. 

Mr.  Anderson,  of  Kansas,  created  much 
merriment  in  the  House  Thursday.  When 
his  name  was  called  he  emerged  from  a 
barber's  chair,  his  face  covered  with  lath- 
er and  a  towel  about  his  neck. 

COUNTRY. 

The  bill  for  closing  saloons  on  the  Sab- 
bath and  taking  from  municipal  authori- 
ties the  power  to  permit  saloons  to  be 
open  on  that  day  has  passed  the  Ohio 
Legislature. 

Numerous  fires  occurred  Friday  in  dif- 
ferent parts  of  the  country.  At  Boston  a 
building  in  Fort  Hill  square  was  burned, 
and  six  firemen  were  badly  injured  by  an 
explosion.  At  Depere,  Wisconsin, a  num- 
ber of  buildings  burned,  with  a  loss  of 
about  $75,000.  At  Wheeling,  West  Vir- 
ginia, several  stores  were  burned;  loss, 
$50,000.  At  Clinton,  Iowa,  a  brewery 
was  destroyed;  loss  $10,000.  At  New 
York  a  steamship  took  tire  at  her  dock; 
loss  $100,000.  At  Ann  Arbor,  Michigan, 
several  business  places  burned;  loss  $40,- 
000.  At  Florida,  New  York,  two  dwell- 
ings burned,  and  a  woman  and  her  baby 
perished  in  the  flames. 

While  two  drunken  white  men  were 
passing  a  cabin  in  Indian  Territory  one 
of  them  deliberately  drew  a  pistol  and 
shot  dead  a  4  year  old  negro  boy  who  was 
standing  in  the  door.  They  have  been 
arrested. 

By  the  wreck  of  a  construction  train 
sixty  miles  west  of  Birmingham,  Ala.,Fri- 
day  morning,  four  men  were  killed,  one 
fatally  hurt, and  nine  others  seriously  in- 
jured. 

Ex-Senator  Roscoe  Conkling  was  not 
expected  to  live  last  week.  His  sickness 
was  caused  by  an  abcess  in  one  side  of 
his  head.    His  condition  is  improving. 

The  lower  House  of  the  New  York 
Legislature  Thursday  alopted  a  resolu- 
tion providing  for  submitting  to  the 
people  a  prohibition  amendment.  All 
the  Democrats  voted  against  it. 

The  jury  in  the  Bald  Knobbers'  cases 
in  Ozark,  Mo.,  returned  a  verdict  of 
murder  in  the  first  degree  against  Dave 
Walker, and  short  terms  in  the  peniten- 
tiary to  a  number  of  other  members  of  the 
organization. 

Reports  of  floods  in  the  West  continue. 
Communication  with  Sioux  City,  Iowa,i3 
cut  off,  owing  to  the  recent  floods  and 
washouts.  At  Chippewa  Falls,  Wis.,  a 
huge  ice  gor^e  formed  and  threatened 
the  destruction  of  the  bridges.  At  Moor- 
head,  Minn.,  the  Red  River  is  hourly  ris- 
ing an  inch  and  a  half.  At  Forest  City, 
Minn.,  the  dam  went  out  and  destroyed 
the  power  of  a  hundred  barrel  roller  mill. 
At  Black  River  Falls,  Wis  ,  the  river  is 
twenty  feel  above  low  water  mark,  and 
the  south  part  of  the  town  is  under  wa- 
ter. Reports  from  the  Upper  Chippewa 
and  Eau  Claire  rivers, Wis.,  are  very  en- 
couraging as  to  the  progress  of  log 
drives. 

FORKION. 

New  trouble  has  arisen  in  the  German 
Em])eror's  throat,  indicating  that  the 
tracuca  has  been  attacked  by  a  local  com- 
plaint. The  air  passage  having  contract- 
ed it  became  necessary  to  insert  a  new 
canula.  At  noon  Friday  the  emperor 
and  empress  drove  to  Berlin  in  a  close 


carriage  and  visited  the  palace,  returning 
to  Charlottenburg  later  in  the  day. 

Later  news  from  Berlin  reveals  an 
alarming  condition  of  the  emperor's  dis- 
ease. Bronchitis  with  fever  set  in  and 
his  family  was  summoned  to  his  bedside 
Monday  in  anticipation  of  the  worst. 

In  regard  to  the  matter  of  Bismarck's 
objection  to  the  betrothal  of  Prince  Al- 
exander to  the  daughter  of  the  German 
emperor,  the  following  facts  are  said  to 
be  believed  in  the  highest  circle.  At  the 
close  of  the  recent  interview  with  Prince 
Bismarck  the  emperor  intimated  his  in- 
tention of  inviting  Prince  Alexander,  of 
Battenberg,  to  Berlin  to  confer  an  order 
upon  him  and  to  appoint  him  to  a  com- 
mand corresponding  to  the  rank  he  for- 
merly held  in  the  German  army.  The 
Chancellor  protesting  against  such  a  step 
as  inexpedient,  the  emperor  declared  that 
he  would  abandon  his  intention.  The 
matter  was  regarded  at  Charlottenburg 
as  settled  and  there  was  a  great  surprise 
when,  a  few  days  later.  Prince  Bismarck 
forwarded  a  memorandum  to  the  emper- 
or stating  at  length  his  reasons  for  op- 
posing the  betrothal  and  saying  that  he 
mustiesign  if  the  emperor  did  not  accept 
his  advice.  The  emperor  at  the  interview 
on  Wednesday  declined  to  permit  the 
Chancellor  to  resign. 

The  movement  against  the  late  govern- 
ment in  Roumania,  which  was  for  a  time 
repressed,  has  been  revived  in  a  danger- 
ous form,  many  peasants  now  joining  the 
insurgents.  The  revolt  partakes  of  an 
agrarian  character,  and  is  headed  by  the 
agrarian  leaders.  Their  programme  de- 
mands land  grants  for Jaborers  and  a  10 
per  cent  share  in  the  profits  of  land- 
owners and  farmers.  Bands  of  men  are 
going  about  attacking  and  terrorizing 
landlords.  Troops  are  scouring  the  dis- 
tricts, but  are  unable  to  suppress  the  re- 
volt. 

The  conflict  between  Prince  Bismarck 
and  the  empress  is  only  temporarily  sus- 
pended, says  the  Inter  Ocean.  The  em- 
press has  gone  so  far  as  to  apply  to  the 
Russian  and  Austrian  courts  in  order  to 
secure  support  and  achieve  her  purpose. 
If  the  Czar  could  be  induced  to  send  an 
assurance  to  Bismarck  that  the  Batten- 
berg marriage  would  not  alter  the  friend- 
ly relations  existing  between  Russia  and 
Germany,  the  empress  might  deem  the 
battle  won.  The  Austrian  imperial  fam- 
ily maintain  a  neutral  attitude  in  the  mat- 
ter. They  would  like  to  see  the  breach 
between  Germany  and  Russia  widened. 
No  encouragement  comes  from  the  Czar, 
however;  nor  is  he  likely  to  make  any 
overtures. 

It  is  learned  through  reliable  sources 
that  Emperor  Frederick  wanted  to  ex- 
tend amnesty  to  all  socialists  and  to  re- 
call those  who  hatl  been  banished,  but 
that  Prince  Bismarck  dissuaded  him  from 
doing  so. 

In  the  election  Sunday  for  the  Depart- 
ment of  the  Nord,  France,  General  Bou- 
langer  received  173,272  votes,  over  96,000 
above  all  other  candidates. 

A  dispatch  from  Calcutta  says  that  the 
damage  caused  at  L»acca  by  the  recent 
tornado  amounts  to  100,000  rupees,  and 
that  112  bodies  have  been  recovered  from 
the  ruins  and  over  1,000  persons  more  or 
less  injured  are  in  the  hospital. 

The  first  execution  in  Madrid,  Spain, 
in  five  years  took  place  Wednesday  when 
a  girl,  her  lover  and  an  accomplice  were 
garroted  for  murder.  All  three  were  ex- 
ecuted on  the  same  platform  in  the  pres- 
ence of  20,000  people. 


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A  few  dollars  expended  in  purchasing 
tracts  and  scattering  them  about  through 
the  community  will  perhaps  do  more  to 
spike  the  guns  of  noisy  secretists  than 
anything  else  that  could  be  suggested. 
Men  have  heard  the  lodges  praised  so 
often  and  so  boldly,  that  they  have  come 
to  believe  that  they  are  what  they  pro- 
fess to  be.  It  is  high  time  that  the  war  is 
carried  intoAfrica  itself.  This  is  the  work 
which  the  N.  C.  A.  has  in  view,  and 
would  be  glad  to  push  forward  in  every 
quarter  of  the  land.  Who  will  help  to 
uoit? 


P  stands  for  Pierce,  the  wonderful  doc- 
tor. 

Providing  safe  remedies,  of  which  he  is 
concoctor. 

Pleasant  to  taste,  and  easy  to  take. 

Purgative  Pellets  now  "bear  off  the 
cake." 


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00NTENT8. 


Bditobial  : 

Notes  and  Comments 1 

The  Louisiana  State  Elec- 
tion     8 

Presbyterian  Reunion....  8 
Not  Prohibitionists  Yet. . .  8 
American     Principles    in 

Practice 8 

Contributions  : 
John  Tetzel  and  John  Bar- 
leycorn      1 

Be  not  Overcome  of  Evil. .    2 
The  Pope  Among  the  Na- 
tions     2 

More  News  from  India  ...    3 
Rbfobm  Nbws: 

Welcoming  Friends  In 
Ohio;  Grand  Master 
Ladd  Speaks  for  the 
Right;  Lodge  and  Sa- 
loon Arraigned  in  Vir- 
ginia; Kansas  and  Ne- 
braska Ureet  Bro.  Haw- 
ley  4,5 

Call  for  a  Political  Confer- 
ence      9 


Selected : 
The  Saloon  Question  and 
Masonry 3 

COBBBSPONDBNOB : 

Far  Away  Down  in  the 
South  Land ;  The  Whea- 
ton  Council;  Pith  and 
Point .5,6 

LiTEBATTJRB , 6 

Washington  Letter 9 

Notes  for  Saturday  Next. . .     9 
Secret    Societies     Con- 
demned  , 7 

Then.  C.  A 7 

Church  va.  LODOB 7 

The  Home 10 

Temperance 11 

Religious  Nbws 12 

Bible  Lesson 12 

Donations 13 

Lodge  Notes 13 

Farm  Notes 14 

In  Brief 15 

News  op  thb  Wbbe 16 

Business 13 

Markets 13 


There  are  many  men  in  Chicago  who  are  not  pro- 
hibitionists because  Ihey  pretend  to  have  no  interest 
in  a  matter  which  does  not  concern  them.  Suppose 
some  of  these  indifferent  temperance  men  had  been 
driving  in  a  well  filled  family  carriage  across  the 
Northwestern  tracks  when  a  drunken  fellow  the 
other  day  found  an  engine  on  a  side  track  left  for  a 
moment  without  its  crew.  Ho  got  aboard,  put  on 
all  steam,  and  tumbled  off  while  the  huge  machine 
dashed  through  the  city  without  a  master,  until,  col- 
liding, it  was  dashed  aside  a  wreck.  But  our  tem- 
perance friend's  family  was  not  so  put  in  jeopardy 
by  a  drunken  wretch.  Yes,  but  who  knows  how 
soon  they  may  be?  The  lives  of  other  temperance 
people  were  in  danger  from  that  escapade,  and  until 
the  saloon  is  put  down  there  will  always  be  such 
danger,  and  the  best  and  worthiest  may  be  the  vic- 
tims. 


The  Burlington  strikers  quit  work  February  27th, 
eight  weeks  ago,  as  we  write.  Th  ir  boasts  of  suc- 
cess have  been  silenced,  their  efforts  to  prove  the 
now  men  incompetent  have  failed,  and  there  is 
nothing  left  them  but  idleness,  unhappy  reflections, 
and  some  useful  oxperienoe  to  all  who  will  profit  by 
it  There  were  1,063  engineers  and  the  same  num- 
ber of  firemen  who  went  on  the  strike.  The  wages 
of  the  former  averaged  14,  of  the  latter  12.40  a  day. 
Their  loss  has  been  therefore  some  16,800  daily,  or 
$326,400  for  the  whole  time.  Their  brotherhoods 
have  supported  them  and  will  do  so  till  the  strike 
is  declared  off.  This  has  cost  $212,600  for  the  two 
months.  "Grievance  committees"  have  spent  weeks 
about  Chicago;  committee  men  and  brotherhood 
chiefs  have  had  parlors  and  private  rooms  at  the 
finest  hotel;  other  subordinate  strikes  occurred,  and 
the  sum  total  of  cost  to  the  striking  party  must 
have  been  nearly  $675,000.  An  estimate  of  the  loss 
to  the  railroads  puts  it  above  $2,000,000.  This  is 
the  cost  to  the  country  for  this  experience  with  se- 


cretism.  It  is  a  wise  conclusion  that  it  is  time  the 
labor  lodge  was  voted  a  nuisance  to  be  outlawed  b^ 
the  business  of  the  country,  and  much  more  so  by 
the  laborers  themselves. 


Marshal  Dyer  of  Salt  Lake  City,  as  receiver  of 
the  Mormon  church  property  under  the  government 
suits,  finds  much  contraband  property  of  the  organ- 
ization disposed  of  to  individuals  to  be  held  under 
some  pretext.  He  continues  to  find  such  property 
and  confiscates  it.  The  Mormons  are  required  to 
pay  $256  monthly  rental  for  their  church  property 
and  are  probably  boasting  less  than  heretofore  to 
visitors  of  the  magnitude  of  the  tabernacle,  or  the 
solidity  of  the  temple.  In  one  of  these  suits  lately 
Angus  M.  Cannon,  a  church  dignitary,  swore  that 
he  did  not  now  sign  any  more  recommendations  for 
plural  marriages,  and  Woodruff,  president  of  the 
church,  told  him  he  would  not  countersign  any  such 
papers.  They  profess,  therefore,  that  polygamous 
marriages  have  been  discontinued.  But  an  examin- 
ation of  the  temples  at  Logan,  St.  George  and  Manti 
might  prove  these  old  gentlemen  at  Salt  Lake  to  be 
only  shamming. 


The  Reading  railroad  company  which  suffered  last 
winter  from  a  severe  strike,  led  by  the  Knights  of 
Labor,  and  endorsed  at  their  Philadelphia  head- 
quarters, has  lately  been  receiving  many  petitions 
for  reinstatement  from  old  employes,  recalling  faith- 
ful service,  stating  that  their  former  work  and  wages 
were  satisfactory,  but  they  went  out  with  the  rest, 
blindly,  or  by  a  sort  of  compulsion.  The  reply  is 
the  new  men  cannot  be  dismissed  and  there  are  no 
situations,  but  recommendations  are  given  the  de- 
serving. The  Christian  Intelligencer  remarks  forcibly 
upon  this  case:  "What  slavery  workingmen  submit 
to  in  labor  organizations!  What  a  base  surrender 
they  make  of  their  manhood,  and  for  what?  In 
what  respect  have  the  Knights  of  Labor  improved 
the  condition  of  the  men  on  the  Beading  road?  Is 
it  not  time  to  interfere  by  legal  measures  for  the 
liberation  of  these  misguided  men  from  their  hot- 
headed, ignorant  and  malignant  leaders?  Is  it  not 
time  to  make  these  leaders,  who  order  strikes,  legally 
responsible  for  the  results  of  their  acts?  Five  years 
in  the  State  prison  would  be  a  just  punishment  for 
the  men  who  ordered  the  strike  on  the  Reading. 
How  long  will  the  people  submit  to  the  damage  in- 
flicted by  executive  committees,  meeting  in  secret 
and,  witaout  legal  authority,  deciding  in  secret  to 
arrest  trade  over  sections  of  the  country  as  large  as 
empires!" 


It  is  understood  that  an  experiment  is  about  to 
be  tried  in  this  city,  the  outcome  of  which  will  be 
regarded  with  much  interest.  A  series  of  confer- 
ences is  arranged  between  workingmen  and  capital- 
ists or  employers  to  discuss  economic  questions  and 
secure  a  better  acquaintance.  There  is  no  doubt  a 
great  lack  of  acquaintance  between  the  two  class- 
es. Each  knows  too  little  generally  of  the  perplex- 
ities and  trials  of  the  other.  These  conferences  aim 
to  remove  this  lack  of  mutual  understanding  and 
pave  the  way  for  a  better  state  of  things.  The  con- 
ferences are  to  take  place  on  successive  Sunday  eve- 
nings, and  are  seven  in  number.  There  are  four 
representatives  of  the  workingmen  to  speak,  name- 
ly: George  A.  Schilling,on"The  Aims  of  the  Knights 
of  Labor;"  Thomas  J.  Morgan,  on  "The  Labor 
Question  from  the  Standpoint  of  the  Socialist;"  Jo- 
seph R.  Buchanan,  on  "A  View  from  the  Labor 
Sanctum;"  and  A.  C.  Cameron,  on  "An  American 
Trades  Unionist's  View  of  the  Social  Question."  The 
business  men  are  allotted  three  representatives:  Ly- 
man J.  Gage  speaks  on  "Banking  and  the  Social 
System;"  Charles  L.  Hutchinson,  on  "Is  the  Board 
of  Trade  Hostile  to  the  Interest  of  the  Community?" 
and  Franklin  MacVeagh,  on  "Socialism  as  a  Reme- 
dy." Miscellaneous  discussion  is  not  to  be  allowed 
at  these  conferences,  because  of  its  obvious  dangers; 
but  at  the  conclusion  of  each  address  respectful 
questions  will  be  allowed.  We  do  not  wish  to  dis- 
courage an  attempt  to  secure  so  worthy  an  end,  but 
neither  Schilling,  Morgan,  Buchanan  or  Cameron 
are  representative  workingmen.      Three  of  them  at 


least  are  professional  demagogues,  anarchists  and 
agitators.  The  Sabbath  is  always  the  day  they  se- 
lect for  the  meetings  of  the  lodges  and  incendiary 
meetings  which  they  dominate.  Nor  do  we  think 
Mr.  Hutchinson,  president  of  the  Board  of  Trade,  the 
best  man  to  speak  for  that  institution  and  deal  fair- 
ly with  the  iniquities  it  covers.  Mr.  Gage  of  the 
First  National  Bank  and  Mr.  MacVeagh,  wholesale 
grocer,  are  the  only  two  fairly  chosen  men,  and  we 
cannot  understand  why  they  should  have  allowed 
their  names  to  be  connected  with  such  meetings  on 
the  Sabbath. 


JOHN  TETZBL  AUD  JOHN  BARLB7C0RN. 


BY   JOEL    8WABTZ,   D.    D. 


Lutherans  will  recognize  one  of  these  names  as 
historical;  the  other  is  self-suggestive.  Both  are 
readily  associated  with  another,  also  historical,  per- 
haps a  lineal,  though  remote  ancestor  of  both,  whom, 
from  respect  for  the  children,  we  will  not  name,  but 
characterize  by  saying  now,  as  was  said  of  him  in 
his  day,  "He  was  a  thief  and  had  the  bag  and  bare 
what  was  put  therein."  The  three  names  are,  by 
common  consent  of  wise  and  good  men,  accepted  as 
synonyms  of  treachery,  avarice  and  fraud. 

The  latter  having  gone  "to  his  own  place,"  the 
first  is  perhaps  still  in  "Purgatory,"  while  the  sec- 
ond, John  Barleycorn,  is  unhappily  still  with  us, 
the  meanest  of  the  three;  v^hom,  if  God  will,  we 
hope  ere  long  to  send  even  beyond  his  predecessors, 
as  he  deserves. 

"A  deeper,  darker  hall, 
Where  the  venging  furies  call, 

In  the  awful  depths  below, 

All  the  direful  names  of  woe 
Which  the  guilty  soul  appall." 

The  old-time  traitor  we  pity  and  almost  respect  as 
we  hear  him  say,  while  dashing  the  ill-gotten  shekels 
from  his  hand,  "I  have  betrayed  innocent  blood." 
Tetzel  we  commiserate,  as  a  remorse,  also  late,  seizes 
his  conscience,  and  we  applaud  great-souled  Luther 
for  his  letters  of  condolence  to  the  old,  self-con- 
fessed humbug  and  impostor.  But  for  John  Barley- 
corn we  cannot  get  up  any  sympathy.  His  is  a  "sin 
unto  death;"  we  can  neither  forgive  it  nor  pray 
for  it. 

Judas  sinned,  betrayed  his  Master  once,  repented 
and  hanged  himself.  Tetzel  was  the  agent  of  an- 
other whom  he  accepted  as  "holy  father,"  and  "in- 
fallible pope,"  and  was  goaded  with  remorse  upon 
the  discovery  in  his  mind  of  an  hop'^*',  doubt.  But 
John  Barleycorn  has  neither  Tetzel's  honest  doubt 
nor  the  remorse  of  Judas,  and  has  not  had  the  laud- 
able hardihood  to  try  the  halter.  If  he  give  us  a 
little  more  time  we  propose  to  prompt  his  courage, 
steady  bis  hand  and  help  him  to  plait  the  noose. 
"Why,  what  evil  hath  he  done?"  Why!  what  evil 
hath  he  not  done?  Amid  the  curses  and  accusa- 
tions which  the  generations  thunder  in  reply,  the 
sigh  and  trembling  voice  of  Judas  and  Tetzel's  con- 
fession are  absolutely  lost  and  drowned. 

Let  us  steady  ourselves  a  little.  Let  Judas  go  to 
his  own  place  and  be  forgotten.  But  let  us,  for  the 
purpose  of  a  little  present  instruction,  compare  and 
contrast  John  Tetzel  and  John  Barleycorn. 

John  Tetzel  held  a  license  from  the  church  to  sell 
indulgences.  John  Barleycorn  holds  a  license  from 
the  State  to  sell  rum.  The  first  was  a  license  to  re- 
mit sins.  The  second  is  a  licanse  to  commit  sins. 
The  first  was  mainly,  if  not  wholly,  retrospective. 
The  second  is  prospective,  and  makes  no  amends  or 
apology  for  the  past.  The  indulgence-monger  aimed 
bis  wares  at  the  soul,  and  sought  to  heal  its  remorse 
and  deliver  it  from  purgatory.  The  vender  of  rum 
aims  his  deadly  shot  at  body,  soul,  reputation,  prop- 
erty, all  that  is  treasured  here,  all  that  is  hoped  for 
hereafter.  The  indulgence  fraud  was  licensed  to 
build  St.  Peter's  Cathetiral  at  Rome.  The  vender 
of  spirits  is  taxed  to  build  jails,  alms  houses,  peni- 
tentiaries, lunatic  asylums,  etc.,  etc.,  all  of  which 
he  makes  necessary  and  duly  supplies  with  wretch- 
ed inmates.  The  "tax-book  of  the  Roman  chan- 
cery" fixed  the  rates  to  be  paid  for  indulgences  as 
high  or  low  according  to  the  enormity  of  the  sin, 


THE  CHRISTIA3S-  CYNOSURE- 


April  26, 1888 


and  it  had  reduced  the  privileges  and  penalties  of 
sinning  to  the  accuracy  of  a  mathematical  calcula- 
tion thus: 

-For  taking  a  false  oath |3  16 

Stealing  and  robbing 2  88 

For  Incest 1  80 

For  adultery 8 16 

We  have  not  yet  attained  to  an  equal  nicety  of 
gradation  for  John  Barleycorn,  but  we  are  coming 
to  it.  Oar  Brook's  high-license  law  in  Pennsyl- 
vania is  a  very  respectable  and  encouraging  ap- 
proach. It  is  admirable  to  see  how  well  the  vary- 
ing taxes  for  selling  whiskies,  brandies,  wine8,beers, 
etc.,  correspond  to  the  differing  tendencies  of  these 
drinks  to  incite  to  murder,  theft,  suicide,  wife-beat- 
ing, perjury  and  lesser  crimes.  In  some  respect  the' 
license  fees  of  John  Barleycorn  for  doing  any  of 
these  permitted  things  which,  paradoxical  as  it  may 
seem,  are  all  unlawful,  are  more  delicately  weighed 
and  adjusted  than  was  the  case  in  the  days  of  Leo 
X.  This  latter  genius  has  not,  so  far  as  we  can  see, 
fixed  varying  rates  for  indulgences  in  cities  of  "the 
first,  second  and  third  class,"  and  for  the  rural  dis- 
tricts. We  live  in  a  more  scientific  age  and  are  bet- 
ter enlightened  Chrittiam. 

Again  and  moreover,  we  have  learned  something 
that  Luther  did  not  know.  He  was  a  rampant  pro- 
hibitionist,— a  regular  crank,  he  was!  He  attacked 
the  whole  system  as  a  work  of  the  devil.  He  learned 
also  what  we  better  know,  that  prohibition  did  not 
prohibit.  The  indulgence  system  went  on  and  pre- 
vails even  yet  to-day.  He  should  have  regulated, 
licensed,  but  taxed  it.  Had  he  only  lived  to  hear 
Emerson  say,  "The  backs  of  our  vices  should  bear 
the  burden  of  our  taxes,"  he  would  have  seen  how 
the  indulgence  system  could  have  been  restrained, 
lodged  in  better  hands  than  Tetzel's,  and  at  the 
same  time  been  made  to  build  St.  Peter's  and  do 
much  other  godly  work.  But  poor  man,  he  was  hot- 
headed, impatient,  went  in  advance  of  public  opin- 
ion, and  like  many  another  crank  thought  the  devil 
could  be  conquered  and  the  world  reformed  all  at 
once. 

A  few  lessons  mav  sum  up  this  study: 

1.  Let  us  be  gentle  and  charitable  in  our  judg- 
ment of  Tetzel  and  indulgences. 

2.  Let  us  learn  to  sympathize  with  Leo  X.  He 
wanted  money  for  his  harem,  courtiers,  and  St. 
Peter's. 

3.  The  loins  of  Leo  and  Tetzel  are  as  a  little  fin- 
ger to  the  tremendous  corporiety  and  girth  of  Uncle 
Sam  and  John  Barleycorn. 

Gettysburg,  Pa. 

^  >  » 

"BE  NOT  OVBROOME  OF  BVIL." 


BY   A.   H.    8PRINQSTEIN. 

The  Pontiac  M.  E.  Church  was  rapidly  running 
down.  This  occasioned  great  anxiety  among  the 
responsible  members. 

One  of  the  most  prominent  oflScial  members  de- 
sired my  oppinion  in  regard  to  their  affairs. 

I  asked  him,  "Do  you  know  that  many  of  your 
preachers  are  guilty  of  the  double  wickedness  of  em- 
bracing two  contradictory  religions — the  Christian 
religion  in  the  church  and  an  anti-Christian  religion 
in  the  lodge?  Do  you  know  that  some  of  the  bas- 
est people  in  the  coii\,m unity  are  hired  to  sing  oper- 
atic music  in  the  choir?  The  leader,  a  man  who  gets 
drunk  and  beats  his  wife?  Do  you  know  that 
some  of  your  church  entertainments  are  mere  theat- 
ricals, and  the  Sunday-school  scarcely  more  than 
an  amusement?  Do  you  know,  in  a  word,  that  the 
world  controls  the  church?  " 

"  O,  yes,"  said  he,  "1  do  know  it.  We  all  know 
it,  but  we  cannot  help  it.  What  you  say  of  our 
church  is  true  of  all  the  rest.  The  churches  in  this 
city  are  conducted  just  as  business  houses  and  busi- 
ness enterprises  are.  There  is  a  similar  rivalry.  If 
the  people  cannot  find  in  one  place  what  they  want, 
they  will  go  to  another.  We  do  not  approve  of  the 
course  we  persue,  but  we  have  to  do  so  or  cIosh  up 
the  church;  for  if  we  fail  to  furnish  what  the  peo- 
ple demand,  they  will  go  elsewhere." 

However,  with  all  their  decoration  and  display, 
they  were  getting  in  debt  and  losing  ground,  and 
the  official  board  looked  the  matter  over,  and  de- 
cided that  all  this  mischief  was  occasioned  chiefly 
by  their  having  Masonic  preachers.  So  they  noti- 
fied their  presiding  elder  that  they  would  not  accept 
of  another  Mason. 

"Well,"  said  he,  "there  are  so  many  Masons  in 
the  conference  that  I  do  not  see  how  we  can  dis- 
criminate in  your  favor.     How  would suit 

you?" 

"We  would  not  receive  him.     He  is  a  Mason." 

"Well,  you  will  have  to  take  just  such  men  as 
the  conference  may  send,"  said  tbe  elder. 

"No,  we  won't,  we  are  nearly  ruined,  and  at  the 


present  rate  of  decline,  we  will  soon  be  hopelessly 
involved  in  debt  and  other  difficulties.  We  are 
hardly  self-supporting  now,  and  the  Masonic 
preachers  have  been  a  dead  weight  on  our  hands. 
If  you  send  any  more  of  them  we  will  not  receive 
them." 

"But  what  will  you  do  if  a  Mason  should  be  sent 
to  you?"  the  elder  asked. 

They  answered,  "We  have  decided  not  to  support 
another." 

When  this  was  gleefully  reported  to  me  I  told 
them  that  they  would  pay  dearly  for  their  "contu- 
macy."    All  this  was  done  privately,  of  course. 

Now,  what  was  their  surprise  when  the  next 
preacher  appointed  here  was  a  32-degree  Mason  and 
an  Odd-fellow  besides!  What  now?  They  said  it 
was  only  for  one  year,  and  positively  they  would 
keep  him  no  longer.  At  the  close  of  the  year  the 
preacher  was  officially  informed  that  he  could  not 
1)6  retained. 

But  he  cried  like  a  child,  and  protested  that  it 
would  ruin  his  reputation  to  stay  only  one  year  in  a 
place.  He  begged  and  plead  so  piteously  that  they 
had  pity  on  him  and  consented  to  his  return  just 
for  one  year.  During  the  next  session  of  the  con- 
ference I  wrote  to  Bishop  Peck  and  requested  him 
to  send  a  man  religiously  inclined — if  he  could  find 
such  a  man, — and,  if  he  could,  outdo  the  Masonic 
ring.  Kev.  32nd  did  not  return.  The  official  board 
said  "No!"  to  his  tears  and  importunities. 

His  successor  was  not  a  member  of  any  secret 
society.  He  was  very  anxious  for  me  to  go  and 
hear  him  preach.  He  said  that  he  had  the  name  of 
preaching  the  truth  more  faithfully  than  any  man 
in  his  conference.  What  Elder  Levington  and  I  re- 
ported about  Masonary  in  Detroit  conference  he 
affirmed  to  be  true.  The  Masonic  preachers  were 
spiritually  dead  men,  and  they  ruined  the  churches 
wherever  they  went. 

I  told  him  about  the  action  of  the  official  board, 
when  he  replied,  "Yes,  and  when  my  predecessor 
found  that  the  church  was  determined  to  keep  him 
no  longer,  he  wrote  a  letter  to  the  Pontiac  Masonic 
lodge  imploring  them  to  use  their  influence  as  Ma- 
sons to  keep  him  here  another  year." 

"What! "  I  exclaimed,  "is  that  possible?" 
"Yes,"  said  he,  "it  is  a  fact,  and  I  saw  the  letter 
with  his  name  signed  to  it  in  his  own  handwriting." 
He  added,  "If  one  or  two  more  Masons  should  be 
sent  to  this  charge,  the  society  would  be  ruined  be- 
yond recovery." 

I  asked  him,  "Do  you  know  that  the  young  men 
are  being  drawn  into  the  lodge  secretly  and  are 
ruined  for  time  and  eternity?"  He  said  he  did 
know  it. 

"I  suppose,  then,  as  you  are  unusually  faithful  in 
your  preaching,  you  will  occasionally  warn  the 
young  men  of  your  congregation  to  avoid  this  dan- 
ger," I  naturally  suggested. 

"Well,  no,"  said  he,   "I  never  have  done  such  a 
thing  in  public." 
"Possible!    Why  not?" 

"0,  well,"  said  he,  "you  know  what  a  stir  it 
makes! " 
"Yes,  I  know." 

"No,"  said  he,  "I  guess  I  won't  do  that." 
Said  I,  "If  you  have  come  here  for  money,  it 
will  not  do  for  you  to  offend  the  Masons.  But  you 
are  worse  than  they  are.  They  are  slaves;  are 
sworn  to  obey  the  despotic,  murderous  lodge  pow- 
er, but  you  are  a  free  man.  They  kneel  down  just 
inside  the  lodge  door  and  involuntarily  worship  the 
devil,  while  you  voluntarily  kneel  down  just  outside 
the  lodge  door  and  worship  the  devil.  You  think 
more  of  your  ease  and  salary  than  you  do  of  the 
precious  souls  committed  to  your  care.  The  Pon- 
tiac Methodists  are  deceived  into  the  belief  that 
they  have  a  change  for  the  better,  when  it  is  only  a 
change  of  lodge  policy." 

However,  in  response  to  his  importunity,  wife 
and  I  went  one  Sabbath  evening  to  hear  him 
preach,  when,  to  our  surprise,  a  32-degree  doctor  of 
divinity  delivered  the  sermon,  and  the  next  morn- 
ing I  read  nearly  half  of  his  sermon  out  of 
Chase's  Digest  of  Masonic  Law  nearly  word  for  word. 
My  wife  said,  "I  do  not  wonder  that  the  pastor 
told  one  of  my  neighbors  that,  during  the  sermon, 
he  felt  as  though  he  would  sink  through  the  floor!  " 
A  leading  business  man  of  this  city,  a  Masonic 
Methodist,  regards  Masonry  as  a  swindle  and  a 
deadly  enemy  of  the  church  of  Christ,  but  he  pays 
his  dues  for  fear.  He  believes  that  it  would  ruin 
his  business  and  perhaps  endanger  his  person  to 
renounce  Masonry. 

"Behold  how  good  and  how  pleasant  it  is  for 
brethern  to  dwell  together  in  unity."  So  Masonry 
says.  Yes;  preachers,  deacons,  class  leaders,  pi- 
rates, gamblers,  savages,  spiritualists,  with  pagans 
and  infidels  of  every  type  dwelling  together  in  un- 


ity. And  the  Christian  the  only  one  who  must  deny 
his  Q-od  and  abandon  his  religion  in  order  to  enjoy 
this  "unity."  Behold  how  good  and  pleasamtl 
Dwell  together?  Yes;  for  they  all  fear  that  if  they 
should  renounce  the  infernal  "unity"  their  business 
would  be  deranged  and  their  throats  cut  by  their 
"brethren."  The  bond  of  this  union,  what?  Why  blas- 
phemous oaths  and  the  most  blood-curdling  death 
penalties!  And  preachers,  by  their  silence  or  assist- 
ance encourage  such  a  monstrosity!  Unparal- 
leled infamy! 

A  Pontiac  pastor  in  a  sermon  last  week  said: 
"Men  often  tell  me  that  they  are  Masons  or  Odd- 
fellows, and  that  is  all  the  religion  they  want.  I  an- 
swer them  ttiat  there  is  something  better  and  high- 
er than  that."  He  was  showing  the  advantages  of 
church  membership.  Now,  this  represents  Mason- 
ry as  being  defective  not  had;  as  being  an  insuffi- 
cient religion,  not  a  false  religion.  Consequently, 
this  view  would  admit  the  Mason  or  Odd-fellow  to 
church  membership.  One  pastor  objects  that  the 
lodge  gets  money  and  members  that  the  church 
ought  to  have.  Yes,  but  if  this  were  all,  it  is  only 
society  rivalry.  Such  views  are  neither  fundament- 
al nor  correct,  and  do  not  commend  themselves  to 
intelligent  lodge  men,  as  I  certainly  know,  I  con- 
clude: 

1.  That  to  oppose  an  unmitigated  evil  merely  on 
circumstantial  grounds,  betrays  deep-seated  selfish- 
ness or  inexcusable  unskillfulness. 

2.  That  to  handle  a  subject  so  as  to  confound 
moral  opposites  is  certain  proof  of  unfitness  for 
religious  instructorship. 

3.  That  to  withhold  timely  warning  or  to  con- 
ceal the  truth,  for  any  earthly  consideration,  is  a 
crime  against  humanity,  and  a  startling  proof  of 
moral  insensibility. 

4.  That  when  men  or  societies  silently  or  pri- 
vately oppose  public  wrong,  they  are  astray  and 
are  sure  of  defeat;  for  the  Word  says,  "They  overcame 
him  by  the  blood  of  the  Lamb  and  the  word  of 
their  testimony." 

Pontiac,  Mich. 


THE  POPE  AMONG  THE  NATIONS. 


BY  REV.   J.   M.   FOSTER. 


The  Forum  for  April,1888,ha8  an  article  on  "Civ- 
il Grovernment  and  the  Papacy,"  by  Prof.  E.  De 
Leveleye.  He  quotes  Count  Arnim's  declaration 
that  when  the  pope  lost  his  temporal  power  his  mor- 
al authority  was  correspondingly  increased.  Then 
he  says:  "The  Vatican  is  now  one  of  the  diplomatic 
centres  in  Europe,  where  the  most  important  politi- 
cal business  is  negotiated.  The  pope  interferes, 
either  openly  or  by  secret  agencies,  in  the  internal 
political  movement  of  all  civilized  countries.  The 
majority  of  the  inhabitants  of  nearly  all  the  Roman 
Catholic  countries,  and  very  powerful  minorities  in 
Protestant,  such  as  Germany  and  England,  or  in 
schismatic  nations  like  Bussia,  obey  the  orders  of 
their  priests,  who,  in  their  turn,  receive  instructions 
from  the  bishops  and  the  pope.  It  is  certain  that 
in  countries  where,  as  in  Belgium,  the  Roman  Cath- 
olic faith  has  held  its  ground,  the  pope  possesses  in- 
comparably more  authority  than  the  king.  The 
electors  who  decide  the  majority  in  Parliament  obey 
his  orders  and  the  choice  of  ministers  is  thus  in- 
fluenced." 

He  recalls  the  pope's  victory  over  Bismarck. 
Prince  Bismarck,  flushed  with  his  victory  over  the 
French,  did  not  propose  to  have  an  Italian  dictating 
their  policy.  "We  are  not  going  to  Canossa,"  he 
exclaimed  in  1872.  The  May  Laws  were  adopted. 
But  he  soon  found  that  he,like  his  predecessors.was 
weaker  than  the  hierarchy.  "Joseph  II.,  Emperor 
of  Austria,  wished  to  enforce  a  regulation  that  as- 
pirants to  the  priesthood  in  Belgium  should  follow 
the  course  of  studies  at  the  University  of  Louvain. 
The  clergy  resisted  this  measure,  and  the  revolu- 
tion of  1788  followed.  The  King  of  the  Netherlands, 
William  I.,  attempted  to  enforce  similar  measures 
and  the  revolution  of  1830  ensued.  Bismarck,  find- 
ing himself  incapable  of  resisting  the  clergy  of  the 
Catholic  provinces  of  Prussia,  and  perceiving  his 
mistake,  turned  completely  and  suddenly  round.  He 
made  peace  with  the  pope,  and,  over  and  above  this, 
he  contrived  to  become  the  abettor  of  the  designs  of 
his  holiness  and  an  accomplice  of  his  political  plans. 
Recently,  in  permitting  the  re-establishment  of  all 
religious  orders  save  the  Jesuits,Bi8marck  made  the 
pope  his  electoral  agent." 

The  recent  papal  triumph  in  England  comes  next. 
"In  order  to  induce  the  Irish  to  cease  their  opposi- 
tion to  the  English  Government,  Lord  Salisbury  dis- 
patches the  Duke  of  Norfolk  as  an  envoy  to  Rome, 
where  he  represents  the  interests  of  the  Irish  land- 
lords.   Even  Queen  Victoria  almost  prostrates  her> 


April  26, 1888 


THE  CHRISTIAlSr  CYNOSURE- 


I 


self  at  the  feet  of  the  pope,  if  we  may  believe  the 
oflacial  gazette  of  the  Vatican,  which  reports  that  her 
majesty  expressed  the  wish  'that  the  Catholic  relig- 
ion be  permitted  to  prosper  more  and  more  through- 
out the  vast  British  Empire.'  In  the  London  limes 
of  Dec.  27,  last  year,  we  read:  'The  British  special 
mission  to  the  pope  presented  the  gift  of  her  majes- 
ty. On  receiving  the  massive  bsain  and  ewer  of 
gold  constituting  the  gift,  the  Jpope,  with  evident 
pleasure,  remarked  that  they  would  serve  for  his  ju- 
bilee mass.  The  basin  and  ewer  were  engraved  with 
the  inscription,  7*0  Hit  Holiness, Pope  Leo  Xni.,from 
Victoria,  R.,  J.,  1888.'  Perhaps  next  spring  we  shall 
see  the  Queen  of  England  and  Empress  of  India  kiss 
the  toe  of  the  sovereign  pontiflE." 

In  France,  Italy,  Austria,  and  Spain  the  papal  au- 
thority hangs  over  them  like  the  sword  of  Damocles. 
"In  many  countries,  such  as  the  Tyrol,  the  Rhonane 
provinces, Belgium  and  Lower  Canada,  the  real  sove- 
reign is  not  the  reigning  monarch,but  the  pope,  who 
rules  through  the  medium  of  his  bishops  and 
priests."  The  Protestant  Emperor  of  Germany,  the 
chief  of  the  free-thinking  republic  of  France  and  the 
President  of  the  United  States.sent  gifts  to  the  pope 
on  the  fiftieth  anniversary  of  his  ordination.  "The 
pope  entering  St.  Peter's  adorned  with  the  tiara  sent 
by  the  Emperor  William,grand8on  of  Luther;  using 
the  basin  and  ewer  of  Queen  Victoria,  the  successor 
of  heretical  Elizabeth;  and  wearing  on  his  finger  the 
ring  presented  him  by  the  Sultan,  was  indeed  a 
strange  spectacle,  calling  to  mind  the  pantheism  of 
the  Roman  Empire,  which  admitted  the  worship  of 
all  gods  in  the  Pantheon  of  Agrippa." 

This  seems  like  a  prophecy  that  Roman  Catholic- 
ism will  become  universal.  But  Rome  is  the  foe  of 
freedom.  She  hates  free  schools,  a  free  press,  and 
especially  freedom  of  conscience.  They  say,"When 
Protestants  are  in  the  majority  we  allow  freedom  be- 
cause that  is  their  belief.  But  when  Catholics  are 
in  the  majority  we  suppress  it  because  that  is  our 
belief."  The  papacy  is  the  mother  of  harlots,sitting 
upon  a  scarlet-colored  beast,  holding  in  her  hand  a 
golden  cup  and  making  the  nations  drunk  with  the 
wine  of  her  fornication.  She  is  in  league  with  des- 
potism. "A  religion  which  accords  to  a  human  be- 
ing the  unheard-of  attribute  of  infallibility;which  is 
overloaded  with  customs  and  superstitions  wholly 
contrary  to  the  Q-ospel;  which  is  as  far  removed  from 
the  teachings  of  Christ  as  light  from  darkness,  and 
which,  above  all,condemns  modern  liberties  and  par- 
ticularly liberty  of  conscience, — such  a  religion  as 
this  is  never  likely  to  be  adopted  by  the  civilized 
nations  of  the  future." 

Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 

MOBB  NBW8   FROM  INDIA. 


In  a  previous  letter  I  spoke  of  our  want  of  col- 
porteur-evangelists, and  promised  to  speak  of  other 
openings  for  workers  here  in  India.  I  ought  to  ex- 
plain that  I  have  been  sixteen  years  in  mission 
work  in  India,  having  originally  come  out  under  the 
Missionary  Society  of  the  M.  E.  church.  After  be- 
ing in  India  a  few  months  I  resigned  my  missionary 
salary  and  have  since  been  supported,  part  of  the 
time,  by  the  congregations  I  served,  and  part  of  the 
time  by  my  own  labors.  The  nature  of  my  present 
work  is  union  and  inter-denominational. 

Every  one  knows  well  enough  that  Paul  the  apos- 
tle supported  himself  a  good  share  of  his  time  by 
working  with  his  own  hands,  and  some  of  the  time 
he  •  not  only  earned  his  own  support,  but 
ministered  to  those  that  were  with  him. 
Why  should  there  not  be  self-supporting  apostles  in 
Asia  just  as  well  now  as  1800  years  ago?  But  mark 
this  one  point,  that  self-support  generally  means 
bard  work.  No  one  need  undertake  unless  he  is 
willing  to  follow  out  literally  what  our  Lord  says 
about  bearing  the  cross  daily.  A  part  of  the  cross 
is  the  misunderstanding  of  motives  and  methods 
which-Bometimes  arises  in  the  minds,  even  of  good 
people. 

Now,  as  to  more  openings  for  work,  my  wife  has 
a  "Rescue  Home."  As  there  is  a  similar  work  in  Chi- 
cago, St.  Louis,  New  York,  etc.,  I  need  not  largely 
explain  the  nature  of  this  part  of  our  mission.  I 
am  sure  that  many  more  daughters  of  the  Lord 
ought  to  enter  this  special  work;  yes,  and  it  is  a  field 
in  which  men  can  also  work.  You  can  learn  much 
about  "Rescue"  labor  by  writing  to  the  "Florence 
Mission,"  New  York.  Ask  for  one  of  their  reports; 
it  will  do  you  good.  We  have  also  a  "Foundling 
Home."  Write  to  Dr.  Shipman  of  the  "Foundling 
Home,"  Chicago,  and  ask  for  some  back  numbers 
of  their  Record,  These  will  give  you  items  of  the 
work  that  exists  in  America;  then  remember  that 
our  work  in  India  is  very  different,  and  be  sure  that 
you  are  prepared  to  adapt  yourself  to  the  wants  of 
thii  peculiar  field.  W.  J.  Gladwin. 


THE  SALOON  QUESTION  AND  MASONRY. 

I  J.  Q.  A.  Fellows,  Committee  on  Correspondence,  Grand  Lodge 
of  Louisiana,  in  Voice  of  Masonry.  | 

In  several  Grand  Lodges,  and  notably  in  that  of 
Missouri,  the  keepers  of  saloons  or  other  places  in 
which  spirituous  or  malt  liquors  are  sold,are  declared 
guilty  of  Masonic  offenses,  and  the  lodges  to  which 
they  belong,  if  they  be  Masons,  are  required,  upon 
the  ascertainment  of  the  fact,  to  expel  them  from 
all  the  rights  and  privileges  of  Freemasonry. 

We  lay  down  as  a  fundamental  proposition,  that 
no  act  can  be  made  a  Masonic  crime  unless  such  act 
is  made  a  crime  or  misdemeanor  by  the  statute  laws 
of  the  state  or  country;  or,  unless  it  be  violative  of 
the  obligations  assumed  when  one  becomes  a  Ma- 
son; this  of  course  includes  the  obligations  of  the 
three  degrees. 

As  we  are  bound  to  be  good  citizens  and  cheer- 
fully obey  the  laws  of  the  country  in  which  we  re- 
side, we  violate  our  obligations  as  citizens  and  Ma- 
sons when  we  violate  any  law  of  that  country  which 
prohibits  or  makes  a  crime  or  misdemeanor,  with 
penalty  attached,  any  act  or  deed  or  calling.  If , then, 
the  State  has  prohibited  the  retailing  of  intoxicating 
liquors  and  made  it  a  crime  or  misdemeanor,punisha- 
ble  by  fine  or  imprisonment,  a  violation  of  that  law 
is  a  Masonic  offense,  and  on  proof  being  made  and 
conviction  had,  after  due  trial,  the  brother  found 
guilty  should  be  Masonically  punished. 

If  the  selling  of  intoxicating  liquors,  as  a  bever- 
age or  otherwise,  or  the  keeping  of  a  saloon  in  which 
intoxicating  liquors  are  sold,  be  prohibited  by  any 
of  the  points  of  the  obligations  which  the  Master 
Mason  has  taken,  then,  whether  the  State  has  de- 
clared such  act  to  be  a  crime  or  misdemeanor  pun- 
ishable on  conviction,  or  has  not  so  declared,the  act 
constitutes  a  Masonic  offense  and  renders  the  broth- 
er guilty  of  such  act  liable  to  Masonic  discipline. 
And  here,  we  take  it,  is  found  the  gist  of  the  whole 
question.  We  submit  that  there  is  nothing  in  the 
obligations  taken  by  a  Master  Mason  which  prohib- 
its him  from  keeping  a  saloon,  or  selling,  as  a  bev- 
erage, intoxicating  liquors.  We  are  bound  by  no 
such  tie.  From  the  nature  of  the  case  we  cannot.in 
writing,  prove  this,  even  if  it  were  an  affirmative 
proposition.  We  cannot  be  required  to  prove  the 
negative.  We  simply  deny  that  any  such  prohibi- 
tion exists  or  can  be  found  in  the  obligations  of  a 
Master  Mason. 

One  would  suppose  that  the  whole  controversy 
ends  here,  and  such  would  be  the  case  were  it  not 
for  special  Grand  Lodge  legislation;  and  hence  the 
necessity  for  further  remark. 

The  Grand  Lodge  of  Missouri  has  declared  "hab- 
itual drunkenness,  gambling,  blasphemy,  and  prac- 
tices of  a  kindred  character  unmasonic,"  (Section 
29  of  Article  16,  page  61,  Book  of  Constitution), and 
in  1882  that  Grand  Lodge  declared  saloon-keeping 
to  be  unmasonic  in  these  words:  '■'■Resolved,  That  the 
business  of  saloon-keeping  is  hereby  declared  to  be 
a  Masonic  offense." 

Quoting  from  the  report  of  Bro.  Vincil,  qn  For- 
eign Correspondence,  his  quotations  from  other 
Grand  Lodge  proceedings  we  find  as  follows: 

Arkansas:  "Resolved,  That  hereafter  it  shall  not  be 
lawful  for  subordinate  lodges  to  initiate  any  man  whose 
business  is  that  of  keeping  a  liquor  ealoon." 

Colorado:  "It  is  hereby  made  the  imperative  duty  of 
all  lodges  to  restrain,  as  far  as  possible,  the  Masonic 
crime  of  intemperance,  by  trial  and  punishment,  as  the 
case  may  require,  and  to  exclude  from  lodge  and  ante- 
rooms all  intoxicating  liquors,  and  for  the  faithful  per- 
formance of  these  duties  they  will  be  held  strictly  ac- 
countable to  the  Grand  Lodge.  It  shall  be  unlawful  to 
initiate  or  affiliate  any  person  engaged  in  the  sale  of  in- 
toxicating liquors." 

Dakota:  "Resolved,  That  no  person  who  is  engaged  in 
the  business  of  keeping  a  saloon,  or  is  engaged  in  the 
busiiessof  retailing  iatoxicating  liquors,  to  be  used  as 
a  beverage,  shall  be  initiated  into  any  particular  lodge  in 
this  jurisdiction,  nor  shall  any  brother  Mason  who  is  en 
gaged  in  such  business  be  received  in  any  lodge  as  a 
member  by  aflBliation." 

The  Grand  Lodges  of  Oregon  and  Washington 
have  similar  regulations. 

Missouri:  We  quote  from  the  Report  on  Foreign 
Correspondence  of  Most  Worshipful  Bro.  Vincil. 
His  remarks  on  this  question  occur  in  his  review 
of  several  Grand  Lodge  proceedings,  and  are  of  the 
same  tenor  in  all,  and  hence  we  extract  from  only 
one.  These  extracts  show  about  as  much  intemper- 
ance in  language  as  is  exhibited  in  drinking  by  a 
confirmed  inebriate,  and  are  equally  as  obnoxious 
to  the  teachings  of  Freemasonry.  As,  for  instance, 
under  the  head  of  Arkansas,  he  says: 

"The  saloon  business  is  put  under  proper  condem- 
nation by  the  following: 

"  'Resolved,  That  it  shall  be  a  Masonic  ofFense,  worthy 
of  expulsion,  for  a  member  to  keep  a  saloon  for  the  sale 
of  intoxicating  liquors.' 


"Truly  the  leaven  is  working  and  the  whole  lump 
will  yet  feel  the  moral  force  of  true  Masonic  oppo- 
sition to  the  crime  of  drunkard-making  by  Masons. 
This  war  is  not  against  the  men  engaged  in  the 
nefarious  traffic,  but  against  their  bu8iness,which  is 
a  curse  and  a  curse  only  and  a  curse  continually.  If 
any  one  can  show  a  particle  of  good  in  the  business, 
let  it  be  done.  As  only  harm  can  be  shown.let  that 
which  is  only  evil  be  driven  from  the  Masonic  Fra- 
ternity. In  Missouri  he  has  to  go.  The  decree  has 
gone  forth  to  saloon-keeping  Masons,  'Quit  the  bus- 
iness or  quit  Masonry.' 

"Arkansas  went  beyond  the  Missouri  rule,  and 
"  'Resolved,  That  hereafter  it  shall  not  be  lawful  for 
subordinate  lodges  to  initiate  any  man  whose  business  is 
that  of  keeping  a  liquor  saloon.' 

"It  certainly  is  a  good  rule  to  keep  out  those  who 
would  have  to  be  put  out.  Missouri  began  by  put- 
ing  out  those  who  were  in.  This  is  required  of  the 
lodges.  No  lodge  will  receive  a  saloon-keeper,  know- 
ing he  will  be  prosecuted  as  soon  as  admitted. 
Hence  we  kill  the  evil  in  the  lodges,and  thereby  ed- 
ucate the  membership  in  a  very  practical  way." 

And  under  the  head  of  Iowa  he  further  says: 

"Your  tender-hear tei  friends  of  the  saloonkeep- 
er and  their  apologists  forget  another  thing,  that 
what  is  now  Masonic  has  always  been  so.  Saloon- 
keeping  is  unmasonic  because  it  is  immoral.  A  bus- 
iness which  is  immoral  once  is  immoral  always.  It 
has  always  been  so.  The  Grand  Lodge  has  declared 
that  it  is.  And  the  Grand  Lodge  declared  thirty 
years  ago  that  the  lodges  must  enforce  the  law 
against  all  unmasonic  conduct.  It  was  unmasonic 
then  to  sell  liquor  for  drinking  purposes,  because  an 
immoral  business.  It  was,therefore,  in  violation  of 
the  law  of  the  Grand  Lodge  that  lodges  received 
such  tainted  and  immoral  creatures.  The  complaint 
of  the  poor,persecuted  saloon-keeper  must  be  against 
the  lodges  which  received  them,  not  against  the  law. 
And  the  lodges  which  received  and  retained  them  in 
disregard  of  the  mandates  of  the  Grand  Lodge  will 
find  Jordan  a  hard  road  to  travel  before  this  matter 
is  settled.  The  Grand  Lodge  of  Missouri  declared 
in  1882  that  saloon-keeping  is  a  Masonic  offense;  by 
this  declaration  our  Grand  Lodge  defines  the  quali- 
ty of  the  business.  It  is  immoral,  and  the  Grand 
Lodge  has  declared  that  the  resolution  of  1882  was 
only  a  specific  declaration  of  what  had  always  been 
the  law,  because  the  business  of  saloon-keeping  had 
always  been  immoral.  To  continue  in  the  business 
thus  declared  to  be  immoral  and  unmasonic.is  to  be 
guilty  of  a  willful  and  defiant  disregard  for  the  law. 
The  Grand  Lodge  of  Missouri  does  not  tolerate  that 
kind  of  temerity.  When  she  speaks  she  means  what 
she  says." 

We,  as  Masons,  are,  ofcen,  or,  would  we  perpetu- 
ate and  carry  out  the  behests  of  the  institution,should 
be  called  from  labor  to  refreshment,  and  the  only  re- 
straints upon  such  occasions  are  that  we  should  not 
drink  to  drunkenness,  not  that  we  should  not  drink 
at  all,  and  that  we  should  not  eat  to  excess;  that  is, 
not  refrain  from  eating,  but  avoid  gluttony,  and  a 
reason  for  this  eating  and  drinking  in  moderation 
is  that  the  craft  may  have  profit  thereby. 

Some  time  ago  drinking  and  eating  to  excess,  in- 
temperance and  gluttony,  became  prevailing  vices, 
and  seriously  and  physiologically  speaking  there  was 
and  is  little  appreciable  difference  in  the  baneful  ef- 
fects of  either  vice.  Both  vices  are  equally  wrong 
and  equally  forbidden  by  the  laws  of  God,of  nature 
and  ot  Masonry.  To  such  an  extreme  had  the  evil 
of  intemperance  reached  that  many  took  the  alarm 
and  sought  for  a  remedy  for  the  evil.  Instead, how- 
ever, of  bringing  the  subjects  of  the  vice  and  the 
practicers  of  the  habit  back  to  the  tennperate  and  we 
say  permissible  use  of  spirituous  liquors,  these  re- 
formers rushed  to  the  extreme  of  prohibiting  the 
use  of  .any  spirituous  or  malt  liquors,  wine  or  cider, 
and  used  all  the  arguments  imaginable  by  extrem- 
ists of  every  kind. 

That  drunkenness  is  a  vice  everybody  admit3,and 
if  a  brother  is  given  to  drinking  to  excess,he  should 
be  sought  after,  and  if  possible  reformed.  In  the 
working  of  the  lodge  it  is  the  duty  of  the  Junior 
Warden  to  see  that  the  brethren  convert  not  the 
hours  of  refreshment  into  intemperance  and  excess; 
in  the  world,every  day, it  is  the  duty  of  every  broth- 
er to  see  to  the  welfare  and  proper  conduct  of  ev- 
ery other,  and  by  brotherly  advice,  admonition  and 
reproof  bring  him  back  to  a  proper  mo<le  of  life. 

But  while  drunkenness  is  a  vice,  drinking  is  not, 
and  no  amount  of  sophistry  can  so  make  it.  Glut- 
tony, excessive  eating,  is  a  vice,  but  eating  is  not, 
and  so  of  all  play,  or  all  work,  and  of  any  and  every 
thing  carried  to  excess.  Excess  of  any  and  every 
kind  is  a  vice  injurious  alike  to  all. 

If,  then,  drinking  as  well  as  eating  is  not  a  vice, 
the  selling  of  the  wherewithal  to  eat  or  drink  can- 
not be  a  crime  or  offense.  Masonic  or  otherwise,  un- 


THE  CHRISTIAJSr  CYNOSURE. 


April  26, 1888 


1 


less  there  be  some  power  of  sufficient  authority  so 
to  enact.  It  is  judicial  question  whether  the  State 
in  this  country  can  declare  the  selling  of  anything 
necessary  or  proper  to  be  used,  to  be  a  crime  or 
misdemeanor.  This  question  we  do  not  pretend  to 
decide. 

That  the  State  may  regulate  all  the  transactions 
of  a  civilized  community  to  the  end  of  promoting 
its  peace  and  prosperity,  all  concede,  and  we  sug- 
gest that  this  power  to  regulate  may  be  as  far  as 
the  State  can  go.  But,  whatever  the  State  may  de- 
termine, we  admitted  in  the  outset  that  anything 
declared  a  crime  or  misdemeanor  by  State  laws  be- 
comes a  Masonic  offensc'on  the  ground  that  the  Ma- 
son must  obey  the  laws  of  the  country  in  which  he 
resides. 

But  it  is  another  question  whether  Grand  Lodges 
possess  the  power  to  make  that  a  Masonic  offense 
which  is  not  so  made  in  the  obligations  of  a  Mason. 
If  the  Grand  Lodge  could  do  so,  it  can  add  to  the 
obligations  a  Mason  has  taken,  or  take  therefrom. 
One  Grand  Lodge  has  added  one  thing;  the  tie  that 
binds  the  Mason  made  in  Missouri,  Oregon  and 
Colorado  to  his  brethren  is  not  the  same  as  that 
which  binds  the  Mason  of  Michigan,  Mississippi  or 
Louisiana.  Masonry  ceases  to  be  universal,  and 
the  Grand  Lodge  of  Missouri  has  made  it  so. 

If  there  were  but  one  Grand  Lodge  of  Freema- 
sons in  the  world,  or  if  all  Grand  Lodges  should 
agree,  the  obligations  of  a  Mason  might  be  changed, 
but  otherwise  (though  it  may  well  be  disputed  that 
all  the  Grand  Lodges  concurring,  can  add  to  my  ob- 
ligations) the  boasted  universality  of  Freemasonry 
is  at  an  end.  Years  ago,  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Lou- 
isiana decided,  on  the  report  of  Past  Grand  Master 
Perkins,  that  "the  means  of  recognition  and  the  tie 
which  binds  us  should  be  alike  and  the  same  the 
world  over,"  otherwise,  as  he  said,  the  universality 
of  Masonry  would  cease. 

We  may  hear  end  this  discussion  for  this  time 
with  the  remark,  that  anything  pushed  to  the  ex- 
treme is  sure  to  take  a  rebound,  and  the  farther  the 
outward  swing  the  greater  the  rebound;  that  the 
crusade  against  drinking  and  drunkenness  will  end 
in  greater  abuse.  The  prudent  among  Masons 
should  be  active  to  hold  back  the  zealots,  lest  in  the 
rebound  greater  evils  may  result;  and  prudence  as 
well  as  temperance  is  a  cardinal  virtue.  The  lan- 
guage quoted  from  Bro.  Vincil  shows  its  intemper- 
ate use  by  him,  a  habit  as  hurtful  to  him  and  his 
neighbors  as  the  intemperate  use  of  spirituous  liq- 
uors, or  the  sale  of  them  could  be,  and  this  species 
of  intemperance  in  which  he  indulges  is  expressly 
declared  against  in  his  obligation.  We  say  to  him 
and  to  all  his  confreres  on  this  question,  all  "one 
idea  men,"  that  is,  men  who  seem  incapable  of  se- 
riously having  in  mind  but  one  idea  at  a  time,  that 
they  had  better  recur  to  the  charges  prepared  by 
our  fathers  for  the  Entered  Apprentice  and  the 
teachings  of  the  Monitor  on  that  charge.  If  they 
will  thus  recur,  their  tirades,  if  not  their  present  cru- 
sade, will  cease. 

^  •  ^ 

— Mrs.  Mary  H.  Talcott,  widow  of  one  of  the  old 
and  wealthy  citizens  of  Chicago,  died  last  Tuesday. 
She  was  possessed  of  a  large  fortune,  left  her  on  the 
death  of  her  husband  ten  years  ago,  and  made  use 
of  it  to  relieve  the  distress  of  the  worthy  poor,  until 
her  name  had  become  the  very  synonym  of  charity. 
During  the  past  ten  years  Mrs.  Talcott  has  dispensed 
over  $300,000  in  charities.  The  Old  People's  Home, 
the  Half-Orphan  asylum,  the  Orphan  asylum,  the 
Foundling's  Home,  the  Home  for  Inebriates,  the 
Hospital  for  Women  and  Children,  the  Woman's 
Kefuge,  and  the  Home  for  the  Friendless  are  a  por- 
tion of  those  that  have  received  substantial  aid  from 
her  hand.  Her  private  gifts  have,  perhaps,  exceeded 
those  given  to  public  institutions,  and  it  is  believed 
she  has  devoted  at  least  $500,000  to  the  cause  of 
charity. 


Befobm  news. 


WSLCOMINQ   FRIENDS  IN  OHIO. 


Dover,  Clinton  Co.,  0.,  April  19,  '88. 
Dkar  Cynosubb: — This  week  finds  me  down  here 
among  the  Friend  Quakers.  In  about  an  hour  I  am 
to  attend  what  is  known  as  the  monthly  meeting. 
It  will  be  attended  by  members  of  three  meetings 
in  this  section.  "First  day"  was  spent  at  James- 
town. In  the  morning  I  spoke  in  the  United  Pres- 
byterian church  and  in  the  evening  in  the  Friends'. 
Both  meetings  were  attended  with  usual  interest. 
The  evening  meeting  was  especially  large,  every 
seat  in  the  house  beiog  taken.  This  was  largely  due 
to  the  kind  co-operation  of  the  different  pastors. 
The   Methodist  minister,  though   reported  to  have 


been  initiated  into  the  lodge,  gave  out  my  notice  and 
invited  his  people  to  attend.  The  Christian  minis- 
ter consulted  with  his  officials  and  adjourned  his 
meeting  in  my  favor.  He  occupied  a  seat  in  the 
pulpit  and  offered  prayer.  Rev.  Robb,  the  United 
Presbyterian  pastor,  was  obliged  to  be  absent  on  a 
previous  appointment.  I  was  kindly  entertained  at 
his  home  during  my  stay. 

Seeing  the  general  interest,  by  consent  of  the  trus- 
tees, I  appointed  and  gave  a  second  lecture  on  Mon- 
day evening.  The  Lord  inclined,  the  people  to  hear, 
and  blessed  me  in  the  presentation  of  the  truth. 
The  usual  results  followed.  On  almost  every  street 
corner  men  could  be  seen  in  heated  discussion  of 
the  lodge  and  the  lecturer.  Some  were  crying  out 
(figuratively),  "Great  is  Diana  of  the  Bphesians;" 
boasting  the  superiority  of  the  lodge  over  the  church 
in  one  breath,  and  in  the  next  declaring  that  they 
had  nothing  to  do  with  a  man's  religion.  Many  were 
the  curses  and  "God  bless  yous,"that  I  received.  A 
number  of  names  were  added  to  the  Cynosure  list. 

I  am  now  arranging  a  series  of  meetings  among 
the  Friends.  My  program  for  the  future  will  be 
substantially  as  follows:  Sabbath  at  Sycamore  United 
Presbyterian  church,  Warren  county;'  Monday  at 
Monroe,  if  wanted;  Third  day.  Friends'  meeting 
house,  Burlington;  Fourth  day.  Friends'  meeting 
house,  Harveysburg;  Mid-week  meeting,  Guerney- 
ville;  Centre  meeting.  Sixth  day,  and  next  first  day 
at  Grassey  run.  May  Christ's  kingdom  come  and 
his  enemies  be  put  to  flight.       W.  B.  Stoddard. 


GRAND  MASTER  LADD  SPEAKS  FOR  THE 
RIGHT. 


WHAT   ALL   CAN   DO   FOR   THE    SOUTH. 


Elder  Jackson  begins  Ma  sermons— His  people  stand  by 
him —  What  the  Cynosure  is  doing:  a  grand  work — 
Amite  City  recovers  her  balance. 

New  Orleans,  La.,  April  13th,  1888. 

Dear  Cynosure: — The  warm  season  is  here. 
Straw  hats  and  white  dresses  are  seen  everywhere. 
The  breeze  is  filled  with  political  wind.  Both  of  the 
old  rum-lodge  parties  are  presenting  their  claims  be- 
fore the  people  without  one  plank  for  prohibition  in 
either  platform.  It  is  very  hard  to  give  a  true  idea 
of  the  situation.  Gen.  F.  T.  Nichols,  the  Democrat- 
ic nominee,  is  being  pushed  forward  on  his  past  Con- 
federate record,  while  ex-Gov.Warmoth  is  exceeding 
popular  with  the  business  factions.  The  Republi- 
can party  endorsed  the  Young  Men's  Democratic 
ticket  for  the  city  and  that  has  greatly  increased 
their  strength.  Groups  of  secretists  and  politicians 
can  be  seen  on  the  various  corners,  and  a  slight 
glance  will  convince  an  observer  that  they  are  work- 
ing the  lodge  for  all  it  is  worth. 

However,  the  reform  ball  is  yet  rolling.  I  have 
conversed  privately  on  the  question  of  secrecy,  and 
find  its  very  stronghold  weakening.  Rev.  A.  S. 
Jackson  preached  his  first  sermon  on  present  sins, 
etc.,  last  Sabbath,  and  I  am  pleased  to  note  from 
good  authority  that  more  than  two-thirds  of  his 
church  endorsed  bis  sermon,  and  Grand  Master 
Ladd 

CRIED  out:  "true!  amen!" 

I  have  since  met  several  of  Bro.  Jackson's  mem- 
bers who  said,  although  they  belong  to  secret  socie- 
ties, they  mean  to  stand  by  Bro.  Jackson,  because 
he  is  right. 

I  preached  Sabbath  at  3  p.  m.  at  Spain  St.  Congre- 
gational church.  Rev.  C.  H,  Claiborne,  pastor;  and 
Bro.  Claiborne  and  I  preached  for  Rev.  I.  H.  Hall  at 
7:30  p.  M.  We  greatly  sympathize  with  our  afflict- 
ed Bro.  R.  N.  Countee,  of  Memphis,  and  pray  God 
that  he  may  endure  hardness  as  a  good  soldier  of 
Christ.  His  trials  have  been  sore  and  many;  but, 
thank  God,  through  Jesus  Christ  we  shall  reap  if  we 
faint  not. 

The  Christian  Cynosure  is  doing  untold  good  here 
in  this  afflicted  land  of  lodgery,  saloons  and  tobac- 
co. If  Northern  contributors  could  just  imagine  half 
the  good  the  Cynosure  is  doing  here,  I  am  sure  some 
one  would  at  once  swell  the  N.  C.  A.  treasury  to 
$3,000  and  send  2,000  Cynosures  freeatonce.  Thou- 
sands, both  white  and  colored,  down  here,  never 
heard  of  the  N.  C.  A. ;  and  1  tell  you,  f riends.where- 
ever  the  Cynosure  falls  it  certainly  has  its  effect  for 
good.  There  are  hundreds  here  who  are  willing  to 
read  it  and  rejoice  in  such  a  paper,  but  they  are  too 
poor  to  subscribe  for  it.  One  family  where  I  left  a 
copy  in  February  declared  when  I  called  again  that 
the  Cynosure  was  an  infidel  paper;  but  1  called  on 
them  to-day  and  the  dear  old  mother  said,  "Son, 
surely  your  cause  is  a  righteous  one.  I  am  convinced 
you  are  right.  May  God  help  you  in  this  fight." 
This  case  is  only  one  of  many. 

Friends,  will  you  send  the  Cynosure?  Both  the 
poor  races  need  it.      I  trust  to  be  able  to  introduce 


the  paper  in  75  per  cent  of  all  the  families  in  Lou- 
isiana. I  am  ready  to  die,if  necessary,f  or  the  Gospel's 
sake. 

I  expect,  God  willing,  to  preach  at  Sixth  Union 
Baptist  church.  Rev.  W.  H.  Bolding,  pastor.Sabbath 
evening,  on  the  religion  of  Masonry.  The  weekly 
paper  of  Amite  City,  La.,  expects  to  give  notice  of 
the  sermons  I  am  to  preach  there  the  second  Sunday 
in  May.  The  whole  community  about  Amite  City 
seems  to  be  much  stirred  up  and  grieved  about  my 
persecution  by  the  Negro  Odd-fellows,and  they  have 
requested  me  to  return  and  use  free  speech,  assur- 
ing me  protection.  I  have  accepted  their  invitation 
and  promised  to  return  Saturday  before  the  second 
Sabbath  in  May.  Pray  God  for  the  outpouring  of 
his  Spirit  upon  us  on  that  day. 

Francis  J.  Davidson. 


LODGE   AND   SALOON  ARRAIGNED  IN   OLD 
VIRGINIA. 

Abbtvillb,  Va.,  April  19,  1888. 

Dear  Cynosure: — Last  Sabbath  was  spent  at 
McLeansville,  N.  C,  where  I  preached  three  times 
in  the  two  churches  ministered  to  by  Rev.  A.  Con- 
nett,  missionary  of  the  A.  M.  A.  This  faithful  and 
devoted  brother  with  his  excellent  family  received, 
entertained  and  aided  me  in  the  kindest  manner. 
He  is  doing  an  admirable  work  in  his  school  as  well 
as  in  religious  instruction.  No  member  of  either  of 
his  churches  belongs  to  any  secret  order,  and  this  is 
because  of  the  careful  instructions  they  have  re- 
ceived. 

On  Monday,  the  16i,h,  Bro.  Connett  brought  me 
to  the  station,  and  I  came  to  Bennett  Seminary  in 
Greensboro  just  in  time  to  give  the  young  people  a 
talk  on  the  history  of  the  anti-slavery  movement 
and  the  rise  and  progress  of  the  Prohibition  party. 

Tuesday  morning  I  took  the  train  on  the  Rich- 
mond and  Danville  Railroad  for  Keysville  and 
thence  south  to  Chase  City,  Va.,  which  we  reached 
at  9  p.  M.  I  was  most  kindly  received  by  Rev.  J.  A. 
Veazey,  principal  of  Thyne  Institute,  and  arrange- 
ments were  made  for  future  work.  While  there  is 
no  want  of  sympathy  or  lack  of  interest  in  the  anti- 
secrecy  reform,  I  find  that  prohibition  is  the  absorb- 
ing topic,  and  that  more  than  ever  the  convictions 
of  the  reformers  are  in  favor  of  pushing  the  third 
party  movement.  I  hope  to  lecture  to  this  people 
both  against  the  lodge  and  the  salogn.  But  more 
of  this  institution  further  on. 

BLUE   STONE   MISSION 

is  the  name  of  a  most  important  and  excellent  school 
under  the  patronage  of  the  United  Presbyterian 
church,  one  and  a  half  miles  east  of  Abbyville, 
Mechlenburg  Co.,  Va.  It  occupies  a  most  command- 
ing position  on  the  banks  of  Blue  Stone  creek,  a 
branch  of  Staunton  River.  There  is  one  fine  large 
building  well  provided  with  school  furniture  and 
several  cottages.  There  is  also  a  pleasant  home  for 
the  principal  and  teacher.  Unlike  most  of  the  col- 
ored schools  of  the  South  this  is  twelve  miles  from 
the  nearest  railroad  station,  and  remote  from  any 
important  town.  Abbyville  is  little  more  than  a 
postofflce.  There  is  a  large  colored  population  in 
this  and  the  other  southern  counties  of  Virginia, 
but  here  it  is  strictly  rural  and  in  many  respects 
they  are  considerably  behind  the  freedmen  of  the 
cities  and  larger  villages.  This  is  true  of  rural  dis- 
tricts all  over  the  South.  As  almost  nothing  is  be- 
ing done  for  this  class  of  people,  constituting  a  ma- 
jority of  the  colored  race  in  the  Southern  States,  it 
was  a  work  of  great  beneficence  to  start  and  sustain 
this  school.  During  the  last  year  they  have  enrolled 
220  students,  mostly  in  the  Normal  department. 
Five  young  men  are,  in  connection  with  their  other 
studies,  pursuing  a  course  of  theological  training 
and  others  are  preparing  for  college.  The  United 
Presbyterian  church  in  connection  with  the  school 
is  fairly  prosperous,  and  numbers  about  seventy, 
and  has  had  eighteen  additions  by  conversion  dur- 
ing the  past  year.  Their  congregation  on  the  Sab- 
bath is  over  100,  and  there  are  400  in  the  Sabbath- 
school. 

Whatever  may  be  true  of  the  conservatism  of 
some  of  the  ministers  of  the  United  Presbyterian 
church,  those  laboring  in  the  South  certainly  are 
preaching  sound  doctrine  and  standing  for  the  dis- 
tinctive principles  of  the  denomination.  They  are 
taught  here  to  abhor  both  lodge  and  the  saloon. 
Rev.  J.  A.  Ramsey,  the  principal,  is  assisted  by  two, 
and,  during  part  of  the  year,"  by  three  teachers.  I 
have  been  greatly  pleased  with  the  excellence  of  the 
work  that  is  being  done.  The  school  is  nine  years 
old  and  though  the  population  of  this  region  dimin- 
ishes rather  than  increases,  yet  the  school  more  than 
holds  its  own.  The  enrollment  during  the  present 
year  is  greater  than  ever.  There  is  a  still  greater 
gain  in  the  moral  influence  exerted  over  the  people. 


Apkil  26,  1888 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSUKE. 


On  the  18th  inst.  Rev.  J.  H.  Veazey  of  Chase 
City  most  kindly  sent  his  carriage  to  bring  me  here 
(14  miles)  where  I  was  most  hospitably  received  and 
entertained  by  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Eamsey.  Last  night 
by  request  I  gave  a  lecture  on  prohibition  in  which 
I  urged  co-operation  with  the  third  party  movement. 
There  is  little  doubt  but  the  Prohibition  party  will 
be  organized  in  this  State,  and  will  poll  a  respecta- 
ble vote.  To-night  I  am  expected  to  lecture  on  the 
secret  lodge  system,  and  hope  to-morrow  to  go  to 
Boydton  College,  Boydton,  the  county  seat  of  Mech- 
lenburg  county.  H.  H.  Hinman. 


KANSAS  AND  N  SB  BASK  A    QBEBT  BBOTHBB 
BAWLS  7. 


Deae  Cynosure: — After  completing  my  visit  to 
my  family  I  had  occasion  to  go  to  Kansas  and  Ne- 
braska to  attend  to  some  matters  before  resuming 
my  work  in  Iowa. 

At  Smith  Center,  in  Kansas,  I  made  the  acquaint- 
ance of  a  man  who  formerly  resided  in  Iowa.  At 
one  time  he  became  curious  to  know  the  mysteries 
of  Freemasonry.  He  would  have  paid  the  price  and 
been  cable-towed,  but  was  persuaded  by  a  friend  to 
buy  Ronayne's  Hand-Book  instead 

Being  a  diligent  student  he  became  very  profi- 
cient in  Masonry,  and  on  removing  to  Kansas  he 
put  on  Masonic  jewelry.  When  questioned  by 
members  of  the  craft  as  to  whether  he  was  a  Mason, 
he  demurely  replied,  "I  have  been  so  taken  and 
accepted  by  brothers  and  fellows." 

In  the  examinations  that  followed  he  proved  him- 
self to  be  an  expert,  and  soon  came  to  be  had  in 
reputation  as  a  "bright  Mason."  They  would  con- 
verse with  him  on  the  square,  and  extend  to  him 
the  favoritism  due  to  a  member  of  a  clan.  In  Ma- 
sonic knowledge  he  so  far  surpassed  the  average 
Mason  that  they  came  to  him,  from  twenty  miles 
around,  to  receive  oral  instruction,  that  they  might 
be  fitted  for  responsible  positions  in  the  lodge. 

It  would  have  been  more  economical,  had  they 
known  the  source  of  his  information,  to  have  saved 
their  livery  bills,  and  instead  of  going  on  pilgrim- 
age to  this  Mecca  of  Masonic  knowledge,  to  have 
bought  the  book  and  learned  their  lessons  at  home. 
But  then,  it  may  be  they  had  read  the  warning,  on 
a  private  circular  to  Masons,  that  fell  into  my 
hands  since  engaging  in  the  Iowa  State  work.  The 
circular  deprecated  the  fact  that  so  many  who 
aspired  to  fill  the  offices  of  the  lodge  were  using 
such  works  as  Ronayne's  and  Doesburg's  exposi- 
tions of  Freemasonry  to  post  themselves,  as  it  would 
tend  to  work  the  destruction  of  the  order.  The 
Masonic  "cat  is  out  of  the  bag,"  and  how  to  get  her 
back  and  securely  tie  the  bag  is  the  unsolved 
problem. 

We,  brethren,  here  in  Iowa,  may  be  encouraged 
by  the  fact  that  Kansas  Masons,  wjien  "talking  on 
the  square"  with  the  friend  above  mentioned,  always 
spoke  of  Iowa  as  the  place  where  Anti-masonry  is 
so  strong  and  making  headway. 

But  what  a  swindle  for  lodge  men  to  cry,  "Ma- 
sonry hasn't  been  revealed:  can't  be  revealed;"  and 
go  right  on  selling  at  the  price  they  do  the  secrets 
that  can  be  bought  so  cheaply  at  the  book-stores! 
But,  says  one,  where  is  the  swindle,  if  men  have  a 
mind  to  pay  their  price? 

The  swindle,  my  dear  friend,  lies  in  the  fact  that 
the  lodge  assumes  to  have  a  monopoly  of  the  goods 
and  thus  dupes  men  into  paying  their  price  by 
falsely  pretending  that  the  genuine  secrets  of  Ma- 
sonry cannot  be  had  in  other  markets. 

While  at  Beaver  City,  Nebraska,  I  attended  the 
Ministerial  Association  of  the  Indianolia  district,  of 
the  West  Nebraska  Conference  of  the  M.  E.  Church. 
I  discussed  the  lodge  question  with  some  of  the 
ministers  who  boarded  or  called  at  the  place  where 
I  stopped.  My  hostess  became  so  anxious  for  the 
reformation  of  the  ministers  who  are  entangled  in 
the  lodge,  that  I  furnished  her  with  literature  to 
distribute. 

One  of  the  ministers  recognized  me  as  the  man 
who  preached  at  a  series  of  meetings  in  Illinois, 
where  he  was  converted,  thirty  years  ago.  He  in- 
sisted on  my  going  home  with  him  and  preaching 
to  his  people.  We  discussed  the  lodge  question  at 
some  length,  the  evening  after  arriving  at  his  home. 
He  had  been  a  Master  Mason,  but  had  retired  from 
active  work  wiih  the  craft.  But  the  presiding  elder 
of  his  district  is  a  Knight  Templar,  and  some  of  the 
most  talented  ministers  of  the  district  are  Masons. 

So^y  friend  was  not  inclined  to  either  defend  or 
attack  the  lodge.  "We  must  concede  the  right  of 
private  judgment,"  he  thought. 

I  reply,  that  doubtless  we  should  acknowledge 
the  right  of  private  judgment,  but  it  is  the  duty  of 
those  who  are  acquainted  with  the  pagan  derivation 
of  the  Masonic  ceremonies,  and  the  deistical  char- 


acter of  her  ritual,  and  the  nature  of  the  Masonic 
covenants,  to  testify  against  them.  And  then  those 
Masons  who  understand  that  Ancient  Craft  Masonry 
is  ancient  idolatry  modernized,  with  a  deistical  rit- 
ual of  worship  appended,  will,  in  the  exercise  of 
their  "private  judgments,"  conclude  that  allegiance 
to  Christ  and  adherence  to  Masonry  are  incompati- 
ble with  each  other. 

Leaving  Nebraska  I  came  to  southwestern  Iowa 
and  stopped  at  Tabor.  I  visited  the  pastor  of  the 
Congregational  church.  Rev.  J.  W.  Cowan,  and 
called  on  Pres.  Brooks  of  Tabor  College.  I  took 
nine  subscriptions  to  the  Cynosure,  and  then  on  to 
Malvern,  four  miles  in  the  country,  and  called  upon 
L.  P.  Anderson,  who  subscribed  for  the  Cynosure. 
While  there  I  visited  Aaron  Lewis,  who,  with  his 
wife,  is  a  radical  United  Brethren.  They  gave  a 
donation  of  fifteen  dollars  to  the  Iowa  Association. 
I  reached  Clarinda  on  Saturday  night,  and  on 
Sabbath  evening,  by  the  courtesy  of  Rev.  Mr.  Prin- 
gle,  the  pastor,  preached  in  the  U.  P.  church. 

Friends  in  southern  Iowa,  who  desire  reform  work 
in  their  locality,  may  address  me  by  letter  at  Cla- 
rinda, Page  Co.,  Iowa,  upon  receipt  of  this  notice. 
My  permanent  address  is  Wheaton,  DuPage  Co., 
HI,,  from  whence  mail  is  forwarded. 

Dear  brethren  of  Iowa,  let  us  unitedly  pray  and 
work  for  the  triumph  of  Christ  over  the  paganism 
and  infidelity  of  the  lodge.  C.  F.  Hawley. 


Correspondence. 


FAB  AWAY  DOWN  IN  THS  SOUTH  LAND. 


AN   OPEN   LETTER. 


Marshall,  Texas,  April  13,  1888. 

My  Dear  Bro.  C.  C.  Foote:— Who  would  have 
thought  forty-five  years  ago,  when  you  and  I  were 
plodding  through  the  mud,  jolting  over  the  hubs,  or 
plunging  through  the  snowbanks  in  western  New 
York,  exposing  and  endangering  health  and  risking 
life  itself  for  the  overthrow  of  the  cruel  and  crush- 
ing slave'power,  that  we  should  live  to  witness  such 
a  wonderful  achievement!  Who  would  have  thought 
that  I  should  be  spared  to  come  thousands  of  miles 
away  down  into  this  South  land,  then  a  land  of  ab- 
solute despotism,  a  land  of  5,000,000  slaves,  where 
it  was  death  to  teach  a  slave  to  read  the  name  of 
the  Lord  who  died  to  save  him !  Now  I  am  visiting 
this  same  people  in  their  schools,  colleges,  univer- 
sities, churches  and  homes!  A  people  turned  out  and 
left  by  slavery  destitute,  ignorant,  helpless,  degrad- 
ed, and  many  of  them  with  the  vices  of  their  mas- 
ter's clinging  to  them,  and  with  no  one  to  pity,  to 
sympathize,  or  to  help  them  in  the  struggle  for  life. 
Considering  how  for  centuries  they  have  been  rob- 
bed of  all  the  rights  that  belong  to  humanity,  it  is 
marvelous  that  so  many  of  them  are  doing  as  well 
as  they  are.  Some  of  them  have  got  quite  comfort- 
able homes,  schools,  colleges,  churches;  some  have 
small  farms,  and  others  several  hundred  acres  and 
are  doing  well;  many  of  them  see  the  importance 
and  necessity  of  education. 

1  endea\or  to  impress  upon  them  the  duty  of  in- 
dustry, of  having  some  useful  employment;  and  then 
saving  their  hard-earned  money,  never  to  spend  it 
for  liquor,  tobacco,  or  fooling  around  with  secret 
societies.  I  have  large  audiences  and  most  eager 
listeners;  hearty  responses,  and  often  unanimous 
votes  and  pledges  for  total  abstinence  and  prohibi- 
tion. We  should  have  this  people  nearly  all  with 
us  if  they  were  not  so  deceived  and  fooled  by  whis- 
key and  its  wily  allies,  the  politicians!  Education 
and  Christian  enlightenment  alone  will  save  them 
from  these  perverting  and  depraving  influences. 
Many  of  their  young  ministers  now  are  being  edu- 
cated, and  this  gives  them  greater  influence;  and 
in  their  colleges  are  many  young  men  and  women 
of  bright  promise.  This  augurs  well  for  the  future 
elevation  of  their  race  in  this  country,  and  for  the 
success  of  prohibition  in  the  South. 

I  tell  them,  as  we  Abolitionists  helped  to  over- 
throw the  cruel  slave  power  and  liberate  them  from 
its  galling  yoke,  they  should  now  unite  and  help  us 
to  overthrow  the  more  widespread  and  deadly  liq- 
uor power!  They  are  not  insensible  to  this  plea, 
and  when  ballasted  by  Christian  education  they  will 
be  as  naturally  with  Prohibitionists  as  they  were 
with  us  Abolitionists. 

I  use,  in  connection  with  my  lectures,  charts 
illustrating  the  effects  of  liquor  and  tobacco  on  the 
vital  organs  of  the  body.  These  make  a  deep  and 
lasting  impression  on  their  minds,  and  some  of 
their  ministers  have  told  me  they  received  $5  worth 
of  information  the  first  lecture,  and  they  were  anx- 
ious to  have  all  their  people  see  and  hear  and  learn 
on  these  subjects,  so  vital  to  their  physical,  moral 
and  spiritual   welfare.     There   is  not  only  a  dearth 


but  a  thirst  for  useful  knowledge  among  them,  and 
here  is  an  open  field  for  great  usefulness.  Here, 
you  young  men,  young  women  of  the  North,  who 
want  to  do  good  can  go  at  once  without  having  to 
cross  the  ocean,  or  learn  a  foreign  language,  and 
enter  a  field  already  ''ripe  for  the  harvest"  Here  is 
Africa  at  your  very  doors! 

I  have  traversed  now  over  1700  miles  in  Louis- 
iana and  Texas,  passing  thousands  of  acres  of  low, 
flat,  marshy  land,  thick,  second-growth  brushwood, 
slave-cursed  soil,  forsaken,  uninhabited  lands.  No 
wonder  anxious  citizens  are  holding  conventions 
down  here  and  trying  to  induce  enterprising  North- 
ern men  to  come  to  these  States  and  take  up  and 
cultivate  there  forsaken  and  barren  lands. 

They  can  be  purchased  at  very  low  rate,  and 
doubtless,  with  Northern  skill  and  enterprise,  can 
be  made  productive.  I  saw  some  cotton  fields  and 
sugar  plantations,  with  here  and  there  slight  evi- 
dence of  such  new  life  and  improvement  as  liberty 
and  free  labor  impart.  Such  indications  of  pro- 
ductiveness, as  working  under  the  impulse  of  Mr. 
Cash,  instead  of  Mr.  Lash,  inspires. 

After  leaving  New  Orleans  I  rode  part  of  the 
day  through  Louisiana  with  the  Attorney  General  of 
the  State.  We  conversed  freely  of  slavery,  of  the 
status  of  the  colored  man,  and  of  caste  prejudice.  He 
conceded  certain  [civil  rights  of  a  political  and  busi- 
ness nature,  but  nothing  more!  Equality  of  rights, 
never!  Social  ostracism,  forever.  This  spirit  still 
prevails  extensively  and  intensely  and  in  many 
cases  disfranchises  thousands  of  worthy  colored  vot- 
ers. To  close  our  discussion,  the  attorney  and  his 
friends  around  him  brought  out  the  whiskey  flask, 
and  invited  me  to  join  in  "washing  down"  the  pro's 
and  con's,  and  this  gave  me  a  good  chance  to  open 
my  f  usilade  upon  the  allies  of  slavery,  whiskey  and 
democracy,  and  to  bring  up  the  great  issue  of  the 
day— Prohibition. 

Colored  men  tell  me  a  white  man  stands  at  the 
poll  window,  and  when  a  person  approaches  to  vote, 
if  the  man  at  the  window  sings  out  "  White,"  his  vote 
goes  into  the  ballot  box;  if  he  says  "Black,"  his 
vote  goes  into  another  place  out  of  sight,  and  is 
never  heard  from  after,  especially  if  he  is 
known  to  vote  any  other  than  a  Democratic  or 
whiskey  ticket!  A  minister  now  at  my  side  con- 
firms this  statement.     Ku-Kluxing  the  ballot! 

Since  entering  Texas  I  have  visited  and  lectured 
in  the  following  cities:  Texarkana,  Paris,  Sherman, 
Dallas,  Fort  Worth,  Waco,  Corsicana,  Tyler,  Long- 
view,  Jefferson  and  Marshall.  I  gave  my  last  and 
seventh  lecture  in  this  city  in  the  Wiley  University, 
a  prosperous  Methodist  institution,  this  morning  to 
a  large  and  very  attentive  audience  of  male  and  fe- 
male students,  Prof.  Whitaker,  president.  I  had 
also  addressed  the  students  several  times  in  the 
Bishop  College,  a  Baptist  institution  under  Presi- 
dent Culver  and  Prof.  Abner.  These  are  both 
flourishing  institutions,  and  are  preparing  to  send 
out  a  noble  class  of  young  men  and  women  as  min- 
isters and  educators.  God  bless  these  schools;  they 
are  the  hope  of  the  South.  May  they  be  multiplied 
up  to  the  great  needs  of  the  colored  people  and 
country  where  they  dwell,  is  the  prayer  of 

G.  W.  Clark 


THS  WHEATON   COUNCIL. 


[Outside  any  personal  or  local  interest,  it  will  not 
be  disputed  that  many  readers  of  the  Cynosure  are 
concerned  in  the  late  meeting  at  Wheaton  and  to  a 
certain  extent  must  be  given  the  privilege  of  review- 
ing its  conclusions.  Recognizing  this,  place  is  giv- 
en to  this  letter  from  a  brother  in  central  Illinois, 
who  has  been  familiar  with  the  facts  as  given  in 
years  past  in  the  Chicago  daily  press  and  whose  ex- 
perience gives  his  opinion  value.] 

The  object  for  which  the  late  council  was  con- 
vened in  Wheaton  has  long  and  deeply  enlisted  the 
prayerful  interest  of  very  many,  not  only  of  Con- 
gregationalists,  but  very  extensively  in  other  Chris- 
tian denominations.  The  real  element  of  discord, 
which  resulted  in  such  strange  consequences,  was  the 
principle  condemning  secret,  oath-bound  societies, 
adopted  and  carried  out  by  Wheaton  College  and  its 
president  This  made  it  like  a  city  set  on  a  hill.  Secret- 
ists  everywhere  studied  it  closely;  every  step  in  the 
conflict  was  eagerly  watched, and  every  advantage  that 
could  be  taken,  and  often  without  scruple,  was  taken. 
Just  as  deeply  interested  and  devotedly  prayerful 
were  the  opponents  of  secret,  oath-bound  societies 
in  all  the  Christian  denominations,  nearly  or  quite, 
throughout  the  world;  and  like  the  command  of  the 
king  of  Syria,  "Fight  ye  not  with  small  or  great, 
save  only  with  the  king  of  Israel,"  so  the  College 
president  was  the  chief  object  of  the  most  intense 
and  bitter  opposition.  This  was  carried  to  such  an 
extent  that  though  he  was  a  leading  and  successful 


9 


:rHE  CHRISTIAJSr  CYNOSURE. 


Apbil  26, 1888 


educator  in  the  Congregational  denomination;  was 
one  ot  the  movers  in  organizing  the  Illinois  State 
AsBOciation;  had  educated  a  large  number  of  young 
men  who  had  become  able  ministers,  and  men  who 
had  stood  high  in  other  professions— with  such  a 
record,  and  without  a  single  charge  against  his  moral 
character,  he  was,  upon  a  mere  technicality,  without 
inquiring  into  the  facts,  excluded  from  the  associa- 
tions, local  and  general,  for  which  he  had  done  go 
much. 

All  this  was  not  done  in  a  corner;  both  the  friends 
and  opponents  of  secret  societies  throughout  the 
land  have  watched  every  step.  Inquiries  are  awak- 
ened in  all  our  minds,  especially  those  of  us  who  do 
not  belong  to  the  ecclesiastical  body  in  question. 
We  want  to  know  what  the  Congregational  polity 
amounts  to?  how  it  does  its  business?  how  safe  and 
sacred  are  the  interests  of  its  members  over  whom 
it  spreads  the  aegis  of  its  protection?  how  fairly  are 
its  investigations  and  trials  conducted? 

The  late  Wheaton  council  was  manifestly  a  large, 
learned  and  pious  body  of  fair-minded  ministers  and 
laymen.  They  were  unusually  in  sympathy  with 
the  Head  of  the  church  and  influenced  by  the  Holy 
Spirit.  They  were  guided  rather  by  sanctified  com- 
mon sense  than  sound  ecclesiastical  rules.  Their 
decision  was  not  what  either  party  thought  the  ques- 
tion demanded,  but  a  compromise  to  effect  a  settle- 
ment of  a  dispute. 

They  had  a  very  difficult  work  to  do.  Ten  years 
before  there  had  been  another  council  called  to  in- 
vestigate and  advise  in  this  case,  which  instead  of 
simplifying  and  assisting  to  a  right  decision  ren- 
dered  the  case  more  complicated,  and  every  princi- 
ple of  integrity  and  fair  dealing  was  ignored.  This 
embarrassed  the  work  of  the  second  council,  and 
they  simply  dropped  the  original  question  of  right 
and  wrong,  and  by  a  compromise  settled  a  dispute. 
But  the  question  of  right  and  wrong,  like  Abel's 
blood,  cries  from  the  ground,  and  we  anti-secretists, 
who  are  not  Congregationalists,  want  to  know  how 
Congregationalism  deals  with  a  question  of  right. 
For  ten  long  years  they  have  shut  our  senior  editor 
in  prison,  and  we  don't  want  him  taken  out  privately 
by  a  compromise,  "being  uncondemned"  and  a  Chris- 
tian, though  not  like  Paul,  a  Roman,  but  an  Amer- 
ican. If  he  is  guilty,  let  him  be  blamed  to  his  face, 
as  Paul  did  Peter;  but  if  innocent,  let  him  be  ac- 
quitted. 

Let  u8  go  back  of  the  first  council  and  see  for 
ourselves  the  grounds  for  the  charges  against  him; 
for  the  papers  of  the  times  contained  all  the  facts 
in  the  case,  and  all  could  run  as  they  read,  and  fully 
understand  the  whole  diflaculty.  It  appears  there 
was  one  church,  called  the  "First  Church  of  Christ," 
in  Wheaton,  instead  of  what  is  now  the  Congrega 
tional  and  the  College  Church  of  Christ,  of  which 
the  president  of  the  College  and  most  of  the  pro- 
fessors were  members.  All  claimed  to  be,  and 
doubtless  were  in  principle,  opposed  to  secret  soci- 
eties; but  a  disagreement  arose  between  one  of  the 
professors,  and  a  minority  who  sympathized  with 
him,  and  the  president,  and  a  majority  who  sympa- 
thized with  him.  This  was  partly  in  reference  to  the 
radical  and  vigorous  methods  of  carrying  out  anti- 
•ecret  principles.  The  conflict  increased  until  it  be- 
came sharp  and  uncomfortable.  It  resulted  in  the 
retiring  of  the  professor.  He  then  arraigned  the 
president  before  the  church.  The  church  listened 
patiently  to  the  charges,  and  by  more  than  two- 
thirds  vote  dismissed  them  entirely.  The  church 
became  uncomfortable,  and  both  minority  and  ma- 
jority unitedly  resolved  to  separate.  They  were 
agreed  ia  this  measure.  They  decided  that  the  First 
Church  of  Christ  should  be  disbanded,  and  allow 
every  member  liberty  to  join  whatever  church  he 
pleased.  They  did  disband  the  church;  they  pro- 
nounced it  disbanded.  Each  party  chose  a  commit- 
tee to  settle  financial  relations.  The  majority  paid 
the  minority  over  $400  for  their  interests  in  the  old 
organization. 

And  here  comes  in  the  strangest  management 
ever  engaged  In  by  men  claiming  to  be  honest. 
The  minority  went  back  on  their  agreement;  ignored 
what  they  had  done;  kept  the  monej,  and  claimed 
control  over  the  majority.  The  first  council,  an  ex- 
parte  body  called  by  them,  gave  a  basis  for  their 
claim.  This  is  a  transaction  which  in  civil  matters 
would  condemn  the  perpetrators  to  the  sentence  of 
swindling.  The  minority  summoned  the  president 
to  appear  before  them  to  answer  to  charges,  after 
having  been  acquitted  by  the  First  Church  of  Christ 
from  a  list  of  charges  of  everything  they  could 
think  of.  It  voted  to  withdraw  its  fellowship  from 
him,  which  uiKjn  any  other  prsnciple  than  that  of 
swindling  he  never  shared;  and  for  ten  years  they 
have  treated  the  College  Church,  in  every  respect 
but  one,  just  like  an  independent  church;  this  ex- 
ception is  its  claiming  a  control  over  the  editor  of  the 


Cyiiosure.  They  acknowledge  the  independence  of 
all  the  rest  of  the  church.  How  did  the  church  get 
it?  Why,  on  just  the  same  grounds  and  at  the  same 
time  he  got  it.  When  the  church  was  disbanded, 
and  after  withdrawing  their  fellowship  from  him, 
which  every  sound  Christian  body  knows  is  a  with- 
drawing all  claims  of  control,  they  still,  like  the 
man  pounding  his  dead  dog  to  let  the  brute  know 
there  is  a  punishment  after  death,  hold  a  claim  over 
him. 

Now,  is  this  Congregationalism?  We  who  are 
thoroughly  Presbyterian  and  Methodist  and  Quaker, 
and  all  who  are  in  sympathy  with  our  senior  editor 
and  have  perfect  confidence  in  his  honesty,  integrity, 
piety  and  manliness, — we  want  to  know  if  this  is  the 
way  Congregationalism,  that  claims  to  be  in  the  lead 
in  intelligence,  liberality  and  fair-dealing,  does  its 
business?  We  have  a  right  to  ask.  Has  secret-lodge 
blindness  struck  it?  We  hope  it  is  only  in  part, 
and  soon  to  disappear. 

The  last  council  would  bring  to  us  the  joyful  hope 
that  blindness  is  fast  disappearing.  It  was  per- 
vaded by  a  most  precious  spirit,  and  sound,  practi- 
cal, good  sense  seemed  to  pervade  the  whole  body. 
They  had  a  most  difficult  work  to  do — sadly  com- 
plicated by  the  strange,  inconsistent  and  unwise  ac- 
tion of  the  council  ten  years  ago;  but  still  by  prayer 
and  faithful  work  they  healed  this  deep  wound,  and 
redeemed  the  denominational  name  from  the  dis- 
trust and  reproach  which  we  of  other  orders  enter- 
tained toward  those  whom  we  desire  to  love  and  fel- 
lowship. PftlSBTTEB. 

PITH  AND  POINT. 


until  its  principles  shall  reach  every,  nook  and  corner  of 
our  lovely  land.  My  dear  brethren,  let  us  thank  God 
and  take  courage  in  this  glorious  work  of  bringing  men 
from  darknes3  to  light.  The  prohibition  cause  in  Ne- 
braska is  gaining  gr^^und  at  every  step  The  best  of  all, 
God  is  with  us.— E  8.  Eyerly,  Eumbolt,  Neb. 


LIT££ATU££. 


ALABAMA   FOR  SEPARATION. 

The  following  letter  is  of  importance  because  the 
writer,  Rev.  W.  R.  Pettiford,  is  not  only  pastor  of  an  in  - 
fiuential  Baptist  church  in  Birmingham,  Alabama,  but  is 
also  moderator  of  Mount  Pilgrim  Association  and  presi- 
dent of  the  Alabama  Baptist  State  Convention.  It  is  an 
evidence  that  the  Alabama  churches  will  be  soon  awak- 
ened and  behold  the  light  of  Christ  as  have  those  of 
Louisiana.  The  Good  Will  Association,  formed  several 
years  ago  in  the  vicinity  of  Mobile,  could  help  greatly  in 
redeeming  the  churches  of  the  State: 

I  shall  explain  in  a  sermon  why  I  do  not  believe  in 
secret  societies,  and  why  I  do  not  allow  the  Masons  to 
have  therir  celebrations  in  my  church,  and  why  I  am 
opposed  to  them.  I  wish  to  get  a  book  like  the  one  Mr. 
H.  H.  Hinman  uses,  showing  that  the  Masonic  religious 
services  are  so  constructed  as  to  leave  the  name  of  Jesus 
out  of  their  Scripture  readings.  I  have  been  much 
strengthened  in  my  opposition  to  secret  societies  by  your 
paper,  the  Cynosure.  There  will  much  depend  upon 
what  I  have  to  say  on  this  subject,  and  I  am  very  anx- 
ious to  be  correct  in  all  my  statements. — W.  R.  Pet- 
tiford, 

how  shall  i  vote? 

I  want  to  tell  the  dear  brethren  that  I  am  enlisted  in  the 
reform  cause  under  the  blood-stained  banner  of  Jesus. 
In  the  last  election  I  would  not  vote  with  the  old  par- 
ties, and  I  could  not  vote  for  St.  John ;  for  we .  were 
taught  in  the  lodge  that  it  was  our  obligation  that  made 
us  Masons;  so  I  did  not  vote  at  all.  Now  I  heartily  en- 
dorse the  clause  in  the  editorial  correspondence  of  March 
Ist,  namely,  "If  the  Prohibition  Convention  next  June 
does  not  nominate  a  clean  ticket,  we  must  put  an  Amer- 
ican ticket  in  the  field  and  vote  for  it."  Now  if  I  would 
have  this  any  different  I  would  say,  nominate  our  men 
and  vote  for  them  under  God.  Some  claim  to  join  the 
Masonic  lodge  so  that  their  influence  as  Christians  can 
be  better  felt  with  the  members  of  the  order;  but  they 
find  that  they  have  lowered  the  standard  of  Christ  when 
it  is  too  late  to  repeat.  May  God  give  us  wisdom  in 
this  Presidential  campaiga  is  the  prayer  of  one  that  has 
enlisted  in  this  warfare  for  life. — Jambs  Ferguson,  Oer- 
ing,  Seb. 

PROHIBITION    WORKERS   IN    SAN   J08B,    CAL. 

The  Pacific  Coast  is  alive  in  vry  many  places  on  the 
temperance  question,  On  the  evening  of  the  26th  ult. 
the  talented  young  orator  and  editor,  Walter  Thomas 
MilU,  lectured  to  a  large  house.  He  is  a  little  man,  but 
his  thoughts  are  keen  and  convincing.  He  went  over  a 
great  deal  of  ground,  but  improved  frequent  opportuni- 
ties to  impress  deep  lessons  of  Gtiristian  duty.  His  lec- 
ture was  very  well  received.  This  week  we  have  been 
favored  with  two  profitable  lectures  by  Rollo  Kirk  Bryan. 
His  "Chalk  Talks"  are  both  instructive  and  entertaining, 
and  will  doubtless  carry  conviction  to  many  hearts. — 
Prohibition. 

good  tioinos   from  nebraska. 

Tno  feeling  against  the  Secret  Empire  is  growing  in 
this  country.  Many  who  have  been  members  of  secret 
orders  have  become  disgusted  with  these  dark  altars  of 
Baal  and  have  renounced  them  as  being  unfit  for  the 
child  of  God.  I  have  been  a  member  of  two  secret  or- 
ders, but  for  years  I  have  separated  myself  entirely  from 
their  blighting  power.  "He  that  doeth  truth  cometh  to 
the  light  that  his  deeds  may  be  made  manifest  that  they 
are  wrought  in  God."  How  different  from  this  are  the 
secret  conclaves  of  our  country !  God  bless  the  Cynosure 
for  the  noble  manner  in  which  it  exposes  theee  dark  cham- 
bers of  death,  and  increase  its  power  for  doing  good, 


AXBEN'S  CtCLOPKDIA  OF  UNIVERSAL  LITERATURE.  Vol.  IX.  Pp. 

477.  Price  50  cents.  Joan  B  Alden,  New  York. 
With  the  universal  diffusion  of  literature,  the  fre- 
quency of  translations  and  the  making  of  books 
of  which  there  is  no  end,  a  cyclopedia  giving  a  brief 
biography  of  authors,  with  critical  notices  of  their 
works,  is  becoming  more  and  more  a  necessity.  Such 
a  work,  in  cheap  and  popular  style,  this  aims  to  be. 
Among  the  notable  names  in  this  ninth  volume  of 
Alden's  Cyclopedia  of  Universal  Literature,  which 
opens  with  Geibel  and  closes  with  Guernsey,  are 
Gibbon,  Green  and  Grote,  historians;  Gladstone, 
Grant  and  Greeley,  most  eminent  as  statesman,  sol- 
dier and  journalist,  but  of  high  rank  also  in  the  lit- 
erary world;  Archibald  and  James  Geikie,  scien- 
tists; W.  H.  Gibson,  artist  and  author;  Gerhardt, 
Goethe,  Goldsmith  and  Gray,  poets;  Cunningham 
Geikie,  prominent  in  Christian  literature;  Gogol, 
Eussian  novelist;  and  a  small  host  of  other  authors 
of  lesser  note,  perhaps,  but  not  necessarily  of  less 
popular  interest.  This  interesting  series  of  volumes 
has  an  educating  and  elevating  influence  for  a  home 
library,  in  value,  beyond  estimate  in  dollars-  and 
cents. 

The  Planetary  and  Stellar  Worlds.  A  popular  exposl- 
tloa  of  the  great  discoveries  and  theories  of  modern  astronomy. 
By  Gen  O.  M  Mltchel.  Pp.  183.  Price  30  cents.  John  B. 
Alden,  New  York. 

The  early  death,  during  the  late  war,  of  the  gifted, 
generous  and  patriotic  General  Mitchel,  was  a  loss 
doubly  felt  through  all  the  North.  As  conductor  of 
the  Cincinnati  Observatory  he  had  become  well 
known  in  many  cities  through  his  popular  lectures 
on  astronomy.  Neither  before  or  since  has  this 
great  science  been  given  to  the  people  in  a  style  so 
attractive  and  interesting;  and  we  may  almost  thank 
the  stern  necessity  that  forced  their  author  to  go 
out  among  men  to  raise  funds  by  these  lectures  for 
the  institution  he  was  planting.  Gen.  Mitchel  tells 
the  story  in  the  preface,  and  it  is  a  very  captivating 
introduction  to  the  volume,  which  comprises  these 
lectures.  It  is  more  than  a  generation  since  they 
were  delivered,  and  the  discoveries  in  astronomy 
have  gone  on  in  new  lines  since  then,  but  the  fun- 
damental principles  of  the  science  are  given  in  so 
attractive  a  form  that  the  book  will  not  be  old  for 
years  to  come. 

Dr.  Henry  M.  Field,  editor  of  the  New  York  Evangel- 
ist, writes  for  the  current  number  of  Scribner'a  Magazine 
on  "Gibraltar."  This  fortress,  which  has  enriched  the 
language  and  almost  gained  a  place  in  our  vocabulary, 
has  been  often  (^scribed,  but  Vr.  Field  makes  the  old 
honey-combed  mountain  seem  like  a  new  discovery,  and 
the  numerous  fine  illustrations  add  a  value  that  makes 
this  paper  worth  preserving.  John  C.  Ropes  closes  his 
review  of  the  Waterloo  battle  with  the  same  research 
and  careful  review  of  the  critical  points  of  the  great 
event  as  in  the  first  paper.  The  illustrations  are  fine  and 
many.  The  Chief  Oflacer  of  the  U  S.  Signal  Service, 
Gen.  A.  W.  Greely,  writes  in  good  season  for  vacation 
plans,  "Where  Shall  We  Spend  our  Summers?"  An  able 
discussion  of  the  famous  Ordinance  of  1787  adds  to  the 
interest  of  the  paper  on  "The  Center  of  the  Republic  " 
James  Baldwin,  the  author,  estimates  that  the  center  of 
population  which  has  been  nloving  westward  from  Wash- 
ington with  every  decade,  will  find  its  limit  in  Missouri 
within  a  century  and  will  then  retrograde.  An  illus- 
trated paper  on  "The  Greek  Vase,"  and  poems  by  T.  W. 
Higginson  and  Geo.  Parsons  Lathrop,  enrich  the  num- 
ber. 

The  every-day  part  of  the  American  Magatine  for  the 
month  is  by  no  means  its  weakest.  Mrs.  Croly  (Jennie 
June)  on  "Household  Art,"  and  Dr.  Hutchinson  on 
"Health  Jottings  for  April,"  are  sure  to  find  grateful 
readers.  The  number  opens  with  a  valuable  historical 
paper  on  the  French  invasion  of  Mexico  during  our  late 
war,  and  the  overthrow  of  the  unfortunate  Maximilian 
through  the  intrigues  of  the  infamous  Napoleon  III. 
The  third  number  of  the  deservedly  popular  papers  on 
"Boy  Life  on  the  Prairie"  has  a  companion  in  "The  De- 
cay of  Rural  Life  in  New  England,"  which  will  be  wide- 
ly read  and  commented  upon.  The  writer  does  not 
philosophize  upon  the  sad  agricultural  ruin  he  paints, 
and  the  reader  is  left  to  conjecture  whether  foreign  im- 
migration, or  false  notions  of  laborious  life,  or  politics, 
or  epidemics  have  thus  returned  once  fair  realmn  to  a 
primitive,  wilderness  state.  "The  Song  of  the  Prairie 
Lark"  is  timely,  and  editor  White's  sketch  of  the  "First 
Owner  of  Boston,"  with  its  illustrations,  gives  us  por- 
traits of  colonial  times. 

The  May  number  of  the  Missionary  Review  8f  the 
World,  if  possible,  excels  any  of  the  previous  numbers 
in  riohness  and  variety.  Several  of  the  eight  articles  in 
the  "Literature"  department  are  of  unusual  interest,  such 
as  "The  Supreme  Question  of  the  Hour,"  "The  Mira- 
cles of  Missions,"  "Woman's  Work  for  Missions,"  and 
"David  Brainard"  (all  editorial)  .     "The  Ot)portunityof 


■•«>*<« 


April  26,  1888 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE- 


the  Agefl,"  by  Dr.  Chamberlain  of  India, 
"The  Political  Situation  in  Japan,"  by  a 
writer  whose  name  is  withheld,  but  who 
is  on  the  ground  and  thoroughly  posted 
on  the  subject,  are  also  of  remarkable  in- 
terest and  value.  "Organized  Missionary 
Work,"  "CorresDondence  and  General 
Intelligence,"  "International  Depart- 
ment," by  Dr.  Qracey,  "Monthly  Con- 
cert," by  Dr.  Pierson,  the  "Monthly  Bul- 
letin," which  sweeps  the  entire  mission 
field,  and  the  "Statistics  of  the  World's 
Missions^"  are  each  packed  with  intelli- 
gence, discussions,  facts,  statistics,  re- 
sults, all  of  the  latest  and  most  reliable 
kind.  Instead  of  any  decline  of  interest 
there  has  been  a  steady  increase  in  each 
successive  number;  and  as  the  tide  of 
missionary  feeling  rises  higher  and  higher 
in  the  churches  we  look  for  still  greater 
perfection  and  power  in  this  advanced 
BmietB.      Funk  &  Wagnalls. 

Mr.  George  Eennan  will  tell  in  the  May 
Century  how  he  came  to  go  to  Siberia  on 
the  Cen^uT-^  expedition.  Mr.  Eennan  had 
spent  some  time  in  Siberia  already  in  con- 
nection with  the  overland  telegraph 
scheme,  and  in  the  summer  of  1884  he 
made  a  preliminary  excursion  to  St,  Pe- 
tersburg and  Moscow  for  the  purpose  of 
collecting  material,  and  ascertaining 
whether  or  not  obstacles  were  likely  to 
be  thrown  in  his  way  by  the  Russian  Gov- 
ernment. He  returned  in  October,  fully 
satisfied  that  his  scheme  was  a  practical 
one  He,  therefore,  sailed  from  New 
York  for  Liverpool  in  May,  1885.  He 
says:  "All  my  prepossessions  were  favor- 
able to  the  Russian  Government  and 
unfavorable  to  the  Russian  Revolution- 
ists." He  adds  that  this  "partly  explains 
the  friendly  attitude  toward  me  which 
was  taken  by  the  Russian  Government, 
the  permission  which  was  given  me  to 
inspect  prisons  and  mines,  and  the  com- 
parative immunity  from  arrest,  detention 
and  imprisonment  which  I  enjoyed  ,even 
when  my  movements  and  associations 
were  such  as  justly  to  render  me  an  ob- 
ject of  suspicion  to  the  local  Siberian 
authorities." 

The  April  Cosmopolitan  reminds  us 
that  color  printing  may  be  overdone, 
though  it  may  answer  for  the  time  being 
for  a  popular  attraction.  The  article 
which  many  will  read  first  is  Moncure  D. 
Conway's  "Reminiscences  of  Kaiser  Will- 
iam," in  which  he  gives  a  graphic  account 
of  experiences  in  the  Franco-Prussian 
war,  with  a  reproduction  of  a  drawing 
of  the  battle  of  Gravelotte  taken  on  the 
spot.  David  Eer,  always  an  interesting 
writer,  tells  of  a  trip  through  the  Cau- 
cassian  mountains  and  gives  a  thrilling 
battle  sketch.  "Science  and  the  Poets," 
"A  Japanese  Tea-drinking  Ceremony," 
"Louisa  May  Alcott,"  and  "Home  Life  in 
France,"  wilj  all  find  deeply  interested 
readers.  In  the  latter  Max  O'Rell  con- 
tradicts the  popular  notion  of  homeless- 
ness  among  the  French  people,  arising 
from  the  fact  that  their  language  has  no 
name  for  home.  The  thing  exists  in  fact 
and  in  set  terms  as  well. 


8BCRBT80GIBTIB8  CONDBMNBD. 


8PIKB  THKIR  QUNS. 

A  few  dollars  expended  in  purchasing 
tracts  and  scattering  them  about  through 
the  community  will  perhaps  do  more  to 
spike  the  guns  of  noisy  secretists  than 
anything  else  that  could  be  suggested. 
Men  have  heard  the  lodges  praised  so 
often  and  so  boldly,  that  they  have  come 
to  believe  that  they  are  what  they  pro- 
fess to  be.  It  is  high  time  that  the  war  is 
carried  intoAfrica  itself.  This  is  the  work 
which  the  N.  C.  A.  has  in  view,  and 
would  be  glad  to  push  forward  in  every 
quarter  of  the  land.  Who  will  help  to 
do  it?  ^ 

"DOCBTING   THOMASBS," 

remarked  an  eminent  divine,  "must  exist 
in  ratio  to  the  too  credulous."  The  habit 
of  cautiousness  is  not,  as  a  general  thing, 
inborn,  but  is  the  result  of  a  naturally 
generous  and  confiding  nature  repeatedly 
victimized  by  the  cunning  and  crafty. 
So  the  many  disappointments,  and  often 
injurious  effects,  arising  from  the  use  of 
various  vaunted  remedies,  have  induced 
an  undue  cautiousness,  and,  in  many 
cases,  entire  abandonment  of  the  use  of 
any.  We  call  attention  to  the  remedies 
of  Dr.  R.  V.  Pierce  of  Buffalo,  which 
physicians  are  employing  in  their  practice 
with  the  most  beneficial  results.  His 
"Golden  Medical  Discovery,"  for  diseases 
of  the  lungs  and  kidneys,  heart  affec- 
tions, fever  and  ague,  dropsy,  and  aU, 
diseases  of  the  blood,  has  never  failed 
when  put  to  the  test. 


BY   GBBAT  MEN   IN   THB     8TATB. 

William  H.  Beward:  "Before  I  would 
place  my  hand  between  the  hands  of  oth- 
er men  in  a  secret  lodge,  order,  class,  or 
council,  and,  bending  on  my  knee  before 
them,  enter  into  combination  with  them 
for  any  object,  personal  or  political,  good 
or  bad,  I  would  pray  to  God  that  that 
hand  and  that  knee  might  be  paralyzed, 
and  that  I  might  become  an  object  of 
pity  and  even  the  mockery  of  my  fellow- 
men." 

Wendell  P7iillip$:  "I  wish  you  success 
most  heartily  in  your  efforts  to  arouse  the 
community  to  the  danger  of  secret  soci- 
eties. They  are  a  great  evil;  entirely 
out  of  place  in  a  republic,  and  no  patriot 
should  join  or  uphold  them.  Consider- 
ing the  great  forces  which  threaten  the 
welfare  of  the  nation  in  the  next  thirty 
years,  and  how  readily  and  efficiently  they 
can  use  any  secret  organizations,  such 
should  not  be  allowed  to  exist." 

Oeorge  Washington's  Fa/rewell  Address: 
"The  very  idea  of  the  power  and  the  right 
of  the  people  to  establish  government  pre- 
supposes the  duty  of  every  individual  to 
obey  the  established  government.  All 
obstructions  to  the  execution  of  the  laws, 
all  combinations  and  associations,  under 
whatever  plausible  character,  with  the 
real  design  to  direct,  control,  counteract, 
or  awe  the  regular  deliberation  and  action 
of  the  constituted  authorities,  are  de- 
structive of  this  fundamental  principle, 
and  of  fatal  tendency." 

Eon .  Bzra  Butler,  ex-  Governor  of  Ver- 
mont:— One  Masonic  obligation  requires 
that  a  Mason  shall  vote  for  a  brother  in 
.preference  to  any  other  person  of  equal 
qualifications.  Is  not  this  political  Ma- 
sonry? The  Masons  in  Vermont  are 
about  one-twentieth  part  of  the  freemen, 
and  they  hold  about  three-fourths  of  all 
the  important  offices  in  the  State.  Is  this 
owing  to  their  superior  fitness,  or  to  po- 
litical Masonry? 

Philo  Carpenter: — This  saint  of  God 
(Moses  Stuart)  like  the  old  prophets,  was 
satisfied  with  the  institutions  and  ordi- 
nances of  God's  house,  and  consequently 
did  not  give  his  influence  or  aid  in  sup- 
plementing the  same  with  human  ordi- 
nances and  worldly  alliances;  in  other 
words,  he  was  opposed  to  secret,  oath- 
bound  societies,  into  which  many  good 
men,  and  even  clergymen,  have  been, 
and  are  being  "ensnared." 

General  J,  W.  Phelps: — All  secret  or- 
ganizations are  links  of  one  and  the  same 
chain  which  binds  men  to  evil  and  not  to 
good.  The  Masonic  lodge  is  the  parent 
source  from  which  all  similar  modern  or- 
ganizations have  emanated  and  this  lodge 
is  now  in  active  operation  in  every  city 
and  considerable  village  of  the  country 
swaying  our  parties  and  churches;  filling 
our  offices,  secular  and  divine,  with  its 
partisans;  shaping  our  political  destinies; 
and  teaching  a  spurious  and  corrupt- 
ing morality  subversive  both  of  the  Chris- 
tian religion  and  of  free  institutions. 

Thurlow  Weed:  "I  now  look  back 
through  an  interval  of  fifty-six  years  with 
a  conscious  sense  of  having  been  gov- 
erned through  the  Anti-masonic  excite- 
ment by  a  sincere  desire,  first  to  vindicate 
the  violated  laws  of  my  country,  and  next 
to  arrest  the  great  power  and  dangerous 
infiuences  of  secret  societies." 

A.  M.  SuUivan,  Irish  Leader:  I  had  not 
studied  in  vain  the  history  of  secret,oath- 
bound  associations.  I  regarded  them  with 
horror.  I  knew  all  that  could  be  said  as 
to  their  advantages  in  revolutionizing  a 
country,  but  even  in  the  firmest  and  best 
of  hands  they  had  a  direct  tendency  to 
demoralization  and  are  often  on  the 
whole  more  perilous  to  society  than  open 
tyranny." 

non.  Bdward  Blake,leader  in  Canadian 
Parliament,  March,  188J^:  "I  am  not  in 
favor  of  State  recognition  of  any  secret 
societies.  I  have  never  joined  one, though 
many  of  my  best  friends  are  members  of 
secret  societies.  But  I  believe  the  ten- 
dency of  secrecy  itself  to  be  injurious.  I 
believe  that  it  brings  with  it  the  possibili- 
ty of  evil;  I  believe  that  it  involves  a  cer- 
tain amount  of  sacrifice  of  individuality 
and  independence,  and  gives  very  great 
facilities  for  the  misleading  of  members 
by  designing  leaders-very  great  and  mis- 
chievous facilities  for  that  purpose."  "I 
believe  that  a  great  deal  of  the  trouble, 
social  and  political,  that  has  occurred  in 
those  countries  [Europe  and  America]  i£ 
due  to  lecret  societies . " 


ANTI-MABOmO  LB0TVRBR8. 
Qbnbbal  AeBHT  AND  Lbotubbb,  J.  p. 
Stoddard,  221  W.  Madison  St.,  Chicago. 
H.  H.  Hlnman,  Cynosure  office. 
Agent  for  Southern  States. 
Statb  AeBNTB. 
Iowa,  C.  F.   Hawley,  Wheaton,    Du- 
Page  Co.,  Illinois. 
Missouri,  Eld.  Rufus  Smith,  Maryyille. 
New  Hampshire,   Eld.  S.  C.  Kimball, 
New  Market. 
Ohio,  W.  B.  Stoddard,  Columbus, 
Kansas,  Robert  Loggan,  Clifton. 
Alabama,  Rev.  G.  M.  Elliott,  Selma. 

Dbgbbb  Wobkbbs. — [Beceders.] 
J.  K.  Glassford,  Carthage,  Mo. 
Othbb  Lbctubbbs. 

C.  A.  Blanchard,  Wheaton,  lU. 
N.  Callander,  Brown  Hollow,  Pa. 
J,  H.  TlmmonB,  Tarentum,  Pa 

T.  B.  McConnick,  Princeton,  Ind. 

E.  Johnson,  Dayton,  Ind. 

H.  A.  Day,  Wllllamstown,  Mich. 

J.  M.  Bishop,  Chambersburg,  Pa. 

A.  Mayn,  Bloomlngton,  Ind. 

J.  B.  Cresslnger,  Sullivan,  O. 

W.  M.  Love,  Osceola,  Mo. 

J.  L.  Barlow,  Grundy  Center,  Iowa. 

A.  D.Freeman,  Downers  Grove,  111 

Wm.  FentoD,  8t  Paul,  Minn. 

Warren  Taylor,  South  Salem,  O. 

J.  S.  Perry,  Thompson,  Conn. 

J.  T.  Micnael,1533  Capouse  Av.Scranton.Pa. 

8.  G.  Barton,  Breckinridge,  Mo. 

E.  BametBon.  Hasklnvllle,  Steuben  Co,jN.  Y 

Wm.  R.  Roach,  Pickering,  Ont. 

D.  A.  Richards,  Brighton,  Mich, 

THB   CHTJRCBB8    VS.   LODeSRT. 

The  following  denominations  are  com- 
mitted by  vote  of  their  legislative  assem- 
blies or  by  constitution  to  a  separation 
from  secret  lodge  worship: 

Adventists  (Seventh-day.) 

Baptists — Primitive,  Seventh-day  and 
Scandinavian. 

Brethren  (Dunkers  or  German  Bap- 
tists.) 

Christian  Reformed  Church. 

Church  of  God  Northern  Indiana  El- 
dership.) 

Congregational — The  State  Associations 
of  Illinois  and  Iowa  have  adopted  resolu- 
tions against  the  lodge. 

Disciples  (in  part.) 

Friends. 

Lutherans — Norwegian,  Danisli,  S#r««i- 
ish  and  Synodical  Conferences. 

jVIennonites. 

Methodists — Free  and  Wesleyan. 

Methodist  Protestant  (Minnesota  Con 
ference.) 

Moravians. 

Pl3rmouth  Brethren. 

Presbyterian — Associate,  Reformetl  and 
United. 

Reformed  Church  (Holland  Branch.) 

United  Brethren  in  Christ. 

Individual  churches  in  some  of  these 
denominations  should  be  excepted,  in  part 
of  them  even  a  considerable  portion. 

The  following  local  churches  have,  as  a 
pledge  to  disfellowship  and  oppose  lodge 
worship,  given  their  names  to  the  follow 
ing  list  as 

THB    ASSOCIATKD    CHtrRCHES    OF  CHRIST. 

New   Ruhamah  Cong.  Hamilton,  Miss. 

Pleasant  Ridge  Cong.   Sandford  Co.  Ala. 

New  Hope  iuithodist,  Lowndes  Co.,  Miss. 

Congregational,  College  Springs,  Iowa. 

College  Church  of  Christ,  Whoaton,  111. 

First  CongrcgHtional,  Leiaud,  Mich. 

8ug>ir  Grove  Church,  Green  county.  Pa. 

Military  Chapel,  M.  E.,  Lowndes  county, 
Miss. 

Hopeweil  Miasionary  Baptist.,  Lowndes  Co., 
Miss. 

Cedar  Grove  Miss.  Baptist,  Lowndes  Co., 
Miss. 

Simon's  Chapel,   M.   E.,  Lowndes  Co.,  Miss. 

Pleasant  Ridge  MIee.  Baptist,  Lowndes  Co., 
V(is8. 

Brownlee  Church,  Caledonia,  Miss. 

Salem  Charch,  Lowndes  Co.,  Miss. 

West  Preston  Bantist  Church,  Wayne  Co^.Pa. 
OTHBB  LOCAL  CHUBCHBB 

adopting  the  same  nrinciple  are — 

Baptist  churches :  N.  Ablngton,  Pa. ;  Meno- 
monle,  Mondovl,  Waubeck  ana  Spring  Prairie, 
Wis. ;  Wheaton,  HI. ;  Perry,  N.  T. ;  Spring 
Creek,  near  Burlington,  Iowa;  Lima,  Ind.; 
ConstablevUle,  N.  Y.  The  "Good  Will  Assocl- 
ton"of  Mobile,  Ala.,  comprising  some  twenty- 
flve  colored  Baptist  churches;  Bridgewater 
Baptist  Association,  Pa. ;  Old  Tebo  Baptist, 
near  LeesvlllCj  Henry  Co.,  Mo. ;  Hoopeston,  111 ; 
Ksracn,  111. ;  Strykersvllle,  N.  Y. 

Congregational  churches :  1st  of  Oberlln,  O. ; 
Tonlca,  CTyst*!  Lake,  Union  and  Big  Woods, 
111. ;  Solsbury,  Ind. ;  Congregational  Methodist 
Maplewood,  Mass. 

Independent  churches  in  Lowell,  Country- 
man school  house  near  Llndenwood,  Mar«ngo 
and  Streator,  lU. ;  Bereaand  Camp  Nelson,  Kj- ; 
Ustlck,  111. ;  Clarksburg,  Kansas;  State  Associ- 
ation of  Mtnliten  ancT  Churches  •!  Christ  !• 
KsmtirkT. 


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THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE, 
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JXAl'IONALCH&ISTlAN  A8S0CIATI0M 

Pbbsidbnt.— H.  H.  George,  D.  D.,  Gen 
evai  College,  Pa. 

VlCB-PBBBIDBNT — RoT.    M.    A.    Gaolt, 

Blanchard,  Iowa. 

CoB.  Sbc't  and  Gbnbral  Aobnt. — J 
P.  Stoddard,  221 W.  Madisonflt.,  Chicago. 

Rbc.  Sbc't.  and  Thbabubbb.— W.  I. 
Phillips,  221  W.  Madison  St,   Chicago. 

Dibbctobs. — Alexander  Thomson,  Mi 
R.  Britten,  John  Gardner,  J.  L.  Barlow, 
L,  N.  Stratton,  Thos.  H.  Gault,  0.  A. 
Blanchard,  J.  E.  Roy,  E.  R.  Worrell,  H. 
A.  Fischer,  W.  R.  Hench. 

The  object  of  this  Association  Is: 
"To  expose,  withstand  and  remove  secrel 
societies,  Freemasonry  In  particular,  and  othei 
antl-Christlan  raovemeuts,  In  order  to  save  tba 
churches  of  Christ  from  being  uepraved,  to  !•■ 
deem  the  admlnistrftlon  of  justice  from  j)«i>- 
version,  and  our  Bsp  iblican  government  froa 
corruption." 

To  carry  on  this  work  contributions  are 
solicited  from  every  friend  of  tne  reform. 

Form  of  Beqcbst.— J  give  and  bequeath  to 
the  National  Christian  Association,  incorpo 
rated  and  existing  under  the  laws  of  the  8tat« 

of   Illinois,  the  sum  of ■    dollars  for  the 

purposes  of  said  Association,  and  for  whirh 
me  receipt  of  its  Treasurer  for  the  time  being 
'■tail  be  sufficient  dlscharse. 

THB  NATIONAL  OONYBNTION, 

Prbsidbnt.— Rev.  J.  8.  T.  Milligan, 
Denison,  Kans. 

Sbcrbtaby.— Rev.  R.N.Coun tee,  Mem- 
phis, Tenn. 

statb  AXTXILIABT  ABSOCIATIOKa. 

Alabama.— Pre*.,  Prof.  Pickens;  Sec,  Q. 
M.  Elliott;  Treaa.,  Rev.  C.  B.  Curtis,  all  of 
Selma. 

California.— Presy^  L.  B.  Lathrop,  Hollli 
ter;  Cor.  Sec,  Mrs.  U.  P.  Merrill,  Woodland- 
Treae.,  C.  Ruddock,  Woodland. 

Connbcticut.— Pres.,  J.  A.  Conant,  Willi 
mantle;  Sec,  Geo.  Smith,  Wllllm an Oc ;  Treat. 
C.  T.  Collins.  Windsor. 

IijjHOis.- Pres.,  J.  P.  Stoddard  Sec,  M 
N.  BuUer;  Treas.,  W.  I.  Phillips  all  at  Cy 
nosure  office. 

Indiana.- Pres.,  WUllam  H.  Flgg,  Reno 
Sec,  S.  L.  Cook,  Albion;  Treas.,  BenJ.  Uhh 
Silver  Lake. 

Iowa.— Pre8.,Wm  Johnston,CoIlege  Springs  • 
Cor  Sec,  C.  D.  Trumbull,  Mornln|t  Sun- 
Treae.,  James  Harvey,  Pleasant  Plain.  Jeffer- 
son Co. ;  Lecturer,  C.  F.  Hawlov,  Wheaton   111 

Kansas.— Pres..  J.  S.  T.  .Milligan,  Denlson' 
Sec,  S.  Hart,  Lecompton;  Treas.,  J.  A.  Tor- 
rence,  Denlson. 

MA8BA0HUBBTT9.— Pres.,  8.  A.  Pratt;  Sec 
Mrs.  E.  D.  Bailey ;  Treas.,  David  Mannlng.Si.' 
Worcester. 

MiOHiaiN— Pres.,  D.  A.  Rlcharda,  Brighton  • 
Soc'y,  H.  A.  Dav,  WUlIamston;  Treaa.' 
Geo.  Bwanson,  Jr.,  Bedfoia. 

MiNNHSOTA.— Pres.,  B.  Q.  Paine,  Waslo'a 
Cor.  Sec,  Wm.  Fenton,  St  Paul;  Kec.  Sec^'v 
Mrs.  M.  F.  Morrill,  St.  Cnarles;  Treas.,  Wa 
H.  Morrill,  St.  Charles. 

Missouri.- Pres.,  B.  F.  Miller,  EaglevlUa 
Treas.,  William  Beaachamp,  Avalon ;  (S)r.  &tc. 
A.  D.  "rhomae,  Avalon. 

Nbbraska.- Pres.,  8.  Anstln,  Falrmoozt- 
Cor.  Sec,  W.  Spooner,  Kearney;  Tre»a.» 
J.  C.  Fyo.  ' 

Maine— Pres.,  Isaac  Jackson,  Harrison- 
Sec,  I.  D.  Haines,  Dexter;  Treas.,  H.  w! 
Goddard,  West  Sidney. 

NiwHampshikji.— Pres.,  C.  L.  Baker,  Man 
Chester;  Sec,  3.  C.  Kimball,  New  Market 
Treaa.,  James  /.  French,  Canterbury. 

Niw  York.— Pres.,  F.  W.  Capwell,  Dale: 
Sec'y,  John  Wallace,  Syracuae;  Treaa.,  M 
Merrick,  Syracuse. 

Ohio.— Pres.,  F.  M.  Spencer,  New  Concord', 
Rec  Sec,  S.  A.  George,  Mansfield;  Cor.  Sec 
and  Treas..  C.  W.  Hlsit,  Columbus;  Agent 
W.  B.  Stoddard,  Columbus. 

PmiNBTLVAHiA.— Cor.  Sec,  N.  Callender 
ThompasD ;  Treaa.,  W.  B.Bertela,  WUkesbarre. 

Vmrmont.- Pres.,  W.  R.  Laird,  St.  Johns • 
bury ;  Sec,  C.  W  Potter. 

wisooHsiN.— Pres.,  J.  W  Wood,  Baraboo; 
Sec,  W.  W.  Ames,  Menomonle ;  Treaa.,  M.  R 
Britten,  Vienna. 


8 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


April  26, 1888 


" 


The  Christian  Cynosure. 


J.  3LANCHARD. 


Xditobs. 


HKItRY  L.  KXLLOaG. 


OHIOAeO;   THUBSDAT,   APKIL  26,   1888. 


We  lately  wrote  an  able,  honest,  and  eloquent 
member  of  Congress  asking  him  these  questions: 
Will  the  Government  at  Washington  go  on  through 
the  forms  of  legislation,  and  look  on  with  indiffer- 
ence while  the  people  of  the  United  States  are  being 
sworn  to  obey  secret  laws  and  unknown  superiors 
constituting  an  "Jmperium  in  imperio"  ?  And,  if  so,  is 
not  our  Republic  doomed  to  speedy  dismemberment? 
The  Congressman  replies,  in  a  letter  just  received: 

"The  questions  presented  in  your  letter  are  such 
as  to  fill  one's  mind  with  deep  sadness.  How  these 
thing's  are  to  be  remedied  I  don't  see.  But  some- 
how, and  at  some  time,  I  trust  the  consummation 
will  be  reached."  This  Congressman  is  not  alone  in 
his  sadness.  If  only  half  a  million  votes  are  con- 
solidated in  an  American  Prohibition  party  next 
November  the  consummation  will  begin  to  appear. 


The  Louisiana  State  election  went  Democratic 
on  Tuesday  of  last  week  by  some  60,000,  though 
there  is  a  very  large  majority  of  Republicans  in  the 
State,  known  and  confessed  of  all  men  there.  Mc- 
Enery,  the  present  Governor,  is  said  to  be  an  intem- 
perate man  on  whom  liquor  is  gaining.  Nichols, 
the  Governor  elect,  ran  as  a  reformer  and  split  the 
Democratic  ranks.  Warmoth,  the  carpet-bag  Gov- 
ernor of  twenty  years  ago,  bought  the  bonds  of  the 
State  at  forty  cents  and  made  a  fortune  by  selling 
them  at  eighty  cents.  He  is  now  twenty  years  a 
Southerner.  His  sugar  last  year  sold  for  $100,000, 
and  he  appealed  to  the  whites,  in  his  letter  accept- 
ing the  nomination,  justified  their  refusal  to  be  gov- 
erned by  their  ignorant  ex-slaves,  and  told  of  the 
Democrats  he  had  appointed  to  office.  Meanwhile, 
both  parties  are  courting  colored  votes.  Colored 
men  sit  on  juries,  and  Democrats  appoint  them  to 
small  offices.  We  rode  in  cars  with  them  into  New 
Orleans;  and  colored  voters  vote  for  Democrats  in 
teadily  increasing  numbers. 

But  though  the  Negroes  are  in  a  social  and  polit- 
ical paradise  to  what  they  were  twenty-five  years 
ago,  and  their  state  is  improving  steadily,  the  lodge 
and  liquor  are  millstones  tied  to  the  neck  of  their 
progress.  In  passing  through  Main  street  in  New 
Iberia  you  will  often  see  an  hundred  idle,  drinking, 
swearing  Negroes,  lounging  on  whatever  they  can 
lean  or  sit,  with  now  and  then  a  sprinkling  of  whites 
in  squads  by  themselves.  A  very  large  proportion 
of  the  cases  in  the  courts,  police  and  criminal,  are 
cases  of  petty  larceny  furnished  by  drinking  blacks. 
The  lodges  seek  to  shut  out  these  for  non-payment 
of  dues;  but  lodge  morals  soon  land  their  members 
in  the  saloons,  and  the  saloons  turn  them  over  to 
the  mayor's  court  and  police  prison.  And  these 
debased  classes,  seen  in  the  streets,  courts  and  jails, 
are  cited  to  the  detriment  of  the  industrious  and 
thriving  who  are  at  home. 


PRBBBTTBRIAN  BB UNION. 

"The  General  Assembly  of  the  Presbyterian 
Church  in  the  United  States"  was  formed  by  the 
Synod  of  New  York  and  Philadelphia  in  1784.  This 
body  is  a  supreme  appellate"Court  of  Jesus  Christ," 
consisting  of  above  600  judges  called  "commission- 
ers," meeting  once  a  year.  A  fortnight  is  an  ordi- 
nary and  three  weeks  a  long  session  of  this  great 
ecclesiastical  "court,"  of  which  Robert  J.  Brecken- 
ridge  said  in  the  General  Assembly  of  1837,  "No- 
body pretends  there  is  any  divine  warrant  for  this 
Assembly  contained  in  the  Bible." 

We  lately  asked  the  editor  of  a  leading  Presby- 
terian paper,  "How  can  an  appellate  court  of  600 
members,  meeting  a  fortnight  once  a  year,  properly 
hear  and  determine  the  appealed  cases  coming  up 
from  the  whole  United  States?" 

The  editor,  who  had  been  a  leader  in  the  General 
Assembly,  answered,  "If  the  Assembly  should  sit 
continuously  the  year  round,  it  could  not  properly 
try  such  cases.  When  I  was  Chairman  of  the  Com- 
mittee of  Bills  and  Overtures,  we  had  four  cases 
come  to  us.  Knowing  the  Assembly  could  not  and 
would  not  hear  them,  we  found  a  flaw  in  two  of 
them,  pronounced  them  'irregular'  and  threw  them 
out.  The  other  two  we  recommended  to  be  tried  by 
a  com  mission." 

Another  editor  of  a  larger  Presbyterian  paper 
still  answered  the  same  question  about  this  "Su- 
preme Court,"  having  the  religious  standing  of 
all  the  Presbyterians  in  the  United  States  under 
its  jurisdiction,  thus: 


"SUCH   A   COURT   IS   A   HUMBUG  1" 

Yet  this  Assembly  is  the  supreme  court  of  a 
denomination  of  Christians  which  is  not  excelled, 
if  even  equalled,  by  any  other  body  of  Christians 
on  earth  for  sound  learning,  sound  doctrine  and 
scriptural  piety.  Its  standards  of  doctrine  once 
enacted  into  law  by  the  British  Parliament  were 
written  by  the  light  of  the  flames  which  burned 
their  confessors.  And  David  Hume,  though  him- 
self a  skeptic,  attributes  all  the  principles  of  lib- 
erty in  the  British  Constitution  to  the  teachings 
of  the  Puritans,  who  were  the  disciples  of  the 
Presbyterians. 

But  the  General  Assembly,  true  to  its  worldly 
origin,  has  been  a  stumbling-block  and  hindrance 
in  the  way  of  piety  and  progress.  Soon  after  its 
formation,  a  hundred  years  or  so  ago,  it  quarreled, 
split,  remained  apart  some  dozen  years,  united, 
split  again  in  1837,  and  continued  split  a  little 
over  thirty  years,  when  the  Old  School  and  New  re- 
united; and  now  the  reunion  with  the  slavery-se- 
cession or  Church  South  seems  likely  to  furnish 
business  for  another  generation  and  keep  its  really 
wise  and  pious  membership  from  concerning  them- 
selves with  public  morals  and  those  needed  reforms 
which  are  to  remove  the  stumbling-blocks  and  bring 
in  the  kingdom  of  God  on  earth. 

While  the  lodge  was  assailed  for  the  murder  of 
Morgan,  this  General  Assembly  for  years  discussed 
the  "right  to  marry  a  deceased  wife's  sister,"  a 
question,  said  George  W.  Prentice  of  the  Louisville 
Journal,  which  "belonged  properly  to  the  deceased 
wife's  sister  herself."  When  the  slave  question 
was  brought  up  for  decision  the  Assembly  occupied 
its  leading  minds  on  Old  and  New  Schoolism.  This 
last  contention  and  split  was  about  points  which 
were  totally  ignored  when  the  schools  united  after 
slavery  had  fallen;  and  the  reunion  took  place  with- 
out a  confession  or  retraction  of  an  error  by  either 
party!  It  is  amazing  that  bright,  sensible,Christian 
men  as  they  are  do  not  see  that  Satan  has  kept  that 
Assembly  busy  about  trifles,  so  that  the  minds,  the 
piety,  and  above  all  the  prayers  of  their  devoted 
people  might  be  occupied  with  an  excellent  appear- 
ance about  doing  something  religious,  while  slavery 
was  filling  eighty-two  Southern  graveyards  with 
Northern  dead.  Even  after  slavery  had  fallen  the 
Assembly  voted  down  a  resolution  "to  thank  God 
for  the  fall  of  slavery  and  the  preservation  of  free 
government" 

And  now,  last  week,  Chicago  Presbytery,  "repre- 
senting ninety-one  Presbyterian  clergymen,  280  el- 
ders and  12,109"  members  of  Presbyterian  churches 
in  and  areund  Chicago,  after  straining  itself  up  to 
urging  the  Common  Council  of  Chicago  to  '^restrict" 
(not  prohibit)  the  saloons  of  the  city,  took  up  from 
its  General  Assembly  the  reunion  of  the  North  and 
South  Assemblies,  about  which  earnest  speeches 
were  made  to  very  little  purpose.  Not  one  princi- 
ple of  caste  was  condemned,  but  black  and  white 
presbyteries  and  synods  are  to  be  allowed  on  the 
same  ground,  while  the  Roman  Catholic  churches  on 
the  same  Southern  soil  allow  their  black  and  white 
members  to  kneel  side  by  side  at  the  same  com- 
munion that  Christ  may  not  be  divided. 

In  that  Chicago  Presbytery  are  some  of  the  finest 
minds  and  the  best  men  in  the  United  States;  and 
those  men  know  that  false  altars  dot  and  false  wor- 
ships darken  this  whole  country.  They  know,  too, 
that  the  lodge  is  organized  deism.  Dr.  Gray,the  ed- 
itor of  the  leading  Presbyterian  paper  in  the  United 
States,  holds  and  declares  lodge-worship  to  be"devil- 
worship,"  and  Drs.  Marquis  and  Herrick  Johnson 
(one  of  them  from  experience)  know  that  the  doc- 
trine of  the  editor  of  the  Interior  is  the  truth,  stand- 
ing out  on  the  pages  of  the  Bible.  Yet  these  learn- 
ed and  powerful  men  are  busying  their  students 
about  the  reunion  of  Assemblies  which  have  no  war- 
rant in  the  Word  of  God,  while  they  never  explain 
to  their  pupils  "the  unfruitful  works  of  darkness," 
which  Paul  commanded  to  disfellowship.or  "the  cup 
of  devils,"  which  he  forbade  the  disciples  to  drink. 
And  this  while  thousands  of  young  Presbyterian 
men  of  business  are  being  drawn  into  secret  lodges 
in  self-defence,  and  sworn  to  life-long  concealment, 
husbands  from  wives,  parents  from  children  and 
children  from  parents,  thus  trampling  on  the  exam- 
ple of  Him  who  "in  secret  said  nothing,"  and  who 
commanded  his  disciples  to  "follow,"  not  despise, 
his  example.  What  Albert  Barnes  said  in  his  book 
on  slavery  is  equally  true  of  the  lodge  altars:  "There 
is  no  power  on  earth,  out  of  the  church,  which  could 
sustain  slavery  an  hour  if  it  was  not  sustained 
in  it." 


judge  to  be  fairly  correct.  The  article  is  written 
altogether  in  favor  of  the  order,  gives  portions  of 
the  oaths,  describes  the  greater  part  of  the  initia- 
tion and  praises  the  ritual  for  its  "beauty  and  sub- 
limity of  sentiment,"  claiming  that  it  will  "bear  com- 
parison with  the  liturgy  of  the  Church  of  England." 
The  writer  must  have  a  singularly  developed  taste 
to  write  such  sentiments. 


NOT  PROHIBITIONISTS  TBT. 

Elsewhere  we  print  an  able  discussion  of  the  re- 
jection of  saloon-keepers  by  the  Masonic  order,  con- 
tributed to  the  Voice  of  Masonry  by  an  official  of  the 
Grand  Lodge  of  Louisiana.  We  call  attention  to  this 
article  as  it  confirms  the  general  argument  we  have 
heretofore  made  on  this  movement.  Please  turn 
back  and  read  in  the  last  half  of  the  fourth  para- 
graph, and  also  the  third  paragraph  from  the  end  of 
the  article.  The  principle  here  very  carefully  main- 
tained is  that  the  Mason's  law  is  his  obligation. 
That  law  is  not  against  liquor-selling  or  drinking 
and  to  make  it  so  is  imposing  a  new  oath,  so  that 
Masons  in  one  State  are  sworn  against  what  is  per- 
mitted in  others. 

The  second  principle  is  stated  by  the  writer  thus: 
"No  act  can  be  a  Masonic  crime  unless  such  act  is 
made  a  crime  or  misdemeanor  by  the  statute  laws 
of  the  State  or  country."  This  law  is  not  drawn 
from  the  obligation  but  from  the  lodge  lectures,  and 
if  true  indicates  a  low  condition  of  morality  for  a 
"handmaid  of  religion."  But  on  this  point  we  wish 
to  present  a  higher  authority  than  the  writer  in  the 
Voice,  namely  the  Grand  Lodges  of  Virginia  and 
Missouri.  The  following  remarkable  sentiments  or- 
iginated with  the  former  and  are  quoted  with  approv- 
al in  the  records  of  the  Missouri  lodge  meeting  in 
October,  1867.  Read  carefully  as  this  is  an  answer 
to  the  question  of  Masonic  good  citizenship: 

"Once  a  Mason,  always  a  Mason — once  a  Mason,  every- 
where a  Mason.  However  independent,  either  as  indi- 
viduals or  as  lodges,  whether  Grand  or  subordinate — and 
we  are  each  and  all  truly  free  and  uncontrolled  by  any- 
thing save  our  ancient  laws  and  constitution — yet  no 
Mason  can  be  a  foreigner  to  another  Mason.  We  are  all 
equal  citizens  of  one  common  government,  having  equal 
rights,  equal  privileges  and  equal  duties;  and  in  which 
government,  thank  God,  the  majority  does  not  govern. 
For  our  Order,  in  its  very  constitution,  strikes  at  the  root 
of  that  which  is  the  very  basis  of  popular  government. 
It  proclaims  and  practices,  not  that  the  will  of  the  masses 
is  wise  and  good,  and  as  such  to  be  obeyed — not  that  the 
majority  shall  govern — but  that  the  law  shall  govern. 
Our  tenet  is  not  only  that  no  single  man,  but  that  no 
body  of  men  (however  wise  or  however  numerous),  can 
change  in  any  degree  one  single  landmark  of  our  an- 
cient institution.  Our  law  is  strictly  organic;  it  cannot 
be  changed  without  being  destroyed.  You  may  take  a 
man  to  pieces,  and  you  may  take  a  watch  to  pieces,  but 
you  cannot  alter  his  organs  and  put  him  together  again 
as  you  do  the  time-keeper.  Masonry  is  the  living  man, 
and  all  other  forms  of  government  mere  convenient  ma- 
chines, made  by  clever  mechanics,  for  regulating  the  af- 
fairs of  a  state.  Not  only  do  we  know  no  North,  no 
South,  no  East,  and  no  West,  but  we  know  no  govern- 
ment save  our  own.  To  every  government,  save  that  of 
Masonry,  and  to  each  and  all  alike,  we  are  foreigners; 
and  this  form  of  government  is  neither  pontifical,  auto- 
cratic, monarchical,  republican,  democratic  or  despotic; 
it  is  a  government  ptr  se,  and  that  government  is  Ma- 
sonic. We  have  nothing  to  do  with  forms  of  government, 
forms  of  religion,  or  forms  of  social  life.  We  are  a  na- 
tion of  men  only,  bound  to  each  other  by  Masonic  ties,  as 
such  citizens  of  the  world,  and  that  world  the  world  of 
Masonry ;  brethren  to  each  other  all  the  earth  over,  for- 
eigners to  all  the  world  beside." 


— Our  English  correspondent,  Rev.  John  Boyes, 
has  kindly  sent  a  copy  of  London  Tit-Bits  of  the 
17th  ult.,  containing  what  purports  to  be  an  account 
of  Freemasonry  as  practiced  in  England,  which  we 


AMBBIGAN  PBINOIPLBS  IN  PB ACTIOS. 


When  Knigbt Templar  Mason8,Odd-fellows,Grand 
Army,  Orangemen,  and  other  lodges  take  possession 
of  our  churches  dedicated  to  Christian  worship  on 
the  Lord's  day;  when  the  Kentucky  legislature  or- 
ders a  salute  to  be  fired  on  St.  Patrick's  day;  when 
the  flags  on  the  New  York  City  Hall  are  at  half-mast 
because  a  pope  is  dead;  when  public  schools  are 
closed  for  Good  Friday;when  our  Government  sends 
a  vessel  to  escort  a  Romish  priest,and  our  President 
sends  gifts  and  homage  to  the  pope, we  wonder  what 
the  end  shall  be.  But  the  Democratic  Mayor  Hew- 
itt of  New  York  neither  wonders  nor  winks  at  these 
alien  invasions.  When  his  Board  of  Aldermen  vote 
to  close  the  departments  on  Good  Friday,  or  to  raise 
the  Irish  flag  on  St  Patrick's  day,  or  to  half-mast 
the  flag  for  the  German  Emperor;  or  the  G.  A.  R. 
votes  him  a  censure  because  he  opposes  them  in  the 
legislature;  or  the  Irish  societies  rage  because  he 
will  not  review  their  parades,  he  brushes  aside 
their  complaints  and  tells  them  emphatically 
that  Americans  must  rule  America  and  that 
one  flag  is  enough  for  so  good  a  country.  His 
veto  of  the  ordinance  transferring  the  flag  hoisting 
power  to  the  New  York  al'iermen,  a  few  days  since. 


Apbil  26,  1888 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSUBE. 


has  the  vigor  of  1776  about  it.  His  argument  has 
been  a  tonic  in  the  debilitated  system  of  our  public 
life,  which  seems  to  be  full  of  strange  and  danger- 
ous foreign  diseases.  We  have  a  heritage  worth 
guarding  and  preserving  from  the  corruptions  of 
foreign  lodges,  and  foreign  despotisms.  Let  Mayor 
Hewitt's  patriotism  be  contagious. 

The  Senate  has  before  it  the  proposition  to  estab- 
lish a  public  park  in  Colorado  which  it  is  proposed 
to  smut  with  the  name  "Royal  Arch  Park."  Mr. 
Henry  M.  Teller,  who  is  supposed  to  represent  Col- 
orado in  the  Senate,  evidently  intends  the  country 
shall  furnish  a  pleasure  ground  for  his  clique  of 
Sovereign  Grand  Inspectors  General  and  the  Sub- 
lime Princes  of  the  Royal  Secret  over  whom  Al- 
bert Pike  presides.  Mr.  Teller,  being  of  their 
number,  seems  to  find  his  place  as  tool  of  the  lodge 
to  effect  a  scheme  so  dishonorable  and  fraudulent. 


— Through  the  care  of  Prof.  A.  R.  Cervine  of 
Augustana  College,  Rock  Island,  111.,  a  file  of  the 
Cynosure  is  kept  in  the  Royal  Library  at  Stockholm, 
Sweden. 

— Please  note  a  correction  in  the  article  from  the 
Chrittian  Instructor  on  the  G.  A.  R.,  published  last 
week.  The  author  writes  us  that  the  General  Assem- 
bly dates  quoted  should  be  1873  and  1874  instead 
of  1883-4. 

— The  Argument,  Prohibition  organ  in  Indianap- 
olis, is  in  favor  of  a  renomination  of  St.  John  for 
the  Presidential  campaign.  Wait  till  you  are 
reasonably  sure  of  electing  him.  He  has  borne  his 
share  of  abuse  unrequited. 

— Secretary  Stoddard  left  this  office  for  Washing- 
ton Thursday  evening  intending  to  stop  on  business 
in  Ohio  on  the  way.  He  started  thus  early  for  the 
capital  because  of  word  that  the  N.  t).  A.  building 
would  be  vacated  of  most  of  its  various  tenants  May 
1st. 

— Dr.  A.  H.  Hiatt  of  this  city  and  Wheaton  was 
attacked  about  two  weeks  since  with  inflammatory 
disease  and  for  a  time  his  recovery  was  doubtful. 
His  son.  Rev.  C.  W.  Hiatt  of  Columbus,  0.,  was  by 
his  side  during  last  week.  He  is  now,  we  are  glad 
to  say,  rapidly  recovering. 

— An  item  respecting  the  sermon  of  Elder 
Clifford  of  Dundee,  111.,  at  the  funeral  a  Mr 
Hill,  appeared  in  our  April  5th  number,  which 
we  wish  to  correct.  While  it  is  understood  that  Mr. 
Hill  had  spoken  severely  of  the  lodge,  yet  the  fu- 
neral services  were  conducted  according  to  his  last 
wish,  and  Elder  Clifford  was  justified  in  speaking 
as  he  did  of  his  Masonic  life. 

— Captain  John  Brown,  Jr.,  whose  visit  to  the 
Cynosure  office  lately  we  noted  at  the  time,  aroused 
much  enthusiasm  among  the  colored  men  of  Topeka, 
Kansas.  Their  meeting  presented  him  $10  and 
"Resolved  that  to-day  we  are  happy  to  honor  the 
son  of  the  man  who  shook  the  United  States  from 
shore  to  shore  that  we  might  have  our  rights  and 
freedom  in  the  land  of  our  birth." 

— To  an  inquirer  for  his  opinion  on  Masonry,  Ed- 
itor Gray  of  the  Interior  replies  in  his  last  number: 
"We  do  not  believe  in  secret  organizations  of  any 
kind.  Christ  said  of  himself  that  'In  secret  have  I 
said  nothing.'  He  expected  his  followers, when  they 
had  a  candle  to  light,  to  place  it  on  a  candlestick. 
Our  principle  objection  to  Masonry  is  that  while  it 
is  a  system  of  religion,  teaching  morals  (and  very 
good  morals,  too),  it  ignores  Christ  and  offers  salva- 
tion as  a  reward  of  good  works." 

— Our  artist  friend  in  Europe,  whose  letters  from 
Munich  and  Switzerland  our  readers  have  had  the 
privilege  of  reading,  is  now  spending  a  time  in  Rome, 
from  whence  she  writes  an  entertaining  letter,  which 
we  hope  to  print  next  week.  She  expects  to  return 
to  Bavaria  about  May  Ist  to  take  the  position  of 
private  instructor  in  drawing  and  English  to  the 
children  of  the  Duke  Karl  Theodore,  to  which  she 
was  recommended,  without  her  knowledge,  by  her 
Munich  teacher. 

— The  Religiout  Telescope  criticises  Secretary  Stod- 
dard's letter  of  March  22d  as  "A  strange  admix- 
ture" (that  is,  of  truth  and  falsehood).  In  that  let- 
ter Bro.  Stoddard  tells  of  a  conversation  had  with 
a  Freemason  who  lives  neighbor  to  Bishop  Kephart 
in  Toledo,  Iowa,  who  regards  the  Bishop  as  a  friend 
of  the  lodge.  Bro.  Stoddard  recalls  in  connection 
the  Anti  masonic  address  given  in  lower  Farwell 
Hall  in  1868  by  Rev.  E.  B.  Kephart,  now  Bishop. 
The  Telescope  editor  says,  "We  are  surprised  that 
Brother  Stoddard  should  make  such  ststements." 
"  Bishop  Kephart,"  he  continues,  "never  was  in  Far- 
well  Hall  and  never  made  a  speech  there  on  any  sub- 
ject." This  is  a  very  flat  denial  of  what  has  been 
supposed  to  be  n  fact  since  1869,  when  a  gentleman, 


believed  at  the  time  to  be  Rev.  E.  B.  Kephart,  ad- 
dressed the  National  Convention  opposed  to  secret 
societies,  meeting  June  8  to  10.  "Bishop  Kephart 
does  not  attend  Masonic  meeiings  as  Bro.  Stoddard 
intimates."  Bro.  Stoddard  only  wrote  what  the 
Bishop's  Masonic  friend  says  of  him.  The  lele- 
scope  must  settle  the  lie  with  the  Masons.  If  they 
spread  false  reports  of  him,  it  is  no  more  than  is 
done  of  many  other  good  men. 


GALL   FOR  A   POLITICAL    CONFBRENGB. 


The  publication  of  Chairman  Capwell's  call  below 
has  been  unavoidably  delayed  till  the  time  is  almost 
here.  A  mass  meeting  is  not  contemplated,  but  sim- 
ply a  "conference."  Let  all  who  possibly  can,  at- 
tend and  consult. 

By  request  of  L.N.  Stratton,  J.  P.  Stoddard,  and  oth- 
ers, I  hereby  call  a  meeting  for  deliberation  and  action 
against  liquor  and  the  lodge,  in  Carpenter  Hall,  National 
Christian  Association  building.  Chicago,  Saturday,  April 
28th  inst.,  for  the  objects  specified  above. 

All  citizens,  irrespective  of  party,  who  are  the  friends 
of  labor  and  laborers,  and  who  wish  them  to  be  emanci- 
pated from  secret,  sworn  fealty  to  unknown  superiors; 

All  believers  in  Christ  and  Christianity  as  against  false 
priests,  false  prophets  and  false  worships; 

All  who  believe  persons  who  are  under  secret,  sworn 
obligations  to  a  portion  of  the  community  are  unfit  to 
govern  the  whole,  and  who  will  vote  against  such  per- 
sons; 

All  who  believe  the  liquor  traffic  to  be  the  nursing 
mother  of  all  our  social,  and  most  of  our  national  evils, 
and  will  vote  for  its  prohibition  and  suppression ; — 

All  who  hold  these  principles  are  requested  to  meet 
for  conference  on  Saturday  at  9  o'clock  a.  m  ,  April  28th 
inst.,  as  above.  F.  W.  Capwell,  Chairman. 


NOTES  FOR  SATURDAY  NBXT. 


The  campaign  comes  on  apace  and  it  is  time 
Americans  had  some  designs  on  the  trestleboard. 
The  Prohibition  party  is  pushing  forward  for  recog- 
nition. No  one  expects  it  to  define  its  position  on 
the  lodge  question.  It  is  farther  from  it  than  when 
it  hissed  American  delegates  from  the  convention 
floor.  The  lodge  question,  however,  is  more  prom 
inently  before  the  country  than  at  any  previous  time 
since  the  Morgan  agitation.  The  American  party,for 
various  reasons,  is  in  poor  shape  for  the  campaign 
The  last  four  years  have  shown  that  concert  of  ac 
tion  and  harmony  of  opinion  is  largely  impractical 
Many  have  fully  identified  themselves  with  the  Pro 
hibition  party;  others,  and  a  large  number  at  that, 
will  not  support  platforms  or  candidates  not  com 
mitted  against  the  lodge  system.  They  do  not  care 
to  work  and  vote  for  non-lodge  men,  simply  because 
they  are  non-lodge  men,  working  shoulder  to  shoul- 
der with  zealous  secretists.  "How  can  two  walk 
together  except  they  be  agreed?"  All  the  lodge 
wants  is  to  be  let  alone.  "A  silent  revolution"  won't 
hurt  oath-bound  secrecy,  and  a  "Holy  Ghost  relig- 
ion"' that  leaves  a  man  fellowshiping  Masonic  sun 
worshipers  ijj  church  communion  will  hardly  exter 
minate  the  lodge.  A  lodge-excluding  Christianity 
and  a  lodge  affiliating  politics  may  be  in  harmony, 
but  it  would  take  some  solid  logic  and  a  long  time 
to  convince  some  men  of  its  advisibility. — "Ameri 
CAN,"  Darlington,  Mo. 

The  only  party  that  I  know  of  at  present  that  is 
safe  is  the  American  party.  If  the  principles  in 
culcated  in  it  cannot  save  us  we  are  gone,  as  I  view 
it.  As  I  see  things  there  never  was  a  time  in  our 
history  when  the  thinking  people  would  be  more  apt 
to  vote  those  principles.  The  American  platform  I 
have  shown  to  men  of  all  parties  and  there  has  nev- 
er been  one  objection  raised  against  it.  I  think  it  is 
high  time  that  we  had  a  party.  I  also  believe  with  the 
good  brother, W.  F.  Davis,  now  in  prison  for  preach- 
ing the  everlasting  Gospel  (a  burning  shame  on  our 
professed  free  nation).  This  good  brother  says  "to 
vote  for  Freemasons  to  hold  the  otlices  of  govern- 
ment at  the  bidding  of  the  Prohibition  or  Republi- 
can or  Democratic  or  any  other  party  is  Judas  Is- 
cariotism."  My  humble  prayer  is  that  God  may  in- 
crease our  faith  and  lead  to  victory. — John  Leepeb, 
Senecaville,  0. 

If  the  Prohibition  party  will  adopt  our  anti-secret 
resolution,  we  say  amen  to  fusing  with  them,  and 
show  the  two  old  rum-soaked  parties  and  the 
powers  of  darkness  as  bold  a  front  as  possible  in 
bringing  in  a  reign  of  political  righteousness  to  the 
nation.  Now  does  it  not  seem  strange  that  men  of 
such  learning  and  talent  as  Rev.  Mr.  Leonard  and 
Professor  Dickie,  and  hundreds  of  others,  seem  to 
know  so  little  about  the  enemies'  stronghold?  They 
do  not  seem  to  know  that  liquor  is  intrenched  and 
fortified  in  the  secret  lodges  of  the  land,  and  the 
Prohibition  party  has  got  to  storm  the  fort  before 
they  can  reach  the  enemy. — Jo»n  Thompson,  iSabetha, 
Ksntat. 


OUR  WASHINGTON  LBTTBR. 

Washington,  April  20th,  1888. 

The  great  event  of  the  week  at  the  Capitol  was 
the  opening  of  the  tariff  debate  in  the  House  of 
Representatives.  It  began  on  Tuesday  with  great 
dignity  and  decorum.  Nearly  every  member  was 
in  his  seat,  many  distinguished  visitors  were  in  the 
crowded  galleries,  and  much  interest  was  manifest- 
ed in  the  beginning  of  the  battle  which  the  Con- 
gressional war  horses  had  so  long  been  sniffing  from 
afar.  The  first  speech,  which  presented  the  revenue 
reform  side  of  the  question,  was  made  by  Mr.  Mills, 
of  Texas,  as  Chairman  of  the  Ways  and  Means 
Committee.  The  reply  came  from  Judge  Kelly,  the 
acknowledged  leader  and  exponent  of  protection. 
The  discussion  promises  to  be  long  continued  and 
exhaustive.  It  will  not  be  strange  if  it  wears  upon 
the  public  patience  to  some  extent  before  a  vote  is 
reached.  Senator  Stewart,  of  Nevada,  has  intro- 
duced a  bill  granting  a  pension  of  $5,000  a  year  to 
the  widow  of  the  lale  Chief  Justice  Waite.  He 
stated  that  the  responsibility  for  the  proposition 
was  solely  in  himself,  he  believing  the  widows  of 
Chief  Justices  should  be  provided  for  in  the  same 
manner  as  the  widows  of  ex-Presidents. 

Some  of  the  delegates  to  the  recent  International 
Council  of  Women  remained  in  Washington  to  as- 
sist in  temperance  work.  Among  them  was  Mrs. 
Chant  of  England,  who  gave  several  temperance 
talks  to  large  audiences  in  different  parts  of  the 
city.  In  one  of  them  she  said,  "There  is  no  middle 
course;  no  second  ground  in  this  fight  with  alcohol. 
The  saloon  must  be  closed,  its  manufacture  must  be 
stopped.  It  must  be  banished  from  our  homes, 
from  our  tables,  from  the  communion  itself,  before 
man  and  woman  can  grow  into  the  full  stature  of 
health  and  purity."  Mrs.  Chant  is  a  grand  neice  of 
Edmund  Burke. 

Col.  Donn  Piatt,  who  used  to  say  such  sarcastic 
and  bitterly  brilliant  things  in  the  "Capitol,"  and 
Librarian  Spofford,  who  can  instantly  place  his 
hand  on  any  book  in  the  Congressional  Library,  ap- 
peared lately  before  the  Senate  Committee 
on  Post  Offices,  to  advocate  the  passage  of  the  bill 
to  prohibit  the  transmission  of  cheap  literature  by 
mail  at  one  cent  a  pound.  Col.  Piatt  said  they  ap- 
peared in  behalf  of  three  separate  interests;  first, 
the  postoffices  of  the  United  States,  which  com- 
plain of  being  overburdened  with  mercantile  matter; 
second,  the  authors  and  honest  publishers  of  the 
country,  who  complain  of  unjust  freight  discrimin- 
ation; and  third,  the  outraged  conscience  of  the 
country.  He  said  it  was  an  insult  to  intelligence  to 
call  the  Seaside  Library  publications,  for  instance, 
periodicals,  and  yet  it  was  by  the  misuse  of  this 
word  "periodical"  that  the  mails  had  become 
crowded  with  this  matter  to  such  an  extent  that  our 
postal  cars  would  have  to  be  changed  to  freight  cars 
if  it  goes  farther.  All  that  appealed  to  the  lowest 
passions  of  the  lowest  classes  was  being  distributed 
by  the  Government  in  partnership  with  the  publish- 
ers, and  that  under  the  plea  of  disseminating 
knowledge.  He  mentioned  the  novels  of  Mrs.  Brad- 
don,  Ouida,  the  younger  Dumas  and  Zola  as  being 
especially  poisonous  to  uncultured  minds,  from  the 
fact  that  the^e  writers  possessed  genius. 

The  American  Alliance  will  hold  a  National  Con- 
ference in  this  city  on  the  23rd  of  May,  to  which  at 
least  one  delegate  will  be  sent  from  every  Congression- 
al District  in  the  country  where  the  organization  has 
established  councils.  The  object  of  the  conference 
is  to  consider  what  policy  is  most  expedient  to  pur- 
sue with  reference  to  the  approaching  Presidential 
campaign,  and  its  actions  may  have  some  effect  in 
shaping  the  platforms  of  the  two  great  party  con- 
ventions to  be  held  in  June.  The  Alliance  believes 
in  the  restriction  of  immignstion  to  the  extent  of 
excluding  its  undesirable  elements  and  in  requiring 
of  foreign-born  citizens  a  residence  in  this  country 
of  twenty-one  years  as  precedent  to  the  exercise  of 
the  elective  franchise,  but  it  prescribes  lo  religious 
tests  and  makes  war  upon  no  church.  * 


— Last  Sabbath  evening  Dr.  E.  P.  Goodwin  of 
this  city  drew  some  excellent  lessons  from  the  his- 
tory of  Eli.  The  disastrous  end  of  his  life  might 
be  ascribed  to  the  disobedience  of  his  children,  and 
parents  were  admonished  to  avoid  such  calamities 
by  using  the  rod  if  necessary.  Such  stout  ortho- 
doxy is  so  rare  in  these  days  that  it  is  refreshing.  ' 

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10 


THE  CHEISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


April  26, 1888 


THE  HOME. 


M7  TIMBS  ARS  UN  TRY  HAND. 

(PealiBB  31:15.) 
Father,  I  know  that  all  my  life 

Is  portioned  out  for  me ; 
And  the  changes  that  are  sure  to  come 

I  do  not  fear  to  see ; 
But  I  ask  thee  for  a  present  mind, 

Intent  on  pleasing  thee. 

I  ask  thee  for  a  thankful  love, 
Through  constant  watching  wise. 

To  meet  the  glad  with  joyful  smiles. 
And  to  wipe  the  weeping  eyes, 

And  a  hean  at  leisure  from  Itself, 
To  sootaeand  sj  mpathize. 

I  would  not  have  the  restless  will 

That  hurries  to  aid  fro. 
Seeking  for  some  great  thing  to  do. 

Or  secret  thing  to  k  now ; 
I  would  be  dealt  with  as  a  child, 

And  guided  where  to  go. 

Wherever  in  the  world  I  am, 

In  wbatso'er  estate, 
I  have  a  fellowship  with  hearts 

To  keep  and  cultivate; 
And  a  work  of  holy  love  to  do, 

For  the  Lord  on  whom  I  walt» 


—Sdeeted, 


WBICR  WA8  THE  FOOLT 


8UCCKSS   AND   FAILURB. 


"Dolly,  I  think  that  husband  of  yours  is  a  fool." 
•'I've  heard  you  say  something  of  this  kind  be- 
fore, brother;  but  out  with  it,  what  is  the  nature  of 
his  latest  oflfense?" 

"I  suppose  it's  none  of  my  business  if  he  wants  to 
go  to  the  poor  house  and  drag  his  family  along  with 
him;  it's  a  free  country,  and  a  man  can  do  what  he 
will  with  his  own." 

"You  are  very  mysterious.  I  hope  Sam  has  not 
saddenly  taken  to  drinking,nor  anything  of  that  na- 
ture?" 

"Sam  is  a  good  fellow,  in  some  respects  a  capital 
fellow;  but  no  man  in  business  can  afford  to  give 
away  all  his  money.  Five  dollars  here,  ten  dollars 
there,  and  one  hundred  dollars  to-morrow.  I  tell 
you  what  it  is,  Dolly,  Sam  has  only  what  he  has 
saved  by  hard  work.and  now  he's  giving  it  all  away. 
In  a  few  years  he  will  not  have  a  cent  to  his  name, 
then  he  will  come  to  those  who  have  saved  their 
money  to  borrow  a  loaf  of  bread  for  his  family." 

"Are  you  not  a  little  mistaken,  John?  I  know 
Sam  is  quite  liberal,but  I  never  supposed  he  wasted 
his  money." 

"Waste?  I'd  like  to  know  what  waste  means?  He 
gave  that  Jim  Summers  who  broke  his  leg  five  dol- 
lars, and  no  one  else  gave  over  one.  He  would  have 
been  thought  just  as  much  of  if  he  had  given  what 
others  did,  and  saved  four  dollars  by  the  operation. 
He  subscribed  for  our  church  this  year — I  know,  I 
■aw  the  paper — one  hundred  dollars!  That  is  dou- 
ble as  much  as  anyone  else  gave.  So  it  goes;  when 
he  hasn't  a  dollar  left  he  will  have  only  himself  to 
thank." 

"Did  you  know,  John,  that  Jim  Summer's  wife 
has  a  young  babe,  and  that  only  last  week  Jim  paid 
the  last  dollar  he  had  on  th«  debt  he  owed  for  that 
house  that  burned  down?" 

"Well,what  if  Jim  is  an  honest,  needy  fellow,Sam 
don't  have  to  support  him,  does  he?  And  then, what 
right  has  Sam  to  give  a  hundred  dollars  to  the  church 
when  he  has  a  family  to  support?" 

"Our  duty,  John,  should  be  done,regardless  of  what 
the  world  may  say.  Sam  does  not  give  a  second 
thought  to  what  anyone  says,  so  long  as  his  own 
conscience  approves.  And  I  most  sincerely  wish 
that  every  man  was  as  thoughtful  concerning  his 
family  as  Sam  is." 

"Ob,  well,  as  I  said,  it's  none  of  my  business,  but 
I  tell  you  plainly  it  will  be  useless  for  you  to  come 
begging  around  me.  I  shall  never  have  more  than 
enough  for  myself,"and  with  this  parting  shot  John 
took  himself  off. 

Samuel  Orand  had  established  himself  in  business 
in  a  small  Western  town.  He  married  Dolly  Whit- 
ing, a  sweet  girl  of  strong  common  sense,  who  had 
unbounded  faith  in  her  husband,  and  when  he  told 
her  his  plans  and  gave  bis  reasons  for  what  he  did, 
Bhe,believing  him  right,  like  a  sensible  woman  gave 
him  her  earnest  support  Nor  could  the  lugubrious 
prophecies  of  her  only  brother  shake  her  confidence 
in  the  least.  At  the  same  time,  she  stored  all  these 
sayings  in  her  heart  and  watched  and  waited. 

Ten  years  flew  swiftly  by.  The  Western  town 
had  grown  to  a  be  city  and  Samuel  Grand  was  a  suc- 
cessful man.     He  was  interested  in  every  enterprise 


calculated  to  be  of  use  to  his  neighbors,  and  though 
he  lived  plainly,  his  home  was  a  delightful  spot  to 
which  he  joyfully  turned  after  the  toils  of  the  day 
were  ended.  Bere,  too,  the  needy  were  always  sure 
of  sympathy  and  assistance,  and  it  was  the  wonder 
of  many  how  one  family  could  do  so  much  for  oth- 
ers without  becoming  impoverished  thereby. 

John  Whiting,  on  the  other  hand,  was  little,  if 
any,  better  off  than  when  ten  years  before  he  com- 
plained to  his  sister  that  Sam  was  on  the  road  to 
the  poor-house.  In  fact,  John's  rapidly  increasing 
family  taxed  his  resources  to  the  utmost,  and  one 
day  he  was  forced  to  call  on  Sam  for  a  small  loan, 
though  it  cost  him  an  effort  to  do  so. 

"Oh,  certainly,"  said  Sam,  "I  have  a  little  fund 
which  I  keep  for  just  such  purposes.  Here  is  the 
money,and  when  you  are  in  need  call  again." 

John  was  considerably  overcome,  but  finally  he 
said, — 

'Sam,  I  don't  know  what  to  make  of  you." 

"Why  so,  John?" 

"Well,  when  you  were  first  married  you  and  I 
were  worth  just  about  the  same.  You  were  always 
spending  your  money  freely — even  worse,I  thought, 
giving  it  away — while  I  saved  every  dollar,  and  yet 
you  have  plenty  and  to  spare,  and  I  am  not  as  well 
off  as  I  was  then.  I  cannot  account  for  it,  for  we 
both  had  an  equal  start,  and  you  have  worked  no 
harder  than  I  have." 

"John,  let  me  give  you  a  little  bit  of  history.  You 
remember  when  I  commenced  business  here  I  bought 
wheat  and  stored  it  to  ship  in  the  spring.  It  so 
happened  I  had  about  all  of  a  certain  kini  of  wheat 
the  farmers  at  that  time  used  for  seed.  When  they 
had  done  their  spring  sowing  a  long  rain  came  on 
and  the  seed  rotted  in  the  ground.  Now,  I  reason- 
ed, I  can  get  double  price  for  every  bushel  of  wheat 
I  have.  The  Sabbath  day  came,and  while  sitting  at 
home  I  could  not  refrain  from  congratulating  myself 
on  my  good  luck  to  Dolly.  I  noticed  she  did  not 
say  much,  and  presently  she  took  up  the  Bible,  as 
she  frequently  <iid,and  read  aloud  the  eleventh  chap- 
ter of  Proverbs,  closed  the  book,  and  said  never  a 
word.  I  could  not  tell,  nor  do  I  know  to  this  day, 
if  she  intended  to  read  me  a  lesson,  but  I  took  up 
my  hat  and  went  out  for  a  walk.  I  thought  of  the 
thousand  bushels  of  grain,  really  worth  about  one 
dollar, which  I  could  sell  for  two  if  I  should  demand 
that  price,  and  then,  ringing  in  my  ears,  were  the 
words  Dolly  had  just  read:  *He  that  withholdeth 
corn,  the  people  shall  curse  him.' 

"You  see  whatit  says,'The  people  shall  curse  him.' 
I  interpreted  this  to  mean,  it  was  not  only  their 
right  but  their  religious  duty  to  do  so,  because  of  the 
iniquity  of  the  action.  Was  I,  then,  committing  a 
crime?  The  next  day  I  commenced  selling  my  wheat 
at  a  dollar  a  bushel,  which  gave  me  a  fair  margin  of 
profit.  Men  called  me  a  fool.  Dolly  and  my  own 
conscience  told  me  I  had  done  right.  About  that 
time,  you  may  remember,  came  up  for  discussion 
the  question  how  much  we  ought  to  give  to  objects 
of  charity  and  for  the  public  good  generally.  I  had 
long  talks  with  Dolly  about  it,  and  she  advised  that 
we  lay  aside  one-tenth  of  each  year's  income,  to  be 
devoted  to  such  purposes  as  the  occasion  might  war- 
rant. The  plan  was  adopted,  and  we  have  never 
missed  the  amounts  thus  expended.  In  fact  it  has 
seemed  like  good  seed  sown  on  good  ground,  or  like 
bread  cast  upon  the  waters.  Leaving  out  of  the 
question  our  duty  to  God,which  should  be  the  ruling 
principle  of  our  lives,  there  is  sound  wisdom  from 
a  business  standpoint  in  the  twenty  fourth  and 
twenty-fifth  verses  of  that  same  chapter,  which,  you 
will  remember,  says:  'There  is  that  scattereth,  and' 
yet  increaseth;  and  there  is  that  withholdeth  more 
than  is  meet,  but  it  tendeth  to  poverty.  The  liber 
al  soul  shall  be  made  fat;  and  he  that  watereth  shall 
be  watered  also  himself.' 

"Such  is  the  history  of  my  success,  for  in  the 
eyes  of  men  I  have  been  successful.  I  have  merely 
followed  my  guide,  the  blessed  Word,  and  my  good 
wife  has  helped  me  to  do  so.  I  have  been  blessed  be- 
yond my  most  sanguine  expectations,  and  I  have  re- 
alized that  it  is  surely  more  blessed  to  give  than 
to  receive." 

"Sam,  ten  years  ago  I  told  Dolly  you  were  a  fool, 
and  on  the  way  to  the  poor-house.  I  have  had  my 
eyes  opened,  and  I  am  now  convinced  that  yours  is 
the  right  path,  even  though  my  predictions  bad  been 
verified.  My  children  shall  be  taught  to  give  as  they 
have  opportunity,and  to  remember  that  we  are  only 
stewards  of  God's  bounty." — Otcar  Blitt  in  N.  Y. 
Obierver. 


countrymen  in  Hawaii  against  drinking  habits,  and 
to  show  them  that  he  meant  what  he  said  on  the 
subject  of  temperance,  he  took  the  casks  into  his 
yard,  had  holes  bored  into  them,  and  poured  out  the 
contents  upon  the  ground.  Would  that  all  consuls 
were  like  this  Japanese  otficial  at  the  Sandwich  Is- 
lands!—  Union  Signal. 


IJSf  THE  SUNSHINE. 


You  will  find  me  in  the  sunshine 

Where  the  path  Is  bright  and  clear; 
There  are  rifted  clouds  above  me 

Bui  the  sunshine  falleth  here; 
And  I  walk,  at  peace  and  quiet. 

With  no  "darkness"  on  my  way, 
If  I  follow  close  my  Master, 

And  can  hear  what  he  doth  say. 

You  will  find  me  In  the  sunshine. 

And  my  earthly  cares  seem  light ; 
.  They  are  here  but  Christ  is  lifting 

Every  veil  that  dims  my  sight, 
As  I  follow  where  he  leadeth. 

Close  within  his  footprints  tread, 
While  my  happy  soul  he  feedeth. 

And  there's  sunlight  overhead. 

Do  you  ask  how  I  have  found  it- 
Such  a  path  of  peace  and  rest? 

It  is  just  by  simply  trusting 
That  my  Saviour  knoweth  best; 

Singing,  "Thy  will  and  thine  only, 
Blessed  Lord,  my  God,  be  done,"  — 

Just  by  walking  in  the  sunlight 
As  he  gently  leadeth  on. 

Come  and  try  it  I    'Tls  eo  precious, 

As  He  bears  life's  load  of  care. 
Like  a  lltt'e  child  to  follow. 

Feeling  Christ  my  Lord  is  there ; 
For  this  path  leads  on  in  sunshine 

To  the  regions  of  the  blest, 
Wh«re  the  Lord  himself  will  guide  us 

Into  everlasting  rest.  —A.  B.  Troth, 


BLBOTRIO  LIGHT. 


A  notable  lesson  in  temperance  was  given  the  oth- 
er day  at  Honolulu  by  the  Consul-General  of  Japan, 
Mr.  Ando,  who  is  a  native  Japanese.  He  had  re- 
ceived as  a  present  from  some  friends  two  casks  of 
liquor;  but  for  the  purpose  of  warning  his  fellow- 


Electricity,  like  gravitation,  light,  and  life,  is  not 
understood.  That  there  is  such  a  substance  as  elec- 
tricity, is  well  known,  and  has  been  throughout  all 
human  history.  It  is  diffused  throughout  all  mat- 
ter and  space,  and  it  may  be  collected  and  concen- 
trated for  local  effect  in  producing  power  or  illumi- 
nation. The  God  of  nature  has  methods  of  bring- 
ing it  into  localized  operation  in  producing  light- 
ning and  the  aurora  borealis.  These  operations  lie 
in  a  region  which  '  'no  fowl  knoweth,  and  which  the 
vulture's  eye  hath  not  seen."  Man  can  only  stand 
oi  and  conjecture.  Yes,  human  ingenuity  has  done 
wonders  in  lassooing,  controlling,  and  directing  in 
lines  of  utility,  this  wild  horse  of  the  universe. 

Agencies  for  collecting  it  have  long  been  known, 
but  the  agencies  for  controlling  and  directing  it  are 
of  recent  origin.  Rubbing  a  cat's  back  or  two 
sticks  together  are  simple  forms  of  exciting  the 
electric  fluid.  It  belongs  to  Edward  Weston  to  in- 
vent the  "dynamo  electric  machine"  which  is  now 
used  in  producing  power  and  light.  The  Voltaic 
battery  has  long  been  employed  to  collect  electricity 
for  medical  and  telegraphic  purposes.  The  dyna- 
mo electric  machine,  such  as  is  used  in  our  electric 
light  companies,  is  a  much  more  complex  machine. 
It  consists  of  magnets — of  horse-shoe  shape — with 
similar  poles,  placed  end  to  end,  and  of  an  iron  cyl- 
inder covered  with  wire  and  situated  between  those 
two  poles.  This  cylinder  is  placed  on  a  shaft  driv- 
en by  a  puUy  which  may  be  belted  to  any  source  of 
power.  Speedy  revolution  ot  this  shaft  produces 
electricity  in  sufficient  quantities  for  practical  use. 
This  cylinder  is  covered  with  wire,  and  the' electric- 
ity is  collected  from  the  wire  by  copper  brushes. 
Bdison  and  Brush  have  both  constructed  generators 
ot  electricity;  somewhat  different,  but  they  involve 
the  essential  elements  of  the  principles  found  in 
Weston's  dynamo  electric  machine. 

In  producing  illumination  from  generated  elec- 
tricity two  kinds  of  lamps  are  used,  viz:  "The  arc 
lamp"  and  the  "incandescent  burner."  The  arc 
lamp  is  chiefly  used  for  lighthouses  and  street 
lamps.  It  is  peculiarly  constructed.  Two  pieces 
of  carbon  are  brought  into  proximity,  one  of  which 
is  connected  to  the  wire  that  is  attached  to  the  gen- 
erator. The  electricity  leaps  from  this  piece  of  car- 
bon to  the  other  so  rapidly  that  intense  heat  is  gen- 
erated, and  this  produces  light.  The  current  of 
electricity  in  passing  from  one  piece  of  carbon  to 
the  other  does  not  go  in  straight  lines,  but  describes 
an  arc.  The  reason  of  this  is  not  well  understood. 
For  this  reason  it  is  denominated  "the  arc  lamp." 
Its  light  is  unsteady,  and  ceases,  of  course,  on  the 
consumption  of  the  pieces  of  carbon. 

The  incandescent  burner  produces  a  more  steady 


Apbil  26,  1888 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


11 


and  useful  light.  Its  construction  is  much  more 
simple.  A  thin  carbon  loop  enclosed  in  an  air-tight 
glass  globe,  and  connected  to  a  wire,  from  which 
the  electricity  is  transmitted,  and  around  which  the 
globe  is  hermetically  sealed,  are  its  parts.  A  key 
connected  to  the  wire  in  the  glass  neck  of  the  globe 
is  so  constructed  as  to  enable  it  to  turn  off  the  cur- 
rent of  electricity,  and  thus  extinguish  the  light. 
The  electric  current  is  forced  through  the  carbon 
loop,  which  offers  such  resistance  to  its  passage  that 
it  becomes  white  with.  heat.  Both  the  carbon  and 
the  globe  are  useless  when  they  burn.  They  are 
manufactured  and  placed  in  the  market.  One  of 
them  will  last  about  1,000  hours,  and  it  costs  about 
$1.  It  requires  greater  electrical  power  to  operate 
the  incandescent  burners,  and  the  current  can  only 
be  conveyed  about  a  half  a  mile  from  the  generator. 
Its  light  is  steady  and  not  hurtful  to  the  eye. 

This  whole  science  of  producing  and  managing 
electric  power  and  light  is  yet  in  its  infancy,  not- 
withstanding we  are  all  well  on  the  way,  and  we  ex- 
pect at  no  distant  day  to  have  our  machinery  in 
shop  and  locomotive  driven  by  its  power,  and  our 
homes  lighted  and  heated  by  its  mysterious  and 
inexhaustible  agency. —  Christian  Advocate. 


A  LAWYER  BBATEN  £7  A  GATE0HI8M. 

The  following  story  is  told  of  an  amusing  scene 
in  a  court- room  in  Chicago:  A  little  boy  about 
eight  years  old  was  put  on  the  stand  as  a  witness, 
when  the  opposing  counsel  objected  on  the  ground 
that  the  child  did  not  understand  the  nature  of  an 
oath. 

•'Do  you  know  what  an  oath  is,  Charley?"  asked 
the  judge. 

"Yes,  sir,"  answered  Charley;  "it  is  to  ask  God 
to  help  you  to  tell  the  truth." 

"Where  did  you  learn  all  this?"  frowned  the  op- 
posing counsel. 

"In  the  catechism,"  said  Charley,  not  to  be 
frowned  down  by  the  biggest  lawyer  in  the  busi- 
ness. 

"In  the  catechism?     What  catechism?" 

"In  the  ten-cent  catechism,  sir." 

"Who  told  you  to  look  in  the  catechism  for  the 
definition  of  an  oath?" 

"My  sister.  She  told  me  last  night,  and  I  got  it, 
and  studied  it." 

"Have  you  got  your  catechism  with  you?" 

"Yes,  sir,  here  it  is,"  taking  a  well-thumbed  little 
book  from  his  trousers'  pocket. 

"You  see  the  boy  has  his  documents,"  interrupted 
the  judge,  with  a  smile;  and  a  quiet  titter  went 
round  the  court-room  as  it  became  evident  that  the 
lawyer  was  being  beaten  by  the  child. 

"H'ml  Let  me  see  the  book.  I  wonder  if  you 
know  anything  more  that's  in  it.    Who  made  you?" 

"Why,  God,  of  course,"  was  the  reply,  as  if  the 
lad  pooh-poohed  the  idea  of  being  asked  such  a  sim- 
ple question,  and  wanted  "something  hard." 

Several  questions  were  asked,  and  elicited  ready 
replies.  The  lawyer  saw  that  he  was  in  for  it,  and 
accepted  the  defeat  as  gracefully  as  possible.  Turn- 
ing to  the  judge,  he  said: 

"Your  honor,  I  guess  we  will  accept  this  witness; 
and  as  for  this  little  book,  I  would  submit  it  to  my 
learned  friend,  the  counsel  for  the  other  side,  and 
recommend  itb  careful  perusal  by  him.  It  will  do 
him  good." — Sd. 


TEUFESANCE. 


WHAT  THE  8M0KBR  BUFFERB. 

DiAB  RiADiR: — Hast  thou  ever  considered  bow 
often  the  high-toned  smoker's  blood  is  made  to  boil 
in  view  of  the  slights  and  disgraces  so  publicly  put 
upon  men,  boys,  and  even  women,  who  love  their 
cigar  or  cigarette? 

No  matter  how  exquisite  the  curl  of  one's  mous- 
tache, or  the  twirl  of  his  cane;  no  matter  bow  ele- 
gant the  broadcloth  on  one's  back,  the  silk  hat  on 
bis  head,  the  calf  skin  on  his  feet,  or  the  kid-skin  on 
bis  hands;  all  his  fine  clothes  seem  to  go  for  noth- 
ing, and  every  day  the  smoker's  finest  feelings  are 
outraged  by  iunumerable  affronts. 

Look  at  the  signs,  hateful  to  every  lover  of  "plug" 
and  "fine-cut,"  which  are  conspicuously  posted  in 
many  public  places, — 

NO  SMOKINGI 
Smokino  Posititilt  Prohibitid  Hiri. 

And  most  pointed  and  cutting  of  all: 
Otntlemen  will  not,  Others  uust  not  imoke  Hiri! 

"WhatI"  exclaims  the  walking  advertisement  of 
the  tobacconist,  "has  a  smoker  no  rights?  If  I  like 
to  smoke  a  cigar,  I  like  it  to  imoke.  And  if  I  am 
to  smoke  it,  I  must  smoke  where  I  am,  and  I  am 


hsre.     If  that  is  not  logic  I  never  smoked  tobacco." 

But  all  this  logic  avails  no  more  than  the  fine 
clothes  to  grace  the  victims  of  the  weed. 

Other  considerations,  influential  in  their  place, 
are  powerless  to  extricate  the  smoker  from  the  most 
disgraceful  associations. 

Though  a  man  be  as  rich  as  the  Rothschilds,  as 
caustic  as  Mark  Twain  or  Robert  Ingersoll,  as  court- 
ly as  the  Prince  of  Wales,  or  as  popular  a  pulpit 
orator  as  preacher  Duryea,  Storrs,  or  Spurgeon,  on 
many  a  railroad  train  he  cannot  enjoy  his  cigar 
without  being  bundled  off  into  the  smoking-car  with 
saloonists,  gamblers,  black-legs  and  common  drunk- 
ards. 

One  may  smoke  only  the  choicest  brands  of  to- 
bacco, and  occupy  the  highest  social,  political,  or 
official  positions  in' the  land,  yet  he  is  not  secure 
from  attack  even  in  his  own  house,  and  by  guests 
or  members  of  his  own  family. 

Smarting  under  the  strokes  of  the  stinging  casti- 
gation  received  under  his  own  roof,  the  wretched 
smoker  saeaks  out  into  the  street  to  finish  his  cigar 
and  forget  his  troubles  by  mingling  with  a  crowd  of 
strangers,  among  whom  he  fondly  fancies  he  can  be 
alone  and  unnoticed. 

Vain  hope!  Idiotic  delusion!  A  customer  pass- 
es, to  whom  ne  was  just  planning  to  sell  a  large  bill 
of  goods  on  the  morrow,  swallows  a  mouthful  of 
his  smoke,  and  bends  a  searching  and  reproachful 
look  upon  the  offender,  who  realizes,  too  late,  what 
a  costly  cigar  he  is  smoking. 

Throwing  it  down  he  steps  into  a  mission  hall 
opening  off  the  street,  to  be  soothed  with  the  con- 
solations of  religion,  and  hears  the  missionary  read, 
"If  any  man  worship  the  beast  and  his  image,  and 
receive  his  mark  in  his  forehead  or  in  his  hand,  the 
same  shall  drink  of  the  wine  of  the  wrath  of  God, 
which  is  poured  out  without  mixture  into  the  cup  of 
his  indignation;  and  he  shall  be  tormented  with  fire 
and  brimstone  in  the  presence  of  the  holy  angels 
and  in  the  presence  of  the  Lamb;  and  the  smoke  of 
their  torment  ascendeth  up  forever  and  ever:  and 
they  have  no  rest  day  nor  night,  who  worship  the 
beast  and  his  image,  and  whosoever  receiveth  the 
mark  of  his  name."  Rev.  14:  ^11. 

W.  F.  Davis. 


TEMPERANCE  WORE  I-N  EUROPE. 

The  leading  article  in  a  recent  issue  of  La  Petit 
Journal,  in  Paris,  is  devoted  to  an  account  of  the 
need  and  success  of  temperance  work  in  Europe. 
Mrs.  M.  B.  Willard  translates  the  following  ex- 
tracts. 

"There  is  at  this  time,"  says  the  srticle,  "in  all 
Europe,  a  real  crusade  against  alcoholism.  We 
hear  it  repeated  in  nearly  all  parliaments,  as  well  as 
in  the  assemblies  of  tavanta — medical  and  benevo- 
lent— alcohol  is  the  foe.  But  how  shall  we  fight  it? 
By  what  means  has  experience  shown  that  we  may 
conquer,  or  at  least  check,  the  inroads  of  an  enemy 
that  depraves  and  kills  the  people?  It  is  proposed 
to  increase  the  tax  upon  alcohol.  That  is  excellent 
from  the  fiscal  point  of  view.  Nothing  is  better 
then  imposing  duties  on  articles  of  luxury  and  of 
doubtful  good.  But  will  heavy  taxes  alone  lessen 
the  consumption?  Experience  shows  that  the  most 
frightful  imposts,  those  now  upon  tobacco,  for  in- 
stance, have  no  great  effect,  the  sale  having  already 
reached  four  hundred  million  francs  annually. 
Some  propose  to  give  the  government  a  monopoly 
of  the  sale  of  alcohol.  It  would  seem  that  we  have 
now  enough  government  monopolies — tobacco, 
matches,  et  al.  In  a  small  country  like  Norway  or 
Switzerland,  where  large  cities  are  rare,  wliere  the 
people  do  not  change  their  residences,  where  the 
affairs  of  all  are  known  to  all,  a  government  monop- 
oly of  the  sale  of  alcohol  presents  fewer  ditticulties 
and  affords  some  advantages.  But  in  France,  with 
a  Venetian  police  and  the  penalties  of  Draco,  the 
monopoly  could  not  prevent  the  laboring  men  in 
city  and  field  from  getting  and  drinking  that  worst 
of  alcohols,  called  'industrial,'  or  extracting  the  de- 
sired spirits  from  molasses,  potatoes  or  corn. 

"The  best  methods  of  changing  the  morals  and 
manners  of  a  people,  is  to  persuade  them  to  direct 
appetite  to  some  other  means  of  gra'^ification — 
something  not  harmful,  but  useful.  This  has  been 
accomplished  in  Sweden,  where  the  consumption  of 
alcohol  had  reached  a  higher  figure  than  anywaere 
else  in  Europe,  but  where  it  has  been  reduced  dur- 
ing the  last  few  years  to  less  than  four  litres  per 
inhabitant  yearly.  And  this  is  due  to  two  iofluen- 
ces.  First,  temperance  societies  for  prevention,  and 
education  by  means  of  books,  pamphlets,  conven- 
tions, etc.,  all  to  show  people  the  deplorable  effects 
of  alcoholism.  Second,  the  encouragement  of  a 
healthful  drink — stimulating  and  nourishing— coffee. 
The  King  of  Sweden  has  banished  brandy  from  his 


table,  and  coffee  has  become  the  fashion.  Peasants, 
men  and  women,  have  adopted  the  new  drink,  and 
the  consumption  of  coffee,  unknown  in  Sweden  fifty 
years  ago,  has  risen  to  six  pounds  per  head  yearly. 
An  amusing  incident  is  reported  from  that  country, 
which  illustrates  the  victory  of  coffee  over  alcohol. 
A  peasant  came  to  the  governor  of  a  certain  prov- 
ince, saying:  'My  wife,  who  used  to  love  brandy 
inordinately,  has  been  converted  by  the  pastor  and 
the  temperance  women.  She  has  taken  to  drinking 
coffee,  and  that  has  become  so  dear  to  her  that  she 
drinks  ten  cups  a  day,  and  I  don't  know  how  to  stop 
her.  It  is  ruin  to  the  household.  What  shall  I  do? 
I  have  come  to  your  Excellency  for  advice.' 

"The  governor  replied  that  the  husband  must  con- 
vince her  of  the  evils  of  too  much  coffee  drinking, 
and  warn  her  of  its  effect  upon  the  nerves. 

"  'I  have  done  that,'  returned  the  man,  'and  I 
have  supported  my  arguments  by  several  smart 
whippings.' 

"  'That  is  too  much,'  said  the  advisor.  'Bring  her 
to  me,  and  see  if  she  will  listen  to  my  counsel. ' 

"So  the  woman  was  brought  in,  and  the  magis- 
trate succeeded  in  convincing  her  of  her  error,  and 
restored  moderation  to  the  household.  Thirty 
years  ago,  France  attempted  a  lessening  of  the  duty 
on  coffee  and  sugar,  but  it  was  pot  carried  on  be- 
cause of  the  war  necessities.  It  will  hardly  be  told 
us  to-day  that  the  exchequer  has  too  much  need  of 
silver  to  allow  much  thought  for  the  public  health." 
—  Union  Signal. 

m  I  ■ 

The  consumption  of  beer  is  largely  on  the  increase 
both  in  this  country  and  in  England,  nearly  a  thou- 
sand million  gallons  of  beer  having  been  consumed 
in  1887  in  the  mother  country. 

Emperor  Francis  Joseph  of  Austria,  who  has  been 
a  great  drinker  of  beer  for  the  last  ten  years,  has 
recently  received  a  present  of  a  thousand  dozen  of 
various  bottled  ales  from  an  English  brewing  com- 
pany. 

The  largest  single  list  of  signatures  to  the  world's 
petition  yet  received  comes  from  Miss  M.W.  Leitch, 
Vice-president  of  the  World's  W.  C.  T.  U.  for  Cey- 
Ion.  It  comprises  the  names  of  26,643  men  and  7,- 
154  women,  a  total  of  33,797. 

The  Prohibitionists  have  called  conventions,  and 
will  put  tickets  in  the  field  in  the  following  States: 
Oregon,  California,  Kentucky,  Indiana,  Texas,  Ala- 
bama, Illinois,  Michigan.Pennsylvania,  Maine,  North 
Carolina,  Tennessee,  Wisconsin,  Ohio,  Kansas,  New 
York  and  Missouri.  * 

Three  times  a  week  Jean  Ingelow  gives  a  dinner 
to  the  sick  poor  and  the  discharged  convalescents 
from  hospitals  who  either  are  unable  to  work  or 
have  not  yet  found  employment.  She  is  also  the 
founder  and  supporter  of  a  fiourishiug  temperance 
and  reading  room  in  her  native  town. 

The  leading  article  in  a  late  issue  of  La  Petit 
Journal,  of  Paris.is  an  account  of  the  need  and  sue 
cess  of  temperance  work  in  Europe.  There  is  at 
this  time  in  all  Europe  a  real  crusade  against  alco- 
holism. Nearly  all  the  parliaments,  as  well  as  all 
the  assemblies  of  savants,  medical  and  benevolent, 
declare  alcohol  to  be  the  foe. 

At  the  late  County  Prohibition  Convention  in 
Chicago,  Dr.  Herrick  Johnson's  remarks  were  rich 
and  spicy.  He  said  that  when  you  can  array  the 
conscience  of  the  community  against  the  curse  of 
the  community,  the  curse  must  go  to  the  wall.  The 
stomach  and  the  pocket  cannot  then  control,  for  it 
has  come  to  be  a  matter  above  dollars  and  cents. 
Did  you  ever  see  a  dog  chasing  its  own  tail? 
Round  and  round  and  round  he  goes,  faster  and  fas- 
ter, but  does  not  get  ahead  any.  Well,  that  is  high 
license  "after"  prohibition,  eternally  chasing  it,  but 
never  reaching  the  goal.  Here  in  Chicago  I  have 
interviewed  the  major,  the  license  department,  the 
policemen,  and  from  all  the  information  they  give 
I  am  convinced  that  high  license  has  not  decreased 
drinking  one  iota.  It  has  not  closed  one  saloon  in 
the  heart  of  the  city,  only  a  few  in  the  outlying  dis- 
tricts, and  the  closing  of  these  has  not  decreased 
drunkenness  and  resultant  crime. 

Saloons  for  their  existence  need  drinking;  drink- 
ing demands  drunkards;  drunkards  commit  crime; 
crime  demands  courts;  courts  cost  money,  hence  tax 
saloons  to  raise  the  money  to  pay  the  expenses  of^ 
the  courts,  made  necessary  by  the  crimes  committed 
by  drunkards  who  drink  in  the  saloons,  licensed  to 
raise  revenue.  So  the  circuit  is  complete,  the  dog 
is  chasing  his  tail.  Stamp  out  the  saloon  and  there 
will  bo  no  need  of  license  money  to  run  the  city 
government  But  license  is  nut  the  way  to  stamp 
it  out.  Would  you  allow  small-pox  to  fester  in  our 
city  if  only  you  could  sell  vaccine  matter  enough  to 
pay  the  physician's  bill? — Union  Signai. 


12 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


April  26, 1888 


RELIGIOTJS  NEWS. 


Announcement. — The  Chicago  Evangelization 
Society  will  hold  an  Institute  for  Christian  students 
and  workers,  men  and  women,  in  this  city,  commenc- 
ing May  Ist. 

There  will  be:  1st.  Lectures  on  practical  Chris- 
tian subjects.  2d.  A  three  weeks'  carefully  ar- 
ranged plan  of  teaching  and  study. 

The  course  of  instruction  will  comprehend:  1st. 
Christian  Doctrine.  2d.  Elementary  Church  Histo- 
ry.    3d.  Sermons  and  Sermonizing. 

The  Institute  will  be  under  the  care  of  Rev.  Prof. 
W.  G.  Moorehead,  D.  D.,  of  Xenia,  Ohio.  He  will 
be  assisted  by  Evangelist  E.  W.  Bliss,  Rev.  E.  P. 
Goodwin,  D.  D.,  Rev.  C.  F.  Goss,  and  other  minis- 
ters and  teachers. 

It  is  the  purpose  of  this  Society  to  train  young 
men  and  women  for  Christian  work,  and  to  employ 
able  Christian  workers  to  teach  the  Gospel  in  Chi- 
cago and  its  suburbs.  Inquiries  may  be  addressed 
to  Mr.  F.  G.  Ensign,  or  to  Miss  E.  Dryer,  Bible-work 
Institute,  150  Madison  St.,  Chicago,  111. 


WSLL8  STRBBT  MISSION,  CHICAGO. 

The  fifth  anniversary  and  closing  services  of  this 
mission  were  held  on  the  evening  of  April  12.  Af- 
ter listening  to  the  soul-inspiring  songs  of  praise  a 
holy  influence  settled  down  on  the  placa  which  in- 
creased during  the  reading  of  the  Scriptures  by 
Bro.  T.  B.  Arnold,  and  the  two  prayers,  one  before 
and  one  following  the  reading. 

Sister  Bradley,  in  a  short  talk,  gave  a  history  of 
her  call  to  the  home  missionary  work  twelve  years 
ago,  and  of  her  indentification  with  Wells  Street 
Mission.  She  spoke  of  the  manifest  power  of  God 
in  the  meetings,  of  the  souls  saved,  of  those  sancti- 
fied, of  how  the  financial  necessities  had  been  provi- 
dentially met;  and  concluded  by  alluding  to  the  fact 
that  this  night  the  mission  was  to  be  closed;  and 
with  an  earnest  appeal  to  sinners  to  come  to  Jesus 
before  the  door  of  mercy  should  be  forever  closed. 
After  singing  testimonies  were  called  for.  A 
brother  testified  for  himself  and  in  behalf  of  the 
mission  band:  "The  Chicago  Avenue  Church  is 
our  home;  but  here  is  where  we  were  baptized 
[alluding  to  the  enduement  of  the  Spirit]."  Here 
they  had  been  taught  to  work.  Another  said:  "In 
three  days  it  will  be  two  years  since  I  was  saved  in 
Wells  Street  Mission.  It  is  the  dearest  spot  on 
earth  to  me.  God  led  me  here.  I  know  I  am  saved 
to-night.  We  have  always  had  the  Spirit  here." 
Sister  Bradley  explained  that  when  she  found  this 
brother  sin  had  separated  him  from  his  wife,  but 
grace  had  united  them,  and  they  were  now  a  saved, 
happy  family.  Another  convert  was  on  his  feet  in 
a  moment  exhorting  sinners  to  "get  on  board  the 
car  of  salvation,"  and  telling  with  deep  feeling 
what  God  had  done  for  him.  Another,  "I  thank 
God  for  this  little  mission.  It  is  four  years  since  I 
came  in  here  and  God  saved  me."  Brother  Evans: 
"I  praise  God  for  this  little  mission.  I  was  a  mis- 
erable drunkard,  but  God  has  raised  me  up  where  I 
can  call  myself  a  man."  A  worker:  "I  have  seen  souls 
saved  in  this  mission."  Brother  Anderson:  "I  thank 
God  for  this  mission  for  here  was  where  the  Lord 
found  me.  On  March  12, 1882,  the  Spirit  met  me 
here  and  said,  'Where  are  you  going  to  spend  eter- 
nity?' In  one  week  I  was  saved,  and  I  have  been 
kept  to  this  time."  I  might  fill  a  large  space  with 
these  testimonies,  but  enough  has  been  repeated  to 
show  a  little  of  the  character  of  the  work.  A  part 
of  the  time  a  holiness  meeting  has  been  held  Sab- 
bath afternoons.  In  these  meetings  souls  have 
been  gloriously  sanctified.  The  writer  can  testify 
that  here  the  Holy  Ghost  has  fallen  on  seeking 
souls,  as  he  does  on  saints  in  other  places,  and  as  I 
believe  he  fell  on  the  worshipers  in  Jerusalem. 

Brother  Arnold  spoke  of  the  number  who  had 
been  saved  during  the  five  years  that  this  mission 
had  been  maintained,  and  said,  "It  they  were  all 
gathered  here  tonight  this  room  would  not  hold  them." 
Brother  Nickle  sang  "The  Trundle-bed  Song"  with 
marked  effect,  and  other  testimonies  followed,  until 
ten  o'clock.  Sister  Bradley  again  invited  sinners 
to  come  and  be  saved,  a  collection  was  taken,  pray- 
er offered,  and  the  last  service  in  Wella  Street  Mis- 
sion was  ended. 

A  new  mission  will  be  opened,  although  the  loca- 
tion is  not  yet  determined;  but  as  soon  as  means 
can  be  collected  to  pay  a  month's  rent  and  a  man 
can  be  found  who  will  sign  a  lease,  and  thus  back 
sister  Bradley  in  this  work,  the  place  will  be 
chosen.  The  rent  will  be  the  chief  expense.  Per- 
haps some  of  the  Lord's  children  who  read  this 
may  feel  led  to  help  found  the  new  mission.  A 
few  $10  bills  would  probably  be  the  means  in  God's 
bands  of  inaugurating   the  work   at  an  early  day. 


Dear  reader,  "Whatsoever  he  saith  unto  you,  do 
it;"  and  what  you  give  will  be  so  much  treasure 
laid  up  where  moth  and  rust  wiU  not  corrupt  nor 
thieves  [break  through  and  steal.  In  response  to 
this  appeal  address  sister  Bradley  at  the  Free 
Methodist  office,  104  Franklin  street,  Chicago. 
Yours  for  the  salvation  of  the  people. 

Mart  C.  Bakbr. 


— Dr.  L.  W.  Munhall  began  revival  meetings  in 
St.  Paul  on  the  15th,  to  continue  four  weeks,  the  first 
week  to  be  held  in  Plymouth  Church.  He  is  to  be 
assisted  by  a  choir  of  200  voices,  and  part  of  the 
time  by  Mr.  Towner. 

— Ex-Senator  Harrison  will  represent  the  Indian- 
apolis Presbytery  at  the  coming  centennial  meeting 
of  the  General  Assembly  in  Philadelphia. 

— The  Evangelical  Association  Conference  of  Illi- 
nois, meeting  at  Elgin,  passed  resolutions  declaring 
the  liquor  license  system  a  failure  so  far  as  concerns 
the  extermination  of  the  traffic,  and  expressing  grat- 
ification at  the  Supreme  Court's  decision  regarding 
prohibition  in  the  States. 

— The  New  England  Methodist  Conference  unan- 
imously adopted  the  report  of  the  special  commit- 
tee expressing  indignation  at  the  pending  action  by 
Congress  forbidding  the  landing  of  any  Chinese  ex- 
cept officials  and  public  men.  The  conference  or 
dered  that  the  report  be  signed  by"  its  officers  and 
forwarded  to  the  New  England  Congressmen. 

— Indirect  information  has  been  received  to  the 
effect  that  the  Russian  government  has  forbidden 
the  American  Bible  Society  and  the  British  and  For- 
eign Bible  Society  to  distribute  Bibles  in  Russia. 
Rev.  Alexander  McLean,  one  of  the  secretaries  of 
the  American  Bible  Society,  is  reported  to  say 
that  he  believed  the  trouble  was  only  at  Reval,  where 
the  local  authorities,  incited,  as  he  supposed,  by  ma- 
licious publications  against  the  society,  might  have 
forbidden  the  distribution  of  Bibles.  He  did  not 
anticipate  any  such  severe  order  would  be  issued  as 
that  which  has  been  hinted  at,  expelling  the  agents 
of  the  American  and  British  societies  from  Russia. 
All  the  work  of  the  American  society  in  Russia, 
Dr.  McLean  said,  was  done  through  the  Russian  Bi- 
ble Society. 

— Among  the  passengers  arriving  in  New  York  on 
the  steamer  Umbria  Saturday  was  Bishop  Taylor,of 
the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church,  missionary  bishop 
to  Africa.  The  bishop  has  been  absent  four  years, 
and  has  been  doing  hard  work  in  Africa  in  that 
time.  Be  has  established  mission  stations  at  inter- 
vals of  100  miles.  There  are  now  thirty-six  mission 
stations  established  among  thirty-five  tribes.  The 
bishop  returns  here  to  attend  the  conference  of  the 
Methodist  Church  and  to  make  his  report. 

— The  First  Church,Pasadena,  California,  Rev.  M. 
N.  Cornelius,  pastor,  welcomed  at  the  last  commun- 
ion one  hundred  new  members,  most  of  them  by  let- 
ter. Within  a  radius  of  five  miles  three  churches 
have  been  organized  in  less  than  a  year  by  one  man, 
a  retired  foreign  missionary,  with  congregations 
ranging  from  fifty  to  one  hundred  persons. 

— The  meetings  held  in  Indianapolis,Ind.,by  Rev. 
B.  Fay  Mills  are  arousing  a  great  religious  interest. 
The  churches  are  gathering  in  new  members.  On 
Sabbath,  April  1,  thirty -two  persons  were  added  to 
the  Second  Presbyterian  church,  forty-eight  to  the 
Memorial  church,  thirty-three  to  the  Olive  Street 
and  thirty-nine  to  the  East  Washington  Street 
church. 

— The  one  hundredth  General  Assembly  of  the 
Presbyterian  Church  in  the  United  States  of  Ameri- 
ca will  meet  in  the  First  Presbyterian  church, Phila- 
delphia, Pa.,  Thursday,  May  17,  1888,  and  will  be 
opened  with  a  sermon  by  Rev.  Joseph  T.  Smith,  D. 
D.,  moderator  of  the  last  Assembly. 

The  Chicago  Presbytery,  at  its  meeting  last  week, 
was  called  upon  to  adopt  the  following  resolution, 
which  they  did  manfully,  and  appointed  Dr.  J.  L, 
Withrow  of  the  Third  Church  to  present  it  to  Mayor 
Roche  and  the  City  Council : 

The  Presbytery  of  Chicago  believes  the  traffic  in  in- 
toxicating beverages  to  be  the  prolific  source  of  an  over- 
whelming proportion  of  all  the  crime,  poverty  and  mis- 
ery that  dishonors  and  degrades  our  fair  land  and  city. 
We,  therefore,  rejoice  in  the  rapidly  rising  power  of  pub- 
lic sentiment  against  the  further  extension  of  the  liquor 
traffic  and  in  favor  of  its  restriction;  and,  therefore,  be  it 

Rtsolted,  That  this  Presbytery,  representing  ninety- 
one  Presbyterian  clergymen,  and  280  elders  and  12,109 
members  of  our  churches  in  the  city  of  Chicago  and  its 
suburbs,  urges  on  the  Aldermen  of  Chicago  to  establish 
by  an  ordinance  the  measures  for  restricting  the  sale  of 
liquor,  which  City  Collector  Onahan  hsis  submitted,  and 
which  the  daily  press  of  the  city  are  unanimous  in  favor- 
ing. 


Bible  Lesson. 


STUDIES  IN  THK  NEW  TESTAMENT. 

LESSON  VI,  Second  Quarter.— May  6. 

SUBJECT.— The  Judgment.— Matt.  25:  31-46. 

GOLDEN  TEXT.— And  these  shall  £;o  away  Into  everlasting 
punishment;  but  the  righteous  into  life  eternal.— Matt.  35:  46. 

lOp<n(A«  BibU  and  read  the  lesson.^ 
[Dr. Geo. F.Pentecost  In  Words  and  Weapons.] 

Thb  Judgment  of  the  Nations. — The  description  of 
this  judgment  is  prophecy,  though  it  has  some  of  the 
elements  of  parabolic  teaching;  with  this  qualification, 
we  may  look  upon  the  great  event  here  portrayed  as  act- 
ually coming  to  pass.  It  is  a  mischievous  habit  which 
has  led  the  Christian  world  to  speak  of  the  judgment  as 
one  great  event,  taking  place  at  the  end  of  the  world. 
Nothing  could  be  more  wide  of  the  teaching  of  the  Scrip- 
tures. The  second  coming  of  the  Lord  and  the  judg- 
ment may  be  studied  as  one  great  event,  taking  place  in 
sections,  with  intervals  of  time  between  each  act.  Con- 
cerning the  second  coming,  see  1  Thess.  4:13, 18;  2  Thess. 
1.7,  10.  In  like  manner  the  resurrection  is  accomplished 
not  at  one  moment,  but  in  three  "cohorts."  (Compare 
1  Cor.  15:  22,  26,  with  Rev.  20:  5.)  It  is  so  in  respect 
to  the  judgment.  There  are  three  distinct  judgments 
mentioned  in  the  Scriptures:  First,  the  judgment  of  the 
saints — not  for  their  life,  but  upon  their  works — of  which 
the  last  parable  teaches  (see  also  2  Cor.  5:  10);  second, 
the  judgment  of  the  living  nations,  which  is  the  one 
under  discussion  at  this  time;  and  third,  the  judgment  of 
the  great  white  throne— the  final  judgment  upon  the 
wicked,  who  shall  be  raised  to  life  at  the  close  of  the 
millennial  period  and  after  the  living  nations  have  been 
dealt  with.  (Bead  carefully  Rev  19.)  To  set  the  matter 
a  little  more  clearly  before  our  readers,  even  at  the  risk 
of  repetition,  we  will  cast  some  of  the  details  already 
mentioned  under  distinct  heads.  1.  The  time  of  this 
judgment.  At  the  close  of  the  great  tribulation  and  just 
before  the  opening  of  the  millennial  reign,  when  Christ 
comes  with  all  his  saints.  (See  2  Thess.  1:  10;  Dan.  7: 
13,  14;  9:  24;  Matt.  26: 64;  Jude  14;R3V.  19:  8,  9;  Psa  1  ) 
2.  The  Judge.  Jesus  himself,. in  the  character  of  "King 
of  kings  and  Lord  of  lords,  sitting  on  the  throne  of  his 
glory."  Hitherto  he  has  been  seated  on  his  Father's 
throne.  This  is  the  first  and  only  time  in  which  he 
speaks  of  himself  as  king,  except  at  his  trial  before  the 
crucifixion.  3.  The  subjects.  The  living  nations  upon 
the  earth  at  the  time  of  Christ's  appearing.  (See  Scrip- 
tures already  cited.)  4.  The  reality  of  this  judgment. 
It  takes  account  of  real  diSerence  between  the  character 
of  those  who  are  judged  and  that  of  those  who  are  wel- 
comed into  the  kingdom,  separating  them,  not  by 
gradations,  but  absolutely  and  finally,  from  the  right- 
eous. 

The  Issues  of  this  Judgment. — If  the  issue  of  the  judg- 
ment upon  the  living  nations  at  the  coming  of  Christ  is  so 
clearly  marked, it  cannot  be  less  certain  concerning  those 
who  live  and  decide  as  to  Christ  during  this  dispensation 
of  the  preaching  of  the  Gospel.     1.  As  to  the  righteous. 

(a)  They  are  saluted  with  Christ's  blessed  word,  "come." 
Not  as  his  disciples,  but  as  "the  blessed  of  his  Father." 
This  differs  essentially  from  the  commendation — "Well 
done,  good  and  faithful  servant!"  which  applies  to  his 
personal  disciples.  While  I  think  there  is  a  real  differ- 
ence here,  as  there  will  be  a  difference  between  the  place 
and  standing  of  those  saved  of  the  nations  and  that  of 
those  believers  who  make  up  the  church,  I  have  no  doubt 
that  their  blessedness  will  be,  in  its  way,  quite  as  great. 
(6)  They  are  appointed  an  inheritance,  perhaps  with  the 
saints.  Their  salvation  was  planned  from  the  beginning, 
even  as  our  election  was  provided  for  in  Christ  from  the 
foundation  of  the  world.  God's  salvation,  whether  for 
Christian  believers  or  for  righteous  heathen,  is  an  eternal 
one,  based,  no  doubt,  upon  the  "redemption  which  is  in 
Christ  Jesus."  2.  As  to  the  wicked,  (a)  A  sentence  of 
banishment  from  the  King  in  his  glory  (2  Thess.  1:9,10). 
There  is  no  hint  of  future  probation  here.  Their  sepa- 
ration from  Christ  is  final.  Christ,  the  glorious  King,  is 
the  center  and  substance  of  heaven.  To  be  with  him  is 
salvation;  to  be  banished  from  his  presence  is  to  be  lost. 

(b)  An  appointment  to  everlasting  fire,  prepared  for  the 
devil  and  his  angels.  This  is  in  antithesis  to  the  bless- 
ing of  the  righteous.  The  latter  are  appointed  to  the 
kingdom  prepared  by  God  from  the  foundation  of  the 
world,  while  these  go  to  the  company  and  torment  of  the 
devil  and  his  angels,  whom  they  followed  in  the  last  great 
apostasy  (Rev.  19:7,10).  3.  The  sentence  is  final. 
"These  shall  go  away  into  everlasting  punishment.butthe 
righteous  into  life  eternal."  No  ingenuity  of  reasoning,  no 
torturing  of  the  Scripture,  can  break  the  plain  and  ter- 
rible force  of  these  words  of  our  Lord.  It  is  as  foolish 
as  it  is  wicked  for  any  one,  be  he  "saint"  or  "sinner,"  to 
attempt  to  wrest  these  words. 

I  From  the  Christian.  | 

Then  shall  he  say  unto  them  on  his  left  hand,  "De- 
part, ye  cursed,  into  everlasting  fire,  prepared  for  the 
devil  and  his  angels.  The  word  everlasting  is  the  same 
as  eternal.  The  phrase  "everlasting  fire"  is  used  in  Jude 
7.  "Eveif  as  Sodom  and  Gomorrah  and  the  cities  about 
them ....  are  set  forth  as  an  example,  suffering  the  ven- 
geance ef  eternal  fire."  The  eternal  fire  was  no  figure  of 
speech,  no  fancy,  no  unmeaning  phrase,  no  mere  guilty 
conscience,  which  grows  less  and  less  severe  as  men  are 
hardened  in  sin.  "On  the  wicked,  God  shall  reign  snares, 
fire  and  brimstone  and  an  horrible  tempest.  "This  shall 
be  the  portion  of  their  cup."  Psa.  11:  6.  Over  and  over 
again  this  cry  of  fire  is  heard  throughout  the  Scriptures. 
"A  fire  is  kindled  in  mine  anger;  it  shall  burn  unto  the 
lowest  hell."    Deut.  33:  22.    And  the  last  solemn  warn- 


April  26,  1888 


THE  CHEISTIAN  CYNOSUEE. 


13 


ing  of  God's  Word  is  that  the  fearful  and 
unbelieving  "ahall  have  their  part  in  the 
lake  which  burneth  with  Are  and  brim- 
stone, which  is  the  second  death." 

Depart  into  eternal  Are,  into  fire  like 
that  which  destroyed  Sodom  and  Gomor- 
rah. And  why  ?  Is  it  on  account  of  dif- 
ferences of  opinion,  mistaken  views,  or 
even  manifest  errors?  By  no  means. 
They  are  to  go  into  a  Are  which  was  pre 
pared,  not  for  man,  but  for  the  devil  and 
his  angels,  because  "I  was  an  hungered 
and  ye  gave  me  no  meat,  I  was  thirsty 
and  ye  gave  me  no  drink,  I  was  a  stranger 
and  ye  took  me  not  in,  naked  and  ye 
clothed  me  not,  sick  and  in  prison  and 
ye  visited  me  not."  They  are  as  uncon- 
scious of  their  demerit  as  the  others  were 
of  their  merit.  The  righteous  say,  "When 
have  we  done  these  good  things?  The 
wicked  say,  When  have  we  done  these 
evil  things?  "Inasmuch  as  ye  did  it  not 
unto  one  of  the  least  of  these  my  breth- 
ren, ye  did  it  not  to  me.  These  shall  go 
away  into  eternal  punishment,  but  the 
righteous  into  eternal  life." 

The  words  are  solemn  beyond  express- 
ion. The  same  adjective,  eternal,  or  ev- 
erlasting, is  used  in  both  instances,  but 
how  different  are  the  nouns  which  the 
words  qualify.  Oae  is  eternal  life,  the 
boundless,  measureless  gift  of  the  eternal 
God ;  the  other  is  the  eternal  fire,  such  as 
fell  on  the  cities  of  the  plain,  consuming 
and  destroying;  eternal  punishment,  from 
which  this  passage  cffers  no  hope  of  de- 
liverance, no  way  of  escape.  It  will  be 
safer  to  lay  hold  on  eternal  life  than  it 
will  be  to  risk  the  terrors  of  eternal  fire. 
Men  who  spend  their  time  discussing  the 
prospects  of  future  probacion  will  act 
more  wisely  and  more  prudently  in  im- 
proving the  present  probation  which  God 
has  given  them.  "Behold,  to  day  is  the 
accepted  time,  behold,  to-day  is  the  day 
of  salvation." 


Lodge  Notes. 

The  employes  of  the  Edgar  Thomson 
steel  works,  near  Pittsburgh,  took  a  pri- 
vate ballot  to  decide  finally  upon  An- 
drew Carnegie's  proposition,  to  pay  on  a 
sliding  scale.  So  far  only  the  non  union 
men  have  voted,  the  Knights  of  Labor 
holding  aloof.  The  result  was  favorable 
and  the  works  open  again  this  week. 

At  a  meeting  of  the  locked-out  brew- 
ers in  Cooper  Union,  New  York,  Thurs- 
day night,  the  boss  brewers  were  de- 
nounced, and  President  Cleveland  was 
threatened  that  if  the  boss  brewers,  who 
were  pillars  of  the  Democratic  party,  did 
not  accede  to  the  demands  of  the  men, 
that  party  would  not  fare  well  in  the 
next  election. 

The  Galena  Gazette  makes  a  strong 
speech  for  the  nominiation  of  Grand 
Master  John  C.  Smith  for  Governor  of 
Ulinois,  because  he  has  a  "larger  ac- 
quaintance" and  can  call  more  voters  by 
name  than  any  other  man  in  the  State. 
No  doubt  he  has  made  a  profound  study 
of  lodge  rolls  during  the  past  ten  years, 
but  that  is  his  best  recommendation. 

The  Bald  Knobber  chief.David  Walker, 
is  to  be  hung.  His  trial  closed  at  Ozark, 
Mo.,  April  11th,  the  jury  returning  a 
verdict  of  guilty  of  murder  in  the  first 
degree.  The  Court  will  probably  sen- 
tence the  defendent  to  be  hung  on  the 
18th  of  May,  the  day  fixed  for  the  execu- 
tion of  the  three  other  convicted  Bald 
Enobbers,  John  and  Wiley  Mathews,  and 
Chief  Walker's  son  William. 

The  Masons  have  issued  the  following 
in  the  secret  society  notices  in  the  daily 
papers: 

"Warning  to  Craft  Masons, — An 
attempt  is  baing  made  to  organize  a  clan- 
destine body  to  be  called  a  Consistory 
of  Scottish  Rite  Freemasonry.  No  legiti- 
mate body  can  be  formed  in  Illinois  with- 
out the  indorsement  and  approval  of  the 
Deputy  and  the  present  existing  bodies . 
Full  information  can  be  obtained  from 
John  C  Smith,  Deputy  for  Illinois: 
George  R.  McClellan,  Commander-in- 
Chief  Oriental  Consistory,  or  Gil  W. 
Barnard,  Grand  Secretary." 

Considerable  interest  is  manifested  in 
secret  society  circles  in  Milwaukee  over 
the  reported  secession  of  Hecker  Council 
from  the  order  of  the  American  Legion 
of  Honor.  The  council  will  unite  with 
the  Northern  Legion  of  Honor,  which 
was  organized  at  St.  Paul  a  few  years 
ago  by  members  of  the  American  Legion 
of  Honor  who  had  become  dissatisfied 
with  the  manner  in  whiclf  the  affairs  of 
the  order  were  being  conducted.    The 


American  Legion  of  Honor  is  an  insur- 
ance organization,  having  a  total  mem- 
bership of  67,030.  It  is  said  that  other 
councils  will  shortly  follow  the  example 
of  Hecker  Council,  as  the  feeling  of  dis- 
content is  quite  general. 

At  a  meeting  of  the  Central  Labor 
Union  at  New  York  on  Saturday  it  was 
resolved  to  organize  a  vigilance  commit- 
tee in  each  of  the  twenty  four  assembly 
districts  of  the  city  to  carry  on  the  boy- 
cott against  pool  beer.  The  arbitration 
committee  moved  that  the  credentials  of 
the  brewery  engineers  who  did  not  go 
out  with  the  journeymen  brewers  be 
burned  and  the  engineers  expelled.  The 
motion  was  carried.  Upon  motion  of 
the  building  trade's  section,  the  secretary 
was  instructed  to  ask  President  Cleveland 
to  dismiss  Collector  Magone  for  permit- 
ting eighteen  marble  workers,  who  were 
imported  under  contract  from  Italy,  to 
land  at  Castle  Garden. 


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THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


April  26, 1888 


Tasm  Notes. 

PLANTINft    GBAPEVINE8. 

How  shall  we  plant  grapevines  in  or- 
der to  secure  the  best  results  in  the 
quickest  time? 

Let  the  soil  be  rich  and  friable,  and  if 
there  should  be  six  inches  of  well  rotted 
compost  thoroughly  incorporated  with  it, 
it  [the  compost]  will  do  no  harm.  Even 
thiee  inches  will  answer  the  purpose, 
and  if  you  have  not  that  quantity  to 
spare  or  you  plead  a  want  of  time,  then 
the  virgin  soil  is  all  that  is  necessary.  If 
the  vine  is  to  be  planted  in  the  garden, 
let  the  ground  be  prepared  by  using  the 
spade  and  the  rake.  Spade  deep  and 
break  every  clod;  make  the  ground  as 
mellow  as  possible.  If  the  open  field  is 
selected  and  the  plow  is  the  implement 
of  culiure  to  be  used,  then  plow  deep 
and  break  ths  clods  with  a  harrow  or 
rake.    Let  the  work  always  be  done  well. 

The  trellises  of  the  vineyard  should 
run  north  and  south,  so  that  the  vines 
will  have  an  equal  exposure  to  the  morn- 
ing and  afternoon  sun.  In  garden  plant- 
ing, where  space  is  valuable,  a  good  rule 
as  to  distance  is,  rows  six  feet  apart  and 
the  vines  six  feet  in  the  row.  For  field 
culture  I  would  be  a  little  more  liberal  in 
the  space  occupied,  planting  the  rows 
eight  feet  apart  and  the  vines  seven  feet 
in  the  row.  When  the  vines  are  pro- 
cured (one  or  two  years  old)  first  dig  the 
holes,  not  less  than  four  feet  in  diameter 
and  eight  or  nine  inches  deep,  leaving  a 
little  conical  hill  in  the  center.  The 
vines  should  be  heeled  in  singly  in  some 
convenient  spot  near  by,  and  the  roots 
should  not  be  exposed  to  the  sun  and 
wind  for  a  minute.  After  the  holes  are 
all  dug,  take  the  vines  out  of  the  ground 
one  at  a  time  planting  them  according  to 
the  followiDg  directions:  Place  the  cane 
upright  on  the  conical  hill  in  the  hole, 
straighten  out  every  root  into  its  natural 
position,  not  bending  or  curving  under 
any  circumstances,  nor  letting  one  root 
cross  another;  then  cover  with  fine  earth 
to  the  depth  of  about  four  or  five  inches; 
then  tura  on  a  pail  of  water,  and  when 
this  has  soaked  away  fill  the  hole  and  the 
work  is  done. 

Many  grapevines  are  ruined  by  bad 
treatment  at  the  time  of  planting.  It  is 
easy  to  ruin  the  most  vigorous  vine  in  a 
short  time.  Unnecessary  exposure  to 
wind  and  sun  should  be  avoided.  I  nev- 
er allow  vines  in  my  hands  to  suffer .  I 
protect  them  with  a  covering  of  earth 
oefore  planting  and  sometimes  I  immerse 
them  in  a  tub  of  water.  In  this  matter, 
as  in  everything  ehe,  we  ought  not  to 
expect  great  and  grand  results  from  poor 
and  indifferent  work  — Prairie  Farmer. 

LARGE  OR  SMALL  TREES,  WHICH? 

Small  trees  planted  on  the  street,  most- 
ly without  any  protection,  and  the  ground 
covered  with  thick  sod,  will  not  do  well. 
Besides  the  multiplicity  of  danger  to  life 
and  limb  from  contact  with  (often) 
roaming  animals,  mischievous  boys  and 
the  like,  it  is  also  a  struggle  between  the 
young  sapling  and  the  luxuriant  grass  as 
to  which  shall  obtain  the  most  moisture 
and  fertility  from  the  soil.  By  slow  de 
grees  the  young  tree,  if  it  lives,  will 
surely  obtain  the  mastery,  but  in  its  im- 
mature stages  it  is  considerably  set  back 
by  these  causes.  A  street  tree,  whether 
nursery  grown  or  taken  from  the  wood, 
should  be  of  a  goodly  size  when  planttd. 

Now  the  advantage  of  a  nursery  grown 
tree,  if  in  its  best  condition,  is  that  hav- 
ing been  several  times  transplanted  its 
roots  are  more  fibrous,  and  nearer  to  the 
boll  of  the  tree,  than  those  on  one  taken 
from  the  woods,  where  it  has  never  been 
removed,  or  its  tap  roots  severed.  If, 
then,  a  nursery-grown  tree,  of  the  requi- 
site size,  can  be  obtained,  it  is  always  to 
be  preferred.  This,  however,  presup- 
poses that  the  young  tree  has  not  been 
allowed  to  stand  almost  from  its  seed  bed 
in  the  one  position;  if  it  has,  it  is  but  lit- 
tle better  than  its  fellow  of  the  forest 

Under  ordinary  circumstances,  a  well- 
grown  nursery  tree,  of  say  four  inch  boll, 
Is  fully  equal  to  one  of  double  that  size 
taken  from  the  woods.  The  reason  for 
this  is  that  in  the  former  case  the  roots 
and  tops  being  in  an  equable  condition 
when  removed,  there  is  but  little  check 
to  a  continuous  growth,  while  those  from 
the  woods,  for  reasons  already  given, 
have  the  roots  so  spread  out  or  deep  in 
the  ground  that  the  main  feeders  are  cut, 
and  have  to  be  renewed  before  much  new 
growth  takes  place,  so  that  the  smaller 
tree  very  shortly  overtakes  the  larger  by 
laason  of  ita  more  balanced  condition. 


Ordinarily,  too,  the  nursery  tree  has  its 
branches  in  a  more  favorable  position  to 
make  an  effective  tree;  this,  however,  de- 
pends of  course  entirely  on  the  kind  of 
selection  from  the  woods. 

Many  very  handsome  trees  came  orig- 
inally from  the  forest — bolls  straight  and- 
clean,  and  branches  at  uniform  distances, 
and  tops  evenly  shaped  all  arouncT  The 
best  results  from  trees  taken  from  the 
woods  are  obtained  by  judicious  pruning 
of  the  tops  at  the  time  of  planting.  Only 
80  much  of  the  branches  should  be  left 
as  will  make  a  uniform,  neat  head,  not 
more  than  a  quarter  of  its  original  limbs 
remaining.  This,  with  a  large  boll  of 
earth,  in  size  proportionate  to  the  tree, 
will  generally  insure  the  life,  and  ulti- 
mately the  free  growth  of  the  forest  tree. 

For  the  yard  or  garden,  except  in  ex- 
tremely rare  cases  where  immediate  effect 
is  desirable,  we  should  certainly  select 
nursery-grown  trees,  and  smaller  ones 
than  have  been  recommended  for  street 
planting.  Indeed,  for  fruit  trees,  we 
doubt  very  much  the  propriety  of  plant- 
ing beyond  a  three-year  old,  and  for  quan- 
tity even  a  two-year  is  better.  Of  course, 
if  this  planting  is  from  very  near  by, 
where  the  greatest  care  can  be  taken,  and 
the  roots  carefully  kept  from  exposure, 
even  several-years  old  trees  can  thus  be 
used.  But  when  obtaining  stock  from  a 
distance,  select  younger  trees  every  time. 
They  are  cheaper,  bear  carriage  much 
better  without  injury,  and  will,  in  ordin 
ary  cases,  fruit  about  as  early  as  the 
larger  trees  that  take  some  time  to  recu- 
perate from  the  injury  received  by  trans 
planting.  The  principal  points  in  tree 
planting  are  to  obtain  all  the  roots  possi- 
ble, the  more  of  the  fine  ones  the  better, 
allowing  no  drying  of  them  at  all,  and  in 
planting  fill  in  the  soil  carefully  about 
the  roots,  firm  the  ground  thoroughly 
and  steady,  so  the  wind  cannot  move  the 
roots  when  set. — Prairie  Farmer. 


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In  Brief. 


The  family  of  a  Georgian  were  awak- 
ened the  other  night  by  a  great  noiae 
under  the  house,  which  shook  violently. 
At  first  they  were  sure  that  an  earthquake 
was  in  progress,  but  investigation  with  a 
lantern  showed  that  a  cow  was  under  the 
house.  How  she  got  there  was  a  mystery, 
aa  she  could  not  stand  upright.  It  was 
her  horns  and  back  that  made  the  noise 
and  shook  the  house.  The  householder 
had  to  get  a  pick  and  spade  and  dig  a 
ditch,  in  which  the  cow  walked  out. 

Judge  Foster,  of  the  Maine  Supreme 
Court,  who  lives  in  Bethel,  Me.,  was 
awakened  by  a  large  crash  in  his  kitchen 
the  other  night.  He  hastily  and  scantily 
dressed  and  ran  into  the  kitchen,  to  find 
the  dishes  and  other  things  disarranged, 
and  some  broken.  He  looked  around  to 
ascertain  the  cause  of  the  trouble,  and 
saw  the  dog  in  one  corner  of  the  room 
trembling  with  fear.  Judge  Foster  im- 
mediately seized  him,  administered  a  se- 
vere thrashing  and  then  retired  to  bed 
again.  The  next  day  when  the  judge 
went  down  stre«t  every  one  he  met  aeked 
him  if  he  felt  or  heard  the  earthquake  last 
night;  and  on  comparing  time  ne  found 
it  was  precisely  the  time  the  dog  was 
whacked  for  up  setting  things. 

Some  white  men  were  steaming  up  the 
Itimbiri  river,  one  of  the  northern  tribu- 
taries of  the  Congo,  and  made  a  very  un- 
pleasant discovery  a  while  ago.  They 
found  that  the  banks  of  the  river  had 
just  been  ravaged  by  armed  Negroes  who 
had  been  sent  by  the  Arabs  from  the 
north  on  a  slave  hunt.  Heretofore  it  has 
been  the  Arabs  from  Zanzibar  who  have 
brought  sorrow  to  the  Congo  tribes,  but 
this  time  it  is  the  Arabs  from  Khartoum, 
whom  Gordon  nearly  drove  out  of  busi- 
ness, but  who  have  now  resumed  their 
raids.  This  invasion  of  the  northern 
slave- stealers  is  an  attack  on  the  flink 
the  Congo  state  authorities  had  not  ex- 
pected. The  state  is  now  confronted  by 
tinfriendly  Arabs  both  in  its  eastern  ter 
ritory  and  on  its  northern  frontier. 

There  is  a  regular  stampede  of  Georgia 
Negroes  in  the  direction  of  Athens,  At- 
lanta, and  other  cities  where  the  free- 
school  system  prevails.  Many  farmers 
are  being  deserted  by  every  hand,  and 
one  farmer  in  Oglethorpe  county,  who 
runs  forty  plows,  has  not  a  Negro  to-day 
on  his  farm,  the  last  one  having  left  for 
Athens.  Whole  neighborhoods  have 
been  deserted  by  the  blacks,  and  every 
shanty  in  the  corporate  limits  of  Athens 
swarms  with  half  starved  Negroes,  There 
is  nothing  in  Athens  for  them  to  do,  there 
being  more  men  than  there  is  work  or 
room  for.  The  farmers  say  that  they 
would  not  listen  to  propositions  looking 
to  contracts  for  another  year,  but  intend 
all  to  move  to  towns  where  their  children 
can  be  sent  to  school  the  year  round  with- 
out any  money. 

A  miraculous  surgical  experiment  has 
been  performed  at  Buffalo  by  Dr.  George 
E  Fell,  Professor  of  Physiology  at  the 
University  of  Niagara.  Dr.  Fell  is  an 
enthusiastic  vivisectionist,  and  has  made 
a  number  of  experiments  whereby  he 
claims  he  has  discovered  a  means  of  sav- 
ing human  life  after  the  patient  has  taken 
poison.  Several  weeks  ago  a  man  named 
Patrick  Burns,  who  had  been  on  a  de- 
bauch, took  a  large  dose  of  morpia  and 
was  given  up  as  dead.  After  Burns  had 
been  unconscious  for  five  hours  Dr.  Fell 
was  called  in.  It  had  occurred  to  him 
that  if  he  had  an  artificial  respiratory 
apparatus  he  would  be  able  to  bring  back 
the  patient  to  life.  He  had  often  applied 
artificial  respiration  to  dogs  and  cats  at 
college  during  his  lectures  to  show  the 
action  of  their  hearts  and  lungs.  Burns 
was  a  poor  patient,  and  the  physician  had 
very  little  hope  of  being  successful. 
There  was  no  pulse,  and  only  a  slight 
flutter  around  the  region  of  the  heart, 
which  showed  that  it  had  not  ceased  to 
beat.  There  were  a  number  of  physi- 
cians present,  and  the  experiment  was 
considered  a  chimerical  one  as  far  as 
success  was  concerned.  An  incision  was 
made  in  the  throat  and  a  respiratory  tube 
was  placed  in  the  trachea.  The  blood 
which  oozed  from  the  wound  was  a  dark 
coffee  color.  The  lungs  of  the  patient 
were  useless,  and  when  air  was  blown 
into  them  they  were  so  stiff  that  they 
could  not  contract  Artificial  means  was 
used,  pressure  on  the  chest  to  expel  the 
air  and  cause  the  expirations.  This  was 
kept  up  for  fifteen  minutes  before  any 
change  was  noticed.     The  blood  soon 


became  more  arterial  in  color  as  it  came 
from  the  wound,  and  the  face  assumed  a 
life-like  expression.  The  muscles  of  the 
eyes  twitched  when  pressed  by  the  finger. 
After  a  time  the  eyes  opened  and  the 
legs  and  arms  began  to  move.  Water 
was  placed  to  the  patient's  lips  and  he 
drank  greedily.  For  two  houri  the  arti- 
ficial breathing  was  kept  up.  The  tube 
was  removed  and  the  wound  was  closed 
with  antiseptic  dressing.  The  patient, 
an  hour  after  breathing  was  restored,  had 
an  attack  of  delirium  tremens,  the  result 
of  drinking.  It  took  five  men  to  hold 
him,  and  the  wound  commenced  to  bleed 
afresh.  This  was  stopped,  and  when  the 
poison  passed  from  the  system,  after 
three  days  the  respiration  increased,  and 
it  was  evident  that  the  patient  would  re 
cover.  In  two  weeks  he  was  able  to  go 
out  and  attend  to  his  business. — Jjemo- 
rist's  Maaatine. 


The  exhausted  and  drowsy  feelings, 
common  to  spring  time,  indicate  an  im- 
pure and  sluggish  condition  of  the  blood, 
which  may  be  remedied  by  the  use  of 
h  yer's  Sarsaparilla.  It  is  the  most  pow- 
erful, and,  at  the  same  time,  most  eco- 
nomical blood  purifier  known. 


"THAT'S  WHAT  MY  WIFE  SAYS." 

"How  are  all  the  folks?"  asked 
Brown  of  Jones  "All  well,  except  my 
wife,  "said  Jones.  '  'I'm  worried  about  her. 
She  tires  out  so  easily;  she  complacins  of 
a  backache  about  all  the  time,  and  she  is 
so  low  spirited  that  she  don't  seem  like 
herself  at  all."  "My  dear  fellow,"  inter- 
rupted Brown.  "I'll  tell  you  exactly  what 
she  needs.  My  wife  had  the  same  sym- 
toms  a  few  months  ago,  but  to  day  she  is 
the  healthiest  woman  in  town.  Dr. 
Pierce's  Favorite  Prescription  cured  her, 
and  it  will  cure  Mrs.  Jones,  too.  There's 
nothing  on  earth  like  it  for  the  com- 
plaints to  which  the  weaker  sex  are  liable. 
That's  what  my  wife  says,  and  she  knows." 
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CATARRH  CURED. 


A  clergyman,  after  years  of  suffering 
from  that  loathsome  disease,  catarrh,  and 
vainly  trying  every  known  remedv,  at 
last  found  a  prescription  which  complete- 
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sufferer  from  this  dreadful  disease  send- 
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Prof.  J.  A.  Lawrence,  212  East  9th  St., 
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Npws  OF  The  Week. 

WA8HINQTON. 

Friday  was  the  onehundreth  day  of 
the  present  session  of  the  House .  The 
House  has  passed  425  bills  and  the  Sen- 
ate 831 .  Altogether  209  bills  have  passed 
both  Houses  and  gone  to  the  President 
for  his  signature.  Up  to  date  12,568 
bills  and  resolutions  have  been  intro- 
duced in  the  fiftieth  Congress— the  largest 
number  on  record. 

Secretary  Fairchild  has  given  notice 
that  on  April  23  and  daily  thereafter  until 
further  notice  he  will  receive  proposals 
for  the  sale  to  the  government  of  the 
United  States  bonds  of  the  acts  of  July 
14,  1870,  and  January  20,  1871.  The 
right  is  reserved  to  reject  any  and  all 
proposals  if  it  is  thought  to  be  for 
the  interests  of  the  government  to  do  so. 

Senator  Spooner  will  deliver  the  ora- 
tion at  the  exercises  on  the  field  of  Gettys- 
burg, June  30,  at  the  unveiling  of  the 
monument  to  the  Wisconsin  soldiers  who 
sacrificed  their  lives  there. 

Mrs.  Belva  A.  Lock  wood  is  in  the  field 
again  as  a  candidate  for  the  Presidency. 
She  opened  her  campaign  Tuesday  night 
with  a  reception  at  her  residence,  to 
which  she  invited  the  advocates  of  her 
cause. 

A  new  dynamite  crusier  gun-boat,  the 
Yorktown,  built  for  the  United  States  by 
a  Philadelphia  company,  will  be  launched 
Saturday,  April  28,  in  the  presence  of 
Secretary  Whitney.  It  carries  four  pneu  - 
matic  guns  for  the  hurling  of  dynamite 
projectiles,  and  is  claimed  to  be  the  most 
formidable  engine  of  war  ever  invented. 
The  guns  are  loaded  by  steam  and  the 
shells,  containing  600  pounds  of  explos- 
ive gelatine,  can  be  fired  twice  a  minute. 

Senator  Blackburn  of  Kentucky  is 
making  an  effort  to  get  passed  by  the 
Senate,  before  the  spring  races  begin  at 
the  Washington  race  course,  a  bill  passed 
by  the  House  to  prohibit  pool  selling  and 
book  making  in  the  District. 

The  Senate  Committee  on  Foreign  Re- 
lations have  decided  by  a  party  vote  that 
the  Fisheries  Treaty  ought  not  to  be  rat- 
ified. 

The  House  of  Representatives  has 
passed  a  pension-appropriation  bill  cov- 
ering the  enormous  sum  of  $80,280,000. 
There  are,  besides,  "service"  pension  bills 
and  others  on  the  calendar. 

CHICAGO. 

Judges  Tuley,  Horton,  and  Jamison 
were  kept  quite  busy  Saturday  disposing 
of  applications  for  divorce.  Judge  Tu- 
ley descanted  on  the  public  love  for 
Bcandal,  and  decreed  that  henceforth  mi- 
nors will  be  denied  admittance  to  the  di- 
vorce courts. 

John  A.  Rice,  the  well  known  propri- 
etor of  the  Tremont  House,  died  Satur- 
day. He  was  one  of  the  proprietors  of 
the  Sherman  House  before  the  great  fire. 

The  bakers'  union  have  ordered  a 
strike  for  better  pay,  and  1,700  men  are 
on  the  streets. 

The  National  Tube  Works  of  McKees- 
port.  Pa.,  has  completed  its  contract  for 
forty  miles  of  8 -inch  pipe  for  the  Stand- 
ard Oil  Company's  new  line  from  the 
Lima  field  to  Chicago.  The  line,  which 
is  to  be  208  miles  long  and  will  cost  $7,- 
000  per  mile,  is  expected  to  be  in  opera- 
tion early  in  the  coming  summer. 

The  new  cable  street  car  line  on  the 
North  Side  does  its  work  unsatisfactori- 
ly as  yet.  The  West  Side  lines,  owned 
by  the  same  syndicate,  talk  of  substitut 
ing  electricity  for  the  cable,  being  less 
expensive.  The  elevated-road  pro- 
jects for  the  West  and  South  sides  are 
taking  shape.  A  charter  has  been  granted 
the  latter,  and  many  impatient  citizens 
are  hoping  their  work  will  be  hastened. 

COUNTRY. 

Ex  Senator  Roscoe  Conkling  died  early 
Tuesday  morning  in  his  room  in  the  Hoff- 
man House,  New  York.  His  funeral 
took  place  Friday,  and  his  body  was 
taken  to  Utica  for  interment. 

Since  the  Ohio  Legislature  adjourned 
it  has  been  discovered  that,  by  a  mistake 
in  a  bill  changing  the  Aldermanic  dis- 
tricts of  Cincinnati,  the  Board  of  Alder 
men  of  Cleveland  was  abolished  and  no 
provision  made  for  electing  a  new  board, 
thus  leaving  the  city  without  a  munici- 
pal government. 

A  government  officer  has  reported  that 
an  expenditure  of  over  three  hundred 
thousand  dollars  would  be  necessary  to 


protect  Sioux  City,  Iowa,  from  the  rapid 
encroachments  of  the  Missouri  river. 

Fire  in  a  rag-sorting  factory  at  New 
York  Thursday  morning  penned  in  forty- 
five  women  and  six  men,  many  of  whom 
were  forced  to  jump  from  the  windows, 
but,  falling  in  the  fire-nets,  escaped  with- 
out serious  injury.  One  young  woman 
perished  in  the  fiames. 

A  j  ury  at  St.  Louis  Thursday  granted 
David  S.  Fotheringham  $20,000  damages 
against  the  Adams  Express  Company. 
Fotheringham,  express  messenger  at  the 
time,  had  been  arrested  for  complicity  in 
a  robbery  on  the  San  Francisco  road,  in 
which  the   desperadoes  secured  $58,000. 

Five  intoxicated  Indians  were  drowned 
Tuesday  at  Trempealeau,  Wis.,  while  at- 
tempting to  drag  their  canoes  across  a  raft 
of  logs. 

A  woman,  arrested  for  poisoning  her 
neighbor's  chickens,  was  discharged  Wed- 
nesday at  Milwaukee  by  Judge  Mallory, 
who  decided  that  the  hen  is  not  a  domes- 
tic animal,  and  that  the  law  provides  no 
penalty  for  the  alleged  offense. 

Isaac  Eirkpatrick  and  his  wife,  both 
colored,  living  near  Gallatin,  Tenn  ,  were 
taken  from  their  house  Wednesday  night 
by  a  mob.  The  woman  was  first  hanged 
in  her  nightdress,  and  the  man  was  then 
shot  to  death.  The  woman  was  suspect- 
ed of  arson,  but  there  was  no  charge 
against  her  husband. 

An  entire  family  named  Lathrop,  fath- 
er, mother,  and  three  children,  occupants 
of  a  hovel  near  Wolf  river,  at  Embar- 
rass, Wis.,  were  swept  away  by  the  floods 
Thursday  night  and  drowned. 

Just  before  10  o'clock  Wednesday  night 
a  fire  started  in  the  Bethel  Home,  a 
five-story  building  in  St.  Louis,  and  sopn 
spread  to  all  parts  of  the  building.  The 
home  was  used  as  a  Bethel  church  and  a 
cheap  lodging  and  boarding  house,  and  is 
said  to  have  contained  from  forty  to  sev- 
enty people .  In  the  ruins  three  b  adies 
were  found  Friday  morning,  making  four 
dead  victims.  Four  others  are  in  the 
hospital,  badly  injured. 

About  two  hundred  girls  and  women 
employed  as  machine  hands  in  a  clothing 
manufactory  in  Minneapolis,  Minnesota, 
struck  for  the  old  rate  of  pay  for  piece- 
work, which  was  cut  about  20  per  cent 
net  on  Jan.  1.  At  the  present  rates  they 
say  they  cannot  make  living  wages. 

Monday  night  at  St.  Joseph,  Mo.,  two 
non  union  engineers  were  beaten  by 
strikers,  and  injured  in  a  serious  manner. 
It  is  feared  that  one  of  the  victims  can- 
not recover. 

An  engineer  employed  in  place  of  a 
striker  at  Nebraska  City  was  attacked 
late  at  night  by  three  unknown  men  with 
clubs,  fracturing  his  skull  in  several 
places  and  breaking  his  jiw  bones.  His 
injuries  will  prove  fatal. 

Hotel  men  at  Springfield,  Ohio,  were 
fined  and  imprisoned  for  passing  off  ole- 
omargerine  as  pure  butter. 

An  explosion  on  a  tug  at  New  York 
caused  the  death  of  the  engineer  and 
cook,  many  other  persons  being  seriously 
injured. 

Mrs.  Lottie  A.  James  and  her  new- 
born babe  died  from  the  results  of  Chris- 
tian Science  malpractice  at  Boston,  Mass. 

At  midnight  last  Tuesday  night  the 
depot  building  of  the  Cincinnati,  Wa- 
bash and  Michigan  railway  at  Urbana, 
Ind  ,  was  blown  up  by  dynamite.  The 
shock  of  the  explosion  was  tei  rifle,  and 
portions  of  the  building  were  scattered 
for  a  lang  distance.  It  is  thought  that 
some  of  the  best  known  people  in  the 
place  were  connected  with  the  outrage, 
as  the  old  depot  was  not  adequate  to  the 
needs  of  the  place. 

FOBSIGN. 

The  illness  of  the  German  Emperor 
was  alarming  all  the  week,  and  at  any 
hour  a  bulletin  announcing  his  death  was 
expected.  He  revived  on  Sunday,  and 
favorable  symptoms  gave  his  physicians 
hope  that  he  would  rally  and  be  able 
again  to  partially  resume  business. 

•  The  Russian  government,  taking  the 
view  that  Emperor  Frederick's  recovery 
is  hopeless,  has  enj  oined  the  press  of  the 
empire  to  abstain,  under  pain  of  severe 
punishment,  from  publishing  a  word  in 
disparagement  of  the  German  Crown 
Prince. 

The  French  General  Boulanger  re- 
ceivd  an  undeniable  ovation  on  his  way 
to  the  Chamber  of  Deputies  in  Paris 
Thursday.  In  the  Rue  liivoli  ladies  threw 


flowers  into  the  General's  carriage. 
There  were  isolated  cries  of  "Down  with 
the  Dictator!'  On  his  return  from  the 
Chamber  of  Deputies  General  Boulanger 
was  the  subject  of  a  similar  demonstra- 
tion. In  the  Chamber  a  group  of  depu- 
ties and  reporters  hissed  and  cheered  for 
the  republic. 

While  on  a  train  near  Wiesbaden,  Ger- 
many, Thursday  evening,  Mr.  Pendleton, 
the  American  Minister  was  stricken  with 
apoplexy.  He  is  said  to  be  paralyzed  in 
one  side,  but  is  in  no  immediate  danger. 

Owing  to  the  proclamation  of  General 
Marin,  in  Cuba,  declaring  certain  prov- 
inces in  a  state  of  siege,  the  greatest  ex- 
citement prevails.  It  is  said  that  the 
General  wants  it  to  appear  that  a  revolt 
is  impending,  but  the  Liberals,  whose 
newspapers  have  been  suppressed,  enter 
a  denial.  Marin  states  that  his  action  is 
due  to  the  increase  of  brigandage,  arson, 
kidnapping  and  other  crimes. 

Seven  counties  in  Ontaria  province, 
Canada,  gave  large  majorities  "Thursday 
for  the  repeal  of  the  Scott  temperance 
law. 


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CONTENTS. 


BOITOBIAL : 

Notes  and  Comments 1 

Professor  Woodsmall 8 

The  Washington  Building 

and  Work 8 

The  Political  Conference.  4 

CONTBIBUTIONS  : 

Rev.  H.  Woodsman 1 

Christian  Toleration  and 
Positive  Conviction —    2 

Ancient  Guilds  and  Mod- 
ern Trade  Unions 3 

From  Munich  to  Rome. . .    3 
Sblectbd : 

A  Good  Fight 8 

No  Place  for  a  Christian. .    3 
Rbtobh  News: 

From  the  Washington 
Headquarters ;  At  Work 
In  the  Old  Dominion; 
Pennsylvania  Progress..  4,5 

LiTBBATTIBB 6 

Obituary 7 


COBBBSFORDBKOB : 

The  National  Reform  Con- 
ference ;  Rally  around 
the  Cwjo«?ire; Texas  Bap- 
tists Ready  tor  Reform ; 
FrlendBbip,Moralltyand 
Brotheriy    Love;    Pith 

and  Point 5,6 

ThbN.  C.  a 7 

Lkcturb  List 7 

Church  vs.  Lodob 7 

Washington  Lettkb 9 

ThbHomb 10 

Tempbrancb 11 

BiBLB  LBSSOK 12 

Religious  Nbws 12 

Lodge  Notes 13 

Donations 13 

Home  and  Health 14 

Farm  Notes 15 

Nbws  or  thb  Wbbk 16 

Business 13 

Markets 13 


In  the  same  dispatch  we  are  told  of  the  improved 
condition  of  the  German  Emperor  Frederick,  the 
absence  of  fever,  that  he  begins  to  eat  beef  again, 
and  that  he  has  abandoned  beer,  which  disagrees 
with  him.  This  is  more  than  a  coincidence.  There 
are  many  men  of  whom  it  could  be  said  that  health 
improves,  and  they  can  begin  to  eat  beef,  and  their 
families  also,  so  soon  as  they  quit  beer.  Let  the 
Emperor's  case  be  for  an  example  to  the  thousands 
of  his  German  countrymen  in  America. 


The  selection  of  Melville  W.  Fuller,  a  distin- 
guished and  experienced  Chicago  lawyer,  to  be  the 
successor  of  Chief  Justice  Waite  was  made  on  Mon- 
day. The  news  was  heard  in  Chicago  with  general 
congratulation  of  both  Democrats  and  Republicans. 
Mr.  Fuller  has  been  identified  with  the  growth  and 
interests  of  Chicago  since  1856.  He  has  been  more 
or  less  closely  identified  with  party  interests,  but  is 
regarded  as  a  Democrat  of  the  old  school,  who  will 
be  as  true  to  the  national  interests  as  during  the 
war.  As  we  write  little  has  been  said  of  Mr.  Fuller 
except  in  respect  to  his  politics.  He  is  regarded  as 
an  able  speaker  and  has  a  decided  taste  for  litera- 
ture. Like  most  Chicago  Democrats,  he  will  prob- 
ably be  on  the  wrong  side  of  any  case  that  may  in- 
volve the  prohibition  issue,  but  we  do  not  wish  to 
judge  him  before  the  time.  If  confirmed  be  will 
not  take  his  seat  till  October,  and  the  election  occur- 
ring soon  after  may  help  settle  some  points  of  this 
great  question. 


ing,  the  politicians  of  that  body  said  no  104  to  4. 
But  these  gentlemen,  who  are  not  only  spoiling  the 
foreigners  who  come  to  us,  but  subverting  the  na- 
tion also,  in  their  anxiety  to  get  votes,  are  not  to 
have  it  all  their  own  way.  A  mass  meeting  has 
been  called  at  Cooper  Union  Friday  evening  to  sup- 
port Mayor  Hewitt,  and  to  protest  against  the  "im- 
pudent bigotry  that  would  fasten  upon  our  nation 
sectarian  holidays,  invade  our  schools,  and  denation- 
alize this  asylum  for  the  oppressed  of  all  nations." 
Seventeen  thousand  signatures  are  on  the  call.  The 
Catholic  press  denounces  the  Mayor  and  fires  the 
Irish  heart,  but  their  work  is  useful  in  arousing  the 
dormant  American  spirit  and  love  for  the  Stars  and 
Stripes. 


The  flag  issue  is  provoking  a  breeze  of  war  in 
New  York,  and  Mayor  Hewitt  finds  himself  the 
leader  of  a  host.  The  board  of  aldermen  passed 
over  the  Mayor's  veto,  20  to  3,  the  resolution  taking 
out  of  his  control  the  raising  of  flags  on  the  city 
buildings;  and  in  the  legislature,  when  the  son  of 
Dr.  Crosby  introduced  an  act  making  it  an  unlawful 
act  to  display  any  foreign  flag  on  any  public  build- 


PROF.    H.    WOODSMALL. 


Among  the  Republicans,  Judge  Gresham,  of  the 
United  States  District  Court  in  this  city,  is  daily 
growing  in  favor  as  a  Presidential  candidate.  His 
wide  experience  in  public  life,  and  freedom  from 
scandal  are  much  in  his  favor.  He  will  be  also 
strong  with  every  one  in  "distress,"  in  "debt,"  or 
"discontented,"  as  was  David,  for  reasons  given  by 
himself  in  the  Indianapolis  Journal:  "My  experi- 
ence with  criminals  when  I  was  on  a  district  bench 
taught  me  that  there  was  no  man  devoid  of  man- 
hood. Place  anybody,  however  depraved,  on  his 
manhood,  and  you  will  observe  his  eye  brighten  up. 
I  have  taken  men  who  have  been  convicted  of  seri- 
ous oflFenses,  and,  after  sentencing  them  to  the  peni- 
tentiary, have  said:  'Now,  I  intend  to  place  you  on 
your  manhood,  for  I  believe  you  have  manhood  in 
you.  I  will  give  you  a  mittimus,  and  the  marshal 
will  provide  you  with  money  to  go  home  and  bid 
your  family  good-bye.  After  you  have  stayed  there 
a  day  or  two  I  want  you  to  report  at  the  door  of  the 
penitentiary  named  in  the  papers  you  will  receive, 
and  serve  out  your  sentence  like  a  man.  And  when 
you  are  through  I  want  you  to  return  to  me,  and  I 
want  to  see  what  can  be  done  to  restore  you  to  the 
confidence  of  your  fellow  men  in  society.'  I  never 
was  disappointed  in  a  man  I  thus  trusted,  and  those 
convicts  whom  I  have  helped  on  their  return  from 
prison  have  always  been  faithful  to  the  trusts  im- 
posed upon  them." 


circulars  abroad  attacking  woman  suflrage,and  hopes 
especially  in  the  South  to  unsettle  the  mind, fire  prej- 
udice and  create  division  in  his  party,instead  of  giv- 
ing such  reasons  as  should  convince  the  uninformed. 
The  Union  ISignal  devotes  large  space  to  the  discus- 
sion and  last  week  a  supplement  is  filled  with  opin- 
ions from  party  leaders,  warmly  defending  the  pres- 
ent position  of  the  party.  The  argument  for  the 
change  is  the  prejudice  at  the  South  against  wo- 
man's vote,  the  objection  of  Presbyterians,  and  the 
loss  of  party  vote  because  of  the  plank.  Like  reas- 
ons could  be  urged  against  every  other  Prohibition 
plank.  The  Presbyterians  of  the  Presbyterians,  the 
Covenanters  and  United  Presbyterians,  are  general- 
ly for  the  ballot  for  women.  The  South  needs  in- 
struction, not  strife.  And  the  fact  that  the  W.  C. 
T.  U.  has  made  the  Prohibition  party  possible  makes 
the  attempt  seem  like  the  act  of  an  ungrateful  wretch 
who  should  kick  his  mother  out  doors.  The  plank 
has  been  in  every  platform  from  the  first,  and  the 
excuse  that  votes  will  be  lost  shows  that  the  move- 
ment is  an  attempl  to  shift  the  party  from  its  rock 
foundation  of  principle,  to  the  low  and  quaking 
ground  of  expediency.  Such  an  attempt  might  be 
expected  to  issue  from  a  secret  lodge  which  is  the 
training  school  in  such  philosophy. 


REV.  H.    WOODSMALL. 


For  two  months  and  more  the  Prohibition  press 
has  been  agitated  by  an  effort  to  throw  out  the  wo- 
man suffrage  plank  from  their  platform.  As  we  are 
informed,  the  opposition  began  among  the  Wiscon- 
sin Good  Templars,  who  were  worsted  in  their  ef- 
forts to  secure  a  successor  to  J.  B.  Finch  and  to 
change  the  arrangement  of  delegations  to  the  Nation- 
al Convention.  T.  C.  Richmond,  who  failed  of  the 
chairmanship,  is  leading  the  fight  against  female 
suffrage,  and  using  lodge  methods.      He  is  sending 


BY   RBV.    H,    H.    HINMAN. 

'Know  ye  not  that  a  prince  and  a  great  man  is 
fallen  this  day  in  Israel. — 2  Sam.  3:  38.  Meas- 
ured as  the  world  measures  greatness,  our  departed 
brother  had  no  aspirations  for,  and  received  few,  of 
its  honors.  Measured  by  the  example  of  Him  who 
"took  upon  him  the  form  of  a  servant  and  became 
obedient  unto  death,  even  the  death  of  the  cross," 
he  was  truly  great;  for  few  men  have  in  our  times 
exhibited  so  much  of  the  mind  and  spirit  of 
Christ.  His  great  work  was  to  labor  for  the  poor. 
Like  his  Divine  Master,  he  "made  himself  of  no  rep- 
utation." 

He  came  South  to  complete  his  theological  educa- 
tion in  order  that  he  might  be  among  and  have 
greater  opportunities  to  teach  the  colored  people. 
He  spared  no  effort  for  the  accomplishment  of  this 
work.  He  encountered  prejudice,  ingratitude  and  oblo- 
quy; and  met  them  without  complaint  and  in  most  per- 
fect patience.  He  surrendered  positions,  to  which  he 
was  entitled  and  for  which  he  was  eminently  fitted, 
to  men  of  inferior  qualifications,  for  the  sake  of 
peace  and  to  avoid  the  giving  of  offence.  He  es- 
poused unpopular  reforms  and  was  willing  "to 
stand  in  the  gap  and  make  up  the  hedge"  for  the 
sake  of  the  people  of  God.  As  a  teacher  he  was 
thorough,  strict  in  discipline,  yet  ever  kind  and 
forgiving  to  those  who  were  penitent  He  was  not 
a  natural  orator,  but  was  always  plain,  logical  and 
convincing.  His  marked  characteristics  were  his 
eminent  conscientiousness,  humility,  intense  industry 
and  practical  benevolence.  Though  suffering  for 
years  he  worked  up  to  the  last  minute  and  died  at 
his  post 

I  first  met  Bro.  Woodsmall  at  Selma,  Alabama, 
January  6th,  1881.  I  remember  how  kindly  be  re- 
ceived me,  introduced  me  to  his  school,  invited  me 
to  address  them,  and  enforced  what  I  said  from  the 
testimony  of  personal  experience.  I  remember,  too, 
how  kindly  he  and  his  excellent  wife  received  me  to 
their  house,  and  for  weeks  gave  me  the  hospitali- 
ties of  their  pleasant  home.  Should  this  Christian 
sister  and  her  children  read  these  words,  I  wish 
to  express  to  them  my  warmest  sympathy  in  their 
deep  allliction. 

Because  our  Divine  Lord  had  thus  humbled  him- 
self, it  is  written  that  "God  hath  highly  exalted  him, 
and  given  him  a  name  that  is  above  every  name; 
that  at  the  name  of  Jesus  every  knee  should  bow 
of  things  in  heaven  and  things  in  the  earth,  and 
things  under  the  earth,  and  every  tongue  should 
confess  that  Jesus  Christ  is  Lord,  to  the  glory  of 
God  the  Father."  So,  too,  our  brother;  just  as  he 
partook  of  the  humiliation  and  suffering  of  Christ, 
he  is  now  exalted  in  honor  and  will  partake  of  the 
glorious  triumph  of  his  Lord. 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


Mat  3, 1888 


CHRISTIAN 


TOLERATION    AND 
CONVICTION. 


POaiTIVB 


BY   A.   B.    CUailS. 


"At  all  times,"  says  Carlyle,  "a  man  who  will  do 
faithfully,  needs  to  believe  firmly."  Just  as  soon 
as  a  man's  belief  waxes  uncertain,  his  practice  be- 
comes unsound  Man's  deeds  are  first  man's  con- 
victions. Error  prevails  where  faith  is  weak.  Strife 
prevails  where  faith  is  narrow. 

As  I  think  upon  this  question  of  Christian  tolera- 
tion, straightway  two  important  texts  take  their 
places  over  against  each  other,  and  crave  my  care- 
ful attention.  One  pleads  for  positive  conviction: 
"It  is  good  to  be  zealously  affected  always  is  a  good 
thing."  The  other  text  pleads  just  as  forcibly  for 
sympathy  with  men  whose  opinions  differ  from  our 
own.  "Refrain  from  these  men,  and  let  them  alone; 
for  if  this  counsel  or  this  work  be  of  men,  it  will 
come  to  naught." 

These  two  texts  do  not  contradict  each  other. 
That  positive  conviction  which  is  purest  and  noblest 
ia  most  tolerant,  most  sympathetic.  It  has  the 
most  heart-felt  sympathy  for  those  who  are  unable 
to  accept  its  truth.  That  toleration  and  Christian 
sympathy,  on  the  other  hand,  are  most  wholesome 
and  effective  which  are  positive  and  firm  in  the  con- 
viction that  toleration  is  not  sanction.  Toleration 
is  a  negative  virtue.  It  does  not  prevent  argument; 
it  prevents  quarrels.  Toleration  itself  is  neither 
good  nor  bad,  it  is  simply  the  meeting  place  of  op- 
posing factions.  Positive  conviction  is  decidedly 
good  or  decidedly  bad  with  no  intermediate  ground. 
Toleration  often  leads  to  inactivity  and  lack  of  in- 
terest in  the  great  questions  of  the  day.  It  must 
constantly  guard  against  the  temptation  to  lethargy. 
Its  motto  is  too  often,  "Let  alone;"  when  the  moral 
aspect  of  the  question  is  by  no  means  doubtful. 
Positive  conviction  easily  leads  to  fanaticism.  The 
less  a  man  knows  the  more  certain  he  is,  usually, 
that  he  alone  is  right.  Fanaticism  leads  to  irration- 
al acts  that  bring  a  reproach  upon  a  good  cause. 
Positive  conviction  must  guard  against  the  tempta- 
tion of  laying  undue  stress  upon  questions  of  mi- 
nor importance.  It  often  makes  mountains  out  of 
mole  hille.  It  builds  too  large  an  edifice  upon  one 
small  pillar  of  principle,  and  to  the  looker-on  the 
whole  affair  seems  like  a  castle  in  the  air.  Tolera- 
tion never  does  anything.  It  simply  puts  up  with 
what  it  has.  Its  virtue  consists  in  making  the  best 
of  what  cannot  be  helped.  Positive  conviction  is 
always  doing,  and  that,  too,  with  a  full  soul.  But 
its  convictions  are  after  founded  upon  intoler- 
ance. 

Positive  conviction  resting  upon  Christian  tolera- 
tion seems  to  be  the  only  correct  and  abiding  prin- 
ciple of  action.  Is  such  a  thing  possible?  Is  it 
possible  for  a  church  that  is  out-and-out  anti-secret 
to  enjoy  association  with  churches  that  are  confes- 
sedly pro-secret?  May  not  tolerant  churches  just- 
ly fear  that  such  a  positive-conviction  church  shall 
cast  a  reproach  upon  their  name? 

The  life  and  spirit  of  Congregationalism  as  a 
whole  must  be  maintained.  Congregationalism  is 
more  than  any  individual  church,  and  sometimes  it 
must  maintain  its  life  as  a  whole  at  the  expense  of 
the  individual  church.  Positive  conviction  prevails 
over  toleration.  But  there  is  another  side.  Con- 
gregationalism without  individual  churches  is  noth- 
ing. The  life  of  each  individual  church  goes  to 
make  its  life.  Congregationalism  cares  for  itself 
only  in  so  far  as  it  spreads  its  protecting  wing  over 
each  individual  church  that  seeks  its  care.  Tolera- 
tion prevails  over  positive  conviction  by  frankly  ad- 
mitting that  there  are  more  issues  than  one  in  our 
day  over  which  men  can  justly  and  honorably  be 
enthusiastic  and  positive.  Positive  conviction  is 
frankness  and  firmness.  Toleration  is  unselfishness. 
Frankness  and  unselfishness  easily  blend.  These 
are  the  elements  of  Congregationalism.  No  church 
having  them  is  denied  admittance.  No  church  with- 
out them  ought  to  claim  the  name  of  "church." 

But  the  question  arises,  IIow  positive  can  one's 
convictions  be  and  he  still  be  tolerant?  The  reply 
would  seem  to  be,  Just  as  positive  as  one  can  make 
them  by  argument  from  Bible,  fact  or  experience. 
Positive  convictions  can  denounce  a  certain  thing 
as  sin,  but  at  the  same  time  refrain  from  saying  or 
implying  that  all  who  do  that  thing  are  sinners.  A 
church  may  found  its  very  fundamental  doctrines 
upon  principles  that  would  seem  to  imply  that  all 
other  churches  were  aside  from  the  faith,  without 
once  accusing  other  churches  of  being  heretical. 
Differences  of  belief  are  necessary  to  all  existence  of 
the  intellectual  and  religious  life.  Narrow-minded- 
ness or  intolerance  is  due  not  to  positive  conviction, 
but  to  lack  of  knowledge.  Ignorance  is  sometimes 
a  vice,   bat  it  is   not  always   so.     Better  to  have 


thought,  though  wrongly,  than  never  to  have  thought. 
Positive  conviction  is  sometimes  a  fault,  but  it  is  a 
fault  that  leans  to  virtue's  side.  Conviction  may 
be  too  positive  but  it  cannot  be  too  earnest.  Toler- 
ation may  be  too  careless,  but  it  cannot  be  too  un- 
selfish. 

I  will  close  with  a  quotation  from  the  Greek 
Bible  (Prov.  10:  10),  a  passage  which  is  not  in  our 
version  though  many  learned  commentators  think  it 
ought  to  be, — "He  that  reproves  with  boldness  is  a 
peace-maker."  Is  not  this  good  Congregationalism? 
It  is   frankness  and  unselfishness  combined. 

New  Haven,  Conn, 


ANCIENT  GUILDS  AND  MODERN  TRADE 
UNIONS. 


The  report  of  the  Bureau  of  Labor  Statistics  of 
New  York  for  the  years  1885  and  1886  are  replete 
with  information  on  the  labor  question,  relating  to 
the  ancient  guilds  as  well  as  to  the  modern  trade 
unions.  As  some  of  it  may  prove  of  interest  to  the 
readers  of  the  Cynosure  it  is  briefly  noted  below. 

The  old  guilds  have  been  likened  to  the  modern 
trade  unions,  but  they  were  also  for  other  purposes. 
They  not  only  united  to  regulate  tirade  and  settle 
wages,  but  they  banded  together  in  defense  of  the 
common  interest  against  princes,  nobles  and  op- 
pressors. The  following  indicates  the  manner  of 
their  descent  to  modern  times  and  their  present 
state. 

The  guilds,  otherwise  called  trade  companies  of 
Great  Britain,  once  had,  like  the  continental  guilds, 
important  uses,  but  with  the  changes  in  business 
and  the  altered  conditions  of  society  and  the  factory 
system,  they  fell  away  from  their  first  estate  as  trade 
associations  and  have  become  largely  associations 
with  immense  property,  the  income  of  which  is  ex- 
pended in  ways  never  dreamed  of  by  the  original 
founders  and  donors.  Those  of  London  had  become 
little  more  than  charitable  societies  with  sinecure 
office-holders,  the  only  duties  being  the  distribution 
of  surplus  funds,  after  extravagant  personal  and 
official  allowances  had  been  disbursed,  and  were  a 
scandal  when  parliamentary  inquiries  were  insti- 
gated. Changes  resulted  and  the  charitable  pur- 
poses were  retained,  but  a  large  portion  of  the  funds 
were  directed  to  public  education  of  the  most  prac- 
tical kind.  It  was  a  reversion  .to  the  original 
plan  of  the  guilds,  with  an  adaptation  to  modern 
conditions.  It  is  said  that  eight  hours  constituted 
a  day's  work  in  the  fifteenth  century. 

The  guilds  of  Germany  are  associations  of  master 
tradesmen.  They  are  suryivals  of  earlier  ages  and, 
after  having  passed  through  a  long  season  of  inact- 
ivity and  indifference,  have  been  revived  and  occupy 
a  position  of  growing  importance.  They  were  re- 
incorporated in  1869,  but  ha^^e  no  longer  the  right 
to  exclude  non-members  from  carrying  on  trade,  as 
formerly.  There  are  fifty-nine,  new  and  old,  in  Ber- 
lin, including  every  trade,  the  most  numerous  of 
which  is  that  of  the  shoemakers,  that  numbers  1,600 
members,  and  dates  back  six  hundred  years. 

The  modern  trade  unions  copied  several  regula- 
tions from  the  ancient  guilds:  as,  provisions  against 
systematic  overtime,  instructing  outsiders  or  work- 
ing with  them,  blacklisting  and  limiting  apprenti- 
ces. In  England  they  are  thoroughly  organized, 
and  the  different  callings  unite  in  holding  councils 
to  which  employers  and  others  have  frequently  sent 
emissaries  as  delegates  to  mislead  and  defeat  them. 
In  this  country  socialists  endeavor  to  disrupt  trade 
unions  and  establish  organizations  of  their  own 
upon  the  ruins.  In  Germany  trade  unionism  was 
obstructed  in  the  same  manner.  The  Brotherhood 
of  Carpenters  and  Joiners  profess  not  to  be  a  secret 
organization,  and,  therefore,  may  be  taken  as  an  in- 
stance of  a  trade  union  as  described  above.  The 
Knights  of  Labor,  on  the  other  hand,  are  pro- 
nounced to  be  a  secret  society.  In  their  platform 
of  principles  they  say  that  they  are  not  a  mere  la- 
bor union,  benefit  society  or  political  party;  that 
they  have  a  secret  work,  consisting  of  passwords, 
signs  and  a  grip,  for  the  protection  of  the  meetings 
against  outsiders  and  suspended  and  expelled  mem- 
bers; sometimes  an  open  trade  union  cbanges  in  a 
body  to  this  secret  organization,  as  the  Musical  Mu- 
tual Protective  Union  to  the  Carl  Salm  Club,  an 
assembly. 

The  United  American  Mechanics  and  others,  Mr. 
Peck,  the  commissioner,  adds,  were  based  upon  nar- 
now,  protestent,  nativistic  principles,  and  accom- 
plished little;  but  the  secrecy  and  ceremoniousness 
of  the  Knights  of  Labor,  as  well  as  their  generous 
treatment  of  foreign  laborers  and  organized  trade 
bodies,  may  have  enhanced  the  growth  of  the  order 
as  much  as  the  general  convictions  of  American  cit- 
izens, that  political  results  can  be  obtained  solely 
by  movements  in  large  masses.     The  officials  of  the 


order  speak  of  2,500,000  members,  but  of  course  it 
is  most  likely  that  large  numbers  are  derelict. 

The  members  of  the  Knights  of  Labor  are  sub- 
jected to  a  secret,  absolute  power  that  demands 
obedience  even  to  self-injury.  Moreover,  the  strike 
committees  are  often  composed  of  small  tradesmen, 
and  similar  persons,  who  are  reckless  ignoramuses, 
and  order  strikes  for  insufficient  reasons,  and  then 
defeat  them  by  incompetency,  pretending  to  do  a 
great  deal  of  secret  work  as  a  cover  to  doing  noth- 
ing. As  instances:  strikes  were  begun  because  the 
employer  worked  and  because  he  did  not  belong  to 
the  Bosses'  Association,  which  required  an  initia- 
tion fee  of  $500.  One  strike  was  precipitated  be- 
cause a  boy  spinner  was  promoted  when  there  was 
an  unemployed  journeyman,  which  is  a  common 
cause  of  strikes  among  all  labor  bodies.  Employ- 
ers were  sometimes  subjected  to  fines  of  consider- 
able amounts,  under  penalty  of  a  boycott,  -One 
with  his  son  were  fined  ten  dollars  each  for  order- 
ing off  a  walking  delegate.  An  order  from  a  walk- 
ing delegate  to  change  shop  to  union  was  accompa- 
nied with  a  fine  of  $200  without  cause.  Theiss 
was  fined  ten  or  twelve  hundred  dollars.  Employ- 
ers are  accused  of  organizing  unions  and  strikes  to 
injure  rivals.  (Freemasonry  makes  a  similar  use 
of  them.)  Different  organizations  sometimes  wage 
war  upon  one  another,  as  the  Cigar-makers'  Inter- 
national Union,  the  Knights  of  Labor,  and  the  Pro- 
gressive Union,  a  socialistic  body,  and  strikes,  boy- 
cotts and  the  most  perplexing  complications  ensue. 
The  Knights  of  Labor  sometimes  pose  as  an  order 
of  charity,  and  intermeddle  when  employes  are  con- 
tented, under  pretense  that  one  of  the  fundamental 
principles  of  the  organization  requires  the  protection 
of  females,  but  with  the  prerequisite  of  initiation 
into  Joan  d'Arc  assemblies;  like  Freemasonry, 
which  courts  popularity  by  pretended  zeal  for  wid- 
ows and  orphans— laudable,  but  refuted  by  fact— 
to  solicit  money  from  outsiders  for  females  is  not 
chivalry,  but  beggary  to  spare  personal  sacrifice. 
Nor  is  it  chivalry  to  make  females  instrumental  in 
extortion  from  enemies,  but  battling  behind  women 
and  bidding  for  popular  sympathy,  i.  e.,  public  opin- 
ion, which  may  be  as  false  as  when  it  supported 
popery  in  persecuting  Galileo  for  asserting  that  the 
earth  moved. 

The  Commissioner  adds  that  positions  of  trust 
and  responsibility  in  mechanical  departments  of  es- 
tablishments, such  as  foremen  and  superintendents, 
are  in  the  hands  of  foreigners,  which  will  confirm 
the  now  very  generally  expressed  opinion  that  most 
of  the  labor  troubles  of  the  last  few  years  have 
been  precipitated,  not  by  whole  trades,  but  by  sec- 
tions of  them,  and  that  these  sections  are  largely 
controlled  by  foreigners,  or  natives  who  had  by  asso- 
ciation imbibed  foreign  ideas  on  the  labor  question. 

It  appears  from  the  above  that  the  modern  trade 
union  has  not  descended  from,  but  has  copied  cer- 
tain features  of  the  ancient  guilds  which  still  exist. 
Freemasonry  was  formed  by  veiling  pagan  religion 
in  the  symbolism  of  stone  masonry  in  1777;  and  the 
Knights  of  Labor  by  engrafting  it  upon  a  labor 
union,  converting  it  into  an  auxiliary  secret  society. 

The  restriction  of  apprentices  is  recommended  by 
Mills  and  Malthus  and  adopted  by  labor  unions;  but 
after  trades  are  full  there  must  remain  a  surplus  of 
laborers,  so  that  a  curtailment  of  population  may 
be  with  equal  reason  ultimately  advanced  as  a  rem- 
edy, and  as  this  is  among  the  many  bad  uses  to 
which  Freemasonry,  by  its  control  of  the  law,  may 
be  applied,  as  seen  in  the  Whitney,  Carpenter,  Mich- 
igan, and  other  cases  that  have  appeared  from  time 
to  time  in  the  columns  of  the  Cynosure.  This  order 
may  be  entitled  to  the  extravagant  praise  which  it 
is  wont  to  bestow  upon  itself  as  a  beneficent  insti- 
tution. More  of  this  feature  of  Freemasonry,  of  its 
real  character,  of  its  antagonism  to  Christianity  and 
government,  of  its  false  claims  to  charity,  chivalry, 
and  other  virtues,  and  of  its  connection  with  the  la- 
bor question,  may  be  learned  by  a  reference  to  "My 
Experiences  with  Secret  Societies  by  a  Traveler," 
advertised  in  the  Cynosure.  It  is  a  new  book  con- 
taining new  light  on  the  subject  of  secrecy  from  ex- 
tended personal  experience  in  which  corruption  and 
murder  are  continually  encountered.  * 

m  9  ^ 

A    GOOD   FIOHT. 


The  man  who  stands  up  for  the  truth  of  God  in 
opposition  to  the  atheism,  agnosticism,  infidelity  and 
anarchy  of  the  present  day;  who  stands  up  for  an 
open  Bible  for  all  the  people,  in  opposition  to  the 
priestcraft  and  superstition  which  prevails;  who 
stands  for  the  name  and  Word  of  Christ  alone  in 
opposition  to  the  sectarianism  and  division  which 
dishonors  his  cause  and  distracts  his  people;  who 
stands  for  a  vital  and  personal  regeneration,  relig- 
ion, and  righteousness,  instead  of  the  dead  formal- 


May  3, 1888 


THE  CHRISTIAlSr  CYNOSUKE. 


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ity  and  worldliness  which  wraps  the  pall  of  death 
over  so  many  who  have  named  the  name  of  Christ, 
and  who  have  a  form  of  godliness  but  deny  the 
power  thereof,  will  need  to  strengthen  his  heart  in 
God,  and  put  on  the  armor  of  righteousness  on  the 
right  hand  and  on  the  left. 

His  enemies  will  be  many,  and  his  friends  will 
be  few;  and  while  his  enemies  will  be  subtle  and 
fierce,  his  friends  are  liable  to  be  lukewarm  and  in- 
different. His  enemies  know  what  he  is  doing;  his 
friends  will  perhaps  find  it  out  in  season  to  erect  a 
monument  to  him  when  he  has  been  dead  half  a 
century.  Of  old,  God's  professing  people  stoned 
the  live  prophets  and  honored  the  dead  ones,  and 
history  often  repeats  itself. 

It  is  no  light  thing  for  a  man  to  set  the  battle  in 
array  against  such  a  host  of  foes,  but  the  battle  is 
the  Lord's,  and  those  that  fight  for  him  are  on  the 
winning  side.  Many  a  man  has  suffered  fines,  im- 
prisonment and  death  itself  for  the  truth  of  Christ. 
Many  a  man  has  entered  the  conflict  well  aware  that 
there  were  men  who  thought  it  no  sin  to  dhed  his 
blood. 

The  power  that  "made  war  with  the  saints  and 
prevailed  against  them  till  the  Ancient  of  Days 
came,"  has  not  yet  finished  its  work;  nor  has  the 
scarlet-robed  woman,  who  was  drunken  with  the 
blood  of  saints,  yet  lost  her  blood-thirstiness  nor 
met  her  doom.  Those  who  fight  in  this  warfare 
must  expect  to  encounter  opposition,  danger,  and 
perhaps  death  itself.  Who  then  will  join  in  such  a 
warfare?  Who  will,  by  hand  and  voice  and  purse, 
by  sympathy,  by  encouragement,  and  by  prayer, 
strengthen  the  hearts  of  those  who  are  in  the  bat- 
tle's van?  And  who  will  leave  such  men  to  fight 
the  battle  alone  in  the  midst  of  discouragements, 
embarrassments,  privations  and  dangers?— ?%e  Chris- 
tian. 


NO  PLACE  FOB  A  CHRISTIAN. 

Rev.  Dr.  William  Johnston  of  College  Springs, 
Iowa,  writes  a  kind  word  of  remonstrance  to  the 
members  of  Grand  Army  lodges  in  the  Christian 
Instructor:  "I  wish  to  say  for  the  information  of 
any  member  of  the  G.  A.  R.  who  may  read  this, 
that  I  got  my  clearest  ideas  of  the  order  from  one 
who  had  been  there,  and  knew  what  he  was  talking 
about.  I  lodged  with  him  a  week,  and  had  good 
opportunities  to  know  the  man.  He  was  an  elder 
in  the  United  Presbyterian  church,  and  a  brother  to 
one  of  our  honored  and  useful  ministers.  He  is 
recognized  as  a  man  of  God  by  those  who  know  him, 
and  his  word  will  be  considered  as  good  as  his 
bond.  He  was  a  captian  in  the  army,  and  did  not 
turn  back  in  the  day  of  battle.  He  went  into  the 
G.  A.  R.  but  soon  found  it  was  a  mistake.  I  asked 
him  if  it  was  oath-bound,  and  he  said  it  could  hard- 
ly be  called  oath-bound,  yet  the  promise  had  all  the 
force  of  an  oath.  But  he  said  his  great  objection 
was,  it  was  no  place  for  him,  it  was  no  place  for  a 
Christian.  Now  to  me  there  is  a  great  deal  in  this 
expression,  coming  from  one  whom  I  believe  to  be  a 
man  of  God — "It  is  no  place  for  me,  it  is  no  place 
for  a  Christian."  I  don't  entertain  the  thought  for 
a  moment  that  there  are  no  Christians  there,  but  I 
do  believe  tSere  are  many  Christians  where  they 
ought  not  to  be.  For  many  members  of  the  G.  A. 
R.  I  have  a  high  personal  regard,  and  am  sorry 
that  they  have  felt  it  necessary  to  enter  into  an  or- 
ganization, that  throws  their  inflaence  in  favor  of 
the  whole  lodge  system.  Though  it  were  one  whom 
I  loved  as  my  own  soul,  yet  my  love  for  him  would 
not  withold  me  from  testifying  against  any  thing  in 
his  course  I  felt  to  be  wrong. 

"And  now  to  some  of  our  Grand  Army  friends 
allow  me  a  parting  word.  I  have  not  a  particle  of 
hesitation  in  saying  that  those  ministers  in  the  Uni- 
ted Presbyterian  church  who  are  now  most  decided 
in  their  opposition  to  all  secret  orders  were  the  men 
most  decided  in  their  loyalty  to  the  country  twenty- 
five  years  and  more  ago;  they  were  the  best  friends 
the  soldiers  had  on  Clod's  green  earth;  they  prayed 
for  them  as  the  mother  prayed  for  her  darling  boy 
who  had  gone  down  into  the  valley  of  fire;  they 
plead  their  cause  with  all  the  eloquence  that  patriot- 
ism and  religion  could  inspire;  in  many  cases  they 
gave  them  'the  Book'  as  they  started  for  camp,  and 
charged  them  to  keep  it  as  a  '  Vade  Mecum'  wher- 
ever the  call  of  duty  led  them;  they  cared  for  their 
helpless  ones  as  if  they  had  been  bone  of  their  bone 
and  flesh  of  their  flesh;  they  welcomed  them  with 
words  of  benediction  when  they  returned  to  their 
homes,  and  used  their  influence  to  advance  them  to 
positions  of  honor:  and  in  view  of  all  the  past  it 
does  seem  to  me  there  is  sometimes  a  want  of  man- 
liness and  magnanimity  in  treatment  they  receive, 
even  from  old  soldiers,  over  their  adherence  to  a 
principle  which  is  a  part  of  their  moral  being." 


FROJIf  MUNICH  TO  ROME. 


Our  artist  correspondent  has  some  experiences  of  Italian 
travel — And  behaves  like  a  good  American  in  a  Bavari- 
an ducal  palace. 

Munich,  Bavaria. 

Last  year  I  wrote  you  of  the  carnival  season,  and 
again  for  six  weeks  I  heard  nothing  but  "ball," 
"ball,"  until  I  was  tired  of  it.  Half  the  school  gave 
their  whole  time  to  it  for  five  weeks.  I  was  invited 
to  two  Christmas  trees  at  holidays,  in  German  fami- 
lies, where  they  gave  useful  things  to  poor  little 
children  and  to  the  guests  candy  and  nuts.  I  think 
there  were  40,000  trees  in  the  city.  Even  some 
Jews  had  them.  We  have  on  exhibition  here  a  pan- 
orama of  Jerusalem  similar  to  the  one  you  saw  in 
Chicago,  painted  by  Pigelheim.  He  paints  the  best 
ones. 

Of  course  you  have  heard  of  the  death  of  the  Em- 
peror. There  is  not  half  the  excitement  about  it 
that  there  was  when  King  Otto  died.  The  Munich 
people  get  much  more  excited  if  the  price  of  beer  is 
raised  a  quarter  of  a  cent  I 

Mar.  19. — We  left  Munich  at  11  o'clock  a.  m., 
on  Monday,  May  11th,  for  Verona.  Had  very  bad 
weather  in  the  mountains  and  came  Tuesday  even- 
ing to  Verona,  where  we  staid  till  Thursday  noon. 
It  is  a  very  picturesque  city,  but  mostly  new  except 
the  amphitheatre  and  some  old  gates.  We  went  to 
the  amphitheatre  and  into  the  cells  where  the  wild 
beasts  and  the  prisoners  were  once  kept,  and  all 
round  the  whole  length  of  the  arena  under  the  seats 
where  the  20,000  people  used  to  sit.  We  reached 
Venice  Thursday  afternoon  and  have  been  busy  see- 
ing the  sights. 

Via  Palestro,  Rome,  March  24, — After  a  very 
tiresome  journey  from  Venice  I  arrived  at  Rome 
last  Tuesday  evening.  The  trains  between  here  and 
Venice  connect  very  badly  and  run  very  slowly,  at 
least  according  to  American  ideas  of  railroad  speed. 
The  only  train  which  seemed  a  good  one  for  me  to 
take  from  Venice  left  the  station  there  at  5  a.  m.  I 
had  to  get  up  at  3:30,  so  as  to  leave  the  house  at  4 
in  the  gondola  which  was  waiting  for  me  at  the 
door. 

It  was  of  course  still  quite  dark  and  the  canals  were 
narrow  and  lighted  only  at  long  distances.  The  gon- 
dolier"whooped"before  we  turned  each  corner  in  any- 
thing but  a  musical  manner.  We  saw  twice  a  per- 
son passing  over  one  of  the  arched  bridges  under 
which  we  passed.  It  was  very  cold  and  damp,  but 
the  worst  was,  the  tide  was  coming  in  so  fast  that 
the  gondolier  was  not  able  to  make  the  distance  in 
the  time  he  expected  and  I  missed  the  train,  after 
which  I  had  to  sit  in  the  dirty  Cafi  until  7  and  take 
a  slow  train  to  Bologna  where  I  wished  to  see  the 
galleries  and  churches.  In  Venice  it  had  rained  ev- 
ery day  except  one  halt-day  of  the  four  days  I  was 
there.  Perhaps  that  is  one  reason  I  was  not  as  much 
pleased  with  the  city  as  I  had  expected. 

St.  Mark's  is  quite  different  from  anything  I  ever 
saw,  but  it  is  no  use  trying  to  describe  it.  It  is  of 
the  most  beautiful  colored  marbles  imaginable  and 
the  interior  is  filled  with  mosaics,  a  great  part  of 
which  are  gold.  Of  course  it  makes  it  almost  daz- 
zling. There  is  little  stained  glass,  and  in  the  win- 
dows none.  It  was  probably  necessary  to  have  white 
glass  as  the  windows  are  small  and  few,  and  with 
colored  windows  little  light  could  have  entered.  The 
whole  immense  structure  stands  on  piles  and  the 
mosaic  pavement  is  warped  so  that  it  looks  like 
waves.  We  heard  one  service  there.  The  ragged, 
miserable-looking  people  who  are  always  in  and  about 
the  church  and  square  make  an  exceedingly  unpleas- 
ant contrast  to  the  grandeur  of  the  buildings. 

Next  to  St.  Mark's  is  the  palace  of  the  Doges.also 
an  immense  building,  which  flgures  largely  in  Vene- 
tian history.  We  first  ascended  the  "Giant's  stair- 
way" and  then  a  second  stair,  up  which  no  one  was 
formerly  allowed  to  go  except  those  whose  names 
were  written  in  the  book  of  the  nobility.  We  saw  the 
opening  through  which  secret  information  used  to 
be  conveyed,  which  is  called  the  "Lion's  mouth;"  it 
may  be  because  the  person  putting  his  head  into  it 
was  in  as  much  danger  as  if  he  had  literally  placed 
it  in  the  mouth  of  a  savage  beast. 

The  different  council  chambers  are  filled  with 
wood  carving  and  paintings  bv  several  great  mas- 
ters— several  by  Leonardo  di  \'inci,  Giotto,  Tintaul- 
to  and  Titian.  It  is  very  hard  work  to  look  at  the 
pictures,  as  they  are  all  either  on  the  ceiling  or  very 
high  on  the  walls.  In  nearly  every  picture  is  a 
"Doge,"  kneeling  usually,  in  the  most  magnificent 
attire.  I  doubt  if  Solomon  was  grander  in  all  his 
glory  than  some  of  these  are  repre8ented,but  I  hope 
he  was  not  quite  so  conscious  of  his  fine  appearance 
as  they  appear  to  have  been.  Some  of  them  kneel 
there  as  if  they  were  doing  the  Lord  a  great  favor, 
and  I  do  not  doubt  they  thought  they  were. 


The  largest  picture  in  the  world  is  in  the  library 
of  this  palace.  It  is  a  most  confusing  mass  of  fig- 
ures that  seem  unable  to  extricate  themselves  from 
one  another,  and  it  is  called  "Paradise."  Some  of 
the  heads  are  beautiful,  but  as  a  whole  it  makes  one 
dizzy.  In  the  Venetian  academy  are  many  very  old 
and  some  great  pictures,  also  by  the  same  masters  I 
found  in  the  palace.  Titian's  masterpiece,  "The 
Assumption,"  is  there,and  many  other  like  subjects. 
One  room  has  a  frieze  around  its  whole  length  of 
148  Doges. 

Of  sculpture  there  is  little  of  consequence.  The 
monument  of  Titian  is  in  one  of  the  churches,  and 
exactly  opposite  the  monument  of  Canova,  said  to 
have  been  designed  by  him  as  a  memorial  to  Titian, 
but  which  was  afterwards  executed  by  his  pupils  and 
used  as  his  (Canova's)  own  monument.  It  is  a  won- 
derfully beautiful  and  original  conception  and  per- 
fectly carried  out. 

I  reached  Bologna  about  3  p.  m.,  after  the  gallery 
was  closed.  The  porter  understood  nothing  except 
Italian  and  a  little  French,  but  I  managed  to  make 
him  understand  that  I  came  from  America  and  want- 
ed to  see  Raphael's  picture  of  "St.  Cecilia"  with  the 
harp,  and  he  at  last  admitted  me.  "St.  Cecilia"  is 
very  fairly  reproduced  in  the  photographs  and  the 
color  is  still  quite  fresh.  I  did  not  admire  it  as 
much  as  a  picture  of  John  the  Baptist,by  Guido  Rani, 
in  the  same  gallery.  The  porter  told  me  that  he  was 
himself  an  artist,and  showed  me  his  studio  in  which 
he  had  several  good  water  colors  and  a  copy  of  St. 
Cecilia  which  he  valued  at  a  thousand  francs.  But 
what  he  particularly  wished  me  to  notice  was  an  or- 
iginal painting  of  "Potiphar's  wife,"  that  he  showed 
me  without  the  slightest  embarrassment.  There  are 
two  leaning  towers  in  Bologna  which  stand  quite 
near  each  other  and  look  quite  insecure.  I  believe 
they  were  built  so.  Most  of  the  large  buildings  have 
very  broad  piazzas,  reaching  entirely  over  the  side- 
walk and  making  it  possible  to  go  over  a  great  part 
of  the  city  under  cover  from  sun  or  rain. 

I  did  not  try  the  Bologna  sausages,  having  tast- 
ed enough  variety  in  that  line  in  Munich.  But  some- 
thing was  for  sale  in  several  little  shops  which  I 
took  to  be  baked  apples  and  ventured  to  try  eating, 
when  I  soon  discovered  that,  instead  of  being  baked, 
the  apples  were  boiled  or  fried  in  olive  oil.  The 
flavor  they  had  was  indescribable. 

I  took  the  train  again  that  evening  at  six,  and  af- 
ter staying  over  night  at  Pistoia  reached  Pisa 
about  9  a.m.  Between  Bologna  and  Pistoia  there 
had  been  an  accident  two  weeks  before,  and  we 
were  obliged  to  walk  and  ride  by  omnibus  quite  a 
distance  in  the  evening.  It  will  probably  be  a  month 
before  that  place  will  be  repaired.  The  Italians 
never  hurry  about  anything.  From  Pistoia  to  Pisa 
the  scenery  was  mountainous  and  very  picturesque. 
The  mountains  were  covered  with  snow,  but  the  lev- 
el land  appeared  to  be  drenched  and  often  was  quite 
covered  with  standing  water  through  which  the  grass 
was  growing,  of  that  pale  blue-green  color  so  often 
seen  in  French  landscapes.  Occasionally  an  almond 
tree  was  in  bloom,  and  we  passed  several  banks  yel- 
low with  wild  jonquils.  They  say  they  have  never 
had  so  late  a  spring  in  Italy  or  so  much  rain.  The 
Tiber  has  overflowed  several  times,  and  the  Panthe- 
on stands  so  deep  in  water  that  there  is  no  possibil- 
ity of  visiting  it  unless  it  were  in  boats. 

At  Pisa  I  saw  the  "Leaning  Tower"  of  which  we 
have  read  so  much.  It  looks  quite  new  and  mod- 
ern,when  I  had  expected  to  see  almost  a  ruin.  The 
cathedral  is  immense  and  has  the  first  stained  glass 
windows  I  have  yet  seen  in  Italy.  In  the  "Baptist- 
ry," an  octagonal  building  with  vaulted  roof,  were 
also  fine  stained  windows  and  some  mosaics.  An 
old  beggar  sung  inside  the  door  and  every  note 
seemed  to  be  repeated  in  harmonious  chords  from 
the  roof.  Old  beggar  expected  liberal  pay  for  his 
services.  Every  one  expects  pay  here  if  they  so 
much  as  open  a  door  for  one.  I  have  seen  little 
children  not  two  years  old  already  following  their 
family  occupation  of  begging.  There  is  a  burial 
ground  at  Pisa  in  which  all  the  earth  was  brought 
from  Jerusalem.  Whether  the  dead  are  any  more 
comfortable  there  I  cannot  say,  but  the  soil  seems 
very  fertile. 

A  few  days  before  I  was  coming  to  Italy  my 
teacher,  Mr.  Herterich,  sent  word  to  me  that  he  had 
had  an  application  from  the  court-marshal  (if  that  is 
not  the  English  of  it,  I  don't  know  what  word  to 
use)  of  Duke  Karl  Theodore  for  a  teacher  of  draw- 
ing and  English  to  the  two  little  princesses,  Elisa- 
beth and  Sophie.  Mr.  H.  had  already  recommended 
me,  and  I  was  telegraphed  to  come  to  Tegernsee, 
where  the  Duke's  castle  is,  at  once.  So  the  Saturday 
before  I  left  Munich  I  took  the  train  there;  was  met 
by  one  of  the  court  ladies.  Countess  Geldern;  and, 
after  being  instructed  that  I  must  always  say," Your 
Royal  Highness,"  must  ask  no  questions  and  make 


'  V 


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THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


May  3, 1888 


numerous  bows,  the  Countess  conducted  me  through 
what  seemed  to  me  endless  marble  halls  to  the  door 
of  the  Chamberlain,  who,  in  his  turn,  took  us  to  the 
Duchess.  I  expected  to  see  a  very  stately  person 
in  velvet  and  jewels,  of  course.  Instead,  a  very 
pleasant-looking  young  lady,  dressed  in  a  very  sim- 
ple brown  cloth  dress  and  with  no  ornaments  what- 
ever, came  into  the  room,  said,  "Adieu,"  with  a  lit- 
tle motion  of  her  hand  to  the  Countess,  who  was  ob- 
liged instantly  to  disappear,  and  then  Ijegan  to  talk 
in  very  good  English  to  me.  I  believe  £  did  man- 
age to  say,  "Your  Royal  Highness,"o»ce,  and  I  think 
1  bowed  once;  but  I  am  perfectly  sure  I  did  neither 
a  second  time.  It  was  a  shocking  breach  of  etiquette 
in  the  German  ideas,  but  I  think  the  first  attempt 
must  have  lamed  my  tongue  as  it  would  that  of  al- 
most any  of  our  republican  Americans, 

Well,  the  Dachess  had  looked  at  my  drawings  and 
had  arranged  a  "still  life"  which  she  asked  me  to 
draw  for  her.  She  gave  me  a  sheet  of  glazed  paper 
and  an  uncommonly  bad  pencil,  seated  herself  at 
my  elbow  and  said  I  was  to  begin.  So  I  began 
drawing  and  she  asked  me  all  manner  of  questions 
in  the  meanwhile,  which  certainly  did  not  help  the 
sketching.  The  two  little  princesses  came  in  later 
with  a  few  snowdrops  they  had  found  on  the  mount- 
ain side,  and  I  wished  some  of  our  American  wo- 
men could  have  seen  how  they  were  dressed.  Perfect- 
ly plain  gray  felt  hats  and  jackets,  round  plaid  skirts, 
and  such  thick  shoes  as  we  never  see;  no  ruffles  or 
ribbons,  feathers  or  gold  chains;  and,  notwithstand- 
ing they  are  learning  their  languages  and  have  al- 
ready four  governesses  to  tormentthem,  they  look  as 
healthy  as  the  peasants'  children.  They  are  not 
little  children,  either,  but  are  about  twelve  and  four- 
teen years  old. 

I  had  no  idea  the  place  would  be  offered  me,  but 
it  was,  and  in  such  a  way  that  I  could  hardly  refuse 
to  take  it  for  the  summer.  1  thought  it  was  only  a 
fancy  of  "Her  Royal  Highness"  and  she  would  re- 
call it,  but  I  have  since  heard  from  the  Countess 
Geldem,  who  says  "Her  Royal  Highness"  is  depend- 
ing on  my  coming  May  Ist. 

By  the  way,  the  Countess  telephoned  the  train  to 
wait  for  me,  and  sent  me  to  the  depot  in  the  Duke's 
carriage;  whereupon,  every  one  along  the  road  sup- 
posed I  was  "somebody,"  and  bowed  in  the  most 
reverential  manner  possible  to  the  American  girl  in 
the  Grand  Duke's  carriage!  R. 


TEB  POLITICAL  GONFSRElHGE. 


In  response  to  the  call  from  Mr.  F.  W.  Capwell, 
chairman  of  the  National  American  committee,  for 
a  conference  in  regard  to  political  action  by  voters 
of  whatever  party,  a  meeting  was  convened  in  Car- 
penter Hall,  N.  C.  A.  building,  Saturday  morning. 
Pres.  L.  N.  Stratton  was  electad  to  the  chair  and 
W.  I.  Phillips,  secretary.  Rev.  B.  T.  Roberts,  edi- 
tor of  the  Free  Methodist,  offered  prayer,  the  call  was 
read  and  a  statement  made  of  the  conference  held 
last  fall  during  the  meeting  of  the  Prohibition  Con- 
vention of  Nov.  30  and  Dec.  1,  1887,  and  copies  of 
the  appeal  prepared  for  that  Convention  were  dis- 
tributed. This  was  introductory  to  the  presentation 
of  a  paper  by  W.  I.  Phillips, which  recommended  the 
plan  of  an  anti-lodge  league,  to  secure  pledges  from 
those  who  will  not  vote  for  secret  society  members, 
and  generally  influence  the  action  of  all  parties 
against  the  lodge. 

Rev.  B.  T.  Roberts  moved  that  this  conference 
recommend  to  the  Board  of  Directors  to  organize, 
on  the  plan  outlined,  a  department  of  the  N.  C.  A. 
work  under  its  constitution,  with  the  name,  the 
American  Anti-secrecy  League.  The  suggestion 
was  discussed  freely  before  adoption.  A  new  or- 
ganization was  objected  to,and  some  thought  the  N. 
C.  A.  should  appoint  a  superintendent  of  a  depart- 
ment to  make  our  influence  felt  against  the  lodge  in 
the  conventions  of  every  political  party.  A  commit- 
tee was  also  proposed  to  prepare  and  present  an  ap 
peal  against  the  nomination  of  lodge  members  at  the 
Prohibition  Convention  at  Indianapolis,  May  30th. 
Copies  of  an  appeal  prepared  for  the  Prohibition 
Conference,  Dec.  1,  1887,  were  in  the  hands  of  most 
present,  and  Rev.  B.  T.  Roberts  spoke  in  approval 
of  the  document,  moving  that  it  be  adopted  as  an 
expression  of  the  present  meeting.  But  it  seemed 
advisable  to  make  a  general  memorial  to  be  sent  to 
all  political  conventions,  and  it  was  voted  that  B. 
T.  Roberts,  J.  Blanchard  and  E.  R.  Worrell  be  a 
committee  with  power  to  prepare  such  a  memorial. 
It  was  also  voted  to  request  the  N.  C.  A.  to  send  a 
representative  to  the  Prohibition,  Democratic  and 
Republican  National  conventions  to  present  the  me 
morial.  To  the  State  conventions  it  was  thought  uc- 
necessary  to  send  delegations  as  generally  some  oni 
could  be  found  to  present  the  protest.  Two  of  the 
brethren  present,  Rev.  Christie  and  W.  I.  Phillips, 


are  delegates  to  the  Prohibition  convention  at  Spring- 
field, 111.  It  was  also  recommended  that  if  a  super- 
intendent for  such  a  department  of  N.  C.  A.  work 
against  the  lodge  in  politics  be  appointed,  that  he 
make  Washington  City  his  headquarters. 

Space  being  given  for  short  speeches  Rev.  J.  A. 
Mackelvey,  Prohibition  organizer  and  lecturer,  was 
called  upon.  He  said  he  had  been  raised  a  Cove- 
nanter, but  left  that  church  because  he  wanted  to 
vote  against  the  saloon.  He  was  in  perfect  sympa- 
thy with  the  work  represented  by  the  conference 
and  believed  that  voting  on  the  lodge  would  be  a 
q'uestion  soon  to  come  to  the  front.  His  work  for 
the  Prohibition  cause  had  been  somewhat  scattering 
and  to  little  pecuniary  advantage,  and  he  had  not 
fully  understood  why  it  should  be  so.  But  a  propo- 
sition now  in  his  pocket  explained  some  things.  It 
offered  him  a  permanent  engagement  in  Minnesota 
until  after  the  fall  election  if  he  would  join  the 
Good  Templars  and  Sons  of  Temperance.  It  is  al- 
ways and  in  every  respect  thus  with  the  lodge. 
Neither  ability  nor  principle,  but  lodge  membership 
that  secures  its  favor.  Secret  society  students  in 
the  Covenanter  (Geneva)  College,  were  always  a  tor- 
ment, conspiring  and  plotting.  The  lodge  is  grow- 
ing on  every  hand  like  the  liquor  power,  and  the 
more  it  is  hammered  the  more  it  seems  to  grow,  but 
its  day  will  come  and  God  will  overthrow  both  in  his 
time. 

Dr.  Strouble  of  Humboldt  Park,  Chicago,  said  he 
used  to  be  a  Prohibitionist,  but  was  now  working  in 
the  interest  of  the  laborers.  Had  just  returned  from 
the  State  convention  of  the  Union  Labor  party.  He 
found  all  this  effort  for  reform  in  politics  was  an 
uphill  business;  no  political  business  seemed  to 
prosper  but  Republicanism,  Democracy  and  boodler- 
ism.  He  had  come  to  see  that  the  money  question 
was  the  leading  one  before  the  people.  Farmers 
are  losing  their  farms  by  mortgages,  and  the  grasp- 
ing of  wealthy  and  great  corporations  is  more  and 
more  severely  felt  by  workingmen.  But  when  an 
effort  is  made  to  help  them  in  politics  it  seems  to  be 
a  failure.  He  came  home  from  Decatur  heartily  dis- 
gusted with  the  Union  Labor  party.  He  did  not  see 
how  he  could  work  with  them  longer,  but  he  was  in 
favor  of  the  effort  to  clear  up  politics  and  get  rid  of 
the  secret  societies. 

The  meeting  was  in  good  humor  for  another 
speech,  and  Rev.  B.  T.  Roberts  was  called  for;  but 
the  committee  on  memorial  wished  to  finish  their 
work  and  adjournment  was  had  after  prayer  by  Rev. 
T.  B.  Arnold. 

There  was  a  good  representation  present  from  four 
political  parties,four  States  and  six  religious  denom- 
inations; and  all  gave  their  names  to  the  secretary 
to  be  recorded  on  the  roll  of  the  anti-lodge  league  as 
follows: 

L.  N.  Stratton,  W.  I.  Phillips,  J.  Blanchard,  B.  T. 
Roberts, (Judge)  Zearing.E.  R.  Worrell, C.  A.  Blanch- 
ard, T.  B.  Arnold,  J.  A.  Mackelvey,  Henry  L,  Kel- 
logg, John  Strouble,  Thomas  Hodge,  E.  A.  Cook,  B. 
B.  Blachly,  C.  Hillegonds,  George  W.  Clark. 

MEMORIAL  TO  POLITICAL    NOMINATING  CONVENTIONS. 

Gentlemen: — The  undersigned  are  a  committee 
appointed  at  a  conference  of  those  opposed  to  secret 
societies  held  in  the  city  of  Chicago,  April  29  th, 
1888. 

We  are  instructed  to  lay  before  you  a  few  facts 
and  to  request  that,  in  your  nominations,  you  pre- 
sent to  the  American  people  for  their  suffrages 
those  who  are  not  under  obligations  to  secret  or- 
ganizations. 

1.  The  administration  of  justice  requires  that 
those  to  whom  it  is  intrusted  be  free  from  all  ob- 
ligation to  favor  any  parties  upon  whose  interests 
they  may  be  called  to  decide. 

2.  The  object  of  secret  societies  is  to  secure  for 
their  members  advantages  to  which,  in  the  natural 
order  of  things,  they  are  not  entitled.  Though,  in 
general,  they  disavow  political  purposes,  yet  their 
members  secure  offices  of  public  trust,  and  handle 
public  funds  to  an  extent  that  their  numbers,  in 
proportion  to  the  rest  of  the  community,  do  not  en- 
title them. 

3.  The  history  of  the  French  Revolution,  and  the 
communistic  war  in  Paris,  more  recently,  show  how 
dangerous  these  societies  are  when  they  obtain  a 
controlling  influence  in  the  administration  of  the 
government  of  a  country. 

4.  George  Washington  in  his  Farewell  Address 
to  his  fellow  countrymen  uttered  these  words  of 
warning  to  which  our  people  at  the  present  day 
would  do  well  to  take  heed: 


Qovemment;  destroying    afterwards  the  very  engines 
which  have  lifted  them  to  unjust  dominion." 

Able  statesmen  since  his  day,  as  Millard  Fill- 
more, Alexander  Hamilton,  Wm.  H.  Seward,  Charles 
Sumner,  S.  P.  Chase,  Charles  F.  Adams,  Richard 
Rush,  Wendell  Phillips,  Chief  Justice  Marshall, 
Thaddeus  Stevens,  Daniel  Webster,  and  a  host  of 
other  patriots  have  declared  secret  societies  hostile 
to  free  government. 

5.  The  derangement  of  the  business  of  the  coun- 
try; the  stopping  of  the  wheels  of  commerce;  the 
general  spoliation  of  the  farmers;  the  notorious  per- 
versions of  justice  by  our  courts,  through  the  influ 
ence  of  secret  societies,ought  to  awaken  every  well  dis- 
posed citizen  of  this  country  to  the  necessity  of 
suppressing  their  influence,  instead  of  giving  them 
any  additional  political  power  by  elevating  to  office 
their  sworn  adherents. 

An  examination  of  the  obligations  of  Freema- 
sonry will  show  what  appears  to  be  an  elaborate 
provision  for  the  perversion  of  justice  where  Free- 
masons are  concerned.  The  Mason  swears  to  keep 
the  secrets  committed  to  him  by  a  brother  Mason, 
to  obey  his  signs,  to  warn  him  of  approaching  dan- 
ger, etc.  All  these  obligations  we  deem  inconsist- 
ent with  the  oath  taken  by  a  public  officer.  Still 
further,  the  secret  signs  and  tokens  of  these  orders 
afford  means  of  communication  between  the  bench, 
the  jury-box,  the  witness-stand,  and  opposite  sides 
of  the  halls  of  legislation;  which  we  believe  to  be 
entirely  inconsistent  with  honest  dealing  between 
the  citizens  of  a  free  government. 

Religious  denominational,  aggregating  more  than 
seven  hundred  thousand  members,  for  various 
reasons  oppose  them,  and  a  large  and  increasing 
number  of  our  journals  antagonize  them. 

We  therefore  request  that  in  your  nominations 
you  will  present  for  our  suffrages  men,  who,  being 
under  no  secret  obligations  to  a  portion  of  their 
fellow  citizens,  will  be  able  equitably  to  adminis- 
ter their  trust  for  all.  B.  T.  Roberts. 

J.  Blanchard. 
E.  R.  Worrell. 


Refobm  News. 


FROM  TEB  WASHINGTON  HEADQUARTBRB. 


"However  combinations  or  associations  of  the  above 
description  may  now  and  then  aoswer  popular  ends, 
they  are  likely,  in  the  ourse  of  time  and  things,  to  be 
come  potent  engines,  by  which  cunning,  ambitious  and 
unprincipled  men  will  be  enabled  to  subvert  the  power 
of  the  people,  and  to  usurp  for  themselves  the  reins  of 


Washington,  April  26  th,  1888. 

I  reached  this  city  on  Tuesday  morning  last.  I 
was  met  with  cordial  greetings  at  anti-secrecy  head- 
quarters, but  as  Bros.  Bailey  and  Johnston  were 
packing,  preparatory  to  removal,  I  did  not  intrude 
upon  their  hospitality  and  took  lodgings  with  our 
Prohibition  friend,  Mr.  Wheelock,  at  207  Pennsyl- 
vania Avenue.  Bros.  Bailey  and  Johnston  are  both 
occupied  in  Government  employment  from  9  a.  m.  to 
4  p.  M,,  and  for  that  reason  the  transit  to  Bast  Cap- 
itol street  is  rather  slow.  Both  families,  however, 
occupy  their  new  domicile  to-night  and  expect  to 
gather  up  the  fragments  to-morrow.  I  hope  to  have 
one  room  in  order  Saturday  and  to  open  the  N.  C.  A. 
office  some  time  next  week.  I  have  found  and  con- 
ferred with  some  of  those  who  were  very  friendly 
and  helpful  when  we  began  the  work  here  and  find 
their  interest  unabated.  Senator  S.C.  Pomeroy  seems 
as  youthful  and  active  as  five  years  ago,'  and  Milton 
Ford  assures  me  that  he  was  never  in  better  health 
or  more  in  sympathy  with  our  work  than  now. 

For  two  days  the  papers  have  been  heralding  the 
coming  of  the  I.  0.  O.  Fs.  from  several  neighboring 
cities  to  celebrate  the  anniversary  of  the  founding  of 
their  order  in  America.  They  came,  and  marched 
and  counter-marched  with  music  and  banners 
through  several  of  the  principal  streets.  At  3:30 
p.  M.  they  marched  through  the  carriage  drive  in 
front  of  the  White  House  and  were  reviewed  by 
President  Cleveland.  Standing  within  a  few  feet 
of  the  President  on  the  broad  marble  step  I  made  a 
careful  count  as  they  filed  between  the  marble  col- 
umns, and  found  there  were  just  one  hundred  and 
forty  in  the  procession!  The  President  simply 
stepped  out  of  the  door  unattended  as  the  first  in 
line  came  under  the  archway,  and  stood  with  his  hat 
on  his  head  and  both  hands  behind  his  back,  with 
an  expression  of  perfect  indifference  on  his  face,and 
when  the  last  in  line  were  opposite,  he  turned  on 
his  heel  and  entered  the  door,  which  closed  behind 
him.  It  was  the  tamest  affair  I  ever  witnessed,  and 
yet,  no  doubt,  it  will  be  heralded  over  the  country 
as  a  glorious  epoch  in  the  history  of  Odd-fellowship 
in  America.  When  I  last  saw  the  "Fellows"  they 
were  standing  on  the  south  approach  to  the  Treas- 
ury building,  having  their  picture  taken.  The  pub- 
lished program  includes  a  ball  tonight.  The  morn- 
ing papers  announce  meetinga  of  seventeen  different 
secret  lodges  in  this  city  to  night,  and  this  is  prayer- 
meeting  night  in  most  of  the  evangelical  churches. 
The  effect  of  these  lodge  meetings  upon  the  meetings 


May  3, 1888 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


for  prayer  will  be  to  diminish  both  the  attendance 
and  the  spirituality  of  the  churches. 

Last  evening  I  attended  the  Central  Union  Mis- 
sion and  was  blessed  in  the  exercises.  There  were 
about  100  persons  present  and  in  the  testimony  ser- 
vice several  spoke  of  the  great  depth  of  sin  from 
which  they  had  been  rescued  by  the  Gospel  of 
Christ.  To-day  I  met  Mr.  White  and  another  friend 
from  Worcester,  Mass.,  on  the  Avenue,  and  hope 
that  this  will  be  only  the  first  in  a  series  of  meetings 
at  N.  C.  A.  headquarters,  where  all  friends  visiting 
the  city  will  find  a  hearty  welcome. 

J.  P.  Stoddard. 


AT  WORK  IN  TEE  OLD  DOMINION. 
BLOODLESS  VICTORIES  ABOUT  THE  OLD  SEAT  OF  WAR. 


Richmond,  Va.,  April  24th,  1888. 

Dear  Cynosure: — From  Abbyville  across  to 
Boydton,  the  county-seat  of  Mechlinburg  county, 
Virginia,  is  a  rolling  country  near  the  north  side  of 
the  Eoanoke  river,  on  whose  banks  are  raised  nearly 
all  the  cotton  which  Virginia  produces.  Boydton  is 
but  a  small  village  and  probably  has  not  grown  for 
the  last  fifty  years.  Its  one  hotel  and  few  stores 
are  strictly  first-class — in  prices,  but  not  in  any  oth- 
er respect.  The  colored  population  are  a  large  ma- 
jority in  this  part  of  the  State  and  will  probably 
elect  J.  M.  Langston  to  Congress. 

Boydton  Institute  is  the  excellent  school  started 
and  sustained  by  Dr.  CuUis  of  Boston.  It  occupies 
the  fine  old  building  formerly  the  Randolph  Macon 
College.  It  has  good  buildings,  is  fairly  equipped 
and  is  doing  an  excellent  work.  But  as  there  are 
three  similar  institutions  in  the  county  it  has  not  so 
large  attendance  as  some  farther  south.  They  en- 
rolled about  150,  ranging  from  primary  to  classical. 
The  present  principal  is  Rev.  Mr.  McArm,  an  M.  B. 
minister  from  Vermont.  He  received  me  very  kind- 
ly, said  he  had  never  joined  any  secret  order,  but 
had  been  often  much  hindered  in  his  work  by  Ma- 
sonic influence.  He  arranged  for  me  to  lecture  in 
the  evening,  where  I  met  more  than  100  in  the  Col- 
lege chapel  who  listened  with  attention  and  mostly 
with  hearty  sympathy.  Dr.  Cullis  recently  visited 
the  school,and,  I  believe,  expects  to  start  a  new  one 
in  Alabama. 

From  Boydton  I  went  to  Chase  City  in  the  north 
part  of  the  county.  Thyne  Institute,  under  the  care 
of  Rev.  J.  H.  Veazey,  has  had  a  prosperous  year. 
They  have  enrolled  250  students  and  have  a  flourish- 
ing church  and  Sabbath-school.  An  able  corps  of 
teachers  are  doing  an  excellent  work.  They  are 
putting  up  new  buildings.  Pres. Veazey  is  not  only 
an  excellent  preacher  and  instructor,  but  an  earnest 
reformer,  and  feels  a  deep  interest  in  the  anti-secre- 
cy and  temperance  work.  I  was  most  kindly  enter- 
tained at  his  pleasant  home  and  aided  in  many  ways 
in  my  work.  By  his  request  I  spoke  on  Saturday 
night  on  prohibition  and  the  need  of  a  Prohibition 
party. 

On  Sabbath  I|preached  once,gave  a  lecture  on  Af- 
rica and  the  mission  work,  and  at  night  preached 
again  in  the  First  Presbyterian  church  in  the  town. 
The  attendance  during  the  day  was  large.  On  Mon- 
day morning  I  addressed  the  students  on  the  secret 
lodge  system.  This  made  twenty-six  lectures  and 
sermons  in  twenty-three  days.  At  noon  I  left  for 
Richmond,  leaving  behind  some  of  the  kindest 
friends  and  the  most  interesting  field  I  have  found 
in  the  State. 

No  city  of  the  South  except  Birmingham,  Ala.,  or 
Atlanta,  Ga., shows  such  marks  of  growth,  thrift  and 
enterprise  as  Richmond, A'^ a.;  and  there  are  probably 
few  cities  in  the  nation  that  have  so  great  natural 
advantges.  A  sea-port,  with  deep  water  navigation, 
a  vast  unused  water  power,  a  fertile  country  and  a 
most  pleasant  and  healthful  location,  it  would  be 
strange  indeed  if  Richmond  did  not  prosper.  That 
her  people  failed  in  making  her  the  permanent  capi- 
tal of  a  Southern  confederacy  was  to  them  a  myster- 
ious providence,  but  in  reality  a  most  beneficent 
one. 

After  reaching  the  city  I  went  to  the  Baptist  The- 
ological Seminary  at  1900  Main  St.  I  was  most 
kindly  received  by  the  president,  Rev.  C.  H.  Cory, 
D.  D.  He  said  that  previous  to  my  former  visit  he 
had  never  seen  the  Cynoture  and  knew  little  of  our 
movement.  Since  then  he  had  learned  to  appreciate 
our  paper  and  our  work.  He  would  be  glad  to  have 
me  address  the  students  and  would  give  me  as  much 
time  as  I  wished.  It  seemed  best  to  make  it  from 
11  to  12  A.  M.  The  school  is  strictly  a  theological 
seminary.  The  course  of  study  is  thorouj?h  and  the 
examinations  are  rigid.  They  confer  a  degree  on 
their  graduates,  and  there  are  but  two  in  the  gradu- 
ating class,  though  the  attendance  is  over  sixty,  sev- 
eral being  pastors  in  this  and  neighboring  cities. 


Some  of  them  are  Masons  and  nearly  all  have  had 
experience  in  secret  societies.  I  spoke  about  an 
hour  and  was  for  some  time  kept  busy  in  answering 
questions.  Dr.  Cory  said  to  them  that  bethought  I 
had  successfully  sustained  all  my  points  and  he  com- 
mended the  subject  to  their  careful  consideration. 

I  also  visited  Hartshorn  Memorial  Seminary, 
where  I  found  ninety  young  ladies  in  attendance, 
and  under  the  care  of  Rev.  Dr.  Taft.  I  was  asked 
to  conduct  the  morning  exercises  and  address  them, 
which  I  did,  occupying  half  an  hour  in  my  remarks 
on  the  lodge  system.  All  seemed  intelligent  and 
interested;  and  with  many  there  was  no  evidence, 
in  their  appearance,  that  they  had  a  trace  of  African 
blood.  This  is  one  of  the  excellent  schools  sus- 
tained by  the  Baptist  Home  Missionary  Society. 

I  should  fail  to  do  justice  to  Richmond  if  I  did 
not  speak  of  its  new  electric  street  railway.  This 
is  said  to  be  the  longest  electric  street  railway  in  the 
world — over  twelve  miles.  I  was  greatly  surprised 
at  the  rapidity  and  smoothness  with  which  they  ran 
up  the  steep  grades,  of  which  there  are  a  number. 
Mysterious  power!  The  emancipator  of  the  long- 
suffering  car-horse. 

Among  the  church  enterprises  in  this  city  is  the 
new  structure  just  completed  for  the  congregation 
of  Rev.  A.  P.  Dunbar  (colored  Baptist).  It  is  a  fine, 
fireproof  building,  with  a  seating  capacity  of  nearly 
1,000.  It  has  cost  $16,000  and  $10,000  remain  to 
be  paid.  The  church  has  about  500  working  mem- 
bers, and  is  in  a  part  of  the  city  where  a  large  ma- 
jority of  the  people  are  colored.  They  are  poor, 
and  have  $3,000  to  raise  in  a  year.  The  church  is 
doing  a  good  work,  Bro.  Dunbar  is  in  sympathy 
with  the  anti-secrecy  reform,  and  doing  what  he  can 
to  bring  up  his  people  to  a  just  idea  of  Christian 
living.  Any  help  given  them  will  be  a  good  and 
needful  bestowment,  H.  H.  Hinman. 


PBNNSTLVANIA  PB0QRE88. 


York,  Pa. 

Editor  Cynosure: — It  will  encourage  our  Penn- 
sylvania anti-secret  friends  if  I  again  report  prog 
ress.  Rev.  Nathan  Callender,  of  Brown  Hollow, 
Lackawanna  Co.,  will  act  as  our  president;  W.  B. 
Bertels,  of  Wilkesbarre,  Luzerne  Co.,  will  be  our 
Eastern  District  vice-president;  J.  C.  Young,  of  Cus- 
ter City,  McKean  Co.,  treasurer;  Edward  J.  Chal- 
f  ant,  of  York,  York  Co. ,  will  act  as  corresponding  seo- 
retary,at  least  until  a  reorganization  is  completed.  The 
remaining  offices  will  soon  be  filled  and  reported  in 
Cynosure.  Lecturers  are  preparing  to  go  out;  and 
a  list  of  those  prepared  to  answer  calls  will  be  re- 
ported in  due  time. 

An  effort  is  being  made  to  induce  our  friends  in 
the  sixty-seven  counties  of  the  State  to  organize 
county  anti-secret  associations,  to  support  and  in- 
vigorate the  State  Association.  Many  of  our  most 
wide-awake  men  now  see  that  this  will  be  a  bundle 
of  straws  that  will  break  the  back  of  the  lodge 
camel. 

The  importance  of  obtaining  as  many  readers  and 
subscribers  for  the  Cynosure  as  an  aid  in  State  work  as 
we  can,  has  been  impressed  upon  many  of  our  workers; 
and  much  is  expected  from  this  method  of  giving 
"more  light,"  both  to  insiders  and  outsiders. 

Many  matters  of  importance  are  being  considered; 
and  there  is  a  strong  desire  to  do  all  that  can  be 
done  to  rescue  the  old  commonwealth  from  the  sly 
and  cunning  conspirators  who  are  using  all  our  pub- 
lic oflaces  "for  the  good  of  the  order."  I  am  glad 
so  many  Pennsvlvanians  are  up  and  doing.  For- 
ward, friends!    Yours  truly, 

Edward  J  Chalfant. 


Correspondence. 


THE  NATIONAL  REFORM  CONFSRSNOB. 

Editor  Christian  Cynosure: — On  last  Sabbath 
night  I  preached  in  the  Presbyterian  church  on  Pa- 
cific Avenue,  Rev.  Samuel  P.  Halsey,  D.  D.,  pastor. 
We  had  a  very  interesting  and  attentive  audience. 
Dr.  Halsev  was  pastor  of  the  Franklvn  Avenue  Pres- 
byterian church  for  fifteen  years.  He  is  a  very  suc- 
cessful pastor.  On  Tuesday  evening  I  addressed 
the  Brooklyn  Prohibition  Club.  Through  their 
president,  Mr.  Williams,  they  extended  an  invita- 
tion to  speak  to  them  on  National  Reform.  They 
have  over  1,300  members.  Their  president  is  get- 
ting them  in  line  for  the  coming  Presidential  cam- 
paign. At  the  same  hour  a  National  Reform  meet- 
ing was  held  in  the  Puritan  Congregational  church. 
It  is  not  often  that  two  National  Reform  meetings 
are  held  the  same  evening  in  one  city. 

The  National  Conference  on  the  Christian  Princi- 
ples of  Civil  Government  in  Philadelphia  Tuesday, 


Wednesday  "and  Thursday,  was  a  success.  Associa- 
tion Hall  was  crowded  the  second  evening  to  hear 
Miss  Willard  on  "Woman's  Work  for  Christ"  Dr. 
Crafts  gave  an  excellent  talk  on  "National  Sabbath 
Reform."  The  argument  he  gave  in  the  current 
number  of  Our  Bay.  Rav.  Terret  gave  a  masterly 
argument  for  "the  kingly  office  of  Christ,"  and  Dr. 
Greir  thrilled  the  audience  with  the  thought  that 
Christianity  would  heal  all  sectional  animosities. 
A  profound  paper  was  prepared  by  Dr.  Harper  on 
"Romanism  and  American  Institutions."  Rev.  Mc- 
Fall  showed  the  absurdity  and  danger  of  the  secular 
theory  of  education,  ©r.  Baldwin  discussed  the 
Chinese  question;  Dr.  Herrick  Johnson,  divorce; 
Dr.  Pierson,  the  press;  Dr.  Morris,  the  liquor  traffic; 
Dr.  Barr,  foreign  missions.  The  following  contains 
the  items  in  my  report  as  District  Secretary  from 
April  1,  1887,  to  April  1,  1888: 

The  first  five  months  were  spent  in  Cincinnati  and 
vicinity;  the  remaining  seven  in  New  York  State. 
I  have  preached  on  National  Reformation  in  twenty 
of  the  Brooklyn  churches.  Lectures  were  delivered 
in  Newburgh,  Walton,  Rochester,  Oswego,  New 
York.  We  addressed  the  students  of  Syracuse  Uni- 
versity, Hamilton  College  and  Union  Theological 
Seminary.  Invitations  to  address  the  Teachers* 
Association  of  Ohio,  and  Eastman's  Business  Col- 
lege of  Poughkeepsie,  could  not  be  accepted.  We 
have  obtained  a  hearing  in  the  county.  State,  and 
metropolitan  press,  and  in  various  religious  jour- 
nals. The  Prohibition  platform  has  furnished  many 
opportunities  to  speak  for  Christ  as  King.  We  have 
reported  to  the  treasurer  over  twelve  hundred  dol- 
lars. Our  reception  has  been  everywhere  hearty;  in 
many  cases  most  cordial  and  enthusiastic.  The 
door  is  wide  open.  The  Mediatorial  Dominion  of 
Christ  over  the  nations  is  the  most  acceptable  theme 
of  all.  J.  M.  Foster. 


RALLY  AROUND  TEE  "CYNOaURB!" 


York,  Pa.,  April  23,  1888. 

All  the  great  city  newspapers  are  sold  by  news- 
boys on  the  streets  and  in  various  places  of  resort. 
Why  shall  we  not  thus  sell  the  Cynosure? 

I  regard  the  Cynosure  as  one  of  the  best  powers 
of  the  anti-secret  reform  movement.  No  man  or 
woman  can  read  a  single  number  of  the  paper  with- 
out gaining  much  valuable  information  in  relation 
to  secretism  and  secret  societies.  It  seems  to  me 
every  anti-secret  worker  should  strive  to  scatter  as 
many  copies  of  the  paper  as  he  or  she  possibly  can, 
in  his  or  her  own  town  or  county,  in  self-defense,  to 
gain  friends  and  sympathizers. 

I  have  been  canvassing  for  subscribers  in  the 
city  of  York,  and  these  ideas  have  been  deeply  im- 
pressed upon  my  mind  by  my  experience.  I  have 
observed  that  many  men  and  women  who  take  a 
York  daily,  and  also  a  weekly  church  organ,  but 
who  say  they  cannot  afford  to  take  the  Cynosure  reg- 
ularly, are  very  glad  to  get  a  number  of  the  paper 
occasionally,  to  see  what  the  sly  and  cunning  crafts- 
men  are  doing. 

I  have  asked  some  of  these  persons  if  they  would 
buy  a  number  occasionally;  and  in  all  cases  the 
answer  was  in  the  affirmative.  And  I  believe  we 
can  introduce  the  Cynosure  and  the  reform  to  thou- 
sands all  over  the  United  States  by  this  plan. 

Now,  I  suggest  that  every  six  weeks,  or  on  cer- 
tain occasions,  as  the  Fourth  of  July,  the  22d  of 
February,  etc.,  the  editors  make  up  a  number,  for 
the  occasion,  expressly  for  sale  to  these  anxious 
friends  who  arc  groaning  for  facts  giving  "more 
light"  Notice  being  given  to  us  in  time,  each 
worker  can  send  an  order  and  money  order  for  the 
number  of  papers  required  on  each  occasion.  This 
will  enable  us  to  obtain  subscribers  for  six  months 
or  one  year,  very  readily;  for  many  would  in  time 
feel  the  need  of  a  weekly  drink  from  the  great 
fountain  of  anti-secrecy,  just  as  the  moderate  liquor 
drinker  soon  feels  the  need  of  a  regular  dram. 

I  hope  to  hear  that  this  plan  will  take  with  anti- 
secret  workers  everywhere.  I  am  sure  it  will  inau- 
gurate a  new  era  in  the  great  anti-secret  crusade. 

To  make  a  good  beginning,  I  suggest  that  a  num- 
ber of  the  Cynosure  be  prepared  to  expose  the  great 
lodge  circus-performances  which  are  to  come  off  on 
Decoration  Day.  In  York  it  is  to  be  a  great  secret 
society  parade  of  a  number  of  secret  orders, 
invited  from  other  towns  and  cities,  to  join  with  our 
local  secret  orders.  I  will  take  forty  copies  of  the 
Decoration  Day  Cynosure.  Will  all  the  readers  of 
the  paper  take  a  hand  in  this  effort  to  give  the  hood- 
winked "more  light?"        Edward  J.  Chalfant. 


—The  Religious  Herald  states  that  28,000  of  the 
35,000  members  added  to  the  Baptist  churches  in 
New  York,  came  from  the  Sabbath-schools. 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


Mat  3, 1888 


TEXAS  BAPTISTS  RSADT  FOB  RBFOBM. 


Rockdale,  Texas. 

Mb.  Editor: — I  am  truly  sorry  to  say  that  my 
life  has  been  stained  with  connection  or  member- 
ship in  secret  societies.  I  was  somewhat  like  Eve. 
I  desired  to  be  wise.  But,  thanks  be  unto  God,  I 
learned  that  there  was  too  much  evil  practiced  there 
for  a  Christian,  so  with  shame  of  face  and  guilty 
conscience  I  stepped  out. 

For  two  years  I  have  been  traveling  in  the  inter- 
est of  the  Baptist  State  Convention.  I  have  a  very 
good  opportunity  of  seeing  the  evil  of  secretism, 
which  is  kept  up  by  the  ministers  and  members  of 
our  churches.  It  is  strange  that  I  never  speak  to  a 
minister  about  the  evil  of  the  societies,  who  does 
not  see  as  great  wrong  in  the  lodge  as  I  can  show, 
yet  they  have  not  the  Christian  manhood  to  come 
out  In  the  last  two  weeks  I  have  spoken  to  sever- 
al brethren  who  all  admit  that  the  lodge  is  a  fraud; 
yet  they  are  holding  onto  their  false  oath.  These 
brethren  all  preach  in  different  cities  and  commuoi- 
ties  in  the  State,  which  shows  that  the  lodge  is  a  de- 
ception everywhere. 

I  don't  think  it  will  be  hard  to  bring  the  colored 
Baptists  of  Texas  to  a  reform,  because  the  majority 
have  not  been  hood-winked  and  the  rest  are  tired  of 
their  heavy  taxations  and  no  profits. 

I  am  negotiating  with  Messrs.  E.  C.  Cook  &  Bro., 
Chicago,  for  a  tent, to  hold  a  camp-meeting  in,to  com- 
mence the  first  of  June.  Will  some  one  help  me 
buy  the  tent?  The  tent  will  cost  $154.  The  success 
of  our  Master's  cause  depends  upon  reaching  the 
masses.  At  this  writing  I  am  holding  a  revival  at 
Hillsboro.  I  go  from  here  to  Corsicana,  Fort 
Worth  and  Sherman.  The  opposing  army  is  well 
organized;  if  we  would  win  we  must  be  up  and  do- 
ing.    "United  we  stand,  divided  we  fall." 

J.    TOLIVEB. 


'FBIBNDSEIP,  MORALITY  AND  BB0THBBL7 
LOVB." 


When,  conformably  to' the  appointment  of  confer- 
ence, I  moved  into  this  city,  the  craft  declared  that 
they,  the  members  of  these  "charitable  and  relig- 
ious institutions,"  would  "starve  him  out  in  less 
than  two  months!"  Just  think  of  the  oflScial  mem- 
bers of  one  of  our  churches  waiting  on  a  senior  or 
junior  warden  of  one  of  the  numerous  lodges  of 
our  country  to  inform  him  that,  as  a  result  of  the 
teachings  of  their  religion  and  the  deliberations  of 
their  conference,  synod  or  council,  they  proposed  to 
"starve  out"  the  newly  appointed  worshipful  master 
of  the  lodge!  Depraved,  indeed,  would  be  the 
moral  nature  which  could  not  rise  to  the  moral  dig- 
nity necessary  to  declare  such  a  religion  to  be  be- 
gotten of  the  devil  and  well  worthy  of  its  sire. 

When  small-pox  was  in  town  and  the  people  of 
the  surrounding  country  were  so  alarmed  that  quar- 
antine was  declared  against  this  city,  it  looked, 
from  a  mere  human  standpoint,  that  the  declara- 
tion of  Baal's  prophets  in  reference  to  your  humble 
correspondent  would  surely  come  to  pass.  To  add 
to  the  perplexity  of  the  situation,  I  had  filled  two 
appointments  in  a  blizzard  and  caught  cold  in  my 
vaccinated  arm,  which  swelled  enormously.  Dr.  W. 
8.  Hoyt,  an  old  and  experienced  physician,  said  he 
had  "not  seen  such  an  arm  in  forty  years!"  But  we 
have  faith  in  God,  and  "know  in  whom  we  have  be- 
lieved, "and  our  experience  teaches  us  that  God  still 
has  his  "barrel  of  meal,"  his  "cruse  of  oil,"  his 
"widows,"  and  his  "Obadiahs."  He  did  use  ravens 
once,  and  has  them  yet,  but  they  are  so  full  of  car- 
rion now  that  they  can  only  sit  around  and  croak 
about  what  their  "ancient  brethren"  did  "on  the 
highest  hills  and  in  the  lowest  valleys;"  and  one 
peculiarity  of  the  ancient  fowl  has  descended  to  the 
modem  bird,  so  that  he  can  smell  a  dead  Hiramite 
just  as  quickly  as  his  ancestor,  and  loves  the  odor 
fully  as  much. 

We  had  about  reached  the  bread  and  sweetened- wa- 
ter stage,  when  the  Lord  sent  a  white-winged  messen- 
ger of  his  providence  from  a  staunch  reformer  in 
Lyons,  our  county  seat.  The  money  did  not  croak 
much,  but  it  worked  wonders  for  our  fare.  The 
supplies  thus  obtained  were  just  about  exhausted, 
when  there  came  a  box,  "charges  paid."  I  thought 
it  thought  might  ba  a  Masonic  box,  but  seeing  that 
it  was  shipped  from  Lyons  I  took  if  home,  and 
found  groceries  enough  in  it  to  keep  us  supplied  for 
two  weeks,  with  a  nice  ham  for  a  foundation  under 
them.  You  can  depend  upon  it  that  the  sender 
reads  the  Cynoture  and  American,  if  not  the  Wetley- 
an  and  Free  Methoditt,  which  all  true  reformers,  if 
able,  should  read. 

I  have  five  appointments  on  this  work;  at  four  of 
them  I  have  preached,  according  to  prerious  an- 
nouncement, on  the  "Anti-ChristianCharacterof  Free- 


masonry and  Kindred  Societies,"  once  in  each  place. 
Never  before  have  such  crowds  attended  services  in 
these  places.  True  to  their  character,  the  craft  are 
mad— mad  is  just  the  word. 

Rev.  J.  A.  Richards  struck  Hiram  right  between 
the  eyes  in  a  sermon  on  the  camp-ground  here  and 
he  has  been  walking  around  in  a  dazed  condition  ever 
since.  Hiram  (Masonry)  rallied  suffloiently  to  be 
so  far  conscious  that  if  the  truth  so  driven  home 
should  produce  conviction  it  might  prove  the  des- 
truction of  their  temple.  Therefore,  on  the  sulphu- 
rous aphorism  that  "a  lie  well  adhered  to  is  nearly 
as  good  as  the  truth,"  the  Hiramites  have  adopted 
as  their  line  of  defense, — "What  does  Mr.  Richards 
know  about  it?  He  never  was  a  Mason."  They 
also  proceed  to  prop  it  up  with  any  number  of  hy- 
pothetical statements  which  in  their  judgment  will 
prevail  over  sound  reason  and  common  sense. 

They  could  take  some  fancied  comfort  in  the 
thought  that  Bro.  Richards  had  never  gone  to  any 
degree  of  degradation  in  Masonry;  but  to  have  a 
seceder  coine  here  as  pastor  of  the  Wesleyan  church 
and  confirm  the  truth  of  what  Rev.  J.  A.  Richards 
uttered  from  personal  experience  in  the  lodge,  is  too 
much. 

Rev.  J.  W.  Lane  comes  from  Illinois,  where  he 
claims  to  have  been  made  a  Mason.  In  a  very  sul- 
phurous atmosphere  he  cracked  the  "good  man" 
chestnut  for  my  palate,  and  showed  by  his  defense 
the  nature  of  the  craft.  "You  preachers,"  he  said, 
"never  preach  about  anything  else.  Every  sermon 
you've  preached  since  coming  here,you  have  preach- 
ed on  secret  orders." 

This  of  course  can  have  but  little  force  with  those 
who  come  to  hear  me,  but  it  is  calculated  to  reach 
and  influence  people  at  a  distance. 

Another  grave  charge  he  laid  at  my  door  was  that 
during  one  of  my  many  sermons  on  Freemasonry,  I 
averred  that  no  Mason  dares  to  utter  some  syllables 
which  he  uttered  aloud,  and,  if  my  memory  does  me 
justice,  were,  "Mizzer,  izzer,  aizim," 

To  the  first  my  reply  was  that  we  do  not  have  to 
consult  the  craft  as  to  what  we  shall  preach,  nor 
when  we  shall  preach  it;  that  we  leave  such  consul- 
tation to  those  who  choose  to  be  governed  by  such 
dictation  and  direction.  Further,  that  I  have 
preached  but  once  in  four  of  the  five  places  on  this 
work  on  the  subject  since  conference  and  am  an- 
nounced to  speak  at  the  fifth.  Next,  that  I  did  not 
say  that  Masons  did  not  dare  to  utter  aloud  the  words 
he  used,  but  that  I  did  say  and  now  say  that  no  Ma- 
son dares  to  say  aloud,  "Mah-hah-bone."  "Now," 
said  I,  "you  say  it." 

"Oh!  That  is  quite  a  different  thing,"  he  re- 
sponded. 

"Say  it,"  I  insisted. 

"Oh  I  That  is  quite  a  different  thing.  They  said 
that  you  said — " 

"Hold  a  minute,"  said  I,  "just  say,  'Mah-hah- 
bone.'  " 

He  dodged  it  as  before  and  did  not  say  it,  and  to 
this  moment  keeps  his  "jewel."  He  finally  said, 
"When  you  argue  with  me  you  must  remember  I 
argue  for  victory,"  and  then  turned  and  acknowl- 
edged that  "Freemasonry  is  all  exposed,"that  he  had 
not  been  in  a  lodge  for  years  and  did  not  know  as 
he  ever  would  enter  one  again.  But  if  a  snake  is  in 
your  cellar  and  does  not  bite  it  is  because  he  is  either 
cold  or  you  are  not  to  his  taste.  Just  you  warm 
him  up  and  he's  all  snake,  and  if  he  can't  bite,  his 
fangs  being  gone,  he  will  hiss.  These  "haven't  been 
in  a  lodge  for  years"  secretists  are  like  the  snake. 

The  ranks  of  reform  here  have  lost  one  veteran  in 
Eleazer  Crandall,  a  seceder  from  Freemasonry. 

G.    T.    DiSSETTB. 


PITH  AND  POINT. 


SOWING   THE   8BED. 


I  am  interested  in  this  movement  more  than  I  can  tell, 
and  shall  make  it  a  life  work.  I  have  scattered  those 
tracts  and  the  two  bound  volumes  to  all  whom  I  have 
had  an  opportunity,  and  who  would  take  the  least  inter- 
est in  them.  I  keep  the  Cynosure  loaned  out  all  the  time. 
Tne  "Sons  of  Veterans"  leaflet  is  good.  I  let  the  son  of 
a  neighboring  veteran  read  it,  and  he  too  thought  it  only 
too  true.  Those  orders,  most  assuredly,  do  our  country 
more  harm  than  good. — M.  M.  Burnap,  Prairie  Creek, 
Oregon. 

DECORATION  DAY  TERFORMANCE. 

Concerning  the  celebration  of  decoration  day  by  a  re- 
union of  the  "Gray"  and  "Blue"  soldiers,  I  desire  to  say 
a  word  or  two.  With  all  due  charity  aod  Christian  tol- 
eration for  the  South,  truth  must  not  be  unheeded  or 
ignored.  Admitting  there  were  many  good  meaning 
men  of  the  South  who  were  misled  into  the  rebellion,  yet 
the  fact  is  all  the  same  that  the  rebellion  was  a  wicked 
attempt  to  perpetuate  the  barbarous  crime  of  human 
slavery.  It  was  more  than  a  "difference  of  opinion"  that 
brought  on  the  carnage  of  war;  it  was  a  solemn  necessity 


on  the  part  of  the  boys  in  blue  to  save  their  beloved 
country.  *  *  *  Let  the  South  by  its  actions  of  loyalty, 
prove  its  earnestness,  and  the  Christian  hand  of  fellow- 
ship and  forgiveness  will  not  be  withheld,  and  the  peni- 
tent boys  in  gray  will  be  cordially  greeted  by  the  patriotic 
"boys  in  blue."  But  to  prove  their  loyalty  and  gain  such 
brotherly  feeling  the  SDUth  must  desist  from  waving  the 
Confederate  flag  of  treason  and  boosting  Jeff.  Davis  as 
they  did  not  long  since  at  Mason,  Georgia;  and  above  all, 
let  the  colored  man  exercise  his  right  of  citizenship.  Let 
him  vote  and  then  count  his  vote. — J.  M.  Stanton, 
Quakerton,  Ind. 


It  is  announced  that  for  financial  reasons  the  Roy- 
al Niger  Company,  which  to  a  large  extent  controls 
the  traffic  of  the  Lower  Niger  and  of  Central  Africa, 
has  adopted  the  policy  of  prohibiting  the  traffic  in 
intoxicating  liquors  in  its  commercial  territory.  It 
has  become  obvious  that  if  the  native  races  are  de- 
stroyed it  must  also  involve  the  destruction  of  legit- 
imate commerce. 


LITEBATTJRE. 


Judaism  on  thb  Social  Question.    By  Rabbi  H.  Berkowltz. 
Pp.   130.    Price  50  cents.    John  B.  Alden,  New  York. 

No  thorough  discussion  of  social  or  economic 
questions  can  proceed  far  without  going  back  to  the 
Mosaic  record,  and  learning  there  how  Jehovah 
made  laws  for  a  homeless,  landless  nation,  and  pro- 
vided such  legal  checks  for  the  greed  of  wealth  and 
provision  for  the  sustenance  of  the  poorest  and  mean- 
est, that  the  Solons  of  every  age  have  confessed  the 
divine  origin  of  such  regulations.  The  young  Rab- 
bi Berkowitz  devotes  one  of  the  series  of  brief  dis- 
courses comprising  this  volume  to  the  question, 
"Did  Moses  solve  the  Social  Problem?"  His  work 
would  have  been  perhaps  more  satisfactory  had  he 
given  twice  the  space  to  the  discussion  of  the  spirit 
and  methods  of  the  Mosaic  laws,  especially  had  he 
more  devoutly  acknowledged  the  source  from 
whence  Moses  drew  his  wisdom  for  the  regulation 
of  social  order.  He  rather  exalts  Moses  instead  of 
God.  The  author  in  every  part  manifests  a  sincere 
sympathy  with  toiling,  underpaid  and  sufl"ering  men, 
and  denounces  "the  social  agitator  of  to-day,  who 
poses  as  the  champion  of  labor,"  as  the  real  enemy 
of  labor,  guilty  of  the  frenzy  of  the  poor  against  the 
rich,  and  the  propagator  of  the  false  and  pernicious 
doctrine  that  the  poor  are  growing  poorer  and  the 
rich  richer.  The  remedy  for  the  social  ills  of  ihe 
day  he  does  not  seek  in  the  philosophies  of  such 
modern  Jews  as  La  Salle  and  Karl  Marx,  whose 
fundamental  doctrine  that  physical  labor  is  the 
creator  of  all  wealth  he  repudiates.  Theirs  were 
doctrines  of  discontent  and  despair.  From  the 
standpoint  of  Judaism,  he  says,  "The  socialism  of 
to-day,  worshiping  as  it  does  at  the  shrine  of  pagan 
justice  and  immorality,  can  never  be  admitted  as  the 
true  solution  of  the  social  question."  This  little 
volume  is  eloquently  written,  and  ably  presents, 
though  somewhat  briefly,  the  objections  to  social- 
ism, communism  and  anarchy  in  their  boasts  that 
by  them  shall  the  world  have  her  millennium.  We 
heartily  commend  it  to  all  who  wish  honestly  to  in- 
vestigate this  great  subject. 

Scribner'a  Magazine  for  May  will  open  of  itself  to 
every  lover  of  Eaglish  literature  at  Austin  Dobson's  arti- 
cle on  Alexander  Pope.  The  two  hundredth  anniversary 
of  the  poet  is  appropriately  recognized,  and  the  essayist, 
with  his  rare  knowledge  and  appreciation  of  the  writers 
of  Queen  Anne's  reign,  has  sympathetically  described 
Pope's  works  and  friendships.  He  appends  a  fine  critical 
estimate  in  verse,  written,  in  the  manner  of  Pope,  in  the 
rhymed  pentameters  which  he  brought  to  such  perfection. 
A  number  of  rare  portraits  accompany  the  article.  "In 
the  Steamers'  Track,"  by  William  Perry  Northrup,  is  the 
true  stroy  of  an  exciting  cruise  on  the  New  York  pilot 
boat,  David  Carll,  during  which  a  daring  attempt  was 
made  to  tow  into  port  an  abandoned  bark.  The  illustra- 
tions are  marine  sketches  of  great  spirit.  Professor 
James  Baldwin's  second  paper  on  "The  Center  of  the 
Republic"  is  a  surprising  review  of  the  intellectual  activ- 
ity in  the  West,  It  clearly  shows  that  many  of  the  great 
reforms  in  educational  methods,  which  have  been  adopted 
with  enthusiasm  by  the  East,  were  originated  and  devel- 
oped by  sturdy  Western  pioneers,  and  that  the  great 
Northwest  Territory  covered  by  the  Ordinance  of  1787  is 
the  true  center  of  our  Union.  "Modern  Exploiives,"  by 
Charles  E,  Munroe,  Chemist  of  the  U.  S  Torpedo  Carps, 
explains  clearly  the  composition  and  action  of  the  various 
explosive  agents  now  used  in  war  and  peace.  The  illus- 
trations show  the  results  of  many  elaborate  tests  which 
have  been  made  by  the  government. 

Our  Day  again  presents  a  welcome  number,  without  a 
dull  or  unprofitable  page.  Rsv.  Cyrus  Hamlin,  the  late 
missionary  and  college  president,  shows  that  his  hand 
has  not  lo3t  its  cunning.  He  writes  on  "The  First  Prin- 
ciples of  Protection,"  and  if  all  who  maintain  the  neces- 
sity of  a  protective  tariff  would  argue  their  case  as 
clearly,  simply  and  kindly,  there  would  hardly  be  such 
division  of  sentiment  on  this  great  question  of  public 
policy.  We  commend  this  article  to  readers  of  every 
shade  of  opinion.    Miss  F.  E.  Willard  writes  of  "Woman 


May  3,  1888 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


as  Preacher"  and  pleads  for  the  breaking 
down  of  every  barrier  to  the  pulpit.  We 
doubt  if  her  argument  will  convince  every 
reader  either  of  the  expediency  or  the 
Scriptural  authority  of  her  demand.  C. 
K.  Ober  on  Prof.  Drummond's  work 
among  our  American  students  is  a  feeble 
indication  against  such  objections  to  the 
learned  Scotchman's  theology  as  Dr.  J. 
P.  Brookes  makes  in  the  Truth.  "Co- 
operation in  Church  Work"  by  Dr.  Josiah 
Strong,  "National  Sabbath  Reform"  by 
Wilbur  F.  Crafts,  a  poem  by  Dr.  Rankin, 
and  Mr.  Cook's  third  lecture  of  this  year's 
Boston  course  fill  up  the  number. 

Tick's  Magazine  for  May  has  a  peculiar 
value  for  its  article  on  the  care  and 
adornment  of  cemetery  grounds,  which 
are  too  often  controlled  by  miserly  cor- 
porations, and  are  a  shame  to  a  commu- 
nity in  spite  of  the  efforts  of  individuals. 
Raisin  grapes  and  ornamental  vines  and 
"arbor  day"  have  also  a  place  in  the 
number. 

Cora  L.  Stockham  and  Eoaily  A.  Kel- 
logg are  editors  of  a  new  magazine  for 
parent3  and  children — the  Kindergarten 
—which  will  be  the  exponent  of  the  best 
that  the  justly  popular  Kindergarten  sys- 
tem can  teach  us.  It  will  be  a  useful 
assistant  in  home  and  school,  and  espe- 
cially will  aim  to  be  an  aid  to  the  inex 
perienced  mother  or  teacher.  This  first 
number  is  very  handsomely  printed  and 
illustrated,  and  the  enterprise  is  in  the 
hands  of  publishers  who  know  how  to 
make  it  a  success.  Price  $2  a  year.  Alice 
B.  Stockham  &,  Co.,  publishers. 

The  second  number  o  f  the  Map  Graphic, 
published  hj  Rufus  Blanchard,  143  Wa- 
bash Ave.,  Chicago,  is  out.  The  student 
will  find  abundant  instruction,  and  the 
curious  satisfaction  in  its  pages.  The 
main  feature  is  a  sectional  map  of  the 
district  of  which  Chicago  is  the  center, 
comprising  a  tract  25  miles  long  by  17 
broad,  showing  all  the  suburbs  for  several 
miles  in  either  direction.  AH  the  street 
names  in  this  great  district  are  distinctly 
shown,  the  railway  lines,  streams,  and 
thousand  points  of  interestr  are  located. 
Historical  maps  of  Chicago  in  1812,  be- 
fore there  was  any  Chicago,  and  again  in 
1851  when  the  cUy  numbered  some  28,- 
000.  with  another  of  northern  Illinois  in 
1835  are  finely  printed.  The  letter  press 
includes  an  account  of  the  city,  published 
in  London  in  1833,  with  chapters  4  and 
5  of  the  account  of  early  diecoveiies  in 
this  country.  Few  libraries  in  the  coun- 
try, public  or  private,  are  so  well  stocked 
as  Mr.  Blanchard's  with  rare  and  curious 
books  upon  the  early  history  of  the  coun- 
try, and  especially  of  the  Northwest 
which  is  now  having  its  centennial,  and 
which  Prof.  James  Baldwin  in  Scribner's 
shows  is  the  true  center  of  commercial 
industry  and  national  strength  of  the 
Union  of  which  Chicago  is  the  metropo- 
lis. 


OBITTIAEY, 


Mrs.  Sallik  Williams,  one  of  the 
pioneer  settlers  of  Gdlesburg,  111.,  died 
March  12,  of  pneumonia,  aged  80  years, 
at  the  home  of  her  daughter,  Mrs  Hunter. 

She  was  a  native  of  Brookfleld,  Madi- 
son county,  N.  Y.,  but  lived  more  than 
half  a  century  in  Illinois,  much  of  the 
time  confined  to  her  bed  by  illness,  but 
gentle  and  patient  under  it  all,  giving 
evidence  that  she  was  a  sincere  and  ear- 
nest Christian.  She  impressed  her  char- 
acter on  all  around  her,  having  rare  qual- 
ities of  mind  and  heart.  Two  sons  and 
three  daughters  survive  her.  How  high 
their  honor,  "a  mother  passed  in  to  the 
skies."  May  each  of  the  surviving  fol- 
low Christ  as  did  our  dear  sister,  and  like 
her  meet  a  welcome  in  the  better  land 
when  life  ends,  and  earth  vanishes  away. 

M.  A.  B. 


Deacon  H.  P.  Chambkrlain,  died  at 
his  home  in  Morrison,  111 ,  April  7th, 
1888,  of  cancer  of  the  stomach,  aged 
nearly  84  years. 

Another  of  the  veteran  readers  of  the 
Cynosure  has  gone  to  his  rest,  like  a 
shock  of  corn  fully  ripe.  He  was  born 
at  Newport,  N.  H.,  May  4  1804.  At  the 
age  of  nine  he  moved  with  his  parentA  to 
Piainfleld,  Vt.,  where  he  lived  till  1873. 
When  22  years  of  age,  both  his  parents 
died  in  one  week,  which  devolved  on  him 
the  care  of  the  family.  Of  the  six  mem 
bers  of  that  family  he  has  been  the  sole 
survivor  for  forty  seven  years.  His  first 
wife  died  in  1876,  and  he  was  subse- 
quently married  to  Mrs.  Elizabeth  Rus- 
sell, who  aurvives  him.    Of  hia  six  chil- 


dren only  two  are  living — a  daughter, 
Mrs.  Quackenbush,  in  Morrison,  and  a 
son  on  the  old  Vermont  homestead. 

Mr.  Chamberlain  was  converted  at  18 
and  joined  the  Baptist  church  at  Plain- 
field,  Vt.,  in  which  he  held  the  oflice  of 
deacon  for  forty  years.  During  his  resi- 
dence of  fifteen  years  in  Morrison,  he 
showed  an  untiring  zeal  in  the  work  of 
the  Baptist  church,  of  which  he  was  a 
deacon  the  last  five  years.  The  temper- 
ance cause  found  in  him  a  staunch  friend; 
for  the  sick  and  sorrowing  he  always  had 
a  word  of  sympathy,  and  when  necessary 
something  mora  substantial  than  words; 
and  he  was  one  of  the  firmest  friends  of 
the  anti-secret  society  reform.  He  was 
so  positive  in  his  convictions  on  this  sub- 
ject, and  so  faithful  in  teaching  his  views, 
that  he  earned  the  reputation  of  being  a 
peculiar  man.  Would  that  all  Christians 
had  the  same  peculiarity  of  standing  up 
for  their  convictions. 


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abundantly  responsible  financially,  as  any 
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offered,  in  good  faith,  a  standing  reward 
of  $500  for  a  case  of  nasal  catarrh,  no 
matter  how  bad  or  of  how  long  standing, 
which  they  cannot  cure.  The  Remedy  is 
sold  by  druggists  at  50  cents. 

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NEW  BOOK. 

Tub  Stobiks  of  thb  Gods  is  not  only 
a  new  book,  but  a  unique  one.  It  em- 
bodies Mr.  I.  R.  B.  Arnold's  lecture  on 
the  lodge  given  in  connection  with  his 
sun  pictures.  Whoever  has  heard  Mr. 
Arnold  will  enjoy  this  story  of  the  gods 
of  different  times  and  nations.  It  places 
the  god  of  the  secret  lodge  in  the  right 
catalogue.  The  price  is  only  ten  cents 
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ANTI-MABOmO  LS0TVRBB8. 

ObNBBAL  AeBNT  AND  liBCmTBBB,  J.  P. 

Stoddard,  221  W.  Madison  St.,  Chicago. 
H.  H.  Hinman,  Cynosure  office. 
Agent  for  Southern  States. 
Statb  AeBiTTS. 
Iowa,  C.  F.   Hawley,  Wheaton,    Du- 
Page  Co.,  Illinois. 
Missouri,  Eld.  Rufus  Smith,  Maryville. 
New  Hampshire,  Eld.  S.  C.  Kimball, 
New  Market. 
Ohio,  W.  B.  Stoddard,  Columbus. 
Kansas,  Robert  Loggan,  Clifton. 
Alabama,  Rev.  O.  M.  Elliott,  Selma. 

Dbgbbb  Wobkbbb. — [Seceders.] 
J.  K.  Olassford,  Carthage,  Mo. 

OtHBB  XiBCTUBBBB. 

C.  A.  Blanchard,  Wheaton,  lU. 
N.  Callender,  Brown  Hollow,  Pa. 
J,  H.  Tlmmons,  Tarentum,  Pa 

T.  B.  McCormlck,  Princeton,  Ind. 

K.  Johnson,  Dayton,  Ind. 

H.  A.  Day,  WlUIamstown,  Mich. 

J.  M.  Bishop,  Chambereburg,  Pa. 

A.  Mayn,  Bloomlngton,  Ind. 

J.  B.  Cresslnger,  SuUlvan,  O. 

W.  M.  Love,  Osceola,  Mo. 

J.  L.  Barlow,  Grundy  Center,  Iowa. 

A.  D.Freeman,  Downers  Grove,  111 

Wm.  FentoD .  St  Paul,  Minn. 

Warren  Taylor,  South  Salem,  O. 

J.  8.  Perry,  Thompson,  Conn. 

J.  T.  Mlchael,1533  Capouse  Av.Scranton,Pa. 

8.  G.  Barton,  Breckinridge,  Mo. 

E.  Bametson.  Hasklnvllle,  Steuben  Co,iN.  Y 

Wm.  R.  Roach,  Pickering,  Ont. 

D.  A.  Richards,  Brighton,  Mich. 

THB   CHURCHES    VS.   LOD€^SRT. 

The  following  denominations  are  com- 
mitted by  vote  of  their  legislative  assem- 
blies or  by  constitution  to  a  separation 
from  secret  lodge  worship: 

Adventists  (Seventh-day.) 

Baptists — Primitive,  Seventh-day  and 
Scandinavian. 

Brethren  (Dunkers  or  Oerman  Bap- 
tists.) 

Christian  Reformed  Church. 

Church  of  God  ^Northern  Indiana  El- 
dership.) 

Congregational — The  State  Associations 
of  Illinois  and  Iowa  have  adopted  resolu- 
tions against  the  lodge. 

Disciples  (in  part.) 

Friends. 

Lutherans — Norwegian,  Danisk,  Ssr«d- 
ish  and  Synodical  Conferences. 

Mennonites. 

Methodists — Free  and  Wesleyaa. 

Methodist  Protestant  (Minnesota  Con 
ference.) 

Moravians. 

Plymouth  Brethren. 

Presbyterian — Associate,  Reformetl  and 
United. 

Reformed  Church  (Holland  Branch.) 

United  Brethren  in  Christ. 

Individual  churches  in  some  of  these 
denominations  should  be  excepted,  in  part 
of  them  even  a  considerable  portion. 

The  following  local  churches  have,  as  a 
pledge  to  disfellowship  and  oppose  lodge 
worship,  given  their  names  to  the  follow- 
ing list  as 

THE   ASSOCIATED   CHURCHES   OF  CHRIST, 

New   Ruhamah  Cong.  Hamilton,  Miss. 

Pleasant  Ridge  Cong.   S«ndford  Co.  Ala. 

New  Hope  Alethodlst,   Lowndes  Co.,  Mia*. 

Congregational,  College  Springs,  Iowa. 

College  Church  of  Christ,  \Vheaton,  HI. 

First  Congregational,  Leland,  Mich. 

8ug»r  Grove  Church,  Ureen  county,  Pa. 

Military  Chapel,  M.  E.,  Lowndes  county, 
Miss. 

Hopewell  Miesionary  Baptist.,  Lowndes  Co., 
Miss. 

Cedar  Grove  Miss.  Baptist,  Lowndes  Co., 
Miss. 

Simon's  Chapel,   M.   E.,  Lowndes  Co.,  Mis*. 

Pleasant  Ridge  MIsa.  Baptist,  Lowndes  Co., 
Vliss. 

Brownlee  Church,  Caledonia,  MIm. 

Salem  Church,  Lowndes  Co.,  Miss. 

\Ve8t  Preston  Bantlst  Church,  Wayne  Ca.Pa. 

OTHBB  LOCAL  CHITBCHBS 

adopting  the  same  nrinciple  are — 

Baptist  churches :  N.  Ablngton,  Pa.:  Meno- 
monle,  Mondovl,  Waubeck  and  Spring  Prairie, 
Wis. ;  Wheaton,  111. ;  Perry,  N.  Y. ;  Spring 
Creek,  near  Burlington,  Iowa;  Lima,  Ind.; 
ConstablevUle,  N.  Y.  The  "Good  Will  Assocl- 
ton"  of  Mobile,  Ala.,  comprising  some  twenty- 
five  colored  Baptist  churches;  Bridgewater 
Baptist  Aseoclation,  Pa. ;  Old  Tebo  Baptist, 
near  Leesyllle,  Henry  Co.,  Mo. ;  Hoopeaton,  111 ; 
Esmcn,  111. ;  Strykersvllle,  N.  Y. 

Congregational  churches :  lat  of  Oberlln,  O. ; 
Tonlca.  Crystal  Lake,  Union  and  Big  Woods, 
111. ;  Solsbury,  Ind. ;  Congregational  Metbodlst 
Maplewood,  Mass. 

Independent  churcheg  In  Lowell,  Conntry- 
man  school  house  near  Ltndenwood,  Marengo 
and  Streator,  111. :  Bereaand  Camp  Nelson,  Ky ; 
Ustick,  111. ;  Clarkaburg,  Kansas ;  State  Assod- 
ation  of  Minitten  km  OhorchM  •!  ChrUt  !■ 
KratMkT' 


N.  C.  A.  BUILDma  AND  OTJlC%  01 
THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE, 
181  WEST  MADISON  STREET,  CmCAGC 


NA  r ZONAL  CHRI8  TlAJf  A880CIA  TJOM 

Pbbbidbmt.— H.  H.  George,  D,  D.,  (Jen 
eva  College,  Pa. 

ViCB-PBBBIDBNT — RoY.    M.    A.     Gaolt, 

Blanchard,  Iowa. 

CoB.  Sbc't  and  Gbnbbal  Aobht.— J 
P.  Stoddard,  221 W.  Madison  St.,  Chicago. 

Rbc.  Sbc't.  ahd  Tbbabubbb.— W.  I. 
Phillips,  221  W.  Madison  St.,   Chicago. 

DiBBCTOBS. — Alexander  Thomflon,  M. 
R.  Britten,  John  Gardner,  J.  L.  Barlow, 
L.  N.  Stratton,  Thos.  H.  Gault,  C.  A. 
Blanchard,  J.  E.  Roy,  E.  R.  WorreU,  H. 
A.  Fischer,  W.  R.  Hench. 

The  object  of  this  Association  is: 
"To  expose,  withstand  and  remove  secret 
societies,  Freemasonry  in  particular,  and  oUiet 
anti-Christian  niovements.  In  order  to  save  Um 
churches  of  Christ  from  being  uepraved,  to  r». 
deem  the  admlnlstrvtion  of  justice  from  pep- 
version,  and  our  rep  ibUcan  government  from 
corruption." 

To  carry  on  this  work  contributions  are 
solicited  from  every  friend  of  tne  reform. 

Form  or  Beqxjest. — J  give  and  bequeath  to 
the  National  Christian  Association,  incorpo- 
rated and  existing  under  the  laws  of  the  State 

of   Illinois,  the  sum  of '    dollai  s  for  tho 

pvu^oses  of  said  Association,  and  for  whlrh 
toe  receipt  of  its  Treasurer  for  the  time  being 
*l)a}l  be  sufficient  dlschaise. 

THB  HATIONAL  OONYBITnON. 

Pbbsidhnt.— Rev.  J.  8,  T.  Milligan, 
Denison,  Kans. 

Srcbetabt.— Rev.  R.N.Countee.Mem- 
phis,  Tenn. 

BTATB  AXTZIUABT  ABSOCIATION8. 

Alabama.— Pret,,  Prof,  Pickens;  Sec,  8. 
M.  Elliott;  Treas.,  Rev,  C.  B,  Curtis,  all  of 
Selma. 

Calitokhia,— Pres^  L,  B.  Lathrop,  Hollis 
tor ;  Cor,  Sec,  Mrs.  U.  P.  Merrill,  Woodland : 
Treas.,  C.  Ruddock,  Woodland, 

CoNNBCTicuT.— Pres..  J.  A,  Conant,  Willi 
mantle;  Sec,  Geo.  Smith,  Wllllmantlc ;  Treaa. 
C.  T.  Collins,  Windsor, 

Iixmois,— Pres.,  J.  P.  Stoddard;  Sec,  M. 
N.  Butler;  Treas.,  W.  I.  Phillips  all  at  Cy- 
no«ur«  office. 

INDIAHA.— Pres.,  William  H.  Flgg,  Reno 
Sec,  8.  L.  Cook,  Albion;  Treas.,  BenJ.  Ulah 
Sliver  Lake. 

Iowa.— Pres.,Wm.  Johnston,College  Springs  • 
Cor  Sec,  C,  D,  Trumbull,  Morning  Sun; 
Treas.,  James  Harvey,  Pleasant  Plain,  Jeffer- 
son Co. ;  Lecturer,  C.  F.  Hawley,  Wheaton,  HI 

Kahsap.— Pres.,  J.  8.  T.  Milligan,  Denison  • 
Sec,  8.  Hart,  Lecompton;  Treas,,  J.  A.  Tor- 
rence,  Denison.  0 

Masbaohusbtto.— Pres.,  8.  A.  Pratt;  Sec 
Mrs.  K.  D.  Bailey;  Treas., David  Mannlng.Si.! 
Worcester, 

MiOHiOAH.— Pres.,  D.  A.  Richards,  Brighton 
Sec'y,    H.    A.     Day,     Wllllamston;    Treas,' 
Geo.  Swanson,  Jr..  Bedfoiu. 

MiHWisoTA.— Pres.,  E.  G.  Paine,  Waslo'a 
Cor.  Sec.  Wm.  Fen  ton,  8t.  Paul:  Rec,  Sec^v 
Mrs.  M.  F,  Morrill,  St.  Charles;  Treas,,  Wm 
H,  Morrill,  8t.  Charles. 

M188OUKI.— Pres.,  B,  F.  Miller,  EagleviUe 
Treas.,  William  Beauch&mp,  Avalon ;  ^r.  8f  c. 
A.  D.  Thomas,  Avalon. 

NBBH1.8KA.— Prea.,  8.  Austin,  Falrmoait 
Cor,  80c,  W,        Spooner,  Kearney;   Treas.* 
J,  C.  Fye. 

Maink— Pres.,  Isaac  Jackson,  Harrison; 
Sec,  I,  D.  Haines,  Dexter;  Treas.,  H,  W. 
Goddard,  West  Sidney. 

N»w  BAMPSEiiiB.— Pres.,  C.  L.  Baker,  Man 
chesU-r;  Sec,  8.  C.  Klmb&U,  New  Market 
Treas.,  James  ..''.  French,  Canterbury, 

Nbw  York.— Pres.,  F.  W.  Capwell,  Dale; 
Sec'y,  John  Wallace,  Syracuse;  Treas,,  M. 
Merrick,  Syracuse, 

Ohio.— Pres.,  F.  M.  Spencer,  New  Concord-, 
Rec.  Sec,  8.  A.  George,  Mansfield;  Cor,  Sec 
and  Treas.,  C.  W.  Hidtt,  Columbus;  Agent 
W.  B.  Stoddard,  Columbus. 

Pbhhbtlvahia.— Cor.  Sec,  N,  Callender 
ThonpaCD ;  Treas,,  W.  B,B«rt«ls,  WUkesbarre. 

Ybbmoot.— Pres.,  W.  R.  Laird,  Bt,  Johns- 
bury;  8*c,  C.  W  Pottor. 

wisooHsni.— Pre*.,  J.  W  Wood,  Baraboo; 
Sec,  W,  W.  Ames,  Menomonle ;  Treat.,  M.  R 
BritUn.  Vlaniuk 

WHEATON  COLLEGE  UBRARY 
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THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE- 


May  3, 1888 


The  Christian  Cynosure. 


J.  BLANCHARD. 


Xdrobb. 


HXNRT  L.  KKLLOaa. 


OHIGAeO,   THUB8DAT,   MAT  3,   1888 


Have  you  read  the  action  of  the  Conference  in  this 
number  memorializing  the  national  political  conventions 
to  place  in  nomination  for  our  sufErages  free  men?  Shall 
we  go  farther  and  form  a  league  pledging  ourselves  not 
to  vote  for  any  other  than  those  free  from  secret  lodge 
obligations?  Let  every  friend  of  the  Cynosure  send  in 
his  answer  at  once,  and  if  favorable  to  such  a  movement 
the  Cynosure  will  give  all  the  information  which  it  can 
obtain  as  to  the  standing  of  candidates,  if  the  friends  on 
their  part  will  push  the  subscription  list  for  the  cam- 
paign, and  so  help  educate  the  voters  of  each  party. 
The  petition  to  the  delegates  of  the  national  convention 
is  good,  but  to  be  effective  the  Cynosure  must  reach  the 
voters.     Who  will  canvass  for  the  campaign  edition? 


He  was  accompanied  by  Rov.  Byron  Gunner,  who 
certainly  ranks  at  the  head  of  our  colored  citizens, 
for  bis  true  spirit  of  enlightened  progress  in  behalf 
of  his  race.  Liberal  in  our  opinions,  priding  our- 
selves of  our  '  True  Democracy,'  we  hope  that  the 
generous  gifts  of  Mr.  Howe  will  be  fruitful  in  every 
way,  tending  to  instruct,  moralize  and  improve  the 
present  and  future  generations  of  the  race  be  has 
thought  proper  (right  too)  to  thus  materially  help 
towards  the  goal  it  is  meet  it  should  attain." 


PROFESSOR  WOODSMALL. 


Frank  S.  Gray,  late  publisher  of  the  Interior, &iidi 
son  of  its  editor,  goes  to  New  York  as  publisher  of 
the  Mail  and  Express.  Dr.  Gray,  evidently  pleased 
with  bis  son's  promotion,  gives  the  good  part  of  a 
column  of  agreeable  witticism  on  the  occasion. 


The  Southwestern  Presbyterian  (New  Orleans)  is 
down  on  Chicago  Presbytery  for  favoring  reunion 
of  the  Southern  General  Assembly  with  the  North. 
We  were  told,  at  Natchez  and  elsewhere,  that  if  Dr. 
Palmer,  the  high  priest  of  the  rebellion,  were  con- 
verted, the  Assemblies  would  be  united  in  six 
months. 


MuGWDMP  (a  word  not  found  in  Webster's  Dic- 
tionary) is  a  name  of  an  Indian  powwow  or  canjur- 
er,  given  to  dissenters  from  a  political  party.  Sam 
Jones,  who  is  pushing  the  third  or  Prohibition  party 
in  Georgia,  says  the  opponents  of  prohibition  are 
"jugwumps."  The  Cynosure  goes  steadily  for  a 
third  or  American  party.  But  it  rejoices  when  even 
Masons  and  Odd-fellows  vote  for  Mugwumps  in- 
stead of  Jugwumps. 


A  NEW  Chicago  paper,  a  sixteen  page  quarto, 
weekly,  issued  its  first  number  April  7th  ult.  Its 
name  is  simply  America,  without  even  the  article 
"The"  before  it.  It  claims  to  represent  a  capital  of 
$100,000  with  an  august  corps  of  contributors, 
among  whom  we  notice  the  gifted  review  writer, 
Mrs.  Ruth  McEnery  Stuart  of  New  Orleans.  It  is 
altogether  a  brilliant  paper  in  ability  and  style  of 
execution,  and,  by  attacking  at  once  the  most  diflS- 
cult  problems  of  American  politics,  seems  resolved 
to  justify  its  title,  "America." 


The  daily  Chicago  press  often  gives  three  or  four 
solid  columns  to  "Secret  Societies,"  including"Tem- 
ples,  Commanderies,  Fantasuja  (the  festival  of  the 
Gyptian  Venus),  Consistories,"  etc.,  etc.,  illustrated 
bj  double-headed  eagles  and  strange  gewgaws,  fit  to 
adorn  a  mock  auction  at  Bunyan's  "Vanity  Fair," 
and  sprinkled  with  Latin  mottoes  which  the  lodge- 
members  and  even  their  leaders  often  understand  as 
pigs  understand  algebra.  Every  one  who  buys  a 
copy  of  such  a  print  pays  to  support  jugglers,  swin- 
dlers and  sleight-of-hand  men,  who,  in  a  sound  com- 
munity, would  be  taken  up  by  the  police. 


The  Times-Democrat  of  New  Orleans  prints  from 
the  Madison  Timet  of  Tellulab,  Louisiana,  of  March 
29th,  last,  tbe*[ollowing  letter: 

Deab  Sib:— To   prevent  violence  and  bloodshed  in 
Madison  Parish,  we  hereby  withdraw  our  names  as  can- 
didates for  the  Legislature  from  the  parish  of  Madison, 
and  most  respectfully  ask  our  friends  to  "stop  the  advo 
cacy  of  our  names  for  the  House."    In  order  that   the 

Sublic  may  be   placed  in  full   possession  of  our  with- 
rawal,  we  ask  that  you  publish  this  card  in  your  paper. 
Very  respectfully,  W.  W.  Johnson. 

Geo.  Hawkins. 
Two  men  armed  with  revolvers  called  on  the  men 
named  above,  and  ordered  them  to  leave  Louisiana, 
their  home,  where  they  were  candidates  for  office, 
at  once,  and  not  to  return  until  after  election,  at  the 
risk  of  their  lives.  They  then  took  refuge  in  Vicks- 
burg,  Mississippi,  and  sent  out  their  call,  as  above. 


PHiLANTHaoPY  APPRECIATED. — The  new  Iberia 
Democrat  speaks  warmly  of  the  educational  work  in 
that  place  which  has  been  so  ably  promoted  by  Mr. 
Howe: — "A  few  days  ago  we  had  the  pleasure  to  re- 
ceive a  much  appreciated  visit  from  Mr.  Peter  Howe, 
of  Wenona,  Illinois,  the  liberal  philanthropist  who 
contributed  so  much  towards  the  establishment  of 
a  high  school  in  our  town  for  the  colored  people. 


It  is  seldom  so  extraordinary  a  person  appears  in 
the  stream  of  human  events,  as  the  man  whose  like- 
ness appears  in  this  paper.  He  was  a  student,  law- 
yer, captain,  major,  missionary,  theologian,  divine 
and  saint.  As  a  soldier  he  fought  for  the  Union, 
was  wounded,  came  home  and  returned  South  when 
but  imperfectly  recovered.  And  as  Thomas  Clarkson, 
while  a  Cambridge  student,  was  so  overwhelmed 
with  the  miseries  of  the  Negroes,  while  preparing  a 
Latin  essay  on  slavery,  that  he  consecrated  his  life 
to  the  overthrow  of  the  slave  trade;  so  Mr.  Wood- 
small  was  so  overwhelmed  by  what  he  saw  of  the 
slaves  and  slavery  in  the  South  during  the  war,  that 
he  gave  up  the  practice  of  the  law,  and  other  open- 
ings to  distinguished  success  in  life,  and  devoted 
himself  to  the  temporal  and  eternal  welfare  of  the 
ex-slaves  with  the  zeal  of  an  apostle  and  the  spirit 
of  a  martyr. 

His  success  was  equal  to  his  devotion.  Indeed, 
his  is  no  ordinary  obituary  but  a  journey  of  life, 
where  the  milestones  were  schools  and  institutions 
of  learning,  which  sprung  up  at  the  touch  of  the 
wand  of  his  genius  in  Georgia,  Alabama,  Tennes- 
see, Mississippi  and  Arkansas,  and  which  now  stand 
like  electric  lamps  along  the  dark  tunnel  of  a  rail- 
road to  guide  the  future  thousands,  not  merely  by 
the  lights  of  human  science,  but  by  the  stars  of 
eternity,  to  bring  them  safely  "through  the  valley  of 
the  shadow  of  death,"  to  that  land  where  "the  Lord 
God  giveth  them  light  and  where  the  Lamb  is  the 
light  thereof." 

Prof.  H.  Woodsmall  was  born  in  Owen  county, 
three  miles  from  Gosport,  Ind.,  June  9,  1842.  The 
Baptist  Encyclopedia  gives  the  leading  facts  of  his 
life.  Born  three  miles  from  town,  he  was,  of  course, 
a  farmer's  boy,  who,  like  thousands  of  others, 
learned  to  thinJe  while  working  under  the  open 
heavens;  to  "endure  hardness"  by  toil;  and  learned 
the  fear  of  God  and  the  love  of  man  in  the  atmos- 
phere of  a  farmer's  home.  While  a  student  in 
Bloomington,  Ind,,  he  enlisted  and  went  as  captain 
in  the  115th  Indiana  regiment,  July  7th,  1863,  In 
a  month  he  was  promoted  to  be  major,  and  was 
wounded  in  the  bloody  battle  of  Antietam  in  Vir- 
ginia, and  went  home  in  February,  1864,  where  he 
soon  united  with  a  Baptist  church.  After  the  war 
he  entered  the  law  school  at  Ann  Arbor,  Mich. 

He  practiced  law  in  Indiana,  and  later  in  Minne- 
sota, and  while  attending  a  Baptist  convention  at 
Mankato  he  became  convinced  he  ought  to  give  up 
law  for  the  ministry.  He  returned  from  the  con- 
vention to  his  law  office  in  Minneapolis  but  could 
not  work.  He  shut  himself  up  in  bis  office,  and 
spent  an  entire  day  m  prayer  that  God  would  show 
him  the  path  of  duty;  and  consecrated  himself  en- 
tirely and  without  reserve  to  the  service  of  God,  a 
consecration  from  which  he  never  went  back. 

While  engaged  in  law  practice,  he  was  devoted  to 
the  cause  of  instruction  and  education;  was  engaged 
in  Sabbath-school  labors,and  was  a  trustee  of  Franklin 
College.  But  as  an  American  citizen  and  Christian 
he  was  overwhelmed  with  the  sight  of  four  millions 
of  people,  one  million  more  than  were  here  at  the 
Revolution,  turned  from  things  into  men,  unable  as 
citizens  to  read  a  ballot,  or  as  Christians  to  spell  the 
name  of  Christ.  And  in  1873-4  he  attended  the 
Southern  Theological  Seminary  at  Greenville,  South 
Carolina,  near  the  home  and  head  center  of  the 
great  Rebellion,  where  his  room-mate-  was  an  ex- 
confederate  officer.  They  had  fought  each  other  in 
the  war.  They  now  became  fast  friends,  united  in 
the  plan  of  Mr.  Woodsmall  to  kindle  the  fires  of 
Christian  civilization  at  the  bottom  of  the  grate  to 
burn  up  the  dangerous  mass  of  ex-slave  illiteracy  by 
letters  and  the  fire  of  God  from  heaven. 

He  began  his  work  by  visiting  associations  and 
conventions  to  make  the  acquaintance  of  leading 
white  brethren  and  the  work  among  the  colored  peo- 
ple. The  same  year  (1874)  he  married  Miss  Mary 
E.  Howes  of  Macon,  Georgia,  with  whom  he  return- 
ed to  Greenville,  where  they  continued,  united  in  the 
study  of  his  great  mission  till  April,  1875,  when  he 
entered  on  work  for  the  colored  people  under  ap- 
pointment of  the  Sabbath-school  Board  of  the  Geor- 
gia Baptist  Convention.  Later  he  was  employed  by 
the  Baptist  Publication  Society  for  six  months;  then 


the  Home  Missionary  Society  commissioned  him  to 
hold  institutes  for  colored  teachers  and  preachers  in 
Georgia,  Alabama,  Tennessee,  Mississippi  and  Ar- 
kansas. These  institutes  were  traveling  theological 
seminaries,  like  Moody's  colleges  for  Christian 
work. 

While  engaged  in  this  great  enterprise  for  Christ 
and  the  country  he  went  to  work  like  the  good  Mo- 
ravian missionaries  who  first  found  access  to  the 
hearts  of  the  slaves  of  the  West  Indies.  Other  mis- 
sionaries had  pitied  and  attempted,  as  agents  of 
the  masters,  the  conversion  of  those  slaves,  but 
they  made  no  converts.  But  the  Moravians  put  on 
the  coarse  slave  garment  slung  about  the  neck,  and 
thus  habited  they  went  out  with  them  to  the  sugar 
fields,  and  then  the  slaves  were  converted  by  thou- 
sands. So  Mr.  Woodsmall  went  among  the  Negroes 
as  if  they  were  human  beings  and  he  their  brother 
and  friend.  This  offended  his  white  brethren.  They 
accused  him  of  "associating  with  niggers,"  and  his 
agency  was  dropped  by  them;  but  Ms  work  went  on 
all  the  same.  Two  or  three  years  he  went  North  in 
behalf  of  his  work  and  his  employers  found  he  could 
do  without  them  better  than  they  could  do  without 
him.  As  these  traveling  institutes  were  transient 
and  temporary,  he  began  to  plant  and  endow  perma- 
nent schools.  He  founded  thus  a  school  at  Selma, 
Alabama,  in  1878;  and  Miss  Emma  Jordan,  now 
Mrs.  McLain  and  Miss  Heustis,  both  of  Indiana,  be- 
came teachers  in  it,  and  the  colored  ministers  and 
leaders  cooperated  with  him  in  it,  As  this  was  the 
first  school  founded  without  the  aid  of  the  "Home 
Mission"  or  any  other  white  association,  failure  was 
predicted;  but  the  grand  success  and  wisdom  of 
his  plan  has  been  fully  proved  by  the  colored  teach- 
ers who  have  gone  out  from  Selma  Normal  and 
Theological  School. 

In  1883  he  gave  the  school  up  to  a  colored  presi- 
dent qualified  to  run  it,  and  he  went  back  to  Atlan- 
ta, Ga.,  to  hold  institutes  in  that  and  adjoining 
States  till  the  fall  of  1884  when  he  went  to  New  Or- 
leans and  took  charge  of  the  theological  class  in 
Leland  University.  In  the  fall  of  1885  he  organ- 
ized the  Baptist  Normal  and  Theological  College 
in  Arkansas,  and  continued  to  hold  institutes  in  Al- 
abama, Tennessee,  Mississippi,  Louisiana  and  Ar- 
kansas, besides  acting  as  general  friend  and  advis- 
er of  pastors,  teachers  and  missionaries. 

During  these  great  and  arduous  toils  Prof.  Wood- 
small  saw  the  secret  societies,  into  which  the  col- 
ored people  had  been  engulfed,  thwarting  every  ef- 
fort for  their  temporal  and  eternal  salvation,putting 
them  under  the  lead  of  the  worst  men  among  them; 
devouring  their  time  and  money  for  gaudy  regalia 
and  picnic  night  parties  in  which  thousands  of  girls 
as  they  came  to  womanhood  were  ensnared  and 
broken  by  villains  with  pompous  titles  on  the  wheels 
of  promiscuous  prostitution.  Becoming  acquainted 
with  the  work  of  the  N.  C.  A.  he  wrote  us  pleading 
to  have  the  colored  clergy  of  the  South  supplied 
with  the  Christian  Cynosure.  He  urged  that  the  peo- 
ple would  follow  their  pastors,  and  that  one  dollar 
now  used  to  enlighten  the  pastors  would  do  more 
than  a  hundred  dollars  in  a  few  years.  In  1886,  he 
came  North  by  the  request  and  at  the  expense  of  the 
N.  C.  A.  Directors,  spoke  at  Wheaton  College  and 
in  Chicago.  In  this  trip  he  was  accompanied  by 
Rev.  R.  N.  Countee,  whose  struggles  are  familiar  to 
our  readers  as  household  words. 

While  in  Illinois  he  visited  Mr.  Peter  Howe  and 
secured  the  benefit  of  his  standing  offer  of  $10,000 
to  begin  a  Baptist  school  in  the  South  which  should 
be  modeled  after  Wheaton  College.  Pursuing  this 
plan  he  procured  a  meeting  of  delegates  (60  or  70) 
from  eight  Baptist  Associations  at  Memphis,  Tenn. 
Almost  every  delegate  was  a  member  oi  secret  soci- 
eties— Masons,  Odd-fellows,Knights  of  Pythias,  etc. 
But,  enlightened  by  Prof.  Woodsmall,  whom  they 
all  knew  and  loved,  and  inspired  by  the  eloquence 
of  Countee  and  the  benevolent  offer  of  Mr.  Howe, 
after  an  earnest  debate  in  which  the  lodge  leaders 
were  on  hand  and  did  their  utmost,  all  but  four 
of  the  delegates  of  the  eight  associations  voted  to 
accept  Mr.  Howe's  offer  and  shut  and  seal  the  school 
at  Memphis  forever  against  secret  societies. 

Prof.  Woodsmall  was  holding  a  three-months  in- 
stitute in  this  school,  with  a  large  attendance  of  min- 
isters, hoping  with  this  institute  to  close  his  labors 
at  Memphis.  He  had  planned  already  to  go  to  the 
Indian  Territory  in  April,  1888,  to  hold  an  institute 
for  the  colored  people  there;  but  God  had  higher 
work  for  him.  Two  days  before  his  death  the  deed 
for  the  school  lot  was  executed.  On  Friday  he 
taught  his  usual  classes,  and  attended  church  on 
Sabbath.  When  told  he  could  not  go  to  his  family, 
as  he  had  planned,  he  meekly  said:  "Only  the  good 
Father  can  do  me  good  now;"  and  in  a  few  minutes 
he  passed  quietly  away,  his  head,  lika  a  tired  child's, 
resting  on  the  hand  of  Prof.  Steele,  principal  of  the 


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THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


Congregational  Lemoyne  Institute,  who,  with  Miss 
Kinney,  the  matron,  had  tenderly  taken  him  to  their 
Teachers'  Home,  and  cared  for  him  in  his  last  mo- 
ments. Prof.  Steele  had  his  body  embalmed  in  his 
own  room. 

These  memoranda  are  furnished  us  by  his  beloved 
wife,  who  closes  her  sketches  with  these  words,  after 
mention  of  the  kindness  of.  the  Congregational  fac- 
ulty with  whom  her  husband  died: 

"I  deeply  sympathize  with  the  colored  people  in 
the  loss  of  their  best  leader  and  friend.  I  have 
often  told  Mr.  Woodsmall  I  considered  it  a  mistake 
not  to  have  some  younger,  stronger  man  working 
with  him  on  whom  bis  mantle  might  fall.  His  influ- 
ence over  the  colored  people  was  wonderful,  per- 
suading them  to  give  up  whisky,  tobacco  and  secret 
societies." 

Thus  for  thirteen  years  this  eminent  patriot  and 
saint  has  "trodden  the  winepress  alone,"  aided  and 
guided  by  the  Spirit  of  God;  and  he  has  literally 
laid  the  foundations  of  many  generations.  The  col- 
ored people  and  their  friends  will  see  to  it  that  his 
devoted  and  interesting  companion  and  their  chil- 
dren have  all  needed  care  and  sympathy,  and  that 
the  memory  of  the  just  is  blessed. 


THE    WASHINQTON  BUILDING    AND    WORK. 


The  editors  of  the  Cynosure  not  being  members  of 
the  National  Board  of  Directors  and  seldom  attend- 
ing their  meetings,  we  have  read  with  interest  the 
exhaustive  report  adopted  by  the  Directors  publish- 
ed in  the  C'ynomre  week  before  last,  April  19  th,  the 
sum  of  which  is  seen  in  the  action  of  the  Board,  June 
21st,  1883,  where  it  is  stated  that  "the  Washington 
property"  was  "purchased  for  the  use  of  the  Nation- 
al Christian  Association."  (See  report.)  And  the 
charter  of  our  National  Association,  of  which  the 
Cynoture  is  the  organ,  states  its  "business  and  ob- 
ject" to  be,  "To  save  the  churches  of  Christ  from  be- 
ing depraved,"  and  "Redeem  the  administration  of 
justice  from  perversion,  and  our  republican  govern- 
ment from  corruption."  The  preamble  to  our  plat- 
form states  our  "political  position"  thus:  "The  Na- 
tional Christian  Association  does  not  ignore  politics 
but  seeks  to  elevate  and  purify  it  by  all  honorable 
methods." 

We  are  happy  to  perceive,  by  the  full  historic  re- 
port published  week  before  last,  that  the  N.  C.  A. 
has  strictly  followed  and  carried  out  the  object  and 
design  set  forth  in  ita  constitution,and  that  the  Cy- 
noture has  steadily  and  scrupulously  sustained  it. 

The  growth  and  spread  of  every  reform,from  that 
of  Luther  to  the  abolition  of  American  slavery,  has 
been  attended  with  diversity  of  sentiment  and  opin- 
ion; and  the  anti-secret  reform,  so  deep  and  wide- 
spreading,  cannot  be  expected  to  prove  an  exception 
to  this  rule.  The  Cynosure  proposes  to  sustain  the  ac- 
tion of  the  N.  C.  A.  and  its  Board  so  far  as  its  action 
seems  to  us  juift,and  to  avoid  weakening  our  cause  by 
division  by  replying  to  criticism8,however  erroneous 
or  ill-natured,  if  such  criticisms  come  from  those 
who  are  sincerely  opposing  the  secret  lodge  system, 
which  is  corrupting  our  churches  and  menacing  our 
national  existence. 

But  one  thing  the  N.  C.  A.  and  its  Board  has  in- 
sisted on  and  must  insist  on  or  the  reform  attempt 
ed  must  prove  a  blank  failure,  which  is  this:  a  com- 
plete divorce  and  disfellowship  of  the  lodge-wor- 
shipers. Those  who  practice,  take  and  administer 
the  oaths  and  secret  ceremonies  of  lodges  must  be 
either  reclaimed  or  cast  out  of  the  church  of  Christ. 
One  glance  at  Bible  history  will  show  that  this  was 
the  divine  method.  The  lamb  on  Abel's  altar  was 
"the  Lamb  of  God."  It  maintained  the  unity  of 
God,  though  with  occasional  apostasies,  and  kept 
up  the  law  of  God  and  the  Hebrew  Commonwealth 
for  fifteen  solid  centuries;  during  which  other  na- 
tions, Assyria,  Chaldea,  Egypt,  Greece,  Carthage, 
crumbled  and  went  down,  and  their  gods  sank  with 
them. 

Moody,  Sankey,  Jones,  Small  and  the  other  evan- 
gelists, burn  over  the  surface  of  society,  but  leave 
the  lodges  standing;  and  though  Mr.  Moody  insists 
on*  Christians  separating  from  the  lodge  worships,  no 
such  separation  is  ejected  as  by  Nehemiah,  Elijah 
and  the  Jewish  reformer  kings,  and  the  lodge-tares 
speedily  choke  the  wheat  The  College  Church  in 
Wheaton  questions  candidates,  and  if  they  belong 
to  secret  orders  they  are  required,  under  Christ's 
law,  to  leave  them.  Other  denominations  and  asso- 
ciations thus  enforce  their  testimony  by  discipline; 
and  the  National  Christian  Association  from  its 
formation  in  Pittsburgh  in  1886,  by  Covenanters, 
United  Presbyterians,  etc.,  etc.,  has  taken  and  held 
the  same  ground.  Its  Washington  property  was 
purchased  for  the  purpose  of  planting,  at  our  seat 
of  government,  a  lodge-excluding  religion.  But  at 
this  day  and  hour,  no  such  religion  is  planted  there.  [ 


There  is  neither  church,  society  nor  prayer  meeting 
in  our  National  metropolis  where  faithful  testimony 
is  or  can  be  given  against  the  lodge  worships,  with- 
out danger  of  disturbance;  and  that  after  these  years 
of  labor. 

The  National  Christian  Association,  by  its  con- 
stitution and  charter,  is  also  required  to  rescue 
American  politics  from  the  grip  of  the  lodge.  But 
the  American,  which  was  established  only  by  large 
assistance  from  the  Association  to  promote  this 
end,  has  ceased  to  be  the  organ  of  the  American 
party,  as  its  editor  tells  us. 

But  this  is  to  be  said :  the  American  is  an  interesting 
paper,  and  its  editor  writes  and  admits  able  articles 
against  the  lodges.  But  if  the  Washington  build- 
ing is  used  to  support  a  lodge-excluding  Christian- 
ity and  anti-secret  politics  at  our  national  seat  of 
government,  sending  out  lecturers  and  colporteurs, 
then  the  American  will  answer  a  great  and  valuable 
purpose  by  aiding  our  national  reform  work.  All 
that  Mr.  Bailey  then  writes  against  the  lodge  will 
come  to  a  good  market  and  aid  mightily 
the  cause  which  at  heart  he  loves.  But 
he  cannot  get  time  and  strength  to  lecture  and  lead 
in  the  movement  against  the  secret  lodge  system, 
and  at  the  same  time  run  a  government  clerkship 
week-days  and  his  mission  on  Sabbath  and  publish 
three  other  papers  beside  the  American. 

The  National  Board  of  Directors  is,  therefore,  do- 
ing wisely  and  well.  Indeed,  it  could  do  no  other- 
wise without  failing  to  fulfill  its  trust.  Nor  should 
it  grieve  Prof.  Bailey  to  be  treated  by  the  Board  of 
Directors  as  they  would  be  bound  to  treat  Mr. 
Moody  himself.  Much  as  they  love  Mr.  Moody,  re- 
joice in  his  school  and  tracts  against  the  lodges, 
they  would  be  guilty  of  malfeasance  if  they  should 
allow  the  Washington  building  to  be  turned  into  a 
headquarters  of  evangelism;  or,  as  Mr.  Bailey  pro- 
posed to  do,  turn  it  into  a  publishing  house;  while 
in  four  years  and  a  half  he  has  delivered  no  lectures, 
as  we  are  aware,  in  Washington  and  regions  adja- 
cent, in  behalf  of  the  reform  for  which  the  Wash- 
ington building  was  bought,  and  formally  dedicated. 

But  with  the  American  and  other  papers,  and  the 
Central  Union  Mission  work,  with  the  friends  Bro. 
Bailey  has  made  by  his  urbane  and  courteous  man- 
ners, with  friendly  relations  at  the  Washington  build- 
ing as  a  lecture  headquarters,  and  its  rents  devoted 
to  the  support  of  lecturers  in  the  opening  and  widen- 
ing fields  about,  and  especially  backed  by  the  Cyno- 
sure subscribers  who  are  sending  him  money  and 
moral  support,  and  the  blessing  of  God  in  answer 
to  constant,  earnest  prayer,  the  change  now  being 
made  by  the  Directors  will  resemble  the  overflow  of 
the  Nile,  which  feeds  nations  by  the  fertility  which 
it  produces  along  the  banks.  There  may  be  two 
channels,  but  there  will  be  but  one  mighty  river. 


— Bro.  Davidson's  report  from  the  New  Orleans 
work  came  in  too  late  for  this  issue.  We  regret 
always  to  lay  aside  such  letters.  The  closer  our 
readers  come  to  the  brethren  who  are  in  the  front, 
the  warmer  is  their  sympathy  and  more  earnest  their 
prayers. 

— George  W.  Clark  returned  from  his  Southern 
trip  last  week,  and  spent  a  few  days  in  this  city  with 
his  daughters.  He  is  in  good  health,  though  some- 
what wearied  with  an  arduous  campaign  in  Louisi- 
ana and  Texas.  The  Dallas  and  Galveston  papers 
print  very  complementary  notices  of  his  visit  to 
those  cities. 

— Mr.  A.  G.  Laird  of  this  city,  who  has  for  years 
been  identified  in  our  reform  in  Chicago,  part  of 
the  time  on  the  National  Board,  has  helped  to  en- 
rich the  N.  C.  A.  reference  library.  He  has 
turned  over  his  valuable  collection  of  works  on  se- 
cret societies,  donating  part  of  the  price.  As  he  is 
expecting  ere  long  to  make  a  visit  to  Australia  and 
possiby  settle  there,  he  wished  to  put  these  volumes 
where  they  would  do  most  good. 

— Among  the  visitors  at  the  N.  C.  A.  otiice  last 
week  were  Elder  J.  L.  Barlow  on  his  return  to  Guth- 
rie Center,  Iowa;  Rev.  T.  P.  Robb,  Linton,  Iowa; 
Rev.  J.  P.  Richards  of  Kansas;  Rev.  J.  A.  Richards 
of  Lee  Center,  III;  Rev.  A.  Ethridge  and  Rev.  W. 
L.  Ferris  of  this  State.  Every  friend  of  our  reform 
should  plan  to  visit  us  while  passing  through  Chi- 
cago. The  olllce  is  not  far  west  of  the  Union  depot, 
the  terminus  of  the  Burlington,  Alton,  Fort  Wayne, 
Milwaukee  and  St.  Paul  and  Pan-Handle  railroads. 

— The  little  note  of  Secretary  Stoddard's  mother, 
whose  remarkable  age  and  activity  were  mentioned 
lately  in  these  columns,  brings  us  word  of  another  | 
instance  of  equal  celebrity.  This  old  lady,  whose  i 
name  wo  have  not  learned,  died  in  1859  at  the  age  . 
of  92,  and  among  her  descendants  are  Pres.  H.  H. : 
George  of  Geneva  College,  and  Rev.  T.  P.  Robb  of  , 
Iowa.  She  was  grandmother  to  the  latter.  She  was  for 


forty  years  a  widow  and  had  fourteen  children.  Her 
oldest  child  at  the  time  of  her  death  was  75,  and  of 
her  children  at  that  time  10  were  living,  with  87 
grandchildren,  134  great-grandchildren  and  4  of  the 
fifth  generation — in  all  a  company  of  235. 


MIGHIQAN  SOLD  IB  R8,  ATTENTION! 

To  the  Grand  Army  of  this  Republic: 

Qrkkting: — As  soldiers  of  the  cross  of  Christ,  enlist- 
ed to  strive  against  all  sin,  we  propose  to  hold  an 
Anti-Secret  Convention  at  Salem, Washtenaw  Co.Mich., 
beginning  May  22,in  the  evening,  at  7:30  oclock. 

Let  there  be  a  grand  rsdly,  with  every  soldier  at  his 
post. 

A  more  extended  call  soon .  Let  all  interested  watch 
for  it.     Remember  the  date,  May  22,  23,  24,  1888. 

D.  A.  RiciiABDS,  Pres. 
HA.  Day,  Sec'j/. 


OUR  WASHINGTON  LETTER. 

Washington,  April  27th,  1888. 

The  House  of  Representatives  has  given  exclusive 
attention  during  the  week  to  the  great  work  of  the 
session — the  consideration  of  the  Mills  tariff  bill. 
In  that  end  of  the  Capitol  one  tariffs spsech  has  fol- 
lowed another  at  the  rate  of  five  a  day  and  two  at 
night,  evening  sessions  having  been  decided  upon 
for  the  sake  of  hastening  action  on  the  measure. 
An  agreement  has  finally  been  reached  after  much 
trouble,  that  the  general  debate  is  to  continue  two 
weeks  longer,  with  three  night  sessions  each  week, 
and  an  equal  division  of  time  among  the  Democrat- 
ic and  Republican  speakers. 

An  unusual  scene  was  witnessed  in  the  Senate 
Chamber  on  Tuesday  last  when  Rev.  Dr.  Mendez, 
rabbi  of  the  Spanish  and  Portuguese  congregation  of 
New  York,  opened  ths  Senate  with  prayer.  He 
rayed  with  his  hat  on,  according  to  the  Jewish  cus- 
tom. This  is  the  second  instance  in  the  history  of 
the  Government  when  a  Jew  has  offered  prayer  in 
the  Senate. 

The  sudden  passage  by  the  Senate  on  Tuesday  of 
the  bill  prohibiting  book-making  and  pool- selling  in 
the  cities  of  Washington  and  Georgetown,  was  well 
timed.  It  was  in  view  of  the  approaching  races 
that  Senator  Blackburn,  of  Kentucky,  was  anxious 
to  press  the  bill  to  passage.  Of  course  the  bill  pass- 
ed does  not  correct  the  evil,  but  it  gives  the  pool- 
sellers  a  good  deal  of  inconvenience  in  compelling 
them  to  move  their  room  out  of  the  city.  "The 
horse-pool  business,"  said  a  police  oflScial,  "is  one 
of  the  greatest  evils  that  we  have  to  contend  with 
here.  It  is  similar  to  a  game  of  policy  or  lottery. 
It  has  been  the  cause  of  the  downfall  of  many  a 
promising  young  man.  They  become  infatuated 
with  pool-gambling,  and  put  up  their  money  from 
day  to  day  until  their  last  dollar  is  gone.  By  that 
time  he  is  in  such  a  frame  of  mind  that  be  will  do 
anything  to  raise  money,  or  is  tempted  to  take  mon- 
ey that  does  not  belong  to  him,  and  the  next  thing 
he  finds  himself  behind  the  bars.  Oh,  we  receive 
letter  after  letter  from  parents  concerning  their  sons' 
habits  of  hanging  "about  and  spending  all  their 
money  in  these  places." 

A  cigarette  bill  was  introduced  in  the  Senatoon 
Tuesday  by  Senator  Chace,  of  Rhode  Island,  and 
furnished  the  occasion  for  quite  a  little  impromptu 
discussion.  Petitions  were  presented  signed  by 
eighty-six  pastors  of  churches,  554  superintendents, 
officers  and  teachers  of  public  schools,  and  257 
physicians  of  the  District  of  Columbia,  asking  leg- 
islation to  prohibit  the  sale  of  cigars,  cigarettes,  or 
tobacco  to  boys  under  sixteen  years  of  age.  In  his 
remarks  upon  the  subject.  Senator  Stewart,  of  Neva 
da,  stated  that  the  use  of  cigarettes  was  destroying 
the  rising  generation  and  effecting  injuriously  the 
prosperity  of  the  country. 

The  Chief  Justiceship  is  still  an  unsettled  (jues- 
tion.  The  party  of  Congressmen  who  called  upon 
the  President  a  few  days  ago  to  advise  against  the 
appointment  of  Minister  Phelps  to  that  office,  could 
not  make  sure  what  Mr.  Cleveland  intended  to  do 
about  it  Indeed,  they  said  they  were  unable  to 
form  any  idea  from  their  interview  with  the  Presi- 
dent whether  the  latter  ever  had  any  intention  of 
appointing  Mr.  Phelps.  "I  would  like  to  see  the 
man  who  could  go  to  the  White  House  on  such  an 
errand  as  ours,"  said  Representative  Campbell,  of 
New  York,  "and  come  back  with  any  knowledge  of 
what  the  President  intended  to  do."  One  thing  he 
noticed  that  surprised  him,  however,  and  that  was 
that  Mr.  Cleveland  has  a  wonderful  knowledge  of 
the  men  in  this  country.  At  that  interview  he  said 
the  names  of  a  great  man}'  good  lawyers  were  men- 
tioned to  him,  and  in  every  instance  the  President 
seemed  to  know  more  al)out  the  man  than  was 
known  by  the  one  who  suggested  the  name.         * 


10 


THE  CHEISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


Mat  3, 1888 


THE  HOME. 


QOD  KNOWETH  BB8T." 


Sometime,  when  all  life's  lessons  have  been  learned, 

And  sun  and  stars  forever  more  have  set, 
The  things  which  our  weak  judgments  here  have  spurned. 

The  things  o'er  which  we  grieved  with  lashes  wet. 
Will  flash  before  us  out  of  life's  dark  night. 

As  stars  shine  most  in  deeper  tints  of  blue. 
And  we  shall  see  how  all  God's  plans  were  right. 

And  how  what  seemed  reproof  was  love  most  true. 

And  we  shall  eee  how,  while  we  frown  and  sigh, 

God's  plans  go  on  as  best  for  you  and  me ; 
How,  when  we  called,  he  heeded  not  our  cry 

Because  his  wisdom  to  the  end  could  see ; 
And,  even  as  prudent  parents  disallow 

To  much  of  sweet  to  criving  babyhood, 
So  God,  perhaps,  is  keeping  from  us  now 

Life's  sweetest  things,  because  it  seemeth  good. 

And  If  sometimes  commingled  with  life's  wine 

We  find  the  wormwood,  and  rebel  and  shriok, 
Be  sure  a  wiser  hand  than  yours  or  mine 

Pours  out  this  portion  for  our  lips  to  drink. 
And  if  some  friend  we  love  is  lying  low. 

Where  human  kisses  cannot  reach  his  face, 
Oh,  do  not  blame  the  loving  Father  so. 

But  wear  your  sorrow  with  obedient  grace. 

And  you  shall  shortly  know  that  lengthened  breath 

Is  not  the  sweetest  gift  God  sends  his  friend ; 
And  that  sometimes  the  sable  pall  of  death 

Conceals  the  fairest  boon  his  love  can  send. 
If  we  could  push  ajar  the  gates  of  life 

And  stand  within,  and  all  God's  workings  see. 
We  could  Interpret  all  this  doubt  and  strife. 

And  for  each  mystery  could  find  the  key. 

But  not  to-day.    Then  be  content,  poor  heart ! 

'     God's  plans,  like  lilies,  pure  and  white  unfold. 

We  must  not  tear  the  close-shut  leaves  apart; 

Time  will  reveal  the  calyxes  of  gold. 
And  if  through  patient  toil  we  reach  the  land 

Where  tired  feet  with  sandals  looie  may  rest, 
Where  we  shall  clearly  know  and  understand  — 

I  think  that  we  shall  say,  God  knew  the  best ! 


— Anon. 


AMONG  THE  POTS. 


"Though  ye  have  lien  among  the  pots,  yet  ye  shall  be  as  the 
wings  of  a  dove  covered  with  silver,  and  her  feathers  with  yel- 
low gold."— Ps.  68 :  13 

This  text  has  been  a  sealed  passage  for  ages. 
Bishop  Lowth  declared  it  "unintelligible."  In  the 
latest  work  on  the  Psalms,"The  Treasury  of  Ddvid," 
Mr.  Spurgeon  calls  it  "a  hard  pa8sage,a  difficult  nut 
to  crack."  But  new  light  is  constantly  breaking  out 
of  the  Scriptures.  Miss  Whately,  traveling  in  the 
East,  observed  a  fact  which  gives  us  the  lost  key  to 
this  text  and  unlocks  its  beautiful  imagery.  In  her 
work  entitled,  "Ragged  Life  in  Egypt,"  she  thus 
speaks  concerning  the  flat  roofs  of  the  houses: 

"They  are  usually  in  a  state  of  great  litter;  were 
it  not  that  an  occasional  clearance  is  made,  they 
would  assuredly  give  way  under  the  accumulation  of 
rubbish.  One  thing  seems  never  cleared  away,how- 
ever,  and  that  is  the  heap  of  old  broken  pitchers, 
sherds  and  pots  that  are  piled  up  in  some  corner.  A 
little  before  suaset  numberless  pigeons  (or  doves) 
suddenly  emerge  from  behind  the  pitchers  and  pots 
and  other  rubbish  where  they  have  been  sleeping  in 
the  heat  of  the  day  or  pecking  about  to  fiad  food. 
They  dart  upward  and  career  through  the  air  in  large 
circles — their  outspread  wings  catching  the  glow  of 
the  sun's  slanting  rays,  so  that  they  really  resem- 
ble yellow  'gold  glow;'then,as  they  wheel  round  and 
are  seen  against  the  light,  they  appear  as  if  turned 
into  molten  silver,  most  of  them  being  pure  white  or 
else  very  light  colored.  This  may  seem  fanciful,but 
the  eflect  of  light  in  these  regions  can  scarcely  be 
described  to  those  who  have  not  seen  it.  Evening 
after  evening  we  watched  the  circling  flight  of  doves, 
and  always  observed  the  same  appearance."  "Though 
ye  have  lien  among  the  pots,  yet  shall  ye  be  as  the 
wings  of  a  dove  covered  with  Bilver,and  her  feathers 
with  yellow  gold." 

This  beautiful  passage  is  thus  illuminated  for  the 
first  time  in  modern  days.  It  is  a  precious,  comfort- 
ing truth  to  the  children  of  God.  The  doctrine  un- 
folded is  the  promise  of  God  that  a  holy  character 
may  be  maintained  in  this  sinful  world,  despite  un- 
favorable surroundings.  From  among  the  pots,cov- 
ered  with  dust  and  dirt,  these  beautiful  doves  rise 
clean  and  unsoiled,  to  soar  into  the  heaven3,fla3hing 
their  wings  covered  with  silver  and  their  feathers 
glistening  like  yellow  gold. 

Many  Christians  fiad  their  lot  cast  amid  the  dust 
and  grime  of  the  pots,  but  they  need  not  be  soiled 
thereby.  Out  of  such  conditions  they  may  soar  un- 
soiled, on  wings  of  faith  gleaming  like  silver  aad 
clothed  in  beatitudes  shining  like  burnished  gold. 
No  honorable  business  will  grime  the  souL      The 


machinist,  mechanic,  artisan  and  laborer  may  have 
grimy  work  to  do,  but  he  can  be  clean  as  a  dove  in 
character.  Your  character  is  not  cheapened  because 
your  work  is  in  the  kitchen  or  at  the  forge,  nor  is  it 
ennobled  because  you  handle  diamonds, write  poems, 
thrill  breathless  audiences,  or  sit  behind  mahogany 
office  desks.  There  are  men  in  coal  mines  with  souls 
like  the  wings  of  a  dove;  and  there  are  men  in  dec- 
orated mansions  with  souls  sooty  and  black  with  sin 
as  the  miner's  face  with  coal  dust.  One  has  the 
soot  on  his  face,  the  other  on  his  soul. — Dr.  J.  0. 
Peck,  in  Homiletic. 


WHAT  MUST  1  GIVE  UP?" 


"Where,"  it  is  asked,  "does  this  common  ground 
end,  and  the  realm  of  the  world  begin?"  We  may 
be  helped  to  answer  if  we  look  firsi;  at  the  opposite 
boundary,  and  ask  where  the  common  ground  ends 
and  the  domain  of  the  church  begins.  What  is  the 
gate  through  which  every  one  passes  who  enters  the 
church?  Is  it  not  the  confession  of  subjection  to 
Christ?  Within  that  enclosure  Christ  is  recognized 
as  supreme.  His  word  is  law.  His  authority  is 
paramount.  His  sovereignty  is  undisputed.  The 
man  who  enters  there  pledges  himself  to  honor  Christ 
everywhere;  and  so  long  as  he  is  where  he  can  be 
recognized  and  understood  as  being  loyal  to  Christ, 
everything  is  well.  Now,  with  that  thought  in  mind, 
pass  to  the  other  side,  and  where  now  do  you  find 
the  world  begins?  It  commences  at  the  point  where 
another  than  Christ  is  recognized  and  acknowledged 
as  ruler.  Call  it  fashion,  or  pleasure,  or  whatever 
else. 

The  moment  you  pass  into  a  place  where,  not  Je- 
sus, but  another  is  recognized  and  reputed  as  the 
sovereign,  you  are  guilty  of  conforming  to  the  world. 
Wherever  the  world  is  acknowledged  as  ruler,  there, 
even  though  in  the  abstract  he  might  think  the 
place  indifferent,  the  Christian  should  not  enter. 
Gesler's  cap  in  the  abstract  was  nothing  at  all — a 
mere  thing  of  cloth  and  feathers;and,  in  the  abstract, 
it  was  a  small  matter  to  bow  to  it;  but  bowing  to  that 
cap  meant  acknowledging  allegiance  to  Austria,  and 
William  Tell  showed  his  patriotism  by  refusing  so 
to  honor  it.  The  question,  therefore,  is  not  whether 
in  other  circumstances  the  things  done  in  the  world's 
inclosure  might  not  be  done  by  the  Christian  with- 
out sin,  but  whether  he  should  do  them  there,  where 
his  doing  of  them  is  recognized  as  homage  to  the 
world.  Whose  flag  is  over  a  place  of  amusement? 
Whose  image  and  superscription  are  on  a  custom  or 
practice?  Christ's?  or  the  world's?  These  are  the 
testing  questions.  That  which  a  Christian  renounces 
when  he  makes  confession  of  Christ  is  the  supremacy 
of  the  world,  and  every  time  he  goes  where  he  is 
understood  as  acknowledging  that,  he  is  guilty  of 
treason  against  the  royalty  of  Christ. —  Wm.  M.  lay- 
lor,  D.  D. 


'MORE  THAN  TEST  ALL." 


A  very  humble  but  God-fearing  Scotch  couple 
had  a  son — their  only  child.  Prom  his  birth,  they 
devoted  him  to  the  Lord,  and  sought,  as  his  mind 
opened,  to  teach  him  the  way  of  truth,  and  to  im 
press  his  heart  with  the  love  of  Jesus. 

To  their  great  delight,  he  yielded  in  early  youth 
to  the  call  of  the  Gospel;  and  at  length  he  offered 
himself  for  mission  work  among  the  natives  of  the 
west  coast  of  Africa.  While  studying  for  this  pur- 
pose, his  parents  labored  hard,  and  denied  them- 
selves not  a  little,  in  order  to  support  him  at  col- 
lege; and  when  he  left  for  the  foreign  field,  his  oli 
mother  spun  harder  than  over,  so  that,  by  the  sale 
of  her  thread,  she  might  help  her  son  in  his  noble 
work  for  Jesus. 

By-and-by  her  husband  was  taken  home  to  the 
Father's  house  above;  and  though  she  well  knew 
where  he  had  gone,  nature  would  have  its  tears. 
But  a  few  weeks  had  passed,  when  a  heavier  grief 
had  to  be  endured.  Tidings  came  to  hand  of  the 
drowning  of  her  son  when  he  was  crossing  an  Afri- 
can  river  in  the  discharge  of  his  missionary  duties. 

Soon,  however,  did  she  dry  her  weeping  eyes,  and 
with  humble  cheerfulness  remarked,  "My  son 
is  nearer  to  ma  now  in  heaven  than  he  was  in  Afri- 
ca." For  a  considerable  period  she  had  managed, 
by  great  diligence  and  economy,  to  send  him  £10  a 
year  to  assist  him  in  his  work;  and  when  he  died 
she  did  not  cease  her  labor  for  Jesus.  "Now  my 
dear  son  is  gone,"  said  the  noble  old  woman,  "my 
XlO  a  year  shall  go  to  some  other  servant  of 
CHrist." 

This  beautiful  example  of  consecration  recalls 
the  case  of  the  poor  widow,  whose  two  mites,  cast 
into  the  temple  treasury,  were  more  precious  in  the 
Saviour's  eyes  than  all  the  gifts  of  the  wealthy. 
"This   poor   widow,"  said   iie,    "hath   cast  in  more 


than  they  all."  Love  to  her  God  impelled  the  sacri- 
fice; and  with  what  emotion  did  the  Lord  Jesus  be- 
hold the  act! — Presbyterian  Mesitng&r. 


WATCHING  FOR  THE  COMING  LORD. 

The  Christian  is  to  watch  for  the  coming  of  the 
Lord.  This  includes  not  only  the  negative  side  of 
guarding  against  evil,  but  diligence  in  the  dis- 
charge of  Christian  duty,  together  with  a  lively 
expectation  of  the  Lord's  return.  This  latter  is 
graphically  described  by  Peter  as  not  only  "looking 
for"  but  "hasting  unto  the  coming  of  the  day  of 
God."  Whether  this  means,  "hastening  to  get 
ready  for  the  day,"  or  "eagerly  reaching  out  toward 
it,"  we  have  the  same  idea  of  a  living  faith  in  its 
approach,  and  activity  in  Christian  life  inspired  by 
the  nearness  and  certainty  of  its  coming. 

It  may  seem  strange  that  the  early  Christians 
should  have  been  required  to  take  this  attitude  to- 
ward a  day  that  was  then  confessedly  so  very  far 
away.  They  were  destined  never  to  see  it,  and  yet 
they  were  to  be  constantly  on  the  lookout  for  it. 
Several  reasons  may  be  given  in  explanation  of  this, 
(a.)  The  distance  of  the  event  had  not  been  indicated 
to  them.  They  knew  just  what  we  now  know,  no  more, 
no  less, — that  the  day  was  coming,  that  its  appear- 
ance would  be  sudden  and  take  many  unawares,  but 
that  time  though  definitely  fixed  was  not  revealed. 
....  (c.)  Ihe  feeling  of  the  godly  in  reaching  out 
toward  that  day  is  the  game  whether  the  time  be  long 
or  short.  It  was  therefore  proper  that  it  should  be 
enjoined  on  all,  and  maintained  by  all;  and  even  if 
thousands  of  generations  should  be  kept  watching 
for  it  when  it  comes,  its  awful  grandeur  will  show 
it  to  be  well  worth  waiting  long  and  patiently  for 
its  appearing. — Rev.  David  M'Fall. 


OLD  TIME  AND  TOMMY. 


In  the  morning  it  was  "Hurry,  Tommy,  or  you'll 
not  be  in  time  for  school;"  at  noon,  "I  think  you'll 
have  time  to  do  that  errand  after  dinner;"  and  at 
night,  "Now,  Tommy,  the  clock  has  just  struck  bed- 
time;" while  at  school  he  was  rushed  through  one 
class  to  prepare  for  another.  Now  and  then  he  had 
a  playtime — five  minutes  long,  so  it  seemed  to 
Tommy. 

One  evening  it  was  very  cold  and  stormy  outside, 
but  bright  and  warm  in  the  house.  Tommy  was 
looking  at  pictures,  and  his  mother  was  busy  with 
her  sewing.  Suddenly  Tommy  exclaimed:  "There!  I 
knew  the  old  fellow  was  lean  and  tall;  for  I,  with 
my  short  legs,can  never  get  away  from  him.  I  think 
Old  Time  must  love  to  drive  little  boys." 

"Oh!"  said  mamma,  laughing,  "I  have  just  found 
out  who  'the  old  fellow'  is,  to  whom  you  have  taken 
such  a  dislike.  What  does  he  seem  to  be  doing  in  the 
picture?"  , 

"He  is  resting  on  a  scythe  like  a  farmer,  and  in 
one  hand  has  a — a — " 

"An  hour  glass,"  finished  mamma, 

"Is  that  what  he  keeps  the  hours  in?"  asked 
Tommy. 

"No;  that  is  an  imaginary  picture,  and  the  hour 
glass  stands  for  the  clocks  and  other  time-keepers." 

"What  can  keep  time  but  clocks  and  watches?" 

"Before  clocks  were  invented  people  sometimes 
told  the  time  by  the  shadow  on  the  sun-dial;  then 
they  had  hour  glasses  and  half-hour  glasses,putting 
in  enough  sand,watel:  or  mercury  to  run  through  the 
little  opening  from  the  upper  part  of  the  glass  to  the 
lower  in  just  an  hour  or  half  an  hour,  then  turning 
it  over." 

"I  read  once,"  said  Tommy,  "that  people,  some- 
where, burned  candles  an  hour  long.  I'm  glad  we 
have  clocks.  But  what  does  the  scythe  mean?" 

"That  as  time  goes  on,many  people,young  as  well 
as  old,  die." 

"I  don't  like  to  think  of  that." 

"Do  you  not  think,"  answered  his  mother,  "that 
if  we  used  the  time  we  have  given  us  in  the  right 
way,  and  really  trusted  in  our  Father, we  should  not 
think  it  so  dreadful  to  go  from  one  life  to  another 
that  is  better?"- 

Then  she  said,  "Keep  your  eyes  and  ears  open  to- 
morrow, and  learn  all  you  can  about  time,and  in  the 
evening  we  will  have  another  talk." 

Tommy  was  up  early  next  day,  intent  on  getting 
ahead  of  time,  if  possible.  He  spent  five  minutes 
in  the  clock-keeper's  store,  and  listened  to  the  tick- 
ing of  the  many  clocks,  each  intent  on  telling  all  it 
knew  of  time. 

Tommy  tried  hard  to  be  diligent  in  school,  and 
though  a  little  absent-minded  in  the  reading-class, 
succeeded  pretty  well. 

When  his  mother  was  ready,  he  began:  "0  mam- 
ma I  I  thought  about  those  clocks  all  day ;  and  when 
the  scholars  were  all  talking  together  at  recess,  I 


Mat  3, 1888 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


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coaldn't  help  laughing.  There  were  the  little  clocks 
that  talked  so  fast,  and  those  that  talked  so  loud 
and  made  every  word  so  big.  When  the  teacher 
called  them  to  order,  I  thought  of  the  regulator  tick- 
ing so  quietly  and  steadily  and  always  right. 

"Can  you  think  of  any  one  who  is  the  only  true 
regulator  of  all  our  thoughts,  words  and  actions?" 
asked  Tommy's  mother. 

"Jesus  Christ,"  he  answered  softly. 

''Wasn't  it  strange,"  he  continued  after  a  pause, 
"our  lesson  in  arithmetic  to  day  was  about  'sixty 
seconds  make  one  minute,  sixty  minutes  make  one 
hour?'  "  and  Tommy  proudly  recited  the  time-table 
up  to  "one  hundred  years  make  a  century." 

"But,  mamma,  I  don't  see  how  any  one  can  take 
care  of  all  these  months  and  years;  it  makes  me 
dizzy  to  think  of  them." 

"When  you  ate  your  dinner  to-day,  did  you  take 
all  the  meat  and  potato  at  one  mouthful,  and  your 
pudding  at  one  swallow?" 

"Why,  no!  I  couldn't,"and  Tommy  laughed  and 
blushed,  for  he  had  been  reproved  for  eating  so  fast 
and  taking  such  big  mouthf uls. 

After  thinking  it  over,  he  said,  "But  I  can't  re- 
member every  little  minute,  either." 

"No;  though,  if  you  try  to  do  each  little  duty  at 
the  right  time  and  faithfully,  and  be  gentle  and  un- 
selfish in  your  play,  you  will  find  at  the  close  of  the 
day  that  the  minutes  have  been  rightly  used,  and 
that  the  hours  have  taken  care  of  themselves.  There 
is  a  story  that  the  devil  went  fishing  for  men,  suit- 
ing the  bait  to  each  person;  but  he  caught  the  idlers 
the  easiest,for  they  swallowed  the  hook  without  any 
bait  on  it." 

Tommy  understood  that,  for  he  knew  that  if  he 
had  a  fit  of  idleness,  he  was  quite  sure  to  do  some 
mischief  that  he  would  not  have  thought  of  other- 
wise. 

"Do  you  think  God  notices  how  we  use  every  hour 
and  minute?"  asked  Tommy. 

"Certainly  he  does.  Some  one  says,  'Hours  have 
wings,  fly  up  to  the  Author  of  time  and  carry  news 
of  their  usage.  All  our  prayers  cannot  entreat  one 
of  them  either  to  return  or  slacken  his  pace.' 

"Now  look  at  the  picture  again.  Old  Time  does 
not  look  so  very  unkind,  does  he?  He  is  very  just, 
for  he  brings  each  person  the  same  number  of  min- 
utes in  a  day.  If  we  will  put  our  hand  in  bis,  and 
walk  patiently  by  his  side,  he  will  lead  us  safely 
through  the  years,  until  God  bids  him  put  our  hand 
in  that  of  eternity;  for  God  gives  us  time  that  we 
may  prepare  for  eternity.     Now,  my  child — " 

"Yes,  1  know,  it  is  bedtime.  I'll  go  right  off.  I'll 
not  call  the  old  gentleman  mean  any  more;"  then  in 
a  lower  tone,  "and  I'll  ask  God  to  help  me  use  the 
time  he  sends  me  in  the  best  way." 

"That  is  right,"  said  mamma,  bidding  him  good- 
night.—>!>'.  S.  Times. 


THE  GRUMBLER. 


HIS   YOUTH. 

His  cap  was  too  thick,  and  his  coat  was  too  thin ; 
He  couldn't  be  quiet ;  he  hated  a  din ; 
He  hated  to  write,  and  he  hated  to  read ; 
He  was  certainly  very  much  injured  indeed  1 
He  must  study  and  toll  over  work  he  detested ; 
His  parents  were  strict,  and  he  never  was  rested ; 
He  knew  he  was  wretched  as  wretched  could  be, 
There  was  no  one  so  wretchedly  wretched  as  he. 

UIS   MANHOOD. 

His  farm  was  too  small,  his  taxes  too  big; 
He  was  selfish  and  lazy,  and  cross  as  a  pig; 
His  wife  was  too  silly,  bis  children  too  rude. 
And  just  because  he  was  uncommonly  good ! 
He  hadn't  got  money  enough  to  spare ; 
He  had  nothing  at  all  tit  to  eat  or  to  wear ; 
He  knew  he  was  wretched  as  wretched  could  be, 
There  was  no  one  so  wretchedly  wret:hed  as  he. 

HIS  OLD    AQE. 

He  finds  he  has  sorrows  more  deep  than  his  fears ; 
He  grumbles  to  think  he  has  grumbled  for  years ; 
He  grumbles  to  think  he  has  grumbled  away 
His  home  and  bis  children,  his  life's  little  day ; 
But  alas  I  'tis  too  late  I  it  is  no  use  to  say 
That  his  eyes  arc  too  dim  and  his  hair  is  too  gray ; 
He  knows  he  is  wretched  as  wretched  can  be, 
There  is  no  one  so  wretchedly  wretched  as  he. 

—  Western  Ploiotnan. 


SLAVERY  IN  BRAZIL. 


With  the  year  1887  slavery  became  extinct  in 
three  Brazilian  provinces,  although  the  gradual 
emancipation  will  not  be  completed  throughout  the 
empire  until  all  the  slaves  born  before  September, 
1871,  are  dead.  These  three  provinces,  Ceara,  Alto 
Amazonas  and  Rio  Grande  do  Sul,  have,  by  a  spon- 
taneous and  voluntary  movement  among  the  slave- 
owners, and  by  private  philanthropy,  anticipated  the 


general  emancipation.  In  September,  1871,  a  law 
was  passed  in  Brazil  that  after  that  date  every  child 
born  should  be  free.  The  same  law  provided  an 
emancipation  fund  to  be  annually  applied  to  the 
ransom  of  a  certain  number  of  slavos. 

The  Roman  Catholic  clergy  of  Rio  Grande  do  Sul, 
which  contains  a  large  percentage  of  black  people, 
have  led  an  anti-slavery  movement,  and  formed  a 
plan  to  celebrate  the  jubilee  of  Pope  Leo  Xlll. — 
the  fiftieth  anniversary  of  the  pope's  ordination  as 
a  priest — by  the  extinction  of  slavery  in  the  prov- 
inces. They  believed  that  no  better  way  could  be 
found  to  make  the  pope's  name  memorable  among 
the  Negroes  of  that  region,  who  are  nearly  all  de- 
vout Catholics.  In  1884  there  were  set  free  in  Rio 
Grande  do  Sul  40,000  slaves,  and  only  9,000  re- 
mained to  emancipate.  These  were  all  liberated  at 
the  end  of  last  year. 

Brazil  is  the  only  American  state  in  which  slavery 
exists,  and  there,  as  we  have  seen,  it  will  exist  not 
many  years  longer.  It  is  an  interesting  circumstance 
that,  with  the  abolition  of  this  barbarous  system, 
which  the  slaveholders  not  many  years  ago  regarded 
as  necessary  to  the  prosperity  of  the  country,  the 
Brazilian  Empire  is  rapidly  advancing,  both  in 
wealth  and  in  education. 

The  certainty  of  the  extinction  of  slavery  has 
attracted  immigration  from  Europe,  mostly  of  Ger- 
man, Swiss,  English  and  Italians,  who  go  to  the 
southern  provinces  of  the  empire,  where  the  climate 
is  coolest  and  most  settled.  One  southern  province 
alone,  Sao  Paulo,  during  the  year  1887,  received 
more  than  thirty  thousand  immigrants  from  Europe. 
The  whole  country  has  felt  an  economic  growth,  and 
the  Brazilians  begin  to  hope  for  the  development 
of  their  manufactures.  Heretofore  the  country  has 
been  almost  wholly  an  agricultural  one.  The  cli- 
mate of  the  southern  part  of  the  empire  is  not  un- 
favorable to  manufactures.  A  state  of  slavery, 
however,  seems  always  to  have  been  unfavorable, 
wherever  it  has  prevailed,  to  any  other  industry  than 
the  tilling  of  the  soil,  and  is  not  even  favorable  to 
the  highest  development  of  that  one  industry.  It 
is  not  strange,  therefore,  that  the  Brazilians  through- 
out the  empire  should  be  inclined  to  hasten  the 
emancipation  of  their  slaves. — Youth's  Companion. 


Temperance. 


LINCOLN  ON  TEMPERANCE. 


When  the  committee  of  the  nominating  conven- 
tion came  to  Abraham  Lincoln  at  Springfield  ,111.,  to 
inform  him  of  his  nomination,  some  of  his  neigh- 
bors, acquainted  with  his  temperate  habits  and  con- 
sequently unprepared  to  give  a  political  committee 
the  usual  treats,  sent  to  his  house  some  bottles  of 
champagne,  but  he  said:  "It  won't  do  here,"  and 
ordered  it  back  where  the  committee  might  be  as- 
sembled. When  offered  wine  at  Cincinnati  on  his 
way  to  take  the  reins  of  government,  he  said:  "For 
thirty  years  I  have  been  a  temperance  man,  and  I 
am  too  old  to  change;"  again,  when  asked  by  a 
friend,  after  his  inauguration,  "if  he  was  not  over- 
awed in  addressing  that  immense  audience  of  intel- 
lectual men?"  "Not  half  so  much,"  he  replied,  "as 
he   had  been  in  addressing  a  temperance  meeting." 

Afterward  during  the  war  the  Sons  of  Temper- 
ance were  holding  a  meeting  in  Washington,  a  dele- 
gation was  sent  to  President  Lincoln  asking  that 
drunken  officers  might  be  discharged  from  the  ser- 
vice, and  that  facilities  might  be  extended  to  or- 
ganize divisions  and  hold  temperance  meetings 
in  the  departments  and  hospitals  about  the  city. 
From  Mr.  Lincoln's  reply,a  report  of  which  follows, 
it  will  be  seen  that,  while  favoring  the  effort  for 
temperance,  he  gave  no  favorable  answer  to  the  re- 
quest to  start  a  lodge  propaganda  among  the  troops. 
His  reply  to  the  delegation  was  as  follows: 

"As  a  matter  of  course,  it  will  not  be  possible  for 
me  to  make  a  response  coextensive  with  the  ad- 
dress which  you  have  presented  to  me.  If  I  were 
better  known  than  I  am,  you  would  not  need  to  be 
told  that  in  the  advocacy  of  the  cause  of  temper- 
ance you  have  a  friend  and  sympathizer  in  me. 

"When  I  was  a  young  man — long  ago — before 
the  Sons  of  Temperance,  as  an  organization,  had  an 
existence,  I,  in  an  humble  way,  made  temperance 
speeches,  and  I  think  I  may  say  that  to  this  day  I 
have  never,  by  my  example,  belied  what  I  then  said. 

"In  regard  to  the  suggestions  whic'i  you  make  for 
the  purpose  of  the  advancement  of  the  cause  of  tem- 
perance in  the  army,  I  cannot  make  particular  re- 
spouse  to  them  at  this  time.  To  prevent  intemper- 
ance in  the  army  is  even  a  part  of  the  articles  of 
war.  It  is  a  part  of  the  law  of  the  Ijnd,  and  was 
so,  I  presume,long  ago.to  dismiss  officers  for  drunk- 
enness. I  am  not  sure  that,con8i8tent  with  the  pub- 
lic service,  more  can  be  done  than  has  been  done. 


All,  therefore,  that  I  can  promise  you  is  (if  you  will 
be  pleased  to  furnish  me  with  a  copy  of  your  ad- 
dress) to  have  it  submitted  to  the  proper  depart- 
ment, -and  have  it  considered  whether  it  contains 
any  suggestions  which  will  improve  the  cause  of 
temperance  and  repress  the  cause  of  drunkenness  in 
the  army  any  better  than  it  is  already  done.  I  can 
promise  no  more  than  that. 

"I  think  that  the  reasonable  men  of  the  world 
have  long  since  agreed  that  intemperance  is  one  of 
the  greatest,  if  not  the  very  greatest,  of  all  the  evils 
amongst  mankind.  That  is  not  a  matter  of  dispute, 
I  believe.  That  the  disease  exists,  and  that  it  is  a 
very  great  one,  is  agreed  upon  by  all. 

"The  mode  of  cure  is  one  about  which  there  may 
be  differences  of  opinion.  You  have  suggested  that 
in  an  army — our  army — drunkenness  is  a  great  evil, 
and  one  which,  while  it  exists  to  a  very  great  ex- 
tent, we  cannot  expect  to  overcome  so  entirely  as  to 
have  such  successes  in  our  arms  as  we  might  have 
without  it.  This,  undoubtedly,  is  true,  and  while  it 
is,  perhaps,  rather  a  bad  source  to  derive  comfort 
from,  nevertheless,  in  a  hard  struggle,  I  don't  know 
but  that  it  is  some  consolation  to  be  aware  that 
there  is  some  intemperance  on  the  other  side,  too; 
and  that  they  have  no  right  to  beat  us  in  physical 
combat  on  that  ground." 

■»  ♦  ♦. 

NATIONAL  ANTI-NUISANCE  LEAGUE. 


"No  Legislature  can  bargain  away  the  public 
health  or  the  public  morals.  The  people  themselves 
cannot  do  it,  much  less  their  servants.  Government 
is  organized  with  a  view  to  their  preservation  and 
cannot  divest  itself  of  the  power  to  provide  for 
them." — U.  S.  Supreme  Court. 

This  League  has  been  formed  to  give  practical 
expression  to  the  logic  of  the  recent  decision  of  the 
United  States  Supreme  Court  in  the  "Kansas  Cases," 
in  which  decision  this  court  cites  and  reaffirms  the 
doctrine  it  laid  down  in  the  "Mississippi  Lottery 
Cases,"  in  1879. 

If  it  is  unconstitutional  to  jeopardize  the  morals 
of  a  community  by  the  maintenance  of  a  gambling 
scheme,  it  is  insisted  that  it  is  equally  unconstitu- 
tional to  jeopardize  and  impair  both  the  morals  and 
health  of  a  community  by  the  maintenance  of  the 
liquor  traffic,  one  of  the  most  demoralizing  agencies, 
financially,  socially,  morally,  physically,  and  politi- 
cally, the  world  knows.  By  incorporating  it  in  this 
recent  decision,  the  Supreme  Court  has  settled  any 
controversy  as  to  whether  the  doctrine  applies  to  the 
liquor  traffic.  The  evidence  to  substantiate  the  de- 
moralization caused  by  the  rum  curse  is  overwhelm- 
ingly abundant,  is  all  of  it  available,  and  is  in  black 
and  white.  Indeed,  no  stronger  testimony  against 
it  can  be  produced  than  is  found  in  this  very  de- 
cision. 

Under  this  and  numerous  other  judicial  declara- 
tions, it  is  proposed  to  institute  suits  in  several 
States  and  Territories,  seeking  the  abatement,  by 
summary  proceedings,  of  the  saloon  as  a  public 
NUISANCE  The  success  of  this  movement  will  prac- 
tically annihilate  the  liquor  tratlic. 

To  perform  this  work  in  part;  to  advise,  counsel, 
direct,  and  co-operate  in  like  action  at  all  possible 
points;  to  everywhere  agitate  the  doctrine  herein 
upheld,  and  thus  to  educate  the  public  mind  up  to 
the  point  of  demanding  and  compelling  juiicial  de- 
cisions in  harmony  with  this  sublime  teaching,  is 
the  purpose  and  work  of  this  League. 

The  hearty  co-operation  of  all  persons  of  like 
mind  and  heart  is  asked,  irrespective  of  social  or 
political  differences.  Any  service  that  can  be  ren- 
dered individuals  or  communities  along  the  lines 
herein  indicated  will  be  cheerfully  and  freely  given. 
Frank  C.  Smith  of  No.  10  East  14th  St,  New  York, 
is  the  secretary  of  the  societj'. 


DON'T  BB  AFRAID 


to  express  yourself  about  the  whisky  question. 
The  highest  court  of  these  United  States  has 
decided  the  liquor  business  a  nuisance,  and  such  be- 
ing the  case,  are  you  not  doing  wrong — j-es,  com- 
'nitling  a  sin — by  keeping  your  mouth  shut  on  the 
subject  of  prohibition?  It  is  your  duty,  as  a  Chris- 
tian, to  give  publicity  to  the  facts.  Unfortunately, 
the  lovers  of  drink  need  arguments  to  tell  them  it 
IS  wrong  to  sell  the  accursed  stuff,  called  whisky, 
ind  wrong  to  drink  it  The  Christian  poople  must 
array  themselves  against  the  infernal  traffic,  if  they 
want  to  do  the  cause  of  Christ  the  most  good,  for 
oho  saloon  is  the  greatest  enemy  of  Ootl. 

At  the  present  time  there  is  more  respect  shown 
.o  Christians  and  Goti-fearing  people  by  every  and 
\\\  classes  of  sinners  than  is  shown  by  the  saloon- 
owners  and  its  devotees.  If  you  want  to  save  drink- 
ers, remove  temptations  from  their  path,  and,  when 


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THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


Mat  3, 1888 


they  are  from  under  the  influence  of  the  appetite 
for  drink,  you  can  argue  with  them  and  not  before. 
Thousands  of  men  sign  a  pledge  to  stop  drinking, 
and  mean  it  when  they  do  so.  But  the  appetite  has 
a  hold  on  them,  and  they  pass  so  many  dens  of  vice 
on  their  way  about  the  city  that  it  is  impossible  for 
them  to  withstand  the  temptation  without  the  power 
of  the  Saviour  to  assist  them,  and  they  not  asking 
him  for  help,  from  the  fact  that  their  reasoning  fac- 
ulties are  warped  and  twisted  in  such  a  way  as  to 
lead  them  nearer  the  saloon  and  farther  and  farther 
from  Him  who  has  the  power  to  save,  even  a  poor, 
weak,  fallen  drunkard. — Southern  Journal. 


Bible  Lesson. 


STUDIES  IN  THE  NEW  TESTAMENT. 

LESSON  VII,  Second  Quarter.— May  13. 

SUBJECT.— The  Lord's  Supper.— Matt.  26:  17-30. 

GK)LDEN  TEXT.— For  even  Christ,  our  passover,  is  sacrificed 
for  us.— 1  Cor.  5 :  7. 

I  Oven  the  Bible  and  read  the  leeton.  1 

Thk  Sacramental  Bread.  V.  26.  (1)  The  element. 
Jesui  took  ftreafZ— literally,  "the  loaf,"  one  of  the  thin 
cakes  left  from  the  passover.  (8)  The  actions.  Blessed 
— made  it  a  means  of  blessing  by  asking  a  blessing  on  it; 
thanksgiving  was  mingled  with  supplication  (1  Cor.  11: 
24).  Brake — as  a  sign  that  his  body  was  to  be  broken. 
And  gave— ao  Christ  offers  himself  to  all  who  would  be 
nourished  (3)  The  significance.  This  is  my  body— 
Paul  adds,  "broken  for  you"  (2  Cor.  11:  24);  Luke, 
"given  for  you"  (Luke  22:  19).  The  bread  represents 
the  nourishment  provided  for  the  soul  by  the  bruising  of 
his  body.  The  bread  remains  bread;  but  the  benefits  of 
Christ's  redemption  are  present  with  it  for  all  who  have 
faith  to  receive  them. 

Observe,  Jesus  took  bread— not  the  flesh  of  the  paschal 
lamb — in  selecting  an  emblem  of  his  broken  body.  He 
chose  nothing  that  could  leave  room  to  suppose  that  his 
expiation  was  not  complete,  as  the  flesh  of  the  lamb 
would  have  done.  On  the  other  hand,  bread  represents 
that  which  is  wholly  ready  to  be  received  for  nourish- 
ment. The  reaping  and  threshing  are  over;  the  grains 
have  been  crushed  beneath  the  millstone;  the  bread  itself 
haa  been  baked  in  the  oven.  Everything  has  been  made 
for  appropriation.  Sa  is  it  with  the  Lord  Jesus  Christ 
as  our  propitiation.  For  our  sakes  he  was  made  flesh. 
For  our  sakes  he  endured  a  life  of  poverty  and  trial. 
For  our  sakes  he  was  bruised  beneath  the  upper  and 
nether  millstones  of  Jehovah's  wrath.  And  now  the 
Gospel  message  is,  "All  things  are  ready;  come  ye  to  the 
supper!" 

The  Sacramental  Cup.  (1)  The  element.  V.  27. 
Be  took  the  cwp— containing  wine,  called  in  v.  29,  "This 
fruit  of  the  vine."  Wine  is  not  mentioned  in  the  Old 
Testament  accounts  of  the  passover,  but  it  had  long  been 
used  by  the  Jews  (Mishna). 

(2)  The  actions.  Qave  thanks  —  offering  a  second 
prayer  of  thanksgiving.  If  Jesjs  gave  thanks  when  he 
knew  that  the  ordinance  he  was  instituting  pointed  to 
the  suffering  he  was  to  endure  that  very  night,  how  much 
more  should  we?  He  gave  thanks  because  he  was  pro 
viding  for  the  redemption  of  perishing  souls .  We  should 
give  thanks  that  he  has  made  such  provision  and  is 
freely  offering  it  to  all  who  will  accept  Oave  it  to  them 
— so  is  he  offering  the  cleansing  virtue  of  his  blood  to 
all  who  will  receive  it.  Drink  ye  —representing  our  nesd 
of  personally  receiving  Jesus.  AU  of  t<— All  of  you 
drink  some  of  it. 

(3)  The  signifisance.  V.  29  This  is  my  blood — rep- 
resenting the  benefits  purchased  by  the  shedding  of  his 
blood.  Blood  of  the  new  testament— R^^'iBion,  "blood  of 
the  covenant" — the  covenant  of  grace.  The  covenant 
with  Abraham  was  made  in  connection  with  sacrifice 
(Qen.  15).  So  also  was  it  with  the  covenant  made  on 
Sinai  (Ex  24:  8)  Bhed  for  Twany— Christ  did  not  die  in 
vain.  Many  shall  be  saved  (Rev.  7).  For  the  remission 
— that  their  sins  may  be  (1)  pardoned;  (2)  put  away. 

Its  Names  and  their  Significance.  "The  Lord's 
Supper  is  called  a  Sacrament,  that  is,  a  sign  and  an  oath. 
An  outward  and  visible  sign  of  an  inward  and  spiritual 
grace;  an  oath  by  which  we  bind  our  souls  with  a  bond 
unto  the  Lord.  It  is  called  the  Lord's  Supper,  because 
it  was  first  instituted  in  the  evening,  and  at  the  close  of 
the  Passover  Supper,  and  because  the  Lord  instituted  it, 
and  in  it  we  feed  upon  him.  It  is  called  the  Communion, 
because  we  therein  commune  with  Christ  and  his  people. 
It  is  called  the  Eucharist,  a  thanksgiving,  because  Christ 
in  the  institution  of  it  gave  thanks,  and  because  we,  in 
partaking  of  it,  must  give  thanks  also." — Buck. 

Tbe  Need  ok  Prkparation  to  Observe  it.  "Let  a 
man  examine  himself,  and  so  let  him  eat  of  that  bread, 
and  drink  of  that  cup"  (1  Cor   11:  28). 

"It  is  required  of  them  that  would  worthily  partake  of 
the  Lord's  Supper,  that  they  examine  themselves  of  their 
knowlelge  to  discern  the  Lord's  body,  of  their  faith  to 
feed  upoa  him,  of  their  repentance,  lovo,  and  new  obe- 
dience: lest,  coming  unworthily,  they  eat  and  drink  judg- 
ment to  themselves." 

"For  he  that  eateth  and  drinketh  unworthily,  eateth 
and  drinketh  damnation  (Rev.  Ver.,  'judgment")  unto 
himsalf." 

Shall  we,  therefore,  remain  away  from  the  Lord's  table 
through  fear  of  eating  and  drinking  judgmeniV  Nay,  to 
do  80  would  be  to  lake  our  place  with  the  world;  and  is 
it  not  better  even  to  receive  judgment— fatherly  chastise 
ment— from  the  Lord,  than  to  "be  condemned  with  the 
world"?    And  "when  we  are  judged,  we  are  chastened 


of  the  Lord,  that  we  should  not  be  condemned  with  the 
world." 

And  there  is  something  better  still:  "For  if  we  would 
judge  ourselves,  we  should  not  be  judged"  (1  Cor.  11: 
29-32). 

An  Announcement.  V.  29.  1  toiU  not  drink  hence 
forth— Thha  was  the  last  sacramental  occasion  he  would 
observe  with  them  in  the  flesh.  When  I  drink  it  new  — 
A  new  kind  of  feaat,  that  of  which  the  Lord's  Supper  is 
only  a  foretaste. 

The  Closing  Hymn.  V.  30.  Commentators  gener- 
ally agree  that  this  was  probably  some  part  of  the  Great 
Hallel  (Psalms  113-118),  which  was  usually  sung  at 
passovers.  "It  was  customary  to  commence  the  Passover 
service  with  singing  or  chanting  Psalms  113  and  114,  and 
to  conclude  with  the  115th  to  the  118th  from  the  Sgrip 
ture,  in  which  not  only  the  events  of  the  exodus  are 
commemorated,  but  there  is  a  direct  reference  to  the  sor- 
rows of  the  Messiah  and  his  resurrection." — Jacobus. 

After  referring  to  the  same  Jewish  custom,  as  proven 
by  the  Talmud,  Dr.  Broadus  adds:  "It  is  interesting  to 
read  these  psalms  in  this  connection,  remembering  that 
Jesus  himself  took  part  in  the  singing.  The  term  hymn 
must  not  here  be  taken  in  our  common  sense  as  differing 
from  a  psalm,  nor  is  there  any  real  distinction  between 
the  two  in  Col.  3:  16;  Eph.  5: 19." 

Practical  Points.  1.  The  Lord's  Supper  is  our  Sav- 
iour's keepsake,  reminding  us  of  his  death,  and  assuring 
us  of  his  return. 

2  We  are  liable  to  forget  him,  notwithstanding  his 
great  loving  kindness. 

3.  We  must  feed  upon  Jesus's  broken  body  and  shed 
blood,  if  we  would  inherit  eternal  life. 

4.  We  should  thankfully  observe  his  dying  command. 
Even  he  gave  thanks  when  instituting  it,  although  about 
to  suffer. —  United  Presbyterian  Bible  Teacher. 


RELIGIOUS  News. 


— The  young  people  of  the  church  in  Bartlett,  III., 
Rev.  Alexander  Thomson,  pastor,  are  supporting  a 
scholarship  in  one  of  the  Utah  mission  schools. 

— Rev.  Thomas  L.  Johnson,  an  African  mission- 
ary, recently  addressed  a  large  and  rather  distin- 
guished audience  in  the  big  dining  room  of  a  Chica- 
go restaurant,  where  several  years  before  he  was 
head  waiter.  He  spoke  on  invitation  of  his  former 
employer,  and  made  an  effective  appeal  for  aid  in 
sending  colored  missionaries  to  Africa. 

— Mrs.  Prindle,  so  long  and  successfully  con- 
nected with  the  Anchorage  Mission  for  unfortunate 
women  in  this  city,  was  obliged  to  resign  last  fall 
on  account  of  ill  health.  Now  that  she  is  recovered 
she  goes  this  week  to  Columbus,  Ohio,  under  en- 
gagement to  take  charge  of  a  mission  in  that  city. 
Mrs.  Prindle  has  been,  under  God,  a  blessing  to  mul- 
titudes as  a  teacher  of  the  Word,  who  has  herself  been 
taught  of  the  Holy  Spirit. 

— The  Reformed  Presbyterian  congregation  of 
Morning  Sun,  Iowa,  held  their  communion  ser- 
vices on  Sabbath,  April  15th,  Rev.  Isaiah  Faris  as- 
sisting the  pastor,  Rev.  C.  D.  Trumbull.  There  was 
an  accession  of  ten  to  the  membership  of  the 
church. 

— A  meeting  of  the  Woman's  Missionary  Society 
of  the  Reformed  Presbyterian  church  was  lately 
held  at  Beaver  Falls,  Pa.  The  princi- 
pal aim  of  the  Society  is  the  establishment 
of  a  mission  among  the  Indians.  Prof.  W. 
A.  Coleman  having  been  appointed  to  investigate 
the  relations  existing  between  Indian  missions  of 
other  churches  and  the  Government,  placed  the  re- 
sults of  his  icquiries  before  the  convention  in  an  in- 
teresting paper,  showing  that  the  conditions  placed 
upon  Indian  missions  by  the  Government  did  in  no 
way  interfere  with  the  principles  of  the  church  and 
placed  no  obstacle  in  the  way  of  establishing  such  a 
mission.  Prof.  Coleman  received  the  hearty  thanks 
of  the  ladies,  and  was  appointed  to  represent  the 
Society  at  Synod  and  urge  the  opening  of  an  Indian 
mission. 

— There  was  an  attendance  of  over  seven  hundred 
ladies,  four  hundred  from  out  of  town,  at  the  open- 
ing of  the  seventeenth  annual  session  of  the  Wo- 
man's Presbyterian  Board  of  Missions  for  the  North- 
west, at  Freeport,  111.,  Wednesday. 

— The  Churchman  will  publish  in  its  next  issue  a 
letter  to  the  pope  from  the  Right  Rev.  Monsignor 
Leon  Bouland,  of  New  York,  withdrawing  from  the 
Catholic  church.  Monsignor  Bouland  asserts  that 
he  cannot  subscribe  to  the  teachings  and  doctrines 
proclaimed  by  the  Vatican  Council,  nor  can  he  ad- 
mit the  pretensions  of  ultramoutanism,  because  it 
claims  absolute  authority  in  scientific,  philosophical, 
social  and  political  matters,  as  well  as  in  religious 
affairs. 

— The  Predbytery  of  Louisville  has'  adopted  the 
following  concerning  the  union  of  the  Northern  and 
Southern  churches:  "In  reference  to  the  question 
of  union  between  the  Presbyterian  church  in  the 
United  States  of  America,  and   the   Presbyterian 


church  in  the  United  States,  commonly  designated 
as  the  Northern  and  Southern  Presbyterian  church- 
es, the  Presbytery  of  Louisville,  now  in  ses- 
sion, expresses  the  following  judgment,  viz: 
Until  our  Northern  brethren  can  see  their  way 
clear  to  adopt  the  policy  of  organizing  the  colored 
people  of  the  Northern  States  into  separate  churches, 
presbyteries  and  synods  of  their  own;  and  until 
there  shall  be  a  clearer  and  fuller  understanding 
brought  to  bear  upon  the  minds  of  many  of  our  peo- 
ple in  reference  to  their  interpretation  and  applica- 
tion of  those  points  of  our  common  ecclesiastical 
doctrines  that  now  deal  with  secular  and  political 
questions,  we  judge  that  the  quiet,  peace,  and  pros- 
perity of  both  churches  will  be  best  secured  by  ceas- 
ing to  agitate  or  prosecute  the  question  of  organiz- 
ing a  union,  at  least  for  the  present." 

— The  mission  house  of  the  French  Protestant 
churches  was  recently  opened  in  Paris.  This  beauti- 
ful building,  which  has  cost  242,000  francs,  is  more 
than  the  centre  of  the  administrative  machinery  of 
French  Protestant  Missions. 

— One  of  the  German  papers  states  that  "at  Vien- 
na last  year  no  less  than  363  Jews  became  Chris- 
tians," and  another  paper  tells  us  that  "at  no  period 
since  the  first  century  have  conversions  from  Juda- 
ism to  Christianity  been  so  frequent  as  they  are  at 
the  present." 

— Mr.  Christie,  of  the  Central  Turkey  Mission,  re- 
ports his  attendance  at  communion  services  at  three 
places  within  a  week,  eighteen  new  members,  in  all, 
confessing  their  faith  in  Jesus  Christ.  One  of  tbe 
places  was  Tarsus  of  Cilicia,  no  mean  city,  one  of 
whose  ancient  citizens,  when  he  found  Christ,  went 
out  to  testify,  both  to  the  Jews  and  Greeks,  the 
Gospel  of  the  grace  of  God. 

— Notable  spiritual  results  of  special  labor  for 
souls  are  reported  in  a  number  of  churches  in 
Northeastern  Connecticut.  Marked  mention  is 
made  of  the  churches  of  Danielsonville,  Windham 
and  Putnam.  Among  other  churches  which  have 
felt  revivifying  presence  those  of  Plainfield  and 
Brooklyn  are  spoken  of.  There  has  been  no  revi- 
valist among  the  churches.  Early  in  the  year  at 
the  ministerial  association  great  hungering  for 
spiritual  blessing  was  felt,  and  pastors  made  plans 
for  rendering  assistance  to  each  other.  Special 
services  were  arranged  for  one  or  two  weeks  in  each 
place.  Souls  were  almost  daily  brought  to  a  de- 
cision, and  the  work  is  still  quietly  progressing. 

— The  United  Presbyterian  churches  of  Alleghe- 
ny, Pa.,  have  been  remarkably  blessed  during  the 
past  winter.  In  some  of  them  services  have  been 
held  almost  continuously.  On  a  recent  Sabbath  the 
Second'  United  Presbyterian  church  of  that  city  re- 
ceived sixty-six  on  confession  of  faith,  making  an 
addition  of  one  hundred  and  fifty-nine  since  Decem- 
ber. 

— The  Salvation  Army  of  London  have  establish- 
ed a  cheap  food  depot  at  the  Bast  End,  to  relieve 
the  distress  which  prevails  there.  For  one  penny 
an  adult  receives  refreshment  and  a  night's  lodging, 
soup  and  bread.  For  a  halfpenny  he  gets  either 
bread  or  soup. 

— Mr.  Spurgeon  recently  stated  during  a  Taber- 
nacle evening  meeting,  that  he  was  completely  in- 
undated with  letters  of  sympathy  with  him  in  the 
present  controversy,  many  of  them  containing  en- 
closures of  money  for  his  training  college  and  other 
enterprises. 

*  ■  » 

We  often  use  the  word  charity  while  failing  to 
catch  and  appreciate  the  fullness  and  beauty  of  its 
meaning.  We  use  it  as  a  synonym  for  beneficence 
when  its  meaning  arises  higher  and  has  a  far  wider 
sweep.  Acts  of  a  noble  and  praiseworthy  benefi- 
cence may  not  be  acts  of  charity.  One  may  feed 
the  hungry  and  clothe  the*  naked;  he  may  build  and 
endow  hospitals  and  institutions  of  learning,-  and 
may  largely  relieve  human  suffering  and  yet  know 
nothing  of  the  scriptural  charity.  Charity  means 
love.  It  is  the  word  used  by  the  Master  in  the 
days  of  his  incarnation  and  suffering  to  express  his 
redeeming  love  for  man;  it  is  the  word  used  by  in- 
spiration to  express  the  love  of  the  redeemed  for 
their  Redeemer — the  love  that  prompts  the  song  of 
thanksgiving  on  earth  and  the  eternal  ascriptions 
of  heavenly  praise.  We  illustrate  the  true  meaning 
of  scriptural  charity  only  when  we  feed  the  hungry, 
clothe  the  naked,  minister  to  the  wants  of  the  suffer- 
ing, and  do  good  unto  all  men  as  we  have  opportu- 
nity, because  we  love  them  with  the  same  kind  of 
love  felt  for  us  by  the  exalted  Master  when  he  died 
for  our  redemption  and  salvation.  As  the  charity, 
or  love,  felt  by  him  for  us  covers  our  many  sins,  so 
our  charity  for  others  should  cover  theirs. — In- 
terior. 


Mat  3, 1888 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSUK& 


13 


Lodge  Notes. 

The  Mormon  establishment  or  church 
in  this  country  comprises  163,383  persons. 

An  "Order  of  Mutual  Protection"  U 
one  of  the  latest  developments  in  lodgery 
in  this  city. 

Rev.  Myron  Reed,  of  Denver,  is  talked 
of  for  the  Democratic  nomination  for 
Governor  of  Colorado.  Mr.  Reed  is  pos 
tor  of  the  1st  Congregational  church  and 
a  Freemason. 

The  committee  of  five  appointed  by 
the  an ti  administration  Knights  of  Labor 
at  Chicago  last  October,  Wednesday 
night  issued  a  circular  to  the  order,  de- 
claring that  the  membership  has  dwindled 
from  702,000  to  340,000;  that  Powderly's 
special  call  for  funds  for  lecturers  was 
really  to  keep  the  order  out  of  bankrupt- 
cy, and  calling  on  the  knights  to  join  the 
opposition. 

General  J.  C.  Smith,  Grand  Scribe  of 
Odd-fellows,  Grand  Master  of  Masons, 
Past  Grand  Commander  of  Knights  Tem- 
plar (also  Grand  ex-Treasurer  of  the 
State  of  Illinois,  Grand  Lieut.  Governor, 
and  would-be  Grand  Governor)  is  to  in- 
stitute a  new  encampment  of  Odd-fel- 
lows in  Chicago.  This  will  be  quite  an 
event  in  Patriarchal  Odd-fellowship  in 
this  city,  the  papers  say,  as  over  125  can- 
didates will  be  admitted,  advanced  and 
exalted. 

The  G.  A.  R.  has  adopted  a  new  button 
of  copper  bronze  with  a  star-shaped 
opening  under  which  is  shown  the  color 
indicating  the  branch  of  service  of  wear- 
er— blue  for  infantry,  red  for  artillery, 
yellow  for  cavalry,  etc.  The  star  is  five- 
pointed,  and  is  said  to  be  a  distinctive 
badge  of  the  order.  It  has  also  in  like 
manner  been  held  as  a  distinctive  badge 
of  Masonry.  To  which  does  it  belong; 
or  do  both  badge  and  G.  A.  R.  belong  to 
the  older  lodge? 

The  two  orders  of  railway  conductors 
and  railway  section  foremen  are  strongly 
and  firmly  opposed  to  all  strikes,  and  firm 
believers  that  no  good  grows  out  of  them. 
They  believe  that  there  should  be  a  bet- 
ter understanding  between  the  railroad 
companies  and  their  employes;  that  tbey 
should  have  greater  regard  for  each  other; 
that  no  such  actions  as  those  which 
brought  about  the  great  strike  on  the 
Chicago,  Burlington  and  Quincy  should 
be  countenanced,  as  they  only  serve  to 
lower,  in  the  estimation  of  the  public, 
both  parties;  that  mutual  esteem  should 
be  the  supreme  law  and  common  welfare 
the  only  aim. 

Masonry  is  losing  its  character  as  a 
"very  benevolent  institution"  about  Chi 
cago,  and  extraordinary  measures  are 
needed  to  keep  up  a  fair  show.  A  meet- 
ing to  organize  a  Masonic  Board  of  Relief 
for  Cook  county  was  held  lately  in  the 
armory  of  Apollo  Commandery,  of  Chica- 
go. Twenty -two  lodges  were  represented 
Mr.  D.  C.  Cregier  presided  in  the  absence 
of  Grand  Master  John  C  Smith.  Chair- 
man Warvelle  presented  the  report  of  the 
committee,  which  organized  the  Board  of 
Relief  on  the  plan  common  to  all  East- 
ern cities  where  it  has  been  established. 
Each  subordinate  Masonic  body  which 
becomes  a  member  of  the  board  is  enti- 
tled to  elect  one  representative,  who  shall 
take  part  in  its  councils  and  procedure. 
Aid  will  be  given  to  "temporary  sojourn- 
ers" in  the  county,  and  not  to  residents. 


BUaiNESB. 


Read  the  Chalfant  plan  on  page  5  of 
this  number,  and  write  what  you  think 
of  it.  Decoration  Day  will  soon  be  here. 
Shall  we  have  a  special  number  for  that 
time?    How  many  copies  will  you  take? 


8PIKB  THBIR  OUNS. 

A  few  dollars  expended  in  purchasing 
tracts  and  scattering  them  about  through 
the  community  will  perhaps  do  more  to 
spike  the  guns  of  noisy  secretists  than 
anything  else  that  could  be  suggested. 
Men  have  heard  the  lodges  praised  so 
often  and  so  boldly,  that  they  have  come 
to  believe  that  they  are  what  tbey  pro- 
fess to.be.  It  is  high  time  that  the  war  is 
carried  intoAfrica  itself.  This  is  the  work 
which  the  N.  C.  A.  has  in  view,  and 
would  be  glad  to  push  forward  in  every 
quarter  of  the  land.  Who  will  help  to 
do  it? 


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THE   GOSPEL   OF  IVIEMOKY. 

In  these  latter  days  science  travels  on 
the  wings  of  the  lightning,  and  among 
her  latest  discoveries  is  one  by  that  ac- 
complished memory  specialist,  Prof.  A- 
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Professor  makes  bad  memories  good,  and 
good  ones  better  by  a  method  peculiarly 
his  own,  and  the  result  accomplished  re- 
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MARKET  RSPORTS 

CHICAGO. 

Wheat— No.  a 81  Q     83 

No.  3 74  @     77 

Winter  No  a 84Ma      85 

Com— No.  a... .„ .,«..  55% 

Oat»— No.a .^^  MX 

Rye— No.  2.... 65 

Branper  ton. ..^...^. .„...-...  15  00 

Hay— Timothy 12  00  @16  50 

Butter,  medium  to  best 15  &     23>^ 

Cheese 05  @     13 

Beans 125  @  2  75 

Eggs 13X 

Beellft-Tlmothy* 2  15  2  75 

Flax 138  145 

Broomcom,.—  023^@     07 

Potatoes  per  bus 60  @      85 

Hides— Green  to  dry  flint 05>^@     13 

Lumber— Common 1100  @18  00 

Wool 13  @      37 

Cattle— Choice  to  extra 4  85  @  5  40 

Common  to  good 2  40  4  80 

HogB 4  91  @  5  60 

Sheep ^... 4  62  @  7  00 

NEW  YORK. 

Flour 3  20  @  5  60 

Wheat— Winter 94>^@      95 

Spring 94}4 

Com 66  @     &7}4 

Oats ,.      36  &     45 

Eggs 13>^ 

Butter 15  @     87 

Wool .                09  34 

KANSAS  CITY. 

Cattle.^.. .^.... ...... »^..  2  00  a  4  50 

Hogt  ............. 2  25  a  5  30 

l^**"                             2  00  e  4  50 


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THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


May  3, 1888 


Home  and  Health. 

PURIFYING  WATER. 
Alum  as  a  purifier  is  so  grossly  misun- 
derstood by  most  people,  says  the  Sani- 
tary Era,  not  excepting  always  the 
learned,  that  there  is  no  wonder  in  the 
prejudice  that  prevails  against  the  very 
name  of  it.  In  Richmond,  Va.,  where 
alum  has  been  a  customary  palliative  for 
the  muddiness  of  the  James  River  water, 
the  intemperate  use  of  it  has  made  the 
remedy  seem  nearly  as  bad  as  the  disease; 
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many  families  as  usual  as  a  lump  of  ice, 
or  more.  It  not  only  clarifies  the  water, 
but  leaves  a  plentiful  solution  of  alum  to 
spare  for  flavoring  it.  No  wonder  it  is 
offensive  and  unwholesome.  Only  the 
other  day  we  chronicled,  with  a  note  of 
"admiration,"  the  advice  of  a  Philadel- 
phia physician,  to  purify  the  offensive 
Schuylkill  water  by  means  of  "a  few 
ounces  (!)  of  alum  to  the  gallon;"  that  is, 
a  few  thousands  of  times  the  necessary 
and  proper  proportion  of  the  coagulant, 
as  taken  by  rain  water  from  the  clay  in 
the  soil,  in  passing  through  on  its  way  to 
Nature's  subterranean  filter  beds,  or  as 
infused  by  the  artificial  process  adopted 
from  Nature,  as  a  preparation  for  effect- 
ive filtering. 

It  is  hard  to  make  people  believe  that 
half  a  grain  or  1-960  of  an  ounce,  is 
enough  to  entangle  the  microscopic  and 
even  the  soluble  impurities  of  a  gallon  of 
water  in  exfilterable  masses.  With  our 
crude  natural  notion  of  power,  as  accord- 
ing to  mass,  it  may  not  be  possible  to 
conceive  how  a  pin's  head  of  alum  in 
solution  instantly  diffuses  itself  and  acts 
throughout  a  gallon  of  water.  But  the 
fact  is  beyond  dispute.  It  is  proved  by 
daily  experience  in  a  multitude  of  Hyatt 
filters,  where  this  imperceptible  constitu- 
ent insures  perfect  water,  or  demonstrates 
its  necessity  equally  well  by  the  change 
if  omitted. 

The  laboratory  proofs  of  science  are 
also  decisive  to  the  same  effect.  There 
was  published  in  the  Sanitary  Bra  in 
1886,  a  report  by  Professor  Austen,  of 
Rutgers  College,  detailing  a  most  beauti- 
ful demonstration,  by  comparative  analy- 
sis, of  the  magical  power  of  this  coagu- 
lant in  extremely  minute  proportions. 
Not  only  was  the  albuminoid  ammonia 
in  solution  coagulated  and  filtered  out  to 
the  extreme  extent  of  85  parts  from  95; 
the  addition  of  more  alum  to  the  water 
afterwards  had  no  further  effect,  thus 
proving  that  the  minute  quantity  had 
done  the  work  at  once  and  done  it  all. 
Moreover,  Prof.  Austen's  tests  for  alum 
in  the  purified  water  could  not  reveal  a 
trace;  although,  as  Professor  Chandler 
states,  Nature  commonly  leaves  in  her 
purified  water  a  larger  proportion  than  is 
used  altogether  (and  used  up)  in  the 
artificial  process.  It  is  probable,  however, 
that  precipitation  of  the  subtle  impurities 
by  the  aid  of  a  coagulant  would  require 
considerable  time,  and  therefore  it  is  not 
to  be  expected  that  any  high  degree  of 
purity  would  be  practicable  without  the 
ready  action  of  a  filter. — Farm,  Field 
and  Stockman. 

HEALING  PROPERTIES  OF  WATER. 

There  is  no  remedy  of  such  general 
application  and  none  so  easily  attainable 
as  water,  and  yet  nine  persons  in  ten  will 
pass  by  it  in  an  emergency,  to  seek  for 
something  of  less  efllcacy.  There  are  but 
few  cases  of  illness  where  water  should 
not  occupy  the  highest  place  as  a  reme 
dial  agent.  A  strip  of  flannel  or  a  nap- 
kin folded  lengthwise  and  dipped  in  hot 
water  and  wrung  out  and  then  applied 
around  the  neck  of  a  child  that  has  croup, 
and  then  covered  over  with  a  larger  and 
thicker  towel,  will  usually  bring  relief  in 
ten  minutes. 

A  towel  folded  several  times,  dipped 
in  hot  water,  wrung  out,  and  then  applied 
over  the  seat  of  the  pain  in  toothache  or 
neuralgia,  will  generally  afford  prompt 
relief.  This  treatment  in  colic  works 
like  magic.  We  have  known  cases  that 
have  resisted  other  treatment  for  hours 
yield  in  ten  minutes  to  this.  There  is 
nothing  that  will  so  promptly  cut  short  a 
congestion  of  the  lungs,  sore  throat,  or 
rheumatism,  as  hot  water,  when  applied 
promptly  and  thoroughly.  Pieces  of 
cotton  batting  dipped  in  hot  water,  and 
kept  applied  to  old  sores,  new  cuts,  bruises 
and  sprains  is  the  treatment  now  gener- 
ally adopted  in  hospitals.  Sprained  ankle 
has  been  cured  in  an  hour  by  showering 
with  hot  water,  poured  from  a  height  of 
three  feet.  Tepid  water  acta  promptly  as 
an  emetic,  and  hot  water  taken  freely 


half  an  hour  before  bedtime  is  the  best 
of  cathartics  in  case  of  constipation, 
while  it  has  a  most  a  soothing  effect  on 
the  stomach  and  bowels.  This  treatment 
continued  for  a  few  months,  with  proper 
attention  to  diet,  will  alleviate  any  case 
of  dyspepsia. — Oracle. 


"One  breaks  the  glass  and  cuts  his  fingers; 
But  they  whom  Truth  and  Wisdom  lead, 
Can  gather  honey  from  a  weed." 

Those  who  are  wise,  and  who  love  the 
truth,  will  believe  what  we  say  when  we 
tell  them  that  Dr.  Pierce's  Favorite  Pre- 
scription has  done  more  to  relieve  the 
sufferings  of  women,  than  all  other  med- 
icines now  known  to  science.  It  cures 
all  irregularities,  internal  inflammation 
and  ulceration,  displacements  and  kin- 
dred troubles.  It  is  the  only  medicine 
for  women,  sold  by  druggists,  under  a 
positive  guarantee  from  the  manufactur- 
ers, that  it  will  give  satisfaction  in  every 
case,  or  money  will  be  refunded.  This 
guarantee  has  been  printed  on  the  bottle  - 
wrapper,  and  faithfully  carried  out  for 
many  years. 


That  feeling  of  weariness,  so  often  ex- 
perienced in  the  spring,  results  from  a 
sluggish  condition  of  the  blood  which, 
being  impure,  does  not  quicken  with  the 
changing  season.  Ayer's  Sarsaparilla, 
by  vitalizing  and  cleansing  the  blood, 
strengthens  and  invigorates  the  system. 


CONSUMPTION  SUKELY  CUBED. 

To  the  Editor: — Please  inform  your 
readers  that  I  have  a  positive  remedy  for 
the  above  named  disease .  By  its  timely 
use  thousands  of  hopeless  cases  have  been 
permanently  cured.  I  shall  be  glad  to 
send  two  bottles  of  my  remedy  free  to 
any  of  your  readers  who  have  consump- 
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and  P.  O.  address.  Respectfully,  T.  A. 
Slocum,  M.  C,  181  Pearl  St.,  New  York. 


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THE  CHRISTIAlSr  CYNOSURE. 


16 


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Farm  Notes. 


GRAPE  VINES. 


1.  Plant  always  on  well  drained  soil- 
clay  subsoil,  rows  running  north  and 
south  if  possible.  Buy  two-year  old 
vines,  and  be  careful  to  get  of  a  reliable 
man.  You  will  find  they  will  unitedly 
praise  the  Worden,  the  Brighton,  and  a 
few  more.  Go  in  for  such  sorts  freely. 
Of  new  sorts  believe  next  to  nothing. 
When  a  grape  has  been  planted  for  five 
or  six  years  you  can  get  at  the  truth. 
When  your  vines  come  bury  them  in  the 
ground  until  ready  to  plant,  but  better 
be  ready  to  plant  at  once. 

2.  To  prepare  the  soil  plow  deeply, 
and  manure  richly  from  the  barnyard 
with  old  manure.  I  do  not  like  half- 
decayed  manure  about  the  roots  of  any- 
thing. It  breeds  fungus  that  attacks  the 
roots.  It  kills  pears,  and  diseases  grapes. 
If  you  have  ashes  use  them  very  freely; 
and  if  the  soil  is  heavy,  cart  on  and  plow 
in  all  the  anthracite  coal  ashes  you  can 
get. 

3.  Plant  vines  in  rows  that  stand  eight 
feet  apart,  and  vines  eight  feet  apart  in 
the  rows.  See  that  the  holes  are  large 
and  the  roots  well  spread,  and  the  dirt 
firmed  down  tight.  Don't  dig  holes  any 
faster  thaa  you  plant,  and  don't  carry  a 
large  lot  of  vines  about  loose  to  be  dried 
up.  Keep  what  you  do  carry  wrapped 
in  a  wet  carpet  or  sacking.  Fill  the  holes 
with  rich  soil  but  not  with  manure.  Old 
bones?  Yes,  if  you  choose;  but  there  is 
a  deal  of  nonsense  about  such  doings. 
When  the  hole  is  nearly  full  pour  in  a 
pailful  of  water,  unless  it  be  a  wet  day. 
If  possible,  don't  set  on  a  wet  day,  when 
the  soil  is  sticky. 

4.  When  you  set,  cut  back  the  vine  to 
two  buds.  When  these  start  one  will  be 
weaker  than  the  other.  After  they  have 
grown  till  you  can  judge  which  is  best, 
cut  off  the  weakest.  Tie  the  strongest  to 
a  cedar  post.  Tie  frequently  as  growth 
continues.  In  the  fall  cut  off,  leaving 
four  buds  or  about  that,  and  cover  for 
winter.  The  first  year  no  matter  how 
hardy  the  variety  the  vines  should  be 
covered;  as  they  are  small  it  will  make 
little  trouble.  In  the  spring  uncover  and 
this  year  let  two  of  the  four  buds  grow . 
In  the  fall  cut  off  one  of  these  to  two  or 
three  buds  for  next  year's  growth  and 
leave  the  other  four  to  six  feet  long  to 
bear.  The  general  rule  is  to  increase  the 
number  of  bearing  canes  as  the  vines 
grow  older. 

5.  It  is  on  young  wood  that  fruit  ap- 
pears; the  object  of  trimming  is  to  re- 
move as  far  as  possible  old  wood  and 
keep  wood  renewed  each  year.  Now  we 
come  to  what  is  called  syatems  of  grape- 
pruning.  A  brief  article  would  not  cover 
this  matter.  Better  do  one  of  two  or 
three  things.  (1)  Buy  a  good  treatise  on 
grape  culture  and  work  out  the  problem 
under  its  advice,  or  (2)  go  to  a  good 
vineyard  and  study  the  plan  adopted,  or 
(3)  hire  a  vineyardist  to  come  and  teach 
you  his  system. 

6.  For  a  trellis  a  cheap  and  simple  plan 
is  to  set  a  strong  cedar  post — the  large 
end  of  a  hop  pole  will  do — at  each  vine. 
Run  two  wires  one  foot  and  a  half  and 
three  feet  and  a  half  to  four  feet  from  the 
ground.  Fasten  them  to  the  stakes  with 
small  staples.  Brace  the  end  posts 
strongly.  Train  the  vines  to  the  wires. 
Heavier  posts  may  be  set  at  a  later  '  date 
and  cross  arms  fastened  on  top  with  wires 
that  carry  canes  high  up.  The  lower 
canes  will  bear,  but  the  buds  of  the  canes 
most  remote  from  the  root  will  ripen  best 
and  earliest.  The  simple  trellis  of  two 
wires  should  have  posts  set  very  strongly, 
and  be  about  five  feet  high. 

7.  There  will  be  harm  done  by  grow- 
ing one  row  of  currents,  gooseberries  or 
annual  crops  between  rows  or  trellises. 
Cultivate  with  a  plow  the  first  year;  with 
cultivator  thereafter.  It  will  not  do  to 
tear  the  roots  of  vines  that  grow  near  the 
surface.    Keep  the  surface  scarified. 

8.  Shall  we  enrich  the  vines?  To  be 
sure,  always.  All  vines  need  it  to  be 
profitable.  Use  ashes  and  yard  manure. 
Of  course  bone  manure  is  good.  I  cover 
the  surface  heavily  after  laying  down 
vines  in  the  fall.  Grape  vines  are  heavy 
eaters  and  exhaust  soil. 

9  Lay  down  the  vines  in  November 
and  cover  choice  sorts  that  are  not  hardy. 
The  lona  and  Duchess  are  sj  good  I 
would  not  be  without  them  at  any  cost. 
But  most  vines  need  only  be  cut  loose 
and  pressed  down  to  the  soil.  I  have  my 
own  fastened  down  a  little  closer  with 
stakes  set  across. 


10.  If  your  vineyard  is  exposed  to 
north  and  southwest  blasts,  better  set 
evergreen  hedges  or  tight  board  fences. 
Those  exposed  to  thawing  in  the  winter 
are  also  in  danger.  There  are  specially 
warm  spots  that  thaw  out  easily;  better 
throw  on  snow  on  a  warm  day.  Vines 
growing  on  the  south  side  of  a  barn  or 
other  building  are  more  liable  to  have 
buds  spoiled  than  those  that  get  less  sun. 
Thawing  and  freezing  are  worse  than 
steady  cold. 

11.  If  you  desire  to  cover  fences,  or 
buildings,  or  arbors,  or  well  houses,  let 
the  vines  run  much  as  they  will,  only  oc- 
casionally cutting  back  thoroughly  the 
old  wood.  The  grape-vine  is  one  of  the 
best  of  all  vines  for  neatness  and  beauty, 
as  well  as  profit.  Millions  of  dollars  of 
grapes  might  be  grown  on  the  bad-look- 
ing buildings  of  our  towns  and  country. 

12.  If  a  vineyard  or  a  vine  has  been 
run  down  by  neglect  cut  out  the  old 
wood,  leave  a  few  new  canes  to  grow; 
see  that  these  ripen  their  wood  well;  look 
out  to  rub  away  the  hundreds  of  new 
canes  that  push,  and  then  feed  up  the 
soil  on  the  general  principles  above 
stated 

13.  For  mildew  use  sulphur;  for  black 
rot  I  dare  not  say  any  remedy  is  certain, 
but  the  best  is  probably  the  application 
of  arsenical  mixtures  such  as  is  recom- 
mended by  the  Agricultural  Department 
at  Washington.  As  preventives,  have 
perfect  drainage  and  the  vines  open  to 
air  and  sun.  I  dig  up  and  burn  a  vine 
affected. 

14.  For  sparrows,  wage  war.  I  drove 
them  out  of  my  vineyard  last  fall  with 
Paris  green  in  meal  wet  and  hung  on  the 
trellises  in  shallow  pails.  They  are  cute 
enough  to  recognize  danger. 

15.  As  to  begging  grapes  it  is  a  vast 
trouble,  but  has  all  the  advantages  claimed 
for  it— including  one  more,  that  you  can 
then  let  hens  run  in  your  vineyard  to 
keep  it  clear  of  insects.  However,  go 
slow  and  experiment. — B.  P.  Powell,  in 
Independent. 


'LOGIC    IS    LOGIC." 


Now  there  was  the  case  of  our  friend 
McKay: 

He  said  to  himself  in  his  resolute  way, 

That  a  cough  which  was  growing  from 
bad  to  worse 

Must  be  cured,  in  spite  of  a  slender  purse. 

An  ocean  voyage  was  out  of  the  question, 

A  Florida  trip  a  useless  suggestion ; 

Yet  die  he  wouldn't!    His  money  he  paid 

For  the  "Golden  Medical  Discovery,"  by 
Dr.  Pierce  made; 

And  as  sound  as  a  nut  is  his  health  to- 
day— 

"Logic  is  logic,  that's  all  I  say." 


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Beauty 

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enhance  personal 
beauty  is  the  daily 
use  of  Ayer's  Hair 
Vigor.  No  matter 
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in  the  market. 

"  I  am  free  to  confess  that  a  trial  of 
Ayer'.s  Hair  Vigor  has  convinced  me 
that  it  is  a  genuine  article.  Its  use  has 
not  only  caused  the  hair  of  my  wife  and 
daughter  to  be 

Abundant  and  Glossy, 

but  it  has  given  ray  ratlier  stunted  mus- 
tache a  resiiectable  length  and  a|)pcar- 
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"  I  have  <ised  Ayer's  Hair  Vigor  in  my 
family  for  a  number  of  years,  and  re- 
gard it  as  the  best  hair  preparation  I 
know  of.  It  keeps  tlic  scalp  clean,  the 
hair  soft  and  lively,-  and  preserves  the 
original  color.  My  wife  has  used  it  for 
a  long  time  with  most  satisfactory  re- 
sults."—  Benjamin  M.  Johnson,  M.  D., 
Thomas  Hill,  Mo. 

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but  after  using  half  a  bottle  of  Ayer's 
Hair  Vigor  it  grew  black  and  glossy.  I 
cannot  express  the  joy  and  gratitude  I 
feel."  — Mabel  C.  Hardy,  Delavan,  111. 

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CUIcaco. 

Explains  the  trus  source  and  meaning  of  ever} 
ceremony  and  eymbol  of  the  Lodge,  thus  ohowiuKths 
priuciple3  ou  which  the  order  ie  fouu>le<i.  By  a 
careful  perusal  of  this  work,  a  more  thorough 
kuowlodtte  of  the  priuciples  of  the  order  can  Iw  ob- 
tained than  by  attending  the  Lodge  for  years.  Everj 
Mason,  every  person  contemplating  becoming  a 
member,  and  even  those  who  are  iiidifTereut  on  the 
subject,  should  procure  and  carefully  read  this  work. 
An  appendix  Is  added  of  'SI  pages  embodying 

Freemasonry  at  a  (Jlance, 

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Lod«e  toge'her  with  a  brtef  explanation  of  each. 
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HON.    THTJRLOW    WEED  ON    THE  MOB 
OAN  ABDUCTION. 

This  Is  a  sixteen  pace  pamphlet  oomprislug  a  let- 
ter written  by  .Mr.  Weed,  and  read  at  the  uuTelllug 
of  the  monument  erected  to  the  memory  of  Capt. 
William  Morgan.  The  frontispiece  Is  an  engraving 
of  the  monument.  It  is  a  history  of  the  unlawfu 
seliiire  and  confinement  of  Morgan  In  the  nanandal 
guB  Jail,  hissulwequent  couvoyam-e  by  Freemaaon- 
to  Fort  Niagara,  and  drowning  In  Lake  Untario 
He  not  only  BubccrllMMi  hisNAMSto  the  letter,  bm 
iTTACnK*  BIO  AFriDAvrr  to  It. 

In  cliwing  his  letter  he  writes:  I  now  lo<ik  baoa 
through  ait  Interval  of  flfty-elx  years  with  a  con- 
scious sense  of  having  been  goTerntMl  througn  the 
••  Antl-Masonio  excitement  "  by  a  siiu'ere  desire 
first,  to  vindicate  the  violated  laws  of  my  country, 
and  u-xt,  to  arrest  the  great  power  and  dangerour 
lufluonoort  of  "  secret  societies." 

The  pamphlet  Is  well  worth  pemsing,  and  Is 
doubtless  the  Inst  historloal  article  which  this  greai 
Journalist  and  pollUclan  wrote.  (Chicago,  NatlonAI 
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Mat  3, 1888 


npws  of  The  Week 

WASHTNGTON. 

The  Democratic  papers  announce  that 
a  part  of  their  campaign  this  year  will  be 
directed  to  the  capture  of  the  Senate. 
As  the  case  stands  now  with  Barbour,  of 
Virginia,  elected  to  succeed  Riddleber- 
ger,  and  supposing  that  there  are  no 
other  changes,  the  next  Senate  will  be  a 
tie,  and  with  a  Democratic  Vice  Presi- 
dent that  party  would  control  the  upper 
house  of  Congress. 

It  is  reported  that  the  leading  Repub- 
lican Senators  are  considering  the  expe- 
diency of  adding  the  direct  tax  bill  lately 
put  off  after  a  ten  days'  dead  lock,  to 
some  one  of  the  appropriation  bills  as  an 
amendment  and  of  sending  the  appropri- 
ation bill  to  the  House  in  that  form. 

Secretary  Whitney  took  two  train 
loads  of  personal  guests,  Saturday,  to  the 
launching  of  the  Government  vessels  at 
Cramp's  Ship  Yards  in  Philadelphia. 
The  party,  numbering  upward  of  three 
hundred,  was  composed  of  Senators,  Rep- 
resentatives, army  and  navy  officers. 
Government  officials  and  newspaper  cor- 
respondents. The  vessels  launched  were 
a  dynamite  cruiser  and  the  new  gun-boat 
Yorktown. 

CHICAGO. 

General  Crook  has  been  assigned  to 
the  command  of  the  Division  of  the  Mis- 
souri, with  headquarters  at  Chicago.  It 
was  generally  expected  that  the  command 
of  this  division,  which  is  the  largest  in 
the  army,  would  be  given  to  General  0. 
O.  Howard,  who  is  very  anxious  to  come 
to  Chicago.  It  is  understood  that  the 
present  arrangement  is  temporary  and 
General  Grook  will  soon  go  to  San  Fran- 
cisco and  Howard  will  come  here. 

Captain  John  Trotter  and  members  of 
the  Salvation  Army  were  locked  up  at 
the  East  Chicago  Avenue  station  for 
parading  the  streets  without  a  permit. 

A  warrant  for  the  arrest  of  Henry 
Hoeper,  a  Thirty-fifth  street  saloon- 
keeper, was  sworn  out  by  Mrs.  Susan 
Ranee,  who  recently  attempted  suicide, 
she  alleging  that  the  trouble  was  caused 
by  Hoeper's  supplying  her  infuriated  and 
drunken  husband  with  liquor . 

Matthias  Busch,  the, wife  murderer, 
was  found  guilty  of  murder  in  the  first 
degree  and  sentenced  to  life  imprison 
ment.  Busch  was  a  drunken  employe  in 
a  brewery.  He  quarreled  with  his  wife 
about  her  property  and  her  interference 
with  his  lodge  relations.  The  murder 
was  most  ferocious  and  cold  blooded. 

A  horrible  double  crime  was  committed 
by  a  drunken  brute  of  a  father  on  Law 
Street  in  the  West  Division.  The  unnat- 
ural man  was  making  a  criminal  assault 
upon  a  13 -year-old  daughter  when  the 
mother  interfered  and  was  beaten  to 
death. 

There  are  four  different  companies 
asking  for  permission  from  the  city 
council  to  build  elevated  railways  in  the 
West  Division  The  Yerkes  syndicate 
which  owns  the  horse  car  lines  and  their 
valuable  franchises  is  considering  elec- 
tricity as  a  motor  instead  of  a  cable  line. 

cotraTRY. 

A  bill  making  it  a  misdemeanor  to 
raise  any  foreign  flag  upon  any  building 
owned  by  the  State  or  by  any  village  or 
city  was  defeated  Thursday  in  the  New 
York  Assembly,  104  to  4.  The  high 
license  liquor  bill  passed  and  now  goes 
to  the  Governor. 

In  the  platform  adopted  Thursday  by 
the  Maine  Republicans  Mr.  Blaine  is  not 
put  forward  for  the  Presidency,  but  is 
set  down  as  deserving  of  the  thanks  of 
the  country  for  his  answer  to  Mr.  Cleve- 
land's free  trade  message. 

The  Democrats  of  Indiana,  in  State 
convention  at  Indianapolis  Thursday, 
nominated  Courtland  C.  Matson  for  Gov- 
ernor, William  R  Myers  for  Lieutenant 
Governor,  W.  E  Niblack,  George  V. 
Uowk,  and  Allen  Z  hilars  for  Judges  of 
the  Supreme  Court,  and  Senators  Voor- 
heea  and  Turpie  and  John  J.  Shaoklin 
and  John  H.  Bass  as  delegates  to  the 
National  convention.  The  latter  were 
instructed  to  support  Gray  for  Vice  Pres- 
ident The  resolutions  demand  reduc- 
tion of  the  tariff,  oppose  prohibition, 
approve  the  State  administration,  indorse 
Cleveland,  and  express  belief  in  a  civil 
service  that  will  place  in  office  persons 
who  would  harmonize  in  principles  and 
policy  with  the  National  administration. 


Another  result  of  woman  suffrage  in 
municipal  affairs  is  the  action  of  the 
Council  at  Delphos,  Kansas,  in  prohibit- 
ing billiard  halls  or  pool  tables  in  this 
place  for  the  next  year. 

A  cyclone  struck  the  town  of  Pratt, 
Kansas,  late  Thursday  afternoon,  demol- 
ishing several  houses,  and  Mrs.  William 
Fisher  was  fatally  injured  and  others 
bruised  by  flying  timbers . 

The  bursting  of  a  water  pipe  Wednes- 
day caused  a  sewer  ditch  at  Yonkers,  N. 
Y.,  to  cave  in  on  the  workmen,  six  of 
whom  lost  their  lives. 

A  bridge  on  the  Burlington  and  Mis- 
souri River  Road  near  Alma,  Neb.,  gave 
way  Friday  morning,  its  supports  having 
been  weakened  by  rains,  as  a  through 
passenger  train  was  passing,  and  the 
mail  and  express  cars  went  down  with  it, 
and  all  passengers  coaches  except  one 
left  the  track.  One  passenger  was  killed, 
and  several  were  injured. 

No  improvement  in  the  condition  of 
the  winter  wheat  crop,  says  the  Inter 
Ocean  is  reported.  Fears  are  expressed 
that  the  crops  will  prove  a  failure  in  Illi- 
nois, while  in  Ohio,  Michigan,  and  the 
Pacific  slope  the  plant  locks  unhealthy. 
In  regard  to  the  spring  wheat  situation, 
the  weather  is  backward,  and  seeding  is 
about  two  weeks  late.  Reports  from 
Sauk  county  and  other  parts  of  Wiscon- 
sin indicate  that  the  chinch  bugs  survived 
the  winter  in  great  numbers  and  vigor, 
and  farmers  are  discouraged. 

It  is  reported  from  New  Orleans,  La., 
that  news  was  received  there  Wednesday 
of  the  assassination  of  William  Adams  in 
Monroe,  Onachita  Parish,  Sunday,  April 
22.  Adams  had  been  active  in  distribut- 
ing Republican  tickets  during  the  recent 
election,  and  so  incurred  the  enmity  of 
the  political  bosses  of  that  district. 

Recently  at  Nelsonville,  Ohio,  Edward 
H.  Davis,  Assistant  Marshal,  arrested 
Samuel  Dow,  a  young  married  man,  for 
fast  driving.  Tuesday  night  Dow  met 
Davis  and  shot  him  dead .  The  murderer 
then  walked  a  block,  and  putting  the 
revolver  to  his  own  head,  fired  and  fell  a 
corpse . 

Thomas  Allen,  an  inmate  of  the  Sol- 
diers' Home  at  Dayton,  Ohio,  was  bru- 
tally murdered  in  a  low  saloon  in  that 
city  Thursday  night.  The  old  soldiers 
threatened  to  raid  the  place,  but  officers 
interfered. 

The  street  cleaners  of  Newport,  Ky., 
struck  Tuesday  because  the  boss  of»  the 
department  put  a  colored  man  to  work. 

At  Licking,  Mo.,  Tuesday,  James 
Smalley,  who  had  become  possessed  of 
an  insane  idea  that  his  family  would  go 
to  the  poor  house,  though  he  was  well 
off,  killed  his  two  young  children  and 
cut  his  own  throat. 

At  Bassemer,  Ala.,  Monday  night. 
Hardy  Posey,  colored,  was  lynched  for 
an  attempted  criminal  assault  on  a  young 
white  girl,  and  it  is  reported  that  the 
town  is  surrounded  by  armed  Negroes 
who  threaten  to  burn  the  houses  and  kill 
the  citizens  to  avenge  this  lynching. 

The  Governors  of  the  thirteen  original 
States,  except  Massachusetts,  met  at 
Philadelphia  to  consider  plans  for  the 
establishment  of  a  lasting  memorial  com- 
memorating the  first  century  of  the  Con- 
stitution of  the  United  States 

Judge  T.  P.  Makibben,  of  Campbell 
county,  Ky.,  was  found  dead  in  bed 
Tuesday  afternoon  in  his  boarding- 
house,  in  Newport,  Ky.,  with  a  half- 
empty  bottle  of  chloral  by  his  bedside. 
He  was  a  hard  drinker. 

Recent  rains  have  encouraged  the 
farmers  of  Iowa,  who  have  already  begun 
planting  corn,  the  season  being  about  ten 
days  earlier  than  last  year. 

The  Michigan  Agricultural  College,  at 
Lansing,  has  closed  until  May  23  on  ac- 
count of  the  breaking  out  of  scarlet  fever. 

The  Toledo,  Peoria  and  Western  Rail- 
way Company  has  now  settled  all  claims 
for  damages  caused  by  the  bridge  horror 
at  Chatpworth,  Jll  ,  last  Summer.  The 
total  amount  of  claims  allowed  was  about 
1500,000. 

Rushsylvania,  a  village  nine  miles 
from  Bellefontaine,  Ohio,  was  the  scene 
of  a  terrible  accident  Friday  night.  A 
school  exhibition  was  in  progress  in  the 
second  story  of  a  brick  building.  The 
hall  seats  about  400  people,  and  was 
crowded  to  its  utmost  capacity.  Sud- 
denly, without  the  slightett  warning,  the 
floor  gave  way,  and  the  entire  audience 
went  down  about  fifteen  feet.    The  killed 


are  Mrs.  J.  E.  Alexander,  wife  of  the 
minister,  and  Miss  Garwood,  of  Belle- 
fontaine.    Many  were  injured. 

FOBBIGN. 

The  Russian  Government  has  decided 
to  expel  all  Jews  from  Hessingjors  ex- 
cept those  who  have  served  in  the  army. 
General  Ignatieff  has  been  elected  Presi- 
dent of  the  Slavonic  Benevolent  Society 
of  St.  Petersburg  in  place  of  General 
Durnovo.  His  election  has  produced  a 
bad  impression  in  Vienna,  and  is  consid- 
ered to  bode  ill  to  Europe. 

The  German  emperor  is  recovering 
from  his  last  attack  and  another  is  not 
expected  for  six  weeks. 

Queen  Victoria  has  returned  to  Eng- 
land. She  had  a  consultation  with  Bis- 
marck while  in  Berlin,  but  nothing  was 
said  of  the  love-match  between  her 
grand-daughter  and  Prince  Alexander. 

The  steamer  City  of  New  York,  from 
China,  brings  details  of  an  earthquake  at 
Yunnan.  The  official  report  says:  From 
the  second  day  of  the  twelfth  month  of 
the  last  year  till  the  third  day  of  this 
year  there  were  over  ten  shocks  of  earth- 
quake, accompanied  with  a  noise  like 
thunder.  Yamens  in  the  cities  of  Shih 
Ping  and  Kien  Shui  were  either  knocked 
down  or  split  right  down,  and  temples 
likewise;  in  Shih  Ping  eight  or  nine- 
tenths  of  the  houses  in  the  south  are  fall- 
ing down,  and  half  of  those  in  the  east; 
in  the  northwest  1,000  being  cracked  or 
bent  out  of  the  perpendicular;  200  peo- 
ple, men  and  women,  old  and  young, 
being  crushed  to  death,  wounded  and 
injured  over  300.  At  Tung  Hiang  over 
800  were  crushed  to  death  and  about  700 
or  800  wounded.  At  Nan  Hiang  there 
were  over  20O  dead  and  over  400  injured. 
At  Si  Hang  there  are  over  200  dead  and 
over  500  injured.  At  Peh  Hiang  about 
100  were  killed  and  the  same  number  in- 
jured. In  the  town  and  suburbs  over 
4,000  people  are  either  killed  or  wounded, 
eight  or  nine-tenths  of  the  houses  fallen 
down,  and  the  rest  cracked  and  leaning 
over. 


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Christian  Cynosure 


'in  BBORBT  EAVB  1  8 AID  2fOTHINe."—Je»tu  Ohritt. 


Vol.  XX..  No.  34 


CHICAGO,  THURSDAY,  MAY  10,  1888. 


Wholb  No.  941. 


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CONTENTS. 


El>ITOBIA.L  : 

Notes  and  CommentB 1 

Caste 8 

The  North  American  Re- 
view    8 

,  The  Knights  of  Labor 8 

The  Grand  Army  Receiv- 
ing ex-Rebels 8 

N.  C.  A.  Board  Meeting..  9 

COHTBIBUnONS  : 

Christianity  and  Benevo- 

1  ATI  OP  1 

The   Angio-'Chlnese  "col- 
lege, Foochow,  China..    2 

Masonic  Sun-worship 2 

Twelve  Theses 2 

Why  I  joined  the  Lodge 

and  wny  I  left  It 3 

Rbtobm  Nbws: 
From  the  Washington 
Headquarters ;  From 
Richmond  to  Washing- 
ton;  A  Kindly  Welcome ; 
Waking  Up  Ohio ;  From 
the  New  Orleans  Watch- 
tower 5,9 


COBBBSFONDBNOB : 

The  Salvation  Army  in 
Chicago;  We  can  Sell 
One  Million;  Temper- 
ance and  Woman  Suf- 
frage; Notes  of  Bro. 
Clark's  Work ;  Pith  and 
Point 5,6 

LiTBRATDRB 6 

The  State  Meetings: 
Michigan  Meeting ;   What 

Pennsylvanlans  Say 12 

In  Bbibf 7 

ThbN.C.A...  7 

Secret    Sooibtibs     Con- 
demned     7 

ThbHomb 10 

Tbmpbrancb 11 

Religious  Nbws 12 

BiBLB  Lbsson 12 

Donations 13 

Home  and  Hbalth 14 

Fabm  Notes 15 

News  of  thb  Wbbk 16 

Business 13 

Markets , 13 


THB  N.  O.  A.  FOREIGN  FUND. 


W.  J.  Gladwin,  Bombay,  India,  writes:  "Thank  God 
for  the  aid  you  are  giving  to  our  great  mission  work  in 
India."  He  has  received  books  and  tracts  through  the 
National  Christian  Association  Foreign  Fund.  The 
thanks  of  the  Association  are  extended  also  to  those  who 
have  by  their  timely  gifts  helped  in  the  foreign  work. 


Sign  thb  Pledge. — The  plan  adopted  by  the  National 
Board  is  before  the  readers  of  the  Cynosure.  Now  let 
every  man  and  woman  in  the  land,  who  is  opposed  to 
lodge  men  in  office  and  is  willing  to  make  it  the  rule  not 
to  vote  for  them,  send  in  their  names.  Let  those  who 
are  willing  to  secure  names  in  their  several  localities  sig- 
nify that  they  will  do  so.  Write  names  and  postoffices 
distinctly,  voters  and  non  voters  in  separate  lists. 


dead;  and  if  his  efforts  have  no  other  effect  they  act 
as  a  goad  to  a  fagged  steed.  In  Washington  the 
convention  was  much  in  debate.  Senator  Palmer  of 
Michigan  repeated  his  bold  advice  of  a  few  months 
since  that  the  party  should  take  a  bold  course.  He 
says  the  thing  to  do  is  to  cut  loose  at  once  and  for- 
ever from  the  saloon  element  and  clasp  hands  with 
its  inveterate  enemy.  A  Prohibition  plank  in  the 
national  platform  this  year  is  his  prescription. 


The  Chicago  anarchists  are  interested  in  the  next 
governor  of  Illinois.  Fielden,  Schwab  and  Neebe 
had  hardly  got  fitted  to  their  prison  garb  before  pe- 
titions were  circulating  for  their  release.  There  is 
no  hope  of  Oglesby,  but  the  next  governor  may  be 
susceptible  to  "influence,"  and  make  the  life  term 
of  these  men  an  affair  of  a  few  months  only.  Here 
in  Chicago  the  anarchist  party  does  not  prosper. 
The  Alarm,  Parson's  paper,  was  kept  alive  by  Dyer 
D.  Lum.  It  lately  suspended,  reprinting  defiantly 
the  famous  circular  of  May  4th,  1886.  A  saloonist 
who  has  fallen  under  the  curse  of  the  anarchists 
says  there  are  several  groups  meeting  regularly,  but 
like  Bunyan's  Diabolonians  they  hide  very  close. 


The  four  hundred  and  fifty-six  delegates  to  the 
Methodist  General  Conference  meeting  in  New  Fork, 
after  several  days'  debate  decided  Monday  not  to 
admit  Miss  F.  E.  Willard  and  her  lady  friends  who 
had  been  sent  up  as  delegates.  The  ablest  men  in 
the  conference  took  part  in  the  discussion,  and  the 
result  was  a  sort  of  compromise,  or  shifting  of  the 
responsibility,  the  Conference  referring  the  whole 
matter  to  the  annual  conferences.  If  now  the  right 
of  the  annual  conferences  be  questioned,  as  it  may 
be  on  the  same  grounds,  the  matter  will  come  back 
to  the  churches,  and  the  vocation  of  the  General 
Conference  will  be  much  limited.  It  is  a  step 
toward  congregational  rule  in  the  church  which  we 
are  not  sorry  to  note. 


The  arrangement  perfected  by  Mr.  Finch  at  Sara- 
toga last  year  by  which  the  color  line  should  be 
drawn  in  the  Good  Templar  order  is  not  happily  re- 
cefved  in  England.  It  will  be  remembered  that 
these  lodges  were  divided  into  two  bands  by  the 
color  line,  the  half  which  Finch  headed  being  afflic- 
ted with  negro-phobia.  The  plan  adopted  with  great 
demonstrations  of  pious  joy  gives  the  negroes  sep- 
arate lodges.  The  English  Grand  Lodge  met  lately 
in  London,  and  the  Finch  settlement  was  met  with 
a  protest  from  Rev.  Mr.  Boyd,  and  a  resolution  of 
regret  from  the  "Grand  Councillor,"  that  the  law  of 
the  order  was  now  for  race  separation,  and  pledg- 
ing the  lodge  to  seek  a  repeal  of  the  color  line  act. 
But  the  love  of  the  lodge  prevailed  over  justice  and 
truth  and  the  Saratoga  plan  was  confirmed  five  to  one. 


The  lists  of  Alabama  pastobs  received  from  the 
president  of  the  State  Baptist  Convention  suggest  a 
cheerful  word  for  our  Southern  Ministers'  Fund,  which 
the  report  of  this  week  swells  to  $1073  40.  We  do  not 
need  any  editorial  appeals  when  brethren  at  the  South 
can  themselves  urge  this  matter  with  such  eloquence  as 
does  Bro.  Davidson  in  his  letter  this  week .  Be  sure  to 
read  it;  and  reading,  let  it  move  you  to  help.  Remem- 
ber that  there  are  no  percentages  taken  from  this  fund 
for  office  expenses,  and  the  paper  is  sent  hardly  at  cost 
of  publication. 


The  Illinois  Republican  convention  last  week  bad 
fairly  to  face  a  resolution  favoring  a  popular  vote 
on  a  prohibitory  amendment.  A  bold  member 
from  Rockford,  where  license  lately  was  throttled, 
brought  it  in.  There  was  a  long  wrangle  and  finally 
the  convention  agreed  to  endorse  the  past  record  of 
the  party.  The  Anti-Saloon  Convention  in  New 
York  Wednesday  proyes  that   Mr.  Griffin  is  not 


The  saloon-keepers  of  St.  Louis  and  Cincinnati 
are  in  bitter  perplexity.  The  Supreme  Court  of 
Missouri  decided  Monday  that  the  St.  Louis  city  or- 
dinance of  1857,  under  which  the  saloons  were  per- 
mitted to  sell  seven  days  in  the  week,  was  never 
legally  adopted.  The  Downing  law  of  1883  forbids 
the  Sabbath  traffic,  but  the  dealers  fought  it  on  the 
ground  that  the  old  law  was  not  repealed  and  won. 
But  now  that  the  old  law  is  no  more  they  have  no 
relief.  In  Ohio,  the  new  owen  law  against  Sunday 
saloons  is  well  carried  out  except  in  Cincinnati. 
Some  hundred  and  fifty  saloonists  were  arrested 
Monday  and  they  are  promised  next  Sabbath  an  im- 
mediate arrest  if  they  disobey.  Thus  the  good  work 
goes  on.  The  strong  grip  of  the  law  is  tightening 
upon  the  throat  of  this  evil,  and  its  life  must  go 
out. 


But  Chicago  is  not  so  favored.  The  history  of 
New  York  shows  that  most  efforts  for  reform  in  the 
city  come  from  the  State.  Cincinnati  and  St.  Lou- 
is have  this  help,  but  Chicago  has  it  not  in  so  full 
measure.  Efforts  have  been  made  again  and  again 
to  check  the  saloon  power,  but  with  little  success. 
The  latest  attempt  was  to  keep  saloons  200  feet 
away  from  churches  and  schools,  and  off  residence 
blocks  when  a  majority  of  the  owners  were  against 


them.  The  churches  showed  they  were  in  earnest 
by  sending  numerous  and  eminent  representatives  to 
the  meeting  of  the  Council.  Dre.  Johnson.Goodwin, 
Stryker,  Little,Withrow,  etc.,  with  members  of  their 
churches,  were  present.  But  they  had  the  mortifica- 
tion to  see  the  measure  defeated  30  to  17,  by  the 
new  Republican  aldermen  themselves  had  probably 
voted  for.  Among  these  aldermen  were  five  saloon- 
keepers whom  Mayor  Roche  did  not  dare  offend  by 
ruling  out  their  vote. 


There  have  been  three  great  strikes  in  the  United 
States  of  late  which  have  ended  in  the  total  defeat 
of  the  labor  lodges  and  tend  to  their  dissolution  and 
overthrow:  (1)  The  Martin  Irons  strike  in  the 
southwest  in  1886  in  which  he  threatened  to  stop 
every  freight  train  between  the  oceans,  unless  the 
Knights  of  Labor  were  recognized  in  three  weeks; 
(2)  the  great  Reading  strike  in  Pennsylvania  last 
winter;  and  (3)  the  Engineers'  strike  on  the  C.  B. 
and  Q.  road,  which  has  just  been  declared  off.  Our 
striking  laborers  were  living  like  kings  and  princes 
in  this  country  compared  with  the  state  of  the  Eng- 
lish laboring  population  in  1843;  and  they  have 
sunk  money  enough  in  the  loss  of  wages  to  have 
given  one  half  of  them  a  snug  property  free  of  debt. 
And  if  to  this  is  added  what  has  been  lost  by  liquor, 
figures  would  turn  pale  at  the  amounts  sunk  by  our 
strikers,  sworn  to  secrecy  and  obedience  to  invisible 
dictators. 


0HR1STIANIT7  AND  BBNBVOLSNCB 


BY   BEV.    B.   W.    WILLIAMS. 

Christianity  teaches  the  fatherhood  of  God  and 
the  brotherhood  of  man.  It  assumes  that  every 
man  is,  to  some  extent,  his  brother's  keeper.  It  de- 
clares that  "no  man  liveth  unto  himself,  and  no  man 
dieth  unto  himself."  Its  moral  code  is  supreme 
love  to  God  and  universal  love  to  man.  Vitalized 
by  this  principle,  the  Christian  religion  has  ever 
been  the  world's  great  teacher  of  benevolence.  It 
has  set  on  foot  and  executed  many  philanthropic 
and  reformatory  schemes  for  the  good  of  mankind. 
It  has  given  to  the  world  a  class  of  human  and 
charitable  institutions  scarcely  known  in  heathen 
lands,  and  never  thought  of  by  skepticism  and  in- 
fidelity. It  has  built  asylums  for  the  deaf,  the 
dumb,  the  blind  and  the  insane.  It  has  establish- 
ed hospitals  for  the  sick,  the  aged,  and  the  helpless. 
It  has  provided  homes  for  the  fatherless,  the  desti- 
tute, and  the  unfortunate.  Where,  I  ask,  has  infi- 
delity ever  given  birth  to  such  institutions  of  mercy 
and  blessing  for  the  relief  of  suffering  humanity. 
History  may  be  searched  in  vain  for  a  legible  record 
of  any  such  commiseration  for  the  unfortunate  class- 
es. The  Encyclopedia  Brittanica  says:  "The  silent 
revolution  which  Christianity  wrought  in  social 
morality  cannot  be  measured  by  legislation.  It  is 
to  be  traced  in  a  purer  literature,  a  higher  moral 
life,  a  better  public  spirit,  and,  above  all,  in  the  es- 
tablishment of  buildings  for  the  reception  of  stran- 
gers, almshouses  for  the  poor,  hospitals  and  orphan 
houses  for  the  sick  and  the  forsaken,  and  houses 
of  refuge  for  the  support  of  helpless  old  men  and 
women.  All  these  were  due  to  the  church,  and  the 
bishops  vied  with  each  other  in  the  proper  exercise 
of  a  munificent  charity."  Vol.  V.,  p.  697.  ' 

The  great  movements  of  modern  times  for  the  sup- 
pression of  existing  evils,  and  for  the  relief  of  op- 
pressed and  down  trodden  humanity,  have  been 
chiefly  the  work  of  Christian  believers.  Take,  for 
instance,  the  temperance  reform.  Dr.  Rush,  the 
true  instaurator,  was  a  "devout  Christian."  (Dor- 
chester's Liquor  Problem  in  All  Ages,  p.  170.) 
The  earliest  utterances  against  intemperance,  in 
the  inception  of  the  movement,  were  from  religious 
men,  such  as  Franklin,  Putnam,  Adams,  Sherman, 
Wesley,  Coke,  Asbury,  Porter,  and  Prime.  The 
first  temperance  society  was  organizetl  with  the  ad- 
vice and  assistance  of  a  preacher.  The  first  tem- 
perance paper  in  this  country,  we  are  told,  was  edit- 
ed and  published  by  a  clergyman.  The  leading  tem- 
perance lecturers  and  reformers,  almost  without  ex- 
ception, have  been  devout  Christians,  and  many  of 


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them  ministers  of  the  Gospel.  Who  were  Lyman 
Beecher,  Justin  Edwards,  Heman  Humphrey,  Col- 
vin  Chapin,  and  Mason  L.  Weems?  All  clergymen. 
Who  are  Dow,  Fisk,  Cook,  Farrar,  Talmage,  St. 
John,  Miss  Willard,  Miss  West,  Mrs.  Foster,  and 
Mrs.  Woodbridge?  Sincere  and  practical  Christians. 
Not  one  of  them  an  infidel. 

The  anti-slavery  reform  likewise  came  through 
the  impulse  and  effort  of  men  who  were  fervent 
Christians.  Henry  Wilson  says:  "Anti-slavery  was 
the  child  of  Christian  faith.  Its  early  and  persist- 
ent defenders  and  supporters  were  men  who  feared 
God  and  called  upon  his  name."  (Rise  and  Fall  of 
the  Slave  Power  in  America,  Vol.  III.,  p.  718.) 
Horace  Greeley  also  says  that  the  "pioneers  of 
Modem  Abolitionism  were  almost  uniformly  devout, 
pious,  church-nurtured  men"  (American  Conflict, 
Vol.  I.,  p.  121.)  To  Christianity,  then,  is  due  the 
credit  for  the  abolition  of  slavery.  How  small,  in- 
deed, would  be  the  extent  of  modern  reformi,  leav- 
ing out  the  work  of  Christian  believers. 
Wtatherford,  Texa$. 

^  ■  ^ 

TEB  ANQLO-CHINEBB    GOLLBQB,  FOOOHOW, 
CHINA. 


BT   KIV.    M.   0.    WILCOX,    PH.,   B.   B.   D. 


Knowing  that  the  readers  of  the  Cynoture  are  in- 
terested in  God's  work  irrespective  of  denomination 
or  place,  I  take  pleasure  in  writing  you  concerning 
this  institution  of  which  I  was  appointed  to  take 
charge  on  my  return  to  China  in  March,  1887.  The 
spring  term  began  ten  days  ago  with  over  eighty 
students  and  the  outlook  is  very  favorable.  During 
last  year  this  college  was  blessed  with  prosperity, 
favored  with  a  good  attendance,  and,  best  of  all, 
the  religious  influence  has  broadened  and  deepened. 
Special  attention  has  been  devoted  to  the  spiritual 
interests  of  the  students  who,  in  addition  to  being 
present  at  chapel  services,  are  required  to  pursue 
certain  religious  studies  and  to  attend  church  Sab- 
baths. All  these  requirements  are,  of  course,  glad- 
ly met  by  Christian  students,  and  it  is  also  pleasant 
to  state  that  no  opposition  has  been  met  in  any  di- 
rection. So  there  is  evidently  no  ground  for  fear 
that  too  much  Christian  instruction  might  repel 
some  of  the  students  and  alienate  the  more  wealthy 
and  influential  of  the  Chinese.  Our  great  desire  is 
that  while  these  .young  men  and  boys  are  gaining 
secular  knowledge,  they  may  also  "grow  in  grace 
and  in  the  knowledge  of  our  Lord  and  Saviour  Je- 
sus Christ,"  so  in  whatever  business  or  profession 
they  may  engage  they  may  glorify  God  and  beneflt 
their  fellow  men.  In  addition  to  the  full  time  given 
to  the  college  by  Mrs.  WilcQx  and  myself,  Dr.  Corey 
kindly  assisted  by  teaching  anatomy  and  physiology 
part  of  the  spring  term.  Besides  the  classics  and 
thorough  drill  in  English,  the  college  classes  have 
this  year  been  studying  algebra,  geometry,  trigo- 
nometry, chemistry,  general  history,  etc.  It  is  now 
nearly  seven  years  since  this  school  was  founded, 
and  as  four  years  are  devoted  to  preparatory  work 
and  four  years  to  the  college  course,  the  advanced 
class  is  expected  to  graduate  in  June,  1889. 

Our  greatly  needed  reinforcements.  Rev.  and  Mrs. 
W.  H.  Lacy,  reached  Foochow  last  November,  just 
in  time  to  be  assigned  to  this  department  of  our 
work.  Their  arrival  was  opportune,  as  circum- 
stances made  it  necessary  for  me  to  take  charge  of 
the  Kucheng  district  as  presiding  elder,  in  place  of 
the  native  preacher,  appointed  to  that  office  by  Bish- 
op Warren.  Consequently  I  shall  not  be  able  to 
devote  as  much  time  as  usual  to  the  college.  Our 
gratitude  is  due  to  the  missionary  society  for  means 
to  build  a  dormitory,  which  was  completed  just  in 
time  for  occupancy  at  the  beginning  of  the  present 
term. 

None  who  are  acquainted  with  the  character  and 
aims  of  this  institution  can  fail  to  appreciate  its 
importance  as  a  department  of  our  mission  work. 
Eternity  will  show  that  through  this  instrumentality 
much  good  has  already  been  accomplished  in  the 
salvation  and  nurture  of  precious  souls,  some  of 
whom  might  never  have  learned  to  know  the  "true 
God,  and  Jesus  Christ  whom  he  hath  sent."  One 
of  the  greatest  needs  of  China  is  natives,  "not  sloth- 
ful in  business,  fervent  in  spirit,  serving  the  Lord." 
This,  also,  is  one  of  the  lacks  of  the  native  church. 
It  is  hoped  that  the  Anglo-Chinese  college  will  in 
some  degree  supply  this  want.  Already  a  number 
of  students,  who  for  lack  of  means  were  obliged  to 
leave  before  finishing  the  college  course,  have  en- 
tered the  arena  of  business  life.  One  of  these  has 
passed  the  customs'  examination,  and  belongs  to  the 
Btafl  at  Canton.  Another  is  a  writer  at  the  Foochow 
United  States  consulate.  Another  has  entered  the 
imperial  telegraph  service,  and  a  fourth  is  with  one 
of  the  mercantile   houses  of  Foochow.      Applica- 


tions have  been  made  for  the  services  of  others,  but 
it  is  hoped  that  most  will  be  able  to  remain  till  they 
finish  the  entire  course  of  study.  So  far  as  is  known, 
those  who  went  from  us  as  Christians  are  still  main- 
taining that  character. 

The  great  empire  is  beginning  to  arouse  from  the 
lethargy  of  ages.  The  steam-engine,  the  telegraph, 
the  telephone,  and  other  western  inventions  are  al- 
ready in  China,  and,  sooner  than  we  can  believe, 
railroads  will  span  her  rivers,  tunnel  her  mountains, 
and  traverse  her  valleys.  Surely  we  must  not  be 
backward  in  training  Christian  young  men,  that  they 
may  help  control  these  new  forces  of  civilisation  for 
building  up  the  kingdom  of  our  Lord  and  ef  his 
Christ  in  the  land  of  Sinim. 

Foochow,  China,  March  10, 1888. 


MAaomO  8UN-W0R8EIP. 


BT  M.   N.    BUTLBR. 


In  our  discussion  of  the  "Religion  of  Freemason- 
ry" we  learn  that  Masonic  religion  is  "Pure  The- 
ism," or  natural  religion,  i.  e.,  nature  worship.  Now 
let  us  analyze  the  system  still  further.  And  as 
Freemasonry  is  an  English  import  we  will  begin 
with  Dr.  Oliver,  the  greatest  Masonic  author  in  Great 
Britain,  and  finish  up  with  American  authors. 

Dr.  Oliver  says:  "One  important  question,  which 
appears  to  have  been  almost  wholly  neglected  by 
Masonic  writers,  is,  whether  Freemasonry  be  a  ser- 
vile imitation  of  certain  ceremonies  in  the  ancient 
idolatrous  mysteries,  as  is  asserted  by  some  writers; 
or  whether  it  be  the  great  original  from  which  the 
mysteries  themselves  were  derived." — Oliver' $  Sign* 
and  Symbols  of  Freemasonry,  p.  2 . 

That  gives  us  a  point  of  beginning.  Is  Freema- 
sonry a  reproduction  of  the  ancient  mysteries,  or 
is  it  the  parent  of  all  those  old  heathen  mysteries 
so  denounced  by  Paul  and  the  Apostles? 

Albert  G.  Mackey,  the  Masonic  Past  General 
Grand  High  Priest,  declares:  "The  fact  is,  that  the 
philosophic  system  of  Freemasonry  is  exceedingly 
comprehensive  in  its  character,  and  bears  a  close 
connection  with  the  general  literature  of  all  preced- 
ing ages.  The  history  of  the  origin  of  the  institu- 
tion, and  of  its  rites  and  ceremonies,  will  bring  the 
student  into  a  profound  investigation  of  the  man- 
ners and  customs,  and  the  astronomy,  the  theology 
and  the  mythology  of  antiquity.  The  ancient  mys- 
teries present  a  fertile  field  for  inquiry,  and  without 
a  very  intimate  acquaintance  with  their  history  and 
character,  it  is  impossible  profitably  to  value  the 
legendary  instructions  of  Freemasonry." — Mackey'a 
Mystic  Tie  of  Freemasonry,  p.  JfS. 

Later  in  his  work  Dr.  Oliver  jumps  at  a  conclusion, 
to- wit:  "It  is  an  extraordinary  fact,  that  there  is 
scarcely  a  single  ceremony  in  Freemasonry,  but-we 
find  its  corresponding  rite  in  one  or  other  of  thie 
idolatrous  mysteries;  and  the  coiccidence  can  only 
be  accounted  for  by  supposing  that  these  mysteries 
were  derived  from  Masonry." — Oliver's  Signs  and 
Symbols  of  Freemasonry,  p.  76. 

Then  Freemasonry  is  the  mother  of  the  ancient 
idolatrous  mysteries,  and  without  a  very  intimate 
acquaintance  with  those  heathen  institutions  it  is 
impossible  to  appreciate  the  beauties  of  Masonry. 
What  we  want  is  to  learn  what  Freemasonry  truly 
is.  Let  every  one  note  carefully  these  testimonies 
and  evidences  from  the  highest  authorities  in  the 
order. 

"Learned  Masons  have  been,  therefore,  always 
disposed  to  go  beyond  the  mere  technicalities  and 
stereotyped  phrases  of  the  lectures,  and  to  look  in 
the  history  and  the  philosophy  of  the  ancient  relig- 
ions, and  the  organization  of  the  ancient  mysteries, 
for  a  true  explanation  of  most  of  the  symbols  of 
Masonry;  and  there  they  have  always  been  enabled 
to  find  this  true  interpretation." — Mackey'a  Masonic 
Ritualist,  p.  41  "w<^  4^-  >^^  Mackey's  Manual  of  the 
Lodge,  p.  37. 

We  will  follow  these  learned  Masons  and  see  what 
the  rites,  symbols  and  ceremonies  of  the  lodge  rep- 
resent and  propose  to  teach.  To  do  this,  we  must 
make  the  system  a  profound  study. 

"Accepting  the  symbol,  have  we  lost  its  sense? 
Our  rites  will  be  of  little  value  to  us  if  this  be  the 
case.  It  is  our  duty^  then,  to  make  Freemasonry  the 
object  of  a  profound  study.  We  must  consult  the 
past.  We  must  stand  by  the  sarcophagus  of  the 
murdered,  but  restored,  Osiris  in  Egypt;  enter  the 
caverns  of  Phrygia,  and  hold  communion  with  the 
Cabiri;  penetrate  the  "Collegia  Fabrorum"  of  an- 
cient Rome,  and  work  in  the  mystic  circles  of  Si- 
don." — Sickels's  General  Ahiman  litzon  or  Freema- 
sons' Guide,  p.  66.  This  takes  us  back  to  the  palm- 
iest days  of  heathen  idolatry. 

Speaking  of  the  heathen  philosophers  and  sages. 
Grand  High  Priest  Mackey  says:  "They,  therefore, 


taught  in  secret  what  they  were  afraid  to  inculcate 
in  public,  and  established  for  this  purpose  the  An- 
cient Mysteries,  those  truly  Masonic  institutions, 
which  by  a  series  of  solemn  and  imposing  ceremo- 
nies prepared  the  mind  of  the  initiate  for  the  recep- 
tion of  those  unpopular  dogmas;  while,. by  the  cau- 
tion exercised  in  the  selection  of  candidates  and  the 
obligations  of  secrecy  imposed  upon  them,  the 
teachers  were  secured  from  all  danger  of  popular 
bigotry  and  fanaticism." — Mackey's  Lexicon  of  Free- 
masonry, p.  S5. 

Those  truly  Masonic  institutions!  To  protect  the 
teachers  I  Wonder  how  long  men  with  beard  on 
their  faces  could  safely  operate  a  Masonic  lodge  in 
open  daylight? 

The  present  Grand  Secretary  of  the  Masonic  Grand 
Lodge  of  Minnesota,  a  Masonic  Past  Grand  High 
Priest,  A.  T.  C.  Pierson,  affirms:  "The  identity  of 
the  Masonic  Institution  with  the  Ancient  Mysteries 
is  obvious  from  the  striking  coincidences  found  to 
exist  between  them." — Pierson's  Traditions  of  Free- 
masonry, p.  IS  and  14, 

Yes,  the  identity  will  be  plainly  apparent  as  we 
proceed.  Grand  High  Priest  Mackey  declares  em- 
phatically: "These  Mysteries  were  all  religious  in- 
stitutions; but  they  were  Masonic,  also.  Their  mem- 
bers were  initiated  by  a  solemn  ceremonial;  they 
had  various  progressive  degrees,  in  which  the  light 
and  truth  were  gradually  diffused;  and  the  recipi- 
ents were  in  possession  of  certain  modes  of  recog- 
nition, known  only  to  themselves." — Mackey's  Mystic 
Tie,p.  99. 

These  false  religious  systems  were  Masonic  in 
every  sense  of  the  term. 


TWBLVB  THEaBB. 


BT  RBV.  J  AS.  W.  RATNOR. 

1.  Any  system  or  institution  requiring  organized, 
oath-bound,  life-long  secrecy,  "loves  darkness  rather 
than  light,"  is  hostile  to  free,  popular,  government, 
and  opposed  to  the  teachings  of  God's  Word. 

2.  Complete  and  perpetual  secrecy,  as  an  individ- 
ual virtue,  an  essential  element  of  Freemasonry,  is 
a  cause  of  suspicion,  and  highly  injurious  to  social 
order  and  confidence. 

3.  Strict  and  habitual  secrecy  enjoined  upon  and 
practiced  by  the  members  of  large  organizations, 
cultivates  a  false  principle  of  conduct,  robs  the  in- 
dividual of  personal  liberty,  and  prepares  the  orders 
to  prey  upon  the  outside  public  at  the  dictation  of 
crafty  leaders. 

4.  Wherever  the  principles  and  workings  of  or- 
ganized societies  will  not  bear  inquiry  and  discus- 
sion, there  is,  or  surely  will  be,  corruption  and 
wrong  as  the  root  and  foundation  of  such  bodies. 

5.  Societies  claiming  to  do  good  as  their  chief 
aim  and  end,  and  yet  hiding  behind  grips,  and  mys- 
tic words  and  doors  guarded  by  threats,  and  penal- 
ties and  "deadly  weapons,"  "put  their  light  under  a 
bushel,"  rather  than  lead  men  to  glorify  God. 

6.  Freemasonry  and  kindred  orders  are  masked 
batteries  of  Satan  and  wielded  by  the  "Grand  Mas- 
ter of  the  pit,"  to  propagate  error  in  doctrine  and 
practice,  and  thereby  to  obstruct  and  oppose  the 
pure  principles  of  Christianity. 

7.  Every  man  who  heartily  and  intelligently  fel- 
lowships any  order  that  rejects  the  Divine  Redeemer, 
most  urgently  needs  (but  has  no  right  to)  fellowship 
with  Christ. 

8.  Whoever  joins  in  religious  worship  in  the 
lodges  with  infidels,  deists,  and  other  skeptics  and 
idolaters,  be  he  preacher  or  layman,  is  disowned  of 
the  Divine  Head  of  the  church.     2  Cor.  6:  14-16. 

9.  All  acceptable  worship  of  God  must  recognize 
and  adore  him  as  revealed  in  the  volume  of  inspira- 
tion. 

10.  The  ritualistic  formalism  of  secret  societies 
is  not  a  worship  of  God  in  spirit  and  in  truth;  for 
lodge  religion  is  ceremonial,  usually  led  by  world- 
lings, often  by  errorists;  sincerity  and  humility  of 
heart  are  wanting,  and  part  of  the  so-called  lodge 
worship  is  a  travesty  of  sacred  themes,  and  engaged 
in  with  mocking  levity  by  the  members. 

11.  Freemasonry,  in  its  quotations  of  Scripture, 
omits  or  perverts  the  name  of  Christ,  and  in  its 
prayers,  deliberately  and  designedly  rejects  the 
mediatorship  of  Jesus;  and  this  is  done  to  propitiate 
the  motley  membership  of  pagans,  Jews,  infidels 
and  worldlings  in  these  fraternities.  Thus  contempt 
is  poured  upon  the  Lord  of  glory  by  the  haters  and 
rejecters  and  unbelievers  of  his  atonement  and 
priesthood. 

12.  Hence  any  professed  Christian,  who  frater- 
nizes with  such  orders  and  worships,  denies  the 
Lord  who  bought  him,  and  will  be  denied  and  re- 
jected of  the  Lord  unless  he  repent  and  come  out 
from  among  them. 


Mat  10, 1888 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE- 


3 


WET  IJOINBD    THB  LODGE  AND  WET  I 
LEFT  IT. 


ADDaiSS  01   BEV.    R.  V.    OOUNTEB   BBFORl   THB  N»W 
ORLEANS    CONTENTION. 


When  I  read  the  letter  requesting  me  to  be  here 
and  talk  to  you  on  this  subject,  I  said,  "Well,  what 
was  I  doing  in  the  lodge?"  Yon  will  please  look 
at  me  and  take  a  casual  observation  of  my  propor- 
tions, and  I  have  no  doubt  your  conclusion  will  be 
void.  Well,  I  was  in  there  learning  what  it  cost  a 
man  to  be  made  a  fool.  After  sixteen  years  of  lodge 
service  among  Masons,  Odd-fellows,  Pythians,  Tab- 
ernacles, Immaculates,  and  I  can't  remember  how 
many  more,  I  am  called  on  to  tell  why  I  did  two 
things:  "Joinbd  and  iEPT."  I  consented  to  do  so 
only  for  three  reasons:  first,  I  believe  that  every 
man  owes  something  to  his  God;  secondly,  some- 
thing to  his  fellow  man;  and  thirdly,  something  to 
his  country.  I  accept  of  this  opportunity  perchance 
to  cancel  some  of  that  indebtedness. 

In  the  year  1847  and  on  the  2nd  day  of  Novem- 
ber it  pleased  God  to  send  me  into  the  world.  My 
parents  were  fugitive  slaves,  yet  they  gave  me  every 
advantage  their  limited  means  would  allow.  Dur- 
ing the  years  of  my  youth  I  can  remember  that  a 
number  of  men  used  to  visit  my  father's  house  and 
discuss  the  benefits  of  Freemasonry.  They  would 
tell  of  men  who  had  traveled  in  remote  countries, 
away  from  civilization,  and  be  befriended  among 
the  uncivilized  because  of  Masonry.  At  length  my 
father  joined  them,  and  our  house  at  once  became  a 
kind  of  rendezvous  for  the  Mystic  Krew.  When  I 
was  only  eight  years  of  age,  every  two  or  three 
nights  in  the  week  I  had  to  listen  to  the  laudations 
of  secret  societies.  I  then  made  up  my  mind  that 
■o  soon  as  I  became  of  age  I  should  cast  my  lot 
with  the  Masonic  gentlemen. 

In  the  winter  of  1855  I  had  the  end  of  the  third 
finger  of  my  left  hand  cut  off  with  an  axe,  and  in 
less  than  two  hours  over  ten  men  came  to  see  me, 
and  nearly  every  one  of  them  expressed  their  sym- 
pathy by  saying  they  hoped  the  joint  was  not  gone, 
for  if  it  was  1  could  never  be  a  Mason;  you  see  the 
whole  town  seemed  crazed  on  the  subject  of  Mason- 
ry. Day  after  day  they  came  and  enquired  about 
the  joint.  When  at  last  the  doctor  said  no  joint 
was  gone,  I  was  glad.  I  was  not  to  be  hindered  in 
that  way  from  being  a  Mason.  I  shall  never  forget 
what  was  to  me  the  grandest  and  happiest  day  of 
my  boyhood. 

A  little  society  called  "Juvenile  Blues"  was  or- 
ganized in  our  town,  and  I  became  a  member  of  it. 
We  were  left  to  ourselves  to  make  of  it  just  what 
we  could.  Every  boy  was  provided  with  a  Bible 
and  a  regalia,  consisting  of  a  blue  cambric  collar 
and  a  white  muslin  apron,  which,  after  the  Masonic 
order,  we  called  a  lamb-skin.  We  had  our  poles  and 
gavels  and  other  society  paraphernalia.  On  the 
tenth  of  August  we  had  a  grand  time.  It  was  dur- 
ing vacation,  and  it  was  the  crowning  day,  it  seemed 
to  me,  of  all  days.  I  remember  my  black  hat  and 
feather,  my  blue  collar  and  white  apron  and  my  Bi- 
ble, and  how  I  started  from  home  to  our  school- 
house,  and  from  thence  two  squares  to  the  village 
church.  How  I  did  strut,  and  how  I  admired  my- 
self I 

In  December  following  this  turnout  of  our  Ju- 
venile Blues,  a  man  by  the  name  of  Hemsley  came 
along,  and  all  the  fingers  on  his  left  hand  were  cut 
off.  He  was  and  had  been  an  intimate  friend  of 
our  family  for  many  years,  and  I  had  heard  the 
Masons  tell  father  that  John,  as  he  was  familiarly 
called,  could  never  be  a  Mason.  Tet  John  had  now, 
by  some  kind  of  a  hook  or  crook,  got  into  the  ring, 
and  it  was  diecusscd  and  rediscussed  whether  or 
not  John  had  been  legally  made.  The  lodge  in 
which  he  was  manufactured  proved  to  be  all  right, 
and  so  he  was  allowed  to  turn  out  on  St.  John's  day, 
Dec.  24,  and  it  was  a  talk  among  all,  how  did  John 
get  into  the  lodge.  This  threw  a  little  cold  water 
on  the  meetings  of  the  folks  at  our  house  for  a 
month;  but  in  February  a  Master  Mason  died,  and 
I  remember  distinctly  the  bustle  and  excitement 
of  the  first  Masonic  funeral  I  had  ever  witnessed. 

It  was  a  piercing  cold  day,  the  ground  was  cov- 
ered with  snow,  and  it  was  impossible  for  the  body 
to  be  interred,  and  so  all  of  the  service  was  conduct- 
ed in  the  church.  I  gazed  at  the  performance  with 
my  eyes  and  mouth  both  open.  I  saw  the  sprig  of 
Anacia  placed  on  the  colfia;  and  the  whole  service 
filled  my  soul  with  renewed  determination  to  be  a 
Mason. 

An  incident  occurred.  A  peculiar  noise  was  heard, 
like  the  falling  of  a  large  stone,  during  the  Masonic 
service,  and  a  lady  said  she  saw  a  ball  of  fire  come 
down  through  the  church  and  fall  on  the  coiUn. 
Thii  furnished  gossip  for  our  little  town  for  a  long 


time.  Many  said  the  devil  had  come  into  the  house; 
but  I  argued  if  the  devil  was  a  Mason  be  would 
make  it  easy  for  all  of  the  Masons  who  went  to  the 
grand  lodge  below;  and  those  who  went  to  the 
grand  lodge  above  would  have  a  good  time  any- 
how. 

Our  Juvenile  Blues  did  not  survive.  Our  first 
demonstration  was  our  last.  Finally  the  war  came  on, 
and  like  the  majority  of  my  race  I  loved  a  uniform, 
and  thought  it  a  grand  thing  to  become  a  soldier.  I 
went  to  the  armory  every  night,  and  for  hours  I 
would  stand  and  look  at  the  men  being  drilled;  and 
I  mustered  about  fifteen  boys  and  every  even- 
ing after  school  I  would  put  them  through  the  fac- 
ings and  wheels;  and  ultimatefy  we  procured  wood- 
en guns,  and  I  had  in  a  few  months  as  fine  a  drilled 
company  as  could  be  found  in  our  neighborhood. 
I  was  at  this  time  fifteen  years  old.  Passing  along 
the  street  one  summer  day  I  saw  a  company  of  men 
(white)  with  baldricks  and  swords  and  chapeaus, 
and  I  wondered  what  they  were.  I  knew  they  were 
not  soldiers,  yet  our  town  was  full  of  cavalry  men. 
I  sped  my  way  home,  and  asked  my  older  brother 
what  they  were.  He  could  not  tell  me.  At  last 
night  came  and  two  or  three  of  the  old  Masons 
came  in  to  talk  war  with  my  father.  I  asked  about 
the  procession  I  had  seen,  and  learned  that  they 
were  Knight  Templar  Masons.  I  than  wanted  to 
know  if  colored  men  got  that  high,  and  said  "that 
beats  a  soldier's  uniform  all  hollow."  My  father 
remarked,  "That  boy  is  crazy  on  the  subject  of 
uniforms."  My  inquiry  concerning  the  Knights 
Templar  changed  the  subject  from  war  to  Masonry, 
and  I  was  determined  to  be  manufactured  into  a 
Mason  at  the  earliest  day. 

At  length  colored  men  were  taken  into  the  army; 
and  in  1864  I  ran  away  from  home  and  presented 
myself  at  the  recruiting  office,  to  enlist  and  help 
save  my  country.  At  seventeen  years  of  age  I 
weighed  only  eighty  pounds  and  was  but  four  feet 
high.  I  begged  to  be  taken  as  a  drummer  boy;  and 
as  I  stood  begging  my  father  came  in  with  a  friend, 
who  was  going  away  to  the  front,  and  sent  me  home. 
I  then  said.  Well,  perhaps  I  am,  or  will  be,  too  small 
to  be  a  Mason  when  I  become  old  enough.  It 
troubled  me  not  a  little, — too  small  to  be  a  Mason, 
and  hence  I  could  never  be  a  Mason.  For  I  had 
often  heard  it  remarked,  that  one  was  no  man  until 
he  was  manufactured  into  a  Master  Mason.  I 
kept  this  to  myself  and  sought  to  counsel  of  no 
one.  At  last  Tom  Thumb  came  to  our  town;  and 
after  his  exhibition  at  night  he  visited  the  Masonic 
Hall  and  my  fears  were  allayed.  Tom  Thumb  was  a 
Mason,  and  I  was  larger  than  he,  and  if  he  could  go 
through  the  transformation  process  and  come  out  at 
the  other  end  of  the  machine  a  Mason,  I  could,  too. 
7rom  henceforth  my  mind  was  settled  and  my 
heart  fixed  to  have  "a  little  piece  of  white  beneath 
my  bosom."  I  was  a  Christian,  however;  had  been 
baptized  into  the  church  at  the  age  of  fourteen  and 
was  a  regular  attendant  at  all  meetings.  Yet  I  had 
only  a  meager  idea  of  Christianity,  and  a  lofty  idea 
of  the  lodge  which  was  to  develop  me  into  a  full-fledg- 
ed man  and  a  full-fledged  Christian;  for  I  had  learn- 
ed that  no  man  could  understand  the  Bible  until 
he  had  gone  through  the  lodge;  then  all  of  his  powers 
of  heart  and  mind  would  be  enlarged  on  account  of 
the  hidden  things  that  would  there  be  revealed  to  him. 
I  treasured  these  things  up  in  my  heart  and  impa- 
tiently bided  the  time.  But  during  my  wait  of  three 
years  a  man  by  the  name  of  Long  got  up  a  society 
called  the  "Enterprising  Sons."  For  a  year  we  had 
regular  meetings  every  two  weeks,  and  finally  it 
was  determined  to  have  this  organization  initiated 
into  the  mysteries  of  Odd-fellowship;  and  in  solid 
phalanx  the  "Enterprising  Sons"  marched  to  the  hall 
of  the  Odd-fellows,  and  there,  amid  the  chitter-chat- 
ters  and  the  ran ga-r angers,  I  was  pulled  and  hauled, 
and  my  new  black  trousers  were  torn  across  both 
knees,  and  I  was  made  an  Odd-fellow  and  dubbed 
P.  S.,  and  my  name  soon  appeared, 

B.  N.  OOUNTIE,  p.  8.,  pr  THE  SNTERPRIBINQ  SONS 
LODGE,  0.  U.  O.  OF  O.  F. 

I  looked  at  my  name  as  it  appeared  upon  th« 
bills  of  an  entertainment  given  shortly  after.  Those 
final  initials,  were  tome  simply  grand;  D.  D.  or  L. 
L.  D.  passed  into  insignificance  when  compared 
with  R.  N.  Countee,  P.  S.  Well  might  Shakespert 
say,  "What  fools  wo  mortals  be."  The  tinsel  and 
gaudy-trimmed  regalia  of  the  order,  and  tiie  hidden 
mysteries  as  they  unfolded  to  me,  appeared  very 
simple  and  childlike,  I  could  not  see  where  the 
mystery  came  in. 

On  and  on  I  went,  from  one  degree  to  another, 
hunting  for  the  mysteries  of  the  order,  and  to  my 
disgust  they  were  only  more  and  more  simple  and 
childlike.  "It  was  this  to  that  and  that  to  this," 
and  a  continual  make-believe  from  beginning  to  end, 


— a  farce.  I  was  soon  told  that  it  could  not  bold  a 
light  to  Freemasonry.  I  talked  with  several  on  the 
subject  and  not  one  man  did  I  ever  find  who  would 
■peak  a  word  concerning  the  matter. 

I  was  now  nearing  twenty  summers,  and  an  in- 
cident occurred  which  furnished  gossip  for  a  long 
time,  and  was  the  means  of  a  ladies'  department  be- 
ing opened  in  our  village.  A  Mr.  Ballard  told  his 
wife  all  about  his  transformation,  how  he  was 
made  a  Mason,  and  she  in  like  manner  told  her  best 
friend,  and  so  the  story  went.  I  remember  how  the 
Masonic  crew  met  at  our  house  and  organized  up- 
stairs a  ladies'  court,  "styled  "Heroines  of  Jericho." 
My  mother  was  made  "most  ancient;"  and  of  course 
I  was  now  bound  to  be  a  Mason,  for  mother  and 
father  were  Masons.  I  was  now  an  Odd-fellow,  and 
I  thought  it  was  a  kind  of  stepping-stone  to  the 
lodge  of  ancient  York  Masons. 

Passing  down  town  one  day  I  stopped  at  a  second- 
hand book  store,  and  saw  two  books.  Webb's  Mason- 
ic Ritual  and  Morgan's  Freemasonry  Exposed.  Ah! 
said  I  to  myself,  I  wonder  if  I  can  by  those  books. 
I  felt  a  little  timid  at  first  about  even  making  an 
inquiry  concerning  them.  At  last  I  took  courage, 
and  when  the  vender  said.  For  this  illustrated  one 
50  cents,  and  for  Morgan's  25  cents,  I  did  not  hesi- 
tate, but  purchased  both  of  them.  I  read  them  over 
and  over.  I  called  in  three  of  my  young  Odd- 
fellow friends  and  together  we  studied  them.  Fi- 
nally each  of  us  decided  to  become  Masons,  and  on 
the  first  Monday  in  September  we  sent  in  our  peti- 
tions desiring  to  be  passed  and  raised  the  same 
night.  We  paid  |2  each  extra  to  the  Grand  Master 
for  a  dispensation,  thus  making  the  three  degrees 
cost  us  $12  each,  outside  of  our  supper. 

The  petition  was  accepted.  The  thing  for  which 
I  had  so  long  waited  was  About  to  be  a  reality,  for 
in  sixty  days  I  would  be  a  Master  Mason.  The  in- 
terval was  spent  in  a  careful  perusal  of  the  books  I 
had  purchased.  Especial  attention  was  paid  to  Mor- 
gan's exposition,  and  I  waited  in  feverish  anxiety 
the  coming  of  the  happy  event.  An  old  man  with 
whom  I  worked  whispered  to  me  the  night  I  was 
to  be  made  a  Mason,  and  as  I  was  on  my  way  to 
the  lodge,  "Be  sure  you  do  not  write  any."  I  wend- 
ed my  way  to  the  lodge  room,  and  my  heart  went 
pit-a-pat,  for  grave  fears  had  laid  hold  upon  me. 
I  was  determined  to  go  through,  no  matter  how  hard 
the  ordeal.  The  nearer  1  came  to  the  lodge  hall,  the 
more  rapid  became  the  beatings  of  my  heart. 

Finally  I  reached  the  steps  and  the  other  boys 
were  there.  We  were  escorted  into  the  anteroom, 
divested  of  our  clothing, — and  I  need  not  tell  you 
what  took  place,  for  you  know.  I  will  say,  however,  I 
did  not  write,  but  I  helped  the  Master,  who  had  for- 
gotten the  obligation  of  the  third  degree,  to  go 
through  with  it.  I  noticed  he  was  leaving  out  some 
part  and  I  called  his  attention  to  the  fact.  I  ob- 
served all  they  told  me  was  just  what  I  had  read  in 
Morgan's,  and  I  knew  it  better  than  any  man  in  the 
lodge.  So  great  was  my  knowledge  of  Masonry 
that  I  was  chosen  master  in  less  then  three  months. 
There  were  a  few  unwritten  things  I  had  no  knowl- 
edge of,  but  on  the  whole  I  was  better  versed  in 
what  they  called  the  "mystic  secrets"  of  Masonry 
than  anyone  in  our  neighborhood;  even  the  Grand 
Master  could  not  lecture  the  lodge  as  I  could. 
Strange  as  it  may  appear  to  some,  holding  the  key 
to  all  of  Masonry  in  my  hand,  I  stopped  not  to 
think,  but  on  I  went,  from  one  degree  to  another, 
until  I  had  traveled  over  a  rugged  road  to  the  Red 
or  Royal  Arch  house,  and  then  I  remember  of  saying 
to  an  aged  friend  of  mine,  "God  says.  Swear  not  at 
all,"  and  he  quieted  my  conscience  by  saying  "that 
was  intended  for  the  Jews,  who  swore  for  every- 
thing, and  does  not  have  any  reference  to  Masonry, 
as  you  see  Christ  and  John  the  Baptist  and  John 
the  Evangelist  were  all  Masons."  My  conscience 
was  stilled  and  I  went  on  to  Templarism. 

Having  clearly  defined  why  I  joined,  I  must  now 
relate,  if  you  will  be  patient,  why  I  left  it    • 

The  African  race,  as  you  are  all  aware,  has  a  vast 
amount  of  native  fire,  and  it  often  burns  out  in 
eloquence  from  them,  though  they  be  endowed  with 
a  meager  store  of  literary  attainment.  They  often 
achieve  great  results  and  captivate  the  most  learned 
audiences.  The  African  possesses  a  considerable 
amount  of  human  nature,  and,  like  his  Anglo-Saxon 
brother,  it  sticks  out  prominently  in  and  around  the 
organ  of  approbativeness. 

1  had  some  of  this  myself  in  my  younger  days, 
and  it  is  not  all  gone  yet,  but  in  the  days  gone  by 
it  was  more  prominent,  and  I  was  lauded  and  sought 
out  by  the  men  of  the  lodge.  On  all  great  occa- 
sions I  was  brought  forth  as  the  hero  and  orator  of 
the  occasion;  so  I  would  make  as  many  as  a  dozen 
speeches  a  year  for  as  many  different  organizations 
at  homo  (Memphis)  and  in  different  parts  of  the 
Mississippi  Valley. 


m 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


Mat  10, 1888 


In  course  of  time  I  became  a  pastor  of  a  large, 
but  not  a  flourishing  church.  Grradually  I  with- 
drew my  time  from  the  lodge  and  applied  it  to  study 
and  the  church.  Finally  I  saw  that  on  lodge  nights 
the  church  was  deserted,  and  the  people  were  the 
devotees  of  the  lodge  and  not  of  the  redeemed 
church  of  Christ  our  Saviour.  I  became  consider- 
ably alarmed  at  this  state  of  afl^airs,  and  for  my 
life  I  could  see  no  remedy.  Finally  the  church 
split,  and  I,  with  a  large  number  of  the  best- 
thinking  members  of  the  same,  went  away  from  the 
old  home  and  began  to  erect  a  new  house  of  wor- 
ship elsewhere,  and  the  rapidity  with  which  the 
building  went  up  was  astonishing  to  all  in  the  city. 
I  determined  there  and  then  to  inaugurate  in  the 
new  house  a  new  method  of  attending  to  the  Lord's 
business,  especially  the  financial  part  of  it. 

In  my  first  sermon  in  our  new  building  I  spoke 
as  follows:  "If  you  think  you  cannot  pay  me  as  your 
pastor,  pay  your  sexton,  and  your  other  incidental  ex- 
penses, without  resorting  to  the  ungodly,  unchristian 
way  of  turning  this  house  into  a  hall  for  revelry,bazars, 
fairs,  festivals,  and  making  this  place  a  place  of 
merchandise,  you  may  count  me  out  now,  and  get 
yourselves  a  preacher  that  can  stoop  to  these  un- 
holy practices.  God  being  with  me,  I  resolved, 
while  these  walls  were  in  course  of  erection,  to  never, 
never,  allow  the  enemy  of  souls  to  use  me  any 
more."  Many,  very  many,  were  the  amens  that 
greeted  these  remarks;  and  we  here,  in  the  midst  of 
the  sermon,  sang,  "All  hail  the  power  of  Jesus's 
name." 

Shortly  after  this  my  eyes  began  slowly  to  open 
to  the  vicious  and  immoral  status  of  many  of  our 
organizations,  known  as  secret  societies.  I  deter- 
mined to  use  my  influence  to  get  all  of  the  redeemed 
of  the  Lord  out  of  them.  1  saw  the  only  way  by 
which  the  church  of  Christ  could  arise  and  shine 
was  to  come  out  of  the  darkness.  I  said  that  these 
societies  were  moral  blights,  eye-sores  and  a  scab  on 
the  moral  escutcheon  of  respectable  society.  They 
sweep  the  country,  and  to  swell  their  numbers  they 
have  in  them  people  whose  reputation  is  so  black 
that  the  man  in  the  moon,  if  he  was  to  happen  to 
be  out,  would  be  compelled  to  hold  his  nose  as  the 
immoral  creatures  would  pass  by.  These  so-called 
benevolent  organizations  are  filled  with  thieves, 
robbers,  cut-throats,  and  men  and  women  of  the 
lowest  moral  type.  We  meet  men  and  women  in 
these  halls  on  the  plane  of  brotherhood  that  we 
would  no  sooner  invite  into  our  homes  than  we 
would  open  a  case  of  rattlesnakes  among  our  loved 
ones.  We  march  in  public  procession  with  the  thief, 
the  horse-jockey,  the  professional  gambler  and  the 
"sanctified  preacher." 

This  was  my  indictment  of  the  lodge;  and  upon 
this  indictment  I  said  to  the  Christians,  "Come  ye 
out  from  among  them."  The  next  week  I  was  ap- 
pointed by  the  Missionary  Baptist  Association  of 
West  Tennessee  to  hold  an  institute  for  ministers 
and  deacons  at  an  interior  town.  While  at  the  de- 
pot awaiting  the  train,  walking  up  and  down  the 
platform  with  one  of  our  white  Baptist  pastors,  I 
suddenly  hea/d  my  name  called.  Turning  around  I 
saw  approaching  me  a  man  full  of  the  lodge  and 
over-loaded  with  liquor.  He  staggered  up,  and  be- 
fore I  could  think  he  had  laid  hold  of  me  and  said, 
"Don't  you  know  me  (hie)?  Is'e  a  member  o'  Ten- 
nessee Union  Lodge  (hie).  That's  your  lodge."  I 
tried  to  shake  him  off,  but  could  not.  I  said  to 
him,  "Let  go  of  me;"  but  he  would  not.  He  said, 
(hie),  "I  just  want  to  see  you— goin'  on  the  train — 
eh."  I  said  to  him,  "Go  away;"  but  he  would  not. 
He  was  like  Mead's  mule.  I  saw  there  was  no 
sense  in  losing  my  temper,  so  I  just  stood  still. 
The  white  preacher  left  me,  and  finally  I  broke 
loose  from  my  captor  and  rushed  into  the  car.  The 
preacher  said,  "You  are  surely  mixed  up  with  some 
(jueer  brethren.  That  is  not  a  sample  of  your  col- 
ored people's  lodge  timber,  is  it?" 

I  answered,  "Yes,  sir.  They  are  just  like  your 
white  lodges.  Like  begets  like,  and  things  that  are 
equal  to  the  same  things  are  kin  to  each  other." 

The  year  1885  was  the  consummation  year  of  my 
lodge  interest.  I  began  the  year  by  preaching  a 
series  of  sermons 

A0AIN8T   SPIRITUOUS  LIQUORS   AND   TOBACCO. 

I  succeeded  in  getting  such  a  spirit  of  antipathy 
against  liquor  that  a  resolution  was  passed  making 
it  a  church  offense  for  any  member  to  be  seen  in  a 
grocery  or  saloon  purchasing  liquors.  The  picnic 
season  was  drawing  near,  and  I  commenced  to  warn 
the  people  against  them,  and  took  the  position  that 
they  were  immoral  gatherings  of  the  basest  hue, 
and  no  man  could  expect  to  retain  his  reputation  as 
a  follower  of  the  blessed  Christ,  who  visited  the 
places  of  amusement  resorted  to  by  the  secret  and 
ical  societies  of  our  city.     Furthermore,  I  declared 


that  any  Christian  who  gave  his  money,  his  presence 
and  his  support  to  any  organization  that  gave  balls, 
was  a  party  to  the  transaction,  and  was  as  mean  a 
sinner,  if  not  more  so,  than  the  sinner  who  danced  at 
the  ball;  and  that  the  word  picnic  was  only  a  cute  way 
the  devil  had  to  whitewash  his  ball8,but  the  thing  was 
about  washed  off,  and  now  all  could  see  it  just  as  it 
was,  a  rum-selling,  beer-guzzling,  card  playing,  dance 
garden  of  infamy  and  sin;  as  deeply  immoral  as  the 
most  miserable  groggery  in  our  city.  It  was  simply 
gilded  immorality.  I  prayed  to  God  earnestly  that 
the  day  would  come  when  the  church  of  the  living 
God  would  rise  up  above  the  dust  and  ashes  of 
worldliness,  and  put  pn  her  beautiful  garments,  pure 
and  clean,  and  stand  up  in  this  world  as  a  monu 
ment  of  the  sovereign  grace  of  God  through  our 
Lord  Jesus  Christ. 

The  church  was  not  prepared  to  receive  this  tirade 
against  the  picnic  business.  I  could  observe  that 
my  remarks  were  very  unsavory  to  many  of  whom 
I  had  hoped  to  be  with  me,  and  I  was  not  slow  to 
see  that  a  crisis  was  pending.  I  looked  up  to  Him 
from  whence  my  strength  came,  and  I  was  satisfied 
that  He  would  be  with  me.  Some  of  the  officers 
talked  with  me  and  advised  best  to  let  the  subject 
alone;  but  in  the  meantime  W.  A.  Brinkley  had  be 
gun  open  hostilities  in  his  church  on  the  same  sub- 
ject. 

On  Sunday,  June  7,  I  preached  from  the  text 
"Woe  be  unto  you  when  all  men  shall  speak  well  of 
you."  1  laid  much  stress  on  the  class  of  Christians 
who  were  popular  with  the  world,  and  showed  how 
careless  they  were  in  all  their  duties  to  the  cause  of 
Christ  and  his  church.  This  talk  was  not  devoid  of 
effect  but  laid  a  foundation  for  the  future  strong 
and  deep. 

The  night  service  was  an  exegetical  discourse 
from  the  first  Psalm,  and  I  took  especial  pains  here 
to  denounce  the  pic-nic  business  again,  and  advised 
the  members  not  to  attend  the  picnic  on  the  next 
Wednesday  night.  As  this  pic-nic  was  that  of  the 
Odd-fellows,  all  of  them  who  were  members  of  the 
same  became  furiously  mad,  and  some  of  them  quit 
their  work  next  day  and  joined  with  the  ungodly, 
discussing  the  sermons,  and  partially  denouncing 
the  preacher.  They  were  a  little  timid  in  their  de 
nunciatory  remarks,  but  gradually  grew  louder.  The 
following  Sunday  morning,  June  14,  I  selected  my 
theme  from  the  Sunday-school  lesson,  viz:  "The 
Priesthood  of  Christ  vs.  The  Priesthood  of  Man." 
After  sermon,  I  announced  that  all  who  were  willing 
to  leave  their  ungodly  organizations,  composed  of 
Christians  and  sinners,  to  meet  me  at  the  church 
house  to-morrow,  Monday  evening, at  7:30  p.  m.,  and 
we  should  then  and  there  organize  a  Relief  Fund 
Each  member  would  be  requested  to  give  $1.00  per 
year,  and  pay  25  cents  per  month.  This  should  be 
placed  in  a  sinking  fund  for  the  care  of  the  sick  and 
the  burial  of  the  dead. 

I  was  pleased  beyond  expression  when  I  entered 
the  building  Monday  evening,  for  it  was  well  filled, 
and  they  were  singing  and  praying  and  making  a 
joyful  noise  unto  the  Lord  in  song.  I  read  one 
verse,  "For  whosoever  shall  give  you  a  cup  of  wa- 
ter to  drink  in  my  name,  because  you  belong  to 
Christ,  verily  I  say  unto  you,  he  shall  not  lose  his 
reward."  From  this  I  argued  that  those  Christians 
who  belonged  to  worldly  organizations  did  all  their 
pretended  benevolence  because  they  belonged  to  the 
society,  and  not  because  of  Christ,  and  hence  re- 
ceived from  him  no  reward.  True  benevolence 
could  be  only  dispensed  in  the  name  of  the  Lord 
Jesus  Christ,  and  was  in  reality  giving  without  hope 
of  recompense  or  reward.  Such  benevolence  God 
gave  unto  us  in  the  boon  of  human  redemption. 
And  after  considerable  exhortation  in  this  strain,  I 
asked  all  who  were  willing  to  come  forward  and  en- 
roll their  names  as  those  who  for  Christ  were  willing 
to  leave  the  world  and  be  numbered  only  as  among 
the  people  of  God.  Something  like  180  came. 
Thirty-five  came  out  of  one  society,  and  they  nearly 
broke  the  thing  up.  There  were  Odd-fellows,"  Ma- 
sons, Immaculates,  Pythians,  Zions,  Hams,  Benevo- 
lents.  Friendships,  all  left  their  ungodly  organiza- 
tions, and  enrolled  with  church  Relief  Fund.  We 
sang,  we  prayed,  and  a  general  speaking  meeting 
was  the  result.  Those  who  remained  in  allegiance 
to  the  societies  sat  still,  and  they  were  loud  in  their 
denunciations  of  such  a  movement.  They  said  the 
church  would  fail;  no  such  work  as  we  were  contem- 
plating could  be  done  by  the  church,  and  that  such 
a  movement  was  only  dividing  the  church.  All  of 
the  ollicials  of  the  church,  deacons  and  trustees, 
were  with  me. 

Week  after  week  I  continued  to  preach  the  gospel 
of  separation.  The  lodge  folks  attended  our  ser- 
vices, and  finally  after  I  bad  in  public  debate  sever- 
ed my  connection  from  them,  I  was  visited  at  my 
bouse  on  the  night  of  August  3rd,  between  2  and  3 


A.  M.,  by  a  yelling  mob  of  infuriated  demons  in  hu- 
man shape,  supposed  to  be  some  sixty  in  number, 
who  riddled  my  house  with  bullets,  but  I  escaped 
them  and  got  away.  This  mob  was  composed  of 
Odd-fellows,  who  are  taught  to  clasp  their  hands  and 
place  them  over  their  heart  and  say,  "  With  purity 
of  heart,"  as  a  password,  denoting  their  hearts  to  be 
pure;  and  Masons,  who  believe  in  tearing  out  hearts, 
or  at  least  so  obligate  themselves,  and  asserting 
with  a  brazenness  born  in  the  bottomless  pit  that 
they  are  founded  on  the  Bible,  and  teach  the  princi- 
ples contained  therein.  This  demonstration  threw 
the  church  into  great  fear;  every  one  in  the  entire 
community  was  aroused,  and  by  sunrise  the  next 
morning  hundreds  of  people  were  at  the  house, 
and  members  of  the  church  and  non  members,  and 
they  who  were  in  the  mob  were  also  on  hand  to  see 
how  we  took  the  matter,  but,  to  their  dismay,  they 
found  us  jubilant.  We  had  committed  our  way  un- 
to the  Lord,  and  he  was  caring  for  us.  I  did  not 
return  home  from  the  place  to  which  I  had  fled  until 
7  A.  M.,  and  the  most  intense  excitement  was  pre- 
vailing. 

The  devotion  of  the  church  was  here  shown  in  a 
prominent  degree.  Such  love,  such  care,  such  sym- 
pathy, I  had  never  seen.  Men  and  women  left  their 
homes,  came  to  the  house,  and  there  they  remained 
night  after  night  waiting  for  the  bloody  brutes 
return.  Our  home  being  in  the  suburbs  of  the  city, 
we  were  away  from  proper  police  protection.  Many 
advised  me  to  leave  town.  At  first  I  thought  favor- 
ably of  such  a  course,  and  finally  said.  No  !  Mem- 
phis was  good  enough  for  me  to  die  in,  and  heaven 
was  just  as  near  from  Memphis  as  any  other  point. 

The  Sunday  papers  came  out  saying,  Mr.  Countee 
is  warned  not  to  preach  in  his  pulpit  this  day;  if  he 
does  he  will  be  killed.  I  had  intended  to  remain  at 
home,  but  when  I  read  that  paragraph,  my  very 
soul  was  inflamed  with  righteous  indignation,  and  I 
determined  to  accept  this'challenge  of  the  devil.  I 
left  home  in  company  with  five  or  six  persons,  and 
along  the  route  I  was  accasted  by  friends  asking, 
"Mr.  Countee,  are  you  going  to  preach  to-day?  " 
I  gave  all  a  decided,  "Yes  I"  Having  reached  the 
church,  the  members  gathered  around  me  with  tears 
in  their  eyes  saying,  "Don't  preach,  brother  I"  "El- 
der, don't  preach;  if  you  do,  don't  say  anything  about 
those  miserable  societies."  I  asked  them  not  to 
hamper  me,  not  to  prescribe  any  course  for  me  to 
pursue  in  the  preaching  of  the  Gospel  of  Christ,  to 
let  me  be  perfectly  free  to  be  used  by  the  Spirit  as 
seemeth  best  in  his  sight.  It  was  indeed  painful 
to  me  to  see  so  many  with  swollen  eyes.  Some  said, 
"I  have  been  crying  and  trying  to  pray  all  week; 
my  poor  soul  is  almost  broke."  Some  would  come 
and  take  me  by  the  hand  and  break  down;  others 
would  come  to  the  door  of  my  office  or  study-room, 
look  in  my  face  and  weep  like  children.  I  was  al- 
ways easily  affected  and  sympathetic;  but  on  this 
occasion  I  was  filled  with  a  different  spirit,  in  fact, 
1  was  not  myself,  and  I  had  a  word  of  comfort  and 
a  smile  of  joy  to  all  that  gathered  around  me.  I 
entered  the  church  and  preached  from  the  text, 
"Who  is  on  the  Lord's  side?"  And  as  I  was  always 
uncompromising,  I  did  not  fail  to  be  so  on  this  oc- 
casion. I  related  in  the  course  of  my  remarks  the 
story  of  David  and  Goliah,  asking  "Who  is  he  that 
dare  defy  the  army  of  the  living  God?"  And  I  said 
more,  denouncing  the  influence  of  secret  societies 
than  I  had  ever  done  in  my  life.  The  church  re- 
ceived it  with  joy.  There  was  weeping  and  shouts 
of  hallelujah  and  glory  to  God  from  all  parts  of  the 
church;  the  timid  ones  were  made  to  rejoice,  and  in 
the  joy  of  the  Lord  they  found  strength. 

I  left  the  lodge,  first  on  account  of  the  immoral 
status  of  its  membership  and  because  I  earnestly 
believed  it  was  not  fit  for  the  association  of  Chris- 
tian men  and  women.  On  this  ground  I  raised  my 
voice  like  a  trumpet,  and  spoke  out.  Being  undaunt- 
ed by  the  mob,the  secret  society  empire  intended  to  do 
away  with  me;  so  on  the  night  of  October  18th, 
(Sunday)  while  I,  in  company  with  several  of  the 
members  of  my  church,  was  returning  home,  I  was 
shot  by  an  assassin;  but  God  kept  me  and  I  am  here 
with  a  ball  in  my  head,  as  a  souvenir  of  the  religion 
of  Masonry.  I  left  the  lodge  because  it  harbors 
criminals,  thwarts  the  ends  of  justice,  swindles  and 
robs  those  who  are  gulled  into  its  clutches.  I  left  the 
lodge  because  1  am  a  Christian,  and  I  have  the 
Lord  Jesus  Christ  as  my  Saviour,  who  declared 
that  in  secret  he  had  said  nothing. 

There  is  nothing  plainer  in  God's  Word  than  his 
command  to  "Come  out  of  her  my  people."  God 
will  not  have  his  redeemed  ones  mixed  up  in  all 
manner  of  uncleanness.  Worldly  associations  and 
worldly  amusements  can  by  no  means  furnish  the 
means  for  spiritual  growth  or  spiritual  development. 
I  continue  to  urge  complete  separation  as  the  only 
means   to  attain  holiness  before  God. 


Mat  10,  1888 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSUKE. 


Reform  news. 


I 


FROM    THB    WASHINGTON  HEADQUARTBR8. 

Washington,  D.  C,  May  3rd,  1888. 
Repairs  are  progressing  on  our  building  here  as 
rapidly  as  seems  consistent  with  economy.  There  is 
much  more  to  be  done  than  I  at  first  anticipated. 
The  first  man  I  tried  to  employ  was  a  painter.  His 
price  was  $3  per  day.  I  said,  "You  furnish  brushes  at 
that  price,  I  suppose."  His  reply  was,  "No,  the  un- 
ion don't  allow  me  to  do  that."  He  was  a  poor 
man  and  very  anxious  for  work,  and  I  felt  sorry  for 
him;  but  not  knowing  what  other  conditions  this 
"high  star  commission"  might  impose,  I  concluded 
that  if  I  must  buy  brushes  I  would  use  them,  and  so 
have  done  the  painting  for  myself. 

I  next  applied  to  a  plumber  who  was  recommended 
by  Bro.  Ford,  and  as  the  work  was  imperatively 
necessary  and  charges  reasonable,  I  did  not  raise 
the  question  of  "unions."  Omitting  wall-scraper  and 
floor-scrubbers,  who  are,  I  am  told,  in  "unions,"  I 
learned  more  of  the  beauty  of  the  union  system 
from  my  paper-hanger.  After  looking  over  the  job 
and  naming  his  price,  I  asked,  "Am  I  to  deal  with 
you  or  with  some  'union'  in  your  line?"  He 
replied  promptly,  "With  me.  I  used  to  belong  to  the 
union  but  found  it  an  injury  rather  than  a  help  to 
my  business.  They  have  a  rule  that  no  man  shall 
have  more  than  two  apprentices.  My  son  became  old 
enough  and  1  set  him  at  work  and  the  'union'  ob- 
jected, and  I  told  them  I  would  run  my  own  busi- 
ness in  future  and  have  nothing  more  to  do  with 
them,  and  I  have  got  along  better  ever  since." 
Thus  the  oppression  of  these  despotic  orders  is  mak- 
ing "wise  men  mad,"  and  they  are  leaving  them  to 
the  timid,  time-serving  element  who  kneel  and  kiss 
the  hand  that  rules  and  robs  them. 

A  pleasant  incident  of  to-day  was  a  brief  call 
from  Bro.  Wm.  Dillon,  wife  and  son,  who  were 
spending  a  day  or  two  in  the  city.  I  was  sorry 
that  I  had  not  the  guest  chamber  in  order  so  as  to 
furnish  a  Christian  home  and  save  an  expensive 
hotel  bill  to  these  fellow  laborers.  1  hope  that  a 
week  will  suffice  to  have  things  in  readiness  so  we 
can  give  comfortable  lodgings  to  friends  passing 
this  way.  Bro.  Dillon,  like  the  rest  of  us,  shows  the 
effect  of  time  and  toil,  but  was  cheerful  and  hope- 
ful. I  hope  to  have  a  room  ready  and  start  a  pray- 
meeting  on  the  anti-lodge  gospel  line  early  next 
week.  J.  P.  Stoddard. 


FROM  RICHMOND  TO  WASHINGTON. 

Washington,  April  28,  1888. 

"The  mother  of  States  and  of  Presidents"  was 
greatly  benefited  by  the  death  of  slavery  and  the 
new  orders  which  came  with  it.  Her  people  have 
yet  much  to  unlearn  as  well  as  to  learn,  but  there  is 
manifest  growth  in  all  the  elements  of  Christian 
civilization.  A  trip  down  the  James  River  is 
through  a  historic  region,  replete  with  the  memories 
of  more  than  250  years.  It  is  a  noble  river,  and 
the  agricultural  facilities  of  the  adjacent  country 
are  beginning  to  be  appreciated. 

At  Claremont  a  colony  of  Northern  people  have 
recently  been  established,  about  midway  between 
Fort  Monroe  and  Richmond,  and  there  seems  to  be 
a  large  influx  of  people.  The  proposed  business  is 
raising  and  canning  fruits  and  vegetables.  Hamp- 
ton Roads  is  perhaps  the  finest  harbor  on  the 
American  coast,  and  its  connections  bj  water  and 
rail  will  make  it  one  of  the  most  important  ship- 
ping ports  of  the  South.  Already  the  cotton  crop 
comes  largely  here  for  exportation. 

We  reached  Norfolk  at  7  p.  m.  After  a  night's 
rest,  I  went  out  to  the  Mission  College,  the  excel- 
lent school  of  the  United  Presbyterians.  I. was 
sorry  to  find  Pros.  Wallace  in  bad  health,  and  with 
small  expectations  of  entire  recovery.  The  institu- 
tion is  prospering.  Over  500  students  are  on  the 
list,  and  one-fourth  of  that  number  are  in  the  High 
School  grade.  Because  of  the  inadequate  and  in- 
efficient public  school  system  of  the  State  and  city, 
there  is  a  constant  pressure  on  the  primary  depart- 
ment of  this  school,  and  makes  it  possible  to  give 
Christian  instruction  to  this  great  number.  Seven- 
teen young  men  and  women  will  graduate  from  the 
High  School  grade.  This  is  their  first  graduating 
class.  All  of  the  officers  and  teachers  of  this  school 
are  in  sympathy  with  our  reform,  and  I  was  invited 
to  address  the  school  at  the  opening  exercises.  I 
spoke  for  forty  minutes  and  was  endorsed  by  Prof. 
Groves,  who  acts  as  principal.  I  was  told  that  my 
remarks  of  last  year  had  made  a  strong  impression 
on  the  minds  of  the  students,  and  had  led  to  much 
discussion. 

After  leaving  these  excellent  friends,  I  called  on 
Rev.  W.  D.  Cook,  the  pastor  of  the  largest  colored 


church  in  the  city.  He  has  r«ad  the  Cynosure  for  a 
year  and  highly  appreciates  it.  He  says  he  is  in 
hearty  sympathy  with  its  principles,  and  does  what 
he  can  for  their  promotion.  Nevertheless  the  cor- 
ner-stone of  their  new  house  of  worship  has  just 
been  laid  by  the  Masonic  Grand  Master,  and  with  a 
great  flourish  of  trumpets,  which  goes  to  prove  that 
ministers  are  largely  under  the  despotism  of  the 
lodge  and  must  obey  as  the  price  of  peace.  But 
the  good  seed  sown  in  this  old  Masonic  city  has  not 
been  in  vain.  A  ride  across  the  bay  in  the  steamer 
brought  me  to  Hampton  Institute,  with  its  multi- 
plied activities  and  its  600  students.  About  125 
are  Indians  and  the  remainder  of  African  descent, 
In  looking  them  over  it  is  often  difficult  to  know  in 
which  of  the  three  races  to  place  them.  The  fact 
that  it  costs  $97,000  to  carry  on  the  work  here 
proves  that  it  ought  to  be,  and  I  am  sure  is,  of  great 
practical  value.  Unlike  the  other  schools  of  the 
South  it  is  mainly  an  industrial  school,  i.  e.,  the  in- 
dustrial part  of  education  is  made  especially  promi- 
nent. About  600  acres  of  land  are  cultivated,  and 
almost  all  kinds  of  mechanical  industries  are  car- 
ried on.  Including  officers  and  teachers  nearly  700 
persons  here  live  together  in  a  little  world  by  them- 
selves. I  have  nowhere  seen  a  finer  or  better  sup- 
plied library  and  reading  room. 

Gen.  Armstrong  received  me  most  kindly  and  en- 
tertained me  during  my  stay.  By  invitation  of  Rev. 
Frlzell,  the  pastor  of  the  Congregational  church,  and 
who  has  charge  of  the  morning  exercises,  I  was 
accorded  twenty  minutes,  during  which  I  presented 
a  condensed  indictment  of  the  lodge  system.  Mr. 
Prizell,  in  introducing  me,  commended  my  work, 
and  Gen.  Armstrong,  who  came  in  while  I  was 
speaking,  added  some  new  and  forcible  ideas.  He 
said  that  the  class  who  were  about  to  recite  in  Men- 
tal Philosophy  were  learning  to  oppose  secret  socie- 
ties; though  the  book  said  nothing  about  them,  it 
taught  principles  which  were  opposed  to  them. 
"Secret  associations,"  said  he,  "are  an  abnormal 
condition  of  society,  and  a  taste  for  them  is  only 
acquired  in  the  same  way  we  acquire  an  abnormal 
appetite.  Such  appetites  may  be  very  strong,  but 
they  are  a  perversion  of  nature.  Secret  societies  are 
a  perverted  order  of  the  social  constitution." 

At  5:30  p.  M.  I  embarked  for  Washington  and 
reached  here  this  morning  at  8  o'clock,  grateful  for 
spared  life,  and  for  reunion  with  my  family. 

H.  H.  Hinman. 


A  KINDLY  WELCOME  IN  CHURCHES  OF  VA- 
RIOUS NAMES. 


Deae  Cynosure:  —  After  finishing  my  work 
among  the  United  Presbyterians  and  Covenanters 
south  of  Clarinda,  I  called  upon  a  minister  of  the 
Mennonite  church,  Rev.  Andrew  Good.  I  found 
that  he  and  his  people  are  opposed  to  the  lodge. 
He  gave  a  donation  to  the  Iowa  Association  and 
took  the  Cynosure. 

I  also  visited  a  minister  of  the  German  Lutheran 
church  of  the  Missouri  Synod.  He  declared  him- 
self opposed  to  the  lodge  and  said  that  no  members 
of  secret  societies  would  be  admitted  to  member- 
ship in  the  church  of  the  Synod. 

I  also  visited  the  North  Page  United  Presbyterian 
church.  The  pastor.  Rev.  Mr.  Dodds,  received  me 
cordially,  and  by  invitation  I  preached  for  him  in 
the  morning  at  North  Page,  and  at  Hepburn  in  the 
evening.  I  spent  some  time  in  canvassing  for  aid 
to  the  State  work,  and  in  introducing  the  Cynosure, 
Mr.  Dodds  and  his  people  were  so  generally  dis- 
posed to  aid  the  Iowa  reform  work  that  I  spent  sev- 
eral days  very  pleasantly  among  them.  I  also  vis- 
ited Rev.  N.  Forsander,  a  Swedish  Lutheran  minis- 
ter, and  secretary  of  the  Augustana  Synod,  who 
readily  subscribed  for  the  Cynosure.  Several  years 
ago,  he  said,  they  had  had  some  trouble  with  the 
grange,  and  more  recently  with  the  Knights  of  La- 
bor, but  throughout  the  Synod  they  had  succeeded 
in  freeing  their  churches  from  all  secret  society  en- 
tanglements. 

I  have  engaged  to  preach  for  the  United  Brethren 
next  Sabbath  morning  at  the  Copley  church,  and  in 
the  evening  I  will  preach  again  for  Rev.  Mr.  Dodds 
at  Hepburn.  The  following  Tuesday  night  I  am 
expected  to  lecture  at  the  North  Page  United  Pres- 
byterian church. 

I  find  on  counting  up  that  I  have  secured  twenty- 
nine  new  subscribers  to  the  Cynosure  since  my  last 
writing,  all  for  a  year.  By  preaching,  by  lecturing, 
by  family  visitation,  and  by  the  distribution  of  lit- 
erature, we  are  striving  to  pull  down  Satan's  strong- 
bold,  the  lodge,  and  build  up  Christ's  kingdom,  the 
church.  We  appeal  to  you,  friends  in  Iowa,  as  lov- 
ers of  Christ  and  his  church,  to  help  financially,  to 
help  personally.  We  ask  you,  as  American  free- 
men, to  consider  that  equality  before  the  law  can- 


not be  realized  until  the  secret  lodge  despotism  is 
broken  up.  We  appeal  to  you,  therefore,  as  the 
conservators  of  American  liberty,  to  help  in  this 
reform.  We  beg  of  you  further  to  consider  that 
individual  manhood  is  crushed,  and  the  right  of 
private  judgment,  even  in  the  every  day  business 
affairs  of  life,  taken  away,  by  the  lords  of  the  lodge. 
Should  we  barter  our  birthright,  as  American  citi- 
zens, for  such  a  vile  mess  of  pottage? 

Answer,  we  pray  you,  by  united  and  persevering 
effort  to  withstand  and  remove  the  lodge  curse  from 
our  State  and  nation.  Christian  women,  while  you 
unite  in  the  declaration  that  the  "saloon  must  go," 
do  not  shut  your  eyes  to  the  fact  that  the  ledge  is 
an  organized  conspiracy  of  Satan  against  the  Christ 
of  God,  whom  you  love. 

Rally,  then,  with  Christ,  against  the  lodge,  as  you 
would  work  with  him  against  the  saloon. 

C.  F.  Hawley. 


WAKING  UP  OHIO. 


Columbus,  May  4,  1888. 

Dear  Cynosure: — I  have  just  read  with  interest 
of  the  action  of  those  who  met  in  Carpenter  Hall, 
Chicago,  to  discuss  what  should  be  our  attitude  as 
reformers  on  the  political  line.  The  suggestions  made 
seem  to  me  to  be  opportune  and  wise.  I  am  in  fav- 
or of  organizing  a  department  of  the  N.  C.  A.  (call 
it  a  league  if  you  like)  that  shall  pledge  its  mem- 
bers to  vote  only  for  men  free  from  oath-bound  se- 
cret associtioas.  Who  is  there  having  our  cause  at 
heart  that  would  not  be  willing  to  assist  in  such  a 
noble  enterprise,  regardless  of  party  lines?  The 
lodge  works  in  the  caucus;  why  should  we  not  meet 
it  there?  Say  to  our  fellow  citizens,  as  long  as  you 
give  us  straight  forward  men  on  a  straight-forward 
platform  we  will  work  and  vote  with  you.  Bat 
when  you  endeavor  to  nominate  men  sworn  to  un- 
known superiors  we  can't  vote  for  them  if  they  do 
stand  on  an  otherwise  sound  platform,  for  they  must 
either  forsake  the  lodge  or  betray  their  trust.  Let 
pledges  be  circulated  among  voters  to  this  effect,  and 
what  a  watchfulness  of  the  men  nominated  there 
would  be  !  How  careful  politicians  would  be  to  se- 
cure its  favor  in  communities  where  it  became 
strong  I 

In  regard  to  State  work,  I  have  been  encouraged 
all  along  the  line.  Though  the  voice  of  spring  has 
called  farmers  to  their  arduous  work,  I  have  every- 
where found  an  attentive  ear.  I  have  spoken  ten 
times  since  my  last  writing  to  good  audiences. 
Time  and  space  admit  of  only  a  few  items  of  inter' 
est. 

Bro.  McClanahan,pa3tor  of  the  U.  P.  church,  Syc- 
amore, made  me  very  welcome.  I  addressed  his 
congregation  three  times.  The  last  lecture  was  the 
best  attended.  I  worshiped  with  the  Friends  in  their 
monthly  meeting  at  Waynesville  by  invitation  of 
friend  Amos  Cook,  though  a  Masonic  trustee  had 
previously  refused  the  house  for  a  lecture. 

The  excitement  was  intense  at  Harveysburgh. 
Secretists  made  their  defence  with  usual  arguments 
and  usual  results.  The  meeting  at  Chester  was  well 
(^Continued  on  9th  page.) 


Correspondence. 


THE  SALVATION  ARM7  IN  CHICAGO. 


The  American  martyrs  and  sufferers  for  preaching 
the  Gospel,  and  the  developing  power  of  Romanism 
in  our  body  politic,  has  had  recent  proof  in  the  cases 
of  the  several  preachers  in  Boston  who  have  been 
fined,  and  in  the  case  of  the  Rev.  Mr.  Davis  now 
enduring  the  penalty  of  a  year  in  Boston  jail  for 
preaching  on  Boston  Common  without  a  permit 
Boston  was  the  cradle  of  our  liberties;  what  is  she 
now?  She  is  the  cradle  of  such  despotism  as  made 
the  Pilgrim  Fathers  leave  old  England  for  a  New 
England  only  a  few  generations  ago,  but  from  which 
has  sprung  our  great  country,  now  free  from  slavery 
of  color,  but  not  from  that  which  enslaves  the  higher 
manhood  of  our  people. 

The  same  Jezebel  over  freedom  of  conscience  in 
the  exercise  of  the  religion  of  Jesus  as  taught  in 
the  Holy  Scriptures,  whilst  ever  ready  to  cry  out  for 
liberty  and  to  permit  theaters  and  Sunday  violation 
during  the  hours  of  public  worship  and  its  other 
hours,  and  in  other  ways  fosters  the  saloon  and  con- 
genial enjoyments,  has  just  discovered  that  she  can 
aid  the  Boston  policy  by  fining  the  Salvation  Army 
workers  for  their  way  of  trying  to  draw  to  their  re- 
ligious  services  such  characters  as  attend  saloons, 
theaters,  etc.,  etc.  These  Salv  .lonists  preach  on 
vacant  lots  or  wherever  hearers  can  be  induced  to 
listen.  But  the  City  Council  fines  them  for  doing 
so  without  its  permit  I     This  Council,  like  its  sister 


f 


6 


2HE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


May  10, 1888 


of  Boston,  is  largely  influenced,  no  doubt,  by  the 
devotees  of  Rome  and  lodgery — both  being  natural 
foes  of  the  simple  "truth  as  it  is  in  Jesus,"  whose 
"kingdom  is  not  of  this  world." 

Americans  may  close  their  eyes  for  a  time  to 
Romanism  in  their  politics  as  they  did  to  slavery, 
but  Romanism  and  her  allies  will  assuredly  quickly 
develop  in  like  manner  until  the  freedom  of  our 
country  is  endangered  so  as  to  cause  great  convul- 
■ion  and  bloodshed,  if  not  another  civil  war,  for  its 
preservation.  Such  events  have  often  occurred  in 
Europe,  caused  by  Romish  power  insidiously  usurp- 
ing the  civil  powers  of  state.  Even  to-day  we  see 
the  Pope  and  advisers  publishing  their  popish 
views  on  the  political  topics  of  Ireland  I — a  practice 
always  claimed  as  a  right  by  that  power — plausible 
but  false,  for  Christ  gave  no  such  instructions  to 
his  apostles,  nor  to  his  church.  The  Sovereign 
Ruler  of  mankind  exercises  his  wisdom  in  his  prov- 
idence through  persons  and  civil  governments. 
Christian  or  otherwise,  but  he  rules  in  his  church 
and  people  only  though  Christ  the  Son,  their  Su- 
premo Lawgiver  and  King.  T.  H. 


WM  OAN  aSLL  ONE  MILLION  I 

YoBK,  Pa.,  April  30,  1888. 

Editor  Cynosure: — I  believe  that  "Stories  of  the 
Gods"  is  the  most  important  pamphlet  that  has  yet 
been  published  in  the  present  anti-secret  crusade. 
No  Christian,  or  other  friend  of  civil  and  religious 
liberty,  can  read  it  without  becoming  convinced 
that  all  secret  organizations  are  anti-Christian  and 
anti-Republican. 

I  am  sure  that  our  anti- secret  workers  can  easily 
sell  one  million  copies  in  the  United  States,  if  they 
will  try  to  do  it.  Secret  society  men  buy  it  as  eag- 
erly as  Christians;  and  all  read  it  with  much  aston- 
ishment. I  have  sold  one  hundred  and  six  copies, 
and  expect  to  sell  more.  To  sell  it,  I  turn  over  the 
pages,  explaining  the  pictures  and  the  main  facts 
stated  in  the  pamphlet.  One  man  told  me  that 
he  would  read  it  and  pick  out  a  god  to  suit  his  own 
notions.  He  says  that  he  can't  go  Vitzliputzli;  and 
I  expect  he  will  decide  that  the  Christian  religion 
will  suit  him  best.  No  pamphlet  under  the  sun 
gives  80  much  light;  and  no  Freemason  should  need 
"more  light"  than  it  gives  in  order  to  see  his  way 
out  of  all  the  secret  lodge  rooms  "in  the  known 
world." 

I  sincerely  hope  every  reader  of  the  Cynosure  will 
aid  in  giving  this  powerful  pamphlet  a  wide  circu- 
lation amongst  both  insiders  and  outsiders.  \Te 
can  put  one  million  copies  on  the  lodge  camel'a 
back,  very  easily;  and  that  will  break  his  back  go  it 
can  naver  be  U8«d  again  "for  the  good  of  the  or- 
der."   Yours,  etc.,  Edward  J.  Chalfant. 


TBMPBRANOE  AND  WOMAN  BVFFBA03. 

Wars,  Mass. 

Not  long  since  I  attended  a  temperance  meeting 
in  an  adjoining  town.  Many  good  things  were  said, 
and  to  those  who  were  not  posted  in  temperance  sta- 
tistics interesting  statements  were  given,  that  will 
no  doubt  be  beneficial  to  all  who  listened.  No  truer 
statement  can  be  made  than  this:  that  no  person  of 
good  moral  character  ever  kept  a  drinking  saloon. 
The  mighty  dollar  is  all  they  are  seeking  for,  and 
they  care  not  for  their  dupes.  As  regards  the  mis- 
ery they  cause,  they  seem  deaf  to  the  cries  and  en- 
treaties of  suffering  wives,  mothers,  sisters  and 
daughters,  and  would  spurn  them  from  their  pres- 
ence should  they  plead  that  their  loved  ones  be  not 
given  the  intoxicating  cup. 

Yet  some  of  these  so-called  temperance  workers 
would  rather  have  the  saloonkeeper  go  to  the  ballot- 
box  and  cast  his  vote  for  license,  than  let  one  of 
these  wives  or  mothers  cast  a  vote  against  license! 
"No,"  one  said,  "it  would  be  doing  wrong  that  right 
might  be  accomplished."  1  say  such  temperance 
workers  might  as  well  keep  silent,  for  the  time  has 
come  when  not  only  by  States,  but  as  a  nation,  this 
"woman  suffrage  question"  is  being  agitated.  May 
Qcd  grant  that  the  time  may  come  when  the  women 
of  America  may  hava  the  privilege  of  reaching  out 
their  bands  to  save  loved  ones  from  a  drunkard's 
grave.  If  all  believed  as  did  the  one  above  referred  to, 
it  is  my  opinion  that  the  women  would  not  be  allowed 
a  place  to  labor  in  the  temperance  cause.  If  I  be- 
lieved as  he  argued,  I  would  institute  some  plan  to 
stop  the  "Woman's  Temperance  Union"  from  work- 
ing, for  if  they  have  no  business  to  vote  on  this 
momentous  question,  why  encourage  them  in  any 
part  of  the  work? 

It  reminds  me  of  a  little  boy  I  once  knew.  He  had 
been  chasing  a  E(iuirrel  for  a  long  time,  but  could 
not  capture  Liin.  He  culled  to  a  sister,  younger  than 
himself,  to  come  and  help.    She  carefully  watched 


the  movements  of  the  squirrel,  and  when  he  would 
try  to  hide  in  the  tall  grass,  she  noticed  the  move- 
ments in  the  grass,  and  reached  out  a  long  stick, 
pressed  it  firmly  upon  his  back,  and  said  to  tha 
brother,  "Now  I  have  him,  and  will  hold  him  until 
you  kill  him."  This  she  did,  and  in  great  glee  the 
boy  went  to  the  house  and  in  an  excited  tone  said, 
"Mother  I  mother  I  see  what  I  have  done  all  myself. 
I  killed  him,  I  did."  The  mother  had  watched  the 
whole  affair  from  the  window,  and  wishing  justice 
to  be  done,  replied,  "My  son,  give  your  sister  credit 
for  catching  and  holding  the  game  while  you  killed 
it,  and  not  show  such  a  selfish  spirit." 

Now  this  man  that  wished  to  keep  the  women 
from  the  ballot-box,  no  doubt  would  like  to  have 
the  ladies  work  in  the  temperance  cause,  and  thus 
render  great  assistance  in  this  work,  but  when  the 
victory  is  gained,  he  would  arise  in  his  dignity  and 
say,  "See  what  we  temperance  men  have  done." 
"Give  honor  to  whom  honor  is  due."  If  women  do 
their  part  of  the  work,  let  them  also  share  their  part 
of  honor  in  the  victory. 

Go  to  the  heathen  nations,  and  there  we  find  the 
spirit  of  oppression  and  servitude  reigns  supreme,  as 
far  as  the  women  are  concerned.  But  where  en- 
lightenment and  civilization  progress,  so  far  this 
spirit  of  oppression  is  done  away. 

Some  claim  that  women  have  no  right  to  occupy 
official  positions,  they  are  not  capable  of  doing  this. 
To  such  I  would  say.  Show  me  a  better  or  more  de- 
voted Christian  ruler  of  any  nation  than  Queen  Vic- 
toria. If  time  and  space  did  not  forbid  I  might 
speak  of  others.  In  the  evangelistic  work,  some  of 
our  American  women  have  accomplished  a  work 
that  men  might  envy.  In  this  temperance  work  we 
might  name  scores  whose  ability  dare  not  be  ques- 
tioned. 

Then  why  close  the  doors  against  them  as  co- 
workers in  this  great  work,  and  refuse  to  grant  to 
them  equal  privileges  with  the  "sterner  sex"?  The 
idea  that  "the  only  place  a  woman  is  fitted  for  is 
the  kitchen  and  nursery,"  is  fast  passing  away. 
Thinking  minds  are  open  to  investigation,  and  in 
my  opinion  the  time  is  not  very  far  in  the  future 
when  equal  rights  will  be  guaranteed  to  all.  It  is 
no  disgrace,  but  an  honor,  for  a  woman  to  go  into 
the  kitchen  and  nursery  and  perform  her  part  well 
there;  but  why  keep  her  there  and  extend  to  her  no 
other  privileges?  It  would  be  just  as  consistent  to 
say  to  the  business  or  official  maa,  because  he  knew 
how  to  groom  his  horse,  or  cultivate  his  garden,  why 
always  keep  him  there?  This  would  be  doing  him 
injustice.  Let  this  overbearing  spirit  be  done  away. 
Educate  the  rising  generation  to  shun  this  evil  mon- 
ster, and  put  forth  every  laudable  effort  to  close  the 
doors  of  the  saloon,  and  force  the  inebriate  to  a  life 
of  sobriety  and  industry.  May  God  grant  that  the 
time  may  speedily  come  when  this  curse  of  intemper- 
ance shall  be  driven  from  our  land.  Yours  for  the 
right,  Mrs.  L.  M.  Hoyt. 


Puritan.  Through  all  his  long  years  of  life-and- 
death  encounter  with  dominant  wrong  he  has 
preserved  the  tender  and  genial  grace  of  a  true 
Christian  gentleman.  May  God  bless  him.    Amen." 


PITH  AND  POINT. 


VBOM    A   ST.    PAUL   MISSION. 


NOTE 8  OF  BRO.  GLARE' 8  WORE. 


Many  good  and  encouraging  words  come  to  Bro. 
George  W.  Clark,  since  his  return  from  the  South. 
One  is  from  New  Orleans: — "We  have  been  vary  anx- 
ious to  hear  from  you  and  are  glad  to  learn  you 
are  well  and  still  on  the  battlefield.  Your  visit  did 
us  much  good;  as  if  our  own  father  bad  visited  us." 
— S.  B. 

From  St.  Louis: — "You  will  be  interested  to  know 
that  a  very  promising  and  intelligent  young  Ger- 
man book-keeper,  who  heard  your  address  last  Sab- 
bath evening,has  thrown  away  both  his  pipe  and  beer, 
and  on  the  next  day  came  in  and  confessed  to  con- 
viction; and  while  we  prayed  he  was  gloriously  con- 
verted. He  has  gone  to  work  at  once  among  hia 
class  of  people  and  took  with  him  a  quanity  of 
tracts  for  distribution.  May  God  bless  you.  Amen !" 
— G.  W.  S. 

The  editors  of  the  Prohibition  Advocate  of  Dallas, 
Texas,  write: — "You  will  be  glad  to  learn  that  since 
hearing  your  lectures  we  have  both  signed  an  anti- 
tohacco  pledge  never  to  use  the  vile  stuff' again."  Bless 
the  Lord  for  this  good  news.  Editors  should  be 
clean  and  exemplary  men  I  The  Vanguard  ot  St. 
Louis  writes  this  of  Bro.  Clark  and  his  work: — "Geo. 
W.  Clark. — This  venerable  champion  of  freedom 
and  reform  spent  a  few  days  with  us  on  his  return 
from  a  tour  through  the  South.  His  visit  will  be 
remembered  as  a  very  pleasant  and  profitable  one. 
Among  the  earliest  memories  of  our  childhood  was 
learning  to  sing  the  songs  of  freedom  and  read 
heart-stirring  appeals  in  behalf  of  the  slave  in  the 
'Liberty  Minstrel'  by  Geo.  W.  Clark.  He  was  one 
of  the  leading  anti-slavery  agitators,  and  the  firm 
friend  of  that  oppressed  people  in  whose  interest 
he  has  been  recently  speaking  at  the  South.  He  is 
a     noble     and     rare    specimen     of     a    genuine 


Your  card  inquiring  into  the  nature  of  our  St.  Paul 
mission  work  at  hand.  Our  mission  consists  of  twelve 
workers;  our  work  is  the  promulgation  of  Bible  truth. 
We  hold  Bible  readings,  distribute  religious  reading  mat- 
ter, visit  the  people,  etc.,  etc.  We  nearly  all  read  your 
paper  and  are  glad  to  see  the  effort  you  are  putting  forth 
to  enlighten  the  public  on  the  evils  of  secret  societies. 
Of  course  there  are  some  things  that  your  paper  advo- 
cates that  we  cannot  endorse.  We  are  not  able  to  pay 
for  the  paper,  as  our  salaries  are  a  mere  pittance,  but  if 
you  can  afford  to  send  it  to  us  for  the  good  it  may  do 
we  shall  all  take  pleasure  in  reading  it. — E.  Hilliabd. 

THB  VKTBBANS. 

I  am  one  of  the  veteran  subscribers,  having  taken  it 
from  the  first.  I  was  a  subscriber  to  the  old  Amerioan 
Baptist,  and  received  a  sample  copy  I  think  through  it. 
When  the  Cynosure  went  down  in  the  great  fire  the  list 
of  subscribers  was  lost  and  I  lost  a  number  or  two  before 
I  learned  it  was  being  published  again.  Wife  and  I  think 
'tis  the  beat  paper  in  existence. — J.  N.  Lloyd. 

THB  BEAST   AND   HIS   IMAGE. 

To  prove  that  Freemasonry  is  a  religion  we  need  only 
to  know  that  they  have  temples,  altars  and  priests.  Ac- 
cording to  their  titles,  they  worship  the  master  of  tbe 
lodge  instead  of  some  deified  man.  This  is  the  only  dif- 
ference between  the  worship  of  the  lodge  and  ancient 
idolatry.  The  master  is  called,  the  Most  Worshipful, 
making  him  their  god.  Pagan  Rome,  the  first  beast; 
papal  Rome,  the  second;  and  Masonry  the  image  of  the 
beast,  as  recorded  in  Revelation  13th  chapter.  Where 
did  it  arise  from?  It  arose  from  the  earth  by  the  author- 
ity of  the  second  beast  (verse  14th)  who  had  power  to 
give  life  to  the  image.  What  is  this  image  doing  now? 
Running  the  government  of  these  United  States  and  pre- 
venting those  from  buying,  selling  or  working  for  an  hon- 
est living  who  have  "not  the  mark  of  the  beast  or  of  his 
image." — w.  x. 

BUM   or  bad   management. 

I  was  reading  this  morning  the  sad  story  in  the  Cyno- 
sure of  "Rum's  Ruinous  Reign,"  and  my  heart  went  out 
in  pity  and  indignation  to  think  of  a  woman  with  ten 
children  to  provide  for  and  all  her  trouble  laid  to  rum. 
Just  as  if  the  woman  with  near  a  dozen  children  must  sit 
in  the  house  and  expect  one  man  to  take  care  and  sup- 
port all  of  them,  as  she  certainly  did,  or  she  would  not 
have  been  out  chopping  wood  herself.  Now  look  at  the 
picture:  with  eleven  children  the  oldest  could  not  have 
been  less  than  15,  and  what  kind  of  woman  would  allow 
her  children  at  that  age  to  sit  in  the  house  and  squeal, 
while  she  cut  wood.  If  there  was  any  spunk  or  manage- 
ment in  her  during  the  two  weeks  her  husband  was  hav- 
ing his  "spree,"8he  certainly  need  not  have  let  her  wood 
get  so  low.  Remember  that  ten  children  are  not  all  ba- 
bies at  once .  They  ought  to  have  been  able  and  willing 
to  have  gone  to  a  neighbor  and  worked. 

Not  for  the  world  would  I  do  or  say  anything  in  favor 
of  the  rum  trafflc,for  I  am  prohibition  to  the  ends  of  my 
fingers,  but  in  that  case  there  was  certainly  something 
wrong  on  the  other  side  of  the  house,  and  I  think  such 
inconsistencies  harm  the  cause. — Maggie  Woolman 
Thomas. 


LITERATURE. 


The  May  number  of  the  Century  begins  a  new  volume. 
The  opening  article  is  the  first  paper  of  the  series  by 
George  Kennan  on  Siberia  and  the  Russian  convict  sys- 
tem. His  preliminary  papers  on  the  prisons  of  Russia 
have  been  interesting  and  vastly  instructive,  but  the  fu- 
ture articles  promise  more  intense  interest,  in  which  are 
to  be  recorded  the  results  of  the  Century  expedition  into 
Siberia  and  examination  of  the  exile  system.  The  front- 
ispiece of  this  number  is  a  touching  scene  at  the  Siberi- 
an boundary  post.  In  the  "Author's  Preface,"  Mr  Ken- 
nan  relates  the  circumstances  under  which  he  undertook 
his  Siberian  mission.  The  illustrations  are  numerous  and 
there  is  a  full  page  map  of  the  route  pursued  by  tha  trav- 
elers on  their  extraordinary  journey.  Theodore  Roose- 
velt, in  his  series  of  Ranch  articles,  describes  (and  Rem- 
ington illustrates)  his  adventurous  and  amusing  pursuit 
and  capture  of  three  boat  thieves,  a  short  account  of 
which  appeared  not  long  ago  in  the  newspapers.  Th« 
Lincoln  Life  deals  especially  with  the  efforts  made  to 
keep  the  Border  States  from  secession,  and  Mr.  Lincoln 
appears  not  only  in  this  historical  setting,  but  also  as  a 
character  of  fiction  in  Dr.  Eggleston's  Western  novel, 
"The  Qraysons,"  which  is  now  approaching  its  most  in- 
teresting point.  Dr.  Eggleston  publishes  also  an  impor- 
tant chapter  ia  his  colonial  series,  namely,  his  original 
account  of  "The  Church  of  England  in  the  Colonies," 
with  a  number  of  illustrations  of  churches,etc.,and  a  por- 
trait of  Bishop  Berkeley.  Matthew  Arnold's  recent  ad- 
dress on  Milton  is  here  printed  for  the  first  time;  there  is 
an  engraving  of  Lenbach's  portrait  of  the  Pope,  with  a 
brief  study  of  his  personality  by  the  poet  Maurice  F. 
Egan, which  is  very  flattering  to  the  aged  pontiff;  Profes- 
sor Atwater  gives  a  chapter  in  his  series  in  which  he  deals 
with  various  foods  and  beverages,  including  gelatine, 
meat  extract,  tea,  coffee, alcohol,  etc.and  Mr.  Cheney  has 
another  chapter  on  "Bird  Music." 


[AT  10,  1888 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


In  the  May  number  of  the  American 
Garden  is  -a  continuation  of  the  Open 
Letteri.Onthe  Planting  of  a  Small  Place, 
and  there  are  numerous,  carefully  illus- 
trated descriptive  articles  on  making 
flower  beds,  arrangement  of  shrubbery, 
etc.  There  is  a  finely  illustrated  article 
on  the  Japan  Loquat,  a  new  Southern 
fruit  and  beautiful  ornamental  tree  com- 
bined in  one.  The  apples,  pears,  plums, 
and  other  fruits  are  effectively  treated  by 
practical  hands,  and  proper  vegetable 
culture  is  ably  handled.  Use  of  fertiliz- 
ers, etccontain  all  that  market  gardener 
or  amateur  could  desire.  The  page  on 
orchids  has  an  illustration  and  account  of 
a  new  pure  white  orchid  that  seems  des- 
tined to  become  popular  with  those  who 
can  afford  to  pay  for  such  luxuries.  751 
Broadway,  New  York,  $1.00  a  year. 

Miss  Frances  E  Willard's  denunciation 
of  the  "wretched, heathenish"  doll  as  fos- 
tering the  love  of  dress  in  little  children 
has  given  rise  to  an  interesting  discussion 
in  the  current  number  of  Babyhood. 
Most  of  the  writers,  who  relate  personal 
experiences,  protest  against  Miss  Wil- 
lard's extreme  views;  but  not  a  few 
mothers  admit  at  least  the  partial  truth 
of  her  strictures,  judging  from  the  effects 
dolls  have  had  on  their  own  children. 
Altogether,  the  question  "Is  the  Doll 
Doomed ?"is  sure  to  attract  general  atten- 
tion. Among  the  medical  articles  in  the 
same  number  are:  "Night  Nursing,"  set- 
ting forth  the  bad  effects  of  that  practice 
on  both  mother  and  child;  "The  Need  of 
Stimulants  during  the  Nursing  Period," 
etc.  The  editorial  replies  to  the  various 
"Nursery  Problems"  cover  a  wide  range 
of  subjects. 

In  the  May  number  of  St.  Nicholas, 
Thomas  Nelson  Page  begins  "Two  Little 
Confederates,"  a  serial  story  of  Southern 
boy  life  during  the  war,  and  full  of  amus- 
ing and  stirring  incidents.  An  account 
of  Qirard  College  by  Alice  Maude  Fenn, 
fully  illustrated  by  Harry  Fenn,  gives  an 
interesting  sketch  of  the  founder,  and  a 
clear  idea  of  life  at  the  college.  John 
Burroughs  contributes  "Ginseng  Hunt- 
ing "  Celia  Thaxter  has  a  delicious  story 
of  the  experiences  of  a  spider,  entitled, 
"Madame  Arachne,"  and  it  is  finely  illus- 
trated by  A.  B.  Davies.  Noah  Brooks 
tells  us  how  a  little  boy  "Ran  Away  to 
Home"  fifty  years  ago,  and  the  story  has 
quaint  illustrations  by  H.W.Hall.  There 
are,  also,  two  articles  on  "Little  Josef 
Hofmann,"with  a  portrait,  the  first  being 
by  Mary  Lang  and  telling  of  his  piano- 
playing  in  England  and  the  second  by 
Emily  L.  Price  treats  of  the  boy  as  a  boy 
and  of  a  personal  acquaintance  with  him 
on  shipboard. 


IN  BBIEP. 


The  largest  block  of  granite  ever  quar- 
ried in  this  country  was  recently  quarried 
at  Auburn,  Me.  It  is  seventy  feet  long, 
thirty-five  wide,and  twenty  feet  thick,  and 
contains  49,000  cubic  feet,  and  will 
weigh  about  4,900  tons. 

Four  fishermen  at  Knoxville,  Tenn., re- 
port that  while  crossing  the  Tennessee  in 
a  small  boat  a  fish  like  a  serpent  and 
fully  ten  feet  long  capsized  the  boat  and 
broke  it  into  pieces,  the  men  barely  get- 
ting ashore  with  their  lives. 

Decrease  of  the  United  States  debt  last 
month,  $15  387  320.  Decrease  since  80th 
June  last,  $69,217,655  Net  U.  S  debt 
due  1st  February,  1888,  $1,210,211,081. 
Canadian  net  debt  due  1st  February,  1888, 
$230,028,616.  Less  than  one  twelfth  the 
United  States  people,  with  more  than  one- 
sixth  of  the  United  States  debt.  Nothing 
but  the  greatness  of  the  Canadian  re- 
sources could  enable  us  to  stand  this, — 
The  Critio. 

A  significant  circumstance  in  the 
march  of  events  was  the  vote  lately  taken 
in  the  House  of  Commons  in  QreatjBritain 
on  the  motion  of  Mr.  Labouchere  for  the 
abolition  of  hereditary  peerages.  The 
vote  stood  163  for, 223  against, a  majority 
of  only  sixty  in  a  moderate  house.  The 
Tory  majority  since  the  beginning  of  the 
session  has  averaged  ninety.  The  time 
would  seem  not  long  in  England  when 
the  hereditary  aristocracy  must  go.  Qreat 
Britain  is  really  Republican  in  sentiment. 

It  is  stated  to  have  taken  1,900  suits  in 
the  State  of  New  York  to  convince  the 
makers  and  venders  of  oleomargarine  and 
other  imitations  of  butter  that  the  law 
relating  thereto  is  constitutional.  In  New 
York  the  stuff  is  now  sa;id  to  be  sold  in 
most  cases  for  just  what  it  is.  It  would 
seem  that  the  West  and  the  South  are 


now  the  field  grounds  for  the  sale  of  im- 
itation butter  as  butter, and  probably  will 
be  until  legislators  there  make  laws  as 
stringent  as  those  of  New  York,  and  in- 
clude in  the  enactment  perfect  means  for 
carrying  them  into  effect. 

The  International  Company's  steamers 
City  of  Neva  York  and  City  of  Paris,  the 
former  of  which  is  launched, are  the  larg- 
est passenger  steamers  yet  constructed, 
except  the  Great  Baitern.  Their  tonnage 
is  10,500,  length,  560  ft.,  beam,  63  ft., 
depth,  44  ft.  They  are  to  be  fitted  with 
twin  screws,  and  two  sets  of  triple  ex- 
pansion engines,each  set  being  capable  of 
four-fifths  of  the  maximum  speed.  Each 
ship  has  fifteen  water  tight  compart- 
ments, which  can  only  be  entered  by  de- 
scent from  the  upper  deck.  Accommo- 
dation is  provided  for  over  2,000  passen- 
gers. A  still  further  shortening  of  the 
passage  is  looked  for  from  these  boats. 

The  city  of  Chicago  receives  an  aver- 
of  10,000  cans  of  milk  per  day,  eight  gal- 
lons per  can.  This  is  320,000  quarts,  or 
a  little  less  than  one  pint  per  head  of  pop- 
ulation or  27,200,000  gallons  yearly.  This 
is  exclusive  of  the  cream  used.  New  York 
city,  according  to  the  Milk  Btpsrter,  re- 
ceives about  55,804,880  gallons  of  milk 
yearly.  In  the  State  of  New  York  milk 
must  contain  not  less  than  twelve  per 
cent  of  solids,  of  which  not  less  than 
twenty-five  per  cent  must  be  fat.  Aver- 
age milk  should  exceed  the  lowest  legal 
standard  in  both  solids  not  fat  and  in  fat 
to  be  good  merchantable  milk.  If  the  av- 
erage cow  gives  two  gallons  per  day  the 
year  round,  this  would  require  40,000 
cows  for  Chicago's  milk,  and  76,500  for 
New  York.  Denver,  Col.,  is  reported  to 
require  3,000  cows  to  supply  the  city  with 
its  daily  milk. 

The  man  who  wrote  a  letter  in  the  New 
York  Sun  a  few  days  ago,  asking  every- 
body in  the  country  to  send  him  one  cent 
in  order  that  he  may  thus  acquire  a  for- 
tune of  half  a  million  dollars,  recalls  to 
that  paper  an  incident  in  the  life  of  the 
original  John  JacoB  Astor,  million  aire.  A 
ragged  beggar  called  upon  Mr.  Astor  one 
day  at  his  ofSice  in  Prince  street  and  ask- 
ed for  alms.  Mr.  Astor  refused  to  give 
him  anything.  The  beggar  persisted  in 
his  appeal;  the  millionaire  was  firm  in 
his  refusal.  The  beggar  became  pertina- 
cious, and  spoke  of  his  hunger  as  he 
stood  in  his  rags.  Mr.  Astor  appeared 
to  be  unmoved.  Finally  the  beggar,  in 
turning  to  leave  the  office,  put  in  what  he 
regarded  as  a  clincher  by  saying:  "Re- 
member, Mr.  Astor,  that  though  you  are 
a  millionaire  and  I  am  a  beggar,  you  are 
driving  out  a  brother,  for  we  are  brothers 
all  the  same,  as  children  of  Adam  and  the 
Almighty."  "Ay  I  ay  I  Hold  a  minute," 
cried  Mr.  Astor, as  he  pricked  up  his  ears, 
put  his  hand  in  his  pocket,  and  took  out 
a  cent.  "That  is  so;  we  are  all  brothers. 
Now,  my  brother,  I  give  you  this  cent, 
and  if  you  get  all  your  other  brothers 
and  sisters  to  give  you  as  much  you  will 
be  a  richer  man  than  I  am."  The  beggar 
slowly  departed  with  the  money  in  his 
palm  and  a  thought  in  his  head.  Mr.  As- 
tor had  told  the  truth,  though  his  mil- 
lions numbered  over  twelve  at  the  time. 


SECRET   SOCIETIES 
Oondemned. 


"WHAT'S   IN   A   NAME?" 

Shakspeare  said  there  was  nothing.but 
there  is.  Would  Qseaar  have  had  such 
notoriety  if  his  name  had  been  Caleb  W. 
Pickersgill?  Think  of  Patti  drawing  $7,- 
000  a  night  if  the  bill-boards  announced 
her  as  Jane  Brown  I  The  idea  it  absurd. 
Dr.  Pierce's  Pleasant  Purgative  Pellets  is 
a  name  that  has  made  a  record.  These 
tiny,  sugar-coated  pills  cure  sick  and  bil- 
ious headache,  bowel  complaints,  internal 
fever  and  costiveness. 


OATARKU  CURED. 


A  clergyman,  after  years  of  suffering 
from  that  loathsome  disease,  catarrh,  and 
vainly  trying  every  known  remedy,  at 
last  found  a  prescription  which  complete- 
ly cured  and  saved  him  from  death.  Any 
sufferer  from  this  dreadful  disease  send- 
ing a  self- addressed  stamped  envelope  to 
Prof.  J.  A.  Lawrence,  212  East  9th  St., 
New  York,  will  receive  the  recipe  free  of 
charge. 

Minnesota  Leads  the  World 

With  her  Btook,  fja,iry  and  cniin  pnMlnct.l 
2,000,000  acres  (iuo  tinibor,  t.irinlni;  ami  Braziii* 
lands,  adjacoiit  to  railroad,  for  sale  olioap  on 
easy  terms.  For  maps,  prires,  ritos,  etc., 
address,  J.  BookwalU'r,  Land  Commis.sionor,  or 
C.  H.  Warren,  Cioneral  -  - 
Passenger  Agent.  St. 
Paul,  Minn. 
Ask  lor  Book  H. 


.Land  Commis.sionor,  or 
1  ■  ■         srtntuL         A 

ManFobA 


BY  THE  PRESi. 

United  Presbyterian,  Pittsburg: — Secret 
societies  are  not  suited  to  American  soci- 
ety, nor  indeed  to  any  society. 

TTie  Armory: — Surely  the  presence  of 
a  multitude  of  secret  combinations  bodes 
little  good  to  the  church  of  Christ. 

Wesleyan  Methodist: — Never  say  again 
that  Freemasonry  has  no  secrets.  It  has 
secrets,  dark  as  ever  reveled  in  the  mid- 
night caves  of  professional  banditti,  or 
stalked  the  deck  of  a  pirate  craft. 

Ths  Watchman,  Boston : —  Garrison 
fought  the  battle  of  free  speech  in  behalf 
of  Abolition;  Pierpont  waged  it  on  the 
question  of  temperance;  Colver  fought  it 
against  secret  societies. 

Christian  Standard,  Cincinnati: — We 
know  of  no  good  work  for  God  or  hu- 
manity to  the  success  of  which  secrecy  is 
essential;  and  we  see  dangers  in  secret 
associations  which  every  Christian  should 
avoid. 

Catholic  BevietD,  New  York: — It  is  be- 
coming apparent  that  secret,  oath-bound 
societies  are,  in  principle,  un-American; 
are  contrary  to  the  whole  spirit  and 
meaning  of  our  institutions,  and  are 
thersfore  dangerous  to  the  Republic. 

Baptist  Weekly,  New  York: — There  is 
no  union  which  men  can  form,  making 
an  inner  circle  of  self-interest  and  tyran- 
nically dictating  to  those  without  it, 
which  is  not  the  grossest  violation  of 
every  true  principle  of  human  brother- 
hood. 

Evangelical  Bepository: — We  charge 
against  these  organizations:  first,  that 
they  contain  a  system  of  religion;  and, 
secondly,  they  are  devised  and  built  up 
after  the  traditions  of  men,  after  the  ru- 
diments of  this  world,  and  not  after 
Christ. 

The  New  York  Witness: — Any  society 
which  demands  from  its  members  a  loy- 
alty superior  to  their  loyalty  to  the  gen- 
eral interests  and  well-being  of  the  com- 
munity in  which  they  live,  such  as  the 
church  of  Rome,  the  Nihilists,  the  Mor- 
mons and  the  Freemasons,  is  dangerous 
to  the  well  being  of  the  state  and  should 
be  shunned  by  all  good  men. 

"  Journal,Indianapolis,1880: — The  Dem- 
ocrats are  attempting  to  carry  this  State 
by  secret  societies.  They  hope  to  over- 
come a  popular  uprising  by  midnight 
meetings  and  by  grips  and  passwords. 

The  loyal  men  of  Indiana  will  spurn 

their  midnight  methods.  A  State  which 
numbers  two  millions  of  people  cannot 
be  governed  by  grips  and  passwords. 

Times,  Chicago,  Aug.  22,  i550.-— Secret 
societies  are  dangerous  because  young 
men,  and  others  who  are  not  for  the  mo- 
ment fully  mindful  of  their  public  duties, 
may  be  led  by  persuasion,  under  the  pe- 
culiar solemnity  and  impressiveness  of 
an  initiation  which  unseats  their  judg- 
ment, to  take  oaths  which  are  inconsist- 
ent with  their  duties  toward  the  state 
and  society,  and  which  they  may  regret, 
in  moments  of  reflection,  that  they  have 
taken. 

Public  Ledger,  Philadelphia: — Not- 
withstanding the  presence  of  thousands 
of  otherwise  innocent  men  in  the  Ma- 
sonic lodge,  it  is  well  understood  that  a 
ring  within  a  ring  runs  the  order,  and  the 
order  in  turn  runs  such  innocent  societies 
as  the  Good  Templars,  Red  Men  and 
nearly  or  quite  all  the  so-called  secret 

beneficiary  societies The  danger  aris 

ing  from  such  conspiracies  is  not  imagin- 
ary but  real.  If  the  truth  were  known 
we  are  suffering  from  nothing  so  much 
t>s  from  this  evil.  And  the  worst  of  all 
is  thht  good  men  who  have  gone  into  the 
various  secret  lodges  are  being  used  for 
ends  of  which  they  little  dream. 

The  Advance,  Chicago: — A  Masonic 
wtiitr  in  the  New  York  Herald  is  quoted 
as  saying  that  Masonry  is  "an  effort  to 
biing  all  mankind  t.)  a  common  religion; 
to  harmonize  the  mjntcries  of  Christian- 
ity, Judaism  and  paganism;  fi<r  the  most 
scholarly  Masons  hold  that  there  is  only 
one  religion,  and  that  religion  is  the 
worship  of  deity  under  the  image  of  the 
sun."  If  the  above  is  a  correc'.  enuncia 
tion  of  Masonic  doctrine,  the  less  Chris 
tians  have  to  do  with  it  the  better.  In- 
deed, it  would  seem  to  be  equally  incon 
sistent  for  the  honest  Jew  to  be  identittt  d 
with  those  sun-worahipers The  infer- 
ence is  fair  that  Masonry  and  Christian- 
ity do  not  harmonize. 


M.  C.  A.  BUILDING  AND  OFTICI  OI 
THI  CHRIBTIAN   CYNOBURI, 
181  WIST  MADISON  8TRXZT,  CHIGAOC 


NA  "riONAL  CE&ia  TiAN  A880GIA  TIOM 

Pbbbidbkt.— H.  H.  George,  D.  D.,  Gen 
eva  College,  Pa. 

ViCB-PRKSiDKNT— Rev.  M.  A.  Osolt, 
Blanchard,  Iowa. 

Cob.  Sbc't  and  Gbnxbal  AeBm. — J 
P.  Stoddard,  221 W.  Madison  st.,  Chicago. 

Rbc.  Sbc'v.  aud  Tbbabubbb. — W.  I. 
Phillips,  221  W.  Madison  St.,   Chicago. 

DiBBCTOBS. — Alexander  Thomson,  M 
R.  Britten,  John  Gardner,  J.  L.  Barlow, 
L.  N.  Stratton,  Thos.  H.  Gault,  C.  A. 
Blanchard,  J.  E.  Roy,  E.  R.  Worrell.  H. 
A.  Fischer.  W.  R.  Hench. 

The  object  of  this  Association  is: 

"To  expose,  withstand  and  remove  secret 
societies,  Freemasonry  in  particular,  and  othei 
»nti-Chri6tian  movements,  in  order  to  save  tbs 
churches  ol  Christ  from  being  uepraved,  to  t» 
deem  the  admlnl6tr»tion  of  justice  from  per- 
version, and  our  t?p  iblican  govenuneat  froB 
corruption." 

To  carry  on  this  work  contributions  are 
solicited  from  every  friend  of  tne  reform. 

FoBM  OF  Bequest. — J  give  and  beaueath  to 
the  National  Christian  Association,  incorpo- 
rated and  existing  under  the  laws  of  the  State 

of    Illinois,  the  sum  of dollars  for  the 

purposes  of  said  Association,  and  for  whJrh 
fce  receipt  of  Its  Treasurer  for  the  time  being 
^aU  be  sufficient  dlschacse. 

THB  NATIONAL  COITVBirnOIf . 

PBBSiDKwr.— Rev.  J.  8.  T.  Milligan, 
Denison,  Kans. 

Sbcbbtaby. — Rev.  R.N.Countee,Mem- 
phis,  Tenn. 

BTATB  AXnOLIABT  A3SOCIATIOKB 

AT.iwiMA. — Pre*.,  Prof.  Pickens;  Sec,  8. 
M.Elliott;  Treas.,  Rev.  C.  B.  Curtis,  aU  of 
Selma. 

CixrFOBNii..— Free.,  L.  B.  Lathrop,  HoUii 
ter;  Cor.  Sec,  Mrs.  U.  P.  Merrill,  Woodland; 
Treaa.,  C.  Ruddock,  Woodland. 

CoNNBOTiCDT.— Pres..  J.  A.  Conant,  Willi 
mantle;  Sec,  Geo.  Smith,  WllllmaDtlc ;  Treaa. 
C.  T.  Colllnfl,  Whadsor. 

lujsois.— Pres.,  J.  P.  Stoddard;  Sec,  M. 
N.  Butler;  Treas.,  W.  I.  Phllllpi  all  at  Cy- 
nofurt  office. 

iKDiAHi..— Pre*.,  William  H.  Flgg,  Reno 
Sec,  8.  L.  Cook,  Albion;  Treas.,  Benj.  Ulah 
Silver  Lake. 

Iowa.— Pres.,  Wm.Johnston.College  Springs ; 
Cor  Sec,  C.  D.  Tnunbull,  Morning  Sun; 
Treas.,  James  Harvey,  Pleasant  Plain.  Jeffer- 
son Co.  ;Lecturer,  C.  F.  Hawlcv,  Wheaton,  111. 

Kansas.— Pres..  J.  8.  T.  Milligan,  Denlson; 
Sec.,  8.  Hart,  Lecompton;  Treas.,  J.  A.  Tor- 
rence,  Denlson. 

Massachusetts.— Pre*.,  8.  A.  Pratt;  Sec, 
Mrs.  E.  D.Bailey;  Treas., David  Manning, 8i., 
Worcester. 

MiOHiOAH.— Pres.,  D.  A.  Richards,  BrlKhton  ; 
Sec'y,  H.  A.  Dav,  WUllanuton;  Treaa. 
Geo.  Swanson,  Jr.,  Bedfoiu. 

Minnesota.— Pres.,  E.  G.  Paine,  WuloJ* 
Cor.  Sec,  Wm.  Fcnton,  8t  Paul :  Rec.  8ec'y 
Mrs.  M.  F.  Morrill,  8t.  Charles;  Treaa.,  Wm 
H.  Morrill,  St.  Charle*. 

Missouri.— Pre*.,  B.  F.  MlUer,  EaicIevlUe 
TreAs.,  WUll&m  Beauchamp,  Avalon ;  Cor.  Sf  c. 
A.  D.  Thoma^  Avalon. 

Nbbbaska.- Pres.,  8.  Austin,  Falnnonit 
Cor.  Sec,  W.        Spooner,  Kearney;   Treas. • 
J.  C.  Fye. 

Mainb— Pres.,  Isaac  Jackson,  Harrison; 
Sec,  I.  D.  Haines,  Dexter;  Treas.,  U.  W. 
Gwlaard,  West  Sidney. 

NbwHampshirb.- Pres.,  C.  L.  Baker,  Man 
Chester;  8ec.,  S.  C.  Kimball,  New  Market 
Treae.,  James  S.  French,  C-anterbury. 

N»w  York.— Pre*.,  F.  W.  Capwell,  Dale: 
Sec'y,  John  Wallace,  Syracuae;  Treaa.,  M. 
Merrick,  Syracviae. 

Ohio.— Free.,  F.  M.  Spencer.  New  Concord  . 
Rec.  Sec,  8.  A.  George,  Manslleld;  Cor.  Sec. 
and  Treas.,  C.  W.  hTAit.  Columbus;  Agent 
W.  B.  Stoddard,  Columbus. 

Pbnnsylvania.— Cor.  Sec,  N.  Callender 
Thompitii;  Treaa.,  W.  B.Bortels,  WUkeabarre. 

YaBMOHT.— Prea.,  W.  R.  Laird,  St.  Johns- 
bury;  Sec,  C.W  Potter. 

WiBOOKanJ.— Free.  J.  W  Wood,  Baraboo; 
Sec,  W.  W.  Ames,  Menomonle;  Treaa.,  M.  B 
Brittm.  Vienna. 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


May  10, 1888 


The  Christian  Cynosure. 


J.  BLANCHARD. 


iDIfOBB. 


HSNRT  L.  KXLLOGO. 


CHIOAeO,   THUKSDAI,   MAY   10,   1888. 


The  American  Anti-Skckkot  League  is  not  a 
step  backward.  It  is  "moving  on  their  works"  as 
Grant  proposed  to  do  when  asked  for  terms  at  Forts 
Henry  and  Donnelson.  We  ask  the  nominating  con- 
ventions at  Chicago,  St.  Louis,  and  Indianapolis,  to 
exclude  secret  lodgemen  from  their  national  nom- 
inations, and  thus  in  the  words  of  Edmund  Burke, 
"bolt  them  out  of  their  holes."  If  the  Prohibition 
convention  grants  our  request,  they  become  Ameri- 
cans, for  the  rest  of  their  platform  was  ours  before 
it  was  theirs. 


Pope  Leo  XIIL,  the  present  reigning  pontiff,  has 
issued  a  letter  against  boycotting  and  strikes  in 
Ireland,  though  an  infallible  priest  would  seem  to  be 
little  else  than  a  universal  boycott  and  strike  against 
both  employers  and  employed,  capital  and  labor,  if 
they  dare  think  for  themselves.  Our  Saviour  said, 
"The  triith  shall  make  you  free."  But  if  there  is  a 
man  in  Rome  whose  dicta  are  infallible,  what  have 
the  rest  of  mankind  to  do  but  submit  to  him,  or  be 
boycotted, — withdrawn  from,  and  punished  for  dis- 
obedience if  they  dare  think  and  act  for  themselves? 
No  two  persons  ever  walked  on  earth  so  completely 
opposite  in  character,  nature  and  condition  as  the 
pope  of  Kome  and  Jesus  Christ.  The  pope  lives  in  a 
palace  with  a  salary  of  five  million  a  year.  The 
Saviour  had  no  place  to  lay  his  head,  yet  his  ideas 
are  emancipating  the  world. 


The  senior  editor  of  the  Cynoture  happened  to  be 
in  London  in  1843,  now  forty-five  years  ago.  That 
year  the  bread  of  the  United  Kingdom  (England, 
Ireland,  Scotland  and  Wales)  cost  fifty  millions 
sterling;  and  the  liquor  drunk  cost  fifty-one  mill- 
ions. Every  eleventh  person  in  the  United  King- 
dom was  at  that  time  an  absolute  recognized  pau- 
per on  the  parish  list;  and  Victoria  and  Prince  Al- 
bert went  in  state,  from  Buckingham  Palace  to  the 
Italian  opera,  two  miles,  and  the  streets  were 
crowded  thick  on  both  sides  shouting,  "God  save 
the  Qaeen."  Yet  at  that  time  Cobden  and  Bright 
were  overturning  the-  Corn  laws;  and  they  showed 
by  facts  that  the  increase  in  the  price  of  bread  one 
penny  in  the  loaf  would  put  nearly  another  million 
people  on  the  poor  rates.  Farm  laborers  at  that 
time  were  earning  thirty- six  cents  and  a  quart  of 
beer  a  day  in  the  early  mowings. 


Castb. — "No  church  will  prosper  that  has  not 
room  and  sympathy  for  the  humblest  of  people." 
The  Protestant  church  in  our  own  South  land  veri- 
fies this  adage.  Blessed  as  she  is  with  a  pure  faith 
drawn  from  the  open  Word  of  God  and  an  earnest, 
holy  life  and  light  pointing  to  the  Lamb  of  God  who 
taketh  away  the  sin  of  the  world,  yet  shutting  out 
the  least  of  his  dear  brethren  from  their  commun- 
ioD,  small  scattered  audiences  testify  to  the  blight- 
ing effect  of  caste  prejudice  on  prospects  for  doing 
good.  But  we  pass  along  to  a  Eoman  Catholic 
church  or  cathedral.  The  whites  and  the  blacks  are 
entering  the  same  door,  and  together  bow  in  the 
worship  of  the  God  who  of  one  blood  made  all  who 
dwell  on  the  face  of  the  whole  earth,  and  here  we 
find  crowds  assembled.  Instead  of  a  serious, 
thoughtful  pastor,  we  may  find  an  easy-going,  jocund 
priest,  who  loves  his  liquor,  cards  and  horse  race; 
and  though  free  from  caste  prejudice  we  sigh  as  we 
think  how  poorly  he  is  fitted  to  point  a  waitiog  con 
gregation  in  the  narrow  way  to  heaven. 


The  Nobth  American  Review,  fifty  years  ago, 
was  the  mother  of  American  reviews,  even  at  that 
early  day;  and  at  times  in  its  review  life  has  been 
conducted  with  a  vigor  and  earnestness  of  purpose 
worthy  of  the  name,  "North  American."  Again,  it 
has  sunk  to  the  low  level  of  non-committalism  in 
morals,  religion  and  politics,  and  become  a  dead 
sea  of  political  literature.  The  present  editor  and 
owner,  Allen  Thorndike  Rice,  has  fallen  into  the 
unmanly  method  of  popularity  practiced  by  Byron 
and  Voltaire,  and  satirized  by  Cowper  in  bis  memo- 
rable words: 

"One  IcK  by  truth  supported;  one  by  lies;" 
for  the  single  purpose  of  being  read. 

The  last  expedient  of  Mr.  Rice  is  to  pit  Glad- 
stone to  defend  Christianity  and  Ingersoll  to  assail 
it:  giving  the  infidel  assailant  of  Christ  and  the  Bi- 
ble the  Ijenefit  of  the  sun  and  wind  in  the  duel.  In 
the  same  way  George  Q.  Cannon  has  been  lifted  by 
this  Review  into  North  American  literature  from  his 


harem  at  Salt  Lake  whose  only  literary  merit  is  his 
Mormonism,  and  the  detestable  ideas  of  these  men 
are  thus  introduced  into  good  society. 


Terence  Powderly,  who  appears,  by  a  New 
York  paper,  April  25th,  to  have  sunk  his  Knights 
of  Labor  from  702,000  to  240,000  members,  now 
declares  that  he  has  never  been  in  favor  of  strikes. 
Indeed!  What,  then,  has  he  been  doing  all  this  time 
with  his  sworn  "secrecy"  "obedience"  and  $5,000  a 
year?     Was  his  whole  administration  a  farce,  then? 

But  he  has  now  discovered,  and  proclaims  a  cure 
for  all  the  ills  of  labor  and  laborers.  This  is  a 
Lecture  Bureau  to  educate  laborers  so  that  they 
will  be  able  to  understand  their  interests  and  vote 
for  men  who  will  protect  them;  and  this  all  the 
while  that  secret  labor  unions  are  not  political! 
The  Knights  must  not  plunge  into  party  politics; 
not  they! 

But  what  need  is  there  of  his  sworn  "secrecy  and 

obedience"  to  get  up  a  lecture  bureau,  and  a  course 

of  political  teaching? 

"Doubtless  the  pleasure  Is  as  great. 
In  being  cheated  is  as  great," 

or  the  humbuggery,  swindling  and  fraud  of  secret 
labor  unions  would  work  their  own  cure.  But  the 
whole  system  of  chicanery  and  imposture  begins 
in  an  oath  of  secrecy  and  ends  in  a  worship  which 
blinds  while  it  bewilders.  And  liquor  not  more 
surely  addles  the  brain  than  a  secret  worship  stupe- 
fies the  reason  and  conscience  of  those  who  embark 
in  it.  The  mission  of  Christ  was  "to  open  the  eyes 
of  the  blind;"  the  worship  of  Satan  "blinds  the 
minds  of  them  that  believe  not."  The  two  are  an- 
tagonisms; and  while  the  worshipers  of  Satan  are 
tolerated  in  the  churches  of  Christ,  their  "salt  has 
lost  its  savor,  and  is  thenceforth  good  for  nothing 
but  to  be  trodden  under  foot  of  men." 


THB  GRAND  ARMT  RECEIVING  BX-REBBLS. 

"Heroes  are  much  the  same— the  points  aereed; 
From  Macedonia's  madman  to  the  Swede." 

Gen.  Joseph  B.  Johnston,  the  highest  surviving 
name  on  the  military  roll  of  the  late  confederacy, 
has  sent  $10  to  the  Edward  Baker  Post  of  the  G.  A. 
R.  at  Philadelphia,  with  his  application  for  a  "con- 
tributing" membership.  Two  hundred  members  of 
the  Post  were  present  and  hurrahed  loudly  when 
the  letters  were  read,  and  the  newspapers  print  (the 
Cynosure  included)  and  the  people  of  the  United 
States  will  read,  or  have  already  read,  the  press  no- 
tice of  the  incident,  as  they  read  of  the  fall  of  Col- 
onel Baker,  for  whom  the  Post  was  named,  who  fell 
at  Antietam — where  the  dead  lay,  seven  corpses  deep, 
in  a  sharp  gully  or  ravine,  opening  into  Antietam 
creek,  through  which  a  battalion  were  threading 
their  way,  when  an  enfilading  fire  swept  them  from 
the  hillside  and  tumbled  them  upon  each  other  into 
the  bottom  of  the  gulch. 

This  Gen.  Joseph  E.  Johnston  was  a  Virginian, 
graduated  at  West  Point  in  1829,  three  years  before 
Gen.  Albert  Sidney  Johnston,  who  fell  at  the  battle 
of  Shiloh. 

Both  these  Generals  held  commands  in  Utah  and 
made  friends  with  Brigham  Young  and  his  Mor- 
mons, every  one  of  whom  was  a  rebel,  and  every 
one  still  hates  the  United  States  flag,  John  B. 
Floyd  was  Secretary  of  War  of  the  United  States; 
and  HoUiday's  first  line  of  stages  was  run  by  mus- 
tangs and  mules  condemned  by  Floyd,  and  sold  to 
raise  money  for  the  incipient  rebellion.  The  John- 
stons acted  with  and  under  Floyd  in  preparing  the 
way  to  divide  the  Union  by  the  Ohio  and  Missis- 
sippi, create  a  confederacy,  which  was  to  absorb  the 
states  of  Central  America,  and  northern  portions; 
and,  eventually,  perhaps,  the  whole  of  the  South 
American  continent;  forming  "an  empire  whose 
corner-stone,"  according  to  Alexander  H.  Stevens, 
the  Vice  President  of  the  Confederacy,  was  to  be 
"human  slavery".  Gen.  Johnston  is  now  81  years 
old,  and  a  fit  hero  to  belong  to  the  sham  G.  A.  R. 


— Secretary  Stoddard  has  been  chosen  vice-pres- 
ident for  Illinois  by  the  Prohibition  Union  of  Wash- 
ington City. 

— Rev.  W.  W.  Satterlee,  who  co-operated  with 
Secretary  Stoddard  and  others  in  the  last  State 
Anti-masonic  convention  in  Minnesota,  is  one  of 
the  Prohibition  delegates  to  the  Indianapolis  con- 
vention. 

— The  Beltionian  Literary  Association  of  Whea- 
ton  College  invited  the  public  to  attend  their  meet- 
ing last  Friday  and  provided  a  fine  program  for  the 
entertainment  of  their  friends.  Several  of  the 
speakers  showed  abilities  of  fine  promise,  and  their 
freedom  from  conventionality  in  discussing  reform 
questions  was  very  encouraging. 


— At  the  meeting  of  Elgin  Congregational  Asso- 
ciation at  Batavia,  III.,  this  week.  Rev.  Alexander 
Thomson,  of  the  N.  C.  A.  Board,  and  Pres.  C.  A. 
Blanchard  have  appointments.  The  result  of  this 
meeting  is  awaited  -with  some  interest  in  Wheaton 
on  account  of  the  recommendation  of  the  late  coun- 
cil that  the  College  church  be  received  to  member- 
ship. 

— Elder  J.  L.  Barlow  has  returned  from  Iowa  to 
Wheaton,  where  he  expects  to  remain  for  a  season. 
He  is  proposing  to  publish  a  work  refuting  the  the- 
ory of  annihilation  of  the  wicked  dead,  which  has 
for  some  time  been  in  preparation.  He  will  mean- 
while be  happy  to  receive  calls  from  churches  which 
need  an  occasional  supply.  He  can  be  addressed 
at  Wheaton,  111. 

— The  Republican  Register  of  Galesburg,  III,  pub- 
lished lately  the  report  of  a  district  Good  Templar 
meeting  in  that  city.  Mr.  E.  P.  Chambers,  an  old 
and  well-known  citizen  of  Galesburg,  now  residing 
in  Omaha,  replies  to  the  report  in  a  long  and  very 
able  contribution,  which  the  editor  of  the  Register 
does  his  paper  an  honor  and  confers  a  great  benefit 
upon  his  readers  by  publishing. 

— The  Illinois  Republicans  nominated  Joseph  Fi- 
fer  of  Bloomington  for  Governor  last  Wednesday 
on  the  fourth  ballot,  424  being  necessary  for  a  choice. 
The  Grand  Lodge  candidate,  John  C.  Smith,  got  but 
48  votes  on  first  ballot.  Fifer  is  a  Grand  Army 
pet,  but  his  canvass  has  some  force  in  fact  that  he 
has  merit,  while  Smith  can  show  little  but  his  Ma- 
sonic and  Odd-fellow  record.  We  are  thankful  to 
see  how  gracefully  the  lodge  pretensions  were 
shelved. 

— Rev.  W.  R.  Pettiford,  president  of  the  Baptist 
State  Convention  of  Alabama,  sends  a  good  list  of 
some  ninety  Baptist  pastors,  to  whom  he  wishes  the 
Cynosure  sent,  to  aid  in  the  effort  to  rid  the  Baptist 
churches  of  that  State  from  the  lodge  evil.  He  will 
send  others  soon.  On  Sabbath  next  he  has  an- 
nounced a  sermon  on  secret  societies,  and  has  been 
making  careful  preparation  to  discuss  the  orders 
and  overcome  them  with  the  Word  of  God.  He  has 
invited  all  the  lodges  to  be  present.  Let  all  our 
readers  pray  for  this  brother  that  he  may  be  led  of 
the  Holy  Spirit  and  gain  for  Christ  a  renowned  vic- 
tory. 

— Bro.  I.  R.  B.  Arnold  is  again,  with  his  interest- 
ing family,  beginning  his  summer  tour  with  his  cal- 
cium light  and  splendid  collection  of  views.  They 
are  well  prepared  to  win  their  way  in  any  communi- 
ty with  their  varied  entertainments,  musical,  illus- 
trative and  instructive.  They  begin  at  Bartlett,Ill., 
and  go  west  to  Kingston,where  their  tents  are  stored 
in  Bro.  M.  L,  Worcester's  big  barn.  Bro.  Arnold 
has  just  returned  from  a  few  weeks'  visit  to  Nebras- 
ka, and  his  efforts,  he  believes,  will  be  blessed  of 
God  in  entirely  checking  a  serious  and  unhappy 
lapse  into  lodge  sympathy,  on  the  part  of  a  small 
portion  of  the  Wesleyan  conference  of  that  State. 
May  the  angel  of  the  Lord  encamp  with  this  house- 
hold on  their  errand  of  sowing  broadcast  the  prec- 
ious truth  of  the  Gospel. 

— To  see  the  great  painting  "Christ  before  Pilate," 
by  the  Hungarian  Munkacsy,  is  the  opportunity  of  a 
lifetime.  It  is  now  on  exhibition  at  Central  Music 
Hall  in  this  city,  and  we  take  this  opportunity  of 
commending  all  our  readers  who  may  be  in  Chicago 
within  the  next  few  weeks  to  fail  not  in  giving  an 
hour  or  two  to  this  most  remarkable  work  of  mod- 
ern art.  It  is  not  the  place  to  attempt  a  description 
of  the  great  painting,  which  many  have  appropri- 
ately compared  to  Niagara  in  the  power  of  the  work 
to  grow  upon  the  visitor  with  every  view  of  it;  but 
it  may  be  said  that  for  originality  of  conception  and 
power  of  execution  this  will  stand  as  one  of  the 
great  paintings  of  the  world.  The  artist's  concep- 
tion of  Christ  is  most  noble  and  truthful.  The 
"man  of  sorrows,"  "acquainted  with  grief" — the 
Christ  of  the  Gospel,  bearing  on  his  shoulders  the 
sufferings  and  moral  debt  of  mankind,  is  the  central 
figure.  The  consciousness  of  bis  divine  mission, 
the  foregleams  of  the  "joy  that  was  set  before  him," 
the  marks  of  his  garden  agony  are  all  strongly  and 
with  almost  miraculous  power  depicted  in  his  coun- 
tenance. We  see  the  whole  story  which  Thomas 
Hughes  has  grandly  told  in  his  "Manliness  of 
Christ;" "and  more,  we  see  Isaiah's  prophecy  ful- 
filled. The  Pilate  and  Caiaphas  of  the  painting  are 
also  characterizations  of  remarkable  strength. 
There  are  forty  life-size  figures  in  the  twenty-four 
feet  of  canvass,  and  each  is  a  study.  In  the  same 
hall  another  grand  painting  "The  Wise  and  Foolish 
Virgins,"  by  Piloty  is  on  exhibition.  The  Ameri- 
can public  is  much  indebted  to  Mr.  Wanamaker  for 
this  rare  exhibition. 


May  10,  1888 


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THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


N.  a  A.  BOARD  MBBTINO. 

A  meeting  of  the  National  Board  was  called  by 
the  chairman  on  Saturday  morning,  to  consider 
especially  the  recommendation  of  the  political  con- 
ference of  the  week  before.  There  were  present 
brethren  Herch,  Arnold,  Pritchard,  Fischer,  Britten 
and  C.  A.  Blanchard;  also  Geo.  W.  Clark,  A.  J. 
Chittenden,  W.  I.  Phillips  and  H.  L.  Kellogg.  W. 
K  Hench  presided  and  W.  I.  Phillips  was  made 
secretary. 

Rev.  T.  B.  Arnold  opened  with  prayer  and  breth- 
ren Chittenden  and  Clark  were  invited  to  sit  as  cor- 
responding members.  The  discussion  of  the  pro- 
posed league  in  political  action  proceeded.  It  was 
voted  that  the  N.  C.  A.  open  a  department  for  this 
work  as  follows: 

Whereas,  A  recommendation  to  this  Board  has  been 
received,  asking  that  a  department  of  the  N.  C.  A.  work 
be  organized  under  the  name  of  the  American  Anti-se- 
cret League;  and, 

W7iereas,  Such  a  department  would  be  in  perfect  ac- 
cord with  our  constitution;  tterefore, 

Resolved,  That  we  organize  a  department  of  the  Na- 
tional Christian  Association  to  be  known  as  the  Ameri- 
can Anti  secrecy  League. 

Resolved,  That  the  purposes  of  this  League  shall  be: 

1.  To  furnish  information  to  the  people  concerning 
the  effect  of  secret  societies  upon  civil  government. 

2.  To  secure  the  nomination  and  election  of  men,  with- 
out regard  to  party,  who,  being  under  no  secret  obliga- 
tions to  a  portion  of  their  fellow  citizens,  will  be  able 
to  equitably  administer  their  trust  to  all. 

3.  To  secure  an  enrollment  of  all  persons  of  legal  age, 
without  regard  to  party,  who  endorse  the  objects  of  this 
League. 

4.  To  furnish  information  as  to  the  relation  of  public 
men  to  secret  organizations. 

The  formation  of  local  organizations  was  dis- 
cussed and  referred  to  brethren  Phillips  and  Fischer 
as  a  committee  with  power  to  prepare  a  form  of 
constitution  and  bylaws. 

For  the  general  work  of  the  League  W.  I.  Phillips 
was  appointed  superintendent  and  was  authorized 
to  purchase  necessary  books  and  employ  clerical 
help  to  carry  out  the  measures  already  adopted. 

The  Board  then  gave  attention  to  other  business. 
A  letter  from  the  General  Agent  was  read  and  his 
recommendation  was  adopted  for  the  settlement  of 
a  claim  upon  the  estate  of  the  late  Elder  John  Fin- 
ney of  Ohio. 

Secretary  Stoddard  having  last  winter  been  em- 
powered to  arrange  with  Miss  E.  E.  Flagg  for  an 
engagement  in  New  England,  a  letter  announcing 
her  recovery  was  voted  to  be  sent  to  Washington. 

Some  uncoUectable  accounts  for  books  and  sub- 
scriptions that  have  accumulated  during  four  years 
amounting  to  some  $51  were  ordered  to  profit  and 
loss  account. 

A  very  interesting  letter  from  Rev.  Dr.  M.  E. 
Strieby,  secretary  of  the  American  Missionary  As- 
sociation, was  read  as  an  unofficial  response  to  the 
communication  from  the  Board  through  its  special 
committee  appointed  at  last  meeting. 

Bro.  T.  B.  Arnold,  publisher  of  the  Free  Methodist, 
explained  that  the  pressing  nature  of  his  business 
engagements  was  such  that  he  could  not  do  con- 
scientious and  satisfactory  work  as  a  member  of  the 
Board.  He  had  therefore  sent  in  his  resignation, 
he  having  been  lately  appointed  to  fill  a  vacancy. 
As  the  annual  meeting  approaches  the  Board  pre- 
ferred not  to  accept  his  resignation,  hoping  he 
would  be  able  to  give  his  counsel  and  prayers  with 
them  until  the  end  of  the  year. 


REFORM  NEWS  (Continved  from  5th  page). 

attended.  As  far  as  I  could  learn  no  secretists  were 
present.  At  Centre  I  made  the  acquaintance  of 
lawyer  Doan  of  Wilmington,  who  had  come  out  to 
defend  the  craft.  He  is  a  tonguey  fellow,  who  has 
had  a  great  deal  of  crookedness  in  business  affairs. 
He  asked  fifteen  minutes  to  tell  why  he  was  an  Odd- 
fellow, and  why  he  thought  all  present  (of  course 
only  thoeo  who  could)  should  be.  He  used  much 
more  than  this  time  in  appealing  to  the  people's 
sympathies.  How  his  father  and  mother  were  bur- 
ied in  the  grave-yard  near  by;  how  sacred  that  place 
was  to  him,  etc.  His  main  plea  for  the  order  was 
its  charity.  Said  he,  "It  has  alleviated  more  sorrow 
and  suffering  than  any  other  institution."  I  showed 
the  friends  the  facts,  quoting  from  the  constitution 
and  a  grand  lodge  report  which  I  had. 

As  near  as  I  could  tell,  half  of  my  audience  at 
Grassey  Run  were  Masons.  Some  denials  were  at- 
tempted. Joha  Sears,  a  member  for  thirteen  years 
of  Sabina  lodge  (Sabina  is  a  town  near  by),  assisted 
me  with  his  testimony.  He  testified  that  what  I 
had  said  in  reference  to  the  initiation  was  true,  and 
that  I  might  have  said  much  more  with  equal  truth; 
that  be  assisted  in  unclothing  and  preparing  Reuben 


Peelle,  one  of  the  most  zealous  advocates  of  Mason- 
ry here,  for  initiation. 

In  Bowersville  the  preacher  of  the  M.  E.  church, 
in  which  I  spoke,  was  an  Odd-fellow.  He  announced 
my  lecture,  and  added,  "I  don't  believe  in  Bob  In- 
gersoU,  but  like  to  hear  what  he  has  to  say."  The 
church  was  crowded  Sabbath  evening,  many  stand- 
ing at  the  windows  out  side.  There  was  a  larger  at- 
tendance on  Monday  evening  than  could  have  been 
expected  under  the  circumstances.  An  interesting 
discussion  concluded  the  meeting,  during  which  a 
number  of  young  men  who  made  enquiries  received 
light,  that  will,  I  trust,  keep  them  from  joining  the 
lodge. 

A  friend  has  sent  me  a  copy  of  the  Jamestown 
Tribune  dated  April  20th.  A  lengthy  article  ap- 
pears on  the  front  page  headed,  "Humbugs."  It 
opens  as  follows: 

"Our  people  during  the  past  week  have  demonstrated 
Barnum's  favorite  maxim,  that  'the  American  people  de- 
light to  be  humbugged.'  On  last  Sunday  and  Monday 
evenings  the  Friends'  church  of  this  place  was  filled  to 
ovei  flowing  to  hear  a  Mr.  Stoddard  lecture  upon  a  sub- 
ject of  which  he  admits,  and  his  lecture  showed,  he  knew 
nothing  about,"  etc. 

"Suppose  some  ignoramus  who  had  never  learned  to 
read  should  announce  that  he  would  deliver  a  lecture 
upon  the  subject  of  Eoglish  Literature,  Astronomy,  Qe 
ology,  or  some  other  abstruse  science,  would  the  people 
flock  out  to  hear  him?  Yes.  But  let  some  prominent 
lecturer,  who  has  devoted  his  whole  life  to  some  impor 
tant  subject,  announce  that  he  will  lecture  upon  that 
subject  here,  and  a  baker's  dozen  of  our  people  can  be 
coaxed  out  to  greet  him  if  it  is  a  fiae  evening." 

This  editor  appears  to  have  a  poor  opinion  of  his 
fellow  citizens.  I  do  not  know  how  long  he  has 
been  endeavoring  to  enlighten  them,  but  would  sug- 
gest in  the  future  if  he  desires  anyone  to  believe 
him  that  he  should  not  begin  with  a  bold  lie,  as  in 
this  case. 

Those  who  have  given  pledges  or  who  can  help  in 
our  work  will  confer  a  great  favor  by  sending  their 
contributions  to  Rev.  C.  W.  Hiatt,  State  Treasurer, 
in  this  city.  Collections  of  late  have  been  light  and 
more  funds  are  needed  for  spring  work. 

W.  B.  Stoddard. 


FROM  TEE  NEW  ORLEANS  WATCHTOWBR. 


ANOTHER  MOVING  APPEAL  FOR  HBLP. 


New  Orleans,  La.,  April  28th,  1888. 
Dear  Cynosure: — The  Louisiana  State  election 
passed  off  quietly  on  the  17th  inst.  It  had  been 
prophesied  that  if  the  ringsters  lost  their  hold  they 
might  resort  to  violence,  but  the  Young  Men's  De- 
mocracy was  well  organized  and  prepared  to  meet 
the  ward  bosses  and  political  bummers  on  any  issue. 
The  good  citizens  of  New  Orleans  seem  to  be  rejoic- 
ing over  the  result  of  the  election,  and  now  antici- 
pate having  clean  streets  and  a  better  system  of 
government  in  the  city.  We  trust  to  be  able  to  put 
an  Anti-mason  Prohibition  ticket  in  the  field  in  1892. 
I  preached  at  Mount  Moriah  Baptist  church  Sab- 
bath afternoon  from  Jer.  12:5."  The  larger  part  of 
the  congregation  very  strongly  endorsed  what  I  said 
against  secrecy,  although  a  few  lodgites  belong  to 
the  church.  The  secret  Tabernacles  of  Plaquemine 
gave  an  excursion  to  this  city  last  Saturday.  They 
invited  Rev.  George  Holmes,  pastor  of  St.  Peter's 
Baptist  church,  to  accompany  them  and  preach  in 
the  Old  Baptist  church  of  this  city.  The  church  was 
open  to  receive  the  excursionists  and  Mr.  Holmes 
stepped  into  the  pulpit  and  chose  a  text  from  Acts 
2:12:  "What  meaneth  all  this?"  And  to  the  delight 
of  the  anti-secretists  the  reverend  unveiled  secrecy 
in  such  a  way  it  made  our  hearts  leap  up  for  joy,and 
we  thought  surely  God  is  good.  He  said,  among 
other  words  of  truth:  Brethren, we,  as  ministers  and 
elders  and  Christians,should  not  join  hands  with  the 
wicked:  yea,  Gad  requires  us  to  be  separate  from 
every  wicked  vice.  If  we  would  be  ministers  for 
God  we  must  separate  ourselves  from  all  sin  and 
sinners. 

I  learned  from  Bro.  Holmes  that  he  has  been  a 
reader  of  the  Cynomre  from  the  Minister's  Fund 
since  I  preached  for  him  last  year.  Although  he 
thought  my  course  wrong  last  ycar,ho  now  believes 
it  right,  and  says,  although  he  has  had  little  to  say, 
he  has  been  convinced  of  the  evil  of  secrecy  ever 
since  I  preached  at  his  church  in  January,1887;  aijd 
has  not  been  in  a  secret  lodge  hall  since.  Thank 
God  for  this! 

Daar  Northern  friends,  can't  you  see  how  God  is 
blessing  this  good  work'^  Now  won't  some  liberal 
reformer  swell  the  N.  C.  A.  treasury  to  at  least  $3,- 
000  and  send  free 

TWO  thousand  "cynosures"  south? 
Bro.  Holmes  likes  the  Cynosure  and  is  sure  our 
course  is  right,  but  he  is  not  able  to  subscribe  for  it. 


We  need  tracts  by  the  thousand  for  distribution. 

I  attended  services  at  Orleans  Street  Baptist 
church  at  7:30  r.  m.  Sabbath.  Rev.  Landry  preached 
an  interesting  sermon.  Bro.  Landry  reads  the  Cy- 
nosure and  thinks  a  minister  should  be  separate  from 
all  worldlings. 

While  at  the  T.  &  P.  R.  R.  depot  Saturday,  await- 
ing  the  arrival  of  the  train, a  lady  said  to  me,"Didn't 
you  speak  at  Elder  Davis's  church  in  Carrollton 
Thursday  night?"     I  said,  "Yes." 

"Well,  I  got  mad  with  you,  brother,  for  I  belong 
to  a  secret  order,  and  you  ought  not  talk  that  way. 
I  had  just  persuaded  my  husband  to  send  in  his  ap- 
plication to  Join,  and  now  he  has  changed  and  nev- 
er will  join:  and  1  have  had  to  come  out,  tool" 

Thank  God  for  the  saving  of  that  man  from  the 
secret  pit  I 

I  met  a  lady  from  Amite  City.  She  was  glad  to 
see  me  and  tried  to  persuade  me  not  to  return  to 
Amite  City.  She  says  the  Odd-fellows  are  red-hot, 
and  have  declared  if  I  come  back  there  I'll  never  get 
away  alive.  She  thinks  secret  lodges  wrong,  but 
thinks  people  must  be  careful  in  speaking  against 
them  for  fear  of  violence. 

A  member  of  Pilgrim  Tabernacle  No.  4 ,  G.  G.  A. 
0.  B.  and  S.  of  L.  and  C.  F.  L.  C,  was  buried  Wed- 
nesday at  11  A.  M.  Rev.  John  Marks  officiated.  It 
was  somewhat  surprising  to  see  these  secret  "Tabs" 
get  Bro.  Marks  to  bury  one  of  their  deceased.  How- 
ever, this  proves  their  weakness.  Bro.  Marks  made 
some  pointed  remarks.  There  were  about  sixteen 
"Tabs"  in  uniform.  This  shows  an  unusual  decline 
in  secret  Tabernacle  circles. 

I  preached  at  theLaHarpe  Street  M.E. church, Rev. 
H.  Taylor,  pastor,  Thursday  at  7:30  p.  m.  There 
was  a  fair  and  attentive  audience,  although  this 
church,  like  most  of  the  Methodist  churches,  is  sore 
affiicted  with  lodgery.  However,  Bro.  Taylor  is  a 
cultured,  and  an  anti  lodge  man.  My  sermon  was 
very  heartily  endorsed  by  the  paStor,  deacon  and  a 
number  of  the  congregation.  This  is  one  of  the 
leading  M.  E.  churches.  I  have  promised,  D.  V.,  to 
preach  Sabbath  at  3  p.  m.  at  Mount  Olive  Baptist 
church.  Rev.  L.  Taylor,  pastor;  and  at  St.  Mark's 
Fourth  Baptist,  Rev.  W.  W.  Davis,  pastor,  at  7:30 
p.  M. 

I  offered  the  following  resolution  to  the  StMark's 
Fourth  Baptist  church  last  night: 

"Dear  brethren  and  sisters:  after  a  prayerful  considera- 
tion  of  the  secret  lodge  system,  we  are  convinced  that 
the  whole  system  of  secret  lodges  is  wrong  and  anti- ' 
Christian ;  therefore, 

"Resolved,  That  we,  the  St.  Mark's  Fourth  Bapti«t 
church  of  New  Orleans,  do  hereby  advise  our  members 
to  'have  no  fellowship  with  the  unfruitful  works  of  dark- 
ness, but  rather  reprove  them.'    Eph.  5:  11. 

"Resolved,  That  it  is  the  duty  of  a  church  of  Christ 
to  take  care  of  its  own  sick  and  bury  its  own  dead,  and 
thereby  keep  itself  separate  from  the  world. 

"Resolved,  That  this  church  establish  a  treasury  to  be 
known  as  a  poor  treasury,  for  the  purpose  of  sustaining 
our  crippled,  sick  and  destitute  members,  and  bury  our 
dead. 

"Resolved,  That  we  advise  all  of  our  members  to  pay 
to  the  aforesaid  treasury  the  sum  of  twenty  five  cents  per 
capita  each  month  for  the  aforesaid  purpose,  and  there- 
by obey  the  teaching  of  the  New  Testament  Scriptures. 

"Resolved,  That  we  advise  our  members  to  visit  one 
another  and  assist  each  other  in  times  of  want." 

The  above  would  have  no  doubt  been  unanimous- 
ly adopted  had  it  not  been  for  brother  John  fl. 
Brandon,  an  Odd-fellow,  who  desired  to  have  Eph. 
5:11  read;  after  which  ho  desired  to  be  informed 
when  and  what  hour  the  Son  of  Man  would  appear. 
After  several  uncalled-for  remarks,  the  speaker  de- 
sired a  special  meeting  to  be  called  to  debate  the 
question.  Then  Bro.  Andrew  Walker,  who  chanced 
to  be  a  secret  Tabernacler,grew  uneasy  and  declared 
that  "Dis  here  church  can't  never  take  care  of  its 
sick  members.  We's  got  a  load  on  us  now  and  if 
we  goes  to  pay  two  bits  er  month  to  this  church  to 
take  care  of  its  sick  we  can't  pay  for  this  church." 
However,  Bro.  Walker  pays  50  cents  per  month  to 
his  Tab.,  and  $2  50  tomb  tax,  and  ail  assessments 
when  required  to  do  so,  and  thinks  it  all  right;  but 
to  drop  the  lodge  and  pay  the  church  only  25  cents 
per  month  seems  to  him  too  extravagant.  Rev.  J. 
A.  Cox,  although  a  secretist,  favored  the  resolution. 
After  much  unnecessary  argument  the  resolution  lay 
over  until  the  deacons  meet  the  second  Friday  night 
in  May.  We  trust  to  get  it  through  the  official 
board,  as  the  pastor  and  four  of  the  deacons  are 
Anti-masons.    Pray  for  our  triumphant  success. 

Francis  J.  Davidson. 


— Statistical  tables  in  the  Baptist  Year-Book  show 
the  total  number  of  members  in  the  31,8!)^  Baptist 
churches  to  be  2,917,315,  indicating  a  g&mot  184,- 
745  members  during  the  year.  The  numl#r  of  bap- 
tisms reported  is  158,373,  which  is  2,91)5  more  than 
were  reported  a  year  before. 


10 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSUKE. 


Mat  10, 1888 


The  Home. 


AN  BMPT7  NB8T. 


A  f^ave  old  man  and  a  maiden  fair 

Walked  together  at  early  morn ; 
The  thrushes  up  In  the  clear,  cool  air 

Sang  to  the  farmer  planting  his  com . 
And,  oh,  how  sweet  was  the  fresh-turned  mould  I 

And,  oh,  how  fair  were  the  budding  trees  I 
For  daisy's  sliver  and  daffodil's  gold 

Were  full  of  the  happy  honey-bees. 

"Ah,  lookl  there's  an  empty  nest,"  she  said; 

"And  I  wonder  where  sing  the  last  year's  blrdil" 
Then  the  old  man  quickly  raised  his  head, 

Though  scarcely  he  noted  her  musing  words ; 
He  tore  the  nest  from  the  swaying  tree ; 

He  flung  to  the  winds  its  moss  and  hay, 
And  said,  "When  an  empty  nest  you  see, 

Be  sure  that  you  throw  It  far  away." 

"But  why?"  she  asked,  with  a  sorrowing  face — 
"Why  may  not  the  pretty  home  abide?" 

"Because,"  he  answered,  "'twill  be  a  place 
In  which  the  worm  and  the  slug  will  hide. 

Last  year  'twas  fair  enough  in  Its  way- 
It  was  full  of  love,  and  m^ry  with  song ; 

But  days  that  are  gone  must  not  spoil  to-day. 
Nor  dead  joys  do  the  living  joys  wrong." 

The  maiden  heard  with  a  thoughtful  f ace— 

Her  first  false  love  had  gone  far  away— 
And  she  thought,  Is  my  heart  become  a  place 

For  anger  and  grief  and  hate  to  stay? 
Down,  heart,  with  thy  sad,  forsaken  nest  I 

Fling  far  thy  selfish  and  Idle  pain ; 
The  love  that  Is  ours  is  always  the  best; 

And  she  went  with  a  smile  to  her  work  again. 

— JBy  Mary  A.  Sarr,  in  February  Harper's. 


HARD   TIMBS. 


"I've  got  a  job,  mother!" 
"True,  Bob?" 

"Yes,  a  whole  cord  of  wood  to  saw.  Got  in  ahead 
of  everyone  else.  Followed  a  load  on  the  street  till 
it  got  to  the  place  where  they'd  bought  it,  and  got 
the  promise  of  it." 

Bob  straightened  up  his  thin,  awkward,  over- 
grown figure  with  great  pride,  and  then  began  pok- 
ing the  fire. 

"Take  care.  Bob,"  cautioned  his  mother,  "the 
wood's  most  gone." 

"But  there'll  be  an  extra  dollar  to-morrow,  don't 
you  see?  Fffteen  cents  I'm  to  pay  Jim  Johnson 
for  the  loan  of  his  saw  and  buck.  I'm  going  to  buy 
fifteen  cents  worth  of  wood,  and  going  to  get  a  pane 
of  glass  for  the  window;  and  then,  Kitty,"  bending 
over  a  little  girl  who  lay  on  a  miserable  bed,  "some- 
thing'll  be  left  for  you.  I'm  going  to  get  you  some 
of  those  nice  white  rolls  you  saw  at  the  baker's  one 
day — yes  I  am,  Kitty  I  and  something  else,  I  shan't 
tell  you  till  you  see.  Just  wait  till  I  come  home 
to-morrow  I  The  first  job  I've  had  for  all  my  try- 
ing I     I  wish  the  hard  times  were  over." 

Bob  mused  a  few  moments  on  all  the  weary  miles 
he  had  walked  in  search  of  work  through  cold, 
storm  and  snow,  since  the  day  when,  a  few  weeks 
ago,  the  daily  newspaper  had  lengthened  its  routes 
and  discharged  some  of  its  carrier  boys,  him  among 
the  number. 

"Who's  hard  times,  anyway,  that  they  all  talk 
about?"  said  Kitty,  pressing  a  cold  little  hand  to 
her  feverish  cheek,  as  she  turned  her  restless  eyes 
towards  him. 

"Why,  it  ain't  anybody,  Kitty;  it's  only  that  it's 
hard  to  get  work,  and  hard  to  get  money,  and  hard 
for  poor  folks  to  live." 

"Yes," — mother  shook  her  head  with  an  expres- 
sion of  woful  realization  on  her  face.  "The  glass 
works  are  closed,  so  there  are  boys  and  men  out 
there;  and  they're  sending  the  girls  out  of  the  shops; 
and  people  that  gave  out  their  sewing  before  do  it 
themselves  now — that's  how  it  is  I  get  so  little — 
and  mills  and  factories  shut  up." 

"I  should  think,"  said  Bob,  looking  gravely  into 
the  fire  he  had  stirred  into  a  feeble  blaze,  "that  rich 
folks  would  try  all  the  more  to  give  poor  folks 
work;  such  times." 

"They  say  they  can't,  somehow,"  said  his  mother. 
"P'r'aps,"  said  Kitty,  "they  wouldn't  have  enough 
money  themselves  to  last  till  hard  times  was   gone, 
if  they  did.'' 

"P'r'aps  so,"  said  Bob.  "Never  mind,"  he  added 
briskly,  "the  lady  I'm  to  saw  for  gets  lots  of  wood, 
and  may  be  she'll  hire  me  again,  and  may  be  you'll 
get  more  sewing,  mother,  apd  then  we'll  get  the 
mattress  from  the  pawnshop,  aud  buy  some  staff  to 
make  Kitty  well;  and  then  it  won't  he  hard  times 
auy  longer,  will  it?" 

"It'll  take  an  hour  to  thaw  it  out,"  said  Bob,  as 


in  the  dim  light  of  the  following  mom  he  broke  into 
pieces  with  a  hatchet  the  corn-bread,  frozen  to  the 
solidity  of  a  stone. 

"There'll  be  warm  water  soon,  and  then  I  can 
soak  it,  Bobby." 

"I  guess  I'd  better  not  wait,  though,"  he  said, 
crunching  between  his  teeth  some  of  the  flinty  mor- 
sels. "You  see,  it's  most  a  day's  work,  and  I  want 
to  show  'em  that  I'm  equal  to  it,  so  I'll  be  the  surer 
of  gettin'  more.  Now,  I'll  move  your  machine  by 
the  stove,  mother — it's  queer  how  the  poor  thing 
seems  to  be  like  folks,  and  wants  to  be  warmed  up 
before  it'll  go.  Too  bad,  Kitty,  to  have  to  take  my 
coat  off  you,  but  the  stove's  gettin'  nicely  warmed 
up  now,  and  I've  got  an  iron  on  it  for  mother  to  put 
to  your  feet."  He  took  the  coat  which  had  been 
over  her,  but  stopped  to  carefully  tuck  about  her 
the  bit  of  bedding  before  putting  it  on.  Then,  with 
a  caressing  pat  and  a  cheery  good-by,  he  went  out 
into  the  bitter,  bitter,  stinging  cold. 

It  seemed  to  enfold  his  thinly-clad  frame  in  a 
clasp  which  might  well  seem  worse  than  the  grasp 
of  death  to  any  but  a  boy  still  bearing,  through 
hardship  and  privation,  the  blessed  spirit  of  youth- 
ful hope,  braced  by  loving  solicitude  for  still  feebler 
ones.  The  heavy  sticks  of  wood  appeared  almost  to 
greet  him  with  a  friendly  look  as  he  went  at  his 
work  with  hearty  good  will. 

But  as  the  hours  wore  away  the  boy  began  to 
realize  that  something  besides  mere  energy  and 
will-purpose  is  necessary  to  carry  one  through  a  day 
of  hard  work  in  the  atmosphere  of  a  Northern  win- 
ter. All  his  resolutions  could  not  keep  off  the  fre- 
quently recurring  dizziness  and  faintness  which 
seemed  at  times  almost  to  overwhelm  him  with  an 
impulse  to  fling  himself  down  upon  the  pitiless  snow 
beside  him.  He  tried  to  laugh  it  off  and  fight  it 
out,  yielding  to  it  once  or  twice  only  far  enough  to 
sit  down  for  a  moment  on  his  sawbuck  and  rest  his 
head  on  his  trembling  hand,  springing  up  suddenly 
with  a  fear  that  some  one  might  see  him  and  think 
him  unfit  for  hard  work. 

Finished  at  last  it  was,  and  piled  with  extra  care 
and  neatness  to  the  last  stick,  each  one  of  which 
had  grown  heavier  and  heavier.  Then  Bob  stood 
in  the  comfortable  kitchen  and  waited  for  the  mis- 
tress to  come  and  pay  him. 

"Eighty  cents?"  she  said,  offering  him  some 
change. 

"I — thought — ma'am,  a  dollar  was  the  regular 
price." 

"Yes,  but  you're  a  boy.  You  don't  expect  man's 
wages,  do  you?" 

"It's  a  full  cord,  ma'am,  isn't  it?"  said  Bob, 
meekly,  driven  to  say  more  than  he  otherwise  would 
have  ventured  by  the  strength  of  his  desire  to  fulfill 
his  promise  to  poor  little  Kitty. 

"Yes,  I  know.  But  it's  very  hard  times,  and 
people  can't  expect  what  they  used  to  get.  There's 
plenty  ready  to  do  all  I  want  for  that." 

Bob  knew  it.  More  than  one  sawyer  had  come 
into  the  yard  that  day,  looking  with  hungry  eyes  at 
his  job  and  speculating  on  the  chances  of  any  more 
work  to  be  had  there.  As  the  lady  turned  away  he 
walked  slowly  out. 

"It  must  be  the  warmth  of  the  kitchen,"  he  said 
to  himself  as  he  was  forced  by  the  sick  feeling  in 
his  head  and  the  weakness  in  his  knees  to  sit  down 
on  the  step  outside. 

Mrs.  Brainard  had  no  thought  of  being  unkind  or 
unjust.  Months  before,  when  her  husband  had  in- 
formed her  of  the  pressure  which  was  tightening 
upon  his  business  affairs,  she  had  dutifully  and 
practically  accepted  his  suggestion  of  retrenchment 
in  expenses.  She  had  cut  down  on  her  charities, 
worn  her  last  year's  cloak,  made  over  for  the  chil- 
dren dresses  and  flannels  which  she  had  been  in  the 
habit  of  giving  away,  and  industriously  labored 
through  the  plain  sewing  she  had  heretofore  given 
out.  Naturally  inclined  to  be  generous,  and  full  of 
sympathy  for  suffering  which  really  came  under  her 
notice,  she  had  made  up  her  mind  that  liberal  giv- 
ing must  be  deferred  to  a  more  convenient  season, 
and  had  closed  her  ears  to  the  cry  of  the  destitute 
which  arose  on  every  side. 

She  had  been  dressing  to  go  out,  and,  having  re- 
turned to  her  room,  was  leisurely  brushing  her 
cloak,  when  she  saw  the  boy  she  had  just  paid  com- 
ing out  of  her  back  yard.  He  essayed  to  cross  the 
street,  and  her  attention  was  drawn  to  his  singular 
manner.  She  watched  for  a  moment  his  stumbling, 
apparently  careless  steps,  and  then  with  an  expres- 
sion of  dismay,  hastily  threw  on  her  wraps,  ran 
down  stairs  and  out  into  the  street.  It  had  not  been 
at  all  crowded;  but  she  had  seen  the  boy,  when  di- 
rectly in  its  middle,  look  first  one  way  and  then  the 
other  with  a  dazed,  confused  expression,  putting  his 
hand  to  his  head.  Whether  he  had  then  fallen  or 
been   thrown  down  by  passing  horses,  she  had  not 


been  able  to  perceive,  but  she  saw  him  quickly 
raised,  placed  upon  a  sleigh,  and  driven  around  a 
corner.  Hurrying  after,  she  could  see  men  carrying 
him  into  a  tenement  house  at  the  distance  of  about 
two  blocks.  She  followed,  and  opening  the  door 
quietly,  entered  and  stood  inside,  unnoticed  by 
those  who  were  anxiously  occupied  with  him. 

"He  ain't  hurt,  is  he?"  asked  a  woman's  appeal- 
ing voice. 

"No,  I  think  not,"  said  a  gentleman  with  a  pro- 
fessional air,  pushing  back  a  ragged  gingham  shirt 
from  a  bony  arm,  in  search  of  a  pulse.  "What  has 
he  eaten  to-day?" 

"Well,  about  nothing,  I  guess.  His  breakfast  was 
all  frozen  up,  and  he  wouldn't  wait  for  fear  of  not 
getting  more  work." 

"Any  lunch?" 

"Likely  not.  It's  thawed  now,  Bobby,"  she  said 
wistfully,  offering  it  as  he  opened  his  eyes.  "You'll 
eat  some  now,  won't  you?" 

Bob  raised  himself  and  took  a  staggering  step  or 
two  toward  the  child. 

"I  ain't  got  it  for  you,  Kitty,"  he  said  with  a  half 
sob.  "  'Twas  only  eighty  cents,  and  it  was  a  glass 
of  red  jelly  I  was  goin'  to  bring  you— and  the  white 
rolls—" 

"Never  mind  talking  now,  my  boy,"  said  the  doc- 
tor, kindly,  holding  to  his  lips  something  he  had 
poured  into  a  cup.  "Clear  case  of  starvation,"  he 
said,  whispering  to  a  Mrs.  Brainard  as  he  came  to 
offer  her  a  chair.  "Plenty  of  such  cases,  this  win- 
ter, you  know.  God  only  knows  how  these  poor 
bear  so  much  in  the  way  of  hunger  and  cold.  And 
when  the  hard  work  is  added,  nature  is  strained  to 
her  last  point  of  endurance — sometimes  beyond  it?" 

"And  what  then?"  asked  Mrs.  Brainard,  with  her 
face  turning  a  little  pale. 

"Death."  He  laid  a  coin  on  the  sewing-machine, 
and  hurried  away,  after  saying  to  the  mother — 

"Give  him  something  nourishing — in  small  quan- 
tities at  first." 

"Stopl"  said  Mrs.  Brainard,  laying  her  hand  on 
the  woman's  arm,  as  she  again  pressed  upon  Bob 
the  uninviting  looking  corn-bread.  "Oh !  is  it  you, 
Mrs.  Finley?" — recognizing  with  a  further  sinking 
at  the  heart  the  face  of  the  woman  whom  she  had 
told  some  time  before  that  she  could  give  out  no 
more  sewing  until  better  times  came.  The  hollow 
eyes  and  sunken  cheeks — poverty-marks  worn  deep 
during  dreadful  months  lived  through  since  then — 
had  prevented  her  knowing  her  at  first. 

"Wait  a  few  moments,"  she  went  on.  "Let  me 
bring  him  something." 

She  hurried  home  with  but  one  pressing  thought, 
and  gave  quick  orders  to  her  girl,  while  she  herself 
gathered  from  pantry  and  store-room  such  things  as 
could  be  most  readily  utilized.  And  the  two  were 
at  Bob's  side  with  hot  coffee  and  tempting  food,  by 
the  time  he  had  succeeded  in  making  Kitty  under- 
stand that  eighty  cents  would  only  buy  the  wood, 
and  mend  the  window,  and  pay  the  rent  of  the  saw, 
and  not  one  cent  over. 

"If  that  boy  had  died  I  should  have  been  his 
murderer,"  said  Mrs.  Brainard,  her  eyes  now  opened 
to  the  extent  of  dealing  fairly  and  mercilessly  with 
her  own  short-comings. 

"Ah  me!  how  I  have  missed  the  blessings  prom- 
ised to  those  who  consider  the  poor!" 

She  was  returning  from  a  second  visit  to  Bob's 
home,  undertaken  for  the  purpose  of  carrying  there 
some  of  the  made-over  fiannels.  She  felt  as  she 
looked  upon  them  as  though  a  voice  whispered  to 
her:  "The  spoil  of  the  poor  is  in  your  houses." 
And  it  was  with  a  fully  awakened  hearc  that  she 
that  night  read:  "If  there  be  among  you  a  poor 
man  of  one  of  thy  brethren  within  any  of  thy  gates 
in  the  land  which  the  Lord  thy  God  giveth  thee, 
thou  shalt  not  harden  thine  heart,  nor  shut  thine 
hand  from  thy  poor  brother;  but  thoa  shall  open 
thine  hand  wide  unto  him,  and  shalt  surely  lend  him 
sufficient  for  his  need." 

Mrs.  Brainard  will  hereafter  •  practice  her  econo- 
mies upon  herself  instead  of  upon  the  poor,  whom 
the  Master  has  left  to  be  always  with  us.  She  will 
cut  off  luxuries  with  an  unsparing  hand,  but  will 
aim  to  give  more  work,  rather  than  less,  during  hard 
seasons,  and  will  have  an  eye  quickened  by  the 
spirit  of  loving  care  for  others;  for  she  can  never 
forget  that  a  starving  boy  worked  all  day  in  the  bit- 
ter cold,  within  the  sound  of  her  voice  and  the  sight 
of  her  eye  and  the  reach  of  her  comforts,  and  she 
had  not  made  it  her  business  to  know  or  care. — 
Church  and  Home. 


One  having  precious  stones  may  flash  a  mo- 
ment's admiration  upon  spectators,  but  good 
nature  brings  happiness  to  scores  and  hundreds, 
and  the  best  of  it  is,  that  it  takes  nothing  from 
the  possessor. 


■■ 


May  10, 1888 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSUKE. 


11 


I 


THB  FRIBND  OF  THS  ANIMALB. 

In  the  year  1823  a  boy  was  born  in  the  city  of 
New  York. 

When  he  grew  old  enough  to  go  to  school  he  saw 
many  cruel  sights  as  he  passed  to  and  fro  through 
the  streets  of  the  city.  Often  he  saw  poor,  mangy, 
half-starved  dogs  that  had  no  homes;  he  saw  cruel 
boys  throwing  stones  at  them,  and  kicking  or  beat- 
ing them,  and  the  kind  boy's  heart  ached  to  see  the 
beasts  suffer  so,  and  he  wished  he  were  big  enough 
to  thrash  all  those  cowardly  boys. 

Sometimes  he  saw  forlorn  cats  that  looked  hun- 
gry and  wretched,  and  the  boys  would  tie  tin  cans 
to  their  tails,  and  chase  them  with  stones  and  clubs, 
and  try  to  kill  them. 

"Don't  do  that,"  said  Henry  Bergh  sometimes; 
"it  is  mean  and  cruel." 

"Hold  your  tongue!  None  of  your  goody-good 
for  us!  We  are  bound  to  have  our  fun,"  cried  the 
other  boys. 

He  saw  horses  which  were  so  old  or  sick  that  they 
had  no  strength,  or  so  ill  fed  that  you  could  count 
all  their  ribs,  and  yet  these  poor  horses  were  har- 
nessed to  heavy  loads,  and  the  drivers  would  beat 
the  beasts  with  clubs  to  make  them  go. 

"Why  do  you  beat  your  poor  horse  so?"  he  once 
asked  an  angry  driver. 

"To  make  him  attend  to  his  own  business,  and 
I'll  try  a  touch  of  the  same  treatment  to  you  if  you 
don't  attend  to  yours,"  said  the  driver,  fiercely 
cracking  his  whip.  "He  is  my  horse,  and  I  shall 
do  as  I  choose  with  him." 

As  Henry  Bergh  grew  older  he  saw  many  other 
ways  in  which  domestic  animals  were  made  to  suf 
fer  He  found  out  about  the  cruel  dog-fights  and 
cock-fights.  He  saw  that  often  when  horses  had 
grown  too  old  to  work,  they  were  turned  out  to 
starve  along  the  roadsides;  or  when  they  became 
lame  or  injured  so  that  they  could  not  walk,  they 
were  dragged  through  the  streets  with  broken  legs 
or  mortal  wounds,  instead  of  being  shot  and  put  out 
of  their  misery.  He  saw  that  poultry  while  yet 
alive  were  plucked  of  their  feathers,  and  that  calves 
and  sheep  that  were  being  carried  to  market  suf- 
fered unnecessary  pain.  Each  one  of  the  poor  little 
beasties  had  his  four  legs  tied  together;  then  they 
were  all  piled  in  the  wagon  or  car,  one  on  top  the 
other,  any  way  they  happened  to  come,  and  so  they 
all  jolted  off  to  market,  crying  with  pain  all  the  way. 

When  Henry  Bergh  became  a  man  he  found  out 
that  many  good  men  and  women  like  himself  did 
not  want  the  animals  to  suffer;  so  he  and  other  men 
started  a  society  to  stop  cruelty  to  animals.  The 
society  set  to  work  and  had  some  good  laws  passed 
which  forbid  cruelty  to  animals,  and  which  punish 
those  who  are  cruel.  Many  thousand  men  have 
been  fined  or  otherwise  punished  for  beating  their 
horses,  or  for  not  feeding  them  enough,  or  for  over- 
loading them.  Boys  and  men  are  also  punished  for 
maltreating  dogs  and  cats.  The  Society  for  the 
Prevention  of  Cruelty  to  Animals  has  its  agents  in 
nearly  every  place.  Sometimes  these  are  ladies,  and 
very  active  agents  they  are.  I  knew  a  very  nice 
lady  who  owned  beautiful  horses,  of  which  she  was 
very  fond.  She  not  only  looked  after  the  comfort 
of  her  own  fine  animals,  but  took  a  genuine  interest 
in  all  the  hard-worked  haok  horses  of  the  small  city 
where  she  lived.  She  could  never  see  a  set  of  horse 
ribs  staring  at  her  but  she  stopped  her  own  carriage 
to  inquire  of  the  driver  what  kept  his  horses  so  thin. 
She  had  a  right  to  do  this — indeed,  it  was  her  duty 
— for  she  was  the  agent  of  Mr.  Bergh's  society,  and 
was  empowered  to  prosecute  those  who  ill-treated 
animals.  I  never  heard  of  her  doing  this,  however. 
She  had  a  very  pleasant  way  of  saying  what  she  had 
to  say,  and  so  nobody  took  offence  at  her  criticisms. 

Did  you  ever  see  a  train  of  cars  loaded  with  cat- 
tle or  sheep  for  the  city  market?  How  mournful  is 
the  lowing  of  the  boasts  when  the  train  stops  I  It 
seems  as  if  the  sad  creatures  knew  that  they  would 
never  again  gambol  and  frisk  in  the  fields,  but  that 
the  very  next  day  they  are  to  be  killed  and  hung  up 
in  the  butcher  stalls.  But  these  animals  are  not 
uncomfortable.  Each  one  has  plenty  of  good  air 
to  breathe,  and  can  stand  up  on  his  own  feet  in  the 
cage,  and  when  he  is  hungry  an  attendant  gives  him 
food  and  drink.  Henry  Bergh's  society  looks  after 
all  the  great  cattle  trains  than  come  thundering  over 
our  western  prairies  to  bring  meat  to  our  great  cities. 

On  the  morning  of  March  12th,  a  day  tbat  will  be 
memorable  to  the  inhabitants  of  New  York  for  a 
generation  to  come  as  the  day  on  which  the  great 
blizzard  began,  Henry  Bergh  passed  quietly  away  at 
the  age  of  sixty-five.  His  was  a  life  that  was  not 
in  vain,  for  the  world*  was  the  better  for  his  having 
lived  in  it. 

S  jmetimes  boys  and  girls  have  a  society  to  pro 
mote  kindness  to  animals,  and  the  members  promise 


not  to  rob  bird's  nests,  or  to  shoot  animals.  Do  you 
belong  to  such  a  society?  Or  are  you  such  a 
society  all  by  yourself  and  are  you  helping  to  bring 
in  the  good  time  promised  in  the  Bible,  "when  they 
shall  not  hurt  or  destroy  in  all  my  holy  mountain"? 
— Harper^a  Young  People. 

8  AT  AS' 8  B3RVANT8. 


The  devil's  four  chief  servants.  Here  are  their 
names: 

"There's  no  danger."    That  is  one. 

"Only  this  once."    That  is  another. 

"Everybody  does  so."     This  is  the  third. 

"By  and  by."    That  is  the  fourth. 

When  tempted  from  the  path  of  strict  rectitude, 
and  "There  is  no  danger"  urges  you  on,  say,  "Get 
thee  behind  me,  Satan!" 

When  tempted  to  give  the  Sabbath  up  to  pleasure, 
or  to  do  a  liUle  labor  in  the  workshop  or  counting- 
room,  and  "Only  this  once"  or  "Everybody  does  so" 
whispers  at  your  elbow,  do  not  listen  for  a  moment 
to  the  dangerous  counsel. 

All  four  are  cheats  and  liars.  Tjjtey  mean  to  de- 
ceive and  cheat  you  out  of  heaven.  "Behold,"  says 
God,  "now  is  the  accepted  time,  now  is  the  day  of 
salvation."  He  has  no  promise  for  "By  and  by." — 
Chrittian  at  Work. 


Temperance. 


REFORM  IN  OONQRBBB. 


Congress  is  no  longer  a  gathering  of  drinking, 
fighting  politicians.  It  has  not,  of  course, 
thoroughly  reformed,  and  anybody  who  knows  the 
feelings  of  some  of  its  members  will  be  inclined  to 
disagree  with  Congressman  Dingley  when  he  says 
that  for  seven  years  he  has  not  seen  an  intoxicated 
member  on  the  floor  of  the  House.  Such  a  state- 
ment is  as  extreme  as  would  be  the  assertion  that 
every  Congressman  is  a  total  abstainer.  Drunken- 
ness in  the  House  is,  however,  exceedingly  rare. 
Only  one  flagrant  public  instance  has  occurred  this 
session,  and  that  occasioned  such  a  farce  as  to  fail 
entirely  in  pointing  a  moral.  National  legislatures 
are  becoming  more  temperate,  or  at  least  are  not  so 
public  in  exhibitions  of  their  shortcomings.  The 
present  Congress  actually  contains  more  avowed 
Prohibitionists  than  any  of  its  predecessors.  Should 
a  temperance  debate  be  started  at  least  a  dozen 
members  could  be  relied  upon  to  picture  the  beau- 
ties of  total  abstinence,  and  nearly  all  of  them  are 
good  talkers.  They  allied  themselves  to  the  prohi- 
bition element  through  various  causes.  One  Con- 
gressman, at  least,  would  to-day  be  a  wealthy  owner 
of  large  estates  but  for  his  father's  partiality  for 
wine,  and  this  taught  him  a  lesson  he  has  heeded. 

■Washington  Letter. 

»  •  ^ 

OLOaiNQ  8AL00N8  ON  8UNDAY8. 


The  Owens  Sunday  closing  bill,  which  is  now  a 
law  of  Ohio,  takes  from  the  council  of  municipal 
corporations  the  power  to  decide  whether  intoxicat- 
ing liquors  shall  be  sold  or  not  on  Sunday,  and 
leaves  the  law  prohibiting  all  sales  of  liquor  on 
Sunday.  Hasty  interviews  with  a  number  of  sa- 
loon-keepers disclose  a  wide  difference  of  opinion 
among  them  as  to  the  propriety  of  the  law  and  as  to 
its  effect.  Several  of  the  leading  saloon-keepers  say 
they  like  the  law;  that  they  want  to  have  a  day's 
rest  like  other  people;  that  New  York  and  other 
large  cities  close  saloons  on  Sunday  and  we  can  en- 
dure the  deprivation  as  well  as  they;  that  it  will  be 
promotive  of  better  order  on  Sundays  and  give  to 
all  classes  better  enjoyment  of  the  day.  Others 
claim  tbat  it  will  be  disastrous  to  their  business,  as 
the  best  receipts  of  the  week  are  those  of  Sunday, 
especially  in  the  summer.  It  is  openly  predicted 
that  one  result  will  be  to  make  every  Republican 
saloon-keeper  a  Democrat,  though  that  view  is  not 
shared  by  all.  The  measure  had  but  two  negative 
votes  in  the  Senate — both  Democrats,  but  Demo- 
crats voted  for  it.  The  most  bitter  opponents  of  it 
were  the  Republican  Senators  from  Cincinnati,  who 
abstained  from  voting. 


HBR  OaiLD  a  A  VBD  HSR. 

Continued  drinking  and  abuse  from  her  husband 
caused  Mrs.  Susan  Ranee,  who  lives  at  the  corner  of 
Thirty-first  and  La  Salle  streets,  Chicago,  to  leave 
her  home  lately  at  night  with  the  intention  of  jump- 
ing into  Lake  Michigan.  Her  little  13  year-old  boy 
thinking  that  some  such  determination  had  taken 
possession  of  her,  followed  and  remained  with  her, 
refusing  to  turn  back.  They  wandortd  down  town 
together,  and  were  found  sitting  near  the  Hlinois 


Central  Railway  tracks  at  the  foot  of  Peck  court,  at 
8:20  o'clock,  by  an  officer.  Both  were  crying  bit- 
terly, and  the  mother  was  endeavoring  to  persuade 
the  boy  to  return  home  without  her.  The  officer 
asked  a  few  questions  and  then  took  both  to  the 
Harrison  Street  Station.  The  little  boy  was  soon 
released  and  sent  home,  but  the  mother  was  retained 
until  her  son  called  for  her  at  midnight.  She  had 
often  spoken  at  home  of  killing  herself  if  her  hus- 
band, who  is  a  blacksmith  employed  at  the  Illinois 
Central  shops,  would  not  cease  drinking. 


THB  INDIANA  DBM00RAT8. 

The  longest  plank  in  the  platform  of  the  late  In- 
diana State  convention  is  against  prohibition,  and 
reads  thus:  "It  is  provided  by  the  Constitution  of 
this  State  that  the  liberty  of  the  people  should  be 
protected,  and  that  their  private  property  should  not 
be  taken  without  just  compensation;  and  we  are  op- 
posed to  any  change  in  the  Constitution  tending  to 
weaken  these  safeguards,  or  to  any  legislation  which 
asserts  the  power  to  take  or  destroy  the  private 
property  of  any  portion  of  the  people  of  this  State 
without  compensation,  or  which  unjustly  interferes 
with  their  personal  liberty  as  to  what  they  shall  eat 
or  drink,  or  as  to  the  kind  of  clothing  they  shall 
wear;  believing  that  the  Goveniment  should  be  ad- 
ministered in  the  way  best  calculated  to  confer  the 
greatest  good  upon  the  greatest  number,  without 
sacrificing  the  rights  of  persons  or  of  property,  and 
leaving  the  innocent  creeds,  habits,  customs,  and 
business  of  the  people  unfettered  by  sumptuary 
laws,  class  legislation  or  extortionate  monopolies. 
While  standing  faithfully  by  the  rights  of  property 
and  personal  liberty  guaranteed  to  the  people  by  the 
Constitution,  we  distinctly  declare  that  we  are  in 
favor  of  sobriety  and  temperance,  and  all  proper 
means  for  the  promotion  of  these  virtues;  but  we 
believe  that  a  well-regulated  license  system,  and 
reasonable  and  just  laws  upon  the  subject  faithfully 
enforced,  would  be  better  than  extreme  measures, 
which,  in  conflict  with  public  sentiment,  would  never 
be  effectively  executed,  thus  bringing  law  into  disre- 
pute and  tending  to  make  sneaks  and  hypocrites  of 
our  people." 

Albert  Griffla,  chairman  of  the  Anti-saloon  Repub- 
lican National  Committee,  reports  that  numerous 
letters  have  already  been  received  from  Senators, 
Congressmen,  vi^overnors,  and  other  leaders,  in- 
cluding several  whose  names  are  being  considered 
in  connection  with  the  Presidency,  strongly  indors- 
ing the  movement  to  commit  the  party  openly  against 
the  saloon.  The  Anti-saloon  Republican  National 
Conference,  assembled  in  New  York  May  2  to  con- 
tinue in  session  two  days. 

In  her  address  before  the  international  Council  of 
Women,  Dr.  Mary  Weeks  Burnett,  of  the  National 
Temperance  Hospital,  Chicago,  stated  that  about 
seven  hundred  cases  in  all  have  been  treated  in  the 
hospital  during  the  two  years  since  it  was  founded. 
These  are  from  all  classes  of  people,  and  include  all 
general  conditions  of  disease.  There  have  been  no 
deaths.  Experience  proves  that  in  the  most  critical 
stages  the  patients  are  better  without  alcohol  than 
with  it.  The  requirement  of  the  constitution  of  the 
hospital,  that  all  medicines  used  in  the  hospital 
must  be  prepared  without  alcohol,  has  been  com- 
plied with. 

The  open  saloon  is  the  devil's  trap  for  our  boys 
and  he  catches  them  by  playing  on  the  social  in- 
stinct in  their  natures.  The  gilded  saloons  of  the 
city,  and  the  cross-road  groceries  of  the  country  are 
the  recruiting  olflcers  for  the  poor  house,  for  the 
jail,  for  vagabondage,  for  disgrace  and  for  hell.  In 
the  name  of  God,  shut  them  up  1  Thty  say  that 
if  you  close  the  saloon  the  drinking  of  whisky  will 
goon  in  private;  that  is  too  true  to  some  extent  Bat 
it  will  be  a  great  moral  victory  over  the  evil  thing 
to  hide  its  ugly  head  in  the  dark.  The  old  topers 
may  follow  it  to  its  den  but  we  will  save  our  boys. 
Prevention  is  better  than  cure  and  we  all  know  it  is 
easier. —  The  Living  Way. 

A  local  paper  out  in  Iowa,  the  Piae  Tree  Prett, 
says:  "Wayne  county  has  just  cause  to  ba  proud 
of  its  position  among  its  neighbaring  counties  as 
regards  court  expenses.  During  the  past,  three  years 
there  has  never  b  on  a  court  to  our  knowledge  that 
lasted  over  one  week,  and  most  of  tiicm  could  be 
gotten  through  within  three  days.  At  this  term  it 
is  very  questionable  if  there  will  bo  a  criminal  case." 
It  is  needless  to  add  that  Wayne  county  is  a  prohi- 
bition county.  Such  court  records  were  never 
heard  of  in  counties  that  have  saloons.  Nor  is  this 
an  exceptional  case.  Wo  personally  know  of  many 
counties  in  that  State  that  can  show  as  gooii  a  rec- 
ord. 


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THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


Mat  10, 1888 


THE  STATE  MEETINGS. 

MIGHIQAN  SOLDIERS,  ATTENTION! 


To  the  Orand  Army  of  this  Republic: 

Greeting: — As  soldiers  of  the  cross  of  Christ,  enlist- 
ed to  strive  against  all  sin,  we  propose  to  hold  an 
Anti-Secret  Convention  at  Salem, Washtenaw  Co.Mich., 
beginning  May  22,in  the  evening,  at  7:30  oclock. 

Let  there  be  a  grand  rally,  with  every  soldier  at  his 
post. 

A  more  extended  call  soon .  Let  all  interested  watch 
for  it.     Remember  the  date,  May  22,  23,  24,  1888. 

D.  A.  RicflARDS,  Pres. 
H.  A.  Day,  Sec'y. 


MICHIGAN   MEETING. 


It  has  been  some  time  since  we  have  undertaken 
a  meeting  in  Michigan,  and  we  feel  especially  solic- 
itous for  the  convention  now  being  arranged  for,  to 
be  held  in  Salem,  Washtenaw  county,  commencing 
May  22,  1888,  The  convention  is  to  be  held  in  the 
Baptist  church.  Rev.  D.  A.  Richards,  president  of 
the  association,  will  deliver  the  opening  address. 
Pres.  C.  A.  Blanchard  of  Wheaton  College  is  ex- 
pecting to  be  present  and  speak  Wednesday  even- 
ing. Such  workers  as  C.  C.  Foote,  A.  H.  Spring- 
stein,  B.  Hampe,  A.  E.  Burt,  Esq.,  and  others  will 
doubtless  be  present  to  add  to  the  interest  of  the 
meeting.  We  await  with  prayerful  interest  the  re- 
sults. Sessions  will  be  held  morning,  afternoon  and 
evening.  The  convention  will  close  Thursday  even- 
ing. 

We  are  especially  anxious  to  see  the  Board  of 
Trustees  all  present,  so  that  some  necessary  busi- 
ness can  be  attended  to  without  hindrance. 

An  earnest  and  interesting  letter  from  Rev.  Beatty, 
Baptist  minister  in  Salem,  requests  a  large  attend- 
ance and  earnest  effort  on  the  part  of  all,  to  save 
his  church  and  vicinity  from  the  grip  of  lodgery. 
Brethren,  do  your  best,    H.  A.  Day,  Sec.  M.  C.  A. 


WHAT  PENNS7LVANIAN8  SAT. 


YoBK,  Pa.,  April  30,  1888. 
Editors  Cynosure: — I  think  the  Pennsylvania 
readers  of  the  Cynosure  will  be  much  interested  in 
the  following  extracts  from  letters,  which  I  have 
received  lately  in  regard  to  the  reorganization  of  the 
Pennsylvania  Christian  Anli-Secret  Association. 

Mr.  J.  Gr.  Stauffer,  of  Quakertown,  Bucks  Co., 
sends  me  names  and  addresses  of  ministers  who  are 
opposed  to  secret  societies,  and  says:  "I  am  yet 
interested  in  the  anti-secret  work,  and  some  more  in 
this  place  take  interest  in  the  same,"  He  reports 
that  many  refuse  to  hear  or  pay  lodge  ministers; 
and  that  some  have  tried  to  advocate  secret  socie- 
ties from  the  pulpit.  Mr.  Stauffer  is  a  model  re- 
former; for  he  takes  the  Cynosure,  reads  it  through, 
and  then  sends  it  to  some  one  needing  "more  light." 
He  also  distributes  much  anti-secret  literature  be- 
sides. 

Elder  8.  E.  Miller,  of  Clifford,  Susquehanna  Co., 
says:  "I  am  inclined  to  think  your  movement  is 
from  the  Lord;  for  I  have  felt  deeply  that  some- 
thing of  the  kind  is  very  much  needed,  I  have  felt 
to  call  upon  God  to  move  his  people  in  this  matter." 
He  is  unwell,  but  is  ready  to  do  all  he  can  to  arouse 
those  in  his  locality. 

Mr,  C.  W.  Dana,  of  Tunkhannock,  Wyoming  Co., 
says:  "I  do  not  like  secret  societies  and  have  never 
wished  to  become  a  member  of  any."  Mr.  Dana  is 
a  genuine  Prohibitionist,  who  has  reported  for  the 
Voice;  and  he  has  aided  the  temperance  reform  much 
in  York  county.  He  suggests  organizing  young 
men  to  oppose  liquor  trallic  and  secretism. 

Mr.  E.  C.  Spencer,  of  Wysox,  Bradford  Co.,  says: 
"I  am  glad  to  hear  you  are  going  to  reorganize  the 
anti-secret  association  in  this  State.  I  am  very 
much  interested  in  the  cause  of  anti  secrecy,  and  I 
have  been  doing  what  I  could."  He  takes  the  Cy- 
nosure and  the  American;  and  has  had  lectures  by 
Levington,  Rathbone,  and  Raynor  and  others.  He 
also  promises  to  aid  the  State  work  all  he  can. 

Rev.  J.  T,  McCrory,  of  Pittsburg,  who  seems  to 
be  the  busiest  gentleman  in  Pennsylvania,  having 
temperance  work,  Law  and  Order  duties,  and  plenty 
of  religious  work  of  all  sorts,  says  he  is  "heartily 
opposed  to  all  forms  of  secretism,"  And  he  adds: 
"I  wish  success  to  every  legitimate  movement 
against  this  new  form  of  tyranny." 

Rev.  W.  B.  Musselman,  a  Mennonite  minister,  of 
Bethlehem,  Northampton  Co.,  says:  "I  positively 
agree  with  the  movement  against  secrecy.  I  preach 
salvation;  and  every  one  who  gets  converted  leaves 
the  lodge,  etc.,  for  they  come  out  from  among  them. 
Even  in  my  preaching  I  make  continual  mention  of 
secrecy  as  being  one  of  the  vilest  devices  of  Satan." 


Rev,  William  J.  Reid,  editor  of  the  United  Pres- 
byterian,  of  Pittsburg,  "will  be  glad  to  publish  arti- 
cles on  anti-secrecy,  if  they  are  carefully  written 
and  of  suitable  length  for  a  weekly  paper." 

Rev,  H,  H,  George,  President  of  Geneva  College, 
Beaver  Falls,  Beaver  Co.,  says:  "I  do  rejoice  in 
the  wide  extended  success  of  the  anti-secret  re- 
form." 

This  is  certainly  very  encouraging  to  me;  and  I 
sincerely  hope  every  citizen  of  Pennsylvania  who 
reads  this  cheering  report  from  so  many  of  our 
thinking  and  working  reformers,  will  immediately 
resolve  to  do  all  that  can  be  done  to  arouse  the  bet- 
ter class  of  our  citizens,  so  they  will  aid  us  to  over- 
throw the  grand  kings  and  priests  of  the  secret 
empire.    Yours,  etc,,         Edward  J,  Chalfant, 


Religious  News. 


— Rev.  J.  Augustus  Cole  has  just  left  Eng- 
land for  Africa.  He  writes  to  the  Wesleyan  Meth- 
odist from  Liverpool,  England,  April,  14:  "I  re- 
turned here  from  London  on  the  12th,  but  hope  to 
be  there  again  on  the  23d,  at  the  invitation  and  ex- 
pense of  Dr.  J.  G.  Jones,  to  attend  the  Congrega- 
tional annual  meeting.  I  am  sailing  for  Africa  on 
the  5th  of  May,  in  the  steamship  Niger.  I  have 
several  letters  inviting  me  home,  especially  from  St. 
John's  church.  I  am  taking  with  me  a  young  Afri- 
co-Englishman  to  assist  me  in  my  work.  His  moth- 
er, an  English  lady,  pays  his  passage  of  $112  out 
to  Sierra  Leone.  He  is  a  very  intelligent  lad,  and 
just  what  I  need." 

— Dr.  G.  F.  Pentecost  lately  closed  a  series  of 
very  successful  meetings  at  Schenectady,  New  York, 
and  has  gone  to  Atlanta,  Ga.  At  Schenectady  the 
whole  city  was  moved;  the  opera  house,  holding 
2,000,  was  crowded  daily,  and  hundreds  were  con- 
verted. 

— Rev.  J.  M.  Hervey,  who  removed  from  Los  An- 
geles to  Boston  last  fall,  has  been  preaching  dur- 
ing a  series  of  meetings  in  the  United  Presbyterian 
church,  Boston.  Religious  interest  has  greatly  in- 
creased in  the  church,  and  twenty-seven  were  added 
to  the  membership. 

— The  evangelist  'B.  F.  Mills  has  been  laboring  in 
a  union  meeting  at  Providence,  Rhode  Island.  Some 
1,400  cards  have  been  returned,  from  all  parts  of 
the  city,  of  persons  desirous  of  leading  the  Chris- 
tian life.  Of  this  number,  some  fifty  have  pre- 
ferred the  United  Presbyterian  congregation,  whose 
pastor,  Rev.  M.  S,  McCord,  is  a  well-known  helper  in 
reform  work  in  Rhode  Island. 

— It  is  proposed  to  erect  a  monument  to  the  mem- 
ory of  John  Eliot,  the  "Apostle  to  the  Indians,"  in 
Eliot  square,  Roxbury,  Mass.,  and  unveil  it  at  the 
two  hundredth  anniversary  of  his  death,  which  oc- 
curs in  about  two  years. 

— The  late  Rev.  Asa  BuUard,  who  died  a  few 
weeks  ago  at  a  good  old  age,  was  eminently  useful 
in  Sabbath-school  work  in  New  England  especially 
and  throughout  the  country.  A  memorial  was  pro- 
posed soon  after  his  death  and  received  with  great 
favor.  The  Congregational  Sunday-school  people 
of  Boston  have  decided  to  raise  $100,000,  to  be  in- 
vested, and  the  income  expended  in  the  support  of 
Sunday-school  missionary  work  in  this  country. 

— At  a  missionary  meeting  held  by  the  College 
church,  Sabbath  evening,  Miss  Hulbert,  the  lady 
principal,  spoke  on  the  recent  opening  of  Corea,  the 
"Hermit  nation,"  to  the  Gospel.  There  are  but  five 
missionaries  for  the  twelve  million  people  of  Corea, 
and  their  efforts  are  so  urgently  required  at  Sole,the 
capital,  that  they  are  unable  to  answer  the  pressing 
calls  for  help  in  various  outlying  districts.  A  na- 
tive church  of  twenty-five  members  has  been  formed 
after  four  year's  labor.  The  religion  of  Corea  is  an- 
cestor-worship, and  there  seems  to  be  a  general  turn- 
ing of  the  people  toward  something  more  divine. 
Miss  Hulbert  has  a  brother  in  Corea  and  her  account 
was  intensely  interesting.  Prof.  E.  Whipple  also 
spoke  with  no  less  interest  of  the  work  among  the 
Indians,  in  which  he  has  taken  part  as  principal  of 
the  Romona  Indian  school  at  Santa  Fe. 

— The  Presbyterian  church.  North,  resolved  to 
signalize  this  one  hundredth  year  of  the  organic  life 
of  Presbyterianism  in  the  United  States,  by  raising 
a  million  of  dollars  for  foreign  missions,  besides  do- 
ing other  excellent  deeds.  The  Treasurer  of  the 
Foreign  Board  reports  that  he  has  received  $865,000, 
and  a  strong  plea  is  made  tor  gifts  during  the  ten 
remaining  days  of  the  year  to  make  up  the  shortage 
of  $135,000,  The  last  General  Assembly  also  urged 
the  raising  of  $800,000  for  the  Board  of  Home  Mis- 
sions, and  7'Ae  Evangelist  says  that  amount  has  been 
almost  collected  "within  a  mere  fraction." 


Bible  Lesson. 


STUDIES  IN  THB  NEW  TESTAMENT. 
LESSON  VIII.  Second  Quarter.— May  20. 
SUBJECT.— Je6U8  In  Gethsemane.— Matt.  26:  36-46. 
GOLDEN  TEXT.— Though  he  were  a  son,  yet  learned  he  obe- 
dience by  the  things  which  he  suffered. — Heb.  5 :  8. 
\  Oven  the  BibU  and  read  the  lesson.} 
From  Peloubet's  Notes. 

"And  he  took  with  him  Peter  and  the  two  sons  of  Zeb- 
adee:"  John  and  James.  These  three  constituted  the  in- 
nermost of  the  concentric  circles  of  the  disciplehood. 
Our  Lord  felt  for  them  a  love  of  peculiar  interest  and 
complacency,  because,  as  we  may  presume,  he  perceived 
in  them  some  peculiar  features  of  moral  strength  and 
nobleness  on  the  one  hand,  or  of  moral  sensitiveness, 
receptivity  and  loveliness  on  the  other. — Morison. 

Not  having  a  closet  for  prayer,  Jesus  had  to  make  one 
on  mountain  top  or  in  leafy  shade.  He  had  a  secret 
place  to  which  he  habitually  repaired.  Have  some  spot 
sacred  to  communion  with  God.  In  the  familiar  place 
there  is  less  distraction  ;only  where  we  can  be  thoroughly 
alone  with  God,  can  we  feel  free  to  utter  our  deepest 
needs.— iJ.  Glover. 

Prayer  and  commuion  with  his  Father  was  Jesus's  ref- 
uge in  the  hour  of  trouble. 

Jesus  was  intensely  human,  as  well  as  divine.  And 
while  he  must  "tread  the  winepress  alone,"  it  was  a  com- 
fort to  know  that  human  friends  and  sympathy  were  near 
at  hand. 

Those  who  live  nearest  to  Jesus,  and  learn  most  of 
him,  and  imbibe  most  of  his  spirit,  can  be  nearest  him 
in  his  hours  of  conflict  and  victory,  and  on  the  mount  of 
transfiguration. 

"And  began  to  be  sorrowful  and  very  heavy:"  or,  as 
the  Kev.  Ver.,  "sore  troubled."  So  great  was  his  sor- 
row now,  that  all  which  he  had  previously  endured  was 
as  nothing;  now,  as  for  the  first  time,  he  began  to  expe- 
rience sorrow.  Mark  says  that  he  was  "sore  amazed;" 
and  the  original,  which  is  aptly  rendered,  implies  that 
the  disclosure  of  the  sorrow  came  upon  him,  if  not  liter- 
ally as  a  surprise,  at  least  with  new  and  unexpected  force. 
Luke  (32:  44)  says  he  was  "in  an  agony." — Abbott. 

The  Reasons  fob  Christ's  Gkbat  Agony.  Why 
was  Christ  so  sorrowful,  when  many  a  martyr  has  gone 
triumphantly  to  his  cross;  and  to  many  a  hero  death  has 
been  "welcome  as  the  sight  of  sky  and  stars  to  prisoned 
men?"  It  was  "something  far  deadlier  than  death"  that 
weighed  upon  his  soul.  He  bore  his  trial  and  reproaches 
and  crucifixion  more  bravely  than  any  hero.  What  bit- 
ter portion  was  in  his  Gethsemane  cup?  "The  right  un- 
derstanding of  the  whole  of  this  narrative,"  observes  Al- 
ford,  "must  be  acquired  by  bearing  in  mind  the  reality 
of  the  manhood  of  our  Lord." 

"The  sorrows  of  the  garden  were  a  part  of  the  atoning 
passion  of  Jesus.  He  was  our  Substitute,  and  was  bear- 
ing alone  the  burden  of  the  sin  of  humanity.  This, 
above  and  beyond  everything  else,  must  be  the  sting  of 
this  absolute  grief  of  his  soul." — Meredith.  The  unright- 
eousnesses of  the  world  were,  in  some  peculiar  way,  ac- 
cumulated on  his  soul,  and  piled  up  to  heaven  like 
mountains  upon  mountains.  He  was  "bearing  the  sin 
of  the  world"  (John  1 :  29).  "The  Lord  had  laid  on  him 
the  iniquity  of  us  all."  Thus  he  was  being  "wounded  for 
our  transgressions  and  bruised  for  our  iniquities"  (Isa. 
53:  5,  6). — Morison. 

I  cannot  help  feeling  that  part  of  Christ's  state  of 
mind  in  the  garden  was  owing  to  the  deep,  awful  sense 
of  responsibility,  the  conception  of  the  supreme  impor- 
tance to  man  of  his  standing  firm  at  this  crisis.  There 
never  was  so  great  a  crisis,  and  he  was  aware  of  its 
length  and  breadth. — President  Woolsey. 

"Sorrowful,  even  unto  death:"  so  burdened  with  sor- 
row that  it  seemed  as  if  human  nature  could  not  live  un- 
der it.  IioubtlesB  it  would  have  crushed  him  to  death 
had  not  the  angels  come  and  strengthened  him  (Luke 
22:  43). 

"Let  this  cup  pass  from  me."  The  ingredients  of  the 
cup  were  certainly  "not  the  mere  present  feebleness  and 
prostration  of  the  bodily  frame;  not  any  mere  section  of 
his  sufferings,  but  the  whole, — the  betrayal,  the  trial,  the 
mocking,  the  scourging,  the  cross,  and  all  besides  which 
our  thoughts  cannot  reach." — Alford. 

"Nevertheless,  not  as  I  will,  but  as  thou  wilt."  Under- 
neath that  awful  agony  there  lay,  millions  of  /athoms 
deep,  unmoved  and  unmovable,  the  intense  desire  that 
his  Father's  wish  and  will  should  be  done.  That  wish 
and  will  were  in  reality  his  own.  And  thus  he  both  de- 
sired, and  he  did  not  desire,  that  the  cup  should  pass 
from  him.  In  the  surface  element  of  his  feelings  he  de- 
sired that  the  cup  should  pass.  In  the  ocean  of  feeling 
that  lay  beneath  his  desire  was  that  it  should  not  pass. 
And  there  was  the  divinest  harmony  between  the  two 
desires.  In  both  there  was  a  longing  for  what  was  good. 
But  the  good  that  was  longed  for  in  the  undermost  and 
deepest  emotions  was  immeasurably  the  greater,  and 
hence  the  Father  willed  that  the  cup  should  not  pass  al- 
together away,  and  the  Son's  will  was  entirely  the  same. 
— Morison. 

"And  flndeth  them  asleep:"  not  sound  asleep,  as  we 
may  infer  from  ver.  43,  but  in  a  dozing,  drowsy  state. — 
Schaff.  Sleeping  for  sorrow,  says  Luke.  No  other  evan- 
gelist mentions  the  cause  of  their  drowsiness;  but  Luke 
was  a  physician,  and  was  prepared  to  speak  on  this  point. 
— Jacobus.  It  is  frequently  supposed  that  this  was  proof 
of  wonderful  stupidity,  and  indifference  to  their  Lord's 
sufferings.  The  truth  is.  however,  that  it  was  just  the 
reverse:  it  was  proof  of  their  'great  attachment,  and 
their  deep  sympathy  in  his  sorrows. — Barnes.  There  is 
another  symptom  of  grief,  which  is  not  often  noticed, 
and  that  is  profound  sleep.     I  have  often  witnessed  it 


Mat  10, 1888 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSUKE. 


13 


even  in  mothers,  immediately  after  the 
death  of  a  child.  Criminals,  we  are  told 
by  Dr.  Akerman,  the  keeper  of  Newgate, 
in  London,  often  sleep  soundly  the  night 
before  their  execution. — Dr.  Rush's  'Dis- 
eases of  the  Mind,"  p    319. 

Observe,  they  forgot  sorrow  in  sleep ; 
Christ  conquers  it  by  prayer.  Compare 
with  the  world's  forgetfulness  of  sorrow 
the  Christian's  victory  over  it  (Rom.  5: 
3;  8:  35-39).— Abbott. 

Thk  Answer  to  Christ's  Praybr. 
Was  Christ's  prayer  answered?  and  how? 
At  the  first  glance  it  would  seem  to  be 
our  only  example  of  unanswered  prayer, 
for  the  cup  did  not  pass  from  him,  but 
he  drank  it  all,  even  to  its  bitterest  dregs. 
But  the  Epistle  to  the  Hebrews  (5:  7) 
says  it  was  answered.  And  a  closer  ex- 
amination shows  that  it  was  answered  in 
the  best,  the  diviaest  way.  It  was  an- 
swered in  the  three  ways  in  which  God 
answers  our  prayers:  1.  By  drawing  us 
into  closer  communion  and  sympathy  and 
submission  to  him.  The  man  in  a  little 
boat  trying  to  draw  by  a  rope  the  large 
ship  to  himself,  really  comes  nearer  the 
ship,  though  most  of  the  motion  is  of 
himself  to  the  large  vessel,  not  of  the  ves- 
sel toward  himself.  Jesus  came  in  his 
human  nature  into  the  perfect  peace  and 
calmness  of  a  submissive  will,  bo  that 
every  desire  and  feeling  and  choice  was 
in  harmony  with  his  Father.  This  is 
shown  by  the  variation  in  the  prayer  the 
second  and  third  time  he  prayed.  2, 
There  was  a  direct  and  definite  answer  to 
his  prayer.  (1)  An  angel  came  and 
strengthened  (Luke  22:  43).  There  are 
two  ways  of  answeriog  a  prayer  for  the 
removal  of  a  burden.  In  one,  the  bur- 
den is  taken  away,  and  we  remain  the 
same;  in  the  other,  we  are  made  so  strong 
that  the  burden  is  no  longer  a  burden  to 
us;  as  what  would  crush  a  child,  is  but 
sport  to  a  man.  This  latter  is  by  far  the 
best  way  of  receiving  an  answer.  So 
Paul  kept  the  thorn  in  his  flesh,  but  God's 
grace  was  made  suflScient  for  him,  (2) 
"He  was  delivered  from  that  which  he 
feared,  which  was,  lest  by  impatience  and 
distruFt,  he  should  offend  and  disable 
himself  to  go  on  wHh  his  undertaking  " 
—M.Eenry  3.The  third  answer  to  prayer  is 
the  giving,  not  that  which  we  ask  for  in  the 
form  we  ask  it,  but  the  soul  of  our  prayer, 
the  thing  we  in  our  deepest  hearts  want, 
and  would  ask  for  if  we  saw  all  things 
as  God  sees  them.  If  clearly  before  the 
vision  of  Jesus  there  had  appeared  two 
choices,  the  one  of  escape  from  the  cross, 
but  with  that  also  the  failure  of  his  mis- 
sion, the  triumph  of  evil,  the  loss  of  un- 
numbered souls,  no  crown,  no  glory,  no 
abiding  on  the  right  hand  of  God;  and 
the  other  choice,  that  of  the  cross  and  its 
agony,  but  with  it  also  the  redemption  of 
the  world,  the  ineffable  glory  of  God, 
the  joys  of  millions  of  the  saved,  the 
crown  of  triumph  over  evil, — who  doubts 
which  would  have  been  his  real  inner- 
most prayer.  His  prayer  was  answered, 
for  the  cross  was  changed  to  a  crown, 
Gethsemane  into  paradise,  death  into  im- 
mortal glory. 


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THE    OPENING   OF   AN     INDIAN 

RESERVATION. 

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The  desirable  valleys  are  fairly  covered 
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well  as  to  prospect  for  others. — Chicago 
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THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSUBE. 


Mat  10, 1888 


HOME  AND  Health. 


TWKLVa  BULBS  FOR  THB  CABB  OF  BARS. 

Never  put  anj  thing  into  the  ear  for  the 
relief  of  toothache. 

Nerer  wear  cotton  in  the  ears  if  they 
are  discharging  pus. 

Never  attempt  to  apply  a  poultice  to 
the  inside  of  the  canal  of  the  ear. 

Never  drop  anything  into  the  ear  un- 
less it  has  been  previously  warmed. 

Never  use  anything  but  a  syringe  and 
warm  water  for  cleaning  the  ears  from 
pus. 

Never  strike  or  box  a  child's  ears;  this 
has  been  known  to  rupture  the  drumhead 
and  cauee  incurable  deafness. 

Never  wet  the  hair  if  you  have  any 
tendency  to  deafness;  wear  an  oUed  silk 
cap  when  bathing,  and  refrain  from  div- 
ing. 

Never  scratoh  the  ears  with  anything 
but  the  finger  if  they  itch.  Do  not  use 
the  head  of  a  pin,  hair  pins,  pencil  tips 
or  anything  of  that  nature. 

Never  let  the  feet  become  cold  and 
damp,  or  sit  with  the  back  towards  the 
window,  as  these  things  tend  to  aggra- 
vate any  existing  hardness  of  hearing. 

Never  put  milk,  fat  or  any  oily  sub- 
stance into  the  ear  for  the  relief  of  pain, 
for  they  soon  become  rancid  and  tend  to 
excite  inflammation.  Simple  warm  wa- 
ter will  answer  the  purpose  better  than 
anything  else. 

Never  be  alarmed  if  a  living  insect  en- 
ters the  ear.  Pouring  warm  water  into 
the  canal  will  drown  it, when  it  will  gen- 
erally come  to  the  surface  and  can  easily 
be  removed  by  the  fingers.  A  few  puffs  of 
tobacco  smoke  blown  into  the  ear  will 
stupefy  the  insect. 

Never  meddle  with  the  ear  if  a  foreign 
body,  such  as  a  bead,  button  or  seed  en- 
ters it;  leave  it  absolutely  alone, but  have 
a  physician  attend  to  it.  More  damage 
has  been  done  by  injudicious  attempts  at 
the  extraction  of  a  foreign  body  than 
could  ever  come  from  its  presence  in  the 
ear. — Health  and  Home. 

THB   BEST   BED. 

Of  the  eight  pounds  which  a  man  eats 
and  drinks  in  a  day,  it  is  thought  that 
not  less  than  five  pounds  leave  his  body 
through  the  skin.  And  of  these  five 
pounds  considerable  percentage  escapes 
during  the  night.  This,  being  in  great 
part  gaseous  in  form,  permeates  every 
part  of  the  bed.  Thus  all  parts  of  the 
bed,  mattress,  blankets,  as  well  as  sheets, 
soon  become  foul  and  need  purification. 
The  mattress  needs  this  renovation  quite 
as  much  as  the  sheets. 

To  allow  the  sheets  to  be  used  without 
washing  or  changing  three  or  six  months 
would  be  regarded  as  bad  houskeeping ; 
but  I  insist  if  a  thin  sheet  can  absorb 
enough  of  the  poisonous  excretions  of 
the  body  to  make  it  unfit  for  use  in  a  few 
days,  a  thick  mattress,  which  can  absorb 
and  retain  a  thousand  times  as  much  of 
these  poisonous  excretions,  needs  to  be 
purified  as  often  certainly  as  once  in 
three  months.  A  sheet  can  be  washed. 
A  mattress  cannot  be  renovated  in  this 
way.  Indeed,  there  is  no  other  way  of 
cleansing  a  mattress  but  by  steaming  it, 
or  picking  it  to  pieces,  and  thus  in  frag- 
ments exposing  it  to  the  direct  rays  of 
the  sun.  As  these  processes  are  hardly 
practicable  with  any  of  the  ordinary  mat- 
tresses, I  am  decidedly  of  the  opinion 
that  the  good,  old  fashioned  straw  bed, 
which  can  every  three  months  be  ex- 
changed for  fresh  straw,  and  the  tick 
washed,  is  the  sweetest  of  beds. 

If  in  the  winter  season  the  porousness 
of  the  straw  bed  makes  it  %  little  uncom 
fortable,  spread  over  it  two  wdblen 
blankets,  which  should  be  washed.  With 
this  arrangement, if  you  wash  all  the  bed- 
covering  often,  you  will  have  a  sweet, 
healthful  bed. 

Now,  if  you  have  the  bed  to  air,  with 
open  windows  during  the  day,  and  not 
make  it  up  for  the  night  before  evening, 
you  will  have  added  greatly  to  the  sweet- 
ness of  your  rest,  and  in  consequence,  to 
the  tone  of  your  health. 

I  heartily  wish  this  good  change  could 
be  everywhere  introduced.  Only  those 
who  have  thus  attended  to  this  important 
matter  can  judge  of  its  influence  on  the 
general  health  and  spirits. — Health  and 
Habit. 


A  feeling  of  dullness  and  languor, 
Which  is  not  akin  to  pain, 

And  resembles  suffering  only 
As  the  mist  resembles  rain, 
is  often  the  first  indication  of  incipient 
disease.  In  such  cases  the  famous  "ounce 
of  prevention"is  the  highest  wisdom,  and 
may  be  found  in  its  most  potent  form  in 
Dr.  Pierce's  Golden  Medical  Discovery, 
which,  by  its  wonderful  blood-purifying 
and  invigorating  tonic  properties,  will 
quickly  restore  the  ebbing  vitality,  repair 
and  strengthen  the  system,  and  thus  ward 
off  threatening  sickness.  Its  saving  in- 
fluence reaches  every  organ  of  the  body. 


We  take  pleasure  in  recommending  th« 
use  of  Hall's  Vegetable  Sicilian  Hair  Re- 
newer  as  safe  and  reliable  for  restoring 
gray  hair  to  its  natural  color. 


In  the  spring  hundreds  of  persons  suffer 
from  boil8,carbuncle8,  and  other  eruptive 
diseases.  These  are  evidences  that  the 
system  is  trying  to  purge  itself  of  impur- 
ities, and  that  it  needs  the  powerful  aid 
which  is  afforded  by  the  use  of  Ayer'B 
Sarsaparilla. 

m  I  m 
CONSUMPTION  SUKEI-Y  CUBED. 

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PARASITES   ON   LIVE   STOCK. 

At  the  end  of  the  winter  colts,  calves, 
and  older  stock  are  very  apt  to  be  crowd- 
ed with  these  objectionable  parasites. 
They  thrive  best  upon  poor  animals,  and 
are  supposed  to  be  bred  by  old,  worn  out, 
and  miserable  creatures.  However  this 
may  be  there  is  no  doubt  that  they  find  a 
suitable  home  in  the  dirty,  matted  hair  in 
the  late  winter  or  early  spring  months, 
and  on  a  sunny  day  may  be  seen  literally 
in  millions,  every  hair  having  nits  upon 
it.  One  reason  of  so  much  rubbish  ac- 
companying them  is  that  in  the  course  of 
their  development  from  the  egg  to  the 
mature  louse  the  skin  is  cast  several 
times. 

To  get  rid  of  them  is  not  always  easy, 
«8  the  length  of  coat  and  accumulation 
of  dandruff  or  scurf  makes  a  waterproof 
covering  that  resists  many  remedies 
which  in  themselves  are  certain  destroy- 
ers if  only  brought  into  contact  with  the 
parasites. 

A  sunny  day  should  be  chosen,  and  the 
early  part  of  it,  when  a  bountiful  wash- 
ing with  soft  soap  and  hot  water  should 
be  undertaken,  so  as  to  clear  the  skin  of 
grease  and  dirt  before  applying  the  rem- 
edy. Staves- acre  is  an  effectual  destroy- 
er of  lice  if  prepared  by  boiling  a  half 
pound  with  a  gallon  of  water  and  brush- 
ing well  into  the  coat  with  a  hard  brush. 

Tobacco  juice  is  also  much  in  request 
for  the  purpose,  and  can  be  procured 
from  druggists  at  a  very  low  rate  as  it  is 
imported  now  free  of  duty,  or  only  a 
nominal  duty, and  the  old  expensive  plan 
of  boiling  or  infusing  good  shag  tobacco 
is  not  necessary.  By  the  way,  very  few 
people  avail  themselves  of  the  govern- 
mental privileges  of  growing  sufficient 
tobacco  for  this  and  fumigating  purposes 
though  they  might  easily  do  so. 

Paraffin  is  sometimes  used  but  is  a  very 
dangerous  remedy, occasionally  being  ab- 
sorbed and  causing  the  death  of  the  ani- 
mal, and  not  unfrequently  causing  a  blis- 
ter and  much  unnecessary  pain  and  sub- 
sequent blemish. 

There  is  another  kind  of  louse  from 
which  horses  suffer,  which,  if  once  seen, 
can  never  be  forgotten — we  refer  to 
poultry  lousiness.  It  will  sometimes  hap- 
pen that  a  horse  stabled  with  fowls  will 
become  affected  and  literally  tear  himself 
to  pieces  with  them  unless  promptly 
treated  with  one  of  the  foregoing  reme- 
dies, either  of  which  is  as  effectual 
against  these  as  against  the  ordinary 
louse. 

In  washing  or  applying  any  remedy,  it 
should  always  be  commenced  near  the 
•yes  and  worked  backward,  as, if  any  oth- 
er plan  is  adopted,  the  besieged  retreat 
into  the  mane  and  ears,  and  many  escape 
altogether,  like  the  rats  that  are  left  just 
to  keep  up  the  breed  after  the  rat  catch- 
er has  gone. 

It  is  always  well  to  repeat  the  dressing 
and  keep  the  animals  moving  about  till 
dry,  or  they  may  lick  off  more  lotion  than 
is  good  for  them,  or  stand  about  and  get 
chilled. — Chemitt  and  Druggist, 

Depth  of  Potato  Sets. — There  is  a 
difference  in  variety  as  to  the  depth  at 
which  the  young  potatoes  will  form.says 
an  experienced  cultivator,  and  it  is  not 
entirely  due  to  the  way  in  which  they  are 
planted.  The  Early  Rose  class  of  pota- 
toes set  near  the  surface.  The  white  va- 
rieties, such  as  White  Star,  Burbank  and 
St.  Patrick,  are  deeper  in  the  soil.  This 
makes  the  white  potatoes  rather  less  lia- 
ble to  rot,  as  the  fungus  which  causes  the 
disease  first  forms  on  the  leaves  and  then 
is  washed  down  to  the  tubers.  Thus,hill- 
ing  potatoes  is  a  partial  protection  from 
rot.  and  is  absolutely  necessary  for  Early 
Rose  and  other  kinds  which  naturally  set 
near  the  surface,  and  unless  artificially 
covered  are  very  likely  to  become  sun- 
burnt. 

Hen  Manure  in  Compost. — The  best 
way  to  prepare  the  hens'  manure  is  to 
mix  it  thoroughly  with  fine  loam  in  the 
proportion  of  ten  bushels  of  the  manure 
to  thirty  of  loam.  If  you  first  mix  two 
or  three  parts  of  hen  manure  to  one  of 
land  plaster,  it  will  make  a  still  better 
compost  for  use  in  the  hill.  Do  not  use 
quick  lime;  it  will  set  the  ammonia  free, 
though  if  you  immediately  mix  it  with 
earth  this  will  take  up  and  hold  it.  Land 
plaster  will  take  up  and  fix  the  ammonia 
but  earth  should  also  be  used.  In  this 
way  all  possible  waste  is  saved. 

Drained  Land  Best. — A  farmer  who 
baa  had  much  experience  with  drains 


tells  the  Farmer'*  Review  that  the  land 
is  looser  and  more  friable;  it  plows  more 
easily  in  the  wheat  stubble,  and  is  not  so 
cloddy  as  where  it  is  undrained.  Ths 
corn  has  a  better  color  and  has  eared  bet- 
ter right  over  the  drains  than  at  a  good 
distance  from  them.  Where  the  land  is 
drained,  he  finds  that  it  takes  less  rain  in 
a  dry  time  to  penetrate  the  soil  and  do 
good  than  where  it  is  not  drained  as  it 
does  not  "bake"  so  badly,  and  the  rain 
can  soak  down  into  the  soil;  whereas, 
where  it  is  not  drained  the  water  lies  on 
top,  and  the  sun  evaporates  it  and  it  does 
not  penetrate  the  roots  unless  it  is  a  very 
heavy  and  continuous  rain. 

Oil  Meal  fob  Colts  —An  Ohio 
stock  farmer  states  that  he  has  been  using 
oil  meal  some  for  two  or  three  years,  and 
thinks  it  excellent  for  cows  giving  milk, 
mixed  with  ship- stuff,  and  for  colts  that 
have  just  been  weaned.  Last  fall  he 
weaned  three  colts  and  began  to  feed 
some  oats,  and  when  cold  weather  came 
on  added  some  oil  meal.  He  has  got  up 
to  one  bushel  of  oats  and  a  half -gallon  of 
oil  meal  per  day,  which  is  as  high  as  he 
will  go  as  long  as  they  look  as  well  as 
they  do  now.  They  run  to  hay  at  their 
pleasure,  being  out  of  doors  all  the  time. 
He  has  a  Clyde  mare  three  years  old  last 
May  that  weighed  1,980  pounds  in  Octo- 
ber, that  was  raised  out  of  doors. 

Chestnut  Trees  Profitable  .  —  In 
localities  where  land  is  not  too  dear,  ob- 
serves a  New  England  farmer,  chestnut 
trees  may  be  planted  with  a  greater  cer- 
tainty of  profit  than  almost  any  other 
kind  of  crop.  They  will  begin  to  bear 
nuts  in  ten  or  twelve  years,  and  for  the 
nuts  alone  will  pay  a  good  profit.  Chest- 
nut wood  is  valuable  for  many  purposes. 
It  makes  excellent  railroad  ties,  and  if  the 
trees  are  cut  when  of  the  right  size  for 
this  use  they  sprout  readily,  and  the  sec- 
ond growth  reaches  cutting  size  in  half 
the  time  required  for  seedlings.  Three 
or  more  crops  of  trees  from  one  stump 
may  be  obtained. 


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Chapter  IV.— Analysis  of  the  books  of  the 
Bible. 

Chapter  V.— Miscellaneous  Helps. 

Clolh,  1S4  pages,  price  postpaid,  50  cento. 
Addre8^  W.  1.  PHILLIPS, 

891  W.  Madison  St.,  Chicago. 

FKEEMASONRY 

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BY 

Past   Mantcr   of  Keystone  I.od|c«, 

No.  030,  ChlrsfiTO. 

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Lodgp  >:^' "'li'^tf  hi*ftf  fuglsnail-^n  of  oaon.  Thir 
work  nhoula  o»  — Z***"»<*  "*»  laavts  <iU  over  th 
country.  It  Ih  bo  chrnp  tlmt  It  c«n  or  ukimI  i^ 
trnrlo,  and  luoupy  thus  cxpenileJ  will  brU>«  •  Ixiun- 
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National  Christian   Attoc^at!^ 

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16 


THE  CHRISTIAN  OYNOSUKE. 


Mat  10, 1888 


NFWS  OF  THE  WEEK 

WASHINGTON. 

When  the  Mills  tariff  bill  shall  have 
been  reported  back  to  the  House  of  Rsp 
resentatives  from  the  committee  of  the 
whole,  it  is  understood  a  substitute  will 
be  introduced  by  the  Republicans,  pro- 
viding for  a  reduction  of  $94,000,000  in 
revenue,  of  which  $3,000,000  would  be  on 
tobacco  and  $6,000,000  on  alcohol,  be- 
sides $58,000,000  from  repeal  of  the  duty 
on  sugar. 

On  Wednesday  the  Senate  passed  in 
Bixty-flve  minutes  105  private  pension 
bills,  forty  five  of  which  had  already 
been  passed  by  the  House  of  Represent- 
atives. With  almost  as  pauch  rapidity 
the  following  public  building  bills  were 
passed:  Indianapolis.  Ind.,  $150,000; 
Atchison,  Kansas,  $100,000;  Wilmington, 
Del.,  increase  to  $250,000;  Woonsocket, 
R  I ,  $75  000;  Fort  Dodge,  Iowa,  $100,- 
000;  Sterling,  Illinois,  $50,000;  Dover, 
N.  H.,  $75  000;  Asheville,  N.  C,  $100,- 
000;  Duluth,  Minn.,  $150,000.  The  San- 
ate  last  week  discussed  the  bill  for  the 
establishment  of  a  bureau  of  animal  in- 
dustry, the  bill  to  extirpate  pleuro  pneu- 
monia, the  railroad  land  forfeiture  bill, 
the  international  Copyright  bill,  and,  in 
secret  session,  the  Chinese  Treaty,  and 
the  accumulated  nominations  by  the  Pres- 
ident, among  them  that  of  Mr.  Fuller  to 
be  Chief  Justice  of  the  United  States. 
The  latter  nomination  has  been  most  fa- 
vorably received  by  both  parties  in  Con- 
gress. 

CHICAGO. 

Navigation  opened  with  a  large  fleet 
of  grain-laden  vess'  h  lea.ving  Friday 
night  just  after  midnight. 

General  Crook,  the  new  commander  of 
the  military  division  of  the  Missouri,  has 
arrived  at  headquarters  in  Chicago  and 
assumed  his  new  duties. 

Bids  for  the  construction  of  the  heav- 
iest portion  of  the  Eiffel  iron  tower  were 
opened  in  Paris  Friday,  and  the  contract 
was  given  to  a  Chicago  firm.  There  were 
competitors  from  various  parts  of  the 
world.  This  is  the  1,000  foot  tower  to  be 
used  during  the  next  world's  exposition . 

COUNTRY. 

At  Winona,  Minn.,  the  Mississippi  on 
Friday  reached  the  highest  point  ever 
known.  Fears  are  entertained  that  the 
water  will  carry  away  the  wagon  bridge 
crossing  the  river  to  Wisconsin.  It 
reached  the  structure  and  dashed  against 
it  with  tremendous  force.  The  ferry  sus- 
pended operations,  as  the  cable  was  not 
long  enough  to  span  the  breadth  of  the 
water,  which  is  three  miles  wide. 

A  Scandinavian  female  evangelist  has 
been  exhortiag  in  the  vicinity  of  Menom- 
inee, Mich.,  for  a  month  past  to  people 
of  her  nationality,  and  during  that  time 
eight  persons  have  become  insane.  Un- 
less the  authorities  take  some  action  it  is 
feared  that  the  county  will  be  obliged  to 
erect  an  insane  asylum  of  its  own. 

Late  Thursday  afternoon  several  build- 
ings in  the  town  of  Berring,  Mo.,  were 
blown  down  in  a  storm,  and  James  Myers 
of  Memphis,  Mo.,  was  killed. 

Friday  morning  a  fire  was  seen  on  the 
farm  of  Widow  Free zs,  near  Arlington, 
Neb  ,  which  was  supposed  to  be  the  barn 
of  her  son-in-law  and  family,  who  lived 
with  her  A  party  of  citizens  went  out 
to  see  if  all  was  well,  and  were  horrified 
at  finding  the  charred  remains  of  seven 
human  beine;3,  identified  as  old  Mrs. 
Freeze,  Fred  Qrateluschen,  his  wife  and 
three  children,  and  Fred's  brother  Louis, 
scattered  in  different  parts  of  the  barn 
among  the  horses  and  cows,  some  fifteen 
of  which  were  also  burned.  One  theory 
is  !oal  play;  another  is  that  each  one  of 
the  family  tried  to  save  an  animal  and 
all  failed  and  were  suffocated  suddenly. 
A  daughter,  who  is  away  visiting,  is  the 
only  survivor  of  the  family.  It  is  re- 
ported that  the  hired  man  cannot  bo 
found. 

There  was  an  enthusiastic  meeting  at 
Cooper  Union,  New  York,  Friday  even- 
ing. May  4tb,  at  a  mass-meeting  called 
to  express  approval  of  Mayor  Hewitt's 
refusal  to  permit  a  foreifn  flag  to  bo 
raised  over  the  City  Hall.  Strong  speech- 
es were  made  and  a  set  of  resolutions 
adopted.  The  audience  cheered  itself 
hoarse  at  every  reference  to  the  Ameri- 
can flag  or  the  American  eagle. 

Judge  Pugh  of  Columbus,  Ohio,  May 
4,  granted  the  petition  of  the  Law  and 


Order  League  for  a  peremptory  writ  of 
mandamus  to  compel  the  mayor  and  com- 
missioners to  enforce  the  Sunday  saloon- 
closing  act.  The  authorities,  who  had 
previously  flatly  refused  to  execute  the 
law,  held  a  meeting  Friday  night,  and, 
being  advised  by  the  city  solicitor  that 
there  was  no  way  of  evading  the  writ, 
unanimously  voted  to  instruct  the  police 
to  enforce  the  law,  beginning  with  Sun- 
day, May,  6. 

Fines  were  imposed  Friday  on  liquor 
dealers  of  Concord,  N.  H.,  aggregating 
$8,000. 

A  collision  of  two  sections  of  a  long 
train  on  the  Philadelphia  and  Reading 
railway  near  Mount  Carmel,  Pennsylva- 
nia, caused  the  explosion  of  a  car  load  of 
blasting-powder,  by  which  seventeen 
workingmen's  cottages  were  wrecked,  a 
woman  and  five  children  killed  outright, 
and  a  number  of  other  people  seriously 
injured.  A  number  of  cars  were  also  de- 
molished. 

FOBRIQN. 

Sir  William  Ritchie,  Chief  Justice  of 
the  Canadian  Supreme  Court,  came  to  the 
senate  Friday  endowed  with  power  as 
deputy  governor-general  and  assented  to 
the  act  to  ratify  the  fisheries  treaty,  which 
thus  becomes  a  statute  of  the  dominion. 

A  larm  has  again  taken  possession  of 
the  Austrian  cabinet  owing  to  the  mobil- 
ization of  the  Russian  troops.  The  re- 
volt in  Roumania  has  at  length  assumed 
proportions  of  a  menacing  character  to 
the  peace  of  the  empire.  In  Wallachia 
and  Moldavia  Intrigues  have  been  dis- 
closed of  a  decidedly  pro  Russian  tend- 
ency, and  the  passage  of  a  Russian  army 
through  Roumania  would  be  welcomed 
by  the  people  and  could  not  be  seriously 
resisted  by  the  Roumanian  army.  Bul- 
gariah  refugees  are  daily  arriving  in  the 
Danubian  villages,  and  everything  now 
seems  to  portend  some  imminent  and  de- 
cisive action  on  the  part  of  Russia  rela- 
tive to  the  future  of  Bulgaria. 

An  explosion  occurred  Friday  in  a 
tunnel  in  course  of  construction  near 
Messina,  Italy.  Six  workmen  were  killed 
and  many  more  fatally  injured,  several 
of  whom  were  rescued  in  a  dying  condi- 
tion. At  the  time  of  the  accident  350 
workmen  were  in  the  tunnel. 
Emperor  Frederick  Friday  evening  dined 
with  the  crown  prince  and  princess,  the  em- 
press and  his  three  daughters.  The  present 
favorable  symptoms  give  ground  to  hope 
that  he  will  soon  recover  from  the  weak- 
ness remaining  from  the  recent  crisis. 
The  weakness  especially  affects  his  legs. 
The  emperor  makes  himself  understood 
better  than  formerly  by  whispers  and 
signs,  but  he  uses  no  phonetic  system. 

Dispatches  from  India  announce  that 
Delloi  and  Moradahad  had  been  visited 
by  disastrous  hail  storms,  about  150  per- 
sons having  been  killed.  The  hail  stones 
were  flat  and  oval  in  shape  and  some  of 
them  weighed  as  much  as  two  pounds. 
At  Racebatti,  in  Bengal,  twenty  persons 
were  killed,  200  severely  injured  and 
2,000  houses  were  destroyed  by  hail 
stones, 

The  resurrection  of  the  Panslavist 
party  in  Russia  has  alarmed  Qerman  oSL- 
cial  circles,  and  the  Czar's  reinstatement 
of  General  Bogdanovitch  is  not  an  iso- 
lated proof  that  the  open  adoption  of  an 
offensive  policy  approaches.  The  avowed 
aim  of  the  Slav  associations,  whose  revi 
val  has  been  obtained  with  the  Czar's 
assent,  is  to  incite  insurrections  among 
the  Slav  people  until  Russia  comes  into 
possession  of  Constantinople.  It  is  be- 
lieved in  Germany  that  the  war  party  has 
convinced  the  Czar  that  the  French  elec- 
tions will  return  a  war  ministry,  and  that 
Russia  ought  to  be  ready  to  co-operate 
with  France. 

The  Spanish  committee,  having  in 
charge  the  Christopher  Columbus  cele- 
bration, offers  a  prize  of  $10,000  for  the 
best  book,  in  any  language,  on  the  geo- 
graphical diecoveries  of  Portuguese  ex- 
plorers prior  to  the  time  of  Magellan. 
About  the  end  of  this  month  the  Queen 
Regent  will  unveil  a  monument  of  Co- 
lumbus at  Palos,  Spain. 


WANTED. 


POWDER 

Absolutely  Pure. 

This  powder  never  varies.  A  marvel  of  purity, 
strength  and  wholesomeness.  More  economical  tnan 
the  ordinary  kinds,  and  cannot  be  sold  in  competi- 
tion -with  the  multitude  of  low  test,  short  weight, 
alum  or  phosphate  powders.  Sold  onlyln  cans. 
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C. 


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Use  Butcher's  Dead  Shot  for  Bed  Bugs,  a  powerful 
exterminator;  break  up  their  nests,  destroy  their 
eggs,  clear  them  out  and 

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Wholly  unlike  artificial  systems. 

Cure  of  mind  wandering;. 

Any  book  learned  in  one  reading:. 
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foratimeandthon  have  them  return  again.  I  mean  a 
radical  cure.  1  have  made  the  disease  of  FITS,  EPIL- 
EPSY or  FALLING  SICKNESS  a  life-long  study.  I 
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The  OAristian  Cynosure  of  Nov.  10, 
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THE  INTERIOR 

or 

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"West  A.tx'ica, 


WHAT  CAN  IT  TEACH  US? 

BT  J.  AUOnSTUS  COLB, 
Of  Shalngay,  W.  A. 

"With  Portrait  of  tlie  w^utlior. 
Mr.  Cole  la  now  in  the  employ  of  the  N.C.  A 
and  traveling  with  H.H.Hinman  in  the  South 
Price,  postpaid,  20  ctB. 

National  Christian  Association. 

MASONIC  OATHS, 

BY 

Past   Master   of  Keystone  Liodare, 

No.  639,  Chicago. 

A  mR8terl7  diicunlon  of  the  Oaths  of  the  Masonle 
LodRe,  to  which  la  oppendod  "Freemasonry  at  s 
Glance."  lUuslratlng  every  sign,  grip  and  cere- 
mouy  of  the  Masonic  Lodne.  This  work  la  highly 
unmmeuded  by  leatling  lecturers  as  tumishinK  tb« 
best  arguments  on  the  nature  and  arao- 

ter  of  Masonic  obligatlouB  of  any  tK>ok  In  prlnb 
Paper  cover,  207  paces.    Price,  40  cents. 

National  Christian  Association, 

«ai  W*«tIII»dlMB  St.  CU«a«o,  111, 


Christian  Cynosure. 


JJf  BSOBBT   EAV3  1  SAID  N0THINe."-J6»u»  Vhriit. 


Vol.  XX..  No    35 


CHICAGO,  THTJKSDAY,  MAY   H,  1888. 


Wholi  No.  942. 


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postage  enclosed. 

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CONTENTS. 


Boitobial: 

Notes  and  Comments 1 

American    Antl  -  secrecy 

League 8 

Vermont 8 

Good  Templarlsm 8 

Summum  Jus,  Summa  In- 
juria   8 

Personal  Mention 9 

C  JNTBIBUnONS  : 

The  Power  of  Character. .    1 

India  Needs  Men 2 

The  Two  Skies  (poetry) . .    2 
Personal  Observations  on 

Secret  Societies 2 

Masonic  Idolatry:  practi- 
cal Theism 3 

'What  Hinders  Emigration 

Sou  h 4 

Sbleotbd : 

Men  for  the  Times 3 

Press  Comment 4 

The  Secret  Empire: 
The  National  Order  of  VI- 
dettes 4 

LlTBBATUBB 6 


Rbfobm  News: 
Our  New  Orleans  Letter; 
Lodge  and  Saloon  Must 
go  Down;  Ohio  Notes..    5 
Cobbbspondbnob  : 
The  Image  of  the  Beast ; 
A  Plea  for  Home  Train- 
ing; A  Word  on  Reun- 
ions; Drug  Stores  that 
are    Most    Dangerous ; 

PlthandPoint 6 

Our  Boston  Letter 9 

In  Bbiep 7 

Secret    Societies     Con- 
demned     7 

The  N.  C.  a 7 

ThbHomb 10 

Temperance II 

Religious  Nbws 12 

BiBLB  Lesson 12 

Lodge  Notes 13 

Donations 13 

Home  and  Health 14 

Fabm  Notes 15 

News  or  thb  Week 16 

Mabkets 13 


THE  ONLY  COLORED    DELEGATE 


to  the  Indianapolis  Convention  from  Texas  gives  a  free, 
hearty  and  happy  commendation  of  the  Cynosure  in  the 
South  this  week  that  will  make  all  soula  rejoice.  Water 
froze  Saturday  night  in  the  vicinity  of  Chicago,  but  our 
friends  do  not  mean  the  stream  of  light  and  love  to  the 
Southern  churches  shall  freeze.  They  k^eep  the  spigot 
running,  and  add  a  half  dozen  to  the  number  of  pastors 
who  are  bleseed  by  their  gifts. 


Carl  Schurz,  editor  of  the  New  York  Evening  Post, 
has  just  been  feted  and  honored  in  Berlin,  by  an 
eminent  company,  Count  Herbert  Bismarck  among 
them.  Soon  after  he  was  received  by  Prince  Bis- 
marck and  given  a  very  friendly  interview.  He 
bore  his  honors  well,  as  "an  American  citizen  of 
German  birth."  ,  But  he  doubtless  remembered 
vividly  that  it  was  not  so  long  ago  when  it  would 
have  been  worth  his  life  to  set  foot  on  Qerman  soil; 
for  he  took  part  in  an  insurrection  in  1849  and  in 
later  attacks  on  German  imperialism.  But  having 
been  with  us  a  foreign  minister,  general,  Senator, 
and  Cabinet  officer,  his  misdemeanors  are  forgiven, 
and  he  can  take  his  proper  place  among  the  noblest 
and  best  of  his  fatherland. 


blot  out  the  fact  that  the  same  voice  has  been  raised 
in  the  most  infamous  of  causes — to  destroy  the 
Christian  religion  and  to  prevent  the  throttling  of 
the  immoral  press.  Conkling  died  as  he  lived  with 
no  public  recognition  of  his  Maker,  nor  do  we  re- 
member that  he  ever  made  any  direct  eflfort  for  pub- 
lic morality.  Yet  it  may  be  said  that  his  long  and 
brilliant  public  career  was  stained  by  no  such  at- 
tacks upon  religion  as  IngersoU's;  nor  was  his  hand 
soiled  with  bribes.  He  years  ago  publicly  trained 
with  the  Knight  Templar  Freemasons,  but  there 
was  no  appearance  of  lodge  regalia  about  his  funeral, 


Robert  IngersoU  was  selected  by  the  Senate  and 
House  of  the  New  York  Assembly  to  pronounce  an 
eulogy  to  the  memory  of  the  late  Roscoe  Conkling, 
and  made  the  oration  last  Wednesday.  There  was 
much  in  the  selection  to  add  to  the  grief  of  the  sur- 
viving relatives,  for  no  glory  of  eloquent  words 
could  atone  for  the  charatter  of  the  speaker,  nor 


The  Greek-letter  lodge  folly  has  struck  the  college 
girls.  The  other  day  was  held  the  fifth  general  con- 
vention of  the  Delta  Gamma  society  at  Evanston, 
III.  A^ery  appropriately  the  Odd-fellows  opened 
their  lodge  for  the  meeting.  The  order  was  begun 
in  1872  at  Oxford,  Miss.,  and  has  now  thirteen  chap- 
ters, with  headquarters  at  Evanston,  and  a  quarterly 
organ  at  Minneapolis.  President  Cummings  and 
his  faculty,  we  regret  to  note,  entertained  and  en- 
couraged this  secret  society  among  girls,  giving 
them  receptions,  banquets,  and  various  honors,  just 
as  if  this  imitation  of  the  young  men's  college  socie- 
ties had  not  the  same  tendency  to  destroy  moral 
character,  promote  falsehood  and  error,  and  choke 
Christian  conviction.  It  is  not  an  encouraging 
thought  that  our  educated  young  women,  who  arc  to 
purify  the  ballot  for  America,  are  led  astray  by  the 
cunning  of  Satan  as  easily  as  the  rougher,  if  not 
sterner,  sex. 


The  Boston  Daily  Advertiser  of  last  Friday  de- 
scribes what  must  have  been,  to  the  esthetic  imag- 
ination of  that  city,  an  imposing  spectacle,  Boston 
has  been  esteemed  a  first-class  city  for  mobs  ever 
since  the  days  of  Garrison.  Some  of  us  knew  it  to 
be  in  March,  1880,  round  about  Tremont  Street  and 
Music  Hall.  And  the  experience  of  those  who  wish 
to  speak  to  men  of  Christ  in  the  open  air  on  the  old 
liberty  ground  of  the  Common,  is  that  Boston  can 
lead  America  in  religious  persecution.  But  with  all 
her  desire  to  be  foremost,  Boston  has  never  had  a 
Knight  Templar  religious  performance  in  a  Chris- 
tian church  and  in  public  until  now,  if  we  may  be- 
lieve the  Advertiser.  But  Thursday  evening  the 
lodge  broke  through  all  conventional  or  traditional 
prejudices  and  celebrated  their  "Ascension"  day. 
They  chose  an  Episcopal  church,  as  if  less  likely  of 
refusal;  but  they  were  bold  enough  to  ask  the  best 
that  denomination  could  give— no  less  than  Trinity 
Church  and  Phillips  Brooks.  And  this  great  man 
bowed  to  them,  without  even  the  excuse  we  make 
for  Naaman  the  Syrian.  He  read  prayer  for  this 
lodge  mob  (what  else  could  it  be  in  such  a  place) 
and  was  assisted  by  a  number  of  Rev.  D.Ds  ,  one  of 
whom  preached  a  sermon,  adopting  the  old  Knights 
Templar  of  the  Crusades,  virtues,  vices  and  all. 
Can  brethren  Davis  and  Hastings  hope  for  relief  in 
Boston? 


and  hold  your  breath  till  you  get  by;  but  you  must 
sufifor  me  and  my  work  as  close  to  your  churches 
and  the  schools  where  your  innocent  children  gath- 
er as  I  can  get.  Now,  if  these  good  brethren  will 
preach  on  the  axe  at  the  root  of  the  tree,  and  keep 
the  chips  flying,  they,  and  we  all,  shall  soon  rejoice 
in  their  victories. 


Among  the  Chicago  pastors  who  spoke  most  em- 
phatically on  the  Sabbath  upon  the  danger  of  the 
saloon  in  politics,  the  sermons  of  Drs.  Henson,  Lit- 
tle, Withrow  and  Barrows  were  published  next 
morning.  They  read  as  though  the  spirit  of  Elijah 
were  coming  in  other  John  the  Baptists  to  foretell 
a  new  advent— even  of  the  Lord  of  Zion  against  her 
rum  foes.  They  are  righteously  and  reasonably  in- 
dignant. They  asked  not  that  the  number  of  the 
saloons  be  made  one  less;  not  that  one  drop  less  of 
accursed  liquor  be  sold;  but  only  that  the  saloon  be 
set  off  a  little  further  from  the  churches  and  schools 
and  not  elbow  itself  into  a  residence  block  among 
homes  where  women  and  children  are  sheltered.  But 
the  aldermen  and  their  saloon  friends  saw  more  than 
appeared  on  the  face  of  this  request  It  meant  an 
I-am-holier-than-thou  rule.  If  the  church  and  school 
set  up  for  the  Pharisee,  the  saloon  was  not  quite 
ready  to  be  the  publican.  It  loves  good  company — 
loves  it  amazingly — and  respectability.  When  it 
kicks  a  specimen  of  its  work  upon  the  street,  cor- 
rupted, filthy,  bloated,  besotted,  full  of  contamina- 
tion, it  says  to  decent  people.  Please  close  your  eyes 


We  of  Chicago,  after  six  years,  of  Carter  Harri- 
son, congratulate  Gloucester,  Massachusetts.  Mayor 
Robinson  of  that  city  is  not  a  mollusk.  He  has 
back-bone — and  a  conscience.  The  city  council 
voted  ninety-nine  licenses  to  fifty-one  saloon-keep- 
ers. The  mayor  vetoes  the  whole  in  a  lump,  and 
tells  the  aldermen  they  have  voted  contrary  to  their 
convictions,  because  of  the  pressure  of  a  popular 
vote  for  the  saloon.  He  closes  with  these  words 
which  should  be  cast  in  bronxe  for  his  monument 
for  a  hundred  generations  to  read: 

"Finally,  to  legalize  a  traffic  which  is  an  acknowl- 
edged evil  and  a  curse,  is  simply  to  take  a  backward 
step  in  the  cause  of  reform,  and  undo  the  work  of 
former  years;  to  again  re-establish  upon  a  firm  foot- 
ing a  business  which  must  surely  go  to  decay,  with- 
out the  sanction  of  law.  And  when  I  see  the  im- 
morality, crime,  misery  and  poverty  produced  by 
the  business,  whether  legalized  or  not,  and  when  I 
call  to  mind  the  fact  that  I  have  been  placed  here 
by  the  people,  with  a  full  knowledge  of  my  convic- 
tions upon  the  license  question,  and  when  I  review 
the  valid  and  lawful  objections  against  granting 
many  if  not  all  of  the  licenses  covered  by  the  order, 
and  when  I  see  the  business  undermining  everything 
that  is  good,  and  true,  and  noble,  I  can  not,  I  will 
not  approve  the  order.  With  my  convictions  of 
duty,  and  recognizing  the  fact  that  there  is  a  law 
higher  than  man,  a  divine  law,  which  says,  'Woe  to 
him  that  giveth  his  neighbor  drink,'  I  am  unwilling 
to  place  my  name  to  a  contract  which  binds  the  city 
to  protect  a  man  in  a  business  upon  which  the  curse 
of  Heaven  rests." 


THE  POWER  OF  CHARACTER. 


BT   BEY.    J.    H.    roSTBR. 

In  the  presence  of  one  man  you  are  unhappy  and 
awkward.  Another  presence  makes  you  happy  and 
you  excell  yourself.  One  man  comes  into  a  com- 
pany and  it  is  like  a  wet  blanket.  Another  comes 
and  it  is  like  sunshine.  We  read  that  a  certain 
woman  touched  the  hem  of  Christ's  garments  and 
was  cured,  and  the  shadow  of  the  apostles  f.'iUing 
upon  sick  folk  healed  them.  So  every  man's  char- 
acter is  exerting  an  influence  for  good  or  evil.  "One 
man  is  morose,  gloomy,  bigoted;  his  presence  is  lik 
an  acid,  souring  the  milk  of  human  kicdneiis  and 
innocence.  Another  is  strict  with  Pharisaic  seveirly, 
exalting  the  letter  above  the  spirit,  making  sad  the 
hearts  which  God  has  not  made  sad,  and  teaching 
that  ceremonial  observances  are  more  important  than 
true  human  impulses.  A  third  is  morbid,  troubled 
with  little  fidgety  trials  and  cares,  imagining  that 
God  requires  sacrifice  and  not  mercy." 

On  the  other  hand  there  are  Christians  whose 
hearts  are  full  of  joy,  whose  spirits  are  radiant  as 
the  Bunbeam.who  breathe  an  atmosphere  as  pure  and 
exhilarating  as  the  air  of  the  mountain  top  and 
whose  presence  is  a  blessing  to  all.  It  is  of  un- 
speakable moment  what  we  are.  It  means  life  or 
death,  eternal  happiness  or  endless  woe  to  those 
about  us. 

1.  The  power  of  character  it  truthful.  A  dog  will 
allow  one  person  to  take  privileges  which  it  resents 
in  another.  A  child  goes  to  one  and  shuns  another. 
In  both  cases  the  judgment  is  based  upon  intuition. 
The  one  knows  instinclively  who  is  worthy  to  b3  its 
master,  and  the  other  who  is  its  friend  at  heart,  and 
the  judgment  is  generally  correct.  Two  sets  of 
influences  are  exerted.  Two  currents  of  power  issue 
from  every  soul,  one  the  conscious  influence  of 
what  we  intentionally  say  or  do,  the  other  the  un- 
conscious influence  of  what  we  are.  In  the  former 
I  we   may  act  a   part.    In  the  latter  the  real  self  is 


THE  CHRISTIAIir  CYNOSURE. 


Mat  17, 1888 


^1 


discovered.  A  species  of  animalcule  lives  in  mosses 
called  the  rotifera.  Its  body  is  transparent.  The 
internal  processes  of  life  may  be  seen  just  as  the 
movements  of  the  wheels  of  a  watch  under  a  glass 
case.  We  live  in  glass  tabernacles.  Our  characters 
are  known  and  read  of  all  men.  I  may  not  be  able 
to  tell  why  I  do  not  think  a  certain  man's  charac- 
ter is  genuine,  but  there  is  something  that  tells  me 
that  he  is  not  what  he  pretends  to  be.  And  so  it 
comes  to  pass  that  every  man  gets  about  what  he 
deserves.     The  fittest  survive. 

2.  1  he  power  of  character  is  constant.  The  sun  pours 
forth  a  constant  stream  of  light.  The  flower  sends 
out  its  fragrance  every  moment.  The  river  flows  on 
forever.  So  the  influence  of  character  is  unceasing. 
We  cannot  always  speak  or  act.  We  must  have  rest. 
But  character  works  on  unconsciously,  without  our 
knowing  or  intending  it.  I  cannot  always  speak 
for  Christ;  I  can  live  for  him.  I  cannot  always  do 
good;  I  can  always  he  good.  Bushnell  said,  "Simply 
to  be  in  the  world  is  to  exert  an  influence,  compared 
with  which  words  and  acts  are  feeble." 

S.  The  power  of  character  is  a  trust  for  which  we 
are  responsible.  AH  admit  our  responsibility  for 
what  we  say  and  do.  We  are  responsible  for  what  we 
are.  Character  is  the  sum  and  result  of  our 
thoughts,  feelings,  and  experiences:  a  temple  built 
up  by  what  we  have  thought,  said  and  done.  We 
are  responsible  for  the  erection  of  that  temple.  We 
are  also  responsible  for  its  influence.  We  are  so 
knit  and  connected  in  the  framework  of  society 
"that  no  man  liveth  to  himself."  A  pebble  is  dropped 
into  the  sea,  and  wave  after  wave  circles 
out  and  goes  on  until  it  strikes  the  farthest  shore. 
Your  character  is  the  pebble  thrown  into  the  waters 
of  human  society,  and  wave  after  wave  of  influence 
goes  out  and  ceases  not  until  broken  on  the  shores  of 
eternity. 

We  are  members  of  the  social  body.  And  if  one 
member  suffer,all  the  members  suffer  with  it;  and  if 
one  member  be  honored  all  the  members  rejoice 
with  it.  "1  ask  the  mountain  why  it  is  overcast 
with  gloom.  And  the  mountain  answers,  ask  the 
sky  which  sends  now  sunshine,  now  gloom,  now  fair 
weather  and  now  stormy  wind.  Again  I  ask  the  sky, 
why  it  is  overcast,  and  it  answers,  ask  the  valleys 
of  the  earth.  They  send  up  these  vapors  to  me, 
they  are  not  mine."  I  see  a  culprit  standing  in  the 
court  of  justice.  He  is  not  alone  in  the  fault.  Bad 
companions,  bad  counsel,  bad  home  influence,  all  are 
represented  there.  In  spring  time  a  gunshot  or 
even  the  human  voice  will  start  the  avalanche  in  the 
Alps,  so  evenly  are  they  poised.  Some  characters 
are  trembling  in  the  balance,  and  a  single  contact 
with  you  turns  them  permanently  for  weal  or  woe.  "If 
thou  didst  know,"  says  Richter,  "that  every  dark 
thought  of  thine  and  every  noble  independent  one 
separates  itself  from  thee,  and  for  ages  on  ages 
pushes  and  bears  its  poisonous  roots  and  fruits,  oh, 
how  piously  wouldst  thou  think  and  feel."  The 
touch  of  a  feather  or  the  least  sound  will  cause  the 
binoxide  of  hydrogen  to  decompose.  The  scratch  of 
a  pin  will  change  the  binoxide  of  mercury  from  yellow 
to  bright  red.  The  least  contact  with  your  spirit  will 
change  certain  sensitive  souls  for  good  or  evil. 
"Keep  thy  heart  with  all  diligence,  for  out  of  it  are 
the  issues  of  life." 

Brooklyn,  N.   Y, 

^  •  » 

INDIA  NEEDS  MEN. 


BY   WALLACE   J.  OLADWIN. 

I  wonder  how  many  of  God's  people  are  obeying 
the  command  to  pray  that  more  laborers  may  be 
sent  into  the  harvest.  Are  there  not  two  reasons 
why  this  command  is  neglected? 

1.  Many  are  afraid  to  pray  much  in  that  direction, 
lest  they  should  realize  the  call  to  answer  their  own 
prayers  by  going  into  the  harvest  field  for  direct 
work. 

2.  Many  more  shrink  from  praying  for  others  to 
go,as  it  would  involve  the  duty  of  contributing  more 
liberally  for  the  support  of  such  workers. 

I  have  already  mentioned  two  wants,  i.  e.,  colpor- 
teur evangelists,  to  go  out  from  station  to  station, 
preaching  the  Qospel  and  selling  books,  and  of  res- 
cue workers  to  go  into  the  highways  and  hedges  of 
Bombay  and  other  cities  to  seek  and  save  a  class  of 
persons  who  are  not  reached  by  any  ordinary  Qos- 
pel workers.  Besides  these,  we  need  a  thoroughly 
wide-awake,  hard-working,  spiritually-minded,  soul- 
saving  city  missionary  for  Bombay.  This  is  the 
second  city  in  the  British  Empire.  Much  work  is 
done  by  pastors,  Bible  readers,  etc.,  but  there  is 
room  for  four-fold  more.  If  I  had  the  right  sort  of 
men  and  women  I  could  set  them  at  work  at  once. 

As  to  the  method  of  supjwrt,  our  Mission  is  inde- 
pendent and  inter-denominational,  that  is,  it  works 


for  and  with  all  who  love  the  Lord.  We  receive 
monthly  contributions  from  a  few  who  appreciate 
this  part  of  the  Lord's  work.  Some  send  occasion- 
al contributions.  We  have  a  small  business  by  which 
we  manage  to  pay  a  part  of  our  expenses.  We  are 
a  combination  of  "Faith  Mission"  and  "Self-sup- 
porting Mission,"  or  briefly, 

A  FAITH-AND-WOBKS  MISSION. 

Those  who  come  to  work  with  us  should  have 
both  of  these  qualifications.  They  must  be  willing 
to  carry  out  practically  the  good  old  proverb."Trust 
as  though  the  work  was  all  the  Lord's,  and  work  as 
though  it  were  all  your  own."  We  go  upon  this  prin- 
ciple that  as  many  workers  as  the  Lord  himself 
sends  us,  he  will  provide  for.  We  expect  him  to 
send  only  those  whose  ability  and  success  will  add 
so  much  to  our  work  in  its  power  and  fruits  as  to 
add  correspondingly  to  its  sustenance. 

Why  should  not  some  workers  come  at  their  own 
expense,  or  at  that  of  their  family  or  friends.  Dur- 
ing the  American  war  scores  went  out  to  work 
among  the  soldiers  in  the  Christian  Commission 
and  the  Sanitary  Commission  at  their  own  expense. 
It  is  a  matter  of  great  praise  and  glory  to  God  that 
this  style  of  work  is  increasing.  There  are  many  in 
foreign  mission  fields  who  are  working  at  their  own 
expense.  The  Lord  wants  this  number  largely  in- 
creased. We  shall  be  glad  to  correspond  with  any 
who  desire  thus  to  work,and  can  point  them  to  work 
in  connection  with  our  mission  or  other  mission  la- 
bors as  they  may  prefer.  Allied  to  this  line  of  sup- 
port is  that  of  support  by  family  or  friends.  There 
are  well-to-do  parents  or  kinsmen  who  could  well  af 
ford  to  send  out  a  daughter,  son,  brother,  or  sister, 
to  foreign  mission  fields  and  support  them. 

Right  here  let  me  call  attention  again  to  our  plain 
and  cheap  style  of  mission  living.  The  above  would 
seem  impracticable  except  to  a  few  of  the  richest 
families  of  earth,  if  we  were  counting  on  support  at 
the  usual  mission  rates  of  $1,000  a  year.  But,  in 
the  style  in  which  we  are  living  as  plain,  working- 
people,  comfortably  housed,  well-fed,  clad  plainly 
and  neatly,  but  strictly  eschewing  all  extravagance, 
a  European  can  live  comfortably  at  one-fourth  or 
one-fifth  of  $1,000.  I  can  attest  these  figures,  be- 
cause my  mission  salary  was  $1,000,  and  I  have 
tried  the  other  system  for  years,  keeping  careful  ac- 
counts of  our  expenses. 

I  may  also  suggest  another  method  of  support. 
Let  communities  or  circles  combine  together  for 
supporting  foreign  workers  at  these  rates.  How 
easy  it  would  be  in  many  communities  throughout 
your  great  and  rich  America  for  some  earnest  man 
or  woman  to  say,  for  Christ's  sake,  "I  will  raise 
means  to  support  a  missionary  in  India  upon  that 
simple  plan.  With  prayerful  zeal,  $20  a  month 
could  surely  be  raised. 

STOP   RIGHT   HERE, 

Christian  sister  or  brother,  and  ask,  "Lord,  what 
wilt  thou  have  me  to  do?"  Among  a  thousand  read- 
ers of  this  paper,  surely  there  will  be  found  a  few 
who  will  undertake  this  very  simple  thing  and  who 
will  report  to  the  office  of  its  editor  what  they  are 
doing.  I  am  sure  the  editor  and  his  worthy  associ- 
ates will  gladly  assist  (I  might  say  "grand  worthy" 
associates,  for  I  think  them  a  grand  set  of  men). 
Without  any  formal  arrangement  of  machinery  we  will 
undertake  this  spontaneous  and  blessed  work  of  God. 
Let  workers  offer.  Let  others  offer  means.  The  editors 
of  the  paper  will  do  their  part  of  correspondence 
gladly,  and  I  and  my  co-workers  here  in  India  will 
be  delighted  to  act  as  God's  agents  in  helping  work- 
ers to  the  front.  I  do  not  see  why  this  work 
should  not  grow  largely,  and  yet  if  my  corre- 
spondence succeeds  in  getting  only  a  very  few 
into  this  very  large  and  needy  field  of  work,  it 
will  be  a  joy  to  eternity  that  we  have  done  what 
we  could.  I  have  more  to  say  about  openings 
for  work  in  India,  but  the  above  seems  sufficient 
for  this  letter. 

Pray  for  us  that  the  Word  of  the  Lord  may 
have  free  course  and   be  glorified. 

Bombay,  India, 


THE  TWO  SKIES. 


The  Christian  Instructor  (Presbyterian)  believes 
that  special  services  for  Easter,  which  are  now  more 
or  less  common  with  various  Protestant  denomina- 
tions, are  a  step  Rome-ward;  that  "in  this  way  the 
minds  of  the  people  are  trained  for  accepting  the 
doctrines  and  commandments  of  men  instead  of 
those  of  Christ,  the  distinctions  between  Protestant- 
ism and  Catholicism  are  being  broken  down,  and 
Romanism  is  encouraged  to  believe  that  the  day  of 
its  final  triumph  is  not  far  distant."  The  editor 
considers  that  Easter  as  usually  celebrated  is  made 
a  "bensual  holiday,"  and  he  adds:  "May  the  Spirit 
of  the  Lord  lift  up  a  standard  against  the  enemy 
that  comes  in  like  a  flood." — /Southern  Evangelist. 


BY  REV.  A.  SMITH, 

Blind  Publisher  of  the  Faith  Missioti  Tracts. 


"He  that  followeth  me  shall  not  walk  in  darkness,  but  shal  1 
have  the  light  of  life."— Matt.  S:  12. 

Thou  mighty  sea  of  unknown  hlght, 

Whose  azure  tides  float  bright  and  free 
Among  the  Isles  of  pearly  light, 

Calm  in  their  own  eternity : 
Whose  archipelagoes  of  stars 

That  skirt  the  shore  and  light  the  way 
Across  nights'  gloom  to  golden  bars, 

The  harbor  of  unending  day, 

Oh,  thou  vast  ocean  of  the  skies, 

Reflecting  aye  thy  Maker's  praise, 
In  vain  to  thee  my  sightless  eyes 

1  lift  as  in  my  favored  days, 
To  read  thy  changeful  poet  lays 

Of  clouds  and  blue  and  sunshine  gold ; 
Thy  midnight  frowns,  thy  smiling  days 

With  all  the  glories  they  unfold. 

True,  in  my  fancies  and  my  dreams 

I  try  to  see  as  long  ago 
Thy  purple  dawns  and  sunset  gleams ; 

Thy  painted  rainbows  bending  low : 
Thy  cruising  storm-clouds,  dark  and  bold, 

Light  Eummer  clouds,  pure,  white  and  free. 
Their  peaceful  sails  hemmed  round  with  gold 

Trailing  their  shadows  o'er  the  lea. 

Farewell,  fond  scenes,  I'll  not  forget. 
The  dazzling  suns  and  harvest  moons, 

Eclipsed  In  blackness,  all  have  set. 
Alike  all  midnights  and  all  noons ; 

Alike  to  me— for  I  am  blind- 
Never  again  on  earth  to  see, 

Except  in  dreamlngs  of  the  mind, 
Sleeping  or  waking  It  may  be. 

But  stay,  I've  something  sweet  to  tell ; 

My  spirit  long  was  blind  la  sin ; 
I  loved  Its  selfish  darkness  well. 

I  prayed:  the  "Light  of  Life"  came  in, 
And  scattered  all  my  night  away. 

And  opened  In  my  Inmost  soul 
A  fairer  sky,  a  purer  day. 

By  faith,  the  Christ,  he  made  me  whole. 

The  pearl  gates  of  thy  smiling  east 

Open  to  free  the  Incense  light 
Of  holy  truth  and  love  and  peace — 

The  Morning  Star,  so  pure  and  bright. 
Bright  world  within,  creation  new. 

Temple  and  palace  of  the  king. 
When  I  thy  sacred  splendors  view. 

My  heart  adores,  for  joy  I  sing. 
Syracuse. 


PERSONAL   OBSERVATIONS  ON  SECRET  SO- 
CIETIES. 


[The  Watchman  (Baptist)  of  Boston  has  been 
publishing  a  few  articles  on  the  lodge  as  lately 
noted  in  these  columns,  but  the  following  able  and 
interesting  article  was  refused,  to  find  a  welcome 
in  the  Cynosure. — Ed  ] 

I  have  been  much  interested  in  the  recent  arti- 
cles in  the  Watchman  on  this  subject,  for  observa- 
tion has  forced  upon  me  the  conviction  that  it 
has  not  received  due  attention  from  the  friends  of 
true  religion. 

About  ten  years  ago,  when  invited  to  become  a 
charter  member  of  a  secret  lodge,  I  replied  that  I 
had  as  much  as  I  could  do  to  faithfully  sustain  my 
relations  to  the  church,  and  when  I  found  any  or- 
ganization that  was  better  I  would  make  a  change. 
Two  organizers,  both  leading  Universalists,  one  a 
preacher,came  and  held  forth  in  the  public  hall  and 
made  such  odious  comparisons  between  the  lodge 
and  the  church  that  the  local  members  of  the  or- 
der deemed  it  necessary  to  apologize  for  their  ut- 
terances. In  spite  of  protest  most  of  the  resident 
male  members  of  the  little  Baptist  church  were  car- 
ried away  by  this  delusion  and  I  am  not  aware  of 
any  conversions  since. 

As  a  radical  I  had  become  impressed  with  the 
idea  that  the  chances  of  a  young  man's  conversion 
were  very  small  after  becoming  a  member  of  a  se- 
cret lodge,  and  this  opinion  has  been  reinforced  by 
that  of  the  most  thoughtfully  conservative  men  of 
my  acquaintance. 

A  few  years  ago  I  found  myself  seated  in  the  cars 
with  a  gentleman  whom  I  knew  as  prominent  in 
business,  politics,  church  aftd  temperance  interests, 
and  when,  in  the  course  of  conversation  I  happened 
to  remark  that  Masonry  covered  up  a  good  many 
things,  I  found  he  was  equally  prominent  in  that 
direction.  Among  other  things  he  told  me  that  when 
his  lodge  entertained  another  lodge  at  a  watering 
place  at  an  expense  of  $1,200,  he  was  called  up  at 
midnight  to  quell  a  drunken  revelry  led  by  a  Doctor 
of  Divinity.      From  other  incidents  related  and  my 


May  17,  1888 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE- 


own  observation,  I  judge  that  drunkenness  is  not  a 
rare  exception  on  such  occasions. 

After  the  capture  of  Charleston,  the  flrst  Union 
Collector  of  that  port  was  a  prominent  Freemason, 
whom  I  had  met  in  the  office  of  a  mutual  friend  en- 
gaged in  cramming  him  with  secretism  for  the  pur- 
pose of  convej  ing  information  to  the  authorities  at 
Washington.  When,  two  or  three  months  after,  I 
took  the  steamer  from  Nassau  to  New  York  I  was 
surprised  to  find  this  friend  going  the  same  way.and 
amused  to  see  bow  confidential  were  his  relations 
with  the  Masonic  Confederates  on  board.  ■  This  was 
a  kind  of  secret  service  that,  it  is  to  be  feared,  was 
used  more  frequently  against  the  Union  than  for  it. 

When  recently  cited  into  court  on  a  malicious 
charge,  1  found  that  my  opponent  was  a  Mason,  as 
was  his  counsel,  my  counsel,  my  principal  witness, 
and  not  unlikely  the  judge, — all  bound  by  a  solemn 
oath  to  uphold  the  plaintiff, "murder  and  treason  ex- 
cepted," As  the  charge  was  withdrawn  I  do  not 
know  what  the  result  might  have  been. 

Two  years  ago  I  stood  beside  the  open  grave  of  a 
member  of  the  same  church  and  listened  to  the  bur- 
ial service  of  his  order,  and  noted  the  sneering  look 
and  words  of  a  lodge  member,  a  prominent  rumsel- 
ler,  as,  referring  to  the  religious  part,he  said,"What 
does  that  amount  to?"  This  lodge,  started  by  Chris- 
tian men,  celebrated  its  first  anniversary  with  a  dance 
and  a  lottery. 

With  pain  I  recall  the  case  of  an  infatuated  Chris- 
tian man,  who,  as  he  rose  in  the  lodge  to  be  a  Nohle 
Grand,  fell  religiously  and  morally  almost  as  low  as 
a  man  could  fall — even  into  an  untimely  grave.  This 
man  told  me  that  at  an  entertainment  of  a  neighbor- 
ing lodge  he  spent  fifteen  dollars  for  lottery  tickets. 

The  above  statements  have  reference  to  the  two 
leading  orders  of  the  long  and  increasing  list  of  se- 
cret societies.  As  a  temperance  man  it  has  long 
been  a  source  of  grief  to  me  that  temperance  men 
should  defile  their  own  ointment  with  the  corrupt 
fly  of  secretism.  I  had  almost  forgotten  that  I  was 
once  a  Cadet  of  Temperance,as  my  father  was  a  Son 
of  Temperance^  but  both  organizations  soon  parted 
like  a  rope  of  sand,and  nothing  was  lost  but  the  out- 
lay and  the  flummery. 

About  1882  the  National  Temperance  Society  held 
a  very  notable  anniversary  at  Saratoga,  followed  on 
the  third  day  by  a  National  Jubilee  of  the  Sons  of 
Temperance.  On  the  morning  of  that  third  day,  at 
one  of  the  little  breakfast  tables  at  Congress  Hall, 
there  met  two  strangers,  whom  conversation  disclos- 
ed to  have  been  temperance  candidates  for  the  high- 
est office  in  two  northeast  States  at  the  previous 
election.  Their  experience  had  been  precisely  the 
same.  Natives  in  th«  soil  of  temperance,  able  to 
speak  its  language  intelligently,  they  had  found  the 
leading  secret  men  like  foreigners,  with  a  different 
set  of  ideas,  expressed  in  different  language.  With 
the  two,  it  was  the  cause;  with  the  others,  the  or- 
der— that  was  uppermost.  And  they  found  them- 
selves as  effectually  barred  from  the  meetings  of  the 
third  day  as  if  they  had  been  the  boss  rumsellers  of 
their  respective  States.  A  late  pastor  of  the  writer, 
a  man  of  conservative  nature  and  long  experience, 
after  having  held  the  positions  of  G.  W.  P.  and  G- 
Il-A-N-D  Chaplain  of  the  State  order,  expressed 
himself  in  disapproval  of  its  secret  features  and  in 
ignorance  of  its  benefits. 

Referring  to  the  first  named  orders,  I  have  ob- 
served that  secretism,  like  politics,  makes  strange 
■bed  fellows,  and  that  the  really  good  men  seem  to 
:act  the  part  of  decoy  ducks,  and  are  like  salt  to 
iprevent  the  mass  from  perishing  by  its  own  corrup- 
tion. With  a  free  press  and  free  speech  slavery 
would  have  been  abolished  without  bloodshed,  as 
the  saloon  will  be,  whenever  free  speech  prevails. 
But  secretism  aims  a  deadly  blow  at  freedom  of 
utterance.  Three  or  four  years  ago,  a  few  miles 
away,  a  public  meeting  held  by  two  Christian  minis- 
ters was  broken  up  by  a  mob,  because  they  dared 
express  their  conscientious  convictions  in  regard  to 
secretism.  In  an  essay  before  a  Sabbath-school 
Convention,  in  which  a  comparison  was  made  be- 
tween the  simplicity  of  the  Sabbath-school  and  the 
lodge,  with  its  "stock  in  trade  of  secret  grips  and 
passwords  and  its  bombastic  ollicial  titles,"  the  reader 
was  interrupted  by  a  savage  growl  from  one  in  the 
audience,  who  appeared  to  be  a  minister  of  the 
Gospel;  and  was  afterwards  privately  congratulated 
by  another,  who  thanked  God  for  one  man  who 
dared  express  such  truth.  That  congratulation 
spoke  volumes  as  to  the  attitude  of  secretism  toward 
free  speech.  If  slavery,  rum  and  secretism  are  not 
birds  of  the  same  feather,  why  do  they  all  use  the 
same  weapons  of  defence?  as  the  writer  can  testify 
from  personal  experience. 

It  is  a  pity  that  every  Christian  man  cannot  real- 
ize that  this  world  is  a  battle-field  on  which  the 
forces  of  good  and  evil  are  engaged  in  deadly  com- 


bat for  the  immortal  souls  of  men.  And  that  Sa- 
tan is  a  skilled  strategist,  always  seeking  to  mask 
his  batteries.  Slavery  was  a  "Bible  institution;" 
Alcohol,  the  "long-sought  aqua  vitui"  then  a  medi- 
cine, and,  as  a  last  device,  a  thing  to  be  regulated 
by  license — High  License.  The  secret  lodge  is  a 
religious,  moral,  benevolent  institution,  even  pre- 
senting features  of  superiority  to  the  Church. 

Let  us  imagine  Christ  and  his  apostles  as  organiz- 
ing secret  lodges.  No,it  is  impossible  to  imagine  any 
such  thing!  "In  secret  have  I  said  nothing."  "Every 
plant  that  my  Father  hath  not  planted  shall  be 
rooted  up."  God  has  planted  the  church,  the  fam- 
ily, and  human  government;  but  never  a  secret 
lodge — that,I  believe,  Satan  has  planted  as  his  rival 
to  the  church.  In  the  circle  of  my  acquaintance  I 
cannot  recall  a  single  instance  where  a  lodge  mem- 
ber has  afterward  made  a  public  profession  of  re- 
ligion. "If  the  light  that  is  in  thee  be  darkness, 
how  great  is  that  darkness."  "Do  good  unto  all  men, 
especially  to  those  who  are  of  the  household  of  faith." 
"Be  not  unequally  yoked  with  unbelievers."  "Come 
out  and  be  ye  separate." 

How  many  Freemasons  of  to-day  are  aware  of  the 
historical  fact  that,as  a  consequence  of  the  agitation 
which  followed  the  abduction  and  murder  of  Mor- 
gan, forty-five  of  the  fifty  thousand  Masons  in  this 
country  openly  renounced  their  allegiance  to  the 
order?  Alas  I  it  is  too  true  that  error,  like  hope, 
springs  eternal  in  the  human  brea8t,and  that  eternal 
vigilance  is  the  price  of  liberty. 

Hampton  Falls,  iV.  II. 


MASONIC  IDOLATRY:    PRACTICAL    THE18M. 


B?   M.    N.    BUTLEa. 


Why  do  Masonic  lodges  always  work  at  night? 

"In  this  selection  of  the  hours  of  night  and  dark- 
ness for  initiation,  the  usual  coincidence  will  be 
found  between  the  ceremonies  of  Freemasonry  and 
those  of  the  Ancient  Mysteries,  showing  their  evi- 
dent derivation  from  a  common  origin.  The  reason 
given  by  the  ancients  for  this  selection  of  night  as 
the  time  for  initiation,  is  equally  applicable  to  the 
system  of  Freemasonry.  Death  and  the  resurrec- 
tion were  the  doctrines  taught  in  the  ancient  myster- 
ies; and  night  and  darkness  were  necessary  to  add 
to  the  sacred  awe  and  reverence  which  these  doc- 
trines ought  always  to  inspire  in  the  rational  and 
contemplative  mind.  The  same  doctrines  form  the 
very  ground-work  ef  Freemasonry,  and  as  the  Mas- 
ter Mason,  to  use  the  language  of  Hutchinson,  'rep- 
resents a  man  saved  from  the  grave  of  iniquity  and 
raised  to  the  faith  of  salvation,'  darkness  and  night 
are  the  appropriate  accompaniments  to  the  solemn 
ceremonies  which  demonstrate  this  profession." — 
Mackey's  Lexicon  of  Freemasonry,  pages  304  C'^  205, 

Again  this  same  Grand  High  Priest  maaes  it  still 
plainer:  "And  hence  again,  darkness,  like  death,  is 
the  symbol  of  initiation.  It  was  for  this  reason 
that  all  the  ancient  initiations  were  performed  at 
night.  The  celebration  of  the  mysteries  was  always 
nocturnal.  The  same  custom  prevails  in  Freema- 
sonry, and  the  explanation  is  the  same.  Death 
and  the  resurrection  were  taught  in  the  mysteries, 
as  they  are  in  Freemasonry.  The  initiation  was  the 
lesson  of  death.  The  full  fruition  or  autopsy,  the 
reception  of  light,  was  the  lesson  of  regeneration  or 
resurrection." — Mackey's  Symbolism  of  Freemasonry, 
pages  151  and  15S. 

Is  not  Revelation  and  the  Gospel  enough  to  teach 
all  that? 

Why  meet  up  stairs? 

"Lodge  meetings,  at  the  present  day,  are  usually 
held  in  upper  chambers — probably  for  the  better 
security  which  such  places  afford." — SickeVs  Free- 
mason's Monitor,  page  40. 

"The  reason  assigned  in  the  lecture  for  this  as- 
sembling on  high  places,  is  the  modern,  but  not  the 
true  one.  The  fact  is,  that  mountains  and  other 
high  places  were  almost  always  considered  holy," 
etc. — See  Mackey's  Manual  of  the  Lodge,  page  4U. 

"Hills  and  mountains  were  always  considered  the 
peculiar  abode  of  Deity;  and  hence  the  Masonic 
tradition,  that  our  ancient  brethren  held  their  lodges 
most  frequently  on  the  highest  of  hills.  The  vener- 
ation for  hills  or  secret  caverns  induce  the  construc- 
tion of  temples  of  divine  worship  in  such  situa- 
tions."— Sickel's  Ahimi7i  Rtzon,  page  75. 

The  "true  reason"  than  for  meeting  up-stairs  is  a 
religious  one. 

Jiut  why  are  lodge-roomi  built  east  and  west? 

The  learned  Dr.  Mackey  explains:  "The  orien- 
tation of  lodges,  or  their  position  due  east  and  west, 
is  derived  from  the  universal  custom  of  antiquity. 
'The  heathen  t«mples,'  says  Dudley,  'were  so  con- 
structed that  their  length  was  directed  toward  the 
east,  and  the  entrance  was  by  a  portico  at  the  west- 


ern front,  where  the  altar  stood,  so  that  the  votar- 
ies, approaching  for  the  performance  of  religious 
rites,  directed  their  faces  toward  the  east,  the  quar- 
ter of  sunrise.'  The  primitive  reason  of  this  cus- 
tom undoubtedly  is  to  be  found  in  the  early  preva- 
lence of  8un-worship,and  hence,  the  spot  where  that 
luminary  first  made  his  appearance  in  the  heavens 
was  consecrated,  in  the  minds  of  his  worshipers,  as 
a  place  entitled  to  peculiar  reverence." 

"Freemasonry,  retaining  in  its  symbolism  the  typ- 
ical reference  of  the  lodge  to  the  world,  and  con- 
stantly alluding  to  the  sun  in  his  apparent  diurnal 
revolution,  imperatively  requires,  when  it  can  be 
done,  that  the  lodge  be  situated  due  east  and  west, 
so  that  every  ceremony  shall  remind  the  Mason  of 
the  progress  of  that  luminary." — Maclcey's  Masonic 
Ritualist,  pages  60  and  61. 

But,  says  some  ignorant  Misonic  pwicaer,  "Is 
not  a  Masonic  lodge  a  representation  of  King  Salo- 
mon's Temple  at  Jerusalem?"  Well,  hardly.  Hear 
the  Masonic  Grand  High  Priest  once  more: 

"It  is  not  pretended,  that  because  Masonry  has 
adopted  the  Temple  of  Jerusalem  as  the  ground- 
work or  elementary  form  of  all  its  symbols,  a  lodge 
is  therefore  ever  expected,  except  in  a  symbolic 
sense,  to  be  a  representative  of  tbe  Templa.  Oa 
the  contrary,  the  very  situation  of  a  lodge  is  the  ex- 
act reverse  of  that  of  the  jTempIe.  Tua  entrance 
of  the  former  is  at  the  west;  that  of  the  latter  was 
at  the  east.  The  most  holy  place  in  a  lodge  is  its 
eastern  end;  that  of  the  Temple  was  at  ics  western 
extremity." — Mackey^ s  Manuil  of  the  Ltdge,  pige  26. 
-  Masonic  symbolism,  rites  and  worship,  then,  is 
exactly  the  reverse  of  that  of  the  Temple  at  Jem- 
salem.  The  almost  universal  system  of  idolatry  of 
antiquity  was  Sabiaism  or  sun  worship. 

»  I  m 

TEE  MBN  FOR  TEE  TIMES. 


The  first  Scripture  lesson  of  the  year  [1888— 
Matt.  14:  1-12]  records  the  tragic  close  of  tae  illus- 
trious life  of  one  of  the  most  magnificent  men  that 
ever  figured  in  the  pages  of  history.  He  died  be- 
cause he  dared  to  preach  unpalatable  truth.  Had 
he  contented  himself  with  proclaiming  simply  what 
some  politic  people  call  "the  Gospel,"  meaning 
thereby  the  sweet  persuasions,  and  tender  entreaties, 
and  precious  promises  of  the  Gospel,  he  might  have 
been  the  court-preacher  in  the  palace  of  Herod, 
while  in  his  prime,  and  then  been  retired  on  a  pen- 
sion when  declining  years  made  such  retirement 
seem  to  be  desirable.  But  John  the  Baptist  had 
broader  and  higher  conceptions  of  preaching  than 
that  which  obtains  in  many  fashionable  modern 
pulpits.  He  regarded  the  law  as  a  part  of  the  Gos- 
pel; for  by  the  law  is  the  knowledge  of  sin,  and  a 
knowledge  of  sin  is  essential  to  any  intelligent  ap- 
preciation of  salvation;  and  so  the  law  is  our  school- 
master to  lead  us  to  Christ 

Apart  from  all  that,  John,  as  a  servant  of  God, 
and  thoroughly  in  sympathy  with  God's  government, 
could  not  fail  to  have  his  righteous  indignation 
roused  by  any  act  of  disloyalty  to  God,  even  as  a 
patriot  ought  to  have  his  spirit  stirred  by  the  out- 
rages of  an  anarchist.  And  so,  among  men,  John 
flamed  and  thundered  like  Sinai.  He  did  not  count 
the  cost  of  ministerial  fidelity,  nor  fear  any  being 
in  the  universe  but  God.  No  matter  though  his 
life  was  in  Herod's  hands — Herod  was  living  in 
adulterous  relations  with  his  brother  Philip's  wife 
— and  this  was  an  infamous  infraction  of  the  law  of 
God,  whose  ambassador  John  was;  and  in  the  pres- 
ence of  such  indignity  his  silence  would  have  been 
criminal.  He  did  not  wink  at  royal  criminality,  nor 
quiet  his  conscience  by  persuading  himself  that  he 
had  enough  to  do  to  conduct  himself  aright  in  his 
own  domestic  relations,  and  that  there  was  no  occa- 
sion for  him  to  concern  himself  with  those  of  other 
men. 

The  "mind  your  own  business"  maxim,  supposed 
by  many  to  be  a  quotation  from  Scripture,  is  one  of 
the  meanest  and  most  mischievous  apothegms  that 
the  devil  ever  invented.  The  whole  trend  of  Scrip- 
ture is  directly  against  it.  "Look  not  every  man  on 
his  own  things,  but  every  man  also  on  the  things  of 
others."  And  that  direction  relates  not  merely  to 
their  burdens,  that  we  are  generously  to  help  them 
bear,  and  their  sorrows,  with  which  we  are  frater- 
nally to  sympathize,  but  their  sins,  which  we  are 
faithfully  to  rebuke,  and  their  perils,  which,  with  no 
uncertain  sound,  we  are  bound  to  proclaim. 

This  may  not,  for  a  Christian  teacher,  be  the  road 
to  earthly  popularity;  but  it  is  the  only  safe  road  to 
heaven.  It  is  not  as  much  traveled  in  our  time  as 
one  could  wish.  Men  of  the  rugged  type  of  Elijah 
the  Tishbite,  or  of  John  the  Baptist,  are  only  too 
rare  in  our  easy-going,  pleasure-loving  age.  We 
have  come  to  think  that  plain  speaking  is  impolitic; 
that  men,  to  be  caught,  must  be  coddletl;  that  such 


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May  17, 1888 


1 


heroic  treatment  as  Paul  gave  Felix,  and  John  gave 
Herod,  and  Elijah  gave  Ahab,  and  Peter  gave  the 
Jews  on  the  Day  of  Pentecost,  is  not  the  wisest  way 
to  deal  with  men,  at  least  in  the  nineteenth  century 
of  the  Christian  era. 

It  would  empty  many  of  our  high-priced  pews;  it 
would  stir  many  of  our  churches  as  with  the  breath 
of  a  tempest;  it  would  rouse  whole  communities  to 
such  a  pitch  of  furious  indignation  that,  instead  of 
the  church  enjoying  great  peace  and  popularity,  as 
it  does  at  present,  its  members  would  be  hooted  and 
hounded,  and  the  earth  again  would  shudderingly 
drink  the  blcod  of  martyrs. 

Then  be  it  so;  for  the  blood  of  the  martyrs  is  the 
seed  of  the  church;  and  the  church  has  never  so 
prospered  as  when  it  has  been  persecuted  because 
of  its  fidelity  in  rebuking  sin. 

We  believe,  indeed,  in  speaking  the  truth  in  love; 
but,  nevertheless,  in  speaking  the  truth,  even  though 
it  cut  to  the  heart,  and  make  men  for  a  while  gnash 
their  teeth  in  ungodly  rage.  Let  us  not  be  over- 
sensitive to  the  suspicion  of  being  accounted  "busy- 
bodies  in  other  men's  matters."  Whenever  we  are 
confronted  by  moral  evil,  though  it  be  in  another, 
it  is  our  Master's  matter,  and,  therefore,  our  matter. 
He  has  sent  us  forth  to  make  war  against  it.  Oar 
mission  is  that  of  a  soldier,  and  our  business  is  not 
to  dodge,  but  to  fight. 

We  may  carry  the  olive  branch  in  one  hand;  but 
we  must  stoutly  grasp  a  sword  with  the  other.  If 
sin  surrender,  hold  out  the  olive  branch;  if  it  resist, 
then  thrust  with  the  sword. 

Oh,  for  a  loyal  legion  of  men  like  John  the  Bap- 
tist, to  wake  the  world  with  trumpet  tongue,  and  to 
prepare  the  way  for  the  coming  of  our  King. — Dr. 
P.  S.  Hemon  in  the  Baptist  Tkacher. 


WBA  T  HINDERS  BMIORA  TION  80  UTH  f 

In  recent  travels  in  the  South  earnest  calls  were 
made  upon  us  for  emigrants  from  the  northern  and 
western  States  to  come  and  buy  homes  and  settle 
where  land  is  so  cheap  and  the  climate  is  so  mild 
and  fine.  Read  carefully  the  article  below,  signed 
with  the  writer's  name,  and  you  can  guess,  or 
"reckon,"  why  a  wonderful  boom  was  not  the  imme- 
diate response  to  the  calls.  *'If  the  foundations  be 
destroyed  what  can  the  righteous  do?"  When  the 
laborers  there  can  have  simple  justice  done  them  in 
regard  to  wages  for  -their  work,  and  their  other  civil 
rights,  good  men  will  then  be  glad  to  go  South. 

M.  A.  B. 

"The  plain  facte  are  that  the  haiida  on  our  sugar  plan- 
tatioEB  are  not  much,  if  any,  better  paid  and  cared  for 
than  the  pauper  labor  of  Europe.  To  illustrate .  First 
class  laborers  on  sugar  plantations  are  paid  from  January 
to  grinding  season  (about  the  Ist  of  November)  at  the 
rate  of  sixty  five  cents  per  day,  subject  to  deductions  for 
all  days  or  parts  of  days  lost  for  any  cause.  They  are 
furnished  a  cabin  or  room  12x15,  in  which  themselves 
and  families  may  reside.  Out  of  these  wages  the  laborer 
has  to  'fted'  and  clothe  himself  and  family.  I  am  relia- 
bly informed  by  experienced  overseers  that  after  all  de 
duct  ions  for  lost  time  are  made,  the  average  laborer 
makes  about  twenty  days  per  month  provided  he  does 
not  fall  sick;  he,  therefore,  receives  in  pasteboard  tickets 
an  average  of  $13  per  month.  These  tickets  are  not 
transferable,  and  can  only  be  negotiated  at  the  planta- 
tion store,  where  they  are  exchanged  for  meat,  bread, 
etc.,  at  the  prices  fixed  by  the  storekeeper,  who  generally 
represents  the  planter.  These  prices  are  usually  fixed  at 
about  100  per  cent  over  the  wholes ile  cost  of  the  goods; 
therefore  the  planter  gets  back  through  his  plantation 
store,  in  profits  on  his  goods,  about  one-half  of  the 
wages  which  he  pays  the  laborer,  which  makes  the  act 
ual  wages  paid  by  the  planter  about  $6  50  per  month. 

"This  rate  and  mode  of  payment  generally  prevail 
until  sugar  making  commences,  when  the  wages  are  in- 
creased to  seventy-five  cents  and  one  dollar  per  day,  and 
fifty  cents  for  an  extra  six  hours'  work  at  night,  which  is 
called  'a  watch.' 

"The  laborer  continues  to  receive  his  pay  in  tickets,  but 
continues  to  buy  his  meat,  bread  and  other  necessaries  at 
the  plantation  Blore.  At  the  end  of  the  year  he  is  as 
"poor  as  a  church  mouse,"  and  the  demands  of  his  stom- 
ach are  such  that  he  is  compelled  to  enter  into  a  new 
contract  for  another  year  

"I  leave  the  question  of  'does  the  tariff  on  sugar  pro- 
tect the  laborer'  who,  by  the  sweat  of  his  brow,  makes 
it,  to  gentlemen  who  are  better  posted  on  the  subject 
than  I  am,  leaving  them  to  apply  the  facts  stated,  and 
sustained  by  the  average  overseer's  time-book,  to  the 
whole  question  at  issue,  and  then  reach  their  own  con- 
clusions on  the  subject. 

"In  order  that  the  plantation  store  profit  may  be  fairly 
averaged,  I  suggest  the  following  ques  ion  to  any  live 
country  dealer,  viz  :  Suppose  you  had  absolute  control 
of  the  trade  of  one  hundred  men  whoso  credit  outside 
of  your  store  was  entirely  worthless,  and  from  whom  no 
one  could  make  a  cent  by  process  of  law,  and  your  trade 
was  to  be  exclusively  with  those  one  hundred  people, 
what  rate  of  profit  would  you  charge  them  on  the  goods 
you  pold  them,  considering  their  gross  trade  to  be  worth 
$1,300  ptr  month?  W.  B.  Mkkcuant." 


Th2  Secret  Empire. 


THS  NATIONAL  ORDBR  OF  VIDBTTBB. 


Some  weeks  since  the  Daily  Evening  Mail  of  this 
city  published  an  account  of  a  secret  oath-bound  so- 
ciety whose  chief  objeet  was  the  election  of  Judge 
Gresham  as  President.  That  gentleman  repudiated 
all  such  assistance,  and  knew  nothing  of  it,  and  the 
story  was  regarded  as  without  foundation.  The 
Mail,  therefore,  printed  the  following  account  of  the 
"Videttes,"  declaring  that  until  this  publication  no 
one  who  had  not  been  previously  sworn  to  secrecy 
knew  the  name  of  an  organization  which  now  covers 
every  State  and  Territory  in  the  Union;  has  coun- 
cils, or  "companies, '  as  they  are  called,  in  three- 
fourths  of  the  important  towns;  has  twelve  branch- 
es of  the  organization  in  Chicago,  and  more  than  a 
hundred  in  the  State  of  Illinois — the  National  Order 
of  Videttes.  The  election  of  Judge  Gresham  is  not 
the  object  for  which  the  order  was  founded,but  may 
be  an  event  which  many  members  personally 
desire.  The  following  extract  from  the  constitu- 
tion outlines  the  principles  of  the  organization: 

To  maintain  the  Declaration  of  Independence  as 
the  foundation  of  our  principles. 

The  preservation  of  our  country  from  foreign  in- 
terference in  our  systems  of  finance  and  land. 

No  membership  with  those  who  hold  allegiance  to 
any  foreign  power— claiming  citizenship,  but  aliens 
»t  heart. 

Opposition  to  contract  pauper  immigrj^tion  for  the 
purpose  of  destroying  American  workmen. 

Oar  own  industries  first,  last  and  always. 

Our  public  school  system  shall  be  maintained  and 
improved  —  no  sectarian  interference  from  any 
source. 

No  division  of  public  funds  for  sectarian  schools. 

No  special  privileges  for  any  class,  but  just  and 
equitable  laws  for  all. 

The  cultivation  of  the  home  principle  by  the  own- 
ership of  homes — homes  for  the  homeless,  land  for 
the  landless. 

A  complete  and  perfect  union.  One  government, 
one  flag,  and  equal  rights  for  all. 

Equality,  liberty,  fraternity,  the  climax  of  our 
hope«,  the  end  sought  to  be  obtained. 

The  system  of  organization  is  on  a  military  plan, 
the  State  organizations  being  known  as  "brigades," 
which  are  divided  into  "regiments"  and  "compa- 
nies." The  greatest  care  is  exercised  in  the  selec- 
tion of  members  of  the  organization.  No  one  may 
become  a  member  by  application,  because  outsiders 
have  not  hitherto  known  that  such  an  organization 
existed,  and  even  now  will  not  know  to  whom  to 
apply  should  they  wish  to  join  the  order.  The 
method  of  obtaining  members  is  this:  In  the  "com- 
pany" meeting  some  "officer"  or  "private"  suggests 
the  name  of  some  one  who  would,  in  his  opinion, 
make  a  good  "enlisted  man."  A  committee  is  then 
appointed  to  investigate  the  recruit's  reputation,  so- 
cial and  political  affiliations  and  inclinations. 
Should  the  report  of  this  committee  be  satisfactory 
the  desired  member  is  elected  "on  probation"  and 
another  committee  is  appointed,  whose  duty  it  is  to 
interview  the  unconscious  candidate,  and  learn  his 
views  and  opinions  on  the  principles  of  the  or- 
der. Should  his  expressions  be  in  harmony  with 
the  objects  of  the  order,  the  advisability  of  having 
some  organization  of  men  of  his  views  is  suggested, 
and  if  he  confesses  to  a  desire  to  help  organize  such 
a  body  he  is  partially  paralyzed  by  being  informed 
that  such  an  organization  is  already  in  existence, 
with  a  membership  of  500,000  picked  men,  and  that 
he  has  been  elected  to  comradeship  in  it.  The  obli- 
gation is  very  strict,  and  the  recruit  binds  himself 
to  submit  to  the  penalty  provided  for  treason, should 
he  be  disloyal  to  his  oath. 


PRBaa   GOMMBNT. 


An  Irish  political  society  in  Dublin,  Ireland,  has 
passed  resolutions  censuring  Mayor  Hewitt  for  not 
allowing  the  Irish  flag  to  be  raised  over  the  city  hall 
in  New  York  on  St.  Patrick's  day,  and  says,  "This 
insult  to  Ireland  will  be  remembered."  The  people 
are  willing  to  believe  that  New  York  has  been  ruled 
by  the  Irish,  but  until  now  it  was  supposed  that  it 
was  confined  to  the  Irish  in  the  United  States;  it 
seems  not,  however.  As  we  have  said  before,  "Home 
Rule  for  Ireland"  means  the  governing  of  the  United 
States. — American  Citizen,  Boston. 

United  States  Commissioner  Carroll  D.  Wright, 
has  made  a  careful  report  of  the  strikes  for  the  past 
six  years.  The  loss  to  the  laborers  was  $51,816,- 
165.  They  received  from  the  lodge  assistance  to 
the  amount  of  $4,430,595.  The  loss  to  the  em- 
ployers   was   $30,732,261.       Thus   it   appears  tbat 


this  enforced  idleness  caused  by^the  secret  lodge 
has  resulted  in  a  total  loss  of  over  $80,000,000. 
This  immense  loss  has  injuriously  aflected  every 
individual  in  the  country.  It  has  borne  especially  hard 
tipon  the  poorer  classes.  Here  is  another  proof  that  the 
secret  lodge  is  a  most  inefficient  agency  for  the  accom- 
plishment of  any  good  purpose.  It  degrades  amuse- 
ment into  sin,  politics  into  treason,  tempsracce  into 
excess,  benevolence  into  selfishness,  brotherly 
love  into  a  conspiracy,and  the  spiritual  worship  of  God 
into  vain  ceremonies  avowedly  borrowed  from  the 
effete  paganism  of  Asia  and  Africa. —  Witness. 

The  churches  throughout  the  land  were  crowded 
on  last  Easter  Sunday  with  what  the  papers  called 
"throngs  of  eager  worshipers."  It  is  a  question  in 
our  mind  whether  these  eager  throngs  did  not  wor- 
ship the  flowers  and  special  musical  programmes 
rather  than  the  risen  Christ.  We  are  not  opposed 
to  the  commemoration  of  the  great  events  in  the  life 
of  our  Lord;  but  when  the  commemoration  takes 
the  place  of  the  Lord,  then  it  is  time  to  cast  the 
commemorative  service  aside  and  learn  to  worship 
him,  in  spirit  and  truth,  in  whose  name  the  thing  is 
done.  Our  Puritan  fathers  did  well  to  enter  their 
protest  against  these  formalities  in  their  day.  It 
may  be  necessary  for  their  children  to  again  purge 
the  temples  of  these  ceremonies  when  they  become 
hollow  forms. —  Words  and  Weapons. 

The  Freemasons  of  Virginia  have  secured  a  char- 
ter for  the  erection,  in  Fredricksburg,  of  a  Mason- 
ic Temple,  as  a  memorial  of  George  Washington, 
who  was  made  a  Mason  in  lodge  four,  in  Richmond, 
on  the  4th  of  August,  1753.  When  Washington 
was  just  old  enough  to  be  admitted  to  the  lodge,  ha 
was  initiated.  When  he  became  older,  and  had 
more  wisdom,  he  ceased  to  attend  the  lodge  and  to 
have  any  connection  with  the  order.  He  has  stated 
this  fact  himself  in  a  letter  which  has  been  often 
published.  The  order  mast  need  propping  up  very 
much  when  it  claims  George  Washington,  Solomon, 
John  the  Baptist  and  John  the  Apostle  as  mem- 
bers; but  the  trouble  is  that  their  claim  needs  prop- 
ping very  badly,  also.  Anti  masons  would  be  far 
more  consistent  in  building  a  monument  to  George 
Washington  in  memory  of  his  testimony  against  the 
whole  lodge  system. — ITie  Midland. 

The  Pittsburgh  Post  had  an  article  following 
"Good  Friday"  under  the  title  "Cast  their  Creeds 
Aside."  It  related  to  a  meeting  held  in  an  Episco- 
pal church.  In  the  course  of  its  remarks  it  said. 
"It  (the  meeting)  was  remarkable  first  from  the 
fact  that  seated  within  the  chancel  of  an  Episcopal 
church  (St.  Andrew's)  were  eleven  ministers,  five 
of  whom  were  rectors  of  the  five  leading  central  par- 
ishes of  the  Episcopal  church,  and  the  other  six  rep- 
resented six  different  denominations,  and  each  was 
a  representative  man  in  his  own  church.  It  was 
remarkable,  also,  that  Baptist,  Presbyterian  and 
United  Presbyterian  Christians  should  unite  in 
keeping  Good  Friday."  Yes,  that  was  remarkable, 
but  we  do  not  suppose  these  intended  to  "keep"  the 
day.  We  note  in  this  connection  that  a  United 
Presbyterian  minister  in  one  of  our  western  towns 
was  present  and  assisted  in  the  observance  of 
Easter  on  Sabbath  by  a  Commandery  of  the  Knights 
Templar,  an  order  of  the  Masonic  society.  It  is  not 
the  only  instance  where  secret  orders,  as  well  as  a 
pagan  day,  have  received  marked  attention  by 
United  Presbyterian  miniBtiTB.  — Christian  Instmctor. 

Trades  unions.  Knights  of  Labor,  and  similar  as- 
Bcciations  have  asserted  their  right  to  exercise  a 
tyranny  wholly  foreign  to  the  spirit  of  American  in- 
stitutions and  utterly  subversive  of  human  liberty. 
Under  the  American  idea,every  man  is  free  to  work 
or  to  hire  others  to  work  upon  the  best  terms  he  can 
make.  That  liberty  the  labor  organizations  have 
sought  to  take  away  by  violence.  They  assume  not 
only  to  compel  their  own  members  to  work  or  to 
quit  work  at  the  behest  of  their  little  bosses,  but  to 
lay  like  commands  upon  free  men  who  owe  no  alleg- 
iance to  them,  and  to  compel  the  doing  of  their  will 
by  physical  force,  by  social  ostracism,  and  by  tbe 
ingenious  cruelty  of  the  boycott.  We  have  seen  al- 
most the  entire  trade  of  the  country  brought  to  a 
halt  for  weeks  at  a  time  by  command  of  one  man  f  f 
bad  character  and  low  intelligence,  who  opanly  d.:- 
clared  that  he  gave  the  order  merely  to  "show  his 
power."  We  have  seen  the  business  of  a 
poor  widow  ruined  by  a  boycott  because  she 
employed  bakers  who  did  not  belong  to  a  particular 
secret  society.  Even  trades  unions  endeavor  to  com- 
pel employers  to  discharge  faithful  and  capable 
workmen  and  workwomen  because  they  do  not  choose 
or  are  not  permitted  to  become  members  of  that 
union;  to  establish  the  right  of  a  voluntary  associa- 
tion arbitrarily  to  say  who  shall  and  who  shall  not 
be  allowed  to  earn  a  living  by  \&hoT.— George  Cary 
Eggleston  in  New  Princeton  R-view. 


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May  17,  1888 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE- 


Reform  news. 


OUR  NEW  ORLBAHa  LETTER. 


THE   NUMBSa   OF   TESTIPyiNQ   OHUEOIIES   QROWINO. 

New  OaLEANS,  La.,  May  5,  1888. 
Dear  Cynosure:— Praise  the  Lord,  the  reform  is 
steadily  growing.  The  Butler  Lodge,  G.  U.  O.  of 
O.  F.,  about  sixteen  in  number,  and  the  secret  Tab- 
ernacle, No.  14,  bad  their  anniversary  sermon 
preached  at  the  St.  Mark's  Fourth  Baptist  church 
Sabbath  at  3  p.  m.  These  two  secret  lodges  had 
been  canvassing  their  members  for  some  time  in 
order  to  make  a  grand  display  at  the  church;  but 
their  efforts  were  vain,  as  the  Odd-fellows  could  only 
present  about  sixteen  in  uniform  and  the  "Tabs" 
about  twenty  five,  male  and  female. 

Kev.  W.  W.  Davis,  pastor  of  the  church,  preached, 
but  I  am  informed  that  his  sermon  was  so  Anti- 
masonic  that  the  secretists  seemed  to  quake.  Bro. 
E.  J.  Steptoe,  worthy  superior  of  the  Taber- 
nacles, and  also  a  member  of  Butler  Lodge,  G.  U. 
O.  of  0.  F.,  reminded  his  secret  brethren  and  sisters 
(after  making  signs  with  his  sword)  that  they  must 
not  pay  attention  to  what  the  devil  is  stirring  up 
and  saying.  He  said  he  intended  to  die  in  his 
lodge,  no^matter  what  the  devil  says,  and  he  expects 
to  go  to  heaven  out  of  his  lodge. 

I  preached  at  Mount  Olive  Baptist  church  at  3 
p.  M.  This  church  is  entirely  cleansed  from  lodgery. 
The  congregation,  under  direction  of  Rev.  L.  Tay- 
lor, though  small,  have  bought  their  lot  and  builded 
their  house  of  worship,  since  last  September,  and 
have  every  dollar  paid  saving  $30,  and  have  had  no 
worldly  festival  or  secret  lodge  to  help  them  get  out 
of  debt  and  build.  I  preached  at  St.  Mark's  Fourth 
Baptist  church  at  7:30  p.  m.  And  although  some  of 
the  secretists  and  their  sympathizers  thought  to 
persuade  some  not  to  come  and  hear  my  Anti- 
masonic  sermon,  and  although  the  weather  was 
very  threatening,  yet  there  was  a  large  and  enthu- 
siastic congregation  of  anxious  hearers  who  were 
not  ashamed  nor  afraid  to  cry  out  "amen"  to  the 
truth.  Mr.  A.  E.  Johnson,  the  colored  artist  of  the 
city  and  also  a  prominent  Odd-fellow,  came  up  to 
me  and  said,  "Bro.  Davidson,  I  am  pleased  with 
your  sermon.  You  have  told  the  truth  and  quoted 
Scriptures  to  justify  your  argument.  We  trust  to 
be  able  to  clean  lodgery  out  of  this  church." 

I  met  Rev.  E.  Richardson,  of  Pattersonville,  La., 
an  M.  E.  pastor.  He  had  never  seen  the  Cynomre 
and  will  be  glad  to  have  it  sent  to  him.  I  met  him 
in  1886,  when  I  first  opened  fire  on  the  secret  forts 
of  lodgery,  and  he  encouraged  me  then. 

I  called  on  a  family  Monday  evening  and  we  had 
a  debate  on  secrecy.  A  sister  produced  evidences 
to  prove  that  Masonry  was  anti-Christian,  and  she 
was  responded  to  on  behalf  of  the  lodge  by  a  sister 
who  chanced  to  be  a  member  of  Eastern  Star,  and 
Heroines  of  Jericho,  who  finally  acknowledged  that 
Masonry  is  anti-Christian.  A  minister  was  next 
called  on  to  speak  who  chanced  to  be  a  32-degree 
Mason.  He  desired  to  be  neutral,  until  a  sister  re- 
minded him  of  his  moral  cowardice  and  hypocrisy, 
because  he  said  to  her  and  others  that  all  secret 
lodges  were  anti-Christian.  He  then  rallied  and 
said,  "Well,  yes;  they  are  all  wrong."  I  was  then 
called  on  to  speak.  I  got  the  secretists  to  agree 
that  Entered  Apprentice,  Fellowcraft  and  Master 
Mason  were  the  only  universal  and  genuine  degrees 
in  Masonry,  and  these  degrees  reject  Christ;  hence 
Masonry  is  a  Christ-i^ejecting,  and,  therefore,  is  an 
anti-Christian  system.  Anything  that  fails  to  recog- 
nize Christ's  name  in  its  religious  ceremonies  is 
anti-Christian. 

I  attended  services  at  the  Evangelist  Baptist 
church,  Rev.  J.  G.  Wracks,  pastor,  Wednesday  at 
7:30  p.  M.  The  pastor  preached  an  interesting  ser- 
mon. Although  he  did  not  tell  his  people  to  give 
up  their  lodges,  yet  he  spoke  plainly  enough  for 
anybody  to  understand.  This  congregation  is  at 
present  worshiping  in  a  private  residence.  They 
have  bought  a  lot  and  anticipate  building  a  house 
of  worship  as  soon  as  they  get  enough  cash  on  hand. 
Bro.  Wracks  don't  want  to  put  his  people  in  debt 
to  build.  I  am  invited  to  preach  for  his  people 
Wednesday,  and  for  Rev.  H.  Davis,  Thursday  next. 

The  St.  Mark's  Fourth  Baptist  church  had  a  pound 
meeting  Wednesday  for  its  sick  and  altlicted  mem- 
bers, and  made  a  handsome  collection  of  various 
articles,  such  as  grits,  rice,  sugar,  meat,  etc.  Each 
member  was  requested  to  bring  something. 

I  preached  Thursday  at  7:30  p.  M.,  at  Thompson's 
chapel  M.  E.  church,  Rev.  V..  Lyons,  pastor.  This 
is  the  leading  church  of  the  third  district  (colored). 
Bro.  Lyons  is  doing  a  good  work,  both  spiritual  and 
temporal.  His  custom  is  on  Thursday  nights  to 
take  up  collection  for  the  poor.    My  sermon  was 


enthusiastically  received  by  the  congregation,  and 
heartily  endorsed  by  Bro.  Lyons  and  his  deacons. 
I  expect  to  preach  at  Shiloh  Baptist.church,  Rev. 
H.  C.  Green,  pastor.  Sabbath  at  7:30  p.  m. 

The  Odd-fellows  have  put  up  their  placards  an- 
nouncing their  annual  parade  and  all-night  picnics, 
for  Thursday,  the  10  th.  They  will  no  doubt  try  to 
make  as  grand  a  display  as  possible,  with  new  uni- 
forms, etc.,  in  order  to  make  other  proselytes. 
When  these  secret  lodges  make  mock  baptism  by 
sprinkling  their  candidates  in  the  degree  of  P.  L.  C. 
it  is  time  time  for  Zion  to  awake. 

Francis  J.  Davidson. 


LODGE  AND  SALOON  MUST  GO  DOWN. 


Natchez,  Miss.,  May  9,  1888. 

Dear  Cynosure: — At  this  writing  I  am  here 
doing  what  I  can  for  God  and  his  cause.  I  spent  a 
part  of  last  week  in  Baton  Rouge,  La.,  and  lectured 
two  nights.  I  found  Bro.  Hannibal  Williams,  pas- 
tor of  the  First  Baptist  church,  in  the  midst  of  a 
great  fight.  He  praises  God  for  Bro.  Hinman's 
visit  some  time  ago.  He  is  working  to  free  his 
church  of  the  lodge  infiuences,  and  it  is  giving  him 
some  trouble;  but  he  hopes  to  overcome  by  God's 
grace,  and  asks  the  earnest  prayers  of  the  National 
Association. 

I  met  Bro.  Robert  Brooks,  pastor  of  another 
church,  who  was  getting  ready  to  join  the  Masonic 
lodge,  but  after  a  talk  and  showing  what  God  says, 
he  says  he  will  never  join. 

This  place  being  the  headquarters  of  what  is 
known  as  "The  Universal  Brotherhood,"  and  many 
other  societies,  it  is  a  little  hard  to  reach  the  people. 
Rsv.  Shurlock  of  Texas  came  here  some  time  ago  to 
organize  the  S.  S.  of  G.  (Seven  Stars  of  Consolida- 
tion), and  went  into  the  largest  church,  taking  pas- 
tor and  all.  But  God  had  one  deacon  who  stood  his 
ground  and  caused  a  division,  which  still  remains  to 
some  extent.  If  he  had  been  posted  or  had  any 
friends,  a  great  work  would  have  been  done  for 
Jesus  in  this  city. 

I  have  visited  the  Natchez  College  and  find  Profs. 
Wordlaw  and  Owens  strong  opponents  of  the  lodge; 
also  Prof.  Meekins,  principal  of  the  public  school. 
He  says,  "Masonry  is  an  imposition.  Any  man  who 
has  ever  joined  can  go  into  the  lodges,  though  he 
may  not  have  paid  a  cent  for  years,  and  defraud 
those  who  keep  up  their  dues.  Masonry  teaches 
discrimination.  When  a  man  enters  the  higher  de- 
grees he  is  shown  preferences  over  his  brothers — 
the  Blue  Lodge.     I  have  quit." 

Thus  our  work  goes  on,  and  we  are  made  to  say, 
"How  great  are  His  signs  and  how  mighty  are  His 
wonders  I  His  kingdom  is  an  everlasting  kingdom, 
and  His  dominion  is  from  generation  to  generation," 

PROHIBITION. 

The  State  Convention  of  Texas  was  largely  at- 
tended and  was  a  success.  I  am  among  the  dele- 
gates to  Indianapolis,  and  the  only  colored  man 
from  our  State.  I  attended  the  State  Convention  of 
the  W.  C.  T.  U.  of  Mississippi  in  this  city  yester- 
day. One  thing  very  noticeable  was,  many  of  the 
delegates,  in  making  their  reports,  spoke  of  how 
hard  it  was  to  reach  the  "colored  people."  They 
seem  to  forget  that  the  masses  of  us  are  not  readers, 
and  that  more  than  two  hundred  years  have  passed 
in  the  process  of  degradation,  and  how  can  they  ex- 
pect us  to  undo  in  twenty  years  what  they  have 
done  in  two  centuries. 

The  Prohibitionists,  to  use  the  Negro,  must  quit 
abusing  him.  Some  of  them  get  angry  and  talk  as 
though  they  would  take  his  vote  away  if  they  could, 
because  he  don't  use  it  as  they  think  he  should. 
Out  of  the  great  number  of  free  prohibition  papers 
sent  out,  I  don't  know  of  a  half-dozen  among  color- 
ed people.     The  Cynoiure 

IS   REAOHING    MORE    COLORED    HOMES 

than  any  other  reform  paper  of  any  kind.  The  Ne- 
gro, like  others,  cannot  and  will  not  go  right,  unless 
some  man  guide  him.  I  find  in  this  State  some  of 
them  are  looking  at  that  slaughtering  at  Jackson  as 
the  result  of  Prohibition,  when,  in  fact,  as  a  party 
question,  Prohibition  is  not  known  in  Mississippi. 
It  is  more  noticeable  when  they  read  and  hear  that 
Mr.  Martin,  the  editor  of  the  iVeio  Mi$$isiippian,  was 
the  author  of  the  "Red  circular,"  and  remember 
Prof.  Dickie's  reference  to  that  circular.  In  talking 
with  one  of  the  ablest  colored  men  of  this  place  yes- 
terday and  answering  his  objections  to  the  cause.he 
then  said,"Well,  in  Mississippi  it  is  a  white  man's 
fight." 

Now,  we  can  see  if  this  idea  is  not  removed  by 
lecturing  and  literature  they  are  left  to  our  enemies. 
Some  of  our  friends  seem  willing  to  go  on  and  leave 
the  Negro.  If  that  is  done,  the  liquor  men  and  oth- 
er roughs  will  aim  to  ride  into  power  on  the  Negro 


vote  and  the  results  will  be  bad.  It  is  cheaper  to 
educate  him  than  to  reap  the  results  of  neglecting 
him. 

I  hope  to  be  at  the  National  Convention  to  say 
and  do  what  I  can  to  help  a  people  who  have  claims 
upon  the  Christian  people  of  America.  I  met  Mrs. 
Buell  here,who  seems  greatly  interested  in  the  work 
among  my  people;  also  Mrs.  Chapin.  They  were 
here  attending  the  W.  C.  T.  U.  convention. 

I  read  with  interest  Bro.  Isaac  Toliver's  appeal 
from  Rockdale.  No  man  in  Texas  or  in  all  the 
South  has  a  better  opportunity,  or  more  vim  and 
courage  to  speak  and  press  his  subject  than  Rev. 
Toliver.  It  will  greatly  repay  our  friends  to  help 
him.  He  can  do  untold  good  as  a  reformer.  His 
trouble  is,  he  never  finds  room  for  the  crowds  that 
flock  to  hear  him.  Our  people  do  not  own  halls  and 
in  many  cases  cannot  rent  them  even  if  they  have 
the  money.     Yours  for  reform,       L.  G.  Jordan. 


OHIO   NOTEb. 


the    lodge   in  columbus   sits  a  trap   for  the 
pastors. 


Columbus,  Ohio,  May  11,  1888. 
As  spring  advances  and  nature  is  again  arrayed 
in  festive  garb,  the  blood  quickens  in  the  veins  and 
a  general  restlessness  pervades  this  city.  The  parks, 
beer-gardens  and  places  of  public  resort  are  thronged 
with  a  stirring  humanity.  Picnics,  parades  and 
balls  are  the  order  of  the  day  with  the  thoughtless, 
pleasure-loving,  butterfly  class.  The  secretists  are 
not  slow  to  take  advantage  of  this  occasion  to  show 
their  feathers  and  drum  up  new  recruits.  Columns 
of  our  daily  papers  are  devoted  to  accounts  of  their 
convivial  occasions.  I  copy  the  following  from  the 
I.  0.  O.  F.  reports  in  the  Daily  Times: 

"The  soul  of  Capitol  Lodge  was  made  glad  Friday 
night  by  the  receipt  of  a  box  of  cigars  from  Bro.  J.  D. 
Hagerty.  The  occasion  of  the  brother's  gift  was  the 
arrival  of  a  new  boy.  This  habit  of  setting  up  the  ci- 
gars on  such  occasions  la  a  time  honored  custom  of  Cap- 
itol Lodge." 

"The  National  Lodge  entertainment  club  had  a  net 
gain  of  $240  at  their  recent  ball.  This  fund  will  go 
toward  the  purchase  of  new  paraphernalia." 

It  is  not  difficult  for  sensible  people  to  guess  what 
is  behind  the  screen  when  these  are  the  outward 
manifestations.  The  effort  to  capture  and  control 
the  churches  is  being  pushed,  and  I  am  sorry  to 
have  to  report,  with  a  large  degree  of  success. 
The  following  from  the  7Y»ie«  explains  itself: 

"Dennison  Lodge  has  adopted  a  law  of  attending  the 
various  churches  of  the  city  every  two  weeks.  The  va- 
rious pastors  of  the  numerous  churches  hive  been  asked 
to  deliver  a  sermon  appropriate  to  the  occasion.  This 
invitation  was  very  gladly  complied  with  by  every  min- 
ister in  the  city,  with  the  exception  of  Rev.  C  W.  Histt 
of  the  High  Street  Congregational  church.  Rev.  Hiatt 
is  an  Oberlin  graduate,  and  as  a  matter  of  course  he  is 
opposed  to  secret  societies.  With  the  exception  of  Ober- 
lin College,  no  school  in  Ohio  of  any  note  is  opposed  to 
these  orders.  The  new  departure  of  Dennison  Lodge 
will  undoubtedly  result  in  much  good.  One  week  from 
to-day  Rev.  Qrannis  of  the  Good  Shepherd  church  will 
address  the  lodge  at  his  church." 

Should  we  attempt  to  answer  all  the  lies  published 
for  the  "benefit  of  the  order"  we  should  undertake 
a  vast  work.  There  are  at  least  three  in  this  par- 
agraph. Should  the  Timet  reporter  desire,  I  can 
give  him  the  names  of  at  least  ten  pastors  of  Prot- 
estant churches  in  this  city  who  will  not  preach  for 
the  lodge,  or  at  least  favorably  to  it 

Oberlin  College  is  not  the  only  school  of  any 
note  in  Ohio  that  is  opposed  to  secret  societies. 
Capital  University  of  this  city,  having,  I  am  told, 
over  a  hundred  students,  is  opposed  to  them.  The 
editor  must  think  his  Democratic  readers  are  very 
ignorant  or  foolish  that  they  do  not  know  this. 

Rev.  C.  W.  Hiatt  told  the  committee  that  visited 
him,  requesting  that  he  preach  for  the  order,  that  he 
would  do  so  if  they  desircil  to  hear  him  express 
his  sentiments  publicly,  but  that  he  was  not  favor- 
able to  them,  and  should  not  want  them  to  come  ex- 
pecting a  commendation  of  their  society. 

Rev.  McConnell  of  the  Third  Avenue  M.  E.  church 
preached  commendatory  to  the  I.  O.  O.  F.  last  Sab- 
bath morning.  He  is  reported  in  the  papers,  and 
otherwise,  as  speaking  of  this  order  as  the  "founda- 
tion of  Christianity." 

I  have  lectured  but  once  since  my  last.  This  was 
at  Africa,  Delaware  county,  in  the  Wesleyan  church. 
Another  lecture  was  postponeti  because  of  a  severe 
storm.  Bro.  Richey,  former  anti  secret  State  lecturer, 
is  stationed  here.  I  scarcely  need  say  I  received  a 
cordial  welcome.  I  expect  to  start,  D.  V.,  in  a  few 
days  for  the  northwestern  portion  of  the  State,  from 
whence  you  may  expect  to  hear  from  me. 

W.  B.  Stoddard. 


uh. 


8 


::HE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


Mat  17, 1888 


Correspondence. 


THE  IMAGE   OF  THE  BEAUT. 


LtTESCO,  Pa.,  May,  5,  1888. 
Editor  Ctnosuke:— I  have  looked  in  vain  among 
the  books  advertised  in  your  columns  for  the  most 
powerful  work  on  secret  societies  it  has  ever  been 
my  lot  to  read,  "The  Image  of  the  Beast  a  Secret 
Empire,  or  Freemasonry  a  Subject  of  Prophecy,  by 
Rev.  Richard  Horton,  Wesleyan  Print,  Syracuse,  N. 
Y."  Price,  50  cents.  The  text  is  Revelation  thir- 
teenth chapter.  The  author,  while  agreeing  with  all 
Protestant  commentators  as  to  the  meaning  of  the 
"Dragon,"  "First  Beast"  and  "Second  Beast,"  proves 
that  the  "Image  of  the  Beast"  there  set  forth  is 
Freemasonry.  His  method  of  proof  is  plain  and 
clear.  His  arguments  are  easily  followed  and  con- 
clusive. 

I  think  every  student  of  God's  Word  should  have 
a  copy  of  this  book.  I  am  forced  to  believe  that  its 
power  for  good,  if  carefully  and  prayerfully  read 
and  widely  circulated,  would  be  incalculable.  Dear 
brother  Blanchard,  will  you  not  examine  this  book 
thoroughly,  and  through  the  Cynosure  give  such  a 
notice  of  it  that  it  may  be  widely  circulated.  God 
will  bless  you  for  it. 

God  be  praised  for  the  work  done  in  New  Orleans. 
Praises  to  God  come  to  my  lips  whenever  I  think  of 
the  grand  work  going  on  in  the  Southern  churches. 
More  and  more  clearly  the  proofs  are  coming  to 
light  that  the  slaveholders'  rebellion  (in  helping  to 
crush  which  I  almost  lost  my  life)  was  brought 
about  by  secret  societies.  Let  the  Cynosure  turn  on 
the  light  and  may  the  good  work  go  on.  Gladly 
would  I  send  money  to  send  the  paper  to  the  South- 
ern ministers,  but  the  privilege  is  denied  me.  I  do 
not  belong  to  any  secret  society  and  the  government 
cannot  aflord  to  give  me  a  pension  according  to 
'proven  disability  from  my  wound  and  its  results. 
God  will  right  all  wrongs  at  last.  Let  us  stand 
firmly  for  truth  and  right,  and  God  will  give  us  vic- 
tory. J.  W.  Snively. 

Note. — The  Cynosure,  in  years  past,  frequently 
and  with  warmest  commendation  noticed  this  work. 
If  it  is  in  print  it  can  be  ordered  from  this  office  by 
any  friend. 

*  •  ^ 

A  PLEA  FOR  HOME  TRAimSQ. 


were  discharged,  shops  closed,  voters  intimidated 
and  disfranchised  by  being  threatened  (and  in  many 
cases  the  threat  carried  into  execution)  with  the  loss 
of  their  position;  patriots  hanged  and  burned  in 
effigy,  slandered,  ostracised. 

Three  classes  of  men  to-day,  as  in  '84,  are  vigor- 
ously fighting  the  war  of  the  '60s.  Some  politicians, 
the  man  in  the  South  who  never  owned  a  slave  or  a 
foot  of  land,  the  man  in  the  North  with  a  huge  ap- 
petite for  a  postofflce,  or  a  very  clever  digestive  im- 
agination for  the  memories  and  horrors  of  war  as 
he  stood  in  the  bloody  ranks  of  a  home  guard;  rebel 
flags  and  Jeff.,  that  old  relic  of  disfranchised  devil- 
ishness — these  have  no  place  in  the  reunion  of  the 
patriots  of  our  country.  The  Southern  man  thinks 
no  more  highly  of  them  to-day  than  we  do  of  the 
honor  of  being  counted  with  effigy-burners  or  of 
being  sandwiched  with  hoodlum  votes  at  $1  apiece. 
Freedom  and  Justice  weep  while  we  gorge  ourselves 
with  sectional  shame,  as  true  and  as  outrageous  in 
the  North  as  in  the  South. 

The  solid  North  has  too  many  saloons,  with  their 
ever  increasing  salable  vote,  to  claim  more  than  half 
of  the  "actions  of  loyalty"  toward  God,  home,  or 
native  land.  Commerce,  charity,  Christianity  have 
already  done  their  work,  opening  industries,  gen- 
eral co-partnership,  the  inquiry  into  church  agree- 
ments rather  than  sectional  differences  will  and 
must  sweep  from  before  our  own  door  as  well  as 
that  of  our  neighbor  all  exaggerated  righteousness 
as  well  as  exaggerated  iniquity.  Patriots  of  the 
North  and  South  are  trying  to  devise  means  of  in- 
stilling into  the  mind  of  the  colored  man  of  the 
South  and  the  hoodlum  of  the  North  the  worth  and 
responsibility  of  citizenship. 

I  feel  like  saying  as  Grant  did,  when  across  the 
river  from  where  he  stood  a  rebel  general  bowed  and 
asked  after  his  health,  "I'll  never  allow  a  rebel  to 
outdo  me  in  patriotism."  The  story  goes  that  he 
bowed  even  more  gracefully  than  the  Johnnie. 

Mac. 


Lisbon,  Iowa,  May  3,  1888. 

According  to  my  view,  after  much  thought  and 
observation,  there  is  scarcely  any  question  before 
the  Christian  world  of  more  importance,  to  the  wel- 
fare of  mankind,  than  this  which  relates  to  the  work 
and  duty  of  parents  properly  taking  care  of  their 
children  at  home,  while  quite  young,  in  wisely  teach- 
ing them,  and  effectively  controlling  them.  Why 
not  have  a  Normal  department  in  every  Christian 
college  in  the  land,  with  a  professorship,  to  give 
well-matured  weekly  lectures,  on  the  importance, 
and  best  methods  of  conducting  family  government. 
Why  not  bring  the  matter  before  the  Christian  pub- 
lic, and  wake  up  some  good  hearts,  and  wise  heads, 
to  write  text-books  on  the  subject  of  home  training; 
something  like  Rev.  J.  S.  C.  Abbott's  "Mother  at 
Home,"  only  much  more  full,  and  more  at  length  in 
detail. 

There  are  seminaries  to  qualify  young  men  to 
preach  the  Gospel.  There  are  Normal  schools  and 
Normal  departments  to  teach  young  men  and 
women  how  to  become  effective  teachers,  both  in 
common  day  schools,  and  also  in  Sabbath-schools. 
So  also  in  almost  every  line  of  business,  and  human 
learning,  interest  and  duty;  and  in  recent  years, 
many  States  are  introducing  into  the  common  schools 
temperance  instruction,  to  assist  in  forwarding  the 
great  temperance  reform.  Seeing  that  the  intelli- 
gent world  is  so  wide  awake  on  every  other  means 
of  improvement,  why  should  this  powerful  instru- 
mentality for  good,  which  lies  at  the  foundation  of 
both  church  and  state,  be  so  greatly  neglected? 

I  have  endeavored  to  drop  a  few  seed  thoughts, 
with  the  hope  that  more  able  men  will  take  up  the 
subject,  and  continue  at  it  with  "line  ui)on  line, 
precept  upon  precept,"  until  the  Christian  conscience 
is  waked  up  and  a  public  sentiment  created  that  will 
bring  about  a  much  needed  reform  in  society. 

I.  L.  BucnwALTER. 


A  WORD  ON  REUNIONS. 

Your  Quakertown,  Ind.,  correspondent,  in  speak- 
ing last  week  of  the  "reunion  of  the  Blue  and  Gray," 
must  have  been  abroad  during  the  campaign  of  '84. 
Some  "charity"  and  "Christian  toleration"  is  needed 
near  that  section  of  the  country  where  workingmen 


our  sufErages  free  men?"  and  then  aek,  "Shall  we  go 
farther  and  form  a  league,  pledging  ourselves  not  to  vote 
for  any  other  than  those  free  from  secret  lodge  obliga- 
tions?" You  want  every  friend  of  the  Cynosure  to  send 
in  his  answer  at  once.  I  am  such  a  friend  and  I  am  for 
such  a  league,  and  have  been  since  the  Anti  masonic 
party  of  Morgan  times;  and  for  over  fifty  years  have 
never,  to  my  knowledge,  voted  for  an  adhering  Mason 
for  any  responsible  office.  And  as  long  as  I  live  you 
shall  have  my  name  to  any  memorial  of  the  kind.  By 
all  means  let  the  political  parties  know  what  they  can 
depend  on;  and  if  they  want  our  votes,  let  them  re- 
spect our  conscientious  principles.  I  am  a  Prohibition- 
ist, both  for  the  liquor  traCBc  and  secretism,  and  shall 
vote  with  the  Prohibition  party  as  far  as  they  nominate 
men  who  do  not  consider  themselves  bound  by  lodge 
oaths,  and  I  shall  look  to  the  Cynosure  for  information 
in  regard  to  that. — Anti-lodge  Prohibitiohi&t. 

I  have  read  the  action  of  the  conference  in  the  C^rao- 
swre  memoralizing  the  political  conventions.  The  way, 
as  I  see  it,  is  to  step  back  to  the  old  American  party,  and 
then  we  can  vote  with  both  hands,  and  ask  God's  bless- 
ing on  our  act.  We  have  no  hope  of  success  while  we 
mix  with  these  political,  secret,  oath  bound  parties.  My 
humble  advice  is  to  climb  onto  the  American  platform 
and  look  to  God  for  victory. — John  Leeper,  Senecaville, 
Ohio. 

A     WINE    RECIPE. 

I  once  had  the  following  recipe  for  communion  wine: 
Raisins,  1  lb.;  boiling  water,  1  qt.  Let  stand  an  hour 
Strain,  and  beat  in  the  white  of  an  egg.  I  hereby  de- 
clare the  above  recipe  to  be  a  fraud,  and  would  like  to 
have  it  made  known  through  the  dear  Cynosure  before  I 
die.  Everlasting  thanks  to  Mr.  John  Cassidy  for  the 
Cynosure.  Old  veteran,  let  us  stand  fast  for  the  cause 
of    Christ.      Pray  on.— Jacob    Hoffnbr,   DonneUson, 


DRUG  STORES  THAT  ARE  MOST  DANGEROUS. 


Sharon,  Wis. 

Bro.  Reformers: — Since  April  13th,  as  a  fam- 
ily, we  have  been  on  the  front  line  in 
the  great  battlefield  of  general  reform.  Have  only 
time  now  to  relate  one  item  of  interest.  We  have 
always  treated  drug  men,  who  sell  the  same  as  sa- 
loon men,  just  like  saloon  men.  After  closing  the  sa- 
loons in  one  county,and  seeing  that  drug  stores  contin- 
ued to  selltothepoordrunkards,I,of  course,feltitmy 
duty  to  preach  in  front  of  those  stores,  the  same  as 
I  had  done  in  the  same  town  in  front  of  saloons  I 
I  warned  them  just  the  same.  Dear  reader,  what  do 
you  think  they  wanted  to  do  with  me?  Why,  they 
would  like  to  muzzle  me.  No  saloon  man  ever 
named  a  muzzle  to  me,  not  even  in  a  war  of  fifty 
years!  I  understand  now  more  than  ever  my  duty 
to  these  drug  men,  and  will  open  their  eyes  on  the 
unreasonableness  of  muzzling  the  faithful  shepherd 
who  keeps  the  wolves  off  from  the  sheep;  and  the 
impossibility  of  muzzling  God's  watchman  whom 
God  has  commanded  "to  cry  aloud,  and  spare  not." 

Many  ministers,  priests  and  editors  are  muzzled 
by  the  love  of  money,  of  party,  and  of  sin.  All  the 
powers  of  hell  combined  are  not  able  to  make  a  muz- 
zle to  fit  God's  watchman;  and  if  able  to  make  one, 
not  able  to  put  one  on.  More  from  lime  to  time  as 
the  work  progresses.  R.  Smith. 


PITH  AND  POINT. 


FOR   LIFE, 


I  shall  expect  to  take  the  Cynosure  while  its  faith  and 
works  remain  what  they  now  are,  and  I  can  get  the  means 
to  pay  for  it.— C.  M.  Candeb. 

monarchy  nUMBLINc:  ITSELF. 

In  your  last  issue  I  find  noted,  that  the  German  Empe- 
ror is  somewhat  recovering  and  may  live  for  a  time  as 
yet.  You  know  that  his  father.  Emperor  William,  was 
a  pious  Christian,  having  promised  his  God  in  youth, 
when  confirmed,  to  hold  to  his  ways,  seek  his  advice, 
and  give  to  him  the  glory  of  all  things  through  his  life. 
And  thus  be  did.  Now  the  son  seems  to  be  of  the  same 
mind,  having  justly  ordered  a  change  of  the  official 
l)ra>er8.  Thus,  instead  of  we  pray  for  "His  Majesty, 
Emperor  Frederick,"  it  is  to  be  "We  pray  for  thy  servant 
Frederick."  It  seems  it  were  time  that  other  monarchs 
ordered  the  same  change.  Such  a  change  was  made  a 
ffew  years  ago  by  the  King  of  Sweden.  Instead  of,  "To 
His  Royal  Majesty,"  etc.,  or  "Grand-mightiest,  Upper- 
most gracious  King,"  we  now  write  only,  "To  the  King 
of  Sweden."— A.  R.  Cervine. 

THAT    memorial. 

In  the  Cynosuie  of  May  3d  you  ask,  "Have  you  read 
the  action  of  the  conference  in  this  number  memoraliz- 
ing  the  National  conventions  to  place  is  nomination  for 


Iowa. 


Literature. 


a  SHEAS'  OF  Song.    By  BeDJ,  F.  Leggett.    Pp.  154.    John  B. 
Alden,  New  York. 

Without  pretending  to  great  originality,  the  au- 
thor of  this  neat  little  volume  of  poems  has  given 
the  world  a  very  agreeable  collection  which  com- 
prises a  happy  variety  of  topics  and  of  poetical 
measures.  It  is  a  book  often  to  be  taken  up  about 
the  fireside  for  a  brief  reading,  and  there  are  no 
heavy  or  sombre  pieces  to  dim  the  glow  of  the  fire- 
light of  home  joys  burning  in  the  heart. 

"J.  Tramp  Ihrough  Switzerland,"  by  the  same  au- 
thor and  publisher,  is  just  the  book  for  the  tourist's 
satchel.  Type  large,  size  handy,  and  story  of  Al- 
pine tramps  and  experiences  with  enough  of  excite- 
ment to  hold  the  attention,  and  no  attempt  at  his- 
toric embellishment  to  weary  the  thought.  The. 
writer  is  sometimes  prosy  with  too  much  rhetoric, 
but  gives  us  on  the  whole  a  pleasant  idea  of  his 
ability  as  an  entertaining  reporter  of  daily  and  in- 
teresting experiences  in  a  wonderful  part  of  the 
world.  Both  volumes  are  sold  at  the  usual  low  rate 
of  this  publisher. 

Words  and  Weapons  is  developing  more  interest  in  the 
general  evangelical  work  month  by  month .  Dr.  Pente- 
cost's brief  notes  and  other  contributions  are  a  treasury 
of  gracious  words  for  the  believer,  stimulating  his  zeal 
and  encouraging  his  faith.  The  Sabbath  school  lesson 
notes  in  this  magazine  are  of  especial  value  for  teachers. 

The  May  English  Illustrated  Magazine  shows  its  loy- 
alty by  a  leading  article  on  the  late  German  Emperor  by 
G.  M.  Rhodes.  The  writer  enjoyed  unusual  advantages 
of  personal  acquaintance  at  the  German  court,  and  his 
review  of  the  great  work  of  William  in  the  unification 
of  the  German  Empire  is  well  prepared.  Of  the  three 
great  lieutenants,  Bismarck,  Moltke  and  Non  Roon,  by 
whose  aid  he  was  able  to  succeed,  there  are  fine  por- 
traits of  the  first  two  as  well  as  of  the  Emperor.  Prof. 
Minto's  story  of  the  Wat  Tyler  rebellion  goes  on  through 
several  interesting  chapters.  Of  the  old  Eaglish  homes 
"Hinchingbrooke"  is  selected  for  illustration  by  pen  and 
pencil.  A  chief  attraction  to  American  readers  is  the 
fact  that  this  old  estate  and  hall  belonged  to  the  Crom- 
well family,  and  copies  of  the  portraits  of  the  great  Oli- 
ver and  his  mother  adorn  the  article,  which  is  beside 
made  interesting  by  sketches  of  the  Protector's  early 
days. 

The  May  number  of  Woman  contains  a  paper  of  es- 
pecial merit,  a  tribute  to  the  late  Louisa  May  Alcott,  by 
Cecil  Hampden  Howard,  a  valued  Cynosure  contributor, 
in  which  is  embodied  the  most  comprehensive  biograph- 
ical sketch  of  that  lamented  writer  that  we  have  yet  seen 
published.  It  is  accompanied  with  an  excellent  likeness 
of  Miss  Alcott.  Other  illustrated  articles  in  this  May 
number  are:  the  first  paper  of  the  series  by  Helen  Camp- 
bell, entitled,  "Prisoners  of  Poverty  Abroad,"  relating  to 
the  wretched  condition  of  the  working  women  of  Lon- 
don. This  series  will  be  one  of  great  interest,  and  will 
portray  the  miseries  of  the  poverty-stricken  workers  of 
Berlin,  Paris  and  Rome.  Julia  Ward  Howe  has  a 
thoughtful  paper  on  "How  to  Extend  the  Sympathies  of 
Women,"  in  which  she  shows  how  true  education  en- 
larges the  natural  limits  of  feminine  character,  and  urges 
women  to  emancipate  tliemselves  from  intellectual  nar- 
rowness. The  first  paper  on  Woman's  Clubs,  by  Olive 
Thome  Miller,  is  finely  illustrated  with  engravings  of  the 
prominent  members  of  Sorosia  and  the  Meridian  Clubs, 
which  form  the  subject  of  this  article. 


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May]  7, 1888 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


Maurice  Thompson's  papers  on  the 
"Sixth  Sense  in  Literature,"  now  appear- 
ing in  Literature,  Alden's  new  literary 
weekly  magazine,  are  deserving  all  their 
popularity  as  a  defense  of.and  tribute  to, 
literary  genius. 

Bcienae  (weekly)  gives  each  week  a 
resume  of  the  progress  in  those  branches 
of  science  most  nearly  affecting  man's 
health  and  general  welfare.  The  news 
from  the  government  scientific  bureaus  is 
well  presented. 

The  Toung  People  8  Weekly  is  so  full  of 
good  and  instructive  reading  for  the  boys 
and  girls  that  we  are  inclined  to  forgive 
the  poor  portrait  of  Henry  Bergh,  the 
friend  of  animals,  which  forms  the  front- 
ispiece. Parents  will  avoid  trash  and 
find  wholesome  lessons  in  life  in  this  num- 
number.     T.  B.  Arnold,  Chicago. 

The  last  London  Illustrated  News  has 
several  pages  from  its  round-the  world 
artist,  who  has  reached  California  and 
finds  ample  scope  for  his  art,  but  makes 
an  error  in  his  geography  by  locating  the 
Faralone  Islands  in  San  Francisco  bay. 
The  two-page  picture  of  the  public  ex- 
hibition of  the  Pope's  Jubilee  gifts  has 
an  unhappy  interest  to  Protestant  Amer- 
icans. 

The  Swiss  Cross,  the  popular  science 
monthly  which  contains  the  reports  of 
the  Agassiz  Association,  contains  in  the 
May  number  an  illustrated  article  on  the 
remarkable  journey  in  Central  Asia  made 
by  H.  E  M.  James,  Lieutenant  Young- 
husband,  and  H.  Fulford.  The  article 
is  illustrated.  An  interesting  article  with 
portrait  relates  the  story  of  Helen  Keller, 
who,  though  deaf  and  blind,  is  making 
rapid  progress  in  education. 


In  Brief. 


There  are  but  fu  horses  that  will  stand 
without  tieing— and  there  are  less  men. 
—  JosJi  Billings. 

China  and  Japan  buy  our  dried  apples 
freely.  Thus  does  American  industry 
help  to  swell  the  population  of  the 
Orient. 

If  ten  of  the  richest  men  in  this  coun- 
try, says  the  New  York  World,  should 
withdraw  their  capital  from  railroads, 
mines  and  factories,  more  than  800,000 
men  would  be  thrown  out  of  work,  and 
more  than  one  million  people  would  suf- 
fer by  it. 

The  barb-wire  industry  is  in  a  fair  way 
of  being  overdone.  According  to  the 
Iron  A  ge  there  are  forty-four  manufac- 
turers in  this  country  who  own  2,191 
machines.  It  is  estimated  that  in  200 
working  days,  running  single  turns,  they 
will  make  300,000  tons  of  barb  wire, 
while  the  consumption  ranges  from  130,- 
000  to  150,000  tons  a  year. 

The  following  incident  is  vouched  for 
by  scientific  peraons:  An  English  gentle- 
man was  presented  with  a  cask  of  Malm- 
sey sweet  wine,  which  he  ordered  to  be 
placed  in  an  inner  room  in  his  wine-cellar. 
He  was  absent  from  home  for  a  long  time, 
and  on  his  return  directed  his  butler  to 
open  the  wine  for  his  guests.  His  aston- 
ishment may  be  imagined  when  he  was 
informed  that  the  entrance  to  the  room 
was  closed  by  an  enormous  fungus 
growth.  An  entrance  was  effected  with 
difficulty  by  chipping  the  fungus  with  an 
ax.  The  cask  was  found  empty,  pressed 
against  the  ceiling,  supported  upon  and 
stirrounded  by  this  vegetable  matter, 
which  almost  entirely  filled  up  tv^e  re- 
miiining  space  in  the  apartment. — Boston 
Post. 

Ferdinand  de  Lesseps  has  spent  $4,- 
OOO.OCO  annually  for  pushing  his  schemes 
by  means  of  printer's  ink,  principally  on 
the  press  of  Paris.  Of  this  the  Fiqwro 
is  said  to  have  received  yearly  |100,000; 
the  Gaulois,  $100,000;  the  Matin,  $40,- 
000;  the  Intransigeanl,  $10,000;  the 
Justice,  $5,000:  the  Petit  Journal,  $200,- 
000,  and  other  papers  according  to  their 
estimated  value.  AH  the  infiuential  Paris 
journals  have  been  paid  by  the  Casino 
of  Monte  Carlo,  though  not  so  lavishly. 
When  dc  Lesseps  began  with  the  canal  at 
Panama  he  thought  his  name  was  going 
to  carry  everything  before  it.  The  news 
papers  violently  attacked  his  project  and 
he  was  obliged  to  yiuld.  Since  then  he 
has  paid  them  what  they  asked. 

An  American  manufacturer  of  sugar- 
coated  pills  added  to  (ho  attractions  of 
an  exhibit  of  his  product  in  London  an 
ingeoiouB  piece    of   mechanism,   which 


might  have  been  intended  to  represent 
the  pharmacist  of  the  future.  It  was  in 
the  form  of  a  cabinet  provided  with  a 
series  of  knobs  or  buttons,  each  inscribed 
with  the  name  of  some  malady  for  which 
a  remedy  might  be  asked.  The  customer 
puts  a  coin  into  a  slit  and  presses  the 
button  calling  for  the  remedy  he  requires, 
when  immediately  a  drawer  flies  out  con- 
taining the  article  sought.  This  auto- 
matic dispenser  of  course  makes  no  mis- 
takes. If  the  customer  accidentally 
presses  the  wrong  button,  he  alone  is 
responsible  for  the  errror.  Is  this  really 
what  we  are  coming  Xol — Scientific  Amer- 
ican. 

Some  remarkable  figures  of  more  than 
national  interest  from  an  economic  stand- 
point are  given  in  the  thirteenth  annul) 
report  of  the  National  Penny  bank  of 
England,  of  which  the  duke  of  West- 
minster, Earl  Beaumont,  and  the  Rt. 
Hon.  Mr.  Childers  are  trustees.  Since 
the  institution  was  opened  674,574  peo- 
ple have  become  depositors.  The  num- 
ber of  deposits  has  been  5  202,608, 
amounting  to  $13,000,000.  Of  the  pres 
ent  depositors,  all  of  whom  are  of  the 
working  class,  22  000  have  amounts  of 
25  cents  and  less  to  their  credit,  2,783 
have  balances  of  between  $25  and  $50; 
3,059,  $50  to  $125;  1,752,  $150  to  $350; 
1,096,  $300  to  $500,  and  l,040,over  $500. 
An  interesting  statement  of  the  report  is 
that  a  good  proportion  of  the  depositors 
are  of  German  birth  or  parentage. 


HBCBBTSOCIBTIKS  CONDEMNED 


"All  other  goods  by  fortune's  hand  is 

given, 
A  wife  is  the  peculiar  gift  of  heaven." 

Is  your  wife  changed  and  your  home 
unhappy?  Does  she  go  about  with  gloom 
on  her  face,  and  do  you  see  no  more  the 
smile  that  won  you  ?  It  is  because  she 
is  bilious.  Bile  causes  half  the  misery 
of  the  world.  Her  system  is  clogged  up, 
her  head  aches.  Get  her  a  vial  of  Dr. 
Pierce's  Pleasant  Pellets  and  they  will 
give  her  relief,  and  the  atmosphere  of 
home  will  grow  bright  again.  One  tiny, 
sugar-coated  Granule  a  dose. 


There  is  no  danger  to  human  life  more 
to  be  dreaded  than  that  which  arises  from 
vitiated  blood.  iJyspepsia,  rheumatism, 
headache  and  general  debility,  all  result 
from  it,  and  are  cured  by  the  use  of  Ayer's 
Sarsaparilla.  Take  it  this  month.  Six 
bottles,  $5. 


CONSUMPTION  SUKELY  CURED. 

To  the  Editor: — Please  inform  your 
readers  that  I  have  a  positive  remedy  for 
the  above  named  disease .  By  its  timely 
use  thousands  of  hopeless  cases  have  been 
permanently  cured.  I  shall  be  glad  to 
send  two  bottles  of  my  remedy  free  to 
any  of  your  readers  who  have  consump- 
tion if  they  will  send  me  their  Exoress 
and  P.O.  address.  Respectfully,  T.  A. 
Slocum,  M.  C.  181  Pearl  St.,  New  York 

ANTI-MASONIO  LBOTUBSJib. 
Qbnbbal  AeBNT  AHD  Lbctdbbb,  J.  p. 
Stoddard.  231  W.  Madison  St.,  Chicago. 
H.  H.  Hinman,  Cynosure  ot&ce. 
Agent  for  Southern  States. 
Statb  AoKim. 
Iowa,  0.  F.   Hawley,  Wheaton,    Du- 
Page  Co.,  Illinois. 
Missouri,  Eld.  Rufus  Smith,  Maryville. 
New  Hampshire,   Eld.  S.  C.  Kimball, 
New  Market. 
Ohio,  W.  B.  Stoddard,  Columbua. 
Kansas,  Robert  Loggan,  Clifton. 
Alabama,  Rev.  G.  M.  Elliott,  Selma. 

Dbgbbb  Wobkbrb.— LSecedera.l 
J.  K.  Glassford.  Carthage,  Mo, 
Othbb  Lbctubbbs. 

C.  A.  Blanchard,  Wheaton,  111. 

M.  Callender,  Brown  Hollow,  i'a. 

J  H.  TlmmonB,  Tarentom,  Pa 

T.  B.  McCortulck,  Princeton,  Ind. 

B.  Johnson,  Dayton,  Ind. 

H.  A.  Day,  WflUamstown,  Mich. 

J.  M.  Bishop,  Cbsmbersburg,  Fa. 

A.  Mayn,  BloomlnKton,  Ind. 

J.  B.  Cresslnger,  Sullivan,  O. 

W.  M.  Love,  Osceola,  Mo. 

J.  L.  Barlow,  Orundy  Center,  Iowa. 

A.  D.Freeman,  Downers  Grove,  111 

Wm.  Fenton .  8t  Paul,  Minn. 

Warren  Taylor,  South  Salem,  O. 

J.  8.  Perry,  Thomoson,  Conn. 

J.  T.  Michael, l."):!3  Capouse  Av.Scranton.Pa. 

8.  Q.  Barton,  13recklnrldge,  Mo. 

K.  BametsOD.  HasklnvlUe,  dteubeaCo,IN.  Y 

Wm.  K.  Roach,  Pickering,  Ont. 

O.  A.  RichardB,  Brighton,  Mich, 


BY  GBBAT  MEN  IN  THE  CHXTKCH. 


Rev.  Wm.  M.  Brooks,  Pres.  Tabor 
College. -Our  faculty  is  a  unit  in  opposition 
to  secret  societies,  not  excepting  those 
formed  for  literary  culture.  « 

iPuKS.  L.  n.  Hammond,  Lebanon  Val- 
ley College. — My  conviction  is  firm  that 
the  influence  of  Freemasonry  is  baneful 
iu  whole  and  in  pari;  that.religiously.itis 
a  stun-blicg  block;  and  that,  socially  and 
politically,  the  benefaction  it  offers  to  one 
is  a  robbery  of  others. 

PiiEs.  E.  K.  Hi  Mi,  Washington  Univer 
sity. — I  have  long  regarded  the  secret 
conclaves  as  unnecessary  to  any  good 
c  ause,  and  dangerous  from  their  irrespon- 
8ibilit7.  Especially  do  I  think  that  Free- 
masonry, from  its  nature,  record  and 
prevalence,  is  an  enemy  to  the  political 
purity  and  social  morality  of  our  coun- 
try. 

Pres.  H.  H.  George,  D.  D.,  Geneva 
College. — No  man  can,  at  the  same  lime, 
be  a  lover  of  Christ  or  a  Christian,  and  a 
sworn  member  of  a  Christ-dishonoring 
and  disowning  fraternity,  provided  he 
know  the  true  character  of  that  fraterni- 
ty. No  man  can  be  innocent  in  going 
into  such  a  fraternity  without  knowing 
its  true  character. 

President  J.  H.  Fairchild,  Oberlin: 
— The  tendency  to  organize  in  secret 
bodies,  political,  social,-  religious  and  lit- 
erary, seems  to  indicate  distrust  of  the 
ordinary  institutions  of  society,  and  will 
surely  generate  the  distrust  from  which 
it  seems  to  spring.  The  very  idea  of  a 
secret  combination  implies  a  barbarous 
age,  or  a  state  of  social  anarchy  in  which 
such  arrangements  are  necessary  for 
safety.  There  is  no  place  for  it  in  a 
Christian  civilization.  ig 

Rev.  Josiah  Bradley,  Principal  of 
Bock  Spring  Seminary,  Illinois,  1829: — 
Masonry  is  a  human,  and  cunningly 
formed  system  of  deception.  Is  it  not 
rightly  named  "Speculative  Freemason- 
ry?" Millions  have  been  drawn  within 
its  veil,  and  led  away  captive  by  its  false 
pretensions  and  exhibitions  of  morality, 
charity  and  brotherly  love.  And  many 
may  still  rejoice  for  a  season  in  their  de- 
lusions, despise  reproof,  and  perish  with- 
out remedy. 

Pres.  L.  N.  Stratton,  D.  D. — One 
other  fact  worth  naming  is,  that  the  oaths 
and  secret  workings  of  Freemasonry  are 
out  and  well  known  to  the  world.  They 
arc  published  in  the  reports  of  several 
State  legislatures,  and  in  Wendell's  Su- 
preme Court  Reports  of  the  State  of  New 
York,  Vol.  XIII,  pp.  9-26.  Their  oaths 
are  no  less  murderous  than  those  taken 
by  the  Mollie  Maguires,  for  obedience 
to  which  latter  twenty-one  have  been 
tried  and  hung  in  the  State  of  Pennsyl- 
vania. * 

Leonard  Woods,  D.D.,  Professor  in 
Andover,  IS29: — Now  I  have  never  seen 
or  heard  of  any  evidence,  of  any  kind  or 
degree,  in  support  of  the  pretended  aa- 
tiquity  of  Freemasony;  and  I  suppose  the 
same  is  true  of  all  others.  What  then 
can  we  do,  consistently  with  reason  and 
common  sense,  but  to  withhold  our  be-- 
lief.  As  to  probable  evidence;  it  would 
be  very  proper  to  inquire,  whether  it  can 
be  reconciled  to  the  acknowledged  char- 
acter of  Solomon,  and  of  the  twelve  apos 
tU'S  to  suppose,  that  they  belonged  to  a 
society,  established  on  the  principles  and 
practicing  the  rites  of  Freemasonry.  If 
these  principles  and  rites  are  what  the 
c  immunity  at  large  understand  them  to 
l>c,  and  what  Freemanons  themselves  un- 
derstand them  to  be,  an  answer  to  this 
imjuiry  would  be  no  very  difficult  thing. 

Pkics.  Timothy  Dwiqiit,  D.  D.,  in  a 
Fast  Day  St)-vion,  Tale  College. — These 
[the  doctrines  of  lUuminiam]  were:  that 
Ood  is  nothing;  that  government  is  a 
curse,  and  authority  an  usurpation;  that 
civil  society  is  the  only  apostasy  of  man; 
that  the  possession  of  properly  is  robbery; 
that  chastity  and  natural  affection  are 
m<.Tc  prejudices,  and  that  adultery,  assas 
Bination,  poisoning  and  other  crimes  of  a 
similar  nature  are  lawful  and  even  virtu- 
ous. A  largo  branch  of  the  Jff(«<'"ii'  So 
n'etie.<i  ia  Girmany  and  France  had  al- 
ready adoirttd  the  same  objects,  as  the 
t'reatand  controlling  ones  of  all  their 
personiil  and  united  labors.  Here  secre- 
cy furnishtd  the  moist  advantageous  op- 
portunities for  the  formation  of  every 
design  and  the  most  advaniageous  oppor 
tunitics  for  its  successful  execution.  •-' 


N.  C.  A.  BUILDING  AND  OtJlCX  OF 
THB  CHRISTIAN   CYNOSURE, 
Ml  WEST  MADISON  8TRBET,  CBICAQC 


S AVION AL  CBMIH  TjAN  AHSOCIA  TIOM 

Pbbbidbht.— H.  H.  George,  D.  D.,  Gen 
eva  College,  Pa. 

ViCB-PBBSiDBNT— Rev.  M.  A.  Gault, 
Blanchard,  Iowa. 

Cob.  Sbc^y  and  Gbnbbal  Agbnt. — J 
P.  Stoddard,  221 W.  Madison  St.,  Chicago. 

Rbc.  Sbc'y.  and  Tbbasubbb. — W.  I. 
Phillips,  221  W.  Madison  St.,   Chicago. 

DiBBCTOBS. — Alexander  Thomson,  M 
R.  Britten,  John  Gardner,  J.  L.  Barlow, 
L.  N.  Stratton,  Thos.  H.  Gault,  C.  A. 
Blanchard,  J.  E.  Roy,  E.  R.  Worrell,  H. 
A.  Fischer.  W.  R.  Hench. 

The  object  of  this  Association  is: 
"To  expose,  withstand  and  remove  secret 
societies,  Freemasonry  In  particular,  and  othei 
anti-Christian  raovements,  in  order  to  save  Um 
churches  of  Christ  from  being  Gepraved,  to  n 
deem  the  adminlst ration  of  justice  from  per 
version,  and  our  cep  iblican  government  from 
corruption." 

To  carry  on  this  work  contributions  art 
solicited  from  every  friend  of  tnc  reform. 

Form  of  Bequest.— J  give  and  bcuucath  to 
the  National  Christian  Association,  incorpo- 
rated and  existing  under  the  laws  of  the  8tate 

of   Illinois,  the  sum  of ■    dollars  for  the 

purposes  of  said  Assoclatiott,  and  for  whirh 
the  receipt  of  Its  Treasurer  for  the  time  t>elng 
%a11  be  sufficient  dlschacse. 

THB  NATIONAL  CONVBNTIOH. 

Pbbbidhnt.— Rev.  J.  8.  T.  Milligan, 
Denison,  Kans. 

Secretaby.— Rev.  R.N.CouDtee,Mem- 
phis,  Tenn. 

btatb  auxxliabt  absociationb 

AXABAMA.— Pres.,  Prof.  Pickens;  See,  8. 
M.  Elliott;  Treas.,  Rev.  C.  B.  Curtis,  aU  of 
Selma. 

Caijtobnia.— Pres^  L.  B.  Lathrop,  Hollls 
ter ;  Cor.  Sec,  Mrs.  U.  P.  Merrill,  Woodland  • 
Treas.,  C  Ruddock,  Woodland. 

CONNBCTiccT.— Pres.,  J.  A.  Conant,  Willi 
mantle;  Sec,  Geo.  Smith,  WUllmantlc ;  Treas 
C.  T.  Collins,  Windsor. 

II.L11I0I8.— Pres.,  J.  P.  Stoddard  Sec,  M 
N.  Butler;  Treas.,  W.  I.  Phllllpi  all  at  Cy 
iiosurt  office. 

Indiana.— Pres.,  William  H.  Flgg,  Reno 
Sec,  8.  L.  Cook,  Albion;  Treas.,  BenJ.  Ulsh 
Silver  Lake. 

Iowa.— Pree.,Wm.Johnston,College  Springs- 
Cor  Sec,  C.  D.  Trumbull,  Morning  Snn- 
Treas.,  James  Harvey,  Pleasant  Plain,  Jeff er 
son  Co. ;  Lecturer,  C.  F.  Hawlev,  Wheaton,  111. 

KiN8>8.— Pres.,  J.  S.  T.  Mllllgan,  Denison- 
Sec,  S.  Hart,  Leconipton;  Treas.,  J,  A.  Tor- 
rence,  Denison. 

MAesACHTJSBTrs.— Pres.,  8.  A.  Pratt;  Set. 
Mrs.  E.  D.  Bafley ;  Treas.,  David  Mannlng.Si.! 
WorcKter. 

MiCB  iGAH.— Pres.,  D.  A.  Richards,  Brightou 
Sec'y,  H.  A.  Dav,  WlUlamston;  Treas. 
Geo.  twanfon,  Jr.,  Bedioiu. 

MisM«B0TA.— Pres.,  E.  G.  Paine,  Waste's 
Cor.  Pec,  Wm.  Fenton,  St.  Paul ;  Kec.  8ec''y 
Vrp  V.  F.  Morrill,  St.  Charles;  Treas.,  W» 
H.  Morrill,  St.  Charles. 

MiBBOUHi.— Pres.,  B.  F.  Miller,  KaglevlUa 
Treas.,  William  Boauchsmp,  Avalon ;  Cor.  8f  r 
A.  D.  Thomas,  Avalon. 

NiBBASKA.— Pres.,  8.  Austin,  Falrmoutt 
Cor.  Sec,  W.  Bpooner,  Kearney;  Treas. 
J.  C.  Fye. 

Maine  -Pros.,    Isaac   Jackson,  Harrison 
Sec,  1.  1>-   Uatnes,  Dexter;  Treas.,  H.  W. 
Goddard,  West  Sidney. 

NbwBampshirb.— l*res.,  C.  L.  Baker,  Man 
Chester;  Sec,  8.  C.  Kimball,  New  Market 
Tress.,  Jauios  »•'.  French,  Canterbury. 

Nbw  York.— Pres.,  F.  W.  Capwell,  Dale; 
Sec'y,  John  Wallace,  Syracuse;  Tress.,  M. 
Merrick,  Syracuse. 

Ohio.— tres.,  F.  M.  S{>enccr,  New  Concord, 
Rec  Sec,  8.  A.  George,  Mansfield;  Cor.  Sec. 
snd  Treas..  C.  W.  uTatt,  Columbus;  Agent 
W.  B.  8to«lJ.Hnl,  Columbus. 

Pbnnstlvania.— Cor.  Sec,  N.  Callender 
ThonpsoD ;  Treas.,  W.  B.Bertels,  Wllkesbarre. 

Vbbmont.— Pres.,  W.  R.  Laird,  St.  Joiini- 
bury;  Sec,  C.  W  Potter. 

WiBCOHBiH.— Pres.,  J.  W  Wood,  Baralioo; 
Sec,  W.  W.  Ames,  Menomoole;  TresA.,  Jl.  K 
Britten.  Vienna. 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSUIIE. 


May  17, 1888 


The  Christian  Cynosure. 


J.  (iLANOHARD 


tU>iyOBB. 


HXNR7  L.  &SLLOG0. 


oaiCAaO    TH0U8UAS,   MAY  17.  1888 


The  Elgin  Assdoiation  of  Congregational 
churches  met  last  week  at  Batavia,  111.,  and  received 
the  College  Church'  of  Wheaton  into  their  body. 
This  action,  since  the  church  separates  itself  from 
all  secret  societies,  bears  decidedly  against  the 
lodge.  The  large  council,  by  whose  advice  the 
church  acted,  decided  by  a  unanimous  vote  that  a 
church  has  the  right  to  exclude  Freemasons  and 
other  secretists  from  their  Christian  fellowship, 
which  all  churches  of  Christ  should  do. 


CoHMiNCiMKNT  AT  Whkaton. — This  institution 
which  has  been  doing  educational  work  in  Northern 
Illinois  for  the  last  twenty-eight  years  holds  its  an- 
nual commencement  on  June  20th.  A  class  of  sev- 
en graduate  this  year.  The  attendance  for  the  year 
has  been  some  two  hundred  and  twenty-five.  The 
subscription  toward  the  new  building  fund  is  now 
seven  thousand  five  hundred  dollars.  The  faculty 
and  students  will  be  glad  to  see  all  those  who  have 
been  students  in  former  days,  together  with  all  oth- 
ers who  are  interested  in  Christian  education,  on 
this  occasion. 


President  Cleveland's  nomination  of  Melville 
W.  Fuller,  Chief  Justice  of  the  United  States,  seems 
to  give  general  satisfaction.  Some  of  the  strongest 
Republican  presses  approve  of  the  appointment. 
He  was  a  war  Democrat,  is  fifty  five  years  of  age, 
and  has  practiced  law  in  Chicago  some  thirty  years. 
His  appointment  makes  three  Democrats  to  six  Re- 
publicans DOW  on  the  Supreme  Bench,  Justices 
Field  and  Lamar  being  the  other  two.  The  secu- 
rity of  the  tenure  by  which  these  judges  hold  oflSce, 
and  the  almost  entire  absence  of  motive  to  induce 
them  to  re  embark  in  the  troubled  sea  of  party  poli- 
tics, and,  above  all,  the  triviality  of  the  difference 
between  the  Republican  and  Democratic  parties, 
makes  the  former  political  relations  of  the  nine 
judges  of  small  account. 


tion  as  aliens,  by  pretending  they  are  forbidden  to 
defend  the  lodge;  which,  yet,  they  do  not  hesitate 
to  attempt,  whenever  they  have  the  least  hope  of 
success.  But  the  argument  is  all  against  sworn 
aliens  to  the  government  and  religion  of  a  country 
claiming  civil  rights  in  that  country.  If  their  oaths 
are  not  binding  they  are  blasphemy;  if  they  are 
binding  they  are  treason;  and  in  either  case  they  are 
idolatry. 

Who  is  now  ascertaining  whether  Bain  of  Ken- 
tucky still  adheres  to  Good  Templary,  and  whether 
Cranfil  of  Texas  is  a  secretist?  No  time  should  be 
lost.  Secretary  Stoddard  has  by  this  time  started 
a  work  in  the  National  building  at  Washington. 
Let  there  be  counsel  every  week;  and  let  us  hear 
from  Bain  and  Cranfil.  Gen.  Fiske  has  declared 
himself  out  of  the  Good  Templars.  He  will  doubt- 
less be  nominated  for  President  at  Indianapolis. 


VERMONT. 


THE  AMBBIGAN  ANTI-BEGSBC7  LEAGUE. 


We  are  pleased  to  see  that  the  lately-formed  po- 
litical league  meets  with  favor  by  the  laborers  in 
the  lecture  field,  and  we  hope  our  treasurer,  Mr.  W. 
I.  Phillips,  who  is  appointed  superintendent,  will 
not  let  the  matter  sleep,  especially  till  after  election 
next  November.  The  senior  editor  happened  to 
\  visit  the  AntiCorn-law  League  headquarters  in 
Manchester,  England,  just  at  the  close  of  a  cam- 
paign in  which  it  had  sent  out  twenty  tons  of  publi- 
cations explaining  the  reform. 

The  thing  which  chiefly  struck  us  was  that  two 
individual  men  in  private  life  sat  down  before  an 
oppressive  bread-tax,  and  resolved  on,  and  accom- 
plished its  repeal. 

Mr.  Cobden  was  a  small,  pale-faced  Eoglishman; 
and  Mr.  Bright,  a  Quaker,  unused  to  politics. 
Neither  of  them  were,  or  ever  became,  what  would 
have  been  called  eloquent  men  in  the  days  of  Pitt, 
Fox  and  Sheridan.  They  armed  themselves  with  all 
the  facts,  stood  up,  and  convinced  the  people  of 
what  they  believed  themselves.  Cobden  refused  a 
baronetcy  when  offered  him.  Bright  was  religiously 
opposed  to  titles.  Sir  Robert  Peel,  the  Tory  minis- 
ter of  the  day,  was  a  titled  aristocrat,  and  the  Corn 
laws  were  sustained  by  the  owners  of  every  acre  of 
British  soil,  and  by  dukedoms,  earldoms,  and  all 
the  titles  which  the  land  sustained.  By  unwearied 
toil,  honesty,  and  integrity,  those  two  untitled,  un- 
pretending men  convinced  as  many  people  as  the 
United  Slates  then  held,  and  Peel  abolished  the 
Corn  laws  which  his  party  upheld,  to  avoid  being 
left  in  the  minority  in  Parliament  and  defeated  in 
an  appeal  to  the  country. 

Now  the  argument  against  the  secret  lodge  system 
in  this  country  is  in  every  sense  stronger  than  that 
by  which  Cobden  and  Bright  overthrew  the  Corn 
laws.  The  secret  orders  of  the  United  States  are  of 
foreign  origin.  They  are  against  the  United  States 
Constitution  which  forbids  titles  of  nobility.  State 
or  national.  Even  the  anarchists  are  the  spawn  of 
privileged  class  legislation;  and  the  cost  of  secret 
orders  would  buy  bread  for  the  paupers  of  all  Eu- 
rope. And  while  every  Freemason  is  an  alien  by 
his  oath  to  a  secret  empire,  and  thus  owes  another 
allegiance  than  that  to  the  United  States,  he  pro- 
fesses a  religion  unknown  to  Christ  and  the  Bible, 
and  he  ought  not  to  be  allowed  his  oath  in  our 
courts,  unless  he  disavows  and  casts  off  his  Masonic 
obligations.     Masons  cover  and  conceal  their  posi- 


Some  correspondence  has  already  been  had  about 
a  summer  campaign  in  the  churches  of  Vermont, 
the  State  whose  political  star  never  sunk  below  the 
horizon.  Judge  Harrington  voiced  the  sentiment  of 
his  State  on  slavery  when  he  said,  nothing  but  "a 
bill  of  sale  from  the  Almighty,"  would  take  a  man 
out  of  his  court  as  a  slave.  The  State  opposed  the 
annexation  of  Texas,  the  Mexican  war  for  the  ex- 
tension of  slavery,  and  gave  her  whole  electoral 
vote  for  Wirt  and  Ellmaker,  the  Anti-masonic  can- 
didates for  President  and  Vice  President  of  the 
United  States  in  1832.  It  has  been  proposed  to 
hold  a  convention  at  Saxton's  River,  Vt.,  in  the 
month  of  June  next.  Will  every  reader  of  the  6'y- 
nosure  and  Christian  Witness  of  New  Hampshire 
write  at  once  to  Prof.  S.  C.  Kimball  of  New  Market, 
N.  H.,  and,  after  due  inquiry,  answer  the  following 
questions: 

1.  How  many  persons  do  you  know  who  would 
attend  a  three  days'  convention  for  prayer  and 
counsel  at  Saxton's  River  in  the  town  of  Rocking- 
ham, Vt.,  if  one  is  called  after  the  middle  of  June 
next? 

2.  Are  you  in  favor  of  and  would  you  sign  the 
American  Anti-Secrecy  League,  lately  formed  at 
Chicago,  to  refuse  to  support  lodge  members  for 
public  office? 

3.  Are  you  in  favor  of  a  series  of  meetings  for 
prayer  and  counsel  for  the  overthrow  of  secret 
lodges  in  the  churches  of  Vermont  the  coming  sum- 
mer, to  be  addressed  by  two  ministers  of  the  Gos- 
pel?    And  how  many  churches  of  all  denominations 

.do  you  know  of  where  such  meetings  could  be  held? 
V  The  town  of  Rockingham  was  the  birth-place  of 
the  senior  editor  of  the  Cynosure,  ani  the  Baptist 
church  in  Saxton's  River  village  was  the  first  pulpit 
he  ever  spoke  in  for  the  temperance  cause.  We 
have  many  friends  and  many  happy  memories  in 
that  town.  Gates  Perry,  Eaq ,  Esquire  Smith,  all 
the  village  maguates,  held  a  meeting  in  the  old 
Baptist  church,  and  exhibited  the  lodge  initiation 
to  a  crowded  house,  galleries  and  all.  And  the 
children  of  the  village  fathers  still  inhabit  those 
hills.  If  we  can  hold  a  meeting  in  that  interesting 
village  over  Saturday,  Sabbath  and  Monday,  the 
State  of  Vermont  will  be  effectually  opened  and 
take  prominent  part  in  relieving  the  country  of  the 
lodge.     Are  you  in  favor  of  the  convention? 


GOOI)  TEMPLARISM. 


Dr.  Emorj  Potter  of  Elmwood  Hall,  Saratoga 
Springs,  writes  us  expressing  strong  hopes  that  the 
candidates  nominated  at  the  Indianapolis  Conven- 
tion will  be  acceptable  to  the  Americin  party.  He 
is  opposed  to  Masonry  and  Oid-fellosvahlp,  but 
though,  like  Henry  Wilson,  he  wishes  the  Good 
Templars  would  drop  their  secrecy,  as  their  prayers 
are  offered  through  Christ,  he  dislikes  to  divide  the 
the  Prohibition  party  by  breaking  with  those  who 
cling  to  the  secret  ritual.  If  an  adhering  Good 
Templar  should  be  nominated  for  Vice  President  at 
Indianapolis,  the  Cynosure  could  not  support  the 
ticket;  but  could  support  Gen.  Fisk,  because, 

1.  Gen.Fisk,  though  once  a  Good  Templar,  neither 
gives  time  nor  money  to  practice  their  ritual  or  con- 
tribute to  their  funds. 

2.  The  Good  Templar  ritual  was  formed  by  Ma- 
sons and  Odd-fellows,  Grosch,  Kelley  and  others. 

3.  Though  they  use  the  name  of  Christ  in  their 
printed  prayers  they  aro  ruleti  by  those  who  reject 
him,  and  they  trample  on  his  example.  Gen.  Fisk 
does  neither  of  these. 

If,  therefore,  the  Indianapolis  Convention  should 
put  an  adhering  secret  lodgeman  on  its  ticket,  we 
have  no  way  left  us  but  to  call  a  convention  at  once 
and  nominate  a  new  ticket,  and  raise  money  and 
canvass  for  voters.       Neither  the  Republicans  nor 


Democrats  would  object  to  colored  voters  supporting 
our  American  ticket.  The  Negroes  would  have  their 
right  to  vote  for  President  recognized,  and  neither 
Republicans  or  Democrats  would  object.  Both  these 
parties  wish  to  allow  the  Negroes  to  vote  when  they 
can  do  so  without  fatally  injuring  themselves.  The 
Negroes  would  not,  of  course,  vote  for  a  Good  Tem- 
plar,if  nominated  at  Indianapolis;  because  the  Good 
Templars  drew  the  color  line  against  them  at  Sara- 
toga. But  if  the  Prohibitionists  nominate  a  ticket 
clean  of  the  lodge  the  Negroes  will  vote  for  it,  be- 
cause they  know  the  Americans  are  their  friends. 
The  Democrats  will  be  pleased  to  see  the  colored 
people  forsake  the  Republicans,  their  old  enemies. 
In  brief,the  secret  lodge  is  a  universal  marplot;  and 
if  the  Prohibitionists  give  us  a  clean  ticket  at  Indi- 
anapolis, everybody  will  be  pleased  with  it.  Cleve- 
land is  likely  to  be  re-elected, as  the  Republicans  see 
and  know.  Any  attempt  to  endanger  Cleveland's 
election  by  getting  the  Negroes  to  vote  for  a  Repub- 
lican would  enrage  the  Democrats  aad  do  no  good. 
But  if  Cleveland  is  quietly  elected  next  fall  the  Pro- 
hibitionists will  cast  a  large  vote  by  harmony  among 
themselves;  the  hamper  of  secrecy  will  quietly  fall 
off;  the  cause  of  reform  will  move  steadily  onward; 
and  whoever  lives  to  see  1892  will  see  a  reform 
President  in  the  White  House.  The  evil  genius  of 
labor  will  then  be  cast  off;  the  laborer  will  have  his 
Sabbath,the  school  its  Bible;God  will  be  recognized, 
and  the  nation  blessed. 


BUMMUM  JUS,  8UMMA  INJURIA. 


The  papers  have  informed  the  readers  of  the  Cy- 
nosure that  Judge  M.  F.  Tuley  of  Chicago  has  decided 
that  children  of  persons  born  in  slaveryare  illegitimate 
and  so  incapable  of  inheriting  and  devising  property. 
The  case  in  which  this  monstrous  ruling  was  made, 
by  a  Democratic  judge  said  to  be  "of  eminent  re- 
spectability," concerned  a  piece  of  real  estate  in 
Chicago  owned  by  a  descendant  of  a  slave  of  Tom 
Marshall  of  Kentucky,  who,  in  1820,  sixty-eight 
years  ago,married,by  slave  custom.a  slave  woman.  A 
descendant  of  this  slave  marriage  acquired  and  de- 
vised property  in  Chicago.  The  judge  ruled  that 
slaves  in  Kentucky  being,  in  law,  held  to  be  "real 
estate,"  were  incapable  of  marriage  or  any  other 
contract,and  so  their  children  were  illegitimate,born 
out  of  wedlock  and  could  not  acquire  or  convey 
property,  having,  by  the  decision  of  Chief  Justice 
Taney,  in  the  celebrated  Dred  Scott  case, "no  rights 
which  white  men  were  bound  to  respect."  And  this 
Chicago  judge  observed  that  slaves  in  Kentucky 
being  in  law  real  estate,  marriage  between  two  piec- 
es of  real  estate  was  an  absurdity.  This  is  but  an- 
other case  where  our  motto  {•'Summum  jus,"  etc,)ap- 
plies."The  extreme  of  law  is  the  extreme  of  wrong." 
Slavery  itself  was  an  absurdity,  being  "contra  natur- 
am,"  against  nature  and  reason.  There  are  no  prin- 
ciples in  wrong,  as  there  are  no  rays  in  darkness. 
Nothing  can  sustain  it  but  mere  force;  and  force  is 
blind  and  deaf.  And  when  on  Jan.  1st,  1863,  the 
United  States  by  force  abolished  slavery,  it  not  only 
abolished  the  slave-power  of  the  master,  but  the 
slave's  incapacity  and  illegitimacy;  not  only  the  in- 
stitution, but  its  consequences.  Slaves  in  Kentucky 
were  "real  estate."  In  other  States  they  were  "held 
and  taken  in  law,""^ro  nullis,  pro  mortuis,  pro  quad- 
rupedibus,"tor  nobodies,  for  dead  persons,  for  quad- 
rupeds. But  by  Lincoln's  proclamation  and  Grant's 
sword  these  foul  legal  slanders  on  "God's  image 
carvid  in  ebony"  were  wiped  out,  and  the  slave  be- 
came a  man. 

But  Judge  Tuley's  revolting  decision  fails,  not 
only  in  the  forum  of  reason  and  conscience,  but  in 
the  courts  of  law.  In  the  world-known  Somerset 
case,  1772,  Lord  Mansfield  held,  and  the  courts  of 
England  have  followed  his  decision  ever  since,  that 
the  essence  of  slavery  clings  to  a  man  no  longer 
than  the  local  laws  hold  it  there;  that  his  slavery 
falls  off  from  and  out  of  him  the  moment  he  sets 
foot  on  free  soil.  But  incapacity  for  owning  and 
conveying  property  is  of  the  essence  of  slavery,  and 
therefore,  the  children  of  parents  born  in  slavery, 
themselves  being  free,  never  had  any  such  incapacity. 
Their  parents  lost  the  incapacity  when  they  lost 
their  slavery.  Their  hands  acquired  the  ability  to 
hold  and  convey  property  when  the  manacles  fell 
off.  In  the  beginning  of  the  Abolition  agitation  we 
had  some  three  million  slaves;  and  their  descend- 
ants are  some  seven  millions  now.  By  the  ruling 
of  Judge  Tuley  those  four  millions,  the  offspring  of 
parents  born  in  slavery  in  one  or  two  generations 
did  not  own  the  property  their  parents  left  them, 
because  slaves  owned  no  property  and  could  give 
none.  Thus  this  Democratic  judge  immortalizes 
slavery  in  the  poverty  which  it  entails !  The  insti- 
tution is  dead  but  its  poverty  survives  I 

But  this  not  all,  nor  the  worst.    The  illegitimacy 


May  17,  1888 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


of  slavery  must  go  hand  in  hand  with  its  penury, 
down  the  ages.  For  if  the  children  of  parents  born 
in  slavery  could  not  inherit  property  rights,  neither 
could  they  inherit  marital  rights,  and  the  brand  of 
bastardy,  which  of  old  excluded  from  "the  Congre- 
gation of  the  Lord,"  must,  in  this  Christian  age  and 
country,  cling  to  the  unoffendmg  children  of  unof- 
fending parents,  while  the  United  States  Constitu- 
tion (Art.  Ill,,  Sec.  3)  forbids  that  even  the  treason 
of  traitors  shall  work  corruption  of  blood  in  their 
children:  and  by  the  civil  and  canon  law,  subsequent 
marriage  of  the  parents  has  always  legitimated  their 
children. 

"Slavery  was  never  anything  else  than  "mischief 
framed  by  law."  And  so  jealous  has  the  P^oglish 
law  been  of  the  purity  of  its  ermine,  that  in  the  case 
of  a  vile  statute,  like  that  which  created  slavery, 
Lord  Chief  Justice  Holt,  against  the  general  rule 
that  the  common  law  must  be  silent  where  the  stat- 
ute has  spoken,  exclaimed,  "The  common  law  doth 
control  acts  of  Parliament  and  adjudges  them  void, 
when  made  contrary  to  fundamental  equity." 

But  this  merciless  ruling  in  a  Chicago  court,  is 
not  an  "ill  wind  to  blow  nobody  good."  Thoasands 
of  our  colored  citiaens  will  see  in  it,  "the  hole  of 
the  pit  from  whence  they  and  their  children  have 
been  digged,"  and  as  they  are  now  learning  that  the 
ten  Masonic  lodges  at  our  national  seat  of  govern- 
ment, all  went  for  secession  and  immortalizing 
slavery,  and  that  Republicans  and  Democrats  are 
alike  "brothers"  in  those  lodges,  they  will  learn  how 
hollow  are  the  pretensions  of  mere  politicians  who 
opposed  slavery  only  from  mercenary  motives  after 
the  Abolitionists  had  made  it  unpopular,  and  op- 
posing it  led  to  power. 


To  THE  Corporate  Members  of  the  National 
Christian  Association. — Secretary  Stoddard  writes 
asking  that  you  please  remember  that  the  time  of 
the  annual  meeting  is  the  third  Thursday  in  June, 
and  that  important  business  demands  your  presence 
at  that  meeting  and  your  prayers  for  Divine  guid- 
ance in  all  its  deliberations  and  actions.  The  year 
has  not  been  wanting  in  tokens  of  the  Divine  favor 
on  our  work,  and  ripening  fields  are  opening  on 
every  hand,  inviting  the  sower  and  the  reaper  alike. 
Let  us  consecrate  ourselves  anew  to  the  work,  and 
so  much  of  time  and  means  as  is  necessary  to  make 
this  the  fullest  and  grandest  gathering  in  all  the 
history  of  the  moral  conflict  we  wage  against  Sa- 
tan's secret  empire  of  darkness  and  death. 


— Remember  the  Michigan  meeting  at  Salem, 
Washtenaw  county,  Mich.,  May  22. 

— Bro.  Stoddard  writes  nothing  for  publication 
this  week,  but  his  letters  show  him  to  have  been  so 
busy  that  we  can  forgive  him. 

— Rev.  C.  C.  Harrah  of  Galva,  111.,  preached  the 
opening  sermon  of  the  Central  West  Congregational 
Association  in  the  First  Church  ot  Christ,  Gales- 
burg.  His  subject  was  "Christianity,  the  only,  the 
Universal  Religion." 

^Rev.  George  Warrington,  editor  of  the  Psalm- 
Singer  and  Birmingham  Free  Press,  called  on  his 
way  home  from  the  sad  duty  of  laying  the  body  of 
a  beloved  mother  in  its  last  resting-place.  Bro. 
Warrington,  with  his  church  and  papers,  has  an 
arduous  but  influential  and  ever-growing  work. 
May  he  have  strength  for  the  day. 

— The  Masons  of  Winona  county,  Minnesota,  hav- 
ing plotted  to  secure  the  laying  of  the  corner-stone 
of  a  new  court  house,  the  citizens  who  have  no  po- 
litical allegiance  but  to  the  United  States  govern- 
ment are  protesting  against  the  usurpation  of  a 
public  honor  by  secretly  sworn  adherents  of  the 
lodge  empire.    May  their  effort  be  successful. 

— The  attention  of  all  readers  is  urgently  asked 
to  the  article  on  the  "Home  School"  in  the  Home 
department  by  Bro.  Buchwalter.  This  matter  is  of 
the  first  importance,  and  lies  at  the  right  hand  of 
all  who  have  taken  the  momentous  responsibility  of 
bringing  children  into  the  world.  Read  and  ponder 
well  the  suggestions  of  the  article.  The  subject  is 
so  urgent  that  we  take  the  liberty  of  printing  also 
from  a  private  letter  from  Bro.  Buchwalter. 

— It  is  an  evidence  that  the  Chicago  churches  are 
waking  up  to  the  power  of  the  saloon  ring  in  city 
affairs  when  five  of  the  pastors  of  leading  churches, 
Baptist,  Presbyterian,  Congregational  and  Metho- 
dist, announced  Saturday  that  they  would  preach  on 
the  saloon  crime  in  Chicago.  If  these  good  breth- 
ren were  not  so  afraid  of  hobby-riding,  they  would 
not  stop  at  one  Bermon  or  two  or  twenty,  until  they 
had  seen  some  permanent  results  of  their  work. 

— Such  buncombe  as  Grand  Master  Smith  in- 
dulged in  at  the  Odd  fellow  celebration  in  this  city, 
reported  in  "Lodge  Notes,"  is  not  a  good  recom 


mendation  for  an  aspirant  for  gubernatorial  honors. 
He  knows  well  enough  that  the  Odd-fellow  fund 
was  used  only  for  members  of  the  order,  who  were 
all  able-bodied  men,  and  generally  in  position  to 
take  care  of  themselves.  To  the  churches  and  the 
general  public  were  left  the  care  of  the  really  poor 
and  needy.  The  Masons  could  not  find  needy  mem- 
bers enough  to  help,  and  so  spent  a  large  part  of 
their  relief  fund  in  gorgeously  refitting  their  lodge 
rooms. 


PERSONAL  MENTION . 


— Rev.  J.  M.  Foster,  whose  letters  from  New 
York  and  Brooklyn  have  for  some  time  kept  our 
readers  informed  of  prominent  ecclesiastical  move- 
ments in  those  cities,  has  returned  to  Cincinnati, 
just  in  time  to  note  the  struggle  of  the  saloons 
against  the  operation  of  the  Ovren  Sunday-closing 
law. 

— Rev.  C.  Bender  of  Dover,  111.,  called  at  the  Cy- 
nosure otfice  last  week  on  his  way  home  from  a  visit 
to  the  churches  in  his  district,  during  which  he  was 
much  encouraged  by  their  faith.  At  Sycamore,  111., 
he  saw  at  the  farm  of  James  Wiman,  hay  that  was 
put  up  thirty-eight  years  8 go,  and  which  appears 
still  to  be  in  fine  condition. 

— Prof.  W.  M.  Sloane,  whose  fine  biography  of 
his  father,  Prof.  J.  R.  W.  Sloane,  is  on  sale  at  tliis 
oflSce,  has  just  been  elected  Professor  of  Latin  in 
Columbia  College.  He  now  occupies  the  chair  of 
History  in  Princeton  College,  and  was  a  popular 
candidate  as  successor  to  the  venerable  Dr.  McCosh. 
He  is  now  traveling  in  Europe. 

— Miss  F.  E.  Willard,  president  of  the  National 
W.  C.  T.  U.,  writes  to  the  Union  Signal  of  her  late 
visit  to  Gettysburg,  Pa.,  which  she  characterizes  as 
"the  home  of  that  noble  pair,Rev.  and  Mrs.  Swartz." 
Our  readers  will  be  glad  to  know  that  Dr.  Swartz, 
whose  yaluable  articles  they  read  from  time  to  time 
in  our  columns,  is  a  no  less  valued  coniributor  to 
several  other  religious  and  reform  papers,  and  that 
his  work  for  the  temperance  cause  is  not  lightly  es- 
teemed all  through  the  land. 

— Pres.  L.  N.  Stratton  of  Wheaton  Theological 
Seminary  was  summoned  last  week  by  telegram  to 
Berrien  Centre,  Mich.,  to  attend  the  funeral  of  Mrs. 
Delilah  Crall,  wife  of  J.  B.  Crall.  She  died  in  the 
triumphs  of  a  Christian  faith,  and  was  sadly  mourn- 
ed by  her  family  and  the  great  concourse  of  neigh- 
bors who  crowded  the  church  at  her  funeral.  J.  B. 
Crall,  her  honored  husband,  was  faithful  in  her 
death  in  allowing  no  funeral  badges  on  the  pall 
bearers;  the  entire  eight  were  Christian  men.  Broth- 
er Crall  said,  "before  he  would  have  had  an  officiat- 
ing minister  who  was  a  worshiper  at  a  secret  altar, 
he  would  not  have  had  a  funeral  discourse  at  all. 
The  obituary  will  appear  next  week. 

— During  a  recent  visit  of  Mr.  Howe  of  Wenona, 
III.,  to  this  city  he  informed  us  of  the  engagement 
of  Prof.  Davis,  a  pious  and  experienced  educator,  to 
take  the  place  of  the  beloved  Professor  Woodsmall 
in  the  Memphis  school.  Prof.  Davis  has  had  some 
experience  in  the  work,  having  been  for  a  time  con- 
nected with  Leland  University,  New  Orleans.  He 
comes  back  to  Memphis  from  San  Diego,  California, 
where  he  has  been  laboring  for  a  few  years.  He  is 
in  full  sympathy  with  Prof.  Woodsmall's  work 
among  the  colored  people,  and  is  opposed  to  the 
lodge,  liquor  and  tobacco.  Mrs.  Davis  will  assist  in 
teaching,  and  the  Memphis  brethren  are  hopeful 
that  their  great  loss  will  largely  be  made  good. 

— Among  the  friends  whom  it  was  our  pleasure 
to  greet  at  the  office  last  week,  we  must  not  forget 
to  mention  Bro.  A.  W.  Parry,  whose  agency  for  the 
seminary  at  flvansville,  Wisconsin,  has  been  quite 
successful  and  is  now  closed.  We  were  happy  to 
greet  also  Rev.  Herbert  C.  Nash  of  Iowa,  an 
old  student  friend  at  Wheaton,  who  was  on  his  way 
to  the  great  Baptist  meetings  at  Washington.  He 
reports  that  in  his  acquaintance  in  Iowa,  there  are 
very  few  Baptist  pastors  in  the  lodge,  and  the  gen- 
eral effort  and  advice  of  the  churches  of  that  denom- 
ination is  to  keep  their  members  out.  Some  churches 
are  so  well  established  in  the  faith  that  they  will 
not  receive  or  maintain  a  pastor  who  belongs  to  the 
orders. 

— Elder  Rufus  Smith,  having  driven  the  devil  out 
of  Marjville  and  DeKalb  county,  Missouri,  so  far 
as  the  saloons  are  concerned,  seeks  for  other  fields 
to  conquer  for  the  Lord.  Journeying  eastward  with 
his  family,  Chicago  must  be  one  stopping  place. 
During  the  week  he  has  been  here  the  Cynosure  of- 
fice was  headquarters.  He  gave  grand  assistance 
to  Bro.  Alexander  Kirkland  of  the  Adelphi,  and  to 
Col.  Clark  of  the  Pacific  Garden  Missions.  The 
former  has  just  moved  from  No.  118  West  Madi- 
son street  to  111  South  Halsted.where  he  has  leased 


a  building  formerly  run  as  a  dance  hall.  It  was 
closed  by  order  of  the  Mayor,  and  now,  instead  of 
the  slugging  match  or  low  dance,  the  converts  of 
this  mission  will  tell  the  story  of  the  cross  within 
its  walls. 

OUR  BOSTON  LETTER. 

A  CATHOLIC   PRIEST   DENIES  A  DEFINITION  AND    HAS 
A  CHALLENQE. 

Id  spite  of  the  charge  of  the  Romish  papers  that 
the  great  anti-Catholic  movement  now  in  progress 
in  this  city,  and  New  Kngland,  is  a  spasmodic  re- 
vival of  the  old  KnowNothing  aggression,  both  the 
Catholic  clergy  and  editors  are  fast  finding  out  that 
it  is  just  the  opposite,  i.  e.,  a  Know  Something  re- 
formation. I  say,  fast  finding  out;  nay,  Rome  knows 
it  already,  and  is  therefore  fighting  the  public  school 
system.  The  church  of  Rome  herself  is  the  great- 
est Know-Nothing  party  in  existence.  It  is  her 
policy  to  keep  her  minions  in  grossest  ignorance. 

In  the  morning  edition  of  the  Boston  Herald  (9th 
inst )  there  appeared  a  copy  of  a  complaint  made  by 
Rev.  Theodore  A.  Metcalf,  rector  of  the  "Gate  of 
Heaven  church"  (Catholic)  against  Mr.  Charles  B. 
Travis,  a  teacher  in  the  English  High  school,  for 
erroneously  defining  iu  a  prejudicial  manner,  as  he 
claims,  the  word  "indulgence".  The  following  is 
his  letter  to  the  committee: 

"Mr.  Chaikmak— Sir:  It  is  both  my  duty  and  my  right 
as  a  clergyman  and  a  citizen  to  submit  the  following 
statement  to  the  school  committee;  and,  at  the  same  time 
that  I  protest  against  the  injustice,  I  demand  a  remedy  in 
the  name  of  every  Catholic  in  Boston  against  any  repe- 
tition of  similar  insults.  Twice  within  the  past  two 
weeks  Mr.  Charles  B.  Travis  of  the  English  high  school, 
in  his  capacity  of  teacher  of  history,  has  trespassed  on 
the  forbidden  ground  of  religioD,  and  made  statements 
which  were  an  outrage  to  Catholics,  in  his  endeavor  to 
explain  a  question  of  Catholic  doctrine.  On  the  first 
occasion,  in  the  second  clasp,  when  asked  by  a  pupil, 
'What  is  an  indulgence?'  he  replied,  'A  permission  to 
commit  sin;' also  adding,  by  way  of  illustration,  after 
further  inquiries,  'Should  a  murderer  be  brought  before 
a  judge,  he  would  only  have  to  put  his  hand  in  his  pock- 
et and  produce  his  indulgence  papers  to  be  pardoned. 

"On  the  second  occasion,  in  the  second  class,  room  13, 
second  division,  about  a  month  after  the  above  remarks, 
Mr.  Travis  was  again  asked,  'What  is  an  indulgence?' 
and  replied,  'A  permission  to  commit  sin;'  also,  'You  pay 
so  much  money  in  advance  for  leave  to  commit  certain 
sins.'  A  Catholic  pupil  again  objected,  giving  the  defi- 
nition  of  indulgences  as  taught  by  his  church. 

"I  submit  that  such  treatment  of  history  is  an  encroach- 
ment into  the  domain  of  theology  which  the  non-secta- 
rian echool  cannot  justifiably  permit.  It  is  an  insult  to 
Catholics." 

In  the  evening  edition  of  the  same  paper  there 
appeared  the  following  reply  and  challenge  from 
Rev.  William  Kellaway,  editor  of  the  Free  Press: 

"Please  permit  a  brief  reply  to  Mr.  Metcalf's  letter. 

"1.  It  is  certainly  within  a  teacher's  right  to  give  the 
meaning  of  any  word  that  may  be  used  in  class,  when 
desired  by  a  scholar  for  his  information;  and  no  outsider 
ought  to  call  that  right  in  question. 

"2.  A  teacher  can  only  give  as  the  sense  of  a  word 
the  meaning  that  passes  current  as  its  sense — the  sense 
which  it  is  generally  understood  to  convey,  which  he 
has  himself  learned,  and  which  he  has  verified  by  study 
of  literature  and  history. 

"3.  It  is  manifestly  unjust  for  an  outsider  to  put  down 
to  bigotry  or  antipathy  to  any  sect  that  sense  so  given, 
in  good  faith  of  its  correctness.  It  should  not  be  treated 
on  the  ground  of  personal  prejudice,  but  on  the  basis  of 
the  true  meaning  of  words. 

"Now,  with  respect  to  indulgences,  Protestant  though 
I  am — 'heretic'  is  what  Mr.  Metcalf  would  call  me — I  am 
ready  not  only  to  affirm,  but  also  to  prove,  that  the  word 
'indulgences,'  as  used  by  the  Roman  Catholic  church  in 
the  16th  century,  and  at  other  periods,  meant  not  only 
what  it  is  modified  into  in  the  catechisms  now  in  use, 
namely,  remission  of  part  of  the  punishment  due  to  sin, 
but  also  permission,  or  license,  to  commit  sin.  The  fact 
is  that  indulgences  may  be  classified  under  two  heads — 
'remission'  indulgences  and  'permission,'  or  'license'  in- 
dulgences. I  do  not  assert  that  at  the  present  time  a 
man  can  obtain  permission  to  kill  his  fellow  man  for 
seven  shillings  and  sixpence,  as  he  could  centuries  ago ; 
nor  to  commit  sodomy  in  the  hot  part  of  the  summer; 
but  he  can  be  indulged  —that  is,  can  obtain  a  permission 
or  license  indulgence  to  eat  meat  on  fast  days,  work  on 
holy  days  and  the  like.  The  viler  features  of  the  license 
indulgence  may  possibly  be  held  in  abeyance;  probably 
are.  The  very  term  'indulgence'  means  to  gratify,  per- 
mit, allow.  Mr.  Metcalf  should  know  that  it  was  this 
that  procured,  in  the  time  of  Tetzel  and  the  reformers, 
such  odium  for  indulgences. 

"The  Boston  English  high  school  teacher  could  do  no 
other  than  define  the  term  according  to  its  concrete  mean- 
ing as  emdodied  in  history,  and  if  Rome  is  now  ashamed 
of  its  'license'  indulgences  that  is  her  matter,  not  that  of 
the  teacher.  W.  Kbllawat." 

These  two  letters  are  items  of  intense  interest  to 
both  Catholics  and  Protestants;  and  the  question  is, 
will  the  priest  meet  the  minister.  Of  course  not. 
He  dare  not  D.  P.  Mathews. 


10 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSUKE. 


Mat  17, 1888 


The  Home. 


MY  UNINVITED  GUSST. 


One  day  there  entered  at  my  chamber  door 
A  presence  whose  light  footfall  on  the  floor 
No  token  gave ;  and,  ere  I  could  withstand, 
Within  her  clasp  she  drew  my  trembling  hand. 

"Intrusive  guest,"  I  cried,  "my  palm  I  lend 
But  to  the  gracious  pressure  of  a  friend. 
Why  comest  thou  unbidden  and  in  gloom 
Trailing  thy  cold  gray  garments  in  my  room? 

"I  know  thee,  pain !    Thou  art  the  sullen  foe 
Of  every  sweet  enjoyment  here  below ; 
Thou  art  the  comrade  and  ally  of  death. 
And  timid  mortals  shrink  from  thy  cold  breath . 

"No  fragrant  balms  grow  in  thy  garden  beds, 
Nor  slumbrous  popples  droop  their  crimson  heads ; 
And  well  I  know  thou  comest  to  me  now 
To  bind  thy  burning  chains  upon  my  brow." 

And  though  my  puny  will  stood  straightly  up, 
From  that  day  forth  I  drank  her  pungent  cup, 
And  ate  her  bitter  bread— with  leaves  of  rue 
Which  in  her  sunless  gardens  rankly  grew. 

And  now,  so  long  it  is,  I  scarce  can  tell 
When  pain  within  my  chamber  came  to  dwell ; 
And  though  she  Is  not  fair  of  mien  or  face. 
She  hath  attracted  to  my  humble  place 

A  company  most  gracious  and  refined, 
Whose  touches  are  like  balm,  whose  voices  kind ; 
Sweet  sympathy  with  box  of  ointment  rare ; 
Courage,  who  sings  while  she  sits  weaving  there. 

Brave  patience,  whom  my  heart  esteemeth  much, 
And  who  hath  wondrous  virtue  in  her  touch ; 
Such  is  the  chaste  and  sweet  society 
Which  pain,  my  faithful  foe,  hath  brought  to  me. 

And  now  upon  my  threshold  there  she  stands. 
Reaching  to  me  her  rough  yet  kindly  hands 
In  silent  truce.    Thus  for  a  time  we  part. 
And  a  great  gladness  overflows  my  heart ; 

For  she  is  so  ungentle  in  her  way, 

That  no  host  welcomes  her,  or  bids  her  stay ; 

Yet,  though  they  bolt  and  bar  their  house  from  thee, 

To  every  door,  O  pain,  thou  hast  a  key  1  • 

— Cosmopolitan. 
<  »  > 

TEB  FAMILY  BGHOOL. 


BY  REV.  I.  L.  B0OHW ALTER. 


Much  has  been  said  and  written  in  regard  to  Sab- 
bath-school work.  It  truly  involves  very  important 
Gospel  machinery  for  the  salvation  and  moral  eleva- 
tion of  mankind;  and  wonderful  progress  has  been 
made  in  the  last  score  of  years  in  bringing  this  line 
of  Christian  work  to  its  present  state  of  perfection. 
Upon  this  work  are  brought  to  bear  Sabbath-school 
assemblies,  conventions,  Sabbath-school  journals, 
teachers'  meetings,  and  a  critical  examination  of  the 
Scripture  lessons,  etc. 

All  this  is  right,  and  just  as  it  should  be.  But 
may  I  not  make  the  suggestion  that  there  is  another 
school,  another  institution  divinely  ordained,  that,if 
rightly  managed,  is  of  much  more  force  and  power 
for  the  good  of  our  race  than  the  Sabbath-school.  I 
mean  the  family  school.  This  precedes  every  other 
means  of  instruction.  Some  very  good  and  thought- 
ful men  have  given  it  as  their  judgment  that  more 
can  be  done  by  parents  at  home  in  the  proper  care, 
control,  and  teaching  of  their  children  from  the  first 
to  the  seventh  or  eighth  year,  to  shape  their  future 
moral  and  religious  character  than  by  all  other 
means  combined;  and  from  careful  observation  dur- 
ing my  thirty-seven  years  of  life  in  the  ministry,!  be- 
lieve this  is  about  correct 

Something,  indeed,  is  said  on  this  important  sub- 
ject by  the  pulpit  and  press,  but  how  very  little  in 
comparison  with  what  is  said  and  done  concerning 
Sabbath-schools  and  the  best  methods  of  conducting 
them.  Would  it  not  be  well  enough  also  to  have 
family  school  assemblies  and  conventions?  Why 
not  at  least  have  at  all  our  general  Sabbath-school 
assemblies  a  day  or  two  devoted  exclusively  to  the 
discussion,  by  the  best  talent  that  could  be  secured, 
of  the  importance  of  this  subject,  and  the  best  and 
most  ellective  methods  of  conducting  family  govern- 
ment? In  my  opinion  the  importance  of  this  mat- 
ter cannot  be  overestimated.  May  not  the  lack  of 
wholesome  discipline  in  churches,  the  slack  enforce- 
ment of  law  in  the  state,  the  bold  violation  of  the 
Sabbath  day,  the  great  number  of  divorces,  the  fre- 
quent outbursts  of  anarchy  into  which  our  country 
is  so  fearfully  drifting  and  the  alarming  state  of 
morals  in  the  large  cities,  be  largely  traced  back  to 
the  general  and  increasing  slackness  of  family  teach- 
ing and  control?  In  many  so-called  Christian  fam- 
ilies there  is  no  altar  of  worship,  no  daily  family 
prayer,  and  the  children  are  allowed  to  have  about 


all  they  want,  and  do  pretty  much  as  they  please, 
without  any  wholesome  check  being  placed  upon 
their  selfish  and  depraved  desires  by  parental  au- 
thority. We  have  departed  entirely  too  far  from  the 
good  old  Puritan  manners,  and  from  the  strict  home 
rule  and  piety  of  our  Saxon  fathers. 

Allow  me  to  suggest  that  our  religious  papers 
should  occasionally  print  a  well-matured  article  on 
this  very  important  matter,  giving  the  manner  and 
best  methods  for  the  home  training  of  children; also, 
securing  able  contributions  on  the  subject,  and  rec- 
ommend the  same  as  topics  for  conventions,sermons, 
and  lectures.  Surely  the  alarming  liberalism  of  the 
times, with  its  degenerating  influences,  should  enlist 
the  careful  attention  of -all  the  religious  journals  in 
the  land.  Thus  the  churches  would  be  waked  up, 
and  the  minds  of  the  parents  would  be  more  intense- 
ly directed  to  the  great  duty  of  looking  more  care- 
fully after  the  principles  and  lives  of  their  children, 
and  a  rebuke  given  to  the  false,  goodish  spirit  that 
has  obtained  such  a  hold  in  Christian  society,  which 
almost  entirely  ignores  the  Bible  principle  of  con- 
trol, given  by  inspiration  of  God, which  says:  "Chas- 
ten thy  son  while  there  is  hope,  and  let  not  thy  soul 
spare  for  his  crying."  "Foolishness  is  bound  in  the 
heart  of  a  child;  but  the  rod  of  correction  shall  drive 
it  far  from  him.  A  child  left  to  himself  bringeth 
his  mother  to  shame." 

'  A  public  sentiment  would  be  created  in  the  Chris- 
tian world  that  would  gradually  work  up  to  a  great 
and  much  needed  reform,  and  a  wonderful  improve- 
ment in  home  rule,  and  the  manners  and  habits  of 
society,  both  among  the  young  and  old,  bringing  a 
great  blessing  upon  the  church  and  state  and  the 
world  at  large, 

"'Tis  education  forms  the  common  mind : 
Just  as  a  twig  is  bent,  the  tree's  inclined." 

God  has  said,  "Train  up  a  child  in  the  way  he 
should  go,and  when  he  is  old  he  will  not  depart  from 
it."  Of  Abraham  he  said:  "I  know  him,  that  he 
will  command  his  children  and  his  household  after 
him,  and  they  shall  keep  the  way  of  the  Lord,  to  do 
justice  and  judgment,that  the  Lord  may  bring  upon 
Abraham  that  which  he  hath  spoken  of  him."  He 
has  "commanded  a  blessing  upon  all  the  families  of 
the  earth  that  call  upon  the  name  of  the  Lord,"  and 
history  shows  that  in  consequence  of  Abraham's 
faithfulness  in  the  religious  instruction  and  govern- 
ment of  his  own  household,  that  God's  blessing  did 
especially  follow  the  patriarchal  line  down  to  Moses, 
who,  at  Mount  Sinai,  received  directly  from  God  the 
law  in  a  more  perfect  and  systematic  form;  and  the 
result"  was  that  the  Jewish  people  became  the  most 
righteous  and  enlightened  and  law-abiding  nation 
on  earth,  and  became  the  honored  family  or  channel 
through  which  the  Lord  Jesus  Christ  and  his  great 
salvation  came  to  the  world.  And,  on  the  other 
hand,  God  said  to  the  high  priest,Eli,and  his  house: 
"Because  his  sons  made  themselves  vile  and  he  re- 
strained them  not,  therefore  have  I  sworn  unto  the 
house  of  Eli  *  *  *  behold  the  days  come  that 
I  will  cut  off  the  arm  of  thy  father's  house,  that 
there  shall  not  be  an  old  man  in  thy  house  forever," 
which  prophecy,  according  to  history,  was  sadly  ful- 
filled. Thus  the  slackness  of  Eli  in  his  family  gov- 
ernment was  severely  rebuked. 

Lisbon,  Iowa. 


true."    And  yet  the  name  of  Christ  had  not  been 
alluded  to. 

At  the  next  interview  the  minister  said,  "We  will 
talk  to-night  of  the  justice  of  God."  The  sick  man 
trembled  with  new  and  strange  emotions  as  the  aw- 
fulness  of  this  attribute  of  Jehovah  took  possession 
of  his  mind;  and  as  the  skillful  doctor  drew  the  net 
tighter,  his  conviction  of  sin  had  become  a  power 
within  him  hitherto  unknown.  At  the  crisis,  when 
the  face  of  the  hearer  indicated  the  alarm  of  his 
soul,  as  his  sins  stood  in  awful  array  before  him, 
the  minister  arose  to  take  his  leave.     "You  are  not 

going  now,  Mr.  F ,  and  leave  me  in  this  distress 

— can't  you  give  me  some  comfort?" 

"No,"  said  the  minister,  kindly,  "I  cannot;  you 
have  forbidden  my  doing  so." 

"What  do  you  mean,  sir?"  said  the  distressed 
man. 

"I  mean  that  He,  whose  name  you  will  not  hear, 
and  whose  love  is  so  deep,  is  the  only  One  in  heav- 
en or  in  earth  who  can  comfort  and  save  you." 

The  vail  dropped  from  the  eyes  of  the  blinded 
man;  he  listened  eagerly  to  the  way  of  salvation 
through  a  crucified  Redeemer;  joyfully  accepted  the 
terms  of  salvation;  and  lived  seven  months,  testify- 
ing continually  of  God's  great  mercy  in  *»aving  the 
chief  of  sinners. — JSel. 


TEE  QUAIL. 


LEAVING  CHRiaT  OUT. 

In  the  village  of  W was  the  home  of  a  man 

who  was  honest  in  his  dealings,  but  who  took  no 
interest  in  religious  things.  His  business  was  ab- 
sorbing; and  as  the  Sabbaths  came,  he  was  disin- 
clined for  public  service,  preferring  ease  and  quiet 
at  home,  and  rather  enjoying  than  otherwise  his 
reputation  as  an  unbeliever.  In  the  midst  of  exter- 
nal prosperity  and  apparent  health,  a  fatal  disease 
suddenly   appeared.     One  of   his   first  movements 

was  to  send  for  the  minister.     "Now,  Mr.  F ,  if 

you  can  help  me,  I  will  be  glad;  for  I  am  all  uncer- 
tain as  to  the  future;  but  I  don't  want  to  hear 
about  Jesus  Christ." 

The  faithful  servant  of  God  quailed  at  first;  but 
undertook  the  service  upon  the  basis  proposed. 
"Well,"  he  said,  "I  will  talk  with  you  to-night  about 
the  greatness  of  God."  His  watchful  hearer  agreed 
to  it,  and  listened  attentively  while  the  minister 
spoke  of  the  wonders  of  creation;  the  beauties  of 
nature;  the  telescope  and  the  microscope.  The  sick 
man  was  profoundly  interested  throughout  the  in- 
terview; and  urged  the  minister  to  come  on  the  fol- 
lowing evening.  As  the  good  man  entered  the 
chamber  on  the  next  evening,  he  said,  "I  will  talk 
to  you  tonight  about  the  goodness  of  God."  His 
hearer  listened  attentively;  and  as  the  unnumbered 
mercies  and  blessings  were  made  to  pass  before  him, 
his  mind  was  moved,  and  he  exclaimed,  "It  is  all 


I  Translated  from  the  Russian  of  Turgeueff.  | 

My  father  was  an  ardent  sportsman,  and  when- 
ever he  was  not  engaged  in  farming,  he  took  his 
gun,  put  on  his  game  bag,  whistled  to  old  [dog] 
Treasure  and  set  off  to  shoot  partridges  and  quails. 

He  often  took  me  with  him — and  this  was  my 
greatest  pleasure.  I  tucked  my  trousers  into  the 
legs  of  my  boots,  slung  a  small  flask  across  my 
shoulders,  and  fancied  myself  a  sportsman  I  The 
perspiration  poured  from  me  in  streams,  the  little 
pebbles  made  their  way  into  my  boots;  but  I  was 
conscious  of  no  weariness,  and  did  not  lag  behind 
my  father;  and  when  the  shot  rang  out  and  the  bird 
fell,  i  jumped  up  and  down  where  I  stood  and  even 
screamed  I  was  so  delighted.  The  wounded  bird 
struggled  and  beat  its  wings,  first  on  the  grass,  then 
in  Treasure's  teeth — blood  dripped  from  it;  never- 
theless I  was  delighted  and  felt  no  compassion. 
What  would  I  not  have  given  to  be  able  to  fire  a 
gun  myself  and  kill  partridges  and  quails!  But  my 
father  announced  that  I  was  not  to  have  a  gun  until 
I  was  twelve  years  old;  and  then  he  would  give  me 
a  single-barreled  gun  and  allow  me  to  shoot  larks 
only. 

Once  on  a  time,  father  and  I  set  out  on  a  bunting 
expedition,  just  before  St.  Peter's  Day.  At  that 
season  the  young  partridges  are  still  small.  Father 
did  not  wish  to  shoot  them,  and  so  went  among  the 
small  oak-shrubs,  by  the  side  of  a  rye-field,  where 
quails  were  always  to  be  found.  It  was  hard  to 
mow  there — the  grass  had  stood  undisturbed  for  a 
long  while.  Such  a  quantity  of  flowers  grew  there 
— vetches  and  clover  and  blue-bells,  forget-me-nots 
and  wild  pinks.  When  I  went  thither  with  my  sis- 
ters or  the  maid,  I  always  plucked  whole  armf uls  of 
them;  but  when  I  went  with  father  I  plucked  no 
flowers;  I  consider  that  occupation  as  beneath  the 
dignity  of  a  sportsman. 

All  at  once  Treasure  made  a  point;  my  father 
shouted,  "Fetch  it!"  and  from  beneath  Treasure's 
very  nose  a  quail  leaped  up  and  flew  away.  But 
she  flew  very  oddly;  she  turned  somersaufls,  twisted 
in  a  circle,  and  fell  on  the  ground,  exactly  as  though 
she  were  wounded,  or  as  though  her  wing  were 
broken.  Treasure  rushed  after  her  at  the  full  speed 
of  his  legs;  he  never  did  this  when  the  bird  flew  as 
it  should.  Father  could  not  even  shoot,  because  he 
was  afraid  that  he  should  hit  the  dog  with  the  small 
shot.  And,  suddenly,  I  see  that  Treasure  has  over- 
taken her,  and — slap!  he  has  caught  the  quail,  has 
brought  it  and  given  it  to  my  father.  My  father 
took  it  and  laid  it  in  his  palm,  with  its  belly  up.  I 
ran  to  him. 

"What  is  it?"  I  say.     "Was  she  wouuded?" 

"No,"  replies  my  father;  "she  was  not  wounded; 
but  she  must  have  a  nest  of  young  ones  near  by, 
and  she  pretended  to  be  wounded  on  purpose,  so 
that  the  dog  would  think  that  he  could  catch  her 
easily." 

"What  did  she  do  that  for?"  I  asked. 

"In  order  to  lead  the  dog  away  from  her  little 
ones.  Afterward  she  would  have  flown  well.  Only, 
on  this  occasion,  she  miscalculated.  She  pretended 
too  well,  and  Treasure  caught  her." 

"So  she  is  not  wounded?"  I  inquired  again. 

"No;  but  she  will  not  live.  Treasure  must  have 
crushed  her  with  his  teeth." 

I  approached  nearer  to  the  quail.  She  lay  mo- 
tionless in  my  father's  hand,  with   her  little  head 


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THE  CHEISTIAN  CYNOSURE- 


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hanging,  and  looking  sideways  at  me  with  her  little 
brown  eyes.  And,  all  at  once,  I  felt  so  sorry  for 
her  I  It  seemed  to  me  that  she  was  gazing  at  me 
and  thinking:  "Why  must  1  die?  For  what  rea- 
son? Surely,  I  have  done  my  duty;  I  have  tried  to 
save  my  little  ones,  to  lead  the  dog  as  far  away  as 
possible — and  I  am  losti  Poor  II  Poor  creature! 
This  is  unjusti— unjust!" 

"Papal"  said  I,  -'perhaps  she  will  not  die,  and  I 
tried  to  stroke  the  quail  on  the  head.  But  my 
father  said  to  me:  "No;  look  here;  she  has  just 
stretched  out  her  legs,  she  is  quivering  all  over,  and 
her  eyes  are  closing." 

And  so  it  was.  As  soon  as  she  closed  her  eyes, 
I  burst  out  crying. 

"What's  the  matter  with  you?"  asked  my  father, 
and  began  to  laugh, 

"I  am  sorry  for  her,"  said  I.  "She  did  her  duty 
— and  she  got  killed.     That  is  unjust." 

"She  tried  to  be  cunning,"  replied  my  father. 
"Only  Treasure  was  more  cunning  that  she  was." 

"Wicked  Treasure,"  I  said  to  myself;  and  even 
my  father  did  not  seem  good  to  me  on  this  occasion. 
What  cunning  was  there  about  it?  It  was  love  for 
her  little  children,  and  not  cunning.  If  she  had 
been  commanded  to  use  craft  to  save  her  children — 
then  Treasure  ought  not  to  have  caught  her. 

My  father  was  on  the  point  of  thrusting  the  quail 
into  bis  game-bag,  but  I  begged  her  from  him,  laid 
her  carefully  in  both  my  palms,  and  breathed  upon 
her — to  see  whether  she  would  not  recover.  But 
she  did  not  stir. 

"It  is  useless,  my  dear  fellow,"  said  father;  "you 
can't  bring  her  back  to  life.  See  how  her  head 
■wings." 

I  lifted  her  carefully  by  the  beak;  but  as  soon  as 
I  removed  my  hand,  her  head  fell  again. 

"Are  you  still  sorry  for  her?"  asked  my  father. 

"And  who  will  feed  her  little  ones?"  I  inquired 
in  my  turn. 

My  father  gazed  intently  at  me.  "Don't  trouble 
yourself  about  that,"  said  he;  "the  male  quail,  their 
father,  will  feed  them.  And  stand  still,"  he  added, 
"Treasure  seems  to  be  making  another  point.  Can 
it  be  the  nest?     And  the  nest  it  is." 

And  sure  enough,  in  the  grass,  a  couple  of  paces 
from  Treasure's  muzzle,  lay  four  tiny  birds  in  a 
row;  they  were  huddling  close  to  each  other,  and 
stretching  out  their  little  necks,  and  all  were  breath- 
ing so  rapidly  and  simultaneously  that  it  seemed  as 
though  they  were  trembling.  And  they  had  already 
got  their  feathers — there  was  no  down  on  them — 
only  their  little  tails  were  still  very  short. 

"Papa!  Papa!"  I  cried,  at  the  top  of  my  voice; 
"call  off  Treasure,  or  he  will  kill  them  too." 

My  father  called  to  Treasure,  and,  retiring  a  little 
to  one  side,  he  sat  down  to  eat  his  lunch,  under  a 
bush.  But  I  remained  beside  the  nest,  and  did  not 
want  to  eat  any  lunch.  I  took  out  my  clean  hand- 
kerchief and  laid  the  quail  on  it. 

"Look  here,  orphans,  here  is  your  mother!  She 
sacrificed  herself  for  you!" 

The  little  birds  breathed  rapidly,  as  before,  with 
the  whole  of  their  bodies.     Then  I  went  to  my  father. 

"Will  you  give  me  this  quail?"  I  asked  him. 

"If  you  like.     But  what  do  you  want  to  do  with  it?'' 

"I  want  to  bury  it." 

"Bury  it?" 

"Yes;  beside  her  little  nest.  Give  me  your  knife. 
I  will  dig  her  a  grave." 

My  father  was  amazed. 

"So  that  her  little  ones  can  visit  the  grave?"  he 
asked. 

"No,"  I  replied;  "but  because — I  want  to.  It  will 
be  so  nice  for  her  to  lie  there  beside  her  nest!" 

My  father  did  not  say  a  word.  He  took  out  his 
knife  and  gave  it  to  me.  I  immediately  excavated 
a  little  hollow;  then  I  kissed  the  quail  on  her  breast, 
and  laid  her  in  the  hole,  and  covered  her  with  earth. 
Then,  with  the  same  knife,  I  cut  two  small  branches, 
stripped'  the  bark  from  them,  placed  them  in  the 
form  of  a  cross,  bound  them  together  with  a  blade 
of  grass,  and  stuck  them  upright  in  the  grave. 

My  father  and  I  soon  moved  on;  but  I  kept  look- 
ing back.  The  cross  was  whitish  and  visible  at  a 
distance. 

And  that  night  I  had  a  dream.  I  seemed  to  be 
in  heaven;  and  what  then?  On  a  small  cloud  sits 
my  dear  little  quail,  only  now  she  is  all  white,  like 
that  little  cross!  And  around  her  head  is  a  small 
gold  halo;  and  it  seems  that  it  has  been  given  to  her 
to  reward  her  for  her  suflerings  for  the  sake  of  her 
children. 

Five  days  later,  my  father  and  I  returned  again 
to  the  same  spot.  1  found  the  grave  and  the  cross, 
which  had  turned  yellow,  but  had  not  fallen.  Only 
the  little  nest  was  empty,  there  was  no  trace  of  the 
birds.  My  father  assured  me  that  the  old  bird, 
their  father,  hud  taken  them  away;  and  when  an  old 


quail  flew  out  from  under  the  bushes  a  few  paces 
away,  my  father  did  not  try  to  shoot  him.  And  I 
said  to  myself:     "Yes,  papa  is  good?" 

But  this  is  the  remarkable  point  about  it:  from 
that  day  forth  my  passion  for  hunting  disappeared, 
and  I  never  even  thought  of  the  time  when  my 
father  would  give  me  a  gun.  Nevertheless,  when  I 
grew  up,  1  did  begin  to  shoot  also,  but  I  never  be- 
came a  genuine  sportsman.  And  that  is  what 
weaned  me  from  it. 

Once  my  comrade  and  I  were  hunting  grouse. 
We  found  a  young  brood.  The  mother  rose,  we 
fired  and  hit  her,  but  she  did  not  fall,  and  flew  away 
with  her  young  grouse.  I  wanted  to  follow  them, 
but  my  comrade  said:  "Better  sit  down  here  and  lure 
them  to  us;  they  will  all  be  here  in  a  few  minutes." 

My  comrade  could  whistle  capitally,  just  as  grouse 
do.  We  sat  down,  and  he  began  to  whistle.  And, 
sure  enough,  first  one  young  one  answered  the  call, 
then  another,  and  then  we  heard  the  mother  cooing 
so  tenderly,  and  very  near  us.  I  raised  my  .head 
and  saw  her  hastening,  hastening  to  us,  through  the 
matted  grass,  and  her  bosom  was  all  covered  with 
blood.  Of  course  her  maternal  heart  had  not  been 
able  to  resist.  And  then  I  seemed  such  a  wicked 
wretch  to  myself,  I  rose  and  clapped  my  hands. 
The  grouse  immediately  flew  away  and  the  little 
ones  became  silent.  My  companion  was  angry;  he 
thought  me  crazy.  "You  have  spoiled  all  the 
sport,"  said  he. 

But  from  that  day  forth  it  became  ever  harder 
and  harder  for  me  to  kill  and  to  shed  blood. — Inde- 
pendent. 

m  »  m 

HOW  BELIqION  helps  GHILDRBN. 


Religion  helps  children  to  study  better  and  do 
more  faithful  work.  A  little  girl  of  twelve  was  tell- 
ing in  a  simple  way  the  evidence  that  she  was  a 
Christian.  "I  did  not  like  to  study,  but  to  play.  I 
was  idle  at  school,  and  often  missed  my  lessons. 
Now  I  try  to  learn  every  lesson  well  to  please  God. 
I  was  mischievous  at  school  when  the  teachers 
were  not  looking  at  me,  making  fun  for  the  children 
to  look  at.  Now  1  wish  to  please  God  by  behaving 
well,  and  keeping  the  school  laws.  I  was  selfish  at 
home:  didn't  like  to  run  errands,  and  was  selfish 
when  mother  called  me  from  play  to  help  in  work. 
Now  it  13  a  real  joy  to  me  to  help  mother  in  any 
way,  and  to  show  that  I  love  her."  Such  religion  is 
essential  to  the  best  interest  and  moral  growth  of 
youth,  and  will  make  life  sunny  and  cheerful. — 
Christian  at  Work. 


TEMFEfiANCE. 


DYNAMITE  FIENDS  AT  WORK. 


Close  upon  the  heels  of  the  prosecution  of  licjuor 
dealers  and  a  gang  of  burglars  at  Union  City,  Erie 
county.  Pa.,  came  an  attempt  to  assassinate  the 
prosecuting  attorney,  Frank  M.  McClintock,  and  his 
wife  and  two  children.  At  an  early  hour  on  the 
morning  of  May  2,  some  unknown  person  placed 
two  gas-pipe  dynamite  bombs  beside  Mr.  McClin- 
tock's  residence — one  under  his  bed-room  window 
and  the  other  under  the  front  of  the  building.  The 
one  at  'the  front  part  of  the  house  exploded,  but, 
owing  to  a  defect  in  its  construction,  only  demol- 
ished the  house,  not  killing  the  inmates.  The  other 
bomb  had  been  lighted  and  placed  under  the  Coun- 
sellor's bedroom,  and,  but  for  the  fact  that  the  fuse 
only  half  burned,  the  McClintock  family  would  have 
been  blown  into  eternity.  The  narrow  escape  of  the 
family  and  the  enormity  of  the  crime,  taken  with 
the  use  of  the  bombs  at  the  fire  a  month  ago,  in 
which  Dr.  Biles  was  maimed  for  life  and  several 
other  i)cr8on3  seriously  injured,  have  stirred  the 
people  up  to  the  lynching  frame  of  mind.  A  vigil- 
ance committee,  headed  by  an  c nicer,  worked  all 
day  on  a  clew,  and  at  evening  arrested  Frank  Koh- 
ler,  a  baker,  upon  suspicion. 
^^  m 

A  DAUQUTER'S  APPEAL. 


not  be  granted  to  her  father  as  is  seldom  heard. 
Couched  in  the  most  elegant  language  and  burning 
with  that  eloquence  which  the  "righteousness  of  her 
cause  inspired,"  for  twenty  minutes  she  held  the 
judges  and  a  vast  audience  spell-bound.  Counsel 
for  the  applicant,  she  said,  had  alleged  that  the  pe- 
tition against  granting  the  license  was  sisjned  prin- 
cipally by  women.  Rising  to  her  full  height,  this 
young  woman  declared  that  "the  fundamental  law 
of  the  United  States  gave  the  right  of  petition  to  all, 
regardless  of  sex."  Her  eloquence  caused  the  judg- 
es to  reverse  their  decision  and  they  refused  the  li- 
cense. 


People  in  the  court  room  at  Parkersburg,  W.  Va., 
April  7,  witnessed  an  exciting  scene.  The  case  was 
an  application  for  a  license  on  the  part  of  a  promi- 
nent liciuor-dealer  named  Livis.  Petitions  pro  and 
con,  signed  by  hundreds  of  citizens,  were  presented 
to  the  court  by  able  lawyer8,as  the  case  had  excited 
general  attention. 

The  court  had  listened  to  counsel,  and  the  decis- 
ion granting  a  license  was  almost  rendered  when  the 
daughter  of  the  applicant.a  beautiful  young  woman, 
was  informed  of  the  fact.  Rushing  into  the  court 
room,  she  raised  her  hands  and  demanded  an  audi- 
ence. The  court  granted  it.  Then  the  fair  complain- 
ant seat  up  such  an  appeal  that  the  license  should 


Henry  C.  Spaulding,  the  inventor  of  "Spaulding's 
Glue,"  who  was  at  one  time  worth  $80,000,  recently 
died  in  an  alms-house.     Liquor  did  it. 

The  Supreme  Court  in  Nebraska  has  decided  that 
a  wife  may  recover  from  a  saloonkeeper  the  money 
that  her  husband  has  squandered  in  his  place. 

There  were  ninety-nine  breweries  in  Maine  in 
1883,  and  when  the  Supreme  Court  decision  was 
rendered  there  were  14,  bat  now  there  are  none  in 
operation. 

It  is  estimated  that  $78,200,000  is  spent  every 
year  for  liquor  in  Pennsylvania,  while  the  output  in 
anthracite  coal,  their  greatest  industry,  amounts  to 
only  $69,995,000. 

The  Brewers'  Journal  is  authority  for  the  state- 
ment that  the  output  of  the  breweries  in  the  United 
Statesin  1887  was  24,199,741  barrels,  a  net  increase 
over  1886  of  over  2,287,318  barrels. 

The  Detroit  Central  W.  C  T.  U.  is  sowing  tem- 
perance seed  broadcast  by  means  of  wall-pockets 
placed  in  manufactories,  car-shops,  waiting-rooms 
and  ferry-boats;  in  fact,  every  place  where  a  large 
number  of  men  are  employed  or  many  people  con- 
gregate. 

One  of  the  most  recent  ideas  of  temperance  re- 
formers in  Australia  is  a  large  milk  palace  in  one  of 
the  chief  streets  of  Melbourne.  Here  in  cold  weath- 
er hot  and  spiced  milk  may  be  obtained;  in  the 
summer,  frozen  milk,  iced  soda  and  milk,  and  milk 
pure  and  simple  are  sold. 

A  sensatibn  was  caused  at  Sioux  City,  Iowa,  on 
April  18,  by  the  accidental  discovery  of  a  man's 
dead  body  in  the  Arensdorf  Brewery.  It  proved  to 
be  Albert  Hiltz,  one  of  the  watchmen  who  were  on 
duty  the  night  the  Rev.  Mr.  H.iddock  was  assassin- 
ated. By  Hiltz  side  lay  the  revolver  of  John  Ar- 
ensdorf, the  accused  slayer  of  Haddock.  Opinion- 
is  divided  as  to  whether  it  is  a  case  of  murder  or 
suicide. 

Alexander  Shafl!er  was  killed  on  the  street  at 
East  Liverpool,  Ohio,  May  8.  William  Boyd,  who 
had  been  drinking  all  the  evening,  approachetl  a 
companion  and  offered  him  a  drink  of  li(iuor  from  a 
bottle.  The  man  refused,  and  upon  being  pressed 
knocked  the  bottle  from  Boyd's  hand  to  the  ground, 
it  being  broken.  Boyd  was  enraged,  and  picking 
up  the  fragments,  threw  them  at  his  friend,  the 
pieces  missing  him,  and  the  large  one  siriking  Shaf- 
fer, who  was  an  innocent  spectator,  in  the  neck, 
severing  the  jugular  vein.  He  bled  to  death  in  a 
few  minutes. 

W.  E.  Watts,  a  well  known  coal  dealer  of  Cedar 
Rapids,  Iowa,  committed  suicide  at  his  home  by  fir- 
ing a  thirty-eight  calibre  through  his  head,  death 
resulting  instantly.  He  failed  in  business  two 
months  ago  as  manager  of  the  Pioneer  Coal  Compa- 
ny and  has  been  drinking  heavily  since.  On  his  re- 
turn three  weeks  ago  from  a  debauch  at  SU  Paul  he 
was  attacked  with  delirium  tromens.and  while  threat- 
ened with  a  third  attack  he  committed  self-murder. 
Watts  was  33  years  old,  was  married  into  a  highly 
respectable  family,  and,  but  for  drink,  would  have 
been  very  prosperous. 

There's  going  to  be  a  temple  of  temperance  in 
Chicago — a  big  temple,  twelve  stories  high  with  a 
tower  and  a  great  hall.  When  completed  from  the 
lowest  foundation  stone  to  the  halo  of  the  bronze 
Madonna  that  will  stand  on  the  highest  point  of  the 
tower  the  building  will  cost  $800,000.  Two  hundred 
and  fifty  thousand  dollars  has  already  been  sub- 
scribed by  men  whose  names  go  for  any  amount  you 
can  name,  and  Mrs.  Matilda  B.  Carse  is  in  the  East 
trving  to  find  enough  people  to  supply  the  other 
$2.^0,000  that  is  necessary  before  work  can  begin. 
Miss  Frances  E.  Willard  left  for  New  York  the  oth- 
er day  in  the  interest  of  the  scheme.  The  hall, which 
will  hold  2,500  people,  will  be  called  Willard  Hall, 
after  her,  and  the  entire  temple  will  be  controlled  by 
the  Woman's  Christian  Temperance  Union.  It  is 
exi)ccted  that  the  corner  stone  will  be  laid  oa  May  1, 
1889. 


12 


THE  CHRISTIAJSr  CYNOSURE. 


May  17, 1888 


BELIGIOUS  XEWS. 


Rev.  C.  W.  Hiatt,  pastor  of  High  Street  Con- 
gregational church,  Columbus,  O.,  writes  to  the  In- 
dependent^  concerning  the  union  evangelistic 
meetings  held  in  that  city  and  conducted  by 
Messrs.  Munhall  and  Towner:  "I  estimate  that  one 
thou8and(l,000)acceB8ion8  were  made  to  the  church- 
es of  this  city  from  those  meetings." 

— The  Congregational  Home  Missionary  Society 
has  paid  off  during  the  year  the  debt  of  $75,000,  re- 
placed $50,000  borrowed  from  the  Swett  Exigency 
Fund,  and  met  the  expenditures  of  the  year.  The 
annual  meeting  will  be  held  at  Saratoga  June  5th. 

— The  eighteenth  annual  meeting  of  the  Woman's 
Foreign  Missionary  Society  of  the  Presbyterian 
Church  was  held  recently  at  Asbury  Park,N.  J.  The 
income  for  the  year  amounts  to  $149,640,an  increase 
of  $20,000.  The  Society  supports  135  missionaries 
besides  helpers  and  Bible  women. 

— The  American  Baptist  Home  Mission  Society 
recaived  the  past  year  $551,596,  of  which  $145,603 
was  received  by  contributions,  for  general  purposes; 
$41,579  for  schools  and  buildings,  and  $39,629  for 
church  extension.  The  receipts  from  legacies  were 
$245,485. 

— The  Chicago  Congregational  Ministers'  meeting 
last  week  adopted  a  strong  protest  against  the  inter- 
ference with  the  work  of  Christian  missionaries 
among  the  Indians  by  the  Indian  Department,  and 
ask  that  the  order  requiring  the  English  language 
to  be  used  in  all  Indian  schools  be  rescinded. 

— The  Southern  Baptist  convention  met  in  annual 
session  in  Richmond,  Va.,  Friday,  in  the  First  Bap- 
tist church.  On  the  call  of  States  it  was  found  that 
745  delegates  were  present. 

— The  women  of  the  Presbyterian  church  gave 
last  year  $192,000  for  mission  work  among  the  ex- 
ceptional peoples  in  our  own  land.  One  of  the  most 
significant  features  of  this  work  is  that  it  has  stim- 
ulated the  regular  work  of  the  Board  of  Home  Mis- 
sions of  the  church  instead  of  detracting  therefrom, 
the  income  of  the  board  having  steadily  increased 
each  year  since  the  women  undertook  their  especial 
work. 

— The  American  Sunday-school  Union  last  year 
established  520  new  Sunday-schools,  of  which  over 
sixty  have  developed  into  churches  already,  and 
some  seventy-five  more  of  them  have  secured  regu- 
lar preaching  services.  A  Chicago  business  man, 
who  last  year  supported  one  of  the  missionaries,  is 
so  well  pleased  with  his  investment  that  he  has 
agreed  to  support  two  of  them  this  year. 

— Mr.  Moody's  schools  at  Northfield  and  Mount 
Hermon  lately  received  from  the  Christian  women 
of  Pittsburg  a  draft  for  $10,000  and  a  New  York 
friend  sent  $5,000. 

— The  great  Sunday-school  and  Missionary  Con- 
vention of  the  Baptist  church  begins  its  sessions  in 
Washington  this  week.  It  will  be  the  second  gath- 
ering of  the  kind  held  in  Washington  in  the  last  half 
century.  About  3,000  delegates  are  expected,  who 
will  come  from  every  corner  of  the  United  States  and 
Territories. 

— Rev.  W.  R.  Laird  announced  at  prayer-meeting 
in  the  Reformed  Presbyterian  church,  says  a  St. 
Johnsbury,  Vt.,  paper,  that  he  should  probably  ac- 
cept the  call  he  recently  received  from  the  congre- 
gation in  New  Castle.Pa.  He  began  his  work  nine 
years  ago  and  organized  the  congregation;  and  in 
1882  a  handsome  and  commodious  church  building 
was  erected,  on  which  no  debt  rests.  The  congre- 
gation has  prospered  abundantly,  and  has  received 
150  members  during  Mr.  Laird's  pastorate.  He 
leaves  it  in  excellent  condition,  materially  and  spir- 
itually, and  it  will  continue  to  do  good  work.  There 
is  general  regret  in  the  city  as  well  as  the  congrega- 
tion at  the  change. 

— Mr.  I.  H.  Lishniewsky  has  established  a  United 
Presbyterian  mission  to  the  Jews  in  the  city  of  Pitts- 
burg. The  mission  is  in  the  central  part  of  the  city, 
and  promises  success.  There  are  nearly  7,000  Jews 
in  the  city  of  Pittsburgh,  and  nothing  whatever  has 
as  yet  been  done  for  their  evangelization. 

— The  number  of  pilgrims  to  the  Puri  shrine  in 
India  this  year  was  only  about  one-sixth  of  former 
years.  The  Doorga  Puga  festival  was  a  complete 
failure.  The  CalcuHa  Enqluhman  calls  attention  to 
a  remarkable  decline  in  the  popularity  of  the  Festi- 
val of  Juggernaut  at  Orissa.  This  has  been  going 
on  for  some  time,  but  is  especially  remarkable  this 
year,  as  there  is  no  longer  a  wild  rush  for  the  car  in 
which  the  idol  is  dragged  from  the  temple  to  a 
grange  and  back;  on  several  occasions  coolies  have 
bad  to  be  hired  to  do  this. 


— Rev.  B.  Fay  Mills  and  Prof,  and  Mrs.  Towner 
went  to  Crawfordsville,  Ind.,  on  April  15th  for  a 
very  few  days.  This  is  a  beautiful  little  city  of  ten 
thousand  inhabitants,  and  is  the  seat  of  Wabash 
college.  The  largest  buildings  were  more  than  filled, 
and  plans  made  for  meetings  for  men  only  and  for 
women  only,  so  as  to  accommodate  the  throngs. 
Prof.  Towner  rejoins  Dr.  Munhall  for  the  remainder 
of  the  season,  and  Mr.  Mills  goes  to  Chelsea,  Mass., 
after  a  few  days  of  rest. 

— Dr.  Munhall's  work  at  Macon,  Ga.,  was  very 
wonderful  and  most  gracious.  The  entire  city  was 
stirred,  125  members  being  received  into  the  Mul- 
berry Street  church  after  he  left,  40  into  the  First 
Presbyterian  church,  a  goodly  number  into  the 
First  Baptist;  and  other  churches  have  received 
many  accessions.  Many  more  will  yet  join.  Dr. 
Munhall  was  only  able  to  be  in  Macon  three  weeks, 
as  he  could  not  defer  his  work  at  St.  Paul  longer. 

— Rev.  C.  H.  Yatman  will  hold  a  series  of  union 
young  people's  meetings  in  Washington,  D.  C,  the 
first  ten  days  in  J  une,  by  invitation  of  the  superin- 
tendents of  the  various  Sunday-schools.  In  Colum- 
bia, S.  C,  where  he  held  meetings  the  past  month, 
the  students  in  the  Columbia  College  and  South 
Carolina  University  were  reached  by  the  score. 
Nearly  every  student  in  the  female  college  was  con- 
verted. During  July  and  August  he  conducts  his 
large  daily  young  people's  meeting  and  Christian 
workers'  -training  class. 

— The  Freedmen's  Aid  Society  of  the  Methodist 
Episcopal  church  expended  last  year  $163,271  in  its 
work  among  the  colored  and  white  people.  Twenty- 
two  institutions,  with  124  teadhers  and  4,506  stu- 
dents, were  maintained  among  the  colored  people; 
and  fifteen  institutions,  with  eighty  teachers  and 
1,945  pupils,  among  the  whites  received  aid.  Dur- 
ing the  twenty  years  of  its  life  the  society  has  ex- 
pended $1,921,585,  has  taught  about  100,000  stu- 
dents, and  has  acquired  property  in  the  South  worth 
to-day  not  less  than  $1,000,000. 

— Eleven  years  ago  Daniel  Molife,  a  heathen  liv- 
ing in  Natal,  became  converted.  Two  years  after 
he  went  to  Fourteen  Streams,  where  he  found  the 
people  without  the  G-ospei.  He  began  work  among 
them,  opening  to  them  the  Scriptures,  teaching  them 
to  read,  and  finally  organizing  a  church  and  erect- 
ing a  house  of  worship.  For  six  years  he  labored 
in  this  way  without  receiving  the  help  of  a  mission- 
ary. 

— The  British  and  Foreign  Bible  Society  has  for 
the  last  two  years  supported  a  colporteur  on  the 
scene  of  the  engineering  operations  being  conduct- 
ed by  M.  de  Lssseps  in  the  Panama  Isthmus.  Dur- 
ing the  first  year  he  sold  nearly  £40  worth  of  Bi- 
bles, the  last  year  his  work  was  even  more  important, 
both  Spaniards  and  Chinese  being  reached,  besides 
the  English-speaking  population.  There  is  a  Sun- 
day-school, and  also  a  day-school  at  Panama 

— Rev.  R.  S.  McCloy,  superintendent  of  Metho- 
dist Japanese  missions,  advocated  a  union  of  the 
five  branches  of  that  denomination  in  Japan  before 
the  weekly  meeting  of  the  local  Methodist  ministers 
in  Chicago.  He  said  the  five  branches  were  known 
as  the  Methodist  Episcopal,  Methodist  church  south, 
Canadian,  Evangelical  and  Protestant  Episcopal. 
The  converts  in  the  Flowery  kingdom  composed  33,- 
000  RussoGreeks,  28,000  Roman  Catholics,  and 
29,000  Protestants. 

— Arrangements  for  the  national  convention  of 
the  Societies  of  Christian  Endeavor,  which  will  be 
held  in  Chicago  from  the  5th  to  the  8th  of  July,  are 
rapidly  maturing.  Dr.  James  H.  Brooks  of  St.  Lou- 
is will  preach  the  sermon.  Addresses  will  be  given 
by  Dr.  John  H.  Barrows,  Bishop  Fallows,  Rev.  Ar- 
thur Mitchell,  Rev.  Wayland  Hoyt,  D.  D.,Mis8  Fran- 
ces E.  Willard  and  many  others.  Mrs.  G.  R.  Alden 
(Pansy)  will  read  an  original  story,  and  Prof.  Wil- 
liam R.  Harper  will  propose  a  scheme  of  regular 
Bible  study  for  young  people.  Rates  on  railroads 
and  at  hotels  will  be  placed  at  the  lowest  figures  that 
are  ever  granted,and  several  thousand  delegates  are 
expected  from  all  parts  of  the  country. 

— Under  the  direction  of  the  Evangelical  Alliance 
an  attempt  is  to  be  made  in  Brooklyn  to  reach  the 
people  outside  the  churches.  The  city  has  been  di- 
vided into  thirteen  groups  of  churches,  each  group 
containing  fifteen  or  twenty  tshurches  and  a  popu- 
lation of  some  50,000.  Each  church  in  a  given 
group  appoints  one  supervisor  and  ten  visitors  for 
each  100  members.  Then,  when  the  non-church-go- 
ing families  are  discovered — and  they  may  be  ascer- 
tained by  a  special  visitation  or  by  the  examination 
of  the  several  church  records — they  are  to  be  divid- 
ed up  in  such  a  way  that  each  visitor  will  have  about 
t«n  families  to  look  after,  upon  whom  he  or  she  is  to 
call  once  a  month. 


Bible  Lesson. 


STUDIES  IN  THK  NEW  TESTAMENT. 
LESSON  IX.  Second   Quarter.— May  27. 
SUBJECT.— Peter's  Denial.— Matt.  26.69-75. 
GOLDEN  TEXT.— Wherefore,  let  him  that  thlnketh  he  stand- 
eth,  take  heed  lest  he  fall.— 1  Cor.  10: 12. 

[Own  the  Bible  and  read  the Itsion.] 
I  From  Dr.  Pentecost's  notes  in  Words  and  Weapons.] 

In  our  last  lesson  we  left  our  Lord  and  his  disciples 
turning  from  the  garden  to  meet  Judas  and  the  band  of 
soldiers  sent  out  to  arrest  him.  While  the  saints  had 
been  sleeping  the  sianers  had  been  working,  and  now 
they  had  come  to  take  him. 

We  shall  consider  the  incident  assigned  for  our  lesson 
to-day  under  three  heads:  Peter's  denial,  Peter's  sin, 
Peter's  repentance. 

I.  Peter's  Denial. — 1.  It  was  unpremeditated.  Judas 
betrayed  his  Lord  for  a  deliberate,  set  purpose.  Peter, 
on  the  contrary,  really  loved  his  Lord  and  meant  to  be 
his  true — yea,  his  truest — disciple;  but  he  lacked  the 
trained  courage  to  meet  the  sudden  emergency.  The 
story  of  Peter's  weakness  should  teach  us  to  strengthen 
our  characters  at  the  weak  point;  for  there  the  enemy  will 
attack  us,  and  at  that  point  we  will  fall.  2.  It  is  intelli- 
gible. We  have  only  to  look  bac^  over  this  chapter  to 
see  the  steps  which  naturally  and  logically  lead  him  up 
to  the  precipice  over  which  he  fell .  (a)  In  verse  33  we 
find  him  boasting.  This  is  always  a  sign  of  weakness. 
(6)  In  verse  35  we  find  him  self-confident.  Here  lies 
the  pointedness  of  the  golden  text  for  this  lesson,  (c) 
In  verse  40  we  find  him  asleep.  A  man  who  could  sleep 
at  such  a  time  would  be  liable  to  be  taken  unawares  by 
sudden  temptation,  {d)  In  verse  51  we  find  him  fight- 
ing. A  hasty  temper  which  acts  at  the  first  sign  of  dan- 
ger does  not  necessarily  indicate  a  courageous  man.  («) 
In  verse  58  we  find  him  "following  afar  off."  If  ever  a 
friend — one  ready  "to  die"  for  his  Master — was  needed 
to  stand  close  by,  this  was  the  time.  (/")  Finally  we  find 
him  taking  his  place  in  bad  company.  His  place,  since 
he  had  plucked  up  courage  and  entered  at  all,  was  with 
John  (John  18:  15),  as  close  by  the  Master  as  possible. 
How  could  he  think  of  his  own  cold  fingers  and  shiver- 
ing body  when  his  Master  was  being  falsely  accused  and 
cruelly  insulted?  "Without  the  palace"  and  with  the 
servants  of  his  Master's  enemies  was  the  very  place  in 
which  we  might  look  for  just  such  a  fall  as  Peter  had. 
3.  It  was  a  total  collapse.  Had  he  denied  once  and  then 
recovered  himself,  it  would  not  have  been  so  bad.  Cran- 
mer  recanted  his  faith  and  saved  himself  from  martyr- 
dom; but  as  soon  as  he  had  time  to  reflect  he  denied  his 
recantation  and  went  cheerfully  to  the  stake.  Unless  we 
instantly  turn  back  upon  a  false  step  we  are  morally  sure 
to  take  another,  even  though  we  loathe  the  whole  mat- 
ter. 

II.  Peter's  Sin. — Hitherto  we  have  noticed  only  the 
outward  fact  of  the  denial  and  some  of  the  steps  which 
led  to  it.  From  any  point  of  view  his  conduct  was 
most  sinful  and  inexcusable  except  to  that  divine  grace 
of  Christ  which  did  excuse  it  and  which  led  him  back, 
by  way  of  repentance,  to  the  side  of  his  Lord.  1.  In 
view  of  his  privileges.  Peter  was  not  only  a  disciple  but 
an  apostle,  and  one  of  the  chosen  three  whom  the  Lord 
called  and  admitted  into  the  closest  relationship  as  wit- 
nesses of  his  greatest  works.  To  be  unfaithful  in  view 
of  these  high  privileges  made  his  sin  more  black.  2.  In 
view  of  his  confessions  and  professions.  Not  only  had 
he  been  the  first  to  confess  Christ  (Matt-  16:  16),  but  he 
had,  a  few  hours  before,  been  first  and  loudest  in  his  pro- 
fession of  attachment  and  courage.  Had  he  professed 
less,  his  sin  would  net  have  been  so  foul.  3  In  view  of 
the  warning  he  had  had  from  Christ.  Our  Lord  had  fore- 
seen his  weakness  and  had  forewarned  him  that  he  would 
be  the  only  disciple  who  would  formally  deny  him.  For 
some  sins  there  seems  to  be  partial  excuse,  but  for  others 
there  is  none.  Peter  had  no  excuse  for  his  sin.  4.  In  view 
of  its  repetition.  He  might  have  retreated  at  the  first,  or 
second,  or  third  step;  although  his  sin  served  as  a  cor- 
rector, yet  he  would  not  be  corrected.  5 .  In  view  of  sin 
upon  sin.  At  his  first  denial  he  told  a  lie  by  prevar- 
ication, affecting  not  to  understand  his  questioners.  At 
his  second  denial  he  told  a  deliberate  lie,  and  perjured 
himself  by  swearing  to  it.  At  the  third  he  repeated  his 
denial  and  "began  to  curse  and  to  swear,"  adding  the  sin 
of  the  vilest  men  to  that  of  his  apostasy.  We  cannot 
stand  still  on  the  slippery  incline  of  transgression. 

III.  Peter's  Repentance. — Just  as  Peter  was  utter- 
ing his  third  denial  two  events  took  place:  The  cock 
crew  and  our  Lord  passed  out  with  the  mocking  rabble 
about  him.  Who  can  tell  the  unfathomable  depths  of 
love  andsorrow  in  those  divine  human  eyes  as  they  looked 
upon  Peter?  Alas,  how  low  he  had  fallen  I  Thank  God 
— at  this  point  he  was  to  rise!  1.  How  Peter  was  led  to 
repentance.  Not  alone  did  the  Spirit  of  Ood  work  in 
his  conscience;  three  messengers  took  him  by  the  hand 
and  led  him  back  to  his  true  self,  away  from  his  false  and 
degraded  self,  (a)  An  incident.  The  cock  crew.  Chan- 
ticleer was  unconscious  of  his  ministry,  but  he  preached 
a  powerful  sermon  on  that  early  morning.  No  doubt  he 
awakened,  from  physical  sleep,  many  about  the  high 
priest's  palace;  but  he  awakened  this  man  who,  in  his 
deep  sleep  of  sin,  had  been  denying  his  Lord.  (6)  A 
memory.  At  the  sound  of  the  cock's  crowing  Peter  re- 
membered the  words  of  his  Lord,  and  they  struck  deep 
into  his  heart  and  conscience  and  still  further  brought 
him  to  himself.  How  often  a  mere  memory,  suddenly 
awakened,  or  a  warning  or  a  promise  or  a  long  forgotten 
word  has  led  men  to  repentance !  (c)  A  look.  Luke 
records  this:  "And  the  Lord  turned  and  looked  upon 
Peter."  That  look  melted  the  ice  out  of  his  soul  and 
broke  up  the  fountain  of  his  love,  which  had  been  frozen 


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by  his  denial.  2.  The  genuineness  of  his 
repentance.  Now  all  else  was  forgotten. 
Flinging  his  mantle  over  his  head,  he,  like 
Judas,  rushed  forth  into  the  night.  "Into 
the  night,"  but  not,  as  Judas,  into  the  un 
sunned  outer  darkness  of  miaerable  self- 
condemnation,remorseand  despair.  "Into 
the  night,"  but,  as  has  been  beautifully 
said,  "to  meet  the  morningdawn" — which 
morning  dawn  he  found  when  he  flung 
himself  into  the  arms  and  on  the  broad, 
tender  breast  of  mercy. 


I 


Lodge  Notes. 

Bishop  Fallows,  who  shared  with  Dr. 
Thomas  the  honors  of  Masonic  Grand 
Chaplain,  lectures  for  a  woman's  lodge 
in  this  city. 

The  fifty-sixth  annual  convention  of 
the  Alpha  Delta  Phi,  the  college  secret 
society,  opened  May  3  in  the  Masonic 
temple.  New  York.  The  delegates  present 
were  from  Yale,  HarvarJ,  Columbia, 
Manhattan,  Hamilton  University. Keny on 
College,  Brown  University,  Bowdoin, 
Dartmouth,  Trinity,  Wesleyan,  Adelbert, 
Rochester,  Williams  and  Amherst  Col- 
leges. Tlie  conference  was  held  with 
closed  doojs.  The  society  held  a  reception 
in  the  afternoon  at  their  club  rooms,  and 
a  meeting  at  night  at  the  Metropolitan 
Opera-house  at  which  addresses  were 
made  by  President  J.  H.  Choate  on  the 
"Alpha  Delta  Phi,  the  Embodiment  of 
True  American  Spirit;"  by  George  W. 
Curtis  on  "Ideals  of  the  Alpha  Delta 
Phi,"  and  by  Rev.  Edward  B  Hale  of 
Boston  on  "How  to  Serve  the  Common- 
wealth." 

A  Pittsburgh  dispatch  of  the  21  Inst., 
says  of  the  Knight  of  Labor  strike  in  the 
Carnegie  Iron  works:  "Braddock  work- 
men say  that  the  blow  at  the  order  is 
such  a  direct  one  that  none  who  would 
remain  true  to  the  Knights  of  Libor  can 
avoid  meeting  and  defeating  it.  The 
people  of  Braddock  geierally  regard  the 
great  strike  as  virtually  a  thing  of  the 
past.  At  least  100  old  men,  including 
two  of  the  conference  committee,  re- 
turned to  work  to  day,  and  a  large  number 
are  expec'ed  to  go  in  to-morrow.  The 
company  has  all  the  men  necessary  for  a 
single  turn  in  all  departments,  and  on 
Monday  the  converting  mill  will  be 
started  double  turn.  The  new  rail  was 
put  in  operation  this  afternoon  and  the 
first  rails  made  since  last  December  were 
turned  out.  The  Pinkcrton  guards  are 
BliU  on  duty,  but  everybody  is  in  good 
humor  and  no  further  disorder  is  expect 
ed.  The  Knights  of  Labor,  who  are  still 
out,  are  as  aggressive  as  ever.  They  have 
inaugurated  a  boycott  on  Edgar  Thomson 
steel.  Circulars  were  sent  out  to  all  the 
amalgamated  and  Knights  of  Labor 
lodges  requesting  the  members  not  to 
work  steel  from  the  Eigar  Thomson 
mill." 

Chicago  Odd -fellows  celebrated  the 
sixty  ninth  anniversary  of  the  founding, 
id  Baltimore,  April  26,  1819,  of  Ameri- 
can Odd  fellowship.  Grand  Master  Lieut- 
Gov.  John  C  Scnith  said:  "This  associ 
ation  Etands  as  the  representative  of 
sixty-five  lodges  in  this  city,  and  6,000 
business  men  of  this  imperial  center.  In 
behalf  of  these  6  000  Odd  fellows  I  wel 
come  you  to  this  anniversary.  This  as 
snciation  is  also  the  representative  of 
10  000  organizations,  with  600,000  mem- 
bers, and  in  behalf  of  the  order  universal 
I  welcome  you.  When  I  first  connected 
myself  with  this  order,  thirty  five  years 
ago,  it  had  less  than  2  000  lodges.  To 
the  uninitiated  it  may  seem  strange  that 
there  shoul  i  he  so  much  organization, 
butthi  OJd  fellow  understands  it  When 
some  great  calamity  befalls,  then  the  or- 
ganizition  is  at  its  best.  We  of  Chicago 
know  what  Odd  fellowship  did  for  us. 
It  did  more  for  the  people  of  this  city  in 
the  time  of  its  distress  than  any  other 
organization  in  the  land  It  poured  into 
the  bands  of  the  relief  committee  $130,- 
0<»0,  rendering  incalculable  aid  to  the 
widowed,  tbe  orphaned  and  the  homeless 
Inside  our  body  we  now  have  the  Patri- 
archs Militant,  25,000  strong  " 


DONATIONS 


To  Cynosure  Ministers'  Fund: 

Mrs.  E   Talcott $1.50 

J.  Rutty  1.50 

J.S.Smedley 1.50 

B.A.  Wilson 1.50 

Wm.  Evans 3.00 

Before  reported $1,073.40 

Total $1,082.40 

BUB80RIPT10N  LSTTBR8. 


The  following  have  made  remittances 
of  money  to  the  Cynosure  from  May  7  to 
12  inclusive; 

J  F  Rock.  C  H  Watson,  G  A  Paddock, 
P  A  Weaver,  Mrs  M  P  Morris,  Mrs  G  A 
Cass,  M  L  Waters,  Rev  M  W  Jordan,  J 
Ciair,  J  Markle,  J  8  Smedley,  W  J  Feem- 
ster,  J  Rutty,  W  Cheetham,  J  D  Vail,  J 
K  Glassford,  Mrs  E  Talcott,  A  G  Cutter, 
J  G  Johnson,  E  Dresser,  Dr  J  N  Norris, 
Rev  T  Hartley,  Rev  C  Bender,  Mrs  A  M 
Hine,  B  A  Wilson,  Rev  R  G  Campbell. 


NOTIGB. 

The  Cynosure  advertised  for  in  last 
week's  paper  ha?  been  furnished.  No 
more  are  needed.  Thanks  are  especially 
due  to  Roswell  Dow,  Esq.,  Miss  Faith 
Fischer,  J.  C.Young,E3q.,Mrfl  M.Carnes, 
Harris  Johnson,  Geo.  Hiner,  J.  M.  Frink 
and  J.  A.  Bent  for  responding  to  the  re- 
quest. 

EXCURSION    KATES. 

A  very  complete  list  of  tourist  round- 
trip  rates  and  routes  to  western  points 
for  1888,  has  just  been  issued  for  free  dis- 
tribution by  C  H.  Warrkn,  Gen.  Pass. 
Agent,  St.  P.  M  &  M  Ry.,  St  Paul,  Mmn. 

MARKET  REPORTS 
CHICAGO. 

Wliea1>— No.  2 86  O      88 

No.  3 84  @      8.5 

Winter  No  8... 91 

Com— No.  a 59^11     60 

06t»— No.a ««.^HK. 34  @      38 

Rye— No.  3 65 

Braniierton 13  75 

Hay— Timothy 12  00  @17  00 

Butter,  mediu  re  to  best 15  @     25 

Cheese 05  @     13 

Boane 125  @  2  75 

Bags 13 

8eed«-Tlmothyo 2  15  2  80 

Flax 138  145 

Broomcom 02J^@     07 

Potatoee  per  bus 60  @     80 

Hides— Green  to  dry  flint 053^@     13 

Lumber— Common 11  00  @18  00 

Wool 13  @      37 

Cattle— Choice  to  extra 5  10  @  5  35 

Commontogood 2  50  5  00 

Hoze 4  91  @  5  80 

Sheep 3  25  Q  6  20 

NEW  YORK. 

Flour 3  20  @  5  60 

Wheat— Winter 100  @  1  03 

Spring 98>i 

Com 663^0     69 

Oats 38  <m      47 

Kggi    ^..^.  14 

Butter ^.      15  @     26^ 

Wool  -..„. .  09  34 

KANSAS  CITY. 

Cattle ..„.,-« ...-«. ^..^..  1  50  a  ■!  60 

Hogt ^-^ « 225  ©5  50 

«1k««9  2  00  "  5  00 


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THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


Mat  17, 1888 


Home  and  Health. 

An  ounce  of  alumn  will  purify  a  whole 
hogshead  of  foul  water. 

When  sauce  boils  from  the  side  of  the 
pan,  the  flour  or  corn-starch  is  done. 

Always  put  a  little  soda  in  milk  that  is 
to  be  boiled,  as  an  acid  is  formed  by  boil- 
ing. 

Glaze  the  bottom  crust  of  fruit-pies 
with  the  white  of  an  egg,  and  they  will 
not  be  soggy. 

Keep  large  squares  of  pasteboard  hung 
conveniently  to  slip  under  pots,  kettles, 
stew  dishes  and  spiders,  whenever  you 
set  them  down. 

Too  much  importance  rannot  be  given 
the  matter  of  selecting  the  proper  per- 
sons to  do  the  milking.  As  much  de- 
pends on  the  milker  as  on  the  cow. 

Buttermilk  is  cheap  food  for  the  pigs, 
and  they  will  always  do  well  when  but- 
termilk is  made  a  portion  of  their  food; 
but  it  should  not  be  fed  exclusively. 

Straw  matting  should  be  washed  with 
warm  salt  and  water;  wring  out  a  soft 
cloth  in  it  and  apply  quickly,  not  wetting 
the  matting  much,  only  enough  to  take 
out  the  dust  and  stains. 

When  the  burners  of  kerosene  lamps 
become  clogged  put  them  in  a  basin  of 
hot  water,  containing  washing  soda,  and  ' 
let  them  boil  for  a  few  minutes.  This 
will  make  them  perfectly  clean  and  al- 
most as  bright  as  new. 

Remedy  for  Boils. — It  is  said  on 
good  authority  that  a  slice  of  fresh  to- 
mato bound  upon  the  alllicted  part  will 
prevent  the  formation  of  a  boil.  Renew 
the  application  frequently  with  fresh 
slices. 

Copperas  dissolved  in  boiling  water 
will  instantly  cleanse  iron  sinks  and 
drains.  A  few  drops  of  spirits  of  tur- 
pentine mixed  with  stove  blacking,  less- 
ens labor  and  adds  polish.  Kerosene  in 
cooked  starch  (a  teaspoonful  to  a  quart) 
will  prevent  clothes  sticking  to  the  irons 
and  gives  a  gloss;  the  scent  evaporates 
in  the  drying.  Powdered  borax  is  good, 
if  one  decidedly  objects  to  the  smell  of 
kerosene. 

Keeps  off  Insects. — An  Ohio  farmer 
says:  "Pour  a  gallon  of  spirits  of  tur- 
pentine on  a  barrel  of  land  plaster;  spread 
over  the  field  broadcast.  This  is  better 
than  lime  or  ashes,  and  may  be  applied 
to  cabbage,  vines  and  plants  liable  to  be 
damaged  by  insects  at  any  time  when  the 
plants  are  not  wet." 

To  Cure  Warts.— Place  the  thumb 
upon  the  wart,  and  press  it  against  the 
bone.  Move  the  wart  back  and  forth 
upon  the  bone  until  the  roots  become 
irritated  or  sore,  when  the  wart  will  dis- 
appear. I  have  had  quite  a  number  upon 
my  hands,  and  have  got  rid  of  them  in 
the  above  manner. — Cor.  Scientific  Amer- 
ican. 

Kills  Eot3. — Take  turpentine,  coal 
oil  and  vinegar  in  equal  parts,  shake  well 
together,  and  rub  on  eggs  of  the  bot  fly, 
usually  found  on  the  legs  of  a  horse. 
Two  or  three  applications  will  kill  the 
eggs,  and  the  fly  will  not  trouble  the 
horse  if  a  little  of  this  liniament  is  ap- 
plied under  the  throat  and  on  the  legs. 
Kill  the  eggs,  and  the  bots  will  not  kill 
your  horse. — Farmern'  Club  Journal. 

Massachusetts  Brown  Bread. — 
Three  cups  of  unsifted  rye  and  Indian 
meal,  one-half  cup  molasses,  one  tea- 
spoonful  of  salt,  two  of  soda,  one  pint 
sour  milk,  one  of  watsr.  If  water  is 
used  alone,  add  a  little  sharp  vinegar. 
To  bake  this  bread,  take  two  tliring  lard 
pails  of  different  size,  put  boiling  water 
in  the  larger  (not  too  much),  set  the 
smaller  one,  containing  the  bread,  inside 
and  cover  tightly;  bake  five  or  six  hours 
in  a  moderate  oven — the  longer,  the  bet- 
ter the  bread,  if  the  oven  is  not  too  hot. 
Oq  the  baking,  more  than  anything  else, 
depends  the  success  of  the  bread. 

Slkki"  Okk  a  Headache — A  scien- 
tific writer  says:  "Sleep,  if  taken  at  the 
right  moment,  will  prevent  a  nervous 
heaitache.  If  the  subjects  of  such  head- 
ache? will  watch  the  symptoms  of  its 
coming,  they  can  notice  that  it  begins 
with  a  feeling  of  weariness  or  heaviness. 
This  is  the  time  that  a  sleep  of  an  hour, 
or  even  two,  as  nature  guidcc,  will  effect- 
ually prevent  the  headache.  If  not  taken 
just  then  it  will  be  too  late,  for  after  the 
attack  is  fairly  under  way  it  is  impossi 
ble  to  get  sleep  until  far  into  the  night, 
perhaps.  It  is  so  common  in  these  days 
for  doctors  to  forbid  having  their  pa- 


tients waked  to  take  medicine,  if  they 
are  asleep  when  the  hour  comes  round, 
that  the  people  have  learned  the  lesson 
pretty  well,  and  they  generally  know 
that  sleep  is  better  for  the  sick  than 
medicine.  But  it  is  not  well  known  that 
sleep  is  a  wonderful  preventive  of  disease 
— better  than  tonic  regulators  and  stimu- 
lants." 


That  dainty  lady  tripping  by, 

How  light  her  step,  how  bright  her  eye. 

How  fresh    her  cheek    with    healthful 

glow. 
Like  roses  that  in  Maytime  blow! 
And  yet  few  weeks  have  passed  away 
Since  she  was  fading,  day  by  day. 
The  doctor's  skill  could  naught  avail; 
Weaker  she  grew,  and  thin  and  pale. 
At  last,  while  in  a  helpless  frame, 
One  day  she  said,  "There  is  a  name 
I've  often  seen — a  remedy — 
Perhaps  'twill  help;  I  can  but  try." 
And  so,  according  to  direction. 
She  took  Dr.  Pierce's  Favorite  Prescrip- 
tion, 
And  every  baleful  symptom  fled, 
And  she  was  raised  as  from  the  dead. 


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Faem  Notes. 

Grass. — No  grass,  no  cattle;  no  cattle, 
no  manure;  no  manure,  no  crops. — Bel- 
gian Proverb. 

A  correspondent  in  Japan  says  that 
he  has  learned  how  to  tie  a  horse  in  the 
streets.  He  saw  a  meek-looking  steed 
hitched  to  a  cart  standing  in  front  of  a 
shop,  and  the  horse  stood,  not  because  he 
was  hitched  to  a  post,  but  because  his 
forelegs  were  tied  together  with  a  stout 
cord. 

Kerosene  is  of  great  help  in  the  prop- 
er care  of  poultry.  Their  nest-boxes 
should  be  oiled  with  it  as  a  preventive  of 
vermin.  A  few  drops  occasionally  in  the 
drinking  water  will  hinder  colds  or  roup, 
and  when  applied  to  scaly  legs  it  effects 
a  cure,  while  it  is  highly  recommended 
as  a  cure  for  cholera. 

At  a  recent  convention  of  bee  keepers, 
one  speaker  said:  "I  was  in  Dakota  last 
season  at  a  place  where  there  were  no  bees. 
Pumpkin  and  f(iuash  vines  were  growing 
luxuriantly,  but  there  were  no  pumpkins 
or  squashes.  I  transferred  some  of  the 
pollen,  and  in  this  way  pumpkins  and 
S(|uashes  were  secured." 

Any  soil  upon  which  water  does  not 
remain  during  winter,  says  a  writer  in 
Vick's  Magazine,  can  be  jnade  to  grow 
small  fruits;  in  fact,  any  soil  which  will 
produce  weeds  will  grow  them;  but  as 
there  are  few  soils  which  can  produce 
two  crops  at  the  same  time,  it  is  better 
not  to  try  to  grow  a  crop  of  weeds  and  a 
crop  of  strawberries  on  the  same  soil  to- 
gether. 

Oil,  says  the  American  Agriculturist, 
is  fatal  to  every  insect  It  touches,  and  sul- 
phur is  very  offensive  to  them.  A  mixture 
of  four  ounces  of  lard  and  one  of  sulphur, 
well  rubbed  together,  and  with  the  addi- 
tion of  one  ounce  of  kerosene  oil  and  one 
drachm  of  creosote,  will  be  found  an  ex- 
cellent remedy  against  all  sorts  of  insect 
vermin,  while  the  liberal  use  of  kerosene 
oil  on  poultry  roosts  will  free  the  fowls 
of  their  tormentors. 

Mr.  A.  W.  Cheever  makes  in  the  New 
Blglnnd  Farmer  the  wise  suggestion  that 
in  purchasing  a  windmill  for  pumping 
water,  sawing  wood,  or  similar  kind  of 
farm  work,  it  is  not  a  good  plan  to  se- 
lect one  of  small  size.  A  small  mill  may 
do  what  is  wanted  of  it  in  a  high  wind, 
but  with  a  light  breeze  it  would  be  use- 
less, while  a  larger  size  would  do  the  de- 
sired work.  Small  wind-mills,  small 
churns  and  small  stoves  are  often  the 
dearest,  though  costing  less  money  than 
large  sizes. 

KILLING    CANADA    THISTLE. 

If  the  soil  is  free  from  stumps,  stones, 
or  other  nidus  under  which  the  roots  can 
run,  a  complete  summer  fallow,  for  one 
season,  the  land  to  be  carefully  worked 
over  every  two  weeks  to  prevent  the 
pests  making  leaves,  will  generally  erad- 
icate them.  If  there  are  stumps  or  rocks 
in  the  field  the  soil  around  these  must  be 
thoroughly  hoed  over  once  in  ten  days. 

Asi'AiiAGUs  Beetle. — We  are  in- 
formed that  the  common  asparagus  bee- 
tle appeared  the  past  summer  in  such 
vast  numbers  in  New  Jersey  that  the 
owners  of  some  rather  extensive  planta- 
tions of  this  excellent  vegetable  have 
almost  concluded  to  abandon  its  cultiva- 
tion in  consequence  of  the  depredations 
of  the  insect  named.  It  seems  almost 
unaccountable  that  any  cultivator  of 
asparagus  should  not  know  how  to  quick- 
ly destroy  this  well-known  pest,  inas- 
much as  it  has  been  published  hundreds 
of  times  during  the  past  twenty  years. 
The  remedy  is  dry  caustic  lime  scattered 
over  the  plants  in  the  morning  when  wet 
with  dew .  The  larva  of  the  asparagus 
beetle  is  a  small,  soft,  naked,  thin-skinned 
grub,  and  the  least  particle  of  lime  com- 
ing in  contact  with  this  causes  almost  in- 
stant death.  If  the  grubs  are  killed  there 
will  be  no  beetles. — American  Agricul- 
turist. 

PRRMANKNT  PASTURES. 

In  this  country  there  are  very  few 
pastures  that  may  properly  be  called  per- 
manent. Our  extremely  variable  climate 
renders  it  more  dillicult  to  maintain  them 
than  in  older  countries.  Notwithstand- 
ing the  advantages  of  rotation,  it  is 
probable  that  we  lose,  rather  thap  gain, 
by  having  so  few  permanent  pastures. 
The  grass  seed  is  sown  with  grain,  or 
with  very  imperfect  preparation  of  the 
ground.  This  seems  inevitajble  when 
such  a  rotation  as  ours  is  practiced ;  and 


it  is  natural  that  the  ground  should  not 
have  so  much  preparation  when  the 
pasture  is  to  remain  only  two  or  three 
years  as  when  it  is  to  be  permanent. 
This,  too,  probably  explains  why  the 
seed  is  not  more  carefully  selected.  Too 
few  varieties  are  sown;  and  as  the  pas- 
tures do  not  remain  long  enough  for 
other  varieties  to  establish  themselves, 
as  they  would  in  time,  our  pastures  are 
sadly  lacking  in  variety.  The  greater 
the  variety  the  more  the  yield  and  the 
better  succession  of  growth. 

Sowing  every  two  or  three  years  of 
course  requires  much  more  seed,  and  we 
get  less  grass  than  would  be  furnished  by 
permanent  pastures.  A  pasture  rarely 
reaches  its  maximum  production  in  less 
than  five  or  six  years.  Up  to  that  time, 
and  even  after,  the  turf  will  grow  thicker, 
not  only  because  of  the  spreading  of  the 
grasses  sown,  but  by  other  grasses  com- 
ing in.  Permanent  pastures  contain  four 
or  more  times  as  many  grasses  as  we 
commonly  sow.  Moreover,  some  grasses 
do  not  become  well  established  before 
three  or  four  years.  This  is  notably  the 
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Kentucky  and  the  West,  June  grass  in 
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make  as  dense  a  sward  as  a  variety.  In 
old  pastures  there  are  rarely  less  than  fif- 
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THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


Mat  17, 1888 


NPWS  OF  THE  WEEK 

WASHINGTON. 

The  Senate  Committee  on  Education 
and  Labor  have  ordered  a  favorable  re- 
port on  the  House  bill  to  prohibit  the 
employment  of  alien  labor  on  public 
works. 

A  fine  life-size  marble  bust  of  Gara- 
baldi.  with  a  marble  pedestal  about  four 
feet  in  height,  has  been  received  at  the 
Capitol  and  placed  in  a  hall  of  the  upper 
lobby  of  the  Senate.  It  was  made  in 
Italy  and  presented  to  the  Senate  by  the 
Garibaldi  Monument  Association  of  this 
city. 

It  is  reported  by  friends  of  Mr.  At- 
kins, Commissioner  of  Indian  Affairs, 
that  it  is  his  present  purpose  to  tender  to 
the  President  his  resignation,  to  take  ef- 
fect June  1.  The  President  has  been  ad 
vised  that  it  is  the  purpose  of  Mr.  Atkins 
to  resign. 

The  President  and  Mrs  Cleveland  have 
taken  possession  of  Oik  View  as  a  sum- 
mer residence.  They  will  take  dinner, 
sleep  nights,  and  eat  breakfast  in  their 
country  home  and  luncheon  at  the  White 
House.  And  then,  too,  they  will  cele- 
brate the  second  anniversary  of  their 
marriage  day  on  June  2. 

CHICAGO. 

Five  of  the  nine  boodler  gang  who 
were  convicted  last  year  have  been  wait- 
ing in  the  county  jail  here,  having  ap- 
pealed their  case  to  the  Supreme  Court. 
The  decision  of  that  body  was  rendered 
last  week  against  them,  and  all  are  now 
in  Joliet  penitentiary.  Three  had  gone 
there  before,  and  one,  the  Masonic  Mc- 
Garigle,  was  given  the  wink  and  told  to 
run,  and  the  officers  sent  after  him  have 
managed  to  keep  out  of  his  way.  - 

COUNTRY. 

The  Mississippi  flood  had  reached  a 
dangerous  point  Friday,  nearly  as  high 
at  some  points  as  in  1880,  when  the  high 
est  record  was  made  The  flood  atQuincy, 
111.,  was  miles  wide.  At  Rock  Island  a 
stone  bulkhead  was  swept  away,  causing 
some  $100,000  damage,  mostly  to  the 
government  works  in  connection  with  the 
arsenal. 

A  fire  broke  out  in  Hot  Springs,  Ar- 
kansas, and  in  two  hours  upwards  of 
$250,000  worth  of  property  had  been  de- 
stroyed. The  gas  works,  the  railroad 
roundhouse,  many  stores,  the  gymnasium 
and  between  forty  and  fifty  dwellings 
were  laid  waste. 

Near  Ithica  Wednesday  a  freight  on 
the  Lehigh  Valley  road  crashed  into  a 
passenger  train  which  had  been  brought 
to  a  stop  by  the  brakes  getting  out  of 
gear,  and  telescoped  two  of  the  cars. 
Mrs.  Case  was  severely  injured,  a  gentle- 
man from  New  York  badly  cut  on  the 
head  and  the  engineer  of  the  freight  hurt 
on  the  head. 

The  survivors  of  Quantrell's  guerrillas 
held  a  reunion  Friday  at  Blue  Springs, 
Mo.,  Mrs.  Caroline  Quantrijli,  mother  of 
the  infamou?  chief,  being  present.  Tales 
of  bloody  murders  and  fiendish  crimes 
were  related,  the  men  rivaling  each  other 
in  their  hideous  stories.  It  was  stated 
that  Quantrell  died  in  the  Sisters'  Hospi- 
tal in  Louisville,  Ky.,  Juae  6,  1885. 

At  Bloomingtoa,  Ind  ,  Friday,  while 
two  men  were  walking  togeiher,  one  be- 
coming suddenly  insane,  seiz  d  the  other 
and  threw  him  from  a  cliff  125  feet  high, 
killing  him  instantly. 

The  high  license  bill  passed  by  the  New 
York  legislature  was  vetoed  by  Governor 
Hill. 

The  State  temperance  convention  de- 
cided to  nominate  Prohibition  candidates 
in  every  county  in  Goorgia  pledged  to 
vote  for  statutory  prohibition. 

The  Inter  Ocean  reports  that  a  Negro 
who  was  mortally  wounded  in  the  riot  at 
Sandy  Ridge,  Lowndes  county,  Ala.,  last 
Thursday  and  has  Rince  died,  revealed  an 
alleged  plot,  making  a  statement  under 
oath  in  the  presence  of  four  witnesses. 
The  Negroes,  he  said,  appointed  Friday 
night  as  the  time  for  the  massacre  of  the 
whites.  Meetings  were  held  and  money 
raised  to  buy  ammunition.  Bob  Robin- 
son and  Neal  Maugurn  were  the  leaders 
of  the  lodge  of  which  it  is  claimed  there 
are  societies  throughout  the  United  States, 
formed,  as  they  say,  to  avenge  their  fallen 
ones  and  to  protect  their  color  in  tbe 
future,  and  they  threatened  Negroes  who 
did  not  take  part  in  the  proposed  killing 
with  death;  48  Negroes  engaged  in  the 


riot  have  been  arrested,  and  the  Sheriff's 
posse  and  State's  troops  seem  to  have  put 
an  end  to  the  trouble  for  the  present,  but 
another  outbreak  is  expected  sooner  or 
later. 

F0BBI6N. 

The  official  news  concerning  the  health 
of  the  Emperor  is  not  trustworthy,  as  the 
doctors  join  in  the  concealment  of  the 
worst  phases  of  his  malady,  and  are  mak- 
ing the  most  of  any  change  for  the  best. 
Reliable  information,  however,  leads  to 
the  hope  that  his  life  will  be  prolonged 
beyond  the  recent  expectations.  A  favor- 
able symptom  is  his  increasing  strength. 
He  is  now  able,  with  some  slight  assist- 
ance, to  take  a  turn  up  and  down  the 
room.  His  sleepfulness  still  continues. 
The  Empress  visits  his  bedside  every 
morning  and  remains  until  the  doctors 
assemble  for  consultation.  A  deaf  mute 
living  in  Silesia  has  written  to  Dr  Mack- 
enzie, offering  to  sacrifice  his  larynx  if  it 
be  possible  to  transfer  it  to  the  Emperor's 
throat  Dr.  Mackenzie  replied  to  the 
man  that  the  loss  of  his  life  would  neither 
help  the  Emperor  nor  benefit  science. 

Lord  Salisbury's  speech  in  the  British 
House  of  Lords  caused  a  sensation  in 
political  and  military  circles. .  He  at- 
tacked Gen.  Lord  Wolseley  for  the  lack 
of  preparation  for  war  reported  in  E  ag- 
land.  The  general  opinion  is  that  Lord 
Wolseley  will  resign  after  replying  to  the 
premier.  Liberals  are  inclined  to  sup- 
port Lord  Wolseley's  position,  which  is 
approved  by  all  the  military  members  of 
the  House  of  Commons. 

Boulanger,  the  troubler  of  Prance,  is 
making  a  kind  of  triumphant  tour. 
Speaking  at  a  luncheon  at  Donai,  he 
called  the  constitution  a  "ridiculous  com- 
promise between  a  pseudo  monarchy  and 
a  false  republic."  At  Lille  a  banquet  was 
given  in  the  General's  honor,  at  which  he 
and  M.  Laguerre  made  speeches.  The 
demonstrations  at  Donai  and  Lille  were 
enthusiastic. 

The  pope  has  charged  Cardinal  Monaco 
to  ascertain  if  the  methods  employed  by 
the  Irish  National  League  embrace  prin- 
ciples or  regulations  that  are  contrary  to 
religious  or  moral  laws. 

INDIAN  RESERVATION    OPENED. 

The  Montana  Reservation  Bill  having 
now  become  a  law  opens  for  settlement 
four  millions  acres  rich  farming  lands  in 
the  well-known  and  long -coveted  Milk 
River  Valley,  also  large  areas  of  excel- 
lent grazing  country  on  the  surrounding 
uplands.  This  portion  of  Montana, 
besides  its  agricultural  resources  being 
rich  in  minerals  with  an  abundance  of 
coal,  is  attracting  wide  spread  attention 
as  is  shown  by  the  number  already  settling 
there  C.  H.  Wakben,  Gen.  Pass.  Agent, 
St.  Paul,  Minn.,  has  issued,  for  free 
distribution,  an  excellent  map,  and  a 
pamphlet  with  other  information  re- 
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siring to  explore  this  new  country. 

*  •  m 
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Indian  Reservations  is  shown  by  the  large 
numbers  of  people  who  have  already 
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mineral  and  agricultural  resources  of 
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SIERRA  LEONE. 

"West  A.±YxcsL» 


WHAT  CAN  IT  TEAOH  US? 

BT  J.  AUGUSTUS  COLX, 
Of  Shalngay,  W.  A. 

WltU  Portrait  of  the  .A-uthor. 

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Christian  Cynosure. 


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Vol.  XX.,  No.  36 


OHIOAGO,  THURSDAY,  MAY  24,  1888. 


Wholi  No.  943. 


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CONTENTS. 


BOITOBIAL : 

Notes  and  Comments. . 
Source  of  Freemasonry. . . 
The  Pope  and  Ireland  — 
The  Illinois  Prohibition 
Convention 

CONTKIBCnONS : 

Shams 

Tangled  Talk 

What  the  Lodge  has  done 

for  Temperance 

The  Skumon: 
National  Sin  the  Cause  of 

National  Trouble 

Kbfobm  Nkwb: 

The  Lodge  Tramps   and 

Dr.    Lorlmer    Juggles; 

Lynching  at  Vlcljsburg ; 

Our  New  Orleans  i.et- 

ter 

i.itbra.tubb 

Obituakt 

Tiie  Vice  President  for  the 
Prohibition  Party 


.    1 


COBBBSFONDBNOB : 

A  Lesson  from  Solomon; 
Pennsylvanlans,  F  o  r  - 
ward,  March;  Elder  R. 
Smith's    Mission,    Pith 

and  Point 6 

A  Great  Meeting  for  Prohl- 

tton 9 

Dr.  Lorimer's  Washlniton 

Performance 12 

ThbHomb 10 

Tempebancb 11 

Religious  Nbws 12 

BIBLB   LBSSON 12 

Farm  Notbs 7 

Secket    Socibtibs     Con- 
demned     7 

The  N.C.  a...  7 

Lodge  Notbs 13 

Donations 13 

Home  and  Hbalth 14 

News  or  thb  Wbbk 16 

Markets 13 

businbss 13 


EVERT  VOTER 
should  sign  the  League  against  lodgery.    For  conven- 
ience, the  League  plan  is  inserted  on  the  thirteenth  page 
of  this  number.    Cut  it  out,  circulate  for  signatures  and 
return  to  W.  L  Phillips  at  this  ofBce. 


The  saloon  ring  thus  seems  to  have  a  master,  before 
which  it  is  humbled  like  a  beast.  The  relation  does 
not  reflect  honor  upon  either;  but  Chicago  will  be 
thankful  if  this  small  favor  is  granted. 


The  empire  of  Brazil  has  for  years  been  striving 
to  earn  the  recognition  of  enlightened  states  by  the 
abolition  of  slavery.  The  old  emperor  set  his  heart 
upon  the  reform,and  gradual  abolition  was  adopted, 
and  after  years  of  waiting  has  just  completed  its 
work.  The  Brazilian  parliament  has  approved  the 
bill  favored  by  the  government  completely  abolish- 
ing the  slave  system,  and  it  was  sanctioned  by  the 
regent  in  the  absence  of  the  Emperor  in  Europe  on 
the  13  th  inst.  The  act  was  received  with  extraordi- 
nary popular  manifestations  of  rejoicing.  President 
Cleveland  sent  his  official  congratulations.which  the 
Brazilians  may  receive  with  a  just  pride,as  they  may 
chance  to  contemplate  the  immense  cost  of  emanci- 
pation to  the  United  States,  while  with  them  it  has 
come  without  bloodshed  and  with  the  rejoicing  of  all 
parties. 

Washington  is  given  over  to  conventions  this  year. 
The  National  Baptist  Convention  is  barely  over. 
This  week  a  National  Bar  Association  gathers,  and 
the  corner-stone  of  the  great  Catholic  university  will 
be  laid  in  the  presence  of  an  immense  number  of 
persons,  10,000  invitations  having  been  issued.  On 
the  same  day  the  Hebrews  will  open  a  convention  in 
the  city.  The  Knights  of  the  Golden  Eagle  have 
also  arranged  for  a  street  performance.  The  object 
of  the  lawyers'  convention  is  to  form  a  National  As- 
sociation for  the  purpose  of  harmonizing  certain 
matters  of  law  in  the  different  States.  Trouble  and 
inconvenience  is  caused  by  different  laws,  for  in- 
otance,  on  marriage  and  divorce,  descent  of  real  es- 
tate, distribution  of  personal  property,  etc.  By  the 
formation  of  this  association  it  is  hoped  that  many 
of  these  difficulties  can  be  obviated.  But  with  all 
due  respect  to  the  lawyers,  we  would  prefer  that 
they  turn  over  some  of  these  questions  to  the  min- 
isters now  meeting  in  Washington,  Philadelphia 
and  New  York;  leave  others  to  a  committee  of  solid 
farmers,  and  postpone  their  organization  until  after 
the  Republicans  elect  a  President, 


The  late  conference  of  the  National  Reform  As- 
sociation in  Philadelphia  resolved  that  it  is  the  "im- 
perative duty  of  political  parties  to  declare  them- 
selves on  the  moral  issues  which  are  now  before  the 
nation,  and  that  no  party  which  refuses  to  do  so  de- 
serves the  suffrages  of  Christian  citizens."  That  is 
most  true.  But  political  parties  in  general  will  spit 
tobacco  all  over  such  a  resolution  until  the  pulpits 
begin  a  crusade  that  shall  stop  church  members 
from  casting  their  votes  against  their  Lord  and 
King.  

The  decision  of  Judge  Tuley  of  this  city  on  the 
legitimacy  of  children  born  in  slavery  has  been  the 
subject  of  much  comment  in  the  papers.  A  letter 
from  Judge  A.  J.  Tourjee  of  Mayville,  N.  Y.,  author 
ol  "The  Fool's  Errand,"  reviews  the  decision  very 
ably,  and  these  criticisms  have  called  out  an  explan- 
itory  letter  from  the  offending  judge,  saying  that  he 
shall  not  regret  if  his  judgment  is  reversed  on  ap- 
peal; or,  if  established,  that  it  will  be  a  matter  of 
gratification  if  it  shall  lead  to  a  proper  discussioK 
and  removal  of  the  alleged  disability  by  Congres- 
sional enactment. 


The  fight  against  the  saloon  is  assuming  respect- 
able proportions  in  Chicago.  The  effort  of  the 
churches  two  weeks  since,  to  put  the  breathing 
holes  of  the  pit  at  least  200  feet  away  from  churches 
and  schools,  was  for  the  time  beaten.  Next  week  a 
petition  was  unrolled  before  the  Council  bearing  the 
names  of  thousands  of  the  best  citizens.  The  sa- 
loon fortress  was  still  impregnable.  But  when  a 
few  days  later  the  Roman  Catholics  began  also  to 
protest  and  call  on  their  aldermen  to  resign,  and 
priests  read  the  same  gentlemen  a  lecture,  they  be- 
gan to  surrender,  and  the  once  defeated  ordinance 
is  back  again  on  its  feet,'  and  will  probably  carry. 


proposed  from  house  to  house,  also  meetings  for 
testimony  and  communion  in  the  body  and  blood  of 
Christ. 

The  series  of  revivals  which  began  with  the  de- 
scent of  the  Holy  Ghost  and  the  preaching  of  Peter 
at  Pentecost  spread  over  the  known  world  in  thirty 
short  years.  The  heathen  historian,  Tacitus,  says, 
"This  deadly  superstition  has  not  only  infected  our 
large  cities  but  our  remote  country  villages."  The 
converts  in  these  revivals  were  counted  by  thou- 
sands. Myriads  of  false  altars  vanished.  The 
evil  spirits  which  inhabited  the  shrines  and  infested 
the  worshipers  fled,  and  the  Holy  Spirit  and  those 
"ministering  spirits"  which  "minister  to  the  heirs  of 
salvation"  took  their  places,  and  Christendom  is  the 
consequence. 

SHAMS. 


Our  Northern  breezes  are  perfumed  with  blossoms 
and  bear  from  State  to  State  the  roar  of  politic  il 
conventions.  State  and  county  meetings  absorb  the 
time  and  money  of  the  people,  so  that  if  the  church- 
es do  not  cry  out,  the  business  men  do.  Of  the 
State  conventions  held  by  the  old  parties,  the  una- 
nimity of  the  Illinois  Rspublicans  for  Gresham  has 
given  great  impetus  to  the  popular  movement  be- 
hind that  gentleman.  It  was  expected  iu  New  York 
that  something  would  be  (?one  for  Mr.  Cleveland, 
but  not  many  anticipated  that  Governor  Hill  would 
be  shelved  so  high — and  that  just  after  his  friendly 
act  for  the  liquor  dealers  in  vetoing  the  Crosby 
license  bill.  The  fact  that  the  cjnvention  needed 
2,800  bottles  of  champagne  to  secure  harmony  shows 
how  serious  is  the  break  between  Governor  and  Pres- 
ident. Belva  Lockwood's  meeting  was  held  in  Mus- 
tatine,  Iowa,  this  year,  and  the  Equal  Rights  party 
did  its  work  by  letter,  thus  saving  the  neucleus  of 
a  fund  for  campaign  purposes.  The  Union  Labor 
parly  at  Cincinnati  met  choppy  seas.  It  refused  to 
touch  the  whisky  question,  though  next  to  the  lodge 
that  is  nearest  to  labor  interests,  and  rolled  over  the 
old  lie  about  the  prevalence  of  general  discontent. 
They  could  not  unite  with  Dr.  McGlynn,  whose 
friends  nominated  a  Chicago  druggist.  An  Indus- 
trial party  has  also  nominated  candidates,  and  the 
Chicago  Journal  asks  when  the  anti-secret  society 
people  are  to  be  heard  from.  They  are  being  heard 
from.  Gov.  Shuman — thanks  to  the  Journal  for  not 
forgetting  us — and  hope  to  be  not  beard  in  vain. 


Pres.  C.  a.  Blanohabd  of  Wheaton  College,  aid- 
ed by  others,  contemplates  holding  Gospel  meetings 
with  churches  in  that  neighborhood  during  the  ap- 
proaching summer,  the  meetings  to  hold  from  Tues- 
day over  the  next  Sabbath.  The  first  church  whose 
pastor  laid  the  subject  before  them  voted  unani 
mously  for  such  a  meeting.    Thorough  visitation  is 


BY   ELDER   N.   CALLENDER. 


Shams  are  man-made  hypocrisies.  God, who  made 
all  things,  never  made  a  sham.  He  could  not  do  it 
We  respect  anything  genuine,  though  ever  so  small 
and  insignificant  in  itself.  Satan  has  and  runs  the 
most  immense  shammery  in  the  universe.  It  turns 
out  every  known  thing  but  one,all  the  way  from  dei- 
ties to  donkies. 

To  illustrate:  our  world  has  the  G.  A.  R.  The 
subjects  of  this  sham  organization  were  members 
of  the  Grand  Army  of  the  Republic  when  we  had 
such  an  army,  twenty-five  years  ago.  A  grand  army 
it  was,  and  made  of  material  of  which  a  nation  may 
well  be  proud.  But  now  there  is  no  such  army,and 
no  need  of  such  an  army.  While  the  G.  A.  R.  takes 
in — yes,  "takes  in" — the  masses  of  our  noble  men 
it  knocks  off  fifty  per  cent  from  real  manhood  and 
adds  nothing  to  the  soldier.  Was  not  the  United 
States  army  dismissed  from  service,"mu3tered  out," 
twenty -three  years  ago?  What  is  this  G.  A.  R? 
As  the  real  G.  A.  R.,  it  does  not  exist.  The  only 
redemption  it  has  from  being  deception  and  fraud 
is  in  its  Masonic  cross-breeding.  Herein  it  is  no 
sham,  but  an  "e^^o,"  an  identity. 

All  this  is  alleged  with  prof oundest  love  and  grat- 
itude to  our  noble  soldiers  who,  under  Gcxl,  saved 
this  nation.  I  feel  the  more  intense  disgust  for  this 
sham  because  it  splashed  Masonic  mud  on  sach 
grand  men. 

Now  we  are  on  the  question  of  shams,  let  us  have 
another  example.  From  my  youth  up  I  have  felt  a 
sort  of  reverence  for  the  aborigines  of  this  wonder- 
ful country.  "Red  man  of  the  foi-esti"  Who  is  he, 
and  whence  came  he?  The  real  Indian  is  a  subject 
of  interest  for  the  erudite  mind.  But  I  submit  to 
common  sense  whether  sham  "Red  Men"  are  not  a 
shame  as  well  as  a  humbug.  Imagine  full  grown 
men  withco8tume,toggery  and  feathers  playing  "we 
are  Indians!"  Well  might  they  blush  crimson,  but 
even  that  is  a  painted  sham.  Imagine  further  a 
preacher  leading  the  ceremonies!  He  is  the  worthy 
chaplain!  What  a  splendid  feather!  Does  he  ad- 
dress the  "Great  Spirit?"  We  trow  not  But  sup- 
pose he  does,  in  "lip  service."  Does  he,  the  Great 
Spirit,  hear  the  chaplain  of  shams? 

Shams  must  needs  have  only  sham  devotions.  Is 
not  this  self-evident?  It  is  a  hard  saying,  but  the 
judgment  day  will  establish  it  "God  is  not  mock- 
ed" with  shams.     Sow  them  and  you  reap  the  same. 

la  the  small  village  in  Wayne  county  where  the 
Christian  character  of  Eld.  Geo.  W.  Howe  was  ruth- 
lessly assassinated  there  are,  I  am  told,  ton  many 
lodge  nights  to  admit  of  much  else  than  "will  wor- 
ships." Lo!  here  cjmes  the  featheretl  (.a.txxd?) 
chaplain  of  the  Red  Men — a  Baptist  minister,  tool 
Save  in  the  matter  of  lodgery  alone  he  is  a  man  of 
irreproachable  record,  1  think,  and  surely  had  no 
part  in  sacrificing  our  dear  brother  Howe  on  the  Ma- 
sonic altar.  May  God  commission  some  Ananias 
and  take  off  the  scales  from  his  eyes.  "Let  all  the 
people  say  Amen." 

Fidelity  to  truth  and  to  God  force  us  to  say  that 
lodgery  is  a  counterfeit  in  all  its  details.  To  begin 
with, its  heart  and  being  is  a  sham.  It  is  a  counter- 
feit religion.  "There  are  but  two  religions  in 
the  world,  the  false  and  the  true;"  and  as  that  is 


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THE  CHRISTIAN  CTSnsrOSITRE. 


May  24, 1888 


not,  cannot  be  the  true,  it  is  the  false.  Like  all 
others,  it  apes  at  all  virtues  and  fails  of  all  by  its 
own  showing.  By  its  very  touch  it  mutilates  and 
distorts  every  single  moral  principle  it  assumes,and 
in  some  way  it  assumes  them  all.  Who  would  think 
of  committing  "Fidelity,  Love  and  Truth"  to  the 
cire  of  I.  0.  0.  F.s?  No  one  who  knows  the  princi- 
ples and  also  the  character  of  that  order.  What  do 
they  mean  by  these  terms;  and  what  do  they  kfiow 
of  them?  About  as  much  as  the  "three  link8"many 
wear  on  their  jackets.  Some  exceptions  may  exist. 
Then  there  are  the  Scripture  term3,"Faith,Hope  and 
Charity,"  claimed  alike  by  Masons  and  by  Good 
Templars.  Would  any  one  think  of  confiding  these 
celestial  principles  to  such  orders  for  practical  dem- 
onstration or  safe-keeping?  Every  principle  of 
their  being  antagonizes  this  trinity  of  virtues.  How 
much  "faith,  hope  and  charity,"as  God  means  them, 
is  there  in  the  secrecy  and  machinery  of  these  clans? 
God  knows  there  is  not  any.  From  center  to  cir- 
cumference, from  its  birth  to  its  dotage,  the  system 
of  lodgery  is  a  most  stupendous  deception.  There 
is  no  virtue  which  it  does  not  ape.  It  is  the  ne  plus 
ultra  of  patriotism,  of  chastity,  of  gallantry  and  of 
temperance.  It  defends  the  nation  in  its  G.  A.  R; 
defends  the  church  and  the  Christian  religion  in  its 
Knight  Templars;  protects  female  virtue  and  inno- 
cence,— and  what  not?  It  supercedes  Christ  and 
sends  to  "the  grand  lodge  above"  all  the  minions  of 
the  lodge  who  are  faithful  to  the  orders.  It  shams 
everything  from  the  lowest  interest  of  earth  to  the 
highest  of  eternity.  It  shams  God,  religion,  regen- 
eration, res  urrection  and  heaven. 


TANGLED  TALK 


In  my  pastoral  work  I  have  found  that  I  but  sel- 
dom succeed  in  leading  a  Christless  man  out  of  a 
lodge.  In  fact,  we  have  no  common  basis,  no  equal 
platform,  either  for  argument  or  appeal.  Naturally, 
I  stand  upon  the  "  Word."  All  my  reasons  for  re- 
linquishment and  separation  are  brought  from  it. 
As  an  ex-Mason  put  it  the  other  day  to  me,  "Why, 
sir,  before  I  found  Christ  Masonry  was  the  best 
thing  I  had,  for  I  did  not  understand  the  Bible.  It 
was  my  religion.  But,  thank  God,  I  have  found 
the  real  and  true,  and  have  discarded  the  false  and 
spurious."  Oaly  when  the  sovereignty  of  the 
"I'ruth"  is  acknowledged  can  the  "Sword"  be  wield- 
ed on  this  subject. 

An  evangelist,  of  great  force,  full  of  the  truth, 
and  fearless  to  proclaim  it,  has  recently  visited  a 
village  near  me.  From  all  I  can  see  he  turns  many 
sinners  both  from  himself  and  from  the  Word  by 
preaching  on  this  subject  before  his  hearers  are 
ready  for  it.  Not  knowing  the  Lord  of  life,  nor 
holding  him  as  precious,  they  cleave  to  the  best 
thing  they  know  of.  Masonry,  etc. 

Here  in  the  Territory  Masonry  is  eminently  re- 
spectable. Many  of  its  adherents  are  Christians; 
some  are  ministers.  It  is  thus  rendered  most  spe- 
cious. And  at  the  last  Grand  Lodge  meeting  the 
whole  concern  was  given  a  white-washing,  which  has 
rendered  it  still  more  dangerous  and  plausible.  A 
strong  temperance  platform  was  adopted  amid  a 
great  amount  of  enthusiasm.  The  sepulchre  so  fair, 
so  whited,  so  brilliant  on  the  outside,  is  full  of  dead 
men's  bones  within.  Masonry  is  Christless,  and 
thus  lifeless.  It  is  powerless  to  enforce  morality. 
I  have  not  seen  it  yet  attempt  this.  But  every 
member  of  the  order  guilty  of  an  act  of  drunken- 
ness was  to  be  dealt  with  by  his  lodge.  Since  then 
I  have  seen  several  reeling,  several  notorious  drink- 
ers, but  their  lodge  has  failed  to  utter  a  word  of 
protest.  So  hollow  and  false  is  this  whole  thing 
that  near  me  are  two  or  three  Masons  who  openly 
and  constantly  ridicule  the  religion  of  Jesus.  They 
are  infidels. 

There  is  another  noticeable  thing  about  Masons. 
It  is  their  perpetual  boast  that  Masonry  is  built 
upon  the  Bible.  How  strange,  if  true,  this  is,  you 
may  know  when  I  tell  you  it  is  a  rare  thing  to  see 
Masons  in  my  church. 

Part  of  my  time,  thought,  work  and  prayer  is 
given  to  the  Negroes.  Recently  I  heard  a  very  in- 
teresting man,  now  dead,  and  one  who  incidentally 
recalls  Mrs.  Stowe's  "Uncle  Tom."  His  master,  a 
Choctaw  citizen,  is  yet  alive  and  lives  not  very  far 
from  here.  "Ole  Uncle  Isaac"  was  a  very  pious 
Christian;  his  soul  all  aglow  for  God  and  the  salva- 
tion of  his  fellow  slaves.  It  was  his  custom  to  go 
off  on  Sabbaths  to  preach  in  the  surrounding  settle- 
ments. After  awhile  his  master,  hearing  of  it,  for- 
bade him,  telling  him  at  the  same  time  that  if  he 
tranegressed  this  order  he  would  be  whipped.  Sab- 
bath came,  and  Isaac  went  ofl  and  preached  as 
usual.  Oil  Monday  morning,  before  the  hands  were 
sent  out  to  the  field,  the  master  called  up  Isaac  and 
asked  him  as  to  where  he  spent  the  previous  day. 


Isaac  told  him  that  he  had  to  go  and  preach,  where- 
upon the  old  man  was  fastened  to  a  tree  and  given 
a  severe  whipping.  This  Sabbath  preaching  and 
Monday  whipping  went  on  for  some  time,  until  at 
length  the  master  fell  ill,  and  before  him  was  the 
prospect  of  death.  In  his  extremity,  unable  to  find 
a  white  minister,  he  sent  for  Uncle  Isaac,  who  com- 
ing, very  lovingly  and  fervently  prayed  for  his  re- 
covery. The  master  got  well;  and  on  the  following 
Saturday,  when  the  hands  had  all  come  in  from  the 
field,  he  called  Isaac  and  said,  pointing,  "See  that 
black  mule?"  "Yes,  massa."  "Well,  to-morrow 
you  take  that  mule  and  go  preaching,  and  every 
Sunday  you  want  to."  So  Isaac  preached  as  long 
as  he  lived,  and  is  still  preaching,  for  "he  being 
dead  yet  speaketh"  through  his  Christian  fortitude, 
holy  living,  and  godly  conversation.  But  time  is 
up  and  room  is  occupied,  so  no  more  just  now  from 
Lehigh,  Ind.  Ter.  "  OaiON." 


WHAT   HAS    THE   LODGE    DONE    FOB    TEM- 
PBRANGB f 


A  discussion  of  this  question  has  been  lately  oc- 
cupying much  space  in  the  daily  press  of  Galesburg, 
111.,  conducted  by  the  Good  Templars  on  one  side, 
and  by  Mr.E.  B.  Chambers,  an  old  and  respected  resi- 
dent, of  that  city,  now  removed  to  Omaha,on  the  other, 
That  truth  and  righteousness  have  an  able  defender 
in  Mr.  Chambers  appears  in  the  following  from  the 
Republican  Register  of  the  23d  ult.  Articles  from 
both  sides  have  since  appeared: 

Perhaps  a  discussion  was  necessary  to  have  the 
fact  clearly  brought  out  that  their  organization  does 
not  antagonize  the  church.  If  there  was  any  doubt 
about  it  a  discussion  might  the  most  readily  evolve 
the  fact.  And  then  by  proclaiming  it  to  the  world 
we  may  all  know  it  is  so.  But  then,  how  strange 
that  "with  the  blessed  truths  of  the  Gospel,  this 
organization  teaches  its  members  to  learn  at  the  feet 
of  the  Son  of  God  the  lessons  of  Faith,  Hope  and 
Charity,"  it  is  necessary  by  discussion  to  prove  it 
and  proclaim  it  to  the  public.  If  such  are  its  meth- 
ods, and  yet  such  its  necessity,  why  need  we  be  sur- 
prised to  learn  by  your  next  issue  that  the  Ameri- 
can Bible  Society  has  been  able  to  clearly  show  the 
world  that  it,  too,  does  not  antagonize  the  church. 
When  "the  children"  are  brought  into  the  lodge  one 
good  text  to  have  them  "learn  at  the  feet  of  the  Son 
of  God"  would  be  one  of  his  own  utterances:  "I 
spake  openly  to  the  world,  and  in  secret  have  I  said 
nothing."  And  another  which  has  the  divine  sanc- 
tion would  be:  "Have  no  fellowship  with  the  un- 
fruitful works  of  darkness,  but  rather  reprove  them." 
And  yet  another:  "Be  ye  not  unequally  yoked  to- 
gether with  unbelievers;  for  what  communion  hath 
light  with  darkness?"  Yet  if  by  teaching  them  they 
would — as  I  fear  they  might — produce  rebellion  in 
the  organization,  why,  then,  I  can  see  no  safety  for 
it,  except  to  adopt  lodge  methods  and  suppress 
them.  And,  gentlemen  of  the  order,  as  long  as 
both  your  organization  exists  in  its  present  form, 
and  these  three  stems  continue  to  grow  in  the  Bible 
and  humanity  feeds  upon  their  fruit,  just  so  long 
will  the  temperance  forces  be  divided  and  weakened 
in  their  work,  and  hindered  in  their  desired  results. 

Already  has  this  would-be  handmaiden  of  the 
church  put  back  the  temperance  reform,  if  we  may 
credit  the  statements  of  those  most  capable  of  judg- 
ing of  its  effects  upon  the  cause  it  so  loudly  pro- 
fesses to  champion.  Rsv.  Dr.  John  Marsh,  the  late 
venerable  secretary  of  the  American  Temperance 
Union,  said,  such,  in  his  opinion,  had  been  the  effect 
of  organizing  the  secret  temperance  societies.  We 
all  know  the  value  of  our  Missionary  Secretaries' 
opinion  upon  causes  that  would  help  or  binder  in 
mission  work,  because  their  position  and  relation  to 
the  work  enables  them  to  judge  more  comprehens- 
ively and,  therefore,  more  accurately  than  those  out 
of  their  position  and  relation.  As  the  greater  por- 
tion of  Dr.  Marsh's  public  life,  at  the  center  and 
head  of  the  temperance  movement  in  the  United 
States,  gave  him  a  point  of  observation  such  as  no 
other  person  had,  the  value  of  his  opinion  also  be- 
comes readily  apparent.  Agreeing  with  him  fully. 
Dr.  Jewitt,  another  most  competent  judge,  says  that 
the  secret  temperance  societies,  by  dividing  the  tem- 
perance forces,  weakened  their  combined  efforts  and 
put  back  the  temperance  reform  for  twenty-five 
years.  Dr.  Jewitt  was  a  field-marshal  on  duty,  a 
veritable  Lannes  in  the  temperance  cause;  and  his 
opinion  is  worthy  the  respect  due  a  general  who 
has  fought  over  the  ground  and  knows  what  he  is 
talking  about.  Any  one  with  an  average  memory, 
who  was  old  enough  to  remember,  knows  that  the 
onward  sweep  of  the  Washingtonian  movement  was 
stayed  at  the  time  these  lodges  came  into  existence. 
John  B.  Gough,  whose  portrait  on  the  wall  of  the 
lodge  room  in  Galesburg  might  lead  some  to  think 


he  was  their  patron  saint,  said  he  never  felt  so  hu- 
miliated before  in  his  life  as  when  at  a  secret  tem- 
perance society's  parade  he  was  induced  to  put  on 
their  regalia,  and  the  feeling  became  so  intolerable 
that,  to  use  his  own  words,  "while  the  procession 
was  moving  I  snatched  off  the  yoke,  rammed  it  un- 
der the  seat  of  my  carriage,  and  never  after  had 
anything  to  do  with  the  organization."  Evidently 
he  thought  it  was  not  helping  the  reform  so  near  to 
his  heart,  but  rather  menaced  the  cause  it  professed 
to  help.  If  the  testimony  of  such  men  about  the 
relation  of  these  societies  to  the  cause  of  temper- 
ance is  worth  anything,  what,  then,  must  we  think 
of  their  relation  to  the  church? 

Would  it  not  be  strange,  notwithstanding  the  pres- 
ence of  many  good  people  in  these  temperance  or- 
ganizations, if  we  should  be  increasingly  able  to 
note  outcropping  the  tendencies  and  innovations 
which  Dr.  Patton  of  Washington  was  able  to  dis- 
tinguish; and  of  which,  speaking  ot  the  lodge  in 
general,  he  says:  "However  secret  societies  may 
differ  among  themselves,  yet  they  are  all  anti-Re- 
publican in  their  tendencies,  and  are  all  leading  to 
the  same  results,  viz.,  a  substitution  of  worldly  and 
selfish  innovations  for  moral  and  religious  influen- 
ces, and,  ultimately,  to  the  theoretical  and  practical 
neutralization  of  Christianity."  In  illustration  Mr. 
Moody  says  he  came  very  nearly  joining  the  Good 
Templars,  but  learning  that  the  lodge  he  expected 
to  join  was  getting  up  a  ball,  he  determined  to  not 
become  "unequally  yoked"  with  it.  He  also  says 
that  when  one  of  their  lodges,  in  a  body,  attended 
a  meeting  of  his  in  England  their  conduct  so  dis- 
gusted him  that  when  they  left  he  felt  as  if  he  was 
rid  of  a  cage  of  unclean  birds.  Mr.  Moody  is  some- 
what capable  of  judging  what  worldly  innovations 
are,  and  what  antagonizes  and  what  helps  the  church. 
As  farther  showing  the  trend  of  this  particular  or- 
ganization. General  Consul  C.  A.  Berg  of  Stock- 
holm, a  renowned  champion  for  temperance,  has  re- 
cently withdrawn  from  the  Good  Templars,  as  he 
cannot  pray  for  an  order  which,  claiming  a  good 
purpose,yet  denies  the  divine  truth.  Listen  to  whatMr. 
Wrawrinsky,  the  head  chief  of  the  Swedish  branch 
of  the  order,  says:  "If  the  God  of  the  religious  peo- 
ple is  the  true  God,  then  he  is  a  God-denier."  See- 
ing this  drift,  the  Swedish  newspapers,  formerly 
supporting  the  order,  now  declare  that  secretism  is 
only  a  bait  on  the  hook  to  entice  plain  people,  and 
ask,  "What  is  gained  if  one  is  turned  from  alcohol- 
ism only  to  take  a  ten-fold  worse  poison?"  0!?en 
Lovejoy  thought  such  temperance  societies  were  not 
decoy  ducks  for  the  church,  but  did  think  they  were 
for  Freemasons  and  Odd-fellows.  Such  testimony 
perhaps  shows  the  necessity,  if  it  does  not  the  wis- 
dom, of  the  lodge  in  discussing  its  own  character 
and  its  relation  to  the  church  before  proclaiming 
them  to  the  world.  And  it  also  suggests  the  thought 
— of  the  correctness  of  which  we  are  quite  sure — 
that  many  of  those  now  active  and  controlling  in 
the  temperance  lodges  are  also  members  of  other 
secret  fraternities,  as,  for  instance,  the  Masonic  and 
the  Odd-fellow.  Jonathan  Blanchard  predicted, 
when  these  temperance  lodges  first  appeared  in 
Galesburg,  they  would  prove  forerunners  of  Masonic 
and  Odd-fellow  lodges.  Many  scouted  the  idea  as 
preposterous,  but  most  of  us  who  were  there  at  the 
time  know  how  much  sooner  than  we  expected  the 
prediction  became  an  accomplished  fact. 

If  assistance  to  the  church  and  the  good  of  the 
temperance  cause  is  really  the  object  of  the  Good 
Templars,  then  why  not  drop  the  password  and  the 
secrecy,  and  adopt  a  method  more  in  accord  with 
Christ's?  Miss  Willard  says  they  amount  to  but 
little,  and  she  would  be  glad  to  see  them  done  away 
I  presume  most  of  the  Good  Templars  would  say 
they  agree  with  her.  I  have  heard  many  of  them 
say  as  much.  But  will  they  do  it?  They  show  no 
indication  of  it,  and  if  they  do  not,  have  we  not  a 
right  to  believe  they  love  their  secrecy  and  the  priv- 
ileges and  opportunities  the  secret  conclave  affords 
more  than  they  do  the  cause  they  profess  to  espouse? 
Another  Presidential  election  is  just  at  hand,  and 
the  chances  the  lodge  will  give  for  managing  will 
not  be  readily  abandoned  by  selfish  wire-pullers. 
Their  recent  "great"  chief  Finch  so  cherished  the 
secret  tie  that  when  President  Charles  A.  Blanchard, 
at  the  request  of  representative  members  of  both 
the  Prohibition  and  American  parties  at  their  last 
Presidental  nominating  convention,  presented  and 
explained,  but  did  not  advocate,  the  American  plat- 
form, he  hissed  the  latter  when  he  mentioned  and 
commenced  to  explain  the  anti-secrecy  plank,  and 
created  such  a  disturbance  in  the  convention  that 
Mr.  Blanchard  was  compelled  to  sit  down  without 
finishing  his  remarks.  To  many  this  looked  very 
much  as  if  he  cared  more  for  his  Good  Templarism 
than  be  did  for  either  prohibition  or  free  speech. 
And  then,  when  only  a  few  short  months  before  his 


Mat  24, 1888 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


death,  he,  in  behalf  of  the  lodge,  assailed  with  black- 
guardism some  ministers  of  the  Gospel  "of  the  Son 
of  God,"  it  seemed  just  as  evident  he  cared  more 
for  secretism  than  he  did  for  the  church.  Thus  he 
taught  the  lessons  of  faith,  hope  and  charity  I  Faith, 
hope  and  charity,  forsooth!  Liberty,  equality,  fra- 
ternity! shouted  Robespierre  and  his  compatriots! 
Such  faith  is  duress;  such  hope,  ostracism;  and  such 
charity,  boycott. 

If  your  methods  of  advancing  a  good  cause  and 
redeeming  the  world  are  superior  to  Christ's — who, 
by  the  way,  is  supposed  to  be  the  Christian's  pat- 
tern— why  not  induce  our  Galesburg  pastors  to  tyle 
their  church  doors,  place  at  them  both  an  outside 
and  an  inside  sentinel,  permit  none  to  pass  its  por- 
tals except  those  who  can  give  the  password  and 
the  grip,  and  in  their  foresworn,  oath-bound  seclu- 
sion initiate  only  such  of  their  flocks  into  those  mys- 
teries and  processes  of  religion  and  sobriety,  which 
will  eventually  land  them  in  the  banqueting  hall  of 
the  grand  lodge  above,  and  thus  spread  the  Saviour's 
kingdom.  How  much  sooner  do  you  suppose  you 
would  in  this  way  bring  the  world  to  Christ  than  by 
his  own  chosen,  open,  and  not  secret,  method  when 
upon  earth?  When  our  Galesburg  churches  have 
so  burlesqued  Christianity  and  the  cause  of  temper- 
'  ance,  when  they  have  thus  dishonored  the  wisdom 
of  Christ,  when  by  these  methods,  if  not  by  their 
traditions,  they  have  made  void  the  words  of  the  Son 
of  God,  then,  and  not  till  then,  let  it  be  truly  said 
of  the  church  that  it  does  not  antagonize  Good 
Templarism.  When  that  day  has  come,  and  because 
of  it,  let  the  church  then  vote  itself  a  good  charac- 
ter, to  "justify  it  before  men,"  even  though  some 
things  which  are  "highly  esteemed  among  men,''  do 
happen  to  be  "abomination  in  the  sight  of  God." 

Whether  each  are  responsible  or  not  for  the  oth- 
er's appearance  in  Galesburg,  it  is  nevertheless  a 
fact  that  the  lodge  and  the  retailing  of  intoxicating 
liquors  as  a  beverage  came  there  at  about  the  same 
time,  and  the  first  lodge  was  a  temperance  lodge. 
Previously  Galesburg  had  been  free  from  the  lodge 
and  from  liquor.  And  now,  while  the  strife  is  going 
on  between  the  saloon  and  the  temperance  forces, 
with  how  much  terror  do  your  lodges  inspire  the 
saloons  in  Galesburg?  They  understand,  whether 
you  do  or  not,  that  your  work  is  "unfruitful,"  and 
smile  while  you  are  indulging  yourselves  in  the 
lodge  with  "some  mighty  fine  work,"  as  a  Temple  of 
.Honor  man  expressed  it  to  me  recently,  and  divid- 
ing the  temperance  forces.  You  will  never  have  the 
confidence  of  temperance  people  outside  the  lodge, 
such  as  you  would  have  if  there  was  no  lodge. 
However  you  may  talk  or  expostulate  or  vote  your- 
selves a  good  character,  the  feeling  is  as  natural  as 
it  is  in  a  mirror  for  face  to  answer  to  face.  Presi- 
dent Fairchild,  of  Oberlin,  says:  "The  tendency  to 
organize  in  secret  bodies,  political,  social,  religious 
and  literary  seems  to  indicate  distrust  of  the  ordi- 
nary institutions  of  society,and  will  surely  generate 
the  distrust  from  which  it  seems  to  spring.  The 
very  idea  of  a  secrei  combination  implies  a  barbar- 
ous age,  or  a  state  of  social  anarchy  in  which  such 
arrangements  are  necessary  for  safety.  There  is  no 
place  for  it  in  a  Christian  civilization."  The  lodge 
had  not  the  confidence  of  the  Prohibition  voters  as 
a  body  at  the  last  Presidential  election,  and  it  was 
uncertain  and  wavering  in  its  course,  although  it 
finally  decided,  as  an  organization,  I  think,  to  not 
take  upon  itself  political  character  and  work.  To 
what  extent  the  lodge  is  responsible  forthe"unfruit- 
ful"  results  at  the  last  city  election  in  Galesburg, 
God  knows.  But  this  much  man  knows,  that  the 
combined  results  of  all  your  years  of  lodge  work 
and  effort  never  created  a  tithe  of  the  alarm  and 
outcry  throughout  all  the  ranks  of  the  liquor  deal- 
ers that  the  Prohibition  vote  did  at  the  last  Presi- 
dential election. 

Is  it  not  time  to  call  a  halt  to  these  secret  organi- 
zations and  heed  the  words  of  Disraeli,  who  says: 
"Secret  societies  are  hurrying  the  civil  governments 
of  the  world  to  the  brink  of  a  precipice  over  which 
law  and  order  will  ultimately  fall  and  perish  to- 
gether?" 

And  also  those  of  Wendell  Phillips,  who  remarks 
of  secret  societies:  "They  are  a  great  evil;  entirely 
out  of  place  in  a  republic,aud  no  patriot  stiould  join 
or  uphold  them.  Considering  the  great  forces  which 
threaten  the  welfare  of  the  nation  in  the  next  thirty 
years,  and  how  readily  and  efficiently  they  can  use 
any  secret  organizations,  they  should  not  be  allowed 
to  exist." 

And  yet  again  those  of  a  recent  writer  who  asks: 
"Is  it  not  a  marvel  that  our  colleges,  seminaries  and 
churches  can  see  the  lodge  organizations  extending 
downward  from  the  Jesuits,Ma8ons  and  Odd-fellows 
through  every  occupation  and  grade  of  society  until 
it  seeks  to  control  the  whole  country,  and  at  the 
same  time  make  no  protest." 


NATIONAL  BIN  THB  CAUSE  OF  NATIONAL 
TB0VBL3. 


A  DISOOURSl  BT  BKV.  WM.  WIBHABT,  D.  D. 


"And  he  anBwered,  I  have  not  troubled  Israel ;  but  thou  and 
thy  father's  house,ln  that  ye  have  forsaken  the  cammandmentB 
of  the  Lord."— 1  Kings  18 :  18. 

Our  text  refers  not  to  personal,  but  to  national 
trouble — to  those  terrible  judgments  and  calamities 
which  at  that  time  were  inflicted  on  Israel  as  a  na- 
tion. It  is  not  every  sin  in  a  nation  that  is 
properly  the  cause  of  national  trouble,  or  that  will 
incur  the  infliction  of  national  judgments;  because 
it  is  not  every  sin  in  a  nation  that  is  properly  a  sin 
of  the  nation  as  such.     We  shall  then: 

I.  /Submit  a  few  remarks  in  regard  to  national  tin. 
1.  We  remark  in  general,  that  nations  as  such  are 
subject  to  the  moral  government  of  God — that  his 
law  takes  cognizance  of  their  conduct,  and  that  he 
holds  them  accountable  when  they  violate  his  will, 
whether  as  made  known  by  the  light  of  nature  or  of 
revelation.  Some  men  seem  unable  to  understand 
this  doctrine;  they  cannot  see  that  there  is  a  nation- 
al accountability  to  God,  separate  and  distinct  from 
the  accountability  of  the  individual  persons  of  whom 
the  nation  is  composed.  Others,  whose  intelligence 
would  lead  us  to  expect  better  things  of  them,  ob- 
stinately deny  this  doctrine;  and  how  many  ignore 
it  and  practically  disregard  it!  How  many  will 
steruly  reprobate  and  denounce  an  act  of  injustice 
or  wickedness  in  an  individual,  while  they  will  re- 
gard the  same  act  as  morally  indifferent  or  even 
praiseworthy  in  a  nation;  yea,  and  in  their  civil  ca- 
pacity will  practically  endorse  it  and  promote  it! 
They  seem  to  suppose  that  the  guilt  of  a  wicked  act 
is  lost  amidst  the  multiplicity  of  agencies  and  influ- 
ences that  have  contributed  to  the  production  of  it, 
when  performed  by  a  nation,  or  that  the  agreement 
of  many  in  an  act  of  rebellion  against  God  takes 
away  the  moral  obliquity  of  the  act.  And  such  per- 
sons usually  regard  national  adversity  and  national 
overthrow  as  the  result  of  bad  fortune  or  of  the 
chances  of  war,  but  not  as  divine  judgments  or  ret- 
ributions. Such  notions  are  a  sad  evidence  of  that 
natural  atheism  of  the  human  heart  which  would 
banish  God  from  the  world  which  he  has  made,  or 
which  proceeds  upon  the  theory  that  if  the  world 
was  not  made  by  chance,  it  is  at  least  governed  by 
chance. 

But  let  us  look  at  this  subject  for  a  moment  in 
the  light  of  reason  and  of  divine  revelation.  It  is 
evident  that  nations  as  well  as  the  individual  per- 
sons of  whom  they  are  composed  are  creatures  of 
God.  They  are  not  mere  voluntary  associations  or 
financial  firms,that  may  be  constituted  and  dissolved 
at  pleasure,  but  divine  creations  formed  and  pre- 
served in  the  providence  of  God  for  moral  and  relig- 
ious as  well  as  secular  purposes.  God  is  the  author 
of  national  as  well  as  personal  existence.  He  has 
not  only  created  the  inhabitants  of  the  various 
countries  and  given  their  land8,and  providentiallypre- 
scribed  their  territorial  boundaries,  but  through  the 
necessities  and  dependencies  of  that  social  nature 
which  he  has  given  them,  he  has  assimilated  and 
molded  them  into  great  social  bodies  or  organisms, 
called  nations.  These  organisms  live  through  suc- 
cessive generations,  while  the  individuals  of  whom 
they  are  composed,  die.  Moreover,  they  are  endow- 
ed with  intelligence  and  wisdom,  with  a  conscience 
or  moral  judgment,  and  with  the  power  of  volition, 
for  there  is  a  national  intelligence,  a  national  con- 
science and  a  national  will,  which  are  all  exercised 
and  exhibited  in  the  general  conduct  of  nations. 
These  nations  also  exercise  powers  and  put  forth 
acts  that  are  distinctively  national;  acts  for  which 
the  nations  themselves  as  such  can  alone  be  respon- 
sible. They  form  treaties,  declare  war,  enact 
laws,  impose  taxes,  etc.,  in  all  of  which  they 
are  certainly  subject  to  the  moral  government  of 
that  God  who  created  them,and  may  do  right  or  may 
do  wrong;  may  obey  the  voice  of  God  or  may  dis- 
obey it.  And  hence  nations  as  such  must  be  re- 
sponsible to  God  for  the  moral  rectitude  of  such 
acts. 

This  national  accountability  is  recognized  by  the 
nations  in  their  intercourse  with  one  another.  All 
international  laws  as  well  as  leagues  and  compacts 
are  founded  upon  and  suppose  the  moral  personali- 
ty and  responsibility  of  nations.  They  are  binding 
on  the  nations  as  such  and  not  on  the  individuals  of 
whom  they  are  composed.  One  nation, for  example, 
will  demand  of  another  the  fulfillment  of  a  compact 
hundreds  of  yeara  after  it  was  formed  and  after 
the  inhabitants  of  both  nations  have  passed  away; 
for  though  the  inhabitants  die,  yet  the  nations  still 
live  and  hold  one  another  responsible  for  their  na 
tional  acts.  And  there  are  few  persons  so  ignorant 
or  destitute  of  patriotism  as  not  to  maintain  that 
their  own  nation  has  rights,  and  that  others  are  re- 


sponsible for  the  wrongs  they  may  commit  against 
it.  But  if  nations  are  thus  amenable  to  one  another 
are  they  not  also  amenable  to  that  God  who  has 
created  them  and  who  bestows  upon  them  all  their 
power  and  greatness? 

But  what  is  the  testimony  of  Scripture  on  this 
subject?  It  is  perfectly  obvious  from  the  Scriptures 
that  God  takes  cognizance  of  the  character  and  con- 
duct of  nations  as  such,  and  that  he  pronounces 
them  righteous  or  wicked  according  as  they  are  con- 
formed or  not  conformed  to  his  revealed  will. 
"Righteousness  exalteth  a  nation,  but  sin  is  a  re- 
proach to  any  people." — Prov.  14:34.  "Ah!  sinful 
nation,a  people  laden  with  iniquity." — l8a.l  :4.  God 
says  of  the  Assyrian,"!  will  send  against  him  a  hypo- 
critical nation." — Isa.  10:6.  He  charged  the  Jewish 
nation  with  the  sin  of  robbery:  "Ye  have  robbed 
me,  even  this  whole  nation." — Mai.  3:4.  He  also 
promises  national  prosperity  and  stability  as  the  re- 
sult of  national  righteousness,  but  threatens  nation- 
al adversity  and  ruin  as  the  result  of  national  wick- 
edness: "At  what  instant  I  shall  speak  concerning 
a  nation  and  concerning  a  kingdom  to  pluck  up  and 
to  pull  down  and  to  destroy  it,  if  that  nation  against 
whom  I  have  pronounced  turn  from  their  evil,  I  will 
regent  of  the  evil  that  I  thought  to  do  unto  them. 
And  at  what  instant  I  shall  speak  concerning 
a  nation  and  concerning  a  kingdom  to 
build  and  to  plant  it,  if  it  do  evil  in  my  sight 
that  it  obey  not  my  voice,  then  I  will  repent  of  the 
good  wherewith  I  said  I  would  benefit  them." — Jer. 
18:7-10.  Here  then  is  the  decree  of  heaven  con- 
cerning nations:  That  nation  which  obeys  the  voice 
of  God  shall  enjoy  national  salvation,  while  that 
nation  which  disobeys  his  voice  shall  endure  nation- 
al damnation.  .AH  history  shows  that  this  has  ever 
been  the  case,  and  we  know  from  the  relation  that 
God  sustains  to  his  creatures  that  it  ever  shall  be. 
Infidelity  may  deny  and  profanity  may  mock,  but 
they  cannot  change  established  facts,  nor  prevent 
the  results  which  necessarily  flow  from  moral  causes. 
But  now  we  come  to  the  question.  What  sins  are 
national?  or  when  is  sin  of  such  a  character  as  to 
involve  a  nation  in  guilt,  and  so  bring  trouble  upon 
it?     And  in  reply  we  remark: 

2.  That  any  open  or  public  violation  of  the  moral 
law, when  committed  or  practiced  with  impunity, will 
render  a  nation  guilty.  This  law  was  written  upon 
the  heart  of  man  in  bis  first  creation,  and  after  be- 
ing effaced  by  the  fall  was  again  clearly  revealed  by 
Jesus  Christ  upon  Mount  Sinai.  It  is  of  universal 
and  perpetual  obligation;  for  it  is  founded  upon 
those  immutable  relations  which  men  sustain  to 
their  Creator  and  to  one  another;  and  it  is  so  emi- 
nently adapted  to  the  nature  of  man  as  a  rational 
and  social  being  that  its  observance  not  only  tends 
to  the  glory  of  God  but  also  to  the  happiness  and 
well-being  of  human  society,  whilst  its  violation 
always  has  the  opposite  tendency.  Now,  God  has 
ordained  civil  government  for  the  vindication  of 
this  law  among  men.  It  is  "for  the  punishment  of 
evil  doers  and  for  the  praise  of  them  that  do  well." 
— 1  Peter  2:14.  And  the  law  of  God  is  certainly 
the  rule  by  which  welldoing  and  evil-doing  are  to 
be  determined.  The  magistrate  is  "a  minister  of 
God,  a  revenger  to  execute  wrath  upon  him  that  do- 
eth  evil,"  that  is,  upon  him  that  openly  violates 
God's  law,  and  it  is  in  this  way  that  he  is  a  minis- 
ter of  God  for  good  to  human  society.  See  Rom. 
13:4.  Hence,  when  God's  law  is  openly  violated  in 
a  nation,  and  the  violation  of  it  is  not  punished  by 
the  government  that  represents  the  nation,  and 
through  which  the  nation  wills  and  acts,  God  holds 
not  only  the  actual  violator  of  his  law  accountable, 
but  the  nation  as  well.  The  non-punishment  of  pub- 
lic crime  in  a  nation  implies  such  a  consent  to  it  or 
connivance  at  it  on  the  part  of  the  nation  as  makes 
the  nation  itself  a  partaker  of  it.  We  have  a  clear 
illustration  of  this  principle  in  the  reason  assigned 
by  Moses  for  the  execution  of  capital  punishment 
upon  the  murderer:  "Ye  shall  take  no  satisfaction 
for  the  life  of  the  murderer  which  is  guilty  of  death 

for  blood  it  defileth  the  land,  and  the  land  can 

not  be  cleansed  of  the  blood  that  is  shed  therein.but 
by  the  blood  of  him  that  shed  it." — Num.  85:31-33. 
The  meaning  of  this  evidently  is  that  the  crime  of 
murder  renders  the  inhabitants  of  a  land  or  a  nation 
guilty,  and  there  can  be  no  expiation  or  pardon  for 
a  land  or  nation  in  which  it  is  committed,  except  by 
taking  the  life  of  the  murderer.  When  a  nation 
will  not  vindicate  the  law  and  moral  government  of 
God  by  punishing  the  atrocious  crime  of  murder, 
God  will  hold  that  nation  accountable,  and  will  in 
due  time  vindicate  his  own  law  by  inflicting  judg- 
ments upon  the  nation  itself.  And  when  he  does 
this  he  is  said  "to  make  inquisition  for  blood"  as  in 
Psalm  9:12,  and  the  earth  is  said  to  disclose  her 
blood  and  no  more  to  cover  her  slain,  as  in  Isaiah 
26:21. 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


Mat  24, 1888 


But  this  principle  is  not  to  be  applied  merely  to 
the  crime  of  murder,  but  also  to  any  other  public  or 
gross  violation  of  the  law  of  God.  And  it  is  a  great 
principle  of  the  divine  government,  which  is  appli- 
cable to  all  nations  at  all  times.  Open  immorality, 
when  practiced  with  impunity,  will  render  not  only 
the  person  committing  it,but  also  the  community  or 
nation  in  which  it  is  committed,  guilty,  or,  in  the 
language  of  Scripture,  "will  defile  a  land."  It  was 
not  merely  murder,  but  idolatry ,ince8t,  adultery  and 
other  moral  impurities,  that  rendered  the  nations  of 
Canaan  guilty,  so  that  God  in  his  righteous  judg- 
ment drove  them  out  before  the  children  of  Israel. 
It  was  with  reference  to  these  open  immoralities, 
which  had  been  practiced  with  impunity,  that  God 
speaks  to  his  people  when  he  says,"Defile  not  your- 
selves in  any  of  these  things,  for  in  all  these  the  na- 
tions are  defiled  which  I  cast  out  before  you.  And 
the  land  is  defiled,  therefore  do  I  visit  the  iniquity 
thereof  upon  it,  and  the  land  itself  vomiteth  out  her 
inhabitants."— Lev.  19:24,  25. 

Nor  should  we  think  strange  of  this  principle.  It 
is  recognized  and  acted  upon  by  nations  in  their  in- 
tercourse with  one  another.  Let  a  citizen  of  one  na- 
tion invade  the  territory  and  violate  the  laws  of  an- 
other, will  not  the  latter  nation  demand  that  he  be 
punished,  and  regard  and  treat  the  former  nation  as 
an  accomplice  in  the  crime  if  it  should  protect  and 
not  punish  the  criminal?  On  this  subject  Black- 
stone  says:  "It  is  incumbent  upon  the  nation  injured 
first  to  demand  satisfaction  and  justice  to  ba  done 
on  the  oflEender  bj  the  state  to  which  he  beloDg8,and 
if  that  be  refused  or  neglected  the  sovereign  then 
avows  himself  an  accomplice  or  abettor  of  his  sub- 
ject's crime  and  draws  upon  his  community  the  ca- 
lamities of  foreign  war."  Now,  open  immorality  is 
an  invasion  of  the  empire  of  Jehovah,  a  revolt 
against  the  law  and  authority  of  the  Most  High,and 
has  he  no  rights  which  nations  as  such  are  bound  to 
respect?  May,  that  nation  which  will  not  vindicate 
the  moral  government  of  God  by  punishing  the  open 
and  gross  violations  of  his  law,  makes  itself  an  ac- 
complice in  sin  and  will  be  held  responsible. 

3.  But  if  open  immorality  when  practiced  with 
impunity  involves  a  nation  in  sin,  it  is  still  more  em- 
inently the  case  when  this  immorality  becomes  pre- 
dominant or  universal;  when  it  is  practiced  by  the 
great  majority  of  a  nation  and  there  are  none  or 
comparatively  few  who  oppose  it.  When  God  sent 
the  flood  upon  the  world  of  the  ungodly,  it  was 
when  "all  flesh  had  corrupted  his  way  upon  the 
earth." — Gen,  6:12.  And  when  he  overthrew  the 
cities  of  Sodom  and  Gomorrah,  it  was  when  ten 
righteous  persons  could  not  be  found  therein,  Gen. 
18:32.  And  so  at  the  time  when  the  words  of  our 
text  were  first  spoken  iniquity  was  predominant  in 
the  nation  of  Israel,  and  the  number  of  those  who 
opposed  the  prevailing  sin  of  idolatry  was  so  small 
and  they  were  so  destitute  of  power  or  influence 
that  they  were  induced  either  to  conceal  themselves 
or  their  sentiments  and  the  prophet  supposed  that 
he  was  left  alone  as  the  only  follower  of  the  true 
God.  "The  children  of  Israel  have  forsaken  thy 
covenant,  thrown  down  thine  altars  and  slain  thy 
prophets  with  the  edge  of  the  sword,  and  I,  even  I 
only,  am  left  and  they  seek  my  life  to  take  it  away." 
— 1  Kings  19:10.  Hence  God  was  pouring  out  his 
judgments  upon  the  land.  And  when  sin  becomes 
universal  in  a  nation,  when  it  pervades  and  perme- 
ates every  part  of  the  body  politic;  then  it  is  not 
only  in  the  highest  sense  national,  and  renders  the 
nation  guilty  before  God,  but  it  has  evidently  run 
to  its  full  height,  and  renders  the  nation  ripe  for 
judgment.  God  indeed  usually  holds  the  hand  of 
justice  back  and  waits  a  long  time  with  wicked  na- 
tions. Yea,  in  his  wonderful  patience  and  long-suf- 
fering he  usually  spares  them  so  long  as  there  is  a 
small  remnant  to  appear  for  him  and  oppose  the  pre- 
vailing corruption;  and  indeed  he  is  sometimes  rep- 
resented as  looking  or  seeking  for  some  man  to 
stand  up  publicly  for  the  vindication  of  his  claims 
as  the  sovereign  ruler  of  the  world  in  order  that  he 
may  have  some  reason  for  deferring  bis  act — his 
strange  act  of  judgment. 

4.  Again,  the  sins  of  civil  rulers  render  a  nation 
guilty  before  God  and  bring  trouble  upon  it.  "I 
have  not  troubled  Israel,  but  thou  and  thy  father's 
house,  in  that  ye  have  forsaken  the  commandments 
of  the  Lord."  Nor  should  we  think  strange  of  this. 
If  open  immorality  when  practicad  with  impunity 
by  a  private  citizen  defiles  a  land  or  renders  a  na- 
tion guilty,  how  much  more  when  practiced  by  the 
head  of  the  body  politic  or  by  a  ruler  who  acts  in 
the  name  and  as  the  representative  of  a  nation. 
P^ven  in  hereditary  governments  history  shows  that 
kings  and  princes  have  not  usually  been  guilty  of 
gross  acts  of  iniquity  without  some  degree  of  com- 
plicity on  the  part  of  Ihe  people.  They  have  either 
ueen  reduced  into  their  sin  by  the  evil  counsels  of 


a  predominant  party  among  their  people,  or,  on  the 
other  hand,they  have  seduced  the  people,  or  at  least 
a  majority  of  them,into  an  approval  and  support  of 
their  wicked  conduct  and  policy.  Jeroboam,the  son  of 
Nebat,  not  only  sinned  himself,  but  "made  Israel  to 
sin." — 1  Kings^  14:16.  Manasseh  "made  Judah  to 
sin  in  doing  that  which  was  evil  in  the  sight  of  the 
Lord."— 2  Kings  21:16. 

But  if  nations  are  responsible  for  the  sins  of  their 
rulers  in  hereditary  governments,  much  more  is 
this  the  case  in  a  republican  form  of  government 
like  our  own.  Here  the  people  are  the  direct  source 
of  all  political  power.  They  choose  their  own  rulers, 
and  that,  U9ually,with  a  full  knowledge  of  their  per- 
sonal character  and  of  their  sentiments  and  purpos- 
es in  relation  to  State  or  national  policy.  And  when 
these  rulers  prostitute  their  high  position  and  their 
official  power  to  the  promotion  of  vice  and  immor- 
ality; when  they  frame  mischief  by  law  and  exe- 
cute it,  they  are  only  acting  as  the  representatives 
of  the  will  of  the  people.  They  are  only  doing  what 
the  people  have  chosen  and  empowered  them  to  do. 
And  how  fearful  is  our  responsibility  as  a  people  or 
nation  in  this  respect. 

5.  Finally,  we  observe  that  sin  becomes  eminent- 
ly national  when  it  is  established  by  law. 

What  are  the  laws  of  nations  but  expressions  of 
the  national  will  prescribing  rules  for  the  conduct  of 
her  citizens?  Hence,  when  a  nation  through  her 
representatives  frames  and  sanctions  a  law  which  is 
contrary  to  the  law  of  God,  she  sets  her  will  above 
the  will  and  authority  of  the  Most  High.  Any  law 
which  either  authorizes  or  requires  a  violation  of 
the  revealed  will  of  God  is  a  deliberate  national  re- 
bellion against  the  government  of  him  whose  king- 
dom ruleth  over  all.  And  yet  such  laws  have  not 
been  of  rare  occurrence,  even  in  enlightened  and 
Christian  nations.  When  ungodly  men  wish  to  ac- 
complish some  wicked  purpose  or  practice  some  sys- 
tem of  iniquity,they  usually  endeavor  to  obtain  some 
legislative  enactment  in  its  favor  in  order  that  they 
may  practice  it  under  the  color  of  law.  Hence  the 
authority  of  existing  laws  has  been  made  a  pretext 
for  the  greatest  crimes.  "We  have  a  law,"  said  the 
crucifiers  of  Jesus,"and  by  our  law  he  ought  to  die." 
—John  19:7. 

It  is  not,  however,any  extenuation  of  sin,but  rath- 
er a  great  aggravation  of  it, that  it  is  practiced  under 
the  warrant  and  sanction  of  human  law.  It  implies 
deliberation,  combination  and  determination  in  an 
act  of  rebellion  against  the  moral  government  of 
God.  And  such  sin  is  not  only  a  national  sin,  but 
a  national  sin  of  the  most  flagrant  and  aggravated 
character,  on  account  of  which  God  threatens  the 
most  fearful  national  judgments.  See  Isaiah 
10:1-3. 

What  was  the  old  slave  code  of  our  country  but  a 
system  of  unrighteous  decrees  to  turn  aside  the 
needy  from  judgment  and  take  away  the  right  from 
the  poor  of  the  people.  And  God  only  fulfilled  his 
own  word  when  on  account  of  this  sin  he  brought 
the  sword  upon  our  land  and  laid  many  parts  of  it 
desolate  by  a  cruel,  fratricidal  war.  And  what  are 
all  those  laws  which  license  and  authorize  the  nefar- 
ious traffic  of  intoxicating  liquors  but  unrighteous 
decrees  to  turn  aside  the  needy  from  judgment  and  to 
take  away  the  right  from  the  poor  of  the  people? 
All  such  laws  are  in  direct  conflict  with  the  revealed 
will  of  God.  They  declare  that  to  be  lawful  which 
God  declares  to  be  unlawful  and  upon  which  he  pro- 
nounces a  fearful  woe:  "Woe  unto  him  that  giveth 
his  neighbor  drink,  that  puttest  thy  bottle  to  him 
and  makes  him  drunken  also." — Hab.  2:15.  And 
if  civil  government  was  instituted  for  the  punish- 
ment of  evil  doers,  is  it  not  a  perversion  of  the  very 
design  of  civil  government  to  throw  the  shield  of 
legal  protection  around  a  class  of  ungodly  men  who 
are  willfully  and  deliberately  destroying  their  fel- 
lowmen  and  subjecting  their  families  to  poverty  and 
shame?  —  men  who  are  mercenary  speculators, 
thriving  upon  the  vices  and  follies  of  others;  men 
who  relentlessly  trade  in  tears  and  anguish  and 
blood?  The  legalized  traffic  of  intoxicating  liquors 
is  a  great  national  crime.  It  defiles  the  land  or  ren- 
ders the  nation  guilty  before  God.  It  cries  for 
vengeance;  and  nothing  but  the  legal  prohibition  of 
this  traffic  and  the  appropriate  punishment  of  those 
who  may  engage  in  it  can  cleanse  the  land  or  deliv- 
er our  nation  from  national  guilt  and  national  judg- 
ments. 

We  may  farther  observe  that  when  a  wicked  law 
is  enacted  which  requires  us  to  violate  the  revealed 
will  of  God,  we  are  in  all  ordinary  cases  to  submit 
to  the  penalty,  but  never,  never,  obey  the  law. 
When  the  authority  of  man  comes  into  conflict  with 
the  authority  of  God  the  path  of  duty  is  perfectly 
plain:  We  are  always  to  obey  God  rather  than  men. 
Acts  5:29  Thus  did  Daniel  when  he  was  requir- 
ed by  a  royal  statute  to  ask  a  petition  of  no  God 


or  man  for  thirty  days,  save  of  the  King.  It  was 
for  obeying  wicked  laws  that  God  denounces  a  fear- 
ful judgment  upon  his  people  by  the  mouth  of  the 
prophet  Micah:  "The  statutes  of  Omri  are  kept  and 
all  the  works  of  the  house  of  Ahab,  and  ye  walk  in 
their  counsels,  that  I  should  make  thee  a  desolation 
and  the  inhabitants  thereof  a  hissing." — Micah 
6:16. 


Befobm  News. 


— President  C.  A.  Blanchard  started  on  a  hasty 
visit  to  New  York  Friday  evening.  He  expects  to 
attend  the  Michigan  State  Convention  at  Salem  on 
his  return. 

— Rev.  A.  H.  Springstein  is  engaged  to  speak  at 
Eagle,  Clinton  county,  Michigan,  after  the  State 
Convention,  on  the  28th,  29th  and  30th.  He  would 
be  glad  to  make  other  engagements  in  that  part  of 
the  State,  before  going  to  Sanilac  and  Tuscola  coun- 
ties.   Address  him  at  Eagle. 


THB    LODGB    TRAMPS   AND    DR.    LORIMER 
JUGGLES. 


NOTES   FaOM   THE    GENEaAL    AGENT   AT   THE   WASH- 
INGTON   HEADQUARTERS. 

Washington,  D.  C,  May  15,  1888. 

Yesterday  the  colored  Knight  Templars  and 
Knightsof  Pythias  were  on  exhibit  from  "early  mom 
to  dewy  eve."  They  were  about  fifty  in  number, 
and  the  most  gaily  uniformed  companies  I  have  ever 
seen.  Headed  by  a  band  of  music,  they  tramped 
up  and  down  Pennsylvania  Avenue,  and  over  the 
principal  streets  of  the  city,  passing  near  our  N.  C. 
A.  headquarters  at  least  five  times.  I  inquired  of 
several  the  purpose,  and  no  one  could  tell,  or  sug- 
gest any  good  likely  to  result.  It  was  a  weary  tramp 
in  the  interest  of  pride,  pomp  and  paganism,  at  the 
expense  of  good  morals,  and  doubtless  the  comforts 
of  home  to  the  families  of  some  who  strutted  so 
grandly  in  gaudy  uniforms. 

In  the  evening  I  attended  a  branch  of  Central 
Mission,  and  by  request  led  in  the  services.  The 
man  who  started  and  by  the  help  of  God  has  kept 
this  mission  branch  alive  was  himself  converted  less 
than  three  years  ago.  He  was  a  despiser  of  the 
Word,  and  mocked  the  church  and  her  living  Head, 
and  gave  himself  up  to  all  manner  of  wickedness. 
When  the  "Gospel  Wagon"  came  to  the  neighbor- 
hood, he,  with  others,  went  to  see  and  hear  and  was 
soundly  converted  to  God.  He  secured  a  small 
room  and  opened  a  Gospel  meeting  right  in  the 
midst  of  his  old  associates,  and  last  evening  he  told 
us  that  196  persons  had  professed  conversion  in  that 
little  room;  that  160  of  them  are  members  in  evan- 
gelical churches,  and  only  one  is  known  to  have  re- 
lapsed into  his  former  life  of  sin.  Before  conver- 
sion, this  brother  belonged  to  the  Odd-fellows;  but 
when  he  saw  and  accepted  Christ  he  abandoned  his 
lodge  and  now  says  to  the  inquirer  and  to  all,  "You 
can't  bring  your  lodges  into  this  blessed  kingdom. 
There  is  no  room  for  secret  societies  here;  they  are 
unfruitful  works  of  darkness,  and  you  must  give 
them  all  up  for  Christ's  sake." 

I  spoke  briefly  with  him  of  our  mission,  and  the 
work  upon  which  we  are  entering  here,  and  need  not 
add  that  he  was  deeply  interested.  His  employers 
claim  his  time  from  7  a,  m  until  6  p.  m  ,  but  with 
Bible  in  hand  or  in  his  pocket  he  finds  odd  mo- 
ments to  feast  his  own  soul  and  prepare  for  the 
work  of  the  evening.  One  touching  and  sad  inci- 
dent of  the  meeting  was  the  entrance  of  a  fine-look- 
ing, middle-aged  man  under  the  influence  of  liquor, 
accompanied  by  a  little  child  two  or  three  years  old, 
I  should  judge.  He  remained  reasonably  quiet 
while  I  was  talking,  but  seemed  to  wake  up  and  grow 
restive  when  the  singing  and  testimony  services  be- 
gan. He  finally  insisted  on  leaving,  and  went  out 
accompanied  by  the  child  and  a  young  man.  Soon 
the  young  man  returned  and  gave  his  testimony: 
"Six  weeks  and  four  days  ago,"  said  he,  "I  gave  my 
heart  to  Christ  in  this  room.  I  was  wild,  wicked 
and  miserable;  but  now  I  love  the  Lord  and  the 
mission,  and  am  happy."  Then,  turning  towards 
me,  he  said,  "That  man  that  went  out  from  here 
intoxicated  is  my  father,  and  I  want  you  to  pray 
for  his  conversion."  A  thousand  thoughts  of  high 
license,  low  license,  Congressional  protection  to  this 
curse  from  hell,  and  of  my  own  dear  children,  rushed 
through  my  mind,  and  I  did  pray  from  the  depths 
of  my  soul,  and  reconsecrated  my  life  to  the  Master 
and  renewed  my  covenant  to  pray  and  work  and 
vote  against  every  man,  measure  and  party  that 
winks  at  or  tolerates  this  insatiable  demon,  and  for 
the  men,women  and  party  who  seek  prohibition  and 
will  not  stay  the  hand  until  it  is  abolished  from  our 


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Vi 


May  24,  1888 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


Capitol  city,  and  driven  in  perpetual  exile  from  our 
whole  land.     May  God  hasten  the  day. 

I  am  planning  work  here  and  finding  friends 
every  day.  Nearly  every  one  with  whom  I  have 
talked,  including  college  presidents  and  pastors  as 
well  as  city  missionaries,  male  and  female,  of  vari- 
ous nationalities,  denominations  and  complexions, 
favor  an  industrial  Gospel  mission  work  here,  with 
no  compromise  with  the  lodge  inscribed  upon  our 
banner,  and  all  lines  of  nationality  or  color  blotted 
out  forever  with  the  precious  "blood  that  cleanseth 
from  all  sin."  I  have  told  the  brethren  and  sisters 
who  are  ready  for  the  work  that  I  shall  decide  noth- 
ing in  detail  until  I  hear  from  the  Board  and  Mrs. 
Stoddard  comes,  which  I  hope  will  be  soon. 

BAPTIST    MISSION   BOABDS. 

The  religious  event  of  Washington  this  week  is 
the  meeting  of  the  Baptist  Mission  Boards  in  con- 
vention. The  press  of  the  city  gives  a  full  program 
and  announces  the  approach  of  whole  train  and  boat 
loads  of  delegates  from  all  parts  of  the  country. 
Not  knowing  who  was  to  preach  I  went  with  Bro. 
Hinman  on  Sabbath  morning  to  Calvery  Baptist 
church.  Dr.  Lorimer  of  Chicago  was  introduced  by 
Dr.  Green,  the  pastor,  to  deliver  the  annual  address 
before  the  "Woman's  Baptist  Home  Missionary  So- 
ciety." His  subject  was  "The  Power  of  the  Cross." 
He  was  eloquent,  of  course,  and  prepared  us  to  ac- 
cept the  cross  as  a  symbol  of  Christianity  by  spend- 
ing a  half  hour  or  more  describing  the  symbolisms 
of  divers  peoples  and  religions  in  different  parts 
and  ages  of  the  world.  The  circle,  he  said,  repre- 
sented eternity;  the  triangle,  the  Trinity;  the  square, 
rectitude  among  men;  the  blazing  torch,  immortality; 
and  so  on  through  an  extended  list,  familiar  to  all 
who  have  read  Masonic  books.  These  explanations 
were  accompanied  by  gestures  found  in  the  illus- 
trated expositions  of  the  secret  orders,  those  of  the 
Knight  Templar  degree,  being  most  conspicuous. 
In  fact,  it  seemed  to  me  that  the  Dr.  had  mistaken 
the  place  for  an  encampment  or  conclave  of  "Sir 
Knights"  during  the  first  part  of  his  address,  and 
fancied  himself  posting  up  the  brethren  in  the  signs 
and  symbolisms  of  the  order. 

At  3  o'clock  my  soul  was  greatly  refreshed  while 
listening  to  Bro,  Hart  and  worshiping  with  the  Free 
Methodists;  5:30  I  joined  the  throng  that  gathered 
about  the  "Gospel  Wagon"  on  Market  Square  and 
was  delighted  to  hear  the  Gospel  preached  in  "dem- 
onstration of  the  Spirit  and  in  power,"  by  men  who 
two  years  and  less  ago  scoffed  and  derided  our  holy 
religion.  Some  of  the  appeals  to  old  comrades  were 
very  touching,  and  while  the  most  perfect  order  pre- 
vailed, the  response  of  uplifted  hands  must  have 
thrilled  with  joy  the  hearts  of  those  who  have  been 
so  long  and  persistently  praying,  laboring  and  watch- 
ing for  tokens  of  our  Lord's  coming.  The  night 
meeting  at  the  Central  station  was  a  time  of  refresh- 
ing; many  testified  that  they  had  been  led  to  Christ 
by  the  missionaries,  and  quite  a  number  requested 
to  be  remembered  in  prayer.        J.  P.  Stoddabd. 


L7I10H1N08  AT  VICK9BUBG. 

A  brave  colored  pastor —  The  Negro  must  be  protected — A 
grand  opening  for  reform. 

VicKSBURG,  Miss.,  May  12,  1888. 

Dear  Cynosure: — From  Natchez  I  came  here, 
and  have  entered  upon  a  still  hunt  and  find  quite  a 
number  of  friends  to  our  cause.  Among  them  is 
Rev.  A.  A.  Hamilton,  a  reader  of  our  Cynosure.  He 
is  a  terror  to  the  lodge  power;  he  has  been  fighting 
them  for  more  than  a  year,  but  only  recently  they 
came  down  to  go  up  no  more.  There  are  revivals 
in  all  the  colored  churches,  and  more  than  300  per- 
sons have  accepted  Christ  as  a  personal  Saviour 
within  the  past  eight  weeks. 

During  this  time  a  sad  thing  happened.  On  the 
night  of  the  30th  ult.  an  old  man  more  than  seventy 
years  old  was  charged  with  robbing  some  white  lady 
and  committing  an  outrage  upon  her,  for  which  he 
was  brought  to  the  city  jail,  and  about  eleven  o'clock 
that  night  was  taken  from  there  to  the  court-house 
yard;  and,  after  being  drawn  up  several  times  to 
make  him  confess  his  crime  (which  he  denied  to  the 
last),  ho  was  hanged  and  then  his  body  taken  back 
to  the  jail  where  a  knife  was  used. 

Responsible  citizens  (white)  say  that  he  said  first, 
last,  and  all  the  time,  "Yoa're  hanging  an  innocent 
m!\n."  A  white  man  being  impressed  when  he  said, 
"You  may  hang  me,  but  I  am  a  Christian,  and  am 
going  to  heaven,"  pleaded  for  him.  Then  there  was 
about  to  1)0  a  row  among  the  mobbers  because  some 
wanted  to  hang  him  and  some  wanted  to  release  him. 

A  pastor  returning  from  church  says  he  stood 
and  lislened,  until  he  thought  they  would  begin 
shooting  among  themselyus,  and  so  left  for  ho<ne. 
Ho  said  it  was  sad  to  hear  that  poor  old  man  and 


his  white  friend  (a  prominent  lawyer  of  this  city) 
plead  for  his  life.  Some  were  for  sparing  his  life, 
but  the  lawless  hanged  him. 

They  arrested  another  colored  man  and  a  white 
one.  When  lynching  the  white  man  was  talked  of, 
he  was  taken  from  the  jail,  given  a  horse  and  pis- 
tol, set  free,  and  told  to  defend  himself.  Then  a 
mob  was  organized  to  hang  the  other  colored  man, 
when  Bro.  Hamilton  went  to  the  sheriff  and  other 
prominent  citizens,  and  asked  that  the  man  be  given 
a  trial,  or  the  Negroes  would  go  and  be  lynched  with 
him.  After  visiting  a  goodly  number  of  them,  they 
confessed  that  it  was  wrong,  and  they  would  stop  it, 
and  so  they  did  not  hang  him.  One  man  could  keep 
any  number  of  persons  out  of  the  jail.  Its  walls 
are  fourteen  or  fifteen  feet  high,  with  only  one  door. 

Now,  brother  editor,  your  readers  can  see  that  the 
officers  who  are  sworn  to  do  their  duty,  in  this  case, 
as  in  many  others,  willingly  gave  up  to  a  maddened 
mob,  and  allowed  a  man  seventy  years  of  age  to  be 
taken  and  lynched.  We  see  the  great  need  of  a 
reformation  in  the  politics  of  the  country.  We 
need  politics  with  a  spark  of  religion  in  them,  less 
liquor  and  less  prejudice. 

Mr.  D.  B.  Temple,  B.  L.,  a  former  student  of 
Straight  University,  who  practices  here,  says,  "Any 
party  that  will  give  the  Negro  protection  of  life  can 
get  his  support."  He  is  willing  to  work  for  a  party 
that  will  do  something  to  help  us.  God  grant  that 
our  Prohibitionists  may  declare  against  this  great 
wrong.  We  don't  ask  special  legislation,  but  a 
chance.  When  crime  is  committed,  the  guilty  party 
should  suffer  for  it;  but  first  know  that  he  is  guilty 
after  a  trial  by  a  jury  of  his  peers,  and  not  by  "Judge 
Lynch." 

I  am  to  lecture  here  on  the  nights  of  the  14th 
and  15th  on  prohibition  and  reform.  The  W.  C.  T. 
U.  convention  at  Natchez  agreed  to  begin  work  anew 
among  the  colored  people. 

Bro.  A.  A.  Hamilton  will  distribute  tracts  or  any 
other  literature  that  may  be  sent  him.  He  has  with- 
stood an  organized  mob  in  an  adjoining  county,  and 
succeeded  in  breaking  up  their  robbing  scheme.  It 
is  truly  wonderful  how  God  is  raising  up  friends  for 
the  cause  everywhere. 

After  a  conference  with  a  number  of  preachers 
and  brethren  to  day,  we  were  made  to  say,  "The  work 
is  the  Lord's  and  it  must  go  on."  We  shall  have 
another  conference  with  the  pastors  on  Monday  and 
try  to  put  all  to  work.  If  some  of  our  Cynosure 
readers  will  write  a  word  to  Bro.  Hamilton,  he  can 
be  so  encouraged  as  to  go  forward  in  this  conflict. 
He  has  the  grace  and  courage  to  assert  his  convic- 
tions. 

This,  the  hill  city  of  the  South,  is  the  birth-place 
of  the  Knights  of  Pythias  among  the  colored  peo- 
ple. It  was  founded  some  years  ago  by  Dr.  Stringer, 
a  leading  minister  of  the  A.  M.  E.  church,  also  G. 
M.  of  the  Masons  of  this  State,  also  the  founder  of 
other  smaller  societies.  More  of  the  Baptist  pas- 
tors of  this  State  are  Masons  than  any  State  I  know 
of.  They  were,  as  a  rule,  "made  free  of  charge," 
BO  as  to  be  used  to  assist  in  robbing  and  getting  up 
the  other  side  shows.  Therefore,  they  have  been 
often  used  to  rob  their  poor  people,  "On  the  Square." 
Bro.  H.  has  called  a  halt,  and  all  seem  to  be  thought- 
fully considering  matters.  We  truly  hope  our 
friends  will  send  some  literature  to  Bro.  Hamilton. 
Sister  M.  A.  Bell,  formerly  Miss  M.  A.  Temple,  a 
student  of  Oberlin,  is  willing  to  help  sow  the  seeds 
of  reform  here. 

Later. — I  lectured  twice  yesterday  (Sunday)  and 
the  subject  was  "Secrecy  an  injury  to  God's  church." 
At  each  meeting  I  had  a  Bible  reading,  and  bad 
crowded  houses,  and  at  two  different  churches.  Men 
shook  my  hand  and  said,  "God  has  sent  you  here." 
It  did  seem  that  new  life  permeated  many  hearts. 
Surely  God  is  in  this  place.  Pray  for  us.  Yours  for 
Jesus,  L.  G.  Jordan. 

^  ■  ^ 

OUR  NEW  0RLBAN8  LBTTBR. 


OUR    AGENT  DILIGENT  IN  HIS  BUSINESS— TH>    COL- 
ORED PASTORS  HOLDING  TO  THE  TROTH — 
LODGE  PARADES   DWINDLING. 

New  OaLEANS,  May  12th,  1888. 
Dear  Cynosure: — Last  Sabbath  was  a  gala  day 
here  with  the  society  people.  The  Knights  of  Pyth- 
ias, colored,had  their  parade  in  the  early  part  of  the 
day  and  their  sermon  was  preached  at  St  James  A 
M.  E.  church.  Although  their  would-be  grand  pa 
rade  had  been  announced  for  some  time,  they  ha  \ 
very  few  in  line.  The  Young  Men's  Crescent  Benev- 
olent Association,  Jrs.,  paraded  the  principal  ba  k 
streets  and  had  their  banner  christened  and  sermoa 
preached  at  Pleasant  Plain  M.  E.  church.  Also  an 
organization  of  young  while  men  paraded  all  thi 
principal  back  streets  until  after  6  i>.  m.    The  Y.  M. 


C.  B.  A.,  Jr.,  had  little  boys  in  uniform  parading, 
from  six  years  of  age.  It  is  very  strange  to  see 
children  of  Christian  parents  parading  and  desecrat- 
ing God's  holy  Sabbath,  while  the  parents  are  in 
church,  crying.  Hallelujah! 

I  attended  covenant  meeting  at  Tulare  Avenue 
Baptist  church.  Rev.  A.  8.  Jackson,  pastor,  at  11  a. 
M.,  and  preached  at  Shiloh  Baptist  church,  Rev.  H. 
C.  Green,  pastor,  at  7:30  p.  m.  Bro.  Green  seems 
to  be  working  more  earnestly  in  the  interest  of  our 
reform  than  any  other  pastor  in  the  city.  Although 
the  secretists  circulated  frivolous  reports  about  him 
after  the  N.  C.  A.  convention,  he  has  succeeded  in 
breaking  the  great  teeth  of  the  old  lion  in  his 
church.  We  have  adopted  a  plan:  "Give  up  your 
lodge  or  church." 

The  annual  State  convention  of  the  Freewill  Bap- 
tists met  in  the  First  Freewill  Baptist  church.  Rev. 
Guy  Watson,  pastor,  Friday,  May  4th,  Rev.  Dr.  E. 
S.  Manning  of  Michigan,moderator;  Rev.M.  L  Diggs, 
secretary.  Several  resolutions  were  adopted  relative 
to  intemperance,  better  systems  of  education,  etc. 
Nine-tenths  of  the  ministers  of  this  convention  are 
opposed  to  secrecy. 

The  secretists  are  not  quite  so  boisterous  in  their 
processions  as  they  have  been  heretofore.  The  se- 
cret Tabernacles  had  a  funeral  Tuesday  and  although 
there  were  several  lodges  represented,  and  one  be-  » 
nevolent  association,  there  were  not  more  than  thir- 
ty-five women  and  six  men.  If  our  anti-secret  breth- 
ren will  just  rally  and  organize  an  auxiliary  here, 
and  some  good  Christian  who  has  some  of  the  Lord's 
money  to  spare  will  just  send  free  tracts  and  the  Cy- 
nosure, we  will  soon  behold  Baal's  altars  tumbling 
down. 

The  Normal  class  of  Leland  University  graduated 
six  young  students  Tuesday  night  at  Tulane  Avenue 
Baptist  church.  Drs,  Mitchell,  Berger,Marsh,Jack- 
son,  Hitchcock,  and  the  University  Board  of  Trus- 
tees were  conspicuous  on  the  platform.  The  ora- 
tions and  essays  were  very  interesting. 

Rev.  R.  Kendricks  besought  me  not  to  return  to 
Amite  City  next  Sabbath  as  he  had  important  busi- 
ness to  call  him  to  Natchez.  However,  he  encour- 
aged me  much,  and  is  anxious  for  me  to  come  up  as 
soon  as  possible  after  his  return.  If  any  of  our  Lou- 
isiana brethren  desire  to  have  me  come  and  lecture 
for  their  people  in  hall  or  church,  let  them  arrange 
for  meetings  and  write  me  at  No.  152  Clara  street, 
New  Orleans. 

I  called  on  Rev.  J.  C.  Young,  formerly  pastor  of 
Melphomene  St.  Baptist  church;  but  since  the  death 
of  his  wife  he  has  given  up  pastoral  labors,  being 
much  afflicted.  He  had  heard  nothing  of  the  N.C.A. 
or  the  Cynosure,h\it  he  has  always  been  opposed  to  the 
lodge.  He  very  readily  subscribed  for  the  Cynosure 
and  said  it  would  greatly  help  him  to  fight  against 
secret  orders. 

I  preached  Wednesday  at  7:30  p.  m.  at  the  Evan- 
gelist Baptist  church,  Rev.  J.  G.  Wracks,  pastor.  I 
spoke  of  the  Odd-fellows'  picnic  for  Thursday  and 
besought  the  Christians  not  to  patronize  such  im- 
moral entertainments,  neither  allow  their  sons  and 
daughters  to  patronize  them.  Both  pastor  and  con- 
gregation endorsed  my  sermon. 

The  22nd  anniversary  of  the  Grand  United  Order 
of  Odd-fellows  was  celebrated  Thursday  by  a  long, 
weary  parade  during  the  day  and  an  all-night  picnic 
at  the  fair  ground.  The  seed  of  immortality  sown 
at  such  unseasonable  places  will  bear  fruit  and  bring 
sorrow  to  many  hearts.  The  secretists  had  all  the 
costly  uniforms  they  could  afford.  Although  the 
Baalamiles  had  predicted  this  to  be  the  grandest 
parade  of  secretists  in  the  city,  and  the  twelve  lodg- 
es of  the  city  and  many  others  from  different  parts 
of  this  State  and  Alabama  turned  out,  yet  I  counted 
only  178  in  all,  ranging  from  white  aprons  to  Great- 
Grand-Fathers  and  Patriarchs.  Men  were  heard  say- 
ing, "Well,  yes;  I'se  a  Mason,  and  Odd-fellow  too, 
but  all  they  want  is  a  man's  money.  So  I've  left 
them."    I  heard  several  make  this  statement 

A  lady  accosted  mo  very  intelligently  and  said, 
"Sir,  the  Butler  lodge,  the  very  oldest  one  in  the 
State,  has  not  got  thirty  men  in  the  procession."  I 
told  her  the  whole  thing  was  an  expensive  nuisance. 
She  replied,  "Yes,  sir,  although  I  am  of  the  House- 
hold of  Ruth,  it  is  a  perfect  nuisance,  and  if  they 
would  take  money  they  throw  away  parading  and 
take  caro  of  their  poor  and  sick,  they  would  do  bet- 
ter; but  they  won't  do  it"  Several  preachers  and  a 
goodly  number  of  professed  Christians  helpetl  to 
swell  their  number  to  178.  I  met  a  minister  on 
Canal  street  who  said  to  me,  "You  will  be  convcrltd 
to  them  again  when  you  see  this  procession." 

Bro.  Green  and  I  called  on  Rev.B.Botzinger.  Ho 
is  very  earnest  and  thinks  Bro.  Jackson  ought  to 
have  called  the  commitieo  appointed  at  the  N.  C.  A. 
Convention  together  and  taken  some  action  in  our 
State  work. 


6 


^THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


Mat  24, 1888 


I  preached  at  the  First  Free  Mission  Baptist 
church  of  Carrolton,  Rev.  H.  Davis,  pastor,  Thurs- 
day. After  services  Revs.  Acox,  Harris,  Ellis  and 
Ferguson  came  up  to  me  and  shook  hands,  saying, 
"You  have  preached  a  noble  sermon,  and  you  have 
hit  the  nail  right  on  the  head,"  Rev.  Ferguson  said, 
"You  spoke  to  the  secret  society  people  just  right. 
There  are  a  great  many  of  them  in  this  church.  I 
have  been  a  member  of  the  Odd-fellows,  but  I  have 
left  them." 

I  distributed  tracts  to  all  in  the  church.  The 
majority  of  the  congregation,  which  was  large  and 
enthusiastic,  heartily  endorsed  my  sermon..  Press 
forward,  brethren,  the  Lord  is  on  our  side. 

F.  J.  Davidson. 


the  field  to  enlighten  the  masses,  but  they  must  be 
fed  and  clothed;  they  can't  live  without  sustenance 
for  themselves  and  families;  it  must  be  supplied  by 
the  Lord's  stewards. 

Postoffice  orders,  postoflace  notes,  or  Wells,  Fargo 
&  Co.'s  notes  payable  to  me  at  Custer  City.  Amer- 
ican exchange  or  U.  S.  exchange  notes  payable  to 
me  at  Bradford.  To  all  local  checks  please  add  the 
exchange  or  they  will  cost  twenty-five  cents  here. 
Give  us  a  hearty  response  and  the  good  Lord  will 
warm  your  souls.  Now,  brethren  and  sisters,  re- 
member this  homely  appeal  is  for  Jesus's  sake. 
Who  is  the  Lord's  steward? 

J.  C.  Young,  Treasurer. 

{Reform  papers,  please  copy.) 


LITERATURE. 


Correspondence. 


A  LSaSON  FROM  SOLOMON. 


Kingston,  111. 

Dear  Ctnosuee: — I  find  in  your  columns  of  May 
3rd  that  the  matter  of  the  American  Prohibition 
candidates  for  office  are  in  an  unsettled  state,  which 
I  think  should  be  set  in  order  as  soon  as  possible. 
Our  government  without  a  Solomon  type  of  ruling 
power  is  no  better  than  an  Absalom  government, 
which  the  house  of  Israel  was  cursed  with  for  a 
time,  and  we  likewise  have  the  Masonic;  and  now, 
since  this  Masonic  or  Absalom  government  is  hung 
up  between  the  heaven  and  the  earth,that  is,exposed 
to  the  public  gaze,  the  better  part  of  the  people  say, 
"Cursed  be  Masonry."  But  there  is  a  failure  to 
see  who  next  is  to  take  the  reins  of  power.  Roman 
Catholicism  and  Odd-fellowship  combined  will  fill 
the  place  of  Adonijah,  the  brother  of  Absalom. 

Now,  as  God  has  promised  the  good  time  so  long 
looked  and  hoped  for,  and  has  brought  this  nation 
into  existence  for  this  express  purpose,  why  can  we 
not  dare  to  be  right  and  be  true  to  God  and  his  gov- 
ernment? Why  not  show  our  colors  as  Solomon's 
mother  (i.  e.,  the  church)  did?  The  church  in  Amer- 
ica may  enjoy  the  same  blessings  she  then  enjoyed, 
namely,  a  government  of  peace  and  prosperity,  be- 
cause the  righteous  rule.    Yours  for  the  glory  of 

God,  M.   L.   WOEOESTBR. 


BLDBB  B.    SMITH'S  MISSION  WORK. 


PBNNS7LVAN1ANS,  FORWARD,  MARCH  I 

Dear  Friends: — You  have  seen  our  brother 
Chalfant's  plans  for  a  reorganization  of  this  grand 
old  State  for  Virtue,  Liberty  and  Independence.  Your 
hearts  respond.  Yes,  it  should  be  done.  Now,  what 
does  the  Lord  Jesus  ask  of  you?  Are  you  ready 
for  the  sacrifice?  You  know  the  cause  is  a  right- 
eous one;  that  the  infidelity  of  church  and  state  call 
for  a  radical  reform,  and  that  at  once;  for  the  Lord 

"shall  suddenly  come  to  his  temple But  who 

may  abide  the  day  of  his  coming?"  "And  behold, 
I  come  quickly,  and  my  reward  is  with  me,  to  give 
every  man  as  his  work  shall  be."  What  is  our 
work?  "Therefore,  all  things  whatsoever  ye  would 
that  men  should  do  to  you,  do  ye  even  so  to  them." 
The  sword  is  in  the  land,  and  some  souls  once  alive 
for  God  are  so  enveloped  by  the  lodge  octopus  that 
they  are  in  danger.  Does  their  position  affect  you? 
Then  warn  them  of  the  error  of  their  way  lest  you 
be  rebuked  in  the  judgment.  You  are  the  Lord's 
stewards;  then  dispense  freely  of  his  gifts  in  warn- 
ing hit  creatures  (your  brothers  by  nature)  of  the 
terrible  opiate  they  have  taken,  and  sound  the  alarm 
to  those  whose  minds  have  been  poisoned  till  they 
are  almost  persuaded  to  take  the  fatal  step. 

Come,  brethren,  "cast  your  bread  upon  the 
waters;"  it  may  return  to  save  your  own  child  or 
your  neighbor.  We  are  not  all  called  of  God  to  go 
forth  and  "cry  aloud  and  spare  not,"  to  lift  up  the 
voice  like  a  trumpet,  to  "tell  the  house  of  Israel 
their  sins,"  but  we  are  told  the  laborer  is  worthy 
his  hire.  Two  or  three  cannot  find  the  means  to 
equip  the  messengers  of  the  Lord,  publish  tracts 
and  pay  incidentals,  while  others  as  well  or  better 
able,  hoard  up  the  Lord's  money  to  their  own 
avarice. 

If  you  would  see  the  Pennsylvania  State  Anti- 
secret  organization  resuscitate  and  do  as  the  Lord 
Jesus  would  have  (not  start  up  spasmodically,  to 
settle  back  into  worse  darkness  than  before),  pray 
the  Lord  with  single  eye  and  heart.  How  much,  0 
Lord,  shall  I  send  the  treasurer  in  your  name  to  lift 
the  veil  from  off  my  brother's  eyes. 

I  have  been  appointed  treasurer  of  the  State  or- 
ganization. Bro.  Ghalfant  has  printed  some  tracts, 
and  been  to  other  trouble  and  expense, — for  him- 
self? No,  sir!  but  for  his  neighbor.  I  do  not, 
neither  do  you,  wish  that  he  should  be  at  his  own 
charges  in  this  matter.    Men  are  ready  to  go  into 


Chicago,  May  14, 1888. 

2o  all  God's  Workers: — It  is  just  a  month  to-day 
since  wife  and  I  left  our  home  by  divine  appoint- 
ment to  do  our  part  in  securing  the  right  of  way  for 
our  God  through  this  ungodly  world.  God  has  na- 
tional rights;  sure  he  has  his  way  in  his  church.  We 
find  the  devil  is  getting  very  uneasy  in  cities  and  in 
the  hearts  of  men,  where  he  has  had  his  way  for  so 
long.  "He  knows  his  time  is  short."  He  is  not 
going  to  retire  without  making  all  the  trouble  he 
can. 

In  this  short  month  we  have  worked  in  three 
States,  preached  in  eight  cities  and  towns,  with  extra 
street  meetings.  We  have  preached  the  funeral  ser- 
mon of  one  (a  strong  man),  once  a  lawyer  and 
preacher,  whom  the  devil  damned  by  strong  drink. 
We  preached  in  the  cars  on  seven  lines  of  railroad, 
where  we  received  wonderful  encouragement  from 
strangers.  In  this  time  we  helped  close  three  sa- 
loons, and  made  many  a  drug-store  man  think  of 
woe;  have  helped  many  a  fallen  one,  men  and  wo- 
men, to  return  to  God,  and  let  Jesus  turn  whisky 
and  the  devil  out  of  them.  I  find  the  devil  is  so 
stirred  in  this  city  that  he  don't  pretend  to  sleep 
day  nor  night,  but  works  only  as  a  devil  can. 

In  our  next  letter  we  will  mention  a  few  of  the 
means  Satan  employs  in  these  last  days  to  curse  the 
world.  We  hope  in  the  same  letter  to  make  plain 
that,  though  sin  and  the  devil  now  abound,  God 
and  his  grace  shall  much  more  abound.  We  can 
spend  only  one  week  in  Chicago,  then  expect  to  go 
on  to  Ohio.  We  are  having  blessed  meetings  here; 
we  find  work  for  a  life-time  here,  but  must  move  on, 
as  our  King's  business  requires  haste.  Pray  for  us 
that  God's  Word  may  have  free  course,  run  and  be 
glorified.  R.  Smith. 


PITH  AND  POINT. 


LODGES   INCREASING. 

Last  year  the  M.  E.  preacher  at  De  Ealb,  DL,  went  to 
Sycamore  on  the  first  of  the  week  and  took  some  degrees 
in  knighthood,  and  on  the  next  Sunday  night  lectured  to 
the  Knights  "Templar,  and  then  had  a  banquet  to  close 
with,  "rhe  Sycamore  Knights  hired  a  railroad  train  to 
run  to  De  Kalb  and  take  them  there.  This  looks  to  me 
like  an  outrage  on  our  civil  and  religious  institutions, 
and  a  gross  violation  of  the  Sabbath.  And  as  the  M.  E, 
church  takes  advanced  ground  on  Sabbath  desecration, 
preachers  that  join  in  such  anti-Christian  flummery  and 
deception  ought  to  be  called  to  an  account  for  unchris- 
tian conduct.  I  learned  a  short  time  since  that  a  Free 
Will  Baptist  preacher  and  son  were  going  to  join  the 
Masons,  and  they  are  making  great  efforts  to  rope  in  all 
they  can,  and  have  some  success.  The  Odd-fellows  are 
making  great  efforts  to  fill  up  their  ranks  and  have  suc- 
ceeded in  duping  a  good  number.  With  all  the  work  of 
opposition  and  light  given,  these  societies  on  the  whole 
are  increasing,  and  from  present  indications  I  fear  they 
will  capture  the  Prohibition  party,  and  bring  it  to  the 
aid  of  secretism  or  Romanism,  directly  or  indirectly. 

Ventilate  the  papal  question  thoroughly,  as  I  think  it 
is  the  most  deadly  foe  to  all  our  liberties  and  interests  we 
hare  to  contend  with. — (Rev.)  M.  W.  Jordan,  Cort- 
land, 111. 

FOR  THE   LEAGUE. 

To  all  whom  it  may  concern:  I,  Joseph  O.  Risheill, 
pastor  of  Thomas  county  circuit  or  mission  Free  Metho- 
dist church,  do  depose  and  say  that  for  fifteen  years  I 
have  not  voted  for  a  lodge  tainted  candidate,  largo  or 
small,  knowing  them  to  be  such,  and  propose  never  to 
do  BO.  I  am  an  anti  lodge  prohibitionist,  Anti-mason, 
anti  rum,  tobacco,  opium.  Mormon  and  all  sin.  Put  my 
name  down  as  a  leaguer. — J.  0.  Rishiell,  Colby,  Kans. 

KANSAS    CLIMATE. 

In  this  part  of  Kansas  we  have  rain  enough,  but  the 
temperature  is  changeable.  Some  days  the  degree  is  90 
or  92,  next  day  drops  to  40  and  even  30.  The  last  morn 
of  April  we  had  our  last  ice;  3d  of  May  last  frost,  though 
harmless.  To  day  is  rainy  and  quite  cool,  54,  wind 
northerly.  But  human  society  throughout  the  State  is 
far  more  disturbed;  the  outlook  is  bad.  I  entertain  a 
hope  that  the  Cynosure  will  survive  the  storm. — S  ,  7al- 
mage,  Kans. 


The  Story  or  the  Earth  and  Man.  By  Sir  John  W.  Daw- 
son, LL.  D.,  F.  R.  S.  Pp.  195.  Price  40  cents.  John  B.  AI- 
den,  New  York. 

Sir  John  W.  Dawson,  better  known  as  Principal 
Dawson  of  McGill  University  of  Montreal,  is  one  of 
the  ablest  of  modern  geologists,and  one  of  the  most 
attractive  of  writers  on  scientific  subjects.  He  be- 
longs to  the  school  of  Lyell,  Agassiz,  and  Dana, 
rather  than  that  of  Darwin,  Huxley,  and  Tyndall. 
In  this  work  he  deals  with  one  of  the  most  wonder- 
ful problems  which  have  ever  been  presented  to  the 
human  mind,and  tells  the  story  in  a  manner  worthy 
of  a  theme  so  sublime.  He  supplies  the  knowledge 
which  is  sought  for  by  the  thorough  student,  and 
presents  it  in  a  manner  that  is  fascinating  even  to 
the  unscientific  reader.  This  work  has,  therefore,  a 
popular  value  not  to  be  Tound  in  a  college  text-book, 
which  the  general  reader  can  immediately  appreci- 
ate. The  geological  discussions  are  conducted  in 
a  most  reverent  manner,  and  the  constant  superin- 
tending power  of  God  is  traced  in  the  whole  story 
of  creative  ages,  and  especially  in  the  concluding 
work  when  man  appeared.  The  writer  refutes  the 
evolutionidts  and  maintains  the  simple  statement  of 
Scripture  that  man  was  created  by  God  in  his  own 
image. 

The  American  Copyright  League  of  New  York 
is  endeavoring  to  educate  public  opinion  on  the  sub- 
ject of  an  international  copyright,  for  which  all 
American  authors  are  besieging  Congress.  The 
pamphlet,  "Cheap  Books  and  Good  Books,"  by  Bran- 
der  Mathews,  is  an  excellent  presentation  of  the 
case,  and  is,  moreover,  prepared  by  a  writer  of  abil- 
ity, for  whose  use  an  ample  stock  of  varied  and  use- 
ful information  has  been  supplied. 

The  recent  international  convention  of  women  in 
Washington  is  the  subject  of  a  breezy  article  in  the  May 
Cosmopolitan,  by  Miss  Ethel  Ingalls,  the  brilliant  daugh- 
ter of  the  famous  Senator.  The  portraits  of  the  most 
celebrated  delegates,  and  the  flow  of  clever  personal  de- 
scriptions combine  to  form  a  most  readable  paper.  An- 
other of  the  journalistic  strokes  which  distinguishes  this 
young  magazine  from  its  older  companions,  is  an  inter- 
esting illustrated  article  on  the  New  Consolidated  Ex- 
change of  New  York  City.  Apropos  of  the  late  floods 
which  have  devastated  China,  W.  H.  Gilder,  the  N.  Y. 
Herald  correspondent  in  China  in  the  late  Chinese  war, 
contributes  a  valuable  account  of  the  Hoang-Ho  and  its 
destructive  vagaries,  illustrated  by  a  picture  of  the  river 
and  a  map  of  its  nine  different  courses.  Some  idea  may 
be  gained  of  the  enormous  calamities  indicated  by  this 
diagram  when  we  learn  that  in  the  last  overflow  about 
three  million  lives  were  lost.  The  traveler.  Wolf  Von 
Schierbrand,  furnishes  a  pleasing  sketch  about  "Children 
in  Persia,"  and  Joel  Benton  gives  many  amusing  speci- 
mens of  "What  Our  Grandfathers  Laughed  at  Two 
Hundred  Years  Ago."  The  colored  pictures  of  the 
Faust  legend,  showing  Mephistopheles  with  Margaret 
and  in  the  witch's  kitchen,  and  of  the  Japanese  demons 
and  Persian  devils  are  the  most  finished  and  attractive 
color  work  that  has  yet  appeared  in  this  enterprising 
magazine.  They  illustrate  Moncure  D.  Conway's  article 
on  the  legends  of  the  origin  of  the  devil. 

In  the  American  Magazine  for  May,  William  Eleroy 
Curtis,  a  well  known  correspondent  for  the  Chicago 
press,  begins  a  series  of  illustrated  articles  on  "The  Old- 
est of  American  Cities  "  The  first  paper  deals  largely 
with  Carthagens,  which  was  the  first  city  founded  on  the 
continent,  although  several  colonies  had  previously  been 
established  on  the  nearby  islands  and  a  fortress  had  been 
built  at  Panama.  The  city  became  the  rendezvous  of 
the  Spanish  galleons  that  went  to  South  America  for 
treasure,  and  consequently  a  most  tempting  field  for 
pirates.  The  second  and  concluding  paper  on  "The 
Belles  of  Old  Philadelphia,"  by  Charlotte  Adams,  con- 
tains some  charming  descriptions  of  the  grace  and  beauty 
that  existed  in  that  favored  city  about  the  time  of  the 
Revolution.  Among  them  is  a  portrait  and  sketch  of 
Mrs.  Rush,  wife  of  the  celebrated  Dr.  Benjamin  Rush, 
who  old  John  Adams  used  to  say  was  next  to  Washing 
ton  in  Revolutionary  times.  Her  son  Richard  was  the 
eminent  statesman  and  Anti-masonic  writer.  A  startling 
article  entitled  "My  uream  of  Anarchy  and  Dynamite" 
is  by  a  gentleman  of  whom  the  editor  states  that  "the 
author  is  a  well-known  writer  who  stands  very  high  in 
military,  social  and  political  circles,  but  whose  name  is 
withheld  at  his  request."  The  article  itself  professes  to 
be  an  expose  of  the  plottings  of  the  Anarchists,  and  the 
avowed  object  of  its  publication  is  to  so  arouse  the  pub- 
lic sentiment  that  has  been  lulled  to  sleep  by  the  delusive 
absence  of  open  demonstrations,  that  the  enactment  will 
immediately  be  forced  of  laws  for  the  suppretsion  of 
both  anarchy  and  dynamite.  The  utter  inadequacy  of 
the  present  laws,  and  of  the  police  and  military  prevent- 
ive measures,  is  forcibly  shows,  and  effectual  remedies 
are  presented. 

The  Library  Magazine  for  May  reproduces  George  W. 
Cable's  celebrated  article  on  "The  Negro  Question  in  the 
United  States"  which  first  appeared  in  the  Contemporary 
Review.  It  is  the  latest  thought  of  this  celebrated  and 
eloquent  writer  whose  articles,  "The  Silent  South"  and 
others  in  the  Century  some  time  since  were  among  the 
most  popular  and  powerful  attacks  ever  made  on  the 
caste  system  in  our  Southern  Stales.  The  second  part 
of  Minister  Phelps's  article  on  our  Constitution  also  has 


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Mat  24, 1888 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSUKE. 


a  place.  "The  Chinese  io  Australia"  is 
timely,  since  only  last  week  the  first  of- 
ficial attempt  to  prevent  the  landing  of 
Chinamen  was  made  in  Australia.  Other 
articles  are  "Hans  Sachs,  the  Bard  of 
Nuremberg"  and  of  the  Lutheran  Refor- 
mation, "A  Model  Factory,"  "The  Edu- 
cation of  the  Emotions"  by  Frances 
Power  Cobbe,  "A  Pleading  for  the  Worth- 
less" by  Cardinal  Manning. 

The  U.  S.  Indian  Commissioner,  Mr. 
Atkins,  finds  it  necessary  to  make  a 
strong  defense  against  the  popular  at- 
tacks upon  his  order  to  teach  the  Eoglish 
language  only  in  the  Indian  schools.  He 
issues  from  the  Indian  office.  Washing- 
ton, a  pamphlet  entitled  "Correspondence 
on  the  Subject  of  Teaching  the  Vernacu- 
lar in  Indian  Schools,"  to  answer  all  ob- 
jectors and  critics. 


OBITXJAEY. 


Delilah  Cball  was  born  in  Crawford 
Co.,  Ohio,  March  10th,  1834,  and  died  at 
her  home  near  Benieu  Center,  Mich., 
April  30th,  1888,  aged  54  years,  1  month 
and  20  days. 

She  was  the  daughter  of  Andrew  and 
Mary  Hess,  and  was  married  to  Jacob  B. 
Crall,  October  18th,  1855.  To  them  were 
born  four  children,  three  daughters  and 
one  son,  all  living.  The  deceased  sought 
and  found  the  Saviour  when  quite  young, 
and  united  with  the  Evangelical  Luth- 
eran church,  of  which  her  parents  were 
members.  In  the  year  1856,  soon  after 
she  was  married,  she  with  her  husband 
joined  the  United  Brethren  church,  of 
which  both  were  members  for  twenty- 
five  years.  During  the  last  seven  years 
of  her  life  she  has  been  a  member  of  the 
Wesley  an  Methodist  connection.  This 
church  relationship  was  entered  into  by 
her  and  her  husband,  and  part  of  the 
children,  because  they  could  endorse 
more  fully  the  doctrinal  views  and  rul- 
ings of  this  church,  especially  that  part 
relating  to  the  total  exclusion  from  its 
pales,  of  all  members  of  organized  secret 
combinations.  She  died  as  she  lived, 
and  her  life  was  a  living  witness  that 
Christ  has  power  on  earth  to  save.  Her 
light  was  not  hid  behind  tyled  doors,  but 
always  open  to  inspection — as  a  city  set 
upon  a  hill.  Her  sun  went  down  sur- 
rounded with  a  halo  of  glory. 

J.  B.  Cball. 

Aqripfa  Dow,  father  of  Roswell  Dow, 
Sycamore,  III.,  and  grandfather  of  Miss 
Elsie  S.  Dow,  lady  principal  of  Wasioja 
Seminary,  died  on  the  5th  of  April,  1888, 
at  the  age  of  94  years. 

He  was  born  in  Hanover,  N.  H.,  June 
27,  1794.  He  was  married  on  the  7th  of 
January,  1823,  to  Polly  Storrs,  daughter 
of  Augustus  Storrs,  of  Hanover,  N.  H., 
she  dying  on  the  6th  of  November,  1885; 
they  living  together  nearly  sixty-three 
years.  They  removed  from  New  Hamp- 
shire to  Sycamore,  III.,  in  1847,  forty-one 
years  ago.  Both  retained  full  possession 
of  their  faculties  and  a  happy  cheerful- 
ness of  spirits  to  the  last  day  of  their 
lives.  They  lived  to  do  good  to  others 
and  "to  lend  a  hand,"  and  all  who  have 
ever  known  them  arise  and  call  them 
blessed. 

Mr.  Dow  was  never  a  strong  man  phys- 
ically, but  it  is  believed  that  he  never  was 
confined  to  his  bed  a  single  day  by  sick- 
ness till  the  second  day  before  his  death. 
Born  when  Washington  was  yet  the  first 
President  of  the  United  States,  he  has 
lived  during  nearly  the  whole  of  the  first 
century  of  the  existence  of  our  nation 
under  a  constitutional  government.  In- 
stead of  living  in  the  past  as  is  so  com- 
mon with  aged  people,  ho  has  always 
lived  in  the  present  and  took  an  interest 
in  passing  events  to  the  last  week  of  his 
life.  Both  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Dow  died  as 
they  had  often  wished  they  might  die, 
without  a  protracted  sickness,  and  both 
have  left  behind  them  none  but  pleasant 
recollections. 


L. 


Taem  Notes. 

ONION  CULTUUB — 8EBD3  AND  8KT8. 

Even  where  onions  can  be  readily 
raised  from  seeds,  many  prefer  the  sets. 
The  crop  is  more  sure,  much  of  the  early 
weeding  is  avoided,  and,  above  all,  the 
planting  may  bo  douo  in  autumn  when 
the  work  need  not  be  hurried.  The  soil 
is  made  as  rich  as  for  seed,  and  thor- 
oughly fine  and  mellow  by  the  harrow 
and  rake.  Rows  12  inches  apart  are 
marked  off,  and  the  sets  planted  at  three 


or  four  inches  apart.  They  are  thrust 
down  into  the  mellow  soil  with  the  thumb 
and  finger,  taking  care  to  get  them  right 
end  up.  Finish  by  passing  a  light  roller 
or  the  tack  of  a  wooden  rake  over  the 
rows.  Each  seventh  mark  is  left  un- 
planted;  this  leaves  an  alley  from  which 
the  weeding  may  be  done.  If  the  sets  are 
not  planted  in  the  fall,  they  should  be  as 
early  in  spring  as  the  ground  can  be 
worked. 

Onions  differ  from  most  other  crops  in 
not  requiring  a  rotation.  In  some  places 
the  land  has  been  in  onions  annually  for 
half  a  century.  If  the  crop  is  to  be 
grown  for  the  first  time,  newly  cleared 
land  is  best,  and  next  to  that,  soil  which 
has  been  in  corn  or  potatoes.  A  good, 
deep,  rich  loam,  is  essential,  as  is  heavy 
manuring.  Fifty  loads  of  stable  manure 
to  the  acre  are  an  ordinary  manuring, 
and  may  be  supplemented  by  ashes,  bone 
flour,  or  guano,  as  a  top  dressing.  The 
seeds  should  be  sown  very  early ;  should 
be  of  the  previous  year's  growth,  and 
from  a  reliable  raiser.  The  rows  are  a 
foot  apart,  leaving  every  seventh  for  a 
path,  and  from  three  to  six  pounds  of 
seed  are  sown  to  the  acre.  On  land  not 
before  in  onions,  thin  sowing  is  better 
than  thick.  After  sowing,  roll  ths  sur- 
face. Some  sow  an  ounce  or  two  of  rad- 
ish seed  with  every  pound  of  onion  seed. 
The  radishes  come  up  in  a  few  days  and 
mark  the  rows  so  that  a  hand  cultivator 
or  push-hoe  can  be  run  close  to  the  rows 
even  before  the  onions  are  up. — Ameri- 
can Agriculturist. 

IMPKOVING  OLD  CUBRANT  BUSHES. 

Two  years  ago,  writes  one  of  our  cor- 
respondents from  Wisconsin,  I  secured 
an  old  garden.  Along  one  side  of  it 
there  was  a  row  of  stunted  currant 
bushes,  the  life  of  which  had  been  nearly 
choked  out  by  the  grass  in  which  they 
stood.  The  leaves  were  covered  with 
worms,  and  they  presented  a  sorry  ap- 
pearance. At  first  I  thought  I  would  dig 
them  up  and  plant  new  ones.  An  exam- 
ination of  the  roots  convinced  me  that 
they  were  comparatively  healthy,  and  I 
concluded  to  cut  the  tops  back,  clean  out 
about  them,  and  see  what  good  cultiva- 
tion would  do  towards  reclaiming  them. 
I  had  the  ground  spaded  up,  turning  the 
sod  under,  and  gave  the  soil  a  good  top- 
dressing  of  manure,  digging  in  a  quanti- 
ty about  each  plant.  I  cut  off  all  the 
old  tops  and  waited  for  developments. 
Very  soon  sprouts  made  their  appearance 
from  each  bunch  of  roots,  and  of  these  I 
selected  four  or  five  of  the  best,  and  kept 
all  others  pinched  off  during  the  season. 
They  made  a  vigorous  gro  wth .  I  alio  wed 
the  hens  to  run  among  the  bushes,  and 
they  proved  better  than  hellebore  in 
keeping  the  worms  away.  That  fall  I 
spread  a  lot  of  litter  about  the  plants, 
and  this  spring  I  dug  it  in  about  them, 
and  have  given  the  ground  among  the 
bushes  a  liberal  coating  of  chip  dirt  from 
the  wood  yard.  I  allow  the  hens  to  wal 
low  in  it,  believing  that  they  will  pick 
up  all  the  larvec  that  may  be  lurking 
there.  The  plants  have  blossomed  won- 
derfully, and  every  stem  was  heavily  set 
with  fruit.  Old  bushes  can  be  reclaimed, 
after  years  of  neglect,  by  a  little  care  and 
cultivation. — American  AqricuUurist. 

The  Tomato.— Tomato  plants  should 
be  sot  out  about  the  Idt  of  June;  the 
ground  should  have  been  made  very  rich, 
and  if  it  is  kept  free  from  weeds,  no  fur- 
ther attention  will  be  required.  Just  be- 
fore frost  the  vine  may  be  taken  up  with 
all  the  earth  that  can  be  kept  adhering 
to  the  root,  and  transferred  to  the  cellar, 
where  all  the  full  grown  tomatoes  not 
already  picked  will  ripen.  The  essayist 
has  seen  perfect  ripe  tomatoes  of  most 
excellent  quality  on  the  table  at  Thanks- 
giving, which  had  been  ripened  in  this 
way.  There  are  so  many  good  varieties 
of  this  vegetable  that  it  is  hard  to  make 
a  selection.  Three  or  four  dozen  plants 
may  be  required  in  order  to  furnish  a 
good  supply  all  summer;  they  should  be 
set  eight  feet  apait,  and  will  occuoy 
about  two  rows  such  as  described. —  Vi'k's 
Magazine. 


8SUBET80CIBTIB8  CONDEMNED 


"Death  has  so  many  cloorH  to  let  ont  lire," 

sang  an  old  time  poet.  In  those  days 
they  had  not  discovcrod  remedies  that 
shut  these  doors.  How  different  is  Dr. 
Pierce's  Golden  Medical  Discovery,  from 
the  old  time  doses.  Consumpli^n  or 
lung-scrofula,  is  one  wide  door  that  it 
shuts,  if  taken  in  time.  Don't  waste  a 
moment  then,  lest  life  slip  through  that 
open  door. 


bt  obbat  men  in  the  chitbch. 

«Rev.  Thomas  H.  Stockton,  D.D.  : — 
Religion  is  as  open  as  the  sky  and  bright 
aa  the  sun.  As  a  man,  an  American,  and 
a  Christian,  I  love  true  manhood,  s true 
Americanism  and  true  Christianity  too 
well  to  approve  of  secret  institutions  of 
any  kind. 

L.  L.  Hamlinb,  Bishop  M.  E.  church, 
in  his  diary,  IS48:  "North  Ohio  Confer- 
ence has  progressed  very  rapidly  till  this 
time,  but  Masonry  and  Odd  fellowship 
have  arrested  us."  At  another  time:  "I 
have  enjoyed  and  suffered  much  during 
its  session.  Masonry  and  Odd-fellowship, 
a  bane  in  the  midst  of  us,  have  done  ua 
much  evil." — Life,  pp.  323,  4-  f 

iA.  M  MiLLiQAN,  D.D.:— Thus  I  have 
shown  that  Masonic  oaths  and  obligations 
are  not  obligatory;  that  God  has  no  part 
in  them;  that  they  are  a  profanation  of 
his  ordinance  of  the  oath,  and  a  usurpa- 
tion of  the  prerogative  of  government 
under  the  wrath  of  an  insulted  God  and 
the  ban  of  outraged  society:  a  great  sin 
to  make  them  but  no  sin  to  break  them. 

Rev.  J.  P.  Lytle,  D  D.  :— We  could 
fill  a  volume  with  extracts  of  the  same 
tenor,  showing,  as  these  have  shown,  that 
Freemasonry  is  a  distinct  and  positive 
religion  with  a  promise  of  salvation;  yet 
rejecting  and  denying  the  Lord  Jesus;  a 
religion  which  claims  to  have  borrowed 
its  principles  and  riles  from  those  heath- 
en institutions  so  abhorrent  to  God  and 
corrupting  to  men.  ® 

'Rev.  Joshua  Bradley,  a  renouncing 
Mason: — A  lying  spirit  is  abroad,  and 
speaks  through  all  Masonic  presses,  and 
thia  spirit  inflaences  all  who  hate  the 
truth,  and  will  make  them  wax  worse  and 
worse,  till  sudden  destruction  shall  over- 
whelm those  workers  of  iniquity,  to  the 
astonishment  of  every  beholder.  Then 
Masonry  will  rise  no  more  to  trouble 
Zion,  and  spread  delusion  and  death  amid 
civilized  nations.  * 

C.  B.  Ward,  missionary  in  India: — 
When  men  get  saved  out  here  they  get 
out  of  the  lodge  of  necessity.  We  are 
personally  acquainted  with  a  barrister,  a 
doctor,  a  locomotive  fireman,  a  station- 
master  on  a  railway,  a  principal  of  a  high 
school,  a  commissary  officer,  a  military 
officer,  and  others  who  when  saved  at 
once  quit  the  lodge  for  Christ's  sake 
without  any  one  saying  much  to  them. 
The  evil  of  the  institution  is  too  apparent 
to  need  pointing  out  in  India.  «. 

^Joseph  S.  Christmas,  Pastor  Bowery 
Presbyterian  church,  Hew  York,  lSoO:—lt 
these  remarks  should  meet  the  eye  of  any 
follower  of  the  Redeemer  who  still  wor- 
ships at  the  altar  of  Masonry,  I  beg  him 
once  more  to  consider  whether,  imposed 
on  by  the  mock  solemnities  of  the  lodge 
and  the  pompous  pretensions  of  the  craft, 
he  is  not  really  attempting  to  effect  a  con- 
cord between  Christ  and  Belial;  and 
whether  he  does  not  owe  it  to  the  souls  of 
Masons,  to  the  honor  of  the  church  of 
Christ,  and  to  the  good  of  mankind,  to 
come  out  and  be  separate.  ^ 

Dus.  Leonard  Woods.  Ebknezkr 
Porter  and  Tuo.mas  H.  Skinner,  Pro- 
fcssors  at  Andovcr  to  the  Massachusetts 
f.egiKlature:—'PT&y\ng  for  a  full  investi- 
gation into  the  nature,  language,  cere- 
monies, and  form  of  rehearsing  extra-ju- 
dicial oaths  in  Masonic  bodies;  and  if 
found  to  be  such  as  the  Memorialists  do 
scribe  them,  that  a  law  may  be  passed 
prohibiting  the  future  administration  of 
Masonic,  and  such  other  extra  judicia' 
Kths,  as  tend  to  weaken  the  sanctions  o\ 
civil  oaths  in  courts  of  justice;  and  pray 
also  for  the  repeal  of  the  charter  granted 
by  this  Commonwealth  to  the  Grand 
Lodge  of  Massachusetts.  ^ 

•Rev.  M08E8  Thatchkr:- Our  Saviour 
declared  to  the  Jewish  high  priest,  "I  spake 
openly  to  the  world;  and  in  secret  have  I 
said  nothing."  What  now  would  bo 
thought  of  the  church  if  she  8hould"tyle" 
her  doors,  impose  obligations  in  secret, 
and  place  a  perpetual  seal  upon  the  lipi 
of  her  members?  Would  it  any  longer 
be  believed  that  her  sole  object  is  to  pro 
'  mote  the  religion  of  the  Gospel?  Now  if 
the  church,  which  is  the  purest  body  on 
earth,  could  not  and  would  not  bo  trusted 
as  a  secret  society,  who  can  blame  con- 
scientious and  judicious  men  for  drawing 
the  conclusion  that  any  secret  society,  of 
whatever  description, is  altogether  unnec- 
essary and  cannot  exist  without  becoming 
an  object  of  8uspicion,if  not  an  engine  of 
wickedness.  "^ 


N.  G.  A.  BUILDING  AND  OmCX  OW 
THK  CHRIflTIAN  CTN08URI, 
m  WIST  M ADIfiON  BTRZET,  CEICAGC 


JTA  TJOSAL  CHRIS  TlAS  A880CIA IIOM 

Pbesidbht.— H.  H.  George,  D.  D.,  Gen 
eva  College,  Pa. 

VicB-PBEsiDBKT — Rev.  M.  A.  Gaolt, 
Blanchard,  Iowa. 

Cob.  Sbc't  and  Gbnbbal  Aobht. — J 
P.  Stoddard,  221 W.  Madison  St.,  Chicago. 

Rkc.  Sbc'y.  AST)  Tbbastjbbb. — W.  I, 
Phillips,  221  W.  Madison  St.,   Chicago. 

DntBCTOBS. — Alexander  Thomson,  M 
R.  Britten,  John  Gardner,  J.  L.  Barlow, 
L.  N.  Stratton,  Thos.  H.  Gault,  C.  A. 
Blanchard,  J.  E.  Roy,  E.  R.  Worrell,  H. 
A.  Fischer,  W.  R.  Hench. 

The  object  of  this  Association  Is: 

"To  expose,  withstand  and  remove  secret 
■ocieties,  Freemasonry  In  particular,  and  othet 
antl-Christlan  raovements,  in  order  to  save  tiM 
churches  of  Christ  from  being  uepraved,  to  i* 
deem  the  admlolstr*  Uon  of  justice  from  pe*. 
version,  and  our  rep  ibllcan  government  noat 
corruption." 

To  carry  on  this  work  contributions  are 
solicited  from  every  friend  of  the  reform. 

FoBM  OF  Bequest. — J  give  and  bequeath  to 
the  National  (Christian  Association,  incorpo- 
rated and  existing  under  the  laws  of  the  State 

of   Illinois,  the  sum  of '    dollars  for  tha 

purposes  of  said  Association,  and  for  whirh 
mc  receipt  of  its  Treasurer  for  the  time  being 
^aal  be  sufficient  dischacse. 

TKB  NATIONAL  OONTBNTIOH. 

Pbbbidbnt.— Rey.  J.  S.  T.  Milligan, 
Denison,  Kans. 

Skcretaby.— RcY.  R.N.Couctee,Mem- 
phis,  Tenn. 

BTATB  AnZHiIABT  AS80CLATI0NB. 

Alabama.— Pret.,  Prof.  Pickens;  Sec.,  Q. 
M.  EUlott;  Treai.,  Rev.  C.  B.  Curtis,  all  of 
Belma. 

Cautohhia.— Pres^  L.  B.  Lathron,  Hollli 
ter ;  Cor.  Sec,  Mrs.  V.  P.  MerriU,  Woodland ; 
Treaa.,  C  Ruddock,  Woodland. 

CONHBCTictJT.— Pres..  J.  A.  Conant,  Willi 
mantle;  Sec,  Geo.  Smith,  WlUlinaDtic;  Treat. 
C.  T.  CoUlne,  Windsor. 

iLUNOis.— Pres.,  J.  P.  Stoddard:  Sec,  M. 
N.  Butler;  Trea*.,  W.  I.  Phllllpi  all  at  Cy- 
tuMure  office. 

IiTDiANA.— Pree.,  WUllam  H.  Flgg,  Reno 
Sec,  S.  L.  Cook,  Albion;  Treas.,  BenJ.  Ulah 
Silver  Lake. 

Iowa.— PreR.,Wm.  Johnston.College  Springs 
Cor  Sec,  C.  D.  Trumbull,  Morning  Sun- 
Treas.,  James  Harvey,  Pleasant  Plain.  Jeffer. 
son  Co. ;  Lecturer,  C.  F.  Hawlev,  Wheaton,  111. 

Kansas.— Pree..  J.  S.  T.  Milligan,  Denison; 
Sec,  S.  Hart,  Lecompton;  Treae.,  J.  A.  Tor- 
rence,  Denison. 

Massachusetts.— Pree.,  8.  A.  Pratt;  Sec. 
Mrs.  E.  D.  Bailey;  Treaa.,  David  Mannlng.Sr., 
Worcester. 

Michigan-— Pi*"-'  D.  A.  RlchardB,  Brighton 
Bec'y,  H.  A.  Day,  WUllMMton ;  Treas." 
Geo.  Swanson,  Jr.,  Bedioiu. 

MrNNBBOTA.— Pree.,  E.  Q.  Pafne,  Wsslojs 
Cor.  Sec.  Wm.  Fenton.  St.  Paul ;  Rec.  Sec'y 
Mrs.  M.  F.  Morrill,  St.  Charles;  Tre*«.,  Wm 
H.  Morrill,  St.  Charles. 

MissotiRi  — Pres.,  B.  F.  Miller,  EaglevlUa 
TreAB.,  WlUlam  Beauchamp,  Avalon ;  (S)r.  Btc. 
A.  D.  "rhomae,  Avalon. 

NiBBASHA.- Pre*.,  8.  Anstln,  F&lnnout- 
Cor,  Sec,  W.  Bpooner,  Kearney;  Treae.' 
J.  C.  Ty^ 

MAiNK-Pres.,  Isaac  Jackson,  Harrleon- 
Sec,  1.  D.  Hatnes,  Dexter;  Treaa.,  H.  W. 
Goddard,  West  Sidney. 

NHwHAMrsBiK*.- Pree,,  C.  L.  Baker,  Man) 
Chester;  Sec,  S.  C.  Kimball,  New  Market' 
Treae.,  James  ^•'.  French,  Canterbury. 

Nbw  York.— Pree.,  F.  W.  Capwell,  Dale; 
Sec'y,  John  Wallece,  Syracuie;  Treas.,  M. 
Merrick,  SyracuBe. 

Ohio.— rree.,  F.  M.  Spencer,  New  Concord', 
Rec  Sec,  8.  A.  George,  Mansfleld;  Cor.  Sec. 
and  TrCRS.,  C.  W.  huit,  Columbus;  Agent 
W.  B.  Siotldanl,  Columbus. 

Pbnnstlvania.— Cor.  Sec,  N.  Csllender 
TbompiSB ;  Treas.,  W.  B.  Bertele,  WUkeebarre. 

Vhbmoht.— Pre*.,  W.  R.  Laird,  St.  Johns- 
bury;  Sec,  C.  W  Potter. 

WiBOOKsni.— Prf  a.,  J.  W  Wood,  Barsboo; 
Sec,  W.  W.  Ames,  Menomonle ;  Tress.,  M.  B 
BrittoB,  Vienna. 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


Mat  24, 1888 


The  Christian  Cynosure. 


J.  BLANCHARD. 


Kdixobs. 


HBNRY  L.  BaiiLOQG. 


CHICA60,   THUSaDAt,    MAY   24,   1888 


Joseph  CooK,the  Boston  lecturer.spoke  in  the  Col- 
lege Chapel, Wheaton.Monday  evening  of  the  present 
week.  Our  readers  who  have  not  had  the  great 
pleasure  of  hearing  this  wonderful  man  may  expect 
to  see  his  portrait  and  read  some  account  of  his  life 
in  oar  next  number. 


Seorbtary  Stoddard  continues  to  write  thrill- 
ing letters  of  the  encouragement  he  has  at  Wash- 
ington,where  Mrs.  Stoddard  is  soon  to  join  him;  and 
if  prevailing  prayer  is  offered  and"the  Spirit  poured 
upon  us  from  on  high,"  those  stupendous  revivals, 
which  Albert  Barnes  says  are  what  we  are  to  pray 
for  and  expect,  will  sweep  away  those  ancient  idola- 
trous mysteries  in  their  modern  forms  and  names; 
and  Prof.  Bailey's  "Central  Union  Mission"  and 
Gospel  wagon  will  be  a  part  of  the  work  at  No.  215 
4^  street,  lit  by  the  same  fire  from  heaven. 


Rev.  a.  J.  Bailbt  of  Ogden,  Utah,  writes  that 
six  Christian  denominations  have  held  a  Christian 
Convention  at  Salt  Lake  and  gives  a  vivid  descrip- 
tion of  the  evils  of  Mormoniam  and  a  cheering  ac- 
count of  the  labors  of  ministers  and  churches  in 
Utah  for  its  overthrow.  Mr.  Bailey  was  an  active 
and  ardent  young  member  of  the  Aurora  (111.)  con- 
vention, Oct.  31st,  1867.  We  should  have  baen  glad 
if  some  notice  had  been  taken  of  the  fact  that  the 
prophet  Joseph  Smith  was  a  Freemason  in  New 
York,  where  Mormonism  started, and  that  a  Mormon 
lodge  existed  at  Nauvoo,  but  its  charter  was  taken 
away  by  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Illinois,because  Smith 
instituted  a  stop  degree  to  keep  out  Masons  from 
Mormon  lodges  while  Mormons  could  go  into  theirs; 
and  that  the  endowment  houses  are  the  Masonic 
temples  of  Utah.  But  the  late  ministerial  conven- 
tion at  Salt  Lake  as  reported  by  Mr.  Bailey  takes  no 
note  of  Mormon  Masonry.  This  gives  us  fear  lest 
some  of  the  Utah  ministers  are  themselves  Masons. 
The  first  Christian  minister  who  preached  at  Salt 
Lake  was  a  Congregationalist,  Norman  McLeod,  a 
Royal  Arch  Mason.  Of  course  Mormons  despise  a 
minister  who  preaches  against  Mormonism  and  prac- 
tices Masonry.  They  are  the  same  thing  with  differ- 
ent names  and  forms;  and,  what  is  more,  God  and 
angels  abhor  him.  Will  our  good  brother  Bailey 
give  us  some  light  on  this  subject? 


BOUBCB   OF  FRBEMA80NRT. 


The  Christian  Conservator  has  an  interesting  and 
able  letier  from  Rev.  H.  J.  Becker,  who  writes  from 
Egypt,  March  24th  last,  and  gives  the  following 
graphic  description  of  the  state  of  society  there, 
from  facts  of  many  years  of  which  he  was  an  eye- 
witness: 

"Polygamy  ifl  in  practice  everywhere  in  Egypt.  Pour 
wives  is  the  limit.  When  the  man  becomes  tired  of  one, 
he  casts  her  off,  and  buys  another.  The  four  favorites 
are  often  seen  riding  together  on  a  two  wheeled  cart, 
and  the  poor  cast  off  creature,  barefooted  and  but  half 
clad,  with  head  uncovered  (chastity  no  longer  protected) 
walki  ng  in  the  rear  to  serve  the  younger  wives.  '  'Four, " 
say  they,  "Mohammed  taught  is  all  they  can  love  at  one 
time."  The  woman  has  no  choice.  The  man  and  the 
father  of  the  woman  consummate  the  contract,  and  at 
midnight  ehe  is  carried  to  his  "harem,"  not  knowing  who 
it  is  till  she  enters  the  den  in  which  every  vestige  of 
womanhood  is  hopelessly  destroyed." 

Our  readers  know  that  all  standard  Masonic  writ- 
ers derive  "the  mysteries"  from  Egypt  through 
Greece  and  Home  down  to  the  Freemasonry  of  the 
present  day.  Its  baptism  particularly,  the  Scottish 
Rite  vaunts,  is  derived  from  the  religion  which  ex- 
isted before  the  pyramids.  The  above  quotation 
from  Rev.  Mr.  Becker's  letter  to  the  C'onstrvator 
shows  how  foul  the  fountain  from  which  Freema- 
sonry flows;  and  the  stream  is  not  clearer  than  its 
fountain.  The  present  deluge  of  secretism  now 
flooding  the  United  States  is  a  moral  copy  and  tran- 
script of  the  mysteries  in  the  time  of  our  Saviour 
and  his  apostles,  named  Eleusinian  from  Eleusis,  a 
town  some  thirty  miles  from  Athens,  where  was  a 
temple  of  Ceres.  They  had  spread  over  the  world 
and  constituted  most  of  the  worship  of  their  gods, 
each  one  of  whom  had  a  secret  worship  known  only 
to  the  initiated.  {Mackey'i  Lexicon,  p.  315.)  Once 
a  year  almost  all  Greece  marched  in  procession  to 
Eleusis.  They  marched,  they  danced,  they  sung, 
they  initiated;  in  short,  the  ))roceBSions  and  nightly 
picnics  now  covering  the  South,  making  night  hid- 
eous, are  exactly  copied  by  the  Negroes  of  the  South; 


and  now,  as  in  Paul's  day,  "it  is  a  shame  even  to 
speak  of  the  things  which  are  done  of  them  in  se- 
cret." And  all  these  abominations  and  frivolities 
are  pompously  practiced  in  the  name  of  religion. 
Now  when  the  Pentecost  revivals  started  the  apos- 
tles met  these  secret  mysteries  in  open,  square  an- 
tagonism: at  Mars  Hill,  they  denounced  them;  at 
Lystra,  where  Barnabas  was  to  be  Jupiter  and  Paul 
Mercury,  they  told  them  to  "turn  from  these  vani- 
ties." Acts  14:  15.  Paul  commanded  to  "have  no 
fellowship  with  the  unfruitful  works  of  darkness." 
Eph.  5:  11.  And  in  1  Cor.  10:  20,  Paul  told  the 
disciples  their  cups  and  tables  used  in  their  picnics 
were  cups  and  tables  of  devils. 

Now,  at  this  day,  the  labors  of  pastors  are  being 
superceded  by  evangelists  who  are  filling  the  church- 
es with  their  converts,  who  then  sit  down  in  fellow- 
ship with  Masons,  Odd-fellows  and  the  rest,  who 
practice  these  very  abominations  which  are  so  fear- 
fully forbidden  and  denounced  by  the  Word  of  God. 
And  can  we  suppose  that  the  Holy  Spirit  sanctifies 
those  communions  with  his  presence.  Allowing  all 
we  may  for  ignorance  winked  at,  and  God's  blessing 
on  the  sincere,  we  cannot  but  see  that  as  discussion 
proceeds  and  light  increases  the  ordinary  mixed 
church  communions,  where  the  worshipers  of  God 
and  Baal  sit  down  together,  the  communion  service 
grows  shallow,  mercy  pales,  and  wrath  thickens 
about  the  mercy-seat.  We  respectfully  urge  evan- 
gelists to  let  it  be  distinctly  known  by  the  hearers 
that  when  they  invite  sinners  to  come  to  Christ,  they 
expect  them  to  come  out  from  the  lodge,  as  well  as 
from  liquor  and  other  sins.  Let  that  onca  ba  dis- 
tinctly understood,  and  then  conversion  will  mean 
something,  and  Pentecost  revivals  will,  like  other 
histories,  reproduce  themselves.  God's  ear  has  not 
grown  heavy  nor  his  arm  short.  The  converts  of 
Pentecost  were  among  the  most  priest-ridden,  super- 
stitious people  on  earth;  yet  fourteen  years  had  not 
elapsed  when  James  could  say  to  Paul,  "Thou  seest, 
brother,  how  many  thousands  of  Jews  believe." 
If  by  faithfully-declared  truth  the  devils  are  driven 
out  of  churches  which  worship  them,  just  think  what 
a  vast  room  will  be  made  vacant  for  the  indwelling 
of  the  Holy  Ghost!  Think  of  the  vast  amount  of 
time  and  money  that  will  be  rescued  from  the  lodges 
and  devoted  to  ChristI  And  three  and  five  thou- 
sand converts  in  revivals  may  seem  no  more  won- 
derful now  than  they  did  at  Pentecost,  or  than  their 
record  seems  now.  And  there  has  not,  since  Pente- 
cost, been  a  more  favorable  time  than  the  present, 
or  more  favorable  circumstances  than  those  now  ex- 
isting at  our  national  seat  of  government,  for  such 
stupendous  displays  of  God's  power  to  save  souls. 
We  are  surely  in  the  last  days,  and  nearing  the  last 
question,  viz.,  whether  Christ  or  Satan  is  to  have 
the  worship  of  this  globe.  And  at  Washingtou  an 
ex-slave  has,  by  invitation  of  our  President,  dined 
with  the  diplomats  of  the  nations;  and  other  ex- 
slaves  have  occupied  seats  in  both  houses  of  Con- 
gress, and  in  the  executive  departments  of  the  first 
Republic  on  earth.  And  if  black  men  and  white 
must  be  brothers  in  Christ  before  Christ  reigas  here, 
now  is  the  time  and  Washington  the  place  to  move 
for  it.  But  for  all  this  God  must  he  "inquired  of  to 
do  it." 


TEE  POPE  AND  IRELAND. 


The  best  and  the  worst  men  have  often  united  in 
supporting  the  freest  principles.  The  good  support 
liberty  because  they  love  justice;  the  bad,  either 
because  they  hate  restraint  or  have  ulterior  designs. 
The  last  is  the  manifest  motive  of  the  Pope  in  his 
late  letter  against  "boycotting"  and  home  rule  in 
Irehnd. 

The  Book  of  the  Apocalypse,  Prof.  Stuart  used  to 
say  to  his  classes,  "is  a  pictorial  and  pantomime 
revelation  of  the  fate  and  fortune  of  the  church 
down  to  the  close  of  lime  and  the  final  judgment  of 
mankind  by  Christ."  In  this  moving  tableaux  of 
religious  events,  Christ  and  Siitan  appear  as  antag- 
onists and  leaders  of  the  opposing  forces  in  the 
ceaseless  strugs;le  between  right  and  wrong,  truth 
and  falsehood,  in  this  and  other  worMs;  and  "the 
Dragon,"  called  also  "that  old  serpent,  the  devil  and 
Satan,"  appears  throughout  the  whole  Bible  as  the 
rival  and  opponent  of  Christ;  and  the  "woman"  dis- 
tinguished for  finery  and  moral  filth,  the  beasts,  a 
shadowy  image  of  the  leading  beast,  and  the  false 
prophet  or  Mormonism  of  all  ages,  are  among  the 
dramatis  personal  in  this  prophetic  drama  of  the 
world. 

That  Rome  is  the  chief  seat  and  source  of  these 
moral  abominations  is  plainly  declared  in  two  verses 
of  the  17th  chapter  of  this  august  and  wonderful 
book.     The  verses  are  these: 

"I  will  tell  the  mystery  of  the  woman,  and  of  the  beast 
that  carrieth  her,  which  hath  the  seven  heads  and  ten 


horns."— «.  17.     '  'The  woman  which  thou  sawest  is  that 
great  city  which  reigneth  over  the  kings  of  the  earth." 
V  18. 

This  city  can  be  none  other  than  the  city  of  Rome. 
None  other  ever  claimed  or  attempted  to  "reign 
over  the  kings  of  the  earth."  Not  that  Rome  and 
Romanism  are,  or  contain  and  emit  all  the  moral 
and  religious  corruptions  on  earth:  but  that  Rome 
is  their  "mother"  and  contains  specimens  of  all,and 
is  their  head  center.  And  when  we  consider  the 
vastaess  of  such  a  symbolic  picture  of  events,  the 
wonder  is,  not  that  we  can  understand  so  little,  but 
that  we  can  understand  anything  at  all  with  certain- 
ty concerning  so  stupendous  a  vision. 

One  thing  is  obvious  on  the  face  of  such  a  book, 
viz ,  that  popery  is  but  a  fragment  of  an  infinite 
scheme  protracted  into  and  closing  the  drama  of  our 
world's  history,  in  which  legions  of  angels  and 
of  devils  bear  their  respective  parts;  and  in  which 
an  individual  pope  is  biit  an  insignificant  actor  com- 
pared with  the  "principalities  and  powers"  with 
whom  we  wrestle;  that  popes  should  stumble,  make 
and  correct  mistakes,  and  do  things  moat  inconsist- 
ent and  opposite  to  each  other,  and  this  is  what  we 
see.  A  pope  pensioned  and  patronized  Charles  IL, 
who  was  a  concealed  apostate,  and  his  brother 
James  II.,  an  open  one,  and  the  "simpleton  who  lost 
three  kingdoms  for  a  mass."  Both  of  these  kings 
damaged  the  Romish  cause.  To  procure  the  resto- 
ration of  these  weak  and  worthless  Stuarfcs.the  same 
pope  patronized  Chevalier  Ramsay,  a  Presbyterian 
apostate  to  Rome  under  Fenelon;  and  he,  with  the 
Jesuits,  invented  the  present  scheme  or  "Rite"  of 
Freemasonry  to  restore  the  Stuarts,  which  attempt 
failed.  And  when  Garibaldi,  Mazzini  and  other 
patriots  afterward  used  the  same  Masonry  to  resist 
the  popedom,  the  reigning  pope  denouaced  the  sys- 
tem he  had  patronized  in  Ramsay  and  the  Stuarts. 

In  the  year  1156  Pope  Adrian  III,  by  a  bull, 
gave  all  Ireland  to  Henry  II.  of  Eagland;  and  years 
after  Jesuits,  doubtless  with  the  approval  of  the 
pope,  their  master,  attempted  to  blow  up  the  king 
and  Parliament  of  E  agland  with  guapowder.  And 
the  present  pope,  Leo  XIII,,  is  now  courting  the 
favor  of  Queen  Victoria,  the  reputed  "head  of  the 
church"  in  the  leading  Protestant  kingdom,  by  his 
letter  against  boycotting  her  Irish  landlords;  and  he 
has  lately  turned  Democrat  and  given  his  official 
sanction  to  an  Anti  masonic  League,  which  pledges 
those  who  sign  it  not  to  vote  for  Freemasons  or 
take  Masonic  papers.  Whether  Loo  succeeds  better 
opposing  Gladstone  and  Home  Rale  than  his  prede- 
cessor did  in  his  movement  to  quell  Lather,  remains 
to  be  seen.  God  often  "taketh  the  wise  in  their 
own  craftiness;"  and  we  know  that  a  single  human 
priest  living  at  Rome,  on  a  salary  of  five  million 
dollars  a  year,  paid  largely  in  pence  by  the  poorest 
and  most  ignorant  of  the  nominally  Christian  peo- 
ples, will  cease  to  be  popular  when  those  people  re- 
cover sense.  As  a  system  of  priestcraft,  it  is 
doomed  and  must  fall;  and  its  fail  is  graphically 
foretold  and  described. 

But  Protestantism  is  now  fearfully  leaning  to 
Rome  in  laxity  of  morals,  neglect  of  the  Sabbath, 
the  practice  of  spurious  rites,  and  keeping  Romish 
festivals,  in  union  with  Knight  Templar  Masons; 
and,  in  short,  practicing  those  very  abominations 
which  have  brought  down  the  wrath  of  God  in  Pal- 
estine, where  Christ  walked  and  taught,  and  which, 
unless  forsaken,  will  surely  bring  wrath  upon  us. 


THE   ILLINOIS   PROHIBITION   CONVENTION. 


Of  all  the  State  meetings  held  in  preparation 
for  the  National  convention  at  Indianapolis  next 
Wednesday,  the  gathering  at  Springfield  last  week 
surpassed  all  for  numbers  and  enthusiasm.  It  was 
to  be  expected  that  many  people  of  radical  views 
would  be  present,  but  the  crowds,  the  zeal,  the  can- 
dor, the  intelligence,  cleanliness  and  piety,  were  a 
revelation  and  astonishment  to  the  politicians  who 
have  been  accustomed  to  look  upon  such  conven- 
tions as  a  cockpit  for  wire-pulling,  vulgarity  and 
swapping  of  "infl  )oence,"  undor  the  benign  seduc- 
tions of  a  cloud  of  tobacc.)  smoke.  The  voice  of 
prajor  and  the  singing  of  Gospel  hymns  was  a  hap- 
py contrast  and  augury  of  a  great  reform  in  the  na- 
tion. The  State  Journal  (Republican),  in  a  long  and 
very  complimentary  editorial,  contr:;st3  the  meeting 
with  that  of  other  similar  bodies  held  in  the  same 
hall,  and  commends  its  cleanliness  and  exceptional 
appearance  and  numbers  to  serious  consideration, 

Hon.  James  Lamont,  the  only  Prohibitionist  sent 
to  the  last  State  legislature,  was  made  temporary 
chairman,  and  was  succeeded  by  Dr.  J.  G.  Evans  of 
Onarga  when  a  permanent  officer  was  chosen.  His 
position  was  one  of  extreme  difficulty,  but  he  suc- 
ceeded in  keeping  the  overflowing  spirits  in  check 
and  getting  some  important  business  completed. 


■■a 


May  24, 1888 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


For  the  campaign  in  Illinois  some  $6,000  were 
raised;  a  strong  delegation  was  appointed  to  In- 
dianapolis; and  excellent  resolutions  adopted  con- 
demn license;  favor  the  disfranchisement  of  illiter- 
ates and  habitual  drunkards,  female  suffrage,  tariff" 
for  revenue  only,  the  Sabbath  preserved,  and  arbi- 
tration for  labor  questions.  The  ideas  are  good  but 
clumsily  expressed.  The  ticket  nominated  is:  For 
Governor,  David  H.  Harts  of  Lincoln;  Lieut.  Gover- 
nor, Joseph  L.  .Whitlock  of  Chicago;  Secretary  of 
State,  J.  Ross  Hanna,  Monmouth;  Attorney  General, 
F.  E.  Andrews,  Sterling;  Ireasurer,  John  W.  Hart 
of  Rockford;  Auditor,  Uriah  Copp  of  Loda. 

The  latter  is  a  lodgite,  and  has  been  a  bulwark  of 
Good  Templarism  in  Illinois.  His  secretly  pledged 
friends  were  anxious  to  put  him  forward.  They 
nominated  him  as  "Grand  Worthy  Chief  Templar  of 
the  Stat€  of  Illinois"  for  delegate  to  Indianapolis, 
but  the  Convention  did  not  want  so  much  dignity 
taken  out  of  the  State.  Again  he  was  put  up  for 
Secretary  of  State,  and  again  left  far  in  the  rear. 
The  (jynoswe  representative  remembers  a  third 
nomination  and  defeat,  but  is  not  sure  for  what 
honor.  Evidently  lodge  dignity  had  few  worshipers 
in  the  Convention.  At  length  Mr.  Packard,  a  Chi- 
cago lawyer,  who  does  not  belong  to  the  lodge,  fear- 
ing that  Good  Templars  would  lose  what  devotion 
they  had  to  prohibition,  in  their  chagrin  and  love  of 
lodgery,  asked  that  Copp  be  nominated  by  acclama- 
tion and  the  chairman  neglected  to  ask  for  a  nega- 
tive vote. 

General  Fiak  was  endorsed  as  candidate  for  Pres- 
ident, and  the  Gjod  Templars  attempted  again  to 
advertise  themselves  by  bringing  forward  for  Vice 
President  the  name  of  John  A.  Brooks  of  Missouri, 
who  is  one  of  their  order.      The  matter  was  tabled. 

Much  enthusiasm  was  aroused  by  the  proposition 
to  organize  the  old  soldiers  of  both  sides  In  a  "Blue 
and  Gray"  society,  whose  object  should  be  the 
burial  of  the  bloody  shirt  and  the  saloon  in  one 
common  grave.  The  question  was  raised,  Is  this  to 
follow  the  G.  A.  R.,  etc.,  into  the  swamps  of  secret- 
ism?  The  reply  was  explicit:  It  is  to  be  open  as 
the  day. 

Treasurer  W.  I.  Phillips  of  the  National  Christian 
Association  and  the  assistant  editor  of  the  Cynosure 
were  both  delegates,  but  the  latter  "tarried  by  the 
stuff  '  at  home.  Mr.  Phillips  was  cordially  recog- 
nized by  mvny,  and  the  fact  of  his  relation  to  the 
N.  C.  A.  and  the  Gynomre  was  always  a  sufficient 
endorp.ement  with  strangers.  He  was  elected  chair- 
man of  the  delegation  from  the  8th  district  and 
member  of  th3  finance  committee.  Assisted  by 
brethren  Whitcomb  of  Bloomington,Reberof  Whea- 
ton  and  Parry  of  Humboldt  Park,  he  put  a  copy  of 
the  memorial  adopted  at  the  late  political  conference 
in  this  city  in  the  hands  of  most  of  the  delegates. 
It  was  received  eagerly  when  its  character  was 
known,  and  many  were  the  remarks  of  approval 
quietly  expressed.  Similar  remarks  were  made  when 
Bro.  Phillips  read  and  passed  to  the  proper  commit- 
tee a  resolution  asking  for  the  nomination  of  men 
unsworn  by  the  lodge.  Rev.  Dr.  Kennedy  of  Sand- 
wich, J.  W.  Haggard,  editor  of  the  Bloomington 
Lancet,  and  others,  gave  their  endorsement  to  the 
principles  of  the  American  Anti-Secrecy  League. 

These  facts  are  greatly  encouraging.  They  indi- 
cate a  quiet  recognition  of  the  principles  that  must 
ultimately  prevail  respecting  the  lodge  in  politics, 
and  which  would  have  a  place  in  the  platform  but 
for  the  good  brethren,  some  of  whom  refuse  to  fel- 
lowship the  lodge  in  ttieir  churches,  who  prefer  the 
path  of  expediency  in  order  to  keep  the  Good  Tem- 
plar votes. 


;  church  to  trim  to  the  world  and  forsake  Christian 
principle. 

— Rev.  M.  A.  Gault,  district  secretary  and  lectur- 
er for  the  National  Reform  Association,  was  wel- 
comed at  this  office  last  week  on  his  way  to  the  Re- 
formed Presbyterian  Synod  at  Allegheny  City.  His 
labors  during  the  past  year  have  been  abundant  in 
several  States.  He  promises  the  Cynoture  readers 
a  review  of  his  experiences  and  successes. 

—Dr.  L.  W.  Munhall  is  in  St.  Paul.  Bro.  Fenton 
has  been  questioning  him,  and  finds  his  position  on 
the  lodge  entirely  unsatisfactory.  "Is  it  a  sin  to  be 
a  Freemason?"  ''No,"  replies  Dr.  Munhall,  "unless 
they  make  an  idol  of  it  and  trust  to  it  for  salvation, 
as  many  do."  We  regret  exceedingly  to  learn  this 
of  Dr.  Munhall  and  hope  that  his  position  is  not 
fairly  understood.  Otherwise  he  has  need  to  learn 
again  the  "first  principles"  of  the  Gospel.  "For 
when  for  the  time  ye  ought  to  be  teachers,  ye  have 
need  that  one  teach  you  again  which  be  the  first 
principles  of  the  oracles  of  God."     Heb.  5:  12. 


— Bro.  F.  J.  Dividson,  our  untiring  colporteur  in 
New  Orleans,  wrote  Saturday  of  very  poor  health 
during  the  week,  with  a  threat  of  fever.  We  pray 
God  to  spare  a  life  so  useful  to  his  race. 

—  Bro.  H.  H.  Hinman,  the  N.  C.  A.  Southern 
agent,  reached  Chicago  Saturday  morning.  He 
spoke  to  the  College  Church  on  Sabbath  evening  on 
progress  in  the  South  and  the  education  of  the  col- 
ored race  to  a  deeply  intertsted  congregation. 

— All  our  readers  who  are  engaged  in  Sabbath- 
school  work  will  greet  Miss  Flagg  with  joy,  as  she 
resumes  her  excellent  notes  in  this  number.  May 
this  proof  of  her  recovery  be  but  the  first  of  many 
labors  in  which  her  consecrated  talents  shall  win 
great  success  for  the  kingdom  of  Christ  among  men. 

— The  Weshyan  Alethodist'$  report  of  the  Cham- 
plain  Conference,  New  York,  shows  a  rallying  to  the 
testimony  of  the  church  a(i;ainst  the  lodge.  Rev.  U. 
B.  Lathrop,  formerly  of  Illinois,  with  others,  made 
iwwerf  ul  speeches  for  the  truth.  Bro.  I.  R.  B.  Arnold 
in  the  same  number  shows,  with  his  usual  happy 
and  forcible  style,  how  fatal  it  must  needs  be  for  a 


2EE  VICE  PREBIDBNT  FOR    TRB   PROHIBI- 
TION PARTY. 


A  PaOTEST  FBOM  THE  REFOflM  LEADEE  OF  KENTUCKY. 

Shall  we  hunt  for  a  Southern  man  as  a  candidate 
for  the  place  of  Vice  President  in  the  Prohibition 
party? 

As  a  Prohibitionist  I  profess  to  be  wedded  to  a 
principle— &  principle  world-wide  in  its  application. 
As  a  representive  of  that  principle  I  should  be 
ashamed  to  ask  where  is  the  man  from?  The  rather, 
is  he  fit—M  in  intelligence  and  moral  worth?  Are 
his  principles  and  practices  in  harmony  with  ac- 
knowledged righteousness  and  correct  civil  govern- 
ment? 

Also  in  asking  such  a  question  to  Prohibi- 
tionists, I  should  fear  lest  I  would  offend  them — 
my  question  implying  that  they,  too,  were  influenced 
by  such  local  considerations. 

Nor  am  I  concerned  about  the  question.  From 
what  old  party  did  he  come?  Whother  Democratic 
or  Republican? 

The  question  is  this,  Is  the  man  a  fair,  open  ex- 
ponent of  the  principle  of  prohibition,  and  such 
other  correlative  principles  and  practices  as  are  in 
harmony  with  republican  and  righteous  government? 

In  fidelity  to  such  principles  I  must  protest  against 
the  nomination  of  "General"  and  Rev.  Green  Clay 
Smith.  I  am  informed  directly  and  personally,  by 
his  own  brother,  that  Green  Clay  Smith  of  Kentucky 
is  a  Freemason. 

Now  when  I  see  a  professed  minister  of  the  Gos- 
pel, in  a  Republican  government,  in  times  of  peace, 
and  under  cover  of  night,  creeping  into  a  secret 
lodge;  at  first  less  than  half  clad,  and  hood-winked; 
and  then  under  the  imprecations  of  horrid  penalties, 
in  the  name  of  God,  covenanting  never  to  reveal 
things  he  knows  not;  and  then  persistently  omitting 
from  all  official  prayer  the  name  of  Jesus  Christ 
the  Saviour  of  men,  my  soul  turns  away  from  such. 
I  say  to  my  soul  and  to  my  neighbors,  such  princi- 
ples and  practices  are  antagonistic  to  true  republic- 
anism, true  philanthropy,  and  true  Christianity. 

I  have  seen  here  in  this  South  the  evil  fruits  of 
secretism — Ku  klux,  White  Leaguers,  Knights  of 
Golden  Circle,  etc.— spawns  of  the  old  mother 
Freemasonry.  I  want  no  more  of  such.  A  great 
national  party  need  not  to  load  itself  with  men  affil- 
iated with  such  leagues. 

The  Prohibition  convention  that  met  and  made 
nominations  four  years  ago,  recognized  this  fact; 
and  in  compliance  with  the  suggestions  of  Godfear- 
ing  men  and  women  gave  us  men  of  clean  hand?, 
ready  for  'open  work".  I  ask  for  such  again.  I 
care  not  whether  the  standard-bearers  be  from  North 
or  South.  True  devotion  to  principle  will  bridge 
over  Mason's  and  Dixon's  line.  Talk  about  localities 
will  not. 

Once  more,  if  the  Prohibition  party,  for  the  sake 
of  members,  shall  deliberately  take  into  its  bosom 
a  standard-bearer  living  in  practices  known  as  in 
iquitous  and  dangerous,  subversive  ,of  correct  civil 
government,  it  will  sooner  or  later  die  as  did  the 
old  Whig  Party  by  allying  itstlf  with  slavery;  and 
as  will  the  Republican  party  now  die  by  its  alliance 
with  whisky. 

Let  us  learn  wisdom  from  the  past  and  pray  for 
divine  guidano  in  the  future.  Joun  G.  Fee. 

Btrea,  Ky.,  May  16,  ISSS. 

m  I  m 

— Rev.  Arthur  T.  Pierson,  D.D.,  editor  of  the 
Mittionary  litview,  coosiilers  Iho  great  missionary 
conference  to  bo  held  in  Exoter  Hall,  London,  Juno 
!)  to  19,  to  bo  a  council  'second  in  importance  to 
none  since  the  Day  of  Pentecost."  Rov.  David  Mc- 
Fall  of  Boston  is  delegate  to  that  meeting. 


A  ORBAT  MSBTING  FOR  PROHIBITION. 


HOW    TOE    GOOD    TEMPLARS    SNUBBED    THE    INFANT 
PARTY. 

Bloominoton,  III.,  May  17th,  1888. 

Editor  Cynosure: — Thinking  you  may  desire  re- 
ports from  the  late  State  Prohibition  cDnvention,and 
from  as  many  different  sources  as  possible,  I  ven- 
ture to  send  you  the  impressions  of  one  who  was 
there. 

This  meeting  cannot  but  be  historic;  marking  as 
it  does  the  stepping  forth  of  the  reform  from  the 
home  circle,  the  prayer  meeting  and  the  small  hall 
or  tent  gathering  of  cranks,  fanatics  and  enthusiasts 
to  a  grand  out-pouring  of  the  masses,  a  ground- 
swell  of  the  coming  earthquake  which  will  break  up 
old  accretions  of  wrong  and  usher  in  the  light  of  jus- 
tice and  right.  Here  were  a  thousand  delegates  rep- 
resentiDg  other  thousands  all  over  our  vast  State, 
drawn  together  by  the  overwhelming  impulse  of  the 
justice  of  their  cause.  They  were  no  mean  spectacle 
in  so  pusillanimous  and  self-seeking  an  era  as  ours. 

Our  great  Representative  Hall  was  filled  with  del- 
egates.and  two  districts  overflowing  to  the  galleries. 
It  formed  an  inspiring  sight  indeed.  The  ch^iracter 
of  the  crowd  was  in  very  marked  contrast  with  the 
usual  material  of  such  assemblies.  There  was  no 
odor  of  alcohol,  no  clouds  of  tobacco  smoke  and  no 
use  for  the  ubiquitous  spittoons.  The  religious  el- 
ement was  a  striking  feature.  A  clergyman  presid- 
ed. Pastors  and  Gospel  workers  were  quite  numer- 
ous. Gospel  songs  and  prayers  opened  and  closed 
all  exercises,  and  the  fervent  "Amens"  which  ran 
through  the  assemblage  showed  the  devotional  spir- 
it which  animated  and  united  all  hearts. 

These  people  came  together  with  nothing  cut  and 
dried,  in  the  old  party  machine  fashion.  The  party 
boss  is  unknown  among  them  and  each  man  in  his 
enthusiasm  does  not  fear  to  tackle  anything  which 
can  come  up.  This  of  course  would  make  an  Her- 
culean task  for  a  presiding  officer.  Our  Hercules — 
moral  and  physical — was  found  in  the  person  of 
Rev.  Mr.  Evans;  who,  amid  the  bubbling  enthusi- 
asm and  almost  boundless  undisciplined  energy  of 
our  young  giant,  kept  him  in  steady  rein. 

It  was  doubtless  an  over8ight,at  which  we  are  dis- 
satisfied, that  in  the  very  first  sentence  of  the  plat- 
form the  name  of  God  is  used  simply  as  the  ruler  of 
the  universe.  He  is  thus  "a  consuming  fire"  (Heb. 
12:29),  and  bo  acknowledged  by  the  lodge.  He  is 
our  God  in  Jesus  Christ,  his  Son.and  we  regret  that 
the  distinctive  Christian  feature  of  our  reform  was 
not  announced.  Can  we  not  see  that  this  error  is 
not  renewed  at  Indianapolis? 

During  the  entire  deliberations  Good  Templarism 
peeped  but  once.  This  was  in  the  usual  goody- 
goody  strain  and  passed  off  as  lodge  bombast  usu- 
ally does.  Their  grand  muck-a  muck,  Mr.  Uriah 
Copp,  was  nominated  for  Auditor,  but  seemed  to  be 
in  no  way  aided  by  his  secret  affiliation.  The  poor 
taste  of  this  order  in  seeking  recognition  by  the 
Prohibition  party  will  appear  when  we  know  that  in 
1872  they  laughed  to  scorn  the  idea  of  separate  po- 
litical action. 

That  year  the  Prohibition  leaders  appointed  their 
State  convention  at  the  same  time  and  place  (Weno- 
na.  111.)  as  the  meeting  of  the  Grand  Lodge.  The 
convention  was  to  assemble  immediately  at  the  close 
of  the  lodge.  The  lodge  members  simply  jeered  at 
the  convention  and  went  home.  The  convention  (of 
seven)  did  assemble,  however,  and  chose  electors  to 
vote  for  Messrs.  Black  and  Russel,  our  candidates, 
and  from  that  day  to  this  they  have  kept  up  the 
chain  of  political  action. 

This  I  have  from  one  of  the  seven  who  met;  and 
I  give  it  to  illustrate  the  sublime  cheek  of  an  order 
which  is  continually  seeking  recognition  from  the 
party  whose  uprising  they  opposed,  although  the 
world  besides  see  the  incongruity  of  secret  methods 
in  a  vast  popular  movement  like  this. 

This  (1872)  was  the  year  which  gave  us  the 
American  party,  which  has  always  been  for  separate 
political  action  and  for  unrestricted  suffrage. 

Which  of  thtse  two  most  dcstive  our  restioct? 

Wo  here  greatly  rejoice  at  the  inception  of  an  or- 
ganization in  which  our  soldiers  may  uuite  without 
ihe  puerility  of  secrecy.  I  refer  to  the  "Blue  and 
Gray"  recruits  at  our  meeting.  There  is  inspiration 
in  the  thought  of  clasping  hands  across  the  bloody 
chasm  which  the  G.  A.  R.  and  the  U.  V.  U.  can  never 
feel. 

The  convention  separated  with  the  long-meter 
Doxology  and  general  hand  shaking.  The  crucial 
year  of  our  reform  is  at  hand.  We  approach  the  main 
summit  of  our  Hill  Difficulty,  ami  believe  that  one 
strong,  generous  effort  will  place  us  wbcro  easy  stag- 
ing will  carry  us  through.     Fraternally, 

H.    D.    WUITCOMB. 


10 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


Mat  24, 1888 


THE  HOME. 


'THE  LOVBD  AND  LOST.' 


The  loved  and  lost  I    Why  do  we  call  them  lost? 

Because  we  miss  them  from  our  onward  road? 
God's  unseen  angel  o'er  our  pathway  curst, 
Looked  on  us  all,  and  loving  them  the  most. 

Straightway  relieved  them  of  Its  weary  load. 

And  this  we  call  a  loss ;  oh,  selfish  sorrow 

Of  selfish  hearts  1    Oh,  we  of  little  faith  I 
Let  us  look  round,  some  argument  to  borrow 
Why  we  in  patience  should  await  the  morrow 
That  surely  must  succeed  this  night  of  death. 

Ay,  look  upon  this  dreary,  desert  path. 

The  thorns  and  thistles  whersoe'er  we  turn ; 
What  trials  and  what  tears,  what  wrongs  and  wrath. 
What  struggles  and  what  strife  the  journey  hath  I 
They  have  escaped  from  these,  and  lo  I  we  mourn. 

Ask  the  poor  saUor  when  the  wreck  Is  done, 

Who  with  his  treasure  strove  the  shore  to  reach 
While  with  the  raging  waves  he  battled  on, 
Was  It  not  joy  where  every  joy  seemed  gone, 
To  see  his  loved  ones  landed  on  the  beachi 

A  poor  wayfarer,  leading  by  the  hand 

A  little  child,  had  halted  by  the  well 
To  wash  from  off  her  feet  the  clinging  sand. 
And  tell  the  tired  boy  of  that  bright  land 

Where,  this  long  journey  past,  they  longed  to  dwell, 

When  lo  1  the  King  who  many  mansions  had 
Drew  near  and  looked  upon  the  suffering  twain, 

Then  pitying  spake,  "(Jive  me  the  little  lad; 

In  strength  renewed  and  glorious  beauty  clad, 
I'll  bring  him  with  me  when  I  come  again." 

Did  she  make  answer  selfishly  and  wrong : 
"Nay,  but  the  woes  I  feel  he  too  must  share  I" 

Or,  rather  bursting  Into  joyful  song, 

Go  on  her  way  rejoicing  and  made  strong 
To  struggle  on,  since  he  was  freed  from  care. 

We  will  do  likewise ;  Death  has  made  no  breach 
In  Icve  and  sympathy,  in  hope  and  trust ; 

If  outward  sign  or  sound  our  ears  ne'er  reach. 

There  is  an  Inward  spiritual  speech 
That  greets  us  still,  though  mortal  tongues  be  dust. 

It  bids  us  do  the  work  that  they  laid  down. 

Take  up  the  song  where  they  broke  off  the  strain ; 
So  journeying  till  we  reach  the  heavenly  town. 
Where  are  laid  up  our  treasures  and  our  crown. 
And  our  lost  loved  ones  will  be  found  again. 

—Church  of  England  Magazine, 


TEB  QRACB  OF  QIVINQ. 


ciently  ingenious  in  finding  out  ways  to  increase 
their  means  of  giving.  When,in  Israel's  tabernacle, 
brass  was  required  for  a  laver,the  women  gave  their 
metal  mirrors!  What  a  sacrifice  of  vanity  was 
there  1  A  Mohammedan  woman  here  has  lately  de- 
voted the  jewels  which  adorned  her  head  (120  rupees 
in  value)  to  swell  the  subscription  for  Turkey.  Is 
there  here  no  example  for  us?  Many  a  Christian 
lady  could  sacrifice  the  gold  chain  and  the  jeweled 
ring,  and  so  realize  the  delight  of  laying  her  gems 
at  the  feet  of  her  Lord.  Why  should  the  table  of 
the  Christian  gentleman  be  loaded  with  superfluous 
plate,  when  it  might  afford  to  him  the  privilege  of 
laying  up  treasure  in  heaven?" 

"Franklin's  plan  was  to  lend  to  a  poor  fellow  in 
need  and  require  payment  to  be  made  when  the  bor- 
rower has  the  ability,  to  some  other  person  in  need. 
This  avoided  the  humiliation  of  accepting  a  charity, 
while  it  gave  aid  when  there  was  most  necessity  and 
passed  it  on  to  some  other  needy  recipient  by  and 
hy"—Rco.  J.  M.  totter. 


Rev.  Arthur  T.  Pierson,  D.  D,,  has  an  article  in 
the  Homiletic  Review  on  "The  Grace  of  Giving." 
Three  things  are  to  be  dedicated:  our  time,  in  rec- 
ognition of  which  we  give  one-seventh;  our  proper- 
ty, in  acknowledgment  of  which  we  give  one-tenth, 
and  our  hearts,  in  secret  prayer.  In  the  holy  of 
holies  in  the  tabernscle  was  the  golden  candlestick 
with  its  seven  lamps,  a  symbol  of  our  time;  the  ta- 
ble of  shewbread,  the  symbol  of  our  substance,  and 
the  golden  altar,  the  incense  of  which  symbolized 
our  prayers,  all  devoted  to  God.  "Shaftsbury  speaks 
with  contempt  of  'munificent  6ejwe«<«,'as  though  there 
were  any  real  munificence  in  giving  away  what  one 
can  no  longer  keep  or  use  for  himself;  but  empha- 
sizes munificent  donations,  in  which  the  donor  an- 
ticipates the  ultimate  reward  by  the  joy  of  giving 
and  of  blessing  others."  "Bishop  Coxe  says  he 
knows  A  man  in  western  New  York  who  puts  five 
cents  in  the  offering  on  Sabbath  days  in  the  free 
church  which  he  attends,  but  pays  $800  a  season  for 
an  opera  box;  and  the  Living  Church  matches  him 
with  a  millionaire  of  its  acquaintance  who  subscribes 
$1.00  a  Sabbath  towards  the  expenses  of  his  church, 
but  stops  payment  during  his  winter  excursions  in 
the  South,  in  which  he  expends  thousands  of  dollars 
upon  himself  and  family." 

Dr.  William  Kincaid  says,  "A  friend  of  mine,  re- 
ceiving some  money  at  the  hands  of  a  bank  officer 
the  other  day,  noticed  dependinc;  from  one  of  the 
bills  a  little  scarlet  thread.  He  tried  to  pull  it  out, 
but  found  that  it  was  woven  into  the  very  texture  of 
the  note  and  could  not  be  withdrawn.  'Ah I'  said 
the  banker,  'you  will  find  that  all  the  government 
bills  are  made  so  now.  It  is  an  expedient  to  pre- 
vent counterfeiting.'  Just  so  Christ  has  woven  the 
scarlet  thread  of  his  blood  into  every  dollar  that  the 
Christian  owns.  It  cannot  be  withdrawn;  it  marks 
it  as  his.  My  brother,  my  sister,  when  you  take  out 
a  government  note  to  expend  for  some  needless  lux- 
ury, notice  the  scarlet  thread  therein  and  reflect  that 
it  belongs  to  Christ.  How  can  we  trifle  with  the 
price  of  Ijlood." 

Charlotte  Maria  Tucker,  pleading  for  a  new  mis- 
sion station  in  Punjaub,  say8,"It  has  often  occurred 
to  me  that  many  true  servants  of  God  are  not  suffl- 


AN  ALABA8TBR  BOX. 


It  was  in  those  dreary  days  in  Kansas  when  the 
grasshopper  had  become  a  burden  in  a  far  heavier 
sense  than  that  which  was  in  Solomon's  thought 
when  he  drew  his  picture  of  weary  old  age.  Days 
when  even  strong,  hopeful  men  grew  desperate,  and 
sent  out  their  plea  for  help  to  their  more  blessed 
brethren,  whose  farms  and  gardens  and  orchards 
the  plague  swarms  had  not  visited;  days  when  it 
fared  harder  yet  with  the  feeble  and  the  lonely  who 
knew  not  how  to  make  their  voices  heard,  or  where 
to  stretch  their-  hands,  save  in  the  sight  of  heaven. 
Men's  hearts  move  quickly  to  the  cry  of  want,  in 
spite  of  sin  and  selfishness,  and  very  soon  relief 
came  pouring  in  from  every  quarter,  as  church  after 
church  presented  the  matter  in  the  public  congrega- 
tion, and  the  press  everywhere  urged  speedy  and 
generous  giving.  Prom  one  of  these  church  servi- 
ces a  lady  went  home,  eager  to  contribute  her  share 
toward  the  relief  fund,  and  especially  interested  at 
finding  among  those  designated  by  the  governors 
of  the  afflicted  States  to  receive  and  distribute  sup- 
plies, the  name  of  a  personal  friend.  She  said  to 
herself,  "I,  myself,  will  pack  a  special  box,  and  send 
it  to  Mrs  B.  There  shall  not  be  one  thing  in  it  which 
I  would  not  be  willing  myself  to  use  or  rQceive  from 
a  friend." 

The  box  was  filled  in  that  fashion,  and  held  stores 
of  new,  comfortable  and  valuable  things — clothing, 
books  and  bedding,  and  still  there  was  a  space  for 
one  thing  more.  Three  years  before  there  had  been 
taken  from  that  household  a  precious  mother,  one 
of  those  gentle  saints  whom,  as  Beecher  once  said, 
"God  sometimes  lets  linger  on  through  an  Indian 
summer  of  life  just  to  show  us  how  beautiful  his 
grace  can  make  a  human  soul."  All  her  clothing 
had  gone  to  help  the  destitute  except  one  garment, 
a  wrapper  of  soft  cashmere,  handsomely  trimmed 
with  silk  and  warmly  lined  and  wadded,  for  the  com- 
fort of  the  delicate  invalid,  to  whose  shoulders  a 
shawl  was  a  burden.  It  had  been  a  Christmas  pres- 
ent, every  stitch  set  by  loving  fingers,  and  had  been 
constantly  worn  for  the  few  remaining  weeks,  until 
laid  off  by  the  owner  only  a  day  before  her  death. 
It  was  a  sacred  garment,  and  the  daughter  had  said: 
"I  can  never  part  with  it;  it  would  seem  like  a  des- 
ecration for  any  one  else  to  wear  it." 

But,  looking  for  one  more  article  for  the  box,  she 
saw  the  wrapper,  and  instantly  came  the  thought: 
"What  if  in  some  home,  a  mother,  equally  beloved 
and  cherished,  is  suffering  for  the  lack  of  just  such 
a  comfortable  garment?  Would  not  your  saint  in 
heaven  be  grieved  if  you  withheld  it?"  She  took 
it  and  looked  at  it.  There  in  the  pocket  were  the 
spectacles  through  which  the  sweet  eyes  were  wont 
to  find  strength  and  patience  in  God's  Word,  and 
the  soft  silk  handkerchief,  just  as  the  invalid  hands 
had  placed  them  on  that  last  morning  when  she  said: 
"After  all,  I  believe  I  am  too  tired  to  sit  up.  If  the 
Lord  calls  me  home  to-day,  1  want  you  all  to  be 
glad." 

The  daughter  took  these  out,  but  with  a  second 
thought  put  them  back,  placing  with  them  a  note  to 
say: 

"My  precious  mother  laid  aside  this  dress  when 
she  went  to  put  on  the  garments  of  immortality.  I 
hope  it  may  be  a  comfort  to  some  other  invalid,  who, 
like  her,  may  find  God's  grace  made  perfect  in  weak- 
ness." 

In  a  letter  to  Mrs.  B.  she  told  the  story  of  the 
wrapper,  and  asked  as  a  special  favor  that  it  might, 
if  possible,  be  given  to  some  one  who  would  appre- 
ciate it  at  its  real  value.  So  the  box  went  on  its 
way,  and  very  soon  word  came  back  from  it  through 
Mrs.  B.,  who  wrote: 

"You  must  have  been  inspired  to  send  that  wrap- 


per. The  box  was  here,  but  not  yet  opened,  when  I- 
had  a  call  from  a  young  lady,  formerly  one  of  our 
teachers,  who  had  gone  out  to  live  with  her  mother 
in  a  little  shanty  on  some  land  she  was  trying  to  se- 
cure under  the  Homestead  Bill.  She  had  to  walk  a 
long  distance  to  her  school,  and  finally  her  mother 
fell  sick,  and  she  was  compelled  to  give  it  up.  There 
they  struggled  on  all  alone,  till  at  the  very  point  of 
starvation,  before  either  of  them  could  consent  to 
ask  for  help;  but  this  morning  she  succeeded  in  get- 
ting a  boy  to  stay  with  her  mother  while  she  walked 
fourteen  miles  to  town  to  ask  for  relief.  We  shall 
send  them  supplies  to-morrow,  and  having  sent  her 
within  a  mile  of  her  home  with  a  basket  for  their 
immediate  wants,  I  opened  your  box,  and  found  the 
wrapper,  sent,  I  am  sure,  for  this  very  case,  for  we 
have  only  the  coarsest  clothing  left,  and  these  wo- 
men are  refined,  cultured,  and  withal  brave,  as  only 
Christian  women  can  be.  You  did  well  to  break 
your  alabaster  box,  though  it  was  'exceedingly 
precious,'  and  I  think  you  will  even  catch  a  little  of 
its  sweetness  yourself." 

But  that  was  not  the  last.  Two  weeks  afterward 
came  a  beautifully-written  letter  from  the  little 
prairie  home,  telling  the  rest  of  the  story. 

"It  was  very  hard  for  me  to  realize  that  I  must 
actually  ask  for  charity,  but  I  could  not  see  my 
mother  suffer.  Her  confidence  in  God  had  never 
faltered,  and  all  through  that  long,  weary  walk  I 
was  asking,  with  some  bitterness  in  my  heart,  why 
she  should  be  forsaken  in  her  old  age.  My  talk 
with  "Mrs.  B.  cheered  me  up  a  little,  she  was  so  kind 
and  sympathizing,  and  then  I  saw  what  scores  and 
hundreds  were  as  bad  off  as  we,  or  even  worse. 
But,  after  all,  I  could  not  bring  myself  to  ask  for 
clothing;  I  thought  we  could  get  along  in  some  way 
as  we  were,  and  all  the  way  home  1  was  reproaching 
myself  for  my  foolish  pride  that  had  prevented  my 
asking  for  what  might  have  made  my  mother  more 
comfortable.  You  can  never  know  with  what  delight 
the  beautiful  wrapper  was  received  when  we  found 
it  among  the  stores  sent  us.  I  cried  with  joy  when 
I  shook  it  out  and  spread  it  before  my  mother,  and 
witnessed  her  almost  childish  pleasure  in  its  warmth 
and  daintiness.  I  soon  had  her  dressed  in  it,  and 
sitting  up  once  more  without  fear  of  a  chill;  but 
when  she  put  her  hand  in  her  pocket  and  drew  out 
the  spectacles,  then  she,  too,  cried.  Her  delight 
and  comfort  during  the  long,  lonely  days  when  I 
have  been  away  from  her,  has  been  to  read,  and  for 
some  time  the  rapid  failure  of  her  sight  has  almost 
wholly  deprived  her  of  this  resource,  but  these 
glasses  were  exactly  fitted  to  her  eyes,  and  she  felt 
as  rich  as  if  she  had  fallen  heir  to  a  fortune,  when 
she  opened  her  Bible  and  found  the  pages  once  more 
clear  and  distinct  before  her.  She  turned  to  the 
verse,  'I  have  been  young,  and  now  am  old,  yet  have 
I  not  seen  the  righteous  forsaken,  nor  his  seed  beg- 
ging bread,'  and  put  your  little  note  in  for  a  mark, 
saying:  'It  is  true,  my  dear;  it  is  not  begging  bread 
to  make  known  your  wants  to  those  who  give  with 
love,  because  we  are  children  of  one  Father.  It  is 
blessed  for  us  and  for  them.'  " 

This  story  is  true  in  all  its  particulars  as  nearly 
as  I  can  recall  them  after  the  lapse  of  years  since 
they  came  to  my  knowledge.  Perhaps  it  may  move 
some  other  Mary  to  bring  out  her  hoarded  box  of 
precious  ointment  and  break  it  for  the  refreshing  of 
way-worn  feet. — Emily  Huntington  Miller. 


HOW  A  BOT'a  aOUL  WAS  WON. 

The  farm  on  which  I  worked  was  in  the  suburbs 
of  a  country  town;  and  a  beautiful  night  in  June, 
when  a  few  drops  of  rain  were  falling  from  fleecy 
clouds,  I  was  overtaken  in  the  streets  by  a  pleasant- 
faced  gentleman,  as  I  was  driving  two  Durham  cows 
from  the  pasture  to  the  stables.  I  cast  my  eye  back- 
ward. Hearing  footsteps,  and  seeing  a  cheerful 
face,  my  whole  soul  was  delighted,  and  I  felt  it 
meant  me.  He  approached  me  on  the  opposite  side 
of  the  street,  but  did  not  hesitate  to  put  his  nicely- 
blacked  boots  into  the  mud;  coming  to  my  side  and 
kindly  holding  over  my  head  the  umbrella  he  was 
carrying. 

So  cheerfully  he  asked  the  natural  questions  to 
interest  a  boy:  "Whose  cows  are  they?  How 
much  milk  do  they  give?  What  did  they  cost? 
Do  you  drive  them  night  and  morning?"  with  many 
others;  to  which  with  a  real  pleasure  I  answered. 
Then,  with  the  same  pleasant,  winning  way,  ho  asked 
if  I  was  a  Christian. 

"No,  sir." 

Wonderful,  I  thought,  to  talk  about  cows  and  be- 
ing a  Christian  at  the  same  time,  and  in  the  same 
pleasant  and  natural  way. 

"Do  you  want  to  be?" 

"I  always  wanted  to  be,  sir." 

"Do  you  pray?" 


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THE  CHEISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


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"I  have  prayed,  sir,  night  and  morning,  since  I 
was  old  enough  to  understand  what  it  meant." 
•  "Have  you  a  mother?" 

«'No,  sir." 

"Where  is  your  mother?" 

"She  is  in  heaven,  sir," 

"When  did  she  go  there?" 

"Last  December,  sir." 

"Was  she  a  Christian?" 

"A  Christian,  sir  I  The  best  mother  a  boy  ever 
had." 

"Tell  me  about  her  sickness." 

"She  had  consumption  for  three  years,  and  was 
confined  to  her  room  for  six  months." 

"Did  she  talk  with  you  about  being  a  Chrie- 
tian?" 

"She  was  not  a  talking  woman,  but  she  prayed 
and  lived  before  me,  sir." 

"Tell  me  about  her  dying." 

"My  father  called  my  brother  and  myself  about 
two  o'clock  on  a  very  cold  December  morning,  say- 
ing, 'Hasten,  boys;  your  mother  is  dying.'" 

"How  did  you  teel  when  you  were  dressing?" 

"It  was  very  cold  in  that  unfinished  attic  where 
we  slept,  and  I  shook  from  head  to  foot.  Putting 
on  my  coat,  I  got  my  hand  between  the  lining  and 
the  sleeve,  and  I  could  scarcely  get  it  back,  I 
shook  so." 

"What  did  you  think  then?" 

"Think,  siri  What  could  I  think,  only  that  I  had 
no  mother  to  mend  it?  For  it  was  never  like  that, 
no  never,  when  my  mother  could  get  about  the 
house." 

"When  your  mother  was  put  down  into  the  grave, 
how  did  you  feel?" 

"Feel,  sir  I  If  I  was  prepared,  I  felt  that  I  would 
like  to  be  buried  by  her  side!" 

"Do  you  feel  lonely?" 

"All  the  time,  sir." 

"Why  so?" 

"Oh,  sirl  it  seems  to  me  no  one  loves  mel" 

"Have  you  a  Sunday-school  teacher?" 

"Yes,  sir." 

"Don't  he  love  you?" 

"I  don't  know,  sir;  he  never  said  so." 

"How  QO  you  expect  he  would  say  it?" 

"Oh,  sir!  not  to  tell  it  out,  but  to  speak  to  me  on 
the  street,  and  to  feel  interested  in  me." 

"Does  he  never  do  that?" 

"Never,  sir;  he  doesn't  seem  to  know  me  on  the 
streets,  and  us  boys  feel  that  he  doesn't  care  much 
for  us.  Why,  sir,  he  went  to  sleep  in  our  class  a 
few  Sundays  since." 

The  stranger  seemed  so  interested  in  me,  his  face 
glowed  with  love,  as  he  continued: — 

"Can't  you  tell  me  something  your  mother  said 
to  you  during  her  sickness?" 

"Yes,  sir.  I  used  to  watch  with  her  occasionally 
the  last  few  weeks  of  her  sickness,  calling  my  father 
at  midnight  or  at  one  o'clock;  One  morning  I 
stepped  to  the  bedside  to  kiss  my  mother  good-night 
before  calling  my  father,  and  she  said,  'Hand  me 
the  glass  of  water,  my  boy.'  Giving  it  to  her,  sir, 
she  drank  the  contents.  Handing  back  the  glass, 
and  dropping  her  thin,  bony  hand  upon  the  sheet, 
she  said:  'It  is  very  white,  but  it  will  be  whiter  in 
a  few  days,  and  you  won't  have  to  sit  up  and  watch 
with  your  mother.' " 

The  stranger's  interest  in  me  seemed  to  overflow 
as  he  passed  his  umbrella  from  his  right  to  his  left 
hand,  seizing  my  right  hand  with  his,exclaiming: — 

"My  dear  boy,  I  think  you  ought  to  become  a 
Christian  now!" 

"Yes,  sir;  I  would  like  to,  if  I  knew  how." 

At  this  point  in  the  interview  we  came  to  the 
street  corner  where  the  cows  turn  to  go  to  the  stable. 
Grasping  my  hand  with  increased  warmth,  he  said, — 

"Do  you  turn  here?" 

"Yes,  sir." 

With  a  look  of  tender  love  that  I  have  no  power 
to  describe,  he  said:  "My  dear  lad,  you  must  become 
a  Christian,  and  grow  up  and  be  useful,  doing  good  in 
the  world." 

Then,  bending  towards  me,  and  drawing  down  the 
umbrella  that  he  might  be  unobserved  by  passers- 
by,  he  oflered,  in  substance,  this  prayer,  still  firmly 
holding  my  hand:  "0  Go<l,  bless  this  motherless 
boy.  He  says  no  one  loves  him;  but,  dear  Lord 
Jesus,  show  him  how  much  you  love  him,  and  how 
you  will  wash  away  his  sins  and  make  him  happy 
here,  and  give  him  a  home  in  heaven  forever.  Hear 
the  prayer  his  mother  oflered  when  on  earth,  and 
hear  his  own  prayer,  for  Jesus's  sake.     Amen." 

When  I  opened  my  eyes  at  the  close  of  that  won- 
derful petition,  and  looked  into  the  stranger's  face, 
the  tears  were  dropping  from  his  cheeks.  He  with- 
drew his  hand  from  mine  with  a  strange  reluctance, 
saying,  "Good-by,  my  lad.  The  stranger  loves  you 
much;  your    mother  loved  you    more;  but  Jesus 


Christ  has  died  that  you  might  live  eternally  with 
him." 

He  followed  me  with  his  eyes  till  his  vision  was 
cut  ofl",  as  he  passed  behind  a  fence.  Going  a  few 
yards,  I  stopped  with  amazement  to  think  on  what 
bad  occurred,  and  watched  the  umbrella  as  it  passed 
along  at  the  top  of  the  high  board  fence,  till  it  was 
lost  behind  a  barn. 

The  stranger's  prayer  and  my  mother's  were 
answered,  as  I  can  testify  this  day. —  Christian  In- 
quirer. 


HOW  LIQUOR  RULES  AND  RUINB  NBW  YORK. 


FLOWERS  AND  8B0WER8. 

"Oh  dear!"  said  little  Florence,  "Oh, 

I  don't  like  rainy  weather, 
We  can't  go  out  of  doors  to  play 

Nor  take  a  walk  together." 

Eweet  Alice  laughed  and  shook  her  head; 

She  always  found  a  reason 
To  carry  sunshine  in  her  face. 

However  dark  the  season. 

"Let's  play  we're  drooping  flowers,"  she  said, 

"Just  longing  for  a  sprinkle; 
Pretend  you  are  a  violet, 

I'll  be  a  periwinkle. 

"I'm  such  a  very  thirsty  flower, 

I  love  to  get  a  dashing, 
And  violets  are  sweetest  when 

They  feel  the  raindrops  splashing."        , 

And  so  they  hung  their  pretty  heads, 

Each  dainty  little  flower ; 
And  then  they  shook  their  curls  and  said, 

"Oh,  what  a  pretty  shower  1" 

Then  they  were  daisies,  buttercups, 

And  then  a  bunch  of  clover, 
And  while  each  bloomed  a  sweet  wild  rose. 

Behold,  the  rain  was  over. 

As  Alice  pointed  to  the  sky 
With  her  arms  around  her  sister, 

The  sun  peeped  out  between  the  clouds 
And  a  little  sunbeam  kissed  her. 


—Selected, 


Temperance. 


SOUND   DOCTRINE. 


The  report  on  temperance  adopted  by  the  presby- 
tery of  Denver  at  its  recent  meeting  was  drawn  up 
by  Dr.  T.  E.  Bliss,  and  reads  as  follows: 

"Your  committee  on  temperance  would  report 
that  this  cause,  so  intimately  connected  with  the 
welfare  of  Zion,  is  steadily  increasing  and  extend- 
ing in  interest  and  power  all  over  the  land.  The 
conviction  is  becoming  more  and  more  profound, 
that  this  subject  must  have  a  large  place  in  the 
prayers  and  labors  of  the  people  of  God  before  any 
permanent  check  to  the  soul-destroying,  crime-pro- 
ducing and  God-defying  evils  and  curses  of  intem- 
perance can  be  secured.  The  more  this  subject  is 
considered  the  more  terrible  are  its  influences  seen 
to  be  against  all  interests  of  Christ's  kingdom 

"For  generations,  both  in  the  old  world  and  the 
new,  various  expedients  have  been  tried  to  check 
the  appalling  evils  of  strong  drink.  High  license 
and  low,  fifteen-gallon  laws  and  unadulterated-liquor 
laws,  and  a  thousand  other  schemes  have  been  re- 
sorted to  in  vain. 

"At  length  the  divinely  apppointed  plan  of  deal- 
ing with  all  such  mighty  sins  and  crimes  is  now 
being  adopted,  viz  :  absolute,  straight-out  prohibi- 
tion; the  same  plan  and  method  of  the  Ten  Com- 
mandments, and  the  general  economy  of  God  every- 
where in  his  Word.  And  notwithstanding  the  dust 
and  smoke  raised  by  the  powers  of  darkness,  by  the 
unfaithful  ollicials,  polilicians  and  moral  cowards, 
the  results  make  it  perfectly  plain  that  no  legisla- 
tion or  laws  on  this  subject  have  ever  been  worth 
the  paper  on  which  they  were  printed,  as  compared 
with  this.  Today,  fifty-eight  county  jails  in  Iowa 
are  empty  in  consequence  of  the  faithful  enforce- 
ment of  its  prohibitory  laws.  In  Atlanta,  Georgia, 
to-day,  statistics  show  that  drunkenness  has  in- 
creased three-fold  since  that  city  returned  to  the 
licensing  of  the  dram-shops. 

"The  recent  criminal  horrors  at  Fort  Collins, 
under  high  license,  show  conclusively  that  license 
in  any  form— given  to  such  atrocious  business— is 
itself  a  moral  monstrosity,  a  crime,  a  sin  and  a 
shame  in  any  intelligent  and  professedly  Christian 
community. 

"The  events  of  every  day  make  it  evident  that 
the  church  of  God,  while  fighting  this  great  enemy 
by  every  moral  means  at  its  command,  can  find  no 
legal  ground  on  which  it  can  stand — except  that  of 
absolute  prohibition." 


It  strikes  us  that  Morris  Deculsky,  Vice-president 
of  the  L'"quor  Dealers'  Central  Association,  told  a 
Herald  reporter  more  than  was  wise  [for  himself]. 
Last  year  the  Association  raised  $30,U00  for  politi- 
cal purposes  in  this  city,  and  they  can  ra'se  $100,- 
000  if  they  wish  at  the  next  election.  There  are 
over  eight  thousand  liquor  dealers  in  the  city,  and 
they  can  control  at  least  five  voters  each,  he  says, 
which  makes  forty  thousand,  enough  to  decide  any 
election.  He  thinks  it  not  unlikely  that  they  will 
go  into  politics,with  their  own  candidates.  He  says 
they  use  no  money  in  bribery  at  Albany,  but  the 
brewers  may.  They  are  solid  for  David  B.  Hill,  for 
whatever  he  may  want,but  prefer  to  see  him  remain 
governor.  They  want  no  more  "silk-stocking  men," 
but  will  vote  for  their  friends  regardless  of  party 
politics.  They  don't  want  any  Sunday  laws.  They 
oppose  the  race-track  system  and  the  pool-betting 
system,  which  spends  the  money  and  ruins  the  char- 
acter of  "ten  young  clerks  to  every  one  that  is  ruin- 
ed by  liquor."  But  the  most  curious  part  of  Mr. 
Deculsky's  testimony  is  that  about  beer  and  the 
brewers.  Being  asked  if  it  would  not  be  better  for 
the  public  and  the  liquor  dealers  if  there  were  more 
beer  and  less  whisky,  he  replied: 

"We  claim  that  most  of  the  crime  committed  in 
this  city  is  the  result  of  malt  liquors.  The  police 
justices  will  tell  you  that,  too.  Our  habitual  drunk- 
ards of  the  poor  class  are  victims  of  the  growler. 
Seven  cents  or  fourteen  cents  worth  of  beer  in  a  can 
or  pail  will  help  a  man  and  his  wife  a  long  way  to- 
ward a  spree.  But  how  much  effect  would  seven  or 
fourteen  cents  worth  of  whisky  have? 

"The  brewers  are  crushing  us.  Two-thirds  of  the 
liquor  stores  in  the  city  are  practically  owned  by  the 
brewers.  They  have  mortgages  on  them.  The  li- 
quor dealers  are  at  the  mercy  of  these  brewers.  All 
the  money  that  comes  in  must  go  at  once  to  pay  for 
beer.  The  whisky  man  and  the  cigar  man  has  to 
wait  for  his  money,  but  the  brewer  has  the  saloon  in 
his  grip  and  gets  his  cash  every  Monday  morning. 
There  is  not  a  liquor  store  in  New  York  that  can 
pay  a  profit  simply  on  the  sale  of  beer.  Perhaps  the 
Atlantic  Garden  can,  but  if  so,  it  is  the  only  place. 
Yet  the  brewers  control  the  saloon-keepers." 

If  that  is  true  the  Liquor  Dealers'  Association 
will  be  the  creature  of  the  brewers. — Independent. 

A  brewer  in  Mishima,  Japan,  is  said  to  have 
turned  his  brewery  into  a  church  and  school-room 
for  girls. 

Out  of  thirty-seven  counties  in  Michigan  which 
voted  on  local  option  all  but  two  gave  majorities  for 
prohibition. 

Meetings  are  being  held  throughout  Africa  to  pro- 
test against  the  American  and  European  liquor 
traffic  in  that  country. 

Mrs.  Mary  Clement  Leavitt  writes  that  all  the 
American  missions  in  Burmah  have  incorporated 
total  abstinence  in  their  work. 

The  guardians  of  the  poor  in  one  Union  district 
of  London  have  reduced  the  drink  expenditure  to 
£11,000  in  seventeen  years. 

The  English  Government  has  passed  a  law 
against  farmers  giving  laborers  intoxicating  drinks 
as  a  part  of  their  wages  even  in  harvest  time. 

Mrs.  May  Hardin  of  Iowa,  Mich.,  was  lately 
awarded  in  the  Circuit  Court  $800  damages  against 
the  two  saloon-keepers  who  had  made  her  husband 
a  drunkard. 

It  is  estimated  that  not  fewer  than  three  thousand 
alcohol-made  lunatics  are  turned  loose  from  the  sa- 
loons upon  the  homes  of  the  people  once  in  every 
twenty-four  hours. 

Mr.  John  Jones,  a  relieving  officer  of  Stepney, 
London,  states  that  having  carefully  examined  7,000 
cases  of  application  for  relief,  not  more  than  1  per 
cent  are  total  abstainers. 

German  chemists  at  Washington  h.sve  been  ana- 
lyzing samples  of  beer  from  various  parts  of  the 
country  and  find  all  contained  an  alarming  amount 
of  dangerous  adulterations. 

Since  the  prison  gate  mission  was  established  in 
Manchester,  England,  more  than  3,000  prisoners 
have  voluntarily  come  into  the  room  and  upwards 
of  800  have  taken  the  pledge. 

According  to  the  Rocky  Alountain  Advocate,  New 
Mexico  has  eighteen  breweries,  forty-five  wholesale 
and  1,72(5  retail  liquor  desilers,  forty-five  Protestant 
churches,  and  five  school-houses. 

It  is  estimated  that  if  the  licensing  clauses  of  the 
English  local  government  bill  arc  passotl  it  will  put 
£100,000,000  into  the  pockets  of  brewers  and  dis- 
tillers, besides  establishing  the  liquor  traffic. 


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THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


Mat  24, 1888 


DB.  LORIMBR'ti  WASHINGTON  P&RFORM- 
ANOB. 


Last  Sabbath  (May  13th)  Rev.  Dr.  Lorimer  of 
Chicago  preached  in  the  Calvary  Baptist  church, 
Washington,  D.  C,  before  the  Baptist  Women's 
Home  Missionary  Society.  His  theme  was,  "The 
Cross  of  Christ,  and  Why  we  Should  Glory  in  it." 
In  the  hour  and  a  half  which  it  occupied  many  in- 
teresting things  were  said  and  many  others  greatly 
to  be  deplored.  He  spoke  of  the  cross  as  an  em- 
blem alike  in  heathen  and  Christian  worship.  He 
made  lengthy  and  learned  extracts  from  the  ancient 
mythology  and  professed  to  see  in  all  these  many 
symbols  and  references  to  Christ.  He  thought  that 
the  Hebrews  made  the  sign  of  a  cross  on  the  sides  of 
their  doors  when  they  slew  the  Passover  lamb  on 
the  night  before  they  left  Egypt  because  the  Tau 
cross  was  a  universal  symbol  in  Egypt. 

He  interwove  Masonic  signs,  from  the  penal  sign 
of  an  Entered  Apprentice  Mason,  to  the  sign  of  a 
Knight  Templar,  and  made  them  all  to  appear  either 
as  emblems  of  Christianity,  or  as  simply  the  modi- 
fications of  the  cross.  He  spoke  of  the  "tearing 
open  of  the  breast"  as  a  symbol  of  the  cross,  and  in 
general  spoke  of  Masonic  symbolism  as  all  referring 
to  Christ  and  the  crucifixion. 

To  any  one  in  that  great  audience  who  had  the 
slightest  knowledge  of  Freemasony,  there  could  be 
no  doubt  that  a  leading  object  of  that  discourse  was 
to  defend  the  system  as  not  only  consistent  with, 
but  a  part  of  Christianity.  It  is  abundantly  evident 
that  the  learned  Doctor  regards  his  religion  as  a 
part  of  his  Freemasonry  and  his  Freemasonry  as 
only  another  form  of  his  religion.  His  evident  sin- 
cerity and  devotedness  to  his  lodge  makes  that 
quite  apparent.  Of  course,  to  the  uninitiated  many 
of  these  signs  were  simply  inexplicable.  It  would 
have  been  altogether  unmasonic  to  have  given  an 
explanation  as  he  went  along.  To  them  they  sim- 
ply signified  much  learning. 

The  Masons  were  doubtless  greatly  delighted,  as 
was  evident  from  the  warm  commendations  of  the 
discourse  in  the  daily  press  of  the  city.  But  to  the 
thoughtful  mind,  that  holds  to  Christianity  as  the 
religion,  as  not  only  out  of  harmony  with,  but  in 
most  positive  antagonism  with  paganism,  whether 
it  exists  as  ancient  or  as  modern  Baalism,  the  whole 
discourse  was  most  depressing.  Practically  it  would 
make  Christianity,  not  the  only,  but  the  leading  re- 
ligion, as  one  of  the  modifications — perhaps  the 
highest — of  the  universal  theism  of  which  Freema- 
sonry is  the  embodiment. 

Such  seems  to  me  to  be  the  doctrine  of  Dr.  Lori- 
mer, and  I  was  deeply  saddened  at  hearing  it 
preached  from  one  of  the  most  strictly  evangelical 
and  aggressive  of  all  our  Washington  pulpits. 

H.  H.  HiNMAN. 


RELIGIOUS  News. 


— Capt.  "Giff"  Rowell  of  Chicago,  who  has  just 
disposed  of  his  interest  in  the  tug  "Bob  Tarrant,"  it 
is  said  will  at  once  build  a  small  fore-and-after  and 
enter  into  competition  with  Capt.  Bundy  and  the 
"Glad  Tidings,"  his  object  being  to  spread  the  Gos- 
pel and  disseminate  Christianity  among  the  desti- 
tute at  the  Manitous  and  other  far-away  northern 
regions.  Everybody  on  the  Chicago  river  accords 
Capt.  Rowell  the  palm,  as  an  evangelist,  and  his 
record  in  this  direction  is  equal  to  the  reputation  of 
D wight  L.  Moody  on  shore. 

— Bro.  John  Todd,  the  evangelist  of  Das  Moines, 
Iowa,  was  recalled  to  the  Holland  Patent,  New 
York,  some  three  months  ago,  where  he  labored 
very  successfully  a  year  before.  This  is  President 
Cleveland's  old  home.  As  a  result  of  his  work  in 
several  neighboring  communities  the  churches  have 
been  greatly  quickened  and  blessed  and  many  souls 
brought  to  Christ. 

— Charles  Herald,  the  Chicago  revivalist,  speaks 
every  Sunday  night  at  Cooper  Union,  New  York,  to 
a  large  audience.  One  of  the  features  of  these  Sun- 
day evening  meetings  at  which  Mr.  Herald  presides 
is  that  no  collection  is  taken  up,  the  expenses  being 
defrayed  by  friends.  The  amount  spent  during  the 
last  six  months  has  been  over  four  thousand  dollars. 

— The  debt  of  the  Board  of  Foreign  Missions  of 
the  Reformed  Church  in  America  was  reduced  from 
$48,000  to  $7,000  during  the  month  of  April,  largely 
through  the  labors  of  Rev.  William  Walton  Clark. 

— It  has  been  discovered  that  many  of  the  annual 
meetings  of  the  American  Board  of  Commissioners 
for  Foreign  Missions  have  been  illegal,  the  corpora- 
tion being  chartered  under  Massachusetts  law  and 
required  to  hold  its  business  meetings  within  that 
State  unless  emjxjwered  by  special  legislation  to  go 
elsewhere.    Even  the  original  corporators  violated 


the  law  by  going  into  Connecticut.  The  recent  Mas- 
sachusetts Legislature  amended  the  charter  by  per- 
mitting the  meeting  to  be  held  anywhere  in  the 
United  States  and  legalized  the  acts  of  the  board  in 
the  past. 

— The  general  assembly  of  the  Southern  Presby- 
terian church  met  in  Baltimore  Thursday  last.  A 
sermon  was  preached  by  Rev.  Dr.  S  trickier  of  At- 
lanta, the  retiring  moderator.  At  the  close  of  the 
religious  service  Rev.  Dr.  J.  J.  Bullock  of  Washing- 
ton was  elected  moderator.  Prominent  members  of 
the  assembly  say  that  the  probability  is  very  remote 
that  any  action  will  be  taken  favoring  a  consolida- 
tion with  the  Northern  Presbyterian  church. 

— An  Anti-Sunday  Traveling  Uhion  has  existed 
in  this  country  for  about  four  years.  It  has  about 
6,000  members 

— The  centennial  meeting  of  the  Presbyterian 
General  Assembly,  the  supreme  ecclesiastical  court 
of  the  Presbyterian  church  in  the  United  States, 
began  in  Philadelphia,  Thursday  morning.  There 
are  over  500  delegates  or  commissioners  in  attend- 
ance, representing  every  State  and  Territory  in  the 
Union.  The  election  of  a  moderator  resulted  in  the 
choice  of  Rev.  Dr.  Charles  L.  Thompson  of  Kansas 
City. 

— "Our  work"  says  the  Free  Methodist,  "is  essen- 
tially missionary  in  its  character.  Many  of  our 
preachers  are  in  reality  self-supporting  missionaries. 
But  our  people  are  taking  an  active  part  in  carrying 
the  Gospel  to  the  heathen.  Eighteen  of  our  number 
have  already  gone  to  labor  for  the  salvation  of  Af- 
rica. The  mortal  bodies  of  two  of  the  number,  sis- 
ters Mary  Carpenter  and  Eunice  Knapp,  rest  be- 
neath its  sands  until  the  resurrection  morning. 
Brother  and  sister  Kelly  were  compelled  to  return 
on  account  of  his  steadily  failing  health.  Three 
have  their  headquarters  at  Monrovia,  on  the  west 
coast,  under  the  charge  of  brother  R.  L.  Harris, 
Four  are  in  the  southern  part,  led  on  by  brother 
Shemeld.  Seven  are  on  the  eastern  coast,  where 
brother  Harry  Agnew  has  alone  so  valiantly  held 
the  ground.  All  are  on  the  self-supporting  plan. 
Their  fare  over  is  paid;  they  are  given  a  good  outfit, 
assisted  in  making  homes,  and  in  obtaining  provis- 
ions, until  they  can  raise  them.  They  are  meeting 
with  encouragement  and  success.  All,  so  far  as  we 
hear,  are  happy  and  contented,  full  of  faith  and 
courage." 

The  Mbthodist  General  Conference  meeting 
in  New  York,  having  voted  not  to  receive  women  as 
delegates  until  the  annual  conferences  have  voted 
on  the  question,  have  resolved  that  bishops  must 
have  a  two  thirds  vote  to  secure  election.  The  larg- 
est liberty  in  respect  to  new  legislation  seems  to  be 
given,  and  the  humblest  members  of  the  church  can 
forward  their  request  and  have  it  sent  to  some  com- 
mittee. The  great  event  of  Saturday  the  12  th  was 
the  report  of  Bishop  William  Taylor.  Every  seat 
in  the  hall  was  taken  and  standing  room  was  at  a 
premium.  On  the  platform  sat  the  board  of  bishops, 
with  invited  guests  from  Canada,  Ireland  and  Eng- 
land. Bishop  Taylor,  with  manly  form  and  strong 
step,  took  his  place  on  the  front  of  the  stage  amid 
great  applause  and  commenced  to  read  his  report. 
He  is  a  large  man,  with  a  very  heavy  full  beard, 
nearly  white;  speaks  with  a  clear  voice  that  rang  out 
to  the  farthest  gallery.  It  was  difficult  to  keep  from 
thinking  of  his  adventures  and  sacrifices,  so  well 
known  to  the  church.  He  made  but  little  reference 
to  his  own  sacrifices.  Indeed,  his  report  was  in  the 
main  a  song  of  joy  that  he  had  been  counted  worthy 
to  suffer  for  the  spread  of  the  Gospel.  He  was 
frequently  applauded,  specially  when  answering 
those  who  had  criticised  him.  He  said  that  he  de- 
nied the  allegations  and  denounced  the  ailegators. 
He  gave  us  a  simple  account  of  the  planting  of  his 
forces  at  St.  Paul  de  Loanda,  and  then  on  to  Dondo, 
240  miles,  a  town  of  5,000,  mostly  black;  then  over 
rugged  mountains,  fifty-one  miles  to  Nhanguepepo, 
where  a  new  congregation  can  be  found  daily  to 
whom  the  Gospel  is  preached;  then  on  thirty -nine 
miles  farther  he  reached  the  capital  of  a  remarkable 
Negro  queen,  kaown  to  history,  her  palaces  still  re- 
maining, Pango  Androngo;  then  on,  as  if  beckoned 
by  a  divine  hand,  sixty  miles  to  Malauge.  In  set- 
tling these  missionaries  along  this  line  he  walked  to 
and  fro  over  600  miles.  "This  is  Episcopal  super- 
vision of  a  different  sort  from  that  c  arried  on  by 
means  of  parlor  cars.  The  hundreds  of  thousands 
of  slaves  sold  in  Loanda,  for  200  years  trod  this 
weary  way  mid  tears  and  blood — poor  captives  whose 
fathers  had  been  slain  because  they  dared  to  defend 
their  homes,  and  their  aged  kindred  were  burnt  up 
in  the  destruction  of  their  towns.  On  each  side  of 
this  patch  is  a  continuous  graveyard  for  150  miles. 
Many  a  dark  night  on  the  dreary  way  I  seemed  to 


hear  the  dead  speaking  to  me,  '0  messenger  of  God, 
why  came  you  not  this  way  to  speak  words  of  com- 
fort to  us  before  we  died?'  I  thought  of  Sherman's 
march  to  the  sea  and  how  we  sung  his  praises,  but 
that  was  only  pastime  as  compared  with  this  sweep 
into  Central  Africa.  Eternity  alone  can  estimate 
the  harvest  that  will  grow  from  this  Christian  hero- 
ism." 


Bible  Lesson. 


STUDIES  IN  THE  NEW  TESTAMENT. 

LESSON  X.    Second  Quarter.-  June  3. 

SUBJECT.- Jesus  Crucified.— Matt.  27 :  33-50. 

GOLDEN  TEXT.— He  humbled  himself,  and  became  obedient 
unto  death,  even  the  death  of  the  cross.— Phil.  2:  8. 

I  Oven  the  Bible  and  read  the  UsBon.} 

COMMENTS  ON  THE  LESSON  BY  E.  E.  FLAGG. 

1.  The  Drink  of  Vinegar.  Ve.  33,  34.  The  sour  drink 
proffered  our  Saviour  was  a  stupefying  draught  prepared 
by  an  association  of  benevolent  women  in  Jerusalem  and 
given  to  criminals  on  their  way  to  execution.  This  pass- 
ing glimpse  of  a  charitable  organization  which  antedated 
the  Christian  era,  shows  us  that  the  heart  of  womanhood 
even  then  beat  true  to  its  original  impulses;  and  that 
under  all  the  formality  and  corruption  of  Judaism  was 
the  germ  of  that  Christian  philanthropy  which  visits 
prisons  and  hospitals  and  spends  itself  in  efforts  to  amel- 
iorate social  ills.  We  have  no  hint  of  any  such  associa- 
tion in  Rome  or  polished  Greece.  Such  fruit  is  never 
the  outgrowth  of  pagan  soil,  and  it  is  not  wonderful 
when  we  know  that  Masonry  is  only  revived  heathenism 
that  with  all  its  pretensions  to  charity  it  has  never 
founded  a  single  hospital  or  benevolent  institution  for 
the  wretched  victims  of  want  and  vice.  The  world  owes 
to  the  church,  faulty  as  it  may  be  in  creed  and  practice, 
every  practical  charity  which  has  blessed  the  human  race. 
Our  Lord  refused  to  drink.  He  would  drain  the  cup  his 
Father  had  given  him  even  to  the  dregs.  The  heroism 
of  Jesus  is  a  trait  little  dwelt  upon.  We  forget  that  he 
came  to  earth  not  only  to  be  our  example  but  our  inspi- 
ration. Pain  is  not  the  worst  of  ills,  and  in  the  brave 
patience  of  the  Son  of  God,  they  who  suffer  may  find  a 
strong  cordial.  The  terrible  increase  in  the  use  of  nar- 
cotics and  the  number  of  those  who  are  wrecked,  soul 
and  body,  by  their  use  show  the  necessity  of  teaching 
jessons  of  fortitude  early,  and  nowhere  can  we  find  a 
grander  or  more  inspiring  lesson  than  in  this  incident  on 
our  Saviour's  way  to  Calvary. 

2.  The  Crucifixion.  Vs.  85-44.  One  of  the  most 
cheering  promises  in  the  Bible  is  that  in  spite  of  all  the 
wicked  can  do  God  "will  make  the  wrath  of  man  to  praise 
him."  The  writing  on  the  cross,  really  an  assertion  of 
his  kingly  claim,  was  to  Pilate  only  an  expression  of 
petty  spite  to  annoy  the  Jews  whose  murderous  demand 
he  had  not  had  the  courage  to  deny.  But  amid  all  the 
revilings  and  cruel  mockings  there  streamed  from  our 
Saviour's  cross  the  light  of  this  wonderful  witness  to  the 
truth  he  was  dying  for:  that  he  was  indeed  the  King  for 
whom  the  world  waited.  Even  that  most  cruel  taunt,  "he 
saved  others;  himself  he  cannot  save,"  covered  the  great 
truth  which  underlies  the  atonement.  Whoever  would  save 
others  must  sacrifice  self;  must  give  up,  if  not  literally  life, 
at  least  those  things  which  in  the  eyes  of  the  world  make 
life  desirable.  He  must  stand  ready  to  have  the  finger 
of  scorn  pointed  at  him  as  one  who  has  trusted  God  in 
vain.  He  who  will  not  stake  his  all  for  Truth  is  not 
worthy  of  her.  He  who  shrinks  from  the  cross  of  worldly 
reproach  and  reviling  can  never  light  the  beacon  fires  of 
reform.  It  is  of  sad  significance  that  the  most  malignant 
and  unfeeling  in  this  scofling  crowd  were  the  chief  priests 
and  elders — the  highest  dignitaries  in  the  Jewish  church. 
Martyrs  in  all  ages  have  had  to  drink  this  cup— to  be 
misunderstood,  not  by  the  ignorant  rabble — this  they 
could  bear — but  by  those  who  represented  all  the  eccle- 
siastical rank  and  learning  of  their  times;  and  the  apathy 
of  openly  expressed  antagonism  of  the  pulpit  and  the 
religious  press  has  always  been  the  greatest  stumbling 
block  in  the  way  of  those  who  would  reform  popular 
evils.  But  the  servant  is  not  greater  than  his  Lord ;  only 
in  the  cup  pressed  to  our  Saviour's  lips  was  one  ingredient 
of  mysterious  anguish  that  the  disciple  can  never  taste. 
He  was  forsaken  of  God — momentarily  orphaned  as  it 
were  that  we  might  never  be  left  orphans.  The  offence 
of  the  cross  will  not  cease.  The  Christian  must  bear  his 
testimony  against  oZ^  sin  whether  it  be  shrined  in  our  na 
tion's  high  places,  like  the  custom  of  wine  dri  iking,  or 
like  the  lodge  god  is  burned  incense  to  in  the  very  church 
itself.  Still  the  command  is,  "Be  faithful  unto  death." 
God  never  forsakes  his  faithful  ones,  and  that  cry  of  bit- 
terest anguish  was  the  earnest  for  all  future  ages  that  no 
child  of  his  should  again  "tread  the  winepress  alone." 


^ 


Mat  24, 1888 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSUKB 


13 


Lodge  Notes. 

The  Grand  Master  of  South  Auatralia 
Freemasons  is  Chief  Justice  Way  of  Vic- 
toria The  Chief  Justice  has  been  nom- 
inated for  reelection  as  Grand  Master. 
The  election  takes  place  in  April. 

Cardinal  Gibbons  and  thirteen  arch- 
bishops meet  in  Baltimore  early  in  June 
to  decide  what  the  attitude  of  the  church 
shall  be  toward  the  Knights  of  Labor,  the 
Ametican  Federation  of  Labor  and  the 
Anti  Poverty  Society. 

The  action  of  Philadelphia  Post,  of  the 
Q.  A.  R,  in  electing  General  Joseph  E. 
Johnston,  (ex-Confederate)  a  "contrib- 
uting member,"  has  brought  an  order 
from  the  department  commander  declar- 
ing that  such  election  is  irregular,  and 
not  in  accordance  with  the  laws  and  rules 
of  the  order. 

Spencer  county,  Indiana,  has  been  ter- 
rorized the  past  week  by  a  band  of 
"White  Caps,"  who  on  one  night  gave 
Smith  Hagan,  an  old  soldier,  sixty  lashes 
and  ordered  him  to  leave  town  within 
twenty  four  hours,  the  reason  given  being 
that  Hagan  was  addicted  to  beating  his 
wife,  and  ordered  several  Negro  women 
to  leave  their  settlement  near  Rockford. 

The  Victorian  Freemason  says:  "The 
Annual  Communication  of  the  Grand 
Lodge  of  All  Scottish  Freemasonry  in 
India  was  held  at  Bombay  on  the  30lh  of 
November  last;  Bro.  Sir  Henry  Morland, 
Q.  M.,  on  the  Throne.  Amongst  the 
Grand  Officers  we  notice  a  maj  ority  of 
native  names,  and  we  see  that  the  Par- 
sees  and  Mohammedans  have  a  Zend- 
Avesta  Bearer  and  a  Koran  Bearer,  al- 
though we  did  not  notice  a  Bible  Bearer 
amongst  the  Grand  Officers,  a  usual  offi- 
cer in  Scottish  Masonry." 

The  case  of  Reading  strikers  is  a  hard 
one  Their  places  have  been  filled  and 
they  are  out  of  employment  and  in  abject 
want.  They  beg  for  work  to  do  but  can 
not  get  it,  even  if  they  sever  their  mem 
bership  in  all  labor  organizations,  and  in 
some  cases  the  men  and  their  families 
have  been  compelled  to  go  to  the  alms- 
house. They  were  encouraged  to  strike 
in  the  expectation  that  they  would  re- 
ceive financial  support  from  the  Knights 
of  Labor  bodies  to  which  they  belonged, 
only  to  find  that  men  who  work  are  not 
willing  to  support  men  in  idleness  for 
any  length  of  time. — Interior, 

The  Ancient  Order  of  Hibernians  in  its 
convention  in  New  York  adopted  the  fol- 
lowing resolutions  with  reference  to  the 
Irish  situation  and  the  Pope's  latest  posi- 
tion in  regard  to  Irish  affairs.  Following 
a  preamble  the  resolution  reads:  "Re- 
Aolved,  That  we  pledge  anew  our  fealty  to 
the  Irish  cause  and  tender  to  our  people 
at  home  every  possible  aid  in  this,  their 
hour  of  need,  when  the  head  of  the 
church  seems  opposed  to  the  fulfillment 
of  Ireland's  aspirations.  Resolved,  That 
we  regard  the  Tory  appeal  to  Rome  as 
an  evidence  of  weakness  on  the  part  of 
the  English  Government  and  a  triumph 
for  the  brave  bishop  whose  voice  and  act 
will  surely  convince  the  Holy  Father  that 
England's  design,  not  Ireland's  desire, 
asks  his  interference  in  the  affairs  of  Ire- 
land." 


DONATIONS 


THK    GREAT    DISMAL,    SWAMP, 

of  Virginia,  is  one  enormous  quagmire 
of  decayed  vegetation,  a  region  uf  gloom 
and  desolation ;  but  not  more  so  than  the 
human  system  when  blocked  up  by  de- 
cayed animal  matter,  which  poisons  the 
blood  and  brings  gloom  to  an  otherwise 
happy  household.  Dr.  Pierce's  Pleasant 
Purgative  Pellets  remove  all  waste  mat- 
ter, and  give  Nature  a  chance  to  build  up. 


KXCURnON  RATBS. 

A  very  complete  list  of  tourist  round- 
trip  rates  and  routes  to  western , points 
for  1888,  has  just  been  issued  for  free  dis- 
tribution by  C.  H.  Warren,  Gen.  Pass. 
Agent,  St.  P  M  &  M  Ry.,  St.  Paul,  Minn. 


Where  Arc  You  Going? 

When  <lo  yon  start  7  Where  from  ?  llow  ,nany 
lu  your  jiarty  7  What  amount  of  frelglit  ot 
bngRaBO  have  yon  7  What  route  do  you  proter7 
Upon  rccoipt  of  an  answer  to  the  above  ques> 
tlons  you  will  be  f  umislieil,  free  of  i  spouse,  with 
the  lowest  MM         BTiPAUL  B     rates,  also 

mans,  time  WM  ^'""J^^L  A  t"blos,pain. 
phlotH,  or  Ml  ANITUBIA  other  valu- 
nblo  Inform- ITi  hailwa-i,  »»atlonwliirh 
will  Have  trouble,  thno  and  money.  Agents  will 
call  in  person  where  uoeossary.  Parties  not 
ready  to  answer  above  q\iost!ons  Rhould  cut  out 
and  preserve  this  notice  for  fnturo  refereiiee.  It 
may  become  useful.  Address  C.II.  WAUREa<, 
General  Pasaeuger  Acent.  St.  Paul,  Minn., 


To  Cynosure  Ministers'  Fund: 

W.H.Parker |       1.00 

Mrs.  M.M.Shaw 4.00 

A  friend 1.00 

Before  reported 1,082.40 

Total 11,088.40 


8UB80RIPT10N  LBTTBR8. 


The  following  have  made  remittances 
of  money  to  the  Cynosure  from  May  14  to 
19  inclusive; 

W  Van  Doessen,  Rev  G  Allen,  C  H 
Mclntire,  J  M  Frink,  W  L  Wright,  E  D 
Slayton,  J  Reid,  Mrs  E  Brace,  W  Evans, 
Rev  C  W  Hiatt,  J  F  Hanson,  W  H  Par- 
ker, H  Law,  J  J  Kyos,  C  C  Burt,  J  P 
Thomas,  C  Steck,  D  H  Coulter,  H  Cope, 
D  L  Garver,  J  Harvey,  R  C  Shoebridge, 
J  S  T  Milligan,  Mrs  S  Swartz,  N  B  Brit- 
ton,  Mrs  S  L  Carpenter,  R  Craft,  W 
Knight,  R  H  Shaw. 


In  chronic  diseases,  medicines  should 
be  restoring,  and  not  debilitating,  in  their 
action.  The  wonderful  strengthening 
and  curative  effects,  realized  from  the 
use  of  Ayer's  Sarsaparilla,  sustain  the 
reputation  of  this  remedy  as  the  most 
popular  blood  purifier. 


MARKET  RBPORTa. 

CHICAGO. 

Wheat— No.  a... „..  86 

No.  3 S3>^ 

Winter  No  8... ^     93  @      94 

Com— No.  8 57  <at     59 

Oat»-No.8 . — ..♦^.^^     34%@     38 

Rye— No.  a.... 65 

Branper  ton 13  75 

Hay— Timothy 12  00  @17  00 

Butter,  medium  to  best 15  @     25 

Cheese -.      05  @     13 

Beans 1  25  @  2  75 

Begs 13 

Seeds— Timothy* 2  15        2  80 

Flax 138         145 

Broomcom 02i<@     07 

Potatoes  per  bus 60  @      80 

Hides— Green  to  dry  flint 05>^@     13 

LiUmber- Common 1100  @18  00 

Wool 13  @     37 

Cattle— Choice  to  extra 5  00  @  5  25 

Common  to  good 2  50         4  75 

Hogs 4  91  @  5  90 

Sheep.. « 2  75  @  5  25 

NEW  YORK. 

Flour 3  20  @  5  60 

Wheatr- Winter 97  @  1  03 

Spring 96 

Com 65X0     68 

Oata -...      38  <&     47 

EggB..„.....,^ ^..^.  16 

Butter...........^ 15  @     26 

Wool ,  09  34 

KANSAS  CITY. 

Cattle »^^  1  50  a  4  60 

Hogs-. « 225  a  5  65 

•h««:>  2  00  •  5  25 


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THE 

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Is  especially  adapted.  They  will  at  once  un- 
derstaod  the  references  to  the  idolatrous 
Bystems  of  the  nations.  And  the  idolatrous 
worship  of  the  Masonic  lodge  is  thus  more 
clearly  seen  and  easily  understood.  Will 
you  furnish  each  pastor  in  your  place  with 
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1.  To  furnish  information  to  the  people  concerning  the  effect  of  secret 
societies  upon  civil  government. 

2.  To  secure  the  nomination  and  election  of  men,  without  regard  to  par- 
ty, who,  being  under  no  secret  obligations  to  a  portion  of  their  fellow-citizens, 
will  be  able  to  administer  equitably  their  trust  to  all. 

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THE  YOUNG  PEOPLE'S  WORLD. 

A  brit'lit,  viporous,  entertaining  and  instructive  monthly  mag- 
azine for  the  yovinp.  Embodies  adventures,  travels.  Iiiottraphies, 
history,  science,  philosophy,  religion,  stories  and  current  events. 

WHAT    the    PRESS    SAYS    Of   IT. 

The  Christian  Cvnosuiie:  "  '  "Intended  to  instruct  rather 
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Home  and  Health. 

THE   DANGERS   OP   GASOLINE. 

The  Michigan  State  Board  of  Health, 
in  a  circular  j  ust  published,  gives  the  fol- 
lowing succinct  rules  for  the  use  and  care 
of  gasoline.  Every  person  employing  or 
keeping  gasoline  should  keep  constantly 
in  mind  the  following  facts  and  cautions 
respecting  its  use : 

1.  Gasoline  is  an  extremely  dangerous, 
explosive  substance.  2  It  should  be 
kept  in  a  cool,  well  ventilated  place,  if 
possible  out  of  doora,  or  in  an  outbuild- 
ing, never  in  a  kitchen,  closet,  or  cellar. 
3.  A  vessel  containing  gasoline,  unless 
tightly  closed,  should  never  be  brought 
within  ten  feet  of  a  lamp,  stove,  grate, 
flame,  or  fire  of  any  sort.  The  small 
flame  of  a  match  or  even  a  spark  is  suf- 
ficient to  explode  the  gas  when  present 
in  Bufilcient  quantity.  4.  The  vapor  of 
gasoline  may  be  carried  by  a  draught  or 
current  of  air,  and  thus  be  brought  in 
contact  with  fire  at  considerable  distance, 
even  greater  than  that  mentioned  in  the 
preceding  paragraph,  consequently  gaso- 
line should  never  be  opened  or  poured 
from  one  vessel  to  another  in  a  current 
of  air,  unless  the  current  is  from  the  room 
out  of  doors.  5.  The  danger  in  connec- 
tion with  the  use  of  gasoline  stoves  is  not 
so  much  in  the  stoves  themselves  as  in 
having  the  gasoline  about,  yet,  by  con- 
tinued use,  the  valves  of  a  stove  may  be- 
come worn,  so  that  leaks  may  occur,  and 
thus  a  stove  may  become  a  source  of  great 
danger.  6,  If  an  overflow  of  gasoline 
occurs  from  being  turned  on  too  freely, 
from  leakage  of  valves,  or  from  the  blow- 
ing out  of  the  generating  burner,  as 
sometimes  accidentally  occurs,  the  sur- 
plus gasoline  should  be  carefully  wiped 
up,  and  the  room  should  be  well  aired  by 
the  opening  of  windows  and  doors  before 
the  burner  is  lighted.  7.  If  an  open  ves- 
sel containing  gasoline  has  been  standing 
in  a  room  over  night,  or  an  overflow  has 
occurred  during  the  night,  or  if  there  is 
found  in  a  room  a  strong  smell  of  gaso- 
line at  any  time,  the  room  should  be 
opened  and  well  aired  before  a  match  is 
lighted  or  a  lighted  lamp  or  candle  is 
carried  into  the  room.  8.  Gasoline 
should  never  be  used  for  lighting  a  fire. 
An  explosion,  which  may  possibly  be 
fatal  in  its  tfcects,  is'  almost  certain  to 
follow.  Persons  have  been  maimed  for 
life  in  this  way.  9.  .The  use  of  gasoline 
lamps  is,  if  possible,  attended  with  even 
greater  dangers  than  the  use  of  gasoline 
stoves .  10  A  wise  regard  for  safety  will 
lead  to  disuse  of  gasoline  in  any  form  for 
domestic  purposes.  11.  Gas  or  kerosene 
stoves  may  be  substituted  for  gasoline 
stoves,  but  neither  gas,  gasoline,  nor 
kerosene  stoves  are  so  safe  or  healthful 
as  the  ordinary  wood  or  coal  stove.  The 
ordinary  stove  aids  in  the  ventilation  of 
the  room,  and  carries  away  the  poison- 
ous gases  formed  by  the  combustion  of 
the  fuel,  whereas  the  other  forms  of 
stoves  discharge  the  products  of  combus- 
tion into  the  air  of  the  room,  compelling 
the  occupants  to  breathe  poisonous  gases. 
Neither  gas,  gasoline,  nor  kerosene  stoves 
should  ever  be  employed  in  other  than 
very  open  or  well  ventilated  rooms,  un- 
less provided  with  a  special  flue  or  ven- 
tilating duct  for  the  purpose  of  carrying 
off  the  products  of  combustion. — Scien- 
tific American. 

— A  few  months  ago  I  referred  to  an 
odd  and  increasing  practice  in  American 
families,  that  I  have  not  observed  in 
other  lands.  I  speak  of  the  habit  of  coa- 
Buming  quantities  of  patent  medicines — 
nostrums  in  the  worst  sense  of  the  word. 
Specious  notices  appear  in  reputable 
newspapers,  and  high-sounding  certifi- 
cates are  manufactured  by  the  makers  of 
the  nostrums,  and  promise  absolute  cure 
for  every  ill  that  flash  ia  heir  to.  If  one 
thousandth  part  of  these  impudent  cliims 
were  well  founded  further  study  of  med- 
icine and  surgery  would  be  useless  and 
all  BcientiUc  investigation  in  biology  a 
delusion.  But  the  repetition  of  these 
claims  at  length  impresses  itself ;  we  are 
apt  to  believe  what  we  constantly  sec  in 
print,  and  it  is  natural  to  Americans  to 
try  experiments,  even  upon  themselves. 
Nor  are  doctors  altogether  blameless 
There  a'c  some  in  the  profession  who 
cannot  say  no  when  an  adroit  drummer 
besieges  them  to  testify  that  a  medicine 
or  mineral  water  is  good;  and  down  goes 
another  name.  I  am  glad  to  state,  how 
ever,  that  thij  practice  is  steadily  lessen- 
ing. But  swallowing  powerful  drugs, 
recommended  by  glaring  and  untruthful 
advertisements,  ia  not  decreasing,   and 


great  harm  is  done  thereby.  Medicines 
of  all  kinds  are  bast  let  alone.  If  a  per- 
son is  sick  enough  to  require  anything 
more  than  home  nursing  and  care  in  diet, 
he  certainly  needs  a  doctor,  who  alone 
should  determine  what  drugs  are  to  be 
taken. — American  Magazine. 

A  FATAL  MISTAKE. 

A.  E.  Chase,  of  Horicon,  Wis.,  acci- 
dentally poisoned  himself.  It  seems  that 
Mr.  Chase  had  been  at  work  in  his  gar- 
den, and,  feeling  faint  and  weak,  stepped 
into  the  house  and  took,  as  he  supposed, 
a  swallow  of  brandy,  but  the  liquid 
proved  to  be  carbolic  acid.  He  immedi- 
ately said  to  his  wife,  "Send  for  the  doc- 
tor, quick;  I  have  made  a  mistake  and 
taken  carbolic  acid."  His  eldest  son  ran 
for  the  doctor,  and  his  wife,  with  the 
help  of  the  youngest  boy,  immediately 
gave  him  milk  and  raw  eggs,  and  assisted 
him  to  bed,  but  in  five  minutes  he  was 
unconscious,  and  notwithstanding  all  the 
efforts  of  the  physician,  he  was  dead  in 
less  than  twenty  minutes.  The  two  bot- 
tles were  exactly  alike  in  shape  and  size, 
and  the  contents  nearly  of  the  same  color 
and  quantity.  Each  bottle  was  properly 
labeled,  however. 


There's  a  blessing  in  the  bottle  on  whose 

label  we  can  read 
Dr.  Pierce's  Favorite  Prescription,  for 

the  woman  who  has  need 
Of  a  remedy  for  troubles  none  but  wom- 
en ever  know. 
'Tis  her  best  and  truest  friend,  and  happy 

thousands  call  it  so, 
As  they  think  of  years  of  suff'ring   that 

were  theirs  before  it  came, 
Bringing  them  the  balm  of  healing,  and 

they  bless  the  very  name 
of  this  wonderfully,  and  deservedly,  pop- 
ular remedy  for  the  various  ills  woman  is 
heir  to.  "Favorite  Prescription"  is  the 
only  medicine  for  women,  sold  by  drug- 
gists, under  a  positive  guarantee,  from  the 
manufacturers,  that  it  will  give  satisfac- 
tion in  every  case,  or  money  will  be  re- 
funded. This  guarantee  has  been  printed 
on  the  bottle  wrapper,  and  faithfully 
carried  out  for  many  years. 


People  with  thin  heads  of  hair  should 
use  Hall's  Vegetable  Sicilian  Hair  Re- 
newer  to  make  the  hair  grow  out  thick, 
healthy,  and  strong. 


CONSUMPTION  SUKEI-T  CUKED. 

To  the  Editor: — Please  inform  your 
readers  that  I  have  a  positive  remedy  for 
the  above  named  disease.  By  its  timely 
use  thousands  of  hopeless  cases  have  been 
permanently  cured.  I  shall  be  glad  to 
send  two  bottles  of  my  remedy  free  to 
any  of  your  readers  who  have  consump- 
tion if  they  will  send  me  their  Express 
and  P.O.  address.  Respectfully,  T.  A. 
Slocum.  M.  C.  181  Pearl  St.,  New  York. 


GOING  WEST. 


The  general  interest  that  has  been 
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Indian  Reservations  is  shown  by  the  large 
numbers  of  people  who  have  already 
gone  to  Great  Falls  to  investigate  the 
mineral  and  agricultural  resources  of 
that  wonderful  country.  The  low  ex- 
cursion rate  announced  by  C.  H.  Warren, 
Gen.  Pass.  Agent  of  the  St.  Paul,  Min- 
neapolis &  Manitoba  Railway,  makes  the 
expense  of  exploring  this  country  merely 
nominal,  and  will  undoubtedly  result  in 
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Mat  24, 1888 


N7WS  OF  THE  WEEK 

WASHINGTON. 

The  Indian  Appropriation  Bill,  which 
has  passed  the  House  and  is  pending  in 
the  Senate,  at  Washington,  has  a  section 
providing  that  in  schools  sustained 
wholly  or  in  part  by  the  Government,  in 
which  church  organizations  are  assisting 
in  the  educational  work,  the  Christian 
Bible  may  be  taught  in  the  native  lan- 
guage of  the  Indians,  if  in  the  judgment 
of  the  persons  in  charge  of  the  schools  it 
shall  be  deemed  conducive  to  the  moral 
welfare  of  the  pupils. 

In  the  House  last  week  the  Mills  tariff 
bill  had  the  right  of  way,  and  tariff 
speeches  were  heard  all  the  week.  On 
Tuesday  the  speech  of  Representative 
Butterworth,  of  Ohio,  proved  to  be  the 
feature  of  the  debate.  The  other  speak- 
ers were  Buckalew,  of  Pa.,  Simmons  of 
North  Carolina,  Stone  of  Kentucky,  Hen- 
derson of  Illinois,  Grout  of  Vermont,  and 
Seymour  of  Michigan.  On  Wednesday 
Representatives  Bayne,  Laird,  Fitch, 
Ryan,  Weaver,  Maish,  Allen,  Baker, 
Pound,  and  Dalzell,  spoke.  On  Thurs- 
day Messrs.  Breckinridge  of  Arkansas 
and  Cox  of  New  York,  were  on  the  pro- 
gramme with  well  prepared  speeches. 
Friday  Messrs.  Randall,  McKinley  and 
Breckinridge  of  Ky.,  were  heard,  and 
Saturday  was  given  to  Mr.  Reed  of 
Maine  and  Speaker  Carlisle. 

The  further  consideration  of  the  tariff 
bill  was  postponed  for  ten  days  in  order 
to  give  both  parties  a  chance  to  harmo- 
nize on  the  propoeition  to  take  a  vote 
upon  it  as  it  stands  without  considering 
the  proposed  amendments. 

COUNTRY. 

With  the  exception  of  Arkansas,  the 
rainfall  for  the  season  thus  far  has  been 
greatly  in  excess  in  States  west  of  the 
Mississippi.  The  official  reports  to  head- 
quarters here  also  show  more  rain  than 
usual  in  New  York,  Pennsylvania  and 
New  Jersey,  and  the  interior  of  New 
England.  The  weather  for  the  past  week 
has  been  very  favorable  to  growing  crops 
in  the  central  valleys  and  in  Atlantic 
coast  districts. 

Among  the  acts  passed  by  the  last  Iowa 
Legislature  is  one  which  takes  effsct  on 
the  4ih  of  July  next  requiring  dealers  to 
mark  the  weight  of  flour,  corn  meal,  and 
like  upon  sacks  containing  the  goods. 

A  syndicate  has  been  formed  to  tunnel 
the  Detroit  River.  B.  Baker,  of  London, 
the  engineer  of  the  immense  Forth  bridge, 
in  Scotland,  and  James  Ross,  of  Qaebec, 
one  of  the  contractors  of  the  Canadian 
Pacific,  have  announced  that  the  building 
of  the  tunnel  can  be  accomplished  with 
comparative  ease.  A  gigantic  syndicate, 
known  as  the  Michigan  and  Canada  Tun- 
nel Company,  and  representing  more 
than  $100,000,000  of  capital,  has  just 
been  Isgally  formed  in  Canada  and  will 
be  properly  qualified  for  transacting  busi- 
ness under  the  Michigan  laws  at  once. 

At  Trenton,  N.  J.,  Wednesday,  the  be- 
quest of  the  late  Mr.  Hutchings  in  favor 
of  Henry  George,  for  the  purpose  of  aid- 
ing in  the  circulation  of  his  land  ideas, 
was  set  aside,  and  the  legal  heirs  will  get 
the  money. 

At  its  convention  in  Cincinnati  Wednes- 
day evening  the  Unirn  Labor  party  nom- 
inated A,  J.  Streeter,  of  Illinois,  for 
President,  and  Samuel  Evans,  of  Texas, 
for  Vice  President.  No  fusion  was  ef- 
fected with  the  United  Labor  party  or 
the  Greenbackers,  and  the  latter  decided 
to  hold  a  National  convention  at  a  future 
date. 

The  United  Labor  National  Convention 
adjourned  at  Cincinnati  Thursday,  after 
nominating  Robert  H.  Cowdry,  of  Illi- 
nois, for  President,  and  W.  H.  T.  Wake- 
field, of  Kansas,  for  Vice  President.  Mr. 
Cowdry  is  a  Chicago  druggist. 

A  hailstorm  passed  over  Pratt,  Kane., 
Thursday  night,  destroying  fruit  and 
killing  cattle  over  an  area  of  miles  in  ex 
tent  in  that  county,  injuring  people 
caught  out,  breaking  all  windows  with 
south  or  west  exposures,  and  in  some 
cases  breaking  roofs  of  houses  with  the 
weight  of  the  stones. 

The  Mississippi  flood  is  slowly  abating 
and  it  is  thougnt  that  the  won  t  of  the 
high  water  is  passed.  From  the  northern 
end  of  Adams  county  to  the  soul  hern  end 
of  Pike  county  the  land  on  the  Illinois 
side  of  the  river  was  protccttd  by  a  sys- 
tem of  Icvccs,  the  region  embracing  2.';0,- 
000  acres,  the  soil  being  the  richest  in  the 


State.  All  the  region  is  now  one  vast 
lake  from  six  to  ten  feet  in  depth.  Along 
the  bluffs  on  the  eastern  edge  of  the  sub- 
merged district  hundreds  of  families  are 
camped,  living  in  tents,  huts,  and  in  the 
open  air.  Before  the  flood  most  of  these 
people  were  well-to-do,  prasperous  far- 
mers, but  now  they  have  little  or  noth- 
ing. The  damage  to  railroad  property  is 
enormous,  and  it  will  be  three  weeks  af- 
ter the  water  subsides  before  trains  can 
be  running  on  time.  Quincy  is  cut  off 
from  railroad  communication  north,  west, 
and  south.  On  the  west  side  of  the  river 
no  attempt  is  made  to  run  trains  on  any 
of  the  roads.  Owing  to  the  great  confu- 
sion it  is  impossible  to  obtain  detailed 
losses,  but  the  aggregate  will  reach  fully 
$3,000,000  from  crops  alone.  The  dam- 
age to  the  levees,  bouses,  and  railroads 
will  approximate  $600,000. 

A  Santa  Fe  passenger  train  was  stand- 
ing at  Fountain,  Col.,  Monday  morning, 
when  a  caboose  and  some  cars,  one  being 
loaded  with  naphtha,  got  loose  and 
dashed  into  it.  The  naphtha  exploded 
and  set  fire  to  the  train  and  ako  to  a  car 
containing  powder,  the  explosion  of 
which  killed  three  persons  and  wounded 
fifteen  others.  Sixteen  cars  and  a  loco- 
motive were  badly  wrecked,  and  two 
cars,  the  depot  and  a  dwelling  were 
burned.  A  church  and  other  buildings 
were  damaged  by  the  explosion. 

The  hardest  rains  for  many  years  fell 
in  Arkansas  last  week,  and  the  streams 
are  all  overflowed.  Immense  cotton 
fields  and  corn  bottoms  are  overflowed, 
and  the  country  is  suffering  a  general 
inundation. 

The  village  of  Alexandria,  Mo.,  having 
been  completely  submerged  for  several 
days  by  the  overflow  of  the  Mississippi, 
was  abandoned  by  all  its  residents.  The 
foundations  of  the  buildings  are  giving 
way  and  the  prospect  is  that  when  the 
flood  subsides  the  village  will  be  in  ruins. 

The  entire  business  portion  of  the  town 
of  Goldendale,  W.  T.,  was  swept  away 
by  fire  Monday  last.  Eight  blocks  laid 
in  ashes  and  over  eighty  houses  and  con- 
tents were  swept  away.  Very  little  pro- 
perty was  saved  owing  to  the  rapid 
spread  of  the  flames.    No  lives  were  lost. 

At  Janesville,  Wis.,  Tuesday,  in  the 
case  of  Hiddles  vs.  Chicago  &  Northwest- 
ern Riilwaj  Company,  the  plaintiff,  a 
boy  7  years  old,  whose  legs  were  cut  off 
by  a  train  on  the  defendant's  road,  won 
a  verdict  of  $30,000. 

Near  Shenandoah,  Pa.,  Monday  morn- 
ing, a  freight  train  was  wrecked,  some 
person  unknown  having  wedged  a  stone 
into  a  frog  at  Moss  Creek.  The  engine 
plunged  down  a  twenty-foot  embank- 
ment and  two  cars  followed.  The  engi- 
neer and  fireman  perished. 

FOBBION. 

The  Anglo-French  Suez  convention  has 
been  approved  by  Turkey.  The  porta 
abandons  its  claim  to  preside  over  the  in- 
ternational commission,  while  England 
concedes  Turkey's  right  to  use  the  canal 
for  the  transportation  of  troops  to  Arabia, 

The  Chinese  government  has  decided 
to  erect  monuments  to  General  Gordon 
on  the  scenes  of  his  victories  over  the 
Taiping  rebels. 

The  suit  of  Frank  Hugh  O'Donnell 
against  the  London  Times,  growing  out 
of  a  series  of  articles  charging  the  Irish 
leaders  with  guilty  knowledge  of  various 
crimes  perpetrated  in  the  name  of  Irish 
liberty,  is  to  be  pressed  to  trial,  O'Don- 
nell declining  to  withdraw  it.  As  the 
defense  proposes  to  prove  its  allegations 
had  facts  as  a  basis  the  trial  promises  to 
be  a  sensational  one. 

The  German  Emperor  was  outside  his 
Palace  Saturday  for  the  first  time  since 
his  critical  i  elapse.  Many  people  came 
forward  and  presented  him  with  flowers. 
Ho  bears  marked  traces  of  fever,  but  his 
appearance  is  daily  imoroving.  The  re- 
lations between  tha  Empress  and  Prince 
Bismarck  are  again  strained,  and  the  sit- 
uation is  80  critical  that  he  will  return  to 
Berlin  at  once.  The  Russian  prepara- 
tions for  war  are  very  ominous.  The 
news  of  the  weak  is  to  the  effect  that 
Russia  has  accepted  the  French  syndi- 
cate's terms  for  a  loan,  and  a  sum  of 
£44,000  000  has  been  obtained.  Russian 
activity  continues  in  Southern  Russia. 
Masked  batteries  are  being  rapidly  con- 
structed along  the  B'.ack  Boa,  the  Daies- 
ter,  and  Odessa,  and  immense  stores  of 
ammunition  are  being  collected  at  O  Jessa. 

News  has  arrived  from  the  west  coast 
of  Africa  to  the  effect  that  there  have 


been  some  human  sacrifices  in  conse- 
quence of  the  death  of  a  son  of  the  King 
of  Grand  Jack.  Selected  victims  were 
obliged  to  drink  "sass  water,"  a  poison- 
ous liquor,  and  were  then  pitched  into 
the  surf  on  the  sea  shore.  When  the 
rollers  dashed  them  ashore,  men,  women 
and  children  cut  at  them  with  knives  un- 
til they  were  dead.  The  chief  of  the 
tribe  flies  the  British  flag,  but  the  remon- 
strances of  the  captain  of  a  trading  ves- 
sel were  in  vain. 

The  steamer  Guthrie  arrived  at  New 
South  Wales,  May  15,  with  160  Chinese 
emigrants  on  board.  They  attempted  to 
land,  but  were  prevented  from  doing  so 
by  the  police.  The  Premier  informed 
the  assembly  that  he  had  cabled  to 
the  Imperial  government  that  New  South 
Wales  had  resolved  to  prevent  the  land- 
ing of  Chinese  emigrants  not  provided 
with  naturalization  papers,  and  that  the 
decision  had  the  support  of  the  people 
and  the  a-sembly.  The  Chinese  Ambas- 
sador in  London  has  handed  to  the  Eng- 
lish Government  a  note  protesting  against 
the  action  of  the  Australian  colonies  in 
preventing  the  landing  of  Chinese  immi- 
grants. 

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Editorial : 

Notes  and  Comments 1 

.Joseph  Cook 8 

Helen  M.  Oougar S 

How    Good    Templarlsm 

Works 8 

The    Anti-Masonic   Press 

of  Morjian  Times 9 

Personal  Mention 0 

COITTBIBUTIOKS : 

What  Shall  this  HarTCst 

be? 1 

Not  a  Mistake  of  Moses. .    2 
ThcVoice  from  Suffolk  Jail    2 
Cbaska  and  Miss  Fellows.    2 
Selected : 

Press  Comment 3 

Komish  Schools 3 

Rbform  News: 
The  Campaign  at  the  Cap- 
ital ;  From  the  Southern 
Work ;  Western  Ohio 
Called  Out;  Growth  at 
Camp  Nelson,  Ky 4,5. 


The  Sbrmov: 
National  Sin  the  Cause  of 
National  Trouble 3 

COBBBSPONDBNOB  : 

Brotber  Countee's  Health 
Failing;  Hoodwinking 
Union  Soldiers ;  A  Word 
More  on  the  Blue  and 
the  Gray ;  From  a  Col- 
ored   Pastor  in    Iowa; 

Pith  and  Point 6 

[.iteraturb 6 

Farm  Notes 7 

Secret    Societies     Con- 
demned      7 

Tbb  N.  C.  a 7 

ThbHomb.... 10 

Temperance 11 

Bible  Lesson 12 

Religious  Nbws 12 

Lodge  Notes 13 

In  Brief 14 

Markets 13 

News  of  thb  Wbbk 16 


A  mob  at  Santiago,  Chili,  burned  $100,000  worth 
of  street  cars,  because  the  company  refused  to  re- 
duce the  fare.  Set  on  by  the  labor  lodges,  mobs 
have  destroyed  property  in  America  by  the  tens  of 
millions  for  a  less  reason,  and  we  are  supposed  to 
be  neither  half-barbarous  or  semi-heathen  either. 


There  is  much  to  be  learned  of  the  character  of  a 
movement  by  observing  its  representatives  when 
they  leave  home.  Thus  the  train  men  who  cared 
for  the  delegation  to  the  Illinois  Republican  conven- 
tion reported  the  sleeping  cars  nearly  ruined.  The 
same  men  warmly  complimented  the  Prohibitionists 
as  among  the  most  respectable  of  travelers.  To  In- 
dianapolis there  is  coming  a  delegation  from  Cali- 
fornia, headed  by  General  Bidwell,  a  man  of  wealth 
once  engaged  in  wine-making.  He  became  con- 
vinced of  the  evil  of  the  business  and  gave  it  up, 
turning  over  his  stock  to  a  charitable  institution, 
providing  it  should  be  used  only  for  medical  pur- 
poses. The  Republican  delegation  from  the  same 
State  is  coming  to  Chicago  with  a  car  loaded  with 
fruit  and  a  thousand  bottles  of  wine! 


A  great  meeting  in  Central  Music  Hall  Sabbath 
afternoon  marks  a  high  tide  in  the  enthusiasm  of 
Chicago  churches  against  the  saloon.  The  addresses 
by  Drs.  Little,  Goodwin,  Withrow,  Lawrence  and 
others,  and  their  reception,  meant  more  than  even  the 
resolution  adcpted  which  called  on  the  city  council 
for  an  ordinance  forbidding  saloons  within  200  feet 
of  church  or  school  and  for  the  closing  of  these  vile 
places  on  the  Sabbath  day,  as  already  required  by 
State  law.  The  saloonists  begin  to  see  tUey  have 
gone  too  far,  and  allowed  a  public  sentiment  to  be 
roused  before  which  they  must  bow.  God  grant  that 
at  least  so  much  prohibition  as  this  may  soon  be 


enforced  in  Chicago.  Mayor  Roche  is  now  experi- 
encing, says  one  of  the  daily  papers,  "the  conflict- 
ing throes  of  those  who  have  neither  conscience, 
courage  nor  consistency."  It  appears  that  he  as- 
sured some  of  the  distillers  before  election  that  their 
business  was  too  important  to  be  meddled  with  by 
the  city  and  thus  secured  a  round  sum  for  the  Re- 
publican campaign  fund.  His  sympathy  with  the 
saloon  party  in  the  Council  secured  him  some  severe 
rebukes  in  the  Music  Hall  meeting,  and  he  realizes 
that  on  these  fine  spring  days  his  bed  is  not  one  of 
roses. 


JOSEfH    COOK. 
ISee  page  81 

General  Rosecrans,  who  is  a  zealous  Catholic,  di- 
rected the  great  Catholic  demonstration  in  Wash- 
ington Thursday,  when  the  corner-stone  of  the  new 
Catholic  university  was  laid,  during  a  rain  storm 
The  ceremony  was  as  imposing  as  the  Romish 
church  could  make  it,  and  beside  the  columns  of 
priests  and  lesser  ecclesiastics,  the  bi8hop3  and  Car- 
dinal Gibbons,  the  nation  was  called  upon  to  grace 
the  occasion.  President  Cleveland  has  shown  his 
servility  to  the  priest  power  that  elected  him  too 
often  to  permit  a  refusal.  He  was  given  a  place 
with  his  Cabinet  close  by  the  Cardinal.  The  day 
before  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Cleveland  attended  the  great 
Presbyterian  meeting  in  Philadelphia,  and  he  made  a 
speech  recalling  his  early  training  by  Presbyterian 
parents.  The  General  Assembly  must  regard  the 
President  as  a  doubtful  convert  to  the  creed  and 
catechism,  since  in  a  few  hours  he  could  put  them 
aside  and  take  his  place  as  part  of  a  system  against 
which  that  Presbyterian  creed  and  catechism  are  a 
protest  both  in  their  terms  and  in  their  history. 


The  Mormons  dedicated  their  third  temple  last 
week  Monday  at  Manti,  in  the  very  center  of  Utah. 
Two  others,  at  Logan  in  the  north,  and  at  St.  George 
in  the  extreme  southwest,  have  been  in  operation 
for  some  years.  The  ceremonies  of  initiation  or 
"sealing"  are  performed  in  these  buildings,  and 
since  their  completion  the  old  Endowment  House  in 
the  northwest  corner  of  the  Temple  enclosure  at 
Salt  Lake  City  has  been  discontinued,  yet  the  Mor- 
mons are  very  reticent  about  the  old  building  to 
visitors.  These  temples  are  simil.r  in  construction 
to  that  nearing  completion  at  Salt  Lake  City,  but 
of  smaller  size.  There  is  nothing  to  attract  in  the 
architecture  of  the  buildings  but  their  immense 
weight  and  solidity  of  construction.  To  Apostle 
Lorenzo  Snow  was  assigned  the  duty  of  making  the 
prayer  of  dedication  for  the  new  temple.  He  got  it 
ready  and  had  it  in  type  before  the  occasion.  It 
fills  nearly  five  columns  solid  small  type  in  the  Des- 
eret  News,  nothing  less  being  sullicient  for  a  build- 
ing to  be  used  for  baptisms  for  the  dead  and  initia- 


tions into  the  Mormon  lodge.  The  five  days'  jubilee 
at  the  dedication  gave  a  fine  opportunity  for  the 
tricks  and  jugglery  which  are  always  the  machinery 
of  priestcraft.  The  Mormons  claim  that  great  signs 
and  wonders  attended  the  dedication  ceremonies; 
angel  voices  singing  songs,  hosts  of  light  and  glory 
around  the  heads  of  the  speakers,  and  the  appear- 
ance in  the  temple  of  the  spirits  of  Brigham  Young, 
John  Taylor  and  J.  M.  Grant.  Such  pretensions 
could  only  be  made  to  an  ignorant,  bigoted  and  su- 
perstitious people,  who  will  follow  the  leader  who 
can  furnish  the  most  entertainment  of  the  kind. 


The  General  Conference  on  Foreign  Missions 
which  opens  in  London  next  week  Saturday,  June 
9th,  will  be  one  of  the  moat  important  gatherings  of 
the  decade,  perhaps  of  the  century.  To  have  par- 
ticipated in  a  meeting  which  may  be,  under  God, 
instrumental  in  giving  a  grand  impetus  to  the  Caris- 
tian  church  in  her  great  work  among  the  nations, 
will  always  be  remembered  as  an  honor.  Among 
the  representatives  from  American  churches  are  a 
number  of  names  familiar  to  our  readers.  Rev.  Dr. 
McAllister,  late  of  Geneva  College,  now  succsssor 
in  the  pastorate  of  the  lamented  A.  M.  Milligan; 
Rev.  D.  McFall,of  Chambers  St.  church,  Boston;  Dr. 
A.  J.  Gordon,  of  the  same  city;  Bishop  Mallalieu, 
of  New  Orleans;  General  Clinton  B.  Fisk,  Revs.  B. 
T.  Roberts  and  T.  B.  Arnold,  of  the  Free  Methodist, 
in  this  city,  and  Mr.  W.  T.  Blackstone,  of  this  city, 
whose  appeals  for  the  world's  evangelization  have 
thrilled  the  soul  of  multitudes  and  led  them  to  a 
new  consecration  to  obedience  to  the  Lord's  last 
command — these  are  among  the  American  delegates 
to  this  great  meeting. 


WHAT  SHALL  THIS  HARVBST  BB* 


BY    E.    B.    FLAGG. 


The  time  of  seed-sowing  is  beautiful  because  it  is 
the  time  of  hope.  I  have  a  feeling  that  the  djiys  of 
summer  fruition  are  more  beautiful  still;  but  when 
the  spring  birds  are  making  a  concert  of  melody  on 
every  hand,  and  trees  and  grass  are  showing  their 
first  tender  green,  and  every  breeze  comes  loaded 
with  that  indefinable  sweet  scent  which  is  like  the 
voiceless  prophecy  in  a  young  heart  of  some  un- 
known bliss  yet  to  come,  it  is  hard  to  contradict  all 
the  voets  who  have  rhymed  since  the  tl'all.  Easier 
is  it  to  enjoy,  and  more  profitable  to  quietly  moral- 
iz3  in  the  midst  of  this  upspringing  new  creation, 
this  Eden  let  down  to  earth  for  a  brief  while  to  show 
us  the  possibilities  of  the  heavenly  Paradise.  The 
harvests  that  are  to  feed  a  world  are  slumbering  to- 
day under  the  brown  ploughed  fields  which  are  soon 
to  blossom  into  seas  of  emerald,  dimpling  to  every 
breath  of  the  summer  wind. 

But  are  there  not  other  harvests  sown  which  will 
poison  instead  of  feed,  and  impoverish  instead  of 
enrich  our  race?  I  am  not  speaking  metaphorically, 
nor  uttering  dark  things  in  parables.  I  mean  that 
in  our  own  blessed  New  England  there  are  broad  acres 
given  up  to  the  culture  of  a  weed  whose  use  has 
been  interdicted  by  the  moralist  and  the  physician; 
a  weed  which,  wherever  it  is  planted,  always  brings 
forth  a  plentiful  crop  of  bad  manners,  ill  smelling 
breath,  weak  eyes,  and  disordered  nerves;  a  weed 
which  86  clergymen,  554  teachers  and  superintend- 
ents of  public  schools,  and  257  doo'vors  in  the  D.s- 
trict  of  Columbia  have  desired  Congress  to  prohibit 
to  boys  under  sixteen  years;  and  why?  Because  it 
is  a  poison;  because  it  stands  on  the  same  dark  list 
with  alcohol  and  opium;  because  it  blights  every 
bud  of  intellectual  promise,  and  lowers  and  brutal- 
izes the  whole  moral  nature.  Is  not  this  indictment 
fearful  enough  to  prevent  any  Christian  man  from 
planting  his  goodly  acres  with  such  seeds  of  death, 
whose  bitter  harvest  can  never  be  fully  known  till 
the  great  reaping  time  comes?  Tobacco  using,  to- 
bacco selling,  and  tobacco  raising  will  yet  be  ban- 
ished from  the  respectable  ranks  of  society;  but  it 
will  be  with  this  evil  as  it  was  in  the  first  movement 
against  alcohol:  the  first  step  was  to  make  minis- 
ters give  up  their  sideboards  and  deacon''  their  dis- 
tilleries; and  thus,  little  by  little,  the  rum  fiend  has 


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May  31, 1888 


been  made  to  go  where  the  devils  went,  and  where 
we  want  the  tobacco  fiend  to  go — into  the  swine  of 
society.  If  it  be  true  that  we  can't  banish  them  al- 
together, we  can  at  least  send  them  where  they  be- 
long, knowing  that  the  same  destruction  will  finally 
overtake  both  devil  and  swine  when  that  gulf  of 
judgment  opens,  of  which  Holy  Writ  has  spoken  in 
these  fearful  words:  "He  that  is  unjust  let  him  be 
unjust  still;  and  he  that  is  filthy  let  him  be  filthy 
still." 

Of  course,  there  is  the  old  argument:  "We 
must  make  money,  and  there  is  the  most  profit  in 
raising  tobacco."  I  do  not  choose  to  go  to  the  dev- 
il's arsenal  for  weapons,  and  so  I  let  alone  the  coun- 
ter argument,  that  no  other  crop  so  wastes  and  ex- 
hausts the  vigor  of  the  soil.  I  prefer  instead  to  ask 
that  solemn  question  which  no  earthly  arithmetic 
has  ever  solved:  "What  shall  it  profit  a  man  if  he 
gain  the  whole  world  and  lose  his  own  soul?" 
What  will  it  profit  you,  farmers  of  happy.  Christian 
New  England?  Shall  countless  physicians  and 
teachers,  and  all  the  good  and  wise  of  our  land,  raise 
warning  voices  and  you  disregard  their  message? 
We  are  familiar  with  the  statistics  of  the  saloon. 
We  have  all  heard,  how,  out  of  its  doors,  in  this 
country  alone,  march  an  army  of  60,000  to  a  drunk- 
ard's grave;  but  the  census  has  never  been  taken  of 
the  great  army  of  tobacco  users,  poisoned  in  every 
nerve  and  tissue  till  apoplexy,  or  heart  disease,  or 
the  terrible  smokers'  cancer  mows  them  down;  of 
the  dimmed  intellects,  the  debased  moral  natures, 
the  blunted  sensibilities,  the  weakened  wills  led  cap- 
tive by  the  devil  through  the  fetters  of  the  tobacco 
habit.  From  every  inch  of  land  given  up  to  pro- 
ducing that  which  can  work  such  dire  results  goes 
up  Cain's  question,  "Am  I  my  brother's  keeper?" 
The  great  difference  between  the  children  of  OJod 
and  the  children  of  Satan  was  then  exactly  what  it 
is  now:  the  one  acknowledges  the  sacredness  of  hu- 
manity's claim  upon  him,  the  other  rejects  it  with  a 
scoff  and  sneer.  On  which  side  will  you  range  your- 
self? Tobacco  raising  may  bring  you  in  more  mon- 
ey; will  it  bring  you  in  more  peace  of  soul?  Can 
it  be  used  to  win  you  everlasting  habitations  in  that 
land  where  enters  nothing  that  defiles?  For  rest 
assured,  of  that  mammon  of  unrighteousness  you 
can  never  make  friends.  What  will  it  profit  you; 
nay,  rather  what  will  it  not  profit  you  to  quit  for- 
ever the  raising  of  that,  the  only  effect  of  which 
upon  others  must  be  hurtful,  pernicious,  debasing? 
Shall  Qod's  air  and  sunshine,  his  dew  and  rain,  be 
prostituted  to  such  a  service?  Can  you  "enter  his 
courts  with  praise,"  and  lay  before  him — not  the 
sheaves  of  golden  grain,  type  of  him  who  is  the  Life 
of  the  world,  but  the  first  fruits  of  a  tobacco  har- 
vest? Answer  as  becomes  a  man  and  a  Christian. 
Shall  your  sowing  and  reaping  be  unto  mammon,  or 
unto  God?  But,  oh  I  beloved  brother,  give  an  answer 
that  will  be  music  to  your  ears  in  the  great  harvest 
day. 

NOT  A  MlbTAKB  OF  M0BB8. 


BY   REV.   J.   M.   POSTBB. 

There  is  an  article  in  the  Prethyterian  Revitw  for 
April  on  "Legislative  Restriction  of  Evils,"  by  Prof. 
Willis  J.  Beecher  of  Auburn,  N.  Y.  After  an  intro- 
duction, in  which  reference  is  made  to  the  number 
and  variety  of  legislative  forms,  all  imperatively 
demanding  our  attention,  he  lays  down  five  propo- 
sitions which  are  discussed  in  order. 

1.  Testimony  to  truth  and  right  is  an  important 
incidental  function  of  law. 

2.  But  law  is  mainly  not  mere  testimony,  but  a 
rule  of  conduct  to  be  enforced. 

3.  For  legislation  to  transcend  its  own  proper  lim- 
its is  a  most  dangerous  evil. 

4.  No  legislation  concerning  an  evil  is  to  be  pre- 
sumed to  be  a  sanction  of  the  evil. 

5.  Within  such  limits  as  have  been  indicated,  the 
most  feasible  legislation  is  also  the  best. 

By  these  steps  he  would  lead  us  to  the  conclusion 
that  it  is  morally  right  to  license  or  tax  the  liquor 
business.  That  is  a  conclusion  to  which  some  of  us 
are  not  ready  to  be  led.  Those  engaged  in  the  liquor 
trallio  are  criminals,  and  should  be  punished  along 
with  thieves,  gamblers,  adulterers,  and  murderers. 
At  which  of  these  five  steps  does  he  go  astray? 

The  first  proposition  is  true.  Law  is  public  tes- 
timony. A  good  law  is  a  public  benefit.  A  bad 
law  is  a  great  evil.  The  one  tones  up  the  public 
conscience;  the  other  weakens  and  demoralizes. 
The  eecond  proposition  is  equally  true.  A  good  law 
unenforced  defeats  its  own  end.  A  dead-letter  law 
is  worse  than  no  law.  But  the  fault  is  not  in  the 
law,  but  the  depraved  public  sentiment  that  will  not 
carry  it  out  The  facta  abundantly  justify  the  third 
proposition. 


He  crosses  the  danger-line  in  the  fourth  proposi- 
tion. He  tells  us  that  Moses  legislated  respecting 
polygamy,  divorce  and  slavery,  without  sanctioning 
the  evils.  The  statutes  of  Moses  cannot  be  con- 
strued to  mean  a  licensing  of  these  evils.  They 
were  prohibitory,  and  had  they  been  carried  out 
faithfully  would  have  resulted  in  the  complete  ex- 
termination of  these  evils.  It  would  be  wrong  to 
give  a  man  license  to  commit  adultery  with  other 
men's  wives;  that  would  be  a  breach  of  the  seventh 
commandment.  It  is  an  iniquity  to  be  punished  by 
the  judges.  It  would-be  wrong  to  license  open  and 
public  blasphemy;  that  is  a  crime  to  be  severely 
punished.  It  is  wrong  to  license  the  liquor  traflSc. 
It  is  a  murderous  system,  and  a  fraud  upon  human 
society.  There  is  only  one  kind  of  legislation  that 
is  lawful  for  theft  and  murder,  or  any  other  of  these 
evils,  and  that  is  prohibitory.  "Thou  shalt  not," 
and  that  is  the  end  of  it.  All  Prof.  Beecher's  talk 
about  the  danger  of  speaking  against  the  present 
course  of  our  government  does  not  weaken  our  de- 
termination to  bear  testimony  against  immoral  leg- 
islation. The  sentences  which  he  quotes  with  dis- 
approval we  fully  endorse.  The  liquor  revenue  is 
"the  profits  of  an  unholy  partnership;  the  nation's 
share  for  twenty  years  in  the  blood  money  of  the 
liquor  crime."  "Will  any  candid  man  pretend  that 
the  State  may  first  impose  aud  collect  a  tax  on  a 
business,  and  then  proceed  to  suppress  that  busi- 
ness as  illegal  and  immoral?  The  simple  taxing  of 
a  business  is  not  only  a  legislative  consent  to  its 
being  carried  on,  but  it  is  a  recognition  of  its  exist- 
ence without  the  leasf  suggestion- of  disapproval." 

The  fifth  proposition  is  the  most  dangerous  of  all. 
In  matters  of  indifference  the  most  feasible  is  mor- 
ally the  best;  but  in  morals  expediency  is  not  a  rule 
at  all.  Of  two  moral  evils  choose  neither.  Their 
damnation  is  just  who  do  evil  that  good  may  come. 
It  is  the  infamous  principle-  of  Jesuitry  that  the  end 
justifies  the  means.  We  need  a  revival  of  conscience. 
The  Ten  Commandments  ought  to  be  republished. 
Who  in  America  to-day  would  defend  the  fugitive 
slave  law?  That  vile  system  was  once  legalized  by 
this  government.  Some  day  the  liquor  traffic  will 
be  as  odious  as  slavery  is  to-day. 

Cincinnati. 


THE  VOWS  FROM  SUFFOLK  JAIL,  CHARLES 
STREET,    BOSTON. 


Editor  Christian  Cynosure: — I  have  just  read 
Bro.  Countee's  "Why  I  Joined  the  Lodge  and 
Why  I  Left  It,"  as  published  in  the  Cynosure  of  the 
10th  instant.  Our  brother  has  witnessed  a  good 
confession.  To  sin  is  human;  to  forgive  is  divine. 
When  a  man  openly  confesses  his  sins,  repents  of 
them,  and  accepts  God's  pardon,  he  becomes  a  par- 
taker (part-taker,  2  Peter  1:  4)  of  the  divine  nature. 
So  great  is  God's  grace.  Satan  and  satanic  men 
dread  such  a  witness  as  wolves  dread  the  fire.  A 
dollar  volume  of  300  to  400  pages  of  these  inde- 
pendent testimonies,  by  faithful  witnesses  like  Bro. 
Isaac  Hyatt  of  New  Hampshire  and  Bro.  Countee,  in 
brief,  comprehensive,  vivid  sketches  of  the  salient 
facts,  would  be  a  useful  weapon. 

The  Roman  Catholic  Irish  rum-faction  of  Boston 
seem  to  bo  astonished  out  of  measure  that  their 
complete  control  of  this  city  has  been  questioned  by 
anybody.  The  protest  has,  indeed,  but  just  begun, 
but  like  a  rolling  snowball  it  grows  as  it  goes. 
Having  pretty  thoroughly  degraded  every  depart- 
ment of  our  municipal  and  State  government,  they 
seem  to  have  fancied  that  they  cDuId  now  perpetrate 
every  species  of  iniquity  unchallenged.  Of  course 
the  gag  by-law  prohibiting  free  public  speech  is  only 
attempted  to  be  enforced  against  ministers  of  Christ, 
and  never  against  maudlin  minstrel  hoodlums,  riot- 
ing Fenians,  or  lawless  prizefighters,  the  pets  of 
our  mayor  and  councilmen. 

Just  as  our  Jesuit  jug-or-naughts  were  rejoicing 
that  the  court  had  decided  the  free  public  preach- 
ing of  the  Gospel  on  Boston  Common  to  be  worthy 
the  severest  punishment  ever  visited  upon  the  vio- 
lation of  any  city  ordinance,  Horace  L.  Hastings, 
in  the  eleventh  month  of  1887,  sent  forth  an  edi- 
tion of  the  Ckriitian  Snfequard  which  pierced  the 
hearts  of  the  King's  enemies  like  a  cloud  of  sharp 
arrows.  Writhing  with  pain  and  raging  with  fury, 
the  leagued  foes  of  a  free  Gospel,  free  public  schools, 
free  public  speech,  and  a  free  civil  government,  were 
next  arraigned  by  Wm.  Kellaway  in  a  brace  of  bold 
pamphlets,  written,  printed,  and  freely  and  widely 
distributed  at  his  own  cost. 

Before  they  could  decide  how  to  abate  Hitstings 
and  Kellaway,  Justin  D.  Fulton  appears  and  kindly, 
yet  very  faithfully,  informs  the  great  audiences 
which  thronged  Music  Hall  on  the  Lord's  Day  after- 
noons during  twenty-three  successive  weeks,  "Why 
Priests  Should  Wed."     Then  followed  the  sale  of 


thousands  of  copies  of  Fulton's  book  containing  in 
print  his  expurgated  discourses  on  this  subject. 

The  priests  of  vat  and  Vatican  now  directed  their 
energies  toward  barricading  public  halls  in  other 
cities  against  Fillton.  But  Kellaway  and  Leyden,the 
latter  a  convert  from  Romanism,  went  into  Music 
Hall  and  continued  Fulton's  work  in  Boston,  minis- 
tering more  than  once  to  audiences  which  filled  to 
overflowing,  including  standing  room  and  500  extra 
seats,  a  hall  which  regularly  seats  3,200  persons. 

Such  was  the  case  last  Lord's  Day  when  ex -priest 
Chiniquy  told  of  his  fifty  years'  experience  as  a  Ro- 
manist. Moreover,  Tremont  Temple,  said  to  be  of 
equal  capacity  with  Music  Hall,  has  been  crowded 
during  many  weeks  on  every  afternoon  and  evening 
of  the  fifth  day  of  the  week  by  multitudes  who 
have  listened  to  the  testimony  of  Margaret  L.  Shep- 
herd, a  former  Roman  Catholic  novitiate,  who  es- 
caped the  horrors  of  a  nun's  life,  and  exchanged  the 
Romish  prayer  book  for  the  Christian's  Bible. 

Already  have  the  scales  dropped  from  many  eyes, 
and  converts  to  Christ  from  the  Romish  apostasy 
have  brought  in  and  laid  down  at  the  disposal  of 
Christ's  witnesses  the  broken  yokes  of  papal  super- 
stition in  the  form  of  beads,  gold  crosses  and  im- 
ages, and  charms  which  have  lost  their  charm  for 
these  souls  forever.  Two  eight-page  weekly  papers, 
vigorously  edited,  well  printed,  and  already  of  no 
mean  extent  of  circulation,  have  suddenly  sprung 
into  existence.  The  Free  Prets  is  edited  by  Bro. 
Kellaway,  and  bears  the  legend,  "For  Christ  and 
and  against  Anti-Christ;  for  Country  and  against 
Rome."  The  British- American  Citizen,  also  an  eight- 
page  weekly,  printed  on  sheets  double  the  size  of 
Bro.  K.'s  paper,  is  the  official  organ  of  local  associ- 
ations, already  numerous  and  rapidly  multiplying, 
of  British  citizens  who  are  taking  out  their  natural- 
ization papers  in  great  numbers  in  all  our  cities,  and 
seem  determined  to  be  heard  and  felt  in  opposition 
to  the  mob  methods  of  priest-ridden,  whisky-crazed 
Irishmen. 

The  Evening  Iramcript  of  this  city  welcomes 
these  new  allies,  and  declares  editorially  that  "the 
people  are  ready  to  use  any  club  that  will  break  up 
the  clanship  Mayor  Hewitt  has  so  patriotically  re- 
buked." When  the  people  get  ready  to  use  the  po- 
licemen's club  against  public  poisoners  and  traitor- 
ous Jesuits,  these  pests  of  state,  church  and  home 
will  be  as  nimble  in  fleeing  from  our  cities  as  John 
L.  Sullivan  was  in  forsaking  his  training  quarters  in 
England  on  the  Ijare  suspicion  that  the  lodger  who 
had  taken  a  room  across  the  way  was  a  detective, 
interested  in  preserving  the  dignity  of  English  laws 
against  prize-fighting.  Sincerely  thy  brother  in 
Christ;  still  in  bonds  for  the  Gospel  to  be  free  to 
all  the  people  in  all  the  world,       Wm.  F.  Davis. 


CHASKA  AND  MISS  FELLOWS. 


BY  REV.    H.    H.   HINMAN. 

The  marriage  of  Miss  Cora  Fellows  of  Washington 
city,  late  teacher  at  the  Santee  agency,  Nebraska, 
to  Chaska  Campbell,  a  chief  of  the  Sioux  tribe,  who 
is  said  to  be  one-fourth  Indian  and  three-fourths 
French,  but  respectable  in  character  and  habits,  and 
an  industrious  farmer,  has  caused  more  talk  than 
any  similar  alliance  since  Hon.  Fred  Douglass  was 
joined  to  the  excellent  white  lady  that  now  honors 
his  pleasant  home.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Chaska  Campbell 
are  made  the  subject  of  extensive  caricature  in  the 
public  press,  and  it  is  said  that  she  has  been  dis- 
owned by  her  kindred  at  Washington. 

I  cannot  but  regard  the  prominence  given  to  this 
matter  as  most  absurd  and  mischievous,  and  as  in- 
dicating a  most  perverse  state  of  public  sentiment. 
Almost  every  day,  all  over  the  land,  marriages  are 
taking  place  between  pure-minded  Christian  women 
and  utterly  worthless  men.  Not  unfrequent  the  un- 
worthy and  worthless  one  is  the  woman,  but  in 
either  case  the  practical  result  is  misery  and  ruin. 
Such  marriages  are  greatly  to  ba  deplored,  but  they 
usually  excite  little  attention  and  are  assumed  to  be 
a  matter  of  course. 

Looking  at  these  relations  from  a  Christian  stand- 
point, we  must  regard  character  as  of  infinitely 
greater  consequence  than  the  mere  accident  of  race 
or  nationality.  In  the  Divine  Kingdom  in  which 
wo  all  hope  to  partake,  "there  is  neither  Greek  nor 
Jew,  circumcision  nor  uncircumcision,  barbarian, 
Scythian,  bond  nor  free,  but  Christ  is  all  aud  in 
all."  Surely  God  has  made  of  one  blood  all  the 
children  of  men,  and  he  is  no  respecter  of  persons. 

Doubtless,  in  view  of  the  fact  that  race  prejudice 
exists,  it  is  most  undesirable  for  one  to  make  him 
self  and  his  children  a  victim.  But  of  this  matter 
the  individual  must  judge.  If  both  are  of  mature 
age,  irreproachable  characters,  and  have  means  of 
support;  if  they  have  natural  and  acquired  adapts- 


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May  31, 1888 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


tion  and  genuine  conjugal  affection,  it  is  their  busi- 
ness, and  the  less  ottier  people  meddle  with  their 
matters  the  better  will  it  be  for  the  well-being  of 
society.  It  should  not  be  forgotten  that  some  of 
the  "first  families  of  Virginia"  have  ever  been  proud 
of  their  descent  from  the  Indian  girl  Pocahontas, 
and  that  Patrick  Henry,  when  a  member  of  the  leg- 
islature, introduced  a  bill,  and,  as  Governor  of  Vir- 
ginia, urged  the  passage  of  a  law  to  give  a  bounty 
to  every  white  man  who  would  marry  an  Indian 
woman.  Such  legislation  is  doubtless  uncalled  for, 
and  so  is  all  other  that  proposes  to  control  social 
relations.  There  is  no  occasion  for  inflaming  pop- 
ular prejudices  by  parading  private  affairs  that  are 
not  in  themselves  criminal. 


PBB88   COMMBNT. 


A  fresh  instance  of  Papal  infallibility  is  just  re- 
ported. Lasserre's  translation  of  the  Gospels  into 
French  was  emphatically  approved  by  the  Pope  in 
December,  1886,  when  lo  and  behold!  the  very  same 
Pope  in  December,  1887,  put  this  book  in  the  Index 
Expurgatoria  as  one  proscribed  to  all  the  faithful. 
On  which  of  the  two  occasions  was  the  Pope  infal- 
lible?— Intelligencer. 

The  new  capitol  of  the  State  of  Texas,  at  Austin, 
was  formallj  opened  on  Wednesday,  and  the  tele- 
graph reports  that,  "There  was  a  grand  military  and 
Masonic  display.  The  Masonic  Grand  Lodge  and 
the  Grand  Commandery  of  Knights  Templar  partic- 
ipated." As  American  citizens,  Catholics  protest 
against  the  participation  in  public  ceremonies  of  this 
secret,  un-American  and  dangerous  Masonic  society. 
On  what  ground  does  it  claim  recognition,  an  organ- 
ization that  is  a  law  to  itself  and  a  menace  to  all 
governments,  as  well  as  an  enemy  to  the  Christian 
religion. —  Citholic  Review. 

London  was  again  shocked,  a  few  days  ago,  by 
another  distinguished  prelate,  Archdeacon  Farrar. 
In  a  sermon  before  the  Social  Purity  Alliance,  he 
drew  a  hideous  picture  of  London  morals,  declaring 
that  there  were  in  the  city  80,000  professional  cour- 
tesan?, 600,000  drunkards,  6,000  public  houses  and 
4,000  clubs  which  initiated  young  men  into  the  ways 
of  vice.  This  club  mania  is  becoming  epidemic 
among  us,  and  many  good  people  fail  to  see  its  evil 
tendency.  There  may  be  clubs,  of  course,  for  praise- 
worthy purposes,  but,  as  they  are  now  being  estab- 
lished in  all  our  cities  and  some  towns,  they  are 
generally  for  the  indulgence  in  those  amusements 
which  are  by  common  consent  thought  unfit  for  the 
home.  Here  father,  sons  and  husbands,  free  from 
the  restraints  of  home  associations,  indulge,  under 
special  fascinations,  in  things  of  more  than  doubtful 
propriety,  while  mothers  and  wives  are  left  to  the 
lonesomeness  of  the  long  evenings.  If  these  could 
settle  the  matter,  the  whole  business  would  be  abol- 
ished instantly  and  almost  unanimously.  Even  if 
the  things  done  at  the  club  were  innocent  in  them- 
selves, the  system  is  evil,  and  that  continually,  be- 
cause it  does  not  permit  those  whom  business  claims 
during  the  day  to  return  to  the  family  in  the  even- 
ing; but  in  most  clubs  the  things  done  are  grossly 
evil — gambling,  drinking,  lessons  in  libertinism,  etc. 
—  C'h/rittian  Standard. 


Romish  Schools. — Joseph  Cook,  in  the  prelude 
to  one  of  his  recent  lectures,  made  the  following 
points  against  Romish  parochial  schools:  "1.  It  is 
historically  true  and  notorious  that  Roman  priests, 
when  they  had  their  way,  never  yet  gave  in  their  pa- 
rochial primary  schools  suHlcient  instruction  to  fit  a 
population  for  the  responsibilities  of  free  govern- 
ment. 2.  Roman  Catholic  parochial  schools  are 
avowedly  intended  to  destroy  the  American  public 
school  system.  3.  The  instruction  given  in  them  is 
always  sectarian,  generally  mutilated,  and  some- 
times thoroughly  misleading.  Examples  were  given 
from  one  or  two  Romish  text-books.  Bismarck  de- 
clares that  the  saddest  sight  he  ever  saw  was  that  of 
the  mutilated  text-books  used  in  the  French  schools. 
Mr.  Froude  found  this  systematic  mutilation  both  in 
America  and  Europe.  4.  Roman  Catholic  authori- 
ties wholly  deny  to  the  civil  government  the  right 
to  conduct  the  secular  education  of  the  people.  5. 
The  church  denies  to  the  parent  the  right  of  private 
judgment  in  the  matter  of  education.  Refusal  to 
send  the  children  to  the  priest's  school  is  followed 
by  a  denial  of  the  rites  of  the  church." 

The  unrelenting  enmity  of  the  Catholic  church  to 
the  common  schools  has  received  a  new  and  striking 
illustration  at  West  Chester,  Pa.,  where  two  prom- 
inent business  men  have  been  refused  the  sacraments 
of  the  church  because  they  persisted  in  sending 
their  children  to  the  public  schools  instead  of  the  pa- 
rochial school.  The  actidn  of  the  local  priest  in 
this  matter  has  been  sustained  by  Archbishop  Ryan. 


NATIONAL  SIN   TBB    CAU8B   OF   NATIONAL 
TROUBLB. 


A   DISCOURSE   BY   RBV.  WM.  WISHART,  D.  D. 

"And  he  answered,  I  have  not  troubled  Israel;  but  thou  and 
thy  father's  house.  In  that  ye  have  forsaken  the  commandoients 
of  the  Lord."—!  Kings  18: 18. 

SECOND   PART. 

II.  Let  us  now  turn  our  attention  to  the  result  of 
national  sin,  or  notice  the  trouble  that  it  brings  upon 
a  nation. 

1.  We  observe  that  there  are  various  ways  in 
which  God  troubles  or  punishes  nations  on  account 
of  their  sin,  and  hesometimes  adopts  one  mode  of 
punishment  and  sometimes  another.  One  way  in 
which  he  usually  manifests  his  displeasure  against 
sinful  communities  or  nations,  is  by  judically  giving 
them  up  to  "blindness  of  mind  and  hardness  of 
heart."  In  this  respect  he  deals  with  nations,  just 
as  he  does  with  individuals:  when  they  will  not  re- 
ceive the  love  of  the  truth,  he  sends  them  strong  de- 
lusion that  they  should  believe  a  lie,     2  Thess.  2:11. 

This  blindness  of  mind  and  hardness  of  heart, 
when  it  prevails  extensively  in  a  nation,  is  not  only 
the  usual  precursor  of  outward  judgments,  but  is 
itself  a  most  fearful  judgment.  What  greater  ca- 
lamity can  befall  a  community  or  nation  than  the 
prevalence  of  atheistic  sentiments  and  depraved 
habits;  removing  the  restraints  of  virtue  and  mor- 
ality; disrupting  every  social  tie;  and  overturning 
the  foundations  of  social  order!  To  such  a  deplora- 
ble state  of  society,  the  prophet  refers,  when  he 
says,  "There  is  no  truth,  nor  mercy,  nor  knowledge 
of  God  in  the  land.  By  swearing  and  lying,  killing 
and  stealing  and  committing  adultery,  they  break 
out  and  blood  toucheth  blood."  Hosea  4: 1,  2.  And 
another  prophet  presents  a  similar  picture,  when  he 
says,  "Judgment  is  turned  away  backward,  and  jus- 
tice standeth  afar  off,  for  truth  is  fallen  in  the  street, 
and  equity  cannot  enter.  Yea,  truth  faileth,  and  he 
that  departeth  from  evil  maketh  himself  a  prey." 
Isa.  59:  14,  15.     * 

But  a  nation  thus  abandoned  to  the  power  of  its 
own  corruption,  is  ripe  for  outward  judgments.  And 
God  is  at  no  loss  for  means  to  execute  the  demands 
of  his  justice;  for  all  nature,  animate,  inanimate  and 
rational,  is  at  his  command.  Fire,  hail,  snow,  va- 
pors and  stormy  winds  fulfill  his  word.  He  some- 
times makes  the  raging  fires  and  stormy  winds  his 
ministers  to  subdue  the  pride  of  sumptuous  cities 
and  to  turn  vast  lands  into  desolation.  And  some- 
times he  musters  armies  of  destructive  insects  to  eat 
up  the  fruits  of  the  soil,  or  smites  a  land  wiih  blast- 
ing and  mildew,  or  commands  the  heavens  that  they 
rain  no  rain  upon  it— <making  the  heavens  above 
brass  and  the  earth  beneath  iron  and  the  rain  of  the 
land  powder  and  dust — thus  giving  cleanness  of 
teeth  in  all  cities,  and  want  of  bread  in  all  places, 
Deut.  28:  23;  Amos  4:  6.  Again  he  sometimes  calls 
for  the  pestilence  that  walketh  in  darkness  and 
makes  it  cleave  to  a  wicked  people  until  he  has  con- 
sumed them  from  off  their  land,  Deut.  28:  21.  And 
again  he  sometimes  gives  liberty  to  the  sword  to  go 
through  a  wicked  land  and  devour  the  inhabitants 
thereof.  He  either  brings  an  enemy  from  afar  or 
raises  up  one  from  the  midst  of  a  wicked  people  and 
"gives  him  a  charge  to  take  the  spoil,  and  to  take 
the  prey,  and  to  tread  them  down  like  the  mire  of  the 
streets."     Isa.  10:  6. 

2.  We  observe  that  national  trouble  is  always  sent 
upon  the  same  nation  that  sinned,  but  frequently 
not  on  the  same  persons.  When  God  sent  Saul  to 
destroy  Amalek,  it  was  on  account  of  his  sin  in 
waging  an  insidious  and  cruel  war  against  the  peo- 
ple of  Israel  when  they  came  out  of  Egypt  four  hun- 
dred years  before  the  days  of  Saul.  1  Sam.  15:  2, 3. 
And  when  God  delivered  Juda  into  captivity,  it  was 
on  account  of  the  sins  of  Manasseh  which  had  been 
committed  more  than  a  generation  previous  to  that 
period.  He  punished  the  Jewish  nation  for  the  sins 
of  Manasseh  long  after  Manasseh  and  his  cotempo- 
raries  were  dead.  See  2  Kings  24:  3,  4.  Hence 
says  the  prophet  Jeremiah,  "Our  fathers  have 
sinned,  and  are  not,  and  we  have  borne  their  in- 
iquities." Lam.  5:  7.  It  is  therefore  perfectly  evi- 
dent that  there  is  a  national  accountability  to  God 
separate  and  distinct  from  the  personal  accounta- 
'bility  of  the  individuals  of  whom  a  nation  is  com- 
posed. A  nation,  like  an  individual  person,  may 
grow  old  in  sin,  and  may  treasure  up  wrath  against 
the  day  of  wrath,  and  God  may  manifest  his  divine 
forbearance  and  long  suffering  in  sparing  it  for  a 
long  time,  notwithstanding  its  many  sins  and  prov- 
ocations; but  ffhen  the  day  of  reckoning  comes,  he 
will  punish  it  for  the  sin  of  its  youth,  as  well  as  that 
of  its  old  age. 

3.  We  observe  that  national  trouble  may  be 
averted  or  deferred  by  national  repentance.    God 


visits  the  iniquities  of  the  fathers  upon  the  children 
of  the  same  nation  until  the  third  and  fourth  gener- 
ation, but  it  is  only  when  the  children  "allow  the 
deeds  of  their  fathers"  (Luke  II:  48),  or  make 
themselves  partakers  of  their  father's  sins  by  approv- 
ing and  practicing  the  same  or  similar  transgressions. 
See  Jer.  3:  25,  and  16:  11,  12.  But  the  children 
shall  not  bear  the  iniquity  of  their  fathers  when  by 
repentance  they  free  themselves  from  any  participa- 
tion in  them,  Jer.  31:  29;  Ezek.  18:  19-22. 

God  never  inflicts  judgments  on  a  nation,  however 
much  they  may  be  deserved  and  threatened,  when 
that  nation  is  turning  from  its  sin.  We  have  his 
own  word  for  this:  "At  what  instant  I  shall  speak 
concerning  a  nation  and  concerning  a  kingdom,  to 
pluck  up  and  to  pull  down  and  to  destroy  it,  if  that 
nation  against  whom  I  have  pronounced,  turn  from 
their  evil,  I  will  repent  of  the  evil  that  I  thought  to 
do  unto  them."  Jer.  18:  7,  8.  The  language  of 
God  by  Ezekiel  is  as  applicable  to  nations  as  indi- 
viduals: "As  for  the  wickedness  of  the  wicked  he 
shall  not  fall  thereby,  in  the  day  that  he  tumeth 
from  his  wickedness."  Ezek.  33:  12.  We  have  an 
illustration  and  confirmation  of  this  fact  in  the  case 
of  Nineveh.  God  by  his  prophet  threatened  to  de- 
stroy that  great  city  in  forty  days,  but  the  nation 
turned  from  its  sin  and  "God  repented  of  the  evil 
that  he  had  said  he  would  do  unto  them,"  Jonah  3:10. 

This  national  repentance  consists  merely  in  a 
change  of  national  conduct  from  evil  to  good,  or  an 
outward  turning  from  sin  and  transgression  to 
righteousness  and  obedience  by  the  nation  as  such. 
Open  immorality  must  be  suppressed;  profanity, 
fraud,  oppression  and  violence  must  be  put  away; 
wicked  laws  must  be  abolished,  and  the  government 
must  be  so  administered  as  to  be  for  a  punishment 
to  evil  doers,  and  for  a  praise  to  them  that  do  well 
And  it  matters  not  whether  this  change  of  national 
conduct  results  from  genuine  sorrow  for  sin  in  the 
hearts  of  the  people  of  whom  a  nation  is  composed, 
or  merely  from  legal  terror  and  fear  of  divine  wrath. 
It  is  enough  that  a  nation  turns  from  its  sin.  The 
prevalence  of  true  and  genuine  religion  among  the 
citizens  of  a  nation,  is  the  most  efficacious  and  per- 
manent foundation  of  national  repentance  or  of  that 
external  turning  from  sin  and  that  external  obedi- 
ence to  the  law  of  God,  which  may  be  performed  by 
and  predicated  of  a  nation  as  such.  Hence  the 
prevalence  of  genuine  religion  in  any  nation  is  the 
surest  basis  of  national  tranquility,  and  the  most 
invincible  bulwark  of  national  safety. 

III.  But  now  it  remains  to  confirm  the  truth 
taught  in  our  text,  namely,  that  national  sin  must 
cause  national  trouble.     And  this  will  appear — 

1.  From  a  consideration  of  the  character  of  God, 
as  the  moral  Governor  of  the  world.  He  is  a  God  of 
immaculate  holiness.  "Grod  is  light  and  in  him  is 
no  darkness  at  all."  "He  is  of  purer  eyes  than  to 
behold  iniquity."  And  a  being  that  loves  righteous- 
ness must  necessarily  hate  unrighteousness;  a  being 
that  delights  in  holiness  must  necessarily  abhor  sin 
and  manifest  his  displeasure  against  it. 

Moreover,  God  is  a  God  of  inflexible  justice.  Vin- 
dictive as  well  as  remunerative  justice  is  an  essen- 
tial attribute  of  the  divine  nature.  The  punishment 
of  sin  is  demanded  not  merely  by  the  will,  but  also 
by  the  very  nature  of  God  and  he  cannot  deny  him- 
self. "He  will  by  no  means  clear  the  guilty."  "Ven- 
geance is  mine,  saith  the  Lord,  I  will  repay.''  He 
can  as  soon  cease  to  be  God  as  cease  to  be  just,  and 
to  vindicate  the  claims  of  vindictive  justice  by  pun- 
ishing the  guilty.  And  he  is  a  God  of  infinite  power 
as  well  as  inflexible  justice.  He  is  abundantly  able 
to  punish  the  sins  of  nations;  for  he  is  the  Lord  of 
Hosts,  the  Lord  strong  and  mighty,  the  Lord  mighty 
in  battle.  He  has  an  arm  that  is  full  of  power;  his 
hand  is  great  in  might.  It  is  vain  for  a  nation  to 
boast  of  the  vastness  of  its  resources,  the  bravery  of 
its  generals,  and  the  strength  of  its  armies,  when  the 
Lord  is  incensed  against  it  and  comes  against  it  in 
battle.  "There  is  no  king  saved  by  the  multitude 
of  an  host;  a  mighty  man  is  not  delivered  by  much 
strength,"  Psa.  33:  16. 

God  can  and  will  puuish  sin,  whether  committed 
by  individuals  or  associations.  But  associations  of 
men  are  punishable  only  in  the  present  world.  Fam- 
ilies, churches  and  nations  will  not  exist  in  the  fu- 
ture state.  And  there  can  be  no  substitutionary 
atonement  for  the  sins  of  nations  as  there  is  for 
those  of  individuals  who  believe  in  Christ  Hence, 
when  a  nation  sins  it  must  itself  endure  the  penalty, 
and  that  in  the  present  world. 

This  is  indispensably  necessary  in  order  to  vindi- 
cate and  display  the  true  character  of  God  as  a  God 
of  holiness  and  justice.  When  we  see  an  individual 
prospering  in  his  evil  way  and  not  punished  in  the 
present  life,  we  are  at  no  loss  to  reconcile  this  with 
the  justice  of  God,  because  we  know  that  there  is  a 
judgment  after  death,   and   that  the   punishment 


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which  justice  demands,  is  reserved  to  the  future 
state.  But  if  a  wicked  people  or  nation  should  es- 
cape without  punishment  in  the  present  world,  know- 
ing, as  we  do,  that  it  cannot  be  punished  in  the  world 
to  come,  our  faith  with  regard  to  the  righteous  char- 
acter of  God  must  be  staggered,  and  we  must  exclaim, 
"Where  is  the  God  of  judgment?"  But  on  the  other 
hand,  when  God  sends  his  terrible  judgments  upon 
a  wicked  nation,  we  have  a  clear  exhibition  of  his 
character  as  a  sin-hating  and  sin-avenging  God:  for 
"the  Lord  is  known  by  the  judgment  which  he  exe- 
cuteth,"  Psa.  9:  16.  "So  that  a  man  shall  say.  Ver- 
ily, there  is  a  reward  for  the  righteous;  verily,  he  is 
a  God  that  judgeth  in  the  earth,"  Psa.  58:  11. 

2.  That  sin  must  cause  trouble  in  a  nation,  will 
appear  from  a  consideration  of  the  nature  of  sin 
itself.  There  is  a  tendency  in  the  very  nature  of 
sin  to  ruin  and  destroy  a  community  or  nation.  It 
sets  at  naught  that  law  which  God  has  given  as  the 
rule  of  moral  order  and  peace  among  men.  It  per- 
verts authority,  destroys  subordination,  removes 
mutual  confidence,  dissolves  the  ties  that  bind  man- 
kind together,  renders  men  selfish  and  unsocial, 
"hateful  and  hating  one  another."  Social  well-being 
and  happiness  can  never  long  survive  the  death  of 
morality  and  virtue  among  any  people. 

3.  The  history  of  God's  dealings  with  wicked  na- 
tions is  another  evidence  of  the  same  truth.  The 
nations  of  antiquity  that  hold  such  a  prominent 
place  in  the  pages  of  history  all  brought  trouble  and 
ruin  upon  themselves  by  sin.  Read  the  history  of 
ancient  Egypt,  of  Nineveh,  of  Babylon,  of  cultured 
Greece,  of  proud  Rome,  and  you  will  see  that  they 
all  fell  by  their  iniquity;  sin  was  their  ruin.  Wit- 
ness 'Sodom  and  Gomorrah  and  the  cities  about 
them,  giving  themselves  over  to  fornication  and  go- 
ing after  strange  flesh."  And  what  was  the  result? 
Why,  they  "are  set  forth  for  an  example,  suflering 
the  vengeance  of  eternal  fire,"  Jude  7.  Look  at 
God's  own  people,  the  seed  of  Abraham,  and  how 
did  one  judgment  after  another  overtake  them  on 
account  of  sin ;  until  as  the  result  of  their  persever- 
ing impenitence  and  incorrigibleness,  "wrath  came 
upon  them  to  the  uttermost"  and  "the  Romans  came 
and  took  away  both  their  place  and  nation." 

In  conclusion  we  may  learn  from  this  subject  both 
the  cause  and  cure  of  our  national  troubles. 

1.  The  cause  is  sin — national  sin.  As  a  nation 
we  have  forsaken  the  commandments  of  the  Lord. 
As  a  nation  we  have  been  characterized  during  our 
whole  history  by  a  lamentable  disregard  of  divine 
authority  and  a  shameful  ingratitude  for  divine 
goodness.  God  is  the  author  of  national  existence. 
It  was  his  mighty  hand  that  drove  out  the  savage 
aborigines  of  this  country  and  planted  this  nation 
in  their  place.  It  is  true  that  we  have  had  great 
generals  and  wise  statesmen,  who  have  been  promi- 
nent in  the  work  of  securing  and  perpetuating  our 
national  existence,  but  they  were  mere  instruments 
in  the  hand  of  God  for  the  accomplishment  of  his 
kind  purpose.  They  were  his  "battle  axe  and  weap- 
ons of  war,"  Jer.  51:  20.  "We  have  heard  with  our 
ears,  O  God,  our  fathers  have  told  us,  what  work  thou 
didst  in  their  days,  in  the  times  of  old.  How  thou 
didst  drive  out  the  heathen  [savage  Indians]  with 
thy  hand  and  plantedst  them;  how  thou  didst  afflict 
the  people  and  cast  them  out.  For  they  got  not  the 
land  in  possession  by  their  own  sword,  neither  did 
their  own  arm  save  them :  but  thy  right  hand  and 
thine  arm  and  the  light  of  thy  countenance;  because 
thou  hadst  favor  unto  them,"  Psa.  44:  1-4.  And  is 
it  not  strange  that  this  nation,  when  it  at  first  pro- 
claimed its  own  existence  and  its  right  to  a  place 
among  the  nations  of  the  earth,  in  a  written  consti- 
tution, should  have  made  no  mention,  in  that  docu- 
ment, of  its  relation  to  and  dependence  upon  Al- 
mighty God,  as  the  author  of  its  being  and  sourca 
of  its  mercies? 

Again,  the  Scriptures  clearly  teach  that  God  is  the 
source  of  all  power  and  authority  in  a  nation,  Rom. 
13,  1,  and  reason  confirms  the  same  fact;  for  if  all 
men  are  by  nature  equal,  how  can  one  man  have 
authority  to  rule  over  others,  except  it  be  given  him 
from  heaven.  All  civil  authority  is  derived  from 
and  limited  by  the  authority  of  God. 

And  again,  it  is  equally  evident  from  the  Scrip- 
tures that  God  has  given  to  his  Son  Jesus  Christ,  as 
mediator,  universal  dominion  over  all  men  and  all 
nations,  John  17:  2;  Eph.  1:  22,  and  that  the  will  of 
God  as  revealed  by  Christ  in  the  sacred  Scriptures 
is  the  supreme  rule  of  right  and  wrong,  and  the 
moral  basis  upon  which  all  human  laws  must  be 
founded  in  order  to  be  valid.  All  laws  in  conflict 
with  the  revealed  will  of  God  are  violences  and  not 
laws.  And  is  it  not  strange  that  this  Christian  na- 
tion in  its  written  Constitution  and  fundamental 
law  should  recognize  no  source  of  civil  authority 
higher  than  "we  the  people  of  the  United  States," 
and  no  law  higher  than  what  "we  the  people  '  or  a 


majority  of  us  may  choose  to  enact?  According  to 
this  atheistic  document,  all  authority  in  this  nation 
is  of  itself,  and  all  its  responsibility  is  to  itself.  And 
while  this  fundamental  law  is  at  variance  with  the 
Christian  character  of  the  nation  and  with  its  Chris- 
tian institutions  and  laws,  it  has  a  powerful  tendency 
to  transform  and  mold  the  nation  into  its  own  like- 
ness. It  not  only  fails  to  throw  the  shield  of  legal 
protection  around  our  Christian  institutions,  cus- 
toms, and  laws,  but  fosters  and  encourages  that 
spirit  of  political  atheism  which  is  so  prevalent  in 
our  country;  I  mean  that  spirit  which  manifests  it- 
self by  a  practical  disregard  of  the  authority  of  God 
in  all  political  matters. 

And  how  is  it  in  our  country  at  the  present  time? 
Does  not  iniquity  abound?  Is  not  open  and  gross 
immorality  practiced  with  impunity?  The  public 
desecration  of  the  Lord's  day  is  not  only  tolerated 
but  sanctioned  by  law.  And  murder  in  numerous 
cases  goes  unpunished.  Blood  defiles  the  land  and 
cries  to  God  for  vengeance.  Hence  God  is  j  udicially 
giving  up  many  of  the  inhabitants  of  our  country  to 
blindness  of  mind  and  hardness  of  heart.  Nihilism, 
socialism  and  secretism  are  forming  their  unhal- 
lowed combinations  in  opposition  to  all  law  and  au- 
thority; and  the  nation  is  agitated  and  terrorized 
by  a  spirit  of  lawlessness  and  anarchy.  And  is  it 
not  just  that  a  nation  which  disregards  and  casts  ofi 
divine  authority  should  itself  be  troubled  by  those 
who  disregard  national  authority? 

Moreover,  God  is  troubling  our  nation  by  outward 
judgments.  It  is  not  long  since  he  sent  a  fearful 
earthquake  to  destroy  one  of  our  Southern  cities; 
and  how  often  does  he  commission  the  terrific  cyclone 
to  do  its  work  of  destruction  in  various  parts  of  our 
country.  On  this,  however,  we  cannot  dwell.  But 
what  is  the  cure  for  our  national  troubles?  We  an- 
swer: 

2.  It  is  national  repentance.  Let  this  nation  turn 
to  God.  Let  it  recognize  his  supreme  authority  in 
its  fundamental  law,  and  let  all  laws  which  are  in 
conflict  with  his  revealed  will  be  aibolished.  Let  the 
legalized  violation  of  the  Sabbath,  by  carrying  the 
United  States  mail  on  that  day,  be  abolished,  and  let 
its  public  desecration  by  railroad  companies, 
wealthy  corporations  and  pleasure-seeking  parties, 
be  suppressed.  Let  the  traffic  in  intoxicating  liq- 
uors be  no  longer  sanctioned,  but  prohibited  by  law. 
And  let  the  government  be  so  administered  as  to  be 
a  punishment  to  evil  doers.  And  then  we  may  ex- 
pect deliverance  from  national  trouble;  then  "our 
light  shall  break  forth  as  the  morning,  and  our 
health  shall  spring  forth  speedily,"  Isa.  58:  8,  But 
without  this  national  reformation,  vain  will  be  all 
the  wisdom  of  politicians  and  legislators  in  regula- 
ting tariffs  and  adjusting  differences  between  capital 
and  labor.  Without  the  moralizing  influence  of  a 
civil  Sabbath  and  with  the  demoralizing  influence  of 
a  legalized  saloon,  labor  will  still  be  more  lawless 
and  capital  more  oppressive.  Nor  will  the  triumph 
of  any  political  party  in  a  contest  with  respect  to 
mere  secular  issues  be  of  any  avail.  The  vital  issues 
in  this  nation  are  not  secular  but  moral  and  relig- 
ious. In  order  to  save  this  country,  we  must  have 
the  triumph  of  a  party  that  will  have  inscribed  upon 
its  banner,  For  God  and  his  law  and  for  the  crown 
rights  of  King  Jesus. 


"Take  care  of  the  truth,"  said  Dean  Stanley,  "and 
the  errors  will  take  care  of  themselves."  Not  ex- 
actly, at  least  not  in  the  sense  the  Dean  intends. 
Truth  often  requires  to  be  stated  negatively  as  well 
as  positively;  otherwise  error  steals  its  garb  and 
takes  its  place.  Even  so  good  a  man  as  John  New- 
ton said,  "If  I  fill  the  measure  with  wheat,  how  vain 
will  it  be  for  anyone  else  to  fill  it  with  chaff."  But 
just  that  thing  was  done,  and  Newton's  successor 
had  a  fierce  contest  with  all  sorts  of  erroneous  views 
which  had  crept  into  the  parish.  Error  will  not  only 
take  care  of  itself,  but  will  constantly  grow  wider 
and  deeper,  and  therefore  needs  to  be  exposed, 
kindly  indeed,  but  clearly  and  persistently.  Nor  is 
this  any  loss,  for  often  truth  is  most  plainly  set 
forth  when  contrasted  with  its  opposite. —  Christian 
Intelligencer. 

An  inmate  of  the  Des  Plains  St.  police  station 
told  Bro.  Blatchly  the  other  day,  that  he  went  home 
a  few  days  before,  found  his  wife  dead  drunk  on 
the  bed  and  her  seven-months  old  babe  by  her  side. 
His  pocket-book,  containing  all  that  was  left  of  his 
wages,  lay  open  on  the  table  and  the  doors  of  the 
house  were  all  open.  He  seized  the  purse,  saying 
if  any  more  money  was  spent  for  liquor,  he  was 
going  to  do  it,  and  went  to  the  saloons.  He  remem- 
bered no  more  until  he  awoke  in  the  cell  of  the 
station. 

There  are  now  nearly  three  hundred  Prohibition 
party  papers  in  this  country. 


Reform  news. 


TEE  CAMPAIGN  AT  THB  CAPITOL. 


THE   BAPTIST   ANNIVJtRSARIES. 


Washington,  May  18,  1888. 

Dear  Cynosure: — I  visited  the  Baptist  Confer- 
ence this  afternoon,  and  in  about  one  hour's  time 
gave  out  fully  1,000  tracts.  They  were  well  re- 
ceived with  very  rare  exceptions.  One  brother 
thought  I  had  better  be  preaching  Christ.  Another 
asked  if  I  had  authority  to  do  that  work.  I  said,  "I 
am  here  by  permission  of  the  pastor  of  this  church." 
A  third  said,  "You  are  a  crank.  I  know  you;  you 
came  to  our  town  and  lectured  for  my  special  ben- 
efit. You  told  a  story  about  a  goat.  I  don't  want 
to  talk  to  you,"  etc.  I  expressed  a  desire  to  talk 
with  him  when  he  was  not  in  so  great  haste.  He 
replied,  "I  never  want  to  see  you  again  until  we 
meet  in  heaven."  The  ladies  were  particularly  in- 
terested in  tract  No.  4,  and  some  returned  to  ask 
"one  for  a  friend."  I  met  several  elderly  men  who 
knew  Nathaniel  Colver  and  David  Bernard,  and  one 
venerable  man  said,  "I  once  belonged  to  a  lodge  of 
Know  Nothings  with  Millard  Fillmore,  but  never 
joined  any  other  order." 

Bro.  Jackson  says  he  has  refrained  from  writing 
for  the  Cynosure  for  good  reasons,  but  added,  "You 
can  have  no  idea  of  the  amount  of  good  that  paper 
is  doing  in  New  Orleans  and  among  our  people  in 
the  South."  At  the  conclusion  of  our  conference  he 
said,  "If  your  society  can  spend  any  money  in  the 
South  I  hope  you  will  devote  it  largely  to  sending 
the  Cynosure  to  the  colored  ministers.  They  need 
it  and  will  read  it,  and  it  will  do  great  good." 
When  I  mentioned  to  him  our  work  here,  and  that  I 
was  talking  of  an  industrial  school,  with  perhaps  a 
meeting  for  the  mothers,  I  was  pleased  to  learn  that 
he  is  now  at  work  starting  the  very  same  thing  in 
his  church  at  New  Orleans.  With  several  other 
brethren  from  the  South  he  purposes,  before  leaving 
the  city,  to  call  at  the  N.  C.  A.  office  for  further  con- 
sultation. This  is  certainly  a  center  with  a  vast  ra- 
dius. I  have  talked  with  ministers  to-day  from 
Maine,  Massachusetts,  New  York,  Louisiana,  Flori- 
da, Texas,  Georgia,  Alabama,  Tennessee,  Minnesota, 
Pennsylvania,  and  how  many  more  States  I  know 
not,  but  I  rest  from  my  labors  to-night  in  the  belief 
that  our  literature  has  been  started  on  its  way  to 
some  point  in  every  State  in  this  Union,  and  in 
some  States  to  many  points.  May  "God  give  the 
increase." 

May  23,  1888. — The  Baptist  missionary  conven- 
tion closed  last  evening  with  the  graduating  exer- 
cise of  Wayiand  Seminary,  held  in  the  Congrega- 
tional church.  The  audience  was  large,  and  occu- 
pied seats  without  distinction  of  "race  color  or 
previous  condition."  Among  those  conspicuous  on 
the  platform  was  the  cheerful,  intelligent  face  of 
Frederick  Douglass.  After  distributing  a  few 
tracts  I  went  to  Willard's  Hotel  to  hear  Dr.  J.  T. 
Fulton  on  "The  Nun  and  the  Convent."  The  Dr. 
has  been  here  nearly  a  week,  speaking  in  hired 
halls,  as  he  said  no  church  in  the  city  was  open  to 
him.  He  spoke  very  kindly  of  his  brethren  in  the 
ministry,  but  deeply  regretted  that  they  had  not  the 
courage  to  say  publicly  what  they  would  freely  ad- 
mit to  him  in  private.  His  arraignment  of  Rome 
was  severe,  and  the  facts,  with  names  and  dates  and 
how  he  came  in  possession  of  them,  were  appalling. 
He  relies  on  collections,  contributions  and  the  sale 
of  his  books  for  meeting  expenses.and  reports  a  gen- 
erous response  hitherto.  He  was  glad  to  know 
something  of  our  work  here,  and  bade  the  cause  of 
anti-secrecy  a  hearty  God-speed,  but  has  his  own 
hands  full  with  his  special  work.  I  hops  to  see  his 
face  at  No.  215  before  he  leaves  the  city. 

KNIGHTS   OF   THE   GOLDEN   EAGLE. 

An  article  in  this  morning's  Post  begins  with  the 
suggestive  statement: 

"Clad  in  plain  citizins'  attira,  over  3,000  delegates  to 
the  Baptist  Convention  came  to  Washington  and  mingled 
with  the  city's  throng,  unobserved  except  for  their  guide 
books  and  their  sight-seeing  propensities.  Yesterday, 
however,  when  a  few  thousand  Knights  of  the  Golden 
Eagle  reached  Washington  to  inaugurate  the  session  of 
the  Supreme  Castle  with  a  parade,  a  ball  and  a  banquet, 
their  showy  uniforms  made  their  presence  conspicuous 
on  the  streets."  *  *  *  As  the  parade  moved  up  the 
Avenue  it  was  viewed  by  thousands  of  people  who 
thronged  the  Avenue  nearly  to  the  car  tracks.  "At  the 
Whit-j  House,  the  line  passed  in  review  before  the  Prasi- 
dent,  who  acknowledged  the  salutes  of  the  various  com- 
panies as  they  passed  by  raising  his  hat." 

The  number  in  attendance  seems  to  have  been,  as 
given  by  the  papers,  a  litole  greater  than  at  the  con- 
vention, but  judged  by  appearancjs  they  were  men 
of  vary  different  character  and  purposes.  No  spec- 
ial effort  was  required  to  ascertain  the  purpose  of 


May  31,  1888 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


the  convention,  but  I  sought  in  vain  for  any  one 
who  could  give  me  an  intelligent  account  of  the 
K.  G.  E.s  or  a  reason  for  its  existence.  In  reply  to 
my  interrogations  I  was  repeatedly  told  that  it  was 
a  "beneficial  order,"  and  that  was  about  all  the  most 
intelligent  looking  member  knew,  or  at  least  was 
willing  to  say.  I  said,  "I  see  you  have  swords,  and 
you  have  the  appearance  of  a  military  rather  than  a 
religious  or  beneficial  order.  This  looks  to  an  out- 
sider more  like  a  second  rebellion  in  its  inception 
than  like  a  simple  association  of  citizens  for  lawful 
and  peaceful  purposes."  I  saw  that  the  man  was 
getting  nervous,  and  I  turned  away,  saying,  "I  fear 
this  Government  will  yet  have  to  meet  and  put  down 
a  more  formidable  enemy  in  the  secret  lodge  em- 
pire than  it  did  in  the  late  slave-holders'  rebellion." 

I  went  around  to  "Rifles  Armory,"  hoping  to 
learn  something  more  of  this  "benefit  order,"  at 
their  dance  and  banquet,  but  found  the  approach 
guarded  by  six  stalwart  policemen,  and  a  notice 
pasted  conspicuously:  "Purchase  tickets  here  before 
entering  the  hall,"  and  so  turned  away.  The  papers 
say  it  was  a  brilliant  affair.  Commissioner  W.  B. 
Webb  made  a  speech  of  welcome  in  behalf  of  the 
District.  The  performance,  with  variations,  of  ex- 
cursions, theatrical  benefits,  and  secret  sessions  of 
the  Supreme  Council,  is  to  go  on  until  Friday  night. 

I  look  upon  this  miserable,  pompous  farce  as  the 
devil's  invention  and  agency  tor  neutralizing  so  far 
as  possible  the  good  work  done  and  serious  impres- 
sions made  by  the  band  of  noble,  self-denying,  God- 
fearing men  and  women  who  composed  the  Baptist 
missionary  convention  just  closed  in  this  city.  Let 
us  pray  that  the  devil's  purpose  may  be  defeated. 

INCIDENTS, 

While  writing  at  my  desk  in  the  evening,  with  the 
blinds  open  on  the  street,  my  attention  was  attracted 
by  the  remark,  "Here!  this  is  the  place."  Looking 
in  through  the  window,  one  of  the  men  read  the 
placards  exposed  on  the  wall,  in  a  clear  and  distinct 
voice:  "All  secret,  oath-bound  political  parties  are 
dangerous  to  any  nation." —  U.  S.  Grant.  "Every 
good  citizen  should  make  war  on  all  secret  socie- 
ties."—  Wendell  Fhillips.  Then  they  passed  on. 
Whether  friends  or  foes  I  know  not,  nor  do  I  care  to 
know.  They  understand  the  nature  of  our  work 
here. 

An  elderly  lady  to  whom  I  handed  tracts  Nos. 
4  and  10,  at  the  Baptist  Convention  said,  "I  am 
from  Massachusetts.  I  knew  Dr.  Pease  well.  He 
was  once  my  pastor,  and  we  all  esteemed  him' very 
highly."  She  was,  of  course,  an  Anti-mason  and 
fi;lad  to  know  of  our  work. 

Dr.  Fulton  has  a  special  agent  at  the  convention 
selling  his  two  books  on  Eomanism.  In  commend- 
ing them  to  my  notice  he  remarked,  "The  Catholic 
Hierarchy  is  not  a  church,  it's  a  great  lodge."  I 
replied,  "You  are  probably  correct;  but  it  is  not  the 
only  lodge  against  which  we  as  Christians  have  to 
contend.  The  Catholic  lodge  acknowledges  Christ 
and  teaches  the  atonement,  while  the  Masonic  lodge 
rejects  both." 

There  have  been  some  very  able  addresses  de- 
livered during  the  convention,  in  which  the  princi- 
ples of  our  reform  were  clearly  set  forth.  Oae  gen- 
tleman from  Kentucky  closed  his  plea  for  a  higher 
Christian  education  in  nearly  these  words:  ''Let  us 
embody  a  character  and  life  in  our  educational  sys- 
tem that  needs  no  caves  or  caverns  of  secrecy  to 
hide  its  deformity ;  but  that  can  and  will  walk  forth 
under  the  glittering  stars  at  night,  and  stand  erect 
under  the  meridian  blaze  of  the  sun  in  his  zenith, 
challenging  the  criticisms  of  foe  and  friend  alike. 
Let  it  be  anchored  in  Christ  and  rooted  in  the  hearts 
as  well  as  grounded  in  the  heads  of  the  young  men 
and  women  we  are  training  for  Christ's  kingdom  on 
earth  and  in  heaven."  An  immense  audience  re- 
sponded with  prolonged  applause  and  hearty  amens. 

The  N.  C.  A.  is  indebted  to  Hon.  S.  C.  Pomeroy 
for  a  suitable  and  substantial  office  desk  for  its 
Washington  headquarters.  Many  thanks  for  the 
desk  and  expressions  of  continued  good  will. 

Bro.  Ford  called  early  this  morning.  He  is  just 
as  enthusiastic  as  ever,  and  said,  "If  at  any  time 
you  should  get  short  of  funds,  I  most  always  have 
a  little  that  I  could  loan  you  without  interest."  At 
our  Prohibition  Convention  last  evening  we  elected 
Bro.  Johnston  of  the  American  and  Mrs.  McPher- 
son  to  go  to  Indianapolis  as  alternates. 

J.  P.  Stoddabd. 


Shiloh  Baptist  church  last  Sabbath  on  "Human 
Slavery."  He  proposes  to  preach  three  of  the 
above  sermons,  in  which  the  secret  empire  will  get 
all  it  wants,  as  Bro.  Green  is  a  seceding  Odd-fellow. 

The  principal  Republican,  Masonic,  Odd-fellow 
journal  of  New  Orleans,  said  editorially  of  the  pa- 
rade of  the  Odd-fellows  of  the  tenth  inst.:  "The 
Grand  United  Order  of  Odd  fellows  celebrated  their 
twenty-second  anniversary  of  the  introduction  of 
the  order  in  Louisiana,  on  last  Thursday,  the  tenth 
inst.,  with  a  grand  parade  through  the  main  thorough- 
fares of  the  city,  and  a  picnic  at  the  fair  grounds; 
the  parade  was  particularly  excellent,  over  1,500 
men  being  in  line.  A  large  number  of  people,  white 
and  black,  visited  the  same."  It  don't  seem  strange 
at  all  for  the  lodge  to  make  a  small  mistake  of  1,322. 
Although  there  were  only  178  men  in  uniform,  both 
in  carriages,  horse-back  and  on  foot,  the  lodge  mul- 
tiplies it  to  1,500.  I  don't  see  how  the  Pelican  can 
believe  its  own  statement. 

A  reader  of  the  Ct/nosure  said  his  employer  took 
more  care  to  read  his  paper  than  he  did  himself,  al- 
though his  employer  is  an  Odd-fellow,  and  says, 
"That  paper  is  no  goot;  it  talks  against  the  Ott- 
fellows."  Yet  he  takes  care  to  read  it.  We  trust 
he  may  be  convinced  of  the  evil  of  secretism,  and 
renounce  it. 

I  attended  services  at  Winan's  Chapel  M.  E. 
church.  Rev.  J.  W.  Hilton,  pastor,  Thursday  at  8 
p.  M.  This  is  the  third  largest  M.  E.  colored  church 
in  the  city.  Bro.  Hilton  preached  an  interesting 
sermon  from  Gen.  19:  17:  "Escape  for  thy  life." 
The  elder  spoke  very  courageously  and  plainly  of 
Lot's  difficulties  in  Sodom  and  Gomorrah.  He  said 
although  Lot  had  lived  there  many  years  his  influ- 
ence as  a  Christian  was  not  enough  to  even  convince 
his  wife  and  sons-in-law  that  God  would  destroy  the 
city.  We  trust  that  elder  Hilton  will  compare  Lot 
as  a  minister  of  God  in  Sodom  with  J.  W.  Hilton 
and  other  ministers  in  the  secret  lodges,  and  believe 
that  their  influence  in  the  lodge  will  be  like  unto 
Lot's  in  Sodom.  F.  J.  Davidson. 


WS8TBBN  OHIO   GALLED  OqT. 


FROM  THS   aOUTHBRN  WORE. 

New  OfiLEANS,  La.,  May  19,  1888. 

Dea#  Cynosurb:— I  have  been  somewhat  unwell 

this  wtek  and  not  able  to  lecture  or  preach,  but 

have  distributed  tracts  and  done  some  canvassing. 

Rev.  H.  C.  Green  begun  a   series  of  sermons  at 


who  lived  near  New  Madison.  Bro.  Myers  is  a  "lib- 
eral" and  Bro.  Long  was  a  "radical,"  as  they  are 
termed  among  the  brethren.  That  is,  Bro.  Myers 
is  in  favor  of  doing  away  with  the  law  on  secrecy  in 
the  church,  and  takes  in  secretists  accordingly;  while 
Bro.  Long  was  in  favor  of  retaining  the  rule  as  it 
has  stood.  I  was  kindly  entertained  at  Bro.  Long's 
over  a  year  ago,  and  observed  him  to  be  a  devoted 
Christian  man. 

I  took  six  subscriptions  to  the  Cynoture  among 
friends  at  Union  City.  Bro.  Bennett  was  my  right- 
hand  man  there.  He  is  one  of  the  old-style  United 
Brethren  preachers,  who  enjoys  his  religion  as  he 
goes  along.  He  kindly  accompanied  me  some  fif- 
teen miles  around  the  country.  He  is  to  meet  me  at 
Lightsviile  on  Sabbath  and  take  charge  of  me  till 
after  the  Union  City  meeting.  He  is  seventy-eight 
years  of  age,  but  quite  active.  Rev.  B.  G.  Schmo- 
grow,  pastor  of  the  Lutheran  church  in  Union  City, 
showed  me  much  kindness,  subscribed  for  our  paper 
and  persuaded  one  of  his  members  to  do  the  same. 
This  community  is  largely  Catholic.  The  terrible 
curse  of  whisky  and  popery  is  everywhere  manifest. 
Debauched  and  degraded  humanity  may  be  every- 
where seen.  Forlorn-looking  young  men  flock 
around  the  saloons  like  hungry  hogs  around  a  buck- 
et of  swill. 

I  have  been  very  much  interested  in  reading  Bro. 
Countee's  experience  in  joining  and  leaving  the 
lodge  as  published  in  the  Cynosure  of  May  10th.  If 
it  was  published  in  tract  form  and  sent  broadcast 
among  the  colored  people  I  believe  it  would  do  a 
vast  amount  of  good.  If  it  is  published  in  that  way 
you  can  count  on  me  for  two  dollars  to  help  in  the 
expense.  W.  B.  Stoddard. 


Cold  Water,  May  24,  1888. 

Dear  Cynosure: — For  more  than  a  week  past  I 
have  been  getting  things  in  battle  array.  I  have 
visited  a  dozen  or  more  towns  in  this  section  and 
have  arranged  for  about  that  number  of  meetings. 
My  appointments  are  as  follows:  To-night  in  the 
College  here;  to-morrow  evening,  if  arrangements 
are  made,  with  United  Brethren  friends  at  Montezu- 
ma; Sabbath  I  spend  with  Mennonite  brethren  at 
Lightsviile;  Monday  evening  I  speak  at  Waterhouse 
Chapel  in  the  country;  Tuesday  evening,  in  the  Uni- 
versalist  church.  Union  City,  Ind.;  Thursday  even- 
ing. May  3l8t,  in  the  United  Brethren  church,  West 
Mansfield,  Logan  county;  Friday  evening,  Mt.  Pleas- 
ant, United  Brethren  church,  or  again  at  West  Mans- 
field. The  2d,  3d  and  4th  of  June  I  work  with  the 
Christians  at  Raymonds,  Union  county.  Brother 
Harrington  is  arranging  meetings  there.  I  go  next 
to  North  Lewisburgh,  Champaign  county.  Brother 
Wm.  J.  Thornberry,  minister  of  the  Friends  at  that 
place,  subscribed  for  the  Cynosure  as  I  came  through, 
and  expressed  a  willingness  to  arrange  meetings  or 
help  in  any  way  he  could.  I  have  written  him  to 
have  meetings  prepared  for  the  fifth  and  thereafter. 

I  trust  all  friends  in  the  vicinity  of  any  of  the 
appointments  will  "take  due  notice  and  govern  them- 
selves accordingly." 

I  hope  to  reach  Columbus  again  by  the  8th  of 
June.  In  the  meantime  Mrs.  Stoddard  will  be  glad 
to  cancel  the  indebtedness  of  all  those  whom  I  have 
trusted  for  their  subscriptions  to  the  Cynosure,  whoso 
payment  is  due.  This  general  notice  I  trust  will  be 
sufficient  without  my  writing  especially  to  each  one. 
I  took  ten  new  subscriptions  yesterday. 

I  found  a  warm  friend  of  our  cause  at  Versailles, 
Darke  county,  in  Bro.  T.  Simpkins.  He  is  a  great 
bother  to  the  secretists  in  that  place.  He  was  liv- 
ing in  Vineland,  N.  J.,  at  the  time  Pres.  Charles  A. 
Blanchard  came  there,  lectured  against  the  lodge, 
and  was  mobbed  by  the  same.  Ho  was  then  a  groat 
lodger,  belonging  to  the  Masons  and  Knights  of 
Pythias.  But  since  God  has  graciously  forgiven  his 
sins  he  has  cleansed  him,  as  he  says,  "from  secrecy, 
tobacco  and  whisky."  He  is  now  a  happy  Chris- 
tian, belongs  to  the  Wesley  an  Metho<^liet  church, 
and  run  a  camp  meeting  last  summer  in  the  woods 
near  his  home.  He  subscribed  for  the  Cynosure  and 
will  arrange  for  meetings  when  1  can  come  that  way 
again. 

I  filled  the  United  Brethren  pulpit  at  Union  City 
last  Sabbath  in  the  absence  of  the  pastor.  Rev.  Myers, 
who  was  called  away  to  preach  the  funeral  sermon 
of  Rev.  Long,  a  former  United  Brethren  preacher 


GROWTH  AT  CAMP  NBLSON,  KY. 


Camp  Nelson,  Ky.,  May  18,  1888. 

Dear  Cynosure:— Leaving  Washington  on  the 
14th,  the  pleasant  and  fast  train  of  the  Chesapeake 
and  Ohio  railroad  brought  me  south  to  Charlotte- 
ville,  Va.,  across  the  Shenandoah  Valley,  over  the 
mountains,  with  their  magnificent  views,  down  the 
picturesque  Greenbrier,  New  and  Kanaway  rivers  to 
the  Ohio,  and  then  across  to  Lexington,  Ky.  Con- 
fessedly no  agricultural  region  in  America  has  so 
much  both  of  beauty  and  fertility  as  this  Blue- 
grass  country  of  Kentucky,  and  surely  there  could 
be  no  more  favorable  time  to  see  it  than  in  this 
beautiful  month  of  May. 

From  Lexington,  after  a  few  hours,  I  went  south 
to  Nicholasville,  stopping  at  the  fine  Hotel  Nicholas, 
where  I  remained  until  noon  the  next  day,  and  then 
took  the  stage  seven  miles  to  Camp  Nelson.  There 
I  was  most  kindly  received  by  Bro.  J.  G.  and  Mrs. 
Fee,  who  were  on  a  visit  in  the  interest  of  Camp 
Nelson  Academy. 

Camp  Nelson  is  a  village  on  a  horse-shoe  bend  of 
the  Kentucky  river,  and  made  up  exclusively  of  col- 
ored people.  It  is  slowly  increasing  in  population, 
and  the  citizens  are  becoming  mainly  the  owners  of 
the  homes  in  which  they  live.  There  has  been  a 
considerable  improvement  since  I  was  here  in  the 
spring  of  1882.  There  is  no  dram  shop  or  secret 
society  in  the  place.  A  few,  within  a  year  past, 
have  joined  the  Knights  of  Labor,  but  I  think  all 
have  dropped  out 

There  has  been,  during  the  past  winter,  a  marked 
revival  of  religion  resulting  in  the  hopeful  conver- 
sion of  sixty-eight  persons.  The  church  is  evangel- 
ical, independent  and  undenominational.  It  makes 
the  use  of  intoxicating  drinks  and  connection  with 
the  secret  lodge  system  a  b.ir  to  membership.  It 
has  in  the  past  enjoyed  the  pastoral  labors  of  Polders 
J.  G.  Fee,  J.  F.  Browne  and  several  local  ministers. 

Camp  Nelson  Academy  has  a  fine  new  building, 
not  quite  finished  on  the  inside,  but  occupied  and 
under  the  care  of  Miss  Mary  Robe,  a  devoted  Chris- 
tian worker  who,  without  the  promise  of  reward, 
devotes  her  time  to  evangelical  and  reform  work. 
The  old  church  building,  though  in  much  better  con- 
dition than  six  years  ago,  is  going  to  decay,  and 
must  be  supplanted  by  a  new  one.  This,  the  Chris- 
tian people  of  the  place  have  undertaken  to  do,  and, 
having  secured  an  excellent  location,  are  about  to 
lay  the  foundations  of  a  house  of  worship  about  40 
by  tiO  feet  They  will  need  aid  in  so  important  an 
undertaking,  as  they  are  all  poor.  I  most  heartily 
commend  their  work  to  the  Christian  sympathies  of 
the  benevolent 

Camp  Nelson  Academy  has  quite  recently  applied 
to  the  legislature  of  Kentucky  to  change  its  consti- 
tution so  that  no  trustee  or  teacher  shall  have  mem- 
bership in  any  secret  order,  or  that  the  tenure  of  its 
property  shall  ever  bo  endangered  by  mortgage  for 
money  borrowed  or  other  debts.  This  memorial 
was  put  into  the  hands  of  a  Masonic  member  of  the 
legislature,  who,  as  a  member  of  the  committee  to 


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:?HE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


May  31, 1888 


which  it  was  referred,  reported  against  it  because  of 
its  anti-secrecy  feature.  The  same  end,  however, 
has  been  obtained  by  the  adoption  of  by-laws.  The 
Academy,  besides  its  building  and  ample  grounds, 
owns  a  valuable  farm  of  120  acres  of  land,  which  is, 
and  will  be,  a  source  of  income. 

I  was  glad  to  be  able  to  give  a  lecture  and  a  ser- 
mon on  the  evenings  of  the  16th  and  17th  inst.  and 
to  know  that  I  had  the  warm  sympathy  of  these 
simple-hearted,  but  faithful  Christian  people.  I 
went  there  with  the  determination  of  resigning  my 
office  as  trustee  of  the  Academy.  I  became  con- 
vinced that  it  was  both  a  responsibility  and  an  honor 
from  which  I  had  no  right  to  shrink. 

H.    H.   HiNMAN. 


gave  it  the  proper  designation  when  he  called  it 
"desecration  day." 

At  the  close  of  the  war  the  Jesuits  and  Masons 
went  into  the  business  of  outwitting  and  hoodwink- 
ing Union  soldiers  and  sailors  and  their  sons.  How 
well  they  are  succeeding  can  be  seen  by  the  great 
lodge  circus  performances  which  the  American  peo- 
ple are  now  about  "to  behold.    Yours  truly, 

Edward  J.  Chalpant. 


Correspondence. 


BRO.  COUNTBB'8  HBALTH  FAILING. 

Memphis,  May  18,  1888. 
Editor  Christian  Ctnosctre: — I  enclose  to  you 
a  few  thoughts  concerning  our  work  here  in  Mem- 
phis. "We  have  met  the  enemy  and  he  is  ours,"  is 
an  apt  quotation  to  the  state  of  affairs  here.  In 
every  turn  of  the  city  it  can  be  plainly  seen  that  se- 
cret lodgism  is  on  the.decline;  materially  so.  Praise 
the  Lord. 

I  have  not  written  you  lately  because  of  my  phys- 
ical condition.  I  am  completely  broken  down.  I 
have  been  for  the  last  three  years  preaching  the 
Gospel  for  my  Master  with  all  of  my  soul — a  rock 
of  offence  to  the  lodgites.  My  whole  work  has  been 
against  the  natural  tendency  of  the  people,  who 
serve  principally  the  gods  of  this  world.  I  have 
been,  through  much  opposition,  striving  to  go  up  hill, 
the  people  down;  to  get  my  church  people  from  un- 
der the  influence  of  worldly  associations  has  been  a 
task  of  both  soul  and  body.  Few  are  aware  of  the 
trials  and  perplexities  of  a  colored  minister  in  the 
South. 

I  am,  not  yet  on  Pisgah's  top,  but  we  have  no  se- 
cretist,  as  you  know,  with  whom  we  commune  in 
church  fellowship.  The  caring  for  the  sick  and 
burying  of  the  dead  is  a  very  heavy  work.  I  have 
had  all  of  this  to  look  after,  and  as  a  result  I  am 
completely  broken  down  in  health.  For  the  last 
two  months  I  have  been  unable  to  keep  on  my  feet 
a  whole  week,  and  this  week  I  have  been  down 
nearly  every  other  day.  I  feel  sometimes  that  my 
work  is  nearly  done.  But  thanks  be  to  God  the 
lamp  is  burning.  I  feel  that  I  would  like  to  go  to 
New  Orleans  once  more;  but  unless  through  God's 
grace  I  can  get  some  mountain  air  during  the  hot 
months  of  summer,  I  fear  I  shall  be  on  the  other 
side  before  1888  rolls  away.  It  is  a  fact  that  the 
lodges  regret  very  much  their  attack  on  me,  as  it 
has  undermined  their  foundations.  I  never  let  up; 
I  preach  now  just  as  hard  against  them  as  I  did  in 
the  days  when  danger  was  standing  thick,  and  the 
air  was  pregnant  with  threats.  I  have  been  able  to 
preach  only  four  times  since  March  1st.  I  need 
rest,  but  have  nothing  to  rest  on.  I  have  been  two 
days  writing  this  much,  and  now  I  must  close. 

May  God  bless  you  and  all  the  dear  readers  of 
the  Cynoture.  May  the  good  work  go  on  until  every 
secret  clan  shall  be  swept  out  of,  and  from  among 
the  people  of  the  Lord  our  God,  and  the  church  of 
Christ  all  over  the  world  shall  be  free  indeed, 
Amen.     Yours  for  heaven,  R.  N.  Countm. 

HOODWINKING  UNION  80LDIBRB. 

York,  Pa. 

■Editors  Cynosure: — During  the  war  a  large 
Union  hospital  was  maintained  at  this  city.  Many 
soldiers  who  died  here  were  buried  in  the  soldiers' 
lot  in  Prospect  Hill  Cemetery,  which  also  contains 
a  very  superior  soldiers'  monument. 

For  a  number  of  years  the  G.  A.  II.  and  citizens 
have  placed  flowers  upon  the  soldiers'  graves  on 
Decoration  Day.  But  as  the  .Jesuits  make  it  a  rule 
to  advance  their  projects  by  degrees,  we  are  now  to 
l)thold  a  great  improvement,  for  the  G.  A.  R.  tad- 
pole has  developed  into  a  regular  secret-society  bull 
frog,  and  we  expect  to  hear  very  loud  croaking 
about  the  brave  soldiers  who  died  fighting  against 
J«-U  Davis's  Royal  Arch  Confederacy.  The  York 
DUpatch  of  May  1  says:  "A  number  of  societies 
and  aHsociations  have  already  accepted  the  invita- 
tion of  the  Decoration  Day  Committee  of  Post  37, 
G.  A.  R.,  to  take  part  in  the  Memorial  Day  observ- 
ances, and  from  present  indications  the  parade  to 
the  cemetery  on  May  30th  this  year  will  be  the 
largest  and  finest  ever  witnessed  in  York  on  a  simi- 
lar occasion."  The  "societies"  here  referred  to  are 
our  local  secret  orders,  and  some  in  other  cities  and 
neighboring  towns.  "The  day  being  reconstructed 
into  a  great  secret  society  show  day,  Gen.  Phelps 


A  WORD  MORS  ON  THB  "BLUB  AND  GRAY." 

Quakkrtown,  Ind. 

Editor  Cynosure: — "Mac,"  in  your  May  17th 
issue,  has,  to  my  mind,  more  the  smack  of  a  party 
politician  than  the  humble  philanthropist,  refreshed 
from  the  fountains  of  truth.  A  reunion 
of  the  soldiers  of  the  "Blue  and  of  the 
Gray"  in  the  personification  of  the  bloody 
carnage  of  war,  is  not  a  desirable  way  for  a  penitent 
South  and  a  noble  North  to  grasp  hands  in  fraternal 
friendship.  Let  the  Union  be  upon  the  humility  of 
a  Christian  platform  embracing  the  precious  doctrine 
taught  by  the  Redeemer,  "Whosoever  shall  smite 
thee  on  thy  right  cheek,  turn  to  him  the  other  also." 

It  is  high  time  that  professors  of  religion  and  the 
Bible  had  ceased  to  dishonor  its  teachings  of  love 
and  forgiveness,  by  a  hostile  demonstration  of  war 
in  its  mission  of  mercy  and  redemption  to  a  fallen 
and  sin-cursed  world. 

Let  "Mac,"  as  well  as  your  humble  correspondent, 
be  willing  to  bow  at  the  mercy-seat  of  the  Most 
High  and  seek  that  wisdom,  not  of  the  earth,  earthy, 
but  from  above,  that  will  enable  us  to  put  off  the 
old  man  Adam  and  be  clothed  in  the  habiliment  of 
light  and  knowledge  of  the  great  I  AM.  Imbued 
with  this  power  the  war  spirit  will  be  gone,  and  that 
"sectional  shame"  spoken  of  will  vanish,  and  the 
way  be  prepared  for  the  advent  of  the  glorious  king- 
dom of  the  Lord's  Prayer,  "on  earth  as  it  is  in 

J.  M.  Stanton. 


FROM   THE  THEOLOGICAL  PK0FES80B,  STRAIGHT   UNIVER- 
SITY. 

I  do  like  the  Cynosure,  its  principles  and  grit.  It  ia 
refreehing  to  hear  things  called  by  their  right  names. — 
M.  L.  Bbbqer. 

THE  TRUTH  ABROAD  IN  TEXAS. 

I  heartily  endorse  the  principles  of  the  Cynosure  and 
I  am  endeavoring  to  instil  the  same  in  my  people  where- 
I  ever  I  go.  What  I  like  about  the  Cynosure,  it  sets  men 
and  women  athinking.  Wherever  it  is  read  it  catches 
the  attention  and  rivets  conviction  upon  the  consciences 
of  men.  I  believe  it  has  done  a  vast  deal  of  good  in  and 
around  our  town  in  strengthening  opposition  to  secret 
societies.  There  are  few  if  any  colored  men  or  women 
in  this  community  who  belong  to  any  secret  order,  and 
nearly  all  express  themselves  as  opposed  to  them.  The 
Methodist  minister  of  this  community  is  a  Mason  but 
does  not  defend  his  order.  When  he  is  spoken  to  on  the 
subject  he  hangs  his  head  and  avoids  an  answer.  I  vis- 
ited Sherman,  Texas,  a  few  weeks  ago.  This  is,  in  re- 
ality, a  city  of  secret  societies.  I  talked  with  several  of 
the  leading  colored  citizens  there  on  the  subject  of  se- 
cret orders.  Some  confessed  the  evils  of  the  lodge,  and 
the  hindrance  it  is  to  Christian  work.  But  they  have  not 
the  moral  courage  to  come  out  and  denounce  them .  1 
was  specially  interested  in  one  brother  minister  who 
knows  of  the  evils  of  the  lodge  system,  but  is  afraid  to 
come  out.  He  needs  help  and  I  think  a  few  copies  of 
the  Cynosure  would  help  him  out  of  the  clutches  of  the 
lodge. — E.  E.  Sims,  Dodd,  Texas. 


LITBRATTTRE. 


heaven. 


FROM  A  COLORED    PASTOR  IN  IOWA. 

Editor  Christian  Cynosure: — I  highly  appre- 
ciate the  attitude  of  your  paper  toward  secret  socie- 
ties. I  have  not  failed  to  see  the  baneful  effects 
which  secret  societies  exert  upon  my  people.  I  am 
the  pastor  of  the  African  M.  B.  church  in  the  city 
of  Oskaloosa,  where  there  is  also  a  colored  Method- 
ist Episcopal  church.  The  colored  people  number 
here,  all  told,  between  200  and  300,  a  very  large  per- 
centage of  whom  are  members  of  one  or  the  other 
of  the  three  different  secret  lodges.  The  pastor  of 
the  M.  E.  church  and  a  very  large  percentage  of  his 
members  are  Freemasons,  and  there  are  in  my  mem- 
bership of  about  sixty.  Freemasons,  Odd-fellows  and 
Good  Samaritans. 

Notwithstanding,  I  will  raise  my  voice  against 
secret  societies  in  my  pulpit  and  out  of  it.  I  stand 
almost  alone  among  my  people  here  in  this  particu- 
lar. Rev.  O.  S.  Morrow  of  the  U.  P.  church  ia  a 
fearless  man  in  the  line  of  depouncing  secret  soci- 
eties, while  some  of  the  rest  of  our  city  pastors  set 
apart  a  Sabbath  to  preach  to  Odd-fellows,  Freema- 
sons, Red  Men  and  the  Grand  Army. 

If  there  ever  was  a  little  town  cursed  with  secret 
societies,  it  is  Oskaloosa.  So  you  may  imagine  that 
we  who  are  opposed  to  the  lodge  religion  do  not 
need  to  go  far  from  our  homes  to  find  an  advanced 
guard  of  the  secret  lodge  army. 

Not  long  ago  the  writer  was  given  the  following 
subject  to  open  before  the  city  Ministerial  Associa- 
tion: "Why  Have  We  Twice  as  Many  Women  as 
Men  in  Our  Churches?"  I  said,  among  other  things, 
that  secret  societies  stood  right  between  the  men 
and  the  church,  from  the  fact  that  some  of  the  min- 
isters would  go  along  with  them,  and  preach  to  them 
on  the  excellence  of  their  orders;  and  the  lodge 
members  think  their  temple  just  as  good  as  the 
church  of  Christ.  On  the  following  week  one  of 
our  newspaper  men  attacked  me  about  what  I  had 
said,  as  he  was  a  Freemason.  I  stood  to  what  I  said 
first,  and  I  am  right.  My  own  people  are  displeased 
because  I  refuse  to  read  notices  on  the  Sabbath  of 
their  society  meetings.  Pray  for  me  that  I  may 
stand  fast  and  cry  aloud  against  secret  lodge  vio- 
lence.   Yours  in  Christ,  Timothy  Reeves. 


PITJB  AND  POINT. 


THK   OHIO   C0LLBGB9. 

The  Christian  Cynosure  of  May  17,  page  5,  "Ohio 
Notes"  does  injustice  to  Ohio  colleges.  The  Times,  as 
quoted.only  gives  Oberlin  as  opposed  to  secrecy  and  the 
language  of  Bro.  W.  B.  Stoddard  implies  that  only  two 
are  so  disposed.  If  he  had  said  Capital  University  and 
others  I  would  be  satisfied,  as  I  tl^ink  I  could  name  three 
others  that  are  of  note,  and  I  hope  there  are  yet  more. — 
Jambs  P.  Thomas,  Scranton,  Kan. 


By  Rev.  T .  DeWltt 
Ogilvie,  New  York 


Woman.    HerPowbh  and  Pbivilbges. 
Talmage.    Pp.  200.  Price  25  cents.    J.  S. 
and  Chicago. 

This  is  a  republication  of  a  dozen  sermons  to  wo- 
men by  the  pastor  of  the  Brooklyn  Tabernacle,  and 
are  embellished  with  all  the  eloquence  for  which 
their  author  is  distinguished.  And  they  are  not  only 
full  of  eloquent  passages,  but  of  good,  sensible, 
practical  advice  that  mankind  needs  to  hear  repeated 
again  and  again,  from  youth  to  age.  Women  of  all 
classes  and  conditions  will  find  something  in  these 
sermons  suited  to  their  experiences — "Women  Who 
Fight  the  Battle  of  Life  Alone,"  "Worldly  Mar- 
riages," "Dominion  of  Fashion,"  "Woman's  Happi- 
ness— What  Can  and  What  Cannot  Make  a  Woman 
Happy,"  "The  Grand-mother,"  "Parental  Blunders," 
etc. — these  show  the  variety  and  scope  of  the  top- 
ics. It  is  well  when  publishers  can  turn  aside  from 
the  demoralizing  novel  and  give  the  people  such 
books  as  this  in  cheap  form. 

Scribner's  Magazine  for  June  aptly  illustrates  that 
"peace  hath  her  victories  no  less  renowned  than  war." 
When  the  Century  began  the  war  series  two  or  three 
years  ago  it  proved  a  most  popular  attraction.  It  may 
safely  be  predicted  that  the  series  of  articles  on  the  great 
power  of  civilization — the  modern  railway,  begun  in  the 
present  number  of  Scribner,yiiU.  prove  more  truly  popu- 
lar. There  has  never  been  an  exposition  in  America 
more  wonderful  than  that  of  railway  appliances  several 
years  ago  in  this  city.  "The  Building  of  a  Railway"  is 
the  leading  article,  written  by  Thomas  Curtis  Clarke,  one  of 
the  most  eminent  of  American  bridge  builders  and  a  man 
of  the  widest  experience  in  railway  construclion.  In  addi- 
tion to  his  thorough  knowledge.he  possesses  the  knack  of 
putting  it  in  a  clear,  forcible  aad  interesting  way.  He 
makes  very  vivid  the  idea  of  the  immensity  of  the  Amer- 
can  railway  system  by  striking  comparisons;  he  has  fol- 
lowed each  step  in  the  evolution  of  it  with  an  acute  an- 
alysis of  the  moving  causes;  he  has  paid  a  hearty  tribute 
to  American  Ingenuity  and  perseverance  which  have 
made  our  railways  essentially  different  from  and  superi- 
or to  those  in  the  old  world;  and  he  concludes  by  point- 
ing out  the  great  part  played  by  the  railway  in  changing 
the  whole  basis  of  civilization  from  military  to  industri- 
al. The  illustrations  of  this  article  are  some  of  them  re- 
markably fine.  The  bright  side  of  "Hospital  Life"  in  a 
great  city  as  it  appears  to  a  patient  is  described  by  A.  B. 
Ward,  who  writes,from  full  knowledge  and  sympathv.of 
Bellevue,  Roosevelt,  St.  John's  and  St.  Mary's  in  New 
York  and  Brooklyn.  This  article  should  do  much  to 
ward  diminishing  the  prejudice  which  still  exists  toward 
being  taken  to  a  hospital  The  humane,  kindly  and  oft- 
en humorous  side  of  hospital  life  is  described.  The  many 
illustrations  are  drawings  from  life  by  skillful  artists. 

The  Missionary  Review  for  June  opens  with  the  firbt 
part  of  an  article  by  Rev.  Dr.  Qracey  of  Buffalo  on  the 
'Relative  Progress  of  Christianity,"  reviewing  the  claim 
that  the  heathen  world  is  more  rapidly  increasing  than 
arc  the  Christian  converts.  An  editorial  by  Dr.  PiersoD, 
"Africa:  A  Wonderful  Chapter  in  Modern  History,"  ii  a 
most  interesting  review  of  the  remarkable  events  that 
have  led  up  to  the  present  missionary  movement  on  that 
continent.  Other  articles  are  "Mormonism  Moribund," 
"The  Insufficiency  of  Buddhism, ""The  Speechless  Testi- 
fying for  Christ, "and  "Rev.  George  Bowen."  The  Month- 
ly Bulletin  of  Missions  gives  the  latest  intelligence  from 
nearly  every  country  in  the  world  where  missions  are  in 
progress.  In  Statistics  of  the  World's  Missions  facts  and 
figures  are  tabulated  for  quick  reference;  while  Editorial 
Notes  on  Current  Topics  close  a  number  not  surpassed 
by  any  of  the  remarkable  numbers  which  have  gone  be- 
fore. We  are  not  surprised  that  the  publishers  say  that 
"the  circulation  has  doubled  in  three  months,"  that  the 
Review"ia  becoming  immensely  popular, "and  that  bdition 
after  edition  of  the  earlier  numbers  of  the  year  have  been 
exhausted. 


Mat  31, 1888 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


Faem  Notes. 


AN  ABOHDAMCB  OF   SWEET  COBN. 

Every  farmer's  family  should  have  an 
abundance  of  sweet  corn,  and  that  means, 
if  they  are  fond  of  it,  all  that  each  wants 
twice  a  day,  dinner  and  supper.  Many 
prefer  it,  if  it  can  be  had  but  once  daily, 
at  the  supper  or  evening  meal.  A  suc- 
cessive sowing  or  planting  every  ten 
days  or  fortnight  will  give  a  plenty  until 
frost  comes.  This,  which  is  a  luxury  to 
most  people,  can  be  had  by  the  farmer 
without  cost,  as  the  resulting  fodder  will 
more  than  pay  for  the  seed  and  labor.  At 
the  late  plantings  give  extra  fertilizing;  it 
will  come  back  in  the  fodder.  There  are 
still  many  who  do  not  know  the  superior- 
ity of  sweet  corn  over  the  "roasting  ears" 
of  field  kinds.  We  do  not  name  varieties, 
but  any  kind  of  sweet  corn — that  with 
wrinkled  kernels— which  can  be  procured 
is  vastly  better  than  field  corn.  If  in- 
tending to  save  seed,  plant  at  a  distance 
from  common  corn,  unless  that  is  quite 
out  of  tassel. — American  Agriculturist. 

CORN  AND  POTATO  CROPS  CONTRASTED. 

The  corn  crop,  next  to  the  potato  crop, 
is  the  most  expensive  that  the  farmer  can 
grow.  The  excess  of  expense  in  the  po- 
tato crop  is  altogether  in  the  seed.  Plow- 
ing, fitting  the  land,  cultivation  and 
harvesting  are  about  as  expensive  for  one 
as  the  other.  The  point  that  should  most 
impress  farmers  is  that  with  the  corn 
crop  heavy  manuring  and  high  culture 
always  secure  a  profitable  return.  WHh 
potatoes  there  is  a  risk  from  rot  if  too 
much  manure  is  applied,  or  a  wet  season 
may  cause  rot  anyway.  The  little  extra 
labor  necessary  to  assure  a  full  crop  of 
corn  is  the  only  part  of  the  farmer's  work 
from  which  he  never  gets  cheated  out  of 
his  pay. — Am.  Cvitivator. 

NOW  FOR  A  BIG  CROP  OF  COBN. 

Practical  farmers  may  well  laugh  at 
those  who  talk  about  corn  being  deficient 
in  protein  and  phosphates.  It  is  the 
grandest  crop  in  the  world.  A  well-filled 
corn-crib  makes  the  farmer  and  his  hors- 
es, cows,  sheep.pigs  and  chickens  happy. 
Throughout  a  large  area  of  the  United 
States  corn  is  grown  for  home  use  and 
not  for  sale.  John  Johnston,  the  father 
of  American  tile-draining  and  one  of  the 
best  and  most  successful  farmers  of  his 
time,  said  to  us:  "I  have  never  sold  corn 
but  once  in  my  life — and  that  I  gave  away 
to  be  sent  to  Ireland  during  the  famine." 
He  grew  large  crops  of  corn  but  fed  it  all 
out,  stalks  and  all,  to  sheep  and  other 
stock,  supplemented  with  oil-cake  when 
it  could  be  purchased  cheap  enough.  He 
was  a  firm  believer  in  oilcake,  but  would 
have  laughed  at  any  one  who  claimed 
that  it  was  worth  more,pound  for  pound, 
than  good,  sound  corn 

In  many  sections  last  year  the  corn 
crop  suffered  from  drought.  This  is  unus- 
ual. On  good  land,  kept  clean  by  the 
frequent  use  of  the  cultivator,  corn  will 
stand  drought  better  than  any  other  crop. 
Said  an  experienced  farmer:  "I  believe  I 
could  raise  a  good  crop  of  corn  if  not  a 
drop  of  rain  fell  from  the  day  it  was 
planted  till  the  day  it  was  cut."  He 
looked  to  the  stores  of  water  in  the  soil, 
and  was  careful  that  no  weeds  sucked  up 
this  moisture  and  robbed  the  corn  plants. 
Clover  and  other  deep-rooted  plants 
bring  up  nitrogen,  phosphates,  potash 
and  other  plant  food  from  the  subsoil,  and 
leave  them  near  the  surface  in  the  form 
of  vegetable  matter;  a  severe  drouth  does 
the  same  thing.  Capillary  atlraction  rais- 
es the  water  charged  with  plant  food,  and 
as  it  evaporates,  leaves  it  on  the  surface. 
The  great  drought  of  last  year  has  left 
our  land  in  good  condition.  Now  for  a 
big  corn  ciopl— American  Agriculturist. 

ROTATION  OF  FODDER  CROPS  FOR  A  SMALL 
PIECE  OF  GROUND. 

Quite  a  large  quantity  of  feed  can  be 
grown  on  a  small  lot.  Cut  oats  when 
just  ripe,  bind  in  small  sheaves,  allow  to 
stand  in  small  shocks  until  the  straw  is 
cured,  then  store  away  in  the  haymow  to 
be  fed  out  in  the  bundle  during  the  win 
ter  month?.  They  form  an  agreeable  va- 
riety, and  a  horse  will  cat  them.straw  and 
all,  with  a  relish.  After  the  oats,  early  \ 
potatoes  and  other  vegetables  are  har- 
vested, the  ground  may  be  sown  to  mil- 
let, which  in  a  fair  season  will  make  a 
large  quantity  of  green  feed.  It  should 
all  be  cut  and  fed  or  converted  into  hay 
before  seed  forms.  After  the  millet  is  har- 
vested the  ground  may  be  plowed  and 
sown  to  lye,  which  will  be  ready  to  cut 


for  green  feed  in  the  spring  long  before 
anything  else.  If  the  land  is  not  needed 
for  other  crops,  follow  the  rye  with  oats 
and  the  oats  with  millet.  If  the  soil  is 
kept  moderately  rich,  a  good  crop  of 
each  is  almost  a  certainty  With  this  ro- 
tation an  immense  quantity  of  green  and 
dry  horse  feed  can  be  cheaply  grown  on 
a  small  patch  of  land,  and  there  will  be 
no  chance  for  weeds.  However  small 
the  lot  some  carrots  should  be  grown,  to 
be  stored  in  the  cellar  for  feeding  in  win- 
ter and  early  spring.  For  this  purpose 
the  Half-long  Stump-rooted  is  best,  as  it 
grows  to  a  good  siz9,  yields  heavily,  and 
is  not  difficult  to  harvest.  It  rarely  pays 
to  grow  corn  for  horse  feed  on  a  small 
lot.  Immature  corn,either  green  or  cured, 
is  not  good  food  for  horses. — American 
Agriculturist. 


A    WONDERFUt.     OFFEK. 

For  many  years  the  manufacturers  of 
Dr.  Sage's  Catarrh  Remedy  have  offered, 
in  good  faith,  $500  reward  for  a  case  of 
Nasal  Catarrh  which  they  cannot  cure. 
The  Remedy  is  sold  by  druggists  at  only 
50  cents.  It  has  fairly  attained  a  world- 
wide reputation.  If  you  have  dull, heavy 
headache,  obstruction  of  the  nasal  passa- 
ges, discharges  falling  from  the  head  in 
to  the  throat,  sometimes  profuse,  watery 
and  acrid,  at  others,  thick,  tenacious,  mu- 
cous, purulent,  bloody  and  putrid ;  if  the 
eyes  are  weak,  watery  and  infiimed;  if 
there  is  ringing  in  the  ears,  deafness, 
hacking  or  coughing  to  clear  the  throat, 
expectoration  of  offensive  matter,  togeth- 
er with  scabs  from  ulcers,  the  voice  being 
changed  and  has  a  nasal  twang, the  breath 
offensive,  smell  and  taste  impaired, sensa- 
tion of  dizziness  with  mental  depression, 
a  hacking  cough  and  general  debility,  you 
are  suffering  from  nasal  catarrh.  "The 
more  complicated  your  disease, the  great- 
er the  number  and  diversity  of  symp- 
toms. Thousands  of  cases  annually,  with- 
out manifesting  half  of  the  above  symp- 
toms, result  in  consumption  and  end  in 
the  grave.  No  disease  issocommon,more 
deceptive  and  dangerous, less  understood 
or  more  unsuccessfully  treated  by  physi- 
cians. 


Neither  mind  nor  body  can  act  health- 
fully if  the  blood  is  vitiated.  Cleanse 
thfe  vital  current  from  impurities  by  the 
use  of  Ayer's  Sarsaparilla.  This  remedy 
purifies  the  blood,  recruits  the  wasted  en- 
ergies, and  restores  health  to  the  debili- 
tated system. 


GOING  WEST. 


The  general  interest  that  has  been 
taken  in  the  opening  of  the  Montana 
Indian  Reservations  is  shown  by  the  large 
numbers  of  people  who  have  already 
gone  to  Great  Falls  to  investigate  the 
mineral  and  agricultural  resources  of 
that  wonderful  country.  The  low  ex- 
cursion rate  announced  by  C.  H.  Warren, 
Gen.  Pass.  Agent  of  the  St.  Paul,  Min- 
neapolis &  Manitoba  Railway,  makes  the 
expense  of  exploring  this  country  merely 
nominal,  and  will  undoubtedly  result  in 
a  still  larger  number  following. 


8£  VRE  T  BOGIE  TIE  8  CONDEMNED 


OONSUMFXION  SUKELV  OCRED. 

To  the  Editor: — Please  inform  your 
readers  that  I  have  a  positive  remedy  for 
the  above  named  disease .  By  its  timely 
use  thousands  of  hopeless  cases  have  been 
permanently  cured.  I  shall  be  glad  to 
send  two  bottles  of  my  remedy  free  to 
any  of  your  readers  who  have  consump- 
tion if  they  will  send  mo  their  Exoress 
and  P.  O.  address.  Respectfully,  T.  A. 
Slocum.  M.  C.  181  Pearl  St..  New  York. 


For  the 
)C  lie  tit 
I  those 
lookiiiRfor  new  lociUions  or  iuvestmi'iits,  Boini- 
mpiithly  excursions  have  been  arriinceii,  at  ouo 
fare  for  tlie  round  trip,  to  all  points  in  Dnkota 
and  Minnesota.  Tickets  llr'^t  clu-sg  and  poiul  for 
30  days,  l"'or  maps  and  further  particulars  ad- 
dress C.  H.  Waiirkn,  ■  ■  4Tif»ou  A 
General  PaRsenRei 
Ageat,  Bt.  Paul,  Miun. 


CHEAP  EXCURSIONS.^ 


N.  ■  ■         irtmuu  A 

l'ManW'dbA 

■Wl        MAiLwAX,       aa 


THE  BROKEN  SEAL, 

Or  Personal  Reminisconces  of  the  AbdactiOb 
aiid  Harder  of  Capt.  Wm.  Morgan. 
By  Samuel  D.  Oreono. 

Ono  of  the  iiuiat  lnl<Ti-Htlm,'l"'iik!i  rver  puliltnliril.  Id 
cldtli,  Tricentu;  per  dozen. »T.50.  Paper  cuvurx.lUCkDU: 
per  il<i7.en,  H.rifl. 

TlilB  deeply  InterestlnR  niirallve  allows  wIihI  Mhumd 
ry  liiiH  (lone  iind  Ineiipal'le  of  iloinc  In  llii'  Coiirjn,  iin.l 
how  hiul  men  control  tlie  ijood  nun  In  Ihi  lodj(e  nn'i 
protect  their  own  'nenilier»  when  Kullty  of  erca' 
trimti.    For  uil*  at  zn  W.  Madisom  St  ,  Cbioaoo.  b. 

TEX  NATIONAL  CfiBUTIAB  ▲WOCIATinW 


BT  GHBAT  UEN  IN  THE  CHUBCH. 

Rev.  John  Todd,  Pitlsfield,  Maaa.:  — 
Unhesitatingly  I  give  my  decided  disap- 
probation of  what  I  deem  secret  societies 
in  college  and  elsewhere.  I  have  never 
known  any  good  results  from  them  which 
could  not  have  been  attained  in  some 
other  more  appropriate  way,  and  I  have 
known  great  evils  resulting  from  them. 

Howard  Crosby,    Chancellor  Univer 
eity  of  New    York,  1870: — We  have  no 
hesitation    in    writing    secret    societies 
among  the  quackeries  of  the  earth . 

Idem,  1SS6:— The  secret  lodge  system 
belongs  to  despotisms  and  not  to  democ- 
racies. Whatever  in  it  is  not  babyish  is 
dangerous. 

Rev.  Matthew  L.  R.  Perbine,  D.D., 
Auburn  Theological  Seminary,  Rev.  Joel 
Parker  and  Rev.  Chauncey  Eddy: — 
Having  formerly  associated  with  Free- 
masons, we  deem  it  our  duty,  publicly  to 
declare  that  the  system  of  Freemasonry  is 
in  our  judgment,  of  a  tendency  on  the 
whole  pernicious  to  the  moral  habits,  and 
dangerous  to  the  civil  and  religious  insti- 
tutions of  our  country. 

Rev.  Levi  Chase,  Fall  River,  Maaa.: — 
The  question  has  been  asked  by  Masons, 
who  wish  to  asperse  the  characters  of 
those  who  have  renounced  Masonry, 
"Why  did  not  they  renounce  it  be- 
fore?" For  one,  I  will  give  them  the  rea- 
son why  I  did  not.  The  Masonic  oaths 
locked  my  tongue  in  silence— death,  in 
all  its  horrid  shapes  and  frightful  forms, 
stared  me  in  the  face — I  considered  the 
oaths  binding. 

Rev.  C.  D.  Burlinqham,  in  history  of 
the  Genesee M.E  Conference,  1860: — This 
new  element  of  discord  (0  Jil  fellowship) 
began  to  introduce  itself  in  our  church, 
professedly  as  a  mutual  insurance  com- 
pany against  temporal  want,  and  a  newly 
discovered  and  remarkably  successful, 
Gospel  appliance  for  bringing  the  world, 
reformed  and  saved  into  the  church. 
Bat  our  people  very  naturally  looked 
upon  it  with  suspicion,  dreading  its  power 
as  a  secret  agency  acting  through  affiliated 
societies,  and  doubting  its  utility  as  a 
financial  scheme.  They  feared  it  would 
drag  the  church,  debased  and  corrupted, 
into  the  world. 

Rev.  Joel  Mann,  a  renouncing  Mason: 
— Although  portions  of  the  Gospel  are 
interwoven  with  its  forms,  I  conceive 
that  Masonry  presents  false  grounds  of 
hope;  leads  men  to  depend  on  their  own 
defective  righteousness; — to  expect  the 
favor  of  God  without  the  interposition  of 
a  Redeemer,  and  even  without  repent- 
ance; and  thus  has  a  most  injurious  influ- 
ence on  their  eternal  interests.  Under 
the  most  favorable  circumstances,  which 
in  any  place,  have  attended  Masonry,  it 
has  occasioned  a  great  waste  of  time  and 
money,  which  might  and  ought  to  have 
been  employed  for  better  purposes.  And 
furthermore,  it  interferes  materially  with 
domestic  religious  duties. 

Rkv.  Aaron  Leland,  formerly  Lieut.- 
Qovtrnor  of  Vermont  and  Deputy  Grand 
Master  of  the  Masonic  Grand  Lodge  {to  a 
Baptist  association) : — He  stated  that  the 
first  objection  which  presented  itself  to 
his  miud  was  the  practice  of  praying  for 
the  soul  of  a  brother  Mason  after  he  had 
been  dead  two,  three,  and  sometimes  four 
day.»— that  he  persisted  in  the  practice  for 
a  short  season  to  the  injury  of  his  con- 
science— that  it  was  a  Romish  custom, 
and  he  never  would  preach  at  the  burial 
of  a  Mason  when  Masonic  forms  and  cus- 
toms were  attended  to— that  he  never 
would  preach  to  a  lodge  of  Masons  as 
such,  and  that  he  was  ashamed  that  he 
had  ever  participated  in  the  principles 
and  practices  of  the  institution. 

Elder  David  Bernard: — I  solemnly 
renounce  all  fealty  to  Masonry,  and  do 
most  earnestly  beseech  my  brethren  in 
Christ  Jesus,  of  every  name,  to  come  out 
and  boar  unequivocal  testimony  against 
it.  Think,  O  think,  dear  Christians,  that 
hundreds  and  thousands  of  precious  and 
immortal  souls  will  bo  lost  forever,  unless 
they  return  and  repent,  but  that  the  name 
of  the  precious  Jesus  is  rejected,  your 
Saviour,  your  precious  and  adorable  Sav- 
iour taken  away — the  cause  of  your  bleed- 
ing Redeemer  injured— the  hands  of  tne 
wicked  strengtheued,  and  the  Almighty 
God  dishonored!  And  O,  lei  me  entreat 
you  in  the  mercy  and  bowels  of  Jesus 
Clirist,  to  reflect  that  you  have  to  answer 
for  the  blood  of  those  who  shall  find  also, 
when  it  shall  be  forever  too  late,  thai 
Masonry  ia  not  a  Saviour  I 


N.  C.  A.  BUILDING  AND  OTTICI  OI 
THl  CHRISTIAN   CYNOSURE, 
191  WIST  MADISON  8TRKXT,  CHICAGO 


HA  "riOHAL  CH&I8  TlAN  ASSOCIA  TIOM 

PBEBiDBirr.— H.  H.  George,  D.  D.,  Gen 
eva  College,  Pa. 

Vicb-prbsidbnt — Rev.  M.  A.  Gault, 
Blanchard,  Iowa. 

Cob.  Sbc't  and  Gbitbbal  Aobht. — J 
P.  Stoddard,  221 W.  Madisonst.,  Chicago. 

Rbc.  Sbc't.  ahd  Tebabubkb.— W.  I. 
Phillips,  221  W.  Madison  St.,   Chicago. 

DiBBCTOBB.— Alexander  Thomson,  H. 
R.  Britten,  John  Gardner,  J.  L.  Barlow, 
L.  N.  Stratton,  Thos.  H.  Gault,  C.  A. 
Blanchard,  J.  B.  Roy,  E.  R.  Worrell,  H. 
A.  Fischer,  W.  R.  Hench. 

The  object  of  this  Association  Is: 
"To  expose,  withstand  and  remove  secral 
societies.  Freemasonry  in  particulfir,  and  othei 
anti-Christian  movemeuts,  in  order  to  save  ths 
churches  of  Christ  from  beln^  uepraved,  to  r» 
deem  the  administration  of  justice  from  per- 
version, and  our  cep  ibUcan  government  from 
corruption." 

To  carry  on  this  work  contributions  are 
solicited  from  every  friend  of  the  reform. 

Form  or  Beqitest.— 7  give  and  bequeath  to 
the  National  Christian  Association,  Incorpo- 
rated and  existing  under  the  laws  of  the  State 

of,  Illinois,   the  sum  of ■    dollars  for  the 

purposes  of  said  Association,  and  for  whlrh 
&e  receipt  of  Its  Treasurer  for  the  time  t)elng 
•lull  be  sufficient  discharse. 

THB  RATIONAL  OONYBNTION. 

'      PEBsrDBNT.— Rey.  J.  S.   T.  Milligan, 
Denison,  Eans. 

Srcbetabt.— Rev.  R.N.Countee,Mem- 
phis,  Tenn. 

8TATB  AUXCLIABT  ASSOCIATIOire. 

Alabaka.— Fre«.,  Prof.  Pickens;  Sec.,  G. 
M.Elliott;  Treas.,  Rev.  C.  B.  Curtis,  aU  of 
Selma. 

Calitobnia.— Pres^  L.  B.  Lathrop,  HoUli 
ter ;  Cor.  Sec,  Mrs.  U.  P.  Merrill,  Woodland ; 
Treas.,  C.  Ruddock,  Woodland. 

Connecticut.— Free..  J.  A.  Conant,  Willi 
mantle;  Sec.,  Geo.  Smith,  WUlImaBtlc ;  Treaa. 
C.  T.  Collins,  Windsor. 
I  iLUNOis.— Pres.,  J.  P.  Stoddard  Sec.,  M. 
N.  BuOer;  Treas.,  W.  I.  Phillip*  all  at  Cy- 
nosure office. 

Indiana.— Pres.,  William  H.  Flgg,  Reno 
Sec,  S.  L.  Cook,  Albion;  Treas.,  BenJ.  Ulah 
Silver  Lake. 
i      Iowa.— Pre8.,Wm.Johnston,College  Springs 
1  Cor   Sec,  C.  D.   Trumbull,    Momln«r   Sun* 
'  Treas.,  James  Harvey,  Pleasant  Plain,"  Jeffer 
son  Co. ;  Lecturer,  C.  F.  Hawlev,  Wheaton,  III. 
I      Kansas.- Pree.,  J.  8.  T.  Milligan,  Denison ; 
Sec.,  S.  Hart,  Lecompton;  Treaa.,  J.  A.  Tor- 
rence,  Denison. 

MAB8A0HTJ8BTT8.— Pre*.,  8.  A.  Pratt;  Sec., 
Mrs.  E.  D.  Bailey;  Treas., Dsvld  M&nnlng.Si., 
Worcester. 

Michigan.— Pres.,  D.  A.  Richards,  Brighton 
Sec'y,  H.  A.  Day,  Wllll&mston;  Tress." 
Geo.  Swanson,  Jr.,  Bedfoiu. 

MiHNisoTi.- Fres.,  E.  Q.  Paine,  Waslo's 
Cor.  Sec.,  Wm.  Fenton,  St.  Paul;  Kec.  Sec'y 
Mrs.  M.  F.  MorrUl,  St.  Charles;  Treas.,  Wm 
H.  Morrill,  St.  Charles. 

Mibbodbi.— Pres.,  B.  F.  Miller,  Bsflevlila 
Treas-ZWllllsm  Besuchsmp,  Avslon ;  Cor.  8*r 
A.  D.  Thomas,  Avalon. 

Nbbrabka.— Pres.,  S.  Austin,  Falrmoiut- 
Cor.  Sec,  W.  Bpooner,  Kesmey;  Tress.  1 
J.  C.  rye. 

Mains— Pres.,  Isaac  Jackson,  Harrison - 
Sec,  I.  D.  Halnos,  Dexter;  Treas.,  U.  W. 
Goddard,  West  Sidney. 

N«w  Bampshirs.— Pree.,  C.  L.  Baker,  Man 
Chester;  Sec,  S.  C.   KlmbaU,    New  Market' 
i   Treas.,  Jame»..'.  French,  Canterbury. 

Niw  York.- Pres.,  F.  W.  Capwell,  Dale; 
Sec'y,  John  Wallace,  Syracuse;  Treas.,  M. 
Merrick,  Syracuse. 

Ohio.— rres.,  F.  M.  Spencer,  New  Concord', 
Rec  Sec,  S.  A.  George,  Mansfield;  Cor.  Sec 
and  Treas.,  C.  W.  liTdit,  Columbus;  Agent 
W.  B.  Stoddard,  Columbus- 

PBHH8TI-TANIA-— Cor.  Scc,  N.  Callender 
Thonpsao ;  Tress.,  W.  B.BerteJs,  Wllkecbsrre. 

Ybbmont.— I^es.,  W.  R.  Lslrd,  Bt.  Johns, 
bury ;  Bee.,  C  W  Potter. 

WI800H8IN.— Prcs.,  J.  W  Wood,   Bsrsboo; 
.  Sec,  W.  W.  Ames,  Menomonlfl ;  Tresfc,  IL  K 
Brltwn.  VlennA. 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


May  31, 1888 


The  Christian  Cynosure. 


■DIYOB&. 


J.  BLANCHARD. 


HKKRT  L.  KXLLOGG. 


CHICASO,    THtJBBDAI,    MAY   31,   1888. 


EVERY  MAN  AND  WOMAN  of  legal  age  should 
sigQ  the  League  against  lodgery.  Cut  it  out  (see  page 
14),  circulate  for  signatures,  being  careful  to  give  post- 
cffice,  county  and  State,  as  well  as  name,  distinctly. 
Return  to  W.  I.  Phillips,  221  West  Madison  Street,  Chi- 
cago, 111.  -^— -— --^-— = 

The  CnaisTiAN  Woakeb: — We  have  taken  too 
little  notice  of  this  interesting  and  useful  Friends' 
paper,  a  Chicago  weekly  by  C.  W.  Pritchard,  editor 
and  manager.  It  is  true  of  Bro.  Pritchard,  as  was 
said  of  Wilberforce,  that  the  "bitter"  of  his  re- 
proofs is  "sweet;"  and  though  capable  of  keen  sar- 
casm, it  is  of  that  sort  which  leaves  no  sting  where 
it  strikes.  Bishop  Bowman  in  the  Methodist  General 
Conference  was  witty  on  the  Friends'  admission  of 
pictures  and  flowers.  This  is  the  way  Bro.  Pritch- 
ard replies  to  him:  "Bishop  Bowman  related  to 
the  General  Conference  a  circumstance  by  which  he 
learned  through  pictures  and  flowers  in  the  'Friend's 
Bookstore,'  Philadelphia,  that  the  'world  moves.'  It 
moves  slowly,  Bishop.  You  Methodists,  truly,  'have 
had  a  large"  hand  in  bringing  about  some  of  the 
changes'  for  the  better  that  we  now  see.  If  you 
move  up  briskly  on  the  woman  question  you  may, 
in  a  few  years,  reach  the  point  at  which  Friends 
stood  two  hundred  years  ago.  Can  we  help  you  in 
any  way?" 


Lbttbbs  from  Washington  cheer  and  encourage 
us,  as  we  trust  some  who  have  censured  the  changes 
lately  made  there  will  be  cheered  and  encouraged 
when  they  witness  the  harmony  which  prevails,  and 
the  necessity  and  importance  of  having  an  agent  of 
the  N.  C.  A.  in  our  fine  building  devoting  his  whole 
time  to  keeping  the  anti-secrecy  cause  under  the 
concentrated  gaze  and  scrutiny  of  the  United  States 
in  that  national  and  political  focus.  We  hail  the 
return  of  ex-Senator  Pomeroy  and  Mr.  Milton  Ford 
to  active  co-operation;  but  most  of  all  the  establish- 
ment of  weekly  religious  meetings  at  our  headquar- 
ters. Now  let  no  Wesleyan,  Free  Methodist,  United 
or  Reformed  Presbyterian,  United  Brethren,  or  any 
other  of  the  thousands  of  Christians  who  are  awak- 
ened on  this  subject,  fail  to  open  their  windows  and 
pray  as  Daniel  did,  toward  our  national  Jerusalem. 
And  let  Prof.  Bailey's  Central  Mission  count  this 
prayer-meeting  at  our  headquarters  as  an  expansion 
of  their  own:  and  thus  "pitch  the  tune"  at  Washing- 
ton, which  our  nation  is  to  sing  out!  That  day  when 
revival  meetings  in  Washington  will  be  de  facto, 
anti-secret  meetings,  when  sinners  invited  to  Christ 
will  see  and  know  they  are  to  come  out  of  Christless 
lodge-worships  as  they  are  to  leave  saloons,  gam- 
bling hells,  theaters,  brothels,  etc.,  and  the  day  of 
redemption  will  draw  nigh. 


J08BPH  COOK. 


The  western  shore  of  Lake  Champlain  from  Can- 
ada to  Whitehall,  the  head  of  the  lake,  is  eminently 
historic  ground.  It  was  the  natural  military  road 
for  invading  armies  who  wished  to  reach  New  York 
by  the  Hudson  Kiver,  and  Plattsburgh  and  Ticon- 
deroga  were  its  battlegrounds  and  forts.  Lake 
George,  not  inappropriately  named  "Lake  Sacra- 
ment," the  purest  and  clearest  of  living  water,  emp- 
ties itself  at  Ticonderoga  by  a  small  mill  stream 
into  Lake  Champlain,  out  of  a  long  winding  stone 
basin  whose  marge  is  mountains. 

Four  miles  back  of  Ticonderoga  village,  with  Lake 
George  on  one  side  and  the  Adirondack  mountains 
on  the  other,  just  where  the  road  is  winding  into 
the  highlands,  Joseph  Cook,  who  needs  no  designa- 
tion but  "The  Lecturer,"  was  born  in  1838,  just  fifty 
years  ago.  His  father,  who  was  born  on  the  same 
farm,  was  a  Baptist  deacon:  and  the  son  inherited 
his  father's  veneration  for  God  and  religion;  and 
nature  and  genius  have  done  the  rest.  Agassiz  was 
a  genius;  but  his  genius  led  him  to  deny  the  Bible 
account  of  creation,  and  to  believe  that  men,  like 
plants  and  animals,  sprung  up,  one  race  in  one  val- 
ley and  another  race  in  another.  But  the  Baptist 
denomination  dissented  from  the  "standing  order" 
or  religion,  and  dissenters  must  reason.  "The  stand- 
ing order"  had  blended  the  church  with  the  "town 
meeting,"  and  admitted  members  to  the  sacrament 
of  the  Lord's  Supper  who  did  not  profess  to  be  re- 
generated. The  Baptists  appealed  to  the  Bible,  and 
insisted  that  it  was  improper  to  give  spiritual  bread 
to  a  spiritual  corpse.     Like  all  sects  which  come  up 


after  other  sects,  they  were  put  on  their  defense. 
They  insisted  on  experimental  religion,  and,  in  their 
covenant  meetings  every  month,  they  gave  reasons 
why  they  considered  themselves  regenerated. 

This  produced  a  set  of  minds  like  Nathaniel  Col- 
ver,  who  preached  among  the  little  islands  of  Lake 
Champlain  when  a  youth;  and  in  his  manhood  and 
old  age,  formed  churches  in  cities  and  taught  the- 
ology in  different  States.  And  when  the  lodge  had 
seized  the  nation  by  the  throat,  Bernard  and  Colver 
and  Pease  and  Stearns,  with  their  compeers,  braved 
slander  and  assassination,  and  freed  the  Baptist  de- 
nomination from  the  bandit  grip  of  the  lodge. 

Young  Cook  inherited  his  independence,  but  his 
genius  and  his  religion  were  given  him  of  God.  In 
the  district  schools  of  those  mountains  thought  ran 
clear,  as  the  water  from  the  springs  in  his  father's 
woods.  From  those  schools  he  went  to  Phillips' 
Academy  in  Andover,  Mass.;  from  thence  to  Yale, 
and  from  Yale,  after  two  years  and  a  half  study,  he 
went  to  Harvard,  and  looked  at  thoughts  and  things 
through  the  minds  and  eyes  of  other  men. 

But  there  are  geniuses  which  are  laws  unto  them- 
selves, and  his  was  that  higher  order  of  genius. 
Massachusetts  orthodoxy  was  technical,  and  so  tame 
that  it  cringed  and  crouched  before  the  slave  power. 
Unitarianism  was  vapid;  and  minds  like  that  of 
Channing  turned  from  its  creed  of  negations  con- 
cerning the  nature  of  God  to  the  certainties  of  the 
humanity  of  Christ.  Dr.  Woods  was  lauded  at  An- 
dover as  the  standard  of  orthodoxy,  and  Channing 
was  railed  on  in  the  United  States  Senate  by  the 
slaveholders  who  produced  the  rebellion.  Cook  fol- 
lowed neither  Woods  nor  Channing.  He  boldly  un- 
dertook to  put  the  whole  course  of  nature  on  the 
witness  stand  and  ask  her  if  the  Bible  is  true;  and 
he  obtained  an  affirmative  answer.  He  believed  in 
God  and  prayed  to  him.  With  a  strength  of  mem- 
ory which  made  books  his  familiar  friends,  and  an 
originality  of  conception  and  utterance  which  made 
the  most  recondite  truths  palpable,  he  showed  that 
the  ground  teachings  of  the  Bible  were  re-affirmed 
by  the  whole  outward  creation  of  God. 

Thus  the  necessity  of  the  atonement,  denied  by 
Parker  and  his  school,  Mr.  Cook  proved  from  the 
universality  of  law;  that  conscience  rules  here  or  at 
the  Pleiades;  an  act  against  man  is  an  act  against 
God,  and  vice  versa;  and  so  in  the  words  of  Mr. 
Cook,  "The  necessity  of  atonement  is  an  inference 
from  exact  science."  In  short,  he  undertook,  an 
seemed  to  multitudes  to  succeed  in  the  undertaking, 
to  prove  that  the  ground  truths  of  Christianity  are 
"self-evident  truths,"  like  axioms  in  mathematics, 
which  cannot  be  denied  without  absurdity,  and  such 
absurdity  as  it  would  be  to  say  that  two  halves  of 
any  one  thing  are  not  equal  to  the  whole  of  it;  or, 
that  the  shortest  line  between  two  points  is  not 
straight. 

Filled  with  these  testimonies  of  science  to  religion, 
and  the  words  and  teachings  of  men  and  of  books 
beyond  all  ordinary  minds.he  went  into  the  Meionaon, 
or  lower  hall  in  Tremont  Temple,  and  took  the  lead 
of  prayer-meetings  there.  His  remarks  drew  crowds, 
which  forced  the  meetings  into  the  upper  Temple, 
where  he  discoursed  at  noon  to  multitudes  who 
thronged  the  sitting  and  standing  room  of  the  place. 
And  this  for  years;  so  that  to  deny,  now,  the  truth 
and  power  of  his  teachings,  is  to  impeach  the  taste 
and  judgment  of  the  better  part  of  mankind. 

Mr.  Cook  traveled  around  the  globe,  and  return- 
ing, said  to  the  crowd  that  met  him  in  Farwell  Hall, 
Chicago:  "I  have  been  going  round  the  world,  not 
to  recruit  my  health,  for  I  was  not  sick  when  I  left 
your  shores;  not  because  I  was  weary,  for  I  was  not 
weary.  I  went  abroad  not  simply  for  instruction, 
usefulness,  rest;  but  I  went  abroad  chiefly  because 
this  religion  of  self-evident  truth  was  in  my  soul." 
"I  believe  all  men  are  drifting  into  a  final  perma- 
nence of  charcter."  "I  believe  in  every  fiber  of  my 
being  that  the  man  who  loves  what  God  hates  can- 
not be  in  peace  in  God's  presence." 

Just  before  beginning  this  tour  of  the  world  Mr. 
Cook  gave  his  emphatic  testimony  against  the  lodge 
to  Secretary  Stoddard.  He  was  in  England  at  the 
lime  of  the  Boston  mob  in  1880,  but  heard  with  in- 
dignation of  the  disgraceful  conduct  of  Boston  Ma- 
sons. "Had  1  been  conducting  a  lecture  cuurse," 
said  he  afterwards,  "I  should  certainly  have  given  a 
prelude  on  that  subject."  He  did,  during  the  course 
of  1887,  give  such  a  prelude  on  the  secret  labor  or- 
ganizations, and  he  wrote  with  approval  of  the  dis- 
cussion of  the  lodge  in  the  congress  of  churches  in 
March  of  the  present  year, 

A  request  signed  by  some  hundreds  of  American 
pastors  was  some  time  last  year  since  presented  Mr. 
Cook,a8king  that  he  give  a  prelude  in  his  lecture  course 
to  the  general  topic  of  secret  societies.  The  course 
that  year  had  been  already  fixed,  but  Mr.  Cook  re- 
plied that  if  the  movers  of  the  reform  would  make 


a  wave  he  would  launch  a  boat  in  it.  There  was, 
indeed,  a  measure  of  unfairness  in  the  request  that 
Mr.  Cook  should  be  asked  to  lead  where  many  of 
these  ministers  would  fear  to  follow.  But  this 
answer  shows  the  terrible  danger  of  the  secret  or- 
ders which  can  so  intimidate  our  ablest  men.  De- 
mosthenes could  arouse  all  Greece,  and  pour  them 
on  the  legions  of  Phillip.  But  when  made  com- 
mander of  a  battalion  he  shrank  from  facing  the 
battle.  No  country  ever  needed  the  aid  of  a  mighty 
intellect  so  much  as  America  at  this  moment  needs 
the  power  of  this  great  mind. 


EELBN  M.    QOUOAR. 


This  remarkable  woman  lectured  on  woman  suf- 
frage in  Wheaton  College  Chapel  last  week.  She  is 
from  Indiana,  the  only  State  whose  constitution  for- 
bids women  to  practice  law,  while  the  Supreme  Court 
at  Washington  has  admitted  Belva  Lockwood  to  ap- 
pear and  plead  in  that  august  tribunal. 

Mrs.  Gougar  is  a  natural  born  logician.  She 
stands  forward,  begins  to  speak,  and  till  she  sits 
down,  argument  flows  from  her  lips  interrupted  only 
by  the  facts  which  sustain  it;  and  the  flow  is  as 
steady  and  clear  as  the  pure  white  flour  from  the 
bolt  in  a  flour-mill.  There  was  not  in  the  whole  lec- 
ture an  attempt  at  rhetorical  flight,  only  facts  and 
arguments  based  on  them;  and  the  stream  of  facts, 
both  recent  and  relevant,  seemed  endless.  No  re- 
flecting person  can  listen  to  her  without  being  con- 
vinced of  the  force  of  her  argument. 

But  no  change  in  society  has  ever  been  effected 
unattended  by  two  defects:  first,  the  expectation  of 
greater  benefits  than  are  to  be  realized  from  the 
change;  and  second,  some  loss  of  temper  and  good 
sense  in  the  struggle  to  attain  it,  arising  from  that 
"persecution  which  maketh  a  wise  man  mad."  To 
be  "poked  fun  at,"  for  seeking  to  remove  actual 
grievances,  by  men  whose  stupidity  makes  them  in- 
capable of  seeing  truth,  or  whose  depravity  makes 
them  oppose  it,  often  provokes  replies  which  seem 
to  the  uninformed  to  proceed  from  ill  temper.  Such 
persons  provoked  the  most  scathing  retorts  from  the 
gentle  and  forgiving  Cowper,  who  turns  upon  them 
thus: 

"Blest,  rather  curst,  with  nerves  that  never  feel ; 
Kept  snug  in  caskets  of  close-hammered  steel ; 
With  mouths  made  only  to  grin  wide  and  eat." 

Such  is  the  picture  Cowper  draws  of  men  who 
ridicule  those  who  grieve  at  grievances,  and  adds: 

"But  to  the  soul  that  ever  felt  the  sting 
Of  sorrow,  sorrow  is  a  sacred  thing." 

And  no  one  can  hear  Mrs.  Gougar  and  not  share 
her  indignation  of  "the  dog-petting  class  of  ladies," 
who  resent  the  wrongs  of  their  poodles  more  than 
the  wrongs  of  their  own  sex  which  society  has  left 
yet  unredressed.  Her  replies  to  Ingalls  of  Kansas 
and  Reagan  of  Texas,  are  clear,  conclusive  and  crush- 
ing. 

Mrs.  Gougar  has  the  intense  earnestness  of  con- 
viction; and  along  with  her  other  good  qualities  she 
has  no  love  for  the  lodge  or  the  saloon.  Masons  in- 
stigated the  infamous  attack  upon  her  some  years 
ago,  and  she  knows  some  of  the  virtues  of  that  sys- 
tem from  bitter  experience. 

In  short,  we  advise  every  one  who  can  do  so  to 
hear  Mrs.  G<»ugar;  and  we  advise  that  interesting 
lady  to  remember  that  no  removal  of  social  abuses 
will  take  men  to  heaven,  or  make  a  heaven  on  earth; 
and  our  struggles  against  wrongs  and  abuses  are 
only  removing  stumbling-blocks  which  are  keeping 
men  from  Christ. 


How  Good  Templarism  Works. — Vernon,  Wis- 
consin, is  a  reform  commuoity.  The  two  churches 
are  United  and  Reformed  Presbyterian.  It  is  a 
thorough  prohibition  town,  with  no  saloon  nearer 
than  Waukesha,  seven  miles  away.  Some  time  ago 
Frank  Sibley  attempted  the  formation  of  a  Good 
Templar  lodge  there.  Sibley  is  the  well-known 
Good  Templar  chief  of  Nebraska,  whose  attempt  in 
that  State  to  bind  the  young  Simson  of  Prohibition 
in  the  lap  of  the  Delilah  of  Good  Templarism  was 
promptly  thwarted  by  Rsv.  E  B.  Graham  of  Omaha. 
Sibley  found  four  persons  in  Vernon  who  would  join 
him.  Chagrined  at  his  failure,  he  challenged  T.  C. 
Richmond  of  Madison,  the  Good  Templar  leader  of 
Wisconsin,  to  form  a  lodge  there.  He  tried  and 
failed.  Then  a  lodge  missionary  named  Clark  be- 
gan to  hold  temperance  meetings  at  Vernon,  and 
with  the  aid  of  a  lodge  crowd  from  Waukesha  to 
act  as  claquers,  and  by  deception  and  hypocrisy  he 
formed  a  small  lodge.  Pastors  Faris  and  Galloway 
withstood  him  and  in  a  debate  with  the  latter  he  was 
so  worsted  and  his  falsehoods  so  exposed  that  his 
followers  are  discouraged  and  his  work  already  as 
good  as  broken  up. 


wmmm 


Mat  31, 1888 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


We  trust  Bro.  Galloway  will  not  be  too  modest  to  | 
report  this  case  for  the  (Jynoture.  It  deserves  a 
wide  publication  for  its  revelation  of  the  spirit  of 
the  Good  Templar  lodge — meddlesome,  intrusive, 
Ijing,  hypocritical,  dividing  temperance  workers. 
If  it  should  get  a  footing  in  Vernon,  the  probabili- 
ties are  that  in  a  short  time  a  saloon  would  follow. 


THB  ANTI-MA80NIG  PBS88  OF  MORGAN 
TlMSa 

In  answering  a  request  from  Dr.  Joseph  E.  Roy 
for  the  number  of  papers  which  took  part  against 
the  lodge  in  the  early  days  of  Anti-masonry,  our 
files  of  old  papers  have  been  ransacked.  The  list 
kept  growing  beyond  our  expectation,  and  will  be  of 
interest  to  readers  of  to-day.  It  may  be  imperfect 
in  the  occasional  mention  of  the  same  paper  under 
different  names,  and  is  at  best  incomplete,  since 
only  those  names  can  now  be  obtained  which  were 
quoted  in  the  files  in  our  possession.  This  is  the 
list: 

LIST   OF  ANTI-MASONIC     PAPERS    PROM    1827   TO    1834. 

Albany  EveniDg  Journal,  by  Thurlow  Weed, 
Advocate  (Batavia),  by  David  C.  Miller, 
National  Observer,  by  Solomon  Southwick, 
Ward's  Magazine,  by  Henry  Dana  Ward, 
Morgan  Investigator,  Batavia.  N.  Y., 
National  Philanthropist  and  Investigator, 
New  York  Investigator  (changed  to  Pilot), 
Freedom's  Banner,  Chester,  Vt., 
Village  Register,  Dedham,  Mais., 
Maine  Free  Press,  Hallowell,  Me., 
We,  the  People,  Plymouth,  Mass., 
Free  Press,  Middlebury,  Vt., 
Western  Freeman,  Shelbyville,  Teen., 
Union  and  Sentinel,  Lancaster,  Pa., 


Anti  masonic  Enquirer, 
Herald, 
"  Republican, 

"  Champion, 

"  Review, 

"  Intelligencer, 

"  Beacon, 

"  Free  Press 

(Boaton), 
"  Christian  Her- 

ald (Boston), 
Anti  Freemason, 
Niagara  (N.  Y.)  Courier, 
"'  "       Gleaner, 

American,  New  York, 

"        Providence,  R.  I., 
"        Indiana,  Pa., 
Boston  Patriot, 
"      Free  Press, 
"       Recorder, 
Baptist  Regi8ter(isrewYcrk), 

"     Herald, 
Ohio  Democrat, 
Ohio  Star, 

Whig  (Woodstock,  Vt.,) 
Hartford  Intelligencer, 
Rochester  Balance, 
Rochester  Enquirer, 
Leroy  (N.  Y.)  Gszette, 
Philadelphia  Sun, 


Independent  Republican, 
Independent  Gazette, 
Seneca  (N.  Y.)  Farmer, 
Buffalo  Patriot, 
Utica  Elucidator, 
Livingston  Register, 
Chenango  Telegraph, 
Eastern  Galaxy, 
Religious  Monitor, 
Fall  River  Monitor, 
Censor,  Jefferson  Co.,  N-Y., 
Palmyra  Freeman, 
Pawtucket  Herald, 
Vermont  Luminary, 

"       Statesman, 
North  Star, 
Boston  Press, 

"      Advocate 
Providence  Microcosm, 
"  Free  Press, 

Palladium  of  Liberty, 
Franklin  (N.Y.)  Telegraph, 
Press,  Plymouth,  Mass., 
Hampshire  Gazette, 
Franklin  Journal, 
Michigan  Emigrant, 
Lancaster  Examiner, 
Massachusetts  Yeoman, 
Pf  nnsylvania  Whig, 
Liberator,  Boston. 


The  great  meeting  of  the  German  Baptists,  com- 
monly called  Bunkers,  was  held  last  week  near  North 
Manchester  in  Wabash  county,  Indiana.  It  was 
their  145th  anniversary  gathering  and  was  made 
memorable  by  at  least  two  important  events.  The 
first  was  the  death  of  the  venerable  Elder  James 
Quinter,  for  many  years  the  leader  of  the  denomina- 
tion. He  was  offering  a  public  prayer  at  the  close 
of  an  afternoon  meeting  and  in  the  midst  of  the 
petition  he  fell  in  death,  and  for  him  the  prayer  was 
ended  in  praise.  His  loss  is  deeply  felt  through  the 
whole  Dnnker  body.  As  editor  of  their  paper,  the 
Gospel  Messenger,  founder  of  their  educational  insti- 
tution at  Huntington,  Pa,,  and  bishop  of  their 
church,  his  infiueuce  has  been  wide  and  strong. 
The  second  important  event  was  the  decision  of  the 
church  against  receiving  members  of  the  Grand 
Army  of  the  Republic  lodge  into  their  fellowship. 
This  decision  marks  the  firmness  with  which  this 
quiet,  sturdy  people  resist  the  sly  attacks  of  the 
enemy  of  Christ  and  the  church.  Their  example  is 
commended  to  the  study  of  all  denominations. 


— TU.Q  <Jnr is' ian  Nation,  \\iQ  excellent  New  York 
advocate  of  National  Reform  and  weekly  news- 
gatherer  for  the  Covenanter  brethren,  has  adopted 
a  pleasing  two  column  page  along  with  large  new 
type.  Its  lines  are  as  agreeable  to  the  eye  as  its 
sentiments  are  valuable  to  the  mind  and  heart. 

— Last  winter  Knoxville  College,  Tennessee,  was 
closed  because  Of  the  prevalence  of  typhoid  fever. 
We  are  glad  to  note  that  President  McCulloch  has 
again  gathered  his  scattered  faculty  and  students, 
and  work  is  resumed  In  this  interesting  institution 
on  the  battle-scarred  hills  of  Tennessee.     The  Auro- 


ra, the  monthly  college  paper,  is  one  of  the  most 
earnest  defenders  of  the  principles  of  the  United 
Presbyterian  church. 

^  •  » 

PERSONAL  MENTION. 

— Bishop  Milton  Wright  left  his  home  in  Dayton, 
Ohio,  Monday  for  his  annual  visitation  of  the  church- 
es of  the  United  Brethren  on  the  Pacific  coast. 

— Pres.  C.  A.  Blanchard  kept  his  appointment 
with  the  Michigan  brethren  at  the  State  Convention 
at  Salem,  and  then  returned  to  New  York  State  on 
business  for  Wheaton  College. 

— Rev.  B.  T.  Roberts,  editor  of  the  Iree  Methodist, 
left  Chicago  a  few  days  ago  to  attend  the  World's 
Missionary  Conference  in  London  as  representative 
of  the  Free  Methodist  church. 

— Rev.  F.  W.  Gunsaulus  of  the  Plymouth  Con- 
gregational church  in  this  city  is,  we  regret  to  say, 
a  Freemason.  He  is  perhaps  the  only  pastor  of  that 
denomination  in  the  city  who  belongs  to  the  lodge. 

— Rev.  C.  B.  Ebey,  for  some  years  pastor  of  the 
Free  Methodist  church  on  Morgan  street  in  this  city 
and  secretary  of  the  mission  board  of  the  church, 
has  removed  to  Pasadena  with  an  invalid  wife.  Rev. 
W.  W.  Kelley,  the  returned  African  missionary, 
will  attend  to  the  missionary  work  for  the  time  be- 
ing. 

— Elder  Rufus  Smith,  who  lately  journeyed  east 
from  Chicago,  returned  unexpectedly  Saturday, 
called  home  by  the  illness  of  his  son.  He  called  at 
this  office  about  the  time  Rev.  Isaiah  Faris  of  Wis- 
consin stopped  on  his  way  to  the  Reformed  Presby- 
terian Synod  at  Allegheny,  with  Bro.  Pake  of  Cher- 
ry Valley,  111,,  also  journeying  eastward. 

— The  Congregationalists  of  California  are  rejoic- 
ing over  the  fact  that  General  0.  0.  Howard  is  to 
remain  in  command  on  the  Pacific  coast,  and  not  to 
be  transferred  to  Chicago,  as  was  rumored.  He  is 
very  active  in  all  Christian  work  and  lecturing  for 
various  benevolent  objects.  He  is  on  the  Executive 
Committee  of  the  California  Home  Missionary  So- 
ciety, and  has  a  large  Bible-class  in  San  Francisco. 

— Mrs.  J.  P.  Stoddard  having  conducted  a  county 
meeting  of  the  W.  C.  T.  U.  last  week  at  Wheaton 
(of  which  she  was  president),  started  for  Washing- 
ton Friday  afternoon  by  the  Baltimore  and  Ohio  road. 
She  expected  to  reach  her  destination  the  next  day 
and  begin  immediately  her  part  of  the  work  in  the 
N.  C.  A.  building  as  an  help-meet  for  Bro.  Stoddard. 
She  spent  some  time  in  Washington  a  few  years 
since  and  its  people  will  not  be  altogether  strangers 
to  her. 

— Mr.  Dwight  Needham,  who  introduced  the  fa- 
mous red  clover  cure  for  cancer,  has  given  $1,000 
each  to  the  American  Home  Missionary  Society,  the 
Illinois  Missionary  Society,  the  American  Mission- 
ary Association  and  the  New  West  Education  Com- 
mission. Some  years  ago,  Mr.  Needham,  says  the 
Advance,  realizing  the  uncertainties  of  business,  de- 
termined to  make  sure  of  something  for  missionary 
work,  and  hence  in  spite  of  all  financial  pressure, 
has  persistently  set  apart  a  portion  of  his  income 
until  at  last  he  has  been  able  to  make  this  handsome 
donation. 

— Daniel  B.  Tumey,  of  Lincoln,  111.,  says  the 
'li-nes  of  this  city,  is  talked  of  for  candidate  for  the 
Vice-Presidency  on  the  Prohibition  ticket  If  he 
keeps  on  saying  good  things  he  will  get  there.  He 
it  was  who  said  that  "local  option  was  too  local  and 
too  optional."  He  has  an  epigrammatic  and  apo- 
thegmatic  way  of  saying  things  that  fit  in  very  nicely 
with  the  spirit  of  the  times,  as  witness  the  following 
remark  of  the  said  Turney:  "Secrets  are  unprofita- 
ble possessions;  if  you  circulate  them  you  lose  them; 
if  you  do  not  circulate  them  you  lose  the  interest  on 
your  investment."  Elder  Turney  was  some  years 
since,  while  residing  in  Washington  and  in  West 
Virginia,  identified  closely  with  the  reform  against 
the  lodge. 

— At  the  funeral  of  the  late  General  A.  W.  Riley 
of  Rochester,  N.  Y.,  after  seventy-two  years'  resi- 
dence in  that  city,  his  pastor  paid  the  following  trib- 
ute to  hi:j  memory:  "He  has  stood  in  four  great 
public  relations  to  the  community.  First  as  a  busi- 
ness man,  marked  not  only  by  integrity  and  upright- 
ness, but,  better  still,  by  an  unselfishness  which  did 
not  allow  greed  for  gain  to  choke  out  liberality  and 
generous  helpfulness  toward  others.  Secondly,  as  a 
philanthropist,  who  in  the  noblest  ways  freely,  un- 
flinchingly, imperiled  his  life  for  others.  Thirdly, 
as  a  reformer,  he  was  ready  with  heart,  with  bond, 
and  with  purse  to  help  on  every  gootl  cause  for  the 
benefit  of  his  fellow  men.  Opposition  did  not  daunt, 
obliquy  did  not  deter  him,  and  in  his  work  of  re- 
form appeared  again  his  intrinsic  unselfishness.  He 
did  not  champion  good  causes  that  he  might  be 


lifted  into  public  office.  Am  I  wrong  in  saying  that 
no  man  in  this  community  has  done  more  to  fight 
the  drink  demon  and  to  oppose  the  rum  curse  than 
did  General  Riley?  Fourthly,  as  a  Christian  ho 
was  faithful  and  true.  Though  very  earnest  and 
resolute  in  his  principles,  I  never  heard  from  him 
one  bitter  word.  I  never  saw  him  manifest  any 
acerbity  of  spirit.  Until  his  feet  could  bear  him 
along  our  streets  no  more,  he  sought  regularly  the 
house  of  God.  Well  did  General  Riley's  life  illus- 
trate the  words  of  the  wise  man  of  ancient  Scripture, 
who  in  Proverbs  says  of  the  man  who  makes  wis- 
dom his  counselor  and  guide,  that  for  him,  'In  her 
right  hand  is  length  of  days,  and  in  her  left  hand 
riches  and  honor.' " 


— The  Christian  Nation  notices  the  omission  of 
the  acknowledgment  of  God  as  revealed  in  the 
Christian  Scriptures,  by  an  attempt  to  make  up  a 
Prohibition  party  platform  by  Walter  Thomas  Mills, 
a  well-known  party  speaker.  If  the  Nation  will  call 
to  mind  the  fact  that  Walter  Thomas  Mills  has  been 
publicly  making  a  boast  of  his  lodge  connections, 
the  wonder  will  cease  that  he  ignores  Christ. 


There  may  be  a  difference  of  opinion  as  to  the 
propriety  of  the  stand  which  Mr.  Spurgeon  took  in 
England,  against  what  he  considered  the  inroads  of 
false  doctrine,  but  there  can  be  no  difference  as  to 
the  spirit  in  which  he  expressed  himself.  He  ab- 
stained from  harshness,  bitterness  and  personalities, 
and  simply  did  what  a  sense  of  duty  constrained 
him  to  do.  We  consider  it  a  matter  of  devout 
thankfulness  that  this  champion  for  the  faith  was 
able  to  speak  with  such  firmness  and  love.  And 
now  that  the  Baptist  Union  has  made  it  possible,  in 
the  same  spirit  of  moderation  and  love  he  has  met 
them,  and  the  most  enthusiastic  event  of  the  late 
anniversarv  was  the  healing  of  the  breach  which  had 
been  so  afflictive  to  all. 


August  Spies'  Old  Papee. — Never  has  the  amel- 
iorating influence  of  prosperity  been  better  illus- 
trated than  in  the  evolution  of  the  Arheiter  Zeitung 
from  a  blood-thirsty,  anarchist  sheet  to  a  conserva- 
tive money-making  concern.  While  its  editors  and 
publishers  had  nothing  to  lose,  it  fairly  reeked  with 
abuse  of  society,  capital  and  law.  Day  after  day  it 
preached  the  subversion  of  order  and  the  confisca- 
tion of  property,  until  in  the  Haymarket  massacre 
its  teachings  bore  their  legitimate  fruit,  and  in  the 
execution  of  its  editor  they  received  their  proper 
punishment. 

Now,  however,  the  Arheiter  Zdtung  has  accumu- 
lated a  little  property.  It  has  become  the  organ  of 
the  conservative,  peaceful  socialists.  It  has  its  sub- 
scription list  and  its  advertising  patronage,  and 
gradually  it  has  left  behind  it  the  rabies  of  Most 
and  Spies,  and  has  emerged  into  a  decent-spoken 
and  prosperous  conservatism.  Its  divorce  from  its 
old  follies,  furies,  and  fallacies  is  not  perfect,  but 
the  departure  is  gratifying  as  showing  anew  the 
modifying  effect  of  property-holding  on  the  average 
anarchist. — Daily  News. 

TSaTIMONlALS  AND  COMMENDATIONS. 

I  have  read  the  Cynosure  several  months  and  find  it 
truly  interesting.  It  is  the  beat  religious  paper  I  ever 
read. — Richard  Suephkrd. 

The  Cynosure  is  the  best  paper  I  ever  read.  I  want  to 
soon  join  in  your  army  opposing  secret  orders. — Ghablbs 
Watson. 

I  find  the  Cynosure  very  interesting.  My  daughter 
reads  it  every  evening  when  she  comes  home  from  school. 
I  shall  renew  my  subscription. — Mus.  L.  Ross. 

The  Cynosure  is  a  good  paper.  I  will  renew.  I  like 
its  principles.  Though  I  belong  to  a  lodge  I  believe  the 
paper  is  right . —P .  Chapman  . 

My  husband  believes  in  the  Cynoaure.  Ho  takes  it  on 
the  boat  with  him  evory  week.     1  will  renew.— Mrs. L. 

RlVEHS. 

I  didn't  like  the  Cynosure  at  first,  but  I  am  satisfied 
now  it  is  right.  My  husband  is  very  much  interested  in 
it      I  shall  renew.— Mrs. C.McCauthy. 

We  are  very  wi:ll  pleased  wilh  the  Cy nature.  It  is  a 
very  interesting  paper.  Wo  will  continue. — Mus.  8. 
Robinson. 

Although  the  Cynosure  burlesques  secret  orders,  and  I 
belong  to  one,  yet  the  paper  is  interesting.  I  will  re- 
new.—Mrs.  A.  Cross. 

I  am  in  sympathy  with  the  Cynosure  and  beliovo  it  is 
right.  Although  I  have  been  in  a  secret  order  I  am  not 
now.  I  would  renew.but  circumsl&ucea  will  not  permit. 
— Mbs.D.F.Bsbtrand. 


10 


THE  CHRISTIAN"  CYNOSUKE. 


Mat  31, 1888 


THE  HOME. 


A  HYMN  FOR   OUTDOOR  PREACHERS. 

SUNG  AT  THEMONT  TBMPLE  AT  JOSEPH    COOK'S    IQSTD   BOSTON 
MONDAY  LECTURE,  FEB.  37,  1888. 

Tune:  "On  Christ  the  solid  Sock  I  stand." 

O  Thou  who  In  the  wilderness  Matt.  15,  33-33. 

The  sheep  unshepherded  didst  bless,  Matt.  9 :  36. 

By  whom  the  hungry  hosts  were  fed  Matt.  14 :  21* 

With  heavenly  and  with  earthly  breid,  John  6:  33,  33. 

Help  us  beside  all  streams  to  sow,  Isa.  32 :  20. 

And  preach  Thy  Word  where'er  we  go.  Acts  8:4. 

Thou  who  within  the  Temple  gate  Matt.  26:  55. 

Didst  cry  aloud,  midst  envious  hate ;  John  7 :  28. 

Thou  who  from  human  haunts  afar  Mark  4 :  1,  2. 

Didst  teach  the  thousands  gathered  there;  Matt,  14:  13,  14- 
Oh,  bless  Thy  servants  who  proclaim  Acts  9 :  27. 

In  every  place  Thy  wondrous  name.  Acts  4: 12. 

May  voices  in  the  wilderness  John  1 :  23. 

Still  with  glad  news  the  nations  bless;  Matt.  28: 19. 

And,  as  of  old,  in  deserts  cry,  Matt.  3:  2. 

Repent,  God's  kingdom  draweth  nigh  1  Matt.  10 :  7. 

And  though  Thy  foes  with  wrath  shall  flame,  Acts  19 :  28. 

Help  us  the  Gospel  to  proclaim.  2  Tim.  4: 17. 

Mid  earth's  confusion,  scoHing,  doubt,  2  Peter  3 :  3. 

Still  may  thy  wisdom  cry  without,  Prov.  8 :  1-6. 

And,  where  the  chiefest  concourse  rolls,  Prov.  1 :  21. 

Renew  her  call  to  dying  souls ;  Ezek.  18 :  31. 

Nor  fear  the  prison,  nor  the  chain.  Acts  5 :  29,  41. 

While  sounding  loud  the  Saviour's  name.  Rom.  1 :  5, 

And  now  behold  the  threatenings,  Lord,  Acts  4 :  29. 

And  boldness  grant  to  speak  Tby  Word ;  Ac  s  9 ;  29. 

Stretch  forth  Thy  mighty  hand  divine,  Acts  4 :  30. 

Bid  light  through  all  the  nations  shine ;  Isa.  9 :  2. 

Grant  us  Thy  power,  for  help  we  call ;  1  Thess.  1 :  5. 

May  Thy  great  grace  be  on  us  all  I  A'ts  4 :  33. 

— IT.  L.  Hastings. 


HASTY    WORDS. 


Half  the  trouble  of  this  world  would  be  saved  if 
people  would  remember  that  silence  is  golden — 
when  they  are  irritated,  vexed  or  annoyed.  To  feel 
provoked  or  exasperated  at  a  trifle,  when  the  nerves 
are  exhausted,  is  perhaps  natural  to  us  in  our  im- 
perfectly sanctified  state.  But  why  put  the  annoy- 
ance into  the  shape  of  speech,  which  once  uttered, 
is  remembered;  which  may  burn  like  a  blistering 
wound,  or  rankle  like  a  poisoned  arrow?  If  a  child 
be  trying,  or  a  friend  capricious,  or  a  servant  un- 
reasonable, be  careful  what  you  say.  Do  not  speak 
while  you  feel  the  impulse  of  anger,  for  you  will  be 
almost  certain  to  say  too  much,  to  say  more  than 
your  cooler  judgment  will  approve,  and  to  speak  in 
a  way  that  you  will  regret.  Be  silent  until  the 
"sweet  by-and-by,"  when  you  shall  be  calm,  rested, 
and  self-controlled.  Above  all,  never  write  a  letter 
when  you  are  in  a  mood  of  irritation.  There  is  an 
anger  which  is  justifiable,  there  are  resentments 
which  are  righteous;  it  is  sometimes  a  duty  to  ex- 
press indignation.  But  if  you  consider  the  matter, 
the  occasions  for  putting  such  feelings  on  record  are 
comparatively  few.  They  come  once  in  a  life-time, 
perhaps,  and  to  many  fortunate  beings  they  never 
come  at  all.  Upon  the  whole,  people — our  friends 
and  neighbors — are  trying  to  do  the  best  they  can; 
and  in  hours  of  good  temper  and  health  life  wears 
a  bright  and  sunny  aspect. 

Much  of  the  friction  which  makes  the  machinery 
of  living  move  rough  and  discordant  is  caused  by 
things  too  petty  to  be  noticed  if  we  were  in  our  nor- 
mal condition.  The  hasty  word  spoken  in  petulance 
may  be  explained,  forgiven  and  forgotten.  But  the 
letter  written  in  an  ebulition  of  wounded  feeling  is 
a  fact  tangible,  not  to  be  condoned.  There  it  lies 
with  a  certain  permanence  about  it.  You  have  sent 
it  to  a  friend,  who,  reading  it  half  a  dozen  times, 
will  each  time  find  it  more  cruel  and  incisive  than 
before.  Letters  once  written  and  sent  away  cannot 
be  recalled.  You  cannot  be  sure  that  your  friend 
(or  enemy)  will  bum  them.  Hidden  in  bureau 
drawers  or  in  compartments  of  desks,  folded  up  in 
portfolios,  locked  in  boxes,  they  will,  it  may  be, 
flash  up  again  in  sudden  feud  and  fire,  months  after 
you  have  ceased  to  think  of  the  foliy  which  incited 
them,  or  the  other  folly  which  penned  them.  Never 
write  an  angry  letter  when  you  are  argry. 

All  heated  feelings  seek  the  superlative  as  an  out- 
let, and  superlatives  are  apt  to  be  dangerous.  So 
long  as  we  cling  to  the  positive  in  t  peech,  we  are 
pretty  safe. 

We  all  need  to  be  cautioned  agaicst  undue  haste 
in  speech,  but  mothers  most  of  all.  It  is  so  easy  to 
misunderstand  a  child;  so  easy  to  grieve  a  little 
person  who  is  forbidden  to  answer  back;  so  easy  to 
leave  a  picture  of  yourself  in  the  plastic  memory 
which  will  be  photographed  there  for  the  remainder 
of  life,  and  of  which  you  would  in  coming  days  be 
ashamed — Mcutery. 


WHICH  IS  BEST? 


The  venerable  Leonard  Bacon  some  years  since 
writing  to  the  Church,  Union,  said:  "If  all  organized 
congregations  of  worshipers  would  be  content  with 
being  simply  churches  of  Christ — nothing  more, 
nothing  less — each  governing  itself  under  the  su- 
premacy of  Christ  alone,  and  conceding  to  every 
other  the  same  right  of  self-government,  and  all  per- 
forming one  toward  another,  as  opportunity  may 
require,  the  duties  of  comity  and  Christian  frater- 
nity, that  would  be  sufficient  church  union.  Nor,  in 
my  judgment,  is  any  other  union  of  churches  possi- 
ble without  trenching  on  the  liberty  which  is,  and 
ever  will  be,  where  the  Spirit  of  the  Lord  is." 

This  seems  quite  in  harmony  with  our  Saviour's 
prayer  that  his  people  might  all  be  one.  But  many 
persons  are  not  content  with  such  a  union  as  this. 

In  his  "Sketches  of  the  Theological  History  of 
New  England,"  Dr.  Enoch  Pond,  discussing  the 
question  of  denominationalism,  says: 

"What  is  necessary  to  constitute  a  collection  of 
churches  a  denomination?  In  the  first  place  they 
must   have  a  name  known  and   acknowledged  as 

such Then  they  must  be  held  together  by  some 

common  specific  principles." 

This  is  truly  said;  ihe  very  first  step  in  dividing 
and  separating  those  for  whose  unity  the  Saviour 
prayed  and  died,  is  to  get  some  new  name  for  them 
to  wear.  This  is  to  distinguish,  separate  and  divide 
them  and  drive  away  those  who  will  not  consent  to 
take  upon  them  unscriptural  names  and  titles.  The 
work  is  still  going  on,  and  probably  will  go  on  until 
the  Master  comes.  What  will  he  then  say  to  those 
engaged  in  this  work?— Armory. 


ARE  YOUR  CHILDREN  SAVED* 


A  very  aged  converted  G-ypsy  woman  in  London 
used  to  say  to  me,  "He's  my  son,  Mr.  Vanderkiste, 
though  he  is  sixty  years  old."  Old  or  young,  your 
children  are  your  children.  And  are  they  all  con- 
verted? Pray  on  for  them  until  they  are.  How 
awful  to  be  the  parent  of  a  lost  soul !  Yet  more  aw- 
ful should  it  prove  thus  through  any  neglect  or  mis- 
conduct on  your  part,  in  example,  or  precept,  or 
prayer.  Teach  by  precept  continually:  "And  these 
words  which  I  command  thee  this  day  shall  be  in 
thine  heart;  and  thou  shall  teach  them  diligently 
unto  thy  children,  and  shalt  talk  of  them  when  thou 
sittest  in  thine  house."  Deut.  6.  Teach  by  pious  ex- 
ample also;  the  one  will  not  do  without  the  other. 

A  prime  minister  of  England,  better  known  for 
his  politics  than  for  his  piety,  once  said:  "Whatever 
good  advice  you  may  give  your  children,  if  the  pa- 
rents pursue  a  bad  course,  depend  upon  it  the  chil- 
dren will  follow  the  example  instead  of  the  precept. 
There  are  few  principles  of  human  nature  stronger 
than  that  of  imitation."  There  must  be  no  crooked 
and  sly  ways,  which  a  godless  world  regards  as 
cleverness  and  management.  Getting  children  "on" 
in  life,  getting  daughters  "well  married,"  as  the 
phrases  run,  are  sad  hindrances  to  piety  in  families. 
No  dust  blinds  the  eyes  like  gold  dust.  Parents,  be 
warned!  There  is  no  real  "getting on,"  and  nothing 
is  really  well,  that  wanders  from  the  circle  of  true 
piety. 

Gracious  Lord,  thy  Holy  Word  declares  that  chil- 
dren are  given  to  be  "trained  up"  for  glory.  Blessed 
be  thy  name  for  the  multitude  of  pious  parents  who 
have  seen  their  dear  children  brought  to  the  ways  of 
true  piety  by  their  precept,  their  example  and  their 
prayers.  Grant  by  thy  Spirit  to  every  parent  in- 
crease of  faith,  that  believing  prayer  for  children 
may  abound  more  and  more,  for  Christ's  sake. 
Amen. — Rev,  R.  W.  Vanderkiste. 


THE  SOUL'S  CRY  AND  THE  LORD'S  ANSWER. 

Lord,  be  thou  my  helper.     Psa,  30:  10. 
Fear  not,  I  will  help  thee.     Isa.  41:  13. 

0  Lord,  I  am  in  trouble.     Psa.  31:  9. 

Call  upon  me  in  the  day  of  trouble  and  I  will  de- 
liver thee.     Psa.  50:  15. 

Wash  mo  thoroughly  from  mine  iniquity,  and 
cleanse  me  from  my  sin.     Psa.  51:  2. 

1  will,  be  thou  clean.     Matt,  8:  3, 
Keep  the  door  of  my  lips,     Psa.  141 :  3. 

I  will  be  with  thy  mouth  and  teach  thou  what  thou 
Shalt  say.     Ex,  4:  12. 

God  be  merciful  to  me  a  sinner.     Luke  18:  13. 

Jesus  Christ  came  into  the  world  to  save  sinners. 
1  Tim.  1:  15. 

What  must  I  do  to  be  saved?     Acts  16:  30. 

Believe  on  the  Lord  Jesus  Christ  and  thou  shalt 
be  saved.     Acts  16:  31. 

O  that  I  knew  where  I  might  find  him.     Job  23:  3. 

Ye  shall  seek  me  and  fiod  me,  wIk^-  ye  shall 
search  for  me  with  all  your  heart.    Jer.  29:  13. 


Behold  I  am  vile.  What  shall  I  answer  thee? 
Job  40:  4. 

Though  your  sins  be  as  scarlet,  they  shall  be  as 
white  as  snow.     Isa.  1:  18. 

Create  in  me  a  clean  heart,  O  God.    Psa.  51:  10. 

A  new  heart  also  will  I  give  you.     Ezek.  36:  26. 

I  am  weary  with  my  groaning.     Psa.  6:  6. 

Cast  thy  burden  upon  the  Lord.     Psa.  55:  22. 

Leave  me  not,  neither  forsake  me,  0  God  of  my 
salvation.    Psa.  27:  9. 

I  will  never  leave  thee  nor  forsake  thee.  Heb. 
13:  5. 

Who  is  sufficient  for  these  things?     2  Cor.  2:  16. 

My  grace  is  sufficient  for  thee,    2  Cor.  12:9. 

My  soul  thirsteth  for  God,  for  the  living  God. 
Psa.  42:  2. 

Thine  eyes  shall  see  the  King  in  his  beauty.  laa. 
33:  17. 

My  soul  waiteth  for  the  Lord  more  than  they  that 
watch  for  the  morning.     Psa.  130:  6. 

They  that  wait  upon  the  Lord  shall  renew  their 
strength.     Isa.  40:  31. — Metsiah's  Herald. 


IN  EMBRYO. 


The  egg  In  the  shallow  brown  nest- 
How  lifeless,  how  pale  to  the  eye ! 
How  long  it  is  pressed  to  the  mother's  warm  breaBt, 
And  kept  from  the  shafts  of  the  sky  I 
Yet  listen,  my  sweet. 
Oh,  listen,  my  sweet. 
And  think  on  the  changes  that  fall. 
For  a  heart  is  beginning  to  tremble  and  beat 
Close  under  the  delicate  wall  I 

A  bird  is  astir  in  the  nest — 

The  creature  of  sunshine  and  day; 
How  little  and  weak,  with  its  wide  yeUow  beak, 
Its  body  all  naked  and  gray ! 
Yet  listen,  my  dear. 
Oh,  listen,  my  dear, 
And  think  on  the  chances  that  fall. 
For  the  carols  of  summer  are  joyful  to  hear. 
And  hope  is  the  ruler  of  all. 

As  magic  is  wrought  in  the  nest, 

The  night  is  pursued  by  the  morn. 
And  surely  at  last  from  the  walls  of  the  past 
The  life  of  the  future  is  born. 
Then  listen,  my  sweet. 
Oh,  listen,  my  sweet, 
And  think  on  the  changes  that  fall. 
For  the  heart  of  the  morrow  will  quicken  and  beat. 
And  burst  into  being  for  aU  1 

— IIarper''s  Yowig  People. 


MARY'S  BIRTHDAY  PRESENT. 


Mary  was  nearing  her  twelfth  birthday.  She  was 
asked  by  her  father,  "What  would  you  like  for  a 
birthday  present  this  year?" 

She  replied,  "Papa,  there  is  only  one  thing  I  want, 
but,  I  am  afraid  you  won't  give  it  to  me." 

"Probably  it  may  cost  too  much,"  he  answered. 
He  was  dependent  on  his  day's  work,  and  from  his 
limited  means  could  not  bestow  such  a  gift  on  the 
daughter,  whom  he  dearly  loved,  as  his  heart  prompt- 
ed. This  she  knew,  and,  with  a  care  beyond  her 
years,  had  always  been  considerate  of  their  humble 
circumstances.  She  responded  to  her  father's  re- 
mark about  cost,  "What  I  want  will  cost  you  noth- 
ing.   Will  you  promise  to  let  me  have  it?" 

For  a  moment  he  hesitated.  He  little  knew  what 
she  desired.    He  promised,  however. 

She  then  said:  "Papa,  my  birthday  comes  on  Sab- 
bath, and  I  want  you  to  go  with  me  to  church  on 
that  day.  This  is  all  I  ask.  Won't  you  do  it,  papa?" 

This  novel  request  surprised  him.  Scarcely  any- 
thing could  have  been  asked  of  him  he  was  more 
unwilling  to  do.  Some  years  before  three  children 
had  been  taken  from  him  in  one  week  by  a  conta- 
gious disease.  That  stlliction  had  embittered  his 
mind  against  God,  and  even  inclined  him  to  infidel- 
ity, if  not  to  atheism.  And  now  to  be  asked  to  at- 
tend church,  and  to  do  it  as  a  particular  favor  to  his 
child,  filled  him  with  strange  sensations.  How 
could  he  do  it?  It  seemed  impossible;  and  yet  how 
could  he  refuse  that  daughter  who  looked  so  appeal- 
ingly  into  his  face?  He  might  go  once  to  satisfy 
her.  So  he  said,  but  not  without  some  emotion, 
"Mary,  I'll  promise  you." 

She  was  overjoyed,  and  kissed  him  again  and 
again. 

"When  will  it  be  Sabbath?"  It  seemed  so  long 
away.  She  thought  it  would  never  come.  The  time 
never  moved  so  slowly  to  her,  but  the  day  came  at 
last. 

Mary  and  her  father  were  together  in  God's  house. 
She  was  indeed  a  happy  girl  to  have  him  with  her 
where  she  feared  ho  might  never  be  found.  At  the 
close  of  the  service  Mary  introduced  him  to  the 
pastor,  who  expressed  bis  gratification  at  his  pres- 


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ence  and  hoped  that  he  would  come  again.  With 
his  eyes  filled  with  tears  and  a  peculiar  trembling 
in  his  voice,  the  father  said,  "I  came  this  morning 
to  please  my  Mary.  I  intend  to  come  to-night  to 
please  myself." 

It  was  evident  that  God's  Spirit  was  at  work 
on  the  man's  heart.  True  to  his  word,  he  was 
there  in  the  evening.  It  was  not  long  before  he, 
with  his  wife,  was  converted,  and  at  Jesus's  feet 
realized  the  blessings  of  saving  grace.  He  de- 
scribed his  salvation  as  "Mary's  birthday  present." 
Soon  after,  father,  mother,  and  daughter  publicly 
professed  faith  in  Christ — a  suggestive  commen- 
tary on  that  Old  Testament  Scripture,  "A  little 
child  shall  lead  them." 

Truly,  such  a  birthday  present  is  more  precious 
than  rubies.  When  all  other  gifts  are  forgotten 
it  shall  shine  everlastingly  in  the  crown  of  her  re- 
joicing. What  better  presents  could  Christian  chil- 
dren of  unconverted  parents  desire  than  the  conver- 
sion of  these  parents?  May  God  grant  to  many 
others  Mary's  birthday  present. —  Christian  Inquirer. 


money  then,  young  and  inexperienced  as  I  was, 
might  have  led  to  my  ruin.  God  knew  best,  and  we 
can  always  safely  trust  him. 


BARLT  EXPERIENCE  OF  A  FAMOUS  RE- 
FORMER. 


In  a  letter  written  to  the  Chicago  Lever  on  the 
way  to  Oregon  from  Chico,  Cal.,  dated  April  9,  ex- 
Governor  John  P.  St.  John  speaks  of  the  old  town 
of  Yreka,  in  the  Sierra  Nevadas,  as  follows: 

It  was  here,  when  I  crossed  the  plains  early  in  the 
fifties,  I  first  met  civilizition(9uch  as  it  was)  in  Cal- 
ifornia. The  mountains  over  which,  in  those  times, 
with  pick  and  shovel,  I  tramped  many  a  day,  hunt- 
ing for  the  precious  metal,  are  in  plain  view. 

The  town,  once  the  booming  metropolis  of  this 
end  of  the  State,  is  now,  like  the  old  mining  camps 
around  it,  nearly  deserted. 

Under  the  local  mining  laws,  of  what  was  then 
called  the  Yerka  Camps,  any  person  was  entitled  to 
hold  as  a  "surface  claim"  all  ground  that  they  would 
mark  off  by  digging  little  trenches,  four  feet  apart, 
like  corn  furrows.  I  went  there  to  "dig  for  gold," 
and  of  course  was  very  anxious  to  own  a  claim. 
Being  a  "tender  foot,"  as  new  comers  were  called, 
I  had  no  knowledge  of  mining;  but  observing  one 
day  a  beautiful  knoll  near  the  mouth  of  McBride's 
gulch,  about  one  mile  north  of  Yerka,  and  it  being 
nicely  shaded  by  several  broad-topped  oaks,  I  con- 
cluded it  would  be  a  delightful  spot  upon  which  to 
locate  a  mining  claim.  So  with  pick  and  shovel  I 
proceeded  to  comply  with  the  law,  covering  with 
trenches  the  entire  knoll.  I  then  went  to  work  by  the 
day  to  earn  sufficient  money  to  buy  tools  and  enable 
me  to  pay  at  the  rate  of  $200  per  thousand  feet  for 
lumber  necessary  to  construct  sluices,  to  be  used 
in  working  my  claim.  A  rich  old  man  named  Haw- 
kins owned  a  ditch  which  conveyed  the  water  used 
in  working  the  surface  mines  in  that  vicinity.  So 
when  I  had  everything  ready  to  go  to  work  I  agreed 
to  pay  him  $16  per  day  for  water,  and  with  four 
hired  men  my  mining  operations  were  commenced 
in  earnest,  and  vigorously  prosecuted  for  a  week, 
when,  according  to  custom,  and  with  expectations 
of  great  results,  we  proceeded  "to  clean  up,"  as  the 
miners  termed  it;  but  when  we  had  got  together  the 
proceeds  of  the  week's  work,  I  discovered  that  it 
had  cleaned  me  up,  having  only  made  enough  to  pay 
my  hired  hands,  leaving  me  without  a  penny  to  ap- 
ply on  the  water  bill.  I  had  never  been  in  debt  be- 
fore without  money  to  pay.  So  when  the  old  man 
called  for  the  $96  due  him  for  water  I  scarcely  knew 
what  to  say  or  do.  But  at  last  I  mustered  up  cour- 
age to  tell  him  the  exact  situation,  and  proposed  to 
give  him  my  claim,  sluices  and  tools  for  the  debt, 
which  he  promptly  accepted;  and  I  at  once  ceased  to 
be  a  capitalist  and  again  became  a  laborer.  Mr. 
Hawkins  immediately  commenced  operating  the 
mine  on  his  own  account,  and  had  not  worked  over 
two  hours  when  he  found  a  gold  nugget  worth  $1,038, 
which  I,  in  digging  the  trenches  required  to  hold  the 
claim,  had  struck  twice  with  my  pick,  and  the  marks 
were  plainly  visible.  The  further  development  of 
the  mine  proved  it  to  be  immensely  rich;  and  dur- 
iug  the  next  few  weeks  many  thousandti  uf  dollars 
worth  of  gold  were  taken  out  of  a  space  the  surface  of 
which  was  nut  more  than  one  hundred  feet  i-quare 

I  was  young,  sober  and  industrious,  and  thought 
that  I  deserved  success,  and  could  not  see  the  justice 
of  an  overruling  Providence  which  seemed  to  trans- 
fer this  fortune  from  a  poor  boy  to  an  old  man,  who 
was  already  rich. 

This  incident  for  a  time  caused  me  to  almost  lose 
faiLh  in  the  existence  of  a  God,  and  stood  as  a 
mighty  stumbling-block  in  my  way.  But  it  was 
long  ago  made  clear  to  me.  It  taught  me  the  les- 
son that  that  which  sometimes  seems  to  us  to  be 
unjust,  harsh  and  cruel,  is  only  a  blessing  in  dis- 
guise.     The  posseasioa  of  so  large  an  amount  of 


TEMPEEANCK 


COMMON  MARTYRS. 


"What  is  your  name?"  asked  the  teacher. 

"Tommy  Brown,  ma'am,"  answered  the  boy. 

He  was  a  pathetic  little  figure,  with  a  thin  face, 
large  hollow  eyes,  and  pale  cheeks,  that  plainly  told 
of  insufficient  food.  He  wore  a  suit  of  clothes  evi- 
dently made  for  some  one  else.  They  were  patched 
in  places  with  cloth  of  different  colors.  His  shoes 
were  old,  his  hair  cut  square  in  the  neck  in  the  un- 
practiced  manner  that  women  sometimes  cut  boys' 
hair.  It  was  a  bitter  day,  yet  he  wore  no  overcoat, 
and  his  bare  hands  were  red  with  the  cold. 

"How  old  are  you.  Tommy?" 

"Nine  years  old,  come  next  April.  I've  learnt  to 
read  at  home,  and  I  can  cipher  a  little." 

"Well,  it  is  time  for  you  to  begin  school.  Why 
have  you  never  come  before?" 

The  boy  fumbled  with  a  cap  in  his  hands,  and  did 
not  reply  at  once.  It  was  a  ragged  cap  with  frayed 
edges,  and  the  original  color  of  the  fabric  no  man 
could  tell. 

Presently  he  said:  "I  never  went  to  school  'cause 
— 'cause — well,  mother  takes  in  washin'  an'  she 
couldn't  spare  me.  But  Sissy  is  big  enough  now  to 
help,  an'  she  minds  the  baby  besides." 

It  was  not  quite  time  for  school  to  begin.  All 
around  the  teacher  and  the  new  scholar  stood  the 
boys  that  belonged  in  the  room.  While  he  was 
making  his  confused  explanation,  some  of  the  boys 
laughed,  and  one  of  them  called  out:  "Miss  Brown 
— Oh,  Miss  Brown !  How  much  do  you  charge  a 
dozen  for  collars  and  cuffs?"  And  another  said: 
"You  must  sleep  in  the  rag-bag  at  night,  by  the 
looks  of  your  clothes."  Before  the  teacher  could 
quiet  them,  another  boy  had  volunteered  the  in- 
formation that  the  father  of  the  new  boy  was  "old  Si 
Brown,  who  is  always  drunk  as  a  fiddler." 

The  poor  child  looked  around  at  his  tormentors 
like  a  hunted  thing.  Then  before  the  teacher  could 
detain  him,  with  a  suppressed  cry  of  misery,  he  ran 
out  of  the  room,  out  of  the  building,  and  down  the 
street,  and  was  seen  no  more. 

The  teacher  went  about  her  duties  with  a  troubled 
heart.  All  day  long  the  child's  pitiful  face  haunted 
her.  At  night  it  came  to  her  dreams.  She  could 
not  rid  herself  of  the  memory  of  it.  After  a  little 
trouble  she  found  the  place  where  he  lived,  and  two 
of  the  W.  C.  T.  U.  women  went  to  visit  him. 

It  was  a  dilapidated  house  in  a  street  near  the 
river.  The  family  lived  in  the  back  part  of  the 
house,  in  a  frame  addition.  The  ladies  climbed  the 
outside  stairs  that  led  up  to  the  room  occupied  by 
the  Brown  family.  When  they  first  entered  they 
could  scarcely  discern  objects,  the  room  was  so 
filled  with  the  steam  of  the  soap  suds.  There  were 
two  windows,  but  a  tall  brick  building  shut  out  the 
light.  It  was  a  gloomy  day,  too,  with  gray,  lowering 
clouds  that  forbade  even  the  memory  of  sunshine. 

A  woman  stood  before  a  wash-tub.  When  they 
entered  she  wiped  her  hands  on  her  apron  and  came 
forward  to  meet  them.  Once  she  had  been  pretty. 
But  the  color  and  light  had  all  gone  out  of  her  face, 
leaving  only  sharpened  outlines  and  baggardness  of 
expression. 

She  asked  them  to  sit  down,  in  a  listless,  uninter- 
ested manner.  Then,  taking  a  chair  herself,  she 
said: 

"Sissy,  give  me  the  baby." 

A  little  girl  came  forward  from  a  dark  corner  of 
the  room,  carrying  a  baby  that  she  laid  in  its  moth- 
er's lap — a  lean  and  sickly  looking  baby,  with  the 
same  hollow  eyes  that  little  Tommy  had. 

"Your  baby  doesn't  look  strong,"  said  one  of  the 
ladies. 

"No,  ma'am,  she  ain't  well.  I  have  to  work  hard, 
and  I  expect  it  affects  her,"  and  the  woman  coughed 
as  she  held  the  child  to  her  breast. 

This  room  was  the  place  where  the  family  ate, 
slept  and  lived.  There  was  no  carpst  on  the  tloor; 
and  an  old  table,  three  or  four  chairs,  a  broken 
stove,  a  bed  m  one  corner,  in  an  opposite  corner  a 
trundle-bed — that  was  all. 

"Where  is  your  little  boy  Tommy?" 

"He  is  there  in  the  trundle-bed,"  replied  the 
mother. 

"Is  he  sick?" 

"Yes'm,  and  the  doctor  thinks  be  ain't  going  to 
get  well."  At  this,  the  mother  laid  her  head  on  the 
baby's  face,  while  the  tears  ran  down  bor  thin  faded 
cheeks. 

"What  is  the  matter  with  him?" 

"He  was  never  very  strong,  and  he's  had  to  work 


too  hard,  carrying  water,  and  helping  me  to  lift  the 
wash-tubs  and  things  like  that" 
"Is  his  father  dead?" 

"No,  he  ain't  dead.  He  used  to  be  a  good  work- 
man, and  we  had  a  comfortable  home.  But  all  be 
earns  now — and  that  ain't  much — goes  for  drink. 
If  he'd  only  let  me  have  what  little  I  make  over  the 
wash-tub.  But  half  the  time  he  takes  that  away 
from  me,  and  then  the  children  go  hungry." 

She  took  the  child  off  her  shoulder.  It  was  asleep 
now,  and  she  laid  it  on  her  lap. 

"Tommy  has  been  crazy  to  go  to  school.  I  never 
could  spare  him  till  this  winter.  He  thought  if  he 
could  get  a  little  education  he'd  be  able  to  take  care 
of  Sissy  and  baby  and  me.  He  knew  he'd  never  be 
able  to  work  hard.  So  I  fixed  up  his  clothes  as  well 
as  I  could  and  so  last  week  he  started.  I  was  afraid 
the  boys  would  laugh  at  him,  but  he  thought  be 
could  stand  it  if  they  did.  I  stood  in  the  door  and 
watched  him  go.  I  can't  ever  forget  how  the  little 
fellow  looked,"  she  continued,  the  tears  streaming 
down  her  face.  "His  patched  up  clothes,  his  old 
shoes,  his  ragged  cap,  bis  poor  little  anxious  look. 
He  turned  round  to  me  as  he  left  the  yard  and  said: 
'Don't  you  worry,  mother;  I  ain't  going  to  mind 
what  the  boys  say.'  But  he  did  mind.  It  wasn't 
an  hour  till  he  was  back  again.  I  believe  the  child's 
heart  was  just  broke.  I  thought  mine  was  broke 
years  ago.  If  it  was,  it  was  broke  over  again  that 
day.  I  can  stand  most  anything  myself,  but  ob,  I 
can't  bear  to  see  my  children  suffer!"  Here  she 
broke  down  in  a  fit  of  convulsive  weeping.  The 
little  girl  came  up  to  her  quietly,  and  stole  a  thin 
little  arm  around  her  mother's  neck.  "Don't  cry, 
mother,"  she  whispered,  "don't  cry." 

The  woman  made  an  effort  to  check  her  tears,  and 
wiped  her  eyes.  As  soon  as  she  could  speak  with 
any  degree  of  calmness,  she  continued: 

"Poor  little  Tommy  cried  all  day.  I  couldn't 
comfort  him.  He  said  it  wasn't  any  use  trying  to 
do  anything.  Folks  would  only  laugh  at  him  for 
being  a  drunkard's  little  boy.  I  tried  to  comfort 
him  before  my  husband  came  home.  I  told  him  bis 
father  would  be  mad  if  he  saw  him  crying.  But  it 
wasn't  any  use.  Seemed  like  be  couldn't  stop.  Hia 
father  came  and  saw  him.  He  wouldn't  have  done 
it  if  he  hadn't  been  drinking.  He  ain't  a  bad  man 
when  he  is  sober.  1 1  ate  to  tell  it,  but  he  whipped 
Tommy.  And  the  child  fell  and  struck  his  bead. 
I  suppose  he'd  a-been  sick  anyway.  But  ob,  my 
poor  little  boy!  My  sick,  suffering  child!"  she 
cried,  "how  can  they  let  men  sell  a  thing  that  makes 
the  innocent  suffer  so?" 

A  little  voice  spoke  from  the  bed.  One  of  the 
ladies  went  to  him.  There  he  lay,  poor,  little,  de- 
fenseless victim.  He  lived  in  a  Christian  land,  in  a 
country  that  takes  great  care  to  pass  laws  to  protect 
sheep,  and  diligently  legislates  over  its  game. 
Would  that  the  children  were  as  precious  as  brutes 
and  birds! 

His  face  was  flushed  and  the  hollowed  eyes  were 
bright.  There  was  a  long,  purple  mark  on  bis  tem- 
ple. He  put  up  one  little,  wasted  band  to  cover  it, 
while  he  said: 

"Father  would't  have  done  it  if  he  hadn't  been 
drinking."  Tben  in  his  queer,  piping  voice,  weak 
with  sickness,  be  half  whispered,  "I'm  glad  I'm  go- 
ing to  die.  I'm  too  weak  to  help  mother  anyhow. 
Up  in  heaven  the  angels  ain't  going  to  call  me  a 
drunkard's  child,  and  make  fun  of  me.  And  maybe 
if  I'm  right  there  where  God  is  I  can  keep  remind- 
ing him  of  mother,  and  he'll  make  it  easier  for  her." 

He  turned  his  head  feebly  on  his  pillow,  and  then 
said,  in  a  lower  tone:  "Some  day — they  ain't  going 
— to  let  the  saloons — keep  open.  But  Tm  afraid — 
poor  father — will  be  dead — before  then."  Tben  he 
shut  his  eyes  from  weariness. 

The  next  morning  the  sun  shone  in  on  the  dead 
face  of  little  Tommy. 

He  is  only  one  in  many.  There  are  bundretls  like 
him  in  tenement-houses,  in  slums,  and  alleys,  in 
town  and  country.  Poor  little  martyrs,  whose  tears 
fall  almost  unheeded;  who  are  cold  and  hungry  in 
this  Christian  land;  whose  hearts  and  bodies  are 
bruised  with  unkindncas.  And  yet  "the  liquor 
traffic  is  a  legitimate  business  and  must  not  be  in- 
terfered with,"  so  it  is  said. 

Over  eighteen  hundred  years  ago  it  was  also  said: 

"Whoso  shall  offend  one  of  these  little  ones  which 
believe  in  mo,  it  were  better  for  him  that  .s  millstone 
were  banged  alx>ut  hia  neck  and  that  he  were 
drowned  in  the  depth  of  the  sea." — Selecied. 


Boston  real  estate  dealers  state  that  in  prohibi- 
tion suburbs  property  is  rising  constantly  in  value, 
while  license  always  retards  growth. 

Scotland  has  137  iwstoUicea  kept  in  platoa  where 
intoxicating  liquors  are  sold. 


12 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSUKE. 


Mat  31, 1888 


Bible  Lesson. 


STUDIES  IN  TKB  NEW  TESTAMENT. 
LESSON  XI.    Second  Quarter.- June  10. 
SUBJECT.- Jesus  Risen.— Matt.  28: 1-15 
GOLDEN  TEXT.— But  now  is  Christ  risen  from  the  dead, and 
become  the  first  fruits  of  them  that  slept.    1  Cor,  15 :20. 

I  Oven  tht  Bibi«  and  read  the  lesson.} 
COMMENTS  ON  THE  LESSON  BY  E.  E.  FLAGG. 
1.  The  Women  at  the  Sepulchre,  vs.  1-8.  The  open 
tomb  and  the  risen  Lord  has  made  Christianity  the  relig 
ion  of  the  sorrowing.  "Because  I  live  ye  shall  live  also," 
are  words  that  arch  with  a  rainbow  hope  the  grave  of 
every  believer.  The  Resurrection  ha?  many  precious 
lessons.  (1)  That  what  brings  joy  to  Christ's  disciples 
brings  only  dismay  and  terror  to  his  enemies.  (2)  That 
the  believer  has  no  reason  to  fear  even  in  the  face  of  su- 
pernatural events.  It  is  the  heathen,  Jeremiah  tells  us, 
who  are  dismayed  atsignsin  the  heavens.  Jer.  10:2.  (3) 
OurChrist  is  a  livingChrist.  He  is  not  to  be  found  entombed 
in  dead  formalisms  and  traditions  of  the  past.  The  sep- 
ulchre of  a  barren  creed  will  not  hold  him,  nor  of  a  life 
which  is  spiritual  deadnees.  (4)  The  mission  given  to 
all  Christians  to  preach  this  living  Christ,  a  Christ  who 
goes  before  us  and  meets  us  on  every  mountain  top  of 
higher  experience.  (5)  The  special  call  to  consecrated 
women.  Never  has  the  call  been  so  urgent  as  now ; 
never  so  nobly  responded  to.  The  W.  C.  T.  U.  are 
showing  to  the  world  the  Christ  of  Isaiah's  vision,  "who 
will  not  fail  nor  be  discouraged  till  he  have  set  judgment 
in  the  earth,  and  the  isles  shall  wait  for  his  law," — the 
Seed  of  the  woman  under  whose  heel  the  serpent  of  the 
saloon,  of  social  impurity  and  evil  of  every  nature  shall 
finally  be  crushed .  (6)  As  the  Resurrection  is  Chris- 
tianity's central  truth,  so  all  false  religions  try  to  coun- 
terfeit it.  In  the  ancient  mysteries  the  death  and  resur- 
rection of  the  sun-god  under  the  names  of  Osiris.Adonis 
or  Baal  was  acted  out,  and  the  Masonic  lodge  of  to  day 
by  the  testimony  of  its  own  writers  does  identically  the 
same  thing  when  it  acts  out  the  murder  and  raising  again 
of  Hiram  AbifE.  St.  Paul  tells  us  (1  Cor.  15:13-22)that 
the  doctrine  of  the  Resurrection  contains  the  promise  of 
our  own  immortality,  and  this  Masonic  travesty  of  it  is 
Satan's  way  of  mocking  Christ  and  deluding  men.  Odd- 1 
fellowship  holds  out  a  similar  false  hope  of  salvation  by 
assuring  them  that  over  their  departed, without  any  refer- 
ence to  moral  character  "bends  a  bow  bright  with  im- 
mortality." The  lodge  is  a  broken  cistern  that  holds  no 
water,  while  Christianity  stands  by  the  wellspring  of 
eternal  life,  sounding  her  gracious  invitation,  "Ho! 
every  one  that  thirsteth." 

2.  T?ie  meeting  with  Jestis.  vs.  9, 10.  Jesus  meets  the 
feet  swift  to  do  his  will  which  do  not  stop  to  wonder  or 
doubt.  Slow,  laggard,  faithless  disciples  will  always  miss 
the  heavenly  vision.  "Go,  tell  my  brethren,"  etc.  What 
Christian  heart  can  read  this  message  without  a  throb  ? 
"He  is  not  ashamed  to  call  them  brethren."  But  how 
can  one  who  has  received  such  a  title  from  his  Lord,  al- 
low himself  to  be  called  "brother"  by  men  who  may  be 
profane  swearers,  saloon  keepers,  atheists?  Anything 
more  repugnant  to  the  heart  of  a  true  disciple  can  hard- 
ly be  conceived  than  such  a  union  with  unbelievers;  and 
from  this  point  of  view  alone,  every  Christian  ought 
to  see  how  incompatible  is  such  membership  with  oath- 
bound  fraternities  and  membership  with  Christ. 

3.  The  Falsehood  of  the  Chief  Priests,  vs.  11-15.  The 
chief  priests  were  the  Jesuits  of  their  time.  With  them 
the  end  always  justified  the  means.  We  see  an  instance 
in  the  counsel  of  Caiaphas  to  destroy  Jesus, reasoning  that 
it  was  better  for  one  man  to  die  than  a  whole  nation.  But 
the  murder  of  an  innocent  man  can  never  be  justified, 
not  even  if  the  destruction  of  a  whole  people  might  be  thus 
averted.  Nor  can  any  possible  good  to  be  gained  justify 
bribery  and  falehood.  But  we  have  many  Jesuit  politi- 
cians who  think  it  is  better  that  souls  and  bodies  should 
be  murdered  by  drink  than  to  cut  off  this  source  of  na- 
tional revenue  by  abolishing  it  altogether.  That  the  sol- 
diers could  know  what  was  being  done  while  they  slept, 
or  that,  knowing  that  the  penalty  of  sleeping  was  death, 
they  should  all  be  asleep  at  once,  was  absurd;  but  the 
credulity  which  could  believe  such  a  story  was  no  worse 
than  that  of  the  present  day  which  rejects  Christ  and  the 
R«BurrectioD,yet  swallows  whole  all  the  old  wives'  fables 
of  spiritualistic  mediums. 


Keligious  News. 


— It  is  a  curious  and  interesting  fact  that  over  fifty 
Presbjterian  ministers  in  the  United  States  and  Canada 
were  at  one  time  Roman  Catholic  priests,  (^uitc  a  num 
ber  of  converted  priests  are  now  Methodist  ministers  and 
members  of  the  I'roterant  Episcopal  church.  Id  the  Bap 
tiat  ministry  also  there  are  converted  Raman  Catholics. 


— Tbe  Methodist  General  Conference  decided  last 
week  on  an  important  change  in  the  pastoral  term, 
increasing  it  from  three  to  five  years.  Five  new 
bishops  were  elected,  the  balloting  continuing 
through  several  days.  The  choice  was  Dr.  Vincent 
of  Chautauqua  fame,  Dr.  Fitzgerald,  missionary  sec- 
retary, Drs.  Joyce,  Goodsell,  and  J.  P.  Newman, 
who  went  to  California  to  preach  the  funeral  sermon 
of  Senator  Stanford's  son.  Miss  Frances  E.  Willard 
was  nominated  to  succeed  Dr.  Buckley  as  editor  of 
the  Central  Christian  Advocate,  but  the  vote  decided 
that  the  Dr.  should  succeed  himself. 

— The  General  Assembly  of  the  United  Presby- 
terian church  opened  last  Wednesday  in  Cedar  Rap- 
ids, Iowa.  There  were  253  delegates  in  attendance. 
On  the  second  day  several  memorials  against  the 
use  of  tobacco  by  ministers  were  presented.  Rev. 
Dr.  Meloy  of  Chicago  was  elected  moderator. 

— There  has  been  a  great  increase  of  missionary 
spirit  among  the  students  of  Union  Seminary,  Va., 
largely  ascribed  to  the  recent  visit  of  Dr.  Houston. 
Seven  of  the  young  men  have  decided  to  go  as  mis- 
sionaries, and  others  are  considering  the  subject. 
An  effort  is  being  made  to  raise  enough  money  to 
support  a  minister  in  the  foreign  field.  The  faculty 
have  given  $100,  the  students  of  Hampden  Sidney 
College  $100,  and  the  young  men  of  the  seminary 
are  to  give  the  rest. 

— The  United  Presbyterian  Seminary  at  Allegheny 
has  resolved  to  send  out  a  missionary  to  India  in 
October  next;  the  choice  has  fallen  on  the  Rev.  J. 
H.  Martin,  just  graduated.  His  salary  ($1,200)  has 
been  pledged  for  ten  years  by  the  seminary  and  con- 
tiguous colleges  of  the  denomination. 

— Xenia  Theological  Seminary  has  also  started  a 
similar  movement,  and  the  students  and  faculty  have 
pledged  $330  annually  for  ten  years  toward  the  sup- 
port of  a  missionary.  They  hope  to  get  the  balance 
needed  from  certain  colleges  in  the  connection. 

— The  United  Presbyterian  Women's  General 
Missionary  Society  met  lately  in  Washington,  Pa. 
During  the  past  year  this  society  has  contributed  to 
the  missionary  work  $50,000.  It  proposes  now  to 
build  a  hospital  to  be  in  charge  of  a  lady  physician 
in  India. 

— Dr.  Dougan  Clark,  an  eminent  minister  among 
the  Friends  and  professor  of  Greek  in  Earlham  Col- 
lege, Richmond,  Indiana,  has  resigned  his  position 
in  that  institution,  and  has  been  succeeded  by  Au- 
gustus T.  Murray. 

— The  Augastana  Synod  of  the  Scandinavian 
Evangelical  Lutheran  church  holds  its  annual  ses- 
sion at  Galesburg,  111.,  June  14  to  27. 

— Mr.  Sankey  goes  to  England  in  May  for  a 
series  of  meetings  to  be  held  through  the  country. 

— One  of  the  results  of  Mr.  Needham's  recent  re- 
vival work  in  Springfield,  Mass.,  was  such  a  demand 
for  Bibles  as  the  city  had  never  before  known. 

— St.  George's  Episcopal  church,  New  York,  does 
an  efficient  work  in  sending  poor  people  to  the 
country  and  seaside,  and  Dr.  Rainsford's  appeal  for 
funds  to  commence  this  season's  work  resulted  in 
an  immediate  contribution  of  $16,500. 

— The  Eleventh  World's  Conference  of  Young 
Men's  Christian  Assoiations  will  be  held  in  Stock- 
holm. Arrangements  are  making  for  a  special  party 
to  sail  by  the  City  of  Berlin,  July  21. 

— The  North  Michigan  United  Brethren  Confer- 
ence adopted  strong  resolutions  at  a  late  meeting 
against  the  attempt  to  deliver  the  denomination  over 
to  the  lodge. 

— The  Central  Congregational  church,  Philadel- 
phia, Rev.  Dr.  J.  R.  Dan  forth,  pastor,  has  recently 
received  140  to  membership. 

— The  Second  United  Presbyterian  church,  Alle- 
gheny, Pa.,  has  had  a  gracious  revival,  adding  169 
to  its  membership. 

— The  ragged  Sunday-schools  in  London  contain 
40,000  scholars  and  5,000  teachers. 

— Three-fourths  of  the  Bibles  shipped  from  New 
York  to  Foreign  Mission  stations  go  to  Mexico  and 
South  America. 

—  George  MuUer,  known  throughout  the  Christian 
world  for  his  faith  and  work,  is  now  eighty-two 
yeard  old,  yet  he  is  hale  and  hearty  and  as  full  of 
zeal  and  acUvity  as  ever.  He  has  just  returned  to 
England  after  a  preaching  tour  of  thirty-seven 
thousand  miles,  principally  in  Australia,  China  and 
Japan.  Upon  his  arrival  at  Bristol  he  was  greeted 
most  warmly  by  two  thousand  children.  Mr.  Wright, 
his  son-in-law,  had  cliargo  of  his  orphanage  during 
his  absence,  and  conducted  it  upon  the  same  plan 
and  principles. 


— According  to  a  London  paper,  the  New  Testa- 
ment in  Arabic  is  in  demand  in  the  land  of  Moab. 
In  one  day  a  colporteur  sold  fifty-four  copies — flour 
being  the  purchasing  power. 

— Rev.  J.  W.  Youngson,  of  the  Church  of  Scot- 
land Mission,  Sealkote,  Punjab,  India,  reports  451 
baptisms  of  converted  heathen  from  Jan.  1  to  Oct. 
1  of  last  year. 

— It  is  stated  that  a  nephew  of  the  late  King  Ce- 
tewayo,  after  six  years  in  Sweden  in  theological  and 
other  studies,  has  gone  back  to  carry  on  mission 
work  in  his  own  native  land. 

— A  member  of  one  of  the  struggling  Protestant 
churches  of  Paris  said  to  a  friend:  "It  is  a  rule  in 
our  church  that  when  one  brother  is  converted,  he 
must  go  and  bring  another  brother;  and  when  a 
sister  is  converted,  she  must  go  and  bring  another 
sister.  That  is  the  way  150  of  us  have  been  brought 
from  atheism  and  popery  to  simple  faith  in  the  Lord 
Jesus  Christ." 

— The  first  Malay  convert  has  been  baptized  in 
Singapore,  in  the  person  of  a  woman  who  was  led 
to  Christ  by  Miss  Blackmore,  of  the  Woman's  For- 
eign Missionary  Society.  This  woman  has  had  a 
wonderful  career.  When  a  child  she  was  taken  pris- 
oner, with  her  family,  by  cannibals.  The  father 
was  killed  and  eaten,  but  the  daughter  was  subse- 
quently rescued  by  a  trader,  whose  wife  cared  for 
her  and  brought  her  up. 

— Rev.  J.  F.  Avery,  says  the  Christian  Enquirer 
of  New  York,  feels  that  there  is  great  cause  to 
thank  God  respecting  the  work  and  outlook  at  Mari- 
ner's Temple.  Since  January  meetings  have  been 
held  every  evening  excepting  Saturday,  and  often 
as  many  as  200  are  present.  The  Sunday  congre- 
gations are  quite  cheering.  Two  weeks  ago  an  out- 
door praise  meeting  was  started  on  the  Temple  steps 
and  portico,  and  last  Sunday  the  street  was  a  mass 
of  people,  over  200  attending  the  service  in  the 
church.  Often  as  many  as  a  dozen  pledges  are 
taken  at  the  Gospel  temperance  meetings.  Several 
very  gracious  and  remarkable  conversions  have  re- 
cently occurred,  and  so  God  is  blessing  the  work  in 
this  difficult  field. 

— President  Cleveland  and  Mrs.  Cleveland  attend- 
ed a  reception  given  to  the  members  of  the  General 
Presbyterian  Assemblies,  North  and  South,  at  Phil- 
adelphia Wednesday.  A  committee  appointed  by 
the  Northern  assembly,  in  compliance  with  the  Pres- 
ident's request,  held  a  conference  with  him  on  the 
question  of  schools  among  the  Indians. 

— The  fiftieth  anniversary  of  the  Congregational 
church  at  Rockton,  111.,  claimed  to  be  the  oldest  in 
Northern  Illinois,  was  celebrated  Friday. 

— The  Baptist  Year  Book,  just  issued,  records  a 
membership  of  2,917,315  in  the  31,891  churches. 
During  the  year  158,373  were  added  to  the  member- 
ship, and  608  new  churches  were  established.  It 
appears  that  only  697,081,  or  less  than  a  third  of 
the  aggregate  membership,  are  in  what  are  called  the 
Northern  States. 

— Dr.  Wm.  M.  Taylor,  of  the  Broadway  Taber- 
nacle, has  been  elected  President  of  the  American 
Missionary  Association,  to  succeed  the  late  ex-Gov- 
ernor Washburn. 

— The  American  Home  Missionary  Society  will 
hold  its  sixty-second  annual  session  in  Saratoga, 
June  5-7.  Dr.  George  Leon  Walker  will  preach  the 
annual  sermon. 

— The  late  Emperor  William  of  Germany  was  a 
liberal  subscriber  to  the  funds  of  the  London  So- 
ciety for  promoting  Christianity  among  the  Jews. 
The  society  expended  last  year  $186,720. 

— The  sad  news  has  reached  London  that  Bishop 
Parker  and  the  Rev.  Joseph  Blackburn  died  on  the 
26th  of  March,  of  sickness  in  the  Unyoro  country, 
to  the  southeast  of  the  Albert  Nyanza.  Bishop 
Parker  was  the  successor  of  the  lamented  Bishop 
Hannington,  who  was  put  to  death  by  orders  of  the 
King  of  Uganda.  He  was  the  second  bishop  of 
Eastern  Equatorial  Africa.  He  was  a  graduate  of 
Trinity  College,  Cambridge,  and  was  consecrated 
priest  in  1876  and  bishop  in  1886. 

— An  American  lady  in  Russia,  in  a  letter  to  the 
editor  of  The  Interior,  writes  in  confirmation  of  the 
statement  we  gave  some  time  ago  as  to  the  persecu- 
tion of  Lutherans  in  the  Baltic  provinces.  She  says: 
"Betweea  sixty  and  seventy  Lutheran  clergymen 
have  been  arrested,  and  a  part  of  this  number  have 
already  received  sentence  of  banishment  to  Siberia, 

while  others  are  held  to  bail  awaiting  trial If  1 

had  the  strength  I  might  tell  you  tales  that  would 
make  every  American's  blood  boil  with  indignation; 
and  these  things  are  not  done  in  a  corner,  nor  in  the 
darkness  of  the  Middle  Ages,  but  in  the  full  light 
of  the  nineteenth  century  and  in  civilized,  enlight- 
'ened  Russia." 


Mat  31, 1888 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSUEJE. 


IS 


Lodge  Notes. 

Wm.  H.  Jordan  of  San  Francisco  is  Su- 
preme Master  Workman  of  the  Ancient 
Order  of  United  Workmen.  He  is  Speak- 
er of  the  California  House  of  Representa- 
tives. 

Medinah  Temple,  Masonic  Nobles  of 
the  Mystic  Slirine.of  Chicago,  went  late- 
ly to  Grand  Rapids,  Mich.,  and  conferred 
degrees  for  the  members  of  Saladin  Tem- 
ple at  the  annual  meeting  of  the  Qrand 
Lodge  of  Michigan.  Sheriff  Matson  of 
McQarigle  fame  was  one  of  the  number. 
The  Masonic  Board  of  Relief  of  Chica- 
go was  organized  last  Thursday  night  at 
Apollo  Hall,  No.  78  Monroe  street.  Thir- 
ty lodges  were  represented  at  the  organi- 
zation. Grand  Master  John  C.  Smith 
was  elected  president,  George  K.  Hostell 
first  vice-president.  G.  W.Warville  second 
vice-president,  W.  K.  Forsyth  treasurer, 
and  Joseph  H.  Dixon,  the  ex-detective, 
secretary. 

The  body  of  Robert  Martin  was  cre- 
mated at  St.  Louis  last  week.  He  was 
cremated  with  Masonic  honors,  conduct- 
ed by  Polar  Star  Lodge,  No.  79.  The 
ritual  was  changed  to  conform  with  the 
circumstances  and  say"the  retort"  where 
"the  grave"i8  the  common  form.  Other- 
wi89  the  services  did  not  differ  from  those 
usually  performed.  Nothing  is  said  about 
the  sprig  of  "acacia"  being  offered  to  the 
manes  of  the  dead. 

The  order  of  the  Knights  of  the  Gold- 
en E  igle  is  a  secret  benevolent  institution 
founded  in  Baltimore  in  1873.  Its  mem- 
bership now  approaches  40,000.  No  per- 
son can  be  admitted  who  is  not  "a  white 
male  of  good  moral  character,  a  believer 
in  the  existence  of  a  Supreme  Being,  of 
the  Christian  faith.free  from  any  mental 
or  bodily  infirmity,  competent  to  support 
himself  and  family  and  having  sufficient 
education  to  sign  his  own  application  for 
membership." 

Although  not  yet  twenty  years 
old  th3  membership  of  the  A.  O. 
U.  W.  in  the  United  States  and  Cana 
da  is  now  about  25,000.  New  York  leads 
in  point  of  strength,  with  Illinois,  Mis- 
souri, Cali/ornia,  and  Pennsylvania  fol- 
lowing in  the  order  named.  The  dis- 
bursements on  account  of  beneficiaries 
averages  now  $10,000  for  every  day  in 
the  year,  or  $3  650,000  per  annum. 
Lodge  expenses,  donations,  sick  benefits, 
etc.,  will  increase  the  annual  outlay  of 
the  order  to  more  than  $4,500,000.  John 
Jordan  Upchurch  was  the  founder  of  the 
order. 

The  Grand  Lodge  Ancient  Order  of 
United  Workmen  in  Iowa  has  made  some 
changes.  The  Grand  Master  Workman 
will  hereafter  appoint  the  District  Grand 
Masters,  who  will  be  paid  salaries  and 
mileage.  Notices  will  hereafter  be  print- 
ed by  the  Grand  Lodge,  and  a  member 
may  be  in  arrears  four  instead  of  three 
months  without  forfeiting  his  right  to  be 
reinstated  without  re-examination.  The 
Committee  on  Revision  recommended 
that  the  Grand  Lodge  ritual  be  abandon- 
ed for  something  more  modern.  It  was 
left  optional  with  subordinate  lodges  to 
attend  funerals  in  regalia,  and  subordi- 
nate lodges  may  compel  attendance  of 
members  or  not,  as  they  see  fit. 
• » » 

When  dread  disease,  with  iron  hand, 
Hangs  its  dark  mantle  over  thee, 
Escape  its  all-enslaving  band, 
With  Golden  Medical  Discovery. 
Dr.  R.  V.  Pierce's  Golden  Medical  Dis- 
covery cures  coughs,  colds  and  consump- 
tion if  taken  in  time.     Of  druggists. 

KXCUR8ION  RATES. 

A  very  complete  list  of  tourist  round- 
trip  rates  and  routes  to  western  points 
for  1888,  has  just  been  issued  for  free  dis- 
tribution by  C,  H.  Warren,  Gen.  Pass 
Agent,  St.  P.  M.  «fc  M,  Ry.,  St.  Paul,  Minn. 

8PIKE  THBIR  0UN8. 

A  few  dollars  expended  in  purchasing 
tracts  and  scattering  them  about  through 
the  community  will  perhaps  do  more  to 
spike  the  guns  of  noisy  secretists  than 
anything  else  that  could  bo  suggested. 
Men  have  heard  the  lodges  praised  so 
often  and  so  boldly,  that  they  have  come 
to  believe  that  they  are  what  they  pro- 
fess to  be.  It  is  high  time  that  the  war  is 
carried  into  Africa  itself.  This  is  the  work 
which  the  N.  C.  A.  has  in  view,  and 
would  be  glad  to  push  forward  in  every 
quarter  of  the  land.  .Who  will  help  to 
doit? 


TO  MlNiaTBRS  OF  TEB  GOSPEL 
IN  THE  80UTH. 

Bbbthrbn: — Not  more  than  one  in 
twenty  of  the  Southern  ministers  has 
probably  ever  heard  of  the  National 
Christian  Association  and  its  work. 

THE    CHRISTIAN    CVNOSURB, 

organ  of  the  Association,  will  be  sent 
you  for  a  few  months  without  cost  to 
you,  providing  you  ask  for  it  by  letter, 
and  give  your  name,  postoffice,  county 
and  State  plainly.  It  is  hoped  that  at 
the  end  of  a  few  months  you  will  sub- 
scribe for  the  Cynosure,  but  if  you  do 
not,  the  paper  will  stop.  It  is  not  sent, 
however,  to  solicit  your  subscription, 
more  than  to  place  the  work  of  the  Na- 
tional Christian  Association  before  you, 
from  week  to  week,  for  a  few  months, 
for  to  know  is  to  be  interested. 

Will  the  ministers  of  the  South  who 
are  now  receiving  the  Cynosure,  mark 
the  above  item  and  send  their  papsr  to 
some  pastor  whom  they  have  reason  to 
believe  has  never  had  the  Cynosure. 


SUBSCRIPTION  LETTERS. 


The  following  have  made  remittances 
of  money  to  the  Cynosure  from  May  21  to 
26  inclusive; 

Rev  M  L  Berger,  Rev  R  B  Gardner,  J 
L  Glasgow,  G  M'trcy,  Mrs  M  Rife,  8 
Avery,  J  Phillips,  W  Wilson, S  T  Osgood, 
J  Motter,  J  H  Crall,  J  R  Sharp.  Rev  W 
F  Davis,  E  R  Atwood,  Miss  J  Stitt,  G  W 
Waterbury,  J  C  Telford,  T  Prall,  J  A 
Loggan,  W  H  Layton . 


XAREST  REPORTS 

CHICAGO. 

Wheat— No.a... 8.5^^     88 

No.  3 H. 80    @      84 

Winter  No  8.. „..^.^     89    @     9i 

Corn— No.  2 55>^a     56 

Oats— No.a  ...^ ««.«.,.^  363^ 

Rye— No.a... 67K 

Branperton ....^......10  00       12  00 

Hay— Timothy 12  00    @18  00 

Butter,  medium  to  best 12   @     isj^ 

Cheese 05    @     13 

Beans 1  25    @  2  75 

Eggs 13 

Seeds— Timothy* 2  05         2  05 

Flax 1  30        1  37  ' 

Broom  com....-  02X@     n 

PotatoeB  per  bus 60    @      80 

Hides— Green  to  dry  flint 05)^@     13 

Lumber- Common 11  00    @18  00 

Wool 13    @     37 

Cattle— Choice  to  extra 5  05    @  5  25 

Commontogood 2  50        4  85 

Hogs 4  91    @  5  80 

Sheep - 2  50    @  6  25 

NEW  YORK. 

Flour 3  20  @  5  25 

Wheat— Winter 93  @     96>^ 

Spring 92 

Corn 63  @     65^ 

Oats 36  ^     48 

Kgg« ► ............  16 

Butter ..«.     15  @     28 

Wool 09  34 

KANSAS  CITY. 

Cattle .. 2  00  0  4  70 

Hogs  .....^ .. 2  50  ®  5  55 

%\»»r.  2  00  «^  5  25 


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THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


Mat  31, 1888 


In  Brief. 


"I  do  not  want  to  destroy  all  the  capi- 
talists, "said  a  French  Anarchist  the  other 
day,  "for  if  there  were  no  capitalists  we 
Anarchists  and  Communists  could  get  no 
work  to  do,  for  we  would  have  nobody 
to  denounce." 

In  the  saying,  "He'll  never  set  the 
Thames  on  fire,"  the  river  is  commonly 
supposed  to  be  meant.  The  original 
proverb  referred  to  a  "temse,"  a  miller's 
sieve  with  wooden  rim,  which  slid  back 
and  forth  in  a  wooden  frame.  An  ener- 
getic man  sometimes  set  the  temse  on 
fire  by  friction — a  lazy  man,  never. 

A  stick  of  timber  seventy-five  feet 
long  and  thirty-one  inches  through,  and 
destined  for  the  Panama  Canal,  was  re- 
cently loaded  on  three  fiat  railroad  cars 
at  Youngstown,  Ohio.  There  is  not  much 
difficulty  in  transporting  such  timbers  if 
the  curves  of  the  railroad  are  not  very 
short. 

It  is  said  that  the  big  cattle  ranches  of 
the  far  West  and  SDuthwest  are  breaking 
up.  A  year  ago  the  Niobrara  Land  and 
Cattle  Company,  which  has  become  bank- 
rupt, refused  $1,000,000  for  its  property. 
Instead  of  the  big  companies  swallowing 
the  little  ones,  it  ia  thought  that  the  ten- 
dency is  toward  the  breaking  up  of  the 
big  ranches  into  smaller  ones. 

Miss  Alice  C.  Fletcher, whom  the  Pres- 
ident has  appointed  as  agent  to  allot 
lands  in  Eeveralty,  under  the  Dawes  bill, 
to  the  Winnebago  Indians  in  Nebraska, 
is  thoroughly  competent  for  her  share  of 
the  work,  and  has  the  confidence  and 
love  of  the  Indians.  She  drafted  the 
bill  which  permitted  the  Otnahas  to  take 
lands  in  severalty,  and  supervised  the 
work  of  allotment,  though  the  task  near- 
ly cost  her  life  and  left  her  a  cripple. 

Mr.  Hartley,  o'  Taylor,  Ga.,  went  into 
his  stable  the  other  day  to  see  if  his  horse 
had  been  fed,  carrying  a  large  pocket 
book  in  his  hand.  Finding  that  the  horse 
had  not  been  fed  he  laid  his  pocket  book 
in  one  of  the  feed  troughs  and  went  to 
call  the  stable  boy.  When  he  got  to  the 
store  he  missed  his  pocket  book  and  went 
back  to  look  for  it.  He  discovered  that 
the  horse  had  entered  the  stable  and  de- 
voured the  money,  nearly  $2, 000, leaving 
only  $11  and  a  few  papers  untouched. 

A  pupil  in  one  of  the  public  schools  of 
this  city  complied  recently  in  the  follow- 
ing manner  with  a  request  to  write  a 
composition  on  the  subject  of  a  physio- 
logical lecture  to  which  the  school  had 
just  listened:  "The  human  body  is  made 
up  of  the  head,  thorax  and  the  abdomen. 
The  head  contains  the  brains,  when  there 
is  any.  The  thorax  contains  the  heart 
and  the  lungs.  The  abdomen  contains 
the  bowels,  of  which  there  are  five,  A,E, 
I,0,U.and  sometimes  W  and  Y." — PMla 
delp7da  Item. 

It  is  estimated  that  the  amount  of  pe- 
troleum produced  in  Pennsylvania  since 
Drake's  well  was  drilled  ia  1859  to  the 
year  1887  was  330,000,000  barrels  of  for- 
ty-two gallons  each.  This  amount  of 
oil  would  be  sufficient  to  make  a  good- 
sized  river  or  lake  if  collected  in  one 
body.  It  would  make  a  stream  10  feet 
deep,  100  feet  wide  and  about  350  miles 
long, or  a  lake  or  rectangular  pond  about 
three  miles  long,  two  miles  wide  and  ten 
feet  deep.  Still  the  supply  is  not  ex- 
hausted. 

A  monkey  exhibitsd  in  a  museum  es- 
tablished at  Tacubaya,  Mexico,wa3  con- 
demned to.be  shot  under  judicial  sentence 
for  having  bitten  a  man  and  caused  his 
death.  'The  family  of  the  deceased 
brought  complaint  before  the  Judge, who 
instituted  criminal  proceedings  against 
the  monkey.  The  manager  of  the  muse- 
um succeeded  in  obtaining  a  change  of 
the  sentence  to  imprisonment  for  life. 
The  monkey  is  now  behind  the  bars  of  an 
iron  cage  at  the  museum  serving  his  im- 
prisonment. 

London  papers  call  attention  to  the  ex- 
treme and  growing  pauperism  of  the 
East  End  Jews.  The  total  number  of 
Jews  in  the  Metropolis  is  astonishingly 
small.bcing  estimated  at  46,000.  Of  these 
no  fewer  tnan  14,350  received  aid  last 
year.  Figures  which  are  accepted  by  the 
Jews  themselves  as  authorita  ive  show 
that  last  J  car  every  third  Jew  in  London 
was  acluslly  in  receipt  of  poor  relief, 
every  second  Jew  belonged  to  the  regu- 
lar pauper  class,  and  every  second  Jew- 
ish funeral  which  took  place  in  the  me- 
tropolitan area  was  a  pauper  funeral. 

An  obelisk  was  recently  erected  in  Oak- 


wood  cemetery,  Troy,  which  can  be  seen 
for  many  miles  up  and  down  the  Hud- 
son. It  is  a  granite  shaft  made  out  of 
the  solid  rock  of  an  island  off  the  coast 
of  Maine.  The  obelisk  was  towed  a  dis- 
tance of  500  miles,  whence  it  was  moved 
on  rollers  for  a  distance  of  two  miles. 
The  obelisk  is  sixty  feet  long  and  weighs 
100  tons.  Owing  to  novel  methods  of 
engineering  used  in  its  transportation  and 
erection  the  entire  cost  of  these  two  items 
did  not  exceed  $6,000.  The  contract 
price  of  the  obelisk  was  $50,000,  which 
included  its  erection. 

R.  W.  Cameron  &  Co.,  of  New  York, 
have  been  authorized  by  the  government 
of  New  South  Wales,  of  which  they  are 
the  agents,  to  offer  in  behalf  of  that  gov- 
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THE  CHKESTIAN  CYNOStTRE. 


Mat  31, 1888 


NFWs  OF  The  Week. 

WASHTNQTON. 

(General  Sheridan  is  suffering  from  dis- 
ease of  the  heart  and  all  hope  of  his  re- 
covery is  abandoned.  The  disease  showed 
its  dangerous  character  last  week,  and 
has  progressed  rapidly  and  unexpectedly. 

The  Senate  Committee  on  Appropria- 
tions has  completed  the  consideration  of 
the  Indian  appropriation  bill.  It  has 
made  a  net  reduction  of  $226.000,making 
the  total  appropriation  $8,172,000  in 
round  numbers. 

CHICAGO. 

President  Dysart,  Secretary  Mills,  and 
fourteen  other  members  of  the  State 
Board  of  Agriculture  met  at  the  Sherman 
House  to  consider  the  enlargement  of  the 
live-stock  show  into  a  horse  show,  a 
poultry  show,  a  dog  show,  and  every  oth- 
er kind  of  a  show  interesting  to  breeders 
and  feeders  of  domestic  animals. 

The  workingmeri  of  Chicago  are  to 
have  a  hall  of  their  own.  They  are  about 
to  erect  a  buildifig  at  the  corner  of  Mon- 
roe and  Peoria  streets,  a  block  from  the 
Cynosure  office,  which  is  expected  to  be- 
come the  meeting  place  of  all  the  local 
labor  organizations. 

COUNTRY. 

Two  highway  robbers  confined  in  jail 
at  Monticello  Thursday  evening  attacked 
Sheriff  Henderson  with  an  iron  bar  when 
he  came  to  lock  them  in  their  cells, broke 
his  skull  and  one  arm, perhaps  fatally  in- 
juring him,  and  with  JEdward  Chamber- 
lain, the  murderer  of  Ida  Wittenberg.es- 
caped. '  He  was  afterward  captured  and 
troops  had  to  be  called  out  to  save  him 
from  lynchers. 

la  Pickens  county,  Chickasiw  Nation, 
Indian Territory.nDnraaideata  are  oppos- 
ing the  collection  of  the  taxoa  stock, and 
have  organized  and  armed  themselves 
with  Winchesters.  The  militia  is  uaable 
to  cope  with  them,  and  the  aid  of  the 
United  S'.atea  will  be  invoked  by  the 
tribal  authorities.  Qaneral  warfare  is 
feared. 

At  the  Illinois  State  Democratic  Con- 
vention Wednesday  John  M.  Palmer 
was  nominated  for  Governor,  A.  J.  Bell 
for  Lieutenant  Governor.  Palmer  is  ex- 
Governor  and  Bell  is  a  labor  agitator. 

At  Elgin,  III,  Wednesday,  Mrs. Charles 
Meyer  and  her  child,  whom  she  was  trying 
to  save,  were  killed  by  a  freight  train 

At  3  o'clock  Wednesday  morning  a 
freight  train  on  the  Rick  Island  Railroad 
went  through  a  bridge  near  Randolph 
Point.Mo ..crashing  into  a  ravine  twenty- 
five  feet  deep.  A  short  lime  after  a 
freight  on  the  Hannibal  and  St.  Joseph 
went  through  a  bridge  which  adjoined 
the  Rock  Island,  and  which  had  been 
weakened  by  the  first  wreck.  A  brake- 
man,  an  engineer  and  two  tramps  were 
killed,  a  fireman  fa'.ally  injured  and  two 
other  train  men  badly  hurt. 

A  cyclone  swept  over  Brownton.Texaa, 
Tuesday.  The  Methodist,  Baptist  and 
Presbyterian  churches  were  demolished, 
eight  dwellings  destroyed,  one  carried 
across  a  railroad  track  and  crushed,  kill- 
ing Amanda  Willis  (colored),  who  took 
rcifuge  in  it.  Other  persons  were  fatally 
injured,  amoag  them  the  Sheriff  and 
County  Recorder.  The  track  of  the  storm 
was  300  jards  wide,  and  it  was  swept 
clear  of  crops,  fences,  barns,  outhouses 
and  trees.  A  terrible  rain,  bail  and  light- 
ning storm  followed. 

The  question  of  woman  suffrage  in 
Washington  Territory  came  up  Friday 
before  Judge  Nash  at  Sp  ;kane  Falls  on  a 
test  case.  The  Judge  delivered  a  lengthy 
opinion,  in  which  he  decided  that  the 
act  of  the  Legislature  extending  the 
franchise  to  women  is  unconstitutional. 

At  Cincioniti,  Friday,  in  the  case 
against  saloonkeeper  Andrew  Wetzel,for 
keeping  open  on  Sunday.teveral  witness- 
es lestified  for  the  prosecution.  But  not- 
withstanding that  no  testimony  was  pre- 
sented in  Wetzel's  behalf  the  jury  return- 
ed a  verdict  of  not  guilty. 

Reports  received  early  last  week  at 
Qaincy  111  .record  the  drowning  of  Sam 
u«l  Moore  by  the  floods  in  the  Indian 
Grave  levee  district  and  of  two  children 
in  the  8ny  diBtrict.  Twofaiiilies  living 
in  the  8ny  district  are  unaccounted  for 
and  no  trace  of  them  can  b3  found.  It 
is  probable  that  many  fatalities  will  be 
recorded  when  all  the  facta  regarding  the 
flood  are  fully  known.  Much  sickness 
prevails  among  the  destitute  people  from 


the  inundated  districts,  but  the  relief 
committees  of  Quincy  are  rendering 
every  possible  assistance  to  those  in  dis- 
tress. The  authorities  are  appealing  for 
funds  to  relieve  the  sufferers. 

Governor  Martin  of  Kansas  Tuesday 
pardoned  Charles  B.  Rotiook,  under  life 
sentence  for  killing  his  wife  while  under 
the  influence  of  liquor,  attaching  to  the 
pardon  a  condition  unheard  of  before  in 
this  State,  that  Rotrock  forever  abstain 
from  the  use  of  intoxicating  liquors.  If 
Rotrock  should  violate  the  condition  he 
could  be  reimprisoned  on  an  order  from 
the  Governor. 

Heavy  storms,  of  rain,  hail  and  wind 
visited  large  sections  of  Illinois,  Indiana, 
and  Ohio  last  Sabbath,  doing  great  dam- 
age in  some  localities.  At  Elgin  the  win- 
dows of  churches,  hotels  and  the  watch 
factory  were  riddled. 

FOBBION. 

The  Emperor  Frederick  is  still  improv- 
ing. He  was  fatigued  by  his  attendance 
at  the  wedding  of  his  son  Henry  Thurs 
day,  but  is  expected  to  go  to  Potsdam 
this  week,  and  at  the  end  of  July  to  Ham- 
burg. 

Several  of  the  wealthiest  merchants  of 
Moscow  have  been  convicted  of  adulter- 
ating tea.  One  of  them  was  depiived  of 
his  civil  rights  and  banished  to  Siberia 
for  life.  The  others  convicted  were  sen- 
tenced to  different  terms  of  imprison- 
ment. The  adulteration  of  tea  is  being 
carried  on  to  a  great  extent  in  Russia. 

Dr  Schweinfurth  writes  from  Brussels 
that  there  is  no  reason  to  be  uneasy  about 
Stanley's  fate.  The  government  of  the 
Congo  Slate  his  received  advices  that  Dr. 
Mangold,  of  Kielis,  is  about  to  start  in 
search  of  Stanley. 

Advicf  s  from  Tunis  say  that  no  rain 
h&8  fallen  in  that  state  for  the  last  seven 
months,  and  that  the  Arabs  are  making 
a  futile  search  for  pasturage  and  water 
They  are  bringing  camel8,oxen  and  hors 
es  to  the  city  and  selling  them  for  the 
merest  song. 

The  Pope  has  issued  an  encyclical  of 
twenty-seven  pages  dealing  with  the 
slavery  question.  After  referring  to  the 
teachings  of  the  Bible,  he  inculcates  the 
abandonment  of  slave  dealing  in  Egypt, 
the  Soudan  and  Zanzibar,  and  reiterates 
his  condemnation  of  the  practice.  He 
demands  protection  for  missionaries  in 
Africa, and  eloquently  refers  to  the  labors 
of  Peter  Claver.  In  conclusion  he  prais 
es  Dom  Pedro  for  abolishing  slavery  in 
Brazil. 


ANTI-SECRECY  BOOKS 

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MASONIC  OUTRAGES. 

BT  BEV.  H.  H.  HINUAN. 

The  character  of  this  valuable  pamphlet  Is 
seen  from  Its  chapter  headings:  I.— Masonic 
Attempts  on  the  Lives  of  Seceders.  II.— Ma- 
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Speech.  IV.— Freemasonry  Among  the  Col- 
ored People,  v.— Masonic  Interference  with 
the  Punlshmeut  of  Criminals.  VI.— The  Fruits 
of  the  Masonic  Institution  as  seen  In  the  Con- 
spiracies and  Outrages  of  Other  Secret  Orders. 
VII.— The  Relation  of  the  Secret  Lodge  Sys- 
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CONTENTS. 


Bditobial: 

Notes  and  Comments 1 

The  American  Anti-secre- 
cy League 8 

Frances  Wlllard's  Mother.  8 
The  Illinois  Congregation- 
al Association 8 

The  Irish  against  the  Pope  8 

Flsk  and  BrookB 8 

Personal  Mention 9 

CONTBIBUTIONS : 

Infidel  Perversions 1 

Can  a  Jew  be  a  Freema- 
son?     2 

Is  Freemasonry  Sun-wor- 
ship?     2 

Sblectbd : 
The  Better  Patriotism  (po- 
etry)     3 

Iiabor  Parties 3 

Serious  Considerations ...    3 
The  National  Convention  at 

Indianapolis 4 

IjIteraturb 6 

Obituary 7 


Rbfobh  Nbws  : 
The  Sacred  Carpet  of  the 
Noble  Grand ;  A  Louis- 
iana Campaign 5 

Cobbbspoitdbhob  : 
Masonic   Outrage;    Bro. 
Hinman's  Work   Bears 
Fruit;  Gen.  Johnston's 
Tactics;  Pith  and  Point    6 

Washington  Letter 9 

National   Reform  Work  in 
the  West 9 

HOMB  AND  HBALTH 7 

Skcbkt    Socibtibs     Con- 
demned     7 

ThbN.O.A 7 

ThbHomb....^ ^ 10 

Temperancb 11 

BiBLB   LBSSOH 12 

Rbligiods  Nbws 12 

Lodge  Notbs 13 

Donations 13 

Farm  Notes 14 

Markets 13 

Nbws  op  thb  Wbbs 16 


The  election  of  Mrs.  Matilda  B.  Carse  as  a 
member  of  the  County  Board  of  Education,  in  this 
city  last  week  is  an  unmistakable  sign  of  progress. 
Mrs.  Carse  is  one  of  the  most  devoted  of  our  gospel 
temperance  workers.  As  president  of  the  local 
W.  C.  T.  U.  she  has  carried  forward  various  mission- 
ary enterprises  with  great  success,  and  her  great 
effort  to  build  a  Temperance  Temple  worth  several 
hundred  thousand  dollars  is  fairly  and  hopefully 
under  way.  She  is  a  capable,  worthy  and  pious 
woman  and  the  County  Board  did  themselves  an 
honor  by  the  selection. 


The  Synod  of  the  Reformed  Presbyterian  church, 
just  met  in  Allegheny,  Pennsylvania,  has  aroused 
the  ire  of  the  editors  again,  out  of  all  proportion  to 
its  numbers.  In  declaring  for  the  headship  of 
Christ  over  the  nation,  and  against  the  lodge  and 
other  evils,  the  Covenanter  brethren  are  assailed  by 
some  as  fanatics  and  by  others  with  ridicule  at  the 
insignificance  of  their  numbers.  But  something 
about  this  small  body  creates  alarm,  yet  there  is 
nothing  formi  jable  about  them  but  the  truth  which 
they  hold  and  can  defend.  But  our  editors  should 
not  fear  the  truth.  Let  them  embrace  it  rather  and 
and  be  free — especially  from  lodge  vows. 

The  law  providing  for  license  courts  in  Pennsyl- 
vania works  a  temporary  advantage  for  the  temper- 
ance cause.  Last  Thursday  there  were  6,000  sa- 
loons in  Philidelphia;  next  day  only  1,340  were 
open.  The  license  court  had  like  a  new  broom 
swept  clean  the  list  of  disreputable  places  as  estab- 
lished by  the  police  records.  Now  if  the  city  of 
Brotherly  Love  will  keep  on  in  this  line,  in  a  year 
or  two  the  license  court  will  prove  a  prohibition 
court,  and  the  old  town  of  Penn  will  doubly  deserve 
its  name.  In  Chicago  we  have  no  tradition  to  help 
us  in  the  liquor  war.  The  saloons  make  laws  for 
the  saloons  in  the  Council.  Mayor  Roche  has  vetoed 
the  emasculated  200  feet  ordinance,  but  at  the  same 
time  he  asked  for  the  resignation  of  Mr.  Onahan, 
City  Collector,  through  whose  efforts  largely  the 
present  agitation  was  begun. 


The  Democratic  National  Convention  is  meeting 
in  St.  Louis  as  we  go  to  press.  President  Cleve- 
land's last  message  has  made  their  task  compar- 
atively easy.  No  candidate  is  mentioned  to  contest 
the  leading  place  with  him,  and  the  tariff  will  not  be 
this  year  so  vexatious  a  matter  as  four  years  ago. 
The  sole  contest  is  for  the  candidate  for  Vice  Pres- 
ident. Governor  Gray  of  Indiana  has  been  one  of 
the  firft  names  for  the  place,  but  at  last  reports  old 
Senator  Thurman  of  Ohio  is  leading  the  race,  and 
but  one  or  two  ballots  will  be  needed  to  settle  the 
question.  The  saloons  expect  an  endorsement, 
although  they  were  reluctantly  compelled  by  law  to 
close  in  the  face  of  their  visitors  last  Sabbath. 


Carlton  College  at  Northfield,  Minnesota,  has  al- 
ways been  on  the  list  as  refusing  to  allow  college 
secret  societies  among  its  students.  There  seems, 
however,  to  have  been  for  years  an  organization  of 
the  Phi  Kappa  Psi  fraternity  clandestinely  sup- 
ported by  the  students  contrary  to  the  rule  of  the 
college,  to  which  they  outwardly  professed  to  con- 
form. A  few  days  since,  whether  conscience-smit- 
ten for  the  hypocritical  position  into  which  their 
experiment  had  brought  them,  or  for  some  other 
reason,  they  applied  to  the  faculty  for  recognition  as 
a  legitimate  society.  They  were  met  with  a  firm 
refusal.  The  faculty  maintained  its  rule  and  an- 
swered that  secret  societies  could  not  be  allowed  at 
Carlton.  The  foolish  young  men  were  yet  so  be- 
sotted and  bewitched  by  secretism  that  like  the  Ma- 
son who  gives  up  church  rather  than  lodge,  they 
preferred,  with  one  exception,  to  leave  the  institu- 
tion and  go  elsewhere.  Carlton  will  be  much  the 
gainer  by  this  purgation.  Young  men  of  so  little 
moral  conviction  would  not  probably  add  to  the 
reputation  of  the  college. 


There  are  more  things  in  heaven  and  earth,  Horatio, 
Than  are  dreamt  of  in  your  philosophy. — Shakspeare. 

Scientists  in  every  year  of  drought,  have  at- 
tempted to  explain  the  cause  of  unusual  weather. 
Deforestation,  they  say,  diminishes  rainfall.  Tile- 
draining  dries  the  surface,  and  the  dry  surface  re- 
pels rain-clouds.  Or,  the  weather,  like  circulating 
decimals,  brings  the  sam3  sort  of  a  year,  cold,  wet, 
or  dry,  once  in  so  long.  An  extraordinary  hail- 
storm, cyclone,  bursting  out  of  volcanoes,  etc.,  on 
the  contrary,  provoke  prophecy  that  the  end  of  time 
is  at  hand. 

Eighty  odd  years  ago  Jefferson  sent  Lewis  and 
Clark  to  explore  the  Northwest  wilderness,  and,  in 
their  book  of  travels,  they  record  a  hailstorm  which, 
at  a  portage,  "knocked  down  one  of  their  men  three 
times,  and  the  whole  party  were  bleeding  freely." 
Last  year  was  dry,  and  the  scientists  predicted  gen- 
eral drought  and  desolation.  This  year,  rainstorms 
are  heavy  and  frequent,  and  large  portions  of  the 
South  are  deluged  and  people  homeless. 

The  prophets  Joel  and  Amos,  and  indeed  the 
whole  Bible,  speak  of  these  phenomena  as  under  the 
immediate  providence  of  God. 


Reports  from  New  York  correspondents  in  which 
we  placed  great  confidence  informed  our  readers 
years  ago  that  the  late  Roscoe  Conkling  was  a 
Knight  Templar  Mason.  He  has  since  been  thus 
spoken  of  in  these  columns.  But  mention  was  made 
of  the  absence  of  Masonic  ceremony  at  his  funeral, 
and  we  are  glad  to  now  be  able  to  say  that  the  re- 
port was  a  mistake,  and  remove  the  stain  of  this  re- 
port from  Mr.  Conkling's  memory.  A  relative,  who 
is  a  New  York  alderman,  is  reported  by  the  press  as 
saying  that  the  ex-Senator  was  not  a  Mason  nor  a 
member  of  any  other  secret  organization.  His  fath- 
er, Alfred  Conkling.  was  a  public  prosecutor  in 
Montgomery  county,New  York.in  the  Morgan  times, 
and  while  prosecuting  a  murder  case  the  accused 
man  threw  him  a  Masonic  sign  of  distress.  Mr. 
Conkling  was  so  disgusted  that  he  left  the  Masonic 
lodge  of  which  he  was  then  a  member,  and,  like  the 
old  missionary,  Scudder,  so  effectually  instructed 
his  sons  and  sons'  sons  that  "since  that  day  no 
Conkling  has  ever  joined  the  order." 

Mr.  Blaine,  whose  public  career  has  been  as  emi- 


nent as  Mr.  Conkling's,  also  succeeded  in  maintain- 
ing his  place  among  his  fellow  citizens  without  the 
false  support  of  the  lodge.  The  experience  of 
these  two  leading  citizens  of  our  country  gives  the 
lie  to  the  Masonic  boast  (or  threat)  that  if  a  man 
would  succeed  in  public  life  he  must  join  their  or- 
der. There  is  another  view  of  this  case  in  which  we 
cannot  give  these  gentlemen  so  much  honor.  Both, 
at  times,  were  reported  to  the  public  as  affiliating 
with  the  Knight  Templar  lodge,  and  thus  their  in- 
fluence was  used  to  promote  the  most  despotic  and 
un-American  of  organizations.  Had  they  been  more 
true  to  the  principles  taught  them  in  youth,  their 
convictions  would  have  been  understood  and  they 
would  not  for  years  have  been  placed  in  a  false  light 
before  their  fellow-citizens.  It  is  well  that  our  pub- 
lic men  remember  this,  and  especially  pastors  who 
are  believed  to  be  opposed  on  Christian  principles  to 
the  un-Christian  lodges,  who  yet  are  prevailed  upon 
to  preach  memorial  or  annual  sermons  for  these  or- 
ders, and  do  not  dare  to  speak  freely  in  the  name  of 
Christ  against  the  great  evil  which  these  orders  cher- 
ish. 


INFIDEL  PSBVBR810N8  OF  FACT  AND  HIS- 
TORT. 


BT  RBT.  B.  W.  WILLIAMS. 


A  good  cause  can  always  be  defended  upon  ra- 
tional grounds,  and  by  fair  argument.  A  bad  cause 
often  necessitates  false  reasoning  and  unfair  treat- 
ment in  its  defense.  This  truth  is  plainly  visible 
in  the  conflict  between  Christianity  and  infidelity. 
Christianity,  conscious  of  its  doctrinal  and  ethical 
integrity,  has  nothing  to  fear  from  fair  discussion; 
and  it  aims  to  meet  the  doubts  and  objections  of 
candid  skeptics  with  honest,  straight-forward,  con- 
vincing arguments.  Infidelity,  knowing  its  weak- 
ness, resorts  to  dishonest  means  in  discussion;  and 
its  attacks  consist  mainly  of  groundless  objections, 
spurious  arguments,  senseless  cavils,  shallow  sub- 
terfuges, and  contemptible  pettifogger's  tricks. 

No  other  class. of  persons  on  earth,  perhaps,  are 
so  indifferent  to  truth,  and  so  unmindful  of  the  laws 
of  debate,  as  these  doughty  champions  of  unbelief. 
Their  extreme  ignorance,  their  want  of  candor,  their 
gross  misrepresentations  of  Christianity,  their  bold 
and  reckless  assertions  and  denials,  and  their  su- 
preme insensibility  to  the  force  of  argument — all 
evince  the  inherent  weakness  of  their  cause. 

My  purpose  is  to  notice  a  few  of  the  most  glaring 
perversions  of  fact  and  history  of  which  modern  in- 
fidel writers  and  lecturers  have  been  guilty.  I  shall 
endeavor  to  show  the  falsity  of  some  of  their  oft- 
repeated  assertions,  and  the  unfairness  of  the  means 
they  employ  to  disseminate  their  views.  This  will 
be  proof  of  the  moral  imbecility  of  those  who  resort 
to  such  trickery  for  the  sake  of  infidel  propagand- 
ism. 

THB   COUNCIL  OF   NICK   AND   THI  CANOfi  OF  THE  NBW 
TESTAMENT. 

I  shall  first  notice,  as  a  specimen  of  these  infidel 
humbugs,  their  account  of  the  origin  of  the  New 
Testament.  They  tell  us  that  the  canon  of  the  New 
Testament  Scriptures  was  defined  and  settled  by  the 
Council  of  Nice,  in  the  year  A.  D.  325.  They  assert 
that  up  to  that  time  there  was  an  immense  number 
of  so-called  Gospels,  Acta,  Epistles  and  Revelations; 
and  that  the  Council,  by  some  vote,  or  trick,  or  jug- 
glery, separated  the  spurious  writings  from  the 
genuine.  This  story  is  often  found  in  infidel  books, 
papers,  pamphlets  and  tracts,  and  is  continually 
harped  upon  and  reiterated  by  their  lecturers.  It 
is,  indeed,  a  favorite  "sugar-stick"  with  them.  I 
simply  state  that  the  story  is  totally  false. 

The  first  general  assembly  of  Christian  bishops 
from  all  parts  of  the  world  was  this  one,  held  at 
Nice,  one  of  the  principal  cities  of  Bythinia.  There 
were  three  hundred  and  eighteen  of  these  bishops  in 
attendance,  beside  a  largo  number  of  subordinate 
ecclesiastics.  They  continued  in  session  sixty-seven 
days,  or  from  the  19th  of  June  to  the  25th  of  Au- 
gust, in  the  year  of  our  Lord  325.  The  attention 
of  the  Council  was  given  almost  exclusively  to  the 
discussion  of  the  Arian  heresy.     The  question  as  to 


2 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


JcNE  7, 1888 


the  inspiration  or  authenticity  of  the  New  Testa- 
ment never  came  before  them  for  consideration  at 
all.  The  truth  is,  the  canon  of  the  Scriptures  had 
been  clearly  defined,  and  very  generally  received, 
just  as  we  now  have  it,  long  before  the  Council  of 
Nice  was  ever  thought  of.  And  yet  infidels  con- 
tinue to  repeat  this  impudent  falsehood,  and  to  taunt 
Christians  with  their  credulity  in  believing  the  Bible 
on  such  flimsy  evidence.. 

THE    EMPEROR  CONSTANTINB. 

Infidel  writers  are  very  fond  of  referring  to  Con- 
stantine,  the  Roman  Emperor  who  reigned  in  the 
early  part  of  the  fourth  century,  and. who  patronized 
and  befriended  Christianity.  They  expatiate  upon 
certain  wicked  and  cruel  deeds  which  he  committed 
during  his  reign;  and  they  tell  us  that  these  were 
done  by  a  Christian  Eaaperor  in  the  name  of  relig- 
ion. The  facts  in  the  case  are  these:  Constantine 
was  the  son  of  a  good  Christian  mother,  and  friend- 
ly to  the  religion  so  beautifully  exemplified  in  her 
life,  but  not  himself  a  real  Christian,  at  the  time  of 
the  events  referred  to.  He  assented  to  the  truth  of 
the  Gospel  intellectually,  protected  Christians  in 
their  religious  worship,  and  did  much  to  facilitate 
the  progress  of  the  new  religion.  Yet  it  appears 
that  he  had  never  been  born  of  the  Spirit,  or  ac- 
cepted Christ  as  his  personal  Saviour.  It  was  not 
until  he  was  upon  his  death-bed  that  he  truly  re- 
pented, fully  surrendered  his  heart,  and  realized 
pardon  and  acceptance  with  God.  It  was  then  that 
he  assembled  all  the  bishops  of  the  neighboring 
churches  in  his  palace,  near  the  city  of  Nicomedia, 
and,  with  as  much  publicity  as  could  be  exercised 
without  ostentation,  confessed  his  Saviour  before 
men,  received  the  rite  of  baptism,  and  the  sacrament 
of  the  Lord's  Supper.  From  this  time  until  his 
death,  which  occurred  soon  after,  he  lived  a  sincere 
and  devoted  follower  of  our  Lord  Jesus. Christ.  Let 
it  be  remembered,  then,  that  it  was  before  his  con- 
version that  he  committed  those  errors  and  follies 
which  marred  the  beauty  of  his  reign.  After  that 
event,  until  his  death,  he  conformed  strictly  to  tte 
requirements  of  the  divine  law. 

THE   CASE   OF  GALILEO. 

It  is  asserted  by  these  doughty  champions  of  un- 
belief that  Christianity  has  been  a  foe  to  the  prog- 
ress of  science,  and  has  persecuted  those  who  have 
ventured  to  teach  scientific  truth  contrary  to  the 
supposed  teachings  of  the  Bible.  As  an  example  of 
this,  they  refer  to  the  case  of  Galileo,  the  great  Ital- 
ian astronomer,  (1564-1642)  who  had  some  trouble 
with  the  ecclesiastics  of  his  day  on  account  of  his 
alleged  heretical  teachings  on  scientific  subjects. 
They  tell  us  that  he  was  frowned  upon,  denounced, 
and  proscribed,  because  he  taught  that  the  sun  was 
the  center  of  the  solar  system,  and  that  the  earth 
moved,  contrary  to  what  was  then  erroneously  un- 
derstood to  be  the  teachings  of  the  Scriptures  on 
the  subject;  and  that  he  was  compelled  to  abjure 
the  Copernican  theory,  in  order  to  save  his  life.  I 
will  here  state  the  truth  of  the  matter  as  recorded 
in  the  pages  of  history. 

Galileo  was  a  man  of  extraordinary  genius,  and 
far  in  advance  of  the  age  in  which  he  lived.  His 
grand  discoveries  and  brilliant  achievements  excited 
the  hatred  of  his  scientific  opponents.  They  made 
use  of  the  bigotry  of  churchmen  to  compel  his  hu- 
miliating retraction.  The  first  time  he  appeared  be- 
fore the  Sacred  College  at  Eome  he  was  acquitted 
and  allowed  to  return  home,  after  promising  not  to 
teach  the  condemned  doctrine  any  more.  Some 
years  afterward  he  published  a  book  which  caused 
him  to  be  again  arraigned,  tried,  and  this  time  sen- 
tenced to  incarceration  in  a  dungeon.  This  sen- 
tence, however,  was  never  executed.  It  was  never 
ratified  by  the  Pope.  Galileo  suffered  no  personal 
pains  and  penalties.  He  was  himself  a  Christian 
believer;  and  his  greatest  enemies  and  persecutors 
were  scientific  opponents,  and  not  religious  bigots. 

CALVIN   AND    SEBVETUS. 

Another  favorite  hobby  with  these  infidel  falsifiers 
of  history  is  the  burning  of  Michael  Servetus,  at 
Geneva,  in  1553,  for  blasphemy  and  heresy.  They 
assert  that  John  Calvin,  the  great  Presbyterian  re- 
former, was  the  cause  of  this  being  done.  Here, 
again,  they  blunder,  as  usual.  Calvin  did  not  burn 
Servetus;  neither  did  he  consent  to  his  burning  by 
others.  The  authority  that  pronounced  the  sentence 
upon  Servetus  was  vested  in  the  Senate  of  Geneva. 
Servetus  left  Vienna,  in  France,  under  sentence  of 
death  for  blasphemy.  Calvin  warned  him  not  to 
come  to  Geneva,  and  refused  to  pledge  himself  for 
bis  safety  in  case  he  should  come.  (See  Calvin  to 
Farel,  Feb.  12,  1546.)  Disregarding  this  advice, 
Servetus  went  to  Geneva,  was  arrested  under  a 
charge  of  blasphemy,  trietl,  convicted,  and  sentenced 
to  be  burned.     Calvin,  it  is  true,  appeared  against 


him  as  prosecuting  attorney;  but  this  made  him  no 
more  responsible  for  his  death  than  any  other  pros- 
ecuting attorney  is  responsible  for  the  death  of  a 
criminal  executed  according  to  law.  Calvin  himself 
protested  against  the  burning  of  Servetus  as  an 
"atrocity,"  and  did  his  best  to  have  the  penalty 
mitigated  to  some  quicker  and  less  painful  death. 
(Calvin  to  Farel,  Aug.  20, 1553 )  It  is  true  that  the 
burning  of  Servetus  cannot  be  justified,  but  must  be 
condemned  as  wrong.  It  must  be  remembered, 
however,  that  at  that  time  Christian  theologians  had 
not  learned  the  lesson  of  religious  toleration.  They 
believed  in  punishing  incorrigible  heretics  with 
death.  Servetus  himself  cherished  the  same  belief. 
Public  opinion  sanctioned  it.  So  that  Calvin's  part 
in  the  Servetus  affair  was  only  in  keeping  with  the 
spirit  of  the  age,  and  should  be  judged  in  the  light 
of  his  surroundings. 

INFIDELS  AND  THE   DECLARATION  OF  INDEPENDENCE. 

In  a  little  tract  printed  by  the  leading  infidel  pub- 
lishing house  in  the  United  States,  we  find  the  state- 
ment that  "Infidels  gave  to  mankind  the  sublime 
Declaration  of  American  Independence."  This  oft- 
repeated  assertion  is  also  without  foundation  in 
fact.  The  heroes  and  patriots  who  were  chiefly  in- 
strumental in  giving  to  the  world  that  immortal 
document  were  not  infidels,  but  very  generally  fer- 
vent Christians.  Many  of  them  were  zealous  advo 
cates  and  defenders  of  Christianity;  and  a  number 
of  them  were  ministers  of  the  Gospel.  The  Revo- 
lutionary War,  by  which  our  independence  was  es- 
tablished, was  carried  on  and  successfully  termina- 
ted chiefly  by  men  who  believed  in  God  and  revered 
his  Word. 

Many  other  falsehoods  and  misrepresentations  of 
like  nature  might  be  noticed,  but  these  will  suffice. 
They  show  the  utter  unreliability  of  the  teachers  of 
infidelity,  and  the  blind  credulity  of  their  ignorant 
dupes.  They  seem  to  rely  implicitly  upon  the  most 
absurd  and  unreasonable  statements  by  skeptical 
writers  against  Christianity.  They  make  wild  and 
reckless  assertions,  often  basing  them  upon  second- 
hand quotations  from  unknown  persons.  Sometimes 
they  do  not  even  give  the  correct  titles  of  the  books 
from  which  they  profess  to  copy.  They  frequently 
make  themselves  ridiculous  by  repeating  exploded 
nonsense,  and  by  attempting  to  discuss  things  they 
know  nothing  about.  The  truth  requires  no  such 
defense;  Christianity  can  be  defended  by  fair  argu- 
ment, and  upon  rational  grounds. 

Weatherft}rd,  Texas. 


VAN  A  JEW  BE  A  FREEMASON f 

Philo  Judaeus,  who  is  spoken  of  by  Josephus  as 
one  of  "the  most  eminent  of  his  contemporary 
countrymen,"  was  a  philosopher,  born  at  Alexandria 
about  the  time  of  the  birth  of  Christ.  He  was  a 
man  of  vast  learning,  a  complete  master  of 
the  literature  of  his  nation,  an  advocate 
for  the  Jews  at  Rome,  and  an  author  whose 
numerous  works  are  regarded  as  among 
the  best  examples  of  philosophical  reasoning 
of  ancient  time.  The  following  extract,  selected  by 
B.  B.  Blachly,  is  from  Philo's  "Treatise  on  those 
who  offer  sacrifice,"  as  found  in  the  translation  of 
his  works  by  0.  D.  Young,  B.  A.,  Vol.  3,  p.  242, 
section  XII.  It  emphatically  condemns,  on  the 
authority  of  Moses,  the  great  Lawgiver  of  the  Jews, 
any  participation  in  such  initiations  or  other  secret 
ceremonies  as  are  practiced  in  secret  lodges.  This 
judgment  is  the  more  wonderful  when  we  remem- 
ber that  nearly  all  Jews  in  America  are  Freemasons. 
Philo  says: 

"In  addition  to  this  the  Lawgiver  [Moses]  also 
entirely  removes  out  of  his  sacred  code  of  laws  all 
ordinances  respecting  initiations  and  mysteries,  and 
all  such  trickery  and  buffoonery;  not  chosing  that 
men  who  are  brought  up  in  such  a  constitution  as 
that  which  he  was  giving  should  be  busied  about 
such  matters,  and,  placing  their  dependence  on 
mystic  enchantments,  should  be  led  to  neglect  the 
truth,  and  to  pursue  those  objects  which  have  very 
naturally  received  night  and  darkness  for  their 
portion,  passing  over  the  things  which  are  worthy 
of  light  and  of  day. 

"Let  no  one,  therefore,  of  the  disciples  or  followers 
of  Moses  either  be  initiated  himself  into  any  mys- 
terious rites  of  worship,  or  initiate  any  one  else; 
for  both  the  act  of  learning  and  that  of  teaching 
such    initiations  is  an  impiety  of  no  slight  order. 

"For  if  these  things  are  virtuous,  and  honorable, 
and  profitable,  why  do  ye,  O  ye  men  who  are 
initiated,  shut  yourself  up  in  dense  (-arkness,  and 
limit  your  benefits  to  just  three  or  four  men,  when 
you  might  bring  down  the  advantages  which  you 
have  to  bestow  into  the  middle  of  the  market  place, 
and  benefit  all  men;  so  that  everyone  might  without 


hindrance  partake  of  a  better  and  more  fortunate 
life?  For  envy  is  never  found  in  conjunction  with 
virtue.  Let  men  who  do  injurious  things  be  put  to 
shame,  and  seek  hiding-places  and  recesses  in  the 
earth,  and  deep  darkness;  hide  themselves,  conceal- 
ing their  lawless  iniquity  from  sight,  so  that  no  one 
may  behold  it.  But  to  those  who  do  such  things 
as  are  for  the  common  advantage,  let  there  ba  free- 
dom of  speech,  and  let  them  go  by  day  through  the 
middle  of  the  market  place  where  they  will  meet 
with  the  most  numerous  crowds,  to  display  their 
own  manner  of  life  in  the  pure  sun,  and  to  do  good 
to  the  assembled  multitudes  by  means  of  the  prin- 
cipal of  the  outward  senses,  given  them  to  see  those 
things  the  sight  of  which  is  most  delightful  and 
most  impressive,  and  hearing  and  feasting  upon 
salutary  speeches  which  are  accustomed  to  delight 
the  minds  even  of  those  men  who  are  not  utterly 
illiterate. 

"Do  you  not  see  see  that  Nature  has  concealed 
none  of  those  works  which  are  deservedly  celebrat- 
ed and  honorable,  but  has  exhibited  openly  the  stars 
and  the  whole  of  heaven,  so  as  to  cause  the  sight 
pleasure,  and  to  excite  a  desire  for  philosophy;  and 
she  also  displays  her  seas,  and  fountains,  and  rivers, 
and  the  excellencies  of  the  atmosphere,  and  the 
beautiful  adaptation  of  the  winds  to  the  various 
seasons  of  the  year,  and  of  plants,  and  of  animals 
and,  moreover,  the  innumerable  species  of  fruits,  for 
the  use  and  enjoyment  of  men?  Would  it  not  have 
been  right,  then,  for  you,  following  her  example  and 
design,  to  give  to  those  who  are  worthy  of  it  all 
things  that  are  necessary  for  their  advantage?  But 
now  it  very  often  happens  that  no  good  men  at  all 
are  initiated  by  them,  but  that  sometimes  robbers, 
and  wreckers,  and  companies  of  debauched  and 
polluted  women  are,  when  they  have  given  money 
enough  to  those  who  initiate  them,  and  who  reveal 
to  them  the  mysteries  which  they  call  sacred.  But 
let  all  such  men  be  driven  away  and  expelled  from 
the  city,  and  denied  all  share  in  that  constitution, 
in  which  honor  and  truth  are  reverenced  for  their 
own  sake.  And  this  is  enough  to  say  on  this  subject." 


18  FBEBMA80NR7  SUN-WOBaHIPf 


BT  M.  N,    BUTLER. 


Can  it  be  possible  that  in  the  nineteenth  cantury, 
under  the  full  blaze  of  Gospel  light  and  in  the 
United  States  of  America,  sun-worship  is  still  prac- 
ticed? Let  eminent  Masons  answer.  "The  num- 
ber twelve  was  celebrated  as  a  mystical  number 
in  the  ancient  systems  of  sun-worship,  of  which 
it  has  already  been  said  that  Masonry  is  a  philo- 
sophical development." — Mackey's  Manual  of  the 
Lodge,  page  100. 

Masonry,  then,  is  a  development  of  ancient  sun- 
worship,  not  something  like  sun -worship.  "Grand 
High  Priest"  Pierson  said:  "It  is  evident  that  the 
sun,  either  as  an  object  of  worship  or  of  symbol- 
ism, has  always  formed  an  important  part  of  both 
the  mysteries  and  the  system  of  Freemsonry." — 
Pierson's  Iraditions  of  Freemasonry,  page  87. 

Robert  Morris,  perhaps  the  most  noted  Masonic 
writer  and  teacher  living,  says:  "The  Worshipful 
Master  himself  is  a  representative  of  the  sun." — 
Morris's  Dictionary  oj  Freemasonry,  page  296.  Not 
of  something  like  the  sun,  but  "a  representative  of 
the  sun."  He  is  a  "Worshipful  Master,"  and  that 
word  "worshipful"  cannot  be  spoken  without  carry- 
ing with  it  the  idea  of  worship.  The  letter  G  over 
his  head  in  the  east,  with  the  rays  of  the  sun  radi- 
ating therefrom,  and  the  emblem  of  the  sun  worn 
by  the  "Master,"  all  point  to  the  sun-god  of  Mason- 
ry. Remember,  Masons  do  not  worship  the  "Mas- 
ter," but  the  sun  that  he  represents.  Mackey  says: 
"The  Master  and  Wardens  are  symbols  of  the  sun — 
the  lodge,  of  the  universe  or  the  world;  the  point, 
also,  is  the  ^ame  sun,  and  the  surrounding  circle  of 
the  universe;  while  the  two  parallel  lines  really 
point,  not  to  two  saints,  but  to  the  two  northern  and 
southern  limits  of  the  sun's  course." — Mackey's  Ma- 
sonic Ritualist,  page  63. 

Every  Saint  John's  day  celebration  is,  in  fact,  a 
sun-worshiping  occasion.  The  three  principal  offi- 
cers are  the  Masonic  trinity.  "The  emblematical 
foundations  or  supports  of  a  Masonic  lodge  are 
the  three  pillars,  denominated  Wisdom,  Strength 
and  Beauty."  "In  the  ancient  mysteries  these  three 
pillars  represented  the  great  emblematical  Triad  of 
Deity,  as  with  us  they  refer  to  the  three  principal 
officers  of  the  lodge."  "The  corresponding  pillars 
of  the  Hindu  mysteries  were  also  known  by  the 
names  of  Wisdom,  Strength  and  Beauty,  and  were 
placed  east,  west  and  south,  crowned  witli  three  hu- 
man heads.  They  were  jointly  referred  to  the  Cre- 
ator, who  was  said  to  have  planned  the  great  work 
of  his  infinite  wisdom,  executed  it  by  his  strength, 


JUNI  7,  1888 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


and  to  have  adorned  it  with  all  its  beauty  and  use- 
fulness for  the  benefit  of  man.  In  these  mysteries 
Brahma,  Vishnu  and  Siva  were  considered  as  a  Tri- 
une God,  distinguished  by  the  significant  appella- 
tion, Tri-murti,  or  any  shape  or  appearance  assumed 
by  a  celestial  being.  Brahma  was  said  to  be  the 
Creator,  Vishnu  the  preserver,  and  Siva  the  judge  or 
destroyer.  In  the  east,  as  the  pillar  of  wisdom,  this 
deity  was  called  Brahma;  in  the  west,  as  the  pillar 
of  strength,  Vishnu;  in  the  South,  as  the  pillar  of 
beauty,  Siva;  and,  hence,  in  the  Indian  initiations 
the  representative  of  Brahma  was  seated  in  the  east, 
that  of  Vishnu  in  the  west,  and  that  of  Siva  in  the 
south.  A  very  remarkable  coincidence  with  the 
practice  of  ancient  Freemasonry." — Pierson's  Tra- 
ditiont  of  freemasonry^  pages  55  and  56. 

And  this  is  practiced  also  by  modern  Freemasonry, 
as  every  Entered  Apprentice  knows  who  ever  heard 
the  lodge  regularly  opened  or  closed  on  that  degree. 
Everything  about  the  lodge  refers  to  sun-worship, 
and  is  a  reproduction  of  it.  "The  three  lights,  like 
the  three  principal  officers  and  the  three  principal 
supports,  refer,  undoubtedly,  to  the  three  stations 
of  the  sun — its  rising  in  the  east,  its  meridian  in 
the  south,  and  its  setting  in  the  west — and  the  sym- 
bolism of  the  lodge,  as  typical  of  the  world,  con- 
tinues to  be  preserved." — Machey's  Manual  of  the 
Lodge,  page  51. 

i^  •  » 

TBB  BETTBR  PATRIOTISM. 

Who  serves  his  country  best? 
Not  he  who,  for  a  brief  and  stormy  space, 
Leads  forth  her  armies  to  the  fierce  afEray. 
Short  is  the  time  of  turmoil  and  unrest. 
Long  years  of  peace  succeed  it  and  replace ; 
There  Is  a  better  way. 

Who  serves  his  country  best? 
Not  he  who  guides  her  senates  in  debate, 
And  makes  the  laws  which  are  her  prop  and  stay; 
Not  he  who  wears  the  poet's  purple  vest, 
And  sings  her  songs  of  love  and  grief  and  fate ; 
There  is  a  better  way. 

He  serves  his  country  best, 
Who  joins  the  tide  that  lifts  her  nobly  on; 
For  speech  has  myriad  tongues  for  every  day, 
And  song  but  one ;  and  law  within  the  breast 
Is  stronger  than  the  graven  law  on  stone ; 
There  is  a  better  way. 

He  serves  his  country  best, 
Who  lives  pure  life,  and  doeth  righteous  deed ; 
And  walks  straight  paths,  however  others  stray. 
And  leaves  his  sons,  as  uttermost  bequest, 
A  stainless  record  which  all  men  may  read ; 
That  is  the  better  way. 

— S.  Coolidge,  in  the  CongregationalUt. 


LABOR  PARTIES. 


The  organization  of  political  parties  in  the  inter- 
est of  the  working  class  and  composed  in  the  main 
of  members  of  that  class  seems  likely,  for   a   time 
at  least,  to  continue  in  America.      Such  organization 
is  in  no  way  surprising,  in  view  of  the  discontent 
among  the  working  classes  and  of  the  tendency,  now 
so  common,  to  invoke  the   aid    of  Government  for 
every  scheme  of  social  reform  or  amelioration.  The 
capitalists  of  this  country  have  not  been   backward 
in  asking  for  Government  help  for  all  sorts  of  enter- 
prises, and  it  is  natural  that  working-men,  if  they 
have  objects  of  their  own  to  promote,  should  pursue 
a  similiar  course.     But  when  we  come  to  inquire 
what  objects  they  are  really  seeking,   we  find  our- 
selves somewhat  at  a  loss  for  an  answer.     We  find 
in   the   platforms  adopted   by  the  party  caucuses 
strong  denunciation  of  capitalists  and  corporations, 
and  of  Government  officers  for  yielding  to  their  in- 
fluence; we  find  also  the  expression  of  a  desire  for 
higher  wages  for  working  men  and  women  and   for 
the  removal  of  poverty,  and  various  minor  griev- 
ances are  sometimes  alluded  to.     But  when  we   ask 
how  the  new  party  proposes  to  remove  the  evils   it 
complains    of,  we    get    no  adequate  reply.       The 
principal  definite  measures  we  have  seen  proposed 
are   the  confiscation   of  the  rent  of  land  and   the 
purchase  and  operation  of  railways  by  the  State 
How  much  support  the  second    of  these  measures 
may  have  among  the  working  people   we  do  not 
know,  though  we  have  seen  no  evidence  of  its  popu 
larity,  but  as  for  the  land  measure,  we  doubt  if  it 
has  any  great  number  of  adherents  outside  of  the 
large  cities.     In  fact,  we  doubt  if  the  workmen  have 
any  clear  idea   what  they   would  do  in  case  they 
could  get  control   of  the  Government  in  state  or 
nation.     Indeed,  the  want  of  a  definite   policy   and 
the  disagreement  known  to  exist   among    working- 
men  in  regard  to  protective  tariffs,  the  ownership  of 
land,  and  other  matters,  make  it  tolerably  certain 
that  the  attempt  to  organize  a  national  working- 
men's  party  will  for  the  present  have  no  great  suc- 


cess. Nevertheless,  such  a  party  may  be  organized 
on  a  small  scale,  and  in  any  case  the  movement  in 
question  cannot  fail  to  have  an  influence  on  the  older 
parties  and  thereby  on  the  politic?  of  the  country  in 
general.  It  is  important,  therefore,  to  ascertain  as 
near  as  possible  what  the  bases  of  the  new  move- 
ment are,  in  order  that  it  may  be  resisted  so  far  as 
it  is  wrong,  and  guided  in  a  better  way. 

The  charge  that  has  been  preferred  against  the 
new  party  in  some  quarters  that  it  is  composed  of 
anarchists  and  organized  in  the  interest  of  social 
disorder  may  be  very  briefly  dismissed.  There  is 
no  evidence  that  any  considerable  number  of  work- 
ing-men are  in  favor  of  any  but  peaceful  means  for 
the  promotion  of  their  interests;  indeed,  the  organi- 
zation of  a  working-men's  party  may  be  taken  as 
proof  of  the  contrary.  Men  do  not  organize  polit- 
ical parties  in  order  to  abolish  government,  but  in 
order  to  get  control  of  the  Government;  and  if  the 
history  of  trades-unions  counts  for  anything,  the 
tendency  of  a  working-men's  government  would  be 
rather  toward  despotism  than  toward  anarchy. 

Again,  it  is  apprehended  by  some  that  the  Labor 
party  is  socialistic  in  character,  and  aims  at  the 
abolition  of  private  property;  but  this  also  we  be- 
lieve to  be  a  mistake.  There  is  a  tendency  to 
socialism  in  certain  portions  of  our  population;  but 
it  is  not  confined  to  laboring  men,  and  we  suspect 
that  it  is  not  really  so  powerful  as  it  sometimes 
appears  to  be.  The  vast  majority  of  our  people, 
both  native  and  foreignborn,  are  either  owners  of 
property  or  desirous  of  becoming  so.  The  Irish, 
for  instance,  are  prominent  in  the  ranks  of  labor 
parties;  but  there  is  no  man  more  eager  to  possess 
property  of  his  own  than  an  Irishman,  and  when 
he  has  got  it  he  holds  on  to  it.  It  is  in  the  cities 
chiefly  that  socialism  finds  adherents;  yet  even  in 
the  cities  they  are  a  small  minority  of  the  popula- 
tion, while  in  the  country  districts  they  are  rarely 
to  be  met  with.  The  farmers,  especially,  are  sure 
to  oppose  socialism,  and  no  movement  among  work- 
ing-men has  any  chance  of  success  without  the 
support  of  the  farmers. 

The  truth  seems  to  be  that  the  political  labor 
movement  is  merely  one  manifestation  of  the 
general  discontent  of  the  working  people,  and  of 
their  desire  to  improve  their  condition.  Working- 
men  are  dissatisfied  with  their  present  life  and 
earnestly  desirous  of  improving  it;  but  how  to  im- 
prove it  and  make  it  nobler  and  happier,  they  very 
imperfectly  understand.  At  present  they  are  intent 
on  gaining  material  comfort  and  power,  as,  indeed, 
most  other  men  are  in  our  time.  Many  of  their 
number,  especially  in  the  large  cities,  are  in  extreme 
poverty;  and  so  to  most  working-men  the  question 
of  improving  their  life  seems  to  be  mainly  a 
question  of  increasing  their  income.  The  wisest  of 
their  number  seek  to  effect  this  object  by  the  sure 
method  of  industry,  skill  and  economy;  but  even 
the  wisest  of  them,  and  still  more  the  unwise,  think 
they  can  effect  something  in  this  direction  by  politi- 
cal and  social  influence.  Hence  the  policy  of  strikes 
and  combinations,  which,  however,  have  done  little 
toward  attaining  the  end  in  view;  and  hence,  also, 
the  tendency  now  visible  toward  political  action. 

The  political  labor  movement  is  not  a  transient 
phenomenon,  destined  to  speedily  disappear,  but  a 
movement  of  more  permanent  character,  which  will 
continue  in  some  form  until  its  objects,  so  far  as 
possible,  have  been  attained.  For  this  reason  it 
behooves  our  statesmen,  and  the  educated  and  think- 
ing classes  generally,  to  consider  what  they  ought 
to  do  in  order  to  guide  the  movement  aright.  An 
exclusively  working-men's  party  is  an  undesirable 
thing,  even  if  its  aims  are  right;  and  no  such  party 
can  be  maintained  for  any  length  of  time  if  an 
honest  attempt  is  made  by  the  educated  people  to 
help  the  working-men  improve  their  lot.  That  much 
may  be  accomplished,  if  all  classes  will  work  to- 
gether for  this  end,  there  can  be  no  reasonable 
doubt.  Moreover,  the  duty  cannot  be  shirked.  The 
question  of  improving  the  life  of  the  toiling  masses 
is  the  main  political  and  social  problem  of  the  age, 
and  will  remain  so  until  it  is  solved — if  solution  be 
possible;  and  it  can  only  be  solved  by  measures 
that  are  just  to  all  other  portions  of  society.  While 
American  working-men  are  desirous  of  attaining 
their  ends  by  just  means,  they  are  liable  to  be  mis- 
led by  their  passions  or  their  supposed  interest,  or 
by  designing  men  who  pander  to  both.  It  is  the 
duty  of  the  best  men  among  us  to  do  all  they  can 
to  help  the  working-men  in  their  legitimate  aspira- 
tions, and  at  the  same  time  show  them  their  errors 
and  rebuke  them  when  they  go  wrong.  With  popular 
leadership  of  the  right  sort,  parties  made  up  of 
laborers  mainly  would  soon  cease  to  exist,  and 
working-men  would  attain  their  ends  by  means  of 
parties  composed  of  all  classes  and  aiming  at  the 
good  of  all. —  The  Century. 


SBR10U8  C0N8IDBRATI0NS. 


But  our  objections  to  the  lodge  are  serious.  It 
makes  men  false,  blind,  blasphemous;  it  turns  them 
aside  from  the  worship  of  God  to  the  worship  of 
devils.  What  wickeder  system  can  be  conceived 
than  that  which  dresses  under  the  same  badge  of 
"brotherhood"  the  common  church  member,  the 
skeptic,  the  preacher,  and  the  blackguard?  It  is  no 
surprise  to  us  that  even  in  G<xl's  sanctuary  such  a 
company  should  have  in  its  number  those  whose 
breaths  are  hot  with  liquor.  But  what  shall  we  say 
of  the  preacher  who  will  put  himself  on  a  moral 
and  religious  equality  with  such  "brethren,"  and 
who  will  violate  his  honor  and  betray  confidence  by 
talking  lodgery  when  invited  as  a  Christian  minisfer 
to  make  a  religious  address?  Will  anybody  wonder 
when  we  say  that  such  a  one  can  never  regain  our 
respect  and  confidence  until  he  renounces  and  de- 
nounces the  lodge? 

We  say  these  things  not  because  we  want  to,  but 
because  faithfulness  to  our  principles  and  to  Christ 
requires  the  truth  to  be  spoken.  Our  quarrel  is  not 
with  men  as  such,  but  with  the  lodge.  We  know 
well  that  men  otherwise  honest  and  upright  are 
dishonest  and  wicked  as  lodge-men.  They  must  be. 
The  things  which  we  criticise  are  the  legitimate 
fruits  of  the  system.  No  one  can  belong  to  the 
lodge  and  be  an  honest  man.  No  one  can  take  the 
lodge  into  his  heart  and  be  a  Christian.  From  be- 
ginning to  end  it  is  anti-Christ.  In  its  first  act  it 
asks  its  candidate  for  membership  to  break  one  of 
God's  commands— "Swear  not  at  all."  Read  Matt 
14  :  9  and  Lev.  5  : 4,  5. 

The  lodge  claims  to  be  charitable,  beneficent. 
This  claim  has  not  the  shadow  of  truth.  Christian 
beneficence  runs  on  this  wise:  "As  we  have  there- 
fore opportunity,  let  us  do  good  unto  all  men, 
especially  unto  them  who  are  of  the  household  of 
faith."  Lodge  beneficence  would  read,  "especially 
unto  lodgemen."  Lodge  benevolence  is  the  "refine- 
ment of  selfishness."  Its  crowning  act  and  princi- 
ple of  wickedness  is  thatitrejects  Christ  absolutely. 
Now  we  appeal  to  Christians  in  the  lodge.  "Let 
us  not  be  angry,  but  honest."  If  we  are  right, 
your  position  is  awfully  wicked;  if  we  are  wrong,  it 
is  your  duty  to  show  us  the  truth. 

We  believe  the  lodge  to  be  an  institution  of  the 
devil,  and  his  best  one.  All  can  then  understand, 
whether  they  agree  with  us  or  not,  why  we  so 
desperately  oppose  it.  We  see  with  alarm  the 
secret  system  fastening  itself  upon  the  church, 
and  we  call  on  all  Christians  "unequally  yoked  to- 
gether with  unbelievers"  to  throw  off  their  yokes, 
and  defend  the  cross  which  they  now  so  grievously 
offend.  "I  am  crucified  with  Christ." — Ihe  Aurora, 
Knoxville  College,  lenn. 

Sale  of  Tobacco  to  Minors. — A  law  prohibiting 
the  sale  of  tobacco  to  minors  was  passed  at  the  last 
session  of  the  Illinois  Legislature,  and  its  good  ef- 
fects are  already  apparent,  in  Chicago  at  least  The 
Chicago  Tribune  having  made  an  investigation  of 
the  subject  says:  It  has  put  an  end  effectually  in 
this  city  to  the  sale  of  cigarettes  to  school  boys,  a 
traffic  from  which  the  proprietors  of  the  petty  school 
stores  derived  considerable  profit  One  of  the  prin- 
cipals who  had  most  reason  to  complain,  says  the 
effect  of  the  law  has  been  so  beneficial  that  there  is 
scarcely  a  boy  in  the  school  of  which  he  has  charge 
who  now  uses  tobacco  in  any  of  its  forms.  The 
women  principals  have  been  specially  zealous  in 
securing  observance  of  the  law. 

The  following  extract  from  a  paper  by  Dr.  Her- 
rick  Johnson  shows  the  glaring  inconsistency  of 
Christians  voting  for  license  candidates  and  license 
measures: 

"A  pastor  of  one  of  our  churches  advocates  the 
license  law  and  votes  for  it,  and  under  his  influence 
his  members  vote  for  him.  A  prominent  officer  in 
the  same  church  becomes  by  means  of  their  votes  a 
member  of  the  Legislature  that  passes  the  law,  and 
he  aids  in  its  passage.  Another  member  of  the 
same  church  is  mayor  of  the  city,  or  judge  of  the 
license  court,  or  excise  commissions,  and  gives  'un- 
der his  own  band'  the  formal  license  to  keep  a  sa- 
loon for  one  year.  Pastor  and  officer  and  church 
member  thus  declare  that  in  the  actually  existing 
circumstances,  it  is  right  to  license.  But  it  happens 
(why  should  it  not  happen?  If  it  is  right  to  license, 
it  is  right  to  be  licensed.  If  it  is  right  to  authorize 
a  man  to  keep  a  saloon,  it  is  right  to  keep  it) — it 
happens  that  the  man  'of  good  moral  character'  who 
applies  for  the  license,  is  also  a  member  of  the  same 
church  I  What  happens  now?  Why,  the  pastor 
and  officer  and  church  member  proceed  to  expel  the 
saloon  keeper  from  the  church.  They,  as  Chris- 
tians, excommunicate  the  man  for  doing  what  they, 
as  citizens,  have  distinctly  authorized  him  to  do  I" 


:?HE  CHRISTIAN"  CYNOSUEE. 


June  7, 1888 


THB  NATIONAL   CONVENTION  AT  INDIAN  ' 
AP0LI8. 


Could  old  Peter  the  Hermit  have  revisited  the 
earth  at  Indianapolis  last  week,  he  would  have 
found  a  crowd,  an  enthusiasm,  and  a  cause  as  re- 
markable and  as  worthy  as  when  he  led  the  hosts 
of  Europe  against  the  Turk.  The  capital  city  of 
Indiana  is  not  unaccustomed  to  great  meetings,  but 
it  was  fairly  taken  by  surprise,  when  its  hotels  over- 
flowed into  all  the  boarding-houses,  and  the  streets 
resounded  with  steady  tramp  of  thousands  who 
wore  the  Prohibition  colors.  The  saloons  of  the 
city  had  put  on  air  of  bravado,  and  banteringly 
made  special  preparation  for  a  great  increase  of 
patronage;  but  they  soon  went  into  mourning,  when 
they  heard 

"Them  bells,  Prohibition  bells," 
ringing  through  the  land  the  knell  of  the  rum  traffic. 
Public  opinion  given  in  the  daily  press  of  all  parties 
showed  marked  deference  for  the  vigorous  young 
party  that  promises  a  half  million  votes  in  Novem- 
ber. At  least  3,000  people  had  come  together  from 
Maine  to  Texas  and  from  Florida  to  Oregon,  and 
1,029  of  them  were  delegates  appointed  from  Con- 
gressional districts,  three  from  each. 

The  National  Committee,  meeting  on  Tuesday,  had 
settled  the  preliminary  business  of  the  convention, 
and  when  chairman  Dickie  rapped  for  order  the 
great  hall  of  the  city  building  presented  a  magnifi- 
cent sight.  Flags,  banners  and  inscriptions  were 
tastefully  arranged;  but  some  of  the  latter  were 
very  awkwardly  expressed.  The  central  banner 
over  the  chairman's  head  was  often  referred  to  and 
always  with  an  enthusiastic  response.  It  bore  the 
legend:  "No  Sectionalism  in  Politics.  No  Sex  in 
Citizenship."  Governor  St.  John  was  recognized 
as  he  entered  to  take  his  place  with  the  Kan- 
sas delegation  and  was  greeted  with  hearty 
cheers. 

Prof.  Dickie,  chairman  of  the  National  Committee, 
rapped  for  order  soon  after  ten  o'clock,  Wednesday 
morning,  and  called  to  the  platform  the  members  of 
<  National  Committee  and  the  executive  officers 
1)  «W.  C.  T.  U.  Then  he  made  way  for  the  ear- 
j  Prohibition  candidates.  Judge  Black,  John  Rus- 
sell, Neal  Dow,  with  Dr.  H.  A.  Thompson  and  finally 
St  John,  the  appearance  of  each  calling  out  an  out- 
burst of  applause  which  at  the  last  was  overwhelm- 
ing. If  St.  John  ever  imagined  that  the  last  cam- 
paign damaged  his  reputation,  he  no  longer  had  the 
least  occasion  to  entertain  such  doubts.  The  vast 
audience  then  joined  in  the  hymn  "America"  and 
Samuel  W.  Small,  the  Georgia  evangelist,  offered  an 
earnest  prayer  for  the  guidance  of  God  in  the  pro- 
ceedings. 

Chairman  Dickie  called  attention  to  the  fact  that 
the  eight  men  who  had  been  Prohibition  candidates 
for  Presidential  offices  were  all  alive,  while  of  the 
sixteen  nominated  by  the  old  parties  but  four  re- 
mained. As  a  fitting  recognition  of  this  blessing 
from  God  he  suggested  that  the  convention  join  in 
singing, "Praise  God  from  whom  all  blessings  flow," 
which  was  done  with  great  fervor.  After  a  short 
address  Mr,  Dickie  named  Rev.  H.  A.  Delano,  of 
Norwich,  Conn.,  as  temporary  chairman,  who  re- 
sponded to  an  address  of  welcome  by  Capt.  B.  F. 
Ritter,  an  Indianapolis  lawyer.  A  number  of  tele- 
grams were  read,  one  being  a  cablegram  from  Lon- 
don, and  another  a  word  of  cheer  from  8.  A.  Kean, 
the  Chicago  banker  and  N.  C.  A.  auditor.  The  con- 
vention seemed  to  be  in  no  mood  for  work  until  they 
had  a  speech  from  St.  John  and  he  was  obliged  to 
respond  lo  a  general  demand.  Various  committees 
on  platform,  permanent  organization,  rules  and  cre- 
dentials were  appointed. 

The  afternoon  session  was  short,  the  early  part  as 
well  as  the  evening  being  taken  up  with  singing  and 
speech-making.  Il?v.  Mr.  Gambrell  of  Mississippi, 
father  of  ihe  brave  young  editor  who  was  shot  by 
the  assassin  Hamilton,  was  called  upon  the  platform 
and  responded  to  his  introduction  with  the  brief  sen- 
tence that  he  esteemed  the  cause  which  the  conven- 
tion represented  as  worthy  the  life  of  any  one. 

"Walter  Thomas  Mills,"  the  most  aggressive  of 
the  lodge  and  anti-woman  suffrage  delegates,  created 
a  slight  disturbance  by  attempting  to  read  a  resolu- 
tion addressed  to  the  brewers'  convention  sitting  in 
St.  Paul.  "No  I  no  I"  shouted  many  voices.  "We 
have  nothing  lo  do  with  them;"  and  after  some  min- 
utes wrangling  there  was  a  unanimous  vote  that  the 
chagrined  Mr.  Mills  be  allowed  to  withdraw  his  mo- 
tion, which  he  protested  he  made  for  some  other 
person. 

The  W.  C.  T.  U.,  by  Mrs.  Buel,  National  Corres- 
ponding Secretary,  presented  a  memorial  in  favor  of 
declaring  for  the  Bible  in  schools,  for  woman  suf- 
frage, and  the  condemnation  of  ordinary  campaign 
vilification.  Later  the  W.  C.  T.  U.  presented  another 


resolution  asking  for  shorter  hours  of  labor,  and  the 
abolition  of  Sabbath  labor. 

The  committee  on  credentials  reported  1029  del- 
egates present,  and  the  committee  on  permanent  or- 
ganization handed  up  the  name  of  John  P.  St.  John 
for  chairman  of  the  convention,  and  Sam  Small  for 
secretary.  This  report  was  received  with  an  ova- 
tion, and  as  St.  John  took  his  place  he  was  the  most 
popular  man  in  Indianapolis. 

A  speech  from  Bishop  Turner  of  the  African 
Methodist  Episcopal  church  closed  the  afternoon 
proceedings.  He  is  an  able  speaker,  and  seems  to 
deserve  the  popularity  he  enjoys  among  his  own 
people  at  the  South. 

The  evening  of  the  first  day  was  occupied  by  a 
meeting  of  the  "Blue  and  the  Gray,"  the  new  soldier's 
organization  for  prohibition.  Addresses  were  made 
by  Col.  George  W.  Bain,  the  eloquent  Kentuckian, 
by  Miss  F.  E.  Willard,  Mrs.  Merriwether  of  Ten- 
nessee, and  others.  Col.  Cleghorn  of  Wisconsin 
opened  his  speech  with  a  recollection  of  the  honor 
he  once  enjoyed  of  speaking  for  the  Gk)od  Templars. 
The  rest  of  his  remarks  were  on  a  par  with  this  in- 
significant distinction  and  their  conclusion  was  the 
most  welcome  part.  Col.  Bain  aroused  the  utmost 
enthusiasm  by  his  eloquence,  and  Miss  Willard 
threw  the  opposers  of  woman  sufferage  into  con- 
sternation by  her  references  to  the  position  of  the 
party  upon  that  question. 

There  was  something  grandly  inspiring  in  the  re- 
quest of  chairman  St.  John  as  business  opened 
promptly  the  second  morning:  "Let  the  conven- 
tion arise  and  be  led  in  prayer  to  God  by  Rev.  A. 
M.  Richardson."  W.  T.  Mills,  who  seems  to  have 
been  called  "the  Little  Giant"  until  his  head  is 
sadly  turned,  began  a  lively  fight  on  the  pres- 
entation of  the  report  on  rules,  which  provided  for 
five-minute  speeches  in  discussion  of  resolutions. 
He  had  planned  a  debate  of  the  suffrage  question 
by  four  speakers  of  four  mortal  hours  long,  as  if 
the  great  convention  had  come  together  for  his 
especial  accommodation  and  could  stay  a  week  if  it 
should  please  him.  He  was  told  that  himself  and 
his  friends  had  filled  the  earth  with  their  arguments 
and  complaints  for  a  year;  what  the  convention 
wanted  was  not  argument,  but  to  vote.  He  con- 
trived to  squander  the  better  part  of  an  hour,  before 
he  was  voted  down  and  out  of  sight,  a  weak  vote 
from  the  Wisconsin  corner  sustaining  his  conceited 
proposal. 

The  remainder  of  the  forenoon  was  given  to  rais- 
ing a  campaign  fund,  which  reached  the  $15,000 
mark.  Several  $2,000  subscriptions  were  made  and 
there  was  much  good  humor  and  enthusiasm  while 
this  business  proceeded.  An  interesting  incident 
was  the  subscription  of  $100  from  a  $500  salary  by 
a  young  Catholic  priest  of  Minnesota.  "Father" 
Mahoney  was  called  forward  and  addressed  the  con- 
vention from  a  reporter's  chair. 

The  afternoon  session  was  opened  with  prayer  and 
Scripture  reading.  The  vast  hall  was  crowded  to 
doors,  aisles  and  lobbies.  It  is  said  to  seat  4,000; 
hundreds  more  were  packed  in.  It  was  to  be  the 
most  exciting  portion  of  the  convention.  It  was  the 
avowed  determination  of  a  few  to  make  the  hottest 
possible  fight  over  the  suffrage  plank  in  the  platform. 
The  platform  committee  had  wrestled  for  many 
hours  over  the  difficulty,  and  every  rumor  tended  to 
increase  the  anxiety  of  both  parties.  To  control  the 
turbulent  and  the  explosive  spirits  was  an  over- 
whelming task,  but  Gov.  St.  John  proved  himself  an 
able  chairman,  though  the  effort  to  keep  the  conven- 
tion down  to  business  exhausted  him. 

After  a  few  items  of  business  had  been  put  out  of 
the  way,  the  platform  committee,  led  by  Judge 
Black  and  Miss  Willard,  came  in  dignified  order 
to  the  platform.  The  hearing  of  their  report  was 
immediately  taken  up.  Judge  Black  in  a  few  words 
set  forth  the  difficulty  of  their  task,  and  the  prac- 
tical harmony  of  their  conclusions;  but  one  member 
refusing  to  agree  with  the  report.  The  reading  fol- 
lowed and  Sam  Small's  clear  tones  carried  every 
word  to  the  farthest  comer.  Various  portions  were 
cheered  and  the  suffrage  plank  was  received  with  a 
whirlwind  of  applause.  The  temper  of  the  conven- 
tion was  hot.  No  minority  report  was  wanted. 
But  St.  John  insisted  on  an  orderly  proceedure,  and 
■John  M.  Olin,  the  Wisconsin  member  of  the  com- 
mittee, read  an  able  argument  against  the  suffrage 
plank.  He  is  a  fine  speaker,  of  powerful  voice  and 
manly  bearing,  and  met  the  difficulty  of  his  situa- 
tion like  a  brave  man.  After  a  point  of  order  was 
raised  that  he  bad  made  no  report  but  a  speech,  he 
produced  a  resolution  turning  over  woman  suffrage 
to  a  local  option  rule.  Various  conflicting  motions 
were  made.  W.  T.  Mills  wanted  the  minority  report, 
and  was  quickly  voted  down.  T.  C.  Richmond 
wanted  two  hours  to  consider  the  suffrage  plank,  and 
was  ruled  out  of  order. 


The  majority  report  was  finally  taken  up  in  its 
order.  A  delegate  moved  to  amend  the  preamble 
by  adding  the  words,  "believing  that  all  human 
enactments  should  be  framed  in  accordance  with  his 
law."    It  was  not  accepted. 

The  suffrage  plank  was  at  last  reached  and  the 
debate  began,  led  off  by  T.  C.  Richmond  of  Wiscon- 
sin. His  main  argument  and  that  of  Mr.  Olin  was 
the  loss  of  votes  in  the  South.  The  assumption  of 
Northern  men  to  answer  for  the  South  was  repudi- 
ated in  an  impassioned  manner  by  Mrs.  Merriwether 
of  Tennessee  and  Col.  Bain  of  Kentucky.  The  lat- 
ter in  an  eloquent  argument  impaled  Olin  and  nailed 
him  to  the  wall,  charging  him  as  a  divider  and  fo- 
menter  of  strife  in  the  party.  "They  claim  that  the 
South  is  against  suffrage,"  said  Col.  Bain;  "but  ev- 
ery Southern  member  of  the  platform  committee  has 
signed  the  majority  report  and  only  John  M.  Olin 
stands  out  against  it."  Mrs.  Perkins  of  Ohio,"Moth- 
er"  Stewart  and  Mrs.  Matchett  of  Pennsylvania 
spoke  for  the  plank,  as  did  Fanning  of  Michigan, 
CranfiU  of  Texas,  Evans  of  Illinois, who  recalled  the 
history  of  tfce  party  and  claimed  it  to  be  bad  faith 
to  the  Home  Protection  party  of  1882  to  leave  out 
woman  suffrage.  Scomp  of  Georgia  opposed  it, 
also  Tate  of  Tennessee  and  W.  T.  Mills.who  climbed 
up  to  the  reporters'  stand  and  then  pushing  them 
aside  mounted  a  table.  Tate  in  his  speech  men- 
tioned other  great  moral  questions,  one  of  which 
was  secret  societies,  around  which  public  sentiment 
is  centering,  and  which  must  find  their  way  into  na- 
tional politics. 

Sam.  Small  made  one  of  the  most  effective  speech- 
es for  the  majority  report.  He  had  come  determined 
to  oppose  woman  suffrage  to  the  last,  but  after  go- 
ing over  the  ground  inch  by  inch,  that  man,  he  said, 
would  be  a  poltroon  who  would  ask  those  women  to 
retract  another  iota  from  their  position,  or  concede 
any  more  to  the  minority.  Miss  Willard  made  the 
last  speech,  and  St.  John  recognized  a  motion  for 
the  previous  question.  It  was  carried  with  a  thun- 
dering aye,  amid  yells  for  a  division  from  Mills  and 
others.  They  had  the  satisfaction  of  counting 
about  sixty  votes.  They  wasted  a  half  hour  in 
dilatory  measures  before  the  final  vote,  when  only 
about  twenty  cared  to  support  what  was  now  man- 
ifestly a  mere  factious  opposition.  After  the  roar 
of  cheers  had  subsided  the  utmost  confusion  pre- 
vailed. Mills  yelled  out  his  contradictions  to  the 
chair  so  spitefully  that  some  would  not  have  been 
surprised  to  have  seen  him  suppressed  by  a  tap  of 
the  gavel.  Chafin  from  the  Wisconsin  corner 
screamed  "privilege"  for  a  minute  or  two.  A  score 
demanded  the  floor  and  a  multitude  cried  for  order. 
St.  John  shamed  them  to  silence  and  business  pro- 
ceeded. When  the  previous  question  was  ordered 
Sam.  Small  reached  across  to  Miss  Willard  and  clasp- 
ed her  hand.  Tumultuous  applause  broke  out  from 
floor  and  galleries  to  see  the  struggle  thus  ended  in 
friendship.  At  the  same  time  Mills  was  calling 
out  to  his  friends  to  keep  up  the  fight  and  carry 
their  measure  next  time.  His  conduct  was  so 
offensive  as  to  be  the  remark  of  numerous  delegates. 
His  every  step  in  the  convention  seemed  to  lose 
him  votes,  influence  and  friends. 

The  evening  opened  with  song  by  the  Sky  Lark 
quartette  of  students  from  Kansas.  The  quartette 
singing  formed  no  inconsiderable  part  of  the  pro- 
ceedings. The  far-famed  Silver  Lake  quartette;  the 
Herbert  quartette  of  Illinois;  the  Harmonia,  four 
young  Nebraska  ladies;  and  Jewett's  "Jinglers,"  a 
popular  colored  club,  waked  echoes  of  memory  and 
tides  of  enthusiasm  in  every  breast.  Prohibition 
goes  as  well  to  music  as  Abolition,  and  this  reform 
will  go  singing  on  to  the  forefront  of  the  nation. 

The  business  of  the  evening  began  with  a  sharp 
trick  by  the  leader  of  the  Pennsylvania  delegation 
who  moved  an  addition  to  the  fifth  plank  and  it  was 
carried  before  the  convention  realized  its  force,  and 
a  vote  to  reconsider  failed  also.  (The  addition  we 
put  in  brackets.  The  resolution  makes  a  beautiful 
straddle.)  Various  resolutions  of  thanks  were  given 
to  everybody — even  to  the  railroads  I — such  was  the 
good  humor  of  the  convention. 

Nominations  were  at  last  reached  and  with  some 
insignificant  speaking  Clinton  B.  Fisk  was  nomina- 
ted by  acclamation,  banners  bearing  his  portrait 
were  run  up,  and  the  vast  crowd  exhausted  itself  in 
tremendous  cheers  for  several  minutes.  A  telegram 
from  Mr.  Fisk  was  read  by  Mr.  Dickie  explaining 
his  absence  on  account  of  the  M.  E.  General  Confer- 
ence. St.  John  was  instructed  to  send  him  a  dis- 
patch announcing  the  nomination. 

For  Vice  President  Alabama  nominated  John  T. 
Tanner,  a  delegate  from  that  State.  Georgia  nom- 
inated George  W.  Bain  of  Kentucky  in  a  speech  of 
splendid  eloquence,  by  Sam.  W.  Small,  that  found  al- 
most as  hearty  a  response  as  when  Fisk  was  named. 
CoLBain  after  sevaral  minutes  got  the  floor  to  decline 


June  7,  1888 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


5 


the  honor.  Missouri  nominated  John  A.  Brooks.  Kan- 
sas named  Sans.  Small  and  struck  a  popular  chord  for 
the  response  was  tremendous.  Mr.  Small  declined 
to  allow  the  use  of  his  name,  but  North  Carolina, 
Ohio  and  Col.  Moulton  for  the  District  of  Columbia, 
seconded  the  nomination.  Michigan  supported 
Brooks,  as  did  Mrs.  Hoffman  of  St.  Louis  in  a  noble 
speech.  Pennsylvania  was  first  for  Bain  then 
Brooks,  so  was  West  Virginia.  As  Bain  and  Small 
insisted  on  declining.  Tanner  withdrew  in  favor  of 
Brooks  and  Texas  called  in  her  nomination  of  Da- 
honey  and  the  son  of  Missouri  was  nominated  by 
acclamation.  He  was  conducted  to  the  platform,  a 
fine-appearing  man,  with  full  beard  and  hair  turning 
well  to  gray.  He  faced  the  thunder  of  the  crowd 
with  the  calmness  of  a  born  commander,  and  re- 
sponded to  the  honor  conferred  upon  him  in  an  able 
address. 

The  work  of  the  convention  was  soon  over.  By 
11  o'clock  the  great  hall  was  empty  and  only  the 
echoes  of  a  great  meeting  remained. 

PLATFOBM. 

"The  Prohibition  party,  in  national  convention  assem- 
bled, acknowledging  Almighty  God  as  the  source  of  all 
power  in  government,  does  hereby  declare : 

"1.  That  the  manufacture,  importation,  exportation, 
transportation,  and  sale  of  alcoholic  beveragea  shall  be 
made  public  crimes  and  prohibited  and  punished  as  such. 

"2.  That  such  prohibition  must  be  secured'  through 
amendments  of  our  National  and  State  constitutions,  en- 
forced by  adequate  authority,  and  to  this  end  the  Prohi- 
bition party  is  imperatively  demanded  in  State  and  Na- 
tion. 

"3.  That  any  form  of  license  taxation  or  regulation  of 
the  liquor  traffic  is  contrary  to  good  government;  that 
any  party  which  supports  regulation  by  license  or  tax  en- 
ters into  an  alliance  with  such  trsfflo  and  becomes  the  act 
ualfoe  of  the  State's  welfare,  and  that  we  arraign  the  Re- 
publican and  Democratic  parties  for  their  persistent  atti- 
tude in  favor  of  the  licensed  iniquity,  whereby  they  op- 
pose the  demand  of  the  people  for  prohibition,  and 
through  open  complicity  with  the  liquor  cause,  defeat 
the  enforcement  of  law. 

"4.  For  the  immediate  abolition  of  the  internal-reve- 
nue system,  whereby  our  national  government  is  deriving 
support  from  our  greatest  national  vice. 

"5.  That  an  adequate  public  revenue  being  necessary, 
it  may  properly  be  raised  by  impost  dutiep,  but  import 
duties  should  be  so  reduced  that  no  surplus  shall  be  ac- 
cumulated in  the  Treasury,  and  the  burdens  of  taxation 
should  be  removed  from  foods,  clothing,  and  other  com- 
forts and  necessaries  of  life  [and  imposed  upon  such  ar- 
ticles of  import  as  will  give  protection  both  to  the  man- 
ufacturer, employer  and  producing  labor  against  the 
competition  of  the  world]. 

"6.  That  civil  service  appointments  for  all  civil  offices, 
chiefly  clerical  in  their  duties,  should  be  based  upon 
moral,  intellectual  and  physical  qualifications,  and  not 
upon  party  service  or  party  necessity. 

"7.  That  the  right  of  suffrage  rests  on  no  mere  circum- 
stance of  race,  color,  sex,  or  nationality,  and  that  where, 
from  any  cause,  it  has  been  held  from  citizens  who  are 
of  suitable  age  and  mentally  and  morally  qualified  for 
the  exercise  of  an  intelligent  ballot,  it  should  be  restored 
by  the  people  through  the  legislatures  of  the  several 
States  on  such  educational  basis  as  they  may  deem  wise. 

"8.  For  the  abolition  of  polygamy  and  the  establish- 
ment of  uniform  laws  governing  marriage  and  divorce. 

"9.  For  prohibiting  all  combinations  of  capital  to  con- 
trol and  to  increase  the  cost  of  products  for  popular  con- 
sumption. 

"10.  For  the  preservation  and  defense  of  the  Sabbath 
as  a  civil  institution  without  oppressing  any  who  relig- 
iously observe  the  same  on  any  other  day  than  the  first 
day  of  the  week. 

"11.  That  arbitration  is  the  Christian,  wise  and  eco- 
nomic method  of  settling  national  differences,  and  the 
same  method  should,  by  judicious  legislation,  be  applied 
to  the  settlement  of  disputes  between  large  bodies  of 
employes  and  employers;  that  the  abolition  of  the  saloon 
would  remove  the  burdens,  moral,  physical,  pecuniary, 
and  social,  which  now  oppress  labor  and  rob  it  of  its 
earnings,  and  would  prove  to  be  the  wise  and  successful 
way  of  promoting  labor  reform;  and  we  invite  labor  and 
capital  to  unite  with  us  for  the  accomplishment  thereof. 

"12.  That  monopoly  in  land  is  a  wrong  to  the  peo- 
ple, and  public  land  should  be  reserved  to  actual  settlers, 
and  that  men  and  women  should  receive  equal  wages  for 
equal  work. 

"13.  That  our  immigration  laws  should  be  so  enforced 
as  to  prevent  the  introduction  into  our  country  of  all 
convicts,  inmates  of  dependent  institutions,  and  others 
physically  incapacitated  for  self-support,  and  that  no 
person  shall  have  the  ballot  in  any  State  who  is  not  a 
citizen  of  the  United  States. 

"Recognizing  and  declaring  that  prohibition  of  the 
liquor  traffic  has  become  the  dominant  issue  in  national 
politics,  we  invite  to  full  party  fellowship  all  those  who, 
on  this  one  domiaant  issue,  are  with  us  agreed,  in  the 
full  belief  that  this  party  can  and  will  remove  sectional 
differences,  promote  national  unity,  and  insure  the  best 
welfare  of  our  native  land." 


Befoem  News. 


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Try  to  aim  pity  truth.  You  can  never  be  sure 
that  truth  is  truth  until  it  is  simple.  The  doctrines 
of  first  importance  are  all  simple;  what  cannot  be 
simplifi'^d  is  rot  of  first  importance;  put  it  to  one 
side. — George  W.  Cable. 


TEE     8A0BBD     OARPBT    OF     THB     NOBLE 
GRAND. 

May  26,  1888. 
DbarCtnoscbb: — From  North  Page  and  Hep- 
burn I  went  to  College  Springs.  I  have  preached  in 
the  Wesleyan,  Congregational  and  United  Presby- 
terian churches  of  this  place.  I  also  spoke  at  two 
country  places,  about  five  miles  each  from  Coin. 

I  had  an  appointment  to  lecture  at  Bradyville, 
but  the  rain,  which  is  abundant  here  now,  prevented. 
Dr.  Wm.  Johnston,  pastor  of  the  U.  P.  church,  and 
president  of  the  Iowa  Christian  Association,  donat- 
ed $5,  as  did  also  A.  B.  Milner,  a  lay  brother  of  the 
M.  E.  church,  I.  S.  Lavely  of  the  Wesleyan  Metho- 
dist church,  and  Geo.  Berry  of  the  U.  P.  church, 
besides  others  who  gave  smaller  sums. 

Thirty- two  new  subscriptions  to  the  Cynosure  have 
been  secured  since  coming  to  College  Springs,  and 
the  canvass  is  not  completed  yet.  This  makes  ninety- 
one  new  subscriptions  to  the  Gynoture,  taken  since 
coming  to  Page  county,  and  1  have  not  got  through 
yet.  Through  tracts  and  Cynosures,  we  are  scatter- 
ing the  salt  of  reform  in  Page  county. 

While  canvassing  for  donors  to  the  Iowa  Asso- 
ciation and  subscribers,  Bro.  Henry  said,"Can't  you 
give  us  a  lecture  at  Bradyville?"  "Why,  yes,"  I 
replied,  "if  you  can  secure  a  place,  and  make  the 
announcement"  "Oh,  I  can  get  the  M.  E.  church," 
he  said,  "and  I  will  see  that  the  lecture  is  an- 
nounced." 

Accordingly  he  went  to  Bradyville  and  applied 
for  the  M.  E.  church,  but  was  informed  that  the 
trustees  had  passed  a  resolution,  sometime  before,  to 
admit  nothing  but  temperance  lecturers,  besides  the 
regular  services.  He  then  applied  for  the  school 
house,  but  the  director,  who  was  an  Odd-fellow,  re- 
fused to  have  the  lecture  there,  but  thought  the 
trustees  might  have  opened  the  church,  as  they  had 
been  letting  every  thing  in.  "But,"  said  he,  "if 
they  won't  let  you  have  the  church,  we  will  let  you 
have  the  Oddfellow's  hall." 

Bro.  Henry,  whose  soul  is  spiced  with  Irish  wit, 
replied,  "To  show  that  the  Odd-fellows  are  more 
liberal  than  the  church,  I  will  accept  your  offer." 
"But,"  said  the  Odd-fellow,  "if  it  should  be  muddy 
it  would  hardly  do  to  have  the  lecture  in  our  hall,  it 
is  so  nicely  carpeted."  Then  fearing  that  he  might 
appear  insincere  in  Mr.  Henry's  eyes,  he  said,  "I 
will  take  you  up  to  the  hall  and  let  you  see  for  your- 
self how  nicely  it  is  carpeted,  and  you  shall  say 
whether  it  would  be  right  to  come  in  with  the 
lecture  if  it  should  be  muddy." 

So  they  went  up  to  the  door  of  the  ante-room  and 
knocked,  and  after  some  delay,  were  admitted.  It 
was  lodge  night,  and  part  of  the  members  had  al- 
ready gathered;  but  the  door  of  the  lodge-room  was 
opened  and  Mr.  Henry  was  bid  to  behold  the  fine 
carpet  on  the  fioor,  and  to  say  whether  the  hall 
ought  to  be  opened  to  a  lecture  if  it  was  muddy. 
My  friend  was  so  dazzled  by  the  glory  of  the  place 
that  he  was  constrained  to  admit  that  it  would  be 
most  too  bad  to  come  on  to  such  a  nice  carpet  with 
muddy  feet.  And  so  his  guide  led  him  out  of  the 
hall;  and  to  fix  the  matter  that  the  lecture  against 
secret  societies  should  not  be  announced  to  be  in 
the  Odd-fellows  hall,  for  fear  it  might  be  muddy,  he 
remarked,  "You  said  yourself,  when  you  saw  the 
hall,  that  it  would  not  do  to  open  it  for  the  lecture, 
if  it  was  muddy."  "Oh,  yesi"  said  my  friend,  "I 
was  like  the  fox,  who,  when  he  could  not  get  the 
grapes,  said,  *I  don't  want  them,  they  are  sour.'" 

But  Mr.  Henry  persevered  and  engaged  an  un- 
carpeted  hall,  and  but  for  the  fact  that  there  was 
rain,  as  well  as  mud,  the  merits  of  secret  societies, 
such  as  Freemasons  and  Odd-fellows,  would  have 
been  discussed  in  Bradyville. 

Having  had  the  privilege  of  showing  the  un- 
christian character  of  the  secret  lodge  system  in  M. 
£.  churches,  as  well  as  in  those  of  other  denomina- 
tions, I  would  not  have  my  readers  draw  the  con- 
clusion that  the  trustees  of  the  M.  E.  church  of 
Bradyville  were  following  an  established  precedent 
in  refusing  to  open  the  church  to  the  discussion 
of  the  relations  of  Freemasonry  and  its  kindred 
orders  to  our  holy  Christianity. 

Surely  Satan  is  working  through  the  secret  lodge 
system  to  supplant  Christ,  and  subvert  Christianity, 
by  educating  our  young  men  in  a  deistical  ritual  of 
worship,  and  building  them  up  in  self-righteousness. 
Will  the  friends  of  Christ  work  with  Satan  to  keep 
this  conspiracy  from  being  exposed?  They  will 
not,  when  the  eyes  of  their  understanding  are  en- 
lightened, and  they  comprehend  the  anti-Christian 
character  of  Freemasonry  and  its  kiu'lreH  ordi>r<». 

C.  F.  Hawlet. 


A  LOUISIANA  CAMPAIGN. 

New  Orleans,  La.,  May  26,  1888. 

Dear  Cynosure: — The  rumsellers  and  beer- 
drinkers  are  trying  to  get  a  suflScient  memorial  be- 
fore the  General  Assembly  to  repeal  the  Sunday  law. 
The  Sunday  law  was  very  generally  observed  in  the 
early  part  of  1887,  but  more  recently  it  is  hardly 
respected.  Mr.  Sherard,  secretary  of  the  Y.M.C.A., 
sent  lists  to  every  church  in  the  city  last  Sabbath 
for  endorsements  praying  the  legislature  not  to  re- 
peal the  Sunday  law.  I  called  on  Mr.  Sherard  at  the 
Y.  M.  C.  A.  rooms,  15  Camp  St.,  Monday  and  was 
pleased  to  find  him  with  a  smile  on  his  pleasant 
face.  He  said,  "I  am  satisfied  we  have  sufficient 
endorsements."  This  is  another  act  of  the  lodge 
rumites  to  crush  out  of  the  statute  books  one  day  of 
rest. 

I  preached  at  Mount  Moriah  Baptist  church  on 
Sabbath  at  3  p.  m.,  and  lectured  on  "Secrecy  as  a 
Hindrance  to  Christian  Progress"  at  Elder  Guy 
Beck's  church  at  7:30  p.  M.  Bro.  Beck  and  the  bet- 
ter part  of  his  congregation  heartily  endorsed  my 
sermon.  Several  young  secretists  attempted  to  raise 
a  loud  noise,  but  Elder  Beck  and  his  deacons  de- 
manded peace  and  in  a  moment  all  was  quiet 

I  have  been  very  unwell  this  week,  but  praise  the 
Lord  I  am  able  to  get  about  and  disturb  the  lodge 
by  distributing  tracts.  I  have  in  print  a  tract  enti- 
tled, "The  Colored  People  and  Secret  Orders."  This 
tract  will  be  very  unsavory  for  a  great  many  of  my 
race,  especially  those  inclined  to  immorality  and  se- 
cretism.  I  had  an  invitation  from  Rev.  Hiram  Wil- 
son to  come  up  to  Kennerviile,  La.,  and  preach  for 
his  people  Thursday  night  I  expect  to  leave  here 
Monday  morning  to  lecture  in  the  following  places: 
New  Texas,  West  Melville,  Clinton,  Bayou  Sara, 
Baton  Rouge,  Plaquemine,  Bayou  Goula,Donaldson- 
ville,  Thibodeauxville,  Morgan  City,  Pattersonville, 
Jeanerette,  New  Iberia  and  St  Martinsville.  Pray 
for  God  to  be  with  me. 

The  District  Grand  Tabernacles  Lodge  meets  in 
Plaquemine  the  31st  I  am  expecting  to  lecture  at 
Macedonia  Baptist  church  Tuesday,  and  at  Pilgrim 
Rest  Baptist  church  Thursday  at  7:30  p.  ji  in  Pla- 
quemine. Friends  can  write  me  until  about  June 
15th  at  Dorseyville,  La. 

I  met  Bro.  R.  Johnson,  clerk  of  a  prominent  Bap- 
tist church.  He  has  seen  the  evils  of  the  lodge  and 
thinks  they  ought  to  be  rooted  up.  He  would  like 
to  have  the  Cynosure,  but  can't  subscribe  for  it. 
Dear  Northern  friends,  if  you  want  to  educate  the 
Southern  Negro  it  will  be  well  to  educate  him  against 
the  lodge  that  swears  its  candidates  to  have  their 
throats  cut  across  and  their  tongues  torn  out  if  they 
reveal  the  pretended  secrets.  If  you  want  to  save 
this  poor  people  teach  them  temperance  and  morali- 
ty. Can  any  Christian  who  has  the  Lord's  money  to 
spare  do  better  with  it  than  to  swell  the  N.  C.  A. 
ministers'  fund  to  $3,000,  and  send  free  2,000  Cyno- 
sures? If  you  will  furnish  tracts  and  Cynosures,  I 
will  leaven  Mississippi,Louisiana,  and  Texas. 

The  Masons  mustered  twenty  and  the  Odd-fellows 
twenty-seven  last  Saturday  to  attend  the  funeral  of 
Mr.  R.  Hayes.  I  attended  services  at  a  prominent 
A.  M.  E.  church,  and  after  the  sermon  the  pastor 
gave  about  ten  minutes'  lecture  on  the  benefit  of  se- 
cret orders  to  the  colored  people.  Among  other  un- 
founded statements  he  said,  "Now,  brothers  and  sis- 
ters, you  jist  haster  pay  $1.00  to  jine  and  25  cents 
er  month.  The  society  pays  $500  to  the  widow  of 
every  member,  and  we  pays  that  without  any  trou- 
ble. And  in  five  years  we  can  pay  without  the  lodge 
members  paying  more  than  one  cent  each."  Now 
let  the  mathematicians  get  their  pencils  and  begin 
to  reckon  this  up. 

UP  THE  RIVER. 

Plaquemine,  May  31,  1888.— I  preached  last 
Sabbath  at  the  Laharpe  St.  M.  E.  church  at  11  a.  m.; 
at  St  Marks  Fourth  Baptist  church  at  3  p.  m.  ;  and 
lectured  at  Pleasant  Plain  M.  E.  church,  Rev. 
T.  J.  Johnson,  pastor,  at  8  p.  m.  The  Old  Baptist 
church  gave  an  excursion  from  New  Orleans  to  this 
place  Monday  28th.  I  came  up  here  on  the  ex- 
cursion and  distributed  tracts  on  the  train  and 
freely  spoke  on  the  secrecy  question.  Revs.  Foster 
and  Williams  and  others  on  the  train  very  strongly 
denounced  the  lodge  system.  The  Son's  and  Daugh- 
ter's of  Iberville  gave  an  excursion  from  here  to 
New  Orleans  yesterday  (Wednesday).  The  oblect 
of  this  excursion  was  to  bring  delegates  to  the 
District  Grand  Lodge  meeting  of  the  secret  Taber- 
nacles, which  meets  here  on  Friday,  June  1st  I 
intended  to  lay  over  here  until  this  district  meeting 
adjourned,  but  my  appointment  at  Now  Texas  for 
Sunday  comi^els  me  to  leave  here  to-day  via  the 
steamer   Warren. 

I  was  very  bospitably  entertained  hereby  bro Jier 
{Cmtinu4d  on  9th  page.) 


« 


?HE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


June  7, 1888 


COBBESPONDENCE. 


MAaomC    OUTRAGE. 


Editor  Cynosure: — The  following  is  gathered 
from  the  lips  of  the  person  aggrieved,  and  from 
documents  handed  to  me  by  him. 

In  the  year  1867,  in  the  month  of  April,  the  fol- 
lowing note  was  given  to  Alexander  Stebbins  for 
money  loaned  in  good  faith  to  the  representatives  of 
Adrian  Chapter,  No.  10,  Royal  Arch  Masons,  for 
the  construction  of  a  costly  Masonic  Temple,  which 
adorns  (?)  the  city  of  Adrian  to-day,  and  is  used  for 
the  purpose  for  which  it  was  erected,  and  toward 
the  erection  of  which,  and  for  such  purpose,  the 
above  money  was  loaned  from  Mr.  Stebbins. 

(No.  378  )  Adrian,  April  20,  1867. 

Treasurer  of  Adrian  Chapter,  No  10: 

On  the  first  day  of  April  next  (1868)  pay  to  Alexan- 
der Stebbins,  or  order,  One  Thousand  Dollars  with  in- 
terest at  ten  per  cent  ($1,000). 

A  Howell,  Secretary. 
Countersigned  by  W.  S.  Lawrkncb,  President. 

Upon  the  above  note  Mr.  Stebbins  received  a  pay- 
ment of  $500  in  a  manner  to  be  explained  hereafter. 
Mr.  Stebbins  is  now  above  seventy  years  of  age  and 
is  infirm.  His  companion  is  also  aged  and  is  an  in- 
valid. Her  infirmity  has  been  greatly  increased  by 
the  treatment  they  have  both  received  from  the 
above-named  charitable  order. 

Years  since,  when  the  country  was  new,  Mr.  Steb- 
bins came  into  the  vicinity  of  Adrian,  purchased 
160  acres  of  land,  cleared  it  up,  erected  good  build- 
ings, and,  being  too  old  and  infirm  to  work  it  him- 
self, sold  it,  intending  from  the  proceeds  to  live 
more  at  leisure  with  his  companion  for  the  rest  of  their 
days.  By  various  means  their  resources  had  slipped 
away  until  the  $1,000  above  mentioned  was  the  last 
payment  from  his  land,  upon  which  he  hoped  to  sus- 
tain himself,  assisted  by  what  effort  he  might  be 
able  to  put  forth.  The  two  are  now  virtually  upon 
the  charities  of  their  children,  and  a  cold  world. 

A  neighbor  of  Mr.  Stebbins,  E.  0.  Cammet,  by 
name,  was  treasurer  of  the  Chapter,  and  had  great 
confidence  in  the  order.  He  was  an  honest  man, 
and  when  Mr.  Stebbins  at  the  expiration  of  the  year 
had  received  no  money  and  was  pressed,  applying 
to  Mr.  Cammet,  he  paid  to  Mr.  Stebbins  $500,  on  his 
own  responsibility,  not  officially,  and  the  payment 
was  indorsed  on  the  back  of  the  note  in  a  proper 
manner  by  Mr.  Stebbifis. 

In  January  of  the  following  year  Mr.  Cammet 
paid  $100  to  apply  as  interest  which  was  also  prop- 
ely  indorsed.  This  was  also  done  as  a  private  in- 
dividual, but  with  confidence  in  the  order  of  which 
he  was  an  officer.  In  March,  1869,  Mr.  Stebbins 
commenced  suit  against  Adrian  Chapter,  No.  10,  in 
the  circuit  court  of  Lenawee  county.  In  May  of 
that  same  year  he  procured  a  judgment  for  $566.73, 
being  the  amount  then  due.  Not  one  dollar  of  this 
amount  has  he  ever  been  paid,  and  Mr.  Stebbins 
will  probably  be  allowed  to  die  without  what,  by 
common  honesty,  belongs  to  him.  Mr.  Cammet  and 
his  wife  are  both  dead.  They  died  in  grief  and 
poverty,  $6,000  having  gone  from  them  into  the 
beautiful  Masonic  Temple,  for  which  they  never  re- 
covered one  dollar.  Their  deaths  are  said  to  be 
traceable  to  this  gross  dishonesty  of  the  order. 
Their  hard  earnings  have  gone  to  sustain  an  insti- 
tution based  on  corruption,  sacrilege  and  fraud,  and 
the  craft  sport  themselves  with  crowns  and  plumes 
and  various  regalia  to  deceive  the  simple;  mean- 
while using  the  temple  constructed  in  robbery  and 
plunder  for  the  purpose  of  blaspheming  God  and 
belittling  manhood,  while  their  plundered  victims 
pine  away  and  die.  The  judgment  first  obtained  has 
been  renewed  at  the  proper  time,  but  it  is  a  hopeless 
case.  There  are  evidently  a  few  secrets  which  the 
uninitiated  do  not  know. 

The  daily  press  of  the  city  frequently  refers  to  the 
temple  as  a  Masonic  Temple  where  many  worthy  (?) 
exploits  are  done;  but  the  Masons,  it  seems,  dis- 
claim it,  and  credit  it  with  belonging  to  some  sort 
of  an  insurance  company.  .Mr.  Stebbins  wrote  to 
the  agent  of  said  insurance  company  and  received 
the  following  reply  last  January: 

Grand  Rapids,  Jan.  20,  1888. 
Alexander  Stebbins,  Adrian.  Mich., 

Sib: — Yours  of  i9ih  received.  In  reply  will  say  I  in- 
vestigated your  matter  and  find  that  Royftl  Arch  Chapter, 
No.  10.,  of  Adrian,  did  not  have  your  money;  but  a  body 
of  men  undertook  to  build  a  Masonic  Temple  and  claimed 
to  [be]  officers  of  Chapter  No.  10  without  any  authority 
from  said  Royal  Arch  Chapter  No.  10,  and  that  the  prob- 
abilities are  your  claim  is  not  worth  one  cent,  "as  it 
would  be"  if  the  men  were  officers  of  Royal  Arch  Chap- 
ter No  10,  your  claim  would  have  been  paid  long  before 
this.    Respectfully  yours,  etc.,  E.  E.  Waisou. 

Time  fails  to  add  more.  When  will  the  world 
learn  to  oppose  these  devilish  institutions,  and  in- 


sist that  their  secret  diabolism  shall  be  exposed  and 
banished  forever  from  a  free  country? 

H.  A.  Day,  Sec'y.  M,  C.  A, 


BRO.  HINMAN'S   WORK  BEARS  FRUIT. 

East  Hampton,  Mass.,  May  27.  1888. 

Dear  Christian  Cynosure:— On  our  arrival 
home  from  a  Southern  tour  we  find  lying  on  our 
table  numbers  of  the  Christian  Cynosure.  We 
have  read  their  newsy,  instructive  and  wholesome 
columns  with  much  interest.  We  imagine  we  may 
be  indebted  to  Rev. ,  whom  we  met  at  Orange- 
burg, S.  C,  a  few  weeks  since.  If  so,  this  gentle- 
man will  please  accept  our  thanks — should  this 
meet  his  eye.  His  name  we  do  not  recall.  He  gave 
the  pupils  of  a  colored  school,  at  Orangeburg,  in 
which  the  writer  is  interested,  a  nice  little  im- 
promptu talk  on  one  occasion.  We  think  the 
children  will  remember  the  points  of  that  talk. 

We  are  in  full  accord  with  your  sentiments  as  to 
secret  societies,  and  we  are  heartily  glad  that  such 
a  League  as  the  "A.  A.  L."  is  in  existence.  Long 
life  to  it  in  combating  secret  organizations  among 
Christian  people. 

We  have  never  been  able  to  understand  that  if 
a  thing  was  right  to  be  done,  why  should  it  not  be 
done  openly  and  above-board?  Every  feeling  in 
our  nature  rebels  against  secret  organizations.  They 
seem  to  us  anti-Christian,  anti-Government,  and  anti- 
common-sense.  To  the  oft  repeated  question  "  Cui- 
bono"? — by  the  writer,  no  satisfactory  answer  has 
ever  come  yet. 

The  Master  went  about  teaching  in  plain  language. 
The  Pharisees  required  a  "sign,"  but  he  gave  them 
none.  Christ  put  no  "tyler"  at  the  doors  of  the 
Temple  or  the  synagogues  to  shut  out  the  uninitiated. 
No  hieroglyphics  barred  the  common  people  from  his 
presence  and  his  blessed  teachings.  He  warned  his 
disciples  to  be  humble,  harmless,  to  avoid  offances; 
not  to  despise  the  little  ones;  taught  how  we  are  to 
deal  with  our  brethren  when  they  offend  us.  He 
reproved  the  scribes  and  Pharisees  for  transgressing 
God's  commandments  through  their  own  traditions. 
He  reproved  unbelief.  When  asked  who  was  great- 
est in  the  kingdom  of  heaven,  he  put  the  little  un- 
sophisticated child  in  the  midst.  Christ  surrounded 
his  doings  and  teachings  with  no  mysteries.  Strange 
that  we  think  to  improve  upon  Christ's  methods  of 
doing  things!  Mrs.  Emeline  R.  Sterling. 


PITH  AND  POINT. 


GEN.  JOENS  ION'S  TAG  TIGS. 


York,  Pa.,  May  17,  '88. 

Editor  Cynosure: — The  York  Dispatch  of  April 
28  says:  "Gen.  Joseph  E.  Johnston,  the  gallant 
ex  Confederate  officer,  has  been  elected  a  contribut- 
ing member  of  Gen.  E.  D.  Baker  Post,  No.  8,  of 
Philadelphia.  Gen.  Johnston  is  the  only  ex-Con- 
federate soldier  who  has  ever  been  received  into  the 
ranks  of  a  Grand  Army  Post.  When  comrade 
John  W.  Frazier  presented  Gen.  Johnston's  petition 
to  become  a  contributing  member  of  the  post  at  the 
regular  monthly  encampment  of  that  body  on 
Thursday  evening  last,  the  hall  rang  again  and  again 
with  applause." 

"The  petition  was  as  follows: 

"Washington,  April  20,  1888. 
"To  General  E.  D.  Baker  Post,  No.  8,  Department  Penn- 
sylvania, G.  A.  R.: 

"For  the  purpose  of  enabling  me  to  participate  in  the 
noble  work  of  charity  performed  by  the  comrades  of  the 
Grand  Army  of  the  Republic,  I  hereby  make  application 
for  contributing  membership  to  your  post.  Enclosed 
please  find  the  sum  of  $10  for  one  year's  dues. 
"Very  respectfully  yours, 

"Joseph  E.  Johnston." 
"The  petition  was  unaccompanied   by  any  other 
communication,  and  when  presented  to  the  members 
of  the  post  for  consideration,  it  went  through   with 
a  rush  amid  the  cheers  of  the  veterans." 

As  Gen.  Johnston  is  a  Royal  Arch  Mason,  and  as 
the  G.  A.  R.  is  a  Masonic  army,  it  is  very  proper  for 
the  ex-Confederate  to  join  the  G.  A.  R.  The 
Department  Commander  of  Pennsylvania,  who  sees 
that  everybody  is  looking  at  this  rather  queer 
blunder  of  the  childish  old  veterans  of  Post  No.  8, 
comes  to  the  front  and  tells  the  Q.  A.  R.  and  the 
public  that  such  foolishness  cannot  be  endured. 

If  Gen.  Johnston  desires  to  participate  in  a  "noble 
work  of  charity,"  he  had  better  keep  clear  of  all 
secret  rings  and  societies  and  give  all  his  money  to  the 
widows  and  orphans  that  he  ruined  by  his  foolish 
treason.     Charity  should  always  begin  at  home, 

Gen.  Johnston's  axe  must  need  grinding  very 
much.  Uncle  Sam  has  plenty  of  good  grindstones, 
and  the  G.  A.  R.  boys  can  beat  all  at  turning  a  good 
grindstone.  This  is  the  truth,  and  there  is  no 
poetry  about  it.    Yours,      Edward  J.  Chalfant.     ' 


A     MISSIONARY  S    JUDGMENT     ON     THE    WORST    ENEMIES 
OF  THE   NEGRO. 

When  a  boy  on  a  New  England  farm  I  was  a  constant 
reader  of  the  Gynosure.  It  saved  me  from  secret  societies. 
I  entered  upon  an  examination  of  them,  so  far  as  I  was 
able,  and  the  knowledge  I  gained  saved  me  from  them. 
Now  as  a  worker  under  the  A.  M.  A.,  among  the  col- 
ored people  of  the  South,  I  am  convinced  that  the  two 
worst  enemies  of  the  Negro's  progress  are  rum  and  se- 
cret 80CIETIB8.  If  the  Gynosure  would  like  it,  I  should 
like  to  contribute  something  occasionally  toward  the  gen- 
eral knowledge  of  the  evil  among  theNegroea. — Rev.  G. 
S.  Rollins,  Wilmington,  N.  G. 

THE  woman's    relief   CORPS. 

Can  the  ritual  of  the  W.  R  C.  be  had,  or  have  you 
secured  it  yet?  I  do  wish  you  would  get  it.  They  have 
organized  a  corps  here,  and  many  are  joining.  They  are 
to  have  the  memorial  services  in  the  M.  E.  church  by  the 
G.  A.  R.  Sons  of  Veterans  and  the  W.  R.  C.  Now,  in 
that  corps  there  are  infidels  who  make  no  hesitancy  to 
tell  what  they  believe  or  don't  believe.  I  cannot  see  how 
Christian  women  cau  truly  love  Jesus  and  stay  in  such 
an  order.  Am  I  too  radical?  I  wish  to  do  right,  but  I 
cannot  think  of  becoming  a  member.  They  say  all  the 
"bon  tons"  are  coming  in;  with  me  there  is  no  greatness 
only  in  goodness.  To  me  the  Gynosure  is  the  beet  Chris- 
tian paper  I  evtr  read.  Do  get  all  their  so  called  secrets 
and  let  the  world  know  there  is  but  one  true  religion. 
Brother  W.  B.  Stoddard  stopped  over  night  with  us  when 
here,  and  I  know  that  he  isdoiog  avast  amount  of  good; 
more  than  he  realizisnow.  It  does  me  good  to  talk 
with  a  young  man  who  is  opposed  to  the  lodge.  We  have 
a  few  here,  and  they  are  our  best  moral  boys.  The  lodge 
boys,  as  a  general  thing,  play  cards  and  visit  saloons. 
This  1  know  to  be  a  fact. — Mrs.  M.  F.  Cakr,  Greenfield, 
Ohio. 

TRACTS   FOR    NEBRASKA. 

A  few  lines  of  explanation  are  due  from  me,  as  I  seem 
to  have  been  doing  so  little  in  the  reform  work.  I  have 
been  affl  cted  with  dropsy.  For  the  last  two  or  three 
years  my  health  has  been  very  poor;  but  I  am  now  better 
and  able  to  get  around  agaio.  I  am  going  up  into  Ne- 
braska in  a  few  days.  Please  send  me  all  the  tracts  you 
can,  as  wife  and  I  are  going  in  a  buggy,  and  we  can  dis- 
tribute them  all  along  the  road.  1  feel  my  time  is  short 
and  I  want  to  do  all  I  can  for  the  honor  of  Christ  while 
I  live.  If  the  way  is  open  I  will  preach  and  lecture 
while  in  Nebraska,  God  willing.  Pray  for  me  that  I  may 
be  an  humble  instrument  in  God's  hands  in  doing  good 
and  glorifying  his  name.— John  Thompson,  tabeiha, 
Kansas. 


LITERATUSE. 


Marvels  of  the  New  West.  Comprising  Marvels  of  Nature. 
of  Race,  of  Enterprise,  of  Mining,  of  Stock-raising,  and  of 
Agriculture.  Six  books  in  oae  volume.  By  William  M.  Thay- 
er.   Henry  Bill  Publishing  Co.,  Norwich,  Conn. 

The  compiler  of  this  sumptuous  volume  the  boys 
of  twenty  five  years  ago  will  remember  as  the  author 
of  the  popular  juveniles  "The  Bobbin  Boy,"  "The 
Pioneer  Boy,"  "The  Tanner  Boy,"  etc.  They  will 
be  pleased  to  see  a  work  of  such  artistic  perfection, 
of  such  immense  information  and  of  such  absorbing 
interest  from  their  old  friend.  Taking  up  the  series 
of  marvels  in  their  order,  there  is  gathered  in  this 
work  a  very  thorough  and  entertaining  account  of 
the  great  Western  marvels  with  a  careful  and  partic- 
ular description  of  the  various  enterprises  of  mining, 
stock-raising,  etc.  The  whole  is  profusely  and  finely 
illustrated,  and  the  publishers  have  spared  no  pains 
to  make  it  a  reliable  and  beautiful  encyclopedia  of 
the  vast  and  marvelous  region  it  describes. 

Our  Day,  to  which  multitudes  are  now  turning  month 
by  month  for  their  "record  and  review  of  current  re- 
form," opens  its  current  number  with  "The  Use  and 
Abuse  of  Creeds,"  by  R3V.  Joseph  Parker  of  England. 
The  editorial  notes  on  the  paper  help  us  into  much 
clearer  light  than  the  article  itself.  Anthony  Comstock, 
the  iconoclast  in  the  devil's  workshop  of  vice,  aims  a 
blow  at  the  champion  of  iafldelity,  Ingersoll,  which  Mr. 
Gladstone  will  do  well  to  read  before  ha  again  demeans 
his  great  abilities  to  an  encounter  with  a  man  whose 
moral  character  is  on  a  par  with  his  religion.  In  the 
controversy  between  Rav.  C.  M.  Browa  and  Ingersoll, 
the  latter  is  shown  to  be  an  audacious  falsifier.  Mr. 
Cook's  Monday-lecture  prelude  is  on  the  case  of  the  evan 
gelist  Davis  and  preaching  on  public  grounds.  The  doc- 
uments of  permanent  value  which  have  place,  are  the 
report  of  the  committae  appointed  by  Boston  pastors  on 
preaching  on  th3  Common,  and  an  address  by  8ir  W.  W. 
Hunter,  before  the  Society  of  Arts,  London,  on  "The 
Religions  of  India." 

The  Report  of  the  Kansas  State  Board  of  Agriculture 
for  the  quarter  ending  March  31st  last  is  of  special  value, 
because  of  the  report  of  the  special  committee  appoint- 
ed by  the  Board  on  the  subject  of  "Silos  and  Easilage." 
The  papers  on  various  subjects  are  numerous  and 
valuable,  and  their  wide  circulation  among  farmers  must 
be  of  great  value  to  Kansas.  The  report  is  issued  by  M. 
Mohler,  secretary  of  the  Board,  Topeka. 

Vick's  Magazine  for  June  remembers  the  season  with  a 
handsome  lithograph  of  a  white  rose,  and  suitable  arti- 
cles on  the  Queen  of  the  flowers.  The  account  of  a 
century-old  date  palm,  still  to  be  seen  near  the  corner  of 
Orleans  and  Dauphin  streets,  New  Orleans,  is  full  of 


June  7,  1888 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


curious  interest.  It  is  called  "Pere  An- 
toine's  Palm,"  after  a  Spanish  priest  who 
died  many  years  ago,  lamented  by  the 
whole  city,  and  even  the  Masonic  lodges 
attended  his  funeral  in  full  regalia  and 
joined  the  procession — the  only  occasion, 
it  is  said,  where  this  was  ever  done  in 
this  country. 

The  London  Illustrated  News  devotes 
considerable  space  in  its  last  issue  to  the 
International  Exposition  at  Glasgow  in 
Scotland,  which  is  now  fairly  under  way 
and  promises  to  be  a  successful  enter- 
prise. 


OBITTJAEY. 


Samubl  Hawthorne  died  in  Volga, 
Iowa,  April  21,  1888,  from  internal  inju- 
ries, received  from  the  kick  of  a  vicious 
horae,  five  days  previous  to  his  death. 

Mr.  Hawthorne  was  born  in  County 
Armagh,  Ireland,  March  18, 1820,  an  only 
son.  He  was  married  in  1845  to  Mary 
Anne  Henry;  they  had  nine  children,  six 
of  whom  survive  him,  and  five  of  them 
were  permitted  to  receive  a  father's  assur- 
ance that,  "My  trust  is  in  Jesus,  my 
Saviour,  in  Jesus  only.  He  is  an  all-wise, 
merciful  Father  and  God."  He  was  a 
man  of  few  words,  but  of  sterling  ability 
and  worth,  with  sound  judgment,  guided 
by  an  enlightened  conscience. 

He  was  a  sincere  Christian,  an  upright 
citizen,  and  will  be  missed  in  the  church 
and  Sabbath-school  and  in  his  family. 
The  deceased  sought  and  found  the  Sav- 
iour when  quite  young,  and  was  a  teach- 
er in  the  Sabbath-school  before  he  was 
eighteen,  and  kept  it  up  ever  since,  and 
was  a  ruling  elder  in  the  United  Presby- 
terian church  when  he  died.  He  held  a 
great  many  offices  of  trust  wherever  he 
lived,  and  in  Volga,  where  he  lived  for 
thirty-four  years.  He  was  a  lover  of  the 
Christian  Cynosure  and  the  principles  it 
inculcates.  He  was  greatly  opposed  to 
any  secret  organization,  especially  Ma- 
sonry. He  reasoned  and  talked  boldly 
against  it;  and  gave  all  his  influence  in 
favor  of  j  ustice  and  truth. 

We  realize  in  our  bereavement  the  great 
and  all-wise  plan  of  our  Creator;  for  he 
knows  the  end  from  the  beginning,  and 
knows  just  what  is  best  for  his  glory  and 
our  good.  M.  A.   H. 


Home  and  Health. 


DANGER  IN    THUNDER-STORMS. 

The  chief  danger  incurred  by  human 
beings  and  other  animals  is  due  to  their 
bodies  being  better  than  some  objects, 
although  they  are  bad  conductors  in  the 
sense  that  they  afford  considerable  resist- 
ance to  electrical  discharges  passing 
through  them,  and,  therefore,  give  rise 
to  the  development  of  heat  and  mechan- 
ical, molecular  disturbance.  A  man  stand 
ing,  walking,  or  riding  upon  an  open 
plain  during  a  thunder-storm  is  in  a 
dangerous  position,  because  his  body  is 
apt  to  be  made  a  stepping-stone  for  the 
discharge,  offering  less  resistance  to  it 
than  the  air.  The  danger  is  increased  by 
the  near  presence  of  large  masses  of  metal 
in  the  ground.  Dry,  low-lying  positions 
are  safer  than  such  as  are  elevated  and 
exposed.  The  close  neighborhood  of 
water-courses  should  always  be  avoided. 
It  is  better  to  lie  flat  upon  the  ground 
than  it  is  to  stand  or  sit.  If  shelter  is 
near,  the  individual  should  get  at  once 
completely  under  cover.  To  stand  under 
the  lee  of  a  house,  wall,  hay  stack,  or 
thicket  of  trees  is  more  dangerous  than 
to  remain  altogether  exposed  in  the  open. 
The  inside  of  a  barn  or  out  house,  well 
away  from  the  walls,  is  comparatively 
safe.  A  distance  of  two  or  three  yards 
away  from  the  trunks  and  branches  of 
trees  is  a  comparatively  safe  position ;  but 
to  lean  against  the  trunk  of  a  tree  during 
prevelance  of  a  thunder-storm  is  es- 
pecially dangerous.  In  the  interior  of  a 
house  not  adequately  protected  by  a 
lightning  conductor  it  is  the  beat  to  keep 
to  the  lower  rooms  during  a  thunder- 
storm, to  remain  as  far  as  practicable  in 
the  middle  of  the  room,  to  avoid  objects 
hung  from  metal  chains,  gilt  frames,  fire- 
places, looking-glasses  with  amalga- 
mated backs,  and  iron  pillars  and  balus- 
trades. 

HOT  WATER  FOB  BLACK  KTK8. 

There  is  a  world-wide  superstition  that 
As  soon  as  a  man  g^ts  a  black  eye  he  must 
use  cold  applications  for  hours,  and  that 
the  best  cold  application  possible  is  raw 
beef.  I  call  it  a  superstition  because  it 
is  without  reason  and    against  reason. 


Everybody  knows  that  what  makes  a 
discoloration  of  the  skin  by  a  bruise  is 
the  congestion  of  the  part  with  the  blood 
that  cannot  get  away  again,  so  that  it 
decomposes  and  changes  its  color,  and 
everybody  ought  to  know  that  the  way 
to  prevent  such  a  result  is  to  facilitate 
and  stimulate  the  circulation  in  the 
bruised  part. 

A  cold  application  retards  the  circula 
tion,  and  the  best  thing  to  stimulate  it  is 
hot  applications.  Twice  in  my  life  I  was 
threatened  with  a  black  eye.  On  the  first 
occasion  I  applied  raw  beef  and  other 
cold  applications  and  succeeded  in  pro- 
ducing the  blackest  eye  I  ever  saw.  Oa 
the  second  occasion  I  got  some  hot  water 
right  away  and  bathed  the  eje  for  about 
half  an  hour  in  it.  The  result  was  that 
there  was  not  the  slightest  discoloration 
visible  at  any  time.  These  hints  are  well 
worth  pasting  in  the  hats  of  some  people 
in  Chicago. — Chicago  Journal. 

CURE   FOR   SEA- SICKNESS. 

Dr.  Wm.  F.  Hutchinson,  in  the  Amer- 
ican Magazine,  gives  a  simple  prescrip- 
tion which  he  has  often  found  efficacious 
in  sea-sicknes3.  He  declares,  however, 
that  for  certain  persons  there  is  no  pre- 
ventive. They  will  be  sick  anyway,  and 
it  generally  does  them  good.  He  says 
that  heavy  doses  of  bromide  and  also  the 
much-vaunted  antipyrine  are  dangerous, 
and  he  would  not  advocate  their  uae. 
His  prescription  is  the  following: 

Into  a  tumbler  of  pure  water  put  five 
grains  of  bromide  of  soda,  two  drops  of 
tincture  of  nux  vomica,  and  two  drops  of 
wine  of  ipecacuanha .  This  must  be  tiken 
in  tea-spoonful  doses  every  five  minutes 
— best  from  the  hands  of  a  medical  man 
who  will  attend  to  his  business  and  not 
leave  his  patient.  In  half  an  hour  the 
nausea  usually  disappears;  in  another, 
the  headache  is  gone  and  sleep  comes. 

A  recipe  for  improving  unruly  boys. 
A  yaung  mother  once  said  to  me.  "When 
Harry  is  very  naughty  I  always  curl  his 
hair  and  put  on  his  best  clothes,  for  ha 
seems  to  put  on  his  good  behavior  with 
them  " 

A  young  teacher,  confiding  to  a  friend 
her  trouble  in  governing  some  unruly 
boys  between  twelve  and  fourteen  years 
of  age,  said:  "The  only  way  I  get  along 
at  all  is  to  wear  my  best  clothes  every 
day ;  and  when  I  have  had  a  particularly 
trying  time,  I  always  wear  something 
especially  pretty  the  next  day,  and  the 
boys  are  sure  to  behave  better.  I  never 
could  account  for  it,  but  just  as  soon  as 
I  wear  anything  common  they  are  un- 
commonly troublesome  " —  Mrs.  Winchett. 


THE    MISTAKES     OF     MOSKS 

and  IngersoU,  are  common  topics  of  con- 
versation, but  the  mistake  we  wish  to 
comment  on  here  is  the  great  one  so  many 
people  labor  under  that  consumption 
(which  is  really  only  Scrofula  of  the 
Lungs)  is  an  incurable  disease,  and  th^t 
there  is  no  hope  for  one  suffering  from  it. 
This  terrible  malady,  that  yearly  fills  so 
many  graves,  can  be  surely  cured,  if  not 
too  long  neglected.  Ba  wise  in  time,  if 
you  are  afflicted  with  it,  and  arrest  the 
undermining  influence  that  is  sapping 
your  life-blood,  and  hurrying  you  to  an 
untimely  grave,  by  using  Dr.  Pierce's 
Golden  Madical  Discovery,  a  remedy  that 
never  fails  in  its  life  giving  mission,  if 
taken  in  time.     All  druggists. 


A  sound  body  and  a  contented  mind  are 
necessary  to  perfect  happiness.  If  you 
wish  to  possess  these,  cleanse  your  blood 
with  Ayer's  Sirsaparilla.  It  is  perfectly 
safe  to  take,  and  is  a  thoroughly  reliable, 
highly  concentrated,  and  powerful  blood 
purifier. 

KXCUR3ION  K.ITUS. 

A  very  complete  list  of  tourist  round - 
trip   rates   and  routes  to   western  points 
for  1888,  has  just  been  issued  for  free  dis 
tribution  by  C  H   Waurkn,  Gen.  Pass 
Agent,  St.  P.  M.  &  M.  Ry.,  St.  Paul,  Minn. 


CONSUMPTION  SUKBLY  OURKD. 

To  the  Editor: — Please  inform  your 
readers  that  I  have  a  positive  remedy  for 
the  above  named  disease.  By  its  timely 
use  thousands  of  hopeless  cases  have  been 
permanently  cured.  I  shall  be  glad  to 
send  two  bottles  of  my  remedy  fkek  to 
any  of  your  readers  who  have  consump- 
tion if  they  will  send  me  their  Exoress 
and  P.  O.  address.  UespectfuUy,  T.  A. 
Blocum,  M.  C,  181  Pearl  St..  New  York. 


6BCRE T 80CIE TIES  CONDEMNED 


BY  GREAT  MSN  IN  THE  CHUBCH. 

Pues.  E.  F.  Reid  ly/uo  VeiUratCollege. 
— We  believe  secret  societies  t  >  bo  unti- 
republican  as  well  as  anti-Christian . 

Rev.  A.  L.  Chapin,  D.  D.,  BeloiL— 
It  has  been  the  uniform  policy  of  Be- 
loit  College  to  exclude  secret  socities. 

Albbrt  Barnes,  1849: — Any  good 
cause,  I  think,  can  be  promoted  openly; 
any  secret  association  is  liable,  at  least, 
to  abuse  and  danger. 

Rev.  Justin  Edwards,  D  D.,  autlu/r 
and  head  of  Andovcr  t-eminary: — When- 
ever the  cause  of  temperaaco  is  veiled  in 
darkness  and  secrecy,  it  must  lose  its  hold 
on  the  public  confidence  and  sympathy. 

Rev.  M.  Bennett,  long  presiding  el- 
der M.  Jn.  c/twrc/i  —  I  am  pleated  to  be 
counted  in  for  the  movement  which  is  be 
ing  inaugurated  against  tyrannical  organ- 
izations and  factitious  distinctions  in  so- 
ciety. 

Dr.  Thomas  Scott,  the  great  commen- 
tator:— Rash  oaths  are  above  all  things  to 
be  avoided;  but  if  men  are  entangled  by 
them,  they  ought  rather  to  infringe  the 
sinful  oaths  than  to  add  sin  to  sin  and 
ruin  to  their  own  souls. 

Rev.  J.  C.  K  Milligan,  editor  of  "Our 
Banner:" — Through  such  silence,  secret 
counivance  and  horrid  oaihs  "ever  to 
conceal  and  never  reveal,"  the  state  of 
our  country  js  rapidly  becoming  such  as 
lo  alarm  every  Christian  philanthropist. 

Rev.  B.  T.  Roberts,  editor  of  the  Free 
Methodist:  —For  us  to  keep  bilent  respeci,- 
ui^  Masonry,  and  thus  tacitly  endorse  the 
i  iea  that  a  man  can  both  accept  Christ 
and  deny  him— that  is,  be  a  good  Mason 
and  a  good  Christian  at  the  same  time 
would  be  treason  to  Christ. 
I  John  G.  Fee,  Brea  College,  1868  — 
it  is  Freemasoniy,  Udd-fellowship  iiud 
kindred  associations  that  have  spawned 
and  now  lend  respectability  to  "Regulat 
ore,"  "Ku  Klux  Klans,"  and  other  bands 
of  midnight  assassins  now  ranging 
through  Kentucky  and  other  portions  of 
the  South. 

Rev.  j.  P.  Lttle,  D.  D.  :— Masonry  has 
damned  all  who  ever  trusted  in  it  for  sal- 
vation. It  is  now  leading  away  thou- 
sands from  the  church,  and  from  patLs  tf 
virtue  by  association  with  the  intemper- 
ate, unclean  and  profane,  and  is  dragging 
them  down  the  road  which  leads  to  the 
chambers  of  eternal  death.  ♦ 

Rev.  Edward  Beechbr,  D.D.  :— If  on 
fcuch  anti-Christian  grounds,  prayers  are 
framed,  rites  established  and  chaplains 
appointed,  ignoring  Christ  and  his  inter- 
cession, God  regards  it  as  a  mockery  and 
11 Q  insult  to  himself  and  his  church.  In 
ic  is  revealed  the  hatred  of  Satan  to 
Christ,  By  it  Christ  is  dethroned  and 
Satan  exalted. 

Rev.  W.  W.  Patton,  D.  D.,  1869:— 
However  secret  societies  may  differ  among 
themselves,  yet  they  are  all  anti-republi- 
caa  in  their  tendencies;  and  are  all  lead- 
iug  to  the  same  results,  viz.,  a  substitution 
"f  worldly  and  selfish  innovations  for 
moral  and  religious  influences,  and,  ulti- 
miiely,  to  the  theoretical  and  practical 
u<  utralization  of  Christianity.  r 

>  Rkv.  James H.  Fairchild,  D.D..  Pitts- 
burg address:— The  point  is  not  that  the 
working  of  a  secret  organization  may  b.; 
purveited  to  selfish  ends,  but  that  in  its 
very  nature  it  strongly  tends  to  such  per- 
version. A  worthy  institution  may  be 
perverted,  but  an  institution  in  which  the 
tendency  to  perversion  is  inherent  and 
constitutional,  is  not  a  good  institution. 

Rkv.  Dr.  James.  B.  'WA\,KEn,author 
of 'Philosophy  of  the  Plan  of  Haivation." 
— There  is  probably  not  one  in  a  thous- 
and who  enter  the  lodge,who  know, when 
blindfolded  theytake  the  terribleoaths,  that 
Masonry  is  an  anti-Chriet  and  one  of  the 
most  powerful  enemies  of  Christ  that  ex- 
ists.oBut  this  is  put  beyond  the  possi- 
bility of  a  doubt  by  the  highest  Masonic 
authorities. 

Rev.  Nathan  Brown,  Editor  "Am. 
Baptist"  and  missionary  to  Japan. — If 
Freemasonry  had  existed  in  the  days  of 
Christ,  and  in  the  same  form  that  it  ex- 
ists with  us, he  could  not  have  condemned 
it  more  distinctly  than  he  did  in  his  Ser- 
mon on  the  Mount:  "If  ye  do  good  to 
them  that  do  good  to  you,  what  do  ye 
more  than  others?  Do  not  even  the  pub- 
licans the  same? "  The  Gospel  is  at  waf 
with  every  system  of  clique  or  clan,  caste 
or  combination  that  seeks  to  create  dis- 
tinctions in  the  human  family. 


N.  G.  A.  BUILDING  AND  OmCK  Of 

THI  CHRIflTIAN  CYN08URI, 

Vn.  WIST  MADISON  8TBXST,  CmCAGC 


IfA'TJONAL  CEMia  TlAN  ASSOC  I  A  7I0M 

Pbkbidbkt.— H.  H.  (Jeorge,  D.  D.,  Gen- 
eva College,  Pa. 

Vicb-prbsidbnt — Rev.  M.  A.  Gaolt. 
Blanchard,  Iowa. 

Cob.  Sbc't  and  Gbnbbal  Aobmt. — J 
P.  Stoddard,  221 W.  Madisonst.,  Chicago. 

Rbc.  Sec'y.  and  Tbbasubbb. — W.  I 
Phillips,  221  W.  Madison  St,   Chicago 

DiBBCTOBS. — Alexander  Thomson,  M 
R.  Britten,  John  Gardner,  J.  L.  Barlow, 
L.  N.  Stratton,  Thos.  H.  Gault,  C.  A. 
Blanchard,  J.  E.  Roy,  E.  R.  Worrell,  H. 
A.  Fischer.  W.  R.  Hench. 

The  object  of  this  Association  is: 
"To  expose,  withstand  and  remove  secret 
locieties,  Freemasonry  in  particular,  and  otbel 
anti-Christian  niovemeats,  in  order  to  save  tb6 
churches  of  Christ  from  being  c^epraved,  to  i» 
deem  the  administrvtion  of  ]  ustice  from  per- 
version, and  our  r^p  iblican  government  from 
corruption." 

To  carry  on  this  work  contributions  are 
solicited  from  every  friend  of  tne  reform. 

Form  of  Beqcbst. — J  give  and  bequeath  to 
the  National  Christian  Association,  incorpo- 
rated and  existing  under  the  laws  of  the  State 

of   Illinois,  the  s"am  of dollai  s  for  the 

purposes  of  said  Association,  and  for  wb!/-h 
tte  receint  of  its  Treasurer  for  the  time  belnf 
Itall  be  Bufflcient  dischatse. 

TEB  HATIOHAL  CONYBNTIOM, 

pBKStDJUfni.— Rev.  J.  8.  T.  Milligan, 
Denison,  Eans. 

Skcbbtabt.— Rev.  R.N.Countee.Mem- 
phis,  Tenn. 

BTATB  AUXUilABT  AflSOCIATIOHB. 

Alabama.— Pre*.,  Prof.  Pickens;  Sec,  6. 
M.  Elliott;  Treas.,  Rev.  C.  B.  Curtis,  all  of 
Selma. 

CALirOBNiA.— Prea^  L.  B.  Lathrop,  HoUl* 
tor ;  Cor.  Sec.  Mrs.  U.  P.  Merrill,  Woodland ; 
Treas.,  C.  Ruddock,  Woodland. 

CoNNBCTicuT.— i'res.,  J.  A.  Conant,  Willi 
mantic;  Sec.,  Geo.  Smith,  WlUImantlc;  Treu. 
C.  T.  CoUlns,  Windsor. 

Illinois.— Pres.,  J.  P.  Stoddard  Bee,  M. 
N.  Butler;  Treas.,  W.  I.  Philllpi  all  at  CV 
tuufurt  ofElce. 

Indiana.— Pres.,  WUllam  H.  Fleg,  Reno 
Sec,  8.  L.  Cook,  Albion;  Treas.,  BenJ.  UUh 
Silver  Lake. 

Iowa.— Pree.,Wm.John8ton,College  Springs 
Cor  Sec.,  C.  D.  Trumbull,  Morning  Snn* 
Treae.,  James  Harvey.  Pleasant  Plain,  Jefler 
Bon  Co. ;  Lecturer,  C.  F.  Hawlev,  WTieaton,  111. 

Kansas.— Prea..  J.  8.  T.  Milligan,  Denison ; 
Bee.,  S.  Hart,  Lccompton;  Treae.,  J.  A.  Tor- 
rence,  Denison. 

MASSACHUSBTTfl.- Pree.,  8.  A.  Pratt;  Sec. 
Mrs.  E.  D.  Bailey ;  Treas.,  David  Manning, St., 
Worcester. 

MiOHiOAS.— Free.,  D.  A.  Richards,  Brighton 
Sec'y,  H.  A.  Dav,  Wllllamston ;  Treas." 
Geo.  Swanson,  Jr..  Bedfoiu. 

MiNNBSOTA.— Pres.,  E.  Q.  Paine,  Waslo's 
Cur.  Sec,  Wm.  Fenton,  St.  Paul ;  Rec  Sec'y 
Mrs.  M.  F.  Morrill,  St.  Charles;  Treas.,  Wb 
H.  Morrill,  St.  Charles. 

Missouri.— Pres.,  B.  F.  Miller,  EaglevlUa 
Treas.jWilliam Beauchamp,  Avalon ;  Cor.  8«r.. 
A.  D.  "rhomas,  Avalon. 

Nbbraska.— Pres.,  8.  Anstin,  Falnnooat 
Cor.  Sec,  W.       Spooner,  Seamey;   Treaa.* 
J.  C.  Fye.  ' 

Mainb  -Pros.,  Isaac  Jackson,  Harrison - 
Sec,  1.  D.  Ualiu's  Dexter;  Treas.,  H.  W. 
QoddanI,  West  Sidney. 

Nbw  Bampsbim.— Pres.,  C.  L.  Baker,  Man ' 
Chester;  Bee,  S.  C.  Khnball,  New  Market' 
Xreae.,  James  /.  French,  Canterbury. 

Nbw  York.— Pres.,  F.  W.  Capwell,  Dale: 
Sec'y,  John  Wallace,  Syracuse;  Treaa.,  M. 
Merrick,  Syracuse.  • 

Obio.— Pres.,  F.  M.  Spencer,  New  Concord; 
Rec  Sec.,  8.  A.  George,  Mansfield;  Cor.  Sec 
and  Treas.,  C.  W.  Hlatt,  Columbus;  Agent 
W.  B.  Stoddard,  Columbus. 

PBNNBTLVAiriA.— Cor.  Set,  N.  Callender 
ThompMB ;  Treas.,  W.  B.Bertels,  Wllkesbarrv. 

Vbbmoht.— Pres.,  W.  R.  Laird,  St  Johns. 
i  bury;  Bee.,  C.  W  Potter. 
I       WisoOHBiH  — Pres.,  J.  W  Wood,    Baraboo; 
'  Bee.,  W.  W.  Ame^  Menomonle ;  Treas.,  M.  8 
Britten,  Vienna. 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


June  7, 1888 


The  Christian  Cynosure. 


;.  BLANCHARD. 


KbnoBS. 


H£MBT  L.  KXLLOGQ. 


CmOAeO,  TEXnUBDAY,   JUNE   7,  1888. 


The  American  AntiSicbecy  Leagite  is  meeting 
with  no  opposition,  but  with  general  and  earnest  co- 
operdtion  by  friends  of  American  principles  and 
opponents  of  the  secret  sworn  despptism  of  the 
lodge.  For  information  and  blank  forms  for  local 
leagues,  write  to  W.  I.  Phillips,  at  the  Cynosure  of- 
fice. The  grand  excellence  of  the  league  is,  that  it 
unites  all  the  foes  of  lodge-despotism  and  furnishes 
something  for  every  one  to  do.  Though  there  should 
be  but  ten  members  in  some  remote  State,  they  can 
begin  to  question  candidates  and  scratch  tickets; 
and,  as  soon  as,  and  wherever  practicable,  nominate 
candidates,  and  get  up  electoral  tickets  of  their  own, 
as  the  right  wing  of  American  prohibition. 


Frances  Willard's  Mother. — "We  called  on 
this  venerable  lady  at  their  home  in  Evanston  last 
week.  She  first  professed  Christ  with  the  Freewill 
Baptists  in  the  State  of  New  York  when  that  Bap- 
tist body  were  the  picket-guard  of  reform;  and  her 
husband  and  herself  felt  the  shudder  of  that  State 
when  it  was  found  that  it  had  societies  which  mur- 
dered their  members  for  violating  their  by-laws. 
With  the  sainted  David  Marks  and  others  of  the 
same  persuasion  the  Willards  were  borne  to  Oberlin 
as  a  grand  intellectual  center  of  reform,  and  they 
joined  the  Oberlin  church  with  Finney,  Mahan.Mor- 
gan,  Cowles  and  their  associates.  Enlarged  by  dis- 
cussion, and  finding  that  the  furnace  of  reform  made 
Christians  one  in  Christ,  they  have  since  belonged  to 
and  worshiped  with  Presbyterians,  Congregational- 
ists  and  Methodists,  when  change  of  residence  made 
it  convenient. 

This  is  the  religious  history  of  a  wonderful  moth- 
er of  a  more  wonderful  daughter.  The  religion  of 
Mrs.  Willard  was  rocked  in  the  cradle  of  reform. 
In  1832  228,000  votes  were  cast  by  the  people  for 
Wirt  and  Ellmaker,  the  Anti-masonic  Federal  candi- 
dates, and  the  New  England  Anti-slavery  Society 
was  formed  by  Mr.  Garrison  the  same  year.  Im- 
mense interests  hung  on  the  issue  whenever  slavery 
was  named  in  a  prayer  or  sermon,  and  it  was  impos- 
sible for  Christians  to  become  worldly  while  thus 
antagonizing  the  world.  Mother  Willard  must  be 
past  the  allotted  three  score  and  ten;  but  her  mind 
is  clear,  her  countenance  calm,  and  she  reminds  one 
of  the  sun  when  approaching  the  horizon,  which 
grows  clearer  and  brighter  as  it  descends. 


The  Illinois  General  Congregational  Asso- 
ciation.— This  body  met  at  Evanston,  last  week. 
The  Evanston  church  has  built  a  costly  and  beau- 
tiful church  edifice,  and  their  committee  had  made 
all  possible  arrangements  for  the  comfort  and  con- 
venience of  ministers  and  delegates,  and  the  ladies 
provided  a  sumptuous  repast  for  400  people  in  the 
church  parlors  on  Tuesday  evening.  The  town  of 
Evanston  is  built  up  with  elegance,  and  as  it  is  the 
seat  of  the  Northwestern  Methodist  University,  and 
lulled  by  the  roar  of  the  clear  pure  waters  of  Lake 
Michigan,  the  families  of  Chicago  business  men  find 
it  a  rare  and  attractive  place  of  residence.  It  is  the 
home,  too,  of  Frances  E.  Willard  and  her  mother; 
and  seems  likely  to  become  the  Mecca  of  woman's 
Buflrage. 

The  pastor  and  delegate  from  Wheaton  College 
Church  were  received  and  enrolled  without  objec- 
tion; and  earnest  discussions  were  had  on  Sabbath 
observance,  and  the  phases  of  the  prohibition  ques- 
tion. The  members  of  this  Association  are  mostly 
young  and  vigorous,  well-educated  men.  Women 
delegates  were  received  from  Rockford  and  other 
churches,  and  judging  from  its  past  records  and 
present  membership  this  body  will  yet  become  a 
leader  in  the  cause  of  Christian  reform.  The  final 
resolution  on  prohibition  was  a  compromise,  and 
therefore  weak.    It  was  adopted  as  follows: 

"Recognizing  in  the  traffic  in  intoxicating  liquors  one 
of  ihe  most  efficient  cauaes  of  poverty,  suffering,  and 
crime,  and  one  of  the  greatest  obstacles  to  the  polit- 
ical, social,  moral,  and  spiritual  advancement  of  our  peo- 
ple, we  pledge  ourselves  to  labor  earnestly  to  secure  the 
most  effectual  means  for  prohibiting  and  abolishing  such 
traffic  in  this  State.  •We  are  earnestly  opposed  to  the 
sanction  of  such  traffic  by  National  or  State  legislation, 
and  we  will  use  our  most  earnest  efforts  as  good  citizens 
to  remove  this  prolific  source  of  evil  from  among  us." 


— It  is  proposed  in  the  Chrittian  Nation  that 
contributions  be  made  for  a  monument  or  memorial 
to  the  memory  of  Prof.  J.  R.  W.  Sloane  who  died 
two  years  ago. 


THB  IRISH  AGAINST  THB  POPS. 

Last  week  Thursday  night  a  meeting  of  several 
thousand  well-dressed  Irish  Catholic  men  and  women 
assembled  in  Battery  D,  Chicago,  to  protest  against 
the  Pope's  rescript  against  boycotting  English  land- 
lords by  Irish  peasants.  The  forty  Irish  members 
of  the  British  Parliament  have  already  issued  their 
protest;  and  the  people  of  Ireland  are  holding  simi- 
lar meetings  all  over  the  island. 

Forty-four  years  ago  the  Irish  people  were  excited 
to  a  similar  extent  by  the  eloquence  of  O'Connell 
for  "The  Repeal  of  the  Union,"  by  which,  in  the 
year  1800  (eighty-eight  years  ago),  Mr.  Pitt  abolished 
the  Irish  Home  Parliament,  and  joined  Ireland  to 
England. 

This  time  it  is  the  Irish  against  the  Pope,  and  for 
Home  Rule;  and  the  Chicago  meeting  last  week  has 
never  been  excelled  in  the  importance  of  its  bear- 
ings on  Irish  destiny,  or  in  the  wildness  of  its  en- 
thusiasm. The  speaking  was  eloquent  and  the  prin- 
ciple of  the  speeches  one.  They  professed  perfect 
submission  to  the  Pope  in  religion,  but  denounced 
his  interference  in  politics.  Mr.  Finerty  read  Eng- 
lish authorities  which  showed  that  during  the  reign 
of  Victoria,  1,225,000  Irish  people  had  died  by  fam- 
ine; 4,186,000  had  immigrated;  and  over  seventy- 
five  per  cent  of  the  whole  population  had  been 
evicted!  He  said,  "Against  these  terrible  wrongs 
the  peasant  had  but  one  recourse,  the  wild  justice  of 
revenge.  To  avoid  this  shot-gun  revenge,  O'Brien, 
Dillon,  and  Davitt,  had  given  the  people  'the  Plan 
of  Campaign,'  and  the  'Boycott,'  which  the  Pope's 
rescript  inhibits."    We  give  Mr.  Finerty's  words: 

"When  we  had  no  papal  rescripts  in  Ireland  our  na- 
tion was  a  free  one.  Not  untU  Henry  II.  came  to 
Ireland  with  the  bull  of  Pope  Adrian  lY.  did  our  troubles 
begin;  and  from  that  day  to  this,  we  have  been  tossed 
from  the  horns  of  John  Bull  to  those  of  the  Roman  Bull. 
When  one  bull  got  through  with  us  the  other  began. 
Now,  I  say,  we  have  had  all  we  are  going  to  stand  of  it. 
(Immense  cheers.)  God  was  before  the  nations;  the  na- 
tions before  popes;  and  God  reigns  eternally  still." 

"We  stand  here  to-day  to  tell  Leo  XIII.  if  he  wants 
to  reform  and  save  souls,  let  him  send  his  College  of 

Cardinals  to  England." "Let  these  cardinals  see  the 

blackened  foundations  of  the  homes  of  the  Irish.  Let 
them  look  at  the  graves  of  our  people  starved  to  death; 
and  the  emigrant  ships  carrying  away  the  stream  of  emi- 
grants."  "While  we  reverence  the  faith  brought  us 

by  Patrick,  we  cannot  surrender  our  people  to  be  exter- 
minated by  a  foreign  foe." "No  power  on  earth  can 

sever  the  love  of  our  people  from  the  cradle  of  their  race. 
The  English  could  not  do  it;  the  Italians  cannot  do  it." 
(At  this  point  the  cheering  was  so  loud  and  prolonged 
that  the  speaker  had  to  pause  for  some  tii^e.)  "We  tell 
these  Italian  gentlemen,  if  they  are  so  anxious  to  bring 
Catholics  into  the  fold,  let  them  begin  at  home.  We  do 
not  need  their  care." 

This  is  a  new  style  of  language  from  Catholics  to 
the  Pope.  In  1155  Pope  Adrian  IV.  by  a  bull  au- 
thorized Henry  II.  of  England  to  take  possession  of 
Ireland  on  condition  of  paying  an  annual  tribute, 
which,  of  course,  was  wrung  and  is  still  wrung  from 
the  Irish.  For  m  England,  men  die,  but  taxes  are 
immortal.  And  Mr.  Finerty  tells  Leo  that  the  Irish 
were  free  till  they  had  popes;  which  is  simply  his- 
toric truth. 

What  is  to  be  the  outcome  of  this  political  cy- 
clone? We  could  easily  foretell,  if  it  was  not  blow- 
ing against  priestism,  which,  like  thistles,  is  too 
supple  to  break,  but  will  only  bend  before  the  blast 
and  scatter  and  spread  its  pestilent  seeds  by  the 
very  storm  which  rends  it.  The  papacy  has  always, 
as  in  this  case,  collided  with  the  civil  interests  of 
men.  And,  five  hundred  and  eighty  years  ago,  a 
brave  prince,  Philip  the  Fair,  defied  Pope  Boniface, 
as  Finerty  now  defies  Leo  XIII.  Boniface  had  is- 
sued a  bull  declaring  that  "Jesus  Christ  had  granted 
a  two-fold  power  or  sword  to  the  church,  a  spiritual 
and  temporal,  and  all  who  dissented  from  that  doc- 
trine were  heretics,  and  could  not  be  saved."  Phil- 
ip retorted  by  prosecuting  the  Pope  in  his  own 
Curia  for  "heresy,  simony,  dishonesty,  and  other 
enormities."  And  when  Boniface  died,  through 
vexation  and  anguish,  from  his  rough  handling, 
Philip  made  a  Frenchman  pope  by  the  title  of 
Clement  V.,  and  removed  the  seat  of  the  papacy 
from  Rome  to  Avignon,  in  France,  where  it  re- 
mained seventy  years.  But  popery  survived  all 
this  and  much  more:  as  Mormonism  survives  the 
death  of  Joseph  Smith;  its  conflicting  revelations 
about  polygamy;  its  expulsion  from  Missouri;  and 
its  pilgrimage  to  Salt  Lake. 

So  this  present  outburst  against  the  Pope  will  ef- 
fect but  little  while  the  leaders  of  the  foray  acknowl- 
edge him  as  their  "spiritual  guide."  For  spirit  is 
more  real  than  matter  and  will  subsist  when  the  ma- 
terial worlds  have  passed  away,  and  the  priest  who 
governs  men  for  eternity  will  find  means  to  govern 
them  in  time.  While  two  hundred  and  twenty  five 
thousand  Irishmen  have  been  dying  of  famine,  the 


Pope  has  drawn  a  million  pounds  a  year  from  Ire- 
land in  annats  and  Peter's  pence.  And  the  despot- 
ism of  English  landlords,  though  bad  enough,  is 
lighter  than  down  compared  with  the  despotism  of 
priests,  aye,  of  American  priests  now  in  our  midst. 
The  Romish  Bishop  held  a  sort  of  "spiritual  retreat" 
or  institute  in  Kankakee,  111.,  in  a  school  building 
engaged  for  that  purpose.  All  the  priests  of  the  di- 
ocese must  attend,  except  a  few  left  to  attend  funer- 
als, etc.  A  young  priest  who  had  just  returned  from 
that  meeting  of  days  told  us,  among  other  regula- 
tions, that  intimate  friends  were  not  permitted  to 
speak  or  exchange  greetings  as  they  passed  each 
other  in  the  halls  during  the  sessions  of  the  meet- 
ing! In  that  fearful  system  the  very  free  agency 
of  inferiors  is  absorbed  into  the  superior  and  the 
subj  ugation  and  submission  are  complete.  And  those 
superiors  transact  the  affairs  of  common  concern- 
ment in  the  dense  midnight  of  concealment  from  all 
below. 

But  we  know  from  the  Scriptures  that  this  mystic 
Babylon  must  fall,  and  we  see  by  bare  inspection 
that  its  dissolution  is  begun.  The  old  Inquisition 
has  lost  its  teeth;  and  cases  are  multiplying,  like 
that  of  McGlynn,  where  priests  cast  off  the  pope's 
jurisdiction  without  loss  of  life  or  limb;whereas  leav- 
ing the  Romish  communion  long  endangered  both. 

The  tokens  hourly  increase  of  the  coming  of  that 
hour  when  the  terrific  symbols  of  the  fall  of  the 
mystic  Babylon,  the  mother  of  false  religions,  given 
in  the  Apocalypse,  shall  become  realities;  when,"in 
one  hour,"her"mysteries,""murders"  and"sorceries" 
shall  cease.  See  Rev.,  chap  18. 

While  slavery  was  silently  growing,  it  was  silent. 
But  when  the  Abolitionists,  though  but  a  handful  of 
printers  in  a  garret,  struck  the  keynote  of  its  de- 
struction, the  ebullition  of  the  whole  slave  system 
resembled  the  tempest  which  ushered  in  the  fall  of 
ancient  Troy,  when 

"Through  all  her  summits  trembled  Ida's  woods, 
And  from  their  sources  boiled  her  hundred  floods." 

Such  is  this  Irish  tempest  which  precedes  and  pres- 
ages the  fall  of  popery.  The  assault  made  which  is 
awaking  this  turmoil  is  the  fundamental  truth  that 
all  worships  invented  by  men  in  lodges,  convents, 
churches  or  Mormon  temples  is  Gentile  worship.not 
paid  to  Christ  but  to  devils.  This  is  the  truth  which 
is  disturbing  devils,  producing  an  overflow  of  secret 
worships  and  public  parades  in  the  United  States, 
and  everything  which  promises  salvation  by  cere- 
monies is  astir. 

These  Irish  orators  who  reverence  the  Pope  as  a 
priesc  but  denounce  him  as  a  ruler  are  putting  the 
people  upon  a  false  scsnt.  English  aristocracy  is 
bad  but  popery  infinitely  worse.  The  republic  of 
Paraguay  in  South  America,  with  the  finest  soil  and 
climate  in  the  world,  was  founded  and  held  by  Jes- 
uits, and  the  public  debt  of  that  republic  is  now 
more  than  the  soil  of  the  whole  country  would  sell 
for!  The  talk  of  relieving  Ireland  while  retaining 
popery  is  as  vain  as  Mr.  Lincoln's  project  of  saving 
the  Union  with  slavery.  But  the  day  of  Ireland's 
deliverance  hastens  and  it  is  coming  from  Christ, 
who  wore  no  priest's  tiara,  but  only  a  carpenter's 
frock,  till  his  priestly  murderers  put  on  him  a  king- 
and-priestly  regalia  in  mockery. 


FISK  AND  BROOKS. 


What  does  their  nomination  at  Indianapolis  mean 
for  Americans  who  vote  and  pray  against  the  lodge? 

Much  every  way.  General  Fisk  last  year  in  an 
interview  with  the  Cynoture  editor  expressed  himself 
in  substantial  agreement  with  our  reform  principles. 
He  is  a  warm  friend  of  John  G.  Fee,  and  in  writing 
assures  Mr.  Fee  that  he  is  not  a  member  of  any  se- 
cret society. 

Of  Mr.  Brooks  we  know  little.  He  was  years  ago 
reported  as  a  Good  Templar,  and  when  young  lec- 
tured against  temperance  under  their  auspices.  So 
did  Col.  Bain  and  others  wiio  now  believe  the  order 
obsolete  and  useless  and  are  in  favor  of  all  open 
work.  We  hope  to  learn  as  much  of  Mr.  Brooks. 
He  is  a  man  of  great  power,  and  his  appearance  be- 
lies him  if  he  has  any  love  for  the  secret  ways  of 
lodgery. 

At  the  convention  were  a  host  of  Anti-masons — 
John  G.  Fee  of  Kentucky,  Dr.  H.  A.  Thompson  and 
C.  M.  Strickler  of  Ohio,  Wheelock,  Johnston,  Mrs. 
McPherson  and  others  from  Washington.Gilley  and 
Reed  of  Iowa,  Loveless  and  Countryman  from  Illi- 
nois, Wylie  and  scores  more  from  Indiana,  Jordan 
of  Texas,  etc.,  etc. 

The  memorial  approved  by  the  National  Associa- 
tion Board  was  circulated  by  thousands  in  the  con- 
vention as  was  also  Mr.  Fee's  protest  against  the 
nomination  of  Green  Clay  Smith  because  he  is  a 
Freemason.  These  were  noticed  in  the  daily  press 
of  Indianapolis  and  Chicago  as  having  a  marked  ef- 


:.\!^ 


■w^ 


June  7, 1888 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


9 


feet  upon  the  delegates.  Mr.  Smith's  name  was 
announced  withdrawn.  These  memorials  were  pre- 
served and  read  while  other  bills  and  circulars  lit- 
tered the  floors  by  the  hutdred  thousand.  The 
speech  of  Mr.  Tate  of  Tennessee  showed  the  effect 
of  the  lodge  discussion,  and  the  whole  convention 
felt  his  words  to  be  true,  that  this  is  one  of  the  is- 
sues for  the  nation. 

These  were  some  of  the  encouragements.  There 
were  others  in  a  negative  way.  From  the  public 
announcements  of  Mr.  W.  T.  Mills  of  his  lodge 
relation  ;  the  fact  that  Mr.  Chafin  is  Grand  Chief  of 
the  Good  Templars  of  Wisconsin  and  has  written 
in  the  Prohibition  papers  in  defense  of  the  lodge 
against  the  Cj/nosure  ;  and  the  further  fact  that  Mr. 
Richmond  is  reported  a  leader  of  the  same  order 
and  was  its  candidate  as  successor  of  John  B.  Finch 
as  chairman  of  the  National  committee — for  these 
and  other  reasons  we  have  been  jealous  of  their  in- 
fluence, and  have  preferred  that  the  measures  they 
champion  should  not  succeed  if  in  the  interest  of 
the  lodge.  The  Cynosure  has  given  some  reasons 
why  it  is  to  be  believed  that  their  opposition  to  woman 
suffrage  is  a  lodge  measure.  The  list  is  not  ex- 
hausted. Their  utter  and  overwhelming  defeat  at 
Indianapolis  is,  therefore,  to  us  of  great  significance. 
We  believe  it  is  a  promise  that  the  Prohibition  party 
will  not  be  controlled  by  the  secret  methods  or 
councils  of  the  lodge  ;  and  that  more  and  more  the 
friends  who  support  the  secret  temperance  orders  will 
come  to  see  that  the  great  temperance  reform  re- 
quires no  longer  any  such  agency — that  the 
orders  are,  as  old  Dr.  Jewett  long  ago  said,  a  clog 
and  an  injury  rather  than  an  aid  to  this  holy  cause. 


NOTICE. 


The  Maine  Christian  Aseociation  will  meet  in  a  hall 
in  Journal  Block,  Lisbon  St.,  Lewiston,  Me.,  June  19t;b, 
at  9  A  M.,  to  continue  in  session  one  day,  and  to  be  fol- 
lowed by  a  two-days'  holiness  convention.  Elder  S  C. 
Kimball,  of  Newmarket,  N.  H  ,  and  other  able  speakers 
are  expected  to  be  present  and  address  the  convention 
and  preach  the  Gospel.  All  New  England  friends  who 
are  interested  in  holiness  and  reform  work  are  invited  to 
be  preeent.    By  order  of  the  Executive  Committee. 

I.  D.  Haines,  Sec'y. 


— To  the  list  of  old  Anti-masonic  papers  pub- 
lished last  week  we  may  add  the  Gazette  of  Erie, 
Pennsylvania.  Bro.  Albert  Taylor  of  Wauwatosa, 
Wisconsin,  who  called  at  this  office  a  few  days 
since,  used  to  read  it  when  a  boy,  his  father  being  a 
subscriber. 

— In  a  business  letter  Secretary  Stoddard  presents 
the  matter  of  a  reading  room  in  the  Washington 
building,  which  is  approved  by  some  of  the  Wash- 
ington friends.  The  location  he  thinks  is  excellent, 
and  the  class  of  people  likely  to  be  attracted  would 
bo  such  as  would  seek  for  some  permanent  benefit 
rather  than  for  a  place  to  haunt.  There  is  no  public 
reading  room  in  that  part  of  the  city. 

— It  is  quite  a  disappointment  that  no  report  of 
the  excellent  Michigan  State  Convention  had  been 
received  up  to  the  time  of  going  to  press.  We 
learn  indirectly  that  the  meeting,  though  small  in 
numbers,  was  filled  with  the  Holy  Ghost  and  with 
his  power  so  that  it  was  felt  to  be  one  of  the  best 
and  most  profitable  of  our  reform  meetings. 


PBR80NAL  MENTION. 


—  President  C.  H.  Kiracof e  of  Hartsville  College, 
is  the  Prohibition  candidate  for  Superintendent  of 
Public  Instruction  in  Indiana. 

—Bro.  E.  R.  Worrell  of  the  N.  C.  A.  Board  has 
been  assistant  pastor  at  Washington  Heights  for 
several  months.  He  has  just  been  invited  to  under- 
take the  full  pastoral  work. 

— Elder  J.  L.  Barlow,  who  is  for  the  time  being 
located  at  Wheaton,  preached  last  Sabbath  at  Bloom- 
iogtor,  Wisconsin.  The  Sabbath  before  he  was 
with  his  old  church  at  Bloomingdale,  HI.,  to  which 
he  ministered  some  eighteen  }ears  ago. 

—  Eldtr  Freeman  of  Downer's  Grove,  near  this 
city,  returns  this  week  to  scenes  of  his  early  labors 
in  Jefferson  c  )unty.  New  York,  Bro.  Freeman  feels 
deeply  the  losj  of  his  beloved  wife  who  passed 
hence  in  March.  He  may  spend  much  of  the  sum- 
mer season  with  Eastern  friends. 

— Greetings  and  welcome  were  given  last  week  in 
the  otHceto  Dr.  T.  G.  Roberts  of  Washington,  Iowa; 
Rev.  John  Leo,  author  of  a  work  on  Romanism; 
Bro.  Alexander  Thompson  of  the  National  Board; 
and  Rev.  L.  I.  Crawford,  editor  of  the  Sandy  Lake, 
Pa.,  iVetoi,  who  was  just  returning  home  from  the 
United  Presbyterian  General  Assembly  at  Cedar 
Rapids,  Iowa. 


REFORM  NEWS  {Continued  from  5th  page). 

and  sister  J.  A.  Porter.  It  surprised  me  very  much 
to  learn  that  Bro.  Porter  had  been  initiated  into  the 
order  of  Knights  of  Labor.  He  says  the  K.  of  L. 
is  a  good  thing,  but  we  fear  he  will  be  convinced  of 
their  secret  follies.  I  attended  an  exhibition  of  the 
free  school,  Monday  evening,  at  the  Macedonia 
Baptist  church.  The  exercises  were  very  inter- 
esting. I  am  glad  to  see  my  race  progressing  so 
rapidly  in  education,  but  I  am  sorry  to  see  so  many 
of  the  young  men  and  women  being  deceived  into 
these  secret  orders.  I  called  on  the  following 
pastors :  Revs.  Geo.  Holmes,  A.  Hubbs,  L.  H. 
Williams,  Chas.  Williams,  M.  Dunlap,  Wm.  Ellis, 
John  Brown  and  Z.  T.  Gayden.  Most  of  these 
brethren  are  opposed  to  lodgery.  Rev.  Z.  T.  Gayden, 
the  M.  E.  church  pastor,  thinks  the  minor  lodges 
an  injury  to  the  churches,  but  he  thinks  the  higher 
lodges  all  right.  I  was  invited  by  Rev.  L.  H. 
Williams,  principal  of  the  town  school,  to  address 
his  students  on  the  benefit  of  education.  I  spoke 
for  fifteen  minutes.  Bro.  Williams  endorsed  what 
I  said  and  gave  a  brief  illustration  of  our  work. 
He  is  entirely  in  accord  with  our  reform.  1  preach- 
ed at  St.  Peters  Baptist  church,  Rev.  Geo.  Holmes, 
pastor,  on  Tuesday  evening. 

Secretism  seems  to  have  taken  a  strong  hold  here 
the  past  six  months  as  some  of  the  preachers  have 
been  stumping  and  canvassing  for  the  old  lodge  rum 
parties,  but  thank  God  we  will  try  and  open  fire  on 
the  secret  forts  again.  I  am  invited  to  preach  in 
four  of  the  colored  churches  here  when  I  return 
from  Clinton.  The  Cynosuret  sent  here  are  doing 
much  good,  but  many  more  are  wanted. 

Fkancis  J.  Davidson. 


NATIONAL  REFORM  WORK  IN  THE  WEST. 

The  Association  year  just  closed  has  been  a  busy 
one  with  lecturers  of  the  National  Reform  Associa- 
tion. Four  of  us  have  given  our  whole  time  to  the 
work,  and  three  others  have  given  such  time  as 
their  other  duties  would  allow.  The  Cynosure  read- 
ers are  so  much  interested  in  the  progress  of  this 
movement,  that  I  send  the  following  report  of  my 
last  year's  work. 

After  attending  the  Lake  Bluff  Convocation  of 
W.  C.  T.  U.and  Prohibition  workers,  I  made  two 
extended  lecture  tours  through  Wisconsin,  and  one 
through  Michigan,  and  attended  the  joint  convention 
of  W.  C.  T.  U.  and  National  Reform  workers  at 
Lake  Side,  Ohio.  During  the  fall  and  winter,  I 
made  a  lecture  tour  in  Illinois,  and  one  in  Minnesota, 
three  in  Iowa,  and  one  m  Missouri.  Altogether  I 
have  lectured  and  preached  215  times,  and  on 
Sabbath  evening  usually  to  large  audiences  at  union 
services.  I  lectured  during  the  year  in  nine  colleges, 
and  at  fourteen  conventions  and  conferences.  The 
voluntary  collections  taken  at  these  meetings 
amounted  to  $597.06.  My  expenses,  including  rail- 
road fare,  hotel  bills  and  postage,  amounted  to 
$253.19,  or  about  $20  a  month. 

I  have  written  97  articles  for  the  press,  but  my 
strength  has  been  mainly  employed  in  reaching  the 
people  through  lectures  and  sermons.  Nearly  all 
these  were  arranged  by  the  W.  C.  T.  U.  This  great 
reform  organization,  with  its  10,000  local  organi- 
zations, and  its  200,000  members,  is  admirably 
adapted  to  do  all  kinds  of  reform  work.  They 
were  born  of  the  spirit  of  prayer  and  devotion  to 
moral  reform,  and  working  for  the  home  versus  the 
saloon,  and  their  freedom  from  party  ambition,  and 
political  intrigue,  makes  them  the  most  reliable  and 
eflScient  reform  organization.  In  co-operating  with 
them,  they  arrange  for  my  lectures,  provide  for  my 
entertainment,  and  give  a  collection  for  the  National 
Reform  cause.  1  allow  no  fees  or  tickets  of  admis- 
sion, for  this  shuts  out  many  that  I  want  to  reach. 

My  object  has  been  to  stir  the  public  conscience 
on  questions  of  moral  reform.  My  main  theme  has 
been  the  Prohibition  and  the  Sabbath  questions, 
considered  from  the  standpoint  of  the  divine  law. 
iVly  lectures  on  ''Bible  Politics"  and  "Dangers  which 
threaten  the  Republic,"  which  I  give  most  frequent- 
ly, contain  warnings  against  the  influence  of  secret 
societies.  I  emphasize  the  dangerous  example  of 
the  government  in  substituting  the  will  of  the 
people  for  the  law  of  Christ,  in  ignoring  the  law  of 
the  Sabbath,  and  in  legalizing  the  liquor  traffic. 
These  are  the  greatest  obstacles  in  the  way  of  moral 
reform. 

What  a  wonderful  experience  one  gets  in  this 
National  Reform  work,  sleeping  in  so  many  beds, 
eating  at  such  a  variety  of  tables,  meeting  so  many 
new  friends,  interviewing  so  many  brainy  preachers 
and  editors,  speaking  before  so  many  audiences  and 
visiting  so  many  colleges.  But  the  time  is  shott 
These  are  crucial  years.  As  the  waters  of  Niagara  go 


plunging  down  the  rapids,  so  events  in  these  years 
go   leaping  toward  some  grand  revolution. 

"We  are  living,  we  are  dwelling 

In  a  grand  and  awful  time ; 
In  an  age  on  ages  telling, 

To  be  living  is  subllnae  " 

M.  A.  Gadlt. 


OUR  WA8EINOT0N  LETTER. 

Washington,  D.  C,  June  1,  1888. 

The  talk  at  the  capital  on  Monday  was  Judge 
Thurman,  of  Ohio,  and  the  Vice  Presidency.  Some 
few  members  thought  that  the  sudden  prominence 
given  to  Mr.  Thurman's  name  meant  a  cut-and-dried 
convention.  In  other  words,  that  the  President  has 
said  he  would  like  Mr.  Thurman  on  the  ticket  and 
that  the  convention  would  act  accordingly.  "The 
office  of  Vice  President  would  not  confer  any  addi- 
tional honor  on  him,"  said  Representative  Campbell, 
of  Ohio,  and  it  does  seem  that  Mr.  Thurman's  latest 
famous  remark  that  "all  he  cared  for  now  was  a 
seat  in  heaven,"  would  prove  that  he  had  gone  en- 
tirely out  of  politics. 

All  is  not  well  with  the  tariff  bill.  It  will  have  a 
hard  time  if  it  gets  through,  and  will  come  out,  if  it 
comes  at  all,  in  a  battered  condition.  Doubtless  the 
Democrats  of  the  House,  however,  are  tolerably  well 
satisfied  with  their  work  as  it  is.  In  its  main  fea- 
tures the  bill  seems  to  be  an  acceptable  measure. 
Naturally  amendments  are  desired  to  suit  particular 
localities,  but  even  if  these  do  cause  delay  and  con- 
troversy, or  even  if  the  bill  does  not  pass  at  the 
present  session,  it  cannot  be  denied  that  the  revenue 
reformers  have  done  more  in  the  direction  suggested 
by  the  President's  message,  than  has  been  done 
in  many  years. 

The  latest  bill  introduced  by  Senator  Blair,  regu- 
lates the  observance  of  the  Sabbath.  It  prohibits  any 
corporation  or  person  from  performing  any  duty  on 
that  day,  except  works  of  necessity.  It  shall  not 
be  lawful  for  any  person  to  receive  pay  for  services 
rendered  on  that  day;  no  mails  shall  be  collected  or 
transported  except  such  letters  as  concern  the  life, 
health  or  peace  of  some  one,  and  the  Postmaster- 
General  shall  supply  special  deliveries  for  the  same. 
He  also  proposes  to  amend  the  pool-selling  bill,  to 
extend  its  provisions  so  as  to  prevent  betting  of 
every  kind  in  tbe  whole  District  of  Columbia.  The 
present  bill  prohibits  betting  only  in  the  cities  of 
Washington  and  Georgetown,  and  of  course  the  peo- 
ple have  only  to  go  across  the  city  boundaries  to 
patronize  the  pool-rooms  still. 

It  must  be  regretted  that  the  much-needed  effort 
of  the  New  Hampshire  Senator  is  likely  to  be  like 
seed  by  the  wayside.  The  men  whom  the  people 
send  here  for  their  lawmakers  do  not  often 
fairly  represent  the  religious  ideas  of  their  con- 
stituents, and  do  not  scruple  to  have  their  fun  at  the 
expense  of  serious  subjects.  For  instance,  the 
Legislative  Appropriation  bill  proposed  to  increase 
the  Chaplain's  salary  from  $900  to  $1,000.  Browne 
of  Indiana  inquired  if  there  was  increased  necessity 
for  prayer.  Springer,  of  Illinois,  replied  that  mem- 
bers had  no  idea  what  great  power  was  required  to 
bring  salvation  to  such  a  body  as  the  House  of 
Representatives.  Grosvenor  suggested  that  if  the 
increase  be  made  it  should  not  be  a  permanent 
thing,  because  the  next  House  would  not  need  so 
much  praying  as  the  present  one.  Another  flippant 
member,  Strube,  of  Iowa,  wanted  to  know  if  it  was 
necessary  to  have  a  very  able  man  for  Chaplain. 
Another  equally  flippant  member  from  Michigan 
answered  that  it  always  took  a  high  order  of  ability 
to  deal  with  an  immature  mind;  therefore  he 
thought  the  House  Chaplain  should  be  a  man  of 
considerable  ability.  Holman,  of  Indiana,  said  $10 
a  day  was  to  much  for  the  House  to  pay  for  prayer, 
and  the  majority  voted  with  him  to  this  effect. 

Washington  has  always  been  the  political  center 
of  the  country,  but  within  the  last  fortnight  it  be- 
came the  center  religiously.  Wo  had  all  the 
Baptists  in  the  country  here  (speaking  extravagantl} ) 
for  about  ten  days.  Then  Dr.  Bullock  was  made 
Moderator  of  the  Southern  Presbyterian  Assembly. 
Dr.  Leonard  of  Washington  was  elected  a  bishop  in 
the  Episcopal  church.  Dr.  Newman,  General  Grant's 
former  pastor  here,  was  made  a  bishop  in  the  Meth- 
odist church,  and  the  interests  of  the  entire  Catholic 
church  of  the  world  were  centered  in  the  laying  of 
the  corner  stone  of  the  Divinity  school  of  their  new 
university  here  on  last  Thursday.  * 

The  Senate  Committee  on  Agriculture  has  decided 
to  make  a  favorable  rei)ort  on  the  bill  introtluced  by 
Senator  George,  of  Mississippi,  to  enlarge  the  pow- 
ers and  duties  of  the  Departmert  of  Agriculture 
and  make  the  head  of  that  Department  a  member 
of  the  Cabinet  It  is  the  same  bill  that  the  Sen- 
ate passed  during  the  last  Congress. 


10 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


June  7, 1888 


The  Home. 


LABOR  18  WORSHIP. 


Pause  not  to  dream  of  the  future  before  us, 
Pause  uot  to  weep  the  wild  cares  that  come  o'er  us, 

Hark  !  how  ci  cation's  deep  musical  chorus, 

Unintermittiug  goes  up  Into  heaven  1 
Never  the  cceau  wave  falters  in  flowing; 
Never  the  Utile  seed  stops  in  its  growing; 
More  atd  more  richly  the  rose-heart  keeps  glowii  g, 

Till  from  its  nourishing  stem  it  Is  riven. 

"Labor  is  worship,"  the  robin  Is  singing; 
"Labor  Is  worship,"  the  wild  bee  Is  ringing. 
Listen  !  that  eloquent  whisper  upspringing, 

Speaks  to  thy  soul  from  out  nature's  great  heart; 
From  the  dark  cloud  flows  the  life-;jlving  shower; 
From  the  ri.ugh  sod  blov  s  the  soft-breathing  flower; 
From  the  smallest  insect,  the  rich  coral  bower; 

Only  man  in  the  plan  sbrinks  from  bis  part. 

Labor  is  life  1    'Tls  the  still  water  falleth ; 

Idleness  ever  despaireth,  bewaileth; 

Keep  the  watch  wound,  for  the  dark  rust  assdiletb; 

Flowers  droop  and  die  in  the  stillness  of  noon. 
Labor  is  glory  !    The  flying  cloud  lightens ; 
Only  the  waving  wind  changes  and  brightens; 
Idle  hearts  only  the  dark  fu'.ure  frightens; 

i'lay  the  sweet  keys  wouldst  thou  keep  them  in  tune  1 

Labor  is  rest  from  the  sorrows  that  greet  us; 
Kcst  from  the  petty  vexations  that  meet  us; 
Rest  from  sin  promptings  that  ever  entreat  us; 

Rest  from  the  world-slrecs  that  lure  us  to  ill. 
Work,  and  pure  slumbers  shall  wait  on  thy  pillow; 
Work,  thou  shalt  ride  over  care's  coming  billow. 
Lie  not  down  wearied  'ueath  woe's  weeping-willow; 

Work  w  ilh  a  stout  heart  and  resolute  will ! 

Labor  is  health  !  lo,  the  husbandman  reaping; 

How  through  his  veins  tots  the  life-current  leaping; 

How  his  strong  arm   in  Its  stalwart  pride  sweep  ng, 

True  as  a  suiibeam  the  swift  sickle  guides. 
Labor  is  wealth  !  in  the  sea  the  pearl  groweth, 
Rich  ihe  ([Uten's  robe  from  the  fr.dl  cocoon  flo.veth; 
From  the  flne  acorn  the  strong  fortst  bloweth; 

Temple  and  statue  ttie  marble  block  hides. 

Droop  uot;  though  shame,  sin  and  anguish  are  rouud  thee, 
Bravely  flii  g  off  ihe  cold  stain  that  hath  bound  theel 
Look  to  you  pure  heaven  smiling  beyond  thee. 

Rest  not  coutrnt  in  thy  darkness — a  clod  I 
Work  for  some  good  be  It  ever  so  siowly ; 
Cherish  sime  fl jwer  be  it  ever  so  lowly ; 
Labor  1  for  labor  is  noble  and  holy ; 

Let  thy  good  deeds  be  prayers  to  thy  God. 

^The  Watchman. 
m  %  m 

RHILlOIOUa  RITES  IN  MBXIGO. 


BY  MRS.  H    M.  BI88ELL,  MISSIONARY. 


Pueblo  ceremonies  are  oftea  quite  different  from 
observances  in  the  city  and  bear  quite  striking  tes- 
timony to  the  charge  that  those  who  planted  Cathol- 
icism here  only  adapted  it  to  and  engrafted  it  on  the 
former  heathen  worship  of  the  native  Indians. 

For  examhle,  during  December  there  is  held  a 
feast  of  the  Virgin  for  a  week.  Part  of  the  ceremo- 
nies consist  of  a  "daoza"  executed  by  six  or  seven 
men,  fantastically  attired,  with  headband  stuck  full 
of  feathers,  etc.  They  pass  along  the  street,  one 
bearing  a  flag  and  all  keeping  time  to  a  low,  weird 
strain  from  some  sort  of  a  stringed  in8trument,mean- 
while  uttering  low  cries  and  whirling  themselves 
about  in  a  curious  fashion.  Oa  the  church  grounds 
they  continue  the  exercises.  There  is  a  huge  old 
building  formerly  used  as  a  monastery.  Since  the 
laws  of  the  "ll:!forma"  have  abolished  such  institu- 
tions, it  is  kept  out  of  the  hands  of  the  government 
by  a  nominal  occupation.  Within  it  is  an  image  of 
the  Virgin  and  her  gorgeous  trosseau — also  the  Vir- 
gin's cat;  all  of  which  must  be  tenderly  cared  for. 
So  a  company  of  five  men  each  year  enter  an  ob- 
ligation to  spend  a  week  at  a  time  in  turn,  living  in 
the  building  to  care  for  il  and  its  tretsures. 

This  cat  is  a  real  flosh  and  blood  animal — no  hum- 
bug about  her.  She  has  a  fine  cradle  in  which  she 
is  exhibited  on  state  occasions,  decorated  with  flow- 
ers and  ribbons.  She  is  daintily  fed,  and,  like  the 
King  of  England,  never  dies.  In  this  building 
chiefly  the  feast  of  the  Virgin  was  held. 

In  January  is  the  celebration  of  the  Three  Wise 
Men.  Three  men  go  about  the  streets  wearing 
masks  and  liustl-trimond  garments,  apparently  half 
crazy.  They  represent  the  Magi, who  became  insane 
for  joy  at  seeing  the  infant  Christ, 

The  week  before  Lent  is  crowded  with  dances  and 
weddings,  attended  with  more  or  less  finery  and 
feasting,  according  to  the  resources  of  the  bride- 
groom (which  will  include  i)oth  cash  and  credit);  for 
it  is  his  task  to  furnish  not  only  the  eatables  and 
drinkables  but  the  outfit  of  the  bride  and  also  of  her 


god-mother,  who,  dressed  like  the  bride,  now  offici- 
ates as  bridesmaid. 

Then  comes  Ash  Wednesday,  when  the  devotees 
go  to  church  and  receive  in  their  foreheads  the 
mark  of  moist  ashes,  an  emblem  of  penitence,  and 
the  feast  of  Lent  is  begun.  During  the  forty  days 
that  follow,  scarcely  more  than  the  noonday  meal  is 
eaten,  and  on  Thursday  and  Friday  no  meat  is  al- 
lowed. During  the  last  part.  Holy  Week,the  scenes 
of  the  last  days  of  the  Saviour's  life  are  enacted, 
washing  the  feet  of  the  disciples  (though  they  wash 
only  one  foot),  the  last  supper,the  arrest,  trial,crown* 
ing  with  thorns,  and  even  the  crucifixion.  In  some 
places  a  man  is  actually  suspended  on  the  cross.  In 
others  a  figure  with  movable  limbs  serves,  and  after 
being  taken  down  is  placed  in  a  coffin  and  remains 
in  the  church  an  object  of  veneration  for  a  year,sur- 
rounded  with  candles  from  noon  of  Friday  till  10 
o'clock  Saturday  morning.  The  "Gloria"  is  said  to 
be  shut  up,  and  in  city  or  pueblo  no  bell  is  heard, 
their  place  being  supplied  by  a  wooden  affair  which 
makes  a  hideous  noise,  and  is  jocosely  said  to  be 
grinding  the  bones  of  Judas. 

At  the  hour  for  letting  out  the  "Gloria"  begins  a 
great  clamor  of  bells,  and  innumerable  effigies  of 
Judas  are  burned.  These  are  rude  paper  images, 
large  and  small.body  and  limbs  made  of  explosives. 
They  are  hung  upon  lines  stretched  across  the  street, 
and  are  touched  off  to  the  great  glee  of  the  crowd  of 
spectators.  Shouts  and  screams  greet  the  whirling 
figures  as  they  begin  to  explode.  Thus  practically 
ends  as  a  farce  what  should  be  a  tender,  solemn  oc- 
casion. The  glorious  Resurrection  day  has  appar- 
ently no  recognition  except  as  the  great  market  day 
of  the  year,  an  occasion  for  a  brilliant  promenade; 
and  this  is  typical  of  their  religion.  The  truth  they 
have  is  perverted  to  extravagance  and  superstition 
so  that  it  has  not,  nor  is  it  expected  to  have,  any  ef- 
fect in  bettering  their  lives  or  leading  them  to  the 
Son  of  God. 

On  Easter  day  began  a  cock-fight, which  was  to  con- 
tinue every  afternoon  for  eight  days,  but  had  to 
close  Thursday  because  the  poor  things  were  all 
killed,and  they  must  wait  till  more  could  be  brought 
in.    Probably  there  were  not  less  than  fifty  victims. 

Monday  morning  again  began  the  din  of  wed- 
dings; a  troupe  of  acrobats  arrived,  and  so  the  days 
went  on  as  if  trying  to  obliterate  every  serious  im- 
pression. Holy  Thursday  is  a  great  market  day  for 
the  native  ware  made  in  Guadalajara.  Sixteen  cart- 
loads, besides  uncounted  loads  brought  on  donkeys 
and  men's  backs,  filled  the  market  place  and  made  a 
lively  scene.  This  was  repeated  on  a  smaller  scale 
two  weeks  later  on  Sabbath.  These  two  are  the 
only  times  in  the  year  that  the  ware  is  sold  except 
in  the  stores  and  at  an  advertised  price. 

A  very  high  and  steep  mountain  near  the  pueblo 
is  surmounted  by  a  large  wooden  cross.  In  the  last 
week  of  April  it  is  brought  down  and  lodged  in  the 
house  opposite  curs,  whose  owner  is  its  patroness. 
May  3rd  it  will  be  decorated  with  a  rosary  of  flow- 
ers; carried  to  church,  where  mass  will  be  said;  then 
it  will  be  blessed  and  returned  to  its  mountain,  ac- 
companied by  a  crowd  of  the  faithful  who  thus  gain 
an  indulgence.  Mr.  Bissell  and  I  made  an  ascent 
of  tiie  mountain  early  one  morning.  It  required  one 
and  a  half  hours  hard  climbing,  including  a  few 
breathing  spells.  Much  of  the  way  is  as  steep  as 
stairs,  yet  it  becomes  a  cornfield  a  month  hence. 

La  Junta,  Mexico. 


MOHAMMEDAN  DEVOTION. 

The  editor  of  the  Christian  Standard  of  Cincin- 
nati has  been  traveling  in  Europe,  Africa  and  Pal- 
estine during  the  winter  and  spring,  and  is  writing 
a  series  of  articles  for  his  paper.  In  a  late  one  we 
find  these  statements  about  the  heroic  devotion  of 
the  Mohammedan  teachers  and  preachers  to  their 
work: 

"And  this  leads  us  to  speak  of  the  Mohammedan 
University,  the  Gami  el  Azhar  mosque  being  used 
for  that  purpose.  It  is  claimed  that  10,000  students 
attend  here.  This  is  probably  an  exaggeration; 
there  are,  we  judge,  about  7,000.  The  students  re- 
main from  three  to  six  years.  They  pay  no  fees, 
being  supported  by  an  annual  subsidy  from  the  en- 
dowments of  the  mosque — though  '  it  cannot  cost 
much  to  maintain  them  in  their  style  of  living. 
The  professors  receive  no  salary,  but  support  them- 
selves by  outside  work.  Ye  Christian  educators 
who  complain  of  slender  support,  see  what  self-sac- 
rifice Mohammedan  enthusiasm  begets!  Go  into 
this  building.  You  will  see  hundreds  of  little  chil- 
dren busy  in  copying  sentences  from  the  Koran;  and 
youths  and  grown  men  squatting  in  circles  on  the 
stone  floor,  listening  to  lectures  on  theology,  law, 
logic,  poetry,  or  studying  Arabic  grammar;  or  sway- 
ing to  «vnd  fro  as  they  study  their  lessons  and  pre- 


pare for  recitation.  They  have  no  chairs,  no  desks, 
no  anything  but  books.  When  they  are  through 
with  their  studies  and  are  weary,  you  will  find  them 
probably  stretched  on  the  stone  floor  asleep,  wrapped 
in  their  robes,  and  their  heads  resting  on  a  block  of 
wood  or  stone  for  a  pillow!  And  their  instruction 
is  largely  in  the  Koran,  or  in  a*few  side  studies  to 
enable  them  to  explain  and  defend  and  propagate  it. 
And  then  they  go  out  to  preach  it,  barefooted, 
moneyless,  ill-clad,  but  fired  with  an  enthusiasm  for 
Islamism  which  makes  it  a  joy  to  give  their  life  in 
its  advocacy  and  defense.  And,  from  this  one  cen- 
ter hundreds  are  continually  going  out  to  propagate 
and  support  the  religion  of  the  Prophet.  Think  of 
that,  ye  candidates  for  the  Christian  ministry,  who 
are  continually  mourning  over  your  hard  fate!  A 
tithe  of  the  fervent  enthusiasm  of  these  disciples 
of  Mohammed  would  enable  the  Christian  ministry 
to  shake  the  world  with  the  might  of  their  advocacy." 


PATTY'S  CABBAGE. 


Grandmother  Eaton  sat  in  her  easy  chair  knitting. 
Her  old  hands  were  twisted  and  knotted  from  years 
of  hard  work,  and  seemed  not  to  belong  with  her 
satin  dress  and  lace  cap  and  her  luxuriant  room. 
They  were  busy  still  from  the  long  habit  of  work, 
and  were  weaving  in  and  out  the  white  wool  which 
was  growing  into  some  fleecy  covering  for  the  pretty 
head  which  nestled  caressingly  at  her  side. 

"Grandma,"  said  the  little  girl,  presently,  "please 
tell  me  that  nice  story  of  your  coming  to  Colorado, 
and  of  the  first  start  you  made  toward  making  your 
fortune." 

"Why,  dear,  you've  heard  that  story  time  and 
again,"  answered  grandmamma. 

"But  I  feel  just  like  hearing  you  tell  it  again  to- 
night.    So  please,  grandmamma,  do." 

"Well,  well,"  said  grandmamma,  "it  is  a  rather 
good  story  I  think  myself.  It  was  long  ago  before 
you  were  born,  when  your  mother  was  about  four- 
teen years  old — just  your  age.  Gold  had  been 
found  in  Colorado,  and  that  same  year  your  grandpa 
lost  everything  we  had,  so  we  determined  to  try  our 
fortune  out  here.  We  sold  our  furniture  for  enough 
to  pay  our  traveling  expenses,  and  give  us  a  little 
after  we  reached  here.  E  verything  but  our  bedding. 
'Keep  your  bedding,  Marie,'  my  mother  said.  She 
had  rather  a  mania  for  collecting  sheets  and  blan- 
kets. So  I  kept  two  beds  and  all  my  sheets  and 
spreads,  and  Aunt  Sarah,  good  soul,  presented  me 
with  five  new  patchwork  quilts,  which  she  had  been 
years  in  making,  and  mother  gave  me  seven  pairs  of 
blankets,  and  had  two  pieces  of  sheeting  made  up 
for  me.  So  I  may  safely  say  that  we  had  more 
bedding  than  any  family  that  came  here.  Your 
grandpa  was  quite  horrified  at  our  taking  so  much, 
but  mother  paid  the  cost  of  our  boxes  to  Fort  Inde- 
pendence. , 

"Here  we  bought  our  wagon  and  put  all  the  bed- 
ding in  the  bottom,  and  as  we  had  not  much  of  any- 
thing else,  we  had  room  for  it.  'Don't  know  what 
we  will  ever  do  with  it  all,'  said  grandpa. 

"  'Dress  up  in  them,  when  our  clothes  wear  out,' 
said  Patty  to  mother.  'Can't  you  fancy  me  arrayed 
in  one  of  Aunt  Sarah's  quilts;  the  one  with  the  yel- 
low calico  orange  and  the  green  leaves,  for  instance?' 
She  could  always  joke  her  father  into  a  good  humor, 
and  in  those  days  he  was  very  much  depressed.  He 
felt  troubled  at  taking  us  over  such  a  hard  journey 
and  to  such  a  rough  life. 

"Well,  we  tucked  all  that  bedding  in  the  bottom 
of  our  wagon — we  had  no  thought  then  of  what  use 
we  really  should  put  it  to  before  we  got  through 
with  it — and  started  on  our  journey.  It  was  three 
months  before  we  reached  Denver,  then  only  a  min- 
ing camp.  Grandpa  at  once  pre-empted  his  one 
hundred  and  sixty  acres  and  put  up  a  little  shanty 
for  us  to  live  in.  Then  he  began  washing  for  gold; 
he  found  but  little,  barely  making  day's  wages. 
'The  thing  that  would  pay  best  here,'  he  said  one 
day,  'would  be  to  grow  something  to  eat.' 

"They  were  just  finding  out  that  with  irrigation 
the  plains  were  productive.  Food  was  prodigiously 
high.  Nearly  everything  was  carted  across  the 
plains,  and  of  course  it  was  worth  a  great  deal  of 
money  by  the  time  it  reached  us.  So  in  one  of  your 
grandpa's  times  of  discouragement  about  gold,  he 
dug  some  ditches  and  arranged  to  supply  several 
acres  of  our  land  with  water.  Then  he  plowed  and 
harrowed  quite  a  large  piece  of  ground;  made  it 
ready  for  our  garden.  But  we  could  only  get  cab- 
bage seed.  However,  Patty  and  I  were  not  discour- 
aged. We  made  a  bed  and  planted  these.  They 
came  up  wonderfully,  and  we  had  a  fine  lot  of  plants. 
I  don't  think  any  flower  garden  we  ever  had  after- 
wards gave  us  the  pleasure  those  plants  did.  It 
was  so  pleasant  to  see  something  that  looked  like 


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home  growing,  in  place  of  buffalo  grass  and  the 
cactus. 

"But  how  hard  we  worked  over  them!  Patty  and 
I  had  it  all  to  do,  for  grandpa  had  nothing  ahead 
and  felt  compelled  to  make  his  day's  wages.  We 
lifted  the  plants  from  the  bed  and  put  them  in 
straight  rows— then  the  hoeing  and  the  weeding!  I 
can  remember  now  how  tired  we  used  to  get  over 
those  cabbages.  'Seems  to  me  that  all  the  world  is 
nothing  but  a  cabbage  patch,'  said  Patty.  It  was  the 
first  hard  work  we  had  ever  done.  You  cannot  under- 
stand how  fond  we  became  of  those  cabbages. 
Every  morning  before  breakfast  Patty  would  run 
out  to  see  how  much  they  had  grown  in  the  night. 

"But  soon  there  came  rumors  of  grasshoppers. 
They  were  across  the  range,  some  said;  others  that 
they  were  hatching  in  the  lower  mountains.  Not 
much  was  known  of  them,  only  that  they  destroyed 
every  green  thing  ihey  lighted  upon.  '0  dear,  our 
cabbages!'  said  Patty.  One  morning  she  came  run- 
ning into  the  house:  'They've  come!  They're  in 
the  next  field,'  she  cried  excitedly. 

"  'What!'  I  exclaimed  in  terror,  'the  Indians?'  for 
we  lived  in  more  or  less  fear  of  the  Indians  all  the 
time  in  those  days. 

"'No,'  she  said,  'not  Indians— grasshoppers!' 
She  threw  herself  down  on  a  low  stool,  clasping  her 
hands  and  thinking.  Patty  had  the  brightest,  bravest 
spirit  I  ever  knew.  It  had  to  be  a  close  corner  that 
she  could  see  no  way  out  of!  'I  know  what  we  will 
do!     The  patchwork  quilts!' 

"I  caught  at  her  idea,  and  in  a  moment  we  were 
covering  those  blessed  cabbages  with  quilts,  sheets, 
spreads,  blankets,  everything  there  was  in  the  house. 
Even  grandpa's  Sunday  hat,  and  my  best  bonnet, 
were  turned  over  cabbage  heads,  and  every  old  hat 
of  Patty's  was  used  in  the  same  way.  We  worked 
until  we  were  out  of  breath,  nor  were  we  a  moment 
too  soon.  As  we  stood  looking  at  our  garden  and 
regretting  that  a  small  portion  of  it  must  remain 
uncovered,  we  heard  a  whirr  of  wings  and  saw  a 
dark  cloud  arise  from  the  next  field;  in  a  moment 
more  they  were  settling  down  upon  our  land.  We 
watched  the  great  army  feed,  and  the  rapidity  with 
which  every  green  thing  disappeared  before  them 
was  something  marvelous.  We  nervously  watched 
them  lest  they  should  bite  the  blankets  even,  and 
not  until  we  saw  that  this  was  impossible  could  we 
laugh  heartily  over  two  or  three  old  fat  fellows  who 
were  trying  to  eat  the  yellow  oranges  and  the  green 
leavea  of  Aunt  Sarah's  best  bed-quilt. 

"When  grandpa  heard  that  the  grasshoppers  had 
come  he  hurried  home  to  comfort  Patty,  for  he 
knew  how  she  would  feel  to  lose  her  cabbages.  As 
he  neared  the  place  and  saw  the  array  of  bedclothes 
and  hats  and  bonnets  and  dresses  covering  the  gar- 
den, and  the  discomfited  grasshoppers  hanging 
around  outside  of  it,  he  stopped  in  amazement. 
'Whew!'  he  said,  'if  that  little  girl  of  mine  hasn't 
got  more  wit  than  a — well,  than  a  grasshopper,  I'll 
give  it  up.' 

"So  our  cabbages  were  saved  and  they  were  the 
only  green  thing  saved  in  that  region.  Before  the 
winter  was  over  we  had  realized  nearly  nine  hundred 
dollars  from  them.  There  were  so  scarce  that  no- 
body thought  of  buying  a  whole  cabbage  at  a  time 
— they  took  a  half  or  a  quarter  of  one,  and  the  gold 
dust  was  weighed  out  for  it.  There  was  not  much 
money  here  in  circulation  those  days. 

"We  took  that  money,  'Patty's  money,'  we  called 
it,  and  bought  more  land  adjoining  ours. 

"Next  year  your  grandpa  gave  up  washing  for 
gold,  and  devoted  himself  to  the  garden.  Your 
mother  and  I  worked  with  him,  for  there  was  nobody 
to  hire  even  if  we  had  the  money  to  pay  for  the 
labor.  So  we  worked  on,  holding  on  to  our  land, 
and  each  year  making  a  little  more  than  a  living. 
The  people  gave  up  hunting  here  for  gold,  and  be- 
gan to  build  houses,  and  Denver  became  the  point 
from  which  supplies  were  drawn  for  the  mountain 
camp  in  the  mountains.  Finally  the  railroad  reached 
here,  and  since  this  city  has  come  into  existence." 

"And  the  banks  stand  where  you  grew  the  cab- 
bages?" said  Edith. 

"Yes;  and  handsome  blocks  of  houses  where  your 
mother  used  to  hoe,  and  weed,  and  play." 

"And  grandpa  and  father  and  mother  all  died  be- 
fore the  fortune  came,"  said  Edith  regretfully. 

"Yes;  your  mother  died  just  after  you  were  bom, 
and  your  father  and  grandpa  a  few  months  after. 
None  of  them  knew  anything  but  hard  work;  but 
we  were  happy  together  when  we  sat  down  to  rest  in 
the  evening  with  our  few  books  and  papers." 

"Yes;  you  all  worked  hard,  grandmamma,  and  I 
reap  the  benefit.  I  dare  say  their  hands  looked  as 
yours  do— while,  look  at  mine!"  And  she  placed 
her  soft  tapered  fingers  beside  the  crippled  old  ones. 

"I  am  ashamed  of  mine,"  she  said.  "Grandmam- 
ma," she  added,  "when  you  get  to  the  gates  of 


heaven,  just  show  them  your  hands  and  they'll  let 
you  in!" 

Qrandmamma  only  smiled  at  her  odd  conceit — 

Wide  Awake. 


Temperance. 


MOODY  A8  A  TBMPBRANGB  WORKBR. 

Mr.  Moody,  in  returning  recently  from  an  evan- 
gelistic tour  to  his  home  in  Northfield,  Mass.,  found 
the  town  in  danger  of  going  for  license.  He  went 
into  the  campaign  with  heart  and  soul,  and  the  no- 
license  majority  was  chiefly  due  to  him.  The  Spring- 
field Republican  says  of  his  efforts: 

"After  making  an  earnest  appeal  to  the  voters  a 
day  or  two  before  town-meeting,  he  followed  up  his 
preaching  with  practice.  Up  bright  and  early  elec- 
tion day,  he  drove  about  town  all  day  long,  tiring 
out  several  horses  in  drumming  up  the  voters.  His 
frank,  pushing,  business-like  way  and  honesty  of 
purpose,  has  made  him  a  favorite  with  the  Irishmen 
of  the  town,  and  among  the  drinking  men  he  was 
particularly  busy  in  importuning  them  to  so  vote 
that  the  doors  of  temptation  would  not  be  legally 
thrown  open  before  them.  His  zeal  and  energy 
were  simply  irresistible,  and  he  went  through  the 
town  like  a  tornado.  While  the  license  men  were 
hovering  about  the  town-hall  trying  to  make  votes, 
Moody  was  driving  men  in  from  the  highways  and 
hedges,  first  having  sent  them  on  their  way  with  a 
pleasant  chat,  a  practical  appeal,  and  his  cheery 
'God  bless  you,'  of  course  victory  was  assured.  Mr. 
Moody  was  not  in  the  hall  when  the  result  was  de- 
clared, but  a  glib  Hibernian,  who  loves  Mr.  Moody, 
and  his  cider,  too,  arose  and  called  out:  'Mr.  Chair- 
man, I  move  the  thanks  of  this  town  to  the 
Honorable  Mister  Moody,'  a  motion  that,  of  course, 
brought  down  the  house." 

m  »  m 
A  SUIOIDB'a  LAST  WORDS. 


A  man  was  run  over  and  killed  on  the  Troy  and 
Boston  Railroad,  near  Valley  Falls,  his  body-being 
horribly  mutilated;  near  him  was  found  the  follow- 
ing: 

"This  paper  I  leave  on  the  road  near  where  my 
body  will  be  found.  I  have  selected  this  place 
because  the  curve  is  large,  and  I  cannot  be  seen 
until  it  is  too  late  to  stop  the  engine.  Thus  I  shall 
go  out  of  the  world  with  a  rush  I  I  have  fortified 
myself  with  some  forty-rod  whisky,  which  I  got  at 
the  Hollow,  where  may  be  found  some  more  of  the 
same  sort.  Whoever  finds  my  dead  body  and  this 
paper,  will  know  who  I  am.  Send  my  personal 
effects  to  my  wife,  Gertrude  Nutting,  Sansingburg. 
I  did  this  by  my  own  hand.  Eum  is  the  cause.  I 
have  but  one  regret;  that  is  my  wife;  for  she  has 
been  a  wife  to  me  in  every  sense  of  the  word;  but  I 
cannot  live  any  longer.  So  now,  farewell  to  the 
world.  Frank  Ncttinq. 

"I  write  this  on  the  top  of  the  rail.  Bury  me  in 
my  clothes,  as  I  am ;  I  am  not  worthy  of  a  shroud 
or  coffiu.  I  have  twenty- five  cents  in  my  vest  pocket. 
Send  that  and  the  other  things  to  my  wife  as  before 
directed.  I  have  a  brother  at  Johnsville.  I  hope 
he  will  shed  one  tear  in  my  memory,  and  then  let  me 
be  forgotten!  Father — I  wish  I  could  live  to  fulfill 
your  hopes  and  wishes,  but  I  cannot!  Ob,  rum! 
rum!  rum!" — JSel. 


THB  MBTH0DI8T8  AOAINST  THB  SALOON. 
FROM   THK  bishop's  ADDRESS,  1888. 

From  the  begianing,  Methodism  has  borne  testi- 
mony against  tipplinghouses  and  dram-drinking. 
At  an  early  day  our  church  took  advanced  ground 
in  favor  of  total  abstinence,  and  our  preachers  were 
among  the  first  in  the  field  contending  for  the  legal 
suppression  of  the  liquor  traffic.  It  gives  us 
pleasure  to  note  that  indications  abound  that  our 
people  occupy  no  doubtful  position  on  this  subject, 
and  will  hold  no  second  place  in  the  pending 
struggles  for  constitutional  prohibition.  The  liquor 
traffic  is  so  pernicious  in  all  its  bearings,  so  inimical 
to  the  interests  of  honest  trade,  so  repugnant  to  the 
moral  sense,  so  injurious  to  the  peace  and  order  of 
society,  so  hurtful  to  the  homes,  to  the  church  and 
to  the  iQody  politic,  and  so  utterly  antagonistic  to 
all  that  is  precious  in  life,  that  the  only  proper 
attitude  toward  it  for  Christians  is  that  of  relentless 
hostility.  It  can  never  be  legalized  without  sin. 
No  temporary  device  for  regulating  it  can  become 
a  substitute  for  prohibition.  License,  high  or  low, 
is  vicious  in  principle  and  powerless  as  a  remedy. 

THE  discipline. 

The  discussion  of  the  report  of  the  committee  on 
temperance   in   the   late   General   Conference   was 


completed  by  the  passage  of  the  following  resolution 
which  was  ordered  placed  in  the  Discipline  of  1888: 
"We  are  unalterably  opposed  to  the  enactment  of 
laws  that  propose,  by  license  taxing,  or  otherwise, 
to  regulate  the  drink  traffic,  because  they  pro- 
vide for  its  continuance  and  afford  no  pro- 
tection against  its  ravages.  We  hold  that  the 
proper  attitude  of  Christians  toward  the  traffic  is 
one  of  uncompromising  opposition,  and  while  we 
do  not  presume  to  dictate  to  our  people  as  to  their 
political  affiliations,  we  do  express  the  opinion  that 
they  should  not  permit  themselves  to  be  controlled 
by  party  organizations  that  are  managed  in  the 
interests  of  the  liquor  traffic.  We  advise  the 
members  of  our  church  to  aid  in  the  enforcement 
of  such  laws  as  do  not  legalize  or  indorse  the 
manufacture  and  sale  of  intoxicants  to  be  used  as 
beverages;  and  to  this  end  we  must  favor  the 
organization  of  law  and  order  leagues  wherever 
practicable.  We  proclaim  as  our  motto  'Voluntary 
total  abstinence  from  all  intoxicants'  as  the  true 
ground  of  personal  temperance;  and  ocnplete  legal 
prohibition  of  the  traffic  in  intoxicating  drinics  as 
the  duty  of  civil  government." 


ANTI-SALOON  POLITICS. 


There  are  apparently  two  parties  in  this  country, 
the  one  for  and  the  other  against  the  saloon.  That 
the  latter  is  the  larger  and  more  respectable  one  ad- 
mits of  no  doubt.  Its  weakness  and  inefficiency  is 
due  to  the  fact  that  its  members  cannot  harmonize 
upon  any  general  plan  of  action,  and  that  the  fac- 
tions hate  each  other  worse  than  they  despise  the 
saloon.  Prohibition,  anti-saloon,  local  option,  high 
license,  and  limitation  of  the  number  of  saloons, 
each  have  their  advocates  and  champions.  Massa- 
chusetts is  trying  the  last  idea  and  a  bill  has  passed 
the  State  Senate  limiting  saloons  in  Boston  to  one 
for  each  500  of  population,  and  in  the  State  to  one 
for  each  1,000  inhabitants.  This  project  will  com- 
pel the  toper  to  tramp  a  little  farther  for  his  drink, 
but  it  provides  ample  accommodations  for  him  when 
he  gets  there. 

There  is  one  plan  of  license  that  might  be  tried 
probably  with  success.  Why  not  compel  a  man  to 
have  a  license  to  purchase,  as  well  as  the  vender  one 
to  sell,  liquor?  There  is  no  patent  right  in  this  idea, 
and  any  State  not  yet  committed  to  prohibition,  high 
license,  no  license,  local  option,  or  limitation,  is  wel- 
come to  adopt  and  try  it.  It  would  serve  to  confuse 
State  politics  a  little  more,  but  that  may  be  desira- 
ble.—  Chicago  Daily  News. 


BCARB  THBM. 


All  New  Hampshire  liquor-dealers  have  had  a 
scare.  Some  of  them  have  not  only  smelled  the  bat- 
tle afar,  but  have  felt  its  hard  shot  crashing  into 
their  midst.  The  legislature  passed  a  "Nuisance 
Law"  last  year.  Among  public  nuisances  were  liq- 
uor saloons,  or  any  place  for  the  illegal  sale  of  liq- 
uor, also  gambling  dens  and  houses  of  ill-fame. 
Any  twenty  legal  voters  have  the  right  to  bring  in 
a  petition  setting  forth  specified  facts  in  this  law, 
the  county  solicitors  are  enjoined  to  receive  these 
and  prosecute  the  cases,  and  the  Supreme  Court  has 
jurisdiction  in  equity.  This  Nuisance  Law  thus 
made  it  possible  for  any  twenty  righteous  men  to 
make  it  hot  for  a  rumseller,  and  in  Manchester  and 
Concord  the  atmosphere  has  been  very  warm.  New 
Hampshire  is  a  prohibition  State,  but  public  senti- 
ment in  some  localities  has  blocked  the  wheels  of 
the  law.  As  an  illustration,  in  the  beautiful  old 
town  of  Portsmouth,  beer  and  rum  have  rioted  as 
freely  as  if  there  were  no  special  law  against  saloons 
within  a  hundred  miles.  It  looks  as  if  a  day  of 
judgment  was  coming  for  some  folks. — Intelligencer, 


The  liqaor  traffic  is  an  organized  and  law-pro- 
tected nuisance!  The  Supreme  Court  of  the  I'nited 
States  has  decided  that  any  State  has  the  constitu- 
tional right  to  declare  it  a  nuisance. 

The  Grand  Jury  of  Cook  county  in  which  Chicago 
is  included,  two  months  ago  reported  to  the  honora- 
ble Court  that  of  all  the  cases  of  murder  and  man- 
slaught«r  which  they  bad  examined,  the  leading 
cause  of  them  all  (except  one)  came  directly  from 
the  saloons.  With  the  large  number  of  such  hor- 
rors as  there  have  been  lately,  the  people  are  sure 
to  lose  their  last  mite  of  patience  with  any  adminis- 
tration, municipal.  State  or  national,  that  refuses  to 
grapple  with  the  destroyer,  and  deliver  the  in]i)eriled. 
The  dethronement  of  the  demijohn  cannot  be  accom- 
plished in  a  day.  But  something  toward  it  nectis  to 
be  done  every  day,  until  it  is  entirely  done  away. — 
Rev.  Dr.  Withrow  in  the  Advance. 


12 


THE  CHKISTIAN  OYNOSUBE. 


June  7, 1888 


BIBLE  Lesson. 


BTUDIBB  IN  THE  NEW  TESTAMENT. 
LE880N  XII.    Second  Quarter.- June  17. 
SUB  JECT.— The  Great  Commission.— Matt.  28 :  16-20. 
GOLDEN  TEXT.— The  Lord  gave  the  word;  great  was  the 
company  of  those  who  published  It.— Psa.  68: 11. 

I  Oven  tht  BibU  and  read  the  leeton.} 
COMMENTS  ON  THE  LESSON  BY  B.  E.  FLAGQ. 

1.  T7u  Meeting  with  the  Disciples.  YB.  16,  n.  Among 
the  five  hundred  who  assembled  on  this  mountain-top  in 
Galilee  were  all  shades  of  temperament,  all  varieties  of 
spiritual  experience.  It  is  not  strange  that  among  them 
should  be  some  doubting  Thomases,  and  this  recording 
of  the  fact  in  Matthew's  narrative  is  one  of  its  highest 
proofs  of  genuineness.  Doubt  is  not  necessarily  skepti- 
cism, and  aU  "honest  doubt"  is  to  be  respected.  But  the 
people  who  are  fond  of  quoting  Tennyson's  famous 
phrase  usually  forget  the  prime  essential  to  honest  doubt, 
— that  there  should  be  an  honest  man  behind  it — one 
who  will  neither  deceive  himself  nor  others,  who  will 
keep  his  mind  open  to  the  truth  and  stand  ready  to  wel 
come  her,  come  in  what  guise  she  may.  An  honest 
doubter,  unlike  the  mere  skeptic,  no  more  thinks  of  prid- 
ing himself  on  his  doubts  than  he  would  on  a  physical 
infirmity.  One  is  humble;  conscious  of  his  weakness 
and  ignorance;  the  other  is  "is  proud,  knowing  nothing." 
Our  Lord  comes  to  us  now,  not  in  bodily  form,  but  in 
the  persons  of  his  poor,  to  whom  we  can  minister,  or 
of  some  righteous  cause  that  we  can  defend.  Do  not 
let  us  be  doubting  Thomases,  letting  slip  the  opportuni- 
ties which  are  as  the  hem  of  his  garment,  vanishing  for- 
ever if  we  refuse  to  recognize  them  by  an  earnest  hold . 
May  we  rather  join  that  great  host  who  are  battling  for 
truth  against  every  form  of  wrong  and  evil  and  injust- 
ice, and  at  the  head  of  the  line  we  shall  always  see  our 
Captain. 

2.  The  Qround  of  Christian  Courage,  vs.  18.  Ruskin 
says  than  virtue,  traced  to  its  Latin  derivation,  means 
literally  nerve,  vital  courage,  and  that  "the  essential  idea 
of  real  virtue  is  that  of  a  vital  human  strength."  Ruskin  is 
right.  Virtue  is  no  negative  quality;  it  is  a  positive  one. 
No  man  or  woman  is  truly  virtuous  who  is  not  truly 
courageous,  who  would  not  stand  against  the  world,  if 
need  be,  rather  than  giv-e  up  a  principle.  But  how  is 
poor,  weak  human  nature  to  get  this  virtue  or  this  cour- 
age? How  did  the  martyrs  get  it?  How  did  Paul  or 
Luther  or  any  who  have  dared  and  sacrificed  for  Truth's 
sake?  They  served  an  all-powerful  Saviour.  It  is  lack 
of  trust  that  breeds  panic.  Perfect  faith  means  perfect 
courage.  When  we  realize  that  we  serve  One  unto  whom 
all  power  is  given  both  in  heaven  and  in  earth,  neither 
Batan  nor  the  world  can  do  anything  to  disturb  our  peace. 
More  backbone  is  the  great  need  of  Christians.  It  is  the 
mission  of  the  church  to  reform  abuses,  to  put  down 
wrong,  and  always  and  everywhere  to  lift  up  her  voice 
against  iniquity.  Why  are  her  ministers  so  often  "dumb 
dogs?"  Because  they  believe  more  in  the  power  of  man 
to  hurt  than  in  the  power  of  Christ  to  defend.  For  the 
same  reason  men  are  afraid  to  renounce  the  lodge  after 
they  have  been  convinced  of  its  anti-Christian  tenden- 
cies. They  fear  loss  of  reputation  or  injury  to  their 
business;  whereas,  if  they  fully  believed  this  wonderful 
declaration  they  would  be  willing  to  leave  business,  rep- 
utation, even  life  itself,  in  his  hands.  This  is  the  trouble 
with  many  so-called  temperance  men  who  vote  for  high 
license,  because,  they  say,  entire  prohibition  is  impossi- 
ble. If  they  all  believed  with  their  hearts  in  this  omnip- 
otent King  Christ,  they  would  all  unite  at  our  next  Pres- 
idential election  to  bring  in  his  reign  by  electing  a  man 
who  represents  Christian  principle,  instead  of  one  who 
represents  only  political  chicanery.  They  pray,  "Thy 
kingdom  come,"  while  this  lack  of  faith  is  all  the  while 
hindering  and  delaying  that  kingdom. 

3.  The  Divine  Commission,  vs  19,  20.  It  is  natural 
that  the  church  which  believes  this  inspiring  truth  will 
be  a  missionary  church.  She  will  know  neither  color- 
line  nor  caste  line,  nor  will  she  teach  the  commandments 
or  traditions  of  men,  but  the  pure,  unadulterated  Qospel. 
And  in  the  great  conflict  between  light  and  darkness, 
wiih  the  promise  of  our  Lord  to  be  with  us  all  the  days, 
why  should  the  weakest  Christian  fear  for  the  result? 
"To  doubt  would  be  disloyalty, 
To  falter  would  be  sin." 


Beliqiotjs  News. 


FBOM  THB  CENTER  OF  ASIA  MINOS. 


HOPIFCL  MISSIOMARY   WOBK. 


Bro.  Gt.  H.  Gregorian,  a  student  at  Wheaton  and 
Chicago  Theological  Seminary,  who  returned  a  few 
months  since  to  his  native  Armenia  as  a  missionary, 
writes  the  following  interesting  letter: 

YozQAT,  Asia  Minor,  May  1,  1888. 

The  following  lines  I  desire  to  address  to  my 
many  friends  in  America  through  the  Christian 
Cynosure. 

Mt  Deab  Feunds: — To  keep  up  our  acquaintance 
and  gain  interest  and  sympathy  afresh  with  our 
work  and  with  the  missionary  work  at  large,  I  bor- 
row a  few  minutes  from  my  pressing  duties  to  write 
you  a  few  lines. 

Starting  from  Boston  on  Jan.  5th  across  the  At- 
lantic, through  England  and  France,  then  sailing 
from  Marseilles  to  Constantinople,  my  traveling  has 
been  both  safe  and  pleasant.  The  rest  of  the  jour- 
ney, though  hindered  a  little  on  account  of  winter, 
WAS  also  pleasant.  After  paying  a  short  visit  to  my 
home,  I  am  already  at  Yozgat  at  my  work. 

This  work  is  hopeful,  having  already  signs  of 
progress  and  promise  of  greater  things  for  the  fu- 
ture. The  people  received  me  cordially.  They 
crowd  into  our  meetings  to  listen  to  the  words  of 
life  with  almost  breathless  interest,  preaching  fall- 
ing on  them  like  rain  on  a  parched  ground.  We 
have  two  prayer-meetings  during  the  week  which 
meet  with  sun-rise.  The  people  attend  these  meet- 
ings in  great  numbers  and  take  part  in  the  services. 
The  interest  is  such,  that  not  a  minute  during  the 
whole  hour  is  lost    All  run  like  a  continuous  flow. 

I  am  much  pleased  with  our  friends  outside,  who 
sympathize  with  us,  especially  in  our  school  enter- 
prise. There  are  many  outside  of  our  church  and 
congregation  that  know  and  respect  the  truth,  and 
glory  in  its  triumph.  Of  this  class,  I  met  the  most 
interesting  one  last  Sabbath.  He  is  an  intelligent 
Turkish  teacher,  from  a  noble  family.  He  both  has 
learned  the  truth  respecting  Christ  and  his  salva- 
tion, and  earnestly  seeks  for  further  light.  As  I 
spoke  to  him  about  Christ  being  our  only  righteous- 
ness, at  the  conviction  his  eyes  looked  brighter, 
and  I  felt  the  thrill  of  his  heart,  as  he  shook  my 
hand  warmly. 

Our  school-work  is  most  encouraging.  It  is  ap- 
proved by  the  annual  meeting  of  the  ministers  and 
missionaries  to  have  a  high  school  opened  at  Yoz- 
gat, the  expenses  to  be  paid  half  and  half  from 
Board  and  people.  We  have  already  the  assurance 
given  to  us  from  both  sources  to  supply  the  neces- 
sary needs  for  starting  the  school  and  am  now  mak- 
ing preparations  for  the  work.  The  number  of  stu- 
dents has  increased  from  30  to  80  since  the  coming 
of  our  new  teacher,  and  we  hope  for  an  increase  in 
future  even  in  greater  proportions. 

The  work  is  hopeful,  and  the  harvest  is  ripe  in  all 
directions,  but  our  enemy  is  in  our  own  midst.  So 
long  neglect  of  the  work,  the  contentions  of  some 
wicked  ones  in  the  church  has  injured  the  work  and 
its  influence  to  the  outsiders.  And  now  I  hear  that 
the  brother,  who  tried  to  bewitch  the  brethren,  is 
coming  this  spring.  His  coming  may  prove  a  dam- 
age to  the  work  on  account  of  the  ignorance  of  the 
people  in  regard  to  the  different  denominations;  and 
especially,  the  disposition  of  the  man  and  his  friends 
to  raise  strife  and  contentions  in  the  church:  thus 
giving  a  chance  to  our  adversary  to  have  an  advan- 
tage over  us.  The  wounds  that  our  Lord  receives 
from  his  own  people  are  often  most  painful.  Breth- 
ren, pray  for  me  and  for  the  work  of  the  Master  at 
this  place. 

It  will  be  refreshing  to  hear  from  my  friends, 
sealing  their  interest  and  sympathy  with  their  occa- 
sional letters.    Yours  sincerely,   G.  H.  Gbeoorian. 

Address  Yozgat,  Asia  Minor,  via  Constantinople. 


— The  German  Evangelical  Lutheran  Synod  of 
Ohio,  Indiana,  Kentucky,  Illinois,  Wisconsin. Michi- 
gan, Minnesota,  Iowa,  Missouri,  Nebraska,  Kansas, 
and  Dakota  met  at  Madison,  Wis.,  Thursday  in  tri 
ennial  general  conference  for  a  week's  session. 


— The  Methodist  General  Conference  closed  its 
sessions  Thursday  at  New  York.  The  bishops  were 
empowered  to  appoint  any  commissions  not  provid- 
ed for.  Japan  was  empowered  to  organize  a  church 
of  its  own,  and  a  resolution  appointing  a  commis- 
sion to  prepare  a  plan  for  insurance  of  church  prop- 
erty was  passed. 

— William  Taylor  is  no  longer  alone  in  the  enjoy- 
ment of  the  distinction  of  being  a  missionary  bishop 
of  the  Methodist  Episcopal  church.  The  General 
Conference  has  elected  Dr.  James  Mills  Thoburn 
missionary  bishop,  for  India  and  Malasia.  He  was 
23  years  old  when  sent  to  India  as  a  missionary. 
When  elected  bishop  Dr.  Thoburn  was  a  Presiding 
Elder  of  the  Bengal  Conference.  He  has  been  in 
the  United  States  some  months  busily  preaching  and 


preparing  for  the  conference  which  sends  him  back 
to  India  with  an  increase  of  labor  and  responsibili- 
ty. One  pleasing  fact  in  relation  to  his  election  is 
his  long  intimacy  and  co-operation  in  India  with 
William  Taylor,  the  other  missionary  bishop. 

— Rev.  S.  P.  Halliday,  for  twenty-two  years  pas- 
toral helper  of  Henry  Ward  Beecher,  has  resigned. 
The  deacons  of  Plymouth  church  will  probably  pen- 
sion the  superannuated  preacher. 

— A  resolution  was  unanimously  adopted  at  the 
meeting  yesterday  of  the  Congregationalists'  State 
Association,  at  Evanston,  censuring  Secretary  Vilas' 
methods  in  conducting  the  Indian  office. 

— The  Reformed  Presbyterian  Synod  meeting  at 
Allegheny  City  elected  Rev.  Dr.  J.  W.  SprouU  mod- 
erator. The  forenoon  of  Thursday  was  consumed 
by  a  discussion  of  the  report  of  the  committee  on 
union  with  the  United  Presbyterian  church.  The  de- 
cision was  unanimous  on  the  point  that  the  church 
cannot  unite  with  the  United  Presbyterian  church. 
In  the  afternoon  the  regular  order  of  business  was 
the  hearing  of  reports  of  national  reform  and  secret 
societies. 

— The  greatest  and  most  successful  revival  move- 
ment ever  known  in  the  Northwest,  says  the  Inde- 
pendent, has  just  been  concluded  in  St.  Paul.  Minn., 
after  a  month's  vigorous  work.  Six  Presbyterian, 
six  Methodist,  four  Baptist,  four  Congregational 
and  two  Evangelical  Association  churches  were 
united  in  the  movement,  under  the  direction  of 
Messrs.  Munhall  and  Towner.  Fully  2,000  persons 
publicly  confessed  conversion;  of  these  1,363  gave 
in  their  names  and  declared  their  church  preferences, 
370  were  for  the  Methodist  Episcopal;  356,  Presby- 
terian; 176,  Baptist;  103,  Congregational;  82, 
Lutheran;  53,  Episcopal;  40,  Catholic;  58,  Evangel- 
ical Association;  35,  miscellaneous;  and  70,  none  in 
particular. 

— The  McAU  meetings  in  Paris  have  a  total  at- 
tendance of  about  43,000.  The  American  McAU 
Association  raised  the  past  year  nearly  $39,000  for 
the  work. 

— There  is  in  China  on  every  hand  a  growing  and 
marked  willingness  to  hear  and  to  assent  to  the 
truth  of  Christ.  This  is  evidence  that  the  good  les- 
son is  pervading  the  people,  and  that  in  due  time 
multitudes  of  them  will  accept  the  Gospel.  Although 
all  Japan  seems  turning  toward  Christianity,  yet  it 
is  interesting  to  see  that  such  is  the  vastness  of  the 
field,  and  the  great  number  of  mission  stations  and 
out-stations  in  the  Chinese  Empire,  that  the  slow  in- 
crements of  China,  still  equal  or  even  exceed  the 
rapid  ones  of  Japan,  the  yearly  accessions  here  be- 
ing a  little  in  advance  of  theirs.  The  whole  number 
of  communicants  in  China  is  now  over  32,000  while 
those  in  Japan  are  over  19,000.  In  each  country 
over  four  thousand  were  added  during  1887. 

— The  American  Tract  Society,  at  its  last  anniver- 
sary, reported  a  year  of  successful  work.  A  hundred 
and  ninety-four  colporteurs  were  employed. 

— Rev.  C.  Purington,  of  Irving  Park,  III,  has  a 
new  plan  for  Christian  union.  Denominations,  he 
says,  will  not  give  up  their  organization  to  unite 
with  other  bodies,  but  it  is  possible,  he  thinks,  to 
overcome  the  difficulty  by  instituting  an  organic 
Christian  fellowship.  This  would  interfere  with  no 
honorable  Christian's  privilege.  The  growth  of  or- 
ganic Christian  fellowship  would  ultimately  over- 
power denominational  barriers.  Mr.  Purington  has 
prepared  a  form  of  constitution  for  Christian  fellow- 
ships. 

— Dr.  Donald  Frazer  says  there  are  more  Presby- 
terian congregations  in  France  than  in  Ireland,  and 
more  in  Wales  than  in  either.  There  are  1,500  in 
the  Netherlands,  2,000  in  Hungary,  while  the  church 
is  well  represented  in  Belgium,  Bohemia,  Moravia, 
Spain,  Ittdy  and  Switzerland.  The  principal  Dutch 
church  at  the  Cape  of  Good  Hope  is  Presbyterian, 
and  in  Australia  and  New  Zealand,  in  Persia,  India, 
China,  Japan,  and  the  New  Hebrides,  there  are  either 
Presbyterian  churches  or  Presbyterian  missions; 
while  in  the  United  States  and  Canada  there  are  13,- 
000  congregations  connected  with  the  church. 

— The  American  Bible  Society  received  $557,340 
last  year  and  paid  out  $506,453.  In  the  seventy-two 
years  of  its  history  49,829,563  issues  have  been 
made,  and  during  the  last  year  more  than  half  a 
million  volumes  of  Scripture  were  distributed  in 
foreign  lands  and  427,346  destitute  families  were 
supplied.  In  South  America  the  Society  was  espec- 
ially successful  last  year.  Two  new  Bible  centers 
have  been  established  there.  To  meet  expenses  in- 
curred in  translating,  publishing  and  distributing 
the  Scriptures  in  foreign  lands  $143  570.58  was  paid 
to  the  Secretary's  corresponded s  and  agents,  and 
$39,707  was  received  from  foreign  lands. 


June  7, 1888 


THE  CHEISTIAN  CYNOSUEE. 


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DONATIONS 


To  Cynosure  Ministers'  Fund: 

J.  Phillips  $  3.50 

W.H.  Fischer 5.00 

A.  Austin 4 .  50 

W.  Sutor 1.00 

H.  Siemiller 1.00 

Geo.  Clark 5.00 

F.W.Capwell 25.00 

Previously  reported $1088 .  40 

Total $1133.40 

To  N.  O.  A.  Foreign  Fund: 

A.Austin $4.00 

A  friend  (Wheaton) 1 .00 


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The  following  have  made  remittances 
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June  2  inclusive: 

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KeUum.  M  L  Halsted,  J  B  Crall,  W  Su- 
tor, J  Smith,  A  Austin,  W  N  Wilson,  Rev 
I  Faris,  S  H  Fake,  W  Mosher,  H  8  Cur- 
tis, A  M  Paull,  A  M  Beaty,  Mrs  N  R 
Weede,  H  Bosch,  G  J  Nykerk,  R  W  Ly- 
man, J  F  Breen,  D  E  Walker,  E  Hub- 
bard, R  Day,  J  D  Frick,  J  A  Bogle,  Rev 
J  C  Cb  avers,  Mrs  S  McEee,  H  Siemiller, 
W  F  Haughawout.E  Barnetson,  8  C  Tay- 
lor, D  A  Kneeland,  H  M  Wagar,  S  M 
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Winter  No  a 88  @      88>| 

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Hides— Green  to  dry  flint 05>^@     13 

Lumber— Common 1100  @18  00 

Wool 13  ®     37 

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author  contributed  his  mite  In  that  direction,  and  hli 
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Jttne  7, 1888 


Taem  Notes. 

CUKKAHTS    AND    G00SEBERKIB8 . 

It  18  surprising  that  these  fruits  are  not 
more  generally  cultivated  for  market;  the 
currant,  especially,  finding  ready  sale  at 
good  prices.  They  are  easily  raised, 
thriving  in  every  kind  of  soil,  even  heavy 
clay,  and  the  only  important  enemy  is 
the  currant  worm,  which,  however,  may 
be  easily  destroyed.  Quite  likely  their 
lack  of  popularity  on  our  fruit  farms  is 
partly  owing  to  the  method  of  their  cul- 
tivation, which  is  commonly  of  the  "slip- 
shod" variety.  No  other  fruits  wUl  bear 
snubbing  and  neglect  with  more  obliging 
good-nature  than  these,  yet  none  will 
respond  to  proper  treatment  with  greater 
promptness  and  generosity.  They  should 
be  cultivated,  pruned,  thinned  out,  en- 
riched, mulched,  and  cared  for  generally, 
to  insure  the  same  satisfactory  results  de- 
manded of  other  fruits;  and  thus  treated, 
are  found  to  pay  quite  as  well,  often  bet- 
ter than  they. 

The  most  favorable  conditions  for  their 
culture  are  moist,  loamy,  rich  soil,  the 
richer  the  better,  and  free  exposure  to 
sunlight,  although  they  succeed  very 
well  in  the  partial  shade  of  houses,  fences, 
etc. 

One  method  of  propagation  is  by  cut- 
tings, six  to  ten  inches  long,  taken  from 
wood  of  the  previous  season's  growth. 
These  should  be  planted  down  to  the 
terminal  bud,  and  if  the  single  stem  sys- 
tem of  growth  is  desired,  all  the  buds 
below  this  should  be  removed. 

Press  the  earth  firmly  around  the 
plants,  and  apply  a  mulch  of  coarse  litter. 
This  should  be  done  in  the  spring,  and 
by  fall  the  plants  will  be  well  rooted. 
Gooseberries,  however,  are  best  propa- 
gated by  layering  the  young  wood  just 
after  the  young  fruit  is  gathered.  By 
spring  this  will  be  sufficiently  rooted  to 
transplant. 

Bushes  trained  according  to  the  single- 
stem  or  tree  system,  have  the  advantage 
of  beauty,  of  producing  large,  fine  fruit, 
and  are  more  conveniently  managed  than 
when  trained  by  the  old  "brush"  method. 

The  only  objection  to  this  plan  is  that 
the  grub  may  get  into  the  single  stem 
and  destroy  it.  On  this  account  some 
growers  prefer  to  leave  two  or  three  stems 
and  thus  diminish  the  -  chances  of  loss. 
But  if  the  plants  are  carefully  watched, 
and  worked  around  often,  and  salt  and 
ashes  applied  near  the  stem,  the  grub  will 
not  be  likely  to  injure  them. 

To  train  bushes  into  the  tree  form,  the 
stem  should  be  six  or  eight  inches  high, 
and  three  of  the  most  favorably  located 
branches  selected  to  form  the  top — all  the 
others  being  cut  out.  These  branches 
are  cut  back  to  two  or  three  buds  and  only 
one  shoot  on  each  branch  is  permitted  to 
grow  if  the  plant  is  to  be  transplanted  in 
the  fall;  otherwise  two  may  remain. 

At  the  next  pruning  these  branches  are 
cut  back  to  three  or  four  buds  and  two 
shoots  are  allowed  to  grow  from  each. 
This  leaves,  at  the  end  of  the  season,  six 
stout  shoots  situated  at  equal  distances 
apart.  At  the  third  pruning  these  should 
be  cut  off  about  one-half,  to  produce  lat- 
eral branches  and  fruit  spurs.  At  the 
fourth  pruning  the  leading  shoot  is  short- 
ened one-third  or  more. 

Of  the  lateral  branches,  those  not  re- 
quired to  make  the  bush  symmetrical 
should  be  cut  back  to  three  or  four  buds 
to  form  fruit  branches  It  should  be  re- 
membered that  the  fruit  is  produced  only 
on  wood  two  or  more  years  old,  and, 
therefore,  the  new  growth  should  be  cut 
back  in  this  manner  from  year  to  year. 
Also  any  old  canes  that  show  signs  of 
failing  should  be  promptly  removed. 

This  melhod  of  pruning  insures  large 
bushes,  strong  growth  in  the  fruiting  part, 
large  berries  and  rank  foliage  which  is 
retained  till  frost,  and  which  prevents 
the  fruit  from  sun-scalding.  The  vitality 
of  the  bush  is  thus  maintained  for  many 
years,  and  regular  bearing  may  be  count- 
ed on,  unless  from  too  close  pruning  it 
has  grown  too  much  to  wood;  in  which 
case  pruning  may  be  omitted  for  a  year. 
However,  this  method  of  pruning  cur- 
rants applies  only  to  the  red  and  white 
varieties,  as  the  black  currant  is  pro- 
duced on  wood  of  the  previous  season's 
growth,  thus  requiring  the  young  wood 
to  be  preserved,  and  the  older  branches 
to  be  cut  back  so  as  to  produce  new  bear- 
ing wood. 

Pruning  may  be  done  in  late  fall  or 
winter,  or  even  in  spring  if  attended  to 
before  growth  commences. 

Currants  and  e'^oseberries  are  gross 
feeders  and  require  an  annual  dressing  of 


well-decomposed  manure.  This  should 
be  three  or  four  inches  deep,  extend  as 
far  as  the  roots  go,  and  be  carefully 
worked  in  with  a  digging  fork.  The  two 
fruits  are  closely  related,  botanically,  and 
in  most  respects  require  the  same  treat- 
ment. 

The  currant  worm  infests  both— ap- 
pearing first  in  the  middle  of  the  bush — 
and  may  be  destroyed  by  mixing  a  spoon- 
ful of  powdered  white  hellebore  (a  pois- 
on) in  a  pailful  of  water  and  showering 
the  bushes  with  it,  or  it  may  be  applied 
dry  when  the  bushes  are  damp  from  rain 
or  dew.  A  spoonful  of  kerosene  in  a 
gallon  of  soapsuds  is  another  remedy. 
Wood  ashes  or  soot  will  also  destroy 
them.  Still  another  method  is  to  mix  an 
ounce  of  crude  carbolic  acid  in  half  a 
pailful  of  warm  soapsuds.  Skim  milk  or 
brine  are  also  used  with  good  effect;  but 
care  should  be  taken  not  to  apply  the  saltt^ 
or  carbolic  acid  mixtures  too  strong  or 
too  often,  and  not  to  use  poisonous  rem- 
edies after  the  fruit  begins  to  ripen  or 
has  attained  large  size.  Mildew  is  very 
prone  to  affect  gooseberries,  especially 
the  foreign  kinds;  but  a  mulch  of  coal 
ashes  tends  to  prevent  this.  However,  the 
great  point  to  be  observed  in  avoiding 
mildew  is  to  keep  the  plants  in  a  vigorous, 
healthy  condition  If  the  disease  does 
appear  the  crop  can  sometimes  be  saved 
by  sprinkling  salt  about  the  roots  and 
slacked  lime  or  sulphur  on  the  bushes. 
Old  currant  bushes  that  have  suffered 
from  neglect,  may  be  revived  by  cutting 
out  much  of  the  old  wood  and  thoroughly 
digging  up  and  enriching  the  soil,  or,  the 
bushes  may  be  taken  up,  cut  back  se- 
verely, and  the  roots  divided  to  trans- 
plant in  new  soil.  In  both  cases,  scatter 
a  handful  of  salt  around  the  bushes  and 
mulch  with  coal  ashes. — Independent, 


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.luNi  7, 1888 


NPWS  OF  THE  "WEEK, 

WASHINGTON. 

The  debate  upon  the  fishery  treaty  in 
open  session  in  the  Ssnate  begun  Tues- 
day last.  It  is  the  announced  purpose  of 
the  Democrats  to  postpone  the  consider- 
ation of  the  treaty  until  next  winter. 
The  Republican  policy  is  to  discuss  the 
fishery  treaty  until  it  shall  be  disposed 
of,  and  to  permit  no  change  or  amend- 
ment to  it  whatever.  To  adopt  an  amend- 
ment would  make  a  postponement  neces- 
Bary. 

The  House  Committee  on  Military  Af- 
fairs has  ordered  a  favorable  report  on 
the  bill  appropriating  $25,000  to  defray 
the  expenses  of  the  Gettysburg  anniver- 
sary in  July. 

The  illness  of  General  Sheridan,  which 
seemed  to  be  broken  at  one  time  last 
week,  has  resumed  its  course,  and  on 
Monday  all  hope  was  given  up,  and  it 
was  hardly  thought  he  would  live  till 
morning. 

CHICAGO. 

Judge  Magruder  was  re  elected  to  the 
State  Supreme  Court  bench  Monday,  with 
no  opposition  worth  counting.  It  was 
feared  that  the  anarchist  element  would 
rally  and  give  its  support  to  a  man  in 
sympathy  with  themselves,  and  thus  se- 
cure a  footing  in  the  highest  court  of  the 
State. 

A  young  man  named  Colbert,  two 
weeks  married,  shot  his  young  bride 
through  the  heart  while  fooling  with  a 
revolver. 

There  is  much  dissatisfaction  with 
Chief  Arthur  among  the  men  who  struck 
on  the  Burlington  road  three  months  ago . 

The  City  Council  is  still  under  control 
of  the  whisky  ring.  Last  week  Monday 
the  anti-saloon  forces  rallied  again  and  a 
restrictive  ordinance  was  passed  as  to  the 
location  of  saloons.  It  does  not  apply 
to  saloons  now  located,  but  prohibits  the 
location  in  the  future  of  saloons  within 
200  feet  of  a  church  or  school-house. 
This  will  not  be  satisfactory  to  the  peo- 
ple, but  it  indicates  on  the  part  of  the 
Council  some  respect  for  aroused  public 
opinion. 

The  new  auditorium  building  is  nearly 
ready  for  the  Republican  convention.  It 
is  fire  proof  and  will  hold  8,000  people. 

STORMS. 

Fatalities  and  disasters  from  rain,  wind 
and  hail-storms  on  the  27th  and  28th  ult. 
are  reported  from  various  parts  of  the 
country.  Near  New  Orleans,  La.,  Sun- 
day evening,  a  tent  in  which  a  dozen 
people  had  taken  refuge  from  the  rain 
was  struck  by  lightning  and  one  man 
killed  and  ten  inj  ured,  one  of  them  mor- 
tally. Near  Beatrice,  Neb.,  two  children, 
who  with  their  mother  were  trying  to  es- 
cape a  threatened  rise  of  the  stream  on 
which  they  lived,  fell  into  a  gully  while 
going  to  higher  ground  in  the  dark  and 
were  drowned,  and  three  children  who 
were  swept  away  by  the  swollen  flood  of 
Solomon  Creek  in  Kansas  were  also 
drowned.  Great  damage  was  done  by 
hail  and  lightning  in  various  parts  of 
Kansas  and  at  Des  M)ines,  Iowa.  At 
Canton,  Ohio,  buildings  were  blow  down 
by  the  high  wind,  and  losses  amounting 
to  $70  000  caused.  The  heavy  rains  have 
flooded  farm  lands  and  done  great  dam- 
age to  crops  in  many  parts  of  Illinois, 
Wisconsin  and  Indiana. 

A  terrific  thunder-storm,  accompanied 
by  high  winds  and  hail,  passed  over  West- 
ern Pennsylvania  Monday  evening,  doing 
great  damage.  Churches,  public  build- 
ings and  dwellings  were  unroofed,  trees 
uprooted  and  fences  and  barns  blown 
down.  A  number  of  persons  were  in- 
j  ured,  but  so  far  as  could  be  learned  there 
were  no  fatalities. 

Twenty  business  blocks  were  un- 
roofed by  a  cyclone  which  struck 
Wellisville,  N.  Y.,  Monday  afternoon. 
The  Baptist  church,  a  fine  brick  struture, 
was  badly  injured.  The  church  and  sev- 
eral buildings  were  wrecked  atAllentown, 
N.  Y.,  and  many  oil  derricks  in  the  Alle- 
ghany field  were  blown  down. 

At  Canton,  Ohio,  one  of  the  big  build- 
ings of  the  Dueber  Watch  Company, 
which  had  j  ust  been  completed,  was  blown 
down.  The  structure,  which  was  of 
brick,  230  feet  long,  30  feet  wide  and 
three  stories  in  height,  was  completely 
wrecked,  entailing  a  loss  of  $50,000. 
Other  buildings  were  unroofed,  fences 
blown  down  and  trees  snapped  off  like 


pipe-stems.    It  was  the  worst  storm  ever 
known  in  Canton. 

COUNTRY. 

The  Supreme  Court  of  Kansas  Tues- 
day rendered  a  decision  declaring  invalid 
an  ordinance  passed  recently  by  the  City 
Council  of  Topeka,  forbidding  the  sale 
on  Sundy  of  anything  besides  drugs  and 
medicines.  Several  cigar-keepers  and 
restaurateurs  had  been  arrested  under  the 
ordinance  and  had  appealed  the  case. 

The  melter  of  the  Helena  mint  reports 
that  Montana's  output  of  gold  and  silver 
for  1887  was  nearly  $24,000,000. 

The  Democratic  Nominating  Conven- 
tion meets  in  St.  Louis  this  week.  No 
opposition  is  made  to  Cleveland  for  first 
place  on  the  ticket. 

The  Supreme  Court  of  North  Carolina 
has  handed  down  an  opinion  declaring 
that  a  woman  who  has  murdered  her  hus- 
band is  entitled  to  a  widow's  share  of  his 
property. 

Dr.  A  L.  Chapin,  ex  president  of  Beloit 
College,  aged  73,  suffered  a  paralytic 
stroke  Thursday  evening  while  leading 
college  prayers,  which  it  was  at  first 
feared  would  result  fatally,  but  he  re- 
gained consciousness  Friday  and  showed 
signs  of  recovery. 

It  has  been  made  plain  that  some  time 
ago  the  house  of  the  Hon.  James  G. 
Blaine,  at  Augusta,  Me.,  was  entered, 
and  his  private  papers  overhauled,  and 
some  of  them  carried  off.  It  is  supposed 
that  the  robber  expected  to  find  some  doc- 
uments that  could,  if  necessary,  be  used 
for  the  political  injury  of  Mr.  Blaine. 

At  Wyandotte,  Mich.,  early  Friday 
morning,  the  boiler  in  the  plate  mill  of 
the  Eureka  Iron  and  Steel  Works  ex- 
ploded, wrecking  the  entire  building  at 
a  loss  of  $10,000,  killing  three  employes 
and  seriously  injuring  a  number. 

Cut  worms  are  reported  by  Professor 
Forbes,  State  Entomologist,  to  be  more 
numerous  in  Illinois  this  year  than  for 
many  years,  and  he  also  reports  the  root 
web  worm  to  be  doing  an  immense 
amount  of  damage  in  certain  sections  of 
the  State. 

Instructions  have  been  issued  to  all  the 
division  superintendents  of  the  Pennsyl- 
vania railroad  on  the  lines  east  of  Pitts- 
burgh and  Erie  to  discharge  all  employes 
whose  services  can  be  dispensed  with. 
About  5,000  men  will  be  discharged. 

At  Sharon,  Pa.,  Wednesday  night, 
Samuel  Clark,  waking  up  at  midnight 
from  a  drunken  sleep,  missed  his  wife 
and  went  to  the  house  of  his  brother, 
James  Clark,  broke  in  the  door,  and  see- 
ing his  wife  sitting  at  the  fire  drew  a  re- 
volver and  shot  at  her,  the  bullet  hitting 
Mrs.  James  Clark  instead,  killing  her  al- 
most instantly. 

While  the  Mississippi  river  steamerlver- 
ness,  owned  by  the  McDonald  Brothers, 
of  LaCrosse,  Wis.,  was  towing  a  raft  to 
Hannibal,  Mo.,  the  two  lower  fiues  col- 
lapsed, and  ten  men  were  blown  over- 
board, or  j  umped  into  the  water  to  es- 
cape the  deluge  of  steam.  Five  of  them 
were  downed. 

Erastus  Snow,  one  of  the  twelve  ap  os- 
tles  of  the  Mormon  church,  died  May  27, 
aged  70.  He  was  among  the  earliest  con- 
verts to  Smith,  and  very  soon  became  one 
of  the  leading  men: 

At  Cincinnati.  Ohio,  Judge  Taft,  of 
the  Superior  Court,  decided  that  boycot- 
ting was  illegal. 

Information  from  Evansville,  Indiana, 
states  that  the  "White  Caps"  have  made 
proclamation  against  certain  offenses  and 
offenders,  from  50  to  250  lashes  being 
duly  fixed  as  punishment  to  be  infiicted. 
Editors  have  been  commanded  to  pub- 
lish the  document. 

In  Kickapoo,  Wis  ,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Reu- 
ben Drake,  an  old  couple,  were  shot  dead 
in  their  own  house,  and  the  throats  of 
their  two  little  grandchildren  were  cut 
from  ear  to  ear.  Everything  was  turned 
upside  down  inside  the  house,  and  it  is 
supposed  that  the  murder  was  the  result 
of  an  attempt  at  robbery.  A  young  man, 
owner  of  a  neighboring  farm,  was  ar- 
rested and  confessed  the  crime.  He  was 
lynched  by  the  exasperated  people. 

FOBBIGN. 

A  dispatch  from  Zanzibar  states  that 
messengers  have  arrived  there.  They  re- 
ported that  Stanley  and  all  his  parly 
were  well  and  had  a  plentiful  supply  of 
food. 

The  city  of  Samarcand  was  the  scene  of 
great  rej  oicing  last  week  over  the  open- 


ing of  the  new  railway  to  the  Caspian 
Sea. 

It  is  understood  that  a  number  of  Irish 
priests,  who  have  recently  attended  league 
meetings,  have  been  reprimanded  by  the 
pope. 

The  amount  expended  up  to  date  on 
the  Panama  Canal  is  $177,910,000,  and 
it  is  estimated  that  it  will  require  $380,- 
000,000  and  four  years  more  labor  for  its 
completion. 

After  signing  his  name  to  the  quin- 
quennial bill  prolonging  the  term  of  the 
Prussian  Parliament,  the  German  Empe- 
ror, says  the  Inter  Ocean  report,  withdrew 
his  signature  Prince  Bismarck  and  the 
Ministry,  at  their  sitting,  resolved  to  re- 
sign unless  the  bill  was  signed  and  pub- 
lished. As  soon  as  the  Emperor  was  as- 
sured of  the  prolongation  of  his  life  the 
hostile  influences  to  Prince  Bismarck 
have  been  renewed.  The  conflict  between 
the  liberal  tendencies  of  the  Emperor 
and  the  Chancellor's  policy  now  threaten 
to  end  in  open  rupture.  The  E  uperor  is 
swayed  by  the  Empress  Bismarck  had 
warning  of  the  storm  in  a  recent  com- 
munication from  the  Emperor.  In  two 
long  interviews  Bismarck  found  the  Em- 
peror anxious  for  a  reconstruction  of  the 
Ministry,  and  also  opposed  to  the  quin- 
quennial bill.  Under  the  advice  of  Dr. 
Friedberg  the  Emperor  signed  the  bill,  at 
the  same  time  informing  Bismarck  that 
he  hoped  the  concession  would  be  fol- 
lowed by  reform  in  the  Ministry.  The 
Emperor  postponed  the  promulgation  of 
the  bill,  and  on  Bismarck  and  his  associ- 
ate Ministers  consulting  concerning  the 
crisis,  it  was  rumored  that  the  Emperor 
had  withdrawn  his  signature.  The  Pro- 
gressists rejoice  at  the  advent  of  a  Lib- 
eral regime.  Until  a  further  consulta- 
tion between  the  Emperor  and  Bismarck 
the  issue  is  doubtful,  but  the  situation  is 
grave  enough  to  cause  profound  uneasi- 
ness. The  Emperor's  fever  has  returned, 
probably  owing  to  the  fatigue  incidental 
to  the  ministerial  crisis. 

DAVENPORT  BUSINESS  COLLEGE 

Complete  In  all  departments.  Address  J.  C. 
DUNCAN,  Uavenporl,  loira. 

FLY   KILLER. 

Butcher's  Is  the  only  reliable,  Powerful  Killer. 
Certain  death.  Quick  work.  Commence  early,  kill 
off  the  young,  prevent  reproduction,  and  enjoy  calm 
repose. 

T?n"R  C  AT  17  -A-TWHEATON,  NEARCOL- 
J:\jr\i  kJxXj-iCi  lege,  a  good  eight-room, two- 
srory  house,  200-foot  lot,  oarn,  and  one  acre.  Price 
$2,500.  Would  take  part  cash  and  part  other  clear 
property.  Address  A.  B.  COX,  care  Cynosure  Office, 
Chicago,  111. 


GO  WEST. 


18,000,000  acres  of  the  Mon- 
tana Indian  Keservation  just 
opened  for  settlement  near 
Great  Falls,  Ft.  Benton,  Assinniljoine  and  Glasgow, 
consistingof  rich  mineral  and  coal  districts,  grazing 
and  farm  lands  of  the  very  highest  quality.  The  op- 
Iioi-tunitlee  for  making  money  here  are  greater  tlian 
anywhere  else  in  i  he  United  Siates.  This  is  the  time 
to  go  and  secure  your  location.  For  rates.  Maps,  or 
other  Information,  Address  C.  H.  Wabrkn,  Gen.  Pass. 
Agent,  St.  P.,  M.  &  M.  By.,  St.  Paul,  Minn. 


CONSERVATORY  OF  MUSIC 
Wheaton  College,  ill. 

Thorough  Instruction  In  voice,  plane, violin, 
organ  and  harmony.    Tuition  very  low.    Two 
lesBons  a  week  per  term  $15.    One  lessDn  a' 
week  per  term  $9. 

PROF.  R.  A.  HARRIS,  Director. 


tt      ,'.   Sold  bt  all  Dru«rfi3t-s,    ,, 
Xtnd   <c»    book  ,'To  Mot„crS*  maUtJ  f i 


THE  YOUNG  PEOPLE'S  WORLD. 

A  bright,  Tiporous,  ontcrtnining  nnd  instructive  monthly  mim- 

azlno  for  tho  yoiinK-     Kinboilies  adventures,  travels,  biographies, 

hiitory,  science,  philosuphy,  religion,  stories  and  current  events. 

WHAT    the    PRESS    SAYS    of   IT. 

Tmt  CiiitsTiAM  Cvkosurk:  '  *  "Intended  to  instruct  rather 
than  amuse,  and  to  alrenRthcn  chnraclcr  rather  thnn  pa^K  the 
time.  *  *  'There  is  a  place  for  tbix  magazipe,  and  we  hope  it 
\\-ill  fill  it  and  be  well  sustained."  Kvakoelical  Messf.m)>:r:  "It 
It  roftlly  a  lumt  ontert&inln^  aiul  initructtvo  journal,  nicely  illus- 
trated. We  ore  well  pleased  with  lt«  contents,"  Kuvthwiwtkun 
Mktiioout  "Wo  have  not  seen  another  maKazlne  Jiut  of  thiN 
clo-sa.  It  is  for  Christian  homes  and  ChriHtinn  cbildren.  It  is 
filled  with  deliKhtfuI  sUiries,  not  fiction  but  foct.H,  cnlculntetl  fo 
Innpire  n  lliir^t  for  real  knowledge.  It  is  well  illustrated,  With 
the  numl>cr  lH>fore  us  wo  arc  well  pleased."  CfiRisriAN  Hau- 
VKwTsa:  "Instructive  and  cntertaing,  but  devoid  of  the  trash  of 
fiction."  SAMTbK  rUKE.  AoncTR  WAimto  on  IiliernI,  cavh  coin* 
tDiwioo.    T.  U.  ARNOLD,  104  A  lUO  Franklin  8t.,  Chicago,  Ul. 


POWDER 

Absolutely  Pure. 

This  powder  never  varies.  A  marvel  of  purity, 
strength  and  wholesomeness.  More  economical  than 
the  ordinary  kinds,  and  cannot  he  sold  In  competi- 
tion with  the  multitude  of  low  test,  short  weight, 
alum  or  phosphate  powders.  Sold  onlyln  cans. 
KoTAL  Baking  Powde'k  Co.,  106  Wall-st.,  N.  T 


•I7/^T>  C  A  1  1?  House  and  Lot  In  Wl 
run  OAJLJi.  111.  Any  one  wishing 
chase  should  write  to  W.  I.  PHILLIPS,  of 
"Christian  Cynosure,"  Chicago,  111. 


Wheaton 

to  pur- 

offlce  of 


WHEATON  COLLEGE. 

BUSINESS  EDUCATION,  MUSIC  AND  ART 
FULI-  COLI.EGE  COURSES. 

Address  G.  A.  BLANCHABD,  Fres. 


I  CURE  FITS! 

When  1  say  cure  I  do  not  mean  merely  to  stop  them 
for  a  time  and  then  have  them  return  again.  1  mean  a 
radical  cure.  I  have  made  the  disease  of  FITS,  EPIL- 
EPSY or  FALLING  SICKNESS  a  life-long  study.  1 
warrant  my  remedy  to  euro  the  worst  cases.  Because 
others  have  failed  is  no  reason  for  not  now  receiving  s 
cure.  Send  at  once  for  a  treatise  and  a  Free  Bottle 
of  my  lifallible  remedy.  Give  Express  and  Post  OflSoe. 
B.  ^    VOOT,  lU,  C.  183  Pearl  St.  New  York. 


THE    CELEBR.A.TED 

JOHN    F.    STRATTON 


BAND  INSTRUMENTS, 

Snare  aj»d  Basa  IDruins,  Fifes,  Pico 
los.  Clarinets,  Cymbals  and  all  In 
stmraents  pertaining  to  3ra&i8 
Bands  and  X>riim  Corps. 


Send  for  Illustrated  Catalogue* 
John  F   Stratton, 

No.  49  Maiden  Lane,  New  York. 


Dr.  Owen's  Portable  Battery 

FOR  MAN  AND  WOMAN. 

Contains  10  degrees 
of  Btierigth.  Current 
can  be  Increased,  de- 
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detached  :it  will  and 
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whole  family.  Cures 
OenernI,  JV'erv- 
nii«  i.nti  CUironIc 
niapimeri.  Is  IlKht, 
Blnipleniid  superior. 
Guaranteed  for  one 
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Christian  Cynosure. 


"JJt  BBOBMT  EAV3  1  BAIL  NOTHING.  "—Jeaus  Ohrit. 


Vol.  XX.,  No.  39. 


CHICAGO,  THUKSDAY,  JUNE  14,  1888. 


Wholi  No.  946. 


PUBLI8HKD    WBSKLY    BY    THK 

NATIONAL    OHKISTIAN     ASSOCIATION. 
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Address  all  letters  for  publication  to  Editor  Ohrtstian 
Cynosure,  Chicago.     Writers'  names    must  alwajs  be 
given.    No  manuscript  returned  unless  requested  and 
ostage  enclosed. 

Address  all  business  letters  and  make  all  drafts  and 
money  orders  payable  to  W.  I.  Phillips,  Treas.,  221 
West  Madison  Street,  Chicago.  When  possible  make 
remittances  by  express  money  order.  Currency  by  unreg- 
istered letter  at  sender's  risk.  When  writing  to  change 
address  always  give  the  former  address. 

Intered  at  thePoet-ofiace  at  Chicat;o,  111.,  as  Second  Claitmatter.] 


CONTENTS. 


Bditobial  : 

Notes  and  CommentB 

Romanism  In  the  South. . 

The  Martyr  Period  of  Re- 
forms  

Rescuing  Fallen  Women. 

The  Philosophy  of  Reform 
Parties 

N.  C.  A.  Board  Meeting.. 

Personal  Mention 

CONTBIBUnONS : 

When  Secrecy  Is  Sinful. . . 

Rome  and  American  Pub- 
lic Schools 

How  Old  Is  Freemasonry? 
Sblbctkd : 

A  Secret  Organization  Is  a 
Sin  Per  Se 

The  Lion's  Paw 

Home  Rule  In  New  Ireland 
The  N.  C.  A.   Work  In  the 

South 

Educational  Notes 

Washington  Lettbes 


Rbtobm  Nbws  : 
The     Movement    in    the 

South 5 

Cobbbspondbnob  : 
Bro.  Countee  Sick ;  Needs 
of  West  African  Mis- 
sions; Prohibit  Them 
All;  The  Light  Must 
Shine;  Pith  and  Point..  5,6 

LiTBRATUBB 6 

In  Bbibf 7 

ThbN.C.A 7 

Church  vs.  Lodgb 7 

ThbHomb 10 

Temperance 11 

BiBLB  Lbsson 12 

Memorial  Home  in  New  Or- 
leans   12 

Religious  Nbws 12 

Lodgb  Notes 13 

Farm  Notes 14 

News  op  thb  Wbbk 18 

Markets 13 

Business 13 


COMB  TO  GHIGAOO  NEXT  WBBK. 

The  occurrence  of  the  National  Republican  Conven- 
tion in  Chicago  June  19,  provides  an  unusual  oppor- 
tunity for  every  member  of  the  incorporate  National 
Christian  Association  to  be  present  at  the  annual  meet- 
ing next  Thursday.  The  railroads  all  give  half  fare  or 
less  to  the  Republican  convention.  Let  all  friends  of 
the  reform  who  can  take  advantage  of  this  low  rate 
make  an  earnest  effort  to  come  to  Chicago.  They  will 
not  be  able  to  get  into  the  Convention  hall  to  see  the 
Republican  party  nominate  its  candidate;  but  what  is 
better  they  can  attend  Commencement  at  Wheaton 
Wednesday  and  the  N.  C.  A.  annual  meeting  Thursday, 
beside  seeing  a  great  city  full  of  politicians. 


The  Iowa  State  Agricultural  College,  like  many 
instituticns  supported  by  State  funds,  is  a  breeding 
place  for  college  f ratcmilies,  and  they  are  so  obnox- 
ious to  the  majority  of  the  students  that  the  latter 
rebelled  and  began  to  fight  the  devil  with  fire. 
Masked  they  assailed  the  rooms  where  three  lodge 
meetings  were  held  and  broke  them  up,  ai;d  in  the 
row  windows  were  broken,  stones  and  eggs  thrown, 
and  clubs  and  revolvers  flourished.  The  lodge  men 
secured  the  arrest  of  five  of  their  opponents,  and 
the  college  faculty  and  students  are  said  to  be  seri- 
ously divided  between  the  factions.  Such  troubles 
have  so  often  attended  the  work  of  secret  societies 
in  colleges  that  they  are  excluded  from  the  best  in- 
stitutions in  America. 


The  Catholic  Union  and  'limes  prints  a  letter  from 
Rome  describing  the  visit  of  Mr.  Blaine  to  the 
American  Catholic  College  in  that  city.  It  is  this 
institution  for  which  President  Arthur  made  a  spec- 
ial plea  with  the  Italian  governmefit  that  it  be  made 
an  exception  to  the  rule  of  taxation  adopted  by  that 


government,  because  American  Catholics  contribut- 
ed to  its  support.  Mr.  Blaine's  visit  was  expected, 
and  the  hall  of  the  college  was  draped  with  flags. 
He  made  a  short  address  to  the  students,  whom  he 
wished  a  prosperous  career  in  their  great  mission  in 
the  Catholic  church,a  church  "so  profoundly  respect- 
ed by  all."  Evidently  Mr.  Blaine  expects  his  two 
letters  declining  the  Republican  nomination  to  be 
final,  or  he  would  not  so  boldly  challenge  Dr.  Bur- 
chard  and  the  three  Rs,  who  made  such  havoc  for 
him  four  years  ago. 


Dr.  J.  E.  Roy,  Western  Secretary  of  the  Amer- 
ican Missionary  Association,  has  written  a  letter  to 
the  Chicago  Irihune  on  the  late  attempted  assassin- 
ation of  Prof.  G.  W.  Lawrence,  of  Jellico,  Tenn., 
who  had  charge  of  the  white  high  school  of  the  A. 
M.  A.  in  that  place.  Prof.  Lawrence  had  visited  a 
family  from  whom  tuition  was  due  and  was  driven 
away  by  the  woman.  Next  day  the  husband  came 
to  the  school  building,  and  after  demanding  an 
apology  followed  Prof.  Lawrence  into  the  school 
room  and  fired  four  shots  at  him,  three  of  which 
took  eflect.  "Jellico,"  says  Dr.  Roy,  "has  always 
been  ruled  by  the  saloon  element,  and  there  have 
been  sixty-three  men  shot  there  within  six  years. 
This  afl^air  was  evidently  brought  about  by  the  worst 
part  of  the  saloon  element,  as  a  method  of  taking 
revenge  for  the  aggressive  work  of  the  missionaries 
there,  especially  of  Rev.  A.  A.  Myers,  brother-in-law 
of  Prof.  Lawrence."  The  citizens  are  aroused  and 
mean  that  the  desperado  shall  be  punished;but  with 
the  result  of  the  Haddock  and  Gambrell  trials  be- 
fore us  there  is  little  hope  of  justice.  But,  at  least, 
wo  pray  that  the  saloon  demon  may  not  have  anoth- 
er victim. 


The  nomination  of  Cleveland  and  Thurman  by 
the  Democratic  convention  at  St.  Louis  last  week  is 
no  surprise  to  the  country.  There  has  been  no  ques- 
tion about  the  re-nomination  of  the  former;  and  the 
word  being  given  from  Washington  in  favor  of  the 
old  ex-Senator  from  Ohio,  no  other  name  could  be 
got  upon  equal  footing.  The  platform  threatened 
to  bring  up  an  issue  on  the  tarifl"  plank,  but  again 
the  administration  influence  was  seen  to  be  over- 
whelming, and  there  was  no  division  of  opinion 
worth  mention.  This  document,  in  laborious  sen- 
tences, contrives,  between  the  clauses  condemning 
Republicans,  to  extol  the  Cleveland  administration; 
it  claims,  also,  the  exclusion  of  Chinese  labor  by 
Democratic  legislation,  and  asserts  that  under  Dem- 
ocratic control  the  interests  of  the  government  and 
the  people,  at  home  and  abroad,  have  been  guarded 
and  defended.  In  regard  to  the  tariff,  it  reaf- 
firms the  platform  of  1884,  and  approves  the  Pres- 
edent's  recent  message;  declares  that  all  unneces 
sary  taxation  is  unjust  taxation,  and  asserts 
that  a  "careful  revision  of  the  tax  laws,  with 
due  allowance  for  the  difference  of  American  and 
foreign  labor,  must  promote  and  encourage  industry." 


Arthur  and  Sargent,  who  are  called  "chiefs"  of 
the  combinations  of  railway  engineers  and  firemen, 
were  back  in  Chicago  a  few  days  since  to  attempt  a 
final  settlement  of  the  ruinous  strike  they  began  in 
February.  Their  present  occupation  is  figuring  up 
the  losses  of  that  sffair  to  the  lodges  they  repre 
sented.  It  is  said  the  engineers'  brotherhood  had 
when  the  Burlington  strike  began  $350,000  in  its 
treasury.  This  was  used  up  and  a  large  amount  of 
voluntary  contributions  as  well.  When  the  funds 
were  exhausted  assessments  were  made  of  $10,  and 
later  $5,  'upon  each  of  the  22,000  members,  but 
eitbur  the  members  do  not  pay,  or  there  are  bad 
holes  in  the  treasury  bag,  for  the  funds  are  yet  low. 
While  the  ene;inccr8  ot  other  roads  gave  up  the 
quarrel  long  since,  those  of  the  Burlington  system 
have  never  owned  themselves  beaten  and  in  some 
localities  cause  much  trouble.  A  striking  engineer 
was  lately  shot  dead  in  Galesburg  by  a  young  fire- 
man whom  he  assaulted. 


The  Knights  of  Labor  an>  hardly  in  better  condi- 
tion than  the  tugineeis.  Powderly,  in  a  late  num- 
ber of  bis  Journal  of  United  Labor,  says  over  bis 


own  signature  that  nearly  $400,000  were  paid  out 
by  his  order  last  year  "in  support  of  strikes  and 
lock-outs  that  were  in  the  main  suicidal  and  foolish; 
yes,  in  some  cases  criminal."  And,  "It  cost  the 
member  of  ten  years'  standing  $3.06  to  know  that 
workingmen  can  be  wrong  in  a  dispute  as  well  as 
the  employer,  and  that  it  is  not  always  the  best  to 
act  hastily."  This  is  well  spoken,  and  had  it  been 
said  years  ago  would  have  been  better.  Sad  expe- 
rience now  forces  it  from  Powderly,  and  gains  a 
hearing  from  once  unwilling  ears.  Just  as  the 
Knights  of  Labor  are  learning  that  strikes  and 
boycotts  may  be  ruinous  to  themselves  and  a  crime 
toward  the  community  at  large,  they  must  also 
learn  that  their  false  oaths  of  secrecy  and  despotism 
are  also  ruin  and  crime.  And  for  the  trouble  that 
must  come  upon  innocent  men  and  their  households 
before  this  lesson  is  learned,  we  believe  the  leaders 
like  Powderly  should  be  held  responsible.  They 
are  not  so  blind  that  they  may  not  avoid  leading 
their  blind  followers  into  the  ditch. 


If  the  Knights  of  Labor  cannot  adapt  themselves 
to  plans  for  the  improvement  of  labor  in  every  pos- 
sible direction  they  are  not  friends  of  labor.  It  is 
ominous  for  the  order  that  they  have  rejected  the 
plan  for  profit  sharing  offered  to  the  men  in  Mr. 
Carnegie's  steel  works  in  Braddock,  Penn.,  and  as  a 
consequence  the  thirty-five  hundred  men  have  ac- 
cepted profit-sharing  and  surrendered  their  charters. 
It  is  of  a  piece  with  the  refusal  of  the  order  to  al- 
low the  sons  of  members  to  learn  trades  freely  as 
apprentices. — Independent. 


WHBN  SBCRECT  18  SINFUL. 


BY   BBV.    ISAAC    HYATT. 


They  greatly  err  who  think  opposition  to  secret 
societies  involves  the  sinfulness  of  secrecy.  There 
are  times  and  circumstances  when  its  superiority  is 
as  manifest  as  its  rarity.  In  business  relations,  in 
the  neighborhood,  in  the  confidential  intercourse  of 
friendship,  in  the  family,  in  the  church,  and  even  in 
regard  to  ourselves  there  is  much  that  is  commend- 
able in  the  highest  degree  to  keep  private.  To  be 
a  tale-bearer  shows  a  malicious  disposition,  or  a 
lack  of  good  common  sense,  and  sometimes  both. 
The  Scriptures  plainly  teach  that  secrecy  is  a  virtue 
of  rare  excellence,  when  used  in  a  lawful  way.  And 
in  considering  when  it  becomes  sinful  in  its  unlaw- 
ful use  in  secret  societies  we  do  not  wish  to  be  un- 
derstood as  teaching  that  it  is  their  chiefest  or  most 
dangerous  evil. 

First,  secrecy  is  sinful  when  it  conceals  what 
ought  to  be  known,  or  pretends  to  have  a  secret  that 
is  not  a  secret  In  our  day,  in  this  respect,  it  is  an 
alarming  evil.  Society  is  honeycombed  with  its 
poisonous  work;  and  secret  societies  are  the  guard- 
ian parent  and  nursing  mother  of  this  evil  that 
casts  a  blight  upon  our  fairest  hopes  and  fondest 
expectations. 

Second,  secrecy  is  sinful  when  it  unneo""sarily 
strengthens  evil.  Whatever  is  good,  as  a  rule,  can 
be  done  most  successfully  in  an  open  way.  It  is  to 
be  admitted  that  there  are  times  when  to  conceal  our 
plans  helps  to  accomplish  good  more  successfully; 
but  oftener  than  otherwise  such  measures  fail. 
Truth  loves  the  light,  and  secures  her  greatest  vic- 
tories in  open  conflict.  Then  some  secret  societies 
are  like  the  babe  just  born — weak  and  powerless. 
By  development  the  babe  becomes  a  man.  In  the 
same  way  the  constituent  elements  that  characterize 
all  secret  societies  become  giant  forces  for  evil. 

In  the  various  intoxicating  liquors  that  threaten 
to  ruin  our  country  it  is  the  alcohol  in  them  that 
does  the  mischief;  so  the  secrecy  in  the  different  se- 
cret organizations  is  the  source  of  their  power;  and 
the  band  of  affiliation  is  so  strong  between  secret 
societies  that  what  helps  one  helps  the  other;  hence 
their  secrecy  is  turned  to  an  evil  account  and  is  sin- 
ful. 

Thirdly,  secrecy  becomes  sinful  when  ther#  ia  a 
liability  that  it  will  ensnare  us  in  evil.  ' 

"In  vain  the  net  is  spread  in  the  sight  of  any 
bird."     Satan  is  seldom  more  successful  thr  n  when 


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THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


JcTNE  1-4,  1888 


he  lures  the  unwary  into  ways  that  appear  well,  but 
end  in  sin;  and  under  the  cover  of  secrecy  these 
doubtful  ways  double  their  power  to  draw  us  astray. 
"There  is  a  way  that  seemeth  right  unto  a  man;  but 
the  end  thereof  are  the  ways  of  death."  The  sen- 
timent of  these  words  of  Solomon  are  of  tener  true 
in  secret  than  anywhere  else.  For  many  an  evil 
way  that  seems  right  in  secret,  in  open  day  would 
appear  in  its  true  light. 

Fourthly,  secrecy  is  sinful  when  it  requires  the 
concealment  of  the  unknown. 

Usually  when  we  take  an  oath  it  is  to  attest  to 
what  we  know.  Exceptions  occur  in  the  oath  of 
office  and  in  the  marriage  covenant,  when  what  our 
act  involves  is  unknown  to  us.  Sometimes,  as  in  the 
case  of  George  Washington's  oath  of  allegiance  to 
King  George  III.,  it  involves  what  in  conscience  we 
cannot  do.  As  the  law  of  right  supercedes  all  other 
law,  in  such  instances  the  obligation  ceases;  hence, 
George  Washington  was  justified  in  drawing  his 
sword  against  the  man  he  had  sworn  to  defend. 

The  nature  of  such  covenants  plainly  teach  we 
should  be  exceedingly  cautious  in  promising  to  do 
what  the  future  alone  can  reveal  as  devolving  upon 
us.  But  as  such  obligations  arise  from  the  natural 
relations  of  life  they  are  in  accord  with  the  will  of 
God  and  we  are  justified  in  assuming  them. 

But  we  are  not  justified  from  such  considerations 
in  promising  to  conceal  what  is  unknown  to  us  ex- 
cept in  extreme  cases,  such  as  transpire  in  war,  or 
circumstances  of  a  similar  nature.  Christ  often  told 
bis  disciples  to  keep  his  teachings  private  for  a 
time.  But  he  never  entered  into  a  secret  conclave 
with  them,  saying,  you  must  never  reveal  anything 
that  is  said  or  done  in  this  meeting.  No  I  Never  I 
In  this  view  of  his  life  and  teaching  we  see  the  lit- 
eral truthfulness  of  his  declaration,  "In  secret  have 
I  said  nothivg." 

You  may  say  the  society  I  propose  to  join  as- 
sures me  I  shall  not  be  required  to  conceal  anything 
that  is  evil.  Do  not  Freemasonry  and  Mormonism 
give  the  same  assurance?  Many  kinds  of  religion 
are  like  India  rubber;  they  stretch  easily;  and  there 
is  scarcely  anything  that  conflicts  with  them  except 
the  truth.  So  what  may  not  be  inconsistent  with 
them  may  be  with  the  religion  of  Christ. 

The  question  to  consider  is,  Are  we  justified  in 
putting  the  keeping  of  our  conscience  under  the 
control  of  another?  When  we  do  we  annul  the  right 
of  private  judgment,  which  is  the  key -stone  in  the 
arch  of  liberty.  The  principle  involved  is  altogether 
too  sacred  to  be  sacrificed  in  such  an  unnecessary 
way;  especially  the  child  of  God,  whose  freedom 
from  the  condemnation  of  sin  has  been  purchased 
by  the  precious  blood  of  Jesus  Christ,  should  not 
trifle  with  it  in  such  a  careless  manner. 

Granting  you  may  walk  safely  over  this  bridge 
and  ascend  to  heaven,  your  example,  like  the  exam 
pie  of  the  moderate  drinker,  may  send  many  others 
to  ruin.  Just  here  we  need  a  conscientious  regard 
for  the  right,  lest  the  bias  of  self-interest  turn  us  in 
the  wrong  way. 

Fortunately  in  this  intricate  matter  we  are  not 
left  to  the  light  of  our  own  feeble  judgment,  as  in 
other  moral  questions,  where  a  nice  discrimination 
is  needed  to  decide  between  good  and  evil  to  tell 
us  what  course  to  take.  For  it  is  written,  "If  a  soul 
swear,  pronouncing  with  his  lips  to  do  evil  or  to  do 
good,  whatsoever  it  be  that  a  man  shall  pronounce 
with  an  oath,  and  it  be  hid  from  him,  when  he 
knoweth  it,  then  shall  he  be  guilty  in  one  of  these." 
Lev.  5:  4. 

Fifthly,  secrecy  is  sinful  when  it  unnecessarily 
leads  to  action  that  is  a  grief  to  the  Lord's  dear  chil- 
dren. 

Consider  how  many  of  the  Lord's  most  intelli- 
gent, cultured  and  pious  disciples  are  conscientious- 
ly opposed  to  secret  societies.  Consider  what  heart- 
piercing  grief  it  causes  them  to  see  their  near  and 
dear  friends  unite  with  them.  Christ  says:  "Whoso 
shall  offend  one  of  these  little  ones  which  believe  in 
me,  it  were  better  for  him  that  a  millstone  were 
hanged  about  his  neck,  and  that  he  were  drowned 
in  the  depth  of  the  sea."  Matt.  18:  6.  Paul  says: 
"Wherefore,  if  meat  make  my  brother  to  offend,  I 
will  eat  no  flesh  while  the  world  standeth,  lest  I 
make  my  brother  to  offend."l  Cor.8:13.  Onthesuppo- 
sition  that  we  think  that  a  secret  society  is  righteous 
in  its  character  and  claims  and  we  consider  it  our 
duty  to  unite  with  it,  this  obligation  ceases;  for  we 
ought  to  obey  God  rather  than  man.  However,  in 
the  exercise  of  the  broadest  charity  it  appears  that 
self-interest,  love  of  display  or  popularity,  the  grat- 
ification of  questionable  desires  or  protection  in 
iniquity  leads  the  vast  majority  to  unite  with  secret 
societies. 

Without  any  doubt  there  are  honorable  excep 
tioEs;  but  the  exceptions  are  so  rare  that  it  strength 
ens  rather  than  weakens  the  force  of  the  fact  that 


sin  is  committed  in  uniting  with  secret  societies,  to 
the  grief  of  so  many  who  love  the  Lord  in  sincerity 
and  truth.  And  there  is  no  secret  society  in  which 
secrecy  does  not  become  sinful  in  one  or  more  of 
the  ways  we  have  spoken  of.  In  some  it  is  used  in 
all  the  ways  referred  to.  Hence,  all  secret  societies 
are  sinful  on  account  of  the  sinful  use  they  make 
of  secrecy. 


ROMS  AND  AMBBICAN  PUBLIC  SCEOOLS. 


BF   AN    OLD   LAWIER. 


The  power  of  Roman  Catholicism  is  a  marked 
feature  in  every  political  struggle  for  office  through- 
out these  United  States,  the  moral  effect  of  which  is 
most  damaging  to  a  free,  liberal  and  confiding  peo- 
ple. It  is  not  the  rule  amongst  true-born  Americans 
to  despise  a  man  because  his  coat  may  be  out  at  the 
elbows  or  he  wears  a  patch  upon  the  knee  of  his  pan- 
taloons. He  is  just  as  much  considered  entitled  to 
the  guarantees  of  our  Constitution  as  the  citizen  who 
is  driven  to  and  from  his  business  by  a  fine  eques- 
trian outfit  and  liveried  attendants.  He  may  rise 
from  the  canal  tow-path,  like  a  Garfield,to  sit  in  the 
White  House  President  of  these  United  States.  Yet 
there  are  citizens  in  this  nation  who  have  for  the 
sake  of  filthy  lucre  and  high  office  betrayed  this  con- 
fidence; this  was  particularly  the  case  in  Chicago 
under  the  rule  of  Carter  Harrison,  the  late  Mayor, 
in  that  he  not  only  permitted  anarchy  to  bud  and 
blossom,  but  fostered  it  until  it  brought  forth  its  le- 
gitimate fruit,  blood,  murder,  widows  and  orphans, 
and  victims  for  the  gallows. 

But  a  more  terrible  disaster  than  that  of  the  Hay- 
market  awaits  the  people  of  this  nation  throughout 
its  entire  length  and  breadth,  and  like  anarchism  it 
has  budded,  blossomed  and  become  flippant,  and 
has  a  leader  bold  enough  to  say  "if  he  knew  who 
controlled  the  schools  of  a  country  he  would  be  able 
to  say  what  the  future  of  the  country  would  be." 
{Inter-Ocean,  JSept.  7th,  1887) 

Spannhorst  says,  "As  freedom  in  the  United 
States  had  supported  Catholicism  so  would  the  Cath- 
olic church'be  the  salvation  of  this  great  country. 
He  was  glad  that  every  Catholic  church  had  its  pa- 
rochial school.  He  felt  that  the  Catholics  were  on 
the  right  road;  that  they  occupied  a  fortress  that 
could  not  be  assailed."  This  is  as  bold  as  anarch- 
ism, and  as  damnable  to  a  republican  form  of  gov- 
ernment. 

In  perfect  keeping  with  these  facts  the  Open  Court 
says  (page  525):  "In  Massachusetts, where  the  Irish 
and  Canadian  Boman  Catholics  make  up  a  consid- 
erable part  of  the  population,  there  is  a  steady  in- 
crease in  the  number  of  Riman  Catholic  parochial 
schools,  and  in  some  communities  they  have  greatly 
depleted  the  public  schools.  Particularly  is  this  the 
case  in  Maiden,  where  in  one  ward  the  parochial 
school  grew  too  large  for  its  building  and  applied 
for  some  of  the  unoccupied  rooms  in  the  public 
school  building.  In  the  Northwest  the  Roman  Cath- 
olics are  making  determined  war  upon  the  public 
school  system,  and  in  isolated  cases  with  some  suc- 
cess. In  Barton,  Wis.,  last  year  (1886)  they  were 
able  to  carry  a  resolution  at  the  annual  meeting  that 
no  public  school  should  be  maintained  during  the 
year,  and  none  was  held.  This  year  (1887),  taking 
advantage  of  the  law  giving  women  the  right  to  vote 
at  school  elections,  they  brought  out  all  their  women 
and  in  spite  of  opposition  carried  the  same  resolu- 
tion again.  At  Melrose,  Minn.,  a  movement  was 
led  by  the  Catholic  priest8(who  are  never  revolution- 
ists) to  shorten  the  school  year  of  the  public  schools 
in  order  to  compel  children  to  attend  the  Roman 
Catholic  parochial  school." 

"Throughout  Stearns  county,  Minn.,"  says  an  ex- 
change, "the  Roman  catechism  is  said  to  be  taught 
openly  in  the  public  schools  and  either  the  opening 
or  the  closing  hours  of  the  session  are  devoted  to 
religious  instruction  given  by  the  priests,  all  this 
being  in  direct  violation  of  the  State  Constitution 
adopted  in  1877  to  meet  this  very  condition."  "The 
evidences  of  a  carefully  planned  assault  upon  our 
public  school  system  are  so  clear  that  its  friends  are 
beginning  to  consider  how  best  to  meet  this  as- 
sault" 

It  is  only  a  short  time  ago  that  the  "Roman  Cath- 
olic priest  of  St.  Malachi's  church  was  elected  and 
installed  as  principal  in  one  of  the  public  school 
wards  of  Pittsburgh,  Pa.,  and  as  soon  as  the  priest 
was  installed  Catholic  children  were  ordered  to  at- 
tend," notwithstanding  our  public  schools  and  our 
school  system  have  been  all  along  anathematized  as 
"wicked"  and  "infidel."  The  next  step  was  to  get 
the  nuns  installed  as  teachers,  and  bad  they,  on  cx- 
amination,come  up  to  the  standard  required  of  teach- 
ers in  these  public  schools  the  scheme  would  have 
been  a  success,  but  it  failed  because  of  the  ineffi- 


ciency of  the  nuns;  and  "rather  than  carry  on  the 
schools  without  the  nuns  as  teachers  the  priest  re- 
signed the  principalship  and  started  the  Catholic 
schools  as  before."  {Zion's  Watchtower,  De^.  1887.) 

"The  plan  is  not  considered  dead,"the  lower  says, 
"but  merely  sleeping  until  a  more  convenient  season 
when  preparations  will  be  more  CDmplete."  In  this 
attempt  to  capture  the  public  schools  R^me  discov- 
ered her  weak  points  and  will  come  up  doubly  armed 
and  drilled  next  time. 

Ex-President  Hayes  said  a  short  time  ago  in  the 
Academy  of  Music  at  Philadelphia  that  "The  source 
of  our  strength  is  our  loyal  citizenship,"  and  that 
"The  Constitution  is  not  worshiped  as  a  fetich,  but 
reverence  for  law  as  the  safeguard  of  liberty  is  deep- 
ly ingrained  in  the  hearts  of  all  true  Americans." 
This  is  greatly  to  be  desired  indeed,  but  with  the 
rising  generation  under  the  tuition  and  control  of 
the  Romish  church  how  long  would  it  last?  Hayes 
also  said,"It  is  the  glory  of  America  under  the  Con- 
stitution to  be  the  great  pacific  power  of  the  globe 
— able  without  an  army  or  navy  to  keep  peace  at 
home  and  to  command  respect  a  ad  consideration 
abroad."  To-day  this  is  a  glorious  truth;  but  unless 
the  people  quickly  take  the  papal  bull  "by  the 
horns,"  as  they  were  lately  forced  to  do  with  an- 
archy, the  whole  land  will  be  filled  with  blood  and 
widows  and  orphans  far  outnumbering  those  so 
made  by  the  late  Rebellion. 

Chicago. 

BOW  OLD  IS  FREBMAaONRT? 


Br   REV.    H.    H.    HINMAN. 


Practically  the  question  is  of  no  great  impor- 
tance. Masonry  is  to  be  held  responsible  for  what  it 
is  and  what  it  does,  rather  than  for  the  date  of  its 
birth.  Nevertheless,  many  are  deceived;  among  col- 
ored Masons,  especially,  are  many  who  have  pro- 
found faith  in  the  antiquity  of  the  order,  and  who 
conclude  that  an  instiiution  which  has  had  the  sanc- 
tion (as  they  have  been  told)  of  Solomon  and  the 
Saints  John,  must  he  most  excellent. 

The  following  extracts  from  the  Grand  Lodge  Re- 
port for  Iowa,  1887,  will  throw  light  on  this  ques- 
tion. In  reviewing  the  report  of  the  Grand  Lodge 
of  California,  Grand  Secretary  Parvin  of  Iowa  says: 
"Bro.  Drummond  may  assert,  but  cannot  find  proof 
of  his  assertion,  that  there  ever  was  a  Grand  Master 
of  Masons  or  a  Grand  Lodge  of  Masons  prior  to 
1717,  when  the  first  Grand  Lodge  was  constituted, 
and  the  first  Grand  Master  created.  Of  all  the  hum- 
bugs that  have  ever  been  presented  in  a  Masonic 
paper,  none  is  so  great  or  foolish  as  that  which  pro- 
claims the  existence  or  prerogatives  of  Grand  Mas- 
ter prior  to  that  date The  day  of  those  who  de- 
clare Solomon  to  have  been  the  Grand  Master  of 
Masons  has  long  since  been  relegated  to  contempt." 

In  the  report  of  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Illinois,  the 
orator  had  said:  "The  institution  existed  at  the  time, 
and  was  even  old  in  history,  when  Abraham,  a  wan- 
dering shepherd,  trod  the  yet  unpeopled  wilds  of 
Palestine,"  The  Grand  Secretary  says:  "Such  lan- 
guage may  be  spoken  to  the  ignorant,  but  they  fall 
like  chaff  when  cast  before  well-read  Masons."  The 
orator  had  said  that  the  "name  Freemasonry  origin- 
ated 2,500  years  ago,  and  Accepted  Mason  at  least 
1,200  years  ago."  The  truth  is,  that  the  word  "free- 
mason" is  first  found  in  print  in  the  year  1636,  or 
2,300  years  later  than  the  claim  here  made.  Past 
Grand  Master  Gurney,  of  Illinois,  speaking  of  the 
degrees  of  the  Royal  Arch  Chapter,  says:  "They 
have  no  record  farther  back  than  the  latter  part  of 
the  18th  century."  And  yet  Chapter  Masonry 
claims  to  have  originated  at  the  time  of  the  return 
of  the  Jews  from  the  Babylonian  Captivity  I  Its 
apology  for  excluding  Christ  from  its  prayers  and 
Scripture  readings  is  that  at  the  time  of  its  institu- 
tion the  world  had  never  heard  of  Jesus  of  Naza- 
reth.     What  nonsense  I 

The  Grand  Secretary  of  Quebec  in  his  repoit 
quotes  from  an  imaginary  American  writer  who 
says:  "Freemasonry  was  directly  a  secret  society  for 
more  than  2,000  years;  that  its  members  were  for- 
bidden to  publish  anything,  either  in  relation  to  the 
body's  origin  or  teachings;  and  yet,  through  all  that 
period  its  history  was  transmitted  from  generation 
to  generation,  unspotted  by  time  and  unadulterated 
by  the  hand  of  the  innovator.  From  the  commence- 
ment of  the  world  we  may  trace  the  foundation  of 
Freemasonry." 

To  this  the  learned  secretary  of  Iowa  responds: 
"How  easy  it  is  for  brethren,  ignorant  of  history, 
to  make  bold  and  senseless  assertions,  for  which 
there  is  not  the  shadow  of  truth  to  support.  Not  a 
single  allegation  in  the  quotation  of  this  eminent 
American  writer  has  even  a  tinge  of  truth  to  sup- 
port it" 


June  14,  1888 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE- 


The  Grand  Secretary  of  Connecticut  protests 
against  "the  nonsensical  theory  that  our  institution 
came  to  us  from  Solomon  or  his  ancestors."  To 
which  Mr.  Parvin  adds:  "We  are  sick  of  the  con- 
stant outcropping  of  this  nonsensical  theory  which 
we  read  in  a  majority  of  the  addresses  of  orators, 
and  in  some  of  the  Grand  Masters." 

One  more  extract.  The  Grand  Orator  of  Wyo- 
ming Territory  says:  "It  is  well  to  look  back  into 
our  past,  and  prior  to  715  before  Christ  [that  is, 
2,602  years  ago]  the  Masonic  order  is  more  or  less 
mythical."  That  is,  since  that  date  it  is  historical. 
"The  theory  that  traces  the  order  back  to  Solomon 
has  a  line  of  fact  to  rest  upon,  and  the  theory  that 
traces  it  beyond  him  to  the  commencement  of  He- 
brew history  in  Egypt has  a  line  of  fact  to  rest 

upon."  To  which  the  Iowa  secretary  replies:  "We 
recommend  the  Grand  Lodge  to  purchase  Gould's 
recent  work,  'History  of  Freemasonry,'  and  compel 
its  Grand  (?)  Orator  to  read  it,  and  hereafter  ex- 
clude from  its  pages  such  myths  and  nonsense.  The 
school-master  is  abroad  in  the  land  and  the  boys  are 
no  fools.'' 

Such  are  somt)  of  the  recent  utterances  on  this 
subject.  Nearly  all  Masons  who  make  any  claim 
to  scholarship  have,  for  shame's  sake,  renounced  the 
theory  of  the  Solomonic  origin  of  the  order. 


All  secret  orders  are  composed  of  persons,  a  ma-  i  blematic  drawing  which  would  be  in  more  perfect 


jority  of  whom  are  ungodly;  therefore,they  must  be 
ungodly  institutions,  and  every  Chritian  that  joins 
them  is  yoked  together  with  unbelievers,  which  is 
forbidden  in  God's  Word. 

The  oath  or  affirmation  administered  in  the  lodge 
is  extra-judicial,  and  is  contrary  to  the  Word  of  G(^, 
which  says,  "Swear  not  at  all."  There  are  now  about 
two  hundred  different  secret  orders  in  this  country, 
each  one  bound  by  a  solemn  oath  or  pledge  to  keep 
their  purposes  and  plans  absolutely  hid  from  the 
other  one  hundred  and  ninety-nine  lodges,  and  the 
residue  of  mankind,until  Gabriel  sounds  his  mighty 
trump.  The  only  hope  of  ever  getting  rid  of  these  two 
hundred  nests  of  human  bats  is  based  on  the  fate  of  the 
Kilkenny  cats  that  were  said  to  have  been  tied  tail 
to  tail,  and  slung  over  the  clothes  line,  where  they 
fought  until  nothing  was  left  but  the  tails.  So  it  is 
hoped  these  midnight  clans  will  bite  and  devour  each 
other  till  thev  are  consumed. 

Now,  Mr.  Editor,  whether  I  have  proved  that  se- 
cret combinations  are  a  sin  per  se  or  not,  I  believe  it 
nevertheless. —  W.  iS.  Ktus  in  the  Conservator. 


harmony  with  it,  or  to  more  perfectly  give  an  idea 
of  how  correctly  this  ancient  symbol  has  been  hand- 
ed down  to  the  present  day.  The  intelligent  Mason 
of  the  present  time  will  recognize  it,  nor  seek  for 
further  proofs. —  2'he  I'reema$on,  Detroit. 


THE  LION'S  PA  W. 


A  8E0RBT  OROANIZATION  A  BIN  "PER  8E." 

Is  the  secret  organization  of  a  select  number  of  a 
community  a  sin  per  se?  Risking  the  stigma  of  be- 
ing called  an  old  fogy  or  an  egotist,  I  say.  Yes. 

1.  A  political  party  is  organized  opinion,  and  is 
composed  of  all  classes  of  men.rich  and  poor, whose 
political  opinioner  harmonize  with  the  platform  of 
principles  adopted  by  the  party.  The  object  of  the 
party  is  to  propagate  such  principles  and  adopt  such 
measures  as  will  promote  the  general  good  of  soci- 
ety as  a  whole,  having  no  reference  to  class  distinc- 
tions. 

2.  A  church  is  organized  faith,  and  is  composed 
of  all  persons  who  may  choose  to  join,  whose  faith 
is  in  harmony  with  the  established  faith  of  the  or- 
ganization. The  object  of  the  church  is  to  save  all 
mankind  from  sin  and  suffering  without  any  respect 
of  persons. 

3.  But  a  secret  combination  is  organized  selfish 
ness.  Its  object  is  to  help  themselves  at  the  expense 
of  the  uninitiated;  if  this  were  not  so,  why  exclude 
forever  all  outsiders  from  even  the  slightest  knowl- 
edge of  their  inside  workings?  It  will  not  be  denied 
that  selfishness  is  a  sin  per  se.  The  following  scrip- 
tures may  be  given  as  proof  of  this  assertion: "Thou 
shall  love  thy  neighbor  as  thyself."  "All  things 
whatsoever  ye  would  that  men  should  do  to  you,do  ye 
even  so  them."  These  scriptures  exclude  selfish- 
ness from  the  heart  of  a  Christian,  and  stamp  it  as 
a  sin.  If  we  can  show  that  secret  combinations  are 
selfish,  then  we  have  proved  they  are  sinful.  Self- 
ishness is  the  main  disturbing  element  in  human 
80ciety,and  would.if  allowed  to  enter  heaven,demol- 
ish  the  throne  of  God  and  overturn  the  foundations 
of  the  celestial  city. 

All  secret  orders  of  which  I  have  any  knowledge 
are  organized  on  a  selfish  basis.  They  all  exclude 
all  outsiders  from  the  benefits  of  their  organization. 
They  make  it  an  imperative  duty  to  help  a  brother, 
and  not  wrong  him  or  see  him  wronged  without  giv- 
ing him  warning,  but  they  are  not  required  to  help 
anybody  else,  neither  are  they  forbidden  to  wrong 
anybody  else.  This  leaves  them  free  to  take  advan- 
tage of  anybody  outside  of  their  order  if  they  choose 
to  do  so;  and  the  numerous  strikes  and  boycotts  show 
that  they  are  not  slow  to  do  so. 

It  is  an  encroachment  upon  the  social  rights  of  a 
community  for  a  select  number  to  organiza  them- 
selves into  a  secret  clique  bound  by  oath  or  solemn 
pledge,  to  keep  their  neighbors  and  even  their  own 
families  in  profound  ignorance  of  all  they  do  and 
say  in  the  lodge.  This  cannot  be  done  without  ex- 
citing suspicion  that  some  advantage  is  to  be  taken 
of  the  uninitiated,  and  this  has  in  it  the  appearance 
of  evil,  which  God's  Word  says  must  be  avoided. 
A  secret  order  has  in  it  the  quality  of  a  monopoly 
and  conspiracy  against  the  outside  world,  which  is 
the  essence  of  selfishness.  The  very  life  of  a  secret 
society  depends  on  the  fact  that  it  remain  shut  up 
in  its  selfish  shell  forever,  for  the  moment  it  throws 
open  its  doors  and  extends  the  invitation  to  all  the 
world  to  come  and  share  in  its  boasted  privileges 
that  moment  it  dies,  and  this  fact  proves  its  essen- 
tial selfishness. 

There  are  other  elements  in  these  orders  in  addi- 
tion to  their  secrecy  which  augment  their  sinfulness. 
Every  one  of  them  that  has  a  ritual  and  worships 
according  to  that  ritual;  has  a  religion,  but  they  are 
all  outside  of  and  independent  of  the  religion  of 
Christ,  consequently  idolatrous. 


Much  has  been  written  upon  the  antiquity  of  Ma- 
sonry by  the  brightest  Masonic  intellects  of  the  age, 
and  different  opinions  advanced  by  the  different 
theorists,and  with  these  divers  opinions  the  diligent 
craftsman,seeking  after  knowledge,is  often  at  a  loss 
to  decide  which  to  accept  or  which  to  reject.  The 
adherents  of  the  theory  that  Masonry  had  its  origin 
in  the  building  guilds  of  the  14th  century  meet  with 
many  difficulties  in  trying  to  reconcile  the  fact  that 
the  symbols  of  Masonry,  even  its  passwords,  grips 
and  signs,  clearly  show  an  earlier  and  very  remote 
origin. 


The  ato?e  emblematic  drawing  was  published  in 
the  Masonic  Newspaper  in  1880,and  concerning  which 
Bro.  Wm.  S.  Paterson,32ad.,says,"This  emblem  was 
found  in  the  sarcophagus  of  one  of  the  great  kings 
of  Egypt,  entombed  in  the  pyramid  erected  to  his 
everlasting  remembrance.  It  brings  to  mind  the 
representation  of  the  king's  initiation  into  those 
greater  mysteries  of  Osiris  held  to  be  the  highest 
aim  of  the  wise  and  devout  Egyptian."  Bro.  Pater- 
son  also  says  in  the  same  article  that  "the  Hebrews 
were  probably  instructed  in  the  legend  of  Osiris.and 
afterwards  changed  the  whole  to  accord  with  the 
wonderful  and  wise  Solomon  and  bis  master  archi- 
tect, Hiram." 

The  emblem  may  be  thus  explained.  The  form 
that  lies  dead  before  the  altar  is  that  of  Osiris,  the 
personified  sun-god,  whom  the  candidate  represents 
in  the  drama  of  raising,lying  dead  at  the  winter  sol- 
stice, slain  by  the  grim  archer  in  November,  the 
fatal  month  in  the  year  of  the  sun.  The  figure  of 
the  lion  grasping  the  dead  sun-god  alludes  to  the 
constellation  Leo.which  did  prevail  4,000  years  ago, 
to  raise  the  sun-god  to  his  place  of  power  and  glory 
on  the  summit  of  the  grand  royal  arch  of  heaven  at 
the  summer  solstice,  and  denoted  then  as  it  does 
now  that  the  sun  or  the  candidate  is  about  to  be 
raised  from  a  symbolical  death  to  life  and  power  by 
the  strong  grip  of  the  lion's  paw,  or  as  it  has  later 
been  termed,"the  lion  of  the  tribe  of  Judah." 

The  cross  which  the  lion  holds  in  his  other  paw  is 
the  ancient  Egyptian  symbol  of  eternal  life.  The 
figure  erect  at  the  altar  is  doubtless  that  of  the 
grand  hierophant,with  his  hand  raised  in  an  attitude 
of  command  forming  a  right  angle,  with  eyes  fixed 
upon  the  emblematic  lion  as  he  gives  the  sign  of 
command  that  Osiris  or  the  candidate  be  raised 
from  death  and  darkness  to  light  and  lif& 

This  ancient  Egyptian  drawing  is  a  strong  testi- 
monial of  the  correctness  of  the  theory  held  by  most 
of  the  intelligent  Masons  of  the  day  of  the  great  an- 
tiquity of  Masonry,and  is  the  correct  solution  of  the 
legend  of  Osiris,  the  sun-god,  and  also  that  of  Hi- 
ram. 

it  is  indeed  almost  impossible  to  make  an  em- 


HOME  RULE  IN  NEW  IRELAND. 

The  Catholic  Review  is  quoted  as  saying,  "A  mar- 
velous change  is  coming  over  the  New  England  that 
was.     They  say  it  has  become  a  new  Ireland." 

There  are  probably  nearly  as  many  men  of  Irish 
birth  and  blood  in  America  as  in  Ireland;  and  while 
Home  Eule  agitates  Great  Britain,  it  is  possible  for 
careful  students  to  investigate  the  subject  in  New 
England  as  well  as  in  old  Ireland. 

Home  Kule  is  but  another  expression  for  local 
self-government;  and  this  method  of  government 
has  many  important  advantages.  The  best  kind  of 
government  is  no  government  at  all;  that  is,  when 
all  are  so  self-governed  and  self -controlled  that  they 
need  no  external  restraint  There  are  multitudes  of 
such  men,  who  have  never  in  their  lives  come  with- 
in the  grasp  of  the  law,  and  who  have  no  desire  to 
violate  its  provisions.  The  laws  that  rule  them  are 
written  in  their  hearts  and  in  their  minds.  They  do 
the  things  which  law  requires,  not  because  the  law 
commands  them,  but  because  their  obedient  hearts 
prompt  them  to  do  no  evil. 

If  all  persons  were  of  this  character,  there  would 
be  little  need  of  law  or  of  lawyers.  Every  man 
would  rule  well  his  own  houee,  and  well-governed 
families  would  constitute  a  well-governed  communi- 
ty and  commonwealth.  But  if  a  man  does  not  have 
the  law  of  God  written  in  his  own  heart;  if  he  lacks 
conscience  and  wisdom  and  sound  judgment,it  may 
not  be  safe  to  allow  him  to  rule  even  his  own  house, 
much  less  those  around  him.  The  man  who  suffers 
himself  to  be  made  a  maniac  by  strong  drink,  who 
in  ruling  his  home  smashes  the  furniture,  whose 
presence  is  the  signal  for  violence  and  uproar,  and 
who  is  a  brute  at  home  and  a  bully  abroad,  ready  to 
drink  and  fight,  and  lie  and  swear,is  not  fit  for  home 
rule  or  any  other  kind  of  rule,  only  the  strong  rule 
of  rigorous  law,  which  is  made  for  the  lawless  and 
the  disobedient 

This  is  the  reason  why  certain  people  come  under 
severe  if  not  tyrannical  control.  No  m^n  is  fit  for 
freedom  until  he  can  govern  himself;  and  no  man 
governs  himself  until  he  is  governed  of  G:)d.  So 
long  as  men  are  ruled  by  appetite,  by  passion,  b}' 
priestcraft,  by  ignorance,  by  prejudice,  and  by  secret 
and  irresponsible  clans,  leagues,  and  organizations, 
so  long  they  are  unfit  to  be  trusted  with  government. 
They  cannot  rule,  and  hence  they  must  be  ruled. 
Even  the  intelligence  and  education  of  a  few  by  no 
means  fits  them  to  be  the  governors  of  the  many, 
unless  the  few  are  ruled  from  on  high  by  that  law 
which  says,  "Thou  shalt  love  thy  neighbor  as  thy- 
self." 

Hence  there  are  men  who  are  utterly  unfit  to  rule. 
They  break  law,  they  disturb  order,they  drink  whis- 
ky, they  abuse  their  wives,  they  neglect  their  chil- 
dren, and  then  to  defend  themselves  against  the  pov- 
erty, misery,  helplessness  and  stupidity  brought  on 
them  by  their  ignorance  and  intemperance,they  join 
some  secret  clan,  pay  their  money  to  some  leader 
who  earns  his  living  by  doing  hard  work  with  his 
mouth;  and  then  go  on  strikes.hang  around  saloons, 
mob  peaceable  people,  and  commit  crimes  and  dep- 
redations.which  violate  law,  disturb  order,  and  final- 
ly bring  trouble  and  ruin  upon  them. 

If  men  want  Home  Rule  let  them  learn  to  rule 
their  own  homes,and  live  in  peace  and  sobriety.  Let 
them  learn  the  fear  of  God,and  follow  the  teachings 
of  his  Word.  Let  them  remember  that  the  founda- 
tion of  all  decent  Home  Rule  is  the  Bible;  and  that 
no  people  who  did  not  read  the  Bible  ever  had  liberty 
and  Home  Rule,  because  no  people  who  do  not  read 
the  Bible  are  fit  for  liberty  or  Home  Rule.  A  man 
who  depends  on  others  to  find  out  his  duty  for  him  and 
tell  him  what  he  must  do.is  unfit  for  freedom.  A  man 
who  knows  nothing  of  his  Bible  or  his  God  must  ex- 
pect to  be  ruled  by  tyrants  and  misled  by  priests; 
and  if  he  comes  into  power  himself  he  will  tyran- 
nize over  others. —  Christian  Saf'tguanl. 

m  »  m 

The  National  Bureau  of  Statistics  shows  that  on 
the  $700,000,000  which  annually  passes  into  the 
tills  of  the  retailers  of  intoxicating  liquors  in  this 
country  there  is  a  profit  of  one  hundreti  and  thirty- 
three  and  one-fourth  per  cent.  If  poor  people  had 
to  pay  such  a  tax  as  that  on  bread,  there  would  be 
a  rebellion.  But  when  a  man  tosses  off  a  glass  ^i: 
whisky  and  pays  five  cents  for  the  drink,  and  seven 
or  eight  cents  to  the  barkeeper  for  the  trouble  of 
handing  it  to  him,  he  generally  thinks  the  barkeeper 
an  awfully  good  fellow. 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


JuNR  14,  1888 


THB  N.  G.  A.    WORK  IN  THE  SOUTH. 


ANNUAL   REPORT   OF    THE    SOUTHERN   AGENT. 


To  the  Board  of  Directors  of  the  N.  C.  A., 

Dear  Brethren: — I  have,  as  your  agent,  during 
the  last  year  visited  and  labored  in  the  following 
States:  Illinois,  Pennsylvania,  Maryland,  Virginia, 
North  Carolina,  South  Carolina,  Florida.Georgia.Al- 
abamajMississippi,  Louisiana,  Texas, Arkansas,  Ten- 
nessee and  Kentucky,  and  also  in  the  District  of 
Columbia.  I  have  traveled,  approximately,  8,000 
miles  and  delivered  149  lectures  and  sermons  in  all 
of  the  principal  cities  from  Philadelphia,  Pa.,  to 
Houston,  Texas.  I  have  visited  and  addressed  for- 
ty-two schools  and  colleges  and  numerous  ministers' 
meetings.  A  national  convention  was  held  in  Feb- 
ruary in  the  city  of  New  Orleans,of  which  I  will  not 
now  farther  speak. 

My  work  has  been  mainly  among  the  colored  peo- 
ple, and  I  have  found  almost  everywhere  an  open 
door,  especially  among  those  of  the  cotton-growing 
States,where  the  great  body  of  them  reside.  Scarce- 
ly any  event  in  history  since  the  Hebrew  exodus  is  a 
more  wonderful  providence,and  surely  none  ever  car- 
ried with  it  greater  responsibilities  than  the  emancipa- 
tion of  this  people.  They  greatly  need  our  instruction 
and  are  quite  ready  to  receive  it.  I  have  found  that 
even  those  who  were  members  of  Masonic  and  other 
secret  orders,  as  a  rule,received  me  most  kindly,and 
listened  with  respectful  attention  to  what  I  had  to 
say.  In  many  instances  they  have  been  convinced, 
and  quite  a  number  of  pastors  have  made  formal  re- 
nunciation before  their  people.  Northern  men  and 
women  engaged  in  missionary  and  educational  work 
in  the  South,  have  been  among  our  warmest  support- 
ers. Whatever  may  h&ve  been  thtir  relationeto  an d  con- 
victions of  the  character  of  the  secret  lodge  system, a 
residence  of  but  a  few  months  in  the  South  has  con- 
vinced them  that,  whatever  may  have  been  their  os- 
tensible or  real  objects,  the  system, as  such,  is  work- 
ing great  evil  to  the  colored  people.  Nor  has  there 
been  any  material  diflerence  in  this  respect  among 
the  various  religious  denominations. 

The  American  Missionary  Association, which  took 
the  lead  in  the  educational  work  in  the  South,  has, 
through  its  secretaries,  its  field  agents,  and  college 
presidents,  nearly  everywhere  given  me  a  cordial 
recognition  and  Christian  synopalhy.  No  Congrega- 
tional pastor  under  the  care  of  this  Association  has 
so  far  failed  to  welcome  my  labors.  There  are 
many  secret  society  people  in  their  churches,  but 
their  influence  is  diminishing. 

Next  to,  if  not  equal  in  this  great  work,  is  that  of 
the  Baptist  Home  Missionary  Society.  It  has  had 
great  advantages  for  wor"k  in  the  South  and  is  im- 
proving them.  The  largest  class  of  colored  Chris- 
tians there  are  the  Baptists.  In  every  school  in  the 
South  that  is  sustained  by  this  missionary  society  I 
have  found  a  warm,  fraternal  greeting  and  a  hearty 
God-speed.  Very  many  Baptist  ministers,  both 
white  and  colored,  are  Freemasons,  but  the  order  re- 
ceives no  sympathy  from  the  representatives  of  this 
society;  and  this  is  perhaps  more  than  could  be  said 
of  any  other  of  the  large  organizations. 

Next  in  importance  is  the  work  of  the  M.  E. 
church.  This  great  denomination  has  not  been  re- 
miss in  its  duty  to  the  colored  people.  Some  of  the 
largest  and  best  equipped  of  the  Southern  colleges 
have  been  planted  and  are  being  sustained  by  its 
funds.  1  have  visited  nearly  all  their  schools  for 
the  colored,  and  with  very  few  exceptions  have  been 
cordially  welcomed  for  my  work's  sake.  And  this 
is  true  of  the  great  body  of  their  pastors  in  the 
South.  At  least  two  of  their  bishops  have  com- 
mended our  principles  to  their  annual  confer- 
ences. 

Northern  Presbyterians,  though  not  so  numerous 
are  doing  also  an  admirable  work  among  both  white 
and  colored  on  the  Southern  field.  Their  workers 
among  the  freedmen  are  heartily  with  us. 

Nor  should  I  fail  to  mention  the  excellent  institu- 
tions of  the  United  Presbyterians  at  Knoxville, 
Tenn.,  and-  at  Norfolk,  Chase  City  and  Abbeyville, 
Va.;  Knox  Academy,  the  Reformed  Presbyterian 
school  at  Selma,  Ala.,  and  the  admirable  Friends' 
schools  at  New  Garden,  N.  C,  Maryville.Tenn.,  and 
Helena,  Ark.,  in  all  of  which  the  distinctive  anti-se- 
crecy principles  of  these  denominations  have  a  pro- 
noqnced  enforcement. 

Besides  the  work  of  the  Northern  missionary  soci- 
eties the  distinctively  Southern  churches  have  been 
stirred  up  to  increased  efforts  for  the  evangelization 
and  education  of  the  poor.  Nor  have  they  failed  to 
discover  the  malign  influence  of  the  lodge  system. 
There  is  also  a  considerable  and  increasing  number 
of  schools  of  high  grade  that  have  been  established, 
manned,  and  are  sustained  by  the  colored  people. 


One  of  the  best  of  these  is  Livingstone  College,Rev. 
J.  C.  Price,D.  D.,president,at  Salisbury,N.  C.  These 
especially  need  our  fraternal   sympathy  and  aid. 

It  is  noteworthy  that  within  the  past  year  two  in- 
stitutions, Howe  Institute  at  New  Iberia,  La.,  and  a 
BapMst  College  at  Memphis,Tenn.,  have  been  estab- 
lished with  distinct  testimonies  against  secret  or- 
ders. 

The  work  of  evangelization,  education  and  social 
reform  must  go  hand  in  hand  and  keep  pace.  The 
best  interests  of  all  classes,  both  in  the  South  and 
in  the  entire  Nation,  demands  it.  We  can  never 
have  true  national  unity,  or  the  harmonious  work- 
ing of  a  free  government  until  we  get  rid  of  sec- 
tional animosities,  the  caste  spirit,  and,  above  all, 
the  separating  of  the  people  into  secret,  selfish  and 
exclusive  clans,  each  seeking  to  promote  its  own  in- 
terests regardless  of  the  rights  of  others.  In  the 
work  of  evangelization  and  education  we  must  de- 
pend mainly,  if  not  wholly,  on  these  great  religious 
denominations;  but  surely  it  must  be  supplemented. 
We  must  vitalize  the  entire  movement  with  the  prin- 
ciples of  our  reform. 

In  furtherance  of  this  cause  I  desire  to  make 
some  suggestions. 

1.  The  work  in  the  South  has  been  carried  on 
mainly  among  the  colored  people.  It  should  not  be 
exclusively  so.  We  owe  duties  to,  and  need  the  co- 
operation of  our  white  as  well  as  our 
colored  brethren.  The  way  is  open  for 
such  work,  especially  in  the  mountain  region  of 
North  Carolina  and  Tennessee.  As  soon  as  practi- 
cable a  laborer  should  be  employed  to  give  his  time 
mainly  to  the  white  schools  and  churches  of  this 
region.  Above  every  other  part  of  the  South  the 
people  of  this  section  have  been  patriotic,  loyal  and 
favorable  to  Christian  reforms. 

2.  It  is  eminently  desirable  that  there  should  be, 
somewhere  in  the  South,  a  permanent  oflSce  and  a 
depository  of  our  publications.  After  looking  over 
the  whole  field,  I  would  suggest  New  Orleans,  La., 
as  the  most  desirable  point,  and  that  such  an  office 
could  be  kept  up  there  during  the  school  year — say 
from  October  1st  to  June  Ist.  It  is  believed  that 
an  agent  located  in  that  city  could  do  a  most  im- 
portant local  work,  and  that  it  might  be  made  a  cen- 
ter of  vast  reformatory  influence.  There  are  fiv« 
institutions  known  as  universities  in  that  one  city, 
for  the  education  of  the  colored  youth.  To  nearly, 
or  quite  all,  we  can  have  free  accMs. 

3.  There  ought  to  be  a  great  enlargement  of  our 
business  of  publication  in  the  South.  The  great 
mass  of  the  people,  both  white  and  colored,  have 
never  heard  of  the  Christian  Cynosure,  nor  of  the 
N.  C.  A.  To  many  it  is  a  new  and  wonderful  reve- 
lation that  there  are  men  who  dare  face  and  resist 
the  power  of  the  secret  lodge.  Our  paper  has  been 
a  most  important  aid  in  the  pastoral  and  Sunday- 
school  work.  It  has  brought  a  pure  and  dignified 
Christian  literature  into  the  homes  of  many  who, 
but  for  its  pages,  would  have  little  knowledge  of 
the  great  moral  world.  Above  all  it  has  aided 
many  in  the  great  conflict  with  the  power  of  the 
lodge.  No  one  agency  is  more  economical  and  im- 
portant than  the  Cynosure.  We  need  also  a  large 
extension  of  our  tract  department.  Not  only  our 
present  excellent  tracts  should  have  a  wider  circula- 
tion, but  there  should  be  prepared  some  others  with 
special  reference  to  the  South.  I  suggest  brief  ex- 
positions, illustrated,  if  practicable,  of  such  orders 
as  are  peculiar  to  the  colored  people;  such  as  "The 
Grand  United  Order  of  Odd-fellowship,"  "The  Taber- 
nacle," "The  Knights  of  Tabor,"  etc. 

4.  There  should  be  sought  for,  and  as  far  as 
practicable  secured,  a  harmonious  co-operation 
with  kindred  reform  movements;  such  as  the 
W.  C.  T.  U.,  the  White  Cross  League,  the  Ameri- 
can Peace  Society,  the  National  Reform  Associa- 
tion, and  any  other  that  seeks  the  futherance  of  the 
Redeemer's  Kingdom.  We  should  distribute  their 
literature  and  persuade  them  to  distribute  ours. 
All  true  reformers  are  kindred  in  Christ,  who  is  our 
pattern,  and  should  be  made  to  feel  that  their  work 
is  one.  Far  more  than  we  are  apt  to  think,  they 
do  feel  so,  and  mutual  helpfulness  will  make  this 
kinship  more  apparent.  H.  H.  Hinman. 


EDUCATIONAL  NOTES. 

— At  Wasioja  Seminary  commencement  exercises 
occur  this  week.  Among  the  speakers  are  Rev.  S. 
A.  Manwell,  an  early  graduate  of  this  institution 
and  of  Wheaton  Theological  Seminary. 

— Commencement  exercises  at  Western  College, 
Lisbon,  Iowa,  occur  this  week.  The  Baccalaureate 
sermon  is  by  Pres.  Beardshear;  the  annual  sermon, 
by  Rev.  M.  R.  Drury,  of  Dayton,  Ohio;  the  Alumnal 
address,  by  Hon.  Jos.  Bookwalter,  of  Minneapo- 
lis, and  graduating  exercises  Wednesday,  with  con- 
certs Tuesday  and  Wednesday. 

— Senator  Stanford,  in  speaking  of  his  plans  for 
his  California  University,  said  that  he  desired  to 
have  the  students  understand  the  evil  consequences 
of  intemperance.  He  believed  there  are  in  Califor- 
nia to-day  more  adult  men  selling  liquors  than  there 
are  tilling  the  land,  and  the  loss  from  this  source  is 
equal  to  25  per  cent,  of  the  power  of  production. 

— The  German  Lutheran  Synod,  in  session  last 
week  at  Madison,  Wis.,  has  decided  to  remove  its 
seminary  from  Mendota,  III.,  to  Dubuque,  Iowa,  if 
that  city  will  add  $10,000  in  cash  to  its  offer  of 
thirty  acres  of  land  and  a  large  residence.  Prof. 
Fritchell,  at  the  head  of  this  institution,  has  been 
heartily  co-operating  in  labors  against  the  lodge. 
Last  year  he  made  a  systematic  and  profound  study 
of  Masonry  while  writing  an  argument  for  the  theo- 
logical students  on  the  evil  nature  of  secret  orders. 

— Evangelist  D.  L.  Moody,  on  June  2,  conducted 
exercises  at  Northfield,  Mass.,  dedicating  the  new 
library;  Dr.  Behrends  and  Dr.  Curtis,  of  Brooklyn, 
were  to  speak.  The  Bible  School  will  open  June  30 
and  continue  to  July  16,  and  ij;  is  expected  that 
there  will  be  a  larger  attendanoe  than  ever  before. 
Students  from  Alabama  and  many  Southern  and 
Western  States  have  made  arrangements  to  come. 
The  Northern  colleges  will  send  nearly  double  the 
number  in  their  delegations  of  last  year.  Many  ex- 
pect to  camp  out,  and  the  New  York  Young  Men's 
Christian  Association  alone  will  have  three  large 
tents  full  of  young  men. 

— The  program  for  commencement  week  at  Whea- 
ton begins  with  examinations  Thursday,  June  15; 
musical  rehearsal  Saturday  evening;  Baccalaureate 
sermon  by  Pres.  J.  Blanchard  Sabbath  morning; 
missionary  address  by  Rev.  J.  D.  Wyckoff,  Gales- 
burg,  111.;  Board  of  Trustees  meet  Tuesday;  Alumni 
meeting  same  day,  afternoon  and  evening;  Com- 
mencement exercises,  Wednesday,  June  20;  Rev.  E. 
R.  Worrell,  of  Washington  Heights  delivers  the 
Master's  Oration.  There  is  to  be,  also,  an  address 
by  Rev.  T.  R.  Trowbridge,  of  Aurora,  before  the 
Art  School.  The  Baccalaureate  address  before  the 
Theological  Seminary  occurs  Sabbath  afternoon. 


— One  of  our  religious  exchanges  boasts  of  a  cer- 
tain church  possessing  a  lady  who  saves  the  congre- 
gation where  she  worships  $10,000  a  year.  A  woman 
of  wealth  and  of  high  social  culture  and  position, 
she  makes  it  her  rule  and  the  fashion  to  dress  for 
church  in  so  plain  and  inexpensive  a  manner  as  to 
throw  the  whole  social  influence  of  the  congregation 
against  extravagance  in  dress.  If  she  can  overthrow 
the  cultus  of  dress  in  our  modern  churches  and  re- 
place it  with  the  worship  of  God,  she  has  a  mission 
greater  than  that  of  Kimball  or  of  Moody  and  San- 
key. — Hartford  Reliqiout  Herald. 


WASHINGTON  LETTERS. 


PROHIBITION   RATIFICATION  MEETING. 

Washington,  June  7,  1888. 

Prohibition  Hall,  at  the  corner  of  Pennsylvania 
avenue  and  4^  street,  N.  W.,  was  beautifully  deco- 
rated and  densely  packed  last  evening  in  honor  of 
the  nominees  at  the  Indianapolis  convention.  Hon. 
H.  B.  Moulton,  president  of  the  District  Prohibition 
Club,  called  the  meeting  to  order,  and  the  audience 
joined  in  singing  "Nearer,  my  God,  to  Thee."  Rev. 
C.  H.  Mytinger  led  in  prayer.  W.  E.  Carr  was  in- 
troduced, and  in  a  neat  little  speech  commended  the 
work  of  the  Indianapolis  convention  and  the  dele- 
gates from  the  District  for  the  part  they  had  taken 
in  that  work.  Rsv.  S.  H.  Cummings  Kingsly  of 
Florida  was  justly  severe  in  his  strictures  on  the 
Republicans  who  selected  R.  G.  Ingersoll,  a  man 
who  insulted  God  and  outraged  every  sentiment  of 
the  Christian  conscience  of  the  people,  to  pronounce 
a  eulogy  on  Roscoe  Conkling.  His  endorsement  of 
the  no-eex  plank  in  the  platform  in  behalf  of  the 
women  of  the  South  was  received  with  hearty  ap- 
plause. 

Next  came  Major  Walker,  delegate  from  the  Dis- 
trict and  now  a  member  of  the  National  Committee. 
The  Major  was  t)rim  full  of  enthusiasm  and  decided- 
ly practical  and  pointed  in  his  remarks.  He  knows 
the  inside  as  well  as  the  surface  of  Washington  so- 
cial life  and  the  city  government.  He  is  a  power  in 
the  reforms  attempted  in  this  city,  a  devoted  Chris- 
tian, and  tolerates  only  open  methods.  His  fidelity 
to  principle  cost  him  his  place  at  the  head  of  the 
police  force  of  this  city;  because,  as  he  said  in  re- 
gard to  Prohibition,  "I  know  what  is  right  and  dare 
to  do  it,"  We  must  acknowledge  God  in  all  our 
ways,  stand  upon  principle,  and  organize  and  work 
for  victory.  Rev.  Dr.  Baldwin  voted  for  St.  John 
and  Daniels,  and  endorsed  the  Indianapolis  nom- 
inees. 

Major  Hilton  made  the  most  lengthy  speech  of 


June  14,  1888 


THE  CHBISTIAN  CYNOSURE- 


the  evening,  full  of  incidents,  points  and  happy 
hits.  He  had  no  love  for  either  of  the  old  parties, 
but  considered  the  Democrats  most  honorable  be- 
cause they  nailed  their  colors  to  the  masthead.while 
the  Republicans  worked  in  the  dark,  sought  to  de- 
ceive the  people  and  stab  Prohibition  in  the  back. 
He  liked  open,  fair  work,  and  respected  an  avowed 
enemy  far  more  than  a  deceitful,  treacherous  be- 
trayer of  his  friends.  Mrs.  La  Fetra,  president  of 
the  District  W.  C.  T.  U.,  was  introduced  and  spoke 
briefly  of  the  women's  work  and  of  its  fitting  recog- 
nition in  the  Prohibition  platform  of  1888. 

Repeated  calls  brought  Hon.  H.  B.  Moulton  to 
the  front,  who  showed  that  he  not  only  excels  as  a 
presiding  officer,  but  is  a  "minute  man"  loaded  to 
the  brim  and  ready  to  sweep  the  field  with  his  "Gat- 
ling  gun."  Had  the  honors  of  second  place  on  the 
national  ticket  fallen  to  him  the  Prohibition  cause 
would  have  been  fiitingly  and  nobly  represented. 

The  recognition  of  God's  law  as  the  true  basis  of 
civil  government  was  the  dominant  thought  in  the 
meeting,  and  every  allusion  to  woman's  work  and 
her  inherent  right  to  protect  her  home  and  country 
at  the  polls  was  heartily  cheered.  The  meeting 
closed  with  the  "Doxology"  and  benediction,  and 
was  supplemented  with  congratulations  and  hearty 
hand-shaking,  every  one  feeling  that  it  was  a  grand 
success.  J.  P.  Stoddard. 


GLIMPSES   OF    OONQKISS. 

Washington,  June  8,  1888. 

Convention  week  in  St.  Louis  necessarily  meant  a 
dull  week  at  the  Capital.  Many  Senators  and  Rep- 
resentatives in  Congress  were  in  attendance  upon 
the  National  Convention,  and  more  still  would  have 
gone  had  they  not  been  unwilling  to  leave  the  pending 
tarifl  debate  in  the  House.  The  Senate  has  not  been 
idle,  however.  On  Monday  it  disposed  of  seventy- 
eight  bills  on  the  calendar,  about  forty  of  which 
were  pensions.  Among  them  was  one  creating  an 
additional  retired  list  of  the  army .  for  eighty  offi- 
cers now  on  the  active  list,  but  incapacitated  for 
active  service. 

Mr.  Bliss,  the  Chairman  of  the  House  Committee 
on  Pensions,  thinks  his  duties  are  very  onerous.  A 
reporter  who  was  hunting  news  asked  him  one  day 
for  some  paragraphs  on  pension  legislation.  The  j 
New  York  Congressman  said:  "Well,  I  have  been 
laboring  so  hard  for  weeks  past  that  I  have  not  had 
time  to  think  of  anything  except  pensions."  Speak- 
ing of  the  hundreds  of  bills  which  had  been  re- 
ferred to  his  committee  for  action,  he  said  the  pri- 
vate one  embraced  Mexican  claims.  Revolutionary 
claims,  claims  of  1812  and  army  and  navy  claims 
prior  to  the  war  and  subsequent.  The  amount  of 
pension  asked  varies  from  $8  to  $50  per  month. 
Some  of  these  claims  have  been  introduced  in  Con- 
gress after  Congress,  without  ever  seeuring  even  a 
report,  and  Mr,  Bliss  says  most  of  them  are  merito- 
rious and  ought  to  have  been  honored  years  ago. 
Another  class  of  claims  which  have  increased  Mr. 
Bliss's  work  pertains  to  the  life-saving  service.  It 
remains  to  be  seen  whether  the  House  will  look 
with  favor  on  legislation  to  pension  the  widows  and 
orphans  of  men  who  have  lost  their  lives  in  this 
branch  of  the  public  service.  Of  course  this  sort 
of  law  making  is  in  the  sentimental  vein  to  some 
extent,  and  the  success  of  the  measure  will  depend 
on  the  amount  of  sympathy  that  can  b«  raised  in 
the  House  of  Representatives. 

The  House  Committee  on  Public  Buildings  hold 
that  they  have  far  better  facilities  for  ascertaining 
the  needs  of  the  towns  in  which  it  is  proposed  to 
erect  buildings  than  the  President,  and  they  have 
unanimously  agreed  to  recommend  the  passage  of 
the  AUentown  (Pa.)  public  building  bill  over  his 
veto.  The  report  claims  to  contain  no  reflection 
whatever  on  the  course  he  has  taken  in  the 
matter. 

Inauguration  Day  is  to  be  a  holiday  in  the  Dis- 
trict of  Columbia.  The  Senate  seconds  the  House 
motion  and  the  House  seconds  the  Senate's  motion. 
Each  passes  the  other's  bill.  Such  Congressional 
unanimity  in  respect  to  a  matter  of  District  legisla- 
tion is  unusual. 

The  Prohibitionists  count  on  casting  740,000  votes 
this  year.  In  1884  Governor  St.  John  got  150,000, 
and  the  vote  at  the  Congressional  and  State  elections 
in  1886  was  not  quite  300,000.  Such  an  enormous 
increase  will  necessarily  make  some  States  doubtful 
that  are  now  reckoned  in  one  way  or  the  other  as 
certain.  Among  them  are  California,  Minnesota, 
Michigan  and  even  Illinois,  in  which  latter  State,  it 
is  said,the  Prohibitionists  will  go  to  the  polls  50,- 
000  strong.  Another  petition  praying  for  Prohibi- 
tion in  the  District  of  Columbia  was  presented  to 
the  Senate  during  the  week.  It  contained  the  names 
of  7,000,  from  various  parts  of  the  country.        ■" 


Reform  news. 


TBB  MOVBMBNT  IN  TEE  SOUTB. 


THE  OLD    FORT   HELD   BV   OEN.    PHELPS— AMONG  THE 
CHURCHES    UP   THE    RIVER. 


I  visited  Camp  Parapet,  about  eight  miles  above 
the  city  on  the  Mississippi  river.  This  old  fort  was 
established  by  the  Confederates  in  1860,  and  cap- 
tured by  Gen,  B.  F.  Butler  after  his  capture  of  New 
Orleans.  Just  across  the  river  was  Fort  Banks.  Fed- 
eral troops  remained  at  Camp  Parapet  until  1868, 
when  they  were  removed.  Gen.  J.  W.  Phelps  was 
in  command  at  this  fort,  and  is  well  remembered  by 
the  old  settlers.  There  remains  nothing  of  this  fort 
to  make  one  understand  that  this  was  at  one  time  a 
federal  stronghold,  saving  the  most  excellent  maga- 
zine, which  seems  to  be  ready  for  immediate  use. 

This  is  a  very  trifling-looking  town,  with  450  in- 
habitants, nine-tenths  of  whom  are  colored,  all  own- 
ing their  own  homes  and  gardens,  with  a  few  excep- 
tions. There  are  two  liquor  places;  three  colored 
churches,  two  Baptist  and  one  Methodist;  and  one 
young  men's  secret  lodge  (colored).  The  women 
mostly  seem  to  be  afraid  of  the  lodges. 

I  met  Rev.  Wm.  Ellis,  pastor  of  Ebenezar  Baptist 
church  of  Seymourville,  near  Plaquemine,  where  I 
labored  last  year.  He  invited  me  to  come  up  to  his 
church.  I  walked  from  house  to  house  and  distrib- 
uted N.  C.  A,  literature  and  conversed  freely  on  the 
secrecy  question.  Bro.  Ellis  and  I  walked  down  to 
CarroUton.and  I  Ifctured  tht re  last  night  on  minor 
secret  orders  in  Zion  First  Free  Mission  Baptist 
church.  Rev.  Henry  Davis,  pastor.  This  church  is 
well  mixed  with  the  lodge,  although  llav.  Davis  and 
his  deacons  are  Anti-masons.  Some  of  the  sisters 
grew  very  uneasy  while  I  was  speaking  against  their 
secret  societies.  Strange  to  see  how  deluded  these 
poor  people  are!  Elders  Davis  and  Ellis  very  heart- 
ily endorsed  my  lecture.  I  distributed  tracts  and 
Cynosures  to  the  congregation.  I  met  Rev.  Guy 
Beck,pastor  of  the  First  Free  Mission  Baptist  church. 
He  had  read  of  my  Amite  City  difficulty  with  the 
lodge  and  thought  it  an  outrage.  He  said,  "Keep 
up  courage,  my  son.    God  is  with  you;  go  on." 

New  Texas,  La  ,  June  4th,  1888.— I  left  Pla- 
quemine last  Thursday  morning  on  the  steamer 
Warren.  I  met  Bro.  A.  Sumner  of  Odenburg,  La., 
on  the  steamer,  who  had  never  joined  the  lodge  be 
cause  he  thought  it  wrong  for  Christians.  He  said 
the  lodges  in  Atchafalaja  are  on  the  decline,  and  if 
I  come  up  there  and  lecture  I  would  kill  out  lodgery. 
i  also  met  Mr.  F.  0.  Boyer,  of  Moreauville,  La.,  a 
student  of  New  Orleans  University.  He  was  also 
opposed  to  lodgery,  and  invited  me  to  come  to  his 
home  and  lecture. 

I  distributed  tracts  on  the  boat,  and  handed  Cap- 
tain Kennison  of  the  steamer  a  copy  of  "Facts  Stated 
by  Thurlow  Weed,"  which  he  kindly  received.  The 
captain  talked  very  freely  on  the  oppressed  condi- 
tion of  the  Negro  and  his  intemperate  habits.  One 
young  man  on  the  boat,after  reading  one  tract,said , 
"That  won't  amount  to  anything.  That's  a  Prohi- 
bition movement.  I  was  in  Texas  last  last  year  dur- 
ing the  Prohibition  fight,  and  I  tell  you  the  whisky 
men  beat  them  ten  to  one.  The  idea  of  oppressing 
a  man  so  that  he  can't  drink  what  be  pleases  is  un- 
just." I  tried  to  explain  the  object  of  our  work, when 
he  denounced  it  all  as  a  Prohibition  movement  I 
was  glad  to  learn  from  this  whisky  man  that  to  dis- 
turb the  lodge  disturbs  King  Alcohol.  We  trust 
our  Prohibnion  friends  will  give  the  language  of 
this  New  Orleans  whisky  lodge  man  a  thorough  in- 
vestigation. 

I  landed  at  New  Texas  late  Thursday  evening  and 
was  kindly  received  by  Rev.  Pierre  Johnson  and  his 
kind  wife.  I  found  Bro.  Johnson  very  busy  about 
his  farm  work,  but  he  took  time  to  drive  with  me 
around  the  country.  The  crops  are  in  fine  condition. 
Bro.  Johnson  owns  a  little  farm  of  sixty  acres  with 
a  comfortable  dwelling.  He  reads  the  Cynosure  and 
highly  commends  our  work.  I  preached  at  Bright 
Morning  Star  Baptist  church,  Rev.  P.  Johnson,  act- 
ing pastor,  Sabbath  at  10  a.  m.,  to  a  crowded  house. 
The  people  endorsed  my  sermon  in  strongest  terms. 
Bro.  Johnson  drove  me  in  his  buggy  ten  miles  down 
Bayou  Fordoche  to  Zion  Traveler  Baptist  church. 
Rev.  Jack  Gibbs,  pastor,  where  Rev.  W.  Carter,with 
his  congregation,  had  joined  Bro.  Gibbs,  and  they 
were  patiently  awaiting  my  arrival  to  preach  at  7:30 
p.  M.  Bro.  Gibbs  said  to  me,  "For  God's  sake  say 
something  to  touch  their  secrets."  The  ch«rch  was 
crowded  until  some  had  to  stand  on  the  outside. 
There  is  a  Methodist  lodge  fisherman  a  few  miles  be- 
low Bro.  Gibbs  who  has  been  fishing  with  lodge 
bait;  but,  thank  God,  the  fish  didn't  bite,  and  now 
I  think  his  great  teeth  are  broken.  I  distributed 
tracts  freely  in  both  churches  and  also  gave  e&ch 


pastor  "Freemasonry  Illustrated."  Bro,  Gibbs's 
church  made  up  $2.00  and  gave  me,  also  Bro.  John- 
son's church,  $1.75.  The  colored  people,  with  some 
few  excepiions,  are  very  poor  and  hardly  live  above 
starvation,  many  of  them  working  the  whole  year 
and  not  getting  $5. 

The  State  authorities  allow  the  penitentiary  les- 
sees to  work  convicts  on  all  the  public  works,  aud 
on  some  farms  too;  and  for  the  most  trilling  oflense 
a  poor  Negro  is  arrested.convicted  and  placed  in  the 
convict  gang.  As  long  as  our  governments  tolerate 
this  convict  labor  system,  the  penitentiaries  will  con- 
tinue to  be  die  i.  The  poor  Negroes  here  are  com- 
pelled to  work  on  the  plantations  for  such  wages  as 
the  farmer  chooses  to  pay  them,  and  pay  whatever 
price  they  are  charged  at  the  plantation  stores  for 
rations  and  other  necessaries  of  life.  But,  notwith- 
standing all  this,  there  are  men  claiming  tx>  be  min- 
isters of  the  Gospel  and  lodge  missionaries  going 
through  these  parts  trying  to  organize  secret  lodges 
to  rob  these  poor  people  yet  more.  It  ia  a  shame, 
but  I  am  writing  facts. 

Thank  God,  lodgery  has  been  kept  out  of  New 
Texas  thus  far.  Hundreds  here  would  gladly  read 
the  Cynosure,  but  they  are  not  able  to  subscribe  for 
it.  Now  is  a  time  and  here  is  a  place  where  our  re- 
form friends  can  do  much  good  by  sending  the  Cy- 
nosure free.  If  you  send  tracts  and  Cynosures  here, 
the  country  for  miles  around  will  be  leavened. 

Raccourci,  La.,  June  6tq. — I  stopped  at  New 
Texas  poslolli^e  to  get  some  stamps  and  mucilage. 
I  had  to  pay  25ct8  for  a  5  cent  bottle  of  mucilage. 
If  the  poor  people  have  to  pay  75  percent  cash  above 
the  regular  price,  what  must  the  yearly  hands  pay? 
Surely  not  less  than  150  per  cent. 

I  preached  at  Little  Rack  Baptist  church  Tuesday 
evening  to  a  large  and  attentive  congregation.  Rav. 
A.  Lewis,  the  pastor,  and  the  better  part  of  his  CDn- 
gregation  heartily  endorsed  the  sermon.  However, 
there  were  a  few  objectors.  The  church  made  up 
$1.15  and  gave  me,andl  distributed  tracts  and  gave 
away  several  books.  The  lodge  is  paralyzed  in  Rac- 
courci. Francis  J.  Davidson. 


CORBESFOITDINCE. 


BRO.  COUSTMM  RICK. 

Dear  Cynosure: — Weary  and  worn,  the  Master 
has  said  to  me.  Lie  down  and  rest.  So  I  am  now 
confined  to  my  bed.  I  hope  to  be  up  soon  and  about 
the  Master's  business. 

The  enemy  is  again  at  work  and  last  Friday  night 
we  had  to  exclude  one  of  our  members  for  joining  a 
secret  lodge.  The  season  of  picnics  and  midnight 
revelries  is  upon  us,  and  our  young  people  are  in 
danger  of  being  entrapped  by  these  wiles  of  the  dev- 
il; hence  I  hare  to  be  constantly  on  the  watch.  I 
have  had  no  chance  to  hold  up  since  I  preached  my 
first  sermon  against  the  lodge  in  June,  1885.  It 
has  been  and  is  yet  a  hard  fight.  Memphis  is  a  hot 
bed  of  secrecy  and  our  church  is  in  the  center  of  it. 

In  our  church  meeting  last  Friday  night  we  ex- 
cluded a  dear  one  to  us  all;  but  we  are  determined 
no  msitter  what  the  cost,  no  man  nor  woman  who  at- 
tends theatres,  circuses,  balls,  midnight  picnics  and 
secret  or  worldly  societies  can  be  fellowshiped  as  a 
member  of  the  Tabernacle  Baptist  church. 

I  am  now  down  and  need  rest,  and  hope  to  get 
away  as  soon  as  possible.  'My  physician  says  I 
must  have  absolute  rest.  R.  N.  Countbb. 


NBBD3  OF  WBST  AFRICAN  MISaiONS. 


KooLONo  Station,  Shainoay  District,  ^ 
Sherbro  Missions,  W.  C.  Africa,  v 
April  18  th,  1888.      ) 
Editor  Christian  Cynosure, 

Dear  Sir: — I  have  received  from  the  Superintend- 
ent of  this  mission  "Lyrics  on  Secrecy"  and  other 
pamphlets,  which  were  read  with  a  great  deal  of  in- 
terest, and  to  advantage,  since  my  ideas  on  the  sub- 
ject have  been  enlargeil  and  my  belief  strengthened 
that  secret  societies  in  all  forms  and  spheres  are  a 
curse  to  the  human  family. 

It  has  very  much  puziled  me  to  conceive  how 
ministers  of  the  religion  which  has  its  foundation 
in  our  blessed  Lord  Josus,  and  whose  servants  they 
profess  to  be,  could  reconcile  themselves  to  the  idea 
of  being  connected  with,  as  supporters  and  promot- 
ers of,  institutions  whose  very  existence  is  oppose*! 
to  truth  and  justice,  liberty  and  a  free  conscience; 
whereas  they  preach  "salvation"  to  their  congrega- 
tions through  "Jesus  Christ,"  other  than  whom  is 
"no  name  given  under  heaven  whereby  we  must  be 
saved,"  and  who  has  declared,  "I  am  the  Way,,  the 
Truth  and  the  Life."  Could  those  be  said  to  be 
walking  worthy  of  the  vocation  to  which  they  have 
been  called?     Fie  on  their  religion ! 


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JHE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


June  14,  18d8 


Your  Association  has  taken  a  good  and  bold 
8tand"on  the  Lord's  side,"and  success  to  it!  Would 
there  were  many  more  Christians  and  associations 
that  have  moral  courage  to  fight,  with  "the  sword  of 
the  Lord  and  of  Gideon,"for  country.home  and  God. 
The  end  of  all  Christians  should  be,  "the  glory  of 
the  Lord." 

In  Africa  there  are  numerous  secret  orders  for 
men  and  women  alike,  all  of  which  t«nd  to  degrade 
and  debase  the  people.  In  this  country  our  work  is 
largely  obstructed  by  the  combined  influence  of  the 
Purroh,  Tomah,  Yassie,  Bundo,  Kofong  and  other 
86'  ret  eocieties,  into  which  boys  and  girls,  nay,  even 
infants  are  initiated;  and  it  is  a  known  fact  that  in 
such  parts  not  under  the  British  Government  the 
law  of  the  country  makes  it  compulsory  for  everyone 
to  be  connected  with  one  or  other  of  these  societies. 
It  is  nothing  strange  here  on  procession  days  to 
learn  of  men,  women  and  children  being  seized  and 
forced  into  the  lodges. 

I  have  often  wondered  what  the  white  people 
would  think  of  themselves  after  hearing  what  the 
natives  say  to  the  missionaries  whenever  they  raise 
their  voice  against  secrecy.  They  tell  us  that  their 
white  brethren  are  themselves  members  of  secret  or- 
ders, though  they  claim  to  be  Christians,  and  how 
can  they  at  all  dissuade  them  {i.  e.,the  natives)  from 
secrecy.  As  if  to  tell  the  whites  of  Europe  and 
America,  "Brethren,  take  out  the  hmm  from  your 
own  eyes,  then  you  may  see  clearly  to  take  out  the 
mote,  from  our  eyes." 

There  is  but  one  way  which,  if  opened  up  to  the 
missionaries,  would  prove  a  mighty  antidote  to  se- 
crecy and  its  degenerating  influences  in  this  coun- 
try; and  that,  in  my  humble  opinion,  is  in 

EDUCATING  THE  WOMEN. 

Very  little,  indeed,  a  miserable  little  has  been 
done  m  this  direction.  It  must  be  patent  to  all 
right  thinking  people  that  if  the  future  mothers  of 
the  country  be  taught  in  the  things  of  God,  they 
will  feel  it  their  pride  and  duty  to  train  up  their 
children  in  the  way  they  should  go,  the  Lord's  way, 
so  that  when  they  are  old  they  will  not  depart  from 
it.  Who  does  not  know  the  influence  of  a  mother, 
a  Christian  mother  1  And  how  many  such  may  be 
found  in  this  country? 

A  "Girl's  Home"  into  which  girls  from  all  parts 
of  the  country  may  be  gathered  (and  sheltered  from 
the  baneful  influences  which  are  ruining  them  by 

the  thousands  daily what  a  thought!)  and  taught 

such  things  pertaining  to  their  spiritual  and  tem- 
poral welfare,  would  be  just  the  right  agency. 

There  are  very  many  young  men  trained  in  our  mis- 
sion stations  who  would  have  been  of  much  service 
to  the  work  and  a  blessing  to  the  cDuntry,  but  for 
their  being  unequally  yoked.  Others  remain  un- 
married from  want  of  suitable  partners.  Are  there 
none  to  come  to  the  rescue  of  the  girls,  the  future 
mothers,  and  thus  save  the  nations?  Will  you 
help  us?  God  help  you!  With  Christian  saluta- 
tion, yours  in  Christ. 

J.  Arthur  Richards. 


PROHIBIT  TEEM  ALL. 


Seymour  Lake,  Mich.,  May  28,  1888. 

Dear  Cynosure: — I  once  traveled  "toward  the 
East,"  the  source  of  light,  and  found  nothing  but 
darkness.  Why?  Because  the  father  of  Masonry, 
the  devil,  was  my  leader.  He  was  leading  me 
down  to  hell.  When  the  Lord  Jesus  Christ  saved 
my  soul,  he  made  me  a  thorough  Prohibitionist. 
Praise  his  holy  name!  And  I  believe,  according  to 
the  Word  of  God,  he  will  make  every  sincere 
Christian  a  temperance  worker.  Not  only  that,  but 
opposed  to  Masonry,  tobacco,  and  everything  un- 
like Christ.  But  where  is  the  remedy?  It  seems 
not  to  be  in  the  ballot,  nor  in  our  cDurts  of  justice, 
our  churches,  or  laws. 

It  is  indeed  a  dark  time  for  Michigan,  when  secret 
societies  and  whisky  control  churchps  and  courts. 
May  God  help  us  and  prepare  a  way  for  our  escape. 
Whisky  and  Masonry  are  twin  brothers;  they  go 
hand-in-hand,  leading  men  and  women  down  to 
ruin.  The  Republican  party  has  betrayed  its 
trust, — sold  out  to  the  rum  power. 

Can  I  trust  the  present  Prohibition  party?  I  an- 
swer. No.  Why?  Because  the  leaders  are  men 
high  in  Masonry,  sworn  to  help  each  other,  right  or 
wrong.  If  there  is  a  separation  from  the  lodge 
power  it  will  have  to  be  at  the  ballot  box.  My 
prayer  is,  God  bless  the  American  party.  I  am  in 
for  the  war.  D.  Benjamin. 

Note. — Will  Bro.  Benjamin  send  us  the  name 
of  any  leader  among  the  Prohibitionists  who  is 
"high  in  Masonry?"  The  Cynoture  is  not  aware 
of  any,  and  we  wish  to  be  correct — Ed. 


THE  LIGHT  MUST  8HINB. 


New  Orleans,  La. 

Editor  Cynosure: — I  have  read  your  paper 
with  diligence  and  care,  and  to-day  am  glad  to  say 
that  I  find. satisfactory  evidences  of  the  outspringing 
light  of  the  righteous. 

In  your  last  issue  I  found  inserted  some  few  re- 
marks from  my  worthy  j  oung  brother,  F.  J.  David- 
son, concerning  myself  and  congregation,  respect- 
ing the  lodgery  system.  For  my  share  in  the  fight, 
I  heartily  co-operate  with  you.  I  am  an  enemy  to 
such  evil  combinations  as  secret  societies  having 
connection  with  the  church. 

When  God  said,  Ltt  there  be  light,  he  intended  that 
a  division  should  be  made,  or  else  he  never  would 
have  separated  the  day  from  the  night.  The  light 
he  called  day,  and  the  darkness  he  called  night.  If 
a  man  walk  in  the  day,  he  stumbleth  not,  but  if  he 
walk  in  the  night,  he  stumbleth. 

The  reason  I  am  against  secret  societies,  is  be- 
cause I  am  a  minister  of  the  Gospel,  and  don't 
think  it  right  for  me  to  let  a  vile  sinner  take  the 
Bible  to  swear  me  in  as  a  lodge  member.  I  have 
no  members  in  my  church  who  belong  to  any  or- 
ganization of  the  kind.  I  have  belonged  to  two, 
and  find  it  an  obstruction  to  the  ministry,  and 
found  my  error,  seeing  I  was  hasty  in  being  led 
into  temptation  (Eccl.  11:  7).  Truly  light  is  sweet, 
and  I  am  a  child  of  the  light.  Jesus  Christ  is  my 
sun.  I  am  one  of  his  rays.  The  light  shineth  in 
darkness  and  the  darkness  comprehends  it  not.  I 
am  a  friend  to  Caesar  as  Christ  was;  that  is,  to  save 
his  soul  by  my  preaching  and  teaching.  But  to 
take  his  hand  and  let  him  lead  me  into  the  ditch  I 
will  not  be  his  friend.  (Rev.)  J.  G.  Wracks. 


PITH  AND  POINT. 


tract   WOBK   in   KANSAS. 

The  tracts  you  sent  me  have  stirred  up  the  hornets' 
nest  in  earnest  about  Alta  Vista.  I  circulated  them  at  a 
memorial  sermon  to  the  Grand  Army.  I  am  trying  to 
give  the  people  light  by  this  means  and  by  sending  out 
the  Cynosure,  and  all  other  literature  that  will  give  the 
people  light  upon  the  subject  of  Masonry.  I  find  them 
very  ignorant.  I  pray  God  to  give  the  truth  a  lodgment 
in  their  hearts.  But  when  the  members  of  churches  do 
get  the  light,  they  often  seem  cowardly,  and  dare  not 
stand  up  for  Ihe  truth.  They  are  so  afraid  of  being 
called  a  crank.  It  is  so  unpopular  to  advocate  the  cause 
of  righteousness.  My  dear  Jesus  has  so  few  friends  in 
these  days  of  formalism!  May  there  be  many  prayers 
offered  in  faith  by  the  old  veterans  of  reform  that  they 
may  have  divine  aid  in  selecting  Christian  candidates. 
If  1  had  any  surplus  money  H  should  go  into  this  reform 
work.  We  have  had  no  rain  here  for  over  two  years, 
enough  to  raise  the  watersheds;  while  in  certain  locali- 
ties there  have  been  floods.  People  are  disheartcDed  as  I 
have  never  seen  them  before. — Jbsse  Huntbr,  Alta 
Vista,  Kans, 

a  new  light  on  a  dark  subject. 

You  can  send  me  the  paper.  I  like  it  very  much,  al- 
though I  am  a  Mason.  I  have  been  a  Master  Mason  for 
six  years,  but  have  never  looked  at  the  matter  in  the 
light  that  your  paper  puts  on  it. — (Rev.)  J.  A.  Anthony, 
Forest  City,  Ark. 

FAITH   and   works. 

I  enclose  you  $5  to  help  on  your  grand  plan  to  supply 
the  Cynosure  to  ths  preachers  of  the  colored  churches  in 
the  South,  and  will  not  forget  to  pray  for  a  blessing  on 
every  copy.  God  bJeas  the  Association  and  all  its  offi- 
cers.— Geo.  Clabk,  Oberlin,  0. 

A   GOOD   PROMISE. 

I  readily  accept  the  Cynosure  with  thanks.  Will  do 
all  in  my  power  for  the  work  You  have  my  sympathy 
and  prayers.— (Rev.)  J.  M.  Williams,  Hound  Landing, 


LITERATUEE. 


DiviNK  Healing  or  tho  Atonement  for  Sin  and  Sickness.  By 
Oapta'n  K.  Kelso  Carter,  for  twenty  years  of  the  Pennsylva- 
nia Military  Coll^|l^eand  editor  of  the  Kingdom  Price  50  cents. 
John  B.  Alden,  New  York. 

Captain  Carter  has  been  recognized  for  some  years 
as  an  eminent  teacber  of  the  d<  ctrine  of  healing  by 
failh.  A  year  .ago  he  took  part  in  a  controversy  in 
the  Centwy,  defending  his  views  against  the  argu- 
ments of  Dr.  Buckley  of  the  Cktittian  Advocate  &nd 
Dr.  Schau flier.  Captain  Carter  has  been  a  success- 
ful manager  of  an  educational  institution,  and  he 
has  brought  to  the  discussion  of  his  subject  a  warm 
heart  and  zeal  for  the  Master,  but  in  some  points 
this  fervor  makes  him  forget  the  application  of  some 
plain  Scriptures,and  he  fails  as  well  in  his  logic.  His 
investigation  has  been  wide,  and  the  book  has  a 
peculiar  value  as  a  summary  of  the  principles  and 
arguments  of  those  who  maintain  the  doctrine  of 
faith-healing.  It  has  also  great  value  in  stimulat- 
ing in  the  Christian  iihurch  a  stronger  and  de(  per 
faith  in  God  as  a  helper  in  every   time  of  need, — 


daily  trial,  perplexity,  grief  or  distress.  We  can- 
not have  too  many  or  too  earnest  exhortations  to 
this.  We  are  ever  lacking  in  such  confidence  in 
God.  We  cannot  doubt  that  the  Lord  Jesus  Christ 
is  as  able  now  to  heal  as  ever,  and  his  promises  to 
answer  prayer  are  never  failing.  We  may  ask  for 
health  and  strength  as  freely  as  for  any  other  tem- 
poral gift,  and  we  shall  have  the  answer  if  it  is  for 
God's  glory.  But  if  we  attempt  to  reduce  such 
prayer  and  its  answer  1o  mathematics  and  formulate 
a  system  of  faith-healing,  we  do  not  honor  the  Holy 
Spirit,  who  cannot  be  controlled  by  human  formu- 
las, if  we  may  believe  Christ's  answer  to  Nicodemus. 
While,  therefore,  we  recommend  Captain  Carter's 
work  for  its  zeal  and  its  much-needed  instruction  to 
the  church  on  certain  points,  yet  there  is  a  defect  in 
his  philosophy,  which  must  not  be  over -looked. 

"World-English:  the  Universal  Language,"  Every 
one  has  heard  of  the  butcher  who,  after  a  long  search 
for  his  knife,  at  last  found  it  in  his  mouth:  so 
speakers  of  English  have  been  seeking  for  a  uni- 
versal language,  when,  lol  it  is  in  their  mouths. 
The  intelligibility  of  English  words  has  been  ob- 
scured by  a  dense  mist  of  letters.  This  is  now  dis- 
persed by  A.  Melville  Bell,  who  has  already  won  a 
world-wide  reputation  through  his  invention  of 
"Visible  Speech,"  the  great  boon  to  deaf  mutes. 
Professor  Bell  calls  this  new  discovery  of  his  "  World- 
English"  and  the  result  is  a  language  which  cannot 
fail  to  meet  with  acceptance,  and  at  once  supercede 
the  supposed  necessity  for  "Volapuk,"  or  any  other 
artificial  language.  No  language  could  be  invented 
for  international  use  that  would  surpass  English  in 
grammatical  simplicity,  and  in  general  fitness  to  be- 
come the  tongue  of  the  world.  "  World-English"  is 
published  in  pamphlet  form  by  N.  D.  C.  Hodges,  47 
Lafayette  Place,  New  York.    Price  25  cents. 

The  Lincoln  History  in  the  June  Century  contains 
chapters  on  "The  Advance,"  "Bull  Run,"  '•Fremont," 
and  "Military  Emancipation."  A  striking  point  in  this 
installment  is  the  account  of  Lincoln's  reception  of  the 
news  of  Bull  Rufl.  The  authors  give  a  remarkable  letter 
written  by  Horace  Greeley  after  the  battle,  before  the 
battle  Mr.  Greeley  having  urged  that  the  armies  should 
be  ordered  "Forward  to  Richmond!  Forward  to  Rich- 
mond!" In  this  letter,  dated  July  29th,  Midnight,  Mr. 
Greeley  says  to  Mr.  Lincoln:  "You  are  not  considered 
a  great  man,  and  I  am  a  hopelessly  broken  one."  He 
thereupon  urges  the  President  to  give  up  the  war  imme- 
diately if  he  (the  President)  should  conclude  that  the 
rebels  "cannot  be  beate/i."  The  second  of  Mr.  Kennan's 
illustrated  articles,  is  on  "Plains  and  Prisons  of  Western 
Siberia."  The  frontispiece  of  the  magazine  shows  an 
exile  party  on  a  muddy  road  near  Tiumen.  There  is 
nothing  more  astonishing  in  this  article  than  Mr.  Ken- 
nan's  account  of  the  hospital  wards.  He  says:  "At  last, 
having  finished  our  inspection  of  the  main  building,  we 
came  out  into  the  prison  yard,  where  I  drew  a  long,  deep 
breath  of  pure  air,  with  the  delicious  sense  of  relief  that 
a  half  drowned  man  must  feel  when  he  comes  to  the  sur- 
face of  the  water."  The  last  of  the  series  of  Western 
articles  by  Mr.  Roosevelt  is  entitled  "The  Ranchman's 
Rifle  on  Crag  and  Prairie."  This,  like  the  other  articles, 
is  accompanied  by  Remington's  graphic  sketches  of 
Western  scenes.  Another  illustrated  article  is  written  by 
Mr.  Theodore  De  Vinne,  printer  of  the  Century,  and  is 
entitled  "A  Printer's  Paradise:  The  Plantin-Moretus  Mu- 
seum at  Antwerp."  Prof.  Atwater's  food  article  this 
month  discusses  the  question  "What  We  Should  Eat." 
Among  his  topics  are  "Standards  for  Daily  Dietaries," 
"American  vs.  European  Diet,"  "Food  and  Wages,"  and 
"Reasons  for  Mixed  Diet,"  etc.  His  paper  is  accompa- 
nied by  portraits  of  von  Liebig,  Bernard,  Playfair,  and 
Payen. 

The  English  Illustrated  Magazine  for  June  opens  with 
a  beautiful  frontispiece  "Solitude."  In  the  "Glimpses 
of  Old  English  Homes"  series,  Eridge  Castle  belonging 
to  the  Marquis  of  Abergavenny  is  described  and  illus- 
trated. Among  the  portraits  is  a  rare  one  of  Queen 
Elizabeth  when  a  blooming  girl,  and  another  of  War- 
wick "the  Kingmaker."  C.  F.  Gordon  Cumming  writes 
of  "Pagodas,  Aurioles  and  Umbrellas."  His  observa- 
tions among  the  Oriental  nations,  and  their  use  of  these 
structures  and  implements  in  religion  and  as  distinctions 
of  rank  is  most  interesting  and  instructive.  The  fine 
illustrations  are  from  drawings  by  the  author.  Prof. 
Minto's  story  on  the  uprising  of  the  English  peasants 
five  hundred  years  ago  loses  no  interest  as  it  proceeds. 

Louise  Chandler  Moulton  writes  in  the  8t.  Hicholas  a 
full  but  simple  memorial  of  "Louisa  May  Alcott,"  con- 
taining extracts  from  her  letters,  and  the  article  is  illus- 
trated by  a  H6W  picture  of  Miss  Alcott,  which  is  much 
more  pleasing  than  any  before  published,  and  also  by  a 
picture  of  her  adopted  daughter  (the  child  of  her  sister 
"Amy"),  Lulu  Nieriker.  A  strong  leading  article  is  en- 
titled "A  Great  Show,"  by  Prof.  Alfred  Church,  describ- 
ing the  Circus  Maximus  at  Rome.  It  is  finely  illustrated 
by  E.  H.  Blashfield.  Thomas  Nelson  Page  continues  the 
excellent  serial,  "Two  Little  Confederates,"  and  Celia 
Thaxter  contributes  a  charming  children's  story,  "Cat's- 
Cradle." 

The  approaching  "heated  term"  renders  an  article  on 
"Summer  Indigestion  and  Diarrbfua"  in  the  current  num- 
ber of  Babyhood  particularly  seasonable.  It9  writer.  Dr. 
B.  D.  Chapin,  gives  mothers  just  the  advice  and  infor- 
mation which  they  require  to  tide  the  little  ones   safely 


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THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


over  the  trying  months  before  them.  Of 
equal  interest  will  be  found  an  article  on 
"Domestic  Remedies,"  consisting  of  hints 
and  suggestions  by  Babyhood's  readers, 
and  appropriate  editorial  comment.  A 
novel  feature  is  "The  Fathers'  Parlia- 
ment," a  department  opened  for  the  pur- 
pose of  enabling  the  mothers'  husbands 
to  express  their  opinions  and  air  their 
grievances  on  a  great  variety  of  subjects. 

The  title  of  the  rose  as  the  Queen  of 
Flowers  has  been  disputed  by  Orchid  and 
Tulip,  but  never  successfully,  and  to-day 
this  royal  flower  holds  full  sway  in  the 
gardens  of  half  the  world.  Many  books 
have  been  printed  describing  the  Rose, 
yet  the  American  Qarden  for  June,  a 
special  Rose  number,  presents  many  new 
and  interesting  facts  upon  this  ever- 
pleasing  topic.  On  the  cover  itself 
blooms  a  beautiful  rose,  and  a  basket  of 
roses  is  the  subject  of  a  fine  plate.  There 
is  a  pretty  sketch  by  Victor  Dagnion,  a 
view  of  a  rose  covered  cottage  in  Califor- 
nia and  several  pictures  of  varieties  new 
to  fame  and  of  great  interest  to  garden- 
ing folk.  This  issue  of  the  American 
Garden  (New  York)  contains  numerous 
articles  Irom  practical  writers,  descriptive 
of  the  newer  roses;  of  successful  methods 
of  cultivation;  of  the  art  of  arrangement; 
on  roses  as  shrubs,  etc.,  etc. 


In  Brief. 


India  embraces  a  territory  as  large  as 
the  United  States  east  of  the  Mississippi 
River,  and  has  a  population  of  250,030,- 
000.  Of  these  175,000,000  are  Hindus, 
50,000,000  are  Mohammedans,  and  the 
remainder  are  divided  among  other  relig- 
ions, as  Buddhism,  Parseeism,  etc.  It  is 
said  that  about  three  hundred  dialects  are 
spoken  by  the  people  of  India. 

Sho  Nemoto,  a  Japanese  student  in  the 
University  of  Vermont,  gives  some  inter- 
esting facts  about  his  country.  The  Jap- 
anese, he  says,  read  more  American  than 
English  books .  Last  year  85  000  English 
and  119,000  American  books  were  im- 
ported. Until  recently  all  the  editors  of 
all  the  newspapers  were  men, but  in  March 
last  a  temperance  paper  was  established 
in  Tokio  by  Miss  Asai  and  Mrs.  Sasaki, 
the  Secretary  of  the  Tokio  Woman's 
Christian  Temperance  Union. 

Two  young  ladies  of  South  Chester, 
Pa  ,  went  into  a  store  where  was  a  gal- 
vanic battery,  and  the  proprietor  asked 
them  to  try  it.  Each  grasped  a  pole  of 
the  battery,  and  wondered  why  no  shock 
was  felt.  The  proprietor  suggested  that 
they  kiss  each  other.  They  did  so,  and 
there  was  a  shock  indeed.  One  of  the 
young  women  shrieked  and  fell  over 
backward.  The  other  made  no  sound, 
but  fainted.  Cold  water  brought  them 
both  around,  none  the  worse  for  the  kiss. 

The  great  tunnel  through  the  Cascade 
Mountains  on  the  Northern  Pacific  road 
just  finished  is  9,900  feet  long,  and 
through  solid  rock  nearly  all  the  way. 
When  the  final  piercing  was  accom- 
plished, there  was  nothing  left  to  do  but 
to  lay  a  track.  Trains  will  be  running 
through  it  within  one  week.  The  tunnel 
was  begun  early  in  1886,  and  the  contract 
was  for  about  $2,000,000.  When  the 
work  was  begun  there  were  no  roads  into 
the  mountains  and  all  the  heavy  machin- 
ery had  to  be  hauled  in  on  wheels  and 
then  transferred  to  runners.  In  some 
places  the  pressure  of  the  mountain  is  so 
great  that  clay  is  forced  up  from  the  bot- 
tom afid  an  inverted  arch  of  stone  had  to 
be  constructed  to  keep  the  clay  down. 
The  work  has  been  earned  on  by  electric 
light,  power  for  which  is  supplied  by  a 
small  mountain  stream  which  flows  down 
the  mountain  and  falls  directly  over  the 
mouth  of  the  tunnel. 

A  strange  spectacle  was  seen  at  Find- 
lay,  O.,  in  the  northern  sky  shortly  after 
1 1  o'clock  May  22,  which  has  caused  the 
greatest  consternation  among  the  people. 
It  was  the  representation  of  a  human 
hand,  of  immense  proportions,  awe-in- 
spiring in  its  realistic  vividness.  Early 
in  the  evening  the  sky  in  the  north  had 
a  peculiar  appearance,  which,  as  the  night 
wore  on,  took  tbe  form  of  flashes  of  light 
constantly  changing  in  color,  pulsing  up 
from  the  horizon  and  again  subsiding, 
but  with  each  appearance  becoming  more 
brilliant  and  unnatural.  This  continued 
until  about  11  o'clock,  when  those  watch- 
ins;  the  phenomena  were  terrified  to  see 
these  plumes  of  light  concentrating  into 
a  distinct  object,  which  soon  assumed  the 
proportions  of  a  giant  hand,  well  formed, 
and  as  distinct  as  if  painted  upon  the 


black  background  of  the  sky.  The  spec- 
tacle lasted  for  about  an  hour,  and  was 
witnessed  by  hundreds,  who  were  breath- 
less with  suppressed  excitement,  until 
slowly  it  began  to  fade  away  and  finally 
disappeared  altogether.  It  was  one  of 
the  strangest  and  yet  most  impressive 
exhibitions  of  nature  ever  witnessed,  and 
speculation  regarding  its  cause  and  sig- 
nificance will  not  abate  for  many  a  day. 
On  the  election  of  Mrs.  Carse  to  the 
Board  of  Education  the  LeqdL  News  says: 
"This  is  the  first  time  a  woman  has  ever 
been  elected  or  appointed  upon  a  school 
board  in  Chicago  or  Cook  county.  This 
seems  strange  in  a  city  like  Chicago, 
where  there  are  so  many  educated  and 
talented  women.  The  law  making  women 
eligible  to  any  office  under  the  general  or 
special  school  laws  of  this  State  has  been 
in  force  since  1873.  It  was  written  and 
introduced  by  Judge  Bradwell  while  a 
member  of  the  House  of  Representatives. 
Thirteen  or  fourteen  women  were  elected 
county  superintendents  of  schools  at  the 
next  election  after  the  passage  of  this 
law.  There  has  not  been  a  general  State 
election  for  school  officers  since,  but  that 
some  women  have  been  elected  School 
Superintendents.  There  shou'd  be 
women  upon  every  school  board .  There 
are  certain  matters  connected  with  the 
education  of  children,  and  particularly 
girls,  that  women  are  more  capable  of 
passing  upon  than  men.  The  mother,  as 
well  as  the  father,  should  have  an  official 
voice  in  the  management  of  our  schools. 
To  elect  one  woman  to  a  school  board 
can  hardly  be  called  a  representation. 
Women  in  numbers  should  have  a  fair 
representation  on  all  educational  boards 
When  the  Woman's  College  turned  over 
its  property  to  the  Northwestern  Univer- 
sity and  became  a  part  of  the  University 
a  solemn  compact  was  entered  into  that 
a  certain  number  of  the  trustees  of  the 
University  should  always  be  women .  It 
was  but  a  few  years  after  this  compact 
was  entered  into  before  it  was  broken  by 
the  University,  and  the  stipulated  num 
ber  of  women  were  not  elected  trustees." 


DR.    FILI.BA6S'    DIAGNOSIS. 

To  Dr.  Pillbags,  Patrick  came 

With  a  most  woful  face; 
Says  he,    "Dear    Docther,  phat's    your 
name. 

Will  you  plaze  trate  my  case." 
The  doctor  looked  him  in  the  eye, 

His  tongue  he  made  him  show; 
Said  he,  "My  man,  you're  going  to  die; 

You've  got  tic  douloureux  " 
"My  faith,"  says  Pat,  "pnat's  that  you  say  ? 

I've  got  'tick-dollar,'  oh! 
Yez  lyin'  thafe,  I  always  pay 

Your  bill  before  I  go, 
I'll  have  no  more  to  dc  wid  yez, 

I'll  docther  my  own  case." 
He  took  a  dose  of  P.  P.  P.  P.'s, 

And  wears  a  brighter  face. 

Use  Pierce's  Pleasant  Purgative  Pellets 
for  torpid  liver,  constipation,  and  all  de- 
rangements of  stomach  and  bowels.  By 
druggists . 


The  "old  reliable"— Dr.  Sage's  Catarrh 
Remedy. 

The  life-giving  properties  of  Ayer's 
Sarsaparilla  have  established  its  well- 
earned  reputation,  and  made  it  the  most 
efEectual  and  popular  blood  purifier  of 
the  day.  For  all  diseases  of  the  stom- 
ach, liver,  and  kidneys,  this  remedy  has 
no  equal.     Price  $1. 

GO   WEST. 

No  portion  of  the  United  States  to  day 
offers  as  many  opportunities  for  making 
money  as  can  be  found  at  Qreat  Falls, 
Mont.,andon  the  reservation  just  opened, 
in  business,  mining,  stock-raising  or 
farming.  Rates,  maps  and  particulars 
will  be  furnished  by  C.  H.  Wakrkn, 
Gen.  Pass.  Agent,  St.  P.  M.  &  M.  Ry., 
St.  Paul,  Minn. 


ANTI-SECRECY  BOOKS 

a,ncl  Ti-acts 

Can  be  had  at  the  following  N.  C   A 
agencies : 

Rbv.  J.  P.  Stoddard,  215  ^12 
iStreet,  N.  W.,  Washington,  D.  C. 

Rkv.  Francis  J.  Davidson,  l'>2 
Clara  Street,  between  Poydraa  and 
Perdido  ^Streets,  New  Orleant. 


ANTIMABOmO  LBOTUBBRB. 
Gbnbbal  Asbht  ahd  Lsctubbb,  J.  p. 
Stoddard,  221  W.  Madison  St.,  Chicago. 
H.  H.  Hinman,  Cynosure  office. 
Agent  for  Southern  States. 
Statb  AexNTS. 
Iowa,  C.  F.  ■  Hawley,  Wheaton,    Du- 
Page  Co.,  Illinois. 
Missouri,  Eld.  Rufus  Smith,  Maryyille. 
New  Hampshire,   Eld.  8.  C.  Eomball, 
New  Market. 
Ohio.  W.  B.  Stoddard,  Columbus. 
Kansas,  Robert  Loggan,  Clifton. 
Alabama,  Rev.  G.  M.  Elliott,  Selma, 

Dbobbb  Wobxbbs. — [Seceders.l 
J.  E.  Glassford,  Carthage,  Mo. 
Othbb  Lbctxtbbbs, 

C.  A.  Blanchard,  Wheaton,  111. 
N.  Callender,  Brown  Hollow,  Pa. 
J .  H.  Tlmmons,  Tarentum,  Pa 

T.  B.  McCormlck,  Princeton,  Ind. 

B.  Johnson,  Dayton,  Ind. 

H.  A.  Day,  WiUlamstown,  Mich. 

J.  M.  Bishop,  Chambersborg,  Pa 

A.  Mayu,  Bloomlngton,  Ind. 

J.  B.  CreBBlnger,  Sullivan,  O. 

W.  M.  Love,  Osceola,  Mo. 

J.  L.  Barlow,  Grundy  Center,  Iowa. 

A.  D. Freeman,  Downers  Grove,  111 
Wm.  FentoD,  8t  Paul,  Minn. 
Warren  Taylor,  South  Salem,  O. 

J.  8.  Perry,  Thompson,  Conn. 

J.  T.  Mlchael,1533  Capouse  Av.8cranton,Pa. 

8.  G.  Barton,  Breckinridge,  Mo. 

B.  Bametson.  HaskinviUe,  Steuben  Co,|N.  T 
Wm.  R.  Roach,  Pickering,  Ont. 

D.  A.  Richards,  Brighton,  Mich, 

THE    OEUROHMB     VS.    LODf^VBT. 

The  following  denominations  are  com- 
mitted by  vote  of  their  legislative  assem- 
blies or  by  constitution  to  a  separation 
from  secret  lodge  worship: 

Adventists  (Seventh-day.) 

Baptists — Primitive,  Seventh-day  and 
Scandinavian. 

Brethren  (Bunkers  or  German  Bap- 
tists.) 

Christian  Reformed  Church. 

Church  of  God  Northern  Indiana  El' 
dership.) 

Congregational — The  State  Associations 
of  Illinois  and  Iowa  have  adopted  resolu- 
tions against  the  lodge. 

Disciples  (in  part.) 

Friends. 

Lutherans — Norwegian,  Danisk,  Swed- 
ish and  Synodical  Conferences. 

Mennonites. 

Methodists — Free  and  Wesleyan. 

Methodist  Protestant  (Minnesota  Con- 
ference.) 

Moravians. 

Plymouth  Brethren. 

Presbyterian — Associate,  Reformeil  and 
United. 

Reformed  Church  (Holland  Branch.) 

United  Brethren  in  Christ. 

Individual  churches  in  some  of  these 
denominations  should  be  excepted,  in  part 
of  them  even  a  considerable  portion. 

The  following  local  churches  have,  as  a 
pledge  to  disfellowshlp  and  oppose  lodge 
worship,  given  their  names  to  the  follow- 
ing list  as 

THK    AS80CIATBD   CHURCHK8    OF  CHKI8T. 

New   Ruhamah  Cong.  Hamilton,  Miss. 

Pleasant  Ridge  Cong.  Sandford  Co.  Ala. 

New  Hope  iiethodlst,  Lowndes  Co.,  Miss. 

Conjjregatlonal,  College  Springs,  Iowa. 

College  Church  of  Christ,  Wheaton,  lU. 

First  Congregational,  Leland,  Mich. 

8uK«r  Grove  Church,  Green  county.  Pa. 

Military  Chapel,  M.  E.,  Lowndes  county. 
Miss. 

Hopewell  Missionary  Baptist.,  Lowndes  Co., 
Miss. 

Cedar  Grove  Miss.  Baptist,  Lowndes  Co., 
Miss. 

Simon's  Chapel,  M.   E.,  Lowndes  Co.,  Miss. 

Pleasant  Kldgo  Miss.  Baptist,  Lowndes  Ca, 
VIlss. 

Brownlce  Church,  Caledonia,  Miss. 

Salem  Church,  Lowndes  Co.,  Miss. 

>Ve8t  Preston  Baptist  Church,  Wayne  CcPa. 
OTHBB  LOCAL  CHUBCHBB 

adopting  the  same  Drinciple  are — 

Baptist  churches:  N.  Ablngton,  Pa. ;  Meno- 
monlo,  Mondovl,  Waubeck  and  Spring  Prairie. 
Wis. ;  Wheaton,  lU. ;  Perry,  N.  Y. ;  Suriug 
L!reck,  near  Burlington,  Iowa;  Lima,  Ind.; 
Oonstahlevllle,  N.  Y.  The  "Good  Will  Assocl- 
tt>n"  of  Mobile,  Ala.,  comprising  some  twenty- 
?ve  colored  Baptist  churches;  B ridge wat«i 
huptlst,  Association,  Pa.;  Old  Tebo  Baptist, 
lofve  Leesvllle,  Henry  Co.,  Mo. ;  Hoopeetou,  111  -, 
^smon,  lU. ;  Strykersvllle,  N.  Y. 

Oougregfttlonal  churches :  1st  of  Oberlln,  O. ; 
TonleA,  CYysUl  Lake,  Union  and  Big  Woods. 
111. ;  Solsbury,  Ind. ;  Congregational  Mo»hodlBt 
Mhticood,  Mass. 

liidepeudent  churches  In  Lowell,  Country 
<aan  school  house  near  Llndenwood,  Msr«n(;0 
-ind  dtreator.  111. :  Boreaaud  Camp  Nelson,  Ky  : 
I'atlck,  111. ;  Clarkshnrg,  Kansas;  8Ute  Assoc) 
atiouot  MlnlstArs  and  UhorchM  «f  Christ  In 
Ka«t»8k*. 


N.  a  A.  BUILDING  AND  OITICX  Of 
THB  CHRISTIAN   CYN08URB, 
•81  WB8T  MADISON  8TREBT,  CHICAGO 


NATIONAL  CHEIti  TIAN  A880CIA  TIOM 

Pbbsidbht.— H.  H.  George,  D.  D.,  Gen- 
eva College,  Pa. 

ViCB-PBBsroBMT — Rev.  M.  A.  Qault, 
Blanchard,  Iowa. 

Cob.  Sbc't  and  Gbhbbal  AesNT. — J 
P.  Stoddard,  221 W.  Madisonst.,  Chicago. 

Rbc.  Sbc't.  ahd  Tkbasubbb.— W.  I 
Phillips,  221  W.  Madison  St.,   Chicago 

DiBBCTOBS. — Alexander  Thomson,  M. 
R.  Britten,  John  Gardner,  J.  L.  Barlow, 
L.  N.  Stratton,  Thos.  H.  Gault,  C.  A. 
Blanchard,  J.  E.  Roy,  E.  R.  Worrell,  H. 
A.  Fischer.  W.  R.  Hench. 

The  object  of  this  Association  is: 
"To  expose,  withstand  and  remove  secret 
■ocletles,  Freemasonry  in  particular,  and  othet 
antl-Christlan  movements,  In  order  to  save  tht 
churches  of  Christ  from  being  uepraved,  to  r» 
deem  the  adminlstry  tion  of  justice  from  pe^ 
version,  and  our  rep  iblican  govemmeut  from 
corruption." 

To  carry  on  this  work  contributions  are 
solicited  from  every  friend  of  the  reform. 

Form  of  Bequest. — 7  give  and  bequeath  to 
the  National  Christian  Association,  Incorpo- 
rated and  existing  under  the  laws  of  tbe  Stat« 

of   Illinois,  the  sum  of •    dollars  for  the 

purposes  of  said  Association,  and  for  wWrh 
ue  receipt  of  Its  Treasurer  for  the  time  being 
*li4ll  be  sufficient  discbatse. 

THB  NATIOHAX  OOKYBNTIOH. 

Fbbsidbwt.— Rey.  J.  8.  T.  Milligan, 
Denison,  Eans. 

Sbcbbtaby.— Rev.  R.N.Countee.Mem- 
phis,  Tenn. 

BTATB  AnxnjABT  ASSOCIATIOKfl. 

Alabama.— Prea.,  Prof.  Pickens;  Soc,  e. 
M.  Blllott;  Trea».,  Rev.  C.  B.  Curtis,  aU  of 
Belma. 

CALrroKHiA.— Pres^  L.  B.  Lathrop,  Hollli 
ter;  Cor.  See.,  Mrs.  U.  P.  Merrill,  Woodland- 
Treas.,  C.  Ruddock,  Woodland. 

CoNNBcnccT.— Pres.,  J.  A.  Conant,  Willi 
mantle;  Sec,  Geo.  Smith,  WlUlmantlc ;  Treaa 
C.  T.  Collin*,  Windsor. 

iLLiHOis.— Pres.,  J.  P.  Stoddard  Sec,  M 
N.  Butler;  Treas.,  W.  I.  Phillips  all  at  Cw- 
tioture  office. 

INDIAHA.— Pre*.,  William  H.  Flgg,  Reno 
Sec,  8.  L.  Cook,  Albion;  Treas.,  BenJ.  Ul«h 
Silver  Lake. 

lOWA.— PreB.,Wm.John8ton,College  Springs 
Cor   Sec,  C.   D.   Trumbull,    Morning   Sun- 
Treas.,  James  Harvey,  Pleasant  Plain,  Jeffer 
son  Co. ;  Lecturer,  C.  F.  Hawlev,  Wheaton  111 

Kahsas.— Pres..  J.  8.  T.  .Milligan,  Denison  • 
Sec,  8.  Hart,  Lecompton;  Treas.,  J.  A.  Tcr- 
rence,  Denison. 

Massaohuobttb.— Pres.,  8.  A.  Pratt;  Sec 
Mrs.  B.  D.  Bailey;  Treas., David  Mannlng,8r.' 
Worcester.  * 

MiOHiOAH.— Pres.,  D.  A.  Richards,  Brighton 
Sec'y,  H.  A.  Dav,  Wllllamston ;  fntM.' 
Geo.  Dwanson,  Jr.,  Bedfoiu. 

MiNN«80Ti..— Pres.,  B.  G.  Paine,  Waalo'a 
Cor.  Sec,  Wm.  Fenton,  St.  Paul;  Kec.  Sec'y 
Mrs.  M.  F.  MorrUl,  St.  Charies;  'Treas.,  Wm 
H.  Morrill,  8t  Charles. 

MiBBOUHi.— Pres.,  B.  F.  Miller,  BaglevlUa 
Treas.^llllain  Beauchamp,  Avalon ;  Cor.  Sec 
A.  D.  'Thomas,  Avalon. 

Nebraska.— Pres.,  8.  Austin,  Falrmooiit' 
Cor.  Sec,  W.  Spooner,  Kearney;  Treas.1 
J.  C.  Tye. 

Maine.— Prcs-,  Isaac  Jackson,  Harrison - 
Sec,  1.  D.  Haines,  Dexter;  Treas.,  U.  W. 
Goddard,  West  Sidney. 

Nbw  HAm-sHiKs.-  -r^res.,  C.  L.  Baker,  Mau' 
Chester;  Sec,  8.  C.  KlmbaU,  New  Market' 
Treas.,  James  /.  French,  Canterbury. 

Nbw  York.- Pres.,  F.  W.  Capwell,  Dale: 
Sec'y,  John  Wallace,  Syracuse;  Treas.,  M. 
Merrick,  Syracuse. 

Ohio.— Pres.,  F.  M.  Spencer,  New  Concord; 
Rec  Sec,  8.  A.  George,  Mansfleld;  Cor.  Sec 
and  Treas.,  C  W.  But,  Columbus;  Agent 
W.  B.  Stoddard,  Columbus. 

Pbhnbtlvania.— Cor.  Sec,  N.  Callender 
TbompWB ;  Treas.,  W.  B.Bertels,  Wllkesbarre. 

VBRMOirr.- Pres.,  W.  K.  Laird,  8U  Johns- 
bury  ;  Sec,  C.  W  Potter. 

WiBOOHsiN.- Pre*  ,  J.  W  Wood,    Baraboo; 
8ec,  W.  W.  Ame^  Meaomonle;  Treat.,  M.  H 
Britten,  Vienna. 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


June  14, 1888 


The  Christian  Cynosure. 


/.  BLANCHARD. 


CxtnoBS. 


HKHRY  L.  KXLLOGG. 


OHICAeO,   THUBB3AY,   JUNE   14,   1888. 


THB  If.  G.  A.  ANNUAL  MBBTINQ. 


The  annual  meeting  of  the  National  Christian  Asso- 
ciation is  fixed  by  by-law  No.  4  on  the  third  Thursday  in 
June  of  each  year.  Corporate  members  and  all  friends 
of  the  N.  C.  A.  will  notice  that  this  occurs  on  June  21, 
1888,  and  be  prompt  in  attendance  for  the  transaction  of 
the  annual  business  at  10  o'clock  a.  m  ,  at  the  Carpenter 
Building,  No.  221  "West  Madison  Street,  Chicago. 

H  H  Qeorqb,  President. 

W.  I.  Phillips,  Sec.  Sec'y. 


THE  ABBOCIATED  CHURCHES  IN  MISSISSIPPI. 

This  is  to  give  notice  to  the  readers  of  the  Cynosure 
that  a  convention  of  the  Associated  Churches  of  Christ 
will  be  held  in  Simon  Chapel,  six  miles  north  of  Colum- 
bus, Miss.,  on  the  27th  of  July,  1888.  We  are  trying  by 
the  help  of  the  Lord  to  let  the  people  know  the  meaning 
of  Christian  reform  work.      J.  L  Pollard,  Lecturer. 


The  Fund  for  sending  the  Cynosure  South  grows 
week  by  week  until  the  amount  we  asked  for  some 
months  ago  is  almost  in  sight.  Such  appeals  for  the  aid 
of  our  Northern  friends  as  Bro.  Davidson  and  others 
send  up  ought  to  be  answered  quickly. 


Prof.  Kimball  of  New  Hampshire  sends  us  let- 
ters from  Hardwick  and  Brattleboro,  approving  of 
meetings  in  the  Vermont  churches— prayer  and 
speaking  meetings  for  the  kingdom  of  Christ  and 
the  overthrow  of  the  kingdom  of  darkness. 


The  commknobmknt  at  Wheaton  College,  June 
20th  inst.,  always  draws  a  crowd.  The  growth  of 
the  institution  is  steady  and  firm:  and  as  whatever 
brings  people  together  in  masses,  if  it  does  not  pu- 
rify, corrupts  them,  this  annual  gathering  should  be 
preceded  and  attended  by  prayer.  When  Oberlin 
was  in  its  glory,  its  commencements  were  held  in 
the  large  tent,  holding  two  to  three  thousand  people, 
with  a  pennon  floating  over  it  bearing  the  inscrip- 
tion, "Holiness  to  the  Lord."  The  thrill  of  those 
occasions  is  remembered  yet.  The  preliminary  re- 
hearsals of  music,  orations,  etc.,  were  then  intermin- 
gled with  prayer. 


Bishop  Wright,  en  route  to  his  district  on  the 
Pacific  coast,  writes  us  suggesting  a  likeness  and 
sketch  of  Gamaliel  Bailey,  the  anti-slavery  editor, 
for  insertion  in  the  Cynosure.  We  will  endeavor  to 
camply  with  the  Bishop's  suggestion.  The  senior 
editor  of  the  Cynosure  had  an  early  and  intimate 
acquaintance  with  Dr.  Bailey  at  Cincinnati,  where 
his  press  was  three  times  broken  by  the  mob,  and 
as  often  restored.  He  was  an  admirable  man,  and 
the  American  people  should  not  let  his  memory, 
and  the  great  work  he  accomplished  for  the  country, 
fade  out  of  the  minds  of  the  children  of  those  who 
stood  with  him  through  the  earthquake  which  over- 
threw American  slavery.  Let  us  also  have  a  por- 
trait and  sketch  of  Bishop  Milton  Wright. 


ROMANISM  IN   THE  SOUTH. 


Gov.  McEnery,  of  Louisiana,  last  winter  called  a 
convention  to  induce  emigration  from  Northern 
States  South.  The  New  Orleans  Tirms-Democrat 
took  a  loud  and  leading  part  in  stimulating  this  em- 
igration, and  in  one  number  reported  eighty  fami- 
lies from  Iowa  booked  for  southwestern  Louisiana, 
near  Lake  Charles. 

Now  the  Presbyterian  papers  of  the  diflferent 
classes,  Reformed,  United,  and  those  of  the  South- 
ern General  Assembly,  unite  in  charging  Cardinal 
Gibbons,  and  his  battalion  of  subordinate  priests, 
with  joining  the  hue  and  cry  for  Southern  emigra- 
tion to  Romanize  the  South,  by  raising  money  from 
Protestants  to  be  put  into  the  hands  of  priests,  who 
are  to  collect  and  plant  colonies  of  Papists  on  the 
cheap,  rich,  vacant  lands  in  the  extreme  Southern 
States.  It  is  said  the  Legislature  of  South  Caro- 
lina has  already  voted  a  sum  from  the  taxes  of  her 
people  to  forward  this  infamous  scheme  which  is  to 
accomplish  a  three-fold  purpose,  viz.: 

1.  Furnish  white  buyers  to  purchase  the  land  of 
the  old  slave-holders,  who  will  starve  rather  than 
sell  a  foot  of  land  to  the  Negroes. 

2.  To  settle  Irish  immigrants  together  in  colonies 
so  that  priests  can  manage  them. 

3.  To  furnish  ex-slave-holderf  and  their  children, 
who  are,  as  they  think,  "born  to  command,"  with  a 


constituency  of  religious  and  civil  born  underlings, 
who,  in  Ireland,  have  been  trained  to  abject  submis- 
sion by  Irish  priests  and  English  landlords. 

If  the  Southern  Presbyterian  clergy  knew  their 
mercies,  instead  of  standing  aloof  from  reforms 
and  relying  on  or  teaching  the  Catechism  and  Con- 
fession of  Faith,  which,  however  excellent,  were 
conceived  and  written  in  the  style  and  language  of 
a  former  age,  they  would  buy  and  read  the  new  book 
on  "Ancient  and  Accepted  Scottish  Rite  Masonry," 
which  shows,  on  the  clearest  and  most  substantial 
proofs,  that  Popery  is  the  mother  of  Masonry  and 
one  witL  it;  that  both  teach  salvation  by  ceremo- 
nies instead  of  salvation  by  Christ,  and  that  both 
will  blend  with  Mormonism  in  the  final  struggle  of 
Satan  with  Christ  for  the  world's  worship.  True, 
both  Popery  and  Mormonism  preach  Christ;  but 
Mormons  teach  him  as  a  tool  of  priestly  incanta- 
tion, and  Papists,  in  practice,  subordinate  the  Sav- 
iour to  his  mother  and  the  Pope.  As  a  whole,  the 
Southern  Presbyterian  clergy  are  a  fine  set  of  men, 
as  we  have  found  by  recent  social  intercourse  with 
them.  But  their  ignorance  of  Masonry  is  enormous. 
Scarce  one  of  them  knows  that  Roman  Catholics  in 
Southern  cities  are  of  ten  both  Catholics  and  Masons, 
but  really  believe  that  Popery  and  Masonry  are  an- 
tagonistic. If  they  would  read  this  book  they  would 
soon  find  their  mistake.  The  Superintend. nt  of 
Public  Instruction  in  the  State  of  Louisiana  is  both 
a  Papist  and  Freemason. 


THE  MARTYR  PERIOD  OF  REFORMS. 


"Humanity  sweeps  onward;  where  to-day  the  Martyr  stands 
To- morrow  standeth  Judas,  with  the  silver  in  his  hands." 

— J.  liussell  Lowell. 

Every  reform  must  have  its  martyr  period;  and 
the  persecution  is  always  proportioned  to  the  inter- 
ests involved  and  the  power  of  the  parties  engaged, 
or  rather,  the  balance  of  power.  For  if  the  question 
is  fundamental,  and  the  parties  nearly  equal,  the 
persecution  becomes  war. 

The  present  Democratic  party  was  the  last  form 
of  opposition  to  royality  and  heredity,  nobility  by 
popular  rights.  John  Hampden  and  Algernon  Sid- 
ney, with  Cromwell  and  his  associates,  whose  ex- 
humed bones  were  hung  at  Tyburn,  were 
of  the  popular  party  in  Europe,  and  Glad- 
stone and  his  followers  represent  that  party 
now.  But  one  is  amused  and  amazed  at  the  crowd 
calling  itself  the  "Democratic  party,"  which  has 
just  re-nominated  Cleveland  at  St.  Louis.  The  press 
reports  show  them  to  be  a  miscellaneous  mass,  with 
no  political  or  patriotic  end  to  distinguish  them  from 
any  other  crowd  of  American  people.  "Ship-mon- 
ey,""primogeniture,"  "hereditary  titles  of  nobility," 
and  taxation  (of  men,  not  women)  without  represen- 
tation, which  Democrats  resisted  on  the  17  th  of 
June,  1775,  at  Bunker  Hill,  the  shouting  crowd  at 
St.  Louis  have  either  forgotten  or  never  knew,  and 
as  to  "inalienable"  popular  rights,  the  party  at  St. 
Louis  voted  for  Buchanan,  who  undertook  to  force 
Kansas  people  to  take  a  constitution  from  the  points 
of  Missouri  bayonets;  and,  before  him,  voted  for 
Polk,  who  waged  war  for  Texas  with  the  open,avow- 
ed  purpose  of  adding  four  large  slave  States  to  the 
American  Union. 

The  Republican  party  was  born  in  1856,  when  the 
Whigs  had  been  left  in  a  dead  minority  by  the  with- 
drawal of  the  Abolitionists  and  the  mad  violence  of 
the  slave-holders,  who  went  over  to  the  Democratic 
party  which  passed  the  Atherton  gag  and  the  Fill- 
more bill  of  September,  1850,  the  intent  of  which 
was  to  hang  up  Abolitionists  at  their  own  doors  un- 
less they  would  cease  to  meet  and  discuss  slavery; 
to  imprison  one  year  and  fine  $1,000  all  who  would 
not  help  catch  run-away  slaves;  and  their  members 
did  drag  Rev.  Geo.  Storrs  from  his  knees  while  pray- 
ing in  an  Abolition  meeting  in  New  Hampshire,and 
imprison  Prudence  Crandall  in  Connecticut  for  teach- 
ing black  children  to  read. 

Such  was  the  birth,  and  such  the  parentage  of  the 
present  Republican  party.  It  grew  rapidly  to  ma- 
turity, and  was  soon  largely  run  by  life-long  Demo- 
crats, such  as  Trumbull,  Logan  and  Grant.  They 
were  not  martyrs  then. 

The  Prohibition  party  is  now  nearly  out  of  its 
martyr-period;  and  would  be  quite  out  by  its  sepul- 
chral silence  concerning  the  lodges,which  have  many 
more  representatives  in  the  saloons  than  any  other 
class  except  Roman  Catholics.  This  silence  is  all 
the  lodges  ask — all,  indeed,  their  deities,  whose  at- 
mosphere is  silence  and  their  method  secrecy,  asked 
in  the  time  of  Christ.  But  the  lodge  distrusts  the 
Prohibition  party,  because  the  lodge-leaders,  who 
own  the  temples,  know  that  the  great  majority  of 
conscientious  Prohibitionists  are  non-Masons  and 
will  be  Anti-masons  as  soon  as  their  attention  is 
called  to  the  fact  that  lodge  oaths  bind  Masons  to 


stand  by  distillers,  brewers  and  saloonists,  who  are 
brother  Masons,  and  if  they  fail  to  do  so  are  per- 
jured Masons  by  Masonic  law. 

The  late  Prohibition  nominating  convention  at  In- 
dianapolis received  and  read  some  important  infor- 
mation concerning  lodgery;  and  as  the  lodge,  like 
all  false  religions,  is  unprofitable,great  changes  will 
take  place  before  another  four  years  come  round. 
Far  seeing  men  will  see  that  it  will  be  easier  to  form 
a  new  party  than  to  turn  the  Masons  out  of  the  Pro- 
hibition ranks;  and  they  will  awake  to  the  fact  that 
there  are  hosts  of  voters  in  the  two  old  parties,  and 
even  in  the  lodges  themselves,who  care  nothing  for 
the  lodges  or  who  wish  them  dead.  The  numbers 
of  these  Anti-masonic  Masons  are  greatly  increased 
by  their  disgust  at  strikes  and  laborers  lodges,  who, 
like  Macbeth's  witches: 

"Keep  the  word  of  promise  to  the  ear. 
But  break  it  to  the  heart," 
of  the  masses.       And  if  these  elements  are  drawn 
into  a  new  party,  that  party  will  be  an  "American 
party"  in  fact,  if  not  in  name,  in  1892. 

But  we  must  not  forget  that  we  Americans  are 
still  in  the  martyr-period.  True,as  one  Mason  said, 
they  "don't  intend  to  kill  any  more  Morgans."  Po- 
pery don't  burn  Bibles  and  heretics  when  they  will 
lose  more  than  they  gain  by  it.  But  lodges,  meet- 
ing secretly  in  every  city,  town,  village  and  hamlet 
in  the  United  States,  have  ample  time  and  means  to 
"Out-venom  all  the  worms  of  Nile." 

But  the  very  fact  that  the  two  old  parties  have 
now,  between  them,  only  John  Randolph's  seven 
principles,  viz.,  "five  loaves  and  two  fishes,"  makes 
the  success  of  a  third  or  reform  party  rapid  and 
certain.  Cleveland  is  nominated  by  acclamation 
without  a  competitor.  And  though  the  Republicans 
will  push  their  canvass  with  the  courage  of  despair, 
they  have  always  been  inferior  to  the  Democrats  as 
mere  politicians.  Their  long  lease  of  power  for 
twenty-four  years  came  to  them  as  an  anti-slavery 
party,  and  their  boast  was  that  they  were  "a  party," 
or  rather,  "the  party  of  principle."  This  prestige  is 
now  no  longer  theirs.  And  Mr.  Blaine's  double 
withdrawal  from  nomination  is  generally  believed  to 
be,  as  explained  by  St.  John,  because  he  sees  the 
Republican  party  is  doomed  to  fall,  and  he  does  not 
wish  to  be  its  candidate  when  it  dies. 

The  lodge  also,  when  it  has  fallen, both  in  Europe 
and  in  this  country  has  had  a  sudden  collapse,  for 
two  reasons:  1.  The  argument  is  all  against  it;  and, 
2.  Their  rule  is  not  to  defend  themselves,  but  keep 
dark  and  lie  still.  But  when  the  battle  is  joined,as 
it  is  and  will  be,  the  side  which  does  not  fight,  falls. 
Indeed  the  haughty,  bitter,  sneering  hate  of  the 
lodge  is  already  passed  away.  The  Prohibition  vote 
four  years  agowas  150,000.  Two  years  later  the 
State  elections  showed  that  it  had  doubled;  and 
next  fall  will  show  the  reform  vote  doubled  again. 
And  the  gain  is  solid  gain,  made  by  conviction;  so 
that  our  martyr-period  is  passing  rapidily  away. 


RESCUING  FALLEN  WOMEN. 

If  pure  women  are  angels,  corrupt  ones  are  devils, 
differing  only  from  those  fallen  angels  which  the 
Scriptures  reveal  to  us,  by  being  within  reach  of 
the  blood  of  Christ. 

In  the  Southern  parishes  of  Louisiana  we  were 
told  of  men  so  debased  by  the  lust  of  liquor  that 
they  waited  till  their  wives,  who  had  earned  shoes 
by  their  work,  were  asleep,  and  then  stole  and  sold 
those  shoes  for  drink.  In  New  Orleans  a  man,  now 
imprisoned,  tied  up  his  wife  and  lashed  her  till  she 
was  a  gore  of  blood,  and  then  cut  her  throat  be- 
cause she  did  not  give  him  seventy-five  cents  to 
buy  liquor  with,  which  she  had  earned  by  washing. 
The  food  he  had  eaten,  which  gave  him  strength  to 
murder  her,  she  had  earned  by  her  labor.  Such  in- 
stances of  horrible  human  debasement  have  not  de- 
terred Christian  philanthropy  from  attempting  the 
rescue  of  the  slaves  of  liquor  by  total  abstinence 
and  prohibition. 

But  such  public  organized  movement  has  been 
devised  reluctantly  for  the  rescue  of  the  fallen  wo- 
man; and  left  to  herself,  "her  teei,  go  to  death,  and 
her  steps  take  hold  on  hell,"  Prov.  5:5.  To  discuss 
her  condition  leads  to  pollution  by  it,  and  silence 
concerning  it  produces  that  general  ignorance 
which  leaves  the  young  exposed  to  its  pitfalls. 
Some  sixty  years  ago  McDowell  braved  the  reproach 
of  the  religious  press  by  boldly  insisting  that  the 
inmates  of  brothels  were  within  reach  of  the  hope 
of  salvation. 

But  while,  as  a  rule,  the  Seventh  Commandment 
has  been  shunned  except  by  brave  men  like  the 
elder  Dr.  Dwight,  the  Friend  Quakers,  who  first 
allowed  their  women  to  preach,  and  whose  religion 
was  one  of  mercy  to  the  miserable,  started  some 
houses  to    rescue  Magdalenes;  and  since  women 


June  14, 1888 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


have  recently  come  to  the  front  in  the  temperance 
war,  they  have  organized  a  "  White  Ribbon  Army"  to 
wage  war,  not  only  on  liquor  and  drunkenness,  but 
on  prostitution  and  the  ways  which  lead  to  it.  But 
while  the  fear  of  indelicacy  has  shielded  the  crime 
which  debases  the  human  race  toward  brutehood 
beyond  all  others,  ancient  literature  has  been  a 
road  to  Sodom;  and  many  modern  poets  and  novel 
writers  have  been  and  are  now  procurers  to  houses 
of  assignation,  and  are,  in  the  words  of  Cowper, 

"Fleeh-flles  of  the  land,  who  fasten  on  the  fair, 
And  suck,  and  leave  a  crawling  maggot  there." 

The  Cynoiure,  from  its  inherent  dislike  of  badges, 
especially  those  which  proclaim  the  piety  or  purity 
of  the  wearer,  has  said  next  to  nothing  on  the  sub- 
ject of  ribbons,  white,  red  or  blue.  But  we  give  our 
readers  in  this  number  the  neat  and  sensible  speech 
of  Mrs.  M.  M.  Wolfe,  mistress  of  a  home  provided 
by  a  benevolent  lady  for  homeless  girls  in  the  city 
of  New  Orleans.  We  are  personally  acquainted  with 
Mrs.  Wolfe,  and  with  many  of  her  Board  of  Direc- 
tors, who  are  sound  Christians  and  prominent  citi- 
zens. Her  speech  speaks  for  itself;  and  if  this 
Christian  home  for  the  fallen  does  no  more  than 
throw  light  on  the  crime  of  Shakespeare's  "Fat 
and  greasy  citizens,"  who  seduce  ignorant  young 
girls  scarce  above  the  age  of  young  children  and 
turn  them  out  to  "starve  upon  the  sin  of  promiscu- 
ous prostitution,"and  expose  the  damning  nature  of 
false  religions  which  pretend  to  save  men  by  cere- 
monies, while  it  lights  their  way  to  hell  by  lodge- 
lights  or  candles  kept  burning  before  crucifixes  in 
brothels,  this  New  Orleans  "Home  for  the  Home- 
less" will  be  worth  all  it  costs. 


THE  PHlLOaOPHT  OF  BBFORM.  PAR  TIBS. 


The  American  party  never  more  really  existed 
than  in  the  convictions  of  a  handful  of  'the  best 
men  and  women  on  earth.  Those  who  used  to  talk 
of  "organizing"  the  people  of  the  United  States 
upon  tbe  platform  which  we  adopted  sixteen  years 
ago,  were  those  who  shut  up  the  eyes  of  their  body, 
and  walk  by  the  light  of  their  souls. 

We  are  now  no  further  advanced  than  the  truth 
has  spread  that  the  lodge  is  an  anti-Christ.  But 
that  is  much  farther  than  the  Anti-masonic  party 
was  in  1834,  when  Satan  turned  Abolitionist,  and 
the  slavery  question  swallowed  up  the  Anti-masonic 
party,  and  pushed  it  out  of  the  political  arena,  for 
the  (to  him)  very  good  reason,  that  the  lodge  sends 
more  souls  to  hell  by  devil  worship  than  slavery 
did  or  could  by  its  injustice,  cruelty,  and  the  en- 
forced prostitution  of  the  females  of  the  colored 
race. 

The  chief  advantage  the  American  party  will 
derive  from  the  triumph  of  prohibition,  is  that  the 
fall  of  the  saloon  power  will  put  us  in  reach  of  the 
American  people  who  have  ceased  to  be  Americans, 
and  must  be  made  Americans,  as  their  fathers  were, 
by  light  and  truth:  perhaps  by  pillories  and  prisons 
and  a  seven  years  war. 

"One  at  a  time"  is  a  maxim  on  which  the  masses 
always  act:  and  the  fall  of  the  saloon  is  the  fall  of 
the  porch  of  Babylon.  The  fall  of  the  lodge  is  to 
be  the  fall  of  Babylon  itself,  and  that,  it  would 
seem,  is  to  come  next.  So  we  must  keep  steadily 
at  work.  We  do  not  shout  so  loud  as  the  Prohibi- 
tionists now  do.  The  Democrats  can  beat  us  at  that, 
— the  emptier  the  louder.  But  we  are  acting  with 
the  Prohibition  party  to  empannel  a  nation  of  sober 
men  to  try  the  question,  "Shall  Christ  or  Satan  have 
the  worship  of  mankind?" 


TEB  If.  a   A.  BOARD   MBBTING. 


There  were  present  at  the  Board  meeting,  Satur- 
day, brethren  Stratton,  Gardner,  C.  A.  Blanchard, 
Hench,  Thomson,  Fischer,  and  Worrell.  There  were 
also  present  brethren  H.  H.  Hinman,  M.  A. .  Gault, 
J.  Blanchard,  W.  I.  Phillips  and  H.  L.  Kellogg. 

An  olRcial  reply  from  the  secretaries  of  the  Amer- 
ican Missionary  Association  to  a  communication 
from  the  Board  was  reported,  in  which  it  is  stated 
that  a  presentation  of  the  secret  society  evil  would 
be  provided  at  the  next  annual  meeting  of  the  Amer- 
ican Missionary  Association. 

The  reports  of  the  various  standing  committees 
were  heard.  The  Building  Committee  reported  a 
total  income  from  the  Carpenter  building  to  be 
11,479.35.  Total  expenses  for  repairs,  coal,  gas  and 
janitor  bills,  $759.13.     Net  income,  1720.22. 

The  Publication  Committee  reported  five  tracts 
and  one  pamphlet  approved  by  them  during  the 
year.  Superintendent  W.  I.  Phillips,  of  the  American 
Anti-secrecy  League,  reported  the  work  done  in  that 
department  during  the  month  since  this  work  began. 
Two  conventions  have  been  visited,  and  correspond- 


ence is  being  held  with  all  prominent  candidates  for 
public  oflSce. 

The  report  of  Rev.  H.  H.  Hinman  of  his  agency 
in  the  South  was  presented  (as  appears  in  another 
column)  and  approved,  and  the  recommendations 
were  referred  to  a  committee  to  report  to  the  an- 
nual meeting  of  the  Association. 

The  proposition  to  secure  a  series  of  meetings  in 
Vermont  by  Pres.  J.  Blanchard  and  Rev.  Joseph  A. 
Leach  was  heard.  The  Treasurer  was  authorized 
to  pay,  if  needed,  $50  per  month  for  this  work,  and 
it  was  suggested  that  collections  be  taken  so  that  it 
shall  be  in  some  degree  self-supporting. 

Corresponding  Secretary  Stoddard  reported  the 
work  at  Washington  during  the  month  of  May. 
The  rent  of  rooms  now  amounts  to  $40  per  month. 
Weekly  reform  meetings  have  been  begun,  and  the 
Free  Methodist  brethren  will  have  meetings  stated- 
ly. Propositions  for  a  reading  room  and  industrial 
school  were  considered  and  their  adoption  post- 
poned, and  Secretary  Stoddard  was  requested  to  at- 
tend the  annual  meeting  in  Chicago. 

The  Illinois  State  Executive  Committee  proposes 
to  engage  one  or  more  young  men  for  two  months' 
work  during  July  and  August  as  colporteurs.  It 
was  voted  to  assist  this  work  by  allowing  Cynosure 
subscriptions  of  suflQcient  amount  to  cover  their  ex- 
penses. 

The  annual  report  of  the  Board  was  read  by  the 
secretary,  E.  R.  Worrell,  and  approved.  A  propo- 
sition from  Henry  Powers,  of  Wisconsin,  to  pay 
$100  for  the  use' of  one  column  of  the  Cynosure  for 
a  year  for  arguments  in  favor  of  the  Seventh-day 
Sabbath  was  not  favorably  regarded,  but  the  kindly 
feelings  of  the  Board  toward  Bro.  Powers  were  ex- 
pressed in  a  resolution. 

A  letter  from  a  member  of  a  Masonic  lodge  in 
California,  expressing  his  dissatisfaction  with  the 
order  and  desire  to  undertake  public  work  against 
it  was  favorably  considered  and  referred  to  a  com- 
mittee to  correspond  further  with  the  brother  and 
his  references  and  report. 


I     — An  independent  Southern  evangelist,  Bro.  Ra- 
!  ber,  who  called  lately  on  the  Cynosure,  corroborates 
all  that  brethren  Hinman  and  Davidson  and  others 
i  say  of  the  oppressive  social  and  Slate  regulations 
I  which  burden  the  colored  people  in  the  country  dis- 
tricts.    This  brother  travels  widely  in  the  South, 
and  has  carefully  observed  the  condition  of  afiairs. 
He  is  most  earnestly  opposed  to  the  lodge,  and  be- 
lieves it  one  of  the  greatest  curses  of  the  South. 

— The  New  York  Tribune  advertises  itself  as  a 
lodge  organ.  It  joins  hands  with  the  G.  A.  R.  in 
its  effort  to  reduce  the  U.  S.  Treasury  surplus  by 
pension  bills,  and  says  that  from  henceforth  it  will 
give  more  attention  to  the  other  interests  of  the  or- 
der and  be  one  of  its  best  papers.  The  paper"found- 
ed  by  Horace  Greeley"  has  far  enough  departed 
from  the  principles  of  that  great  editor,  and  has 
dropped  from  the  high  ground  of  national  reform 
into  the  mudhole  of  political  organism. 

— The  Southern  Christian  Recorder  (African  M. 
E.  church)  of  Atlanta  published  a  long  letter  May 
10,  vindicating  Freemasonry  from  the  injuries  it  re- 
ceived in  a  debate  which  followed  soon  after  Bro. 
Hinman's  last  visit  to  that  city,  when  he  spoke  in 
the  First  Congregational  church  and  to  the  students 
at  the  Gammon  School  of  Theology.  The  subject  for 
debate  was,  "Should  Ministers  Belong  to  and  En- 
courage Secret  Organizations?"  A  young  theolog- 
ical student  named  Jones  seems  to  have  made  the 
strongest  speech  on  the  negative,  and  special  atten- 
tion is  given  to  him  in  the  Recorder  letter. 


The  Miohiqan  Convention:— For  lack  of  any 
more  complete  report  of  the  late  meeting  at  Salem, 
Mich.,  we  copy  from  the  local  press:  ""The  evening 
sessions  of  the  Christian  Association's(  Anti-masonic) 
annual  meeting  here  this  week  were  well  attended. 
The  speakers  were  listened  to  with  respectful  atten- 
tion. The  exercises  were  interspersed  with  songs 
by  the  veteran  balladist,  Geo.  W.  Clark.  While  the 
average  Salemite  outside  the  lodge  fails  to  appre- 
hend the  disastrous  results  that  portend  the  farther 
accessions  to  the  Masonic  order,  he  admires  the  zeal 
and  the  ud  questioned  honesty  of  purpose  and  the 
burning  enthusiasm  with  which  these  men  attempt 
to  propagate  their  convictions.  The  chief  speaker 
of  the  occasion  was  President  Blanchard,  of  Whea- 
ton  College,  III,  a  gentleman  of  good  ability  and 
address,  whose  ideas  were  clothed  with  fine  lan- 
guage and  were  delivered  in  an  earnest,  fascinating 
style.  Whether  Salem  will  be  made  better  or  worse 
by  this  expenditure  of  time  and  talent  is  a  problem 
for  the  future  to  solve.  Those  who  listened  to  the 
addresses  can  have  no  doubt  of  the  sincerity  of  the 
desire  of  these  men  to  do  good  to  the  church  and 
to  their  fellow  men."  The  Michigan  brethren  should 
be  encouraged  by  this  indication  of  the  good  local 
effect  of  their  State  meeting. 


— New  Orleans  still  leads  the  list  of  Cynosure  sub- 
scribers, one  hundred  and  sixty  copies  being  taken  at 
that  office. 

— Bro.  Hawley  has  lately  been  holding  a  kind  of 
revival  in  Page  county,  Iowa,  and  sends  in  over  100 
names  for  our  list.  God  hasten  the  day  when  such 
a  work  can  be  done  in  every  county  of  every  State. 

— Note  the  letter  of  our  New  Orleans  colporteur. 
Friends  who  can  send  packages  of  old  numbers  of 
the  Cynosure  to  some  of  the  pastors  whom  he  names, 
with  a  kind  letter  of  encouragement,  can  greatly 
help  on  the  good  work  Bro.  Davidson  has  begun  in 
their  congregations. 

—The  late  Rev.  Dr.  J.  B.  Walker  left  to  Wheaton 
College  an  endowment,  adding  a  condition  that  it 
was  his  wish  that  an  annual  sermon  should  be 
preached  to  the  students  on  kindness  to  animals. 
President  C.  A.  Blanchard  preached  that  discourse 
Sabbath  morning. 

— The  Ohio  agent  does  not  write  at  length  this 
week,  but  has  been  full  of  labors,  having  lectured 
thirteen  times  during  the  two  weeks  past  Good 
audiences  were  present  at  each  occasion  and  much 
enthusiasm  was  manifested,  and  Cynosure  subscrib- 
ers were  everywhere  taken.  He  returned  to  Colum- 
bus last  Thursday  from  Cedarville,  and  will  work 
at  the  State  capital  until  the  N.  C.  A.  annual  meet- 
ing on  the  2l8t,  which  he  hopes  to  attend. 


PBRaONAL  MENTION. 


— Rev.  M.  A.  Gault  returned  last  week  from  the 
Reformed  Presbyterian  Synod  to  Chicago.  He  was 
present  at  the  N.  C.  A.  Board  meeting  Saturday,  and 
will  spend  a  short  time  in  Waukesha,  Wisconsin,  be- 
fore opening  a  summer  campaign. 

— Edward  M.  Jones,  of  Marion,  Alabama,  was 
one  of  the  graduates  at  the  Gammon  School  of  The- 
ology, Atlanta,  Georgia,  on  the  6Lh  inst.  He  is  a 
fearles?  young  man,  and  has  been  bitterly  attacked 
in  the  papers  because  of  his  opposition  to  the  lodge. 

— Geo.  W.  Clark,  who  is  always  ready  for  an  en- 
thusiastic reform  meeting,  wished  much  to  attend 
the  Indianapolis  Convention,  but  was  called  back  to 
Salem,  where  the  people  had  made  his  acquaintance 
while  attending  the  late  Michigan  State  Convention, 
and  wanted  to  hear  more  from  him.  So  he  returned 
for  a  lecture  on  temperance  and  was  welcomed  by 
a  full  house,  to  whom  he  give  an  entertaining  and 
instructive  address. 

— A  son  of  James  G.  Birney,  twice  candidate  of 
the  Liberty  party  for  President,  died  lately  in  Bay 
City,  Michigan,  where  he  had  lived  sicca  1856. 
Another  brother,  General  William  Birney,  who  lives 
in  Washington,  wrote  the  sketch  of  his  father  pub- 
lished in  the  Cynosu'-e,  May  1,  1884.  The  brother 
lately  deceased,  named  James,  had  been  Lieutenant 
Governor  of  Michigan,  Minister  to  Hague  under 
President  Grant,  had  held  various  offices,  State  and 
county,  and  in  his  advanced  age  was  President  of 
the  Board  of  Education  of  Bay  City. 

— It  is  said  that  in  the  cemetery  at  Sacramento, 
California,  lie  the  remains  of  a  son  of  Alexander 
Hamilton,  the  friend  and  personal  adviser  of  Wash- 
ington, the  great  financier  who  first  brought  order 
out  of  the  chaos  of  the  United  States  Treasury,  the 
opposer  of  secret  societies,  who  fell  by  the  assassin 
bullet  of  the  Freemason,  Aaron  Burr.  The  grave 
bears  this  inscription:  "Col.  Wm.  S.  Hamilton,  son 
of  Gen.  Alexander  Hamilton,  barn  in  New  York, 
Aug.  4,  1797.  He  was  an  early  settler  and  promi- 
nent citizan  of  Wisconsin,  coming  to  California  in 
1849.  He  died  here  Oct.  9,  1850.  In  size  and  fea- 
ture, in  talent  and  character,  he  much  resembled,  his 
illustrious  father.     A  friend  erects  this  stone." 


The  pension  business  is  a  perplexing  one.  Sen- 
ators are  puzzled  over  the  widow  business.  Senator 
Cockrell,  of  Missouri,  has  been  developing  his 
mathematical  faculty  in  discovering  the  curious  fact 
that,  while  there  are  only  895  widows  of  the  Mex- 
ican war  veterans,  there  are  11,831  widows  of  veter- 
ans of  the  war  of  1812.  He  says  the  farther  we 
get  from  the  war  the  more  numerous  the  widows 
become  At  the  rate  the  1812  widows  are  increas- 
ing there  will  bo  at  least  20,000  of  them  by  the  end 
of  the  century. 

— Rev.  David  McFall  of  Boston  and  Mrs.  Rev.  J. 
S.  T.  Milligan  and  her  son,  Rev.  J.  R.  J.  Milligan, 
expect  to  sail  this  week  for  Scotland,  where  Mrs. 
Milligan  will  B[)end  the  summer  with  her  daughter. 
Rev.  J.  S.  T.  Milligan  accompanied  them  as  far  as 
Brooklyn,  N.  Y.,  where  ho  will  supply  the  Covenantor 
pulpit  for  a  few  weeks. 


10 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSUKE. 


Junk  14, 1888 


The  Home. 


COMFORT  ONE  ANOTHER. 


Comfort  one  another ; 
For  the  way  Is  growing  dreary, 
The  feet  are  often  weary, 

And  the  heart  is  very  sad. 
There  Is  heavy  burden-bearing. 
When  it  seems  that  none  are  caring. 
And  we  half  forget  that  ever  we  were  glad. 

Comfort  one  another ; 
With  the  hand-clasp  close  and  tender, 
With  the  sweetness  love  can  render, 

And  the  looks  of  friendly  eyes. 
Do  not  wait  with  grace  unspoken, 
While  life's  dally  bread  is  broken. 
Gentle  speech  is  oft  like  manna  from  the  skies. 

Comfort  one  another ; 
By  the  hope  of  Him  who  sought  us 
In  our  peril— Him  who  bought  us, 

Paying  with  His  precious  blood : 
By  the  faith  that  will  not  alter, 
Trusting  strength  that  shall  not  falter. 
Leaning  on  the  One  divinely  good. 

Comfort  one  another ; 
Let  the  grave-gloom  lie  behind  you, 
While  the  Spirit's  words  remind  you 

Of  the  home  beyond  the  tomb. 
Where  no  more  is  pain  or  parting. 
Fever's  flush  or  tear-drop  starting, 
But  the  presence  of  the  Lord,  and  for  all  his  people  room. 
— Mrs.  Margaret  E.  Sangster,  in  Iiidepauient. 


AUNT  RACHEL'S  TREATMENT. 


Crash!  Anomiaous  sound  came  from  the  kitchen 
as  I  was  sitting  for  a  quiet  talk  with  my  friend,  Mrs. 
Morrison.  We  had  just  been  enjoying  a  well  pre- 
pared dinner  at  her  table,  and  the  two  or  three  gen- 
tlemen guests  had  gone. 

"Something's  broken,"  I  said. 
"It  sounds  like  it,"  she  replied. 
I  expected  her  to  get  up  and  run  nervously  to  the 
kitchen,  but  she  quietly  continued  the  conversation. 
A  moment  after  there  appeared  at  the  door  a  Swedish 
servant  with  the  most  woe-begone  look  on  her  face, 
and  a  tear  on  either  plump  cheek.    I  could  not  for- 
bear an  exclamation  of  dismay  at  perceiving  that  in 
her  hand  she  held  the  fragments  of  my  friend's 
largest  meat  dish,  belonging  to  her  fine  dinner-set. 
"Broken?"  asked  Mrs.  Morrison,  looking  at  it  as 
she  might  have  looked  at  the  wreck  of  a  kitchen 
bowl.     "You  might  have  selected  something  else  to 
break,  seems  to  me,  Lena,"  she  added,  with  a  little 
shake  of  the  head,  but  still  with  a  smile. 

"It  slipped  right  out  of  my  hands,"  said  the  girl, 
in  great  distress. 

"Oh,  don't  stop  to  fret  over  it,  Lena.  You  don't 
break  many  dishes.  No,  it's  no  use  to  save  the 
pieces;  it  can't  be  mended." 

"Well,  Ruth!'  I  exclaimed,  as  Lena,  greatly  com- 
forted, took  her  departure.  "Pope  must  surely  have 
known  some  ancestress  of  yours,  when  he  wrote: 

'And  mistress  of  herself  when  china  falls.' 
Any  one  would  think  to  see  how  coolly  you  take  the 
ruin  of  that  handsome  dish  that  you  could  have  a 
new  set  any  day,  if  you  want  it." 

"Which  is  very  far  from  being  the  case,  as  you 
know,"  said  my  friend  soberly.  "I  am  afraid  I  can- 
not match  the  dish,  and  if  I  can,  1  can  scarcely  af- 
ford the  money  for  it  just  now." 

"But  you  do  not  seem  to  mind  the  accident  at  all," 
I  persisted,  quite  unable  to  understand  her  equa- 
nimity. 

"On,  yes,  I  do — after  a  fashion,"  she  went  on  de- 
liberately. "That  set  was  a  present  from  dear  old 
Aunt  llachel,  and  I  am  sorry  to  see  any  piece  of  it 
broken.  But  if  you  are  wondering  because  I  do  not 
fret  over  what  can't  be  helped,  I  can  only  assure 
you,  P^leanor,  that  I  cannot  afford  to.  It  is  bad 
enough  to  lose  the  dish  without  that." 

"Anyone  will  admit  that  fretting  is  of  no  use,"  I 
said.  "But  you  are  about  the  only  woman  I  have 
ever  seen  who  really  lived  up  to  the  idea." 

"I  didn't  begin  that  way,"  replied  Ruth,  settling 
back  in  her  chair  with  a  thoughtful  expression  on 
her  pleasant  face.  "I  was  very  much  given  to  fret- 
ting over  small  annoyances  when  I  was  a  good  deal 
younger.  It  was  that  same  dear  Aunt  Rachel  who 
cured  me  by  vigorous  treatment." 

"I  should  like  her  recipe,  if  you  can  give  it  to 
me." 

'Oh,  it  is  the  same  old  one  you  may  hear  or  read 
any  day  of  your  life:  'Don't  fret;  it  is  thankless, 
rebellious,  and  utterly  useless;  never  does  a  bit  of 
good,  and  always  does  harm,'  with  plenty  more  such 
plain  truths.  I  think  it  must  have  been  the  sturdy 
administration  that  affected  me.  When  we  were 
first  married,  Fred,  and  I  began  housekeeping  in  our 


pretty  little  house  with  everything  nice  about  it,  and 
were  as  happy  as  young  people  usually  are.  But 
my  habit  of  worrying  over  trifles  began  putting  lit- 
tle blots  here  and  there  on  the  smooth  surface  of 
our  lives.  A  broken  dish,  a  stained  tablecloth,  a 
poorly  ironed  article,  the  flies,  the  dust,  the  soot, 
any  petty  annoyance,  would  bring  a  cloud  over  me 
which  shut  out  the  brightness  all  about  me.  I  could 
see  that  Fred,  was  hurt  and  fretted  by  it. 

"Well,  real  trouble  came  at  last.  Our  baby  was 
sick  for  weeks  and  weeks,  and  we  thought  he  would 
never  gft  well.  How  I  looked  back  on  the  days 
which  had  been  so  blessed,  and  I  wondered  how  I 
had  ever  been  able  to  find  trouble  in  trifles  I  As  I 
prayed  that  the  shadow  of  death  might  not  so  early 
darken  our  home,  I  believed  I  should  never  again 
allow  myself  to  be  moved  by  small  troubles.  I  did 
not  have  an  opportunity  to  test  my  resolution  very 
soon;  for  as  baby  recovered  I  became  ill.  For  many 
a  day  I  lay  far  beyond  any  resolving  for  the  future, 
almost,  indeed,  beyond  all  hope  of  any  future,  so 
far  as  this  world  is  concerned.  The  winter  had 
passed  before  I  won  my  way  back  to  life,  and  began 
to  take  up  its  care  one  by  one. 

I  held  well  to  my  resolutions,  as  I  rejoiced  in  be- 
ing able  to  oversee  the  house-cleaning,  until  I  came 
to  the  parlor  carpet.  The  room  had  been  shut  up 
for  months,  had  not  been  properly  aired  and  swept, 
and  the  moths  had  made  fearful  ravages  all  around 
the  edges  of  the  carpet.  You'll  be  astonished, 
Eleanor,  that  all  my  equanimity  broke  down  at  sight 
of  it." 

"No,"  I  said,  sympathizingly,  "I  don't  wonder  at 
all.  I've  known  women  that  would  be  fairly  sick 
over  such  a  thing." 

"It  was  a  beautiful  carpet,  and  I  had  been  very 
proud  of  it.  I  did  not  find  that  anything  else  had 
suffered  from  neglect  during  my  illness;  but  I  for- 
got all  the  other  pleasant  facts  in  view  of  this  dis- 
tressing one.  Even  when  baby  crept  over  it,  crow- 
ing in  delight  at  the  bright  flowers,  and  trying  to 
pick  them  with  his  chubby  little  hands,  I  forgot  how 
much  I  would  have  given,  not  so  very  long  ago,  to 
hear  a  cheerful  note  from  him.  Well,  just  as  I  was 
at  the  culmination  of  my  'pet,'  Aunt  Rachel's  kind- 
ly face  beamed  upon  me  for  a  week's  visit. 

"'Thankful  to  see  thee  so  well,  dear,'  was  her 
greeting.  'The  Lord  has  been  good  to  thee.  Not 
that  I  don't  mean  that  he  would  have  been  good  if 
thee  hadn't  got  well.' 

"  'Yes,  I  am  very  well  now,  thank  you,  Aunt 
Rachel,'  I  said,  after  the  first  inquiries  were  over. 
'Well  enough,  you  see,  having  passed  my  great 
troubles,  to  settle  down  to  small  worries.  Look  here 
— isn't  this  enough  to  turn  the  soul  of  a  housekeep- 
er sick?' 

"  'It  is  a  pity,'  she  remarked,  viewing  the  mis- 
chief. 

"'Of  course,  some  things  had  to  be  neglected 
while  I  was  sick,'  I  continued,  petulantly;  'but  I  nev- 
er dreamed  of  such  a  thing  as  this.' 

"She  looked  at  me  with  her  quiet  eyes,  always  so 
full,  I  used  to  think,  of  the  very  peace  of  heaven. 

"  'Surely,  Ruth,  thee  isn't  going  to  make  the  mat- 
ter worse  by  vexing  thy  immortal  soul  over  a  mis- 
hap?' 

"  'Oh,  it's  very  well  for  you  to  talk  that  way  Aunt 
Rachel,'  I  replied.  'But  I  can't  afford  a  new  carpet 
just  now.' 

"  'Thee  doesn't  need  one.  The  bad  places  don't 
show  much.' 

"  'But  I  shall  always  know  they  are  there,  and  it 
will  take  away  all  my  peace  of  mind.' 

"The  eyes  looked  a  little  straighter  into  mine  as 
she  talked  on,  something  like  this:  'Thy  peace  is 
worth  little,  to  thee  or  anyone  else,  if  it  can  be  so 
easily  broken.  Ruth  Harvey,  thee  is  starting  out 
in  life;  beware  that  thy  disposition  to  feet  thyself 
about  small  things  does  not  prove  a  curse  to  thee 
and  thine.  Every  thought  of  discontent  about  mat- 
ters beyond  thy  control  is  not  only  a  sin  against  the 
God  who  orders  for  thee,  but  a  sin  against  thy  own 
soul,  and  an  added  weight  to  every  annoyance.  If 
cherished,  such  thoughts  become  a  nest  of  stinging 
serpents  in  thy  breast.  Thee  will  grow  old  and 
wrinkled  and  gray  before  thy  time.  Thee  will  be 
peevish,  complaining  and  faultfinding.  Thee  will 
be  a  terror  to  thy  husband  and  children.' 

"Yes,"  continued  Mrs.  Morrison,  "she  said  all 
that  and  more.  She  said:  'Is  one  thread  of  that 
carpet  woven  into  thy  real  peace  of  mind?  Can  it, 
or  other  small  things,  really  concern  thy  welfare,  or 
that  of  those  dear  to  thee,  either  for  this  world  or 
the  next?'" 

"I  never  heard  it  put  quite  so  strongly  before,"  I 
said  thoughtfully,  as  my  friend  paused.  "And  if  I 
hadn't  seen  you,  I  should  have  said  it  was  very  good 
talk,  indeed,  but  that  no  woman  could  live  up  to  it." 

"I  had  a  week  of  it,  you  see,"  said  Mrs.  Moriison. 


"When  Aunt  Rachel  went  away  one  of  the  last 
things  she  said  to  me  was:  'I  want  thee  to  bear  in 
mind  what  I  said,  dear — that  every  fretful  thought 
thee  wastes  on  small  accidents  is  only  so  much  add- 
ed to  their  burden.' 

"I  think  I  took  it  well  to  heart,  for  I  concluded, 
Eleanor,  that  life's  burdens  are  heavy  enough  with- 
out any  such  addition.  And  I  will  tell  you  one  thing 
I  have  observed,"  she  added,  with  a  laugh.  "I  do 
believe  that  four-fifths  of  the  women  who  fret  do  it 
because  they  think  it  a  solemn  duty." 

"Nonsense!"  I  exclaimed. 

"They  do,"  she  persisted.  "You  notice  the  next 
woman  you  meet  to  whom  some  mishap  occurs.  See 
if  a  great  part  of  her  worrying  is  not  because  she 
thinks  she  is  expected  to  worry,  and  that  it  might 
be  taken  ill  of  her  if  she  didn't." 

I  wonder  if  Mrs.  Morrison  is  right? — The  Congre- 
gationalist. 

THE  GRAND  ARM7  OF  THE  REPUBLIC. 


I A  School  Essay  read  by  Albert  E.  Cook,  Chicago,  aged  14.  | 

The  Grand  Army  of  the  Republic  was  organized 
on  the  6th  day  of  April,  1866,  in  Decatur,  Macon 
county.  111.  It  was  originated  by  Dr.  Benjamin  F. 
Stephenson,  a  physician,  who  had  been  a  war  sur- 
geon in  the  14th  Illinois  Infantry.  The  first  Na- 
tional convention  was  held  in  Indianapolis  on  the 
20th  of  November,  1866,  and  representatives  from 
many  States  attended. 

I  will  read  some  of  the  objects  of  the  organiza- 
tion, as  I  have  copied  them  from  William  H.  Ward's 
"Records  of  the  Members  of  the  Grand  Army  of  the 
Republic": 

"To  preserve  and  strengthen  those  kind  and  fra- 
ternal feelings  which  bind  together  the  soldiers, 
sailors  and  marines  who  united  to  suppress  the  late 
Rebellion  and  to  perpetuate  the  memory  and  history 
of  the  dead."  "To  assist  such  former  comrades  in 
arms  as  need  help  and  protection,  and  to  extend 
needful  aid  to  widows  and  orphans  of  those  who 
have  fallen." 

In  article  4th  the  conditions  of  joining  the  so- 
ciety are  given  as  follows: 

"Soldiers  and  sailors  of  the  United  States  army, 
navy  or  marine  corps,  who  served  between  April 
12th,  1861,  and  April  29th,  1865,  in  the  war  for  the 
suppression  of  the  Rebellion,  and  those  having  been 
honorably  discharged  therefrom  after  such  service, 
and  of  such  State  regiments  as  were  called  into  ac- 
tive service  and  subject  to  the  orders  of  United 
States  general  officers,  between  the  dates  mentioned, 
shall  be  eligible  to  membership  in  the  Grand  Army 
of  the  Republic.  No  person  shall  be  eligible  who 
has  at  any  time  borne  arms  against  the  United 
States." 

In  1868  Gen.  Logan,  who  was  commander-in- 
chief  of  the  G.  A.  R.,  issued  an  order  directing  the 
observance  of  the  30th  of  May  as  a  memorial  day 
to  "cover  over  with  beautiful  flowers  the  parents, 
husbands,  brothers  and  lovers  who  have  fallen  in 
the  civil  war."  A  notable  thing  about  this  celebra- 
tion is  that  both  rebel  and  unionist,  patriot  and 
traitor,  are  covered  over  with  beautiful  flowers 
alike. 

Mr.  Ward  speaks  of  the  third  National  encamp- 
ment as  follows:  "The  encampment  met  under  a 
cloud,  the  order  having  received  a  strong  set-back 
from  the  belief  which  had  grown  up  that,  in  a  meas- 
ure, it  was  a  secret  political  society;  and  this  had 
materially '  interfered  with  recruiting.  To  dispel 
this  impression,  it  was  necessary  that  it  should  be- 
come generally  known  that  the  discussion  of  poli- 
tics was  forbidden  in  the  posts,  and  that  no  com- 
rade was  permitted  to  use  the  order  for  political 
advancement.  It  took  time  to  counteract  such 
opinions,  and  until  this  was  done  the  order  labored 
under  much  disadvantage."  Notwithstanding  the 
foregoing  statement  of  Mr.  Ward,  the  order  is  no- 
toriously used  for  political  purposes,  as  many  know. 

At  the  nineteenth  encampment,  in  1882,  some- 
thing happened  which  Mr.  Ward  is  careful  not  to 
mention  in  his  book.  The  encampment  was  at 
Portland,  Maine,  and  Maine  was  already  a  prohibi- 
tion State.  A  large  quantity  of  liquor  was  ordered 
for  the  encampment,  and  the  officers  and  authorities 
succeeded  in  stopping  most  of  it,  but  a  good  deal 
was  smuggled  in  the  pockets  and  knapsacks  of  the 
men.  Thus  the  G.  A.  R.  succeeded  in  violating 
dovonright  the  laws  of  Maine. 

As  Mr.  Ward  was  careful  not  to  mention  what  I 
have  just  related,  he  is  careful  to  mention  the  fact 
that  $170,098.77  was  expended  for  the  relief  of 
15,406  men  by  the  order  in  the  year  from  .July,1884, 
to  June,  1885. 

A  very  bad  point  is  the  secrecy  of  the  order.  If 
you  ask  one  of  the  members  why  it  is  secret,  per- 
haps he  will  say.  Because  everyone  cannot  be  al- 


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THE  CHRISTIAN  CYIXOSXTRK 


11 


lowed  in  the  meetings  for  want  of  room  or  other 
reasons.  In  parties,  none  come  without  invitations; 
in  concerts,  none  without  tickets;  and  very  easily 
the  Grand  Army  could  keep  outsiders  from  their 
meetings  without  any  secrets. 

Tke  Cincinnati  was  an  order  much  like  the  Grand 
Army,  and  it  was  secret.  It  was  composed  of  vet- 
erans of  the  Revolutionary  war  and  their  oldest 
sons.  Washington  saw  that  it  was  about  like  get- 
ting up  a  nobility  in  America,  and  he  and  many  of 
the  people  disapproved  much  of  it.  He  also  disap- 
proved much  of  its  secrecy,  and  he  labored  seven 
days  in  anxious  debate  before  he  could  get  them  to 
give  up  their  anti-republicanism  and  other  bad 
points.    But  they  did  give  all  or  most  of  them  up. 

Organized  secrecy  offers  to  unscruplous  leaders 
such  opportunities  for  the  accomplishment  of  evil, 
that  the  true  patriot  may  well  fear  lest  by  joining 
the  G.  A.  R.  he  may  become  partaker  of  other  men's 
sins.  And  desirable  as  it  is  for  the  noble  defend- 
ers of  our  country  to  keep  fresh  the  memories  of 
the  past,  until  this  secrecy  is  given  up,  the  order 
must  expect  many  conscientious  men  to  stand  aloof 
from  it. 

Note. — Our  young  friend  was  misinformed  re- 
specting the  Cincinnati,  It  was  not  a  secret  society. 
The  change  urged  by  Washington  was  that  the  he- 
reditary principle  should  be  dropped. — Ed. 


TICK  TOOK. 

"TIcktockl  tlcktockl" 
Says  the  clock— "half-past  three." 

"Tick  took !  tick  took  I" 
"Half-past  three"  still  we  see ! 
It  must  be  the  hands  are  caught, 
That  Is  why  It  tells  us  naught, 
Though  it  ticks  and  ticks  along 
As  If  there  were  nothing  wrong ! 
"Tick  tock !" 

"Tlcktock!  tick  tock!" 
Many  a  word,  many  a  word, — 
"Tick  tock  1  tick  tock  !"-- 
Just  as  useless,  I  have  heard. 
These— the  folks  who  tell  us  naught— 
Ah  I  perhaps  their  hands  are  caught  1 
'Tls  the  busy  ones  that  know 
Something  worth  the  telling. — So 
"Tick  tock!  tlcktock!" 

— St.  Nicholas. 


NITCHEQO 


diplomatist.  "I  gave  myself  up  to  the  will  of  my 
driver,  sat  quietly  in  the  sleigh,  and  made  no  re- 
marks. My  driver  brought  me  to  the  place  in  time. 
I  paid  him  well,  thanking  him  warmly,  and  pre- 
served the  iron  rod.  When  I  returned  to  St.  Peters- 
burg I  ordered  a  jeweler  to  make  me  a  ring  from 
that  rod,  with  the  inscription  in  Ru8sian,'Nitchego.'  " 
The  Russian  "nitchego"  became  the  watchword  of 
Bismarck's  policy.  "Whenever,"  said  he,  "I  meet 
troubles  and  dangers,  I  say  in  Russian,  'nitchego  I' 
and  then  push  ahead." — Phrenological  Jcmrnal. 


A  little  three-year-old  attended  a  Sabbath  service 
with  her  father  and  older  brothers  and  sisters.  At 
home  her  mother  ask  after  her  behavior.  "Was 
my  little  daughter  a  good  girl  to-day?"  "Yes'm, 
I  was  a  pooty  good  girl.  Papa  said  'Sit  downl'  But 
I  couldn't  hardly  manage  it." 


Temperance. 


THB8M0KB  NUISANGB. 


With  such  a  caption  as  this  a  story  is  told  of  Bis- 
marck when  Prussian  Ambassador  at  the  court  of 
the  Czar  in  1862.  The  big,  bluff  officer  of  twenty- 
six  years  ago  met  more  than  his  match  in  a  simple 
Russian  peasant,  and  while  the  story  is  amusing  it 
also  conveys  a  moral  that  was  of  profit  to  the  after- 
ward master  of  Germany. 

Bismarck  had  been  asked  to  participate  in  an  im- 
perial hunt,  and,  being  an  enthusiastic  hunter,  he 
went  to  the  designated  place  on  the  evening  before 
the  appointed  clay  in  order  to  have  a  little  sport  by 
himself.  Game  was  abundant,  and  Bismarck  had  a 
good  time,  but  somehow  he  lost  his  way.  When 
the  time  for  the  imperial  hunt  approached,  Bis- 
marck found  himself  fourteen  miles  away  from  the 
place.  A  peasant  offered  his  services  to  take  Bis- 
marck to  the  right  place.  He  appeared  with  a  team 
of  ponies  and  a  village  sleigh.  Bismarck  doubted 
that  the  Russian  driver  could  get  him  there  in  time 
to  engage  in  the  hunt.  "Are  you  sure  you  can  get 
me  there  on  time?"  asked  Bismarck.  "Nitchegol" 
answered  themoujik,  quietly.  ("Nitchego"  is  Rus- 
sian for  "Never  mind,"  or  "All  right.")  "These  are 
rather  rats  than  horses,"  remarked  Bismarck,  taking 
a  seat  in  the  sleigh.  "Nitchego!"  was  the  answer. 
The  peasant  whipped  his  horses  and  they  went  as 
swiftly  as  a  pair  of  falcons.  Bismarck  could  hardly 
keep  his  seat.  "You  do  not  spare  your  horses  at 
all,"  remarked  the  famous  passenger,  gasping  for 
breath.  "Nitchegol"  said  the  driver.  "You  say 
'nitchego,'  but  they  may  fall  dead  on  the  way." 
"Nitchegol" 

The  road  was  hardly  distinguishable  through  the 
forest,  but  the  peasant  continued  his  mad  run.  He 
brushed  against  the  big  trees  and  went  on  and  on. 
"You  will  break  my  neck!"  finally  exclaimed  Bis- 
marck,scared in  good  earnest.  "Nitchego!"  answered 
theRussian,with  a  bit  of  a  smile  on  his  face.  Present- 
ly there  was  a  smash:  Bismarck  flew  against  a  tree 
and  bruised  hia  face.  He  jumped  up  very  angry, 
snatched  an  iron  rod  from  the  sleigh,  and  rushed  at 
the  peasant,  threatening  vengeance.  The  driver 
coolly  picked  up  a  handful  of  snow,  with  which  he  good- 
naturedly  wiped  the  blood  stains  from  Bismarck's  face. 
"Nitchegol"  he  uttered,  as  he  finished  th«  operation. 
"That  invariable  quiet  Russian  'nitchego'  disarmed 
me,  "said  Bismarck,  telling  the  story  to  a  Russian 


According  to  the  Cincinnati  Times,  a  citizen  of 
that  place  fell  dead  in  a  streot-car,  some  time  since, 
poisoned  by  the  dense  fumes  of  tobacco  smoke  with 
which  the  car  was  filled.  "He  was  an  occasional 
sufferer  from  heart  disease,  and  the  trouble  was  so 
aggravated  by  the  suffocating  smoke  of  the  car  that 
he  died  after  breathing  it  a  few  minutes.  The  car 
in  which  he  rode  had  only  one  compartment  for  men, 
women  and  children,  and  the  smokers  were  allowed 
full  sway  in  it.  Two  other  passengers  were  over- 
come by  the  tobacco  fumes." 

If  human  beings  possess  one  inalienable  right 
more  sacred  than  any  other,  it  is  the  right  to  breathe 
the  atmosphere  of  heaven,  pure,  free  and  unadulter- 
ated. No  man  has  any  better  right  to  puff  tobacco 
smoke  into  the  air  I  am  about  to  breathe  than  to  de- 
file the  water  I  am  about  to  drink,  or  to  sit  down  be- 
side me  at  the  dinner  table  and  sprinkle  upon  my 
food  vile  and  loathsome  substances,  obnoxious  to 
the  senses  and  deleterious  to  health. 

Did  any  of  you  smokers  ever  attempt  to  imagine 
the  felicity  of  a  lady  or  gentleman  to  whom  the  odor 
of  tobacco  is  sickening  and  most  repulsive,  follow- 
ing in  your  wake  on  a  still  summer  evening,  while 
you  puffed  with  self-complacency  and  intense  satis- 
faction the  (to  you)  fragrant  Havana?  Or  did  you 
ever  endeavor  to  picture  in  your  imagination  the  de- 
lightful sensations  which  must  be  experienced  by  a 
sensitive  man  or  woman  who  has  never  offered  in- 
cense to  the  smoke  god  when  compelled  to  ride  in  a 
close  cab,  on  a  seat  opposite  or  beside  you, while  you 
rolled  between  your  lips  the  stump  of  a"cold  cigar." 
Please  put  yourself  in  the  place  of  that  man  or  wo- 
man and  see  if  you  will  not  decide  with  unhesitating 
promptness  that  the  tobacco-user  is  a  nuisance  that 
should  be  abated. 

Tobacco  smoke  is  excellent  in  its  place.  The  writ- 
er set  an  old  smoker  going  in  a  greenhouse  one  day, 
with  good  effect.  Every  living  thing  that  was  able 
to  travel  left  for  parts  unknown,  and  the  few  that 
were  not  able  to  get  away  died  of  nicotine  poison- 
ing— all  except  the  smoker  himself,  who  was  tough 
and  nicotine  proof.  Tobacco  is  to  be  recommended 
as  an  exterminator  of  vermin  of  all  sorts,  except  a 
kind  of  parasite  that  breeds  in  bar  rooms  and  bil- 
liard halls,  and  may  often  be  seen  adhering  to  lamp 
posts,  or  hovering  around  street  corners  and  railway 
stations. 

Passing  a  London  cigar  store  one  day,  the  writer 
noticed  a  flaming  placard  announcing  "The  Devil's 
Own"  as  the  name  of  a  new  brand  of  cigars  just  pro- 
duced by  the  manufacturers.  The  name  impressed 
him  as  exceedingly  suggestive,  and  he  wondered 
that  so  appropriate  a  cognomen  had  not  before  been 
utilized.  The  cigar  is  undoubtedly  one  of  the  devil's 
favorite  instruments  for  converting  boys  who  might 
become  respectable  citizens  and  useful  men  into 
loafers,  vagabonds,  drunkards,  and  criminals  of  ev- 
ery description. 

Notwithstanding  the  repeated  exposures  which 
have  been  made  of  the  dangers  to  life  and  health  in- 
curred by  the  use  of  the  filihy  weed  the  number  of 
its  devotees  seems  to  be  constantly  upon  the  in- 
crease. The  tobacco  habit  must  be  regarded  and 
treated  as  a  moral  disease  which  has  fastened  itself 
upon  society, — one  of  "the  devil's  own"  means  lor 
degrading  and  depraving  humanity.  How  pervert- 
ed, indeed,  are  the  instincts  of  the  human  being 
who  deliberately  defiles  the  image  of  his  Maker  till 
nearly  every  trace  of  the  divine  workmanship  is  ob- 
literated by  the  scourge  of  the  stinking  weed, and  he 
becomes  fit  only  to  be  labeled  "the  devil's  own!" 

If  smokers  will  persist  in  defiling  themselves  and 
spoiling  the  pure  air,adulterating  its  life-giving  oxy- 
gen with  a  deadly  vapor,  offensive  to  the  natural  in- 


stincts of  man  and  beast,  let  them  be  compelled  to 
indulge  their  precious  poison  by  themselves  apart 
from  the  rest  of  human  kind.  Let  them  together 
enjoy  the  pleasures  of  the  pipe,  cigar  and  cigarette. 
Perhaps  this  plan  might  result  in  the  annihilation 
of  the  whole  race  of  smokers,  and  rid  the  world  of  a 
vice  which  originated  among  savages  and  is  worthy 
only  of  an  uncivilized  and  barbarous  race. — J.  H. 
Kellogg,  M,  D,,  in  Good  Health. 

m  %  m 

RUM  AND  MANHOOD. 


A  man  who  had  been  for  a  long  time  a  victim  of 
the  drink  habit,  but  who  finally  broke  his  chains, 
thus  speaks: 

I  would  not  exchange  the  physical  sensations, 
the  mere  sense  of  animal  being,  which  belong  to 
a  man  who  totally  refrains  from  all  that  can  intoxi- 
cate his  brain  or  derange  his  nervous  structure,  the 
elasticity  with  which  he  bounds  from  his  couch 
in  the  morning,  the  sweet  repose  it  yields  him  at 
night,  the  feeling  with  which  he  drinks  in,  through 
his  clear  eyes,  the  beauty  and  grandeur  of  sur- 
rounding nature;  I  say,  sir,  I  would  not  exchange 
my  conscious  being  as  a  strictly  temperance  man, 
the  sense  of  renovated  youth,  the  glad  play  with 
which  my  pulse  now  beats  healthful  music,  the 
bounding  vivacity  with  which  the  life-blood 
courses  its  exulting  way  through  every  fiber  of  my 
frame,  the  communion  high  with  which  my  health- 
ful ear  and  eye  now  hold  with  all  the  gorgeous  uni- 
verse of  God,  the  splendors  of  the  morning,  the 
softness  of  the  evening  sky,  the  bloom,  the  beauty, 
the  verdure  of  the  earth,  the  music  of  the  air,  and 
of  the  waters,  with  all  the  grand  associations  of 
external  nature  reopened  to  the  five  avenues  of 
sense;  no,  sir;  though  poverty  dog  me,  though 
scorn  pointed  its  slow  finger  at  me  as  I  passed, 
though  want  and  destitution  and  every  element  of 
earthly  misery,  save  my  crime,  meet  my  wdking  eye 
from  day  to  day;  not  for  the  brightest  and  noblest 
wreath  that  ever  encircled  a  statesman's  brow;  not 
if  some  angel  commissioned  by  heaven  or  some  de- 
mon set  fresh  from  hell  to  test  the  resisting 
strength  of  virtuous  resolution,  should  tempt  me 
back,  with  all  the  wealth  and  all  the  honors  which  a 
world  can  bestow;  not  for  all  that  time  can  give 
would  I  cast  from  me.  this  precious  pledge  of  a 
liberated  mind,  this  talisman  against  temptation, 
and  plunge  again  into  the  dangers  and  horrors 
which  once  beset  my  path,  so  help  me  heaven,  as  I 
would  spurn  beneath  my  very  feet  all  the  gifts  the 
universe  could  offer  and  live  and  die  as  I  am,  poor 
and  sober. 


CA8T-1R0N  STOMACHS. 

The  Philadelphia  News  tells  of  a  bartender  who 
plaintively  bewailed  the  necessity  of  having  to  rub 
congealed  drops  of  sticky  beer  off  the  bar.  "But  if 
I  let  them  remain,"  said  he,  in  the  tone  of  one  seek- 
ing compassion,  "they  rot  the  wood." 

"They  rot  the  leood,  do  they?"  fiercely  repeated  a 
beer-bibber.  "Then  what  in  the  name  of  common 
sense  does  beer  do  to  my  stomach?" 

Replied  the  manipulator  of  drinks:  "It  is  beyond 
me  to  tell.  Of  one  thing  I  am  confident,  and  that 
is,  man's  stomach  is  made  of  cast-iron.  Else  wise, 
how  could  he  withstand  the  fluids  he  poured  into  it? 
Let  me  show  you  something."  He  placed  a  piece 
of  raw  meat  upon  the  counter  and  dropped  upon  it 
a  small  measure  of  an  imported  ginger-ale.  In  five 
minutes  the  meat  had  parted  into  little  pieces  as 
though  hacked  by  a  dull  knife. 

Before  a  man  begins  to  drink  that  stuff  he  had 
better  see  to  whether  his  stomach  is  made  of  cast- 
iron  with  copper  fittings  and  finishings;  and  if  not 
he  will  do  well  to  let  such  drinks  alone. 


DRUNKBN  WOMBN  IN  DUBLIN. 

At  a  recent  meeting  in  aid  of  the  Prison  Gate 
Mission  in  Dublin  over  which  the  archbishop  pre- 
sided, speaking  of  the  statistics  of  crime,  the  Rev. 
Gilbert  Mahafly,  rector  of  St.  Paul's,  Dublin,  said 
that  during  the  past  year  there  were  over  10,000 
arrests  of  women  in  Dublin ;  about  9,000  being 
women  charged  with  being  drittik  ami  disorderly.  It 
was  remarkable  to  find  that  of  the  women  convicted 
for  various  offences  forty-nine  per  cent,  returned  to 
vice  and  crime  again,  while  in  the  case  of  men  the 
the  percentage  was  only  sixteen. 

This  shows  what  is  the  matter  with  Ireland,  and 
all  the  laws,  and  land  leagues,  and  priests  and 
politicians  can  never  heal  the  woes  of  Ireland,  while 
in  a  single  city  every  day  in  the  year  there  are 
twenty-five  or  thirty  women  so  drunk  and  disorderly 
that  they  have  to  be  arrested  and  locked  up. —  The 
iSa/'eguard. 


12 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


JuNB  14,  1888 


BIBLE  LESSOH. 


REVIEW. 


The  lessons  for  the  second  quarter  beginning  April  1 
have  been  in  the  following  order  from  the  Gospel  of 
Matthew: 

The  Marriage  Feast.     22:1-14. 

Christ's  Last  Warning.     23:  27-29. 

Christian  Watchful  ness.     24 :  42  5 1 . 

The  Ten  Virgine.     25:  1-13. 

The  Talents.     25:14  30 

The  Judgment.     25:  31-46. 

The  Lord's  Supper.     26 :  17-  30. 

Jesus  in  Gethsemane      26:36-46. 

Petei'fl  Denial.     26:67-75. 

Jesus  Crucified.     27:33-50. 

Jesus  Risen.     28:  1-15. 

The  Great  Commission.     28:16-20. 

TEMrERANCE    LESSON.      1  Cor.  8:  1-13. 

Golden  Text— Wherefore,  if  meat  maketh  my  brother 
to  offend,  I  will  eat  no  flesh  while  the  world  standcth, 
lest  I  make  my  brother  to  offend.     1  Cor.  8:  13. 
MISSIONARY  LB860N.    Isaiah  61:  4-11. 


MBMORIAL  HOME  FOR    HOMBLBSa  GIRLS  IN 
NE  W  0RLBAN8. 


This  beautiful  Home,  with  a  well-organized  soci- 
ety and  Board  of  Managers,  will  be  like  building  a 
fire  when  all  the  kindling  and  coal  are  skillfully  laid 
without  the  touch  of  the  match;  it  will  send  out  no 
glow  of  heat  or  warmth.  So,  unless  our  hearts  burn 
with  a  zeal  which  will  bring  ua  right  to  the  front  in 
a  war  against  the  impurities  of  the  laws  of  this  city, 
we  will  soon  wear}'  of  the  work.  We  believe  the 
call  that  has  brought  us  here  is  a  Divine  call,  and 
that  it  is  the  beginning  of  a  new  crusade  which  will 
extend  all  through  the  South. 

Josephine  Butler  received  this  call  more  than 
Iwenty-two  years  ago  in  England.  It  came  in  a 
mysterious  manner  to  her;  yet  it  was  His  voice  and 
was  obeyed.  Other  laborers  in  this  most  difficult 
and  dangerous  field  have  been  impelled  thither  by  a 
desire  to  save  souls  or  rescue  women.  Mrs.  Butler 
always  wanted  to  save  daughters.  Sho  approached 
them  from  the  mother  side  of  her  nature.  Many  of 
these  fallen  ones  are  not  women,  but  girls  in  their 
teens,  or  children  too  youag  to  have  the  instinct  of 
a  woman  or  to  know  what  tiiey  are  doing. 

Brave,  true-hearted  women'in  Eagland  have  stood 
in  the  face  of  the  criticism,  censure  and  slander; 
they  have  been  driven  before  mobs,  and  have  suf- 
fered persecution  and  imprisonment.  If  they  suf- 
fered much,  they  prayed  much,  and  at  last,  after 
seventeen  years  of  unremitting  labor,  the  black  cur- 
tain began  to  roll  back.  The  contagious  diseases 
act  was  repealed,  and  the  age  of  prostitution  was  no 
longer  counted  at  the  age  of  twelve  years  old,  »s  it  is 
in  this  State  of  L^uisiaua.  And  still  these  brave 
sisters  of  ours  in  England  count  the  victory  but  as 
reaching  over  one  corner  of  the  battle  field. 

Again,  soul-stirriog  appaals  are  going  out  to  jll 
true-hearted  women,  to  take  their  stand  for  abol- 
ishing the  iastitution  of  legalized  harlotry,  which 
is  rapidly  extending  in  all  parts  of  the  world.  And 
you,  my  sisters,  will  you  not  put  on  the  white  shield 
and  step  U)  the  front  in  this  bittle?  Will  you  not 
from  this  hour  lift  up  your  pure  eyes,  and  look  into 
the  very  souh  of  any  lords  of  creation  who  will 
dare  to  say  that  legalized  prostitution  is  a  necessity? 
Ask  them.  Who  but  the  arch  fiend  could  put  it 
into  the  he  iris  of  men  to  btlieve  that  it  is  necessary 
for  our  sisters  (yes,  I  will  say  it  though  they  are 
prostitutes)  —for  our  sisters  to  go  down  to  dishonor 
and  death,  that  they  may  be  gratified  for  a  short 
season  of  wildoata  sowing?  after  which  these 
men  are  received  in  the  scciety  of  the  pure  and  no- 
ble, marry  and  enj  ..y  the  companionship  of  a  virtu- 
ous wife,  and  the  caresses  of  lovely  children.  "But 
methinks  sometimes  behind  these  caresses  a  pale 
finger  is  pointing  him  out,  and  a  voice  that  is  stilled 
in  death  seems  to  say,  'Thou  art  the  maa.' "  I  have 
upon  my  heart  three  young  women,  all  victims  of 
the  same  man,  and  one  of  these  victims  came  to  the 
Home  bringing  his  infant  child  in  her  arms.  This 
man  is  an  editor  of  a  p  )pular  newspapar. 

I  visited  a  "Gilded  Palace,"  and  talked  with  the 
proprietor  who  had  kept  a  house  of  prostitution  for 
thirty  years.  Sue  t^jli  me  that  her  house  was  the 
most  gentei;l  and  quiet  of  any  in  this  city,  and  that 
in  all  the  thirty  years  she  had  been  in  business,  she 
had  never  been  obliged  t )  appear  before  the  police 
court.  The  inmates  of  this  h)usc  were  young  girls. 
She  said  when  she  first  got  them  they  were  kept  for 
a  time  quite  excluded,  not  permitted  to  appear  in 
the  parlors  until  she  had  taught  them  that  even  in 
a  house  of  prostitution  they  need  not  go  down  in 
the  mud.  And  she  also  taught  ttiem  their  duty  to 
the  church.  In  a  room  of  this  house  candles  burn 
before  a  crucifix,   and  a   fountain  of  holy   water 


stands  by  a  cold,  hard  image  where  these  poor 
creatures  prostrate  themselves,  making  the  signs  of 
the  cross  and  mumbling  prayers.  Alas!  that  so 
many  Christians  look  upon  this  kind  of  idolatry 
without  so  much  as  lifting  a  finger  of  warning.  I 
made  a  few  inquiries  which  brought  out  these  inci- 
dents. 

One  day  an  elegant  carriage  was  driven  up  before 
the  door;  a  fine  gentleman  bounded  out  and  entered 
the  hall;  upon  looking  about  him  for  a  moment,  he 
exclaimed:  "Excuse  me,  I  fear  I  have  made  a  mis- 
take and  that  I  am  in  the  wrong  house."  Beiug 
assured  that  no  mistake  had  been  made,  he  was  de- 
lighted to  find  so  orderly  an  establishment.  He  was 
visiting  this  city  from  Washington,  connected  in 
some  way  with  the  U.  S.  Mint,  and  was  a  guest  at 
the  St.  Charles  Hotel. 

One  day  when  visiting  this  house,  he  chanced  to 
catch  a  glimpse  of  a  young  girl  who  was  crossing 
a  lower  hall.  He  inquired  who  she  was,  and  was 
informed  that  she  had  been  an  inmate  but  a  few 
days,  and  would  not  appear  in  the  parlors  for  some 
time,  as  was  the  rule.  But  money  is  power,  and 
this  elegant  gentleman  soon  completed  an  arrange- 
ment with  the  proprietor  of  the  establishment,  to 
carry  the  young  girl  with  him  to  Washington.  A 
few  weeks  later  a  Saratoga  trunk  stood  in  the  hall, 
packed  with  elegant  clothing,  which  had  been  pur- 
chased by  the  landlady  with  this  man's  money.  A 
carriage  again  stopped  before  the  mansion,  and  this 
gentleman  of  prominent  position  alighted,  this  time 
carrying  upon  his  arm  a  young  lady's  traveling  ul- 
ster. Enquiring  if  Miss  E,.  was  ready,  he  was  in 
formed  that  she  was  waiting,  and  a  servant  was  sent 
to  call  her.  After  a  few  minutes  the  servant  re- 
turned and  informed  her  madame  that  the  young 
lady  was  not  in  her  room,  but  had  been  seen  leav- 
ing the  house  dressed  in  a  calico  dress  and  straw 
hat. 

I  will  now  tell  you  what  this  landlady  did  not 
know;  that  young  girl  who  left  that  house  wearing 
a  c»lico  dress  and  straw  hat  came  to  us,  and  has 
since  been  sent  to  a  Christian  home,  where  she  is 
protected  and  growing  into  a  sweet,  strong  woman- 
hood, which  will  keep  her  from  the  snares  of  se- 
ducers. 

If  I  had  time  I  would  like  to  speak  of  the  tempt- 
ations of  young  women  clerks  in  stores,  and  of  the 
small  salaries  when  compared  with  the  manner  of 
dress  that  is  encouraged  and  sometimes  required  by 
the  employers.  I  have  known  a  widowed  mother  to 
toil  all  day,  and  late  at  night,  upon  the  ruffles,  tucks 
and  flounces  that  her  two  pretty  daughters  wore 
while  clerking  in  down  town  stores.  She  told  me  if 
they  did  not  dress  prettily  they  would  lose  their  sit- 
uations. Some  young  girls  who  hare  lost  their  sit- 
uations have  attempted  sewing  for  stores,  and  I 
have  seen  them  bending  under  heavy  burdens  of 
tucked  shirts  at  sixty  cents  a  dozen.  Now  men  will 
persuade  a  girl  that  by  selling  her  womanly  chastity 
she  can  make  from  $25  to  $50  a  week.  As  has  been 
said,  she  can  get  from  $25  to  $50  a  week  for  stitch- 
ing her  own  shroud. 

Oh,  the  good  work  that  Christian  women  may  ac- 
complish in  this  city,  and  the  evil  that  may  be  pre- 
vented. 

I  am  sure  the  Spirit's  call  rings  in  the  heart 
of  every  true  woman,  and  the  Word  of  God  will 
show  the  way,  as  truly  as  the  silver  trumpet  called 
Israel,  and  the  pillar  of  cloud  and  fire  led  through 
the  wilderness.       M.  M.  Wolfb,  Superintendent. 

3^8  Tulane  Avenue. 


RELIGIOUS  News. 


— The  old  National  theatre  on  Clybourne  avenue 
in  this  city  has  been  purchased  by  the  Christian 
Evangelization  Association  for  ^22,000,  and  was 
last  Thursday  evening  dedicated  as  the  "North  Side 
Tabernacle."  The  hall,  which  accommodates  about 
1,000  people,  was  nearly  filled  by  those  who  came 
to  take  part  in  the  exercises  and  listen  to  the  ad- 
dresses. 

— The  Scottish  United  Presbyterian  church  will, 
it  is  said,  have  to  withdraw  its  missions  in  Spain 
.and  Japan,  for  financial  reasons. 

— Twenty-nine  years  ago  the  Presbyterian  mis- 
sion in  Brazil  was  begun.  There  is  now  a  Presby- 
tery of  fifty  churches  and  thirty-two  ministers. 
Twelve  of  the  latter  are  natives. 

— Two  persons  in  the  Southern  Presbyterian 
church  have  contributed  a  sura  sufficient  to  supply 
every  minister  of  that  church  with  a  copy  of  the 
'  Crisis  of  Missions,"  by  Dr.  Pierson. 

—  A  missionary  training  school  in  Philadelphia 

'■  has  been  opened  at  4045  Ogden  street  by  Mrs.  W. 

B.  Osborn,  a  former  missionaiy  in  India.     It  is  con- 

.  ducted  on  the  basis  of  faith  and  prayer,  and  aims  to 


put  a  course  of  preparatory  study  within  the  reach 
of  the  humblest  and  poorest  who  are  seeking  to  go 
abroad  as  missionaries. 

— The  fifteenth  quadrennial  session  of  the  Meth- 
odist Protestant  church  was  held  in  Plymouth 
church,  Adrian,  Mich.,  May  18lh-28!ih.  The  body 
was  composed  of  an  equal  number  of  ministers  and 
laymen,  representing  forty-eight  annual  conferences, 
covering  all  the  States  and  Territories.  The  Com- 
mittee on  Temperance  introduced  a  strong  series  of 
resolutions.  The  two  following  indicate  the  tem- 
per of  the  Conference  on  that  live  question: 

"We  are  unalterably  opposed  to  any  form  of  license, 
high  or  low,  as  being  wrong  in  prlncipls  and  pernicious 
in  practice." 

"Resolved,  That  any  minister  or  member  who  buys, 
sells,  makes  or  signs  a  petition  for  license,  or  to  give  to 
others,  as  a  beverage,  any  spirituous  or  malt  liquors,  is 
guilty  of  immorality,  and  shall  be  dealt  with  accord- 
ingly" 

— The  residences  of  the  Methodist  bishops  has 
been  fixed  as  follows:  Bishop  Bowman,  St.  Louis; 
Foster,  Boston;  Merdll,  Chicago;  Andrews,  New 
York;  Warren,  Danver;  Poss,  Pailadelphia;  Hurst, 
Washington;  Ninde,  Topeka;  Walden,  Cincinnati; 
Mallalieu,  New  Orleans;  Ifowler,  Sin  Francisco; 
Vincent,  Buffalo;  Fitzgerald,  Minneapolis;  Joyce, 
Chattanooga;  Newman,  Omaha;  and  Goodsell, 
Texas. 

— The  United  Presbyterian  church  of  Scotland 
reports  565  congregations,  an  increase  of  one, 
and  182,170  members,  an  increase  of  107,  The 
total  congregational  income  the  past  year  was 
$1,603,500. 

— There  were  in  1867,  13,815  Friends  in  the  Lon- 
don Yearly  Meeting;  in  1877,  14,604;  in  1887, 
15,453;  a  gain  of  1,638  iu  twenty  years.  To  this 
must  be  added  about  30,000  persons  gathered  into 
mission  schools  who,  in  this  country,  would  be  re- 
ceived into  church  or  organized  into  Friends'  meet- 
ings. 

— The  Methodist  General  Conference,  in  provid- 
ing an  order  of  deaconnesses,  only  follows,  it  seems, 
the  parent  Wesleyan  body  in  Eagland,  which  has  a 
sisterhood,  not  indeed  by  action  of  the  Wesleyan 
Conference,  but  as  a  voluntary  movement.  It 
seems,  however,  that  much  opposition  has  been 
manifested  to  the  sisterhood, 

— Mr.  Spurgeon  has  a  number  of  colporteurs 
among  his  numerous  workers.  Eighty  men  are 
employed.  The  sales  for  the  past  year  amount  to 
£9,166,  and  between  eight  and  nine  hundred  thou- 
sand visits  were  made.  It  is  stated  in  the  Report 
that  "the  amount  of  work  involved  in  these  results 
will  be  better  appreciated  if  it  be  remembered  that 
the  majority  of  the  sales  range  from  a  halfpenny 
magazine  to  a  sixpenny  book,  and  that  few  books 
are  sold  of  more  than  a  shilling  in  value."  The 
number  and  variety  of  the  publications  sold  is  thus 
shown:  Bibles,  8.509;  Testaments,  11,955:  books, 
456,707;  periodicals,  327,372;  Scripture  texts  and 
other  cards,  175,084.  In  addition  Jto  the  sales  a 
parcel  of  tracts  is  sent  to  each  man  every  month. 

— The  Church  Army  has  become  an  important  in- 
stitution in  the  Church  of  England.  It  reports  160 
evangelists  for  the  year,  indicating  an  increase  of 
fifty-five.  In  addition  to  this,  a  considerable  num- 
ber of  the  officers,  who  have  passed  through  the 
course  of  training,  and  who,  for  various  reasons, 
were  not  quite  fitted  for  the  difficult  work,  have  be- 
come Scripture  readers  and  lay  helpers. 

— The  general  synod  of  the  K  .'formed  Church  in 
America,  in  session  at  Catskill,  N.  Y.,  uttered  an 
emphatic  protest  last  Friday  against  the  traffic  in 
intoxicating  liquors  as  now  carried  on  by  civilized 
and  nominally  Christian  nations  with  heathen  lands, 
and  recommended  united  action  with  other  church- 
es in  the  effort  to  induce  the  governments  which  are 
parties  to  the  treaties  under  which  the  ini(iuity  is 
perpetrated  to  put  an  end  to  it. 

— The  Northern  Presbyterian  Assembly  passed  a 
resolution  recommending  the  sessions  of  Presbyte- 
rian churches  to  refuse  to  admit  into  these  churches 
persons  who  are  engaged  in  the  liquor  business. 
There  were  but  few  dissenting  votes.  This  is  a  step 
in  the  temparance  cause  in  the  right  direction, 
Rumselling  and  church  membership  ought  not  to  be 
combined  in  the  same  persons, 

— Rev.  H.  Grattan  Guinness,  who  has  recently 
visited  Rome,  writes  in  Regions  Beyond:  "The  ex- 
hibition of  the  Pope's  Jubilee  presents  w-as  a  sad 
sight.  It  is  held  in  the  Vatican,  and  is  so  extensive 
that  it  takes  hours  to  walk  through  it  and  examine 
the  enormous  mass  of  Papal  treasures,  even  cursorily. 
We  were  forcibly  reminded  by  what  we  saw  of  the 
Babylonian  goods  enumerated  in  Rev,  18.  All  were 
there,  displayed  to  perfection." 


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JtmB  14, 1888 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


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•    Lodge  Notes. 

J.  H.  Hobart  Brown,  Episcopal  Bishop 
of  Fond  du  Lac,  was  buried  May  8th  in 
that  city.  The  funeral  procession  was 
headed  by  Fond  du  Lac  Commandery  of 
Knights  Templar  in  uniform,  followed  by 
the  church  dignitaries. 

The  late  John  Hess,  a  prominent  resi- 
dent of  Dixon,  111 ,  was  a  member  of  the 
Dixon  Commandery  of  Knights  Templar, 
of  the  Select  Knights  of  the  Ancient  Or- 
der of  UniUed  Workmen,  of  the  Order  of 
Woodmen,  and  of  the  Dixon  lodge  of 
Odd-fellows,  and  carried  a  life  insurance 
of  $20,000 

In  the  Masonic  Cathedral  in  Cincin- 
nati Friday  night  the  ritual  of  the  Order 
of  Malta,  K.  T.,  was  worked  with  the 
knights  in  full  armor  and  with  appropri- 
ate tableaux.  Governor  Foraker,  of  Ohio, 
General  Charles  Roome,  of  New  York, 
and  eighteen  Past  Grand  Commanders 
were  present. 

The  Masonic  Grand  Lodge  of  Iowa  has 
just  held  the  forty-fifth  annual  meeting. 
A  new  code  prepared  by  Judge  Granger, 
of  Waukon,  was  adopted,  as  was  the  new 
constitution.  The  salary  of  the  Grand 
Secretary  was  raised  to  $2,000  a  year. 
A  purse  of  $1,600  was  presented  to  Grand 
Secretary  Parvin  by  the  Masons. 

Monday  the  Supreme  Court  of  Mis- 
souri fixed  the  day  for  the  execution  of 
Hugh  M.  Brooks,  alias  Maxwell,  for  the 
13th  of  July  next.  The  latter  was  found 
guilty  of  murdering  C.  Arthur  Preller  in 
the  Southern  Hotel  at  St.  Louis.  There 
has  been  a  great  effort  made  to  secure  the 
release  of  Brooks  because  of  his  Masonry. 

A  grand  reunion  of  the  order  of  Elks 
(theatrical)  is  being  held  in  Cincinnati. 
The  papers  announce  the  following  dig- 
nitaries from  Chicago:  Dr.  Simon  Qain- 
lin,  D.  D.  E.  G.  R.  U.  S  ;  John  W.  White, 
D.D.E.  R.  for  Illinois;  Dr.  W.  A.  Jones, 
esteemed  leading  knight;  Dr.  Liston  H. 
Montgomery,  esteemed  lecturing  knight; 
Rev.  Henry  Q.  Perry,  chaplain. 

Lewis  B .  Rock,  superintendent  of  the 
Northern  division  of  the  Chicago,  Mil- 
waukee and  St.  Paul  road,  fell  down  a 
stairway  at  his  home  in  Milwaukee,  Wis., 
Monday,  and  was  instantly  killed.  Mr. 
Rock  was  prominent  in  the  Masonic  fra- 
ternity, being  a  charter  member  of  Wis 
consin  Grand  Lodge  of  Perfection,  Wis- 
consin Grand  Council  Princes  of  Jerusa 
lem  and  Wisconsin  Grand  Chapter  Rose 
Croix,  and  a  member  of  Wisconsin  Lodge, 
F.  and  A.  M.,  Wisconsin  Chapter  and 
Wisconsin  Commandery. 

The  Freemason  of  Victoria,  Australia, 
in  an  article  on  the  sickness  of  the  Ger- 
man Emperor,  says:  "From  1814  to 
1836  Masonry  throughout  Germany  was 
in  a  most  deplorable  condition.  No  uni- 
ty and  concord  existed  among  the  vari- 
ous Mafonic  centers,  and  many  bitter 
complaints  were  made  of  the  apathy  of 
the  brethren,"  and  closes  with  the  fol- 
lowing Masonically  pious  hope:  "We 
sincerely  trust  that  it  will  please  the  Q. 
A.  O.  T.  U.  to  restore  him  to  health  and 
renewed  vigor,  that  he  may  follow  in  the 
footsteps  of  hi3  illustrious  father." 

D.  McCann,  this  city,  a  member  of  the 
Catholic  Foresters.  Uiroush  his  attorney, 
P.  O'Neil  Byone,  has  filed  a  rather  volu 
minous  declaration  in  the  Circuit  Court 
in  which  he  charges  conspiracy  on  the 
part  of  John  F.  Scanlan,  the  High  Chief 
Ranger  of  the  Catholic  Foresters,  and 
John  C.  Schubert,  Chief  Ranger  of  St 
Mary's  Court,  to  expel  him  (McOann) 
from  the  order.  The  declaration  is  . 
lengthy  document  of  thirteen  pages  of 
type  writing,  and  it  is  alleged  that  scnsa 
tional  developments  will  be  given  on  the 
trial.  Mr.  McCann  claims  that  he  has 
been  damaged  to  the  extent  of  $5,000, 
and  among  other  injuries  alleges  as  spe- 
cial damage  that  he  has  been  brought 
into  public  odium  and  disgrace. 

The  Union  Signal  of  this  city  contains 
the  following  remarkable  advertisement, 
which  looks  almost  as  bad  in  its  columns 
as  a  saloon  advertisement  would  in  the 
CynoHure: 

"Stupendous  conclave  of  Sir  Knights!! 

The  Pythian  army  in  dazzling  armor!! 

A  scene  of  mediaeval  splendor!! 

15,000  uniformed  and  well-drilled 
Kaights  in  line!! 

Gigantic  military  competition  drills!! 

Magnificent  and  costly  prizes  to  the 
victors  1 1 

Cincinnati  in  holiday  attire  for  the 
festival  season  II 


Vestibule  trains  and  Low  Rates  from 
Chicago!! 

The  Illinois  Brigade  (uniform  rank) 
has  contracted  with  the  Monon  Route," 
etc.,  etc. 

The  Detroit  Freemason  publishes  a 
poem  entitled  a  "Lady's  Idea  of  Mason- 
ry" with  the  note  that  it  was  read  during 
the  dedication  performances  at  the  open- 
ing of  a  Masonic  hall  in  Aurora,  111. 
The  opening  stanzi  reads: 
A  Mason's  life  is  one's  that's  free — 

Not  the  life,  tho',  of  mortar  and  bricks. 
But  out  o'  nights  enjoying  a  spree, 
And  playing  astonishing  tricks; 
While  the  she's  at  home  are  waiting, 

Never  dreaming  it  all  a  dodge. 
But  thinking  the  sad  belating 
Is  caused  by  "work  at  the  lodge," 
Where  they  meet  upon  the  level. 

To  part  upon  the  Equare, 
And  raise  the  very  devil 
While  congregated  there. 


aUBSCRIPTlOlf  LETTSBB. 


The  following  have  made  remittances 
of  money  to  the  Cynosure  from  June  4  to 
June  9  inclusive; 

Rev  P  Sjoblom,  Mrs  D  R  Keir,  F  A 
Oldis,  A  Taylor,  Rev  A  R  Cervine,  A  M 
Lundstrom,  Rev  B  Gunner,  J  Howe,  8 
Gray,  J  Smart,  Mrs  M  Phillips,  T  Camp, 
F  Brouse,  I  Jackson,  E  C  Andrus,  J 
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THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


June  14, 1888 


Faem  Notes. 


POTATO    FERTILIZBB8. 

An  experiment  with  different  fertilizers 
on  potatoes  was  conducted  last  year  at 
the  Agricultural  Experiment  Station  at 
the  State  College  of  Kentucky.  The  con- 
clusions arrived  at  were: 

1.  That  the  application  of  stable  ma- 
nure greatly  in j  ures  the  quality  of  the 
potato. 

2.  That  the  application  of  the  nitrate 
of  soda  is  injurious  to  the  quality  of  the 
potato.  This  will  probably  hold  good  to 
the  application  of  any  nitrogenous  fertil- 
izer. 

3.  The  inference  is,  based  upon  one 
trial,  that  the  result  in  the  quality  of  the 
potato  is  the  same,  whether  sulphate  or 
muriate  of  potash  is  used,  at  least  in 
combination  with  nitrate  of  soda  and  su- 
perphosphates. 

The  highest  quality,  that  is,  the  high- 
est percentage  of  starch,  was  found  in 
potatoes  raised  without  manure,  in  these 
the  percentage  of  starch  was  15.98.  Tu- 
bers raised  with  superphosphate  of  lime 
and  sulphate  of  potash  stood  next,  the 
starch  being  15.97.  This  fertilizer,  600 
pounds  of  superphosphate  and  200 
pounds  sulphate  of  potash,  also  gave  the 
largest  yield  but  one  of  large  potatoes, 
203  bushels  to  the  acre.  The  use  of  su- 
perphosphate in  the  same  quantity  and 
300  pounds  of  nitrate  of  soda  gave  213 
bushels  of  large  potatoes,  but  the  per- 
centage of  starch  in  the  last  was  only 
15.13. 

don't  WASTE  LIQUID  MANUBB. 

The  value  of  liquid  manure  upon  lawns, 
grass,  young  grain,  cabbages,  turnips, 
spinach  and  strawberries  applied  in  au- 
tumn and  to  many  more  crops  in  spring, 
is  perhaps  theoretically  understood  by 
many  people,  but  very  seldom  experi- 
mentally demonstrated  in  actual  use. 
Like  a  great  many  other  things,  it  in- 
volves a  little  trouble  at  the  outset.  At 
the  East  we  had  a  wet  season  up  to  the 
first  part  of  August,  at  least .  How  every- 
thing has  grown!  The  plant  food  has 
been  dissolved,  and  the  plants  have  taken 
it  in  and  made  use  of  it  in  a  wonderful 
manner.  A  small  amount  of  water  car- 
rying a  very  little  manure -water  produces 
a  marked  effect;  in  fact,  water  alone  is  a 
great  thing,  and  with  a  proper  cart  very 
easy  to  apply.  Manure-water  is  easily 
made.  A  sunken  hogshead  in  the  barn- 
yard, covered  with  a  lot  of  white  oak 
saplings  four  or  five  inches  through,  will 
fill  up  with  the  first  rain  and  be  strong 
enough  to  make  the  crops  laugh  over  an 
acre  or  more  of  land  if  mixed  with  plenty 
of  water.  The  application  should  not  be 
stronger  than  one  fourth  manure-water 
to  three  parts  water.  Nitrate  of  soda  may 
be  very  effectively  applied  in  this  way, 
say  one  pound  to  ten  gallons  of  water,  or 
three  pounds  to  the  barrel. — American 
AgricuUuriai. 

SWAMP  MUCK— ITS  VALUE  ON  THE  FARM. 

Much  has  been  written,  both  for  and 
against  the  value  of  swamp-muck  as  a 
fertilizer.  But  in  spite  of  all  objections 
to  it,  the  fact  remains,  that  swamp-muck, 
of  an  average  good  quality,  consisting 
mainly  of  decayed  vegetable  matter,  con 
tains  one  and  a  half  per  cent  of  nitrogen. 
It  is  true,  that  this  nitrogen  is  inert,  and 
it  is  necessary  to  take  action  to  make  it 
available.  To  do  this,  is  the  business  of 
the  farmer,  who  rarely  finds  the  materials 
with  which  he  works  already  prepared  to 
his  hand.  One  and  a  half  per  cent,  is 
equal  to  thirty  pounds  per  ton.  Thirty 
pounds  of  the  cheapest  nitrogen  the  far- 
mer can  procure,  is  worth  three  dollars . 
If  swamp-muck,  by  the  expenditure  of  a 
little  labor  at  this  season,  can  be  made 
worth  three  dollars  a  ton,  or  one  cubic 
yard,  what  is  it  worth  per  acre  if  three 
feet  deep?  We  forbear  to  say  any  more 
than  this,  lest  our  readers  might  think  us 
extravagant.  We  would  impress  upon 
the  minds  of  farmers  who  own  swamps, 
which  are  left  to  remain  unsightly  and 
unhealthful  eye-3ores  upon  their  farms, 
the  hard  fact,  that  they  are  not  only 
wasting  a  valuable  opportunity  of  im- 
proving their  lands,  by  neglecting  to 
drain  these  marshy  places,  but  are  leav- 
ing unused  the  valuable  material,  which 
might  fertilize  the  upland,  to  make  it 
doubly  productive.  The  writer  speiks 
from  his  own  knowledge  and  experience 
in  this  respect^  having  for  some  years 
dug  and  used,  annually,  several  hundred 
tons  of  swamp-muck,  in  the  form  of 
compost   with  lime  and  barn-yard  ma- 


nure. He  has  used  it,  when  dry,  as  lit- 
ter, as  an  absorbent  in  the  manure  cellar, 
cattle  yards  and  pig  pens,  and  has  found 
it  to  be  worth  all  that  the  chemists  have 
claimed  for  it. — American  Agriculturist. 

SALT  AS  A  FEBTILIZKB. 

The  Country  Gentleman  states  that  a 
farmel"  of  Columbia  county,  N.  Y.,  pur- 
chased a  car  load  of  agricultural  salt  last 
spring,  having  previously  purchased  in 
less  quantity.  His  neighbors  had  pro- 
nounced him  foolish  for  spending  money 
for  salt,  but  he  writes  that  he  sold  a  part 
of  the  last  car  load  to  some  of  these  same 
neighbors  to  use  on  their  land.  He  also 
writes  that  one  ton  on  a  field  of  dats  so 
increased  the  crop  that  the  profit  would 
equal  the  cost  of  the  whole  car  load  or 
ten  tons. 

The  Massachusetts  Agricultural  Socie- 
ty concludes  that  salt,  as  a  manure,  has 
the  property  of  hastening  the  maturing 
of  all  grain  crops;  that  wheat  on  salted 
land  will  ripen  six  to  ten  days  earlier 
than  the  unsalted  land,  all  other  condi- 
tions being  equal;  that  it  increases  the 
yield  from  twenty-five  to  fifty  per  cent; 
that  it  stiffens  the  straw  and  prevents 
rust  and  must;  that  it  checks,  if  it  does 
not  entirely  prevent  the  ravages  of  the 
chinch  bug.  The  quantity  used  may  be 
from  150  to  300  pounds  per  acre,  but  the 
greater  quantity  is  the  better. 


THAT    DEADI.Y    SCOURGE  ! 

Tubercular  consumption  is  simply 
lung-scrofula — the  active  and  dangerous 
development  of  a  taint  in  the  blood. 
The  grand  blood  cleansing  botanic 
principles  contained  in  Dr.  Pierce's  Gold- 
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JvNi  14, 1888 


NFWs  OF  The  Week 

WASHINGTON. 

General  Sheridan's  condition  improved 
Eomewhat  last  week  and  Sunday  night 
the  physicians  thought  there  need  be  no 
alarm  of  his  sudden  demise.  His  heart, 
liver  and  other  organs  are  diseased  but 
not  so  seriously  aa  to  preclude  the  hope 
of  partial  recovery. 

President  Cleveland  has  signed  the  bill 
appropriating  $80,000,000  for  pensions. 

CHICAGO. 

Mayor  Roche  has  issued  his  4th  of  July 
proclamation  in  which  he  lays  down  the 
law  relative  to  celebrating  the  approach- 
ing national  holiday.  Any  one  who  sells 
a  toy  pistol  or  metal  or  paper  cap  is  sub- 
ject to  a  fine  of  $50,  and  those  who  shoot 
the  same  will  be  "run  in"  and  fined  $10. 
Permission  is  given  to  explode  fireworks 
in  all  streets  and  vacant  lots,  but  those 
who  indulge  in  the  same  luxury  in  a 
"back  yard  or  in  an  alley"  will  be  sent  to 
jail. 

Ex-Lieut.  Alexander  Bold  and  Mrs. 
Julia  H.  Herting  have  entered  suit  for 
libel  against  the  Chicago  Herald  and  the 
Chicago  Inter  Ocean  Each  of  the  pa- 
pers is  sued  for  $25,000  damages  by  each 
of  the  plaintiffs,  making  the  aggregate 
$100,000. 

The  strike  of  the  brewers  was  declared 
off  Friday.  The  striKers  applied  for  work 
at  the  breweries  where  they  had  been  for 
merly  employed,  and  many  were  taken 
back.  The  brewery  owners  promised  to 
not  demand  their  withdrawal  from  the 
union  and  to  pay  them  the  old  wages  for 
•  ten  hours'  work  a  day.  The  strike  cost 
the  brewers  and  the  Central  Labor  union 
about  $100,000  and  resulted  in  an  un- 
conditional surrender. 

The  new  Auditorium  building  is  ready 
for  the  Republican  convention  next  Tues- 
day. The  delegates  will  be  seated  in  the 
center  of  the  house  and  occupy  a  space 
about  eighty  feet  one  way,  and  ninety- 
five  feet  the  other.  The  galleries  rise  all 
around  the  delegates,  and  so  admirably 
have  the  seats  throughout  the  house  been 
arranged  that  no  spectator,  though  he  be 
at  the  most  remote  corner  of  the  hall,  will 
be  more  than  100  feet  from  the  delegates. 
Opera  chairs  will  be  put  in  throughout 
the  hall— 7,603  of  them.  There  will  be 
standing  accommodation  for  probably 
1,400  people,  so  that  during  the  progress 
of  the  sessions  fully  9,000  persons  will  be 
within  the  Auditorium  walls.  A  grand 
war  concert  will  be  held  the  evening  be- 
fore the  convention  opens. 

COUNTRY. 

Oregon  was  carried  by  the  Republicans 
in  the  election  Tuesday  by  a  maj  ority  of 
certainly  4,000,  as  against  the  1,500  of 
two  years  ago,  for  Congressman  Her- 
mann, and  a  majority  of  42  in  joint  bal- 
lot in  the  Legislature,  66  against  24. 

The  Legislative  investigation  of  charges 
against  the  Iowa  University  came  to  a 
sudden  stop  Tuesday,  when  the  commit 
tee  learned  that  proper  provision  for  their 
expenses  had  not  been  made,  and  that 
they  could  not  draw  on  the  State  treas- 
ury. They  had  already  incurred  bills 
amounting  to  $2,000. 

A  Bu  special  from  Wisner,  Neb.,  says: 
While  a  party  of  eight  persons  were 
crossing  the  Elkhorn  at  this  point  to  day 
on  a  flatboat  temporarily  built  for  the 
use  of  foot  passengers,  the  boat  dipped 
and  all  wtre  swept  into  the  water.  Lena 
Mattbis,  agp.d  16;  Anna  Matihis,  aged  5; 
Otto  Malti  w,  aged  11,  and  FraBz  Marx 
were  drowned.  Tbe  others  were  rescued. 
The  Malthis  children  were  returning  with 
their  parents  from  their  brother's  wed- 
(line.  The  bodies  have  not  been  recov- 
ered. 

The  Michigan  Supreme  court  decided 
Friday  that  that  portion  of  the  liquor  law 
of  1887,  prohibiting  liquor  men  from  go- 
ing on  the  bonds  of  retail  liijuor  dealers, 
was  unconstitutional. 

The  case  which  has  excited  much  in- 
terest in  Iowa  is  that  of  Ella  S  Brown 
vs.  J.  R  McCoUum.  McCollum  was  the 
Republican  candidate  for  School  Super- 
intendent and  Mies  Brown  ran  as  an  In- 
dependent. The  Board  of  Supervisors 
declared  McCollum  elected  by  three  ma- 
jority. Miss  Brown  filed  a  contest  and 
in  January  the  special  tribunal  ])rovided 
by  law  declared  her  elected  by  two  votes. 
McCollum  appealed  from  this  finding  to 
the  District  Court,  where  after  a  long, 
hotly  fought  case,  Judge  Weaver  and  a 


jury  sustained  Miss  Brown's  claim.  Mc- 
CoUum's  attorneys  argued  among  other 
things  that  a  woman  cannot  bring  a  con- 
test case,  but  this  was  overruled. 

T.  Harrison  Garrett,  a  brother  of  Rob- 
ert Garrett,  former  president  of  the  Bal- 
timore and  Ohio  road,  who  broke  up  the 
Mollie  Maguires,  was  drowned  Thursday 
night  in  the  Patapsco  river.  His  yacht, 
the  Gleam,  in  which  he  and  a  party  of 
friends  were  coming  to  Baltimore  from 
Annapolis,  was  run  down  by  the  steamer 
Joppa  and  sunk,  being  struck  amidships 
and  almost  cut  in  two. 

Rev.  James  Freeman  Clarke,  the  well- 
known  Unitarian  divine,  died  to-night  at 
his  residence  in  Jamaica  Plain,  Mass., 
aged  78  years.  Although  he  had  been  in 
poor  health  for  two  years  or  more  his 
condition  was  not  considered  dangerous 
until  within  a  few  weeks.  His  death  re- 
sulted from  a  complication  of  diseases. 

In  Bloomington,  Dakota,  two  young 
farmers  named  Bailey  and  Wilson  quar- 
reled over  an  old  grudge.  Bailey  fired 
at  Wilson,  but  killed  his  own  father. 
Wilson  in  turn  shot  young  Bailey  dead. 

Lightning  struck  the  house  of  Julius 
Becker,  a  prosperous  German  farmer,  at 
Devil's  Lake,  Dakota,  wrecking  the 
building  and  killing  his  daughter  and 
seriously  injuring  both  him  and  his  wife. 
The  latter  may  not  recover. 

Mrs.  Maggie  Brown,  a  pale  and  rather 
intelligent  looking  woman,  filed  a  deed 
in  the  Recorder's  office,  at  Springfield, 
Mo  ,  this  morning  transferring  to  George 
Schmidt,  for  the  sum  of  $1,  all  legal 
right  and  privilege  to  and  over  her  13- 
year  old  daughter,  Julia  Brown.  Schmidt 
agrees  to  support,  maintain,  humanely 
treat,  clothe,  and  educate  the  child.  This 
transfer  of  human  flesh  is  attracting  con- 
siderable attention,  and  the  mother  has 
been  denounced  bitterly.  She  claims  that 
she  could  not  care  for  the  girl,  and 
deemed  that  the  best  way  to  secure  for 
her  a  home. 

Miss  Lizzie  Bray,  a  schoolteacher  near 
Pilot  Point,  Texas,  was  bitten  on  the 
thumb  Thursday  night  by  a  polecat,  while 
she  was  sleeping.  The  following  morn- 
ing a  madstone  was  applied.  It  adhered 
to  the  wound  seven  hours.  She  after- 
ward went  to  Gainsville  and  had  one  ap- 
plied, and  it  adhered  four  hours. 

The  finding  of  a  decomposed  human 
body  partly  buried  in  an  alley  near  the 
Arensdorf  Brewery,  at  Sioux  City,  Iowa, 
started  again  the  rumor  that  the  remain<i 
were  those  of  Henry  Peters,  the  brewery 
driver  who  disappeared  suddenly  soon 
after  Haddock's  assassination,  but  it  is 
impossible  to  identify  the  body. 

Between  Delhi  an  1  Cincinnati  Friday 
night  four  robbers  were  discovered  on  a 
Cincinnati,  Indianapolis  and  Chicago 
train,  on  the  platform  of  the  express  car. 
The  robbers  began  firing  on  Biggage- 
master  Joe  Ketchum  and  Express  Mes- 
senger J.  H.  Zimmerman,  the  former 
being  fatally  shot.  One  of  the  bandits 
attempted  to  climb  on  the  engine,  but 
was  knocked  down  by  blows  from  a 
monkey  wrench,  and  then  rolled  off  the 
tender  while  the  train  was  at  full  speed. 
While  the  train  was  stopping  another  of 
the  desperadoes  was  seen  to  jump  off  and 
disappear  in  the  darkness,  but  when  it 
came  to  a  stand  still  no  trace  could  be 
found  of  the  other  desperadoes.  Mounted 
posses  are  scouring  the  country,  and  the 
capture  of  the  men  is  not  improbable. 

Telegrams  from  points  in  Northern 
Wisconsin  and  Michigan  including  Esca- 
naba,  Lanse,  Iron  Mountain,  Norw>  y 
Baraga  and  Ishpeming,  report  damages 
inflicted  by  the  storm,  Sunday,  which  for 
two  hours  was  a  regular  cloud  bjrat. 
Houses  are  undermined,  culverts  and 
bridges  swept  away,  and  roads  badly 
washed  out.  The  storm  was  accompan  ied 
with  a  hurricane,  which,  had  it  not  been 
for  the  natural  roughness  of  the  country 
over  which  it  passed,  would  have 
amounted  to  a  cyclone. 

A  tenement  house  was  burned  in  Low- 
ell, Mass.  Three  children  perished,  and 
two  others  were  fatally  hurt.  The  house 
was  a  death  trap. 

Prof.  Luger,  the  State  Entomologist  of 
Minnesota,  reports  myriads  of  grasshop 
pers,  of  the  Rocky  Mountain  varieiy, 
hatching  out  in  Otter  Tail  county  in  that 
State.  Gov.  McGill  has  sent  four  car- 
loads of  coal-tar,  tin,  sheet  iron,  and 
muslin  which  will  be  used  to  build  ma- 
chines by  which  the  grasshoppers  will  bo 
caught  and  destroyed. 


70BBION. 

Tuesday  afternoon  fire  swept  over 
Wards  Nos.  4  and  5  of  the  City  of  Hull, 
opposite  Ottawa,  Canada,  destroying  be 
tween  300  and  400  houses  and  rendering 
over  2,500  persons  homeless.  The  fire 
broke  out  at  about  3:45  in  the  City  Hall, 
situated  in  the  center  of  the  populous 
portion  of  the  city,  and  the  high  wind 
served  to  spread  the  flames  with  remark- 
able rapidity .  The  fire  then  swept  every- 
thing before  it,  spreading  further  east 
and  extending  north  for  about  four 
blocks,  and  literally  burnt  itself  out  about 
a  half  a  mile  from  where  it  started. 
Hundreds  of  families  camped  in  the  open 
air  without  shelter  of  any  kind.  Prompt 
measures  for  their  relief  were  taken.  The 
loss  is  hard  to  estimate.  It  may  be  $500,  - 
000,  and  possibly  it  will  reach  $800,000. 

By  a  railroad  train  jumping  the  track 
at  Peoresnada,  Nicaraugua,  June  3,  five 
persons  were  killed  and  five  injured 

Fire  destroyed  the  stables  of  the  Mon- 
treal (Canada)  street  railway  company 
at  Hochelaga,  yesterday.  One  hundred 
and  thirty  five  horses  were  burned.  The 
loss  is  $100  000. 

It  is  reported  at  Ottawa,  Canada,  that 
an  agreement  has  been  made  with  the 
United  States,  by  which  Canadian  vessels 
will  be  allowed  to  take  seals  in  Behring 
sea,  unmolested. 

It  is  semi  officially  announced  that 
England  has  signed  the  Suez  canal  con- 
vention as  modified  by  the  porte. 

The  British  government  has  withdrawn 
the  licensing  clauses  of  the  county  gov- 
ernment bill. 

The  Italian  chamber  of  deputies  has 
rejected  the  petition  of  the  bishops  ask- 
ing that  the  articles  in  the  penal-code 
bill  imposing  penalties  for  abuses  com- 
mitted by  the  clergy  in  the  exercise  of 
their  functions  be  eliminated. 

The  fall  of  Herr  Von  Puttkamer,  Ger- 
man Minister  of  the  Interior,  has  caused 
much  jubilation  in  the  Radical  camp. 
The  government  party  is  elated  at  the 
Emperor's  yielding  to  Prince  Bismarck's 
representation  that  it  would  never  do,  by 
vetoing  the  quinquinnial  bill,  to  furnish 
the  opposition  a  pretext  to  boast  that  the 
Emperor  had  sided  with  it  against  his 
own  Cabinet;  and  the  Conservative  ma- 
jority is  dampened  by  the  prospect  of  an 
imperial  rescript.  The  government  or- 
gans daily  urge  the  Emperor  against  do- 
ing anything  likely  to  cause  further  res- 
ignations. 

DAVENPORT  BUSINESS  COLLEGE 

Complete  In  all  departments.  Address  J.  C. 
DUNCAN,  Uavenport,  Iowa. 


FLY   KILLER. 

Butcher's  Is  the  only  reliable.  Powerful  Killer. 
Certain  death.  Quick  work.  Commence  early,  kill 
off  the  young,  prevent  reproduction,  and  enjoy  calm 
repose. 

XrriT?  C  A  T  "I?  AT  WHEATON,  NEAR  COL- 
X  V7  L\>  ijA-XJ  Ei  lege,  a  good  eight-room,  two- 
story  house,  200-foot  lot,  uarn,  and  one  acre.  Price 
$2,500.  Would  take  part  cash  and  part  other  clear 
property.  Address  A.  B.  COX,  care  Cyno.sure  Office, 
Chicago,  111. 


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FITI.I.  OOLIiEGE  COURSES. 

Address  C.  A.  BLANCMARD',  Pres. 


Minnesota  Leads  the  World 

With  her  stock,  dairy  and  grain  products. 
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CONTENTS. 


Bditobial: 

Notes  and  CommentB 

The  College  Question 

"The  Seventeen- Year  Lo- 
custs."   

Personal  Mention ........ 

CONTKIBUTIONS : 

No  Gospel  on  Boston  Com- 
mon   

Annals  ol  the  Grand  Lodge 
of  Iowa 

Rescue  Work  In  India  — 

Masonic  Rites  of  Heathen 

Origin 

Sblkcted : 

Advice  from  the  Friends 
of  Alexander  Campbell. 

Roman  Catholic  Educa- 
tion   

Moving  the  Brush 

fjITBRATUBB 

Schools  and  Colleges 

Headquarters  for  the  N.  C. 

A.  in  New  Orleans 

Annu  A  Report  ol  the  lioard 

of  Directors 


Rbfobm  News  : 
Washington  Notes ;  News 
of  the  Louisiana  Church- 
es; Leaves  from  a  i  lec- 
turer's Note-book ;  The 
Debate  at  Vercon,  Wis.  4,5 

COBBBSPOKDBNOB : 

Sin  Abounding;  A  Bad 
Story  for  Posterity ;  The 
Two    Sons    ol    Satan; 

Pith  and  Point 5,6 

Obituary 7 

ThbN.C.A 7 

Church  vs.  Lodqk 7 

ThbHomb 10 

Tbmperancs 11 

Bible  Lesson 12 

Religious  Nbwb 

The  Reformed  Presbyetri- 

an  Synod 12 

Lodge  Notes 13 

Markets 13 

Business 13 

Home  and  Health 14 

Farm  Notes 15 

News  of  thb  Wbbk 16 


The  Independent  in  its  notices  of  the  marvelous 
and  exclusively  Mormon  manifestations  at  the  late 
dedication  of  the  temple  at  Manti,  contrasts  the 
value  of  Mormon  schools  with  Mormon  lodges  thus : 
"Already  $4,500,000  have  been  expended  upon  such 
structures,  and  it  is  in  the  church  plan  to  hasten  the 
building  of  a  dozen  or  a  score  of  others,  or  one  in 
every  considerable  city,  and  this,  though  there  is 
scarcely  a  decent  school-house  in  Mormondon;  so 
that  evidently  the  motto  of  the  theocracy  is,  Mill- 
ions for  temples  (secret  rites)  and  mites  for  educa- 
tion."   

The  Boston  Evening  Traveler  having  published 
that  the  friends  of  the  witness  of  Boston  Common 
would,  in  view  of  the  action  of  the  aldermen,  re- 
cede from  his  position  he  has  taken  ou  the  offens- 
ive ordinance  prohibiting  public  preaching  on  the 
Common,  and  allow  the  fines  standing  against  him 
to  be  paid,  Bro.  Davis  answers  firmly  and  in  the 
name  of  Christ,  who  put  aside  his  friend  Peter,  and 
of  Paul  who  replied  to  the  church  at  Cesarea,  when 
they  set  forward,  one  for  the  cross  the  other  for  im- 
prisonment at  Jerusalem.  No  friend  of  truth  and 
righteousness  would  counsel  him  to  yield  to  the  foes 
of  Christian  liberty  in  these  United  States.  Let  the 
churches  of  America  stand  by  the  brave  Davis.  He 
iq  opposing  a  tremendous  power,  Rome,  the  saloon 
and  the  lodge,  which  is  combining  in  all  our  cities 
against  the  free  preaching  of  the  Word  of  the  living 
God.  That  Word  will  overthrow  this  power  and  it 
must  be  spoken  in  the  ears  of  sinful  men.  Because 
this  brother  suffers  a  year  in  Jail  our  children  may 
be  saved  such  a  trial. 


The  Republicans  who  are  making  Chicago  a  lively 
town  this  week,  have  a  heavy  job,  and  each  individ- 
ual member  of  the  party  is  anxious  to  do  his  part. 
Their  unanimity  is  equal  to  that  of  the  Democrats 
in  desire  for  success;  but  the  St.  Louis  convention 
had  its  candidates  nominated  beforehand.  It  had 
only  to  ratify.    The  Chicago  convention  on  the  con- 


trary is  in  a  wonderful  condition  of  uncertainty. 
Never  had  a  convention  so  many  wooers.  Every 
other  State  has  its  "favorite  son."  While  Illinois 
has  dropped  Lincoln  and  follows  the  name  of  Gresh- 
am,  Indiana,  Gresham's  native  State,  declares  for 
Harrison.  Ohio  is  for  Sherman,  but  her  governor, 
Foraker,  it  is  said  has  25,000  of  his  portraits  ready 
to  begin  "a  boom"  for  himself.  De  Pew  is  a  favor- 
ite with  New  York,  and  Michigan  is  devoted  to  Al- 
ger, as  Iowa  to  Allison;  while  Wisconsin  believes 
her  Governor  Rusk  can  save  the  party.  Mayor 
Fitler  of  Philadelphia  is  ambitious  for  a  recognition, 
and  even  Ingalls  of  Kansas  is  hoping  that  in  the 
general  scramble  he  can  get  there  first.  Neither  is 
General  Hawley  of  Connecticut  forgotten;  and  in 
spite  of  withdrawals  and  remonstrances  California 
raises  a  big  shout  for  Blaine  and  anti-Chinese  bills. 
This  makes  a  "baker's  dozen"  of  men,  good,  bad 
and  indifferent,  neither  of  whom  after  all  may  ever 
be  President. 


The  leaders  of  the  party  realize  that  they  are 
going  into  this  campaign  handicapped.  Some  of 
them  believe  Cleveland  will  be  re-elected,  if  they  dare 
not  speak  the  thought  aloud.  The  unanimity  of  the 
Democrats  begets  confidence  and  makes  votes.  Mu- 
rat  Halstead,  of  the  Cincinnati  Commercial  Gazette, 
is  the  most  plain-spoken  of  the  influential  Republi- 
cans. He  writes  home  to  his  paper  a  warning  to 
the  party  which  will  be  widely  read.  "If  we  cannot 
defeat  the  Democratic  partj  this  time,"  he  says,  "we 
certainly  cannot  do  it  for  the  next  ten  years,  and 
perhaps  not  for  twice  that  length  of  time,  and  in 
that  event  the  Republican  party  might  as  well  con- 
sider its  career  closed.  The  gigantic  gathering  of 
the  people  here,  the  intensity  of  the  excitement  that 
already  prevails,  the  universal  interest  in  the  busi- 
ness that  is  about  to  be  done, ....  testify  to  the  con- 
sciousness of  the  power  of  the  Republicans  and 
their  resolution  to  do  their  utmost  to  realize  the 
hopes  of  those  who  believe  that  the  time  has  not 
come  to  abandon  the  great  principles  upon  which 
the  party  was  founded." 


The  death  of  the  Emperor  Frederick  of  Germany, 
after  a  brief  reign  of  a  few  weeks,  is  not  a  national 
loss  only — Christendom  mourns  for  him;  "charity 
and  liberty  weep  beside  his  bier,  if  ever  they  weep 
for  kings."  Few  men  in  the  world  have  been  bet- 
ter known  siLce  1870,  and  few  have  been  more  es- 
teemed, or  more  profoundly  pitied.  Had  he  lived, 
seconded  by  the  influence  of  his  English  wife,  a 
noble-hearted,  Christian  woman,  he  would  have  mit- 
igated the  iron  rule  of  Bismarck,  and  would  have 
given  Germany  that  constitutional  government  so 
long  promised,  and  have  possibly  abolished  war.  A 
memorandum  of  gratitude  made  by  him  for  the 
kindness  of  French  sympathy  closes:  "Their  pres- 
ent state  of  feeling  makes  me  hate  war  more  than 
ever  I  did."  William  II.  is  now  Emperor  of  Ger- 
many at  the  age  of  24.  His  spirit  is  war-like,  anli- 
Eaglish,  rash  and  dangerous.  He  is  in  full  accord 
with  Bismarck  and  his  iron  policy.  He  is  repre- 
sented as  at  bitter  variance  with  the  reforms  de- 
sired by  his  mother,  and  his  reputation  for  virtue 
bears  unholy  scars.  His  proclamations  to  the  army 
and  navy  show  little  of  the  reverence  for  God  which 
marked  the  state  papers  of  bis  father  and  grand- 
father, and  his  appeals  to  maintain  the  traditional 
fealty  to  the  "war  lord"  as  an  honored  inheritance 
have  the  rashness  of  youth  if  they  be  not  ominous 
to  Europe.  "We  belong  to  each  other,"  he  says, — 
"I  and  the  army."  But  though  active  and  high-spir- 
ited William  II.  is  young,  and  it  is  certain  that  Bis- 
marck yet  governs. 


The  fact  stated  in  our  "Lodge  Notes"  concerning 
the  Spanish  members  of  the  Knights  of  Pythias 
order  has  a  far-reaching  significance.  In  order  to 
prevent  the  interference  of  the  lodge  ritual  with  the 
tenets  of  Romanism,  which  these  Spaniards  held, 
the  ritual  was  slightly  modified.  Now  should  a  ctm- 
siderable  number  of  members  of  the  Greek  church 
wish  to  join,  and  a  company  of  Mohammedans,  also 
of  Buddhists,  or  worshipers  of  the  Indians'  Great 
Spirit,  the  ritual  would  have  to  be  changed  for  eacb. 


So  that  the  more  cosmopolitan  one  of  these  lodges 
of  secret  religious  worship  becomes,  in  the  same 
proportion  must  its  religious  ceremonies  conform  to 
the  theology  of  all  the  various  religious  systems. 
This  is  what  is  literally  attempted  in  Freemasonry. 
It  claims  to  be  a  religion  in  which  all  men  can  agree, 
and,  of  course,  in  its  construction  there  must  be 
nothing  to  displease  Jew  or  Gentile,  Mormon  or  Mo- 
hammedan, else  its  universal  adaptability  is  lost 
and  its  power  limited.  The  statement  of  Masonic 
monitors  is  often  quoted  in  proof  of  the  universal 
character  of  the  order,  that  the  New  Testament,  the 
Pentateuch,  the  Koran,  the  Vedas,  etc.,  are  simply 
"a  Masonic  symbolism  of  the  divine  will."  A  writer 
in  the  Masonic  Review  tells  how  he  saw  this  princi- 
ple in  practice:  "Four  years  ago  I  was  at  a  Masonic 
lodge  in  Calcutta,  when  the  degree  was  given  to 
three  F.  C.s,  who  knelt  before  the  same  altar:  one 
was  a  Christian,  who  took  his  obligation  on  the  Bi- 
ble; one  was  a  Mohammedan,  who  took  it  on  the 
Koran;  the  other  a  Hindoo,  who  took  it  on  the  Shas- 
tas.  It  was  administered  by  an  Eaglish  lord,  a 
judge  of  the  Supreme  Court.  Such  is  the  univer- 
sality of  Masonry."  Such  is,  also,  its  seal  of  con- 
demnation. And  such,  also,  muat  be  the  condem- 
nation pronounced  upon  every  secret  order  which 
conforms  to  the  creeds  of  the  false  religious  sects. 


2f0  Q08PBL  ON  BOSTON  COMMON. 

Sopfolk  Count?  Jail,  Chables  St.,  ) 
Boston,  Mass.,  June  7,  1888.      f 

■K  -x-  -»  Aft«r  months  of  delay,  the  Committee  on 
Ordinances  reported  yesterday  to  the  Board  of  Alder- 
men unanimously,  that  the  by-law  which  prohibits  the 
free  public  preaching  of  the  Gospel  in  Boston  ought 
not  to  he  repealed,  and  that  the  petitioners  for  its  re- 
peal have  leave  to  withdraw.  Their  report  was  ac- 
cepted, tabled,  and  ordered  to  ba  printed.  At  the 
same  meeting  the  aldermen  voted  to  empower  the 
Superintendent  of  the  Common  to  allow  games  of 
base-ball  and  other  games  on  the  Common,  and  to 
tax  the  citizans  $3,500  for  band  concerts  under  the 
Mayor's  direction. 

If  God  will,  the  Supreme  Court  of  the  United 
States  will  next  have  an  opportunity  to  say  whether 
the  free  publication  of  the  Gospel  is  any  longer  to 
be  tolerated  in  citizens  of  the  United  States,  except  as 
buncombe  and  bombast  in  political  speeches  by 
champion  spoilsmen. 

I  will  never  assume  that  this  unspeakably  outra- 
geous infringement  of  our  most  fundamental  na- 
tional and  State  law,  will  be  adopted  by  our  United 
States  judges.  1  assume  that  it  will  not  be  so  adopted, 
just  as  I  would  not  insult  this  city  so  much  as  to 
assume  that  its  legislative,  executive  and  judicial 
representatives  would  champion  such  monstrous  in- 
iquity, as  is  embodied  in  the  Boston  gagbylaw,  if 
only  their  attention  were  duly  challenged  thereto. 
But  city  and  State  officials  have  now  deliberately 
and  obstinately  and  publicly  proved  their  wicked 
determination  to  retain  and  enforce  this  God-defy- 
ing ordinanc).  Where  they  thus  resolvedly  cata- 
logue themselves,  there  the  judgment  of  all  true 
men  and  of  the  Holy  God  must  recognize  them  as 
belonging. 

Tho  government  representatives  of  Boston  and 
Massachusetts  have  now  olllcially  set  this  land  as 
Sodom  and  Gomorrah  and  Admah  and  Zaboim,  and 
nothing  but  the  long-sufforing  of  Jehovah  holds  back 
the  judgment  of  those  ancient  cities  of  the  lower 
Jordan  valley  from  erst-while  Puritan  Boston  and 
the  Old  Bay  Stale.  The  measure  of  iniquity  must 
be  filled  before  the  executioner  of  the  Jusl  Judge 
will  be  allowed  to  act.  The  Divine  testimony,  like 
a  cloar-voiced  herald,  alw.iys  precctles  the  Divine 
vengeance. 

Ourist's  embassadors  of  peace  must  be  thoroughly 
rejected  before  the  Son  of  God  will  tread  alone  the 
wine-press  of  God's  wraih  and  stain  all  his  raiment 
with  the  blood  of  fools  who  make  a  mock  at  sin, 
and  who,  not  content  with  wearying  the  poor  in 
spirit,  the  mourning,  the  meek,  those  famishing 
with  desire  for  righteousness,  the  merciful,  the  pure 
in  heart,  the  peace-makers,  the  persecuted  for  right- 
eousness' sake,  the  widows  and  the  orphans,  have  at 


2 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


JcNE  21,  1888 


last  risen  up  in  their  blind  pride  and  fury  and  chal- 
lenged God  to  single  combat  in  Boston  and  New 
York,  and  other  cities  of  this  lawless  nation,  by 
enacting  gag-by-laws  for  Gospel  preachers.  The 
proceedings  against  the  Salvation  Army,  under  pre- 
text of  law,  are  really  on  account  of  the  zeal  for  do- 
ing good  which  the  Salvationists  exhibit  aiyl  not  be- 
cause bands  and  processions  in  the  street  are  per  se 
oflensive  to  their  persecutors. 

As  for  the  expense  attending  the  appeal  of  this 
case  to  the  United  States  Supreme  Court,  God,  who 
knows  all  from  the  beginning,  and  whom  I  serve  in 
the  Gospel  of  his  Son,  will,  in  some  way  or  other, 
provide.  Pray  for  me  that  I  may  preach  the  Gos- 
pel with  all  boldness  as  I  ought  to.  Sincerely  thy 
brother  in  Christ,  still  bound  for  the  Gospel  to  be 
free.  Wm.  F.  Davis. 


BBSGVE   WORE  IN  INDIA. 


ANNALS  OF 


TEB    QRAND 
FOR  1S87. 


LOhOB  OF  IOWA 


■RY  REV.   H.    H.   HINMAN. 


This  able  and  voluminous  report  from  the  veteran 
Mason,  Grand  Secretary  T.  S.  Parvin,  is  in  many  re- 
spects worthy  of  notice.  Mr.  Parvin  says  he  has 
been  for  half  a  century  a  Mason,  all  of  which,  ex- 
cept two  years,  has  been  spent  in  the  oflScial  service 
of  the  lodge.  He  adds:  "Whether  our  labors  in 
this  and  other  fields  have  served  in  any  way  to  en- 
rich our  brethren  and  the  order,  'deponent  saith  not.' 
But  we  do   say  we  have  impoverished  ourself  and 

sacrificed  our  time  and  talent In  some  respects 

our  life  has  been  a  signal  failure,  and  it  is  too  late 
in  old  age  to  remedy  the  follies  of  youth." — Page 
JfjfO.  Whether  joining  the  Masonic  order  was  one 
of  "the  follies  of  youth,"  he  does  not  distinctly 
state,  but  the  inference  is  quite  plain.  Surely  no 
man  of  seventy,  who  had  devoted  half  a  century  to 
Christian  work,  ever  thought  his  life  a  failure,  or 
classed  his  devotion  to  God's  service  among  "the 
follies  of  his  youth." 

I  propose  to  notice  several  items,  and  first  call 
the  attention  of  Masons  to  the  financial  report. 

There  was  received  into  the  treasury  of  the  Grand 
Lodge,  .in  various  items,  from  June  3,  1886,  to 
January  7,  1887,  $19,559.41.  There  was  paid  out 
in  the  same  time,  for  running  expenses,  in  which 
there  was  no  item  of  charity  or  relief,  $17,085.55; 
leaving  a  balance  on  hand  of  $2,473.86.  Some  of 
the  items  of  this  expense  were: 

Hervices  and  Expenses  of  Grand  offlcera $2,711.00 

Mileage  and  per  diem 4,123.90 

Ordinary  expenses 4,548.70 

There  is  a  separate  report  of* the  Charity  Fund: 

On  hand  June  3.  1886 $1,520.05 

Paid  for  one  widow  of  a  Past  Master.  .$200.00 

R.  HMtsrok 21.00 

Charleston  sufferers 200.00 


Total $421.00 

Thus  we  see  that  this  magnificently  charitable  in- 
stitution, by  its  official  showing,  out  of  a  net  income 
of  $21,061.45,  paid  for  relief  the  vast  sum  of  $421, 
or  just  about  two  per  cent.  It  cost  to  run  this  char- 
ity machine  last  year  in  Iowa  ninety-eight  per  cent  of 
the  entire  income.  That  is  benevolence  with  a  ven- 
geance. 

From  January  11,  1887,  to  May  20,  there  was 
received  by  the  treasurer  $18,072  91.  There  was 
included  in  it  the  balance  of  the  charity  f  und,$  1,099.- 
05,  so  that  it  does  not  appear  that  from  June  3, 
1886,  to  May  20,  1887,  anything  had  been  paid  for 
relief  except  the  items  above  given.  Was  there  no 
distress  in  Iowa?  Not  one  of  the  larger  religious 
denominations  but  gave  far  more  than  this  for  the 
relief  of  physical  necessities,  and  yet  the  Masons 
have  more  members  and  wealth  than  any  one  of 
these  Christian  bodies. 

The  missionary,  Bible  and  tract  sccieties  run  their 
organizations  for  from  four  to  six  per  cent  of  their 
income.  Masonry  costs  from  eighty  to  ninety-eight 
per  cent  to  run  its  machinery. 


Vermont  Mabonry. — Freemasonry  in  Vermont  is 
placed  under  the  ban  of  the  law.  The  administra- 
tion of  its  obligations  is  made  a  crime.  Anti-ma- 
sonry in  its  opposition  to  Masonic  oaths  has  found 
a  place  on  the  statute  book.  A  great  point  is 
gained  in  this,  even  if  a  conviction  never  takes 
place  under  the  provisions  of  the  law  in  question. 
Public  opinion  is  recorded  in  penal  enactments 
against  Masonry,  and  if  it  continues  to  uphold  its 
rituals  and  administer  its  obligations  and  erect  its 
tribunals  among  us,  it  does  so  in  the  face  of  the 
laws  of  the  land.  Is,  then,  political  Anti-masonry, 
powerless?  Would  any  other  kind  of  Anti-masonry 
have  accomplished  this?—  Quoted  from  Middlebury, 
Vt.y  I'reti  hy  Maine  Free  l're*$,  Dec.  0, 18SS. 


Please  keep  the  run  of  my  letters.  Three  branch- 
es of  mission  labors  have  been  mentioned  as  need- 
ing workers: 

1,  Colporteur  evangelists,  going  from  station  to 
station,  bouse  to  house,  and  heart  to  heart  over 
India  with  the  spoken  and  printed  Gospsl  message. 

2.  Rescue  workers,  women  preferred;  but  there  is 
also  work  in  this  line  for  ablesouled  men. 

S.  Ci'y  missionaries,  who  shall  do  the  work  of 
evangelists  in  our  great  Indian  cities. 

I  have  explained  something  about  the  simple  and 
apostolic  lines  of  support,  living  and  working  which 
we  aim  to  follow.  I  now  wish  to  explain  more  fully 
about  our  Rescue  Work. 

Nearly  twelve  years  ago  a  lady  in  Bombay  opened 
this  Rescue  Home.  She  had  been  converted  under 
the  labors  of  William  Taylor,  and  became  an  active 
worker  for  souls.  Her  husband,  Major  Raitt,  had 
been  in  charge  of  a  jail,  and  she  had  thus  heard 
much  of  the  vice  among  vagrants  and  others. 

At  that  time  there  was  probably  not  more  than 
one  other  home  for  prodigal  women  in  all  India. 
This  lady  opened  the  Home  of  Hope  as  an  individ- 
ual, working  upon  her  own  responsibility;  but  it 
has  received  a  limited  support  from  good  people 
ever  since  its  foundation.  It  has  been  a  real  mis- 
sion work,  because  it  has  reached  out  the  hand  of 
help  and  salvation  to  those  who  were  quite  shut 
out  from  other  ministrations.  It  is  impossible  to 
tell  what  good  has  been  effec'^d  through  this  labor 
of  love.  Many  have  been  taken  from  the  gates  of 
hell  and  brought  to  Him  who  gives  to  true  penitents 
the  welcome  sentence:  "Neither  do  I  condemn  thee; 
go,  and  sin  no  more." 

We  have  seen  in  these  lines  of  work  some  who, 
like  the  woman  at  Sychar's  well,  have  turned  from 
domestic  sin  to  become  messengers  of  the  Saviour's 
salvation. 

It  would  be  ditficult  to  describe  the  various  cases 
in  India  that  need  Rescue  work.  A  brief  outline 
must  suffice.  We  would  gladly  leave  this  painful 
and  terrible  question  entirely  alone  if  that  were  the 
best  way  to  heal  it;  but  God  does  not  let  it  alone  in 
his  Word.  Christ  and  the  prophets  and  the  apos- 
tles spoke  out  very  plainly  upon  the  various  phases 
of  these  social  evils.  His  followers  in  these  days 
must  do  the  same.  The  millions  in  America  who 
are  interested  in  mission  work  may  profitably  learn 
some  of  these  darker  phases  of  Indian  life,  because 
your  missionaries  have  to  meet  these  questions.  A 
missionary  in  Ceylon  stated  in  his  report  that  the 
greatest  obstacle  to  mission  work  was  not  Buddhism, 
but  immorality;  and  sucb,I  think,is  the  experience  of 
missionaries  very  generally.  But  as  you  read  this, 
remember  that  this  fact  is  not  peculiar  to  Asia 
alone,  but  that  in  your  beautiful  country,  too,  and 
all  over  the  world,  these  unnameable  vices  are 
among  the  greatest  hindrances  to  the  Gospel  of 
Christ.  Therefore,  what  I  say  here  about  the  sins 
and  needs  of  India  applies  exactly  to  America  with 
some  adaptations  as  to  circumstances. 

There  are  in  India  what  are  called  "Temple 
women."  From  the  most  ancient  times  there  have 
been  this  class  of  persons.  Looking  into  Deut. 
23:  17,  18,  revised  version,  margin,  you  see  the 
word  "Kedeshah"  defined  "women  devoted  to  im- 
pure heathen  worship."  Abundant  proof  is  given 
in  Scripture  and  ancient  history  that  in  all  idola- 
trous systems  vice  has  prevailed,  and  more  or  less 
as  a  part  of  the  system  itself. 

Next,  there  are  the  "Dancing  Girls."  These  are 
called  to  sing  and  dance  upon  all  manner  of  native 
festal  occasions.  They  are  recognized  as  a  part  of 
the  great  system  of  evil  which  debases  Indian  so- 
ciety. Reformed  Hindus  cry  out  against  their  tol- 
eration. In  law  courts  they  are  classed  as  aban- 
doned characters, — yet  not  only  do  the  highest  na- 
tive gentry  patronize  them  by  calling  them  to  per- 
form upon  the  most  important  occasions,  but  even 
European  "gentry"  and  otBcials,  by  their  presence 
at  such  public  gatherings,  countenance  and  encour- 
age the  public  disgrace.  Thus  shallow  Christians 
help  to  fasten  the  chains  of  vice  upon  our  poor  old 
India. 

Other  classes  of  the  lost  are  so  well  known  all 
over  the  world  that  I  need  not  specify  their  sad 
corruption. 

many  of  these  siioht  be  saved 


My  dear  countrymen  and  countrywomen,  you  are 
blessed  with  God's  wealth  in  grace,  gifts  and  finan- 
cial means;  will  you  not  of  your  abundance  cast  in- 
to the  treasury  of  the  Saviour  of  India?  What 
shall  it  be?  Some  give  yourselves,  others  your 
means,  and  all  give  your  prayers.  It  is  as  true  to- 
day as  eighteen  hundred  years  ago,  that  "the  Lord 
loveth  a  cheerful  giver."  Yours  for  India's  sal- 
vation, Wallace  J.  Gladwin, 

Office  of  India  Watchman,  Bombay. 

P.  S. — I  hope  the  above  call  may  be  copied,  or 
plainly  quoted  in  many  newspapers  in  America. 
Should  any  be  moved  to  enquire  about  the  work, 
they  are  cordially  invited  to  write  to  me  at  any 
time.  w.  J.  a. 


MA80NI0  RITES  OF  HBATHBN  ORIGIN. 


if  Christian  women  in  America  would  only  give 
their  hearts  and  hands  to  this  holy  work.  Think 
how  Jesus  came  to  seek  and  to  save  the  lost:  and 
he  sought  and  saved  these  lost.  Our  noble  America 
has  sent  scores  of  devoted  tlaugbiera  of  the  Lord  to 
India's   respectable  homes,  -  can  she  not  send  one 


BY   M.   N.   BUTLER. 

Freemasonry  or  sun-worship  is  intensely  anti- 
Christian.  Not  only  is  Saint  John's  day  sun-wor- 
ship but  the  last  reference  to  Christianity  has  been 
expanged  from  the  system. 

"The  Blazing  /Star  is  said,  by  Webb,  to  be  com- 
memorative of  the  star  which  appeared  to  guide  the 
wise  men  of  the  East  to  the  place  of  our  Saviour's 
nativity.  This,  which  is  one  of  the  ancient  inter- 
pretations of  the  symbol,  being  considered  as  too 
sectarian  in  its  character,  and  unsuitable  to  the  uni- 
versal religion  of  Masonry,  has  been  omitted  since 
the  meeting  of  Grand  Lecturers  at  Baltimore,  in 
1842." — Mackey's  Masonic  Ritualist,  page  56. 

To  what  then  does  the  Blazing  Star  refer?  To 
the  Dog- Star,  worshiped  by  the  Egyptians.  Grand 
High  Priest  Mackey  says:  "Those  brethren  who 
delight  to  trace  our  astronomical  symbols  to  the 
cradle  of  that  science,  Egypt,  and  to  the  Egyptian 
priests,  its  earliest  cultivators,  find  in  the  seven 
stars  depicted  on  the  Master's  carpet  a  representa- 
tion of  the  Pleiades,  and  in  the  blazing  star  an  allu- 
sion to  the  dog-star,  which  the  Egyptians  called 
Anubis,  or  the  barker,  because  its  rising  warned 
them  of  the  inundation  of  the  Nile,  which  always 
quickly  followed  its  appearance,  and  thus  admon- 
ished them  to  retire  from  the  lower  grounds,. just  as 
the  barking  of  a  dog  admonishes  his  master  of  ap- 
proaching danger." — Mackey's  Lexicon  of  Ireema- 
sonry,  page  ^52. 

WHAT  SIGNIFICANCE  HAS  THE  CABLETOW? 

"In  the  Mysteries  of  India,  the  aspirant  was  in- 
vested with  a  consecrated  sash  or  girdle,  which  he 
was  directed  to  wear  next  his  skin.  It  was  manu- 
factured with  many  mysterious  ceremonies,  and 
said  to  possess  the  power  of  preserving  the  wearer 
from  personal  danger.  It  consisted  of  a  cord  com- 
posed of  three  times  three  threads  twisted  together 
and  fastened  at  the  end  with  a  knot,  and  was  called 
a  zennar.  Hence  comes  our  cabletow." — Pierson's 
Traditions  of  freemasonry,  -page  29. 

WHAT  DOES  THE  HOODWINK  SYMBOLIZE? 

Every  intelligent  Master  Mason  and  Royal  Arch 
perceives  at  once  the  appropriateness  of  the  cable- 
tow  and  now  we  pass  to  consider  the  hoodwink. 
Speaking  of  the  candidate  we  read:  "He  main- 
tained the  same  character  in  the  ancient  mysteries. 
Emphatically  a  profane,  enveloped  in  darkness, 
poor  and  destitute  of  spiritual  knowledge,  and  em- 
blematically naked.  The  material  darkness  which 
is  produced  by  [the  hoodwink]  is  an  emblem  of  the 
I  darkness  of  his  soul." — Pierson's  Traditions  of  Free- 
masonry, page  39. 

WHY   KNEELS   THE   CANDIDATE   TOWARD   THE    EAST? 

Is  there  any  reason  why  the  Masonic  candidate 
always  takes  his  obligations  with  his  face  to  the 
east? 

"An  oath  taken  with  the  face  toward  the  east  was 
deemed  more  solemn  and  binding  than  when  taken 
with  the  face  toward  any  other  cardinal  point.  . 
Oaths  were  variously  confirmed:  by  lifting  up  the 
hands  to  heaven,  by  placing  them  on  the  altar,  or 
on  a  stone,  or  in  the  hands  of  the  person  adminis- 
tering the  oath,  etc. ;  and  a  most  solemn  method  of 
confirming  an  oath,  was  by  placing  a  drawn  sword 
across  the  throat  of  the  person  to  whom  it  was  ad- 
ministered, and  invoking  heaven,  earth  and  sea  to 
witness  the  ratification." — Pierson's  'Iraditions  of 
freemasonry,  pages  S4  and  35. 

Thus  the  veneration  of  the  sun  and  the  heathen 
origin  and  the  idolatrous  character  of  Freemasonry 
continues  self-evident. 

THE   WHITE    MASONIC   APRON. 

"All  the  ancient  statues  of  the  heathen  gods, 
which    have    been    discovered    in   Egypt,  Greece, 


upon  a  special  mission  to  those  Inst  whom  our  Sav-I  Persia,  Hindoostan,  or  America,  are  uniformly  dec- 
iour  so  specially  mentioned  and  invited?  |  orated  with  aprons.     Hence  is  deduced  the  antiquity 


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June  21,  1888 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


of  this  article  of  apparel." — Pierson's  Iraditions  of 
Freemasonry,  page  1^6. 

And  so  it  is,  always  and  ever:  Freemasonry 
stands  as  the  personification  and  embodiment  of 
sun-worship  and  idolatry. 


A  BY  10 B  FROM    TEE  FRIBND8   OF  ALB  ZAN- 
DER CAMPBELL. 


A  correspondent  of  the  (Jhrittian  Standard,  of 
Cincinnati,  writes  to  that  paper  for  its  opinion 
as  to  the  moral  character  of  the  following  ^transac- 
tion.    He  says: 

"The  Knights  of  Pythias  in  this  city,  composed  largely 
of  members  of  the  various  churches,  are  holding  a  Pair 
of  a  week's  continuance  from  Thursday  to  Thursday,  in- 
cluding Sunday— Christmas.  The  object  is  to  provide 
means  for  the  erection  of  a  temple  for  the  use  of  the 
order. 

"The  Fair  was  not  open  on  Christmas,  it  being  Sun- 
day. But  a  regular  Christmas  dinner,  price  fifty  cents, 
was  provided,  and  after  the  services,  members  of  the 
churches  with  others  in  considerable  numbers  patronized 
it.  The  ministers  in  the  city  were  furnished  with  free 
family  tickets  to  this  dinner.  The  membership  of  the 
order  embraces  one  or  more  of  the  resident  preachers,  as 
also  of  the  elders  of  the  Christian  Church." 

From  the  /Standard's  reply  we  make  the  following 
extract: 

"We  have  no  personal  knowledge  of  the  Knights 
of  Pythias.  If  they  are  a  secret  organization,  then, 
on  general  principles,  we  are  opposed  to  Christians 
associating  with  them.  Locally,  there  is  no  good 
work  needed  in  such  places  as  our  querist  speaks  of 
which  the  church,  as  such,  could  not  and  ought  not 
to  accomplish.  Or,  if  there  is  anything  of  a  phi- 
lanthropic character,  local  or  general,  too  large  to 
bo  managed  by  the  church,  and  in  which  all  good 
people  may  be  properly  enlisted,  then  it  may  be 
done  openly,  and  need  not  fear  the  light  of  day. ' 
From  all  that  we  have  seen  and  heard  of  the  opera- 
tion of  secret  societies,  we  are  convinced  that  while 
the  .  element  of  secrecy  may  be  made  to  work  mis- 
chievously, it  is  not  at  all  necessary  to  the  accom- 
plishment of  benevolent  and  philanthropic  ends. 
If  men  of  the  world  choose  to  enter  into  such  as- 
sociations, the  church  has  nothing  to  do  with  it; 
but  Christians  have  a  Master  who  organized  no 
such  association,  and  sought  refuge  for  the  interests 
of  his  mission  in  no  such  element.  We  are  satis- 
fied that  Christians  are  frittering  away  their 
strength  by  draining  the  churches  of  means  which 
go  to  support  various  worldly  secret  associations — 
associations  which  respectable  worldly  men  delight 
in  as  religion  enough  for  them,  and  who  are 
strengthened  in  their  delusion  when  Christians 
meet  them  as  on  common  ground.  We  advise  all 
Christian  people  to  hold  aloof  from  all  such  socie- 
ties, and  concentrate  their  time,  sympathies,  ener- 
gies and  money  on  the  churches,  that  they  may 
thus,  in  place  of  hiding  their  light  under  a  bushel, 
'shine  as  lights  in  the  world,  holding  forth  the 
word  of  life.'  " 


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ROMAN  OATEOLIO   BDVOATION. 

The  Eomish  church  undertakes  to  educate  the 
people,  and  a  very  laudable  undertaking  it  is.  But 
the  ministers  of  this  church  deny  that  other  people 
have  a  right  to  teach  children.  They  say  that  the 
state  has  no  right  to  found  schools  and  control  ed- 
ucation. Well,  if  the  church  of  Rome  is  to  be  the 
great  educator  of  the  people,  it  is  well  to  ascertain 
how  she  has  succeeded  in  teaching  them  in  the  coun- 
tries where  she  has  bad  control. 

According  to  the  United  States  census  of  1870, 
of  every  one  thousand  persons  of  the  population 
ten  years  old  and  upward,  146  were  illiterate,  52  of 
the  146  being  under  twenty-one  years  old,  and  94 
being  over  that  age.  This  percentage  of  illiteracy 
included  first,  the  vast  slave  population  of  the 
South,  recently  emancipated  and  almost  totally  ig- 
norant, and  the  unavoidable  illiteracy  among  froi\tier 
settlements  where  schools  are  not  established;  and 
second,  the  immense  influx  of  foreigners,  who  are 
largely  illiterate,  some  three-fifths  of  them  being  un- 
able to  read  their  own  native  tongues,  to  say  noth- 
ing of  ours.  If  these  classes  were  left  out  of  the 
account,  it  is  probable  that  not  ten  per  cent  of  the 
population  of  the  United  States  would  be  illiterate. 

In  Germany  the  census  of  1871  reported  that  nine 
and  one-half  per  cent  of  the  men,  and  fifteen  and 
one-half  per  cent  of  the  women  were  unable  to  read 
and  write.  In  Scotland  eleven  per  cent  of  the  men 
and  twenty-one  per  cent  of  the  women  could  not 
read  or  write.  But  in  Germany  the  most  of  the  illit- 
eracy is  in  the  northeastern  provinces  of  Poeen  and 
Prussia  proper, — a  people  foreign  to  the  language 
and  institutions  of  Germany,  while  in  most  of  the 
German  States  the  percentage  of  illiti'racy  is  small. 


in  some  cases  less  than  one  per  cent  France  has 
been,  to  a  large  extent,  a  Catholic  country.  The 
census  of  1872  showed  twenty-seven  per  cent  of 
illiterate  males,  and  thirty-three  per  cent  of  illiter- 
ate females.  Spain  has  always  been  a  Catholic  coun- 
try, and  the  census  of  Spain  in  1860  showed  sixty- 
nine  per  cent  of  males  and  ninety-one  per  cent  of 
females  who  could  not  read  or  write.  Italy  in  1861 
was  reported  as  having  sixty  per  cent  of  illiterate 
male  adults,  and  sixty-eight  per  cent  of  illiterate 
male  youths  from  twelve  to  eighteen  years  of  age. 
In  1861  it  is  stated  that  among  the  twenty-two  mill- 
ions of  Italians  seventeen  millions  were  utterly  un- 
able to  read,  and  in  the  province  of  Basilcata,  with 
its  five  hundred  thousand  people,  more  than  nine- 
tenths  were  unable  to  read. 

In  Portugal,  with  its  nearly  four  and  one-half 
millions  of  people  (4,367,882),  most  of  whom  are 
Boman  Catholics,  the  Jesuits  established  themselves 
in  1540,  and  largely  controlled  the  education  of  the 
people.  They  were  afterward  expelled,  but  finally 
returned.  In  that  country,  as  in  Spain,  the  govern- 
ment has  neither  provided  for,  nor  fostered  uni- 
versal education,  and  the  political  and  religious  sta- 
tus of  the  people  has  afforded  no  incitements  to  any 
effort  of  their  own  in  this  direction. 

In  the  city  of  New  York  the  census  of  1870  re- 
ported, out  of  a  total  population  of  942,292,  there 
were  14,974  male  adults  and  368,110  female  adults 
unable  to  write,  while  of  the  male  youths  from  ten 
to  twenty-one  there  were  only  3,088,  and  of  the  fe- 
male youths,  4,929  unable  to  write.  This  agrees 
with  the  fact  that  a  large  proportion  of  the  adult 
population  of  New  York  are  immigrants  from  for- 
eign countries,  many  of  whom  are  illiterate,  while 
their  children,  trained  under  the  common  school  sys- 
tem, speedily  learn  to  read  and  write. 

Thus  America,  with  all  her  freedmen,  frontiers- 
men and  foreign  population,  has  only  twenty  per 
cent  of  her  people  who  cannot  read  or  write,  most  of 
them  being  of  foreign  birth  or  blood;  while  in  Spain, 
a  long-settled  country,  with  no  influx  of  for- 
eigners, and  no  untaught  colored  population,  eighty 
per  cent  of  the  people  can  neither  read  nor  write. 
In  Belgium,  which  is  a  Catholic  country,  thirty 
per  cent  can  neither  read  nor  write,  and  in  Austria, 
another  Catholic  country,  forty-nine  per  cent  of  the 
conscripts,  men  in  the  vigor  of  their  young  man- 
hood, can  neither  read  nor  write.  Of  the  criminal 
class  in  Ireland,  most  of  whom  are  Catholics,  forty- 
six  per  cent  are  illiterate.  In  Kussia,  under  the 
Greek  church,  ninety -one  per  cent  are  unable  to  read 
or  write.  In  Mexico,  where  the  Catholic  church  has 
had  sway,  ninety-three  per  cent  could  neither  read 
nor  write.  In  Italy,  of  the  galley  slaves,  only  twenty- 
nine  in  a  hundred  could  read  or  write.  In  Italy,  in 
1874,  there  were  in  the  public  schools  only  seventy 
pupils  to  every  one  thousand  inhabitants;  while  in 
Switzerland  there  were  155;  in  Germany,  152;  in 
Denmark,  135;  in  France,  131. 

In  1635  the  people  of  Boston  "requested  Bro. 
Philemon  Purmont  to  become  school-master  for  the 
teaching  and  culture  of  the  children."  In  1642  the 
the  selectmen  of  every  town  were  enjoined  to  have 
a  "vigilant  eye  over  their  brethren  and  neighbors; 
to  see  first  that  none  of  them  shall  suffer  so  much 
barbarism  in  any  of  their  families  as  not  to  endeav- 
or to  teach,  by  themselves  or  others,  their  children 
and  apprentices  so  much  learning  as  may  enable 
them  perfectly  to  read  the  English  tongue,  and  a 
knowledge  of  the  capital  laws,  upon  penalty  of 
twenty  shillings."  The  general  court  also  author- 
ized the  appropriation  of  four  hundred  pounds  for 
the  establishment  of  a  school  or  college,  and  direct- 
ed that  the  college  should  be  established  at  Newton. 
In  1647  it  was  ordered  by  the  general  court  that 
every  township  of  fifty  householders  should  appoint 
one  of  their  number  to  teach  all  children  that  might 
be  sent  to  him  to  read  and  write;  and  the  neglect 
of  this  ordinance  subjected  them  to  the  annual  pen- 
alty of  ten  pounds.  It  was  also  ordered  that  every 
town  of  one  hundred  families  should  in  addition 
maintain  a  grammar  school,  to  fit  pupils  to  enter  the 
university. 

In  1683  all  towns  of  five  hundred  families  were 
required  to  maintain  two  grammar  schools  and  two 
writing  schools.  Any  town  failing  to  support  a 
grammar  school  was  re(iuire<l  to  pay  at  once  ten 
pounds,  and  afterwards  twenty,  to  the  nearest  school 
kept  in  compliance  with  the  law. 

After  the  Revolution,  when  new  townships  were 
created,  a  lot  was  reserved  in  each  for  the  school- 
house.  In  1789  a  law  was  passed  that  in  every  town 
schools  should  be  maintained,  in  which  children 
should  be  taught  to  read  and  write,  and  receive  in- 
structions in  the  "English  language,  arithmetic,  or- 
thography and  decent  behaviorl"  In  1818  the  town 
of  Dedham  was  indicted,  tried  and  convicted  for 
neglecting  for  a  year  to  keep  and  support  a  gram- 


mar school  for  the  instruction  of  the  children  in  the 
Greek,  Latin  and  English  languages.  In  1834  five- 
sixths  of  all  the  children  of  school  age  received  in- 
struction in  the  public  schools,  the  remainder  at- 
tending private  schools.  In  1834  children  under  fif- 
teen were  prohibited  from  working  in  factories  un- 
less they  had  attended  school  for  at  least  three 
months  the  preceding  year. 

Such  have  been  the  pains  and  labors  under  which* 
the  Massachusetts  school  system  has  grown  up. 
And  this  is  the  system  which  the  Irish  Roman  Cath- 
olic priests  propose  to  demolish,  and  introduce  in- 
stead of  it  a  system  less  offensive  to  the  Church  of 
Rome,  which,  where  it  has  full  sway,  has  no  schools 
at  all  for  the  common  people,  and  which  in  Italy, 
the  very  headquarters  of  its  whole  system,  left  sev- 
enteen millions  out  of  twenty-two  millions  of  the 
inhabitants  unable  to  read  or  write. 

Perhaps  it  would  be  in  order  to  suggest  that  char- 
ity begins  at  home,  and  that  the  Italian  Pope,  who 
rules  the  American  priesthood,  might  very  profit- 
ably devote  his  time  to  educating  his  own  people  in 
Italy,  instead  of  laboring  to  demolish  the  school 
system  of  America. —  7 he  /Safeguard, 


MOVING    THB  BRUSH. 


We  were  clearing  a  piece  of  ground;  as  the  trees 
were  felled  we  trimmed  them;  the  trunks  and  larger 
limbs  we  cut  into  cordwood  and  carted  it  away,  but 
ths  smaller  limbs  we  left  in  piles  of  brush.  How 
were  we  to  get  it  away?  Should  we  pick  out  those 
slender  branches  one  by  one  and  tie  them  in  bun- 
dles, and  so  load  them  up  and  remove  them?  That 
would  have  been  a  tedious  operation.  My  man, 
Tom,  who  is  an  old  woodsman,  knew  a  better  way. 
He  tied  a  rope  around  two  or  three  prominent 
branches  in  each  heap,  hitched  his  horses  to  the 
rope,  and  away  went  the  brush,  leaving  only  a  few 
twigs  to  mark  the  spot  where  it  had  lain.  In  a  few 
hours  the  brush  was  all  gone,  and  the  ground  was 
ready  for  the  plow.  While  Tom  was  "brushing,"  as 
he  called  it,  I  was  moralizing.  Men  are  tangled  to- 
gether in  social  life  just  as  those  branches  were  in 
the  brush-heap.  One  holds  his  neighbor  by  some 
interlacing  interest  or  sympathy,  and  through  him  a 
third,  and  they  a  fourth,  and  so  on.  The  result  is 
that  if  you  would  secure  a  popular  movement  any- 
where it  is  not  necessary  to  take  hold  of  every  in- 
dividual man.  If  you  can  draw  a  few  men  in  any 
direction,  you,  through  them,  draw  a  crowd. 

The  politicians  understand  this.  If  they  want  to 
secure  a  nomination  they  know  just  where  the  brush- 
heaps  of  voters  are.  One  is  in  John  Smith's  facto- 
ry; another  is  in  Jerry  McFlanagan's  saloon;  anoth- 
er is  in  Hans  Miller's  beer  garden.  If  the  aspiring 
demagogue  can  get  hold  of  John  and  Jerry  and 
Hans  he  is  sure  of  the  crowds  that  they  are  sever- 
ally linked  with  and  control.  John's  fellow-work- 
men will  go  just  as  he  goes.  He  is  their  oracle.  He 
does  their  thinking.  Jerry's  and  Hans's  customers 
will  follow  wherever  they  lead.  So  the  caucus  is 
set  up  by  securing  the  influence  of  a  few  leading 
men;  and  the  caucus  controls  the  election;  and  the 
"brushing"  system  gives  us  our  Congressmen  and 
Governors  and  Presidents. 

Men  are  naturally  clannish.  They  go  together 
through  the  operation  of  a  law  of  social  magnetism. 
Nothing  is  so  trying  to  the  average  man  as  to  be 
alone.  People  herd  together  as  cattle  do.  They 
seem  to  feel  that  when  in  a  crowd  they  are  safe,  and 
that  what  a  multitude  does  cannot  be  wrong,  hence, 
we  have  mobs  of  strikers  and  popular  tumults. 
Some  plausible  crank  or  scoundrel  takes  hold  upon 
a  few  sticks  in  the  brush-heap,  and,  presto,  the  whole 
mass  is  in  motion  Nine-tenths  of  the  people  don't 
know  where  they  are  going,  or  why  they  are  going. 
They  go  because  somebotly  else  goes.  They  echo 
what  somebody  else  says.  They  have  no  idea  of 
individual  responsibility.  They  act  en  nuuse,  and 
when  the  excitement  is  over  and  they  are  called  to 
account  as  men  for  the  doings  of  the  mob,  they  de- 
nounce the  whole  system  of  law  and  order  and  civ- 
ilized society.  They  cry,  "Are  not  we  the  people? 
Are  we  not  free?  And  have  we  not  a  right  when 
we  move  unanimously  to  do  as  we  please?"  They 
forget  that  they  have  not  done  as  they  pleasetl,  but 
only  what  their  selfappointeil  leaders  told  them  to 
do.  The  popular  movement  is  like  that  of  the  rail- 
road train,  which  goes  only  when  and  where  the  lo- 
comotive draws  it. 

There  is  something  inexpressibly  sad  in  this 
brush-heap  idea  of  humanity.  How  degrading  it  is 
to  that  manhood  on  which  is  the  impress  of  the  im- 
age of  God  I  The  divinely  minted  soul  with  the 
stamp  of  immortality,  worth  more  than  all  the  gold 
in  the  world,  has  become  a  mere  plaything  in  the 
hands  of  the  selfish,  the  unscrupulous,  the  atheistic 


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THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSUKE. 


Jtob  21, 1888 


and  the  vile.  What  can  be  done  for  our  social  brush- 
heaps? 

The  best  thing  to  be  done,  if  it  were  possible,  is 
to  trim  from  the  branches  all  the  twigs  and  petty 
side  shoots  by  which  they  are  weakly  or  viciously 
intertangled,  to  make  each  man  so  far  independent 
that  he  will  move  only  when  he  sees  a  good  and  suf- 
ficient reason  for  moving,  whether  in  concert  with 
others  or  alone.  In  other  words,  to  educate  every 
human  soul  up  to  the  idea  of  its  personal  responsi- 
bility and  accountability.  This  is  what  the  Gospel 
aims  to  do,  and  is  doing;  but  it  cannot  be  done  in 
a  day.  The  danger  is  imminent;  the  remedy  is  re- 
mote. The  burning  question  is,  How  shall  we  deal 
with  the  masses  here  and  now?  There  is  no  objec- 
tion to  moving  a  brush  heap  as  Tom  moved  mine, 
if  it  is  moved  in  the  right  direction.  The  church 
must  deal  with  men  as  they  are.  The  social  reform- 
er and  philanthropist  must  take  society  as  it  is  and 
ask  how  it  can  be  made  better  under  existing  condi- 
tions and  complications.  If  men  are  in  brush-heaps 
we  must  try  to  get  hold  of  some  one  through  whom 
we  can  move  the  heap.  Why  should  not  the  church 
learn  wisdom  from  the  politicians?  Why  should 
she  not  go  for  the  representative  men  in  the  differ- 
ent cliques  and  classes  into  which  society  is  divid- 
ed? If  she  can  draw  them  she  can  draw  the  multi- 
tudes whom  they  influence  and  control.  We  cannot 
develop  the  manhood  of  the  masses  until  we  can 
bring  them  under  better  leadership;  and  the  most 
efficient  way  of  doing  that  is  to  convert  their  lead- 
ers. If  the  church  could  get  a  nucleus  of  laboring 
men  enlisted  under  its  banner,  full  of  zeal  for  the 
truth,  earnest  in  the  desire  and  effort  to  elevate  their 
fellow  laborers,  she  would  soon  leaven  the  great 
mass  of  humanity  in  our  cities.  The  Salvation 
Army  is  doing  some  good  work  in  this  direction; 
but  its  tflorts  are  too  irregular  and  spasmodic  to 
produce  permanent  results.  The  organized  churches 
must  adopt  methods  that  are  more  aggressive. 
While  not  intermitting  their  stated  services  they 
must  go  out  and  go  down,  and  try  to  get  into  the 
lowest  and  outermost  circles  of  humanity.  It  seems 
a  great  and  almost  hopeless  task.  But  if  we  re- 
member how  masses  are  moved,  and  try  to  move 
them  as  wisely  as  the  children  of  this  world  do,  we 
shall  soon  see  grand  and  blessed  results. —  Obadiah 
Oldschool  in  Interior. 


A  HB  AD  QUARTERS  OF  TEE  N.  G.  A.  AT  NEW 
ORLEAISS. 


SHALL   IT   BE   ESTABLISHED? 


The  first  suggestion  of  an  extended  work  for  the 
promotion  of  the  anti-secrecy  reform  in  the  South 
was  made  by  Bro.  James,  a  Free  Methodist  minister 
whom  I  met  in  Iowa  in  the  winter  of  1879  and  '80. 
During  the  next  summer  I  felt  strongly  impressed 
with  the  importance  of  the  undertaking,  especially 
to  save  the  colored  people  from  the  bondage  and 
corruption  of  the  lodge.  I  was  not  at  that  time,  and 
had  not  for  nearly  two  years  been  in  the  employ  of 
the  N.  C.  A.,  though  I  had  continued  to  labor  in  the 
cause.  The  slate  of  the  treasury  was  such  that 
there  were  no  means  to  pay  for  the  inauguration  of 
a  Southern  work;  and  there  was  not  much  faith  in 
the  success  of  any  such  undertaking.  There  were 
at  that  time  but  very  few  subscribers  to  the  Cyno- 
lure  south  of  the  Ohio  river.  I  corresponded  with 
a  few  persons  in  the  South  and  secured  meager  en- 
couragement. I  visited  Iowa  and  Wisconsin  and 
solicited  sub8cription^ ,  made  payable  on  condition 
the  work  was  undertaken,  and  met  with  some  success. 

About  October  first,  I  left  Chicago  for  Ohio  with 
a  broker's  ticket  and  $3  50  in  money.  I  presented 
the  cause  as  I  went  along,  and  by  the  tim»  I  reached 
Cincinnati  I  had  $60.  1  went  to  Berea,  Ky.,  wiiere 
1  met  a  most  kind  recep  ion  from  the  president  and 
officers  of  the  College.  Bro.  Fee  took  me  to  Camp 
Nelson;  from  there  I  went  to  Chattanooga  and  then 
to  Nashville.  Here,  too,  I  was  most  kindly  received 
and  aided  at  Fisk  University.  So  also  at  Dickson, 
Tenn.,  Columbus  and  Tougaloo,  Miss.,  and  at  last  I 
reached  New  Orleans,  Dec.  25,  1880.  Here  I  met 
little  besides  discouragement.  1  found  one  man 
who  was  in  sympathy  with  our  work.  Another  took 
the  Cynoture,  but  was  an  ardent  Freemason.  I  sold 
him  some  expositions,  which  he  wanted  for  lodge 
use.  No  man  in  all  the  city  dared  publicly  to  ar- 
raign the  secret  orders  or  suffer  it  to  be  done  in  any 
place  under  his  control.  I  went  to  Mobile,  where  X 
found  symputby.     So  also  at  Silma  and  elsewhere. 

After  a  journey  of  nearly  four  and  one  half  mouths 
I  returned  home,  having  expended  on  the  trip  $202 

Next  year  I  visited  New  Orleans  and  got  a  hear- 
ing in  Straight  and  Leland  Univerailies  and  found 
friends  of  our  reform.     I  did  not  go  there  again  un- 


til October  of  1886.  A  marked  advance  had  been 
made  in  reform  principles.  Several  ministers  had 
given  up  their  connection  with  the  orders  and  given 
their  testimony  against  them.  The  Baptist  breth- 
ren, in  a  ministers'  meeting,  determined  to  under- 
take to  purge  the  churches  of  their  State  Associa- 
tion from  all  complicity  with  the  secret  orders;  and 
doors  were  open  which  had  previously  been  closed. 

I  returned  there  again  in  October  of  1887.  It 
had  been  a  year  of  progress.  The  secrecy  question 
had  been  discussed  in  the  schools  and  the  ministers' 
meetings.  The  Baptist  brethren  had  voted  without 
dissent  to  use  their  influence  to  get  secret  societies 
out  of  their  churches.  A  bishop  of  the  M.  E.  church 
commended  our  work  to  his  annual  conference,  and 
our  convention  which  was  held  in  February  had  re- 
spectful notice  in  the  daily  press.  The  convention, 
through  the  well-directed  efforts  of  Bro.  Stoddard 
and  others,  was  a  marked  success,  and  a  considera- 
ble number  of  ministers  who  were  Masons  and  Odd- 
fellows made  public  renunciation.  The  debate  con- 
ducted for  the  friends  of  Masonry  by  the  Grand 
Master  of  the  colored  Masons,  was  a  grand  success 
for  the  anti-secrecy  movement.  Bro.  Davidson,  who 
had  for  several  years,  with  faithfulness  and  self- 
denial,  labored  for  the  promotion  of  our  reform  prin- 
ciples, has  since  been  employed  as  an  agent,  and 
his  labors  have  been  signally  blessed.  At  present 
more  copies  of  the  Christian  Cynosure  are  sent  to 
New  Orleans  than  to  any  other  city  or  postoflfice. 

The  way  seems  providentially  opened  to  establish 
a  permanent  office  with  a  depository  of  our  publica- 
tions in  New  Orleans,  and  to  make  it  the  center  of 
reform,  as  it  now  is  of  the  commercial  and  educa- 
tional influence  of  the  Southwest.  Property  suita- 
ble for  the  uses  of  the  Association  in  desirable  loca- 
tions is  owned  by  a  friend  of  our  reform,  and  could 
be  probably  rented  on  favorable  terms.  The  cost 
of  sustaining  an  offica  would  not  be  greater  than  in 
any  other  large  city.  To  secure  such  an  agency  and 
office  and  to  stock  it  with  publications  will  require 
a  considerable  outlay,  and  special  donations  ought 
to  be  received  for  this  object.  It  is  probable  that  no 
work  of  special  reform  is  more  needful  or  will,  on 
the  whole,  be  more  helpful  to  the  colored  man  and 
through  him  to  the  nation  at  large. 

H.  H.  HiNMAN. 


— Georgia's  Chautauqua,  in  the  suburbs  of  At- 
lanta, proposes  to  excel  even  the  beautiful  New  York 
resort;  the  season  begins  in  July.  A  feature  will  be 
a  week  for  Southern  literary  people  of  note,  in  which 
such  persons  as  Miss  Amelia  Rives,  Thomas  Nelson 
Page,  Richard  Malcom  Johnson.  Eli  Saeppard, 
William  H.  Hayne,  Joel  Chandler  Harris,  and  oth- 
ers will  participate.  Each  author  will  deliver  an 
original  lecture  or  read  a  selection  from  his  or  her 
works.  Another  week  will  be  devoted  to  presidents 
and  teachers  of  the  State  Universities  of  the  South; 
a  third  week  to  all  the  teachers  of  the  Southern 
States,  and  so  on  for  the  whole  two  months.  It  is 
intended  to  be  a  literary  reunion  such  as  the  South 
has  never  seen.  The  educational  idea  will  not  be 
lost  sight  of,  and  twenty  or  thirty  teachers,  the  best 
that  money  can  get,  will  be  employed  to  teach  the 
two  months'  normal  school,  which  it  is  believed  10,- 
000  Southern  teachers  will  attend. 

—Hon.  S.  V.  White,  M.  C,  from  New  York,  with 
Mrs.  White,  attended  the  fiftieth  anniversary  of  Mon- 
ticello  Female  Seminary  near  Alton,  111.,  last  week. 
Governor  and  Mrs.  Oglesby  were  also  present,  and 
Dr.  Withrow  preached  the  anniversary  sermon. 


Reform  News. 


WASHINGTON  NOTES. 


THE    K.   OP   V.    SUNDAY   TRAIN. 


Washington,  D.  C,  June  9,  1888. 
The  World's  Supreme  Conclave  of  Knights  of 
Pythias,  to  convene  next  week  in  Cincinnati,  is 
highly  commended  and  extensively  advertised  by 
the  press  of  this  city.  There  are  two  divisions  in 
Washington  which  "will  go  with  full  ranks  and  a 
band  of  twenty  pieces."  It  is  no  matter  of  sur- 
prise that  this  "godless  ape  of  the  bride  of  Christ" 
has  chosen  11  o'clock  Saturday  evening  as  the  hour 
of  their  departure.  It  has  become  a  fixed  fact  that 
the  secret  orders  so  time  their  anniversaries  and 
large  gatLerings  as  to  make  Sabbath  desecration 
necessary,  and  it  is  no  marvel  that  the  Pythians  fol- 
low the  example  of  the  Sins  of  Veterans,  the  Grand 
Army,  the  Knights  of  Labor,  the  Odd-fellows  and  the 
Freemasons  in  rejecting  God's  authority  and  Sab- 
bath law.  The  wonder  is  that  such  graceless, 
swindling,   profane  and    unscriptural   associations] 


should  receive  any  countenance  from  Christian  peo- 
ple or  the  Christian  press.  It  must  be  on  the 
ground  of  ignorance  of  the  real  character  of  these 
orders. 

In  no  other  way  can  I  understand  why  a  notice  of 
this  meeting  should  appear  in  the  Union  Signal  of 
the  7th  inst.  It  seems  incredible  that  the  manage- 
ment of  that  paper  intended  to  endorse,  even  to  the 
extent  of  advertising,  a  great  assembly  of  men  who 
have  been  initiated  over  a  coffined  skeleton,  and 
who  "declare  and  swear  never  to  reveal  until  death's 
day  the  secret  mysteries  which  shall  be  afterwards 
disclosed  to  them;"  and  that  they  "will  observe  all 
the  rules  and  regulations  required  by  the  constitu- 
tion and  by-laws  of  the  order" "to  warn,  coun- 
sel or  shield  an  esquire  from  any  danger  which  they 

may  know  to  threaten  him" and  "to  obey  all 

orders  that  may  be  given,  emanating  from  the  Su- 
preme.Grand,  or  any  other  lodge  in  which  they  hold 
membership;"  invoking  as  a  penalty,  in  case  of  fail- 
ure, to  "suffer  all  the  anguish  and  torments  possi- 
ble for  man  to  suffer,"  closing  with,  "So  help  me 
God  and  keep  me  steadfast." 

Had  the  publisher  or  editors  of  that  excellent 
paper  known  the  "mystery  of  iniquity"  working  in 
this  Christ-rejecting,  Sabbath-desecrating  order,  I 
have  no  thought  that  the  advertisement  would  have 
been  tolerated  on  any  terms.  I  mention  this  not 
so  much  to  critisize,  as  to  call  attention  to  the  im- 
portance of  being  informed  on  all  these  practical, 
living  questions. 

I  found  in  my  visitations  to-day  the  first  colored 
pastor  I  have  met  in  Washington  who  attempted  to 
defend  secret  societies.  I  called  hoping  to  interest 
him  in  our  work  at  No.  215,  and  to  secure  his  at- 
tendance at  our  prayer  meeting.  Some  of  his  mem- 
bers live  quite  near  to  us  and  had  spoken  of  their 
pastor  in  terms  of  highest  commendation.  He  was 
"free-born"  and  has  had  many  advantages.  He 
joined  the  lodge  in  Connecticut,  but  just  before  I 
left  said  he  had  not  been  in  a  lodge  of  Masons  for 
over  twenty  years.  He  declined  to  read  on  the 
subject  as  he  was  too  much  occupied  with  ministe- 
rial labors.  His  wife,  who  was  for  many  years 
house-servant  in  the  family  of  Gamaliel  Bailey  of 
the  Christian  Era,  was  in  full  accord  with  her  hus- 
band, having  membership  in  several  orders.  She 
saw  much  good  and  no  evil  in  their  benevolence. 
She  spoke  favorably,  however,  to  Mrs.  Stoddard  of 
her  efforts  in  the  direction  of  an  industrial  school, 
and  we  hope  to  enlist  them  on  that  line. 

J.  P.  Stoddard. 


NEWS  OF  THE  LOUISIANA  CHURCHES. 


PASTORS   and   people   HEAR   THE   TROTH  AND  OBEY 
BY  FORSAKING  THE  LODGE. 

Bayoj  Sara,  La.,  June  13th,  1888. 

Dear  Cynosure: — I  arrived  at  Bayou  Sara  on 
the  6th.  The  first  minister  I  found  was  Rev.  H. 
Hewlatt,  of  the  Baptist  church  of  St.  Francisville. 
After  learning  my  mission  he  begun  to  defend  the 
lodge,  but  finally  acknowledged  they  were  in  part 
wrong,  and  invited  me  to  preach  for  him  Saturday 
night.  I  next  found  Rev.  Robert  Sarofield,  who 
cordially  received  me  and  invited  me  to  preach  for 
him  Thursday  night.  Bro.  Sarofield  has  not  found 
secrecy  anti-Christian  as  yet,  though  he  likes  the 
Cynosure.  He  carried  me  about  the  city  and  intro- 
duced me  to  many  persons.  Almost  every  one 
whom  I  was  introduced  to  belonged  to  some  lodge. 
I  visited  the  public  high  school  under  care  of  Mrs. 
H.  C.  Deutsch,  a  graduate  of  Straight  University, 
and  was  pleased  at  the  courses  of  study.  Bayou 
Sara  has  about  2,000  inhabitants,  with  five  churches, 
and  nine  secret  lodges.  This  little  city  is  sore 
afflicted  with  secretism. 

I  preached  at  Little  Bethel  A,  M.  B.  church.  Rev. 
Robert  Sarofield,  pastor,  to  a  very  good  audienca 
Thursday,  at  7:30  p.  m.  The  better  part  of  the  coq- 
gregation,  who  were  young  secretists,  received  th  =< 
sermon  as  unsavory.  However,  Elder  Sarofield 
heartily  endorsed  the  sermon,  and  asked  his  people 
to  give  it  a  careful  consideration.  After  the  services 
a  sister  said  to  me,  "My  husband  is  an  Odd-fellow 
and  I  belong  to  the  Jakes  and  the  Universal  Broth- 
erhood, but  they  are  all  frauds.  While  I  am  not  edu- 
cated I  am  not  a  fool.  These  lodges,  none  of  them, 
can  do  what  they  pretend."  This  sister's  experience 
is  that  of  thousands.  I  am  informed  that  both  the 
colored  and  white  lodges  are  experiencing  great 
losses  up  here. 

I  called  on  Revs.  Eli  Perkins  and  George  Dent, 
about  five  miles  southeast  of  Bajou  Sara,  and 
found  them  both  very  intelligent  ministers,  but  both 
adherents  to  the  lodge.  Both  had,  Lo  sever,  felt  the 
pressure  of  the  secret  power  in  their  churches,  and 


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THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSUKE- 


5 


they  both  are  willing  to  give  up  their  lodge  worship. 
Rev.  B.  Perkins  cordially  invited  me  to  preach  for 
him  Sabbath  at  10  a.  m.,  but  owing  to  previous  ap- 
pointments Bro.  Dent  could  not  make  any  engage- 
ment, as  the  people  are  very  busy,  and  Sunday 
being  the  only  day  they  attend  church. 

I  have  been  able  only  to  preach  twice  and  lecture 
once  on  temperance.  The  temperance  work  among 
both  white  and  black  is  growing  more  favorable.  I 
preached  on  Sabbath  at  the  Raspberry  Baptist 
church  of  St.  Francieville,  and  lectured  one  hour  on 
secrecy  as  a  hindrance  to  the  Christian  religion. 
The  congregation  gave  the  best  of  attention,  and 
many  responded  "Amen".  Two  of  the  brethren 
gave  up  lodgery  from  henceforth;  also  the  pastor 
Rev.  H.  Hewlatt,  said  to  the  congregation,  "Rev. 
Davidson  has  preached  a  noble  sermon,  and  it  is 
all  truth;  and  no  Christian  ought  to  be  offended 
at  the  truth.  I  belong  to  two  lodges,  but  I  am  con- 
vinced of  my  error,  and  I  am  now  ready  to  repent. 
Bro.  Davidson  has  certainly  preached  the  Gospel." 
Several  came  up  and  shook  my  hand  and  bid  me 
"Grod  speed."  I.  had  been  advised  not  to  speak 
against  the  lodge  in  this  place,  but  the  Spirit  caught 
hold  on  me  and  made  my  cry  aloud,  "Come  out  of 
her,  my  people."  Praise  the  Lord,  old  Baal  is  rooted 
from  his  secret  places  here.  I  am  invited  by  all  of 
the  pastors  to  return  in  the  fall. 

I  called  at  the  office  of  the  West  Feliciana  Senti- 
nel, the  official  county  paper.  Mr.  Geo.  Reese,  the 
editor,  promised  to  send  a  reporter  to  take  an  ac- 
count of  our  temperance  lecture  Tuesday  night.  I 
lectured  on  temperance  and  morality  one  hour  last 
night  at  the  Little  Bethel  A.  M.  E.  church.  Rev.  R. 
Sarofield,  pastor.  The  audience  gave  good  attention, 
except  a  few  young  lodge-tobacco  rumites,  who 
thought  it  was  nobody's  business  what  they  drank, 
but  Bro.  Sarofield  soon  restored  peace.  The  ladies 
were  enthusiastic,  and  a  band  of  young  girls,  led  by 
Miss  M.  H.  Benedict,  joined  in  and  sang  several  of 
Bro.  Geo.  W.  Clark's  temperance  songs.  The  tem- 
perance society  here  (colored)  is  prospering  under 
Mrs.  B.  Sarofield  as  president,  and  Mrs.  H.  C. 
Deutsch,  secretary.  It  will  be  well  for  temperance 
ladies  of  the  North  to  write  and  send  temperance 
tracts  to  either  of  these  ladies.  Mrs.  Deutsch  be- 
longs to  no  lodge,  and  Mrs.  Sarofield  is  convinced 
of  their  secret  folly.  Although  I  could  hardly  find 
a  place  where  to  rest  in  this  place  when  I  first  came 
here,  until  I  found  Bro.  Sarofield,  praise  the  Lord, 
I  have  since  made  the  acquaintance  of  many  kind 
friends,  and  have  the  assurance  of  many  that  they 
intend  to  give  up  lodgery.  Among  them  are  Rev. 
H.  Hewlatt  and  Bro.  R.  Veal. 

The  white  Knights  of  Pythias  calls  their  brethren 
to  meetings  by  tolling  a  bell.  Tuesday  night  they 
tolled  their  bell  more  than  an  hour.  It  seems  as 
though  the  brethren  are  getting  tired  of  playing 
"Old  Pluto"  in  the  lodge  room.  I  have  visited  all 
over  this  city  and  find  there  are  five  secret  lodge 
halls  and  two  benevolent  society  halls.  I  never 
eaw  secret  lodges  ring  bells  as  churches  do,  for 
lodge  meetings,  until  I  reached  here.  Surely  these 
secret  lodges  will  baptize  and  administer  sacrament 
ere  long.  There  has  been  either  a  lodge  or  some 
other  kind  of  a  meeting  since  I  came  here  every 
night.  Francis  J.  Davidson. 


a  few  weeks  ago,  there  was  no  decoration  of  sa- 
loons, no  laying  in  of  an  extra  stock  of  liquor,  no 
redoubling  of  the  police  force,  no  influx  of  prosti- 
tutes from  other  cities.  Yet  we  were  told  that  all 
these  preparations  were  made  for  the  great  conclave 
of  Knight  Templars  from  all  parts  of  the  State.that 
paraded  the  streets  on  the  week  before.  How  the 
people  run  and  gaped  after  this  procession,  over  a 
mile  in  length,  with  its  tinsel  of  plumes  and  swords 
and  uniforms  and  brass  bands,  and  few  of  them 
realized  that  these  men — many  of  them  the  worst 
of  men — were  organizing  and  drilling  in  secret,  pre- 
paring to  scatter  in  ruins  every  institution  daring  to 
resist  their  selfish  schemes.  How  differently  the 
press  of  the  city  treated  these  two  gatherings.  They 
could  scarcely  find  adjectives  enough  to  describe 
the  grandeur  and  excellence  of  the  Knight  Tem- 
plars, while  the  poor  Covenanter  Synod  was  bur- 
lesqued and  treated  with  contempt,  giving  only  the 
smallest  space  for  our  reports.  Bvery  year  we  are 
finding  it  more  difficult  to  get  reports  of  our  meet- 
ing in  the  secular  press.  The  man  is  blind  and  in- 
sensible who  does  not  notice  that  the  conflict  be- 
tween the  moral  and  immoral  forces  in  our  land  is 
deepening,  and  must  soon  result  in  fearful  convul- 
sions that  will  shake  the  frame-work  of  society  to 
pieces. 

One  of  the  pleasant  memories  of  my  work  last 
spring  was  a  meeting  at  Darlington,  Mo.,  and  my 
visit  at  the  home  of  Bro.  M.  N.  Butler,  our  anti- 
secret  lecturer.  His  devoted  wife  is  president  of 
the  local  W.  C.  T.  U.  and  secretary  of  the  county 
unions,  and  has  made  her  influence  felt  in  the  State, 
in  the  direction  of  trying  to  start  a  department  of 
anti-secret  work.  She  presided  at  my  meeting  here, 
and  Bro.  Butler  aided  materially  in  making  the  ar- 
rangements. 

It  was  my  privilege  while  at  Synod  in  Allegheny 
to  be  entertained  at  the  home  of  Mrs.  Dr.  Sterrett, 
whose  hospitable  roof  first  gave  me  shelter  eighteen 
years  ago,  when  I  went  a  lonely  student  to  the  Sem- 
inary. The  Dr.  has  since  gone  to  his  rest;  but  sis- 
ter Sterrett,  who  was  then  one  of  the  leaders  in  the 
Woman's  Crusade,  is  now  superintendent  of  the 
Sabbath  Obseivance  department  of  the  W.  C.  T.  U. 
work  in  the  county,  and  more  active  than  ever  in 
reform  work.  She  has  all  these  years  been  a  close 
reader  of  the  Cynosur e,&nd  it  was  mainly  her  tfforts 
that  secured  several  meetings  for  me  in  the  city. 
What  made  my  stay  here  doubly  pleasant  was  that 
I  shared  a  room  with  Bro.  T.  P.  Stevenson,  editor 
of  the  Christian  Statesman.  He  agrees  with  me 
that  the  National  Reform  Association  has  not  de- 
voted sufficient  attention  to  the  discussion  of  the 
secret  society  question.  He  believes  it  is  one  of  the 
greatest  dangers  threatening  the  country,  and  at 
the  next  annual  convention  to  be  held  in  Pittsburgh 
next  spring  he  will  try  to  have  on  the  program  a 
strong  address  on  the  lodge  question. 

M.  A.  Gault. 


THS  DEBATE  AT  VERNON,   WIS. 


LEAYEB  FROM  A   LBOTURER'8  NOTE-BOOK 

The  Chicago  Friends-^ Oood  Blood  in  the  National  W.O. 
T.  U. — The  World  loves  its  own;  i.  «.,  the  Enight  Tern- 
plars^Mrs.  M.  N.  Butler's  good  work  in  Missouri — 
And  Mrs.  Er.  Sterrett' s  in  Pennsylvania — The  Nation- 
al Reform  Association. 

There  are  few  denominations  that  sympathize 
more  heartily  with  our  reform  work  than  the  Qua- 
kers. I  spent  last  Sabbath  morning  in  Bro.  Calvin 
W.  Pritchard's  Quaker  pulpit  at  Western  Springs, 
near  Chicago.  1  was  glad  to  be  in  the  Bible  class 
with  that  clear-headed,  devoted  Miss  Esther  Pugh, 
treasurer  of  the  National  W.  C.  T.  U.,  and  dining 
with  her  at  sister  Hill's.  The  best  reform  blood  is 
in  her  veins.  Her  father  was  publisher  of  the  Cin- 
cinnati Philanthropist,  the  parent  of  the  National 
Era,  and  several  times  had  his  press  thrown  into 
the  Ohio  river  during  the  anti-slavery  agitation. 
Miss  Pugh  is  especially  radical  on  the  anti-secret 
issue,  declaring  that  there  can  be  no  genuine  revival 
of  religion  in  a  church  whose  pastor  or  leading 
members  are  Masons.  In  the  evening  I  preached  in 
Bro.  Perry's  Congregational  pulpit,  the  Quakers 
uniting  in  the  service  and  giving  a  liberal  collection 
for  the  cause.  In  the  afternoon  I  attended  an 
Evangelist's  Association  meeting,  in  which  D.  A. 
Norton,  J.  L.  Atwater  and  Prof.  J.  R.  Price  were 
leading  spirits. 

When  the  Covenanter  Synod  met  in  Allegheny, 


Bditor  Cynosube: — You  have  kindly  hinted  that 
this  matter  should  be  written  up.  I  will,  therefore, 
without  going  into  details,  give  your  readers  an  out- 
line of  the  debate.  Rev.  W.  H.  Clark,  district  lec- 
turer for  the  I.  0.  G.  T.,  after  others  had  failed,  came 
here  determined  to  organize  a  lodge;  and  with  the 
aid  of  the  Waukesha  lodge  did  succeed  in  doing  so. 
During  these  proceedings  he  became  quite  arrogant 
and  "independent",  going  so  far  as  to  say  of  the 
opposition,  "Anybody  can  criticize,  or  object— it 
don't  take  much  brains  to  criticize!" 

This  was  enough  to  start  the  Scotch  blood  just  a 
little.    However,  we  sat  still, 

"NuFBlng  our  wrath  to  keep  It  warm." 
The  public  now  wanted  to  see  the  bottom  of  the 
matter  and  demanded  a  public  discussion;  which 
was  agreed  to  on  the  following  question :  "Resolved, 
That  Good  Templarism  is  wrong  in  principle  and 
•/)erniciou8  in  practice." 

When  the  time  came,  it  was  found  that  we  both 
had  failed  failed  to  get  help,  which  was  contem- 
plated. So  we  entered  the  arena  for  single  combat; 
each  speaker  to  have  thirty  minutes  for  first  speech, 
fifteen  for  second,  and  the  stlirmativc  to  have  ten 
minutes  to  close.  James  McKinzie  of  the  commit- 
tee of  arrangement  took  the  chair  urd  managed  il 
well.  The  friends  of  truth  were  a  little  neivous,  and 
Good  Templars  thought  they  saw  the  end  of  oppo- 
sition. 

In  our  first  speech  we  made  the  following  objec 
tions : 

1,  To  the  name  "Templar."  It  had  a  bad  origin 
and  a  worse  history,  and  no  sensible  person  should 
glory  in,  or  help  perpetuate  it. 

2.  It  is  a  secret  society.  And  thus  it  proposes  to 
do  Christian  work  in  an  un- Christian  way.     Temper- 


ance is  now  a  factor  in  politics  and  should  be  dealt 
with  openly  as  other  questions. 

3.  Its  creed  consists  of  but  one  article  and  that  is 
purely  deistic:  "Do  you  belitve  in  Almighty  God, 
the  ruler  and  governor  of  all  things?"  No  recogni- 
tion of  Christ,  the  Spirit  or  the  Word.  The  Bible 
knows  two  personal  Gode — the  Triune  God,  and  the 
god  of  this  world.  A  creed  must  be  epeciflc  in 
these  days.  I  took  this  creed  to  a  Jewess  in  Wau- 
kesha and  had  the  following  conversation: 

"Would  you  be  willing  to  subscribe  to  that  creed?" 

"Why,  yes.     I  believe  in  a  God." 

"Do  you  see  any  recognition  of  Christ  in  it?" 

"No.     I  do  not" 

"If  you  did,  would  you  then  be  willing?" 

"No." 

It  will  not  answer  to  say  that  Christ  is  named  in 
some  of  the  prayers,  for  the  prayers  are  no  part  of 
the  creed.  Neither  do  they  conform  to  it.  They 
may  therefore  be  said  to  be  unconstitutional  and 
un-Christian.  "He  that  honoreth  not  the  Son  hon- 
oreth  not  the  Father,  who  hath  sent  him."  John  5: 
23.     See  also  2  John  9. 

4.  It  teaches  its  members  hypocrisy  and  deception. 
This  we  proved  by  what  had  taken  place  in  former 
meetings;  as: 

(1)  "They  told  us  we  had  everything  in  the  consti- 
tution and  by-laws.  Which  was  false.  (2)  They 
blamed  us  for  taking  the  rituals  from  a  drawer  in 
the  lodge  room.  Which  was  also  false.  (3)  The 
lecturer  pretended  to  be  willing  to  let  us  peruse  the 
ritual;  but  never  did  so.  Where  did  he  learn  these 
methods?  Not  in  the  Methodist  church,  but  in  the 
LODGE.  I  offered  to  withdraw  this  argument  if 
these  points  were  explained;  but  they  were  not. 

5.  It  teaches  immorality  by  coming  between  pa- 
rents and  children.  (See  Grand  Lodge  decisions  in 
by-laws.) 

Mr.  Clark  seemed  to  be  taken  by  surprise  by 
these  things,  and  made  an  entire  failure  in  trying  to 
answer  them.  As  a  sample  of  his  reasoning:  On 
the  "name"  he  said  that  some  man  of  his  name  or 
mine  may  have  been  hung,  but  that  did  not  affect  us. 
With  regard  to  the  "creed"  he  said  it  was  formu- 
lated by  a  committee,  most  of  whom  were  Methodist 
ministers,  and  therefore  must  be  all  right,  etc. 

In  my  second  speech  I  remarked,  that  if  it  did 
not  require  much  brains  to  raise  objections,  it  did 
require  brains  to  answer  them. 

The  following  episode  took  place  after  the  debate. 

Mr.  C. — "I  feel  very  much  hurt  You  might  as 
well  have  called  me  a  liar.  I  have  always  been 
willing  to  show  you  the  ritual."  (Hands  me  the 
ritual.) 

I  then  said,  "How  much  did  this  ritual  cost  you?" 

Mr.  C. — "Seventy-five  cents." 

"Well,  I  will  give  you  a  dollar  for  it,  and  you  can 
get  another." 

"No.     I  am  not  allowed  to  sell  it" 

I  then  said,  "I  will  leave  five  dollars  with  some 
responsible  person  as  a  guarantee  that  I  will  return 
it  to  you." 

"No.    I  will  not  do  it" 

So  my  argument  on  deception  was  confirmed. 
Ilow  strange  that  Gospel  ministers  will  turn  aside 
from  their  great,  commission,  to  disciple  men  to 
lodges  instead  of  to  Christ?        J.  B.  G  allow  at. 


Correspondence. 


SIN  ABOUNDING. 


TsRRX  Haute,  Ind.,  June  11. 

Dear  Cynosure: — I  have  not  written  you  for 
some  time,  because  I  was  afraid  of  saying  things  of 
interest  only  to  myself.  I  see  enough  at  every  stop- 
ping place  to  talk  about  as  I  understand  matters.  I 
left  V'icksburg,  Miss.,  for  Indianapolis  to  attend  the 
National  Convention  of  Prohibitionists.  At  Mem- 
phis I  found  our  little  (and  yet  large)  Bro.  Countce 
all  broken  up.  The  death  of  his  brollier  baa  greatly 
unnerved  him.  He  weep.?  as  he  speaks  of  it,  and  says 
he  feels  left  alone  almost  so  far  as  oartbly  help  is 
concerned.  His  health  is  poor  also.  He  neeils  the 
prayers  of  your  many  readers.  Sick  as  he  w^s,  Bro. 
Brinkley  and  he  were  at  work  on  the  Living  Wat/. 

I  have  been  speaking  nearly  every  night  since  I 
came  to  thi»j  State.  The  colored  people  are  moro 
dominant  here  than  in  the  far  South.  The  Negro 
here  boasts  cf  his  advantages  and  will  not  hear  any- 
thing not  in  harmony  wi'.b  his  view.f,  while  in  lb« 
South  he  will  hear,  whetlier  he  ol)ey8  or  not  I 
came  to  Terre  Haute  Saturday  night.  It  is  said 
that  this  city  was  founded  in  181(5  by  French  infi- 
dels, and  from  the  looks  of  things  their  stamp  is 
still  upon  the  people.  There  are  three  elements 
here,  viz  ,  1.  The  "Law  and  Order"  people  (very  few); 
2.  Those  in  favor  of  eight  days'  work  in  the  week  if  it 


I 


rHE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE- 


June  21,  1888 


were  possible,  but  less  gambling  (very  strong); 
3.  "The  Wide  Opens,"  (those  favoring  a  go-as-you- 
please  town)  and  they  are  in  the  majority.  Yester- 
day (Sunday)  they  had  a  "Wild  West"  show  at  the 
fair  grounds,  a  sword  contest  at  one  of  the  parks, 
and  every  saloon  open,  and  any  other  business  house 
open  that  wanted  to.  One  could  see  nothing  to  in- 
dicate it  was  the  Sabbath.  '  The  churches  are  poorly 
attended  and  it  is  said  by  some  of  the  leading  pas- 
tors that  the  wealthy  and  influential  citizens  are  out 
of  the  churches  with  no  means  of  reaching  them. 
Near  the  city  is  the  beautiful  Wabash  river,  and  on 
its  banks  (in  the  city)  are  two  distilleries,  one  of 
them  said  to  be  the  largest  in  the  world.  I  went 
through  it  to-day.  They  use  up  8,000  bushels  of 
grain  per  day,  making  five  gallons  of  liquid  fire  to 
the  bushel  of  grain.  It  seems  to  be  the  pride  of 
this  wicked  city.  It  is  owned  by  the  Wabash  Brew- 
ing Co.,  and  one  of  its  men  is  a  councilman  and  an- 
other bidding  for  a  seat  in  Congress,  and  it  is  ru- 
mored that  he  says  he  will  spend  $5,000  in  the  elec- 
tion. I  went  to  the  United  States  bonded  warehouse 
and  an  inspector  told  me  that  they  turned  out  from 
300  to  375  barrels  per  day,  ranging  from  40  to  49 
gallons  each.  Dear  Brother  Editor,  you  can  see 
that  from  this  "wicked"  city  flows  a  stream  thai  is 
helping  to  curse  the  homes  ofiour  land.  The  smoke 
of  it  darkened  the  clouds  on  Sunday  Just  the  same 
as  to-day.  The  fermenting  department  has  such  a 
bad  odor  that  one  can  barely  go  into  it,  and  after 
the  bubbling,  boiling  and  rotting,  this  poison  is  sold 
to  men  in  the  name  of  "personal  liberty."  There  is 
one  other  strange  feature  here:  any  one  can  sell  liq- 
uor, as  no  one  pays  the  city  any  tax.  It  only  costs 
one  $132  40  per  year  to  run  a  saloon,  cigar  and  to- 
bacco stand.  While  the  saloon  makes  crime  it  don't 
give  the  city  one.  cent  to  help  care  for  it,  as  the 
money  paid  goes  to  the  State  and  county.  Two  of 
the  pastors  (white)  seem  discouraged.  One  attacked 
the  "wide  open  agitators"  and  one  of  the  city  pa- 
pers said,  "If  Rev. don't  like  our  city  he  can 

get  out."  I  have  not  seen  the  Cynosure  since  I  left 
Mississippi,  though  I  inquire  in  every  city. 

THE   LODGE. 

The  secretists  hold  full  sway  here.  At  the  G.  A. 
K's  turnout  at  Indianapolis  on  the  30th  ult.,  they 
held  first  place.  The  colored  churches  here  are  lodge 
rooms  for  some  of  the  secret  societies.  Of  course 
where  liquor  abounds  its  brother,  the  lodge,  must  be. 

I  met  Bro.  Kellogg  ^t  the  Convention  and  prom- 
ised to  visit  the  office  in  Chicago,  but  cannot,  as  I 
must  be  at  home  on  the  24th  inst.  I  lecture  here 
to-night  and  to-morrow  night,  then  go  to  Lafayette 
and  Indianapolis,  and  then  for  Texas.  Qtod  is  on 
the  side  of  right  and  our  cause  is  gaining  ground. 
I  work,  leaving  the  results  with  the  Lord,  for  he 
hath  said,  "My  grace  is  sufficient  for  all  your 
needs."    I  am,  as  ever,  yours  in  Jesus, 

L.  Gc.  Jordan. 


A  BAD  STOUT  FOR  POSTS RITT. 

Bloomington,  111.,  June  7,  1888. 

Editor  Cynosure: — I  wrote  you  a  short  time 
since  of  a  little  episode  in  the  First  Baptist  church 
here  on  last  "Easter,"  wherein  your  correspondent 
is  -^^harged  with  naughtiness  in  circulating  tract 
"No.  11"  in  the  presence  of  the  Knight  Templars. 

The  cold  facts  with  which  this  tract  is  loaded 
were  not  noticed,  but  instead  I  received  private 
threats  and  a  public  rebuke  from  behind  the  pulpit. 
This  seemed  much  like  firing  off  a  hundred-pound 
columbiad  at  a  city  sparrow,  for — as  would  doubt- 
less be  the  case  with  the  sparrow — I  still  survive. 

The  irrepressible  truth  of  the  tract  seems  to  have 
borne  fruit  already,  as  will  be  seen  by  reading  fur- 
ther. This  church  is  about  building  a  new  edifice, 
and  the  corner-stone  laying  would  have  furnished  a 
fine  opportunity  of  advertising  the  white-aproned 
gentry  who  wear  white  gloves  "in  token  of  (who 
dare  doubt  it!)  their  innocence." 

Last  evening  I  attended  the  laying  of  the  stone, 
and  strange  to  say  I  saw  no  insignia  or  regalia,  and 
heard  no  pompous  rigmarole  about  Solomon  or  St. 
John;  nobody  but  plain  citizens  in  common  ward- 
robe. There  were  speeches,  prayers  and  singing, 
and  then  an  apology  was  offered  for  not  employing 
the  fraternity,  that  the  church  was  very  modest  and 
did  not  court  a  display. 

Of  course  were  it  not  for  this  diffidence  we  should 
have  had  engraved  on  this  stone,  "Laid  in  such  a 
year  Anno  Lucis  (year  of  light).  The  incongruity 
of  thus  dating  a  Christian  church  not  from  the 
Christian  era  was  not  mentioned,  and  the  private 
sentiment  which  has  saved  us  from  this  disgrace  we 
believe  is  due  to  the  aforesaid  tracts. 

The  documents  placed  in  the  stone,  the  speaker 
told  UB,  were  (when  this  building  shall  have  served 


its  time  and  been  torn  down)  to  show  the  future 
antiquarian  the  high  moral  character  of  our  church 
and  city  in  1888. 

One  of  the  enclosed  documents  is  the  Bulletin 
(Sunday  edition)  advertising  Sunday  base-ball,  prize 
fights,  Sunday  picnics  and  excursions,  free  lunches, 
saloons  and  lodges  innumerable.  The  grand  wor- 
shipful masters,  prelate  and  sovereign  rulers  in 
these  columns  will  give  our  age  a  rather  poor  show- 
ing for  humility.  Now  the  chief  attention  we  give 
this  paper  is  from  the  fact  that  the  editor  is  also  the 
Sabbath-school  superintendent  of  this  church,  and 
also  the  leader  of  its  choir.  In  addition  be  has  a 
lodge  for  every  night  in  the  week  and  figures  largely 
in  Democratic  chicanery. 

In  addition  to  all  this  the  future  antiquarian  will 
find  from  perusing  these  papers  that  the  speaker  on 
this  occasion  was  also  the  mayor  of  the  city,  and 
has  signed  the  licenses  for  sixty  saloons,  owns  stock 
in  base-ball  clubs,  and  struts  with  (K)aight  Templar 
sword  and  feathers  before  the  wondering  eyes  of 
his  Sunday-school  class. 

Think  you  the  future  reader  of  these  things  will 
not  blush  to  be  descended  from  such  a  stock? 

Yours,  H.  D.  Whitoomb. 


THE  TWO  SONS  OF  SATAN. 


Martsville,  Mo. 
Beloved  Workers: — I  am  happy  to  inform  you 
that  those  who  work  with  God  viust  work  together; 
and  they  must  work  for  God  and  against  the  devil. 
Since  we  have  entered  upon  the  vast  fields  of  gen- 
eral mission  work,  we  find  the  following  facts  for 
God's  workers  to  consider: 

1.  That  God's  ways  are  equal.  That  all  things 
work  together  for  the  good  of  God's  people.  When 
sickness  called  us  to  return  from  our  Eastern  tour 
we  did  not  at  first  understand  this  change  in  our 
summer's  work,  as  we  had  intended  to  work  in  many 
of  our  large  Eastern  cities.  How  could  this  be  for 
the  best?  Even  before  we  reached  home,  all  was 
made  plain:  that  God,  our  great  Commander,  never 
makes  a  mistake.     Bless  his  holy  namel 

2.  We  must  work  while  it  is  day,  and  with  our 
might. 

3.  The  work  now  on  hand,  it  is  plain  to  be  seen, 
is  simply  to  "destroy  the  works  of  the  devil."  This 
work  begins  with  repentance  toward  God  and  faith 
in  our  Lord  Jesus  Christ.  When  sin  in  the 
heart  is  destroyed,  then  we  become  workers  with 
God,  and  necessarily  workers  together,  as  we  have 
but  one  God  to  work  with  and  for.  And  if  we  work 
with  God  we  must  work  against  sin  and  the  devil. 
If  we  are  not  for  God  we  are  against  him.  In  this 
case  we  are  with  Satan,  as  there  are  but  two  sides. 
If  we  are  not  workers  together  with  God,  we  must 
work  with  Satan. 

As  I  have  only  time  to  make  plain  but  one  single 
point,  I  will  mention  one  of  great  importance  to  the 
nation,  the  church,  the  family,  and  individuals. 
Satan  has  a  pair  of  twin  sons.  They  are  well  known 
throughout  the  world.  Their  names  are  !Strong 
Drink  and  Secrecy.  What  these  two  sons  of  hell 
can't  do  the  devil  thinks  no  use  for  him  to  try.  I 
found  in  Chicago  they  were  doing  their  best, — the 
one  son  by  keeping  all  things  in  the  dark.  We 
went  to  Chicago  to  reform  these  men  who  are  plan- 
ning to  blow  up  things  in  general;  but  we  could  not 
find  one  man!  All  hid!  The  other  son  is,  in  all 
manner  of  ways,  by  day  and  night,  advertising 
their  strong  drink.  This  is  a  bold  son  of  perdi- 
tion. Of  all  his  cunning  and  deceitful  plans  to 
murder  the  innocent,  I  have  found  none  equal  to  the 
one  he  has  of  late  introduced.  The  poor,  Iiungry 
man,  sober,  but  without  money,  passing  one  of  these 
secret  hell  holes  (see  Psa.  10:  8)  reads  in  letters  of 
gold:  "Free  Warm  Dinner."  This  son,  filled  with 
the  spirit  of  a  lion,  lieth  in  wait  to  catch  this  poor 
man;  when  once  in  his  net  he  is  gone.  God  help 
us  to  awake  and  resolve  that  as  sin  doth  abound 
more  and  more,  God's  "grace  shall  much  more 
abound."  I  have  a  God-ordained  plan  to  beat  the 
devil  with, — one  impressed  on  my  mind  for  more 
than  twenty-five  years:  to  build  a  house  that  will 
cover  a  block  in  a  central  location  in  our  large  cities, 
to  be  called  "The  Happy  Home  for  All,"  with  ample 
rooms  for  mission  work  till  Jesus  comes;  where  the 
fallen  ones  may  not  only  be  saved,  but  kept  "from 
the  evils  of  the  world"  (1  John  17:  15);  where  from 
1,000  to  10,000  may  be  fed  per  day.  I  will  com- 
mence stirring  up  our  rich  men  to  unite  in  this  move- 
ment, and  will  help  all  I  can.  Just  as  soon  as  some 
good  man,  who  wants  a  good  farm  joining  a  city,  on 
good  terms,  will  buy  my  farm,  or  if  some  friend  of 
the  (y'ynoture  will  send  a  man  to  buy  my  farm,  when 
sold,  I  will  send  $100  to  help  the  Cynoiure  work; 
for  I  do  think  it  is  the  most  important  paper  pub- 
lished, and  published  by  men  who  know  their  busi- 


ness, and  who  attend  to  it.  We  shall  see  this  fall 
who  is  on  the  Lord's  side,  when  the  votes  are  count- 
ed.   Yours  as  ever,  R.  Smith. 


PITS  AND  POINT. 


HOWB   INSTITaTE   FLOURISHING. 

I  have  kept  so  excessively  bu3y  ever  since  I  returned 
home  that  I  could  not  give  any  time  to  other  than  that 
work  which  relates  directly  to  my  church  and  school. 
The  school  prospers  nicely.  The  enrollment  has  reached 
over  two  hundred,  and  the  average  attendance  has  been 
about  one  hundred  and  fifty.  Mrs.  Browne  (J.  F.)  is 
here  and  is  teaching  in  our  school.  Miss  Farley  is  in 
Michigan.  She  has  been  successful  in  her  efforts  for  the 
school  and  we  will  have  our  boarding  facilities  ready  for 
the  fall  term.  Oar  school  will  be  closed  on  the  15th,and 
after  that  date  I  shall  give  some  direct  and  constant  at- 
tention to  getting  subscribers  for  the  Cynosure  More 
anon. — Btron  Gunner,  New  Iberia,  La. 

THE  WORST  SLAVERY. 

I  do  not  get  a^ay  from  home  quite  as  often  as  I  had 
hoped  to  this  spring,  but  when  health  and  circumstances 
will  allow  I  am  doing  what  I  can  to  stir  up  a  thinkinsj 
all  along  the  lines  that  open  on  the  awful  soul  bondage 
that  many  of  my  noble  fellow  citizens  are  in  when  drawn 
into  the  secret  lodges.  May  God  halp  them  to  see  how 
much  worse  this  soul  bondage  is  than  the  slaves  of  the 
South.  Respecting  the  American  Anti  secrecy  League  I 
have  a  few  names  and  purpose  having  some  more  before 
sending  in. — M.  L.  Worcbster  Kingston,  111. 


LITERATURE. 


The  Wondekfdl  Law.  By  H.  L.  Hastings,  editor  of  the 
Christian,  Boston.  No.  18  of  The  Antl-Infidel  Library.  Price 
20  cents.  Pp.  118.  Scriptural  Tract  Repository,  47  Cornhill, 
Boston. 

It  needs  no  argument  to  establish  the  fact  that 
any  work  by  the  editor  of  the  Boston  Christian 
would  not  have  before  it  a  great  and  worthy  theme, 
and  would  be  so  written  as  to  convince  the  under- 
standing and  benefit  the  heart  of  every  reader. 
"The  Wonderful  Law"  is  such  a  book.  Some  weeks 
since  we  referred  to  the  fact  that  men  are  more  and 
more  turning  to  the  statutes  of  the  great  Jewish 
lawgiver  for  a  better  understanding  of  the  social 
problem  and  its  solution  in  the  heaven-inspired  reg- 
ulations of  the  Jewish  code.  This  was  in  connec- 
tion with  the  volume  of  Rabbi  Berkowitz,  "Judaism 
on  the  Social  Question."  "The  Wonderful  Law" 
shows  how  the  Hebrew  code  dealt  not  only  with  the 
questions  of  labor  and  its  rewards,  but  also  with 
capital  crimes,  and  with  less  gross  violations  of  the 
moral  law;  with  slavery,  social  impurity,  civil  revo- 
lution, polygamy  and  divorce,  with  the  rights  of 
women,  the  relations  of  the  employed  and  the  em- 
ployer, intemperance  in  eating  as  well  as  drinking. 
It  is  shown  that  this  wonderful  law  is  not  the  work 
of  priests  but  of  God,  and  it  must  be  reverently 
studied  as  an  exposition  of  the  Divine  will  respect- 
ing these  practical  questions  in  civil  and  religious 
life. 

Among  the  excellent  publications  of  the  W.  C.  T. 
Union  at  its  Chicago  headquarters  is  the  Home 
Leaflets  No.  2,  by  Rev.  C.  C.  Harrah,  pastor  of  the 
Congregational  church  at  Galva,  111.  The  topic  dis- 
cussed is  "Children  in  the  Church,"  and  Bro.  Har- 
rah has  given  to  the  elucidation  of  this  most  im- 
portant theme  his  most  careful  thought,  in  estab- 
lishing the  principle  that  children  should  be  born 
into  the  church  as  they  are  into  citizenship,  and 
grow  up  from  infancy  in  the  fear  and  admonition 
of  the  Lord.  A  subject  of  such  vital  importance  to 
the  church  as  well  as  the  household,  which  is  yet  so 
seldom  taught  as  it  should  be  in  our  American  pul- 
pits, makes  us  wish  to  urge  that  all  parents  read 
prayerfully  this  leaflet,  and  with  God's  blessing 
profit  by  it  for  themselves  and  for  generations  to 
come. 

The  June  American  Magazine  contains  the  third  num- 
ber of  "Along  the  Carribean,"an  illustrated  article.  Wil- 
liam E.  Curtis's  South  American  series  is  continued  in 
"Ecuador  and  her  Cities"  also  well  illustrated.  Perhaps 
the  concluding  part  of  "My  Dream  of  Anarchy  and  Dy- 
namite" will  have  most  attention  from  the  public.  The 
picture  of  desolation  and  death  which  the  imagination  of 
the  author  draws  is  terrific,  and  yet  not  impossible  if  the 
secret  plotting  of  anarchists  and  the  study  of  methods  of 
wholesale  murder  by  Most  is  permitted  to  continue.  The 
object  of  the  author  is  to  arouse  public  interest  in  this 
subject,  and  secure  laws  making  the  manufacture  of  dy- 
namite bombs  a  mortal  crime.  <3en.  0.  O.  Howard  of 
San  Francisco  discusses  "Our  Defenses  from  an  Army 
Standpoint."  He  is  in  favor  of  international  arbitration 
and  the  abolition  of  war;  but  thinks  that  the  day  of 
peace  has  not  yet  come,  and  that  a  wise  national  policy 
will  provide  for  dangerous  contingencici.  "American 
and  German  Universities"  by  Rsv.  Henry  Loomis  is  an 
able  and  original  defense  of  the  American  college  against 
the  innovations  of  German  specialists . 

T?ie  Library  Maqatine  for  June  contains  18<)  pages  of 
reading  matter.  The  two  articles  on  Mohammedanism 
will  be  sure  to  attract  the  attention  of  thoughtful  read- 


June  21,  1888 


THE  CHRISTLAJSr  CYNOSURE. 


era.  Tbey  are  "Islam  and  Civilization" 
by  Rev.  Malcolm  McCoU  and  "The  Doc- 
trine of  Islam"  by  Ahmed  Essad,  the 
Shiek  ul  Islam.  Prof.  Richard  A.  Proc- 
tor has  a  geological  article,  "The  Ever- 
lasting Hills."  An  article  from  the  Con- 
temporary  Beview  by  Rev.  Dr.  John  Clif- 
ford takes  up  "Baptist  Theology"  and 
produces  strong  evidence  of  the  conserv- 
atism and  evangelical  character  of  that 
theology.  Under  the  title  "Tuckahoe 
University"  Bishop  Wayman  of  the  Afri- 
can M.  E.  church  tells  with  quaint  sim- 
plicity oi  the  educational  advantages  of 
a  slave.  Biographical  articles  are"Thom- 
ds  Moore,"  "Heinrich  Heine,"  and  "Lin- 
coln and  Grant"  by  Chauncey  M.  Depew, 

In  Words  and  Weapons  for  June  the 
associate  editor,  Mr.  Mills,  writes  on  the 
"Pastor  in  Politics,"  and  gives  good  ad- 
vice against  being  a  partisan  in  the  ordi- 
nary acceptance  of  the  word,but  encour- 
aging every  one  to  maintain  his  moral 
convictions  and  be  faithful  when  duty  to 
the  truth  demands  sacrifice.  Rev.  F.  E. 
Clark,  president  of  the  Christian  Endeav- 
or Society  movement, writes  of  the  rapid 
growth  and  efficiency  of  that  organizi- 
tion .  Dr.  Pierson's  biographical  sketch 
is  of  Fenelon,  archbishop  of  Cambria. 
Mr.  Hadley,  manager  of  the  Water  Street 
Mission,  New  York,  founded  by  Jerry 
McAuley,gives  a  thrilling  account  of  his 
experience  with  strong  drink. 

The  Century  has  printed  several  articles 
of  timely  interest  to  students  of  the  Inter- 
national Sunday  school  lessons.  The 
July  number  is  to  have  another  of  these 
papers,written  by  Mr.  Edward  L.  Wilson, 
and  illustrated  with  engravings  made 
from  his  photographs.  It  will  describe 
a  journey  from  the  Red  Sea  to  Mount  Si- 
nai, following  the  course  which  is  sup- 
posed to  have  been  taken  by  the  Children 
of  Israel,  and  will  include  a  description 
of  the  ascent  of  the  mountain.  Among 
the  illustrations  are  a  view  of  the  site  of 
the  battle  between  Israel  and  Amalek,and 
of  the  Plain  of  Assemblage  as  seen  from 
the  Rock  of  Moses  on  Mount  Sinai. 

A  new  and  much  more  desirable  ar- 
rangement of  Ziterature,  Alden'a  weekly 
magazine,  places  the  portrait  and  sketch 
on  the  first  pages.  Miss  Alice  French, 
known  to  the  reading  public  as  "Octave 
Thanet,"  has  an  appreciative  biography 
by  Mrs.  Wyman.  Miss  French  writes 
on"8hortStorie8"and  there  is  a  specimen 
from  one  of  her  own  which  appeared 
some  time  since  in  the  Century. 


OBITTJARY. 


Mrs.  Mary  Tolman  Jackson,  wife  of 
Elder  Isaac  Jackson,  at  the  age  of  73 
passed  over  the  river  February  2l8t  at 
their  home  in  Harrison,  Maine. 

She  was  born  in  Troy,  N.  H.  She 
experienced  religion  at  the  age 
of  17,  and  soon  began  to  warn  sin- 
ners to  repent  and  believe  on  the  Lord 
Jesus  Christ.  From  the  first  she  mani- 
fested great  fervency  and  power  in 
prayer,  and  was  the  means,  through  the 
grace  and  power  of  Qod,  of  bringing 
over  Jive  hundred  souls  into  his  fold  and 
to  unite  with  the  church. 

She  had  a  fine  presence,  winning  many 
friends  by  her  pleasant  and  cheerful  dis- 
position, as  well  as  by  her  faithful  admo- 
nitions and  great  anxiety  for  their  souls. 
She  was  married  to  Isaac  Jackson  April 
16th,  1833,  and  together  they  took  their 
(at  that  day)  long  journey  to  their  home 
in  Vermont. 

September,1841,8he  felt  it  her  duty  and 
privilege  to  take  a  more  public  stand  for 
Christ,  and  in  company  with  her  husband 
appointed  meetings  from  place  to  place, 
everywhere  meeting  with  good  success  by 
seeing  many  converted.  After  traveling 
a  few  years  in  Vermont  and  Massachu- 
setts they  determined  to  go  West.  They 
landed  in  Elgin,  111.,  and  soon  had  the 
satisfaction  of  seeing  their  prayers  an- 
swered by  a  great  outpouring  of  the  Spir- 
it and  many  converted.  I  presume  there 
are  some  living  there  now  who  will  re- 
member the  work  of  grace  that  went  on, 
as,  at  that  early  day,  it  was  an  uncom- 
mon thing  to  see  a  woman  in  a  pulpit, 
the  churches  being  opposed  to  women 
speaking  in  public.  At  the  first  meeting 
two  rose  for  prayers,  and  as  the  meetings 
went  on  many  more,  so  that  there  was  a 
good  work  accomplished.  They  remain- 
ed there  about  two  months,  preaching 
nearly  every  night. 

They  next  stopped  at  Ohio  Grove, 
where  about  seventy  turned  to  the  Lord. 
They  were  called  to  Sycamore,  where  they 


had  several  conversions.  Many  other 
places  were  visited  with  good  results  for 
the  souls  of  men. 

Mrs.  Jackson  lived  in  Wisconsin  eigh- 
teen years,  preaching  a  greater  part  of  the 
time  on  the  Sabbath.  They  held  a  reviv- 
al meeting  in  Saratoga,  Wis,  where  about 
fifty  were  baptized.  Three  churches 
were  organized  and  every  candidate  for 
admission  was  examined  in  regard  to  his 
belief  in  secret  societies  or  Freemasonry. 
None  were  received  who  favored  such 
societies.  This  was  before  the  Cynosure 
was  started.  It  was  about  the  time  the 
war  broke  out. 

They  went  to  Hillsborough,  where  they 
remained  nearly  two  years,  Mrs  Jackson 
preaching  most  of  the  time.  A  revival 
soon  commenced.  Sinners  came  forward 
to  be  prayed  for,  and  one  night  half  the 
people  in  the  congregation  rose  for 
prayers.  The  crowd  was  so  great  they 
had  to  move  to  more  commodious  quar- 
ters. Many  were  truly  converted,  and 
united  with  the  church.  Elder  Jackson 
baptized  about  sixty  seven  and  a  new 
church  was  built  in  the  place. 

Not  long  after  they  settled  their  affairs 
in  Wisconsin  and  came  East  to  so<  nd  the 
remainder  of  their  days.butdid  not  cease 
to  labor  for  the  conversion  of  sou's  1 
They  settled  in  Harrison,  and  soon  a  re 
vival  was  started  in  Sebago,  notwith- 
standing the  opposition  of  two  ministers 
who  belonged  to  the  Masonic  lodge. 

Mrs.  Jackson  bore  a  living  testimony 
for  Jesus  in  all  places  wherever  a  door 
was  opened.  She  possessed  a  charming 
voice,  full  of  magnetism  and  power, 
which  could  be  heard  clear  and  distinct 
in  every  part  of  the  house,  and  she  had  a 
most  happy  faculty  of  selecting  appro- 
priate hymns,  so  that  her  singing  was  as 
effectual  in  winning  souls  to  Jesus  as 
was  her  preaching. 

For  the  last  two  or  three  years  her 
health  had  not  been  so  good  as  usual  and 
in  February  last  she  was  taken  violently 
sick,  suffering  great  pain,  and  lived  only 
ten  days.  She  was  impressed  that  this 
was  her  last  sickness, and  desired  to  have 
her  only  sister  sent  for,  who  came  and 
remained  with  her  till  the  end.  She  was 
so  weak  from  severe  and  constant  pain, 
she  could  not  talk  much,  but  said  she 
was  ready  to  go,  and  her  Saviour  had 
gone  to  prepare  a  mansion  for  her  in 
heaven.  She  told  a  watcher  she  could 
not  talk  with  her  dear  husband  about  it 
for  he  would  feel  so  badly.  Several 
months  before  she  was  sick  she  selected 
Elder  Isaac  Hyatt  to  preach  her  funeral 
sermon  from  the  following  text:  "I  have 
fought  a  good  fight,  I  have  finished  my 
course.     I  have  kept  the  faith." 

Her  husband,  who  has  traveled  so  many 
miles  with  her,  is  left  to  mourn  her  loss. 
He  still  lives  in  Harrison  and  his  neice 
keeps  house  for  him. 

[Will  the  Free  Baptist  of  Minneapolis 
please  copy.] 


XASAL  CATARRH 


is  a  dangerous  disease.  From  its  tenden- 
cy to  extend  to  the  throat,  bronchial 
tubes,  and  finally  to  involve  the  lungs 
in  consumptive  disease,  it  should  be 
promptly  cured,  that  these  grave  dangers 
may  be  averted.  So  confident  are  the 
manufacturers  of  Dr. Sage's  Catarrh  Rem- 
edy of  their  ability  to  cope  successfully 
with  this  very  prevalent  disease  that 
they  have  for  years  offered,ingood  faith, 
1500  reward  for  a  case  of  catarrh,  no  mat- 
ter how  bad  or  of  how  many  years  stand- 
ing, which  they  cannot  cure.  Remedy 
only  50  cts,  by  druggists. 


For  chronic  catarrh,  induced  by  a  scrof- 
ulous taint,  Ayer's  Sarsaparilla  is  the 
true  remedy.  It  stops  catarrhal  discharg- 
es, removes  the  sickening  odor,  and  nev- 
er fails  to  thoroughly  eradicate  every  trace 
of  the  disease  from  the  blood.  Sold  by 
all  dealers  in  medicine. 

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8.  G.  Barton,  Breckinridge,  Mo. 

S.  Bametson,  Hasklnvllie,  Steuben  Uo,lN.  K 

Wm.  R.  Roach,  Pickering,  OnU 

D.  A.  Richards,  Brighton,  Mich. 


The  following  denominations  are  com- 
mitted by  vote  of  their  legislative  assem- 
blies or  by  constitution  to  a  separation 
from  secret  lodge  worship: 

Adventists  (Seventh-day.) 

Baptists — Primitive,  Seventh-day  and 
Scandinavian. 

Bretliren  (Dunkers  or  German  Bap- 
tists.) 

Christian  Reformed  Church. 

Church  of  God  ^Northern  Indiana  El 
dership.) 

Congregational — The  State  Associations 
of  Illinois  and  Iowa  have  adopted  resolu- 
tions against  the  lodge. 

Disciples  (in  part.) 

Friends. 

Lutherans — Norwegian,  Daniski,  Siirod- 
ish  and  Synodical  Conferences. 

jVIennonites. 

Methodists — Free  and  Wesleyan. 

Methodist  Protestant  (Minnesota  Con 
ference.) 

Moravians. 

Plymouth  Brethren. 

Presbyterian — Associate,  Reformoil  and 
United. 

Reformed  Church  (Holland  Branch.) 

United  Brethren  in  Christ. 

Individual  churches  in  some  of  these 
denominations  should  be  excepted,  in  part 
of  them  even  a  considerable  portion. 

The  following  local  churches  have,  as  a 
pledge  to  disfellowship  and  oppose  lodge 
worship,  given  their  names  to  the  follow- 
ing list  as 

THE    associated   CHURCHES    OF  CHRIST, 

New   Ruhamah  Cong.  Hamilton,  Miss. 

Pleasant  Ridge  Cong.   SandfordCo.  Ala. 

New  Hope  \icthodlRt,  Lowndes  Co.,  Mi»». 

Congregational,  College  Springs,  Iowa. 

College  Church  of  Christ.  vVheaton,  111. 

First  Confrregiitional,  Lcland,  Mich. 

SuRxr  Grove  Church,  Green  county.  Pa. 

Military  Chapel,  M.  E.,  Lowndes  county. 
Miss. 

Hopeweii  Missionary  Baptist,  Lowndes  Co., 
Miss. 

Cedar  Grove  Miss.  Baptist,  Lowndes  Co., 
Miss. 

Simon's  Chapel,   M.   E.,  Lowndes  Co.,  Miss. 

Pleasant  Ridge  Mlsa.  Baptist,  Lowndes  Co., 
Vliss. 

Brownlee  Church,  Caledonia,  Miss. 

Salem  Church,  Lowndes  Co.,  Miss. 

"Vest  Preston  BaoUat  Church,  Warne  Ca.Pa. 

OTHBB  LOCAL  CHURCHBB 

adopting  the  same  principle  are — 

Baptist  churches :  N.  Abtngton,  Pa. ;  M«no 
montc,  Mondovl,  Waubeck  ana  Spring  Prairie. 
Wis. ;  Wheaton,  111. ;  Perry,  N.  Y. ;  Surlug 
Oreek,  near  Burlington,  Iowa;  Lima,  Ind.; 
ConstablcvUle,  N.  Y.  The  "Good  WUl  Assocl- 
ton"  of  Mobile,  Ala.,  comprising  some  twenty- 
?7e  colored  riaptlst  churches;  Brldgewatei 
baptist  Association,  Pa. ;  Old  Telw  Baptist, 
.■3v>HT  LoesvlUe.  Henry  Co.,  Mo. ;  Hoopoctou,  111  ■ 
Ismen,'  III. ;  Strykersvllle,  N.  Y. 

Congregational  churches :  Ist  of  Oberlln,  O. ; 
Tonic*.  Crystal  Lake,  Union  and  Big  Woods. 
111. ;  Solsbury,  Ind. ;  Congregational  Methodist 
Maplewood,  Mass. 

Independent  churcheg  in  Lowell,  Country 
>aan  school  house  near  Llndenwood,  Marengo 
\nd  Streator,  III. :  Bereaand  Camp  Nelson,  Ky ; 
Ustick,  111. ;  Clarksburg,  Kansas;  State  Assocf- 
ationof  Ministers  and  Chorchei  9i  Christ  In 
CratukTi 


W.  U.  A.  BUILDING  AND  OTTICB  01 
THE  CHRISTIAN   CYNOSURE, 
Wl  WEST  MADISON  STREET,  CHICAGO 

If  A.  "T ZONAL  VHEI8  TlAN  ASSOC  lA  TIOM 

Prbbidbnt.-H.  H.  George,  D.  D.,  Q«n: 
eva  College,  Pa. 

ViCB-PBBSiDBNT— Rev.  M.  A.  Gault, 
Blanchard,  Iowa. 

Cob.  Sbc't  and  Gbnbral  Aesnr. — J 
P.  Stoddard,  221  W.  Madison  St.,  Chicago. 

Rbo.  Sbc'y.  and  Trbabubbb. — W.  I 
Phillips,  221  W.  Madison  St.,   Chicago 

D1BBCTOB8. — Alexander  Thomson,  Mi 
R.  Britten,  John  Gardner,  J.  L.  Barlow, 
L.  N.  Stratton,  Thos.  H.  Gault,  C.  A. 
Blanchard,  J.  E.  Roy,  E.  R.  Worrell,  H. 
A.  Fischer.  W.  R.  Hench. 

The  object  of  this  Association  Is: 
"To  expose,  withstand  and  remove  secrel 
societies,  Freemasonry  in  particular,  and  othd 
anti-Christian  movrmeuts,  in  order  to  save  Um 
churches  of  Christ  from  being  tiepraved,  to  re 
deem  the  administritioa  of  justice  from  per- 
version, and  our  r^p  iblican  government  from 
corruption." 

To  carry  on  this  work  contributions  are 
solicited  from  every  friend  of  tne  rcfonn. 

Form  of  Bequest.— J  give  and  bcaucath  to 
the  National  Christian  Association,  Incorpo- 
rated and  existing  under  the  laws  of  the  Stats 

of   Illinois,  the  sum  of dollars  for  the 

purposes  of  said  Association,  and  for  whirh 
toe  receipt  of  its  Treasurer  for  the  time  belnx 
^lall  be  sufficient  dischanze. 

THB  NATIOHAL  OONVBSTIOK. 

Pbbbidbht.— Rev.  J.  8.  T.  Milligan, 
Denison,  Kans. 

Sbcrbtaby.— Rev.  R.N.Countee,Mem- 
phis,  Tenn. 

STATB  AXTXILIABT  AfiSOCLATIONB. 

Alabama.— Pre*.,  Prof.  Pickens;  Sec.  8. 
M.  Elliott;  Treas.,  Rev.  C.  B.  CnrUs,  ali  of 
Selma. 

CAUTORinA.— Pres^  L.  B.  Lathrop,  Hollla 
ter;  Cor.  Sec,  Mrs.  U.  P.  Merrill,  Woodland- 
Treas.,  C.  Ruddock  Woodland.  "»~^»"a. 

CONNHCTICUT.— Pres.,  J.  A.  Conant,  WUll 
mantle;  Sec,  Geo.  Smith,  Wllllmantlc:  Tr(>a« 
C.  T.  Collins,  Windsor. 

iLLiHOis.— Pres.,  J.  P.  Stoddard;  Sec  M 
N.  Butler;  Treas.,  W.  I.  PhlUlps  all  at  Ci- 
no«Mr«  office. 

Indiana.— Pres.,  William  H.  Figg,  Reno 
Sec,  S.  L.  Cook,  Albion;  Treas.,  Benl.  Ulaii 
Silver  Lake. 

lowA.—Pres.,Wm.JohnBton,ColleKe  Springs 
Cor  Sec,  C.  D.  Trumbull,  Momlnif  Sun- 
Treas.,  James  Harvey,  Pleasant  Plain,  Jeffer 
son  Co. ;  Lecturer,  C.  F.  Hawley,  Wheaton   III 

Kansas.- Pres.,  J.  S.  T.  Milfigan,  Denlwn  •' 
Sec,  8.  Hart,  Lecompton;  Treas.,  J.  a.  Tor- 
rence,  Denison. 

MASSAOHuaBTTB.— Pres,,  8.  A.  Pratt-  See 
Mrs.  E.  D.  Bailey ;  Treas.,  David  Mannliir  Sr  ' 
Worcester.  "«.«"., 

MiOHiOAN.— Pres.,  D.  A.  Rlchartls,  Brighton 
Bec'y,  H.  A.  Dav,  Williams  ton;  ftsai^ 
Geo.  Swanson,  Jr..  Bedfoiu.  ^^ 

M1NNB8OT1.— Pres.,  E.  O.  Paine,  Waslo'a 
Cor.  Sec,  Wm.  Fonton,  St.  Paul;  Kec.  Sec'v 
Mrs.  M.  F.  Morrill,  St.  Charles;  Treas.  Wii 
H.  MorriU,  St.  Charles.  »— -i    th 

M1B8OUEI.— Pres.,  B.  K.  Miller,  EaflevlU* 

Treas.,  WllllamBeauchAmp,AvaIon7cor  8#r 
A.  D.  Thomas,  Avalon. 

Nbbkaska.— Pres.,  8.  Austin,  FalrmoantJ 
Ccr.  Sec,  W.  Spooner,  Kearney;  TreaiLi 
J.C.Fye.  '•    *™*^' 

Mainr— Pres.,  Isaac  Jackson,  Harrison 
Sec,  1.  D-  Haines,  Dexter;  Treas..  H  W 
Goddard,  West  Sidney.  •    "•    nr. 

Nbw  hAMPSEiHB.- Pree.,  C.  L.  Baker  Man 
chesU'r;  Sec,  8.  0.  KlmbaU,  New  Market 
Treas.,  Jamee  »< .  French,  Canterbury 

N«w  YoaK.-Pre8.,  F.  W.  Capwell,  Dale: 
Sec'y,  John  Wallace,  Syracuse;  Treaa  <•« 
Merrick,  Syracuse.  ' 

Ohio.— Pres.,  F.  M.  Si>encer,  New  Concord- 
RecSec,S.  A.  George,  Mansfield;  Cor.  Sec 
and  Treas..  C.  W.  Hlait,  Columbus;  Afent' 
W.  B.  Stoddard,  Columbus. 

Pbnnstlvawia.— Cor.  Sec,  N.  Callender 
ThonpMn ;  Treaa.,  W.  B.Bertels,  WUkeibanv 

ViRMONT.— Prea.,  W.  R.  Laird,  St.  Joluia! 
bury;  Sec,  C.  W  Potter. 

wiBOONsiH.— Pres  ,  J.  W  Wood,    Baraboo; 
Sec,  W.  W.  Ames,  MeiMMnoole;  Treat.,  M.  S 
Britten,  Vienna. 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSUKE. 


JiTNE  21, 1888 


The  Christian  Cynosure. 


i.  BLANCHARD. 


Si>ltOB3. 


HKNRY  L.  KKLLOGG. 


CHICAGO,    XKXJBSDA7;   JUNE   21,   1888. 


Ths  Democbatic  platfobm,  like  an  almarac  cal- 
culated to  suit  all  latitudes,  is  neither  tariff  nor  anti- 
tariff,  and  it  blurs  Prohibition,  the  question  most 
agitated  by  the  people,  by  resffirming  its  former 
platform,  which  was  pro-liquor,  by  hinting  against 
sumptuary  laws. 

Tbe  Republicans  know  and  feel  that  Cleveland 
is  to  be  re-elected.  The  best  men  and  most  capable 
in  the  Republican  party  concede  this;  and  a  failure 
next  fsU  will  send  that  party  to  the  tomb  of  the 
old  Whig  party. 


The  Prohibitionists  are  cheerful  and  so  united 
that  they  did  not  stumble  at  woman  suffrage,  and 
though  silent  before  the  lodge,  the  leaders  of  secret- 
ism  were  not  favorites,  but  were  voted  down  on  an- 
other issue;  and  the  circulation  of  a  protest  against 
Masonry  is  judged  by  so  careful  an  observer  as 
Rev.  Mr.  Wylie  of  Indiana  to  have  defeated  the 
nomination  of  Green  Clay  Smith. 


"Blasphemous  bosh"  is  the  title  by  which  the 
Interior  forcibly  characterizes  Ingersoll's  so-called 
reply  to  Mr.  Gladstone  on  Christianity.  But  why 
should  Allen  Thorndjke  Rice  escape  censure  for 
purchasing  and  publishing  the  coarse  blasphemy  of 
IngersoU,  and  the  vaticinations  of  the  Mormons. 
The  North  American  Review  is  "American"  no  lon- 
ger. When  Voltaire  first  began  to  call  the  Son  of 
God  "the  wretch",  a  friend  asked  him  what  Jesus 
had  done  that  he  should  assail  one  so  innocent, 
lovely  and  true.  Voltaire  replied:  "The  fact  is  I 
must  be  read."  This  was  the  motive  of  Judas.  He 
did  not  want  Christ's  life.     He  wanted  silver. 


The  Catholic  Review  informs  us  that  the  bish- 
ops of  Ireland  have  been  "directed  by  the  Pope 
himself"  to  explain  his  "rescript,"  by  flatly  denying 
that  he  censured  the  "plan  of  campaign  and  prohib- 
ited the  boycott."  So  it  seems  the  five  or  six 
thousand  Catholics  who  met  in  the  Chicago  Armory 
and  defied  the  Pope's,  interference  with  Irish  poli- 
tics did  not  understand  the  English  language  into 
which  the  rescript  was  faithfully  translated.  There 
is^another  explanation  possible,  viz.,  that  Leo,  to 
court  Victoria  and  the  English  landlords,  did  issue 
that  rescript,  and  when  he  saw  the  Irish  rose  up 
against  it,  ordered  his  bishops  to  explain  it  away 
by  denying  that  he  done  what  he  had  done. 


Joan  op  Afc,  the  well-known  heroine  of  France, 
is  said  by  the  historians  to  have  been  convicted  of 
"heresy  and  witchcraft"  by  priests  and  politicians; 
and  Hume  says,  "The  infamous  sentence  was  exe- 
cuted by  burning  at  the  stake,  in  the  city  of  Rouen, 
over  450  years  ago"  (1431).  Another  story  obtained 
some  currency,  to  wit:  that  Joan  was  allowed  to 
escape  and  another  woman  burned  in  her  place. 
This  girl  hero,  it  seems,  is  to  be  canonized  as  a  Rom- 
ish saint.  The  Catholic  Herald  of  the  9  th  inst.  says, 
"A  band  of  Catholics  have  started  a  paper  to  ad- 
vocate her  saintship;"  and  the  Bishop  of  Verdun 
says,  "I  feel  myself  in  honor  bound  to  defend  her 
against  all  assailants,  and  to  glorify  her  before  all 
the  world."  So  "humanity  rolls  onward."  Priests 
burn  and  priests  canonize.  As  Joan  is  beyond  the 
reach  of  such  trifling,  the  money  and  time  were  bet- 
ter given  to  save  the  little  "Joans"  in  the  families 
of  drunkards. 


The  Republican  National  Committee  is  re- 
ceiving the  particular  attention  of  various  organi- 
zations which  desire  an  expression  of  that  party 
against  national  evils.  The  National  Woman  Suf- 
frage Society  has  opened  hea(}(iuarters  at  the  Sher- 
man House,  and  Susan  B.  Anthony  and  Isabel 
Beecher  Hooker  have  come  on  to  assist  the  local 
committee.  Miss  Hooker  made  a  speech  to  the  Na- 
tional committee  Friday,  promising  a  hundred  wo- 
men speakers  and  victory  for  the  party  as  long  as 
they  want<;d  it,  if  a  suffrage  plank  was  adopted. 
Several  State  Sabbath-school  associations,  the  Pres- 
byterian General  Assembly  and  other  bodies  peti- 
tion for  a  declaration  against  all  unnecessary  work 
on  the  Lord's  day.  Last,  but  not  least,  the  National 
Christian  Association  had  its  memorial  presented 
to  the  Committeee,  and  the  morning  dailies,  with 
one  exception,  noticed  the  fact  and  published  part 
or  the  whole  of  the  document 


"THB    COLLEGE  QUESTION." 

The  Americnn  Magazine  for  June  has  a  sprightly, 
though  not  profound,  article  on  "American  and 
German  Universities,"  in  which  the  writer,  Rev. 
Henry  Loomis,  gives  the  superiority  to  American 
over  European  liberal  culture.  The  article  is  well 
worth  a  careful  reading. 

The  review  writer  says  that  "a  few  years  since  a 
considerable  part  of  the  student  population  at  Hei- 
dleburg"  were  from  wealthy  and  noble  families,  "at- 
tended by  a  retinue  of  enormous  dogs;"  were  "punc- 
tual at  the  semi-weekly  dueling;  regular  in  their  at- 
tendance at  beer  taverns,  and  but  seldom  troubling 
a  lecture-room  with  their  presence:"  "arbitrary  and 
quarrelsome,  when  not  drunken  or  brutal;  became 
objects  of  admiration  to  the  American  girl  abroad," 
but  a  terror  to  their  mothers,  sisters  and  wives;  "till 
their  employment  in  the  army  was  hailed  as  the  only 
hope  of  relief." 

But  in  spite  of  these  exceptional  features  of  a 
German  university,  which  belong  to  the  nation  rath- 
er than  to  its  schools,  wealth,  age,  accumulation  of 
means  and  distinguished  scholars,  and  aspirants  to 
literary  fame  from  those  classes  who  must  make 
their  own  standing  in  society, — these  all  have  com- 
bined to  make  the  impression  current  that  the  Uni- 
versity is  vastly  superior  to  the  College;  that  is  to 
say  the  American  College;  and  with  these  questions 
of  material  and  men  have  mingled  other  issues, 
as  of  the  old  classics  vs.  modern  languages,  and  of 
both  against  the  sciences,  falsely  called  practical. 
And  these  have  combined  to  give  the  palm  to  the 
University.    Our  review  writer  dissents. 

The  College  proper  is  an  American  institution. 
Its  four  classes.  Freshman,  Sophomore,  Junior  and 
Senior,  all  came  from  Cambridge;  after  which  the 
three  or  four  hundred  colleges,  now  working  under 
State  charter,  were  all  modeled,  with  substantially 
the  same  curricula  and  degrees.  And  this  Amer- 
ican system  has  stood  the  test  of  popularity  with 
the  masses.  As  the  new  States  have  opened  and 
spread  from  the  old  thirteen,  college  charters  have 
been  one  chief  reliance  of  land-speculators  to  raise 
the  value  of  their  lands;  and  one  chief  cause  of  this 
continuous  popularity  has  been  the  facility  with 
which  the  College  has  adapted  itself  to  the  popular 
wants.  Fifty  years  ago  chemistry  was  a  young  sci- 
ence in  some  of  the  New  England  colleges,  and  ge- 
ology was  unknown  in  some  of  them;  but  as  soon 
as  a  young  science  has  been  bom,  it  has  been  taken 
to  the  bosom  and  nursed  by  the  College;  and  inven- 
tions and  the  arts  have  no  sooner  found  way  to  the 
shop  of  the  artisan  than, their  theories  have  "gone 
to  College."  And  every  new  comer  into  the  College 
course  has  scarcely  taken  its  seat  before  challeng- 
ing the  right  of  the  old  occupants  to  be  there;  and 
no  old  bursar  has  been  more  severely  challenged 
than  the  Greek  and  Roman  classics;  and  sometimes 
not  without  cause. 

The  fixed  habits  of  European  institutions  had  so 
petrified  the  Universities  of  Cambridge  and  Oxford 
that  they  were  compared  to  "hulks  sunk  in  the 
stream  of  public  opinion  to  show  how  fast  the  cur- 
rent flowed  by  them ;"  and  in  the  old  schools  of  Eton 
and  Rugby,  at  one  time,  men  were  found  who  boast- 
ed that  they  had  given  a  lifetime  to  the  study  of 
Homer.  But  in  spite  of  these,  and  the  like  literary 
antiquaries,  who  "remember  what  everyone  else  for- 
gets, and  forget  what  everyone  else  remembers,"  the 
ancient  classics  have  maintained  themselves  in  the 
college  course,  on  these  clear  and  substantial 
grounds: 

1.  Alexander  and  Caesar  not  only  conqured  na- 
tions, but  created  history;  and  to  stop  short  of 
Greek  and  Latin  would  be  like  never  to  explore  the 
Mississippi  above  Cairo. 

2.  The  histories  of  Christ  are  in  Greek,  and  to  be 
ignorant  of  it  is  to  be  ignorant  of  Christianity. 
The  three  languages  written  over  Christ's  head  on 
the  cross,  Hebrew,  Greek  and  Latin,  are  the  three 
pillars  in  the  Temple  of  Human  Civilization. 

3.  The  English  language,  now  spoken  around  the 
globe,  and  which  is  yet  to  master  it,  is  in  large  de- 
gree derived  from  these  old  tongues,  and  rests  on 
the  old  classics  as  law  rests  on  the  Hebrew  Deca- 
logue, and  Christianity  on  the  Gospels  in  Greek. 

Hannah  More  said  she  would  rather  cheapen  bread 
one  penny  in  the  loaf  than  have  written  Milton's 
Paradise  Lost.  Cheap  learning  will  cheapen  bread. 
And  the  first  classes  in  Cambridge  and  Yale  had,  at 
graduation,  less  learning  than  is  given  in  our  graded 
schools  all  over  the  United  States;  and  the  time  is 
gone  by  when  college  graduates  will  be  deemed 
backsliders  who  do  not  enter  what  have  been  called 
"the  learned  professions." 

But  the  glory  of  the  College  in  the  old  country 
or  the  new  is  their  relation  to  religion  and  reform. 
A  Latin  essay  in  Cambridge,  England,  overthrew 


slavery  and  the  slave  trade  in  the  West  Indies;  and 
a  prayer  meeting  under  the  linden  trees  of  Oxford 
has  revolutionized  religion  and  filled  the  world  with 
Methodists.  Oneida  Institute  and  Knox  College 
furnished  modern  Abolitionism  with  its  start  of  piety 
and  brains  combined;  and  a  host  of  colleges  spring- 
ing up  all  over  the  South,  in  the  hands  of  God, 
will  wean  religion  from  fanaticism,  furnish  teach- 
ers for  the  schools,  banish  illiteracy,  and  overthrow 
the  lodges. 


'•TBE   8EVENTEEN-TBAR  L0CU8T8' 


The  insects  of  this  name  are  coming  up  out  of 
the  earth  in  great  numbers;  so  far  as  we  have  seen 
them  they  are  of  the  least  destructive  species  of  the 
genus  grasshopper,  which,  like  everything  else,  runs 
into  infinity. 

There  are  ten  Hebrew  words  in  the  Bible  which 
are  translated  locust.  The  quails  (Ex.  16: 13)  many 
insist  were  locusts;  they  are  eaten  with  relish  by 
the  inhabitants  of  the  East,  and  are  said  to  be  not 
unwholesome.  John  the  Baptist  ate  locusts  and 
wild  honey.  But  the  prophets,  especially  Joel  and 
Amos,  regard  and  describe  them  as  terrible  scourges 
of  God  sent  on  the  people  of  Palestine. 

Jeroboam  had  built  altars  at  Bethel,  for  a  polit- 
ical religion,  to  keep  his  subjects  from  worshiping 
at  Jerusalem.lest  they  should  go  backto  the  dynasty 
of  David  after  they  had  revolted  from  Rehoboam, 
the  stupid  son  of  Solomon.  The  calf- worship  which 
Jeroboam  set  up  at  Dan  and  Bethel  was  the  popular 
cattle- worship  of  Egypt  restored;  and  as  people  be- 
come like  the  gods  they  worship,  brute-worship  made 
the  nation  brutish,  and  these  prophets  were  sent  to 
rebuke  them.  These  are  specimens  of  their  rebukes: 

"In  the  day  when  I  shall  visit  the  transgressions 
of  Israel ...  .1  will  visit  tbe  altars  of  Bethel."  Amos 
3:  14.     "They   that  swear  by  the  sin  of  Samaria, 

and  say.  Thy  God,oh  Dan,  liveth shall  fall  never 

to  rise  up  again."  As  they  adopted  lodge  religions, 
they  had  lodge  morals,  drunkenness,  slavery  and 
harlotry.  Thus:  "Awake,  ye  drunkards,  and  weep; 
and  howl,  ye  drinkers  of  wine."  Joel  1:  5.  "Because 
ye  have  taken  my  silver  and  gold,  and  have  carried 

them  into  your  temples 1  will  sell  your  sons  and 

your  daughters."  Joel  3:  5-8.  "They  have  given 
a  boy  for  an  harlot,  and  sold  a  girl  for  wine."  Joel 
3:  3.  "That  ye  may  buy  the  poor  for  silver,  and  the 
needy  for  a  pair  of  shoes."  Amos  8:  6. 

Wars  followed  this  national  demoralization. 
Thus  Joel  says  (3:  9,  10):  "Proclaim  ye  this  among 
the  Gentiles:  Prepare  war. . .  .Beat  your  plowshares 
into  swords  and  your  pruning-hooks  into  spears,  "etc. 
The  Gentiles  were  surrounding  nations  who  had  no 
Messiah  (Christ)  and  who  desolated  Judea,  as  it  lies 
now.  And  the  one  cause  of  war  from  first  to  last 
was  that  which  exists  between  the  Mormans  and 
Americans  now,  viz,,  their  religion.  One  side  wor- 
ships Christ  and  accepts  the  two  principles  of  the 
Decalogue,  supreme  love  to  God  and  equal  love  to 
man;  the  other  obeys  their  priests.  Joel  and  Amos 
were  of  the  later  prophets. 

Six  full  centuries  and  a  half  before  Moses  and 
Joshua  had  predicted  the  utter  destruction  of  the 
Hebrew  cemmonwealth,  and  assigned  one  unwaver- 
ing cause  for  their  demolition,  viz.,  worshiping  at 
other  altars  beside  Christ's.  (See  Deat.  29:  25 ) 
"Men  shall  say.  Because  they  have  forsaken  the  cov- 
enant of  the  Lord  God  of  their  fathers,  served  other 
gods  and  worshiped  them;"therefore,  "The  whole  land 
is  brimstone,  salt  and  burning,  that  it  is  not  sown 
nor  beareth,  nor  any  grass  groweth  therein."  And 
six  hundred  and  fifty  years  later  these  two  prophets 
depict  their  terrible  national  overthrow,  in  which 
locusts  and  grasshoppers  bore  so  horrible  a  part. 
"In  the  year  591  A.  D.  it  is  said  that  nearly  a  mill- 
ion of  men  and  beasts  were  carried  off*  in  Spain  by 
a  pestilence  arising  from  the  stench  of  these  locusts 
when  they  were  dead." — Encyclopedia  of  Relicficut 
Knowledge.  See  also  Joel,  first  chapter,  and  Amos 
7:  1.  And  the  armies  of  grasshopper  pests,  which 
a  few  years  since  sallied  forth  from  the  elevated  por- 
tions of  Colorado,  where  they  breed  most  abun- 
dantly (Johnson's  Encyclopedia),  and  ravaged  por- 
tions of  our  Western  States,  Kansas  especially, 
could  not  be  better  described  than  in  the  words  of 
Joel  6:  1.  Even  wheu  there  were  no  such  flights  of 
these  animals  as  darkened  the  heavens,  the  writer 
has  seen  grasshoppers  twenty  miles  west  of  Denver, 
Colorado,  whose  bodies  were  two  or  three  inches 
long  and  of  the  size  of  a  man's  finger.  But  the 
locusts  appearing  this  year  bear  no  resemblance  to 
these  loathsome  and  greedy  creatures.  These  lo- 
custs live  and  sing  in  trees,  and  though  we  have 
heard  and  seen  them  from  childhood  in  Vermont, 
Pennsylvania  and  Illinois,  we  never  knew  grass  or 
grain  destroyed  by  them,  though  the  small  limbs  of 
trees  have  been  bored  or  cat  by  them.     These  tree 


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THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


locusts  are  batched  from  eggs  in  the  shape  of  locust 
grubs,  without  wings,  and  make  their  way  down 
into  the  earth,  whence  fact  or  fable  says  they  emerge 
in  seventeen  years.  Of  this  particular  time,  how- 
ever, we  have  found  no  proof  but  the  random  recol- 
lections of  individuals.  But  it  is  certain  that  they 
burrow  in  the  earth.  Thousands  of  them  have  been 
shoveled  up  in  tile-clay  pits,  at  a  depth  of  four  feet. 
They  come  out,  as  this  year,  in  the  chrysalis  state, 
a  locust  in  shape,  all  but  the  wings.  They  creep 
out  through  an  opening  in  the  head  of  the  chrysa- 
lis, with  the  W  on  their  back,  and  are  really  pretty, 
with  their  transparent  wings,  with  which  they  at 
once  fly  off  to  seek  their  mates.  The  barn-yard 
fowls  improve  their  opportunity,  turn  John  the  Bap- 
tists, and  feed  on  locusts  with  the  relish  of  Arabs. 

The  fifth  woe-trumpet  of  the  Apocalypse  (Rev.  9) 
brings  an  army  of  locusts  from  the  "smoke  of  the 
pit"  to  desolate  and  destroy,  not  herbage,  but  men; 
which,  of  course,  are  the  horrible  symbols  of  horrid 
realities,  to  visit  men  for  their  sins.  Bui  whether 
natural  or  supernatural,  these  armies  of  foes,  ready 
to  burst  from  their  invisible  realms,  in  heathen 
lands  or  Christian,  are  messengers  sent  to  warn  and 
scourge  nations  who  substitute  for  God's  Sabbaths 
and  sanctuary  the  religions  invented  by  men. 


— Bro.  L,  B.  Kent,  publisher  for  the  Western  Ho- 
liness Association,  Bloomington,  III,  has  just  pub- 
lished a  book  entitled,  "Open  Secret.  Mists  of  Ma- 
sonic Mysteries."    By  Rev.  James  Hobbs. 

— A  donation  of  $3  from  R.  J.  Williams  and  $5 
from  Rufus  Johnson  of  Washington  Territory  has 
been  forwarded  to  Elder  R.  N.  Countee,  as  the  above 
brethren  wished  to  assist  him  to  a  rest  among  the 
mountains  if  he  saw  fit  so  to  use  it. 

— The  Prohibition  State  Convention  in  New  York 
will  be  held  in  Syracuse  next  Tuesday,  and  is  to  be 
made  a  grand  rally  for  the  anti-saloon  party.  If 
New  York  can  give  75,000  or  100,000  votes  for  Fisk 
in  November,  Prohibition  will  be  made  the  issue  in 
spite  of  all  opposition. 

— The  letter  of  Bro.  W.  F.  Davis,  on  another  page, 
was  accompanied  by  a  grateful  acknowledgment  of 
$10  from  Bro.  M.  L.  Worcester  of  Kingston,  111. 
We  should  be  glad  to  acknowledge  other  gifts  to 
aid  Bro.  Davis.  His  letter  on  the  late  action  of  the 
Boston  Common  Council,  elsewhere,  will  be  read 
with  grave  interest  and  serious  foreboding. 

— A  great  Prohibition  ratification  meeting  will  be 
held  in  the  Metropolitan  Opera  House,  New  York, 
on  Friday  evening,  and  will  be  honored  by  the  pres- 
ence of  General  Fisk  and  Mr.  Black,  the  Prohibition 
candidates.  Sam.  Small,  in  behalf  of  the  National 
Committee,  will  tender  the  nominations  made  at  In- 
dianapolis, which  will  be  formally  accepted. 

— The  Undergraduate  of  Middlebury,  Vt.,  pub- 
lished by  the  students  ef  Middlebury  College,  pub- 
lishes this  month  a  fine  portrait  of  Pres.  J.  Blanch- 
ard,  who  was  the  founder  of  the  magazine,  and  one 
of  Us  early  editors  and  contributors.  A  sketch  of 
his  life  work  accompanies  the  portrait  and  mentions 
particularly  his  extensive  labors  against  the  lodge. 

— Bro.  J.  L.  Wimby,  scribe  of  the  Louisiana  Con- 
gregational Association,  calls  our  attention  to  the 
well-known  fact  that  that  organization  deserves  a 
place  in  our  roll  of  the  Church  against  the  Lodge. 
It  will  gladly  be  placed  there,  and  in  our  next  num- 
ber we  shall  endeavor  to  revise  that  roll.  There 
are  other  churches  and  associations  which  are  com- 
ing to  this  same  honorable  position.  Bro.  Knox 
Anderson  writes  of  the  church  to  which  he  belongs 
in  Iowa,  and  we  hope  others  may  be  heard  from. 


enrollment  list,  as  he  travels  from  place  to  place 
during  the  coming  summer. 

— Prof.  J.  C.  McCartney,  one  of  President 
George's  associates  in  Geneva  College,  lately  spoke 
in  the  Monday  meeting  of  the  San  Francisco  Con- 
gregational ministers  on  the  work  of  the  National 
Reform  Association.  He  received  a  vote  of  thanks 
for  his  able  presentation  of  the  reform. 

— General  John  C.  Fremont,  of  California,  the  first 
nominee  of  the  Republican  party  in  1856,  will  attend 
the  convention  here  this  week  as  the  guest  of  Ne- 
braska. He  will  be  presented  to  the  Chicago  con- 
vention by  the  Hon.  Charles  J.  Greene,  delegate 
from  Nebraska  to  the  convention.  General  Fremont 
is  75,  white  of  hair  and  beard,  keen-eyed,  hearty 
and  erect. 

— Rev.  C.  C.  Foote,  who  has  been  visiting  his 
daughter,  Mrs.  Milton  of  Elgin,  111.,  called  on  the 
Cynosure  'last  Thursday  with  Bro.  Milton.  Father 
Foote  is  in  good  health,  and  is  now  in  Iowa  visiting 
a  soldier  son,  who  lost  an^arm  in  the  war,  and  be- 
cause of  decay  of  the  bone  will  probably  have  to 
undergo  another  amputation.  This  misfortune  may 
deprive  us  of  the  presence  of  Bro.  Foote  at  the  an- 
nual meeting. 

— The  Prohibition  candidate  for  Vice-President, 
Rev.  John  A.  Brooks,  the  Christian  Standard  says: 
"Of  Bro.  Brooks,  the  candidate  for  Vice-President, 
we  take  the  liberty  to  say,  without  venturing  to  in- 
terfere in  party  politics,  that  he  has  long  been  a 
prominent  preacher  among  the  Disciples,  and  of  late 
years  an  ardent  worker  in  the  Prohibition  ranks. 
He  is  an  earnest  man,  of  excellent  reputation,  a 
lively  and  forcible  speaker,  and  well  posted  in  po- 
litical as  well  as  religious  affairs.  He  is  worthy  of 
the  position  assigned  to  him,  and  will  doubtless  do 
effective  work  in  the  campaign." 

— Bro.  M.  N.  Butler,  of  Missouri,  writes  under 
the  pressure  of  a  heavy  grief.  On  the  10th  inst.  he 
helped  to  lay  in  the  grave  the  remains  of  a  beloved 
sister,  by  whose  bedside  he  had  been  watching 
night  and  day  for  three  weeks.  She  was  taken  sick 
in  Chicago,  and  rallied  after  ten  weeks  severe  ill- 
ness, and  was  removed  to  her  Missouri  home;  but 
her  disease  was  fatal,  and  after  lingering  for  eleven 
weeks  more  she  died.  She  was  a  devoted  Christian, 
and  her  zeal  for  Christ  led  her  to  espouse  his  cause, 
no  matter  what  the  reproach  or  trial.  She  canvassed 
Avalon  during  the  coldest  winter  weather  for  names 
to  a  remonstrance  to  a  corner-stone  laying  by  the 
lodge.  This  is  the  first  death  in  a  family  of  nine 
grown  children,  and  the  whole  circle  of  relatives  feel 
the  loss  deeply.  May  the  Holy  Comforter  indeed 
be  with  them  in  this  trial. 


PERSONAL  MENTION. 


ANNUAL  REPORT  OF  THE  BOARD  OF 
DIRECTORS 


TO  THE  ANNUAL   MEETINO   OP   THE    NATIONAL  CHRIS- 
TIAN  ASSOCIATION. 


— Dr.  J.  R.  Johnston,  of  the  editorial  staff  of  the 
United  Fresbyterian,  Pittsburgh,  has  just  celebrated 
his  twenty- fifth  anniversary  as  pastor  of  the  U.  P. 
church  at  Washington,  Pa. 

— Secretary  Stoddard  reached  Chicago  from  Wash- 
ington direct,  Saturday  morning.  He  was  almost 
disguised  by  the  dust  raised  by  the  big  Republican 
procession  pushing  on  toward  Chicago  through  Ohio 
and  Indiana.  He  reports  all  going  on  well  in  Wash-\ 
ington. 

— Rev.  M.  A.  Gault,  whose  letters  in  the  present 
number  will  be  read  with  deepest  interest,  is  now  in 
Waukesha,  Wisconsin.  He  writes  that  the  ill-health 
of  Mrs.  Gault  will  probably  prevent  his  attending 
the  N.  C.  A.  annual  meeting,  of  which  he  is  vice- 
president. 

■^A.  W.  Parry,  of  Evansville  Seminary,  says  the 
Free  Methodist,  heartily  endorses  the  objects  of  the 
"American  Anti-Secrecy  League,"  and  expects  to 
obtain  the  signatures  of  as  many  as  he  can  to  the 


Your  Board  met  upon  the  day  of  its  election, 
June  16,  1887,  and  organized;  and,  including  that 
meeting,  has  had  thirteen  sessions  during  the  year, 
at  two  of  which  there  was  no  quorum.  Those  elect- 
ed as  members  of  the  Board  have  so  continued 
through  the  year,  except  Dr.  J.  E.  Roy,  who  re- 
signed March  10,  on  account  of  ill  health,  caused  by 
injuries  sustained  years  ago.  T.  B.  Arnold  was 
elected  to  fill  the  vacancy. 

The  care  of  the  Association's  property  has  gener- 
ally been  in  the  hands  of  its  trusted  officers,  Secre- 
tary Stoddard  and  Treasurer  Phillips,  and  the  regu- 
lar committees,  so  that  but  few  questions  relating 
to  it  have  occupied  the  time  of  the  Board.  Two  ex- 
ceptions may  be  mentioned: 

First,  it  was  decided  best  to  accept  $1,000  in  set- 
tlement of  the  residuary  legacy  of  Moses  Pettengill. 
(See  Minutes  of  Aug.  10.) 

Second,  following  the  directions  of  the  Associa- 
tion made  at  your  last  annual  meeting,  the  Board 
has,  through  a  committee.  Rev,  L,  N.  Stratton,  Sec- 
retary J.  P.  Stoddard  and  Rev.  Alex.  Thomson, 
made  a  careful  review  of  the  records  pertaining  to 
vthe  purchase,  and  design  of  the  purchase  of  the 
Washington  Building.  The  report  of  the  commit- 
tee sent  to  Washington  to  confer  with  Rev.  E.  D. 
Bailey  (see  Minutes  Aug.  10)  on  the  matter,  and  the 
report  of  the  three  gentlemen  above  named,  agreed 
substantially  that  the  building  was  not  being  used 
in  accordance  with  the  original  design  of  purchase, 
and  that  a  change  in  management  was  expedient. 
(See  final  report  p.  57  of  Minutes.)  The  subsequent 
action  of  the  Board  in  sending  Secretary  Stoddard 
to  Washington  is  well  known.  It  is  hoped  that  it 
may  be  with  tbo    \sBOciation  as  it  was  with  the 


Board,  who,  though  at  first  differing  in  opinion  up- 
on the  general  subject,  were,  through  their  investi- 
gation, brought  to  a  unanimity  of  view  in  regard  to 
the  purpose  for  which  the  Washington  Building 
was  bought.also  in  regard  to  its  ownership  and  con- 
trol,    (See  Minutes  p.  56.) 

The  direct  work  of  the  Association  through  pub- 
lications has  met  with  some  attention  by  the  Board. 
That  the  circulation  of  the  Cynosure  might  be  in- 
creased and  field  agents  encouraged,  the  offer  of 
new  yearly  subscribers  was  raised  from  $25.00  per 
month  to  $50.00  per  month.  (See  Minutes  p.  35.) 
And  that  the  quality  of  matter  printed  in  the  paper 
might  be  kept  to  a  high  standard,  the  editors  and 
publisher  have  been  appointed  "a  general  commit- 
tee on  expenditure  of  cash  for  contributions  to  the 
Cynosure."    (See  Minutes  p.  44  ) 

No  better  field  for  anti-secret  missionary  effort 
seems  at  present  open  than  work  among  the  colored 
brethren.  The  Cynosure  should  go  weekly  the  year 
round  to  every  colored  preacher  in  the  South.  Dur- 
ing the  year  four  tracts  and  one  pamphlet,  "Stories 
of  the  Gods,"  have  been  added  to  the  list  of  publi- 
cations, and  also  a  circular  for  general  distribution, 
at  our  own  and  other  conventions,  briefly  setting 
forth  the  organization  and  work  of  the  Association. 
(See  Minutes  p.  36.) 

In  order  that  misunderstandings  may  not  rise  be- 
tween field  agents  and  the  Board,  a  written  contract 
is  now  required.  (See  Minutes  p.  51.)  Also  rules 
setting  forth  the  duties  of  agents  while  in  the  field 
have  been  adopted.     (See  Minutes  p.  58.) 

A  movement  to  secure  district  headcjuarters  in 
Boston,  for  the  work  of  the  Association,  over  which 
the  Board  contemplated  placing  Miss  E.  E.  Flagg, 
was  providentially  retarded  by  a  serious  accident 
which  befell  that  lady. 

How  to  reach  the  youth  of  our  land  with  the 
truth  concerning  secret  societies,  especially  the  stu- 
dents, has  been  a  problem,  interesting  to  the  Board, 
but  not  as  yet  satisfactorily  solved.  The  graduat- 
ing classes  of  Howard  and  Way  land  Theological 
Seminaries  were  presented  with  copies  of  "Finney 
on  Masonry."  (See  Minutes  p.  54)  A  plap  has 
been  proposed  by  which  prize  essays,  on  the  sub- 
ject of  se^iret  societies  as  related  to  the  temperance 
reform,  and  secret  societies  as  related  to  the  labor 
question,  and  kindred  topics,  might  be  called  out 
from  students  in  the  various  institution  of  learning. 
(See  Minutes  p.  27  and  p.  55.) 

Efforts  to  bring  our  cause  before  the  various  as- 
semblies, religious  and  political,  have  not  met  with 
marked  success,  and  yet  your  Board  is  persuaded 
that  such  efforts  should  be  continued  with  all  possi- 
ble wisdom  and  perseverance.  The  argument  for 
temperance  reform  is  already  won.  Ours  is  "the 
next  great  cause  which  our  nation  must  take  up," 
and  it  is  our  duty  to  hasten  the  day  when  condem- 
nation of  the  secret  empire  shall  constitute  one 
plank  in  every  reform  platform. 

Our  literature  was  distributed  at  Lake  Bluff.  Mr. 
Stoddard's  experience  there  is  well  known  to  read- 
ers of  the  Cynosure.  (See  Minutes  p.  36.)  Dr. 
French  of  Cincinnati,  whom  the  Board  sent  to 
Washington  in  December  last,  did  not  secure  a 
hearing  before  the  American  branch  of  the  Evan- 
gelical Alliance.     (See  Minutes  p.  46.) 

So  far  as  political  conventions  are  concerned  it  is 
hoped  that  the  Anti-Secrecy  League,  recently  organ- 
ized by  your  Board  as  a  department  of  N,  C.  A. 
work,  with  W.  I.  Phillips  as  superintendent,  may  be 
efficient  in  keeping  before  the  citizens  of  the  Repub- 
lic the  antagonism  which  exists  between  American 
principles  and  the  principles  of  secretism.  The 
League  is  non-partisan.  There  is  one  bond  by 
which  it  proposes  to  bind  good  men  of  all  parties 
into  a  "bundle  of  life,"  i.  e.,  opposition  to  the  elec- 
tion to  public  c  ffice  any  man  who  owns  allegiance 
to  the  secret  lodge  power.     (See  Minutes,  May  5  ) 

As  yours  is  a  Christian  work,  its  field  is  the 
world.  Your  Board  instructed  the  General  Secre- 
tary to  carry  out  your  resolutions  passed  at  the  last 
annual  meeting,  authorized  Treasurer  Phillips  to 
open  au  account  for  a  fund  for  work  in  toreign 
lands  (see  Minutes  p.  34),  and  further  requested 
Secretary  Slotldard  to  write  to  (  ynosure  correspond- 
ents in  Africa,  India,  Australia  and  the  West  In- 
dies, asking  them  to  state  plans  to  this  Board  by 
which  the  N.  C.  A.  might  aid  them  in  carrying  on 
anti-secret  work  in  their  countries. 


— Northwestern  College  at  Naperville,  111.,  grad- 
uated nineteen  young  men  and  women  at  its  twenty- 
third  anniversary  last  week.  More  than  usual  in- 
terest was  manifested  in  the  exercises  of  the  day, 
owing  to  the  fact  that  President  H.  H.  Rassweiler 
severed  his  connection  with  the  school  with  the  close 
of  the  year.  This  is  the  only  collegiate  institution 
of  the  churches  of  the  Evangelical  Association. 


10 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSUKE. 


JuNi  21,  1888 


The  Home. 


THB  BRAVEST  BATTLB. 

The  bravest  battle  that  ever  was  fought ! 

Shall  I  tell  you  where  and  when? 
On  the  maps  of  the  world  you  will  find  It  not; 

'Twas  fought  by  the  mothers  of  men ! 

Nay,  not  with  cannon  or  battle  shot, 

With  sword  or  nobler  pen- 
Nay,  not  with  eloquent  word  or  thought 

From  mouths  of  wonderful  men ; 

But  deep  In  a  walled-up  woman's  heart  — 

Of  woman  that  would  not  yield, 
But  bravely,  silently,  bore  her  part— 

Lo !  there  is  that  battle-field ! 

No  marshaling  troop,  no  bivouac  song. 

No  banner  to  gleam  and  wave  I 
But,  oh !  these  battles,  they  last  so  long— 
From  babyhood  to  the  grave ! 

— Joaquin  MUler. 
*  t  »  ' 

LUTEBR  ON  PUBLIC  SCHOOLa. 


Church  and  school  go  together.  The  .lewish  syna- 
gogue was  a  school.  Every  Christian  church  is  a 
school  of  piety  and  virtue  for  old  and  young.  In 
mediieval  times,  the  church  was  the  civilizer  and 
instructor  among  the  barbarians,  founded  the  con- 
vents and  cathedral  schools,  and  erected  the  great 
universities  of  Paris,  Padua,  Oxford,  Si;.  Andrews, 
Vienna,  Heidelberg,  Basel,  Wittenberg,  etc. 

But  education  in  the  Middle  Ages  was  aristo- 
cratic, and  did  not  reach  beyond  the  clergy  and  a 
few  laymen  of  the  higher  classes.  The  common 
people  were  ignorant  and  supersititious,  and  could 
not  read  or  write.  Even  noblemen  signed  their 
names  with  a  cross.  Books  were  very  rare  and  dear. 
The  invention  of  the  printing  press  opened  a  path 
for  popular  education.  The  reformation,  at  the 
start,  utilized  the  press  on  a  large  scale,  and  gave  a 
powerful  impulse  to  the  common  schools.  The  gen- 
ius of  Protestantism  favors  the  general  diffusion  of 
knowledge.  It  elevates  the  laity,  emancipates  pri- 
vate judgment,  and  stimulates  the  sense  of  personal 
responsibility  and  opportunity.  Every  human  be- 
ing should  be  trained  to  a  position  of  Christian  free- 
dom and  self-government. 

The  first  great  impulse  to  the  movement  of  popu- 
lar education  in  close  connection  with  religion  must 
be  traced  to  the  German  and  Swiss  reformation. 
Luther  discussed  this  subject  first  in  an  address  to 
the  nobles  of  Germany  (1520)  Several  years  later 
(1524),  he  wrote  a  special  book  in  which  he  urged 
the  civil  magistrates  of  all  the  cities  of  Germany  lo 
improve  their  schools,  or  to  establish  new  ones  for 
boys  and  girls;  especially,  since  the  confidenca  in 
monastic  institutions  had  declined,  and  the  convents 
were  rapidly  losing  their  inmates.  He  wisely  rec- 
ommended that  a  portion  of  the  property  of  churches 
and  convents  might  be  appropriated  to  this  purpose, 
instead  of  being  wasted  on  secular  objects,  oj-  on 
avaricious  noblemen  and  princes. 

He  makes  greslt  accDunt  of  the  study  of  languages, 
and  skillfully  refutes  the  objections. 

A  few  extracts  from  this  very  useful  little  book 
will  give  the  best  understanding  of  the  great  man's 
ideas  on  a  most  important  subject: 

"Grace  and  peace  from  God  our  Father,  and  the 
Lord  Jesus  Christ. . . .  Although  I  am  now  excom- 
municated for  three  years,  and  should  keep  silent  if 

I  feared  men  more  than  God I  will  speak  as 

long  as  I  live,  until  the  righteousness  of  Christ 
shall  break  forth  in  its  glory. ...  I  beg  you  all,  my 
dear  lords  and  friends,  for  God  s  sake,  to  take  care 
of  the  poor  youth,  and  thereby  to  help  us  all.  So 
much  money  is  spent  year  afttr  year  for  arms,  roada, 
dams  and  innumerable  similar  objects,  why  should 
not  as  much  be  spent  for  the  education  of  the  poor 
youth? The  Word  of  God  is  now  heard  in  Ger- 
many more  than  ever  before.  But  if  we  do  not 
show  our  gratitude  for  it,  we  run  the  risk  of  sinking 
back  into  a  worse  darkness. 

"Dear  Germans,  buy  while  the  market  U  at  the 
door.  Gather  while  the  sun  shines  and  the  weather 
is  gcot.  Use  God's  Word  and  grace  while  it  is  al 
hand.  For  you  must  know  that  Go<l'tt  grace  is  a 
traveling  shower,  which  does  not  return  "vhere  once 
it  has  been.  It  was  once  with  the  Jews,  but  gone 
is  gone;  now  they  have  nothing.  I'aul  brouglil  ii 
into  Greece,  but  gone  is  gone;  ihey  have  now  tho 
Turk.  Il'jme  and  Italy  bave  also  had  it,  but  gone 
is  gone;  they  have  now  the  Pope.  And  ye  Germans 
must  not  think  that  you  will  have  it  forever;  for  in- 
gratitude and  contempt  will  not  lot  it  abide.  There- 
fore, seize  and  hold  fast  whoever  can. 

"It  is  a  sin  and  shame  that  we  should  need  to  1  e 
admonished  to  educate  our  children,  when  nituro 
itself,  and  even  ttie  example  of  the  heathen,  urges 


us  to  do  so YovL  say,  the  parents  should  look  to 

that,  it  is  none  of  the  business  of  counsellors  and 
magistrates.  But  how,  if  the  parents  neglect  it? 
Most  of  the  parents  are  incapable;  having  them- 
selves learned  nothing,  they  cannot  teach  their  chil- 
dren. Others  have  not  the  time.  And  what  shall 
become  of  the  orphans?  The  glory  of  a  town  con- 
sists not  in  treasures,  strong  walls  and  fine  houses, 
but  in  fine,  educated,  well-trained  citizens.  The  city 
of  old  Rome  trained  her  sons  in  Latin  and  Greek 
and  all  the  fine  arts .... 

"We  admit,  you  say,  there  should  and  must  be 
schools,  but  what  is  the  use  of  teaching  Latin,  Greek 
and  Hebrew,  and  other  liberal  arts?  Could  we  not 
teach,  in  German,  the  Bible  and  God's  Word,  which 
are  sufficient  for  salvation?  Answer:  Yes,  I  well 
know,  alas!  that  we  Germans  must  ever  be  and  abide 
brutes  and  wild  beasts,  as  the  surrounding  nations 
call  us,  and  as  we  well  deserve  to  be  called.  But  I 
wonder  why  you  never  say,  of  what  use  are  silks, 
wines,  spices  and  other  foreign  articles,  seeing  we 
have  wine,  corn,  wool,  flax,  wood  and  stones  in  Ger- 
man lands,  not  only  an  abundance  for  sustenance, 
but  also  a  choice  and  selection  for  elegance  and  or- 
nament? The  arts  and  languages,  which  do  us  no 
harm,  nay,  which  are  a  greater  ornament,  benefit, 
honor  and  advantage,  both  for  understanding  Holy 
Writ,  and  for  managing  civil  affairs,  we  are  disposed 
to  despise;  and  foreign  wares,  which  are  neither 
necessary  nor  useful  to  us,  and  which,  moreover, 
peel  us  to  the  very  bone,  these  we  are  not  willing  to 
forego.  Are  we  not  deserving  to  be  called  German 
fools  and  beasts? 

"Much  as  we  love  the  Gospel,  let  us  hold  fast  to 
the  languages.  God  gave  us  the  Scriptures  in  two 
languages,  the  Old  Testament  in  Hebrew,  the  New 
Testament  in  Greek.     Therefore,  we  should  honor 

them  above  all  other  languages The  languages 

are  the  sheath  in  which  this  sword  of  the  Spirit  is 
hid.  They  are  the  casket  in  which  this  treasure  is 
kept.  They  are  the  vessels  in  which  this  drink  is 
contained.  They  are  the  storehouse  in  which  this 
food  is  laid  by;  and,  as  the  Gospel  itself  shows, 
they  are  the  baskets  in  which  these  loaves  and  fishes 
are  preserved.  Yea,  if  we  should  so  err  as  to  let  the 
languages  go  (which  God  forbid!),  we  shall  not  only 
lose  the  Gospel,  but  it  will  come  to  pass  at  length, 
that  we  shall  not  be  able  to  speak  or  write  correctly 
tither  Latin  or  German. . . . 

"Herewith  I  commend  you  all  to  the  grace  of  God. 
May  he  soften  and  kindle  your  hearts  so  that  they 
shall  earnestly  take  the  part  of  these  poor,  pitiable, 
forsaken  youth,  and,  through  divine  aid,  counsel  and 
help  them  to  a  happy  and  Christian  ordering  of  the 
German  land  as  to  body  and  soul  with  all  fullness 
and  overflow,  to  the  praise  and  honor  of  God  the 
Father,  through  Jesus  Ciirist,  our  Saviour.  Amen." 
— Philip  Schaff,  in  S.  JSTWorld. 


Robert  Burdette,  the  wit,  hits  off  the  essays  and 
orations  of  our  school  and  college  commencements 
in  this  humorous  vein:  "The  country,  and  incident- 
ally the  universe,  is  sate  for  another  year.  We  have 
been  in  great  peril,  but  our  danger  has  been  pointed 
out,  and  not  only  so,  but  the  way  to  safety  has  at 
the  same  time  been  30  clearly  indicated  that  the 
wayfaring  man,  though  a  mugwump,  need  not  err 
therein.  But  you  have  saved  us,  my  boy;  you  and 
your  fellows  have  snatched  us  from  this  living  grave, 
whose  hungry  breakers  dashed  their  blinding  spray 
and  wreathed  their  angry  flames  in  lurid  tongues 
about  our  feet.  You,  it  is,  who  in  this  month  of 
leafy  June  have  told  us  of  The  Perils  of  the  Re- 
public, The  Labor  Problem,  The  Duty  of  the.  Hour, 
The  Decay  of  Patriotism,  Work  and  Wages,  The 
Deterioration  of  Manhood,  The  Labor  Question, 
The  Decline  of  Statesmanship,  etc.  The  perils  that 
beeet  our  path  have  been  shown  us,  but  you  have 
also  guided  us  into  paths  of  safety  and  your  sisters 
have  nobly  rushed  to  the  rescue  with  assurances 
that  night  brings  out  the  stars,  and,  moreover,  that 
man  is  the  arbiter  of  his  own  destiny,  woman's 
sphere,  the  iDfluence  of  woman,  woman's  duty,  wo- 
man, the  hope  of  the  world  and  spring.  Heaven 
bless  you,  my  children,  you  have  saved  us.  Heaven 
bless  you!     Come  again  next  commencement." 


THB  ROAD  TO  8UCGBS8. 


The  Grand  Jury  of  Philadelphia  lately  used  tho 
following  language  in  a  report:  "In  the  perform- 
an<;b  of  our  duly  we  have  been  deeply  impressed 
with  tho  fact  that  four-fifths,  if  not  nine-tenths,  of 
the  0,000  paupers  and  criminals  which  fill  our  pub- 
lic institutions  are  in  their  present  sad  and  deplor- 
able condition  through  the  influence  of  intoxicating 
li(luors." 

The  Supreme  Coart  of  Rhode  Island  has  decided 
tiiat  the  prohibitory  Uw  of  that  State  does  not  ap- 
ply to  liquors  kept  for  one's  own  use. 


Benjamin  Franklin,  as  a  young  man,  lived  on 
bread  and  water  that  he  might  buy  books. 

Horace  Greeley  laid  down  on  a  rude  floor  and 
studied  by  the  light  of  blazing  pine-knots. 

So  did  Abraham  Lincoln,  who  walked  nine  miles 
a  day  to  school,  also. 

A  New  Eogland  Judge  gave  his  son  a  thousand 
dollars,  telling  him  to  go  through  college  with  it. 
He  returned  at  the  end  of  one  year  without  a  dollar, 
but  with  a  number  of  bad  habits.  At  the  close  of 
vacation  the  father  said,  "Well,  William,  are  you 
going  to  college  this  year?" 

"Have  no  money,  father." 

"But  I  gave  you  a  thousand  dollars  to  graduate 
on." 

"It's  all  gone,  father." 

"Very  well,  my  son;  it  was  all  I  had  to  give  you. 
You  can't  stay  here.  You  must  now  pay  your  own 
way  in  the  world." 

A  new  light  broke  in  upon  the  vision  of  the  aston- 
ished young  man.  He  took  in  the  situation,  deter- 
mined to  make  the  best  of  it,  taught  school,  re-en- 
tered college,  graduated  at  the  head  of  his  class, 
studied  law,  became  governor  of  the  State  of  New 
York,  entered  the  Cabinet  of  the  President  of  the 
United  States,  and  made  a  record  for  himself  which 
has  made  his  name  famous,  being  none  other  than 
that  of  William  H.  Seward. 

A  homely  looking  boy,  who  entered  Dickinson 
College  some  forty  years  ago,  had  such  a  struggle 
with  poverty  that  for  a  long  time  he  lived  on  poorer 
fare  than  many  slaves  of  that  day,  buying  a  few 
pounds  of  corn-meal  each  Monday,  which  he  mixed 
with  water  and  baked  into  cakes,  and  made  these 
last  him  through  the  week. 

He  subsequently  became  one  of  the  most  promi- 
nent ministers  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal  church, 
and,  had  it  not  been  for  his  untimely  death,  would 
undoubtedly  now  be  occupying  the  highest  position 
his  church  has  to  bestow. 

A  colored  youth,  who  was  one  of  the  early  stu- 
dents of  the  Centenary  Biblical  Institute,  finding  he 
could  not  afford  the  seventy  cents  a  week  it  requi'-ed 
for  boarding  in  the  club  at  that  time,  made  an  ar- 
rangement with  a  baker  to  take  several  loaves  of 
stale  bread  at  a  greatly  reduced  rate,  and  with  a  lit- 
tle milk  added  to  this  hard  fare,  he  worked  his  way 
through  successfully. 

He  is  now  principal  of  the  Delaware  Conference 
Academy,  one  of  the  branch  schools  of  the  Insti- 
tute. 

It  requires  hard  study  and  a  never  give-up  spirit 
to  get  up  the  hill  of  learning. 

Every  time  we  get  on  a  don't-care  spirit  we  are 
slipping  backwards. 

It  we  see  no  way  to  get  books,  or  to  get  all  the 
time  we  think  we  ought  to  have,  let  us  make  a  way. 

Be  independent! 

This  is  the  road  to  success. 

The  boy  that  depends  upon  begging  from  friends 
will  never  reach  success. — Indian  Helper. 


THE  SINGLE    MUSIC  LBSSON. 


He  who  can  read  one  book  can  read  many  books. 
He  who  is  master  of  one  tune  can  soon  sing  many 
tunes.  But  few  have  the  patience  to  drill  upon 
elements  till  they  learn  the  secrets  of  perfection. 
In  Fetis's  "History  of  Music"  the  following  story  is 
related: 

Porpora,  one  of  the  most  illustrious  masters  of 
music  in  Italy,  conceived  a  friendship  for  a  young 
pupil,  and  asked  him  if  he  had  courage  to  persevere 
with  constancy  in  the  course  he  should  mark  out 
for  him,  however  wearisome  it  should  seem.  When 
the  pupil  answered  in  the  affirmative,  Porpora  wrote 
upon  a  single  page  of  ruled  paper  the  diatonic  and 
chromatic  scales,  ascending  and  descending,  the 
intervals  of  the  third,  fourth,  and  fifth,  etc.,  in  order 
to  teach  him  to  take  them  with  freedom,  and  to 
sustain  the  sounds,  together  with  the  trills,  groups, 
appogiaturus,  and  passages  of  vocalization  of  differ- 
ent kinds.  This  page  occupied  both  the  master 
and  scholar  during  an  entire  year;  and  the  year 
following  was  also  devoted  to  it.  When  the  third 
year  commenced,  nothing  was  said  of  changing  the 
lesson,  and  the  pupil  began  to  murmur;  but  the 
master  reminded  him  of  his  promise.  The  fourth 
year  slipped  away,  the  fifth  followed,  and  always 
the  same  eternal  page.  The  sixth  found  them  at 
the  same  task;  but  the  master  added  to  it  some 
lessons  of  articulation,  pronunciation,  and,  lastly,  of 
declamation.  At  the  end  of  this  year,  the  pupil, 
who  supposed  himself  still  in  the  elements,  was 
much  surprised,  when  one  day  his  master  said  to 
him:  "Go,  my  son,  you  have  nothing  more  to  learn 


JuNB  21,  1888 


THF.  CirRiSTLAW  CYNOSURE: 


11 


— you  are  the  first  singer  of  Italy,  and  of  the 
world!"  He  spoke  the  truth,  for  this  singer  was 
Caflarelli. 


BBS  CAREFUL. 

Be  careful  what  you  bow,  boys ! 
For  seed  will  surely  grow,  boys! 
The  dew  will  fall, 

The  rain  will  splash, 
The  clouds  will  darken,  , 

And  the  sunshine  flash ; 
And  the  boy  who  sows  good  seed  to-day 
Shall  reap  the  crop  to-morrow. 

Be  careful  what  you  sow,  girls  I 

For  every  seed  will  grow,  girls  I 

Though  it  may  fall 

Where  you  cannot  know, 
Tet  In  summer  and  shade 
It  will  surely  grow ; 
And  the  girl  who  sows  good  seed  to-day 
Shall  reap  the  crop  to-morrow. 

Be  careful  what  you  sow,  boys  I 
For  the  seeds  will  surely  grow,  boys ! 
If  you  plant  bad  seed 
By  the  wayside  high 
You  must  reap  the  harvest 
By  and  by ; 
And  the  boy  who  sows  will  oats  to-day 
Must  reap  wild  oats  to-morrow. 

Be  careful  what  you  sow,  girls ! 
For  all  the  bad  will  grow,  girls  1 
And  the  girl  who  now 

With  a  careless  hand. 
Is  scattering  thistles 
Over  the  land. 
Must  know  whatever  she  sows  to  day 
She  must  reap  the  same  to-morrow. 

Then  let  us  sow  good  seeds  now. 
And  not  the  briars  and  weeds  now ; 
That  when  the  harvest 

For  us  shall  come, 
We  may  have  good  sheaves 
To  carry  home. 
For  the  seed  we  sow  in  our  lives  to-day 
Shall  grow  and  bear  fruit  to-morrow. 

—Detroit  Free  Press. 


ARAB  OEILDRBN  AJSD    TEEIB  GAMES. 


If  the  little  Arabs  are  heathen,  they  are  at  least 
picturesque  heathen.  In  their  colored  clothing, 
with  their  dusky  skins,  their  black  eyes,  and  their 
lithe,  active  bodies,  they  are  very  picturesque.  But, 
it  must  be  confessed,  they  appear  best  at  a  distance; 
for  soap  is  not  so  fashionable  among  them  as 
might  justly  be  expected  from  the  people  of  a 
country  which  manufactures  the  most  cleansing 
soap  in  the  world.  In  watching  the  children  at 
play,  one  soon  notices  that  the  girls  do  not  always 
have  a  good  time.  Arab  boys  are  not  trained  to  be 
gentlemanly  and  courteous  to  their  sisters,  although 
they  treat  their  elders  with  a  delightful  deference 
and  respect.  Little  girls  in  the  East  are  never  wel- 
come. When  a  baby  is  born,  if  it  be  a  girl,  "the 
threshold  mourns  forty  days."  So,  in  taking  a 
glimpse  at  the  amusements  of  the  Arab  children, 
we  must  be  prepared  to  find  that  they  are  chiefly 
boys'  games,  in  which  the  girls  seldom  participate. 

A  little  boy  in  America  asked  a  person  who  had 
lived  in  Syria  if  the  boys  there,  ever  played  base- 
ball; and  on  learning  that  they  did  not,  be  said, 
"Well,  they  can't  have  much  fun  there."  It  is 
very  natural  for  the  children  of  any  country  to 
imagine  that  the  children  in  other  countries  amuse 
themselves  in  the  same  ways.  And  the  number 
of  games  that  are  in  reality  universal  among  chil- 
dren in  all  countries  is  really  remarkable.  For  ex^ 
ample,  the  Arab  children  often  play  blind-man's- 
bufl  (they  call  it  ghummaida)  and  hiz  zowaia,  or  puss- 
in-the-corner,  and  a  game  like  "button,  button,  who 
has  the  button?"  (which  they  play  with  a  pebble), 
and  owal  howak,  or  leap-frog,  and  gilleh,  or  marbles. 
But  there  are  other  games  of  which  you  probably 
never  have  heard — such  as  kurd  murboot,  shooha, 
joora,  taia-ya-taia,  khatim,  and  the  greatest  and 
most  exciting  of  all  their  games — the  national  game, 
it  might  perhaps  be  called — jereed. 

The  general  plan  of  the  game  is  as  follows: 

Sides  are  chosen  by  the  leaders,  and  lines  marked 
out,  about  a  spear's-throw  apart.  This  distance 
varies  with  the  size  and  strength  of  the  players, 
thirty  yards  being  a  fair  average.  Each  player  has 
a  blunt  wooden  spear,  about  the  shape  of  a  billiard 
cue,  only  not  so  small  in  proportion  at  the  smaller 
end.  It  is  shaped  in  such  a  way  that  when  balanced 
on  the  finger  and  then  grasped,  it  will  not  be  held 
At  the  middle,  bal  at  a  point  a  little  nearer  the 
larger  end.  A  jereed  player  must  possess  skill  in 
two  ways:  He  must  be  able  to  hurl  the  spear  far 


and  true,  and  also  to  catch  a  spear,  when  thrown  at 
him,  as  it  goes  by.  This  sounds  more  difficult  than 
it  really  is.  The  player  dodges  as  the  spear  ap- 
proaches, so  that  it  will  shoot  past  his  side, — the 
right  side,  if  possible — and  then,  as  it  passes  him, 
he  sweeps  it  in  with  his  hand  and  brings  it  down  to 
the  side,  reversing  it  so  as  to  throw  it  back  again, 
all  in  a  moment. 

The  object  of  the  game  is  for  one  side  to  drive 
the  other  side  back  and  to  occupy  its  line.  But  it 
is  not  so  rough  a  game  as  this  purpose  would  seem 
to  imply.  Not  half  so  many  accidents  occur  as  in 
base-ball,  and  it  is  not  nearly  so  rough  as  foot-ball, 
since  the  object  of  the  game  can  be  attained  very 
easily  and  quickly  by  throwing  the  spear  over  the 
head  of  your  opponent;  for  then  he  has  to  run  back 
and  pick  up  his  spear, — and  that  not  only  weakens 
the  enemies'  line,  but  gives  them,  for  the  time,  one 
less  spear-thrower. — ISt.  Hicholas. 


Temperance. 


AN  OLD  SALOON  BATTLE  IN  CHICAGO. 


Attempts  to  regulate  the  saloons  in  Chicago  have 
not  always  met  simply  with  petitions  and  protests. 
Thirty  years  ago  the  big-paunched,  flabby-faced,  old 
gentleman  whose  sole  ambition  seems  to  be  to  ride 
a  capering  cask  on  a  wooden  sign  in  front  of  a  beer 
saloon,  would  not  have  been  satisfied  with  the  dis- 
missal from  ofllce  of  a  too-energetic  advocate  of  de- 
cency.- The  "beer  riots,"  or  "Dutch  riots,"  as  many 
called  them ,  occurred  thirtj  -three  years  ago.    Though 
the  population  of  Chicago  was   largely  of  foreign 
birth.  Dr.  Levi   D.  Boone,  a  Know-nothing  and  a 
pronounced  temperance  man,  had  been  elected  may- 
or.    The  legislature,  at  its  last  session,  had  passed 
a  law  that  amounted  to  practical  prohibition.     May- 
or Boone  proposed  to  prepare  the  saloon  interests 
for  the  operation  of  the  law  by  raising  the  license 
fee  from  $50  to  $300.     He  had  a  board  of  aldermen 
that  agreed  with  him.     The  ordinance  was  passed. 
Mayor  Boone  also  undertook  to  close  the  saloons  on 
Sunday  in  accordance  with  the  new  law,  and  in  one 
day  arrested  200  violators  of  the  statute  provisions. 
The  saloon-keepers  and  their  sympathizers  de- 
clared that  the  imprisoned  men  should  not  be  tried 
for  their  offense.     The  city  attorney  and  the  defend- 
ants' lawyers  agreed  to  try  a  test  case   April   21, 
1855.     The  trial  was  to  take  place  before  Henry  L. 
Rucker,  a  police  magistrate  who  had  a  room  in  the 
old  court-house,  which  stood  in  the  center  of  the 
block  now  occupied  by  the  city  and  county   build- 
ings.    The  trial  was  set  for  10  o'clock  in  the  morn- 
ing.    Long  before  that  hour  a  mob  gathered  around 
the  building.     When  the  case  was  called,  the  crowd 
moved  on  the  courtroom.     With  fife  and   drum   it 
attempted   to   make  impossible  a  hearing.     Mayor 
Boone  had  his  entire  police  force  on  hand,  and  the 
mob  was  easily  dispersed.     Defeat  enraged  the  mob. 
The  leaders  began  parading  the  streets.    The  fife 
and  drum  led  the  column.     The  idle,  the  curious, 
and  the  vicious  joined  it.     The  procession  passed 
through  the  South  Side  and  across  to  the  West  Di- 
vision.    All   the   saloons   were  visited,   and   their 
keepers  and  friends  turned  out.     The  lowest  resorts 
were  on  the  North  Side.     Around  the  old  Galena 
depot— now  the  Northwestern — were  breeding  places 
of  thieves  and  burglars.     Rough  as  it  is  now,  it  is  a 
saints'  rest  compared  with  its  character  in  that  day. 
Oa  "the  sands"  blossomed  a  bank   of   exotics   in 
crime.     "The  sands"  was  the  lake  shore  at  the  foot 
of  Indiana  Street.     In  these  two  localities  a  riff  raff 
of  criminals  recruited  the  mob.     In  the  gathering 
crowd,  however,  were  many  small  tradesmen  who 
were  led  to  leave  their  shops  by  the  cry  of  "personal 
liberty."     The  North  Side  then,  as   now,  was   the 
residence  of  the  German  people,  and  the  bulk  of  the 
crowd  was  of  that  nationality.     For  this  reason  the 
disturbance  was  called  by  many  "the  Dutch  riots." 
By  3  o'clock  a  great  mob  had  collected.     It  marched 
down  Clark  Street  headed  for  the  court-house.  When 
half  the  crowd  had  crossed  iho  river,  Mayor  Boone 
ordered  the  old  woodeu  bridge  swung.     The  crowd 
threatened  to  kill  the  bridge  tender,  but  he  refused 
to  swing  back  the  bridge  until  ho  had  an  order  from 
the  Mayor.     Presently  that  order  came.     The  crowd 
with  its  fife  and  drums  and  noisy  lungs  pushed  on 
to  the  court-house  and  surrounded  it. 

In  the  meantime  Mayor  Boone  had  sworn  in  150 
special  police  and  had  called  on  law-abiding  citizens 
to  resist  the  mob.  When  the  crowd  faced  the  court- 
house it  found  an  array  of  offi  -ers  and  citizens  be- 
fore it.  The  mob  was  armed  with  shot-guns,  rifles, 
pistols,  swords,  iron  bars,  pitchforks,  wagon  spokes, 
and  all  sorts  of  clubs.  At  the  Sherman  House  cor- 
ner the  mob  met  its  first  resistance.  "Pick  out  the 
stars"  "Shoot  the  police,"  }ellcd  its  leaders.  A 
rattling  fire  from  the  crowd  was  the  answer.     The 


police  replied  in  kind.  A  hand-to-hand  encounter 
ensued.  The  battle  was  fierce  but  brief.  In  half 
an  hour  the  mob  had  fled  and  fifty  of  its  leaders 
were  in  the  hands  of  the  police.  Though  Randolph 
and  Clark  Streets  were  crowded  and  the  buildings 
packed  with  people  only  one  person  was  known  to 
have  been  killed.  He  had  a  moment  before  dis- 
charged from  a  musket  a  load  of  shot  and  slugs, 
which  tore  the  left  arm  of  Policeman  George  W. 
Hunt  to  pieces.  A  number  of  mysterious  funerals 
took  place  on  the  North  Side  a  few  days  later,  but 
none  of  them  was  directly  traced  to  the  battle  for 
beer.  The  health  department  was  not  so  strict  about 
burial  permits  then  as  now. 

After  the  battle  was  over  a  cannon  was  stationed 
at  the  Sherman  House  and  old  Board  of  Trade  cor- 
ners, commanding  the  four  sides  of  the  sr^uare,  but 
no  further  demonstrations  were  made.  Policeman 
Hunt's  left  arm  was  amputated  at  the  shoulder.  On 
his  recovery  he  was  detailed  for  duty  at  the  comp- 
troller's office,  where  he  still  remains. 

No  one  was  convicted  of  the  crime  of  rioting. 
The  trial  was  postponed  to  await  the  result  of  Mr. 
Hunt's  injuries,  and  when  the  cases  were  finally 
called  the  prisoners  had  so  bleached  out  while  in 
jail  that  they  could  not  be  identified.  Mayor  Boone 
enforced  the  law  and  ordinances,  but  the  liquor  ele- 
ment made  the  riots  a  political  issue  at  the  next  city 
election,  and  the  Mayor's  party  was  beaten. — Daily 
Newt. 

m  •  m 

VANDBRBILT  AND  HIS  FATHER. 


The  son  was  then  thirty-two  years  old,  and  him- 
self a  father.  They  were  on  board  the  steam  yacht 
"Northern  Star,"  on  their  way  to  St.  Petersburg. 
William,  who  was  an  habitual  smoker,  was  puffing 
his  favorite  cigar.  "Bill,"  said  the  Commodore,  "I 
wish  you'd  give  up  that  smoking  habit  of  yours;  I'll 
give  you  ten  thousand  dollars  if  you  will." 

"You  needn't  give  me  anything,"  was  the  son's 
answer,  as  he  flung  the  cigar  overboard.  Your  wish 
is  sufficient."     He  never  smoked  afterward. 

Would  that  more  of  our  young  men  would  follow 
his  example! — ISel, 

i*  • » 

Dr.  Grosvenor,  a  wealthy  citizen  of  Providence, 
R.  I.,  was  recently  arrested  for  letting  buildings  for 
the  sale  of  intoxicating  liquors. 

The  Chamber  of  Representatives,  Belgium,  has 
agreed  to  the  convention  for  preventing  the  liquor 
traffic  with  fishermen  in  the  North  Sea. 

The  prohibitory  law  is  vigorously  enforced  in 
Providence,  R.  I.,  and  the  daily  arrests  in  a  popula- 
tion of  125,000  have  been  brought  down  to  seven. 

The  court  in  Huntingdon  county.  Pa.,  has  refused 
every  application  for  license  to  sell  intoxicating  \v\- 
uors.  Several  brewers  and  distillers  are  included  in 
the  refusal. 

Many  of  the  saloons  in  Pittsburgh,  Pa.,  closed 
under  the  prohibitory  provisions  of  the  high-license 
law,  have  reopened  under  the  government  licenss  of 
$25  for  quantities. 

Acting  Commissioner  of  Internal  Revenue  Hen- 
derson reports  an  increase  of  2,122,-42-l  barrels  of 
malt  liquor  produced  during  the  year  ending  March 
31,  1888,  over  the  previous  year. 

The  executive  committee  of  the  Ohio  W.  C.  T.  U. 
has  appointed  June  19  as  a  day  of  thanksgiving  for 
the  passage  of  the  bill  providing  for  scientific  tem- 
perance instruction  in  public  schools. 

The  Grand  Jury  of  New  York  recently  made  a 
long  presentment  to  the  Court.  They  comment  un- 
favorably on  the  enforcement  of  the  excise  laws, 
and  say  that  nearly  all  the  cases  of  homicide  passed 
on  by  them  were  committed  in  drinking  saloons,  or 
committed  when  the  actors  were  under  the  influence 
of  strong  drink. 

The  liquor  men  are  trying  the  boycott  in  Chicago. 
A  letter  was  sent  by  them  to  firms  that  signed  the 
petition  against  licensing  saloons  within  two  hun- 
dred feet  of  a  church  or  school-house,  threatening 
them  with  withdrawal  of  trade  unless  they  "retr.acted 
this  heresy."  Sprague,  Warner  »&  Co.,  one  of  the 
leading  wholesale  grocers,  received  such  a  letter, 
and  their  grand  response  was  to  double  their  sub- 
scription to  the  W.  C.  T.  U  ,  making  it  fifty  dollars 
instead  of  twenty-five,  a  year.  They  reasoned  log- 
ically that  if  the  liquor  power  has  become  so  auda- 
ciouf ,  the  brave  women  fighting  against  it  should  be 
well  furnished  with  the  sinews  of  war.  Hibbard, 
Spencer,  Bartlett  it  Co.,  leading  hardware  dealers, 
also  received  a  threatening  letter  from  the  liquor 
league,  and  resiK>nded  to  it  in  a  manly,  courageous 
way.  If  all  business  men  would  thus  meet  the  ar- 
rogance of  the  liquor  power,  it  would  soon  cease  to 
dominate  the  country  as  it  does. — Union  Signal, 


12 


THE  CHEISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


JnNS  21, 1888 


Bible  Lesson. 


STUDIES  IN  THI  OLD  TESTAMENT. 
LESSON  I.    Third  Quarter.-  July  1. 
SUBJECT.- God's  Covenant  with  Israel.— Ex.  24:1-12. 
GOLDEN  TEXT.— I  will  be  to  them  a  God,  and  they  shall  be 
to  me  a  people. — Heb.  8: 10. 

\Ot)mth»  BibU  and  read  the  lesson.} 
COMMENTS  ON  THE  LESSON  BY  E.  E.  FLAGG. 

1.  T7u  caUing  of  the  elders,  vs.  1,  2.  Whatever  we 
may  think  cf  the  doctrine  of  election  it  has  always  been 
true  that  God  elects  or  chooses  certain  ones  to  be  in  a 
peculiar  sense  channels  of  his  grace.  Those  whom  he 
thus  honors  may  be  engaged  in  manual  labor  like  Paul, 
may  be  unlearned  fishermen  like  the  apostles,  for  God  is 
no  repecter  of  persons.  But  one  thing  is  absolutely  ne- 
cessary—they must  be  fitted  for  his  use.  To  be  emptied 
of  self  is  the  prime  requisite.  Worldliness  and  selfish- 
ness will  so  narrow  and  contract  a  soul  that  it  cannot  re- 
ceive any  revelation  from  God.  This  same  principle 
runs  through  other  things.  Nature  herself  has  written 
on  the  rocks  below  and  in  the  stars  above,  "A  man  can 
not  serve  two  masters."  To  whom  does  she  unlock  her  se- 
cret treasure  houses  of  knowledge  and  reveal  the  beauty 
and  harmony  of  her  hidden  laws?  Agassiz  once  said,  when 
urged  to  engage  in  a  certain  speculation,  "I  have  no  time 
for  making  money."  Here  is  the  secret:  such  a  complete 
consecration  of  himself  to  science  that  the  prizes  of 
wealth  were  of  as  small  account  in  his  eyes  as  the  soap 
bubbles  that  amuse  a  child.  But, aside  from  this  individ- 
ual lesson.tbere  is  one  of  national  application.  Theseel- 
ders  of  Israel  were  the  rulers.  They  represented  God  to 
the  people, which  is  the  true  office  of  all  just  and  righteous 
government.  But  if  he  were  now  to  make  a  special  rev- 
elation of  his  will  to  the  American  people,  how  many  of 
exit  lawmakers  at  Washington  would  he  be  likely  to 
choose  to  receive  it?  We  are  told  that  he  is  of  purer 
eyes  than  to  behold  evil;  that  only  he  who  has  clean 
hands  and  a  pure  heart  and  who  hath  not  sworn  deceitf  ul- 
ly,8hall  ascend  into  his  holy  hill.  No  admittance  for  the 
politician  who  will  advocate  indifferently  high  license  or 
low  license  to  capture  the  saloon  vote,  or  who  joins  the 
secret  lodge  as  a  stepping  stone  to  cfflce.  No  admit- 
tance for  the  man  of  weak  principles  or  stained  private 
record,  though  our  nation  may  have  so  far  departed  from 
"the  ways  of  the  fathers"  as  to  raise  him  to  the  presi- 
dential seat.  Godfearing  rulers  are  the  true  guardians 
of  national  prosperity — the  only  real  earnest  of  its  con- 
tinuance. 

2.  TTie  covenant  xoith  the  people,    vs.  3-12.     That  the 
Jews  were  all  the  time  breaking  the  compact  between 
them  and  Jehovah  only  shows  in  stronger  relief  the  faith- 
fulness of  their  covenant-keeping  God.     Our  nation  has 
been  peculiarly  favored.      The  poor  of  other  countries 
look  to  America  as  their  star  of  promise  leading  to  a 
brighter  day  than  is  possible  under  the  tyranny  of  old 
world  feudal  traditions  and  caste  lines.      God  has  made 
a  covenant  with  her  no  less  than  with   his  ancient  peo- 
ple.    He  has  not  written  it  on  tables  of  stone,  nor  has  he 
spoken  it  in  the  thunders  and  lightnings  of  Sinai;  but  he 
wrote  it  on  the  hearts  and  in  the  lives  of  the  forefathers 
and  foremothers  whose  sacrifices  and  sufferings  have 
made  us  what  we  are.      They  were  the  sponsors  for  our 
living  generations,  then  unborn.  When  they  crossed  the 
seas  to  escape  ecclesiastical   tyranny  they  answered  for 
every  son  and  daughter  of  theirs  to  the  remotest  bounds 
of  time,  "All  the  words  which  the  Lord  hath  said  unto 
us  will  we  do."    We  cannot,  we  dare   not,  throw  it  off 
though  Irish  Catholicism  and  German  infidelity,  though 
the  beer  garden  and  the  saloon  clamor  to  have  us.   When 
we  do  this,  deliberately,  willfully,  persistently, there  will 
yawn  for  America  the  same  gulf  which  swallowed  up 
the  old  world  empires,  with  their  drunkenness,  their  li- 
centiousness, their  pride,  their  fullness  of  bread,  their 
worship  at  shrines  of  secret  wickedness.     In  verses  8  to 
11  we  have  typified  the  communion  of  saints  with  Christ 
here  below, and  that  higher  communion  with  him  above. 
Asceticism  is  not  religion.     The  triumph  of  Gospel  prin- 
ciples will  not  mean  less  of  earthly  comfort  but  more. 
It  will  mean  the  supplanting  of  beer  with  bread;  it  will 
mean  in  place  of  standing  armies  the  great  army  of  labor 
making  the  waste  lands  teem  with  abundance.      It  will 
mean  the  true  Communism  of  Christianity. 


Reiigiotis  News. 


THB  LATB 


BBFORMED 
87N0D. 


PRBBBTTBRIAN 


The  Covenanter  Synod  adjourned  last  week,  after 
a  busy  session  of  six  days.  The  various  depart- 
ments of  church  work  were  presented  with  unusual 
encouragement.  Our  Synod  never  took  as  strong  a 
position  of  dissent  from  incorporation  with  United 
States  government.  Some  of  the  brethren  had  been 
disposed  to  relax  a  little  in  applying  the  discipline 
to  members  voting  under  the  Constitution.  An 
action  of  Synod  some  years  ago  was  thought  to 
have  compromised  the  position  of  the  church  on 
this  question,  and  Bro.  J.  C.  K.  Milligan  of  New 
York,  to  bring  the  matter  to  a  focus,  had  been  sug- 
gesting the  idea  of  abandoning  our  non-voting  posi- 
tion. His  vigorous,  ringing  articles  in  the  Banner, 
of  which  he  is  editor,  produced  quite  a  sensation 
throughout  the  church,  and  the  discussions  along 
this  line  at  Synod  were  able  and  spirited,  and  were 
crystalized  in  the  following  resolution: 

"Resolved,  That  we  solemnly  reaffirm  our  conviction 
that  the  Constitution  of  the  United  States  is  an  agree- 
ment or  compact  to  administer  the  government  without 
reference  to  Christ  or  the  Christian  religion;  and,  that 
incorporation  with  the  government  on  the  basis  of  this 
Constitution  is,  therefore,  an  act  of  disloyalty  to  Christ. 
With  this  conviction  in  our  hearts,  we  cannot  do  other- 
wise than  maintain  to  the  end  the  discipline  we  have 
maintained  in  the  past,  and  we  believe  that  the  highest 
interests  of  our  country  and  of  the  kingdom  of  Christ 
are  involved  in  our  fidelity  at  this  point." 

Our  Synod  represented  116  ministers,  506  elders, 
121  congregations,  10,970  members.  The  contribu- 
tions of  the  church  for  all  purposes  were  $205,507, 
or  an  average  of  $18  68  per  member. 

The  retiring  moderator.  Prof.  D.  B.  Willson, 
opened  Synoa  with  a  rousing  sermon,  showing 
among  other  things  the  infidelity  of  the  national 
Constitution.  Rev.  J.  W.  SprouU,  our  choice  for 
moderator,  was  fortunate,  for  he  held  us  to  the  line 
in  a  pleasant  and  agreeable  manner.  Of  all  the 
city  pastors  he  has  the  best  reputation  as  a  W.  C. 
T.  U.  worker. 

Rev.  R.  C.  Wylie  gave  our  Synod  an  interesting 
account  of  the  National  Prohibition  Convention  at 
Indianapolis,  where  he  had  spent  several  days.  He 
deplored  the  fact  that  there  was  a  letting  down  of 
the  platform  on  the  point  of  recognizing  the  Higher 
Law.  In  speaking  of  the  influence  of  small  tracts 
or  leaflets,  he  referred  to  a  leaflet  that  was  widely 
circulated  at  the  convention  showing  that  Gen. 
Smith  was  a  Freemason,  and  this  tract  he  believed 
had  the  effect  to  prevent  Green  Clay  Smith's  nom- 
ination on  the  Prohibition  ticket. 

I  had  written  to  the  President  of  the  Allegheny 
Co.  W.  C.  T.  U.,  Mrs.  H.  C.  Campbell,  to  allow  me 
the  privilege  of  giving  a  few  lectures  under  the  aus- 
pices of  their  Unions  as  I  expected  to  be  in  the  city 
two  weeks.  When  I  reached  the  city,  I  found  these 
devoted  women  had  arranged  more  lectures  for  me 
than  I  could  possibly  give.  During  these  two  weeks 
I  gave  six  sermons,  eight  lectures,  and  addressed 
two  W.  C.  T.  U.  conventions,  besides  attending  the 
session  of  Synod  and  the  Geneva  College  Com- 
mencement. The  National  Reform  contributions 
given  me  at  these  meetings  amounted  to  $84  85. 
Allegheny  county  is  a  grand  field  for  reform  work. 

M.  A.  Gault. 


— Nannie  Jones,  a  normal  graduate  at  Fisk  Uni- 
versity, of  the  class  1886,  is  to  go,  under  the  aus- 
pices of  the  American  Board,  to  the  Sou lAicastern 
part  of  Africa,  600  miles  from  Natal.  Sae  is  the 
first  single  colored  woman  sent  out  by  the  A  merican 
Board.  She  has  been  adopted  by  the  Ladieb'  Board 
of  the  Interior,  whose  headquarten  are  at  Chicago. 


— The  National  organization  of  the  Colored  Young 
Men's  Christian  Association  was  completed  at  Louis- 
ville, Ky.,  Tuesday,  Charles  L.  Morris,  of  that  city, 
being  chosen  president. 

—The  Rev.  Wilbur  C.  Crafts,  of  New  York,  ad- 
dressed the  ministers  of  the  Congregational  church 
at  the  Grand  Pacific  upon  the  observance  of  the 
Sabbath.  He  advocated  the  closing  of  stores  and 
factories  on  Sunday,  and  the  cessation  of  the  Sun- 
day handling  of  mail.  Resolutions  were  passed 
asking  Congress  to  prevent  by  law  Sunday  trains 
and  mail-handling. 

— The  tenth  annual  camp  meeting  of  the  Iowa 
Holiness  Association  was  opened  last  week  at  Des- 
Moines.  The  organ  of  the  association  is  the  High- 
way, of  Nevada,  Iowa,  edited  by  the  Rev.  Isaiah 
Reid.  An  almanac,  a  series  of  leaflets  and  large 
numbers  of  tracts,  all  devoted  to  the  exposition  and 
advancement  of  the  dogma  and  experience  of  per- 
sonal holiness,  are  printed  also,  and  a  number  of 
evangelists  are  employed  who  hold  meetings  in  halls 
and  churches  in  the  winter  and  in  tents  in  the  sum- 
mer.    The  meeting  will  continue  until  the  24th. 

— The  anniversary  of  the  American  Home  Mis- 
sionary Society  was  held  in  Saratoga,  N.  Y.,  June 
5th  to  7tb.     Julius  Seelye,  President  of  Amherst 


College,  presided.  The  income  of  the  Society  has 
exceeded  that  of  any  previous  year  by  $24,000,  and 
they  closed  the  year  with  $39,000  in  the  treasury, 
$30,000  of  which  had  to  be  placed  to  the  credit  of 
the  Exigency  fund  for  relief  of  the  men  during  the 
summer  months. 

— Two  million  of  the  Scandinavian  race  are  now 
in  America.  Chicago  is  the  fifth  Scandinavian  city 
in  the  world  and  Minneapolis  the  sixth.  There  are 
212  Swedish  mission  churches  with  305  preaching 
stations,  and  in  every  essential  respect  they  are  con- 
gregational. Thirty  Scandinavian  students  in  Carle- 
ton  College,  and  forty  theological  students  in  Chi- 
cago Seminary  are  preparing  for  work  in  this  field. 
The  Scandinavian  Mormon  population  of  Utah  is 
now  estimated  at  forty  thousand.  Mr.  Montgomery, 
superintendent  of  the  Scandinavian  work,  appeared 
before  Congress  and  in  the  name  of  this  society  and 
the  Congregational  churches  of  America,  protested 
against  the  admission  of  Utah  under  Mormon  rule 
to  become  a  State.  In  Northern  Michigan  twelve 
new  towns  need  churches. 

— The  evangelist  C.  H.  Yatman  is  holding  a  se- 
ries of  union  young  people's  meetings  in  Washing- 
ton, D.  C,  by  invitation  of  the  superintendents  of 
the  various  Sunday-schools.  In  Columbia,  S.  C, 
where  he  held  meetings  the  past  month,  the  students 
of  the  Columbia  College  and  South  Carolina  Univer- 
sity were  reached  by  the  score.  Nearly  every  stu- 
dent in  the  female  college  was  converted.  During 
July  and  August  he  conducts  his  large  daily  young 
people's  meeting  and  Christian  workers'  training 
class. 

— At  the  General  Synod  of  the  Reformed  Church 
in  America  in  Catskill,  New  York,  the  Committee 
on  the  State  Religion  reported  34  classes,  546 
churches,  47,518  families,  and  a  total  membership 
of  86,932.  There  was  contributed  for  benevolent 
purposes  $284,902,  an  increase  of  $52,700  over  last 
year,  and  for  congregational  purposes  $969,847,  an 
increase  of  $56,100. 

— The  committee  appointed  by  Bishop  Potter  to 
investigate  charges  against  Mgr.  Bouland  by  the 
Roman  Catholic  press,  when  he  renounced  Roman- 
ism, has  reported  the  charges  without  any  founda- 
tion. He  was  transferred  from  diocese  to  diocese 
with  clean  letters,  and  was  in  good  standing  as  a 
Romish  priest. 

— There  are  plenty  of  young  men  in  the  various 
theological  seminaries  ready  and  willing  to  go  as 
missionaries.     The  want  is  of  money  to  send  them. 

— Recent  statistics  show  a  total  of  about  five  hun- 
dred church-members  within  the  walls  of  Peking, 
connected  with  the  five  Protestant  missions  in  that 
city. 

— Two  Bohemian  Congregational  churches  have 
been  formed  recently,  one  in  Cleveland  and  one  in 
Chicago. 

— Mr.  Robert  Hume,  missionary  in  Ahmednagar, 
notes  an  "unhappy  spread  of  intemperance"  in  India. 

— A  United  Presbyterian  church  of  twentv-nine 
members  was  organized  last  month  in  San  Diego, 
Cal. 

— The  United  Presbyterian  General  Assembly  at 
its  recent  session  appropriated  to  the  several  Boards 
for  the  coming  year  $279  600  as  follows:  Foreign 
Missions,  $110,600;  Home  Missions,  $72,000;  Freed- 
men's  Missions,  $40,000;  Church  Extension,  $40,- 
000;Education,$8,000; Ministerial  Relief,  $6,000;Gen- 
eral  Assembly  Fund,  $3,000. 

— In  Persia,  the  field  of  the  old  Nestorian  mis- 
sion of  the  American  Board,  more  converts  have 
been  made  during  the  last  year  than  in  any  previous 
year  of  the  history  of  the  mission.  During  last 
year's  revival,  which  was  conducted  wholly  by  na- 
tive pastors,  there  were  over  five  hundred  inquirers. 
Of  the  seventy-nine  students  in  the  college  at  Oroo- 
miah  seventy  are  Christians. 

— David  Tatum,  the  Friends'  evangelist,  is  on  his 
way  to  Colorado  for  the  health  of  his  wife.  He  ex- 
pects to  continue  in  the  work  for  salvation  while 
among  the  mountains. 

— Rev.  Edward  Judson,  son  of  Dr.  Adoniram 
Judson,  proposes  to  erect  a  monument  to  his  father 
in  New  York  city.  It  is  to  be  a  "massive  and  beau- 
tiful church  edifice,  perfectly  adapted  to  Christian 
worship  and  work,"  and  situated  in  lower  New  York, 
"on  the  border-laud  between  the  rich  and  the  poor." 
If  his  plan  is  carried  out  the  seats  will  be  perpet- 
ually free.  Under  the  same  roof  he  proposes  to 
provide  suitable  headquarters  for  Baptist  young 
men  who  come  to  New  York  as  strangers,  and  also 
a  library  and  reading-room.  He  expects  to  begin 
this  during  1888,  as  the  centennial  anniversary  of 
his  father's  birth  occurs  Aug.  9  of  this  year. 


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JuNiE  21, 1888 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSUKE. 


13 


Lodge  Notes. 

The  Minnesota  Grand  Lodge  of  Good 
Templars  began  its  sessions  "Wednesday 
at  Minneapolis.  There  are  101  lodges  in 
the  State,  with  a  nominal  membership  of 
3,835. 

A  Calgary  dispatch  to  Winnipeg,Man- 
itoba,  says  that  there  is  no  doubt  that 
W.  J.  McGarigle,  the  Chicago  Masonic 
boodler,  has  been  at  the  Canadian  Na- 
tional Park  since  the  beginning  of  May. 

At  Louisville,  Ky.,  the  colored  Odd- 
fellows' twelve  lodges  celebrated  the  an- 
niversary of  the  establishment  of  the  or- 
ganization in  the  United  States.  They 
had  a  parade,  followed  by  a  drill  and 
addresses  at  the  Colored  State  Universi- 
ty grounds. 

The  two  days'  session  of  the  Ancient 
Order  of  Hibernians  at  Cedar  Rapids, 
Iowa,  closed  with  a  grand  ball.  Rev. 
George  W.  Pepper  of  Ashland,  Ohio,  was 
orator  of  the  day.  Short  speeches  were 
also  made  by  Father  O'Brien  of  Burling- 
ton, and  Dr.  Shuell,  of  Parnell. 

There  is  one  lodge  of  Knights  of  Py- 
thias in  this  city  which  is  largely  com- 
posed of  Spaniards;  and  nearly  every 
man  of  that  nationality  in  the  city  be- 
longs to  it.  The  ritual  is  translated  into 
Spanish  for  them,  and  as  they  are  all 
Catholics,  it  had  in  some  respects  to  be 
changed  to  conform  to  their  religious  be- 
lief. 

The  Wisconsin  Masonic  Grand  Lodge 
met  at  Milwaukee  last  week.  The  re- 
port submitted  by  the  secretary  showed 
the  total  membership  in  the  State  to  be 
13,157,  distributed  among  232  lodges. 
New  lodges  were  established  during  the 
year  at  Hurley,  the  place  made  badly 
famous  for  its  horrible  dives  of  prostitu- 
tion, and  West  Superior. 

Two  sets  of  representatives  from  Penn- 
sylvania appealed  for  admission  to  the 
Knights  of  Pythias  Supreme  Lodge  at 
Cincinnati  Wednesday,  but  neither  will 
be  admitted  uQtil  a  committee  of  seven, 
appointed  by  the  Supreme  Chancellor 
and  Vice  Chancellor,  examines  and  re- 
ports on  the  matter.  Six  thousand  lodge 
men  took  part  in  the  parade  in  the  after- 
noon. Members  of  the  order  made  fre- 
quent boasts  that  30,000  would  be  in 
line. 

The  Rainbow,  which  represents  the 
"Order  of  Chosen  Friends,"  speaking  of 
the  "Supreme  Councilor"  of  that  lodge, 
says:  "In  fraternal  matters  he  occupies 
a  front  rank,  being  a  Mason,  Sir  Knight, 
Oddfellow,  Knight  of  Honor,  Chosen 
Friend  and  a  member  of  the  Royal  Ar- 
canum, Legion  of  Honor,  and  other  ben 
eficial  societies,  in  all  of  which  he  is 
greatly  admired  and  has  rendered  his  fel- 
low members  valuable  service.  He  was 
selected  to  represent  the  fraternal  orders 
before  the  New  York  State  Legislature 
during  the  session  of  1887,  in  opposition 
to  what  was  known  as  the  'Baker  Bill,' 
and  his  address  was  conceded  to  be  of 
the  most  masterly  and  eloquent  charac- 
ter. He  has  been  three  times  elected 
Supreme  Councilor  of  the  Order  of  Cho- 
sen Friends." 


MABKBT  RBP0RT8. 

CHICAGO. 

Wheat— No.  a 81 

No.  3 67  @      70 

Winter  No  8 82 

Corn— No.  2 49  @      491^ 

OatB— No.a ^ 32>^3      7^)^ 

Rye— No.  a .58 

Branperton 9  00  11  00 

Kay— Timothy 12  00  @1.')  00 

Butter,  medlu  m  to  best 12  &      17 

Cheese 0.5  @     i.s 

Beaas 1  25  @  2  85 

Seeds— Timothy, .'.'."  2  05         2  35 

Flax 1  30         1  37 

Broomcom 02>^@      n 

PotatocB  per  bus 20    @      40 

llldeB— Green  to  dry  flint 05>^®     13 

Lumber— (Jommon 11  00    Ml 8  00 

Wool 13    @      .37 

Cattle— Choice  to  extra 5  SO    @  6  &5 

Oommon  to  good 2  10         5  55 

Hogs 4  91    (3  5  75 

Sheep 3  CO    @  4  60 

NEW  YORK. 

Flour 3  20  @  5  25 

Wheat— Winter 88  a      96 

Spring 87 

Ccrn 54  @     .56 

Oats 85  4>      39 

Kggi 16 

Butter 12  @     19 

Wool , .                09  04 

KANSAS  CITY. 

Cattle 3  00  a  5  70 

Hogs ^  .^ a  50  a  5  50 

Wun .,«.»..-^  a  00  (I  4  00 


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to  June  16  inclusive; 

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M  Cole.N  C  Tyrrell,W  Vine.B  J  Borton, 
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Pixley,  W  Patterson,  Jr.,  L  Prenlice,DF 
Pratt,  R  R  Whither,  Rev  S  D  Douglass. 


BPIKE  THEIR  QTJNS. 

A  few  dollars  expended  in  purchasing 
tracts  and  scattering  them  about  through 
the  community  will  perhaps  do  more  to 
spike  the  guns  of  noisy  secretists  than 
anything  else  that  could  be  suggested. 
Men  have  heard  the  lodges  praised  so 
often  and  so  boldly,  that  they  have  come 
to  believe  that  they  are  what  they  pro- 
fess to  be.  It  is  high  time  that  the  war  is 
carried  intoAf rica  itself.  This  is  the  work 
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would  be  glad  to  push  forward  in  every 
quarter  of  the  land.  Who  will  help  to 
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History  of  tbe  Abduction  and  Mxiraer 

;>"<  Ai'r  '\\  »  Mr>RO»N  As  prepHred  by  seven-'om 
nltlci'sor  cltltens,  appointed  to  ascertain  the  fate 
3f  Morgan.  This  book  contains  Indlsput.tbie,  leg*, 
.'vldi'uco  that  Freemasons  abducted  and  mur>lerc<» 
Wni.  M  ir^an,  for  no  other  offense  than  the  reveU 
lion  of  Masonry.  It  contains  the  sworn  testimony 
of  over  twenty  persons.  Including  Morgan's  wife 
and  no  candid  person,  after  reading  this  tiook,  caa 
4oulil  that  many  of  the  moil  respectable  Freema- 
sons In  the  Empire  State  were  concerned  In  tblt 
-rime.     tS  ceats  cMta:  per  dos«a,  ^.09. 

Hon.  Thurlow  Weed  on  the  nior|r«n  Ab- 

DicTiov.  Tills  Is  tbe  legally  attested  statement  of 
tills  eiiiinent  CbrlsMiin  Journalist  and  statesinrn  con- 
cerning tbe  unlawful  selAure  and  confinement  of 
Cnpl.  Morgan  In  Canandalgiia  J»ll.hl.'<  removal  toFort 
Niagara  xnil  subsequent  drowning  In  Lake  Ontario, 
the  discovery  of  the  boily  ai  tlnk  Orchard  Creek  and 
the  two  Inquests  thereon.  Mr.  Weed  testifies  from 
bis  own  pernoiml  knowledge  of  tbese  thrlMlngevenls. 
This  pninpblet  nl so  contains  an  entrrRvIng  i^f  the  mon- 
ument Hiul  Htjiin,'  erected  to  tbe  meuiorv  of  the  mar- 
tyred Morgan  at  Hntavla.  N.  V.,ln  Sepieniber.l-SQ.for 
which  occasion  Mr.  Weed's  statement  was  originally 
prepared.    &  cents  each;  pcrdoxen.  to  cents. 

UAtional  Chriitian  AssoolAtlon. 


JfVHEATON  COUtGE  UBRARY 
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1« 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSUBE. 


JuNB  21, 1888 


Home  and  Health. 


COMMON  SENSB  AND   COHIION  8LBEP. 

Excitement,  anxiety,  and  worry, which 
have  their  seat  in  the  brain,  interfere  with 
the  functions  of  the  stomach,  and  in  like 
manner  anything  that  unduly  taxes  the 
power  of  or  irritates  the  stomach,  disor- 
ders the  circulation  and  nutrition  of  the 
brain.  The  sleeplessness  often  complain- 
ed of  by  gouty  persons  is  due  to  the  pois- 
onous effect  of  the  morbid  material  upon 
the  nervous  system.  Excessive  smoking, 
too  much  alcohol,  tea  or  coffee  often  re- 
sorted to  by  over-worked  persons,  are 
frequent  causes  of  sleeplessness.  In  all 
these  cases  the  cause  can  be  removed, 
while  the  effect  may  be  counteracted  by 
appropriate  treatment.  Nothing  is  more 
mischievous,  however,  than  to  continue 
the  habits  and  to  have  recourse  to  drugs 
to  combat  the  effects.  A  due  amount  of 
exercise  tends  to  induce  normal  sleep, 
and  such  exercise  need  not  be  of  a  vio- 
lent character.  A  walk  of  two  or  three 
miles  daily  is  sufficient,  and  is,  perhaps, 
as  much  &e  a  busy  man  can  find  time  for. 
A  ride  on  horseback,  the  Palmerston  cure 
for  gout,i8  probably  the  best  form  of  ex- 
ercise for  those  whose  minds  are  con- 
stantly hard  at  work.  It  has  been  well 
said  that  a  man  must  come  out  of  himself 
when  in  the  saddle;  he  is  forced  to  attend 
to  his  horse  and  notice  the  objects  he 
meets.  Walking  may  be  a  mere  auto- 
matic process,  and  afford  little,  if  any, 
relief  to  the  mind,  and  carriage  exercise 
may  be  practically  valueless  if  the  mind 
is  not  diverted  from  what  has  previously 
occupied  it. — FortnigJitly  Renew. 

baby's  exercise. 

Activity  should  never  be  stimulated  in 
babies.  As  soon  as  they  have  strength 
to  exercise  it  will  manifest  itself.  The 
only  thing  to  be  done  is  not  to  trammel 
their  body  in  any  way,  either  by  dress  or 
by  constant  holding,  and  then  give  them 
a  little  "wholesome  neglect  "  For  four 
or  five  months  the  body  should  not  be 
carried  in  a  sitting  position,  as  the  drop- 
ping of  the  head  to  one  side  impedes 
breathing,  and  has  caused  death.  A  fond 
anxiety  to  see  the  baby  take  its  first  step 
has  caused  many  deformities  of  limbs. 
Put  the  child  upon  a  bed  in  winter,  on 
the  floor  in  summer,  or  even  on  the  dry 
grass,  and  let  it  discover  its  own  pow- 
ers. 

A  child  should  never  be  lifted  by  the 
arms,  either  by  one  or  both.  Put  the 
hands  under  the  child's  arms  upon  its 
side  and  you  can  lift  it  without  injury. 
Neither  should  a  child  be  pulled  up  by 
the  wrists,  though  it  may  be  encouraged 
to  grasp  your  fingers  with  its  hands  and 
pull  itself  up.  "This  tends  to  give  it  a 
good  grip  and  may  prevent  future  falls . 
The  active  child  needs  watching,  but  let 
the  surveillance  be  silent;  nervous  out- 
cries of  alarm  often  precipitate  the  very 
evil  dreaded. 

Perambulators  should  be  used  with 
care.  Children  too  joung  to  hold  the 
head  erect  should  always  be  placed  in 
them  in  a  recumbent  position,  with  the 
eyes  sheltered  from  the  direct  rays  of  the 
sun.  A  better  plan  is  for  the  nurse  to 
carry  them  in  arms,  and  the  continental 
plan  of  carrying  on  a  cushion  is  to  be 
commended.  The  jolting,  by  pushing 
across  gutters  or  down  steps,is  a  cruelty. 
Tossing,  jolting,  tickling,  trotting,  and 
similar  modes  of  quieting  or  stimulating 
to  exertion  are  unwise.  Let  the  child 
creep  before  it  walks,  and  lie  quiet  until 
it  manifests  a  desire  to  exercise.  Let  it 
unfold  physically  after  Qod's  own  plan, 
in  sunlight,  pure  air,  and  restfuUy. — 
Mary  A.  Allen,  M.  D-,  in  Congregation- 
alitt. 

LET   THE   BOYS   HELP. 

Why  is  it  that  the  boys  are  allowed  to 
sit  around  the  house  doing  nothing, while 
their  overworked  mother  is  struggling 
against  nature  and  fate  to  do  about  half 
the  work  waiting  for  her  hands?  Only 
the  other  day  we  saw  three  large  able- 
bodied  boys  lounging  about  the  house, 
not  knowing  what  to  do  with  themselves, 
while  their  mother,  tired  and  pale,  was 
trying  to  do  all  the  work  for  a  large  fam- 
ily and  company  alone.  Not  a  boy's 
work  to  help  about  the  house?  Why 
not?  Is  there  anything  about  washing 
dishes  that  will  injure  him,  or  which  he 
cannot  do  well?  or  about  making  bed8,or 
sweeping  or  setting  the  table, or  washing, 
or  ironing,  or  cooking  a  plain  meal  of 
victuals?  On  the  contrary, there  is  much 
to  benefit  him  in  such  work.the  moat  im- 


portant of  which  is  the  idea  that  it  isn't 
manly  to  let  the  "weaker  vessel"  (?)  carry 
all  the  burdens,  when  it  is  possible  for 
strong  young  hands  to  help.  Most  boys 
would  gladly  help  in  the  house  if  they 
were  asked  to  do  so,  and  were  taught  how 
to  do  the  work  properly.  Many  a  smart 
boy  wants  to  help  his  tired  mother,  but 
doesn't  know  how,  beyond  bringing  in 
the  wood  and  water,  and  shoveling  a 
path  through  the  snow.  That  done  she 
tells  him  to  go  and  play,  while  she  plods 
wearily  on.  Not  a  boy's  work!  It  is  a 
positive  harm  to  a  boy's  moral  character 
to  allow  him  to  think  it  right  to  be  idle, 
while  his  mother  is  staggering  under  her 
burdens.  Let  the  boys  help,  and  those 
who  cannot  get  help  "for  love  or  money," 
as  they  often  write  us,  will  see  their  trou- 
bles disappear. — Housekeeper. 

There  is  nothing  that  so  promptly  cuts 
short  a  congestion  of  the  lungs,  sore 
throat  or  rheumatism  as  hot  water  when 
applied  promptly  and  thoroughly.  Tepid 
water  acts  promptly  as  an  emetic,  and 
hot  water  taken  freely  half  an  hour  be- 
fore bedtime  is  the  best  cathartic  possi- 
ble in  the  case  of  constipation,  while  it 
has  a  most  soothing  effect  upon  the  stom- 
ach and  bowels.  This  treatment  contin- 
ued a  few  months  with  proper  attention 
to  diet,  will  cure  any  curable  case  cf  dys- 
pepsia. Headache  almost  always  yields 
to  the  simultaneous  application  of  hot 
water  to  the  feet  and  the  back  of  the 
neck. — Hall's  Journal  of  Health, 


Tell  the  good  news  to  the  suffering — 

At  last  is  a  remedy  found. 
Which  might  have  saved,  had  they  known 
it, 

Many  who're  under  the  ground. 
Tell  of  the  "Favorite  Prescription," 

Bid  hopeless  women  be  glad; 
Bear  the  good  news  to  poor  creatures, 

Heart  sick,  discouraged  and  sad. 

"Female  diseases,"  so  terrible  in  their 
effects,  and  so  prevalent  among  all  class- 
es, can  be  cured  by  the  use  of  Dr.  Pierce's 
Favorite  Prescription. 


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77/ A'  BROKEN  SEAL, 

Or  Pc-sonal  Reminiscences  of  the  AbdacDbu 
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how  liiid  men  control  llic  Rood  npn  In  the- loiiKe  Hmi 
protect  their  own  membera  when  Rulltj  of  irreKt 
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Long-Standin 

Blood  Diseases  are  cured  by 
the  persevering  use  of  Ayer's 
Sarsaparilla. 

Tliis  uictlicine  is  an  Allerative,  and 
causes  a  radical  change  in  tlm  system. 
Tlie  process,  in  some  cases,  may  not  bo 
quite  so  rapid  as  in  otlievs  ;  but,  with 
persistence,  the  result  is  certain. 
Read  tliese  teslimonials  :  — 

"  For  two  years  I  sulVered  from  a  se- 
vere paiu  in  my  ri>;lit  side,  and  had 
otlier  troubles  caused  l)y  a  torpid  liver 
and  dyspei)sia.  After  Kivin;^  several 
medicines  a  fair  trial  witlioiit  a  cure,  I 
began  to  talte  Ayer's  Sarsaparilla.  I 
was  greatly  benefited  by  tlie  first  bottle, 
and  after  talcing  five  l)ottle3  I  was  com- 
pletely cured."  —  Joim  W.  Benson,  70 
Lawrence  st.,  Lowell,  Jlass. 

Last  May  a  large  carl)uncle  broke  out 
on  my  arm.  Tlie  usual  remedies  hail  no 
eflfect  and  I  was  confined  to  vay  bed  for 
eight  weeks.  A  friend  induced  me  to  try 
Ayer's  Sarsaparilla.  Less  tlian  tliree 
bottles  healed  the  sore.  In  all  my  expe- 
rience with  medicine,  I  never  saw  mora 

Wonderful  Results. 

Another  marked  effect  of  the  use  of  this 
medicine  was  the  strengthening  of  my 
sight."  — Mrs.  Carrie  Adams,  Holly 
Springs,  Texas. 

"  I  had  a  dry  scaly  luimor  for  years, 
and  sulfered  terribly  ;  and,  as  my  broth- 
er and  sister  were  similarly  afflicted,  I 
I^resume  the  malady  is  hereditary.  Last 
winter,  Dr.  Tyron,  (of  Fenuxiulina, 
Fla.,)  recommended  me  to  take  Ayer's 
Sarsaparilla,  and  routiniie  it  for  a  year. 
For  five  months  I  took  it  daily.  I  have 
not  had  a  blemish  upon  my  body  for  the 
last  three  montlis."  — T.  'E.  Wiley,  1-16 
Chambers  St.,  New  York  City. 

"  Last  fall  and  winter  I  was  troubled 
with  a  dull,  liea\-y  pain  in  my  side.  I 
did  not  notice  it  much  at  first,  but  it 
gradually  grew  worse  until  it  became 
almost  unbearable.  During  the  latter 
jiart  of  this  time,  disorders  of  tlie  stom- 
ach and  liver  increased  my  troubles.  I 
began  taking  Ayer's  Sarsaparilla,  and, 
after  faitlifully  continuing  the  use  of 
this  medicine  for  some  months,  the  pain 
disappeared  and  I  was  ^completely 
cured." — Mrs.  Augusta  A.  Furbush, 
Haverhill,  Mass. 

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Faem  Notes. 

Rest  Cows  for  Milk  Daibyino  — The 
cows  most  desirable  for  this  industry  are 
large-bodied  animals,  that  give  an  abun- 
dant yield  of  fairly  good  milk,  contain- 
ing sufficient  solid  matter  to  mark  a  spe- 
cific gravity  of  1 .030  on  the  scale  of  the 
lactometer.  It  will  not  pay  in  this  busi- 
ness to  rear  calves,  or  to  have  dry  cows 
feeding  three  months  without  profit.  A 
constant  succession  of  fresh  cows  must 
be  kept  up  by  purchase,  and  the  failing 
cows  must  be  disposed  of  to  the  butchers. 
It  would  be  more  profitable  to  give  them 
away  than  to  keep  them  to  rear  calves. 
Hence  costly  pure  bred  cows  cannot  be 
kept,unless  a  profit  can  be  made  of  the 
calves  sufficient  to  pay  for  the  expenses 
of  carrying  the  cows  through  their  dry 
time.  The  cows  most  desired  for  this 
business  are  the  half-bred  Shorthorns,  or 
grade  Holstein  Friesians.  Many  breed- 
ers of  fine  pure-bred  Holsteins, which  are 
large  milkers,  and  whose  milk  is  excel- 
lent for  this  purpose,  devote  their  herds 
to  the  production  of  milk  for  sale,  finding 
a  good  demand  for  the  calves,  which  sell 
at  prices  that  repay  the  cost  of  rearing 
them.  Some  Ayrshire  breeders  do  the 
same  with  equal  profit.  But,  as  a  rule, 
it  is  best  to  attend  to  one  thing  at  a  time 
in  business,  and  the  milk  dairyman  will 
find  the  best  cows  for  his  use  to  be  the 
grade  Shorthorns,  Holsteins  or  Ayrshires. 
— Amei'ican  A  gricuUurist, 

Kill  the  Roosters  — For  various 
reasons  assigned,  an  authority  advises 
poultry-keepers  to  kill  their  roosters. 
First,  you  are  not  apt  to  have  little 
chicks  running  about  late  in  the  season; 
second,  the  old  roosters  are  no  longer 
needed,  as  next  season  you  should  get 
young  roosters  from  another  flock,  and 
the  old  ones  are  just  eating  food  for  no 
use  at  all,besides  being  in  the  way  of  the 
other  fowls;  last,  but  not  least  by  any 
means,  your  eggs  packed  for  winter  mar- 
ket will  keep  much  better  if  no  roosters 
are  allowed  to  run  with  the  hens.  Clean 
out  your  old  roosters  then  and  try  the  ex- 
periment. 

Painting  Out-buildings. — A  rural 
Pennsylvanian  tells  his  brother  farmers 
who  are  about  painting  out-buildings 
that  the  application  of  a  coat  of  erode 
petroleum  will  lessen  the  amount  of 
paint  required  and  cause  the  wood  to  last 
longer.  A  wash  which  he  has  found 
very  satisfactory  for  outside  work  is 
made  by  slaking  clean,fresh  lime,  mixing 
it  with  water,  and  adding  to  each  peck 
of  lime  half  a  pound  of  salt  and  a  pound 
of  sulphate  of  zinc.  This  wash  may  be 
colored  to  any  desirable  shades.  For 
cream-color,  he  adds  yellow  ochre;  for 
gray,  lamp  black,  dissolved  in  vinegar. 

How  TO  Draw  a  Log. — Here  is  a  bit 
of  practical  knowledge  which  may  be 
utilized  in  both  winter  and  summer. 
Some  one  who  apparently  knows  from 
experience  whereof  he  affirms,  declares 
that,  although  at  first  blush  it  seems  like 
taking  hold  of  the  wrong  end  to  drag  a 
log  by  the  top,  even  a  smoothly  trimmed 
one,  a  little  consideration  shows  that  the 
log,  being  in  a  degree  conical  or  wedge- 
shaped,  must  go  easier  with  the  small 
end  foremost.  Any  one  ought  to  see  this 
at  once  if  attempting  to  propel  a  sharp- 
ened lead  pencil  along  a  sandy  or  dusty 
surface. 

Currants.  —  Thousands  of  farmers 
either  buy  currants  or  dispense  with  that 
healthiest  of  luxuries,  currant  jelly. 
Properly  cultivated  currant  bushes  grow 
so  luxuriantly  and  produce  such  a  mass 
of  large  leaves  that  it  is  an  easy  matter  to 
prevent  the  currant  caterpillars  from  do- 
ing any  serious  damage.  The  true  rem- 
edy is  powdered  white  hellebore,  to  be 
had  from  druggists. 

On  about  20,000  bushes  last  year  we 
used  forty  pounds  of  hellebore.  This  is 
at  the  rate  of  about  an  ounce  to  thirty- 
two  bushes.  Every  bush  had  a  little  hel 
lebore.but  if  there  was  no  signs  of  worms 
only  the  slightest  shake  of  the  box  was 
given  in  passing.  Some  of  the  bushes 
where  the  caterpillars  had  commenced 
their  work  of  destructioa  were  dusted  all 
over.  This  takes  more  time  and  more 
hellebore,  but  the  cost  is  nothing  as  com- 
pared with  the  benefit.  For  dusting  on 
the  hellebore  we  use  an  old  baking  pow 
der  tin  box.  Punch  holes  in  the  top  large 
enough  to  let  the  powder  come  through 
freely — say  about  the  size  of  a  pin's 
head.  One  of  our  neighbors  who  has 
one  thousand  bushes  mixes  two  pounds 
of  fiour  with  a  pound  of  hellebore,  and 


he  kept  his  bushes  last  year  free  from 
caterpillars  with  less  than  a  pound  of  hel 
lebore.  It  is  better  to  dust  the  bushes 
on  a  still  morning  while  the  dew  is  on 
the  leaves.  But  the  point  of  greatest  im- 
portance is  to  dust  the  bushes  the  first 
moment  there  are  any  signs  of  the  worms. 
And  the  next  thing  is  to  keep  a  close 
watch,  and  if  any  worms  have  escaped 
or  new  ones  hatched  out,  go  over  the 
bushes  again,  and  stick  to  it  till  they  are 
absolutely  free  from  the  pest. — Amer. 
Agri. 


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221  West  lIsdlsoD  Street.  Chicago,  III 


Baccalaureate  Sermon, 

BT  FRS8.  J.  BLANCHARD, 

Is  the  rdigioyu,  as  the  Washington  speech  was 
the  pdUtieaL,  basis  of  the  anti-secret  reform. 
Several  hundred,  in  pamphlet,  can  be  had  at 
two  cents  [one  postage  stamp]  each,  or  ten  for 
ten  cents  in  stamps.  Please  order  soon,  fo< 
Colleges,  Samlnarlet.  and  High  Schools. 
National  Christian  Association, 
221  W.  Madison  St,  Chicago 

FKEEMASONEY 

^T  .A.  C3-L.-A.lSrOE, 

BY 

Pasit   Maater  of  Keystone  Lodg^e, 

No.  630,  Chicairo. 

Illoatrates  avary  aiini,  grip  and  ceremony  of  the 
IjOitf  S^  ttrnm  br^f  awUijatloo  of  eacb.  Thy 
work  Khoula  n»  .-!**  ■■<  )!»■  laaws  all  oxer  It) 
jouiitry.  It  U  HO  chmp  that  ic  o«u  tow  ummI  m. 
iracU.  and  money  tbuH  pxpended  will  brlM  a  Ixtuu- 
tUul  liarveat.  SJ  page*.  Price,  poatpaK  >  oenta. 
Per  lUi.  tS.«X.    Address, 

National  Christian    Atsodat'.iKJ^ 

«ai  W«at  MaOl—  S*.t  CM——.  Ulk 


16 


a?SE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOStliaBJ. 


JuNi  ^1, 1888 


1 


NFWS  OF  The  week 

■WASHINGTON. 

General  Sheridan  was  last  week  still  on 
the  mend.  Those  about  the  sick-room 
are  greatly  encouraged  at  the  General's 
favorable  symptoms.  He  slept  nearly 
all  Thursday  afternaon,  and  the  doctors 
thought  there  was  a  decided  improve- 
ment. 

Indian  Commissioner  Atkins  has  ten- 
dered his  resignation,  to  take  effect  at  the 
pleasure  of  the  President,  and  has  left 
Washington  for  his  home  at  Paris, Tenn., 
to  enter  upon  an  active  canvass  for  elec- 
tion to  the  United  States  Senate. 

Congressman  Mason  of  Illinois  created 
quite  a  stir  in  the  House  by  bringing  a 
'•Republican  bandana"to  the  front.  Con- 
gressman Spinola  had  a  bandana  flutter- 
ing from  his  desk  in  the  front  row.  Ma- 
son observing  this  quietly  attached  a 
beautiful  United  States  flig  of  the  finest 
silk  to  a  desk  on  ths  Republican  side, 
Baying  that  "this  is  a  good  enough  ban- 
dana for  Rspublicans."  The  incident 
created  great  applause  in  the  House  and 
galleries. 

In  the  list  of  the  names  of  the  men 
confirmed  by  the  Senate  Thursday  that 
of  Melville  W.  Puller  for  Chief  Justice  is 
conspicuously  absent. 

CHICAGO. 

The  chief  business  in  Chicago  this  week 
and  last  is  politics. 

Another  victiili  of  theHaymarket  riot. 
May  4,  1836,  died  Thursday.  On  that 
memorable  night  Officer  Timothy  SuUi- 
van.of  the  West  Lake  Street  Police  Sta- 
tion, was  one  of  the  foremost  policemen 
to  advance  on  the  Anarchist  mob.  Not 
until  the  close  of  the  fusillade  did  he 
fall .  Bis  right  thigh  was  pierced  by  a 
bullet  and  he  sank  to  the  ground  near 
the  corner  of  Randolph  and  Desplaines. 
Since  his  injury  he  has  been  hardly  able 
to  get  about,  and  when  blood  poisoning 
set  in  he  was  compelled  to  take  to  his 
bed,  and  his  life  has  been  gradually 
sapped  away. 

A  Woman's  League  of  which  Miss  F. 
E.  Willard  has  been  made  president  has 
been  organized  for  the  purpose  of  com- 
bining the  labors  of  all  the  women's  soci- 
eties in  the  city. 

The  National  Christian  Scientist  Asso- 
ciation held  its  annual  convention  last 
week  at  the  First  M.  E.  church.  About 
three  hundred  delegates  were  present, 
representing  every  State  in  the  Union. 
Mrs.  M.  B.  Q.  Eddy  of  Boston  was  chos- 
en president.  She  also  delivered  an  ad- 
dress, Id  which  she  outlined  the  aims  of 
the  Christan  Soientists. 

COUNTRY. 

The  mother  of  General  P.  H.  Sheridan 
died  Tuesday  afternoon  in  her  home  at 
Somerset,  Ohio,  aged  87  years  and  two 
months. 

The  venerable  poet  Walt  Whitman  had 
a  relapse  last  Wednesday  and  continued 
to  grow  weak  all  day.  His  family  were 
forced  to  admit  that  he  is  in  a  dying  con- 
dition. Professor  W.  P.  Osier,  of  the 
University  of  Pennsylvania,  has  been 
summoned  to  Whitman's  bedside. 

The  thermometer  registered  102  in  the 
shade  at  Nebraska  City.Neb,  Wednesday, 
and  there  were  several  cases  of  sunstroke, 
though  none  were  fatal. 

The  monument  erected  on  the  spot  at 
Chancellorsville  where  Stonewall  Jack- 
son ra-eived  his  death  wound  was  dedi- 
cated Thursday,  speeches  being  made  by 
Governor  Fitzhugh  Lse  and  the  Hon. 
John  W.  Daniel. 

The  trustees  of  the  Wall  Street  Meth- 
odist church,  JeHersonviile,  Ind  ,  Wed- 
nesday sued  the  trustees  of  Walnut  Ridge 
Cemetery  for  $20,000,  alleging  that  the 
cemetery  had  been  given  to  the  church, 
and  that  the  trustees,  who  are  all  members 
of  the  church,  had  converted  the  profits 
to  their  own  use. 

John  J.  Eichenlaub  was  convicted  in 
Columbus,  O.,  Wednesday,  for  violating 
the  Sunday  law  in  giving  a  theatrical 
performance.  He  pleaded  guilty.  Judge 
Pugh  assessed  a  fine  of  150  and  thirty 
days  in  jail,  the  latter  part  of  the  sen- 
tence to  remain  suspended.  In  the  event 
of  further  violations  Eichenlaub  can  be 
placed  in  jail  without  further  trial. 

At  Youngstown,  Ohio,  Monday  night, 
Fred  Workman,  an  anarchist, whose  wife 
sued  for  divorce  last  week  on  the  ground 
of  cruelty,  llavorcd  his  last  glass  of  beer 


with  strychnine,  bade  his  companions 
farewell  and  drank  the  poison,  dying 
Tuesday  morning. 

The  militia  of  the  Chickasaw  Nation 
are  assembled  at  Ardmore,  preparing  to 
march  upon  the  stockmen,  who,  500 
strong,  are  resisting  the  payment  of  the 
tax  on  cattle.  The  cattle  owners  are 
armed  with  Winchesters.  The  govern- 
ment troops  at  Fort  Reno  are  also  pre- 
paring to  take  the  field,  and  fears  are 
expressed  that  this  is  the  first  outbreak 
of  a  civil  war. 

Fire  in  a  tenement  house  at  Second 
street  and  Second  avenue,  New  York, 
early  Wednesday  morning,resultedinthe 
death  of  one  man  and  the  burning  or 
wounding  of  a  dozan  persons. 

A  severe  storm  Wednesday  night  blew 
down  houses  in  Big  Bend,  Wand  and 
Barnesville  and  other  towns  of  Northern 
Minnesota,  and  injured  several  persons. 
The  damage  was  very  great. 

H.  M.  Sloan,  a  workman  in  the  rolling 
mill  at  Joliet,  met  with  a  horrible  death 
Thursday  a  red  hot  steel  rail  running 
from  the  rolls  to  the  saws  passing  entire  - 
ly  through  his  body.  The  old  man  could 
not  see  well,  and  attempted  to  pass  in 
front  of  the  rail  as  it  came  along  the 
rolls. 

For  the  purpose  of  testing  the  new  law 
ordering  the  closing  of  saloons  on  legal 
holidays,  the  saloon-seepers  at  Ishpem- 
ing,  Mich.,  decided  Monday  to  keep 
their  places  open  on  the  Fourth  of  July. 

A  barrel  of  fish,  in  which  was  a  dyna- 
mite bomb,  was  a  part  of  the  cargo  in  the 
hold  of  the  steamer  City  of  Cleveland  on 
her  trip  from  Cleveland  last  Wednesday. 
The  barrel  was  one  of  a  number  of  oth- 
ers consigned  by  John  Kingeborough,  a 
wholesale  fish  dealer  at  Cleveland  to 
Ryan  &  Bourke  of  Detroit.  The  bomb 
was  discovered  when  the  barrel  was  open- 
ed the  following  day,  and  was  thrown 
into  the  river.  From  the  appearance  of 
the  barrel  it  had  been  opened  and  the 
bomb  placed  in  it  after  the  barrel  had  left 
the  warehouse  in  Cleveland. 

Myriads  of  grasshoppers  have  appear- 
ed in  many  parts  of  southern  Indiana, 
and  are  devouring  all  vegetation  as  they 
go.  They  destroy  meadows  first,  then 
the  foliage  of  the  trees,  and  next  corn, 
oats  and  garden  vegetables.  Thousands 
of  acres  of  meadows  have  been  devasta- 
ted by  them. 

During  a  storm  Tuesday  lightning 
struck  the  house  of  Berlet  Gunderaon, 
living  four  miles  south  of  Clarkfisld, 
Minn.,  and  killed  two  children  and  se- 
verely shocked  the  remainder  of  the  fam- 
ily. 

During  a  severe  wind  storm  at  Odell, 
111.,  June  13,  Shelby's  circus,  which  was 
giving  an  exhibition,  was  blown  down, 
and  fifteen  people  out  of  the  large  crowd 
at  the  afternoon  performance  were  in- 
jured, one  probably  fatally. 

A  jury  in  the  Mcuonough  county  (111.) 
court  convicted  John  Sanders,  aged  sev- 
enty-five years,  of  receiving  a  bribe  for 
voting.  A  Macomb  policeman  testified 
to  paying  him  $2  for  voting  the  Repub- 
lican ticket  this  spring.  Several  cases  of 
a  similar  nature  are  pending. 

A  terrible  accident  occurred  at  Menom 
inee.  Wis.,  to  day  which  has  already  re- 
sulted in  the  death  of  three  men,  while  a 
fourth  is  expected  to  die  at  any  moment, 
three  others  being  badly  injured.  The 
men  were  all  Norwegians  and  were  em- 
ployed in  the  brickyard  there.  They 
were  at  work  digging  clay  away  from  the 
base  of  a  high  bank  when,  at  10  o'clock, 
a  huge  mass  of  earth,  loosened  by  the 
heavy  rains  of  the  past  few  days,  fell 
upon  them,  crushing  them  and  complete- 
ly burying  them  from  sight. 

The  west-bound  express  train  on  ihe 
Northern  Pacific  railroad  was  stopped  be- 
tween Big  Horn  and  Myers  Station  Satur- 
day night  by  a  danger  signal  exhibited 
at  a  dangerous  place  on  the  road  by  eight 
masked  robbers.  The  thieves  entered  the 
express  car  and  took  a  package  contain- 
ing $400.  They  then  went  through  the 
coaches  and  rifled  the  male  passengers. 
The  latter  had  had  time  enough  to  con- 
ceal much  of  their  property  and  their 
plunderers  got  only  about  $600.  The 
coaches  were  all  badly  riddled  with  bul 
lets,  but  no  one  was  seriously  hurt. 

FOBBieN. 

DeLesseps  will  cut  down  to  the  sea 
level  through  the  Culebra  Mountains  in 
the  construction  of  the  Panama  Canal  by 
means  of  ten  iron  locks.  The  canal  is  to 


be  thirty-seven  miles  long,  of  which  nine 
on  the  Atlantic  side  and  three  on  the 
Pacific  side  are  completed.  The  canal's 
depth  will  be  twenty-five  feet,  eventually 
to  be  deepened  to  accommodate  the  larg- 
est steamers.  The  mortality  among  the 
employes  is  not  so  great  as  formerly. 

A  dispatch  from  Lisbon  to  the  Inde- 
pendance  Beige  states  that  the  Arabs  at 
Kinshassa,  a  town  in  the  Congo  Free 
State,  say  that  Stanley  was  wounded  in  a 
fight  with  the  natives,  and  that  after  the 
fight  half  of  his  escort  deserted  him.  The 
Arabs  also  say  that  Tippoo  Tip  has  not 
sent  the  promised  convoy  to  Stanley. 

Forest  fires  destroyed  the  gold  mining 
village  of  East  Rawdon,  Hunts  county, 
Nova  Scotia, Wednesday.  Twenty  dwell- 
ings and  stores,  together  with  a  mill 
crusher  and  hoisting  gear,  were  destroyed. 
Forest  fires  have  done  enormous  damage 
in  Newfoundland.  At  Hall's  Bay  a 
southwest  gale  drove  the  flames  with 
tremendous  fury.  Mothers,  with  babes 
pressed  to  their  bosoms  and  half  naked 
children  clinging  to  their  clothes,  fought 
their  way  through  blinding  smoke  and 
scorching  heat.  Mrs.  Manning  and  two 
children  were  burned  to  death.  John 
Driscoll  saved  part  of  his  furniture  but 
was  burned  to  death  in  his  efEorts  to  save 
an  old  trunk.  The  fire  has  left  200  peo- 
ple homeless  and  destitute. 

The  (^terman  Emperor  Frederick  died 
soon  after  11  o'clock  Friday  morning. 
Toward  midnight  on  Wednesday  the 
Emperor  became  worse.  The  Empress 
was  informed  of  the  change,  and  she  did 
not  leave  her  husband's  bedside.  Drs. 
Mackenzie,  Wegner  and  Hovell  exhaust- 
ed their  skill  in  trying  to  relieve  the  pa- 
tient, but  in  spite  of  all  their  'efforts  his 
strength  rapidly  diminished.  The  Em- 
peror became  slightly  more  animated 
Thursday  noon  and  asked  to  see  his 
daughter  Sophia,  it  being  her  18  ;h  birth- 
day. Daring  the  night  the  Emperor  re- 
mained in  a  kind  of  stupor  and  failed 
until  death  came  quietly.  The  funeral 
occurred  on  Monday. 


DAVENPORT  BUSINESS  COLLEGE 

Complete   In   all  departments.      Address   J.   C. 
DUNCAN,  Ltavenporl,  loiva. 


FLY   KILLER. 

Dutcher's  Is  the  only  reliable,  Powerful  Killer. 
Certain  death.  Quick  work.  Commence  early,  kill 
off  tbe  young,  prevent  reproduction,  and  enjoy  calm 
repose. 

TrriT?  Q  A  T  T7  -^T  wheaton,  neaPw  col- 
Xl/tV  O-OLJ-iJCi  lege,  a  good  etgnt-room,  two- 
story  house,  200-foot  lot,  oarn,  and  one  acre.  Price 
»2.500.  Would  take  part  cash  and  part  other  clear 
property.  Address  A.  B.  COX,  care  Cynosure  Office, 
Chicago,  111. 


IJlonTHLY  Sickness. 

^rcat     claqgzr  ^ii\  /oe   av^ojcle^. 
*£»26i  .for  iaocK'M e<JAC4qt  h^ome.nX 


aUCru^^ists. 


ATT I^A-NTA  CiA. 


MARVELOUS 

MEMORY 

DISCOVERY. 

Wholly  unlike  artificial  gyBtems. 

Cure  of  luiud  wandering. 

Any  book  learned  in  one  reading. 

Clasflctiof  1087  at  Baltimore,  1005  at  Detroit, 
1500  at  Phllndelplila,  1113  at  WnsliliiRton, 
121«i  nt  HoKton,  large  classes  of  Columbia  Law 
Btudcnis.  at  Yali',  WellCHlry.  Obcrlln.  University  of 
I'enii  MUhlgiin  l)'nlvcr»lty, Clmulauqua,  &c.  Ac.  Kn- 
(l(irsrd  by  IJicnAKi)  I'bootok,  the  Scientist,  lions. W. 
W.  AaTOK,.Jiii)Aii  P.  Bkn.iamin.  .Judge  Oidson,  Dr. 
liitowN,  IS.  H.  Cook,  Principal  N.  Y.  State  Normal 
College,  &c.  The  system  Is  perfectly  taught  by  cor- 
reBpcmrtcncc.    I'rospectus  post  frbk  from 

PUOF.  LOI8ETTE,  237  Fifth  Avenue,  Now  York 


KNIGHT  TEMPLARISM  ILLUS- 
TRATED. 

A  full  Illustrated  ritual  of  the  six  degrees  of  the 
Cnuiull  and  eoiniimnilery,  comprising  the  dcgreos  of 
Hoyiil  Muster,  Select  Muster,  Suprr-Kxccllent  Muster 
Knight  of  the  Ked  Cross,  Knight  Templarnnd  iinlght 
of  Malta.  A  book  of  ail  pages.  In  cloth,»1.00;  »8W 
ferdazcD.    Paper  covers,  hOc;  li.00  yer  doien 

TarElfked  la  any  aasntltlei  f. 


POWDER 

Absolutely  Pure. 

This  powder  never  varies.  A  marvel  of  purity, 
strength  and  wholesomeness.  More  economical  than 
the  ordinary  kinds,  and  cannot  he  sold  In  competi- 
tion with  the  multitude  of  low  test,  short  weight, 
alum  or  phosphate  powders.  Sold  onlyln  cane. 
BoTAL  Bakins  PowdbB  CO.,  106  Wall-gt.,  N.  Y 

T7r%"D  C  A  1  "C  House  and  Lot  In  Wheaton 
JVyXV  OaJUu.  111.  Any  one  wishing  to  pur- 
chase should  write  to  W.  I.  PHILLIPS,  office  of 
"Christian  Cynosure,"  Chicago,  III. 

WHEATON  COLLEGE. 


BUSINESS  EDUCATION,  MUSIC  AND  AKT 
FCIil.  OOIiI<EG£  COURSES. 

Address  C.  A.  BLANCSARD,  Fres. 

Minnesota  Leads  the  World 

.  With  her  stock,  dairy  and  grain  products. 
2,000,000  acres  fine  timber,  farming  and  gr.azing 
lands,  adjacent  to  railroad,  {or  sale  cheap  on 
easy  terms.  For  maps,  prices,  rates,  etc.. 
address,  J.  Bookwalter,  Land  Commissionejijoi 
G.  H.  Warren,  General*  ■  stiwui*^ 
Passenger  Agent,  St.  Bfl  ^^'Jlli^IT^L 
Paul    Minn.  Rl  AN  8TD  Bi 

Ask  for  Book  H.  j|Vg       bailway.      .1 

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Snare  and  Ba.ss  IDrums,  Fifes,  Pico 
los.  Clarinets,  Cymbals  aiicl  all  In 
etruments  pertaining  to  Braes 
Bands  and  Drum  Corps. 


Send  for  Illustrated  Catalogue. 
Jolin  F*.  Stratton, 

No.  49  Maiden  Lane,  New  York 

Dr.  Owen's  Portable  Battery 

FOR  MAN  AND  WOMAN. 

Contains  10  degrees 
of  Btiengtii.  Current 
can  bo  Increased,  do- 
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detached  at  will  and 
applied  to  any  part 
of  body  or  liniba  by 
whole  family.  Cures 
Oeneriil,  Nerv- 
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Bditorial  : 
Notes  and  CommentB 

Politics 

"Heathen  Pope  Bob" 

Personal  Mention 

Contributions: 

The  Guns  In  the  Park  (po- 
etry)  

The  Lodge  Oath  Should 
be  Broken 

The  Dlearnianient  of  Na- 
tions  

Selected: 

Anarchy  and  War 

Oovcrument  by  the  Grace 
of  God 

IJncoln  on  the  Declara- 
tion  

Arbitration  in  America.. . 

Sumner  on  War 

Ui.armfd  Travelers 

The  N.  (J.  A. : 

Proceedings  of  the  Annu- 
al Meeting 

Board  Meeting 

Mission  Work  in  the  Wash- 
ington Building 


Kbform  News: 
To  the  Maine  Association  ; 
Is  not  Page  the  Banner 
County? .5 

CORRBSFONDB^{aR  : 

New      England      Letter; 
Is  Mr.  Brooks  Eligible; 
A  Protest  from  Arkan- 
sas; Pith  and  Point 6 

Literature 6 

In  Brief 7 

The  N.  C.  a 7 

Secret    Societies     Con- 
demned      7 

Washington  Letter 9 

Commencement  at  Wheaton.    9 

The  Home lo 

Temperance 1 1 

Bible  Lesson 12 

Religious  Nbws: 
A    New  Mission  Scheme 

for  India 12 

Lodge  Notes 13 

Business 13 

Home  and  Health 14 

Farm  Notes 15 

News  of  thb  Wbbk 16 


BeDJamin  Harri8on,Seaator  for  Iad:sna,was  nom- 
inated Monday  afternooa  by  the  Rspublican  Conven- 
tion silting  in  this  city.  The  labors,  contest,  strug- 
gles, bargains  and  quarrels  that  came  to  this  result 
it  is  not  our  affiir  to  record.  Tue  Chicago  papers 
have  labored  through  sometimes  half  a  dozen  pages 
daily  to  do  this  and  have  failed.  The  convention 
opened  on  Tuesday,  the  19th,  and  organized.  Next 
day  the  settlement  of  contested  seats  filled  the  time. 
The  platform  was  adopted  Thursday  and  nominat- 
ing speeches  were  heard.  Oa  Friday  there  were 
three  ballots  and  a  row;  on  Saturday  two  ballots;  on 
the  Sabbath  promiscuous  caucusing  by  a  majority  of 
the  delegates,  in  which  Vermont  nobly  and  abso- 
lutely refused  to  join,  and  their  good  example  was 
not  lost  upon  other  States.  After  the  first  ballot 
Monday  a  break  was  made  for  Harrison  and  he  was 
nominated  amid  tremendous  enthusiasm. 


It  is  a  significant  comment  on  the  Boston  Com- 
mon affair  and  its  present  situation  that  the  "Old 
Commonwealth"  of  the  Adamses,  of  Webster,  Sum- 
ner and  Wilson  gives  to  the  nation  no  leading  mind 
m  its  councils  at  Washington  or  in  the  conventions 
that  lead  its  i)olitical  hosts.  One  of  our  Chicago 
dailies  remarks  upon  this  fact  in  these  words:  "In 
the  councils  of  the  party  leaders  I.Iassachusetts  is 
without  a  representative.  It  has  ceased  to  have  any 
influence  in  caucus  or  convention.  This  is  the  plain 
truth  about  the  matter.  In  past  conventions  Mas- 
sachusetts's  voice  was  potent.  She  sent  men  to  rep- 
resent her  who  were  listened  to  with  attention. 
While  there  are  worthy  men  in  the  present  delega- 
tion there  are  none  of  commanding  talent  worthy  of 
the  State  of  Adams,  Webster  and  Sumner.  The  fall- 
ing off  is  indeed  melancholy.  There  is  not  even  a 
Cabot  Lodge  from  Massachusetts  now  in  Chicago." 

The  Dakota  Good  Templars  held  their  Grand 
Jjodge  meeting  at  Huron  last  week  and  were  very 
particular  to  telegraph  all  over  the  country  the  names 
of  all  the  individuals,  otherwise  insignificant,  who 
were  exalted  to  fame  by  the  addition  of  a  string  of 
long  titles.  But  there  is  also  another  dispatch  v'>ich 


has  been  sent  out  which  is  even  more  significant.  It 
says:  "While  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Good  Templars 
were  here  it  was  ascertained  that  they  have  very  lit- 
tle sympathy  for  the  third  party  fooli8hness,and  will 
generally  oppose  it  this  year,  both  in  legislative  and 
Congressional  nominees."  We  believe  this  will  be 
found  to  be  the  condition  of  most  of  the  Good  Tem- 
plars who  stand  by  their  lodge.  It  is  evident  to  the 
dullest  comprehension  that  the  triumph  of  the  Pro- 
hibition party  means  death  to  Good  Templarism  and 
all  the  other  orders  which  claim  to  be  necessary  for 
the  success  of  the  temperance  reform. 


In  the  ratification  meeting  at  Washington  re- 
ported by  Secretarv  Stoddard,  Mr.  H.  B.  Moulton, 
who  spoke  for  the  District  delegation  and  seconded 
the  nomination  of  Samuel  W.  Small  at  the  Indian- 
apolis convention,  related  this  incident:  "On  our 
way  home  from  Indianapolis,  at  Pittsburgh,  we  met 
the  Sam.  Randall  Club  on  its  way  to  St.  Louis.  We 
both  stopped  for  breakfast.  The  Sam.  Randall 
train  was  drawn  close  up  to  the  platform.  Some  of 
our  delegates  thought  they  would  take  a  look  into 
it.  There  was  one  car  that  had  probably  been  a 
mail  or  freight  car,  which  had  a  bar  running  the  en- 
tire length,  and  in  another  car  quantities  of  liquors 
were  stored.  In  the  two  cars  there  were  counted 
seventy-one  barrels  of  beer,  two  barrels  of  whisky, 
and  about  fifty  cases  of  assorted  wines.  Thus  it 
took  two  entire  cars  to  accommodate  the  Randall 
Club's  liquors  on  its  trip  West.  Our  delegates 
went  through  these  Democratic  cars  distributing 
Prohibition  literature,  but  were  soon  put  out." 


The  press  dispatches  tell  us  that  a  secret  society 
among  the  farmers  of  the  South-west,  known  as  the 
"Agricultural  Wheel,"  has  begun  to  Morganize  its 
seceding  members.  In  Pulaski  county,  Missouri, 
last  Saturday  night  a  masked  band  of  these  lodge 
men  KuKluxed  a  wealthy  farmer  named  Gross, 
whom  they  took  a  mile  from  his  home  an(i  deliber- 
ately whipped  him  to  death.  He  had  abandoned 
them  and  revealed  their  secrets.  Pulaski  is  one  of 
the  central  counties  of  the  State,  and  not  so  far  from 
the  scenes  of  the  Bald  Knob  murders  and  trials  that 
the  lesson  of  law  against  lodge  taught  by  those 
trials  should  not  have  some  effect.  The  story  seems 
too  horrible  for  belief,  and  we  hope  it  may  be  con- 
tradicted. 


The  "White  Caps,"  aKiiKIn^  loige  which  has 
disgraced  the  fair  fame  of  Indiana  for  a  year  or 
two,8eems  not  to  die  out  by  being  let  alone.as  some 
vainly  imagine  we  should  do  with  the  lodge.  Like 
the  West  Virginia  "Red  Men"  and  the  Missouri 
"Bald  Knobbers,"  they  have  become  emboldened  by 
repeated  successful  outrages  in  southern  Indiana, 
and  have  posted  hand-bills  prominently  in  nearly 
all  the  southern  tier  of  counties  notifying  the  peo- 
ple that  they  will  visit  and  regulate  all  persons, 
male  or  female,  young  or  old,  who  are  reported  to 
them  as  having  committed  offenses  forbidden  by  their 
code.  Then  follows  their  code,  a  long  list  of  offens- 
es which  would  make  a  half  column  of  a  newspaper; 
the  penalties  presented  as  a  certain  number  of  lash- 
es, well  laid  on,  numbering  from  ten  to  100,  accord- 
ing to  the  grade  of  the  offense.  They  order  the  lo- 
cal editors  to  publish  the  code  and  penalties  under 
a  penalty  of  fifty  lashes.  The  other  day  a  man  was 
driven  away  from  his  farm  near  Salem  in  Washing- 
ton county  after  being  given  some  200  lashes.  His 
offense  was  refusing  to  join  the  White  Cap  lodge. 
This  order  of  Masonic  assassins  have  extended  their 
jurisdiction  to  Illinois,  and  a  lodge  has  been  organ- 
ized in  Wabash  county  which  proposes  to  flog  all 
drunken  men,  profligate  husbands  and  wife-beaters. 
The  trouble  as  usual  is  the  indifference  of  the  lodge 
ring  that  forms  the  local  officiary.  The  end  will 
come  soon,  as  it  did  a  few  years  since  in  Cincinnati, 
with  mobs,  murders  and  conflagration.  These  are 
the  legitimate  res^ilts  of  secretism. 


The  proclamations  of  the  young  Kmperor  of  Ger- 
many were  noticed  last  week  as  the  impetuous  and 
immature   writings  of  a  youth  rather  than  the  con- 


siderate words  of  a  ruler.  The  first  alarm  at  his 
warlike  tone  subsided  immediately,  and  it  was  re- 
alized that  the  proclamation  alone  would  not  turn 
aside  the  German  nation  from  the  pursuits  of  peace 
wherein  is  their  strength.  William's  proclamation 
to  the  people  bears  a  more  noble  tone,  befitting  the 
dignity  and  piety  which  become  a  ruler  of  a  great 
people.  "I  have  taken  the  government,"  it  reads: 
"looking  to  the  King  of  all  kings,  and  pray  God,  like 
my  father,  to  be  a  just  and  lenient  prince;  to  foster 
piety  and  the  fear  of  God;  to  guard  the  peace  and 
to  promote  the  welfare  of  the  land;  to  be  a  helper 
of  the  poor  and  distressed;  to  be  a  firm  guardian 
of  the  right,  and  progress  in  my  kingly  duties  in 
unison  with  the  people,  who  in  good  and  evil  days 
have  stood  true  to  their  kings."  If  the  young  em- 
peror shall  rule  in  the  spirit  of  these  words  the  end 
of  his  reign  will  be  mourned  as  sincerely  as  were 
those  which  preceded  him. 


THB  QUNS  IN  THE  PARK. 


BY  H.  D.  WHITCOMB. 

IThe  following  poem  was  suggested  bv  seeing  children  play- 
ing about  the  cannon  In  Franklin  Park,  Bloomlngton,  Ill.| 

To  east  and  west,  to  north  and  south, 
Four  cannon  point  with  yawning  mouth, 

With  aspect  grim  and  cold  and  stark ; 
Strange  objects  In  our  city  park. 

Spring  hides  their  tires  with  verdant  grass 
And  summer  heats  their  polished  brass. 

Here  autumn  leaves  In  beauty  glow. 
And  winter  wreathes  the  whole  with  snow. 

Their  useless  presence  seems  to  say, 

"We  stand  here  to  Invite  decay- 
By  heat  litid  cold,  by  worm  and  rust ; 

We  yet  shall  be  more  useful  dust." 

Young  men  and  maidens  straying  here 
Lean  on  their  sides  soft  words  to  hear; 

And  age  here  rests  the  weary  half 
Which  does  not  have  supporting  staff. 

Childhood  and  youth  here  gambol  free, 
Or  pause  the  monstrous  guns  to  see, 

And  infant  toddlers'  lingers  feel 
Their  spokes  of  wood  and  tires  of  steel. 

Before  the  muzzle  baby  stands, 

With  eager  face  and  chubby  hands. 
And  asks  with  curious  eyes  to  note 

The  darkness  of  the  cannon's  throat. 

Raise  up  the  darling ;  let  her  see 
How  deep  the  cave  of  death  may  be. 

And  let  her  hear  and  feel  and  smell 
The  portal  at  the  gates  of  hell. 

She  looks,  then  asks  In  artleis  words, 

"Is  this  for  boys  and  girls  and  birds 
To  play  around  >.    What  Is  it  for !' ' 

"Ob,  no,  my  child,  It  is  for  war." 

'And  what  is  war?"    "It  is  to  tight 

To  foster  and  maintain  our  right. 
I  must  tell  you  all?  why  then 

This  cannon  is  for  killing  men." 

"For  killing!    Why  I  heard  you  say 

When  you  were  killing  tiles  to-day, 
For  bugs  and  tleai  and  insects  small 

That  poison  was  the  best  of  all. 
If  that  Is  so,  why  surely  then 

This  cannon  Is  to  poison  men." 

"Why  no.    How  stranse  your  questions  seem  I 

That  would  be  wicked  In  extreme ; 
The  cannon  shoots  them,  breaks  their  bonea. 

Scatters  their  brains  upon  the  stones. 
Tears  off  their  hands  and  arms  and  feet. 

And  leaves  them  bleeding  In  the  street." 

"It  makes  them  bleed*    OIi,  la  It  true? 

And  are  they  men  the  same  »*  you? 
Have  they  got  homes  and  friends  and  brothers, 

And  do  they  love  their  babies'  mothers? 
This  cannon  Is  a  dreadful  fright. 

Can  they  not  keep  It  out  of  sight?" 

Then  surely  would  It  not  he  well 

To  hide  our  enginery  of  hell  >. 
Ob,  speed  the  day  of  all  our  hopes 

When  cannon,  put  with  hangman's  ropes, 
Shall  shun  the  rays  of  open  light, 

And  not  offend  our  children's  sight. 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


June  28, 1888 


THE  LODGE  OATH  SHOULD  BE  BROKEN. 

LETTER  FROM  A  MISSIONARY  OF  THE  FRIENDS  IN  THE 
WEST  INDIES. 


Manohionbal,  Jamaica,  5-28,  '88. 
Editor  Chrittian  Cynoture, 

Dear  Friend:— I  received  four  bundles  of  Anti- 
masonic  tracts  from  your  office  a  few  days  ago. 
Please  accept  my  sincere  thanks  for  them.  I  have 
i  ust  got  a  large  portion  ready  for  mailing  to  several 
of  the  ministers  of  the  island,  mostly  to  Episcopal, 
Baptist  and  Wesleyans. 

If  all  the  ministers  of  Christ  would  expose  the 
darkness  and  sin  of  all  secret  societies  by  turning 
the  light  of  the  Gospel  upon  them,  they  would  all 
soon  disappear  like  the  darkness  of  night  before  the 
rising  of  the  morning  sun.  But  they  are  so  prone 
to  only  hold  up  the  Light  to  the  light  that  the  dread- 
ful works  of  darkness  are  seldom  revealed.  All  sin 
is  darkness  and  is  of  the  evil  one.  And  again,  all 
that  is  in  darkness,  that  cannot  bear  and  will  not 
admit  of  being  revealed  and  made  known  by  the 
light  of  Christ  and  his  church,  which  is  his  body  on 
earth,  is  sin.  The  very  fact  that  Freemasonry  and 
kindred  associations  will  not  admit  of  open  discus- 
sion and  investigation  is  absolute  evidence  that  they 
are  sin.  Christ,  the  church  and  state  have  a  right 
to  know  not  only  the  object  but  the  method  to  ob- 
tain that  object  of  every  organization  of  men  on  the 
face  of  the  globe.  An  object  may  be  very  good, 
but  the  means  used  to  obtain  it  may  be  evil  and 
wholly  detrimental  to  the  public  good.  And  when 
there  is  a  concealment  of  the  working  of  any  order 
it  bears  upon  its  very  face  not  only  suspicion  of  evil, 
but  it  it  evil,  for  "he  that  doeth  good  bringeth  his 
deeds  to  the  light"  No  man  has  a  right  to  conceal 
an 3  continue  a  thing  that  he  has  wickedly  or  ignor- 
antly  done,  that  may  cause  others  to  fall  into  the 
same  snare.  If  a  man  takes  an  oath  or  makes  a 
promise  to  do  a  thing  and  afterwards  finds  out  that 
that  thing  is  evil  in  its  influence  and  likely  to  affect 
others  by  inducing  them  to  join  in  or  partake  of  the 
same  thing,  if  he  does  not  cry  aloud  and  show  the 
people  the  evil  and  the  sin,  and  one  fall  therein  be- 
cause he  did  not  know  the  evil,  will  not  his  blood 
be  required  of  him  who  knew  the  evil  and  warned 
not  his  brother? 

But  for  the  oath's  sake  he  will  not.  For  the  oath's 
sake  Herod  would  not  spare  the  head  of  John  the 
Baptist.  One,  by  the  blood  of  Christ,  faith  and  re- 
pentance, which  is  accounted  for  righteousness  is 
justified  from  all  sin.  Therefore,  the  sin  that  a  man 
has  done,  whether  it  be  a  lie,  theft,  or  an  oath  to  do 
wrong,  by  these  terms  is  taken  away,  and  the  man 
stands  clear  of  the  sin,  and  is  not  only  at  liberty  to 
do  right  independent  of  the  wrong  he  has  done,  but 
it  is  his  duty  to  do  right  for  his  own  sake,  the  sake 
of  others  and  for  Christ's  sake. 

Therefore,  one  who  has  taken  an  oath  to  secrecy 
in  any  of  these  lodges  is  bound  and  under  obliga- 
tions to  God,  in  receiving  pardon  himself,  to  reveal 
the  evil,  either  direct  or  in  tendency,  to  others.  So 
Herod  and  the  men  who  bound  themselves  with  an 
oath  to  kill  Paul  ought  to  have  repented  of  taking 
the  oath  and  not  have  done  the  thing  they  swore 
they  would  do.  Who  would  dare  to  say  that  if  any 
one  of  those  who  agreed  together  with  an  oath  to 
kill  Paul  had  repented,  that  because  of  his  promise 
and  oath  to  the  others  he  ought  not  to  have  revealed 
the  secret  to  Paul  and  others?  Why  would  he  be 
clear  of  his  oath?  Because  he  saw  that  it  was  evil. 
So  ought  every  secret  order  man  to  reveal  the  order 
and  bring  it  to  the  light.  It  is  the  only  way  the 
world  may  know  of  the  evil.         Josiaii  Dillon. 


national  armaments,  like  the  horns  of  Taurus,  are 
not  only  a  terrible  burden  to  the  people,  whose  life 
goes  into  the  immense  taxes  that  build  and  sustain 
them,  but  are  a  source  of  just  alarm  to  all  peace- 
loving  peoples.  If  we  could  imitate  the  cattle  rais- 
ers, and  have  a  general  disarmament,  it  would  take 
oS  an  immense  burden  from  the  nations  of  the 
Old  World,  and  put  a  stop  to  that  agony  of  fear 
with  which  they  mutually  regard  each  other.  Bis- 
marck, the  great  Chancellor,  has  said  this;  but  he 
fears  France  and  Russia  and  dares  not  undertake 
the  most  needful  and  beneficent  of  all  reforms.  All 
the  great  nations  are  oscillating  between  the  fear  of 
internal  revolution  and  the  outward  attack  of  some 
brute-like  people  that  shall  suddenly  rob  them  of 
their  power.  They  could  and  ought  to  trust  to  the 
good  sense,  the  common  honesty,  and  above  all,  the 
Christian  principles  that  they  mutually  profess. 
The  spectacle  of  a  company  of  armed  gladiators 
waiting  to  pounce  on  and  destroy  each  other  is  quite 
out  of  harmony  with  the  wonderful  progress  in  the 
civilization  of  the  nineteenth  century. 

But,  however  we  may  or  may  not  excuse  the  Old 
World,  our  circumstances  as  a  nation  are  widely  dif- 
ferent We  are  menaced  by  no  neighboring  power; 
great  seas  fortify  us  on  our  right  hand  and  on  our 
left;  the  iron  bands  of  commerce  join  us  to  our 
weaker  neighbors  on  the  north  and  southwest,  and 
our  great  population  and  immense  resources  make 
us  invulnerable.  We  have  had  no  foreign  invasion 
of  our  soil  since  the  disastrous  campaign  of  Gen. 
Packingham  in  January  of  1815,  and  we  are  now 
five  times  stronger  than  then.  The  great  occasion 
for  domestic  strife  passed  away  with  the  great  con- 
flict of  1861-5.  We  are  beginning  to  learn  to  keep 
the  peace  with  the  little  band  of  Indians  on  our 
western  border.  Under  such  circumstances  how 
safe,  how  beautiful  and  sublime  would  be  the  spec- 
tacle if  we  were  to  set  the  example  of  national  dis- 
armament. 

Our  best  security  is  not  in  fortifications,  navies, 
or  armies,  but  in  the  intelligence,  virtue  and  patri- 
otism of  the  people.  The  abolition  of  the  liquor 
traffic  would  do  more  for  peace  than  all  the  navies 
we  could  build.  Our  best  security  against  national 
dishonor  is  that  we  be  honorable,  nor  need  we  longer 
emulate  the  Texas  steer  or  the  rhinoceros. 

Chicago. 

ANARCHY  AND   WAR. 


THE  DISARMAMENT  OF  NATIONS. 


BY   REV.    11.    n.    HINMAN. 


One  of  the  neat  and  ably  conducted  journals  that 
come  from  the  prolific  press  of  Chicago  is  called 
The  Dihomer,  and  is  devoted  mainly  to  the  idea  that 
domestic  cattle  can  be  reared  without  horns.  It  is 
held  that  these  appendages  are  not  only  a  useless 
encumbrance;  hurtful  to  the  cattle  themselves,  since 
they  are  constantly  liable  to  gore  each  other,  and 
that  they  endanger  the  life  of  all  who  have  them  in 
their  care.  In  their  wild  state  horns  are  needed  for 
protection  from  wild  beasts,  and  so  God  made  them; 
but  under  the  care  of  civilized  man  they  are  no 
longer  needed  and  should  be  laid  aside.  Whatsoev- 
er is  needless  and  capable  of  being  used  for  evil  is 
most  likely  to  be  so  used,  and  hence  becomes  a  per- 
petual menace. 

But  if  this  be  true  of  brutes,  much  more  is  it  true 
of  men.  The  carrying  of  deadly  weapons  begets 
arrogance  and  tends  to  violence  and  crime,  and 
hence  public  safety  dtuiands  its  prohibition.     Great 


In  an  address  at  Baltimore  last  winter  by  William 
Jones  of  the  British  Commission  to  secure  interna- 
tional arbitration,  he  spoke  as  follows: 

The  terrible  tragedy  recently  at  Chicago,  he  said, 
was  the  result  of  misguided  men,  a  malignant  brood 
of  Anarchists,  who  had  not  a  shadow  of  justification 
for  their  action.  There  is  no  country  where  law  and 
order  is  so  well  established,  and  the  display  of  force 
so  small  as  here.  He  said  Anarchists,  Socialists, 
and  Nihilists  were  the  result  of  the  way  Europe  was 
governed.  Beaconsfield  knew  what  he  said  when  he 
declared  Europe  was  honey- combed  by  lawlessness 
and  secret  societies.  The  grinding  military  rule, 
the  constant  preparation  for  war,  and  the  high  taxes 
necessary  to  support  the  standing  armies,  keep  the 
masses  poor,  and  breed  ignorance,  pauperism  and 
disloyalty.  No  man  is  more  heartily  welcome,  or 
surer  of  getting  rich,  than  the  scientist  who  invents 
a  new  instrument  for  killing  men. 

Another  war  between  France  and  Germany  is  in- 
evitable. Since  1870  France  has  so  fortified  her  140 
miles  of  frontier  that  every  yard  of  it  can  be  swept 
by  the  best  guns  made.  Germany  is  nothing  but  an 
armed  camp;  and  each  is  watching  the  other  closely. 
The  French  say  they  have  three  times  as  many  men 
as  in  1870,  and  are  better  prepared  in  every  way  for 
war. 

The  problem  now  in  Europe  is.  How  many  men 
can  be  extracted  from  productive  industry  and  put 
in  the  army  and  be  supported  by  the  taxes  drawn 
from  those  at  work?  The  result  of  this  plan  is  that 
in  twenty  years  the  national  debts  have  doubled,  and 
the  interest  now  is  more  than  two  hundred  million 
pounds.  The  laboring  class  live  in  poverty,  squalor 
and  dirt,  crushed  to  the  earth  by  heavy  taxes,  and 
filled  with  disloyalty  and  curses  against  the  Govern- 
ments. There  are  one  million  disloyal  Socialists  in 
Europe  ready  to  vote  against  the  Governments. 
Force  cannot  solve  this  question.  Governments  may 
hang  and  imprison  the  disloyal,  but  this  cannot  reach 
the  feeling  of  discontent  in  the  heart 

To  illustrate  the  state  of  affairs  in  Europe,  he  gave 
some  figures  from  Russia.  Of  the  eighty  million 
population,  sixty  millions  are  peasants;  and  of  these 
latter,  seventeen  millions  belong  to  the  dangerous 
class,  who  live  from  hand  to  mouth.  Stepniak  says 
the  war  tax  bears  so  hard  upon  them  that  they  are 
worse  off  than  when  serfs.     In  the  thirteen  central 


agricultural  provinces  there,  the  richest  black  soil  in 
the  whole  land,  the  death-rate  is  sixty-two  per  1,000 
— three  times  as  much  as  in  crowded  London.  The 
birth-rate  is  forty-five  per  1,000,  so  that  the  popula- 
tion is  slowly  dying  out  Last  year  169,000  poor 
Italians  emigrated;  but  the  Russians  do  not  leave 
their  country  to  any  extent  The  army  tax  is  $2  50 
a  head,  and  the  tax  for  education  three  cents  a  head. 
This  was  the  case  during  the  days  of  Alexander. 
Oat  of  every  1,000  males,  only  375  are  fit  to  go  in 
the  army.  The  rest  are  too  diseased  from  poor  food 
and  clothes,  and  badly  ventilated  houses. 

When  people  like  these  get  so  low  they  feel  they 
can't  get  worse;  they  become  as  clay  in  the  hands  of 
vicious  men,  and  are  easily  led  away  by  specious 
orators;  and  anarchy  and  socialism  thrive.  A 
Frenchman  defined  Communism  as  going  to  work  in 
the  morning  with  no  breakfast,  half  a  stomachful 
at  noon,  and  going  to  bed  with  no  supper. 


GOVERNMENT  BY  THE  GRACE  OF  GOD. 

Rev.  T.  T.  Munger,  in  a  warmly  appreciative  arti- 
cle in  the  Century  for  April  on  Elisha  Mulford,  the 
author  of  "The  Nation,"  writes  as  follows  on  the 
doctrine  of  that  remarkable  book  concerning  the 
supreme  authority  of  God  in  human  government 
These  sentiments  are  most  suitable  for  the  approach- 
ing national  anniversary: 

"Society  is  now  making  the  dangerous  transition 
from  the  aristocratic  to  the  democratic  idea  of  gov- 
ernment, and  with  the  change  there  is  danger  lest 
that  truth  be  lost  which  alone  makes  any  govern- 
ment real  and  binding — namely,  that  it  is  by  the 
grace  of  God.  Kings  planted  themselves  on  this 
truth,  and  hence  had  power  and  majesty.  The  pomp 
of  courts  is  not  the  reflection  of  human  pride,  but  of 
the  divineness  of  government  In  passing  from  one 
form  to  the  other  the  insignia  of  power  and  majesty 
are  largely  dropped,  and  with  them  there  is  danger 
lest  the  conception  of  government  as  a  divine  thing 
be  also  given  up  and  it  come  to  be  regarded,  even 
as  it  already  is  by  some  schools  of  social  science,  as 
a  mere  matter  of  police,  a  negative  check  on  crime, 
with  the  result  of  resolving  society  into  nearly  abso- 
lute individualism,  the  idea  of  humanity  as  a  social 
facts  lost,  and  progress  reduced  to  a  go-as  you  please 
scramble  for  the  most  that  can  be  got,  or  to  selfish 
combinations  that  turn  society  into  a  war  between 
labor  and  capital — a  condition  already  existing  in 
part  and  sure  to  prevail  unless  it  is  checked  by  the 
conception  of  government  as  existing  by  the  will  of 
God  and  for  righteousness,  and  as  God's  own  instru- 
ment for  blessing  humanity — not  an  instrument 
merely,  but  a  creatively  ordained  order,  in  which 
men  must  live  if  they  would  live  at  all.  Dr.  Mul- 
ford, whose  work  was  always  constructive  and  at 
heart  conservative,  saw  the  necessity  of  unfolding 
the  truth  that  a  democracy  not  only  rests  on  the 
grace  of  God,  but,  beyond  all  other  forms  of  govern- 
ment, is  so  grounded  and  must  be  so  interpreted. 
Hepce  his  continual  assertion  that  the  nation  is  a 
moral  organism  and  has  a  life  of  its  own,  with  cer- 
tain necessary  institutions  and  characteristics  work- 
ing towards  certain  ends.  Being  an  organism,  its 
processes  are  necessary  as  in  all  organic  bodies. 
Hence  social  science  is  possible,  and  hence  also 
there  is  no  occason  for  or  justification  of  the  em- 
piricism that  so  marks  its  history.  If  society  is  an 
organism,  social  science  consists  in  finding  out  the 
laws  of  the  organism  and  their  methods  and  ends — 
a  process  the  reverse  of  arbitrarily  shaping  society 
so  as  to  get  rid  of  certain  evils  and  to  secure  certain 
good  results.  If  society  is  a  moral  organism,  its 
aim  is  righteousness  and  its  action  will  be  in  free- 
dom. His  main  thesis  is  that  the  nation  is  such  a 
moral  organism,  that  it  transcends  physical  condi- 
tions, and  finds  the  constituents  of  its  life  in  free- 
dom and  law  and  in  the  conscious  fulfillment  of  a 
vocation.  He  carries  this  thought  through  more 
than  four  hundred  pages,  with  much  apparent  repe- 
tition but  always  with  some  advance  of  the  argu- 
ment, which  is  chiefly  illustrated  in  the  laws  and  in- 
stitutions of  the  United  States,  but  is  abundantly 
re-enforced  by  quotations  from  literature  and  history. 
The  constant  refrain  from  first  to  last  is  that  the  na- 
tion is  not  constituted  in  the  necessary  process  of 
the  physical  world,  but  in  the  order  of  a  moral 
world;  the  ties  of  the  nation  are  the  ties  of  human- 
ity, and  the  life  of  the  individual  in  the  two  is  one 
life,  and  it  is  moral.  Moral  action  is  conditioned 
on  freedom,  which  is  the  law  or  essence  of  the  na- 
tion. He  makes  the  analogy  between  the  life  of  the 
individual  and  of  the  nation  exact  and  imperative, 
but  each  working  out  its  destiny  in  mutual  depend- 
ence and  along  the  same  lines. 

"This  theory  is  a  repudiation  of  all  social  compact 
and  police  theories  of  government  as  something  to 
be  shaped  by  chance  or  apparent  need.     The  out- 


JuNi!  28,  1888 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


come  of  such  a  line  of  thought,  as  we  might  suppose, 
is  in  the  loftiest  heights  ot  religion — the  nation  is 
divine;  its  vocation  is  righteousness;  it  lives  in  free- 
dom; its  laws  are  moral,  and  are  like  those  over  the 
individual;  it  exists  in  God.  In  short,  Dr.  Mulford, 
by  a  scientiflc  examination  and  in  the  actual  process 
of  our  own  institutions  and  in  the  confirming  testi- 
mony of  the  great  thinkers,  reaches  the  same  con- 
ception of  the  nation  as  that  of  the  Puritans.  They 
leaped,  or  rather  flew,  to"  the  height  of  their  truth  on 
the  wings  of  spiritual  sight;  he  reaches  it  by  an  ex- 
amination of  humanity  and  by  an  elaboration  of  de- 
tails often  as  dry  as  the  statute-book  itself.  He 
reaches  it  also  by  an  exhaustive  study  of  the  nation 
in  its  antagonisms,  as  against  the  idea  of  confeder- 
acy and  the  empire  and  other  arbitrary  or  tyrannical 
conceptions.  He  flnds  himself  carried  by  his  argu- 
ment beyond  the  limits  usually  set  about  politics, 
even  to  the  very  throne  of  God,  from  which  he  does 
not  hold  back,  but  draws  nigh  and  lays  down  the 
allegiance  of  the  nation  where  it  receives  its  life — 
in  no  rhetorical  or  sentimental  way,  but  with  full 
logical  necessity." 

^  a  » 

LINCOLN  ON  THE  DECLARATION   OF  INDE- 
PENDENCE. 

In  an  installment  of  the  "Lincoln  History"  pub- 
lished in  the  Century  an  account  is  given  of  the  fam 
0U3  Dred  Scott  decision,  with  quotations  from  Lin- 
coln's and  Douglas's  opinions  on  that  decision. 
Lincoln  incidentally  referred  to  the  Declaration  of 
Independence  in  the  following  striking  language: 
"I  think  the  authors  of  that  notable  instrument  in- 
tended to  include  all  men;  but  they  did  not  intend 
to  declare  all  men  equal  in  all  respects.  They  did 
not  mean  to  say  all  were  equal  in  color,  size,  intel- 
lect, moral  development  or  social  capacity.  They 
defined  with  tolerable  distinctness  in  what  respects 
they  did  consider  all  men  created  equal — equal  with 
'certain  inalienable  rights,  among  which  are  life,lib- 
erty  and  the  pursuit  of  happiness.'  This  they  said, 
and  this  they  meant.  They  did  not  mean  to  assert 
the  obvious  untruth  that  all  were  then  actually  en- 
Joying  that  equality,nor  yet  that  they  were  about  to 
confer  it  immediately  upon  them.  In  fact  they  had 
no  power  to  confer  such  a  boon.  They  meant  simp- 
ly to  declare  the  right,  so  that  the  enforcement  of  it 
might  follow  as  fast  as  circumstances  should  permit. 
They  meant  to  set  up  a  standard  maxim  for  free  so- 
ciety, which  should  be  familiar  to  all  and  revered 
by  all;  constantly  looked  to,  constantly  labored  for, 
and  even  though  never  perfectly  attained,con8tantly 
approximated,  and  thereby  constantly  spreading  and 
deepening  its  influence  and  augmenting  the  happi- 
ness and  value  of  life  to  all  people  of  all  colors  ev- 
erywhere. The  assertion  that  'all  men  are  created 
equal'  was  of  no  practical  use  in  effecting  our  sepa- 
ration from  Great  Britain;  and  it  was  put  in  the 
Declaration,  not  for  that,  but  for.,^uture  use.  Its 
authors  meant  it  to  be  a8,thank  God,  it  is  now  prov- 
ing itself,  a  stumbling-block  to  all  those  who  in  af- 
ter times  might  seek  to  turn  a  free  people  back  into 
the  hateful  paths  of  despotism.  They  knew  the 
proneness  of  prosperity  to  breed  tyrants,  and  they 
meant  when  such  should  reappear  in  this  fair  land 
and  commence  their  vocation,  they  should  find  left 
for  them  at  least  one  hard  nut  to  crack." 


ARBITRATION  IN  AMERICA. 


In  the  retrospect  of  the  work,  the  most  striking 
observation  that  occurs  to  one  is  the  enormous 
amount  of  pacific  sentiment  which  exists  among 
American  citizens  everywhere;  and  which,  though 
apparently  lying  dormant,  was  ready  to  be  evoked 
and  to  show  itself  in  an  unmistakably  enthusiastic 
manner  wherever  the  question  of  International  Con- 
cord and  Amity  was  forcibly  brought  before  them. 
This  enthusiasm  and  earnestness  were  gratifyingly 
present,  both  at  the  public  receptions  of  the  En- 
glish delegates,  wherever  they  made  their  appear- 
ance, and  also  in  the  meetings  which  were  specially 
addressed  by  myself.  And  it  was  with  the  sincer- 
est  convictions  that  I  was  enabled  to  tell  the  Presi- 
dent of  the  United  States,  at  my  second  interview 
with  him  at  Washington,  that,  after  calling  upon 
hundreds  of  influential  and  leading  citizens,  and  ad- 
dressing many  meetings,  almost  without  encounter- 
ing a  single  dissentient,  the  seed  sown  had  fallen 
into  good  ground,  and  that  the  people  of  the  States 
appeared  to  me  more  prepared  even  than  those  of 
my  own  country  to  adopt  the  principle  of  interna- 
tional arbitration  as  the  recognized  substitute  for 
war. 

This  visit  has  done  much,  as  may  have  been  ob- 
served in  the  public  prints,  and  still  more  in  private 
correspondence,  to  deepen  and  strengthen  in  Amer- 
ica the  spirit  of  kinship  and  of  gooid-will  towards 


the  old  country.  Every  allusion  to  the  "Alabama" 
arbitration,  and  to  the  re-establishment  of  good 
feeling  between  the  two  countries  as  the  result  of 
that  eminently  wise  and  righteous  method  of  set- 
tling our  "burning  questions,"  met  with  a  most  cor- 
dial and  gratifying  response  from  audiences  in  the 
Southern  as  well  as  in  the  Northern  States. 

If  the  American  friends  of  peace  will  now  only 
follow  up  the  good  work  that  has  been  initiated.and 
ui'ge  upon  the  various  organizations,  to  whose  care 
the  matter  has  been  committed,  the  vast  importance 
of  keeping  the  subject  alive,  and  of  maintaining  un- 
diminished the  interest  of  the  public  in  the  subject, 
there  can  be  little  doubt  that,  ere  very  long,  some 
presentation  in  reference  to  an  arbitration  treaty 
with  England  may  be  looked  for  from  the  American 
Government.  And  then  will  be  our  own  opportuni- 
ty to  employ,  in  the  words  of  John  Bright,  the 
"force  of  good  men  who  are  with  us  to  induce  our 
Government  to  consent  to  it."  If  this  were  done, 
can  there  be  any  doubt  in  any  reasonable  mind  that 
it  will  indeed  be  "a  grand  step  forward  in  the 
world's  march?" — William  Jones,  Secretary  of  the 
Engliih  Peace  Society. 


CHARLES  SUMNER  ON  WAR. 


Sumner,  one  of  the  bravest  and  noblest  of  Ameri- 
can statesmen,  made  his  first  great  public  address 
July  4lh,  1845,  "On  the  True  Grandeur  of  Nations." 
This  address,  says  Carl  Schuiz,  "was  a  plea  for  uni- 
versal peace,  a  poetic  rhapsody  on  the  wrongs  and 
horrors  of  war."  The  following  are  extracts  from 
this  oration.  The  whole  is  worthy  to  be  read  and 
re-read  by  all  American  patriots: 

War  is  utterly  ineffectual  to  secure  or  advance  the 
object  at  which  it  aims.  The  misery  which  it  excites, 
contributes  to  no  end,  helps  to  establish  no  right, 
and,  therefore,  in  no  respect  determines  justice  be- 
tween the  contending  nations. 

The  fruitlessness  and  vanity  of  war  appear  in  the 
results  of  the  great  wars  by  which  the  world  has 
been  lacerated.  After  long  struggles,  in  which  each 
nation  has  inflicted  and  received  incalculable  in]ury, 
peace  has  been  gladly  obtained  on  the  basis  of  the 
condition  of  things  before  the  war. — Status  ante  Bel- 
lum.  Let  me  refer  for  an  example  to  our  last  war 
with  Great  Britain,  the  professed  object  of  which 
was  to  obtain  from  the  latter  power  a  renunciation 
of  her  claim  to  impress  our  seamen.  The  greatest 
number  of  American  seamen  ever  olHcially  alleged 
to  be  compulsorily  serving  in  the  British  navy  was 
about  eight  hundred.  To  overturn  this  injustice,  the 
whole  country  was  doomed,  for  more  than  three 
years,  to  the  accursed  blight  of  war.  Our  commerce 
was  driven  from  the  seas;  the  resources  of  the  land 
were  drained  by  taxation;  villages  on  the  Canadian 
frontier  were  laid  in  ashes;  the  metropolis  of  the 
Republic  was  captured,  while  gaunt  distress  raged 
everywhere  within  our  borders.  Weary  with  this 
rude  trial,  our  Government  appointed  Commission- 
ers to  treat  for  peace,  under  these  instructions: 
"Your  first  duty  will  be  to  conclude  peace  with  Great 
Britain,  and  you  are  authorised  to  doit,  in  case  you 
obtain  a  satisfactory  stipulation  against  impress- 
ment, one  which  shall  secure  under  our  flag  protec- 
tion to  the  crew.  If  this  encroachment  of  Great 
Britain  is  not  provided  against,  the  United  States 
have  appealed  to  arms  in  vain."  Afterwards,  de- 
spairing of  extorting  from  Great  Britain  a  relin- 
quishment of  the  unrighteous  claim,  and  foreseeing 
only  an  accumulation  of  calamities  from  an  inveter- 
ate prosecution  of  the  war,  our  Government  directed 
their  negotiators,  in  concluding  a  treaty  of  peaee. 


"to  omit  any  stipulation  on  the  subject  of  impress- 
ment." The  instructions  were  obeyed  and  the  treaty 
that  once  more  restored  to  us  the  blessings  of  peace, 
which  we  had  rashly  cast  away,  and  which  the  coun- 
try hailed  with  an  intoxication  of  joy,  contained  no 
allusion  to  the  subject  of  impressment,  nor  did  it 
provide  for  the  surrender  of  a  single  American  sail- 
or detained  in  the  service  of  the  British  navy,  and 
thus,  by  the  confession  of  our  own  Government, 
"The  United  States  had  appealed  to  arms  in  vain." 

All  this  is  the  natural  result  of  an  appeal  to  war 
in  order  to  establish  justice.  Justice  implies  the 
exercise  of  the  judgment  in  the  determination  of 
right.  Now  war  not  only  supersedes  the  judgment, 
but  delivers  over  the  results  to  superiority  of  force, 
or  to  chance. 

It  was  amidst  the  thunders  which  made  Sinai 
tremble,  that  God  declared,  "Thou  shalt  not  kill;" 
and  the  voice  of  these  thunders,  with  this  command- 
ment, has  been  prolonged  to  our  own  day  in  the 
echoes  of  Christian  churches.  What  mortal  shall  re- 
strain the  application  of  these  words?  Who  on 
earth  is  empowered  to  vary  or  abridge  the  com- 
mandments of  God?  Who  shall  presume  to  declare, 
that  this  injunction  was  directed,  not  to  nations,  but 
to  individuals  only;  not  to  many,  but  to  one  only; 
that  one  man  may  not  kill,  but  that  many  may;  that 
it  is  forbidden  to  each  individual  to  destroy  the  life 
of  a  single  human  being,  but  that  it  is  not  forbid- 
den to  a  nation  to  cut  off  by  the  sword  a  whole  peo- 
pie? 

When  shall  the  St.  Louis  of  the  nations  arise? 
the  Christian  ruler  or  Christian  people  who  shall 
proclaim  to  the  whole  earth,  that  henceforward  for- 
ever the  great  trial  by  battle  shall  cease;  that  it  is 
the  duty  and  policy  of  nations  to  establish  love  be- 
tween ^ach  other;  and  in  all  respects,  at  all  timts, 
towards  all  persons,  as  well  their  own  people,  as  the 
people  of  other  lands,  to  be  governed  by  the  sacred 
rules  of  right,  as  between  man  and  man!  May  God 
speed  the  coming  of  that  day ! 


UNARMED  TRAVELERS. 


For  half  a  century  Titus  Coan  labored  in  the  Gos- 
pel in  Patagonian  and  Pacific  Island  Missions. 
When  he  was  a  young  man,  at  college,  the  Ameri- 
can Mission  Board  had  under  consideration  the 
subject  of  a  visit  of  inquiry  to  Patagonia,  about  the 
year  1825.  It  was  brought  before  the  various  col- 
leges, and  each  student  in  one  of  these  was  request- 
ed to  retire  to  his  own  room  for  prayer  and  guid- 
ance, as  to  whether  he  was  required  to  go.  Mr. 
Coan  rose  from  prayer  convinced  that  he  must  offer 
himself  for  the  service;  and  another  young  man  felt 
prepared  to  accompany  him. 

Having  heard  of  the  savage  character  of  the  Pat- 
agonians,  the  friends  of  the  two  young  men  desired 
that  they  should  be  supplied  with  weapons  of  de- 
fense; but  Mr.  Coan  had  a  strong  belief  that  all 
these,  even  his  pocket-knife,  must  be  discarded. 

On  nearing  the  Patagonian  shore,  the  captain  of 
the  vessel  in  which  these  devoted  followers  of  the 
Prince  of  Peace  sailed,  said  that  as  the  natives  were 
so  savage  and  untrustworthy  he  could  not  allow  his 
crew  to  land;  and  he  could  only  put  Mr.  Coan  and 
his  companion  on  the  beach  in  a  little  boat  with 
their  goods,  saying  that  if  they  lighted  a  fire  the 
natives  would  come  into  sight. 

It  was  a  very  lonely  position  for  the  two  young 
missionaries,  but  the  natives  were  soon  seen  lining 
the  brow  of  the  neighboring  hill.  They  came  near, 
and  sought  to  satisfy  themselves  that  the  strangers 
were  entirely  unarmed  by  examining  every  part  of 
their  dress,  and  even  taking  off  their  stockings  and 
turning  out  their  pockets;  but,  finding  nothing,  they 
expressed  their  friendly  regard  by  taking  their  new 
friends  in  their  arms  and  receiving  them  into  their 
tribe. 

"They  gave  us,"  writes  Mr.  Coan,  "horses  to  ride 
on,  and  we  traveled  with  them  alx>ut  three  months, 
east,  west  and  north,  visiting  their  camps  and  hunt- 
ing grounds,  and  falling  in  with  several  other  clans. 
In  this  way  we  saw  nearly  all  the  savages  of  the 
eastern  Patagonian  Pampas.  The  tribes  are  wild, 
and  in  the  wildest  state  of  savageism,  living  wholly 
by  the  chase,  and  roaming  with  their  women  and 
children  most  of  the  time,  carrying  their  skin  tents 
and  their  all  with  them.  We  had  no  interpreter; 
all  our  communications  to  the  natives  were  through 
signs. 

"Some  of  our  friends  had  advised  us  to  go  armed 
into  Patagonia.  We  had  said,  'No,  our  weakness  is 
our  strength;  our  apparent  unprotectcdness  our 
shield.'  And  so  it  was.  The  savages  saw  we  were 
defenseless  and  harmless,  and  our  God  made  them 
our  protectors.  They  were  not  jealous  or  afraid  of 
us,  and  we  left  them  unscathed,  under  the  wing  of 
our  Immanuel." — Philadelphia  Friends'  Review. 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


June  28, 1888 


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TEE  NATIONAL  CHRISTIAN  ASBOCIATION. 


PROCEEDINGS  OF  THE  ANNUAL  MEETING. 

The  recurrence  of  the  annual  business  meeting  of 
the  N.  C.  A.  this  year  at  the  time  of  great  excitement 
in  Chicago  in  connection  with  the  Republican  con- 
vention,it  might  have  been  feared  that  the  counter  at- 
traction would  diminish  the  attendance.  There 
were,  however,  twenty-six  corporate  members  pres- 
ent, and  a  considerable  number  of  other  friends.  A 
feature  of  special  interest  was  the  presence  of  all 
the  agents  who  are  actively  and  constantly  engaged 
in  the  reform. 

The  business  of  the  day  opened  with  the  reading 
of  the  Scripture  and  prayer  by  President  George. 
The  roll  was  called,  and  the  records  of  last  annual 
meeting  read  and  on  proper  recommendation  Rev. 
Wm.  Morrow  of  Bloom,  111.,  and  C.  W.  Sterry,  Pon- 
tiac,  111.,  H.  Baldridge  of  New  York,  Mrs.  H.  L.  Kel- 
logg and  John  SutcliflEe  of  Wheaton  were  elected 
members.  All  visiting  friends  were  invited  to  sit  as 
corresponding  members.  Among  these  were  A.  R. 
Hotchkiss  of  Columbus,  O.,  Rev.  B.  Williams  of 
Warren.,  111.,  Mrs.  W.  B.  Stoddard  of  Columbus,  O., 
Mr.  Fifield  of  Berrien  Center,  Mich.,  Mr.  Hogue  of 
Nebraska,  Rev.  L.  G.  Jordan  of  Texas. 

A  letter  from  Miss  Sarah  E.  Morrow  of  Leanna, 
Kansas,  requesting  admission  to  the  National  Asso- 
ciation as  a  life  member  accompanied  by  $25,  was 
received  with  favor  and  the  request  was  granted. 

The  report  of  the  Executive  Committee  by  the 
secretary  E.  R.  Worrell  was  accepted  and  further 
action  was  deferred. 

The  report  of  the  General  Agent  and  Correspond 
ing  Secretary  was  read  and  received.  The  report  of 
the  treasurer  was  read  and  laid  upon  the  table  until 
the  appointment  of  a  committee  of  reference. 

As  committee  on  reports  Alexander  Thomson,  M. 
R.  Britten,  and  E.  R.  Worrell  were  appointed,  and 
to  them  were  referred  the  reports  of  the  Treasurer, 
General  Agent  and  Board  of  Directors. 

A  report  of  the  editors  of  the  Cynosure  being 
called  for  brief  statements  were  made  respect- 
ing the  importance  of  the  paper  to  the  success  of 
the  work  of  the  N.  C.  A.,  especially  in  the  South. 

The  Chair  then  appointed  the  following  commit- 
tees: 

On  Deceased  Members:  H.  H.  Hinman  and  B.  F.  Wor- 
rell. 

On  Nominations:  C.  F.  Hawley,  J.  L  Barlow  and  M. 

L.  Worcester. 

On  Anii  secrecy  League:  J.  Blanchard,  E.  A.  Cook 
and  Hiram  Baldridge. 

On  N.  G.  A.  District  Headquarters:  C.  A.  Blanchard, 
L  N  Stralton  and  M  R.  Britien. 

Foreign  Work:  H  L  Kellogg  and  A.  D.  Zwaphoni- 
thes. 

The  report  of  H.  H.  Hinman  as  Southern  Agent 
was  called  for.  The  annual  report  having  been  al- 
ready printed  in  the  Cynosure,  the  agent  was  not 
asked  to  repeat  it.  He  wished,  if  time  permitted,  to 
hear  from  Rev.  Mr.  Jordan  of  Texas. 

Statements  of  the  work  in  Iowa  and  Ohio  were 
made  by  Rev.  C.  F.  Hawley  and  W.  B.  Stoddard. 
The  latter  had  taken  322  subscriptions  for  the  Cyno- 
sure, delivered  some  60  lectures,  and  distributed 
much  literature.  A  discussion  on  the  reports  of 
Slate  agents,  publisher,  etc.,  after  some  time  was 
settled  by  the  adoption  of  a  resolution  requiring  all 
the  agents  of  the  Association  to  make  an  annual  re- 
port to  the  annual  business  meeting. 

After  the  noon  recess  Rev.  L.  G.  Jordan,  the  Cyno- 
sure's Texas  correspondent,  lately  at  the  Indianapo- 
lis convention,  was  called  upon  for  a  statement  of 
the  situation  in  his  State.  He  said  the  colored  peo- 
l>le  were  more  ready  to  accept  the  anti-lodge  than 
the  prohibition  reform.  This  had  been  his  observa- 
tion after  extensive  traveling  and  a  year  or  more  of 
speaking  for  prohibition.  He  urged  that  Mr.  Hin- 
man or  some  other  competent  lecturer  visit  Texas 
immediately,  as  there  were  to  be  more  than  twenty 
associations  or  conferences  to  be  held  in  the  State 
within  a  few  weeks,  and  such  an  opportunity  would 
not  come  again  for  a  year,  if  ever.  The  result  of 
the  discussion  about  New  Orleans  is  felt  all  over  that 
part  of  the  South,  and  it  would  bo  wise  to  take  ad- 
vantage of  the  rising  sentiment  of  opposition  to  the 
lodge. 

Tne  reports  of  committees  being  called  for,  that 
upfjn  deceased  members  was  presented  by  Rev.  H. 
H.  Hinman.  The  committee  was  desired  to  add  a 
minute  respecting  the  death  of  Jlov.  A.  G.  McCoy. 
Their  report  is  as  follows: 

The  Committee  on  Obituaries  beg  leave  to  report  that 
there  have  fallen  during  the  pait  year  five  members  of 
tbiB  corporate  body:  Rufus  Stratton,  Rev.  A.  Q.  McCoy, 
Gen.  A.  W.  Riley,  Prof.  II.  Wocdsmall   and  .1.  C.  Allia. 

Bro.  Rufus  Stratton  was  born  at  Harvard,  Mass.,  Nov. 
11,  1802,  and  died  .lune   IJO,  1887.      He  was  an  earnest 


Christian  reformer  and  stood  faithful  to  the  last.  The 
following  are  some  of  his  last  words:  "I  do  not  regret 
that  I  have  stood  boldly  against  the  popular  sias  of  my 
day.  I  know  I  was  right  and  that  the  truth  of  God  will 
prevail."  "Write,  Blessed  are  the  dead  who  die  in  the 
Lord.  They  rest  from  their  labors  and  their  works  do 
follow  them." 

Rev.  A.  G.  McCoy,  a  member  of  this  body,  died  dur- 
ing the  past  year  in  Colorado,  where  he  had  gone  for 
the  improvement  of  his  health.  He  was  for  some  years 
an  editor  of  the  Christian  Instructor,  and  a  warm  friend 
of  our  reform. 

Next  to  fall  in  the  ranks  was  Prof.  H.Woodamall,  who 
died  at  Memphis,  Teun  ,  Feb.  27,  1888,  aged  about  48. 
He  served  with  credit  during  the  late  war  in  the  Union 
army,  and  suffered  from  wounds  received  in  that  service. 
He  entered  the  legal  profession,  but  gave  up  a  lucrative 
practice  to  devote  himself  to  Gospel  study  and  labor  in 
the  South.  Perhaps  no  man  in  modern  times  has  ex 
hibited  more  self  sacrifice  and  devotion  to  the  cause  of 
the  poor  and  oppressed  than  did  our  brother  during  his 
fourteen  years'  labor  among  the  Freedmen.  His  last 
work  was  in  teaching  in  a  school  established  for  minis- 
terial education,  and  he  taught  up  to  the  day  of  his 
death.  In  his  early  life  he  thought  favorably  of  Free 
masonry,  and  was  duly  initiated:  but  he  soon  discovered 
its  incompatibility  with  Christianity  and  republicanism. 
Once,  making  a  speech  "for  the  good  of  the  order,"  he 
expressed  his  gratification  that  there  was  at  least  one 
brotherhood  that  could  reach  out  its  arms  to  all  men 
without  respect  to  race.  He  was  severely  rebuked  by  the 
Worshipful  Master,  and  told  that  American  Masonry  was 
for  white  men  only.  He  withdrew  from  the  order,  and 
as  he  advanced  in  Christian  experience  he  saw  more  and 
more  the  unchristian  character  of  the  whole  lodge  sys 
tem.  Everywhere  in  his  labors  among  the  colored  peo 
pie  he  besought  them  to  have  "no  fellowship  with  the 
unfruitful  works  of  darkness,  but  rather  reprove  them." 

Next  in  order  was  Gen.  A.  W.  Riley,  who  died  at 
Rochester,  N.  Y.,  April  2,  1888,  aged  93.  He  was  the 
oldest  of  the  great  temperance  lecturers,  having  had  as 
intimate  associates,  Samuel  Caiey,  Frederick  Douglass, 
Gerrit  Smith,  Myron  Holly  and  Thurlow  Weed.  He 
survived  them  all  except  Douglass.  He  traveled  and 
lectured  more  widely  in  Europe  and  America  than  any 
man  except  Gough,  and  he  took  a  deep  interest  in  the 
rise  and  prosperity  of  the  Prohibition  party.  Though 
less  active  in  the  anti  secrecy  reform,  his  sympathies 
were  wholly  with  us,  and  hia  earliest  associate  3  were  the 
most  pronounced  Anti  masons.  His  long  life  and  re- 
markable physical  and  mental  vigor  were  doubtless  due 
to  his  temperate  habits  and  faithful  Christian  life. 

Of  Bro.  J.  C.  Allis,  since  we  have  not  the  particulars 
of  his  death,  we  can  only  say  that  he  was  a  devoted 
Christian  and  an  earnest  reformer.  He  was  taken  away 
in  the  midst  of  his  years,  and  many  brethren  and  friends 
will  mourn  his  loss.      Who  will  fill  up  the  ranks? 

The  nominating  committee  reported  by  C.  F.  Haw- 
ley and  was  adopted,  after  some  modification,  as  fol- 
lows: 

President,  Rev.  H.  H.  George,  D.  D. 

Vice  President,  Rev.  M  A  Gault. 

Corresponding  Secretary  and  General  Agent,  Rev .  J.  P. 
Stoddard. 

Recording  «'  ecretary  and  Treasurer,  W.  I.  Phillips. 

Directors:  J.  L.  Barlow,  C  A  Blanchard,  M  R.  Brit- 
ten, A.  J  Chittenden,  H.  A.  Fischer,  John  Gardner,  Q. 
R.  Milton,  Wm  M  rrow,  L  N.Stiattoa,  Alexander  Thom- 
son, E  R.  Worrell. 

The  Committee  on  Foreign  Work  reported  by  H. 
L.  Kellogg.  Their  paper  and  recommendations  was 
accepted  and  referred  to  the  Board  of  Directors.  It 
reads  thus: 

For  several  years  the  Association  has  answered  occa- 
sional calls  made  by  individuals  for  tracts  and  other  lit- 
erature in  foreign  countries.  Our  publications  have  thus 
been  circulated  widely  in  Southern  and  Western  Africa, 
India,  the  West  Indies  and  England.  The  Board  during 
the  last  year  voted  to  approve  the  opening  of  a  Foreign 
Fund  by  the  Treasurer,  and  through  the  Cynosure  h»s 
invited  donations.  This  was  in  response  to  urgent  calls 
from  India,  where  a  systematic  colporteur  work  has  been 
begun  by  W.  J.  Gladwin,  publisher  of  the  Bombay 
Watchman  and  secretary  for  India  of  the  Gospel  Purity 
Association  of  London.  Copies  of  our  tracts  are  stitched 
in  the  two  monthly  magazines  issued  by  Bro.  Gladwin, 
and  his  colporteurs  circulate  tracts  and  sell  our  books, 
which  are  furnished  gratuitously  to  then  by  means  of 
our  Foreign  Fund.  As  a  further  assistance  to  this  work, 
and  to  secure  more  frequent  letters  from  India  for  the 
Cynosure,  Bro.  Gladwin  has  been  promised  the  sum  of 
one  pound  sterling  per  month 

In  view  of  the  hopeful  openings  for  our  reform  among 
English  speaking  peoples,  we  recommend  that  the  Board 
endeavor  to  systemat'ze  this  work  and  open  correspond- 
ence with  missionaries  and  others  in  all  foreign  countries 
to  which  we  have  access,  and  secure  as  wide  a  circula- 
tion of  our  literature  as  possible.  We  recommend  aho 
that  so  soon  as  this  work  increases  so  as  to  warrant  it, 
a  Foreign  Work  department  be  opened  in  the  Cynosure, 
where  weekly  reports  of  donations,  of  grants  of  litera- 
ture, expenses  and  results  may  be  reported. 

Pres.  C.  A.  Blanchard  reported  for  the  committee 
on  District  Headquarters.  There  was  some  objec- 
tion to  the  final  recommendation,  which  did  not  fa- 
vor the  opening  of  any  new  district  agencies  until  the 
means  would  warrant  it,  and  the  demand  evident. 
The  proposal  for  an  office  in  New  Orleans  had  been 
in  favor  with  some  and  the  desirability  of  such  an 


enlargement  was  discussed  at  length,  a  change  was 
made  in  the  report  and  it  was  adopted  thus: 

Your  committee  to  whom  was  referred  the  subject  of 
District  Headquarters  respectfully  report  as  follows: 

1 .  We  believe  that  there  should  be  District  Headquar- 
ters at  Boston,  at  Washington,  at  New  Orleans  and  on 
the  Pacific  coast  as  soon  aa  means  for  the  support  of 
such  headquarters  can  be  secured. 

2.  We  believe  that  when  such  headquarters  are  estab- 
lished it  should  be  understood  that  the  region  in  which 
they  are  situated  should  largely  contribute  to  their  sup- 
pore.  Our  labors  in  places  where  there  is  small  local 
support  should,  we  believe,  be  performed  by  agents  and 
not  by  the  establishment  of  permanent  depositories. 

3.  At  present  we  favor  a  determined  effort  to  make  the 
Boston  and  Washington  Headquarterj  self-sustaining. 
We  believe  that  there  are  friends  of  our  cause  on  the  At- 
lantic coast  who  can  support  these  agencies,  who  ought 
to  do  so,  and  who,  if  properly  approached,  will  do  so. 

4.  We  recommend  that  the  Board  of  Directora  be  di- 
rected to  enlarge  the  agency  work  in  the  South,  and 
open  a  district  agency  at  as  early  a  moment  as  a  suitable 
agent  can  be  found  and  the  funds  secured  to  carry  on 
such  an  agency,  so  as  to  avoid  closing  the  year  in  debt. 

President  George  stated  that  it  was  necessary  that 
he  leave  the  body,  and  requested  that  the  chair  be 
filled.  He  wished  to  urge  the  consideration  of  an- 
other Congress  of  Churches  similar  to  that  held  in 
March,  1887.  The  influence  of  that  meeting  was 
felt  throughout  the  country,  and  should  be  repeated, 
and  such  an  eflort  made  to  secure  ample  delegations 
from  the  various  conferences,  synods,  associations, 
etc.,  of  all  denominations  as  would  guarantee  suc- 
cess. The  churches  in  their  organized  capacity 
should  be  enlisted.  The  fact  that  so  many  already 
opposed  the  secret  orders,  with  membership  of  hun- 
dreds of  thousands,  if  not  millions,  was  a  powerful 
argument  of  itself,  which  should  be  used  more  skil- 
fully in  creating  a  public  sentiment  against  the  sys- 
tem of  secretism.  As  Dr.  George  retired,  his  hand 
was  so  warmly  grasped  by  a  score  or  more  that  he 
had  the  satisfaction  of  knowing  that  he  was  popular 
in  Chicago  as  well  as  in  Geneva  College. 

Rev.  Alexander  Thomson  was  chosen  to  preside, 
and  the  business  continued  with  the  report  of  the 
committee  to  which  was  referred  the  annual  official 
reports.  This  report  seemed  to  take  a  more  severely 
literal  understanding  of  the  General  Agent's  report 
than  was  probably  intended.  A  portion  of  that  re- 
port lingered  upon  the  agreeable  incidents  of  city 
mission  work  and  the  timidity  of  little  colored  chil- 
dren changing  to  enthusiasm  in  the  school  room. 
The  committee  approved  of  such  work  under  indi- 
vidual control,  but  the  Aseociation  could  not  in 
honor  give  attention  to  it.  Thanks  were  given  Mr. 
Ford  of  Washington  for  his  offer  to  aid  in  securing 
prohibition  literature,  but  there  should  be  no  en- 
gagement by  which  the  Association  should  be  re- 
sponsible except  for  its  own  literature.  The  relig- 
ious meetings  held  under  management  of  the  N.  0. 
A.  should  not  be  sectarian.  The  Treasurer's  report 
was  referred  t<iJhe  new  Board  of  Directors,  with 
the  understandiiig  that  the  auditor  should  complete 
the  examination  of  the  accounts  of  the  year.  The 
report  of  the  old  Board  was  approved  with  the  rec- 
ommendation that  renewed  effort  be  made  to  enlarge 
the  circulation  of  the  Cynosure  in  the  South. 

The  first  part  of  the  report  seemed  to  some  to  be 
a  reflection,  but  the  committee  explained  that  if 
there  was  any  reflection  it  must  rest  upon  the  Board 
of  Directors  to  whom  each  of  their  number  belonged. 
Secretary  Stoddard  spoke  earnestly  for  the  work  as 
now  laid  out  in  Washington,  with  opposition  to  se- 
cret societies  at  the  forefront  of  every  part — read- 
ing-room, industrial  school,  prayer  meeting,  etc.  It 
was  not  urged  that  these  efforts  be  discontinued,  but 
that  they  be  not  made  a  charge  upon  the  treasury  of 
the  Association  or  the  time  of  its  employed 
agents. 

Later  in  the  day  it  was  voted  that  Secretary  Stod- 
dard should  continue  his  efforts  at  Washington  for 
the  present;  that  there  was  no  objection  to  a  de- 
posit of  such  publications  of  the  W.  C.  T.  U.  and 
the  Prohibition  party  as  those  organizations  might 
furnish;  also  that  the  General  Agent  might  receive 
donations  or  collect  money  for  the  purchase  of  such 
publications  or  for  maintaining  any  branches  of 
mission  work  outside  the  lines  of  N.  C.  A.  work. 

The  report  of  the  committee  on  the  American 
Anti  secrecy  League  was  presented  by  El.  A.  Cook, 
as  follows: 

TUK   AMERICAN  ANTI-8KCBECY  LKAGOB. 

The  obj°ct  of  this  League  is  'to  prevent  tlie  nomina- 
tion and  election  of  men  who  are  under  secret  obligations," 
by  circulating  a  pledge,  as  the  temperance  cause  was  in 
augurated  by  circulating  a  total  abstinence  pledge.  The 
advantages  of  such  a  league,  vigorously  pushed,  are 
manifest: 

1.  It  will  furnish  something  for  every  meeting  and 
every  person  to  do. 

2.  It  will  call  public  attention  to  the  secret  relations 
of  the  nominees  of  all  political  parties,  and  enable  voters 


June  28,  1888 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


to  oppose  the  lodge  by  scratching  the  names  of  secret- 
ists  from  their  tickets. 

3  It  will  lay  the  foundation  and  prepare  the  way  for 
an  American  party,  whose  fundamental  principle  is  op- 
position to  the  despotisms  of  priestism  and  false  wor- 
ships 

4.  We,  therefore,  endorse  the  organization  of  the 
American  Anti- secrecy  League,  with  Mr.  Phillips  as  Su- 
perintendent, and  hope  it  will  be  vigorously  pushed. 

The  report  was  adopted  without  dissent.  A  reso- 
lution endorsing  the  nomination  of  Flak  and  Brooks 
was  not  so  fortunate,  and  resulted  in  quite  a  lively 
discussion  of  politics  in  which  a  number  took  part. 
A  motion  to  table  was  lost  and  a  substitute  was  pre- 
sented which  noticed  in  a  courteous  way  the  rec- 
ognition of  the  anti-lodge  sentiment  by  the  Prohibi- 
tion party.  This,  however,  was  regarded  as  a  little 
too  partisan  for  official  actioD,aQd  the  following  was 
finally  adopted: 

llESOLVED,  1 .  That  we  are  grateful  to  God  that  in  his 
providence  the  cause  of  prohibition,  to  which  we,  as 
members  of  the  National  Christian  Association,  have 
from  the  first  gi7en  our  moral  and  political  endorsement, 
has  been  brought  to  the  front. 

2.  That  we  rf  joice  that  the  Pf  esidential  candidates  now 
before  the  country,  so  far  as  we  are  informed,  are  clean 
of  the  lodge;  &nd  we  trust  that  the  time  may  soon  come 
when  no  member  of  a  secret  society  shall  be  considered 
elifi;ible  to  any  public  office  in  the  United  States. 

3.  That  we  are  grateful  to  the  leading  members  of  the 
Prohibition  party  for  the  consideration  which  they  have 
extended  to  the  representatives  of  this  Association. 

The  concluding  business  of  the  day  was  passed 
without  debate  or  division.  For  auditors  of  the  As- 
sociation S.  A.  Kean  and  John  Culver  were  selected. 
The  editors  and  publisher  of  the  Cynosure  were  re- 
elected; and  the  latter  was  instructed  to  make  a  de- 
tailed report  of  the  list  and  financial  condition  of 
the  paper  and  the  publication  business  to  the  Board 
for  publication.  H.  H.  Hinman  was  re-appointed 
as  Southern  Agent.  The  recording  secretary  was 
instructed  to  report  the  minutes  of  the  annual  meet- 
ing to  the  Board  for  approval. 

After  prayer  by  Elder  J.  L.  Barlow  the  Associa- 
tion adjourned. 


MISSION  WORK  IN  TRB  WASHINOTON  BUILD. 
INO. 


Washington,  D.  C,  June  21,  1888. 
Dkab  Readebs  of  the  Cynosore: — I  have  been 
thinking  for  some  days  past  that  1  would  like  to 
write  you  of  the  children  who,  through  personal  ef- 
fort of  Mrs.  Cunningham  and  myself,  have  been 
gathered  in  here  as  a  nucleus  for  an  industrial 
school.  This  I  wished  to  do;  first,  because  it  is  a 
work  which  deeply  interests  me;  secondly,  because 

1  wish  to  interest  you  in  this  much  needed  work. 
But,  say  you,  we  do  not  know  just  what  the  work  is, 
bow  extensive  the  plan,  its  needs,  and  requirements. 
This  I  propose  to  give  you. 

The  colored  people  in  this  beautiful  city  are,  as  a 
rule,  crowded  together  into  the  alleys  and  by-ways, 
sometimes  a  whole  family  in  one  room,  and  that  a 
basement;  the  mothers  as  well  as  the  fathers  work- 
ing to  support  their  families,  the  mothers  being 
away  from  home  much  of  the  time,  and  the  children 
left  to  ruam  on  the  streets.  Just  such  an  alley  lies 
back  of  4]  street,  and  it  was  there  that  our  footsteps 
turned  as  we  started  out  to  visit  the  homes  and  see 
if  there  were  any  children  who  did  not  attend  public 
school,  and  would  be  glad  to  come  in  here  certain 
days  for  instructioD.  Several  were  found  on  our 
first  tour,  the  old  grandma  of  one  bright  little  girl 
saying,  "I  has  been  praying  for  something  of  this 
kind,  and  the  good  Lord  has  sent  you  to  answer  it; 
if  there  isn't  something  done  for  the  children  right 
round  here,  1  see  no  hope  of  their  ever  getting  to 
heaven."  All  the  mothers,  in  fact,  seemed  glad  that 
we  were  going  to  try  to  help  them. 

On  Wednesday,  the  13th,  I  opened  the  school  at 

2  p.  M.  with  fifteen  children  in  attendance,  and  at 
present  shall  have  school  three  afternoons  in  the 
week,  teaching  the  first  hour  reading,  spelling  and 
writing,  the  rest  of  the  time  being  devoted  to  sew- 
ing. Miss  Susie  Hinman  has  assisted  me  so  far,  in 
drilling  them  oc  the  sounds  of  letters.  The  children 
range  from  six  to  fifteen  years  of  age  and  are  about 
equally  divided  as  to  sex,  the  boys  sewing  just  as 
industriously  as  the  girls. 

Our  school  is  opened  with  repeating  the  Lord's 
prayer  in  concert,  singing  a  hymn,  and  a  drill  on 
the  Commandments,  of  which  they  knew  nothing. 
Last  Friday  afternoon  I  asked  the  children  how 
many  of  them  attended  any  Sabbath-school,  and 
found  that  none  of  them  did  so.  I  saw  at  once  that 
I  must  take  up  that  line  of  work  also,  and,  accord- 
ingly told  them  to  come  on  Sabbath  morning.  A  few 
did  so,  and  we  had  a  very  interesting  time.  On  in- 
(luiry  why  others  were  not  here,  found  that  lack  of 
Sunday  clothes  kept  them  away.    I  called  on  the 


mothers  this  week  and  asked  them  not  to  keep  them 
away  for  that,  that  cleanliness  was  all  I  asked. 

It  will  be  necessary  in  this  work  to  furnish  nearly 
everything  needed  in  the  school.  The  reason  many 
of  those  already  in  the  school  gave  for  not  attend- 
ing public  school  was  inability  to  furnish  necessary 
books,  etc.  Then  the  children,  in  order  to  sew,  must 
have  material  aid.  My  thought  has  been  that,  when 
I  saw  it  was  needed,  cloth  for  a  single  dress  or  skirt, 
etc.,  could  be  bought  and  cut,  and  the  child  earn  it 
by  making  the  garment.  The  question  arises,  Who 
is  to  furnish  these  materials?  And  in  reply  I  would 
say  to  you,  dear  readers  and  fellow  workers,  I  must 
look  for  the  funds  to  carry  on  this  grand  line  of 
work,  and  to  you  T  now  make  an  appeal.  Will  you 
not  "come  up  to  the  help  of  the  Lord"  in  this  mat- 
ter? Not  that  I  would  detract  from  other  objects, 
but  has  not  the  Master  a  "thus  saith  the  Lord" 
for  you  in  this  department?  We  have  gathered  in 
but  few,  as  yet,  and  it  comes  through  personal  vis- 
itation. This  will  be  kept  up,  and  much  good  can 
be  done  in  this  way,  and  a  large  number  gathered 
in.  When  making  our  last  visit  from  house  to 
house  we  took  such  papers  and  tracts  as  we  had  by 
us,  and  they  were  eagerly  received;  and  the  thought 
has  come  to  me  that  the  children  throughout  the 
country  would  like  to  be  counted  in,  and  would  be 
glad  to  save  their  S.ibbath-school  papers,  and  send 
them  here  for  distribution;  and  Sabbath-school  su- 
perintendents, when  they  have  a  surplus,  could  hard- 
ly find  a  worthier  object  to  which  they  could  devote 
them.  Take  these  thoughts  to  the  Lord  in  prayer, 
and  "whatsoever  he  saith  unto  you,  do  it."  AH  con- 
tributions of  funds,  or  of  other  things,  will  be  cred- 
ited through  the  Cynosure.  Yours  in  the  work  for 
the  Master,  Anna  E.  Stoddard. 


Refobm  News. 


TO  THB  MAINE  ASSOCIATION. 


Mr.  Kimball  went  to  Lewiston  to-day  to  attend 
the  meeting  of  the  Maine  Christian  Association. 
Will  friends  of  the  cause  pray  that  the  isolated 
workers  scattered  over  the  length  and  breadth  of  the 
Pine  Tree  State  may  from  this  time  be  encouraged 
to  come  up  together  to  the  help  of  the  Lord,  and 
inscribe  on  their  hearts  and  banners,  "Holiness  to 
the  Lord,"  and  consequently  have  an  abhorrence  of 
and  opposition  to  the  secret  empire  in  every  phase 
of  its  being  and  action?  Miss  Haines,  the  secretary 
of  this  youngest  association,  has  contended  almost 
alone  for  God  amid  the  taunts  of  her  brethren  in 
the  ministry.  "Oh,  you  don't  know  anything  about 
Masonry;  you're  a  woman."  But  a  woman,  ordained 
of  God  if  not  by  men,  with  the  Holy  Spirit  on  her 
heart,  with  Qaaker  blood  and  training  in  her  charac- 
ter, and  Gou-given  health  in  body,  is  able  to  stand 
alone  with  God,  and  "having  done  all  to  stand." 
Let  the  prayers  of  her  Christian  sisters  from  Maine 
to  California  uphold  her  hands  and  heart,  that  not 
Amalek  but  Israel  may  prevail  in  this  great  battle 
of  the  light  of  God's  truth  against  "the  unfruitful 
works  of  darkness."  Mrs.  S.  C.  Kimball. 


IS  NOT  PAGE  TBS  BANNER  COUNTY  OF 
10  WA  ? 


commencement  at  amity  college. 


Dear  Cynosore:— Before  leaving  College  Springs 
I  preached  again  in  the  Congregational  and  the  Free 
Methodist  churches.  I  was  present  at  the  morning 
exercises  of  Amity  College,  located  at  College 
Springs,  twice,  and  each  time  by  invitation  of  Pres- 
ident Kennedy,!  conducted  the  religious  service,and 
on  one  of  the  occasions  addressed  the  students. 

Amity  College  is  a  Christian  reformatory  school 
and  undenominational.  Christian  ladies  and  gentle- 
men are  employed  as  teachers  and  professors  who 
are  members  of  the  various  orthodox  evangelical 
churches,  the  test  being  personal  merit  and  not  de- 
nominationalism.  Amity  College  is  a  fine  and  flour- 
ishing institution  and  is  a  center  of  interest  for 
that  region  of  country. 

I  attended  the  Commencement  exercises  on  Thurs 
day,  June  14th.  The  interest  taken  in  the  work  of 
the  college  is  manifest  on  Commencement  day.  Not 
only  the  seats  but  the  standing  room  was  all  taken, 
and  then  many  could  not  get  in  who  had  come  to 
hear  the  orations  of  the  graduates.  I  was  told  that 
two  or  three  hundred  usually  fail  to  get  into  the 
hall,  and  that  many  more  would  come  than  do  but 
for  the  fact  that  they  know  there  will  be  more  pres- 
ent than  can  crowd  into  the  ball. 

The  graduates  acquitted  themselves  well,  and  I 
could  but  feel  that  Amity  College,  under  the  presi- 
dency of  Dr.  Kennedy,  is  destined  to  develop  and 
become  an  important  educational  center. 


After  completing  my  work  as  the  agent j.of  ,the 
Iowa  Christian  Association  at  College  Springs  I 
went  to  Coin.  A  tabernacle  meeting  was  in  prog- 
ress there,  conducted  by  a  lady  from  Illinois.  I  at- 
tended what  I  could  and  do  the  work  of  canvassing 
for  donations  and  subscriptions  to  the  Iowa  Asso- 
ciation and  the  Cynosure. 

While  the  meeting  was  yet  in  pro^jress,  I  went  to 
Blanchard  and  called  first  on  Mr.  Sharp,  who  is  a 
merchant  and  a  member  of  the  Covenanter  church. 
He  donated  $5  to  the  State  work.  Mr.  Walkin- 
shaw,  another  Covenanter,  did  the  same;  as  did  also 
A.  B.  Wilkinson,  a  Wesleyan  Methodist.  Mr.  Mc- 
Crowsy,  a  Covenanter,  gave  $4;  Mr.  Murchie.a  Bap- 
tist, $3;  Mr.  McKeown,  $2.50,  and  Mr.  Mcknight, 
Pollock,  Spear  and  Dunn,  two  dollars  each,  and  a 
number  of  others  gave  $1.50  each  and  received  in 
return  the  Cynosure.  Some  of  these  were  members 
of  the  United  Presbyterian  church  and  some  of  the 
M.  E.  church.  Every  one  of  the  Covenanters  of  the 
Blanchard  church  manifested  a  deep  interest  in  the 
anti-secret  society  reform,  and  as  Bro.  M.  A.  Gault 
said  of  them,they  "materialized  well." 

While  here  I  preached  at  the  Wilkinson  school- 
house,  near  Westboro,Mo.  After  fiaishing  the  can- 
vass around  Blanchard,  1  returned  to  Coin  and 
preached  in  the  U.  P.  and  also  in  the  M.  E. 
churches. 

I  have  taken  one  hundred  and  ten  subscriptions 
to  the  Cynosure  in  Page  county  during  this  visit  to 
southwest  Iowa.  This,  with  eighteen  old  subscrib- 
ers, makes  one  hundred  and  twenty-eight  Cynosures 
coming  and  to  come  to  Page  county.  For  Cynosures 
Page  is  the  banner  county  of  Iowa.  If  any  reformer 
in  Iowa  knows  of  a  county  that  would  take  more 
Cynnures  than  Page,  let  me  know  and  I  will  come 
and  work  it  up,  and  Page  will  gracefully  surrender 
the  banner. 

The  drouth  was  so  severe  in  Page  county  last  year 
that  I  have  not  tried  to  get  large  individual  dona- 
tions to  the  Iowa  work  in  Page  county  this  year. 
Fayette,  Clay,  Mills,  Washington,  Van  Buren  and 
Henry  counties  are  in  the  lead  of  Page  in  respect  to 
the  amount  of  individual  donations. 

As  we  are  behind  in  our  cash  receipts,  allow  me 
here  to  ask  those  who  have  not  yet  paid  your  sub- 
scriptions to  the  Iowa  work  or  to  the  Cynosure  to 
send  the  money  for  the  same  to  the  treasurer,  James 
Harvey,  Pleasant  Plain,  Jefferson  Co.,  Iowa,  as  soon 
as  you  can.  We  don't  want  to  urge  any  one  to  pay 
when  it  would  inconvenience  you  to  do  so,  but  for 
the  sake  of  the  cause  please  bear  it  in  mind  and 
watch  your  opportunity  and  remit  the  amount  of 
your  subscription  to  Mr.  Harvey  as  soon  as  you 
consistently  can.  Pkasehtarit  in  mind  and  send  in 
the  money  as  fast  as  you  can  that  the  deficiency  in 
our  cash  receipts  may  be  made  up. 

C.  F.  Hawley. 


CORRESFONDENCK 


NEW  ENGLAND  LETTER. 

Temperance  work  among  our  boys  and  girls— A  lodge  in- 
cident— A  noble  charity —  What  a  single  voter  ran  do — 
Why  the  platform  of  t7ie  American  party  is  alwayx  re<id. 

The  temperance  outlook  is  steadily  brightening 
in  spite  of  "set-backs;"  and  one  of  the  most  encour- 
aging indications  is  the  number  of  Loyal  Legions 
and  Bands  of  Hope  which  are  being  started  un- 
der the  auspices  of  local  unions  all  over  New  Eng- 
land. It  is  true  that  many  of  them  die  out,  but 
who  can  measure  the  worth  of  even  a  few  months 
of  earnest  temperance  instruction  at  just  the  pe- 
riod when  the  heart  is  most  impressible,  and  the 
dividing  line  between  right  and  wrong  has  not  yet 
been  muddled  by  political  sophistry  and  self-inter- 
est. Mrs.  Helen  G.  Rice,  the  State  Superintend- 
ent of  juvenile  work  for  Massachusetts,  is  one  of 
the  brightest  speakers  in  the  W.  C.  T.  U.  The 
writer  has  listened  to  her  forceful  appeals  and  her 
convincing  logic,  made  more  forcible  and  more  con- 
vincing by  her  sweet,  womanly  face  and  gentle  at- 
tractiveness of  manner,  and  thanked  God  for  the 
noble  work  she  is  doing  among  our  children  and 
youth.  If  it  could  be  supplemented  by  some  in- 
struction in  rcl.stion  to  the  lodge,  the  Secret  Km- 
pire  would  not  find  it  so  easy  to  seize  upon  every 
reform  as  soon  as  it  becomes  popular,  in  onler  to 
ride  into  power,  generally  riding  the  poor  steed 
nearly  if  not  quite  to  death  by  the  time  its  goal  is 
reached. 

But  the  W.  C.  V.  themselves  greatly  need  to  be 
enlightened  on  this  subject.  Their  forty  different 
departments  of  work  show  that  they  are  fully  alive 
to  the  importance  of  meeting  their  foe  at  every 
avenue  of  approach;  and  if  they  can  once  realize 
the  truth  that  the  lodge  is  the  ally  of  the  saloon  and 


6 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


JuNB  28, 1888 


the  one  plays  into  the  hands  of  the  other,  secrecy  is 
doomed.  An  intelligent  person  can  hardly  fail  to 
come  across  facts  to  prove  this,  unless  he  wilfully 
shuts  his  eyes,  so  abundant  is  such  testimony  all 
over  the  land.  A  very  trustworthy  woman  who  has 
been  a  hotel  cook  told  me  that  at  one  hotel  in  Bos- 
ton where  she  worked  a  Knight  of  Pythias  was  taken 
fatally  ill,  and  a  brother  knight  was  deputed  by  the 
body  to  watch  with  him.  When  she  came  down  in 
the  morning  she  heard  his  labored  breathing  and 
went  into  the  room.  The  man  was  dying,  while  his 
lodge  brother  lay  in  a  drunken  sleep  from  which  it 
was  impossible  to  arouse  him,  the  bottle  of  liquor 
by  his  side  telling  the  tale.  And  so  the  poor  soul 
which  had  put  its  trust  in  the  lodge  instead  of 
Christ  met  the  king  of  terrors,  with  no  hand  to 
soothe  his  last  agony,  no  voice  to  whisper  holy  words 
of  comfort,  and  point  him  even  at  the  last  hour  to 
the  atoning  cross.  God  save  us  from  lodge  salva- 
tion. 

It  is  an  unfortunate  omen  for  society  when  wealth 
shows  a  disposition  to  accumulate  in  the  hands  of 
the  few.  At  the  same  time  one  redeeming  feature 
is  the  large  and  noble  charities  which  are  thus  ren- 
dered possible.  An  instance  has  been  lately  given 
by  Mrs.  M.  Day  Kimball  of  Boston,  a  daughter  of 
Gov.  Marcus  Morton,  who  has  made  a  free  gift  of 
the  magnificent  homestead  owned  by  her  father  in 
Taunton  for  a  hospital,  the  gift  being  subject  only 
to  one  condition,— that  it  should  bear  and  thus  per- 
petuate his  name.  The  election  of  Gov.  Morton  was 
made  memorable  by  the  curious  fact  that  he  was 
elected  by  a  plurality  of  only  one  vote,  added  to  the 
still  more  singular  fact  that  the  Democratic  party 
chose  him  year  after  year  to  lead  its  forlorn  ranks 
in  the  old  Bay  State,  until  victory  thus  coyly  perch- 
ed at  last  upon  their  banners.  The  scale  was  turned 
by  a  single  voter  in  the  town  of  Meedway,  who 
came  to  deposit  his  ballot  just  as  the  polls  had 
closed,  which  happened  to  be  two  minutes  be- 
fore the  time.  Had  he  insisted,  as  he  might  have 
done,  on  his  right  to  vote,  Morton  would  not  have 
been  elected.  To  an  incident  seemingly  as  trivial 
we  owe  the  Mexican  war— that  blotted  page  in  our 
national  history  which  no  true  American  can  read 
without  a  blush.  In  DeKalb  county,  Indiana,  a 
doubtful  voter,  undecided  whether  or  not  to  go  to 
the  polls,  finally  went  and  voted  for  the  Democratic 
candidate  for  Congress,  who  was  elected  by  a  ma- 
jority of  one.  Tffis  member,  Mr.  Hannegan,  was 
president  of  the  Senate  pro  tern  when  the  vote  was 
taken  for  the  annexation  of  Texas.  It  was  his  cast- 
ing vote  which  decided  the  tie  and  launched  the 
South  on  its  shameful  career  of  conquest  for  the 
extension  of  the  slave  power.  As  we  shall  soon  be 
on  the  eve  of  another  Presidential  election  it  is  well 
to  gather  up  some  of  these  facts  which  prove  how 
true  it  is  that 

"One  cast  amiss 
May  Kast  the  hope  of  Freedom's  year." 

The  Maine  Republicans  have  adopted  a  platform 
which  has  much  to  say  about  the  tariff  and  other 
material  issues,  with  a  prohibitory  clause  sand- 
wiched in  between  that  would  have  a  more  refresh- 
ing sound  had  not  Republican  officials  in  that  State 
gained  such  a  reputation  for  non-enforcement  of  the 
law.  The  platforms  of  the  old  parties,  the  Demo- 
cratic especially,  are  curiosities  in  the  way  of  la- 
bored literary  effort;  for  like  that  persistent  talker 
we  have  all  met  and  been  bored  with,  the  less  they 
have  to  say  the  more  words  they  take  to  say  it  in. 
I  have  never  met  with  any  one  as  yet,  unwilling  to 
take  the  time  and  pains  to  read  the  platform  of  the 
American  party,  and  the  reason  is  because  it  is  such 
a  model  of  brevity  and  directness.  Compare  it  in 
these  respects  merely,  letting  alone  its  lofty  stand- 
ard of  national  morality,  with  the  labored  verbose- 
ness  which  characterizes  the  platforms  of  other  par- 
ties, and  it  seems  in  its  noble  simplicitv  almost  an 
inspiration.  E.  E,  Flagg. 


and  obedience,  making  right  the  sole  object  and 
foundation  of  our  motive  and  deed,  is  the  only  safe 
dependence  for  all. 

I  regret  to  hear  of  anti-leaguers  going  into  leagues. 
I  believe  it  is  a  misstep  in  that  sense. 

I  have  for  years  been  thoroughly  in  favor  of  hold- 
ing our  own  ticket  always  in  the  field,  unless  there 
may  be  such  consistent  men  running  on  another  re- 
form ticket  whom  we  can  use  and  gain  if  possible  a 
double  advantage  in,  by  and  for  the  truth  and  the 
people.  No  policy  will  do  but  the  undaunted  and 
fearless  truth,  the  whole  truth  and  nothing  but  the 
truth.  I  think  it  is  our  sole  duty  to  stand  for  and 
stand  by,  in  religion  and  in  pplitics,those  principles 
which,  if  right,  are  inseparable  and  blend  in  one. 

I  am  poor,but  my  faith  in  reform  is  my  brightest 
earthly  theme.  I  say  by  all  means  go  on  with  all 
speed  to  the  final  and  full  salvation,  and  I  am  with 
you.  Aaron  Burgess. 


A  PROTEST  FROM  ARKAJiSAB. 


is  MR.  BROOKS  ELIGIBLE? 


Plkasant  Plain,  Iowa. 

Editors  CYNOSuaE:— How  and  why  did  the  Pro- 
hibition convention  nominate  an  ex-rebel  soldier  for 
Vice  President,  since  such  are  debarred  from  such 
otnce  by  law?  Otherwise  I  doubt  not  he  is  a  fit 
man. 

As  for  the  haague,  I  have  never  favored  the  sys- 
tem of  pledges,  as  tbey  are,  I  believe,  nine  times 
out  of  ten,  more  or  less  premature,  rash,  and  very 
liable  to  and  generally  do  become  somewhat  of  a 
hamper  iu  the  future.  Even  temperance  pledges  I 
have  never  had  any  faith  in.  They  don't  remove 
the  cause,  nor  would  they  be  any  reliable  stay  to 
me.  Temptation  comes  at  a  thoughtless  or  forget- 
ful moment  when  no  fore-given  promise  answers  the 
purpose.     Real  and  diligent  watchfulness  in  prayer 


on  the  anti  slavery  record  made  by  God  and  his  church. 
— Cyrus  Smith,  DeKalb,  Iowa. 

GOOD   USE    FOR  YOUR  PAPERS. 

As  I  see  in  the  Cynosure  very  often  the  need  of  anti- 
secret  literature  so  much  needed  in  the  South,  and  es- 
pecially amongst  the  colored  people  and  their  preacheri. 
1  would  suggest  a  plan  to  remedy  that  want  and  supply 
them  abundantly.  Mention  two  or  three  places  in  the 
South  and  let  the  subscribers  of  the  Cynosure  know, 
then  we  can  surely  send  one-half  our  papers  to  one  of 
these  places.  It  we  only  send  one  half  it  will  cost  but 
twenty-six  cents.  By  so  doing  they  can  gat  the  news  at 
least  in  one  week  after  we  get  the  paper  from  the  ofH:e. 
The  other  one  half  distribute  about  home,  as  the  Cyno- 
sure is  too  valuable  a  paper  to  find  its  way  in  the  old 
waste  paper  box.  I  think  if  we,  the  subscribers,  would 
act  on  this  plan,  there  might  be  very  many  souls  savsd. 
May  <3od  prosper  the  above,  or  any  other  plan  to  further 
on  the  anti  secret  cause. — Philip  Kruss,  Lameriine,  Pa. 


LITEEATTJRE. 


Pine  Bluff,  Ark.,  June,  1888. 
Editor  Christian  Cynosure: — As  an  American 
citizen  and  a  lover  of  freedom  and  a  worshipsr  of 
the  truth  of  all  good  things,  I  am  constrained  to 
write  to  you. 

It  seems  to  me  that  the  North  is  losing  that  man- 
hood and  respect  she  once  cherished  and  held  so 
dear,  in  that  she  is  willing  to  put  any  kind  of  dec- 
laration in  her  platforms  of  religion  or  politics  in 
order  to  carry  popular  sentiment  and  to  get  votes. 
The  Presbyterians  have  done  much  good  in  estab- 
lishing schools  and  missions  among  the  Negroes  of 
the  South  and  the  North.  So  have  the  Methodists 
and  the  Baptists.  But  since  they  have  succeeded 
in  educating  and  training  some  few  colored  men 
and  women,  they  now  want  to  build  their  church- 
houses  with  a  partition  wall,  so  as  to  divide  the 
"niggers"  from  the  whites.  In  my  judgment  it 
would  be  better  for  all  the  white  religious  denomi- 
nations to  let  the  "niggers"  alone  and  go  on  and 
take  care  of  themselves,  than  to  be  continually  stir- 
ring up  such  seditious  strife  as  they  have  been  for 
the  last  few  months.  The  Negro  has  as  much  re- 
ligion to  the  square  inch  as  anybody;  all  he  needs 
is  to  be  so  trained  as  to  make  use  of  his  religion  in 
a  practical  way.  If  they  make  this  division  here 
on  earth,  they  cannot  do  it  in  heaven,  and  that  is 
the  place  for  which  we  all  are  striving.  And  the 
Negroes  in  mass  know  as  well  as  the  whites  that  the 
Bible  teaches  that  God  is  no  respecter  of  persons, 
and  when  the  whites  teach  differently  we  have  no 
confidence  in  their  religion  whatever. 

There  is  something  strange  in  the  white  man's  re- 
ligious code,  i.  e.,  he  believes  the  Negro  was  made 
for  menial,  servile  duty  to  him,  and  is  nothing  more 
than  a  serf,  after  all.  But  straws  show  which  way 
the  wind  blows.  The  Republicans  in  New  York 
State  tell  Mr.  Sherman  they  cannot  vote  for  him  for 
President  because  he  favors  the  Negroes  of  the 
South;  and  Mr.  Powell  Clayton  of  Arkansas  says 
that  the  Negro  should  have  been  made  the  wards  of 
the  nation,  and  should  not  have  been  given  the 
ballot. 

Just  think  of  Powell  Clayton  wanting  the  ballot 
taken  away  from  the  Negroes,  when  they,  time  and 
again,  have  done  him  honor  in  electing  him,  first  to 
one  high  position  and  then  another.  No,  as  long 
as  that  class  of  men  could  use  the  Negro  vote  it  was 
all  right,  and  the  Negro  franchise  was  a  boon  to  the 
Republican  party;  but  as  soon  as  the  Democrats 
captured  the  South  then  it  was  an  unwise  measure. 
Fine  statesmanship! 

Now,  Mr.  Editor,  life  is  too  short  for  men  to  un- 
dertake such  frivolous,  foolish  and  selfish  plans. 
Let  justice  rule  the  fate  and  destiny  of  erery  man, 
and  let  monopolies,  tyrants,  shysters,  jay  hawkers 
and  religious  hypocrites  eternally  go  to  the  wall. 

May  God  bless  the  Cynosure  to  stand  against 
caste  and  all  that  hinders  the  promotion  of  our 
Lord's  kingdom.  A.  M.  Middlbbrook 


PITH  AND  POINT. 


CHHI8T    AGAINST     ANTI-CHRIST   IN     THE    UNITED    BUETH- 
IIKN    CHUKCU. 

I  believe  it  to  be  my  calling,  under  God,  more  than 
any  othir  one  thing,  to  work  in  the  cause  of  reform. 
Whenever  we  can  help  the  cause  in  any  way  we  shall  do 
so,  and  ask  God's  blef  sing  upcu  it  in  the  name  of  Christ. 
We  rejoice  in  the  success  that  God  has  given  Bro.  Ilin- 
man  in  the  South.  We  feel  that  success  is  attending  the 
cause  everywhere.  We  are  sorry  that  so  many  United 
Brethren  are  being  deceived  with  the  anti-Christ  of  the 
lodge.  The  flght  in  that  noble  church  is  Christ  against 
anti-Chrift.  Theological  infidelity  puts  on  a  cloak  of 
United  Brethrenism  to  deceive  this  anti-secrecy  church 
and  cause  her  to  cease  her  aggressive  warfare  against  sin, 
and  has  caused  some  "men  of  brains"  to  even  go  back 


The  Holt  Land  and  the  Bible.  A  book  of  Scripture  lllus- 
tratioDS  gathered  In  Palestine.  By  Cuaningham  tieikie.D.D. 
In  2  vols  ,  halt  morocco,  price  $3.00,  p9Sta^e,  32c.  John  B. 
Allien,  New  York. 

If  his  previous  works,"Hours  with  the  Bible"and 
"Life  and  Words  of  Carist,"had  not  secured  it,  this 
certainly  should  establish  the  reputation  of  Dr.  Gie- 
kie  as  one  of  the  most  popular  religious  writers  of 
the  present  day.     Thompson,  Oliphant,  Stevens  and 
others  have  given  us  so  many  accounts  of  the  little 
section  of  the  earth  called  Palestine  that  he  must 
be  a  man  of  some  CDnfidence  in  himself  who  would 
venture  another  elaborate  work  before  the  public 
on  this  subject.     But  Dr.  Gieke  has  made  the  effort 
and  the  world  of  Bible  readers  bless  him  for  it.   He 
gives  a  view  of  Palestine  rich  in  style,  vivid  in  its 
description  and  fresh  and  attractive  as  if  we  listen- 
ed to  the  story  from  a  traveler's  own  lips.     Learned 
in  critical  scholarship  as  his  previous  volumes  show 
he  has  been  ever  wary  in  a  land  covered  as  deep 
with  traditions  as  are  its  buried  villages,  and  few 
guides  could  be  more  safe  in  intricate  and  difficult 
places.       As  an  instance  of  the  value  of  his  critical 
knowledge  of  the  early  history  of  the  land  he  de- 
scribeSjit  may  be  noticed  that  the  limited  extent  and 
barren  desolation  of  a  great  part  of  Palestine  in 
modern  times  have  often  led  to  a  belief  of  the  exag- 
geration   of    biblical  enumerations  of  population, 
and  the  apparently  improbable  number  of  "fenced 
cities"  so  frequently  impressed  upon  us.     But  there 
is  abundant  evidence  that,  if  not  strictly  accurate, 
the  statements  fairly  illustrate  the  truth.       We  are 
startled  at  the  enoimous  fore  3  here  and  there  as- 
cribed to  the  Jewish  and  Israelitish  armies,  but  we 
have  to  remember  that  a  Hebrew  army  represented 
almost  the  entire  population  capable  of   bearing 
arms.     That  that  population  was  extremely  dense, 
we  may  easily  allow  from  a  consideration  of  the  un- 
doubted change  which  has  taken  place  in  climatic 
conditions,  and,  by  consequence,  in  the  fertility  of 
the  soil.     There  is  no  doubt  that  in  the  days  of  the 
kings  and  earlier  the  Holy  Land  abounded  in  streams 
and  brooks,  and  had  a  far  greater  rainfall  than  at 
present,and  that  this  condition  was  due  to  the  exist- 
ence of  forests  and  trees,  which,  having  been  de- 
stroyed by  the  ravages  of  war  and  the  recklessness 
of  uncultivated  races,  the  country  has  shared  the 
fate  of  all  others  to  which  this  misfortune  has  befal- 
len.      Fertility  and  population  assumed  there  need 
be  no  difficulty  in  crediting  the  number  of  citie8,even 
in  the  absence  of  direct  proof.  But  the  direct  proof 
is  not  wanting.     Dr.  Geikie  only  corroborates  two  oj 
three  other  careful  explorers,  who  have  diacove  red 
the  traces  of  fortified  cities  so  thickly  strewn  over  the 
country  that  their  number  and  proximity  seem  al- 
most incredible  to  the  eye  witness  himself.       No 
doubt  these  cities  were  not  large,  but  the  ruins  of 
their  foundations  are  cyclopean  in  solidity  and  plain- 
ly indicate  that  tbey  must  have  been  fortressess  of 
great  strength.      OC  the  villages,  which  no  doubt 
stood  thickly  interspersed  between  the  walled  cities, 
there  is  of  course  now  no  trace;  indeed, it  is  difficult 
to  fix  with  anything  like  certainty  the  sites  of  sever- 
al mentioned  in  Scripture,  and  of  some  which  are 
distinctly  referred  to  as  the  scenes  of  important  ep- 
isodes. 

The  whole  work  cannot  better  be  described  than 
in  the  words  of  Dr.  Geikie's  preface:  "The  land  is, 
in  fact,  a  natural  commentary  on  the  sacred  writ- 
ings." It  is,  we  believe,  the  most  readable  tran- 
scription of  this  commentary,  if  not  the  very  best. 
It  is  worthy  of  a  place  in  every  home,  by  the  side 
of  the  family  Bible.  An  especially  attractive  fea- 
ture of  these  volumes  are  the  fine  illustrations  with 
which  they  are  crowded.  Aside  from  this  general 
character  of  the  book  Dr.  Geikie  discusses,  in  the 
last  chapter,  the  probability  of  the  return  of  the 
Jews  to  their  fatherland.  He  denies  this  probabili- 
ty in  an  argument  of  original  interest  and  value. 


June  28,  1888 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


The  niustrated  features  of  the  Woman 
for  June  comprise  the  second  installment 
of  Olive  Thome  Miller's  series  on  "Rep- 
resentative Woman's  Clubs,"  which  dis- 
cusses specifically  the  New  England  Wo- 
man's Club,  the  prototype,  and,  by  about 
one  month,  the  predecessor  of  the  famous 
S  irosis,  of  New  York,  and  concludes  with 
an  account  of  the  Wisconsin  Woman's 
Club  of  Milwaukee;  an  essay  on  the  im- 
portant subject  of  "Physical  Culture  for 
Our  Girls,"  by  Charles  Rfbhards  Dodge, 
representing  pictorially  a  variety  of  forms 
of  physical  exercise  adapted  to  women; 
the  second  of  Helen  Cimpbell's  thrill- 
ing account  of  "Prisoners  of  Poverty 
Abr.  ad,"  in  which  the  hard  experiences 
of  the  London  working  poor  are  graphi- 
cally depicted:  a  charming  descriptive 
sketch  of  Scotch  scenery,  by  Sarah  L. 
Roys,  entitled  "Through  Ayrshire  with 
Burns ;"  besides  a  variety  of  minor  articles. 
Special  mention  should  be  made  of  several 
important  papers  in  this  issue,  such  as 
Emma  Uaddock's  discussion  of  "Women 
a:i  Land  Owners  in  the  West,"  and  Ella 
Rodman  Cdurch's  valuable  recommenda- 
tions on  "Harmonious  House  Interiors," 
which  is  replete  with  practical  and  wise 
suggestions.  In  similar  manner  the  sev- 
eral departments  of  the  magazine  are  also 
commended  to  our  readers'  attention, 
comprising  "The  Household,"  "The  Ta- 
ble," "What  to  Wear,"  "Societies  for 
Christian  Work,"  "Temperance,"  and 
other  themes,  the  significance  of  which 
is  patent  to  every  family. 

The  Miasionary  Beview  of  tJie  World 
for  July  is  on  our  table  in  advance  of  all 
the  other  July  monthlies.  The  cause  of 
missions  certainly  has  reason  to  rejoice 
in  the  establishment  and  marked  success 
of  such  a  monthly — in  literary  ability  the 
peer  of  our  secular  monthlies,  while  in 
religious  force  and  spirit  of  consecration 
to  missions  all  that  the  most  ardent 
friends  of  the  cause  can  desire.  Among 
the  noteworthy  articles  in  "Literature" 
section  (eleven  in  all),  we  specially  note 
"The  Romance  of  Modern  Missions," 
"The  Great  Commission,"  "Mission  Prob- 
lems and  Work  in  Abyssinia,"  and  "Mir- 
acles of  Missions."  The  first  is  one  of 
the  most  thrilling  narratives  ever  written. 
We  have  also  reports  from  nine  societies, 
intensely  interesting  correspondence  from 
nine  important  fields,  the  "International" 
pages,  the  Monthly  Concert  Service,  the 
Monthly  Bulletin,  giving  the  latest  news 
and  facts  from  the  whole  world-field,  and 
the  Statistics  of  the  World's  Missions. 


IN  BRIEF. 


The  latest  fad  in  social  circles  in  Chi- 
cago is  news  classes  among  young  ladies. 
A  large  party  meets  twice  a  week  in  the 
afternoon,  and  the  teacher,  a  lady  of 
great  culture,  discusses  with  them  the 
news  of  the  day.  She  takes  a  newspaper, 
and,  selecting  matter  of  foreign  and  do- 
mestic interest,  discusses  and  explains 
them  in  a  most  entertaining  manner,  the 
members  of  the  class  asking  questions 
and  making  comments  and  suggestions 
freely. — Educational  News. 

A  New  York  man  has  made  a  small 
fortune  of  $25,000  in  two  months  through 
an  invention.  He  had  often  noticed  the 
trouble  which  school  children  have  in 
cleaning  their  slates,  and  he  invented  a 
little  tin  box,  in  the  bottom  of  which  is  a 
small  sponge  saturated  with  water.  In 
the  center  of  the  box  he  placed  a  piece  of 
tin  drilled  with  holes,  and  on  top  of  this 
another  small  sponge.  A  pressure  moist- 
ens the  upper  sponge,  and  the  slate  can 
be  instantly  cleaned.  One  firm  of  sta- 
tioners purchased  10,000  gross  of  the 
little  invention,  and  the  lucky  inventor 
hopes  to  become  a  millionaire. 

A  Connecticut  man  tells  this  story  of 
a  remarkable  exhibition  of  nerve  by  a 
professional  sneak  thief:  "One  dav  ho 
walked  quietly  into  a  bank,  took  off  his 
hat  and  coat,  hung  them  on  a  nail,  put 
on  an  ofilce  coat  that  hung  there  and 
walked  into  the  rear  room  which  con- 
tained the  vaults.  The  directors  were 
holding  a  meeting,  and  one  sat  in  front  of 
the  door,  blocking  the  passage.  The  thief 
politely  asked  him  to  move,  and  when 
the  obliging  director  did  so,  the  man 
went  through  the  door,  picked  up  two  of 
the  largest  bags  of  gold  in  sight,  coolly 
walked  out  with  them,  and  thief  and  gold 
were  seen  no  more  there . " 

A  Youngstown,  Ohio,  dispatch  of  June 
11,  says:  "Nannie  Evans,  the  ton-year- 
old  stage    prodigy,   daughter  <7f  Owen 


Evans,  hotel  proprietor,  had  her  vocal 
chords  paralyzed  seven  months  ago,  after 
overtaxing  them  singing  in  large  halls, 
and  has  not  spoken  above  a  whisper  sihce. 
Eminent  physicians  to  whom  she  has 
been  taken  pronounced  her  incurable. 
Yesterday,  during  a  hard  thunder  storm, 
she  was  sitting  at  an  open  window  hold- 
ing a  silver  half-dollar;  there  were  two 
loud  claps  of  thunder,  and  a  moment 
after  the  little  girl  called  to  her  mother, 
in  her  natural  voice,  to  take  the  piece  of 
money.  To-day  she  is  a  little  weak,  but 
can  talk  and  sing  as  well  as  ever." 

A  relic  of  the  Revolution  has  been  of- 
fered to  Mr.  Morrill,  of  the  Senate  Libra- 
ry Committee,  which  is  worthy  of  pres- 
ervation. A  youth  in  the  Pension  Oflice 
brought  it  to  the  attention  of  General 
Black.  It  is  the  original  document  given 
to  pass  Major  Andre  through  the  Ameri- 
can lines  when  Benedict  Arnold  had  re- 
solved to  betray  West  Point  into  the 
hands  of  the  British.  The  pass  is  signed 
by  Arnold  as  Major- General,  and  is 
countersigned  by  General  Gage.  The 
possessor  is  a  direct  descendent  of  Paul- 
ding, one  of  the  scouts  that  arrested  An- 
dre when  he  attempted  to  pass  the  picket 
under  the  name  of  Anderson.  This  doc- 
ument, if  its  authenticity  is  established 
beyond  question,  ought  to  be  preserved 
in  the  archives  of  the  nation. 

The  first  article  of  the  "Railway  Se- 
ries" in  Scribner's  Magazine  is  entitled 
"The  Building  of  a  Railway,"  and  it  con- 
tains much  valuable  information,  new  to 
the  public  in  general,  and  of  interest  to 
everybody.  In  this  article  the  following 
questions  are  answered: 

How  many  miles  of  railway  in  the 
United  States?  One  hundred  and  fifty 
thousand,  six  hundred  miles,  about  half 
the  mileage  of  the  world. 

How  much  have  they  cost?  Nine  bill- 
ion dollars. 

How  many  people  are  employed  by 
them?    More  than  one  million. 

What  is  the  fastest  time  made  by  a 
train?  Ninety -two  miles  in  ninety-three 
minutes,  one  mile  being  made  in  forty- 
six  seconds  on  the  Philadelphia  and  Read- 
ing railroad. 

What  is  the  cost  of  a  high-class,  eight- 
wheel  passenger  locomotive?  About 
$8,500. 

What  is  the  longest  mileage  operated 
by  a  single  system?  Atchison,  Topeka 
and  Santa  Fe  system — about  8,000  miles. 

What  is  the  cost  of  a  palace  sleeping 
car?  About  $15,000  to  $17,000  if  "ves- 
tibuled." 

What  is  the  longest  railway  bridge  span 
in  the  United  States?  Cantilever  span  in 
Poughkeepsie  bridge,  548  feet. 

What  is  the  highest  railroad  bridge  in 
the  United  States?  Kinzua  viaduct,  on 
the  Erie  road,  305  feet  high. 

Who  built  the  first  locomotive  in  the 
United  States?    Peter  Cooper. 

What  road  carries  the  largest  number 
of  passengers?  Manhattan  Elevated 
railroad.  New  York — 525,000  a  day,  or 
191,625,000  yearly. 

What  is  the  average  daily  earning  of 
an  American  locomotive?      About  $100. 

What  is  the  longest  American  railway 
tunnel?  Hoosac  tunnel,  on  the  Fitch- 
burg  railway — 4!|  miles. 

What  is  the  average  cost  of  coastruct- 
ing  a  mile  of  railroad?  At  the  present 
time  about  $30,000 

What  is  the  highest  railroad  in  the 
United  States?  Denver  and  Rio  Grande; 
Marshall  Pass,  10,852  feet. 

What  are  the  chances  of  fatal  accident 
in  railway  travel?  One  killed  in  ten  mill- 
ion. Statistics  show  more  are  killed  by 
falling  out  of  windows  than  in  railway 
accidents. 

What  line  of  railway  extends  furthest 
east  and  west?  Canadian  Pacific  railway, 
running  from  Quebec  to  the  Pacific 
Ocean. 

How  long  does  a  steel  rail  last  with 
average  wear?    About  eighteen  years. 

What  road  carries  the  largest  number 
of  commuters?  Illinois  Central,  4,828,- 
128  in  1887. 

What  is  the  fastest  time  made  between 
Jersey  City  and  San  Francisco?  Three 
days,  seven  hours,  thirty-five  minutes 
and  sixteen  seconds.  Special  theatrical 
train,  Juno,  188G. 


8BCBST800IBTIB8  GONDBMNED. 


Ayer's  Sarsaparilla  operates  radically 
upon  the  blood,  thoroughly  cleansing  and 
invigorating  it.  As  a  safe  and  absolute 
cure  for  the  various  disorders  caused  by 
constitutional  taint  and  infection,  this 
remedy  has  no  equal.  Take  it  this  month. 


BT   OnSAT  MBN   IM   THS     BTATS. 

Eon.  Ezra  Butler,  ex  Oovernor  of  Ver- 
mont:— One  Masonic  obligation  requires 
that  a  Mason  shall  vote  for  a  brother  in 
preference  to  any  other  person  of  equal 
qualifications.  Is  not  this  political  Ma- 
sonry? The  Masons  in  Vermont  are 
about  one-twentieth  part  of  the  freemen, 
and  they  hold  about  three-fourths  of  all 
the  important  ofiices  in  the  State.  Is  this 
owing  to  their  superior  fitness,  or  to  po- 
litical Masonry  ? 

Philo  Carpenter: — This  saint  of  God 
(Moses  Stuart)  like  the  old  prophets,  was 
satisfied  with  the  institutions  and  ordi- 
nances of  God's  house,  and  consequently 
did  not  give  his  influence  or  aid  in  sup- 
plementing the  same  with  human  ordi- 
nances and  worldly  alliances;  in  other 
words,  he  was  opposed  to  secret,  oath- 
bound  societies,  into  which  many  good 
men,  and  even  clergymen,  have  been, 
and  are  being  "ensnared." 

William  H.  Seward:  "Before  I  would 
place  my  hand  between  the  hands  of  oth- 
er men  in  a  secret  lodge,  order,  class,  or 
council,  and,  bending  on  my  knee  before 
them,  enter  into  combination  with  them 
for  any  object,  personal  or  political,  good 
or  bad,  I  would  pray  to  God  that  that 
hand  and  that  knee  might  be  paralyzed, 
and  that  I  might  become  an  object  of 
pity  and  even  the  mockery  of  my  fellow- 
men." 

Wendell  Phillips:  "I  wish  you  success 
most  heartily  in  your  efforts  to  arouse  the 
community  to  the  danger  of  secret  soci- 
eties. They  are  a  great  evil;  entirely 
out  of  place  in  a  republic,  and  no  patriot 
should  join  or  uphold  them.  Consider- 
ing the  great  forces  which  threaten  the 
welfare  of  the  nation  in  the  next  thirty 
years,  and  how  readily  and  efficiently  they 
can  use  any  secret  organizations,  such 
should  not  be  allowed  to  exist." 

Oeorge  Washington's  Farewell  Address: 
"The  very  idea  of  the  power  and  the  right 
of  the  people  to  establish  government  pre- 
supposes the  duty  of  every  individual  to 
obey  the  established  government.  All 
obstructions  to  the  execution  of  the  laws, 
all  combinations  and  associations,  under 
whatever  plausible  character,  with  the 
real  design  to  direct,  control,  counteract, 
or  awe  the  regular  deliberation  and  action 
of  the  constituted  authorities,  are  de- 
structive of  this  fundamental  principle, 
and  of  fatal  tendency." 

General  J.  W.  PTielps: — All  secret  or- 
ganizations are  links  of  one  and  the  same 
ch  ain  which  binds  men  to  evil  and  not  to 
good.  The  Masonic  lodge  is  the  parent 
source  from  which  all  similar  modern  or- 
ganizations have  emanated  and  this  lodge 
is  now  in  active  operation  in  every  city 
and  considerable  village  of  the  country 
swaying  our  parties  and  churches;  filling 
our  offices,  secular  and  divine,  with  its 
partisans;  shaping  our  political  destinies; 
and  teaching  a  spurious  and  corrupt- 
ing morality  subversive  both  of  the  Chris- 
tian religion  and  of  free  institutions. 

Thurhw  Weed:  "I  now  look  back 
through  an  interval  of  fifty-six  years  with 
a  conscious  sense  of  having  been  gov- 
erned through  the  Anti-masonic  excite- 
ment by  a  sincere  desire,  first  to  vindicate 
the  violated  laws  of  my  country,  and  next 
to  arrest  the  great  power  and  dangerous 
influences  of  secret  societies." 

A.  M.  Sullivan,  Irish  Leader:  I  had  not 
studied  in  vain  the  history  of  secret,oath- 
bound  associations.  I  regarded  them  with 
horror.  I  knew  all  that  could  be  said  as 
to  their  advantages  in  revolutionizing  a 
country,  but  even  in  the  firmest  and  best 
of  hands  they  had. a  direct  tendency  to 
demoralization  and  are  often  on  the 
whole  more  perilous  to  society  than  open 
tyranny." 

Eon.  Edward  Blake,leader  in  Canadian 
Parliament,  March,  ISS^:  "I  am  not  in 
favor  of  State  recognition  of  any  secret 
societies.  I  have  never  joined  one, though 
many  of  my  best  friends  are  members  of 
secret  societies.  But  I  believe  the  ten- 
dency of  secrecy  itself  to  be  injurious.  I 
believe  that  it  brings  with  it  the  possibili- 
ty of  evil;  I  believe  that  it  involves  a  cer- 
tain amount  of  sacrifice  of  individuality 
and  independence,  and  gives  very  great 
facilities  for  the  misleading  of  members 
by  designing  leaders-very  great  and  mis- 
chievous facilities  for  that  purpose."  "I 
believe  that  a  great  deal  of  the  trouble, 
social  and  political,  that  has  occurred  in 
those  countries  [Europe  and  America]  ie 
due  to  secret  societies . " 


N.  C.  A.  BUILDING  AND  OITICK  OF 

THE  CHRISTIAN   CYNOSURE, 
181  WEST  MADISON  STREET,  CHICAGO 


NA  TloyAL  CE&I8  TjJJf  A8S0CIA  TIOM 

Prbbidkut.— H.  H.  George,  D.  D.,  Gen- 
eva College,  Pa. 

ViCB-PBBBiDBHT— Rev.  M.  A.  Gault, 
Blanchard,  Iowa. 

Gob.  Sbc^t  and  Gbitbbal  Aesnr. — J 
P.  Stoddard,  221 W.  Madison  St.,  Chicago. 

Rbc.  Sb^y.  and  Trbabubbb.— W.  I 
Phillips,  221  W.  Madison  St.,   Chicago 

DiHBCTOBS. — Alexander  Thomson,  M. 
R.  Britten,  John  <3ardner,  J.  L.  Barlow, 
L.  N.  Stratton,  Thos.  H.  Gault,  C.  A. 
Blanchard,  J.  E.  Roy,  E.  R.  WorreU,  H. 
A.  Fischer,  W.  R.  Hench. 

The  object  of  this  Association  Is: 
"To  expose,  withstand  and  remove  secrel 
societies,  Freemasonry  In  pa;rtlcular,  and  othst 
antl-Chrlstian  roovements,  in  order  to  save  tt« 
churches  of  Christ  from  being  uepraved,  to  !•■ 
deem  the  administrstion  of  justice  from  pe»> 
version,  and  our  E«p  ibliean  government  from 
corruption." 

To  carry  on  this  work  contributions  an 
solicited  from  every  friend  of  the  reform. 

Form  op  Bequest. — J  give  and  bequeath  to 
the  National  Christian  Association,  Incorpo- 
rated and  existing  under  the  laws  of  the  Stata 

of   Illinois,  the  sum  of dollars  for  the 

purposes  of  said  Association,  and  for  wb!/-h 
toe  receipt  of  Its  Treasurer  for  the  time  being 
*I)a11  be  sufficient  dischacse. 

THB  NATIONAL  OONVKNTIOH. 

PBB8IDBKT.— Rev.  J.  S.  T.  Milligan, 
Denison,  Eans. 

Srckbtabt.— Rev.  R.N.Countee,  Mem- 
phis, Tenn. 

8TATB  ATTZILIABT  ASSOCIATIONS 

Alabama.— Prei.,  Prof.  Pickens;  8oc,  G. 
M.  Elliott;  Treas.,  Rev.  C.  B.  Curtis,  aU  of 
gelma. 

Cautobnia.— Pres^  L.  B.  Lathrop,  Hollla 
ter;  Cor.  Sec,  Mrs.  U.  P.  Merrill,  Woodland; 
Treas.,  C.  Ruddock,  Woodland. 

CoNKBCTicuT.— Pres.,  J.  A.  Con&nt,  Willi 
mantle;  Sec,  Geo.  Smith,  WlUlmantlc ;  Treas. 
C.  T.  CoUlns,  Windsor. 

Illinois.— Pres.,  J.  P.  Stoddard.  Bee,  M. 
N.  Butler;  Treas.,  W.  1.  Phllllpt  all  &t  Cy- 
jumtre  office. 

Indiana.— Pre*.,  WiUIam  H.  Fl^g,  Reno 
Sec,  8.  L.  Cook,  Albion ;  Treas.,  BenJ.  Ulah 
Silver  Lake. 

lOWA.— PreB.,Wm.John8ton,CoIIege8pring8 
Cor   Sec,  C.   D.   Trumbull,   Morning   Sun* 
Treas.,  James  Harvey,  Pleasant  Plain,  Jeffer 
son  Co. ;  Lecturer,  C.  F.  Hawlev,  Wheaton,  III. 

Kansas.— Prea.,  J.  S.  T.  Mllfigan,  Deulson; 
8«c.,  S.  Hart,  Lccompton;  Treaa.,  J.  A.  Tor- 
rence,  Denison. 

Massachcsbtts.— Pres.,  8.  A.  Pratt;  Sac, 
Mrs.  E.  D.  BaUey;  Treas.,  David  Mannh)g,8r., 
Worcester. 

Michigan —Pres.,  D.  A.  Richards,  Brighton 
Sec'y,  H.  A.  Day,  WUlIamston;  Treat. 
Geo.  Bwanson,  Jr.,  Bedfoiu. 

MiNNBSOTA.— Pre*.,  E.  G.  Paine,  Wuloja 
Cor.  Sec,  Wm.  Fenton,  St.  Paul :  Rec  SecV 
Mrs.  M.  F.  Morrill,  St.  Charles;  Treaa.,  Wa 
H.  Morrll),  St.  Charles. 

Missouri.- Pre*.,  B.  F.  Miller,  EaflevlUa 
Treas-jWlUlam Beauchamp,  Avalon;  Cor.  Sfc. 
A.  D.  "ThomaB,  Avalon. 

NiBBASKA.— Prea.,  S.  Austin,  F&Irmouit 
Cor.  Sec.,  W.        Bpooner,  Kearney;   lYoaa.* 
J.C.  Fyo. 

Maine— Pres,  Isaac  Jackson,  Harrlaon- 
Soc,  1.  D.  Ualuis,  Dexter;  Treas.,  H.  W. 
Uoddard,  West  JMdnoy. 

NbwBampbhjkb— Prea.,  C.  L.  Baker,  Man 
Chester;  Sec,  S.  C.  Kimball,  New  Market 
Treaa.,  James  /.  French,  Canterbury. 

Niw  YOHK.— Pres.,  F.  W.  Capwell,  Dale; 
Sec'y,  John  Wallace,  Syracuse;  Treaa.,  M. 
Merrick,  Syracuae. 

Ohio.— Pres.,  F.  M.  Siiencer,  New  Concord-, 
Rec8ec.,8.  A.  George,  Mansfleld;  Cor.  Sec 
and  Treas.,  C.  W.  hiatt,  Columbus;  Agent 
W.  B.  8to\1dard,  Columbus. 

Pbnnsti.vanu.- Cor.  flee,  N.  Callender 
Thoapiop  ;  Treaa.,  W.  B.Bertels,  WUkeebarre. 

Vkbmont.— Prea.,  W.  R.  Laird,  St.  Jolini. 
bury ;  Btc,  C.  W  Potter. 

WIBCOH8IB.— Pres.,  J.  W  Wood,  B&ralioo; 
Sec.,  W.  W.  Ame^  Menomonle ;  Tieaa.,  M.  U 
Britten,  Vienna. 


8 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


June  28, 1888 


The  Christian  Cynosure. 


J.  BLANCHARD. 


SsnoBS. 


H«NRY  L.  KELLOGG. 


C2ICA6U,   X&UliiiOAS,   JUNE   28,    1888. 


Ihdbpendencb  Day.— Charles  Sumner  gave  us  a  theme 
for  our  Fourth  of  July  number,  which  is  better  for  be- 
ing early,  as  it  in  turn  may  be  a  suggestion  for  some 
profitable  thoughts  upon  that  day.  There  are  unhappy 
marks  of  degeneration  upon  our  national  holiday.  Let 
us  by  the  consideration  of  such  principles  as  are  dis- 
cussed in  this  number  of  the  Gs/nosure— the  deliverance 
of  our  good  land  from  the  evils  of  war,  the  saloon,  the 
lodge,  and  forgetfulaebs  of  God— help  to  restore  the  day 
to  its  pristine  glury. 


The  roar  of  the  LoocrsTs  continues.  They  are 
the  harmless  bag-pipers  of  invisible  armies  whom 
God  sends  for  the  sins  of  men.  We  next  week  will 
give  a  curious  and  interesting  theory  by  a  keen  ob- 
server, Mr.  Roswell  Dow,  which  appears  in  the  Syca- 
more, 111.,  City  Wetkly. 


Our  annual  meeting,  reported  in  this  number, 
should  be  scanned  with  care.  It  was  interesting  and 
important  and  lively,  but  its  conclusions  were  gen- 
erally unanimous.  Our  Washington  matters  never 
looked  so  well  as  now.  Secretary  Stoddard's  work 
there  gives  good  satisfaction.  He  has  headed  our 
cause  up  stream,  and  Prof.  Bailey's  evangelizing 
work  is  working  finely.  But  whoever  expects  the 
lodge-cancers  to  be  extracted  from  this  leading  na- 
tion of  the  world  without  a  mighty  struggle,  self- 
denial,  and  even  suffering,  mistakes  this  world  alto- 
gether. Look  over  the  false  worships  of  the  Bible 
and  see  what  it  cubls  to  root  one  up.  "We  wrestle 
not  with  flesh  and  biood  but  with  principalities,"  etc. 


POLITICS. 


It  took  twenty-eight  solid  years  of  hard  fighting, 
that  is,  from  1832  to  1865  to  force  the  discussion  of 
slavery  before  the  American  people,  so  that  no  news- 
paper could  blink  it,  sneer  at  it,  or  wholly,  silently 
ignore  it  If  an  editor  took  up  the  slavery  discus- 
sion in  earnest,  he  was  liable  to  lose  from  one-half 
to  the  whole  of  his  list  of  subscribers;  so  that  almost 
an  entire  new  set  of  prints  had  to  be  produced  be- 
fore slavery  and  its  abolition  could  get  a  hearing. 
It  has  taken  ten  years  longer  to  force  the  liquor  ques- 
tion into  the  American  press.  And,  even  now,  the 
two  parties,  whose  conventions  represent  the  whole 
foity-five  American  States  and  territories,  endeavor 
to  blink  and  ignore  the  liquor  issue.  The  Demo- 
crats did  not  dare  even  to  put  a  "sumptuary  legisla- 
tion—  personal  liberty"  plank  in  their  platform,  but 
contented  themselves  with  "reaflirming"  a  former 
platform  which  had  that  plank  in  it;  which  they  do 
not  now  care  to  repeat  for  fear  of  the  rising  anti- 
liquor  sentiment. 

The  Republican  platform,  after  the  platitudes  of 
politics,  realflrming  "our  unswerving  devotion  to  the 
Union  and  Constitution,"  challenge  our  support  "by 
its  fealty  to  tar'fl'  for  protection;"  as  if  every  tariff 
did  not  "protect"  the  article  on  which  the  tariff  is 
laid,  by  keeping  out  foreign  competition,  and  pro- 
duce "revenue"  to  support  government.  And  no 
parly  has  ever  existed  which  seriously  proposed  to 
pay  the  expenses  of  government  by  direct  taxes 
without  a  tariff.  To  avoid  a  surplua  revenue  the 
platform  proposes  to  repeal  the  tariff  on  tobacco; 
but  says  not  one  word  on  the  liquor  question,  which 
now  agitates  the  people  from  the  capes  of  Florida 
to  those  of  Alaska.  It  needs  no  doctors'  diagnosis 
to  learn  that  such  parties  are  moribund.  Conscien- 
tious and  patriotic  men  will  soon  leave  them,  as 
New  York  ''barn-burners"  left  the  Democratic  party 
under  Van  Buren  in  1848;  anti-Texas  men,  under 
John  P.  Hale  in  1852;  and  under  David  Wilmot 
soon  after.  And  they,  and  the  Sumner  and  Wilson 
Anti-slavery  Whigs,  formed  the  Republican  party  in 
185G  under  Fremont. 

These  old  parties  thus  winnowed  by  new  issues 
uontainid  only  the  debris  or  fjfculum  of  politics, 
uonsisting  of  ( llice-seekers  and  tjummers. 

The  nucleud  of  the  new  reform  party  is  already 
well  under  way.  The  indianapoliB  Convmtiou  of 
the  ProhibilionJBlB  was  a  alu(>eDdous  mee<ing.  They 
wi-re  wrought  up  to  the  highest  pitch  of  enthusiasm 
without  any  hope  or  expectation  of  electing  their 
candidate  next  fail:  which  shows  that  they  are  what 
the  Republican  parly  once  was,  the  "Party  of  Prin- 
ciple." They  fear  God  and  love  men.  The  secret 
temperance  lodges  are  their  only  stumbling-blockb. 
But  the  death  of  John  B.  Finch  has  left  the  leader- 


ship of  the  secret  wing  of  the  Prohibitionists  in  the 
hands  of  a  few  men  of  moderate  stature  and  parts; 
and  the  woman's  ballot  issue  only  produced  a  jar 
in  the  movement  of  the  great  convention.  But 
twenty-eight  protested  against  it  while  a  full  thou- 
sand voted  in  its  support. 

The  Americans  voted  for  St.  John  and  Daniel 
four  years  ago;  and  we  need  only  to  continue  to 
reach  the  Prohibitionists  with  facts  and  arguments 
to  induce  the  entire  body  to  adopt  the  whole  Ameri- 
can platform,  as  they  have  already  adopted  our  rec- 
ognition of  God,  the  Sabbath,  and  the  Bible  as  the 
standard  of  law  and  morals.     This  we  shall  do. 

Gov.  St.  John,  Gen.  Fisk,  and  Miss  Frances  E.. 
Willard,  with  their  compeers,  openly  declare  their 
conviction  against  the  lodge,  and  these  are  "the 
First  Three"  in  the  Prohibition  army. 

On  the  whole,  American  politics  was  never  in  a 
more  hopeful  condition  than  at  present.  Slavery 
confronted  the  fathers  of  '76.  Reconstruction 
threatened  our  peace  after  slavery  fell.  But  the 
lodge  and  liquor  are  the  last  hope  of  the  devil. 
These  gone,  and  our  national  sky  is  clear. 


'HEATHEN  POPE  BOB." 


The  numerous  candidates  before  the  Republican 
National  Convention  were,  as  might  be  expected,  no 
aid  to  its  harmonious  action.  Sherman's  strength 
was  greatest,  but  his  adherents  were  no  more  per- 
sistent than  the  backers  of  Blaine,  Alger,  Harrison 
and  Gresham.  The  latter,  though  properly  from 
Indiana,  was  endorsed  by  Illinois,  and  all  the  local 
influence  in  Chicago  was  thrown  in  his  favor.  The 
great  Republican  dailies  here  have  urged  his  claims 
with  great  force.  A  large  procession  of  working- 
men,  numbering  thousands,  each  carrying  a  tin  din- 
ner-pail, marched  through  the  streets  Thursday  even- 
ing to  create  a  demonstration  in  favor  of  the  able 
judge  of  the  United  States  Court  who  daily  attend- 
ed to  his  work  and  let  the  convention  take  care  of 
itself.  Had  he  interfered  Friday  evening  he  might 
have  prevented  an  unhappy  reminiscence.  The  Con- 
vention hall  was  literally  packed  that  evening.  The 
local  politicians  had  done  their  work  and  thousands 
were  going  in  without  tickets  until  the  delegates 
could  hardly  pass  the  door. 

Business  was  begun  and  a  speech  by  Depew, 
withdrawing  his  name,  seemed  about  to  precipitate 
a  stampede  to  Harrison.  To  prevent  this  his  oppo- 
nents carried,  amid  greatest  confusion,  an  adjourn- 
ment. The  shouts  of  the  galleries  prevented  the 
announcement  of  the  vote.  A  large  proportion  of 
delegates  were  leaving  and  the  chairman  himself 
left  his  place  and  gave  over  the  meeting  to  the 
crowd.  The  Chicago  men  brought  forward  R  G. 
Ingersoll  and  he  was  heard  for  a  time  with  patience 
until  he  gave  his  voice  for  Gresham,  when  a  storm 
of  applause  followed  by  yells  of  opposition  which 
he  could  not  quiet;  and  he  slunk  back  out  of  sight 
with  the  satisfaction  of  knowing  that  he  had  de 
stroyed  all  hopes  of  his  favorite.  Disorder  reigned 
until  the  meeting  dispersed,  and  about  the  hotels 
was  heard  the  derisive  shout,  "What's  the  matter 
with  Gresham?"  "Who  knocked  him  out?" 
''Heathen  Pope  Boh." 


PERSONAL  MENTION. 


— Bro.  R.  N.  Countee  writes  that  he  hopes  tocome 
North  for  rest  and  recuperation  soon. 

— The  independent  church  of  Washington  Heights, 
111.,  of  which  Rev.  E.  R.  Worrell,  of  the  N.  C.  A. 
Board  his  been  acting  pastor,  has  sent  out  invita- 
tions for  a  council  to  ordain  him  tormally  to  the 
pastorate,  to  meet  this  week. 

— Pres.  L.  N.  Stratton,  of  Wheaton  Theological 
Seminary,  has  been  in  poor  health  for  several  weeks 
past,  yet  has  attended  to  his  regular  duties.  He 
has  gone  East  hoping  to  regain  strength  while  vis- 
iting the  New  York  churches. 

— Rev.  E.  B.  Graham  of  the  Midland,  Omaha, 
though  a  Prohibitionist,  felt  the  attractions  of  Chi- 
cago and  a  great  convention,  and  was  here  in  time 
to  see  Benjamin  Harrison  nominated.  His  brief 
call  on  the  Cynoture  made  us  wish  for  more. 

— Mr.  J.  B.  Hobbs,  candidate  of  the  Prohibition 
and  American  partv  for  Governor  of  Illinois  in 
1884,  lately  gave  $25,000  for  the  erection  of  a  build- 
ing for  Dearborn  Observatory,  which  was  removed 
with  its  great  telescope  to  the  Northwestern  Univer 
sity  on  the  closing  out  of  the  Chicago  University 
Severn!  }ears  ago.  Mr.  Hobbs  had  the  pleasure  of 
laying  the  corner-stone  of  the  new  building  last 
wtek  with  appropriate  but  un-masouic  cerem.mies. 

A  characteristic  story  is  told  of  Rev.  Mjronlleed, 
pastor  of  the  First  Congregational  church.  Denver, 


Freemason  and  "hale  fellow,"who  two  years  ago  ran 
as  the  Democratic  Congressional  candidate  in  Colo- 
rado. It  seems  that  during  the  canvass  he  was  in- 
terrupted in  the  midst  of  a  public  prayer  by  a  man 
who  shouted,  "Louder!"  Reed  stopped  short,looked 
at  the  interrupter  and  said  coolly:  "I  wasn't  address- 
ing you,  sir.  I  was  addressing  the  Almighty." 
Then  he  went  on  with  his  prayer.  If  it  should  be 
that  this  story  is  true  the  Masonic  lodge  must  be 
credited  with  the  irreverence^as  it  was  in  that  school 
that  Mr.  Reed  learned  to  insult  Jehovah. 


—What  says  Van  Buren  county,  Iowa,  to  the 
challenge  from  Page? 

— There  was  no  hiss  in  the  Prohibition  Conven- 
tion this  year,  when  secret  societies  were  condemned 
by  Mr.  Tate  of  Tennessee.  Next  time  we  hope  to 
hear  such  a  sentiment  received  with  applause. 

— Among  the  standing  committees  of  the  Re- 
formed Presbyterian  church  is  one  on  Secret  Socie- 
ties, of  which  Rev.  David  McFall  of  Boston  is  chair- 
man When  all  the  churches  shall  have  such  a  com- 
mittee tho  end  of  the  lodge  is  near. 

— The  Living  Way  of  last  week  announces  that 
the  corner-stone  of  the  Memphis  Baptist  Bible  Nor- 
mal School  will  be  laid  Thursday,  June  28th,  about 
four  o'clock.  Every  church  in  the  city  is  asked  to 
send  the  names  of  the  pastors  and  officers  to  be  de- 
posited accompanied  with  $5.00.  Individuals  may 
deposit  their  names  for  25  cents  each. 

— On  Monday  afternoon  a  meeting  was  held  in  the 
W.  C.  T.  U.  hall  in  Wheaton  for  the  Anti-secrecy 
League  movement,  at  which  addresses  were  to  be 
given  by  brethren  J.  P.  and  W.  B.  Stoddard,  H.  H. 
Hinman  and  L.  G.  Jordan  of  Texas.  As  we  cannot 
get  a  report  of  it  until  the  forma  are  ready  for  press, 
our  readers  are  asked  to  wait  for  it. 


THE  N   G.  A.  BOARD  MEETING. 


By  arrangement  with  the  members  of  the  Board 
present  at  the  annual  meeting  the  first  meeting  of 
the  new  Board  was  held  on  Saturday  morning.  There 
were  present  brethren  Thomson,  Barlow,  Gardner, 
C.  A.  Blanchard,  Milton,  Chittenden,  Fischer  and 
Worrell.  After  prayer  by  Rav.  H.  H.  Hinman,per- 
manent  organization  was  completed  by  the  election 
of  Alex.  Thomson  as  president;  G.  R.  Milton,  vice- 
president;  E.  R.  Worrell,  secretary. 

The  resignation  of  M.  R.  Britten  was  presented 
and  accepted,  and  John  Sutcliffe,  who  was  present, 
was  elected  to  the  vacancy.  The  following  standing 
committees  were  elected: 

On  Finance:  H.  A.  Fischer,  J'^hn  Sutcliffe  and  E.  R. 
Worrell. 

On  Buildings:  W.  I.  Phillips,  J.  P.  Stoddard  and  Al- 
exander Thomson. 

On  Publication:  L.  N.  Stratton,  H.  L.  Kellogg,  and  J.. 
L  Barlow. 

It  was  voted  to  refer  the  Treasurer's  bond  to  the 
Financial  committee. 

At  this  point  the  General  Secretary  commended 
the  Board  to  prayer  and  Elder  Barlow  was  called 
upon  to  lead  in  the  devotion. 

The  question  of  the  salaries  of  the  different  em- 
ployes of  the  Association  was  considered,  and  the 
treasurer  was  directed  to  pay  the  same  amounts  as 
last  year  to  the  editors,  publisher  and  agents. 

In  regard  to  the  Washington  work  it  was  voted 
that  the  General  Agent  should  continue  for  the 
present  the  work  now  begun  in  the  capital.  It  was 
further  voted,after  some  discussion,  that  the  matter 
of  securing  a  permanent  agent  for  the  Washington 
district  be  referred  to  the  General  Agent  and  the 
Committee  on  Publications  who  should  act  together 
in  their  inquiries. 

The  enlargement  of  the  Southern  work  was  con- 
sidered at  some  length.  Some  desired  that  immed- 
iate steps  should  be  taken  to  raise  funds  for  the  es- 
tablishment of  a  New  Orleans  head  (Quarters;  others 
that  there  should  be  an  enlargement  of  the  Southern 
work  in  other  directions  before  a  district  agent 
should  be  there  located.  The  Southern  Agent  was 
anxious  to  engage  in  this  work  at  once.  It  was 
finally  voted  that  Bro.  Hinman  be  directed  to  spend 
the  summer  months  in  lecture  work,  raising  a  fund 
meantime  to  enlarge  the  work  at  the  South  and  es- 
tablish a  depositor}  there. 

It  was  settled  that  the  Board  should  hold  meet  - 
ings  once  every  three  months,  beginning  on  the  last 
Thursday  in  July,  other  special  meetings  to  be  held 
at  the  call  of  the  chairman  and  secretary. 

W.  B.  Stoddard,  Ohio  agent,  spoke  of  the  grati- 
tude of  the  Ohio  Association  for  the  aid  granted  by 
the  N.  C.  A.  in  carrying  on  its  work,  and  requested 
that  25  per  cent  be  allowed  on  the  renewals  to  the 
Cynosure  subscriptions  taken  during  the  past  year  to 
make  up  a  deficiency  in  bis  salary.  The  request  was 


•JuNX  28,  1888 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


granted  and  the  arrangement  was  voted  to  be  con- 
tinued in  the  future  with  all  the  State  agents. 

It  was  also  voted  to  instruct  such  State  agents 
as  are  paid  in  part  by  the  N.  C.  A.  to  make  every 
proper  effort  to  organize  counties  in  permanent  as- 
sociations. 

Thts  Board  adjourned  after  prayer. 


FINANCIAL  STATBMSNT 


OF   TUB   AOENT   FOR   TUB   80DTU. 

I  wish  to  state  just  what  has  been  the  entire  cost 
of  the  work  of  the  Southern  agent  duriug  the  past 
year,  including  salary,  expenses  and  donations: 

For  railroad  fares $  276  97 

Hotels 155.80 

Postage 13  55 

Donation  of  books 14.67 

Salary 700.00 

$1,160.99 
From  which  deduct: 
Collections  on  the  field 20.20 

Leaving  net  cost $1,140.70 

Distance  traveled 9,500  miles. 

H.  H.  HiNMAN. 


GOMMBNCBMENT  AT  WHBATON. 

The  twenty-eighth  anniversary  of  Wheaton  Col- 
lege was  ushered  in  by  the  usual  preliminary  class 
meetings,  literary  society  meetings,  etc.  The  enter- 
tainment given  by  the  Conservatory  of  Music  on 
Saturday  evening,  June  16lh,  was  a  fine  exhibition 
of  the  skill  of  Prof.  Harris's  pupils. 

On  Sabbath  morning  the  Baccalaureate  sermon 
was  preached  by  ex-President  J.  Blanchard  from 
the  texts  Isaiah  5:13,  "Therefore,  my  people  are 
gone  into  captivity,  because  they  have  no  knowl- 
edge;" and  John  17:3,  "And  this  is  life  eternal.that 
they  might  know  thee,  the  OLly  true  God,  and  Jesus 
Christ  whom  thou  hast  sent."  The  address  urged 
an  obedient  understanding  of  the  law  of  God  in 
Christ,  that  the  world  might  be  delivered  from  the 
fictions  by  which  priests,  lodges  and  despots  have 
controlled  the  people.  In  the  evening  the  mission- 
ary discourse  by  Rev.  J.  Wyckoff,  Slate  Evangelist 
of  the  Home  Missionary  Society,  on  "The  World's 
Exodus,"  was  an  earnest  plea  for  Christian  self- 
sacrifice  for  the  salvation  of  the  world. 

The  address  of  Rev.  Dr.  Trowbridge  of  Aurora 
before  the  Art  School  Monday  afternoon  was  an 
agreeable  conclusion  to  a  year  of  excellent  and  prof- 
itable work  by  that  branch  of  the  institution  under 
the  charge  of  Mrs.  S.  H.  Nutting. 

Tuesday  the  Board  of  Trustees  held  their  annual 
meeting.  L.  N.  Stratton  and  Roswell  Dow  were  re- 
elected, their  time  having  expired.  Rev.Wm.  Pink- 
ney  was  elected  to  take  the  place  of  Mr.  Brecken- 
ridge,  deceased.  The  only  change  in  the  Faculty 
was  occasioned  by  the  resignation  of  the  Lady  Prin- 
cipal, Miss  Hulbert,  whose  just  and  gentle  rule  dur- 
ing the  two  years  past  has  endeared  her  to  the  whole 
institution.  The  treasurer  reported  donations  and 
legacies  amounting  to  over  $10,000  during  the  year, 
for  the  building  fund,  endowments,  and  general  ex- 
penses. There  was  still  something  short  in  the  lat- 
ter, some  $340  being  needed  to  pay  all  salaries  and 
have  no  debt. 

The  meeting  of  the  Alumni  Association  met  in 
the  afternoon  for  the  annual  reunion  and  was  mark- 
ed by  large  attendance  and  abundant  good  fellow- 
ship. Among  the  distinguished  guests  of  the  Asso- 
ciation was  Pres.  H.  H.  George,  D.  D.,  of  Geneva 
College,  Pa.  Brief  addresses  from  a  number  of  the 
alumni  formed  the  literary  exercises  of  the  evening. 

The  exercises  of  the  graduating  day  were  highly 
favored  both  by  nature  and  art.  A  more  delightful 
June  day  there  could  not  be,  and  within  the  College 
Hall  tasteful  decorations  met  the  eye.  Flags,  por 
trails,  statuary,  were  arranged  with  charming  skill, 
intermingled  with  abundance  of  flowers,  water-lilies 
prevailing.  Lyon's  fine  orchestra,  well  known  to 
the  frequenters  of  ITarwell  Hall,  Chicago,  was  ready 
to  attend  the  entrance  of  the  Faculty  and  Trustees 
with  a  stirring  march  and  to  discourse  attractive 
mu&ic  during  the  exercises. 

The  opening  prayer  by  Rev.  Dr.  Qeorgi',  was  an 
earnest  appeal,  moving  all  hearts  by  its  plea  fur  fel- 
lowship among  colleges  which  stood  for  Christ 
against  the  world's  evils. 

The  opening  oration  was  by  the  only  lady  of  the 
class,  Misd  Jessie  Clare  Beach  of  Ashton,  111.,  who, 
like  the  gifted  Helen  Hunt  Jackson,  chose  the  In- 
dian for  tuis  her  greatest  public  effort.  She  chose 
well  and  honored  the  humane  sentiment  that  in- 
spired "Romona". 


William  L  Enlow  of  Birmingham,  Iowa,  spoke 
on  "Pilate's  Question."  Ho  reviewed  in  a  conscien- 
tious manner  the  characters  and  occasions  which 
raise  the  question,  "What  is  Truth?" 

George  A.  Conrad  of  Grinnell,  Iowa,  spoke  on 
"Expediency,"  a  term  of  which  he  is  far  from  being 
an  exponent,  any  more  than  were  the  Calebs  and 
Joshuas  of  an  elder  day  who  feared  not  the  giants 
that  guarded  the  Mshcol  of  the  promised  land. 

"Our  Sabbath"  was  a  good  theme,  finely  treated 
in  an  earnest  address  by  Arthur  E.  Northrup  of 
Wheaton. 

James  Parsons  of  Harmon,  111.,  spoke  on  "Social- 
ism," and  though  this  topic  has  in  all  its  various 
phases  been  widely  discussed  for  two  years  past, 
his  ideas  and  their  presentation  were  fresh  and  well 
appreciated. 

A.  Burton  Stratton  gave  play  to  a  strong  imag- 
ination in  an  oration  on  "Milestones",  which  kept 
the  audience  rather  in  mind  of  the  time  and  place 
than  the  other  topics  discussed  by  the  class. 

Franklin  F.  Ames  of  Menominee,  Wisconsin, 
dealt  with  "Imperial  England"  for  her  treatment  of 
the  Irish  demand  for  home  rule;  not  forgetting  how 
much  civilization  and  republican  constitutional  gov- 
ernment owes  also  to  English  history.  To  his  vale- 
dictory address  to  the  trustees,  faculty,  and  the 
class  the  audience  listened  with  breathless  interest. 

The  class  of  1885  furnished  one  of  their  most 
illustrious  representatives  for  the  Master's  Oration, 
which  was  spoken  by  Rev.  E.  R.  Worrell  of  Wash- 
ington Heights.  His  topic,  "The  Tendencies  of 
Modern  Education,"  was  an  ably  considered  and 
well-spoken  vindication  of  conscience  and  Christian 
morality  in  all  processes  of  education. 

President  C.  A.  Blanchard  conferred  the  degrees 
and  Rev.  Mr.  Abbott  of  Geneva  pronounced  the 
benediction. 

Lyon's  Orchestra,  assisted  by  Mrs.  Goetz,  a  solo- 
ist who  captivated  every  listener,  gave  a  fine  concert 
in  the  evening  preceding  the  annual  President's 
levee. 


OUR   WA8H1N0T0N  LETTER. 


Wheaton  Theological  Seminary  graduated  this 
year  a  class  of  three  on  Monday  evening,  June  18: 
W.  H.  Clatworthy,  G.  H.  Croker.and  John  Croker. 
Their  graduating  addresses  were  heard  by  a  fine 
audience.  The  annual  sermon  before  the  Seminary 
was  preached  by  Rav.  William  Pinkney,  president 
of  the  Illinois  Wesleyan  Conference.  His  theme 
was  the  preparation  and  qualifications  of  the  Gos- 
pel minister,  and  his  earnest  and  practical  address 
grew  eloquent  as  he  closed  with  a  fervid  appeal  that 
the  gracious  work  of  the  Holy  Spirit  should  take 
the  first  place  in  all  preparation  for  Christian  work. 


SUE00L8  AND   COLLEGES. 


— Commencement  at  Geneva  College  occurred  May 
24.  A  class  of  twenty  graduated,  all  of  whom  pro- 
nounced an  oration.  Thirteen  received  from  Dr. 
George  the  degree  of  B.  A.,  and  seven  were  from 
the  scieitific  course.  The  whole  anniversary  at 
Geneva  continued  a  week  and  was  an  occasion  of 
varied  and  unalloyed  enjoyment.  Dr.  George 
preached  the  Baccalaureate  sermon  from  2  Tim.  3: 
16,  17,  on  the  necessity  of  Bible  study  to  a  perfect 
manhood. 

— Dr.  Newton  Batemen,  president  of  Knox  Col- 
lege, Galesburg,  111.,  after  informing  the  Board  of 
Trustees  in  his  annual  report  last  Tuesday  that  514 
students  had  attended  the  college  during  the  year, 
and  that  the  tuition  receipts  had  increased  $1,500, 
tendered  his  resignation,  to  take  effect  July  1,  ill- 
health  being  the  cause.  Major  R.  W.  McClaughrey, 
warden  of  the  penitentiary  at  Joliet,  111.,  and  a 
graduate  of  Monmouth,  is  suggested  as  Dr.  Bate- 
man's  successor.  It  is  thought  that  his  great  ex- 
ecutive ability  would  greatly  increase  the  attend- 
ance at  Knox;  but  the  great  work  he  is  carrying  for- 
ward in  reforming  penal  institutions  would  suffer  a 
corresponding  loss. 


The  king  of  Popo  (Dahomey)  writes  to  Rev.  Bry- 
an Roe,  of  the  Wesleyan  Missionary  Society: "Since 
my  accession  to  the  throne  of  my  fathers,  I  have  al- 
ways had  it  in  mind  to  confer  with  you  regarding 
the  Gospel  of  our  Lord  Jesus  Christ  which  jour 
committee  in  Ka^Iand  have  sent  to  this  country  and 
which  myself  and  the  sons  of  my  people  have  joy 
fully  accepted ....  I  have  granted  a  piece  of  land  to 
the  Wesleyan  Mission,  and  on  it  I  intend  myself  to 
build  a  church  for  the  above  mission  and  for  the 
glory  of  God  in  this  country.  This  subject  is  the 
foremost  one  in  my  mind  amidst  the  8t«.)rm8  of  dif- 
ficulties I  am  called  upon  to  pass  through,  and  by 
God's  grace  I  will  do  it." — Mittionary  Review, 


Washington,  June  22,  1888. 

With  one  third  of  our  law  makers  at  the  Chicago 
convention  and  the  other  two-thirds  attending  chief- 
ly to  the  bulletins  which  give  the  news  from  that  city, 
legislative  business  is  not  brisk  on  Capitol  Hill. 
Still  Congress  pretends  to  be  at  work  on  the  appro- 
priation bills,  and  these  measures  arc  provoking  a 
great  deal  of  wrangling,  as  they  always  do.  The 
Sundry  Civil  bill,  for  instance,  always  contains  a 
dozen  or  two  bones  of  contention,  and  it  has  been 
before  the  House  for  the  past  week.  There  is  some- 
thing of  a  fight  over  almost  every  item  that  it  cjn- 
tains,  and  there  was  quite  a  sharp  discussion  over 
another  appropriation  asked  for  the  National  Li; 
brary  building  now  in  course  of  erection  east  of  the 
Capitol. 

Congress  voted  more  than  a  year  ago  for  a  new 
Congressional  Library  and  appropriated  $3,000,000 
for  the  same.  It  was  considered  quite  a  victory  for 
the  cause  of  public  education  and  liberal  statesman- 
ship when,  after  a  struggle  of  ten  or  twelve  years, 
authority  was  obtained  to  begin  building  operations. 
The  ground  was  purchased  and  cleared  of  the  build- 
ings upon  it,  excavations  were  made  and  the  footing 
laid.  But  the  claim  is  made  that  the  original  esti- 
mate for  the  building  was  $3,000,000  only,  whereas 
it  is  now  evident  that  the  cost  will  amount  to 
$7,000,000,  and  by  a  vote  of  mor»  than  two  to  one 
it  has  been  decided  to  stop  work  on  the  structure, 
dissolve  the  board,  repeal  the  first  act,  and  then 
have  the  Senate  and  House  committees  together 
agree  upon  some  plan  for  the  Library  that  will  not 
exceed  the  expenditure  of  $3,000,000. 

The  Democratic  Congressmen  who  attended  the 
St.  Louis  National  Convention  had  scarcely  settled 
themselves  in  their  seats  again  when  the  Republi- 
can members  left  for  their  convtnlion  in  Chicago. 
All  is  not  well  with  Congrees  during  Presidential 
campaigns.  Legislation  suffers  because  of  the  ab- 
sence of  members,  and  those  who  remain  cannot 
debate  any  (juestion  without  interlarding  it  with 
campaign  talk,  entirely  irrelevant  to  the  sub- 
ject. 

While  the  District  Police  bill  was  lately  under 
consideration.  Representative  Struble  of  Iowa  ar- 
raigned the  majority  in  Congress  lor  giving  no  at- 
tention to  the  demands  for  temperance  legislation, 
declaring  that  it  was  prohibition  or  substantial  re- 
striction of  the  sale  of  liquor  in  the  District  of 
Columbia  that  was  needed  more  than  increased 
police  or  police  facilities.  The  committee  to  which 
the  temperance  bills  had  been  referred  was  attacked 
by  Mr.  Dingley  for  its  remissness  in  not  having  re- 
ported back  these  measures.  He  said  the  arrests 
for  drunkenness  in  the  State  of  Maine  were  not 
more  than  one-tenth  the  number  of  such  arrests  in 
the  District  The  District  Committee  was  defended 
by  Mr.  Rowell,  one  of  its  members,  who  said  it  had 
had  all  the  work  it  could  do,  and  that  it  had  been 
deprived  by  the  tariff  bill  of  five  days  to  which  it 
was  justly  entitled  to  for  the  disposal  of  its  busi- 
ness. Mr.  Campbell,  the  chairman  of  the  Alcoholic 
Li<iuor  Traffic  Committee,  said  his  bills  would  have 
been  acted  upon  but  for  the  failure  to  get  a  ({uorum 
of  his  committee.  In  the  (luestion  of  prohibition, 
he  said  his  committee  was  awaiting  the  action  of 
the  Senate  Committee. 

One  of  the  pleasantest  sights  of  the  czpital  is  the 
Gospel  Wagon.  It  is  a  church  on  wheels,  and  is 
one  of  the  agencies  used  by  the  workers  of  the 
Union  Mission.  Every  Sabbath  it  passes  from  one 
point  to  another  where  preaching  services  are  held, 
and  nearly  every  evening  it  carries  Christian  work- 
ers on  their  evangelistic  trips.  Different  churches 
in  the  city  are  interested  in  the  work  of  the  Mis- 
sion, and  their  representatives  take  part  in  the 
meetings  and  assist  in  the  missionary  efforts  that 
are  being  made.  Representatives  of  a  number  of 
the  churches  have  some  one  evening  in  the  week 
when  they  take  charge  of  the  Gospel  Wagon,  and 
conduct  the  services  at  the  several  localities  in  the 
city  where  the  services  are  held.  The  purpose  is  to 
reach  the  class  of  people  who  do  not  go  to  church 
and  who  have  no  church  connections.  The  church 
is  in  this  way  brought  to  them.  The  chief  field  of 
operation  for  the  wagon  is  the  outskirts  of  the  city. 
It  is  twenty  feet  long  by  seven  leet  wide  and  six 
and  one-half  feet  high.  The  wheels  are  low  and  of 
the  same  size,  so  that  the  box  can  turn  on  them, 
and  all  of  the  running  gear  is  unusually  large  and 
strong,  having  been  made  to  order  just  for  the  pur- 
pose. When  on  its  way  to  meeting,  the  wagon, 
drawn  by  four  horses,  looks  like  a  new  kind  of  ex- 
cursion vehicle.  When  it  stops  for  a  meeting  it  is 
quickly  transformed  into  a  cximfortable  little  pulpit 
and  choir  platform,  with  the  organist  ready  to  play 
and  the  leaders  and  singers  standing  in  front     * 


10 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSTJKE. 


JuNB  28, 1888 


The  Home. 


NATION  BY  TES  PILGRIMS  PLANT3D. 

Natioa,  by  the  Pilgrims  plauted, 

In  their  weaknese,  faint  and  few, 
Braving  Western  wilds,  undauQted, 

Founding  here  an  empire  new, 
Gird  thee  for  tby  sacred  mission, 

Take  thy  place  In  freedom's  van, 
Rise,  to  equal  thy  commission, 

Stand  for  God,  and  truth  and  man. 

Nation,  heir  of  all  the  ages. 

Called  to  scepter  In  euch  time, 
Fire  of  prophet,  light  of  sages, 

Gul3e  thee  on  thy  path  sublime : 
Once,  earth's  eyes  were  on  thee  gazing, 

When  her  cheeks  for  thee  grew  pale; 
Now,  thy  grand  achievements  praising, 

Glad,  she  greets  thee.    Hall,  all  halll 

Nation,  by  rich  blood  defended. 

Shed  on  many  a  hard  fought  field, 
Where  thy  realm  shall  be  extended, 

Be  the  Saviour's  sign  revealed : 
Let  his  cross  above  thy  banner, 

Build  his  kingdom  up  the  first! 
Till  with  shoutings  of  hosanna, 

Glory  on  the  world  shall  burst. 

May  thy  laws,  O  great  Jehovah, 

Ever  be  the  nation's  guide ; 
Her,  thy  {rings  In  battle  cover. 

And  in  peace  from  peril  hide: 
Like  the  voice  of  either  ocean, 

Making  each  to  each  reply : 
May  the  sound  of  her  devotion, 

£ast  and  west,  mount  up  on  high ! 

—  J.  E.  llankin,  D.  J).,  in  the  Advance. 


WILLIAM  TAYLOR   AS  PBACEMAKSR. 


A  late  paper,  in  giving  an  account  of  one  of  Bish- 
op Taylor's  j  jurneys  in  the  region  of  the  Congo,has 
a  pleasing  incident  to  narrate  concerning  how  he 
made  peace  between  two  tribes  which  were  at  war 
with  each  other. 

The  Bishop,  with  a  small  unarmed  party,  had  left 
Pungo  AndoDgo  for  Malange,  sixty-two  miles  to  the 
eastward.  Malange  is  the  easternmost  of  the  Meth- 
odist mission  stations.  On  the  morning  of  the  third 
day,  the  travelers  were  met  by  two  natives  bearing 
spears,  who  came  from  the  near-at-hand  town  of 
Mambalungo.  After  th6  interchange  of  a  few  words 
the  two  natives  set  off  rapidjy  in  the  direction  of  the 
aforesaid  town,  the  Bishop's  party  following. 

Soon  the  king  came,attended  by  a  body-guard  of 
one  hundred  soldiers,  armed  for  combat.  His  towns 
were  at  war  with  those  of  another  tribe,  a  battle  be- 
ing any  day  expected.  The  bishop  without  hesita- 
tion stepped  up  to  the  king,  and  extending  bis  hand 
to  royalty,  said,  as  he  did  so,  "I  am  glad  to  meet 
you."  The  king  responded  that  he  had  heard  of  the 
old  white  man,  well-digger,  long-walker,  who  speaks 
kind  words,  and  wished  to  know  what  he  proposed 
to  do  in  that  country.  The  bishop  assuring  him  of 
the  pacific  and  disinterested  sentiments  of  himself 
and  his  people,  and  that  he  came  amongst  them  for 
their  good,  the  king  then  continued:  "We  have 
heard  that  the  men  of  Kumbua  are  coming  to  make 
war  upon  us.  They  lie  between  here  and  Malange. 
You  will  not  venture  to  continue  your  journey  be 
fore  we  have  defeated  them  and  brought  about  a 
peace?." 

"Yes,  0  king,"  replied  the  bishop.  "I  shall  go  on 
as  soon  as  I  can.  I  am  a  friend  to  the  people  of 
Mambalungo  and  their  king,  but  I  am  also  a  friend 
to  the  Kumbuans  and  their  king  likewise.  There  is 
no  danger  for  me  from  them  any  more  than  there  is 
danger  from  you.  There  is  One  above  me  to  guard 
and  protect  me." 

"The  white  man's  God  is  indeed  very  powerful," 
assented  the  king  gravely,"and  the  white  man  speaks 
bravely  and  frankly.  None  other  would  1  permit  to 
pass  from  our  town  to  the  arm  of  the  Kumbuans. 
I  believe  you  are  my  friend,  and  I  will  show  you 
that  I  am  yours." 

Thereu|K>n,  the  king  calling  his  chief  lieutenant, 
the  ceremony  of  "blood  brotherhood"  between  him 
and  the  Bishop  was  gone  through  with. 

The  next  morning  Bishop  Taylor  pushed  on,  but 
it  was  not  until  within  an  hour  of  noon  that  any 
signs  of  the  Kumbuans  were  seen.  A  small  party 
of  warriors  was  then  met,  who  proved  to  be  an  out- 
post of  the  advancing  enemy.  At  first  sight  of  the 
Bishop's  carriers,  the  warriors  fired  a  volley  of  ar 
rows,  with  the  result  that  one  poor  fellow  fell  with 
a  shaft  sticking  into  his  breast.  The  warriors  had 
not  seen  the  white  man.  "When  they  did  so,  they 
pressed  forward,  the  Bishop  and  the  trembling  csr- 
riers  awaitiog  them.  They  explained  that  though 
they  bad  come  from  Mambalungo  and  its  king.they 


were  also  the  friends  of  the  Kumbuans  and  their 
king.  The  captain  of  the  attacking  party  was  dis- 
turbed, and  said  he  would  at  once  despatch  a  mes- 
sage to  the  king's  camp.  The  latter  proved  to  be 
but  two  miles  distant.  The  parly  was  received  by 
a  detachment  of  perhaps  two  hundred  men,  and  es- 
corted silently  to  the  king's  tent.  It  was  evident  at 
once  that  the  war  upon  Mambalungo  was  more  of  a 
foraging  expedition  than  an  attempt  at  conquest. 
The  camp  had  been  pitched  several  days,  and  on 
every  hand  were  evidences  of  good  living  and  the 
accumulation  of  contraband  goods  of  various  de- 
scriptions. There  were  heaps  of  ivory,uten8ils  tak 
en  apparently  from  villages  that  had  been  destroyed, 
a  few  captives,  articles  of  food  and  the  like.  From 
appearances  the  whole  army  might  muster  a  thou- 
sand men.  The  Bishop  was  conducted,after  a  short 
pause,  into  the  presence  of  the  king.and  stood  with 
folded  arms  and  awaited  advances. 

"White  man,"  said  theking,"you  are  welcome,  al- 
though you  come  from  Mambalungo." 

"Kumbaloa,"responded  the  bishop  coldly,"!  came 
from  Mambalungo,  it  is  true,and  I  came  as  a  friend 
to  the  Kumbuans.  See  what  your  men  have  done 
to  me,"  and  he  pointed  outside,  where  the  wounded 
carrier  lay  on  the  litter.  The  king  was  evidently 
disturbed. 

"White  man,"  he  continued,  "if  what  you  say  is 
true,  then  it  is  a  bad  day  for  the  mighty  Kumbaloa 
and  his  nation.  If,  indeed,  we  have  injured  a  friend, 
it  bodes  little  good  for  our  war.  But  tell  me,  what 
do  ye  in  this  land?" 

Then  the  Bishop  explained,  as  he  had  to  the  king 
of  Mambalungo,  the  purpose  of  his  mission.  Kum- 
baloa was  gravely  impressed.  He  gave  an  order  to 
an  ofBcer  who  stood  by,  and  then  addressed  the 
Bishop. 

"White  man,  I  believe  that  you  come  as  a  friend 
to  Kumbaloa.  It  is  a  bad  thing  that  we  have  done 
to  you  and  we  must  atone  for  it  or  withdraw  from 
our  war  upon  Mambalungo." 

He  stood  for  some  moments  in  thought.  The 
Bishop  was  inclined  to  argue  that  the  war  be  aban- 
doned, but  he  considered  it  best  to  wait  develop- 
mentg.  Presently  the  officer  returned  leading  a 
large  detachment  of  men,and  in  front  was  the  party 
that  comprised  the  outpost  that  had  attacked  the 
biehop.  The  king  looked  up  and  said:  "See,  white 
man,  there  are  the  men  who  injured  you.  They 
shall  all  be  put  to  death." 

The  Bishop  raised  his  hand  quickly  and  exclaimed: 
"No,  Kumbaloa,  the  mighty,  not  so.  The  death  of 
these  will  not  atone.  I  want  no  one  killed.  Let 
them  live,  and  do  you  and  your  army  go  back  to 
your  own  country  and  live  in  peace." 

"Tell  me,"  he  said,  "did  the  people  of  Mamba- 
lungo seem  prepared  for  war?" 

"They  are  thoroughly  prepared, "replied  the  Bish- 
op, "and  will  meet  you  with  a  great  force." 

"We  could  destroy  them  utterly,"  insisted  the 
king,"but  one  can  do  nothing  against  the  desires  of 
the  gods,  especially  if  the  white  man's  fetich  has 
been  offended.  Be  it  so;  v/e  will  go  to  our  own 
country  and  wait  a  year.  But  for  you,  white  m«\n, 
we  will  supply  a  strong  guard  to  take, the  place  of 
your  man.  Men  will  carry  you  and  him  to  Malange." 

The  rest  of  the  day  accordingly  was  spent  in  the 
camp  of  the  Kumbuans,  and  on  the  ^following  morn- 
ing the  bishop  set  out  again,  this  time  with  a  large 
party  of  attendants.  He  refused  to  be  carried, how- 
ever, and  walked  as  before.  When  he  arrived  at  the 
borders  of  Malange  the  escort  stopped  and  bade 
him  farewell.  They  went  off  to  the  northwest  to- 
wards their  own  district,  and  the  Bishop  made  his 
way  into  Malange  with  the  assistance  of  some  na- 
tives, who  were  working  in  a  banana  field  near  by. 

Arrangements  for  the  mission  station  were  soon 
completed.  The  Bishop  stayed  in  the  town,  working 
hard  on  the  buildings  and  the  land  of  the  station 
until  his  co-workers  came.  They  reported  that  the 
people  of  Mambalungo  had  disarmed  and  gone  about 
their  ordinary  occupations,  and  that  they  gave  the 
most  extravagant  praise  to  the  bishop  for  bringing 
the  little  war  to  an  end.  No  sign  of  the  Kumbuans 
had  been  seen,  except  the  marks  of  their  old  en- 
campment.— Messenger  of  Peace. 


THE  FRAULEIN  VON  MEYER. 


A  FODRTH  OF  JDLY  STOKY. 


When  you  remember  that  in  Germany  every  young 
man  is  obliged  to  serve  a  certain  time  in  the  army 
whether  he  likes  it  or  not,  then  you  may  realiza  the 
freedom  of  our  country,  and  you  will  appreciate  the 
blessings  we  have  here.  I  tell  you  the  story,  so  that 
you  may  learn  to  appreciate  the  freedom  in  America 
from  knowing  the  restraints  of  other  governments. 


The  department  of  temperance  work  among  for- 
eigners has  published  leaflets  in  the  German, 
French,  Italian,  Bohemian,  Scandinavian,  Holland- 
ish,  Polish,  Si)anish,  Chinese  and  Portuguese  lan- 
guages. 

The  Society  for  the  Prevention  of  Cruelty  to  Chil- 
dren says  that  in  the  past  three  months,  of  G0«  chil- 
dren coming  before  the  society  for  the  first  time, 
249  had  intemperate  fathers,  139  intemperate  moth- 
ers, 152  had  lost  one  or  both  parents,  90  had  a 
parent  in  prison,  and  35  were  illegitimate. 


The  Frau  Von  Meyer  had  but  recently  taken  up 
her  abode  in  the  city  of  Frankfort.  She  did  not  feel 
quite  at  home,  and  was  as  yet  a  stranger  to  her 
neighbors.  As  she  was  of  a  social  and  friendly  na- 
ture, her  loneliness  depressed  her;  but  this  was  not 
the  sorrow  which  weighed  upon  her  spirits  and 
caused  her  kindly  blue  eyes  to  fill  with  tears  as  she 
sat  looking  wearily  into  the  street  in  the  early  twi- 
light. She  was  depressed  because  her  two  grown 
sons,  handsome  young  fellows,  had  gone  to  America 
to  avoid  the  years  of  service  in  the  army  required 
from  young  men  of  their  age  in  Germany.  They 
had  not  dared  to  say  farewell  to  her,  for  that  would 
have  been  to  involve  her  in  the  consequences  of 
their  action.  Even  as  it  was,  she  had  been  brought 
up  before  the  magistrates  in  her  former  home,  but 
as  she  could  truthfully  say  that  she  knew  not  where 
her  sons  were,  and  that  she  had  nothing  to  do  with 
their  going,  she  was  allowed  to  return  unmolested 
to  her  lonely  house.  It  was,  however,  this  action 
on  the  part  of  the  magistrates  that  made  her  deter- 
mine to  leave,  and  to  seek  in  another  city  a  residence 
less  full  of  sad  memories  and  painful  associations. 

As  she  sat  there  she  was  thinking  of  her  Carl,  how 
handsome  he  looked  as  he  leaned  over  ber  bed  the 
night  be  left  and  said,  "Gute  nacht,  gute  nacht,  liebe 
mutter?"  "good  night,  good  night,  dear  mother." 
Then  Teodore  had  come  and  put  his  arms  about 
her  neck,  and  there  were  tears  in  his  eyes  also  as  he 
kissed  her — kissed  her  so  tenderly — for  he  was  her 
youngest,  her  baby,  as  she  had  but  recently  called 
him.  Alas,  that  he  too  should  go!  He  had  laid  his 
hand  on  her  head — her  hair  was  getting  gray  now 
— and  patted  her  softly,  caressingly,  and  he,  too, 
said,  "Good  night,  good  night,  dear  mother,"  and 
their  tears  mingled.  Ah,  she  knew  full  well  what 
it  meant,  although  no  word  was  spoken. 

She  had  raised  five  sons  to  manhood,  and  in  the 
advancing  years  in  which  she  had  looked  for  their 
companionship  and  comfort  she  sat  alone.  One  son 
had  been  taken  by  death;  she  had  mourned  for  him, 
cut  off  in  his  youth,  but  it  seemed  a  more  bitter  sor- 
row to  her  when  the  next  two  were  compelled  by  the 
law  of  Germany  to  leave  her  and  enter  the  army. 
Now,  when  the  two  left  to  her  would  have  been 
obliged  to  follow  in  the  career  of  their  brothers, 
they  had  taken  the  matter  in  their  own  hands  and 
had  gone  to  that  fair  country  across  the  sea  where 
liberty  stands  smiling  and  beckoning  those  who 
want  to  control  their  own  career  and  select  their 
vocation.  So  she  sat  ponderiLg  over  it  all  with 
heavy  heart  and  tearful  eyes,  as  she  had  done  many 
a  time  before. 

Suddenly  there  seemed  to  be  more  than  ordinary 
bustle  around  the  corner  of  the  quiet  street  in  which 
she  had  rented  rooms.  A  man  rushed  past  her  win- 
dow; without  knocking  he  entered  the  narrow  hall- 
way, and  without  waiting  to  ask  permission  he 
lifted  the  latch  and  entered  the  room  where  she  sat. 
He  had  a  frightened  look — she  could  see  that  even 
in  the  faint  twilight;  and  he  was  young — it  was  still 
easier  to  sec  that;  but  neither  of  these  facts  touched 
her;  it  was  the  words  in  which  he  appealed  to  the 
mother  heart.     "Mother,  mother,  hide  me !  "  he  cried. 

Feeling  as  she  did  at  that  moment,  could  she  turn 
over  that  young  deserter  from  the  army  (for  she  saw 
that  he  was  sucb),  to  the  hands  of  his  pursuers? 
Even  then  she  heard  voices  without,  and  knew  that 
the  approaching  footsteps  would  soon  be  at  her  door. 
Nay,  an  appeal  to  motherhood  could  never  be  refused 
by  the  loving  heart  of  Frau  Von  Meyer.  With  but 
one  sigh  at  the  thought  of  the  punishment  that 
would  follow  harboring  a  deserter  if  discovered,  she 
asked  no  question  but  hid  him  quickly,  and  then 
turned  to  open  the  door,  for  one  clad  in  the  uniform 
of  the  Emperor's  soldiers  knocked  for  admission. 

The  tall  and  dignified  lady,  who  bo  quickly  opened 
the  door  with  no  apparent  hesitation,  for  a  moment 
abashed  the  man  without.  But  presently  others 
came  up  and  demanded  in  rough  tones  to  see  the 
deserter  who  had  disappeared  somewhere  in  this 
direction. 

The  Frau  Von  Meyer  made  no  opposition  to  their 
searching  her  premises.  Her  apparent  unconcern 
had  its  effect.  They  made  a  show  of  entering  her 
room;  she  seemed  unmoved  and  placed  no  obstacle 
in  their  way.     She  would  neither  affirm  nor  yet  deny 


Jtjni  28, 1888 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


11 


that  she  had  seen  one  enter;  she  appeared  merely  as 
a  proud  lady  indignant  at  their  intrusion. 

"We're  losing  time,"  exclaimed  one.  "The  fellow 
will  hide  while  we  waste  the  minutes  here,"  ex- 
claimed another,  and  with  that  they  noisly  departed. 

Frau  Von  Meyer  seated  herself  at  the  window  as 
before  until  the  excitement  had  subsided  and  the 
street  had  returned  to  its  accustomed  quiet. 

If  she  had  not  hesitated  to  stand  between  the 
youDg  soldier  and  his  pursuers  on  first  seeing  him, 
still  less  did  she  hesitate  when  she  heard  his  story. 
He  looked  so  young,  so  young,  like  her  own  Teo- 
dore.  He  was  so  handsome,  fair  and  blue  eyed  like 
a  girl,  this  poor  lad,  and  he  was  so  homesick,  pining 
to  see  father  and  mother,  and — ach — he  could  not 
stand  it,  he  had  ran  aWay.  Would  she  betray  him 
now  that  he  was  in  her  power?  No,  lad,  no.  For 
the  sake  of  the  two  who  had  left  their  farewell  tears 
on  her  cheek  she  would  not,  she  could  not  betray  the 
soldier  lad. 

For  days  the  shelter,  the  food  and  the  hiding- 
place  were  given,  but  it  was  not  so  much  the  desire 
to  leave  the  army  as  it  was  most  intense  homesick- 
ness that  had  caused  the  young  soldier  to  desert. 
The  Frau  felt  that  as  soon  as  all  suspicioa  was  al- 
layed she  might  arrange  for  his  departure. 

It  was  about  this  time  that  the  Frau  Von  Meyer 
announced  that  she  was  expecting  a  visit  from  a 
niece  of  hers,  the  Fraulein  Von  Meyer,  who,  not 
long  after,  made  her  appearance  as  a  tall,  broad- 
shouldered  youug  lady.  She  said  that  she  could 
only  stay  a  day  or  two,  as  she  expected  to  visit  some 
other  relatives  who  lived  beyond  Wilhelmsbad.  She 
was  certainly  a  very  quiet  visitor,  for  she  never 
seemed  to  care  about  gadding  along  the  streets  of 
the  city  in  open-eyed  wonder,  as  many  young  ladies 
do  while  visiting  friends. 

When  the  Frau  Von  Meyer  announced  to  the  few 
neighbors  whose  acquaintance  she  had  made  that  on 
the  next  day  the  Fraulein  was  to  return  home,  they 
regretted  for  her  sake  that  this  interesting  young 
lady  should  feel  obliged  to  leave  so  soon,  and  said 
many  polite  little  nothings,  such  as  people  under 
the  circumstances  feel  constrained  to  say. 

There  was  constant  anxiety,  however,  in  the  mind 
of  Frau  Von  Meyer,  for  a  few  doors  from  them  lived 
on  old  soldier  who  had  had  government  work  as- 
signed him,  not  of  much  importance  it  is  true,  but 
enough  to  justify  him,  according  to  his  views,  in 
feeling  that  he  was  a  great  man. 

It  seemed  strange  to  the  Frau  Von  Meyer  that  he 
should  suddenly  assume  an  appearance  of  friendli- 
ness and  endeavor  to  make  her  acquaintance;  that 
he  should  ask  little  Lena  Von  Meyer  how  long  her 
tall  cousin  intended  to  stay  with  them;  that  he 
should  even  condescend  to  pat  the  little  Gretchen  on 
her  curly  head  and  ask  her  where  she  lived  before 
coming  to  Frankfort. 

It  may  have  been  only  the  state  of  her  mind  at 
this  time,  keenly  awake  to  the  anxieties  of  the  hour, 
but  the  Frau  Von  Meyer  felt  that  to  harbor  this 
guest  longer  was  only  to  expose  him  to  be  recap- 
tured, and  to  bring  upon  her  own  household  the 
punishment  due  her  according  to  the  law  of  the  em- 
pire. 

A  train  left  at  ten  o'clock  at  night,  and  another 
train  at  eight  in  the  morning;  which  would  be  the 
safer?  That  was  the  question  that  now  perplexed 
this  tender-hearted  woman  in  her  unselfish  desire  to 
give  to  some  other  mother  the  blessing  which  she 
could  not  herself  enjoy — that  of  having  a  son  re- 
stored to  home  and  parents.  It  might  seem  suspic- 
ious to  have  a  young  girl,  or  one  apparently  such, 
sent  from  under  the  protection  of  her  relatives  alone 
and  at  night.  On  the  other  hand,  at  that  hour  the 
Fraulein  Von  Meyer  would  not  be  exposed  to  the 
questioning  gaze  of  fellow  passengers.  Circum- 
stances controlled  the  decision.  That  snuffy,  disa- 
greeable little  man,  Jacobi,  was  seen  at  the  bahnhofl 
when  the  good  Frau  went  to  purchase  a  ticket. 

"Your  niece  leaves  you  to-morrow?"  he  asked, 
with  a  low  bow,  meant  to  be  very  courtly,  but  which, 
instead,  she  felt  to  be  malicious  indeed.  However, 
under  the  necessity  of  being  guarded,  she  could  only 
accept  his  politeness  and  answer  evasively  that 
"Probably  she  would.  The  Fraulein,  her  niece,  was 
not  feeling  very  well,  and  her  visit  might  be  pro- 
longed for  that  reason." 

In  the  shade  of  early  evening  the  Fraulein  took 
leave  of  the  kind  family  circle.  She  was  wrapped 
up  even  more  closely  than  that  autumn  evening  re- 
(juired,  but  then  it  "grew  cold  toward  morning,"  she 
explained  to  a  neighbor  who  happened  in.  They 
walked  to  the  station  together,  the  Frau  took  an  af- 
fectionate leave  of  her  niece,  and  then,  as  the  train 
moved  off  toward  Mayence,  she  walked  homeward, 
holding  an  empty  purse  in  her  hand. 

The  text  day  Herr  Jacobi  called  with  an  otlber  at 
the  door  of  the  Frau  Von  Meyer  and  demanded  {he 


young  deserter  who  bad  some  time  before  taken 
refuge  in  her  house.  She  received  him  with  digni- 
fied politeness,  and  handed  him  her  keys.  The 
house  this  time  was  thoroughly  searched,  but  there 
was  nothing  found  to  implicate  the  good  lady. 
That  her  niece  had  come  and  gone,  meantime,  was 
no  ground  for  taking  the  Frau  herself  before  the 
public  authorities;  young  ladies  surely  might  visit 
their  relatives — that  was  not  an  unlawful  thing  to  do! 

The  Herr  Jacobi  was  furious;  his  chagrin  and  dis- 
appointment made  his  red  and  ugly  face  even  uglier 
than  ever.  The  Frau  Von  Meyer  was  calm  and  com- 
posed. His  anger  did  not  provoke  her  to  reply,  and 
she  gave  no  cause,  by  word  or  act,  either  to  justify 
his  suspicion  or  to  justify  him  in  calling  the  atten- 
tion of  the  public  authorities  to  her  or  her  former 
guest,  the  Fraulein. 

The  Frau  Von  Meyer  was  poor;  she  was  greatly 
reduced,  and  the  comforts  of  her  younger  days  had 
been  cut  off  one  by  one.  The  expression,  "she  had 
seen  better  days,"  applied  to  her  in  many  ways. 
She  had  been  healthier,  happier,  richer  all  her  life 
than  she  was  now.  She  now  sat  at  her  window  look- 
ing into  the  street  more  sadly  than  ever  before. 
Even  the  little  ones,  Lena  and  Gretchen,  heedless  as 
children  are,  noticed  her  pale  face  and  sad  eyes. 

One  day  a  loud  rap  from  the  postman;  and  a  thick, 
foreign-stamped  letter  was  handed  in,  addressed  to 
the  Frau  Von  Meyer. 

Her  hand  trembled,  her  color  came  and  went,  the 
light  shone  in  her  eyes  as  she  read.  The  letter  was 
from  the  mother  of  the  young  soldier,  and  was  full 
of  expressions  of  gratitude.  But  this  was  not  all. 
The  young  man  had  read  the  secret  of  their  poverty, 
and  had  rightly  inferred  at  what  cost  to  her  family 
she  had  assisted  him.  The  return  made  was,  what 
seemed  to  her,  munificent.  It  caused  her  struggle 
with  poverty  to  be  only  a  memory  of  the  past.  There 
was  no  possibility  of  refusing  the  gift,  even  had  her 
pride  dictated  such  a  course,  for  there  was  no  ad- 
dress enclosed,  and  it  might  have  imperilled  both 
his  safety  and  hers  had  she  made  inquiries. 

And,  dear  young  readers,  when  you  realize  how 
free  you  are  to  control  your  time  and  develop  your 
own  resources  without  the  interference  of  the  gov- 
ernment, you  may  the  more  appreciate  the  blessings 
of  independence,  and  feel  thankful  to  our  heavenly 
Father  who  has  continued  to  us  the  freedom  which 
you  celebrate  on  the  Fourth  of  July. — Christian  In- 
telligencer, 


Geo.  W.  Samson's  exposition  on  the  divine  law  as  to 
wines  is  met  with  a  quotation  from  Iludibras.  The 
Methodist  church  is  brought  up  to  time  for  it?  faith- 
lessness to  the  Scriptures.  (Think  of  it,  the  Brew- 
ers' National  Convention  defending  the  Bible  against 
the  M.  E.  church!)  The  Pennsylvania  law  is  de- 
nounced as  "the  most  atrocious  high  license  law 
ever  conceived  outside  a  lunatic  asylum."  Why? 
Not,  obviously,  because  of  the  high  license  ($500)  it 
contains,for  the  Illinois  and  Nebraska  laws  with  yet 
higher  license  are  not  complained  of;  but  because 
of  the  bonds  and  penalties  which  give  the  judges 
the  chance  to  refuse  two  out  of  three  applicitions. 
The  W.  C.  T.  Union  and  the  Nitional  Temp2raac3 
Society  are,  of  course,  held  up  to  public  execration, 
and  the  motives  animating  them  are  clouded  with 
suspicion. 

But  the  one  great  enemy  that  is  never  lost  sight 
of  is  prohibitory  law.  The  fear  of  that  is  seen  on 
every  page  of  the  report.  Against  high  license,  as 
such,  there  is  not  a  word,  and  even  against  high  li- 
cense and  local  option  coupled  together,there  is  but 
one  slight  reference.  It  is  the  advanc3  of  prohibiuon 
that  is  causing  this  desperate  defensive  combat  on 
the  part  of  the  brewers.  Whatever  helps  on  this 
advance  is  assailed;  whatever  hinders  is  commend- 
ed. Even  the  Anti  Saloon  Republican  movement, 
and  the  high  license  and  local  option  craze  are  spok- 
en kindly  of  as  likely  to  check  the  advance  o/' prohibi- 
tion! Between  forty  and  fifty  thousand  dollars  (in- 
cluding $9,000  paid  out  to  the  Literary  Bureau)  is 
reported  as  paid  by  this  one  organization  in  the  last 
year  to  fight  prohibition.  Of  CDurse,  appearances 
are  kept  up  by  a  weak  iteration  at  long  intervals  that 
"no  prohibitory  law  can  successfully  be  enforced," 
but  all  the  rest  of  the  report  gives  the  lie  direct  to 
the  assertion. —  The  Voice. 


Tempeeance. 


THS  BREWBRS  VERGING  ON  A  PANIC. 

The  verbatim  account  of  the  Brewers'  28th  Na- 
tional Convention,  held  in  St.  Paul,  May  30,  31,  is 
published  in  the  Brewers'  Journal,  and  makes  inter- 
esting reading.  Throughout  the  proceedings  this 
fact  appears  in  strong  light — namely,  that  the  great 
brewing  industry  of  the  nation  stands  before  the 
public  on  the  defensive.  It  is  no  longer  declaring 
its  triumphs  in  the  courts  and  governmental  depart- 
ments. Its  plans  are  no  longer  plans  of  future  con- 
quest. It  is  fighting  for  the  very  ground  it  holds. 
Report  after  report  shows  this.  Whether  it  is 
that  of  the  president,or  of  the  trustees,  or  of  the  lit- 
erary bureau,  the  strain  is  the  same. 

The  Supreme  Court  of  the  United  States  is  the 
first  body  against  which  the  Convention  strives  to 
defend  itself,  and  the  way  in  which  the  defense  is 
conducted  is  characteristically  weak.  It  accuses  the 
court  of  having  rendered  its  recent  decision  sustain- 
ing the  prohibitory  laws  of  Kansas  for  political 
reasons,  just  as  though  political  reasons  would  not 
have  weighed  overwhelmingly  on  the  other  side.  It 
sneers  at  the  statement  of  the  decision  that  "disor- 
der, pauperism  and  crime. . .  .are,  in  large  measure, 
directly  traceable  to  this  evil" — the  evil  under  con- 
sideration being  Ziebold  it  Hagelin's  brewery— and 
assures  the  country  that  the  very  reverse  is  true. 
Then  the  Convention  goes  on  to  defend  itself  against 
the  Knights  of  Labor  and  its  organ,  the  Journal  of 
United  Labor,  the  recent  strikes  of  brewers'  work- 
men furnishing  the  topic.  The  Bureau  of  Statistics 
at  Washington  and  its  head,  Col.  Swilzler,  and  the 
Bureau  of  Agriculture,  are  taken  to  task  for  reports 
issued  by  them  which  tell  against  the  brewing  "in- 
dustry," and  the  olficial  figures  and  scientific  facts 
given  by  these  bureaus  are  dogmatically  denied. 
Judge  Maynard,  Assistant  Secretary  of  the  Treasu- 
ry, is  assailed  for  a  decision  likely  to  facilitate  the 
enforcement  of  prohibitory  laws.  The  defense  that 
is  made,  it  must  be  nottd,  is  not  the  defense  of  a 
mere  outpost  or  a  strategic  point;  it  is  a  defense  of 
the  very  citadel  itself —a  defense  of  the  very  right 
of  the  "industry"  to  live.  Judge  White's  recent  ar- 
raignment of  the  business  from  the  bench  is  mot 
with  a  sneer  at  his  physiological  ignorance.       Dr. 


LABOR  AND  LIQUOR. 


At  present  the  workingman  can  hardly  make  both 
ends  meet.  Is  it  not  because  he  insists  on  creating 
capitalists  out  of  saloon-keepers,  and,  not  content 
with  that,  on  submitting  all  his  rights  of  citizenship 
to  the  same  object  of  worship? 

The  saloon  in  politics  is  the  most  hideous  abuse 
of  the  day;  but  where  would  it  be  if  the  workingmen 
withdrew  their  support  from  it?  It  keeps  them 
poor.  It  keeps  our  politics  corrupt.  It  supplies  a 
constant  stream  of  base  adventurers,  who  disgrace 
the  American  name  at  home  and  abroad.  Ic  makes 
the  terms  "public  office"  and  "public  plunder" 
synonymous.  It  stifles  progress,  fosters  pauperism, 
brutalizes  husbands  and  fathers,  breaks  women's 
hearts,  puts  rags  on  the  workingmen's  back,  disease 
in  his  body,  and  shame  and  despair  in  his  heart. 
Yet,  when  labor  is  most  disturbed,  when  the  de- 
mand for  advanced  wages  is  the  loudest,  when 
strikes  are  most  frequent,  when  hunger  and  misery 
are  most  rife  in  the  homes  of  the  poor,  the  saloon 
flourishes  still.  There  may  be  no  bread  at  home, 
but  there  is  always  beer  and  whisky  at  the  bar;  and 
the  men  who  consider  themselves  the  victims  of 
circumstances,  of  the  "thrall"  of  capital,  squander 
their  earnings  and  spend  their  savings  in  these  dens. 

Can  there  be  a  serious  labor  (question  while  this 
state  of  things  continues?  Can  workingmen  talk 
gravely  of  their  wrongs,  while  it  is  plain  to  all  the 
world,  that,  if  they  only  saved  the  capital,  they 
would  be  comfortable? — Atlantic  Monthly, 


The  danger  of  a  young  Christian  traveling  in  Bun- 
yan's  "By-path-meadow"  was,  perhaps,  never  more 
aptly  illustrated  than  in  the  career  of  Robert  Reitzal. 
About  ten  years  ago  this  young  man  from  Germany 
came  to  this  city,  and  was  installed  pastor  of  Trinity 
Reformed  church,  corner  of  Sixth  and  N  streets  now. 
He  was  young,  handsome,  well  educated,  a  fluent 
speaker  in  German,  and  very  popular.  He  won  the 
heart  and  hand  of  one  of  his  fair  young  parishion- 
ers, and  the  prosperity  of  the  church  seemed  assure^l. 
Soon,  however,  rumors  of  convivial  gatherings  and 
late  hours  came  to  the  ears  of  the  church.  Remon- 
strance of  friends  was  vain.  He  could  see  no  harm 
in  drinking  beer,  even  to  such  an  extent  as  to  rctiuire 
the  assistance  of  friends  to  find  his  home  in  the  early 
morning  hours.  He  left  the  Reformed  church  and 
organized  an  independent  church  or  society,  which 
soon  degenerated  into  a  free-thinker's  club,  and 
ceased  to  exist  when  Reitzel  left  the  city.  The 
building  for  this  independent  church  still  stands  on 
Fifth  street,  between  M  and  N,  but  has  not  been 
used  by  the  Rcilzel  club  for  many  years.  Reitzel 
himself  was  forgotten,  except  by  a  few  friends  to 
whom  he  sent  his  paper,  Der  Armc  7euf<tl,  until  his 
appearance  in  the  Chicago  cemetery  to  eulogize  the 
dead  anarchists.  The  "By-path-meadow,  via  the 
beer  saloon,  not  only  landed  him  in  'Doubting  Cas- 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


Junk  28, 1888 


tie,'  but  in  the  infidels'  camp,  and  instead  of  being 
a  blessing,  he  is  a  curse  to  his  race,  one  of  the  char- 
acters whose  influence  makes  it  necessary  to  build 
jails  and  prison  walls."  His  career  should  warn  all 
young  men,  who  think  they  can  steer  life's  course 
without  God,  and  who  lightly  throw  aside  the  re- 
straints of  religion.  —  Exchange. 


Bible  Lesson. 

8TUD1K8  IN  THE  OLD  TESTAMENT. 
LESSON  2.    Third  Quarter.-  July  8. 
8UBJKCT.-The  Golden  Calf.— Ex.  33:15-26. 
GOLDEN  TEXT.— Little  children,  keep  yourselves  from  idols. 
—1  John  5 :  21. 

\Ovtiitht  Bible  and  read  the Utfon.'\ 
COMMENTS  ON  THE  LESSON  BY  E.  E.  FLAGQ. 

1.  The  Tables  of  Stone,  vs.  15-19.  The  Ten  Com- 
mandments were  the  visible  revelation  of  God's  righteous 
and  holy  character.  They  contained  no  new  truth,  for 
there  is  no  such  thing  as  a  new  truth.  Like  Him  who 
inhabits  eternity  she  has  neither  beginning  nor  end. 
But  these  laws  had  before  this  been  only  written  on  the 
human  conscience,  the  characters  growing  more  imper- 
fect and  the  writing  more  dimmed  and  defaced  as  man 
wandered  farther  and  farther  from  God  into  the  dark- 
ness of  idolatry.  Moses's  action  in  casting  the  tables 
out  of  his  hand  and  breaking  them  was  not  a  mere  eb- 
ullition, even  of  just  anger;  it  had  the  solemnity  of  a 
prophetic  act.  Already,  in  the  short  space  of  forty  days, 
the  people  had  broken  their  covenant  with  Jehovah, 
and  hereafter,  as  a  nation,  they  must  live  under  the  shad  - 
ow  and  curse  of  his  broken  law.  As  with  an  individual, 
so  with  a  nation.  The  first  deliberate  departing  from 
God  makes  every  step  in  the  downward  way  easier,  and 
final  destruction  more  certain. 

2.  Tlie  Calf  of  Odd.  vs.  20-24.  In  reducing  the 
golden  calf  to  powder  and  mingling  it  with  the  water 
that  the  children  of  Israel  drank,  Moses  did  aaother  sym- 
bolic act.  "They  were  to  eat  the  fruit  of  their  own  do- 
ings and  be  filled  with  their  own  devices."  We  are  told 
that  "what  a  man  soweth  that  shall  he  also  reap."  So 
must  a  nation.  No  more  striking  illustration  of  this  law 
was  ever  given  to  the  world  than  when  our  national  sin 
of  slavery  brought  on  a  civil  war,  which  carried  mourn- 
ing and  death  to  nearly  every  hearthstone.  North  and 
South.  It  is  a  law  which  operates  even  more  surely  with 
nations  than  with  individuals,  for  the  existence  of  the 
former  is  limited  to  this  earthly  stage,  on  which  they 
must  of  necessity  be  judged.  The  Bible  pronounces  a 
curse  on  him  who  puts  the  battle  to  his  neighbors'  lips, 
yet  we  know  that  the  rumseller  often  runs  a  career  of 
great  worldly  prosperity.  The  woe  waits  for  him  here- 
after. But  are  we,  therefore,  to  conclude  that  our  na- 
tion will  escape  the  penalty  God  has  affixed  to  this  crime 
when  it  not  only  permits  whole  shiploads  of  rum  to  go 
to  the  Congo  for  the  debasing  and  enslaving  of  a  race 
it  has  already  wronged  so  cruelly  in  the  past,  but  be- 
comes an  active  participant  in  its  sale  by  taking  the 
lion's  share  of  the  profits?  Will  he  be  more  lenieat  with 
the  American  people  when  they  turn  aside  to  worship  the 
false  gods  of  the  lodge  than  with  ancient  Israel?  Aaron's 
conduct  in  laying  the  blame  of  his  weakness  on  the  peo- 
ple is  the  very  type  of  those  political  leaders  among  us  who 
truckle  to  our  foreign  population  to  get  their  votes,  while 
they  despise  them  in  their  hearts.  The  great  majority 
of  those  who  clamored  for  the  golden  calf  were  proba 
bly  foreigners,  the  "mixed  multitude"  who  followed  Israel 
out  of  Egypt.  Our  present  administration,  when  it  sent 
out  a  government  vessel  living  the  American  flag  to  greet 
the  papal  envoy,  and  gave  a  present  to  the  pope  at  his 
jubilee,  afforded  a  striking  instance  of  this  tendency  in 
our  public  men .  The  rum  interest  owes  all  its  power  to 
this  want  of  backbone  among  those  who  should  control 
our  dangerous  classes,  but  instead,  allow  our  dangerous 
classes  to  control  them.  Many  Aarons  are  to  be  found 
in  the  pulpit.  They  let  Masonry,  the  calf-worship  of 
our  day,  corrupt  the  church,  yet  raise  no  cry  of  warning 
against  it,  even  participating  in  its  mock  religious  rites 
themselves,  with  the  weak  and  silly  plea  that  they  will 
thus  strengthen  their  influence.  Such  ministers  would 
do  well  to  ponder  Moses's  solemn  question  to  Aaron,  and 
also  Bzuk.  3:  17  21. 

3.  Who  in  on  the  Lord's  Bidet  vs.  25,  26.  This  is  a 
<)uery  which  everyone  must  answer  to  his  own  con- 
science. To  be  simply  negative  in  a  warfare  where  such 
mighty  interests  are  at  stake  is  to  be  on  the  devil's  side. 
It  is  to  be  in  that  terrible  category  with  the  fearful  and 
the  unbelieving,  who  pre  classed  with  the  abominable 
aod  murdererc,  with  whoremongers  and  idolaters,  and 
who  shall  receivii  their  final  portion  with  such— the  pun 
ishmcnt  of  the  second  death. 


RELIGIOUS  News. 


A  NEW  MISSION  8GEBME  FOR  INDIA. 


READ   IT  ! 


What  new  project  is  this?  Some  grand  and  com 
plicated  project?     No;  the  simplest  thing  available. 

The  readers  of  this  paper  have  been  informed  of 
our  mission  work  in  India  in  connection  with  the 
Watchman  Repository,etc.  You  have  been  told  of  our 
colpotteur  evangelists  who  go  from  station  to  station 
selling  books  and  preaching  the  Gospel.  They  take  a 
small  supplyof  the  publications  of  the  National  Chris- 
tian Association, so  that  this  agency  is  the  best  method 
of  promoting  the  reform  in  India  which  the  Cynosure 
advocates. 

Already  our  work  here  has  attracted  such  an  at- 
tention as  to  induce  friends  connected  with  the  re 
form  in  America  to  send  £l  per  month  to  promote 
the  same  good  work  in  India.  Why  cannot  others 
add  enough  to  support  a  colporteur  evangelist?  They 
get  part  of  their  support  as  they  move  among  the 
people  from  place  to  place.  Only  one  or  two  pounds 
more  per  month  would  enable  you  to  say  that  you 
are  supporting  a  foreign  missionary.  Is  not  this  a 
blessed  thought? 

Of  course  we  would  not  ask  the  Association  itself 
to  undertake  any  more  responsibility,  nor  would  we 
expect  any  of  God's  people  to  divert  anything  which 
they  have  been  contributing  to  other  causes.  But 
we  are  well  aware  that  much  more  ought  to  he  given, 
and  here  is  one  of  the  best  openings  possible.  Now, 
who  will  send  to  the  ofl&ae  of  the  Cynosure  monthly 
subscriptions  for  this  purpose?  Is  it  too  much  to 
expect  that  among  the  thousands  of  readers  of  this 
paper  there  should  be  found,  say,  ten  persons,  who 
are  willing  to  send  one  dollar  each  to  the  oflSce  of  the 
Cynosure  to  support  a  missionary  in  India.  Would 
it  not  be  a  delightful  thing  for  the  Cynosure  office 
and  the  multitude  of  friends  to  have  a 
"ctnosurk"  missionary 
in  India?  Bless  God  for  the  happy  thought!  I  am 
sure  it  is  inspired  by  him,  and  I  am  confident  that 
it  will  be  warmly  welcomed  and  permanently  sus- 
tained by  the  readers  of  the  Cynosure.  God  bless 
you.  Wallace  J.  Gladwin, 

India  Watchman,  B'rnhay,  India, 

The  World's  Missionary  Conference  on  the 
occasion  of  the  centenary  of  Protestant  missions, 
opened  in  London,  June  9.  The  Earl  of  Aberdeen 
presided  at  the  opening  of  the  conference.  One 
hundred  and  fifty  American  delegates,  representing 
fifty-one  societies,  and  twenty-seven  Canadian  dele- 
gates were  present. 

On  June  11  there  was  a  discussion  on  the  increase 
of  Islamism.  Mr.  Schrieber,  of  Berlin,  read  a  paper 
on  the  spread  of  Islamism  in  the  E  ist,  especially  in 
the  Dutch  possessions.  He  said  that  Moslem  schools 
had  been  established  to  oppose  Christian  missions. 
Dr.  Post,  an  American,  dilated  upon  the  destructive 
social  and  political  influence  of  Islamism  in  pervert- 
ing individual  morality  and  crushing  the  life  out  of 
the  people.  At  the  evening  session,  the  Earl  of 
Aberdeen  presiding.  Dr.  Pierson  gave  a  general  sur- 
vey of  the  work  of  missions. 

On  the  13th,  General  Fisk,  the  President  of  the 
conference,  referring  to  mission  work  in  Africa, 
urged  the  necessity  of  opposing  the  liquor  traffic  in 
that  country,  and  of  inculcating  higher  standards  of 
morality  in  general  dealings.  He  said  that  nothing 
was  so  calculated  to  prejudice  the  native  and  retard 
the  work  of  the  missions  as  fraudulent  commercial 
transactions. 

Dr.  Murdock,  of  America,  spoke  of  the  success  of 
female  missionaries  as  Zenana  teachers,  and  ap- 
proved the  extension  of  instruction  on  secular  mat- 
ters within  the  native  homes  through  the  medium 
of  Christian  women.  Miss  Child  took  part  in  the 
debate.  In  the  evening  Mr.  Blackstone,  the  Chicago 
Methodist  delegate,  described  the  work  done  by  fe- 
male missionaries  among  women  in  Japan. 


— Angles,  a  converted  Jew,  has  started  a  mission 
at  472  South  Halsted  St.,  Chicago.  He  has  asked 
for  the  Cynosure  for  the  reading-room  of  his  mis- 
sion, which  is  called  the  "Hebrew  Christian  Mis- 
sion." This  note  is  of  the  greater  importance  when 
we  remember  that  nearly  all  the  Jews  in  the  city 
(one  Jew  said  ^'■all")  are  Freemasons. 

— The  Augustana  Synod,  meeting  at  Galesburg, 
III,  has  adopted  a  resolution  which  provides  that 
hereafter  the  Synod  shall  consist  of  one  clerical  and 
one  lay  delegate  for  each  1,000  members.  This  re- 
duces the  membership  of  the  Synod  from  800  to 
150.  The  Synod  ordained  twenty-nine  preachers 
last  Sabbath. 


—  Pres.  C.  A.  Blanchard  preached  at  Galva,  111., 
on  the  Sabbath  and  begins  a  series  of  evangelical 
meetings  at  Huntley  in  the  northern  part  of  the 
State  on  Tuesday. 

— The  Synod  of  the  Holland  Christian  Reformed 
church,  established  by  the  churches  that  withdrew 
from  the  Reformed  General  Synod  because  of  the 
unwillingness  of  the  latter  to  declare  against  the 
lodge,  was  meeting  in  Grand  Rapids,  Michigan,  last 
week. 

— The  Wesleyan  Methodist  Connection  of  Great 
Britain  reports  for  1888  a  total  of  415,790  members 
with  34  564  on  trial.  The  increase  of  members  is 
3,446.     There  are  151  candidates  for  the  ministry. 

— According  to  the,  Year  Book  of  the  Disciples  of 
Christ  for  1888,  they  have  6,437  churches;  620,000 
communicants;  4  500  Sunday-schools,  with  a  mem- 
bership of  318,000,  and  a  teaching  force  of  33,340; 
number  of  preachers,  3,263.  The  value  of  church 
property  is  $10,368,361.  The  estimated  annual  in- 
crease of  members  with  churches  is  47,600.  The 
number  of  institutions  of  learning  which  have  been 
received  is  twenty  nine —five  universities,  nineteen 
colleges  and  five  institutes;  but  there  are  some  fif- 
teen or  twenty  from  which  no  report  has  been  re- 
ceived. 

— Bishop  William  Taylor  has  issued  a  letter  de- 
nying the  truth  of  the  statement  made  in  the  Meth- 
odist General  Conference  that  his  African  Mission  is 
from  $50,000  to  $70,000  in  debt.  He  does  not  say, 
however,  whether  there  is  any  debt  or  not.  He  said 
in  the  General  Conference  that  there  was  no  debt. 
His  letter  concludes  thus: 

"There  never  was  a  time  when  it  was  so  needful 
for  the  patrons  of  my  self-supporting  missions  to 
stand  by  me  and  my  Transit  and  Building  Fund  So- 
ciety as  now.  Let  them  send  their  gifts  for  a  rapid 
advance  of  this  work  to  our  trea8urer,Richard  Grant, 
181  Hudson  St.,  New  York,  and  his  receipts  will 
serve  as  vouchers  for  ministers  who  may  desire  a 
memorandum  of  all  such  appropriations  of  funds  as 
a  postscript  to  his  missionary  report  to  his  confer- 
ence." 

— The  centennial  of  Negro  Baptists  of  Georgia 
began  in  Savannah  on  June  6,  and  was  to  continue 
two  weeks.  Five  thousand  Negro  Baptists  are  pres- 
ent. At  the  opening  of  the  celebration  over  300 
preachers  were  in  attendance.  It  was  expected  that 
50,000  Negro  visitors  would  be  there  during  the  cel- 
ebration. 

— An  Interdenominational  Bible  Conference  will 
be  held  at  Ocean  Grove,  N.  J.,July  25-31,1888.  Dr. 
L.  W.  Munhall,evangelist,  Philadelphia,will  conduct 
the  same.  Among  those  who  are  expected  to  be 
present,  as  instructors,  are  the  following:  Bishops 
Newman  and  Nichol8on,Professor  W.  G.  Moorehead, 
Luther  T.  Townsend  and  S.  L.  Bowman,  and  the 
Rev.  Dr.  James  H  Brooks,  Nathaniel  West  and  W. 
J.  Erdman.  The  subjects  to  be  considered  are:"The 
Fact  and  Nature  of  Sin,""In8piration,"  "The  Atone- 
ment," 'The  Office  and  Work  of  the  Holy  Spirit," 
"The  Priestly  Office  and  Work  of  Jesus  Cbri8t,"elc. 
A  number  of  special  subjects,  however,  will  also  bo 
presented. 

— An  effort  is  being  made  by  the  Italian  Christian 
Association  of  New  York  to  open  a  Christian  home 
in  a  suitable  locality.  They  have  met  four  years  in 
the  old  church.  No.  309  Mulberry  street;  but,  be- 
cause the  edifice  is  lacking  all  the  r«  quirements  and 
conveniences  of  a  home,  it  is  found  necessary  to  re- 
move to  quarters  better  fitted  to  promote  growth 
and  usefulness.  There  are  about  two  hundred  and 
fifty  young  men  and  women  in  the  Association,  and 
more  than  two  hundred  children  in  the  Sunday- 
school. 

— A  French  Congregational  church  building  has 
been  dedicated  in  Springfield,  Mass.  The  Rev.  Mr. 
Cote,  who  was  instrumental  in  giving  the  society  a 
start  four  years  ago,  outlined  the  condition  and 
needa  of  the  French  Canadian  population  of  this 
country,  which  numbers  not  less  than  1,000,000. 
The  French  Canadians,  he  said,  need  something  else 
than  Romanism.  It  is  our  work  to  evangelize  them. 
Their  ignorance  and  superstition  are  almost  incred- 
ible, and  they  need  looking  after  as  much  as  so- 
called  heathen  in  China,  Japan  and  India. 

— Senator  l^errier  died  at  his  residence  in  Mon- 
treal on  the  31st  ult.,  in  the  eighty-ninth  year  of  bis 
age.  He  was  president  of  the  Bible  Society,  Chan- 
cellor of  Magill  University,  and  for  more  than  sixty 
years  be  was  superintendent  of  the  Great  St.  James 
Street  Church  Sunday-school,  His  funeral  was  one 
of  the  largest  ever  seen  at  Montreal.  A  tablet  will 
most  likely  be  erected  to  his  memory  in  Trinity 
church,  now  being  erected,  the  corner-stone  of  which 
be  laid  a  few  months  ago,  and  subscribed  $2,000  to 
the  building  fund. 


Juki  28, 1888 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


13 


Lodge  Notes. 

The  "Book  and  Snake"  is  a  secret  soci- 
ety of  the  Yale  Sheffield  Scientific  School 
that  has  just  erected  an  elegant  society 
and  dormitory  building  called  the  'Clois- 
ter," and  costing  about  $40,000. 

Thomas  Grace,  of  Pulaski,  Mo.,  was 
taken  from  his  home  Saturday  night  by 
night  riders  and  terribly  whipped  be- 
cause he  revealed  some  of  the  secrets  of 
the  Wheel,  an  agricultural  secret  society 
which  he  had  recently  joined. 

TheQrand  Lodge  of  Q)odTemplars  met 
at  Huron,  Dakota,  the  morning  of  June 
20th  and  continued  two  days.  The  sec- 
retary's annual  exhibit  shows  seventy- 
five  lodges  and  3,000  members  in  Dakota. 
Receipts  last  year,  $1,246;  expeses,  $1,- 
127. 

The  Senate  of  the  National  Union  met 
in  Cleveland  last  week.  This  is  an  in- 
surance lodge.  A  proposition  to  cancel 
the  certificates  of  members  subsequently 
engaging  in  hazardous  occupations  was 
rejected  as  inexpedient;  also  one  to 
change  the  sessions  to  biennial  instead 
of  annual  was  voted  down.  The  com- 
mittee on  laws  reported  favorably  a  num- 
ber of  minor  changes,  which  were 
adopted. 

The  Supreme  Lodge  Knights  of  Pythias 
at  Cincinnati,  Ohio,  adopted  the  report 
of  the  committee  on  endowment,  rank, 
authorizing  the  board  of  control  of  that 
department  to  levy  an  assessment  in  addi- 
tion to  one  per  month  as  heretofore  when 
necessary.  The  lodge  adopted  a  resolution 
declaring  explicitly  that  no  authority  has 
ever  been  granted  for  the  creation  of  a 
lodge  of  colored  knights,  and  that  no 
colored  man  can  lawfully  be  admitted  to 
any  lodge. 


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i^reoiuasonry     Illustrated,     a    sumpiet« 
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THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


Jxnsn  28, 1888 


Home  and  Heaitr 


FRUIT  AS   MEDICINE. 

Grapes  come  first,  especially  black 
grapes,  which  are  most  nutritious,  and  at 
the  same  time  purifying  to  the  blood. 
Grape  cures  are  quite  the  fashion  in^some 
parts  of  the  continent,  and  are  said  to 
work  miracles  at  times.  Peaches,  also, 
are  most  hygienic  to  the  human  system, 
as  well  as  being  one  of  the  most  exquis 
ite  fruits  in  nature.  Nothing,  indeed,  is 
more  palatable,  wholesome  and  medici- 
nal than  a  good  ripe  peach.  Peaches 
should  not  be  ea'en  overripe,  however. 
They  may  be  eaten  at  meals  or  between 
meals.  They  are  particularly  hygienic 
when  eaten  at  breakfast.  All  fruit,  in- 
deed, is  good  eaten  for  breakfast,  or  be- 
fore breakfast.  An  orange  eaten  before 
breakfast,  will,  it  is  said,  cure  dyspepsia 
sooner  than  anything  else.  Apples  are 
also  very  hygienic,  especially  when  baked 
or  stewed.  They  are  excellent  in  many 
cases  of  illness,  and  are  far  better  than 
salts  and  pills  to  cure  constipation  and 
liver  complaints. 

When  oranges  are  taken,  only  the  juice 
should  be  swallowed:  the  juice  of  or- 
anges, as  of  lemons,  is  valuable  to  make 
drinks  in  case  of  fever.  Tomatoes  are 
also  excellent  remedies  in  liver  and  bowel 
complaints,  and  certainly  more  pleasant 
than  medicines;  only  juice,  however, 
should  be  taken.  Figs,  raspberries,  straw 
berries,  currents  and  cherries  are  all  cool- 
ing and  purifying  to  the  system,  while 
being  nutritious  at  the  same  time.  If  we 
but  knew  what  health  there  is  stored  up 
by  nature  in  our  gardens  and  orchards, 
we  should  rarely  have  need  to  seek  the 
chemist.  How  little,  for  instance,  is  the 
water-melon  known,  yet  there  is  not  a 
better  medicine  for  fever  and  kidney 
complaints  than  the  juice  of  the  water- 
melon .  It  may  be  taken  in  sickness  and 
in  health,  and  almo.<it  in  unlimited  quan- 
tities, except  when  cholera  is  raging, 
when  it  must  be  avoided,  like  most  other 
fruit.  This  alone  will  tell  how  beneficial 
fruit  in  general  is  in  all   ordinary  times. 

It  is  claimed  that  the  juice  of  a  lemon 
gquetzed  into  a  cup  of  strong  coffee  will 
afford  immediate  relief  in  neuralgic  head- 
ache. 

A  tea  made  of  ripe  or  dried  whortle- 
berries, and  drank  in  place  of  water,  is  a 
speedy  cure  for  many  forms  of  scrofu- 
lous diflacultics. — Borne  Quardian. 

SUNSTROKE   AND   ITS    PREVENTION. 

Several  cases  of  sunstroke  have  recent 
ly  been  reported  from  the  west  of  Eng- 
land, and  intelligence  from  America 
shows  that  deaths  from  this  cause  have 
also  been  very  frequent  there.  A  few 
observations  on  this  subject  should,there- 
fore,  be  not  unseasonable  at  the  present 
time.  To  speak  of  sunstroke  as  being 
due  to  more  causes  than  one,  may  sound 
at  first  sight  rather  like  a  contradiction 
in  terms,  but  there  can  be  no  doubt  that 
besides  the  principal  influence  at  work 
in  such  cases,  there  are  others  of  real, 
though  secondary  significance.  In  seek- 
ing lo  explain  the  causation  of  this  mor- 
bid state  we  must,  indeed,  regard  at  least 
two  different  conditions  as  commonly 
acting  together  to  produce  the  result. 
One  of  these  is  external  heat,  not  neces- 
sarily that  of  the  direct  solar  rays;  the 
other  is  the  presence  in  excess  of  impu- 
rities in  the  blood  circulation,  with  a 
want  of  due  nutrition  in  the  tissues  which 
it  supplies.  The  conse  quence  of  this  ab- 
normal slate  of  body  is  necessarily  to  de 
lay  the  blood  current,  and  the  state  of 
congestion  thus  engendered  in  the  nerve 
centers  of  the  brain  and  cord  renders 
the  latter  unusually  irrital)1e  to  the 
action  of  external  stimuli,  of  which  ex- 
ternal heat  is,  for  the  case  we  are  dis- 
cussing, the  most  important  It  follows 
accordingly  that  prevention  must  include 
some  care  as  to  modes  of  living,  as  well 
as  means  of  regulating  or  resisting  heat 
from  without  the  body.  For  example, 
the  free  use  of  alcoholic  stimulants, which 
ttnds  to  impair  nutrition,  is  not  longer 
considered  to  bo  advisable,  while  tea  and 
coffee,  which  check  the  formation  of 
waste  products,  are  proportionately  valu- 
able. Tight  clothing  about  the  chest  is 
generiilly  condemned  as  likely  to  impede 
the  aeration  of  blood  in  the  lungs;  and 
experience  has  proved  that  fcr  a  similar 
reason  the  imperfect  ventilation  of  work 
rooms  in  warm  weather  is  conducive  to 
heat  stroke.  As  regards  protection  against 
the  sun's  rays,  it  should  be  remembered 
that  not  only  the  head,  but  the  back  of 
the  neck  must  be  suitably  guarded  in  or- 


der to  insure  the  traveler  against  the  risk 
of  injury.  The  wearing  a  damp  hand- 
kerchief, or  a  leaf,  such  as  that  of  the 
cabbage,  next  the  head,  has  also  been 
found  very  useful.  One  word  as  to  the 
immediate  treatment  of  a  case  of  sun- 
stroke. In  some  instances,  doubtless 
not  even  the  readiest  assistance  will  save 
life,  but  in  case  of  need  it  is  well  that 
all  should  bear  in  mind  that  the  most  ef- 
fectual form  in  which  first  aid  can  be 
rendered  is  the  application  of  cold— as 
cold  water,  ice,  etc. — to  the  head  and 
neck. — London  Lancet. 


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overheard  one  say  of  her,  "By  heaven! 
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lady,  once  thin  and  pale,  with  a  dry, 
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8TBAWBKBRIE8 

It  is  time  to  plant  strawberries  any 
time  till  mid  June,  provided  they  are  not 
overheated  in  package  or  carelessly  set. 
When  I  am  transplanting  home-grown 
plants  I  often  do  it  in  autumn,  carefully 
moving  each  plant  with  abundance  of 
earth ;  but  plants  from  a  distance  it  is  a 
delusion  to  set  out  in  the  late  months  of 
the  year;  and  as  for  potted  plaots  ignore 
thern,  unless  you  are  quite  too  skilled  to 
need  advice.  Spring  planting  is  right 
every  time,  and  late  spring  is  as  good  as 
early  spring,  or  better,  with  the  precau- 
tion named  above.  Remember  that  when 
it  is  too  late  to  fill  up  defective  raspberry 
or  blackberry  rows,  you  make  your  straw- 
berry garden  all  right— down  to  the  mid- 
dle or  end  or  June. 

But  to  plant  a  strawberry,  there  is  the 
secret.  There  is  no  other  plant  that 
needs  so  much  exactness  in  planting  as 
this,  and  I  will  tell  you  how  to  do  it.  The 
hole  should  not  be  a  hole  at  all,  but  well- 
softened  dirt,  not  just  after  a  shower, 
but  when  the  mold  is  loose  and  friable. 
Then  with  a  circular  movement  of  jour 
hand  leave  the  dirt  slightly  conical;  over 
this  spread  the  roots;  then  crowd  down 
hard  until  the  plant  sets  with  its  crown 
just  above  the  level  of  the  earth.  Now 
bruBh  in  dirt  and  crowd  that  down,  and 
remember  to  crowd  hard — you  cannot 
press  it  down  too  tight.  Now,  last  of 
all,  brush  in  a  little  loose  earth  that  you 
do  not  press  down  at  all.  This  serves  as 
mulch,  retaining  moisture.  The  process 
is  simple,  but  it  is  all  necessary,  every 
step  of  it.  If  the  weather  be  dry,  let  a 
pint  of  water  be  poured  in  after  the  last 
pressing  and  before  the  loose  earth  is 
thrown  in.  Now  your  plants  stand  with 
the  crowns  cut  and  clean,  and  are  ready 
to  grow.  You  should  not  leave  over  one 
third  of  the  leaves  on  the  vines  if  they 
have  been  sent  to  you  from  a  distance, 
and  you  should  pick  out  the  blossom 
buds,  that  is  if  you  wish  for  quick  growth 
and  thrifty  plants.  If  you  are  setting 
home-grown  plants,  taken  up  with  a  ball 
of  earth,  they  need  not  be  pinched  much. 

Of  the  different  methods  of  strawberry 
growing  for  home  use,  where  only  a  small 
plot  is  to  be  set,  by  all  odds  the  best  plan 
is  to  set  in  hills.  In  this  way  a  bed  will 
do  well  for  several  years.  It  is  too  ex- 
oenEive  a  method  for  market  growers. 
But  the  row  method  is  also  good  if  your 
rows  arc  narrow.  Don't  heed  the  wise- 
acres who  tell  you  not  to  hoe  or  clean  out 
your  strawberries  until  after  they  have 
fruited;  they  should  be  well  cleaned  out 
in  early  May,  and  should,  if  neccessary, 
be  cleaned  again;  only  do  not  let  the  hoe 
slip  under  the  fine  surface  roots  of  the 
plants  and  disturb  them — if  you  want  a 
good  crop.  The  only  rule  is  to  work 
with  care  and  use  common  SKnee.  You 
cannot  hoe  them  as  you  would  potatoes. 

If  you  can,  select  for  your  strawberry 
plot  a  piece  of  ground  that,  while  open 
to  the  sun,  is  not  easily  dried  up  in  case 
of  a  drought.  Our  worst  trouble  is  with 
dry  spells  as  the  fruit  is  ripening,  A 
good  plan  is  to  have  it  near  a  well  or  a 
brook  or  reservoir,  and  with  a  forco- 
pump  deluge  it  as  needed — at  night.  All 
watering  should  be  done  at  night,  so  that 
the  water  will  gently  soak  in  before  the 
sun  begins  to  suck  it  out.  Be  sure  of 
one  thing,  a  dricd-up  strawberry  bed  is 
a  nuisance  and  will  never  tell  you  the 
truth.  The  truth  about  a  Sbarpless  is 
about  five  inches  in  circumference. 

Mulching  strawberries  is  by  all  means 
to  be  practiced;  it  is  notdifQcult  to  adopt 
nor  expensive.  If  you  have  old  leaves, 
put  them  on  in  autumn,  and  in  spring 
rake  them  off  between  the  rows,  and 
lightly  fork  them  under.  Goal  ashes  do 
not  work  badly,  but  of  course  ordinary 
wood  ashes  will  soil  the  fruit.  Tanbark 
is  at  times  used,  so  also  aay  waste  straw 
or  weeds  or  refuse.  Immediately  after 
picking  I  should  fork  under  the  mulch 
and  thoroughly  work  the  ground. 

Of  the  older  sorts  of  strawberries  there 
are  juat  two  that  should  be  set  down  as 
universal  family  berries,  Cumberland  and 
Sharpkss.  The  Cumberland  has  stood 
the  test  for  fifteen  years,  and  is  still  as 
good  as  ever  and  as  popular.  It  is  soft 
for  a  distant  market  berry,  but  it  is  beau- 
tiful in  form  and  color,  of  excellent  fla- 
vor, free  from  acidity,  an  admirable  crof - 
per,  and  a  really  excellent  bearer.  On 
the  table  it  is  always  a  favorite,  and  all 
in  all  no  family  garden  should  miss  it. 
SharplesB  is  a  delicious  befry,  enormous 
in  size,  a  heavy  cropper  on  good  soil  and 


moist  land,  and  always  a  good  cropper 
on  all  soils.  It  does  not  ripen,  or  rather 
color,  its  tips  well;  but  it  is  always  sweet 
to  the  tip.  Two  other  old  sorts  are  fairly 
entitled  to  follow  them— Manchester  and 
Crescent,  because  of  their  bearing  qual- 
ity and  rich  color;  but  they  are  both  too 
sour. 

A  strawberry  bed  cannot  be  well  kept 
up  longer  than  four  years  on  the  same 
ground.  You  must  calculate  on  new 
plantings  as  often  as  the  third  or  fourth 
year.  Frequently  it  is  better  to  plant 
anew  each  second  year. 

Enrich  enormously.  You  can  hardly 
overdo  in  that  direction.  Be  sure  to  rely 
on  well-rotted  barnyard  manure.  Put  it 
on  after  the  crop,  and  again  as  a  thin 
covering  for  winter.  Rake  off  and  fork 
it  in  in  the  spring. — B.  F.  Powell  in  In- 
dependent. 


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THE  CHRISTIAN  OYNOSXTEE. 


JuNi  28, 1888 


Npws  OF  The  Week 


WASHINGTON. 

The  100th  anniversary  of  the  ratifica- 
tion of  the  New  Hamp'^hire  constitution 
was  celebrated  on  the  16  th,  and  the  Unit- 
ed States  Senate,  in  honor  of  the  day, 
adjourned  till  Monday. 

Gen.  Sheridan's  condition  has  contin- 
ued to  improve.  The  intense  heat  ie, 
however,  beginning  to  tell  upon  his 
strength.  It  is  evidently  becoming  nec- 
essary to  consider  the  question  of  his  re 
moval  at  an  early  day  to  a  more  f avora 
ble  locality.  Gen.  Sheridan  will  proba- 
bly be  removed  to  the  seashore  during 
the  present  week,  provided  hip  condition 
justifies  it.  Fortress  Monroe  or  Atlantic 
City  will  probably  be  selected  as  the  most 
convenient  of  access. 

CHICAGO. 

A  verdict  for  $1,002,491  24  was  ren- 
dered by  the  jury  in  Judge  Clifford's 
court,  in  this  city,  in  favor  of  the  plantiff, 
in  the  case  of  Auguslin  I.  Ambler,  of 
Washington,  D.  C  ,  against  Rodney  M. 
Whipple,  a  resident  of  1523  Michigan 
avenue.  This  is  the  largest  verdict  re- 
turned in  a  single  case  in  Chicago  for 
years.    The  litigation  was  over  a  patent. 

The  Burlington  road  brought  into  Chi- 
cago 125  special  passenger  trains  loaded 
with  visitors  to  the  Republican  Conven- 
tion. 

Three  men  died  from  the  effect  of  sun- 
stroke in  this  city  last   Wednesday,  one 
of  them  an  Ohio  delegate  to  the  Repub 
lican  Convention.     The  weather  was  not 
exremely  hot. 

Lucy  Parsons,  the  widow  of  the  dead 
anarchist,  was  twice  arrested  and  once 
fined  last  week  for  scattering  circulars  in 
the  streets. 

Some  8unda5S  sixty  or  seventy  base- 
ball games  are  played  in  this  city.  Last 
Sunday  Frank  and  Matthew  Daly,  two 
brothers,  of  355  May  street,  became  in- 
volved in  a  quarrel  on  the  way  to  a  game 
of  ball.  Frank  seized  a  ball  bat  and 
struck  Matthew  twice,  breaking  two  ribs 
and  fracturing  bis  skull.  His  condition 
is  precarious.  Frank  is  locked  up  at  the 
Twelfth  street  station. 

COUNTRY^ 

The  stockholders  of  the  Nicaragua  Ca- 
nal Construction  Company  held  their 
annual  meeting  in  D  -nver  Thursday  even- 
ing It  was  decided  not  to  wait  any 
longer  for  Congress  to  grant  the  compa- 
ny a  charter,  but  to  incorporate  immedi- 
ately under  the  laws  of  Colorado.  Re- 
ports were  received  from  the  engineers 
fixing  the  cost  of  the  canal  at  $50,000,- 
(KK)  The  company  decided  to  double 
tbis  amount  in  order  to  cover  all  inci- 
dental expenses,  and  incorporate  with  a 
capital  of  $100,000,000.  Work  will  be 
begun  Sspiember  1,  and  it  is  expected 
the  canal  will  be  completed  in  five  years 
Dr.  Kossuth  Morgner,  of  St.  Louis,  who 
has  been  speeding  a  week  at  Niagara 
Falls  as  president  of  the  St.  Louis  coih- 
pany.  with  an  alleged  capital  of  $15,- 
000, 0(K),  proposes  to  develop  an  enor- 
mous power  by  stringing  a  series  of 
wheels  at  the  brink  of  the  falls,  sustained 
by  a  cable. 

While  Mr.  and  Mrs.  James  Gillespie, 
living  near  Sturgeon  Biy,  Wis.,  were 
driving  home  from  the  village  the  horse 
ran  away,  throwing  Mrs.  Gillespie  out. 
When  the  horse  was  stopped  Mr.  Gilles- 
pie called  his  wife,  but  receiving  no 
answer  concluded  she  had  returned  to 
town,  and  drove  home.  In  the  morning 
the  woman  was  found  dead  in  the  road, 
having  been  killed  by  the  fall. 

For  three  days  the  heat  in  New  York 
city  has  been  almost  insufferable.  The 
highest  tbcrmometrical  point  reached  to 
day  was  !>7  degrees.  There  were  four 
deaths  reported  from  heat  and  thirteen 
prostrations  in  this  city  and  fifteen  heat 
prostrations  in  Brooklyn. 

A  party  of  sixteen  ladies  and  gentle- 
men hired  the  steam  yacht.  Olivette  and 
left  Newark,  N.  J.,  Saturday  night  The 
boat  ran  upon  the  jetty,  upset,  and  six 
of  the  party  were  swept  away  and 
drowned. 

Greenwood  county,  Kansas,  is  said  to 
be  terrorizfid  by  rabid  dogs.  Nine  per- 
sons have  been  bitten  and  three  have 
died  from  hydrophobia.  A  month  ago 
a  mad  dog  bit  several  other  dogs  and  a 
number  of  cattle.  Two  weeks  ago  a  dog 
ran  into  the  yard  of  William  Jones  and 
bit  Mr.  Jones  and  two   of  his  children. 


Wednesday  one  of  the  children  die!  in 
great  agony,  and  the  next  day  the  father 
and  the  other  child  died.  A  madstone 
was  circulated  among  the  persons  who 
had  been  bitten,  and  a  wholesale  slaugh- 
ter of  dogs  is  going  on. 

FOBBI0N. 

The  Berlin  Courier  says  that  E  naperor 
William  has  expressed  to  the  Grand  Duke 
Vladimir  an  earnest  desire  for  the  con- 
tinuance of  the  friendly  relations  with 
Russia  that  existed  during  the  reigns  of 
his  grandsire  and  father. 

iJr.  Mackenzie,  who  attended  Empe 
ror  Frederick,  says  he  parted  on  friendly 
terms  with  all  the  German  doctors  except 
one.  He  had  been  fully  aware  of  the 
dangerous  nature  of  Emperot  Frederick's 
malady  since  last  February,  but  if  he  ha4 
admitted  it  a  regency  would  have  been 
probable,  which  would  have  pleased  a 
section  opposed  to  the  accession  of  Fred 
erick  A  communication  from  Dr.  Mack 
enzie  shows  that  all  hope  of  further  pro 
longing  Emperor  Frederick's  life  was 
abandoned  on  the  night  of  the  20 th.  He 
adds:  "Throughout  his  illness  the  Em- 
peror uttered  no  word  of  complaint  and 
gave  no  signs  of  impatience.  The  doc- 
tors and  servants  who  attended  him  will 
always  cherish  the  memory  of  the  grate 
ful  acknowledgment  of  services  that  or- 
dinary patients  exact  as  their  right." 

A  dispatch  from  St.  Paul  de  Loanda, 
dated  June  20,  says:  "Several  deserters 
from  Stanley's  expedition  have  reached 
Camp  Yambungo.  They  say  that  after 
traversing  Aruwhimi  Stanley  struck  into 
a  rough,  mountainous  country  covered 
with  dense  forests.  The  natives,  who 
were  excited  by  reports  spread  by  the 
Arabs,  disputed  the  passage  of  the  expe 
dition,  and  there  was  continuous  fight- 
ing. Stanley  was  severely  wounded  by 
an  arrow.  He  was  compelled  several 
times  to  construct  camps  in  order  to  re- 
pel attacks,  and  was  obliged  to  use  the 
reserve  provisions  that  were  intended  for 
Emin  Bey. 

A  strike  of  priests,  says  the  London 
Graphic,  is  horrifying  all  devout  Roman 
Catholics  in  the  Argentine  Republic.  The 
government  having  issued  an  order  low- 
ering the  fees  for  masses,  marriages, 
buriels,  and  other  ecclesiastical  functions, 
the  priests  determined  to  resist  such  an 
encroachment  on  their  privileges,  and 
refused  to  officiate.  So  all  the  churches 
are  closed,  and  not  a  bell  is  to  be  heard, 
as  if  the  whole  country  were  under  an 
edict. 

The  remains  of  Beethoven  were  ex- 
humed at  Vienna,  June  21,  and  placed 
in  a  new  coffin.  They  were  conveyed 
through  the  principal  streets  of  the  city 
and  interred  in  the  Central  cemetery. 
The  grave  is  marked  by  a  handsome  obe 
lisk  on  which  is  inscribed  the  name  Beeth- 
oven. 

The  Emin  Bey  Relief  Committee  of 
London  state  that,  from  facts  in  their 
possession,  they  place  no  reliance  what- 
ever on  the  pessimistic  reports  of  Henry 
M.  Stanley's  death  lately  circulated. 

Detailed  accounts  of  the  gales  which 
occurred  on  the  coast  of  Ireland  last 
month  show  that  400  French  fishermen 
drowned.     Thirty  vessels  were  wrecked. 

A  dispatch  from  Shanghai  says:  "A 
feeling  of  uneasiness  prevails  among  for 
eigners  in  Corea  on  account  of  the  threat- 
ening attitude  of  the  natives.  All  the 
foreign  consulates  are  guarded  by  sol- 
diers. An  American  man  of  war  has 
been  sent  to  give  assistance. 


No  matter  what  the  school  of  physic, 
They  each  can  cure  an  ache  or  phthisic — 

At  least  'tis  said  they  can; 
But  as  Science  turns  the  wheel  still  faster. 
And  quacks  and  bigots  meet  disaster. 

To  us  there  comes  a  man 
Whose  merit  hath  won  countless  zealots. 
Who  use  and  praise  his  '  'Pleasant  Pellets. " 
The  "Pleasant  Purgative  Pellets"  of 
Dr.  Pierce,  though  gentle  in  action,  are 
thorough,  and  never  fail  to  cure  bilious- 
ness, diseased  or  torpid  liver,  and  consti 
pation. 


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Vol.  XX.,  No.  42 


CHICAGO,  THTJESDAY,  JULY  5,  1888. 


Wholi  No.  949. 


PUBLIBHBD    WBKKLY     BY    THB 

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CONTENTS. 


Editobial: 

Notes  and  Comment* 

Republicanism  and  Whk- 
ky 

No  Lodgery  In  Politics. . . 

The  Pope's  Attack  on  the 
Irish 

How  Stand  Your  Candi- 
dates?  

CONTBIBUTIONS : 

National  Defence  or  Na- 
tional Virtue 

God's  Book 

The  Horror  of  Negatives. 

illumination  and  Clrcum- 

ambulation 

Sblbctbd : 

Fight  for  Your  Country. . 

Mind  What  You  Promise. 

Grand  Army  Frauds 

Letter  from  the  Congo 

New  England  Letter 

LITBBA.TDRB 


RB70BM  News: 
At  the  Louisiana  Capital ; 
We    Shall    Hear    from 
Northwestern  Ohio 4, 5 

Cobbbsponobnob : 
From  a  Reformer's  Note- 
book ;  Reformers,  be  of 
Good  Cheer ;  Righteous 
Politics;  A  Republican 
on  the  G.A.R.  Pensions; 
Pith  and  Point ,5,6 

HOMB    AND   UBALTH 7 

Secret    Societies     Con- 
demned     7 

The  N.  C.  a 7 

ThbHomb 10 

Temperance 11 

BiBLB  Lesson 12 

Rbligiods  Nbws 13 

Donations 13 

Markets 13 

Farm  Notes 14 

News  of  thb  Wbbk 16 


The  great  Cincinnati  Centennial  which  opens 
July  4  and  continues  till  the  27th  of  October  prom- 
ises to  be  the  event  of  the  year  for  the  central  States 
of  the  Union.  Vast  preparations  have  been  made, 
the  permanent  exposition  buildings  will  be  u3ed,and 
additional  structures  have  been  erected  to  provide 
for  the  exhibits  and  the  crowds.  The  centennial  of 
the  passing  of  the  celebrated  Ordinance  of  1787, 
which  began  a  year  ago,  will  form  no  unimportant 
part  of  the  present  celebration,  as  that  memorable 
document  gave  the  keynote  to  the  pro8perity,growth, 
peace  and  happiness  of  the  States  of  the  great  North- 
west. 


General  Harrison,  the  Republican  candidate,  is 
not  a  man  to  create  party  enthusiasm,  but  there  are 
some  considerations  that  indicate  the  hand  of  God 
in  his  nomination.  He  is  a  Christian  man,  member 
of  a  Presbyterian  church,  and  not  unmindful  of  his 
obligations  to  God  and  his  fellows.  S)  that,  while 
there  is  little  hope  of  his  election,  it  should  not  be 
unobserved  that  he  bears  this  relation.  His  piety 
is  not  so  aggressive  as  that  of  General  Fisk,  who, 
besides  being  an  active  man,  a  leader  in  the  Chris- 
tian army,  is  a  man  of  superior  general  qualifica- 
tions loeither  of  the  other  candidate8,and  even  Prohi- 
bition and  religion  aside,  would  make  an  abler  Pres- 
ident. 


The  labor  lodges  are  organizing  to  defeat  Harri- 
son. They  are  moving  to  form  anti-Harrison  clubs 
all  over  Indiana,  and  inquiries  come  from  all  parts 
of  the  country  about  the  standing  of  the  Republi- 
can candidate.  The  leaders  claim  that  he  opposed 
the  strikers  in  1877,  and  said  if  he  were  governor 
he  would  order  them  shot;  that  he  was,  in  188G, 
when  candidate  for  governor,  attorney  for  the  West- 
ern Union  Telegraph  and  Union  Pacific  monopolies, 
and  all  his  sympathies  are  against  the  labor  inter- 
ests of  the  country.  It  must  be  seriously  doubted 
if  these  charges  can  be  made  good;  but  whether 
they  can  or  no,  it  should  begin  to  open  the  dull  eyes 
of  our  fellow  citizens  of  one  party  to  tho    dangers 


which  are  inseparable  from  the  lodge  system.  On 
the  strength  of  a  probable  canard  the  lodge  can  se- 
cretly operate,  and  organize  the  defeat  of  parties  and 
candidates. 


On  the  last  evening  of  the  Republican  convention, 
when  the  delegates  were  tired  out  with  a  hard  week's 
work,  and  both  nature  and  pocket-book  urged  an 
immediate  adjournment,  Mr.  Boutelle  of  Maine  pro- 
posed an  afterthought  to  the  platform.  He  was  a 
suspected  man,  and  was  met  by  loud  objections  be- 
fore the  nature  of  his  amendment  was  known.  The 
matter  was  understood  by  the  leaders,  however,  and 
he  was  heard.     This  was  his  resolution: 

"The  first  concern  of  all  good  government  is  the  vir- 
tue and  sobriety  of  the  people  and  the  puiity  of  the 
home.  The  Republican  party  cordially  sympathi/ies 
with  all  wise  and  well-directed  efforts  for  the  promotion 
of  temperance  and  morality." 

The  representatives  of  liquordom  who  had  op- 
posed the  measure  before  they  heard  it,  immediate- 
ly gave  their  approval,  and  voted  it  unanimously. 
The  object  of  these  fair  sounding  sentences  is  ob- 
vious. There  are  many  temperance  men  who  were 
anxious  for  some  excuse  to  hold  fast  to  the  old 
party.  The  platform  had  absolutely  no  peg  upon 
which  thev  could  lay  hold  and  save  themselves;  and 
as  "drowning  men  catch  at  straws,"  this  gives  them 
a  pretext  about  as  good  as  a  straw.  They  will  not 
care  to  know  that  every  liquor  dealer  in  the  party  is 
well  pleased  with  this  resolution;  but  a  delegation 
from  the  Peoria  distilleries  did  come  up  to  fight  the 
free  whisky  i^lank. 

Following  closely  upon  the  great  Republican  Con- 
vention two  national  meetings  of  importance  are  to 
be  held  in  Chicago  this  week.  They  are  the  Society 
of  Christian  Endeavor  and  the  National  Music  Teach- 
er's Association.  The  former,  which  represents  the 
organization  of  young  people  in  many  of  our 
churches  for  Christian  work  adapted  to  their  age 
and  experience,  meets  in  Battery  D  on  Thursday, 
and  will  be  attended  by  some  4,000  delegates.  Em- 
inent Christian  workers  from  different  parts  of  the 
country  are  to  make  addresses,  and  others  not  so 
eminent.  Dr.  Barrows,  of  California,  and  Bishop 
Fallows,  who  divide  their  time  between  church  and 
lodge,  God  and  devil,  are  unfortunately  among  the 
speakers.  The  music  teachers  invite  the  public  to 
their  gathering  at  Music  Hall,  and  in  the  evenings 
they  will  join  Theodore  Thomas  and  his  orchestra 
to  entertain   everybody  in  the  Exposition  building, 


Mayor  Roche  of  Chicago  has  begun  a  change  in 
the  City  Board  of  Education  which  we  hope  his  suc- 
cessors will  carry  forward  with  some  power  of  moral 
conviction.  Upon  the  new  Board  the  name  of  Mrs. 
Helen  Mitchell  was  substituted  for  that  of  Allan  C. 
Story.  Mr.  Story  is  a  capable  lawyer,  but  is 
strongly  opposed  to  the  Bible  in  the  schools.  Mrs. 
Mitchell's  religious  proclivitie6(Swedenborgian)may 
not  make  her  any  warmer  friend  of  a  change  in  this 
matter,  but  there  is  hope  that  this  appointment  be- 
gins a  separation  of  this  important  Board  from  local 
politics.  It  is  now  run  by  men  who  care  apparently 
more  for  a  vote  than  for  a  conscience;  and  to  place 
the  vastly  important  interests  of  the  public  schools 
of  a  great  city  in  their  control  is  a  reckless  act  of 
folly,  if  not  a  crime.  An  earnest  effort  by  Mrs.  E. 
A.  Cook  and  other  ladies,  endorsed  by  some  of  the 
most  infiuential  business  men  of  Chicago,  to  secure 
a  change  in  the  Board  in  favor  of  morality  and  the 
Bible,  seems  to  have  been  ignored  by  Mayor  Roche. 


The  Chicago  Monday  papers  report  an  even  hun- 
dred base  ball  games  going  on  in  some  part  of  the 
city  last  Sabbath  in  violation  of  State  law.  There 
beems  to  be  an  idea  that  this  city  is  exempt  from 
statutes  in  favor  of  morality  which  control  oth- 
er parts  of  the  State.  This  is  evidently  untrue.  On 
the  contrary  there  should  be  more  severe  restrictions 
with  so  large  a  body  of  people  living  in  a  confined 
area.  In  Minneapolis  ball  games  have  been  sup- 
pressed by  the  courts,  and  the  manager  goes  whin- 
ing about  of  his  loss  of  110,000  because  he  could 
not  have  a  Sunday  game.  A  man  so  devoid  of  con- 
science ought  to  fail  in  everything  he  undertakes 


until  he  repents  and  becomes  less  dangerous  to  the 
community.  In  Atlanta,  Georgia,  there  seems  to  be 
a  wholesome  regard  for  public  morals  which  our 
Northern  cities.run  by  foreign-bred  politicians, would 
do  well  to  emulate.  A  German  wedding  was  cele- 
brated with  a  dance  on  a  recent  Sunday  night.  The 
police  heard  the  festive  strains  of  music  and  broke 
up  the  performance. 


Those  who  read  the  life  of  Mrs.  Kelley,  noticed 
in  this  number,  will  mark  with  pleasure  and  sur- 
prise the  fact  that  these  African  tribes  are  gener- 
ally so  friendly,  so  accessible,  and  so  often  give  to 
the  axious  missionary  marked  tokens  of  God's  bless- 
ing on  his  labors.  One  of  the  Taylor  missionaries 
is  Dr.  Summers,  who  seems  to  be  on  the  advance 
line,  farther  toward  the  interior  than  Rev.  Edward 
Mathews,  whose  letter  from  Arlington  Mission  ap- 
pears on  another  page.  He  writes  from  among  the 
Bashilange  people,  after  a  long  journey,  and  pleads 
for  more  workers  most  earnestly.  "Can  you  not  do 
something  to  stir  up  our  home-givers?  My  tears  are 
my  food  all  the  day  long,  not  because  my  enemies 
reproach  me,  but  because  my  friends  tail  to  come 
on  to  the  battle.  Here  the  people  are  crying  out 
for  missionaries  and  teachers.  What  can  I  do?  I 
have  none  in  my  pocket,  nor  yet  at  my  bidding.  I 
promise  that  some  are  on  the  way,  and  I  believe  this 
is  so,  but  our  river  communication  is  broken." 


NATIONAL  DEFENCE  OR  NATIONAL  VIRTUS 


BY  MISS  E.  K.  PLAGCi. 


A  friend  who  wears  the  title  of  Professor  before 
her  name,  and  wears  it  too  as  worthily  as  did  that 
fair  maiden  who  graced  the  chair  of  mathematics 
and  philosophy  at  Padua  three  centuries  ago,  said 
to  me  the  other  day  as  we  sat  enjoying  the  scent  of 
lilacs  and  apple  blossoms:  "I  have  been  much  im- 
pressed this  spring  while  digging  among  my  plants 
with  the  thought  of  what  a  clean  thing  life  is,  how 
its  vital  currents  even  in  the  weakest  organisms 
have  a  mysterious  power  to  repel  defilement.  How 
clean  and  shining  even  the  little  cutworms  come  out 
from  their  long  sleep  in  the  ground.  There  is  a 
beautiful  analogy  here  between  the  physical  and  the 
spiritual  life.  I  think  this  must  have  been  in  the 
Psalmist's  mind  when  he  sang,  'The  fear  of  the  liOrd 
is  clean,  enduring  forever,'  for  you  see  how  he 
makes  the  two  ideas  supplementary,  purity  and 
everlastingness."  Oh,  ye  evergreen  hills  of  God,  as 
ye  rise  up  against  the  gold  and  purple  of  Life's 
sunsetting,  it  is  good  to  know  that  the  real  life  is 
beyond  us  —the  life  which  has  nothing  to  do  with 
the  mortal,  the  corruptible,  the  fleeting.  The  power 
to  corrupt  and  defile  is  a  deathly  power,  the  revivi- 
fying, purifying  power  belongs  to  life;  and  so  it 
depends  on  the  reality  and  the  amount  of  life  which 
we  carry  in  us,  whether  our  "environment",  to  speak 
scientifically,  or  our  "circumstances",  to  use  the 
vulgar  tongue,  be  too  strong  for  us.  Our  lot  may 
be  the  hardest,  the  most  disagreeable,  the  most  un- 
favorable to  spiritual  growth,  and  yet  we  may  come 
out  from  it  all,  clean  through  the  life  which  is  in 
us,  the  mighty  inbreathing  of  that  same  Word  which 
kept  St.  Paul's  converts  pure  amid  the  abominations 
of  heathen  Corinth.  For  where  sin  abounds  grace 
doth  much  more  abound.  The  highest  lights  are 
where  the  shadows  are  most  heavy;  the  fullest  life 
is  over  against  death,  the  broken  chrysalis,  the 
bursting  grain,  the  empty  tomb.  I  know  why  the 
saints  walk  in  white;  I  know  why  the  purest  thing 
on  earth,  a  fountain  of  cool,  crystal  water,  is  made 
to  image  forth  the  life  which  is  in  God,  for  life  and 
purity  are  inseparable. 

A  cK)rrupt  art,  however  gorgeous  its  fruitage,  al- 
ways has  a  destroying  worm  at  the  core;  and  cor- 
ruption in  society  means  exactly  the  same  thing 
now  that  it  did  in  the  times  of  the  Itoman  C:i'3ars — 
social  death.  Talk  about  national  defences  when 
national  virtue  is  decaying!  about  the  need  of  forts 
and  navies  when  all  the  cannon  that  were  ever  cast, 
and  all  the  armies  that  ever  reddened  field  and  wave 
with  their  blood,  will  never  save  America  from  her 
certain   doom   so  long  as  Mammon  and  not  Christ 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


July  5, 1888 


rules  in  her  councils,  and  those  of  her  public  men 
who  dare  stand  up  for  truth  and  honpr  and  right- 
eousness are  so  few  a  little  child  can  write  theml 
"I  sit  a  queen  and  am  no  widow,"  said  Tyre  of  old, 
and  even  as  she  complacently  wrapped  her  purple 
around  her,  the  wealthy,  voluptuous,  haughty  Tyre 
was  dead — dead  as  she  is  today  with  the  sea  rolling 
over  her,  and  the  wail  of  prophecy  her  funeral  dirge 
forever.  Christian  voters,  look  to  it.  Already  the 
deathly  plague  spots  of  the  saloon  and  the  lodge 
have  made  the  whole  head  sick  and  the  whole  heart 
faint,  and  what  America  wants  now,  for  she  only 
grows  sicker  and  fainter  with  every  nostrum  pre- 
scribed by  her  wise  men  at  Washington,  is  the  oxy- 
gen of  Christian  politics,  filling  her  lungs  and  puri- 
fying her  blood;  and  then  only  shall  we  have  an 
enduring  nation  because  a  clean  nation;  one  we 
shall  not  have  to  blush  for,  as  so  many  times  in  the 
past  we  have  had  bitter  and  shameful  occasion  to 
do.  I  know  that  many  good  men  and  women  have 
a  horror  of  politics.  They  consider  it  the  devil's 
ground,  and  so  it  is,  but  only  by  usurpation.  I 
claim  that  it  belongs  to  Prince  Immanuel,  and 
every  time  I  read  the  doings  of  a  Prohibition  con- 
vention I  rejoice  that  this  old  and  bad  idea  is  being 
exploded.  National  Reform  is  national  life.  What 
we  want  is  Christ  in  the  market-place,  Christ  in  the 
shop,  Christ  in  the  home,  Christ  at  the  polls,  Christ 
everywhere. 

Shall  America  be  founded  on  the  living  Rock? 
Shall  her  age  be  only  bounded  by  Time?  Then  let 
her  hear  the  voice  of  God,  "Wash  you,  make  you 
clean."  And  let  millions  of  snowy  ballots,  from 
Christian  voters,  weave  her  a  spotless  garment, 
unique  among  the  nations  of  the  earth;  which  so 
long  as  she  wears  it,  though  not  a  single  cannon 
crown  her  grass-grown  ramparts,  will  make  Ameri- 
ca invulnerable. 


GOD'S  BOOK. 


BY   REV.   J.   M.   FOSTER. 

The  Scriptures  are  to  be  regarded  as  a  letter  of 
instruction  from  God  to  us.  They  are  God's  re 
vealed  will  to  man.  They  tell  as  all  God  wishes  us 
to  know  respecting  his  nature,  character,  work  and 
government,  and  respecting  man's  origin,  fall,  re- 
demption and  destiny.  It  would  be  interesting  to 
dwell  upon  revelation — the  Holy  Spirit  making  known 
to  men  the  future '^a  gift  enjoyed  by  only  a  few; 
upon  inspiration,  such  an  influence  of  the  Spirit  as 
made  it  impossible  for  the  writers  to  err  in  record- 
ing the  mind  of  God,  a  gift  enjoyed  by  all  the  Bible 
writers;  or  upon  illumination,  the  Holy  Spirit  ena- 
bling the  human  mind  to  understand  the  teachings 
of  the  Scriptures,  a  gift  enjoyed  by  every  believer 
in  Christ,  But  our  purpose  at  present  is  simply  to 
consider  the  Bible  as  the  Word  of  God.  That  it  is 
such  appears: 

I.  From  its  adaptation  to  the  human  heart.  There 
are  certain  questions  that  are  of  eternal  moment  to 
every  human  being.  From  whence  did  I  come,  and 
whither  am  I  going?  What  is  wrong  with  my  soul 
that  it  is  natural  for  me  to  sin,  as  it  is  natural  for 
the  bee  to  sting  or  the  serpent  to  bite?  What  is 
sin  and  what  are  its  deserts?  How  can  I  be  deliv- 
ered from  sin  and  its  consequences?  What  becomes 
of  me  when  I  die?  What  is  the  destiny  of  my  body? 
What  will  be  the  difference  between  the  righteous 
and  the  wicked  in  the  future  world?  These  are  ques- 
tions of  overwhelming  interest  to  every  son  and 
daughter  of  Adam.  The  Bible  is  the  only  book  in 
the  world  that  answers  them  satisfactorily.  Then 
on  the  principle  of  adaptation  it  must  be  from  God. 
Adaptation  proves  divinity  of  origia.  The  eye  is 
adapted  to  light  and  light  to  the  eye.  The  ear  is 
adapted  to  sound  and  sound  to  the  ear.  Food  is 
adapted  to  the  stomach  and  the  stomach  adapted  to 
food.  Fins  and  scales  adapted  to  water  and  water 
adapted  to  fishes.  Wings  and  hollow  bones  adapted 
to  the  air  and  the  air  adapted  to  birds.  So  the  hu- 
man heart  is  adapted  to  the  Bible  and  the  Bible  to 
the  human  heart.     It  must  be  from  God. 

II.  From  its  perfect  oneness.  The  Bible  was  fifteen 
hundred  years  m  writing  and  was  composed  by  forty- 
two  different  men.  These  men  lived  in  different 
places,in  different  generations, wrote  in  three  different 
languages,  Greek,  Hebrew  and  Aramaic,  and  were 
largely  ignorant  of  one  another.  They  represented 
every  different  occupation.  Some  were  prophets, 
some  priests,  and  some  kings.  Some  were  carpen- 
ters, some  fishermen,  and  some  shepherds;  some 
mechanics,  some  lawyers,  and  some  philosophers. 
They  wrote  in  every  different  style  of  composition 
Some  wrote  in  poetry  and  some  in  prose.  Some 
wrote  didactic  paragraphs,  some  biography,  some 
history,  some  parable,  some  epistle,  some  vision, 
some  psalm,  and   some  proverb.      And   some  were 


educated,  while  others  "were  ignorant  and  un- 
learned." And  yet  when  their  writings  were  put 
together  they  made  a  perfect  unit.  There  must  have 
been  a  divine  mind  operating  through  these  men,  so 
that  they  wrote  in  harmony.  "Holy  men  of  old 
spake  as  they  were  moved  by  the  Holy  Ghost." 

III.  Irom  its  majesty  and  purity.  No  human  book 
compares  with  the  Scriptures  in  majesty.  They  are 
written  upon  such  an  elevated  plain  that  all  the 
changes  of  view  which  have  arisen  from  the  discov- 
eries of  modern  science  have  in  no  way  affected 
them.  The  sun  appeared  the  same  and  was  just  as 
useful  to  those  in  old  times  who  believed  that  he 
revolved  around  the  earth,  as  to  us  who  know  that 
he  is  the  center  around  which  the  earth  revolves. 
And  so  the  Bible  is  so  high  that  they  could  read  it, 
believing  as  they  did,  and  we  can  read  it,  believing 
as  we  do,  without  either  party  being  shocked  or  dis- 
turbed in  the  least.  It  is  infinitely  above  any  human 
book.  Moreover,  it  is  a  book  of  perfect  purity.  It 
is  absolutely  without  a  flaw.  Those  who  read  and 
study  and  practice  the  Bible  teachings  are  univer- 
sally pure.  But  here  experience  is  the  only  test. 
Nathaniel  Hawthorne  observes  that  "Christianity  is 
a  grand  cathedral  with  divinely  pictured  windows; 
standing  without  we  can  see  no  beauty,  nor  possibly 
can  imagine  any;  but  standing  within,  each  ray  of 
light  reveals  a   harmony  of  unspeakably  splendor." 

IV.  Irom  the  fulfillment  of  prophecy.  If  you  had 
a  very  complicated  lock,  with  a  great  number  of 
wards  and  springs  and  bolts  in  it,  and  a  key  that  fit- 
ted it  perfectly,  you  would  conclude  that  that  key  was 
made  for  that  lock.  In  fact,  no  other  conclusion 
would  be  rational.  Well,  the  correspondence  be- 
tween that  lock  and  key  is  not  so  perfect  as  the  cor- 
respondence between  Old  Testament  prophecy  and 
New  Testament  history  respecting  Christ.  The 
prophecies  furnish  as  accurate  a  biography  as  the 
Gospels.  The  ancient  heathen  oracles  dwelt  in  gen- 
eralities but  the  prophecies  in  particulars.  Babylon 
is  "to  be  left  without  inhabitant."  Tyre  is  to  be 
"like  the  top  of  a  rock  whereon  fishermen  spread  their 
nets;"  Damascus  "a  ruinous  heap;"  Egypt  "the 
basestof  kingdoms;"andJeru8alem"sowed  with  salt." 
The  fulfillment  of  these  proves  their  divinity. 

V.  From  its  fruits.  An  Indian  prince,  who  had 
been  in  England  for  some  while  studying  her  insti- 
tutions, was  asked  what  he  thought  of  the  Bible 
He  replied:  "I  believe  it  is  a  book  from  God,  for  I 
see  all  the  good  people  believe  in  it  and  all  the  bad 
people  reject  it."  Remove  from  this  city  all  the 
roughs,  all  the  drunkards,  all  the  thieves,  libertines 
and  money-grips,  and  leave  it  to  those  who  believe 
and  study  and  practice  the  Bible,  and  there  would  be 
no  need  of  policemen.  They  would  be  a  law  to 
themselves.  On  the  other  hand,  take  away  all  the 
churches  and  Bibles,  and  all  who  respect  and  honor 
them,  and  leave  the  city  to  the  lawless  and  disobe- 
dient, and  all  the  policemen  in  the  State  could  not 
keep  order.  When  the  Qaeen  of  England  was  asked 
the  secret  of  England's  greatness,  pointing  to  a  Bi- 
ble, she  replied,  "That  Book."  Three  hundred  years 
with  the  Bible  has  converted  bleak  Scotland  into  a 
garden;  while  fertile  Spain  without  it  has  become  a 
wilderness.  Contrast  those  countries  where  the 
Bible  is  known  and  honored  with  those  where  it  is 
unknown  or  repudiated.  You  compare  England 
with  China,  the  United  States  with  Turkey,  the 
North  of  Ireland  with  the  South.    Tennyson  says: 

'  'Through  the  shadow  of  the  fi;lobe 

We  sweep  Into  the  brighter  day, 
Better  fifty  years  In  Europe 
Than  a  cycle  In  Cathay." 

Cincinnati,  0. 


THE  HORROR   OF  NEOATIVSa. 


The  expositions  of  secret  societies  contain,besides 
signs  of  recognition,others  of  admonition, which  are 
used  when  a  member  sees  another  about  to  do  any- 
thing which  may  affect  the  interest  of  himself  or 
of  the  organization.  These  are  called  cautionary, 
trading  or  working  signs,  and  are  of  constant  use, 
while  others  are  of  rare  occurrence,and  obedience  is 
enforced  by  the  penalties  of  the  order.  In  the  con- 
sideration of  secret  societies  they  should  not  be 
omitted,  because  they  are  the  tools  and  language  of 
such  institutions,  by  means  of  which  one  member 
becomes  a  master  over  others  and  is  enabled  to  em- 
ploy such  in  the  furtherance  of  wrong;  for  they  are 
as  applicable  to  and  as  promotive  of  bad  purposes 
as  of  good,  which  is  the  germ  of  the  evil.  An  ex- 
position without  them  is  defective  and  deceptive.  It 
is  the  tiger  without  the  claws. 

Most  expositions  of  Freemasonry  are  incomplete, 
but  Richardson's  is  more  perfect  in  this  respect; 
though  in  this  work  the  subject  is  discussed  in  a  pre- 
tendtd  "Secret  Monitor,"  wnich  is  inserted  in  the 
Chapter,  whereas,  by  analogy  and  to  be  as  effective 


as  other  societies,these  working  signs  should  be  and 
are  used  by  Master  Masons.  It  must  be  a  deviation 
from  truth  by  the  author.  The  signs  are  divided 
into  affirmatives  and  negatives,  and  specimens  are 
given;  but  in  practice  they  are  abbreviated  to  avoid 
observation,  and  are  more  arbitrary  than  represent- 
ed and  not  limited  to  trade.  They  are  enforced  by 
the  penalties  of  having  the  heart  torn  out  and"being 
left  without  friends  in  the  days  of  trouble," — ostra- 
cism and  boycotting,  in  common  parlance.  The  en- 
ginery of  this  society  is  chiefly  responsible  for  the 
prostitution  of  courts,  the  defeat  of  justice  and  the 
protection  of  crime,  and  the  attention  of  the  public 
is  therefore  particularly  directed  to  it,  more  espec- 
ially as  it  is  the  original  which  has  been  imitated  in 
numerous  systems  of  secret  communication.  It  is 
the  source  of  the  dialects  of  clans  and  of  evil. 

Every  town  and  village  is  within  the  jurisdiction 
and  under  the  influence  of  a  Masonic  lodge,  and  by 
virtue  of  its  laws  the  pretended  friend  interferes 
clandestinely  by  signs — the  behests  of  slaves — in 
trade  to  diminish  your  gains  and  increase  those  of 
another.  Judge,  jury,  lawyers  and  witnesses  con- 
spire  by  signs  in  court  to  reduce  or  defeat  your 
claims  in  civil  actions,  and  in  criminal  to  spare  the 
guilty  authors  of  your  injuries.  The  order  by  signs 
also  secretly  prevents  employment,  aid,  comfort  and 
charity  in  persecution  and  fills  almshouses  for  the 
support  of  the  public.  It  turns  away  friends  and 
severs  social  intercourse;  renders  the  peaceable,  up- 
right and  honest  the  reverse;  encourages  the  re- 
vengeful and  malicious  and  raises  mobs.  The  mem- 
ber makes  a  log-rolling  for  legal  robbery  or  revenge, 
— the  art  of  the  craven  wolf — for  a  lie,or  token  cast, 
is  sufficient  to  set  the  machinery  in  motion.  Evas- 
ion of  sight  is  the  sole  escape  from  deference  to 
signs  for  the  initiated;  the  boycott  is  the  penalty  of 
open  defiance.  They  are  emblems  and  finger-boards 
of  darkness,  plotting  secrecy,  that  in  Morgan's  time 
exhausted  every  expedient  to  avoid  and  still  avoids 
honest  speech,  and  an  excess  of  negatives  betokens 
hate  and  unpopularity,  the  terror  of  the  worldly.  It 
is  the  tyranny  of  a  thousand.  Neighbor  owns  neigh- 
bor and  moves  heaven  and  earth  at  dissent. 

Unfortunately  the  use  of  the  working  signs  of 
Freemasonry  are  not  limited  to  the  order,  nor  to  se- 
cret societies,but  have  evidently  extended  to  some  of 
the  uninitiated.  The  latter  may  be  ignorantof  their  or- 
igin, but  have  recognized  their  use  and  acquired 
the  habit  of  unquestioning  obedience,  the  art  of  the 
slave  ("Freemasonry  floats  in  the  air").  They' have 
stolen  the  tools  of  Satan,  but  lost  manhood  is  the 
price  of  possession.  They  have  sold  their  liberties 
for  a  pottage.  They  are  coerced  by  self-interest,and 
the  phantoms  of  adversity  and  unpopularity,hobgob- 
lins,by  which  the  lodge  holds  sway  over  all  who  speak 
its  secret  language.  Their  acquisition  necessitates 
perpetual  tribute  and  becomes  an  "old  man  of  the 
mountain"  until  the  grave.  They  are  constrained 
to  pass  the  signs  and  interdicts  of  the  order;  are  its 
menials  and  slaves;  make  its  enemies  their  enemies 
and  its  friends  their  friends.  They  are  jackals  to 
the  lion.  Moreover,  like  the  rightful  users,  they 
make  their  signs  their  oaths  and  can  neither  be- 
lieve nor  be  believed  without  their  constant  appli- 
cation. "They  speak  Masonically";  they  swear  by 
the  gods  of  Freemasonry !  Verily,  great  is  Baal, 
who  has  abolished  every  sanction  and  subverted 
every  power  for  his  own;  established  rule  by  the 
strongest  for  rule  by  justice;  controls  prosperity  and 
popularity  and  fixes  destiny.  Let  the  reader  observe 
and  judge.  Some  examples  and  applications  of  af- 
firmatives and  negatives  are  given  in  "My  Experi- 
ences with  Secret  Societies  by  a  Traveler,"  adver- 
tised in  the  Cynosure.  * 


ILLUMINATION   AND     OIRCUM AMBULATION. 


BY   M.   N.   BUTLEft. 

Many  of  the  rites  and  ceremonies  of  ancient 
heathenism  and  sun-worship  practiced  in  Freema- 
sonry are  performed  in  other  secret  lodges.  Espe- 
cially the  rite  of  "Illumination,"  and  also  of  "Cir- 
cumambulation."     We  must  notice  these  briefly. 

Daniel  Sickels,  Secretary  General  of  the  Supreme 
Council  of  the  Northern  Jurisdiction  of  the  Masons 
of  the  United  States,  says:  "The  Rite  of  Illumina- 
tion is  a  very  ancient  ceremony,  and  constituted  an 
important  feature  in  all  the  mysteries  of  the  early 
ages.  In  the  Egyptian,  Cabirian,  Sidonian,  Eleusin- 
ian,  Scandinavian  and  Druidical  rituals  it  held  a 
prominent  place,  and  in  them  all  represented  the 
same  ideas.  It  marked  the  termination  of  the  mys- 
tic pilgrimage  through  gloom  and  night,  and  was 
emblematical  of  that  moral  and  intellectual  light 
which  pours  its  divine  radiance  on  the  mind  after  it 
has  conquered  prejudice,  and  passion,  and  ignorance, 
with  which  it  has  so  long  been  struggling." — Sick- 


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July  5, 1888 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


elt't  Ahiman  Rezon,  or  Freematons'  Guide,  page  64 
Grand  High  Priest  Mackej  truly  says:  "Tlie 
circumambulation  among  the  pagan  nations  was  re- 
ferred to  the  great  doctrine  of  Sabaism,  or  sun-wor- 
ship. Freemasonry  alone  has  preserved  the  primi- 
tive meaning,  which  was  a  symbolic  allusion  to  the 
sun  as  the  source  of  physical  light,  and  the  most 
wonderful  work  of  the  Grand  Architect  of  the  Uni- 
verse. The  reason  assigned  for  the  ceremony  in 
the  modern  lectures  of  Webb  and  Cross  is  absolute- 
ly beneath  criticism.  The  lodge  represents  the 
world;  the  three  principal  officers  represent  the  sun 
in  his  three  principal  positions— at  rising,  at  merid- 
ian, and  at  setting.  The  circumambulation,  there- 
fore, alludes  to  the  apparent  course  of  the  solar  orb 
through  these  points  around  the  world." — Mackey't 
Manual  of  the  Lodge,  page  24. 

"In  the  rite  of  circumambulation  we  fiud  another 
ceremony  borrowed  from  the  ancient  Freemasonry 
that  was  practiced  in  the  mysteries.  In  ancient 
Greece,  when  the  priests  were  engaged  in  the  rite  of 
sacrifice,  they  and  the  people  always  walked  three 
times  round  the  altar  while  singing  a  sacred  hymn. 
In  making  this  procession  great  care  was  taken  to 
move  in  imitation  of  the  course  of  the  sun.  For 
this  purpose  they  commencad  at  the  east,  and  pass- 
ing on  by  the  way  of  the  south  to  the  west,  and 
thence  by  the  north,  they  arrived  at  the  east  again. 
By  this  means,  as  it  will  be  observed,  the  right  band 
was  always  nearest  the  altar." — Pierson's  Traditions 
of  Frefmascnry,  page  32.  . 

Along  with  all  these  self-evident  proofs  that  Free- 
masonry is  pure,  unadulterated  sun-worship,  is  an- 
other that  settles  the  matter  once  and  forever.  It  is 
the  second  section  of  the  Master  Mason's  degree. 

HIRAM   ABIFF. 

"Oae  thing,  at  least,  is  incapable  of  refutation; 
and  that  is,  that  we  are  indebted  to  the  Tyrian  Ma- 
sons for  the  introduction  of  the  symbol  of  Hiram 
Abiff.  The  idea  of  the  symbol,  although  modified 
by  the  Jewish  Masons,  is  not  Jewish  in  its  incep- 
tion. It  was  evidently  borrowed  from  the  pagan 
mysteries,  where  Bacchus,  Adonis,  Proserpine,  and 
a  host  of  other  apotheosized  beings  play  the  same 
role  that  Hiram  does  in  the  Masonic  mysteries." — 
Mackey's  Symholism  of  Freemasonry,  page  20 

"The  legend  of  the  third  degree  has  been  consid- 
ered of  so  much  importance  that  it  has  been  pre- 
served in  the  symbolism  of  every  Masonic  rite.  No 
matter  what  modifications  or  alterations  the  general 
system  may  have  undergone — no  matter  how  much 
the  ingenuity  or  the  imagination  of  the  founders  of 
rites  mav  have  perverted  or  corrupted  other  sym- 
bols, abolishing  the  old  and  substituting  new  ones 
— the  legend  of  the  Temple  Builder  has  ever  been 
left  untouched,  to  present  itself  in  all  the  integrity  of 
its  ancient  mythical  form.  The  idea  of  the  legend 
was  undoubtedly  borrowed  from  the  Ancient  Mys- 
teries, where  the  lesson  was  the  same  as  that  now 
conveyed  in  the  third  degree  of  Masonry." — Mack- 
ey's  Manual  of  the  Lodge,  page  99. 

"The  ceremonial  of  the  Degree  of  Master  Mason 
is  unquestionably  the  most  important,  impressive 
and  instructive  portion  of  the  Ritual  of  Ancient 
Freemasonry."  "That  portion  of  the  Rite  which  is 
connected  with  the  legend  of  the  Tyrian  Artist  is 
well  worthy  the  deep  and  earnest  study  of  thought- 
ful men."  "Against  the  notion  that  it  is  the  repre- 
sentation of  a  scene  that  actually  occurred  in  the 
Temple,  it  may  well  be  urged  that,  outside  of  Ma- 
sonic tradition,  there  is  no  proof  that  an  event,  such 
as  is  related  in  connection  with  the  Temple  Builder, 
ever  transpired;  and,  besides,  the  ceremony  is  older 
by  more  than  a  thousand  years  than  the  age  of  Sol- 
omon. There  are  characters  impressed  upon  it 
which  cannot  be  mistaken.  It  is  thoroughly  Egyp 
tian,  and  is  closely  allied  to  the  sui»reme  rite  of  the 
Isianic  mysteries." — SickeWs  Ahiman  Rezon  or  Fne 
masons'  Guide,  page  195. 

And  so  it  is.  A  half-million  of  Masonic  sun- 
worshipers  in  the  United  States— benighted  Egyp- 
tian idolatry— civilized  heathenism.  Many  of  these 
eun- worshipers  are  found  in  the  Lord's  house,  be- 
tween the  pulpit  and  the  altar,  "with  their  faces 
toward  the  east,  and  they  worship  the  sun  toward 
the  east."     And  the  end  is  not  yet. 

FIGHT  FOR  TOUR  OOUIfTRT. 

Over  one  of  the  gateways  in  the  great  quadrangle 
of  Trinity  College,  Cambridge,  there  is  a  figure  of 
the  warlike  monarch,  Edward  III.,  with  the  inscrip- 
tion "Fight  for  your  country."  This  was  doubtless 
intended  as  a  stimulus  to  those  amongst  the  students 
who  might  be  looking  forward  to  a  military  career 
as  their  possible,  or  probable,  destiny  in  life.  But 
happily  it  is  a  precept  which  may  also  be  interpreted 
in  a  higher  sense  than  that  originally  contemplated 
by  those  who  placed  it  there.    It  may  justly  point 


to  every  form  of  patriotic  citizenship  by  which  a  man 
can  serve  his  native  land  and  the  world  at  large,  and 
especially  to  those  noble  actions  and  endeavors  by 
which  the  religious,  social,  and  philanthropic  inter- 
ests of  mankind  are  best  promoted.  To  the  youths 
who  propose  to  devote  themselves  to  the  ministry  of 
the  Gospel,  to  science,  the  healing  art,  law,  and  mag- 
istracy, or  commerce  and  manufacture,  to  all  of 
these,  the  motto,  "Fight  for  your  country,"  or  in 
other  words,  "Combat  its  enemies  of  impiety,  ignor- 
ance, disorder,  and  poverty,"  is  more  truly  applica- 
ble than  to  the  military  aspirant;  for  in  such  modes 
of  national  service  consists  the  truest  patriotism. 

There  is  scarcely  a  word  in  any  language,  the  true 
sense  of  which  is  more  systematically  misrepresented 
and  misunderstood,  than  the  term  patriotism.  It  is 
often  made  synonymous  with  silly  braggadocio,  po- 
litical foolhardiness,  and  selfish  disregard  of  the 
rights  of  other  men  or  other  nations.  Not  unsel- 
dom  it  is  made  to  cover  an  unreasoning  vanity. 
The  peaca  of  Europe  is  being  continually  imperiled 
because  large  and  influential  classes  amongst  the 
peoples  of  France,  Germany  and  Russia  cherish  such 
an  extreme  sensitiveness  as  to  their  military  pres- 
tige, that  they  are  willing  to  sacrifice  all  the  most 
important  interests  of  their  respective  countries,  and 
to  incur  the  most  tremendous  risks  of  ruin  and  blood- 
shed, rather  than  endure  a  slight  in  regard  to  their 
prowess  as  warriors. — iSel. 


MIND  WHAT  TOU  PROMISE. 


There  are  many  associations,  secular,  political, 
and  even  religious,  where  a  condition  of  admittance 
is  an  oath  or  pledge  of  obedience,  sometimes  to  un- 
known commands.  Many  a  man  has  done  acts 
which  he  hated  and  abhorred,  simply  because  he 
had  bound  himself  with  an  oath  or  obligation  to 
obey  men  of  whom  he  knew  Ijttle  or  nothing,  and 
do  things  of  which  he  had  no  previous  knowledge. 
Speaking  of  certain  murders  and  outrages  perpe- 
trated by  assassins  at  the  bidding  of  a  certain  secret 
society,  the  loledo  Blade  justly  says:  "No  man  has 
the  right  to  place  himself  where  he  has  no  moral 
control  of  his  own  actions.  Yet  this  is  what  he 
does  when  he  joins  a  secret  society  and  binds  him- 
self to  blindly  obey  all  orders  from  headquarters 
without  hesitation  or  thought  of  whether  they  are 
right  or  wrong.  Indeed,  he  dare  not  question  the 
mandates  of  these  persons  whom  he  does  not  know. 
He  must  simply  do  as  he  is  bidden,  even  though  it 
makes  him  a  partner  in  the  most  atrocious  crimes, 
when  he  has  no  intention  of  commiting  a  moral 
wrong.  The  lessons  these  disclosures  teach  is  to 
become  a  member  of  no  societies  whose  purposes 
are  not  openly  declared;  to  take  no  oaths  to  obey 
persons  whose  very  names  are  unknown." 

Christian  men  have  one  Master,  Christ;  and  any 
association  which  demands  that  a  man  promise  to 
obey  the  unknown  orders  of  erring  men  is  essen- 
tially anti-Christian.  Such  a  promise  is  null  and 
void,  because  it  enters  the  provinca  of  conscience, 
and  interferes  with  the  authority  of  God.  The  man 
who  bows  the  knee,  and  promises  to  obey  any  man's 
commandments,  whether  he  be  king,  emperor,  pope 
or  bishop,  takes  a  position  which  Scripture  does  not 
justify,  and  for  which  he  may  yet  be  called  to  ren- 
der up  a  sad  account. 

"Whether  it  be  right  in  the  sight  of  God  to 
hearken  unto  you  more  than  unto  God,  judge  ye. 
For  we  cannot  but  speak  the  things  which  we  have 
seen  and  heard;"  was  the  bold  reply  of  Peter  and 
John  when  a  whole  Sanhedrim  forbade  them  to  speak 
in  the  name  of  Jesus. 

There  are  unworthy  and  vain  talkers  whose  mouths 
must  be  stopped.  There  are  babes  that  must  be 
nurtured,  and  untrained  Christians  who  are  to  be 
nourished  up  in  words  of  faith  and  sound  doctrine. 
There  are  men  that  sin  who  must  be  rebuked,  and 
there  are  those  who  trespass  against  their  brethren 
and  refuse  to  hear  the  church,  who  are  to  be  set 
aside  as  heathen  men  and  publicans.  There  are  men 
who  walk  disorderly,  whom  Christians  are  to  note 
and  withdraw  themselves  from.  There  are  elders 
whom  the  Holy  Ghost  makes  overseers  or  bishops, 
like  those  at  P.phesus  and  Philippi  (A.cts  20;  Phil. 
1 :  7),  who  are  to  watch  over  and  guard  the  fl  jck  who 
are  under  their  care;  and  to  those  elders  in  the  va- 
rious churches  the  followers  of  Christ  were  to  be 
subject,  as  they  were  all  to  be  subject  one  to  an- 
other. 

But  while  this  order  and  discipline  is  proper  and 
scriptural,  and  divinely  ordained,  yet  when  a  man  is 
chosen  and  called  to  the  service  of  God  he  has  no 
right  to  bind  himself  to  subjection  or  obedience  to 
men.  "Ye  are  bought  with  a  price;  be  ye  not  serv- 
ants of  men." 

All  claims  to  authority  of  this  kind  are  mere 
usurpation.     No  such  authority  is  derived  from  the 


apostles,  for  the  apostles  never  had  it.  They  did 
once  undertake  to  stop  a  man  who  was  casting  out 
devils,  thinking  that  it  they  had  authority  to  cast 
out  devils,  they  had  authority  to  control  other  folks 
who  cast  out  devils;  but  the  Lord  soon  taught  them 
their  mistake.  And  not  long  after  these  mighty 
monopolists,  who  proposed  to  take  the  entire  charge 
of  casting  out  devils,  found  themselves  bafll^d  and 
humiliated  before  a  single  demoniac  boy,  and  were 
forced  to  inquire,  "Why  could  not  we  cast  him  out?" 
Just  as  many  ecclesiastics  of  our  own  day,  after 
persecuting  and  rejecting  the  faithful  servants  of 
God,  stand  baflled  and  powerless  in  the  presence  of 
a  world  that  lieth  in  the  wicked  one,  and  after  vain- 
ly undertaking  to  rule  other  people,  fiud  in  the  end 
that  they  can  neither  rule  the  devil,  nor  even  them- 
selves. 

The  apostles  succeeded  better  after  learning  to 
mind  their  own  business.  Even  the  great  Apostle 
to  the  Gentiles  expressly  disclaimed  having  domin- 
ion over  the  faith  of  the  Corinthian  church  (2  Cor. 
1:  24);  and  if  he  did  not  possess  it,  surely  none  of 
his  pretended  successors  have  ever  attained  to  such 
authority. 

"We  ought  to  obey  God  rather  than  men"  (Acts 
5:  29),  was  the  apostle's  bold  reply  to  the  men  who 
sought  to  withstand  the  work  of  God.  And  the 
word  is  as  true  now  as  it  was  then,  for  the  curse  and 
calamity  of  the  church  for  ages  has  been  submis- 
sion to  man  rather  than  God.  Such  authority,  once 
assumed  and  admitted,  has  no  limits,  until  the  great 
Anti-Christ  sits  in  the  temple  of  God,  and  makes 
laws  as  if  he  were  the  "one  Lawgiver  who  is  able 
to  save  and  to  destroy."  Division,  distraction,  per- 
secution and  apostasy  all  spring  from  this  baleful 
root,  and  power  granted  to  good  men  with  the  best 
of  intentions,  is  used  by  bad  men  for  the  worst  of 
purposes. 

The  Holy  Spirit  is  in  the  church.  Christ  is  pres- 
ent with  two  or  three.  No  convocation  or  conclave 
can  have  greater  authority  than  his  presence  confers. 
The  church  in  the  house  of  Aquila  or  Onesimus  is 
as  authoritative  in  its  legitimate  acts  as  it  would  be 
if  all  the  crowned  heeds  and  mitred  ecclesiastics  of 
the  universe  were  present  to  lend  it  the  sanction  of 
their  presence  and  their  authority.  Where  Christ  is, 
there  is  headquarters;  and  Christ  comes  and  dwells 
with  the  individual  soul.  And  when  the  Holy  Spirit 
fills  the  heart,  illuminates  the  mind,  enlightens  the 
understanding  and  attends  the  Word  which  is  given 
us  for  our  guidance  and  instruction,  we  are  in  sub- 
jection to  a  higher  than  human  power. 

We  are  to  obey  God.  No  man  has  a  right  to 
claim  authority  over  a  servant  of  the  Most  High. 
His  Master  is  the  King  of  the  universe.  What  oth- 
ers have  no  right  to  claim,  we  have  no  right  to  con- 
cede or  promise.  Who  has  a  right  to  judge  "anoth- 
er man's  servant?  To  his  own  master  he  standeth 
or  falleth."  We  are  bought  with  blood,  and  bound 
by  every  gracious  tie.  Let  us  never  yield  to  man 
the  allegiance  which  is  due  to  Goi  alone. — Iht 
Christian,  Boston. 


GRAND  ARMY  FRA  VDB. 


I  From  the    Birmingham    Free  Press.] 

Reports  are  current  that  government  ofli  :ials  here 
have  discovered  a  conspiracy  among  certain  mem- 
bers of  the  Grand  Army  to  rob  the  government  by 
false  pension  claims.  An  investigation  of  certain 
Grand  Army  posts  discovered  a  widespread  conspir- 
acy. A  prominent  member  of  the  G.  A.  R.  was  in- 
terviewed by  a  reporter  of  the  New  York  Tima. 
He  said: 

"Some  of  the  worst  scums  of  the  earth  managed 
to  get  in  some  posts  and  their  element  grows  strong, 
while  respectable  members  who  do  not  care  to  as- 
sociate with  them  stay  away  from  meetings.     This 
feeling  has  led  to  the  state  of  atliirs  in  a  certain 
lodge  in  this  city.      The  bad  element  controlled  it 
and  were  linked  together  to  work  the  pension  'racket' 
for  all  it  was  worth,  stopping  at  nothing  to  accom- 
plish their  purpose.     Furthermore,  they   even  fur- 
{nished  money  to  defend  Darling,  Coleman  and  Ste- 
I  phens,  arrested  for  presenting  fraudulent  claims,  on 
I  the  ground   that  they   were  being   persecuted,  and 
by  this  claim  good  men  were  compelled  to  assist  in 
'  carrying  out  the  scheme.     The  public  was  appealed 
'  to  in  the  name  of  the  'old  veteran,'  but  nothing  was 
'  mentioned  about  a  defense  fund,  and  honest  men's 
j  money  was  given,  but  not  for  the  purpose  for  which 
it  was  used." 

Another  highly-respected  old  soldier  said: 
"I  am  heartily  glad  that  this  thing  will  be  inves- 
tigated. It  is  rotten  to  the  core,  or  at  least  it  ap- 
pears to  be,  and  the  men  that  are  into  it  do  not 
show  anything  else.  I  have  had  suspicions  for  a 
long  time,  but  the  tracks  were  so  thoroughly  cov- 
ered that  I  could  not  see  the  crookedness.     1  under- 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSUKE. 


Jbly  6, 1888 


stand  that  the  government  has  sufficient  evidence  to 
make  the  wholesale  arrests,  and  that  many  of  the 
persons  implicated  are  being  continually  shadowed, 
and  will  be  arresi^d  after  the  Patterson  case  is  con- 
cluded." 

This  case  presents  a  phase  of  lodge  history  very 
common  throughout  the  country.  Evil-minded  men, 
crooked  men,  rascals,  in  fact,  "scums,"  get  into  the 
lodges  from  Masonry  down  to  the  G.  A.  R.  Honest, 
decent  men  get  disgusted  with  such  affiliations  and 
quit  attending  the  meetings,  but  keep  up  their  mem- 
bei^hip  and  pay  their  dues.  The  "scums"  are  in 
their  glory  then.  They  can  run  the  lodge  to  suit 
themselves;  they  have  the  character  and  good  stand- 
ing of  these  stay-at-home  members  to  back  them  up, 
and  they  also  have  their  dues  to  help  them  keep  in 
running  order.  The  result  is  quite  frequently  just 
as  the  G.  A.  R,  men  quoted  say  it  has  been  in  cer- 
tain G.  A.  R.  posts.  "Good  men  were  thus  com- 
pelled to  assist  to  carry  out  their  schemes." 

We  do  not  blame  the  decent  men  for  getting  dis- 
gusted and  staying  at  home,  but  they  should  re- 
nounce their  evil  companionship. 

IFrom  the  Geneva,  111.,  Patrol. | 

When  the  Patrol  a  few  months  ago  said  what, 
from  personal  knowledge  of  Kane  county  Republi- 
can politics,  wias  known  to  be  true,  some  of  the  en- 
emies of  temperance  in  the  Q.  A.  R.  seized  the  op- 
portunity to  attemipt  a  boycott  of  this  paper.  The 
result  was  dreadful.  Since  then  numerous  things 
have  come  to  light,  which  reaffirm  the  average  fore- 
sight of  the  Patrol  in  discerning  the  secret  spring 
of  things  political.  For  instance.  Congressman 
Hopkins  said  when  the  legislature  was  selecting  a 
Republican  successor  to  Logan,  "The  G.  A.  R.  influ- 
ence is  paramount  in  Illinois."  And  now  comes  Gen. 
W.  T.  Sherman,  and  publicly,  on  Decoration  Day, 
administers  this  reproof  to  the  Grand  Republican 
Secret  Training  Club: 

"And  now  I  ask  my  comrades  of  the  Grand  Army 
which  made  these  civic  services  possible,  as  one  of 
themselves,  not  claiming  any  privileges  by  reason 
of  exalted  ranks  and  honors  far  above  my  deserts, 
if  it  is  not  better  that  we  should  devote  Decoration 
Day  to  the  cemeteries  which  contain  our  honored 
dead,  and  the  dedication  of  permanent  monuments 
in  their  honor  for  the  teaching  of  patriotism  to  fu- 
ture generations,  instead  of  swelling  street  parades 
and  pageants  for  the  glorification  of  the  'belligerent 
non-combatants,'  who  make  use  of  us  for  their  own 
purposes?" 

Ami  the  Patrol  replies,  "Yes,  General;  you  are 
very  right — but  you  should  have  seen  it  earlier. 
And  you  should  administer  the  same  rebuke  to  the 
Sons  of  Veterans,  and  the  'grand-daughters  of  the 
one-hundred-day  men,'  and  the  'infant  deserters' — 
when  these  latter  named  organizations  are  formed." 

m  *  m 
LETTBR    FROM  TEE  CONGO. 


Arlington  Mission,  Stanley  Pool,  Africa,  ) 

April  22,  18^.      j 

Last  Sabbath  all  our  company  were  happy  because 
of  mail  arrival,  but  I  was  sad  as  I  returned  from 
Kinchessa,  having  neither  letter  nor  paper.  I  make 
the  best  of  it  of  course.  My  time  began  here  March 
28,  and  unless  we  make  other  arrangements  will  ter- 
minate in  June  the  same  date.  1  am  much  more 
pleased  with  my  company  and  surroundings  now 
than  heretofore.  Religiously  I  cannot  complaia. 
We  have  family  worship  regularly  and  thanks  rfe- 
turned  three  times  a  day,  which  is  as  it  used  to  be 
at  home.  We  take  turns  in  conducting  family  wor- 
ship, so  you  see  T  am  again  surrounded  with  relig- 
ious privileges.  My  work  here  has  been  mostly  at 
the  forge,  reclaiming  tools  which  passed  through  the 
great  fire  at  Leopoldville,  when  the  Mission  was  to- 
tally destroyed  and  £7,000,  or  $35,000,  were  lost. 
The  steam  launch  of  the  expedition  is  finished  and 
has  gone  up  the  river  in  charge  of  Mr.  Ed.  Glave, 
who  is  contributor  to  the  London  Jllustrafed  Newt, 
and  a  former  servant  of  Stanley's. 

1  am  here  reminded  of  a  visit  last  Tuesday,  Apr. 
17,  from  Mr.  Ward,  who  is  another  sketcher  and 
correspondent  of  London  papers.  He  had  come  in 
a  canoe  from  the  mouth  of  Arruwemi  river  (Stan- 
ley's Camp)  to  the  Eciuator  Station,  intending  to 
continue  for  400  miles  farther  west  to  Leopoldville, 
and  thence  to  the  coast  to  telegraph,  "No  news  from 
JSlanley."  At  the  Equator  he  fell  in  with  the  State 
steamer  (77.  M.  Stanley)  and  so  changed  from  his 
canoe  and  arrived  here  by  the  Stanley  on  Sabbath, 
one  week  ago.  He  tells  us  that  they  have  suffered 
greatly  for  food,  and  sixty  of  their  camp  have  been 
buried  and  many  have  deserted.  We  fear  bad  news 
as  he  was  reticent  and  would  not  trust  anyone  with 
dispatches,  but  goes  in  person  to  St.  Paul  de  Loando 
which  necessitates  over  400  miles  on  foot  and  300 
by  water,  the  round  trip — as  he  returns  this  way  im- 


mediately. He  is  a  pleasant  appearing  man  of 
about  24  years  of  age.  His  stay  was  short,  but  I 
watched  him  closely,  being  conscious  that,  though 
roughly  dressed,  he  was  of  some  importance,  and 
when  the  name  was  given  me  I  decided  at  once  what 
Ward  it  was,  and  found  out  through  Bro.  Grenfell 

I  was  right.  You  think  strange  of  my  being  so  par- 
ticular, but  anything  that  relieves  the  monotony  of 
life  is  of  intense  interest  to  us. 

I  have  been  to  Kimpoka  Mission.  Dr.  Harrison 
comes  monthly  to  Arlington  and  Leopoldville  for 
Kimpoka  mail.  The  State  does  not  carry  mail  far- 
ther than  Leopoldville.  He  comes  in  a  canoe  one 
day,  does  his  business  the  next,  and  returns  the 
third  day.  Mr.  Brown  suggested  that  I  might  take 
the  Bangallas  and  go  with  the  Dr.  and  bring  back  a 
Hippo  for  chop.  I  agreed  and  so  the  matter  rested 
until  finally  Mr.  Brown  concluded  to  accompany  us, 
which  was  good  news  to  me.  March  29,  before  day. 
Brown  and  a  boy  came  with  a  lantern  and  awoke  me 
for  early  tea  and  a  start  at  about  6:30  or  7  a.  m., 
with  two  days'  food,  and  blankets,  pots  and  what- 
not. We  started  on  our  twenty-five-miles'  canoe 
journey,  against  the  current  all  the  way.  For  hours 
we  moved  up  stream,  and  as  there  was  a  little  spirit 
of  competition  between  Dr.  Harrison's  canoe,  in 
which  T  took  passage,  which  was  paddled  by  natives 
from  Kimpoka,  and  the  Bangallas  of  Arlington, 
who  paddled  the  canoe  in  which  Mr.  Brown  was,  we 
lost  sight  of  each  other  for  hours.     But  at  about 

II  A.  M.  our  hunger  made  itself  felt,  and  seeing 
Brown  had  the  chop,  I  began  to  look  eagerly  for 
some  signal,  and  soon,  from  the  north  bank  of  the 
river,  I  descried  a  signal  and  our  canoe  crossed  over 
and  soon  we  had  camped  on  Boma  Island,  and  were 
regaled  with  mutton-broth,  kwango  and  a  dish  of 
tea. 

Now  we  start  again,  but  ere  long  the  Hippos  prove 
a  source  of  temptation,  so  we  begin  to  drop  lead 
among  them  from  our  Snyder  and  Martini  rifles. 
Dr.  Harrison  punctured  the  skull  of  one,  and  it  was 
decided  that  as  his  men  were  afraid  to  go  to  look 
for  it  the  Bangallas  should  paddle  the  Dr.  in  search 
of  his  game.  Mr.  Brown,  with  the  luggage,  was 
shifted  into  our  canoe  and  we  made  slowly  up  the 
river  while  the  Bangallas  moved  cautiously  down 
in  search  of  the  Hippo.  We  looked  around  occa- 
sionally and  soon  the  cry  was  raised  by  one  of  our 
company.  "fAe  canoe  is  capsized!  7%ey  are  all  in 
the  water!"  Oar  canoe  immediately  headed  down 
stream  and  we  were  all  bound  for  the  rescue,  but 
in  a  few  moments,  and  before  we  reached  them,  all 
had  regained  the  canoe  and  began  bailing  in  good 
earnest.  Our  loss  was  not  severe.  Joseph  Gunn, 
a  Mission  boy  of  18  years,  had  been  pitched  head- 
first into  the  Pool,  and  had  let  go  his  Snyder  rifle. 
One  of  our  Bangallas  had  lost  his  loin-cloth,  which 
was  all  the  covering  he  had,  and  Dr.  Harrison  had 
been  rolled  about  in  the  bottom  of  the  canoe,  which 
being  half  full  of  water  resulted  in  his  being  soaked 
thoroughly. 

Now  we  moved  on  again,  expecting  fully  to  reach 
Kimpoka  before  dark,  but  when  three  hours  from 
the  goal  we  discovered  in  the  northeast  a  cloud  of  a 
very  dark  gray  color,  and  rising  ominouslv  as  it 
moved  like  a  thing  of  life  toward  us.  It  was  flanked 
on  either  side  with  inky  black  clouds,  and  now  he 
wind  began  to  blow  slightly.  A  storm  was  about 
to  break  in  fury  on  us  and  our  only  choice  was  an 
island.  The  paddles  brought  both  canoes  to  shal- 
low water.  But  none  to  soon,  for  now  the  tornado 
was  loose  and  Stanley  Pool  was  seething  and  boil- 
ing as  though  suddenly  filled  with  the  lava  from  a 
thousand  volcanoes.  The  wind  drove  the  rain  with 
terrible  force  so  that  our  waterproof  and  umbrella 
were  but  little  protection.  Our  men  were  over- 
matched, so  taking  two  paddles  and  driving  them 
deep  in  the  sand  of  the  shoal  on  which  they  had 
drawn  our  canoes,  one  on  either  side,  they  lashed 
them  so  as  to  prevent  the  canoes  from  drifting  and 
here  we  sat  until  the  worst  of  the  storm  was  over. 
But  night  was  fast  approaching,  and  we  must  not 
venture  out  on  the  Pool  in  the  darkness;  so,  like 
Paul,  the  great  apostle,  on  the  Isle  of  Melita,  we 
gathered  sticks  and  made  a  fire  to  warm  ourselves. 
The  mats  of  the  Bangallas  were  so  arranged  as  to 
protect  us  from  rain,  and  soon  a  cup  of  tea  was 
ready  which  was  taken  with  a  relish.  We  spread 
our  blankets  on  the  white  sand  of  this  barren  island 
and  soon  forgot  all  our  perils,  as  we  soundly  slept 
for  a  few  hours.  At  3  a.  m  ,  Saturday,  the  last  day 
of  Maicb,  we  all  seemed  of  one  mind  and  so  hur- 
riedly packed  up  and  paddled  for  Kimpoka.  The 
silvery  light  of  the  moon  was  reflected  in  the  Pool, 
and  was  so  seemingly  intensified  that  the  coming 
on  of  daylight  was  so  gradual  as  to  be  almost  im- 
perceptible, and  we  passed  from  moon-light  into 
gray  dawn  almost  unconsciously.  About  7  A.  m., 
as  we  sighted  our  landing  place,  the  sun  shone  beau- 


tifully, and  nature,  though  wild  ia  appearance, 
seemed  lovely  to  us  after  such  a  dismal  time  as  we 
endured  through  the  storm  of  the  previous  night. 
We  soon  forced  our  way  through  the  tangled  mass 
of  vegetation  which  overhung  the  path  from  the 
river  to  the  Mission-house;  and  now  I  meet  for  the 
first  time  Bro.  Elkins  and  wife  of  Bishop  Taylor's 
Mission. 

[The  concluding  part  of  this  letter  from  Rev.  El. 
Mathews  will  appear  next  week. — Ed  ] 


The  Green  Mountain  Christian  Union  is  an  organ- 
ization of  undenominational  churches  scattered  over 
New  England.  Their  creed  is  very  simple.  Each 
church  is  independent.  They  exalt  the  Bible  and 
the  doctrine  of  holiness;  favor  divine  healing;  love 
the  coming  of  the  Lord,  and  disapprove  of  secret 
societies,  pride,  formality,  and  vain  ornaments. 
They  publish  the  Prayer  Union  Quarterly  and  the 
Independent  Christian.  Their  test  of  fellowship  is 
humble  piety  and  sound  morality  rather  than  intel- 
lectual assent  to  a  creed.  They  consider  it  wrong 
to  take  any  sectarian  nickname,  preferring  to  be 
known  as  churches  of  Jesus  Christ.  At  the  same 
time  they  exhibit  nothing  but  love  and  good  will 
towards  their  fellow  disciples  who  differ  from  them 
in  this  respect.  Associations  similar  to  this  exist 
in  Kentucky  and  California.  Many  excellent  peo- 
ple deplore  the  sad  effects  of  the  numerous  divis- 
»ion3  among  Christians,  and  yet  see  no  way  to  es- 
cape the  evil.  If  our  Lord's  last  prayer  for  the 
oneness  of  his  people  meant  visible  union  of  his  real 
disciples,  he  can  and  will  bring  it  to  pass.  It  is 
not  advisable  to  put  off  all  the  good  things  prom- 
ised in  the  Bible  until  the  next  world.  "Now  is  the 
accepted  time;  behold,  now  is  the  day  of  salvation." 
—  Christian   Witness, 


Reform  news. 


AT  THE   LOUISIANA  CAPITAL 


Baton  Rougb,  La.,  June  18,  1888. 

Dear  CYNOsuaE: — I  came  here  on  the  morning 
of  the  13th,  and  found  lodging  with  sister  Frances 
B.  Gallion.  She  is  opposed  to  lodgery  and  is  also 
out-and-out  for  temperance.  I  called  on  Rev.  Geo. 
Bird,  pastor  of  Sbiloh  Baptist  church,  who  reads 
the  Cynosure,  but  as  he  is  a  Mason  he  gives  little 
time  to  the  paper.  Rev.  Hannibal  Williams,  pastor 
of  Mount  Zion  Baptist  church,  has  renounced  lodg- 
ery and  don't  allow  the  orders  to  come  into  his 
church  in  uniform.  I  called  on  Rav.  Robert  Brooks, 
pastor  of  Macedonia  Baptist  church.  He  also  has 
left  the  lodge.  His  chief  objection  is  they  are  too 
expensive  and  are  breaking  asunder  the  Baptist 
churches.  Rev.  R.  F.  Hurley,  the  A.  M.  E.  pastor, 
declined  to  be  seen,  as  he  was  unwell.  Mr.  Hurley 
is  a  High  Mason,  and  is  the  author  of  the  resolution 
before  the  conference  of  the  A.  M.  E.  churches  in 
New  Orleans  in  February,  when  I  was  distributing 
tracts,  warning  the  people  against  receiving  bogus 
literature  in  the  streets. 

There  are  eleven  churches  here  in  all,  and  the 
lodges  are  legion.  I  visited  the  State  Penitentiary, 
and  met  Judge  T.  J.  Ford,  of  the  famous  Ford  vs. 
Murphy  case  of  New  Orleans.  He  was  very  busy 
at  his  writing  desk,  but  very  cordially  received  me 
in  his  office  and  asked  to  be  remembered  to  his 
friends  in  New  Orleans.  I  think  all  persons  should 
try  and  shun  these  walls. 

There  is  much  business  going  on  here  just  now. 
Pipe  is  being  laid  to  furnish  water  through  the  city. 
I  have  pretty  well  walked  all  over  the  city  and  tried 
to  get  an  exact  account  of  the  lodges,  but  find  it 
impossible. 

Since  Elder  H.  Williams  has  left  the  lodge  and 
preaches  separation,  the  secretists  have  been  trying 
to  injure  his  influence  by  circulating  reports  that  he 
received  money  from  the  Democrats  to  defeat  the 
Republican  party.  Of  course  the  devil  was  a  liar 
from  the  beginning.  Bro.  Williams  is  not  a  politi- 
cian. I  find  in  private  conversation  that  many  are 
sick  of  the  lodge,  but  they  are  afraid  to  come  out. 
Bro.  Jordan  was  here  some  time  ago  and  the  lodge 
felt  the  effects  of  his  visit. 

I  preached  at  Mount  Zion  Baptist  church,  Rev. 
H.  Williams,  pastor,  on  Sabbath,  to  a  large  congre- 
gation; and  the  better  part  of  them  seemed  enthu- 
siastic. However,  the  lodges  were  well  represented, 
as  Bro.  Williams  had  announced  that  I  would  preach 
a  sermon  on  the  religion  of  Masonry.  I  was  ad- 
vised not  to  preach  or  distribute  tracts  against  lodg- 
ery, but  the  Lord  used  me  as  it  was  best.  Both  men 
and  women  came  up  and  bade  me  God-speed.  Many 
sisters  and  brothers  said  they  would  give  up  their 
lodges,  but  a  few  said  they  would  join  more;  this 
of  course  was  lodge  boasting. 


July*,  1888 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


Shiloh  Baptist  church  gave  an  excursion  from 
here  to  Vicksburg  to-day  by  lodge  dictatorship,  and 
they  made  a  complete  failure  financially.  We  trust 
our  people  will  see  the  foolishness  of  these  excur- 
sions. I  am  informed  that  a  young  brother  said 
while  1  was  preaching  that  I  had  to  leave  this  town. 
The  lodge  always  makes  great  boastings  in  secret  to 
assassinate  a  man  in  the  dark. 

It  will  be  well  for  the  next  N.  C.  A.  annual  con- 
vention to  be  held  in  Baton  llouge.  There  are 
about  12,000  inhabitants,  and  this  is  a  lodge  strong- 
hold Mount  Zion  Baptist  church  would  be  kindly 
tendered  for  a  convention.  It  is  large  and  plenty 
of  room  and  well  fitted.  I  would  suggest  Baton 
Rouge  as  the  next  place  for  the  annual  convention. 
Many  persons  called  on  me  to-day;  some  friends 
and  some  lodgeites.  Among  them  was  the  P.  G.  F. 
of  Amos  Lodge  and  G.  U.  O.  of  O.  F.  of  New  Or- 
leans. I  met  several  brethren  this  evening  and  we 
had  a  debate  on  lodgery.  I  proved  to  them  from 
Mackey 's  liitualist  that  Masonry  rejects  Jesus  Christ. 
A  good  work  has  been  inaugurated  here.  Friends 
can  do  good  by  sending  tracts  for  distribution  to 
Kev.  Sam.  Williams,  (Box  96)  and  Mrs.  Frances  B. 
Gallion,  No  100,  St,  Joseph  street.  Baton  Rouge, 
Louisiana. 

I  truly  appreciate  Bro.  Hinman's  suggestion  for 
the  establishing  a  permanent  agency  in  New  Orleans. 
I  wrote  to  Bro.  Stoddard  on  that  matter  some  time 
ago.  The  secret  brotherhoods  gave  a  ball  here  a 
few  weeks  i)go  and  a  preacher  was  doorkeeper.  The 
Jakes  and  Brotherhood  at  Lobdells  have  so  para- 
lyzed the  churches  that  they  seldom  have  church 
services  over  there;  but  the  lodges  have  their  pa- 
rades and  seranades  on  Sundays.  The  Good  Sama- 
ritans anticipate  giving  a  grand  free  supper  to-night 
to  show  honor  to  their  Grand  Worthy  Chief. 


RosEiJALB,  La.,  June  21. — 1  left  Baton  Rouge 
Tuesday.  While  crossing  the  river  on  the  transfer 
a  gentleman  came  up  to  me  and  grasped  my  hand 
and  introduced  himself  to  me  as  Rev.  Randall  Fields, 
pastor  of  a  Baptist  church  a  few  miles  from  Baton 
Rouge.  He  said,  "I  congratulate  you  on  the  wonderful 
sermon  you  preached  Sunday  night.  I  tell  you  a 
good  many  were  anger«d,  but  your  sermon  was  felt 
throughout  the  city.  These  secret  orders  came  near 
separating  me  from  my  wife.  A  preacher  induced 
her  to  join  and  also  worked  hard  to  get  me,  but  I 
could  not  find  it  in  the  Bible.  God  certainly  sent 
you  here  and  he  will  surely  bless  your  work."  1 
distributed  tracts  both  on  the  transfer  boat  and  on 
the  train.  I  arrived  here  at  about  3:30  r.  M.  There 
is  one  white  and  one  colored  M.  E.  church  in  Rose- 
dale  and  two  Baptist  churches  about  two  miles  each 
from  the  village.  This  is  an  old  Southern  town  with 
about  100  inhabitants.  The  people  are  mostly 
poor  farmers,  but  lodgery  has  strong  hold  here  on 
these  poor  people,  especially  among  the  colored 
Methodists.  I  called  on  Rev.  Robert  Dennis,  pastor 
of  the  Baptist  church  two  miles  below  Rosedale, 
from  whom  I  had  invitation  to  come  out  here.  I 
found  him  seemingly  filled  with  glee.  He  said  that 
he  always  thought  secret  societies  wrong,  but  not 
having  educational  advantages  he  thought  it  wrong 
to  try  and  suppress  intelligence,  but  he  is  sure  now 
it  is  wrong,  for  a  few  of  his  members  have  separat- 
ed from  the  church  and  built  a  hall  and  resort  to 
the  lodge  hall  every  Sabbath  and  hold  services  there- 
in. You  can  see  from  a  glance  that  secrecy  is  ruin- 
ing our  churches.  The  speculating  Negroes  of  Ba- 
ton Rouge  have  organized  a  new  secret  lodge  under 
the  title  of  "The  Knights  of  Crusade,"  and  many 
poor  creatures  are  being  hoodwinked  therein.  It 
will  be  well  to  publish  the  ritual  of  the  S.  S.  of  C. 
and  other  minor  lodges.  It  will  do  much  good  among 
the  Negroes.  The  Universal  Brotherhood  is  the 
favorite  lodge  here,  as  they  have  their  own  hall  and 
promise  $500  after  death  (but  nothing  while 
living). 

I  preached  last  night  at  Grosstete  Baptist  church, 
Rov.  Robert  Dennis,  pastor.  We  had  a  large  and 
quiet  audience,  the  majority  of  which  heartily  en- 
dorsed all  that  I  said  against  the  lodge.  Some  of 
them  were  seceders  and  they  were  particularly  loud 
in  their  amens.  This  church  has  been  almost  para- 
1}  zed  ever  since  lodgery  came  into  these  parts,  but 
it  is  getting  somewhat  united  now.  I  called  on  Rev. 
Mr.  Rogers,  the  M.  K.  pastor,  but  ho  was  out  of  town. 
I  learned,  however,  that  he  is  deeply  mixed  in 
lodgery.  I  also  called  on  Rev.  Felix  Jones,  Baptist 
pastor,  and  he  was  not  at  home,  but  his  wife  was 
perfectly  delighted  with  the  tracts  I  gave  her,  and 
"Freemasonry  Illustrated."  She  said  she  would 
know  Bro.  Jones's  lodge  secrets  now.  She  never 
had  juined  the  lodge.  She  thinks  Bro.  Jones  is  very 
sick  of  his  lodge.  I  have  distributed  many  tracts 
in  these  parts. 

I  go  from  here  to  Plaqubmine.    Thence  to  New 


Orleans,  so  as  to  attend  the  Baptist  State  Conven- 
tion at  Shreveport,  the  second  Tuesday  in  July. 

Francis  J.  Davidson. 


Wa  SHALL  EBAR  FROM  NORTIIWESTBRN 
OHIO. 


Columbus,  ().,  June  28. 

Dear  Cynosure: — This  will  inform  the  friends 
in  this  State  that  I  am  again  in  the  field  at  work. 
Feeling  the  need  of  a  little  rest  from  constant  travel 
and  speaking,  1  concluded  to  accept  the  opportuni- 
ty to  attend  the  N.  C.  A.  annual  meeting  and  Com- 
mencement at  Wheaton  College. 

Tomorrow  I  go  north  for  a  short  trip  to  Leon- 
ardsburg  and  Ashley.  Next  week  I  shall,  D.  V., 
start  on  a  more  extended  trip  to  the  northwestern 
portion  of  our  State. 

Enroute  for  Chicago  I  met  Mr.  W.  Head  of  New 
Haven,  Ohio.  He  has  on  his  farm  a  small  lake 
where  many  resort  during  the  hot  weather.  Meet- 
ings have  been  held  there  by  the  W.  C.  T.  U.  and 
other  societies.  Mr.  Head  has  read  President  Fin- 
ney on  Masonry  and  expressed  his  approbation  of 
our  work,  and  will  arrange  meetings  as  soon  as  I 
can  attend  to  them. 

I  wrote  some  time  since  of  the  Odd  fellows'  en- 
deavor to  use  the  ministry  of  this  city  as  an  adver- 
tising agency.  Another  secret  society  calling  them- 
selves the  Mystic  Chain,  established  in  the  portion 
of  our  city  known  as  "Fly-town,"are  following  their 
example.  The  first  we  heard  of  them  they  marched 
in  a  body  to  the  United  Brethren  church,  evidently 
expecting  the  pastor  to  speak  words  of  encourage- 
ment. He  had  been  requested  to  take  for  his  sub- 
ject, "The  good  Samaritan."  He,  however,  had  not 
prepared  on  that  line,  but  told  the  "brethren"  if 
they  would  come  again  he  would  try  and  accommo- 
date them.  During  the  past  week  one  of  their  num- 
ber called  on  Rev.  Hiatt,  presented  him  with  a  paper 
containing  a  sermon  given  by  some  Methodist 
preacher  in  their  favor,  and  requested  that  he  preach 
in  their  interest.  He,  of  course,  refused  to  do  so. 
The  delegate  asked  if  he  had  any  objection  to  their 
attendiirg  his  church;  being  assured  that  be  had  not, 
some  half  dozen  of  them  filed  in  last  Sabbath  with 
their  gewgaws  on.  His  theme  for  the  morning  was 
the  Pharisee.  We  trust  they  may  profit  by  what 
they  heard. 

These  are  times  when  every  reformer  should  be 
awake  to  the  privileges  and  duties  of  the  hour.  Mo- 
mentous questions  are  at  stake,  on  the  settlements 
of  which  the  perpetuity  of  our  government  rests. 
Shall  we  not  accomplish  much  during  the  summer 
months?  W.  B.  Stoddard. 


CORRESPONBEIIGE. 


FROM  A  RSFORMBR'8  NOTE-BOOK. 


geneva  college  commencement. 


In  addition  to  the  clear  skies  and  pure  air  of 
Waukesha,  Wis.,  there  is  undoubtedly  healing  virtue 
in  its  renowned  mineral  waters.  Increasing  thou- 
sands are  testifying  to  this,  who  have  been  here  and 
tried  it.  John  A.  McKee,  of  Allegheny,  a  wealthy 
business  man,  with  whom  I  lodged  in  that  city  re- 
cently, said  he  came  here  in  1878  badly  broken 
down  in  health.  He  had  spent  most  of  his  sum- 
mer in  Colorado  without  improvement,  when  a  few 
weeks  spent  at  Waukesha  gave  him  a  larger  fund  of 
health  than  he  had  enjoyed  for  years.  Cynosure 
friends  coming  here  should  call  on  John  F.  Icke, 
one  of  the  successful  business  men,  who  always 
keeps  the  Cynosure  within  easy  reach,  and  there  is 
little  in  its  pages  escapes  his  notice. 

I  assisted  Bro.  Isaiah  Faris  last  Sabbath  in  their 
communion  service,  preaching  on  Friday,  Saturday, 
Sabbath  and  Monday.  These  Covenanters  organ- 
iaed  their  congregation  in  1848,  and  are  still  hold- 
ing steadily  on;  some  of  those  composing  the  organ- 
ization then  are  still  the  leading  workers.  This 
congregation  has  never  yielded  in  its  opposition  to 
all  secret  societiee;  its  pastor  is  a  strong  friend  of 
the  reform.  Bro.  J.  B.  Galloway  is  pastor  of  the 
U.  P.  Church  close  by — so  close  that  his  ringing 
tones  can  almost  be  heard,  when  the  windows  are 
up,  and  he  is  preaching  on  the  evils  of  sccrutism. 

The  National  Republican  platform  just  adopted 
by  that  party  surprises  us  by  its  failure  to  recognize 
the  great,  vital,  burning  issue  of  Prohibition.  It 
makes  no  reference  to  any  moral  standard  other 
than  the  will  of  the  people.  It  declares  the  citizen  to 
be  the  sovereign,  and  the  l  llicials  to  be  their  servants, 
instead  of  God  the  sovereign  and  the  magistrate  his 
servant.  It  opposes  our  Christian  civilization  by 
advocating  the  repeal  of  the  tax  on  tobacco.  It 
panders  to  the  selfishness  of  the  people  by  its  hos- 


tility to  Chinese  labor  and  immigration,  though  no 
class  of  immigrants  areas  harmless  and  industrious. 
It  declares  in  favor  of  home-rule  for  Ireland,  which 
would  be  handing  over  the  government  of  the  one 
and  a  fourth  million  Protestants  of  that  country  to 
the  tender  mercies  of  its  five  million  Roman  Cath- 
olics. It  declares  rightly  in  regard  to  our  own  ter- 
ritories, that  "whenever  the  condition  of  population, 
material  resources,  public  intelligence  and  morality 
are  such  as  to  insure  a  State  local  government 
therein,  the  people  of  such  territories  should  be  per- 
mitted as  a  right  inherent  in  them  to  form  for  them- 
selves constitutions  and  State  governments,  and  be 
admitted  into  the  Union,"  But  every  political 
student  knows  that  neither  the  intellectual  nor  moral 
condition  of  Ireland  are  such  as  to  warrant  sdf- 
government.  While  there  are  some  good  principles 
in  the  Republican  platform,  yet  its  main  features 
are  a  pandering  to  the  low  and  immoral  classes,  and 
an  attempt  to  eliminate  great  moral  issues  from 
our  politics.  We  feel  it  to  be  the  duty  of  every 
good  citizen  to  help  to  lay  the  old  Republican  party 
away  in  the  grave.  Like  the  old  Whig  party,  it  has 
proved  itself  incompetent  to  meet  the  issues  of  the 
present  day,  and  is  seeking  to  live  merely  by  hoe- 
ing grass  over  the  graves  of  its  dead  heroes  of 
former  times. 

I  had  the  privilege  of  attending  the  commence- 
ment exercises  of  Geneva  College,  at  Beaver  Falls, 
Pa.,  May  24th,  where  Dr.  H.  H.  George,  President 
of  the  National  Christian  Association,  graduate 
twenty-five  fine  looking  young  men  and  women; 
among  them  was  a  son  and  daughter  of  Rev.  J.  S. 
T.  Milligan,  who  was  present  and  led  in  the  open- 
ing prayer.  This  makes  five  of  his  children  who 
have  graduated  at  this  college.  The  college  is 
noted  for  its  thorough  instruction,  and  the  promin- 
ence given  to  reform  ideas.  I  never  heard  at  any 
college  so  many  radical  reform  ideas  in  the  orations. 
The  students'  minds  seem  to  be  saturated  with 
them.  Prof.  W.  J.  Coleman  fills  the  chair  of 
Political  Science  vacated  by  Prof.  McAllister,  and 
promises  to  become  as  noted  in  this  line  of  instruc- 
tion as  his  predecessor.  No  college  in  the  land  is 
more  pronounced  in  its  opposition  to  secret  so- 
cieties than  Geneva.  M.  A.  Gault. 


REFORMERS,  BR  OF  GOOD  CHEER. 


Marytille,  Mo. 

To  THE  true  Americans: — I  have  a  few  words 
of  comfort.  You  may  as  well  prepare  to  be  made 
sad,  when  you  come  to  learn  how  very  many  of  our 
American,  so-called.  Christians,  who  claim  to  be  on 
the  Lord's  side, when  the  voting  day  comes  will  vote 
on  the  devil's  side.  This  I  have  seen  before.  This 
same  class  of  Americans  pray  well,but  vote  like  the 
devil.  I  have  lived  as  one  who  has  been  present 
and  witnesseth,  or  saw  with  my  own  eyes  the  result 
of  such  abominations. 

I  well  remember  the  time  when  John  C.  Fremont 
and  Fred.  Douglass,  in  their  joint  movement  to  wipe 
out  what  was  then  called  the  curse  of  the  American 
people,  were  scorned  and  reproached  far  more  by 
the  great  political  bodies  in  their  time  than  the  Pro- 
hibition element  in  this  our  day  is  by  the  Republi- 
cans or  Democrats.  Were  there  any  two  men  last 
week  in  that  large  Republican  Convention  at  Chica- 
go (all  things  considered)  more  honored  than  Fre- 
mont and  Douglass?  What  opened  the  eyes  of 
these  praying  men?  It  was  deep  sorrow,  caused  by 
separation,  starvation  and  death.  The  cruel  war 
opened  the  eyes  of  their  understanding.  They  nbw 
vote  and  pray  against  that  which  caused  all  their 
sufferings  and  woe.  Now  Douglass  and  Fremont 
are  all  sound. 

Just  here,  beloved  brethren,  is  where  the  good 
cheer  comes  in.  These  men  who  now  vote  for  the 
the  devil,  in  order  to  turn  them  to  practice  what 
they  preach,  must  part  with  fathers,  brothers,  sons, 
— yes,  wives,  sisters,  daughters.  These  must  be 
starved,  ruined,  and  slaiu  by  the  demon.  Strong 
Drink.  Then,  after  they  are  dead,  these  strange 
professors  will  begin  to  call  to  the  front  the  men 
who,  like  Fremont  and  Douglass,  in  their  time  for 
free<lom  stood  firm.  So  these  true  men,  true  to  the 
Constitution  of  the  United  States  and  Go<i's  Word 
— now,  even  now,  true — will  be  called  in  due  time 
and  introtiucetl  as  Douglass  was.  The  chairman 
said:  "Gentlemen  of  the  convention.I  have  the  hon- 
or to  present  to  you  a  man  who  needs  no  introduc- 
tion, our  old  friend,  Mr.  Douglass." 

Glory  be  to  the  Goii  of  nations!  We  shall  need 
no  introduction  in  conventions  nor  elsewhere;  but 
will  be  known  and  read  of  all  men,as  true  American 
citizens  who  want  "a  more  perfect  union,"  who  are 
bound  to  provide  for  the  common  defense,  and  are 
determined  to  promote  the  general  welfare;  having 
established  the  principles  of  justice.     We  cannot 


6 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


Jtjlt^,  1888 


help  but  secure  the  blessings  of  liberty  to  ourselves 
and  dear  children. 

Gk)d  has  proEOunced  a  woe  on  all  classes  connect- 
ed with  the  strong  drink  business.  The  voter.drink- 
er  and  dealer  will  alike  tremble  when  they  find  how 
the  devil  has  deceived  them.  Prov.  20:1.  But,  re- 
formers, fear  not.  Be  patient;  our  time  to  be  intro- 
duced will  soon  come,  bless  God.  We  will  need  no 
introduction.  Let  us  remember,  "he  can  work  by 
few  as  well  as  by  many."  See  Gideon's  three  hun- 
dred. 

What  we  want  and  must  have  is  this:  a  convic- 
tion as  to  what  God  demands  of  us.  No  party  feel- 
ing for  one  moment  must  be  cherished.  We  must 
be  unselfish  and  true  to  God.  All  posted  men  know 
that  the  old  parties  are  prostrate  and  helpless  be- 
neath the  cruel  heel  of  the  worst  of  despots,  the 
gigantic  foe  of  all  classes.  God's  people  are  escap- 
ing from  the  unquenchable  fire  which  ever  burns  at 
his  feet.  I  see  no  difference  as  to  the  two  great  par- 
ties. I  see  as  many  from  the  Democrat  side  as  the 
Republican  coming  to  themselves,  and  saying,  As 
for  me  I  will  serve  God;  or  will  vote  to  have  the 
devil's  main  business  in  the  world  made  illegal. 
Some  don't  want  God  in  the  Constitution  or  anything 
said  about  politics  in  a  revival  meeting.  All  such 
men  in  my  revivals  I  invite  forward  for  prayer.?. 
For  if  they  knew  God  as  I  know  him,  they  would 
want  him  everywhere  and  by  all  means  in  our  Amer- 
ican Constitution.  And  if  they  know,  as  I  know, 
how  the  devil  reigns  in  the  political  world,  they 
would  whip  him  there.  Yours  until  our  general  in- 
troduction. Amen.  ,     R.  Smith. 


RlGHTSOUa  POLITICS. 

DeKalb,  Iowa. 

We  hope  there  will  be  a  ticket  in  the  field  worthy 
the  votes  of  American  patriots.  it  was  desirable 
that  prohibition  advance  under  our  banners,  as  the 
plank  is  "American  party  oak,"  consequently  the 
powers  of  darkness  would  sink  it.  But  if  the  right- 
eous principles  of  the  American  party  keep  temper- 
ance divorced  from  the  lodge,  the  nation  will  be  ex- 
alted above  the  saloon  as  much  as  it  has  been  above 
slavery.  The  principles  which  have  been  promul- 
gated by  the  American  party  have  taken  deep  root 
in  honest  American  hearts.  It  is  the  right  kind  of 
political  seed  sown  in  the  best  ground  of  the  nation. 
The  crop  will  come  to  maturity;  it  is  of  God's  plant- 
ing. It  seems  that  Prohibition  is  the  advance  step 
to  be  taken  in  the  harvest  along  the  line  of  reform. 
We  can  (reluctantly)  give  up  party  name,  but  God 
would  disown  us  if  we  abandoned  our  principles. 

The  plans  to  defeat  Prohibition  are  laid  in  the 
dark,  though  many  lodgemen  are  better  than  the 
principle  of  secretism,  who  openly  avow  for  Prohibi- 
tion and  vote  that  ticket  and  offend  their  brother  sa- 
loon-keeper who  belongs  to  the  lodge.  The  saloon- 
keeper, to  be  successful,  must  have  the  cover  of 
darkness.  Prohibition,  to  be  successful,  needs  not 
the  cover  of  the  lodge.  A  tree  cannot  bear  good 
fruit  in  the  shade.  Let  us  honor  that  "righteous- 
ness that  exalteth  a  nation,"  above  the  saloon  and 
the  lodge.  Cyrus  Smith. 

« • » 

A  BBPVBLIGAN  ON  THB  O.  A.  R.  PENSION 
BUSINESS. 

I A  Letter  to  the  New  York  Tribune.  | 

Denver,  Col. 

I  am  a  Republican  and  have  been  a  constant  read- 
er of  the  Iribune  for  more  than  twenty-five  years; 
but  I  cannot  approve  of  its  position  on  the  subject 
of  pensions.  I  am  willing  that  every  soldier  who 
fought  for  the  Union  and  was  disabled  by  wounds 
received  in  battle  or  disease  actually  contracted  in 
his  counlry's  service  should  receive  a  pension.  But 
I  am  not  willing  to  see  thousands  and  tens  of  thou- 
sands of  able-bodied  men,  who  were  never  wounded 
and  whose  health  (unless  injured  by  dissipation)  is 
on  the  average  quite  as  good  as  an  equal  number  of 
their  neighbors  of  the  same  age  who  did  not  go  into 
the  army,  drawing  pensions  before  they  reach  the 
ago  at  which  the  Revolutionary  soldiers  were  pen- 
sioned. 

Now  this  is  the  condition  of  many  who  are  on  the 
pension  list.  This  list  swallowed  up  eighty  mil- 
lions of  dollars  in  1887,  while  fifteen  or  twenty  mil- 
lions would,  I  believe,  have  been  sufficient  to  pen- 
sion every  one  justly  entitled  to  receive  it.  And 
that  is  a  larger  sum  than  any  other  government 
ever  paid  in  pensions  in  a  single  year. 

The  "G.  A.  R."  (which  reminds  me  of  a  certain 
voracious  predatory  fish)  seems  to  exist  for  the  pur- 
pose of  preying  upon  the  treasury  of  .the  United 
States.  They  profess  to  teach  patriotism.  But  it  is 
not  necessary  to  organize  a  secret  society  for  that 
purpose.     We  should  see  much  more  of  the  teaching 


and  practice  of  patriotism  and  much  less  rascality  if 
all  secret,  Christ-rejecting  societies  were  prohibited 
by  law. 

The  G.  A.  R.  propose  to  give  their  vote  to  the  po- 
litical party, who  will  in  return  give  them  control  of 
the  treasury;  and  their  appetite  increases  by  indul- 
gence. If  half  of  their  demands  are  granted,  eight 
hundred  millions  will  soon  be  too  little  to  satisfy 
them  for  a  single  year. 

Our  Revolutionary  soldiers  endured  severe  hard- 
ships. They  suffered  much  from  want  of  food  and 
clothing  nearly  all  the  time  for  seven  years.  When 
the  army  moved  there  were  no  railroad  trains  for 
them  to  ride  on.  When  it  was  necessary  to  construct 
entrenchments  they  were  not  usually  supplied  with 
"contrabands"  to  do  the  work.  And,  counting  the 
depreciation  of  the  currency.they  received  less  than 
one-fifth  as  much  pay  per  man  as  the  soldiers  of  the 
late  war.  These  men, whose  courage  and  sufferings, 
under  the  blessing  of  God,  gave  us  a  national  exist- 
ence, received  only  very  small  pensions  for  the 
wounded  and  disabled,  while  no  others  were  pen- 
sioned until  they  became  very  old  men.  Their  pat- 
riotism was  not  inspired  by  bounties.  Consequent- 
ly there  were  no  "bounty  jumpers"  in  their  ranks. 

Our  army  in  the  late  war  contained  many  of  the 
best  and  noblest  men  in  the  land.  It  also  contained 
some  of  the  laziest  and  vilest,  who  were  diseased 
with  a  chronic  aversion  to  honest  industry.  These 
enlisted  for  bounties  and  the  money  that  was  paid 
for  "substitutes,"  expecting  to  enjoy  a  life  of  idle- 
ness and  feast  upon  abundant  rations.  Some  idea 
of  the  number  of  this  worthless  class  may  be  formed 
from  the  fact  that  five  hundred  thousand  men  de- 
seited. 

The  Union  prisoners  suffered  terribly  in  Southern 
prison  pens.  The  Revolutionary  prisoners  also  were 
brutally  treated  in  Briti^  prisons  and  prison  ships. 
At  times,  for  a  brief  period,  a  part  of  the  Union 
army  would  be  on  limited  rations.  But  they  re- 
ceived much  better  rations  and  clothing  than  any 
other  government  ever  furnished  to  an  army.  Their 
pay  was  more  than  five  times  the  amount  per  man 
that  any  European  government  ever  gave  to  its 
army.  Now,  in  view  of  these  facts,  is  it  fair,  is  it 
just,  is  it  honest,  to  pension  all  these  men  in  the 
prime  of  life,  or  only  a  little  past  it,  when  the  Rev- 
olutionary soldiers  had  to  wait  for  a  pension  till  dis- 
abled by  old  age? 

In  the  pension  bill  for  the  Revolutionary  soldier 
there  was  no  clause  providing  a  pension  for  gout  or 
any  other  disease  that  "might"  have  been  caused  by 
military  service  twenty-three  years  before;  but  had 
not  shown  itself  in  all  that  time.  If  he  drew  a  pen- 
sion for  a  disability,  he  was  obliged  to  prove  that 
the  disability  was  actually  contracted  in  the  service. 
There  was  no  "might  have  been"  about  it.  In  his 
case  there  was  no  premium  placed  upon  perjury. 

The  self-appointed  leaders  of  the  Republican 
party  seem  to  have  come  to  the  conclusion  that  by 
emptying  the  treasury  into  the  mouth  of  the  G.  A. 
R.  in  return  for  its  vote  they  can  elect  the  next 
President  and  regain  the  control  of  the  government. 
They  can  make  this  bargain,  but  they  cannot  deliv- 
er the  goods.  Many  thousand  Republicans,  in  fact, 
a  majority  of  them,  view  with  profound  disgust  and 
alarm  the  national  Congress  devoting  half  its  time 
to  introducing  and  passing  bills  for  granting  and  in- 
creasing pensions.  And  they  are  determined  that 
any  party  that  cannot  elect  a  President  without  plac- 
ing this  nation  under  the  heel  of  the  G.  A.  R.  shall 
never  elect  another.  They  are  not  pleased  to  see  an 
influential  paper,  of  honorable  antecedents,  pros- 
titute itself  by  pushing  forward  the  pension  swindle 
and  using  its  influence  in  favor  of  licensing  drunk- 
ard factories  under  pretense  of  restraining  and  lim- 
iting the  liquor  traffic.        Respectfully, 

J.  P.  Smith. 


PITH  AND  POINT. 

A  VETEBAN. 

I  have  been  a  subscriber  to  the  Cynosure  from  near  its 
first  number.— B.  Williams,  Warren,  lU. 

TUE   CYN08UKE    MISSIONARY    IN    INDIA. 

I  have  read  the  letter  from  W.  J.  Gladwin  of  India 
and  feel  disposed  to  pledge  $30  towards  the  support  of 
an  assistant  in  colporteur  work,  provided  there  may  be 
raised  a  sufficient  sum  to  support  such  person,  and  pro- 
vided also  that  such  person  shall  be  found  well  qualified 
for  the  work.  Payable  as  soon  as  sufficient  money  is 
raised  and  the  person  found  qualified  for  the  work. — J. 
Rutty,  Meriden,  Kana. 

NEW    YORK    IS   not   FORGOTTEN. 

The  "Memorial"  received.  I  like  it  much.  You  may 
send  a  package  for  distribution  at  Syracuse  on  the  26th 
inst.  I'll  do  my  best  for  Christ  and  Reform.  I  think  I 
can  do  more  for  the  Master  there  at  our  State  Conven- 
tion than  at  Chicago.  I  feel  as  though  I  could  hardly 
spare  the  money  and  time  to  attend  both,  much  as  I 


would  like  to  be  at  Commencement  at  Wheaton,  and  the 
Annual  Meeting  of  the  N.  C.  A.— F.  W.  Capwell,  Dak, 
N.  T. 

EXPOSITIONS  FOR  THB   SOUTH. 

I  like  the  idea  of  getting  out  a  book  containing  the 
secret  work  of  the  colored  orders.  The  Tabernacles, 
Friendships,  Immaculates,  Seven  Stars  of  Consolidation, 
and  Q.  U.  0.  of  O.  F.  are  the  most  popular.  Let  us  have 
them  by  all  means.  Tuesday  was  the  Odd-fellows  grand 
day  here,  and  for  the  first  time  in  ten  years  it  was  a  sig- 
nal failure.  ,  I  will  try  and  write  you  more  when  I  am 
stronger.  I  am  only  able  to  be  out  one  day,  and  in  the 
next.  I  hope  to  get  North  in  a  few  weeks. — R.  N.  Coun- 
TBE,  Memphis. 

WILL   FISK   AND   BROOKS   STAND  THB   TEST? 

I  see  no  notice  yet  of  the  revival  of  our  good  old 
American  party.  Are  we  going  to  have  a  separate  ticket, 
or  fall  in  with  the  Prohibition  party  and  all  its  secret 
entanglements?  Do  their  nominees,  Fisk  and  Brooks, 
fill  the  bill,  or  meet  the  Bible  qualifications  found  in 
Exodus  18:  21?  If  so,  let  us  vote  for  them.  If  not,  ex- 
cuse me  from  doing  so.— J.  McKelvey,  Blair,  W.  Va. 

THE  BOSTON  REVELATION. 

If  the  record  of  punishment  for  preaching  and  reading 
without  permits  on  Boston  Common  was  made  of  pro- 
ceedings in  a  pagan  or  Roman  Catholic  country,  we 
might  regard  it  as  a  matter  of  course;  but  that  it  can  be, 
nay  is,  a  fact  in  our  own  land  and  in  the  city  of  Boston, 
is  a  revelation  of  devilish  success  which  ought  to  alarm 
every  American  who  is  still  free  from  the  bondage  of 
popery,  or  of  lodgery,  or  of  saloonery.  These  powers 
rule  in  Boston,  each  of  them  alone  sufficiently  dangerous, 
but  when  in  alliance,  have  dared  to  act  the  part  of  per- 
secutors of  preachers  of  the  Gospel;  and  the  first  princi- 
ples of  our  civil  liberties  are  thus  violated.  One  of  the 
strangest  things  of  all  is  the  fact  that  amid  the  strife  of 
mere  party  politics,  the  leaders  have  almost  ignored  the 
case,  and  the  press  on  both  sides  has  left  its  readers  in 
gross  ignorance  of  the  overwhelming  importance  of  its 
merits.— T.  h. 

COMING  OUT   IN  ALABAMA, 

I  am  very  much  pleased  with  the  result  of  the  efforts 
to  make  the  society  people  think.  Two  men  have  dis- 
connected themselves  from  their  societies,  and  another 
prominent  Mason  told  me  that  he  had  made  up  his  mind 
to  leave  the  lodge.  There  are  some  interesting  facts 
connected  with  this  man's  relations  to  the  society,  which 
I  will  give  to  the  readers  of  your  paper  when  he  discon- 
nects himself.  There  is  no  doubt  that  my  talk  stopped 
a  large  number  of  young  men  from  going  in  the  lodges. 
— W.  R.  Pbttiford,  Birmingham,  Ala, 


LITERATTTBE. 


Mkmoiks  or  Mrs.  Augusta  Tullis  Kbllhy.  Her  Experl- 
rlence,  Labors  as  Evangelist  and  Missionary  to  Africa,  with 
extracts  from  her  writings.  By  Walter  W.  Kelley.  Pp.  272. 
Price  $1.-    Published  by  the  author,  Attica,  Ind. 

Four  years  ago  Rev.  W.  W.  Kelley,  a  faithful 
Free  Methodist  pastor  in  Illinois,  Harry  Agnew  and 
Robert  Shemeld  and  his  wife  from  St.  Paul,  came 
together  in  Chicago  to  arrange  for  a  missionary  jour- 
ney to  the  new  regions  opened  to  civilization  about 
the  great  central  lakes  of  Africa  at  the  head-waters 
of  the  Congo  and  the  Nile.  They  expected  to  make 
their  home  in  that  region  and  be  buried  there  when 
their  earthly  work  was  done.  All  had  been  identi- 
fied with  the  work  of  the  National  Christian  Associa- 
tion, and  their  visits  to  the  Cynosure  ot&ce  were  much 
enjoyed.  Here  they  met  Bro.  H.  H.  Hinman,  whose 
experience  as  missionary  in  Western  Africa  enabled 
him  to  give  them  much  good  advice.  Bro.  Kelley 
took  with  him  to  Africa  a  young  wife,  whose  devo- 
tion to  Christian  work  had  for  several  years  urged 
her  into  public  revival  efforts  for  the  salvation  of 
men.  Before  the  party  of  five  reached  Africa  polit- 
ical changes  in  the  interior  compelled  a  change  in 
their  plans,  and  they  separated,  Bro.  Shemeld  and 
wife  going  to  Estcourt,  among  the  Zulus,  the  rest 
opening  a  mission  near  Inhambane,  farther  to  the 
north.  There  were  many  gratifying  evidences  of 
the  blessing  of  God  upon  their  work,  but  the  Afri- 
can fever,  which  prostrated  them  all  for  a  time, 
seemed  to  become  settled  upon  Bro.  Kelley,  and 
after  long  struggling  against  the  disease,  be  was  re- 
luctantly obliged  to  return  to  this  country.  This 
volume  is  largely  a  story  of  this  brief  missionary 
work,  and  much  of  it  is  told  in  the  letters  of  Mrs. 
Kelley.  In  the  same  way  is  given  the  record  of  her 
earlier  life,and  through  all  human  weaknesses  and  de- 
fects is  seen  a  blessed,  child-like  faith  and  a  singular 
devotion  of  purpose  and  of  life  to  thelledeemer 's  work. 
A  few  months  after  their  return  God  took  her  to 
himself  in  a  moment,  without  a  pang  or  a  warning. 
Her  experience  in  missionary  work,  her  trials  by 
sickness,  disappointments,  serenity  under  trial,  the 
triumphs  of  her  faith,  and  early  death,  remind  us 
much  of  the  case  of  Harriet  Newell,  whose  brief  his- 
tory has  been  the  means  of  sending  hundreds  into 
the  missionary  work.  May  such  be  the  blessed  re- 
sult of  the  life  of  this  young  woman,  in  whose 
record,  as  given  in  this  volume,  every  reader  will  be 
profited  and  blessed. 


"•^i^^wi 


July  5, 1888 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSCTRJii. 


\ 


I 


The  current  number  of  Our  Bay  opens 
with  a  "Symposium  on  Inspiration." 
The  Boston  Monday  Lectureship,  accord- 
ing to  their  yearly  custom,  sent  out  the 
question,  "In  what  sense,  and  why,  do 
you  believe  the  Bible  to  be  the  Word  of 
God?"  to  a  number  of  leading  theological 
professors  and  eminent  ministers,  asking 
for  a  brief  answer.  The  replies  of  Dr. 
John  Hall  of  New  York,  Bishop  Doane, 
Professors  Fisher  of  Yale,  Dwinell  of 
Oakland,  Wright  of  Oberlin,  Boardman 
and  Curtiss  of  Chicago,  and  others.  The 
late  Matthew  Arnold  published  in  the 
Jsineteenth  Century  for  April  some  crit- 
icisms on  "Civilization  in  the  United 
States."  Some  replies  from  eminent 
Americans  follow  its  reprint  in  Vur  Day. 
Miss  Willard  writes  briefly  of  the  Indian- 
apolis convention  which  nominated  Fisk 
and  Brooks.  Mr.  Cook's  Monday  tec- 
ture  "Fulfilled  Predictions  as  Evidence 
of  Inspiration"  with  its  prelude  on 
"American  Electoral  Reform"  forms  the 
important  part  of  the  number.  This 
number  closes  the  first  half-yearly  vol- 
ume and  gives  undoubted  evidence  that 
Cur  Lay  is  to  be  a  permanent  as  well  as 
a  valuable  addition  to  our  magazine  lit- 
erature. Published  at  28  Beacon  Street, 
Boston;  $2  a  year. 

The  opening  article  of  the  July  Sorib- 
ner's  Magazine  is  the  second  of  the  Rail- 
way Series,  entitled  "Feats  of  Railway 
Engineering,"  bv  John  Bogart,  State  En- 
gineer of  New  York,  who  describes  with 
force  and  picturesqueness  many  of  the 
great  achievements  which  have  marked 
the  development  of  this  and  other  coun- 
tries, such  as  the  Oroya  railway  in  Peru, 
built  among  almost  impenetrable  moun- 
tains: the  St.  Qothard  spiral  tunnels; 
and  the  St.  Louis,  Lachine,  Niag- 
ara, Bismarck,  Forth,  and  Britannia 
bridges,  with  a  clear  account  of  the 
method  of  laying  bridge  founda- 
tions by  work  in  a  pneumatic  caisson. 
"Life  and  Travel  in  Modern  Greece"  is 
an  entertaining  account  of  a  trip  through 
a  country  which  is  not  very  familiar  to 
American  travelers,  by  Thomas  D.  Sey- 
mour, Professor  of  Greek  at  Yale  Col- 
lege. His  account  is  crowded  with  in- 
formation that  is  not  ordinarily  accessi- 
ble, and,  moreover,  gives  vivid  pictures 
of  the  customs  and  habits  of  the  people. 
Professor  Charles  A.  Young,  the  eminent 
astronomer,  describes  a  journey  to  Rus- 
sia, to  observe  the  solar  eclipse  of  1887, 
which,  though  it  ended  in  "disappoint- 
ment and  a  rain  storm,"  was  full  of  in- 
terest as  it  resulted  in  visits  to  many 
famous  observatories  and  distinguished 
astronomers.  Robert  Louis  Stevenson, 
in  his  paper  on  "Popular  Authors,"  pays 
tribute  to  some  of  those  writers  who  have 
hosts  of  admirers  but  no  recognition 
among  literary  men. 


Home  and  Health. 


HOW   r   CUBED   MY   INSOMNIA. 

Sleeplessness  is  among  the  most  dis- 
tressing symptoms  of  nervous  prostra- 
tion, if  indeed  it  is  not  the  very  worst; 
and  it  is  most  certainly  one  primary 
cause  of  the  disease  itself. 

I  was  one  day  lamenting  my  sleepless- 
ness to  an  old  friend.  "If  only  I  could 
sleep  I"  that  was  my  cry. 

"Well,"  said  he,  "I'll  tell  you  my  se- 
cret. I  used  to  be  nearly  insane  from 
want  of  Bleep;  but  now  I  go  to  bed  se- 
renely conscious  of  a  good  night  coming. 
As  soon  as  I  find  myself  restless  or  in- 
clined to  be  wakeful,  I  get  resolutely  out 
of  bed,  remove  my  night-clothes,  let  the 
air  freely  upon  my  body,  and — then — 
'go  for'  myself  with  a  flesh  brush." 

His  wife,  who  stood  by,  laughingly  de- 
clared that  I  looked  so  much  impressed 
that  she  would  present  me  with  a  pair  of 
gloves  if  I  would  promise  to  try  the  rem- 
edy. "Indeed  I  will!'  I  exclaimed,  de- 
lighted; and  armed  with  my  new  posses- 
sion I  can  now  declare  myself  absolute 
conqueror  in  the  conflict;  insomnia  has 
yielded  to  scientiflc  application  of  this 
verv  simple  remedy. 

When  I  undress  for  the  night,  after  re- 
moving my  clothes  I  &tand  close  beside 
my  bed,  having  my  nightdress  quite 
handy,  and  everything  in  perfect  readi- 
ness to  step  into  it,  and  taking  my  flesh- 
glove  in  my  right  hand,  I  begin  rubbing 
my  left  arm  energetically  up  and  down, 
just  twenty  five  times;  then  I  remove  the 
glove  to  the  other  hand,  and  manipulate 
the  right  arm.  I  then  bestow  the  same 
number  of  rubs  on  the  chest,  theu  the 
back  of  the  ueck,  aa  far  as  I  can  reach, 


then  still  more  energetically  over  the 
stomach,  bowels  and  kidneys.  After  this 
the  lower  limbs.  Having  accomplished 
this  very  rapidly,  I  put  on  my  night- 
dress, sit  on  the  edge  of  the  bed,  and  "go 
for"  my  feet.  These  I  rub  both  over  and 
under  until  my  arms  ache,  not  limiting 
myself  to  twenty-flve  rubs.  Than,  feel- 
ing sure  of  victory,  I  blow  out  my  light, 
dispose  myself  comfortably,  and  go  off 
to  sleep  for  my  eight  or  even  nine  hours! 

Think  of  it!  This  I  have  accomplished 
in  three  short  weeks!  At  first  when  I 
was  still  restless,  I  twice  rose  and  re- 
newed the  friction  to  my  feet  That  at 
once  restored  the  balance  of  circulation 
and  brought  about  the  desired  result.  It 
has  not  once  failed  me;  and  the  reason  is 
sufficiently  obvious.  It  is  a  riatural  rem- 
edy, far  superior  to  any  anodyne  or 
sleeping-potion  ever  invented. 

For  what  occasions  insomnia?  People 
will  answer,  "A  variety  of  things — ner- 
vousness, indigestion,  excitability,  over- 
fatigue;" and  this,  in  its  way,  is  true:  but, 
apart  from  all  these  causes,  which  are 
relative,  there  is  but  one  actual  cause  for 
sleeplessness,  and  that  cause  is  the  one 
to  reach  and  overcome.  It  is  imperfect 
or  impaired  circulation,  which  may  be 
brought  about  by  many  different  agen- 
cies— disordered  stomach,  irritated  brain, 
disease  of  any  kind,  anxiety  or  sorrow — 
but  each  of  these,  in  its  degree,  occasions 
the  trouble,  because  it  interferes  with  the 
equal  circulation  of  the  blood  and  the 
action  of  the  skin.  The  use  of  the  flesh- 
brush  has  its  value  in  this.  It  promotes 
and  restores  circulation. 

Every  victim  of  insomnia  knows  that 
sponging  the  body  all  over  at  night  will 
sometimes  bring  about  sleep;  but  I  never 
yet  heard  of  any  one  who  had  tried  the 
method  I  have  indicated.  It  is,  I  assure 
you,  well  worthy  of  trial.  Begin  delib- 
erately and  slowly.  You  will  be  grati- 
fied by  the  result. 

In  the  case  of  invalids  and  weakly  per- 
sons, it  would  be  very  easy  for  the  at- 
tendant to  give  a  gentle  application  of 
the  flesh  glove  or  a  brush  until  the  pa- 
tient has  become  accustomed  to  it.  For 
myself,  I  use  it  energetically,  twice  daily 
— after  my  cold  bath  in  the  morning,  and 
the  very  last  thing  at  night.  After  three 
years'  illness  from  nervous  prostration, 
and  lifelong  insomnia,  I  am  now  perfectly 
well,  eat  well,  walk  ten  or  fifteen  miles 
every  day,  and  sleep  my  eight  or  nine 
hours,  free  from  dreams  or  restlessness; 
while  brain  work,  by  which  I  make  my 
income,  is  better  than  ever  before. — Bern- 
orest's  Monthly  Magazine. 


8BCRBTB0CIBTIB8  GONDBMNBD. 


THE    BURDGN8    OF    WOMANHOOD. 

Thousands  of  women  are  silently  suf- 
fering untold  misery,  simply  because  they 
shrink  from  consulting  a  physician  in 
those  numerous  complaints  arising  from 
functional  irregularities  and  disorders. 
Many  a  modest  girl  and  woman  prefers 
to  bear  her  heavy  burden  in  silence  rath- 
er than  go  to  the  family  physician  for 
advice.  All  sufferers  from  this  class  of 
disorders  can,  however,  find  prompt  and 
sure  relief  in  Dr.  Pierce's  Favorite  Pre- 
scription. It  is  a  specific  in  such  cases, 
and  has  brightened  the  lives  of  countless 
women  by  restoring  them  to  perfect 
health. 

No  medicine  is  more  conscientiously 
prepared,  more  powerful,  or  more  highly 
concentrated,  than  Ayer's  Sarsaparilla. 
Its  standard  of  excellence  ia  the  result  of 
careful  study.  This  preparation  is  ac- 
knowledged by  the  medical  profession  to 
be  the  best  blood  purifier. 


If  you  would  have  a  desirable  head  of 
hair,  use  Hall's  Vegetable  Sicilian  Hair 
Renewer,  the  most  wonderful  discovery 
of  modern- times  for  the  hair  and  scalp. 

FOR  MIISriSTERS 

THE 

"STORIES  OF  THE  GODS  " 

la  especially  adapted.    They  will  at  once  uu- 
derstaod    the   references   to   the   Idolatrous 


I  systems  of  the  nations.  And  the  Idolatrous 
worship  of  the  Masonic  lodge  Is  thus  more 
clearly  seen  and  easily  understood.  WUl 
you  fimiish  each  pa.iU>r  in  your  place  with 
otic    of    these   jianiphleLsf 

FfilCE,    ONLY    10    CENTS. 

National  Chkistian  Association, 
221  W.  Madison  St,  Chicago,  111. 


BT   QRBAT  HEN   IN   THB     BTATB. 

Charles  Francis  Adams:  "A  more  per- 
fect agent  for  the  devising  and  execution 
of  conspiracies  against  church  and  state 
could  scarcely  have  been  conceived." 

Thaddeus  Stevens:  "By  Freemasonry, 
trial  by  jury  is  transformed  into  an  en 
gine  of  despotism  and  Masonic  fraud." 

Judge  Pliny  Merrick  (a  seceded  Mason) ; 
— If  ever  a  Chapter  or  a  lodge  shall  es- 
tablish laws  in  conflict  with  those  of  the 
state  the  Masonic  requisition  is  obedience 
to  the  lodge  and  conflict  with  the  state; 
and  if  a  member  hesitates  at  this  humili- 
ating obedience,  his  heart  must  be  "torn 
from  his  bosom,"  his  "vitals  plucked 
from  his  body,"  and  Masonic  vengeance, 
not  satisfied  with  this  bloody  immolation, 
denies  a  resting  place  to  the  motionless 
remains,  but  they  are  to  be  "burnt  to 
ashes  and  scattered  to  the  winds." 

Samuel  C.  Pomeicy,  in  an  address, 
lS83:-"TheTe  may  be  a  broad  distinction 
between  the  good  and  the  bad  in  secret 
societies,  but  as  they  all  alike  have  oath 
bound  obligations  to  complete  oblivion  of 
all  they  do  or  say,  I  have  no  means  of 
judging  the  good  from  the  bad.  So  I  turn 
away  from  them  all  to  the  great  Teach- 
er who  said,  "In  secret  have  I  said  noth- 
ing." 

Judge  Daniel  H.  Whitruy,  {renouncing 
Mason):  While  professed  ministers  of 
the  Gospel  and  members  of  churches  are 
permitted  to  associate  themselves  with 
these  organizations,  the  task  to  apply  a 
remedy  will  be  a  hopeless  one;  and  just 
60  long  will  the  declaration  made  to  me 
not  long  since  by  a  high  Mason  and  a 
worthy  man  prove  true,  that  "a  Masonic 
lodge  is  the  strangest  medley  of  priests 
and  murderers — deacons  and  whoremas- 
ters— church  members  and  gamblers — de 
cent  men  and  loafers — drunkards  and 
rowdies,  that  the  All  Seeing-Eye  ever 
looked  down  upon." 

Hon.  Samuel  Dexter,  in  an  open  letter  to 
the  Qrand  Master  of  Mass.,  1798:  "If 
there  be  no  very  important  reason  for 
upholding  Masonry  at  a  moment  like  the 
present,  there  is  a  reason  against  it.  The 
system  of  the  destroyers  of  human  virtue 
and  happiness  is  to  undermine  in  the 
dark  the  castle  that  cannot  be  carried  by 
storm.  Secret  agency  has  overthrown 
all  the  republics  of  Europe,  and  an  ex- 
tended, secret,  leveling,  self-created  so- 
ciety, without  any  valuable  object  of 
pursuit,  and  embracing  bad  characters  as 
well  as  good,  cannot  be  the  subject  of  ap- 
probation of  an  anxious  patriot." 

Eon.  CadwaUader  C.  Golden,  Mayor  of 
New  York  and  M.  (7..-— It  is  true  that  I 
have  been  a  Mason  a  great  number  of 
years,  and  that  I  have  held  very  high 
Masonic  offices  and  honors.  It  is  equally 
true  that  I  have  for  a  long  time  ceased  to 
have  any  connection  with  the  institution 
because  I  have  believed,  and  do  now  be- 
lieve, it  is  productive  of  much  more  evil 
than  good.  I  have  long  entertained  my 
present  opinion,  that  a  man  who  would 
eschew  all  evil  should  not  be  a  Freemason. 

Daniel  Webster:  "All  secret  aasocia 
tions,  the  members  of  which  take  upon 
themselves  extraordinary  obligations  to 
one  another,  and  are  bound  together  by 
secret  oaths,  are  naturally  sources  of 
jealousy  and  just  alarm  to  others;  are  es- 
pecially unfavorable  to  harmony  and  mu- 
tual confidence  among  men  living  togeth- 
er under  popular  institutions,  and  are 
dangerous  to  the  general  cause  of  civil 
liberty  and  just  government.  Under  the 
influence  of  this  conviction  I  heartily  ap- 
proved the  law,  lately  enacted  in  the  State 
of  which  I  am  a  citizen,  for  abolishing  all 
such,  oaths  and  obligations." 

Oen.  Henry  SewalZ,  a  companion  of 
Washington:—!  was  initiated  an  Entered 
Apprentice  to  the  Masonic  rites  in  Octo- 
ber, 1777,  at  Albany,  soon  aftir  the 
capture  of  Burgoyne,  being  then  an  offi- 
cer in  the  American  army.  ...  I 
wts  led  by  the  influence  of  this  "perfect 
rule  of  faith  and  practice,"  during  the 
year  1784,  to  view  speculative  Masonry 
in  a  shape  still  more  deformed.  Its  char- 
ity appeared  to  bo  selfishness,  because  re- 
stricted to  its  own  members;  its  religion 
deism  because  entirely  devoid  of  the 
Gospel.  Its  history  appeared  fabulous; 
its  claims  to  antiquity  unsustainable:  its 
titles  fulsome;  its  rites  barbarous  and 
absurd;  its  oaths  extra-judicial,  unlaw- 
fully imposed  and  blindly  taken,  and  the 
penal  sanctions  annexed,  horrid  and  im- 
pious. 


N.  C.  A.  BUILDING  AND  OmCX  Of 
TBI  CHRISTIAN   CYN08TJRK, 
tn  WIST  MADISON  8TRSIT,  CHICAGC 


NATIOHIAL  CHRIS  TlAN  A880GIA  TIOM 

Pbbsidbnt.— H.  H.  G«orge,  D.  D.,  G«nt 
eva  College,  Pa. 

VicB-PBBSiDBHT — Re7.  M.  A.  Gault, 
Blanchard,  Iowa. 

CoB.  Sbc'v  and  Gbnbral  Aobht. — J 
P.  Stoddard,  221 W.  Madison  st.,  Chicago. 

Rbc.  Sbc't.  and  Tbbasubbb. — W.  I 
Phillips,  221  W.  Madison  St,   Chicago 

DiRKCTOBS.— J.  L.  Barlow,  C.  A. 
Blanchard,  A.  J.  Chittenden,  H.  A.  Fisch- 
er, John  Gardner,  G.  R.  Milton,  Wm.  Mor- 
row, L.  N.Stratton,  John  Sutcliffe,  Alex- 
ander Thomson,  E.  R.  Worrell. 

The  object  of  this  Association  Is: 
"To  expose,  withstand  and  remove  secret 
societies,  Freemasonry  In  psLrticuiar,  and  othet 
anti-Christian  raovements,  in  order  to  save  tfaa 
churches  ol  Christ  from  being  uepraved,  to  i» 
deem  the  admlnlstr*  tion  of  justice  from  pa* 
version,  and  our  r^p  Iblican  government  froo 
corruption." 

To  carry  on  this  work  contributions  art 
solicited  from  every  friend  of  the  reform. 

Form  of  Bequest. — J  give  and  bccueath  to 
the  National  Christian  Association,  Incorpo- 
rated and  existing  under  the  laws  of  the  Stato 

of    Illinois,  the  sum  of ■    dollar  s  for  the 

purposes  of  said  Association,  and  for  wbVh 
toe  receipt  of  its  Treasurer  for  the  time  t)clc( 
^luU  be  sufficient  dlsch&cse. 

THB  MATIOHAL  OOHTBNTIOH. 

Pbbbidhnt.— Rev.  J.  8.  T.  Milligan, 
Denison,  Eans. 

Sbcbbtaby.— Rev.  R.N.Coun tee,  Mem- 
phis, Tenn. 

BTATB  AUXOilABT  AS80CIATI0HB. 

Alabama.— Fres.,  Prof.  Pickens;  Sec,  S. 
M.  Elliott;  Treas.,  Rev.  C.  B.  Curtis,  all  of 
Selms. 

Caijtobnia.— Fres^  L.  B.  Lathrop,  Holllt 
ter;  Cor.  Sec.  Mrs.  U.  P.  Merrill,  Woodland; 
Treas.,  C.  Ruddock,  Woodland. 

CoNNBoncuT.— Pres..  J.  A.  Conant,  Willi 
mantle;  Sec,  Geo.  Smith,  WllUmantlc ;  Treaa. 
C.  T.  CoUlns,  Windsor. 

IiiLXNOis.— Pres,,  J.  P.  Stoddard:  Sec,  M. 
N.  Butler;  Treas.,  W.  I.  Phllllpi  all  at  Cy- 
nosrtre  office. 

Indiana.— Pres.,  wmiam  H.  Flgg,  Reno 
Sec,  8.  L.  Cook,  Albion;  Treas.,  BenJ.  Ulsh 
Silver  Lake. 

Iowa.— Pre8.,Wm.Johnston,College  Springs 
Cor   Sec,  C.   D.   Trumbull,    Morning   Bun' 
Treas.,  James  Harvey,  Pleasant  Plain,  JeSer 
son  Co. ;  Lecturer,  C.  F.  Hawlev,  Wheaton,  111. 

Kansas.— Pres..  J.  8.  T.  Milligan,  Denison; 
Sec,  S.  Hart,  Lecompton;  Treas.,  J.  A.  Tor- 
rence,  Denison. 

MAS3ACHTJ8BTT8.— Free.,  8.  A.  Pratt;  Sec, 
Mrs.  E.  D.  BaUey;  Treas.,  David  Mannlng,8r., 
Worcoeter.  ^  _   ^ 

MiOHiQAH.— Pre*..  D.  A.  Richards,  BrlghtOD, 
Bec'y,  H.  A.  Day,  Wllllamston;  Treai. 
Qeo.  Bwanson,  Jr.,  Bedfoiu. 

Minnesota.— Pres.,  S.  G.  Paine,  Wulo> 
Cor.  Sec,  Wm.  Fcnton,  St.  Paul :  Rec  Sec'y 
Mrs.  M.  F.  Morrill,  St.  Charles;  Treas.,  Wa 
H.  MorrlU,  8t.  Charles. 

Missouri.- Pres.,  B.  F.  Miller,  KsglevlUa 
Trea8.iWllllAm  Beauchamp,  Avalon ;  Cor.  Bte.. 
A.  D.  Thomas,  Avalon. 

NiBaASKA.- Pres.,  8.  Austin,  Falnnoait 
Cor.  Bee,  W.        Spooner,  Kearney;   Treas.'. 
J.  C.  rye. 

Mainb.— Pros.,  Isaac  Jackson,  Harrison - 
Sec,  I.  D-  Haines,  Dexter;  Treas.,  H.  W. 
Qoddard,  West  Sidney. 

NBwHAMPSHiKa.— Pres.,  C.  L.  Baker,  Man 
Chester;  8ec,  8.  C.  Kimball,  New  Market 
Treas.,  James  /.  French,  Canterbury. 

Nbw  York.— Pros.,  F.  W.  Capwell,  Dale; 
Bec'y,  John  Wallace,  Syracuse;  Treaa.,  M. 
Merrick,  Byracuse. 

Ohio.— Pres.,  F.  M.  Sj>encer,  New  Concord  •, 
Rec  Sec,  8.  A.  George,  Mansfield:  Cor.  Sec. 
and  Treas.,  C.  W.  hlatt,  Columbus;  Agent 
W.  B.  Stoddard,  Columbus. 

Pbnnstlvania.— Cor.  Sec,  N.  Callander 
ThompMB ;  Treas.,  W.  B.Bertels,  WUkesbarre. 

Vbbmont.— Pres.,  W.  R.  Laird,  St.  Johns- 
bnry;  Sec,  C  W  Potter. 

WlBOOHMH.— Pres.,  J.  W  Wood,  BaralKw; 
Sec,  W.  W.  Ames,  Menomonie ;  Treaa.,  M.  R 
Britten,  Vienna. 


8 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE- 


JuLT  5, 1888 


The  Christian  Cynosure. 


J.  BLANCHARD. 


Xditobs. 


HKNRY  L.  KXLLOOQ 


CHICA60,   THUBBDAY,   JULT   5,   1888. 


The  Ministers'  Fund,  which  we  have  not  lately  re- 
ported, has  grown  meanwhile,  and  is  coming  near  to  the 
amount  asked  for  last  winter.  So  long  as  there  can  be 
no  more  satisfactory  work  done  for  the  reform  than  by 
this  means  the  Fund  will  be  continued.  Let  it  be  re- 
membered, whenever  you  think  of  the  South. 

Our  New  England   Letter,  we  hope,  through  an 
arrangement  kindly  made  by  Miss  Flagg,  will  be  hence- 
forth an  attractive  feature  of  the  Cynosure.     How  many 
of  our  readers  have  friends  who  would  be  profited  be 
yond  measure  by  reading  this  paper? 


REPUBLICANISM  AND  WBI3EY. 


Epidkmic  diseases  are  attributed  by  some  sci- 
entists to  swarms  of  invisible  insects.  In  1833, 
while  the  cholera  was  raging  in  Canada,  armies  of 
caterpillars,  or  army  worms,  stripped  whole  forests 
bare  of  their  verdure.  The  same  year  birds  of  the 
air  fell  down  dead;  frogs  died  in  the  water,  and  flow- 
ering shrubs  died  in  the  gardens.  The  plague 
seemed  to  be  in  the  air,  earth  and  water.  At  the 
same  time  rosebugs  appeared  in  great  numbers,  de- 
vouring both  the  leaves  and  flowers  of  that  beauti- 
ful plant;  and  the  animal  pests  have  their  arrivals 
and  departures.  And  though  Science  has  applied 
her  microscopes,  and  Philosophy  and  Reason  their 
scales,  their  sources  yet  remain  undiscovered,  and 
their  laws  equally  so.  Human  scrutiny  has  given 
us  no  clue  by  which  we  may  predict  the  return  of 
the  cholera;  and  though  some  few  shields  and  de- 
fences have  been  discovered  (as  that  men  in  tan- 
neries, where  much  oil  is  used  in  dressing  the  leather, 
are  less  exposed  to  epidemic  diseases  because  oil  is 
destructive  of  insect  life),  still  it  remains  true,  as  it 
was  three  thousand  years  ago,  that  "the  pestilence 
walketh  in  darkness." 


Mary  E.  Allen,  M.  D,,  writes  us  from  Philadel- 
phia an  able  letter,  reproving  the  Cynosure  for  ad- 
vertising Patent  Medicines  in  one  column,  while 
we  condemn  them  in  anothqf.  She  says:  "The 
patent  medicine  is  one  of  the  greatest  evils  in  this 
country.  Besides  the  harm  they  do  to  the  pocket, 
when  they  contain  mere  harmless  substances  of  no 
medical  value,  or  worse,  powerful  drugs  adminis- 
tered by  persons  ignorant  of  their  nature,  they  are 
often,  by  opium,  etc.,  sources  of  intemperance.  Dr. 
Allen  thinks  that  clergymen  and  religious  and  re- 
form papers  furnish  quack  medicines  most  of  their 
victims,  and  she  insists  that  the  Cynosure  is  specially 
inconsistent  to  condemn  secret  societies  and  yet  ad- 
vertise secret  nostrums.  We  consider  Dr.  Alice's 
letter  "righteous  smiting."  Psal41:  5.  But  in  med- 
icines as  in  morals: 

"Oft  so  mixed  the  dlllereDce  is  too  nice 
Where  ends  the  virtue  and  begins  the  vice  " 

The  discoverers  of  good  medicines,  like  the  writ- 
ers of  good  books  and  inventors  of  useful  machines, 
have  a  right  to  profit  by  their  work  and  wits.  While 
(juacks  and  empirics,  seeking  to  make  fortunes  out 
of  popular  ignorance  and  ill  health,  are  impostors, 
and  should  be  punished. 

"This  light  and  darkness  in  our  chaos  joined, 
What  shall  dividei    The  God  within  tiie  mind." 

Our  rule  is  to  advertise  only  medicines  which 
have  been  fully  proved  to  be  of  genuine  excellence. 
And  the  ingredients  of  these  ought  to  be  published, 
their  labels  only  being  patented  for  a  limited  time. 


Dehorning  Cattle.— Two  writers  in  the  Prairie 
tanner  give  opposite  opinions  of  sawing  off  the 
horns  of  cattle.  A  Nebraska  farmer  says,  "1  had 
two  cows  that  in  Gghting  knocked  off  the  shells  of 
their  horns,  which  served  as  a  torture  for  weeks." 
"I  had  a  colt  that  had  its  intestines  lorn  out  by  a 
cow,  but  lived  all  night  till  T  ended  its  misery  the 
next  day.  I  am  satisfied  that  colt  suffered  more 
than  my  entire  herd  did  when  dehorned."  "I  con- 
sider dehorning  a  work  of  mercy."  Another  writer 
says,  in  the  same  number,  "A  natural  poll,  when 
vicious,  is  the  most  dangerous  of  the  bovine  race; 
they  butt  a  person  down  and  then  trample  him  to 
death."  A  recent  meeting  of  the  Royal  Veterinary 
Association  (Kngland)  unanimously  resolved  against 
the  practice  of  dehorning. 

The  writer  was  reared  upon  a  large  stock-farm; 
and  we  children  used  to  "get  up  the  cows"  as  soon 
as  we  could  ran.  No  child  was  injured  by  the  horns 
of  cattle  or  the  hoofs  of  horses;  and  our  farmers 
would  as  soon  have  cut  off  one  as  the  other.  But 
the  horns  of  vicious  cattle  should  come  off  and  the  | 
head  with  them. 


The  Chicago  Tribune  started  out  as  a  reform  pa- 
per, and  while  Horace  White  controlled  it,  was  so. 
!4^It  absorbed  and  took  the  list  of  the  old  Western 
Citizen  (Abolition  organ)  and  Chicago  voted  Aboli- 
tion while  the  country  went  pro-slavery.  For  a  few 
years  past  the  Tribune  has  gone  strong  for  licensing 
liquor,  and  against  Prohibition.  Of  course,  the 
liquor  people  have  regarded  it  as  their  pillar  of  fire. 
In  the  late  push  for  candidates  the  Tribune  went 
strong  for  Greshara,  and  seems  to  prove  that  the 
other  six  candidates,  except  Allison,  were  sustained 
by  railroad  rings  and  attorneys,  not  even  excepting 
Harrison,  the  nominee;  and  if  one-half  it3  facts  are 
true,  the  late  Chicago  Convention  was  a  deplorable 
mass  of  political  chicanery,  scheming,  and  every- 
thing else  but  patriotism. 

And  now,  behold,  this  Republican  organ,  June  26, 
proves  to  its  own  satisfaction  that  the  Prohibition 
and  Republican  platforms  are  "Free  Whisky"  plat- 
forms; and  then  condemns  the  one  and  supports  the 
other.  The  offence  of  the  Prohibition  party  is  pro- 
hibition, but  the  Tribune's  indictment  is  "Free 
Whisky." 

The  case  stands  thus:  The  tax  on  whisky  and 
tobacco  now  give  large  support  to  the  United  States 
government,  and  adds  to  the  immense  surplus,  which 
all  parties  wish  to  reduce.  The  Prohibition  party 
platform  goes  "for  the  immediate  abolition  of  the 
internal  revenue  system,"  protesting  against  sup- 
porting our  government  by  tax  on  liquor.  This 
would  leave  whisky  free,  if  there  were  no  States 
with  anti-liquor  laws  and  constabulary  to  enforce 
them.  But  it  happens  there  are,  so  that  the  Pro- 
hibition platform  is  not  "Free  Whisky".  Its  tri- 
umph would  "oil  the  wheels  of  state,"  and  by  its 
consistent  moral  force  it  would  at  once  put  every 
liquor  seller  into  the  criminal  courts.  This  is  the 
tribune's  "free  whisky"  produced  by  the  success  of 
the  Prohibition  platform! 

But,  says  the  Iribune,  "The  Prohibitionists  would 
have  free  whisky  preliminary  to  their  constitutional 
amendment,  which,  even  if  the  opposition  were 
slight,  would  take  a  long  time  to  bring  about." 

This  is  about  as  rational  as  charging  a  sheriff 
with  setting  "free"  a  condemned  culprit,  because  he 
took  off  his  fetters  to  march  him  to  the  gallows. 
The  success  of  the  Prohibition  party  will  be  the 
death-knell  of  the  liquor  traffic. 

With  the  Republican  party  the  case  is  different. 
It  licenses  liquor,  and  the  Tribune  endorses  it.  And 
every  such  licetase  is  a  solemn  orficial  declaration 
that  the  liquor  traffic  is  a  good  and  lawful  practice 
in  the  holder  of  that  license,  and  the  whole  commu- 
nity backs  it!  And  when  you  have  declared  the 
whisky  traffic  lawful  in  one  man,  no  one  will  believe 
you  sincere  in  condemning  it  in  another.  And  the 
puzzle  is  what  the  Tribune's  article,  "Two  Whisky 
Planks,"  means:  unless  its  editor  wishes  to  show 
that  his  party  is  as  bad  as  he  is,  and  that  Prohibi- 
tion is  no  better.  The  concession  of  the  Iribune 
that  the  Republican  party  contains  a  "free  whisky 
plank",  however,  ought  to  silence  those  Republicans 
who  claim  that  theirs  is  a  temperance  party.  It  will 
open  the  eyes  of  multitudes  and  swell  the  ranks  of 
Prohibition,  as  Whigs  went  over  to  the  Republican 
party  in  185(i,  when  they  ceased  to  believe  Web- 
ster's declaration,  "The  Whig  party  is  the  true  Lib- 
erty party."  And  as  soon  as  the  Prohibition  party 
ceases  to  trust  in  men  secretly  forsworn  to  befriend 
Masons  who  are  distillers,  brewers  and  saloon-keep- 
ers, their  triumph  is  nigh,  even  at  the  doors.  And 
next  election  will  show,  as  did  that  four  years  ago, 
that  no  reliance  can  be  placed  on  secret  lodges  on 
election  day  to  leave  their  old  parties  and  vote  for 
Prohibition. 


NO  LODQSRYIN  POLITICS. 


A  Wheaton  Anti-secrecy  League  was  formed  by 
Superintendent  Phillips  on  Monday  week  at  the  W. 
C.  T.  U.  rooms  in  Wlieaton,  111.  Though  in  a  busy 
af  ternoon,the  meeting  was  well  attended, and  speech- 
es were  made  by  Rev.  L.  G.  Jordan  of  Texas,  Prof. 
H.  A.  Fischer  and  other  gentlemen  present.  Prof. 
Fischer  was  appointed  superintendent  of  the  local 
league.  Agents  H.  H.  Hinman,W.  B.  Stoddard  and 
C.  F.  Hawley  were  present  and  took  a  warm  interest 
in  this  send-off  of  a  very  important  movement. 

The  United  States  of  Palestine  under  Jeroboam 
and  the  weak  son  of  Solomon  had  allowed  the  popu- 
lar cattle  worship  of  Egypt,  together  with  other 
forms  of  idolatry,  to  displace  the  religion  of  the 
true  God,  as  the  lodge  worships  and  clumsy  imita- 
tions are  now  driving  Christianity  out  of  the  United 
States.  God's  temple  was  forsaken  and  filled  with 
rubbish  and  filth.  The  oath  meant  nothing  and  so- 
I  ciety  was  dishevelled  and  run  down.     Nobody  know 


what  god  to  worship,  what  oath  to  swear,or  what  to 
do  for  time  or  eternity.  One  young  king  overthrew 
the  false  altars,  restored  the  true  religion  and  reno- 
vated, by  God's  help,  the  entire  nation.  Will  the 
readers  of  this  article  turn  to  2  Chron.  34th  and  read 
the  reign  of  this  young  king,  who  drove  out  the  lit- 
tle devils'  Passovers,  such  as  the  Masons  are  now 
holding  with  their  "Holy  Lamb,"  and  kept  a  nation- 
al Passover  to  Christ,  to  which  he  alone  gave  thirty- 
three  thousand  bullocks  besides  lesser  animals,  and 
his  princes  and  nobles  gave  accordingly;  and  mil- 
lions are  now  in  heaven  as  a  consequence  of  that  re- 
form. The  nation  was  kept  up.  The  Messiah  came 
and  is  moving  toward  the  conquest  of  the  world  I 
This  League  movement  is  designed  to  reproduce  the 
reign  of  Josiah.  Gen.  Fisk  is  opposed  to  the  lodge 
and  John  A.  Brooks  has  quit  it.  This  exempts  us 
from  the  labor  and  expense  of  the  present  federal 
campaign.  Buttlen.  Fisk  and  John  A.  Brooks  do 
not  know,  our  churches  do  not  know,  what  the  lodg- 
es are  and  what  they  are  doing.  Not  one  minister  in 
a  thousand  knows  what  a  Masonic  Passover  and  the 
Knight  Templar  "cup  of  devils"  (1  Cor.  19:21)  are 
— or  even  that  there  are  any  I  Now,  this  American 
Anti-secrecy  League  is  to  show  them. 


THB  POPE'S  ATTACK  ON  TEE  IRISH. 

The  Papal  rescript  produced  an  Irish  tempest 
on  both  sides  of  the  water,  as  violent  as  a  whirl- 
wind and  brief  as  a  squall,  but  it  has  left  an  im- 
portant lesson. 

President  Fitzgerald  of  the  Irish  League  in  Ne- 
braska, sent  a  dispatch  to  the  Dublin  Journal  declar- 
ing that  "Irish- Americans  resent,  as  unwarrantable, 
any  Roman  interference  in  the  political  affairs  of 
Ireland." 

Six  thousand  Irish  assembled  in  Phoinix  Park, 
Dublin,  the  Lord  Mayor  presiding — no  priests  pres- 
ent— and  endorsed  the  manifesto  of  the  forty 
Irish  members  of  the  English  Parliament  de- 
nouncing the  Pope's  rescript.  Dillon  said: 
"The  Irish  will  neither  submit  nor  bow  to  Rome." 
O  Brien  said:  "It  was  heartbreaking  to  think  that 
such  a  rescript  should  be  thrown  in  the  teeth  of  the 
Irish  people.''  Mr.  Healy  twitted  the  Pope  with 
practicing  both  the  "Boycott"  and  "the  Plan  of 
Campaign"  against  the  Sardinians  and  Victor  Em- 
manuel. 

The  bishops  who  defended  the  Pope  and  his  re- 
script were  denounced  by  Dillon  and  other  speak- 
ers, and  the  five  or  six  thousand  Irish  who  assem- 
bled in  the  Chicago  Armory  applauded  to  the  echo 
the  most  pointed  denunciations  of  the  Pope's  re- 
script. The  result  was  the  Pope  ordered  his  bishops 
to  literally  explain  his  rescript  away,  assuring  the 
Irish  people  that  he  never  intended  to  intermeddle  in 
their  struggle  with  the  English  Government,  but  only 
to  give  them  ghostly  and  "spiritual"  advice.  This, 
of  course,  is  a  transparent  dodge.  But  it  proves,  as 
Edmund  Burke  said  in  his  day,  that  "Despotism  is 
compelled  to  truckle  and  huckster"  to  maintain 
itaelr,  when  the  masses  are  aroused.  But  it  loses 
none  of  its  terrible  nature  by  being  compelled  to 
bend.  A  power  claiming  infallibility,  to  be  con- 
sistent, must  claim  absolute  unreasoning  submission. 
This  is  the  claim  of  popery,  enforced  when  it  has 
the  power.  And,  where  power  is'  lacking,  it  is 
sought  by  craft  and  conceded  by  superstition. 

The  writer  conversed  with  a  professor  in  SantaClara 
College,  Cal ,  who  had  been  there  from  the  laying  of 
the  corner-stone,  and  given  it  a  life  of  toil  without 
a  salary.  When  asked,  "What  would  you  do  if 
your  superior  priest  should  command  you  to  leave 
these  beautiful  halls  and  grounds,  and  devote  the 
rest  of  your  days  to  a  squalid  tribe  of  Digger  In- 
dians?" he  replied:  "I  should  instantly  obey." 
Professor  Claudio  Jannet,  of  the  Catholic  Univers- 
ity  of  Paris,  writes  us:  "I  believe  that  God  has  en- 
trusted the  guidance  of  the  faith  and  conscience  of 
the  human  race  to  one  man,  and  qualified  him  by 
his  spirit  for  that  office."  Of  course,  to  refuse 
obedience  to  that  power,  conveyed  down  to  us 
through  the  Pope's  subalterns,  is  sin. 

But  for  this  terrific  ^' faith,"  we  might  hope  some- 
thing from  a  rebuff  like  that  justgiven  to  the  Pope  by 
the  Irish  people.  But  so  long  as  men  manufacture 
religions,  devils  will  inhabit  tnem,  as  Christ  dwells 
in  his  Zion.  And  outside  of  popery,  there  are 
churches  called  Christian  which  have  lately  per- 
mitted Knight  Templars  to  enter  and  perform  their 
sorcery  called  "Eister,"  in  which  Christ  is  used  as 
a  mere  tool  of  religious  incantation.  To  belong  to 
a  "Commandery"  and  become  a  "Sir  Knight,"  one 
needs  not  profess  to  be  a  Christian  or  believe  in  the 
atonement  of  Christ.  This  secret  order,  professing 
no  reform,  veiling  their  proceedings  by  secrecy  in 
contempt  of  Christ  who  forbade  it  by  example  and 
precept;  keeping  a  devil's  passover  in  mockery  of 


JuLT  5, 1888 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSUBE. 


Christ's,  and,  in  mockery  of  his  communion,  drinking 
wine  from  a  human  skull;  and  having  gone  through 
bis  worship  in  darkness  they  come  into  Christ's 
churches  in  the  day  time,  on  the  Sabbath,  and  find 
preachers  who  welcome  them  "in  full  uniform"  and 
with  drawn  swords,  as  soldiers  and  disciples  of  "the 
Prince  of  Peace." 

In  Elgin,  III.,  Rector  I.  Stewart  Smith,  of  "the 
Church  of  the  Redeemer,"  received  the  Bethel 
Commandery,  praised  the  Templar  order  as  the 
work  of  a  monk;  and  their  insane  "oath"  as 
"allegiance  to  Christ,"  and  he  assured  the  people 
that  "if  a  man  is  a  Mason  and  lives  up  to  the  obliga- 
tions of  the  order  he  will  be  a  good  Christian;" 
though  the  Commandery  before  him  furnished  proof 
that  Knight  Templars,  as  such,  do  not  profess  re- 
generation or  celebrate  the  death  of  Christ.  Is 
there  not  virtue,  piety  and  patriotism  enough  in  the 
city  of  Elgin  to  put  Knight  Templary  to  its  proofs, 
to  summon  witnesses  who  have  taken  and  renounced 
its  vile  oaths,  to  tell  them  whether  these  things  are 
so?  In  no  other  way  can  we  and  our  children 
escape  the  sure  destruction,  which  history  shows 
has  followed  religions  invented  by  men,  administered 
by  priests  and  inhabited  by  devils.  See  the  pagan 
nations. 


HOW  STAND  TOUR  CANDIDATBaf 


NOTES     OF   THE   LEAOUE. 


One  object  of  the  American  Anti-secrecy  League 
is  to  question  the  candidates  and  inform  the  voters 
for  whose  support  they  ask  what  may  bo  their  lodge 
relations,  if  there  be  any.  National  and  State  can- 
didates of  every  party  are  being  thus  questioned, 
and  their  replies  will  be  of  interest  to  every  voter, 
no  matter  what  his  convictions  may  be  respecting 
the  lodge. 

We  print  below  from  the  answers  received  from 
some  of  the  national  candidates  already  heard  from, 
concerning  whose  standing  on  this  question  our 
readers  naturally  have  some  anxiety. 

The  candidate  of  the  Prohibition  party  for  Presi- 
dent, as  we  know  from  his  own  lips  and  his  private 
correspondence,  is  not  connected  with  any  secret  or- 
der.    In  his  letter  to  the  League  he  says: 

CLINTON  H.  FI8K. 

"General  Fi&k. . .  .desires  me  to  say  that  you  may  set 
him  down  among  those  who  are  so  busy  tbat  they  have 
no  time  for  anything  but  'open  to  all  work'.  He  has 
relations  to  no  secret  organization  and  has  no  partiality 
for  any  class  unless  it  be  to  the  lowliest  of  the  human 
race."  M.  F.  Park,  Sec'y. 

The  nominee  for  Vice  President  is  not  so  clear  in 
his  position.  He  says  enough,  however,  to  clear 
himself  of  present  active  relations  with  secretism. 
He  writes: 

JOHN  A.  BllOOKS. 

"Years  ago  I  was  a  Mason,  but  have  demitted,  and  am 
not  now  an  affiliated  Mason.  Though  not  now  a  mem- 
ber, I  have  no  prejudice  to  secret  societies." 

"I  was  a  Mason,"  but  am  "not  now  a  member," 
shows  that  he  takes,  so  far,  a  common  sense  and 
not  a  Masonic  view  of  the  case,  and  does  not  cringe 
to  the  lodge  lash,  "Once  a  Mason  always  a  Mason." 
His  answer  is  not  so  frank  and  clear  cut  as  St. 
John's:  "I  have  not  been  in  a  lodge  for  about  six- 
teen years;  I  have  paid  no  dues,  and  am  in  no  man- 
ner connected  with  the  order,  and  never  shall  be 
again."  The  lodge  can  get  no  comfort  from  such  a 
statement.  We  trust  tbat  when  Dr.  Brooks  shall 
have  examined  the  lodge  question  more  carefully, 
we  shall  hear  from  him  an  emphatic  disapproval. 

The  candidate  of  the  Equal  Rights  party  writes 
a  long  letter,  which  is  half  an  evasion  of  the  ques- 
tion of  the  League,  and  half  a  defense  of  the  or- 
ders.    From  the  following  extract  learn  the  whole: 

BKLVA  A.  LOCKWOOI). 

"I  was  born  into  a  secret  society  known  as  'Ihc  fam- 
ily," and  although  I  took  no  oath  to  setvc  them,  nature 
and  morality  constantly  hold  me  to  this  allegiance. 
About  twenty  years  ago,  for  the  purpose  of  rescuing 
young  men  from  haunts  of  vice,  and  the  imminent  dan- 
gers of  the  saloon,  I  joined  Minnehaha  lodge  of  Good 
Templars,  and  have  maintained  that  membership,  at 
least  nominally,  ever  since." 

The  Ifnion  Labor  party  nominated  for  Vice  Pres- 
ident the  editor  of  the  Anti-MonopolUt  of  Council 
Grove,  Kansas,  who  says: 

W.  H.  T.  WAKBPIBLD. 

"I  have  never  belonged  to  any  secret  societies,  except 
Good  Templars  for  a  short  time  when  I  was  quite  young, 
and  the  Grange  for  a  short  period.  However,  I  have  no 
objection  to  them  as  a  matter  of  principle. . .  .1  have  lit- 
tle taste  for  them  myself,  and  am  always  too  busy  to 
give  them  the  time  required. 

It  is  a  satisfaction  that  Mr.  Wakefield,  who  is  en- 
gaged in  a  needed  and  thankless  reform,  has  little 
taste  for  the  secret  orders.    He  could  not  be  a  con- 


sistent anti -monopolist  and  show  them  any  favor, 
for  no  monopoly  is  so  needless  and  despotic  as  the 
lodge. 

Replies -from  other  candidates  will  appear  here- 
after. We  can  promise  the  readers  of  the  Cynoture 
much  gratification  from  them. 


— Bro.  C.  F.  Hawley  returned  to  his  Iowa  work 
last  Friday  evening.  His  presence  was  much  en- 
joyed at  the  N.  C.  A.  annual  meeting.  His  family 
remains  at  Wheaton. 

— Bro.  H.  H.  Ilinman  went  to  Pontiac,Ill.,on  his 
mission  for  the  Southern  work.  He  writes  that  Bro. 
C.  W.  Sterry  promises  $50  in  case  a  district  agency 
is  opened  in  the  South. 

— The  Cynosure  had  the  pleasure  of  forwarding  to 
Bro.  Countee  of  Memphis  on  Monday  .$10  from  M. 
L.  Worcester  of  Kingston,  111.,  and  $3  from  Mrs.  S. 
H.  Nutting  of  Wheaton. 

— The  Missionary  Visitor,  a  live  little  monthly  is- 
sued by  Bro.  Hicks,  Baptist  pastor  at  Toulon,  111., 
publishes  a  portrait  of  Prof.  Woodsmall  and  an  in 
teresting  review  of  his  life  and  work. 

— A  postal  card  from  Secretary  Stoddard  tells  of 
an  increase  in  the  interest  and  numbers  attending 
the  meetings  in  the  N.  C.  A.  building  at  Washing- 
ton. The  train  on  which  he  expected  to  leave  Chi-, 
cago  ran  into  a  freight  train  killing  the  engineer 
and  shaking  up  the  passengers  badly.  He  was  prov- 
identially delayed  here  until  a  later  train. 

— Rev.  W.  W.  Ames,  long  of  Menomonie,  Wis., 
attended  commencement  at  Wheaton,  and  listened 
with  gratification  and  a  father's  pride  to  the  gradu- 
ation address  of  his  son.  He  was  not  present  at 
the  N.  C.  A.  annual  meeting  through  a  misunder- 
standing. He  called  on  us  Monday  and  announces 
his  engagement  with  a  church  at  Berlin,  Wis. 

— Four  Wheaton  students  have  been  engaged  for 
their  summer  vacation  to  travel  in  Illinois  and  Indi- 
ana as  colporteurs  and  canvassers..  They  are  J. 
W.  Fifield,  L.  H.  Park,  F.  L.  Johnston  and  Knos 
W.  Shaw.  The  two  first  named  are  engaged  by  the 
Executive  Committee  of  the  Illinois  State  Associa- 
tion. Thej  have  been  out  a  week,  and  send  back 
interesting  reports.  The  others  go  to  Indiana  where 
little  has  been  done  for  years  to  arouse  an  interest 
against  the  lodge.  L<?t  the  prayers  of  Caristian 
people  follow  these  young  brethren. 


NBW  ENGLAND  LETTER. 


James  Freeman  Clarke— Margaret  Fuller — A  Conserva- 
tive Town — Boston  Common  and  the  City  Govern- 
ment—Graduating Day  at   Wellesley. 

The  death  of  James  Freeman  Clarke  has  removed 
the  most  noted  light  of  the  Unitarian  pulpit  in  New 
England  since  Channing.  He  was  a  man  of  large 
and  practical  sympathies,  interpenetrated  through 
and  through  with  scholarly  tastes  and  a  profound 
culture.  He  made  mistakes,  notably  in  the  last 
Presidential  contest,  when  instead  of  giving  his  in- 
fluence to  the  man  who  represented  a  pure  party  and 
righteous  principles,  he  cast  it  all  on  the  side  of 
Cleveland,  who  surely  could  not  be  said,  politically 
or  personally,  to  represent  either  one.  But  to  err 
is  human;  and  a  great  preacher,  especially  when  he 
ventures  into  the  arena  of  politics,  may  show  him- 
self not  less  but  more  human  than  other  men. 

He  was  a  poet,  though  not  a  prolific  versifier;  and 
in  anti-slavery  times  he  stood  where  Whittier,  Long- 
fellow, Lowell,  and  all  the  poets  of  New  Eng- 
land stood— on  the  side  of  the  slave;  apropos  to 
which  comes  in  a  story  which  he  tells  himself,  in 
"Anti-slavery  Days,"  of  a  talk  in  1830  between  his 
grand-father,  James  Freeman,  and  Josiah  (^uincy. 
'The  latter  was  convinced  that  John  Qulncy  Adams 
had  made  a  mistake  in  going  to  Congress,  arguing 
that  a  man  who  had  been  President  had  ac- 
(luired  an  influence  which  he  ought  to  reserve  for 
use  on  some  great  occasion,  and  not  have  it  frittered 
away  by  debates  in  Congress.  Whatever  influence 
a  President  may  possess  while  in  the  White  House 
he  generally  becomes  a  hopeless  nonentity  as  soon 
as  he  retires  to  the  shades  of  private  life;  a  key  to 
which  singular  fact  may  perhaps  be  found  in  Mr. 
Freeman's  answer,  who  heard  his  old  friend  through 
and  then  (|uietly  remarked:  "I  always  thought  the 
best  way  to  keep  one's  influence  was  to  lue  it."  The 
executive  chair  is  too  much  regardeil  in  the  light  of 
a  goal,  which  once  reached,  leaves  no  more  worlds  to 
coE(iuer.  But  John  Quincy  Adams  was  one  of  the 
very  few  ex- Presidents  who  would  not  allow  their 
abilities  to  rust  out.  And  this  is  really  the  only 
talisman  to  insure  the  continuence  of  power  over 
other  men's  minds.  When  I  sec  a  minister  afraid 
to  oppose  this  or  that  evil  for  "fear  of  losing  his 


influence,"  I  long  to  tell  him  to  wrap  it  up  in  pink 
cotton.  The  fact  is,  that  a  man  or  woman  devoted 
to  the  cause  of  God  and  humanity  never  stops  to 
think  whether  they  are  losing  or  gaining  influence. 

Many  of  Dr.  Clarke's  published  thoughts  have 
the  clear  ring  of  silver  which  has  been  tried  in  a  re- 
form crucible,  as  for  instance  the  following:  "He 
who  believes  is  stiong.  He  who  doubts  is  weak. 
Strong  convictions  precede  great  actions.  The  man 
strongly  possessed  of  an  idea  is  the  master  of  all 
who  are  uncertain  and  wavering."  He  was  the 
friend  of  Margaret  Fuller,  the  Madame  de  iStael  of 
New  England,  whose  life  seems  an  exotic  in  its  pas- 
sionate reaching  out  after  truth  and  beauty;  and 
like  an  exotic,  has  left  only  its  fragrance  behind  it. 
I  have  been  lately  reading  her  Life  and  Letters,  and 
among  other  fresh  and  profound  thoughts  I  came 
across  this:  "No  institution  can  be  good  which 
docs  not  tend  to  improve  the  individual."  An  ad- 
mirable touch-stone  by  which  to  test  the  lodge  that 
many  a  sorrowful  wife  and  mother  will  not  be  slow 
to  apply. 

Margaret  Fuller  had  the  good  or  ill  fortune  to  be 
almost  a  lone  star,  where  now  whole  constellations 
of  women,  learned,  eloquent,  witty  and  deep  think- 
ing, can  gather  at  a  Temperance  or  Woman  Suffrage 
Convention  and  excite  no  surprise.  Miss  Tobey, 
our  indefatigable  State  Superintendent,  has  scored 
another  victory  in  the  conservative  little  mountain 
town  of  Peru.  The  village  church,  built  on  the 
highest  point,  and  over  eighty  years  old,  might 
have  been  recommended  before  her  coming  as  a 
good  place  for  the  next  Methodist  Conference  to 
hold  its  sessions,  in  as  no  woman  had  ever  spoken 
from  its  pulpit.  The  minister  might  well  say  that 
who  ever  could  move  the  inertia  of  Peru  was  a 
mighty  person;  but  move  it  she  did,  and  to  such 
good  cflfect  as  to  organize  there  a  flourishing  union 
of  18  members.  Slowly  yet  surely  the  barriers  of 
predjudice  are  everywhere  giving  way,  and  while 
Europe  is  stirred  up  to  its  farthest  boundaries  over 
the  "I  and  my  army"  proclamation  of  the  new  Ger- 
man Emperor,  bloodless  battles  are  being  fought  by 
a  far  more  potent  army  than  his;  one  which  marches 
with  the  dove  of  peace  on  its  banners,  but  whose 
steady  ever  onward  progress  will  revolutionize  the 
world  socially  and  politically  by  the  time  another 
century  dawns. 

Boston's  Irish  Catholic  government  has  given 
that  city  a  very  unsavory  reputation  throughout  the 
country,  and  if  Christian  patriots  refuse  to  be  roused 
to  an  adequate  sense  of  danger,  the  outrage  to 
liberty  committed  in  the  imprisoning  of  Wm.  F. 
Davis,  is  only  a  foretaste  of  what  is  in  store  for  up. 
His  trial  proved  that  our  courts  of  law  are  manipu- 
lated and  controlled  by  Jesuits,  Masons  and  rum- 
sellers,  and  when  justice  is  poisoned  at  the  fountain 
head  the  outlook  is  ominous.  "If  these  things  are 
done  in  a  green  tree,"  when  our  nation  has  hardly 
passed  the  first  century  of  its  existence,  "what  shall 
be  done  in  the  dry?"  One  of  the  reasons  given  for 
prohibiting  preaching  on  the  Common  was  that  the 
crowd  would  be  likely  to  trample  on  the  grass  and 
otherwise  disfigure  it.  Yet  base  ball  is  allowed  on 
the  Common,  to  the  annoyance,  if  not  the  serious 
danger  of  women  and  children  who  may  be  walking 
across  it,  and  the  way  in  which  the  grounds  are 
kept,  or  rather  not  kept,  are  made  the  subject  of 
much  complaint  in  the  daily  papers. 

Wellesley  College  held  its  graduating  exercises 
on  the  19th,  with  "the  silver-tongued  orator  of  the 
South,"  Hon.W.  C.  P.  Breckenbridge,  as  the  speaker 
of  the  occasion.  He  of  course  made  a  fine  address, 
full  of  helpful  thoughts.  This  ago,  he  said,  was 
pre-eminently  heroic.  Men  were  daily  facing  death 
for  love  of  Goti  and  man,  and  he  who  did  not  en- 
ter the  search  for  truth  inspired  by  this  motive- 
power  of  love  to  humanity  was  out  of  sympathy 
with  their  spirit.  This  acknowledgment  of  the 
fatherhood  of  God  and  the  brotherhood  of  man  he 
defined  as  politics  in  the  truest  and  best  sense  of 
the  wonl.  As  woman  has  always  l)ccn  first  in  all 
philanthropic  work,  such  a  definition  allows  her  to 
enter  the  dreadful  realm  of  politics,  and  yet  remain 
in  a  sphere  which  even  the  most  c*onscrvative  are 
ready  to  acknowledge  as  peculiarly  her's. 

Miss  Helen  Shafor,  the  new  president,  fills  her 
resiKJnsible  iX)sition,  not  only  most  worthily  but 
most  gracefully.  She  has  a  fine  face,  attractive  and 
intellectual,  and  winning  manners.  There  were  75 
graduates  in  all,  counting  those  who  have  taken 
special  and  post-graduate  courses,  so  that  Wellesley 
this  year  sends  out  a  larger  quota  of  students  than 
ever  before  to  bless  the  world  with  the  sweet  in- 
fluences of  a  cultured  Christian  womanhooil,  to 
whom  every  field  of  education,  philanthropy  and  re- 
form lies  open.  God  give  them  the  courage  and 
the  faith  to  grasp  to  the  full  their  grand  opportunity. 

K.  X.  r. 


10 


THE  CHEISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


July  5, 1888 


The  H0M£. 


TBB  8UMMSR  SABBATH. 


How  sweet  the  summer  Sabbath, 
When  all  Is  calm  and  bright, 

And  in  the  gentle  quiet 
We  see  the  Lord  our  Light ! 

Brighter  than  noonday  radiance 
He  shines  within  the  soul; 

The  broken  heart  beholds  Him, 
And  once  again  is  whole. 

What  rest  comes  to  the  weary, 
What  comfort  to  the  sad  I 

Forgetting  all  his  troubles, 
Tie  Christian  soul  is  glad. 

Light  beams  from  God  in  heaven, 

The  shadows  flee  away, 
Peace  to  the  heart  is  given 

Upon  th  6  perfect  day. 

Oh,  what  must  be  the  Sabbith 
lu  that  fair  summer  land 

Where  Jesus  leads  his  people, 
A  ho'y,  happy  band ! 

Beside  the  living  fountains 
And  in  the  pastures  green. 

Where  never  flits  a  shadow 
Across  the  tranquil  scene  I 

Roll  on,  O  Time,  thy  chariot, 
Let  days  and  bights  succeed, 

We  will  not  mind  the  darkness. 
The  toll  we  will  not  heed. 

The  bleseed  consummation, 
The  Sabbath  without  end. 

For  all  the  tribulation 
Will  more  than  make  amend. 


—  L>r.  Sirykir, 


THE  HBVItl^TEBJi  TEAR  LOUOdTS. 


The  following  from  the  pen  of  Mr.  Roswell  Dow 
waa  first  published  in  the  Sycamore  paper  in  1871, 
seventeen  years  ago,  and  we  reproduce  it  because  it 
will  bo  read  with  equal  interest  at  this  time,  as  it 
will  be  again  when  the  Cicada  comes  in  1905.  We 
propose  to  print  it  again  then: 

Our  woods  are  now  ringing  with  the  music  of 
these  insects  and  curiosity  is  alive  to  know  some- 
thing of  their  natural  history.  The  true  locusts  are 
voracious  and  destructive  insects,  with  ample  pow- 
ers of  flight  to  enable  them  to  migrate  from  one 
part  of  the  country  to  another  for  a  more  fresh  re- 
past in  their  course  of  devastation.  The  Bible  tells 
of  their  ravages.  Our  grasshoppers  belong  to  the 
same  order  of  insects  that  the  true  locusts  do. 

The  superstitious  dread  with  which  many  people 
regard  the  appearance  of  the  seventeen  year  Cica- 
da— the  true  name— is  caused  mostly  by  our  giving 
them  the  name  of  locust,which  belongs  to  an  entire- 
ly distinct  order  of  insects. 

The  writer  of  this  well  recollects  the  appearance 
of  the  Cicada  in  1854,  and  recollects  also  of  then 
talking  with  those  who  saw  them  here  in  1837  and 
learning  the  habits  of  the  insect  from  them.  True 
to  the  predictions,  the  same  insect  is  here  again  in 
1871.  Their  home  for  the  seventeen  years  has  been 
in  the  ground  where  they  feed  on  the  roots  of  plants 
and  trees.  Ten  years  ago  they  were  about  fifteen 
inches  below  the  surface  and  were  then  a  whitish 
grub  about  one  inch  in  length.  Every  year  since 
they  have  been  found  a  little  nearer  the  surface  and 
of  a  darker  color.  They  now  crawl  from  the  ground 
and  up  some  shrub,  tree,  or  fence;  the  skin  of  the 
back  splits  open,  which  is  the  opening  of  their  wing 
cases,  and  it  is  now  the  perfect  insect  with  four  per- 
fect wings.  It  is  entirely  without  masticatory  or  eat- 
ing organs,  and  of  course  can  eat  nothing  for  the 
little  while  that  it  stays  with  us  above  the  ground. 
The  female  Cicada  selects  the  end  twig  of  a  tree, 
makes  a  slit  lengthwise  in  the  bark,in  which  she  de- 
posits a  row  of  eggs  and  her  life  work  is  ended.  The 
lar\a3  from  those  eggs,  when  batched,  fall  to  the 
ground,  where  they  bury  themselves  for  their  day 
of  seventeen  years,  and  the  people  of  1888  —look  at 
those  8b — will  be  curious,  as  we  are,  to  know  from 
whence  they  came  and  whither  they  go.  The  with- 
ering of  the  twig  in  which  the  eggs  are  laid  is  the 
only  disaster  that  attends  their  appearance. 

The  frame  work  of  their  wings  has  a  resemblance 
to  the  letter  W,  which  the  superstitious  used  to 
think  stood  for  war,  and  regarded  their  appearance 
as  a  prediction  of  war.  The  prediction  has  gener- 
ally been  true,  just  as  we  always  have  some  kind  of 
weather  after  the  moon  changes. 

The  Cicada  do  not  all  appear  in  every  part  of  the 
country  the  same  year,  in  one  section  east  of  the 
Alleghenies  in  Pennsylvania  they  appeared  in  1834, 
1851  and  1868.  In  another  section  west  of  Laurel 
Hill  they  appeared  in  1849  and  136G,  while  in  the 


region  between  they  have  never  been  seen.  Their 
period  of  open-air  existence  is  about  forty-two  days. 
Reports  about  the  sting  of  locusts  killing  people  are 
always  rife  during  Cicada  season,  but  scientific  men 
have  often  followed  up  those  reports  and  always 
found  them  without  any  reliable  authority.  A  fatal 
effect  from  the  sting  of  any  large  insect  at  such 
times  would  naturally  be  charged  to  the  misnamed 
locusts,  for  it  is  the  misnaming  of  this  insect  in  the 
United  States  that  causes  the  fear  of  them.  Thus 
there's  something  in  a  name.  The  male  Cicada  is 
the  only  musician  with  them,  the  female  being  per- 
fectly 8ilent,much  unlike  human  folks.  Their  noise 
is  not  made  in  the  throat  but  by  a  little  violin 
which  they  carry  on  their  backs  under  their  wings. 
It  consists  of  two  whitish  membranes,  ridged  like  a 
shell  stretched  over  a  cavity,one  on  each  side  of  the 
body.  This  music  is  their  love  song  by  which  the 
male  calls  its  mate.  As  I  write  the  woods  are  alive 
with  one  continuous  sound  of  this  world  of  Cicada 
love,  as  gaily  their  troubadours  strike  their  guitars, 
singing, 

Up  from  the  dark  ground 

Hither  I  come ; 
Lady  love,  lady  love, 

Welcome  me  home. 

— Sycamore  {III.)  City  Weekly. 


AVOID   FOOLISH   QUESTIONS. 
Titus  3:  9. 


Our  days  are  few,  and  are  far  better  spent  in  do- 
ing good  than  in  dispnting  over  matters  which  are 
at  best  of  minor  importance.  The  old  schoolmen 
did  a  world  of  mischief  by  their  incessant  discuss- 
ion of  subjfcts  of  no  practical  importance;  and  our 
churches  suffer  much  from  petty  wars  over  abstruse 
points  and  unimportant  questions.  After  everything 
has  been  said  that  can  be  said,  neither  party  is  any 
the  wiser,  and,  therefore,  the  discussion  no  more 
promotes  knowledge  than  love,  and  it  is  foolish  to 
sow  in  so  barren  a  field. 

Questions  upon  points  wherein  Scripture  is  si- 
lent, upon  mysteries  which  belong  to  &od  alone, 
upon  prophecies  of  doubtful  interpretation,  and 
upon  mere  modes  of  observing  ceremouials,  are  all 
foolish,  and  wise  men  avoid  them.  Our  business  is 
neither  to  ask  nor  answer  foolish  questions,  but  to 
avoid  them  altogether.  And  if  we  observe  the  apos- 
tle's precept  (Titus  3:  18),  to  be  "careful  to  main- 
tain good  works,"  we  shall  find  ourselves  far  too 
much  occupied  with  profitable  business  to  take  much 
interest  in  unworthy  contentions  and  needless  striv- 
ings. 

There  are,  however,  some  questions  which  are  the 
reverse  of  foolish,  which  we  must  not  avoid,  but 
fairly  and  honestly  meet;  such  as  these: 

"Do  I  believe  in  the  Lord  Jesus  Christ?  Am  I 
renewed  in  the  spirit  of  my  mind?  Am  I  walking 
after  the  flesh  or  after  the  Spirit?  Am  I  growing 
in  grace?  Does  my  conversation  adorn  the  doc- 
trine of  God  my  Saviour?  Am  I  looking  for  the 
coming  of  the  Lord,  and  watching  as  a  servant  does 
for  his  master?  What  more  can  I  do  for  Jesus? 
Such  inquiries  as  these  urgently  demand  our  atten- 
tion; and  if  we  have  been  at  all  given  to  caviling, 
let  us  now  turn  our  critical  abilities  to  a  service  so 
much  more  profitable.  Let  us  be  peacemakers,  and 
endeavor  to  lead  others,  both  by  our  prayer  and 
example,  to  "avoid  foolish  questions."  "Study 
those  things  which  make  for  peace." — 0.  H.  Spur- 
geon. 

CHRISTIANITY  AND   BEAUTY. 


When  Hiram  Munger  was  once  giving  a  somewhat 
unfaithful  Christian  a  pretty  thorough  scoring, 
among  other  things  he  said: 

"You  are  ugly,  and  cross  and  homely!" 

"But  I'm  not  to  blame  for  being  homely, "pleaded 
the  victim. 

"Yes  you  are;"  said  he,  "you  look  well  enough 
when  you've  got  the  grace  of  God  in  your  heart." 

Solomon  said,  "A  man's  wisdom  maketh  his  face 
to  shine."  And  we  know  that  that  beautifying  and 
illuminating  wisdom  has  "the  fear  of  the  Lord"  as 
its  "beginning." 

On  the  contrary  sin,  anger,  vice  and  ignorance,rob 
the  face  of  its  beauty,and  cover  the  fairebt  counten- 
ance with  ugliness  and  shame.  Many  a  man  wears 
the  record  of  his  sins  upon  his  forehead. 

Speaking  of  the  Qospel  among  Indian  tribes.  Miss 
Carpenter  declares  that  the  effects  of  Christianity 
were  visible  not  only  in  the  habits  of  some  of  the 
Indian  tribes,  but  in  their  very  faces. 

A  writer  in  the  liniei  makes  some  remarks  on 
some  photographs  of  the  races  of  India,publiBbed  by 
the  government: 

"A  few  plates  at  the  end  of  the  volume  are  de- 


voted to  Malays,  Burmese,  and  Karens.  Of  the  last 
there  is  one  group,  a  family  of  Karens, who  have  be- 
come converts  of  Christianity,  who  in  their  intelli- 
gent faces,  neat  dress,and  generally  orderly  appear- 
ance, present  a  marked  contrast  to  those  of  their 
kinsfolk  who  are  still  either  Buddhists  or  Pagans. 
Were  it  not  that  photographs  are  necessarily  faith- 
ful, the  change  would  seem  almost  too  great  to  be 
entirely  credited." 

There  is  nothing  imredible  in  this  to  those  who 
believe  that  man  was  made  in  the  image  of  his 
Maker,  and  defaced  by  sin  and  transgression,  and 
who  know  what  it  is  to  be  created  anew  in  Christ 
Jesus. 

The  countenance  of  the  converted  man  or  woman 
is  a  faithful  index  of  the  divine  power  that  works 
within.  And  while  fops  and  flirts  are  busied  with 
their  paints,  and  jewels,  and  tricks  of  adornment, 
true  Christians, whose  hearts  are  filled  with  the  peace 
of  God,  have  no  need  of  these  outward  attractions; 
they  look  well  enough  without  them;  and  their  best 
adorning  is  that"ornament  of  a  meek  and  quiet  spir- 
it, which  is  in  the  sight  of  God  of  great  price." — Ar- 
mory. 

OOD  EXALTS   THE  HUMBLE. 


The  conversion  of  the  Iberians,  a  race  bordering 
on  the  Caucasus,  presents  a  notable  illustration  of 
this  missionary  agency,  and  brings  to  light  a  hum- 
ble but  successful  laborer.  Bufinus  heard  the  story 
of  the  cross  from  the  lips  of  an  Iberian  chieftain, 
and  Moses  of  Chorene  preserves  the  name  of  Nunia 
as  that  of  the  Christian  female  who  was  the  instru- 
ment in  the  work.  She  had  been  carried  off  as  a 
captive  and  had  been  made  a  slave.  Her  devotional 
life  attracted  attention  and  won  respect  from  those 
around  her;  and  so -it  happened  that  when,  after  the 
custom  of  the  tribe,  a  sick  child  had  been  conveyed 
from  house  to  house,  in  hope  that  some  one  might 
prescribe  a  cure,  it  was  brought  at  length  to  the 
Christian  woman;  who  said  she  knew  of  no  remedy, 
but  that  Christ,  her  God,  could  help,  even  where  hu- 
man help  was  unavailing.  She  prayed  for  the  child 
and  it  recovered.  The  queen  fell  sick;  the  fame  of 
the  cure  reached  her  ears  and  she  sent  for  the  Chris- 
tian slave.  Not  wishing  to  be  considered  a  worker 
of  miracles  Nunia  declined  the  call.  The  queen 
was  conveyed  to  her.  The  captive  prayed  and  the 
queen  recovered.  On  hearing  the  circumstances, 
the  king  was  about  to  send  a  present;  but  his  wife 
informed  him  that  the  Christian  woman  despised 
all  earthly  goods,  and  that  what  she  looked  forward 
to  as  her  reward  was  that  the  people  would  join  her 
in  worshiping  the  true  God.  It  made  little  impres- 
sion on  him  at  the  time,  but  afterwards,  in  an  hour 
of  peril,  he  recalled  the  story,  and  addressed  a  vow 
to  the  God  of  the  Christians,  to  the  effect  that  if  he 
delivered  him  he  would  devote  himself  to  his  serv- 
ice. The  vow  he  kept,  placing  himself  under  Nunia's 
teaching;  afterwards,  in  conjunction  with  his  queen, 
instructing  his  own  subjects,  and  finally  obtaining 
teachers  for  the  full  establishment  of  Christianity 
in  his  land. — From  Heroes  of  the  Mission  Field. 


WAGES  AND  VICE. 


The  Morning  Star  reprints  from  the  Sabbath  Re- 
corder a  two  column  article  to  prove  that  thousands 
of  industrious  women  are  driven  to  vice  and 
crime  because  they  cannot  live  honestly  on  the 
wages  paid  for  work.  The  article,  of  course,  ap- 
plies only  to  large  cities.  The  remedies  suggested 
are  education  for  women,  moral  teaching  for  men, 
higher  wages  and  less  finery.  These  suggestions  are 
all  good,  but  too  superficial  and  entirely  inadequate. 
So  long  as  women  irresistibly  choose  the  gaity, 
whirl  and  excitement  of  the  city  to  the  monotony  of 
country  life;  so  long  as  they  love  the  mill,  the  shop 
and  the  store,  and  hate  to  cook,  sweep,  and  wash 
dishes,  just  so  long  women's  wages  will  be  low  in 
the  city  and  men  in  the  country  will  have  to  do 
housework,  or  abandon  their  farms  and  follow  the 
women  into  the  cities  and  villages,  which  now  is  the 
general  tendency  all  over  New  England.  It  is  nearly 
impossible  to  secure  women's  help  for  housework  in 
the  country.  In  case  of  sickness  or  death  the  dif- 
ficulty of  securing  capable  help  is  very  painful.  It 
is  not  a  question  of  hard  work  and  low  wages,  but  of 
dislike  to  the  kind  of  life.  Girls  prefer  the  city, 
with  its  fun  and  a  dollar  or  two  a  week  and  starve 
themselves  in  the  corner  of  a  crowded  housetop, 
rather  than  endure  the  monotony  of  being  a  queen 
in  a  quiet  country  home,  with  three  or  four  dollars 
a  week  and  as  good  board  as  they  are  able  to  pre- 
pare with  unlimited  resources.  No  man  or  woman 
in  America  need  starve  or  steal  or  sin  if  willing  to 
work.  But  if  two-thirds  of  the  women  insist  on 
living  in  the  city  at  needlework   and  clerking,  and 


July  5, 1888 


THE  CHEISTIAN  GYNOSUK& 


11 


the  same  proportion  of  the  men  will  do  nothing  un- 
less run  a  street  car  or  make  shoes,  there  will  be 
wailing  among  the  women  and  strikes  among  the 
men.  The  grand  old  Bible  says  to  men,  "Till  the 
ground;"  and  to  women,  "Guide  the  house."  Obe- 
dience to  God  would  fill  the  land  with  peace  and 
plenty. —  Christian  Witness. 


A  OH  APT  BR    ON  AGOlDBNTa. 

Very  early  in  life  the  duty  of  acting  instead  of 
screaming  in  cases  of  pressing  emergency  should  be 
instilled  into  the  minds  of  the  young.  Presence  of 
mind  in  cases  requiring  instant  attention  is  a  virtue 
rarely  cultivated,  notwithstanding  all  that  has  been 
said  and  written  on  its  importance. 

A  few  years  ago, 'in  a  school  I  attended,  a  young 
girl  fainted  and  fell  to  the  floor.  In  a  moment  the 
teacher  had  raised  her  to  a  sitting  posture,  and  the 
frightened  children  crowded  around  her  wringing 
their  hands  and  crying.  In  the  midst  of  the  con- 
fusion a  young  miss  of  a  dozen  years  came  to  the 
rescue  by  stretching  the  unconscious  girl  flat  on  her 
back.  In  a  quiet,  firm  voice  she  said,  "Mary  has 
only  fainted,  and  you  must  stand  back  and  give  her 
air."  Instantly  the  circle  that  had  formed  about 
her  widened,  the  windows  were  thrown  open,  and 
the  young  commander,  in  a  quick,  calm  manner, 
proceeded  to  remove  all  the  compression  about  the 
chest  of  her  patient.  Applying  ammonia  to  the 
nostrils  of  the  prostrate  girl,  she  waited  patiently  for 
signs  of  returning  animation,  and  soon  we  had  the 
satisfaction  of  knowing  Mary  was  quite  herself  again. 
"Who  taught  you  to  act  so  promptly,  Sarah?"  in- 
quired the  teacher  when  her  alarm  had  subsided. 

"Long  ago  my  little  brother  fell  from  the  landing 
at  the  top  of  the  stairs  to  the  hall  below,  striking 
his  head  upon  the  banister  in  the  descent.  Think- 
ing him  dead,  the  nurse  picked  him  up  and  began 
tossing  him  about.  Mother  took  him  from  her  arms 
and  laid  him  upon  the  floor,  setting  the  door  wide 
open  to  give  him  air.  Soon  he  began  to  breathe  reg- 
ularly, and  then  mother  told  us  that  when  people 
fainted  or  were  knocked  senseless  by  blows  about 
the  head,  they  should  be  laid  upon  their  hacks  with 
their  heads  a  little  lower  than  their  bodies." 

As  fainting  is  caused  by  the  failure  of  the  heart 
to  supply  the  brain  with  blood,  no  one  need  be  at  a 
loss  to  understand  the  advantage  gained  by  the  pros- 
trate position;  yet  in  spite  of  this  fact  people  still 
continue  to  pile  pillows  under  the  heads  of  their 
fainting  friends,  while  the  child  who  has  received  a 
blow  on  the  head  is  jolted  about  roughly,  or  carried 
in  an  upright  posture,  as  if  blood  could  run  up  hill 
more  easily  than  down. 

A  little  girl  of  eight,  who  had  been  trained  what 
to  do  in  case  of  fire,  was  so  unfortunate  as  to  drop 
a  match  on  her  cotton  apron.  Almost  immediately 
ihe  blaze  flashed  up  in  her  face.  Without  a  cry 
or  pause  she  threw  herself  face  downward  on  the 
carpet,  clapped  her  bands  over  her  mouth  and  nose, 
closed  her  eyes,  and  rolled  over  and  over  on  the 
thick,  woolen  rug.  Hearing  the  unusual  noise  the 
father  hurried  upstairs  in  time  to  put  out  the  smol- 
dering fire.  The  child's  apron  was  in  ashes,  the 
front  of  her  dress  badly  scorched,  but  beyond  a  few 
slight  burns  on  her  hands  the  brave  girl  was  un- 
injured. 

When  questioned  about  her  conduct,  she  said, 
"Mamma  has  told  me  over  and  over  to  lie  down  on 
the  blaze  and  stop  my  mouth,  so  as  not  to  swallow 
the  smoke,  should  I  catch  fire.  I  knew  I  would  be 
burned  up  if  I  started  to  run." 

Last  winter  a  party  of  school  boys  were  skating 
on  the  Muskingum  river.  The  ice  was  supposed  to 
be  perfectly  safe,  until  its  treachery  was  revealed 
by  the  sudden  disappearance  of  one  of  the  lads. 
Fortunately  he  grasped  the  edge  of  the  solid  ice 
and  managed  to  keep  himself  from  being  drawn  un- 
derneath by  the  current,  which  at  that  place  was 
unusually  swift.  His  comrades  became  panic-strick- 
en, and  ran  hither  and  thither,  unable  to  render  him 
the  least  assistance.  Luckily  a  farmer's  lad  passing 
by  witnessed  the  accident,  and  hurried  to  the  rescue 
by  dragging  a  couple  of  hoop  poles  in  reach  of  the 
drowning  boy. 

"Grasp  each  of  them  firmly,  and  crawl  out  if  you 
can,"  ho  said  coolly,  as  he  crawled  along  cautiously 
in  the  direction  of  the  thin  ice. 

The  freezing  boy  obeyed,  and  with  the  help  of  the 
new- comer  soon  reached  the  shore. 

"How  did  you  happen  to  think  of  the  hoop-poles, 
Frank?"  asked  one  of  the  frightened  boys,  when  the 
danger  was  over.  "I  never  think  of  anything  in 
the  right  time." 

"You  must  learn  to  think,  and  to  act,  too,"  said 
Frank,  impatiently.  "What  good  would  the  poles 
have  done  after  Charlie  had  been  drawn  beneath  the 
ice?" 


A  few  weeks  ago  this  same  Frank  saved  the  life 
of  a  man  who  chanced  in  some  way  to  sever  an  ar- 
tery. Tying  his  handkerchief  tightly  between  the 
wound  and  the  heart,  he  procured  a  stout  stick,  and, 
placing  it  under  the  bandage,  twisted  it  firmly  until 
the  arterial  flow  was  checked.  His  capability  con- 
sists, not  in  knowing  more  than  other  boys  of  his 
age,  but  in  keeping  his  wits  about  him  and  acting 
promptly  as  sudden  danger  demands. —  Christian  at 
Work. 


SPOILED  FRUIT. 


"The  fruit  of  the  Spirit  is  love,  joy,  peace,  long- 
suffering,  gentleness,  goodness,  faith,  meekness,  tem- 
perance."—Gal.  5:22,23. 

The  little  fox  "selfishness"  will  spoil  the  fruit 
"love." 

The  little  fox  "discontent"  will  spoil  the  fruit 
"joy." 

The  little  fox"anxious  thought"wilI  spoil  the  fruit 
"peace." 

The  little  fox  "impatience"  will  spoil  the  fruit 
"long-suffering." 

The  little  fox  "a  bitter  word"  will  spoil  the  fruit 
"gentleness." 

The  little  fox"indolence"will  spoil  the  f  ruit"good- 
ness." 

The  little  fox  "doubt"  will  spoil  the  fruit  "faith." 

The  little  fox  "pride"  will  spoil  the  fruit  "meek- 
ness." 

The  little  fox"love  of  pleasure"will  spoil  the  fruit 
"temperance." — ISel. 


THE  BRIGHT  811)3. 


There  Is  many  a  rest  In  the  road  of  life 

If  we  would  only  stop  to  take  It, 
And  many  a  tone  from  the  better  land 

If  the  querulous  heart  would  wake  It. 
To  the  sunny  soul  that  Is  full  of  hope, 

And  whose  beautiful  trust  ne'er  faileth, 
The  grass  is  green  and  the  flowers  are  bright, 

Though  the  wintry  storm  prevjlleth. 

Better  to  hope  though  the  clouds  hang  low, 

And  to  keep  the  eyes  still  lifted. 
For  the  sweet  blue  sky  will  soon  peep  through, 

When  the  ominous  clouds  are  rifted. 
There  was  never  a  night  without  a  day, 

Or  an  evening  without  a  morning ; 
And  the  darkest  hour,  as  the  proverb  Eoes, 

Is  the  one  before  the  dawning. 

There  is  many  a  gem  in  the  road  of  life 

Which  we  pass  In  our  idle  pleasure. 
That  is  richer  far  than  the  jeweled  crown, 

Or  the  miser's  hoarded  treasure. 
It  may  be  the  love  of  a  little  child, 

Or  a  mother's  prayers  to  heaven, 
Or  only  a  beggar's  grateful  thanks 

For  a  cup  of  water  given. 

Better  to  weave  in  the  web  of  life 

A  bright  and  golden  fllllng, 
And  to  do  God's  will  with  a  cheerful  heart, 

And  hands  that  are  swift  and  willing. 
Than  to  snap  the  delicate,  slender  threads 

Of  our  curious  lives  asunder, 
And  then  blame  heaven  for  the  tangled  ends, 

And  sit  and  grieve  and  wonder. 

—M.  A.  Kidder. 


Temperance. 


RUM  ON  THB  CONGO. 


I  can  rarely  visit  Washington,  but  whenever  I  do 
so,  I  feel  more  and  more  convinced  that  it  is  the 
most  fascinating  city  on  this  continent.  The  old 
rambling,  shambling  and  shabby  town,  through 
whose  streets  the  pigs  used  to  promenade  forty  years 
ago,  has  given  place  to  a  city  worthy  of  being  the 
capital  of  the  richest  nation  on  the  globe.  No  fac- 
tory coal  smoke  blackens  its  bright  houses,  and  no 
heavy  carts  of  commerce  crush  to  pieces  its  beauti- 
fully smooth  streets.  Nearly  half  of  its  population 
are  connected  with  governmental  institutions,  politi- 
cal, scientific,  or  literary;  a  large  fraction  of  the  oth- 
er half  go  there  for  sight-seeing  or  social  enjoyment. 

My  chief  errand  to  Washington  was  to  present  a 
memorial  from  the  National  Temperance  Society  to 
the  "Committee  on  Foreign  Affairs"  of  the  United 
States  Senate,  in  behalf  of  rum-cursed  Africa.  When 
the  Berlin  Conference  shaped  the  future  of  the  vast 
"Free  State  of  the  Congo"  three  years  ago,  they  pro- 
hibited the  slave  trade.  But  they  left  a  worse  scourge 
unchecked.  The  Hon.  Mr.  Kasson,  who  represent- 
ed the  United  States,  Sir  Edward  Malet,  who  repre- 
sented Great  Britain,  with  Count  de  Launay,  of  Ita- 
ly, and  Count  Van  der  Straten  of  Belgium  strove 
hard  to  have  a  clause  prohibiting  the  sale  of  intoxi- 
cants to  the  native  tribes.     The  German  and  Dutch 


commissioners  fought  it  out,  and  Germany  has  sent 
stven  millions  of  gallons  of  "fire  water"  into  that 
doomed  region  in  a  single  year!  Holland  has  sent 
over  one  million!  And  out  of  the  port  of  Boston, 
between  June,  1885,  and  June,  1886,  there  was 
shipped  733,000  gallons  of  death-dealing  New  Eng- 
land rum  into  the  Congo  country !  The  Negroes  are 
becoming  crazed  not  only  with  the  drink  but  for  it. 
Many  of  them  refuse  to  take  in  exchange  for  palm 
oil,  ivory,and  other  products, any  manufactured  fab- 
rics, and  clamor  for  strong  drink!  Two  results  fol- 
low: the  natives  sre  being  bestialized  with  alcohol, 
and  all  hope  of  opening  a  valuable  market  for  our 
goods  is  being  destroyed.  The  chief  "Christian" 
powers  of  the  world  are  becoming  the  colossal  grog- 
sellers  to  poor,  imbruted  Africa,  and  are  destroying 
one  hundred  times  as  many  as  Christian  missions 
are  saving.  A  powerful  influence  is  being  brought 
to  bear  on  the  English  Government  to  prohibit  the 
liquor-traflQc  in  Africa  by  British  subjects.  The  me- 
morial I  took  to  Washington  besought  our  Govern- 
ment to  adopt  e  ffective  measures  to  suppress  this 
destructive  traffic  by  American  citizens. 

The  Senate  Committee  is  composed  of  such  dis- 
tinguished statesmen  as  Senators  John  Sherman, 
George  F.  Edmunds,  William  M.  Evarts,  Mr.  Mor- 
gan of  Alabama,  Mr.  Frye  of  Maine,  and  Mr.  Sauh- 
bury  of  Delaware.  I  found  them  assembled  in  their 
elegant  committee-room, and  the  tall,  courtly  senator 
from  Ohio  gave  me  a  cordial  welcome  to  his  com- 
mittee. They  listened  with  deep  attention  to  the 
startling  facts  in  regard  to  this  atrocious  outraore  of 
civilization  upon  defenseless  barbarism,  and  to  our 
appeal  that  America  should  take  the  initiative  in 
suppressing  this  diabolical  traffic.  Mr.  W.  T.  Hor- 
naday  of  the  Smithsonian  Institution,  the  author 
of  the  powerful  pamphlet  "Free  Itum  on  the  Congo," 
accompanied  me,  and  made  a  very  effective  appeal 
to  the  committee.  Congress  seldom  moves — espec- 
ially on  a  moral  question — any  faster  than  it  is 
pushed.  A  vigorous  push  should  be  made  by  every 
constituency  upon  its  representative, by  petition  and 
by  correspondence.  No  time  is  to  be  lost.  One 
year  now  in  the  history  of  Africa  is  worth  a  century 
in  its  degraded  past.  If  Christendom  is  going  to 
supplant  Paganism  with  whisky  barrels,  then  Africa 
had  better  been  left  in  heathenish  seclusion.  At 
any  rate,  let  our  Kepublic  wash  its  hands  of  any 
further  participation  in  this  wholesale  crime  against 
a  whole  race  of  immortal  beings. —  Theodore  L.  Cuy- 
ler  in  New  York  Evangelist. 

^  m  ^ 

WHO   BURNS D  COLUMBIA' 


"The  drunkards  of  both  armies  had  a  hand  in  it," 
writes  Col.  D.  W.  Wood,  the  attorney  for  the  mar- 
tyred Haddock,  in  a  letter  to  the  Voice. 

"I  was  among  the  first  to  enter  that  Mecca  of  Se- 
cession. I  was  on  the  State  House  grounds,  and 
saw  the  first  flag  of  Confederate  fame  brought  down 
and  the  Stars  and  Stripes  put  in  its  place.  The  Con- 
federate soldiers  set  fire  to  the  co'.ton  bales  that 
barricaded  the  streets,  as  breast-works  against  Fed- 
eral assaults.  Many  Confederate  soldiers  were 
found  drunk.  The  liquor  stores  had  been  raided, 
and  many  were  too  full  for  utterance  or  duty.  The 
Yankees,  many  of  them,  possessed  a  desire  for 
Southern  liquors,  and  broke  ranks  by  the  hundreds 
to  visit  the  saloons.  The  drunken  soldiers  possessed 
no  regard  for  property,  and  loved  to  set  buildings 
on  fire.  Whisky  was  the  cause  of  Columbia  being 
burned." 


THB  RBMBDY  FOR  DR  U^KSNNBSS  NOT  PUN 
ISHMBNT. 


"I  doubt  very  much  if  a  confirmed  drunkard  was 
ever  reformed  by  punishment,"  says  Dr.  L.  W.  Ba- 
ker, superintendent  of  the  Family  Home  for  Nervous 
Invalids  at  Baldwinsville,  Mass.,  in  an  article  on 
the  medico-legal  treatment  of  drunkards.  Tne  doc- 
tor cites  the  following  facts  in  proof: 

At  the  International  Prison  Congress  in  1871  it 
was  stated  that  not  one  in  a  thousand  persons  com- 
mitted to  jail  for  inebriety  ever  recovered.  Before 
a  committee  of  the  House  of  Lords  in  England  men 
of  the  largest  experience  testified  that  they  had 
never  heard  of  a  case  of  reformation  of  inebriates 
from  punishment  by  fines  and  imprisonment.  This 
testimony  is  confirmed  by  prison  authorities  all  over 
the  country.  In  the  vast  majority  of  cases  the  first 
sentence  is  speedily  followed  by  others.  In  187H 
Massachusetts  punished  by  fine  and  imprisonment 
over  17,000  inebriates,  more  than  IG.OOO  of  whom 
had  been  in  prison  before.  Of  the  56,000  inebri- 
ates coming  under  legal  notice  in  New  York  in  1852, 
less  than  1,000  were  punished  for  the  first  time. 
All  others  hud  been  sentenced  before  for  the  same 
cause.     One  man  has  been  sentenced  to  Deer  Island, 


12 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


July  5, 1888 


near  Boston,  seventy-five  times  for  drunkenness, 
and  many  cases  have  been  known  of  men  who  have 
been  sent  to  jails  and  workhouses  from  twenty  to 
two  hundred  times  for  the  same  reason. 


Bible  Lesson. 


8TUDIKS  IN  THl  OLD  TBBTAMBNT. 

LEB80N  ^^^..^ZZXd  Quarter.-  July  15. 

SUBJKCT.-God's  Presence  Promised.— Ex.  33: 12-23. 

GOLDEN  TEXT.— Lo,  I  am  with  you  alway,  even  unto  the 
end  of  the  world.— Matt.  28 :  20. 

I  Oveti  the  SibU  arid  read  the  Uston.  ] 

COMMENTS  ON  THE  LESSON  BY  E.  E.  FLAGG. 

1 ,  Moses'  First  Petition.  Vs.  12-17.  Moses  had  the 
humility  of  a  truly  great  leader.  He  felt  his  own  weak- 
ness and  insuiSciency  for  the  herculean  task  set  before 
him.  Here  was  a  vast,  untrained,  undisciplined  horde; — 
rebellious,  childish,  cowardly  of  heart,  slavish  of  spirit, 
ready  at  the  slightest  difBculty  or  danger  to  turn  back  to 
Egypt.  And  he  was  to  lead  them  to  the  promised  land, 
with  no  longer  the  pillar  of  cloud  and  fire  to  go  before 
them,  no  longer  that  immediate  guiding  presence  of  Je- 
hovah under  which  the  Red  Sea  had  been  crossed,  and 
water  given  them  from  the  rock,  and  manna  rained  down 
in  the  desert.  No  wonder  his  heart  sank  within  him. 
No  wonder  at  the  earnestness  of  his  supplication,  "If  thy 
presence  go  not  with  me,  carry  us  not  up  hence."  We 
see  here  what  true  love  of  country  is.  Put  beside  this 
grand  figure  of  Moses  pleading  for  his  rebellious  coun- 
trymen, refusing  to  take  even  the  greatest  dignity  and 
honor  himself  it  built  on  their  ruin,  the  miserable  dema- 
gogism  which  has  flattering  words  and  honeyed  speeches 
in  plenty  for  the  dear  people,  but  cares  nothing  for  them 
except  to  rise  by  their  votes  to  places  of  emolument  and 
power.  We  are  now  approaching  another  Presidential 
election,  and  we  shall  in  all  probability  hear  again  the 
old  party  cry,  "Of  two  evils  choose  the  least."  Prohibi- 
tionists will  be  told  if  they  vote  for  the  man  of  irre- 
proachable record  and  unstained  private  life,  that  they 
are  giving  their  votes  to  the  rum  party  and  setting  back 
the  cause  of  Prohibition.  Granted  that  this  is  so,  granted 
that  they  will  at  last  gain  their  object  by  sacrificing  their 
principles,  will  QoA'a  presence  go  with  them?  and  if  not 
should  we  not  pray  with  Moses,  "Carry  us  not  up  hence"? 
Better  put  back  the  cause  of  Prohibition  a  thousand 
years  than  to  take  the  terrible  risk  of  going  forward 
without  our  divine  Leader.  Anti-secret  Prohibitionists 
are  beset  by  another  problem.  Shall  they  give  their 
votes  for  those  who  have  an  affiliation  with  secret  orders? 
Such  nominees  may  be  honest  men,  irreproachable  in 
public  and  private  life,  but  this  fact  makes  the  danger  of 
voting  for  them  in  one  sense  all  the  greater,  for  the  lodge 
can  use  them  unconsciously  to  themselves  for  its  own 
purpose.  Jehovah  admits  no  rival.  He  cannot  consist- 
ently give  the  support  of  his  Presence  to  a  party  in  whose 
councils  the  spirit  of  the  lodge  is  always  pulling  invisi- 
ble wires,  and  whose  leaders  bow  in  secret  to  the  stand- 
ard of  another  god.  Patriotism  may  not  be  religion,  but 
it  is  a  very  near  neighbor  to  it.  The  greatest  patriots 
have  been,  almost  without  exception,  men  of  intense  re- 
ligious fervor,  and  on  Christian  voters  keeping  these 
twin  flames  alive  on  our  altars  and  our  hearthstones  de- 
pends the  future  of  America. 

2.  Moses'  J?eeond  Petition.  Vs.  8-23.  Moses'  first 
prayer  had  been  graciously  granted.  Now  with  holy 
boldness  he  pleads  to  look  with  his  mortal  eyes  on  God. 
As  he  leads  the  people  on  their  long  wilderness  journey 
to  the  promised  land,  with  what  courage  would  it  inspire 
him  to  have  photographed  on  bis  mind's  eye  such  a  vis- 
ion of  that  glorious  Presence  going  before  them!  So  far 
as  was  possible  even  this  request  is  granted.  No  scene 
in  Scripture  puts  the  gracious  condescension  of  God  in  a 
stronger  light.  "I  will  make  all  my  goodness  pass  be- 
fore thee."  It  is  the  goodness  of  the  Lord,  it  is  his  char- 
acter, his  attributes  which  constitute  his  true  glory.  But 
what  was  to  Moses  a  miraculous  manifestation  may  be 
to  us  who  live  in  the  light  of  the  Gospel  day  a  common 
experience.  Only  to  see  this  vision  we  must  take  our 
stand  on  the  Rock.  Outside  of  Christ,  divorced  from  a 
living  faith  in  him,  no  revelation  is  to  be  trusted.  Men 
arc  duped  by  spiritual  mediums  because  their  feet  are  on 
the  shifting  sands  of  unbelief.  For  the  same  reason  they 
seek  salvation  in  the  lodge.  Its  religion  suits.  They  do 
not  know  what  it  is  to  feel  a  "firm  foundation"  beneath 
them.  But  the  humblest  believer  who  can  sing,  "Rock 
of  ages  cleft  for  me,"  can  witness  a  more  glorious  vision 
than  Moses  saw,  even  the  goodness  of  God  in  the  face  of 
Jesus  Christ. 


RELIGIOUS  News. 


THE  CHRISTIAN  MISSIONARY  ASSOCIATION 
OF  EBNTUCET. 


The  reader  will  ask,  why  another  organization? 
We  answer,  that  while  the  religious  denominations, 
and  the  missionary  societies  that  represent  them, 
seek  to  convert  men  to  Christ,  they  make  a  distinc- 
tion between  denominational  and  Christian  fellow- 
ship by  appending  doctrines,  polities  and  charac- 
teristics not  essential  to  Christian  life  and  charac- 
ter. Such  a  distinction  is  manifestly  unwarranted 
by  the  Word  of  God.is  contrary  to  the  command  of 
the  Apostle,  "that  there  be  no  schism  in  the  body" 
(2  Cor.  12:  25)  and  the  prayer  of  our  Saviour  "that 
they  all  may  be  one"  (John  17:  21 )  Such 
denominational  divisions  beget  weakness  and  tempt 
men  for  the  sake  of  numbers  to  receive  to  their  fel- 
lowship persons  living  in  un-Cbristlike  practices, 
such  as  connection  with  the  Secret  Lodge  System, 
the  use,  manufacture  and  sale  of  intoxicating  drinks 
and  the  spirit  and  practice  of  caste  in  the  house- 
hold of  Faith.  Because  so  many  Christians  have 
been  "carnal  and  walk  as  men,"  they  have  sepa- 
rated those  whom  God  hath  joined  together,  and 
divided  the  Body  wherein  "there  is  neither  Greek 
nor  Jew,  circumcision  nor  uncircumcision,  Barba- 
rian, Scvthian,  bond  nor  free,  but  Christ  is  all  and 
in  all." " 

There  are  in  Kentucky  and  other  States,  churches 
that  now  are,  and  for  years  have  been,  separate 
from  these  denominational  organizations  and  un- 
Christlike  practices.  They  there  need  aid  in 
pastoral  support  and  in  their  efforts  to  extend  the 
Gospel.  They  propose  no  separation  from  the 
whole  family  of  Christ,  nor  even  an  association 
with  each  other  as  a  distinctive  body.  They  find 
no  warrant  for  a  separate  association  of  churches  in 
the  Word  of  God,  and  believe  that  such  separate 
associations  tend  only  to  a  forbidden  schism  in  the 
Body  of  our  Lord. 

The  Christian  Missionary  Association,  which 
asks  your  aid,  is  made  up  not  of  churches,  as  such, 
but  of  individuals  who  have  been  regularly  incor- 
porated by  the  Legislature  of  Kentucky.  This 
Association  at  their  regular  meetings  will  hear  re- 
ports, audit  accounts,  vote  appropriations,  appoint 
missionaries,  and  an  executive  board  to  aid  in  its 
objects,  who  also  may  send  out  laborers  and  who 
shall  supervise  the  work  of  evangelization. 

This  Association  seeks  the  unification  of  all  be- 
lievers in  Christ,  and  their  united  opposition  to  all 
known  iniquity.  We  aim  to  conserve  the  material 
and  moral  resources  of  the  church  by  bringing  to- 
gether, as  far  as  practicable,  all  Christians  in  any 
given  locality,  on  the  basis  of  a  common  unity  in 
Christ.  Whilst  we  shall  give  aid  to  those  seeking 
the  suppression  of  the  use  and  traffic  in  intoxicat- 
ing drinks  and  in  opposing  all  secret  orders,  we 
shall  especially  seek  to  send  out  and  assist  those 
evangelists  who  shall  preach  Christ  in  all  the  full- 
ness of  his  character,  baptizing  all  thus  converted 
into  his  name,  and  organizing  them  into  undenom- 
inational churches  whose  only  head  is  the  Lord 
Jesus  Christ.  The  present  Executive  Board  is 
located  at  Berea,  Madison  county,  Kentucky,  and 
will  receive  and  disburse  all  funds  as  directed  by 
the  donors. 

J.  G.  FxE,  Pres., 

H.  H.  HiNMAN, 

Alfred  Titus,  Rec.  Sec'y., 
James  Van  Winkle,  Cor.  Sec'y., 
S.  G.  Hanson,  Treas. 


— President  C.  A.  Blanchard  of  Wheaton  College 
began  a  five-days'  Gospel  meeting  at  Huntley,Ill.,on 
Tuesday  last. 

— The  Baptist  churches  in  some  cases  independent- 
ly of  the  missionary  societies  are  supporting  native 
missionaries  in  Armenia.  The  churches  of  central 
Illinois  lately  sent  an  Armenian  to  Yozgat  where 
Bro.  Gregorian  is  laboring. 

— The  late  Reformed  Presbyterian  Synod  meeting 
in  Allegheny  City,  Pa ,  discussecJ  at  length  the  ap- 
pointment of  deaconesses,  and  finally  voted  93  to 
24,  "That  in  our  judgment  the  ordination  of  a  wo- 
man as  deacon  is  in  harmony  with  the  New  Testa- 
ment and  the  constitution  of  the  Apodtolic  church.  ' 

— There  is  an  established  agency  at  Bogota,  the 
capital  of  Colombia,  South  America,for  the  i)urning 
of  Bibles  and  Protestant  books  I 

— In  connection  with  the  withdrawal  of  Mr.  Spur- 
geon  from  the  English  Baptist  Union,on  account  of 
their  fellowship  of  Universalist  teachings,  here  is  a 
startling  fact.  There  are  in  England  2,764  Baptist 
churches  and  1,800  pastors,  of  whom  370  were  edu- 
cated at  Mr.  Spurgeon's  college.    Those  370  report- 


ed a  net  increase  in  their  churches  last  year  of  3,856 
members.  The  other  churches  reported  a  net  de- 
crease of  2,080  members.  It  was  only  the  means 
of  the  Spurgeon  men  therefore  that  there  was  a  net 
gain  of  1,770.  It  was  lately  reported  that  Mr.  Spur- 
geon had  returned  to  the  Union.  This  is  a  mistake. 
Another  man  natned  Spurgeon  (but  not  Charles) 
joined  the  Union. 

— The  late  General  Conference  of  the  Methodist 
Episcopal  church  modified  the  Discipline  so  that 
pastors  can  remain  five  years  in  a  charge,  and  the 
time  of  presiding  elders  is  lengthened  to  six  years. 
It  has  provided  for  the  establishment  of  an  order  of 
"Deaconesses,"  designing  to  bring  into  use,  in  or- 
ganized form,  a  large  amount  of  latent  female  tal- 
ent in  the  church. 

— The  principle  of  self-support  in  Bishop  Taylor's 
missionary  work  was  clearly  endorsed  by  providing 
for  the  appointment  of  a  standing  committee  in  the 
Methodist  Missionary  Board  on  "Self-supporting 
Missions,"  advisory  in  character,  simply  co-operat- 
ing with  the  Bishop,and  leaving  him  free  to  operate, 
as  heretofore,  through  his  Building  and  Transit 
Fund  Society.  Bishop  Taylor  will  spend  the  sum- 
mer in  visiting  churches  and  camp  meetings,  pre- 
senting the  claims  of  his  cause  and  raising  re-en- 
forcements.    A  large  amount  of  money  is  needed. 

— Major  Whittle's  meetings  in  Winona,  Minn., 
have  been  very  successful.  There  have  been  over 
300  converts,  and  among  them  were  several  of  the 
most  prominent  men  of  the  city. 

— Rev.  B.  Fay  Mills  went  from  Chelsea,  Mass.,  to 
Gloversville,  N.  Y.,  to  hold  meetings.  The  mission 
at  Chelsea  has  left  ab'iding  results  in  that  place. 
Over  700  persons  have  united  with  the  various 
churches  who  were  brought  to  decision  at  Mr.  Mill's 
services. 

— Mr.  Charles  Herald  is  conducting  services  in 
Bethesda  Chapel,  N.  Y.  The  mission  is  connected 
with  the  Central  Congregational  church,  of  which 
Dr.  Behrends  is  pastor.  The  attendance  is  of  an 
encouraging  character,  and  much  good  is  being  done. 

— In  1879  the  Red  River  Presbytery  was  organized 
in  the  wilderness  of  the  Northwest,  with  six  minis- 
ters and  ten  churches.  In  the  same  territory  are 
now  four  presbyteries  and  one  synod,  with  forty- 
seven  ministers  and  ninety-eight  churches. 

— The  Baptist  Year  Book,  just  issued,  records  a 
membership  of  2917,315  in  the  31,891  churches. 
During  the  year  158,373  were  added  to  the  member- 
ship, and  608  new  churches  were  established. 

— The  leading  Hebrew  congregation  of  New  York 
have  now  added  a  Sunday  service  to  their  long- 
time Sunday  school;  they  sit  in  pews,  ladies  and 
gentlemen  together,  instead  of  the  women  being 
compelled  to  climb  up  stairs  into  the  "court  of  the 
women;"  the  gentlemen  remove  their  hats  instead 
of  donning  them  as  heretofore.  A  synagogue  in 
Chicago  and  another  in  Philadelphia  also  now  have 
Sunday  services. 

—  Of  the  17,743  Fijians  inhabiting  the  Fiji  Islands, 
more  than  nine-tenths  attend  church  with  fair  regu- 
larity. 

— The  last  report  of  the  various  Protestant  Mis- 
sions in  Japan  is  a  significant  index  of  the  growth 
of  Christianity  in  that  land.  The  total  member- 
ship of  the  221  organized  churches  is  19,828. 

— Rev.  Dr.  A.  T.  Pierson  recently  declared  that 
for  eighteen  years  his  ministry  was  almost  barren 
of  results,  and  in  explanation  says:  "God  said  to 
me,  'If  you  will  give  up  the  idol  of  literary  applause 
and  give  yourself  to  rescuing  the  perishing,  I  will 
give  you  souls.'  I  said,  'I  will  do  it.'  Within  eight- 
een months  God  gave  me  more  souls  than  in  the 
eighteen  years  before." 

— The  Missionary  Training  School  of  Mrs.  W.  B. 
Osborn  is  now  being  conducted  in  West  Philadel- 
phia. It  is  eligibly  situated  at  41st  and  Ogden  Sts,, 
with  ample  and  beautiful  grounds.  It  is  contigu- 
ous to  the  Pennsylvania  University  and  Woman's 
Medical  College,  where  specially  favorable  terms 
are  made  with  students  desiring  a  medical  course. 
Already  Mrs.  O,  has  sent  three  missionaries  to  In- 
dia, two  to  Africa  in  Bishop  Taylor's  work,  and  two 
to  China.  The  Chinese  and  Japanese  languages  are 
to  be  taught  by  native  teachers. 

— The  record  of  the  missionary  life  of  the  late 
Rev.  II.  G.  Wilder,  of  the  Presbyterian  Board  and 
editor  of  the  Missionary  Review,  is  astonishing.  In 
thirty  years  he  has  preached  in  3,000  cities,  scat- 
tered over  3,000,000  pages  of  tracts,  gathered  into 
his  schools  3,300  pupils,  300  of  whom  were  girls. 
Besides  all  this  he  was  one  of  the  Committee  on 
the  translation  of  the  Scriptures.  He  wrote  and 
published  commentaries  on  three  Gospels  and  edited 
and  translated  many  books. 


JuLT  5, 1888 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSIJ2E. 


13 


DONATIONS. 

Cynosure  Ministers'  Fund  to  June  S8: 

George  Clark $  5.0) 

E.  Barnetson 1 .00 

Ja'obW.Cole 1.50 

Harriet  M.  Cole 1 .00 

Charles  P.  Paget .50 

Albert  Ueisler 1.50 

B.  Williams 1.25 

Margaret  Slubbs 1 .00 

Mrs  P.  Troglin .50 

8.  Cole 1.50 

A  friend 2.00 

Before  acknowledged 1,133.40 

Total $1,150.15 

The  number  of  donations  from  each 

State  for  this  fund  are  given  ia  the  list 
below: 

Arkansas 1 

f-alifornia 4 

Connecticut 1 

Canada 1 

Dakota 4 

Florida 1 

Illinois 5f» 

Iowa 17 

Indiana 7 

Idaho 1 

Kansas 6 

Louisiana 1 

Missouri 4 

Minnesota 5 

Massachusetts 6 

Michigan , 14 

Maine 2 

Maryland 1 

Nebraska 6 

New  York 25 

New  Jersey 1 

Ohio 18 

Oregon 1 

Pennsylvania 15 

Rhode  Island 1 

Vermont 4 

Wisconsin 17 

Washington  Territory 8 

Not  known 11 

Total  number  of  contributors  from 
28  Slates  and  Territories 238 

To  N.  G.  A.  Foreign  Fund: 

A  friend  (Wheaton) 1.00 

A  friend  (Wheaton) 2.00 

♦♦^ 

OHIO  STATE   CHRISTIAN  ASSO- 
CIATION. 

LIST  OP  CONTRIBUTIONS  FOR  1887. 

Dec.  19,  K  A.  Orvis $  2.50 

"  W.B.Stoddard 5.00 

"  E.C.Mason 1.00 

"  Isaac  M   Brown 1.00 

"  E  H.  Alden 1.00 

"  C.  M.  Strickler 5.00 

"  Robert  Boyd 2.00 

1888. 

Jan.  6,  John  P.  Robb 1 .00 

"  A.  M    Campbell 3.00 

Jan.  28,  Wm.  L   Hawk 1 .  00 

"  L  D.  Evans 3.00 

"  H.  G.  Wilham 5.00 

Feb.  0,  Jerome  Moody 3 .  00 

Mar.  1,  George  Richey 2.00 

"  Noah  Whipple 1 .  00 

"  L.  Powers 1.00 

"  J.  M.  Scott 5.00 

"  Mrs  A.  Coe 5.00 

"  C.  O  Beatty 3.00 

Mar.  20,  William  Gregg 2.00 

Mar.  27,  John  Watson 1  .(K) 

"  J   P.Ferguson ,50 

"  W.  G.  Waddle 5.00 

May  1,  D.  D   Beal 1  25 

"  Beth  C  Foster 10.00 

June  1,  W.  W.  Johnston 1 .  00 

"  R  W.  Stewart 2.(M) 

"  8.  Carson rti) 

"  Morral  Paterson 2  00 

"  George  Aikin 1 .  00 

"  D.  Alexander. .      75 

"  T.  W.  Stewart 1  00 

"  W.  C.  Hervey 50 

"  James  T.  Stewart    ....  2  00 

"  T.  C.  Speer l.(K) 

"  Miss  S.  J.  Tcmpleton.  . .  2.00 

Total  personal  contributions.  .$  84.00 

CHURCH  COr.LKCTIONS  KOU  1887. 

Dec.  19,  Martindburfi' $        70 

1888. 

Feb.  0,    Liberty 97 

Mar.  1,   Lutheran  (Columbus)  ..     15.83 

Apr.  1,    (?) 4  10 

May  1,    Lutheran  (Hamiltnn)  .         11 .37 
"      Friends  (Jamestown).   .       2.60 

"      U.  P.  (Sycamore) 2.58 

"      Friends  (Harveysburg) .         .93 
"      Friends  (Chester) 88 


"      M.  E  ,  (Bowersville) ...      1 .  02 
June  1,  W.  Mansfield 60 


Total  church  collections $  42 .  18 


Total  receipts $126.18 

C.  W.  HiATT,  Treaa. 


FREE   CYNOSURES. 

The  suggestion  to  Southern  members 
of  the  Cynosure  family  to  send  the  paper 
after  reading  it  to  some  one  who  had  not 
seen  it,  is  bearing  fruit.  Keep  your  pa 
per  circulating.  Send  25  cents  for  two 
months'  subscription  for  your  neighbor. 

THE    N.  C.  A    FUNDS. 

Tlie  General  Fund  is  that  from  which 
the  running  expenses  of  the  Association 
are  paid.  From  it  the  agents  on  the 
field  are  supported. 

TJie  Foreign  Fund  is  that  from  which 
the  foreign  demand  for  literature  against 
the  lodge  is  supplied  to  Missionaries. 

Ihe  Free  'Jract  Fund  clearly  states  by 
its  name  the  object  for  whioii  your  on- 
tributions  are  solicited.  Hundreds  of 
thousands  of  pages  have  been  distributed 
by  means  of  this  fund 

Ihe  Cynosure  Ministers'  Fund.  The 
donations  to  this  fund  have  enabled  the 
Association  to  send  many  copies  of  the 
Cynosure  to  the  ministers  of  the  South, 
especially  to  pastors  of  colored  churches. 

Donations  to  all  these  funds  are  needed. 


SUBSCRIPTION  LETTERS. 


The  following  have  made  remittances 
of  money  to  the  Cynosure  from  June  25 
to  June  30  inclusive: 

P  Lee,  Rev  A  Hannon,  N  Callender. 
n  H  Pinkerton,  A  F  Brockman,  J 
Browne,  B  T  Pettengill,  M  Kelley,  J  B 
L  Smith,  H  F  Dull,  A  F  Smith,  F  I 
Day,  J  P  fienderson,  S  B  French,  J  C 
Ougheltree,  I  Jackson,  P  F  May,  A  H 
Springetein,  W  T  Peters,  G  S  Robinson, 
Mrs  J  M  Byers,  T  B  Galloway,  D  B 
Sherk,  A  Hawkins,  B  Thomas,  Miss  O 
White,  B  Smith,  S  H  Spencer,  I  B  Bene- 
dict, A  Lent,  J  Rasor. 


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ease and  death  instead  of  life  and  vitali- 
ty. As  a  result,  you  have  Headache, 
Scrofula,  Dyspepsia,  Kidney  Disease, 
Liver  Complaint  and  General  Debility. 
An  inactive  Liver  means  poisoned  blood; 
Constipation  means  poisoned  blood ;  Kid- 
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THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


JuLT  5, 1888 


Tarts.  Notes. 

FIGHTING   POULTRY  VEBMIN   IN   SUMMER. 

Frequently  the  moat  diffisult  work  of 
the  poultry  man  is  that  of  ridding  the 
premises  of  vermin.  Most  persons  do 
not  become  aware  of  the  presence  of  ver- 
min until  the  little  red  mites  are  seen  in 
myriads.  These  can  easily  be  destroyed 
by  using  proper  methods.  The  great 
scourge  of  poultry  is  not  the  mites,  but 
the  large  body-louse  that  hides  at  the 
base  of  the  feathers,  on  the  head  and 
neck.  As  they  are  only  found  there  on 
the  fowls,  an  examination  of  the  quarters 
does  not  revesd  them,  when  they  may  be 
busily  at  work  on  the  birds.  When  the 
hens  seem  to  droop  without  apparent 
cause,  the  chances  are  that  a  close  exam- 
ination on  their  heads  and  necks  will 
reveal  swarms  of  theselice.  Little  chicks, 
especially  those  that  feather  very  rapidly, 
such  as  Dorkings,  Games,  and  Leghorns, 
will  soon  succumb  to  the  large  lice,  and 
often  the  cause  will  be  ascribed  to  some- 
thing else. 

To  prevent  lice  on  fowls,  the  best  thing 
is  the  dust-bath,  which  must  consist  of 
fine  dry  clay  or  coal  ashes.  If  the  quar- 
ters are  kept  clean,  the  hens  will  prevent 
the  attacks  of  lice  by  dusting,  but  when 
once  the  lice  put  in  an  appearance,  the 
poultryman  is  compelled  to  take  active 
measures,  as  the  lice  must  be  fought  un- 
til not  a  single  one  remains  Kerosene 
must  not  be  used  on  the  bodies  of  the 
hens,  as  it  will  sometimes  kill  them.  For 
the  large  body  lice,  first  grease  the  heads, 
necks  and  vents  with  a  mixture  made  by 
adding  a  teaspoonful  of  crude  petroleum 
to  every  gill  of  lard.  Use  it  warm,  so  it 
will  spread  well.  Then  dust  the  hens  well 
with  Californian  or  Persian  Insect  Pow- 
der. Repeat  this  every  third  day,  and 
dust  every  portion  of  the  body,  but  do 
not  grease  the  body — only  the  head,  neck 
and  vent. — American  Agriculturist  for 
August. 

ABUSES    OF   LIVE   POULTRY. 

During  the  summer  weeks,  live  poultry 
ufiEer  even  unto  death  from  overcrowd- 
ing and  insufficient  supply  of  water.  In 
winter  these  much-suffering  creatures  die 
from  exposure  to  intense  cold.  These 
being  the  extreme  seasons  of  the  year, 
persons  not  familiar  with  the  horrors  of 
cooped-up  life  would  be  reasonable  in 
supposing  that  at  least  slight  loss  would 
be  experienced  during  spring  and  autumn. 
That  is  the  inference .  Such  is  not  the 
fact.  The  heavy  losses  entailed  by  suf- 
fering from  improper  modes  of  transit 
are  heavy  all  the  year  round,  and  are  in- 
creased under  the  influences  of  extreme 
heat  and  extreme  cold.  In  the  month  of 
October,  for  example,  the  sides  of  the 
great  freight  carrying  railways  leading 
into  New  York  are  strewn  with  the  mor- 
tal remains  of  poultry  that  have  suc- 
cumbed to  harsh  treatment.  Ducks  die 
most  readily  when  subj  ected  to  the  com- 
bined hardships  of  want  of  water  and 
want  of  air;  next  to  these,  chickens  suf- 
fer most;  then  turkeys  and  fowls  and 
geese  in  the  order  named.  To  remedy 
this  evil  is  the  question.  Shippers  evi- 
dently make  so  much  profit  from  their 
investments  that  they  can  afford  the  de- 
pletion of  numbers,  but  can  the  consum- 
ers afford  to  pay  such  prices  as  will  cover 
the  deficit  caused  by  inhumanity  and 
sheer  carelessness?  We  think  not. — 
American  Agriculturist  for  December, 

DISEASE  OF  POULTRY. 

The  frequent  diseases  of  poultry  are 
all  due  to  mismanagement.  Now  stc^ved 
and  then  crammed  with  food;  housed  in 
noisome,  damp,  filthy  sheds,  or  not 
housed  at  all:  confined  in  coops  for  a 
month  on  the  same  spot,  swarming  with 
lice,  deprived  of  water  or  drinking  the 
drainage  of  manure  piles;  fed  with  insuf- 
ficiently nutritious  food,  and  when  con- 
sequently troubled  with  the  various  ail- 
ments known  as  chicken  cholera,  dosed 
with  alum,  copperas,  camphor,  castor 
oil,  oakbark  tea,  sulphur,  cayenne  pep- 
per, patent  pills,  pain  killer,  condition 
powders,  soot,  ashes,  soft  soap,  and  other 
"physic,"  they  lie  down  in  despair  and 
die,  they  are  talked  of  opprobriously  and 
the  farmer  kicks  the  survivors  around  the 
barnyard  or  wrings  their  necks  when  they 
arc  seeking  rests  in  the  haymow  or  in 
the  mangers.  Ala?,  how  many  good  gifts 
of  nature  are  spurned  by  the  impatient 
farmer,  and  the  prolific  useful  hen  which 
pays  more  profit  on  its  cost  and  keep  than 
any  other  property,  is  the  worst  abused 
of  all  A  good  hen,  well  kept,  will  make 
an  income  of  at  least  $2  and  possibly  $6 


per  annum,  and  this  is  often  more  than  a 
farmer  makes  from  an  investment  of  $1,- 
000  in  shares  in  silver  and  gold  mines. — 
N.  Y.  Times. 


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"  I  am  safe  in  saying  that  my  sales  of 
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Iloseland,  111. 

"  We  have  sold  Ayer's  Sarsaparilla 
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16 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSUEE. 


July  6, 1888 


NFWS  OF  The  Week. 


WASHINGTON. 

President  Cleveland  and  Secretaries 
Bayard  and  Vilas  attended  the  commence- 
ment exercises  of  the  University  of  Vir- 
ginia at  Charlottesville  Tuesday,  the 
President  conferring  the  degrees  and 
awarding  the  diplomas.  At  the  banquet 
he  responded  to  the  toast,  "The  Presi- 
dent of  the  United  States." 

General  Sheridan  was  Saturday  re- 
moved from  his  house  in  Washington  to 
the  Government  steamer  that  is  to  con- 
vey him  to  the  Maasachusetts  coast.  The 
steamer  sailed  in  the  afternoon. 

The  report  of  Chairman  Belmont,  of 
the  House  Foreign  Affairs  Committee, 
on  the  bill  to  provide  for  a  World's  Ex- 
position at  the  national  capital  in  1892, 
has  just  been  issued  from  the  govern- 
ment printing  office.  The  committee 
notes  the  desire  of  various  nations  of  the 
American  continent  to  suitably  commem- 
orate the  coming  four  hundredth  anni- 
versary of  the  discovery  of  America  by 
Columbus,  and  thinks  the  United  States 
should  take  the  initiative  in  this  matter. 

COUNTRY. 

A  wreck  occurred  on  the  Pennsylvania 
and  Schuylkill  Valley  railroad  at  Cable 
City,  June  26,  by  which  six  laborers  were 
killed  and  four  fatally  injured. 

While  firing  at  rats  with  a  shot  gun,  at 
his  home  near  Marly,  Tenn.,  Thursday 
evening,  Wendell  Whitcomb  accidentally 
shot  his  two  young  daughters,  killing 
one  instantly,  and  fatally  wounding  the 
other. 

After  a  raid  on  a  moonshiners'  camp 
near  Black  Springs,  Ark.,  Wednesday,  in 
which  three  distilleries  were  destroyed. 
Internal  Revenue  Collector  Fry  and 
posse  were  ambushed  by  armed  moon- 
shiners, and  a  battle  followed,  in  which 
Deputy  United  States  Marshal  Trammel 
was  killed. 

The  scaffolding  of  a  ten-story  building 
at  New  York  collapsed  Thursday,  three 
bricklayers  being  killed  by  the  fall. 

Four  boys,  all  under  12  years,  robbed 
the  house  of  Mrs.  Nelson  at  Tshpeming, 
Mich.,  Wednesday  night,  securing  $70  in 
money,  besides  other  plunder.  They 
were  caught  Thursday,  but  the  money 
had  disappeared. 

Harvard  University  Wednesday  con- 
ferred the  degree  of  Doctor  of  Laws  upon 
Charles  S.  Fairchild,  Secretary  of  the 
Treasury,  and  the  degree  of  Master  of 
Arts  upon  Edward  Burgess,  designer  of 
the  yachts  Volunteer,  Puritan  and  May- 
flower. Yale  conferred  the  degree  of 
Doctf  r  of  Divinity  upon  Piesident  Pat- 
ton,  of  Princeton;  the  degree  of  Doctor 
of  Lhws  upon  United  States  Judge  Stan- 
ley Matthews  and  the  Hon.  William  C. 
Whitney,  Secretary  of  the  Navy,  and  the 
degree  of  Master  of  Arts  upon  Samuel 
L  Clemens  (Mark  Twain),  of  Hartford. 

The  Republican  State  Convention  of 
Vermont,  in  session  Wednesday,  at  Mont- 
pelier,  nominated  a  State  ticket,  with  the 
Hon.  W.  P.  Dillingham  at  its  head  for 
Governor,  and  adopted  a  platform  which 
indorses  that  passed  by  the  Cnicago  con- 
vention, and  also  opposes  the  issuance  of 
railway  passes  to  State  officers. 

The  Prohibition  State  Convention  of 
Michigan  concluded  its  session  at  Detroit 
Wednesday  after  nominating  the  Hon. 
A.  B.  Cheney,  of  Sparta,  for  Governor. 

The  Prohibition  State  Convention  at 
Syracuse,  New  York,  adopted  on  Wednes- 
day its  platform,  and  decided  upon  an 
aggrefsive  campaign.  They  nominated 
a  State  ticket,  selected  electors  for  the 
National  ticket,  and  adjourned.  W. 
Martin  Jones,  of  Rochester,  heads  the 
ticket  for  (Jovernor. 

Ten  thousand  acres  of  growing  corn  in 
Central  Illinois,  near  Tuscola,  were 
flooded  by  the  heavy  rain  of  Wednesday, 
and  part  of  that  city  was  submerged,  fif- 
teen families  being  compelled  to  move. 

A  small  steam  yacht  containing  a  pleas- 
ure party  of  eight,  was  struck  by  a 
steamer  a  mile  north  of  Newburg,  N.  Y., 
Wednesday  evening,  and  two  prominent 
society  ladies  were  drowned.  Three  of 
the  others  were  delirious  when  rescued, 
but  will  recover. 

An  explosion  of  dynamite  occurred  at 
the  New  Park,  Wellsville.  N.  V,,  Wednes- 
day, instantly  killing  two  men  and  se- 
verely injuring  a  third.  The  men  were 
engaged  in  destroying  old  trees  and 
stumps  with  dynamite  cartridges,  one  ex- 


ploding prematurely .  A  picnic  was  in 
progress  in  the  park  at  the  time,  and  it 
is  miraculous  that  none  were  injured. 

FOBBieN. 

The  town  of  Sundsvall,  on  the  gulf  of 
Bothnia,  the  center  of  the  timber  trade 
of  Siveden,  has  been  almost  destroyed  by 
fire.  The  town  of  Umea,  on  the  gulf  of 
Bothnia,  has  also  been  partly  burned. 
The  damage  at  Sundsvall  and  Umea  will 
reach  $5,000,000.  Immense  tracts  of 
forest  land  have  been  burned  over.  A 
drought  has  prevailed  for  a  long  time, 
rendering  the  woods  very  dry.  Tnis 
condition  and  the  prevalence  of  wind- 
storms made  the  flimes  spread  with  great 
rapidity. 

While  service  was  being  held  in  a 
church  at  Brezezie,  Ga  icia,  the  building 
was  struck  by  lightning  and  almost  en 
tirely  destroyed.  Three  persons  were 
killed  and  one  hundred  injured. 

Telegraphic  communication,  which  was 
interrupted  for  several  days  bv  the  fl  )od3, 
was  restored  on  the  26  ih  ult.  and  the  par 
ticulare  of  the  terrible  disaster  on  the  line 
of  the  Mexican  Central  railway,  particu 
larly  at  Leon  and  Silao,  were  obtained. 
During  the  past  ten  days  the  table  lands 
between  the  city  of  Mexitjo  and  Z  icate- 
cas  have  been  visited  by  unprecedented 
rains.  Every  mountain  rivulet  along  the 
Central  railway  for  over  two  hundred 
miles  was  converted  into  a  destructive 
torrent,  and  the  valleys  present  the  ap- 
pearance of  lakes.  Many  cities  and  towns 
have  been  inundated,  and  Leon  and  Silao 
have  been  partially  destroyed. 

A  dispatch  from  El  Paso,  Tex  ,  says 
information  has  been  received  there  from 
the  flooded  district  in  Mexico  that  fifteen 
hundred  lives  were  lost  by  the  inunda- 
tion, and  that  one  thousand  bodies  have 
been  recovered.  Leon  is  a  city  of  100,- 
000  inhabitants,  and  a  large  part  of  it  is 
in  ruins.  The  Mexican  collector  of  cus- 
toms at  Paso  Del  Norte  received  an  offi- 
cial dispatch  stating  that  one  hundred 
miles  of  the  Mexican  Central  railroad  is 
impassable,  and  that  it  will  be  ten  d  iys 
before  malls  can  get  through  and  twenty 
days  before  freight  can  be  moved. 

Nine  government  officials  at  Saoul, 
Corea,  have  been  beheaded  in  the  streets 
by  the  populace.  Foreigners  have  taken 
refuge  at  the  consulates.  The  outbreak 
is  attributed  to  Chinese  instigation. 

At  the  elections  in  Mexico,  Monday, 
Diaz  electors  were  generally  chosen,  and 
members  of  Congress  were  elected  who 
are  favorable  to  the  present  administra- 
tion. 

The  Berlin  correspondent  of  the  St  md- 
ard  telegraphs:  "Enperor  William, 
with  an  imposing  suite,  will  embark  on 
the  imperial  yacht  HohenzoUern  on  July 
1.3  or  14  and  proceed  direct  to  St.  Peters- 
burg, where  he  will  remain  for  several 
days.  During  his  stay,  magnificent  fetes 
will  be  given  in  his  honor.  The  arrange- 
ments for  King  Humbert's  visit  to  Berlin 
will  be  agreed  upon atameetiog  between 
Premier  Crispi  and  Prince  Bismarck. 

No  less  than  thirty-one  open  air  meet- 
ings were  held  Saturday  in  London  and 
throughout  Eogland  to  protest  aga'nst 
the  rigid  manner  in  which  the  coercion 
laws  of  Ireland  are  being  enforced. 

The  property  destroyed  by  the  recent 
fires  in  Sweden,  was  valued  at  45, 000,- 
000  kroner.  Twelve  thousand  persons 
were  rendered  homeless  by  the  flames. 
King  Oscar  is  visiting  the  districts,  and 
is  engaged  in  relieving  the  wants  of  the 
sufferers. 


DON'T    HE    HUMUUUUBO 

with  the  foolish  idea  that  Catarrh  cannot 
be  cured !  The  world  moves,  and  medical 
science  is  progressive.  Tha  proprietors 
of  Dr.  Sage's  Catarrh  Remedy  will  pay 
l.'iOO  reward  for  a  case  of  Nasal  Catarrh, 
no  matter  how  bad  or  of  how  Ion?  stand- 
ing, which  they  cannot  cure,  Rsmedy 
sold  by  druggists,  at  only  .'50  cents. 


WHEATON  COLLEGE, 

"W1I1CA.TON,  ILI^. 

FALL  TERM  0PEN8  TUESDAY,  SEP.  4th. 

Two  College  Courses,  Preparatory  School, 
Kueiness  Courses,  Including  Stenograpby  and 
Ty{>e-wrltlng.  Modern  languages  by  the  Nat- 
ural Method. 

Bend  Htamp  Tor  Vatologae. 

C.  A.  BLANOUARD,  Pru. 


POWDER 

Absolutely  Pure. 

This  powder  never  varies.  A  marvel  of  purity, 
etrengtn  and  wholeaomeness.  More  economical  than 
the  ordinary  kinds,  and  cannot  be  sold  in  competi- 
tion with  the  multitude  ot  low  test,  short  weight, 
alum  or  phosphate  powders.  Sold  onlyln  cans. 
Royal  Baking  Powdke  Co.,  106  Wall-st.,  N.  T 

DAVENPORT  BUSINESS  COLLEGE 

Complete  In  all  departments.  Address  J.  C. 
DUNUAN,  Davenport,  lotva. 

FLY   KILLER 

Butcher's  Is  the  only  reliable,  Powerful  Killer. 
Certain  death.  Quick  work.  Commence  early,  kill 
off  the  young,  prevent  reproduction,  and  enjoy  calm 
repose. 

T7/^T)  C  A  T  "I?  -^T  WHEATON,  NEAR  COL- 
1;  I  /  tVi  OAljCi  lege,  a  good  eight-room,  two- 
story  house,  '^OO-foot  lot,  liarn,  and  one  acre.  Price 
»2,5U0.  Would  take  part  cash  and  part  other  clear 
property.  Address  A.  B.  COX,  caie  Cynosure  Office, 
Chicago,  111. 

17/^ T>  GAIT?  House  and  Lot  In  Wheaton 
I;VJXV  OAIjE/.  111.  Any  one  wishing  to  pur- 
chase should  write  to  W.  I.  PHILLIPS,  office  of 
"Christian  Cynosure,"  Chicago,  111. 

$7OiU0  to  $25UiUU  made  working  for  us 
Agents  preferred  who  can  furnish  a  horse  and  give 
their  whole  time  to  the  business.  Spare  moments 
may  he  profitably  employed  also.  A  few  vacancies  In 
towns  and  cities.  B,  F.  JOHNSON  &  CO.,  1009  Main 
St ,  Richmond,  Va. 


GO  WEST. 


18,000,000  acres  of  the  Mon- 
tana Indian  Reservation  just 
opened  for  settlement  near 
Great  Falls,  Ft.  Benton,  Asslnuiboine  and  Glasgow, 
consisting  of  rich  mineral  and  coal  districts,  grazing 
and  farm  lands  of  the  very  highest  quality.  Tlie  op- 
portunities for  making  money  here  are  greater  llian 
anywhere  else  in  ilie  United  Slates.  Tills  is  the  time 
to  go  and  secure  your  location.  For  rales,  Maps,  or 
other  Information,  Address  C.  H.Warkkn,  Gen.  Pass. 
Agent,  St.  P.,  M.  &  M.  Ky.,  St.  Paul,  Minn. 


IflooTHLY  Sickness. 

<3f  TqKcq  clunggr  G5ai2ge  of  fife   . 
^rccif     claqger  vi?i"il   iae,    a\70*clc3. 


gllCru^^ists. 


>VTIjA.MrrA.  CiA, 


Dr.  Owen's  Portable  Bafiery 

FOR  MAN  AND  WOMAN. 

Contains  10  degrees 
of  stiennlh.  Ciirrerit 
can  be  increased,  de- 
creased, reversed  or 
detached  at  will  and 
appliefi  to  attv  part 
of  body  or  limbs  by 
whole  fainlly.  Cures 
Oeiieriil,  Nerv- 
aiim  uiid  <;iiri>iilc 
Itlxriiaoi.  Is  lit'lit. 
siniplcnrid  superior, 
(iiiaranleed  for  one 
year,  liartcf  lllii>itra«<'«l 
PAMPUI^KT  oeiit  IVi-.-. 
Dr.  <  >wen  «elt  Co.,  101  .State  St.,  Chicago. 


LOW  TOURIST  RATES. 


?  17.50  a  flrst-clnss  round  trip  ticket, 
.1-  IM)  days,  with  stop-over  privileRes,  ran 
lined  from  St.  Paul  to  Great  i-alla,  Mon- 


b,-  . 

tiiiiii  ihe  coming  maniiliK'tiirini.;  centre  of  tlie 
noiili«.-!<t  (1  ■  sriPAUL  m  Oiily^SC.oO 
8..i..i  !'....lU  ri,1'ilfci''«'«  A  ^°  "elena 
anil  r-tnnif^  ANITDB&A  ■'^<">i' nr  re- 
dnr  1  kiiihIT  I  railway  W~%  from  points 
east  mill  BOiilli.  Kiites  correspondingly  as  low 
will  be  iiaineil  to  point!)  in  Miiiiie.iola  and  Da- 
kota, or  upon  Puget  Sound  and  the  Pacific 
Count  Kof  further  particulars  address  H.  E. 
Tupper,  District  Passeiieer  Agent,  282  South 
nark  Street,  Chlcngo,  111.,  or  C.  H.  Waskkm, 
BenaxiU  Passeueer  Agent,  Bt.  Paul,  Minn. 


THE    CEIL.EBIlA.a?ED 

JOHN    F.    STRATTON 


BAND  INSTRUMENTS, 

Snare  and   Bass  Drujns,  Eifes,  Pico 
los.  Clarinets,  Cj-mlial.s  and  all  In 
struxnents pertaining  to  Brasn 
Bands  and  Drum  Corps. 


Send  for  Illustrated  Catalogue. 

♦Jplin  F.  Stratton, 

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]  which  is  the  same  to  the  ears  as  giassea 
I  to  the  eyes.  Worn  formonths  without 
I  removal.  Successful  where  every  other 
I  remedv  has  failed.  A  triumph  of  the 
1 19th  cehtui  y.  For  sale  only  by 
■M.A.  WALES.  Brldgeport.Conn 


MR.  JOHN  T.  BURCH, 

ATTORNEY      AT     LAW 

AND 
PBJNSION"    A.GENT. 

Abstractor  of  Oovernmmit  Land  Titles. 

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WESTEKN  AFRICA. 


BT  J.  AUOVSTTTS  COLE,  OF  SHAIN0A7, 
WEST  AFRICA. 


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that,  "This  volume  will  well  repay  a  care- 
ful reading  not  only  for  Its  discussion  and  ex- 
position 01  these  societies,  but  because  It  gives 
much  valuable  information  respecting  other 
institutions  of  that  great  continent." 

J.  Augustus  Cole,  the  author  of  this  pam- 
phlet Is  a  native  of  Western  Africa,  and  Is  of 
pure  negro  blood.  He  has  given  much  time 
and  care  to  the  Investigation  of  the  secret  so- 
cieties and  heathen  customs  of  Western  Afri- 
ca. He  joined  several  of  the  secret  orders  for 
the  purpose  of  obtaining  full  and  correct  in- 
formation nigarding  their  nature  and  opera- 
tion. His  culture  and  superior  powers  of  dis- 
crimination render  what  he  has  written  most 
complete  and  reliable. 

99  pages,  paper,  postpaid,  25  centi. 

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I.odKK."'  •*'  *  bi-^ef  esoUuftUou  of  each.  Thv 
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Miuntry.  It  in  ko  choap  tbnt  It  can  uo  u^ed  a. 
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I'er  ilKi.  IvI.CO.    Address, 

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Christian  Cynosure. 


"IX  BBORBT  HAVa  1  8 AID  NOTHIIfB."—Jem»  Ohritt. 


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In  Congress  last  week  the  House  was  yet  ham- 
mering away  on  the  tariff  bill,  and  the  Senate  was 
wrestling  with  the  appropriations.  While  the  River 
and  Harbor  bill  was  under  consideration  Senator 
Hoar,  who  has  several  times  of  late  shown  symp- 
toms of  dotage,  made  a  vehement  attack  upon  the 
popular  criticisms  of  the  miserable  bargaining,  log- 
rolling and  theating  for  which  these  appropriations 
have  been  in  the  past  notorious.  He  held  it  was  a 
vile  slander  on  the  representatives  of  the  American 
people  to  say  that  these  river  and  harbor  bills,  to 
any  considerable  extent,  to  any  appreciable  extent, 
to  any  extent  amounting  to  five  per  cent,  contained 
provisions  that  were  not  thoroughly  defensible,  that 
were  not  demanded  by  the  interests  of  international 
or  inter  State  commerce.  Senator  Vest  of  Missouri, 
who  spoke  for  the  Committee  on  Commerce,  who 
had  revised  the  bills,  replied,  "We  have  honestly 
tried  to  do  our  duty;  but  we  have  put  appropria- 
tions in  this  bill  contrary  to  our  own  judgment — 
certainly  against  my  judgment — because  we  have 
been  overwhelmed  by  personal  solicitation." 


A  new  and  astonishing  turn  has  been  taken  in  the 
war  on  the  Burlington  railway  by  the  engineers  and 
firemen  who  left  its  employ  in  a  body  last  February. 
The  oflicers  of  the  road  have  been  obliged  to  pro- 
tect their  new  men,  more  or  less,  during  all  this 
time.  Only  last  week  an  engineer  was  shot  in  his 
cab,  and  severely  wounded.  The  strikers  keep  up 
their  pretense  of  organization  and  receive  aid  from 
their  lodges.  Long  idleness  is  the  devil's  opportu- 
nity. Beside  numerous  personal  assaults,  they 
have  at  five  different  times  used  explosives  with  the 
intent  to  wreck  trains.  Detectives  reported  a  more 
desperate  plot  to  use  dynamite,  which  was  nipped 
before  it  could  be  executed.  Last  Friday  three  ex- 
employes  of  the  road  were  arrested  on  a  train  and 
in  their  possession  was  found  a  quantity  of  dyna- 
mite with  fuse  and  fulminating  caps  such  as  the 
anarchist  Lingg  used  upon  himself.  Correspondence 
was  also  found  which  implicates  Hoge,  the  local 
leader  of  the  strike,  and  others.  Five  men  are  un- 
der arrest;  and  if  the  company  can  make  good  its 
charges,  the  gallows  will   be  their  doe.     If  their 


claim  is  true,  that  the  road  managers  and  detectives 
are  putting  up  a  job  on  them,  and  they  are  innocent 
as  babes,  it  will  be  one  of  the  most  extraordinary 
chapters  in  the  history  of  conspiracies. 


The  national  meetings  of  the  Christian  Endeavor 
societies  and  of  the  Music  Teachers'  Association  in 
Chicago  last  week,  were  gatherings  of  great  interest 
and  importance.  In  the  latter  there  was  an  earnest 
discussion  of  the  church  music  question  which  de- 
serves mention  at  greater  length  than  we  can  afford. 
The  musicians,  though  they  are  not  evangelists, 
have  some  ideas  about  church  music  from  which 
evangelists  might  profit.     The  great  revival  meet- 


GEN.    CLINTON    B.    FISK. 
I  See  8th  page.  | 

ings  are  often  obnoxious  to  a  mercenary  charge,  as 
a  new  hymn  book  is  introduced,  hawked  about  dur- 
ing meeting,  and  advertised  warmly  from  the  stand. 
We  do  not  speak  of  this  practice  to  condemn  it,  but 
only  to  say  that  if  it  be  a  good  one,  it  is  very  liable 
to  be  evil  spoken  of:  and  the  character  both  of 
hymns  and  tunes  is  quite  uniformly  of  the  made- 
to-order  kind,  which  suffers  much  in  comparison 
with  the  books  used  in  most  of  our  churches.  An 
interesting  incident  of  the  musical  gathering  was  a 
singing  test  between  two  classes  from  the  Chicago 
public  schools  one  using  the  English  Tonic  Sol-fa 
method,  the  other  the  ordinary  staff  notation.  The 
former  succeeded  in  the  test  very  fairly,  singing  five 
tunes  composed  for  the  test  by  Dr.  George  F.  Root; 
the  second  class  failed  to  get  past  the  first  number. 


The  Christian  Endeavor  Societies  met  in  Battery 
D,  which  was  for  three  days  thronged  with  thous- 
ands of  earnest  young  people  and  their  pastors,  dis- 
cussing the  various  features  of  church  work  for  the 
younger  and  less  experienced  Christians.  The  sight 
was  doubly  inspiring,  whether  we  regard  the  youth- 
fnl  and  intelligent  appearance  of  the  vast  crowd,  or 
the  great  purpose  for  which  their  organization  is 
formed.  The  first  society  of  this  name  was  formed 
in  February,  1881,  in  the  Williston  Congregational 
church,  Portland,  Me.,  by  Rev.  F.  E.  Clark.  A  re- 
vival had  brought  many  young  people  into  his 
church,  and  in  studying  how  to  engage  their  ener- 
gies in  the  work  of  the  church  he  hit  upon  this  plan 
of  organization.  The  fascination  of  the  club  gives 
the  basis  for  the  organization,  which  has  its  own  offi- 
cers and  committees,  which  may  be  a  prayer-meet- 
ing, a  social,  a  relief,  a  music,  a  missionary,  a  tem- 
perance committee;  and  this  list  is  often  enlarged, 
for  the  scope  of  the  organization  takes  in  the  un- 
converted young  people  of  the  congregation  as  "as- 
sociate" members.  Of  the  active  members  a  pledge 
of  Christian  activity  is  required.  The  organization 
has  been  very  popular,  and  numbers  over  300,000 
scattered  among    several    denominations.     It    has 


proved  also,  in  spite  of  some  imperfections  to  which 
all  human  organizations  are  liable,  a  most  useful 
adjunct  to  the  work  of  the  churches.  Successful 
pastors  in  individual  churches  have  for  many  years 
organized  a  similar  work  for  the  young  Christians 
of  their  flocks,  and  they  may  be  able  to  devise  in 
the  future  some  less  cumbrous  and  expensive  means 
of  carrying  it  on  among  all  the  churches. 

The  Chicago  Convention  of  this  great  organiza- 
tion numbered  over  4,000  delegates  from  twenty- 
three  States  and  700  societies.  The  business  was 
mainly  addresses— <a/A;.  But  there  is  much  work  for 
Christ  to  follow.  No  less  than  forty-three  speakers 
were  down  on  the  three-days'  program.  With  this 
versatility  of  talent.  Christian  work  for  young  peo- 
ple was  discussed  in  all  its  kaleidoscopic  forms,  and 
the  intent  and  eager  spirits  were  inspired  with  a  new 
zeal  and  their  minds  enriched  by  a  multitude  of  new 
experiences.  It  must  be  regretted  that  the  conse- 
cration meetings  were  not  more  prominent  and  more 
intelligently  conducted.  They  were  seasons  of  bless- 
ing, but  might  have  been  doubled  in  spiritual  power. 
The  consecration  is  but  half  the  work,  if  the  sanc- 
tifying grace  of  the  Holy  Spirit  does  not  come  by 
faith  to  seal  the  work,  and  baptize  the  soul  with  a 
holy  power  and  grace  for  Christian  service.  In  this 
respect  the  meeting  came  far  short  of  its  privileges. 
But  there  was  a  great  and  precious  work  done  by 
Dr.  Brooks  of  St.  Louis  in  his  sermon  on  the  Scrip- 
tures as  the  sword  of  the  Spirit  for  the  Christian 
warrior;  by  Dr.  Mitchell  of  New  York  on  the  aid 
which  should  be  given  to  the  church  by  the  Endeav- 
or Society  as  a  missionary  force,  and  by  Dr.  Little 
of  this  city  on  the  Conditions  of  Spiritual  Power 
in  which  he  urged  personal  self-examination  and  con- 
secration as  well  as  the  purifying  of  the  church  of 
Christ. 


DBAD  FLIB8. 


BT   RBV.    R.    N.    COUNTEl. 


"Dead  flies  cause  the  ointment  of  the  apothecary  to  send 
forth  a  stinking  savor;  so  doth  a  little  folly  hlra  that  Is  In  repa- 
tatlon  for  wisdom  and  honor."— Eccleslastes  10 :  1. 

There  are  a  few  people,  at  least,  in  the  world  that 
have  a  little  reputation  for  wisdom  and  honor.  They 
were  not  always  so  reputed,  for  they  were  once  very 
simple;  and,  indeed,  they  were  once  fools.  Some  of 
them  were  a  long  time  finding  it  out,  and  many  of 
them  a  longer  time  before  believing  it.  It  is  a  hard 
thing  for  any  man  to  believe  he  is  a  fool.  I  have 
seen  some  who  were  only  fit  for  the  lunatic  asylum, 
and  yet  they  believed  themselves  sensible,  or  at  least 
pretended  to  be  so. 

I  have  done  some  foolish  things  in  my  life,  things 
that  have  marked  me  as  a  simpleton  in  the  eyes  of 
many;  and  I  have  no  idea  that  I  am  the  only  man 
in  the  world  that  has  played  the  fool.  Men  and 
women  are  always  doing  foolish  things,  and  hate  to 
be  called  by  the  right  name  when  they  do  foolishly. 
But  I  have  asserted  that  some  men  and  women  have 
a  reputation  for  wisdom  and  honor.  These  are  two 
precious  jewels.  Who  would  not  be  wise  and  hon- 
orable? There  are  many  things  for  which  man  may 
have  a  reputation,  but  a  man  can  be  reputed  for  no 
grander  thing  than  wisdom.  Solomon  said,  "In  all 
thy  getting  get  wisdom;  for  wisdom  is  the  principal 
thing."  Wisdom  as  spoken  of  in  the  text  above 
has  only  one  signification  or  interpretation:  it  is  not 
to  be  looked  at  in  a  literal  but  in  a  spiritual  sense. 
The  wisdom  that  Go<l  gives  to  man  through  Jesus 
Christ  is  the  wisdom  of  salvation.  "Makes  wise 
unto  salvation,"  the  Apostle  sajs.  Wise  unto  the 
saving  of  the  soul,  unto  the  joys  of  eternal  life. 

There  are  some  of  my  readers  who  have  this  wis- 
dom. You  were  once  the  children  of  folly,  but  now 
you  are  wise  unto  God:  wise  unto  eternal  life.  Men 
have  regarded  you  as  lieing  a  Christian,  and  God 
has  honored  you  by  causing  your  name  to  be  written 
in  the  Lamb's  Book  of  Life.  From  a  wise  man  I 
exi)ect  wise  actions;  and  from  an  honorable  man  I 
expect  honorable  things.  God  expects  us  to  do 
wisely,  to  act  honorably  and  consistently.  But  I  4 
tell  you  the  judgment  day  will  no  doubt  reveal  the  ^ 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE- 


July  12, 1888 


fact  that  the  inconsistent,  foolish  lives  of  professors 
of  religion  have  done  more  to  damn  the  world  than 
infidelity  has  ever  done.  If  God's  people  would 
only  stand  up,  and  the  church  live  for  God,  heaven 
would  rejoice  and  hell  would  groan.  But  here  we 
have  the  church  frolicking  with  the  world,  attending 
her  picnics  and  balls,  her  circuses  and  her  theaters, 
and  every  species  of  worldliness  is  practiced  by  God's 
people.  Oh,  my  friends,  what  is  your  testimony? 
You  are  living  epistles  who  are  seen  and  read  of 
men;  what  is  your  testimony?  You  said  to  the  world 
the  other  day,  there  is  not  joy  enough  in  religion 
for  me.  Some  of  you  cannot  stand  sound  doctrine. 
You  want  to  be  left  alone  with  your  picnic  and  cir- 
cus and  theater-going,  hypocritical  profession.  But 
you  say,  God  does  not  say  I  shall  not  attend  a  pic- 
nic, or  a  circds,  or  theater.  Surely  you  do  not  want 
God  to  tell  you  everything.  "Be  not  conformed  to 
this  world."     "Love  not  the  world;"  etc. 

Nearly  two-thirds  of  the  Christian  world  have 
joined  the  General  Admiration  Society,  and  they  are 
living  to  have  the  glory  of  men  and  the  praise  of 
this  world.  This  whole  world  is  an  enemy  to  God, 
and  what  becomes  of  your  reputed  wisdom  and  hon- 
or? You  still  love  the  world,  and  hence  you  seek 
the  applause  of  this  world,  because,  says  Jesus,  "the 
love  of  the  Father  is  not  Id  you." 

A  dead  fly  is  of  no  importance  whatever,  so  at 
least  we  argue;  yet  one  dead  fly  ruins  gallons  of  oil, 
jars  of  preserves,  and  sometimes  a  whole  dinner. 
God  designs  to  show  us  what  little  things  can  injure 
our  reputation  for  wisdom  and  honor. 

Who  can  estimate  the  harm  the  half-saved  pro- 
fessors of  religion  are  doing,  not  only  to  themselves, 
but  to  the  whole  cause  of  Christ?  I  say  half-saved. 
They  claim  to  be  wholly  saved,  but  their  conduct 
and  their  companions  show  they  are  only  half-saved. 
You  need  not  try  to  make  me  believe  that  any  man 
or  woman  is  wholly  saved  who  goes  to  a  gambling 
or  a  dance  hall  for  pleasure  or  enjoyment.  You 
need  not  tell  me  that  any  man  or  woman  is  wholly 
saved  who  would  go  to  a  whisky  or  beer  mill  or  sa- 
loon and  stay  all  night.  One  Achan  brought  weak- 
ness and  defeat  to  all  Israel.  And  as  dead  branch- 
es injure  a  vine  and  dead  flies  cause  the  ointment  to 
stink,  so  these  dead  professors  are  an  injury  to  the 
cause  of  God  and  his  Christ. 

God  has  called  us  to  sanctification.  Separate 
yourselves.  "Ye  are  the  light  of  the  world."  You 
do  not  need  any  more  light  than  such  as  Christ 
gives.  If  you  love  God  and  the  love  of  God  is 
shed  abroad  in  your'  heart,  you  will  keep  his  com- 
mandments. 

"Be  not  unequally  yoked  with  unbelievers."  Ye 
are  a  separated  people.  Are  you  saved,  my  friends, 
wholly  saved?  Are  you  saved  from  the  lodge  and 
its  infamy  and  sin?  Are  you  saved  from  the  secret 
lodge  and  its  crime-breeding  record?  Oh,  to  be 
saved,  saved,  wholly  saved!  Your  association  with 
the  world,  your  lodge  record,  marks  you  as  a  dead 
fly  in  the  church  of  God.  Your  reputation  is  ruined 
and  your  wisdom  has  become  foolishness. 

Memphis. 

*  »  » 

CHOOBB  TS  WniGH  PARTY  YB  WILL  SBRVB. 


BY  GEORGE  W.  CLABK. 


And  now  again  the  two  great  political  parties  of 
the  country  have  vied  with  each  other  in  their  un- 
principled and  base  subserviency  to  "the  world,  the 
flesh  and  the  devil-(ish)"  liquor  power!  What,  there- 
fore, remains  for  professedly  Christian  men,  profes- 
sedly good  men,  honest  men,  lovers  of  their  country 
and  its  cherished  institutions,  to  do,  but  as  "saith 
the  Lord"  to  "come  out  from  among  them  and  be  ye 
separate!" 

After  all  these  years  of  waiting  and  hoping  and 
appealing  and  praying,  and  after  the  blood  of  the 
millions  slain  by  the  accursed  liquor  business  has 
been  so  long  crying  to  them  from  the  ground,  and 
the  bitter  anguish  and  scalding  tears  of  the  crushed 
and  broken-hearted  wives,  mothers  and  sisters  is 
borne  to  them  from  every  part  of  the  country;  and 
after  all  the  testimony  that  has  come  to  them  of  the 
indescribable  miseries  and  ghastly  murders  caused 
directly  by  the  grogshops,  these  parties  appear  with 
deaf  ears  and  dumb  mouths.  They  can  spend  hours 
and  days  in  blowing  off  political  party  stuff  and  yet 
never  a  word  or  an  allusion  to  the  most  important 
and  vital  of  all  the  issues  before  the  country. 

Kven  the  party  of  boasted  "moral  ideas"  and 
which  claims  to  have  "done  so  much  for  temper- 
ance," has  not  a  syllable,  not  even  a  hint,  as  to 
what  they  will  do  or  what  ought  to  be  done  with  the 
great  crime  and  misery-breeding  liquor  traffic!  Nor 
has  it  any  acknowledgment  of  the  All-wise  Creator 
and  Lawgiver  ot  the  nations  in  its  platform.  And 
it  is  just  as  dumb  on  the  claims  of  woman  to  her 


rights,  as  it  is  on  the  claims  of  the  homes  of  the 
people  for  protection  against  the  hellish  saloons. 

I  beg  of  considerate,  conscientious,  home-loving, 
temperance  and  patriotic  people  to  contrast  the  clean, 
out-spoken,  uncompromising,  God  honoring  conven- 
tion at  Indianapolis  with  the  political,  partisan,  li- 
quor-and-tobacco-stifled  conventions  at  St.  Louis  and 
Chicago,  and  then  decide  as  good  citizens  and  Chris- 
tian men  and  women  which  you  can  approve  and 
work  and  pray  and  vote  for!  To  vote  for  either  the 
St.  Louis  or  Chicago  tickets  is  to  vote  directly  for 
the  legalized  continuance  of  the  liquor  traffic  with 
all  its  horrid  consequences. 

If  the  liquor  mongers  did  not  know  this  they 
would  not  stay  in  the  old  parties  another  day.  They 
have  "got  'em"  and  they  know  it.  To  vote,  there- 
fore, with  either  the  old  parties  is  to  vote  with  and 
for  the  liquor  men  and  their  iniquitous  license 
scheme  and  its  wicked  sanction  and  support  of  the 
liquor  crime  and  curse.  "He  that  is  not  for  me  is 
against  me,"  says  Christ.  This  admits  of  no  neu- 
trals, no  indifference. 

But  there  are  "other  important  interests"  to  be 
looked  after,  says  the  politician.  Yes;  and  we  want 
sober.temperance  statesmen  to  look  after  these"oth- 
er  important  interests,"  and  they  will  be  quite  as 
safe  in  the  hands  of  good  temperance  men  as  in  the 
hands  of  such  men  as  now  too  often  disgrace  the 
halls  of  legislation. 

A  word  about  the  little  resolution  which  produced 
such  an  explosion  at  the  close  of  the  Chicago  Con- 
vention. It  was  evidently  not  designed  to  be  con- 
sidered as  a  plank,  or  any  part  of  the  platform,  but 
was  an  afterthought  of  Mr.  Boutelle  to  serve  as  a 
soothing  anodyne  to  prevent  the  Ellen  Foster  and 
Albert  Griffia  style  of  temperance  people  from  mug- 
wumping  from  the  G.  0.  license  party.  But  it  was 
"too  late,"  and  too  light,  as  well  as  "too  thin!"  It 
was  an  insult  to  the  waiting  and  expectant  temper- 
ance sentiment  of  the  country,  a  most  contemptible 
trifl'ng  with  a  great  question  in  which  momentous 
moral  as  well  as  material  interests  are  involved. 

"If  the  Lord  be  God,  serve  him."  The  nation  or 
party  that  will  not  serve  him  shall  perish.  Baal  is 
not  God.     So  don't  throw  away  your  votes  on  Baal! 

Detroit. 


CHRISTIANITY  AND    INFIDBLITY   CON- 
TRA8TBD. 


BY  REV.  B.  W.  WILLIAMS. 


The  Christian  religion  seeks  to  save  men  from  sin 
and  to  make  them,  now  and  forever,  pure  and  happy. 
For  this  purpose  it  demands  their  faith,  worship, 
and  obedience.  Infidelity  seeks  to  obtain  the  mas- 
tery over  the  minds  of  the  people;  but  it  is  incapa- 
ble of  making  men  wiser,  happier,  or  better.  Be- 
tween these  two  there  must  necessarily  be  open  and 
relentless  warfare.  We  believe  that  there  is  a  stronger 
probability  that  the  Bible  is  divine  than  that  the 
wishes  of  unbelief  are  true.  We  aflSrm  that  there 
are  many  good  and  valid  reasons  for  preferring 
Christianity  to  infidelity.  In  order  to  bring  out 
these  reasons  fully  and  clearly,  let  us,  for  a  moment, 
contrast  the  two.  Such  an  inquiry  into  the  merits 
of  the  question  will  doubtless  enable  us  to  see  the 
infinite  superiority  of  the  Christian's  faith,  and  the 
credulity  of  unbelievers  in  rejecting  the  Gospel,  and 
choosing  the  harder  side. 

I.  Christianity  is  a  positive  institution,  with  clearly 
defined  laws  and  principles;  infidelity  is  only  the 
incarnation  of  negative  ideas,  and,  in  fact,  so  vague 
and  anomalous  that  we  can  scarcely  tell  what  it  is. 
The  religion  of  Christ  is  founded  upon  certain,  well- 
authenticated  facts.  Its  doctrines  and  claims  are 
set  forth  in  a  book  known  as  the  Bible.  It  contains 
truth  to  be  believed,  enjoins  acts  of  worship  to  be 
performed,  lays  down  rules  of  life  to  be  practiced, 
and  presents  many  precious  promises  to  be  enjoyed. 
It  is  sustained  by  a  variety  and  weight  of  evidence 
that  ought  to  be  sufficient  to  convince  any  rational 
mind  of  its  inspiration  and  credulity.  Infidelity  is 
not  founded  upon  any  great  historical  facte.  It  has 
no  authoritative  statute-book  corresponding  to  the 
Christian's  Bible.  It  has  no  evidences  by  which  to 
recommend  or  enforce  its  reception  in  the  world. 
It  is  an  abnormal  condition  of  mind  and  heart,  a 
mental  or  moral  imbecility.  It  is  related  to  Chris- 
tianity as  darkness  is  to  light.  Darkness  is  only 
the  absence  of  light.  Blindness  is  only  the  loss  of 
sight.  Unbelief  is  but  the  repudiation  of  evidence. 
In  view  of  these  facts,  it  would  seem  that  no  one  in 
his  sober  senses  could  find  any  diflSculty  in  deciding 
as  to  which  is  preferable. 

II.  Christianity  affirms  the  supremacy  of  revela- 
tion, and  at  the  same  time  recognizes  the  value  of 
reason  as  the  means  by  the  use  of  which  we  are  to 
satisfy  ourselves  as  to  the  truth  of  revelation,  and 


also  gain  a  correct  understanding  of  its  meaning. 
Infidelity  exalts  human  reason  above  the  wisdom  of 
God,  assuming  it  to  be  the  only  and  sufficient  rule 
of  life,  and  bowing  to  the  benses  as  the  sole  inter- 
preter of  truth.  We  receive  the  precepts  of  the 
Gospel  upon  authority,  because  they  are  the  words 
of  one  who  cannot  be  mistaken  and  would  not  mis- 
lead. The  truth  of  the  Bible  we  accept  as  reliable, 
instead  of  human  imagination,  guess  work,  and  phi- 
losophizing. Reason  is  the  assent  of  our  minds  to 
certain  conclusions  which  we  consider  warranted  by 
facts;  but  in  this  we  are  often  mistaken.  There  is 
nothing  more  unreliable  and  delusive  than  what 
men  are  pleased  to  call  reason.  It  once  taught  that 
the  earth  was  flit,  and  that  the  sun  moved  around 
it;  it  also  denied  the  possibility  of  telegraphs,  rail- 
roads, steamboats,  electric  lights,  the  circulation  of 
the  blood,  the  laws  of  gravitation,  and  many  other 
facts  and  principles  in  nature  now  known  to  be  true. 
Thus  it  appears  that,  after  all,  human  reason  un- 
aided by  divine  revelation  is  a  very  unsafe  guide  to 
follow. 

III.  The  Christian  theory  of  the  origin  of  man  is 
dignifying  to  human  character,  consistent  with  rea- 
son, and  sustained  by  evidence;  the  infidel  theory  is 
humiliating  in  itself,  unphilosophical,  -and  repug- 
nant to  the  dictates  of  reason  and  common  sense. 

The  Bible  tells  us  that  man  was  first  brought  into 
existence  by  the  creative  power  of  the  Almighty; 
that  he  was  made  in  the  image  of  God,  and  only  a 
little  lower  than  the  angels;  and  that  when  he  fell 
from  his  holy  and  happy  state  he  was  reinstated 
through  Christ.     Hence  we  sing: 

"All  hall  the  power  of  Jesue'  name, 

Let  angels  prostrate  fall ; 
Bring  forth  the  royal  diadem, 

And  crown  him  Lord  of  all." 

On  the  other  hand,  infidelity  teaches  that  man 
derived  his  existence  from  the  lower  orders  of  life; 
and  that  by  the  process  of  evolution  he  came  through 
a  long  line  of  ancestral  clams,  moUusks,  apes,  mon- 
keys, etc  ,  until  he  finally  developed  into  that  more 
dignified  and  exalted  type  of  being  known  as  man; 
so  that  he  might  very  appropriately  sing: 
"All  hall  the  mighty  monkey, 

All  hall  the  ancient  clam, 
From  which,  through  evolution, 
I  came  to  be  a  man," 
I  would  much  rather  believe  that  I  was  created  by 
the  Almighty,  than  to  think  myself  a  descendant  of 
the  ape  or  monkey.     I  say  it  is  less  incredible  that 
God  created  man  in  the  first  place,  than  that  he 
made  some  inferior  animal  with  the  power  of  devel- 
oping its  progeny  into  human  beings, 

IV.  Christianity  teaches  a  pure,  wholesome,  and 
benevolent  System  of  ethics;  infidelity  teaches  a 
loose,  intangible,  and  licentious  code  of  morals. 
The  Christian  system  of  morality,  as  taught  in  the 
Bible,  clearly  defines  the  nature  of  right  and  wrong, 
and  distinctly  sets  forth  the  consequences  of  each. 
It  comprises  a  pure  code  of  laws,  prescribing  our 
duties  in  life.  Instead  of  this,  infidels  offer  what 
they  are  pleased  to  call  "natural  morality,"  which 
has  nothing  by  which  to  enforce  virtuous  conduct, 
and  is  incapable  of  generating  a  noble  impulse. 

V.  Christianity  refines,  elevates,  and  civilizes 
communities  and  nations;  infidelity  always  tends  to 
the  injury  and  disintegration  of  society.  Wherever 
the  religion  of  the  Bible  prevails,  age  is  reverenced, 
infancy  protected,  manhood  respected,  womanhood 
honored,  and  human  life  duly  regarded.  But  where 
irreligion  and  unbelief  gain  the  ascendancy,  anarchy 
and  misrule,  degradation  and  misery,  corruption  and 
darkness  inevitably  follow.  Christianity  produces 
a  state  of  society  in  which  men  'jan  can  live  in  peace, 
comfort,  decency,  security,  and  respectability,  ful- 
filling the  proper  objects  of  their  being  in  the  world. 
Infidelity  subverts  the  fundamental  principles  upon 
which  social  order  and  efficient  government  are  based. 
By  taking  away  the  idea  of  responsibility  to  God, 
and  removing  the  restraints  of  religion,  it  leaves  men 
without  any  effectual  preservative  from  vice.  "Right- 
eousness exalteth  a  nation;  but  sin  is  a  reproach  to 
any  people."  All  history  is  a  commentary  upon  this 
inspired  statement. 

VI.  Christianity  imparts  principles  which  comfort 
and  support  men  in  adversity;  infidelity  can  have 
recourse  to  no  such  principles.  To  the  afllicted  the 
Gospel  offers  the  consolation  that  such  misfortunes 
are  "light  af  11  ictions,  which  endure  but  for  a  moment, 
and  work  out  for  us  a  far  more  exceeding  and  eter- 
nal weight  of  glory."  To  those  who  are  wronged  or 
oppressed  it  gives  the  assurance  that  there  will  be  a 
time  when  oppression  shall  cease,  and  when  the 
right  shall  be  vindicated.  To  the  bereaved  it  holds 
out  the  promise  of  a  hereafter,  and  a  reunion  with 
loved  ones  who  have  gone  on  before.  In  every  try- 
ing hour,  and  in  every  painful  ordeal  through  which 
we  are  called  to  pass,  it  cheers  us  with  the  reflection 


N. 


■pas^kk 


JULT  12,  1888 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


that  all  is  open  to  the  eye  of  One  without  whose 
knowledge  not  even  a  sparrow  can  fall  to  the  ground, 
and  by  whom  even  the  very  hairs  of  our  heads  are 
numbered.  Infidelity  has  no  ideas  corresponding  to 
these.  It  affords  no  consolation  in  adversity,  no 
refuge  in  time  of  trouble,  and  no  animating  prospect 
for  the  future.  It  seeks  to  rob  the  sufferer  of  his 
comfort,  the  Christian  of  his  hope,  the  sinner  of  his 
restraint,  society  of  its  governing  power,  and  human- 
ity of  its  faith  in  the  Saviour  and  Redeemer. 

Christianity  is  a  religion  that  convicts  men  of  sin, 
brings  them  to  repentance,  renovates  their  moral 
natures,  and  impels  them  to  lives  of  holiness  and 
obedience.  It  exerts  its  beneficent  moral  power 
upon  the  individual,  upon  the  family,  upon  society, 
upon  the  state,  and  upon  the  world.  It  is  "a  relig- 
ion whose  eyes  look  love,  whose  feet  make  music, 
whose  hands  give  blessings,  whose  presence  brings 
sunshine  wherever  it  goes.  It  has  fostered  learning, 
developed  civilization,  and  promoted  charity  and 
benevolence. 

Infidelity  has  never  made  men  better.  It  has 
added  nothing  to  the  sum  of  human  happiness.  It 
has  never  cheered  an  aching  heart.  It  has  never 
smoothed  a  dying  pillow.  It  has  no  heaven  to  pro- 
pose, and  reveals  no  immortality.  It  has  never  ele- 
vated communities  and  nations.  It  has  never  built 
and  sustained  colleges  and  universities.  It  has  never 
made  any  of  the  great  discoveries  in  science  and 
nature.  It  has  never  originated  any  of  the  great 
inventions  of  modem  times.  It  has  never  liberated 
a  nation  from  tyranny  or  slavery.  It  has  never 
given  any  people  a  written  constitution,  a  pure  code 
of  laws,  and  a  republican  form  of  government  It 
is  a  barren  field,  a  dreary  waste,  a  Sahara  of  buriiing 
siroccos,  as  destitute  of  moral  beauty  and  grand 
achievements  as  a  desert  is  of  sparkling  fountains, 
beautiful  foliage,  or  fragrant  flowers. 

Weatherford,  Itxas. 

THB  PARABLE  OF  JOTHAM. 


In  the  ninth  chapter  of  Judges  may  be  found  the 
parable  of  the  trees,  pronounced  to  be  not  only  the 
most  beautiful,  but  the  most  ancient  now  extant.  It 
is  several  hundred  years  older  than  the  fables  of 
iEsop,  so  justly  admired  in  modern  times.  The 
reading  of  this  parable  awakened  the  following  re- 
flections; 

First.  The  folly  of  electing  unprincipled  men  to 
office.  Little  regard  is  paid  to  a  man's  moral  prin- 
ciples, provided  he  be  a  party  "stalwart,"  or  an 
"available"  candidate.  We  have  patriotic  humbugs 
and  political  sneak-thieves  in  such  abundance  that 
it  is  a  mere  accident  when  a  good  man  is  elected  to 
an  important  post.  Indeed,  some  of  our  best  men 
would  refuse  to  have  their  reputations  battered  to 
pieces  for  the  highest  offices  in  the  gift  of  the  na- 
tion. Politics  are  sometimes  compared  to  a  stagnant 
pool,  which  engenders  nothing  but  the  lowest  order 
of  reptiles. 

Secondly.  The  increasing  corruption  of  our  rul- 
ers. A  new  party  rides  into  power  upon  the  shoul- 
ders of  a  noble  sentiment — the  universal  brother- 
hood of  man.  In  less  than  a  score  of  years  a  sad 
falling-ofl  is  developed.  "To  the  victors  belong  the 
spoils."  Ah,  yes,  the  spoils  ruin  everything.  The 
indemnification  which  Germany  received  from  France 
is  said  to  have  caused  a  marked  deterioration  in  the 
character  of  the  nation.  Thus  also  it  is  with  the 
party.  The  noble  sentiment  is  nearly  forgotten,  all 
new  reforms  are  discarded,  and  crowds  of  office- 
seekers,  like  lazy  house-dogs,  rush  in  to  seize  the 
carcass. 

Thirdly.  The  venality  of  our  courts.  We  know 
little  about  courts,  for  we  try  to  keep  clear  of  the 
minions  of  the  law.  Litigation  is  an  expensive  lux- 
ury. Still,  the  proceedings  of  courts  are  often  pub- 
licly discussed  and  severely  condemned.  In  our 
county,  a  few  years  ago,  a  malicious  fellow  killed  a 
deputy  sheriff  while  levying  on  his  property.  To  a 
plain  man,  there  could  be  but  one  verdict— guilty  of 
murder  in  the  first  degree.  Yet  sagacious  lawyers 
so  skillfully  manipulated  "the  insanity  dodge"  that, 
after  a  few  years,  and  a  cost  of  more  than  $6,000  to 
the  State,  he  was  at  last  sentenced  to  imprisonment 
for  life,  to  be  pardoned  in  due  time  by  some  soft- 
headed governor.  Is  it  not  high  time  that  the  ridic- 
ulous farce  of  trying  to  prove  every  murderer  to  be 
insane  be  ruled  out  of  court?  God  holds  such  men 
to  be  responsible;  who  dares  affirm  to  the  contrary? 

The  practice  of  law  has  degenerated  from  the  ad- 
ministration of  justice  to  the  "art  of  picking  fat 
geese."  In  lawsuits,  as  in  war,  coins  are  the  strong- 
est arguments.  Whenever  a  lawyer  goes  beyond  the 
point  of  seeing  that  his  client  has  a  fair  trial,  or  a 
judge  declines  to  instruct  an  ignorant  jury,  except 
in  the  language  of  mysticism,  they  become  partak- 
ers of  the  guilt  of  the  criminal.    In  Luther's  cate- 


chism the  question  arises,  "how  do  we  make  ourselves 
partakers  ofother  men's  sins?"  Answer:  When  we 
command,  advise  or  approve  of  evil,  and  do  not  pre- 
vent or  reprove  it,  or  make  it  manifest  that  it  may 
be  punished.  Instead  of  choosing  the  most  intelli- 
gent and  moral  citizens  for  jurors,  the  ignorant  and 
indifferent  are  the  favorites  in  all  criminal  trials. 
Men  who  never  read  newspapers  are  eagerly  sought 
after.  Then  the  laws  are  not  executed  according  to 
the  plain  letter,  but  after  some  precedent  furnished 
by  a  judge  away  off  somewhere.  In  view  of  the 
miserable  abortions  of  justice,  how  almost  universal 
must  be  the  corruption  of  our  courts  in  the  State  and 
nation.  It  is  the  old  story  of  Abimeiech  and  the 
Shechemites,  and  if  there  be  no  speedy  reformation, 
a  strange  fire  will  proceed  from  some  insignificant 
bramble,  to  consume  both  rulers  and  people. — Rec- 
ollections  of  a  Pastor. 


AN  OLD  QUESTION  ANSWERED. 


I  From  the  Christian  Witness ,  organ  of  the  National  Holiness 
Association.  | 

A  good  brother  minister  from  Michigan  propounds 
the  following  question: 

"Dear  Brother: — Will  you  please  inform  me  if, 
in  the  mind  of  your  National  Association,  a  man 
can  hold  to  secret  orders  and  maintain  'perfect  love,' 
'purity  of  heart,'  'holiness?'  such  orders  meaning. 
Masonry,  Odd-fellowship,  etc.,  etc.  If  the  Associa- 
tion does  not  express  itself,  would  you  be  willing  to 
say  what  your  thought  in  the  matter  is,  by  a  'yes,' 
or  "'no?'    Fraternally." 

Our  answer  to  the  foregoing  was  as  follows.  We 
are  perfectly  willing  that  all  our  readers  should 
know  our  views  on  the  subject,  as  well  as  the  brother 
addressed: 

Dear  Brother: — In  answer  to  your  inquiries  of 
March  8th,  permit  me  to  say: 

1.  Our  Association,  as  an  Association,  has  never 
expressed  itself  on  the  subject  to  which  you  refer. 

2.  I  do  not  know  what  a  man  can  do  in  such  mat- 
ters and  maintain  "perfect  love,"  etc.  It  would  de- 
pend largely  upon  his  views  of  the  character  of  such 
associations. 

3.  Personally,  I  keep  out  of  all  such  associations, 
and  advise  others  to  do  the  same.    Truly  yours, 

W.  MoD. 
We  may  add  to  the  foregoing  this  further  state- 
ment: We  have  known  some  good  men — men  who 
gave  every  evidence  of  being  good — who  retained 
their  piety  while  associated  with  these  orders.  We 
have  known  other  men  who  seem  to  be  good,  but 
who  are  greatly  damaged  in  their  piety  and  useful- 
ness, by  what  seemed  to  be  their  devotement  to  the 
interest  of  these  orders.  We  have,  therefore,  come 
to  this  conclusion,  viz.,  that  the  natural  tendency  of 
these  associations  is  detrimental  to  piety;  and  if  any 
succeed,  while  in  these  associations,  in  maintaining 
their  piety,  they  do  it  in  spite  of  such  influence. 

1  Remarks  on  the  above  by  the  Bawier  of  Holiness.  | 
If  the  answer  of  Bro.  McDonald  to  the  brother's 
question  proves  to  be  satisfactory  to  him  as  it  is  to 
its  author,  and  is  certain  to  be  to  members  of  secret 
societies,  it  will  be  proved  to  be  a  most  successful 
answer,  to  say  the  least  of  it.  But,  like  most  at- 
tempts to  satisfy  various  and  disagreeing  parties,  it 
will  prove  a  flat  failure. 

1.  Masonry  and  Odd-fellowship  are  carnal  insti- 
tutions, making  various  pretentions  as  to  essentially 
changing  ihe  character  and  life  of  men,  on  princi- 
ples not  only  not  of  the  Gospel  of  Christ,  but  that 
are  contrary  thereto,  and  the  endorsements  of  their 
principles  or  pretentions  are  inconsistent  with  the 
profession  of  faith  in  Christ  and  devotion  to  him 
and  his  work. 

2.  In  these  orders  professed  Christians  are  brought 
into  fellowship  with  the  wicked,  and  cannot  in  the 
nature  of  the  case  retain  "fellowship  with  the  Father 
and  with  his  Son  Jesus  Christ,"  while  thus  in  fel- 
lowship with  carnal  and  wicked  men,  many  of  whom 
are  haters  of  the  Lord  whom  they  as  Christians  pro- 
fess to  love,  obey  and  adore. 

3.  Professed  Christians  in  the  orders  are  parties 
to  pretenses  as  to  charity,  benevolence  and  good 
works,  that  are  false  and  utterly  unworthy  of  en- 
dorsement, while  they  are  equally  parties  to  the  in- 
jury done  to  the  countless  number  of  the  poor  and 
needy,  robbed  of  what  would  be  given  to  them  but 
for  the  support  given  to  the  orders  under  the  false 
pretense  that  they  are  charitable  institutions.  The 
needy  and  helpless  without  are  denied  what  should 
be  given  them,  that  the  select  within  may  be  well 
cared  for;  not  as  objects  of  charity,  but  as  claimants 
on  their  own  funds.  And  professors  of  Christ's  re- 
ligion claim  to  be  in  these  orders  with  eyes  wide 
open  and  hearts  pure! 

4.  That  selfish,  unsaved  men  should  use  these 
orders  for  various  advantages,  financial,  social,  po- 


litical, and  criminal,  is  what  all  must  expect  who 
have  any  knowledge  of  sinful  human  nature.  Hence 
it  is  that  secret  societies  are  all  and  always  danger- 
ous, even  when  as  such  they  purpose  no  evil.  How 
any  Christian  can  consent  to  sustain  an  order  not 
necessary  for  any  good  cause,  and  furnishing  unlim- 
ited opportunities  for  men  to  plot,  plan  and  carry 
out  projects  of  selfishness,  sin  and  crime,  we  must 
leave  to  brother  McDonald  to  explain. 

5.  "We  have  known  good  men,"  "men  who  seem 
to  be  good,"  etc.  '^Goodm<ml"  What  sort  of  good 
men?  Why  their  orders  represent  the  goodness  of 
unsaved  men  I  They  are  towers  of  Babel  erected  by 
carnal  grace;  that  natural  goodishness  which  men 
prize  so  highly,  and  which  is  Satan's  counterfeit  of, 
and  substitute  for,  the  goodness  that  is  of  and  from 
God,  and  which  testifies  that  the  works  of  the  world 
are  evil. 

Masbnic  saints  are  such  by  the  first  birth,  and 
are  in  repute  as  needing  no  second  birth.  Those 
"good  men,"  that  are  constantly  referred  to  as  proof 
that  the  orders  must  be  good,  are  as  blind  as  those 
who,  from  without,  believe  in  the  orders  because 
such  good  men  are  in  them. 

Spiritually-minded  men  can  no  more  continue  in 
these  communions  than  can  the  Holy  Spirit  himself. 
What  some  call  perfect  love  is  likely  to  keep  one 
in  such  loving  company;  but  the  Christ  love,  made 
perfect,  will  dethrone  human  goodishness,  and  open 
eyes  to  see  the  utter  gracelessness  of  these  preten- 
tious orders.  And  as  men  enter  blind-fold,  "in  dark- 
ness and  in  chains,"  so  when  they  are  brought  out 
of  nature's  darkness  into  Christ's  marvelous  light, 
they  will  make  haste  to  go  out  with  open  eyes  from 
these  temples  of  darkness,  testifying  that  their  works 
are  evil. 


OUR  CINCINNATI  LETTER. 


THE  OPENING  OP   THE    CENTENNIAL  EXPOSITION. 


Editor  Christian  Cynosure: — The  Fourth  of 
July,  1888,  will  long  be  remembered  as  the  opening 
of  the  Centennial  Exposition  of  the  Ohio  Valley 
and  the  Northwest.  At  midnight  it  was  ushered  in 
by  a  general  illumination  of  the  houses,  ringing  of 
bells,  blowing  of  engine  whistles,  tooting  of  horns, 
shooting  fire-crackers,  booming  of  cannon,  etc.  The 
preliminary  exercises  were  held  in  Music  Hall  at  11 
A.  M.  The  May  festival  chorus,  accompanied  with 
the  Cincinnati  orchestra,  furnished  the  music. 

Governor  Foraker  made  the  address  of  welcome. 
He  paid  a  glowing  tribute  to  "our  distinguished 
visitors,"  and  then  bid  the  whole  world  welcDme. 
The  Exposition  is  located  in  Ohio,  and  somehow 
everything  that's  good  gets  there,  but  it  is  not  for 
Ohio,  nor  the  States  of  the  Northwest  Territory, 
but  for  the  whole  nation.  Rev.  Thayer,  of  the 
Unitarian  church,  offered  the  opening  prayer,  with- 
out even  mentioning  the  name  that  is  above  every 
name — Christ  Jesus. 

Governor  Thayer,  of  Nebraska,  spoke  on  behalf 
of  his  State,  and  said  that  they  did  not  belong  to 
the  Northwest  Territory,  but  to  that  of  Louisiana 
ceded  to  the  United  States  by  Napoleon  I.  of  France, 
Napoleon  knew  the  value  of  the  territory  and  parted 
with  it  reluctantly.  His  object  was  to  create  here  a 
rival  to  England,  in  the  hope  that  thereby  his  am- 
bitious schemes  on  the  continent  might  the  more 
easily  obtain.  But  they  were  now  joined  to  the 
Northwest  and  are  part  with  them  of  one  great  na- 
tion. 

Governor  Gray,  of  Indiana,  came  next.  His 
State  was  the  smallest  territorially,  but  in  any  other 
respect  the  peer  of  all.  She  gave  more  proportion- 
ally for  education  than  any  State  in  the  Union  ex- 
cepting Texas.  Indiana  sent  250,000  soldiers  to 
maintain  the  unity  of  this  nation  and  maintain  the 
inalienable  rights  of  our  fellow  citizens.  At  the 
first  Centennial  we  are  a  nation  of  60,000,000.  At 
the  second  Centennial  wo  will  be  000,000,000. 

Lieut.  Gov.  Bryan,  of  Kentucky,  followed.  He 
was  the  most  eloquent  speaker  of  the  day.  He 
was  cheered  to  the  echo  as  he  spoke  of  "the  entire 
union  from  the  Lakes  to  the  Gulf,  from  ocean  to 
ocean,  a  union  of  men,  a  union  of  hearts,  and  that 
none  can  sever  the  links  of  that  union  forever. 

Gov.  Beaver  of  Pennsylvania,  spoke  last  He 
just  came  from  the  reunion  of  the  blue  and  the 
gray  on  the  battlefield  of  Gettysburg,  where  the 
great  argument  was  made  with  the  sword  on  behalf 
of  human  rights,  and  settled  forever. 

At  12  M.,  in  the  midst  of  these  exercises,  Mrs. 
James  K.  Polk,  in  Nashville,  Tenn.,  gave  the  signal 
by  telegraph  to  start  the  machinery,  and  President 
Allison's  daughter,  a  little  girl  twelve  years  old, 
touched  the  button  on  the  stage  which  started  the 
wheels  in  motion.  Archbishop  Elder  pronounced 
the  benediction. 


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THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOStJKE. 


July  12, 1888 


In  the  afternoon  more  than  half  a  million  people 
witnessed  the  magnificent  street  parade.  It  repre- 
sented everything:  distinguished  civil  and  military 
officers,  infantry,  artillery,  cavalry.  Catholic  Knights, 
Knights  of  Pythias,  bicycles,  a  primitive  cart,  prim- 
itive school  house,  ancient  fort,  Indian  wigwam,  fire 
department,  police  department,  agricultural,  manu- 
facturing and  mechanical  industries.  For  whom 
was  all  this?  It  was  in  the  name  and  for  the  honor 
of  "We,  the  people."  They  discovered  this  coun- 
try, developed  its  resources,  set  up  this  free  govern- 
ment and  made  it  what  it  is.  "We,  the  people"  is 
the  golden  image,  set  up  in  this  land,  and  all  who 
will  not  fall  down  and  worship  it  are  the  same  hour 
thrown  into  the  burning  fiery  furnace  of  public  con- 
tempt, scorn  and  ridicule.  J.  M.  Foster. 


NEW  BNQLAJVD  LETTER. 


8t.  JoJin's  Day  at  Natick—OoD.  Ames's  eulogy  of  the  lodge 
— An  old  Hew  Bampsldre  Clergyman  and  Masonry — A 
TMvel  preaching  service — Death  of  a  famous  centenariap, 
—  Why  our  native  birds  hate  come  hack. 

St  John's  Day  was  grandly  celebrated  by  the  Free- 
masons at  Natick;  Gov.  Ames,  Lieutenant  Governor 
Brackett  and  other  distinguished  members  of  the 
order  being  present.  Sixty  years  ago  a  law  was 
passed  which,  unless  it  has  been  repealed — a  point 
on  which  I  have  been  unable  to  obtain  satisfactory 
information — still  stands  as  a  dead  letter  in  the  stat- 
utes of  Massachusetts,  prohibiting  Masonic  oaths 
as  extra-judicial  and  dangerous  to  the  commonwealth; 
and  what  shall  we  say  to  the  spectacle  of  a  governor 
of  this  very  State  pronouncing  a  fulsome  eulogy  on 
the  lodge  in  such  words  as  these: 

"The  Mason  who  lives  up  to  his  profession  is  a  good 
citizen,  and  there  cannot  be  too  many  men  of  that  kind. 
This  State  has  ever  done  all  that  she  could  to  promote 
that  feeling  of  fraternity  which  underlies  Masonry,  and 
we  see  to  day  some  of  the  results  of  her  policy.  Within 
her  borders  are  tens  of  thousands  of  men  and  thousands 
of  women  who  find  aid  and  encouragement  in  societies 
that  with  closed  doors  to  the  outside  world  do  their  for- 
mal work,  but  that  far  and  wide  scatter  with  liberality 
their  benefactions.  1  see  no  reason  why  the  encourage- 
ment now  given  to  these  societies  should  not  be  continued 
and  increased  if  need  be." 

Theee  are  sentiments  quite  worthy  of  a  chief  mag- 
istrate who  refuses  to  exercise  his  judicial  power 
and  release  the  imprisoned  evangelist,  Mr.  Davis, 
though  he  must  be  aware  that  to  stand  between  an 
unrighteous  law,  or  one  unrighteously  administered, 
is  among  the  chief  prerogatives  of  the  governorship. 
The  exercises  were  held  in  the  Congregational 
church,  the  orator  of  the  day  being  Right  Excellent 
Companion  Alfred  F.  Chapman,  editor  of  the  Lib- 
eral Freemason,  and  Past  General  Grand  High  Priest 
of  the  United  States  of  America.  His  speech  was, 
like  most  Masonic  orations,  a  string  of  mere  platitudes 
from  which  the  veriest  tyro  in  lodge  lore  could  not 
have  learned  much  that  was  new,  though  a  thought- 
ful Christian,  brought  up  to  consider  the  religion 
which  Christ  established  as  the  grandest  bond  of 
union  between  man  and  man,  ought  to  have  been 
somewhat  amazed  to  find  out  that  "this  broadest  of 
all  institutions  draws  together  men  of  every  race, 
and  makes  of  them  brethren  in  the  highest  sense," 
— the  distinguished  speaker  quite  ignoring  Mackey's 
jjexicon  which  informs  us  that  "the  candidate  should 
be  twenty-one  years  old  or  more,  free-born  and  no 
bond-man,  of  able  body,  and  of  limbs  whole,  as  a 
man  ought  to  be,"  as  also  the  well-known  fact  that 
all  colored  lodges  are  considered  clandestine  and  al- 
together out  of  the  pale  of  this  universal  brother- 
hcmd. 

Of  course,  George  Washington  proved  the  usual 
cheap  and  convenient  subject  for  Masonic  glorying, 
and  the  craft  would  have  gladly  seized  on  the  name 
of  Natick's  famous  son,  Henry  Wilson,  had  not  the 
stubborn  fact  that  he  never  bowed  his  manhood  to 
the  bondage  of  the  cable-tow  stood  in  the  way. 
However,  Lieutenant  Governor  Brackett  alluded  to 
him  as  "one  who  loved  the  principles  of  Masonry 
with  such  unswerving  fidelity  that  he  was  a  worthy 
brother  only  without  the  forms;"  thus  getting  round 
the  difficulty  with  ar>  ingeniousncss  worthy  of  the 
craft  whose  zeal  in  pressing  great  names  into  its 
service  is  only  equalled  by  its  equally  persistent 
rejection  of  the  "One  Name  under  heaven,  given 
among  men,  whereby  we  may  be  saved." 

I  once  heard  of  a  gootl  old  clergyman  in  the  Gran- 
ite State,  who  though  not  a  Mason  himself,  attended 
a  Masonic  celebration,  and,  being  called  upon  to 
make  the  prayer,  electrified  the  worthy  brethren  by 
offering  up  the  following  brief,  but  very  compre- 
hensive petition:  "O  Lord,  we  do  not  know  what 
this  ihing  is;  but  if  it  be  from  thee  we  pray  thee 
to  bless  it,  and  if  it  be  not  from  thee  to  curse  it. 
Amen."  It  strikes  me,  however,  that  nobody,  whether 
in  lay  or  clerical  ranks,  could  truthfully  tell  the  Al- 


mighty that  he  "did  not  know  what  the  thing  was," 
after  listening  for  a  whole  day  to  exercises  so  plainly 
stamped  throughout  with  the  Christless  character  of 
the  order  as  were  these. 

Quite  a  novel  service  was  lately  held  at  the  Monu- 
ment Square  Methodist  church,  Charlestown, — a  ser- 
mon in  Chinese,  delivered  by  a  Chinese  preacher. 
Rev.  Sea  Sek  Ong,  who,  among  other  things  calcu- 
lated to  rouse  Christian  enthusiasm,  said  that  36,- 
000,000  souls  in  his  native  country  were  now  open 
to  missionary  effort.  Unrestricted  Chinese  emigra- 
tion may  be  an  evil,  and  so  is  unrestricted  emigra- 
tion from  any  country;  but  he  must  be  a  dull  stu- 
dent of  Divine  Providence  who  fails  to  see  in  this 
meeting  of  the  Occident  and  the  Orient  on  her 
shores,  America's  opportunity  to  lead  the  world  in 
home  as  well  as  foreign  evangelization.  There  is  no 
earthly  reason  why  a  great  city,  with  an  efficient 
Board  of  Health,  backed  by  an  ample  police  force, 
should  allow  Chinatowns  to  exist,  or,  indeed,  permit 
a  foreign  population  to  huddle  exclusively  into  any 
one  locality,  creating  a  foreign  quarter,  where  all 
unnameable  filthiness  and  vice  may  breed  and  fester 
undisturbed.  The  great  Lawgiver  of  Israel  laid  the 
axe  at  the  root  of  the  tree  when  he  enacted  that 
there  should  be  one  law,  alike  for  the  Jew  and  for 
the  stranger. 

A  long  and  useful  life  has  recently  come  to  a 
close  in  the  death  of  Mr.  Seth  Davis,  a  centenarian 
of  Newton  and  the  oldest  teacher  living  in  the  State. 
He  was  in  many  respects  a  remarkable  character. 
He  was  the  author  of  an  arithmetic  quite  popular 
in  its  day,  while  as  an  instructor  he  was  far  in  ad- 
vance of  his  age.  He  first  introduced  the  study  of 
geography  into  the  common  schools,  and  first  started 
the  idea  of  drawing  maps,  also  of  making  large 
maps  on  cloth;  while  the  custom  of  declamations  and 
dialogues  was  another  new  departure,  of  which  it  is 
rather  amusing  to  modern  ears  to  relate  that  it  was 
bitterly  opposed  in  town  meeting  in  1813,  and  it 
was  fioally  there  decided  that  to  have  the  pupils 
"speak  pieces"  was  demoralizing  in  its  effect  and 
could  not  be  tolerated.  His  honorable  record  does 
not  end  here.  He  was  a  radical  reformer  when  re- 
form was  a  new  and  unpopular  thing.  In  1814  he 
gave  up  the  use  of  liquor  though  the  temperance 
movement  had  not  then  been  started,  and  ministers 
and  laymen  alike  used  it  without  thought  of  harm; 
and  in  1818  he  ceased  to  give  it  to  his  help,  while 
paying  them  increased  wages  to  make  up  for  the 
privation.  In  1826  he  formed  an  organization  for 
the  suppression  of  intemperance,  consisting  of 
twenty-seven  members;  the  first  of  its  kind,  proba- 
bly, in  New  England.  That  he  was  not  a  lodgeman 
goes  without  saying.  It  is  a  remarkable  fact,  but 
one  very  accordant  with  natural  law,  that  to  be  deep- 
ly interested  in  one  reform  always  opens  the  mind 
for  the  admission  of  others,  and  so  far  from  being 
men  of  one  idea,  true  prohibitionists  have  more 
ideas  to  the  square  inch  than  their  opponents,  with 
all  their  effete  dandling  of  dead  issues,  can  muster 
to  the  square  mile.  I  think  it  was  Peter  the  Great 
who  said:  "Scratch  a  Russian  and  you  will  find  a 
Tartar."  Scratch  any  old  warhorse  who  trained  in 
the  Abolition  ranks  forty  years  ago,  and  you  will  find 
an  uncompromising  foe  to  the  secret  lodge.  Reforms 
hang  together  and  reformers  ought  to. 

For  many  years  I  have  not  heard  such  concerts 
of  bird-singing  as  greet  my  ears  this  present  season. 
Old  favorites  not  seen  before  for  a  long  time  have 
come  back  with  their  bright  plumage  and  song  that 
from  long  absence  has  grown  almost  unfamiliar; 
but  why  this  rennaissance  of  our  native  birds?  peo- 
ple ask.  One  answer,  hardly  satisfactory,  is  that 
the  English  sparrow,  their  persistent  enemy,  got 
killed  off  in  the  late  blizzards;  but  a  more  common 
sense  view  sees  a  striking  coincidence  between  this 
fresh  advent  of  bird  life,  and  the  disappearance  of 
birds'  bodies  and  wings  from  hats  and  bonnets. 
For  two  years  a  vigorous  war  has  been  waged 
against  this  barbarous  and  tasteless  fashion  which 
it  is  to  be  hoped  is  now  dead  beyond  the  possibility 
of  any  future  resurrection.  But  apropos  to  the  re- 
marks made  above,  white  ribbon  women  have  led 
the  van  in  the  fight,  and  the  bonnets  at  a  W.  C.  T. 
U.  gathering  have  been  generally  noticeable  from 
their  lack  of  such  disfiguring  adornments.  Is  not 
here  encouragement  to  believe  that  all  moral  ques- 
tions, great  and  small,  whether  political  or  merely 
social,  shall  come  at  last  to  be  tried  before  the  Moth- 
erhood of  the  nation?     God  hasten  the  day. 

K.  E.  Flaog. 


— Swarthmore  College,  near  Philadelphia,  under 
the  direction  of  the  Society  of  Friends,  is  reckoned 
one  of  the  best  educational  institutions  in  the  land. 
The  President  of  the  institution  at  the  late  com- 
mencement announced  "that  the  professorship  en- 
dowment bad  been    unexpectedly  successful;  not 


only  had  the  subscription  set  on  foot  some  months 
ago  been  responded  to  very  fully,  assuring  through 
the  gifts  of  250  persons  the  endowment  of  the 
chair  of  mathematics  and  astronomy,  but  three 
generous  citizens  had  come  forward,  each  with  the 
offer  of  $40,000,  to  endow  a  separate  professor- 
ship. 

— A  few  days  since  five  young  men  from  Oxford 
University  arrived  on  the  "Brittannic,"  and  two 
from  Cambridge,  three  from  the  University  of  Edin- 
burgh, and  one  from  the  University  of  Utrecht,  to 
take  part  in  the  college  Students'  Summer  School 
and  Encampment  for  Bible  Study,  at  Northfield, 
Mass.,  now  being  conducted  by  Mr.  Moody  for  two 
weeks,  beginning  with  July  1st. 


Reform  Xews. 


TBE  WORK  IN  WASHINGTON. 


July  5,  1888. 

Dear  Readers  of  the  CrNOsuRE:— I  have  a 
few  more  thoughts  which  I  wish  to  give  you  in  re- 
gard to  the  work  among  the  children  which  I  am 
carrying  on  in  the  line  of  an  industrial  school  here 
at  the  N.  C.  A.  building.  I  wish  to  show  you  that 
this  is  and  can  be  closely  allied  to  the  work  of  the 
N.  C.  A. 

My  purpose  was  to  teach  in  the  school  the  evils 
of  secret  societies  as  well  as  those  of  the  liquor 
traffic,  but  finding  the  children  as  a  rule  almost  en- 
tirely ignorant  as  to  the  Bible  and  its  truths,  and 
as  my  rules  and  precepts  were  to  be  drawn  from 
that  source,  I  felt  that  for  awhile  I  must  drop  all 
else  and  teach  them  what  the  Word  of  God  is;  what 
it  will  do  for  us;  and  what  it  commands  us  to  do. 
In  story  form  I  am  telling  them  the  main  facts  of 
the  Old  Testament,  teaching  them  the  Lord's 
prayer,  and  the  Ten  Commandments,  which  they 
have  nearly  mastered,  also  have  learned  the  Twenty- 
third  Paalm.  They  are  quick  to  learn,  either  good 
or  bad,  and  when  I  realize  their  surroundings 
and  teachings  at  home  and  on  the  streets,  I  take 
fresh  courage  and  press  on.  My  hands  are  tied 
for  want  of  means  to  enlarge  the  work,  but  as  I 
firmly  believe  this  is  the  Lord's  work,  I  am  simply 
trusting  him  for  that,  as  well  as  all  other  blessings. 
This  branch  of  work  by  vote  of  the  Board  is  to  be 
self-sustaining;  this  surely  does  not  mean  that  one 
person  should  perform  the  labor  and  furnish  the 
means  to  carry  on  the  work.  Were  that  possible  I 
would  not  so  desire  it,  for  I  do  not  want  all  the 
blessing;  I  want  to  share  it  with  you.  The  largest 
attendance  at  day-school  has  been  18,  smallest  12. 
The  Sabbath-school,  largest  2.5,  smallest  9.  Both 
day  and  Sabbath-school  could  readily  be  enlarged, 
but  with  what  is  the  increased  want  to  be  met?  All 
can  pray,  and  we  read  that  "The  prayers  of  the 
righteous  availeth  much." 

Washington  is  subsiding  into  quiet  after  the 
Fourth.  Our  time  was  spent  at  home,  except  at- 
tending the  noon  meeting  at  the  Central  Union 
Mission,  a  stroll  afterward  on  the  Mall,  and  a  trip  on 
the  Gospel  wagon  to  one  of  the  neglected  districts. 
There  is  no  lack  of  work  to  be  done.  Pray  that 
we  may  be  equal  to  the  work  given  us  to  do.  Yours 
in  Christian  work,  Anna  B.  Stoddard. 


RECOLLECTIONS  OF  BROWNLEE. 

Dear  Ctnosdre: — In  my  former  letters  I  did 
not  mention  the  fact  that  while  canvassing  the 
North  Page  United  Presbyterian  church  in  South- 
western Iowa,  1  became  acquainted  with  Mr.  Brown- 
lee,  a  relative  of  the  Brownlee  who  was  murdered  at 
Little  York,  III.  At  College  Springs  1  met  another 
one  of  the  Brownlee  family,  a  nephew  of  the  man 
who  was  murdered.  The  Brownlee  who  was  mur- 
dered was  a  Freemason.  He  had  unfortunately 
contracted  the  drink  habit,  and  when  under  the  in- 
lluence  of  strong  drink,  he  would  talk  freely  of  Ma- 
sonry in  the  presence  of  those  who  were  not  mem- 
bers of  the  craft  He  was  Masonically  notified  that 
the  penalty  of  the  first  degree  would  be  inflicted 
upon  him,  if  he  repeated  the  offense.  Mr.  Brownlee 
was  a  loyal  Mason,  but  when  he  again  came  under 
the  influence  of  liquor,  he  was  as  talkative  as  ever. 
When  he  became  sober  he  remembered  what  he  had 
said,  and  feared  the  execution  of  the  threat  that  had 
been  made.  He  appealed  to  his  brother  (father  of 
the  Brownlee  I  met  at  College  Springs)  to  protect 
him  from  the  vengeance  of  the  lodge.  But  the 
brother,  who  was  a  temperance  man,  thought  that 
the  lodge  only  meant  to  scare  him  out  of  the  drink 
habit,  and  so  did  not  take  measures  to  protect  him, 
as  be  would  otherwise  have  done. 


Vii^ 


Jolt  12, 1888 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


And  BO,  unprotected,  the  poor  man  met  bis  fate, 
as  Morgan  and  others  had  done  before.  And  still 
the  bloodcurdling  oaths  of  Freemasonry  are  admin- 
istered behind  the  tiled  doors  of  the  lodge.  Men  go 
on  imprecating  upon  themselves  horrible  death  pen- 
alties if  they  do  not  do  that,  the  nature  of  which  is 
unknown  to  them  at  the  time.  Are  not  our  lives 
committed  to  us  as  a  sacred  trust,  to  be  surrendered 
only  at  the  call  of  the  Divine  Giver?  What  right 
then  has  a  man  to  consent  to  have  his  throat  cut,  or 
his  heart  torn  out,  or  his  body  cut  in  twain,  or  the 
top  of  his  skull  knocked  oflE,  if  he  docs  not  conceal 
what  an  enlightened  conscience  may  ret^uire  him  to 
reveal;  or  do  what  an  enlightened  conscience  may 
forbid  his  doing?  Has  a  man  a  right  to  kill  him- 
self? If  not,  can  he  authorize  another  to  do  what 
he  has  no  right  to  do  himself?  How,  then,  can  the 
bloody  perpetrators  of  Masonic  murders  hope  to 
escape  Divine  vengeance,  on  the  ground  that  their 
victims  imprecated  these  penalties  upon  themselves? 

What  a  horrible  thing  for  the  church  to  tolerate 
her  members  in  taking  the  oaths  of  Masonry !  And 
how  fearfully  blinded  by  Satan,  the  god  of  the 
lodge,  must  that  minister  be,  who  can  unblushingly 
stand  in  the  pulpit  and  preach  the  Gospel  of  Him 
who  in  secret  said  nothing,  and  who  commanded, 
saying,  "Swear  not  at  all,"  while  in  his  heart  he  ad- 
heres to  the  covenants  of  Masonry ! 

I  left  Southwestern  Iowa  for  my  home  at  Whea- 
ton.  111.,  in  time  to  be  present  at  the  Wheaton  Col- 
lege Commencement,  and  to  attend  the  annual  meet- 
ing of  the  N.  C.  A.  in  Chicago.  The  excellent  char- 
acter of  the  commencement  exercises  and  the  doings 
of  the  annual  meeting  are  already  before  your  read- 
ers. 

After  a  short  visit  with  my  family,  I  returned  to 
Iowa,  to  prosecute  my  work  as  agent  of  the  Iowa 
Association. 

Last  Sabbath,  July  1st,  I  preached  morning  and 
evening  in  the  Adair  United  Presbyterian  church, 
five  miles  north  of  the  village  of  Adair.  Monday 
morning  I  returned  to  Adair,  and  while  taking  my 
dinner  at  the  hotel,  I  was  speaking  of  the  unchris- 
tian character  of  the  secret  lodge  system.  A  gen- 
tleman of  the  place  said  that  he  had  long  been  a 
member  of  the  church;  that  he  was  also  an  Odd- 
fellow. He  thought  that  if  a  man  lived  up  to  the 
obligations  of  Odd-fellowship  he  was  a  good  Chris- 
tian. He  spoke  very  highly  of  the  benevolence  of 
the  order.  Any  man  who  was  an  Odd-fellow  was 
his  brother.  As  he  went  on  exalting  Odd-fellow- 
ship, I  said.  Would  you  indorse  the  statement  made 
by  the  orator,  who,  on  the  occasion  of  the  public  in- 
stallation of  the  officers  of  the  New  Sharon  Lodge 
of  Odd-fellows,  said,  "All  the  angels  of  God  can- 
not keep  you  out  of  heaven  if  you  live  up  to  Odd- 
fellowship?" 

One  of  the  Odd  fellows  who  was  present  thought 
that  language  was  a  little  strong;  that  if  he  had 
said  the  devil  could  not  keep  them  out  of  heaven  if 
they  were  good  Odd-fellows,  it  would  have  been  bet- 
ter. 

"Well,"  said  I,  "do  you  believe  that  a  man  who 
lives  up  to  Odd-fellowship  will  go  to  heaven  when 
he  dies?" 

"Ido"  he  replied. 

"Were  you  obligated,  as  an  Odd-fellow,  to  repent 
of  your  sins?"  I  asked. 

"No,"  he  replied. 

"Were  you  obligated  to  believe  on  the  Lord  Jesus 
Christ?"  I  asked. 

"We  can't  be  infidels  and  be  Odd-fellows,"  was 
his  reply. 

"You  mean  you  cannot  be  atheists,"  said  L 

"Yes,"  he  replied;  "we  are  required  to  profess 
a  belief  in  God." 

"Are  you  required  to  believe  on  the  Lord  Jesus 
Christ?"  I  asked. 

"No,"  he  said. 

"You  say  you  have  long  been  a  member  of  the 
church?"  i  continued. 

"Yes,"  he  responded. 

"Then  you  believe  the  Bible?" 

He  assured  me  that  he  did. 

"If  you  were  not  obligated  as  an  Odd-fellow  to 
repent  of  your  sins  and  believe  on  the  Lord  Jesus 
Christ,  then  a  person  may  live  up  to  the  obligations 
of  Odd-fellowship  who  docs  not  repent  towards  God, 
and  who  does  not  believe  on  the  Lord  Jesus  Christ?" 

"Why,  yes,"  he  said;  "we  do  not  require  that  of 
them." 

"But,"  said  I,  "Christ  declares  that  those  who  do 
not  repent  shall  perish;  that  those  who  do  not  be- 
lieve in  him  shall  be  damned.  What,  then,  will  be- 
come of  those  who  go  about  to  establish  their  own 
righteousness,  as  Odd-fellows,  instead  of  seeking 
the  righteousness  which  is  of  God,  through  faith  in 
our  Lord  Jesus  Christ?  And  what  a  dreadful  thing 
it  is  to  work  with  Satan,  to  lead  oar  young  men  to 


hope  that  they  can  climb  up  to  heaven  by  Odd-fel- 
lowship, or  Freemasonry,  when  the  explicit  teach- 
ing of  the  Bible  is,  that  there  is  no  way  to  God  and 
heaven  but  the  one  way,  which  is  Christ  What  a 
burning  shame  that  so  many  of  the  churches  should 
tolerate  their  members  in  joining  in  the  rival  wor- 
ships of  the  lodge,  where  Christ  is  ignored  and  men 
are  stimulated  to  cherish  false  hopes  of  heaven." 

Who  will  cry  aloud  and  spare  not,  until  the  church 
awakes  to  a  sense  of  her  responsibility,  and  united- 
ly testifies  against  the  false  worships  of  the  lodge? 

C.  F.  Hawley. 


INCIDBNT8  OF  THE  LOUISIANA  WORK. 


Plaqubminb,  La.,  June  28,  1888. 

Dear  CyNOsoBE: — I  came  here  from  Ilosedale  on 
the  21st  and  began  my  worK  by  distributing  anti- 
secrecy  tracts.  I  met  Mr.  Wm.  Ellis,  a  young 
Baptist  local  preacher.  He  said,  "If  dese  here 
preachers  would  stop  gwine  around  preaching 
against  secret  societies  the  churches  would  become 
more  united,  for  secret  orders  unites  churches.  If 
you  jist  preach  the  crucifixion  of  Christ,  dat's 
er  nuff." 

Of  course  Mr.  Ellin  is  trying  to  build  a  new 
church  at  Seymourville  by  lodge  help.  My  arrival 
here  seemed  to  have  perplexed  the  lodge;  hence  Mr. 
Lowry,  a  Methodist  local  preacher,  sent  word  to  me 
that  if  I  were  caught  on  the  streets  of  Plaquemine 
distributing  anti-lodge  tracts  I  must  expect  to 
abide  by  whatever  may  come  upon  me. 

I  reported  the  matter  to  Bro.  E.  H.  Dickerson, 
Justice  of  the  Peace,  clerk  of  Macedonia  Baptist 
church,  and  also  an  Odd-fellow.  He  denounced 
such  actions  and  said  it  was  my  privilege  to  dis- 
tribute tracts  and  take  either  side  of  the  lodge 
question  I  deemed  best.  These  poor,  ignorant 
lodgeites  charge  the  bulldozing  whites  with  sup- 
pression and  yet  do  the  very  same  thing  among 
themselves. 

The  pastor  of  Pilgrim  Rest  Baptist  church  had 
made  appointment  for  me  to  preach  for  his  people 
on  the  night  of  my  arrival,  but  not  being  assured  of 
the  appointment  I  did  not  meet  the  crowded  house 
that  patiently  awaited  until  after  9  p.  m.  I  regret- 
ted it  when  I  heard  of  their  disappointment,  but  I 
met  St.  Matthew  Baptist  church  Friday  night  and 
heard  an  excellent  anti-lodge  sermon  preached  by 
Rev.  J.  F.  Cox,  the  pastor  of  the  African  Metho- 
dist Episcopal  church  of  this  place.  I  was  really 
surprised  when  Elder  Cox  began  to  speak  of  the 
pretended  secrets  and  pass-words,  and  tell  them 
there  is  no  other  Divine  institution  but  the  church, 
with  which  all  Christians  should  be  content. 

I  distributed  tracts  after  services  to  the  congre- 
gation. This  set  the  secretists  to  grumbling  and 
threatening.  Most  of  the  preachers  and  church- 
going  people  were  on  an  excursion  to  New  Orleans 
Sabbath,  hence  there  was  poor  attendance  in  the 
churches  on  the  Lord's  day.  I  trust  the  preachers 
and  dear  Christians  will  wake  up  to  see  the  evil  in 
giving  their  patronage  to  Sunday  excursions. 

I  went  down  to  Dorseyville  and  preached  to  a 
large  congregation  at  St.  John  church,  Rev.  B. 
Doreey,  pastor.  Notwithstanding  Bro.  Dorsey's  op- 
position to  lodgery,  the  Knights  of  Labor  have 
succeeded  in  planting  a  lodge  and  builded  a  large 
lodge  hall  in  the  center  of  the  town.  Bro.  Dorsey 
has  been  and  is  yet  opposing  the  lodge  from  his 
pulpit.  I  distributed  a  great  many  tracts  in  Dor- 
seyville, which  I  think  will  have  their  effect  Bro. 
Dempsey  Greavers  told  me  that  he  had  become 
disgusted  and  had  left  the  K.  of  L.  There  is  a 
lady  here  whose  husband  died  last  year  and  the 
Odd-fellows  give  her  $5  00  per  month.  This  a 
kind  of  seductive  bait,  and  it  is  surely  catching 
lodge  fish.  Another  poor  lady  in  Dorseyville, 
whose  husband  died  and  left  her  three  little  chil- 
dren, all  under  seven  years  of  age;  and  the  Odd- 
fellows have  only  given  her  tlO.OO,  and  her  future 
prospects  seem  very  uncertain. 

Since  my  article  of  June  7th  appeared  in  the 
Cynoiure,  the  lodge  men  have  been  somewhat  op- 
posing Bro.  Williams.  His  school  has  closed 
now  and  the  lodgeites  think  thev  can  in  some  way 
cause  him  to  suirer.  But  the  God  of  all  peace  is 
able  to  sustain  him  and  all  that  obey  his  bidding. 
Most  of  the  anti-lodge  men  in  these  parts  have 
been  so  deeply  interested  in  other  work  for  several 
months  past  that  the  lodge  has  grown  strong. 
Even  Bro.  J.  A.  Porter,  though  opposed  to  secrecy, 
has  allowed  the  Knights  of  Labor  to  silence  his 
voice  by  joining  their  lodge.  Strange  to  say,  even  the 
strong  will  not  dare  oppose  lodgery  as  long  as  they 
are  adherents  to  it  The  copies  of  Cynoture  sent 
here  seems  to  be  awakening  the  drowsy  sleepers. 
Please  continue  to  send  them  regularly.  Anti-lodge 
tracts  sent  to  Rev.  B.  Dorsey,  Dorseyville,  and  L. 


C.  Washington,  Bayou  Goula,  La.,  will  be  distribu- 
ted freely.  I  go  from  here  to  Donaldson ville  and 
Belle  Rose.  Friends  can  write  me  and  send  old 
copies  of  the  Cynoture  or  tracts,  or  any  other  help 
to  prosecute  the  work  in  the  South,  to  152  Clara 
street.  New  Orleans,  until  July  15th.  If  my  race 
can  be  warned  they  can  be  saved. 


DoNALDSONVii.LE,  Ju.vE  28. — I  came  here  from 
Plaquemine  this  morning,  and  had  thought  to  meet 
Elder  Cotton  from  Belle  Rose  and  accompany  him 
home  and  preach  for  him  to-night;  but  owing  to  the 
long  spell  of  rainy  weather  the  road  was  impas- 
sible, so  I  stopped  here  and  have  seen  Revs.  Isaiah 
Lawson,  pastor  of  Nazarene  Baptist,  and  John 
Quarles,  pastor  of  the  M.  E.,  and  Rev.  John  Aubert, 
pastor  of  St  Luke  Baptist  church  of  Houma,  La., 
and  Hon.  J.  D.  Stewart,  former  State  Senator  from 
Houma,  Terre  Bonne  parish.  La.  Bro.  Aubert  is  the 
only  anti-lodge  man  among  these;  however,  Bro. 
Lawson  and  Mr.  Stewart  have  seen  the  evils  of  the 
K.  of  L,  and  denounce  it  very  strongly;  yet  they 
seem  to  think  other  secret  lodges  are  perfectly  safe. 
There  is  very  little,  as  yet,  to  be  done  here,  saving 
the  distribution  of  tracts  and  introducing  the  Cyno- 
sure. Bro.  Aubert  thinks  lodgery  is  ruining  the 
churches  financially  and  spiritually.  This  is  another 
city  alllicted  with  lodgery,  but  a  few  Cynosures  will 
start  the  people  to  thinking.  Donaldsonville  has 
about  4,000  inhabitants,  with  three  white  and  two 
colored  churches,  with  legions  of  secret  lodges.  I 
met  one  man,  a  deacon  in  a  church  here,  and  although 
he  belongs  to  three  lodges,  he  denounced  them  all 
as  frauds  and  church-destroyers. 


New  OaiiEANS,  June  30. — I  came  from  Donald- 
sonville'here  and  began  distributing  tracts  and  call- 
ing on  Cynosure  readers.  I  found  my  family  very 
unwell.  I  met  a  secretist  last  night  who  said  he 
was  going  to  have  the  press  of  the  Cynosure  arrest- 
ed for  printing  his  name  and  his  "s'ciety."  I  have 
met  several  prominent  secretists  since  I  returned, 
and  they  seem  very  anxious  to  know  what  I  am  do- 
ing and  how  long  I  am  going  to  stop  in  the  city.  A 
member  of  my  church  was  buried  yesterday.  She 
belonged  to  the  Grand  Samaritan  Lodge,  No.  1,  and 
the  pastor  was  hardly  recognized  at  all,  as  the  lodge 
had  its  own  chaplain.  F.  J.  Davidson. 


CORBESPOXDENCE. 


LBTTBR    FROM  THB  CONGO. 


[Conclusion  of  Rev.  Edward  Mathews's  letter  from 
last  number,  which  described  his  reaching  the  mis- 
sion station  at  Kimpoka,  manned  by  a  Mr.  Elkins 
and  wife  and  forming  part  of  the  William  Taylor 
system.] 

I  learned  that  some  days  previous  to  our  call  the 
leopards  had  carried  off  their  three  goats,  and  now 
the  new  milk  is  greatly  missed.  Breakfast  was 
soon  prepared,  and  we  could  but  remark  the  differ- 
ence between  the  food  at  this  self-sustaining  mission 
and  others  where  we  have  eaten.  Here  everything 
bespoke  poverty  and  scantiness,  whereas  at  missions 
properly — yes,  Scripturally  supplied —  supported  by 
appropriations  from  home  churches,  they  have  things 
wholesome  and  in  abundance.  It  may  be  that  some 
natures  are  so  constituted  that  God  has  to  about 
starve  them  to  get  them  through  to  heaven,  but  I 
can  relish  a  good  steak  cooked  with  butter  and  serve 
the  Lord  to  acceptance. 

We  read  some  after  family  worship,  then  laid  on 
the  floor  and  slept  for  a  short  time,  when  we  were 
aroused  for  a  lunch  before  our  return  trip. 

At  1  p.  M.,  the  same  day,  we  pushed  off,  and  with 
the  current  in  our  favor  made  good  progress  toward 
home.  Five  hours  from  Kimpoka  we  came  upon 
large  herds  of  Hippos,  and  it  was  decided  to  put 
our  luggage  and  boys  and  Mr.  Brown  on  an  island, 
while  the  Bangallas  took  me  nearer  to  the  game  so 
as  to  bag  a  Hippo  if  possible.  The  third  shot  was 
effectual,  and  the  huge  beast,  having  receivetl  the 
charge  in  his  head,  showed  us  his  fore  feet  clean, 
and  so  rolled  and  floundered  until,  reaching  deep 
water,  he  sank.  We  could  not  wait  eight  hours  for 
him  to  float  and  so  our  Bangallaa  surlily  complie<.l 
with  our  request  and  paddled  aw.iy  from  the  scene. 
We  soon  sighted  some  fishermen  on  an  island  and 
landed  to  get  cLith  (a  present)  for  the  Bangallas, 
who  were  mad  because  we  would  not  wait  for  the 
Hippo  to  float  Five  large  fish  were  being  cured 
over  the  fire,  and  for  a  dozen  table-knives  Bro. 
Brown  purchasetl  them,  and  now  all  was  right 

I  shot  two  more  Hippos,  three  in  all,  so  Mr. 
Brown  claims,  but  we  got  none,  and  now  night  was 
fast  approaching  and  we  were  an  hour  or  more  from 
home.    That  flash  of  lightning  accompanied  with 


n 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


July  12, 1888 


terrific  thunder  is  the  harbinger  of  the  storm,  and 
now  all  bend  to  the  paddles  and  I  among  them.  Our 
canoe  fairly  flies  through  the  water;  but  the  storm 
is  from  the  southwest  and  so  comes  on  our  broad- 
side. We  pulled  for  life  and  finally  were  driven 
among  the  rank  grass  and  papyrus,  where  for  fifteen 
minutes  we  were  at  the  mercy  of  the  swell  which 
soon  filled  our  canoe,  drenching  us  and  all  our  bag- 
gage. The  fine  fish  before  mentioned  were  lost,  and 
we  were  left  to  wonder  if  anything  was  saved.  We 
managed  finally  to  release  the  canoe,  and  affected  a 
landing,  where  for  more  than  an  hour  we  squatted 
under  the  pelting  of  the  pitiless  storm,  and  yet  not 
a  mile  from  the  village  of  North  Doto  on  the  east 
and  Kinchessa  on  the  west,  but  the  rank  vegetation 
kept  us  from  reaching  either.  The  wind  went  down 
and  soon  we  loaded  up  and  pushed  off  upon  the 
bosom  of  the  restless  Pool  and  reached  Arlington 
about  9  p.  M.,  thoroughly  wearied  with  our  exposure. 

Bro.  Silvery  exerted  himself  and  soon  we  were 
regaled  with  hot  tea,  and  as  a  preventive  we  took 
quinide  and  wrapped  up  thoroughly  and  turned  in, 
as  sailors  say.  The  Sabbath  dawned  brightly,  but  I 
felt  stupid  and  chose  to  rest  and  so  stave  off,  if  pos- 
sible, the  fever.  More  quinine  was  taken,  and  so 
for  a  few  days  I  did  little  more  than  nurse  myself, 
and  by  proper  care  I  finally  came  out  all  right;  but 
so  deaf  that  my  conversation  tube  was  of  little  or 
no  service;  persons  wishing  to  talk  to  me  were 
obliged  to  write.  In  a  few  days  this  effect  of  quin- 
ine passed  off  and  my  tube  is  again  of  use. 

Monday,  April  9  th,  T  was  aroused  by  a  crowd 
gathering  near  my  room,  and  went  out  to  ascertain 
the  cause,  and  met  the  goat  boy,  who,  in  an  excited 
manner,  told  me  of  a  tiger  in  the  goat  house.  I 
called  for  the  gun  and  reconnoitered  and  to  my  sur- 
prise I  found  it  was  a  serpent  (python)  l^bat  was 
sleeping  off  his  gluttony,  having  swallowed  ten  fowls 
for  his  early  meal— as  it  proved  after  I  shot  him 
and  he  was  opened.  I  have  his  skin,  which  I  ex- 
pect to  bring  home  if  God  spares  me.  It  is  fifteen 
feet  long  and  from  eighteen  to  twenty-four  inches 
wide  through  the  middle. 

The  Station  on  Friday,  April  19  th,  was  made  ac- 
quainted with  the  fact  of  the  death  of  one  of  the 
Bangalla  men,  and  all  night  the  residue,  about  thirty 
or  forty,  including  women,  mourned  as  is  the  custom 
of  their  race.     It  is  hard  to  describe  the  scene. 

In  the  hut  where  the  corpse  was  stretched  there 
sat  a  few  men  and  women  caying,  wiiile  outside,  in 
groups  around  log  fires,  others  were  squatted.  One 
group,  larger  than  the  others,  was  made  up  of  men 
formed  in  a  circle,  with  two  in  the  center  decked 
out  in  boughs  of  trees,  and  four  or  five  drummed 
on  iron  tanks  which  had  been  used  for  bringing  oil 
and  paint  to  the  Congo,  with  an  additional  native 
drum.  These  men  exerted  themselves  beyond  de- 
scription. They  writhed,  jerked  and  twisted  until  it 
appeared  to  me  they  were  boneless.  Others  shrieked 
and  wailed  to  appease  the  wrath  of  their  divinities. 
Saturday  morning  the  body  was  wound  in  about  fifty 
yards  of  cloth,  and  without  box  or  coffin  was  laid 
away  in  the  grave.  Bro.  Brown  and  I  held  a  serv- 
ice, and  the  large  crowd  was  quite  attentive.  So  it 
goes  here  on  the  Pool. 

As  to  weather  the  wet  season  is  still  on  us,  but 
we  are  not  uncomfortable.  The  heat  is  not  intense, 
and  the  rains  are  almost  without  exception  in  the 
night,  so  we  get  along  very  nicely. 

Edwabd  Mathews. 


OUB  PUBLICATIONS  IN  WE8T  AFRICA. 


Rev.  J.  Gomer,  missionary  of  the  United  Breth- 
ren church  at  Shengay,  West  Africa,  sends  us  the 
very  interesting  letter  printed  below,  which  ought  to 
stir  all  our  hearts  toward  the  Foreign  Fund.  Bro. 
Gomer  himself  writes: 

Frestown,  Sierre  Leone,  May  26,  1888. 
Editor  Cynosure, 

Dear  Sir: — The  enclosed  letter  is  from  Rev. 
Charles  Cole,  a  merchant  at  Grand  Bassa,  Liberia, 
and  said  to  be  a  very  responsible  man.  He  owns 
good  property  here  in  Freetown,  and  at  present  his 
wife  is  here;  this  is  his  native  home.  As  Grand 
Bassa  is  300  or  400  miles  down  the  coast  from  here, 
and  my  station  is  sixty  miles  inland  from  here,  it 
would  be  far  better  for  him  to  do  his  business  direct 
with  you,  as  mail  steamers  call  in  at  Bassa  and  we 
have  no  regular  mail  to  Shengay. 


My  Dear  Bao.— Many,  many  thanks  for  the 
three  books  that  you  so  "kindly  sent  me,  viz.,  "My 
Experiences  with  Secret  Societies,  Illustrated,"  "Se- 
crecy in  its  Relations  to  the  Family,  etc.,  by  Rev. 
M.  S.  Drury,"  and  "Chrutian  Cynoiure."  Really  I 
thank  God  Almighty  that  my  ambition  has  never 
yet  taken  me  to  that  society.  Masonry,  or  any  other 
secret  society;  and  if  I  bad  the  will  all  Masons  and 


members  of  any  other  secret  societies  should  have 
their  own  church  built  for  themselves,  and  no  Chris- 
tian should  mingle  with  them  in  their  worship,how- 
ever  eloquent  some  of  them  may  be,  for  their  truth- 
fulness in  what  they  preach  is  rendered  doubtful  by 
their  profound  secrecy,  even  to  their  own  bosom 
wife,  their  darling  children  and  fond  parents. 
Kindly  send  me  the  following  publications  and  I 
shall  send  to  settle  for  them;  and  if  you  have  any 
more  of  those  you  sent  me  to  sell,  I  can  sell  them 
for  you  and  make  you  the  remittance. 

Charles  Cole, 


A  PRAT  BR  OF  FAITH. 


Warren,  111. 

Our  Lord  requires  his  witnesses  to  testify  of  what 
they  know  of  his  grace  by  experience.  1  John  1 :  3 
says:  "That  which  we  have  seen  and  heard  declare 
we  unto  you.*'  Of  course  such  a  witness  could  not 
be  an  oath-bound  Mason;  and  no  Christian  will  put 
his  light  under  a  bushel. 

After  reading  Elder  Callender's  article  on  faith- 
healing  in  the  Cynosure  of  Feb.  16,  I  desire  to  wit- 
ness to  the  world  some  things  that  I  know  of 
Christ's  doing  in  my  experience  of  over  sixty-one 
years  of  Christian  work.  As  for  Christ's  healing 
the  sick  in  answer  to  prayer  I  never  doubted  it  since 
I  became  acquainted  with  him.  I  have  heard  it 
published  from  the  pulpit  all  my  life  that  such  mir- 
acles were  not  designed  to  be  continued  after  the 
establishment  of  the  Christian  religion;  but  I  have 
never  been  told  where  1  could  have  God's  word  for 
it.  About  the  year  1830,  in  the  town  of  Shelby, 
Orleans  county.  New  York,  a  Christian  lady  was 
sick  and  under  the  care  of  a  doctor  for  a  long  time 
without  apparent  benefit,  and  was  finally  pronounced 
incurable,  and  given  up  to  die. 

As  I  was  passing  the  house  one  day,  on  foot  and 
alone,  with  no  thought  of  the  sick  woman,  suddenly 
I  seemed  to  hear  a  voice  speak  to  me  as  plainly  as 
words  could  utter,  "Go  in  and  pray  for  that  sick 
woman."  t  went  into  the  house  and  saw  the  invalid 
was  very  feeble,  and  as  the  nurses  were  trying  to 
make  her  comfortable,  I  did  not  interfere  and  left 
without  offering  prayer.  I  thought  no  more  of  the 
matter  for  a  few  days,  until  I  called  on  business 
with  the  husband  of  the  sick  woman,  when  she 
beckoned  to  me  and  whispered,  "Why  did  thee  not 
pray  with  me  the  other  day?  Something  told  me 
thee  came  in  to  pray  with  me."  1  replied  that  I 
was  told  to  do  so,  and  had  no  excuse  to  offer  except 
a  dislike  to  interfere.  I  felt  then  no  disposition  to 
pray.  Not  long  after  I  was  again  passing  the  same 
house  when  the  word  came  again  as  plainly  as  a 
man  could  speak,  "Go,  pray  with  that  woman  I"  I 
went  in,  called  the  family  together  and  had  a  sea- 
son of  prayer.  All  in  the  house  felt  the  power  of 
God  upon  us.  The  apparently  dying  woman  was 
healed  then  and  there  by  the  power  of  God,  as  I  be- 
lieve. (Rev.)  B.  Williams. 


PITH  AND  POINT. 


POWELL   CLAYTON. 

In  my  June  communication  to  the  Cynosure  I  reiterat  - 
ed  what  the  reporter  of  the  Chicago  News  reported  Gen. 
Powell  Clayton  of  Arkansas  as  saying  concerning  the 
colored  people's  franchise,  that  they  should  not  have 
been  allowed  the  full  franchise,  and  so  on.  All  of  which 
Gen.  Clayton  denies  and  says  he  gave  utterance  to  no 
such  words.  Gen.  Clayton  made  self  sacrifices  for  the 
colored  delegates  at  the  Chicago  Republican  Convention. 
I  wrote  the  letter  before  he  made  a  denial  of  the  charges. 
His  late  action  in  the  convention  was  of  such  a  nature  as 
to  cause  the  colored  people  of  Arkansas  to  feel  proud  of 
him.— A.  M.  Middlebrooks,  Pine  Bluff,  Ark. 

ANOTHER   league  FOR  A  BETTER  CHRISTIAN   UNION. 

Universal  Christendom  (Catholic,  Protestant  and  the 
Greek  or  Eastern  church)  is  agreed  upon  the  fact  that 
the  Lord  Jesus  Christ  appointed  two  positive  ordinances 
to  be  observed  by  his  people,  and  that  these  ordinances 
are  baptism  and  the  Lord's  Supper.  The  different  hu- 
man devices  or  modes  of  obedience  are  like  flags  of  re- 
bellion. And,  alas!  such  condemned  "divisions"  con- 
tinue instead  of  the  "one  body"  for  whose  oneness  our 
Lord  prayed  (John  17).  When  that  prayer  is  answered  the 
world  will  believe  in  Him.  The  union  sentiment  among 
Protestants  has  increased  greatly  of  late  years  as  may  be 
seen  by  the  many  associations  formed  in  support  of  the 
views  which  they  hold  in  common.  Our  country  affords 
a  good  illustration  of  unions  in  which  contrary  princi- 
ples are  held.  The  Northern  and  Southern  Htates  were 
one  nation.but  slavery  and  liberty  were  inimical.and  the 
South  hoisted  its  bars  acd  stars  in  rebellion  against  the 
North  and  yet  truthfully  declared  her  loyalty  to  the 
same  principles  she  had  always  maintained!  So  the 
present  unions  of  sects  or  denominations  may  have  in 
them  some  disruptive  element  which  will  prove  danger- 
ous to  the  future  and  must  be  set  aside  or  eradicated  be- 
fore real  Christian  union  can  be  safely  enjoyed.  Would 
it  not  then  be  a  good  plan  for  religious  papera  to  open 


their  columns  on  the  subject?  To  this  many  hearts 
would  throb  a  hearty.  Amen!  Readers  would  welcome 
such  a  column  and  rejoice  in  it  as  a  means  of  purifying 
the  ordinances  of  Christ  and  thereby  a  foretaste  of  the 
triumph  of  our  common  Christianity  in  the  world.  Hap- 
pily Protestantism  is  a  unit  against  Rome  and  her  wafer 
instead  of  the  bread  and  wine  prescribed  by  our  Lord. — 

T.  H. 

OUR  COLPORTEURS  STRIKE   FLINTY   SOIL  AT  RICHMOND, 
ILLINOIS. 

We  could  not  do  much  yesterday  but  distribute  circu- 
lars, I  secured  one  subscription.  This  is  the  worst 
town  I  have  ever  seen.  Nearly  all  are  Masons.  I  secured 
two  subscriptions  from  ladies  this  morning.  About  an 
hour  afterwards  a  man  stopped  me  and  demanded  that 
his  wife's  name  should  be  taken  from  my  list  and  the 
money  refunded.  We  had  a  hot  time.  I  would  do  neith- 
er for  him.  In  a  few  moments  I  met  his  wife;  she  wished 
that  I  would  give  back  the  moaey  as  it  would  make  trou- 
ble. She  felt  90  bad  that  I  obliged  her  and  went  on. 
About  half  an  hour  ago  the  other  lady  came  here  and 
wished  her  name  taken  off  and  money  given  back.  Fami- 
ly tranquility  was  about  to  be  split.  I  tried  to  argue  with 
her  but  it  was  no  use.  We  have  stirred  them  up;  gave 
away  a  good  many  tracts,  but  can't  secure  subscriptions 
(or  hold  them). — j.  w.  f. 

THE   NEW   ORLEANS   WORK   MARKED. 

I  am  deeply  interested  in  the  good  work  going  on  in 
New  Orleans  and  that  part  of  the  South.  I  was  former- 
ly acquainted  with  Elder  Jackson,  Mr.  Ladd  and  many 
others.  I  was  called  to  the  financial  superiutendencv  of 
the  erection  of  the  female  boarding  house  of  Leland  Uni- 
versity in  '82.  The  Cynosure  came  to  our  reading  room 
then.  Does  it  still  go  there?  Am  glad  to  see  the  good 
work  follow  the  traveling  evangelists  of  this  Gospel  that 
sets  captives  free  from  the  device  of  Satan. — R  R. 
Whittier. 


LITERATTJRE. 

The  two  great  illustrated  serials  of  the  Century,  the 
Life  of  Lincoln  and  Kennan's  Siberian  Papers,  are  cm- 
tinued  in  the  July  number.  Mr.  Kennan  describes  the 
Steppes  of  the  Irtish.  Those  who  suppose  that  Siberia 
is  a  land  of  ice  and  desolation  will  be  surprised  at  his  de- 
scription of  the  flowery  country  through  which  the  route 
of  the  expedition  lay.  The  illustrations  are  very  numer- 
ous and  novel.  In  the  installment  of  the  Lfncoln  Histo- 
ry the  relations  between  Lincoln  and  McClellan  are  de- 
scribed, and  an  astonishing  incident  relating  to  a  call  by 
President  Lincoln  upon  General  McClellan  is  here  author- 
itatively described  for  the  first  time.  Under  the  heads  of 
"European  Neutrality"  and  "The  'Trent'  Affair,"  Mr. 
Lincoln's  part  in  these  matters  is  fully  set  forth.  There 
are  portraits  of  Charles  Francis  Adams,  Rear-Admiral 
Wilkes,  John  Slidell  and  J.  M.  Mason.  Rev.  Dr.  Buck- 
ley of  the  Christian  Advocate  has  in  this  number  another 
of  the  series  he  is  writing  on  various  superstitions  and 
psychologic  phenomena.  The  present  essay  is  on 
"Dreams,  Nightmare,  and  Somnambulism."  The  open- 
ing illustrated  article  is  of  special  value  to  all  Sabbath- 
school  teachers,  because  of  its  fine  description  and  illus- 
trations of  the  Sinai  country.  The  traditions  yet  pre- 
served by  the  Mohammedans  and  the  Catholics  for  the 
benefit  of  the  multitude  of  pilgrims  to  these  so  called 
"sacred"  places,  are  interesting  and  instructive.  The 
frontispiece  is  a  portrait  of  Pasteur  and  his  granddaugh- 
ter by  the  celebrated  French  painter,  Bonnat.  This  pic- 
ture is  printed  in  connection  with  a  timely  article  on 
"Disease  Germs,  and  how  to  Combat  them,"  a  foot-note 
to  which  article  gives  a  brief  sketch  of  Pasteur's  interest- 
ing career, 

A  stroke  of  enterprise  in  the  July  American  Magazine 
is  a  symposiumdiscussion,by  eminent  American  authors, 
of  the  Cbace  International  Copyright  Bill,  which  is  now 
awaiting  the  action  of  the  House  of  Representatives. 
Some  of  the  views  are  remarkable,  especially  tbose  of 
Eugene  Field,  who  claims  that  America  should  have  a  lit- 
erature to  protect  before  setting  about  protecting  it.  Wil- 
liam Eleroy  Curtis  has  a  second  paper  on  "Ecuador  and 
her  Cities,"  which  is  fully  up  to  the  high  standard  of  the 
first,  and  brings  out  much  information  of  that  part  of 
South  America  which  is  not  generally  known.  "House- 
keeping by  the  U.  S.  Governmenfis  the  title  of  an  illus- 
trated paper  by  Charlotte  Reeve  Conover,  describing  the 
Veteran's  Home  near  Dayton,  Ohio.  Dr.  Allan  McLane 
Hamilton,  the  eminent  brain  specialist,  contributes  an 
enterlainiog  paper  on  "Spiritualism  and  Like  Delusions," 
in  which  are  many  statements  that  Spiritualists  will  not 
like  to  read,  inasmuch  as  the  doctor  evidently  considers 
them  of  unsound  mind.  Among  other  things,  this  paper 
shows  how  chemicals  may  be  used  in  producing  spirit 
pictures. 

Bleeding  from  the  nose  In  children  is  not  an  uncom- 
mon event  at  this  season  of  the  year,  A  popular  article 
on  this  subject  by  Dr.  J,  B.  Bissell  in  the  July  num- 
ber of  Babyhood  will  therefore  be  found  of  general  in- 
terest to  mothers.  It  clearly  describes  the  various  caus- 
es of  bleeding,  and  furnishes  a  number  of  simple  reme- 
dies not  always  known  or  thought  of.  Equally  season- 
able is  Dr,  Chapin's  article  on,  "The  Dietetic  Treatment 
of  Indigestion  and  Diarrhcca,"  containing  many  hints 
which,  if  heeded.,  will  save  unnecessary  suffering  to  the 
little  ones.  Dr.  Yale,  the  medical  editor,  lays  stress  on 
the  value  of  sterilizing  milk,  a  process  which  deprives  it 
of  the  living  organisms  that  favor  fermentation.  The 
process  is  a  very  simple  one  and  is  fully  described. 
Among  the  non-medical  articles  is  one  entitled  "Put 
Yourself  in  her  Place,"  which  discusses  the  nurse-girl 
question  in  a  novel  way. 


JULT  12,  1888 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


Literature,  the  new  illustrated  weekly, 
has  in  lato  numbers  given  portraits, 
sketches  and  illustrative  selections  from 
their  writings  of  Samuel  L  Clemens 
(Mark  Twain),  James  Wood  Davidson, 
Mrs.  (Danske)  Dandridge,the  poet  Swin- 
burne and  Charles  Reade. 

Words  and  Weapons  for  the  month  has 
from  the  editors,  "The  Wayside  Hearer," 
"The  Necessity  of  Preparation,"and"Pol- 
itics  and  the  Christian."  In  the  latter 
Mr.  Mills  slurs  at  the  position  of  the  Re- 
formed Presbyterians  in  politics  in  terms 
most  unworthy  of  his  magazine.  We 
doubt  if  Ingersoll  would  show  more  dis- 
respect for  the  convictions  of  a  noble 
people.  If  Mr.Mills  would  better  inform 
himself  upon  the  position  of  the  Coven- 
anters and  the  demands  of  the  Word  of 
Qod  that  Christ  be  honored  as  the  head 
of  the  state  as  well  as  of  the  church,  he 
would  at  least  cease  to  Ecorn  and  misrep 
resent  if  he  did  not  agree.  Dr.Pierson's 
biographical  sketch  is  upon  the  philan- 
thropist, John  Howard. 

at.  Jiicholas,  with  all  of  its  Fourth  o* 
July  stories,  Revolutionary  ballads, 
sketches  of  marvelous  dogs  and  pig?,has 
also  "Recollections  of  the  Naval  Acade- 
my," a  full  and  interesting  account  of 
how  our  naval  ofHcers  are  educated.  The 
story  of  "The  Little  Six,"  by  Eugene  M 
Camp,  tells  how  some  children  raised 
money  for  the  Ohio  Valley  flood  sufEer- 
er8,and  how  the  money.was  applied  by  the 
Red  Cross  Societv.  "A  Japanese  Lulla- 
by Song, "by  A.  V.  R.  Eastlake, tells  how 
they  manage  babies  in  Japan,  and  gives  a 
native  cradle-song,  with  music,  and  an 
English  version.  Mary  E.  Vandjne,  in 
"Aimee,"  tells  a  thrilling  story  of  two 
young  girls  who  were  shut  into  a  ruined 
villa  by  the  earthquake  at  Nice. 


IN  BRIEF. 

It  would  require  700,000,000  men  to  do 
the  work  that  is  done  by  machinery  in 
Great  Britain  alone — more  than  there  are 
in  all  the  world. 

There  is  in  Germany  a  society  number- 
ing 4,500  members,  for  the  substitution 
of  English  letters  in  place  of  the  German 
in  printing.  The  reform  is  growing  so 
fast  that  out  of  6,\)V6  scientific  and  in- 
dustrial books  published  in  Germany  in 
1886,  5,316  were  printed  in  English  type. 
The  same  thing  is  occurring  in  Japan. 

Assheton  Smith  has  planted  the  side  of 
a  mountain  on  his  estate  at  Llanddelno- 
len,  Wales,  with  forest  trees  so  arranged 
as  to  display  the  words,  "Jubilee,  1887," 
in  letters  200  feet  long  by  25  feet  wide, 
to  all  the  surrounding  country.  The  let- 
ters are  worked  in  trees  of  light  colored 
foliage  planted  amid  others  forming  a 
dark  background,  and  650,000  have  been 
used  in  the  undertaking. 

During  the  last  ten  years  the  climate 
of  Egypt  has  wonderfully  changed,  and 
it  now  rains  there  during  the  winter 
months  as  much  as  anywhere  else. 
Through  all  history,  and  up  to  1878,  rain 
was  unknown  and  the  farmers  were  de- 
pendent on  irrigation  from  the  Nile  for 
their  crops.  What  has  caused  the  change 
no  one  knows,  but  it  may  surely  be  a 
taken  to  us  that  God's  purposes  are  ful- 
filling. 

Rev.  Dr.  W.  C.  Winslow,  of  Boston,  is 
eagerly  seeking  for  funds  with  which  the 
work  of  exploration  at  Bubastis,  Egypt, 
may  be  prosecuted.  Discoveries  of  the 
greatest  importance  have  recently  been 
made,  among  others  a  statue  which  au- 
thorities at  Boulak  pronounce  to  be  of 
Joseph's  Pharaoh.  'Thousands  of  people 
from  Cairo  have  visited  the  site.  Dr. 
Winslow  writes  that  "without  a  cent  of 
endowment  we  must  beg  or  stop  work." 

Walter  H.  Lap  ham,  of  Cedar  Rapids, 
Iowa,has  completed  what  he  claims  is  the 
smallest  engine  ever  made.  It  is  model- 
ed after  the  Cedar  Rapids  high  speed  en 
gine.  The  boiler  is  upright,  has  a  safety 
valve,  water  gauge,  pumps,  etc.  It  will 
fit  on  top  of  a  common  lead  pencil.  In 
height  it  is  less  than  threeeigtha  of  an 
inch,  and  can  be  covered  by  a  38  calibre 
cartridge.  Two  drops  of  water  fill  tie 
boiler.  The  length  of  stroke  of  the  en- 
gine is  one  thirty-second  of  an  inch.  It 
weighs  15  grains. 

Mr.  Claus  Spreckols.in  speaking  of  the 
sugar  industry,  said  there  were  several 
large  refineries  outside  the  trust.  Among 
them  are  the  California  sugar  refinery  of 
San  Francisco,  with  a  daily  capacity  of 
1,200,000  pounds;  the  Harrison  &  Fra- 
zier,  with  about  1,001),()00;  fi.  0,  Knight 


&  Co.,  with  about  400,000.  The  new  re- 
finery in  Philadelphia  will  produce  2,- 
000.000  pounds  a  day,making  5,000,000, 
or  2,5000  tons  a  day  produced  by  refiner- 
ies out  of  the  trust.  The  consumption 
of  sugar  in  the  United  States  is  1,320,000 
tons  a  year.  The  refineries  out  of  the 
trust  will  produce  780,000  tons  a  year. 
This  leaves  only  670,000  tons  a  year  for 
the  refineries  in  the  trust.  The  four  re- 
fineries out  of  the  trust  have  a  greater 
capacity  than  the  twenty  in  the  trust. 

The  New  Yofk  World  has  a  despatch 
from  Kansas  City  which  says  that  on  a 
recent  night  'the  little  daughter  of  A.  O. 
Smith,  Deputy  Postmaster  at  Nebraska 
City,  Neb.,  was  pronounced  dead  from 
typhoid  pneumonia,  and  had  all  the  ap- 
pearance of  death.  The  mother  could 
not  be  persuaded  to  leave  the  little  one. 
About  three  o'clock  in  the  morning  her 
screams  of  joy  awoke  the  whole  neigh- 
borhood, and  several  persons  entered  to 
find  the  child  sitting  on  its  mother's  lap, 
refreshed  and  apparently  well.  It  haci 
improved  steadily  since  thei  and  is  do 
ing  excellently  now.  The  mother 
says  she  was  weeping  over  the  inanimate 
form  and  was  kissing  the  cold  lips  in  an 
agony  of  grief,  when  suddenly  the  little 
one  opened  its  eyes,  and  the  next  instant 
threw  its  arms  about  her  neck." 

The  Cost  of  Stoi'ping  a  Tkain. — An 
engineer  on  the  Central  road  says  (on  the 
cost  of  stopping  a  railroad  train)  that 
"there  is  rt  quired  about  twice  as  much 
power  to  stop  a  train  as  to  start  one,  the 
loss  of  power  depending  upon  the  mo- 
mentum. A  train  going  at  the  rate  of 
sixty  miles  an  hour  can,  by  means  of  the 
Westinghouse  air  brake, be  stopped  with- 
in 120  yards  from  the  first  application  of 
the  brake.  Now  enough  power  is  lost  to 
carry  this  same  train  fifteen  miles  over  a 
plane  surface.  First,  there  is  the  mo- 
mentum acquired  by  the  train  flying  at 
this  remarkable  rate  of  speed:  then  the 
loss  of  steam  in  applying  the  brakes,  and 
lastly,  but  not  least,  the  extra  amount  of 
coal  to  compensate  for  all  these  losses. 
By  computation  I  have  ascertained  that 
everv  complete  stop  involve!  a  cost  of 
$1.17." 


VALUE    OF    ADVERTISEMENTS. 

"Do  I  believe  in  advertising,"  said  a 
prominent  lawyer  a  day  or  two  ago. 
"Well,  rather;  and  in  the  hidden  adver- 
tisement more  than  in  any  other.  I  re- 
member, one  day.reading  a  very  interest- 
ing story  that  ended  in  what  I  took  to  be 
a  pufiE  for  Dr.  Pierce's  Pleasant  Purga- 
tive Pellets.  I  threw  down  the  paper  in 
a  rage.  Not  a  week  after  that  I  needed 
some  medicine  of  that  kind,  and  went 
and  bought  those  same  little  pills."  "Did 
I  find  them  good?  Why,  yes,  the  best 
thing  of  the  kind  I  ever  saw, but  that  has 
nothing  to  do  with  the  first  question, and 
I  only  mention  the  joKe  on  myself  to 
show  that  advertising  does  pay." 


Fortify  the  system  by  the  use  of  Ayer's 
Sarsaparilla  against  the  diseases  pecul- 
iar to  hot  weather.  This  medicine  induc- 
es a  healthy  action  of  the  stomach,  liver, 
and  kidneys,  causing  them  to  prevent  t^e 
accumulation  of  the  poisons  which  pro- 
duce disease. 


In  every  community  there  are  a  num- 
ber of  men  whose  whole  time  is  not  oc- 
cupied, such  as  teachers,  ministers, farm- 
ers' sons  and  others.  To  these  classes  es- 
pecially we  would  say,  if  you  wish  to 
make  several  hundred  dollars  during  the 
next  few  months,  write  at  once  to  B.  F. 
Johnson  &  Co.,  of  Richmond,  Va.,  and 
they  will  show  you  how  to  do  it. 


THE  INTERIOR 

OF 

SIERRA  LEONE. 

"West  Airica. 


WHAT  OAN  IT  TEAOH  US? 


BT  J.  AUQU8TTTS  COLS, 
Of  Shalngay,  W.  A. 

With  I'ortrRil  ol'tlie  .A.iitbor. 

Mr.  Cole  is  now  In  the  employ  of  the  N.C.  A 
and  traveling  with  H.II.HInmaii  In  the  South 
Price,  postpaid,  20  ota. 

National  Christian  Association. 

ISl  W.  lUdiaomBt..  CUeaco.  |U. 


8B  VBB  T  BOG  IB  TIES  CONDEMNED 


BT  QBBAT  MEN  IM  THS  CHUBCH. 

Rkv.  John  Todd,  Pittsfield,  Maas.:—^ 
Unhesitatingly  I  give  my  decided  disap^ 
probation  of  what  I  deem  secret  societies 
in  college  and  elsewhere.  I  have  never 
known  any  good  results  from  them  which 
could  not  have  been  attained  in  some 
other  more  appropriate  way,  and  I  have 
known  great  evils  resulting  from  them. 

Howard  Ckoshy,  Chancellor  Univer- 
sity of  New  York,  1S70: — We  have  no 
hesitation  in  writing  secret  societies 
among  the  quackeries  of  the  earth . 

Idem,  1886:  — The  secret  lodge  system 
belongs  to  despotisms  and  not  to  democ- 
racies. Whatever  in  it  is  not  babyish  is 
dangerous. 

Rev.  Matthew  L.  R.  Perbine,  D.D., 
Auburn  Theological  Seminar}/,  Rev.  Joel 
Parker  and  Rev.  Ciiauncey  Eddy: — 
Having  formerly  associated  with  Free 
masons,  we  deem  it  our  duty,  publicly  to 
declare  that  the  system  of  Freemasonry  is 
in  our  judgment,  of  a  tendency  on  the 
whole  pernicious  to  the  moral  habits,  and 
dangerous  to  the  civil  and  religious  insti- 
tutions of  our  country. 

Rev.  Levi  Chase,  Fall  River,  Mass.:  — 
The  question  has  been  asked  by  Masons, 
who  wish  to  asperse  the  characters  of 
those  who  have  renounced  Masonry, 
"Why  did  not  they  renounce  it  be- 
fore?" For  one,  I  will  give  them  the  rea 
son  why  I  did  not.  The  Masonic  oaths 
locked  my  tongue  in  silence —death,  in 
all  its  horrid  shapes  and  frightful  forms, 
stared  me  in  the  face — I  considered  the 
oaths  binding. 

Rev.  C.  D.  BuRiiiNonAM,  in  history  of 
the  OeneseeM.E  Gonfei  ence,  1860: — This 
new  element  of  discord  (Odd  fellowship) 
began  to  introduce  itself  in  our  church, 
professedly  as  a  mutual  insurance  com- 
pany against  temporal  want,  and  a  newly 
discovered  and  remarkably  successful 
Gospel  appliance  for  bringing  the  world, 
reformed  and  saved  into  the  church. 
But  our  people  very  naturally  looked 
upon  it  with  suspicion,  dreading  its  power 
as  a  secret  agency  acting  through  affiliated 
societies,  and  doubting  its  utility  as  a 
financial  scheme.  They  feared  it  would 
drag  the  church,  debased  and  corrupted, 
into  the  world. 

Rev.  Joel  Mann,  a  renouncing  Mason: 
— Although  portions  of  the  Gospel  are 
interwoven  with  its  forms,  I  conceive 
that  Masonry  presents  false  grounds  of 
hope;  leads  men  to  depend  on  their  own 
defective  righteousness; — to  expect  the 
favor  of  God  without  the  interposition  of 
a  Redeemer,  and  even  without  repent- 
ance; and  thus  has  a  most  injurious  influ- 
ence on  their  eternal  interests.  Under 
the  most  favorable  circumstances,  which 
in  any  place,  have  attended  Masonry,  it 
has  occasioned  a  great  waste  of  time  and 
money,  which  might  and  ought  to  have 
been  employed  for  better  purposes.  And 
furthermore,  it  interferes  materially  with 
domestic  religious  duties. 

Rkv.  Aaron  Lkland, /orwwrJy  Lieut.- 
Qovtrnor  of  Vermont  and  Deputy  Grand 
Master  of  the  Masonic  Grand  Lodge  {lo  a 
Baptist  association): — He  stated  that  the 
first  objection  which  presented  itself  to 
his  mind  was  the  practice  of  praying  for 
the  soul  of  a  brother  Mason  after  he  had 
been  dead  two,  three,  and  sometimes  four 
days — that  he  persisted  in  the  practice  for 
a  short  season  to  the  injury  of  his  con- 
science— that  it  was  a  Roinish  custom, 
and  he  never  would  preach  at  the  burial 
of  a  Mason  when  Masonic  forms  and  cus- 
toms were  attended  to  —that  he  never 
would  preach  to  a  lodge  of  Masons  as 
such,  and  that  ho  was  ashamed  that  he 
had  ever  participaied  in  the  principles 
and  practices  of  the  instiiution. 

Elder  David  Bernard:— I  solemnly 
renounce  all  fealty  to  Masonry,  and  do 
most  earnestly  beseech  my  brethren  in 
Christ  Jesus,  of  every  name,  to  come  out 
and  bear  uneiiuivocal  testimony  against 
it.  Think,  O  think,  dear  Christians,  that 
hundreds  and  thousands  of  precious  and 
immortal  souls  will  be  lost  forever,  unless 
they  return  and  repent,  hut  that  the  name 
of  the  precious  Jesus  is  rejected,  your 
Saviour,  your  precious  and  adorable  Sav- 
iour taken  away— the  cause  of  your  bleed- 
ing Redeemer  injured— the  hands  of  the 
wicked  strengthened,  and  the  Almighty 
God  dishonored!  And  O,  lot  mo  entreat 
you  in  the  mercy  and  bowels  of  Jesus 
Christ,  to  reflect  that  you  have  to  answer 
for  the  blood  of  those  who  shall  find  also, 
when  it  shall  be  forever  too  late,  that 
MsaoDr7  if  oot  a  Haviourl  <* 


».  C.  A.  BUILDING  AND  OFJriC*  01 
THI  CHRISTIAN   CYN08URI, 
Sai  WIST  MADISON  8TKBET,  GHICAtiC 


NA  "riONAL  CHMiaTlAH  AtiSOCIA  TIOM 

Pbbbidbmt.— H.  H.  George,  D.  D.,  Gen- 
eva College,  Pa. 
Vicb-presidbnt — Rev.   M.  A.   Gatilt, 

Blanchard,  Iowa. 

Cob.  Sbc't  and  Gbkbbal  Asbht.— J 
P.  Stoddard,  221 W.  Madisonst.,  Chicago 

Rbc.  Sbc't.  and  Tbbasubbb. — W.  I 
Phillips,  221  W.  Madison  St.,   Chicago 

Directors.- J.  L.  Barlow,  C.  A. 
Blanchard,  A.  J.  Chittenden,  H.  A.  Fisch- 
er, John  Gardner,  G.R.  Milton,  Wm.  Mor- 
row, L.  N.Stratton,  John  SutclifEe,  Alex- 
ander Thomson,  E.  R.  Worrell. 

The  object  of  this  Ajssociation  Is: 
"To  expose,  withstand  and  remove  secrel 
socletieB,  Freemasonry  In  particular,  and  othei 
antl-Chrlstian  niovements,  in  order  to  save  tbt 
churches  of  Christ  from  bein^  Lepraved,  to  t* 
deem  the  administrftion  of  justice  from  pes* 
version,  and  our  r;p  ibllcan  govemnient  from 
corruption." 

To  carry  on  this  work  contributions  are 
solicited  from  every  friend  of  the  rcfonn. 

Form  of  Bequest. — J  give  and  bcaueath  to 
the  National  Christian  Association,  tnojrpo- 
rated  and  existing  under  the  laws  of  the  Stata 

of   Illinois,  the  sum  of ■    dollat  s  for  the 

purposes  of  said  Association,  and  for  whirh 
ue  receipt  of  Its  Treasurer  for  the  ttme  beln{ 
%all  be  BUiBclent  discharge. 

thb  national  oonybntion. 

PBBBrDHNT.— Rev.  J.  S.  T.  Milligan, 
Denison,  Eans. 

Sbcrbtabt.— Rev.  R.N.Coun tee,  Mem- 
phis, Tenn. 

BTATB  ATTXILIABT  A880CXATION8. 

Alabama.— Fret.,  Prof.  Pickens;  Sec.,  8. 
M.  Elliott;  Treas.,  Rev.  C.  B.  Curtis,  all  of 
Selma. 

Calitornia.— Pres^  L.  B.  I^athrop,  HoUls 
ter;  Cor.  Sec,  Mrs.  U.  P.  Merrtll,  Woodland- 
Treae.,  C.  Ruddock,  Woodland. 

Connbcticut.— Pre*.,  J.  A.  Conant,  Willi 
mantle;  Sec,  Geo.  Smith,  WllllmanUc;  Trei. 
C.  T.  Collins,  Windsor. 

Illinois.— Pres.,  .T.  P.  Stoddard:  Sec.,  M. 
N.  Butler;  Treas.,  W.  I.  PhlUlpi  all  at  C3V- 
tumtra  office. 

Indiana.— Pres.,  William  H.  Flgg,  Reno 
Sec,  S.  L.  Cook,  Albion;  Treaa.,  BenJ.  UUh 
Silver  Lake. 

Iowa.— Pre8.,Wm.John9ton,ColIej!:e  Springs 
Cor   Sec.,   C   D.   Trumbull,   Morning   Sun- 
Treas.,  James  Harvey.  Pleasant  Plain.  Jeffer 
son  Co.  ;  Lecturer,  C.  F.  Hawlev,  Wheaton,  111 

KaH8>r.— Pres..  J.  8.  T.  Milligan,  Denlson- 
Sec,  8.  Hart,  Lecompton;  Treaa.,  J.  A.  Tor- 
rence,  Denlson. 

Massaohusettb.— Pres,,  S.  A.  Pratt;  Soc 
Mrs.  K.  D.  Bailey ;  Treaa.,  David  Mannlng.Sr.! 
Worcester. 

Michigan.— Free.,  D.  A.  Rlcharda,  Brighton 
Sec'y.  H.  A.  Day,  WUUamston;  Trea*.' 
Geo.  Swanson,  Jr.,  Bedfoiu. 

MiNNBSOTA.— Prea.,  K.  Q.  Paine,  W««Io'» 
Cor.  Sec..  Wm.  Fenton,  St.  Paul;  Rec.  Sec'y 
Mrs.  M.  F.  Morrill,  St.  Charles;  Treaa,,  Wm 
H.  Morrill,  St.  Charles. 

Missouri.- Pres.,  B.  F.  MlUer,  BaglevlIJa 
Treaa..  William  Beauchamp,  Avalon ;  Cor.  8f c 
A.  D.  Thomas,  Avalon. 

Nbbkaska.- Free.,  8.  Aostln,  Falnnooit 
Cor.  Sec,  W.        Spooner,  Kearney;   Treaa.' 
J.  C.  rye. 

Mainb— Pres.,  Isaac  Jackson,  Harrison- 
Sec,  I.  W-  Haines,  Dexter;  Treas.,  H.  W. 
Goddard,  Wen  i^iduey. 

NbwBamp8Him.— Prea.,  C.  L.  Baker,  Man 
Chester;  Sec,  8.  C.  Kimball,  New  Market 
Treaa.,  James  /.  French,  Canterbury. 

Niw  York.— Pres.,  F.  W.  Capwell,  Dale; 
Sec'y,  John  Wallace,  Syracuse;  Treaa.,  1|. 
Merrick,  Syracuse. 

Ohio.— Pres.,  F.  M.  Sjiencer,  New  Concord; 
Rec  Sec,  S.  A.  Gcoree,  Mansfield;  Cor.  Sec 
•and  Treaa.,  C.  W.  Hlatt,  Columbus;  Agent 
W.  B.  Stoddard,  Columbus. 

Pbnnstlvania.— Cor.  Sec,  N.  Callender 
Tbompa«D ;  Trema.,  W.  B.B«rtela,  WUkeabarrv. 

Virmoht.— Prea.,  W.  R.  Laird,  St.  Johna> 
bury;  B«c,  C.  W  Potter. 

WIBOOHBIH.— Pres.,  J.  W  Wood,    Baraboo; 
Sec,  W.  W.  Amea,  MeaoaoBje;  TrtU.,  M.  B 
8rtttn.aVleBBi. 


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THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


July  12, 1888 


The  Christian  Cynosure. 

Cdrobs. 
J.  BLANCHAKD.  HBNRY  L.  KXLLOQG. 


CHIOAeO,   TEUBBDAT,   JULY   12,   1888. 


New  York  PaoniBiTiONiSTS,  —  Our  excellent 
brother,  F.  W.  Capwell,  who  is  well  known  to  every 
reader  of  the  Cynosure,  gives  us  a  sad  account  of 
the  Prohibition  party  in  the  State  of  New  York.  It 
has  held  a  meeting  lately  at  Syracuse,  which  Mr. 
Capwell  omitted  other  important  meetings  and  a 
trip  West  that  he  might  attend,  and  do  what  he 
could  to  promote.  A  rumor  reaches  us  that  in  the 
nomination  for  Governor  the  secretists  lay  back 
while  two  candidates  were  voted  for,  and  at  the 
eleventh  hour  sprung  "a  dark  horse"  on  the  conven- 
tion and  nominated  for  Governor  a  professed  Ma- 
sonic lecturer  and  founder  of  Masonic  lodges!  If 
these  facts  turn  out  to  be  so,  there  should  be  an 
American  convention  called  and  an  anti-secret  candi- 
date put  in  the  field  forthwith.  If  possible,  put  for- 
ward a  man  who  will  stump  the  State.  Raise  a 
campaign  fund  and  get  W.  B.  Stoddard  to  turn  in 
and  help  run  this  high  priest  of  heathenism  so  low 
that  he  will  be  so  unavailable  that  no  Prohibition- 
ist, not  even  those  professed  Prohibitionists  who 
belong  to  the  temperance  lodges,  will  ever  think  of 
nominating  him  or  any  representative  of  secret 
party  scoundrelism  again.  The  mass  of  New  York 
Prohibitionists  are  the  children  and  grandchildren 
of  the  followers  of  W.  H.  Seward,  who  knew  Mor- 
gan and 

"The  deep  daniDation  of  his  taking  off!" 

We  give  no  names  till  we  hear  from  Mr.  Capwell 
and  learn  the  precise  facts. 


CLINTON  BOWBN  FISE. 


"Do  FisK  AND  Brooks  fill  the  bill?  meet  the 
qualifications  found  in  Ex.  18:  21?  If  so,  let  us 
vote  for  them;  if  not,  excuse  me,"  writes  Mr.  McKel- 
vey,  of  West  Virginia.  The  text  cited  requires  for 
rulers  "able  men,  such  as  fear  God,  men  of  truth, 
hating  covetousness,"  and  if  Bro.  McKelvey  means 
to  ask  whether  Fisk  and  Brooks  are  perfect,  we 
cannot  say  they  are.  If  we  vote  for  human  beings, 
we  must  vote  as  Thaddeus  Stevens  said  he  voted 
for  an  imperfect  Greenback  bill,  "Because  I  live 
among  men,  and  not  among  angels." 

The  Cynosure  votes  for  Fisk  and  Brooks  on  two 
grounds: 

1.  They  are  the  best  men  we  know  of  and  can 
possibly  get 

2,  Voting  for  them  will  do  most  for  our  country 
and  cause.  Such  is  our  estimate  of  Gen.  Fisk  that 
if  the  Cynosure  had  absolute  permission  and  power 
to  pick  and  put  a  man  into  the  Presidency  of  the 
United  States,  we  should  select  him.  Oar  reasons 
will  be  found  in  the  sketch  of  his  life. 

Mr.  Brooks  is  a  Southerner — was  raised  by  a  Ne- 
gro nurse.  When  he  grew  up  he  joined  the  lodge, 
which  leaves  a  sediment  of  evil  in  a  man's  nature, 
which  only  the  blood  of  Christ  can  wash  out.  But 
"years  ago"  he  "demitted,"  and  writes  that  he  is 
"not  now  a  member."  A  man  who  can  say  this  sin- 
cerely, as  Mr.  Brooks  evidently  does,  is  no  ordinary 
man.  His  record  against  the  liquor  crime  is  mag- 
nificent.    We  vote  for  him. 


Dead  Flibs  in  Good  Ointment. — As  dead  flies 
cause  the  ointment  of  the  apothecary  to  send  forth 
a  stinking  savor,  so  doth  a  little  folly  him  that  is  in 
reputation  for  wisdom  and  honor. — Eccl.  10:  1. 
A  stationary,  unaggressive  religion,  or  an  army 
which  makes  no  advances,  will  not  be  molested  or 
assailed.  The  world  accommodates  itself  to  what- 
ever truth  is  once  established.  There  is  no  cross 
in  professing  it,  and  no  established  evils  are  dis- 
turbed by  it.  But  the  moment  an  established  evil 
is  assailed  the  rulers  of  the  realm  of  darkness  in- 
sert themselves  into,  and  seek  to  spoil  the  move- 
ment, as  the  Phillipian  damsel  who,  though  inhabi- 
ted by  a  demon,  joined  in  the  revivals  produced  by 
the  preaching  of  Paul  and  Silas. 

So  with  modern  faith  healing.  The  system  of 
medicine  was  of  pagan  derivation;  and  it  still  re- 
tains a  tinge  from  the  complexion  of  its  origin. 
The  sick  room  is  the  home  of  superstition,  whence 
the  physician  is  often  a  more  im^Kirtant  personage 
than  Christ.  As  Christ's  coming  draws  near,  the 
minds  of  men  are  turning  toward  the  healings  re- 
corded in  the  Bible,  and  to  God,  the  source  of  all 
healing  of  body  and  soul;  and  Satan  is  ready  with 
his  dead  flies;  as,  1.  He  makes  the  healer  to  be  re- 
garded as  a  wonder-worker  or  magician.  2.  He 
casts  contempt  on  the  use  of  means.  3.  And  thus 
brings  contempt  on  a  most  needed  and  important 
reform,  and  sends  men  to  nostrums  for  healing  in-  i 
stead  of  sending  them  to  Christ.  i 


Once  in  an  age  there  appears  such  a  man  as  this 
General  Fisk.  He  is  pre-eminently  awt  generis.  He  is 
totally  unlike  Webster,  Clay,  Calhoun,  Benton,  Sum- 
ner, Chase  or  Stevens;  yet  he  has  filled  more  public 
stations  than  either  of  them,  and  distinguished  him- 
self in  all  of  them.  He  was  born  in  the  woods  of 
Michigan,  or  carried  there  a  babe.  Left  a  half-or- 
phan by  the  death  of  his  father;  bound  out  at  nine 
years  old;  trained  a  coon,  sold  him  to  a  circus  and 
bought  books  with  the  money;  studied  Latin  at  ten, 
in  a  town  where  no  one  knew  what  Latin  was;  made 
his  way  to  Albion  College;  lost  the  use  of  his  eyes 
by  night  study,  and  his  heart  in  love  with  a  mer- 
chant's daughter;  became  her  husband  and  her  fath- 
er's business  partner,  and  accumulated  property; 
joined  a  half-rebel  business  company  in  St.  Louis; 
split  the  company  and  cast  out  the  rebels;  enlisted 
in  the  first  Union  regiment  and  aided  Gen.  Lyon  in 
seizing  a  secret  camp  of  rebels,  and  saving  St.  Louis 
to  the  Union  cause;  became  a  Brigadier  General; 
beat  back  Price  and  saved  the  capital  of  Missouri; 
was  under  Grant  at  Vicksburg,  and  was  retained  by 
President  Lincoln  after  the  war  at  the  head  of  the 
Freedmen's  Bureau;  and  now  lives  at  Seabright, 
N.  J.,  in  ease  and  elegance,  hale  and  hearty,  sixty 
years  old,  and  running  on  the  Prohibition  ticket  for 
President  of  the  United  States. 

This  is  something  of  a  diagram.  But  it  has  not 
touched  the  keynote,  or  rather  the  driving-wheel  of 
his  remarkable  character.  At  ten  years  old  young 
Fisk  joined  the  Methodist  Episcopal  church.  Wheth- 
er, as  was  John  the  Baptist,  he  was  converted,  or 
regenerated  before  he  was  born;  whether  he  was 
transformed  by  the  power  of  God  in  the  prayers  of 
a  godly  mother,  or  drank  inspiration  from  "the  still 
and  solemn  woods,"  his  biographers  do  not  tell  us. 
Perhaps  they  do  not  themselves  know,  as  Nicode- 
mus  did  not,  what  a  change  of  hqart,  or  a  new  birth, 
means.  But  whether  he  became,  as  Saul  did,  sud- 
denly and  totally  diflerent  from  his  former  self;  or, 
as  Samuel  was  as  diflerent  from  other  babes  on  the 
breast,  as  he  was  in  his  whole  after-life  from  other 
men.  Gen.  Fisk's  life  bears  no  bad  likeness  to  the 
statesman  prophet — at  once  amiable  and  decided, 
capable  and  conscientious;  like  Samuel  he  filled 
oflfice  with  impartial  justice;  and  like  the  gentle- 
manly Abraham,  he  raised,  trained  and  commanded, 
and  fought  his  own  brigade  in  a  war  which,  like 
those  of  old,  was  a  "battle  of  kings".  For  every 
crowned  tyrant  stood  behind  American  slavery  in 
our  late  great  war. 

From  his  conversion  to  Christ  Gen.  Fisk  has  been 
what  he  professed  to  be,  a  Christian.  In  the  war, 
he  sat  down  and  sang  hymns  by  dying  comrades. 
On  taking  command  of  his  first  regiment,  in  a  vein 
of  pleasantry,  he  copied  the  pious  commodore  who 
bound  his  command  to  let  him  do  all  the  swearing, 
and  his  soldiers  are  said  to  have  kept  their  unani- 
mous pledge.  Like  Cromwell  he  held  prayer-meet- 
ings with  his  troops,  and  prayers  and  hymns  kept 
swearing  and  blasphemy  out  of  the  ranks.  Lincoln 
loved  him.  And  when  Confederate  leaders  were 
waiting  to  negotiate  peace,  and  the  train  locomotive 
was  snorting  to  take  Mr.  Lincoln  to  their  meeting. 
Gen.  Fisk  took  a  poor  old  man  to  the  President, 
whose  son  was  sentenced  to  be  shot.  Lincoln,  on 
his  sole  confidence  in  Fisk's  good  judgment  and  pat- 
riotism, wrote  across  the  paper  without  stopping  to 
read  it:     "Let  the  hoy  he  pardoned.     A.  Lincoln." 

An  Abolitionist  from  his  birth,  at  twelve  years  of 
age  in  1840,  while  his  boy  companions  were  flaunt- 
ing beautiful  flags  with  the  campaign  Whig  legend, 

"For  Tippecanoe, 
And  Tyler  too," 

young  Fisk  appeared  among  them  with  a  cotton 
cloth  flag  sewed  to  his  mother's  broom-stick,  and 
bearing  the  names  printed  on  it  with  tar-wheel 
grease,  floating  the  names 

BIRNEY  and  morris. 

His  proud  companions  took  it  as  an  insult  and 
ordered  the  Abolition  flag  down.  A  fight  ensued 
in  which  Fisk  whipped  his  antagonists,  and  proudly 
kept  his  flag  afloat.  Who  then  could  have  dreamed 
that  that  boy  would  go  to  the  Abolition  President 
Lincoln,  with  stars  on  his  shoulder-straps,  and  pro- 
cure the  pardon  of  unfortunate  boy  deserters? 

We  are  not  writing  a  biography,  but  a  sketch. 
We  advise  all  to  get  and  read  the  biographical 
sketches  given  by  the  New  York  Voice  or  other  pub- 
lishers. The  point  we  make  is  this:  when  the  man 
who  is  described  above,  after  reading  two  of  his 
speeches  against  secret  societies,  and  particularly 
against  the  Good  Templars,  says  to  the  senior  editor 
of  the  Cynosure,  "I  am  in  entire  accord  with  you  in 
the  sentiments  of  those  speeches.  I  have  neither 
time  nor  money  to  spend  on  their  trifling;"  we  shall 
believe  him,  and  the  Cynosure  will  support  him;  and 


advise  every  American  who  has  a  vote  next  Novem- 
ber, to  cast  that  vote  for  Fisk  and  Brooks.  The 
history  of  Mr.  Brooks,  though  as  opposite  to  that  of 
Gen.  Fisk  as  the  complexion  of  the  Negroes  among 
whom  he  was  born  and  raised  is  to  that  of  the 
whites,  is  yet  an  honest  history.  And  when  they 
both  give  to  the  Cynosure  a  civil,  gentlemanly  an- 
swer declaring,  in  the  teeth  of  the  lodges  looking 
on,  that  they  are  not  freemasons,  we  believe  them 
and  hope  to  vote  for  them,  and  pray  to  God  for 
their  election. 

Mr.  Walter  R.  Mills  was  asked  by  a  friend  who 
is  a  gentleman  if  he  was  a  Mason.  The  little  "great" 
man  turned  away  with  dignified  silence,  and  refused 
to  answer  him!  Is  he  ashamed  of  his  secret  strip- 
ping and  swearing?  or  did  his  mother  fail  to  teach 
him  good  manners?  The  time  will  come  when  such 
tares  will  be  weeded  out  of  the  Prohibition  party. 
And  the  host  of  noble  women  starting  from  Ohio, 
who  are  the  soul  of  the  Prohibition  party;  who  did 
not  sneak  into  garrets  to  start  their  crusade  against 
liquor,  but  boldly  met  the  rum-fiend  in  the  open  air, 
and  with  their  tearful,  sweet  faces  lifted  to  God, 
have  called  down  the  great  shower  of  Prohibition 
now  watering  the  whole  United  States, — these  ves- 
sels of  reform,  and  ministering  spirits  sent  of  God 
to  lift  the  great  burden  of  woe  from  the  men,  but 
especially  from  the  women  of  America,  will  yet  see 
and  insist  that  light  is  better  than  darkness  and 
purer;  and  that  Christ's  example  is  not  to  be  con- 
temned and  trampled  on  by  the  ministers  of  reform. 


THE  OBANOEMBN  SHUT  OUT. 

We  shall  speak  more  hopefully  of  the  Chicago 
churches  since  B.  P.  Reynolds,  the  drunken  Ma- 
sonic head  of  the  Orangemen  of  Chicago,  found  he 
could  not  march  his  Sabbath-breaking  lodge  over 
the  threshold  of  the  South  Congregational  church. 
A  year  or  two  since  they  paraded  the  streets  from'- 
their  lodge-room  to  Railroad  Chapel,  where  Kev^ 
Charles  P.  Morton,  the  pastor,  preached  for  them. 
This  year  they  seem  to  have  understood  that  Rev. 
Dr.  E.  F.  Williams  would  do  them  honor  without  re- 
gard to  the  sacred  character  of  the  day,  or  the  place 
of  divine  worship.  They  gathered  in  their  hall  to 
begin  their  tramp  through  the  Sabbath  quiet,-  but' 
were  met  by  a  note  that  dashed  their  hopes.  There= 
are  members  of  Dr.  Williams'  church  who  are 
Christians  with  consciences  and  some  jealousy  for 
the  honor  of  their  Lord  Jesus  Christ,  whose  whole 
life  and  teaching  were  against  the  lodge.  They  ob- 
jected to  opening  their  house  to  a  secret  society. 
Thank  God  for  such  CongregationalistsI  "A  num- 
ber of  the  leading  members,"  says  one  of  the  re- 
ports, "declared  themselves  uncompromisingly 
against  allowing  the  church  to  be  used  for  the  pur- 
pose." Let  Dr.  Williams  also  thank  God  for  such 
members.  They  prove  that  his  years  of  preaching, 
to  them  have  not  been  in  vain.  He  will  find  them 
safe  advisers  about  accepting  lodge  invitations.  01^ 
course  there  was  a  howl  set  up  by  the  would-bfr 
heroes  of  Boyne  Water,  and  by  strenuous  efforts 
they  secured  the  promise  of  the  Oakland  avenue  M. 
E.  church  for  next  Sabbath,  and  Rjv.  J.  M.  Cald- 
well has  agreed,  it  is  said,  to  give  them  a  sarmon. 
We  hope  there  is  some  mistake  in  this  report,  for  no 
Christian  pastor  of  Chicago  can  afford  to  compro- 
mise his  holy  calling  by  giving  countenance  to  an> 
organization  with  the  record  of  the  Oran^menu 


HOW  STAND  THE  CANDIDATES? 


THE  NATIONAL  NOMINEES. 

The  Republican  papers  speak  of  General  Harrison 
and  the  "Grand  Army"  badge  which  ho  wears,  ad- 
vertising him  as  a  member  of  the  G.  A.  R.  a&d  giv- 
ing the  hint  to  the  order  to  do  their  best  fO£  t^ir 
brother  candidate. 

Alson  J.  Streeter,  the  candidate  of  the  Union  La- 
bor party,  lives  at  New  Windsor  in  Henry  county,, 
111.,  where  he  owns  a  farm.  His  chief  preparation 
for  the  office  for  which  he  is  nominated  has  been  in 
the  Illinois  legislature.  He  is,  says  his  biography, 
"a  Royal  Arch  Mason  and  a  member  of  the  Congrega- 
tional church." 

STATE  CANDIDATES. 

Several  of  the  Illinois  candidates  have  responded! 
to  the  in(iuiries  of  the  American  Anti-secrecy 
League.  L.  B.  Ray,  of  Morris,  Republican  candi- 
date for  Lieutenant  Governor,  who  presents  a  very 
favorable  contrast  to  the  present  Grand  Lodge  in- 
cumbent, writes: 

"I  never  belonged  to  but  one  secret  society  trf  any  kind, 
and  that  was  the  'ladepeadent  Order  of  Gjod  Templars,' 
and  that  was  some  thirty  years  since.  I  thought  at  the 
time  that  we  were  doing  some  good,  but  thto,  order  was 
short-lived— here,  at  least." 


^m 


July  12, 1888 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSUKE. 


9 


J.  Ross  Hanna,  Secretary  of  the  Weir  Plow  Co. 
of  Monmouth,  and  Prohibition  candidate  for  Secreta- 
ry of  State,  sends  a  manly  note  which  proves  him 
to  be  in  an  important  respect  well  qualified  for  the 
office: 

"I  am  not  a  member  of  any  secret  society,  and  while 
I  do  not  question  the  sincerity  'of  motive  actuating  my 
friends  and  neighbors  who  have  connected  themselves 
with  secret  orders  I  have  never  felt  any  inclination  or 
desire  to  unite  with  any  such  organization." 

F.  E.  Andrews,  Prohibition  candidate  for  Attor- 
ney General,  lives  at  Sterling.  His  reply  might 
have  been  framed  by  the  Delphic  oracle,  but  it  must 
be  especially  noted  that  he  has  convictions  on  secret- 
ism  which  compels  him  to  draw  a  line  on  some  of 
the  lodges.  A  man  with  conscientious  scruples 
against  some  orders  is  quite  likely,  on  more  careful 
inquiry,  to  find,  himself  opposed  to  them  all. 

"I  belong  to  no  organization  that  requires  or  implies 
any  special  obligation  to  a  portion  of  the  people  as 
against  the  balance.  My  opinion  as  to  the  character  and 
usefulness  of  secret  societies  in  general  would  be  of  no 
benefit  to  your  society,  for  the  reason  that  I  am  not  fa- 
miliar with  the  workings  of  any  society  of  the  kind,  ex- 
cept one  or  two  whose  object  is  entirely  charitable  and 
philanthropical,  never  having  united  with  any  having 
any  other  object  in  view,  my  refusal  to  unite  with  them 
being  a  matter   of  conscience  with  me." 

Other  responses  which  are  yet  more  encouraging, 
we  must  retain  for  future  publication. 


WASHINQTON  LETTERS. 


— Rev.  Wm.  F.  Davis  orders  from  Suffolk  Jail, 
Charles  street,  Boston,  the  Cynosure  to  be  sent  to 
his  uncle  whose  father  was  a  citizen  of  Attica, 
N.  Y.,  and  was  a  member  of  the  grand  jury  which 
indicated  the  abduction  of  William  Morgan. 

— Monday  afternoon  a  letter  from  Rev.  M.  A. 
Gault,  who  preached  at  Lake  Blufl  last  Sabbath", 
came  in  so  late  as  to  fill  us  with  regret  that  our 
readers  could  not  have  it  immediately.  It  will  be 
read  with  double  interest  in  connection  with  some 
report  of  progress  which  we  may  be  able  to  present 
in  anti-secret  prohibition. 

— Secretary  Stoddard  wrote  that  he  should  leave 
Washington  for  New  England  early  this  week  to  get 
the  machinery  in  order  again  for  that  part  of  the 
country  with  our  devoted  and  talented  Miss  Flagg 
in  position  to  control  it.  We  shall  all  pray  ear 
nestly  for  the  success  of  this  effort.  The  summer 
work  planned  for  Pres.  J.  Blanchard  in  Vermont  is 
growing  in  magnitude  and  importance. 

— Word  from  the  student  colporteurs  now  visit- 
ing parts  of  Illinois  and  Indiana  is  cheering. 
Brethren  Fifield  and  Park  have  visited  the  towns 
from  Elgin  to  Harvard  in  Illinois,  and  will  this 
week  journey  toward  Beloit  and  Rockford.  Breth- 
ren Johnston  and  Shaw  held  meetings  Friday  and 
Saturday  evenings  in  Fairmount,  Indiana,  where  they 
find  a  warm  friend  in  J.  P.  Winslow. 

— 6.  M.  Williams  of  Attleboro,  Mass.,  writes  that 
he  saw  in  these  columns  lately  a  statement  that  the 
American  party  had  started  a  new  paper  called 
Jmerica.  Mr.  Williams  is  mistaken.  America  is  a 
Chicago  literary  journal.  The  principles  of  the 
American  party  are  urged  by  a  number  of  papers, 
but  the  Cynosure  aims  to  be  their  most  ardent  advo- 
cate. 

— A  brief  note  from  Bro.  I.  R.  B.  Arnold  and  his 
family,  who  are  laboring  with  the  "big  tent"  in 
Northern  Illinois,  says  that  at  Sterling,  on  the  Rock 
river  west  of  Chicago,  a  large  audience  was  present  on 
June  29  to  hear  how  Freemasonry  and  Odd-fellow- 
ship are  like  old  Baal  worship.  Respectful  atten 
tion  was  given  to  the  argument  and  the  large  pic 
tures  in  which  this  story  of  indentity  is  wonderfully 
told.  Bro.  Arnold  also  struck  bard  upon  the  sa- 
loon business,  and  was  endorsed  by  the  Baptist  pas- 
tor who  was  present. 

--On  Friday,  July  13,  there  will  be  at  Mitchell, 
Dakota,  a  convention  for  all  interested  in  trying  to 
secure  a  better  observance  of  Sunday  throughout 
the  territory.  A  territorial  association  will  be  or- 
ganized and  arrangements  made  to  petition  the 
Legislature  for  better  and  more  stringent  laws. 

— The  Centennial  Exposition  of  the  Ohio  Valley 
and  Central  States,  which  opened  in  Cincinnati  July 
4,  besides  the  negative  merit  of  deciding  to  close 
the  Exposition  on  Sunday,  have  decided  to  show 
their  respect  for  the  Christian  religion  in  a  more 
positive  manner.  There  will  be  a  department  illus- 
trating the  growth  and  methods  of  work  of  the 
various  Christian  colleges  and  societies  in  the 
Northwest,  and  a  leading  place  will  be  given  to 
church  publication  societies.  Bishop  I.  W.  Joyce, 
of  the  M.  E.  church,  is  in  charge  of  the  depart- 
ment. 


The  craft  are  busily  at  work  here  in  Washington, 
and  when  occasion  offers  they  come  to  the  front. 
On  tne  evening  of  July  3  twenty-one  members  of 
the  Grand  Lodge  appeared  in  full  regalia  and  laid 
the  corner-stone  of  a  mission  chapel,  under  the 
auspices  of  the  Fifth  Baptist  church  of  this  city. 
Leaving  the  street  car  a  block  and  a  half  from  the 
site  of  their  "labors,"  they  formed  in  line,  headed 
by  Grand  Master  Lee,  supported  by  Grand  Chaplin 
Smith,  the  Grand  Senior  and  Junior  Wjirdens  and 
other  Grand  officers,  each  bearing  the  jewel  of  his 
office,  and  marched  to  the  place  of  their  great  en- 
deavor. I  fell  into  line,  and  was  fortunate  enough 
in  securing  standing  room  where  I  could  see  and 
hear  what  transpired. 

After  a  brief  delay  for  the  adjustment  of  minor 
details  the  tapers  were  lighted,  the  two  pillars, 
Jachin  and  Boaz,  put  in  position,  and  the  several 
"Grands"  took  their  stations.  The  Grand  Chaplain 
said  a  prayer;  the  Grand  Wardens  applied  the  im- 
plements of  their  office  to  the  stone;  the  Grand  Sec- 
retary made  the  deposits;  the  Grand  Master  poured 
the  corn,  wine  and  oil,  and  made  a  little  speech  in 
which  he  eulogized  the  craft,  and  wished  all  manner 
of  blessings  and  benefactions  upon  the  workmen, 
the  people,  and  the  undertaking  generally.  The 
"cowans"  were  called  out  to  endorse  the  perform- 
ance. The  first  to  speak  was  Dr.  S.H.Green,of  Calvary 
Baptist  church,  who  spoke  briefly  and  very  appro 
priately  of  the  work  done  by  his  denomination  in 
the  city,  and  of  the  history  and  needs  of  the  mis 
sion.  Rev.  Charles  Stakely,  of  the  First  Baptist 
church,  followed  the  same  general  strain,  when  pas- 
tor Meader,  of  the  Fifth  Baptist  church,  pronounced 
the  benediction,  mentioning  "Father,  Son  and  Holy 
Ghost."  I  noted  carefully,  and  this  was  the  first 
and  only  allusion  to  Christ,  and  if  the  studied  omis 
sion  of  all  recognition  of  the  Divine  Redeemer  from 
religious  services,  then  up  to  the  very  last  clause 
the  ceremonies  were  profane  and  pagan.  I  do  not 
say  that  Dr.  Green  and  the  pastor  of  the  first  church 
intended  to  cast  a  reproach  upon  their  Master,  or  to 
deny  him  before  men,  but  the  words  of  our  Saviour 
came  vividly  to  my  mind,  "Whosoever  denieth  me 
before  men,  him  will  I  deny  before  the  angels  of 
God,"  and  "Whosoever  confesseth  me  before  men, 
him  will  I  confess  before  my  Father  and  the  holy 
angels."  I  thought  the  dear  brethren  had  permitted 
a  very  fitting  opportunity  to  confess  Christ  "before 
men"  to  pass  unimproved. 

I  stepped  to  pastor  Meader,  and  extending  my 
hand  said,  "My  brother,  I  don't  know  your  name, 
but  I  want  to  shake  hands  with  the  man  who  has  the 
courage  to  honor  my  Saviour  by  the  reverent  men 
tion  of  his  name  in  such  a  crowd  as  this."  He  asked 
my  name;  I  gave  him  my  card,  and  he  said  he  would 
call  at  215.  The  "Praters"  standing  by  looked 
somewhat  indignant,  but  I  felt  that  it  was  a  fitting 
time  to  speak  against  the  iniquitous  system.  I  said 
to  Dr.  Green  that  I  could  not  understand  how  that 
Christless  performance  in  any  way  contributed  to 
the  object  for  which  a  Christian  church  is  built,  and 
I  thought  the  piety  of  any  church  must  be  at  a  very 
low  ebb  when  they  had  to  invoke  the  aid  of  such  a 
crew  to  perform  religious  rites  at  the  laying  of  a 
corner-stone.  His  reply  was,  "Men  differ  about 
that." 

Returning  to  215  I  found  the  brethren  and  sisters 
gathering  for  our  evening  prayer-meeting,  and  when 
I  gave  a  report  of  what  I  had  just  witnessed,  the 
matter  was  freely  considered,  and  the  remarks  of 
Bro.  Pease,  who  with  his  wife  was  present  from 
Washington  Territory,  were  of  special  interest 
This  is  becoming  known  as  the  rallying  point  for 
radical  reformers,  and  one  brother  said  to  me,  as  1 
was  talking  to  individuals  and  handing  out  tracts 
on  the  platform  at  the  corner  stone  laying,  "The 
Masons  of  Washington  know  you." 

I  replied,  "So  mote  it  be.  I  hope  they  will  call  at 
my  office."  The  leaven  is  at  work,  and  although  the 
apparent  results  are  not  great,  every  day  brings 
proof  of  the  favor  of  God  upon  our  work. 

I  feel  that  the  prayers  of  God's  people  are  offered 
in  our  behalf,  and  that  enlargement  will  come  in  his 
good  time.  The  attention  and  sympathies  of  many 
are  drawn  to  this  point  and  to  our  work  by  Mrs. 
Stoddard's  successful  efforts  in  an  industrial  and 
Sabbath-school  for  the  neglected  colored  children, 
and  wo  were  encouraged  last  evening  by  the  first 
special  donation  of  $5  to  this  special  work  by  an 
old  and  honored  citizen  of  this  city. 

J.  P.  Stoddabd. 


I  From  our  Occasional  CorrespondeutJ 

July  6th,  1888. 
Although  the  Fourth  of  July  is  recognized  as  the 
ost  time- honored  legal  holiday  on  the   national 


calendar,  there  are  likely  to  be  but  few  celebrations 
of  it  of  the  old-fashioned  sort  that  our  fathers  and 
grandfathers  looked  upon  as  a  solemn  duty.  Since 
the  signing  of  the  Declaration  of  Independence, 
many  new  and  startling  episodes  have  intervened, 
of  which  the  recollection  is  still  vivid,  and  in  which 
interest  is  comparatively  fresh  and  absorbing,  and 
Memorial  days.  Decoration  days,  and  Gettysburg 
days  have  unfortunately  taken  the  place,  in  great 
measure,  of  Bunker  Hill,  Bennington  and  Independ- 
ence days.  The  effect  of  this  transfer  of  loyalty  to 
great  principles  to  a  kind  of  hero-worship  is  already 
becoming  unhappily  manifest  in  many  ways. 

The  Cabinet  was  in  high  favor  last  week  in  scho- 
lastic circles.  The  President  was  elected  a  member 
of  the  University  of  Virginia  Alumni  Association; 
Secretaries  Bayard  and  Vilas  were  honored  guests 
and  responded  to  toasts  at  the  same  place;  Secretary 
Fairchild  became  a  Harvard  LL.D.;  Secretary  Whit- 
ney became  a  Yale  LL.D.;  Secretary  Endicott  was 
elected  President  of  Harvard  Alumni  Association, 
where  his  son  took  an  A.  M.,  and  the  only  members 
who  escaped  were  Postmaster  General  Dickinson 
and  Attorney-General  Garland. 

In  his  latest  veto  of  a  bill  to  give  a  pension  to  a 
soldier  who  was  injured  in  a  street  brawl.  President 
Cleveland  made  the  following  comment:  "I  believe 
that  if  the  veterans  of  the  war  knew  all  that  was 
going  on  in  the  way  of  granting  pensions  by  private 
bills,  they  would  be  more  disgusted  than  any  other 
class  of  citizens." 

In  Washington,  of  course,  one  hears  various 
opinions  of  the  Presidential  ticket,  according  to  the 
political  complexion  of  the  Congressman  or  politi- 
cian who  utters  them.  It  is  not  believed  here,  how- 
ever, that  this  is  going  to  be  a  noisy  campaign. 
There  is  no  evidence,  as  yet,  that  the  people  are  get- 
ting excited,  nor  is  the  issue  of  a  character  to  ex- 
cite intense  feeling.  It  does  not  appeal  so  much 
to  the  passions  as  to  the  reasoning  powers  of  men. 
And  that  is  why  it  is  thought  that  there  will  be  less 
yelling  and  burning  of  powder,  and  a  greater  amount 
of  readipg,  talking  and  thinking.  Yesterday  an  un- 
prejudiced "looker  on  in  Venice"  remarked:  "It  is 
a  national  benefaction  that  we  have  all  the  requisite 
conditions  for  a  dignified,  decent  canvass.  All  the 
candidates,"  continued  he,  "are  fit  for  the  places  for 
which  they  have  been  named.  Each  of  the  candidates 
for  Vice  President  is  fit  for  the  higher  place  to  which 
ho  may  be  called.  Therefore,  there  will  be  no  ex- 
cuse and  very  little  charity  for  mud  slingers,  for  the 
personal  characteristics  of  candidates  may  be  dis- 
missed when  the  real  business  of  the  season  be- 
gins." 

During  the  tariff  discussion  the  other  day,  the 
venerable  Mr.  Kelly,  of  Pennsylvania,  rose  and  said 
he  had  a  proposition  to  make,  which  he  thought 
would  be  acceptable  to  both  the  House  and  the  coun- 
try. The  Mills  bill  had  received  the  approval  of 
the  St.  Louis  Convention  and  the  condemnation  of 
the  Chicago  Convention.  The  action  of  the  House 
in  urging  the  bill  forward  had  been  approved  at  St. 
Louis,  and  the  course  of  the  Republican  minority, 
in  contesting  every  modification  which  its  judgment 
could  not  approve,  had  been  cordially  endorsed  at 
Chicago.  He  then  suggested  that  the  Mills  bill 
should  be  laid  over  until  the  next  session,  with  the 
understanding  that  if,  at  the  November  election,  it 
should  be  approved  by  the  people,  the  Republicans 
would  withdraw  their  opposition;  and  if,  on  the  oth- 
er hand,  it  should  be  condemned  unmistakably,  the 
bill  would  be  no  further  pressed. 

Every  visitor  to  Washington  hopes  that  Congress 
will  make  provision  for  running  the  elevator  in  the 
Washington  monument.  Thousands  of  Americans 
who  have  visited  the  city  in  the  last  six  months 
have  burned  with  the  laudable  ambition  to  mount 
to  the  top  of  tho  highest  structure  in  the  world  and 
to  inspect  therefrom  the  capital  and  the  most  beau- 
tiful city  of  the  nation,  only  to  bo  disappointed. 
They  were  not  even  granted  permission  to  climb  the 
stairway  because  it  is  not  practicable  yet  to  protect 
tho  donated  stones,  which  line  the  interior  of  the 
great  shaft,  from  the  depredations  of  the  vandals 
whoso  iKiwer  and  disiwsition  to  injure  have  already 
been  experienced.  * 


I  am  better  pleased  with  the  Cynosvre  than  any  paper 
I  ever  read.  I  will  certainly  renew  my  subscrtpUou. — 
Mies.  M.  Carlk. 

I  am  perfectly  Futisflcd  with  tho  Cynosure.  Its  princi- 
ples are  good.  We  are  no  socretists.  When  my  year  is 
out  I  expect  to  renew. — Mrs.  C.  Wuitk. 

I  like  the  Cynosure.  You  can  take  me  down  for  i 
again.     It  is  very  inteiesling. — Rkv.  J.  Acox. 

I  like  the  principles  of  your  paper  and  will  renew. — 
Mrs.  H.  L.  Stuart. 


10 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


July  12, 1888 


The  Home. 


TALES  WITH  JBSUS. 

A  little  talk  with  Jcbus,  how  It  smoothes  the  rugged  road, 
How  it  seems  to  help  me  onw&rd  when  I  sink  beneath  my  load ; 
When  my  heart  is  crushed  with  sorrow,  and  my  eyes  with 

tears  are  dim 
There  is  naught  can  yield  me  comfort  like  a  little  talk  with 

Him. 

I  tell  Him  I  am  weary,  that  I  fain  would  be  at  rest. 
That  I'm  daily,  hourly  longing  to  repose  upon  His  breast; 
And  He  answers  me  so  sweetly,  in  the  tenderest  tones  of  love, 
"I'm  coming  soon  to  take  thee  to  my  happy  home  above." 

Ah !  that  is  what  I'm  wanting,  his  lovely  face  to  see, 

And  I'm  not  ashamed  to  say  It,  I  know  He's  wanting  me. 

He  gave  His  life  a  ransom  to  make  me  all  His  own, 

He'll  ne'er  forget  His  love  for  me.  His  dearly  purchased  one. 

I  often  get  impatient,  and  mourn  His  long  delay, 
For  I  never  can  be  happy  while  He  remains  away. 
The  more  I  come  to  know  Him  and  all  His  grace  explore. 
It  sets  me  ever  longing  to  know  Him  more  and  more. 

The  way  seems  long  and  weary  to  yonder  far-oS  clime, 
But  a  little  talk  with  Jesus  doth  while  away  the  time ; 
We  shall  not  long  be  parted,  I  know  He'll  quickly  come. 
And  we  shall  dwell  together  in  his  happy,  happy  home. 

So  I'll  wait  a  little  longer,  till  His  appointed  time. 
And  all  along  the  upward  path  my  pilgrim  feet  shall  climb ; 
There  In  my  Father's  dwelling,  where  the  many  mansions  be, 
I  shall  sweetly  talk  with  Jesus  and  He  will  talk  with  me. 

— /Selected. 


A  VIROINIA  RSMlNiaCBNGB. 


TWO   PAGES   FROM   MY   DIARY. 


BY  MRS.  EMMELINE  R.  STERLING. 


"Are  you  Miss  M from  Massachusetts,  who  is 

expected  at  the  G Plantation  to  teach?" 

"I  suppose  I  am,"  responded  the  person  ad- 
dressed. 

"Then  you  are  to  stay  here  to-night,"  said  the 
first  speaker;  adding,  "The  bridge  is  gone  off!" 

Miss  M.  had  just  alighted  from  a  crowded  coach 
which  had  been  poaching  since  two  o'clock  that 
morning  through  the  heavy  red  clay  of  that  coun- 
try. She  was  weary  and  dispirited,  and  in  no  con- 
dition to  acquiesce  .cheerfully  in  this  quarantine  ar- 
rangement at  the  Wayside  Inn !  Furtively  scanning 
the  surroundings,  she  said  mentally,  "Oh,  I  cannot 
stay  here  to-night!"  Suiting  word  to  the  wish,  she 
said  to  the  host,  "is  there  no  way  I  can  get  to  the 
plantation  to  night?" 

"No — well,  yes — there  is  a  way  if  you  can  ride 
horseback  to  the  river  and  are  not  afraid  to  cross  it 
on  a  little  boat.  But  Miss,  the  river  is  very  high, 
mebbee  you'll  be  afraid !  The  G.'s  told  me  about 
your  coming  and  arranged  for  you  to  stay  here  till 
lo-morrow  morning,  and  I  was  to  send  them  word 
and  they  to  send  a  carriage  round  by  C —  where  there 
is  another  bridge.  But  as  you  are  so  anxious  to  git 
to  the  Big  House  tonight,  I'll  send  word  by  the 
field  hands,  and  we'll  see  what  can  be  done." 

Miss  M.  blessed  the  planter,  in  the  depths  of  her 
soul,  and  sat  down  to  wait,  saying,  "Thank  you.  I'll 
go  to-night  if  possible."  In  the  course  of  a  couple 
of  hours,  a  bright  quadroon  boy  drew  up  to  the 
plantation  inn  on  horse-back,  leading  the  second 
horse.  William's  introduction  of  himself  and  his 
embassy  was  concise  and  to  the  point — "Master 
away,  and  missus  done  sent  mel" 

"All  right,  William,"  said  the  girl,  "we'll  go," 

The  sun  was  sinking.  Miles  lay  between  the  tired 
traveler  and  the  6.  plantation.  No  time  must  be 
lost.  The  heavy  rains  had  rendered  the  roads  well- 
nigh  impassable,  but  when  seated  in  her  saddle  and 
triumphantly  turned  plantationward,  the  rider  real- 
ized her  terra  firma  basis,  even  with  the  bridgeless 
river  before  her,  more  than  during  the  tedious  hours 
of  sinking  to  the  hubs  in  the  red  clay,  through 
which  the  lumbering  coach  had  made  slow  and  pain- 
ful progress  for  the  last  twelve  hours.  Miss  M.  had 
little  K^uestrian  accomplishment,  but  she  know  the 
use  of  the  saddlo-bow,  the  stirrup  and  the  bridle. 

The  Bpanless  river  reached,  she  dismounted,  and 
seating  herself  in  the  little  boat,  was  ferried  safely 
over  by  two  slaves  of  the  G.  plantation.  The  turbid 
Appomattox  whirling  on  might  have  caused  hearts 
less  resolute  than  hers  to  quake,  but  she  of  good 
New  England  stock,  saw  nothing  to  fear,  and  thought 
only  of  her  new  home  and  the  unwonted  relations 
and  novelties  of  plantation  life  so  soon  to  dawn 
upon  her. 

Two  decades  had  not  yet  woven  their  experiences 
into  the  life  map  of  the  girl,  but  already  she  had 
learned  the  meaning  of  self  help.  Already  the  years 
that  had  come  to  her  had  brought  her  some  wisdom. 

He-seated  in  ber  Bftddle,  tbe  well-trained  bQr999 


strode  away  with  their  riders  to  the  plantation,  which 
was  reached  just  at  the  going  down  of  the  sun,  on 
the  afternoon  of  the  second  spring  month  of  the 
year  1836.  William,  the  family  carriage  driver,  ac- 
quitted himself  admirably  as  guide  through  the  mud 
of  the  tobacco  fields,  and  rode  up  to  the  big  house, 
delivering  his  charge  to  his  "missus,"  who  received 
the  novitiate  with  true  Virginian  hospitality. 

Our  little  sketch  opens  at  a  period  just  subsequent 
to  a  most  startling  episode  in  the  history  of  Ameri- 
can slavery, — one  so  gigantic  in  plan  and  sanguin- 
ary in  detail  as  to  be  regarded  an  important  factor 
in  the  problem  to  be  wrought  out  in  the  space  of  less 
than  three  decades  of  our  American  history.  In- 
deed, so  directly  did  the  Nat  Turner  insurrection 
lead  to  debate  in  the  Virginia  legislature  and  the 
unrestrained  expression  of  thought  on  both  sides  of 
this  question — the  holding  of  man  as  property — 
that,  even  then,  "coming  events  were  casting  their 
shadows  before."  Even  then  the  anti-slavery  senti- 
ment was  as  a  "pillar  of  a  cloud  by  day  and  of  fire 
by  night,"  leading  on  the  marshalling  hosts  of  the 
North, 

Nat  Turner  was  a  slave  in  Southampton,  Va.  He 
conceived  the  idea  that  he  was  a  "prophet  of  the 
Lord",  and  as  such  delegated  to  a  certain  work, 
guided  by  Divine  inspiration.  In  his  confession  he 
said,  "On  the  12th  day  of  May,  1828, 1  heard  a  loud 
noise  in  the  heavens  and  the  Spirit  instantly  ap- 
peared to  me  and  said,  'The  serpent  was  loosed  and 
Christ  had  laid  down  the  yoke  he  had  borne  for  the 
sins  of  men;  and  that  I  should  take  it  on  and  fight 
against  the  serpent,  for  the  time  was  fast  approach- 
ing when  the  first  should  be  last,  and  the  last  first, 
and  by  signs  in  the  heavens  it  would  be  made 
known  to  me  when  I  should  commence  the  great 
work;  and  until  the  first  sign  should  appear  I  should 
conceal  it  from  the  knowledge  of  men,'  " 

On  the  appearance  of  the  sign,  which  was  to  be 
the  eclipse  of  the  sun  in  February,  1831,  he  was  to 
arise  "and  slay  his  enemies," 

He  states  that  immediately  on  the  appearance  of 
that  sign,  he  communicated  the  great  work  he  had 
to  do  to  his  associates.  The  4th  of  July  was  fixed 
upon  as  the  day  for  rising,  but  his  mind  was  so  af- 
fected by  the  magnitude  of  the  undertaking  that  he 
fell  sick  and  the  time  passed.  "The  sign  appeared 
again,"  he  said,  and  he  determined  to  wait  no  longer. 

The  insurrection  commenced  on  the  night  of  the 
2l8t  of  August  by  the  massacre  of  his  master's  fam- 
ily. Turner  and  his  associates  went  from  house  to 
house,  massacring  the  whites  till  the  number  of  his 
followers  was  increased  to  fifty  or  more,  all  mounted 
and  armed  with  guns,  axes,  swords  and  clubs. 

The  country  was  soon  aroused,  and  the  assailants 
were  met,  fired  upon  and  dispersed.  Turner,  after 
concealing  himself  for  some  weeks,  was  discovered, 
tried  and  executed  in  November  of  that  year. 

The  Virginia  legislature  met  early  in  December 
of  the  same  year.  Gov,  Floyd  emphasized  the  "re- 
bellion" in  his  message,  and  stated  that  a  band  of 
slaves,  seventy  in  number,  had  put  to  death  sixty- 
one  persons.  He  also  stated  that  there  was  reason 
to  believe  that  the  plans  of  treason,  insurrection  and 
murder  had  been  designed  and  matured  by  unre- 
strained fanatics  in  the  neighboring  States,  and 
urged  a  revision  of  the  laws,  to  preserve  greater 
subordination. 

This  legislature  caused  an  upheaval  of  sentiment, 
probably  long  entertained  by  members  who  had  re- 
garded "slavery  as  a  curse,"  The  substratum  of 
thought  and  feeling  came  to  the  surface,  provoking 
heated  debates.  One  member  maintained  that  slav- 
ery was  a  mildew  which  had  blighted  every  region 
it  had  touched  upon  since  the  foundation  of  the 
world  Mr,  Faulkner,  minister  to  France,  said,  "If 
slavery  can  be  eradicated,  in  God's  name  let  us  get 
rid  of  it!"  Another  member  declared  "that  he  should 
look  upon  the  day  on  which  the  deliverance  from  the 
burdens  of  slavery  should  be  consummated  as  the 
most  glorious  in  the  annals  of  Virginia," 

These  men,  says  the  historian,  "spoke  and  wrote 
of  what  ihey  knew.  Seldom  if  ever,  have  the  evils 
of  slavery  been  more  graphically,  not  to  say  terrific- 
ally portrayed,  than  in  this  remarkable  debate  and 
discussion.  This  memorable  session  was  as  the 
handful  of  corn  in  the  earth  upon  the  top  of  the 
mountain,  whose  fruit  was  destined  to  shako  like 
Lebanon." 

Miss  M,  came  to  the  G,  plantation  just  in  time  to 
see  greater  restrictions  laid  upon  the  bondman. 
Master  was  more  stern;  mistress  more  exacting; 
overseer  more  cruel.  In  short,  all  the  movements 
of  the  slave  were  looked  upon  suspiciously,  A  black 
man,  woman  or  child,  might  not  go  from  one  planta- 
tion to  another  without  a  "pass,"  endorsed  by  the 
name  of  the  owner,  A  Negro  arrested  on  suspicion 
of  being  a  slave  was  thrust  into  prison,  and  if  not 

piaimef}  after  a  iiertaio  time,  was  sold  as  a  slave. 


None,  perhaps,  felt  this  surveillance  more  than 
little  Andrew,  a  quadroon  boy  on  the  G.  plantation, 
a  lad  of  twelve  years,  who  served  as  waiter  at  his 
master's  table.  Andrew  knew  he  was  a  slave,  but 
why,  he  had  no  conception.  He  knew  he  must  not 
learn  to  read,  but  this  did  not  extinguish  the  fire 
which  was  burning  in  his  breast  for  knowledge? 
Andrew  knew  that  master's  children  were  his  supe- 
riors, but  had  never  known  the  reason  why.  Andrew 
knew  that  the  school-room  was  a  spot  not  to  be  in- 
vaded by  him;  the  spelling  book  a  thing  he  might 
not  touch;  and  yet  calling  to  his  aid  little  Martha  as 
tutoress,  from  time  to  time,  he  had  acquired  sufficient 
knowledge  of  the  spelling  book  to  read  in  words  of 
two  syllables ! 

Alas!  however,  for  poor  little  Andrew  and  his  lit- 
erary aspirations.  It  was  a  memorable  day  when 
mistress  found  teacher  and  pupil  in  their  retiracy 
with  spelling  book  between  them.  Words  fail  to 
describe  the  irate  mistress,  the  crest-fallen,  disap- 
pointed pupil,  wincing  under  the  little  whip  laid  over 
his  shoulders;  and  sobbing  little  Martha,  who  had 
thought  it  "no  harm  to  just  teach  Andrew  his  letters." 
Poor  little  Andrew  fell  from  a  tree  not  long  after  this 
in  restoring  a  fledgling  robin  to  the  mother  nest. 
His  leg  was  broken  by  the  fall.  Then  came  weeks 
of  painfulness  on  the  little  couch  in  "mammy's" 
house;  she  sitting  by  making  coarse  suits  for  the 
field  hands. 

When  Miss  M.  left  the  plantation  Andrew  was 
walking,  but  with  one  leg  shortened  by  the  accident; 
and  the  master  was  calculating  how  much  less  An- 
drew would  sell  for  than  before  his  injury. 

The  thought  has  often  come  to  us  in  the  new 
days  of  freedom.  Where  is  the  boy  of  the  planta- 
tion? Is  he  a  man  of  this  day,  having  realizad  the 
fruition  of  his  hopes?  Did  Andrew  ever  know  the 
luxury  of  reading? 

Let  us  turn  from  the  memories  of  the  past  to  the 
brighter  outlook  of  the  present.  Let  us  turn  from 
the  sighs  and  tears  of  sundered  families,  and  from 
the  groans  of  the  unpaid  slave,  to  the  beginninsj  of 
happy  homes  in  that  once  slave-cursed  territory. 
Lot  oblivion  go  over  the  past,  nor  memory  search 
for  record  of  man's  injustice  to  his  fellow  man. 
Tell  us  not,  old  ocean,  of  the  unmitigated  horrors  of 
the  "middle  passage;"  nor  whisper  in  our  unwilling 
ears,  ye  soft  breezes,  the  tale  of  the  auction  block 
and  the  "coffle  gang,"  Scenes  like  these  we  would 
forget.  Let  it  not  be  remembered  that,  in  this 
boasted  model  Republic,  a  Chief  Justice  once  de- 
cided that  the  "black  man  bad  no  rights  which  the 
white  man  was  bound  to  respect!"  Tell  it  not  to 
our  children,  nor  they  to  later  generations,  that 
where  float  the  stars  and  stripes  at  our  capital  a  law 
was  ever  enacted  that  called  for  the  rendition  of  a 
run-a-way  slave  to  his  master.  Oh,  tell  it  not,  ye 
of  this  liberty-loving  country,  that  trained  blood- 
hounds were  ever  put  upon  the  track  of  the  defense- 
less Negro! 

Very  joyfully  turn  we  from  this  picture  to  the 
efforts  now  being  made  for  the  dark  population  of 
the  South.  The  page  is  ready  and  the  pen  already 
dipped  to  record  the  supplement  to  our  American 
history — the  substitution  of  right  for  wrong;  minds 
elevated;  intellects  enlarged;  characters  molded; 
aspirations  broadened;  influence  deepened,  and  souls 
saved.  Already  fruitage  is  coming  to  the  South  in 
an  improved  civilization  from  the  schools,  the  uni- 
versities and  the  churches;  from  temperance  organ- 
izations, from  Young  Men's  Christian  Associations, 
from  girl's  industrial  sewing  circles,  from  young  wo- 
men's model-home  societies,  and  from  Sunday- 
schools,  And  when  we  think  of  the  bright  present, 
and  of  the  shaded  past,  we  say,  "What  hath  God 
wrought?" 


AUNT  MABOARBT'B  TBXT8. 


"Your  stock  of  Bible  texts  must  be  very  small, 
Ralph,"  said  Aunt  Margaret,  as  he  joined  her  ixi  the 
garden,  after  breakfast, 

"What  makes  you  think  so,  auntie?"  he  asked. 

"Just  this,  Ralph.  I've  been  here  almost  a  week, 
and  your  breakfast  text  has  been  the  same  every 
morning  but  one," 

"Is  that  so,  auntie?  Well,  perhaps  you're  right, 
I'  ?e  been  in  such  a  hurry  lately  to  get  out  here  morn- 
ings, before  breakfast,  and  see  whether  my  seeds  are 
sprouting  yet,  that  I  haven't  stopped  to  hunt  one 
up,  and  so  I've  had  to  say  the  first  one  that  came 
handy." 

"I  thought  so,  Ralph,  and  I've  been  wondering—" 

"Say,  Ralph,"  shouted  Ben  Hanson,  rushing  in 
through  the  garden  gate,  "are  you  going  to  sec  the 
phonograph  this  evening?  I  want  to  go  the  worst 
kind,  but  suppose  I  can't  They  say  the  man  makes 
it  say  such  funny  things." 

"I  know  it,"  said  Ralph,  "and  I  asked  father  to 


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let  me  go,  but  he  said  he  couldn't  spare  the  money." 

"Oh,  dear!  Well,  I  must  be  going  along,  I  sup- 
pose," said  Ben.  "I've  got  to  do  two  errands  be- 
fore school  begins. 

"Ralph,"  said  Aunt  Margaret,  when  Ben  had 
gone,  "I'll  give  you  the  money  to  go  to-night,  and 
enough  to  take  any  three  boys  whom  you  may 
choose." 

"Hurrah  for  you,  Aunt  Margaretl  I  say,  you're 
awful  good  to  a  fellow." 

"Wait  a  minute,  Ralph.  There's  one  condition. 
It  is  that  you'll  let  me  give  you  a  list  of  texts  to 
learn,  and  repeat  one  every  morning  at  breakfast." 

"Oh!  yes,  indeed.      That's  easy,"  Ralph   replied. 

"Tell  your  aunt  she's  a  brick,  Ralph,"  said  Ben, 
as  they  left  the  Y.  M.  C.  A.  Hall,  where  the  phono- 
graph had  been  on  exhibition.  "I  mean,"  he  said, 
correcting  himself,  "tell  her  we're  mighty  obliged  to 
her  for  letting  us  go.  Wasn't  it  cute,  though,  to 
hear  it  crow  like  a  rooster,  and  mew  and  bark  like 
cats  and  dogs?" 

"I  think  the  funniest  was,  'Mary  had  a  little  lamb. ' 
How  it  did  talk  through  its  nose,  though!"  said 
Stephen. 

"Oh!  but  the  queerest  of  all  was,  'Peter  Pecker 
picked  a  pike  of  pickled  Peters,'"  said  Sam.  Don't 
you  remember  how  everybody  laughed?" 

"That's  so,"  said  Ralph.  "But  do  you  believe 
that  if  the  machine  should  stand  j  ust  so  a  thousand 
years  it  would  say  those  very  things  over  again?  1 
don't." 

"That's  what  he  said,  any  way,"  said  Sam. 

"Well,  I  guess  I  shouldn't  like  to  have  such  a 
machine  round  all  the  time,  then,"  Ralph  added. 

"Guess  you're  afraid  'twould  tell  too  many  tales 
about  your  slang,  Ralph.     Is  that  it?"  asked  Ben's 
big  brother,  lifting  Ralph  up  by  his  elbows  and  set 
ting  him  down  upon  his  own  door-step. 

"Thai's  none  of  your  business,"  Ralph  replied, 
going  in  through  the  door,  and  slamming  it  behind 
him.  Now  this  was  a  very  tender  subject  with 
Ralph.  He  had  often  been  corrected  by  his  parents, 
and  ecmetimes  he  had  tried,  in  a  kind  of  half- 
hearted way,  to  leave  it  off.  But  the  habit  seemed 
to  cling  to  him,  and  to  grow  stronger  than  weaker, 
as  every  habit  does  when  indulged.  But  now  what 
the  phonograph  man  had  said  kept  coming  to  his 
mind  over  and  over  again.  The  truth  is,  he  had 
heard  a  lady  behind  him  remark: 

"I  suppose  the  Judgment  Day  will  do  that  for  us 
— bring  to  mind  all  our  wrong  words,  especially." 

"Now  for  Aunt  Margaret's  texts,"  said  Ralph  to 
himself  the  next  morning.     Then  he  read: 

"Let  the  words  of  my  mouth,  and  the  meditation 
of  my  heart,  be  acceptable  in  thy  sight,  0  Lord." 

"I  wonder  if  she  did  it  on  purpose,"  he  thought. 
"Let's  see  if  they  are  all  about  words."  And  turn- 
ing to  the  references  in  his  Bible,  one  after  another, 
he  read: 

"The  words  of  the  pure  are  pleasant  words." 

"The  words  of  a  wise  man's  mouth  are  gracious." 

"Be  not  rash  with  thy  mouth,  and  let  not  thine 
heart  be  hasty  to  utter  anything  before  God:  for 
God  is  in  heaven  and  thou  upon  earth;  therefore, 
let  thy  words  be  few." 

"A  fool's  voice  is  known  by  the  multitude  of 
words." 

"Every  idle  word  that  men  shall  speak,  they  shall 
give  account  thereof  in  the  day  of  Judgment." 

"There  is  not  a  word  in  my  tounge,  but  lo,  0 
Lord,  thou  knowest  it  altogether." 

"If  any  man  offend  not  in  word,  the  same  is  a  per- 
fect man." 

"Whatsoever  ye  do,  in  word  or  deed,  do  all  in  the 
name  of  the  Lord  Jesus." 

Ralph's  face  had  grown  very  thoughtful  as  he 
read  them  one  by  one. 

"I  declare,  I  didn't  know  the  Bible  had  so  much 
about  it,"  he  said  to  himself.  "I  wish  I  knew  how 
to  leave  off  slang,  any  way;  yes,  I  do."  And  then 
as  he  turned  once  more  to  the  first  text  upon  the 
list,  it  must  have  been  the  Holy  Spirit  that  led  him 
to  drop  upon  his  knees  beside  his  bed,  and  pray 
with  all  his  heart: 

"Let  the  words  of  my  mouth,  and  the  meditation 
of  my  heart,  be  acceptable  in  thy  sight,  O  Lord." — 
Lilian  Pay  ton,  in  IS.  S,  'limes. 


cense  and  prohibition  nonsense  to  bother  them;  con- 
sequently they  never  get  drunk. 

Well,  now,  the  only  inference  one  can  draw  from 
these  remarkable  letters  is  either  that  the  writers 
were  themselves  blind  drunk  all  the  time  that  they 
were  in  Paris,  or  that  the  Parisian  drunkard  is  a 
most  successful  hider.  Because, while  our  travelers 
last  year  did  not  see  one  instance  of  drunkenness  in 
Paris,  the  official  police  records  state  that  the  police 
of  Paris  saw  and  arre«<ecZ,  on  an  average,  150  people 
every  day  between  January  1  and  April  30,for  being 
drunk  on  the  streets.  So  many  drunkards  are  not 
arrested  in  New  York,  and  yet  these  travelers  of 
ours  always  contrast  the  sobriety  of  Europe  with 
the  excesses  of  America.  It  is  just  as  well  to  bear 
in  mind  the  official  report  while  reading  these  letters, 
and  perhaps  if  the  writers  drank  less  and  thought 
more  they  would  remember  that  official  returns  will 
not  always  agree  with  letters  from  the  guide-book. 
— R.  J.  Burdttte  in  Louisville  News, 


KBBNBYBD  TRAVBLBR8. 

If  there  is  one  passage  in  the  letters  of  American 
travelers  in  Europe  more  tiresome  than  another  it 
is  this:  "During  our  six  weeks'  stay  in  Paris  we  did 
not  see  a  single  drunken  person."  Then  they  travel 
through  Switzerland,  Germany,  Au8tria,ltaly,Spain, 
and  all  France,  and  still  they  do  not  see  a  drunken 
person.  They  attribute  the  sobriety  of  the  people 
to  the  fact  that  everybody  drinks  wine  and  beer; 
drinks  it  all  the  time,  and  lots  of  it, with  no  high  li- 


THB  FIR8T  TANGLB. 

Once  In  an  eastern  palace  wide 

A  little  child  sat  weaving. 
So  patiently  her  task  she  piled , 
The  men  and  women  at  her  side 

Flocking  round  her,  almost  grieving, 

"How  Is  It,  little  one,"  they  said, 

"You  always  work  so  cheerily? 
You  never  seem  to  break  your  thread. 
Or  snarl  or  tangle  it,  Instead 

Of  working  smooth  and  clearly. 

"Our  weaving  gets  so  worn  and  soiled. 

Our  silk  so  frayed  and  broken : 
For  all  we've  fretted,  wept  and  toiled. 
We  know  the  lovely  pattern's  spoiled 

Before  the  king  has  spoken." 

The  little  child  looked  in  their  eyes 

So  full  of  care  and  trouble ; 
And  pity  chaeed  the  sweet  surprise 
That  filled  her  own,  as  sometimes  flies 

The  rainbow  in  a  bubble. 

"I  only  go  and  tell  the  king," 

She  said,  abashed  and  meekly; 

"You  know  he  said  in  everything ," 

"Why,  so  do  we  1"  they  cried,  "we  bring 

Him  all  our  troubles  weekly." 

She  turned  her  little  head  aside; 

A  moment  let  them  wrangle; 
"Ah,  but,"  she  softly  then  replied, 
"I  go  and  get  the  knot  untied 

At  the  first  little  tangle  1" 

Oh,  little  children—weavers  all  I 

Our  broidery  we  spangle 
With  many  a  tear  that  would  not  fal'. 
If  on  our  King  we  would  but  call 

At  the  first  little  tangle. 

—  Congretjationaikt. 


TEMPERANCE. 


THB  MAINB  LAW  8TATB8. 


New  York. — Prohibition  enacted  in  1845,  de- 
clared unconstitutional  in  185G,  local  option  enacted 
in  1873  and  bill  vetoed  by  Gov.  Dix. 

New  Hampshire. — Prohibition  enacted  in  1855, 
law  now  in  force. 

Illinois. — Prohibition  enacted  in  1855,  lost  by 
vote  of  the  people  in  1855. 

Kansas. — Prohibition  enacted  in  186G.  Under 
this  law  license  might  be  granted  if  women  peti- 
tioned for  it.  This  law  was  replaced  by  the  consti- 
tutional amendment  in  1880. 

With  one  or  two  exceptions  the  States  named  in 
this  list  have  been  Republican  States  almost  con- 
stantly since  the  Republican  party  was  organized. — 
Lever. 


Fifteen  Northern  States  have  had  prohibitory 
laws  on  the  basis  of  the  Maine  law.  The  following 
is  a  list  of  these  States,  with  a  brief  statement  of 
the  date  at  which  the  law  was  enacted  and  repealed: 

Maine. — Prohibition  was  enacted  in  1846,  re-en- 
acted in  1851,  repealed  in  1856,  re  enacted  in  1858, 
and  is  now  in  force. 

Delaware. — Prohibition  enacted  in  1847,  declared 
unconstitutional  in  1848. 

Minnesota.*— Prohibition  enacted  in  1847,  modi- 
fied by  various  laws,  or,  in  other  words,  doctored  to 
death  since  that  time. 

Rhode  Island. —  Prohibition  enacted  in  1852,  de- 
clared unconstitutional  in  1853,  amended  in  1853 
and  ratified  by  the  people,  repealed  in  1863,  re-en 
acted  in  1874,  repealed  in  1875. 

Massachusetts. — Prohibition  enacted  in  1852,  de- 
clared unconstitutional  in  1853,  re-enacted  in  1855, 
repealed  in  1868. 

Vermont. — Prohibition  enacted  in  1852,  law  now 
in  force. 

Michigan. — Prohibition  enacted  in  1851,  declared 
unconstitutional  in  1854,  re-enacted  in  1855,  re- 
pealed in  1865. 

Indiana.— Prohibition  enacted  in  1855.  In  1855 
the  supreme  court  was  equally  divided  in  regard  to 
the  constitutionality  of  the  law,  hence  the  law  was 
void. 

Iowa. — Prohibition  enacted  in  1855,  repealed  in 
1856  by  the  introduction  of  the  beer  clause,  re-en- 
acted in  1884. 

Nebraska. — Prohibition  enacted  in  1855,  motlified 
in  1880,  by  the  introduction  of  high  license, 


ALCOHOL  IN  FRANCB. 


The  French  case  against  alcohol  closely  resembles 
the  American.  It  increases  police  expenses.  In 
some  towns  in  France  it  has  made  it  necessary  to 
double  or  triple  the  police  fone.  It  increases  also 
the  expenses  of  criminal  justice.  There  were,  be- 
tween 1881  and  1885,  336,641  prosecutions  for 
drunkenness,  or  an  average  of  67,328  a  year,  to  say 
nothing  of  offences  caused  by  drunkenness.  It  fills 
the  hospitals  and  almshouses  with  all  sorts  of  vic- 
tims. From  1861  to  1865,  for  example,  ten  per 
cent  of  the  lunatics  in  the  department  asylums 
were  brought  there  by  alcohol.  Between  1865  and 
1870,  twenty  per  cant  were  brought  through  alcohol. 
In  1876-80,  the  number  of  inmates  of  these  asylums 
nearly  doubled;  and,  of  these,  fifteen  per  cent  were 
due  to  alcohol.  In  1881-85  the  number  rose  from  39,- 
822  to  51,207— more  than  triple  the  number  between 
1861-65;  and  of  these  7,387  were  alcoholic.  And 
it  must  be  remembered  that  the  French  population 
has  been  almost  stationary  for  half  a  century,  and 
that  only  those  lunatics  are  charged  to  alcohol  who 
have  lost  their  faculties  directly  through  their  own 
drunkenness.  No  account  is  taken  of  those  who 
lose  it  through  the  drunkenness  of  parents.  In 
some  parts  of  France,  the  wine-growing  regions  of 
the  south  and  center,  they  drink  hardly  any  spirits 
at  all;  but  in  the  north  and  west  they  drink  enor- 
mously, and  are  drinking  more  and  more.  If  all 
France  drank  as  these  parts  drink,  France,  instead 
of  being  seventh  in  the  list  of  drinking  nations, 
would  probably  stand  at  the  head.  Rouen  is  the 
greatest  alcoholic  place  in  the  country.  The  aver- 
age was  about  four  gallons  a  head  in  1884;  and,  to 
make  this  average,  some  men  there  must  consume 
twelve,  fifteen,  or  even  twenty  gallons  of  spirits  per 
annum.  There  was*  a  decree  Lssued  after  the  coup 
d'etat  in  1851  forbidding  the  opening  of  drinking 
places  {cabarets)  without  special  police  permit. 
This  was  abolished  in  1880  by  way  of  "giving  re- 
publican saloons  the  protection  to  which  they  are 
entitled,"  as  Sheridan  Shook  says.  The  effect  was 
very  remarkable.  Between  1880  and  1885,  the 
number  of  saloons  increased  by  40,000.  Between 
1873  and  1879,  it  had  only  increased  by  8,000.  The 
progress  upward,  too,  is  now  very  stead}'.  Every 
year  sees  the  opportunities  of  taking  a  "petit  grog" 
greatly  multiplied.  The  remedy  which  finds  most 
favor  in  France,  as  in  Switzerland  and  Sweden,  is 
making  liquor  extravagantly  dear,  and  diminishing 
the  number  of  places  in  which  it  is  sold. —  7 he  Na- 
tion. 


"THIS  TRAIN  ALL  RIGHT." 

A  west-bound  train,  bearing  delegates  to  the  Re- 
publican Convention,  was  delayed  in  Indiana  at  a 
small  station  and  some  of  the  delegates  agreed  to 
question  the  engineer  as  to  his  political  predilections. 
Stepping  up  to  him,  one  of  tbem,  as  spokesman, 
asked:  "If  you  have  no  objection  we  would  like  to 
have  you  tell  us  whether  you  are  for  Blaineor  Cleve- 
land?" 

"Neither,"  was  the  reply. 

"I'll  bet  he's  for  Grosham,"  said  one. 

"No." 

"Alger?" 

"No." 

"Allison?" 

"No." 

"Sherman?" 

"No." 

Having  exhausted  the  catalogue  of  available  can- 
didates, some  one  said,  "Well,  who  are  you  for?" 

With  a  proud  glance  he  looked  down  from  his  cab 
on  the  group  before  him,and  said, "Gentlemen,  1  am 
for  Gen.  Clinton  B.  Fi9k,fir8t,last  and  all  the  tima" 

The  group  moved  back  with  a  laugh  that  was  not 
all  a  laugh;  but  one  ventured  to  remark,  "A  Fisk 
man  at  the  throttle,  this  train's  all  rigbt!"— ZA*- 
Voice, 


1? 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE- 


JtJLT  12, 1888 


BIBLE  Lesson. 


Religious  News. 


STUDIES  IN  THI  OLD  TESTAMENT. 

LESSON  4.    Third  Quarter.- July  22. 

SUBJECT.— Free  Gifts  for  the  Taberuacle.— Ex.  35:  20-29. 

GOLDEN  TEXT.— God  loveth  a  cheerful  giver.— 2  Cor.  9:7. 

I  Ovett  the  Bible  artd  read  the  lessofi.  \ 

COMMENTS  ON  THE  LESSON  BY  E.  E.  FLAGG. 

1.  The  Willing  Spirit.  V8.  20-27.  This  was  not  a 
tax  levy  but  a  freewill  offering  from  every  one  "whose 
heart  stirred  him  up"  to  give.  God  has  no  pleasure  in  a 
gift  which  has  its  origin  in  any  lower  motive  than  love  for 
him  and  zeal  for  his  service.  Had  the  children  of  Is- 
rael adopted  the  plan  of  macy  Christian  churches  they 
would  have  held  a  great  fair,  accompanied  by  a  grand 
feast,  and  among  other  devices  to  obtain  money  and  add 
further  festivity  to  the  occasion  they  would  have  intro- 
duced, though  perhaps  setting  it  in  some  out-of-the-way 
corner  as  a  thing  to  be  ashamed  of,  the  golden  calf.  It 
is  a  dangerous  experiment  to  try— to  make  our  amuse- 
ments pay  for  our  religion.  All  shams  and  selfishness 
belong  to  the  devil,and  this  proves  that  church  fairs, with 
all  their  questionable  concomitants, are  the  devil's  way  of 
raising  money— not  God's.  His  rule  we  find  laid  down 
in  our  golden  text,  "Every  man  as  he  purposeth  in  his 
heart,  so  let  him  give;  not  grudgingly  nor  of  necessity; 
for  God  loveth  a  cheerful  giver." 

2.  The  variety  of  the  offering,  vs.  22-24.       God  does 
not  merely  require  us  to  be  cheerful  givers  but  honest 
givers,  honest  with  ourselves  and  honest  with  him.      As 
there  is  a  great  variety  in  his  work,  so  a  corresponding 
variety  of  gifts  are  needed  to  carry  it  on .      All  our  tal- 
cntB  are  to  be  used  for  him,  whether  of  mind  or  body.of 
hand  or  brain.      Our  bodily  and  mental  powers  are  best 
conserved  by  U9e— their  fullest,  completest  use;  and  this 
is  guaranteed  when  we  offer  them  to  God.     Even  genius 
needs  a  higher  motive  spring  than  gain  or  ambition  to 
bring  out  its  best  efforts.      How  many  gifted  women  of 
the  W.  C.  T.  U.,  who   to  day  grace  the  platform    and 
whose  ringing  words  for  "God  and  home  and   native 
land"  echo  through  the  length  and  breadth  of  the  coun- 
try, would  never  have  been  heard  of  outside  of  their  own 
immediate  social  circle  if  the  trumpet  cry  of  a  great  and 
holy  cause  had  not  roused  them  to  come  forward  and  lay 
in  weakness  and  trembling  all  they  were  on  his  altars  ? 
There  is  much  significance  in  the  expre3sion"wise-heart- 
ed."    He  is  wise  who  makes  the  most  of  all  he  has  and 
is.     We  must  invest  somewhere.      We  must  make  God 
our  banker  or  the  world.    If  we  «re  short-sighted,  with 
an  eye  that  cannot  see  beyond  the  material  advantages 
of  the  present  moment,  we  shall  choose  the  world.      If 
we  look  beyond  to  Eternity  we  shall  lend  to  the  Lord  ^nd 
trust  Eternity  to  repay  us  a  thousandfold.  Christian  wo- 
men have  often  been  reproached  for  giving  so  little  to 
missions  compared  to  what  they  spend  on  dress;  and  it  is 
true  that  many  in  our  churches  put  on  their  own  persons, 
in    the    shape    of    jewels    and    costly    attire,     that 
which  would  carry  "lifeiand  light"  to  thousands  of*their 
miserable  and  degraded  sisters  shut  up  in  the  darkness 
of  Hindoo  zenanas.  But  it  is  the  tendency  of  human  na- 
ture to  be  very  generous  for  other  people.       Are  there 
no  male  professors  of  religion  who  annually  spend  on 
tobacco  more  than  enough  to  support  a  missionary  in 
Africa?    Yet  we  hear  very  little  on  this  subject,and  next 
to  nothing  about  the  money  which  Christian  men  waste 
paying  lodge  dues.     The  latter  diverts  annually  from  the 
church  large  sums  which  figure  to  the  world  as  a  charity 
fund, while  mostly  spent  in  bancjuets,  parades,  and  other 
forms  of  dissipation,— an  amount  which  if  rightly  ex- 
pended for   the  spread  of  the  Gospel  might  make  the 
desert  blossom  as  the  rose.     The  people  brought  in  such 
abundance  that  they  had  to  be  restrained  from  bringing. 
What  if  Christians  everywhere   shoujd  offer  with  the 
same  willing  heart?    How  long  before  the  world  would 
be  evangelized?    Shall  these  ungrateful, rebellious, child- 
ish Israelites  teach  Christ's  people  to-day  a  lesson  they 
have  as  jet  failed  to  learn?      Though  his  is  a  spiritual 
kingdom  it  has  its  foundations  on  the  earth.  Not  raised 
by  material  forces  it  yet  needs  material  offerings, the  gifts 
now,  aa  to  the  tabernacle  of  old,  of  willing  hearts. 


MOUNTAIN  Miasiosa. 


— The  revival  services  of  Messrs.  Crossley  and 
Hunter,  at  Belleville,  Ont.,  have  produced  a  pro- 
found t  fleet.  So  widespread  are  the  interest  and 
religious  feeling  manifested  that  balls  have  been 
slopped  and  engagements  of  theatrical  troops  can- 
celled, owing  to  the  sparse  attendance  and  lack  of 
interest  taken  in  them.  This  is  one  of  the  most 
suggestive  evidences  that  could  possibly  be  given  of 
the  deep  and  far-reaching  results  of  the  good  work. 


In  the  mountain  districts  of  our  central  and 
southern  States  there  are  living  thousands  whose 
poverty  and  remote  location  shuts  them  practically 
away  from  religious  privileges.  To  these  people  a 
humble  Christian,  Joseph  X.  Dillier,  felt  called  of 
Grod  to  minister.  His  work  began  in  1878,  and  has 
continued  ever  since.  Mr.  Dillier  says  of  his  work: 
"I  felt  that  it  was  my  calling  to  go  into  the 
mountains  and  visit  the  poor  and  isolated  and  talk 
to  them  in  private,  to  preach  to  the  neglected,  read 
the  Bible  and  pray  with  the  sick;  distribute  tracts 
and  religious  papers,  and  where  houses  were  with- 
out a  Bible  or  Testament,  furnish  them  with  one. 
The  church  would  not  assist  me,  so  I  started  inde- 
pendently, and  have  pursued  this  course  until  now. 
I  have  learned  to  trust  in  God  for  my  support  and 
also  the  support  of  my  wife.  We  are  in  his  hands. 
"I  have  taken  five  journeys,  starting  from  New 
York  city  September  9, 1878;  went  on  foot,  and  car- 
ried on  my  back  changes  of  clothing,  tracts  and 
papers  to  give  away  free,  as  also  a  few  small  Testa- 
ments to  give  away,  and  my  Bible  and  other  books 
to  study;  went  on  foot  1,105  miles,  and  gave  away 
23,000  pages  of  tracts  and  papers  free  to  all; 
preached  and  exhorted  about  eighty  times,  visited 
a  number  of  sick,  read  the  Bible  and  prayed  with 
them;  some  were  converted,  and  good  was  done. 
My  wife  went  on  foot  with  me  310  miles.  I  re- 
turned to  New  York  city  March  5, 1879. 

"I  started  on  my  fifth  journey  January  12,  1885. 
This  time  I  went  to  the  State  of  Alabama,  then  into 
the  eastern  part  of  Tennessee,  and  then  over  into 
North  Carolina,  along  the  sides  and  tops  of  the 
Unecoy  its  length,  then  the  great  Smoky  and  the 
Black  and  Blue  Ridge,  as  also  the  Allegheny  and 
other  mountains.  Through  the  winter  I  held  seven 
revivals  with  Bro.  S.  P.  Whitney  in  several  counties 
in  West  Virginia.  This  journey  I  went  on  the  cars 
859  miles  and  on  foot  2,924  miles;  gave  away  30,500 
pages  of  tracts  and  papers,  and  preached  182  times 
in  churches,  school-houses,  private  and  public  build- 
ings, and  in  the  open  air;  exhorted  sixty-five  times 
in  revivals,  others  assisting;  155  were  converted, 
and  through  my  private  instruction  eighteen  were 
cenverted.  I  also  visited  the  sick,  and  with  good 
results. 

"The  total  record  for  eight  years'  work  is:  Mile- 
age on  cars,  859;  on  foot,  8,879  miles;  gave  away 
171,500  pages  of  tracts  and  papers,  also  six  small 
and  one  large  Testament;  preached  497  times,  ex- 
horted sixty-five  times;  visited  107  sick,  some  healed 
by  prayer  and  instruction,  some  were  converted. 
In  revival  work,  with  other  ministers  to  assist,  172 
were  converted,  and  individual  work  by  my  instruc- 
tion fifty-one  were  converted,  and  baptized  eight  by 
requisition." 

In  his  trip  this  year  Mr.  Dillier  took  with  him  an 
assistant,  Anthony  Amundsen  of  Racine,  Wis.  They 
have  traveled  in  the  Cumberland  mountains.  Their 
first  report  of  this  year  is  sent  from  Knoxville, 
Tenn.,  June  18,  covering  three  months,  from  March 
20  to  June  18. 

"Went  on  cars  316  miles,  on  boat  165  miles,  and 
on  foot  703  miles.  Gave  away  over  8,100  pages  of 
tracts,  and  three  small  Testaments.  I  preached 
twelve  times  in  school-houses,  nine  times  in  private 
houses,  and  five  times  in  music-rooms;  also  once  in 
a  grove — in  all,  thirty-nine  times.  Exhorted  seven- 
teen times;  114  promised  to  start  to  live  for  God. 
and  observe  prayers.  These  people  are  poor,  with 
large  families,  and  have  far  to  go  to  preaching. 
Some  one  ought  to  interest  themselves  about  these 
mountaineers.  I  have  been  in  this  work  since  Sep- 
tember 9,  1878.  We  have  no  aid  for  our  support, 
and  I  have  had  less  than  $30  per  year  the  ten  years 
I  have  followed  my  calling  in  this  work.  But  it  re- 
quires to  be  done,  so  we  continue  sacrificing  home 
comforts,  friends  and  all,  to  visit  the  isolated  in  the 
hedges  and  by-ways.  We  need  some  help.  We 
must  go  on  foot  over  rocks  and  roots,  up  and  down 
the  mountain  sides  and  over  the  top's",  with  from 
thirty  to  fifty  pounds  on  our  backs — tracts  and  pa- 
pers and  Testaments  to  give  away,  and  books  to 
study,  and  our  clothing  to  wear  winter  and  summer. 
We  solicit  your  prayers  and  interest  in  behalf  of 
this  work.  Christians  who  wish  to  aid  in  such  a 
needed  work  as  this  may  send  to  Mrs.  Ellen  M. 
Dillier,  176  North  Desplaines  St.,  Chicago,  111.,  or  to 
Joseph  X.  Dillier,  until  August  15,  at  Ooltewah, 
Tenn.,  in  care  of  Mr.  Martin  Culler." 


— An  exchange  says  that  of  the  two  hundred  and 
twelve  theological  students  who  entered  Presbyte- 
rian theological  seminaries  last  fall,  only  twenty- 


one  were  from  New  England  colleges;  and  of  these 
only  two  were  from  Yale  and  two  from  Harvard. 
All  the  rest  were  from  poor  and  small  Presbyterian 
schools  and  colleges.  This  seems  to  confirm  what 
we  have  before  remarked,  that  our  small  colleges, 
whose  limited  means  compel  them  to  the  practice  of 
close  economy,  are  the  schools  which  worthy  and 
earnest  young  men  seek,  and  to  which  the  church 
must  look  for  her  preachers  and  leaders. 

— The  First  Free  Congregational  church  of  Lock- 
port,  N.  Y,,  has  just  celebrated  its  semi-centennial. 
The  church  was  formed  fifty  years  ago  by  separa- 
tion from  the  First  Presbyterian  church  on  the 
question  of  slavery,  the  forty-five  members  who  left 
holding  that  the  slaves  should  be  free. 

— Rev.  Dr.  Young  J.  Allen,  missionary  to  China, 
has,  since  last  January,  delivered  more  than  100 
missionary  addresses  among  the  Southern  Metho- 
dist churches.  Four  new  men  will  go  to  China  this 
year. 

— At  Emory  and  Henry  College,  which  is  the 
alma  mater  of  Samuel  W.  Small,  the  Evangelist,  he 
preached  the  baccalaureate  sermon  to  an  immense 
audience.  During  the  summer  Small  and  Jones 
will  co-operate  in  camp  meeting  work  at  various 
places  in  the  North.  In  July  they  will  be  at  Red 
Rock  camp  ground,  near  Minneapolis,  Minn. 

— Hereafter  the  Dutch  Reformed  churches  will 
receive  "oflerings,"  not  "contributions"  or  "collec- 
tions." The  General  Synod  recommends  the  use  of 
the  word  "oflerings"  as  indicating  a  higher  concep- 
tion of  giving  to  the  Almighty. 

— In  London,  England,  there  has  been  instituted 
a  Methodist  sisterhood.  No  vows  are  imposed,  the 
only  request  made  of  those  who  join  being  that  they 
give  three  months'  notice  of  any  intention  to  with- 
draw, so  that  the  good  work  may  not  suffer. 

— There  are  some  indications  that  the  Baptists  of 
Canada  will  soon  come  out  against  the  exemption 
of  churches  from  taxation.  Prominent  members  of 
the  denomination  have  recently  condemned  the  prin- 
ciple of  tax  exemption,  and  the  Canadian  Baptist 
takes  the  same  view  of  the  question. 

— Rev.  H.  Grattan  Guinness,  of  the  London  Mis- 
sion Training  School,  who  has  recently  visited  Rome, 
writes  in  Regions  Beyond:  "The  exhibition  of  the 
Pope's  Jubilee  presents  was  a  sad  sight.  It  is  held 
in  the  Vatican,  and  is  so  extensive  that  it  takes 
hours  to  walk  through  it  and  examine  the  enormous 
mass  of  Papal  treasures,  even  cursorily.  We  were 
forcibly  reminded  by  what  we  saw  of  the  Babylo- 
nian goods  enumerated  in  Revelation  18.  All  were 
here  displayed  to  perfection." 

— It  is  proposed  to  establish  in  Bethany  (the 
town  of  Mary  and  her  sister  Martha,  where  the  Lord 
raised  Lazarus  from  the  dead)  a  Home  which  shall 
form  a  center  of  Christian  work.  The  village  has 
to-day  about  500  inhabitants,  who  live  in  squalor 
and  die  in  ignorance  of  the  Gospel. 

— Mr.  Thomas  Whitley,  of  England,  whose  son 
recently  died  in  the  missionary  work  on  the  Congo, 
has  paid  the  outfit  and  passage  of  a  man  to  take  bis 
son's  place. 

— The  corner-stone  of  the  Presbyterian  Hospital 
of  Chicago  was  laid  last  Tuesday  with  impressive 
and  appropriate  ceremonies  at  the  southeast  corner 
of  Congress  and  Wood  streets,  where  the  new  hos- 
pital building,  when  completed,  will  stand.  It  will 
occupy  the  lot  adjoining  on  the  north  that  occupied 
by  the  original  institution  of  that  name,  which  has 
long  enjoyed  the  reputation  of  being  one  of  the 
finest  institutions  of  the  kind  in  the  West.  The 
new  hospital  building  is  to  be  constructed  from  an 
endowment  of  $100,000  provided  for  in  the  will  of 
Daniel  A.  Jones,  who  died  about  three  years  ago. 

— The  most  remarkable  religious  service  of  which 
we  have  any  knowledge,  writes  Rav.  A.  Lowrey  in 
the  London  Divine  Life,  is  the  Tuesday  meeting, 
held  at  the  residence  of  Mrs.  Sarah  Lankford  Palm- 
er, 316  East  Fifteenth  street.  New  York  city.  The 
object  of  this  meeting,  from  the  beginning,  has  been 
to  revive  and  diffuse  Scriptural  holiness  in  all  the 
churches.  It  is  not  exclusively  a  Methodist  meet- 
ing, though  the  doctrine  of  Christian  perfection,  as 
set  forth  by  John  Wesley,  is  tenaciously  held  and 
inculcated.  This  is  done,  not  because  the  privilege 
and  duty  of  salvation  from  all  sin  formed  the  most 
prominent  factor  in  John  Wesley's  preaching  and 
writings,  but  because  his  exposition  of  the  subject 
is  deemed  most  true  and  Scriptural.  One  of  the 
most  marvellous  features  of  the  meeting  is  its  long 
continuance.  For  more  than  half  a  century  it  has 
had  an  unbroken  lun.  It  was  started  at  the  sug- 
gestion of  the  present  leader,  Dr.  W.  C.  Palmer  hav- 
ing charge  during  his  life,  and  his  wife  Phoibe  suc- 
ceeding him. 


Sl*«^ 


JuLT  12, 1888 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSUEE. 


13 


Lodge  Notes. 

The  Knights  of  Pythias  in  Washington 
Territory  have  adopted  a  resolution  pro- 
hibititing  all  persons  engaged  in  the 
manufacture  of  liquor  from  becoming 
members  of  the  order. 

Ben  T.  Kavanaugh,  a  noted  Methodist 
divine  and  brother  of  the  late  Bishop 
Hubbard  Kavanaugh,  died  in  Kentucky, 
last  week.  He  was  at  one  timo  a  Grand 
Master  of  the  Masons  of  Wisconsin  and 
later  of  Texas. 

The  "festival  of  St.  John  the  Baptist" 
was  observed  by  the  Masonic  lodge  by  a 
basket  picnic  June  23,  in  the  City  Park, 
Olney,  111.  The  oration  was  delivered 
by  Most  Worshipful  Grand  Master  John 
C.  Smith,  Lieutenant  Governor. 

James  H.  T.  DeLuce,chief  engineer  at 
the  Grand  Pacific  Hotel  in  this  city,  died 
Thursday  night.  He  was  a  member  of 
the  William  B.  Warren  Lodge.the  Lafay- 
ette Chapter,  Apollo  Commandery  No.l, 
and  the  Oriental  Consistory  of  the  Ma- 
sonic order. 

Detroit  is  the  birthplace  of  the  Broth- 
erhood of  Locomotive  Eagiaeers,  the  or- 
der having  been  organized  there  Aug. 17, 
1863.  A  grand  anniversary  celebration 
will  be  held,  in  which  it  is  expected  fully 
5  00<)  engineers  from  all  parts  of  the 
United  States  and  Canada  will  partici- 
pate. 

The  order  of  S  jns  of  America  of  this 
city  received  an  invitation  to  attend  ser- 
vice on  Sunday  morning  July  1,  at  the 
Unitarian  Church  of  the  Mes&iah,  Rev. 
Dr.  Utter  pastor.  Dr.  Utter  is  the  cham 
pion  who  a  few  years  since  tried  to  make 
out  that  old  John  Brown  was  a  savage 
wretch. 

The  annual  meeting  of  the  Masonic 
Benevolent  Association  of  Central  Illi- 
nois was  held  in  Mattoou  June  13  Im- 
portant changes  in  the  constitution  were 
made,  which  are  not  yet  given  to  the 
public,  but  are  believed  to  be  the  admis 
sion  of  members  not  Masons  to  save  the 
thing  from  bursting. 

The  Ottawa.Ont  ,Journal  says  it  learns 
on  good  authority  that  Bishop  Lufl  sche, 
of  Three  Rivers  Diocese,  signed  a  decree 
on  Tuesday  ordering  the  expulsion  of 
Jesuits  from  that  diocese  on  the  ground 
that  they  have  unduly  influenced  Catho 
lies  to  change  their  wills  on  their  death 
beds  in  favor  of  the  .Jesuits. 

Some  unknown  man  attempted  to  as- 
sassinate Thomas  Gregory,  an  engineer 
for  the  Chicago,  Burlington  &  Quincy 
Railway.  The  late  strike  on  the  Bur- 
lington is  supposed  to  have  been  the 
cause.  The  man  fired  three  shots  and 
ran  away.  One  shot  hit  Gregory  in  the 
face  under  the  right  eye  and  broke  his 
nose,  and  he  was  taken  to  the  Cjunty 
Hospital. 

Some  700  members  of  the  four  broth- 
erhoods of  locomotive  engineers, firemen, 
brakemen,  and  switchmen, held  meetings 
at  St.  Cloud,  Minn.,  on  Sunday,  for  the 
purpose  of  taking  steps  looking  to  an 
amalgamation  of  these  orders.  The 
sentiment  developed  was  favorable  to 
their  union,  and  a  further  meeting  for 
this  purpose  will  be  held  in  Minneapolis 
four  weeks  hence.  The  Burlington 
matter  was  discussed,  and  action  taken, 
but  its  nature  was  kept  secret. 

Some  twenty  thousand  people  went  to 
a  picnic  given  by  the  Trades  and  Labor 
Assembly  at  the  Fair  Qrounds.St.  Joseph, 
Mo.,  on  the  4th.  The  brotherhood  men 
attempted  to  run  Golden  H  )lman,  a  Chi 
cago,  Burlington  \^  Quincy  engineer, from 
the  grounds.  A  crowd  of  men  started 
after  him,  yelling  "Kill  the  scab."  Hil- 
man  drew  a  revolver  and  forced  the 
crowd  to  retreat,  shooting  three  times. 
He  then  started  for  the  west  entrance, but 
another  crowd  attempted  to  head  him  off 
and  he  again  fired,  shooting  a  young 
butcher.  Holman  made  his  escape,  but 
afterward  gave  himself  up. 

Information  from  some  of  the  Bald 
Knobber  counties  in  Southwest  Missouri 
is  to  the  effect  that  trouble  is  brewing 
between  two  factions  of  the  organic ition. 
A  man  known  as  "Doc"  Peters  was  ar- 
rested at  Cassville  last  week  as  a  Bald 
Knobber  and  cattle  thief,  and  the  arrest 
is  likely  to  prove  an  important  one,  as 
Peters  is  now  known  to  be  one  of^tho 
leaders  of  a  band  who  have  stolen  the  past 
year  more  than  2.()()0  cattle  off  the  range 
in  Ozirk,  Christian  and  Tany  counties. 
One  uf  the  factions  claims  that  the  other 
has  been  revealing  the  secrets 
of  the  order,  and  already  more  than  one 


member  has  been  murdered  for  giving 
information  to  the  authorities,  and  more 
killings  are  daily  looked  for.  Both  sides 
are  well  armed,  and  if  an  open  conflict 
should  take  place  the  fight  will  be  fierce 
and  bloody. 

•  ■  > 

aUBSORIPTlON  LBTTER8. 

The  following  have  made  remittances 
of  money  to  the  Cynomire  from  July  2 
to  July  7  inclusive: 

J  W  Thompson,  Rav  J  R  Brlttain.Rev 
W  F  Davis,  W  8  Titus,  L  Wood,  I  A 
Chamberlain,  H  Hodges,  S  Mathew,  A  I 
Salisbury,  J  Shaw,  G  W  Holmes,J  J  Cox, 
E  Achison,  W  C  Gaddis,  S  Shroyer,  T  B 
Arnold,  L  Wing. 

OXJI^   CLUB   LIST. 


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club  of  ten  at  $1.50. 

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we  offer  with  the  Christian  Cynosure  at 
reduced  rates : 
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Christian  Herald  N.  Y 2  75 

The  Truth  (St.  Louis). 2  50 

Illustrated  Christian  Weekly 3  90 

New  York  Witness 2  50 

Union  Signal '. 3  00 

Christian  Statesman  (Phila.) 3  50 

The  Interior 3  85 

The  Independent 4  00 

TheS.  8.  Times 3  50 

The  Nation 4  50 

New  York  Tribune,  Weekly 2  50 

Chicago  Tribune,  Weekly 2  50 

Gospel  in  all  Lands 3  50 

Chicago  Inter  Ocean,   Weekly 2  50 

Harper's  Magazine 4  75 

North  American  Review 5  75 

The  Century 5  25 

Scientific  American 4  25 

Buds  and  Blossoms 2  10 

Pansy 2  35 

Vlck's  Magazine 2  50 

American  Agriculturist 2  60 

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MARKS T  RBPORTB. 

CHICAGO. 

Wheat— No.  8 82 

No.  3 75 

Winter  No  2 81  @      82K 

Corn-No.  a 493<@      .51 

Oat«— N0.3 «..H.».„^...     33  a      33 

Rye— No.  a Wl 

Branperton 10  00       11  .50 

Hay— Timothy 9  00  (315  50 

Butter,  medium  to  best 12  @      18>^ 

Cheese 05  @     093^ 

Beans 1  25  @  2  85 

Begs 14 

8eed»-Tlmothy« 2  05         8  25 

I,         Flax 1  30         1  37 

Broomcorn 01X@     ('4>^ 

Potatoee,new,per  brl 2  BO  @  3  25 

Hideo— Ureen  to  dry  Hint 0.5>^@      13 

Lumbor— Common 11  00  @18  00 

Wool 13  @      32 

Cattle— Choice  to  extra 5  30  @  6  ;« 

Common  to  good 1  75         5  10 

Hogs 4  91  @  5  or 

Sheop 2  95  @  4  .50 

NEW  YORK. 

Flour 3  20  @  5  25 

Wheat— Winter 87  (f      93 

Spring 89 

Corn 53  %     .5fi8i 

Oats *J  ^      47 

Zggs 18 

Butter 12  ®     19 

Wool -  09  a* 

KANSAS  CITY. 

Cattle. .„«. 1  40  a  •'">  50 

Hogt  .„ ^. 3  00  a  5  75 

l^rt«*  ....         „..  1  50  •  3  .50 


'T*lE  WHOLE  IS  BETTKR  THAN  A  PART 

\ND    TOU  HAVE   IT    HERE  IN   A 

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Where  Are  You  Going? 

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ill  your  p.arty?  What  amount  of  freiglit  or 
baggiiyo  have  you?  What  route  do  you  prefer? 
Upon  receipt  of  an  answer  to  the  .at)OVO  ques. 
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call  in  person  where  iieoessary.  Parties  not 
ready  to  answer  above  questions  should  cut  out 
and  pi-eserve  this  notice  for  future  reference.  It 
may  become  u.seful.  Address  C.  H.  Warren, 
Genera.'  Passeneer  Aeent.  St.  Paul,  Minn., 


ANTI-LODGE  LYRiCS. 

Sing  the  Reform 
Into  the   Hearts  of  the  People 

One  of  the  moBt  popular  books  against 
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THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


July  12, 1888 


HOME  AND  HEALTH. 

ONE   WAT   OUT   OF  THB  TBOUBLB. 

Did  you  ask,  "What  is  the  trouble?" 
Why  just  this:  the  feeling  that  sometimes  ' 
settles  down  over  the  spirits  of  conscien-  i 
tious  housekeepers  that  this  world  is  a  j 
sort  of  treadmill  in  which  we  are  des- 
tined to  walk  the  weary  round  of  wash- 
ing and  ironing  and  baking  and  sweep- 
ing, till  our  souls  grow  as  seamed  and 
wrinkled  as  our  faces.  The  cares  and 
perplexities  of  every  day  life  seem  too 
great  for  us  to  bear,  and  when  to  these 
we  add  the  constant  worry  over  what 
may  come  in  the  future,  the  burden  be- 
comes overflowing.  And  yet.if  one  dares 
to  suggest  that  this  undue  auxiety  may 
be  lightened,  that  duty  does  not  compel 
us  to  do  four  weeks'  labor  in  a  fortnight, 
that  we  owe  something  to  ourselves  as 
well  as  to  our  families,  what  indignation 
is  aroused.  Every  woman  who  has 
household  duties  to  perform  ought  to 
aim  to  be,  in  the  best  sense  of  the  term, 
a  good  housekeeper.  The  only  differ- 
ence lies  in  the  way  in  which  this  term 
is  understood.  To  wholly  sacrifice  per- 
sonal culture  and  all  exercise  and  enjoy- 
ment of  the  higher  faculties  with  which 
we  are  endowed,  for  the  sake  of  accom- 
plishing a  certain  amount  of  manual  la- 
bor each  day,  and  having  the  credit  of 
getting  through  before  anybody  else,  is 
both  wrong  and  foolish.  We  know  one 
woman.noted  for  her  neatness  and  thrift, 
upon  whose  ceiling  a  cob  web  never  lin- 
gered, and  on  whose  premises  no  fly 
ventured  to  set  his  foot,  whose  eye  be- 
held every  imperfection,  and  whose  criti- 
cising tongue  was  dreaded  by  any  into 
whose  home  she  chanced  to  enter,  cut 
down  in  the  prime  of  life,  worn  out  by 
needless  work  and  overanxiety.  She  sud- 
denly died,  and  her  death  was  a  warning 
to  all  who  overtax  their  strength,  and 
never  have  time  for  relaxation  or  recrea- 
tion. The  bow  which  is  never  unstrung 
will  surely  break. 

If  we  women  had  a  little  more  indepen- 
dence and  were  not  always  comparing 
ourselves  with  our  neighbors,  a  great  deal 
of  worrying  would  be  saved.  Let  us  do 
our  work  in  our  own  way  and  at  our  own 
time,  regardless  of  what  others  may  say. 
If  it  is  more  convenient  for  us  to  wash 
Tuesday,  then  what  matter  if  our  neigh- 
bor does  get  up  before  daylight,  and 
freezes  her  fingers  and  toes  on  Monday 
morning.  That  is  none  of  your  business, 
and  what  is  the  use  of  worrying  over  it? 
Let  us  be  independent.  Find  out  by 
careful  observation  the  easiest  way  and 
most  convenient  time  for  each  particular 
duty,  and  then  do  it  according  to  our 
own  judgment.  By  careful  management 
we  would  be  astonished  to  find  how 
many  spare  minutes  are  left  in  the  course 
of  the  day,  in  which  we  may  "play,"  as 
the  children  say. 

But  housework  is  never  done:  so, if  we 
wait  till  every  duty  is  performed  before 
we  take  the  needed  rest,  the  probability 
is  that  we  shall  never  get  it.  Have  an 
entertaining  book  at  hand,  and  when 
those  dishes  loom  up  before  you  in  a  for- 
midable pile,  and  you  think  they  never 
will  be  washed,  sit  down  and  read  a  few 
minutes,  or,  better  still,  run  out  of  doors, 
if  only  to  look  at  the  chickens  or  to 
speak  to  a  neighbor  over  the  garden 
fence.  A  breaih  of  fresh  air  and  bap- 
tism of  sunlight  will  sink  down  into  your 
heart  like  a  little  piece  of  heaven,  and 
cheer  you  up  for  all  the  rest  of  the  day. 
There  is  nothing  like  fresh  air  and  sun- 
shine to  drive  away  the"blues"and  make 
the  wheels  of  our  household  machinery 
move  as  by  magic. 

It  is  possible  to  accomplish  an  almost 
incredible  amount  of  work  if  the  monot- 
ony is  varied  with  the  necessary  rest  and 
recreation.  We  know  one  pair  of  hands 
which  for  eleven  years,  unaided  except 
in  time  of  sickness,  have  done  all  the 
work  for  a  family  of  four,  with  constant 
interruptions  from  visitors  and  callers, 
and  duties  of  various  kinds  outside  the 
house  to  perform.  This  pair  of  hands, 
with  the  brain  to  which  they  l)elo*ng,havo 
washed  and  ironed,  made  and  mended, 
and  still  found  time  for  much  reading  and 
music,  rides  and  walks,  and  a  great  deal 
of  social  enjoyment,  and  their  owner  is 
younger  in  spirit  and  almost  as  young  in 
body  as  she  was  ten  years  ago. — Alice  M. 
Walker  in  UomMtead. 


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by  using  Hall's  Vegetable  Sicilian  Hair 
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Beauty 

Is  desireil  and  admired  by  all.  Among 
the  things  which  may  best  be  done  to 
enhance  personal 
beauty  is  the  daily 
use  of  Ayer's  Hair 
Vigor.  No  matter 
what  the  color  of 
the  hair,  this  prepa- 
ration gives  it  a  lus- 
tre and  pliancy  that 
adds  greatly  to  its 
charm.  Should  the 
liair  be  thin,  harsh, 
dry,  or  turning  gray, 
Ayer's  Hair  Vigor 
will  restore  the 
color,  bring  out  a 
new  growth,  and 
render  the  old  soft  and  shiny.  For 
keeping  the  scalp  clean,  cool,  and 
healthy,  there  is  no  better  preparation 
in  the  market. 

"I  am  free  to  confess  that  a  trial  of 
Ayer's  Hair  Vigor  has  convinced  me 
that  it  is  a  genuine  article.  Its  use  has 
not  only  caused  the  hair  of  my  wife  and 
daughter  to  be 

Abundant  and  Glossy, 

but  it  has  given  ray  rather  stunted  mus- 
tache a  respectable  length  and  appear- 
ance."—R.  Britton,  Oakland,  Ohio. 

"My  hair  was  coming  out  (without 
any  assistance  from  my  wife,  either). 
I  tried  Ayer's  Hair  Vigor,  using  only 
one  bottle,  and  I  now  have  as  line  a 
head  of  hair  as  any  one  could  wish  for." 
— R.  T,  Schraittou,  Dickson,  Tenn. 

"  I  have  used  Ayer's  Hair  Vigor  in  my 
family  for  a  number  of  years,  and  re- 
gard it  as  the  best  hair  preparation  I 
know  of.  It  keeps  the  scalp  clean,  the 
hair  soft  and  lively,  and  preserves  the 
original  color.  My  wife  has  used  it  for 
a  long  time  with  most  satisfactory  re- 
sults."—  Benjamin  M.  Johnson,  M.  D., 
Thomas  Hill,  Mo. 

"  Mj'  hair  was  becoming  harsh  and  dry, 
but  after  using  half  a  bottle  of  Ayer's 
Hair  Vigor  it  grew  black  and  glossy.  I 
cannot  express  the  joy  and  gratitude  I 
feel."  — Mabel  C.  Hardy,  Delavan,  111. 

Ayer's  Hair  Vigor, 

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Farm  Notes. 

WOBK  FOR  THE  MONTH  OF  JULY. 

Late  Haying. — The  failure  to  gather 
the  hay  while  it  is  at  its  best,  is  a  too 
frequent  and  inexcusable  neglect  at  this 
season.  If  farmers  could  be  convinced 
of  how  much  of  the  feeding  value  of  hay 
is  lost  by  leaving  the  grass  to  become 
ripe,  hard  and  woody,  it  would  no  long- 
er be  permitted. 

How  TO  Cube  Ripe  Hay. — Hay  that 
has  been  cut  late  may  be  improved  by 
curing  in  the  cock  instead  of  drying  in 
the  sun.  Being  comparatively  dry  when 
cut,  it  is  very  soon  cured ;  and  if  put  up 
in  cocks  as  soon  as  it  is  thoroughly  wilt- 
ed, it  will  heat  and  steam  and  become 
much  softened,  and  will  remain  greener 
than  if  sun  dried  in  the  swath. 

Cutting  Wheat  and  Rte. — If  there 
was.  any  doubt  about  the  best  time  for 
cutting  grain,  the  general  experience  last 
year  went  far  toward  settling  the  ques- 
tion. All  over  the  country  a  hot  spell 
came  on  just  as  the  cutting  became  gen- 
eral and  the  grain  shrank  badly.  Had 
harvest  been  a  few  days  earlier,  the  total 
gain  would  have  been  enormous.  In  the 
writer's  field  stopping  the  cutting  for  the 
4th  of  July  holiday  last  season,  caused  a 
loss  of  $100  in  the  quality  of  the  grain 
and  in  the  shrinkage  of  the  weight  and 
bulk.  As  soon  as  the  grain  is  solid,  but 
will  crush  dry  between  the  finger  nails, 
it  may  be  cut,  and  hot  weather  will  not 
injure  it  in  the  shock  as  it  will  when 
standing.  Dead  ripe  grain  is  not  only 
less  valuable,  but  the  straw  is  worth  less 
than  if  cut  three  or  four  days  earlier. 

Corn  should  not  be  neglected  in  the 
hurry  of  harvest.  Frequent  cultivation 
hastens  growth  and  the  maturing  of  the 
crop.  To  see  the  difference,  leave  a  row 
or  two  uncultivated.  Much  hand  work 
later  in  the  season  may  be  avoided  by  a 
little  work  with  the  cultivator,  and  by 
keeping  the  weeds  down. 

Fodder  Corn  may  yet  be  sown.  A 
rye  or  wheat  stubble  may  be  plowed  and 
planted  in  drills  with  three  bushels  of 
corn  per  acre.  The  large  Western  or 
Southern  corn,or  Evergreen  Sweet  Corn, 
may  be  used.  S3me  extra  good  ammon- 
iated  superphosphate, with  potash  added, 
or  special  com  fodder  fertilizer,  should 
be  sown  broadcast  and  harrowed  in  be- 
fore planting.  Dropping  the  fertilizer  in 
the  drill  does  not  answer  well  for  corn 
when  other  manure  is  not  used  broad- 
cast. 

Fodder  Crops.  —  Hungarian  Grass, 
common  Millet  or  the  Golden  Millet  may 
be  sown  this  month  for  green  fodder  or 
hay.  A  bushel  of  seed  per  acre  may  be 
sown;  though  rather  thick  seeding,  the 
fodder  will  be  all  the  finer  and  better  for 
it.  Millet  that  was  sown  in  May  should 
be  cut  before  the  seed  is  ripe  or  the  fod- 
der gets  hard,  unless  the  seed  is  wanted. 
Millet  seed  makes  an  excellent  addition 
to  ground  feed  when  mixed  with  corn 
and  rye. 

Euckwheat  may  be  made  profitable 
upon  a  piece  of  rough  or  newly  cleared 
ground.  No  other  crop  is  so  effective  in 
mellowing  rough,  cloddy  land.  The  seed 
in  northern  localities  should  be  sown  be- 
fore July  12th;  otherwise  early  fall  frosts 
may  citch  the  crop.  Grass  and  clover 
may  sometimes  be  sown  successfully  with 
buckwheat  this  month. 

Pruning  can  be  done  in  this  month. 
Look  to  an  open  head  to  the  tree,  that 
the  sun  and  air  may  reach  the  interior. 

The  utmost  cleanliness  should  be  pre- 
served about  the  premises  in  hot  weather. 
All  wastes  and  garbage  should  be  dis- 
posed of  on  a  compost  heap;  and  a  load 
of  good  soil  and  sods  from  fence  rows 
will  be  useful  as  the  basis  for  it.  Weeds 
should  be  gathered  and  added  to  the 
heap.  Liberal  additions  of  plaster  will 
prevent  disagreeable  odors. 

Blackberries  and  Raspberries. — 
Treat  all  plants  that  come  up  and  are  not 
wanted  for  next  year's  fruiting, as  weeds. 
Those  to  grow  should  be  stopped  by 
pinching  at  six  feet  for  blackberries  and 
four  feet  for  raspberries.  When  the 
fruit  is  off  of  cither,cut  cut  the  old  canes 
that  have  borne  it. 

Currants. — The  long  weak  shoots  that 
push  from  the  interior  are  to  be  broken 
out,  and  also  all  others  not  needed.  Pick 
the  fruit  early,  as  soon  as  well  colored, 
for  jelly,but  for  table  use  let  it  be  thor- 
oughly ripened. 

Flower  Garden  and  Lawn. — Ev- 
erything should  be  kept  in  good  order. 


Mow  the  lawn  when  it  needs  it.  Remove 
large  weeds  that  may  start  up.  If  the 
weather  is  dry, water  should  be  used  free- 
ly. The  edgings  to  beds  and  walks 
should  be  kept  neatly  cut.  Bedding 
plants  need  much  care  now, as  they  grow 
rapidly  and  will  often  need  the  knife. 
Cut  away  flower  clusters  of  plants  culti- 
vated for  their  foliage,  and  trim  and 
shape  to  suit  the  design.  Tall  flower 
plants,  like  dahlia9,gladioluses,lilies,etc., 
will  require  stakes.  Do  not  use  unsightly 
devices  for  holding  up  plants;  straight 
stems  of  shrubs  are  better  than  painted 
sticks.  Climbers  should  not  be  allowed 
to  fall  away  from  their  supports.  Keep 
the  ground  clean  all  around  per'jnnials, 
and  save  seed  of  all  plants  as  they  ripen. 
— Am,  Agriculturist. 


At  first  a  little  hacking  cough, 

'"Tis  nothing  but  a  cold," 
They  say;  "Twill  very  soon  wear  off." 

Alas,  the  story  old ! 
The  hectic  cheek,  the  failing  strength. 

The  grief  that  cannot  save, 
And  life's  wan  flame  goesout,at  length. 

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THE  CHEISTIAN  CYNOStTKE. 


July  12, 1888 


NFWs  OF  The  Week 

James  A.  Brooks,  Prohibition  candi- 
date for  Vice  President,  lectured  in  Min- 
neapoli8,Minn., July  3  before  a  large  and 
enthusiastic  audience. 

A  grand  Prohibition  ratification  meet- 
ing for  the  Northwest  will  be  held  at  Bat- 
tery D,  Chicago,  on  Friday  evening,  July 
13.  General  Clinton  B.  Fisk,  candidate 
for  President;  John  A.  Brooks.candidate 
for  Vice  President;  D.  H.  Harts,  candi- 
date for  Governor  of  Illinois  on  the  Pro- 
hibition ticket,  are  to  be  present  and 
speak.  Speeches  are  also  expected  from 
Miss  Frances  E.  Willard  and  George  W. 
Bain.  Samuel  Dickie,  Chairman  of  the 
National  Committee, will  preside. 

A  National  Prohibition  Convention 
was  opened  at  Montreal,  Canada,  July  3. 
About  200  delegates  were  present.  Ex- 
Mayor  Hawland,  of  Toronto, was  elected 
permanent  president.  Most  of  the  day 
was  occupied  in  discussing  the  question 
of  whether  the  Scott  temperance  act, 
which  met  with  so  many  defeats  in  On- 
tario recently,  is  a  success  or  a  failure . 
Several  resolutions  were  offered,  includ- 
ing one  expressing  confidence  in  the 
Scott  act,  a  second  in  favor  of  forming  a 
prohibition  party, a  third  in  favor  of  more 
advanced  legislation  than  the  Scott  act, 
and  a  fourth  in  f aver  of  the  formation  of 
a  third  political  party  All  were  referred 
to  the  committee  on  resolutions. 

WASHINGTON. 

Last  week  the  War  Department  allow- 
ed a  claim  of  $75  filed  by  Colonel  Elliott 
Shurtz,  of  Marshalltown,  Iowa,  in  1848, 
for  the  loss  of  a  horse  in  the  Mexican 
war.  The  War  Department  offlcials  can 
hustle  around  a  bit  when  they  try. — Bve. 
Journal. 

It  was  reported  Saturday  that  nearly 
f  14,00(),000  of  pension  warrants  had  been 
signed  by  the  Secretary  of  the  Treasury. 

Secretary  Fairchild  reports  that  the 
public  debt  decreased  $14,429,503  during 
the  month  of  June.  The  debt  has  de- 
creased $113,844,080  since  June  30,1887. 

CHICAGO. 

The  proposition  to  hold  a  celebration 
of  the  four  hundredth  anniversary  of  the 
discovery  of  America  in  1892  in  Chicago 
commends  itself  to  general  favor. 

The  preface  of  the  Chicago  Directory 
just  issued  sajs  the  population  of  the  city 
nas  during  the  past  year  been  swelled  by 
r>{),()00  additional  residents, which  make  a 
total  of  870,000.  To  provide  for  the 
names  in  the  Directory  2,272  pages  were 
required,200  more  than  last  year. 

COUNTRY. 

The  Swatara,  with  General  Sheridan 
and  party  on  board, sailed  from  Delaware 
breakwater  at  5:30  a.  m.  Friday,  enroute 
for  Nonquitt.  The  steamer  reached  New 
York  at  8:10  r.  m,,  and  the  General  was 
reported  as  having  passed  a  good  day. 

A  large  fund  has  been  raised  by  St. 
Louis  saloon  keepers  to  fight  the  Sunday- 
closing  law  in  the  courts,  and  for  the  pur- 
pose of  making  a  test  case  some  of  the 
beer  shops  will  keep  open  next  Sunday. 
A  new  organization,  to  be  known  as  the 
Merchant's  Protective  Association,  will  be 
formed. 

A  dynamite  bomb  was  exploded  in  the 
court  yard  at  Nicholasville,  Ky  ,  at  mid- 
night Wednesday.shattering  all  the  plate 
glass  windows  and  damaging  the  Circuit 
Clerk's  oflSce  so  that  the  books  and  rec- 
ords had  to  be  removed. 

William  Armstrong,  a  carpenter,  met 
with  a  peculiar  accident  at  Lima,  <)  ,that 
cost  hie  life.  He  was  at  work  on  a  lad- 
der when  it  turned,  and  in  his  attempt  to 
catch  a  window  sill  he  threw  up  bis  hand 
in  which  he  held  a  hatchet,  the  blade  of 
which  struck  him  on  the  neck,  cutting  a 
frightful  gash,  from  which  Armstrong 
bled  to  death  in  a  short  time. 

Gus  Bogles,  a  bootblack,  was  hanged 
for  murder  at  Fort  Smith,  Ark.,  Friday, 
making  the  sixtieth  victim  who  has  died 
on  the  gallows  at  that  place.  On  the 
BcaSold  Bogles  protested  his  innocence, 
and  asked  the  jailor  to  shoot  him. 

A  battery  of  boilers  in  a  tannery  at 
Allegbenv  City  exploded  Friday  after- 
noon,wrecking  several  buildings  and  se- 
riously injuring  six  persons,  three  of 
whom  will  probably  die. 

Heavy  storms  of  wind,  rain,  and  hail 
caused  serious  damage  Thursday  in  the 
Albany,  N.  Y.,  New  Brunswick,  N.  J., 
and  neighboring  districts.     Yachts  were 


wrecked.shade  trees  and  awnings  destroy- 
ed, barns  and  farm  houses  leveled,  and 
crops  ruined .  A  farmer  was  killed  near 
Middlebush,  N.  J.,  and  the  uncompleted 
Roman  Catholic  church  at  Asbury  Park 
was  blown  down. 

The  storms  throughout  Iowa  proved 
very  serious.  Great  damage  has  been 
done  to  growing  grain,  many  houses 
have  been  struck  by  lightning,  railroad 
tracks  were  washed  away,  and  telegraph 
communication  interfered  with.  Only 
one  death  has  been  reported.  Alvin  Cox 
attempted  to  cross  a  freshet  with  his  ve- 
hicle near  Rock  Island,  III.,  and  was 
drowned.  Many  horses  and  cattle  were 
killed.  Eighteen  houses  and  barns  were 
destroyed  betw  en  Cedar  Falls  and  Junc- 
tion City,  Iowa,  covering  an  area  of  a 
mile  and  a  half.  At  Waterloo  consider- 
able stock  was  killed  by  lightning.  la 
Scott  county  bridges  were  swept  away ; 
and  in  Iowa  City  many  buildings  were 
blown  down. 

Streets  and  cellars  at  Scranton,  Pa., 
were  flooded  Thursday  by  a  violent 
storm.  Two  men  were  killed  by  light- 
ning. 

Sunday,  near  Carabelle,  Fla.,  two  illic 
it  distillers,  John  Darden  and  one  Holmes, 
attempted  to  kill  H.  J.  Penton  with  a 
shot  gun.  They  missed  him,  and  Penton 
then  shot  Darden  in  the  head  afid  Holmes 
in  the  ear.killing  them  instantly. 

The  Santa  Fe  railway  system  is  en- 
deavoring to  lease  or  purchase  the  Ohio, 
Indiana  and  Western  Line  between  In- 
dianapolis and  Springfield,  Ohio,  and  is 
planning  to  secure  a  through  route  to  the 
sea  board. 

The  stage  running  between  Madeira, 
Cal.,  and  Hildreth  was  stopped  July  2 
by  masked  men.  They  jumped  from  be 
hind  the  rocks  and  compelled  the  express 
messenger  to  throw  them  his  gun  and 
then  compelled  him  and  the  driver  to 
hand  over  the  express  box,  containing 
$10,000  in  silver  and  bullion.  The  rob- 
bers escaped. 

Robert  William  Flack,  of  Syracuse,  N. 
Y.,  lost  his  life  at  Niagara  Fall8,in  an  at- 
tempt to  go  through  the  Niagara  Rapids 
in  his  life  boat. 

The  blunder  of  a  train  despatcher 
caused  a  wreck  on  the  Pennsylvania  rail- 
road near  Nanticoke,  Pa.  Two  passen- 
ger trains,  running  at  good  speed  in  op- 
posite directions  on  the  sama  track, 
plunged  into  each  other,  demolishing 
both  engines.  Some  thirty  passengers 
were  injured,  but  none  fatally. 

A  cyclone  struck  the  town  of  E  Iwards- 
burg.Ind., about  11  o'clock  Friday  night. 
A  hotel  that  had  just  been  completed  and 
had  notyetbeefl  furnished  up  was  moved 
about  fifteen  feet  from  its  foundations 
and  completely  wrecked.  Several  hous 
es  were  unroofed  and  a  number  of  barns 
destroyed.  No  one  was  injured  as  far  as 
known. 

A  fire  in  the  large  six-story  building 
occupied  by  the  Century  Company  and 
other  tenants  in  New  York  City  early 
Saturday  morning  caused  a  loss  of  about 
$250,000.  The  Century's  loss  was  chief 
ly  by  water. 

A  crowd  of  drunken  roughs  tried  to 
force  an  entrance  to  a  saloon  at  Long  Is 
land  City  for  the  purpose  of  getting  li- 
quor,   "rhe  keeper,in  defense  of  his  prop 
erty,  fired  into  the  crowd.killing  one  and 
fatally  wounding  another. 

The  U.  8.  steamer  Swatara  arrived  off 
Nonquitt,  Mass.,  Sunday  afternoon  bear 
ing  General  Sheridan  and  his  piny,  who 
were  safely  transferred  to  the  General's 
cottage  It  is  hoped  that  his  condition 
will  improve,  as  the  change  has  been 
made  without  serious  results. 

The  village  of  Norway, Mich  ,wa9  late 
ly  destroyed  by  fire  which  completely 
wiped  out  the  business  and  residence 
portion  of  the  place,  rendering  m^ny 
scores  of  families  homeless  and  without, 
the  necessities  of  life,  and  the  amount  of 
suffering  has  been  very  great.  The  suf- 
ferers are  in  need  of  money,  bedding, 
clothing,  shoes,  provisions,  etc.  Ar- 
rangements will  be  made  for  free  trans- 
portation of  any  supplies  to  that  point, 
and  careful  distribution  will  be  made  by 
Mr.  E.  F.  Brown,  Town  Supervisor. 

FOBEIGN. 

The  Pope  is  preparing  an  encyclical 
on  the  relations  between  church  and 
state.  An  encyclical  on  the  social  ques- 
tion will  be  published  during  the  year. 

I  is  believed  that  after  a  definite  un- 
der landing  with  Russia  has  been  estab- 


lished. Emperor  William  will  propose  that 
the  European  powers  reduce  their  arma- 
ments. 

The  steamer  Volta  has  arrived  at  Liv- 
erpool with  Congo  dispatches  to  May  27, 
which  give  further  details  concerning 
the  camp  on  the  Aruwhimi.  The  camp 
was  suffering  from  lack  of  food  and  from 
maladies  arising  from  the  surrounding 
swamps.  Reconnoitering  parties  which 
had  advanced  along  Stanley's  route  pass- 
ed quantities  of  human  bones,  which  were 
apparently  the  remains  of  victims  who 
had  fallen  in  fights  between  Stanley's  fol- 
lowers and  the  natives.  The  relief  had 
been  received  by  the  camp  from  Tippoo 
Tib.  Major  Bartellot,  believing  that 
Stanley  was  not  more  than  500  miles  be 
yond  the  camp  in  the  direction  of  Khar- 
toum, was  preparing  to  strike  his  tent 
and  push  on  and  join  him. 

Forest  fires  are  raging  along  the  line 
of  the  Canada  and  Atlantic  Road  between 
Montreal  and  Ottawa.  Eighteen  miles 
of  track  have  been  destroyed,  and  many 
cars,  houses  and  itnills  have  been  burned. 

The  Czar  has  asked  that  Bismarck  ac- 
company the  Emperor  to  St,  Petersburg 
where  M.  DeGiers  will  present  a  proposal 
for  a  nominal  Russian  protectorate  in 
Bulgaria.  A  candidate  for  the  Bulgari- 
an throne  is  to  be  appointed  by  a  confer- 
ence held  either  at  Vienna  or  Constanti- 
nople. It  is  doubted  in  Austrian  official 
circles  if  Austrian  assent  to  the  proposals 
can  be  obtained.  The  Russian  Pan  Slav- 
ist  party  does  not  approve  the  Czar's 
overtures  with  Germany. 


Married. — On  July  5th,  Milton  Ford, 
E-q.,and  Mrs  Barbara  EHolmes.at  their 
residence  on  Myrtle  street,  Washington, 
D.  C,  by  Rev.  J  P.  Stoddard,  Secretary 
N.  C  A. 


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Vol.  XX..  No.  44 


CHICAGO,  THUESDAY,  JULY  19,  1888. 


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CONTENTS. 


Editorial : 

Notes  and  Comments 

The  New  York  Candidate. 

Lake  Bluff 

Good  Templars   and  the 

Prohibition  Party 

Tbe  Orangemen 

Clean-handed  Prohibition 

CONTBIBDTIONS : 

Poor  Grant!     Poor  Bis- 
marck !  Poor  Sims !  Poor 

Blaine  I 

The  Law  of  the  Word 

Try  Importunity 

Bblected : 
Over-ShootiDg  the  Mark.. 

Secret  Despotism 

Lodge  Work  in  the  Iowa 

Legislature 

Titles  Enough 

The    N.    Y.    Prohibition 

Candidate 

I  etters  from  Rome 

New  England  Letter 

Washington  Letter 

Lake  Bluff  in  1888 

The  Ceiitennlal  at  Cincinnati 


Rbpobm  News  ; 
Jottings  by  the  Wav ,  Col- 

Sorteur  Notes ;  Back  in 
[ew  Orleans 5 

CORRBSPONDBSC"  : 

Let  Women  Reflect ;  Col- 
porteur Work  for  the 
Nation ;  The  Republican 
Resolution ;  Pith  and 
Point;  The  American 
Anti-Secrecy  League. . .    6 

Literature 6 

Obituary 7 

The  N.  C.  a 7 

Lecture  List 7 

Secret    Societies     Con- 
demned     7 

The  Home ^ 10 

Temperance 11 

Bible  Lesson 12 

Religious  Nbws 12 

Lodge  Notes 13 

Donations 13 

Home  and  Health 14 

Farm  Notes 15 

News  oi-  thb  Wbbk 16 

Markets ,  13 


Judge  Hawes,  of  the  Superior  Court,  in  this  city, 
has  just  decided  one  of  the  most  important  cases 
that  could  come  before  a  court  of  justice.  After  a 
long  investigation,  a  trusted  employe  of  the  South 
Side  street  railway  company  has  been  sentenced  to 
six  months'  imprisonment  for  attempting  to 
bribe  a  juryman.  This  is  one  of  the  richest 
corporations  of  the  city,  and  its  president  and 
attorney,  who  are  both  recommended  to  the  ex- 
amination of  the  grand  jury,  stand  very  high 
among  our  citizens.  Few  are  willing  to  believe 
the  former,  Mr.  C.  B.  Holmes,  who  has  an  enviable 
reputation  as  a  practical  Christian  philanthropist, 
can  be  guilty  of  the  charge;  and  S.  B.  Cobb,  vice- 
president  and  largest  stockholder  of  the  company,  is 
one  of  our  oldest  and  most  respected  citizans.  But 
no  consideration  should  interfere  between  such  a 
crime  and  its  punibhment.  The  lodge  has  notori- 
ously prostituted  our  jury  system,  until  it  seems  a 
hollow  sham,  and  many  are  ready  to  abolish  it.  If 
a  change  can  be  begun  which  shall  reach  to  the  Ma- 
sonic as  well  as  the  capitalist  briber,  the  agents  of 
such  a  reform  are  to  be  hailed  as  public  benefactors. 


Rev.  John  Jaeper,  the  eminent  colored  Baptist 
preacher  of  Richmond,  Virginia,  has  been  for  a  few 
days  in  Chicago,  raising  money  for  a  new  church 
edifice  for  his  Richmond  flock.  Mr.  Jasper  has  a 
national  reputation  for  maintaining  the  theory  of 
the  sun's  motion  about  the  earth.  It  is  rather, 
however,  a  newspaper  repute,  as  his  lecture  on  that 
topic  only  presents  the  reasons  for  such  a  belief, 
without  arguing  for  the  fact.  But  Mr.  Jasper  is 
sound  on  the  lodge,  and  there  is  no  doubt  of  his 
position.  On  the  Sabbath  he  preached  in  the  Olivet 
Baptist  church,  and  his  doctrine  was  an  excellent 
antidote  for  the  lodgery  that  we  regret  to  say  pre- 
vails in  that  body.  He  advised  his  Christian  hear- 
ers to  stand  fast  together  and  not  "let  thoyforms  and 
fashions  of  the  world   coax   them  away  from  the 


Lord  God.  You  can  join  your  Masonry,  and  belong 
to  the  base  ball  crowd,  and  be  policy  dealers,  and 
all  that;  but  none  of  that  belongs  to  Christianity, 
and  you  must  come  out  of  that  if  you  want  to  join 
the  hundred  and  forty-four  thousand  that  sing  be- 
fore throne  of  God." 


Last  week  Monday  President  Cleveland  made  the 
final  change  which  ended  the  Republican  control  in 
Utah.  He  nominated  Elliott  Sandford  of  New  York 
to  be  Chief  Justice  of  the  Supreme  Court  of  the 
Territory  and  John  W.  Judd  to  be  Associate  Jus 
tice.  Chief  Justice  Zane,  whose  term  expires,  was 
appointed  by  President  Arthur  from  Springfield,  Il- 
linois. He  was  the  first  man  to  make  the  Edmunds 
law  of  some  eflEect.  Under  his  decisions  there  began 
to  be  hope  that  the  la^  would  be  enforced,  and 
the  United  States  Supreme  Court  have  uniformly 
affirmed  his  judgments.  The  Mormons  have  achieved 
a  great  victory  in  preventing  his  reappointment,  for 
which  the  Gentiles  have  labored  with  equal  assidui- 
ty. Petitions  signed  by  every  citizen  of  Salt  Lake 
City  who  is  opposed  to  the  Mormon  abominations 
have  been  sent  to  Washington.  Bat  the  counsel  of 
the  enemies  of  the  Old  Flag  prevailed.  Mr.  Elliott 
may  not  inaugurate  any  change;  and,  indeed,  the 
firm  rule  of  Judge  Zane  has  made  a  return  to  the 
old  times  of  Mormon  bribery  difficult;  but  the  hie- 
rarchs  of  polygamy  seem  anxious  to  attempt  it. 


The  dynamite  conspiracy  on  the  Burlington  road 
is  nearly  uncapped.  Several  more  arrests  were 
made  last  week,  Hoge,  chairman  of  the  engineers' 
order  among  them.  Several  of  the  arrested  men 
have  confessed.  They  tell  where  the  dynami'e  was 
bought  and  how  disposed  of,  and  how  several  ex- 
plosions were  managed,  fortunately  with  no  serious 
results  beyond  disabling  engines.  The  preliminary 
examination  proceeded  last  week,  and  this  before 
the  United  States  authorities,  and  it  is  too  early  to 
say  what  may  be  the  developments  of  the  final  trial. 
It  is  not  believed,  however,  that  the  engineers  as  a 
body  are  implicated,  but  some  of  their  leaders  are, 
without  doubt.  The  revelations  turn  some  of  the 
strikers  against  the  order,  while  others  are  enraged 
at  the  company  for  bringing  this  villainy  to  light. 
Violence  is  threatened  in  some  quarters,  and  may 
now  be  rather  looked  for  from  a  company  of  men 
long  idle,  than  from  the  same  persons  just  quitting 
their  work. 


A  few  weeks  since  our  Boston  correspondent 
wrote  of  the  attack  of  a  Romish  priest  upon  one  of 
the  public  school-teachers  for  his  definition  of  the 
word  "indulgence."  The  Catholics  followed  up  this 
attack  by  a  war  on  school  books  that  did  not  speak 
according  to  their  word;  and  the  subservience  of 
the  school  board  to  their  demands  has  aroused  the 
churches.  An  immense  mass  meeting  that  over- 
flowed into  Tremont  Temple  met  in  old  Faneuil  Hall. 
The.  speakers  denounced  the  Catholics  influence  as 
destroying  the  efficiency  of  the  public  school  system, 
and  dictated  by  bigotry.  The  resolutions  are  em- 
phatic in  denouncing  the  Jesuit  doctrine  that  the 
state  shall  have  no  part  in  public  education;  in  ap- 
plauding Mayor  Hewitt,  of  New  York;  and  pledge 
the  vote  of  the  people  against  any  one  who  is  sub- 
servient to  a  foreign  potentate.  God  gr.int  it  be  not 
too  late  that  the  old  Puritan  sentiment  of  New 
England  is  arising  to  push  back  the  floods  of  priest- 
ism  and  ignorance  which  have,  under  shelter  of 
lodge  and  saloon,  gained  such  power  in  Boston. 


The  order  of  the  Pope  a  few  weeks  since  against 
the  Irish  boycott  and  plan  of  campaign  adopted  by 
the  National  Home  Rule  League  had  its  day  of  sen- 
sation. Before  the  universal  opposition  of  Catho- 
lics in  Great  Britain  and  America  the  Pope  seemed 
to  give  way,  and  his  exponents,  the  bishops,  have 
been  cHicially  explaining  away  all  the  force  of  the 
order.  But  a  new  encyclical  letter  was  read  last 
Sabbath  in  all  the  Catholic  churches  of  Dublin,  in 
which  the  Pope  regrets  the  excitement  and  opposi- 
tion which  arose  against  the  former  decree,  and  re- 
alUrms   that  order.      His  decision  was  taken  after 


full  information  on  the  condition  of  Irish  affairs, 
and  he  urges  the  Irish  people  to  keep  within  the 
bounds  of  justice  and  right.  The  letter  is  dated 
June  24,  and  causes  as  intense  dissatisfaction  as 
the  first  decree  produced  astonishment.  In  one 
church  the  congregation  marched  out  during  its 
reading  in  a  state  of  rebellion.  If  Leo  XIII.  shall 
succeed  in  raising  such  a  storm  in  the  bosoms  of 
Irish  Catholics  as  shall  sweep  away  the  last  remnant 
of  bigoted  devotion  to  the  priesthood,  he  will  prove 
to  them  a  greater  benefactor  than  Parnell  or  O'Con- 
nell. 


The  press  reports  of  the  Pan  Presbyterian  council 
in  London  suggest  a  number  of  interesting  debates 
and  resolutions  which  the  denominational  press  will 
soon  give  to  the  churches  in  full.  Among  these  was 
a  report  concurring  in  the  Quakers'  memorial  to 
substitute  arbitration  for  war  in  the  settlement  of 
international  disputes.  Dr.  Ellin  wood,  of  New  York, 
read  a  paper  denouncing  the  liquor  traffic  with  Af- 
rica, and  stated  that  the  work  of  missions  in  the 
Congo  was  paralyzed  by  the  influence  of  trade  re- 
strictions. In  this  matter  united  action  was  neces- 
sary, and  all  Christian  people  should  appeal  to  every 
government  to  correct  the  evil.  Dr.  John  Hall  of 
New  York  believed  the  influence  of  the  church 
should  prevail  with  the  rulers  of  nations  in  this 
matter;  and  later  on  the  progress  of  Romanism.  Dr. 
Hall  said  that  system  was  not  so  strong  in  E  irope  as 
formerly,  and  in  America  it  seemed  stronger  than  the 
reality.  The  bargaining  of  the  politicians  for  the 
Catholic  vote  exaggerated  its  power.  The  action  of 
the  Council  respecting  Africa  is  a  legitimate  use  of 
the  influence  of  the  church  for  the  welfare  of  na- 
tions, whereas  the  Romish  church -has  assumed  to 
be  a  dictator,  and  has  misused  this  ioflaence. 


POOR  GRANT!    POOR  BISMARCK!    POOR 
SIMS!     POOR  BLAINB! 


BY   WILLIAM   F.   DaTIS. 


Very  splendid  was  the  firmness  which  General 
Grant  displayed  in  opposition  to  a  rebtllion  which 
was  begotten  by  tyranny,  fattened  on  slavery,  fo- 
mented by  Jesuitism,  fired  by  whisky  and  officered 
by  treason.  In  that  cause  the  rudest  language  of 
his  usually  dumb  obstinacy  was  caught  up  and 
treasured  by  watching  nations  as  excellent  eloquence, 
and  "I'll  fight  it  out  on  this  line  if  it  takes  ail  sum- 
mer," has  became  an  international  password  of  per- 
sistent patriotism. 

But  sickeningly  sad  was  the  sight  when  our  great- 
est soldier  and  highest  civilian  defaced  himself  and 
disgraced  his  exalted  offices  by  daily  training  in  the 
ranks  of  the  voluntary  advertising  agents  of  the  pub- 
lic poisoners  of  American  citizans.  The  people  of 
the  United  States  were  compelled  to  gaze  upon  one, 
crowned  a  victor  over  a  contineut-shaking  rebellion, 
placarded  by  the  ubiquitous  newspapers  as  the  con- 
firmed victim  of  the  ill-mannered, filthy,di;spotic  and 
deadly  tobacco  h.abit.  In  his  dismal  final  conflict 
with  the  subtle  enemy — wliioh  General  Grant  had 
shown  such  insane  generalship  as  t)  assign  the  most 
honored  post  within  his  lifeguard  lines,  having  ap- 
pointed Cigar  the  keeper  of  his  mouth— the  will  of 
our  ex  President  was  proved  to  be  as  impotent  as  it 
had  before  bean  regarded  irresistible.  Cigar  brought 
in  Cancer,  and  Cancer  killed  Grant  by  a  most  tortu- 
rous, lingering,  and  loathsome  death. 

At  eleven  o'clock  a.  m  ,  Juno  15lh,  Emperor 
Frederick  of  Germany.whose  ance8try,achievement8, 
and  dominion  encircled  him  with  the  most  coveted 
glories  of  this  world,  after  a  reign  of  throe  months, 
six  days,  two  hours  and  a  half,  was  slain.  Cigar 
and  his  armor-bearer.  Cancer,  did  it 

Eupcror  Frederick's  manly  beauty, 8trength,cour- 
age,di8cretion,  gentleness  and  magninimity  had  en- 
deared him  to  the  people  of  united  Germany  and  of 
the  world.  He  sat  firmly  on  the  imperial  throne  in 
the  Frederichskron  p.alace  at  Potsdam,  but  more 
firmly  in  the  hearts  of  his  people.  But  he  gave  his 
lips  to  the  lying  tobacco,  and  rolled  the  deceitful 
poison  as  a  sweet  morsel  under  his  tongue,  and  tl  e 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


July  19, 1888 


enemy  dragged  him  by  the  throat  from  his  throne 
and  drove  him  into  the  tomb  prematurely.  The 
more  than  eighty  decoration8,commemorative  of  the 
esteem  in  which  his  character  and  achievements 
were  held,  which  were  lavished  upon  him,  had  no 
power  to  stay  the  cancerous  rot  which  tobacco  be- 
got. The  proud  crosses  of  the  Black  Eagle,the  Red 
Eagle,  the  Legion  of  Honor,  etc.,  were  no  match  for 
Cigar. 

"Unser  Fritz"(our  Fritz),  as  the  (rermans  loving- 
ly called  him,  was  fifty-seven  years  old,  of  magnifi- 
cent physique,  powerful  constitution  and  long-lived 
progenitors.  But  for  his  loved  Cigar  he  might  well 
have  filled  out  thirteen,  twenty-three,  or  even  thirty- 
three  more  years  of  honored  and  useful  life,  in  defi- 
ance of  the  ordinary  foes  to  royalty. 

The  Boston  Journal  of  last  evening  (6,  15,  '88) 
says: 

"Frederick  William  had  been  111  for  some  time.  He  was  an 
inveterate  smoker,  and  accordingly  when  an  affection  of  the  throat 
was  7ioted  it  was  pronoxmced  cancer  of  the  throat^known  as  tobacco- 
smokers'  cancer.  Sis  case  was  very  similar  to  that  of  Oeneral 
Grant.  The  German  physicians  In  consultation  found  they 
could  not  arrest  the  growth,  and  the  case  of  the  prince  was  en- 
trusted to  a  prominent  English  doctor,  but,a8  the  result  shows, 
in  spite  of  temporary  relief,  with  no  permanent  recovery." 

When  the  examining  physician  reported  to  pre- 
mier Bismarck  the  desperate  disease  which  had  fas- 
tened upon  Unser  Fritz's  throat,  that  "man  of  iron 
and  blood"  replied  sternly,  "But  the  Crown  Prince 
must  not  have  cancer!"  Bismarck's  haughty  will 
overbore  the  trembling  physician,  even  as  it  has  in 
former  years  ridden  rough-shod  over  the  constitu- 
tional liberties  of  the  people.  But  the  cancer  was 
not  terrified  nor  turned  back.  Fastening  its  fangs 
more  deeply  in  the  throat  of  the  Crown  Prince  day 
by  day,  it  tortured  its  imperial  victim  in  the  face 
and  eyes  of  all  Christendom  and  heathendom,  ex- 
torting, as  by  a  kind  of  natural,  terrible  inquisition, 
involuntary  testimony  to  the  invincible  virulence  of 
the  deadly  narcotic,  TOBACCO.  And  now  that  in- 
escapable death  has  come  the  dispatches  tell  us  that 
"Bismarck  is  greatly  afflicted."  Poor  Bismarck! 
"The  tobacco  smokers'  cancer"  is  more  than  a  match 
for  his  autocratic  will. 

Many  years  the  driver  Sims  has  driven  the  "Black 
Maria"  of  Suffolk  County  Jail  in  Boston,  and  been 
charged  with  the  care  of  the  yard  and  general  out- 
side work  of  the  jail.  Six  months  ago  a  prisoner, 
who  was  allowed  some  exercise  in  the  yard  under 
surveillance,  warned  Sims  that  tobacco  is  a  poison 
which  a  man  cannot  safely  smoke,  and  pointed  him 
to  Jesus  Christ,the  Saviour, who  has  delivered  many 
souls  from  that  and  other  bondage  to  sin. 

The  warning  and  the  exhortation  were  disregard- 
ed. Four  months  ago  Sims  was  off  duty  and  report- 
ed ill.  To  the  officer  who  informed  him  of  Sims's 
sickness  the  prisoner  testified,  "He  injures  himself 
by  tobacco-smoking."  "That  is  a  fact,"  replied  the 
officer,  who  has  the  same  habit,  shows  its  evil  ef- 
fects, but  denies  them. 

Sims  gave  up  his  position,but  not  his  pipe.  Soon 
after  he  was  thought  to  be  mentally  deranged  by 
the  poison  which  he- loved.  He  was  watched  with 
some  anxiety.  Day  before  yesterday,  a  little  past 
4  o'clock,  a  policeman  saw  Sims  jump  from  a  two- 
story  window  to  the  sidewalk,  and  run  towards  West 
Boston  bridge.  The  policeman  followed.  Sims 
reached  the  bridge,  jumped  over  into  Charles  River 
and  finished  his  suicide.  Poor  Sims!  He  would 
never  own  that  tobacco  hurt  him.  He  would  drown 
himself  first.  But  the  tobacco  did  the  mischief,nev- 
ertheless.  To-day  the  clerk  of  the  jail,  often  warned 
before,  replied  to  the  usual  warning  as  usual,  "To- 
bacco never  injured  me,"  even  though  some  of  th«. 
effects  of  its  baleful  power  were  pointed  out  to  him 
in  his  own  person  while  he  spoke.  It  is  probable 
that  not  less  than  fifteen  millions  of  the  people  of 
the  United  States  are  today  the  voluntary  slaves  of 
the  tobacco  tyranny.  It  is  probable  that  these 
slaves  squander  on  this  lust  more  than  six  hundred 
million  dollars  per  annum.  A  Chelsea  horse-car 
driver  told  me  he  paid  over  $125  for  cigars  in  a  sin- 
gle year. 

A  superintendent  of  mines  in  Marquette,  Mich., 
told  me  he  had  paid  for  the  cigars  which  he  and  his 
sons  had  smoked  in  fifteen  years,  120,000.  A  lum- 
ber proprietor  there  told  me  his  cigars  cost  him  $900 
a  year.  It  is  probable  that  not  less  than  250,000 
persons  every  year  are  killed  in  the  United  States 
by  this  deadly  poison, which  attacks  the  mouth,no8e, 
eyes,  ears,  throat,  tongue,  lungs,  stomach,  liver,  kid- 
neys, blood,  brains,  nerves,  muscles,  and  bones  with 
cancerous,  rotting  venom,and  fouls  the  whole  neigh- 
borhood of  the  voluntary  victim  of  this  pervasive 
black  plague  of  America. 

If  any  act  is  fitted  to  bury  its  author  or  advocate 
in  a  bottomless  sea  of  infamy,the  scheme  to  enlarge 
and  facilitate  the  devastations  of  the  tobacco-demon 
in  our  land  is  such  an  act.       The  advocacy  of  this 


scheme  is  the  main  plank  of  the  political  platform 
which  James  6.  Blaine  has  b.uilt  and  mounted,  and 
on  which  he  bases  his  latest  claim  to  be  regarded  as 
the  foremost  statesman  of  the  Republican  party. 
Poor  Blaine!  Poor  Republican  party  I  Let  them 
be  buried  together,  with  tobacco.  God  save  the  peo- 
ple of  the  United  States  from  the  public  poisoners  I 
Suffolk  Jail,  Boston. 


THE  LAW  OF  THB  WORD. 


BY  BKV.  J.  M.  FOSTBR. 


The  Psalmist  says,  "Thy  Word  is  a  lamp  to  my 
feet."  How  many  walk  in  darkness.  Here  is  a  pro- 
fessing Christian  who  works  on  the  street-car  on 
Sabbath.  He  says,"I  know  the  Bible  says,'Remem- 
ber  the  Sabbath  day  to  keep  it  holy;'  but  this  work 
is  a  necessity  growing  out  of  our  modern  civiliza- 
tion." No,  my  friend.that  is  not  a  sufficient  reason, 
for  in  Toronto,  Canada,  and  other  cities,  they  have 
no  street  cars  on  Sabbath. 

Here  is  another  who  is  a  railroad  engineer  and 
works  seven  days  in  a  week.  That  is  not  a  necessi- 
ty, for  the  Delaware,  Lackawanna  and  Western  rail- 
road run  no  trains  on  Sabbath.  Their  general  man- 
ager says,  "Giving  our  men  rest  every  seventh  day 
improves  the  service.  With  an  improved  service 
we  can  do  as  much  transporting  in  144  hours  as 
otherwise  we  could  do  in  168  hours.  Sabbath  work 
is  not  a  necessity  oa  railroads." 

Here  is  another  who  serves  seven  days  in  a  week 
in  the  post-offlce,  and  surely  that  is  necessary.  In 
Toronto,  Canada,  and  London,  England,  the  post- 
office  is  closed  every  Sabbath  day.  And  if  they  can 
do  without  them  New  York  and  every  other  city  can 
also.  The  railway  and  post-office  in  England  and 
America  deprive  2,500,000  men  of  their  rest  day.  A 
few  years  ago  450  engineers  on  the  New  York  Cen- 
tral road  petitioned  for  their  Sabbath  on  the  ground 
of  their  right  of  conscience.  It  was  denied  them,  A 
minister  in  New  York  preached  against  the  Sunday 
newspaper.  Some  of  his  men  came  forward  and  shook 
their  papers  in  his  face  and  said  they  would  read 
their  papers  and  he  could  not  help  it,and  they  made 
it  so  hot  for  him  he  had  to  leave  in  six  months. 
This  is  the  car  of  Juggernaut  crushing  our  liberties. 

Two  of  Christ's  children  are  related  as  laborer 
and  capitalist.  They  do  not  agree.  They  call  it  the 
conflict  between  labor  and  capital.  Now  there  is  a 
lamp  to  guide  them — "Do  unto  others  as  you  would 
have  them  do  unto  you."  A  manufacturer  in  New 
York  becomes  involved  and  is  forced  to  sell.  He 
hears  of  a  wealthy  man  who  wishes  to  buy.  He 
goes  to  him  and  says:  "My  manufactory  is  worth 
$20,000.  But  I  am  in  great  straits  and  will  sell  it 
to  you  for  $15,000." 

"I  will  consult  my  wife  and  answer  you  to-mor- 
row." 

When  he  states  the  facts  to  his  wife  she  says,  "Is 
the  manufactory  really  worth  $20,000?" 

"Yes,  I  believe  it  is." 

"Then  you  ought  to  pay  him  $20,000  for  it." 

The  next  day  he  goes  to  the  owner  and  says,  "I 
will  take  the  manufactory  at  $20,000."  That  is  fol- 
lowing the  Golden  Rule. 

When  a  girl  comes  and  offers  her  services  in  your 
home  for  $20  per  month  is  it  your  custom  to  say, 
"Twenty-five  dollars  is  little  enough.  I  will  give 
you  $25  a  month"?  A  widow  of  eighty  years  lives 
in  Baltimore.  She  depends  upon  her  daughter.  Her 
son  of  seventeen  years  is  sickly,  is  serving  with  a 
plumber  and  receives  $2.50  a  week.  The  daughter 
makes  pantaloons  for  a  tailor  at  35  cents  a  pair,find- 
ing  her  own  thread  and  buttons.  She  could  make 
two  pairs  a  day  if  she  bad  no  household  duties.  But 
with  these  she  can  only  average  one  and  a  half 
pairs.  He  has  a  heart  of  stone  who  does  not  more 
wisely  consider  the  case  of  this  poor  woman.  That 
tailor  is  not  doing  by  her  as  he  would  wish  to  be  done 
by.  A  brother  offends  and  you  must  reprove  him. 
That  is  washing  his  feet.  Be  sure  and  do  not  use 
too  hot  water;  that  will  scald  him — hot  words.  Do 
not  use  too  cold  water;  that  will  chill  him — the  cold 
shoulder. 

We  are  Christ's  stewards  and  must  give 
an  account.  A  wealthy  Christian  in  Philadelphia 
takes  his  family  west  on  a  pleasure  trip  costing 
$1,000.  He  also  paid  $80  to  take  a  pet  dog  along. 
Returning  home,  he  listened  to  an  appeal  for  for- 
eign missions  and  gave  $5.00  in  the  collection. 
How  will  that  be  accounted  for?  Seventy  years  ago 
the  Baptist  body  divided,  one  for,  the  other  against 
missions.  To-day  the  anti-missionary  division  has 
45,000  members,  while  the  missionary  division  has 
2,500,000.  The  wealth  of  the  United  States  is  $50,- 
000,000,000.  At  least  $10,000,000,000  belongs  to 
the  Evangelical  churches.  Last  year  they  gave  $4,- 
000,000  to  home  missions  and  $3,000,000  to  foreign 


missions.  That  is"withholding  more  than  is  meet." 
"It  tendeth  to  poverty."  "Bring  ye  all  the  tithes 
into  the  storehouse,  that  there  may  be  meat  in  mine 
house,  and  prove  me  now  herewith  if  I  will  not  open 
to  you  the  windows  of  heaven  and  pour  you  out  a 
blessing  until  there  shall  not  be  room  enough  to  re- 
ceive it." 


TRY  IMPORTVNITT. 


BY  MRS.   I.   R.   B.    ARNOLD. 

It  is  said  that  the  people  of  a  certain  town  laid  a 
deep  plan  for  the  removal  of  the  saloon,  which  was 
troubling  their  community.  Two  persons'  called 
upon  the  saloon-keeper,  requesting  him  to  close  up 
the  place  of  temptation.  Their  call  was  treated  as 
a  matter  of  small  import,  but  soon  two  more  came 
with  the  same  request.  These  were  followed  by  two 
more,  and  still  two  more,  until  the  man,  in  dismay, 
asked  how  long  this  precession  was. 

The  pastors  of  the  different  churches  in  Rock- 
ford,  111.,  once  planned  to  have  one  of  their  number 
preach  against  Sabbath-breaking  one  Sabbath,  and 
another  the  next,  and  so  on  until  each  church  had 
been  instructed  upon  this  point.  Also  a  goodly 
number  of  the  reliable  families  of  that  little  city 
visited  successively  the  provision  merchants  with 
the  request  for  closed  stores  on  the  Lord's  day;  and 
though  their  request  was  not  heeded  at  first,  they 
soon  had  the  satisfaction  of  seeing  in  the  store 
windows  placards  bearing  the  words:  '^'^  Closed  on 
Sundays." 

Reader,  have  you  done  what  you  could  to  prohibit 
the  running  of  railroad  trains  on  the  Sabbath?  Per- 
haps there  is  one  thing  more  you  can  do.  If  you  have 
not  already  done  so,  please  at  once  sit  down  and  write 
an  earnest  request  to  the  manager  of  each  branch 
of  railroad  within  your  knowledge,  and  ask  the 
Holy  Ghost  to  accompany  the  message.  Something 
must  be  done,  and  done  quickly,  or  the  Sabbath  of 
this  land  will  be  a  thing  of  the  past,  and  perhaps 
our  children  be  made  to  suffer  cruel  persecution  for 
righteousness  sake.  But  it  need  not  be  so  if  you  do 
all  in  your  power  to  turn  back  the  hosts  of  evil !  Be 
quick! 

■  t  » 

0VBR8H00TINQ    THB  MARK. 


Overmuch  zeal  in  a  bad  cause  generally  reveals 
its  true  character  and  reacts  upon  itself,  as  was 
demonstrated  a  few  weeks  ago  by  the  G.  A.  R.  Post 
in  Hudson,  Ind.  The  protracted  meeting  then  in 
progress  in  the  United  Brethren  church  received 
much  opposition  from  lodgemen,  and  this  was  in- 
tensified by  certain  cowardly  denominational  zealots 
who  used  their  lodge  connections  as  a  fort  behind 
which  to  hide  their  denominational  envy  and  enasity. 
A  building  was  moved  near  the  church  and  fitted  up 
for  a  post  hall.  A  flag-staff  was  raised,  the  colors 
were  thrown  to  the  breeze  and  the  adherents  of  the 
post  were  busy  as  bees;  they  kept  the  streets  warm. 
As  soon  as  everything  was  in  passable  readiness  the 
Sons  of  Veterans  had  an  "installation."  Two  young 
men  who  had  been  seekers  were  enticed  to  the  in- 
stallation. This  seemed  a  victory  for  secretism. 
The  father  of  those  young  men  was  a  member  of 
the  post,  but,  having  great  regard  for  religion,  had 
urged  the  boys  not  to  go  to  the  lodge,  but  to  go  to 
chuich.  He  was  a  zealous  advocate  for  the  post, 
and  was,  in  turn,  the  moral  stock  in  trade  for  it,  be- 
ing referred  to  as  a  moral  man  and  a  model  citizen 
in  every  respect.  So  zealous  was  he  for  the  Grand 
Army  that  he  would  not  attend  the  protracted  meet- 
ing. But,  upon  the  return  of  his  boys  from  the  in- 
stallation, which  they  had  attended  in  preference  to 
church  service,  serious  reflections  came  over  him. 
His  heart  smote  him.  As  he  says,  God  used  him 
roughly.  His  boys  had  been  rudely  enticed  from 
the  altar  of  prayer  to  attend  a  worldly  lodge,  and  as 
a  father  be  had  been  setting  them  an  example. 
This  thought,  he  says,  "struck  him  like  a  cannon 
ball,"  and  the  next  morning,  listening  to  his  boys' 
conversation,  he  was  so  moved  that  he  fell  upon  his 
knees  and  looking  to  God  said  "Here,  Lord,  use  me!" 
God  thrilled  his  soul  with  joy,  and  off  came  badge 
and  brass  buttons.  He  attended  the  morning  meet- 
ing, announced  his  purposes,  and  in  a  few  days 
united  with  the  church  free  from  lodgery,  and  had 
the  satisfaction  of  knowing  that  two  of  his  sons  had 
the  manhood  to  withdraw  from  that  which  so  nearly 
proved  their  ruin.  A  committee  waited  on  him  to 
obtain  His  return,  but  he  remains  firm  and  rejoices 
in  the  freedom  which  he  has  in  Jesus. 

If  the  G.  A.  R.  does  not  overdo  itself  in  this 
(Steuben)  county,  it  will  have  to  reform  suddenly. 
If  it  can  be  known  by  what  it  does,  it  has  about  re- 
solved itself  into  a  "Hoss  Trot  Association."  Bills 
are  up  to  this  effect,  and  the  "trot"  is  to  last  from 


July  19,  1888 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSUKE. 


Friday  until  Tuesday,  except  that  on  Sunday  there 
will  be  no  set  horse  racing,  but  a  Sunday-school 
assembly  in  the  afternoon;  admission,  10  cents. 
This  will  varnish  up  the  horse  racing  of  the  week 
days,  and  get  them  ready  to  shed  tears  for  a  purse 
on  Decoration  Day.  This  blasphemous  compound  of 
heathendom  is  sanctioned  by  so-called  Christian 
preachers.  Some  of  the  members  of  the  Q.  A.  R. 
are  protesting  against  such  conduct,  and  blush  at  the 
shame  which  this  secret  society  heaps  upon  old  vet- 
erans. The  purity  and  loveliness  of  Jesus,  and  the 
righteous  principles  which  he  ordained,  forever  for- 
bid our  fellowshiping  with  such  institutions,  either 
individually  or  ecclesiastically. —  W.  II.  Clay,  in 
Ohristian  Conservator. 


SECRET  LBSPOTISM. 


When  a  committee,  consulting  in  secret,  can,  and 
do,  for  reasons  unrevealed,  command  a  hundred 
thousand  men  to  stop  work  a  month  at  a  loss  of 
millions,  it  is  a  great  evil  and  sin. 

When  laboring  people  are  so  deluded  and  duped 
as  to  commit  their  industrial  welfare  to  such  a  con- 
clave, they  yield  to  a  despotism  worse  than  any 
government  or  corporation.  No  greater  harm  can 
come  to  laborers  than  a  declaration  of  war  with 
their  employers,  shutting  out  from  their  counsels  a 
sympathizing  public,  always  ready  to  take  their 
part,  in  a  just  cause.  What  an  obstacle  to  salva- 
tion are  the  excitements,  the  bitterness,  the  poverty, 
and  the  distress  of  such  a  contest. 

When  secret  orders  divide  neighbors,  making  dis- 
tinctions where  there  are  no  differences;  control  pol- 
itics; corrupt  courts  and  juries  and  witnesses;  inform 
criminals  of  indictments  before  the  sheriff  can  reach 
them;  set  constables  off  the  track  of  criminal  broth- 
ers in  secret  orders;  cheat  justice  of  its  victims; 
teach  that  partiality  is  benevolence,  and  sinners  can 
be  saved  without  a  Saviour;  and  take  time  and 
money  and  energy  due  to  religion,  they  hinder  sal- 
vation. Such  secret  orders  are  intrinsically  bad. 
The  name  of  Christ,  which  they  reject,  could  not 
sanctify  them.  The  less  sacred  things  are  connected 
with  their  ceremonies  the  less  there  will  be  of  sacri- 
lege and  delusion. 

Secrecy  itself,  under  some  circumstances,  is  cause 
and  just  cause  of  jealousy  and  suspicion.  Open- 
ness, frankness,  transparency,  are  better.  My  ad- 
vice is,  Avoid  all  secret  organizations  as  hindrances 
to  salvation. — Preg.  Fairchild's  Baccalaureate  Ad- 
dress. 

LODGE  WORK  IN  THB  IOWA  LEGISLATURB. 


i. 


"He  that  is  accustomed  to  utter  what  he  knows  to 
be  false,  or  to  suppress  what  he  knows  to  be  true,  is 
in  a  perpetual  state  of  degradation." — Godwin's 
Political  Justice, 

"Masonry,  however,  is  not  only  the  most  ancient, 
but  the  most  moral  institution  that  ever  subsisted." 
—  Wi  bb's  Freemasons'  Monitor. 

"Our  records  inform  us  that  the  usages  and  cus- 
toms of  Masons  have  ever  corresponded  with  those 
of  the  Egyptian  philosophers,  to  which  they  bear  a 
near  aflQnity.  Unwilling  to  expose  their  mysteries 
to  the  vulgar  eyes,  they  concealed  their  particular 
tenets  and  principles  of  polity  under  hieroglyphical 
figures — and  expressed  their  motions  of  government 
by  signs  and  symbols,  which  they  communicated  to 
their  Magi  alone,  who  were  bound  by  oath  not  to 
reveal  them." — Ibid. 

While  the  abstract  fact  of  secrecy  is  not  necessa- 
rily vicious,  jet  most  organized  atod  systematic  se- 
cret associations  are;  and  some  forms  of  organized 
secrecy  are  demoralizing  in  effect,  and  extremely 
dangerous  to  the  public  welfare. 

In  a  March  issue  of  the  Iowa  State  Register,  there 
was  an  editorial  in  which  it  was  claimed  that  "a 
secret  organization  was  effected  in  the  House,  under 
the  control  and  manipulation  of  five  or  six  gentle- 
men for  the  control  of  all  bills  in  regard  to  rail- 
ways." 

Now  whether  this  charge  is  true  or  false  we  do 
not  propose  to  discuss;  but  we  wish  to  note  the 
utterance  of  the  writer  in  condemnation  of  such  a 
course  of  action  as  a  means  of  gaining  a  desired 
end.  He  says:  "It  is  as  discreditable  to  the  State 
as  it  is  to  the  House.  *  *  *  *  Measures  so 
put  through  by  compulsion  and  secret  organization 
can  hardly  be  such  legislation  as  will  be  either  wise 
or  Just.  We  do  not  believe  that  any  measure  which 
will  not  stand  discussion  in  open  daylight,  should 
ever  be  enacted  into  law  in  Iowa."  If  to  obtain  suc- 
cess in  legislative  measures  by  resorting  to  "secret 
organization"  is  so  reprehensible  a  course  as  the 
Register  states,  then  is  the  whole  brood  of  secret 
fraternities  under  the  ban  of  reason  and  public  wel- 
fare.   For  all  these  fraternities  exist  for  the  very 


purpose  of  effecting  ends  and  objects  which  could 
never  be  secured  by  a  "discussion  in  open  daylight." 
What  man  is  there  so  demented  as  to  suppose  that 
the  ridiculous  and  puerile  performances  of  "work  on 
the  Entered  Apprentice"  or  Master  Mason's  degree, 
or  the  initiation  into  Odd-fellowship,  could  be  per- 
formed or  even  favorably  discussed  in  open  day- 
light with  any  hope  of  success  in  developing  moral 
philosophy  or  symbolic  religion  (?).  The  motive 
therefore  of  these  societies  is  unworthy.  It  is  to 
accomplish  by  secrecy  what  could  not  be  gained 
by  open  methods.  This  involves  two  very  important 
things.  That  both  the  method  and  object  of  secret 
societies  are  to  be  condemned.  Yea,  they  stand 
condemned  before  the  votaries  of  these  orders;  for 
if  they  had  confidence  in  the  righteousness  of  their 
cause  then  the  open  method  of  promulgating  their 
principles  would  naturally  be  adopted. 

Secrecy,  as  a  method,  is  compassed  with  many 
evils,  as  well  as  betraying  a  cause  inherently  weak. 
An  old  author  in  civil  jurisprudence  has  said,  "We 
cannot  determine  to  keep  anything  secret  without 
risking  at  the  same  time  to  commit  a  hundred  arti- 
fices, quibbles,  equivocations  and  falsehoods."  The 
evidence  of  the  truthfulness  of  this  sweeping  state- 
ment is  found  with  hundreds,  who,  when  asked  as  to 
the  correctness  of  the  revelations  and  exposures  of 
the  different  secret  orders,  deny  the  whole  thing. 
Church  members  and  even  ministers,  many  times, 
can  be  cited  in  proof  of  the  statement.  We  once 
knew  a  case  where,  after  a  lecture  on  Freemasonry, 
condemning  the  institution  for  reasons  stated,  a  gen- 
tleman who  had  once  been  an  adhering  Mason  said 
to  an  old  acquaintance  who  also  heard  the  lecture, 
"What  did  you  think  of  the  lecture,"  and  received 
the  answer,  "It  was  a  mess  of  lies  from  first  to  last." 
"Why,"  said  his  interrogator,  who  had  sat  with  him 
in  the  same  lodge  many  times,  "that  is  just  as  you 
and  I  received  it,  and  gave  it  in  our  lodge."  It  is 
sadly  true  that  there  are  few  members  of  the  lodge 
whose  word  can  be  relied  on  when  the  character  of 
the  lodge  or  its  principles  are  involved.  In  many 
cases  the  pernicious  spirit  of  lodgery  predominates 
over  that  of  divine  grace. 

In  view  of  these  facts,  what  wonder  that  Guizot 
raises  the  inquiry,  "Shall  the  miracles  of  Sinai  have 
no  more  virtue  than  the  mysteries  of  Eleusis,  and 
Jehovah  languish  away  and  vanish  in  the  routine  of 
sacerdotal , ceremonies,  or  in  philosophical  skepti- 
cism?" The  spirit  of  organized  secrecy  is  shown  in 
the  epitaph  of  Dictator  Sylla,  written  with  his  own 
hand.  The  following  is  the  epitaph:  "No  friend 
ever  did  me  so  much  good,  or  enemy  so  much  harm, 
but  I  repaid  him  with  interest."  This  spirit  he  im 
bibed  as  an  initiate  of  the  greater  mysteries  of 
Ephesus. — G.  E.  Marroun,  Jr.,  in  Birmingham  Free 
Press. 


TITLES  ENOUGH. 


The  desire  for  ornaments  to  one's  name  is  allied 
to  the  desire  for  ornaments  for  the  person.  The 
savage  with  sixteen  brass  rings  on  his  ankles,  and 
the  barbarian  with  sixteen  high-sounding  titles  have 
a  natural  kinship.  As  manhood  is  developed  and 
the  individual  is  eliminated  from  the  mass  this  de- 
sire fades  out,  and  at  last  ceases  wholly  to  be  an 
advantage,  since  the  plain  name  distingishes  the 
person  more  than  the  use  of  titles  which  are  shared 
by  others. 

Hon.  Caleb  Lyon  and  a  friend,  once,  while  travel 
ing  in  the  Holy  Land,  sent  in  their  cards  to  the 
Turkish  Pasha  at  Jerusalem,  but  were  informed  by 
an  officer  that  his  master  could  not  see  them  because 
their  titles  were  not  long  enough.  The  Pasha's 
titles  made  a  string  a  foot  long.  So  Mr.  Lyon  gave 
the  officer  the  name  of  his  friend,  and  his  native 
State,  then  added  the  United  States,  and  the  name 
of  every  State  in  the  Union,  and  then  commenced 
with  the  names  of  the  towns  and  villages  until  he 
had  made  a  list  sixteen  inches  in  length.  When 
the  Pasha  received  this  he  was  in  another  trouble. 
He  feared  he  was  not  great  enough  himself  to  re- 
ceive so  distinguished  a  visitor  I  But  the  matter 
was  finally  arranged,  and  the  Pasha  had  the  honor 
of  receiving  a  visitor  whose  list  of  titles  was  longer 
than  his  own. — Missionary  Visitor,  Toulon,  III, 


Maxwell,  the  murderer  of  Preller,  who  has  ap 
pealed  to  the  Masonic  lodge  to  help  him  out  of  his 
trouble,  is  sentenced  to  be  hung  July  13.  He  still 
hopes  that  his  Masonic  brother.  Gov.  Morehouse 
of  Missouri,  will  come  to  his  assistance.  The  prob- 
ability now  is  that  he  will  have  to  hang.  Masonry 
does  not  come  to  the  rescue  of  criminals  in  such 
public  ways.  Had  he  kept  still  and  relied  upon 
purely  Masonic  ways  of  reaching  the  governor  he 
would  have  had  a  better  prospect  for  success. — 
American. 


LETTERS  FROM  ROME. 

fFrom  our  artlst-frlend  In  Europe.  | 

RoMi,  Italy. 

Last  Thursday  we  went  to  the  Catacombs  of  St. 
Calixtus,  out  on  the  Appian  Way,  the  same  way 
that  Paul  came  to  Rome  by,  and  it  is  said  to  be  lit- 
tle changed  since  then.  They  call  it  a  "Queen  of 
Roads"  in  Italy,  but  if  it  is  queen  I  do  not  care  to 
see  the  others.  As  far  as  to  the  Catacombs,  which 
we  went^  see,  it  is  walled  in,  so  that  nothing  of  the 
country  outside  is  to  be  seen.  The  walls  are  six 
feet  or  more  in  height  and  perfectly  tight,  and  be- 
tween them  is  a  pavement  of  cobble  stones  as  rough 
as  possible  to  ride  over.  Of  course  there  are  no 
fiowers  or  plants  of  any  kind,  and  the  only  view  is 
a  glimpse  of  a  back  yard  occasionally  through  a 
wicket  gate. 

A  little  way  this  side  of  this  part  of  the  Cata- 
combs that  we  visited,  is  a  church  where  they  say 
Paul  turned  back  and  was  going  to  leave  Rome, 
when  he  suddenly  saw  Christ  standing  before  him, 
who  asked,  "Where  are  you  going,  Paul?"  Paul 
was  ashamed  to  answer  that  he  was  afraid  to  enter 
Rome;  and,  instead  of  replying,  asked  the  Lord 
where  he  was  going.  He  said,  "1  am  going  to  Rome 
to  be  crucified  in  your  place  again."  Then  Paul 
went  on  to  Rome  to  his  imprisonment 

I  do  not  know  where  the  story  originated,  but  the 
priest  in  the  church  tells  the  story  and  solemnly 
shows  the  footprints  of  Paul's  feet  and  those  of 
Christ  in  a  block  of  marble  kept  in  a  glass  case. 
The  marble,  he  said  was  found  in  the  Appian  way, 
and  the  imprint  of  the  feet  was  "miraculously  pre- 
served," and  the  church  built  over  it.  They  tell 
some  such  wonderful  story  in  nearly  every  church. 

The  Catacombs  we  saw  are  the  ones  usually  visited 
here,  but  there  are  others  all  around  and  under 
Rome.  We  went  into  a  vineyard  gate,  and  were 
taken  down  by  a  monk  into  the  rooms  where  the 
Popes  were  buried,  where  St.  Cecelia  was  found,  and 
through  a  long  connected  set  of  galleries.  In  a  few 
of  the  niches  in  the  walls  there  are  skeletons  lying, 
and  we  were  allowed  to  look  into  two  sarcophagus 
coffins  made  of  carved  marble.  In  one  of  them  was 
a  mummy  lying  still  in  good  preservation;  but  in 
the  other  was  only  a  pile  of  dust,  shreds  of  cloth, 
and  a  few  bits  of  bones,  and  one  or  two  fragments 
of  pottery  and  jewelry.  The  galleries  are  in  three 
stories,  one  beneath  another.  The  upper  ones  are 
not  very  dark,  but  the  two  others  were  quite  in  the 
darkness,  until  they  made  several  openings  to  the 
surface.  I  cannot  imagine  how  people  ever  could 
have  lived  there,  as  some  of  the  Christians  did  when 
they  were  so  persecuted.  There  are  some  paintings 
still  on  the  walls  quite  plainly  to  be  seen  and  a 
number  of  inscriptions,  though  most  have  been  re- 
moved to  a  museum  here. 

The  Pope  is  having  an  exhibition  of  the  presents 
he  has  received  this  year.  I  have  not  been  to  see 
yet,  but  intend  to  go  soon.  We  were  in  a  part  of 
the  Vatican  (the  Pope's  palace)  yesterday  where  he 
is  "in  prison,"  as  the  ignorant  Catholics  at  home 
imagine.  His  "prison"  has  over  a  thousand  rooms 
and  a  garden  as  large  as  one  of  our  parks,  and  as 
beautiful.  They  say  he  never  can  go  out  of  the 
palace  grounds;  but  then  he  has  a  small  city  in  his 
house  of  a  thousand  rooms,  and  every  imaginable 
luxury  at  his  command— and  he  has  never  had  any- 
thing less  all  the  time  they  have  been  taking  con- 
tributions from  the  servant  girls  and  other  poor 
people  for  him.  Did  you  ever  see  a  picture  of  "His 
Holiness,"  as  he  is  called?  He  has  a  broad  smile 
always  on  his  face  as  if  he  were  perpetually  smiling 
in  his  sleeve  at  people's  credulity.  The  pi^ople  say 
he  looks  "so  benevolent" 

No  one  is  allowed  to  enter  the  ruins  with  sketch- 
ing materials  without  a  permit  from  the  authorities, 
which  takes  always  a  day  or  two  to  procure.  And 
just  before  I  came  there  had  been  a  new  law  made 
about  the  permits,  which  prevents  any  Americans 
from  sketching  in  the  "palace  of  the  Ciesars"  or  the 
•baths  of  Caracalla"  at  all.  These  two  places  are 
the  most  picturesque  ruins  of  all,  and  it  is  hard  not 
to  be  permitted  to  go  there.  The  "permit"  required 
must  now  bo  obtained  through  our  "Consul  General", 
who  must  make  the  application  for  the  same  in 
writing  on  the  Italian  revenue  stamp  paper;  our 
Consul  says  he  cannot  do  it  without  breaking  his 
oath  to  do  "nothing  against  the  honor  of  the  United 
States,"  as  using  a  revenue  stamp  is  a  violation  of 
the  conditions  of  our  treaty  with  Italy.  I  suppose 
it  will  be  arranged  sometime,  but  certainly  not  in 
time  to  be  of  use  to  me. 

I  was  rather  surprised  a  few  days  ago  when  I 
went  to  the  Pope's  exhibition,  to  see  there  among 
the  presents  from  royal  families,  one  from  our  Pres- 
ident Cleveland.  I  did  not  suppose  our  republican 
principles  allowed  of  such  a  very  un-republic&a  act 


4 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


July  19, 1888 


•*]! 


as  sending  a  "token  of  good  wishes"  or  "regard"  (I 
am  not  sure  which  expression  the  President  used) 
to  the  very  power  that  is  the  worst  enemy  of  all 
freedom.  At  any  other  time  it  would  not  have  been 
so  unsuitable  as  now,  because  just  at  this  time  all 
the  gifts  do  not  belong  to  the  Pope  individually,  but 
to  the  Roman  Catholic  church  as  a  power.  Rome  is 
full  of  "pilgrims,"  dressed  in  black,  and  priests, 
going  from  one  church  to  another.  They  get  so 
many  years  indulgence  for  their  pilgrimage  here. 
By  the  way,  in  one  of  the  arches  of  the  Coliseum  is 
a  small  black  cross  inserted  in  the  stone,  under- 
neath which  stands  in  Italian,  "Eight  days'  indul- 
gence to  every  one  who  will  kiss  this  cross."  I 
have  frequently  seen  persons  purchasing  eight  days 
out  of  purgatory  by  this  means. 

To  return  to  the  Pope's  exhibition:  T  looked  quite 
carefully  through  it  for  presents  from  the  United 
States,  and  am  quite  positive  there  were  only  three, 
about  twenty  minerals  and  a  gold  plate  in  a  box 
from  California,  two  organs,  (no  doubt  sent  as  ad- 
vertisements) and  the  President's  gift,  which  you 
probably  know  was  our  Constitution  in  an  elegant 
binding,  England  was  also  almost  entirely  missing 
in  the  exhibit,  though  she  sent  more  than  our  coun- 
try, and  the  Queen  sent  a  large  golden  bowl.  There 
were  magnificent  presents  from  some  countries  of 
South  America,  and  from  Spain,  Portugal,  France, 
Germany  and  Italy.  One  hall  was  devoted  to  pres- 
ents from  rulers  and  royal  families  and  was  a  blaze 
of  diamonds  and  precious  stones,  gold  and  silver. 

The  President  of  France  sent  a  vase  of  delicate 
blue  and  white  porcelain  at  least  six  feet  in  height, 
a  beautiful  thing. 

One  room  was  filled  with  paintings,  in  which  the 
Pope  figured  as  conspicuously  as  the  "Doges"  in  the 
Venetian  galleries;  only  the  "Doges"  were  usually 
kneeling  before  some  heavenly  apparition,  and  in 
the  representations  of  the  Pope  the  arrangement  of 
the  figures  is  very  nearly  reversed.  In  one  painting 
he  sits  on  a  throne,  crowned  with  laurel,  surrounded 
by  allegorical  figures  representing  Art,  Sculpture, 
Music,  Poetry,  Science,  and  what  I  take  to  be  in- 
tended for  a  figure  of  Religion  at  his  ear,  at  least  a 
form  with  wings  that  could  as  well  represent  the 
electric  light,  and  perhaps  does  stand  for  electric 
force.  At  any  rate  these  marvelous  beings  are  do- 
ing Leo  Xlll.  homage. 

Another  large  room  is  filled  with  thousands  of 
bottles  of  wine;  an  alcove  with  drugs,  particularly 
pills;  a  bicycle  was  presented;  various  animals  and 
plants;  in  the  court  were  ten  or  more  chimes  of 
church  bells  and  several  single  ones,  which  were 
kept  continually  ringing  by  curious  people  who 
wanted  to  test  their  tone,  until  the  jingle  and  dis- 
cord was  deafening. 

But  the  greater  part  of  the  exhibition  was  made 
up  of  priests'  garments,  embroidered  in  linen,  gold 
and  silver  thread,  and  made  from  the  most  costly 
materials.  There  must  be  many  thousands  of  them 
altogether.  A  part  of  this  exhibition  is  placed  in 
some  halls  of  the  Vatican  Museum  of  Sculpture,  and 
there  stand  these  statues  and  appear  to  look  very 
coldly  at  the  display  of  modern  vanities,  as  certainly 
from  their  ago  and  fame  they  have  a  right  to  do. 
Among  others  is  the  famous  statue  of  Minerva,  and 
several  statues  of  the  Cteaars. 

The  "Sistine  Chapel"  was  very  dark  when  I  was 
there,  and  I  could  not  see  much  of  it,  but  saw  Ra- 
phael's "Transfiguration,"  Madonnas,  and  many 
pictures  of  other  great  artists.  I  was  delighted  with 
Quido's  "Aurora,"  and  admire  most  of  his  pictures 
more  than  I  had  any  idea  I  should.  His  "Beatrice" 
is  here  too.  None  of  the  chromos  or  engravings 
have  either  the  color  or  expression  right.  I  spent 
eight  hours  studying  the  "Aurora"  and  "Beatrice," 
and  was  tired  of  neither.  I  am  going  to-morrow  to 
the  Sistine  Cbapel  again  and  will  describe  it  and 
the  other  pictures  I  have  seen  in  my  next  letter. 

R. 
TEB  NBW  YORK  PROHIBITION  0ANDIDATB8. 


I  From  Rev.  N.  Wardner's  editorial  In  the  Wexle\ian  ^fethe^lM.\ 

If  the  Prohibition  party  attempts  to  champion  se- 
cret societies  as  such,  by  bringing  forward  men  and 
publicly  presenting  them  forollice  because  Ihey  are 
members  of  some  or  many  of  the  secret  orders  that 
hold  tyled  and  curtained  night  revel  in  the  country, 
the  party  will  make  a  serious  mistake.  There  are 
some  thousands  of  straight  Prohibitionists  who  will 
not  be  forced  to  vote  sanction  to  the  lodge  to  con- 
demn the  rum  trsflic.  There  is  no  necessity  for  put- 
ting the  anli  secret  reform  forces  in  this  critical  and 
disagreeable  condition.  The  great  majority  of  our 
people  are  sit  in  desperate  determination  against  the 
rum  power;  but  they  are  equally  set  against  the 
lodge  power. 

It  is  not  a  little  painful  to  know  that  the  New 


York  State  Prohibition  convention  recently  brought 
forward  a  man  publicly  declared  in  connection  with 
the  nomination  as  a  member  of  a  "secret  order,"  and 
who  hung  out  in  the  most  conspicuous  manner 
badges  of  sworn  secrecy  covered  with  the  legend, 
"Hiram  Tyrian  Widow's  Son  Sent  to  King  Solo- 
mon." Some  tried  and  true  Prohibitionists  will  feel 
inclined  to  send  such  publicly  proclaimed  and  per- 
sonally advertised  candidates  to  "King  Solomon"  for 
votes.  A  most  earnest  protest  against  any  such 
avowed  secret  society  nomination  was  made  in  a  cir- 
cular put  into  the  hands  of  nearly  every  member  of 
the  convention.  One  of  the  perils  of  the  Prohibi- 
tion party  is  the  purpose  of  the  lodge  to  capture, 
control,  and  run  the  party  in  the  interests  of  organ- 
ized secretism.  We  are  sorry  to  be  obliged  to  write 
this,  but  fidelity  to  the  principles  of  the  church  we 
represent  compels  us  to  these  utterances.  We  trust 
this  is  the  last  instance  when  a  man  will  be  brought 
forward  for  oflace  for  any  other  reason  than  that  he 
is  a  Prohibitionist,  and  as  a  man  worthy  of  the  honor 
allied  to  the  nomination  given.  While  we  are  in  a 
life  and  death  tug  of  holy  war  against  the  rum 
curse  let  no  one  ask  us  to  put  our  hands  of  bene- 
diction on  the  lodge  system  of  the  day  in  pressing 
on  the  conflict  for  temperance. 


The  Secret  Empire. 


KSIGHT8  AND  LADIES  OF  HONOR. 


BY  H.  H.  HINMAN. 


This  is  one  of  the  vast  number  of  secret  socie- 
ties whose  main  object  (professedly)  is  life  in- 
surance, but  which  also  claim  "to  promote  benevo- 
lence, morality,  science,  industry,  mutual  protection 
and  assistance."  It  is  regularly  incorporated  under 
the  laws  of  the  State  of  Kentucky.  Certain  persons 
whose  names  are  specified  are  declared  to  be  "creat- 
ed a  body  politic,  to  be  known  by  the  name,  style 
and  title  of  the  'Supreme  Lodge  of  Protection, 
Knights  and  Ladies  of  Honor,'  "  and  capable  in  law 
"of  instituting  Grand  and  Subordinate  lodges  as  it 
may  see  fit,  under  such  laws,  rules  and  regulations 
as  the  corporation  may  enact,  and  not  inconsistent 
with  the  laws  of  the  State,  or  of  the  United  States. ** 

The  act  of  incorporation,  of  which  thip  is  an  ex- 
tract, is  duly  signed  by  the  Governor  of  the  State 
and  the  officers  of  the  Legislature.  On  the  consti- 
tution and  laws  I  wish  to  remark: 

1.  That  a  secret  lodge  system  "to  promote  benevo- 
lence, morality  and  science"  is  an  intrinsic  absurd- 
ity. There  are  most  ample  means  accessible  to 
every  one  by  which  these  objects  can  be  and  are  pro- 
moted. The  only  real  and  eflfective  method  for  the 
promotion  of  benevolence  and  morality  is  the  Chris- 
tian religion.  Anything  which  usurps  its  place,  or 
attempts  to  do  its  work,  is  a  delusion  and  a  sham. 
It  is  safe  to  say  that  this  order  has  done  nothing  in 
this  direction.  Nor  are  its  capacities  to  promote 
science  any  more  real.  Oar  schools  and  colleges, 
which  are  accessible  to  all,  do  not  ask  to  be  supple- 
mented, and  surely  do  not  fear  the  competition  of 
the  lodge.  Nevertheless,  such  a  pretention,  put 
forth  in  an  official  and  legal  document,  is  calculated 
to  deceive,  and  cannot  be  too  strongly  reprobated. 

Nor  is  life  insurance  likely  to  be  any  more  effect- 
ually promoted  by  a  secret  society.  For  centuries 
life  insurance  companies  have  been  carried  on  by 
open  and  legitimate  methods.  The  whole  system 
has  been  reduced  to  scientific  accuracy.  The  records 
and  methods  of  procedure  are  published,  and  chal- 
lenge public  scrutiny.  There  was  surely  no  occa- 
sion for  the  organization  of  a  new  insurance  society, 
whose  chief  recommendation  is  that  it  works  in  the 
dark  and  its  records  are  not  open  to  public  inspec- 
tion, or  even  to  its  own  members,  but  are  manipulated 
by  a  secret  order  which  is  responsible  only  to  itself, 
and  is  especially  exempted  from  the  insurance  laws 
of  the  State.  It  is  a  sufficient  condemnation  of 
these  secret  insurance  societies  that  in  England  a 
large  majority  of  them  have  failed,  and  that  in 
Massachusetts  and  Michigan  so  numerous  have 
been  their  failures  that  it  has  been  thought  advisa- 
ble to  suppress  them  by  law.  Of  the  unfair  and  un- 
reasonable conditions  of  this  particular  company  I 
will  speak  hereafter. 

2.  It  must  be  noticed  that  an  organization  which, 
is  a  creature  of  the  State  ought  to  be  open  to  the  in- 
spection of  its  c  Ulcers.  This  is  true  of  all  othtr  cor- 
porations. Sicrefeocieties  are  the  only  exceptions. 
True,  the  act  of  incorporation  says  that  none  of  its 
rules  fchall  be  in  cottlict  with  the  laws  of  the  State, 
but  it  reserves  to  itself  no  authority  or  power  to 
know  whether  this  condition  is  complied  with. 
Moreover,  the  Legislature  has  stultified  itself  by 
creating  a  body  corporate  that  can  successfully  re- 


sist its  authority  and  control.  Section  sixth  of  the 
general  laws  declares  that  "All  things  appertaining 
to  the  order,  the  mode  of  procedure  to  gain  admis- 
sion into  the  lodge,  its  signs  and  pas3-word8(past  and 
present),  business  transacted,  in  any  lodge,  etc., 
are  secrets  alike  to  he  kept  inviolate."  "Any  Grand  or 
Subordinate  lodge  that  shall  cause  to  be  printed,  or 
have  made  for  its  own  or  the  use  of  others,  any  of 
the  secret  work  and  supplies  enumerated  in  law  10, 
shall,  on  satisfactory  proof  thereof,  be  suspended, 
and  forfeit  its  charter  or  dispensation,  (Sec.  12,  law 
4).  The  power  to  adopt,  change  or  amend  the  se- 
cret work  in  use  is  vested  in  the  Supreme  Lodge  ex- 
clusively. The  directory  and  other  requirements 
embraced  in  the  ritual  shall  be  enforced  as  law." 
{Idem). 

Thus  it  will  be  seen  that  members  are  strictly  for- 
bidden to,  in  any  wise,  publish  the  secret  work  or 
proceedings  of  the  order.  Should  tney  do  so  they 
would  be  liable  to  expulsion  or  other  punishment, 
and  their  testimony  would  be  regarded  as  illegiti- 
mate, and  be  discredited.  However  indecent,  crimi- 
nal or  even  treasonable,  the  proceedings  of  such  a 
lodge  might  be,  the  officers  of  the  law  have  neither 
the  right  nor  ability  to  investigate  the  facts  of  the 
case,  and  no  means  of  knowing  anything  that  the 
lodge  does  not  see  fit  to  communicate.  If  the  lodge 
or  any  member  should  be  charged  with  crime  com- 
mitted in,  or  instigated  by  the  lodge,  he  would  only 
have  to  plead  his  obligation  of  secrecy,  and  his  lia- 
bility to  self- crimination,  and  he  would  be  excused 
from  testifying. 

Such  cases  have  not  been  infrequent.  When  the 
Legislature  of  Pennsylvania  summoned  the  mem- 
bers of  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Freemasons  of  that 
State,  and  demanded  of  them  whether  they  had  any 
criminal  knowledge  of  the  abduction  and  murder  of 
William  Morgan,  they  made  the  plea  that  their  obli- 
gations to  secrecy  were  paramount,  and  that 
they  were  not  bound  to  criminate  themselves 
and  refused  to  testify.  It  goes  without  say- 
ing that  a  Legislature  that  charters  an  institution 
and  confers  such  powers  is  guilty  of  self-stultifica- 
tion, and  practically  establishes  another  government 
with  powers  superior  to  its  own. 

tConcluded  next  week.'] 


OVR  NEW  ENGLAND  LETTER. 

Boston  matters — Sunday-school  politics — The  grand 
old  party — An  incident  of  Franklin  Pierce's  ad- 
ministration— Some  antiquarian  reminiscences — The 
land  of  the  Nile  makes  a  contribution  to  fashion, 

Boston's  discontent  with  her  city  council  has  been 
of  late  rather  loudly- voiced,  and  borne  at  least  this 
much  of  good  fruit:  that  on  the  Fourth  there  was 
little  junketing  at  the  city's  expense.  Nor  were  any 
liquor  or  cigars  furnished  at  the  public  cost.  It  was 
probably  not  an  innovation  much  relished  by  gen- 
tlemen who  have  hitherto  been  used  to  settling  all 
such  bills  out  of  the  city  treasury,  but  we  hope  still 
more  startling  ones  are  in  store  for  them  next  fall. 
The  general  mortality  in  Boston  has  been  higher 
than  for  many  previous  years,  and  the  cause  has 
been  attributed — not  without  reason — to  the  excep- 
tionally filthy  condition  of  her  streets,  which  the  gov- 
ernment, with  true  Democratic  economy,  never  think 
of  cleaning.  Fewer  liquor  licenses  have  been  issued 
so  far  this  year  than  last  (dirty  streets  and  liquor 
saloons  have  so  close  an  affinity  that  this  item  seems 
to  follow  naturally  on  the  above),  but  it  is  doubtful 
whether  less  has  l>een  drank.  Reports  make  the 
total  income  derived  from  this  source  somewhat 
larger,  footing  up  to  an  aggregate  of  $615,775.  So 
much  blood  money,  whose  fearful  interest  of  broken 
hearts  and  wrecked  lives  who  shall  compute? 

The  secular  papers  are  having  a  good  deal  to  say 
just  now  about  "Sunday-school  politics,"  which, 
though  the  expression  is  used  mainly  as  a  slur,  may 
be  considered  a  ho'peful  sign  of  the  times.  I  only 
wish  there  could  be  more  politics  in  the  Sunday- 
school,  and  the  result  would  naturally  follow  that 
there  would  be  more  of  the  Sunday-school  in  poli- 
tics. Either  too  many  Sunday-school  teachers  are 
not  themselves  sufficiently  posted  on  the  great 
moral  questions  of  the  day  to  instruct  their  pupils 
on  the  one  all-important  point.  What  does  the  Bible 
say  about  these  things?  or  else  there  is  the  same 
foolish  fear  of  introducing  politics  into  a  Sunday- 
school  class  which  many  ministers  have  of  intro- 
ducing them  into  the  pulpit.  But;  what  better  place 
than  the  Sunday-tchool,  unless  it  be  the  family,  to 
teach  our  future  voters  the  need  of  national  right- 
eousness and  the  bearing  which  the  divine  Provi- 
dence and  laws  as  revealed  in  Gcd's  dealings  with 
the  Jewish  people  have  on  our  American  nation? 
Too  often  the  whole  time  is  frittered  away  on  mere 
questions  of  geography  or  casuistry,  leaving  the 


July  19, 1888 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSUKE. 


sphere  of  practical  morals  and  vital  religion  un- 
touched. What  wonder  that  so  many  go  into  busi- 
ness life  unprepared  for  its  dangers,  and  with  but 
the  loosest  ideas  of  the  responsibility  resting  on 
them  as  American  citizens! 

One  cannot  but  consider  the  popular  choice  for 
the  second  Congrrssional  district  of  Hon.  Elijah  A. 
Morse,  of  Canton,  as  quite  a  signal  triumph  of 
"Sunday-school  politics."  In  the  State  Legislature 
he  has  stood  as  the  friend  of  every  righteous  meas- 
ure for  so  long  that  his  name  has  become  almost 
synonymous  with  all  such  efforts  in  behalf  of  tem- 
perance and  purity.  When  three  or  four  years  ago 
the  infamous  Age  of  Consent  bill  was  pending  at 
our  capitol,  and  the  hearts  of  all  good  men  and 
women  throughout  the  State  were  throbbing  with  in- 
dignation, his  noble  championship,  almost  single- 
handed,  of  unprotected  girlhood  endeared  him  to 
the  heart  of  evwry  friend  of  justice  and  virtue.  Let 
him  be  sent  to  Congress  by  all  means,  and  if  the 
women  could  vote  he  would  be  certain  of  a  hand- 
some majority.  So  long  as  such  men  remain  in  the 
Republican  party  it  will  have  need  to  apologize  like 
Charles  IL  for  "being  such  an  unconscionable  time 
dying."  Its  roots  have  struck  too  deep  into  the 
hearts  and  lives  of  the  men  who  have  so  long  borne 
its  standard  to  have  the  connection  severed  without 
a  pang;  and  only  the  other  day  I  heard  a  strong 
Prohibitionist,  who  had  been  attending  the  meetings 
at  Lake  Walden,  confess  to  a  considerable  amount 
of  hurt  feeling  at  the  way  Gov.  St.  John  in  his 
speech  abused  the  grand  old  party,  but  he  ended  by 
apologizing  for  him  on  the  score  that  he  was  a 
Westerner!  which  I  thought  showed  a  high  degree 
of  political  charity.  And  though  for  prohibition 
ever  and  always,  I  will  own  to  a  fellow-sympathy,  a 
feeling  that  for  us  who  are  the  sons  and  daughters 
of  the  Republican  party  filial  duty  rather  demands 
that  we 

"Walk  backward  with  averted  gaze 
And  hide  the  shame," 

than  make  its  weakness  the  occasion  for  ridicule. 

Campaign  flags  are  being  everywhere  flung  to  the 
breeze  to  stand  their  chance  of  being  torn  into  strips 
by  the  summer  gales,  which  are  no  respecters  of 
party  and  sometimes  play  queer  freaks,  as  once  dur- 
ing the  Presidential  term  of  Franklin  Pierce,  who 
was  on  a  visit  to  his  native  home,  and  at  the  very 
point  when  he  was  passing  under  a  magnificent 
American  flag  a  gust  of  wind  struck  the  stars  and 
stripes  and  tore  them  into  ribbons  over  his  head. 
The  incident  excited  much  superstitious  terror  in 
the  mind  of  Pierce,  and  it  is  said  that  he  nearly  fell 
from  his  horse  at  the  portentous  spectacle.  Morally 
and  politically  he  was  a  nonentity,  but  no  President 
unless  it  was  Buchanan  worked  more  mischief,  for 
by  his  weakness  and  pussilanimity  be  did  quite  as 
much  as  the  latter  to  help  on  the  plans  of  the  Seces- 
sion leaders. 

A  correspondent  whose  strength  seems  to  lie  in 
antiquarian  researches  writes  to  the  Nation  a  little 
entertaining  gossip  regarding  Justin  Parsons,  or 
"Father  Parsons"  as  he  was  familiarly  called,  the 
grandfather  of  Levi  P.  Morton,  the  Republican  can- 
didate for  Vice  President.  He  was  nearly  fifty  years 
of  age  when  he  studied  for  the  ministry,  and  from 
1813-31  preached  for  the  united  churches  of  Pitts- 
field  and  Stockbridge,  towns  in  Vermont  whose  total 
population  did  not  then  exceed  596  souls,  receiving 
very  meagre  salary,  but  like  many  of  those  primi- 
tive New  England  ministers  he  knew  how  to  make 
money  in  other  ways  than  by  his  calling,  and  died  a 
nonagenarian  who  must  have  been  possessed  of  much 
of  this  world's  wealth,  as  be  is  said  to  have  been 
one  of  the  principal  benefactors  of  Obtrlin.  When 
he  brought  his  wife  as  a  bride  to  his  home  in  Qoshen, 
Mass.,  there  was  a  custom  of  warning  all  new  com- 
ers out  of  town,  lest  they  should  get  a  legal  settle- 
ment and  so  the  town  be  obliged  to  maintain  them 
in  case  they  became  paupers;  and  as  Mr.  Parsons 
was  then  constable  it  became  his  duty  by  a  posted 
paper  and  crying  aloud  in  church  to  warn  his  wife 
"that  she  reside  in  said  town  no  longer."  And  this  he 
actually  did,  receiving  twelve  shillings  as  his  fee. 

It  is  not  to  be  supposed  that  the  readers  of  the 
CynoBure  habitually  take  much  interest  in  fashion 
notes,  but  that  erratic  dame  has  recently  decreed  for 
a  new  style  of  tea-gown  a  garment  modelled  from 
the  Egyptian  abaya,  the  dress  worn  by  Egyptian 
women.  It  is  hot  likely  that  it  will  be  anything 
more  than  a  passing  freak,  for  judging  from  de- 
scriptions of  it  it  is  like  the  Spanish  mantilla,  im- 
possible to  wear  gracefully  except  by  "one  to  the 
manner  born."  But  it  strikes  one  with  a  peculiar 
sensation  to  think  of  the  mysterious  land  of  the 
Nile,  of  the  Sphinx  and  the  pyramids,  land  of  un- 
known dynasties,  of  Joseph  and  Moses,  of  Sesostris 
and  Cleopatra,  at  last  contributing  to  the  world — a 
new  fashion  in  tea-gowds.  E.  E.  Flaoq. 


Reform  news. 


JOTTINGS   BY  TEB  WAT. 


Dear  Cynosure: — The  extreme  heat  of  these  July 
days  has  had  a  depressing  influence  on  mental,  as  well 
as  physical  activity,  and  though  I  have  kept  at  work 
I  have  had  little  to  say  to  your  readers.  The  rains 
that  last  year  were  withholden  are  now  poured  out 
without  stint  in  Central  Illinois,  and  while  all  vege- 
tation has  had  a  most  rapid  growth,  the  culture  of 
the  corn  crop  especially  has  been  materially  inter- 
fered with,  and  some  pieces  will  be  ruined.  The 
work,  too,  in  the  harvest,  is  greatly  hindered,  and 
much  loss  will  result.  Nevertheless  it  is  a  beautiful 
year.  Never  did  the  grass  grow  more  magnificently, 
nor  were  oats  ever  such  a  beautiful  crop.  Wheat, 
which  for  twenty  years  has  been  little  grown  in  this 
part  of  Illinois,  has  for  several  years  increased  in 
acreage  and  productiveness.  I  have  not  for  many 
years  seen  such  fine  crops  as  at  present. 

The  great  moral  harvest  makes  an  unequal  prog 
ress.  The  evangelical  churches,  whose  mission  it 
should  be  to  develop  and  mould  the  convictions  of 
the  people,  are  not,  in  the  rural  districts,  keeping 
pace  with  the  growth  in  wealth  and  numbers.  In 
many  places  they  scarcely  hold  their  own.  There 
has  been  a  large  influx  of  foreigners,  with  much  of 
irreligion  and  more  of  perverted  religion. 

In  the  cities  the  churches  seem  to  grow,  but  in 
the  smaller  towns  they  seem  often  to  struggle  for 
life.  Their  ministers  are  apologetic  rather  than 
aggressive,  and  "Ingersollism"  is  often  bold  and 
blatant;  though,  perhaps,  less  so  than  heretofore. 
Because  the  watchmen  on  the  walls  have  so  often 
seen  the  sword  come  and  warned  not  the  people  they 
have  suffered  the  consequences  that  were  inevitable. 
Had  the  testimony  given  by  Pres.  Finney  and  others 
on  the  lodge  system  twenty  years  ago  been  heeded 
by  the  Christian  ministry  of  Illinois  there  would 
have  been  a  far  different  state  of  things  from  what 
we  now  see. 

Nevertheless  "there  are  a  few  names  even  in 
Sardis  that  have  not  defiled  their  garments."  The 
outlook  is  not  hopeless.  The  temperance  reform 
has  made  a  most  substantial  progress.  Most  of  the 
ministers  are  fairly  earnest,  and  some  are  brave  in 
this  matter.  The  Prohibition  movement  has  hosts 
of  friends,  and  will  never  go  backward.  The  Ma- 
sonic system  has  lost  its  attractions  for  the  ministry. 
They  have  mainly  ceased  to  love,  but  not  altogether 
ceased  to  fear  the  great  modern  abomination.  The 
unchristian  character  of  the  Masonic  system  is  much 
more  generally  admitted  than  it  was  ten  years  ago. 
Our  discussion  has  not  been  lost.  Liue  the  rain  and 
the  dew  from  heaven  that  waters  the  earth,  it  is  in 
the  minds  of  the  people,  and  will  ere  long  bear  fruit 
unto  righteousness.  When  once  the  saloon  question 
is  settled,  as  ere  long  it  must  be,  then  the  lodge  sys- 
tem will  be  arraigned  for  trial,  condemned  and  exe- 
cuted. That  such  a  body  as  the  locomotive  engi 
neers  should,  as  seems  probable,  be  implicated  in 
deeds  as  atrocious  as  those  of  the  anarchists,  will 
surprise  some  and  open  the  eyes  of  many  to  the 
great  danger  of  all  secret  combinations. 

I  have  found  the  old  stand-bys  all  earnest  and 
faithful.  All  are  interested  in  our  work  in  the 
South  and  disposed  to  help  in  establishing  a  dis- 
trict headquarters  in  New  Orleans.  I  have  given 
one  sermon  and  one  lecture  since  I  left  Chicago, 
both  of  which  were  well  attended,  and  in  both  the 
principles  of  our  reform  were  insisted  on.  The 
down-pour  of  yesterday  prevented  a  farther  hearing. 
There  is  a  great  field  for  our  reform  in  all  the  cen- 
tral counties  of  this  State,  and  I  hope  that  after  the 
presidential  election  we  shall  have  an  agent  in  the 
field.     Yours  for  Christ,  H.  H.  Hinman. 


COLPORTEUR  NOTBS. 


Beloit,  Wis.,  July  12,  1888. 

Dear  Cynosure: — In  the  two  weeks  we  have 
been  in  the  work  we  have  visited  twelve  towns,  be- 
ginning at  Elgin;  have  scattered  tracts,  spoken  at 
the  prayer  meetings,  and  have  secured  sixty  four 
subscriptions  for  the  (jynosure.  In  the  pleasant  vil- 
lages of  Northern  Illinois  and  Southern  Wisconsin 
we  find  many  well-wishers  and  co-workers.  There 
are  also  the  gaping  crowds,  well  decked  with  badges 
and  charms,  who  receive  us  at  the  depots,  read  the 
titles  of  our  leaflets,  ask  if  we  are  from  that  "crank 
college,"  and  having  relieved  themselves  of  a  gross 
amount  of  saliva,  freighted  with  nicotine  and  cab- 
bage leaves,  advise  us  to  do  something  g0(xl  and 
not  "try  to  force  a  lot  of  lies  on  their  people." 

The  ptogram  for  a  visit  to  a  fraternity  house  is 
something  like  this:  A  quick,  nervous  rap  by  a 
youthful  Anti-mason.    Door  opens  and  the  youth  is 


given  the  soft  chair  by  the  bay-window.  Gentle- 
man comes  good-naturedly  in. 

"Good  morning,  sir,  what  can  I  do  for  you?'' 

"I  am  working  in  the  interests  of  the  National 
Christian  Association,  opposed  to  secret  societies, 
distributing  tracts  [gentle  shower  of  "Selling  Dead 
Horses,"  "Masonic  Oaths  Null  and  Void,"  "Free- 
masonry in  the  Family,"  "The  Voice  of  the  Empire 
State,"  etc],  talking  with  the  people  and  taking 
subscriptions  for  the  C'hritlian  Cynosure.  And 
knowing  you  to  be  an  influential  citizen,  interested 
in  all  good  works,  I  have  called  to  lay  the  matter 
before  you." 

A  storm  arises,  gathers  and  bursts.  The  atmos- 
phere changes.  The  thermometer  suddenly  drops. 
A  brief  interview  on  the  point  at  issue  follows. 
Last  words  of  the  gentleman:  "Well,  I  didn't  think 
nobody  was  so  ignorant." 

Trusting  that  some  of  the  seed  we  sow  may  find 
fertile  soil  and  not  all  be  cast  by  the  wayside,  or  in 
stony  places,  I  am  yours  for  Christ  and  reform. 

J.  W.  FiFIlLD. 


Marion,  Ind.,  Joly  13,  '88. — In  Fairmount  our 
discussion  caused  quite  a  little  excitement  and  street 
debate.  The  latter  I  regard  as  the  best  fruits  of 
our  work.  The  cause  has  some  strong,  able  friends, 
old  and  young,  in  that  place.  We  would  have  spok- 
en again  in  that  place  if  the  Wealeyan  revival  meet- 
ings had  rot  begun  so  soon.  We  secured  a  local 
agent  there  for  the  Cynoiure,  Mr.  J.  Hester,  who  is 
pastor  of  the  Wesleyan  church  and  a  very  able, 
thorough  Christian  gentleman.  He  will  doubtless 
prove  a  true  friend  and  successful  worker  in  the 
cause. 

We  stayed  with  J.  Howell  of  Jonesboro  last 
night.  To-night  we  stay  with  Jacob  Ring  To  op- 
pose secret  orders  in  this  place  means  business. 
Masonry  is  in  complete  power.  Churches,  munici- 
pal offices,  etc.,  are  controlled  by  the  order.  Our 
course  here  is  uncertain.  We  cannot  get  room  or 
audience  for  speaking.  Pastors  glory  in  their  se- 
cret orders,  and  one,  Mr.  Neal,  has  written  a  poem 
to  ridicule  the  "antis"  and  flaunt  their  name.  We 
shall  canvass  all  the  railroad  towns  of  the  county. 

P.  L,  Johnston. 


BACK  IN  NBW  ORLSANS. 

New  Orleans,  July  7th,  1888. 

Dear  CYNOSUdE: — The  secret  empire  seems  to  be 
using  every  opportunity  to  make  proselytes.  I 
met  a  prominent  secretist  and  a  reader  of  the  Cyrw- 
sure.  I  asked  him  to  renew.  He  refused  and  began 
to  charge  us  with  injustice  in  accusing  secretists. 
But  after  I  begun  to  go  through  certain  processes 
of  initiation  and  blindfolding,  he  was  forced  to  ac- 
knowledge the  truth.  Another  prominent  Odd-fel- 
low and  Baptist  preacher  invited  me  to  his  house 
and  got  a  lot  of  his  secret  books  and  allowed  me  to 
examine  certain  things  in  them,  but  not  the  particu- 
lars nor  the  Scriptural  quotations.  He  said,  "You 
are  wrong,  my  brother,  to  fight  against  the  lodge, 
for  it  is  founded  on  the  Bible.  God  himself  advised 
the  plan  of  the  order."  He  referred  me  to  a  number 
of  Scriptures  to  justify  his  lodge.  But  the  brother 
didn't  allow  me  to  examine  these  passages  of  Script- 
ure from  his  ritual. 

I  called  on  Bro.  Jackson  and  found  him  yet  firm 
and  unchanged.  Bro.  Green  has  gone  to  Richmond, 
Va.,  to  visit  relatives,  and  there  are  two  young  se- 
cretists in  his  church,  who  have  circulated  all  kind 
of  reports  about  Bro.  Green,  and  have  tried  to  upset 
the  church.  I  preached  for  his  people  Sabbath 
evening  and  gave  the  secretists  a  blow.  Loud  and 
many  were  the  Amens,  After  services  the  deacon 
and  others  came  up  and  said,  "Your  sermou  has  un- 
covered somebody  here  to-night."  I  met  a  lady  to- 
day to  whom  I  gave  a  tract  before  I  left  the  citj'. 
She  said  her  husband  was  going  to  join  the  OJd  fel- 
lows, but  since  he  read  that  paper  he  has  given  up 
the  idea.  Praise  the  Lord  for  the  saving  of  that 
man  from  lodge  grips!  A  secretist  said  to  me, 
"Where  is  dat  paper  printed?  I'se  g'win  ter  sue  dat 
press  for  printin'  my  name."  I  advised  him  to  go 
home  and  be  quiet 

I  have  received  a  letter  slating  that  Bro.  George 
W.  Clark  has  been  charged  by  some  malicious  par^y 
in  Texas  as  working  against  the  Prohibition,  and  in 
favor  of  the  old  Republican  party;  but  let  me  say 
right  here,  all  such  statements  are  unfounded,  and  I 
am  sure  could  not  bear  examination.  I  am  inclined 
to  think  that  the  gentleman  who  makes  the  charges 
is  unequally  yoked  and  bound  by  a  hxlgo  oath  to 
conceal  an«l  nover  reveal  under  no  less  a  penalty  than 
that  of  having  his  throat  cut  and  bis  tongue  torn 
out  by  the  roots.  Hence  Bro.  Clark's  radic-ilisoa 
against  lodgery,  rum,  etc.,  awakes  him  from  his  se- 
cret  place.     I   lectured  Thursday  night  at   Shiloh 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSUHE. 


July  19, 1888 


Baptist  church,  and  am  to  preach  Sabbath  at  7:30 
p.  M.  at  Pleasant  Plain  M.  E.  church,  Rev.  T.  J. 
Johnson,  pastor.  F.  J.  Davidson. 


Correspondence. 


LBT  WOMEN  REFLECT. 

Editor  Cynosure  :— Rob.  Morris,  Knight  Tem- 
plar and  Poet  Laureate  of  Masonry,  has  written  a 
book  called  "Lights  and  Shadows  of  Freemasonry." 
On  page  94,  in  an  address,  he  speaks  of  females 
and  their  connection  with  the  Masonic  order.  Re- 
ferring to  the  plan  of  adoption  patronized  by  Jose- 
phine, wife  of  Napoleon,  when  he  was  First  Consul, 
Morris  says: 

"Nor  can  any  insurmountable  objection  be  urged 
why  the  fair  sex  should  not  participate  in  the  priv- 
ileges and  share  the  pleasures  of  this  kind  of  asso- 
ciation. If  it  be  a  claim  to  possess  physical  weak- 
ness; if  gentleness  in  retirement  and  dependence  in 
society  call  for  that  aid  which  mutual  associations 
guarantee,  surely  the  female  portion  of  mankind, 
of  all  the  world,  stand  upon  this  footing. 

"I  would  not  be  misunderstood.  I  do  not  ask 
that  the  doors  of  our  chartered  ledges  should  be 
thrown  open  to  females.  The  very  terms  of  admis- 
sion, the  preparation  and  the  reception,  forbid  the 
Mason  granting  such  a  privilege  to  women,  however 
exalted  or  deserving.  Whatever  key  to  the  world's 
mysteries  and  to  life's  treasure  may  be  extended  to 
her,  the  key  to  the  lodge-room  is  eternally  denied 
her.  Its  doors  are  eternally  barricaded  against  her 
entrance.  Her  light  footstep  may  thrill  upon  our 
hearts,  but  we  must  hear  it  outside  the  door.  Her 
soft  voice  may  arouse  passionate  emotions  within  us 
as  she  pleads  for  aid,  outside  the  door.  The  sunshine 
of  her  presence  may  and  shall  penetrate  our  walls, 
and  warm  our  hearts  in  charity  as  she  shines  upon 
us,  outside  the  door.  But  her  sphere  is  in  the  heavens, 
ours  within  the  lodge,  and  though  her  light  and 
warmth  may  reach  us,  her  form  cannot  enter.  Then 
ask  not,  sweet  voice,  for  we  cannot  grant  this  boon. 
Seek  not,  dear  form,  for  you  never  can  pass  these  por- 
tals. Knock  not,  soft  hands,  for  our  inexorable 
guardian  is  steeled  against  your  approach.  Dis- 
graced amongst  the  world's  holiest,  and  traitors  to 
the  highest  sense  of  obligation,  we  should  be  as  un- 
worthy your  notice  as  of  the  companionship  of  our 
own  brethren,  were  we  thus  to  betray  our  trust." 

Now,  are  not  these  fine  sentiments  from  those  who 
say  Masonry  is  the  handmaid  of  religion?  So  much 
light  and  purity,  and  yet  no  woman  dare  enter  I 
Now,  I  do  not  think  a  pure  woman  wants  to  be  a 
Mason;  so  Rob.  need  not  give  himself  any  trouble. 
No  man  like  Morris  can  ever  enter  heaven  till  for- 
given of  all  such  wickedness. 

On  page  37  of  "Lights  and  Shadows"  is  a  short 
article  on  the  Eastern  Star  degree,  which  I  think 
every  woman  who  thinks  anything  of  herself  should 
read.  Here  Morris  says,  "This  degree  was  intro- 
duced in  this  country  by  French  officers  who  assisted 
us  in  our  struggle  for  liberty." 

But  some  writer  in  the  Masonic  Review,  September, 
1884,  page  110,  says  Rob.  created  it  himself.  See 
how  he  fibs  I  If  any  one  wants  to  read  anything  dic- 
tated by  Satan  himself,  let  them  read  "Lights  and 
Shadows."  He  says  that  upon  the  Eastern  Star 
foundation  stand  the  following  pillars:  "To  be  true; 
to  be  aiding;  to  be  counseling;  to  be  loving;  to  be 
secret;  to  be  the  servant  of  Jesus  Christ."  Now 
we  all  know  if  we  would  be  Christ's  servants  we 
cannot  be  secrctists.     Jesus  had  no  secrets. 

M.  F.  0. 


COLPORTEUR  WORE  FOR  TEE  NATION. 

Unionville,  Mo. 

Dear  Editors: — I  have  always  done  all  I  could 
for  the  spread  of  the  Cynosure  and  the  cause  of  re- 
form, and  but  too  much  for  my  own  good  financially. 
The  Masons  have  directly  and  indirectly  occasioned 
me  a  loss  of  nearly  seven  thousand  dollars^  and  im- 
prisoned one  of  my  sons  for  over  three  years.  There 
is  a  great  spirit  among  the  people  here  for  freedom, 
but  the  Masons  have  so  acted  that  those  opposed  to 
them  are  afraid  to  open  their  mouths,  or  to  be  caught 
in  each  other's  company,  for  fear  some  one  shall  see 
them  and  report  to  the  lodge,  and  they  will  suflfer  as 
I  have.  So  you  see  they  are  completely  Masonized 
here.  But  if  I  had  a  few  of  your  tracts  I  could  do 
something  yet.  I  shall  try;  that  is  all  I  can 
promise. 

I  wish  to  make  a  little  suggestion,  which  I  think 
can  be  made  to  work.  Ii  is  to  select  persons  well  edu- 
cated and  thoroughly  posted  on  eecret  societies  and 
their  mode  of  work,  and  sufficiently  filled  with  the 
Holy  Ghost  to  make  an  impression  on  the  people, 
and   send  two  together,  and  let   them  spend   two 


weeks  in  each  county  throughout  the  United  States. 
Their  work,  with  such  other  papers  and  workers  they 
could  influence — the  Prohibition  movement  and  the 
aid  of  the  Women's  Christian  Temperance  Union — 
carried  on  with  energy  and  faith,  would  greatly  in- 
fluence the  next  election.  R.  A.  Cullor. 


THE  REPUBLICAN  RESOLUTION. 


Martvillb,  Mo. 

Editor  Cynosure: — I  have  been  called  a  prophet. 
I  claim  not  to  be  even  the  son  of  a  prophet.  Less 
than  four  years  ago,  at  the  time  the  American  peo- 
ple for  a  little  season  could  not  tell  which  of  the  old 
parties  was  successful,  I  did  say  that  in  my  opinion 
whichever  party  it  should  be  was  the  unfortunate 
'party.  It  thru  seemed  to  me  that  party  would  re- 
main in  power  eight  years;  then  retire  for  good.  By 
that  time  enough  of  the  other  party  would  get  their 
eyes  open  to  join  the  reformers  in  the  field,  and 
take  America  for  God  on  the  question  of  prohibi- 
tion. From  some  cause  I  remain  of  the  same 
opinion. 

I  said  a  few  months  ago  the  Democrats  would  re- 
nominate Mr.  Cleveland;  the  Republicans  would  put 
a  new  man  in  the  field,  and  pass  a  temperance  reso- 
lution outside  of  their  platform  to  catch  prohibition 
votes.  This  hitting  the  nail  on  the  head  is  what 
makes  some  men  think  I  am  a  prophet. 

As  I  close  this  short  article,  prophet  or  no 
prophet,  I  must  prophesy  once  more: 

1.  All  true  Republicans  may  thank  God  for  this 
grand  resolution.  Let  me  tell  you  how  this  resolu- 
tion will  work.  "It  is  the  little  one  that  shall  be- 
come a  thousand;  it  is  the  small  one  that  shall  be- 
come a  strong  nation."     See  Isa.  60:  22. 

2.  The  strong-drink  Republicans  will  curse  the 
day  that  resolution  was  passed.  They  cannot  change 
it  now.  The  true  temperance  element  (if  it  can  be 
found  in  the  Republican  party)  have  now  a  wide 
door  open  to  come  over  on  the  Lord's  side,  on  the 
prohibition  question,  and  carry  out  in  detail  the  glo- 
rious principles  of  this  little  and  (as  it  was  thought) 
harmless  resolution. 

3.  This  resolution  will  surely  prove  the  most  ef- 
rectual  blow  of  any  the  old  party  has  had  for  the 
past  four  years  to  bring  it  to  "a  wise  and  well-di- 
fected  class  of  efforts  for  the  promotion  of  temper- 
ance," etc. 

4.  This  can  only  be  done  in  one  way — just  simply 
to  carry  out  this  little  resolution;  and  do  it  at  once. 
Just  exactly  what  they  said.  "The  first  concern  is 
the  virtue  and  sobriety  of  the  people  and  the  purity 
of  the  home."  Hence,  the  first  thing  to  be  done  is 
to  stop  this  wholesale  slaughter  of  the  American 
people  by  this  rum  fiend.  No  use  to  ask  how.  All 
men  worthy  of  a  home  among  us  know  this  can  be 
done,  if  the  people  want  it  done!  This  resolution  says 
it  should  be  done  first,  and  the  "Republican  party 
cordially  sympathizes  with  a  wise  and  well-directed 
effort."     That  is  business. 

5.  Let  us  test  every  man  by  this  "resolution."  1 
intend  to  begin  at  once.  No  time  to  lose.  If  the 
maiority  did  not  mean  what  they  said,  let  those  who 
did  come  over  on  the  side  of  the  resolution  and  vote 
for  prohibition. 

6.  Can  you  not  see,  dear  reformers,  how  God  can 
over-rule  this  matter  for  the  good  of  the  people, 
even  if  the  motive  in  passing  it  was  not  sound? 

Let  us  make  good  use  of  the  sling  and  the  stones 
so  long  as  this  great  man  of  sin  is  within  reach. 
Yours  till  after  its  death  by  a  United  States  law. 

R.  Smith. 


PITH  AND  POINT. 


A   veteran. 

I  have  had  the  Cynosure  from  the  first  number,  and  it 
will  be  the  last  earthly  good  I  shall  give  up.  1  am  86 
years  old. — Josiah  Shaw,  Lurand,  Wis. 

THE   HIGH-LOW   TARIFF    PROHIBITION    I'LANK. 

I  see  in  the  Union  Signal  that  there  is  an  omission  in 
the  fifth  reeolutioQ  of  the  Prohibition  platform  as  passed 
at  the  convention.  The  Indianapolis  papers  left  off  the 
four  last  lines,  stopping  at  a  comma,  and  so  omitted  a 
very  important pa/rt  of  that  resolvtion.  And  such  as  have 
only  seen  the  abridged  form  are  dissatisfied  on  account 
of  its  leaving  the  producer  without  protection.  I  see 
that  the  Voice  has  made  the  same  omission,  and  I  have 
just  written  to  them.  The  New  Era  and  the  Iowa  pa- 
pers, so  far  as  I  Lave  seen  them,  have  full  resolution  as 
passed.— David  Tatum,  Cleveland,  Ohio. 

Note.— The  protection  supplement  to  the  tariff  plank 
was  not  fairly  discussed.  Had  it  been,  there  would  have 
been  a  greater  division  of  opinion  than  over  W.  T.Mills's 
efforts  against  suffrage  which  had  a  vote  of  28  to  1,000 
against.  The  Cynosure  printed  the  whole  resolution,  but 
in  such  a  way  that  our  readers  could  understand  the 
character  of  the  added  portion. 


AMERICAN  ANTI SECRECY  LEAGUE. 


HOW    IT     IS  ENDORSED. 


Elder  Isaae  Bancroft:  "I  want  my  name  registered 
among  the  number  that  never,  if  I  know  it,  vote  for 
any  officer  of  any  kind  that  belongs  to  a  secret  society." 

Rev.  C.  F.  Eawley:  "I  like  the  plan  you  have  pub- 
lished in  the  Cynosure,  of  encouraging  men  to  be  Chris- 
tian mugwumps  in  politics." 

"I,.  Cornelius  Benham,  do  depose  and  say  that  for 
fifteen  years  I  have  not  voted  for  a  lodge  tainted  candi- 
date, large  or  small,  knowing  them  to  be  such,  and  pro- 
pose never  to  do  so.    I  am  an  anti-lodge  prohibitionist." 

Elder  A.  D.  Freeman:  "I  want  to  say  that  I  can- 
not conscientiously  vote  for  a  man  for  any  office  who  is 
an  adhering  member  of  any  secret  society,  either  civil  or 
ecclesiastical . " 

A.  C.  Bundy:  "Such  has  been  my  ticket  for  the  last 
eight  years:  to  vote  for  no  one  for  any  responsible  office 
that  belongs  to  any  secret  society ." 

H.  Siemiller:  "Count  me  as  one  that  will  never  vote 
for  a  secret-society  man  for  office  in  church  or  state, 
knowingly." 

/.  B.  Frick:  "You  may  put  me  down  on  the  Auti- 
Sscret  League.  I  settled  that  question  last  winter,  and 
if  I  can't  get  a  chance  to  vote  for  men  that  are  not  oath- 
b„und  to  secretism,  then  I  will  not  vote  at  all." 

Bev.M.  W.Jordan:  "I  have  always  been  an  ti  slavery, 
liquor,  tobacco  and  secret  societies." 

Frederick  Byrer:  "I  am  one  that  will  not  vote  for  a 
man  that  belongs  to  any  secret  society  and  have  not  for 
a  number  of  years." 

J.  R.  Alcock:  "EaroU  me  as  a  voting  member  of 
the  Anti-Secrecy  League." 

M.  L.  Worcester:  "I  hope  to  hear  that  the  Prohibi- 
tion party  is  solid  on  the  anti-lodge  matter . " 

Jacob  Ring,  voter;  Susan  Ring,  non-voter:  "We  two 
are  willing,  yea,  more  than  willing,  to  make  it  a  rule  not 
to  vote  for  any  lodge  men  for  office." 


LITERATURE. 


The  Land  or  the  Pueblos.    By  Susan  E.  Wallace.    Pp.  285. 
Price  75  cents.    John  B.  Alden.    New  York. 

To  our  fragmentary  knowledge  of  the  Pueblo  tribes 
of  New  Mexico  and  Arizona  very  much  was  added 
a  few  years  ago  by  the  sensational  accounts  of  the 
Zuni  tribe  given  by  Frank  Cushing,  and  by  the  visit 
of  a  deputation  of  the  tribe  to  Washington  and  Bos- 
ton. It  was  before  this  date  that  General  Lew  Wal- 
lace was  appointed  Governor  of  New  Mexico,  and 
his  wife  had  the  opportunity  of  collecting  the  mate- 
rial for  this  entertaining  volume.  If  the  author  of 
"Ben  Hur"  deserves  the  popularity  which  that  work 
has  brought  him,  Mrs.  Wallace,  in  this  and  her  other 
volumes,  proves  herself  worthy  to  stand  by  his  side 
and  share  his  laurels.  She  is  a  bright  and  enter- 
taining writer  and  this  volume  will  add  to  her  repu- 
tation. It  does  not  profess  to  be  a  history  of  the 
strange  natives  of  our  Southern  Territories.  No 
one  is  able  to  write  that  and  it  may  never  be  writ- 
ten. Nor  does  it  purpose  an  exhaustive  description 
of  the  country,  which  might  prove  as  dry  as  its 
climate.  It  is  rather  a  charmingly  written  account 
of  observations  taken  upon  the  spot,  intermingled 
with  enough  of  the  mysterious  history  of  the  na- 
tives and  the  brief  records  of  the  Spanish  invaders 
of  three  centuries  ago,  of  which  just  enough  remain 
to  give  a  most  romantic  color  to  their  story.  There 
is  no  part  of  the  earth  so  shrouded  in  mystery,  not 
even  Egypt,  as  the  region  of  the  Pueblos,  and  the 
story  of  their  ancient  civilization,  of  which  we  have 
some  record  in  their  strange  and  ruined  cities,  seems 
to  be  forever  lost.  Mrs.  Wallace  found  among  them, 
as  did  Cushing,  unmistakable  traces  of  secret  lodge 
worship.  Cushing,  who  was  a  Mason,  and  could 
therefore  join  the  tribe  and  take  its  initiatory  oaths 
without  a  qualm,  said  these  ceremonies  resembled 
the  Masonic.  Mrs.  Wallace  tells  of  the  underground 
rooms,  which  are  used  for  religious  and  political 
purposes,  into  which  women  are  not  admitted,  and 
where  the  mysterious  fires  are  never  allowed  to  go 
out.  In  referring  to  the  mystic  lodges  "which  date 
back  to  the  days  of  King  Solomon"  she  writes  like 
the  wife  of  an  ignorant  and  bombastic  Masonic  ora- 
tor. But  as  General  Wallace  has  never  appeared  in 
so  dishonorable  a  role,  it  must  be  his  wife  simply 
accepts  a  Masonic  lie  for  a  fact  and  makes  no  in- 
vestigation. If  the  other  statements  of  the  volume 
were  no  more  accurate  it  would  be  irorthless. 

A  portrait  of  Dr.  Samuel  Johnson,  from  the  portrait 
by  Sir  Joshua  Reynolds  in  the  National  Gallery,  forms 
the  frontispiece  in  the  July  English  Magazine.  Of  the 
illustrated  articles,  the  second  part  of  C.  F.  Gordon  Cum- 
ming's  interesting  investigations  into  the  religious  cus- 
toms of  the  Asiatic  nations  continues  the  interest  aroused 
by  the  first  number.  He  continues  to  follow  the  subject 
of  "Pagodas,  Aureoles  and  Umbrellas,"  and  his  inqui- 
ries are  illustrated  by  drawings  made  by  himself.  Prof. 
Minto's  story  of  the  Wat  Tyler  rebellion  and  its  high-tax 
causes  continues  with  undimisbed  interest. 


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July  19,  1888 


THE  CHRISTLAJSr  CYNOSUKE. 


This  hot  weather  prompts  one  to  flee 
from  the  sun's  rays  and  seek  the  fresh 
air  and  cooling  breezes  beneath  the  roofs 
that  were  first  known  to  man,  that  is  to 
say,  under  the  trees.  In  the  July  num- 
ber of  the  American  Oarden  are  bright 
and  timely  articles  on  the  tree  question, 
and  company  out-of-doors,  which  covers 
this  ground  in  delightful  fashion  with 
fact  and  fancy  that  the  only  true  way  to 
live  in  clear  weather  in  summer  time  is 
in  this  "house  not  made  with  hands," 
surrounded  with  trees,  shrubs  and  flow- 
ers, upon  the  cool,  green  carpet  under- 
neath. This  magazine  is  a  pleasant  thing 
for  summer  reading,  and  we  can  highly 
recommend  it  to  practical  people  for  its 
valuable  information  on  gardening  topics. 

The  London  Illustrated  News  has  lately 
been  giving  attention  to  the  Panama 
canal,  and  its  June  31  and  July  7  num- 
bers have  numerous  illustrations  which 
enable  the  reader  to  understand  much  of 
the  prodigious  difficulty  of  the  work  and 
something  of  its  progress. 

Thomas  A.  Edison,  the  great  inventor, 
has  a  fine  portrait  in  the  Swiss  Cross  for 
July  with  a  short  sketch  of  his  remark- 
able life.  "A  History  of  Almanacs"  has 
illustrations  of  a  church  calendar  of  the 
14th  century  and  the  well  known  Mexi- 
can calendar  stone,  with  an  interesting 
account  of  the  singular  methods  of  former 
generations  in  reckoning  time.  A  curious 
letter  on  "Hawks  and  Hydrophobia"  will 
suggest  strange  ideas  respecting  this  sin- 
gularly fatal  and  little  understood  disease. 

Tick's  Magazine  TemindB  us  that  "cher- 
ries are  ripe,"  and  in  its  talk  about  flavor 
and  quality  in  fruits  makes  us  wish  to 
taste  and  decide  for  ourselves.  The 
flower  notes  are  as  full  and  fresh  as  a 
"posy  bed"  after  a  refreshing  shower. 


OBITUARY. 

David  Tuttle  died  at  his  residence  in 
Roseville,  111.,  on  the  morning  of  Thurs- 
day, Jan.  19,  1888. 

He  was  born  in  Greene  county,  Penn., 
Oct.  13th,  1800,  and  "was  consequently 
aged  at  the  time  of  his  decease,  87  yearp, 
3  months  and  6  days.  In  1824.he  mar- 
ried Miss  Elizabeth  Axtell,  by  whom 
were  born  to  him  four  children,  three  of 
whom  survive  him.  In  the  fall  of  1850 
he,  with  his  family,  moved  to  this  State, 
settling  near  Roseville.  In  1853  his  wife 
died,  and  in  1854  he  married  Mrs.  Phile- 
na  E  Young,  by  whom  were  born  to  him 
two  children,  both  of  whom  are  deceased. 
He  was  the  eighth  child  of  ten,  and  lived 
to  see  children  of  the  third  generation, 
having  at  the  time  of  his  death  three 
children,  twelve  grandchildren  and  twelve 
great-grandchildren. 

In  1835  he  united  with  the  Presbyte- 
rian church,  aad  as  a  Christian  man  was 
singularly  characterized  by  his  fidelity  to 
his  convictions  of  right.  The  practice 
of  sacrificing  principle  at  the  shrine  of 
policy  he  loathed,  and,  even  at  the  risk 
of  appearing  impolite,  shrank  not  from 
denouncing  what  he  conceived  to  be 
wrong-  and  advocating  what  he  deemed 
to  be  right. 

Having  this  character  he  could  not 
fail  to  fall  upon  the  lodge  when  it  came 
in  his  way,  and  he  was  well  known  for 
his  Christian  opposition  to  its  iniquities. 
He  loved  to  read  the  Cynosure  and  con- 
tributed to  the  funds  of  the  National 
Christian  Association.  He  someiimes 
subscribed  for  several  copies  of  the  paper 
for  others.  He  was,  says  a  friend,  a  man 
more  devoted  to  his  Bible  than  any  other 
lever  knew,  and  next  to  theBible  he  seemed 
to  enjoy  the  Cynosure.  It  became  his  fre- 
quent theme  in  conversation  to  speak  of 
Bible  topics  in  connection  with  anti-se- 
crecy, tobacco  and  intoxicants.  He  was 
also  an  earnest  Prohibitionist,  voting  the 
ticket  first  for  St.  John  in  1884  Through 
all  the  rebuffs  of  lodge  men  he  kept  cheer- 
ful and  sweet  tempered  beyond  the  pow- 
er of  most  men.  In  1880  he  distributed 
a  great  many  American  party  tickets, 
and  on  election  day  entreated  men  to 
vote  for  God.  He  dared  to  stand  alone 
and  advocate  the  right;  and,  no  doubt, 
in  God's  sight  his  one  vote  counted  more 
than  all  the  rest.  Others  learned  to  ad- 
mire the  courage  he  displayed,  and  it  was 
the  means  of  drawing  manv  conscientious 
persons  to  him  In  1884  twenty-one 
votes  were  recorded  for  Prohibition, 
mostly  through  the  earnest  efforts  of 
Father  Tuttle. 

In  his  last  illness,  when  ha  came  to  re- 
alize that  his  earthly  pilgrimage  was  al- 
most over,  ho  seemed  to  rejoice  in  the 
fact,  and  praised  God  for  keeping  him 


steadfast  to  the  end.  His  spirit  passed 
beyond  without  a  struggle,  in  perfect 
peace  and  happiness. 

The  funeral  services  were  held  in  the 
Congregational  church,  and  Rev.  Geo. 
Peebles,  pastor  of  the  church,  paid  a 
high  tribute  to  the  deceased,  as  a  man 
who,  even  in  these  days  of  moral  vacilla- 
tion and  compromise,  dared,  in  defense  of 
principle,  to  be  a  Daniel. 

"  'Tis  better  not  to  be,  than  be  unhappy," 
and  no  one  can  be  happy  whose  system 
is  deranged  by  poisonous  secretions. 
Nearly  all  ills  that  flesh  is  heir  to,  arise 
from  torpid  liver  and  derangement  of  the 
digestive  organs.  Dr.  Pierce's  Pleasant 
Purgative  Pellets  correct  irregularities  of 
the  liver,  prevent  constipation,  and  pro- 
mote good  health.  Buy  them  of  your 
druggist. 

The  use  of  a  single  bottle  of  Hall's 
Vegetable  Sicilian  Hair  Renewer  will 
show  its  efficacy  in  restoring  the  natural 
color  of  the  hair  and  cleansing  the  scalp. 

ANTI-MASOmO  LBCTUHMRti. 
Qbnbbal  AesKT  and  Lbctubbb,  J.  P. 
Stoddard,  221  W.  Madison  St.,  Chicago. 
H.  H.  Hinman,  Cynosure  office. 
Agent  for  Southern  States. 
Statb  AeBNTS. 
Iowa,  C.  F.   Hawley,  Wheaton,    Du- 
Page  Co.,  Illinois. 
Missouri,  Eld.  Rufus  Smith,  Maryville. 
New  Hampshire,   Eld.  8.  C.  Kimball, 
New  Market. 
Ohio,  W.  B.  Stoddard,  Columbus. 
Kansas,  Robert  Loggan,  Clifton. 
Alabama,  Rev.  G.  M.  Elliott,  Selma. 

Dbgbbb  Wobkbbs.— [Seceders.l 
J.  K.  Glassford,  Carthage,  Mo. 
Othbb  Lbctobbbs. 

C.  A.  Blanchard,  Wheaton,  111. 
N.  Callender,  BroT»n  Hollow,  Pa. 
J  H.  Tlmmons,  Tarentum,  Pa 

T.  B.  McCormlck,  Princeton,  Ind. 

E.  Johnson,  Dayton,  Ind. 

H.  A.  Day,  WlUIamstown,  Mich. 

J.  M.  Bishop,  Chambersburg,  Pa 

A.  Mayn,  Bloomlngton,  Ind. 

J.  B.  CreBsinger,  Sullivan,  O. 

W.  M.  Love,  Osceola,  Mo. 

J.  L.  Barlow,  Grundy  Center,  Iowa. 

A.  D.Freeman,  Downers  Grove,  111 
Wm.  Fenton .  St  Paul,  Minn. 
Warren  Taylor,  South  Salem,  O. 

J.  8.  Perry,  Thompson,  Conn. 

J.  T.  Micliael,1533  Capouse  Av.Scranton,Pa. 

8.  G.  B'arton,  Breckinridge,  Mo. 

B.  Barnetaon,  Haeklnvllle,  Steuben  Co,,N.  Y 
Wm.  R.  Roacli,  Pickering,  Ont. 

D.  A.  Rlcharda,  Brighton,  Mich. 

8BCRET  80GIETIB8  CONDEMNED 


BY  QBBAT  MEN  IN  THE  CHURCH. 

Rev.  Leonard  Bacon,  D.  D.— Wish- 
ing you  good  success  in  your  war  against 
secret  societies. 

Rev.  B.  P.  Aydeldotte,  T).!).,  former 
president  of  Woodward  College,  0.,  {a  re- 
nouncing Mason): — Freemasonry  is  a  lie 
all  over. 

Albert  Barnes,  1849: — Any  good 
cause,  I  think,  can  be  promoted  openly; 
any  secret  association  is  liable,  at  least, 
to  abuse  and  danger. 

Rev.  Justin  Edwards,  D  D.,  author 
and  head  of  Andover  teminary: — When- 
ever the  cause  of  temperance  is  veiled  in 
darkness  and  secrecy,  it  must  lose  its  hold 
on  the  public  confidence  and  sympathy. 

Rev.  M.  Bennett,  long  presiding  el- 
der M.  E.  cAwrc/t  —  I  am  pleased  to  be 
counted  in  for  the  movement  which  is  be- 
ing inaugurated  against  tyrannical  organ- 
izations and  factitious  distinctions  in  so- 
ciety. 

Du.  Thomas  Scott,  the  great  commenr- 
tator: — Rash  oaths  are  above  all  things  to 
be  avoided;  but  if  men  are  entangled  by 
them,  they  ought  rather  to  infringe  the 
sinful  oaths  than  to  add  sin  to  sin  and 
ruin  to  their  own  souls. 

Rev.  J.  C.  K  Mii.moan,  editor  of  "Our 
Banner:" — Through  such  silence,  secret 
connivance  and  horrid  oaths  "ever  to 
conceal  and  never  reveal,"  the  state  of 
our  country  is  rapidly  becoming  such  as 
to  alarm  every  Christian  philanthropist. 

Rev.  B.  T.  Roukhts,  editor  of  the  Free 
Methodist:  —For  us  to  keep  8 1 lent  respect- 
ing Masonry,  and  thus  tacitly  endorse  the 
idea  that  a  man  can  both  accept  Christ 
and  deny  him  — thai  is,  bo  a  good  Mason 
and  a  good  Christian  at  the  same  time, 
would  be  treason  to  Christ. 


Joseph  Cook:— I  do  abhor  the  selfish, 
clannish  spirit  of  secret  societies. 

William  Otterbein,  founder  of  t?u 
church  of  the  United  Brethren  in  Christ: 
— A  Freemason  cannot  be  a  Christian. 

Bishop  Wakburton: — Each  of  the 
heathen  gods,  beside  the  worship  paid  to 
him  in  public,  had  a  secret  worship  to 
which  none  were  admitted  but  those  who 
were  prepared  by  previous  ceremonies. 

Richard  S.  Storks,  D.  D.,  pa<>(or  of 
the  Church  of  the  Pilgrims,  Brooklyn  — 
My  judgment  and  feeling  are  both  strong 
ly  opposed  to  the  secret  lodge  system.  I 
heartily  agree  with  what  Dr.  Howard 
Crosby  has  so  forcibly  said  about  it. 

Cardinal  McCabe,  Dublin:— Secrei 
societies,  which  seem  to  possess  a  fatal 
charm  for  our  people,  have  from  time  to 
time  drawn  thousands  of  misguided 
youths  within  the  fatal  circle  from  which 
there  is  no  escape. 

Rev.  Lebbeus  Armstrong: — Among 
the  various  stratagems  of  Sitan  la  oppo- 
sition to  God  and  holiness,  and  for  the 
purpose  of  destroying  the  souls  of  men, 
the  institution  of  speculative  Freema- 
sonry holds  a  pre  eminent  rank. 

Henry  G  Ludlow,  pastor  Spring  St. 
Presbyterian  Church,  New  York,  1829: — 
I  can  hardly  think  that  any  candid  and 
intelligent  Master  Mason  can  seriously 
assert  that  Masonry  should  be  kept  up. 
For  my  own  part  I  have  ever  been  dis- 
gusted with  its  nonsensical  ceremonies, 
and  ashamed  of  myself  for  submitting  to 
them. 

George  F.  Pentecost,  D,  D.,  pastor 
of  Tompkins  Avenue  Congregational 
church,  Brooklyn,  editor  of  "  Words  and 
Weapons," — I  would  do  almost  anything 
in  my  power  to  help  on  the  work  of  res- 
cuing all  Christian  men  from  the  "grip" 
of  Masonry  and  all  other  secret  and  un- 
christian societies.  I  believe  that  Mason- 
ry is  an  incalculable  evil  and  essentially 
anti-Christ  in  its  principles  and  influence. 

H.  L.  Hastings, — Freemasonry  is  the 
one  institution  of  this  country  that  will 
not  bear  investigation.  Schools  are  in 
spected;  churches  throw  their  doors  open 
and  invite  the  strictest  scrutiny ;  poll  ic  il 
parties  are  examined,  searched  and  rid 
died  if  anything  like  corruptness  is  seen 
or  suspected  in  connection  with  them;  all 
these  institutions  simply  ask  a  fair  field 
and  no  favor. 

Rev.  J.  E.  Rot,  D.  D.,  Secretary  Amer- 
ican Missionary  Association: — A  man  is 
not  fit  to  be  a  juryman  who  has  taken 
these  Masonic  oaths  and  holds  to  them. 
Such  a  man  is  not  competent  to  be  a  con- 
stable or  a  justice  of  the  peace.  He  has 
disqualified  himself  practically  and  really, 
for  he  has  by  the«e  oaths  perjured  him- 
self for  the  one  side  or  tne  other,  and  so 
is  unable  to  do  justly  in  his  official  rela- 
tion between  man  and  man. 

Rev.  James  H.Brookes,  D.  D  ,  editor 
of  the  "Truth,"  and  pastor  of  Washing- 
ton Avenue  Presbyterian  church. St  Louis: 
— It  would  give  me  pleasure  to  aid  you 
in  your  work  of  seeking  to  bring  Chris- 
tians out  from  entangling  alliances  with 
secret  societies.  It  seems  to  me  that  the 
positive  injunction  of  the  Holy  Ghost, 
"Be  ye  not  unequally  yoked  together 
with  unbelievers,"  applies  particularly  to 
those  disciples  of  our  Lord  who  have 
been  led  into  such  societies. . 

The  Bishop  of  Birmingham,  Eng- 
land:— Freemasonry  is  built  upon  the 
basis  of  a  natural  religion  having  for  its 
foundation  the  honor  and  worship  of  the 
Supreme  Architect  of  the  Universe,  but 
excluding  the  divine  Incarnation  and  the 
mysteries  of  human  redemption.  Whilst 
using  the  sacred  Scriptures,  as  Freema- 
sonry it  ignores  the  divine  doctrines  of 
the  Christian  faith.  Pretending  to  a 
special  and  progressive  illumination,  it 
resembles,  and  through  several  of  its 
writers  even  claims  descent  from  the  se- 
cret societies  of  Pagan  Egypt,  Greece  and 
Samothrace* 

Rev.  Henry  Jones:— On  what  then 
does  the  whole  superstructure  of  Freema- 
sonry rest  but  a  base  fabrication  of  wick- 
ed men,  who  in  some  dark  and  apostate 
age  of  Che  world,  have  risen  up,  united 
into  a  secret  society  and  darkly  handed 
down  their  inventions  to  flatter  us  to  be- 
lieve that  their  institution  is  good  as  hav- 
ing originated  among  wise  and  good  men; 
and  being  ignorant  of  the  manner  in 
which  their  false,  pretensions  would  be 
exposed,  have  told  us  that  it  was  estab- 
lishde  on  certain  specified  facta  and 
events,  which  by  looking  at  them  care- 
fully, and  comparing  them  with  our  Bi- 
ble, we  find  nevet  had  existence? 


N.  C.  A.  BUILDING  AND  OnPIC*  Of 

TEX  CHRISTIAN   CTN08URB, 
«n  WIST  MADISON  8TRBBT,  CmCAGC 

irj.  flONAL  CBMI8  TlAN  A880CIA  TIOF 

Pbbseobnt.-H.  H.  George,  D.  D.,  Gen- 
eva College,  Pa. 

ViCB-PKBBiDBNT — ReY.  M.  A.  Oaolt, 
Blanchard,  Iowa. 

Cob.  8s(fY  and  Gbnbbal  Askht. — J 
P.  Stoddard,  221 W.  Madison  St.,  Chicago. 

Rbc.  Sbc't.  and  Trbasuhbb. — W.  I 
Phillips,  221  W.  Madison  St.,   Chicago 

Directors.— J.  L.  Barlow,  C.  A. 
Blanchard,  A.  J.  Chittenden,  H.  A.  Fisch- 
er, John  Gardner,  G.  R.  Milton,  Wm.  Mor- 
row, L.  N.Stratton,  John  Sutcliffe,  Alex- 
ander Thomson,  E.  R.  Worrell. 

The  object  of  this  Association  U: 
"To  expose,  withstand  and  remove  secrel 
societies,  Freemasonry  In  particular,  and  otba 
antl-Chrlstlan  movements,  In  order  to  save  Ubi 
churches  of  Christ  from  being  uepraved,  to  t» 
deem  the  admlnlstr*  tion  of  justice  from  pep- 
version,  and  our  psp  iblican  government  froa 
cormption." 

To  carry  on  this  work  contributions  art 
solicited  from  every  friend  of  tne  reform 

Form  op  Bequbst.— J  give  and  bccueatb  tc 
the  National  Christian  Association,  Incorpo 
rated  and  existing  under  the  laws  of  the  8tAt« 

of    Illinois,  the  sum  of do'lat  s  for  the 

purposes  of  said  Association,  and  for  wbf'-h 
me  receipt  of  Its  Treasurer  for  the  Wme  beinf 
*l>all  be  sufficient  dlscharae. 

THB  MATIOMAL  OONYBNTIOH. 

Prbbidhnt. — Rev.  J.  8.  T.  Milligan, 
Denison,  Kans. 

Sbcretaby.— Rev.  R.N.Couutee,MeiB- 
phis,  Tenn. 

8TATB  AUXILIABY  AfiSOCIATIOHB. 

Alabama.— Pre«.,  Prof.  Plckene;  Set,  8. 
M.  Blllott;  Trea*.,  Rev.  C.  B.  Curtis,  all  of 
Selma. 

CALrroBNiA.— Pres^  L.  B.  Lathrop,  HolUs 
tor;  Cor.  Sec,  Mrs.  U.  P.  Merrill,  Woodland; 
Treas.,  C.  Ruddock,  Woodland. 

CoNNBcncDT.— rreg..  J.  A.  Conant,  Willi 
mantle ;  Sec,  Geo.  Smith,  WIUkDantlc ;  Treat. 
C.  T.  ColllnB,  Whideor. 

Illinois.- Pres.,  J.  P.  Stoddard  Sec,  M. 
N.  Butler;  Treaa.,  W.  I.  PhlUIpi  all  a,tCy- 
tu>sure  office. 

Indiana.— Pr«8.,  WUUam  H.  Flgg,  Reno 
Sec,  8.  L.  Cook,  Albion;  Treas.,  BenJ.  Ulah 
Silver  Lake. 

Iowa.— PreB.,Wm.  Johnston.College  Sprtngo ' 
Cor  Sec.,  C.  D.  Trumbull,  Morning  Sun- 
Treas.,  James  Harvey.  Pleasant  Plain,  Jeffer. 
son  Co. ;  Lecturer,  C.  F.  Hawley,  Wheaton,  HI. 

Kahsa.8.— Pros.,  J.  8.  T.  Milligan,  Denlson; 
8«c,  8.  Hart,  Lecompton;  Treaa,,  J.  A.  Tor- 
rence,  Denlson. 

MASSACHrsBTTS.— Pros.,  8.  A.  Pratt;  Sec 
Mrs.  B.  D.  BaUey;  Treaa.,  David  Manning.Sr. 
Worcester.  ' 

MiOHiOAN.— Pros..  D.  A.  Rlcharda,  Brighton 
Sec'y,  H.  A.  Day,  WUllamston;  TroM." 
Geo.  Bwanson,  Jr.,  Bedioiu. 

MiNNHSOTA.— Pre*.,  S.  G.  Falne.  Waslo'a 
Cor.  Sec,  Wm.  Fen  ton,  St.  Paul :  Rec.  Soc"*t 
Mrs.  M.  F.  Morrill,  St.  Charles;  Treaa,,  Wm 
H.  Morrill,  St.  Charlea. 

MisBOUHi.— Pre*.,  B.  F.  Miller,  KaglevlU* 
Trea8.^Ull*ni  Beauchamp,  Avalon ;  Cor.  8#c. 
A.  D.  "rhomae,  Avalon. 

Nbbraska.- Pres.,  8.  Austin,  Fairmont t 
Cor.  Sec.,  W.        Spooner,  Kearney;   Troaa.' 
J.  C.  Fyo.  ' 

Mains.— Pros.,  Isaac  Jackson,  Harrison - 
Sec,  1.  D.  Haines,  Dexter;  Treas.,  H.  W. 
Goddard,  West  Sidney. 

Nbw  Hampshim.— Proa.,  C.  L.  Baker,  Man 
Chester;  See.,  8.  C.  Kimball,  New  Market 
Trea*.,  James  /.  French,  Canterbury. 

N»w  York.— Pre*.,  F.  W.  Capwell,  Dale: 
Sec'y,  John  Wallace,  Syracuse;  Treaa.,  M. 
Merrick,  Syracuse. 

Ohio.- Pres.,  F.  M.  Spencer,  New  Concord; 
Rec.  Sec.,  8.  A.  George,  Mansdeld;  Cor.  Sec. 
and  Treas.,  C.  W.  Hlatt,  Columbus;  Agent 
W.  B.  Stoddard,  Columbus. 

PiNNSTLVANiA.- Cor.  Set,  N.  Callender 
Thonpaan ;  Treaa.,  W.  B.Bortela,  WUkoabarre. 

YiBMOiTT.- Pre*.,  W.  R.  Laird,  St.  Johna- 
bnry;  S«c,  C.  W  Potior. 

WiBOCHBUi.- Prcs,,  J.  W.  Wood,    Baraboo; 
Sec,  W.  W.  Ames,  Menomonle ;  Treu.,  M.  B 
BritioB,  Vlenn*. 


8 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


July  19, 1888 


The  Christian  Cynosure. 


&DFffOH& 


;.  BLANCHAKD. 


HKf<R7  L.  KBLLOGG. 


CHICAeO,    XHUBSDA'B,    JULY    19,    1888 


A  LETTiR  FROM  Mb.  Capwbll  Confirms  the  Tumor 
which  we  gave  last  week,  that  the  Prohibition  con- 
vention at  Syracuse  nominated  a  Masonic  propagan- 
dist and  founder  ol  lodges  for  Governor.  Such  a 
man  is  unfit  to  be  voted  for  by  any  but  slaves,  or  to 
govern  a  free  people,  A  convention  should  be 
called  and  a  worthy  man  nominated.  A  citizen  of 
Mexico  might  be  ignorant,  but  a  citizen  of  the  State 
of  William  H.  Seward,  Gerrit  Smith  and  David  Ber- 
nard knows  that  Masonry  is  a  murderess,  or,  in  the 
words  of  Robert  J.  Breckenridge,  he  "has  simply 
no  moral  sense."  By  all  means  the  Masonic  record 
of  the  Syracuse  candidate  should  be  made  known 
through  all  our  papers,  and  a  good  man  nominated 
at  once  to  receive  the  votes  of  American  citi- 
zens. No  large  convention  is  necessary  to  make 
this  nomination.  An  electoral  ticket  is  a  more  com- 
plex and  difficult  thing  to  achieve.  But  the  vote  for 
Governor  is  direct,  and  every  man  can  write  and 
deposit  his  own  ballot. 


Lake  Bltjff,  which  aspires  to  be  a  Northwestern 
Chautauqua,  occupies  a  beautiful  wooded  site  over- 
looking Lake  Michigan,  a  few  miles  beyond  the 
beautiful  city  of  Evanston.  Mr  Hobbs,  late  Prohi 
bition  candidate  for  Governor  of  Illinois,  is  a  chief 
proprietor  and  promoter  of  the  place;  and  he  is  op- 
posed to  both  liquor  and  the  lodge.  But  the  un- 
pleasant news  reaches  us  that  Walter  T.  Mills  is  re- 
porting that  Miss  Willard  this  year  introduced  and 
carried  a  resolution  through  the  committee  of  ar- 
rangements forbidding  the  discussion  of  secret  soci- 
eties at  that  place!  We  fervently  hope  Mr.  Mills  is 
mistaken.  He  is  a  man  little  of  stature,  with  large 
self-esteem,  and  may  possibly  resent  the  snubbing 
he  received  at  the  great  convention  at  Indianapolis, 
where  he  asked  two  hours  for  the  opposers  of  woman 
suffrage,  and  received  permission  to  speak  five  min- 
utes. But  we  dislike  to  think  him  capable  of  falsi- 
fying and  misrepresentation.  But  how  Miss  Wil- 
lard can  say  to  the  public,  "I  am  opposed  to  secret 
societies,"  as  she  has  more  than  once  done,  and  yet 
strangle  all  discussion  in  the  Lake  Bluff  Assembly 
of  a  theme  on  which  she  gives  her  sentiments  to  the 
public,  is  hard  to  be -accounted  for.  Last  year  she 
allowed  a  long  lank  defense  of  a  secret  order  by  a 
weak  doctor  of  divinity;  and  if  now  in  committee 
she  is  strangling  the  utterance  of  her  own  professed 
opposition  to  secret  orders,  she  must  be  forfeiting 
her  own  self-respect.  We  hope  Mr.  Mills  is  mis- 
taken, not  malicious. 


GOOD    TBMPLAR8    AND    THB    PROHIBITION 
PARTY. 


J.  W.  Haggard  has  issued  a  pamphlet  "History 
of  the  Prohibition  Party,"  whose  cover  contains  a 
pictorial  advertisement  of  "Good  Templars'  regalia." 
From  this  pamphlet  and  from  Dr.  Jutkins's  hand- 
book we  learn  that  "The  Illinois  Grand  Lodge  of 
Good  Templars,"  Sept.  15,  1868,  resolved,  "That  af- 
ter the  close  of  the  present  Presidential  campaign 
we  will,  in  our  respective  localities  proceed  as  early 
as  practicable  to  the  organization  of  a  party  upon 
the  principles  of  total  abstinence  and  prohibition, 
looking  ultimately  to  a  State  and  national  organiza- 
tion." This  singular  resolution,  that  somebody 
should  do  something  in  future,  seems  never  to  have 
been  carried  out. 

Next  year,  September,  18C9,  a  convention  met  at 
Chicago  "for  the  purpose  of  organizing  for  district 
political  action  for  temperance."  The  call  for  this 
convention  runs  thus: 

"All  chu'ches,  Sunday-schools  atd  temperance  societies  of 
all  names  are  re'juested  to  send  delegates,  and  all  persons  fa- 
vorable to  this  uiovcment  are  invited  to  meet  at  the  time  and 
place  above  stated." 

Secret  lodges,  as  such,  are  not  named  in  the  call 
to  this  or  any  other  convention  which  assembled  to 
form  a  Prohibition  party.  On  the  contrary,  the 
names  of  such  lodges  were  omitted,  while  churches 
and  Sabbath-schools  are  inserted  in  the  call.  All 
the  conventions  preceding  the  organization  of  the 
Prohibition  party,  up  to  the  great  convention  in 
Farwell  Hall,  Chicago,  where  "the  Home  Protec- 
tion" and  "the  National  Prohibition  party"  were 
united  Aug.  2H,  1882,  were  open  conventions.  Any 
attempt  to  conceal  any  part  of  the  proceedings  from 
any  part  of  the  temi>erance  people  would  have  been 
fatal  to  the  object. 

It  is  well  known  to  all  readers  of  the  public  press 
that  Good  Templar  lodges,  as  a  rule,  adhered  to  the 


old  parties.  In  Wisconsin,  especially,  the  lodge  op- 
position to  a  third  or  Prohibition  party  was  bitter 
and  constant;  and  as  late  as  1884,  during  the  St. 
John  tnovement,  a  motion  was  made,  and  nearly 
carried;  in  the  New  York  State  Grand  Lodge  of 
Good  Templars,  disapproving  of  a  third  party  and 
the  support  of  St.  John.  The  Dakota  Grand  Lodge 
have  lately  been  reported  as  opposed  to  the  Prohi- 
bition party. 

In  the  face  of  these  facts,  to  put  forward  the 
Good  Templars  as  founders  of  the  Prohibition  party 
is  a  piece  of  arrogant  effrontery  peculiar  to  the  wor- 
shipers of  the  usurping  "god  of  this  world."  The 
pretense  that  a  Good  Templars'  lodge  conceals  noth- 
ing which  it  concerns  the  Prohibitionists  to  know 
is  absurd  and  false.  The  lodge  professes  to  be 
seeking  the  prohibition  of  liquor  by  the  agency  of 
men;  and  the  Prohibition  party  seeks  the  same  end 
by  the  same  agency.  Why  then  should  the  one 
conceal  its  meetings  and  methods  from  the  other? 
Such  an  attempt  by  one  part  of  a  family  or  business 
firm  would  be  regarded,  and  justly,  a  fraud  upon 
the  whole.  But  to  add  to  concealment  a  solemn 
pompous  ritual,  which  is  religious  worship,  and  de- 
grees, rising  one  above  another,  the  upper  pledged 
to  conceal  from  the  lower,  thus  putting  into  the 
hands  of  a  few  persons  the  control  of  the  whole, 
gives  the  lodge  the  stamp  of  a  clan  or  society  of 
brigands  rather  than  of  a  republican  society  of 
equals.  And  the  apology  of  Miss  Willard  and  otb 
ers,  that  the  secrets  are  few  and  trivial,  limited  to 
the  password  and  ceremonies,  but  aggravates  the 
condemnation  of  the  lodge.  If  the  secrets  are  so 
trivial,  why  insult  their  associates  in  the  temp'^rance 
work  by  keeping  them  up?  But  that  which  Christ 
forbade  by  his  example  and  precept  is  not  trivial. 
And  the  tenacity  of  the  lodges  in  clinging  to  them 
shows  that  they  do  not  regard  them  as  trifles.  And 
we  are  right  in  withholding  our  ballots  from  those 
who  withhold  their  confidence  from  us. 


THE   ORANGEMEN. 


This  political  secret  society  was  formed  in  North 

Ireland  in  1795,  seven  years  short  of  a  century  ago 

James  II.,  "the  simpleton  who  lost  three  kingdoms 

for  a  mass,"  had  fled  to  France,  and  William,  Prince 

of  Orange,  was'king.      From  the  time  of  Cromwell 

Ireland  had  been  a  sea  surging  with  the  bloody  bil 

lows  of  faction.     Papists  had  murdered  Protestants 

till  William  rode  into  the  Boyne,  July  ],  1690,  say 

ing,  as  the  song  goes: 

"God  must  be  our  King  this  day," 
And  I'll  be  General  under." 

That  battle  turned  the  scale,  and  Protestants  re- 
paid the  Papists,  blood  for  blood,  as  only  Irishmen 
made  savage  by  religious  faction  could.  The  Rib 
bon-men  wore  green  badges;  the  Protestants,  orange; 

"And  they  hung  both  men  and  women 
For  the  wearing  of  the  green." 

When  neighbors  had  butchered  neighbors  for  one 
hundred  and  five  years  "The  Loyal  Orange  Institu 
tion,"  which  was  a  Masonic  lodge  with  an  Irish 
name,  undertook  to  protect  the  Protestants  against 
the  Ribbon-men,  and  they  have  embittered  the  quar- 
rel ever  since,  even  down  to  Gladstone  and  Parnell. 
The  streets  of  Belfast  have  run  blood,  shed  by 
Orangemen  against  Gladstone  and  "Home  Rule." 

But,  like  all  secret  lodges,  the  Orange  lodge  has  a 
nature  and  an  object  of  its  own.  It  is  an  idolatrous 
religion  with  degrees,  oaths,  ceremonies  and  obliga- 
tions borrowed  and  modified  from  Masonry.  Hence, 
it  has  spread  over  the  globe  where  people  know  and 
care  nothing  about  the  original  Irish  quarrel  in 
which  it  started.  It  was  dissolved  by  English  au- 
thority in  1836,  but  came  to  life  again,  as  did  Ma- 
sonry in  this  country,  after  a  short  lapse  of  nine 
years;  and  it  is  now  initiating,  deceiving,  taxing  and 
governing  multitudes  in  the  Canadas  and  elsewhere; 
stultifying  the  masses  by  the  sorcery  of  its  false 
worship,  and  enriching  its  leaders  by  their  dues  and 
degree  fees. 

Such  is  the  Orange  lodge  whose  exploit  the  Cyno- 
sure noticed  ^ast  week.  It  seems  that  these  lodges, 
like  the  Knight  Templars,  have  adopted  the  trick  of 
asking  ministers  to  preach  them  a  sermon;  and  as 
the  denominational  orgacs,  as  a  rule,  shun  all  lodges 
and  keep  their  people  in  ignorance,  the  pastor  of 
the  South  C(<Dgregational  church,  Chicago,  consented 
to  their  wishes;  and  this  Chicago  lodge  met  at  their 
secret  lodge-room  on  Sabbath  morning,  expecting  to 
march  to  Dr.  Williams's  church  behind  a  band  of 
music;  strutting  in  regalia  and  fluttering  in  Orange 
ribbons;  to  excite  the  curiosity  of  (juidnuncs;  draw 
a  multitude  of  boys  from  their  Sabbath-schools;  ad- 
vertise their  useless  trumpery;  and  defeat  the  wor- 
ship of  a  Christian  congregation  by  sitting  in  a 
body  and  listening  to  a  sermon  which  they  value  as 
highly  as  monkeys  do  tbe  music  of  a  qircus.  J 


But  lo!  a  disappointment!  The  South  Congrega- 
tional church  is  unwilling  to  be  turned  into  a  me- 
nagerie, and  the  lodge  is  notified  that  their  presence 
is  not  wanted.  In  vexation  and  wrath  they  post  a 
messenger  off  to  Rev.  J.  M.  Caldwell,  of  the  Oak- 
land avenue  Methodist  church,  who  promises  them  a 
sermon  on  the  next  Sabbath  to  allay  their  thirst  for 
a  preaching  pastime  and  help  them  keep  up  a 
heathen  f anf arorade  in  a  Christian,  country. 


CLEAN-HANDED  PROHIBITION. 

Events  are  working  in  the  providence  of  God  for 
the  separation  of  a  righteous  principle  and  an  ini- 
quitous system.  One  of  the  most  active  speakers, 
who  has  traveled  in  all  parts  of  the  country  advo- 
cating prohibition,  very  positively  asserts  from  his 
own  observation  more  Prohibitionists  oppose  the 
lodge  than  favor  woman  suffrage.  From  the  vote  at 
Indianapolis,  1,000  to  28  for  the  latter,  the  anti- 
secrecy  sentiment  must  be  nearly  unanimous. 

In  New  York. — The  nomination  of  W.  Martin 
Jones  of  Rochester,  a  high  Mason  and  Good  Tem- 
plar missionary,  for  Governor,  is  met  with  a  de- 
served rebuke  by  the  Wesleyan  Methodist,  which  we 
reprint.  The  Free  Methodist  brethren  are  yet  to  be 
heard  from,  but  we  are  assured  they  will  stand  for 
principle  and  will  support  any  reasonable  effort  to 
provide  a  clean  ticket.  In  1884  we  were  urged  to 
vote  for  Blaine  by  a  leading  member  of  that  church, 
as  he  was  not  a  member  of  a  lodge;  and  after  his 
defeat  by  some  1,500  votes  it  was  claimed  that  hsd 
the  Anti-masonic  vote  been  cast  for  him  instead  of 
St.  John,  the  Republican  party  would  yet  be  in 
power.  We  shall  at  the  earliest  moment  inform  our 
readers  of  the  decision  of  the  New  York  brethren. 

At  Lake  Bldff.— Secretary  Stoddard  has  writ- 
ten of  his  investment  in  a  membership  at  the  Lake 
Bluff  Convocation,  with  the  understanding  that,  in- 
asmuch as  stcretism  was  given  so  large  a  place  last 
year,  there  would  at  least  be  a  fair  discussion  of  the 
question  of  the  benefit  or  injury  to  the  temperance 
cause  by  binding  upan  it  the  burden  of  the  lodge; 
and  that  the  outrage  and  abuse  which  a  so-called 
"Right  Worthy  Chief  Templar"  poured  out  un- 
checked would  be  no  more  allowed.  He  was  disap- 
pointed. The  Executive  oflScers  agreed  there  was 
too  much  powder  in  a  lodge  discussion  for  the  quiet 
and  rest  they  wished  to  promote  at  Lake  Bluff.  So, 
too,  with  the  presentation  of  the  principles  urged 
by  the  National  Reform  Association.  It  was  under- 
stood by  the  Secretary  of  the  Western  District  that 
he  should  present  this  great  reform.  Had  he  been 
a  Freemason  he  might  perhaps  have  been  heard. 
He  would  not  at  least  have  been  opposed  by  the 
"chancellor  cf  the  school  of  politics,"  although  he 
would  have  been  acting  the  hypocrite:  for  no  man 
can  advocate  both  National  Reform  and  the  princi- 
ples of  Freemasonry  and  be  honest.  Bro.  Gault's 
letter  elsewhere  tells  its  own  story.  We  only  need 
to  add,  from  the  report  of  the  affair  in  the  daily 
press,  that  Mills,  like  an  autocrat,  set  aside  the  pro- 
gram prepared  by  the  committee  duly  appointed  for 
that  purpose,  that  he  might  use  the  time  for  a  reply 
to  Secretary  Gault,  and  argued  against  the  authority 
of  God  and  his  Word  in  the  nation  and  in  politics. 
He  also  used  the  opportunity  for  an  attack  on  the 
Indianapolis  convention  and  its  woman  suffrage 
plank. 

The  natural  effect  of  such  mismanagement  at 
Lake  Bluff  will  make  it  a  place  to  be  shunned  by 
all  sincere  Christian  people.  But  we  do  not  under- 
stand that  the  lodge  is  to  control  either  that  Convo- 
cation or  the  Prohibition  party. 

FOR   OPEN   WORK. 

If  Richmond,  Mills  and  Hastings  stand  by  their 
secret  orders  and  oppose  the  W.  C.  T.  U.  and  woman 
suffrage  because  of  the  natural  incompatibility  of 
the  two  systems,  there  are  others  who  are  publishing 
a  different  gospel.  Dr.  George  P.  Hayes  of  Cincin- 
nati, late  moderator  of  the  Presbyterian  General 
Assembl}',  gave  the  address  on  Indeptndence  Day, 
and  declared  himself,  in  the  very  words,  Foa  open 
WORK  in  prohibitory  politics.  Prof.  W.  G.  Frost,  the 
Prohibitionist  of  the  Oberlin  faculty  and  grandson 
of  the  old  Abolition  editor,  William  Goodell,  in  one 
of  his  lectures  on  American  political  history  quoted 
from  the  platform  of  the  Liberty  League,  which, 
more  determined  in  its  expressions  against  slavery 
than  the  Liberty  party,  refused  to  vote  for  Birney 
in  1844,  and  nominated  Gerrit  Smith  and  our  revered 
and  honored  C.  C.  Foote  of  Detroit.  The  last  plank 
of  their  platform  affirmed  that  no  man  should  bo 
permitted  to  hold  public  office  who  was  a  member 
of  a  secret  society.  If  Prof.  Frost  was  as  much  of 
an  Abolitionist  as  his  grandfather,  or  of  an  Anti- 
mason  as  his  great  instructor,  Finney,  he  would 
honor  that  plank  and  its  revivification  by  the  Amer^ 


-"  •^tm 


July  19, 1888 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSUKE. 


ican  party  and  the  American  Anti-secrecy  League. 

He  baa  our  thanks  for  reviving  this  item  of  his- 
tory, so  long  covered  with  the  debris  of  stirring 
events  that  it  seems  to  have  been  lost  to  this  gener- 
ation. The  Prohibition  party  are  naturally  and 
constantly  referring  to  Abolition  times  for  their 
precedents.     Let  this  one  be  no  more  forgotten. 


— Pres.  C.  A.  Blaachard  was  last  week  holding 
special  meetings  with  the  church  at  Geneva,  111.  The 
religious  interest  was  strong  and  the  co  operation 
of  the  church  hearty. 

— Miss  E.  E.  Fiagg  has  written  another  tract  for 
W.  C.  T.  U.  readers,  to  inspire  them  with  such  a 
love  for  Christ's  example  and  instruction  that  they 
shall  loathe  the  secret  lodge. 

— Mr.  H.  M,  Huguain,  an  old  Chicago  editor,  has 
written  an  able  pamphlet  on  the  rise  and  decline  of 
the  Sons  of  Temperance,  closing  with  the  secret  rit- 
ual of  that  order.  The  manuscript  is  in  the  hands 
of  the  N.  C.  A.  publication  committee. 

— At  the  Cook  county  Prohibition  meeting  last 
week,  John  Culver,  one  of  the  N.  C.  A.  auditors, 
and  E.  R.  Worrell,  secretary  of  the  Board  of  Direc- 
tors, were  nominated  for  county  commissioners,  and 
Alexander  Thomson  and  Wm.  Morrow  of  the  Board 
were  made  members  of  the  county  committee.  Chi- 
cago politics  have  seldom  engaged  the  attention  of 
belter  men. 

— President  and  Mrs.  J.  Blanchard  were  expect- 
ing ss  we  closed  this  number  to  start  for  their  sum- 
mer campaign  in  Vermont  on  Tuesday  afternoon. 
Through  the  tfforts  of  Rev.  Mr.  L3ach  a  number  of 
appointments  have  been  secured,  and  with  God's 
blessing  there  is  bright  promise  for  the  return  of  the 
Green  Mountain  State  to  her  former  place  in  the 
foremost  ranks  of  reform. 

— Rev.  L.  G.  Jordan,  our  Texas  correspondent, 
has  been  North  for  a  few  weeks  attending  the  Na- 
tional Prohibition  Convention,  and  speaking  for 
that  cause.  He  has  been  in  Chicago  some  three 
weeks,  preaching  and  lecturing  among  the  colored 
churches.  He  expects  very  soon,  under  ar- 
rangement with  Prof.  Dickie,  chairman  of  the  Na- 
tional Committee,  to  visit  Virginia,  and  speak  for 
Prohibition. 

— On  Saturday  last  Mr.  J.  M.  Hitchcock,  long  su- 
perintendent of  the  'Moody"  Sabbath-school  and 
the  well-known  manager  of  the  employment  bureau 
of  the  Y.  M.  C.  A.  of  Chicago,  performed  the  sad 
duty  of  laying  in  the  grave  the  body  of  his  wife. 
Mrs.  Hitchcock  has  been  an  invalid  for  several  years, 
and  her  sufferings  have  been  severe,  but  her  Chris- 
tian fortitude  and  exemplary  patience  have  been  su- 
perior to  her  trials,  until  God  has  given  hes  release 
from  them.  Her  funeral  was  attended  by  a  large 
gathering  of  friends,  whose  sympathies  were  kindly 
given  to  the  bereaved  husband  and  children,  and 
with  them  the  Cynosure  would  most  sincerely  join 


TES  CENTENNIAL  AT  CINCINNATI. 


Editor  Chbistian  Cynosurk: — In  an  address  at 
Music  Hall  on  the  evening  of  the  4th,  Senator  Sher- 
man gave  the  true  import  of  the  Cincinnati  Centen- 
nial: "I  wish  to  impress  upon  the  good  people  of 
the  city  of  Cincinnati,  and  especially  upon  the  man- 
agers of  this  great  Exposition,  that  this  is  not  a 
Cincinnati  Exposition;  that  it  is  not  an  Ohio  Expo- 
sition. This  is  a  National  Exposition,  provided  for 
by  the  Congress  of  the. United  States,  which  is  rep- 
resented here  in  all  departments  of  the  Government 
by  proper  articles  of  exhibition,  sent  here  under  wise 
exhibitors,  to  contribute  to  a  National  Exposition. 

"I  felt  disposed  to  complain  of  one  thing  to-day, 
and  the  only  thing  in  the  interesting  ceremonies  of 
this  morning,  and  that  was  that  the  National  charac- 
ter of  this  Expositioa  should  not  have  been  more 
distinctly  presented  to  you.  When  we  voted  appro- 
priations out  of  the  public  treasury  to  represent  all 
departments  of  the  Government  to  this  great  Expo 
sition  we  intended  it  should  be  national  in  the  same 
sense  the  Exposition  at  Philadelphia  iu  187()  was 
national.  Cincinnati  is  the  place  for  this  as  Phila- 
delphia was  the  place  for  that.  But  <he  object  of 
this  Exposition  is  to  exhibit  the  growth  and  prog- 
ress and  power  of  the  Government  of  the  United 
States,  and  not  that  of  the  State  of  Ohio  or  any  par- 
ticular section." 

The  Exposition  is  on  a  scale  commensurate  with 
the  object  indicated.  There  are  eighteen  miles  of 
aisles  along  which  visitors  pass.  Music  Hall  is  car- 
peted in  crimson— 2,400  yards  were  required,  the 
largest  carpet  in  Atnerica — and  illuminated  with  iiOO 
incandescent  electric  lights.  The  ground  was  not 
broken  for  the  Park  Building  until  last  October,  and 
DOW  lighted,  decorated  and  illumiDated,  it  la  a  mar- 


vel to  all  beholders.  The  pioneer  display  is  at- 
tractive. The  original  Fort  Washington,  a  fac  sim- 
ile of  the  original  farm  now  occupied  by  this  city, 
with  its  fields,  fences,  lanes,  cabin  and  welj-sweep; 
the  State  of  Ohio  in  miniature,  with  its  elevations, 
depressions,  gas  wells,  rivers,  etc.,  are  interesting. 

The  beer  display  is  on  a  costly  ecale,  and  they 
paid  well  for  the  privilege.  As  an  offset  to  this  the 
missionary  department  is  making  a  fine  exhibit  of 
our  religious  progress.  That  may  serve  as  a  sop  to 
the  consciences  of  Prohibitionists  who  may  be  dis- 
turbed by  the  presence  of  so  much  liquor.  The  Art 
Gallery  and  Machinery  Hall  are  full  of  interest.  It 
is  said  30,000  passed  through  the  gates  the  first  day. 

J.  M.  Foster. 


LAKE  BLUFF  IN  1888. 


Lake  Bluff,  III,  July  9,  1888. 

Editor  Cynosure: — After  speaking  at  a  Prohi- 
bition Convention  in  Wisconsin,  and  giving  four  lec- 
tures and  a  Fourth  of  July  speech  in  Will  county, 
111.,  I  arrived  here  at  Lake  Bluff  last  Thursday. 
Mrs.  Gault  came  the  same  evening,  and  we  have  set- 
tled down  for  a  week's  rest.  For  this  purpose  there 
are  few  places  so  inviting  as  Lake  Bluff".  At  early 
dawn  you  hear  the  birds'  concert  in  all  its  glory. 
The  deep  shade  of  surrounding  forest,  where,  in 
some  places,  it  seems  as  if,  in  the  language  of  Pat, 
"The  hand  of  man  had  never  set  its  foot,"  the  mur- 
mur of  the  waves  along  the  shore,  the  rustle  of  the 
leaves  and  the  song  of  the  birds, — all  seem  to  invite 
to  rest. 

The  attendance  is  not  as  large  as  last  year,  owing 
to  the  absence  of  several  speakers  of  national  repu 
tation.  Governor  St.  John  and  Colonel  George  W. 
Bain  have  not  put  in  an  appearance  as  yet,  though 
the  latter  is  expected  next  Thursday  and  Friday. 
No  speakers  on  the  Prohibition  platform  draw  like 
these  men.  The  National  W.  C.  T.  U.  School  of 
Methods  is  the  most  interesting  feature,  occupying 
the  morning  hours  from  9  till  12.  Their  various  de- 
partments of  work  are  conducted  by  such  leaders 
as  Miss  Frances  E.  Willard,  Miss  West,  Mrs.  Clara 
Hoffman,  Mrs.  S.  M.  I.  Henry,  Lelia  S.  Bedell,  Mrs. 
Buell,  Caroline  A.  Leach  and  Narcissa  White.  The 
other  prominent  speakers  are  Dr.  Bascom,  Dr.  Geo. 
P.  Hays,  John  A.  Brooks,  Samuel  Dickie,  Geo.  W. 
Bain,  Dr.  Jutkins,  Dr.  Villars,  Rev.  Mr.  McKelvey, 
T.  C.  Richmond  and  others. 

What  has  kept  very  many  away  from  Lake  Bluff 
this  year,  and  what  is  a  serious  damage  to  the  place, 
is  the  influence  of  Walter  Thomas  Mills  with  his 

SECULAR    "school    OF   POLITICS." 

The  speakers  he  has  brought  here  join  with  him  in 
advocating  that  the  Prohibition  party  platform 
should  drop  the  Woman  Suffrage  plank,  the  Sabbath 
plank,  and  the  plank  referring  to  God's  authority  in 
government.  Mr.  Hastings  of  Wisconsin  declares 
that  there  will  be  a  division  of  the  party  in  1892  if 
the  Woman  Suffrage  plank  is  not  dropped.  These 
men  are  devoted  secret-society  men.  Mr.  Richmond 
of  Wisconsin,  in  his  lecture  Saturday,  classed  the 
Good  Templars  and  Legion  of  Honor  with  the 
church  of  Christ  and  Sabbath-school  as  moralising 
agencies  in  our  public  life.  Most  of  these  men  are 
doubtless  Freemasons.  Trained  in  such  lodge 
schools,  where  they  are  taught  to  discriminate 
against  women,  and  where  they  are  sworn  never  to 
initiate  a  woman,  it  is  no  wonder  they  wish  to  dis- 
card the  woman  factor  in  politics. 

THE   LODGE    AND   THE    W.    C.    T.    U. 

There  is  a  very  manifest  clashing  of  this  "school 
of  politics"  with  the  W.  C.  T.  U.  Mr.  Mills,  in  con- 
versation with  me  some  weeks  ago  on  the  train  com- 
ing down  from  a  Wisconsin  convention,  expressed 
very  bitter  feelings  toward  the  W.  C.  T.  U.,  claim- 
ing that  they  had  opposed  the  third  party  until 
shortly  before  the  last  Presidential  election.  He 
told  me  that  ho  was  in  Dr.  Jutkins'a  ollice  when  a 
letter  came  from  Miss  Willard  requesting  that  my 
name  he  put  on  the  program  at  Lake  Bluff  to  pre- 
sent National  Reform,  but  he  said  he  opposed  it 
because  I  was  an  anti-secret  man. 

MILLS   TRIES   TO   WALK     IN   FINCU's    SII0K8. 

Yesterday,  through  the  ictluenco  of  the  W.  C.  T. 
U.  ladies  here,  I  was  asked  to  preach  the  sermon. 
I  endeavored  to  show  how  the  Bible  settled  the  great 
questions  in  our  American  politics.  The  audience 
was  much  larger  than  any  day  previous.  At  the 
close  of  my  sermon  Mr.  Mills  arose  and  announced 
that  he  would  preach  a  sermon  in  the  evening  not 
on  the  line  of  the  sermon  just  delivered.  All 
seemed  to  understand  that  he  meant  to  debate  my 
position!  In  the  evening  he  lasheil  himself  into 
quite  a.  fury,  declaring,  in  opposition  to  what  T  had 
stated  in  the  morning,  that  the  statutes  of  the  Bible 


were  not  designed  for  civil  government,  and  relig- 
ion could  only  be  brought  to  bear  on  government 
by  its  indirect  influence  through  the  citizen,  and  not 
by  any  formal  declaration  in  the  Constitution. 

May  the  gracious  Lord  deliver  us  from  all  such 
"schools  of  politics"  aa  Mr.  Mills  is  trying  to  lead. 
It  was  expected  that  he  would  have  about  one  hun- 
dred students  here  at  Lake  Bluff,  but  he  has  only 
about  half  a  dozen,  and  the  whole  scheme  is  very 
likely  to  fail,  as  it  ou^ht  to  fail.  Let  this  young  man 
retire  to  Jericho,  and  there  remain  until  his  beard  be 
grown.     It  would  be  his  wisest  course. 

M.  A.  Gault. 


OUR  WASHINGTON  LETTER. 


Washington,  July  12,  1888. 

The  visiting  stranger  who  drops  into  the  Senate 
or  House  gallery  on  one  of  these  summer  days  is 
ia  imminent  danger  of  failing  to  receive  the  imposing 
impression  he  had  expected  from  a  view  of  the  Na- 
tional Legislature.  There  is  but  little  spirit  in  the 
proceedings  of  either  branch,  and  both  Representa- 
tives and  Senators,  attired  in  something  like  the 
sportsman's  toggery  of  loose  jacket  and  flannel 
shirt,  may  be  seen  by  the  dozen,  lounging  in  their 
chairs  or  on  the  sofas,  fanning  themselves  vigorous- 
ly. I  do  not  mean  to  say  that  all,  or  even  half  of 
cur  lawmakers  have  adopted  the  tennis  style  of  cos- 
tume, although  they  would  be  excusable  for  so  do- 
ing, or  for  appearing  in  any  style  of  costume  which 
admits  of  the  least  amount  of  clothing  consistent 
with  decency  (aot  dignity).  And  you  will  fully 
agree  with  me  if  you  have  ever  had  any  experience 
with  that  overwhelming  oppressiveness  that  lurks 
in  Washington  air  when  the  thermometer  is  career- 
ing among  the  nineties.  One  thing  I  notice  with- 
out exception,  the  Congressmen  who  adhere  to  the 
"boiled  linen"  are  completely  wilted  down  at  the 
neck  and  wrists. 

The  President  goes  on  vetoing  private  pension 
bills,  and  the  more  he  vetoes  the  more  skillful  he 
seems  to  become  in  the  work.  Every  soldier  will 
read  with  interest  his  recent  message  to  the  Senate 
on  the  subject  of  pension  legislation,  in  which  he 
says:  "I  cannot  spell  out  any  principle  upon  which 
the  bounty  of  the  Government  is  bestowed  through 
the  instrumentality  of  the  flood  of  private  pension 
bills  that  reach  me.  The  theory  seems  to  have  been 
adopted  that  no  man  who  served  in  the  army  can 
be  the  subject  of  death,  or  impaired  health,  except 
they  are  chargeable  to  his  service.  Medical  theo- 
ries are  set  at  naught,  and  the  most  startling  rela- 
tion is  claimed  between  alleged  incidents  of  military 
service  and  disability  or  death.  Fatal  apoplexy  is 
admitted  as  the  result  of  quite  insignificant  wounds; 
heart  disease  is  attributed  to  chronic  diarrbcua;  con- 
sumption to  hernia,  and  suicide  is  traced  to  army 
service  in  a  wonderfully  devious  and  curious  way." 
This  is  the  first  time  that  the  President  has  entered 
upon  so  elaborate  a  defense  of  his  action  in  vetoing 
so  many  pansion  bills. 

The  House  continues  to  hold  daily  seances  over 
the  tariff,  which  discussion  had  grown  a  little  mo- 
notonous until  Saturday,  when  a  really  lively  debate 
was  sprung,  showing  a  difference  of  opinion  among 
some  prominent  Republican  members  in  regard  to 
the  duty  on  sugar.  Representative  Cannon  had 
mside  a  proposition  to  reduce  sugar  duties  one  half 
and  adopt  a  system  of  bounties  for  the  sugar  raisers 
instead.  The  venerable  Mr.  Kelly,  of  Pennsylvania, 
attacked  with  spirit  this  proposition,  and  warned  his 
associates  that  bounties,  as  a  direct  encouragement 
to  industries,  never  have  been,  and  never  w^ill  be 
sanctioned  by  the  American  people.  A  number  of 
Republican  members  from  Iowa  defended  Mr.  Can- 
non's proposition,  and  Republican  members  from 
Kansas,  with  another  from  California,  rallied  bois- 
terously around  Mr.  Kelly,  while  the  Democratic 
Congrtssmen  sat  back  and  greatly  enjoyed  the  little 
conflict  between  the  Republican  brethren,  who  gen- 
erally dwtll  together  in  unity. 

Mrs.  Cleveland  has  taken  command  of  the  crusade 
Against  the  wearing  of  bustles,  and  society  is  conse- 
(juently  divided  into  bustle  and  anti  bustle  factions, 
and  the  feeling  between  the  two  parties  is  constantly 
growing  more  bitter.  It  is  a  dangerous  thing  which 
Mrs.  Cleveland  has  undertaken,  notwithstanding  the 
fact  that  she  is  6upi^>orted  by  all  the  men. 

Senator  Blair  has  succeeded  in  having  his  consti- 
tutional  amendment,  prohibiting  the  manufacture^ 
iuiiK)rtation,  exportation,  transportation  or  sale  of 
all  alcoholic  liquor  as  a  lievcrage  in  the  United 
Stales,  favorably  reported.  This  is  only  the  begin- 
ning of  the  struggle.  There  will  l)e  bitter  battles 
before  it  is  adopted  by  Congress.  When  it  passes 
thai  body,  this  amendment  will  be  submitted  to  the 
several  States.  * 


10 


THE  CHRISTIAN"  CYNOSURE. 


July  19, 1888 


The  Home. 


BB  AT  PEACE. 


"Be  at  peace  I'g 

Life  Is  but  a  transient  lease, 

Never  long  enough  for  hate, 

Sharp  contention  or  debate , 
In  the  land  to  which  we're  going, 
Just  beyond  the  river  flowing. 
We  are  told  the  dwellers  never 
Through  the  long  and  bright  forever 

Know  a  tumult  or  a  jar,— 

Life  Is  tranquil  as  a  star; 
On  his  height 

Sits  the  King  of  Peace  in  light. 

"Be  at  peace !" 

Lo,  the  angry  billows  cease. 

When  the  Master  cometh  near. 

Turning  back  the  storm  In  fear ; 
Let  him  hold  his  sceptre  o'er  thee. 
As  his  banner  goes  before  thee ; 
Follow  thou  with  high  endeavor 
To  the  hills  of  joy  forever; 

With  thy  comrades  on  the  way 

Weep  and  suffer,  work  and  pray ; 
Peace  descends 

On  all  true  abiding  friends. 

"Be  at  peace !" 

Comes  a  time  with  long  increase, 

When  the  nations  shall  unite 

On  the  broader  field  of  light; 
We  are  on  our  journey  thither, 
Let  us  live  in  peace  together ; 
In  the  temple,  glory-lighted. 
With  our  comrades  re-unlted. 

Oh,  it  wlU  be  sweet  to  know 

Heaven  with  us  began  below  1 
Peace  is  best  I 

Earnest  of  eternal  rest.  —D.  Williams. 


THE  INDIAN  DANCE. 


In  Mr.  Henry  S.  Wellcome's  most  interesting  vol- 
ume, "The  Story  of  Metlakahtla,"  which  gives  an 
account  of  missionary  work  wrought  by  William 
Duncan  in  a  tribe  of  savages  in  British  Columbia, 
which  he  conquered  by  love,  Christianized  by  the 
Gk)spel,  and  taught  the  arts  of  civilization  by  com- 
mon sense,  are  many  most  touching  and  interesting 
incidents  illustrating  the  reasonableness  and  effect- 
iveness of  that  method  of  missionary  labor. 

In  the  appendix  is  a  report  of  Mr.  Duncan's  ad- 
dress before  the  board  of  Indian  Commissioners,  and 
the  conference  of  the  Mission  Boards  and  Indian 
Rights  Association,  in  Washington,  Jan.  6th,  1887. 

After  having  described  the  condition  of  the  tribe 
when  he  went  among  them,  settled  in  a  village  of 
240  houses,  degraded  even  down  to  cannibalism,  he 
told  how  he  learned  their  language,  trusted  them 
and  was  trusted  by  them,  he  went  on  to  detail  the 
story  of  his  "Reception"  among  them  in  1858: 

One  of  the  most  embarrassing  questions  that  was 
ever  put  to  me  by  an  Indian  was  one  that  was  put 
when  I  first  went  there.  It  was  this:  "What  do 
you  mean  by  1858?"  I  had  to  tell  him  that  1858 
represented  the  number  of  years  that  we  had  the 
Gospel  of  God  in  the  world.  He  said,  "Why  didn't 
you  tell  us  of  this  before?  why  were  not  our  fore- 
fathers told  this?"  I  looked  upon  that  as  a  poser. 
He  said  to  me,  "Have  you  got  the  Word  of  God?" 
That,  in  the  English  language,  would  be  equivalent 
to  saying,  "Have  you  got  a  latter  from  God?"  I 
said,  "Yes,  I  have  God's  letter!"  That  would  really 
be  the  idea  that  would  reach  the  Indian.  He  said, 
"I  want  to  see  it."  I  then  got  my  Bible.  Remem- 
ber, this  was  my  first  introduction.  I  wanted  them 
to  understand  that  I  had  not  brought  a  message 
from  the  white  man  in  England,  or  anywhere  else, 
but  a  message  from  the  King  of  kings,  the  God  of 
Heaven.  They  wanted  to  see  that.  It  was  rumored 
all  over  the  camp  that  I  had  a  message  from  God. 
The  man  came  into  the  house  and  I  showed  him  the 
Bible.  He  put  his  finger  very  cautiously  upon  it 
and  said,  "Is  that  the  Word?"  "Yes,"  I  said,  "it 
is."  "The  Word  from  God?"  I  said,  "It  is."  He 
said,  "Has  he  sent  it  to  us?"  I  said,  "He  has,  just 
as  much  as  he  has  to  me."  "Are  you  going  to  tell 
the  Indians  that?"  I  said,  "lam."  He  said,  "Good, 
that  is  very  good." 

Now,  you  see,  if  I  had  gone  out  there  in  the  name 
of  a  single  party;  if  I  had  gone  and  told  them  I  bad 
come  from  the  queen,  or  from  a  nation,  immediately 
I  would  have  created  in  that  man's  mind  a  sort  of 
antagonism;  but  as  scon  as  I  tMd  him  I  had  a  mes- 
sage from  God,  who  made  him,  he  instantly  began 
to  pause  and  think  and  wanted  to  know  about  that 
message.  When  I  was  abl*)  to  tell  those  Indians  in 
their  own  language  the  Word  of  God,  it  just  had 
the  same  effect  upon  them  that  it  has  upon   the 


white  people,  and  their  congregations  are  as  earnest, 
as  conscientious,  and  as  indefatigable  in  their  wor- 
ship of  God  as  any  congregation  of  white  men. 
The  influence  of  this  work  has  spread  all  over  the 
country. 

I  will  just  give  you  a  brief  idea  of  how  I  was  de- 
ceived, on  that  point,  in  a  very  heathen  tribe.  They 
had  heard  that  1  was  coming,  and  the  chief,  in  order 
to  show  his  great  delight  at  my  arrival,  put  up  what 
they  called  a  large  cap.  Their  cap  was  an  umbrella. 
They  had  no  idea  of  preventing  rain  from  falling  on 
their  heads  by  its  use,  but  looked  upon  it  simply  as 
a  web-footed  cap,  and  so  they  used  it  on  state  occa- 
sions. As  soon  as  I  landed  I  saw  the  man  with  the 
umbrella,  and  saw  the  excitement.  He  sent  a  mes- 
sage to  this  effect:  "I  would  like  you  to  come  into 
my  house,  and  I  shall  send  my  messenger  to  tell 
you  so."  I  immediately  encamped  upon  the  bank 
of  the  river.  By  and  by,  I  was  told  that  all  things 
were  ready  and  prepared  to  receive  me.  I  said  to 
my  little  crew — for  in  those  days  I  took  only  boys 
with  me,  being  afraid  to  take  men,  as  they  might 
kill  me  for  the  purpose  of  getting  my  clothes — I 
said,  "What  are  they  going  to  do  when  I  go  into  the 
house?"  "Dance."  "Tell  them  I  did  not  come  here 
to  see  dancing,  and  I  cannot  go,  therefore."  They 
told  the  messenger  to  tell  the  chief  that  I  objected 
to  seeing  them  dance,  thajt  I  had  come  with  a  sol- 
emn message  to  them.  The  chief  replied,  "Tell  the 
white  chief  he  must  come;  if  he  doesn't  come  to  me 
I  won't  go  to  hear  his  word;  but  if  he  will  come  I 
will  go  and  hear  him."  That  changed  the  matter 
altogether,  I  had  a  little  consultation  with  my 
boys,  and  they  said,  "You  had  better  go;  if  you 
don't  go  the  chief  will  not  come  to  hear  what  you 
have  to  say."  I  walked  up  to  his  house,  I  confess, 
in  a  very  grum  kind  of  a  spirit.  I  did  not  like  to 
attend  a  dance  I  The  idea  of  a  missionary  going  in 
to  see  a  dance!  [Laughter.]  But  I  saw  that  I  had 
to  do  it;  public  opinion  was  in  my  favor.  [Laugh- 
ter.] I  was  very  glad  afterward  that  I  did  go. 
When  I  entered  the  house  there  was  a  person  there 
ready  to  point  out  a  seat  for  me.  There  was  a  bear- 
skin spread  over  a  box  for  me  to  sit  on.  The  chief 
had  all  of  his  men  placed  around  in  different  por- 
tions of  the  house,  which  was  a  very  large  one.  I 
observed  that  he  had  gotten  a  large  sail  and  used  it 
for  a  curtain  in  part  of  the  room.  Very  soon  I  saw 
two  men  step  out.  One  had  a  rod  in  his  hand  beat- 
ing the  floor.  They  had  a  kind  of  theatrical  per- 
formance. The  old  man,  after  stamping  his  foot 
and  putting  his  rod  down  very  firmly,  said,  in  his 
own  language,  of  course,  "The  heavens  are  chang- 
ing." The  other  man  was  there  to  respond,  "Yes, 
so  it  seems;  the  heavens  are  changing."  A  few  lit- 
tle remarks  of  this  sort  were  made,  and  then  the 
sail  was  drawn  aside  and  out  dashed  the  chief, 
dressed  in  most  magnificent  costume,  his  head  being 
completely  covered  with  feathers  and  other  orna- 
ments. He  had  his  rifle  in  his  hand.  He  shook  it 
and  then  pointed  it  in  my  face;  walked  up  a  little 
way  to  me  and  then  put  up  his  hand  with  his  rifle 
in  it;  he  looked  through  the  hole  in  the  center  of 
the  roof  where  the  smoke  came  out,  and  immediately 
began  a  beautiful  prayer.  I  was  astonished.  This 
was  no  dance.  If  I  could  only  give  you  his  prayer 
in  his  own  beautiful  and  eloquent  language,  you 
would  be  astonished  also.  I  can  only  give  you  the 
substance  of  it.  It  was  something  like  this:  "Great 
Father!  Great  Father  of  Heaven!  Thou  hast  sent 
thy  Word!  Thy  letter  has  reached  this  place. 
We,  thy  children  here,  are  wanting  it.  Thy  servant 
has  come  here  with  it.  Help  him  to  teach  us  and 
we  will  listen.  Thanks  to  thee,  Great  Father,  for 
sending  thy  Word  to  us." 

That  is  just  the  outline.  It  was  uttered  in  a 
most  pathetic,  eloquent  and  solemn  manner. 

Having  said  this  little  prayer,  he  looked  at  me, 
thanked  me  for  coming.  Then  he  began  to  dance, 
and  the  Indians  began  a  chant,  clapping  their 
hands.  It  was  an  extemporaneous  song,  and  I  lis- 
tened to  it  with  a  great  deal  of  pleasure.  There 
was  a  man  among  them  who  made  a  hymn,  just  as 
they  wanted  it,  and  when  they  wanted  it.  The  tune 
was  a  sad  one  in  this  instance.  It  was  a  chant;  the 
words  were  all  extemporized  by  this  man.  I  found 
that  the  song  was  all  about  God  having  sent  his 
servant  and  his  messenger  lo  teach  the  Indians. 
They  clapped  their  hands  and  sung  with  the  great- 
est joy.     It  was  a  grand  reception. 

Having  been  thus  favorably  received,  Mr.  Duncan 
went  on  with  his  work,  teaching  the  Gospel,  living 
with  the  people,  teaching  them  to  build,  putting  up 
a  saw  mill,  making  soap,  erecting  a  blacksmith  shop, 
a  cooper's  shop,  and  sash  shop,  starting  weaving 
and  spinning,  and  canning  over  thirty  thousand 
cases  of  salmon,  and  so  leading  them  into  civilized 
and  settled  life;  though  in  order  to  get  away  from 
the  meddling  of  certain  ecclesiastical  overseers,  he 


finally  found  it  advisable  to  take  his  people  and 
cross  the  line  over  on  to  American  soil. 

But  the  whole  story  is  a  most  interesting  account 
of  the  power  of  the  simple  truth  of  God  preached 
without  sectarian  attachments,  and  the  power  of  the 
personal  influence  of  a  faithful  Christian  man  who 
like  his  Master  would  go  out  to  seek  and  save  the 
lost. — JAe  Christian.  Boston. 


CROQUET  PLATING. 


A  girl's  objection. 


My  mind  has,  during  the  past  year,  been  exercised 
considerably  upon  this  subject,  not  having  been 
aware  of  the  fact  that  many  good  people  were  in- 
dulging in  this  amusement. 

Our  guide  book  says:  "All  Scripture  is  given  by 
inspiration  of  God,  and  is  profitable  for  doctrine, 
for  reproof,  for  correction,  for  instruction  in  right- 
eousness; that  the  man  of  God  may  be  perfect,  thor- 
oughly furnished  unto  all  good  works."  Certainly 
then,  some  light  may  be  obtained  on  this  subject 
from  that  source. 

We  find:  "Let  love  be  without  dissimulation." 
Shall  we  then  delight  in  those  things  in  which  the 
object  of  each  one  participating  is  to  be  self-exalta- 
tion? Is  this  "in  honor  preferring  one  another?" 
Does  it  not  rather  gender  a  spirit  of  selfishness  and 
jealousy?  "Thou  shalt  love  thy  neighbor  as  thy- 
self." "Love  worketh  no  ill  to  his  neighbor."  Is 
not  croquet  a  stepping-stone  to  the  greater  forms  of 
gambling,  billiards,  pool  and  the  like?  Indeed,  does 
it  not  resemble  one  of  these  in  its  name— lawn  bil- 
liards? I  learn  from  one  of  our  ministers  that  cro- 
quet-sets are  sometimes  taken  to  billiard  tables  and 
played  there.  Now  the  principal  remaining  differ- 
ence between  the  amusement  under  consideration, 
and  the  others  mentioned,  lies  in  the  betting,  and 
the  money  at  stake.  Would  billiards  be  unobjec- 
tionable without  these?  We  believe  not.  Croquet? 
No.  There  is  a  fascination  about  it,  which  in  many 
instances  leads  to  a  great  waste  of  time.  One  sister 
informs  us  that  in  a  certain  neighborhood  there 
were  farmers  who,  after  working  hard  all  day  in  the 
field,  after  supper  went  out  and  engaged  in  games 
of  croquet  until  eleven  o'clock,  for  exercise.  If  they 
were  needing  exercise,  did  they  get  it  here? 

While  playing,  the  body  is  necessarily  thrown 
into  a  stooping  posture,  not  even  the  arms  being 
raised,  and  no  organ  of  the  body  is  sufficiently  ex- 
ercised to  afford  any  benefit  to  the  plaj  er.  Does 
not  this  game  furnish  a  needless  point  of  sympathy 
between  good  people  and  the  notorious  gambler? 
I  once  noticed  a  young  person  of  perhaps  thirteen 
years,  whose  form  was  so  bent  as  to  detract  much 
from  h%r  good  appearance,  she  being  accustomed  to 
playing  croquet  a  large  share  of  each  day. 

Cannot  some  recreation  which  is  perfectly  harm- 
less and  "free  from  the  very  appearance  of  evil,"  be 
substituted?  "It  is  good  neither  to  eat  flesh,  nor  to 
drink  wine,  nor  anything  whereby  thy  brother  stum- 
bleth,  or  is  offended,  or  is  made  weak." 

LuoiA  Arnold. 


BABIES  IN  ARMENIA. 


"Now  shall  I  tell  you  a  little  about  the  children 
in  Armenia?  Not  in  the  great  seaports  like  Con- 
stantinople and  Smyrna,  because  there  they  are 
dressed  and  tended  more  as  ours  are,  but  in  the  in- 
terior, where  the  ancient  customs  are  still  retained. 

"The  baby  has  a  little  cotton  shirt  or  long  calico 
wrapper,  but  for  the  rest  it  is  swathed  in  pieces  of 
cloth — swaddling  clothes — like  the  infant  Christ,  so 
that  the  baby  looks  like  a  nice  bundle,  and  is  as 
stiff  as  a  stick  of  wood.  You  cau  hold  him  any  way 
— except  head  down — without  hurting  him.  When 
his  mamma  wants  his  little  sister — perhaps  only  six 
years  old — to  carry  him  out  of  doors,  so  that  she 
can  weave,  wash,  or  get  the  dinner,  she  does  not 
have  to  say  to  Mariam,  Is  goohe,  or  Fatmah,  'Now 
be  sure  you  hold  him  tight;  don't  let  him  fall,  nor 
strain  his  back,  nor  stand  on  his  tender  little  feet.' 
All  she  has  to  do  is  to  tie  the  little  bundle  on  the 
little  sister's  back,  and  off  she  runs,  while  baby 
sleeps,  or  watches  the  children,  and  gazes  at  the 
strange  things  in  the  strange  world  about  him  until 
he  gets  hungry  and  cries  for  his  dinner. 

"When  baby  gets  cross  and  tired,  what  do  they 
do  to  amuse  him?  Do  you  know  the  little  rhyme 
beginning  'Two  little  yellow  birds  sitting  on  a  hill?' 
Well,  they  have  something  like  that  in  Armenian, 
and  baby  likes  to  see  the  bird  'fly  away.'  Then  they 
have  an  Armenian  edition  of  'This  pig  went  to  mar- 
ket,' etc., — only  there  is  no  pig  in  it.  If  I  tell  you 
the  Armenian,  do  you  think  you  can  say  it?  I'll  try 
you,  at  any  rate.  These  little  things  learn  some 
English,  why  should  not  you  learn  their  language? 


JuLT  19, 1888 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSUK& 


11 


The  thumb  says,  'Yeg-oor,  yer-tank.'  'Oor  yer- 
tank?'  asks  the  forefinger.  'Haleb,  yer-tank,'  an- 
swers the  middle  finger.  'Cheh-leb  yer-tank,'  sug- 
gests the  next.  'Bij-ieh-likim,  chid-deh-lik-im  jam- 
pah  cheedem,  inch  bess  yer-tam?'  wails  the  little 
finger, — which  means  'I'm  a  wee  little  teenty  thing. 
I  don't  know  the  way.     How  can  I  go?' 

"But  what  about  the  babies  whose  poor  mothers 
do  not-know  of  the  blessed  Saviour,  and  who  teach 
their  little  ones  to  pray  in  the  name  of  Mohammed? 
Can  we  not  do  something  to  bring  them  to  Htm  who 
said,  'Suffer  the  little  children  to  come  unto  me;  for 
of  such  is  the  kingdom  of  heaven?'  " — S.  S.  limes. 


JAPANESE    BABIES. 


The  babies  in  Japan  have  sparkling  eyes  and 
funny  little  tufts  of  hair;  they  look  so  quaint  and 
old-fashioned,  exactly  like  those  doll-babies  that  are 
sent  over  here  to  America.  Now,  in  our  country, 
very  young  babies  are  apt  to  put  everything  in  their 
mouths;  a  button  or  a  pin,  or  anything,  goes  straight 
to  the  little  rosy  wide-open  mouth,  and  the  nurse  or 
mamma  must  always  watch  and  take  great  care  that 
baby  does  not  swallow  something  dangerous.  But 
in  Japan  they  put  the  small  babies  right  down  in  the 
sand  by  the  door  of  the  house,  or  on  the  floor,  but  I 
never  saw  them  attempt  to  put  anything  in  their 
mouths  unless  they  were  told  to  do  so,  and  no  one 
seemed  to  be  anxious  about  them.  When  little 
boys  or  girls  in  Japan  are  naughty  or  disobedient, 
they  must  be  punished,  of  course;  but  the  punish- 
ment is  very  strange.  There  are  very  small  pieces 
of  rice-paper  called  moxa,  and  these  are  lighted  with 
a  match,  and  then  put  upon  the  finger  or  hand  or 
arm  of  the  naughty  child,  and  they  burn  a  spot  on 
the  tender  skin  that  hurts  very,  very  much.  The 
child  screams  with  pain,  and  the  red-hot  moxa  sticks 
to  the  skin  for  a  moment  or  two,  and  then  goes  out; 
but  the  smarting  burn  reminds  the  little  child  of  his 
fault.  I  do  not  like  these  moxas.  I  think  it  is  a 
cruel  punishment.  But  perhaps  it  is  better  than  a 
whippiDg.  Only  I  wish  little  children  never  had  to 
be  punished. — A.  V.  R.  Uastlake,  in  St.  Nicholas. 


A  BIT  OF  WISDOM. 


"Grasp  the  nettle  with  both  hands, 

And  It  shall  not  sting." 
Take  this  bit  of  wlsdona,  dear. 

Into  everything. 
If  the  lesson's  long  and  hard, 

At  it  with  your  might  I 
Do  not  let  it  conquer  you 

While  you've  strength  to  fight. 

Foolish  people  stand  and  fret, 
Wonder  what  to  do, 

Bear  their  trouble  twenty  times- 
Such  a  silly  crew  I 

Get  the  trial  over,  dear ; 
Never  frown  and  pout ; 

With  a  brave  and  steady  look 
Put  the  foe  to  rout. 

Carry  not  to-morrow's  load, 

Little  heart,  to-day ; 
Trip  with  happy  feet  along 

Life's  uneven  way. 
"Grasp  the  nettle  with  both  hands, 

And  it  shall  not  sting." 
Take  this  bit  of  wisdom,  dear, 

Into  everything. 

— Harper'' s  Toutig  People, 


A    MINUTE'S  ANGER. 


Not  long  ago,  in  a  city  not  far  from  New  York, 
two  boys,  neighbors,  who  were  good  friends,  were 
playing.  In  the  course  of  the  game  a  dispute  arose 
between  the  boys,  and  both  became  angry;  one 
struck  the  other,  and  finally  one  kicked  the  other, 
who  fell  unconscious  in  the  street,  was  taken  home, 
and  now  for  four  weeks  has  suffered  most  cruelly. 
The  doctors  say  that  if  he  live8  he  will  never  be  well, 
and  will  always  suffer  and  need  constant  care  of  a 
physician.  If  the  boys  had  been  the  greatest  ene- 
mies they  would  not,  could  not,  have  desired  a  worse 
fate  for  each  other  than  this.  But,  instead  of  ene- 
mies, they  were  friends  and  loving  companions. 
Now  everything  is  changed.  One  will  never  be  able 
to  walk  or  take  part  in  active  games;  the  other  will 
never  forget  the  sufferings  he  caused. 

A  minute's  anger  caused  this. — Exchange. 


TEMFEBAITCE. 


The  Anti-saloon  Eepublican  League  issued  a  circu- 
lar showing  that  in  the  States  which  have  voted  on 
the  question  of  prohibition  since  1880  1,211,000 
votes  have  been  cast  for  prohibition,  and  1, 160,000 
against  it. 


AN   INDUSTRIOUS    AND     LEGITIMATE 
BUSINESS. 

Many  men  are  of  many  minds.  In  Philadelphia 
the  licenses  to  sell  liquor  have  been  reduced  by 
thousands,  by  the  application  of  the  Brooks  law. 
Very  much  disturbed  by  this  result,  the  Wine  and 
Spirit  Circular  talks  in  this  fashion: 

"The  result  is  that  hundreds  of  honest,  industrious 
and  law-abiding  citizens  have  been  deprived  of  oc- 
cupation and  plundered  of  their  property  by  having 
it  rendered  valueless;  while  others  similarly  situa- 
ted have  been  granted  franchises,  the  value  of  which 
has  been  immensely  increased  by  the  losses  inflicted 
upon  those  so  unfortunate  as  to  displease  the  caprice 
of  the  all-powerful  cabal.  That  this  is  tyranny  in 
its  baldest  form,  that  this  is  favoritism  of  the  rank- 
est order,  and  that  the  delegation  of  such  powers  to 
individuals  is  a  mockery  of  our  institutions  and  an 
outrage  upon  the  liberty  and  the  property  rights  of 
the  American  people,  are  propositions  which  admit 
of  no  question  among  well-informed  people." 

The  facts  are  that  of  the  over  three  thousand  who 
applied  to  the  judges  in  vain  for  licenses,  all,  with 
the  exception  of  about  twenty-five,  confessed  that 
they  had  violated  the  old  law  under  which  they  had 
authority,  by  selling  liquor  openly  on  the  Sabbath, 
and  also  at  all  times  to  minors;  both  of  which  prac- 
tices were  forbidden  by  the  old  law.  Besides,  it  was 
proved  that  of  the  rum-sellers,  more  than  nine- 
tenths  of  whom  were  foreigners,  being  mostly  G-er- 
mans  and  Irish,  a  large  proportion  had  taken  licenses 
before  they  became  naturalized  citizens,  and  yet 
they  had  made  oath,  as  the  law  required,  that 
they  were  citizens  of  the  United  States.  The 
reports  of  the  police  proved  also  that  many 
of  these  men  and  of  those  who  had  become 
naturalized  kept  houses  of  debauchery  in  connec- 
tion with  their  saloons,  and  that  these  establish- 
ments combined  were  vile  dens  and  the  resorts  of 
the  worst  criminal  classes,  frequently  the  scene  of 
disgraceful  fights  and  disorders,  and  that  the  keep- 
ers of  these  concerns  were  in  many  instances  scoun- 
drels and  criminals.  All  this  was  established  by  a 
careful  judicial  investigation  and  is  on  record,  and 
has  been  sustained  on  an  appeal  to  a  higher  court. 

These  are  the  "industrious  and  law-abiding  citi- 
zens" for  whom  the  Circular  pleads. — Intelligencer. 


PERSONAL  LIBERTY  IS  PERSONAL  LICENSE. 

Personal  liberty  is  all  right  as  long  as  there  is  no- 
body else  around.  Alexander  Selkirk  when  he  was 
on  the  island  alone  could  say,  "I  am  monarch  of  all 
I  survey;"  he  could  do  just  as  he  pleased.  But  just 
as  soon  as  another  man  came  on  that  island,  as  soon 
as  a  colony  was  formed  there,  his  liberty  was  cur- 
tailed and  he  had  to  come  down  to  the  requirements 
of  those  men  and  agree  with  them  as  to  what  each 
other  could  rightly  do.  Let  me  illustrate  this  per- 
sonal liberty  sophistry.  Suppose  I  go  down  street 
and  swing  my  arms  right  and  left.  This  is  a  free 
country,  I  can  swing  my  arms  as  I  please.  Suppose 
I  hit  a  man  on  the  nose,  he  would  say  to  me,  "Don't 
you  know  where  personal  liberty  begins  and  where 
it  ends?"  In  this  instance  it  ends  on  the  tip  of  my 
nose,  as  a  lesson  for  me  to  remember  I  might  find 
myself  lying  in  the  street.  Suppose  I  chew  tobacco 
(£  don't  want  to,  but  if  I  did  I  am  sure  I  would 
want  to  spit).  So  I  spit,  anywhere,  on  the  ladies' 
dresses,  on  the  gentlemen's  coat-tails;  why,  this  is  a 
free  country,  I  am  only  demonstrating  my  personal 
liberty.  I  soon  learn  that  my  personal  liberty  is 
limited.  Suppose  that  a  Fiji  islander  should  come 
to  this  city  and  walk  down  street.  He  catches  your 
little  boy,  takes  him  home,  kills  him,  eats  him;  what 
would  the  government  of  this  city  do?  It  would 
say,  don't  you  know  what  you  have  done?  "I  only 
killed  a  boy;  1  have  killed  many  before  I  came 
here;  I  thought  this  was  a  free  country;  1  am  a  per- 
sonal liberty  man." 

Suppose  the  ex- Khedive  of  Egypt  instead  of  going 
to  Italy  had  come  here  to  reside  with  his  wives  and 
concubines,  a  police  officer  would  go  to  him  with  a 
warrant  for  bigamy.  "Why,  I  thought  this  was  a 
free  country  and  I  could  do  as  I  pleased  here.  This 
is  no  free  country  at  all,"  says  the  ex  Khedive.  It 
is  preposterous  to  think  that  we  have  laws,  customs, 
rights,  which  these  maggots  of  society  must  respect. 

Nine- tenths  of  tbe  men  engaged  in  the  liquor  traf- 
fic are  men  from  the  despotism  of  Europe,  and  they 
are  sucking  the  very  lifeblood-out  of  the  American 
people,  and  then  talking  about  personal  liberty. 
There  is  just  as  much  reason  in  the  plea  of  the  Fiji 
islander  and  the  ex  Khedive  of  Egypt  as  there  is  in 
that  of  the  elop-house-keeper. — Rev.  C  Winbig- 
ler. 


RUM  AND  ANARCHY. 

Anarchy  is  wrong.  Moreover  its  exponents  know 
it  to  be  wrong.  The  citizen  born  American  is  not 
an  anarchist.  Anarchy  is  the  product  of  foreign 
soil.  The  individual  who  gathers  his  effects  into  a 
bundle  and  ships  to  America  is  the  future  anarchist. 
He  lands  in  Castle  Garden,  meets  a  friend,  and 
while  tossing  off  his  beer  is  instructed  to  promote 
the  interests  of  anarchy  under  the  vain  hope  of 
amassing  wealth.  He  secures  a  position  as  "bus- 
tler" in  a  lumber  yard  at  a  dollar  and  a  half  a  day, 
spends  his  evenings  in  a  saloon,  wastes  his  mental 
energies  in  brooding,  and  makes  bombs  by  which  he 
hopes  to  gain  the  identical  height  he  so  bitterly  hates 
— wealth. 

Now,  there's  a  social  and  commercial  paradox! 

The  average  anarchist  is  one  because  he  is  so  ad- 
vised to  be,  and  he  does  not  seek  information 
upon  the  merits  of  the  question.  And  so  long  as 
he  continues  to  practice  fealty  to  his  misguided  faith 
he  remains  a  poor,  beer-drinking  man,  without  home 
or  a  hope  of  peaceful  plenty  in  the  future. 

Anarchy  is  born  in  foreign  lands,  and  bred  in  the 
American  saloon. 

If  it  cannot  be  strangled  at  birth,  by  reason  of 
the  remoteness  of  its  place  of  birth,  it  certainly  can 
be  rendered  extinct  by  the  removal  of  its  breeding 
quarters  on  American  soil. 

The  saloon  has  forced  the  erection  of  the  alms- 
houses that  dot  nearly  every  county  in  the  United 
States. 

The  saloon  has  produced  the  rags  that  clothe 
every  drunkard's  child. 

The  saloon  has  placed  the  lines  of  care  that  are 
worn  upon  the  face  of  every  drunkard's  broken- 
hearted wife. 

The  saloon  created  the  bombs  that  gave  Hay- 
market  Square  a  place  in  history,  and  its  subsequent 
horrors  upon  the  scaffold. 

Not  content  with  its  conquests,  the  saloon  sighs 
for  more  worlds  to  conquer  and  turns  its  eye  upon 
the  National  Capital. 

Shall  the  thinking  men  submit  to. dishonor,  that 
the  crime-abetting  saloon  be  saved? — A.  E.  Johnston, 
in  American  Magazine. 


A  convention  of  the  W.  C.  T.  Unions  in  Minne- 
apolis has  declared  against  holding  religious  ban- 
quets in  hotels  where  liquors  are  sold. 

Another  petition  praying  for  prohibition  in  the 
District  of  Columbia  has  been  lately  presented  to 
the  Senate.    The  new  petition  bears  7,000  namcB. 

The  chairman  of  the  Coventry  (England)  Board 
of  Guardians  says  that  he  has  never  seen  a  teetota- 
ler come  to  the  work-house  for  relief.  He  made  in- 
quiries at  fifteen  other  work-houses,  and  found  a 
similar  state  of  things. 

The  first  offender  brought  to  trial  under  the  new 
license  law  of  Philadelphia  was  fined  $300  and 
sentenced  to  three  months'  imprisonment  for  selling 
on  the  Sabbath,  and  an  additional  year  in  prison  for 
keeping  a  disorderly  house. 

The  Senate  Committee  on  Education  and  Labor, 
of  which  Senator  Blair  is  chairman,  have  voted  to 
report  favorably  a  joint  resolution  proposing  a  Na- 
tional prohibition  constitutional  amendment.  It 
will  be  presented  to  the  Senate  at  an  early  day. 

It  is  said  that  the  temperance  people  of  Newark, 
N.  J.,  are  arranging  to  send  a  representative  to  all 
the  meetings  of  the  Common  Council  hereafter,  to 
take  note  of  the  number  of  aldermen  who  are  not 
quite  sober. 

The  new  law  prohibiting  the  sale  of  intoxicants 
on  holidays  went  into  effect  in  Boston  on  Decoration 
Day. 

The  New  York  Sun  has  the  following  regarding 
the  "free- whisky"  plank  adopted  by  the  Republicans: 
"Three  sets  of  voters  are  most  earnestly  in  favor  of 
President  Cleveland's  re-election  by  reason  of  his 
attitude  toward  a  question  upon  which  they  are  in 
radical  disagreement  with  each  other.  First,  the 
moralists  who  think  that  the  public  would  be  better 
according  as  all  intoxicating  drinks  are  dearer. 
They  are  for  Cleveland  because  he  is  for  maintaining 
the  internal  revenue,  whisky  tax  included.  On  the 
other  hand  the  largest  makers  of  intoxicants,  the 
beer-brewers,  are  for  Cleveland  because  they  think 
that  with  whisky  kept  up  in  price  the  field  for  their 
product  is  proportionately  protected,  and  thus  their 
business  will  be  correspondingly  larger.  And  of 
course  the  manufacturers  of  whisky — the  great 
whisky  trust — although  beer  is  their  most  aggressive 
and  successful  enemy,  follow  the  brewers  in  prefer- 
ring Mr.  Cleveland  because  the  present  wbisky  tax  is 
the  very  foundation  of  their  business.  Without  it 
the  trust  would  burst." 


12 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSUKE. 


July  19, 1888 


Bible  Lesson. 


STUDIES  IN  THE  OLD  TESTAMENT. 
LESSON  5.    Third  Quarter.- July  29. 
SUBJECT.— The  Tabernacle.— Ex.  40:  1-16. 
GK)LDEN  TEXT.— Behold,  the  tabernacle  of  God  is  with  men, 
and  he  will  dwell  with  them.— Rev.  31 ;  3. 

I  Oven  the  BibU  and  read  the  IwBOn.  ] 
COMMENTS  ON  THE  LESSON  BY  E.  E.  FLAQG, 

1.  The  Bearing  of  the  Tabernacle,  vs.  1-8.  We  will 
not  linger  over  any  description  of  the  tabernacle,  which 
has  been  so  often  pictured  and  described,  but  will  pro- 
ceed at  once  to  the  spiritual  lessons  which  it  embodies . 
The  tabernacle  and  all  its  furnishings  are  typical  of 
Christ.  He  is  both  Sacrifice  and  Priest.  He  is  our 
Fountain  of  cleansing,  typified  by  the  brazen  laver;  the 
Light  of  the  world,  typified  by  the  golden  candlestick. 
Shall  we  reject  Him  who  has  thus  been  made  all  in  all  to 
us?  Nowhere  else  than  in  the  tabernacle  could  accept- 
able worship  be  offered,  for  no  other  place  had  God 
honored  by  the  sign  of  his  visible  presence .  So  only  in 
Christ  can  we  see  God  manifested ;  only  in  him  can  we 
approach  the  Father.  He  is  the  Door  through  whom  we 
enter  the  Holy  of  Holies.  There  is  always  in  truth  a  di- 
vine onencs3.  Falsehood  is  bewildering,  complex,  many- 
sided.  We  can  tell  a  thousand  falsehoods  about  a  per- 
son or  thing  where  it  is  only  possible  to  tell  one  truth. 
Simplicity  marks  the  divine  plan  of  saving  men.  There 
are  many  false  Christs;  there  can  be  but  one  Saviour.  So 
in  spite  of  difference  in  form  and  ritual  there  is  but  one 
church  universal,  to  be  known  by  this  one  sign  of  always 
having  an  ever  present  Christ,  who  is  its  cne  High  Priest, 
offering  forever  the  one  sacrifice  of  himself  to  take  away 
sin.  Through  no  bewildering  labyrinth  do  we  approach 
God,  but  by  one  straight  way.  The  universal  religion 
of  the  lodge,  which  holds  up  to  equal  reverence  the  Ko- 
ran or  the  Bible,  and  adores  "the  unknown  God,"  whose 
name  may  be  "Jehovah,  Jove,  or  Lord,"  according  to 
the  faith  of  the  worshiper,  proves  itself  false  by  this  fac- 
ulty of  suiting  man  in  his  natural  condition,  when  what 
he  needs  is  a  supernatural  power  to  make  him  dissatis- 
fied with  that  condition,  and  to  help  him  rise  above  it  to 
a  higher  sphere.  So  in  moral  questions:  there  are  many 
wrong  ways  out;  there  can  be  only  one  right  one.  The 
temperance  voter  at  the  polls  is  often  told  to  vote  for  the 
least  of  two  evils;  but  what  has  he  to  do  with  their  com- 
parative magnitude?  His  duty  is  plain:  shun  even  the  ap- 
pearance of  evil.  It  is  only  when  considered  as  a  type  of 
that  greater  and  more  perfect  tabernacle,  "not  made  with 
hands,"  that  we  find  interest  and  profit  in  the  study  of  the 
ancient  Jewish  sanctuary.  We  now  proceed  to  another 
lesson  of  most  precious  significance. 

2.  TTie  Consecrating  of  the  Tabernacle,  vs.  9-16.  In 
the  anointing  of  the  tabernacle  we  see  an  image  of  the 
Christian,  who,  in  body,  mind  and  spirit,  should  be  con- 
secrated to  be  a  temple  of  the  living  God.  Ami  thus 
consecrated?  is  a  question  that  each  individual  should 
put  to  himself.  It  will  be  hard  or  easy  to  answer  ac- 
cording as  he  is  partially  or  wholly  consecrated.  Am  I 
doing  the  work  the  Lord  has  given  me  to  do  in  the  best 
possible  way?  Now  one  may  be  honestly  trying  to  serve 
God,  yet,  unconsciously  to  himself,  be  so  weighted  down 
by  fashion,  custom  or  habit,  as  to  be  all  the  time  ham- 
pered in  the  service.  Against  the  verdict  of  the  whole 
medical  world  that  corsets  are  injurious,  how  many  a 
Christian  woman  will  persist  in  wearing  them,  when  her 
own  reason  ought  to  tell  her  that  any  unnatural  bracing 
or  compressing  of  the  frame,  which  forbids  a  free  circu- 
lation and  full  play  of  every  muscle  and  organ,  must  in- 
terfere with  the  power  to  do  effective  physical  or  mei- 
tal  work.  The  priests' garments  were  anointed;  so  our 
consecration  should  extend  even  to  our  dress.  That  ap- 
parel is  best  for  us  in  which  we  can  best  serve  God;  and 
this  does  not  mean  that  we  are  to  be  singular  in  our 
attire  or  disregard  beauty.  The  highest  beauty  of  d  >  i'^ 
consists  in  its  fitness  for  ourselves  and  for  our  work  A 
Chrietian  man  with  the  tobacco  habit  robs  God  j  ist  Kt 
far  as  that  habit  robs  him  of  his  nervous  power,  tii  in- 
tellectual vigor  and  his  inlluence  for  good  with  <  Ih' r?. 
All  the  vessels  were  to  be  anointed.  So  our  sen  te,  our 
tongues,  our  hands  and  feet  should  be  so  many  vn-suly 
for  }«mple  service.  It  ought  not  to  be  a  hard  mutttr  to 
know  whether  or  not  we  are  fully  consecrated.  Whcr 
active  motion  brings  no  pain  with  it,  but  positive  pi'  a - 
ure,  then  we  know  that  all  parts  of  the  body  arc  in  hcibh; 
80  when  the  Lord's  service  is  pleasure,  when  i»ll  iliity 
becomes,  not  a  stern,  imperative  needs  bo,  bul  a  j  i^fr.l 
must  be,  then  we  know  that  we  are  indr  '!  c^ou^prrated 
a  temple  for  the  living  God,  which  da  1 1  ■■:■  ij  dei^troy, 
only  to  be  raised  again  in  et«roal  itren^. ]  » id  bjiuiy. 


RELiQioirs  News. 


WILLIAM  TAYLOR  AND  AFRICAN  MiaSIONS. 

William  Taylor,  the  California  street-preacher, 
the  founder  of  self-supporting  Christian  missions  in 
India,  South  America  and  Africa,  epoke  last  week 
Tuesday  evening  in  this  city  to  a  large  audience  on 
his  African  work.  As  he  was  appointed  a  Mission- 
ary Bishop  last  year  by  the  Methodist  General  Con- 
ference, his  appearance  in  Chicago  was  under  the 
auspices  of  that  denomination,  and  the  attempt  of 
the  young  man  who  presided  at  the  meeting  to  make 
the  occasion  extremely  sectarian  was  pitiful.  Will- 
iam Taylor's  work  is  not  for  one  sect,  nor  for  one 
age,  but  for  Christ  and  eternity.  In  appearance  he 
is  rough  and  strong.  Clad  in  a  dark  suit  of  very 
plain  material,  he  has  the  appearance  of  a  shrewd, 
successful  farmer;  and  his  strong  good  sense  ap- 
pears most  strikingly  in  his  exposition  of  Scripture, 
and  in  his  account  of  mission  management.  The 
Inter  Ocean  report  of  the  latter  being  excellent,  we 
have  borrowed  largely  from  it. 

He  commenced  his  self-supporting  missionary 
work  in  Bombay,  India,  sixteen  years  ago.  He  sup- 
ported himself  until  he  could  build  up  self-sup- 
porting churches  that  could  support  their  pastors. 
It  was  in  this  way  that  he  and  others  established 
the  Bengal  and  South  Indian  Conferences.  For 
twelve  years  they  never  asked  for  a  cent.  In  con- 
ducting the  missions  of  South  America  the  same 
principle  was  pursued,  the  missionaries  being  sup- 
ported by  the  moneys  they  received  from  their 
schools,  while  in  India  they  were  supported  by  their 
services  as  preachers.  In  Africa  it  was  different,  as 
the  natives  there  had  no  appreciation  of  what  was 
done  for  them.  Not  receiving,  therefore,  any  serv- 
ices that  they  could  acknowledge  as  value  received, 
they  could  not  be  expected  to  pay  for  anything. 
They  established,  therefore,  industrial  schools  in 
connection  with  the  missions  to  cultivate  an  appre- 
ciation of  values,  and  no  system  that  did  not  em- 
brace both  the  culture  of  the  brain  and  of  the  in- 
dustrial capacity  of  the  native  could  ever  be  suc- 
cessful in  Africa.  In  describing  Africa  the  Bishop 
said  he  had  no  mind  to  talk  about  its  extent.  It  was 
a  wonderful  country.  The  climate  was  not  as  bad 
as  some  people  supposed  it  was.  In  the  torrid  zone, 
where  his  work  lay,  temperature  ranged  from  75  to 
85  degrees  the  year  round,  and  even  during  the 
prevalence  of  the  northwest  trade  winds  the  sun  was 
veiled  by  mists  three  days  out  of  four.  He  was  told 
that  this  mist  was  fuH  of  malaria  He  found  that 
the  theory  that  the  atmosphere  was  at  these  times 
full  of  malaria  was  false.  The  mists  were  not 
malarial.  The  rarification  of  the  atmosphere  by  the 
sun  on  a  hot,  clear  day,  created  a  vacuum,  and  at 
sundown  the  northwest  trade  winds  brought  up  the 
moisture  which  filled  the  air  for  several  days.  This 
cooled  the  air,  and  made  the  climate  a  delightful  one 
for  out-of-door  work,  and  he  put  in  six  days  of  the^ 
week,  eight  hours  a  day,  in  out-doors  work,  and  three 
days  out  of  the  four  worked  out  of  doors  without 
any  hat  on  his  head.  So  the  climate  of  Africa  was 
not  so  dreadful  after  all.  In  regard  to  the  health- 
fulness  or  unbealthfulness  of  the  climate,  it  might 
be  considered  as  healthy  a  climate  as  that  of  any 
country  in  a  wild,  uacleaned  state.  Many  died 
there,  it  was  true,  but  it  was  from  pursuing  a  false 
theory  of  living,  resulting  largely  from  follow- 
ing the  directions  of  a  book  written  by  a  doctor  in 
London,  who  had  never  been  in  Africa.  This  doctor 
warned  them  from  going  in  the  sun  or  taking  any 
vigorous  exercise.  If  he,  the  speaker,  was  going  to 
prescribe  a  treatment  for  killing  missionaries  in  Af- 
rica, he  would  prescribe  just  as  this  doctor  did.  A 
sewer  in  cold  weather  was  not  a  very  dangerous 
thing,  but  a  sewer  in  hot  weather,  or  a  sewer  in  the 
tropics,  would,  if  not  frequently  washed  out,  soon 
commence  to  ferment,  aud  so  produce  disease  and 
death.  Now,  the  system  of  pores  in  the  human 
body  were  like  a  system  of  sewers  in  a  town.  Iq 
warm  weather  in  this  country,  and  all  the  time  in 
the  tropics,  these  human  sewers  must  be  sluiced, 
just  as  the  other  sewers  are.  In  other  words,  a  per- 
-^piration  must  be  created,  and  the  pores  of  the  body 
thus  cleansed.  If  missionaries  would  do  that,  they 
would  get  along  all  right.  As  to  the  Negroes  in 
Africa,  he  would  say  that  the  natives  who  were 
brought  to  this  country  were  not  of  the  best  type  of 
the  Negro.  The  men  who  sold  them,  who  had  never 
been  in  bondage  to  any  man,  were  better  men,  more 
powerful  men,  than  those  who  had  been  brought  to 
this  country  as  slaves.  The  most  powerful  women 
on  earth  were  there — women  straight,  symmetrical, 
vigorous,  and  frjually  and  well  developed.  Both 
men  and  women  were  shrewd  and  intelligc  n*,. 

As  for  self-support  by  missionaries  in  A'rica,  tl« 
difficulty  was  rendered  easy  to  overcopjo  by  the  jtapi 


that  in  every  tribe  a  farm  was  set  aside  for 
strangers,  being  placed  in  the  charge  of  the  king's 
or  chief's  first  wife,  and  no  one  but  her  and  stran- 
gers could  use  any  of  the  products  of  that  farm. 
A  house,  the  best  house  in  town,  was  also  given  up 
to  the  use  of  the  missionary.  The  chief's  wife  not 
only  gave  them  daily  rations  of  vegetable  food,  but 
prepared  it  in  a  tasteful  manner,  together  with  eggs 
and  chickens.  All  the  missionary  had  to  do  was  to 
announce  who  he  was,  and  he  was  looked  after.  The 
Mohamxedans  understood  this  custom  thoroughly, 
and  were  sending  propagandists  all  through  Africa. 
The  propagandist  started  barefoot,  carrying  nothing 
with  him  but  the  Koran  in  his  hand.  These  men 
had  gone  all  through  Northern  and  Eastern  Africa, 
and  they  were  now  advancing  to  the  West.  The 
humility,  patience,  pluck  and  power  of  adapting 
themselves  to  circumstances  that  these  Mohamme- 
dan propagandists  possessed,  and  which  they  used 
in  spreading  a  false  religion — most  of  it  false, 
though  it  had  a  good  deal  of  truth  in  it— might  well 
be  copied  by  Christian  missionaries,  and  with  such 
qualities  they  might  win  Africa  to  Christ  in  a  short 
time. 


"  — Elder  J.  L.  Barlow  is  now  preaching  in  Bloom- 
ington.  Wis.,  in  response  to  a  call  from  the  Baptist 
church. 

— The  United  Presbyterian  General  Assembly  at 
its  recent  session  appropriated  to  the  several  Boards 
for  the  coming  year  $279,600  as  follows:  Foreign 
Missions,  $110,000;  Home  Missions,  $72,000;  Freed- 
men's  Missions,  $40,000;  Chur.  h  Extension,  $40,- 
000;  Education,  $8,000;  Ministerial  Relief,  $6,000; 
General  Assembly  Fund,  $3,000. 

— We  are  beginning  to  hear  of  spiritual  results 
following  the  administration  of  relief  to  the  famine 
sufferers  in  Turkey.  In  some  places  portions  of  the 
Scriptures  have  been  distributed  with  neaded  bread 
for  the  body.  Mr.  Gates  of  Mardin  reports  that  in 
one  village  a  man  said  after  an  earnest  discussion: 
"It  is  nothing  other  than  the  words  of  this  Book 
which  have  sent  us  this  aid."  A  Moslem  at  one  vil- 
lage affirmed:  "I  know  that  the  Protestants  are  the 
best  of  all  the  sects."  "How  do  you  know  that?" 
said  a  bystander;  "you  are  a  Moslem.  What  do  you 
know  of  the  teachings  of  the  Protestants?"  The 
Moslem  replied,  "I  know  by  one  sign.  If  I  go  to  a 
priest,  he  says  to  me,  'Give;'  if  I  go  to  a  Moolah,  he 
says  to  me,  'Give.'  The  Protestants  alone  say, 
'Take;'  their  schools  say  'Take;'  their  teachings  say, 
'Take;'  their  charities  say,  'Take.'  By  this  I  know 
that  they  are  the  best."  Mr.  Gates  reports  that  vil- 
lages are  asking  for  teachers,  and  that  the  evangel- 
ical helpers  are  honored  wherever  they  go  among 
the  mountains. — Missionary  Herald. 

— The  general  conference  on  foreign  missions, 
which  met  in  Exeter  Hall,  London,  June  9-19, 
proved,  says  the  Interior,  to  be  a  larger  and  more 
thoroughly  representative  assembly  than  even  its 
projectors  expected.  As  has  been  explained  before, 
the  conference  was  in  the  nature  of  a  centenary  cel- 
ebration of  the  beginning  of  the  foreign  mission  move- 
ment in  England,  and  it  was  thought  that  about  an 
even  hundred  societies  would  be  represented.  Great 
was  the  joy  of  all  concerned  when  it  was  found  that 
126  societies  had  sent  delegates.  There  were  1,060 
delegates  in  attendance  from  the  52  foreign  mission- 
ary societies  of  Great  Britain  and  Ireland,  150  from 
the  51  societies  in  the  United  States,  27  from  the  6  so- 
cieties in  Canada,  and  22  from  the  13  societies  of  Eu- 
rope. If  all  the  delegates  can  return  to  their  homes 
with  full  cargoes  of  the  enthusiasm  and  of  the  zeal 
according  to  knowledge,  which  did  so  much  abound 
at  the  conference,  it  will  not  be  too  much  to  hope 
that  a  new  epoch  in  foreign  mission  work  will  have 
its  rise  this  year. 

— The  Illinois  Baptist  Assembly  convenes  at  Sail- 
or Springs  July  22,  and  remains  in  session  fifteen 
days.  Sailor  Springs  is  located  in  Clay  county,  Illi- 
nois, and  has  become  a  favorite  summer  resort  be- 
cause of  the  curative  properties  of  the  waters  and 
the  beauty  of  the  situation.  Among  the  speakers 
are  Rev.  C.  H.  Morcup,  D.D.,  St.  Louis;  Rsv.  A.  D. 
Zaraphonithes,  Greece;  Presidents  Kendrick  and 
Washburn;  Drs.  Fulton,  of  Brooklyn,  Broadus,  of 
Louisville,  and  many  others. 

— For  years  there  has  been  an  opposition  in  the 
Association  of  Baptist  Churches  in  Indianapolis  and 
vicinity  to  Rev.  M.  Buchanan,  of  Act<ju,  who  pro- 
cured a  divorce  from  his  wife  on  the  ground  of  in- 
compatibility, and  within  a  year  married  again. 
Many  of  the  churches  were  much  opposed  to  his 
conduct,  and  being  unable  to  expel  him,  have  formed 
a  new  association  and  adopted  a  constitution  that 
prohibits  the  admission  of  any  church  that  avails 
itself,  either  temporarily  or  permanently,  of  the  seiv- 
ices  of  a  minister  who  has  been  divorced. 


JtTLT  19,  1888 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSUEJE. 


13 


Lodge  Notes. 

Twelve  brotherhood  engineers  and  fire- 
men returced  to  work  on  the  Burlington 
road  at  Omaha  Thursday,  stating  that 
they  believed  the  charges  against  Chair- 
man Hoge  and  other  leaders,  and  were 
unwilling  to  be  identified  with  such  men. 

The  annual  conclave  of  the  Supreme 
Temple,  Patriarchal  Circle  of  the  United 
States,  met  in  Fort  Wayne.  An  effort  to 
make  some  changes  in  the  uniform  was 
defeated,  as  well  as  many  other  changes 
that  were  sought  to  be  brought  about.  A 
competitive  drill  was  held,  and  Thursday 
evening  a  banquet  and  dress  ball. 

At  Minneapolis  Tuesday  Frank  Hoo- 
ver. President  of  the  Typographical 
Union,  and  William  6.  Hammond,  a 
membtr  of  ils  executive,  were  indicted 
for  boycotting  tha  Saturday  Evening 
Spectator. 

General  Master  Workman  Powderly 
has  written  a  letter  in  the  Journal  of 
United  Labor  in  which  he  advises  absten- 
tion from  the  use  of  coffee  until  the  pres- 
ent "corner"  is  broken 

The  contemplated  strike  of  the  Broth- 
erhood of  Engineers  on  the  East  Ten- 
n^SEee.  Virginia  and  Georgia  railroad  is 
off.  A  meeting  was  held  at  which  all 
phases  of  the  trouble  between  the  rail- 
road and  the  Brotherhood  was  fully  dis- 
cussed. It  was  finally  agreed  that  the 
strike  should  not  occur.  Thomas  R  Mona- 
han,  who  has  caused  all  the  trouble,  left 
the  city  suddenly. 

The  National  Division  Sons  of  Tem- 
perance met  last  week  in  Toronto.  Re- 
ports show  a  HPt  increase  of  membership 
last  year  of  245  The  total  membership 
at  the  end  of  the  year  was  79,158. 

The  State  convention  of  the  Catholic 
Knights  of  America  met  in  Eau  Claire, 
Wis.  A  procession,  with  two  bands,  was 
formed,  and  delegates  escorted  to  St. 
Patrick's  church,  where  high  mass  was 
said  by  the  Rev.  Manager  Muenich  of 
Racine.  The  afternoon  session  was  held 
in  the  court  house.  A  grand  banquet 
cloEcd  the  meeting. 

The  Grand  Commander  Knights  Tem- 
plar, of  Iowa,  having  refused  to  accept 
the  ritual  promulgated  by  the  Grand  En- 
campment held  at  St.  Louis.  Grand  Com- 
mander General  Charles  Room,  of  the 
United  States,  is&ued  an  edict  interdict- 
ing intercourse  between  Knights  Templar 
and  thr>se  under  the  jurisdiclion  of  Iowa. 
Judge  Frederick  Speed,  Grand  Command- 
er of  Mississippi,  refused  to  publish  the 
edict  in  his  State,  and  is  also  accused  of 
writing  National  Grand  Commander 
Riom  an  ineulliug  letter. 

The  Grand  Lodge  of  Elks  have  made 
the  Grand  Lodge  migratory  An  effort 
was  made  to  create  a  supreme  lodge  and 
have  a  grand  lodge  in  each  State.  Char- 
ters were  granted  to  thirteen  lodges  in 
various  parts  of  the  country. 

The  Bridge  Beach  stove  foundry  strike 
cost  the  Iron-molders'  Union,  No.  10, 
$23  348.40.  It  was  a  notable  defeat  for 
the  workmen,  and  resulted  in  the  organ- 
ization of  the  Manufacturers'  Defense 
Association. 

Several  of  the  Eagineer  Brotherhood 
men  at  Galesburg,  111 ,  have  received 
anonymous  let.crs  warning  them  to  leave 
town. 


.    aUBaORIPTlON  LBTTBRS 


The  following  have  made  remittances 
of  money  to  the  Cynosure  from  July  9 
to  July  14  inclusive: 

D  8  Kinney,  M  vV  Holt,  D  Riggs,  Mrs 
H  Loker,  C  Fisher,  H  Clark,  Rev.  J  W 
Thompson,  Mrs  C  A  B  Ashley,  W  W 
Jones,  J  Brcaw,  J  R  Weber,  A  8  Water- 
burg,  R  Krant,  R  W  Doolittle,  J  S  Bib- 
bins,  Mrs  S  McConoughay,  R  Dickinson, 
J  Howe,  J  McKtlvey,  Mrs  E  A  Yerkes, 
E  Trumbull. 


DONATIONS. 


Cynosure  Afinisters'  Fund: 

Mrs.Loretta  J.  Willc.x $      8.00 

Mrs.  H. Locker .50 

W.W.  Jonfs 6.00 

Rfcv  J.  W.  Logue 2.00 

Ddniil  Rigga 1.00 

Before  repurled 1150.15 

Tot»l $1162.65 

Oeneral  l^und: 

Jobish  Shaw $  .30 

W.  C.  Gaddis 6.80 

Mrs.  E.  A.  Yerkes 75 


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THE  CHEISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


July  19, 1888 


Home  and  Health. 

GOOD   HOT  "WEATHEB   ADVICE. 

The  annual  sun  stroke  circular  of  the 
New  York  Health  Board  may  be  sum- 
marized as  follows: 

Prevention. — Don't  lose  your  sleep; 
sleep  in  a  cool  place;  don't  worry;  don't 
get  excited;  don't  drink  alcoholic  bever- 
ages; avoid  working  in  the  sun,  if  you 
can;  if  indoors,  work  in  a  well-ventilated 
room;  wear  thin  clothes;  wear  a  light  hat, 
not  black;  put  a  large  green  leaf  or  wet 
cloth  in  it;  drink  water  freely  and  sweat 
freely;  if  fatigued  or  dizzy,  knock  off 
work,  lie  down  in  a  cool  place,  and  ap- 
ply cold  water  and  cold  cloths  to  your 
head  and  neck. 

Cuke. — Put  the  patient  in  the  shade; 
loosen  his  clothes  about  the  neck;  send 
for  the  nearest  doctor;  give  the  patient 
cool  drinks  of  water  or  black  tea  or  black 
cofEee,  if  he  can  swallow.  If  his  skin  is 
hot  and  dry,  prop  him  up,  sitting  against 
a  tree  or  wall;  pour  cold  water  over  the 
body  and  limbs,  and  put  on  his  head 
pounded  ice,  wrapped  in  a  cloth  or  towel. 
If  you  can't  get  ice,  use  a  wet  cloth  and 
keep  freshening  it.  But  if  the  patient  is 
pale  and  faint,  and  his  pulse  is  feeble, 
lay  him  on  his  back,  make  him  smell 
hartshorn  for  a  few  seconds,  or  give  him 
a  teaspoonful  of  aromatic  spirits  of  am- 
monia, or  tincture  of  ginger  in  two  table- 
spoonfuls  of  water.  In  this  case  use  no 
cold  water,  but  rub  the  hands  and  feet, 
and  warm  them  by  hot  applications  until 
the  circulation  is  restored. 

To  this  we  may  add  that  persons  who 
live  chaste,  sober,  temperate,  godly  lives, 
avoiding  condiments  and  stimulants,  pep- 
per, salt,  tea,  cofEee,  etc.,  usually  have 
little  trouble  from  heat,  cold,  or  disease. 

We  recently  called  on  Mr.  D.  Need- 
ham,  at  116  Dearborn  St ,  Chicago,  to 
ascertain  the  facts  in  reference  to  his 
being  cured  of  cancer.  We  found  him 
to  be  a  well  preserved  man  in  his  seven- 
ty-ninth year.  He  stated  that  thirty- 
five  years  ago  he  was  living  on  a  farm, 
and  one  very  warm  summer  day  while 
carrying  rails  an  abrasion  was  made 
upon  his  shoulder.  The  injury  soon 
healed,  leaving  a  scar.  Thirteen  years 
later  this  scar  became  the  seat  of  a  can- 
cer. The  cancer  developed  suddenly 
after  eating  buckwheat  cakes  freely  for 
two  weeks.  Its  malignant  nature  was 
evident  in  a  few  days.  The  scar  grew 
purple,  felt  tender  and  itched.  Sharp 
pains  were  present  occasionally.  He 
consulted  eminent  physicians  in  Pitts- 
burgh, Philadelphia  and  New  York; 
every  one  pronounced  it  cancer  of  the 
scirrhus  type,  and  advised  either  the 
knife  or  the  plaster  as  the  only  possible 
hope  of  relief.  About  this  time  an  old 
friend  heard  of  his  misfortune  and  ad- 
vised him  to  drink  very  strong  red  clover 
tea.  He  began  taking  the  clover  tea  in 
June,  1864,  the  cancer  having  made  its 
appearance  the  previous  November.  A 
beneficial  effect  was  experienced  almost 
immediately.  On  the  top  of  the  left 
shoulder  and  upper  part  of  the  chest  we 
found  a  surface  of  nine  inches  one  way 
and  twelve  inches  the  other  covered  with 
nodules  and  scars.  We  have  not  the 
slightest  doubt  but  what  Mr.  Needham 
had  a  genuine  cancer,  which  would  have 
proved  fatal  in  a  few  months  had  it  not 
been  arrested  and  practically  cured. 
From  the  time  the  cancer  was  most  in- 
flamed he  has  worn  over  it  a  folded 
cloth,  which  he  moistens  with  tepid  wa- 
ter as  often  as  it  becomes  dry.  He  ab- 
stains from  eating  pork,  buckwheat  and 
tomatoes,  as  he  believes  they  tend  to 
produce  cancer.  He  pays  great  atten- 
tion to  his  diet.  He  has  used  the  clover 
occasionally  since  he  discovered  its  mer- 
its. Eight  years  ago  he  began  to  manu- 
facture the  extract  of  red  clover  for  sale, 
and  has  built  up  a  good  business  for  him- 
self and  sons. — T?ie  People's  Health  Jour- 
nal. 

What  an  Ego  will  Do. — For  burns 
and  scalds  nothing  is  more  soothiagthan 
the  white  of  an  egg,  which  may  be 
poured  over  the  wound.  It  is  softer  as 
a  varnish  for  a  burn  than  collodion,  and, 
being  always  at  hand,  can  be  applied. 
It  is  also  more  cooling  than  the  sweet  oil 
and  cotton  which  were  formerly  supposed 
to  be  the  surest  application  to  allay  smart- 
ing pains.  It  is  the  contact  with  the  air 
which  gives  the  extreme  discomfort  ex- 
perifnced  from  the  ordinary  accident  of 
this  kind,  and  anything  that  excludes  the 
air  and  prevents  inflammation  is  the  thing 
to  be  at  once  applied. 


The  Teacher 

Who  advised  her  pupils  to  strengthen 
their  minds  by  the  use  of  Avar's  Sar- 
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constitution,  whether  young  or  old,  this 
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"  Every  spring  and  fall  I  take  a  num- 
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"I  have  taken  Ayer's  Sarsaparilla 
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"  My  daughter,  twelve  years  of  age, 
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General   Debility. 

A  few  weeks  since,  we  began  to  give 
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Battles,  South  Chelmsford,  Mass. 

"About  a  year  ago  I  began  using  Ayer'3 
Sarsaparilla  as  a  remedy  for  debility 
and  neuralgia  resulting  from  malarial 
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"  My  daughter,  sixteen  years  old,  is 
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fect."—  Rev.  S.  J.  Graham,  United 
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"I  suffered  from 

Nervous  Prostration, 

with  lame  back  and  headache,  and  have 
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Ayer's  Sarsaparilla." —  Lucy  Moffitt, 
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Mrs.  Ann  H.  Farnsworth,  a  lady  79 
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"After  several  weeks'  suffering  from 
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of  Ayer's  Sarsaparilla,  and  before  I 
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Explains  the  tnie  source  and  meanlni;  of  everj 
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An  appendix  la  added  of  'Si  pages,  embodying 

Freemasonry  at  a  Glance, 

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JOdTo  toge'her  with   a  brtet  explanation   of  each. 
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GOOD  RULES    FOR  RIDING    AND    DRIVING. 

When  the  horse  is  taken  out  for  either 
riding  or  driving  it  should  not  be  allowed 
to  move  at  a  fast  pace  for  the  first  mile 
or  more,  otherwise,  as  its  stomach  is 
then  full,  it  may  injure  its  wind  and 
bring  on  the  heaves.  A  good  rule  to  ob- 
serve before  putting  the  horse  up  to  a 
fast  gait  is  to  let  it  dung  three  times. 
This  relieves  the  bowels  to  a  moderate 
extent.  If  necessary  to  stop  when  out, 
and  a  cold  wind  prevails,  put  the  horse 
under  cover  and  blanket;  if  one  is  not  to 
be  bad,  then  hitch  on  the  lee  side  of  some 
building.  If  in  summer,  put  in  a  shade 
as  clear  from  flies  and  moequitoes  as  pos- 
sible; if  there  is  no  net,  cover  with  a 
cotton  sheet  or  light  blanket.  The  best 
strap  for  hitching  is  one  that  buckles 
round  the  neck,  as  it  holds  more  securely 
than  a  halter  or  bridle  rein,  which  are 
liable  to  be  slipped.  In  crossing  a  river 
or  bay  in  a  steamboat  or  other  convey- 
ance in  cold  weather,  or  facing  a  raw  or 
strong  wind  on  the  road,  hang  a  short, 
thicK  blanket  from  the  neck,  spread  in 
full  breadth  over  the  chest,  to  guard  from 
taking  cold.  When  the  exposure  ceases, 
remove  it.  Eeturning  home  from  a  ride 
or  drive  of  some  extent,  and  the  horse  is 
sweaty,  let  the  last  mile  be  done  slowly, 
that  it  may  be  cooled  a  little  before  reach- 
ing the  stable.  Some  blanket  as  soon  as 
the  harness  is  taken  off;  others  contend 
that  it  is  better  to  rub  as  dry  as  possible 
and  then  blanket.  But  which  may  be 
preferable  will  depend  something  on  the 
weather  and  the  nature  of  the  horse, 
whether  to  dry  quickly,  or  to  sweat  longer 
and  copiously. 

Examine  the  shoes,  and  if  gravel  or 
any  hard  substance  has  got  between 
them  and  the  hoofs,  pick  it  out.  During 
this  time  the  horse  may  safely  take  two 
to  four  quarts  of  water,  at  a  moderate 
temperature  if  in  summer,  and  warmer 
if  in  winter.  After  being  well  cooled, 
give  all  the  water  the  horse  will  drink. 
Now  wait  a  short  time  and  then  feed  a 
little  hay  at  first,  after  which  his  ration 
of  grain  or  meal.  Never  let  a  horse 
stand  or  wade  in  water  when  he  is  hot, 
as  it  would  endanger  foundering  him  un- 
less the  water  is  quite  warm,  and  per- 
haps even  then.  If  ever  forced  to  do 
this,  exercise  him  well  after  it,  and  when 
stabled,  rub  the  legs  thoroughly  dry 
down  to  the  hoofs,  then  he  would  prob- 
ably escape  founder. — American  A gri- 
cuUurist. 

THE  CURRANT. 

Currants  are  usually  shipped,  like 
strawberries,  in  quart  baskets  packed  in 
crates;  and  gooseberries  may  be  sent  the 
same  way,  but  are  liable  to  shake  them- 
selves out  in  transit,  unless  the  baskets 
are  wrapped  in  paper.  To  avoid  this 
trouble  some  shippers  prefer  sending 
them  in  bags  by  express.  The  gooseberry 
is  less  popular  in  market  than  the  cur- 
rant, and  there  is  no  demand  for  it  when 
ripe.  This  is  singular,  for  it  is  excellent 
canned,  requiring  less  sugar  than  green 
ones;  although  there  are  sweet  toothed 
persons  who  insist  that  no  amount  of 
sugar  can  ever  make  gooseberries  palat- 
able. However,  in  canning  them,  it  will 
be  found  economy  not  to  add  the  sugar 
until  the  fruit  is  wanted  for  use,  as  sugar 
boiled  with  gooseberries,  or  any  other 
acid  fruit,  is  changed  into  glucose,  which 
has  but  half  the  sweetening  power  of 
sugar.  Ripe  gooseberries  resemble,  and 
make  a  good  substitute  for  cranberries; 
are  much  cheaper,  and  can  be  raised  any- 
where. Green  gooseberries  may  be  kept 
fresh  the  year  round  by  simply  bottling 
them  in  cold  water,  excluding,  of  course, 
all  bruised  berries.  They  need  not  be 
sealed,  only  corked  tightly  and  kept  in  a 
cool  place. 

Canned  currants  are  delicious,  and 
every  housekeeper  knows  that  for  jelly- 
making  purposes  there  is  nothing  equal 
to  the  currant.  By  the  way,  it  is  strange 
that  more  impecunious  women,  with  a 
genius  for  making  jellies,  do  not  turn 
their  attention  to  this  industry  as  a  source 
of  profit.  Of  course,  they  could  not 
compete  in  the  general  market  with  the 
cheap,  artificially-colored  preparations  of 
gelatine,  sold  as  jelly,  but  which  never 
had  even  a  remote  relationship  to  any 
sort  of  fruit;  still,  there  are  many  ladies 
who  lack  cither  time,  strength,  inclina- 
tion or  skill  to  make  their  own  jellies, 
but  who  would  gladly  pay  a  good  price 
for  a  superior  article  if  they  knew  where 
such  could  be  obtained.  By  the  judicious 
purchase,  not  only  of  currants,  but  other 


fruits,  when  abundant  and  cheap,  a 
skilled  jelly-maker  might  materially  in- 
crease her  income  if  she  chose. 

Delicious  currant  jelly,  that  never  fails, 
can  be  made  without  observing  the  old 
expensive  "pint  for  pound"  rule.  Gather 
the  fruit  before  it  is  dead  ripe,  but  not 
immediately  after  it  has  been  saturated 
by  rain.  Wash  and  drain,  but  do  not 
remove  stems.  Boil  twenty  minutes,  stir- 
ring occasionally  to  prevent  burning. 
Strain  through  flannel  and  measure. 
Return  to  the  fire,  and,  after  boiling  a 
minute  or  two,  add  heated  sugar,  allow- 
ing but  half  a  pound  for  each  pint  of 
juice.  As  soon  as  the  sugar  is  entirely 
dissolved,  the  jelly  is  done,  and  should 
be  placed  in  glasses  immediately. — Inde- 
pendent. 

"Oh I  where  shall  rest  be  found?" 
The  worn-out  mother  sighs; 
'Stockings  to  mend,  and  trousers  to  darn. 
Dishes  to  wash,  and  butter  to  churn, 
While  my  back  feels  to  break,  and  head 
and  heart  burn. 
And  life  is  a  constant  friction." 
The  summer  came  and  went. 
The  matron  no  longer  sighs; 
Elastic  her  step,  and  rounded  her  cheek. 
Work  seems  but  play,  life  is   now  sweet. 
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week. 
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THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


July  19, 1888 


NFWs  OF  The  Week 


WASHINGTON. 

President  Cleveland,  who  has  been  ac- 
customed to  use  a  glass  of  wine  at  din- 
ner or  Bemi-occasionally  at  other  times, 
is  said  to  have  yielded  to  a  request  of  tJi^a. 
Cleveland,  who  desired  to  get  the  infla- 
ence  of  his  personal  example,  to  totally 
abandon  the  use  of  liquors. 

Professor  J.  W.  Powell,  of  the  geolog- 
ical survey,  made  an  argument  before 
the  Senate  Committee  on  Appropriations 
on  the  development  of  the  arid  land  re- 
gions. Professor  Powell  is  very  enthusi- 
astic in  the  belief  that  his  views  as  to  the 
irrigation  of  this  vast  region  by  estab- 
lishing reservoirs  in  the  Rocky  Mountains 
for  the  supply  of  water  is  entirely  prac- 
tical. 

The  bill  to  pay  $5,000  to  Mrs.  Larimer 
of  "Wyoming  for  important  services  in 
giving  information  as  to  the  hostile  pur- 
poses of  the  Sioux  Indians  has  passed 
the  Senate. 

Elliot  Sandford  of  New  York  has 
been  nominated  for  Chief  Justice  of  the 
Supreme  Court  of  Utah;  J.  W.  Judd  of 
Tennessee,  Associate  Justice,  and  Hugo 
W.  Weir  of  Pennsylvania,  Chief  Justice 
of  the  Supreme  Court  of  Idaho. 

Congressman  Randall  of  Pennsylvania 
was  prostrated  by  an  attack  of  an  old 
trouble  last  week,  and  had  four  hem- 
orrhages Friday  night,  losing  sixteen 
ounces  of  blood.  It  is  feared  he  cannot 
survive  another  attack.  The  difficulty 
was  brought  on  by  his  assiduity  in  secur- 
ing a  private  pension  bill. 

COUNTRY. 

A  terrible  accident  occmred  on  the 
Virginia  Midland  railroad  early  Thurs- 
day morning.  The  through  Southern 
train  went  through  a  trestle  between 
Orange  Court  House  and  B»rboursville, 
falling  a  distance  of  fifteen  feet  and  kill- 
ing eight  persons  outright,  and  wound- 
ing some  twenty- five  severely. 

The  principal  county  officers  (all  col- 
ored) at  Marion,  Tenn.,  were  escorted  to 
trains  by  white  men  Thursday  morning, 
given  tickets,  and  warned  never  to  return. 
The  county  judge  fled  the  previous  night, 
and  the  county  clerk  was  given  twenty- 
four  hours  to  arrange  his  books.  The 
dispatch  avers  that  the-  county  has  been 
under  Negro  rule  since  1870,  and  that, 
aa  prominent  white  men  had  been  warned 
to  leave,  the  white  citizens  undertook  to 
assume  control  of  affairs.  The  Negroes 
in  the  county  out-number  the  whites 
seven  to  one. 

The  great  fire  that  laid  Alpena,  Mich., 
low  sixteen  years  ago,  was  Wednesday 
almost  duplicated,  when  fourteen  blocks 
were  swept  away.  Two  hundred  build- 
ings were  burned  and  225  families,  repre- 
senting 1,300  persons,  are  out  of  house 
and  home.  Nine-tenths  of  these  are 
workingmen,  and  most  of  them  have  no 
insurance.  There  were  several  fatalities 
among  women  and  children. 

Dr.  Reitman,  of  Legrand,  Iowa,  reports 
to  the  State  Board  of  Health  a  full 
statement  of  a  case  of  leprosy  coming 
under  his  care.  The  patient  is  Helena 
Halverson  from  Norway.  She  claima  no 
relative  ever  had  the  disease. 

Receiver  Dyer  has  made  a  demand  on 
the  Mormon  church  for  the  property  of 
the  church  held  in  excess  of  the  amount 
allowed  by  law.  It  amounts  to  $790,000. 

Stephen  Freeman,  a  colored  man  con- 
victed of  aFPaulting  a  white  woman,  was 
hanged  in  Wilmington,  N.  C,  Wednes- 
day. Freeman  protested  his  innocence 
to  the  last,  and  in  spite  of  many  appli- 
cations to  the  governor  for  a  commuta- 
tion the  sentence  was  carried  out. 

Fire,  on  the  afternoon  of  July  10,  de- 
stroyed eight  blocks  in  the  heart  of  the 
town  of  Suisun,  Cal ,  mostly  brick  stores. 
The  poBtoffioe  was  also  consumed.  The 
Are  started  in  a  shed  back  of  W.  T. 
Bartlett's  residence,  and  rapidly  gained, 
crossing  the  streets  and  burning  even 
what  goods  had  been  removed  for  safety. 
At  least  tcven-eightha  of  the  town  have 
been  consumed.  Over  twenty  five  resi- 
dences were  burned  to  the  ground,  among 
them  being  that  of  Joseph  McEenna, 
member  of  Congress.  Tbis  town  has  a 
population  of  about  800. 

A  dispatch  from  Indianapolis  says:  An 
extraordinary  increase  in  the  pay  rolls  of 
the  Indianapolis  pension  agency  has  given 
rise  to  a  suspicion  that  the  department  ia 
giving     special     attention     to    rushing 


through  the  claims  of  Indiana  petitioners, 
with  the  hope  that  this  activity  will  be 
helpful  to  the  Democratic  party  at  the 
November  elections.  Since  General 
Black  became  Pension  Commissioner  the 
number  of  pensioners  on  the  pay  rolls  of 
the  Indiana  agency  has  been  increased 
from  29,000  to  40,000. 

A  cyclone  leveled  three  paper  mills 
and  many  houses  between  Pittsfield  and 
Albany,  isiass.,  Wednesday  night. 

It  is  reported  that  Congressman  W.  L. 
Scott  of  Pennsylvania  has  subscribed 
$1,000,000  to  the  Democratic  campaign 
fund;  that  Mr.  Brice  of  Ohio  and  Her- 
man Oelrichs  of  New  York  are  down  for 
$500,000  each;  that  the  rich  men  of  Tam- 
many pledge  a  half  million,  and  that  Ed- 
ward Cooper  is  prepared  to  donate  $100,- 
000. 

The  National  Council  of  the  National 
Educational  Association  met  at  San  Fran- 
cisco Friday,  President  J.  L.  Pickard  of 
Iowa  City,  Iowa,  presiding. 

Near  Gridley,  111., Thursday  night,  Miss 
Witzig,  aged  20,  was  dragged  over  a 
barbed  wire  fen^e  by  a  horse.  Her  face 
was  torn  off,  the  lower  j  aw  and  tongue 
remaining  hanging  to  the  wire.  She  is 
still  alive  but  cannot  survive. 

FOBBION. 

Emperor  William  sailed  on  the  royal 
yacht  EohemoUern  on  the  morning  of 
the  14th  inst.  for  Russia.  The  Czarina 
will  accompany  the  Czar.  When  Empe- 
ror William  steps  upon  the  deck  of  the 
Russian  yacht  the  German  standard  will 
be  unfurled  from  the  masthead  of  that 
vessel. 

In  the  French  Chamber  of  Deputies 
on  Thursday  General  Boulanger  moved 
dissolution.  His  proposition  was  reject- 
ed, and  the  general  immediately  resigned 
his  seat.  During  the  debate  some  sharp 
words  passed  between  Boulanger  and 
Premier  Floqaet,  during  which  the  former 
called  the  latter  a  liar.  A  duel  was  ar- 
ranged between  the  two,  and  was  fought 
with  swords  near  Parie,  Friday  morning. 
The  battle  was  fiercely  contested,  and  in  tt  e 
sBcond  round  Boulanger  received  a  thrust 
in  the  neck  which  may  prove  fatal.  Pre- 
mier Floquet  escaped  with  a  few  scratch- 
es, and  in  the  afternoon  delivered  the 
oration  at  the  unveiling  of  the  Gambetta 
statue. 

In  the  Italian  Chamber  of  Deputies  on 
Friday  the  question  of  granting  the  bal- 
lot to  women  was  defeated  by  a  narrow 
majority. 

Prince  Milan  has  demanded  of  the 
Prussian  authorities  that  the  Crown 
Prince  of  Servia,  now  in  possession  of 
Qaeen  Natalie  at  Wiesbaden,  be  returned 
to  Belgrade.  The  German  authorities 
complied  with  the  request,  and  Queen 
Natalie  was  compelled  on  Friday  to  de- 
liver up  her  son  to  the  German  authori- 
ties. The  boy  was  immediately  taken  to 
the  railway  train  and  started  for  Bel- 
grade, the  Servian  capital, 

A  dispatch  from  Cape  Town,  Africa, 
says  that  the  Debers  coal  mine  at  Kim- 
berley  caught  fire  Wednesday  evening. 
Eight  hundred  men  were  entombed.  The 
work  of  rescue,  which  began  at  once,  still 
continues.  Hundreds  have  perished, 
including  Mr.  Lindsay,  the  manager  of 
the  company.  The  bodies  of  25  white 
and  200  black  victims  were  taken  out. 

Most  doleful  accounts  are  given  of  the 
ruin  and  misery  wrought  by  the  terrible 
weather  in  the  East  River  District  of 
China.  Such  rains  have  not  been  known 
for  more  than  a  hundred  years.  The 
town  of  Shikhung,  the  chief  sugar  mart 
of  the  province,  has  several  times  been 
flooded  and  many  persons  drowned. 

The  London  Times  learns  from  Rome 
that  Cardinal  Moran  has  had  frequent 
interviews  with  the  Pope  on  the  Irish 
question,  and  that  he  has  impressed  the 
latter  greatly,  shewing  that  it  is  not 
good  policy  to  interfere  with  the  politics 
of  the  Irish,  who,  he  points  out,  have 
great  power  in  the  colonies  and  in  Amer- 
ica, 

The  Mexican   electoral  colleges  voted 

on   Sunday,  re  electing  President  Diaz. 

The  result  of  the  Congressional  balloting 

I  is  as  yet  unknown,  but  is  expected  to 

favor  the  administration. 

Late  advices  from  Leon,  Mexico,  the 
principal  scene  of  the  great  flood,  say 
that  masses  of  people  are  packed  in  por- 
tals, stables,  and  every  available  place 
of  shelter,  averaging  one  person  to  less 
than  a  square  yard  of  space,  with  piles 
of  flag  matting  on  the  ground  for  beds, 


and  a  few  miserable  rags  for  cover.  All 
able-bodied  men  have  been  sent  away  to 
work  by  the  government.  It  is  still  be- 
lieved that  the  bodies  of  many  hundred 
people  are  in  the  ruins.  Some  three  hun 
dred  were  recovered,  but  the  stench  was 
so  great  that  further  search  was  aban- 
doned. 


AN    OFFENSIVE    BRFATU 

is  most  distressing,  not  only  to  the  per- 
son afflicted,  if  he  have  any  pride,  but 
to  those  with  whom  he  comes  in  contact. 
It  is  a  delicate  matter  to  speak  of,  but  it 
has  parted  not  only  friends  but  lovers. 
Bad  breath  and  catarrh  are  inseparable. 
Dr.  Sage's  Catarrh  Remedy  cures  the 
worst  cases,  as  thousands  can  testify. 

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GO  WEST. 


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THE    CELEBRA-TED 

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CONTENTS. 


Editobial  : 

Notes  and  Comments. ....  1 

What  Shall  We  Do? 8 

The  Hand  of  Rome 8 

How  Stand  Your  Candi- 

datesl 8 

CONTKIBCTIONS  : 

Masonic  Fraud 1 

Pastors  Who  Know  Not 

the  Power  of  God 2 

Good     Templarlsm     and 

Prohibition 3 

The  Sbcrbt  Empire 
Knights    and    Ladies   of 

Honor  (Concluded) 3 

The      Situation     in     New 

York 4 

Washington  Letter 9 

New  England  Letter 9 

Cobrespondbnob  : 
Bro.  Countee  and  the  Mem- 
phis School  ;Young  Peo- 
ple's Christian  Endea- 
vor Societies:  Seceders 
at  a  Holiness  Meeting; 
Pith  and  Point 6 


Rbfobm  Nbws: 
The  New  England  Agen- 
cy ;  School  and  Mission 
Work  in  Washington; 
Reforms  Have  a  Tidal 
Movement ;  Louisiana 
Bapt.  State  Convention ; 
Reports  from  North- 
western Ohio ;  A  Fort- 
night with  Bro.  Hawley ; 
A  Cyntsure    Newsboy; 

Colporteur  Notes 4 ,5 

Literature 6 

In  Brief 7 

Secret    Societies     Con- 
demned      7 

The  N.  C.  a 7 

Thb  Homb.  . .  .^ 10 

Temperance li 

Bible  Lesson 12 

Religious  Nbws 12 

Lodge  Notes 13 

Home  and  Health 14 

Farm  Notes 15 

News  or  thb  Wbbk 16 

Markets. 13 


The  account  of  the  great  Prohibition  meeting  in 
Battery  D  Armory,  in  this  city,  on  the  13th  inst, 
was  in  some  unaccountable  manner  overlooked  in 
our  last  number.  We  can  now  only  refer  to  it  as  a 
singular  success  for  prohibition  as  a  political  prin- 
ciple. And  this  success  was  achieved  more  by  the 
immense  numbers  present  than  by  the  argument  of 
the  able  speakers.  Addresses  were  made  by  the 
Presidential  candidates,  Fisk  and  Brooks,  by  Miss 
Willard  and  Mr.  Harts,  nominee  for  Governor.  But 
the  thousands  present,  overflowing  with  enthusiasm, 
and  half  astonished  at  their  own  numbers,  were  an 
argument  that  was  simply  overwhelming.  That  it 
was  which  convinced  gainsaying,  disputing,  sneer- 
ing Republicans  and  Democrats.  They  saw  the  suc- 
cess that  succeeds  in  that  crowd,  and  were  awe- 
struck before  it.  It  meant  votes,  and  votes  are  the 
arguments  that  carry  a  campaign. 


Last  Tuesday  the  Chicago  police  arrested  three 
Bohemians,  whom  they  expect  to  prove  are  a  part 
of  a  band  of  conspirators  sworn  to  avenge  the  death 
of  the  anarchists  upon  Judge  Gary,  Mr.  Grinnell, 
who  was  then  prosecuting  attorney,  and  Inspector 
Bonfield  of  the  police  force.  In  the  possession  of 
these  men  were  found  revolvers,  daggers,  dynamite 
and  a  number  of  bombs.  As  no  arrests  have  since 
been  made  it  is  not  known  whether  the  police  sus- 
pect any  others,  though  they  have  listed  all  who 
were  members  of  the  secret  "groups"  implicated  in 
the  slaughter  of  May,  1886.  These  arrests  and  the 
railroad  conspiracy  will  go  far  to  convince  the  pub- 
lic that  there  is  no  safety  from  the  human  monsters 
who  can  thus  plot  for  wholesale  and  indiscriminate 
murder,  but  to  act  on  the  suggestion  of  an  old  army 
officer  in  the  American  Magazine,  and  make  this 
dynamite  business  a  capital  crime,  whether  the  plot 
culminates  or  no. 


If  the  lodge  magnates  expect  to  gain  an  easy  vic- 
tory, and  the  control  of  the  Prohibition  party  in 
New  York,  they  will  find  themselves  quite  mistaken. 
The  statement  from  Mr.  Capwell,  and  the  position 
of  the  Wesleyan  Methodist,  mean  that  the  reckless 
action  at  Syracuse  will  lose  the  party  thousands  of 
votes.  The  nomination  of  a  man  so  involved  in 
secretism  was  not  only  weak,  but  wicked,  and  God 
will  not  show  his  favor  toward  party  leaders  who 
can  so  easily  stifle  their  convictions.  Let  every  pa- 
triot in  the  Empire  State  remember  its  history,  and 
resolve  that  the  memory  of  Seward,  Weed,  Holley, 
Riley,  Bernard,  Steams,  Crooks,  Roberts,  Spencer, 
Ward,  South  wick,  and  a  host  of  others,  shall  not  be 
disgraced  by  their  consenting  to  this  iniquity. 


One  of  the  largest  of  their  summer  meetings  was 
held  last  Tuesday  evening  by  the  Historical  Society 
of  this  city.  The  particular  attraction  was  the  pre- 
sentation of  a  life-size,  bronze  bust  of  Mr.  Carpen- 
ter by  his  two  surviving  daughters,  Mrs.  Cheney  of 
this  city  and  Mrs.  Hildreth  of  Los  Angeles.  Ac- 
companying the  bust  was  a  fine  photograph  of  the 
old  Carpenter  homestead,  for  more  than  a  genera- 
tion a  landmark  in  Chicago.  Mr.  Carpenter  was 
one  of  the  founders  of  the  Society,  and  left  $1,000 
to  its  treasury.  This  will  be  known  as  the  Philo 
Carpenter  fund,  and  the  income  will  be  used  in  bind- 
ing books  which  will  bear  the  imprint  of  the  fund. 
In  connection  with  the  presentation,  Rev.  H.  L.  Ham- 
mond read  a  sketch  of  Mr.  Carpenter's  life,  evident- 
ly prepared  with  much  care,  and  more  fully  review- 
ing bis  remarkable  life  as  a  business  man,  Christian 
and  reformer  than  any  account  yet  published.  The 
narrative  was  very  faithful  to  Mr.  Carpenter's  la- 
bors as  an  Abolitionist  and  an  opposer  of  the  lodge, 
and  gave  him  due  honor  for  this  evidence  of  the  no- 
bility of  his  character,  the  firmness  of  his  convic- 
tions, and  his  prophetic  faith  in  the  triumph  of 
Christian  principles.  This  history  will  in  time  be 
published  by  the  Historical  Society.  The  Cynosure 
has  also  asked  for  a  copy,  and  we  hope  to  publish  it 
next  week. 


The  dynamite  conspiracy  on  the  Burlington  road 
has  now  passed  fairly  into  the  hands  of  the  courts. 
The  examination  before  the  United  States  Commis- 
sioner developed  the  fact  that  one  of  the  arrested 
men  was  a  Pinkerton  detective,  and  another  is  mis- 
trusted. The  confession  of  Bowles,  a  striking  en- 
gineer, who  had  been  very  active  in  Isuying,  distrib- 
uting and  using  dynamite,  was  hastened  by  what  he 
took  to  be  a  threat  on  the  part  of  another  arrested 
man,  who  was  chief  of  the  "brotherhood  lodge"  in 
Aurora.  Bowles  confessed  to  burying  a  bomb  near 
Galesburg,  when  he  had  been  prevented  by  fear 
from  putting  it  on  the  track.  He  was  taken  to  the 
spot  and  the  bomb  was  found.  Two  important  ar- 
rests were  made  at  Galesburg  immediately  after 
this.  It  is  hoped  that  the  bottom  of  this  murder- 
ous conspiracy  is  reached.  Arthur,  chief  of  the  en- 
gineers' order,  was  in  Chicago  last  week  trying  to 
make  some  compromise  with  the  Burlington  man- 
agers. He  was  met  fairly,  and  is  using  his  influ- 
ence to  have  the  men  vote  the  strike  over  and  a  fail- 
ure. His  deputies  went  out  over  the  road,  but  have 
been  thus  far  met  with  a  strong  negative  vote.  No- 
body accuses  the  "Brotherhood"  as  accessory  to  the 
dynamite  business,  but  the  strikers  are  angry,  and 
will  stand  by  the  guilty  men.  The  devil  may  be 
cunning,  but  he  is  never  wise.  These  men,  befooled 
by  their  secret  oaths,  are  putting  themselves  before 
the  world  as  endorsing,  defending  and  so  becoming, 
after  the  fact,  accessories  in  a  horrible  attempt  at 
massacre. 


The  visit  of  the  young  Emperor  William  to  the 
Czar  and  the  undoubted  manifestation  of  fraternal 
and  friendly  feelings  between  the  two  autocrats  has 
started  all  manner  of  political  conjecture.  The  two 
governments  have  been  threatening  war  for  a  year, 
but  there  is  nothing  but  peace  now  to  be  mentioned 
between  thoui.  It  is  even  understood  that  William 
has  projected  a  visit  to  the  leading  monarchs  of  Eu- 
rope and  will  begin  an  earnest  eflort  to  secure  a  per- 


manent peace  by  urging  a  general  disarmament. 
But  France  does  not  take  it  kindly  that  the  strip- 
ping process  is  to  begin  with  her  young  republic. 
It  is  at  least  fixed  that  the  German  Emperor  sailed 
Monday  for  Stockholm,  and  that  in  October  he  will, 
oflQcially  and  by  invitation,  visit  King  Humbert  of 
Italy  at  Rome.  The  Pope,  whom  our  vicious  Amer- 
ican optimism  declares  is  a  benevolent  old  gentle- 
man who  has  nothing  to  do  with  politics,  has  entered 
his  objection  to  such  a  meeting.  Leo  declares  that 
the  presence  of  the  Emperor  of  Protestant  Germany 
will  be  an  act  of  special  hostility  toward  the  Vati- 
can, during  the  pending  crisis  in  Italian  affairs;  and 
he  has  sent  burning  messages  to  his  emissaries  in 
Bavaria  and  Austria  urging  that  those  governments 
use  every  eflfort  to  prevent  the  meeting  of  Emperor 
and  King  anywhere  in  Italy.  The  Italian  politicians 
are  inclined  to  look  with  favor  upon  the  project,  as 
an  aid,  even  a  guarantee,  of  Italian  unity.  If  Will- 
iam is  really  seeking  the  peace  of  Europe  and  the 
world  by  a  plan  of  disarmament,  may  God's  blessing 
be  on  him.  He  will  prove  thus  a  greater  benefactor 
than  Napoleon  was  a  terror;  and  let  the  papacy  fall 
amid  the  ruins  of  forts,  while  the  machinery  of  dire- 
ful war  becomes  transformed  into  the  plows  and 
engines  of  peace. 


MAaONIG  FRAUD. 


THE    MANOFACTORB   OF    MASONIC   DEOREES. 


BY  REV.    H.   H.    HINMAN. 

Next  to  the  silliness  and  blasphemy  of  the  de- 
grees of  Masonry  and  other  orders,  the  facts  that 
they  have  been  invented  by  bad  men  for  the  worst 
of  purposes,  and  that  their  authors  have  not  hesi- 
tated to  resort  to  the  meanest  and  most  outrageous 
falsehoods  to  entrap  the  ignorant  and  deceive  and 
despoil  the  unwary,  are  additional  reasons  why  they 
should  be  forsaken  and  reproved.  The  following  in 
reference  to  the  Rite  of  Memphis,  or  "Royal  Ma- 
sonic Rite,"  one  of  the  popular  forms  of  Masonry, 
is  from  purely  Masonic  sources,  and  shows  at  least 
how  the  brethren  love  and  regard  each  other.  The 
first  part  is  from  the  Official  Bulletin  of  the  Supreme 
Council  of  the  33d  degree  of  the  Ancient  Scottish 
Rite,  and  is  from  the  pen  of  "Illustrious  Fitzgerald 
Tisdall  of  the  33d  degree  of  New  York."  The  date 
is  1871: 

"The  so-called  Rite  of  Memphis  was  concocted  "by 
J.  E.  Marcormis  after  his  second  expulsion  from  the 
bastard  Rite  of  Misraim.  He  soon  constructed  his 
bantling  and  constituted  himself  its  head  and  front 
When  he  first  introduced  this  mass  of  mystic  rub- 
'lish  he  styled  it  the  Rite  of  Memphis,  or  the  Ori- 
ental Rite,  and  unblushingly  declared,  in  a  periodi- 
cal entitled  the  Sanctuary  of  Memphis,  that  it  was 
introduced  into  Europe  by  Ormos,  a  Serapliic  priest 
of  Alexandria  and  an  Egyptian  sage,  and  declared 
that  Brother  Marconnis  De  Negre,  the  Grand  Hiero- 
phant,  is  the  sole  consecrated  depository  of  the  tra- 
ditions of  the  Sublime  Order." 

On  the  7th  of  April,  1839,  he  published  the 
statutes  of  the  order,  and  in  the  same  year  organ- 
ized a  lodge  in  Paris.  The  police  finally  interfered, 
and  on  the  19th  of  May,  1840,  all  lodges  of  the  Rite 
of  Memphis  were  closed.  In  1850  he  went  to  Eng- 
land, and  after  several  attempts  succsetied  in  estab- 
lishing a  Grand  Lodge  of  the  "Disciples  of 
Mines." 

In  1860  he  came  to  New  York  with  an  assort- 
ment of  diplomas,  jewels,  charters,  etc.,  for  the  pur- 
pose of  propagating  his  Rite.  He  subsequently  se- 
cured a  deputy  in  the  person  of  a  very  worthy,  but 
enthusiastic  brother,  David  McClellan,  a  lithograph- 
er, and  Past  Master  of  Eastern  Star  Lodge  in  the 
city  of  New  York.  One  brother  was  made  (that  is, 
took  ninety  degrees)  while  crossing  on  a  ferry-boat 
from  Brooklyn  to  New  York.  Brother  McClellan 
did  not  find  it  profitable,  and  sold  bis  diplomas,  cov- 
ered with  pyramids,  sphynxes,  and  other  imaginary 
Egyptian  symbols,  to  Bro.  Henry  J.  Seymour  of 
New  York,  who  undertook  the  propagation  of  the 
Rite  as  a  business.  "The  degrees  as  he  received  them 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


July  26, 1888 


numbered  ninety-six,  but  nearly  all  were  skeletons, 
and,  as  a  good  business  man,  he  went  to  work  to  sup- 
ply the  deficiency.  He  secured  the  services  of  Henry 
J. Shields,  who  for  $50  wrote  the  fourteen  degrees  of 
Hermitic  Philosophers.  He  employed  Bro.  Thomas 
Picton,  whom  by  letter  he  created  a  Sovereign  Prince 
95th  degree,  though  Picton  was  as  ignorant  as  a 
child  unborn  of  what  it  all  meant.  Picton  wrote 
the  nineteenth  degree,  which  was  to  be  Egyptian  in 
character."  He  got  $50  for  his  job  after  suing  for 
it.  "Within  the  last  few  years,  under  the  business- 
like guidance  of  H.  L.  Seymour,  its  present  head 
and  front,  the  number  of  degrees  has  been  reduced 
from  ninety-six  to  thirty-three,  and  its  cognomen 
has  been  changed  to  'The  American  and  Primitive 
Rite  of  Memphis.'  Picton's  imagination  suggesting 
the  change. 

It  appeared  subsequently  that  the  96  degree  men 
would  not  be  suppressed.  A  convention  of  Masons, 
held  in  Chicago,  June  17,  1867,  in  the  Masonic  Tem- 
ple^  declared,  "We  are  members  of  the  96  degree 
Rite,  and  have,  by  the  authority  of  the  96-degree 
Rite,  issued  by  the  Grand  Hierophant  ninety-seven 
degrees  of  Fratce,  countersigned,  acknowledged  and 
sized  and  recognized  by  all  the  great  and  grand  or- 
ganizations of  Europe  and  all  other  nations  of  the 
world  where  the  -work  is  known.  We  will  not 
acknowledge  or  subscribe  to  such  reduction  of  de- 
grees," etc. 

They  called  their  body  "The  Sovereign  Sanctuary 
of  the  Egyptian  Masonic  Rite  of  Memphis"for  Amer- 
ica, containing  ninety-six  degrees;  ninety  of  labor 
and  six  oflScial  degrees,"whichit  is  not  in  the  power 
of  any  body  of  men  or   Masons  to   alter,  abridge, 
condense  or  interpolate  to  any  less  number  of  de- 
grees."    The  Rite  is  divided  into  four  bodies:     1. 
Rose  Croix,  eighteen  degrees.      2.  Hermitic  Philos- 
ophers,  twenty-seven   degrees.      3.  Grand  Council, 
forty  five  degrees.     4.  Sovereign  Sanctuary,  five  de- 
grees.    The  first  teaches  morality  and  ancient  work. 
The  second  teaches  morality  and  science.  The  third 
teaches  religion,  mythology,  philosophy,  theosophy, 
geometry  and  astronomy,  etc.   The  fourth  is  official. 
No  person  can  be  admitted  to  the  degrees  who  is 
not  a  Master  Mason.  The  election  of  officers  is  held 
at  the  vernal  equinox,  to  celebrate  the  revivification 
of  nature.     The  Temple  of  the  Grand  Council  repre- 
sents the  place  of  meeting  of  the  twelve  Deities  of  the 
Egyptian  Mysteries.     In  the  Vale  of  Armenthes  is 
placed  the  veiled  statue  of  Isis.    In  the  Orient  is  dis- 
played the  symbol  of  Osiris  and  of  EgyptianTheogony, 
the  Kneph,  or  w  ic  ged  egg  of  earth.  "The  Sublime  Dai 
represents  Oairis.     The  First  Mysatgog  represents 
Scrapis.     The  Second  Mystagog  represents  Horus," 
etc.,  ad  nauttum.      The  following  caption  shall  be 
used  at  the  commencement  of  all  edicts,  etc.:     "In 
the  name  of  the  Sovereign  Sanctuary  of  the  Egyp- 
tian Masonic  Rite  of  Memphis,  in  and  for  the  Con- 
tinent of  America,  setting  in  the  valley  of  America." 
This  gives  a  very  brief  and  imperfect  sketch  of 
the  character  of  this  order.      It  will  be  seen  at  a 
glance  that  it  is  simple  heathenism.     The  old  idol- 
atries of  Egypt  are  re-enacted.      The  organ  of  this 
Rite  is  called  the  Masonic   World  and  is  published 
in  Boston.      The  editor,  speaking  of  Bro.  Arnold's 
"Story  of  the  Gods,"  which  proves  Freemasonry  to 
be  identical  with  the  ancient   Egyptian  idolatries, 
says,  "He  might  have  gone  farther  and  shown  that 
the  religion  or  mythology  of  the  ancient  Egyptians 
was  identical  with  the  Christian  religion  of  today." 
Let  us  see  now  what  their  brethren  of  the  Scot- 
tish Rite  say  of  this  Egyptian  nonsense: 

"The  Supreme  Council  for  the  Southern  Jurisdic- 
tion has  no  war  to  make  on  the  Rite  of  Memphis. 
If  auy  one  chooses  to  pay  money  for  worthless  de- 
grees, certainly  no  Mason  of  the  Ancient  and  Ac- 
cepted Rite  has  any  objection." 

Perhaps  not,  but  he  ought  to  make  objection.  If 
Freemasonry,  as  it  professes,  teaches  "piety,  moral- 
ity and  science;"  if,  as  we  are  told  in  the  p]ntered 
Apprentice  degree,  "Truth  is  a  divine  attribute,  the 
foundation  of  every  virtue.  To  be  good  and  true  is 
the  first  lesson  we  are  taught  in  Masonry;"  then  sure- 
ly to  invent  lying  legends,  formulate  worthless  de- 
grees and  sell  them  to  the  ignorant,  is  not  good  Ma- 
sonic conduct,  and  the  "brethren"  who  do  these 
things  ought  to  be  summarily  punished.  But  there 
is  an  excellent  reason  why  the  Ancient  and  Accept- 
ed Rite  should  not  make  objection.  It  is  unwise  for 
the  pot  to  accuse  the  kettle  of  blackness. .  By  its 
own  showins;  the  history  and  origin  of  the  Ancient 
and  Accepted  Scottish  Rite  is  as  disgraceful,  and 
its  legends  are  as  absurd,  as  anything  in  the  Rite  of 
Memphis.  Nay,  more!  the  whole  structure  of  Ma- 
sonry, from  the  Entered  Apprentice  degree  to  the 
Supreme  Council,  is  based  on  a  tissue  of  lying  le- 
gends, with  no  foundation  in  history.  They  are 
only  the  inventions  of  the  worst  of  men  for  the 
moflt.  selfish  of  purposes,  designed  simply  to  de- 


ceive the  ignorant  and  entrap  the  unwary.  There  is 
as  much  truth  in  the  story  of  "Ormus,  the  Priest  of 
Alexandria,"  as  in  that  of  the  legend  of  the  "killing 
of  Hiram,"  which  is  enacted  whenever  a  man  is 
made  a  Master  Mason.  And  yet  this  tissue  of 
falsehoods  is  not  only  the  essential  element  of  the 
Sublime  (?)  degree,  but,  says  Dr.  A.  G.  Mackey,  "it 
lies  at  the  foundation  of  every  Masonic  rite."  The 
invention  of  recent  lodge  degrees,  purporting  to  be 
of  most  ancient  origin,  has  become  to  be  largely 
the  business  of  the  shrewder  class  of  men  who  took 
their  first  lesson  in  lying  ift  "Ancient  Craft  Ma- 
sonry." 

Nor  is  this  to  be  wondered  at.  Any  system  found- 
ed on  falsehood  may  be  expected  to  bring  forth  lies 
and  liars.  So  long  as  Masons  sell  pretended  secrets, 
which  are  no  secrets,  and  secrets  of  pretended  value, 
which  have  no  value,  they  may  expect  their  "breth- 
ren" to  do  the  same  or  similar  acts  of  fraud  and 
wickedness.  Has  all  sense  of  shame  died  out  of 
the  minds  of  the  members  of  the  Masonic  order? 


PASTORS 


WHO  ENOW  NOT 
GOD. 


TEE  POWER    OP 


BY   E.    L,  MEADIR. 


The  greatest  enemies  of  the  church  of  God  to  day 
are  not  the  openly  avowed  persecutors,  nor  the  in- 
different worldlings  who  take  no  thought  about  the 
welfare  of  the  soul,  but  they  are  educated  theorists 
against  the  power  of  the  Holy  Ghost,  high  reason- 
ing exalting  itself  above  the  knowledge  of  God; 
teaching  for  doctrine  tha  commandments  of  men; 
lining  in  subjection  to  ordinances,  "which  all  are  to 
perish  with  the  using."  "Beware,  lest  any  man 
spoil  you  through  philosophy  and  vain  deceit,  after 
the  tradition  of  men,  after  the  rudiments  of  the 
world,  and  not  after  Christ." 

Many  ministers  and  their  people  have  the  form  of 
godliness,  but  deny  the  power  thereof.  Their  ser- 
mons and  speeches  are  not  seasoned  with  the  grace 
of  God.  The  idea  is  prevalent'  in  many  churches 
that  a  man  must  be  educated  and  refined  in  the  wis- 
dom of  this  world  before  he  is  prepared  to  preach 
the  Gospel.  He  must  entrench  himself  behind  vol- 
umes of  man's  wisdom,  theories  and  doctrines  of 
man's  interpretation.  These  ministers  are  trained 
to  appear  well  in  the  eyes  of  the  world;  having  a 
man-fearing  spirit,  daring  not  to  speak  the  truth 
only  under  the  cloak  of  popularity,  and  then  it  is 
seasoned  with  worldly  conformity.  When  standing 
before  an  audience  they  do  not  realize  that  they  are 
there  in  Christ's  stead — and  too  many,  alas  I  are 
not. 

There  is  a  cause  for  this  sad  state  of  some 
churches.  There  are  many  pastors  and  leaders  that 
have  not  clean  hands  and  hearts.  Their  eye  is  not 
single;  if  it  were  their  whole  body  would  be  full  of 
light.  Hundreds  of  our  ministers  dare  not  raise 
their  hands  to  God  and  say  they  are  free,  Christ 
has  not  set  them  free.  Why?  Because  they  will 
not  leave  the  things  of  the  world.     Christ  says, 

Beware  ye  of  the  leaven  of  Pharisees,  which  is 
hypocrisy."  Ye  are  not  able  to  preach  the  love  of 
Jesus  from  experience,  so  you  preach  from  theory, 
just  as  a  lawyer  argues  a  case  in  court.  There  is 
nothing  divine  about  it.  Ye  cannot  speak  the  truth, 
for  if  ye  could  the  truth  would  set  ye  free.  Christ 
says,  "Ye  are  my  witnesses."  "The  Spirit  of 
prophesy  is  the  testimony  of  Jesus."  Again,  "We 
speak  that  we  do  know,  and  testify  that  we  have 
seen."  How  dare  you  to  take  the  position  as  an 
embassador  for  Christ  Jesus  without  being  first 
qualified  by  a  baptism  of  the  Holy  Ghost? 

I  was  attending  camp  meeting  this  last  summer 
where  a  man  was  pointed  out  to  me  as  a  holiness 
man  who  had  preached  and  enjoyed  full  salvation. 
I  heard  him  pray  long  and  loud  and  eloquent  of 
words,  but  evidently  lacking  the  power  of  the  Holy 
Ghost.  I  thought  I  might  be  mistaken,  but  shortly 
after  meeting  him  the  first  thing  that  met  my  eye 
was  the  sign  of  the  "three  links"  on  his  vest,  which 
is  the  mark  of  the  beast.  He  was  trying  to  lead 
the  people  into  the  light,  and  himself  walking  in 
darkness.  How  my  heart  sunk  within  me,  and  I 
wept,  when  alone,  for  the  cause  of  my  Lord  and 
Master,  Jesus  Christ,  my  adorable  Redeemer  and 
Saviour. 

They  say,  Will  a  man  rob  God?  Yet  they  rob 
him.  They  take  tithes  and  offerings  from  the  peo- 
ple for  work  as  ministers  of  Christ,  when  they  are 
withholding  from  them  the  sacred  truths  of  the 
Gospel  of  our  Lord  Jesus.  Christ  shows  the  incon- 
sistency and  stupidity  of  those  that  claim  to  bo  do- 
ing and  living  right,  who  yet  belong  to  these  secret  so- 
cieties, by  asking  the  question,  "Do  men  light  a 
candle  and  put  it  under  a  bushel?"  How  ridiculous! 
Yet  such  ministers  are  doing  the  very  same  thing. 


"Thou  art  the  man,"  whoever  you  are,  claiming  to 
be  a  Christian,  and  yet  belonging  to  these  hot-beds 
of  hypocrisy,  secret  societies.  Masonry  in  particular. 
Where  is  all  your  grand,  glowing,  high  toned  wis- 
dom? and  what  does  it  all  amount  to  when  you 
cannot  see  more  clearly  the  true  light  of  the  Gospel 
of  Jesus  Christ?  Surely  ye  are  "blind  leaders  of 
the  blind." 

Then  there  is  the  doctrine  of  heart  purity,  or 
holiness,  which  I  believe  in  with  all  my  heart.  It  is 
so  mangled  with  great  reasoning  that  the  more  we 
read  the  more  we  are  confused,  and  if  it  were  not 
for  a  blissful  experience  and  godly  assurance  we 
might  regard  it  a  delusion.  One  has  seven  steps, 
another  four,  and  another  three;  and  one  finds  three 
great  separate  blessings  from  God,  justification,, 
sanctification  and  special  power  for  work.  Volume 
after  volume  are  written  on  each  subject,  and  after 
we  have  read  them  all  we  are  as  far  from  God  as 
when  we  started.  Many  are  trying  to  do  the  work 
of  the  Holy  Spirit  instead  of  crying,  "Behold  the 
Lamb  of  God  which  taketh  away  the  sins  of  the 
world!" 

Before  the  Lord  revealed  himself  to  me  I  felt  that 
I  was  a  great  sinner  and  must  have  a  Saviour.  I 
determined  to  seek  the  Lord  with  all  my  heart.  I 
arose  and  confessed  my  sins  to  God  and  before  the 
world.  I  then  knelt,  consecrating  all,  and  prayed 
for  the  gift  of  the  Holy  Spirit.  I  took  God  at  his 
word.  But  I  found  something  was  between  me  and 
God  that  must  be  got  out  of  the  way.  I  was  hold- 
ing fast  to  a  thing  of  the  world.  I  at  once  gave  that 
up,  and  the  Lord  Jesus  revealed  himself  unto  me  in 
a  most  glorious  manner.  My  sins  were  all  par- 
doned, the  blood  of  the  atonement  was  applied  by 
faith  to  my  soul,  and  I  was  cleansed  and  saved.  I 
was  made  a  child  of  God,  a  joint  heir  with  Jesus 
Christ,  and  could  say,  "Old  things  are  passed  away; 
behold,  all  things  are  become  new,  and  all  things  are 
of  God."  God  never  baptized  me  with  the  Holy 
Ghost  to  sit  down  and  do  nothing,  nor  to  put  my 
light  under  a  bushel.  If  I  do  not  let  my  light  shine 
I  will  disobey  Christ's  command,  "Let  your  light  so 
shine  before  men  that  others  may  see  your  good 
works  and  glorify  your  Father  which  is  in  heaven." 
0  brother,  honor  the  Holy  Spirit,  and  seek  the 
wisdom  which  comes  from  God  alone,  and  is  not  of 
this  world.  Seek  first  the  baptism  of  the  Holy 
Ghost;  then  listen  to  his  teachings,  for  "he  will  lead 
you  into  all  truth,"  Be  found  much  in  your  closet 
in  sweet  communion  with  your  Heavenly  Father, 
and  O  how  graciously  he  will  grant  every  wish  that 
will  be  for  your  good.  Bring  in  all  the  tithes  and 
offerings  into  the  storehouse  of  the  Lord,  and  see 
if  he  will  not  open  the  windows  of  heaven  and  pour 
out  such  a  blessing  upon  you  as  you  shall  not  be  able 
to  contain.  Come  down  from  your  lofty  heights  of 
man's  reasoning,  and  as  a  little  child  sit  at  the  feet 
of  Jesus  and  learn  of  him.  Separate  yourself  from 
everything  of  a  worldly  nature.  Consecrate  all  to 
God.  Become  poor  for  Christ's  sake.  Open  wide 
the  door  of  your  heart.  Then  how  graciously  he 
will  fill  you  to  overflowing  with  holy  love  and  light 
and  power.  Your  tongue  cannot  express  the  holy 
joy,  the  blissful  assurance  of  your  acceptance  of 
God  as  his  adopted  child.  Your  tongue  is  silent. 
You  weep  for  joy.  The  true  love  of  God  destroys 
all  love  for  the  things  of  the  world,  and  when  God 
reigns  supreme  in  the  heart  the  carnal  will  is  sub- 
dued and  the  soul  is  willing  to  endure  all  things, 
suffer  the  loss  of  all  things,  riches,  honor,  tame — is 
willing  to  be  counted  as  the  offscourings  of  all  things 
that  they  may  win  Christ.  While  these  words  may 
seem  to  be  severe  to  those  who  are  not  walking  in 
the  light  of  God,  yet  it  is  the  very  truth  I  am 
speaking. 

If  these  evils  existed  among  the  ministers  alone 
and  went  no  farther  there  might  be  some  excuse 
for  keeping  still,  as  they  have  the  open  Bible  before 
them.  But  their  influence  is  great  for  good  or  evil, 
and  there  are  thousands  led  on  to  eternal  death 
through  their  ungodly  influence.  A  very  promising 
young  man  was  under  deep  conviction  of  sin.  I 
talked  with  and  prayed  for  him,  and  he  wept.  One 
of  the  devil's  embassadors  got  after  him  and  got 
him  to  join  the  Masons.  I  reasoned  with  him,  but 
he  said  it  could  not  be  wrong,  there  were  so  many 
ministers  belonged  to  the  lodge.  God  will  require 
his  blood  of  such  deceived  ones  at  their  hands.  I 
have  delivered  myself. 


"Dr.  James  McCosh's  address  on  retiring  from 
the  presidency  of  Princeton  College  after  twenty 
years  of  service,"  says  the  United  l^reahyterian,  "ib 
remarkably  interesting.  It  is  a  simple  narrative  of 
the  work  done  during  those  years,  but  it  holds  close 
attention  throughout.  When  he  became  president 
there  were  but  264  students.  There  are  now  604. 
Three-filths  of  the  present  students  are  professors 


JuLT  26, 1888 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSUIIE. 


of  religion.  Although  they  were  pretty  strongly 
entrenched,  on  becoming  president  Dr.  McCosh 
courageously  dealt  with  college  secret  societies. 
The  disease  has  occasionally  broken  out  since  it  was 
first  suppressed,  but  now  there  are  no  societies  of 
the  kind  in  the  college.  The  barbarous  practice  of 
hazing  he  also  pluckily  and  successfully  grappled 
with,  and  with  rare  exceptions  at  long  intervals,  it 
too  has  disappeared.  Nearly  three  millions  of  dol- 
lars were  contributed  to  the  college  during  the  doc- 
tor's presidency.  He  says  the  principle  upon  which 
the  college  has  acted  during  these  years  has  been 
•never  to  contract  any  debt,  and  never  to  lay  up 
any  money.'  Happy  is  the  institution  the  liberal- 
ity and  devotion  of  whose  friends  are  such  as  to 
warrant  acting  on  that  principle.  It  would  not  be 
strange  if  Dr.  McCosh  should  find  in  the  retrospect 
of  Princeton's  presidency  profound  satisfaction  and 
joy.  Who  can  estimate  the  importance  of  the 
work  it  has  been  the  privilege  of  this  revered 
teacher  to  do?  Where  is  the  civil  public  office  that 
would  surpass  it  in  s^^lendid  and  abiding  results?" 


GOOD  TEMPLAR18M  AND  PROHIBITION. 


I 


BY  CTRDS    SMITH. 

I  inquired  of  a  man  about  Prohibition  in  his  lo- 
cality. He  informed  me  that  it  was  all  right,  that 
there  had  been  a  Good  Templar  lodge  organized  in 
the  spring,  and  they  was  expecting  an  increase  this 
fall.  But  I  did  not  learn  of  anything  being  done 
for  temperance,  or  that  even  one  of  the  Good  Tem- 
plars would  vote  the  Prohibition  ticket. 

I  will  not  stop  to  argue  that  the  best  thing  to  be 
done  for  the  cause  of  temperance  in  the  present 
campaign  is  to  make  votes  for  the  Prohibition  can- 
didates. Votes  count.  But  the  professedly  tem- 
perance lodge  will  not,  either  secretly  or  openly, 
teach  men  to  vote  for  any  particular  party.  Why? 
Because,  when  a  secret  society  tries  to  run  any  one 
political  party  it  is  death.  The  aim  of  the  lodge  is 
secret  favoritism,  especially  in  religion,  politics  and 
law.  If  the  lodge  can  elect  its  own  in  every  party, 
win  each  case  in  the  courts  for  its  members,  whether 
right  or  wrong,  and  have  the  secret  of  their  favorit- 
ism covered  by  the  church  of  Christ,  it  would  be 
the  success  they  seek.  According  to  "their  fruits" 
we  do  "know  them." 

Shortly  after  Cleveland  was  elected  I  said  to  a 
Good  Templar  who  boasted  much  of  the  "grand  prin- 
ciples" of  his  order,  "You  should  have  voted  for  St. 
John."  His  reply  was,  "I  would  rather  vote  for  Jeff 
Davis," 

The  members  of  the  Good  Templar  lodge  are  as 
apt  to  be  Republicans  and  Democrats  as  Prohibi- 
tionists. Any  professed  temperance  organization 
that  will  not  support  Prohibition  en  mass  is  a  decep- 
tion, a  fraud,  a  swindle,  and  is  a  failure  as  far  as 
carrying  temperance  into  permanent  effect  is  con- 
cerned, though  there  may  be  in  its  make-up  a  large 
number  of  voters. 

Water  is  of  no  force  to  run  a  mill  if  it  cannot  be 
turned  onto  its  wheel.  The  temperance  lodge  as  a 
flume  to  carry  the  right  kind  of  power  to  turn  the 
prohibition  wheel  is  worse  than  useless,  because  "it 
is  a  broken  cistern  that  will  hold  no  water." 

DeKalby  Iowa. 


The  Birmingham  Fne  Press,  in  a  review  of  Dr. 
Fulton's  book,  "Why  Priests  Should  Wed,"  says: 
"It  seems  that  there  is  a  regular  secret  organization, 
with  its  signs  and  initiation,  of  women  who  prosti- 
tute themselves  to  the  priests  for  their  sole  and 
special  benefit.  The  initiation  garb  and  signs  are 
described.  They  are  known  as  B.  C.'s,  or  Blessed 
Creatures.  Specific  facts  from  the  records  of  the 
courts,  showing  glaring  perversion  of  justice,  are 
given  to  indicate  how  much  evil  there  is  under  the 
surface.  But  this  book  presents  only  one  side  of 
the  picture,  the  licentiousness  of  the  clergy  and  the 
moral  nastiness  of  Romanism.  The  Papacy  is  also 
a  political  system  sending  out  its  ramifications  into 
every  country.  In  our  own  land,  what  is  not  under 
the  control  of  the  Masonic  and  other  secret  orders, 
is  controlled  by  Rome.  President  Cleveland  can  be 
approached  only  through  Col.  Lamont,  who  is  a 
Roman  Catholic  and  has  a  private  telegraph  wire 
from  the  White  House  to  Cardinal  Gibbons's  resi- 
dence in  Baltimore.  Blaine  is  no  better,  parading 
the  Romish  religion  of  his  mother.  Gen.  Harrison, 
the  Republican  nominee,  is  a  Presbyterian,  but  so 
many  of  our  public  men  will  do  anything  to  obtain 
power  that  we  cannot  trust  them.  Boston  and  the 
other  leading  cities  of  New  England  are  ruled  by 
the  Roman  Catholics.  Everything  would  seem  to 
indicate  that  we  are  soon  to  be  called  on  to  wade 
through  blood  to  obtain  another  Reformation." 


The  Secret  Empire 


KNIGHTB  AND  LADIB8  OF  HONOR. 


BY   REV.   H.    H.    HINMAN. 


I  Concluded.  | 

Another  objection  to  this  order  is  because  of  its 
unrepublican  and  despotic  character. 

It  restricts  its  membership  to  white  persons,  there- 
by excluding  from  its  benefits  a  large  portion  of  the 
citizens  of  the  United  States.  One  would  suppose 
that  a  society  organized  "to  promote  benevolence, 
morality  and  science,"  ought  to  be  based  on  a  broad- 
er principle  than  caste. 

The  morality  that  the  order  seeks  to  inculcate  is 
quite  different  from  the  morality  of  the  Bible,  which 
declares  that  "if  ye  have  respect  to  persons  ye  com- 
mit sin;"  and  is  not  up  to  the  standard  of  our  civil 
law,  which  makes  no  distinctions  of  "race,  color, 
or  previous  condition  of  servitude." 

Its  despotic  character  is  manifest  in  the  powers 
of  the  Supreme  Lodge,  in  which  are  vested  all  au- 
thority to  make  "Constitutions,  laws  and  rules  of 
discipline  and  general  laws  for  the  whole  order." 
This  is  composed  of  its  officers,  standing  commit- 
tees, representatives  of  Grand  Lodges,  Charter 
members,  Past  Supreme  Protectors  and  Past  Grand 
Protectors;  and  no  other  member  of  the  order  shall 
be  admitted  under  any  circumstances  except  as  visit- 
ors, and  then  only  when  they  have  received  the  Su- 
prem  Lodge  degrees.  Thus  the  great  mass  of  the 
members  of  the  order  are  excluded  from  all  partic- 
ipation in  its  counsels.  They  may  be  taxed,  fined, 
or  otherwise  punished,  but  have  nothing  to  say  in 
reference  to  the  laws  to  which  they  are  bound  to 
submit.  The  aristocracy  of  the  order  are  the  recip- 
ients of  all  authority  and  power,  and  the  men  whose 
money  sustains  the  great  machinery  must  keep  si- 
lent. 

The  despotism  of  the  order  is  further  apparent 
in  its  methods  of  raising  revenues  for  the  Supreme 
Lodge.  The  sources  of  revenue  are  first  for  char- 
ters and  supplies.  These  for  a  Grand  Lodge  are 
$50.00;  for  a  Subordinate  Lodge,  $100.00.  Twenty- 
eight  different  articles  must  be  purchased  exclus- 
ively frcm  the  Supreme  Lodge,  costing  in  the  ag- 
gregate $54  15.  Besides  this  there  is  a  per  capita 
tax  of  twenty  cents  per  member,  paid  semi-annually, 
for  all  under  the  jurisdiction  of  Grand  Lodges,  and 
thirty-seven  and  one-half  cents,  also  paid  semi-an- 
nually, for  all  under  the  jurisdiction  of  the  Supreme 
Lodge.  This  does  not  include  initiation  fees  or  as- 
sessments. Now  one  would  suppose  that  under  a 
free  government  a  company  of  people  might,  if  they 
chose,  organize  a  society  for  the  promotion  of  "be- 
nevolence, morality  and  science,"  without  paying 
$100.00  for  the  privilege,  and  without  the  necessity 
of  paying  an  additional  tax  of  $1.15  per  annum,  for 
which  tax  they  receive  absolutely  no  benefit  what- 
soever, except  that  laws  are  made  for  their  govern- 
ment. 

This  Supreme  Lodge,  that  thus  arrogates  the 
right  to  tax  others,  gave  nothing  for  its  own  char- 
ter, and  is  responsible  only  to  itself  for  the  use  of 
the  money  it  receives  for  the  charters  thus  sold  to 
others.  There  is  not  elsewhere  to  be  found  a  great- 
er absurdity  in  legislation  than  the  practice  of  grant- 
ing charters  to  "Grand"  and  "Supreme  Lodges," 
with  power  to  grant  charters  to  subordinate  lodges 
for  such  a  price  as  they  may  choose  to  affix.  There 
are  a  great  multitude  of  these  so-called  benevolent 
societies,  whose  beneficence  consists  in  selling  to 
their  fellow  citizens  the  privilege  of  doing  what 
they  have  a  perfect  right  to  do  by  the  laws  of  the 
land.  Thus  we  see  men  selling  the  privilege  to  or- 
ganize temperance  societies,  farmers'  associations, 
and  multitudes  of  other  things  which  these  subor- 
dinate lodges  have  just  as  good  a  right  to  organize 
and  carry  on  as  the  Grand  Lodges  from  which  they 
purchase  these  charters. 

Then,  too,  the  Supreme  Lodge,  in  claiming  the 
right  to  print  all  forms  and  furnish  all  fixtures  and 
regalia  for  subordinate  lodges,  and  compelling  their 
purchase  and  use,  exercises  a  despotism  that  would 
not  be  submitted  to  in  the  ordinary  relations  of  life. 

The  injustice  of  the  whole  scheme  is  seen  also  in 
the  forfeiture  of  all  benefits  by  a  failure  to  keep  up 
dues.  Law  IV.  declares  that  any  member  who  may 
become  three  months  in  arrears  for  dues  to  the 
lodge  shall  not  be  entitled  to  vote  or  hold  office,  nor 
be  entitled  to  benefits,  and  when  six  months  in  ar- 
rears for  dues  shall  be  suspended  from  the  lodge, 
which  suspension  deprives  him  of  all  rights  in  the 
order.  One  would  suppose  that  an  order  that  had 
for  its  objects  "to  promote  benevolence  and  moral- 
ity," would  *tt  least  pay  back  to  those  who  could 
not  conscientiously  remain  in  its  membership  some 
part,  at  least,  of  what  they  had  paid  in;  and  that  a 


person  who  had  become  delinquent  because  of  sick- 
ness would  be  entitled  to,  at  least,  some  share  of 
the  funds  that  he  had  previously  contributed.  But 
this  benevolent  (?)  order  simply  says  to  such  per- 
sons, "We  have  used  you  for  our  benefit  as  long  as 
you  were  capable  of  being  used.  Now,  go  your 
way,  and  the  State  will  provide  for  you  in  its  alms- 
houses, and  furnish  you  with  a  pauper's  grave." 
This  is  lodge  morality  and  benevolence!  There  is 
also  a  curious  provision  in  Section  2d  of  Law-Ill. 
It  says:  "No  funeral  benefit  shall  be  paid  by  lodges 
except  in  case  of  pecuniary  emergency  of  the  bene- 
ficiary, and  then  only  by  way  of  loan,  to  be  deduct- 
ed from  the  benefits  the  beneficiary  is  entitled  to." 
The  burial  of  dead  knights  seems  to  be  no  part  of 
the  business  of  the  order. 

Of  the  comparative  cost  and  advantage  of  this 
system  of  life  insurance  it  may  be  said  that  it  in- 
volves the  support  of  an  elaborate  system  of  ma- 
chinery, conducted  by  officers  who  receive  such  sal- 
aries as  they  vote  to  themselves  in  the  Supreme 
Lodge.  It  also  includes  the  certain  payment  of 
dues  (initiation  not  less  than  three  dollars  and  an- 
nual dues  of  not  less  than  ten  dollars)  and  uncer- 
tain assessments.  The  assessment  plan  of  life  in- 
surance has  not  yet  been  proved  a  success.  A  largo 
proportion  of  the  companies  organized  on  this  plan 
have  failed.  If  this  order  shall  continue  to  do  busi- 
ness, it  will  be  because  of  the  large  number  of  sus- 
pensions and  forfeitures,  and  not  because  of  any 
merits  in  the  plan.  Whatever  people  may  think  of 
the  general  principles  of  life  insurance,  no  honor- 
able person  would  desire  to  receive  benefits  at  the 
expense  of  the  misfortunes  of  others. 

Of  the  religion  of  this  order,  it  may  be  said  to 
belong  to  that  class  adopted  and  practiced  by  simi- 
lar orders.  It  does  not  seem  to  be  necessary  that 
a  candidate  for  membership  should  have  any  relig- 
ious faith,  or  even  to  believe  in  the  existence  of 
God.  It  provides  for  a  chaplain,  and  says  his  du- 
ties are  "to  offer  up  invocation  to,  and  ask  blessings 
from,  the  Deity,  and  perform  such  other  duties  as 
the  laws,  rules  and  usages  of  the  order  enjoin."  It 
is  not  said  whether  the  worship  is  Christian,  Jewish 
or  Mohammedan;  but  is  presumed  to  be  of  that  gen- 
eral character  in  which  all  people  can  unite.  The 
only  respect  paid  to  Christianity  is  a  law  that  no 
lodges  shall  be  held  on  Sunday;  but  this  is  doubt- 
less more  because  of  the  civil  law  than  out  of  any 
Christian  conviction. 

In  conclusion,  I  would  say  that  many  people  have 
doubtless  joined  this  order,  scarcely  realizing  that 
they  had  united  with  a  secret  society,  and  were  giv- 
ing their  endorsement  to  the  whole  secret-society 
system.  They  have  hoped  to  secure  a  cheap  and 
profitable  life  insurance  system,  and  to  make  some 
wise  provision  for  those  under  their  care.  To  such 
I  commend  a  careful  consideration  of  its  nature  and 
tendencies.  They  will,  I  think,  find  it  liable  to  the 
following  objections: 

1.  It  unites  believers  and  unbelievers  in  a  relig- 
ious worship,  contrary  to  2  Cor.  6:  14-18. 

2.  It  is  exclusive  and  selfish. 

3.  It  is  founded  on  caste. 

4.  It  is  anti-republican  and  despotic  in  its  govern- 
ment. 

5  It  is  unjust  in  its  laws  towards  those  who  are 
in  arrears  for  dues. 

6,  It  is  a  practical  endorsement  of  the  whole  se- 
cret-society system,  which,  more  than  almost  any 
one  thing,  hinders  the  progress  of  the  Redeemer's 
Kingdom.  For  these  reasons,  and  others,  il  ought 
to  bo  abandoned. 


The  Grand  Army  Post  at  MeaJ»illo  is  making  an 
effort  to  raise  funds  to  erect  a  soldier's  monument 
in  the  city  park.  The  couoty  has  already  three  or 
four  of  these  monuments.  It  will  take  $8,600  to 
$4,000  more  to  put  up  this  one.  The  poor  of  our 
soldiers  and  their  wives  and  children  are  needing 
bread  and  it  is  proposed  to  give  them  a  stone  or  a 
pile  of  stones.  That  is  the  way  too  much  of  the 
so  called  "blessed  charity"  is  going.  You  might 
cover  Crawford  county  over  with  soldier's  monu- 
ments thick  as  the  stumps  in  some  of  her  pine 
forests,  and  who  would  be  the  wiser,  better  or  hap- 
pier for  this  foolish  and  useless  outlay  of  money 
that  might  bo  judiciously  invested  for  some  of  the 
real  wants  of  those  who  were  our  country's  defend- 
ers in  the  hour  of  her  peril. — ISandy  Like  Newt. 

One  of  our  Western  exchanges  says  that  a  prac- 
tical revivalist  requested  all  in  the  congregation  who 
paid  their  debts  to  rise.  The  rising  was  general. 
After  they  had  taken  their  seats,  a  call  was  made 
for  those  who  didn't  pay  their  debts,  and  one  solita- 
ry individual  arose,  who  explained  that  he  was  the 
editor,  and  could  not  because  tho  rest  of  the  congre- 
gation were  owing  him  their  subscriptions. 


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THE  CHBISTIAN  CYNOSUEE. 


July  26, 1888 


TEB  SITUATION  IN  NSW  TOBE. 


A    STATEMENT. 


The  New  York  State  Prohibition  Convention  met 
in  Syracuse  June  26th  and  27th.  There  was  pre- 
sented to  it  a  resolufion  which  was  favorably  re- 
ceived and. referred  to  the  committee  on  resolutions, 
asking  that  no  candidates  be  presented  by  the  con- 
vention for  the  suffrages  of  the  people  who  were  ac- 
tive and  affiliating  members  of  secret  societies,  and 
under  obligations  to  them.  W.  Martin  Jones  was 
presented  by  the  convention  as  a  candidate  for  the 
office  of  Governor,  on  the  ground  that  he  was  a 
Good  Templar  and  a  Royal  Templar,  and  would, 
therefore,  be  able  to  draw  the  vote  of  the  secret  so- 
cieties of  which  he  is  a  member;  by  which  it  is 
assumed  that  the  members  of  those  societies  will 
not  be  drawn  by  principle  to  the  path  of  duty  and 
reform,  but  by  the  ties  of  secret  brotherhood.  If 
this  be  true,  as  no  doubt  it  is,  it  is  also  true  that 
these  temperance  organizations  are  not  very  actively 
interested  in  the  cause  of  temperance,  if  not  willing 
to  vote  for  Prohibition  unless  selfishly,  because  the 
candidate  belongs  to  their  secret  brotherhood. 

That  such  a  sentiment  should  be  allowed  to  con- 
trol is  wrong  in  purpose  and  practice;  and  to  intro- 
duce such  a  sentiment  in  a  party  made  up  of  men 
of  such  high  professions  as  so  many  of  ours  main- 
tain, is  admitting  a  corrupt  principle  early  in  the 
history  of  the  party's  life.  That  secretism  is  a 
powerful  element  in  the  control  of  a  political  party, 
is  clearly  evidenced  in  the  fact  that  the  large  ma- 
jority of  the  Prohibition  State  Convention,  and  es- 
pecially of  the  nominating  committee,  were  evi- 
dently opposed  to  the  nomination  of  a  member  of 
a  secret  society;  but  by  the  pertinacity  of  a  secret 
combination,  having  a  powerful  leverage,  the  mi- 
nority secured  the  helm  and  propose  to  steer  the 
ship.  This  we  deeply  deplore,  as  there  are  large 
numbers  of  active  Prohibitionists  who  cannot  con- 
sent to  vote  for  a  pronounced  secretist,  one  of 
whose  avowed  claims  to  the  suffrages  of  his  fellow 
citizens  is,  not  that  he  belongs  to  a  temperance  so- 
ciety whose  members  will  vote  Prohibition  without 
reference  to  their  secret  brotherhood,  for  Mr.  Jones 
is  nominated  because  he  will  draw  secret  society 
votes;  not  because  he  comes  out  on  broad  principles 
of  American  citizenship,  and  stands  on  a  common 
footing  with  his  fellow-citizens,  but  because  he  can 
give  a  grip,  whisper  a  pass-word  and  operate  in  a 
secret  ring. 

This  is  rather  early  in  the  history  of  the  Prohi- 
bition party  to  look  for  such  an  element,  and  a 
large  number  of  conscientious  citizens  and  Chris- 
tian voters  cannot  submit  to  such  a  principle. 
They  will  feel  called  upon  to  adopt  only  that  part 
of  the  State  ticket  which  is  filled  by  candidates 
who  are  not  avowed  secretists,  and  will  fill  the  place 
of  Mr.  W.  Martin  Jones  on  the  ticket  with  a  candi- 
date who  is  clear  of  lodge  obligations,  and  has  only 
the  party  to  work  for.  F.  W.  Cap  well 

Dale,  N.  Y. 


Refobm  News. 


TBS  NSW  ENGLAND  AQBNGT. 


810RETABT  STODDARD  GETTING  THE  WORK  IN  ORDER, 


Baltimore,  Md.,  July  16,  1888. 

Yesterday  was  a  day  of  blessing  at  the  N.  C.  A. 
rooms  in  Washington.  Mrs.  S.  and  I  attended  Cal- 
vary Baptist  church  in  the  morning,  and,  after  the 
operatic  performance  was  over  in  the  gallery,  en- 
joyed Dr.  Green's  sermon  on  mysterious  providences 
very  much.  The  children  came  in  at  1  p.  m.  to  Sab- 
bath-school, and  I  notice  a  marked  improvement  in 
deportment.  Some  to  whom  the  Bible  was  a  sealed 
book  a  month  ago  now  recite  the  Beatitudes,  the 
Ten  Commandments  and  the  twenty-third  Psalm 
readily.  Most  of  them  are  bright,  intelligent  and 
eager  to  learn.  Bro.  Johnston  was  to  have  preached 
at  3  o'clock,  but  not  feeling  well  requested  me  to 
speak  in  his  place.  The  seventh  verse  of  2  Timothy, 
third  chapter,  suggested  some  thoughts  on  Masonic 
salvation.  A  conference  meeting  followed,  in  which 
a  dozen  or  more  took  part  to  the  spiritual  benefit 
and  edification  of  all  present. 

I  should  have  been  in  Baltimore  this  morning, 
but  the  bursting  of  the  boiler,  seven  miles  out  from 
Washington,  delayed  us  until  another  engine  could 
be  procured,  which  landed  us  safely  at  1:15  i>.  m 
This  is  a  fine  commercial  city,  and  the  parts  I  have 
visited  are  nicely  kept.  Pastors  are  scarce  just  now, 
and  I  failed  to  meet  a  single  one,  though  Rev.  Wm. 
H.  Glasgow,  Reformed  Presbyterian,  was  somewhere 
in  the  city.  The  U.  P.  congregation  is  "supplied," 
since  Bro.  Anderson  accepted  a  call  to  New  York, 


and  removed  there  in  April  last.  W.  K.  Carson, 
Esq.,  at  1421  McCuUough  street,  received  me 
kindly,  and  related  several  instances  of  craft  inter- 
ference in  high  places.  He  was  once  arrested  at 
Mercersburgh,  Pa.,  for  espousing  the  cause  of  a 
young  man  by  the  name  of  Blanchard,  who  was 
mobbed  for  attempting  to  make  an  Abolition  speech. 
Neither  of  us  questioned  the  identity  of  the  young 
Abolitionist  with  the  senior  editor  of  the  Cynosure, 
and  the  elder  expressed  a  desire  to  meet  the  friend 
of  his  youth. 

Willimantic,  Conn.,  July  18. — Leaving  Balti- 
more I  reached  Philadelphia  at  9:30  p.  m.,  in  time 
to  see  the  New  York  train  "pull  out,"  but  not  in 
time  to  "get  aboard."  At  Crowell's  Temperance 
Hotel  I  was  comfortably  accommodated,  and  at  7:30 
A.  M.,  the  17th,  left  for  New  York,  regretfully  post- 
poning calls  on  friends  until  my  return  from  New 
England.  After  a  delightful  ride  I  was  soon  push- 
ing my  way  through  the  narrow  streets  of  that  great, 
throbbing  center  of  commerce  and  humanity  to 
Berlin  Slip,  and  to  the  office  of  Thomas  White, 
Esq.  He  sat  at  his  desk  in  usual  health,  but  show- 
ing that  time,  care  and  trials  leave  traces  on  the 
strongest,  the  bravest  and  most  exemplary  of  men. 
As  in  Baltimore,  so  in  New  York  my  search  for  pas- 
tors and  others  I  wished  to  see  was  unavailing,  and 
concluding  that  the  time  was  not  favorable  to  calling 
in  large  cities  I  secured  my  ticket  for  Willimantic. 
A  most  hearty  welcome  awaited  me  on  mv  arrival 
at  the  home  of  our  Bro.  J.  A.  Conant.  We  spent 
the  evening  reviewing  the  past,  canvassing  the  pres- 
ent and  planning  for  the  future.  He  is  sxill  the 
staunch,  uncompromising  advocate  of  anti-secrecy 
and  Prohibition.  He  is  quite  satisfied  with  General 
Fisk,  but  not  so  clear  about  Brooks.  With  many 
others  he  would  like  "more  light"  When  W.  T. 
Mills  was  here  some  two  years  ago  he  was  the  guest 
of  Bro.  Conant.  When  interrogated  on  his  lodge 
relations,  he  said  he  once  belonged  to  the  Good 
Templars,  but  had  seldom  attended  since  his  mar- 
riage. Subsequent  developments  led  to  further  in- 
quiry, and  Bro.  Conant  would  be  glad  to  know 
whether  or  not  he  is  in  active  connection  with  the 
Masonic  or  other  secret  orders.  It  is  due  to  the 
cause  and  to  its  friends  that  they  should  not  be  left 
to  distrust  and  doubt  in  so  vital  a  matter.  From 
here  I  go  to  Boston  via  Putnam  and  Worcester,  and 
hope  to  meet  Miss  Flagg  at  her  home  on  Friday. 

WoaeESTER,  Jdly  19,  1888. — This  is  the  third 
point  at  which  I  have  stopped  since  coming  into 
New  England.  At  each  I  find  friends  who  say 
something  more  ought  to  be  done  to  defeat  the 
lodge  rascality  and  enlighten  the  people,and  express 
a  desire  to  help.  The  plan  of  employing  an  agent 
for  New  England  meets  with  favor.  Bro.  Buck  at 
Putnam  looks  upon  the  movement  as  a  Christian 
and  also  as  a  man  of  experience  in  legislative  bod- 
ies. He  holds  strongly  to  the  idea  of  a  political 
anti-lodge  journal  in  Washington  as  the  best  means 
of  reaching  the  largest  number  of  people.  There 
ought  to  be  a  paper  in  Washington  that  should  take 
the  same  attitude  toward  the  lodge  that  the  Nation- 
al Era  did  to  slavery.  He  felt  quite  sure  that  such 
a  paper  would  be  sustained,  and  said  he  was  willing 
to  do  his  part.  J.  P.  Stoddard. 


Licentiousness  is  as  common  nearly,  if  not  quite,  as 
on  the  old  plantations.  One  woman  who  lives  at 
the  entrance  of  one  of  these  alleys,  who,  as  a  Chris- 
tian, is  trying  to  keep  her  daughters  undefiled,  said 
to  me,  "If  you  want  a  child  ruined,  you  have  only 
to  turn  it  loose  in  one  of  these  places.  I  would  not 
live  in  the  alley  could  I  afford  to  pay  rent  else- 
where." A  policeman,  whose  beat  takes  him  through 
the  alley  near  us,  said,  "But  few  people  realize  the 
depths  of  wretchedness,  vice  and  degradation 
reached  by  the  people  in  these  back  places  of  abode." 

This  is  a  terrible  state  of  things.  There  is  no 
use  of  trying  to  cover  it  up.  Rather  let  God's  peo- 
ple try  to  solve  the  problem  and  apply  the  remedy. 
It  is  almost  useless  to  try  to  reform  the  adults,  but 
with  the  children,  if  they  can  be  gathered  in  and 
instructed,  we  may  hope  for  large  results;  and  this 
can  only  be  done  by  personal  effort;  visiting  in  these 
by-ways  and  gathering  them  in,  not  in  large  num- 
bers, but  by  having  a  school  near  every  alley,  con- 
ducted by  Christian  women.  If  they  are  made  to 
feel  that  you  have  an  interest  in  their  temporal  as 
well  as  spiritual  affairs,  you  can  then  mould  their 
characters  as  the  potter  does  the  clay.  I  am  con- 
vinced more  and  more  that  the  efforts  now  being  put 
forth  but  touch  the  surface,  while  underneath  is  a 
seething  mass  of  humanity  that,  could  we  see  it  as 
God  does,  we  should  start  back  with  horror. 

May  the  Christian  people  of  this  and  other  large 
cities  be  led  to  realize  the  true  state  of  affairs,  and 
reach  down  into  these  depths  of  iniquity,  and  pluck 
souls  as  "brands  from  the  burning."  Christ  died 
for  all,  and  we,  his  co-workers,  must,  if  we  clear  our- 
selves and  have  stars  in  our  crown  of  rejoicing, 
be  up  and  doing,  not  refusing  any  work,  however 
repulsive  to  our  senses,  remembering,  "Inasmuch  as 
ye  did  it  not  to  the  least  of  these,  my  brethren,  ye 
did  it  not  to  me." 

The  school  is  prospering  well,  and  is  indebted  to 
T.  B.  Arnold  for  a  large  package  of  papers  donated, 
also  to  the  Wesleyan  Publishing  House,  and  cards 
from  Bessie,  Louis  and  Ellen  Kellogg,  with  a  pack- 
age of  papers.  Mr.  Stoddard  is  in  New  England, 
and  I  am  holding  the  fort  with  the  help  of  the  Lord. 
A  package  of  papers  just  in  by  mail  from  Ella 
White,  Wenona,  III,  aged  8  years.  The  Lord  bless 
the  children.    Yours  in  Christ, 

Anna  E.  Stoddard. 


Later— Miss  Flagg  Engaged.— From  Boston  Bro. 
Stoddard  writes  on  Friday  that  he  had  arranged  with 
Miss  Flagg  to  begin  the  New  England  work  August  1st. 
Her  health  is  excellent,  but  a  lameness  yet  remains  from 
her  accident  of  last  winter.  The  New  England  friends 
will  heartily  endorse  this  engagement  and  support  their 
agent  with  enthusiasm. 


8CE00L   AND  MISSION    WORK  IN    WASHING 
TON. 


July  18,  1888. 
Dear  Cynosure: — I  have  read  in  the  past  few 
months  several  articles  by  able  writers  on  the  char- 
ities and  benevolence  of  Washington;  and  since 
coming  to  the  city  have  been  deeply  interested  in 
looking  into  such  work,  trying  to  learn  whether  the 
class  of  people  who  need  it  most  have  been  reached. 
It  is  true  that  Washington,  by  its  Christian  people, 
is  putting  forth  a  mighty  effort  to  evangelize  the 
masses;  many  are  taking  up  the  street  preaching, 
tent  and  hall  work,  thereby  reaching  very  many  who 
are  strangers  to  the  church;  but  underneath  the  sur- 
face, as  seen  by  the  workers  and  the  casual  observer, 
lies  a  mass  of  vice  and  sin  unrebuked,  hardly  real- 
ized, and  but  little  noticed.  This  is  not  confined  to 
the  colored  people  alone,  though  they  far  outnum- 
ber the  white.  Here,  as  in  no  other  city,  the  poor 
people  are  huddled  together  in  alleys  over  stabler, 
verily  in  the  by-ways  and  hedges.  But  few  of  them 
ever  go  to  church  or  Sabbath-school.  Many  of  the 
children  are  kept  out  of  the  public  school,  and  if 
they  hear  the  name  of  God  it  is  only  in  profanity. 


BB FORMS  HAVE  A  TIDAL  MOVEMENT. 

Delay  AN,  Wis.,  July  16,  1888. 

DearCinosurb: — There  are  some  old  proverbs 
that  are  untrue,  or  at  least  misleading.  One  of  these 
is  that  "reforms  never  go  backward."  The  truth  is 
that  all  reforms  have  their  periods  of  advance  and 
and  retrocession.  They  are  like  the  waves  of  the 
sea:  the  tide  may  be  slowly  rising,  but  after  each 
incoming  wave  there  is  a  back-flow  nearly  equal  to 
any  that  has  preceded  it.  It  has  ever  been  thus — 
temperance,  anti-slavery  and  the  general  cause  of 
Christianity  are  full  of  illustrations.  From  the  time 
of  the  adoption  of  the  United  States  Constitution  to 
about  1832,  there  was  an  almost  steady  decline  of 
anti-slavery  feeling.  At  the  beginning  of  that  period 
Virginia  aad  Pennsylvania  took  the  lead  in  agita- 
tion. At  its  close  it  was  almost  as  much  as  a  man's 
life  was  worth  to  be  known  in  some  quarters  as  an 
Abolitionist.  In  1833  the  tide  began  to  rise,  and  in 
just  thirty  years  it  had  burst  all  barriers  and  the 
legal  status  of  the  slave  system  was  forever  over- 
thrown. 

Nor  would  it  be  just  to  say  that  during  the  pre- 
ceding forty  years  there  had  been  less  of  the  love  of 
liberty  than  in  the  thirty  that  followed.  The  people 
of  the  nation  had  been  occupied  by  other  things. 
They  were  getting  ready  for  their  great  task.  Dr. 
Lyman  Beecher  was  once  asked  why  Massachusetts 
had  repealed  her  "fifteen  gallon  law?"  He  said  that 
that  Stat«  had  not  gone  backward  in  the  temperance 
work,  but  "she  had  let  go  to  spit  on  her  hands." 

There  is  here  in  southern  Wisconsin,  and  largely 
all  over  the  North,  a  partial  suspension  of  the  anti- 
secrecy  agitation.  Local  organizations  have  been 
given  up.  Anti-masonic  churches  have  removed 
their  testimonies,  and  some  orators  that  were  both 
bold  and  eloquent  against  the  lodge  are  now  silent, 
if  not  indifferent.  Has  the  cause  gone  backward? 
Only  as  the  wave  goes  back  that  another  may  sweep 
still  farther  upward.  I  find  the  old  friends  of  our 
reform  all  faithful  and  true.  They  have  abated 
not  one  jot  or  tittle  of  their  abhorrence  of  the 
secret  lodge  system.  Every  man  is  willing  to  re- 
spond to  the  claims  of  this  most  needful  reform,^ 
and  if  some  have  "let  go  that  they  may  spit  on  their 
hands,"  it  is  that  they  may  grasp  more  earnestly 
and  lift  the  harder.  One  popular  movement  usually 
absorbs  public  attention.  The  anti-slavery  agitation 
was  like  Aaron's  rod  that  became  a  serpent  and 


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THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


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swallowed  up  all  the  serpent-rods  of  the  magicians. 
Anti-masonry,  and  to  a  a;reat  extent  the  temperance 
reform,  were  held  in  abeyance  until  that  great  ques- 
tion was  determined.  Just  now  Prohibition  has 
come  to  the  front.  The  best  people,  the  Christian 
reformers,  see  in  it  the  immediate  pressing,  practical 
issue  of  the  times,  and  they  propose  to  get  rid  of 
one  enemy  before  assailing  another.  Yet  they  have 
not  forgotten  the  plague-spot  of  lodgery.  Like 
Wendell  Phillips,  they  hold  that  this  is  to  be  "the 
next  great  popular  movement." 

I  find  some  of  our  brethren  are  like  the  apostles, 
"troubled  on  every  side,  but  not  disturbed;  per- 
plexed, but  not  in  despair;  persecuted,  but  not  for- 
saken; cast  down,  but  not  destroyed."  (2  Cor.  4:  8,  9  ) 
I  have  visited  our  friends  at  Sharon,  Dalavan  and 
Walworth.  They  all  feel  a  warm  interest  in  the 
work  in  the  South.  Because  of  the  drought  of  last 
year  they  have  little  ability  to  give,  and  I  have  only 
added  $45  to  subscription  in  these  places. 

I  preached  twice  on  Sabbath,  once  in  the  Baptist 
church  in  Walworth,  and  once  in  the  Union  Congre- 
gational church,  of  North  Walworth.  The  latter  is 
a  new  organization,  with  a  new  and  very  nice  house 
of  worship.  It  is  ministered  to  by  Rev.  Collier,  the 
the  long  time  pastor  of  the  Congregational  church 
at  Delavan.  In  both  places  1  had  full  congrega- 
tions, and  a  most  attentive  hearing,  and  my  testi- 
monies against  the  lodge  system  were  most  kindly 
received.  But  for  the  great  press  of  the  haying 
season  I  should  have  had  some  extra  meetings.  The 
Seventh  Day  Baptist  church,  of  Walworth,  is  in 
sympathy  with  us— at  least  its  pastor.  Rev.  Bab- 
cock,  is — and  would  doubtless  be  open  to  us.  I 
hope  Walworth  county  will  be  visited  by  some  of 
our  lecturers  after  the  fall  election.  Yours  for 
Christ,  H.  H.  Hinman. 


THE  LOUISIANA  BAPTIST  aVATB    CONVEN- 
TION. 

Davbnport,  La.,  July  13, 1888. 

Dbar  Cynosure: — I  left  New  Orleans  on  the  10th. 
After  riding  a  distance  of  330  miles  we  reached 
Shreveport  near  midnight.  At  Antioch  Baptist 
church  we  met  a  cordial  reception  and  a  crowded 
house,  patiently  awaiting  our  arrival.  Elder  Luke 
Allen,  the  pastor,  had  a  comfortable  place  prepared 
for  each  of  the  delegates;  and,  although  not  a  dele- 
gate, yet  I  was  comfortably  entertained  by  sister 
Mary  Hunt. 

The  Baptist  State  Convention  was  called  to  order 
at  noon  by  the  president,  John  Marks;  and  at  a 
glance  it  was  evident  that  the  secretists  were  work- 
ing hard  to  defeat  Bro.  Marks,  and  elect  a  secretist 
as  president.  There  are  about  15,000  inhabitants  in 
this  city,  with  ten  colored  and  seven  white  churches, 
and  legions  of  lodges.  The  elegant  white  Baptist 
church  on  Texas  street  has  this  inscription  in  its 
corner-stone, 

"FIRST   BAPTIST    CHURCH   OF    SHREVEPORT, 

erected  A.  D.,  1845— A.  L.  5879." 

From  this  you  can  draw  a  conclusion  of  what  se- 
cretism  is  here.  This  city  was  the  Confederate  cap- 
ital at  one  time,  after  the  surrender  of  New  Orleans. 
Gov.  B.  F.  Flanders  was  appointed  military  govern- 
or of  Southern  Louisiana,  and  Gov.  Allen  of  North 
Louisiana  established  his  seat  of  government  in 
Shreveport.     This  is  Louisiana's  second  city. 

Rev.  A.  M.  Newman  preached  the  annual  educa- 
tional sermon  Wednesday  night.  His  sermon  was 
one  of  the  most  forcible  I  ever  heard.  Bro.  New- 
man was  hoodwinked  into  the  Mason's  lodge  several 
years  ago,  but  he  very  soon  saw  his  error  and  re- 
nounced secretism.  Rev.  L.  M.  Luke,  of  Marshall, 
Texas,  was  introduced  to  the  convention  on  Tues- 
day, and  spoke  fifteen  minutes,  and  wound  up  with 
a  hearty  endorsement  of  the  Odd-fellows  and  Im- 
maculates. 

Many  handsome  new  buildings  are  going  up 
here,  at  a  cost  of  from  $40,000  to  $60,000  each. 
This  is  a  very  hilly  city,  with  five  diflferent  railroads. 
Most  of  the  colored  people  are  alike  in  most  cities, 
that  is,  they  are  very  poor.     Wages  are  ordinary. 

The  election  of  officers  for  the  convention  took 
place  on  Thursday.  Rev.  A.  M.  Newman  was  unan- 
imously elected  for  president  and  Rev.  A.  S.  Jack- 
son recording  secretary  and  Rev.  A.  Hubbs  treas- 
urer. The  secretists  put  up  Rev.  John  Marks  against 
Bro.  Newman;  but  praise  the  Lord  for  our  trium- 
phant success.  Although  Bro.  Marks  has  served 
with  credit  for  the  past  six  years,  yet  when  the 
lodgeites  saw  they  could  not  elect  a  Masonic  presi- 
dent they  quickly  nominated  Bro.  Marks  against 
Bro.  Newman,  but  God  overruled.  Rev.  Thompson, 
a  delegate,  after  learning  my  mission  here,  began  to 
abuse  every  man  who  denounced  seoretism.  He 
s&id  a  Q)aQ  should  oot  enter  bis  bouse  with  a  copy 


of  the  Cynosure; — neither  should  a  man  who  leaves 
a  lodge  and  speaks  against  it  have  a  morsel  of  bread 
from  his  house,  if  he  knew  it. 

I  go  from  here  to  Boyce.  Rerv.  L.  Allen,  pastor 
of  Antioch  church,  is  the  only  pastor  here  who  open- 
ly opposes  secretism.  I  expect  to  preach  for  Rev. 
Alexander's  church  Sunday  night,  and  at  Antioch 
church  Monday  night.        Francis  J.  Davidson. 

m  ■  m 

REPORTS  FROM  NORTHWESTERN  OHIO. 

FiNDLAY,  0.,  July  17,  1888. 

Dear  Cynosure:— While  farmers  are  engaged  in 
securing  their  grain,  I  am  harvesting  Cynosure  sub- 
scriptions, and  doing  personal  work.  I  see  by  my 
book  that  I  have  taken  tbirty-six  new  subscriptions 
thus  far  since  coming  to  this  section.  It  is  a  cus- 
tom among  successful  farmers  to  first  cut  a  swath 
around  the  field  they  intend  to  harvest  with  the 
cradle  in  order  to  secure  all  the  grain  possible;  so  in 
the  reform  field  much  preparatory  work  is  needed 
before  successful  meetings  and  conventions  can  be 
held. 

I  have  visited  Kenton,  Lima,  Elida,  AUentown, 
Wapakoneta,  Mt.  Cory  and  Cannonsburg.  I  ad- 
dressed good  audiences  in  AUentown,  Elida  and 
Cannonsburg,  speaking  twice  In  each  place. 

There  are  two  United  Brethren  churches  in  Elida 
and  AUentown.  The  erection  of  the  new  churches 
in  these  places  was  largely  due  to  the  refusal  of  a 
number  to  support  a  minister  sent  to  them  who  was 
in  favor  of  doing  away  with  their  rule  excluding 
lodge  members.  The  locking  out  of  Bro.  Floyd 
from  the  church  at  Elida  by  a  minority  of  the 
trustees  added  new  fuel  to  the  flame.  In  short,  they 
were  compelled  to  erect  houses  of  their  own  to 
worship  God  according  to  the  old  United  Brethren 
way.  Above  the  door  of  the  neat  and  commodious 
edifice,  which  they  have  erected  in  AUentown,  ap- 
pears the  following:  "United  Brethren  in  Christ, 
under  the  constitution  and  confession  of  faith  of 
1841,  A.  D." 

Some  years  ago  Rev.  John  Levington  gave  some 
lectures  against  the  lodge  in  the  U.  B.  church  here. 
One  evening  a  mob  of  secretists  and  sympathizers 
gathered.  A  large  stone  was  thrown  through  the 
window,  striking  the  stove  near  Bro.  Levington. 
The  hole  still  romains  in  the  window  and  the  dent 
in  the  stove. 

I  spoke  in  the  United  Presbyterian  church  at 
Cannonsburg.  The  secretists  were  much  stirred. 
Many  of  the  friends  expressed  a  wish  to  hear  me 
further  when  not  so  much  pressed  with  farm  duties. 
Wheat  will  not  be  over  half  a  crop  in  this  section. 
Corn  and  oats  are  very  forward  and  bid  fair  to  be  a 
full  crop. 

This  city  is,as  they  say  out  West,  "booming."  It 
has  advanced  from  a  population  of  about  five  thou- 
sand to  nearly  nineteen  thousand  in  less  than  two 
years.  The  discovery  of  vast  supplies  of  natural 
gas  and  oil  have  given  it  this  wonderful  advance. 
I  have  been  royally  entertained  by  Mr.  J.  W.  Wil- 
son while  stopping  here.  I  expect  to  take  the  1:20 
train  for  Bowling  Green  and  will  report  further 
work  in  due  time.  W.  B.  Stoddard. 


A  FORTNIGHT  WITH   BRO.  HAW  LEI. 

Dear  Cynosure: — From  Adair  I  went  to  Dexter 
and  called  upon  the  United  Presbyterian  and 
Friends  ministers;  also  upon  J.  C.  Allen,  a  member 
of  the  U.  P.  church,  who  is  deeply  interested  in  our 
work.  He  gave  a  subscription  in  aid  of  the  Iowa 
work. 

From  Dexter  I  came  to  Earlham,  on  the  4th  of 
July.  The  Friends  were  holding  their  usual  fourth- 
day  meeting.  1  met  with  them  and  preached  the 
Gospel  of  freedom  from  sin  and  Satan's  power. 
That  same  day  I  went  on  to  Van  Meter,  where  there 
is  a  United  Brethren  church  in  the  town  and  an- 
other in  the  country,  about  five  miles  distant.  I 
rode  first  into  the  countrj.  A  violent  rainstorm 
came  on,  and  in  the  midst  of  it  we  reached  the  resi- 
dence of  Jacob  Qutshall,  one  of  the  pillars  of  the 
U.  B.  church  of  that  place.  We  were  kindly  re- 
ceived and  sheltered  for  the  night.  I  found  him  in 
hearty  sympathy  with  our  reform,  and  he  cheerfully 
donated  to  aid  in  carrying  it  on.  The  next  day  1 
saw  John  and  A.  H.  Shambaugh  and  A.  B.  Kirk- 
patrick,  all  of  whom  are  members  of  the  U.  B. 
church.  I  gave  literature  to  them  all  for  distribu- 
tion among  iheir  friends,  and  they  each  subscribed 
to  aid  the  Iowa  Association. 

Leaving  this  country  U.  B.  church,  I  returned 
with  Bro.  Kirkpatrick  to  Van  Meter,  and  saw  Bro. 
Charles  Hester,  one  of  the  "old  guards"  of  the  U. 
B.  church,  w&o  subscribed  to  the  Iowa  work,  as  did 
his  brother,  S.  R.  Hester;  also  Q.  E.  Trindle  and 
Eli  Golden.  I  was  introduced  to  the  pastor,  a  young 


man  who  has  labored  earnestly  to  build  up  the 
church,  but  his  eyes  are  holden  so  he  does  not  see, 
as  do  the  older  brethren,  the  evils  of  the  secret  so- 
ciety system. 

From  Van  Meter  I  went  to  the  Bear  Creek 
Friends'  church,  where  I  preached  on  Sabbath  morn- 
ing, July  8,  and  in  the  Friends'  church  in  Earlham 
in  the  evening.  On  Monday  I  resumed  the  distri- 
bution of  literature  and  my  canvass  for  donations 
and  subscriptions,  friends  Hightower  and  Nicholson 
cheerfully  responding.  At  the  North  Branch  meet- 
ing of  the  Conservative  Friends  Joseph  Beezley, 
who  sits  at  the  head  of  that  meeting,  manifested  a 
deep  interest  in  the  anti-lodge  reform,  and  cheer- 
fully contributed  to  aid  in  carrying  it  on,  as  did  also 
Austin  Mendenhall. 

From  North  Branch  I  returned  to  Bear  Creek  and 
preached  in  the  fourth-day  meetings  of  the  Pro- 
gressive Friends,  and  also  attended  the  meeting  of 
the  Conservative  Friends  at  the  same  place.  In  the 
canvass  that  followed  nine  of  the  Friends  and  Bro. 
Eli  Cronk,  a  member  of  the  United  Brethren  church, 
gave  substantial  aid.  I  arranged  with  W.  P.  Smith 
to  put  several  Anti-masonic  books  in  the  libraries 
of  the  monthly  meetings  of  the  Bear  Creek  quar- 
terly meeting. 

As  the  result  of  my  two  weeks'  work  I  have  thirty 
new  Cynosure  subscribers,  each  for  one  year.  Nine 
of  them  are  to  members  of  the  U.  B.  church;  twenty 
of  them  are  to  Quakers,  six  of  whom  are  ministers. 

Brethren,  pray  for  us.  And  you  who  owe  on 
Cynosure  subscriptions  taken  by  me,  and  you  whose 
subscriptions  to  the  Iowa  Association  are  due,  will 
confer  a  great  favor  by  remitting  as  soon  as  you 
can  conveniently  to  James  Harvey,  Pleasant  Plain, 
Jefferson  Co.,  Iowa,  treasurer  of  our  State  Associa- 
tion. C.  F.  Hawley. 


A  CYNOSURE  NEWSBOY. 


York,  Pa.,  July  17,  1888. 

Editors  Cynosure: — I  received  the  package  of 
fifty  Fourth  of  July  Cynosures  on  June  28,  and  the 
next  day  I  began  business  as  a  newsboy.  I  did  not 
cry  aloud  as  the  noisy  newsboys  do,  but  I  cast  loose 
my  tongue,  as  an  old  sailor  would  say,  and  in  three 
hours  I  sold  out,  at  four  cents  per  paper.  And  I  am 
of  the  opinion  that  a  New  York  newsboy  could  not 
have  done  any  better. 

York  has  about  forty  streets;  and  I  sold  out  on 
three  of  the  leading  ones.  By  going  from  house  to 
house  all  over  York  it  would  be  very  easy  to  sell 
eight  hundred  Cynosures,  at  four  cents  per  copy. 

I  suggest  that  a  good  number  be  prepared  for  the 
best  day  in  September;  and  that  all  readers  of  the 
Cynosure  either  order  some  to  sell,  or  buy  a  few  to 
distribute  free  to  thinkers  and  readers.  I  hereby 
order  two  hundred  copies  for  my  September  raid. 

I  have  long  been  convinced  that  the  anti-secret 

cause  and  the  Cynosure  could  both  be  advanced  if 

our  friends  will  go  to  work  in  the  right  way.    Pray, 

sing  and  talk;  but  don't /jrget  to  work!     Yours,  etc., 

Edward  J.  Chalfant. 


COLPORTEUR  NOTES. 


Beloit,  Wis.,  July  13. — We  came  to  Beloit 
Wednesday  evening,  worked  all  day  Thursday  and 
Friday  forenoon  among  the  ministers  of  the  place; 
were  very  successful.  Out  of  the  eight  that  we  vis- 
ited we  got  six.  The  Episcopal  is  the  only  minister 
in  town  connected  with  the  Masons;  others  are  con- 
nected with  insurance  societies.  We  have  had  the 
least  opposition  here  of  any  place.  We  attended 
prayer  meeting  last  night  at  the  Baptist  church; 
had  a  good  meeting  and  were  encouraged  and 
strengthened.  We  will  be  in  Rockford  over  the  Sab- 
bath. We  feel  encouraged  about  the  work;  are  not 
getting  very  many  names,  but  we  scatter  tracts  and 
talk  constantly.     Yours  truly,  L.  H.  Park. 


Marion,  Ind.,  July  19,  '88. — Since  Saturday  noon 
we  have  traveled  over  forty  miles  on  foot,  visiting 
the  following  places:  Fairview,  Van  Buren,  Up- 
land and  Harrisburg.  We  held  meeting  at  Fair- 
view,  a  Wesleyan  district  some  six  miles  out  of 
town.  We  chose  walking  as  the  most  economical 
and  expeditious  way  for  the  places  we  wanted  to 
visit  If  it  were  not  for  our  baggage  we  would  go 
afoot  all  the  time.  We  have  finished  the  work  in  this 
county  except  Warren,  which  we  expect  to  visit  to- 
day on  our  way  nortlieast  While  at  Van  Buren 
Mr.  Cochran  told  us  of  a  convention  of  United 
Brethren  churches  to  be  held  at  Waterloo,  Ind.,  July 
31  to  August  3,  and  advised  us  to  be  there.  The 
purpose  of  the  meeting  is  to  discuss  Masonry.  We 
are  planning  to  reach  that  place  in  time. 

F.  L.  JoeiNSTON. 


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THE  CHRISTLAJT  CYNOSURE. 


July  26, 1888 


CORRESPONDENCE. 


BBO.  GOVNTEE  AND  TEE  MEMPHIS  SCEOOL. 


Wellsville,  Ohio. 

Deae  Cynosubi: — I  am  here  on  the  hilltops  try- 
ing to  recuperate  my  lost  energies.  I  had  no  idea 
how  or  what  was  my  condition  until  I  reached  this 
rural  retreat,  and  here  I  am,  and  for  eight  days  I 
have  been  under  the  daily  care  of  a  physician.  My 
entire  nervous  system  is  let  down,  and  now,  away 
from  toil  and  the  bustle  of  my  regular  avocation,  I 
am  trusting  Him  who  hath  promised  for  a  speedy 
recovery. 

I  have  been  here  already  ten  days,  and  so  far  I 
have  improved  only  sufficient  to  remain  out  of  bed 
all  day  for  two  days.  I  am  among  kind  friends, 
and  God  more  than  all  cares  for  me.  There  are  very 
few  colored  people  here;  not  enough  to  have  a  church 
of  any  import. 

One  man  came  to -see  me  yesterday,  and  he  was  a 
Knight  Templar.  He  tried  to  have  me  recognize 
him  as  a  Mason,  and  I  could  not  do  it.  I  refused 
all  of  his  overtures  for  a  while,  and  finally  I  gave 
him  and  his  signs  out  to  the  family  with  whom  I 
stopped,  and  they  made  him  ashamed  and  angry, 
too.  There  is  no  colored  lodge  within  fifty  miles  of 
this  place,  and  this  man,  though  a  Mason,  has  not 
been  in  a  lodge  for  over  ten  years.  He  was  a  poor 
excuse,  and  very  ignorant. 

I  shall  be  here,  D.  V.,  until  the  25th  inst.,  by 
which  time  1  hope  to  be  able  to  take  the  field  in  the 
interest  of  our  school  at  Memphis.  This  school  is 
to  be,  like  the  Wheaton  school,  opposed  to  secret 
societies.  Bro.  J.  K,  Davis,  of  Concord,  Mich.,  is 
to  be  Principal.  The  building  now  in  course  of 
erection  is  to  be  three  stories,  brick,  and  will  be 
ready  for  occupation  by  Oct.  1. 

Bro.  Woodsmall  was  very  much  absorbed  in  this 
work,  and  gave  the  last  of  his  days  on  earth  to  its 
uprising.  The  bulk  of  our  people  in  the  South,  be- 
ing members  of  secret  societies,  are  opposed  to  the 
rearing  and  successful  operation  of  this  school. 
Last  year  the  school  work  was  done  in  my  church, 
"The  Tabernacle  Baptist,"  and  forty  ministers  at- 
tended for  three  months,  and  they  have  leavened  the 
country  for  over  one  hundred  miles,  and  we  hope  to 
have  Too  in  attendance  this  year.  We  need  $6,000 
to  complete  and  furnish  for  occupancy,  and  we 
earnestly  ask  all  who  will  to  aid  us  is  establishing  a 
school  that  will  do  more  good  to  thwart  the  evil  in- 
fluences of  secrecy  among  an  easily  seductive  race 
than  all  other  influences  combined.  This  school  will 
also  be  an  industrial  or  a  technical  institute  for  the 
young,  and  the  Bible  will  occupy  a  prominent  place 
in  all  branches  of  training  pursued  in  this  school 
I  am  soliciting  subscriptions,  or  expect  to  as  soon  as 
my  strength  will  admit.  I  will  visit  Chicago,  the 
Lord  willing,  by  August  25,  if  not  earlier.  I  ask 
the  prayers  of  all  those  who  love  God.  Yours  as 
ever,  R.  N.  Countee. 


"YOUNG   PEOPLE' 8   CERISTIAN  ENDEAVOR 
80CIBTIE8." 


Chicago,  July  19,  1888. 

These  societies  started  seven  years  ago,  and  al- 
ready command  the  attention  of  the  whole  country, 
and  some  foreign  lands.  But  with  much  to  com- 
mend them  there  is  need  to  watch  against  any  error 
in  their  constitution,  which  would  vitiate  their  Chris- 
tian purpose  which  is  aptly  expressed  in  these 
words:  "To  aid  Christ-  and  his  chueoh!"  If  we 
knew  that  Freemasons  had  control  of  the  "  United 
Society"  we  would  be  chary  in  trusting  its  profes- 
sion that  the  membership  owes  full  allegiance  to 
their  respective  churches,  when  we  read  that  their 
full  allegiance  is  also  due  to  the  society!  If  the 
"United  Society"  was  an  otf shoot  of  the  church 
there  would  be  no  difficulty,  but  it  professes  to  sup- 
port the  lamentable  "divisions"  which  exist,  and 
affirms  that  it  is  "no  part  of  their  work  to  break  down 
denominational  ideas."  This  seems  in  direct  vari- 
ance from  the  prayer  of  our  Lord  (John  17:)  for  the 
unity  of  his  people  "that  the  world  may  know" — 
"that  the  world  may  believe"  on  him.  The  world 
needs  to  see  a  visible  oneness  before  it  can  be  ex- 
pected to  believe  that  the  Father  sent  him. 

It  will  require  time  before  the  real  character  of 
this  great  movement  shall  be  truly  developed.  Its 
members  are  all  advised  to  war  against  the  saloon. 
But  there  is  no  warning  against  the  equally  danger- 
ous and  more  insidious  peril  to  our  civil  and  relig- 
ious interests  found  in  the  multitudinous  secret 
orders,  whose  members  acknowledge  no  higher  al- 
legiance. The  claims  of  church,  of  state,  and  even 
the  family,  are  secondary  to  that  of  the  oath-bound 
or  promise-bound    brotherhoods    and    sisterhoods 


which  overrun  our  once  free  country.  The  one  sure 
remedy  for  all  the  evils  of  our  people,  personal  and 
national,  is  to  aid  Christ  and  his  church  by  strict 
obedience  to  the  Lord  Jesus  Christ,  the  "one  Lord" 
of  the  "one  Body." 

We  could  submit  some  expressions  in  the  resolu- 
tions passed  by  the  late  convention  to  show  the  sort 
of  double  membership  in  the  one  "United  Society," 
and  in  one  of  the  many  churches.  The  question 
exists  on  the  fact  of  a  double  allegiance — the  one 
to  a  work  which  has  Christ-given  instructions  and 
ordinances — the  other  a  work  whose  laws  are  framed 
by  a  mingled  body  of  men  who,  in  their  own  wis- 
dom, shall,  decide  what  parts  of  public  worship  and 
ordinances  may  be  used  or  omitted  by  their  own 
workers.  If  a  Judas  was  among  the  Twelve  it 
would  be  too  much  to  suppose  that  however  good 
the  intentions  of  the  first  f ramers  of  the  resolutions 
may  be,  there  shall  not  be  found  men  in  the  United 
Society  ready  to  take  advantage  of  any  or  every 
thing  to  promote  their  personal  power  and  interests. 

T.  h. 


aE0EDBB8  AT  A    E0LINE8S  MEETING. 


Db  Kalb,  Iowa. 

I  attended  a  holiness  meeting  July  4th,  a  few 
miles'  from  Kellerton,  and  made  a  few  remarks 
about  the  lodge  in  the  morning  meeting.  It  did  not 
have  a  bad  effect,  as  "liberals"  are  wont  to  make  be- 
lieve, but  they  had  a  good  meeting.  They  make 
converts  from  the  lodge  to  Christ,  consequently  it 
does  not  take  the  shout  out  of  their  meetings  to  hit 
the  devil  on  the  secrecy  question,  if  a  man  does  it 
for  the  glory  of  God  and'  not  for  contention. 

In  the  afternoon  two  brethren  who  had  belonged 
to  the  Masonic  lodge  spoke  of  it  in  such  a  way  that 
did  not  glorify  lodge  religion.  One  of  them  said 
in  substance  that  he  had  been  a  Mason,  but  that  af- 
ter he  was  sanctified  he  only  attended  the  lodge 
a  few  months,  and  would  not  have  attended  any 
more  if  he  had  been  given  the  light  on  the  lodge 
question  at  the  time  of  his  sanctification.  As  soon 
as  he  received  the  light  he  walked  in  it. 

The  other  brother,  who  was  more  fortunate  in  re- 
ceiving light  on  the  lodge  question,  said,  "I  belonged 
to  the  Masons  a  good  many  years,  but  gave  it  up 
before  I  could  be  sanctified."  This  is  what  I  un- 
derstood the  brother  to  say. 

However  much  these  brethren  may  differ  with  me 
in  regard  to  church  organization  and  some  other 
things,  I  believe  them  to  be  Christians,  with  a  holy 
desire  to  exalt  Christ  above  everything  else,  and 
that  they  have  no  relish  for  the  dirty  streams  of  the 
world  which  Satan  controls.  All  Christians,  we 
would  think,  when  they  have  the  light  which  they 
need  and  ought  to  have,  will  exalt  Christ  above  the 
false  worships  of  the  lodge,  and  take  him  for  their 
"all  in  all."  "Rebuke"  evil,  not  good,  "with  all  long 
suffering  and  doctrine."  Give  the  light  in  the  name 
and  spirit  of  Christ.  It  is  required  of  them  that 
have  on  the  whole  armor  of  God.    Cyrus  Smith. 


PITE  AND  POINT. 


A  GREATER  POWER  IN  THE  TRUTH. 

Since  I  have  been  receiving  the  Cynosure  I  can  witness 
to  the  good  that  it  has  done.  I  carefully  read  the  paper 
and  found  it  was  a  power  greater  than  the  thrones  of  the 
anti' Christian  societies.  It  led  me  to  victory  in  the  fight 
against  the  secret  societies.  I  am  doing  all  in  my  power 
to  try  to  circulate  the  blessed  paper  in  our  midst. — (Rev.) 
E.  D.  Banks,  Jeanerette,  La. 

a  companion  of  gen.  pombroy. 

I  cannot  do  without  the  Cynosure;  have  taken  it  some 
ten  years,  and  I  fought  Masonry  long  before  I  saw  it. 
With  S.  C.  Pomeroy  I  began  to  fight  it  in  Kansas  in 
1854,  and  as  time  passed  it  grew  worse  I  still  keep  old 
John  Brown's  picture  hanging  in  my  room.  But  I  don't 
talk  80  much  as  I  ustd  to;  I  just  take  my  Cynosure  and 
read  to  them,  and  oh!  you  should  see  them  squirm.  If 
you  send  but  one  copy  to  this  office,  don't  think  it  goes 
under  a  bushel.  God  bless  the  right,  and  all  the  Cyno- 
sure brotherhood. — 8.  H.  Moore,  Garland,  Kansas, 

AN  ARKANSAS  CONTBIBUTOR. 

You  will  find  in  this  letter  a  money  order  for  $3.50; 
|2  to  pay  for  your  most  excellent  paper  and  50  cents  to 
be  applied  to  the  Southern  ministers'  fund.  I  see  how 
the  colored  ministers  arc  hoodwinked  and  duped  into 
the  different  lodges.  They  say  they  want  protection. 
It  is  a  bad  way  to  get  protection  to  bind  themselves  hand 
and  foot  and  swear  away  their  liberties  and  become 
slaves  to  the  devil.  I  hear  of  many  different  lodges  be 
log  organized.  I  oppose  them  and  give  them  the  Cyno- 
sure to  read,  and  see  some  fruit  of  my  labors. — Charles 
P.  Paget,  Charleston,  Ark. 

A  TRAITOR  TO  PROHrBITION  BUT  NOT  TO  MASONRY. 

In  my  last  when  speaking  of  the  Prohibition  party  J 
bad  special  reference  to  the  party  in  this  State,  and  not 


the  American  party.  But  to  answer  your  question. 
During  1886  one  Rsv.  Deo,  of  Oxford,  announced  him- 
self for  Prohibition.  He  was  elected  to  the  State  legis- 
lature. Now  this  learned  divine  is  well  up  in  Masonry. 
When  he  was  running  for  office  two  Democrats  of  Ox- 
ford, saloon-keepers  and  Masons  of  high  standing,  sent 
to  the  Democratic  committee  word  to  this  effect:  Stand 
by  Deo ;  he  is  liberal  both  in  religion  and  temperance. 
When  the  vote  was  taken  on  the  constitutional  amend- 
ment, his  vote  was  No,  Again,  I  ask,  what  will  we  do 
with  the  lodge  power?  Where  must  the  separation  take 
place?  WUl  the  Cynosure  solve  this  problem  for  me? 
For  me  to  keep  clear  in  my  soul,  I  must  vote  as  I  pray. 
O  my  God,  put  down  the  whisky  and  the  lodge  power  in 
our  country. — D.  Benjamin,  Seymour  Lake,  Mich. 

Note  — As  the  work  of  casting  out  the  saloon  pro- 
gresses, we  shall  learn  of  other  cases  like  the  above. 
The  lodge  will  always  stand  by  its  own  and  sell  out  the 
truth.    New  York  friends,  mark  this  case. 


LITERATURE. 


The  Great  Ptramed  of  Egypt— Its  Teaching  to  Us  as  a 
People.  A  Lecture  Delivered  at  Chautauqua.  By  Charles 
Latimer,  C.  E.    Price,  25  cents.    C.  H.  Jones,  Chicago,  111. 

The  iact  that  the  author  of  this  work — who  was 
Chief  Engineer  of  the  N.  Y.,  P.  &  0,  R.  R.— takes 
the  ground  that  the  Great  Pyramid  of  Egypt  was 
built  by  men  inspired  by  God,  will  render  it  inter- 
esting to  those  engaged  in  scientific  religious  in- 
vestigation. Mr.  Latimer  had  been  for  years  en- 
gaged— with  his  money  and  time — defending  and 
advocating  this — what  he  believed  to  be — a  great 
truth.  The  subject  matter  of  the  pamphlet  is  that 
which  was  given  by  him  in  a  lecture  at  Chautauqua 
which  created  much  interest.  That  the  builders  had 
some  object  in  the  construction  of  this  great  won- 
der of  the  world,  is  csrtain.  Its  mathematical  ac- 
curacy is  truly  surprising.  The  author  says:  "All 
that  it  has  revealed  teaches  us  that  it  will  reveal 
more,  and  that  we  have  not  more  than  reached  the 
threshold."  That  the  author  is  honest  in  his  in- 
vestigations there  is  no  doubt.  Whether  the  con- 
clusions are  tenable,  further  researches  of  men  of 
science  may,  and  probably  will,  determine. 

Alden's  Manifold  Cyclopedia  op  Knowledge  and  Lan- 
guage. Vol  6.  Bravo  to  CalviUe.  Price,  40  cents,  cloth. 
John  B.  Alden,  New  York. 

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convenience  of  handling  a  small  volume  of  refer- 
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open  an  immense  unabridged  dictionary,  the  very 
exertion  making  one  reluctant  to  use  it.  This  ob- 
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tions or  treatises,  but  a  book  for  home  use.  School 
children  will  find  an  excellent  part  of  their  educa- 
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books. 

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tle work  bearing  the  above  title.  It  is  a  collection 
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original  and  selected,  for  the  entertainment  of  the 
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THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSUBE. 


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Bione,"  "Dr.  Cnristlieb  on  Medical  Mis- 
sions," "The  Drink  Traffic  Among  Native 
Races,"  by  Dr.  Duncan  of  Scotland,  and 
Dr.  Cusi's  "Hero  Missionary."  We  know 
not  where  to  look  for  better  reading  than 
these  papers  afford.  The  "Correspond- 
ence," the  International,"  the  "Monthly 
Concert,"  the  "Monthly  Bulletin"  and 
the  "Editorial  Notes"  departments  are 
each  of  them  full  of  timely  thought,  fact 
and  discussion.  Funk  &  Wagnalla,  New 
York.     Yearly  price,  $3. 

Science  for  July  13  is  largely  devoted 
to  the  topic3  "Methods  of  Disinfection" 
and  "Protection  of  Buildings  from  Light- 
ning." These  are  subjects  of  great  pub 
lie  interest  and  are  discussed  in  a  critical 
and  scientific  manner.  The  conclusions 
reached  in  the  latter  are  in  favor  of  much 
simpler  means  of  protecting  buildings 
than  are  urged  by  the  lightning  rod 
agent  whose  bill  will  amount  to  from 
$75  to  the  hundreds.  Barbed  wire  for 
the  higher  parts  of  a  roof  and  telegraph 
wires  for  conductors  are  held  to  be  supe- 
rior to  the  expensive  copper  ornaments 
sometimes  spread  upon  a  building. 

In  Brief. 

A  little  son  of  Hiram  Rice  got  a  grain 
of  corn  lodged  in  his  throat  four  days 
ago  and  all  efforts  to  dislodge  it  failed. 
As  the  grain  of  corn  began  to  swell  it  in- 
terfered with  the  boy's  respiration,  but  he 
said  nothing  till  to  day,  when  the  grain 
closed  his  throat  and  he  died  in  horrible 
agony. 

The  insane  asylum  for  Negroes  at 
Qoldsboro,  N. C,  has  just  been  enlarged 
on  account  of  the  rapid  "increase  of  in- 
sanity among  the  colored  people.  Thirty 
years  ago  madness  was  almost  unknown 
among  the  Southern  Negroes,  but  now 
the  number  of  those  affected  in  North 
Caroling  alone  is  estimated  at  1,000. 

"Pa,  did  you  see  that  the  Supreme 
Court  of  this  State  has  decided  that  the 
hoe  is  a  deadly  weapon?"  "Yea,  son. 
Why?"  "O,  nothing;  only  as  garden 
time  is  coming  pretty  soon  I  thought  I'd 
mention  it  so  you  wouldn't  ask  me  vio- 
late the  law  by  carrying  deadly  weapons 
about  my  person." — Chicago  News. 

Several  years  ago  a  valuable  calf  .be- 
longing to  E.  O.  Bancroft  of  Warehouse 
Point,  sucked  a  diamond  ring  from  his 
finger  as  he  was  teaching  it  to  drink  milk. 
The  calf  grew  and  became  a  cow,  and  the 
other  day  died  mysteriously.  A  post- 
mortem examination  showed  that  the 
ring  had  recently  become  detached  from 
a  muscle,  where  it  had  hitherto  remained 
harmless,  and  had  been  the  cause  of 
death. 

Two  grown  daughters  of  Jacob  Nye,  a 
well-to-do  farmer  living  eight  miles  south 
of  Princeton,  111.,  were  adjudged  insane 
here  to-day,  and  will  be  sent  to  Jackson- 
ville for  treatment.  The  father  and 
mother  and  another  daughter  are  also  in- 
sane. The  family  of  five  were  all  struck 
with  this  strange  malady  the  same  day, 
and  physicians  are  unable  to  account  for 
the  cause,  as  all  were  well  a  few  days 
ago,  and  there  had  been  no  unusual  ex- 
citement in  the  neighborhood.  They 
spend  their  time  singing  and  praying, 
and  seem  to  fear  being  poisoned. 

July  4  at  Shell  Rock,  Iowa,  the  parents 
of  a  little  child  that  had  died,  buried  it  in 
their  door-yard  and  then  went  to  a  dance. 
When  the  citizens  learned  of  it  they  were 
greatly  scandalized,  and  it  was  openly 
charged  that  there  had  been  foul  play. 
The  mayor  ordered  an  investigation,  and 
it  has  just  been  ascertained  that  the  re- 
mains have  been  quietly  removed  and 
buried  on  a  farm. in  the  country.  A  phy- 
sician stated  that  in  his  opinion  the  child 
died  a  natural  death  and  it  is  probable 
that  no  further  steps  will  be  taken,  but 
the  peoplfe  of  Shell  Rock  strongly  de- 
nounce the  unfeeling  conduct  of  the  pa- 
rents. 

Old  Tim  Williams,  the  Lebanon,  Conn., 
hermit,  who  has  lived  alone  upon  a  small 
farm,  amid  underbrush  and  thicket,  his 
entire  life,  was  recently  found  dead. 
His  largest  hive  of  bees  swarmed  upon  a 
huge  apple  tree  just  back  of  his  hut. 
Fearing  that  they  would  escape,  the  old 
man  climbed  the  tree,  a  distance  of  twon- 
ty-flve  feet.  He  fell  to  the  ground,  stir- 
ring up  the  bees  in  his  descent.  The 
bees  followed  him  down  and  completely 
covered  him,  stinging  him  hundreds  of 
times.  With  one  leg  broken  broken,  the 
cage  torn  from  his  face,  and  too  weak  to 


fight  the  insects,  he  was  practically  at 
their  mercy,  and  they  stung  the  old  man 
to  death. 

The  Chicago,  Burlington  &  Quincy  has 
been  experimenting  with  a  palace  live- 
stock car  of  its  own  invention  with  very 
satisfactory  results.  The  proprietors  of 
one  of  the  patent  stock  cars  now  in  use 
on  some  of  the  railroads  were  challenged 
to  a  contest  recently.  Two  of  the  patent 
cars  and  two  of  the  Burlington  cars  were 
loaded  with  cattle  at  Omaha,  coupled  to- 
gether, and  hauled  to  Chicago,  stopping 
over  Sunday  at  Galesburg.  where  the  cat- 
tle were  accorded  the  same  treatment. 
The  weight  of  the  cattle  in  each  pair  of 
cars  was  the  same  at  starting,  50,500 
pounds.  On  their  arrival  at  Chicago  the 
Burlington  cattle,  it  is  claimed,  weighed 
51,110  pounds,  while  that  in  the  other 
cars  weighed  51,070. 

There  is  arising  in  South  America  a 
nation  which  bids  fair  to  compete  with 
the  United  States  in  enterprise  and  pop- 
ulation. During  the  last  year  the  Argen  - 
tine  Republic  added  five  thousand  miles 
of  railroad  to  the  four  thousand  which 
had  been  built  before.  There  will  this 
year  be  two  hundred  thousand  immi- 
grants, chiefly  from  the  south  of  Europe. 
There  are  over  three  thousand  public 
schools,  and  two  hundred  and  thirty 
thousand  scholars.  The  chief  cities  are 
lighted  with  the  electric  light,  and  abun- 
dantly supplied  with  telephones.  During 
1887  four  thousand  vessels  entered  the 
ports,  and  the  revenue  of  the  government 
left  a  surplus  of  six  million  dollars  over 
the  expenses. 

An  Akron  special  to  the  Cincinnati 
Commtrcial  Oazette  says:  "A  peculiar 
case  of  accidental  shooting  occurred  in 
this  city.  Frank  Lang,  a  q  uarryman,  was 
painting  in  a  sitting  room  of  his  house, 
on  Wabash  avenue,  when  the  report  of  a 
pistol  was  heard,  and  neighbors  ran 
quickly  to  the  houae  to  find  Lang  lying 
dead,  and  a  bullet  hole  under  hia  right 
eye.  The  weapon,  a  rusty  23  caliber  re- 
volver, lay  on  a  shelf  in  a  pantry,  at  least 
ten  feet  away,  the  muzzle  pointing  toward 
the  wall.  The  only  other  person  known 
to  have  been  in  the  house  at  the  time  was 
Frank  Killine,  aged  14  years,  brother  of 
Mrs.  Lang.  He  says  he  was  in  the  kitchen 
when  he  heard  the  shot.  The  revolver 
had  been  left  in  the  house  by  a  family 
moving  out,  and  had  not  been  used  for 
years.  How  the  weapon  could  have  been 
discharged  and  yet  remain  on  the  shelf 
is  one  of  the  strangest  affairs  that  has 
ever  taken  place  in  this  city." 


8WBET    FIjOWJEKS. 


The  fairest  buds  are  often  the  first  to 
wither,  and  the  ravages  of  disease  make 
havoc  with  the  beauty,  as  well  as  the 
strength  and  happiness  of  the  fair  sex. 
The  prevalent  disorders  among  American 
women  are  those  of  a  most  distressing 
description.  These  "weaknesses,"  as  they 
are  suggestively  termed,  insidiously  sap 
the  health,  and  the  patient  becomes  pale 
and  emaciated,  the  appetite  grows  fickle 
and  feeble;  she  loses  strength  as  the  at- 
tacks increase  in  severity,  and  is  in  de- 
spair. There  is  relief  for  all  such  suffer- 
ers in  Dr.  Pierce's  world-famed  Favorite 
Prescription,  which  cures  all  "female 
complaints."  Ita  use  is  followed  by  ces- 
sation of  the  "dragging  down"  pains,  re- 
turn of  appetite,  and  in  due  course,  vig- 
orous health. 


SECRET  SOCIETIES  CON- 
»DEMNED 


If  you  wish  to  restore  the  bloom  to 
your  wasted  cheek,  and  so  improve  your 
health  that  plumpness  and  strength  will 
succeed  emaciation  and  debility,  purify 
your  blood  with  Ayer's  Sarsaparilla.  This 
remedy  will  benefit  you  more  surely  and 
speedily  than  any  other. 


"I  can  heartily  say  to  any  young  man 
who  is  wanting  good  employment,  work 
for  Johnson  «&  Co.,  follow  their  instruc- 
tion and  you  will  succeed."  So  writes  an 
agent  of  B.  F.  Johnson  &  Co.,  lOOS)  Main 
St.,  Richmond,  Va  ,  and  that's  the  way 
all  of  their  men  talk. 

Minnesota  Leads  the  World 

With  lior  Htock,  fliitry  iiml  (jruiii  pnuliicts. 
2,0011,000  acros  (ino  t  imbtT,  fiirmliiii  nmi  (jra/iiiR 
lauds,  adjiiceiit  to  railroud,  tor  mile  i'hoii|>  on 
ra.sv  tonus.  Kor  n\iipn,  pruvs,  rvtcs,  etr. 
iiildi'o.'w,  J.  nooltwiilttM-,  Lain!  Commissioner,  oi 
C.  H.  Warren,  General  B  m  •'•nmuL  B 
Passonm'r  Agent,  St.  Bfl  M,~N|i.ou»  ■ 
Paul.    Minn.  MANITaBA 


43Jc  for  Book  H. 


BY  EMINENT  EDUCATORS. 

Pbbsident  F.  H.  M.  Hendekson, 
Bovodon  College,  Oa.: — I  regard  all  secret 
societies  as  extremely  liable  to  be  per- 
verted. 

Pbesedent  Noah  Porter,  Tale  Col- 
lege: — That  there  are  serious  evils  con- 
nected with  them  cannot  be  questioned; 
that  they  accomplish  some  good  is  equally 
clear. 

President  Hitchcock,  Amherst  Col- 
lege:— These,  at  different  periods,  have 
been  fruitful  sources  of  excitement,  jeal- 
ousy, and  heart  burning  among  the  stu- 
dents. 

Joseph  Moore,  President  Earlham 
College: — The  fact  that  Freemasonry 
often  thwarts  every  effort  to  enforce  the 
law  against  an  offender  who  is  of  the 
frateinity,  shows  it  to  be  an  obstacle  to 
moral  and  civil  progress. 

Howard  Crosby,  D.  D.,  Chancellor 
University,  New  Fori;— Thirty  years  ago 
I  was  a  member  of  a  college  secret  soci- 
ety, and  while  I  had  upright  fellow-mem- 
bers, and  we  encouraged  literary  culture, 
I  found  the  association  was  chiefly  a  temp- 
tation to  vice. 

Prof.  J.  R.  Jacques,  Illinois  Wes- 
leyan  University: — Among  college  stu- 
dents, at  an  age  when  most  susceptible, 
secret  societies  tend  to  breed  that  secret- 
ive disposition  which  is  the  very  oppo- 
site of  the  truly  candid,  generous,  and 
magnanimous  character. 

Dr  Beyschlaq,  Professor  in  the  Uni- 
versity of  Ealle: — Never  entertain  the 
iden  to  join  the  lodge  for  popularity's 
sake.  It  is  utterly  degrading  to  imagine 
pastors,  men  who  have  to  deal  with  Chris- 
tianity, the  most  universal  and  open  thing 
in  the  world,  wrapped  up  in  the  mum- 
meries of  Freemasonry. 

Pres.  J.  Blanchard;— There  have 
been  civil  and  ecclesiastical  pests  ever 
since  there  was  a  government  and  relig- 
ion; and  Freemasonry  is  one  of  those 
pests.  The  Cains  of  humanity  have  re- 
jected Christ  and  worshiped  nature,  and 
Nimrods  have  denied  justice  and  prac- 
ticed oppression,  But  both  are  combined 
in  the  lodge . 

Prof.  J.  R.  W.  Sloahb,  D.  D.,  Re- 
formed Presbyterian  Theological  Semin- 
ary:— But  my  strongest  opposition  to 
Masonry  is  because  of  its  rivalry  with  re- 
ligion. It  steps  in  before  the  church, 
and  is  a  false,  an  idolatrous  religion,  a 
religion  without  a  Saviour  and,  there- 
fore, a  delusion  and  a  snare  to  all  who 
engage  in  it,  or  rest  their  hope  upon  it. 

Prof.  Burt  G.  Wilder,  Cornell  Uni- 
versity, Ithaca,  N.  7.: — I  am  willing  to 
hazard  my  position. . .  .upon  the  truth  of 
the  proposition  that  secret  societies  are 
unknown  in  heaven,  but  that  they  form 
a  prominent  and  essential  feature  of  life 
in  the  other  locality.  Light  versus  dark- 
ness; openness  versus  mystery;  mutual 
confidence  versus  suspicion  and  distrust. 

Prof.  S.  C.  Bartlett,  D.  D.,  Chica- 
go Theological  Seminary: — There  are  cer- 
tain other  wide  spread  organizations,  such 
as  Freemasonry,  which,  we  suppose,  are 
in  their  nature  hostile  to  good  citizenship 
and  true  religion,  because  they  exact  ini- 
tiatory oaths  of  blind  compliance  and  con- 
cealment, incompatible  with  the  claims  of 
equal  justice  toward  man  and  a  good  con- 
science toward  God. 

Prof.  J.  G.  Carson,  D.  D.,  Xenia, 
Ohio: — These  associations  are  inconsist- 
ent with  the  genius  of  Christianity,  be- 
cause the  secrecy  which  they  affect,  and 
to  which  they  bind  their  members  by 
promise  or  oath,  is  unnecessary  and  so 
unwarrantable,  dangerous,  and  ensnaring 
to  the  conscience,  and,  therefore,  utterly 
opposed  to  that  openness  and  publicity 
which  Christ  enjoins  on  his  disciples  both 
by  example  and  precept. 

Pkksident  C.  G.  Finney,  of  Oberlin, 
JSOS:-'Wo  have,  then,  the  implied  testi- 
mony of  Freemasons  themselves,  that  the 
Christian  church  ought  to  have  no  fel- 
lowship with  Freemasonry  as  thus  re- 
vialed,  and  that  those  who  adhere  intel- 
ligently and  determinedly  to  such  an  in- 
stitution have  no  right  to  be  in  the  Chris- 
tian church.  In  our  judgment  we'are 
forced  lo  the  same  conclusion,  we  cannot 
escape  from  it, we  wish  it  were  otherwise, 
we  therefore  sorrowfully  but  Bolemnll 
pronounce  this  judgment. " 


N.  C.  A.  BUILDING  AND  OTJlCWi  OI 
THI  CHRISTIAN   CTNOBUR*, 
Vn.  WIST  MADISON  BTRKIT,  CHICAQC 


NA  'TIONAL  CEHIS  TjAJf  A880CIA  TJOM 

Pbestdkut.— H.  H.  George,  D.  D.,  Qen^ 
eva  College,  Pa. 

VicB-PRESiDKHT — Rev.  M.  A.  Gatilt, 
Blanchard,  Iowa. 

Cob.  Sbc'y  and  Gbhbbal  AesHT. — J 
P.  Stoddard,  221 W.  Madisonst.,  Chicago. 

Rbc.  Sbc'y.  and  Tbbasubbb. — W.  I 
Phillips,  221  W.  Madison  St.,   Chicago 

Directors.— J.  L.  Barlow,  C.  A. 
Blanchard,  A.  J.  Chittenden,  H.  A.  Fisch- 
er, John  Gardner,  G.  R.  Milton,  Wm.  Mor- 
row, L.  N.Stratton,  John  Sutcliffe,  Alex- 
ander Thomson,  E.  R.  Worrell. 

The  object  of  this  Association  Is: 

"To  expose,  withstand  and  remove  secret 
•ocieties,  Freemasonry  in  particular,  and  otbef 
anti-Christian  rciovements,  in  order  to  save  tbl 
churches  of  Christ  from  being  uepraved,  to  i» 
deem  the  admlnl6tr»tion  of  justice  from  pep- 
version,  and  our  t^p  ibllcan  government  from 
corruption." 

To  carry  on  this  work  contributions  are 
solicited  from  every  friend  of  the  reform. 

Form  of  Bequest. — 7  give  and  bequeath  to 
the  National  Christian  Association,  incorpo- 
rated and  existing  under  the  laws  of  the  Stat« 

of   Illinois,  the  sum  of dollars  for  the 

purposes  of  said  Association,  and  for  whJrh 
the  receipt  of  its  Treasurer  for  the  time  beln{ 
^tiill  be  sufficient  disch&rae. 

THB  NATIONAL  OOITTBKTIOH. 

PBBStDJiiin'.— Rev.  J.  8.  T.  Milligan, 
Denison,  Eans. 

Sbcrbtaby.— Rev.  R.N.Countee,  Mem- 
phis, Tenn. 

btatb  auziliabt  absociationb. 

AiiABAKA.— Fres.,  Prof.  Pickens;  Sec.,  8. 
M.  Elliott;  Treaa.,  Rev.  C.  B.  Curtis,  aU  of 
Selma. 

Calctobhia.— Pres^  L.  B.  Lathrop,  HoUla 
ter ;  Cor.  Sec,  Mrs.  U.  P.  Merrill,  Woodland ; 
Treas.,  C.  Ruddock,  Woodland. 

CoiTNBCTiCTTT.— Pres..  J.  A.  Conant,  Willi 
mantle;  Sec,  Geo.  Smith,  Wllllniantlc ;  TrcM. 
C.  T.  ColllnB,  Wlndflor. 

IiiUHOis.— Pres.,  J.  P.  Stoddard;  Sec,  M. 
N.  BuOer;  Treas.,  W.  I.  PhllUpi  all  at  Cy- 
>u)ttirt  office. 

INDIA.H1..— Pres.,  WlUlam  H.  T\gg,  Reno 
Sec,  8.  L.  Cook,  Albion;  Treas.,  BenJ.  Ulsh 
Sliver  Lake. 

lowi..— Pre8.,Wm.  Johnston.College  Springe ', 
Cor  Sec,  C.  D.  Trumbull,  Morning  Sun* 
Treas.,  James  Harvey,  Pleasant  Plain,  Jeffer- 
son Co. ;  Lecturer,  C.  F.  Hawlev,  Wheaton,  111. 

Kansas.— Pres..  J.  S.  T.  Milflgan,  Denfson; 
Sec,  8.  Hart,  Lecompton;  Treas.,  J.  A.  Tor- 
rence,  Denison. 

Massaohusbtts.— Pres.,  S.  A.  Pratt;  Sec, 
Mrs.  K.  D.  Bailey;  Treas., David  Manning, Sr., 
Worcester. 

Michigan.— Pres.,  D.  A.  Richards,  Brighton 
Bec'y,  H.  A.  Day,  Wllllamston;  Treas.' 
Geo.  Swsmpon,  Jr.,  Bedfoia. 

MiNNHSOTA.— Pree.,  E.  G.  Paine,  Wasloja 
Cor.  Sec,  Wm.  Fenton,  St.  Paul ;  Kec  Sec'y 
Mrs.  M.  F.  Morrill,  St.  Charles;  Treas.,  Wb 
H.  Morrill,  St.  Charles. 

MlBBOUBi.— Pres.,  B.  F.  Miller,  Eagle vIU« 
Treas.,  William Beauchamp,  Avalon ;  Cor.  Bee.. 
A.  D.  "Ihomas,  Avalon. 

Nbbraska.— Pres.,  S.  Austin,  Falrmotut 
Cor.  Sec,  W.        Spooner,  Kearney;   Treas.^ 
j.C.  Fye. 

Mainb— Pree.,  Isaac  Jackson,  Harrison - 
Sec,  I.  D.  Haines,  Dexter;  Treas,,  H.  W. 
Goddard,  West  Sidney. 

NHwHAMPsniRB.— Pres.,  C.  L.  Baker,  Xian 
Chester;  Sec,  S.  C.  Kimball,  New  Market 
Treas.,  James  S.  French,  Canterbury. 

N«w  York.— Pres.,  F.  W.  Capwcll,  Dale; 
Sec'y,  John  Wallace,  Syracuse;  Treas.,  M. 
Merrick,  Syracuse. 
)  Ohio.— Pres.,  F.  .M.  Spencer,  New  Concord', 
Rec  Sec,  8.  A.  George,  Mansfleld;  Cor.  Sec. 
and  Treas.,  C.  W.  hliit,  Columbus;  Agent 
W.  B.  Stoddard,  Columbus. 

PiHNBiLVANiA.— Cor.  8ec,  N.  Callender 
Thomp«*s ;  Treas.,  W.  B.Bertels,  Wllkesbarre. 

Vhbmokt.— Pres.,  W.  R.  Laird,  St.  John*, 
bury;  8«c,  C.  W  Potter. 

WiBOOjrsra.— Pres,,  J.  W.  Wood,    Baraboo; 
Sec,  W.  W.  Ames,  Menomonle;  Treas. ,  M.  B 
BrlttBH.  Vienna. 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


July  26, 1888 


The  Christian  Cynosure. 


J.  BLANCHARD. 


XSROBB. 


HINRT  L.  KSLLOGG. 


CHIOAeO,   THXratBDAT,   JULY   26,   1888. 


WHAT  SHALL    WB  DOt 

We  publish  below  a  private  letter,  without  the 
name  of  the  writer,  from  one  of  the  best  and  sound- 
est men  of  the  American  party  (and,  indeed,  of  any 
party),  for  two  reasons: 

1.  To  give  our  readers  the  benefit  of  his  thoughts. 

2.  To  explain  our  own. 

If  John  A.  Brooks  was  Prohibition  candidate  for 
governor  of  a  State  we  could  easily  set  him  aside, 
and  scatter  our  votes,  or  nominate  and  concentrate 
our  votes  upon  another.  But  we  cannot  now  get  up 
an  electoral  ticket  without  calling  a  national  con- 
vention, which  would  be  an  abortive  effort. 

Then,  we  are  not  sure  we  could  get  a  better  South- 
em  man  than  Mr.  Brooks.  He  is  an  able  speaker 
and  politician.  He  is  inured  to  reform,  and  came 
off  from  the  Democratic  party  and  made  a  most 
stem  and  desperate  fight  for  prohibition  in  Missouri. 
And  when  applied  to  by  our  committee  for  his  lodge 
standing,  he  wrote  with  the  frankness  of  a  Southern 
gentleman  and  a  Christian,  thus: 

"Tears  ago  I  was  a  Mason,  but  have  demltted,  and  am  not 
now  an  aflOillated  Mason.  Though  not  now  a  member  I  have  no 
prejudice  to  secret  societies." 

We  once  apologized  to  Glov.  St.  John  for  speak- 
ing as  though  we  knew  more  of  Masonry  than  he 
did.  He  replied:  "You  may  well  do  that;  for  since 
I  left  them  I  have  paid  no  more  attention  to  their 
proceedings  than  I  have  to  the  proceedings  of  the 
Hottentots."  Mr.  Brooks  seems  equally  ignorant 
of  the  lodge  with  the  good  St.  John.  He  demitted 
"years  ago,"  which  released  him  from  all  obligation 
to  the  lodge,  except  not  to  reveal  their  fool  secrets. 
He  speaks  of  himself,  in  the  face  of  the  country, 
as  "not  now  a  member;"  and  he  is  evidently  igno- 
rant of  the  impudent  claim  of  Rob.  Morris,  that 
the  lodge,  like  the  anaconda,  holds  its  grip  upon  the 
throat  of  a  man  till  he  stops  breathing. 

Why  not  then  instruct  him  and  request  a  second 
answer? 

Because  both  Gen.  Fisk  and  he  have  manfully  de- 
clared themselves  clean  of  the  lodge,  and  it  is  nei- 
ther wisdom  nor  fairness,  in  the  midst  of  a  hot 
political  canvass,  to  require  them  to  turn  anti-secret 
lecturers.  It  will  be  time  for  us  to  do  that,  when, 
as  we  trust  in  God  we  shall,  we  have  put  our  own 
platform  in  the  field,  with  our  own  candidates  stand- 
ing on  it. 

"But  do  we  not  violate  our  own  principles,  and 
vote  for  an  adhering  Mason  in  voting  for  Fisk  and 
Brooks?" 

No.  One  of  them  never  was  a  Mason,  and  the 
other  declares  himself  "Not  now  a  member."  And 
putting  this  before  the  public  in  the  opening  of  a 
national  canvass  is  a  declaration  of  hostility  to  the 
lodge.  Why  did  Mr.  Brooks  quit  Masonry  "years 
ago,"  unless,  like  his  great  denominational  leader, 
Alexander  Campbell,  he  had  become  opposed  to  the 
lodge? 

"Oh,  but  Mr.  Brooks  was  in  the  rebel  army  I" 

So  David  was  in  the  army  of  Moab.  Like  Mr. 
Brooks,  under  terrible  pressure,  David  fled  to  Achish, 
and  took  arms  against  Israel;  but  we  would  vote  for 
David  if  he  were  here  now;  and  as  at  present  ad- 
vised, if  alive  next  November,  we  shall  vote  for 
Fitk  and  Brooks.  In  sailors'  phrase,  we  shall  "3am 
our  vessel  into  the  wind"  of  this  election.  By  do- 
ing so  in  1884  we  spread  the  knowledge  of  our  party 
and  principles  over  the  Union  in  spite  of  the  pal- 
troon  silence  of  the  press.  And  when  this  hot 
liquor  battle  is  gained,  we  will  push  our  ship  to  sea, 
with  our  guns  shotted  to  the  muzzle,  and  our  sky- 
scraping  streamer,  bearing  the  legend,  "  The  Moahite 
shall  not  come  into  the  congregation  of  the  Lord  forever." 
Neh.  13:  1.  Not  that  we  fight  Moabites  or  Masons. 
We  fight  their  religion;  which,  in  Scripture  phrase, 
is  an  "accursed  thing."  There  is  no  Messiah  in  either. 
No  "living  God,"  or  perfect  humanity.  There  are 
good  and  mistaken  men  who  are  Masons;  and  Ruth 
was  a  Moabitess.  Yet  that  magnificent  young  wo- 
man was  the  grandmother  of  David,  and  a  progen- 
itor of  Christ.  The  Cynosure  votes  for  Fisk  and 
Brooks.  Let  us  not  only  vote,  but  pray  for  their 
election. 

THB  LITTER, 

What  shall  we  do?  I,  with  many  others,  had  re- 
solved never  to  vote  for  an  adherent  of  the  Masonic 
lodge,  nor  for  one  of  any  other  secret  lodge. 

The  nominee  for  Vice  President  on  the  Prohibi- 
tion ticket,  it  now  transpires,  is  a  demitted  Mason, 
and  is  also  a  dabbler  in  other  secret  abominations. 


Rob.  Morris  says,  "A  demitted  Mason  is  a  mon- 
strosity." 

You  know  that  a  Masonic  demit  is  a  certificate, 
signed,  sealed  and  delivered,  that  the  holder  thereof 
is  a  worthy  "frater"  in  good  standing,  clear  of  any 
unmasonic  conduct;  that  he  is  a  loyal  sun-worshiper, 
and  therefore  an  idolater  without  spot  or  blemish; 
that  he  is  in  harmonious  accord  and  fellowship  with 
the  fratemity;  in  savage,  half-civilized,  civilized, 
enlightened  and  Christianized  countries;  witli 
pirates,  with  Mexican  mountain  robbers,  cut-throats, 
drunkards,  etc.,  etc.  A  man  may  hold  a  demit  from 
merely  prudential  reasons  or  motives.  But  he  may 
also  hold  and  use  it  for  a  very  different  and  sinister 
purpose. 

I  think  it  unfortunate,  to  say  the  least,  that  the 
Prohibition  convention  could  not  find  a  suitable  can- 
didate among  the  hundreds  of  good  and  noble  men 
in  the  country,  without  having  been  compelled  to  go 
fishing  round  in  the  filthy,  sickly  slough  of  secret - 
ism  to  find  one. 

WHAT  SHALL  WE    DO? 

Prohibition  is  your  "thunder,"  prominent  in  the 
American  platform,  and  now  'tis  stolen  to  foist  an 
obscure  renegade  lodgite  into  public  notice,  and  thus 
make  danism  respectable.  I  would  like  to  vote 
Prohibition,  but  sugar-coat  this  ticket  never  so 
nicely,  while  I  know  the  apossum's  tail  is  in  it,  and 
'twill  be  a  bitter  dose  for  me  to  swallow. 

Wishing  you  long  life,  prosperity,  health  and 
happiness,  I  am  as  ever,  sincerely  yours. 


TES  HAND  OF  BOMS. 


The  necessity  of  laying  over  for  a  week  the  inter- 
esting report  of  the  centennial  celebration  at  Mari- 
etta, Ohio,  of  the  beginning  of  the  settlement  of  the 
Northwest  Territory,  by  our  valued  Cincinnati  cor- 
respondent, give  an  occasion  to  notice  a  remarkable 
feature  of  that  occasion.  The  significance  of  this 
celebration  and  that  of  last  year  upon  the  anniver- 
sary of  the  passage  of  the  Ordinance  of  1787,  is  the 
fact  that  the  Christian  religion  was  therein  recog- 
nized as  fundamental  to  good  morals  and  govern- 
ment, and  it  was  to  be  maintained  and  taught  in 
connection  with  public  schools,  so  as  to  be  intelli- 
gently promoted.  As  if  in  mockery  of  this  great 
central  fact  the  Catholic  bishop  of  Cleveland  was 
selected,  by  a  sort  of  Masonic  art,  to  preach  the 
sermon  of  the  occasion.  Bishop  Gilmour  may  per- 
sonally be  a  most  excellent  gentleman — of  that  we 
say  nothing— but  he  is  the  representative  of  Rome — 
of  a  system  which  contradicts  the  principles  which 
have  given  the  great  Northwest  its  unexampled 
prosperity. 

From  our  New  England  letter  it  will  be  seen  that 
Boston  is  beginning  to  awake  from  the  alarming 
sleep  which  has  come  like  a  spell  from  her  fatal 
optimistic  philosophy.  And  may  God  grant  that 
the  Samson  of  our  old  Puritan  character  may 
not  too  late  awake  and  rouse  himself  from  the  lap 
of  this  Delilah. 

The  same  Jesuit  management  which  is  playing  so 
boldly  in  Boston  is  at  work  in  all  our  cities.  It  has 
been  fought  down  for  years  in  New  York,  but  never 
overthrown — hardly  checked.  At  this  very  time  the 
same  demands  are  made  in  Brooklyn  which  in  Bos- 
ton culminated  in  the  casting  out  of  an  old  and 
faithful  teacher  and  Swinton's  "Outlines  of  His- 
tory." The  New  York  Sun  says  that  a  Miss  Carty, 
in  the  Central  Grammar  School,  Brooklyn,  has 
sent  a  witten  complaint  to  the  Board  of  Educa- 
tion charging  a  teacher.  Miss  Van  Valkenburgh, 
with  publicly  insulting  her  and  other  Roman- 
ist scholars,  by  "inculcating  religious  and  sectarian 
doctrines."  As  long  ago  as  April  last  a  priest, 
James  Donohoe,  made  a  similar  charge  against  this 
same  teacher.  The  Boston  agitation  may  serve  to 
postpone  her  discharge.  The  specification  is  that 
the  teacher  gave  instruction  from  an  "unauthorized 
book,"  in  which  the  Reformation  was  described  as 
a  protest  against  the  formalisms  and  abuses  of  the 
Roman  Catholic  church."  The  Catholic  Review,  in 
a  long  editorial,  approves  these  protests,  and  ar- 
gues that  the  struggle  is  one  without  quarter,  and 
the  only  remedy  is  the  establishment  of  church 
schools  and  the  overthrow  of  the  free  school  system. 

Let  the  agitation  spread  and  the  discussion  of  the 
principles  of  Romanism  go  on;  only  thus  shall  we 
establish  the  fact  that  they  are  incompatible  with 
our  American  institutions. 


HOW  STAN  I)  TOUR  CANDIDATBa? 


— Bro.  I.  R.  B.  Arnold  writes  from  Fulton,  111., 
of  much  rainy  weather,  but  excellent  audiences,  es- 
pecially to  hear  his  argument  and  see  the  illustra- 
tions demonstrating  the  identity  of  ancient  and  mod- 
ern heathen  worships  as  practiced  in  the  lodge.  He 
goes  to  Lyons,  Iowa,  this  week. 


NOTES   OF    THE   ANTI-SICMCr   LEAGUE. 


Many  of  our  readers  can  give  valuable  aid  to  this 
department  of  N.  C.  A.  work  by  sending  to  this  of- 
fice the  names  of  all  candidates  for  State  offices  or 
for  Congress,  with  their  post-oflSce  address,  and  any 
accurate  knowledge  of  their  lodge  standing  or  oth- 
erwise. Or,  if  no  direct  information  can  be  given 
on  this  point,  please  suggest  how  it  may  be  ob- 
tained providing  the  candidate  is  unwilling  to  answer 
for  himself. 

In  addition  to  the  previous  reports,  which  have 
happily  given  so  general  satisfaction,  we  have  the 
pleasure  of  publishing  from  three  letters  received 
from  Prohibition  candidates  in  Illinois  and  Ver- 
mont. The  first  is  from  Miss  Mary  Allen  West,  ed- 
itor of  the  Union  Signal,  and  one  of  the  most  hon- 
ored names  on  the  roll  of  the  W.  C.  T.  U.  She  is 
nominated  as  member  of  the  State  University  Board. 
She  says: 

"I  was  brought  up  to  believe  secret  societies  wrong; 
graduated  under  President  J.  Blanchard,  and  have  never 
swerved  from  his  teachings  and  those  of  my  father,  on 
this  subject.  I  have  never  belonged  to  any  secret  soci- 
ety, ana  never  shall." 

The  candidate  for  State  Treasurer  in  Illinois  is 
Mr.  John  W.  Hart  of  Rockford.  His  letter  has  a 
frank  and  manly  ring  which  gives  us  no  fears  that 
during  his  administration  thousands  of  dollars  will 
be  stolen  from  the  State,  and  the  public  never  leam 
whether  the  loss  was  made  good,  or  whether  the  re- 
port of  theft  was  made  to  cover  a  def  alcation,as  was  the 
case  with  a  late  Masonic  incumbent  of  the  office. 
He  writes: 

"I  am  not  a  member  of  any  secret  society  except  that 
known  as  the  Temple  of  Honor  and  Temperance.  Of 
this  one  I  became  a  member  many  years  ago,  because  it 
was  a  society  having  for  its  chief  aim  the  extinction  of 
the  American  saloon  and  the  salvation  of  the  victims  of 
that  'blot  upon  our  civilization .' 

"My  views  as  to  the  character  and  influences  of  secret 
societies  may  be  stated  as  follows: 

"For  myself,  I  have  not  for  years  past  regarded  them 
as  necessary  or  valuable,  because  I  have  felt  that  I  could 
expend  my  time  and  efforts  to  better  purpose  in  endeav- 
oring to  raise  fallen  humanity  and  in  helping  the  young 
'  to  keep  from  falling,  through  the  agency  of  the  church 
and  Sunday-school  than  by  means  of  the  machinery  of 
any  secret  society.  While  this  is  my  view. of  what  is 
best  for  me,  I  am  aware  that  many  good  men  regard  se- 
cret societies  as  valuable  agencies  for  the  promotion  of 
certain  good  works,  and  for  their  views  I  desire  to  have 
the  same  charity  that  I  wish  them  and  others  to  have  for 
mine." 

Prof.  Henry  M.  Seeley,  of  Middlebury  College, 
Vermont,  is  professor  of  Chemistry  and  Natural  His- 
tory in  that  institution.  He  is  Prohibition  candi- 
date for  some  State  office.  That  he  may  safely  be 
intrusted  with  official  responsibilities,  the  following 
froin  his  letter  is  proof  enough: 

"I  am  not  connected  with  secret  orders,  the  family 
and  the  church  offering  me  all  necessary  opportunities 
for  exhibiting  my  love  and  sympathy  for  my  fellows.  I, 
however,  have  never  seen  such  interference,  by  members 
of  the  orders,  with  the  course  of  the  law  or  the  meting 
out  of  justice  that  would  lead  me  to  condemn  them." 


— The  senior  editor  of  the  Cynosure  started  with 
Mrs.  Blanchard  for  Saratoga  last  Tuesday,  expect- 
ing to  remain  a  few  days  with  Dr.  Emory  Potter  of 
Elmwood  Hall  before  proceeding  to  the  Vermont 
appointments  for  which  Rev.  Mr.  Leach  has  ar- 
ranged. 

— The  return  of  these  dear  old  people  may  be 
delayed  until  the  middle  of  September  or  later. 
Their  children  had  begun  the  arrangements  for  a 
decorous  and  appropriate  celebration  of  their  Golden 
Wedding,  which  occurs  September  17th;  but  aban- 
doned the  project  when  the  parents  not  only  refused 
to  accept  any  personal  gifts  on  the  occasion,  but 
would  not  consider  even  whether  they  should,  if 
necessary,  cut  short  the  work  in  Vermont  and  re- 
turn in  time  for  the  anniversary. 

— President  C.  A.  Blanchard  closed  a  very  profit- 
able meeting  at  Geneva,  III,  and  last  week  was  with 
pastor  C.  R.  Hunt,  of  Clarence,  Iowa.  He  is  next 
week  expecting  to  hold  meetings  with  the  church  in 
Streator,  111. 

— Bro.  J.  F.  Galloway,  of  Okahumpka,  Fla.,  has 
sent  us  photographs  of  his  fruit  farm,  with  groves 
of  orange  and  other  trees.  He  desires  to  find  a 
good  purchaser  for  the  place,  and  will  be  happy  to 
answer  the  inquiries  of  any  who  may  wish  to  buy. 

— The  Independent  Christian  of  Littleton,  New 
Hampshire,  Alonzo  A.  Hoyt,  editor  and  publisher, 
is  uncompromisingly  opposed  to  the  secret  orders. 
The  Cynosure  rejoices  to  exchange  with  this  new- 
found friend,  and  to  recommend  it  to  our  readers. 


JULT  26,  1888 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


9 


— Bro.  Hinman,returning  to  Chicago  from  his  brief 
trip  in  Illinois,  went  to  Wisconsin,  seeking  to  enlist 
further  aid  for  a  Southern  district  headquarters. 
He  had  between  $250  and  $300  promised,  and  hoped 
the  amount  might  be  doubled  before  returning  to 
Chicago. 

— The  N.  C.  A.  Board  at  its  last  meeting  arranged 
to  meet  every  three  months,  beginning  with  the  last 
Thursday  in  July."  Other  necessary  meetings  will 
be  held  as  heretofore  at  the  call  of  the  chairman. 
The  members  are  somewhat  scattered,  but  we  hope 
for  a  good  meeting  this  week. 

— Bro.  Countee's  letter  from  Wellsville,  Ohio,  will 
be  read  with  intense  interest  and  earnest  prayer  that 
his  useful  life  may  be  spared  and  his  health  re- 
stored. On  Friday  he  wrote  acknowledging  the  re- 
ceipt of  money  from  Bro.  Worcester  and  others. 
fie  had  been  unable  to  sit  up  since  the  Monday  pre- 
vious, but  his  physician  encouraged  him  with  the 
hope  that  in  about  a  week  he  might  be  able  to  go  on 
to  Cleveland. 

— Dr.  J.  E  Roy,  of  this  city,  is  trustee  of  a  legacy 
of  $2,000  left  by  Philo  Carpenter  for  promoting  the 
reform  against  the  lodge  in  the  South.  He  regards 
the  circulation  of  literature  as  perhaps  the  best 
means  now  employed  to  carry  out  the  benevolent 
purposes  of  Mr.  Carpenter,  and  last  week  ordered 
the  Cynosure  sent  to  over  one  hundred  ministers  and 
other  inflaential  colored  men  in  the  South,  part  of 
the  number  for  three  years. 

— Rev.  Alexander  Thomson,  chairman  of  the  N. 
C.  A.  Board,  headed  a  delegation  before  the  com- 
mittee of  the  Cook  County  Commissioners  to  pre- 
vent the  granting  of  a  saloon  license  at  Bartlett. 
It  was  proved  that  the  keeper  repeatedly  violated 
the  State  law  by  selling  to  minors  and  keeping  open 
on  Sunday,  and  has  a  notoriously  bad  place.  Not- 
withstanding, five  of  the  Commissioners  voted  to 
grant  a  license,  and  the  petition  of  the  saloonist  was 
placed  on  file  by  a  vote  of  5  to  7.  No  wonder 
"boodlerism"  was  rank  in  the  Board  a  year  ago; 
and  if  all  its  members  have  their  deserts  more  of 
them  may  find  a  residence  in  Joliet. 

— When  "old  dog  Tray"  got  in  bad  company,  ac- 
cording to  the  old  story,  he  had  to  suffer  as  an  evil 
doer.  The  W.  C.  T.  Union  of  this  city,  we  regret  to 
say,  seems  not  to  have  remembered  the  admonition. 
The  Good  Templars  of  northern  Illinois  and  Wis- 
consin planned  a  grand  camp  meeting  and  love  feast 
of  lodgery,  which  was  held  at  Crystal  Lake,  111. 
By  what  sort  of  seductive  influence  the  W.  C.  T.  U. 
was  led  to  participate  in  the  meeting  we  can  hardly 
imagine.  The  fact  does  not  appear  in  the  bills,  but 
in  the  press  announcements  of  the  meeting,  and 
there  may  have  been  no  official  union;  but  at  least 
Mrs.  Buel,  treasurer  of  the  National  W.  C.  T.  U., 
participated  in  the  meeting  and  made  an  address; 
while  Sibley,  Hastings,  Chaffia,  Christian  and  other 
Good  Templar  lights  were  advertised  with  her.  The 
latest  account  is  that  the  community  which  fur- 
nished the  audience  is  so  disgusted  with  its  manage- 
ment, the  proprietor  of  the  grounds  among  them, 
that  they  threatened  to  drive  the  crowd  off  the 
place. 


OUR  WASHING TOIf  LBTTBR. 


Washington,  July  20,  1888. 

The  National  Temperance  Home  in  Washington 
celebrated  its  first  anniversary  meeting  in  the  lec- 
ture room  of  the  Metropolitan  church  on  Sabbath 
evening  last  Congressman  Taylor  of  Ohio  deliv- 
ered the  address.  In  introducing  him  the  president 
of  the  Home  made  the  mistake  of  saying  that  he 
was  from  Iowa,  a  State  that  had  recently  voted  in 
favor  of  prohibition.  Being  corrected,  the  error 
was  gracefully  acknowledged,  and  passed  by  the 
statement  that  it  was  Ohio,  instead,  a  State  which 
had  given  323,000  votes  in  favor  of  prohibition, 
and  which  would  bave  given  a  majority  had  the 
votes  been  fairly  counted. 

Speaking  in  regard  to  the  Prohibition  vote  in  Ohio, 
Mr.  Taylor  said  the  ticket  failed  to  receive  a  major- 
ity btciiuee  its  supporters  went  home  by  nine  o'clock, 
and  did  not  remain  to  see  the  vote  counted.  "When 
we  have  another  election,"  he  continued,  "it  will  be 
better  to  sit  up  late,  for  at  least  one  night,  in  order 
to  see  that  there  is  a  fair  count."  He  eulogized  the 
Temperance  Home  for  the  work  it  was  doing,  and 
said  that  he  would  favor  an  appropriation  by  Con- 
gress of  $10,000  to  erect  a  chapel  in  connection 
with  it,  in  order  that  its  inmates  might  be  brought 
under  Christian  influences.  Appeals  to  manhood 
and  self-respect  were  not  to  be  relied  upon  to  secure 
permanent  reform.  Ho  had  seen  it  tried,  and  knew 
it  would  fail.  In  order  to  succeed  there  must  be 
faith  in  Christianity  and  Divine  help. 

Sam  Jones's  latest  utterance  in  speaking  of  pro- 


hibition is  that  he  is  neither  a  Republican  nor  a 
Democrat,  nor  a  "third  party"  man.  He  looks  for- 
ward to  the  organization  of  a  reform  party,  he  says, 
which  will  stand  on  "the  Bible,  the  Sabbath,  and  the 
Home." 

The  President  occasionally  bundles  up  his  work 
in  the  evening  and  takes  it  with  him  to  Oak  View, 
spending  the  next  day  there  with  his  papers.  He 
says  he  can  accomplish  three  times  more  work  at  his 
country  residence  than  he  does  at  the  White  House, 
with  the  many  interruptions  incident  to  his  office. 

Already  16,795  bills  have  been  introduced  in  the 
House  alone  this  session,  and  still  they  come.  Dur- 
ing the  entire  two  sessions  of  the  last  Congress,  the 
number  of  bills  presented  in  the  House  was  11,260. 
Although  it  is  predicted  that  there  will  not  be  a 
quorum  left  in  the  House  end  of  the  Capitol  three 
days  after  the  passage  of  the  tariff  bill,  there  are 
many  bills  yet  unacted  upon.  For  instance,  the  Blair 
bill.  This  latter  bill  will  not  come  out  of  commit- 
tee, and  the  $250,000,000  pension  bill,  now  on  the 
calendar,  will  not  get  a  hearing  in  the  House. 
Another  attempt  will,  no  doubt,  be  made  to  pass  the 
Union  Pacific  railroad  bill,  but  the  opposition  to 
that  measure  is  stubborn  and  determined.  The  bill 
to  admit  four  new  States  may  or  may  not  get  a 
hearing.  It  is  hardly  likely  that  the  Oklahoma  bill 
will  pass  at  this  session.  The  Indian  committee  has 
some  important  bills  of  a  general  character  to  bring  be- 
fore the  House,  and  some  of  them  may  get  an  op- 
portunity to  pass.  Then  the  fortifications  bill  has 
not  yet  come  forward,  and  the  discussion  of  it  will 
no  doubt  occupy  the  House  for  some  time.  But 
after  the  House  has  passed  the  tariff  bill,  the  date 
for  the  adjournment  of  Congress  will  depend  upon 
the  Senate,  and  as  soon  as  the  latter  body  has  had 
its  say  on  the  tariff,  both  Houses  will  be  ready  to 
adjourn.  * 
^  •  fc 

OUR  NBW  BNGLAIHD  LBTTBR. 


The  public  school  imbroglio — Are  indulgences  still  sold? 
— Prof.  Townsend  on  Jesuitism  at  the  New  England 
Ohatauaqua — Masonry  allied  to  Jesuitism — William  F. 
Davis  refused  bail  by  Judge  Enowlton. 

The  repeated  encroachments  of  the  Jesuit  power 
which  rules  so  many  of  our  New  England  cities  and 
towns  seems  at  last  to  have  roused  up  the  Pilgrim 
blood,  and  set  "the  old  cradle  of  Liberty"  to  rock- 
ing in  an  (of  late)  quite  unprecedented  manner.  The 
occasion,  to  put  the  matter  in  a  nutshell,  was  the 
throwing  out  by  the  school  committee  of  Swinton's 
Outlines  of  History  from  the  authorized  text  books, 
and  the  degrading  to  a  lower  rank  of  Mr.  Travis,  an 
old  and  successful  teacher,  because  both  defined  the 
Romish  doctrine  of  indulgences  as  licenses  to  com- 
mit sin,  in  consideration  of  a  certain  sum  of  money 
paid  by  the  licensee.  It  is  difficult  to  see  how 
either  text  book  or  teacher  could  have  taught  any- 
thing else  without  shameless  falsifying  of  all  the 
facts  of  history.  But  the  Jesuit  power,  which  rules 
Boston^  decided  that  Swinton's  Outlines  must  go,  and 
Mr.  Travis  be  invited  to  take  a  lower  seat,  only  two 
members,  and  they  were  women,  having  the  courage 
to  vote  No  against  such  an  outrage  on  our  free 
schools.  It  is  to  be  hoped  that  the  arrogance  of  the 
Jesuit  party  has  at  last  roused  the  people  from  their 
apathetic  slumbers.  At  Natick  the  graduating  ex- 
ercises of  the  High  School  have  always  been  opened 
with  prayer.  This  year  Father  Patrick  B.  Murphy 
made  an  unavailing  protest;  and  I  clip  from  the 
Britith  American  the  following  report  of  his  utter- 
ances when  interviewed  on  the  subject: 

"There  will  be  prayer  at  the  graduation,  but  it  is 
against  my  solemn  protest.  I  am  one  against  two. 
The  scholars  have  voted  on  the  matter  and  a  major- 
ity of  them  are  in  favor  of  having  prayer,  but  it 
may  be  well  for  these  people  to  remember  that  the 
time  is  coming  when  they  will  not  be  in  the  ma] 
jority." 

Rev.  Thomas  E.  Leyden,  a  converted  Romanist, 
exhibited  before  the  Fanuiel  Hall  meeting  some  col- 
ored squares  of  metal  strung  like  a  rosary  on  pieces 
of  silk,  and  said  that  they  were  indulgences  which 
had  been  sold  to  him  in  the  city  of  Boston — a  rather 
startling  revelation  for  people  who,  like  the  writer, 
have  been  innocent  enough  to  believe  that,  the  sys- 
tem of  indulgences,  as  a  marketable  commodity, 
died  with  Tetzel.  Mr.  Leyden  testified  that  the 
Catholic  church  had  placed  Swinton's  text  book  un- 
der ban  four  years  ago,  with  other  books  now  in  use 
in  the  public  schools  of  Boston;  that  Roman  Catho- 
lics were  kept  in  ignorance  so  that  the  church  could 
use  them  as  merchandise,  and  one  idea  in  having 
parochial  schools  was  that  in  the  near  future  the 
church  could  control  the  votes  of  the  people. 

Now  all  this,  alarming  as  it  sounds,  is  only  what 
has  been  reiterated  in  our  ears  time  and  again  by 
those  who  ought  to  know  whereof  they  affirm — men 


who  have  come  out  from  the  ranks  of  the  priest- 
hood, who  know  its  craft  and  guile,  and  have  them- 
selves felt  the  Jesuit's  hand  of  iron  under  his  velvet 
glove.  But  will  the  people  be  content  with  a  mass 
meeting  or  two,  with  a  few  fiery  speeches  and  reso- 
lutions, and  then  sink  back  into  the  same  hopeless 
indifference  once  more?  Americans  are  somewhat 
disposed  to  put  such  irregular  bursts  of  public  in- 
dignation in  the  place  of  that  "eternal  vigilance 
which  is  the  price  of  liberty,"  for  nationally  as  well 
as  individually  they  are  growing  to  partake  more 
and  more  of  the  mercurial  nature  of  the 
French. 

Prof.  L.  T.  Townsend,  at  the  New  England  Chatau- 
qua,  gave  an  address  on  Jesuitism  in  which  he  stated 
the  number  of  Jesuits  in  the  United  States  to  be 
about  100,000.  Banished  from  European  countries, 
here  there  is  no  public  position  from  which  they  are 
excluded.  They  are  in  the  army,  the  navy,  the 
Legislature,  the  public  schools,  and  make  a  portion 
of  the  staff  on  many  of  our  leading  newspapers. 
In  politics  they  are  always  Democrats,  because 
through  the  medium  of  that  party  they  can  best 
control  the  ignorant  masses  which  make  up  its  rank 
and  file.  And  nothing  can  more  startlingly  illus- 
trate their  power  in  the  public  schools  than  the  fact 
that  one  of  Boston's  male  teachers  has  gone  over  to 
Catholicism,  and  one  of  the  lady  teachers  has  con- 
sulted Prof.  Townsend  three  times  on  the  advisability 
of  becoming  a  Catholic  in  order  to  retain  her  place  I 
Well  might  he  ask,  "Why  talk  of  tariff,  civil  service 
reform,  the  fisheries,  until  this  is  settled — as  to 
whether  the  American  people  or  the  Pope  at  Rome 
is  to  rule  this  country." 

It  is  interesting  to  note  how  closely  allied  is  Jes- 
uitism to  Masonry,  the  whole  vast,  secret,  oath-bound 
system  being  under  One  superior, who  is  the  real  head 
of  the  Roman  Catholic  church.  That  they  can, 
in  spite  of  their  pretended  animosity,  strike  hands 
together  when  their  purpose  is  the  same,  is  proved  by 
historical  facts.  In  France,  before  the  Revolution, 
the  Jesuits  entered  Masonic  lodges  for  purposes  of 
political  intrigue,  and  founded  new  degrees  with  the 
object  of  reinstating  the  Pretender,  and  thus  giving 
over  England  to  Papal  rule.  What  is  to  hinder 
their  entering  Masonic  lodges  in  America,  and  in 
the  same  manner  controlling  them  for  their  own 
ends?  I  can  only  say  that  our  Government,  while 
truckling  to  the  powers  at  Rome,  had  better  remem- 
ber Henry  IV.,  who,  after  the  Jesuits  were  banished 
from  France,  recalled  them  for  fear  they  would 
wreak  their  vengeance  on  him  by  assassinating  him 
— and  yet  met  the  very  death  he  dreaded  at  the 
hands  of  the  Jesuit  monk,  Ravillac. 

Judge  Knowlton  has  denied,  as  might  have  been 
expected,  the  application  of  Wm.  F.  Davis's  counsel, 
asking  that  his  client  be  admitted  to  bail,  the  appli- 
cation being  grounded  on  the  fact  that  to  test  the 
legality  of  the  city  ordinance  under  which  he  is  im- 
prisoned, the  United  States  Supreme  Court  has  been 
appealed  to  for  a  writ  of  haheat  corput;  and  unless 
bail  is  allowed  his  term  will  expire  before  the  case 
can  be  tried.  The  asperity  with  which  Judge 
Knowlton  dismissed  it  as  "an  unprecedented  mo- 
tion," is  only  another  proof  that  our  courts,  which 
can  treat  a  devoted  minister  of  the  (Jospel  like  an 
outrageous  criminal,  are  no  longer  fountains  of 
justice  and  equity. 

"Well,  to  suffer  Is  dlylne, 

Pass  the  watchword  down  the  line, 

Pass  the  countersign,  Endure." 

For  which  the  future  may  have  more  occasion  than 
the  past,  if  these  things  in  all  their  ominous  signifi- 
cation go  unheeded.  But  meanwhile  I  know  of  no 
man  more  to  be  envied  than  Wm.  F.  Davis,  standing 
as  he  does  in  the  very  footprints  of  Wyclifl,  who 
said  in  1384  to  the  authorities  who  would  have  pro- 
hibited him  from  preaching:  "To  live  and  to  be  silent 
is  with  me  impossible;  the  guilt  of  such  treason 
against  the  Lord  of  Heaven  is  more  to  be  dreaded 
than  many  deaths."  £.  E.  Flaqq. 


Lovers  of  our  American  institutions  must  learn 
to  vote  independently  on  matters  that  pertain  to 
public  schools.  Parties  as  such  cannot  be  trusted. 
Says  an  evening  paper:  "In  Massachusetts  they 
tried  to  raise  an  issue  against  the  Roman  Catholics  on 
the  school  question,  and  yet  the  Republican  speaker 
of  the  last  House,  who  is  to  be  re-elected,  living 
in  a  district  where  there  is  a  large  Catholic  vote, 
based  his  appeal  to  the  voters  on  his  having  aided 
in  obtaining  State  subsidies  for  a  Catholic  institu- 
tion, and  obtained  hundreds  of  votes  in  this  way. 
Moreover,  Governor  Ames  somewhat  ostentatiously 
made  a  large  gift  to  a  Catholic  college  a  few  months 
ago,  and  since  the  election  he  ridicules  the  idea 
that  the  public  school  issue  had  any  effect  upon  the 
result" — Neva  York  Observer. 


I 


10 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


JtTLT  26, 1888 


The  Home. 


THB    MISSION  ART. 


I  The  following  poem,  which  Is  here  republished  by  request, 
was  written  many  years  ago  by  the  late  Rev.  Nathan  Brown,  for 
years  editor  of  the  American  Baptist,  and  who  died  a  missionary 
m  Japan  -Jan.  1, 1886.J 

My  soul  is  not  at  rest.    There  comes  a  strange 
And  secret  whisper  to  my  spirit,  lilie 
A  dream  of  night,  that  tells  me  I  am  on 
Enchanted  ground.    Why  live  I  here?    The  vows 
Of  God  are  on  me,  and  I  may  not  stop 
To  play  with  shadows,  or  pluck  earthly  flowers 
Till  I  my  work  have  done,  and  rendered  up 
Account.    The  voice  of  my  departed  Lord : 
"Go  teach  all  nations,"  from  the  Eastern  worM 
Ctomes  on  the  night  air  and  awakes  my  ear. 

And  I  will  go.    I  may  no  longer  doubt 

To  give  up  friends,  and  home,  and  idol  hopes, 

And  every  tender  tie  that  binds  my  heart 

To  thee,  my  couatry !    Why  should  I  regard 

Earth's  little  store  of  borrowed  sweets?    I  sure 

Have  had  enough  of  bitter  in  my  cup 

To  show  that  never  was  it  His  design 

Who  placed  me  here  that  I  should  live  In  ease 

Or  drink  at  pleasure's  fountain.    Henceforth,  then» 

It  matters  not  if  storm  or  sunshine  be 

My  earthly  lot,  bitter  or  sweet  my  cup ; 

I  only  pray,  God  fits  me  for  the  work ; 

God  make  me  holy,  and  my  spirit  nerve 

For  the  stern  hour  of  strife      Let  me  bub  know 

There  is  an  arm  unseen  that  holds  me  up, 

An  eye  that  kindly  watches  all  my  path, 

TiU  I  my  weary  pilgrimage  have  done ; 

Let  me  but  know  I  have  a  Friend  that  waits 

To  welcome  me  to  glory,  and  I  joy 

To  tread  the  dark  and  death-fraught  wilderness. 

And  when  I  come  to  stretch  me  for  the  last, 
In  unattended  agony  beneath 
The  cocoa's  shade,  or  lift  my  dying  eyes 
From  Africa's  burning  sand,  it  wUl  be  sweet 
That  I  have  toiled  for  other  worlds  than  this. 
I  know  I  shall  feel  happier  than  to  die 
On  softer  bed.    And  It  I  should  reach  heaven— 
If  one  that  hath  as  deeply,  darkly  sinned— 
If  one  whom  ruin  and  revolt  hath  held 
With  such  a  fearful  grasp— if  one  for  whom 
Satan  hath  struggled  as  he  hath  for  me— 
Should  ever  reach  that  blessed  shore,  O  how 
This  heart  will  glow  with  gratitude  and  love  1 
And  through  the  ages  of  eternal  years, 
Thus  saved,  my  spirit  never  shall  repent 
That  toil  and  suffering  once  were  mine  below. 


BLOWIN'  TEE  GOSPBL  TRUMPET. 


One  hot  July  day,  long  years  ago  (in  1839),  I  was 
accidentally  passing  the  great  Turkisti  custom  house 
in  Galata,  Constantinople,  and  I  found  a  crowd  ob- 
structing the  street.  Penetrating  it  I  found  a  poor 
mortal  against  the  wall,  apparently  dying  in  the 
pains  of  cholera.  His  condition  was  indescribably 
revolting.     I  said,  "Do  you  speak  English?"    "Yes, 

your  eyes,"  he  replied,  turning  upon  me  a  look 

of  anguish,  or  fierce  hatred,  I  hardly  knew  which. 
He  knew  the  inhuman  crowd  was  waiting  to  see  him 
die.  "Are  you  American  or  English?"  "American," 
with  the  same  or  far  worse  profanity.  I  tried  to  get 
a  couple  of  porters  (homals),  usually  ready  for  any 
such  service,  to  take  him  and  his  sack  of  clothes  to 
a  sailor's  boarding-house  near  by.  No  one  would 
touch  him.  I  offered  large  pay  in  vain,  when  two 
noble  colored  sailors,  Jamaica  negroes,  offered  to 
take  him  without  pay.  The  boarding-house  re- 
jected us.  We  went  to  the  English  marine  hospital, 
to  be  rejected  in  like  manner.  The  two  Jamaicans 
poured  out  the  most  awful  maledictions  upon  the 
English  consul,  to  whom  I  appealed  in  vain,  and  the 
sick  man  joined  them,  until  I  ordered  them  to  stop, 
in  quick,  sharp  tones  they  were  accustomed  to  hear 
on  deck,  and  not  an  oath  was  uttered  after  that.  I 
then  had  him  carried  to  the  boat  house  of  Nicola,  a 
good,  kind  Italian  boatman,  who  had  nursed  Capt. 
Holt,  of  Andover,  through  a  long  and  dangerous 
illness.  He  assented  to  my  leaving  him  in  his  bunk 
until  I  could  run  and  call  our  doctor,  Stamotiodes. 
The  common  sailors  are  generous  fellows,  faithful 
to  each  other  unto  death. 

I  could  not  find  our  doctor,  but  in  the  search  I 
most  providentially  met  with  Dr.  Kiach,  a  Scotch 
physician  of  experiance  in  India  and  Persia.  I 
seized  upon  him,  and  took  him  to  the  boat-house. 

"Small  chance  for  this  poor  fellow,"  said  Dr.  R., 
"but  administer  this  prescription;  it  is  all  I  would 
do  for  him  to  night."  The  druggist  first  refused  to 
make  up  the  prescription, because  "it,  would  kill  any 
man."  But  I  compelled  him  to  make  it  up  quick, 
and  when  I  had  administered  it  I  found  Dr.  Stamo- 
tiodes, who  took  the  case  in  hand  with  great  kind- 
ness and  attention. 


One  evening  he  sent  word  to  me  to  come  and  bury 
Brown  in  the  morning;  he  would  not  live  through 
the  night,  and  the  heat  made  immediate  burial  a 
necessity.  I  went,  but  the  case  had  turned  toward 
life,  and  Brown  slowly  recovered. 

The  Rev.  Mr.  Hibbard  was  staying  with  us,  an  in- 
valid missionary  from  Beirut.  He  visited  Brown 
daily,  or  if  not  able  to,  then  Dr.  Groodell  or  myself 
took  his  place. 

He  seemed  to  be  truly  penitent  for  all  his  sinful 
and  abandoned  life.  He  was  about  twenty-five,  had 
learned  to  read  in  his  boyhood,  but  had  nearly  lost 
it  in  his  vile,  degraded  life.*  Bro.  Hibbard  helped 
him  recover  what  he  had  lost,  and  in  two  or  three 
weeks  he  could  read  a  chapter  in  the  New  Testa- 
ment with  some  few  hitches. 

When,  at  length,  after  waiting  for  weeks,  the  con- 
sul found  a  passage  for  him  home,  he  bade  me  good- 
by  with  a  sailor's  heart,  and  said,  "I  have  hitherto 
done  all  the  evil  I  could  in  life,  and  now  I  am  going 
to  try  do  good;"  and  so  Marcus  Brown  departed, 
and  I  did  not  hope  to  hear  from  him  again. 

About  a  year  after  Mr.  Calhoun,  returned  mis- 
sionary, wrote  me:  "Your  sailor  holds  out  a  true 
Christian,  and  was  in  Father  Taylor's  prayer-meet- 
ing, and  when  opportunity  for  prayer  was  given  a 
sailor  burst  out  with,  '0  God,  I  thank  thee  for  the 
American  missionaries.  When  I  was  dying,  a  poor 
blasphemous  dog,  in  a  street  of  Constantinople,  thou 
didst  send  thy  servants,  Hamlin,  Hibbard  and 
Goodell,  to  save  me,  soul  and  body,'  and  so  on 
through  an  unique  and  earnest  prayer  which  called 
forth  hearty  amens."  Mr,  C.  failed  to  find  him  in 
the  crowd  after  the  meeting,  and  perhaps  another 
year  passed,  when  I  had  a  very  characteristic  letter 
from  Brown,  not  always  correctly  spelled,  but  full  of 
life  and  earnestness.  It  began,  "Dear,  dear  Mr. 
Hamlin:  Thank  God,  I  still  survive  the  ded."  He 
told  of  his  shipwreck  when  he  "found  his  feet  stand- 
ing on  the  rock  Christ  Jesus,"  "and  now  I  am 
blowin'  the  gospel  trumpet  on  the  Erie  Canal,"  I 
went  over  and  read  the  letter  to  Father  Goodell.  He 
clapped  his  hands  and  said,  "Let  me  begin  the  re- 
ply to  that  letter,"  and  taking  a  sheet  of  paper  he 
wrote: 

"Dbak  Mr.  Browk  :  Blow  away,  brother,  blow. 

"Tours  in  blowin'  the  same  gospel  trumpet, 

"William  Goodell." 

I  know  not  if  he  ever  received  the  letter.  Twenty- 
eight  years  passed  away  from  that  contest  with 
death  on  that  hot  July  day,  and,  in  all  the  excite- 
ment, anxieties  and  cares  of  missionary  life,  the 
rescued  sailor  was  forgotten.  In  1867  Ijyas  dining 
at  the  Hotel  Newton,  Rue  de  St.  Augustine,  Paris, 
at  the  time  of  the  great  "Exposition." 

Near  the  close  of  the  dinner,  at  which  were  seated 
men  and  women  of  different  nations  and  languages, 
the  gentleman  sitting  at  my  right  turned  to  me  and 
said:  "I  see  you  are  from  Constantinople,  sir.  May  I 
ask  if,  while  there,  you  chanced  to  meet  with  one 
Cyrus  Hamlin,"  etc.  "I  am  the  person  you  ask  for, 
sir."  After  expressing  his  surprise  and  pleasure, 
he  said,  "I  am  just  from  Honolulu,  and  I  have  long 
wished  I  could  ask  you  about  a  sailor,  Brown,  who 
has  been  a  sort  of  sailors'  missionary  in  the  islands, 
and  has  done  a  great  deal  of  good  among  the  sea- 
men of  all  nations.  He  has  told  me  how  he  was 
dying,  *a  blasphemous  dog'  (his  own  language),  in 
Constantinople,  and  how  you  rescued  him,  and  so  on 
and  on.  Now  I  want  to  know  how  much  of  this  is 
a  sailor's  'yarn,'  or  is  it  all  true,  for  he  seems  to  be 
a  man  of  great  simplicity?"  "Why!  the  sailor 
Brown?"  I  replied.  "I  had  forgotten  him!  It  is  all 
true,  and  I  bless  God  that  I  hear  from  him  again!" 

The  reader  will  see  in  this  brief  story  that  we  can 
rarely  know  what  good  may  result  from  a  simple  act 
of  kindness,  of  humanity.  Once  in  a  while  the  good 
done  may  become  known,  but  not  often.  Constan- 
tinople, Boston,  Erie  Canal,  Honolulu  and  Paris, 
with  twenty-eight  years  between,  do  not  often  come 
together  to  reveal  what  is  done.  But  no  good  deed 
is  lost.  "God  will  multiply  your  seed  sown,  and  in- 
crease your  fruits  of  righteousness." — Cyrus  Ham- 
lin, in  2he  Golden  Rule. 


HARMS'a  MISSION  SHIP. 


Louis  Harms.the  pious  Lutheran  minister  of  Her- 
mannsburg,  had  determined  upon  establishing  a 
mission  among  the  heathen.  Twelve  young  men 
had  offered  themselves  for  the  work,  and  had  al- 
ready been  educated  by  him  and  his  brother.  He 
selected  the  Gallas,  on  the  coast  of  Africa,  as  the 
objects  of  the  mission,  but  could  not  find  the  means 
to  send  the  missionaries.  He  tells  the  story  of  the 
ship  himself:  "One  of  the  sailors  said,  'Why  not 
build  a  ship,  and  you  can  send  out  as  many,  and  as 
often  as  you  will?'  The  proposal  was  go<'(l;  but  the 
money!    That  was  a  time  of  great  conflict,  and  X 


wrestled  with  God.  For  no  one  encouraged  me,  but 
the  reverse;  and  even  the  truest  friends  and  breth- 
ren hinted  that  I  was  not  quite  in  my  senses.  When 
Duke  George,  of  Saxony,  lay  on  his  death-bed,  and 
was  yet  in  doubt  to  whom  he  should  flee  with  his 
soul,  whether  to  the  Lord  Jesus  Christ  and  his  dear 
merits,  or  to  the  Pope  and  his  good  works,  there 
spoke  a  trusty  courtier  to  him:  'Your  Grace, 
straightforward  makes  the  best  runner.'  That  word 
had  lain  fast  in  my  soul.  I  had  knocked  at  man's 
doors,  and  found  them  shut;  and  yet  the  plan  was 
manifestly  good  and  for  the  glory  of  God.  What 
was  to  be  done?  Straightforward  makes  the  best 
runner.  I  prayed  fervently  to  the  Lord,  laid  the 
matter  in  his  hands,  and  as  I  rose  up  at  midnight 
from  my  knees,  I  said  with  a  voice  that  almost 
startled  me  in  the  quiet  room:  Forward  now,  in 
God's  name.  From  that  moment  there  never  came 
thought  of  doubt  in  my  mind."  The  ship  was  built, 
and  Oct.  28,  1853,  it  left  Hamburg  with  the  first 
colony  of  missionaries. 


A  THRILLING  EPISODE. 

One  of  the  impressive  incidents  that  character- 
ized the  closing  session  of  the  annual  meeting  of 
the  Woman's  Presbyterian  Board  of  Missions  of 
the  Northwest,  held  in  Davenport,  Iowa,  was  the 
following,  as  reported  by  the  Interior: 

Mrs.  Van  Cleve  of  Minneapolis,  who,  though  about 
eighty  years  of  age,  has  strength  of  body  and  mind 
that  is  wonderful,  saying  that  she  wished  to  tell  a 
story  of  interest  to  the  delegates,  stated  that  in  her 
travels  in  Northern  Dakota,  she  once  saw,  near  one 
of  the  old  Hudson  Bay  Company's  trails,  the  grave 
of  a  woman,  a  missionary,  who  was  murdered  by  the 
Sioux  Indians  about  thirty  years  ago,  being  shot 
twice  through  the  lungs  as  she  was  attending  to  her 
sick  babe  in  the  night,  the  light  of  her  candle  show- 
ing her  form  to  the  savages  who  were  lurking  out- 
side her  cabin.  Her  husband  buried  her  there,  and 
placed  a  tombstone,  properly  inscribed,  at  her  grave. 
A  settler  took  that  slab,  broke  it  in  two,  and  made 
stepping  stones  of  it  for  the  back  and  front  doors 
of  his  house.  Mrs.  Van  Cleve  then  told  of  her 
search  for  further  information  concerning  the  mar- 
tyred missionary,  and  of  her  obtaining  it  through  a 
package  of  letters  sent  from  India  by  a  correspond- 
ent of  the  husband  of  the  murdered  woman.  Mrs. 
Van  Cleve's  object  in  her  address  was  the  raising  of 
a  fund  by  the  Presbyteries  in  the  Northwest  to  build 
a  suitable  monument  over  that  grave.  Mrs.  Webb, 
of  Oxford,  Pa.,  to  whom  the  letters  were  forwarded 
from  India,  had  sent  a  dollar  for  the  purpose. 

At  this  point  in  the  narrative  a  lady's  trembling 
voice  inquired,  "May  I  say  a  word?"  "Certainly," 
replied  Mrs.  Douglass.  "Your  name,  please?"  The 
voice,  still  trembling,  but  giving  no  name,  contin- 
ued: "That  missionary  was  my  brother,  and  his  mur- 
dered wife  was  my  sister-in-law  I  He  was  David 
Brainard  Spencer.  The  elder  child  in  the  cabin  that 
night  has  been  a  missionary  in  Turkey  ten  years. 
The  babe  that  Mrs.  Spencer  held  in  her  arms  when 
she  was  shot  has  been  a  devoted  minister  in  Illinois 
a  number  of  years."  The  speaker's  name  was  af- 
terwards given  as  Mrs.  Drew,  of  Evansville,  Ind., 
who  stated  that  Mr.  Spencer  died  about  three  years 
ago  in  Benzonia,  Mich.  It  is  said  that  it  didn't 
take  that  crowd  long  to  raise  and  hand  Mrs.  Van 
Cleve  a  grand  "starter"  for  a  fund  for  a  new  and 
suitable  monument  to  the  memory  of  Mrs.  Spencer. 


A  BED- TIME  STORY. 


"A  story!  I  will  soon  be  in  bed,"  said  Birdie 
Brown,  as  her  sister  promised  to  tell  her  a  story. 
Her  sister  began: 

"There  was  a  king  who  had  a  little  daughter 
whom  he  loved  very  much.  He  wanted  to  make 
her  a  beautiful  and  wise  princess,  so  he  sent  her  to 
a  country  where  she  was  to  pass  through  many 
schools  and  learn  lessons  that  would  fit  her  for  her 
father's  home.  This  kind  father  did  not  send  his 
daughter  alone.  He  gave  her  ten  servants  to  wait 
upon  and  care  for  her. 

"Two  of  these  servants  were  to  show  her  all  the 
beautiful  and  useful  things  that  she  should  meet 
with  in  her  absence,  and  when  she  got  homesick 
they  were  to  bid  her  look  up  and  tell  it  all  to  father, 
and  he  would  hoar  and  comfort  her.  Two  more 
were  to  help  the  little  girl  to  hear  sweet  music  and 
sounds  that  would  give  her  joy  and  pleasure,  and 
that  would  tell  her  about  what  she  saw  and  bid  her 
always  remember  her  father's  love.  Two  more  car- 
ried her  wherever  she  went;  and  poor,  indeed,  she 
would  have  been  without  these  little  servants.  An- 
other told  her  all  she  wanted  to  say  to  those  around 
bar  and  sang  hymns  of  praise  to  her  father,  the 
king.    Two  more  helped  her  to  do  everything  that 


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would  give  happiness  to  herself  and  others  about 
her;  but  the  last  servant  was  only  seen  by  her  fath- 
er and  herself.  When  this  one  did  his  bidding,then 
all  the  other  servants  were  faithful  and  true,  and 
the  little  girl  was  beautiful  and  happy.  The  last 
servant  always  told  his  little  mistress  to  love  her 
father  dearly,  and  not  want  to  guide  the  other  ser- 
vants to  do  what  would  displease  him.  Sometimes 
the  princess  would  say  to  herself,  'Father  is  not 
here  and  I  will  do  what  I  please;'  then  in  spite  of 
this  servant's  pleading,  she  bade  him  guide  the 
others  into  forbidden  paths,  and  thus  brought  upon 
herself  trouble  and  pain. 

"You  see  that  even  a  little  princess,  with  ten  ser- 
vants to  wait  upon  her,  may  at  times  do  naughty 
things.  I 

"At  last  the  loving  father  gave  a  command  to 
each  of  his  daughter's  servants,  calling  them  by 
name  as  he  spoke.  The  names  and  commands  were 
these: 

"  'Little  Eyes,  look  up  to  God; 

Little  Ears,  hear  his  word ; 

Little  Feet,  walk  his  ways ; 

Little  Mouth,  sing  bis  praise; 

Little  Hands,  do  his  will ; 

Little  Heart,  love  him  still.' 

"When  the  little  princess  heard  these  commands 
she  made  them  into  one  great  message  for  herself; 
and  when  she  was  tempted  to  bid  her  servants  to  do 
wrong  she  would  say,  'No,  no;  I  will  not,  for  there 
are 

"  'Two  little  eyes  to  look  to  God; 

Two  little  ears  to  hear  his  word ; 

Two  little  feet  to  walk  his  ways ; 

One  little  mouth  to  sing  his  praise ; 

Two  little  hands  to  do  his  will ; 

And  one  little  heart  to  love  him  still.' 

"Then  her  whole  soul  would  be  filled  with  love  to 
her  kind  father,  and  all  wicked  thoughts  would  fly 
away." 

"Oh,  sister,  I  understand  your  story.  I  am  the 
little  princess  and  God  is  my  Heavenly  Father.  He 
has  given  me  ten  little  servants  to  help  me  do  his 
will.  Sister,  I  think  my  little  heart  does  'love  him 
still.'  Isn't  it  delightful  that  I  am  a  little  princess  I 
1  am  going  to  try  to  remember  the  King's  com- 
mands. Will  you  please  teach  me  them  to-mor- 
row?" 

"Yes,  darling.  Now  shut  your  eyes  and  go  to 
sleep,  for  the  King  likes  his  little  princess  to  be  up 
in  time  in  the  morning." — Morning  Star. 


MR.  MOODY'S  STOUT  OF  A  CHILD. 


I  was  preaching  out  on  the  Western  prairies  once, 
and  as  1  went  into  the  inquiry  meeting  I  noticed  a 
little  girl  sitting  near  the  door.  I  thought  she  was 
waiting  for  a  mother  or  a  sister  that  was  in  the  hall, 
and  paid  no  attention  to  her.  But  when  I  had  fin- 
ished speaking  to  the  inquirers,  and  they  had  all 
gone,  the  little  girl  was  still  waiting.  I  went  up  to 
her  and  asked  her  if  she  was  a  Christian. 

She  looked  up  at  me  smiling,  with  the  tears  rain- 
ing down  her  cheeks — you've  seen  it  rain  in  sun- 
shine— and  said,  '  Oh,  yes,  sirl" 

"And  how  long  have  you  been  a  Christian?"  I 
asked. 

"Please,  sir,  ever  since  last  night" 

"And  what  made  you?" 

"Well,  I  heard  you  say  that  God  would  take  me 
if  I  only  asked  him,  and  when  I  got  home  I  just 
asked  the  Lord  Jesus  to  forgive  me,  and  take  me  as 
his  own  child." 

"And  how  do  you  know  he  has  taken  you?" 

"He  promised  to  do  it,"  said  the  little  one;  and  if 
that  isn't  the  plan  of  salvation,  1  don't  know  what  is. 

This  little  Christian  was  only  seven,  and  small 
for  her  age.  I  thank  God  it's  so  simple  that  a  child 
can  understand  it.  When  Christ  says,  "Follow  me," 
just  follow  him;  that's  what  makes  you  free. 


THB  HORSE  REMSilBERS  KINDNESS. 


A  writer  in  Wallace's  Monthly  tolls  a  good  story 
of  the  famous  horse.  Messenger,  which  had  once 
belonged  to  a  Mr.  Bush,  and  which  after  his  transfer 
to  other  hands  had  acquired  notoriety  for  his  feroc- 
ity. It  seems  that  years  after  he  was  sold  Mr.  Bush 
determined  to  see  his  old  favorite,  whom  he  found 
kept  in  a  pasture  surrounded  by  a  fence  ten  feet 
high,  ihrough  a  hole  in  which  the  food  and  water 
were  passed  to  Messenger  as  if  he  were  "a  danger- 
ous convict."  Mr.  Bush  was  warned  not  to  enter 
the  enclosure  for  his  very  life,  but  he  went  in  and 
unobserved,  concealed  himself  behind  a  tree  and 
whistled.  With  a  neigh  the  grand  old  fellow  came 
bounding  across  the  field  in  search  of  the  well  re- 
membered whistle.  The  Jiorse  raced  around  the 
pasture,  and  when  at  the  height  of  his  run  Mr.  Bush 


exposed  himself  and  whistled  again,  Messenger 
wheeled  and  made  directly  for  him,  while  the  out- 
lookers  trembled  in  terror.  But  instead  of  seeking 
to  kill,  the  horse  came  up  gently  and  laid  his  head 
over  his  old  master's  shoulder  to  receive  the  cus- 
tomary caress.  When  Mr.  Bush's  time  for  depar- 
ture had  come,  he  had  proceeded  but  a  few  yards 
from  the  enclosure  when  there  was  a  crash  and  out 
Messenger  came,  bounding  through  the  strong  bars. 
He  followed  his  former  owner  to  the  stable  gently, 
where  he  was  secured  by  strong  ropas  and  for  a 
long,  long  distance  upon  the  road  homeward  Mr. 
Bush  could  hear  the  noble  animal  neighing,  lashing 
the  stall,  and  struggling  to  be  free  and  follow. 


Temperance. 


CRIMINALS  AND  A  CRIMINAL  BUSINESS. 


It  is  said  8,000  out  of  the  12,000  saloon-keepers 
in  New  York  city  have  been  committed  for  some 
crime.  Yet  these  are  the  men  supported  so  liber- 
ally by  a  generous  public.  They  grow  fat  and 
flourish  on  the  cash  which  represents  the  wounds, 
woe  and  hunger  bite  of  thousands.  The  writer  has 
often  been  called  upon  to  hear  the  old,  old  story  of 
wrecked  prospects;  and  the  cause  assigned  has  in- 
variably been  strong  drink.  If  the  drink  traffic  be 
responsible  for  only  a  fraction  of  the  evil  wrought, 
the  outlook  must  be  terrible  for  all  who  will  be 
proven,  in  the  great  day  of  account,  in  any  way, 
measure  or  manner,  to  have  been  partners  or  re- 
sponsible in  the  business. 

Let  us,  as  true  Christians,  brace  ourselves  for  a 
struggle  to  the  death  against  the  destroyer.  "To 
be  or  not  to  be"  is  the  question  of  the  age.  Should 
the  drink  traffic  be  permitted  or  prohibited?  That's 
the  question. — Rev,  J.  F.  Avery. 

-^  •  ♦ 

IOWA  SALOONS  MUST  GLOSB. 


A  decision  of  importance,  and  involving  a  new 
point  under  the  prohibitory  liquor  law  of  Iowa,  was 
rendered  July  10  by  Judge  Phelps  of  the  District 
Court.  Two  years  ago  a  saloon-keeper,  whose  place 
was  enjoined  as  a  nuisance,  appealed  to  the  Iowa 
Supreme  Court,  and  after  filing  a  supersedeas  bond 
continued  the  traffic.  The  injunction  was  sustained, 
and  the  saloon-keeper  again  gave  bond,  and  carried 
his  case  to  the  United  States  Supreme  Court,  where 
it  is  not  likely  to  be  reached  for  a  year  or  two  yet. 
Kecently  proceedings  were  brought  to  have  him  ar- 
rested and  fined  for  contempt  of  court  in  continuing 
the  illegal  traffic  notwithstanding  the  injunction.  His 
defense  was  that  pending  the  decision  of  the  Fede- 
ral Court  the  injunction  did  not  apply,  but  the  Dis- 
trict Court  now  decides  that  the  injunction  must 
stand  and  that  the  saloon  must  close.  The  saloon- 
keeper at  once  closed  up  and  others  will  follow  suit, 
as  they  admit  that  further  resistance  to  the  law  is 
useless. 

SUNDAY  CLOSING  IN  LONDON. 


Probably  no  Parliamentary  measure,  since  the  in- 
troduction of  those  that  mark  crises  in  English  his- 
tory, has  given  so  much  ofltense  or  aroused  so  much 
opposition  as  the  local  government  bill  that  is  now 
drawing  its  slow  length  along  through  the  Commons. 
The  government  has  lost  elections  on  its  account  and 
stirred  up  powerful  enemies.  Nearly  every  clause 
out  of  the  125  that  compose  it,  which  have  thus  far 
been  debated,  has  contained  some  objectionable 
feature,  and  not  a  few  have  been  abandoned  as  im- 
practicable. The  clause  known  as  the  "Sunday  clos- 
ing clause"  is  the  one  which  finds  opposition  at 
present.  It  is  proposed  by  this  measure  to  close  all 
liquor  shops  on  Sunday.  The  British  public  do  not 
take  kindly  at  all  to  this  proposition.  The  work- 
men want  their  liquor  on  Sunday  as  well  as  other 
days — in  fact  the  demand  for  it  is  greater  on  this 
than  any  other,  barring  holidays.  This  is  evident 
from  the  condition  of  the  British  workman  on  Mon- 
day, as  that  day  is  almost  a  dead  letter  as  far  as 
work  is  concerned.  Frequent  meetings  have  been 
held  denouncing  the  clause  that  aims  at  depriving 
the  workingmcn  of  their  time-honored  privilege  of 
getting  drunk  on  the  first  day  of  the  week. 

To-day,  at  Hide  Park,  a  vast  assemblage  gath- 
ered lo  protest  against  Sunday  closing.  Many  speak- 
ers addressed  the  crowd  which  marched  to  the  park 
with  bands  of  music  and  carrying  banners.  On 
some  of  the  banners  was  inscribed:  "Are  we  all 
drunkards  that  we  should  be  robbed  of  our  Sunday 
beer?"  In  view  of  yesterday's  trouble  at  Trafalgar 
Square,  a  hflavy  squad  of  police  surrounded  the 
square  to-day  for  fear  of  a  surprise.  An  ugly  fight 
took  place  last  evening  at  the  Charing  Cross  Sta- 
tion between  the  police  and  the  crowd  that  bad  been 


driven  from  the  square,  and  many  arrests  were  made, 
among  them  R.  Cunningham  Graham,  M.  P.,  the  well- 
known  labor  agitator.  Mr.  Graham  was  afterward 
released  on  bail.  The  police  grumble  greatly  at  the 
government's  indecision  in  the  matter,  and  assert 
that  these  meetings  will  culminate  in  a  riot  exceed- 
ing in  violence  that  of  last  November  unless  some 
action  is  taken. 


SALOONKEEPERS  EVADING  THB  LAW. 

After  a  seige  of  two  years  the  authorities  of  Al- 
liance, Ohio,  succeeded  July  12  in  closing  the  last 
saloon  in  the  place.  Within  the  last  few  days  the 
saloon-keepers,  who  were  obliged  to  close  their 
places,  have  completed  their  arrangements  to  open 
a  monster  beer  garden  just  outside  the  city  limits. 
The  following  dodger  has  been  distributed  over 
town:  "Beer — The  local  option  beer  hall  is  open  at 
the  foot  of  Webb  street  this  evening,  and  until  fur- 
ther notice  the  best  brands  of  fresh,  cool,  sparkling 
beer  will  be  kept  on  hand,  and  for  to-night  beer  is 
free."  The  authorities  will  now  order  a  township 
election  and  vote  to  close  it  entirely. 

A  MOTHER'S  TROUBLE. 


John  McDonough  is  now  in  the  Deer  Lodge  Pen- 
itentiary serving  out  a  sentence  of  two  years  and  a 
half  for  housebreaking  and  malicious  conduct  in 
Basin  City  last  winter.  His  mother  lately  made  an 
affidavit  that  her  son  is  innocent  of  the  charge,  and 
admitting  that  she,  in  company  with  another  person, 
went  to  the  premises  of  Fanny  McKinnon,  broke 
open  certain  barrels  of  whisky,  let  the  liquor  run 
upon  the  ground,  and  broke  up  her  beer  bottles. 
The  lawless  deed  was  done  with  the  object  of  driv- 
ing the  woman  out  of  town,  as  she  was  running  a 
saloon  and  dance-house,  and,  as  she  alleges,  so  dis- 
turbing herself  and  her  lodgers  that  they  could  get 
no  rest  at  night.  She  professes  her  willingness  to 
take  her  son's  place  in  jail  if  that  will  satisfy  the 
law's  demands,  and  says  she  has  been  restrained  up 
to  this  by  sickness  and  threats  from  making  the 
above  statement.  The  affidavit  is  to  be  sent  to  the 
governor,  together  with  such  other  evidence  as  may 
be  necessary  to  secure  her  son's  release. 


TEXT  FOR  A  TEMPERANCE   LBGTURB. 


Mrs.  William  El  well,  aged  about  65,  and  her  son, 
about  40,  were  both  killed  at  7  o'clock  this  evening 
(July  5)  by  a  Cleveland  and  Pittsburg  passenger  train 
east-bound.  Mrs.  Elwell  was  taking  home  her  son, 
who  is  said  to  have  been  drinking.  They  met  the 
train  at  Carpenter's  Run  bridge,  and  stepped  ofl  to 
the  side  of  the  track.  After  the  engine  had  passed 
the  son  insisted  on  having  the  right  of  way,  but  his 
mother  stoutly  resisted,  and  in  trying  to  pull  him 
out  of  harm's  way  both  were  struck  by  the  coaches. 
Elwell  died  instantly  and  his  mother  a  few  mo- 
ments after.     Their  heads  were  terribly  crushed. 


WHISKY,  HARD  CIDER  AND  MURDER. 


Oc  July  16  a  party  of  men  gathered  at  Axton, 
Henry  county,  Va.,  and  made  merry  with  whisky 
and  hard  cider.  Lee  Eanes  tried  to  drive  his  mule 
over  Hannibal  Turner.  Turner  struck  the  mule  with 
a  barrel  stave.  Eanes  alighted,  and  hot  words  fol- 
lowed. Gus  Eanes  took  Lee's  part,  and  D.  E.  Da- 
vis stepped  i-^  snd  declared  he  would  defend  Tur- 
ner. Gus  Eanes  told  Davis  he  was  not  afraid  ol 
him,  when  Davis  drew  a  pistol  and  shot  him  dead. 
He  then  turned  and  shot  Lee  Eanes  twice,  inflicting 
mortal  wounds,  after  which  h<i  fled  to  the  woods, 
brandishing  a  pistol  and  knife.  Th^  Eanes  boys 
have  many  relatives  in  the  country,  and  much  ex- 
citement prevails.  If  Davis  is  caught  he  will  prob- 
ably be  lynched. 


THAT  CIGARETTE. 


Cigarette  smoking  numbers  another  victim  in 
Richard  H.  Barringer,  a  popular  young  man  of  Troy. 
He  was  a  constant  smoker.  An  aflection  of  the 
heart  was  followed  by  dropsy.  Several  physicians 
attended  him,  and  they  all  agreed  that  nicotene  pois- 
oning had  so  shattered  his  system  that  recovery  was 
im[K)S8ible.  He  is  dead  at  the  age  of  25.  l^p  to 
a  few  weeks  ago  he  had  a  fine  physique,  and  was 
believed  to  have  good  prospects  of  long  life.  After 
his  death  one  of  his  veins  burst,  and  the  blood 
therefrom  was  almost  as  black  as  ink. — Amtterdam^ 
N.  Y,,  Daily  Democrat. 

Kansas  papers  claim  that  the  State  has  saved  not 
less  than  $12,000,000  since  her  prohibitory  law  went 
into  eflect, 


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THE  CHEISnAW  CYNOSUKB. 


JuLT  26, 1888 


BIBLE  LESSON. 


STUDIES  IN  THE  OLD  TESTAMENT. 

LESSON  6.    Third  Quarter.— Aug  5. 

SUBJECT.— The  Burnt  Offering.— Lev.  1:  1-9. 

GOLDEN  TEXT.— The  Lord  hath  laid  on  him  the  iniquity  of 
usall.- Isa.  53:6. 

[Open  the  Bible  and  read  the lesion.'l 

COMMENTS  ON  THE  LESSON  BY  E.  E.  FLAGG. 

1.  The  Offering  Must  be  Voluntary  and  Without  Blem 
iah.  Va.  1-3.  Christ  offered  himself  a  willing  and  sin- 
less sacrifice  for  guilty  man.  So  the  Christian,  when  he 
gives  himself  to  God,  makes  a  willing  offering  of  all  that 
he  has  and  is,  and  in  the  sense  that  he  has  been  washed 
clean  in  Christ's  atoning  blood,  it  is  an  offering  without 
blemish.  In  Mai.  1 :  4  there  is  a  curse  pronounced  against 
the  deceiver  "who  voweth  and  sacrifioeth  unto  the  Lord 
a  corrupt  thing."  The  natural  heart  is  a  corrupt  thing. 
It  must  be  changed  by  the  regenerating  power  of  the 
Holy  Spirit,  and  a  new  spiritual  life  implanted  within  it, 
before  it  can  be  an  acceptable  offering  to  God.  When 
we  give  in  charity  that  which  we  would  not  be  willing 
to  use  ourselves  we  sacrifice  to  the  Lord  a  corrupt  thing, 
yet  how  many  do  it.  The  practice  of  holding  church 
fairs,  church  suppers,  etc.,  when  money  is  to  be  raised 
for  benevolent  or  religious  purposes,  is  altogether  alien 
to  the  spirit  of  true  sacrifice.  The  equivalent  of  the 
time  and  money  spent  is  supposed  to  come  back  in  the 
shape  of  pleasure.  But  granted  that  it  does — which  is 
seldom  the  case,  considering  the  worry,  vexation  and 
petty  jealousies  which  always  follow  in  the  wake  of 
such  affairs— we  are  commanded  to  give  to  the  Lord,  and 
giving  is  not  a  system  of  exchange.  Nothing  can  be  of- 
fered to  him  acceptably  which  is  the  fruit  of  unrighteous 
gains,  or  which  has  in  any  way  caused  the  injury  or 
degradation  of  our  fellow  beings.  A  rumseller's  offering 
is  a  corrupt  thing.  The  church  or  the  institution  which 
will  accept  it  must  expect  a  curse  will  follow.  No  greater 
insult  could  be  given  to  Jehovah  than  to  seek  to  build 
up  his  sanctuary  with  blood  and  his  cause  with  iniquity. 
No  offering  laid  on  lodge  altars  can  be  accepted.  They 
are  erected  to  an  unknown  god;  they  have  not  been 
sprinkled  with  atoning  blood.  But  aside  from  this  is  a 
fatal  blemish — selfishness.  It  is  not  offered  in  pure  char- 
ity, but  with  the  hypocrite's  hope  of  receiving  as  much 
again.  It  is  a  common  saying  with  lodge  men  that  secret 
societies  do  more  good  than  the  church.  We  have  only 
to  examine  the  annual  report  of  a  Masonic  or  Odd-fellow 
Grand  Lodge  to  see  the  falsity  of  this  statement;  but 
granted  its  truth,  God  can  no  more  accept  such  an  offer- 
ing than  he  could  Cain's.     It  must  be  without  blemish. 

2.  The  Acceptable  Sacrifice.  Vs.  4-13.  In  verses  5, 
11  we  have  an  image  of  "the  blcod  of  sprinkling  which 
speaketh  better  things  than  that  of  Abel."  It  is  true  that 
without  the  sprinkling  of  blood  there  is  no  remission. 
At  the  same  time  God's  Word  tells  us  plainly  that  he 
takes  no  pleasure  in  burnt  offerings  and  sacrifices  for  sin 
in  themselves  considered.  An  architect  takes  no  pleas- 
ure in  the  rough  scaffolding  to  some  fine  building.  He 
may  command  one  to  be  erected  because  he  knows  it  is 
temporarily  needed,  but  not  that  it  has  the  smallest 
beauty  in  itself.  In  the  time  of  Solomon  the  Jewish 
temple  service  advanced  to  its  highest  pitch  of  ritualistic 
splendor,  yet  his  next  step  was  to  build  high  places  for 
heathen  gods.  Even  then  Judaism  was  tottering  to  its 
fall  into  an  abyss  of  semi  heathenism  from  which  it  only 
recovered  to  fall  again  on  the  other  side  into  the  grovel- 
ling formalism  of  Pharisaical  tradition.  Had  Solomon 
studied  attentively  his  country's  history  he  would  have 
seen  that  simple  obedience  would  have  been  more  pleas- 
ing to  God  than  all  his  monster  sacrifice  of  sheep  and 
oxen  which  could  not  be  numbered  for  multitude.  The 
most  dangerous  time  for  the  church  is  when  she  begins 
to  multiply  and  make  magnificent  her  outward  services. 
Ornate  ceremonials  smother  spiritual  life,  while  at  the 
same  time  the  simplest  form  of  congregational  worship 
may  become  a  snare,  if  we  let  the  hymn  and  the  prayer 
and  the  sermon  take  the  part  of  active  religious  duty,  if 
we  are  content  with  the  scaffolding  and  allow  our  soul's 
temples  to  remain  unfinished.  Thus  we  come  back  to 
the  thought  with  which  we  started.  Obedience  is  our 
best  sacrifice;  the  simple  childlike  obedience  which  does 
not  falter  nor  question  which  is  the  most  expedient  way. 
But  over  it  must  be  the  blood  of  sprinkling  ere  it  can  be 
an  offering  of  sweet  savor  acceptable  to  God. 


RELIGIOUS  NEWS. 


Notice  — The  camp  meeting  in  Dawson's  Grove,  three 
miles  north  of  Muscoda.  Wisconsin,  on  the  Chicago, 
Milwaukee  &  St.  Paul  Railroad,  will  commence  the 
18th  of  August,  and  will  be  conducted  by  Evangelists 
Woolf  and  Swayne.  Bro.  Woolf  preaches  the  Gospel  in 
its  purity  and  does  not  forget  the  "old  handmaid."  He 
gives  to  each  their  portion  in  good  season;  and  Bro. 
Swayne  sings  the  Gospel  with  such  sweet  and  thrilling 
strains  it  must  and  will  convert.  Come  all,  good  broth- 
ers and  sisters,  who  are  Christian  Cynosure  readers,  to 
the  pleasant  grove.  W.  H.  Dawson. 


A  WONDBBFUL  MiaSIONABT MOVEMENT. 

Somewhere  between  two  thousand  and  three  thou- 
sand young  men  and  young  women  in  the  academ- 
ies, seminaries,  colleges,  medical  colleges  and  theo- 
logical seminaries  of  the  United  States,  have  said 
that  they  wish  to  engage  in  missionary  service, 
many  of  them  wish  to  devote  their  lives  to  mission- 
ary work, — if  the  Church  will  sustain  them.  This 
disposition  has  resulted  from  a  similar  movement 
among  University  men  in  England,  as  a  conse- 
quence of  the  exhortations  of  Mr.  Moody. 

A  singular  characteristic  of  this  movement  is  that 
it  has  advanced  and  still  lives  without  an  organiza- 
tion. It  has  been  voluntary  and  free.  To-day  it  is 
endeavoring  to  ascertain  whether  the  churches  will 
send  out  and  support  these  applicants,  but  without 
an  organization.  There  is  no  committee,  no  presi- 
dent, secretary  or  treasurer.  There  is  a  general  and 
confldent  acquiescence,  unsought,  voluntary,  but 
cordial  and  unopposed  and  unquestioned,  in  the  en- 
deavors of  Mr.  Robert  P.  Wilder  of  Princeton,  Prof. 
Lee  S.  Pratt  of  Park  College,  Mr.  J.  W.  Stoops  and 
Mr.  O'Brien  of  Union  Seminary  in  this  city.  By 
universal  consent  the  students  have  entrusted  to 
these  gentlemen  the  attempt  to  ascertain  whether 
the  churches  will  add  about  2,000  missionaries  to 
those  they  now  maintain. 

These  gentlemen  are  distributing  a  plan,  the  main 
point  of  which  is  this  engagement: 

I  promise  to  give  $  —  and  —  cents  each  week, 
during  a  period  of  five  years  from  date,  toward  the 
support  of  a  missionary  in  the  foreign  field,  this 
sum  to  be  over  and  above  my  present  offerings  to 
the  cause  of  Foreign  Missions.  (Instead  of  weekly 
payments,  quarterly  or  yearly  payments  may  be 
made  if  so  desired.) 

The  plan  provides  for  a  report  of  the  results  of 
circulating  such  a  pledge  and  for  the  designation  of 
missionaries  to  be  sent  out  and  supported. —  Chris- 
tian Intelligencer. 


— Mrs.  Mary  B.  Willard,  sister-in-law  of  Miss 
Frances  E.  Willard,  will  take  a  company  of  young 
women  to  Europe  this  summer  for  a  three  months' 
trip,  and  will  resume  the  charge  of  he  r  home  school 
at  Berlin  in  the  autuma. 


— The  Chicago  Evangelization  society  is  now  con- 
ducting Gospel  meetings  in  tour  different  parts  of 
the  city.  On  the  North  Side  the  society  some 
months  ago  bought  the  National  theater,  26  and  28 
Clyboum  avenue,  for  $22,000  and  converted  it  into 
the  "North  Side  Tabernacle."  This  tabernacle  seats 
1,500  people.  Services  are  held  every  evening  ex- 
cept Saturday  and  on  Sabbath  morning.  The  Sun- 
day-school is  held  at  3  p.  m.  The  North  Side  Gos- 
pel tent  is  located  on  Clyboum  and  FuUerton  ave- 
nues. It  has  average  audiences  of  300.  On  the 
South  Side  there  is  one  of  the  society's  gospel  tents 
on  State  street,  between  23d  and  24th  streets,  which 
holds  1,200  people.  Services  are  held  every  even- 
ing save  Saturday.  Vernon  Hall,  521  Taylor  street, 
is  the  West  Side  rendezvous  of  the  society.  Kev. 
Alexander  Patterson  is  the  evangelist  in  charge. 
Services  are  held  here  three  or  four  evenings  in  the 
week.  The  society  was  formed  to  work  among  the 
people  where  church  facilities  are  lacking;  to  reach 
those  people  whom  churches  do  not  reach.  The  es- 
tablishment in  Chicago  of  a  school  for  evangelists, 
where  praachers  may  be  trained  in  the  right  way  of 
going  about  the  work,  is  one  of  the  objects  of  the 
society  which  is  expected  soon  to  be  in  order.  D. 
L.  Moody  is  president  of  the  society;  T.  W.  Harvey, 
vice-president;  E.  G.  Keith,  treasurer;  C.  H.  McCor- 
mick,  N.  S.  Bouton,  J.  V.  Farwell  and  Robert  Scott, 
trustees,  and  F.  G.  Ensign,  general  manager. 

—Rev.  H.  F.  Titus,  former  pastor  of  the  Baptist 

church  at  Newton,  Mass.,  has  conc'-ided  to  try  and 

start  a  new  church,  whose  members  shall  undertake 

to  live  as   Jesus  Christ  lived.      Mr.   Titus  resigned 

his  pastorate  some  time  ago  to  study  medicine  in 

order  to  better  fit  himself  for  missionary  work;  but 

his  people  persuaded  him  to  go  on  preaching  until  a 

recent  Sunday,  when  he  told  them  that  he  should 

not  enter  their  pulpit  again;  that  he  had  ceased  to 

be  a  Baptist;  that  there  was  no  other  church  he 

^  could  go  to,  since  none  attempted  to  live  the  ideal 

;  life  patterned  out  in  the  Gospel,  and  that  he  had  no 

j  choice  but  to  attempt  to  start  one  of  his  own.     He 

J  thinks  that  in  the  ideal  church,  such  as  he  proposes 

^to  found,  there  should  be   no  rich,  no  jpoor;  that 


the  members  should  give  generously  one  to 
another;  that  they  should  take  care  of  each  other 
better  than  Freemasons  or  any  similar  society,  and 
that  there  should  be  no  social  distinctions  among 
them. 

— The  Southwest,  an  organ  of  the  liquor  trade  pub- 
lished at  Cincinnati,  raves  about  churches  giving 
money  for  missions  and  neglecting  the  suffering  poor. 
There  would  be  no  pauperism  to  speak  of  in  this 
country  if  the  liquor  traflic  were  abolished.  Every 
year  Christian  people  give  millions  to  relieve  the  dis- 
tress of  people  who  have  been  ruined  by  liquor. 
How  much  have  the  saloon-keepers  given  to  this 
cause?  If  they  would  take  care  of  those  whom 
they  have  reduced  to  poverty  there  would  not  be 
much  left  for  other  people  to  do  in  the  way  of  char- 
ity. 

— The  corner  stone  of  the  first  building  of  the  Ar- 
kansas Baptist  college  is  to  be  laid  in  August  next, 
during  the  sitting  of  the  Arkansas  Baptist  State 
Convention  in  the  city  of  Little  Rock.  This  insti- 
tution is  owned  and  controlled  by  the  colored  people 
of  Arkansas.  Its  object  is  to  give  industrial  train- 
ing and  Christian  education  to  young  people  of  our 
race,  and  to  help  our  ministers  better  prepare  them- 
selves for  the  great  work. 

—The  Illinois  Y.  M.  C.  A.  convention,  meeting  in 
Rock  Island  September  19-23,  has  already  issued  a 
preliminary  program.  We  are  glad  to  see  so  stal- 
wart a  champion  of  the  Word  of  God.  Rev.  Dr.  J. 
H.  Brooks,  of  St.  Louis,  is  engaged  for  an  address 
on  each  of  the  three  days  during  the  meeting. 

— At  a  late  meeting  of  the  Woman's  Missionary 
Society  of  the  Presbyterian  church  in  Chicago,  Mrs. 
W.  E.  Knox  of  New  York,  who  had  spent  one  year 
in  a  trip  to  mission  fields  and  a  visit  of  three 
months  to  her  son,  the  Rev.  Geo.  W.  Knox,  profes- 
sor in  the  Tokio  College,  Japan,  spoke  of  the  large 
number  of  idols.  In  one  temple  there  were  33,333. 
In  fifteen  years,  if  the  churches  at  home  comply 
with  the  requests  of  the  missionaries  and  the  in- 
crease is  as  great  as  in  the  past  ten  years,  there  will 
be  no  need  of  missionaries  being  sent  there,  for  the 
native  church  will  be  amply  able  to  take  entire 
charge  of  the  country. 

— At  the  Pan-Presbyterian  Council  in  London  the 
proposal  that  the  next  meeting  be  held  in  Toronto 
was  unanimously  agreed  to.  It  was  observed  that, 
owing  to  the  strong,  loyal  and  ardent  Presbyterian 
sentiment  existing  in  Toronto,  work  would  be  car- 
ried on  in  the  midst  of  congenial  surroundings. 

— The  Presbyterian  General  Assembly  at  Phila- 
delphia appointed  Sabbath,  October  7,  as  a  day  of 
special  prayer  that  the  Lord  will  send  more  laborers 
into  the  field,  that  a  spirit  of  greater  liberality  may 
be  awakened  in  this  interest.  A  collection  for  edu- 
cation is  to  be  taken  in  all  Presbyterian  churches  on 
that  day. 

— That  was  an  impressive  scene  recently  in  one 
of  our  Dakota  churches  when  an  Indian  and  his 
wife  presented  themselves  for  membership,  and  be- 
fore the  ceremony  were  first  re-united  in  Christian 
marriage,  then  baptized,  and  immediately  after  their 
reception  brought  their  child  for  baptism.  It  was 
a  beautiful  testimony  to  the  power  of  the  Gospel  to 
permeate  and  elevate  all  the  relations  of  life. 

"^The  Pan-Presbyterian  Conference,  which  met 
on  July  3d  in  London,  is  the  fourth  assembly  of 
that  kind.  The  gathering  is  representative  of  all 
the  Presbyterianism  in  the  world.  It  has  relation 
to  the  interests  of  over  1,200  presbyteries,  24,000 
churches  and  missions,  21,000  ministers  and  7,000,- 
000  members.  American  and  British  Presbyterian 
bodies  are  prominent  and  there  are  grand  accessions 
from  France,  Switzerland,  Spain,  Italy,  Germany, 
Austria,  Russia,  Belgium,  Australia,  Persia,  India, 
China,  Japan,  and  from  the  isles  of  the  seas. 

— Thomas  E.  Moore,  "General"  of  the  Salvation 
Army  in  America,  has  lately  written  to  a  friend  the 
following,  which  we  are  permitted  to  copy:  "I  am 
sure  all  such  societies  (secret)  belong  to  the  world 
and  the  devil.  While  we  make  it  a  point  not  to 
'  rail  on  any  particular  thing,  but  sin  as  sin.  Be- 
cause we  find  that  a  man  who  sells  tracts  and  Bibles, 
and  lies  about  it,  is  as  great  a  sinner  in  God's  sight 
[  as  a  whisky  head  who  is  also  a  high  Mason.  Many 
of  our  people  have  never  had  much  light,  but  they 
cannot  belong  to  the  armv  long  without  seeing  it  is 
wrong  and  feeling  it.  If  God  has  saved  you  from 
secret  orders,  witness  to  it;  if  not,  only  say  what  you 
know." 

It  is  a  very  easy  thing  to  carry  a  few  tracts  in  the 
pocket,  going  to  and  fro;  and  by  doing  this  we  may 
frequently  reach  persons  with  the  Gospel  message. 
A  tract,  courteously  presented,  may  frequently 
open  a  conversation,  and  help  lead  a  soul  to  Qhrist, 


IP" 


IllJiV 


Jttly  26, 1888 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


13 


Lodge  Notes. 

Jesse  L.  Jones,  Secretary  of  the  Knights 
of  Labor  at  Cincinnati,  has  fled  with  $10,- 
000  shortage  in  his  accounts.  Past  horses 
and  gambling  brought  about  his  ruin. 

The  fourth  annual  assembly  of  the 
Knights  of  Labor  for  Illinois,  met  in 
Springfield.  Resolutions  were  passed 
denouncing  the  State  conspiracy  law  and 
also  Pinkerton  detectives. 

8.  A.  Hagan  was  arrested  Thursday  in 
Mendota,  111.,  on  a  warrant  charging  him 
with  embezzlement.  Hagan  was  secre- 
tary of  the  Order  of  Faith,  and  in  some 
way  got  posse/ision  of  the  funds,  it  is 
claimed,  and  absconded  with  over  $100, 
all  the  money  the  order  had;  in  conse- 
quence of  which  loss  the  local  organiza 
tion  was  suspended  by  the  general  lodge 
for  non  payment  of  dues. 

L.  Hott  shot  and  killed  the  Bald-Knob- 
ber  desperado.  Wash  Middleton,  while 
the  latter  was  resisting  arrest  at  a  coun- 
try picnic  in  Newton  county,  Arkansas. 
Middleton  killed  Sam  Snapp,  an  anti- 
Knobber,  at  Kerbysville,  Mo.,  two  years 
ago.  List  October  he  was  convicted  and 
sentenced  to  the  penitentiary  for  forty 
years.  But  two  nights  later  he  made 
good  his  escape  from  jail,  assisted  by  his 
son  and  other  Bald-Knobbers. 

A  meeting  of  Orangemen  was  held  at 
Belfast,  Ireland,  Friday,  after  the  work 
of  the  triennial  council  had  been  con- 
cluded. The  earl  of  Erne,  the  newly 
elected  grand  master  of  the  order,  pre- 
sided. Mr.  William  Johnston,  member 
of  parliament  for  Belfast,  moved  a  reso- 
lution of  thanks  to  the  colonial  delegates, 
to  which  Messrs.  Wallace  and  Collins, 
grand  masters  respectively  of  the  order 
in  British  North  America  and  Ontario, 
responded. 

A  serious  row  has  broken  out  among 
the  Freemasons  of  Mount  Vernon,  Ind., 
through  the  refusal  of  the  main  body  to 
suspend  certain  men  engaged  in  selling 
liquor,  in  violation  of  the  laws  of  the  or- 
der. Deputy  Grand  Master  Douglas  went 
to  adjust  the  difficulty,  but  finding  the 
lodge  incorrigible  in  its  determination  to 
resist  the  order  of  the  grand  lodge,  he 
took  away  its  charter.  The  matter  has 
caused  a  considerable  sensation,  and  the 
feeling  runs  high. 

Before  closing  its  session  at  Toronto, 
Canada,  July  20,  the  Grand  Lodge  of 
Freemasons  of  Canada  passed  a  resolu 
tion  requesting  its  grand  master  to  enter 
into  correspondence  with  the  grand  mas 
ter  of  the  grand  lodge  of  England  and 
the  grand  master  of  the  grand  lodge  of 
Quebec,  offering  to  aid  them  in  the  set- 
tlement of  the  unfortunate  matters  in 
dispute  between  these  grand  bodies,  so 
that  a  stop  might  be  put  to  the  vexatious 
trouble  which  is  injurious  to  the  craft 
generally. 

The  United  Order  of  Honor  is  embar- 
rassed, it  is  said,  by  a  debt  of  $44,000. 
Supreme  Secretary  Duden  admits  that  the 
order  was  having  trouble  with  the  Mis- 
souri lodges,  which  were  in  danger  of 
dishonoring  the  assessments  on  account 
of  this  indebtedness.  The  death  rate  has 
been  abnormally  large,  and  he  says  he  is 
now  preparing  a  statement  to  be  given 
to  the  members  at  an  early  day.  The 
next  meeting  of  the  Supremo  Lodge 
will  likely  be  held  here,  where  all  the 
supreme  officers  are  stationed.  There  are 
twenty  mutinous  lodges  in  Missouri  and 
some  in  California. 

Commander-in-Chief  Rea,  of  the  Grand 
Army  of  the  Republic,  has  issued  general 
order  No.  9,  calling  attention  to  article  9, 
chapter  5,  of  the  rules  and  regulations, 
in  which  officers  and  comrades  are  for- 
bidden to  use  the  organization  for  parti- 
san purposes,  and  declaring  that  political 
discussion  shall  not  be  indulged  at  post 
meetings.  The  warning  is  issued  "in 
view  of  the  period  of  great  political  ex- 
citement upon  which  the  country  is  now 
entering."  Commander  Rea  also  reminds 
comrades  that  Grand  Army  uniforms 
should  not  be  worn  at  political  gather- 
ings, and  post  and  department  command- 
ers are  enjoined  to  see  that  the  rules  are 
obeyed. 

Mayor  Hewitt  has  issued  an  appeal  to 
the  citizens  of  New  York  for  subscrip- 
tions to  indemnify  O  M-  Hartt  for  "losses 
incurred  by  him  in  asserting  his  right  aa 
a  citizen  to  earn  his  living."  The  Mayor 
in  his  appeal  gives  a  brief  history  of  the 
case  as  follows:  Hartt  was  the  foreman 
of  a  shoe  factory.  He  discharged  a  man 
for  theft.    The  union  to  which  the  man 


belonged  insisted  upon  his  reinstatement 
and  the  dismissal  of  Hartt.  Hartt  has 
been  out  of  work  eighteen  months,  and 
his  fight  against  the  union  has  cost  him 
$2,500.  He  is  reduced  to  poverty,  and 
has  a  family  of  seven  persons.  The  men 
who  caused  the  trouble  for  Mr.  Hartt 
have  just  been  discharged,  and  the  Mayor 
is  of  the  opinion  that  he  ought  to  be  re- 
imbursed.   The  Mayor  subscribes  $100. 


aUBaORIPTlON  LBTTBBB. 


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to  July  21  inclusive: 

G  Conrad,  G  J  Graham,  L  R  Stevens, 
Mrs  E  R  Sterling,  Rev  W  Frazer,  I  A 
Qrise,  Rev  J  E  Roy,  H  A  Day,  W  H  Gil- 
lett,  E  Avery,  Mrs  C  Shank,  C  Winter, 
E  W  Fischer,  L  Lovell,  Mrs  8  B  Hart,  E 
Sutton,  I  Compton,  B  B  Britton,  S  A  De 
Vaney,  R  Shriver,  N  Callender,  D  H 
Harrington. 


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THE  CHRISTIAN  CTTNOSUKB. 


July  26, 1888 


Home  and  Health. 


THE  WASTES  OF  THB  HOUSEHOLD. 

While  the  well  known  saying  that  a 
French  family  could  live  with  elegance 
on  what  an  American  housewife  throws 
away  is  frequently  illustrated  in  families 
where  waste  can  be  ill  afforded,  it  is  also 
true  that,  in  eight  cases  out  of  ten,  this 
relegation  of  cold  bits  to  the  offal  pail  or 
ash  barrel  is  not  caused  so  much  by  ex- 
travagance as  by  the  lack  of  knowledge 
of  how  to  dispose  of  them  in  any  other 
way.  The  dainty  utilization  of  scraps  is 
a  subject  that  well  repays  the  thoughtful 
study  of  any  housewife,  and  even  the 
least  original  cook  can  often  "evolve 
from  her  inner  consciousness"  an  appe- 
tizing dish  from  cold  fragments  that  at 
first  sight  appear  utterly  unpromising. 
In  this  matter,  however,  the  mistress  must 
generally  depend  upon  her  own  brains. 
Few  hirelings  have  the  keen  interest  in 
their  employers'  welfare  that  would  urge 
them  to  save  a  couple  of  pennies  here 
and  five  or  six  there.  Fewer  still,  with 
the  best  intentions  in  the  world,  know  how 
to  do  it  or  appreciate  that  it  is  in  the 
minor  economies  that  true  saving  consists. 
What  difference  does  it  make  if  those 
scraps  of  cold  bacon  left  from  breakfast 
are  summarily  disposed  of  in  the  swill 
barrel,  or  if  that  bit  of  corn  beef — too 
small  to  appear  upon  the  table  again — is 
bestowed  upon  the  first  basket  beggar 
who  presents  himself  ?  And  if  these  es- 
cape that  fate  from  the  extra  conscien- 
tiousness of  the  housekeeper,  they  are 
too  often  converted  into  the  ubiquitous 
hash.  Hear  how  one  careful  housewife 
disposed  of  similar  remnants:  To  the 
corn  beef  and  bacon,  minced  fine,  she 
added  half  as  much  cold  mashed  potato, 
one  raw  egg,  a  little  chopped  onion  and 
parsley,  and  with  croquettes  made  of 
these,  rolled  in  flour  and  fried  in  nice 
dripping,  provided  an  appetizing  dish 
that  was  quite  sufficient,  when  accom- 
panied by  stewed  potatoes  and  bread  and 
butter,  to  make  a  lunch  for  three  people. 
Another  dainty  dish,  which  appeared 
upon  a  friend's  table,  was  formed  from 
even  less  promising  materials.  Her  din 
ner  the  day  before  had  been  a  stuffed 
chicken  boiled  v  ith  rice.  Examination 
of  the  pantry  revealed  the  carcass  of  the 
fowl,  with  one  leg  attached  to  it,  and  a 
couple  of  spoonfuls  of  the  cold  rice. 
Nothing  daunted,  however,  the  valiant 
housekeeper  advanced  to  the  charge,  and, 
with  the  aid  of  a  small,  sharp  knife,  re- 
moved more  meat  from  the  bones  than 
one  would  at  first  have  believed  possible. 
This  was  cut — not  chopped — in  small 
pieces  and  set  aside  with  the  rice  and 
half  of  the  dressing,  while  the  bones,  the 
rest  of  the  stuffing,  and  a  little  minced 
onion  were  put  over  the  fire  in  two  cups 
of  cold  water.  When  a  slow,  steady  sim- 
mer of  a  couple  of  hours  had  reduced 
this  one-half,  it  was  cooled,  strained, 
skimmed,  and  slightly  thickened  with 
browned  flour,  then  returned  to  the  fire 
with  the  fragments  of  meat,  rice,  etc , 
brought  to  a  boil,  poured  over  crustless 
squares  of  fried  bread  laid  in  a  hot  plat- 
ter, and  garnished  with  parsley.  The 
result  was  a  savory  salmi,  whose  scrappy 
origin  no  one  would  have  suspected. 

Many  other  instances  of  a  similar  na- 
ture could  be  given.  Once,  when  an 
underdone  loaf  of  brown  bread,  too 
heavy  and  sodden  to  appear  on  the  table 
in  its  original  form,  was  dried  in  the 
oven,  grated  and  converted  into  a  tempt- 
ing pudding.  Another,  when  an  equally 
happy  result  was  achieved  by  crushing 
into  fine  crumbs  a  quantity  of  stale,  hard 
cookies,  putting  with  them  two  cups  of 
milk,  an  egg,  a  teaspoonful  of  butter,  and 
the  juice  and  giated  peel  of  a  lemon. 

The  principal  objection  urged  against 
the  preparation  of  these  and  similar 
dishes  is  the  trouble  it  takes.  It  goes 
without  saying  that  when  a  woman's  time 
is  60  valuable  that  she  loses  money  by 
spending  an  hour  a  day  in  her  kitchen, 
she  may  feel  that  she  can  better  afford  to 
let  the  scraps  go  than  take  the  trouble  of 
saving  them.  But  this  is  not  often  the 
case.  With  the  average  American  house- 
keeper it  is  far  easier  to  save  a  dollar 
than  to  cam  one.  These  stoppages  of 
the  little  leaks  may  not  seem  much  sep- 
arately, but,  taken  together  at  the  end  of 
the  month  or  year,  they  mount  up  to  a 
sum  that  is  consoling  if  it  has  been  saved, 
appalling  if  it  has  been  wasted.  To  those 
who  think  this  close  watching  and  saving 
of  "left  overs"  has  an  appearance  of 
meanness  and  stinginess,  let  it  be  said 
that,  while  solid  roast  and  boiled  may 


give  an  impression  of  plain,  substantial 
comfort,  the  entrees  and  made  dishes 
have  a  savoriness  that  cannot  be  imparted 
to  the  regulation  cuts  of  meat.  Anyone 
can  go  to  the  butcher  and  order  a  round 
of  beef  or  a  leg  of  mutton,  but  it  takes 
judgment,  taste  and  skill  to  prepare  a 
ragout,  a  salmi,  or  a  really  good  scallop. 
—  Christine  Terhune  Herrick,  in  Qood 
Housekeeping. 

TO  KEEP  A  BEDHOOM   COOL. 

"Let  me  tell  you  how  to  make  your 
bedroom  delightfully  cool,  even  in  the 
hottest  weather,"  said  a  model  house- 
keeper the  other  day.  "Of  course  here 
in  Chicago  torrid  nights  are  such  an  ex- 
ception that  you  will  not  be  compelled 
to  try  the  experiment  often,  but  then  it 
is  well  to  have  it  in  mind.  Well,  when 
the  heat  becomes  intolerable,  take  a 
couple  pounds  of  ice,  break  it  into  frag- 
ments and  put  these  into  a  sack.  Raise 
your  window,  tie  a  string  to  the  sack, 
and  let  it  dally  with  the  breezes,  if  any 
there  be .  Inside  of  ten  minutes  the  tem- 
perature of  the  room  will  be  sensibly 
lowered  and  you  can  sleep  like  a  top. 
Of  course  it  will  be  necessary  to  put  a 
pan  beneath  the  sack  to  catch  the  drip- 
pings. Thus,  at  a  slight  expense,  a  good 
night's  rest  is  insured." —  Chicago  Tribune. 


EFFECTS    OF    CI^IMATE. 

We  hear  a  great  deal  said  about  the 
beneficial  effect  upon  invalids  of  the  cli- 
mate of  Colorado  and  other  western  lo- 
calities, but  when  a  man  changes  his 
place  of  residence  in  the  hope  of  improv- 
ing his  health  without  first  trying  Dr. 
Pierce's  Golden  Medical  Discovery,  he 
makes  a  great  mistake.  In  nine  cases  out 
of  ten  he  might  save  his  time  and  money. 
This  great  remedy  owes  its  power  over 
all  affections  of  the  throat  and  lungs, 
bronchitis,  asthma,  catarrh  and  even  con- 
sumption, which  is  lung  scrofula,  to  the 
simple  fact  that  it  purifies  and  enriches 
the  blood  and  invigorates  the  debilitated 
system. 

Dropping  out  of  the  hair,  with  itching 
of  the  scalp,  prevented,  and  the  scalp 
made  cool  and  healthy  by  the  use  of 
Hall's  Vegetable  Sicilian  Hair  Renewer. 

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Farm  Notes. 

THE  H0R8B  MINDS  HIS  STEPS. 

Every  one  has  noticed,  while  driving, 
how  rarely  a  horse  steps  on  a  stone  even 
when  going  very  rapidly.  A  writer  in 
Golden  Days  quotes  an  old  cavalry  man 
as  saying  that^a  horse  never  steps  on  a 
man  intentionally.  It  is  a  standing  order 
with  cavalry  that  should  a  man  become 
dismounted,  he  must  lie  down  and  be 
perfectly  still.  If  he  does  so,  the  entire 
company  will  pass  over  him,  and  he  will 
not  be  injured.  A  horse  notices  where 
he  is  going,  and  is  on  the  lookout  for  a 
firm  foundation  to  put  his  foot  on.  It  is 
an  instinct  with  him,  therefore,  to  step 
over  a  prostrate  man.  The  in  j  uries  caused 
by  a  runaway  horse  are  nearly  always  in- 
flicted by  the  animal  knocking  them  down, 
and  not  by  his  stepping  on  them. 

OARING  FOR  A  HORSE  HARNESS. 

The  average  harness  in  the  rural  dis- 
tricts is  poorly  cared  for,  and  short  lived. 
Not  infrequently  it  is  hung  in  the  horse 
stable  exposed  to  the  ammonia  generated 
from  a  pile  of  fermenting  manure.  The 
stable  may  be  furnished  at  odd  spells  with 
bedding  or  absorbents  of  some  kind,  but 
these  are  not  promptly  renewed,  and  there 
is  great  waste  of  the  most  valuable  con- 
stituent of  manure.  The  harness  has  the 
benefit  of  the  ammonia,  and  the  effect  is 
about  the  same  as  washing  it  with  lye. 
The  harness  rots,  cracks,  and  without  fre- 
quent oiling  comes  to  grief  at  an  early 
date.  The  safer  way  is  to  have  a  place 
for  the  harness  in  the  carriage  house,  or 
some  building  outside  the  stable.  If  the 
stable  alone  is  available,  it  should  be  kept 
free  from  the  smell  of  ammonia  by  the 
constant  use  of  absorbents,  sawdust,  road 
dust,  straw,  or  refuse  hay.  A  harness 
properly  cared  for  and  kept  clean  and 
pliable  will  last  twice  as  long  as  one  that 
is  neglected.  It  is  much  cheaper  to  spend 
ten  cents  for  neat's  foot  oil,  once  in  three 
months,  than  fifty  cents  at  the  harness 
maker's. — American  A  gricuUurist. 

THE    EYE  INDICATIVE  OP  CHARACTER. 

The  eye  in  farm  animals,  as  well  as  in 
the  human  being,  indicates  character. 
The  placid  eye  of  the  Jersey  cow  shows 
that  she  has  a  kind  disposition;  the  sub- 
dued fire  or  flash  of  the  eye  of  the  trotter 
indicates  its  spirit.  A  large,  prominent 
«ye  denotes  intelligence,  and  usually 
courage.  The  horse  with  such  an  eye 
will  be  an  agreeable  driver,  and  is  rarely 
a  shyer  or  a  runaway.  In  cattle  we  de- 
sire a  quiet,  docile  disposition,  that  the 
beef  animal  may  not  lose  flesh  by  violent 
exertion,  that  the  bull  may  not  be  dan- 
gerous, and  that  the  cow  may  be  tracta- 
ble. Hence,  in  selecting  cattle  for  any 
purpose,  we  should  look  for  an  eye  with 
a  calm,  placid,  deep  expression.  The 
cow  that  will  nose  you  when  you  are 
milking  her  has  such  an  eye;  so  has  the 
steer  that  will  follow  gently  after  you 
when  you  have  the  feed  basket  on  your 
arm.  This  is  not  to  be  confounded  with 
the  dull,  lifeless  eye,  which  indicates  stu- 
pidity and  slowness,  objectionable  in  all 
animals,  especially  in  horses  and  work 
cattle.  The  desirable  eye  is  always  bright 
and  full,  and  full  of  expression.  A  small 
eye  usually  indicates  stubbornness.  The 
eye  of  the  hog  shows  its  peculiar  disposi- 
tion. But  the  eye  may  be  too  lively.  ^  A 
restless  eye  is  evidence  of  a  highly  organ- 
ized, nervous  temperament,  and  fire  in  it 
often  shows  a  vicious  disposition .  Hence 
it  is  to  be  avoided  in  cattle  and  farm 
horses. — American  A  gricuUurist, 

UNTHRE8HED  OATS  FOB   HORSES. 

Unthreshed  oats  are  a  better  feed  for 
horses  than  the  grain  alone,  or  the  grain 
and  straw  both  fed,  but  separately.  The 
albuminoid  ratio  of  the  grain  of  oats  is 
1.61;  of  the  straw  of  oats,  1299.  The 
food  for  horses  at  ordinary  work  should 
have  an  albuminoid  ratio  of  1.70.  Hence, 
the  grain  of  oats  should  be  mixed  with 
food  having  a  lower  albuminoid  ratio. 
We  might  get  a  ration  having  the  proper 
ratio  by  using  corn  with  the  oats.  But 
it  is  well  known  that  for  grain  to  be  well 
digested  it  must  be  eaten  with  some  sort 
of  stover  to  form  the  necessary  bulk  in 
the  stomach .  For  stover  we  might  use 
timothy,  which  has  an  albuminoid  ratio 
of  1.81,  and  would  give  the  necessary 
bulk.  But  it  Is  much  better  to  have  the 
grain  and  the  stover  eaten  together.  We 
may  cut  the  hay,  mix  it  and  the  grain 
together,  and  moisten  the  mixture;  but  we 
accomplish  the  same  thing  more  econom- 
ically by  feeding  unthreshed  oats,  for 
then  the  grain,  all  the  chafl!  and  a  good 
part  of  the  straw  are  masticated  together. 


By  thus  feeding  oats  we  not  only  improve 
the  albuminoid  ratio  of  the  ration  and 
provide  the  necessary  forage  masticated 
with  the  grain,  but  we  save  the  expense 
of  threshing.  Oats  to  be  fed  in  this  way 
should  be  cut  before  they  are  quite  ripe, 
cured  thoroughly,  and  then  moved  away. 
They  are  just  the  feed  for  winter,  when 
the  horses  require  carbo-hydrates;  and 
because  of  their  manner  of  feeding  are 
so  well  digested,  and  are  so  well  suited 
to  the  wants  of  the  horse  that  he  will  do 
a  great  deal  better  upon  them  than  he 
would  upon  almost  any  other  food. — 
American  Agriculturist. 


Constipation 

Demands  prompt  treatment.  The  re- 
sults of  neglect  may  be  serious.  Avoid 
all  harsh  and  drastic  purgatives,  the 
tendency  of  which  is  to  weaken  the 
bowels.  The  best  remedy  is  Ayer's 
Pills.  Being  purely  vegetable,  their 
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benettcial.  They  are  an  admirable 
Liver  and  After-dinner  pill,  and  every- 
where endorsed  by  the  profession. 

"  Ayer's  Pills  are  highly  and  univer- 
sally spoken  of  by  the  people  about 
here.  I  make  daily  use  of  them  in  my 
practice."  — Dr.  I.  E.  Fowler,  Bridge- 
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"  I  can  recommend  Ayer's  Pills  above 
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"For  several  years  Ayer's  Pills  have 
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lor  constipation  and  indigestion,  and 
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—  Moses  Grenier,  Lowell,  Mass. 

"I  have  used  Ayer's  Pills,  for  liver 
troubles  and  indigestion,  during  many 
years,  and  liave  always  found  them 
prompt  and  elKcient  in  their  action."  — 
L.  N.  Smith,  Utica,  N.  Y. 

"  I  suffered  from  constipation  which 
assumed  such  an  obstinate  form  that  I 
feared  it  would  cause  a  stoppage  of  the 
bowels.  Two  boxes  of  Ayer's  Pills  ef- 
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Saco,  Me. 

"  I  have  used  Ayer's  Pills  for  the  past 
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"Having  been  troubled  with  costive- 
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JtTLT  26, 1888 


NFWS  OF  The  Week. 


WASHINGTON. 

The  Senate  on  Tuesday  passed  the  bill 
to  place  John  C.  Fremont  on  the  retired 
list  of  the  army  as  major  general. 

At  its  evening  session  Friday  the  lower 
house  of  Congress  passed  twenty-four 
private  pension  bills. 

Melville  W.  Fuller  of  Chicago  was  con- 
firmed by  the  Senate  on  Friday  to  be 
Chief  Justice  of  the  United  States  Su- 
preme Court,  the  vote  being  41  ayes  to 
20  noes. 

CHICAGO. 

"The  Personal  Rights  League"  is  the 
name  of  an  organization  having  its  origin 
in.Chicago,  the  object  of  which  is  to  in- 
augurate a  popular  National  movement 
against  prohibition,  though  in  favor  of 
temperance. 

The  Alley  Elevated  Railroad  Company 
has  deposited  the  $100,000  with  the  City 
Treasurer  required  by  the  ordinance,  and 
measures  will  now  be  taken  for  securing 
the  right  of  way  for  an  elevated  road  on 
the  South  Side. 

It  is  expected  that  the  Standard  Oil 
Company's  pipe  line  from  Lima,  Ohio, 
will  reach  South  Chicago  this  week,  and 
that  during  the  following  week  the  im- 
mense tanks  recently  erected  in  East  South 
Chicago  will  be  filled  with  oil  from  the 
fields  of  Ohio.  It  was  the  intention  of 
the  company  to  build  a  gas  manufactory 
on  their  East  South  Chicago  plant. 

OOUNTKY. 

Rev.  E.  P.  Rae,  the  well-known  au- 
thor, died  suddenly  Thursday  evening  in 
his  home  at  Cornwall-on  Hudson,  N.  T. 

The  physicians  of  General  Sheridan 
report  that  his  condition  had  not  materi- 
ally altered  in  the  last  days  of  the  week. 
He  had  been  slowly  improving  before 
that  time. 

A.  P.  Marble,  of  Worcester,  Mass.,  was 
elected  President  of  the  National  Teach- 
ers' Association  at  San  Francisco  Friday, 
after  which  the  convention  adjourned. 

In  the  mine  of  the  Lake  Superior  Com- 
pany, near  Ishpeming,  Mich.,  a  single 
blast  Friday  dislodged  a  mass  of  gold- 
bearing  rock,  weighing  300  pounds,  the 
gold  in  which  is  valued  at  from  $10,000 
to  $60,000.  This  is  said  to  be  the  fifth 
remarkable  discovery  in  this  shaft,  and 
has  created  the  wildest  excilement 

The  New  York  Legislature  Friday 
abolished  the  use  of  machinery  in  penal 
institutions,  decreeing  that  convicts  shall 
make  only  and  by  hand  the  goods  re- 
quired in  the  prison  system. 

Anarchists  and  socialists  have  started 
Sunday  schools  in  various  parts  of  the 
city,  with  the  view  of  instructing  young 
and  old  in  their  pernicious  doctrines  and 
the  use  of  dynamite. 

A  farmer  found  a  15  inch  gaspipe 
bound  on  the  Burlington  and  Missouri 
R.  R.  near  Stratton  in  Western  Nebraska. 
The  deadly  implement  created  much  local 
excitement. 

The  Missouri,  Kansas  &  Texas  Rail- 
road has  begun  suits  to  eject  three  hun- 
dred settlers  from  farms  in  Allen  county, 
Kansas.  The  controversy  relates  to  about 
thirty  thousand  acres  of  land  in  that 
county,  and  affects  the  rights  of  about 
three  hundred  settlers  who  have  lived  on 
their  land  for  many  years,  and  who,  if 
they  lose  these  suits,  will  lose  their  all. 

The  National  Educational  Council,  in 
session  at  San  Francisco,  elected  officers, 
J.  L.  Pritchard,  of  Iowa,  being  chosen 
President.  Selim  H.  Peabody,  of  Illinois 
State  University  at  Champaign,  was 
elected  a  member  of  the  executive  com- 
mittee. 

Judge  Couch  Tuesday  filed  a  decision 
at  Waterloo,  Iowa,  declaring  that  ginger 
ale  was  an  intoxicating  drink  and  under 
the  ban  of  the  Iowa  law.  Permanent  in- 
junctions were  issued,  and  the  sheriff  was 
ordered  to  close  the  saloons. 

Upon  advice  of  Bishop  Galloway  the 
Prohibitionists  of  Mississippi,  in  State 
convention  at  Jackson,  refrained  from 
nominating  an  electoral  ticket. 

An  expedition  will  start  from  Camden, 
N.  J-,  Friday,  to  search  for  the  treasure 
of  the  British  sloop-of-war  Brask,  sunk 
near  the  Delaware  Breakwater  in  1798. 
The  wreck  is  believed  to  contain  $20,- 
000,000  in  Spanish  gold. 

At  an  early  hour  Friday  morning  a  col- 
liflioQ  occurred  on  the  Lehigh  and  Sus- 


quehanna division  of  the  Central  Rail- 
road of  New  Jersey  in  a  tunnel  in  the 
mountain  near  White  Haven,  between  a 
coal  train  and  the  New  York  fast  freight. 
One  conductor  was  killed,  and  five  train 
hands  were  badly  in  j  ared. 

Early  Tuesday  morning  the  Louisville 
and  Nashville  cannon-ball  passenger 
train  collided  with  a  freight  train  Bir- 
mingham, Ala,,  killing  the  engineer  of 
the  passenger,  and  firemen  of  both  trains. 

The  explosion  of  the  steam-pipe  that 
supplied  the  engine  from  the  boilers 
caused  the  death  of  seven  men  of  the 
crew  of  the  tugboat  Convoy  on  the  Ohio 
river.  The  accident  occurred  near  West- 
port,  Ind.,  and  most  of  the  men  were 
asleep  at  the  time. 

By  a  boiler  explosion  at  Hopkinsville, 
Ky.,  one  man  was  killed  and  two  others 
fatally  injured.  The  engine-house  and 
other  buildings  were  demolished. 

Over  10,000  bushels  of  grasshoppers 
have  been  killed  in  the  vicinity  of  Fergus 
Falls,  Minn.,  and  prospects  appear  to  be 
good  for  getting  rid  of  the  pests. 

Heavy  rain  caused  a  flood  at  Wheeling, 
W.  Va.,  Thursday  evening,  debris  from 
the  hillsides  rendering  some  streets  im- 
passable. One  of  the  B.  &  O  bridges 
collapsed,  and  many  persons  were 
drowned.  At  Caldwell's  Run  four  dwel- 
lings were  swept  away,  eleven  persons 
being  drowned.  The  Western  Union  of- 
fice and  other  buildings  at  Wheeling  had 
a  foot  of  water  on  the  main  floors.  Sew- 
ers were  burst  and  streets  washed  out. 
Railroad  tracks  were  torn  up,  and  it  is 
even  reported  that  trains  and  coal  chutes 
have  been  carried  away.  The  damage  in 
the  city  is  placed  at  $150,000  while  the 
loss  to  crops  in  the  surrounding  country 
cannot  be  estimated.  The  loss  of  life 
from  the  flood  is  at  least  twenty-five. 
The  greatest  loss  of  life  was  along  Wheel- 
ing creek  and  at  Triadelphia.  A  search 
Friday  morning  resulted  in  the  discovery 
of  a  number  of  bodies  near  the  latter 
place.  A  later  dispatch  says  twenty- 
three  persons  are  known  to  be  drowned. 
Among  the  number  was  the  Sheriff  of 
Marshall  county.  Two  cemeteries  were 
washed  out,  and  the  coffins  with  bodies 
fioated  down  the  river.  The  storm  cut 
off  all  railroad  communication  between 
Wheeling  and  Pittsburg,  both  the  Balti- 
more &  Ohio  and  the  Panhandle  being 
blockaded.  The  damage  on  the  Balti- 
more &  Ohio  is  mostly  due  to  landslides, 
washouts,  and  destruction  of  bridges. 
Superintendent  Patton  sajs  it  is  impossi- 
ble to  estimate  the  losses. 

FOBBIGN. 

Canada,  at  present,  has  no  murderers 
under  Eentence  of  death,  a  fact  which  is 
said  to  be  almost  without  precedence. 

Reports  received  daily  from  Suakim 
confirm  the  opinion  that  either  Henry 
Stanley  or  Emin  Bey  is  in  the  vicinity  of 
Darfour. 

The  select  committee  appointed  by  the 
House  of  Commons  to  consider  the  ques- 
tion has  submitted  a  report  to  the  House 
recommending  perpetual  Sunday-closing 
in  all  parts  of  Ireland,  and  also  the  clos- 
ing of  inns  at  9  o'clock  on  Saturday  nights. 

Piince  Bismarck,  in  the  course  of  a 
long  interview  prior  to  the  departure  of 
Count  Schouvaloff  for  St.  Petersburg, 
handed  the  Russian  ambassador  a  docu- 
ment expressing  his  views  on  the  Bulga- 
rian question.  In  it  the  chancellor  fa- 
vors the  maintenance  of  treaty  rights,  at 
the  same  time  taking  into  account  Rus- 
sia's legitimate  claims. 

The  story  of  a  terrible  drowning  acci- 
dent comes  from  the  St.  Maurice  region, 
Canada.  A  gang  of  thirty  or  forty  men 
on  a  log-drive  on  the  Mattawan  river 
procured  some  whisky,  and,  in  a  drunken 
freak,  decided  to  run  the  rapids.  Four- 
teen men  boarded  a  driving  boat.  When 
in  the  middle  of  the  rapids  the  bteersman 
was  seen  to  take  his  paddle  out  of  the 
water  for  an  instant .  The  current,  which 
was  terrific,  swung  the  boat  round  broad- 
side and  over,  and  the  fourteen  occupants 
were  dashed  to  death  on  the  rocks. 

Dr.  James  Ridley,  the  medical  officer 
in  attendance  at  Tullamore  jail,  Ireland, 
during  the  incarceration  of  Mr.  Mande- 
ville,  the  Irish  agitator,  there,  and  who 
was  subpn'.aaed  to  appear  at  the  inquest 
at  Mitchelstown  into  Mr.  Mandeville's 
death,  has  committed  suicide.  Dr.  Rid- 
ley had  been  present  at  the  inquest  daily, 
waiting  to  be  called  to  the  witness  stand. 
The  evidence  given  to  show  that  lyfr. 
Mandeville  was  subjected  to  ill  usage 


while  in  the  jail  seemed  to  prey  upon  his 
mind.  His  suicide  confirms  the  popular 
belief  that  Mr.  Mandeville  was  cruelly 
treated  by  the  prison  officials. 

A  correspondent  at  St.  Petersburg  says 
he  is  reliably  informed  that  the  interview 
between  the  Czar  and  Emperor  William 
was  of  a  most  cordial  character,  and  that 
as  a  result  of  it  Russia  will  in  future  pur- 
sue a  pacific  policy.  He  says  that  there 
is  now  no  danger  of  trouble  arising  re- 
garding Bulgaria.  Prince  Ferdinand  will 
be  allowed  to  reign  on  the  ground  that  it 
will  be  impossible  for  him  long  to  retain 
his  position.  When  the  Prince  is  deposed 
Germany  will  favor  any  candidate  for  the 
Bulgarian  throne  that  may  be  nominated 
by  Russia. 

No  mortal  yet  has  e'er  forecast 
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but  Dr.  Pierce's  Pleasant  Pellets  have 
forever  settled  the  question  of  a  comforta- 
ble existence  until  that  moment  does  ar- 
rive, and  put  to  flight  the  melancholy 
forebodings  of  sufferers  from  biliousness, 
headache,  indigestion,  constipation,  and 
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Notes  and  Comments 1 

How  Stand  Your  Candi- 
dates?   8 

N.  C.  A.  Board  Meeting..  S 

Personal   Notes 8 

CONTBIBUnONS : 

The    Flower    Surpassinc; 

Solomon 1 

Incomprehensibility  of  Sin  2 
Selecteo: 

In  the  Minority  (poetrj).  2 

Ruined  by  Bad  Company.  2 

A  Vital  Fointof  Difference  3 

The  Boston  Debate 3 

Dr.  McCosh  on  Secretlsm.  3 

COBRBSPONDSNOB : 

Temperance  and  the  Good 
Templars;  Dr.  Jackson, 
the    Abolitionist;    Pith 

andPolnt .^),6 

litbrat0rb 6 

Obituary 7 

LODGK  Notes 7 


Rbform  News: 
From  the  General  Agent ; 
The  Louisiana  Baptist 
State  Convention;  Re- 
newing Old  Wisconsin 
Acquaintance;  Sowing 
and  Reaping  In  Iowa; 
The     Maine     Christian 

Association 4 ,5 

Secret    Societies     Con- 
demned     7 

The  N.  C.  A 7 

Washington  Letter 9 

Civil    Government    in    the 

Northwest  Territory 9 

TheHomb 10 

Temperance ll 

BiBLB  Lesson 12 

Religious  News 12 

In  Brief 13 

Farm  Notes 14 

News  or  thb  Week 16 

Business 13 

Markets 13 


A  correspondent  of  the  daily  press  says  that 
Mrs.  General  Logan  told  him  she  once  visited  one 
of  the  Soldiers'  Homes.  She  met  there  a  very  old 
soldier,  scarred  and  worn,  hobbling  about  with  great 
difficulty,  to  whom  she  said:  "This  is  a  beautiful 
place;  you  must  be  very  happy  here." 

"H'm,"  he  replied,  "Well,  yes,  madam,  it  is  a 
beautiful  place,  but  how  can  a  man  be  happy  where 
there  are  no  women."  An  excellent  comment.  May 
we  be  allowed  to  remind  Mrs.  Logan  on  the  failings 
of  Freemasonry  at  whose  false  altars  her  husband, 
the  late  General,  was  so  ambitious  and  eager  a 
worshiper. 

Mrs.  Clara  Hoffman,  of  Kansas  City,  Missouri, 
one  of  the  Board  of  Directors  of  the  Union  Signal 
publishing  company,  has  been  represented  to  us  as 
opposed  to  all  the  secret  lodges.  She  writes  with 
approval,  however,  to  the  Signal  of  Mr.  Brooks  of 
the  Prohibition  National  ticket  that  he  was  once 
•'Supreme  Master"  of  the  order  of  United  Work- 
men, and  urges  this  as  a  reason  why  he  should  be  a 
popular  candidate.  We  trust  Mr.  Brooks  will  not 
thank  his  well  meaning  but  mistaken  townswoman 
for  this  argument.  If  he  is  not  now  a  member  of 
secret  societies,  why  present  his  former  position 
among  them  to  secure  him  votes.  Indeed,  Mr. 
Brooks  should  congratulate  himself  if  the  lodge 
forsakes  him.  It  would  be  a  day  of  promise  for 
greater  honor  than  he  could  gain  even  if  successful 
in  the  present  canvass. 


The  Cynosure  has  often  spoken  of  the  precari- 
ous nature  of  investments  in  secret  mutual  insur- 
ance societies.  The  insurance  records  of  many 
States  display  the  dried  bones  of  scores  of  these  or- 
ganizations. Lately  we  referred  to  the  fact  that  the 
Northwestern  Masonic  insurance  society  had  practi- 
cally failed,  as  its  low  financial  conditions  had  com- 
pelled its  management  to  open  the  door  to  "cowans," 
to  save  it  from  bankruptcy.      They  could  get  no 


more  Masons  to  insure,  and  to  keep  up  the  income 
the  stream  of  new  members  must  be  kept  up.  An 
appeal  to  the  "outside  and  profane  world"  was  there- 
fore necessary.  The  United  Order  of  Honor,  a  mu- 
tual benefit  society,  with  its  headquarters  in  Indian- 
apolis, is  said  to  be  in  a  bad  way.  It  is  compelled 
to  wind  up  because  so  many  members  have  ceased 
to  pay  installments.  Its  president  says  that  the  lia- 
bilities are  about  $60,000,  which  will  involve  the  in- 
dividual members  in  a  liability  of  from  $12  to  $20 
apiece.  Most  of  the  secret  insurance  societies  are 
on  the  road  to  the  same  goal. 


Let  the  workingmen  of  America  pray  for  more 
wise  and  true  friends  like  Abram  Hewitt,  mayor  of 
New  York.  He  has  not  only  told  them  frankly, 
like  a  brother,  of  the  dangerous  tendencies  of  their 
secret  unions,  but  has  dared  to  stand  between  their 
interests  and  the  saloon  politicians  by  whom  he  is 
surrounded.  Lately  he  gave  another  practical  ex- 
ample of  his  brave,  wise  and  patriotic  spirit.  He 
started  a  subscription  with  $100  for  O.  M,  Hartt, 
who  had  suffered  a  loss  of  $2,500  by  the  Knights  of 
Labor  boycotting  him.  Speaking  of  this  case  the 
New  York  Witness  says:  "America  boasts  herself 
the  land  of  the  free,  yet  there  is  tyranny  practiced 
here — sometimes  by  the  would-be  monopolist  of  cap- 
ital and  sometimes  by  the  would-be  monopolist  of 
labor.  The  case  of  Mr.  Hartt  is  one  of  persecution, 
such  as  would  have  disgraced  the  most  despotic  gov- 
ernment in  Europe.  Hartt  was  foreman  of  a  shoe 
shop,  aud  dismissed  one  of  the  employes  for  theft. 
The  union  struck  work,  and  the  employers  to  make 
peace  dismissed  Hartt.  He  went  to  another  city 
and  found  employment,  but  was  followed  by  a  com- 
mittee of  the  union,  which  again  procured  his  dis- 
missal, the  evident  determination  being  to  prevent 
him  from  earning  a  living  at  his  trade  as  a  punish- 
ment for  having  done  his  duty.  Hartt  then  had  his 
persecutors  arrested  and  carried  the  case  to  the 
Court  of  Appeals,  which  declared  emphatically  that 
such  conduct  was  a  crime.  The  criminals  were,  how- 
ever, let  off  on  the  plea  that  they  did  not  know  they 
were  breaking  the  law."  Mayor  Hewitt  had  the 
satisfaction  of  seeing  the  full  $2,500  made  up  to  the 
boycotted  man  last  week. 


William  of  Germany,  beside  visiting  King  Chris- 
tian of  Denmark  and  Oscar  of  Sweden  during  the 
past  week,  has  been  favored  of  God  with  the  gift  of 
another  son,  his  fifth  child.  His  interview  at  Co- 
penhagen had  some  importance  in  settling  a  family 
question  connected  with  the  Bulgarian  throne.  It 
seems  that  the  Czar  has  at  last  consented  to  the  cre- 
ation of  a  Bulgarian  monarchy  with  either  Prince 
Waldemar,  the  youngest  son  of  King  Christian,  or 
the  Duke  of  Cumberland  on  the  throne.  The  Duke 
of  Cumberland  has  decisively  rejected  the  offer.  He 
declares  the  offer  is  an  insult  to  him  as  the  legiti- 
mate King  of  Hanover.  King  George  of  Greece, 
the  brother  of  Prince  Waldemar,  opposes  his  candi- 
dature. Important  events  are  certain  to  take  place 
if  Greece  and  Bulgaria  come  in  conflict;  and  the 
young  German  Emperor  will  consult  Bismarck  be- 
fore he  goes  any  further  in  this  matter.  Respect- 
ing his  visit  to  Italy,  which  the  Pope  so  strenuously 
oppose8,the  Vatican  diplomatists  seem  to  have  gained 
their  purpose.  Cardinal  Galimberti,  the  papal  agent 
at  Vienna,  is  reported  on  a  secret  mission  to  Bis- 
marck; and  the  latter  has  probably  consented  that 
William  shall  be  asked  personally  to  forego  his 
visit  to  Rome.  The  Italian  government  understands 
that  the  Pope  has  gained  his  end,  and  has  directly 
begun  negotiations  for  a  commercial  treaty  with 
France,  and  this  arouses  the  distrust  of  Berlin  offi- 
cials, who  view  with  suspicion  any  alliance  made  by 
the  republic.  The  plots  and  counterplots  of  Europe 
seem  thus  to  be  without  end,  and  insinuated  in  the 
midst  of  all  the  wily  Jesuit  is  working  to  continue 
the  disquiet  and  distrust,  hoping  to  gain  something 
from  the  public  loss. 


A  very  happy  event  for  the  great  Liberal  party 
in  England  and  the  sympathizers  with  its  principles 
and  efforts  throughout  the  world  was  the  celebra- 
tion of  the  Golden  Wedding  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Glad- 


stone last  Wednesday.  The  aged,  but  vigorous 
statesman,  and  the  wife  who  has  so  long  been  true 
to  him  at  home  and  in  public  life,  were  given  a  re- 
ception at  the  residence  of  Earl  Spencer  in  London, 
and  were  presented  with  some  mementoes  of  the 
unusual  occasion,  among  which  were  portraits  of 
themselves  and  an  address  signed  bj  150  members 
of  Parliament.  Mr.  Gladstone,  replying  to  the  con- 
gratulatory address  of  his  old  cabinet  companion. 
Lord  Granville,  said  that  he  wished  to  indorse  all 
that  the  address  contained  with  reference  to  his  wife. 
It  would  be  difficult,  he  said,  to  give  adequate  idea 
of  the  domestic  happiness  of  his  married  life.  With 
regard  to  the  allusions  to  himself,  he  felt  that  they 
were  too  flattering.  His  conduct  had  been  often 
criticised,  sometimes,  perhaps,  unjustly,  but  he 
thought  that  on  the  whole  the  criticising  had  been 
more  to  his  benefit  than  the  reverse.  He  could  fairly 
say  that  he  was  hardly  able  to  recall  an  incident  in 
his  public  life  that  was  in  any  way  painful  to  recol- 
lect. This  is  a  marvelous  record,  which  some  of 
our  budding  American  statesmen,  who  wish  to  make 
their  record  with  a  reformatory  party,  will  do  well 
to  study. 


TEB  FL  0  WER  8  UR  PA  881 NQ  SOL  OMON. 


BY  MISS  B.  B.  PLAGG. 

I  have  often  thought  St.  Francis  would  have  been 
a  much  wiser  man  if,  instead  of  trying  to  preach  to 
the  birds  and  squirrels,  he  had  gone  into  the  woods 
and  let  the  birds  and  squirrels  preach  to  him.  This 
July  day  I  can  seek  no  green  avenues  of  shade  and 
coolness,  no  carpets  of  moss,  no  fragrant  retreats  of 
sweet  fern  and  brake;  but  on  my  writing  table  a  pro- 
fusion of  pond  lilies  are  opening  their  urns  of  ivory 
and  gold  as  tranquilly  as  if  resting  on  the  bosom  of 
their  own  quiet  lake.  And  I  do  not  believe  St. 
Francis  could  have  looked  on  this  fairest  of  Nature's 
miracles,  and  inhaled  their  breath  like  the  breath  of 
the  morning  as  it  blows  fresh  and  sweet  and  new 
from  the  hills  of  God,  and  not  have  dropped  on  his 
knees  and  let  himself  be  preached  to,  poor  miserable 
egotist  that  he  was,  if  the  old  legends  are  true. 

"Blessed  are  the  pure  in  heart  for  they  shall  see 
God."  This  is  the  text  from  which  my  lilies  preach 
to  me;  rooted  in  the  mud  and  mire,  type  of  the 
gross,  material  conditions  of  our  earthly  life;  rising, 
crowned  and  regal  into  the  air  and  sunshine,  image 
of  that  spiritualized  existence  of  which  all  human 
conditions  are  the  earthly  soil.  "They  shall  grow  as 
the  lily,"  from  the  grime  and  dust  of  shops  and  fac- 
tories, from  the  drudgery  of  farm  and  kitchen,  from 
the  mire  of  misfortune  and  poverty,  from  all  un- 
toward environments  whatsoever  they  be,  aud  noth- 
ing shall  hinder  their  growing  till  rocked  on  the 
eternal  deep  "they  see  the  King  in  his  beauty." 

How  does  the  lily  grow?  Symmetrically,  with  an 
even  and  perfect  development,  always  a  prime  con- 
dition of  beauty,  whether  it  be  in  a  flower  or  a  Greek 
vase,  a  tree  or  a  Corinthian  pillar.  "We  may  not  be 
always  able  to  command  perfection,"  says  Hannah 
Moore,  "but  we  can  always  require  cDnsistency." 
The  world,  dear  reader,  may  call  your  consistency 
Puritanism,  because  you  refuse  to  conform  to 
worldly  ways  and  maxims;  but  exactly  what  its 
wonderful  symmetry  is  to  the  lily,  oansistency  is  to 
your  Christian  character. 

It  grows  regally.  It  dons  its  crown  of  gold  when 
it  first  opens  to  the  sun  and  wears  it  every  day  like 
a  king's  child  as  it  is.  And  is  this  more  than 
you  who  are  the  sons  and  daughters  of  Goti 
ought  to  do?  to  wear  the  crown  of  your  kingly 
anointing  through  all  the  days  of  the  week,  and  let 
everybody  see  you  wear  it?  your  family  circle,  your 
friends  and  acquaintances,  and  "the  stranger  that  is 
within  }'our  gates?"  and  years  henca  when  the  grass 
is  green  over  you;  alas  how  much  easier  one's  grave 
is  kept  green  than  one's  memory;  they  will  not  for- 
get the  vision. 

It  "goes  on  to  perfection,"  increasing  in  beauty  as 
its  bloom  matures.  Whatever  may  be  said  of  the 
rose,  the  lily  does  not  reach  its  completcst  beauty 
till  fully  blown;  and  a  Christian  character  only 
grows  more  beautiful  with  increasing  maturity. 
Nor  does  "it  make  haste."    It  will  not  be  forced  to 


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THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


AuausT  2, 1888 


utv  lose  except  as  the  law  of  its  own  sweet  being 
prompts.  We  should  do  more  work  and  we  should 
do  it  better,  if  unhurried  and  unworried  like  the  lily, 
we  siminly  did  what  God  gave  us  to  do,  content  with 
doing  our  best;  if  like  the  lily  we  were  satisfied  just 
to  grow. 

There  is  no  concealment  about  her.  She  has  noth- 
ing to  conceal.  There  is  no  mystery.  She  is  the 
most  open-bearted  of  flowers.  Notice  how  she  bares 
her  inmost  bosom  to  the  sun.  No  devouring  insect 
can  hide  there  as  in  the  convolutions  of  the  rose. 
And  yet,  into  the  secret  of  the  lily  who  has  pene- 
trated? Scientists  may  talk  learnedly,  but  who  has 
yet  told  us  how  the  lilies  grow?  And  into  the  secret 
]"the  life  hid  with  Christ  in  God,"  what  eye  even 
angel  or  seraphim  has  looked?  And  so  my  lilies 
leave  off  where  they  began,  with  the  secret  that  can 
never  be  told,  the  promise  to  the  pure  in  heart  of 
"that  which  eye  hath  not  seen  nor  ear  heard,  neither 
hath  entered  into  the  heart  of  man  to  conceive." 


INCOMPREEBNaiBILITT  OF  SIN. 


BT  REV.  J.  M.  FOSTEB. 


The  motto  of  the  Greek  philosopher  was,  "Know 
thyself."  Men  study  the  works  of  nature,  in  geolo- 
gy, botany,  natural  history,  astronomy;  they  study 
the  human  body,  its  anatomy,  physiology  and  hy- 
giene, and  they  study  the  philosophy  of  the  mind, 
its  intellect,  sensibilities  and  will.  But  the  soul,  the 
real  self,  is  left  a  hidden,  unexplored  arcanum.  If 
a  man  were  to  gather  a  precious  cabinet  at  great  ex- 
pense of  time,  money  and  energy,  and  then  keep  it 
locked  up,  never  looking  at  it  himself  and  allowing 
no  one  else  to  enjoy  it,  every  one  would  exclaim, 
"What  unnatural  folly!"  and  yet  every  man  carries 
about  an  immortal  soul,  having  capacities  of  eternal 
happiness  or  endless  misery  and  all  but  universally 
ignorant  of  it.  Thinking  of  the  ignorance  in  which 
sin  has  sealed  men's  souls,  the  Psalmist  exclaims, 
"Who  can  understand  his  errors?"  Man  cannot  un- 
derstand his  sins. 

I.  Because  the  finite  mind  cannot  comprehend  the 
infinite  guilt.  Guilt  consists  in  blameworthiness  and 
liability  to  punishment.  The  knowledge  of  these 
comes  through  the  law.  "By  the  law  is  the  knowl- 
edge of  sin."  1.  The  law  is  a  transcript  of  the  di- 
vine character,  and  like  Gcd,  is  "holy,  just  and 
good."  2.  It  forbids  sin,  either  of  omission  or  com- 
mission. Failure  to  comply  is  rebellion  just  as  well 
as  transgressing  the  precept.  "Sin  is  any  want  of 
conformity  unto  or  transgression  of  the  law  of  God." 
3.  The  law  is  a  unit  and  requires  full  comformity. 
Breaking  the  least  precept  is  rebellion,  just  the  same 
in  kind  as  breaking  every  precept.  A  spark  is  the 
same  element  as  the  great  conflagration,  and  if  al- 
lowed to  develop  will  make  the  great  conflagration. 
"Whosoever  shall  keep  the  whole  law  and  yet  offend 
in  one  point  is  guilty  of  all."  It  is  here  as  in  na- 
ture's chain,  whether  you  break  the  tenth  or  the  ten 
thousandth  link,  it  breaks  the  chain  alike.  4.  The 
law  is  spiritual.  It  judges  our  motives  and  states. 
The  Saviour  taught  that  it  is  a  sin  to  feel  wrong  and 
think  wrong.  The  law  says,  Thou  shalt  not  kill. 
He  that  hateth  his  brother  is  a  murderer.  Covet- 
ousness  is  theft.  Lust  is  adultery.  Undue  anxiety 
about  our  worldly  interests  is  doubting  God.  It  is 
unbelief.  Paul  says,  "I  had  not  known  sin  except 
the  law  had  said.  Thou  shalt  not  covet."  5.  Its  ob- 
ligation is  unceasing.  Not  only  for  a  day  or  a  year 
or  a  life  time,  but  forever.  "If  a  righteous  man 
tumeth  away  from  the  righteousness  which  he  hath 
done  and  committeth  iniquity  and  dieth  in  them,  for 
bis  iniquity  that  he  hath  done  shall  he  die."  So  it 
is  evident  Ihat  every  sin  is  incomprehensibly  great, 
and  our  transgressions  are  more  than  the  hairs  of 
our  head.  We  cannot  answer  for  one  of  a  thousand. 
Only  a  Divine  Saviour  can  carry  our  guilt. 

II.  Jhcaute  voe  cannot  realize  their  power.  The  cur- 
rent of  Niagara  is  smooth  and  silent.  You  would 
not  think  of  its  force  until  jou  come  near  the  preci- 
pice where  the  great  rocks  in  the  channel  offer  resist- 
ance. The  tornado  sweeps  over  the  open  plain  like 
a  harmless  zephjr;  but  when  it  enters  the  forests 
and  rends  in  pieces  mighty  oaks,  you  recognize  its 
power.  A  man  who  has  been  eating  opium  or  drink- 
ing whisky  or  using  tobacco  for  lorty  years,  tries  to 
break  the  habit.  lie  suddenly  opens  his  e>es  to  the 
fact  that  an  irresistible  force  has  taken  hold  of  him. 
Bin  is  a  habit  of  the  soul.  It  becomes  permanent 
by  repetition.  We  speak  of  a  confirmed  drunkard, 
a  confirmed  liar.  When  the  engineer  was  ready  to 
build  the  bridge  over  the  Niagara,  he  sent  a  kite 
across  the  chasm;  by  the  cord  he  drew  the  first  wire; 
over  this  the  second,  third,  etc.  At  last  they  bound 
the  bundle  of  wires  together,  making  the  great  cable, 
upon  which  they  built  the  bridge  over  which  the 
trains  of  commerce  come  and  go  with  perfect  safety. 


The  fii&t  tin  is  the  first  wire.  Ev^cry  ropetiti'^n  adds 
another  wire.  And  at  last  there  is  a  cable  of  habit 
which  no  finite  power  can  break.  Like  the  serpents 
of  Laocon  it  holds  the  victim  in  its  relentless  folds. 
The  sea-devil  is  the  terror  of  fishermen.  It  comes 
up  under  the  boat,  throws  its  arms  over  the  sides 
and  carries  it  down.  The  only  remedy  is  to  take 
the  hatchet  and  chop  off  the  arms.  And  this  must 
be  done  instantly.  Sin  is  the  sea-devil  in  human 
society.  It  throws  the  arms  of  temptation  over  our 
frail  craft,  and  only  by  the  hatchet  of  the  divine 
law,  wielded  by  the  hand  of  faith,  under  the  power 
of  the  grace  of  God,  can  we  be  delivered. 

III.  Becatise  we  loathe  the  search.  If  a  man  sus- 
pects that  a  dangerous  disease  is  preying  upon  his 
body,  he  consults  the  best  physician.  He  wants  to 
know  the  worst.  If  he  has  a  suspicion  that  his  bus- 
iness interests  are  insecure,  he  examines  his  books 
and  takes  an  inventory  of  his  goods.  He  will 
know  the  worst.  We  know  that  our  souls  are  dis- 
eased with  sin,  and  that  our  accounts  with  God  will 
not  balance,  and  yet  we  go  on  in  ignorance,  because 
the  search  is  repelling.  You  enter  the  palace.  Over 
the  portal  is  written,  "Here  God  once  dwelt."  You 
turn  into  the  chamber  of  reason.  The  dead  are 
there.  The  light  is  darkness.  Bitter  is  taken  for 
sweet,  crooked  for  straight.  You  turn  to  the  cham- 
ber of  the  affections.  It  is  a  den  of  abominations. 
Unholy  lusts  reign  there.  It  is  a  shame  to  speak 
of  what  is  done  there.  You  enter  conscience 
chamber.  It  is  perverted,  seared  as  with  a  hot 
iron.  You  go  out  in  disgust  and  close  the  door  be- 
fore the  search  is  half  completed.  "The  heart  is 
deceitful  above  all  things  and  desperately  wicked; 
who  can  know  it."  You  essay  to  search  your  record, 
turning  over  leaf  after  leaf.  Here  is  a  black  spot, 
a  falsehood  told.  There  is  another — an  injury  done 
to  another.  And  here  is  another — a  fraudulent  deed. 
By  and  by  you  are  ashamed  and  close  the  book  be- 
fore half  the  pages  have  been  scanned.  "We  can 
not  answer  for  one  of  a  thousand  of  our  transgres- 
sions." 

IV.  Because  we  do  not  perceive  their  growth.  Sin  is 
a  principle  as  well  as  an  act.  Plant  the  seed  of  a 
upas  it  grows.  The  atcck,  the  branches,  the  leaves, 
the  bud,  the  flower  and  fruit  in  turn  appear.  The 
first  green  blade  seems  harmless,  the  fruit  is  deadly. 
At  first  the  serpent  is  a  tiny,  harmless  creature. 
When  grown  it  is  the  terror  of  man  and  beast.  The 
principle  of  sin  seems  insignificant.  But  it  de- 
velops into  the  full-fledged  criminal.  The  author 
of  the  epistle  to  the  Hebrews  warns  us  to  "beware 
lest  our  hearts  be  hardened  through  the  deceitful- 
ness  of  sin."  Sin  is  an  arch  deceiver.  1.  It  deceives 
as  to  what  is  sin.  Adam  and  Eve  were  thus  de- 
ceived. Why  do  professing  Christians  buy  and 
read  the  "Sunday  newspaper"  on  Sabbath  day? 
Why  do  they  use  the  "Sunday  train"  for  pleasure 
and  profit?  Why  do  they  go  to  the  postoffice  to  get 
their  mail  on  the  Lord's  day?  Why  do  nominal 
Christians  unite  with  secret  oath-bound  fraternities, 
from  which  Christ  is  shut  out  and  where  darkness 
and  not  light  prevails?  They  are  deceived  by  sin. 
2.  It  deceives  us  as  to  the  nature  of  its  demands. 
It  promises  to  be  satisfied  with  a  limited  indulgence. 
No  man  expects  to  become  a  sluggard.  He  only 
rests  today.  It  is  all  the  more  certain  he  will  take 
his  ease  to-morrow.  It  is  doubly  certain  he  will 
"lie  off"  the  third  day.  "I  went  by  the  field  of  the 
slothful — it  was  grown  over  with  thorns,  a  little 
sleep,  a  little  slumber,  a  little  folding  of  the  hands  to 
sleep."  No  man  intends  to  be  a  miser.  But  the 
process  of  getting  develops  covetousness,  and  that 
spirit  is  never  satisfied.  It  cries  incessantly,  Give, 
givel  It  is  the  first  step  that  costs.  3.  It  deceives 
us  as  to  our  motives.  Many  acts  have  an  echo  of 
virtue  only.  Virtue  may  be  wholly  selfish  and  su- 
perficial. Many  have  a  name  to  live  while  they  are 
dead.  4.  It  deceives  us  as  to  its  effects.  Adam 
and  Eve  expected  to  have  their  eyes  opened.  Their 
eyes  were  opened  to  see  their  own  nakedness  and 
the  bitter  consequences  of  transgression.  After 
Judas  had  betrayed  his  Lord,  his  eyes  were  opened. 
He  saw  himself  under  the  blaze  of  judicial  light. 
After  Macbeth  had  murdered  Duncan  he  says,  all 
the  perfumes  of  Arabia  will  not  take  away  the 
scent  of  blood;  all  the  waters  of  ocean  will  not 
cleanse  the  stain  from  my  band.  5.  It  deceives  us 
as  to  the  degree  of  impurity  with  which  we  can 
sin.  A  man  can  think  of  an  hundred  ways  in 
which  he  can  avoid  detection  before  he  commits 
the  murder.  But  after  the  crime  has  been  com- 
mitted everything  is  changed.  He  does  too  much 
or  to  little.  He  says  too  much  or  too  littie.  He  is 
too  anxious  or  too  indifferent.  Ho  becomes  his 
own  betrayer;  murder  will  out.  Macbeth  heard  a 
voice  in  every  trembling  leaf,  in  the  wing  of  every 
herd,  and  in  the  babbling  brook,  "guilty." 

V,  Became   our   standard   is   wrong.     A  straight 


stick  thrust  into  the  water  appears  crookad.  Look 
through  green  glasses  and  everything  is  green. 
Diseased  eyes  see  not  aright.  Our  spiritual  eyes 
are  diseased  by  sin.  We  look  through  the  false 
medium  of  sin.  Oar  judgments  are  always  at 
fault.  We  call  evil  good  and  good  evil.  A  single 
word.  Our  load  of  guilt  Jesus  has  taken  away. 
Our  depraved  nature  may  be  restored  by  the  spirit 
of  grace.  "It  is  God  that  worketh  in  us,  both  to 
will  and  to  do  of  his  own  good  pleasure."  "Seek  first 
the  kingdom  of  God  and  his  righteousness." 
Brcolciyn,  N.   Y. 

■  •  > 

IN  TUB  MINORITY. 

When  good  old  Noah  built  the  ark. 

And  nailed  it  firm  and  strong, 
He  had  to  bear  the  sneers  and  taunts 

Of  the  ungod'y  throng. 
Some  called  him  "fanatic,"  some  "fool," 

While  others  cried  "Insane" ; 
Yet  still  he  toiled  upon  the  boat, 

Nor  feared  his  labor  vain, 
And  said,  "It  will  be  well  for  me 

To  be  in  the  minority." 

When  Sodom  was  by  fire  consumed. 

And  Lot  fled  for  his  life, 
Adown  the  plains  and  o'er  the  hills  — 

Bereft  e'en  of  his  wife- 
Afraid  to  cast  a  single  glance 

Along  the  backward  way, 
Or  turn  his  gaze  across  the  plains 

Toward  the  orb  of  day, 
He,  too,  ex  laimed,  "  'Tis  well  for  me 

To  be  In  the  minority." 

When  spies  were  sent  by  Moses  out 

To  search  the  goodly  land, 
The  ten  returned  with  faces  grave, 

•  The  two  with  tidings  grand. 
The  ten  who  vowed  they  were  too  weak 

Fair  Canaan  ne'er  possessed ; 
The  two  who  trusted  in  their  God 

Obtained  the  promised  rest. 
In  their  case,  too,  'twas  well  to  be. 

For  once,  in  the  minority. 

And  so  to-day  we'll  take  our  chance— 

Let  cavil  whoso  will — 
With  those  who  tread  the  path  of  right. 

And  fight  the  lodge  and  still. 
One  with  the, Lord's  almighty  host; 

So  here  cur  vows  renew. 
To  drive  all  evil  from  the  land, 

We  will  be  firm  and  true. 
Until  which  time  we're  proud  to  be 

Right,  though  in  the  minority. 

—  Selected. 


BVINBD   BY  BAD  GO  MP  AN  7. 


If  the  company  of  the  wicked  does  not  leave  a 
smear  it  will  leave  a  smell;  if  it  be  not  deadly  it 
will  be  dangerous.  Some  of  us  are  more  plastic  or 
malleable  than  others,  and  we  are  the  first  to  be  im- 
pressed by  our  surroundings;  it  is  to  us,  therefore, 
of  the  first  importance  to  place  ourselves  in  holy 
society,  and  shun  all  needless  association  with  the 
godless  as  we  would  avoid  the  plague.  We  are  our- 
selves acquainted  with  many  who  tiave  been  ruined 

by  bad  company — such  were  C ,  who  became  a 

reprobate  through  spending  his  Sabbaths  in  excur- 
sions and  amusements;  F ,  who  was  led   into 

speculation  and  ultimate  emb(  zzlement  through  his 

friends  of  the  billiard  table;  H ,  who  was  never 

worth  a  penny  piece  after  he  had  found  his  heaven 

in  the  banquets  of  the  Freemasons;  and  J ,  who 

went  from  bad  to  worse  through  the  company  of 
those  who  laugh  at  purity,  and  call  vice  pleasure. 
Indeed,  the  list  is  endless;  and  we  shall  be  conceited 
to  no  ordinary  degree  if  we  imagine  that  we  shall 
be  safe  where  so  many  have  fallen,  never  to  rise 
again. — tSpurgeon. 

m  %  m 

The  striking  engineers  on  the  Burlington  and 
Quincy  railroad,  beaten  in  their  attempt  to  coerce 
the  company  by  ordinary  means,  have  been  detect- 
ed in  destroying  property  and  hazarding  life  by  the 
use  of  dynamite.  They  have  also  failed  in  a  con- 
spiracy to  destroy  engines  by  the  use  of  sal  soda 
and  emery,  the  former  to  prevent  making  steam  and 
the  latter  to  heat  the  bearings.  Such  barbarism 
would  scarcely  be  countenanced  in  war,  and  clearly 
demonstrates  the  wisdom  of  Daniel  Webster's  sug- 
gestion, that  the  administration  of  secret  lodge  oaths 
should  be  prohibited  by  law.  Past  experience  with 
the  Ku  Klux  thugs,  the  Molly  Maguire  assassins, 
and  the  Chicago  anarchists  indicate  that  it  is  high 
time  for  the  legal  abolition  of  all  secret  societies. 
Some  are  more  cunning  or  more  polite  in  their  meth- 
ods, but  the  whole  brood  are  inconsistent  with  the 
fundamental  principles  of  Republican  government 
and  the  Christian  religion. — Christian  Witruss. 


AUQDST  2,  1888 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


A   VITAL  POINT  OF  DIFFEREJNGE. 


[Rev.  J.  K.  Alwood  In  the  Christian  Conservator.  | 

A  central  object  of  Christianity  ia  the  purification 
of  the  heart.  This  it  invariably  and  thoroughly 
accomplishes  wherever  and  whenever  it  is  fully  em- 
braced according  to  its  own  directions.  Heaven  is 
pure,  and  none  but  the  pure  can  enter  that  holy 
abode.  Jesus  says  to  every  soul,  as  he  said  to  Pe- 
ter: "If  I  wash  thee  not,  thou  hast  no  part  with  me." 
He  also  says:  "The  Son  of  man  is  come  to  seek  and 
to  save  that  which  was  lost."  Paul  says,  and  every 
true  Christian  repeats  the  declaration,  that  "He 
saved  us  by  the  washing  of  regeneration,  and  re- 
newing of  the  Holy  Ghost."  Peter  says  of  the  Gen- 
tile converts  at  the  house  of  Cornelius:  "God  put 
no  difference  between  us  and  them,  purifying  their 
hearts  by  faith."  John  says:  "The  blood  of  Jesus 
Christ  his  Son  cleanseth  us  from  all  unrighteous- 
ness." 

That  Masonry  is  not  out  on  any  such  mission  as 
purifying  the  hearts  of  men,  is  obvious  from  the 
following  fgcts:  1.  It  excludes  all  minors;  2.  ex- 
cludes all  ladies— t.  e.,  more  than  half  the  human 
family;  3.  all  Negroes  (they  have  lodges  of  their 
own,  but  the  whites  call  them  "clandestine");  4.  all 
invalids;  5.  all  maimed  persons;  6.  all  deaf  persons; 
7.  ail  blind;  8.  all  too  poor  to  pay;  9.  all  slaves; 
10.  all  who  were  not  free-born.  These  ten  classes 
comprise  not  less  than  five-sixths  of  the  human  fam- 
ily. (See  Dr.  Morris's  "Dictionary  of  Freemasonry," 
p.  180,  and  Chase's  "Digest  of  Masonic  Law,"  pp. 
198  to  212) 

No  one  of  ordinary  intelligence,  in  this  Christian 
land,  laboring  with  the  least  sincerity  for  his  own 
moral  purity  and  that  of  others,  could  possibly  con- 
sent to  exclude  those  ten  classes  from  the  benefits 
of  his  labors.  The  idea  is  absurd  on  its  face.  Every 
one  knows  that  it  is  contrary  to  the  very  idea  of  pu- 
rity, which  is  attainable  only  through  Christ,  whose 
great  heart  says:  "Go  out  into  the  strees  and  lanes, 
the  highways  and  hedges,  and  constrain  them  to 
come  in."  This  call  brings  multitudes  to  Christ 
who  fall  under  the  ban  of  exclusion  from  the  lodge. 
And  Jesus  receives  and  purifies  them.  True,  Ma- 
sonry would  gladly  receive  those  who  are  already 
pure — provided  they  do  not  belong  to  one  of  the 
ten  excluded  classes, — but  it  does  not  receive  men 
for  the  purpose  of  purifying  them,  or  of  bringing 
them  up  to  a  certain  standard  of  moral  excellency. 
It  has  no  moral  standard.  Chase  says:  "It  is  Anti- 
masonic  to  require  any  religious  test,  other  than  that 
the  candidates  should  believe  in  a  (jod,  the  Creator 
and  Governor  of  the  universe. . .  .The  religious  view3 
of  a  candidate  are  not  to  be  regarded  at  all."  (Di- 
gest, pp.  206,  208  )  It  is  folly  to  talk  of  laboring 
for  the  purity  of  a  soul  without  the  least  regard  for 
his  religious  belief.  The  same  author  says:  "Free- 
masonry calls  no  man  to  account  for  his  belief  of 
any  religion  on  the  globe."     (P.  208 ) 

This  proves  beyond  all  question  that  the  order 
gives  no  attention  to  the  moral  condition  of  the 
heart.  It  is  impossible  to  require  or  to  labor  for 
moral  purity  in  any  rational  way— especially  in  this 
land  where  "true  light  now  shineth" — without  a 
very  careful  regard  to  the  religious  opinions  of  the 
person  to  be  reformed.  But  Masonry  utterly  ig- 
nores the  religious  opinions  of  its  votaries,  and  says: 
"To  require  that  a  candidate  profess  a  belief  in  the 
divine  authenticity  of  the  Bible,  or  a  state  of  future 
rewards  and  punishments,  is  a  serious  innovation 
in  the  very  body  of  Masonry."  (Digest,  p.  206 ) 
The  Grand  Lodge  of  Ohio  (1856)  quotes  approving- 
ly the  following  from  an  address  by  the  "Most 
Worshipful  Grand  Master  of  Missouri,  who  says: 
•We  must  away  with  the  too  prevalent  idea  that 
Masonry  will  make  a  good  man  out  of  corrupt  mate- 
rial. Never  admit  an  unworthy  man  with  the  hope 
that  Masonry  will  make  him  better.'"  (Proceedings, 
p.  461) 

This  reveals  the  whole  matter.  "Masonry  will 
not  make  a  good  man  out  of  corrupt  material,"  ac- 
coiding  to  the  deliberate  judgment  of  the  M.  W 
G.  Master  of  Missouri,  and  of  the  Grand  Lodge  of 
Ohio  in  IS.'ie.  They  say:  "Never  admit  a  man  wilh 
the  hope  that  Masonry  will  make  him  better."  Vain 
hope,  say  these  high  authorities.  No  hope  of  moral 
improvement  by  the  power  of  Masonry.  Here  is  a 
plain  confession  that  moral  improvement  is  no  part 
of  the  object  in  Masonic  labor.  They  are  not  "la- 
borers together  with  God,"  as  Paul  declares  all  Chris- 
tians are,  in  the  effort  to  purify  the  world.  Masonry 
cannot  take  hold  of  bad  material  and  make  it  bet- 
ter with  its  babyish  "working  tools — the  twenty- 
four-inch  gauge,  gavel,  plumb,  square,  level,  trowel, 
chisel  and  mallet."  It  is  foolish  to  talk  of  making 
a  "man  better"  with  such  things.  To  this  we  have 
the  explicit  confession  of  their  own  most  compe- 
tent witnesses. 


How  locg,  then,  will  a  man  be  so  credulous  as  to 
believe  the  delusive  profession  of  cheaper  Masons, 
that  "Masonry  is  the  servant  and  hand-maid  of  the 
Christian  church?"  The  truth  is  that  Christianity 
stoops  down  and  takes  hold  of  "corrupt  material," 
lifts  it  up  and  purifies  it;  then  Masonry  most  delus- 
ively draws  in  all  it  can  of  this  good  material,  and 
makes  use  of  it  for  advertising  purposes  until  the 
goodness  is  all  corrupted  and  worn  out.  It  borrows 
the  livery  of  Christianity  and  all  the  good  material 
it  can  possibly  grasp,  to  keep  up  its  reputation;  and 
yet  the  wail  goes  up  all  over  the  land,  "Masonry  is 
good,  but  our  lodge  is  made  up  of  bad  material." 


THB  BOSTON   DBBATB. 


I  Letter  of  Rev.J.L.Wlthrow  to  Chicago  Times.  | 
Going  back  to  Boston,  the  people  of  that  city  are 
having  an  extraordinary  agitation  at  present  of  a 
politico-religious  character.  The  school  board  of 
that  city  has  several  Roman  Catholic  gentlemen  in 
its  membership.  The  mayor  is  of  that  religious 
faith,  and,  as  well,  other  leading  lights  of  the  city 
government.  In  fact,  for  some  years  past  the  pub- 
lic otfices  have  more  and  more  been  falling  to  the 
occupancy  of  Roman  Catholics,  With  this  access- 
ion and  increase  of  official  influence  there  has  ap- 
peared a  disposition  on  the  part  of  the  church  to 
interfere  in  public  affairs.  The  controlling  vote  of 
the  city  council  has  been  understood  to  wait  on  the 
will  of  the  church.  An  old  ordinance  which  for- 
bade preaching  in  the  parks  of  the  city  was  put  into 
operation  by  this  Catholic  administration,  against 
some  of  the  most  worthy  and  well  known  Protestant 
clergymen,  who  were  addressing  little  companies  of 
entirely  orderly  people  on  the  Common  on  Sunday 
afternoon.  These  clergymen  were  sternly  arraigned 
and  fined  and  two  of  them  thrown  into  jail,  where 
one  of  them  has  been  for  many  months  and  still  is. 
Without  doubt  there  was  legal  ground  for  their  pun- 
ishment. But  when  it  is  unquestionably  true  that 
the  police  permit  open  and  flagrant  violations  of 
ordinances  by  saloons  and  gambling  houses  and 
brothels  to  go  on  untouched,  month  in  and  mouth 
out,  it  is  more  than  right-minded  citizens  will  bear 
long  when  the  same  police  are  instructed  to  arrest 
preachers  of  the  Gospel  for  the  mere  offense  of 
reading  the  Bible  in  the  public  grounds.  But  as 
this  course  of  official  severity  was  tolerated  by  the 
town  with  no  more  than  a  mild  complaint,  the  Cath- 
olic powers  felt  encouraged  to  go  further.  Of  late 
there  have  been  urgent  measures  by  the  church  to 
withdraw  children  of  their  families  from  the  public 
schools,  and  to  largely  multiply  parochial  schools 
under  the  exclusive  care  of  ecclesiastical  instruction. 
This  movement  has  been  understood  to  be  pressed 
by  the  Jesuits — that  particular  branch  of  the  church 
which  has  made  itself  so  obnoxious  in  countries 
abroad  and  also  very  recently  in  a  part  of  Canada, 
so  as  to  be  banished  from  their  borders.  Whether 
these  were  the  aggressive  offenders  in  Boston  I  do 
not  know  certainly.  But,  anyhow,  a  few  months  ago 
one  Father  Metcalf  made  complaint  to  the  school 
board  against  a  teacher  (Mr.  Travis)  and  against  a 
school  book  ('Swinton's  Outlines  of  World  Histo- 
ry"), demanding  that  both  should  be  removed  from 
their  places  in  the  public  schools  of  Boston.  The 
objection  to  the  book  lay  against  a  single  paragraph, 
which  tells  of  the  sale  of  papil  indulgences;  and 
the  objection  to  the  teacher  was  that  he  explained 
the  paragraph  to  the  scholars  after  the  manner  that 
Protestant  history  has  usually. 

Had  the  Congregationalists  of  Boston  demanded 
that  all  pages,  paragraphs,  and  instructions  in  his- 
tory concerning  the  burning  of  witches  and  the  per- 
secution of  Quakers  and  Baptists  in  early  time 
should  be  expunged  and  omitted,  there  is  small 
ground  of  suspicion  that  these  gentlemen  of  the 
school  board  would  liavo  spent  an  hour  in  consider- 
ing their  rccjuest.  But  when  the  Catholic  church, 
to  which  they  owed  their  election,  ordered  Sain- 
ton and  Travis  to  be  dishonored  and  disciplined, 
the  same  gentlemen  made  haste  to  obey.  Here  the 
forlicarance  of  the  public  broke  down  and  a  great 
disturbance  arose.  Pulpit  after  pulpit  has  been 
speaking,  and  some  of  the  strongest  newspapers  in 
the  city  have  dealt  unsparing  criticism  on  the  con- 
duct of  the  board.  Now  the  movement  has  devel- 
oped into  mass  meetings,  and  there  was  a  gathering 
in  Faneuil  Hall  last  week,  the  like  of  which  has  not 
been  known  since  the  stormy  days  of  Alwlitionism 
before  the  war.  The  old  Cradle  of  Liberty,  as  the 
historic  hall  is  fondly  called,  was  made  to  rock  after 
the  most  violent  fashion  of  former  days.  Fjvery 
inch  of  room  was  occupied  by  men  and  women  who 
— as  there  were  no  seats— stood  through  a  pretract- 
ed  meetiug  4n  forgetfulness  of  fatigue,  and  went 
wild  with  enthusiasm  over  every  utterance  of  the 
speakers  which  criticised  the  school  board.     Partic- 


ularly strong  feeling  was  evinced  against  Rev.  J. 
T.  Duryea,  pastor  of  a  Congregational  church,  who 
has  been  prominent  in  yielding  to  the  demands  of 
the  priests.  His  election  to  a  place  on  the  board 
followed  closely  after  a  sermon  in  which  he  went 
out  of  the  way  of  the  subject  to  exalt  the  excel- 
lencies of  the  church,  and  this,  followed  by  bis 
course  in  the  present  conflict,  put  the  audience  in 
such  a  temper  as  that  they  refused  to  listen  to  a 
word  of  explanation  which  a  friend  sought  to  utter 
in  Dr.  Duryea's  behalf. 

To  just  what  the  agitation  may  C3me  no  one  can 
tell.  But  there  is  enough  revealed  now  to  make  it 
evident  that  the  American  people  will  not  endure 
open  or  secret  effort  of  any  church  to  control  public 
affairs.  As  to  his  religious  belief  every  citizen  has 
a  right  to  hold  what  suits  him.  Jew  and  Gentile, 
Christian  and  skeptic,  Protestant  and  Papist  must 
not  be  denied  their  freedom  of  faith.  But  just  as 
soon  as  any  church  is  clearly  seen  to  be  plotting  for 
political  power  in  order  to  subject  the  life  of  the  peo- 
ple to  the  law  of  a  particular  sect,  the  people  will 
rise  in  their  strength  and  consume  the  scheme  with 
their  indignation.  Lat  all  church  leaders  in  all  cities 
take  notice  that  the  wildly  excited  mass  meeting  in 
Faneuil  Hall,  Boston,  last  week  meant  very  much  I 


DR.  M'COaH  ON  SBORBTiaM. 


The  venerable  Dr.  James  McCosh  closed  his  term 
of  twenty  years  as  president  of  Princeton  College 
on  the  20 Lh  inst,  the  commencement  day  of  the  col- 
lege year,  by  a  farewell  address.  It  is  publisheel  by 
Charles  Scribner's  Sons.  The  career  of  Dr.  McCosh 
has  been  signalized  for  its  eminent  success  during 
these  twenty  years,  and  he  retires  from  his  jjosition 
with  more  honor,  perhaps,  than  any  who  have  pre- 
ceded him.  His  farewell  address  consists  mainly  in  a 
brief  review  of  his  work  and  its  immediate  results 
as  far  as  known.  The  number  of  students  has  more 
than  eloubled  since  he  was  inaugurated  in  1867,  and 
there  has  been  a  steady  improvement  in  the  effi- 
ciency of  the  college.  We  cannot  but  admire  the 
constancy  of  purpose  and  labor,  the  high  moral 
principles  and  the  consecrated  scholarship  and  abil- 
ity with  which  Dr.  McCosh  has  fulfilled  his  mission 
to  this  country. 

As  an  example  of  the  rectitude  with  which  he 
governed  the  college  we  have  in  this  address  a  brief 
account  of  his  administration  in  reference  to  those 
secret  societies  which  are  so  often  the  source  of  an- 
noyance and  wrong  in  our  colleges.  We  present 
our  readers  with  his  brief  narrative  on  this  subject: 

"When  I  became  connected  with  Princeton,  the 
secret  Greek  Letter  fraternities  Jiad  considerable 
power  in  the  college.  The  trustees  years  before  had 
passed  a  law  requiring  every  entering  student  to 
come  under  a  solemn  obligation  to  have  no  connec- 
tion whatever  with  any  secret  society.  I  felt  from 
the  beginning  that  the  college  was  in  this  respect  in 
a  very  unhappy  position,  the  students  signing  a 
pledge  which  a  number  of  them  knowingly  violated. 
On  inquiry  I  discovereel  that  while  some  of  the  so- 
cieties did  mean  to  foster  pleasant  social  feelings 
and  to  create  a  taste  for  oratory,  yet  that  their  in- 
fluence was  upon  the  whole  for  evil.  I  soon  found 
that  the  societies  sought  to  get  the  college  honors  to 
their  members  and  to  support  those  wh')  were  under 
college  discipline.  I  felt  that,  as  the  head  of  the 
college,  I  must  put  an  end  to  this  state  of  things. 
I  was  powerfully  aided,  or  rather  led,  in  carrying 
this  out  by  the  late  Dr.  Atwater,  who  had  more 
credit  than  I  in  suppressing  the  secret  scfietiea.  * 

"One  courageous  student  set  himself  vigorously 
to  oppose  the  attempt  to  get  the  college  honors  to 
members  of  the  fraternities.  The  dilliculty  was  to 
get  evidence.  But  certain  Icnlges  got  photographs 
taken  of  their  members.  These  fell  into  our  hands. 
The  offenders  stood  clearly  before  us.  I  summoned 
them  before  the  faculty.  They  did  not  deny  the 
charge  and  we  sent  them  home.  In  a  short  time 
each  sent  in  a  paper  in  which  he  promiseel  to  give 
up  all  cDunection  with  secret  societies.  I  retained 
these  papers  for  a  time  to  secure  that  the  promise 
should  be  kept,  but  I  have  shown  them  to  no  one. 
The  faculty  restored  the  students  who,  I  believe, 
kept  their  word.  Now  the  great  bexiy  of  the  stu- 
dents would  earnestly  oppose  the  reintroeluction  of 
these  fraternities  into  our  college.  Most  of  the  pro- 
fessors in  the  American  colleges  profess  to  lament 
the  existence  of  such  societies,  but  have  not  the 
courage  to  suppress  them.  I  am  sorry  to  find  that 
of  late  some  eminent  men  belonging  to  other  col- 
leges have  been  defending  these  secret  organiza- 
tions."—  Christ  inn  Instructor. 


Goexl  men  have  the  fewest  fears.  He  baa  but  one 
who  fears  to  do  wrong.  He  ha?  a  thousand  who 
has  overcome  that  one. 


I 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


AuoueT  2, 1888 


TEE  RAILROAD  LODOBB. 


The  gpeat  meeting  of  the  secret  unions  of  loco- 
motive engineers,  firemen,  brakemen  and  switch- 
men at  St.  Joseph,  Mo.,  closed  last  Wednesday.  It 
was  a  meeting  of  great  secrecy;  nothing  appearing 
in  public  print  except  such  items  as  the  officers 
chose  to  make  known.  An  audacious  reporter  had 
concealed  himself  overhead  by  a  chandelier,  but 
was  discovered  and  marched  oflf  to  jail. 

The  meeting  seemed  to  be  entirely  controlled  by 
the  hot-heads  of  the  orders.  Uncompromising  war 
was  declared  on  the  Burlington  road,  and  noth- 
ing but  an  absolute  surrender  to  the  strikers  was 
approved. 

One  of  the  objects  of  this  meeting  was  to  arrange 
matters  financially  pertaining  to  the  strike.  It  has 
been  claimed  by  many  that  the  Brotherhood  treasury 
was  depleted,  and  that  the  Eastern  men  were  in  fa- 
vor of  declaring  the  strike  off  in  order  that  the  as- 
sessments for  the  support  of  the  strikers  might  be 
discontinued.  It  was  stated  positively  by  the  press 
( ommittee  of  the  brotherhood  that  the  Eastern  men 
are  heartily  in  favor  of  a  continuance  of  the  strike 
and  that  sufficient  finances  were  arranged  for  to  carry 
the  strikers  imtil  the  four  organizations  are  federa- 
ted. The  federation  plan  was  indorsed  by  the 
meeting  and  it  is  quite  certain  that  in  less  than  four 
months  the  scheme  will  be  in  force.  Each  of  the 
four  brotherhoods  will  hold  conventions  as  follows 
to  consider  the  matter:  Brotherhood  of  Eogineers, 
at  Richmond,  in  October;  Brotherhood  of  Fire- 
men, at  Atlanta,  Ga.,  in  September;  the  Switchmen, 
at  St.  Louis,  in  September;  Brotherhood  of  Brake- 
men,  at  Columbus,  Ohio,  in  October. 

None  of  the  managers  of  the  organizations  con- 
cerned were  present,  with  one  exception,  and  he 
suddenly  left  the  first  day.  There  is  much  dissat- 
isfaction openly  expressed  with  "Chief"  Arthur's 
conservative  management.  The  Eastern  engineers 
are  represented  to  incline  to  his  views,  and  to  note 
with  distrust  the  movements  of  the  Western  lodges. 
The  movement  is  greatly  weakened  by  the  absence 
of  the  leaders,  and  may  not  succeed. 


Reform  News. 


FROM  TBS  QBNBRAL  AOBNT. 


THE   JESUITS  AND  MASONRY  IN  BOSTON. 
TRUE    TO   HIS    COLORS. 


QUINT 


iJosTON,  July  25, 1888. 

I  want  to  make  special  mention  of  the  kindness 
shown  me  by  Captain  Jones  and  his  family,  Mr. 
McCloskey  and  Mr.  Lincoln  since  my  arrival  in  this 
city.  I  have  done  an  immense  amount  of  tramping 
in  the  past  three  days,  and  to  how  much  purpose  re- 
mains to  be  seen.  Most  of  the  pastors  are  absent, 
and  those  who  remain  are  absorbed  in  the  Anti- 
Catholic,  Free-school  and  Free-speech  question.  The 
general  press  says  little,  and  one  would  scarcely  sus- 
pect from  reading  the  current  news  the  deep  feel- 
ing that  stirs  the  blood  of  reformers  since  the  de- 
velopment of  what  they  believe  to  be  a  deep  plot  of 
the  Jesuits  to  control  Boston,  including  its  parks, 
\  .ulpits  and  public  schools. 

Since  the  onslaught  on  Dr.  Gordon,  Bros.  Hast- 
ings and  Davis  for  preaching  on  the  Common,  and 
the  demonstration  about  Faneuil  Hall  by  Irish  Cath- 
olics, to  prevent  British  'Americans  from  celebrat- 
ing (^aeen  Victoria's  Jubilee,  two  papers  have  been 
sjartfcd  in  the  interests  of  constitutional  and  relig- 
ious rights.  The  Jintith  American  Citizen  deals 
hard  blows  and  is  said  to  have  a  strong  backing.  I 
met  its  editor,  Mr.  Long,  yesterday  and  endeavored 
to  secure  the  insertion  of  an  article  opposed  to  the 
lodge  system.  He  assured  me  that  he  was  not  con- 
nected with  any  secret  lodge,  but  evidently  thought 
he  had  as  many  evil  spirits  as  he  could  corral  at 
present.  The  Free  Press  is  not  so  large  as  its  neigh- 
bor, but  equally  spicy  and  vigorous.  A  brief  arti- 
cle from  its  issue  of  the  7th  inst.  will  recall  some 
truths  that  have  been  told  in  a  plain  way  in  the  Cy- 
nosure about  the  Rev.  gentleman  mentioned: 

BEV.  DR    <iUINT   HEWABDKD. 

Rev.  Alonzo  H.  Quint  is  well  known  to  many  of  our 
readers.  He  is  known  to  them  as  the  man  who  justified 
the  city  authorities  in  arresting  and  punishin?  a  Chris- 
tian minister  for  exercising  the  time-immemorial  right 
of  free,  unlicensed  preaching  of  the  Qospel  upon  the 
Common.  He  pleaded  for  the  Mayor,  and  emote  a  servant 
of  Jesus.  The  Olobe  made  great  capital  of  the  Rev.  Dr. 
Quint's  opinion,  and  the  hands  of  the  wicked  were 
strengthened  in  their  wicked  ways.  That  was  a  service 
not  to  be  forgotten,  nor  to  be  aMowed  to  pass  unreward 
ed.  And  so  we  read,  at  the  Boston  Theatre,  on  the  4th, 
His  Honor,  the  Mayor,  presented  himself  on  the  plat- 
form, accompanied  by  three  other  gentlemen,  one  of 
whom  was  Alonzo  II.  Quint.  We  read  in  the  IJerald: 
The  Mayor  briefly  introuuced  the  Rev.  Mr.  Quint,  who 


offered  an  appropriate  prayer."  "Verily,"  says  Jesus, 
"I  say  unto  you,  they  have  their  reward.'  Let  us  rather 
side  with  Christ  and  his  Gospel;  standing  for  our  rights 
and  liberties  as  members  of  a  free  nation,  and  having 
the  consciousness  that  we  are  with  God  and  that  God  is 
with  us. 

When  talking  with  Bro.  Davis  I  said,  "Do  you 
think  Masonry  had  anything  to  do  with  your  ar- 
rest?" 

He  replied:  "Most  assuredly  I  do.  It  was  at  the 
bottom  of  the  whole  affair.  I  had  spoken  against 
the  lodge  on  the  square  in  Chelsea,  and  on  Boston 
Common  I  showed  the  relation  of  the  secret  empire 
to  civil  government,  and  was  arrested  for  that  ser- 
mon. When  brought  into  court  I  objected  to  there 
being  any  Masons  on  the  jury,  and  offered  to  show 
cause.  The  judge  overruled  and  I  was  sentenced 
on  four  counts  in  the  extreme  penalty  of  the  law — 
three  months  on  each  count — which  my  attorney 
tells  me  is  the  severest  sentence  he  has  ever  known 
in  the  city  courts." 

Rev.  A.  H.  Qaint,  32°  Mason,  says,  "So  mote  it 
be."  And,  by  the  way,  I  have  learned  of  a  Rev. 
gentleman  who  boasts  of  belonging  to  many  secret 
lodges,  and  indorses  the  arrest  of  God's  servant  for 
preaching  the  Gospel,  and  says,  "They  served  him 
right.     He  deserved  it." 

Bro.  Hastings  is,  of  course,  on  the  war  path,  and 
by  extra  illustrated  issues  of  his  paper,  the  Christian, 
is  making  it  interesting  for  the  Jesuitical  crew. 
That  the  lodge  is  a  power  capable  of  doing  immense 
damage  in  this  city  is  evidenced  in  the  fact  that  a 
list  of  571  secret  lodges  is  given  in  the  Boston  Di- 
rectory for  1888,  while  the  number  of  churches  is 
223  —only  thirty-seven  of  which  are  Catholic. 

At  the  Congregational  Publishing  House  yes- 
terday, the  first  man  I  met,  seated  at  a  secretary's 
desk,  sported  a  keystone  (H.  T.  W.  S.  S.  T.  K.  S ). 
I  spoke  of  Dr.  Langworthy  and  Dr.  Tarbox,  who 
are  now  dead,  and  referred  to  their  interest  in  the 
anti-lodge  work,  and  how  much  such  men  are  need- 
ed in  these  apostate  days  to  meet  the  increasing 
flood  of  false  worships,  etc.,  but  received  only  si- 
lence in  return.  When  the  American  people  get  at 
the  Z)o«cOT  facts  they  will  find  Jesuitism  and  Freema- 
sonry "hand  and  glove,"  and  perhaps  the  latter  more 
dangerous  than  the  former  to  our  liberties,  and  more 
difficult  to  eradicate,  since  the  betrayers  and  unre- 
pentant deniers  of  Christ  in  the  lodge  sit  at  the  re- 
ceipt of  customs  and  occupy  the  highest  seats  in 
Protestant  churches.  The  god  of  this  world  will 
HONOR  his  own,  as  seen  in  the  case  of  "His  Honor, 
the  mayor,"  introducing  "His  Reverence"  at  the 
"Boston  Theater." 

Bro.  McFall  is  in  ill  health,  and  with  his  family 
is  absent  from  the  city.  The  latest  word  is  encour- 
aging, and  his  devoted  congregation  are  hoping  for 
his  speedy  and  safe  return.  The  ranks  have  been 
thinned  since  I  came  here  first  to  meet  Father  Green, 
but  younger  men  with  less  experience  are  coming  up 
to  fill  their  places,  and  the  duty  of  those  who  know 
the  truth  to  turn  on  the  light  is  more  and  more  ap- 
parent. Along  with  the  opportunitv  may  God  give 
grace  to  do  all  he  requires,         J.  P.  Stoddard. 


THB    COLORED    BAPTIST   STATE    CONVEN- 
TION OF  LOUISIANA. 


oaste  and  secrstism. 

BoTCE,  La.,  July  19,  1888. 

Dear  Cynosure: — I  left  Shreveport  Tuesday. 
Rev.  W.  H.  Bolding  preached  the  introductory  ser- 
mon before  the  Baptist  State  Convention,  and  Rev. 
A.  S.  Jackson  preached  a  sermon  on  sanctification. 
Both  sermons  were  powerful.  Friday,  the  13th, 
was  quite  a  busy  day.  The  new  officers  were  prop- 
erly installed  and  filled  their  places  with  honor. 

I  distributed  many  tracts  and  copies  of  the 
Cynosure  on  Friday  and  Saturday.  This  excited 
the  secretists,  and  many  of  them  denounced  my  ac- 
tions, but  would  not  talk  to  me;  while  others  de- 
manded that  I  prove  that  secret  lodges  were  devil- 
ish. Bro.  Thompson  seemed  more  prejudiced  than 
any  one  else.  Grand  Master  Ladd  and  Bro.  Antoine 
Robinson  both  acted  like  Christians.  They  thought 
I  had  a  right  to  distiibute  any  kind  of  literature  I 
chose.  Rev.  V.  Chapman  had  a  lengthy  article  in 
the  Shreveport  Monitor  of  the  7th  inst.,  entitled 
"The  Needs  of  the  Negro."  Among  other  truths  he 
spoke  of  the  need  of  exercising  economy  and  ceas- 
ing extravagant  expense,  and  he  continued:  "The 
Negroes  have  Hocked  and  are  flocking  to  secret  so- 
cieties for  protection,  equality,  money  and  fine 
burial.  They  are  taught  to  throw  up  their  distress 
signs,  which  are  license  for  laziness.  Thousands  of 
dollars  are  paid  monthly  unto  the  treasury  of  the 
different  secret  societies,  and  a  few  worthy  superi- 
ors, or  dignified  officers,  are  feasting  on  the  fat  of  the 
land;  and  a  great  many  are  suffering  in  their  homes. 


The  cause  of  Christ  is  suffering  financially,  and  the 
Christian  church  must  stoop  to  many  schemes 
which  are  not  honorable,  simply  for  financial  suc- 
cess. I  pray  God  that  I  could  hear  ten  thousand 
voices  thundering  from  the  sacred  desk  against  this 
monster."  After  I  had  read  the  above  I  very 
heartily  endorsed  it,  and  that  seemed  to  kindle  the 
angry  fire  of  some  of  my  North  Louisiana  brethren 
and  they  began  a  tirade. 

Rev.  Dr.  Pannix,  pastor  of  the  First  Baptist 
church  of  Shreveport  (white),  was  introduced  Fri- 
day morning  and  made  a  speech  in  whic'i  he  urged 
the  unity  and  co  operation  of  the  white  and  colored 
Baptists.  He  is  president  of  the  white  Baptist 
State  Executive  Board.  If  Bro.  Pennix  is  a  secret- 
ist,  he  certainly  offended  the  dignity  of  his  clan  in 
his  speech.  Although  his  church  corner-stone  recog- 
nizes Masonry,  yet  I  am  inclined  to  believe  from 
his  remarks  he  is  an  Anti-mason.  Rev.  Dr.  Boone, 
editor  of  the  Baptist  Chronicle,  of  Shreveport,  was 
next  introduced,  and  his  remarks  were  similar  to 
those  of  Dr.  Pennix,  but  radical  respecting  a  sepa- 
rated ministry.  Dr.  Wm.  J.  Simmons  was  next 
called  on  to  speak  and  he  fi  led  the  whole  audience 
with  joy.  Rev.  A.  R.  Blount  preached  a  very  able 
sermon  on  missions.  Although  a  Mason,  he  cer- 
tainly preached  the  truth. 

The  following  letter  was  received  and  read  with 
joy  to  the  convention: 

Mansfield,  La.,  July  12,  1888. 
To  the    Colored   Baptist   State   Convention  assembled  at 
Shreveport,  La.: 

Dear  Brethren.— At  our  recent  session  we  adopted 
unanimously  the  following  resolution: 

Resolved,  That  we  extend  to  our  colored  brethren  much 
sympathy  in  their  efforts  to  better  their  condition  relig- 
iously, and  pledge  ourselves  to  give  to  them  any  infor- 
mation or  instruction  we  can  in  this  direction;  and  that 
it  is  the  sense  of  this  C:)nvention  that  our  pastors  make 
opportunity  to  preach  to  them     Fraternally, 

G,  W.  Hartsfield, 
Recording  Secretary  of  the  Louisiana  Baptist  State  Con- 
vention. 

P.  S. — If  my  engagements  had  not  prevented  I  would 
have  been  pleased  to  attend  your  session  in  Shreveport. 

G.  w    H. 

The  above  was  received  with  much  enthusiasm. 
We  are  glad  to  see  that  our  white  brethren  of  the 
South  are  gradually  beginning  to  remove  the  color 
line  prejudice  in  religious  circles.  Rev.  A.  S- 
Jackson  answered  the  letter  by  making  a  fifteen- 
minute  speech,  praising  God,  for  his  mercy  endareth 
forever.  We  have  always  been  ready  and  willing  to 
co-operate  with  our  white  brethren  of  the  South, 
but  they  have  heretofore  kept  up  the  rail  of  preju- 
dice. Our  pulpits,  churches  and  homes  have  al- 
ways been  open  to  them. 

Rev.  A.  Hubb3  preached  at  Antioch  Baptist 
church  Sabbath.  He  gave  the  secret  empire  all  it 
could  stand  and  appealed  to  the  ministers  to  be 
separate  and  preach  an  unadulterated  Gospel.  His 
sermon  was  forcible,  and  old  Baal  trembled  in  his 
secret  boots.  Loud  and  many  were  the  responses, 
"Amen I"  A  good  work  has  been  inaugurated  in 
Shreveport.  The  tracts  distributed  and  Cynomres 
have  surely  set  the  people  to  thinking.  Dear  North- 
ern friends,  how  can  you  withhold  the  Lord's 
money  when  so  mu3h  work  can  be  done  among 
these  poor  people  and  thousands  be  saved  from  the 
secret  pits  of  lodge  deviltry  by  sending  Cynosures 
South? 

Revs.  B.  Dorsey  and  H.  C.  Green  preached  at 
Evergreen  Baptist  church  Sabbath  evening.  The 
lodge  also  received  a  blow  from  God's  Word  by 
those  two  faithful  ministers. 

I  made  the  acquaintance  of  many  warm  hearted 
Christians  in  Shreveport  I  made  a  mistake  in  my 
last  letter.  The  majority  of  colored  people  here 
own  their  own  little  homes  and  are  doing  moderate- 
ly well.  If  rum  and  secret  societies  were  excluded 
the  people  would  do  much  better.  I  have  found 
many  opponents  to  lodgery,  but  as  in  other  cities, 
they  fear  the  lodge  grip  and  dare  not  speak 
against  it. 

The  Baptist  State  Convention  closed  Monday 
evening.  During  the  executive  session  Monday  the 
question  of  the  Christian  Herald,  the  Baptist  State 
organ,  came  up.  This  caused  quite  a  sensation  for 
a  while,  as  brethren  Blount,  Parrow  and  Ladd  all 
fought  valiantly  to  defeat  the  paper,  because  it  has 
taken  a  strong  stand  against  lodgery;  but  after  the 
secretists  saw  we  were  determined  to  have  the  paper 
despite  their  opposition,  they  agreed  to  support  it. 

I  preached  here  Tuesday  night  at  Williamson's 
Chapel  M.  E.  church,  Rev.  A.  B.  Venabel,  pastor. 
This  church  is  about  five  miles  from  Boyce  in  the  . 
hill  country.  Crops  are  not  very  good  in  this  sec- 
tion. Boyce  is  a  new  town,  settled  since  the  rail- 
way came  through,  with  about  250  inhabitants. 
There  are  two  secret  lodges  here,  the  Farmer's  Alli- 
ance and  the  Seven  Stars  of  Consolidation.    Many 


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THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSUKE. 


people  are  united  with  these  secret  lodges,  but  with 
the  tracts  and  Cynoturts  distributed  I  think  the 
lodge  has  received  a  stroke  of  paralysis.  I  preached 
against  lodgery  Tuesday  night  and  have  distributed 
a  great  many  tracts. 

The  harvpst  is  fast  ripening  all  over  the  State. 
Itev.  A.  B.  Venabel  and  Rev.  Isom  Jordan  are  both 
free  from  the  secret  lodge  grip. 

I  go  from  here  to  Walnut  Hill,  thence  to  Alexan- 
dria and  Chaneyville.  Pray  for  God's  blessing  on 
our  Southern  work.  Francis  J.  Davidson. 


RBNEWINQ     OLL       WlSGONaiH     ACQUAINT 
ANG3. 


MiLWAUKKE,  Wis.,  July  23,  1888. 
Dear  Ctnosure  :— If  any  should  wonder  why  a 
great  rich  city  has  grown  up  here,  he  has  only  to 
visit  the  magnificent  country,  the  beautiful 
scenery,  and  the  splendid  harvests  that  are  in  the 
immediate  vicinity.  This,  together  with  the  little 
river  that  forms  a  natural  harbor,  has  made  this  the 
second  city  of  the  Lake.  As  I  have  considered  its 
numerous  railroads,  its  grand  avenues  and  costly 
g  buildings,  I  could  but  regret  that  its  most  import- 
m  ant  '"industry"  should  be  the  manufacture  of  lager 
beer,  and  that  much  of  this  abounding  wealth  is  the 
price  that  men  have  paid  tor  that  which  impover- 
inhed  and  debased  them.  That  so  strong  a  man  as 
President  Cleveland  should  have  weakly  consented 
to  publicly  drink  with  these  destroyers,  and  practi- 
cally consent  to  and  endorse  their  nefarious  busi- 
ness, is  surely  deplorable. 

No  crop  is  raised  so  largely  in  this  part  of  the 
dl  State  as  barley.  Just  now  an  immense  area  is 
5  being  harvested  with  an  ample  yield,  and  is  morally 
certain  to  be  made  into  beer.  The  perversion  of  a 
useful  grain  to  a  vile  purpose  is  not  so  great  an  evil  as 
the  perversion  of  conscience  that  it  induces.  It  brings 
the  farmer  into  intimate  relations  with  the  brewer  and 
saloon-keeper,  and  leads  him  to  instinctively  feel 
that  the  demand  for  prohibition  is  a  direct  attack  on 
his  most  profitable  business.  There  are  many  good 
men  who  raise  barley — there  are  few  that  see  to  it 
that  it  is  used  for  a  legitimate  purpose. 

After  a  pleasant  visit  with  our  steadfast  friend, 
Dea.  M.  K  Britten,  I  was  kindly  taken  to  Burling- 
ton, Wis.,  and  came  to  this  city.  Here  I  was  dis- 
appointed in  finding  no  one  who  is  interested  in  our 
work,  nor  any  mail  in  the  postoffice.  I  was,  after 
long  walking,  thoroughly  tired  and  quite  unwell.  I 
seriously  thought  of  going  back  to  Chicago  for  rest 
and  recuperation,  but  finally  concluded  to  go  to 
Waukesha.  There  I  was  most  kindly  received  and 
entertained  by  Mr.  J.  F.  Ike.  Quite  unexpectedly  I 
found  my  brother  and  his  wife,  who  reside  in  Nee- 
nah;  also  Ilev.  Isaiah  Faris,  of  Vernon,  who  kindly 
took  me  out  to  his  parish  and  introduced  me  to 
most  of  the  families  of  his  congregation. 

At  night  (19tb)  1  listened  to  an  able  address  on 
prohibition  by  Rev.  M.  A.  Gault,  and  by  invitation 
added  a  ffcw  remarks.  It  was  soon  arranged  that  I 
should  give  a  lecture  on  the  secret  lodge  system  the 
next  evening.  On  the  20th  Rev.  M.  A.  Gault  came 
and  took  me  to  see  a  large  number  of  families.  I 
also  visited  Rev.  J.  B.  Galloway,  who  invited  rae  to 
remain  over  Sabbath  and  preach  in  the  U.  P. 
church.  At  night  I  found  a  good  congregation  who 
listened  with  excellent  attention  to  my  arraignment 
of  the  lodge. 

There  is  scarcely  one  in  the  entire  community 
who  does  not  Bympathize  with  our  reform.  Nearly 
every  family  is  of  Scotch  origin,  and  belongs  to  either 
the  United  or  Reformed  Presbyterian  church.  Pas- 
tors Faris  and  Galloway  have  not  been  remiss  in  in- 
structing their  people,  and  have  faithfully  upheld 
the  principles  of  tlieir  denominations.  Would  that 
all  pastors  were  alike  faithful! 

Oa  Saturday  I  rested.  On  Sabbath  listened  to  an 
excellent  discourse  from  Bro.  Galloway,  and  in  the 
afternoon  visited  with  him  the  county  poor  farm, 
where  we  had  an  interesting  meeting  with  the  in- 
mates. Some  of  them  were  professed  Christians 
and  persons  of  considerable  education.  They  were 
pleased  with  our  visit,  and  several  of  the  men  ex- 
pressed some  knowledge  of  and  sympathy  with  the 
anti-lodge  work  in  which  I  am  engaged.  One  old 
woman,  reputed  to  bo  100  years  old,  had  been  a 
slave  iu  the  State  of  New  York;  had  seen  General 
Lafayette  and  remembered  him  well.  She  was  the 
only  colored  pauper,  and  was  a  persoh  of  good 
mind  and  fervent  piety.  I  was  glad  to  see  that  all 
seemed  comfortably  fed  and  cared  for. 

I  At  nig;bt  there  was  a  threatening  of  rain  and  the 
congregation  was  not  large.  I  spoke  on  the  colored 
people  of  the  South  and  their  relation  to  the  secret 
orders.  Excellent  attention  and  much  sympathy 
was  manifested.  Pastor  Galloway  made  able  re- 
marks in    the    enforcement  of    what  \  had  said. 


Sixty  three  dollars  in  money  and  pledges  were  re- 
ceived in  this  community;  and  HOB  since  I  came 
into  the  State.  Up  to  date  there  has  been  received 
for  the  New  Orleans  work  $375,  There  is  every 
reasoQ  to  think  the  $1,000  asked  for  will  soon  be 
made  up.  I  cannot  speak  too  highly  of  the  great 
kindness  and  hospitality  of  the  Christian  people  of 
Waukesha  county.     I  go.  D.  V.,  to  Waupun. 

Yours  in  the  Lord,        H.  H.  Hinman. 


SOWING  AND  RSAPINO  IN  IOWA. 


Dear  Cynosdrb: — From  Earlham  I  went  to 
Stuart  and  spent  the  Sabbath  there.  I  spoke  twice 
in  the  Friends  church  in  the  city,  and  once  at  a  meeting 
three  miles  in  the  country.  I  returned  from  Stuart  to 
Earlham  to  finish  my  canvass  there,  and  then  went 
to  Casey  and  met  with  the  Friends  in  their  Fourth 
day  meeting.  The  hurry  of  harvest  made  their 
meeting  small,  but  the  Lord  met  with  us  and  "man- 
ifested himself  to  us  as  he  doth  not  unto  the  world." 
I  preached  the  word  to  them,  and  then  took  the  cars 
and  came  on  to  Atlantic,  in  Cass  county. 

I  called  upon  Rev.  Mr.  Truesdale,  the  pastor  of 
the  United  Presbyterian  church,  who  readily  sub- 
scribed for  the  Cynosure,  and  expressed  himself  in 
hearty  sympathy  with  the  work  of  the  Iowa  Associ- 
ation. In  the  country  towards  Cass  Center,  some 
eight  miles  from  Atlantic,  I  took  four  subscribers, 
and  Mrs.  Graham  hospitably  entertained  me.  The 
next  day  I  returned  to  Atlantic  and  secured  one  do- 
nation to  the  work,  and  three  other  subscriptions. 
This  increases  the  number  of  Cynoture  readers  se- 
cured in  the  three  weeks  of  labor  since  my  visit 
home  to  forty-one;  eight  of  whom  are  ministers  of 
the  Gospel,  and  seven  of  them  ministers  in  the 
Friends  church. 

The  evidence  continually  accumulates  in  proof  of 
the  fact  that  Odd-fellows,  as  well  as  Masons,  are 
cherishing  the  delusive  hope  of  climbing  up  to 
heaven  by  their  own  inventions,  forgetting  that  "there 
is  no  other  name  given  under  heaven,  or  among  men, 
whereby  we  can  be  saved,"  but  the  name  of  Je- 
sus. How  artfully  has  Satan  contrived,  through 
the  secret  lodge  system,  to  build  men  up  in  their 
own  righteousness  and  delude  them  into  cherish- 
ing false  hopes  of  heaven.  The  evidence  of  this 
constantly  accumulates  as  I  go  forward  in  my  work. 

If  we  could  close  our  eyes  to  the  fact  that  the 
administration  of  justice  is  perverted  by  the  obli- 
gations administered  and  the  clannish  spirit  created 
in  the  lodge,  we  would  still  be  confronted  by  a  gi- 
gantic conspiracy  to  supplant  Christ  as  the  one 
only  way  to  God  and  heaven.  How  Christians,  who 
are  taught  in  the  Word  of  God,  "Whether  they  eat 
or  drink,  or  whatever  they  do,  to  do  ail  in  the  name 
of  the  Lord  Jesus  Christ,"  can  unite  in  a  confess- 
ion of  faith  that  ignores  Christ,  our  Lord,  and  in 
a  ritual  of  worship  that  ignores  that  name  through 
which  alone  we  can  come  to  God,  is  a  mystery  to  be 
solved  only  on  the  supposition  that  they  do  not  real- 
ize what  they  are  doing. 

Christians  in  the  lodge  are  yoked  with  unbeliev- 
ers. They  are  positively  forbidden  to  be  thus  yoked. 
^The  authorized  worship  of  the  lodge  is  Christless; 
and,  therefore,  false,  deceptive,  Satanic.  Satan  is 
the  inspiration  of  all  false  worship.  Satan  is,  there- 
fore, the  god  of  the  lodge.  How  can  Christians 
combine  with  unbelievers  in  the  worship  of  devils? 
May  we  not  pray  for  them  as  Jesus  prayed  for  his 
murderers  while  hanging  on  the  cross,  "Father,  for- 
give them,  they  know  not  what  they  do?" 

When  such  Christians  awake  to  the  enormity  of 
their  sin  iu  countenancing  and  encouraging  the  false 
worships  of  the  lodge,  by  refusing  or  neglecting  to 
renounce  the  covenants  that  bind  them  thereto,  and 
do  at  last  come  out  from  among  them  and  separate 
themselves  to  Christ,  as  they  are  commanded  to  do, 
they  will  doubtless,  like  Paul,  exclaim,  "I  obtained 
mercy,  because  I  did  it  ignorantly."  It  is  not  con- 
ceivable that  they  could,  Judas-like,  play  the  double 
role  of  friendship  to  Christ  and  to  his  enemies  with 
their  eyes  open  to  what  they  were  doing,  and  after- 
wards come  to  true  repentance  towards  God,  so  as 
to  obtain  mercy  through  our  Lord  Jesus  Christ. 

Christian  reformers,  let  us  preach  the  gospel  of 
separation  from  sin  and  the  world  to  Christ.  Satan 
must  not  be  permitted  to  dominate  our  churches 
through  the  agency  of  the  secret  lodge  system.  We 
must  liberate  the  churches  and  unite  their  testimony 
against  the  lodge. 

Next  year,  when  the  din  of  political  strife  has 
ceased,  and  the  smoke  of  battle  rolled  away,  the 
churches  should  hold  another  congress,  like  the  one 
at  Chicago  last  year,  to  consider  the  lodge  question. 
The  fact,  that  from  seven  hundred  thousand  to  one 
million  church  members  were  reprosente<l  by  dele- 
gates at  the  first  congress  of  churches  to  consider 
this  question  has  awakened  the  attention  of  many. 


President  George,  who  presided  over  the  first  con- 
gress, favors  the  calling  of  another  such  convention. 

C.  F.  Hawliy. 


MBBTINO  OF  THE  MAINS  GBRIBTIAN  ASSO- 
CIATION. 


A  special  meeting  of  the  Maine  Christian  Asso- 
ciation, followed  by  a  Holiness  Convention,  was 
held  in  Journal  Block  HblU,  Lewiston,  June  19,  20, 
21,  22.  The  attendance  was  not  large,  but  an  ex- 
Tellent  spirit  prevailed.  Elder  L.  E.  Pendleton 
preached  on  the  State  of  the  Church,  L  D.  Haines 
on  Divine  Healing,  and  S.  C.  Kimball  on  Practical 
Holiness.  Elder  Kimball  also  gave  a  lecture  show- 
ing the  relation  of  secret  fraternities  to  the  church. 
Elder  F.  G.  Folsom,  a  seceding  Freemason,  fully 
explained  the  wickedness  of  Masonry,  and  its  sharp 
antagonism  to  the  Gospel.  The  Dexter  church  in- 
vited the  Association  to  hold  its  next  annual  meet- 
ing there,  and  the  invitation  was  accepted.  The  fol- 
lowing resolutions  were  unanimously  adopted: 

Resolved,  Thnt  we  hereby  express  our  sympathy  with 
Rev.  Wm.  F.  Davis,  now  conflaed  in  Charles  street  jail, 
Boston,  for  no  other  offense  than  preaching  the  Ooapel 
to  the  poor  on  public  ground,  and  we  respectfully  ask 
Gov.  Oliver  Ames  to  set  him  at  liberty  unconditionally, 
and  immediately. 

Resolved,  That  we  acknowledge  Bro.  L.  B.  Pendleton 
to  be  a  humble  servant  of  God,  and  commend  him,  as 
our  State  missicyiary,  to  the  confidence  and  support  of 
all  Christian  people. 

Resolved,  That  we  recommend  the  Christian  Witness, 
published  at  New  Market,  N.  H.,  as  a  safe  family  paper, 
and  will  pray  and  work  for  its  continued  prosperity. 

Resolved,  That  we  disapprove  of  all  secret  societies, 
and  believe  that  the  Bible  teaches  that  it  ia  a  sin  for 
Christians  to  join  in  any  worship  that  excludes  Jesus 
Christ.  I.  D.  Haines,  Secretary. 


We  have  a  good  report  from  Elder  L.  E.  Pendle- 
ton, Maine  State  missionary  and  evangelist  He 
has  recently  visited  one  hundred  families,  distribut- 
ed about  four  hundred  pages  of  tracts,  introduced  a 
good  number  of  Christian  papers,  and  held  several 
meetings.  Friends  in  Maine  should  at  once  take 
measures  to  support  Bro.  Pendleton  in  his  blessed 
work  of  preaching  a  pure  Gospel  to  the  poor.  Of- 
ferings for  this  work  may  be  sent  to  L.  E.  Pendle- 
ton, West  Winterport,  Ma,  or  N.  W.  Qoddard,  treas- 
urer M.  C.  A.,  West  Sidney,  Me. —  Christian  Witnett. 


CORBESPONBENCE. 


TEMPERANCB  AND  THE   GOOD  TEMPLARS. 


July  17,  1888. 

Dear  Cynosdrk: — ^It  costs  to  espouse  any  one  of 
the  reforms  of  these  times.  To  embrace  them  all 
costs  more.  By  the  help  of  the  God  of  all  reforms 
I  consecrate  myself  to  them  all — all  that  I  see. 
What  must  we  do  to  be  saved  in  such  a  profligate 
age  as  this?  "When  the  Son  of  man  shall  come 
shall  he  find  faith  on  the  earth?"  Where  are  the 
clean  men?  "Help,  Lord,  for  the  godly  man  ceas- 
etb  and  the  faithful  fail  from  among  men." 

Oh,  brother,  is  not  this  sadly  true  now?  Our 
world  overflows  with  pious  cant,  but  where  are  the 
godly  men?  Men  suppose  if  they  embrace  one  of 
the  reforms  of  this  age  of  general  apostacy  they  are 
grand  reformers.  Temperance  in  the  Bible  means 
more  than  to  close  our  mouths  against  intoxicants 
—all  intoxicants.  How  few  temperance  men,  so 
called,  do  even  this?  Temperance  demands  univer- 
sal and  perpetual  restraint  of  all  sinful  passions. 
Our  five  or  our  six  (more  or  less)  senses  are  all 
grievous  sinners,  and  need  more  watching  than 
thieves  and  robbers  that  only  rob  the  purse.  "  Touch 
not,  taste  not,  handle  not."  Turn  away  mine  eyee 
from  beholding  iniquity."  Many  will  suppose  if  they 
vote  against  rum  they  deserve  a  martyr's  crown;  and 
some  who  do  so  may  get  the  martyr's  death  whether 
they  get  his  crown  or  not 

Men  who  vote  Prohibition  and  die  in  the  cause 
may  be  great  sinners.  To  live  goilly  in  Christ  Jesus 
leads  to  persecution  certainly.pcvradventure  to  death, 
and  then  surely  to  the  martyr's  crown.  See  Bible 
proofs  here  and  then  say,  amen. 

Our  Lackawanna  county,  Pa.,  tent  has  just  left  us 
for  Carbondale.  We  hope  for  some  good  from  its 
three  days*  visit  here.  Many  important  facts  and 
principles  were  developed,  and  I  trust  some  good 
done.  The  main  speaker  of  Saturday  evening  (14th 
inst.)  left  the  impression,  inadvertantly  perhaps, 
that  the  Goo<l  Templars  were  the  champions  of 
"nwral  suasion"  and  made  their  failure  very  con- 
spicuous— seeming  to  set  forth  that  only  a  very  few 
out  of  a  vast  multitude  were  saved  by  that  organis- 
ation. Still  he  declared  himself  a  Good  Templar. 
He  ignored  the  old  Wwbingtoniftns,  who,  perhaps, 


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THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


August  2, 1888 


did  far  more  by  moral  suasion  than  any  society  up 
to  the  time  of  the  grand,  eflective  W.  C.  T.  U.  Your 
humble  correspondent  worked  with  the  Washing- 
tonians,  as  lecturer,  before  that  child  of  Masonry, 
the  I.  O.  of  G.  T.,  was  heard  of.  The  W.  C.  T.  U. 
was  not  recognized  in  the  work  of  moral  suasion  by 
this  speaker.  Preachers  Allen  and  Scull  of  the  M. 
E.  church  did  good  work  in  the  tent  Sunday  morn- 
ing and  evening,  with  which  we  co-operated  in 
prayers  and  remarks.  Some  anti-prohibition  argu- 
ments turned  up:  such  as  egg-nog  on  the  roof  of 
the  tent^  whisky  and  beer  wailing,  swaying  the  tent 
by  its  ropes,  etc. ;  no  actual  and  destructive  demon- 
strations as  in  South  Gibson  and  Montrose  occurred. 
Now  as  "Prohibs"  are  embarked  in  the  work  of 
genuine  reform,  let  every  man  of  them  see  that  he 
deports  himself  at*  a  reformer  is  expected  to  do. 
The  old  parties  are  "license"  parties,  and  are  in  fa- 
vor of  "liberty"  to  do  many  things  which  would  be 
totally  out  of  character  with  us.  Scores  of  things 
may  be  practiced  with  impunity  by  the  dominant 
parties,  any  one  of  which  would  sink  a  reform  party 
into  the  "bottomless  pit"  of  political  filth.  If  St 
John  had  been  found  guilty  of  being  bribed,  he 
would  have  found  a  level  with  others  in  the  old  par- 
ties. When  the  old  parties  look  for  better  things 
in  us,  they  pay  us  a  high  compliment.  Let  them 
not  look  m  vain.  As  an  old  soldier,  who  has  worked 
against  slavery  and  rum  from  the  year  1839  and 
from  1872  against  lodgery,  till  this  hour,  I  have  to 
say  to  the  veterans  of  the  grand  army  of  the  Re- 
deemer, "Let  [our]  moderation  be  known  to  all  men. " 
Right  here  let  me  say  to  all  true  reformers,  to  whom 
this  may  come,  let  us  not  perpetrate  the  popular 
political  follies. 

1.  Ill-chosen  political  anecdotes,  which  tend  to  put 
sacred  truth  and  the  Bible  into  bad  company;  which 
excite  mere  levity  in  the  hearer.  Nothing  but  truth 
in  her  sacred,  dignified-  dress  is  needed  in  a  holy 
cause.  To  preserve  the  purity  of  home  is  the  holi 
est  of  causes,  and  that  is  our  work.  Don't  let  us 
limp  after  low  politicians  in  telling  low  and  pollut 
ing  stories  to  excite  nothing  better  than  laughter, 
which  the  bar-room  can  echo  better  than  we.  Jesus 
and  the  apostles  never  did  it. 

2.  Excessive  and  ill-deserved  applause  is  clear  be 
low  the  grave  and  dignified  character  of  our  work 
Let  the  fate  of  old  Herod  warn  us  against  applaud- 
ing human  beings,  however  competent  and  eloquent. 
God  has  worms  to  eat  the  flesh  of  kings  when  they 
give  not  God  the  glory  due  to  him.  We  think  of 
Herod  "who  was  eaten  of  worms  and  died,"  when 
we  see  the  cheap  applause  so  popular  at  the  great 
demonstrations.  Say  we,  no  harm  is  meant?  Ptir- 
haps  not.  But  what  is  the  tendency?  It  is  to  di- 
vert the  mind  from  God  to  man,  to  fan  his  pride 
and  arrogance.  "Let  him  that  glorieth,  glory  in  the 
Lord." 

3.  How  about  badges?  Did  any  of  the  primitive 
saints  ever  wear  a  badge?  Paul  did,  but  it  was  a 
chain.     My  badge  is  ray  bdlot. 

Nathan  Callender. 


DR.  JACKSON,  THE  OLD  ABOLITIONIST. 


Dear  Editor: — I  seed  you  the  farewell  words  of 
one  of  the  old  dyirg  Abolitionists;  one  who  was  in 
at  the  forepart  of  that  famous  battle;  one  of  the 
most  earnest,  untiring,  eloquent  and  logical,  of  all 
the  early  advocates  of  emancipation  in  this  country. 
He  was  a  compeer  of  Garrison,  Phillips,  Lydia 
Maria  Ciiild,  Abby  Kelley,  and  the  most  able  of  the 
so-calkd  "Garrisonians;"  but  soon  left  that  branch 
of  the  Abolition  army  because  of  their  non-voting 
doctrines,  and  united  with  the  Liberty  party  for  po- 
litical action  as  well  as  moral  suasion  against 
slavery,  and  was  then  and  thereafter  associated 
with  Wm.  Gocdell,  Alvin  Stewart,  the  Tappans,  Wm. 
L.  Chaplin,  Qerritt  Smith  and  others  who  supported 
Birney  for  the  Presidency  in  1840.  He  was  also 
editor  of  the  Msdison  county  AholUionut  and  asso- 
ciate editor  of  the  Albany  Patriot. 

Broken  down  in  health  while  laboring  in  the  anti- 
slavery  cause,  he  established  the  famous  water  cure 
at  Glen  Haven,  N.  Y.,  which  has  become  the  largest 
and  most  famous  sanatarium  now  in  the  world,  and 
now  localetl  at  Daosvillc,  N.  Y.,  and  from  whence 
is  issued  that  ahio  and  instruclivo  mflgazine,  Tlie 
Lawt  o/  Life  and  Health 

The  dcctor  would  have  died  years  ago,  so  broken 
down  and  diseased  was  ho,  had  it  not  been  for  his 
strictly  hygienic  living  and  hydropathic  trcalment. 
His  malignant  cancer  has  been  held  in  check  and 
his  useful  life  preserved  by  the  successful  treatment 
of  Dr.  Brown  of  North  Adams,  Mass.,  under  whoso 
care  he  has  been  for  a  few  years  past.  The  doctor 
is  now  78,  bul  Las  been  wonderfully  forciful  and 
active  up  to  within  a  short  time,  and  would  have 
years  of  usefulness  before  him  yet  were  it  not  for 


this  relentless  foe  that  is  eating  out  the  vital  forces 
of  his  life.  But  the  over  20,000  patients  that  have 
listened  to  his  able  and  instructive  lectures  on  the 
laws  of  life  and  health  and  have  not  taken  treat- 
ment at  his  "Cure,"  and  the  thousands  who  have 
heard  him  on  the  crime  of  human  slavery,  will  never 
forget  Dr.  James  C.  Jackson;  nor  will  those  who 
see  this  article  forget  to  pray  for  him  in  this  last 
terrible  struggle  of  his  life,  nor  will  they  fail  to 
rejoice  with  him  in  his  Christian  resignation,  his 
Christian  faith  and  Christian  hope.  If,  in  the  Prov- 
idence of  God,  we  meet  never  again  on  earth,  with 
heart  and  soul  I  respond,  "Good-bye,  dear  comrade 
of  the  days  of  old!"  But  we  have  formed  those 
bands  above  which  time  can  never  dissever;  ard 
since  "parting  in  a  Saviour's  love  we  part  to  meet 
Jorever!"  Geo.    W.  Clabk. 


common  Christianity.  My  late  husband  was  deeply  in- 
terested in  the  anti-eecret  movement,  and  labored  to 
promote  its  principles. — Saeah  B.  Hart. 


North  Adams,  Mass. 

....  Now  for  my  story  of  myself.  I  have 
been  shut  up  longer  this  winter  than  at  any 
previous  winter.  During  the  entire  time,  more  than 
four  months,  I  was  not  out  of  doors  save  a  few 
times.  When  spring  ceme  I  began  to  go  out  leis- 
urely, and  I  ride  out  daily  every  ifair  day;  but  I  am 
so  feeble  as  yet  that  I  dare  not  venture  to  go  to 
Dansville,  lest  the  journey  would  fatigue  me  to  ex- 
haustion, and  that  would  end  me.  My  face  at  pres- 
ent is  quiescent,  but  one-half  of  my  nose  is  gone, 
and  if  I  live  long  enough  the  other  half  will  go. 
My  last  operation,  which  was  in  November,  almost 
killed  me.  Not  because  of  suffering,  but  by  reason 
of  its  reflex  influence  on  my  organic  diseases.  It 
took  away  strength  and  left  me  permanently  debili- 
tated. I  have  not  recovered  and  never  shall  till  I 
put  cff  this  mortal,  and  "death  shall  be  swallowed 
up  in  victory." 

I  do  not  murmur  nor  repine.  Why  should  I? 
Considering  what  sort  of  natural,  physical  constitu- 
tion was  given  me,  what  kind  of  early  rearing  I  had, 
what  an  environment  up  to  middle  life  was  mine, 
what  the  character  of  the  age  in  which  I  have  lived 
and  agitations  which  I  have  helped  to  inaugurate,  I 
can  only  say,  as  1  examine  myself  and  compare  my 
present  state  of  mental  enlightenment  and  of  moral 
and,  especially,  of  spiritual  perceptions  of  truth 
along  her  higher  ranges,  with  the  state  in  which  I 
was  ten  years  ago.  Behold  what  Christ  has  wrought! 
I  look  forward,  not  backward,  upward  and  onward, 
not  merely  around  me  and  on  earth's  plane.  Unlets 
you  should  come  East,  I  shall  not  see  you  more  till 
we  meet  on  the  shores  of  the  sea  of  glass,  where 
only  delectable)  things  live  undecayingly. 

Good  bye,  my  dear  comrade  of  the  days  of  old  I 
We  have  lived  and  labored  and  loved  the  right  and 
the  true  together.  A  checkered  life  ours  has  been, 
but  rich  in  divine  consolations  of  brotherly  love. 
Few  men  can  say  what  we  can  say,  that  nearly  fifty 
years  of  life  have  passed  of  uninterrupted,  loving 
associations.     Good  bye ! James, 


PITE  AND  POINT. 


WORSE  AND  WORSE  FOR  THE  NEW  YORlv  CANDIDATE. 

As  to  W.  Martin  Jones,  of  Buffalo,  Prohibition  nomi- 
nee for  Governor  of  New  York  State,  he  is  both  an  Odd 
fellow  and  a  Mason.  In  1885,  when  he  was  nominated 
by  the  party,  I  wrote  to  him  asking  him  how  he  stood  on 
the  secret  lodge  question.  He  answered  very  promptly 
and  unhesitatingly  that  he  was  a  member  of  both  the 
above  named  organizations. — Peter  D.  Miller, 
Wright's  Corners,  N.  T, 

A  KENTUCKY  PASTOR  AT  WOBK. 

I  received  the  tracts  and  papers,  or  pamphlets,  you 
sent  me  against  secret  societies.  I  sincerely  thank  you 
for  the  same  I  am  a  colored  minister  in  charge  of  four 
chu'ches.  There  are  two  secret  eocieties  on  my  work. 
I  will  endeavor  to  make  a  judicious  upc  of  them  among 
our  people.  Please  send  the  CJiristian  Cynosure  to  me 
if  you  possibly  can.  I  have  more  than  240  members 
under  my  pastoral  care.  We  have  a  great  many  petty 
fecrct  eocieties  in  seme  counties  among  our  people.  We 
now  have  quite  a  number  of  Odd-fellows.  Can  jou 
send  a  good  book  against  thevi.  I  need  oi;e  very  much 
atthistime.  — E   J   8impson,   Weston,  Ey. 

I'AUL  AGAINST  TUB  LODGE. 

The  word  of  God  through  the  instrumentality  of  Paul 
is  not  at  peace  with  lot^gery.  CbrisUans  need  tbe  light 
fo  as  to  bo  in  baimny  with  G' d  and  hie  Woid  on  the 
fecifcy  qucsticin.  Paul  says,  '  Have  to  fellow,  hip  with 
the  unfruitful  works  of  darkness,  but  rather  reprove 
thtm,  for  it  is  a  Fb&me  even  to  speak  of  those  things 
which  ire  dcrc  of  tbem  in  eccret."  Bre'hren  should  ex 
amine  their  hearls  carefully  ard  sec  to  it  that  f  hey  are  in 
harmrny  with  God  and  bi«  Word  on  this  line.  To  ac- 
cord with  tbe  Word  and  Spirit  of  God  jou  will  feel  in 
your  soul  that  you  wuuld  "rather  reprove  them"  than 
those  who  flght  the  lodge. — Cyrus  Smith. 

A  FRIEND     IN    OLOUCESTER,  ENGLAND 

I  hope  to  be  able  to  renew  my  subscription  when  the 
time  expires,  and  to  do  all  I  can  in  the  other  country  to 
expose  a  system  so  detrimental  to  the  interests  of  one 


LITERATTJRE. 


History  of  Secuet  Societibs,  aud  of  the  Republican  party  of 
France  from  1830  to  1S4S.  By  Lucien  de  la  Hodde.  Translat- 
ed by  an  American.  Pp.  479.  Price,  $1.00,  postage  20  cents. 
For  sale  by  the  National  Christian  AsBociatioa,  Chicago  and 
Washington. 

A  brief  history  of  this  remarkable  volume  will 
be  of  more  value  to  our  readers  than  a  review  of  its 
contents.  Before  the  Fremont  campaign  in  1856 
put  the  Republican  party  upon  its  feet.  General  J. 
W.  Phelps,  then  an  officer  in  the  regular  army,  re- 
lieved the  tedium  of  camp  life  by  translating  this 
volume  from  the  French.  He  already  saw  the  re- 
vival of  Freemasonry,  which  many  supposed  to 
have  been  dead  since  1832-3,  and  marked  that  its 
old  Satanic  nature  remained,  and  that  as  Washing- 
ton said,  its  organic  structure  allowed  of  its  being 
used  for  the  worst  of  purposes.  In  this  history  of  the 
operations  of  French  Masonry  to  produce  revolu- 
tion, he  hoped  the  American  people  might  see  a 
picture  of  what  he  feared  was  already  preparing  for 
our  own  country.  But  he  was  disappointed.  His 
fellow  officers  either  belonged  to  the  lodge,  or  were 
indifferent  to  its  evils,  and  the  general  public  were 
too  deeply  absorbed  in  checking  the  growth  of 
slavery  to  note  by  what  means  it  might  conspire  for 
rebellion. 

The  volume  was  published  by  the  Lippincott's  of 
Philadelphia,  and  bears  their  imprint,  though  the 
whole  expense  was  borne  by  General  Phelps.  In 
1864,  after  he  had  resigned  from  the  army,  he  again 
gave  some  attention  to  this  volume,  having  seen 
new  evidences  of  the  danger  of  the  lodge  to  Ameri- 
can liberties.  He  took  part  of  the  unsold  edition, 
rebound  it,  gave  it  a  new  title,  "The  Cradle  of 
Rebellions,"  a  new  title  page  and  preface.  Of 
the  successful  sale  we  are  not  able  to  speak  posi- 
tively, but  presume  the  edition  was  exhausted.  A 
number  of  volumes  of  the  book,  as  originally  is- 
sued, have  been  purchased  by  the  National  Chris- 
tian Association  and  are  for  sale  as  above.  As  this 
valuable  book  is  out  of  print  and  the  quantity  for 
sale  is  not  large,  those  who  order  early  will  only  be 
sure  of  securing  it.  Some  idea  of  its  value  may  be 
gained  from  the  following  extract  from  the  preface: 

"The  reader  will  see  the  agencies  by  which  the  govern- 
ment of  Louis  Philippe  was  overthrown  and  a  military 
deppotisra  establifhed  in  its  place,  the  same  agencies 
which  Joel  R.  Poinsett  had  previously  established  in 
Mexico  under  the  name  of  the  Secret  Societits  of  the 
Bscoseces  and  Torkinos.  which  hastened  the  ruin  of  re- 
publican government  in  that  country,  and  prepared  the 
way  for  the  admission  of  despotic  government  from 
France.  They  were  the  same  agencies  that  contributed 
largely  toward  the  annexation  of  Texas,  that  have  sus- 
tained slavery  so  long  against  the  moral  convictions  of 
an  unsophisticated  people,  and  without  which  the  pres- 
ent rebellion  could  hardly  have  teen  incepted  Even  those 
80  called  charitable  institutions,  designed  as  means  of  se- 
cret benevolence,  the  Freemasons  and  Odd -Fellows, 
have  been  used,  often  against  their  own  knowledge  or 
consent,  by  the  great  masters  of  secret  political  associa- 
tions, as  so  many  subordinate  cog-wheels  in  the  great 
machinery  of  insurrection  and  rebellion.  Even  many  of 
the  industrial  pursuits  of  the  free  States  were  overruled, 
unronEcious'ly,  to  the  same  end  It  is  a  merit,  a  charita- 
ble act,  to  protect  the  weak  against  the  strong.  Slavery, 
in  its  contest  against  the  virtues  of  a  republican  people, 
was  weak;  and  it  was  thcn^fore  right  and  just  in  the 
knight  of  subterraneous  craft  to  labor  for  its  defense! 
Slavery  was  as  weak  as  it  was  just;  and  every  act,  there 
fore,  done  in  its  behalf,  however  villainous  it  might  be, 
was  sanctified  by  the  end  j-roposed,  and  sanctified  the 
knight  who  did  it !  Such  has  come  to  be  the  spirit  of 
secret  associations  in  the  United  States. 

"The  American  people,  animated  by  that  candor  ani 
openness  which  fl  )ws  naturally  from  their  all  benevolent 
institutions,  are  unsuspecting  as  yet,  in  the  mas?,  of 
those  dark  and  covert  machinations  by  which  their  liber- 
ties are  endangered,  and  of  which  this  History  gives  a 
striking  example.  Indeed,  it  is  believed  that  political 
edujation  has  become  necessary,  to  evcy  voter,  for  the 
prcfcrvation  of  our  government,  and  that  it  can  hardly 
be  completed,  at  the  present  day,  unless  by  some  such 
insight  of  political  bareness  and  craft  n.'  is  h  rein  dis- 
closed. None,  we  may  say,  can  so  rcau  ly  understand 
the  present  rr bellion,  the  immorality,  political  depravity 
and  infamy  that  have  led  to  it,  as  they  who,  through  the 
perusal  of  these  pages,  shall  become  acquainted  with 
those  mainsprings  of  action  that  brougbt  about  the 
French  revolution  of  1848," 

Mifs  Alice  French,  of  Iowa,  whose  literary  cognomen, 
"Octave  Thanet,"  is  becoming  well  known  in  magazine 
literature,  has  a  very  well  written  story  in  the  August 
Scribner's  JUagaeine.  It  describes  the  working  of  the 
labor  unions,  and  especially  the  Knights  of  Labor,  in  a^l 
graphic  and  truthful  manner.  Her  characters  are  strongly 
delineated,  and  the  story  well  told.  But  we  are  more 
interested  in  the  courageous  exposure  of  the  false  pre- 
tenses of  these  secret  orders.  The  Railway  Series  is 
continued  in  this  issue  with  an  acute  and  luminous  ac- 
count of  the  evolution  and  present  wonderful  perfection 


August  2, 1888 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


of  "American  Locomotives  and  Cars  " 
The  author,  M .  N.  Forney,  secretary  of 
the  Master  Car  Builders'  Association,  is 
one  of  the  most  widfly-known  railroad 
men  in  the  United  States  The  opening 
pages  of  the  article  are  a  brief  historical 
narrative,  embracing  the  stages  in  the  de- 
velopment of  the  modern  '  D  .'capod" 
from  the  primitive  locomotive  built  by 
Peter  Cooper.  The  question  of  the  num 
ber,  size,  and  position  of  the  driving 
wheels  with  reference  to  the  speed  and 
pulling  capacity  of  the  locomotive  is 
carefully  discussed;  the  half-hundred  at- 
tachments in  the  locomotive  cab  by 
which  the  engineer  works  the  machine 
are  indicated.  Among  the  forty  illus- 
trations are  a  number  of  antique  types  of 
locomotive;  a  selection  from  the  best 
modern  patterns;  and  views  of  a  round- 
house and  large  locomotive  works  which 
are  both  accurate  and  picturesque.  There 
are  a  score  of  illustrations,  showing  some 
of  the  most  romantic  scenery  in  this  coun- 
try, in  Professor  N.  8  Shaler's  paper  de 
scribing  "Rivers  and  Valleys."  The 
practical  problems  connected  with  val- 
leys like  those  of  the  Mississippi  and 
Ohio  are  reviewed,  making  this  among 
the  most  entertaining  of  Professor  Sha- 
ler's papers  on  the  surface  of  the  earth. 

An  article  which  grape-growers  will 
read  with  interest  in  the  August  number 
of  the  American  J griculturist  is  entitled 
"The  Home  and  Story  of  the  Concord," 
the  famous  fruit  known  as  the  standard, 
hardy  and  prolific  grape  of  the  continent. 
It  is  illustrated  with  a  beautiful  engrav- 
ing»of  the  original  grower  of  the  grape, 
Ephraim  Wales  Bull,  standing  among  his 
luxuriant  vines — a  straight  and  robust- 
looking  old  gentleman,  now  eighty-two 
years  of  age,  and  still  living  in  his  cot- 
tage close  by  the  original  Concord  grape- 
vine. 


OBITUARY, 

Died,  at  his  residence,  six  miles  west 
of  Lawrence,  Kas.,  Henry  Stevbns, 
aged  nearly  76  years. 

Mr.  Stevens  was  a  native  of  Rutland 
county,  Vermont.  When  but  a  youth  he 
came  West  and  located  in  Rock  Island 
county,  111 ,  where  he  engaged  in  farm- 
ing and  stock  raising.  Upon  the  death 
of  his  wife,  having  had  two  children,  he 
married  Miss  Mary  S'anley,  by  whom  he 
had  eight  children.  Six  of  the  latter  are 
living  and  one  of  the  first  family. 

In  1874  Mr.  Stevens  moved  to  Kansas, 
and  having  been  successful  in  his  calling 
all  along  up  to  his  death,  ho  has  left  to  his 
heirs  quite  a  competency  of  an  estate. 

When  but  a  boy  he  was  converted,  end 
as  is  frtquenlly  the  case  with  men  mcst 
successful  in  business,  he  er joyed  the 
sweets  of  religion  more  when  a  wsge- 
worker,  and  poor,  than  in  after  life, 
whrn  the  "cares  of  this  world  and  de- 
ceitfulnegs  of  riches"  pierced  him  with 
many  sorrows,  and  kept  him  in  a  life  of 
cor  ttict.  A  few  days  before  his  departure 
bis  eoul  seemed  to  settle  down  upon  a 
faith  of  assurance,  and  without  fear  or 
pain,  pasting  through  the  valley  of  the 
shadow  of  dca'h  he  feared  no  evil,  God's 
"rod  and  staff"  comforting  him. 

Mr.  Stevens  has  been  a  constant  sub- 
scriber and  reader  of  the  Cynosure,  and 
often  sent  for  anti-secrecy  literature  and 
scattered  it  among  the  college  boys  at- 
tending the  Slate  University  at  Lawrence. 

He  and  his  companion  were  regular 
members  of  the  U.  B.  church  for  many 
years,  until  for  convenience  for  the  last 
three  or  four  years  they  h»ve  worshiped 
with  the  Friends.  May  the  providence 
and  grace  of  Him  who  visits  the  father- 
less and  widow  in  their  t  dictions  com- 
fort the  bereaved  rorapanion  and  chil- 
dren, and  lead  them  all  to  everlasting 
life.  D.  Shuck. 


Lodge  Notes. 

The  Grand  Council  of  Iliaois  of  the 
Improved  Order  of  R^d  Men  met  some 
while  since  in  Chicago.  They  attended 
a  theatrical  performance,  had  a  banquet, 
and  had  the  small  satisfaction  of  sealing 
our  Mayor  Roche,  who  was  once  sup- 
posed to  represent  the  moral  character  of 
Chicago,  aa  one  of  the  seventy-five  "great 
chiefs." 

The  Inter  Ccean  sajs  that  William  P. 
Crocks,  of  Jersey  City,  Grand  Secretary 
of  the  order  of  Good  Templars  for  the 
Slate  of  New  Jersey,  and  Deputy  Right 
Worthy  Grand  Templar,  who  stumped 
for  St.  John  in  1884,  returns  to  the  house 


of  his  fathers  which  he  then  forsook, 
and  will  put  in  his  best  licks  for  Harrison 
and  Morton. 

The  National  Grand  Lodge,  United 
Brothers  of  Friendship,  one  of  tho 
largest  organizations  of  colored  men  in 
America,  were  in  session  at  St.  Louis  last 
week,  and  was  very  largely  attended.  In 
conjunction  with  the  "brothers,"  the 
"Sisters  of  the  Mysterious"  (the  female 
branch  of  the  society)  were  aho  in  ses- 
sion, and  gave  a  parade  Thursday  with 
3,000  people  in  line.  There  are  a  num- 
ber of  prominent  colored  men  connected 
with  the  order,  which  is  claimed  to  be 
non  political. 

This  week  the  Odd-fellows  claim  the 
attention  of  Cincinnati.  They  began  to 
arrive  Monday  to  attend  the  cantonment 
of  the  patriarchs  militant  and  the  special 
session  of  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Ohio, 
which  was  held  on  Wednesday.  Com- 
petitive drills  for  prizes  between  indi- 
viduals, cantons  and  batallions  continued 
until  Saturday.  On  Thursday  afternoon 
there  was  a  general  parade  over  a  short 
line  of  march  and  a  review  in  front  of 
the  Custom  House.  William  White,  of 
Albany,  N.  Y.,  the  grand  sire  of  the 
Sovereign  lodge,  arrived  Tuesday,  and  on 
the  same  evening  the  grand  decoration 
of  chivalry  was  conferred  at  Music  Hall. 

A  telegram  from  Pittsburg  to  the  Chi- 
cago Herald  says:  The  election  of  dele- 
gates to  the  General  Assembly  of  the 
Knights  of  Labor  now  taking  place 
throughout  the  country,  shows  conclu- 
sively that  there  has  been  a  great  falling 
off  in  the  number  of  members.  Scarcely 
a  district.  80  far  as  heard  from  has  elected 
as  many  delegates  as  last  year.  Each 
district  is  entitled  to  one  delegate  for 
every  3  000  members.  List  year  District 
8,  of  Pittsburg,  elected  four;  this  year 
only  two  delegates  have  been  chosen. 
The  membership  of  District  3  is  not 
much  over  6,000.  Last  year  it  was  over 
10,000.  Several  assemblies  have  been 
cut  off  and  added  to  new  districts,  but 
barely  4,000  members  remain.  Those  in 
a  position  to  judge  with  some  degree  of 
accuracy  state  that  the  present  member- 
ship of  the  order  is  not  much  in  excess 
of  150,0 jO.  Last  year  the  membership 
was  at  least  400,000. 

At  last,  after  years  of  uninterrupted 
lawlessness  and  outrage,  the  White  Caps, 
of  Crawford  county,  have  been  met  by  a 
few  resolute  men  and  punished  in  a  man- 
ner befitting  their  own  bloody  actions. 
On  Monday  night,  July  23,  a  crowd  of 
these  law-breakers  visited  the  house  of 
two  girls  named  Wiseman,  living  near 
Marietta,  a  small  hamlet  situ  ited  in  the 
hills  of  Crawford  county,  Indiana.  The 
girls,  who  were  accused  of  being  un- 
chaste, were  taken  from  their  home,  tied 
to  a  tree  and  brutally  whipped.  Their 
screams  aroused  some  of  their  friends 
living  in  the  vicinity,  who  immediately 
took  measures  to  avenge  the  outrage  on 
the  persons  of  the  regulators.  It  is  the 
custom  of  the  White  Caps,  after  admin- 
istering punishment,  to  ride  up  to  a  house 
near  by  and  notify  those  living  there  of 
the  action  they  have  taken,  and  command 
them  to  inform  the  neighborhood.  The 
friends  of  the  girls,  knowing  this,  formed 
an  ambush  in  a  dense  wood  beside  the 
road,  and  when  the  gang  rode  by  fired 
into  the  party,  putting  them  to  flight. 
Yesterday  morning  it  was  found  that  one 
of  the  White  Caps,  a  man  n^med  San- 
ders, had  been  wounded,  and  that  Brair 
Gregory,  who  keeps  a  store  at  Marietta, 
must  have  been  hurt  also,  as  bloody 
tracks  had  been  found  leading  to  his 
residence,  and  he  himself  had  not  been 
seen  since.  This  is  the  first  time  any 
opposition  has  been  shown  to  this  band 
of  law-breakers,  and  there  is  much  ex- 
citement in  the  neighborhood  as  to  what 
the  outcome  will  be.  It  is  hard  to  get 
information,  as  one  cannot  tell  whether 
he  is  talking  to  a  plain  citiz  jn  or  a  White 
Cap. 


My  love  wis  like  a  lily  fair, 
Low  drooping  in  the  sultry  air, 
My  heart  was  rent  with  grief  and  caro. 
I  loved  her  well. 

But  lo!  The  wonder  grows  and  grows; 
My  love's  now  like  a  blooming  rose. 
How  bright  her  face  with  beauty  glows, 
I  dare  not  tell. 

The  wandering  bee  would  stop  to  sip, 
The  nectar  of  her  perfetv  lip. 
'Twas  Dr.  Pierce's  Favorite  Prcscrip- 
Tion  wrought  the  spell. 


8EUBBT  aOCIETISa  CONDEMNED 


BT  OBBAT  MEN  IN  THE  CHUBCH. 

•Rev.  Thomas  H.  Stockton,  D.D.: — 
Religion  is  as  open  as  the  sky  and  bright 
aa  the  sun.  As  a  man,  an  American,  and 
a  Christian,  I  love  true  manhood,«true 
Americanism  and  true  Christianity  too 
well  to  approve  of  secret  institutions  of 
any  kind. 

L.  L.  Hamlinb,  Bishop  M,  E.  church, 
in  Ids  diary,  ISJfS:  "North  Ohio  Confer- 
ence has  progressed  very  rapidly  till  this 
time,  but  Masonry  and  Odd-fellowship 
have  arrested  us."  At  another  time:  "I 
have  enjoyed  and  suffered  much  during 
its  session.  Masonry  and  Odd-fellowship, 
a  bane  in  the  midst  of  us,  have  done  us 
much  evil." — Life,  pp.  323,  Jf.  c. 

»A.  M  MiLLiGAN,  D.D. :— Thus  I  have 
shown  that  Masonic  oaths  and  obligations 
are  not  obligatory;  that  God  has  no  part 
in  them;  that  they  are  a  profanation  of 
his  ordinance  of  the  oath,  and  a  usurpa- 
tion of  the  prerogative  of  government 
under  the  wrath  of  an  insulted  God  and 
the  ban  of  outraged  society :  a  great  sin 
to  make  them  but  no  sin  to  break  them. 

Rev.  J.  P.  Lytle,  D  D.  :— We  could 
fill  a  volume  with  extracts  of  the  same 
tenor,  showing,  as  these  have  shown,  that 
Freemasonry  is  a  distinct  and  positive 
religion  with  a  promise  of  salvation;  yet 
rejecting  and  denying  the  Lord  Jesus;  a 
religion  which  claims  to  have  borrowed 
its  principles  and  rites  from  those  heath- 
en institutions  so  abhorrent  to  God  and 
corrupting  to  men.  «* 

*Rev.  Joshua  Bradley,  a  renouncing 
Mason: — A  lying  spirit  is  abroad,  and 
speaks  through  all  Masonic  presses,  and 
this  spirit  influences  all  who  hate  the 
truth,  and  will  make  them  wax  worse  and 
worse,  till  sudden  destruction  shall  over- 
whelm those  workers  of  iniquity,  to  the 
astonishment  of  every  beholder.  Then 
Masonry  will  rise  no  more  to  trouble 
Zion,  and  spread  delusion  and  death  amid 
civilized  nations.  <B 

'  C.  B.  Ward,  missionary  in  India: — 
When  men  get  saved  out  here  they  get 
out  of  the  lodge  of  necessity.  We  are 
personally  acquainted  with  a  barrister,  a 
doctor,  a  locomotive  fireman,  a  station- 
master  on  a  railway,  a  principal  of  a  high 
school,  a  commissary  officer,  a  military 
officer,  and  others  who  when  saved  at 
once  quit  the  lodge  for  Christ's  sake 
without  any  one  saying  much  to  them. 
The  evil  of  the  institution  is  too  apparent 
to  need  pointing  out  in  India.  «. 

JosErn  S.  CnuTSTMAS,  Pastor  Bowery 
Presbyterian  c'mrc7i,  New  Tork.lSJO: — If 
these  remarks  should  meet  the  eye  of  any 
follower  of  the  Redeemer  who  still  wor- 
ships at  the  altar  of  Masonry,  I  beg  him 
once  more  to  consider  whether,  imposed 
on  by  the  mock  solemnities  of  the  lodge 
and  the  pompous  pretensions  of  the  craift, 
he  is  not  really  attempting  to  effect  a  con- 
cord between  Christ  and  Belial;  and 
whether  he  does  not  owe  it  to  the  souls  of 
Masons,  to  the  honor  of  the  church  of 
Christ,  and  to  the  good  of  mankind,  to 
come  out  and  be  separate.  ^ 

Dus     Lkonakd    Woods,     Ebenezer 

POKTKU   AND   TlIOMAS    H.    SkINNEU.  Pro- 

fessors  at  Andovcr  to  the  Massachusetts 
Legislature: — Praying  for  a  full  investi- 
g^ition  into  the  nature,  language,  cere- 
monies, and  form  of  rehearsing  extra-ju- 
dicial oaths  in  Masonic  bodies;  and  if 
f  )und  to  be  such  as  the  Memorialists  de 
scribe  them,  that  a  law  may  bo  passed 
Drohibiting  the  future  administration  of 
Masonic,  and  such  other  extra  judici»' 
)i  vths,  as  tend  to  weaken  the  sanctions  oi 
fivil  oaths  in  courts  of  justice;  and  pray 
also  for  the  repeal  of  the  charter  granted 
by  this  Commonwealth  to  the  Grand 
Lodge  of  Massachusetts.  ^ 

^Rev.  Moses  Thatciikr:— Our  Saviour 
declared  to  the  Jewish  high  priest,  "I  spake 
openly  to  the  world;  and  in  secret  have  I 
said  nothing."  What  now  would  be 
thought  of  the  church  if  she  should"tyle" 
her  doors,  impose  obligations  in  secret, 
and  place  a  perpetual  seal  upon  the  lipi 
of  her  members?  Would  it  any  longer 
be  believed  that  her  solo  object  is  to  pro 
mote  the  religion  of  the  Gospel?  Now  if 
the  church,  which  is  the  purest  body  on 
earth,  could  not  and  would  not  be  trusted 
as  a  secret  society,  who  can  blirao  con- 
scientious and  judicious  men  for  drawing 
the  conclusion  that  any  secret  society,  of 
whatever  description. is  altogether  unnec 
essary  and  cannotexist  without  becoming 
an  object  of  8U8picion,if  not  an  engine  of 
wickedness.  ~ 


W.  C.  A.  BUILDING  AND  OrHC«  O? 
THI  CHRISTIAN   CYNOSURK, 
121  WX8T  MADISON  STIUEKT,  CHICAQC 


ITA  "riONAL  CHEIS  TiAN  AS80CIA  7109 

Pbbsidkkt.— H.  H.  George,  D.  D.,  Gen- 
eva College,  Pa. 

ViCB-PBBsiDBNT — RcY.  M.  A.  Oaolt, 
Blanchard,  Iowa. 

Cob.  Sbc't  and  Gbnbbal  AesKT. — J 
P.  Stoddard,  321  W.  Madison  st.,  Chicago. 

Rbc.  Sbc't.  and  Tebaburbb.— W.  I 
Phillips,  831  W.  Madison  St.,   Chicago 

Directors.— J.  L.  Barlow,  C.  A. 
Blanchard,  A.  J.  Chittenden,  H.  A.  Fisch- 
er, John  Gardner,  G.  R.  Milton,  Wm.  Mor- 
row, L.  N.Stratton,  John  Sutcliffe,  Alex- 
ander Thomson,  E.  R.  Worrell. 

Ths  object  of  this  Association  Is: 
"To  expose,  withstand  and  remove  secrM 
socletleB,  Freemasonry  in  pa'ticular,  and  othot 
sutl-Ctriatlan  movements,  in  order  to  save  tbs 
churches  of  Christ  from  being  c;epraved,  to  »v 
deem  the  adciinlstrrtion  of  justice  from  per- 
version, and  our  r»-p  ibllcan  goyenunent  from 
corruption." 

To  carry  on  this  work  contributions  at* 
solicited  from  every  friend  of  the  reform. 

Form  op  Bequest.— .i  eive  and  bctmcatb  to 
the  Natiocal  Christian  Aesociatloti,  Incorpo- 
rated and  existing  under  the  laws  of  tl)e  IStita 

of   Illinois,  the  sum  of dollat  s  for  th» 

ptirpcses  of  6aid  Association,  and  for  wiitrh 
the  receint  of  Its  Treasurer  for  the  time  belnc 
*lltll  be  sufficient  dlsciaree. 

thb  national  oonykntion. 

Pbbbidwnt.— Roy.  J.  8.  T.  Milligan, 
Denison,  Kans. 

Skcrktaby.— Rev.  R.N.Countee,  Mem- 
phis, Tenn. 

STATB  ATTXHilABT  ASSOCIATIONS. 

Alabama.— Prei.,  Prof.  Pickens;  Sec.,  6. 
M.  Elliott;  Trea*.,  Rev.  C.  B.  CurtLi,  all  of 
Selina. 

CiJJTOKNiA.- Pres.,  L.  B.  Lathrop,  Hollla 
ter;  Cor.  Sec,  Mrs.  U.  P.  MprrUl,  Woodland ; 
Trcas.,  C.  Ruddock,  Woodland. 

CoNNBCTicuT.— Free.,  J.  A.  Conant,  Willi 
mantle;  Sec,  Geo.  Smiri,  WUUmanttc ;  Treu. 
C.  T.  CoUlM,  Windsor. 

Illinois.— Pre*.,  J.  P.  Stoddard  Sec,  M. 
N.  Butler;  Troa».,  W.  I.  rhllltpi  all  at  Cy- 
rtonire  otSc«. 

Indiana.- Pres.,  William  H.  Flgg,  Reno 
Sec,  0.  L.  Cook,  Albion;  Tre&s.,  BenJ.  Ulah 
Sliver  Lake. 

Iowa.— Pre8.,Wm  Jobuston.CoUege  Springs ' 
Cor  Sec.,  C.  D.  Trumbull,  Morning  Sun- 
Trean.,  James  Harvey,  Pleasant  Plain,  JeSer 
son  Co. ;  Lecturer,  C.  F.  Hawley,  Wheaton,  III. 

Kansas.- l-res..  J.  S.  T.  MlDlgan,  Denison; 
Sec,  S.  Hart,  Lcconipton;  Treas,,  J.  A.  Tor- 
rence,  Denison. 

MASSAOHrsETTS.— Pres.,  S.  A.  Pratt;  Sec 
Mrs.  K.  D.  Bailey;  Treas.,  David  Mannlng.Si., 
Worcester. 

Michigan.— Pres.,  D.  A.  Rlchard^  Brlghtou 
Sec'y,  H.  A.  Day,  WUllamBion;  Treat. 
Geo.  BwanBOD,  Jr..  bedfoiu. 

MiNNHSOTA.— Pies.,  K.  G.  Paine,  Waslo'a 
Cor.  Sec,  Wm.  Fcnton,  St  Paul ;  Rec,  Sec'y 
Mrs.  M.  F.  Morrill,  St.  Charles;  "Treaa.,  Wm 
H.  Morrill,  St.  Charlea. 

MissoDBi.- Fre».,  B.  F.  Miller,  BaglevUJa 
Treas.,  William  Beauchamp,  Avalon ;  Cor.  8*c. 
A.  D.  TbomAe,  Avalon. 

Nbbuaska.— i'rce.,  8.  Austin,   FalriDoait 
Cor.  Sec,  W.        Spooner,  Kearney;   Treas.; 
J.  C.  Fye- 

Maine -Prt'S.,    Ihaac   Jackson,   Harrison 
Sec,  1.  D.    Haines,   Dexter;  Treae,,   H.   W. 
Ooddanl,  Weal  Sidney. 

Nbw  liAMi'bHiKK.— I'rea.,  C.  L.  Baker,  Man 
chesU-r;  Soc,  3.  C.  Klnihall,  New  Market 
Treaft.,  Jamee  »• .  French,  Canterbury. 

Naw  YoKU.— Pre*.,  )t.  W.  Capwell,  Dale; 
Sec'y,  John  Wallac*;,  Syracuse;  Treaa.,  M. 
Merrick,  Syracuse. 

C)Hio.— Pres.,  F.  M.  Sjiencer,  Now  Concord  •, 
Roc  Sec,  8.  A.  George,  MansfleUl;  Cor.  Sec 
and  TreaA.,  C.  W.  hl-iil,  Columbus;  Agent 
W.  B.  Stoddard,  Columbus. 

PaNNSTLVANiA.— Cor.  Sec,  N.  Callender 
ThonpWD ;  Treaa.,  W.  B.Bertels,  WUkeebure. 

VaHKONT.— Fret.,  W.  R.  Laird,  St.  Johna- 
bury;  8«c,  C.  W  Potter. 

WISOOH81N.— Pres.,  J.  W.  Wood,  Baraboo; 
Bee,  W.  W.  Ames,  Menomonle ;  Treaa.,  M.  B 
Brlttea,  Vienna. 


8 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


AuaiTST  2, 1888 


The  Christian  Cynosure. 


J.  BLANCHAKD. 


XsisoBa. 


HXMRT  L.  KKLLOGQ. 


CHICAeO,   THTJBflDATr,   AUGUST  2,   1888. 


BOW  STAND  TOUR  GANDWATBBf 


NOTES  OF   THE   ANTISEOBBCT  LBAGUE. 

General  Fisk,  the  Prohibition  candidate  for  Pres- 
ident, has  in  a  frank  and  Christian  letter  given  to 
his  constituents  his  position  on  secretism;  and  so 
soon  as  fishing  trips  are  over,  and  tariff  bills  are 
settled,  and  his  letter  accepting  the  nomination  at 
St.  Louis  is  written.  President  Cleveland  will  doubt- 
less send  on  his  views  of  this  important  question, 
in  reply  to  the  respectful  request  of  the  committee. 

It  is  among  General  Harrison's  most  excellent 
qualifications  for  the  high  office  to  which  he  is  nom- 
inated, and  which  we  believe  he  would  fill  with 
honor,  that  he  is  a  man  of  the  people,  easily  ap- 
proached, and  of  broad  andQready  sympathy.  In 
the  incessant  interviewing  which  he  is  undergoing, 
and  which  even  threatens  his  health,  he  is  daily  un- 
bosoming himself  to  the  people.  It  must  be  re- 
gretted, however,  that  he  allows  political  friends  to 
impose  themselves  upon  his  Sabbath  time,  and  fre- 
quently of  late,  after  attending  church  in  the  morn- 
ing, he  entertains  such  company.  Let  him.  de- 
clare a  strike  against  such  imposition.  Seven  days' 
work  should  no  more  be  required  of  a  candidate 
than  of  a  plowboy  or  a  street-car  horse. 

But  aside  from  this  a  large  majority  of  the  Chris- 
tian voters  of  the  country  will  read  with  some  satis- 
faction the  following  from  General  Harrison's  reply 
to  the  letter  of  the  League  committee: 

"In  answer  to  your  question,  permit  me  to  say  that  I 
have  never  been  a  member  of  any  secret  society,  except 
a  Greek  literary  society  in  college  and  the  G.  A.  R  ,  if 
the  latter  can,  with  any  propriety,  be  called  a  secret  soci- 
ety, though  I  do  not  think  it  can.    Very  truly  yours, 

Benj.  Harrison." 

From  this  reply  we  infer  that  General  Harrison's 
strong  good  sense  and  high  views  of  American  pa- 
triotism incline  him  to  disapprove  secret  societies 
in  general.  The  order  to  which  he  now  belongs,  and 
whose  badge,  he  wears  he  does  not  regard  as  a  se- 
cret society;  and  possibly,  like  the  lamented  Gar- 
field, who  was  on  principle  opposed  to  the  lodge 
but  went  into  Masonry  to  please  his  army  comrades, 
Mr.  Harrison  has  become  somewhat  attached  to  the 
orders  rather  to  please  his  friends  than  himself. 
We  incline  to  such  a  construction  of  his  position, 
and  respectfully  request  that  before  he  takes  up  the 
duties  of  the  Presidential  office  he  make  a  more 
careful  inquiry  into  the  dangerous  and  un-American 
tendencies  of  the  whole  secret  order  system.  It 
would  be  an  infinite  pleasure  to  place  his  name 
with  that  of  Washington,  Adams,  Madison,  Mar- 
shall, Hamilton,  Weed,  Seward,  Sumner,  Chase,  and 
a  host  of  like  names  of  great  Americans. 

ILLINOIS    STATE    TICKET. 

When  the  letters  of  the  Illinois  State  Prohibition 
candidates  were  printed,  no  response  had  been  re- 
ceived from  Mr.  Harts,  who  is  honored  with  the 
first  place  on  the  ticket  The  first  letter  of  the 
committee  went  astray.  To  the  second  he  promptly 
replied: 

"I  BELONO  TO  NO  SECRET  ORGANIZATION. 

"Very  Respectfully,  D.  H.  Harts." 
Let  such  a  man  be  our  Governor.  The  Prohi- 
bitionists of  Illinois  are  to  be  congratulated  in  their 
selection.  With  the  exception  of  Mr.  Copp,  Jr., 
who  ecems  to  be  a  lodgeite  "to  the  manner  born," 
there  is  the  ring  of  good  American  metal  every 
time  the  ticket  is  touched  with  the  testing  hammer. 

VERMONT. 

The  Green  Mountain  State  has  made  an  unfortu- 
nate selection  for  Auditor  on  the  Prohibition  ticket. 
Mr.  C.  S.  Parker,  who  writes  below,  has  the  merit  of 
frankness,  and  whatever  he  has  learned  to  conceal 
he  is  open-handed  about  his  Masonry — and  hit 
grips.     He  writes: 

"I  have  the  honor  to  be  a  member  of  M.  Vernon 
lodge  of  Free  Masons.  If  you  would  come  this  way 
would  give  the  grip.     Truly,  C.  8.  Paukku." 

Thank  you,  friend  Parker;  if  men  have  no  better 
IjusincBS  than  swapping  grips,  they  had  better  be 
dead  and  forgotten. 

Unless  there  is  a  change  in  their  relations  Mr. 
Parker's  name  should  be  put  with  Copp's,  of  Illi- 
nois, and  Jones's,  of  New  York,  along  side  the 
match  box,  where  they  can  be  well  scratched. 


lodges  must  be  cleaned  out  of  Washington  before 
her  1,500  dram  shops  can  be  dried  up,  and  some  of 
the  real  temperance  workers  are  beginning  to  ac- 
knowledge that  wine  suppers  in  lodge  rooms  are 
not  conducive  to  wise  legislation,  when  indulged  in 
by  Senators,  Representatives,  church  members  and 
bar  tenders  in  the  promiscuous  revels  of  the  night 
brotherhoods.  Put  the  lodge  men  out  of  power  and 
the  saloon  will  soon  go." 


— Secretary  Stoddard,  writing  of  the  intimate  re- 
lation of  the  saloon  and  the  lodge,  says;    "The  316 


borne.  Under  his  care  the  Free  Press  has  been  one 
of  the  ablest  Anti-masonic  journals  in  the  country, 
discussing  the  lodge  fearlessly  and  with  signal 
ability.  For  a  local  paper  of  its  circulation  it  might 
safely  challenge  the  nation  for  originality  and  abil- 
ity. Dr.  J.  N.  Norris,  the  associate  editor,  and 
other  Birmingham  friends  will  doubtless  carry  on 
the  paper,  and  under  their  management  it  must  gain 
new  victories  for  good  government  and  Christ  in 
Iowa. 


a.  G.  A.  BOARD  MEETING. 

The  first  quarterly  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Direc- 
tors of  the  National  Christian  Association,  under  its 
new  arrangement,  met  on  Thursday  forenoon.  Rev. 
Alexander  Thomson  in  the  chair.  There  were  pres- 
ent brethren  Thomson,  Stratton,  Worrell,  Sutcliffe, 
Chittenden,  Fischer  and  Milton. 

The  record  of  the  N.  C.  A.  annual  meeting,  which 
was  referred  to  the  Board  for  approval,  was  read 
and  approved. 

The  report  of  the  Publication  committee  present- 
ed a  sketch  and  ritual  of  the  Sons  of  Temperance 
by  Mr.  H.  M.  Hugunin,  with  approval.  The  Board 
voted  to  purchase  the  manuscript  and  refer  it  to  the 
editors  of  the  Cynosure,  and  when  published  in  the 
paper  plates  to  be  made  from  the  type.  The  com- 
mittee also  reported  some  inquiry  respecting  a 
Washington  agent.  The  report  was  accepted  and 
the  committee  was  continued. 

The  committee  on  engaging  other  agents  in  the 
South  reported,  their  report  accepted  and  the  com- 
mittee continued.  Correspondence  is  being  had 
with  numerous  institutions  in  the  South,  many  of 
which  have  not  been  visited  by  an  N.  C.  A.  agent, 
and  it  is  probable  that  another  worker  can  be  sent 
South  without  great  expense  to  the  Association. 

The  report  of  Mr.  S.  A.  Kean,  auditor  for  last 
year,  was  read,  approving  the  accounts  of  the  past 
year,  and  recommending  the  settlement  of  old  ac- 
counts of  some  years  standing.  The  report  was 
ordered  filed  and  the  recommendations  referred  to 
the  Finance  committee. 

The  Finance  committee  reported  their  examina- 
tion of  the  Treasurer's  accounts  for  the  month  of 
June  and  gave  their  approval.  They  reported  the 
expenses  of  the  Association  were  at  present  largely 
in  excess  of  its  income. 

The  publisher  of  the  Cynosure  reported  the  finan- 
cial standing  of  the  paper.  The  report  was  ap- 
proved and  ordered  filed. 

The  report  of  Secretary  Stoddard  of  the  engage- 
ment of  Miss  Flagg  as  New  England  agent  was 
heard  and  approved  under  the  conditions  made  in 
January,  which  were  to  the  effect  that  the  expense 
of  the  agency  should  be  raised  in  New  England. 

Bro.  F.  J.  Davidson  of  New  Orleans  was  contin- 
ued as  colporteur  agent,  his  former  engagement 
having  closed  June  1. 

The  Board  adjourned  after  prayer. 


— The  Christian  Raformed  church,  formed  by  the 
Hollanders  of  Michigan  who  refused  longer  to  at- 
tend the  Rsformed  General  Synod,  because  of  its 
complicity  with  the  lodge,  has  made  overtures  to  the 
United  Presbyterians.  Dr.  W.  T.  Meloy,  of  this 
city,  writes  in  the  Midland  of  this  body  of  reform 
Christians,  and  among  their  other  good  qualities, 
says  they  "exclude  all  members  of  the  Masonic  and 
Odd-fellow  fraternities."  Dr.  Meloy  should  hardly 
have  been  so  particular.  The  Hollanders  exclude 
all  the  lodges:  those  which  are  bound  by  oath,  ac- 
cording to  the  United  Presbyterian  standard,  as  the 
G.  A.  11.;  and  also  the  pledge-bound,  as  the  Odd- 
fellows, etc. 

— Dr.  J.  E.  Roy,  Western  Secretary  of  the  Amer- 
ican Missionary  Association,  having  in  mind  a  South- 
ern tour  for  Bro.  I.  R.  B.  Arnold,  with  his  great 
"sun"  pictures  of  sun  worship,  went  last  week  to 
Lyons,  Iowa.  He  heard  one  of  Bro.  Arnold's  illus- 
trated lectures,  and  gave  one  himself  on  intemper- 
ance in  the  tent,  illustrated  with  telling  pictures 
against  the  drink  traffic.  He  finally  engaged  Bro. 
Arnold  to  go  down  the  Missisjippi  on  a  boat  to  New 
Orleans,  stopping  on  the  way  at  every  point  where 
an  audience  could  be  obtained.  Another  plan,  which 
would  be  excellent,  was  for  Dr.  Roy  to  travel  with 
Bro.  Arnold  for  a  short  time  among  the  colored  in- 
stitutions in  the  South,  giving  their  lectures  on  tem- 
perance and  secret  societies,  the  latter  to  continue 
alone  through  tie  whole  winter. 

— The  Birmingham  Free  Press  announces  that  its 
editor,  Rev.  George  Warrington,  has  purchased 
property  and  will  build  at  Beaver  Falls,  Penn.,  near 
Geneva  College,  whither  he  will  remove  with  the 
Pialm-iSinyer.  The  /'/ce  Press  may  be  for  a  short 
time  suspended,  until  some  one  can  be  found  to 
take  up  the  burden  Bro.  Warrington  has  so  nobly 


PERSONAL  MENTION. 


— George  Heaton,  our  seceder  friend  of  Fairfield, 
Iowa,  is  chosen  to  lead  the  Fisk  and  Brooks  club 
just  organized  in  that  city. 

— Rev.  E.  B.  Graham,  the  "Fanatic"  who  wrote 
"In  the  Coils"  and  editor  of  the  Midland,  has  re- 
signed the  pastorate  of  the  First  United  Presbyteri- 
an church  of  Omaha. 

— Miss  Joanna  P.  Moore,  of  the  faculty  of  Leland 
University,  New  Orleans,  and  missionary  of  the 
Woman's  Baptist  Home  Missionary  Society,  was  in 
Chicago  last  week  and  kindly  called  upon  the  Cyno- 
sure family. 

— A  great  Prohibition  camp  meeting  has  been 
held  at  Decatur,  111.,  and  has  been  addressed  by  St. 
John,  Brooks  and  others  of  the  ablest  speakers  in 
the  party.  Last  week  Tuesday  Bro.  L.  G.  Jordan, 
or  Texas,  made  the  principal  speech. 

— Rev.  Halleck  Floyd,  of  the  Christian  Conserva- 
tor, Dayton,  has  undertaken  an  important  agency 
for  Hartsville  University,  Indiana.  The  institution 
is  some  $12,000  in  debt,  and  the  creditors  °are 
pressing;  but  if  about  $5,000  can  be  raised  within 
a  few  weeks  the  crisis  will  be  passed.  Such  an  in- 
stitution as  Hartsville  should  be  put  on  substantial 
footing,  and  Bro.  Floyd  has  a  work  to  which  he  can 
give  heart  and  soul. 

— Rev.  Dr.  Wm.  Johnston,  of  College  Springs, 
Iowa,  has  been  afflicted  sorely  with  an  optical  in- 
flammation for  some  six  weeks.  He  is  unable  to  use 
his  eyes  in  reading,  and  facetiously  writes  that  he 
may  not  be  able  to  vote  for  the  Prohibition  ticket 
and  platform  on  the  ground  of  illiteracy,  being  able 
neither  to  read  or  write.  His  condition  also  sug- 
gest an  unusual  relation  to  the  lodge  for  so  good  an 
Anti-mason,  as  he  is  obliged  to  seek  darkness  and 
avoid  the  light.    May  his  eclipse  be  soon  over. 

— A  few  months  ago  Mr.  Joseph  Hart  of  Rich- 
mond Villa,  Gloucester,  England,  removed  with  his 
family  to  Olathe,  Kansas.  A  few  days  since  his 
devoted  wife  wrote  of  his  sudden  death  after  an  ill- 
ness of  but  three  days.  He  was  a  devout  Christian 
and  had  walked  in  the  good  way  of  life  for  over 
fifty  years.  He  was  one  of  the  few  readers  the  Cy- 
nosure has  in  England,  and  as  Mrs.  Hart  returns  to 
the  old  home  she  wishes  to  continue  the  paper  her 
husband  loved  to  read.  Her  note  in  another  column 
shows  that  this  reading  was  not  without  profit. 

— Some  time  since  a  note  from  Chambersburg, 
Pa.,  told  us  of  a  heavy  grief  come  upon  the  house- 
hold of  our  brother  J.  S.  Yaukey,  in  the  death  of  a 
darling  child,  Frank  Blanchard,  on  the  day  he  was 
six  months  old.  The  letter  was  accidentally  mis- 
laid, and  we  regret  that  an  earlier  notice  was  thus 
prevented.  The  sympathy  of  many  of  our  readers 
who  remember  Bro.  Yaukey  as  one  of  the  warmest 
supporters  of  reform  in  southeastern  Pennsylvania, 
will  be  given  the  bereaved  parents  as  this  note  is  read. 
The  dear  child  had  gained  a  large  place  in  their  hearts 
by  his  bright  and  loving  ways;  and  many  saw  him 
with  joy  as  they  marked  the  signs  of  intelligence 
and  useful  character  which  they  hoped  years  might 
develop  in  him.  How  much  more  rapid  and  beauti- 
ful must  be  the  development  of  that  nature  in  all 
holy  excellence  in  the  presence  of  the  Saviour  by 
whom  he  was  redeemed! 


If  the  Harrison  men  of  1840  do  not  step  into 
line  for  the  igrandson  any  better  elsewhere  than  in 
Birmingham,  the  Republican  party  had  better  not 
say  much  about  it.  Here  is  a  list  and  the  proba- 
bilities of  how  they  will  vote  next  November.  Will 
vote  for  Harrison  and  Morton;  William  Birch,  John 
Filson,  Geo.  R  Pettit  and  C.  D.  Skinner,  just  four. 
Will  vote  for  Cleveland;  C.  C.  Pleasants,  D.  M.Dud- 
ley and  J.  B.  Walgamot.  Will  probably  vote  for 
Fiak;  Dr.  J.  E.  Spees,  Dr.  J.  N.  Norris,  Rev.  A.  Pat- 
tison,  S.  G.  Torrence,  Newton  Calhoun,  J.  S.  Cul- 
bertson,  and  Hiram  Barnes.  Some  of  these  did  not 
vote  in  1840,  because  Iowa  was  a  Territory. — .Bir- 
mingham, Iowa,  Free  Press. 


— Spurgeon  says:  "Amusements  that  are  beneath  the 
contempt  of  idiots  are  now  being  tolerated."  Jle  thinks 
piety  on  the  decline  in  England, 


August  2, 1888 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


OUR  WASHINGTON  LETTER. 


WAsniNQTON,  July  27,  1888. 
Oa  Saturday  last  the  famous  Mills  tariff  bill, 
which  circumstances  have  made  the  chief  and  al- 
most the  only  issue  of  the  Presidential  campaign, 
passed  the  House  of  Representatives  by  a  majority 
of  thirteen.  The  bill  was  sent  to  the  Senate  on  the 
same  day,  and  was  immediately  referred  to  the  Sen- 
ate Finance  committee.  It  would  be  unsafe  to  ven- 
ture a  prediction  just  now  as  to  this  committee's 
disposition  of  the  measure,  besides,  you  may  know 
what  has  been  done  by  the  time  this  reaches  you. 
When  Representative  Mills  arose  to  close  the  tariff 
debate  on  the  final  day,  the  scene  in  the  House  was 
similar  to  that  on  April  17th,  when  he  stood  in  the 
same  place  to  open  the  long  discussion.  Every 
member  of  the  House  in  the  city  was  present. 
There  were  no  empty  seats.  The  galleries  were 
thronged  and  the  crowd  overflowed  into  the  corri- 
dors. The  speech  lasted  just  one  hour.  At  its 
close  the  orator  was  heartily  congratulated,  and 
shaken  by  the  hand  by  his  Democratic  colleagues 
who  gathered  around  him,  and  it  was  noticed  that 
Mrs,  Cleveland,  who  had  entered  with  her  mother 
while  Mr.  Mills  was  speaking,  violated  the  rules  of 
the  House  by  applauding  from  the  gallery. 

The  next  demonstration,  however,  was  in  favor  of 
the  Republicans.  Before  the  vote  was  ordered  on 
the  passage  of  the  bill,  there  came  a  message  from 
the  sick  room  of  the  man  who  had  more  to  do  with 
controlling  the  fate  of  tariff  legislation  than  any 
other  in  the  country,  and  it  created  quite  a  sensa- 
tion. The  clerk  read  the  letter  so  that  not  a  sylla- 
ble of  it  could  escape  the  dullest  ear  in  the  most  re- 
mote part  of  the  gallery.  As  he  read  the  words  iu 
which  Mr.  Randall  said  that  he  was  not  willing  to 
be  misunderstood,  and  declared  emphatically  that 
he  was  opposed  to  the  Mills  bill,  the  Republicans 
raised  a  great  uproar  to  signalize  their  triumph. 

Then  the  voting  began.  Every  person  who  could 
obtain  a  roll  of  the  members'  names  had  it,  and 
watched  closely  and  listened  eagerly  as  name  after 
name  was  called,  and  the  answer  came  "aye"  or 
"no."  Interest  was  high  and  curiosity  was  strained 
to  know  how  the  doubtful  members  on  both  sides 
of  the  House  would  vote.  Bach  party  was  ready 
to  send  up  a  great  salvo  of  applause,  whenever  a 
vote  came  over  from  the  opposite  party.  In  the  al- 
phabetical list  Mr,  Bliss  stands  first  amocg  the 
names  of  those  who  did  not  vote  according  to 
party.  When  he  voted  "no"  the  first  point  was 
scored  by  the  Republicans,  and  heartily  they 
showed  their  appreciation  by  applause.  Then  it 
began  to  look  bad  for  the  bill,  because,  although 
Mr.  Bliss  is  a  Protectionist,  it  had  been  expected 
he  would  vote  for  the  bill.  His  vote  was  therefore 
a  surprise  and  it  inspired  the  anxious  listeners  to 
imagine  all  sorts  of  unexpected  possibilities.  In- 
terest grew  intense.  A  few  members  failed  to  an- 
swer to  their  names.  That  might  mean  thai  they 
were  absent  and  paired;  or  that  they  were  waver- 
ing, and  waiting  for  the  second  roll  call  before 
making  the  plunge.  Mr.  Fitch's  name  was  reached. 
He  was  a  Republican,  and  when  he  voted  "aye"  it 
was  the  Democrats'  turn  to  clap. 

Finally,  when  the  vote  was  made  up  and  an- 
nounced, there  was  much  rejoicing  on  the  Demo- 
cratic side.  Members  rose  to  their  feet,  cheered 
and  waved  bandanas  in  the  air.  The  President's 
wife  looked  as  much  elated  as  any  one,  and  again 
joined  the  Iriumphant  demonstrations  by  clapping 
her  hands. 

By  the  way,  it  was  Mrs.  Cleveland's  birohday.  She 
had  just  entered  her  twenty-fifth  year.  It  is  now  a 
proper  time  to  present  the  first  lady  of  the  land  in 
her  new  role,  which  is  active  church  work.  She  has 
been  pictured  as  a  fair  young  school  girl,  as  a 
blooming  bride,  the  gracious  hostess  doing  the  hon- 
ors of  the  White  House,  the  patron  of  art  and  of 
charity,  as  a  mild  athlete  in  the  tennis  court,  and  as 
handling  the  ribbons  like  a  skillful  horse-woman. 
She  now  appears  in  a  new  light.  Mrs.  Cleveland 
will  act  as  treasurer  for  the  fund  for  the  construc- 
tion of  an  American  church  in  Berlin,  and  will  so- 
licit contributions  and  personally  acknowledge  by 
letter  all  donations.  This  church  work  iu  Berlin 
was  begun  eight  years  ago  for  the  benefit  of  Ameri- 
can students,  who  number  yearly  400  in  that  city, 
and  for  American  tourists  from  every  State  in  the 
Union,  who  come  by  t^jousands  every  year.  There 
are  three  American  churches  in  Europe.  These  are 
in  Rome,  Paris  and  Dresden.  The  American  church 
in  Berlin  is  non-sectarian,  and  has  for  its  doctrinal, 
basis  that  of  the  Evangelical  Alliance.  * 


GIVIL 


GOVERNMENT  IN   THE 
TERRITORY. 


— The  General  Conference  (Gorman  Lutheran)  has 
passed  a  law  forbidding  members  of  secret  Bocielies  to 
join  thatchurct 


Cincinnati,  July  18,  1888, 
Editor  Christian  Cynosure:— Last  April  the 
Centennial  of  the  settlement  of  the  Northwest  Ter- 
ritory was  celebrated  at  Marietta,  O.  The  leading 
feature  of  that  occasion  was  the  oration  by  Senator 
Hoar  of  Massachusetts.  At  the  same  place,  from 
July  15  to  19,  the  centennial  of  the  establishment 
of  the  civil  government  of  this  territory  is  being 
commemorated.  The  important  feature  of  this  cele- 
bration was  the  oration  of  Senator  Evarts  of  New 
Fork,  Distinguished  visitors  were  there  from  all 
the  States  of  the  Northwest.  On  Sabbath,  just  one 
hundred  years  after  Gov.  St.  Clair  was  inaugurated 
in  that  place,  Gov,  Foraker  introduced  the  exercises. 
He  said:  "Our  forefathers  brought  religion  with 
them  to  New  England;  they  carried  it  with  them 
through  the  struggles  for  American  independence; 
they  brought  it  to  the  Northwest  Territory;  they 
wrote  it  in  the  Ordinance  of  1787  that  religion 
among  other  things  was  essential  to  good  govern- 
ment. We  have  prospered  and  succeeded  as  we 
have,  because  we  have  recognized  religion  in  all  our 
public  government  affairs,"  The  Catholic  Bishop 
Gilmour,  of  Cleveland,  addressed  6,000  people  on 
"Religion  and  Civil  Government."  On  Monday 
Mrs.  Mary  A.  Livermore  spoke  of  woman's  part  in 
the  early  settlement  of  the  Northwest. 

On  Tuesday  Senator  Evarts  spoke.  He  main- 
tained that  this  is  a  land  of  Providence.  God  al- 
lowed slavery  to  be  in  the  South.  Our  fathers  were 
by  that  institution  kept  from  settling  on  the  rich 
lands  of  the  South.  They  were  compelled  to  occu- 
py the  cold  and  rugged  North.  Saved  from  the  en- 
ervating influences  of  the  South,  they  developed  the 
better  elements  of  human  character.  They  brought 
these  stern  virtues  with  them  to  the  Northwest. 

"The  New  England  settlers  would  not  come  to 
Ohio  unless  their  institutions  were  complete  and 
sure.  Land  and  liberty  for  our  ancestors  meant 
also  justice  and  the  dignity  of  labor  in  the  great 
body  of  the  people.  Mr.  Jefferson  had  proposed  in 
1784,  and  he  was  followed  by  a  large  part  of  the 
States  in  the  Continental  Congress,  though  it  never 
was  completed,  that  twelve  years  after  the  settle- 
ment of  Ohio  in  1800  slavery  should  be  excluded 
from  the  territory  west  of  the  AUeghenies.  This 
might  seem  at  first  to  have  been  wider  and  more 
benevolent  than  that  which  was  afterward  to  secure 
free  labor  to  only  the  Northwest,  but  those  well  dis- 
ciplined and  thoughtful  men  said:  'We  will  take  no 
chances  after  twelve  years.  Now  with  us  is  the  ac- 
cepted time — now  is  the  day  of  salvation.'  And 
wasn't  it  the  day  of  salvation  for  this  great  North- 
west and  for  its  greater  people,  that  now,  from  one 
end  of  it  to  the  other,  knows  not  a  slave,  and,  by 
the  grace  of  God,  intends  that  the  dignity  of  labor 
shall  be  maintained  over  every  inch  of  it  forever? 
Our  prudent  New  Englanders  were  not  to  be  envel- 
oped iu  a  misty  future  and  the  promise  of  a  greater 
benefit  twelve  years  later.  They  knew  that  a  tide 
of  population  would  follow  them.  They  knew  if 
one  universal  rule  were  made  they  would  have  to 
fight  for  the  whole  of  it,  and  they  trusted  to  their 
hands  and  their  hearts  and  to  that  surveillance  of 
Providence  that  had  brought  them  from  Europe  to 
the  Atlantic  shores,  if  they  held  faith  to  human  na- 
ture and  home  duties  before  they  enlarged  the 
sphere  of  their  exercises.  And  so  it  was  arranged 
that  we  should  come  here  and  forever  be  free  from 
any  contact  with  the  debasement  of  slavery  or  the 
exercise  of  unholy  oppression  by  the  solemn  prom- 
ise of  all  the  old  States,  North  and  South,  slave  and 
free. 

"There  came  a  time  when  a  relaxation  of  this  in- 
exorable law  was  asked  that  the  French  seti>lers  and 
some  of  the  overflow  from  Virginia  might  come  in. 
They  were  rejected.  See  what  a  strip  there  was  to 
be  occupied,  from  the  Ohio  river  to  the  Rocky  Moun- 
tains! John  lUndolph  said  there  would  not  be  a 
settler  on  the  Mississippi  river  in  a  hundred  years, 
and  yet  in  sixty-two  years  after  the  crossing  of  the 
Ohio  our  people  were  in  full  possession  of  the  Pa- 
cific slope  and  of  all  intermediate  regions.  Sixty- 
two  years  have  filled  the  prairies,  have  hewn  down 
the  forests,  have  occupied  the  vast  spaces  up  to  the 
Rocky  Mountains.  So  much  for  the  wisdom  that 
Providence  was  going  to  display  before  these  trusted 
people  that  had  held  to  him  with  both  hands  iu 
poverty  and  in  weakness  to  the  strength  of  faith  in 
God  and  love  of  man." 

Mr.  Evarts'  closing  periods  were  very  fine.  He 
said:  "Slavery  is  a  remorseless  coveter  of  new 
land.  But  by  this  wise  providence  its  lines  were 
drawn.  We  had  the  greater  tide  of  people.  But 
the  South*  had  the  greater  spaces  that  were  to  be 
filled  up  at  some  time  or  other     Texas  was  coveted 


NORTHWEST  for  slavery,  and  when  it  was  annexed  without  the 
consent  of  its  parent  State,  Mexico,  war  went  on, 
and  so  the  providence  in  it  all  appears.  I  heard  a 
homely  maxim  which  says:  'No  work  in  progress 
should  be  seen  by  fools  or  children,'  It  is  said  that 
in  the  great  structure  built  to  Mahomet  the  visitor 
is  regaled  with  the  most  ex(iuisite  perfume  of  attar 
of  roses,  the  source  of  which  is  not  visible. 

"Incjuiry  reveals  the  fact  that  the  workmen  mixed 
it  in  the  mortar  with  which  they  cemented  the 
structure,  and  that  ever  since  this  delicate  perfume 
greets  the  worshiper  as  he  enters  the  temple.  This 
great  wealth  and  power  is  but  the  assemblage  of  the 
great  structure  which  we  occupy.  The  cement 
which  holds  it  together  is  perfumed  by  the  virtues 
of  the  wide  influences  of  the  men  and  women  that 
laid  this  structure.  Let  us  never  lose  that  perfume, 
for  if  we  do  that  cement  will  crumble  and  the  great 
structure  be  destroyed." 

In  the  evening  one  hundred  men  marched  through 
the  streets  in  the  costumes  of  one  hundred  years 
ago. 

Last  Sabbath  evening  I  preached  National  Reform 
to  500  people  in  the  A.  M.  V\.  church  on  Sycamore 
and  Sixth  streets.  This  denomination  his  about 
500,000  members.  About  four-sevenths  of  them 
are  in  the  three  States  of  North  Carolina,  South 
Carolina  and  Georgia,  They  have  eleven  bishops. 
They  lately  built  an  iron  church  in  Hayti.  This 
congregation  worships  in  what  was  formerly  a  Jew- 
ish synagogue.  Their  property  is  worth  $75,000. 
They  have  basement,  sub-basement,  audience  room, 
gallery  on  their  sides  and  second  gallery.  Their 
membership  is  about  500.  Their  pastor  wishes  me 
to  return  and  give  them  some  more  National  Reform. 
In  the  morning  I  preached  in  the  Third  Presbyterian 
church. 

THE    CINCINNATI   CENTENNIAL. 

July  25. — In  the  religious  department  of  the  Cen- 
tennial Exposition  are  some  interesting  statistical 
tables.     Let  me  give  you  a  few  items:     The  popula- 
tion of  the  world  is  1,500,000,000.     Buddhists,  400,- 
000,000;  Confucianists,  250,000,000;  other  Pagans, 
200,000,000;    Mohammedans,     200.000,000;    Bible 
Theists,  450,000,000.     Bible  Theists   include  Prot- 
estants, Romanists,  Greeks  and  Jews.     The  Bible  is 
translated   into   every   important  language  in    the 
world.     The   population   of  the  United   States    is 
60,000,000—40,000,000  adults,  20,000,000  children. 
There  are  15,132,657  communicants — one  to  three  of 
the  adults,  one  to   five   of   the   whole  population. 
The  Romanist  population  8,000,000,  the  Protestant 
40,000,000.  Evangelical  Protestant  Christians  since 
1800  have  given  to  foreign  missions  $75,000,000, 
and  to  home  missions  ;?100, 000,000,     There  is  one 
church   for   every  1,000  of  our  whole  i)opulation. 
Ohio  is  the  only  State  whose  churches  have  seating 
capacity  for  all  over  ten  years  of  age.     In  1884,  79 
per  cent  of  the  students  in  our  colleges  wei-e  Ameri- 
can.    The  Sabbath-school    scholars   in  the  United 
States  are   9,156,737  and  in  the  world  18,419,961. 
The  Baptists  in  the  United  States  have  3,000,000 
members,    31,891    churches,    20,477   ministers,  45 
colleges,  and  church  property  valued  at  $67,680,474. 
The   Presbyterians   have   15,000  churches,    11,500 
ministers,   1,500,000    members,  46    colleges,   with 
5,000  students,  20  theological  seminaries  with  900 
students,  34  French  seminaries  with  4,000  student?, 
and   expends  annually  in    her   work   $16,000,000. 
The  Congregationalists  have  5,000  churches,  4  500 
ministers,  500,000   members,  and  expend  annually 
$7,000,000.     The  Lutherans  have  57  synods,  4,217 
ministers,  8,104  churches,    1,023,575   members,  21 
theological  seminaries,  26  colleges,  33  classical  sem- 
inaries, 11  ladies'  seminaries,  5,680  students.     The 
Protestant  Kpiscopal  church  has  4,700  parishes  and 
missions,  69  bishops,  3,766  priests  and  deacons,  440,- 
000  communicants,  38,415  Sabbath-school  teachers, 
349,598  scholars,  and  contributes  annually  $10,000,- 
000.     The   Methodist  Episcopal  church,  including 
all   branches  of  Methodism,  has  30,400  ministerp, 
44,000  local    preachers,  32,000  churches,  1,500,000 
members,    and  contributed   in    1887    $30,000,000. 
They  have  144  literary  institutions,  with  an  endow- 
ment of  $20,048,000.  and  26,500  students,  Sal)bafh- 
schools,   24,000;    ctlijers     and    teachers,    269,237; 
scholars,  2,006,000. 

An  old  Bible  printed  in  1613,  a  roll  of  the  law  in 
Hebrew,  the  Bible  in  French,  Italian,  German, 
Gallic,  etc.,  articles  from  the  Syrian  mission  sent  by 
Miss  Maggie  Edgar,  are  among  the  interesting  ob- 
jects on  exhibition. 

The  gondolas  are  here  from  \°enice  and  a  verita- 
ble gondolier  to  manage  them.  He  shows  us  how 
they  go  through  the  streets  of  the  city  of  the 
waters.  The  government  exhibit  seems  to  be 
Smithsonian  removed  from  Washington  to  Cincin 
nati.  </<  M.  Fostkb, 


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THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSUKE. 


August  2, 1888 


The  Home. 


TO-DA  T. 


To-day  the  Eunehine  freely  showers 

Its  benediction  where  we  stand ; 
There's  not  a  passing  cloud  that  lowers 

Above  this  pleasaot  summer  land ; 
Then  let's  not  waste  the  sweet  today— 

To-morrow,  who  can  say? 

Perhaps,  to-morrow,  we  may  be— 

Alas !  alas !  the  thought  is  pain- 
As  far  apart  as  sky  and  sea. 

Sundered,  to  meet  no  more  again ; 
Then  let  us  clasp  thee,  sweet  to-day- 
To-morrow,  who  can  say? 

The  daylight  fades ;  a  purple  dream 

Of  twilight  hovers  overhead. 
While  all  the  trembling  stars  but  seem 

Like  sad  tears  yet  unshed ; 
O,  sweet  to-day,  so  soon  away  1 

To-morrow,  who  can  say? 

— Mary  N.  Prescoit. 


THE  STORY  OF  A  BIBLB. 

"Did  he  leave  any  message  for  me?"  "Yes,  and 
he  cursed- the  day  that  he  ever  saw  you." 

This  was  the  answer  given  by  a  nun  to  a  lady  in 
London,  under  the  following  circumstances,  which 
were  related  to  me  by  a  gentleman  of  culture  and 
piety,  as  we  were  sailing  along  the  coasc  of  Norway, 
from  Trondhjem  to  Bremen,  in  and  out  among  the 
beautiful  fords  and  snow  capped  mountains. 

Monsignor  Capel  was  asked  by  a  lady  of  position 
in  London,  "How  can  I  find  peace  of  mind?" 

Instead  of  pointing  her  to  Christ,  and  telling  her 
that  he  atoned  for  our  sins  on  the  cross,  he  bade  her 
dismiss  such  unwelcome  thoughts,  and  attend  places 
of  amusement. 

One  day  she  followed  a  crowd  of  people  into  Ex- 
eter Hall,  expecting  to  have  her  mind  diverted  from 
serious  thoughts  about  the  future  by  a  musical  en- 
tertainment. She  was  surprised  when  she  found 
herself  in  a  great  religious  meeting.  Annoyed  at 
this  she  attempted  to  get  out,  but  in  doing  so  she 
knocked  some  umbrellas  onto  the  floor,  and, 
abashed,  took  her  seat. 

Her  attention  was  soon  rivited  upon  the  speaker. 
He  explained  our  relation  to  God,  as  under  con- 
demnation already,  and  spoke  of  Christ's  suffering 
on  the  cross  as  an  atoning  sacrifice,  and  of  God's 
willingness  for  his  sake  to  pardon,  and  by  his  Holy 
Spirit  to  change  our  hearts  and  fit  us  for  heaven. 
She  was  deeply  moved,  and  at  the  close  she  said  to 
some  one  near,  "Can  I  speak  to  the  gentleman  who 
has  just  addressed  us?" 

Soon  after,  in  conversation  with  her,  he  said,  "You 
will  find  the  truth  which  I  have  mentioned  often  re- 
peated in  the  Bible." 

"But  I  have  no  Bible,"  she  replied. 
He  quickly  handed  her   his  own,  saying,  "I  have 
pleasure  in  giving  you  mine." 

Sometime  after  this,  the  high  Catholic  dignitary, 
remembering  the  advice  he  had  given  this  lady,  sent 
a  priest  to  inquire  about  the  state  of  her  mind.  In- 
stead of  needing  his  help,  he  soon  found  that  she 
was  able  to  direct  him  in  the  way  of  life. 

Before  leaving,  she  gave  him  the  Bible  that  had 
been  given  her  at  Exeter  Hall,  and  begged  him  to 
read  it  with  prayer,  and  to  trust  iu  Him  who  "bore 
our  sins  in  His  own  body  on  the  tree." 

Sometime  after  she  received  a  note  from  the 
priest,  asking  her  to  call  upon  him. 

As  she  was  about  to  take  her  son  to  Eton  College 
she  did  not  accept  the  invitation  at  the  time. 

When  she  called,  some  weeks  after,  she  was  shown 
into  a  room  where  there  was  a  coffin,  and  in  it  the 
body  of  the  priest.  Beside  it  a  nun  kneeling  in 
prayer.  The  lady  approached  and  asked,  "Did  he 
leave  a  message  for  me?" 

"Yes,"  was  the  reply.  "He  wished  me  to  say,  if 
you  called,  that  he  died  in  the  full  faith  of  the  Cath- 
olic church,  and  that  ho  cursed  the  day  he  ever  saw 
you." 

The  poor  lady  turned  away,  greatly  distressed, 
saving  to  herself,  "If  1  had  gone  to  his  bedside  when 
he  sent  for  me,  I  might  have  pointed  him  to  Christ, 
and  he  might  have  been  saved  through  faith  in  him; 
but  now,  alas!  it  is  too  late.  I  fear,  through  my 
negligence,  he  is  lost  forever." 

This  reflection  produced  such  an  effect  upon  her 
that  it  destroyed  her  peace  of  mind,  which  she 
sought  to  overcome  by  foreign  travel. 

One  day  in  Home  a  lady  approached  her  and  said, 
"Do  you  remember  standing  by  the  coffin  of  Father 

,  and  the  dreadful  message  delivered  to  you?" 

'Yes,"  she  replied,  "and  it  has  followed  me  night 
and  day." 

"But  it  was  not  a  true  message.    The  words  he 


bade  me  to  deliver  to  you  were  these,  'Tell  her  that 
I  bless  the  day  I  ever  saw  her,  and  that  I  die  in  the 
full  faith  of  Jesus  Christ.  Tell  her  that  the  Bible 
she  gave  me  was  the  means  of  leading  me  to  trust 
alone  in  him  for  pardon.  Tell  her  I  shall  meet  her 
in  heaven.'  And  then,"  added  the  nun,  "he  gave 
me  that  precious  Bible,  which  has  also  been  the 
means  of  leading  me  to  see  myself  a  lost  sinner, 
and  Christ  as  my  only  Saviour.  Will  you  forgive 
me  for  telling  you  that  falsehood?" — Morning  Star. 


TEE  LIFE-OIVING    WORD. 

What  encouragement,  what  hope,  may  be  drawn 
from  seeing  how  precisely  the  words  of  one  part  of 
Scripture  meet  and  supplement  words  of  other  parts, 
promise  meeting  supplication,  encouragement  meet- 
ing despondency,  light  driving  away  darkness,  love 
casting  out  fear.  Let  us  take,  for  instance,  that 
most  heartbroken  of  utterances,  that  "prayer  of  tne 
afflicted  when  he  is  overwhelmed"  the  first  twelve 
verses  of  the  one  hundred  and  second  Psalm,  and 
hear  how  God  answers  from  his  Holy  Word: 

PSALM  CII.  Answer  of  the  Holt  Spirit 

(A  prayer  of   the  afflicted,  Through  the  Word 

when  he  is  overwhelmed  and  OF  God, 
poureth  out  his  complaint  be- 
fore the  Lord.) 

1.  Hear  my  prayer,  O  Lord,  He  wi'l  fulfil  the  desire  of 
and  let  my  cry  come  unto  thee,  them  that  fear  him  he  also  will 

hear  their  cry  and  will  save 
them.    Psa.  145 :  19. 

2.  Hide  not  thy  face  from  me  He  shall  call  upon  me  and  I 
In  the  day  when  I  am  In  trouble;  will  answer  him:  I  will  be  with 
Incline  thine  ear  unto  me;  In  him  In  trouble;  I  will  deliver 
the  day  when  I  call  answer  me  Llm  and  honor  him.  JPsa.  91 :  15. 
speedily. 

3.  For  my  days  are  consumed  A  bruised  reed  shall  he  not 
like  smoke,  and  my  bones  are  break  and  the  smoking  flax 
burned  as  a  hearth.  shall  he  not  quench.    I«a.  4ii  :3. 

4.  My  he«rt  Is  smitten  and       Thy  words  were  found  a  d  1 
withered  like  grass;  so  that  I    did  eat  them;  and  thy  word 
forget  to  eat  my  bread  was  unto  me  the  joy  and  re- 
joicing of  my  heart.    Jer.15:   6. 

5.  By  reason  of  the  voice  of  And  the  Lord  shall  guide  thee 
my  groaning  my  bones  cleave  contlnnallyandsatisfy  thy  soul 
to  my  skin.  In  drought  and  make  fat  thy 

bones :  and  thou  shalt  be  like  a 
watered  garden,  and  Use  a 
spring  of  water,  whose  waters 
fail  not.    Isa.  58:  11. 

6.  I  am  like  a  pelican  of  the  I  give  waters  In  the  wilder- 
wilderness  ;  I  am  like  an  owl  of  ness  and  rivers  in  the  desert,  to 
the  desert.  give  drink  to  my  people,  my 

chosen.    Isa.  43 :  20. 

7.  I  watch  and  am  as  a  spar-  Are  not  five  sparrows  sold 
row  alone  upon  the  housetop.      for  two  farthings?  and  not  one 

of  them  is  forgotten  before 
God.    Luke  12:  6. 

8.  Mine  enemies  reproach  me  Blepsed  are  ye  when  men 
all  the  day  ;  and  they  that  are  shall  revile  you  and  persecute 
mad  against  me  are  sworn  you  and  shall  say  all  manner 
against  me .  of  evil  against  you  falsely,  for 

my  sake.    Matt.  5:11. 

9.  For  I  have  eaten  ashes  like  To  give  unto  them  beauty  for 
bread,  and  mingled  my  drink  ashes,  the  oil  of  joy  for  mourn- 
wlth  weeping.  Ing.    Isa.  61:  3 

10.  Because  of  thine  Indlgna-  For  yet  a  very  little  while  and 
tion  and  thy  wrath:  for  thou  the  indignation  shall  cease, 
hast  lifted  me  up  and  cast  me    Isa.  10 :  25. 

down.  Cast  down,but  not  destroyed. 

2  0or.  4:9. 

11.  My  days  are  like  a  shad-  The  grass  wlthereth,  the 
ow  that  declineth;  and  1  am  flower  fadeth,  but  the  word  of 
withered  like  grass.  our  God  shall  stand  forever. 

Isa.  40 :  8. 

12.  But  thou,  O  Lord,  shalt  And  a  book  of  remembrance 
endure  for  ever,  and  thy  re-  was  written  before  him  for 
membrance  unto  all  genera-  them  that  feared  the  Lord  and 
tions.  that  thought  upon  his  name. 

And  they  shall  be  mine,  salth 
the  Lord  of  hosts,  In  tli at  day 
when  I  make  up  my  jewels. 
Mai.  3:  16,17. 


Observe  how,  as  the  soul,  like  an  over-tired  child, 
utters  all  its  complaint,  going  on  from  grief  to 
grief,  each  one  more  hopeless  than  the  former,  the 
Spirit  gently,  tenderly,  encouragingly  replies,  giv- 
ing back  word  of  cheer  for  word  of  woe,  until  finally, 
in  spite  of  herself,  the  soul  breaks  forth  into  ex- 
ultation, "But  thou,  0  Lord,  shalt  endure  forever, 
and  thy  remembrance  unto  all  generations,"  and 
then  goes  on  to  anticipate  the  mercy  and  the  glory 
that  shall  be  revealed.  It  is  "the  prayer  of  the  af- 
flicted" still,  through  the  remainder  of  the  chapter, 
but  it  is  no  longer  "complaint;"  it  is  what  true  prayer 
should  always  be,  the  open  communion  of  the  soul 
with  the  Friend  in  whom  she  has  all  confidence,  the 
God  of  all  comfort. — Am.  Messenger. 


TUB  BIBLE  TO  ME. 


The  Bible  is  my  church.  It  is  always  open,  and 
there  is  my  High  Priest  ever  waiting  to  receive  me. 
There,  too,  I  have  my  thanksgiving,  my  praise,  and  a 
field  of  promises;  in  8hort,all  I  can  want  there  I  find; 
and  a  congregation  of  whom  the  world  is  not  worthy 
— prophets  and  martyrs  and  confessors. —  Charlotte 
Elliott. 

How  delightful  this  Bible  looks  to  me  when  I  see 
the  blood  of  Christ  sprinkled  upon  it!  Every  leaf 
would  have  flashed  with  Sinai's  lightnings,  and 
every  verse  would  have  rolled  with  the  thunders  of 
j  Ilorcb,  if  it  had  not  been  fur  Calvary's  cross.  Nuw 
I  as  you  look  you  see  on  every  page  your  Saviour's 
name.     He  loved  you  and  quyc  himself  for  you,and 


now  you  who  are  sprinkled  with  that  blood,  and 
have  by  faith  rested  in  him,  can  take  that  precious 
book  and  ficd  it  to  be  green  pastures  and  still  wat- 
ers to  your  souls. —  Spurgeon. 

I  have  seen  much  of  this  world,  but  I  never  knew 
how  to  live  till  now.  All  the  comfort  I  have,  and 
what  is  more  than  the  whole  world  can  give,  is  feel- 
ing the  Good  Spirit  in  mv  heart,  and  reading  in  this 
good  book,  the  Bible.  You  are  now  in  the  prime 
of  your  age  and  vigor,  and  in  great  favor  and  busi- 
ness; but  all  this  may  leave  you,  and  you  may  one 
day  better  understand  and  relish  what  I  say  to  you, 
and  then  you  will  find  that  there  is  more  wisdom, 
truth,  comfort  and  pleasure  in  retiring  and  turning 
your  heart  from  the  world  to  the  Good  Spirit  of 
God,  and  in  reading  the  Bible,  than  in  all  the  courts 
and  the  favors  of  princes. — Ozenstein,  Chancellor  of 
Sweden. 


PLUGE. 


Pluck  was  the  son  of  a  poor  Bulgarian  shepherd 
— not  an  American  boy,  as  one  would  imagine 
from  his  name.  I  called  him  Pluck  because  it  was 
so  characteristic  of  the  boy,  and  because  I  could  not 
recall  the  Bulgarian  name  Dr.  Hamlin  gave  him.  A 
little  hut  in  Bulgaria  made  of  mud  and  stones  was 
Pluck's  home;  and  his  father  was  so  poor  that  he 
could  hardly  get  food  enough  for  his  large  family. 
Their  clothes  cost  but  little,  as  they  all  wore  sheep- 
gkins,made  up  with  the  wool  outside  Just  imagine  how 
funny  a  flock  of  two  legged  sheep  would  look.  Pluck 
was  a  bright,  ambitious  boy,  with  a  great  desire  for 
study.  And  when  he  heard  of  Robert  College  at 
Constantinople,  he  determined  to  go  there.  So  he 
told  his  father  one  day,  when  they  were  away  to- 
gether tendiug  sheep,  that  he  had  decided  to  go  to 
college.  The  poor  shepherd  looked  at  his  son  in 
amazement,  acd  said: 

"You  can't  go  to  college;  it's  all  I  can  do  to  feed 
you  children;  I  can't  give  you  a  piastre." 

"I  don't  want  a  piastre,"  Pluck  replied,  "but  I  do 
want  to  go  to  college." 

"Besides,"  the  shepherd  continued,  "you  can't  go 
to  college  in  sheepskins." 

But  Pluck  made  up  his  mind,  and  he  went — in 
sheepskins  and  without  a  piastre.  It  was  a  weary 
march  of  a  hundred  and  fifty  miles  to  Constantino- 
ple, but  the  boy  was  willing  to  do  anything  for  an 
education.  He  found  kind  friends  all  along  the  way, 
who  gave  him  food  and  shelter  at  night.  So  Pluck 
trudged  sturdily  on  day  after  day  until  he  reached 
Constantinople.  As  he  was  not  one  to  let  the  grass 
grow  under  his  feet,  he  soon  found  his  way  to  the 
college,  went  into  the  kitchen  and  inquired  for  the 
president. 

Pluck  asked  for  work,  but  the  president  kindly 
told  him  there  was  none,  and  that  he  must  go  away. 

"Oh,  no,"  Pluck  said,  "I  can't  do  that;  I  didn't 
come  here  to  go  away."  When  the  president  in- 
sisted. Pluck's  answer  was  the  same:  "I  didn't  come 
here  to  go  away." 

He  had  no  idea  of  giving  up.  "The  King  of 
France,  with  forty  thousand  men,  went  up  a  hill  and 
so  came  down  again;"  but  it  was  no  part  of  Pluck's 
plan  to  go  marching  home  again;  and  three  hours 
later  the  president  saw  him  in  the  yard,  patiently 
waiting. 

Some  of  the  students  advised  Pluck  to  see  Pro- 
fessor Long.  "He  knows  all  about  you  Bulgarian 
fellows."  The  professor,  like  the  president,  said 
there  was  no  work  for  him  and  he  had  better  go 
away.  But  Pluck  bravely  stuck  to  his  text:  "I 
didn't  come  here  to  go  away." 

The  boy's  courage  and  perseverance  pleased  the 
professor  so  much  that  he  urged  the  president  to 
give  Pluck  a  trial.  So  it  was  decided  that  he  should 
take  care  of  the  fires.  That  meant  carrying  wood, 
and  a  great  deal  of  it,  up  three  or  four  flights  of 
stairs,  taking  away  the  ashes,  and  keeping  all  the 
things  neat  and  in  order. 

The  president  thought  he  would  soon  get  tired  of 
such  hard  work.  But  a  boy  who  had  walked  a  hun- 
dred and  fifty  miles  for  the  sake  of  an  education, 
and  was  not  ashamed  to  go  to  college  in  sheepskins 
ard  without  a  piastre,  would  not  bo  easily  discour- 
aged. 

After  a  few  days,  as  Pluck  showed  no  signs  of 
"weakening,"  the  president  went  to  him  and  said: 
"My  poor  boy,  you  cannot  Bt.ay  here  this  winter. 
This  room  is  not  comfortable,  and  1  have  no  other 
to  give  you." 

"Oh,  I  am  perfectly  satisfied,"  Pluck  replied.  "It 
is  the  best  room  1  ever  had  in  my  life.  I  didn't 
come  here  to  go  away." 

Evidently  there  was  no  getting  rid  of  Pluck,  and 
he  was  allowed  to  stuy. 

After  he  gained  his  point  he  settled  down  to  busi- 
ness, and  asked  some  uf  the  students  to  help  him 


August  2, 1888 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CnSTOSUKE. 


11 


with  his  lessons  in  the  evenings.  They  formed 
a  syndicate  of  six.  That  was  good  old 
Dr.  Hamlin's  way,  so  none  of  the  boys  found  it 
a  burden  to  help  Pluck  one  evening  in  the  week. 
It  was  a  success  on  both  sides;  the  boys  were  pa- 
tient and  kind,  and  Pluck  was  as  painstaking  and 
persevering  in  bis  lessons  as  in  other  things,  so  that 
he  made  great  progress. 

After  some  weeks  he  asked  to  be  examined  to  en- 
ter the  preparatory  class. 

"Do  you  expect,"  asked  the  president,  "to  com- 
pete with  those  boys  who  have  many  weeks  the 
start  of  you?"  "And,"  he  continued,  "you  can't 
go  into  class  in  sheepskins;  all  the  boys  would  cry, 
'baa.'" 

"Yes,  sir,  I  know,"  Pluck  said;  "but  the  boys 
have  promised  to  help  me  out.  One  will  give  me  a 
coat,  another  trousers,  and  so  on." 

Nothing  could  keep  back  a  boy  like  that,  who 
overcame  all  the  obstacles  in  his  way. 

After  the  examination  the  president  said  to  Pro- 
fessor Long: 

"Can  that  boy  get  into  that  class?" 

"Yes,"  was  the  reply;  "but  the  class  can't  get  into 
that  boy." 

It  was  not  all  plain  sailing  yet.  Although  Pluck 
had  passed  the  examination,  he  had  no  money,  and 
the  rules  of  the  college  required  each  student  to  pay 
two  hundred  dollars  a  year.  That  was  a  question  in 
mathematics  that  puzzled  the  good  president. 

"I  wish,"  said  Professor  Long,  "that  the  college 
would  hire  Pluck  to  help  me  in  the  laboratory  and 
give  him  a  hundred  dollars  a  year.  He  has  proved 
himself  very  deft  and  neat  in  helping  me  there,  and 
it  would  give  me  much  more  time  for  other  things." 

Pluck  became  the  professor's  assistant  and  was 
perfectly  delighted  with  his  good  fortune.  But 
where  was  the  other  hundred  coming  from? 

President  Washburn  sent  an  account  of  Pluck's 
poverty  and  great  desire  for  an  education  to  Dr. 
Hamlin,  the  ex-president  of  Robert  College,  who 
was  in  America.  The  doctor  told  the  story  to  a 
friend  one  day,  and  she  was  so  much  interested 
that  she  said: 

"I  would  like  to  give  the  other  hundred." 

And  that's  the  way  Pluck  gained  the  wish  of  his 
heart. 

He  proved  the  truth  of  the  old  saying,  that  "where 
there  is  a  will  there  is  a  way."  But  this  was  so 
hedged  in  that  no  boy  without  a  strong  will  and 
great  perseverance  would  have  found  it. 

Of  course,  such  a  boy  would  succeed.  Today 
Pluck  is  head  master  in  one  of  the  schools  in  his 
own  country. — Independent. 


T£MP££ANC£. 


A  NBW  DECLARATION   OF  INDEPENDENGB. 


GO  AND  TELL  JESUS. 


"Els  disciples  came  and  took  up  the  body,  and  burled  it,  and 
went  and  told  Jesus."— Matt.  14 :  12. 

"Tell  Jesus"— tell  him  everything 

About  yourself,  and  all 
The  daily  cares  that  trouble  you — 

The  great  ones  and  the  small. 

None  are  too  large  for  him  to  take ; 

He  weighed  them  all  before 
He  gave  them  you  to  bring  to  him, 

That  you  should  love  him  more. 

None  are  too  small  to  take  to  him ; 

He  listens  to  a  sigh; 
He  knows  each  wish,  he  sees  each  tear. 

For  he  is  always  nigh. 

"Tell  Jesus"  tell  him  everything— 

The  past,  and  present  too ; 
He'll  send  new  strength  with  every  care, 

And  soothe  and  comfort  you. 

—  Sdecled. 


A  CHILD'S  WORE. 


A  little  girl  was  anxious  to  be  of  service  to  some 
one.    She  asked  her  teacher  what  she  could  do. 

"You  could  bring  your  father  to  Sunday-school." 

The  father  was^  drunkard  and  very  profane.  He 
had  never  been  to  Sunday-school.  At  first  the  girl's 
eflorls  were  unsuccessful.  She  could  not  even  get 
him  to  the  door  of  the  little  log  house  where  the 
school  was  kept.  She  quietly  and  kindly  persevered. 
At  last  the  father  joined  the  school. 

"What  is  the  result?"  asked  Mr.  Moody,  as  he 
told  the  story  of  the  incident  to  illustrate  that  the 
weakest  might  do  good  service.  "That  father  has 
planted  1,180  Sabbath-schools." 


If  a  man  will  only  start  with  a  fixed  and  honor- 
able purpose  in  life,  and  persistently  attempt  to  car- 
ry it  out  to  the  best  of  his  ability,  undismayed  by 
failure  or  delay,  the  time  may  be  lung  in  coming, 
bat  come  it  will,  when  that  purpose  will  be  achieved, ' 
however  difficult  it  may  seeixi  jat  the  beginning.         | 


[Henry  C.  Bowen,  publisher  of  the  Independent, 
has  every  year  a  celebration  of  Independence  day 
at  Roseland  Park,  Woodstock,  Connecticut,  that  is 
in  every  way  worthy  its  national  reputation.  Among 
the  eminent  speakers  this  year  were  Senators  Frye 
and  Piatt,  Prof.  Gold  win  Smith  and  Gen^  Clinton  B. 
Fisk.  From  the  address  of  the  latter  we  make  the 
following  extract:] 

Alas!  how  true  and  terrible  is  this  indictment  of 
the  saloon.  Oh,  that  from  every  hill-top  and  valley, 
from  mountain  and  prairie,  from  city  and  hamlet, 
from  lakes  to  gulf,  and  from  sea  to  sea,  there  might 
this  day  arise  the  united  voice  of  our  sixty  millions 
of  people  in  most  solemn  Declaration  of  Independ- 
ence of  this  cruel  king,  whose  injuries  and  usurpa- 
tions threaten  the  destruction  of  our  free  govern- 
ment. As  did  our  fathers  when  they  resolved  to 
throw  off  the  absolute  tyranny  of  a  bad  king,  so  let 
ug  give  certain  facts  to  a  candid  world.  This  mon- 
ster, sitting  supreme  in  the  politics  of  this  country, 
has  enacted  laws  authorizing  him  to  open  in  all  our 
towns  and  cities  slaughter-houses  of -men,  women 
and  children  and  of  all  virtue. 

He  has  enacted  laws  permitting  him  to  transform 
men  into  beasts. 

He  is  the  direct  cause  of  nine-tenths  of  the  woes 
and  sorrows  which  blight  and  curse  our  people. 

He,  hiding  his  monstrous  deformity  under  the 
forms  of  law  enacted  by  his  own  vassels,  over  whose 
heads  he  cracks  the  slave-driver's  lash  in  halls  of 
legislation,  maintains  at  our  expense  an  army  of 
miscreants,  who,  at  the  very  doors  of  our  homes  and 
in  the  shadows  of  our  sanctuaries,  prosecute  the 
work  of  murder  and  death. 

He  has  despoiled  labor,  burdened  property  with 
excessive  taxation,  impoverished  whole  communities, 
hindered  education,  corrupted  morals,  fostered 
crimes,  aided  all  classes  of  vice  and  wrong,  and 
plunged  his  unhappy  victims  into  shame  and  deg- 
radation. 

He  would  have  us  transmit  to  our  children  a  her- 
itage of  distilleries,  breweries  and  saloons,  and  chain 
to  the  weary  backs  of  society  increasing  burdens  of 
paupers,  criminals,  idiots  and  insane. 

He  seizes  and  debauches  innocent  children,  tears 
sons  from  the  arms  of  sorrowing  mothers,  and  bears 
thtm  away  to  dishonored  graves. 

He  wrings  hot  tears  from  the  eyes  of  widows  whose 
husbands  he  has  sacrificed  at  the  shrine  of  the  drunk- 
ards' Moloch. 

He  sits  supreme  in  the  national  Congress  and 
makes  laws  in  the  country's  capital. 

He  governs  Courts  of  Justice,  and  makes  minis- 
ters of  the  law  and  legislatures  bis  lackeys. 

He  silences  the  preacher  in  his  pulpit  and  muz- 
zles the  editor  at  his  desk. 

He  wastes,  directly  and  indirectly,  in  his  revels, 
annually,  more  than  a  thousand  millions  of  our  dol- 
lars, and  marshals  in  his  staggering  procession  to 
death  and  hell  a  half-million  of  our  people. 

He  is  a  cold,  heartless,  cruel  murderer  and  assas- 
sin of  the  deepest  dye. 

He  counts  his  victims  by  millions.  His  butcher- 
ies go  on  daily  and  nightly  within  sight  of  the  por- 
tals of  our  homes.  We  can  hear  the  shrieks  of  his 
victims  and  the  wail  of  the  bereaved. 

He  is  the  howling,  prowling,  destroying  wolf,  with 
scorching,  fierce  breath,  descending  upon  every  fold, 
slaying  and  devouring  our  beet  loved.  Let  us  arise 
in  our  united  might  as  did  our  ancestors  in  Old  Wind- 
ham at  the  call  of  Israel  Putnam  on  Pomfret  Heights 
in  the  last  century.  Let  u»  hunt  this  valf  to  hit  den 
and  shoot  him. 

The  time  would  fail  mo  to  tell  the  thousandth 
part  of  the  evils,  multipljing  and  destructive,  that 
flow  out  of  the  infamous  liquor  tr.Hllic,  and  in  all 
this  vast  throng  this  great  evil  has  no  friend.  Dear 
friends,  have  we  the  courage  this  day  to  issue,  and 
thereto  allix  our  signatures' in  the  pronounced  hand- 
writing of  John  Hancock,  our  new  Declaration  of 
Independence;  and  with  a  firm  reliance  on  Divine 
Providence,  pledge  our  lives  and  fortune  and  our 
sacred  honor  that  from  this  day  henceforth  no  word 
or  act  of  ours  mav  be  construed  into  allegience  to 
this  felon  king?  Ho  must  be  driven  from  his  places 
of  power  and  utterly  overthrown.  The  con  diet  is 
upon  us.  It  is  a  life-anddeath  struggle.  Oh,  for 
an  uprising  of  righteous  indignation,  for  an  aroused 
American  conscience,  for  patriotic  devotion  to  home 
and  country  like  that  which  gave  inspiration  and 
faith  to  Jonas  Parker  and  his  neighbors  when  they 
reddened  the  village  green  of  Lexington  with  their 
blood  on  that  glorious  morning  a  century  and  more 
ago,  when  the  old  llcvolulion  burst  into  magnificent 
blossoms  as  the  shot  was  fired  that  echoed  round 


the  world;  for  an  enlightened  public  opinion,  the 
mightiest  advocate  of  any  question  for  the  com- 
bined forces  of  Christian  home,  Christian  church 
and  Christian  commonwealth  in  battle  array  against 
the  traffic  in  theft  and  murder,  until  it  shall  be  thun- 
dered from  every  political  Sinai,  national  and  State, 
"Thou  shalt  not,  and  there  shall  be  no  legalized  sa- 
loon where  floats  the  starry  flag  of  the  free."  Not 
until  then  will  the  infamous  business  cease;  not  until 
then  will  we  be  delivered  from  its  Satanic  sorceries. 


BEER  SLATS  MORE  THAN  HEROD. 


"At  least  1,200  children  under  five  years  of  age 
will  die  in  Chicago  be*,ween  the  first  of  July  and  the 
end  of  August,"  said  the  health  commissioner  of 
Chicago,  Dr.  O.  C.  DeWolf,  the  other  day  to  a  re- 
porter, "and  many  of  these  could  be  saved  by  prop- 
er care  and  proper  management.  The  heat  is  the 
great  enemy  of  our  young  babies.  The  mothers 
permit  themselves  to  be  heated  out  of  all  reasonable 
condition,  and  the  food  that  the  infants  get  is  viti- 
ated and  often  fatal.  But  what  are  you  going 
to  do? 

"You  can't  tell  a  working  woman  that  she  must 
not  work.  She  mutt  work,  no  matter  what  the  con- 
st quences  to  the  child  may  be.  You  can't  point  out 
to  such  a  woman  that  after  a  heavy  day's  washing 
she  is  in  no  condition  to  supply  food  to  her  child. 
It  is  out  of  the  question.  You  have  got  to  take 
these  things  as  they  are,  and  there  is  nothing  that 
science  can  do  except  to  advise  the  mothers  to  get 
ifown  to  the  lake  front  as  often  as  they  can  and 
keep  their  children  as  cool  and  as  well  fed  as  pos- 
sible. 

"You  must  understand,"  the  doctor  continued, 
"that  there  are  other  conditions  besides  these  which 
must  be  considered.  Whenever  there  is  a  hot  Sun- 
day we  always  look  confidently  forward  to  an  in- 
creased death  rate  among  the  German  babies  on  the 
following  Tuesday,  and  we  have  never  been  de- 
ceived. It  follows  from  the  peculiar  conditions. 
The  mothers  drink  a  good  deal  of  beer,  and  the 
babies  are  heated  up  beyond  the  point  of  endurance, 
and  we  see  the  result  in  the  cilice  here." 


WHISKY  WAR  IN  KENTUCKY. 


There  is  a  bitter  fight  in  progress  over  the  whisky 
question  at  Harlan  Court  House,  Ky.,  which  bids 
fair  to  end  in  much  bloodshed.  County  Judge 
Lewis  believes  that  a  great  deal  of  whisky  is  being 
sold  in  the  tqwn  in  spite  of  the  local  prohibition 
law.  Several  grocerymen  were  tried  a  few  days  ago 
on  the  charge,  but  no  proof  was  produced. 

Their  arrest  angered  the  accused,  and  as  Judge 
Lewis  rode  out  of  town  at  evening  he  barely  escaped 
being  shot  by  John  H.  Harley,  one  of  them.  Lewis 
rode  back  into  town  and  assembling  the  opponents 
of  the  tariff,  proceeded  to  search  the  stores  of  John 
M.  Blair,  M.  R  Howard,  and  others  suspected.  They 
found  liquor  in  several  and  rolled  the  barrels  into 
the  streets  and  emptied  the  contents  on  the  ground. 
This  was  done  under  a  guard  of  twenty  men  armed 
with  Winchesters. 

On  Sunday  the  23d  the  whisky  men  rallied  and 
the  factions  met  in  the  street.  A  hundred  shots 
were  fired,  but  nobody  was  killed.  Five  men  were 
carried  off  badly  wounded. 


GINGER  ALB  MUST  GO 

Judge  Couch  at  Waterloo,  Iowa,  July  19,  filed  an 
opinion  in  certain  saloon  cases,  which  were  sub- 
mitted to  him  at  the  last  term  of  court  in  Buchanan 
county,  which  disposes  of  a  question  that  has  occu- 
pied the  attention  of  all  the  courts  for  the  past  six 
years.  The  saloons  for  a  number  of  years  have 
been  selling  a  beverage  known  as  "ginger  ale."  It 
usually  contains  in  the  neighborhootl  of  three  {>er  cent 
of  alcohol.  The  justice  courts  in  a  number  of  in- 
stances have  held  this  amount  of  alcohol  was  not 
intoxicating,  and  they  were  sustained  by  the  Dis- 
trict Court  in  this  view.  The  Cedar  lUpids  chem- 
ists invariably  tostifictl  that  an  ordinarily  healthy 
person  would  have  to  drink  a  large  quantity  of  it 
before  it  would  produce  intoxication.  Judge  Couch 
now  holds  that  if  there  is  any  malt  in  the  beverage, 
and  it  would  produce  intoxication  if  taken  in  any 
quantity,  that  it  comes  under  the  ban  of  the  Kiw. 
This  decision  knocks  the  last  prop  from  under  the 
saloon  interests  in  this  district.  The  court  grants  a 
perpetual  injunctiou,  and  orders  the  S'leriff  to  pro- 
ceed at  once  and  close  the  saloons  and  sell  the  fix- 
tures to  meet  the  costs. 


After  we  have  tried  prohibition  there  will  be  but 
little  chance  of  its  being  set  aside  for  the  advan- 
tages, or  rather  disadvantages  of  an  open  saloon. 


12 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSUKB. 


August  2, 1888 


BIBLE  Lesson. 


STUDIES  IN  THK  OLD  TESTAMENT. 

LESSON  7.    Third  Quarter.— Aug  12. 

SUBJECT.— The  Day  of  Atonement.— Lev.  16:  1-16. 

GOLDEN  TEXT.— Without  shedding  of  blood  is  no  remle- 
sIon.-Heb.  9:22. 

\OveHthe  Bible  arid  read  the  leston.} 

COMMENTS  ON  THE  LESSON  BY  E.  E.  FLAGG. 

1  The  Reason  for  the  Ba]/  of  Atonement,  vs.  1,  2.  The 
two  sons  of  Aaron,  Nadab  and  Abihu,  had  ventured 
carelessly  or  ignorantly  into  the  presence  of  the  Lord 
with  an  offeiing  of  strange  fire,  and  for  their  sacriliglous 
act  were  smitten  with  death.  How  far  they  were  re- 
sponsible we  do  not  know,  but  the  operation  of  law  can- 
not be  annulled  because  men  are  ignorant  or  careless. 
The  question  which  we  have  immediately  to  do  with  is 
the  solemn  one  asked  in  Heb.  2:  2,  3.  To  be  ignorant 
or  careless  of  God's  requirements  is  not  less  but  even 
more  dangerous  than  under  the  old  dispensation.  It  is 
true  that  in  Jesus  Christ  Deity  comes  very  near  to  us, 
but  the  deepest  love  is  always  the  most  reverent,  and  not 
even  among  the  glories  of  the  ancient  temple  could  a 
Christian  feel  so  much  that  he  is  standing  upon  holy 
ground  as  when  he  contemplates  the  wonderful  sacrifice 
made  for  his  redemption.  "We  offer  the  strange  fire  of 
worldliness  and  vanity  when  we  make  church-going  in 
any  way  an  occasion  for  personal  display.  A  miaister 
who  preaches  with  a  desire  to  show  off  his  gifts  of  pul- 
pit oratory  more  than  to  save  men  commits  the  sin  of 
Nadab  and  Abihu.  He  ofEsra  before  the  Lord  the  strange 
fire  of  his  own  human  ambition.  The  church  which  al- 
lows Masonic  celebrations  offers  the  strange  fire  of  a 
false  worship  before  the  Lord,  and  courts  spiritual  death. 
The  warnings  of  the  New  Testament  are  even  more  sol- 
emn than  those  of  the  Old.  If  they  escaped  not  who 
trifled  with  truth  revealed  by  an  earthly  voice,  how  shall 
we  escape  if  we  refuse  to  hear  the  truth  which  speaks  to 
us  from  heaven?  The  enlightened  age  in  which  we  live 
immensely  increases  our  responsibility.  The  sin  of  Na- 
dab and  Abihu  was  probably  committed  in  ignorance, 
and  their  act,  however  rash  and  presumptuous,  periled 
no  life  but  their  own.  But  the  American  voter  knows 
that  with  every  vote  he  casts  for  license,  high  or  low,  or 
for  men  committed  to  license,  he  is  signing  the  death 
warrant  of  souls,  and  giving  over  countless  women  and 
children  to  suffer  and  starve  without  redress.  Which 
sin  is  the  worst?  Let  Christ's  own  words  answer:  "He 
that  knew  his  Lord's  will  and  did  it  not  shall  be  beaten 
with  many  stripes,  but  he  that  knew  not  his  Lord's  will 
shall  be  beaten  with  few  stripes." 

2.   T fie  Manner  of  the  Atonement,  vs.  3-6.     Aaron  had 
first  to  make  atonement  for  hiaisclf.     We  need  a  high 
Priest  who   is  "holy,  harmless,  undefiled  and  separate 
from  sinners."    We  need  one  "made  lik3  unto  his  breth- 
ren, who  can  be  touched  with  the  feeling  of  our  infirmi- 
ties."   So   Aaron  takes  off  his  hierarchial  robes  "made 
for  glory  and  for  beauty,"  and  puts  on  the  clean  white 
dress  of  a  common  priest.      We  have  only  to  study  He- 
brews, especialy  from  chapters  7th  to  10th,  to  see  how 
beautifully  Christ's  atoning  work  is  here  foreshadowed. 
But  are  there  no  practical  lessons  for  ourselves?    Every 
Christian  is  called  to  be  a  priest  of  the  living  God,  offer- 
ing up   daily  the  "reasonable   service"  of  himself  with 
all  his  powers  of  mind  and  body.     Then  what  manner  of 
man  ought  he  to  be  in  all  holy  life  and  conversation  ? 
Paul  tells  us,  "as  Christ  was  so  are  ye  in  this  world," 
and  while  we  should  be  separate  from  the  world  in  all 
matters  of  sinful   conformity,  we   are  most  Christlike 
when  we  are  most  in  sympathy  with  our  fellow-beings; 
when  we  are  willing  to  ignore  artificial  distinctions  and 
be  "made  like  unto  our  brethren."    Masonic  titles  divide 
man  from  man.     They  encourage  jealousy  and  suspicion 
on  one  side  and  pride  and  vain  glory  on  the  other.    This 
would  be  enough  to  condemn  Masonry  as  opposite  to  the 
spirit  of  Christianity.     By  virtue  of  his  divine  calling  as 
king  and  priest  to  God,  the  Christian  has  a  right  to  enter 
the  holy  place.      For  him  the  veil  is  torn  away.     Do  we 
daily  use   this   high  privilege?     "I  will   appear  in   the 
cloud  over  the  mercy  scat."    It  may  be  a  cloud  filled 
with  showers  of  blessing.     It  may  be  a  cloud  of  sorrow, 
of  disappointment  and  trial.     But  all  is  one  to  the  trust- 
ing heart,  "Jar  hia  bow  nhaU  be  seen  in  tfie  cloud," 


RELIGIOUS  NEWS. 


TEE 


CHINESE    WORK    AT    THE  MARIN ERS' 
TEMPLE,  NEW   YORK. 


— It  is  expected  the  next  annual  meeting  of  the  New 
Hampshire  Christian  Association  will  be  in  Dover  the 
latter  part  of  October.  Rev.  Dr.  Edward  Robie,  Rev. 
A.  A.  Hoyt,  Mrs.  Dr.  Odell,  Miss  E.  E.  Flagg,  Miss  I.  D. 
Haines,  Henry  .1.  Pierson  and  wife  have  been  invited  to 
speak. 


During  the  moath  we  have  been  called  to  look  at 
the  Chinese  at  play.  Through  the  courtesy  of  our 
school  we  were  invited  to  join  them  in  their  annual 
picnic,  which  is  conducted  conjointly  by  the  mem- 
bers of  the  various  schools.  TheChinese  pupils  did  it  in 
a  right  noble  and  liberal  manner.  They  chartered 
a  large  excursion  steamer,  and  when  we  boarded  we 
were  surprised  to  find  with  their  invited  guests  they 
numbered  some  2,500  passengers.  The  sail  up  the 
Long  Island  Sound  was  made  perfectly  enjoyable 
by  the  beauty  of  the  weather  and  the  agreeableness 
of  all  the  surroundings.  At  Routon  Point,  where 
we  landed,  one  would  have  almost  thought  it  the 
Fourth  of  July  or  else  a  day  of  mimic  battle.  The 
Chinese,  with  their  innate  and  national  love  for  fire- 
crackers, literally  made  the  woods  and  rocks  ring. 
We  came  home  more  and  more  impressed  that  our 
home  missionaries  are  doing  a  grand  work  in  edu- 
cating the  Chinese.  Evidences  on  that  boat  were 
many  that  the  grace  of  God  is  not  preached  in  vain. 

June  25,  at  the  Mariners'  Temple,  the  scholars 
gave  a  reception  to  their  friends.  Miss  Roundy 
played  the  piano  and  the  scholars  sang  duets  and 
choruses  from  sacred  songs  and  solos.  Who  could 
doubt  the  utility  of  such  education,  especially  when 
we  noticed  that  for  their  services  they  read  from  the 
Old  and  New  Testaments  instead  of,  as  is  often  the 
case  at  such  entertainments,  books  and  pieces  which, 
to  say  the  least,  are  more  frothy  than  instructive. 

A  young  man,  who  is  studying  medicine  and  who 
can  speak  the  English  fluently,  exhorted  the  teach- 
ers to  continue  in  well  doing,  declaring  that  their 
work  among  the  Chinese  in  New  York  will  eventu- 
ally do  more  for  China  and  the  Chinese  nation  than 
far  greater  efforts  in  China  could  possibly  produce; 
because  the  Christianized  Chinaman,  among  the 
wonderful  surroundings  of  such  a  city  and  nation, 
when  he  returns  will  have  larger  ideas  and  powers 
to  interest  and  direct  his  countrymen  in  the  good 
way.  *       J.  F.  Avery. 

— It  was  stated  in  the  World's  Missionary  Con- 
ference that  the  church  of  to-day  "is  confronted 
with  a  larger  heathen  and  unevangelized  population 
than  in  any  former  period  of  our  history.  A  popu- 
lation of  over  800,000,000  have  never  heard 
the  name  of  Christ."  The  fact  is  that  only  a  few 
outposts  have  been  established  on  heathen  soil. 
While  the  history  of  modern  missions  is  something 
wonderful,  yet  the  heathen  world  of  one 
hundred  years  ago  is  still  heathen.  Africa,  India, 
and  China  are  unsubdued,  and  they  are  the  great 
strongholds  of  Satan.  The  work  calls  for  men  and 
means,  and  not  the  least,  for  hearty  co-operation  on 
the  part  of  missionaries  and  missionary  societies. 

— Rev.  John  F.  Brooks,  of  the  Presbyterian 
church,  died  last  week  at  Si^ringfield,  111.,  aged  87. 
He  was  one  of  seven  young  men  who  banded  to- 
gether while  in  their  theological  course  in  New  Ha- 
ven for  the  establishment  of  a  college  in  this  State, 
and  the  Illinois  college  at  Jacksonville  is  the  result 
of  their  exertions.  Mr.  Brooks  has  been  one  of  its 
trustees  from  the  first. 

— Mr.  J.  Crossett,  in  his  letter  in  the  New  York 
Witness,  urges  that  the  Chinese  of  Honan  province, 
who  have  lost  everything  by  the  great  flood,  are  just 
in  the  right  condition  of  mind  to  receive  the  Gos- 
pel. Liberal  donations  should  be  forwarded  to  the 
missionary  societies  which  are  working  in  China 
with  the  request  to  make  a  special  effort  tor  Honan 
at  this  time.  The  China  Inland  Mission,  of  which 
Mr.  J.  Hudson  Taylor,  who  took  a  prominent  part 
in  the  late  Northfield  Convention,  is  one  of  the  di- 
rectors, is  a  noble  institution.  Its  missionaries  re- 
ceive no  stated  salaries,  but  trust  God  entirely  to 
supply  their  wants  through  the  liberality  of  his 
people. 

— Jeremiah  Hubbard,  the  gifted  Indian  niission- 
ary,  has  been  holding  meetings,  says  the  ChrisHan 
Worker,  on  the  "old  feast  grounds"  in  the  Seneca 
nation,  Indian  Territory,  for  some  time  past,  speak- 
ing through  an  interpreter.  Five  Indians  have  been 
converted  and  have  joined  the  Friends,  two  men  and 
three  women.  The  Lord  is  leading  and  has  blessed 
them  greatly. 

— Ramallah  school  and  mission,  near  Jerusalem, 
founded  by  Eli  and  Svbil  Jones,  has  been  placed 
under  the  care  of  New  England  Yearly  Meeting  of 
Friends.  The  Mt.  Lebanon  mission  is  now  left 
wholly  to  English  Friends. 

— The  Woman's  Foreign  Missionary  Society  of 
Canada  Yearly  Meeting  contains  seventeen  auxili- 
aries, and  219  members.      They  received  last  year 


from  all  sources  $1,987.99.  Three  hundred  and 
twenty  dollars  have  gone  to  aid  in  Mexican  work; 
the  remainder  will  be  devoted  to  Japan  in  sup- 
port of  William  V.  Wright. 

— J.  Hudson  Taylor,  the  veteran  founder  and  pres- 
ent leader  of  the  "China  Inland  Mission,"  one  of 
the  most  renowned  missionaries  of  this  age,  visited 
Chicago  last  week.  He  spent  the  Sab'oath  speaking 
to  large  audiences,  and  addressed  two  of  the  noon 
meetings  at  Farwell  Hall. 

— The  Puritan  Congregational  church,  of  Wilkes- 
barre.  Pa.,  was  struck  by  lightning  on  a  recent  Sun- 
day evening  while  service  was  being  held.  Many  of 
the  audience  were  prostrated  by  the  shock,  but  no 
one  was  killed. 

— Rev.  Father  .Talton,  of  Qaincy,  111.,  is  said  to 
be  the  only  colored  Catholic  priest  in  the  United 
States.  He  was  born  in  slavery.  He  speaks  several 
languages. 

— The  late  Emperor  William  of  Germany  was  a 
liberal  subscriber  to  the  funds  of  the  London  Society 
for  promoting  Christianity  among  the  Jews.  The 
society  expended  last  year  $186,730. 

— Dr.  Hunt,  Treasurer  of  the  Episcopal  Fund, 
has  paid  Bishop  Taylor  $12,000,  being  the  amount 
allowed  him  as  salary  for  the  past  four  years  by 
the  recent  General  Conference. 

— It  is  proposed  to  establish  in  Bethany,  the 
town  of  Mary  and  her  sister  Martha,  where  Christ 
raised  Lazarus  from  the  dead,  a  home  which  shall 
form  a  center  of  Christian  work.  A  piece  of  land 
has  been  secured  there  for  this  purpose.  The  vil- 
lage now  contains  about  five  hundred  inhabitants. 

— Mr.  Ben  Hogan,  the  converted  pugilist,  has  for 
a  time  been  conducting  the  West-side  Prayer-meet- 
ing in  Greenwich  street.  New  York.  The  attend- 
ance has  greatly  increased,  many  unconverted  busi- 
ness men  being  attracted  and  influenced  for  good. 
Mr.  Hogan  also  speaks  at  various  missions  through- 
out the  city. 

— The  unceasing  activity  and  indomitable  energy 
of  Mr.  Moody  is  a  marvel  to  his  friends.  As  soon 
as  one  great  responsibility  is  removed  another  is 
assumed.  The  students  hardly  take  their  departure 
before  Mr.  Moody  is  dilligently  at  work  arranging 
for  the  sixth  general  conference  for  Bible  study, 
and  the  presentation  of  working  methods  in  the 
various  fields  of  Christian  service,  which  is  to  be 
held  at  the  Northfield  Seminary  building  during  the 
first  ten  days  of  August.  Some  two  hundred  rooms 
have  already  been  engaged  at  the  Seminary  and 
about  town,  indicating  that  this  will  the  largest 
convocation  yet  held.  These  summer  conferences 
are  growing  more  and  more  popular  and  useful. 
The  list  of  speakers  who  will  assist  Mr.  Moody  will 
include,  among  others,  the  Rev.  J.  Hudson  Taylor, 
of  the  Inland  China  Mission,  George  B.  Studd,  of 
London,  Prof.  Harper,  of  Yale  College,  Dr.  Alex- 
ander McKenzie,  of  Cambridge  and  Harvard  Col- 
lege, H.  B.  Hartzler,  of  Harrisburg,  Pa.,  and  the 
the  Rev.  H,  L.  Hastings,  of  Boston.  The  singing 
will  be  in  charge  of  Ira  D.  Sankey  and  George  C. 
Stebbins. — Intelligencer. 

— Rev.  John  Fagg,  writing  from  Amoy,  China,  of 
the  difficulties  of  Christian  work  in  that  country 
and  the  efforts  of  native  Christians,  says:  "The  filth 
of  Chinese  cities  has  not  been  exaggerated.  The 
streets  are  so  narrow  that  men  usually  walk  single 
file.  In  many  streets  it  is  difficult  to  hold  up  an 
umbrella  without  touching  a  bazar  on  either  side. 
In  these  alleys  the  motley  crowd  jostle  along,  men 
with  loads  crying  out  to  the  people  to  get  out  of  the 
way.  There  are  no  horses,  no  carriages,  no  parks, 
no  fine  buildings,  no  pleasant  houses,  no  neat  door- 
yards.  Filth  piles  are  found  on  the  main  streets. 
No  suggestion  of  neatness  is  seen  anywhere.  Every- 
thing has  a  dusty,  disorganized  look,  if  it  looks  and 
suggests  nothing  worse.  I  am  astonished  that  peo- 
ple, in  so  many  respects  very  ingenious,  can  be  will- 
ing to  live  in  such  cities.  We  could  not  live  in  them 
and  expect  long  to  enjoy  health;  jt  is  (^uite  enough 
to  spend  several  hours  in  them,  threading  your  way 
through  crowd  and  stench  and  filth,  visiting  a  chapel 
or  preaching  in  the  street  in  front  of  some  temple 
or  some  little  opening.  But  the  Lord's  people  are 
here,  1  am  sure  of  that.  Already  I  have  met  peo- 
ple whose  Christianity  not  only  makes  them  a  praise 
in  the  churches,  but  who  show  it  in  their  counte- 
nances. Most  of  our  Chinese  preachers  are  excel- 
lent men." 

— Frank  Jamee,  the  bandit  and  bank  robber,  and  Ar- 
ensdorf,  the  murderer  of  Haddock,  are  both  Grand 
Lodge  Knights  of  Pythias. 

—Esther  Pugh,  treasurer  of  the  National  W.  C.  T.  U., 
says:  "There  can  be  no  genuine  revival  of  religion  in 
a  church  whose  pastor  or  leading  members  are  Masons.' 


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August  2, 1888 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


13 


In  Brief. 

Justice  Charles,  at  Liverpool,  recently 
sentenced  a  man  to  seven  years  penal 
servitude  and  his  wi'e  to  the  same  pun- 
ishment for  life,  for  cruelty  to  their  child, 
a  little  girl,  whom  they  had  kept  impris- 
oned in  a  dark  cellar  and  had  beaten, 
burned  with  a  hot  poker,  and  otherwise 
abu&ed. 

The  stupendous  plan  for  supplying  the 
city  of  Liverpool  with  water  involves  the 
removal  of  a  whole  Welsh  village,  in- 
cluding woods,  cottages,  churches,  etc  , 
this  immense  space  to  be  devoted  to  a 
reservoir  four  and  one-half  miles  long  by 
half  a  mile  to  a  mile  broad,  and  eighty 
feet  deep.  There  are  to  be  three  lines  of 
pipe,  each  sixty  eight  miles  long,  with 
filtering  beds  and  secondary  reservoirs, 
and  the  cost  of  the  aqueduct  alone  is  es- 
timated at  $15,000,000. 

Mr.  Lewis  Carroll,  author  of  "Alice  in 
Wonderland,"  says:  "I  have  never  seen 
Mr.  Gilbert's  clever  play,  'Pinafore,'  per- 
formed by  grown  up  actors;  as  plajed  by 
children,  one  passage  in  it  was  to  me  sad 
beyond  words.  It  occurs  when  the  Cap 
tain  utters  an  cath,  and  forthwith  a  bevy 
of  sweet,  innocent-looking  little  girls 
sing,  with  bright,  happy  looks,  the  cho- 
rus, 'He  said,  "camn  me!"  He  said, 
"Damn  mc ! "  I  cannot  fiadvords  to 
convf  y  to  the  reader  the  pain  I  felt  in 
seeing  those  dear  children  taught  to  utter 
such  words  to  amuse  ears  grown  callous 
to  their  ghastly  meaning.  Put  the  two 
ideas  side  by  side — hell,  and  those  pure 
young  lips  thus  sporting  with  its  honors 
— and  then  find  what  fun  in  it  you  can ! 
How  Mr.  Gilbert  could  have  stooped  to 
write,  or  Sir  Arthur  Sullivan  could  have 
prostituted  his  noble  art  to  set  to  music 
such  vile  trash,  it  passes  my  skill  to  un- 
derstand." 

It  is  a  fact  not  perhaps  generally 
known  that  thirty  fi  ?e  out  of  thirty  eight 
States  have  laws  prohibiting  the  adver- 
tisement of  lotteries.  By  the  way,  pub- 
lic sentiment  on  the  subject  of  lotteries 
has  changed  remarkably  in  the  last  150 
years.  In  1744  lotteries  were  offloially 
authorized  in  Massachusetts,  in  1757 
Boston  instituted  a  lottery  to  pay  for 
paving  its  streets,  and  in  1763  Fdneuil 
Hall  was  repaired  with  aid  from  a  lot- 
tery. At  that  day  lotteries  were  consid- 
ered legitimate,  and  were  almost  as  fre 
quent  as  apothecary  shops  are  to  day. 
Lotteries  were  even  established  to  aid  in 
building  churches.  But  experience  taught 
that  they  were  demoralizing  and  im- 
moral, and  stringent  laws  hava  been 
passed  against  them.  The  faci.  that  in 
only  three  States  now  are  they  allowed  to 
be  even  advertised  shows  unmistakably 
that  the  moral  sentiment  of  the  country 
is  improving. 

The  Director  of  the  Mint  reports  that 
for  the  year  1887  the  product  of  gold 
amounted  to  $33  000,000,  and  of  silver  to 
$53  257.000.  Coinage  of  the  mints  dur- 
ing the  calendar  year,  $60,379,151.  Bars 
of  gold  and  silver  manufactured,  $65,- 
3.38,595  Total  metdlic  stock  in  the 
United  States  on  the  1st  of  June.  1888: 
Gold  coin,  $592  129  702:  gold  bullion  in 
the  mints,  $114,710,817;  total  gold, 
$706  840,519  Silver  dollars,  $297  099  - 
790;  subsidiary  coin,  $76  400  812;  silver 
bullion  in  the  mints,  $10,154,905;  total 
filver,  $383  655  537;  total  gold  and  sil- 
ver, $1  090,496  056;  gold  a  ad  silver  med 
in  the  arts,  $19  880,000  The  coinage  of 
the  world  during  the  calendar  year  1887 
was  $124  998  797  gold  and  $133  502  066 
silver.  The  reported  consumption  of 
g  )ld  in  the  industrial  arts  in  the  world 
for  1886  was  $46  000,000  and  $22,000  000 
silver.  Production  of  gold  and  silver  in 
the  world  in  1886  was  $98,764,235  gold 
and  $126  457  500  silver. 

Professor  Munroe  Smith  tells  us  in 
Political  l^cience  Quarterly  some  most 
astonishing  t&cU.  Of  all  the  population 
of  Massachusetts  only  855  491  were  born 
of  native  parents,  while  919  969  had  for 
eign  parents  and  119,741  were  born  of 
mixed  parents.  That  is,  Massachusetts  is 
I  n  fact  a  foreign  State,  for  53  53  per  cent, 
of  her  blood  is  foreign.  "There  are  sixty- 
eight  cities  and  towns  in  the  common- 
wealth in  which  there  is  an  excess  of 
persons  of  foreign  parentage.  These 
towns  have  58  per  cent,  of  the  popula- 
tion, while  the  remaining  280  towns, 
which  contain  a  msj  )rity  of  native  born 
parentage,  represent  only  41  per  cent,  of 
the  whole."  That  is,  our  foreign  influx 
gravitates  into  towns  and  pities,  and  is 
largely  possessed  of  the  herd  instinct. 


Although  in  Massachusetts  there  is  the 
additional  attraction  of  great  factories, 
which  open  to  vast  numbers  of  foreign 
operatives,  what  is  true  of  Masaachusetts 
is  tqually  true  of  one  or  two  of  the 
Norto western  States.  They  are  essen- 
tially foreign  in  population. — Olobe- 
Democrat. 

It  has  remained  for  a  Panr  Paw,  111., 
court  to  discover  that  a  man  is  .justified 
in  returning  bullets  for  overripe  eggs.  A 
temperance  lecturer  who  entered  the 
classic  precincts  of  that  town  a  day  or 
two  ago  was  treated  to  a  shower  of  un- 
pleasantly redolent  missiles,  which  im- 
parted to  the  victim  that  beautiful 
chrome  yellow  shade  so  highly  prized  by 
connoisseurs  at  a  pumpkin  show.  The 
unfortunate  man  lost  no  time  in  drawing 
his  revolver  and  opening  fire  upon  his  as 
Bailants.  He  wai  promptly  arrested  and 
acquitted  by  a  j  adge,  who  held  that  it 
was  one  of  the  inalienable  rights  of  an 
American  citizen  to  defend  himself 
against  such  outrages.  Hereafter  lectur- 
ers who  visit  Paw  Paw  and  meet  the  fate 
of  the  individual  above  mentioned,  will 
not  be  obliged  to  wait  f  jr  the  slow  pro- 
cesses of  a  court  to  have  their  assailants 
fined  $5  or  $10  or  $15,  as  the  case  may 
be.  Given  a  revolver  and  a  few  car- 
tridges, and  they  can  shoot  $5,  $10,  or 
$15  worth  of  dayliglit  through  the  offend- 
ing parties,  according  to  the  enormity  of 
the  crime  to  be  expiated. — Bail//  News. 


Wanted —Information  op  William 
Reynolds,  an  orphan  boy,  age  about  19 
Adopted  from  the  Chicago  Home  of  the 
Friendless  in  1880.  Any  one  having 
knowledge  of  his  whereabouts  will  con- 
fer a  great  favor  on  his  sister,  Lzzie,  by 
addressing  Mrs.  S  G.  Cleveland,  City 
Missidnary,  care  of  Y.  M.  C.  A  ,  Chi- 
cago, 111. 


DONATIONS. 


Cynosure  Ministers'  Fund: 
Samuel  Bushey $      1.00 

E.  Sutton 2.25 

L    Lovell. 3.50 

N.  Callender .50 

F.  A.  Armstrong .50 

A.  J.  Chittenden .75 

Elliott  Whipple 1 .50 

Before  reported 1162.65 

Total $1172.65 

Foreign  Fund: 
A  Friend,  Wheaton,  111 $2.00 


8VB8GRIPT10N  LETTERS. 


The  following  have  made  remittances 
of  money  to  the  Cynosure  from  July  23 
to  July  28  inclusive: 

Rev  J  M  Adair,  Mrs  L  M  De  Vilbiss, 
Mrs  E  Bebb,  W  M  Beden,  E  Pfeiffer,  S 
Wardner,  Mrs  C  R  Brown,  D  8  E-vin,  W 
Amidon,  F  R  Smith,  J  B  Woohey,  F  A 
Armstrong,  P  Doty,  A  C  Lemon,  H  Van- 
der  Haar,  Prof  Whipple.  Rev  A  J  Mc- 
Farland,  F  Doolittle,  E  K  Gillett,  J  Man 
ners,  II  M  Cannady,  T  Ruark,  Rev  J 
Harper,  W  R  Hendricks. 


MARKET  RB PORTS. 
CHICAGO. 

Wheat— No.  8 835^- 

No.  3 7.3  7? 

Winter  No  8 „  83 

Com— No.  2 45  @      4ei^ 

Oats— No.a ...^  a5 

Rye— No.  a 45 

Branperton 10  ()0       n  ,50 

Hay— Timothy 7  00  @10  (X) 

Butter,  medium  to  best 12  @      19 

Cheese 05  @     oiiv^ 

Beans 1  25  @  2  85 

aggs 14 

BeedB— Timothy* 2  05         2  25 

Flax !t5         1  10 

Broomconi Ul>i@     ''•1^ 

Potatoee,new,per  brl  2  ."io  (56  .3  S.^ 

Hldee— Green  to  dry  Hint O."))^®      Vi 

Lumber— Common 11  00  ((|l8  00 

Wool 13  @      33 

Cattle— Choice  to  extra .1  ."iS  (g  (S  a » 

Common  to  good 1  85         a  .50 

HoRs 5  ys  &  «  0.-I 

Sheep 'J  37  @  4  la 

NEW  YORK. 

flour 3  20  O  5  25 

Wheat— Winter 85  ^     03 

Spring 86 

Corn m  .-y^U 

Oats 84  (^      48 

IggB 17 

Butter 12  @     19 

Wool ^ .  09  04 

KANSAS  CITY. 

Cattle».^._„_^...-,-«...»^  1  40  Q  .'i  .'■.o 

Hogl..>>^.>>. ..>.,>. 4  UO  S6'M 

■>•>» 2  UO  a  4  00 


DAVENPORT  BUSINESS  COLLEGE 

Complete  In  all  (JeparlnientB.  AddrcflB  J.  V. 
DUNCAN,  liavenporl,  lotva. 

FLY   KILLER. 

Dutclier's  la  tlie  only  reliable,  Powerful  Killer. 
Ceitaln  deiilli.  Quiek  work.  Commence  early,  kill 
olT  the  yutiDi;,  prevent  reproduction,  and  enjoy  calm 
repose. 

17/~VT>  C  A  1  17  House  and  Lot  In  Wheaton 
JTvJlA/  O/VJjrj.  III.  Any  one  wlshlnp  to  pur- 
chase should  write  to  W.  I.  hHILLlI'S,  office  of 
"Christian  Cynosure,"  Chicago,  111. 

WHEATON  COLLEGE, 

■WHKA.TOIV,  ILL. 

FALL  TERM  OPENS  TUESDAY,  SEP.  4th. 

Two  College  Courses,  Preparatory  School, 
BufilncBS  Courses,  Including  Stenography  and 
Type-writing.  Modern  languages  by  the  Nat- 
ural Method. 

8en<I  stamp  for  Catologae. 

G.  A.  BLANCHARD,  Fres. 

THE    CKIjEBRA-TED 

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Farm  Notes. 


THE  TOMATO. 


The  tomato  will  produce  fruit  under 
quite  unfavorable  ciicumstances,  in  the 
driest  ae  aeons,  and  in  spite  of  neglect 
Like  everything  else  it  has  its  likes  and 
dislikes,  atcl  if  you  gratify  its  whims  it 
will  yield  a  heavy  crop  of  good  quality. 
Though  it  often  gives  fair  returns  in  time 
of  drought,  it  is  addicted  to  heavy  drink 
ing,  and  likes  moisture  as  well  as  heat. 
It  is  a  gross  feeder  and  its  roots  V9ill 
travel  a  long  distance  in  search  of  savory 
bits  of  manure.  Give  it  as  much  as  it 
will  eat  and  drink — no  danger  of  its  over- 
feeding—and it  will  reward  your  liber- 
ality. The  common  notion  that  the  crop 
should  be  limited  to  a  small  amount  near 
the  root,  and  the  tops  pinched  cfl,  does 
not  tally  with  my  experience.  That  is 
proper  in  a  field-crop  where  the  space 
between  plants  is  only  three  feet,  but 
where  you  train  to  a  trellis,  and  set  the 
plants  four  to  five  feet  from  each  other, 
the  amount  of  fruit  each  will  perfect 
during  the  season  is  astonishing.  The 
vines  should  never  be  permitted  to  lie  on 
the  ground,  for  fully  half  the  fruit  will 
rot,  or  become  a  prey  to  the  cut-worm 
and  Mrs.  Smith's  fowls  from  next  door. 
Trailed  over  stifE  brush  they  will  do  very 
well.  The  hoop- s J  stem  of  training  is  a 
delusion  and  a  snare,  crowding  the 
branches  too  much  together.  The  ven- 
ders of  hoop-stakes  will  traverse  this,  of 
course;  "our  craft  is  in  danger"  Best 
of  all  is  the  training  of  the  vines  to  a 
stout  trellis,  high,  with  well-set  posts, 
and  in  a  bed  half  filled  with  manure. 
There  are  some  varieties  which,  under 
this  treatment,  will  attain  a  length  and 
produce  a  crop  fine  in  quality  and  enor 
mous  in  quantity.  Some  jears  since, 
when  I  was  living  in  the  country,  I  dug 
in  some  supeiflucua  manure  along  a  va- 
cant grape  trellif,  and  set  six  plants  along 
its  twenty-four  feet  cf  length.  Ttie 
trellis  was  eight  feet  from  the  ground. 
The  vices  were  trained  to  the  top,  and 
fell  over  it.  They  were  loaded  with 
masses  of  ripened  and  unripened  fruit, 
and  passers  would  stop  and  gaze  and 
speculate  as  to  the  variety. 

The  usual  plan  is  for  the  suburban 
resident  to  buy  a  dczen  hot-bed  raised 
plants  fiom  a  seedsman  in  town,  bring 
them  Lome  at  night,  set  them  out,  water 
and  protect  them.  Those  that  do  not 
die,  grow.  Thty  are  tenacious  of  life. 
But  they  do  not  fruit  much  earlier  than 
the  plants  which  volunteer  themselves 
from  where  decayed  fruit  has  fallen  the 
year  befoie.  Where  you  have  a  window 
with  a  southern  or  southeastern  exposure 
you  can  better  be  your  own  gardener. 
Fill  a  smbll  box  with  light  soil,  sow  in 
thinly  eighteeu  or  twenty  seeds,  dropping 
them  one  by  one.  When  the  plants  under 
sunlight  and  moisture  have  made  their 
first  rough  leaves,  transplant  each,  lifting 
it  and  earth  into  a  three-inch  pot,  and 
tend  all  these  until  time  to  set  -out.  Taen 
reverse  the  pot,  tap  the  rim  to  loosen  the 
ball  of  earth,  and  put  it  in  its  proper 
place  undisturbed.  When  you  water  use 
well-diluted  liquid  mtnure  and  train  the 
shoots,  securing  them  with  soft  cotton 
string*. — lampwick  is  good— as  they 
grow.  You  may  find  plants  for  a  later 
growth  that  have  sprung  up  in  the  former 
tomato  bed,  and  tiansplant  these,  with  a 
trowel  and  a  ball  of  earth  attached,  or 
you  may  sow  for  a  later  crop,  in  "the  be- 
ginning of  May  out-of-doors."  The 
ground  should  be  stirred  around  them 
until  they  get  three  feet  high,  when  you 
had  better  stop  it,  or  they  will  get  loo 
much  root  pruning. 

The  growing  season  of  the  tomato  may 
be  prolonged,  on  a  small  scale,  where  ycu 
have  spare  frames  and  sashes.  During 
October  there  generally  comes  a  single 
frosty  night,  and  that  ends  your  trellis- 
frame  tomatoes.  But,  in  anticipation  of 
this,  you  can  place  a  sash  over  tomatoes 
growing  flat  and  trained  over  brush.  If 
it  threatens  frost  at  night  put  on  the 
sash,  and  a  little  matting  or  carpet,  bank 
ing  the  enrth  at  the  bottom  of  the  frame. 
U'imove  matting  next  day,  and,  if  the 
fioit  pass,  the  sash.  By  care  in  this  way 
you  can  keep  a  few  plants  bearing  all 
through  the  Indian  summer.  Wnen  frost 
threatens  remove  all  frait  from  the  other 
vines  that  hove  begun  to  color,  and  put 
them  in  drawers,  as  you  would  winter 
pears,  excluding  air  and  light.  They  will 
ripen  there  perfectly,  and,  after  the  fash- 
ion of  the  pear,  have  &  finer  Uavor  than 
those  ripened  on  the  vine. — Dr.  Thomaa 
Dunn  Bni/liih,  in  Tlie  Independent. 


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Blood  Diseases  are  cured  by 
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Sarsaparilla. 

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other  troubles  caused  by  a  torpid  liver 
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m(Hlicines  a  fair  trial  without  a  cure,  [ 
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was  greatly  benertted  by  the  first  l)ottl(\ 
and  after  taking  five  bottles  I  was  coui- 
])let(dy  cured."  —  John  W.  Benson,  TO 
Lawrence  St.,  Lowell,  Mass. 

La.st  May  a  large  carbuncle  broke  out 
on  my  arm.  The  usual  remedies  had  uo 
effect  and  I  was  conlined  to  my  bed  for 
eight  weeks.  A  friend  induced  me  to  try 
Ayer's  Sarsaparilla.  Less  than  three 
bottles  healed  the  sore.  In  all  myexpe- 
ri(!nce  witli  medicine,  I  never  saw  moro 

Wonderful  Results. 

Anotlun-  marked  effect  of  the  use  of  this 
medicine  was  the  strengthening  of  my 
sight."  — Mrs.  Carrie  Adams,  Holly 
Springs,  Texas. 

"  I  had  a  dry  scaly  humor  for  years, 
and  suffered  terribly  ;  and,  as  my  broth- 
er and  sister  were  similarly  alflicted,  I 
presume  the  malady  is  hereditary.  Last 
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"  Last  fall  and  winter  I  was  troubled 
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after  faithfully  continuing  the  use  of 
this  medicine  for  some  montlis,  the  pain 
disappeared  and  I  was  completely 
cured." — Mrs.  Augusta  A.  Furbusli, 
Haverhill,  Mass. 

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THE  CHRISTlAJSr  CYNOSURE. 


AtrougT  2, 1888 


NFWS  OF  The  week 


WASHINQTON. 

A  tariff  confercDce  of  the  Republican 
Senators  was  held  at  Senator  Evarts' 
residence  Wednesday,  at  which  a  decision 
was  reached  that  the  Finance  Committee 
shall  prepare  a  tariff  bill  as  a  subotitute 
for  the  Mills  bill,  and  that  it  shall  then 
be  reported  to  the  Senate  and  taken  up 
and  passed  regardless  of  the  length  of 
time  this  may  require. 

President  Cleveland  went  on  a  fishing 
trip  last  week.  On  Thursday  his  party 
boarded  the  steam  yacht  Susquehanna  at 
New  York  for  Sandy  Hook.  He  is  the 
guest  of  Joseph  Stickney,  the  big  coal 
merchant  and  owner  of  the  yacht.  The 
President  came  on  from  Washington  on 
the  11  o'clock  train  with  Mrs.  Cleveland, 
Mrs  Folsom,  and  the  gentlemen  of  the 
party.  Mrs.  Cleveland  and  Mrs.  Folsom 
went  to  Marion,  Mass.,  where  they  will  be 
the  guests  of  Richard  Watson  Gilder. 
President  Cleveland  will  fish  from  the 
yacht  for  four  days.  It  is  rumored  that 
the  trip  is  to  help  the  Democratic  party 
in  New  York  out  of  a  disagreeable  per- 
sonal tangle. 

The  vote  on  the  Fisheries  treaty  in  the 
Senate  is  expected  at  the  latest  by  Thurs- 
day. There  is  only  one  result  to  be  ex- 
pected— that  is  the  treaty  will  be  reject- 
ed .  A  two-thirds  vote  is  necessary  to 
ratify  and  the  treaty  will  not  receive  a 
majority.  The  vote  upon  it  will  be 
strictly  along  the  party  lines,  and  the 
majority  against  it  will  be  whatever  ma- 
jority the  Republicans  have  in  the 
Senate. 

CHICAGO. 

Frank  Chapek,  John  Hronek,  Frank 
Chleboun,  and  Rudolph  Sevic.  the  four 
anarchists  who  were  arrested  by  lospector 
Bonfleld,  were  indicted  by  the  grand  jury 
Wednesday  for  conspiracy  to  murder. 

The  results  of  the  completed  school 
census  show  that  the  total  population  of 
the  city  is  802.6.51,  as  against  703  817  in 
1886  This  is  a  gain  of  98  834  being  an 
average  of  a  little  mo'e  than  14  1-25  per 
cent.  Of  this  number  12.826  were  gained 
by  anrexation,  leaving  the  natural  in- 
crease 86  008. 

The  Chicago  &.  South  Side  Rapid 
Transit  Railroad  Company  began  con- 
demnation proceedings  to  gain  possession 
of  the  property  between  Wabash  avenue 
and  State  street,  from  Harrison  street 
south  to  Hubbard  court.  They  will  build 
an  elevated  railway  through  the  alleys. 

The  North  Side  Sunday  Observance 
Association  met  at  the  Wesley  M.  E. 
church  Tuesday  evening,  elected  Dr. 
Herrick  Johnson  president,  and  ad- 
journed until  September. 

The  Standard  Oil  Company's  pipe  line 
from  L'ma,  Ohio,  to  South  Chicago  was 
tested  last  week  by  sending  a  quantity  of 
water  through  it.  The  water  left  Lima 
Saturday  and  reached  South  Chicago  Fri- 
day. No  leaks  were  discovered.  A 
stream  of  crude  oil  will  be  started  this 
week.  The  oil  is  propelled  by  pumping 
works  at  Lima.  These,  with  other  works 
in  contemplation,  will  deliver  about 
8  000  barrels  daily.  The  distance  is  206 
miles.  One  of  the  tanks  at  South  Chi- 
cago is  completed  ready  to  receive  oil.  It 
will  hold  .30  000  barrels.  The  oil  com- 
pany expect  to  use  about  800,000  barrels 
a  day  in  this  district.  The  rolling  mills 
at  South  Chicago  use  the  oil  now,  and 
have  discharged  a  number  of  firemen. 

COUNTRY. 

It  is  reported  that  the  Independent 
Convention  of  Colored  Men,  so  called, 
at  Indianapolis  last  week,  was  arranged 
by  Lewis  Ogilvio,  a  United  States  rail- 
way mail  agent  under  the  present  admin- 
istration, and  the  delegates  from  Colum- 
bus, Ohio,  were  given  free  transportation 
by  the  Democratic  managers.  'The  mem- 
btrs  came  to  blows  and  drew  revolvers  at 
one  time. 

Rev.  T.  H  Dabl,  of  Stoughton,  Wis  , 
Prohibition  candidate  for  Lieutenant 
Governor,  and  D.  C.  Prescott,  of  Mari- 
nette, candidate  for  Treasurer,  have  de- 
clioed  to  run,  and  C.  Carlson,  of  Eau 
Claire,  and  L  W.  Hoyt,  of  Madison,  have 
been  named,  respectively,  for  the  vacant 
places  on  the  ticket  by  the  State  Central 
Committee. 

The  funeral  services  of  Courtlandt 
Palmer,  founder  of  the  Nineteenth  Cen- 
tury Club,  were  held  at  New  York  Thurs- 
day, the  infidel  Robert  G.  Ingersoll  de- 
livering the  address. 


For  falsely  swearing  to  owning  prop- 
erty in  Kings  county,  while  qualifying  as 
a  bondsman,  J.  P.  J.  Howard,  of  Brook- 
lyn, a  prominent  colored  politician  of  re- 
puted wealth,  known  as  "the  Black 
Prince,"  was  sentenced  Friday  to  seven 
years  and  six  months'  imprisonment. 

News  was  received  Thursday  of  an  at- 
tack made  Monday  night  at  Jackson, 
Miss.,  by  Roderick  Lowry,  nephew  of 
Governor  Lowry,  of  Mississippi,  upon 
his  wife  who  had  left  him  because  of  his 
brutality.  Mrs.  Lowry  was  kicked  and 
beaten  severely  and  may  not  recover, 
while  Lowry  has  so  far  escaped  arrest. 
The  Lowry  gang  sustained  the  murderer 
Hamilton,  who  shot  the  young  Prohibi- 
tion editor  Gambrell,  and  helped  get  him 
clear. 

The  Democrats  have  nominated  Oven 
Lovejoy,  of  Princeton,  111.,  for  Congress. 
Mr.  Lovejoy  is  the  son  of  the  late  Owen 
Lovej  oy,  the  well  known  Abolitionist  and 
Anti  mason. 

At  Pittsburg  Captain  Lewis  Clark, 
convicted  of  selling  liquor  without  li 
censes  on  the  excursion  steamer  May- 
flower, was  fined  $700  and  sentenced  to 
seven  months'  imprisonment  in  the 
county  j  ail. 

It  is  said  that  the  New  Jersey  Supreme 
Court,  in  an  opinion  to  be  made  public 
July  31,  has  declared  the  high  license  law 
unconstitutional. 

Four  rumsellers  of  Trenton,  N.  J., 
prosecuted  by  the  Law  and  Order  league 
of  that  city,  have  been  sentenced  to  six 
months  in  j  ail  for  violating  the  Sunday 
law. 

At  Aurora,  111.,  Wednesday,  the  trial 
of  the  dynamite  cases  against  Bauereisen, 
Coding  and  Keogel,  "Q"  strikers,  Bowles 
testified  to  having  purchased  dynamite 
under  orders  from  Bauereisen. 

The  naval  court  martial  at  Annapolis, 
Md  ,  has  finished  its  labors.  Thirteen 
cadets  were  tried  out  of  the  sixteen  orig- 
inally supposed  to  be  concernei  in  the 
hazing,  no  charges  being  found  against 
three  The  testimony  adduced  will  be 
submitted  to  the  Secretary  of  the  Navy, 
and  he  will  give  his  opinion  before  the 
verdicts  are  finally  rendered. 

On  account  of  low  water  in  the  Erie 
Canal  750  boats  are  stranded  Bad 
breaks  cause  much  trouble  and  damage. 

The  coal-mining  town  of  Roslyn,  in 
Washington  Territory,  was  totally  de- 
stroyed by  fire  during  a  high  wind,  250 
houses  being  burned  and  1,500  inhabi- 
tants made  homeless.  The  loss  is  500,- 
000. 

Ben  Dalton,  a  farm  hand,  living  near 
Dry  den,  N.  Y.,  Tuesday  night  shot  John 
D.  Lamont  and  Miss  Roat,  a  domestic  in 
Lamont's  family,  the  latter  probably  with 
fatal  effect,  and  killed  himself.  Miss 
Roat  had  rejected  DaJton,  on  Lamont's 
advice,  and  he  had  sworn  revenge. 

Near  Omaha,  Neb  ,  Thursday  a  freight 
car  loaded  with  grain  was  ditched,  and 
wh<;n  opened  two  hours  liter  the  dead 
bodies  of  six  men  were  found  under  the 
grain,  which  had  fallen  on  them  as  the 
car  turned  over. 

John  P.  Anderson  went  down  a  well 
Thursday,  July  19,  near  Johnston,  Neb., 
for  the  purpose  of  cleaning  it,  and  when 
near  the  bottom  the  walls  began  to  cave 
in.  He  was  drawn  to  within  twenty  five 
feet  of  the  top,  when  the  well  completely 
closed.  The  work  of  rescue  began  by 
digging,  but  as  it  was  supposed  he  was 
dead  the  funeral  arrangements  were 
made.  On  Monday,  the  23d,  he  aston- 
ished the  rescuers  by  pulling  the  rope 
and  speaking.  The  work  went  on 
through  the  week,  an  opening  being 
made  through  which  food  was  lowered, 
and  lumber  by  which  the  caving  well 
was  braced,  and  finally  on  Saturday  the 
prisoner  was  released  alive  from  his 
threatened  tomb. 

A  county  seat  war  in  Stevens  county, 
Kansas,  has  broken  out  afresh,  and  has 
resulted  in  the  murder  of  John  Cross, 
sheriff  of  the  county,  and  other  citizans 
of  Woodsdale,  making  eleven  in  all.  The 
county  was  organized  two  years  ago  and 
is  occupied  largely  by  hard  characters. 
Hugoton  was  chosen  the  county  seat  by 
fraud,  the  Woodsdale  people  say,  and  the 
election  result  is  in  litigation.  Bad  blood 
has  long  existed  between  the  two  towns. 
Bloodshed  is  also  feared  in  Kearney 
county,  Kansas,  over  a  county  seat  vote. 
Affidavit  was  made  before  Judge  Abbott 
on  a  Santa  Fe  train  that  mob  violence 
was  threatened;  that  a  fair  count  could 
not  be  had,  and  Judge  Abbott  granted  an 


injunction.  Both  factions  are  armed, 
and  Lakin  looks  like  a  camp.  Bloodshed 
is  feared  as  the  final  outcome. 

A  gang  of  fifteen  or  twenty  tramps, 
that  had  their  headquarters  in  the  woods 
near  Ashtabula,  Ohio,  were  attacked  by 
the  local  police  Monday,  but  most  of 
them  got  away.  Those  who  escaped  were 
armed  with  revolvers,  and  Monday  night 
attacked  the  conductor  of  a  local  freight 
train  on  the  Lake  Shore  Road  and  com- 
pelled him  to  take  them  on  board.  They 
broke  open  one  of  the  cars  and  stole  a 
keg  of  beer,  and  when  near  Geneva  es- 
caped. Tuesday  they  attacked  a  farmer, 
shooting  into  his  house  and  committing 
other  depredations.  The  farmer  sent  word 
for  help,  and  a  company  of  militia  was 
sent  to  suppress  the  tramps.  They  were 
surrounded  in  the  woods  and  after  a 
sharp  battle  nineteen  were  captured. 

FOBBION. 

Semi  official  advices  from  St.  Peters- 
burg state  that  there  has  been  no  politi- 
cal exchange  of  views  between  the  Czar 
and  Emperor  William.  The  Russian 
oflScial  circle  trust  that  the  immediate  ef- 
fect will  not  be  to  restrain  Austria  from 
taking  any  imprudent  step  as  regards  in 
terfering  in  the  pending  troubles  in  the 
Balkans.  It  is  certain  that  the  imperial 
meeting  will  prolong  the  status  quo  in  the 
Balkans  until  next  year.  By  tactit  agree- 
ment all  reference  to  France  was 
avoided  by  the  Empress. 

A  volcanic  eruption  at  Pandaisan,  fifty 
leagues  from  Yokohama,  Japan,  has  de- 
stroyed several  villages  and  killed  1,000 
persons,  including  100  visitors  at  the 
thermal  springs.  A  fresh  crater  has 
formed,  and  the  eruption  is  till  active. 

Mr.  James  O'Kelley,  the  well-known 
journalist  and  member  of  Parliament  for 
the  North  Division  of  Roscommon,  was 
arrested  in  London  Tuesday  for  offenses 
under  the  criminal  act.  The  warrant  for 
his  arrest  charged  him  with  making 
speeches  in  Ireland  inciting  to  intimida 
tion  and  boycotting. 

Three  boats  loaded  with  fugitives  who 
left  Wady  Haifa,  Egypt,  during  the  at- 
tack of  the  dervishes  on  that  city  on  the 
20th  instant,  sank  in  the  river,  and  150 
persons  were  drowned. 

Nineteen  emigration  agents  have  been 
arrested  at  Cracow,  Poland,  for  inciting 
the  natives  of  that  district  to  emigrate  to 
America.  Bonds  representing  1,000,000 
florins  were  found  in  their  possession 
Other  agents  have  been  arrested  at  Brady 
and  Czernowitz. 


"He  most  lives  who  thinks  the  most, 
Acts  the  noblest,  feels  the  best, 
And  he  whose  heart  beats  quickest 
Lives  the  longest,  lives  in  one  hour 
More  than  in  years  do  some  whose 
Fat  blood  sleeps  as  it  slips  along  their 
veins  " 
These  lines  describe  that  condition  of 
perfect  health  which  all  men  and  women 
vsish  to   enjoy.     To  be    able    to  think 
clearly,  to  incline  to  do  noble  acts,  to  live 
long  and  joyously,  we  must  be  free  from 
the  domination  of  disease.  By  taking  Dr. 
Pierce's   Golden    Medical  Discovery  we 
may,  by  purifying  the  blood,  escape  con- 
sumption, general  debility  and  weakness, 
and  allb\oodi  and  skin  diseases,  and  veri- 
fy the  truth  of  poetry  as  well  as  fact 


It  is  the  intrinsic  merit  alone  of  Hall's 
Vetetable  Sicilian  Hair  Rene wer  that  has 
gained  for  it  great  popularity  for  restor- 
ing the  natural  color  of  the  hair. 


The   only  reliable  cure  for  catarrh  is 
Dr.  Sage's  Catarrh  Remedy. 


The  tonic  and  alterative  properties  of 
Ayer's  Sarsaparilla  are  too  well  known  to 
r  quire  the  specious  aid  of  any  exagger 
aled  or  ficticiou?  certificate.  Witnesses 
of  the  marvelous  cures  effected  by  this 
preparation  are  to  day  living  in  every  city 
and  hamlet  of  the  land. 


IJ.  F.  Johnson  &  Co.,  of  Richmond, 
V/i.,  have  an  advertisement  in  another 
C(  lumn  that  may  interest  you.  Read  it 


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POWDER 

Absolutely  Pure. 

This  powder  never  varies.  A  marvel  of  purity, 
strengtli  and  wholesomenees.  More  economical  than 
the  ordinary  kinds,  and  cannot  be  sold  In  competi- 
tion wltli  the  multitude  of  low  test,  eliort  weight, 
alum  or  phosphate  powders.  Sold  onlyln  cans. 
EoTAL  Baking  Powdbb  Co.,  106  Wall-st.,  N.  T 

$75.00  to  $250,00  ^a^S,«  ?S^'.^ 

Agents  preferred  who  can  furnish  a  horse  and  give 
tlieir  whole  time  to  the  husiness.  Spare  monieiits 
may  be  prolltably  employed  also.  A  few  vacancies  in 
towns  and  cities.  B.  F.  JOHNSON  &  CO.,  UKW  Main 
St ,  Richmond,  Va. 


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GENEVA  COLLEGE, 

BEAVEE    FALLS,    PERN. 

OPENS    SEPTEMBER.    CTH. 

Full  Collegiate  and  Academic  courses.  Music. 
Fine  site  and  good  eciulpment.  Dls'lncilvely  Chris- 
tian. Board  and  room  in  new  Dining  Hall  412.60 
per  week.  Address        H.  H.  GEOUGE,  Pbks. 

How  is  the  Baby? 

If  properly  fad,  rosy  cheeks  and  a  joyous  household 
are  iissurcd.  There  Is  no  food  BO  adapted  to  child- 
hood as 

EIDGE'S  FOOD. 

i  sizes.   S.'ic.  up.    WooLKioH  &  Co.  on  every  label. 


GO  WEST. 


1S.(X>1,0(10  acres  of  the  Mon' 
tana  Indian  Keservathm  Just 
opened  for  sttllenient  near 
Great  Falls,  Ft.  Benton,  Asslnnihoino  and  Glasgow, 
consisting  of  rich  niiiural  and  coal  districts,  grazing 
and  farm  lands  of  the  very  higlu-st  iiuallty.  The  op- 
portunities for  making  money  here  are  greater  than 
anywhere  else  In  the  United  States.  This  Is  the  time 
to  go  and  secure  your  location.  For  rates,  Maps,  or 
other  Inforinat Ion,  Address C.  11.  Warkkn,  Gen.rasB. 
Agent,  St.  I'.,  M.  &  M.  Uv..  St.  I'aul,  Minn. 


Dr.  Owen's  Portable  Battery 

FOR  MAN  AND  WOMAN. 

Contiiina  10  degrees 
of  streotith.  Current 
can  lie  increased, de- 
creased, reversed  or 
detached  at  will  and 
applied  to  any  part 
of  liody  or  lliub.o  by 
whole  family.  Cures 
Oer.eriil,  Norv- 
oii«  mill  <;iii-niilc 
ItiKpiiscii.  Is  light, 
simple  ami  superior. 
Guaranteed  for  one 

5 ear.      linrge    lllimtriHecl 
•AMPIII..ET  iieiit  free. 
Dr.  Owen  Belt  Co.,  191  State  St.,  Clilcasro. 


Where  Are  You  Going? 

When  do  yo\i  .<>1  art  7  Whore  from  7  How  ,nany 
in  your  party  7  Wlitit  amount  of  freiglit  or 
l)iiCKuge  hiiveyou?  Whiit  route  do  you  prefer? 
UpoH  rcceiiit  ot  an  answer  to  the  ahovo  ciues. 
t  Ions  you  will  be  fumiHlie<l,frce  of  exjiense,  with 
llio  lowest*  «  „,»I,'ff"S,.  A  rates,  also 
m.aps,  time  II  "'JLyft^*  AuMos.pam. 
phletR,  or  mi  AN  ITDBIA  otiiervalu. 
able  Inform- Ivl  kmlwax.  f^atlon  which 
will  Biive  trouble,  time  and  money.  Agents  will 
call  in  person  where  iiecessiiry.  p.irtics  not 
ready  to  answer  above  fniestlons  should  cut  out 
and  preserve  this  notice  for  fntnre  refen  iice.  It 
may  become  useful.  Address  C.  H.  Wakren, 
Qenera'  Possenser  Asent,  St.  Paul.  Minn., 


Christian  Cynosure. 


JH  BBORBT   HAVE  1  SAID  NOTHING."— Je*u»  Qhriit. 


Vol.  XX.,  No.  47. 


CHICAGO,  THUKSDAY,  AUGUST  9,  1888. 


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CONTENTS. 


Editorial  : 

Notes  aDd  Comments 

Editorial  Correspondence. 
Chief  Justice  John  Mar- 
shall  

CONTBIBUnONS : 

Under  the  Upas 

The  Doors  ol  Providence. 

Worthless  Guns 

Selected : 

Progressive  Theology 

I     The  Roslcruclans 

L    Battle  Song  ot  Gustavus 

•        Adolphus 

The  Boston  Debate 

Letters  from  Europe 

The  United  Brethren  Con- 
vention   

COBBBSPONDBKCB : 

An  Old  Veteran's  Meet- 
ing ;  From  a  Mobile  Pas- 
tor; A  Word  About 
Broots;  Pith  and  Point. 

LiTEBATURB 


Rbi-obm  News  : 
Summer  Campaign  Among 
the  Green  Mountains; 
From  the  General 
Agent;  Breaking  New 
Grcund  In  Ohio ;  Central 
Louisiana;  A  Week  of 
Good  Cheer;  The  Wash- 
ington Work 4,5,6 

Obituary 7 

Lodge  Notes 7 

Secret    Societies     Con- 
demned     7 

Thb  N.C.  a 7 

Our  Cincinnati  Letter..    9 

New  England  letter 9 

The  Homb ^ 10 

Temperance 11 

Bible  Lesson 12 

Religious  Nbws 12 

Donations 13 

Farm  Notes 14 

Home  and  Health 15 

Nbws  of  thb  Wbbk 16 


Rev.  R.  S.  Storrs,  the  great  Congregational 
preacher  of  New  York,  was  lately  understood  to 
have  decided  for  the  Prohibition  party.  He  contra- 
dicts the  report  in  a  long  letter  in  the  Independent. 
Be  declares  he  has  not  yet  separated  from  the  Re- 
publican party,  through  "the  momentum  of  habit;" 
but  while  he  speaks  words  of  honest  praise  for  the 
candidates,  for  the  platform  he  has  Just  and  severe 
criticism.  While  in  favor  of  a  modified  protective 
tariff,  Dr.  Storrs  sees  in  the  Republican  platform  a 
politician's  scheme  to  exact  the  lasf'pound  of  flesh" 
from  our  well  taxed  people.  He  also  condemns  in 
eloquent  terms  the  neglect  of  the  Republicans  to 
deal  in  righteousness  "with  the  one  ethical  question 
surviving  in  our  politics" — namely,  the  suppression 
of  the  saloon.  Dr.  Storrs  is  already  more  than  half 
lost  to  the  Republicans.  We  hope  he  will  soon  get 
out  of  the  Adirondack  woods  of  that  party  into  the 
civilization  of  Prohibition. 


There  will  be  no  Prohibition  State  or  electoral 
ticket  in  Louisiana  this  year.  Four  years  ago  there 
were  338  votes  cast  for  St.  John.  This  year  when 
the  Prohibition  delegates  met  they  were  over- 
powered by  the  white  Democratic  influence  in  the 
convention,  and  went  home  without  nominating. 
Prohibitionists  who  led  the  van  four  years  ago,  now 
insisted  that  all  Democrats  must  unite  this  year, 
and  there  should  be  nothing  to  detract  from  their 
vote.  The  colored  delegates — to  their  praise  be  it 
spoken — with  two  white  preachers,  kept  the  faith 
and  worked  for  a  ticket;  but  Louisiana  Democracy 
at  present  holds  out  the  demand  for  obedience  in 
one  band  and  the  loaded  rifle  in  the  other.  Rev. 
Byron  Gunner,  president  of  Howe  Institute,  New 
Iberia,  was  one  of  the  delegates  who  stood  by  his 
colors  to  the  last.  The  effort  at  least  demonstrates 
that  as  between  Republicans  in  the  North  and  Dem- 
ocrats in  the  South,  Prohibition  must  struggle  on  to 
victory  against  them  both. 


have  learned  of  but  a  single  case  where  their  brutal 
ity  had  any  justification.  Two  Mormon  missionaries 
visited  the  region — it  seeming  to  be  adapted  to  their 
methods  of  proselyting.  But  instead  of  converting 
the  White  Caps  and  shipping  them  off  to  brother 
with  their  Danites,  they  began  on  some  susceptible 
women,  two  of  whom  they  dragged  about  with  them. 
The  dispensers  of  secret  justice  warned  them  out  of 
the  country  and  then  flagged  them  unmercifully  and 
drove  them  out.  After  this  directly  we  read  that 
Governor  Gray  has  sent  an  officer  with  militia  to 
clean  out  the  White  Cap  lodge.  Perhaps  the  Mor- 
mons had  influence  with  the  Democratic  party.  At 
least  an  effort  will  be  made  to  break  up  this  Ma- 
sonic Ku-kluxing  in  Indiana,  and  the  gang  begins 
to  pack  up  its  disguises  for  sudden  departure. 


The  secret  While  Caps  of  Crawford,  Perry  and 
Spencer  counties  in  Indiana  have  been  able  hereto- 
fore to  so  terrify  the  local  authorities  that  their 
atrocities  have  bern  carried  ota  with  impunity.     We 


CHIEF   JUSTICE    MARSHALL. 
I  See  page  8.] 

Marshal  Dyer,  acting  as  receiver  of  the  Federal 
court  for  Mormon  church  property,  has  levied  upou 
various  valuables  of  the  "Saints"  amounting  to 
$790,666,  In  addition  to  these  is  the  Temple 
square,  containing  the  Temple,  Tabernacle  and  As- 
sembly Hall,  which  is  far  more  valuable  than  all  the 
rest.  To  be  thus  shorn  of  their  strength  is  a  sore 
allliciion  for  the  Brighamites,  for  they  must  render 
now  an  account  for  these  properties  and  pay  the  in- 
come over  to  the  court  for  the  support  of  the  pub- 
lic school  fund. .  They  may  yet  have  the  consola- 
tion of  knowing  that  the  fund  comes  thus  back  into 
their  own  hands — and  it  seems  to  be  a  wretched  de- 
fect in  the  law  that  it  does  so — but  the  schools  are 
also  passing  out  of  their  control.  Last  year  the 
Gentiles  got  control  of  two,  this  year  of  three  more, 
and  the  loss  may  be  accelerated  if  the  rank  and  file 
of  Mormondom  lose  confidence  in  their  des- 
potic leaders.  It  is  found,  too,  that  artesian  wells 
can  be  cheaply  sunk  in  Jordan  valley,  and  irriga- 
tion can  proceed  without  dependence  on  water  from 
the  mountains,  which  the  Mormons  have  seized  en- 
tire. There  is  not  a  more  beautiful  country  in  the 
world,  and  none  would  be  more  profitable  if  it  could 
be  de-Mormonized. 


At  a  meeting  of  the  Presbyterian  Union  of  New 
York,  Roman  Catholicism  being  under  discussion. 
Rev.  Howard  Crosby,  D.  D.,pa8tor  of  the  Fourth  Ave- 
nue Presbyterian  church,  arose  and  commenced  his 
address  with  the  question,  "Why  should  we  not  join 
with  the  Roman  Catholic  church  in  the  fight  against 
infidelity?"  He  paused  and  deliberately  said,  "Be- 
cause the  Roman  Catholic  church  makes  infidelity." 
The  answer  was  electrical.  The  audience  cheered 
and  applauden  for  several  minutes.  Dr.  Crosby 
continued:  "The  Roman  Catholic  church  has  been 
called  an  historic  church,  and  we  are  asked  to  make 


it  an  ally  because  it  is  such.  Look  at  Mohammed- 
ism,  Buddism;  they,  too,  are  historic.  Shall  we 
join  with  them  on  account  of  their  antiquity? 

"When  does  an  apple  get  so  rotten  that  it  ceases 
to  be  an  apple?"  said  the  doctor.  "Let  us  not  be 
deceived  by  the  virtues  of  those  who  are  superior 
to  their  religion,  into  fellowship  with  that  which  is 
unfriendly  to  our  every  interest." 


UNDER  THB  UPAS. 


BY  0.  A,  8.   TEMPLE. 

Rarely,  if  ever,  does  any  historian  record  such  a 
strange  anomaly,  such  a  cruel  travesty  of  justice 
and  honor,  as  that  in  the  decision  by  the  Board  of 
Visitors  of  Andover  Theological  Seminary,  some 
time  since.  Several  professors  had  been  on  trial  be- 
fore them  for  certain  alleged  violations  of  their 
official  trust.  In  every  particular  of  the  transactions 
for  which  they  were  indicted,  they  were  fully  asso- 
ciated, and  in  full  sympathy  and  accord  with  ej|ch 
other.  If  one  was  guilty,  then  all  were  guilty.  If 
one  was  innocent,  then  all  were  innocent.  All, 
therefore,  should  have  been  acquitted  or  condemned 
together;  yet  all  hut  one  were  acquitted.  That  one, 
alone,  was  adjudged  "guilty,"  and  condemned  to  an 
•ignominious  removal  from  his  professorship! 

It  is  sufficient  for  our  present  purpose  if  we  as- 
sume, what  all  the  world  knows,  that  the  head  and 
front  of  their  offending  was  that  they  were,  or  were 
presumed  to  be,  the  leading  spirits,  in  both  the  Semi- 
nary and  the  Congregational  pulpit,  in  what  is  called 
"The  New  Departure." 

"Every  tree  is  known  by  its  fruit"  This  divine 
rule  furnishes  the  surest  criterion  by  which  to  test 
this  great  defection,  and  through  it  both  the  course 
and  attitude  of  those  professors,  and  the  true  char- 
acter of  that  shameful  decision.  A  noteworthy  feat- 
ure in  "The  New  Departure,"  is  the  fact  that,  what- 
ever its  manipulators  may,  or  may  not  teach  in 
Andover,  or  in  the  Andover  Rtvitw,  recent  graduates 
from  that  Seminary  are  generally  silent,  in  their 
pulpit,  upon  all  the  great  fundamental  doctri'n^^of 
the  Gospel,  except  to  stigmatize  them  as  "mere  mat- 
ters of  belief,"  "unprofitable"  for  either  public  or 
private  discussion  or  consideration!  Neither  do 
they  often,  if  ever,  publicly  or  privately  avow,  much 
less  openly  and  squarely  advocate  or  defend,  any 
specially  distinctive  or  offensive  feature  of  what  the 
Andover  Review  so  ostentatiously  denominates  "Pro- 
gressive Orthodoxy."  In  fact,  like  the  Andover 
professors,  they  (very  modestly)  disclaim  therefor 
any  such  distinction  as  that  of  any  new  doctrine,  or 
even  dogma.  They  would  fain  have  us  believe  that 
the  highest  honor  ever  claimed  for  at  least  some  of 
those  theories,  is  that  of  a  mere  "possibility!"  But, 
despite  this  cunning  affectation,  those  very  theories 
are  made  to  enter  into,  to  give  color  afld  tone  and 
character,  in  fact,  to  mold  and  subordinate  everything 
to  their  all  absorbing,  all  controlling  influence. 

From  the  beginning,  the  rule  and  custom  of  our 
Congregational  churches  has  been  Sox  each  church 
to  adopt  a  statement  of  its  own  faith,  as  nearly  as 
possible,  in  "that  form  of  sound  words"  in  which 
each  doctrine,  principle,  or  duty  is  taught  in  the 
Word  of  God.  When  a  so-called  "progressive"  pas- 
tor finds  his  church  in  possession  of  such  a  creed, 
he  generally  takes  it  in  his  hand,  puts  it  under  thd 
press,  turns  on  the  scretos,  and  thus  despoils  it  of  the 
greater  part  of  its  vitality,  leaving  it  but  the  merest 
shadow  of  its  former  self;  or  it  may  be  that  instead 
the  creed  is  bodily  and  at  once  thrown  away — by  a 
vote  which  he  has  gained  of  his  now  "progressive" 
church,  of  course — and  a  new  symbol  of  some  sort, 
which  expresses  only  the  least  possible  minimum  of 
revealed  truth,  is  substituted  for  it 

The  specific,  comprehensive  statement  coveswg 
substantially  the  whole  ground  of  "the  doctriile  of 
Christ,"  was  "unprogressive,"  an  antiquated,  "fos- 
silized" compound  of,  to  this  age,  the  merest  ''nar- 
rowness, bigotry,  and  stupidity;"  while  the  n^w, 
pointless,  almost  meaningless  statement  of  almost 
nothing  "is  exceeding  broad,"  and  places  the  church 
fully  abreast  of  the  present  intellectual  progress 
of  mankind."     Thus,  in   either  case,  a  shameless 


d 


THE  CHRISTIAN-  CYNOStTHE. 


AfQiTBT  9, 1888 


itfMi^iafi^^anaiCM* 


vile  counterftit  is  cunningly  and  heartlessly  substi- 
tuted for  a  fair  and  honest  "expression  of  the 
Christian  faith." 

As  a  legitimate  and  unavoidable  consequence  of 
such  administration,  a  chill  like  that  of  "the  shadow 
of  death"  settles  down  upon  both  the  church  and 
the  community  around  it.  Despite  the  vain  boast  of 
"progress,"  with  which  skeptics,  both  within  and 
outside  the  church,  are  sure  to  compliment  and  en- 
courage— the  whole  spiritual  atmosphere  seems  en- 
veloped in  "a  darkness  which  can  be  felt."  In  such 
a  case,  every  true  Christian  prays  earnestly,  "Lord, 
revive  thy  work."  Sometimes  an  "evangelist"  is 
called  in.  If  he  is  a  "true  man  of  God,"  he  "speaks 
God's  word  faithfully."  The  contrast  between  such 
preaching  and  that  of  the  "progressive"  type,  is  al- 
ways seen  and  felt.  A  light,  new  and  startling  to 
many  "dead  in  sin,"  "breaks  forth  from  the  Word 
of  God."  Of  course  such  "labor  is  not  in  vain  in 
the  Lord."  Saints  are  comforted,  refreshed,  strength- 
ened, quickened,  and  "sinners  are  converted  unto 
God."  In  this  way— hut  never  as  the  result  of  the 
miscalled  "progressive"  preaching— there  often 
comes  quite  a  revival.  For  the  time — as  if  incon- 
sistencies were  nothing — New  Departurists  do  not 
hesitate  to  credit  all  to  the  "usefulness"  of  the 
"advanced"  pastor  who,  perhaps  for  years,  has  cum- 
bered and  disgraced  the  pulpit  and  the  pastoral 
office.  But  when  the  evangelist  is  gone  it  is  at  once 
found  that  the  Divine  Spirit  has  gone  too!  Of 
course,  that  ends  the  revival.  The  pulpit,  while  he 
occupied  it,  literally  rung  with  frequent  and  vigor- 
ous blasts  from  the  gospel  trumpet — and  that  with 
ro  "uncertain  sound" — but  now  it  goes  back  at  once 
iilo  its  former  "progressive"  routine.  Thus,  with- 
out opposition  from  the  pulpit,  skepticism,  in  its 
many  specious  disguises,  now  quietly  resumes  its 
former  place  and  influence,  at  the  front,  claiming, 
even  in  the  church,  and  as  the  fruit  of  the  revival 
itsflf,  a  new  lease  of  life,  and  absolute  pre-eminence 
in  everything.  Such  is  the  testimony  of  the  Spirit 
concerning  the  faithful  preaching  of  "the  Word," 
and  such,  too,  is  the  contrast  between  that  and  the 
preaching  of  "a  gospel  which  is  not  a  gospel."  The 
one  is  'a  eavor  of  life  unto  life"  to  every  one  that 
believelh;  while  the  other  is  a  savor  of  death  unto 
death  to  every  one  that  accepts  and  abides  in  it! 

Under  such  influences,  as  might  be  expected,  the 
doors  of  our  churches  are  opening  wide  to  skeptics 
of  every  stripe,  "who  hold  the  truth  in  unrighteous- 
ness." And  they  are  coming  in!  Even  the  Unita- 
rian has  but  to  profess  "a  profound  veneration  for 
(Mr)  Jesus  Christ;"  that  "henceforth  he  chooses 
him  for  the  monarch  and  portion  of  his  soul,"  and 
with  a  full  knowledge  of  his  skepticism  and  hatred 
of  the  truth,  the  church  receives  him  with  open 
arms.  The  well-known  Universalist,  too,  on  making 
the  same  profession,  is  equally  welcome.  So,  too,  is 
he  who  entertains  but  a  qualified  belief,  if  any,  in 
the  divine  inspiration  of  the  Scriptures. 

In  this  way  very  many  of  our  Congregational  pas- 
tors and  churches  in  this  immediate  vicinity,  and 
under,  as  it  were,  the  very  shadow  of  Andover  Theo- 
logical Seminary,  are  putting  the  ban  of  ecclesiasti- 
cal condemnation  upon  the  truth  of  God,  lowering 
the  standard  of  faith  and  piety,  and  (charitably  1) 
substituting  therefor  the  sanctimonious  sophistries 
and  blasphemies  of  a  great  conspiracy  against  the 
Christian  faith. 

Such  is  the  legitimate  fruit  of  the  "Advanced 
Theology,"  the  "Progressive  Orthodoxy,"  the 
"Higher  Criticism,"  as  developed  in  the  teachings 
of  those  appstles  of  "The  New  Departure,"  the 
learned  Faculty  of  that  venerable  and  once  honored 
"school  of  the  prophets." 

'Can  a  fountain  send  forth,  at  the  same  place, 
Bweet  water  and  bitter?"  "Spare  thy  people,  O 
Lord,  and  give  cot  thy  heritage  unto  reproach." 

Rtading,  Mass. 


and  very  much  has  been  accomplished.  But  mean- 
while this  people  has  nearly  doubled  in  numbers, 
and  there  has  sprung  up  among  them  a  system  of 
bondage  scarcely  less  degrading  to  true  manliness 
and  not  less  opposed  to  true  Christian  principles 
than  the  yoke  that  was  so  recently  broken.  The 
secret  lodge  system,  which  the  freedmen  received 
from  the  North,  is  eating  at  the  vitals  of  their  so- 
cial, religious  and  pecuniary  welfare. 

There  is  now  an  open  door  "to  preach  deliver- 
ance to  the  captives;  the  opening  of  the  eyes  of 
the  blind,  and  to  set  at  liberty  them  that  are 
bruised."  The  opportunity  comes  not  as  the  result 
of  conflict  and  blood,  but  as  the  reaction  of  relig- 
ion and  wise  economic  considerations. 

In  more  than  one  hundred  institutions  of  learn- 
ing, and  in  more  than  5,000  churches  can  this  de- 
liverance be  proclaimed.  There  is  no  such  corre- 
sponding opening  anywhere  in  the  North.  Work 
can  be  done  in  the  prosecution  of  our  reform 
everywhere,  but  if  we  will  do  the  best  and  most  ef- 
fective work,  we  must  enter  the  open  door. 


WORTHLBSa  GUNS. 


BY  CrRUS   SMITH. 

There  were  old  muskets  at  the  beginning  of  the 
war  that  at  one  time  had  been  considered  good 
guns,  but  had  become  so  rusted  and  worn  that  they 
were  dangerous  at  both  ends.  The  boys  would  shut 
their  eyes,  pull  the  trigger,  miss  the  mark  and  have 
a  lame  shoulder.  They  were  exchanged  for  new 
rifles  as  soon  as  they  could  be  obtained. 

The  Republican  party  reminds  us  of  one  of  those 
old  guns  that  did  good  service  in  1812.  The  old 
party,  like  the  old  guns,  has  doae  its  work  and  can- 
not be  aimed  at  the  enemy  of  "God  and  home  and 
native  land"  any  longer  definitely.  It  will  not  be 
committed  to  Prohibition,  because  it  has  become  so 
rusty  that  it  has  lost  its  foresight  and  is  no  longer 
a  reform  party. 

Four  years  ago  when  men  rallied  to  the  new  party 
that  has  a  burnished  front-sight  of  Prohibition  they 
were  told,  "You  cannot  elect  your  man."  "You  are 
throwing  your  votes  away."  "Prohibition  is  not  in 
politics."  Republicans  voted  blindly  to  elect  their 
man,  but  missed  the  mark  and  lost  their  votes  be- 
cause they  were  not  cast  for  a  living  issue.  It  was 
npt  so,  however,  with  the  new  party,  which  is  com- 
mitted to  living  principles. 

Republicans  were  quite  lame  in  the  right  shoul- 
der, and  blamed  the  St.  John  men;  but  it  was  only 
the  kick  of  their  old  guns.  Many  Republicans  and 
Democrats  are  Prohibitionists  at  heart;  then  why 
should  they  throw  their  votes  away  by  voting  the 
old  party  tickets?  Their  platforms  are  no  founda- 
tion for  a  Prohibitionist.  A  man  that  does  not  vote 
his  principles  throws  his  vote  away.  Better  throw 
away  one's  vote  for  a  great  principle  than  have  it 
counted  with  the  majority  for  a  great  wrong. 


PROGRESSIVE  TEEOLOGT. 


TEE  DOORS  OF  PROVIDENCE. 


Bf   BIV.   H.    U.    BINMAN. 

Every  Christian  undertaking,  in  order  to  have 
the  Divine  favor,  must  be  prosecuted  not  only  in 
accordance  with  Christian  principles,  and  by  purely 
Christian  methods,  but  must  also  follow  providential 
indications.  "Behold,  I  set  before  you  an  open 
door,"  is  the  Divine  warrant  fora  great  undertaking. 
Closed  doors  signify  its  cessation. 

When  there  were  in  our  land  four  millions  of 
slaves,  in  practical  heathenism,  our  efforts  and 
prayers  for  their  enlightenment  were  all  in  vain, 
until  God  had  in  his  wonderful  providence  over- 
thrown slavery.  The  door  was  then  open  by  which 
Cbristian  philanthropy  could  give  to  the  freedmen 
education  and  tbe  Gospel.  The  work  thus  made 
possible  has  been  entered  upon  with  enthusiasm, 


I C.  H .  Spurgeon,  In  Sword  and  Trowel.  | 

The  idea  of  a  progressive  Gospel  seems  to  have 
fascinated  many.  To  us  that  notion  is  a  sort  of 
cross-breed  between  nonsense  and  blasphemy.  Af- 
ter the  Gospel  has  been  found  effectual  in  the  eternal 
salvation  of  untold  multitudes,  it  seems  rather  late 
in  the  day  to  alter  it;  and,  since  it  is  the  revelation 
of  the  all-wise  and  unchanging  God,  It  appears  some- 
what audacious  to  attempt  its  improvement.  When 
we  call  up  before  our  mind's  eye  the  gentlemen  who 
have  set  themselves  this  presumptuous  task,  we  feel 
half  inclined  to  laugh;  the  case  is  so  much  like  the 
proposal  of  moles  to  improve  the  light  of  the  sun. 
Their  gigantic  intellects  are  to  hatch  out  the  mean- 
ings of  the  infinite  I  We  think  we  see  them  brood- 
ing over  hidden  truths  to  which  they  lend  the  aid  of 
their  superior  genius  to  accomplish  their  develop- 
ment! 

Hitherto  they  have  not  hatched  out  much  worth 
rearing.  Their  chickens  are  so  much  of  the  Roman 
breed,  that  we  sometimes  seriously  suspect  that,  after 
all,  Jesuitical  craft  may  be  at  the  bottom  of  this 
"modern  thought"  It  is  singular  that,  by  the  way 
of  free  thought,  men  should  be  reaching  the  same 
end  as  others  arrived  at  by  the  path  of  superstition. 
Salvation  by  works  is  one  distinctive  doctrine  of  the 
new  Gospel:  in  many  forms  this  is  avowed  and  glo- 
ried in — not  perhaps  in  exact  words,  but  in  declara- 
tions quite  unmistakable.  The  Galatian  heresy  is 
upon  us  with  a  vengeance:  in  the  name  of  virtue  and 
morality,  justification  by  faith  and  salvation  by  free 
grace  are  bitterly  assailed.  I*]qually  a  child  of  dark- 
ness is  this  new  purgatory.  It  is  taught  that  men 
can  escape  if  they  neglect  the  great  salvation.  No 
longer  is  the  call,  "To-day,  if  ye  will  hear  his  voice," 


for  the  to-morrow  of  the  next  state  will  answer  quite 
as  well.  Of  course,  if  men  may  be  gradually  up. 
raised  from  sin  and  ruin  in  the  world  to  come,  com- 
mon humanity  would  lead  us  to  pray  that  the  process 
may  go  on  rapidly.  We  are  hearing  every  now  and 
again  of  a  "night  of  pravers  for  the  dead,"  among  . 
certain  priests  of  the  Establishment.  Nor  is  it 
among  Ritualists  alone,  or  even  mainly,  for  the  other 
day,  at  a  meeting  for  prayer,  an  eminent  believer  in 
this  notion  prayed  heartily  for  the  devil;  and  his 
prayer,  upon  the  theory  of  the  restitution  of  all  the 
sinful,  was  most  natural.  Prayers  for  the  dead  and 
prayers  for  the  devil !  Shades  of  Knox  and  Latimer, 
where  are  ye?  How  easy  will  it  be  to  go  from 
prayers  for  the  dead  to  payment  to  good  men  for 
special  supplications  on  their  behalf!  Of  course  if 
a  devout  person  will  spend  an  hour  in  praying  a  de- 
ceased wife  out  of  her  miseries,  a  loving  husband 
will  not  let  him  exercise  his  supplications  for  noth- 
ing. It  would  be  very  mean  of  him  if  he  did. 
"Purgatory  Pick-purse,"  as  our  Protestant  forefa- 
thers called  it,  is  upon  us  again,  having  entered  by 
the  backdoor  of  infidel  speculation  instead'of  by  the 
front  entrance  of  pious  opinion. 

Do  men  really  believe  that  there  is  a  Gospel  for 
each  century?  Or  a  religion  for  each  fifty  years? 
Will  there  be  in  heaven  saints  saved  according  to  a 
score  of  sorts  of  Gospel?  Will  these  agree  together 
to  sing  the  same  song?  And  what  will  the  song  be? 
Saved  on  different  footings,  and  believing  different 
doctrines,  will  they  enjoy  eternal  concord,  or  will 
heaven  itself  be  only  a  new  arena  for  disputation 
between  varieties  of  faiths? 

We  shall,  on  the  supposition  of  an  ever-developing 
theology,  owe  a  great  deal  to  the  wisdom  of  men. 
God  may  provide  the  marble;  but  it  is  man  who  will 
carve  the  statue.  It  will  no  longer  be  true  that  God 
has  hidden  these  things  from  the  wise  and  prudent, 
and  revealed  them  unto  babes;  but  the  babes  will 
be  lost  in  hopeless  bewilderment,  and  carnal  wisdom 
will  have  fine  times  for  glorying.  Scientific  men 
will  be  the  true  prophets  of  our  Israel,  even  though 
they  deny  Israel's  God;  and  instead  of  the  Holy 
Spirit  guiding  the  humble  in  heart,  we  shall  see  the 
enthronement  of  "the  spirit  of  the  age,"  whatever 
that  may  mean.  "The  world  by  wisdom  knew  not 
God,"  so  says  the  apostle  of  the  ages  past;  but  the 
contrary  is  to  be  our  experience  nowadays.  New 
editions  of  the  Gospel  are  to  be  excogitated  by  the 
wisdom  of  men,  and  we  are  to  follow  in  the  wake  of 
"thoughtful  preachers"  whose  thoughts  are  not  as 
God's  thoughts. 

It  is  thought  to  be  mere  bigotry  to  protest  against 
the  mad  spirit  which  is  now  being  loose  among  us. 
Pan-indifferentism  is  rising  like  the  tide;  who  can 
hinder  it?  We  are  all  to  be  as  one,  even  though  we 
agree  in  next  to  nothing.  It  is  a  breach  of  brotherly 
love  to  denounce  error.  Hail,  holy  charity  I  Black 
is  white;  and  white  is  black.  The  false  is  true;  the 
true  is  false;  the  true  and  false  are  one.  Let  us  join 
hands,  and  never  again  mention  those  barbarous, 
old-fashioned  doctrines  about  which  we  are  sure  to 
differ.  Let  the  good  and  sound  men  for  liberty's 
sake  shield  their  "advanced  brethren,"  or  at  least 
gently  blame  them  in  a  tone  which  means  approval. 
After  all,  there  is  no  difference,  except  in  the  point 
of  view  from  which  we  look  at  things:  it  is  all  in 
the  eye,  or,  as  the  vulgar  say,  "It  is  all  my  eye!" 
In  order  to  maintain  an  open  union,  let  us  fight  as 
for  dear  life  against  any  form  of  sound  words,  since 
it  might  restrain  our  liberty  to  deny  the  doctrines  of 
the  Word  of  God! 

But  what  if  earnest  protests  accomplish  nothing, 
because  of  the  invincible  resolve  of  the  infatuated 
to  abide  in  fellowship  with  the  inventors  of  false 
doctrine?  Well,  we  shall  at  least  have  done  our 
duty.  We  are  not  responsible  for  success.  It  the 
plague  cannot  be  stayed,  we  can  at  least  die  in  the 
attempt  to  remove  it.  Every  voice  that  is  lifted  up 
against  Anythingarianism  is  at  least  a  little  hin- 
drance to  its  universal  prevalence. 


TEE  R08IGRUCIAN8. 


THEIR  HISrORT. 


About  the  only  thing  known  with  entire  certainty 
about  the  Rosicrucians  is  that  the  controversy  con- 
cerning them  has  been  endless  and  has  resulted  in 
fixing  tbe  word  in  the  language  as  the  refined  ap- 
pellation of  the  devotees  of  theosophic  science. 
Professor  Buhle,  whose  volume  has  been  received 
since  1807  as  the  standard  authority,  considered  the 
order  a  modified  form  of  Freemasonry.  His  theo- 
ries were  given  to  the  English  public  by  Thomas  de 
Quincey.  Guisseppe  Balsamo,  the  charlatan  count 
Alessandro  Cagliostro,  among  his  other  pretensions, 
gave  himself  out  to  be  a  Rosicrucian,  and,  as  susb, 
in  possession  of  all  the  occult  philosophy  of  tbe 


I 


I 


Vr*-' 


August  9, 1888 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


East  which  was  claimed  to  be  hidden  in  the  secret 
of  this  order.  Others  have  viewed  its  documents 
as  a  huge  jest  practiced  on  the  world  by  the  grim 
jokers  of  the  seventeenth  century.  Li«bnitz 
thought  it  the  invention  of  some  ingenious  person. 
Others  have  traced  tne  system  to  Paracelsus,  the 
mysterious  Hierophant  of  Hohenheim,  as  to  whom 
the  world  does  not  yet  know  whether  to  class  him 
among  its  prophets  or  its  clowns.  A  strong  case  has 
been  made  out  to  prove  that  John  Valentine  An- 
dreas wrote  the  Kosicrucian  manifestoes.  Tauler's 
hand  has  been  supposed  to  be  in  them  and  the  doc- 
uments themselves  recite  the  story  of  Christian 
Rosencreutz  as  the  founder  of  the  order.  Har- 
grave  Jennings  in  his  absurd  jumble  of  1879  and 
and  in  that  recently  issued,  sees  Rosicrucianism 
everywhere,  as  Mr.  Astronomer  Pye  Smyth  flnds  the 
great  Pyramid  packed  with  Divine  revelation. 
Arthur  Edward  Waite,  the  latest  writer  to  enter 
this  metaphysical  field,  has  at  least  these  qualifica- 
tions that  he  is  a  skeptic  whose  credulity  cannot  be 
imposed  on  and  that  he  writes  with  a  reasonable 
conception  of  what  constitutes  evidence.  In  Jhe 
Heal  History  cf  the  Rosicrucvms,  "founded  on  their 
own  manifestoes  and  on  facts  and  documents  col- 
lected from  the  writings  of  the  initiated  brethren," 
he  does  not  succeed  in  solving  the  mystery,  not 
even  to  his  own  satisfaction,  as  he  frankly  con- 
fesses. He  follows,  however,  a  rational  order  and  a 
critical  method.  He  rejects  the  story  of  Rosen- 
creutz, but  believes  in  the  existence  of  the  brother- 
hood as  an  order  which  fascinated  men  by  some 
singular  and  attractive  fiction.  He  is  not  disposed 
to  concede  the  antiquity  of  the  order,  though  he 
easily  finds  ancient  roots  enough  out  of  which  such 
an  order  might  have  been  developed,  and  with 
which  it  might  have  been  connected  in  the  popular 
mind.  He  believes  that  alchemy  had  much  to  do 
with  their  secret,  that  the  brotherhood  was  pre-emi- 
nently a  learned  order  and  both  Christian  and  Prot- 
estant, a  consideration  which  precludes  their  antiq- 
uity on  the  one  hand  and  divides  them  from  the 
Templars  on  the  other,  whose  religious  secret  he  be- 
lieves to  have  been  of  the  anti-Christian  type.  He 
repudiates  Buhle's  Freemasonry  hypothesis,  and  is 
not  convinced  of  Andreas's  claim,  though  he  con- 
cedes that  Andreas  was  swayed  by  a  passionate  be- 
lief in  the  mission  of  secret  societies  for  the  re- 
formation or  Germany  and  the  completion  of  what 
Luther  began.  He  leaves  the  argument  undecided, 
and  possibly  with  some  touch  of  a  constitutional 
skeptic's  inability  to  come  to  a  positive  decision. — 
7he  Independent. 

A    MASONIC  ACCODNT. 

These  were  a  secret  society  which  was  founded  in 
the  fourteenth  century,  and  became  known  in  the 
seventeenth.  They  alleged  that  the  master  of  their 
"order"  lived  over  100  years,  and  when  buried,  his 
tomb  could  not  be  found.  The  tenets  of  the  order 
declared  "they  had  no  wish  to  interfere  with  the  re- 
ligious or  political  merits  of  countries,  but  only  ad- 
mired the  improvement  of  mankind  by  the  teaching 
of  a  true  philosophy,  thus  to  be  the  hidden  levers 
to  raise  men  in  the  scale  of  being.  Known  as  her- 
mitical  philosophers,  they  extolled  Raymond  Sully, 
the  Alchemyst,  and  Cagliostro,  of  last  century, 
claimed  to  be  of  the  sect.  The  name  is  said  to  be 
derived  from  Royenkrug,  a  German  nobleman,  who, 
having  traveled  much  in  the  East,  came  back  with  a 
rich  store  of  ancient  legends  and  mysteries;  one  of 
which  was  'that  if  men  properly  knew  the  secret  of 
life,  they  need  never  die.'  They  were  also  known 
as  the  'lUuminatii,'  and  Invisible  Brothers,  because 
they  made  no  public  display  of  themselves  or  their 
science.  Bound  to  their  order  by  the  most  solemn 
oaths,  they  kept  their  secrets  well.  They  professed 
to  know  all  science,  and  taught  that  every  material 
object  had  a  spiritual  counterpart — claimed  to  have 
discovered  the  ^iSophia  Lapis'  (philosopher's  stone). 
In  their  system  there  were  nine  degrees,  and  among 
themselves  they  are  known  as  'Adepts.'  Their  ob- 
ject was  to  communicate  with  the  learned  of  all  na- 
tions, and  to  form  a  brotherhood  of  intelligence,  by 
which  as  'sons  of  light'  they  should  be  known  to 
each  other;  sworn  to  impenetrable  secredy,  they  in- 
vented a  language  of  signs,  and  so  knew  each  other. 
Those  who  joined  them  were  taught  that  the  highest 
virtue  was  the  study  of  the  healing  art  to  prolong 
human  life.  Unlike  some  institutions  which  the 
middle  ages  gave  birth  to,  the  Fraternity  of  the  Rosy 
Cross  seldom  came  into  prominence.  Isolated  from 
each  other,  they  corresponded  in  cypher  carved  on 
wood  or  stone,  sent  by  trusty  messengers,  till  the 
art  of  printing,  then  one  of  their  number  wrote 
tracts  bearing  cabalistic  signs,  which  none  but  the 
'adepts'  could  interpret.  They  were  taught  to  court 
solitude  and  obscurity,  in  order  to  contemplate  the 
divine  qualities  and  perfections  of  the  Great  Creator. 
Thus  by  close  observation  of  the  laws  of  nature 


they  became  the  fathers  of  modern  science,  and  so 
discovered  and  conserved  many  physical  secrets, 
which  were  supposed  to  benefit  men.  Living  in  the 
world  they  seemed  to  be  not  of  it,  and  as  the  domi- 
nant power  and  hierarchy  of  those  times  were  bit- 
terly opposed  to  magic  and  the  black  art  (as  any- 
thing their  shallow  brains  could  not  grasp  was  then 
called),  they  had  to  live  in  recess  and  seclusion,  as 
they  were  not  to  court  persecution,  and  thereby  en- 
danger their  lives  and  liberty.  Hence  they  were 
regarded  as  mystical  personages,  said  to  communi- 
cate with  beings  of  another  world.  Ancient  astrol- 
ogy and  alchemy  they  were  supposed  to  study,  and 
thus  prophesy  future  events;  knowledge  with  them 
was  above  rubies.  The  order  was  governed  by  five 
fundamental  laws.  '1.  To  ease  suffering  and  to  heal 
the  sick.  2.  To  conform  to  the  manners,  customs 
and  laws  of  the  country  in  which  they  lived.  3. 
To  meet  in  council  once  a  year.  4.  When  dying  to 
name  a  successor.  5.  To  preserve  their  secret  from 
century  to  century.'  They  taught  that  by  the  prac- 
tice of  every  moral  virtue,  and  the  checking  of  all 
disease,  human  life  might  be  much  prolonged,  and 
that  by  elixirs  and  nostrums  old  age  might  be  kept 
away.  Believing  in  the  occult  sciences,  they  aspired 
to  know  all  mysteries;  and  by  the  aid  of  mental 
science  to  have  complete  control  over  all  passions. 
There  is  a  trace  of  them  in  Bulwer  Lytton's  two 
novels,  'Zanoni'  and  'A  Strange  Story.'  As  an  order 
they  do  not  now  exist;  but  a  'speculative'  order  in 
Freemasonry  bears  some  afliaity  to  them,  and  who, 
claiming  to  be  'Sons  of  Light,'  profess  to  follow 
their  footsteps." — Australasian  Keystone, 

THE  BATTLE  SONG  OF  GUSTAVUS 
ADOLPEUS. 


LETTERS  FROM  EUROPE. 


Be  not  cast  down,  O  little  flock, 
Nor  fear  the  deadly  battle-shock 

With  which  your  foes  assail  you  I 
Although  they  mean  your  overthrow, 
And  on  your  heads  deal  blow  on  blow, 

Let  not  your  courage  fail  you. 

Tour  cause  is  God's,  be  this  your  trust, 
He  will  avenge  you,  for  he  must; 

The  issue  he  will  mold  it. 
You  can  not  he,  for  long,  undone, 
For  help  he'll  send  through  his  own  Son, 

The  truth  he  will  uphold  it. 

If  God  be  God,  and  true  his  Word, 
World,  hell,  and  devil  all  have  heard 

A  name  that  shall  o'erthrow  them. 
Their  scoffs  shall  go  no  more  abroad; 
God  is  with  us,  we  are  with  God, 

The  victory  we  will  show  them. 

Then  gird  yourselves,  ye  little  flock ; 
Btand  as  for  God,  stand  like  a  rock. 

Nor  let  your  foes  dismay  you  1 
God  soon  will  all  their  wrath  assuage. 
And  quench  In  blood"  their  foaming  rage, 

His  own  right  arm  display  you. 

Amen  I    Lord  Jesus,  take  our  part ; 
For  thou  our  great  Protector  art. 

Almighty  to  deliver  I 
And  as  yon  ransomed  ones  we'll  sing 
Our  tribute  unto  thee,  our  King 

And  King  of  kings,  forever. 

—  J.  E.  Raukiu,  D.  />.,  in  doldcu  Rule. 


THE  BOSTON  DEBATE. 


But  the  real  point  at  issue  is  not  Swinton,or  in- 
dulgences, but  public  against  parochial  schools. 
The  Baltimore  council  condemned  our  Bible,  several 
of  our  text  books,  and  finally  the  whole  public 
school  system  as  Godless.  The  Catholic  whale 
cannot  keep  the  Protestant  public  school  system  on 
its  stomach.  Parochial  schools  are  springing  up  all 
over  the  country.  Catholic  citizens  are  commanded 
to  take  their  children  out  of  our  schools.  If  they 
do  not  obey  they  are  to  be  excommunicated;  if  they 
do  obey  the  Catholic  citizenship  of  America  will  be 
an  undigested  mass  in  the  body  politic.  The  State 
needs  the  gastric  juice  generated  by  the  public 
school  glands  to  digest  the  fare  furnished  by  the 
old  world  restaurant.  The  question  is  before  us 
and  must  be  met.  Roman  Catholicism,  like  Lot's 
wife  on  the  plain,  toes  one  way  and  faces  another; 
her  ideals,  her  home,  her  policy  are  in  the  past 
tense. 

New  occasions  teach  men  duties, 
Time  makes  ancient  good   uncouth, 
They  must  upward  still  and  onward, 
Who  would  keep  abreast  of  truth. 

Two  systems  stand  face  to  face.  The  open  Bible 
and  the  public  school  confront  the  catechism  and 
the  parochial  school.  The  Republic  rests  on 
Plymouth  Uock;  the  Catholic  church  rests  on  SL 
Peter  as  a  rock.  The  American  people  must  choose. 
— Dr.   0.  P.  Giffordf  in  the  Christian  Inquirer. 


LIPK   IN   A   D:CAL   PALACE. 

MuNicn,  Bavaria. 

I  have  been  in  Munich  a  week.  Lett  Rome  all  in 
"blossoms  and  beauty,"  as  the  Italians  say,  Wed- 
nesday evening,  stopped  two  days  days  at  Florence, 
where  everything  was  in  bloom  also,  and  in  fourteen 
hours  arrived  in  a  terrific  snowstorm  on  the  Brenner 
pass.  There  had  been  several  avalanches  on  the 
pass  within  a  few  days,  one  of  which  destroyed  a 
bridge  and  part  of  a  tunnel  on  the  railroad.  We 
were  obliged  to  get  out  and  walk  through  the  snow 
of  the  avalanche  to  another  train  sent  down  to  the 
opposite  side  of  the  mountain  from  Innshinck. 
Some  of  the  passengers  were  quite  disturbed  in  their 
minds,  thinking  apparently  that  a  second  slide  from 
the  mountain  top  might  take  us  with  it  before  we 
had  crossed  the  broken  bridge.  In  fact,  it  would 
not  have  been  very  pleasant  if  such  a  thing  had  oc- 
curred for  the  snow  came  down  with  such  force  as 
to  carry  the  forest  trees,  mostly  pines,  torn  up  by 
the  roots,  with  it.  We  saw  in  another  place  a  large 
peasant  house  completely  crushed  in  in  the  same 
way.  The  village  of  Ober  Gurgle,  which  we  visited 
last  summer,  is  said  to  be  entirely  demolished  by 
the  repeated  avalanches  that  have  occurred  there 
this  spring.  Those  steep  mountains  are  very  pic- 
turesque, but  they  seem  too  dangerous  to  be  desir- 
able as  near  neighbors. 

SoHLOss,  TfiQEENSEE,  Bavaria. — Tegemsec  is  a 
beautiful  lake  surrounded  on  two  sides  and  one  end 
by  steep  mountains,  some  of  the  Bavarian  Alps.  It 
is  a  very  fashionable  watering-place  later  in  the 
season,  and  will  be  crowded  with  summer  visitors 
from  Munich  and  Berlin;  but  now  we  see  hardly  any 
one  except  the  peasants  and  the  people  belonging 
in  some  way  to  the  castle.  The  mountains  are  still 
covered  with  snow;  it  snowed  on  the  higher  ones 
last  night  again,  though  here  within  one  and  a  half 
hour's  walk  the  fields  are  covered  with  cjwdlips, 
buttercups,  daisies,  forget-me-nots,  a  kind  of  pink 
resembling  sweet  william,  wild  verbenas,  primroses, 
violets  and  'johnny-jump  ups,"  and  a  tiny  tlower 
called,  for  what  reason  I  do  not  know,  "St.  Bene- 
dict's little  Rose." 

This  castle  was  built  for  a  monastery  several  hun- 
dred years  ago.  In  the  hall  out  of  which  my  room 
opens  are  several  portraits  of  the  former  priors  and 
other  monks,  most  of  them  bearing  the  date  of  the 
birth  and  death  of  their  originals,  and  a  pair  of  lit- 
tle cupids  conspicuously  holding  up  a  tablet  con- 
taining an  epitaph  in  Latin,  relating  the  praise- 
worthy actions  of  the  same  personage.  These  por- 
traits are  of  the  last  generation  of  monks  who  in- 
habited the  castle;  and  they  all  appear  to  have  lived 
between  1650  and  1730  or  17-iO. 

I  have  not  yet  found  anyone  who  knows  in  what 
year  the  castle  was  built.  It  is  built  in  the  form  of 
a  hollow  square.  About  half  of  one  side  of  this 
square  is  occupied  by  a  church.  It  is  three  stories 
and  a  half  high.  In  the  lower  story  live  in  one  side 
the  kitchen  servants,  and  on  the  other  side  and 
front  the  "ladies  in  waiting"  on  "her  highness,"  the 
two  elder  Princesses  and  their  maids,  the  "Foot- 
meu"  (I  write  them  with  a  capital  because  they  are 
so  immensely  important  in  their  own  opinion),  one 
of  the  Duke's  companions,  a  Hugarian  gentleman, 
and  we  four  teachers.  In  the  second  story  are  the 
rooms  of  "His  Royal  Highness  Prince  Ludwig  Wil- 
helm,"  (as  it  stands  on  the  door).  Princess  Marie 
Gabrielle  and  Princess  Amelia  who  is  now  traveling 
in  Italy,  and  their  different  attendants;  and  in  the 
upper  story  live  the  Duke  himself  and  his  wife  and 
the  last  member  of  the  family  "His  Royal  Highness 
Prince  Franz  Rudolph,"  age  five  weeks.  I  was  quite 
abashed  when  I  was  told  that  1  should  be  presented 
to  the  Prince  to  whom  all  Tegernsee  will  belong,  be- 
sides several  other  castles;  but  when  I  came  into 
the  room,  behold!  the  Prince  was  a  bashful  little 
boy  who  put  his  finger  in  his  mouth  and  hardly 
dared  look  at  me.  I  discovered  an  hour  later  that 
the  young  gentleman's  highest  ambition  was  to  get 
into  the  carriage  house  and  play  coachman.  He 
was  forbidden  to  go  there,  but  as  he  knew  I  had  not 
been  told  where  he  was  allowed  to  go,  and  where  not, 
he  importuned  me  the  first  time  I  took  him  to  walk 
to  take  him  there,  and  told  me  afterward  "it  was 
something  new  for  him."  I  am  to  take  him  out 
sometimes  and  speak  English  with  him,  for  this 
four-year-old  boy  must  already  learn  four  languages. 
He  understands  all  that  is  said  to  him  in  French  or 
English  and  a  little  Portuguese,  but  answers  to  all 
languages  in  German.  He  is  usually  a  very  nice 
little  fellow,  but  1  pity  him,  for  it  is  quite  probable 
he  may  inherit  his  cousin's  and  uncle's  insanity, 
(Otto,  King  of  Bavaria,  is  his  cousin,  as  also  the 
former  King  Ludwig,  both  insane).     He  had  twice 


•THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


August  9, 1888 


terrible  convulsions,  and  any  fright  or  excitement  is 
liable  to  bring  them  on  again. 

The  Duchess  is,  1  think,  the  most  beautiful 
woman  I  ever  saw.  She  is  the  daughter  of  the 
King  of  Portugal,  and  has  something  rather  Spanish 
in  her  looks,  though  she  is  not  at  all  dark.  She  is 
only  thirty  now  and  her  oldest  daughter.  Princess 
Sophia  is  nearly  fourteen  and  very  tall  of  her  age. 

The  Duchess  and  Duke  have  gone  to  Weran  in  the 
Tyrol  for  several  weeks.  The  day  they  left  we  all 
had  to  put  on  gloves  and  stand  in  two  rows  near  the 
entrance  hall  until  she  came  down  stairs.  Then  she 
gave  each  one  her  hand  and  we  were  all  expected  to 
bow  very  low  and  kiss  the  tips  of  her  fingers.  I  was 
"drilled"  beforehand  to  make  that  bow,  or  rather 
courtesy,  but  I  think  1  did  not  make  a  success  of  it 
after  all.  I  should  have  felt  inclined  to  try  to  slip 
out  of  the  whole  ceremony  if  it  had  been  possible. 
Then  the  Duke  shook  hands  with  us  all,  and  we  went 
into  the  hall  where  the  carriage  stood,  and  the  Duch- 
ess kissed  all  the  children  like  any  other  mother,  and 
told  them  to  be  good,  etc.;  after  which  we  repeated 
the  whole  ceremony  again  and  she  was  helped  into 
the  carriage.  Little  Prince  Ludwig  had  been  told 
he  must  not  cry,  and  stood  the  whole  time  with  his 
lips  pressed  together  and  trembling,  but  never  utter- 
ing a  sound,  and  looking  very  unchildish.  It  was 
several  days  before  he  began  to  look  natural  again. 
Since  the  Duchess  is  gone  the  Princesses  are  not 
allowed  to  be  together  for  any  lessons  or  walk. 
Each  one  must  go  separately  with  one  of  her  teach- 
ers walking  from  5  to  7  p.  m.  and  from  8  to  9  A.  m. 
Between  12  and  1  they  go  into  the  garden  and  prac- 
tice calisthenics  with  a  teacher,  the  only  time  the 
three  come  together  in  the  day.  It  seems  rather 
hard  on  the  children,  and  they  are  very  discontented, 
but  keep  it  to  themselves  usually.  R. 


THE  UNITED    BRETHREN  CONVENTION. 


AN   INTERESTING   MEETING  ATTENDED    BY  OUR    INDI- 
ANA COLPORTEURS. 


Waterloo,  Ind.,  Aug.  2,  1888. 

Dear  Ctnoscre: — We  are  here  attending  the 
convention  of  the  radical  wing  of  the  United  Breth- 
ren church,  held  July  31  to  August  3.  After  work- 
ing in  Auburn  and  St.  Jo  we  held  meeting  in  Union 
chapel,  a  U.  B.  church  east  of  Auburn.  A  good 
audience  came  to  hear,  and  manifested  considerable 
interest  in  our  work  by  taking  the  tracts  and  asking 
questions.  The  work  has  many  true  friends  in  that 
locality,  among  whom  J.  R.  Cooper,  with  whom  we 
spent  the  Sabbath,  is  an  earnest  worker. 

Monday  we  came  to  Waterloo.  Already  many 
delegates  had  arrived,  and  we,  with  them,  soon  found 
the  entertainment  committee  and  were  directed  to 
hospitable  homes,  which  characteriza  Waterloo. 
Monday  evening  religious  services  introduced  the 
work  of  the  week.  Rev.  H.  J.  Becker,  of  Ohio, 
preached  from  Matt.  6:  11.  His  analysis  of  the 
subject  was  new  and  unusually  interesting,  showing 
human  dependence  and  Divine  care.  The  speaker's 
experience  as  a  traveller  added  much  interest  and 
instruction  to  the  discourse. 

Tuesday  afternoon  the  convention  proper  was  or- 
ganized. Rev.  W.  Knipple,  of  Illinois,  was  elected 
chairman,  and  E.  Williams  secretary.  Rev.  William 
Dillon,  of  the  Chutian  Conservator,  addressed  the 
convention  on  the  progress  of  the  church  work  rep- 
resented by  his  paper.  Judging  the  movement  by 
his  remarks  the  radical  wing  and  all  opposed  to  the 
lodge  power  have  abundant  reason  to  be  encouraged 
and  continue  the  fight.  Mr.  Wright,  of  the  same 
paper,  followed,  giving  a  financial  report  of  the  or- 
ganization. Rev.  H.  J.  Becker  gave  a  lecture  in  the 
evening,  descriptive  of  his  500  mile  horseback  ride 
in  Egypt  and  Palestine. 

On  Wednesday  morning  Rev.  Potter  delivered  the 
address  of  welcome.  Delegates  were  welcomed  both 
as  visitors  and  as  lojal  United  Brethren.  All  friends 
of  the  cause  realized  their  hearty,  hospitable  recep- 
tion. An  exhortation  to  renewed  vigor  and  fidelity 
closed  the  address.  The  chairman  of  the  convention 
respondtd,  defining  the  object  of  the  convention 
about  as  follows:  "We  have  not  assembled  to  cre- 
ate discord,  schism,  or  trouble  in  the  church,  nor  to 
war  against  sc  cret  societies.  Many  erroneously  sup- 
pose  Ibis  is  the  object  The  motto  which  decorates 
the  front  wall  of  the  church  states  clearly  the  true 
issue.  It  reads  thus:  '7 he  Conititution  of  I8J1.I 
Aluit  hf  Maintained.'  The  General  Conference  held 
in  1885  attempted  to  disprove  the  validity  of  the 
church  constitution,  and  appointed  a  commission  to 
examine  and  alter  the  constitution  and  confession  of 
faith.  According  to  the  church  regulation  the  con- 
fession is  unchangeable,  and  to  amend  the  constitu- 
tion requires  a  two-thirds  vote  of  all  the  church  laity. 
The  radical  wing  claims,  with  good  reason,  that 


both  these  rules  were  violated- in  appointing  the 
commission,  and  that  the  constitution  of  1841  is 
still  in  force,  and  without  it  there  is  no  church  or- 
ganization. If  the  liberals  cannot  disprove  this  their 
object  will  be  evident  and  must  be  condemned.  The 
vital  point  of  the  constitution  which  the  commission 
has  altered,  and  which  the  liberal  wing  of  the  church 
wants  to  adopt,  is  the  regulation  regarding  secret 
orders.  I  quote  both  the  old  and  the  new.  The 
old  reads  thus: 

Art.  II.,  Sec.  7.— There  shall  be  no  connection  with  secret 
combinations. 

"The  amended  constitution  reads: 

Art.  III.,  Skc.  1.— We  declare  that  all  secret  combinations 
which  Infringe  upon  the  rigths  of  those  outside  their  organiza- 
tion, and  whose  principles  and  practices  are  Injurious  to  the 
Christian  character  of  their  members,  are  contrary  to  the  Word 
of  God,  and  Christians  ought  to  have  no  connection  with 
them. 

The  validity  of  the  constitution,  the  right  of 
church  property,  the  maintenance  of  church  purity 
and  unity,  the  commission,  its  power,  work  and  re- 
sults, with  other  phases  of  the  issue,  were  ably  dis- 
cussed. Rev.  H.  T.  Barnaby,  of  Michigan,  Rev. 
Floyd,  of  the  Conservator,  and  other  members  of  the 
convention  spoke  during  Tuesday  and  Wednesday. 
All  loyal  radicals  were  earnestly  advised  not  to  vote 
on  the  work  of  the  commission,  and  were  urged  to 
petition  the  General  Conference  of  1889  against  any 
change  in  the  confession  of  faith,  or  the  constitu- 
tution.  Thursday  morning  was  occupied  by  reports 
of  committees  and  soliciting  funds.  Personal 
pledges  were  secured  to  the  amount  of  $1,045.29; 
conference  pledges  amounted  to  $925. 

One  of  the  most  interesting  features  of  the  con- 
vention was  a  discussion  by  the  ladies,  opened  by 
Mrs.  Baldwin.  They  proved  effectively  that  secret- 
ism  is  the  enemy  of  the  home  and  of  women;  and 
the  lodge  divides  the  home,  and  prevents  the  proper 
training  of  children. 

The  relation  of  the  lodge  to  the  church,  Masonry 
and  religion,  and  other  subjects  of  the  regular  pro- 
gram were  thoroughly  discussed  at  the  last  ses- 
sion of  the  convention.  Recommendations  and  ex- 
hortations to  loyalty  to  the  truth  and  to  the  church 
discipline  were  characteristic  of  each  address. 

The  United  Brethren  of  the  radical  wing  are  to 
be  congratulated  on  the  success  of  their  convention; 
and,  judging  by  their  determination,  a  great  strug- 
gle is  in  the  near  future.  The  convention  was  a 
grand  rally  of  the  loyal  United  Brethren  and  those 
who  sympathiz3  with  the  movement  against  secret 
societies.  The  true  spirit  of  Christianity  and  oppo- 
sition to  the  world  pervaded  the  entire  meeting.  The 
fervent  prayers  and  earnest  addresses  prove  the 
thorough  conviction  and  stability  of  the  radical 
wing.  They  intend  to  maintain  the  purity,  if  not 
the  unity  of  their  church. 

Secretary  J.  P.  Stoddard's  presence  was  much 
desired  by  his  frienJs,  but  not  realized.  Your  agent 
listened  with  much  pleasure  to  Rav.  J.  K.  Alwood 
and  others,  who  related  Secretary  Stoddard'd  experi- 
ence in  opposing  Masonry  in  this  State,  ^he  N,  C. 
A.  has  many  friends  among  the  United  Brethren. 
Our  tracts,  especially  "Moody"  and  "Five  Bible  Ar- 
guments," were  eagerly  sought  and  read.  "Stories 
of  the  Gods"  sold  readily.  May  all  the  Christians 
hope,  pray  and  do  what  we  can  to  propagate  truth 
and  righteousness,  acd  resist  the  forces  of  evil. 

F.  L.  Johnston. 


Reform  News. 


THE   SUMMER    CAMPAIGN    AMONG    THE 
GREEN  MOUNTAINS. 


THE   OLD   HOMB. 


Saxton's  River;  Vt.,  July  26, 1888. 
Dear  Cynosure: — By  the  mercy  of  God  we  have 
reached  the  State  of  our  nativity.  The  grand  old 
mountains  tower  above  and  around  us,  and  the  blue 
a^ure  flecked  with  white  fleecy  clouds  bends  over  us 
as  of  old.  "As  the  mountains  are  round  about  Jeru- 
salem, so  is  the  Lord  round  about  them  that  fear 
him,  and  delivereth  them."  Thus  the  devout  Psalm- 
ist exclaimed,  and  89  our  present  experience  echoes 
back  from  this  sweiet  retreat  his  sacred  inspiring 
words.  This  has  been  a  kind  of  half  rainy  day, 
greatly  refreshing  all  vegetation.  The  ground  had 
btcome  very  dry  and  these  showers  will  do  untold 
good.  God  still  sends  us  the  early  and  the  latter 
rain,  from  year  to  year  and  from  generation  to  gen- 
eration. "The  undtvout  astronomer,"  Young  says, 
"is  mad."  Expand  the  thought,  embrace  every 
man  and  woman  of  ordinary  intelligence  who  walks 
this  beautiful  world,  or  traverses  its  varied  waters, 
as  well  as  he  who  gazes  on  the  glories  of  the  heav- 
ens, and  if  they  pay  not  reverent  worship  to  the 


Author  of  all  these  sublime  and  countless  glories, 
truly  we  may  affirm  of  them,  they,  too,  are  "mad." 
May  the  beloved  readers  of  this  paper  all  worship 
the  o«e  living  and  true  God,  instead  of  the  lords 
many  and  gods  many  to  whom  myriads  bow  down. 

M.  A.  Blanchard. 


the  good  work  begins. 
Saxton's  River,  Vt.,  July  30, 1888. 

Dear  Brethren:  —I  am  sure  you  will  be  anxious 
to  hear  a  word  from  me.  Mr.  Blanchard  and  wife 
arrived  here  on  Thursday.  He  spoke  to  very  full 
houses  both  at  the  Congregational  and  Baptist 
churches.  The  pastors  were  with  us  and  assisted  in 
the  services,  and  seldom  has  a  speaker  had  more 
quiet,  thoughtful  and  attentive  audiences.  The  Lord 
by  his  Spirit  was  manifestly  with  us.  The  presi- 
dent, although  very  weak  from  sickness  while  at 
Saratoga,  spoke  with  the  vigor  of  youth,  and  with 
great  help  from  God,  and  this  morning  is  stronger 
than  before. 

We  have  appointments  for  three  Sabbaths  more 
at  Windham,  Grafton  and  Rockingham.  We  feel 
that  God  is  wonderfully  favoring  us  in  the  begin- , 
ning  of  the  work.  I  deeply  feel  the  need  of  tracts 
to  distribute  here  to  follow  up  the  evidently  good 
work  begun  at  Saxton's  River.  We  can  but  hope 
and  expect  God's  guidance  and  control  in  all  this 
work.  Pastors  and  people  know  next  to  nothing  of 
its  importance.  I  was  opposed  to  Masonry  during 
my  long  ministry  in  Keene,  but  the  tremendous  im- 
portance of  opposition  on  the  part  of  our  churches 
is  rising  before  me  every  day,  as  I  have  seen  the 
cumulus  clouds  in  the  sky  pile  one  upon  another. 
This  is  because  of  facts  and  information  I  am  receiv- 
ing on  this  subject.  I  write  hastily,  as  we  are  to 
start  out  this  morning  to  still  further  our  plans. 

Fraternally  yours,  (Rev.)  J.  A.  Leach. 


FROM  THE   GENERAL  AGENT. 

CONNECTICUT  CHURCHES   AND  CAMP  MEETINGS. — OLD 

TRIENDS  AND  NEW.— BISHOP  TAYLOR. — THE 

NEW  ENGLAND  AGENCY. 

At  Putnam,  Connecticut,  on  Sabbath,  the  29 Ih 
inst.,  I  found  friends  and  some  devoted  disciples. 
At  the  Baptist  church  I  took  part  and  was  much  re- 
freshed in  the  morning  prayer  meeting.  A  goodly 
number  of  the  spiritually  minded  were  present,  and 
spoke  freely  of  the  things  of  the  "kingdom."  The 
able  sermon  by  pastor  Stubert  was  from  the  words 
of  God  to  Moses,  "Lst  me  alone."  Bro.  Stubert  is 
anti-lodge,  and  has  only  a  small  percentage  of  the 
secret  element  inside  the  sheepfold,  yet  he  seems  to 
have  inherited  or  acquired  a  knowledge  of  the  con- 
venient use  of  the  "But"  familiar  in  early  anti-slav- 
ery times. 

Retiring  from  church  I  fell  in  with  an  intelligent 
gentleman  who  seemed  desirous  of  further  acquaint- 
ance, and  he  invited  me  to  his  home  for  dinner.  I 
was  gratified  to  learn  that  my  host  was  Mr.  Angel 
Wheaton,  a  half  brother  of  Jesse  and  Warren,  my 
neighbors  and  fellow  townsmen  in  Illinois.  I  said, 
"Surely  God  moves  in  a  mysterious  way."  Later  I 
met  the  son  of  Bro.  Wheaton,  who  was  once  a  stu- 
dent at  Wheaton  College,  where  he  became  acquaint- 
ed with  the  lady  who  is  now  his  wife.  He  is  a  dea- 
con in  the  Congregational  church,  and  one  of  Put- 
nam's successful  business  men.  A  service  at  five 
p  M.  in  "Morse's  Hall"  was  especially  enjoyable. 
When  I  spoke  of  what  God  and  his  people  were 
doing,  and  especially  of  the  work  in  Washington, 
the  responses  were  most  cheering.  The  leader  of 
the  meeting,  having  been  in  that  city,  confirmed 
some  things  I  said  from  his  personal  knowledge.  I 
saw  two  wearing  the  Keystone,  one  professing  holi- 
ness, and  another  recently  converted;  but  found 
others  who  had  not  bowed  the  knee  to  Baal. 

Rev.  Mathewson,  whom  I  have  several  times  met 
in  the  West,  was  quite  desirous  that  other  ministers 
and  churches  in  Putnam  should  give  the  anti-lodge 
cause  a  hearing,  but  when  I  attended  his  services  at 
one  p.  M,,  carefully  guarded  his  own  flock  and  gave 
not  the  slightest  public  recognition  to  the  represent- 
ative of  a  cause  in  which  most  of  his  people  and  our 
Second  Advent  brethren  generally  take  a  deep  in- 
terest. 

The  most  interested  and  helpful  friends  at  Put- 
nam were  Hon.  George  Buck  and  wife,  who  know 
no  compromise  with  Satan  on  any  moral  question. 
The  hospitality  of  their  home  was  freely  tendered 
at  some  personal  inconvenience,  as  relatives  were 
visiting  them,  and  their  care  for  my  comfort  was 
unstinted.  Bro.  Buck  says  we  must  buy  and  locate 
in  Boston,  and  that  he  is  ready  to  help  in  a  square 
fight  with  rum  and  the  lodge.  He  endorses  the 
plan  for  Miss  Flagg,  and  backs  it  up  with  a  liberal 
support,  and  expresses  the  hope  that  New  England 


m^B^ 


AvavsT  9, 1888 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE- 


will,  at  the  very  least,  sustain  her;  and  Bro.  Conant 
of  Willimantic,  and  Bros.  Pratt  and  Cheever  of 
Worcester  respond  Amen,  with  $25  each— a  good 
start. 

NOW,  READEE,  WHAT  WILL  YOU  DO? 

Learning  of  a  camp  meeting  at  Douglas,  Conn.,  I 
repaired  thither  and  found  a  large  collection  of  hol- 
iness people  worshiping  in  "God's  first  temple." 
Seldom  have  I  seen  grounds  better  adapted  to  out- 
door meetings,  or  a  more  earnest  company  of  wor- 
shipers. Bro.  Moses  Morse  is  in  charge  of  the  bus- 
iness management  and  Rev.  McDonald  of  the  relig- 
ious services.  Soon  after  reaching  the  stand  there 
was  a  recess  for  dinner.  As  the  Spirit  of  the  Lord 
was  there  I  took  the  liberty  of  making  a  few  re- 
marks to  the  company  waiting  for  admission  to  the 
dining-hall.  The  few  words  were  followed  by  per- 
sonal greetings,  and  I  soon  found  myself  in  close 
controversy  with  a  gentleman  from  Kean,  N.  H., 
who  "enjoyed  Masonry  and  the  blessing  of  holi- 
ness." Under  such  circumstances  I  felt  justified  in 
pressing  the  truth  very  closely;  and  although  Bro. 
Lemley,  formerly  of  Rockford,  thought  I  was  rather 
severe,  my  opponent  was  not  offended,  and  I  trust 
may  be  helped  to  see  the  religious  character  of  the 
system  more  clearly.  He  said  while  he  would  not 
reveal  any  secrets  of  the  lodge,  he  had  not  attended 
a  meeting  since  he  received  the  "second  blessing," 
and  would  advise  everybody  to  keep  away  from 
them. 

The  services  began  at  the  stand,  and  when  I 
reached  it  I  found  a  song  and  testimony  meeting  in 
progress.  I  was  impressed  to  repeat  the  words  of 
our  Lord,  "Whoso  confesseth  me  before  men,"  etc. 
Many  greeted  me  most  cordially,  and  among  them 
my  brother  from  Kean,  who  expressed  the  hope  that 
no  unkind  feeling  would  exist  between  us.  I  as- 
sured him  that  there  certainly  did  not  on  my  part. 
Bro.  Morse  hed  no  objection  to  my  distributing 
tracts,  but  thought  I  had  better  first  see  Bro.  Mc- 
Donald. Bishop  Taylor  preached  a  most  powerful 
sermon,  in  which  he  said,  "The  devil  makes  relig- 
ions for  those  who  turn  away  from  God.  He's  al- 
ways on  hand — does  his  work  immediately;  don't 
let  the  backslider  sleep  over  night  without  a  relig- 
ion. His  religions  are  gross  and  sensual  in  heathen 
lands,  but  in  Christian  countries  he  makes  them  just 
as  near  like  God's  religion  as  he  can;  but  they  are 
the  devil's  damnation  agencies  all  the  same." 

I  was  obliged  to  leave  for  the  train  just  as  the 
Bishop  finished,  and  so  had  no  opportunity  for  a 
personal  interview  either  with  him  or  Bro.  Mc- 
Donald. 

From  Worcester  I  came  to  Wellesly  this  morn- 
ing, and  am  waiting  under  the  apple-tree  in  Bro. 
Flagg's  yard  for  the  return  of  him  and  his  daughter, 
who  have  driven  over  to  a  neighboring  town.  Bro. 
Conant  has  three  appointments  for  me  at  Williman- 
tic next  Sabbath,  which  I  expect  to  fill  on  my  return 
trip  to  Washington.  J.  P.  Stoddard. 


BREAKING    NBW^    GROUND    IN   NORTHERN 
OHIO. 


Columbus,  Ohio,  August  1,  1888. 

Dear  Cynosure: — After  a  four  weeks'  trip  I 
reached  home  last  evening.  Bowling  Green,  Wood 
county,  was  the  first  place  at  which  1  stopped  after 
my  last  report.  By  inquiry  I  learned  that  Wm. 
Minton,  a  gentleman  whom  I  knew  to  be  interested 
in  our  work  there,  lived  some  three  miles  from 
town.  The  day  was  very  warm,  the  road  dusty,  the 
distance  proved  to  be  four  miles,  but  I  was  amply 
rewarded  for  my  walk  in  the  cordial  reception  of 
this  Puritanic  family,  whom  I  found  were  related  to 
our  Moses  Pettengill  of  precious  memory.  After 
consultation  it  was  not  thought  an  opportune  time 
for  lectures.  Bro.  M's  horse  was  at  my  service;  and 
accompanied  by  Miss  Minton  as  guide,  I  secured 
ten  subscriptions  to  our  paper  in  one  day.  Part  of 
these  were  United  Brethren  at  Portage,  a  small  town 
near  by.  Bro,  N.  Foltz,  one  of  the  Portage  sub- 
scribers, is  to  conduct  a  holiness  camp  meeting  at 
that  place  from  Aug.  9  to  20.  He  gave  me  a  cor- 
dial invitation  to  attend  and  address  the  meeting, 
assuring  me  entertainment  and  a  good  opportunity 
to  present  our  cause.  I  have  not  yet  decided  whether 
I  can  accept  or  not. 

Sabbath  before  last  I  spoke  twice  in  the  United 
Presbyterian  church  at  Scotch  Ridge.  There  was  a 
large  attendance  in  the  morning,  but  a  driving  rain 
kept  many  away  in  the  evening.  It  was  voted  that 
I  speak  again  on  Monday  evening.  At  this  meeting 
a  fair  collection  was  taken  for  the  cause.  So  far  as 
I  learned  the  secrecy  question  had  never  been  dis- 
cussed here.  Friends  seemed  quite  reticent  at  first, 
but  becoming  interested  a  goodly  number  sub- 
set ibed  for  the  Cynosure.  The  pastor,  Rev.  Cald- 
well, and  wife  showed  me  much  kindness. 


En  route  from  here  to  New  Haven  I  stopped  at 
several  points.  No  visit  was  more  pleasant  than  that 
with  Mrs.  Abiah  Coe,  of  Tiffin.  Mrs.  Coe  is,  I  be- 
lieve, in  her  86th  year,  well  preserved,  and  of  a  firm, 
resolute  nature.  She  formerly  belonged  to  the  M. 
E.  church,  but  left  when  they  refused  to  allow  the 
secrecy  question  discussed.  She  gave  a  contribu- 
tion of  five  dollars  to  our  cause,  as  she  had  done  be- 
fore. Daniel  Callon,  of  Watson,  has  been  a  reader 
of  our  paper  for  years.  He  will  help  some  in  the 
State  work.     I  was  kindly  entertained  at  his  home. 

Missing  a  train  I  was  compelled  to  epend  a  night 
at  Bascom.  Rev.  A,  H.  Zechiel,  pastor  of  the  Re- 
formed church  of  the  place,  will  arrange  meetings 
when  I  can  attend  them.  I  was  entertained  here  by 
a  Catholic,  and  learned  much  about  his  religion. 
His  wife,  an  accomplished  lady,  had  been  educated 
in  a  convent,  but  preferring  matrimonial  life  had 
made  her  escape. 

On  arrival  at  Bro.  W.  G.  Head's  farm  and  lake 
near  New  Haven,  I  found  that  a  farmers'  picnic  had 
been  advertised  for  Saturday.  I  arrived  Thursday. 
No  provision  had  been  made  for  speaking.  Bro.  H. 
gladly  accepted  my  proposition  to  remain  and  speak. 
Notice  was  given  through  the  local  paper  and  post- 
office.  A  good  number  gathered  at  the  time  ap- 
pointed, but  they  came  evidently  more  to  have  a 
good  time  than  to  listen  to  a  discussion  of  the  se- 
crecy question.  Boating,  base  ball,  etc.,  were  as 
popular  as  the  lecture;  however,  by  exerting  my 
lung  power  so  as  to  be  heard  above  the  rattle  and 
racket  of  the  pleasure  seekers,  I  succeeded  in  get- 
ting a  number  to  listen  to  me  both  morning  and 
evening,  and  I  am  confident  good  was  accomplished. 
Some  expressed  approbation,  others  indignation,  and 
asked  foolish  questions  as  secretists  usually  do 
when  driven  to  the  wall. 

On  my  way  home  I  stopped  long  enough  in  Mans- 
field and  Utica  to  shake  hands  with  some  of  the 
friends  and  look  after  matters  pertaining  to  N.  C. 
A.  and  our  work.  I  observed  a  bill  posted  in  a  con- 
spicuous place  at  Newark  which  bore  the  following: 

"Take  the  great  American  Scab  route  I — the  G.  B.  &  Q 
Prepare  to  meet  thy  God  1  Close  connections  with  the 
hereaftei  1  Through  tickets  to  points  on  the  Styx.  N  B. 
Death  claims  promptly  settled.  Paul  Morton,  Q.  P  A. 
M.  L  ,  General  Prevaricator  and  Monumental  Liar.  The 
strike  is  not  off."  Etc.,  etc. 

I  am  not  surprised  at  this.  It  is  the  natural  way 
this  cowardly,  underhanded  thing  of  darkness 
works.  It  is  not  the  bold  enemy  so  much  to  be 
feared  as  the  snake  in  the  grass,  the  coward  that 
stabs  in  the  back.  We  may  well  inquire,  how  soon 
will  the  American  people  see  this,  and  act  accord- 
ingly? Much  depends  on  our  individual  tfforts. 
Are  we  all  doing  what  we  can  is  a  practical  ques- 
tion. I  have  been  very  glad  to  learn  of  the  zeal  of 
students  who  have  gone  out  to  work  for  the  Cyno- 
sure, and  the  success  which  has  naturally  attended 
their  efforts,  and  I  am  sure  friends  will  help  them 
wherever  they  can.     Yours  for  Christ  and  reform, 

W.  B.  SlODDARD. 


CENTRAL  LOUISIANA. 


A  NEW  COUNTRY  VISITED— -THE    FARMERS'  ALLIANCE 
— THE  COLOR  LINE  GIVINa  WAY. 

Walnut  Hill,  La.,  July  23,  1888. 
Dear  Cynosure: — Mr.  Silas  Harden  very  kindly 
took  me  on  horseback  Saturday  morning,  and  after 
riding  twenty-five  miles  we  reached  this  place.  There 
is  nothing  attractive  here,  saving  the  abundance  of 
fine  pine  timber,  which  abounds  from  about  four 
miles  from  Boyce  fifty  or  sixty  miles  across  the 
country.  The  people  in  these  pine  regions  are  very 
poor,  but  very  kind.  I  was  very  cordially  received 
and  entertained  by  Bro.  Balaam  Jones,  deacon  of 
the  St.  Matthew  Baptist  church.  Rev.  W.  L.  Braisco, 
the  pastor,  was  glad  to  meet  me,  and  invited  me  to 
attend  his  church  business  meeting  Saturday  even- 
ing, and  preach  for  his  people  on  Sabbath.  I  met 
Rev.  E.  L.  Mayo,  a  young  white  local  Baptist 
preacher.  He  was  glad  to  see  me  and  spoke  freely 
of  a  more  closer  union  with  the  white  and  black 
churches.  1  attended  services  on  Sabbath  at  10  a.  m. 
and  listened  to  a  short  sermon  by  Rev.  T.  F.  Craw- 
ford, pastor  of  the  Walnut  Hill  Baptist  church,  after 
which  I  preached.  The  congregation  was  well  mixed 
with  both  races.  The  greatest  harmony  seems  to 
exist  here  between  the  two  races,  so  long  as  the 
Negro  stands  neutral  in  politics.  I  am  glad  to  see 
unity  in  the  white  and  colored  churches  in  these 
parts.  Every  minister  I  have  seen  in  these  parts  is 
a  Freemason,  except  Revs.  Braisco  and  Mayo.  A 
man  cannot  speak  too  bitterly  against  lodgery  in 
these  part*.  The  old  saying  is,  if  you  don't  like  the 
lodge,  don't  say  anything  against  it.  The  only  lodge 
among  the  colored  people  here  is  the  Colored  F^rm-  the  church. 


ers'  Alliance.  But  I  am  afraid  this  alliance  will 
cause  them  to  shed  tears.  Bro.  Braisco  is  the  chief 
ot  the  colored  lodge,  but  he  says  if  he  is  reasonably 
convinced  of  its  evil  he  will  renounce  it.  The  col- 
ored men  think  as  long  as  the  whites  bel  mg  to  the 
Alliance  it  is  all  right. 

I  have  distributed  very  many  tracts  and  Cynosures 
and  have  sent  tracts  into  nearly  every  parish  in 
Louisiana,  and  sent  in  for  free  Cynosures  to  be  sent 
to  110  ministers  and  deacons.  I  trust  our  friends 
will  keep  this  good  work  moving  along. 

A  very  prominent  white  minister  told  me  that 
twenty-five  miles  below  here  the  poor  colored  people 
are  living  like  slaves— no  education,  no  churches 
and  almost  no  civilization.  He  says,  "When  a  white 
missionary  goes  there  the  white  men  will  get  a  jug 
of  whisky  and  go  where  the  preacher  is  trying  to 
preach  the  Word,  and  there  they  distribute  the  fire 
water  freely. 

I  preached  last  Thursday  night  at  Williamson 
M.  E.  church,  near  Boyce. 

Williamson's  Creek,  Lv,  July  24,  1888. — I  re- 
turned from  Walnut  Hill  on  Monday.  The  whole 
country  between  Boyce  and  Walnut  Hill  is  hilly 
with  a  few  exceptions,  and  very  heavily  timbered 
with  short  leaf  pine.  Jay  Gould,  the  railroad  mo- 
nopolist, is  buying  in  great  quantities  of  this  land. 
The  pine  land  sells  from  $2  to  $3  per  acre  while  the 
bottom  land  ranges  from  $3  to  $5.  There  is  very 
little  education  in  these  parts.  I  called  on  Mr. 
James  Weeks  (white),  deacon  of  the  Hemphill  Bap- 
tist church,  and  he  very  kindly  received  me  aid  in- 
vited me  to  preach  at  Hemphill  church  (white)  on 
Tuesday  night.  Mr.  Weeks  belongs  to  no  secret 
lodge  whatever,  and  will  be  glad  to  get  the  Cynosure. 
I  called  on  Mr.  J.  Laboume,  and  he  kindly  received 
and  invited  me  to  take  dinner  with  him  Tuesday. 
Here  I  met  brethren  Green  and  James  R'cbey,  both 
Primitive  Baptists.  They  are  anti-secretists  and 
said  God  requires  a  complete  separation.  I  next 
called  on  Mr.  J.  L.  Hoyt  by  invitation  and  was 
kindly  received.  Mr.  Hoyt  and  I  were  playmates 
in  boyhood.  I  learned  from  him  that  himself,  Mr. 
Laboume  and  brethren  J.  and  G.  Richey  and  J. 
Weeks  are  the  only  white  men  in  these  parts  who 
are  clear  of  the  lodge  cable-tow.  I  have  met  many 
of  my  relatives  and  old  playmates,  and  I  am  sure  it 
was  the  Lord  who  sent  me  back  here  after  an  ab- 
sence of  seventeen  years.  Instead  of  this  being  the 
bulldozers'  habitation  now,  it  seems  to  have  changed 
to  the  paradise  of  Louisiana. 

The  Farmers'  Alliance  is  the  principal  lodge  in 
these  parts  with  both  white  and  colored  members. 
The  Alliance  claims  to  be  to  make  better  farmers 
and  better  husbands  and  wives,  and  buy  and  sell  to 
members  of  the  Alliance  goods  at  cost  prices.  It 
will  be  well  to  publish  their  ritual.  Oae  of  their 
leading  officers  told  me  he  wished  the  N.  C.  A.  would 
publish  th^ir  secret  work,  for  he  believes  it  to  be  a 
fraud.  Mr.  J.  Laboume  told  me  that  he  joined  the 
Masons  years  ago,  but  he  left  them  thirty  years  ago, 
and  now  he  deplores  the  existence  of  any  secret  lotige. 
Rapids  Bayou,  July  27. — I  preached  Tuesday 
night  at  Hemphill  Baptist  church  (white),  to  a  large 
and  attentive  audience.  Although  the  lodge  was 
well  represented,  and  my  sermon  was  anti-secret,  yet 
they  received  it  very  respectfully,  much  better  than 
my  colored  secret  brethren.  I  distributed  tracts 
after  the  services,  and  they  were  eagerly  received. 
I  was  very  kindly  received  by  my  Anglo-Saxon 
brethren.  There  was  a  goodly  number  of  colored 
people  present,  moat  of  them  to  see  if  I  would  speak 
against  lodgery  in  a  white  church.  Praise  the  Lord! 
God  is  no  respecter  of  persons,  and  why  should  we 
have  respect  of  persons  in  preaching  the  Gospel. 
The  color  line  is  very  well  drawn  on  Bayou  Rapids. 
I  preached  Wednesday  night  at  St.  Paul  M.  E. 
church,  Rsv.  A.  B.  Venabel,  pastor,  to  a  well-packed 
house  of  eager  hearers.  The  Seven  Stars  of  Consol- 
idation and  the  Farmers'  Alliance  are  the  principal 
lodges  among  the  colored  people  here. 

Francis  J.  Davidson. 


A  WEEK  OF  GOOD   CHEER. 


Red  Oak,  Iowa,  July  28,  1888. 
Dear  Cynosure: — After  completing  my  work  at 
Atlantic  I  went  to  Elliott,  and  out  seven  miles  into 
the  country,  and  stopped  for  the  night  with  Mr.  D. 
C.  Woods,  an  elder  of  the  United  Presbyterian 
church.  The  next  day  being  the  Sibbath,  I  went 
with  him  to  Center  Ridge  U.  P.  church,  were  I  met 
Rav.  Mr.  Hood,  the  pastor,  who  cordially  invited  me 
to  preach,  which  T  did.  In  the  afternoon  I  went 
with  him  ten  miles  to  Indian  Creek  church,  where, 
by  invitation,  I  preached  again,  and  remained  to  a 
very  interesting  Sabbath-school;  after  which  I  went 
home  with  Bro.  Rankin,  who  lives  six  miles  from 


.:  *>, 


6 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


August  9, 1888 


On  Monday  I  resumed  my  work  of  personal  visi- 
tation, and  canvassed  for  subscriptions  to  the  Iowa 
work,  and  for  the  Cynomre.  Bro.  Rankin  headed 
the  list.  The  next  brother  I  called  on  is  a  Baptist. 
He  had  read  Elder  Stearns'  book  on  Masonry,  and 
heartily  appreciates  the  work  of  the  N.  C.  A.,  and 
its  auxiliaries.  He  aleo  gave  ready  assistance.  I  then 
called  on  two  United  Presbyterians,  and  two  more 
Baptist  brethreo,  all  of  whom  gave  aid.  I  then  vis- 
ited three  United  Brethren  families,  each  of  whom 
were  willing  to  help.  I  then  set  out  to  return  to 
Center  Ridge.  Oa  the  way  I  called  upon  another 
Baptist  family  who  are  for  Christ  against  the  lodge, 
and  who  showed  a  readiness  to  take  stock  in  the 
Iowa  reform  work. 

On  arriving  at  Center  Ridge  I  began  a  canvass 
there,  and  met  with  a  favorable  response.  Mr. 
Woods  headed  the  list  and  others  followed  his  ex- 
ample, so  that  when  I  returned  to  Elliott  on  Friday 
I  found  that  I  had  secured  since  the  Sabbath  four- 
teen new  subscriptions  to  the  Cynosure,  all  for  a  full 
year.  To-day,  Saturday,  I  am  resting  at  the  home 
of  Rev.  Mr.  Wiley,  the  pastor  of  the  U.  P.  church 
at  Red  Oak,  Montgomery  county.  He  is  out  of 
health,  and  I  am  to  preach  for  him  Sabbath  morn- 
ing here  at  Red  Oak,  and  in  the  afternoon  at  Pleas- 
ant Lawn,  eight  miles  in  the  country. 

I  was  pleased  to  find  such  deep-seated  convictions 
against  the  lodge  system  in  the  minds  of  the  Bap- 
tists who  are  familiar  with  the  writings  of  Elder 
Stearns,  one  of  the  Baptist  ministers  who  seceded 
from  Masonry  and  wrote  against  it  after  the  ab- 
duction of  Captain  Wm.  Morgan.  I  was  also  grati 
fied  to  fifld  that  the  old  laymen  of  the  U.  B.  church 
in  Mills  country,  like  those  I  met  in  Dallas  county, 
are  standing  firmly  with  Christ  against  the  con- 
spiracy of  Satan  to  popularize  pagan  idolatry  and 
deistical  infidelity  through  ancient  craft  Masonry 
and  its  kindred  orders. 

Christ  has  so  many  tens  of  thousands  "who  have 
not  bowed  the  knee  to  Baal"  that  we  may  expect  a 
mighty  uprising  against  the  false  worships  of  the 
lodge,  as  the  result  of  the  Divine  blessing  upon  the 
truth,  that  in  so  many  ways  is  being  disseminated 
to  expose  the  cowardly  attempt  of  Satan  to  sup- 
plant Christ,  by  introducing  a  universal  system  of 
deistical  worship,  through  the  agency  of  the  secret 
lodge  system. 

Let  fervent,  efffctual  prayer  be  continually  of- 
fered, and  personal  effort  put  forth,  and  Christ  will 
give  the  victory.   •  C.  F.  Hawley. 


THB    WABEINGTON  WORK  AND  WORKERS. 


Washington,  D.  C,  July  28,  1888. 

Deae  Cynoscre: — Through  your  columns  I 
would  like  to  acknowledge  the  receipt  of  two  more 
packages  of  papers,  senders  unknown,  a  very  large 
and  fine  assortment  of  cards  from  Carter  &  Co.,  of 
Boston,  and  two  dollars  in  money  from  Rev.  J. 
White,  of  Worcester,  Mass.     1  feel  quite  encouraged. 

As  I  was  calling  on  some  of  the  mothers  of  my 
children  this  week  I  was  pleased  to  learn  how  much 
interest  they  took  in  the  work  of  the  school  and 
how  eagerly  they  accepted  the  reading  matter  which 
I  gave  them.  One  mother  said,  ''You  can  hardly 
realize  how  proud  the  children  are  of  the  cards  and 
Sabbath-school  papers  you  give  them."  Then  she 
spoke  of  one  little  girl  who  was  some  distance  away, 
but  came  down  every  Sabbath  to  come  to  the  Sab- 
bath-school because  she  liked  it  so  well. 

I  have  been  kept  so  very  busy  with  the  school  and 
matters  pertaining  to  the  N.  C.  A,,  during  Mr.  Stod- 
dard's absence,  that  house  to  house  visitation  had  to 
be  almost  entirely  given  up. 

Our  meeting  on  Tuesday  nights  is  well  sustained, 
also  the  Sabbath  afternoon  service.  It  has  fallen  to 
my  lot  to  lead  the  Wednesdaj  noon  meeting  at  Cen- 
tral Union  Mission  the  past  two  weeks,  and  some  of 
the  workers  inquired  after  our  meetings  and  ex- 
pressed much  interest,  saying  they  should  attend  as 
often  as  possible. 

I  would  just  say  to  friends  sending  packages  for 
the  use  of  the  school  to  prepay  express  if  possible 
as  the  funds  are  low  and  hard  to  raise. 

Yours  in  the  work,  Anna  ?].  Stoddabd, 


COEKESPONDENCE. 


AN  OLD  VETERANS'  MEETING. 


DiTBoiT,  Mich.,  July  30,  1888. 
I  had  a  very  interesting  visit  last  week  with  Capt. 
John  Brown,  Jr.,  son  of  the  noble  old  martyr  whose 
name  he  bears.  I  found  him  well  and  comfortably 
situated  with  his  little  family  on  a  seven-acre  fruit 
farm  at  Put-in-Bay,  on  the  Ohio  side  of  Lake  Erie. 
His  place  includes  the  "Wonderful  Cave,"  and  its 


level  and  rich  soil  is  covered  with  choice  fruits,  such 
as  grapes,  peaches,  pears,  etc.  While  the  grape- 
growers  on  the  islands  all  around  him  convert  this 
rich  fruit  into  the  poison  that  "stingeth  like  an  ad- 
der," not  a  pound  of  John  Brown's  fruit  is  allowed 
to  be  perverted  into  intoxicating  drinks. 

Mr.  Brown  is  a  well-built  and  venerable  gentle- 
man, in  many  things  reminding  one  of  his  father. 
When  I  told  him  that  the  palm  that  was  pressing 
his  had  many  a  time  pressed  that  of  the  older  John 
Brown,  whose  "soul  was  still  marching  on,"  the 
moisture  in  his  kindly  eyes  told  the  story  of  the 
emotions  that  were  stirred  within.  When  I  told  him 
I  had  what  I  esteemed  the  great  honor  of  presiding 
at  the  last  public  meeting  the  old  hero  ever  ad- 
dressed, at  our  court  house  in  the  city  of  Rochester, 
N.  Y.,  he  going  direct  from  the  home  of  Frederick 
Douglas  (then  residing  in  that  city)  to  Chambers- 
burg,  Pa.,  on  his  way  to  Harper's  Ferry,  he  became 
the  more  interested  and  inquired,  "Who  are  you?" 

When  the  name  of  the  "Old  Liberty  Singer"  was 
mentioned  he  exclaimed,  "Oh,  is  it  possible!  And 
you  are  alive  yet.  I  heard  you  forty  years  ago  in 
the  old  Bay  State.     Can  you  sing  yet?" 

There  were  present  several  fine-looking  ladies  from 
Massaohusetts,  New  York  and  Chicago,  who  had 
heard  the  old  singer  in  Abolition  conventions  in  the 
East  many  years  ago,  and  there  being  a  fine  piano 
in  the  room  we  had  to  have  a  social  musicale,  ending 
up  with  a  song  that  was  a  favorite  of  old  John 
Brown's — 

"Pride  of  New  England  1    Soul  of  our  Fathers! 
Shrink  we  all  craven-like  when  the  storm  gathers? 
What  though  the  tempest  be  over  us  lowering? 
Where's  the  New  Englander  shamefully  cowering? 
Oraves  green  ard  holy  around  us  are  lying ! 
Free  were  tbe  sleepers  all  living  and  dying." 

The  songs  ended,  the  interesting  interview  closed, 
the  hearty  hand-shakes  given,  and  the  good-byes 
said,  the  kind-hearted  captain  Accompanied  me  to 
the  gate,  and  with  an  earnest  invitation  to  "Come 
again,"  the  scene  closed,  but  not  its  pleasant  mem 
ory.    Yours,  Geo.  W.  Clark. 


A  WORD  ABOUT  BROOKS. 


FROM  A  MOBILE  PASTOR. 

Mobile,  Ala.,  July  26,  1888. 

Editor  Cynosure: — The  manor  woman  that  can, 
as  I  do,  look  back  to  1827,  sixty-one  years  ago,  cannot 
fail  to  see,  yea  more,  to  feel  sadly  the  present  de- 
cline of  spiritual  life  among  church  people.  It  is 
truly  alarming.  Fifty  years  ago  Masonry  did  not 
have  the  hold  on  the  people  as  now;  and  then  there 
was  spiritual  life  in  the  church,  a  manifest  power 
attended  the  Word  preached,  resulting  in  the  con- 
viction and  conversion  of  sinners.  The  cry  for 
mercy,  with  bitter  tears,  was  frequent  among  young 
and  middle  aged.  ■ 

I  have  tried  to  believe  that  secret  societies  had 
nothing  to  do  with  the  spiritual  life  of  the  ministry, 
but  I  am  forced  to  admit  that  no  man  can  serve  two 
masters,  and  while  a  Mason  may  be,  if  he  lives  by 
his  obligations,  a  gentleman,  he  lays  no  claims  to 
Christianity,  and  it  must  be  mammon.  It  is  said, 
"If  a  man  hath  not  the  Spirit  of  Christ  he  is  none  of 
his" — words  full  of  meaning.  Let  every  minister, 
for  they  lead  the  people,  ask  themselves  when  in  the 
lodge,  am  I  in  the  spiritual  current  of  life  that  I 
entered  when  I  took  a  solemn  pledge,  taking  God  to 
be  my  helper,  when  I  was  ordained  to  preach;  for  I 
then  said  I  was  called  by  the  Holy  Ghost,  and  set 
apart  for  his  use,  to  be  guided  by  his  leading.  But 
here  nothing  is  said  of  Jesus,  the  sole  foundation 
for  wiiom  I  stand  as  a  preacher!  Is  it  any  wonder 
that  the  church  is  spiritually  dead  and  powerless 
to  check  the  wave  of  wickedness?  Late  observa- 
tions have  satisfied  me  that  secret  orders  are  great 
evils.  Preachers  should  look  well  into  it.  The 
worst  of  all  is  what  is  known  as  the  juvenile  de- 
partment. These  meet  on  Sundays,  twice  a  month, 
away  from  home  and  parents,  in  the  hands  often  of 
irreligious  men  and  women,  and  not  always  strictly 
moral.  Their  secrets  are  unknown  to  parents.  Many 
of  the  larger  juveniles  of  both  sexes  are  really  bad 
and  immoral,  many  of  them  are  full-grown  in 
crime,  and  in  some  few  cases  have  been  arrested. 
The  popularity  of  societies  makes  them  a  power  that 
can  only  be  conquered  by  the  Head  of  the  church, 
and  if  Christians  just  determine  it,  the  evil  influ- 
ence will  die,  and  ultimately  the  fountains  will  cease 
to  How,  and  churches  will  again  be  alive.  Sinners 
will  be  saved  by  a  living  Gospel,  aided  by  the  Holy 
Spirit,  from  the  mouths  of  consecrated  men.  Do 
you  ask  how?  I  answer  by  earnest  importuning 
prayer  of  faith.  The  pen  can  arouse,  but  God  can 
and  will  take  hold  of  the  case;  and  it  may  be  he  is 
now  only  waiting  for  ub  to  ask  him  to  defend  his 
church.  I.  M.  Williams. 

Pastor  Reformed  E.  Church, 


Lee  Center,  111. 

Dear  Cynosure: — I  don't  see  how  I  can  vote  the 
Prohibition  ticket  with  an  ex-rebel  on  the  second 
place. 

Mr.  Brooka,  you  say,  is  a  demitted  Mason,  and 
takes  no  stock  in  the  fraternity;  but  has  no  preju- 
dice against  secret  societies,  etc.  He  probably 
thinks  as  Stephen  A.  Douglas  did  in  relation  to 
slavery,  "Didn't  care  whether  it  was  voted  up  or 
voted  down." 

Again,  Mr.  Brooks  is  reported  as  saying  that  he 
thanked  God  that  he  never  was  a  Republican.  Some 
of  us,  probably,  thank  God  that  we  were  once  Re- 
publicans. 

Besides,  Mr.  Brooks  doesn't  train  in  my  company, 
and  hence  he  is  not  one  of  us.     J.  P.  Richards. 

Note. — We  regret  Bro.  Richard's  decision.  If  he 
refuses  to  vote  for  or  act  with  ex-rebels  he  will  have 
to  join  Belva  Lockwood's  party,  and  perhaps  would 
find  the  objection  even  in  that  select  circle.  Mr. 
Brooks  seems  sincerely  to  have  repented  of  his  sym- 
pathy with  rebellion  and  slavery;  and  he  never  took 
up  arms  against  his  country.  As  for  the  statement 
quoted  above  concerning  the  Republican  party,  it  is 
yet  to  be  proved  that  Mr.  Brooks  ever  said  it.  A 
reporter's  statement  has  been  taken  up  and  howled 
abroad  by  the  party  press.  We  regard  Mr.  Brooks 
as  a  man  of  too  much  sense  to  have  made  it  in  the 
terms  and  sense  attributed.  He  might  have  said  he 
was  glad  not  to  be  at  present  in  the  Republican 
party.  There  is  nothing  objectionable  in  that.  But 
it  might  easily  have  been  twisted  into  a  different 
and  offensive  remark.  The  report  first  sent  out  was 
that  Brooks  served  in  the  Confederate  army,  which 
was  untrue.  There  will  doubtless  be  other  untrue 
stories  about  him  as  well  as  other  candidates.  It  is 
wise  not  to  give  too  hasty  credit  to  the  reports  of 
political  enemies. 

As  we  have  said  before,  we  would  be  glad  if  Mr. 
Brooks  were  intelligently  opposed  to  secret  socie- 
ties. But  he  cannot  be  properly  compared  with 
Douglas  until  he  has  made  the  lodge  a  matter  of 
study  and  debate,  as  Douglas  did  slavery.  If  he  is 
now  not  a  member  of  any  secret  society,  as  he 
writes,  he  has  certainly  given  them  up  for  some  good 
reason,  and  Anti-masons,  so  far  as  we  are  at  present 
advised,  can  vote  for  him.  k. 


PITH  AND  POINT. 

PUT   HIS  NAME    DOWN   IN    THB   LEAGUE. 

I  see  that  you  are  anxious  to  hear  from  the  "Pioneers." 
The  principles  of  the  National  Christian  Association  I 
have  vigorously  advocated  for  many  years.  In  times  of 
slavery  I  was  an  Abolitionist,  and  was  a  faithful  reader 
of  the  old  American  Baptist,  edited  by  Rev.  Nathan 
Brown,  until  it  left  the  Free  Mission  society  and  went 
to  the  lodge  I  stopped  the  paper  at  once,  and  searched 
diligently  among  religious  periodicals  for  the  same  kind 
of  food — another  paper  advocating  the  same  principles, 
but  never  found  it  until  a  United  Brethren  minister  gave 
me  a  copy  of  yours.  Since  that  time  I  have  been  a 
faithful  contributor,  an  anxious  reader,  as  well  as  circu- 
lating agent.  No  copies  have  gone  into  the  waste  bas- 
ket I  am  glad  to  hear  of  the  formation  of  the  Ameri- 
can Anti  Secret  League,  and  want  my  name  recorded 
there.  I  am  an  old  veteran  of  the  Cross  since  1842,  and 
have  had  a  faithful  companion  of  the  same  principles, 
hut  now,  in  ray  eightieth  year,  am  left  alone. — Daniel 
Hydk,  Frisco,  Kans. 

PROHIBITION   IN  LYONS,    IOWA. 

Other  parts  of  Iowa  are  rising  above  the  rum  traffic, 
but  the  city  of  Lyons  permits  the  filth  and  wickedness 
of  the  State  to  roll  into  its  lap.  Over  sixty  saloons  are 
now  running  here.  This  is  evidence  that  Mother  Iowa 
is  cleaning  house,  and  that  she  has  most  of  her  dirt  near 
the  door.  Another  sweep  with  the  law  will,  I  hope, 
about  finish  the  work. — I.  R.  B.  Arnold. 

HOW  THE  SOUTHERN  FUND  HELPS. 

Please  accept  my  thanks  for  fending  me  your  very 
valuable  paper.  I  would  not  allow  it  to  come  as  it  does 
but  for  two  reasons:  first,  I  cannot  pay  for  it;  secondlv, 
I  do  not  know  how  to  be  deprived  of  its  reading. — H.  L. 
F.,  Lafayette,  La. 

FROM   an   old   VOTER. 

I  have  voted  at  tifty  eight  general  elections,  and  for 
tbiiteen  different  Presidents  of  the  United  States  of 
America,  and  if  the  Lord  lots  me  live  until  next  Novem- 
ber I  vote  for  Clinton  B.  Fisk  and  John  A.  Brooks. — L. 
P.  Rowland,  Patterson,  Mo. 


— The  Republican  platform  expresses  cordial  sym- 
pathy "with  all  wise  and  well  directed  efforts  for  the 
promotion  of  temperance."  The  National  Liquor  Deal- 
er's Association  "Resolved,  That  we  most  earnestly  favor 
temperance."    We  favor  Prohibition. 

— Dr.  Joseph  Parker,  of  City  Temple,  London,  has  in- 
vited the  Salvation  Army  to  occupy  his  church  for  a 
week  or  two,  "tambourines  and  all." 


August  9, 1888 


THE  CHRISTIAN  OYNOSUKE. 


LITERATURE. 

The  Century  company  lately  suffered 
from  a  heavy  fire  in  their  building,  never- 
theless the  August  number,  which,  ac- 
cording to  custom,  is  the  midsummer 
holiday  number,  is  on  time  and  full  of 
good  things.  The  frontispiece  is  a  por- 
trait of  Qeorsje  Eennan  in  his  study, 
drawn  by  Henry  Sandham,  and  shows 
the  celebrated  traveler  at  work  on  his  Si- 
berian papers.  The  article  giving  a 
sketch  of  his  life  is  by  Miss  Anna  Lau- 
rens Dawes,  daughter  of  the  Massachu- 
setts Senator.  Kennan's  own  article  in 
this  number  describes  his  "Meeting  with 
the  Political  Exiles."  The  opening  illus- 
trated article  describes  "A  Home  of  the 
Silent  Brotherhood,"  namely,  the  Abbey 
of  La  Trappe  in  Kentucky.  The  illus- 
trations seem  to  be  of  scenes  in  the  Old 
World  rather  than  in  the  new,  and  it  will 
not  surprise  those  who  read  Mr.  James 
Lane  Allen's  sympathetic  description  of 
the  Abbey  to  learn  that  all  its  inmates 
are  of  foreign  birth.  Mrs.  Van  Rensselaer 
and  Mr.  Pennell  with  pen  and  pencil  de- 
scribe another  of  England's  great  church- 
es, Lincoln  Cathedral.  The  Siberian 
papers  describe  Mr.  Kennan's  meeting 
with  the  Siberian  exiles,  and  is  beauti- 
fully illustrated  with  the  Altai  mountain 
scenery.  Mr.  George  W.  Cable  describes 
the  objects  and  methods  of  the  "Home 
Culture  Clubs,"  originated  by  Mr.  Cable 
himself.  The  principal  essay  of  the 
number  is  Rev.  Dr.  Lyman  Abbott's  dis- 
cussion of  "The  Pulpit  for  Today." 
This  article,  it  is  interesting  to  note,  was 
written  before  there  was  any  idea  that 
Dr.  Abbott  would  succeed  Mr.  Beecher  in 
the  pulpit  of  Plymouth  church;  indeed, 
sometime  before  the  death  of  Mr.  Beech- 
er. The  Lincoln  History  deals  this  month 
with  Tennessee  and  Kentucky,  and  gives 
a  new  and  clearer  idea  of  Lincoln's  rela- 
tions to  the  early  military  movements  in 
the  West.  The  chapter  headings  are 
"Halleck,"  "The  Tennessee  Line,"  "Lin- 
coln Directs  Co-operation,"  "Grant  and 
Thomas  in  Kentucky,"  and  "Port  Donel- 
son  "  On  page  517  a  very  interesting  let- 
ter from  President  Lincoln  to  Governor 
Morton  of  Indiana  is  published  for  the 
first  time. 

The  August  ^t.  Hicholas  begins  with 
"The  Story  of  the  Sea  Serpent,"  which 
gives  young  readers  some  idea  of  what 
navigators  report  of  their  collisions  with 
the  fabulous  monster.  The  illustrations 
add  something  to  the  mystery  and  terror 
of  the  subject.  In  "Little  Moccasin's 
Ride  on  the  Thunder-Horse,"  Colonel 
Guido  Ilges  tells  an  exciting  story  of  a 
little  Indian  boy.  In  "Tom,  Dick,  and 
Harry  on  the  Coast  of  Maine,"  Mr.  D.  C. 
Beard  brings  back  some  former  favorites, 
recounting  with  pen  and  pencil  their  va- 
cation exploits.  "Ramabai,"  by  Mary 
L.  B.  Branch,  is  a  short  account  of  a 
noble  Hindu  woman  who  is  trying  to  ed- 
ucate the  girls  of  India.  Charles  Henry 
.Webb  tells  us  all  sbout  "Mr.  Crowley," 
the  four-handed  guest  of  the  Central 
Park  Museum,  and  William  H.  Rideing 
has  an  interesting  paper  concerning 
"Children  and  Authors."  John  Burroughs 
has  an  article  on  "Observing  Little 
Things,"  and  warns  us  of  the  danger  in 
arriving  at  hasty  conclusions. 


OBITUAEY. 


Departed  this  life  at  the  residence  of  her 
daughter,  Mrs.  T.  J.  Whitman,  Hannah, 
wife  of  Daniel  Hyde,  aged  seventy-seven 
years,  eight  months  and  twelve  days. 

Mrs.  Hyde  was  born  in  New  York,  and 
at  the  age  of  four  }ears,  with  her  parents, 
moved  to  Huron  county,  Ohio.  At  the 
age  of  sixteen  she  gave  her  heart  to  God 
and  united  with  the  regular  Baptist 
church.  She  removed  to  Portage  county, 
and  in  1835  was  married  to  Daniel  Hyde, 
who  in  1843  gave  himself  also  to  Christ, 
and  since  that  time  both  have  walked 
hand  in  hand  together  in  the  straight 
and  narrow  way  which  leadeth  unto 
everlastiDg  life.  She  leaves  her  aged 
and  sorrowing  husband  and  six  children 
who  mourn  her  loss. 

"Go  to  tby  rest,  and  while 

Thy  absence  we  deplore, 
One  thought  our  sorrow  Bhall  beguile, 
For  Boon,  with  a  celestial  smile. 

We'll  meet  to  part  no  more . " 


A  faded  or  grizzly  beard  is  unbecom- 
ing to  any  man,  acd  may  be  colored  a 
natural  brown  or  black  by  using  Buck- 
ingham's Dye  for  the  Whiskers. 


Lodge  Notes. 

Rob.  Morris,  the  great  representative 
Masonic  champion,  died  Tuesday  at  La- 
grange, Ky.,  of  paralysis. 

The  Supreme  Court  in  New  York,  last 
week,  gave  permission  to  the  First  Con- 
gregation of  the  Religion  of  Humanity 
to  mortgage  its  property  for  $35,000. 

The  corner-stone  of  the  colored  Bip- 
tist  seminary,  to  cost  $50,000,  was  laid 
at  Lynchburg,  Va  ,  Monday,  by  colored 
Masons,  in  the  presence  of  5,800  persons. 

The  session  of  the  Grand  Lodge, 
Knights  of  Pythias,  State  of  New  York, 
met  in  Poughkeepsie.  There  are  about 
300  lodges  in  the  State,  with  a  member- 
ship of  16,000.  Wednesday  there  was  a 
competitive  drill,  the  Grand  Lodge  hav- 
ing appropriated  $400  for  prizes. 

St.  Mark's  Episcopal  church  in  Alle- 
gheny, Pa.,  is  building  a  gymnasium,  and 
employed  a  Masonic  lodge  to  lay  the 
corner-stone  lately.  The  local  account 
says  the  "officers  presented  a  most  sol- 
emn sight  as  they  bore  with  them  the 
golden  implements  of  the  Grand  Lodge 
used  on  such  occasions."  It  must  surely 
have  been  solemn— disgustingly  so. 

An  Exchange  Company's  telegram 
from  Ottawa  says  that  strong  opposition 
is  being  organized  to  the  proposal  to 
settle  with  the  Jesuits  for  the  property 
taken  by  the  Imperial  Governmeat  under 
the  Papal  suppression  of  the  Order. 
They  claim  $8,000,000  nominally.  The 
Quebec  Premier,  after  a  visit  to  Rome, 
has  agreed  to  pay  $400,000.  The  Jesuits 
are  now  incorporated  in  the  province  of 
Quebec. 

Rome  never  changes — for  the  better. 
The  Standard  of  the  Cross  supplies  this 
illustration  of  that  truth:  "If  we  change 
Rome  does  not,  and  a  recent  Catechism 
published  in  Mexico  declares  a  boycott 
upon  all  Protestants.  It  forbids  the  faith- 
ful to  lend  houses  for  service,  to  erect  or 
repair  their  churches,  or  sell  furniture  for 
them,  to  attend  the  services  on  pain  of 
ex-communication.  Protestantism  must 
be  making  progress  to  stir  up  so  much 
wrath  in  Mexico.  The  Catechism  is  only 
a  straw,  but  it  shows  the  direction  of  the 
wind." — Sx. 

The  Odd  fellows  Grand  Lodge  at  Cin- 
cinnati conferred  degrees.  A  procession, 
in  which  nearly  thirty  Cantons  took  part, 
went  through  the  principal  streets.  The 
men  and  officers  were  resplendent  in  uni- 
form. Besides  the  Chevaliers,  there  were 
in  the  procession  a  large  number  of 
lodges  distinguished  simply  by  the  ordin- 
ary regalia.  On  Wednesday  night  the 
grand  decoration  of  Chevaliers  was  con- 
ferred on  the  campus  where  the  "Fall  of 
Babylon"  is  being  represented.  An  ap- 
ropos meeting — the  fall  of  Babylon  and 
grand  Odd-fellow  decoration. 

A  monument  has  recently  been  dedi- 
cated at  Townsend,  Mass.,  to  Henry 
Price,  the  founder  of  Masonry  in  the 
United  States.  For  more  than  a  century 
the  place  of  his  burial  was  marked  by  a 
small  slate  stone,  which  has  almost  crum- 
bled to  pieces .  The  inscription  reads : 
"Henry  Price,  Founder  of  Duly  Consti- 
tuted Masonry  in  America."  On  the 
back  is  aflother  inscription  taken  from 
the  stone  which  has  been  so  long  over 
the  original  grave:  "Born  in  London 
about  1C97;  removed  to  Boston  about 
1723;  appointed  Provincial  Grand  Mas- 
ter of  New  England  in  1733,  and  in  the 
same  year  a  cornet  in  the  Governor's 
Guards  with  the  rank  of  mnj  >r;  removed 
to  Townsend  about  1763,  and  died  there 
May  20,  1780.  His  life  was  consistent 
with  his  duty  as  a  Mason  and  a  man, " 


8BCRBT  aOCIETIES  CONDEMNED 


8500,    OK    A    CUKB. 

For  many  years  the  manufacturers  of 
Dr.  Sage's  Catarrh  Remedy,  who  are 
thoroughly  responsible  financially,  as 
any  one  can  easily  ascertain  by  inquiry, 
have  offered,  through  nearly  every  news 
paper  in  the  land,  a  standing  reward  of 
$500  for  a  case  of  chronic  nasal  catarrh, 
no  matter  how  bad,  or  of  how  long  stand- 
ing, which  they  ciunot  cure.  The  Rem- 
edy is  mild,  soothing,  cleansing,  anti- 
septic, and  healing.  Sold  by  all  drug- 
gists, at  50  cents. 


Are  you  busy  ?  Are  you  making  mon- 
ey? If  80,  sticK  to  it,  you  are  fortunate. 
If  you  arc  not,  then  our  advice  is  that 
you  write  at  once  to  B .  F.  Johnson  &  Co. , 
1009  Main  St.,  Richmond,  Va.  They  can 
show  you  how  to  enter  quickly  upon  a 
profitable  work. 


BT  GRBAT  MEN  IN  THB  CHURCH. 

Rev.  John  Todd,  Pittsfield,  Maag.:—^ 
Unhesitatingly  I  give  my  decided  disap- 
probation of  what  I  deem  secret  societies 
in  college  and  elsewhere.  I  have  never 
known  any  good  results  from  them  which 
could  not  have  been  attained  in  some 
other  more  appropriate  way,  and  I  have 
known  great  evils  resulting  from  them. 

HowAKD  Crosby,  Chancellor  Univer- 
sity of  New  York,  lS70:—We  have  no 
hesitation  in  writing  secret  societies 
among  the  quackeries  of  the  earth . 

Idem,  1886:  — The  secret  lodge  system 
belongs  to  despotisms  and  not  to  democ- 
racies. Whatever  in  it  is  not  babyish  is 
dangerous. 

Rev.  Matthew  L.  R.  Perkine,  D.D., 
Auburn  Theological  Seminary,  Rev.  Joel 
Parker  and  Rev.  Cuauncey  Eddy: — 
Having  formerly  associated  with  Free- 
masons, we  deem  it  our  duty,  publicly  to 
declare  that  the  system  of  Freemasonry  is 
in  our  judgment,  of  a  tendency  on  the 
whole  pernicious  to  the  moral  habits,  and 
dangerous  to  the  civil  and  religious  insti- 
tutions of  our  country. 

Rev.  Levi  Chase,  Fall  River,  Mass.: — 
The  question  has  been  asked  by  Masons, 
who  wish  to  asperse  the  characters  of 
those  who  have  renounced  Masonry, 
"Why  did  not  they  .  renounce  it  be- 
fore?" For  one,  I  will  give  them  the  rea- 
son why  I  did  not.  The  Masonic  oaths 
locked  my  tongue  in  silence — death,  in 
all  its  horrid  shapes  and  frightful  forms, 
stared  me  in  the  face — I  considered  the 
oaths  binding. 

Rkv.  C.  D.  Burt.ingham,  in  history  of 
the  QeneseeM.E  Conference,  1860: — This 
new  element  of  discord  (Odd  fellowship) 
began  to  introduce  itself  in  our  church, 
professedly  as  a  mutual  insurance  com- 
pany against  temporal  want,  and  a  newly 
discovered  and  remarkably  successful 
Gospel  appliance  for  bringing  the  world, 
reformed  and  saved  into  the  church. 
But  our  people  very  naturally  looked 
upon  it  with  suspicion,  dreading  its  power 
as  a  secret  agency  acting  through  affiliated 
societies,  and  doubting  its  utility  as  a 
financial  scheme.  They  feared  it  would 
drag  the  church,  debased  and  corrupted, 
into  the  world. 

Rev.  Joel  Mann,  a  renouncing  Mason: 
— Although  portions  of  the  Gospel  are 
interwoven  with  its  forms,  I  conceive 
that  Masonry  presents  false  grounds  of 
hope;  leads  men  to  depend  on  their  own 
defective  righteousness; — to  expect  the 
favor  of  God  without  the  interposition  of 
a  Redeemer,  and  even  without  repent- 
ance; and  thus  has  a  most  injurious  influ- 
ence on  their  eternal  interests.  Under 
the  most  favorable  circumstances,  which 
in  any  place,  have  attended  Masonry,  it 
has  occasioned  a  great  waste  of  time  and 
money,  which  might  and  ought  to  have 
been  employed  for  better  purposes.  And 
furthermore,  it  interferes  materially  with 
domestic  religious  duties. 

Rev.  Aaron  Leland,  formerly  Lieut.- 
Governor  of  Verinont  and  Deputy  Grand 
Master  of  the  Masonic  Grand  Lodge  {to  a 
Baptist  association) : — He  stated  that  the 
first  objection  which  presented  itself  to 
his  mind  was  the  practice  of  praying  for 
the  soul  of  a  brotJur  Mason  after  he  had 
been  dead  two,  three,  and  sometiines  four 
days — that  he  persisted  in  the  practice  for 
a  short  season  to  the  injury  of  his  con- 
science— that  it  was  a  Romish  custom, 
and  he  never  would  preach  at  the  burial 
of  a  Mason  when  Masonic  forms  and  cus- 
toms were  attended  to  —that  ho  never 
would  preach  to  a  lodge  of  Masons  as 
such,  and  that  ho  was  ashamed  that  ho 
had  ever  participated  in  the  principles 
and  practices  of  the  instiiution. 

Elder  David  Bernard:— I  solemnly 
renounce  all  fealty  to  Masonry,  and  do 
most  earnestly  beseech  my  brethren  in 
Christ  Jesus,  of  every  name,  to  come  out 
and  bear  unequivocal  testimony  against 
it.  Think,  O  think,  dear  Christians,  that 
hundreds  and  thousands  of  precious  and 
immortal  souls  will  be  lost  forever,  unless 
they  return  and  repent,  but  that  the  name 
of  the  precious  Jesus  is  rejected,  your 
Saviour,  your  precious  and  adorable  Sav- 
iour taken  away  —  the  cause  of  your  bleed- 
ing Redeemer  injured- the  hands  of  the 
wicked  strengthened,  and  the  Almighty 
God  dishonored!  And  O,  let  mo  entreat 
you  in  the  mercy  and  bowels  of  Jesus 
Christ,  to  reflect  that  you  have  to  answer 
for  the  blood  of  those  who  shall  find  also, 
when  it  shall  be  forever  too  late,  thaf 
Masonry  ia  not  a  Saviour! 


N.  C.  A.  BUILDING  AND  OITICX  Of 
TffI  CHRISTIAN   CYN08UR*, 
181  WX8T  MADISON  8TRSXT,  CHICAOC 


JfA  riOJTAL  CH&IS  TjJJf  A880CIA  TIOM 

Pkbsidbht.— H.  H.  George,  D.  D.,  Gen- 
eva College,  Pa. 

VicB-PRBSiDBHT— Rey.  M.  A.  Gault, 
Blanchard,  Iowa. 

Cob.  Sbc^t  and  Gbhbbal  Asbbt.— J 
P.  Stoddard,  221 W.  Madison  St.,  Chicago. 

Rbc.  Sbc't.  and  Trbasubbb. — W.  I 
Phillips,  221  W.  Madison  St.,   Chicago 

Directors. — J.  L.  Barlow,  C.  A. 
Blanchard,  A.  J.  Chittenden,  H.'  A.  Fisch- 
er, John  Gardner,  G.  R.  Milton,  Wm.  Mor- 
row, L.  N.Stratton,  John  Sutclifife,  Alex- 
ander Thomson.  E.  R.  Worrell. 

The  object  of  this  A^ociation  is: 
"To  expose,  withstand  and  remove  secret 
societies,  Freemasonry  in  pa.rticular,  and  otbef 
unti-Christlan  raovemeuts,  in  order  to  save  tin 
churches  of  Christ  from  beln^  (.epraved,  to  re- 
deem the  admlni6tr»  Uon  of  justice  from  pep- 
version,  and  our  rep  iblican  government  from 
corruption." 

To  carry  on  this  work  contributions  are 
solicited  from  every  friend  of  the  reform. 

Form  of  Bequest. — J  give  and  bcaueath  to 
the  National  Christian  Association,  Incorpo- 
rated and  existing  under  Uie  laws  of  the  Stato 
of   Illinois,  the  sum  of  '    dollais  for  the 

purposes  of  said  Association,  and  for  whi/-h 
tte  receint  of  its  Treasurer  for  the  time  bciDf 
^i«ll  be  Biifiacient  diacharse. 

THB  NATIONAL  CONYBNTION. 

Pbbsidbht.— Rev.  J.  S.  T.  Milligan, 
Denison,  Kans. 

Sbcrbtaby.— Rev.  R.N. Countee, Mem- 
phis, Tenn. 

BTATB  ATTXrUABT  A680CIATI0NB. 

Alabama.— Pre*.,  Prof.  Pickens;  Sec.,  8. 
M.  Elliott;  Treaa.,  Rev.  C.  B.  Curtis,  all  of 
Selma. 

Calhobnia.— Ptm„  L.  B.  Lathrop,  Hollli 
ter ;  Cor.  Sec,  Mrs.  U.  P.  Merrill,  Woodland ; 
"Treaa.,  C.  Ruddock.  Woodland. 

CoNXHCTicuT.- Vres.,  J.  A.  Conant,  Willi 
mantle;  Sec,  Geo.  Smith,  Willimantic;  Treat. 
C.  T.  CoUlnfl,  Windsor. 

IijjHOis.— Pres.,  J.  P.  Stoddard  Sec,  M. 
N.  Butler;  Treas.,  W.  I.  Phill'pi  all  &t  Cy- 
rto8iir«  office. 

Indiana.— Pres.,  William  H.  Figg,  Reno 
Sec,  S.  L.  Cook,  Albion;  Treas.,  Sen].  Ulah 
Silver  Lake. 

Iowa.— Pre8.,WmJohn6ton,ColIege  Springe' 
Cor  Sec,  C.  D.  Trumbull,  Morning  San- 
Treae.,  James  Harvey,  Pleasant  Plain,  Jeffer. 
Bon  Co. ;  Lecturer,  C.  F.  Hawlcv,  V\'beaton,  111. 

Kansas.— Prea.,  J.  S.  T.  Milllgan,  Denison ; 
Sec,  8.  Hart,  Lecompton;  Treaa.,  J.  A.  Tcr 
rence,  Denison. 

MA83A0HU8BTT8.— Free.,  8.  A.  Pratt;  Sec, 
Mra.  K.  D.  Bailey;  Treaa., David  MannInft,Sr. 
Worceater. 

Michigan.— Prea.,  D.  A.  Rlcharda,  Brighton 
Sec'y,  H.  A.  Dav,  Wllllamaton;  Trea*.' 
Geo.  Swanson,  Jr.,  BedfoiJ. 

MiNNBSOTA.— Prea.,  K.  O.  Paine,  Waaloja 
Cor.  Sec,  Wm.  Fen  ton,  St.  Paul;  Kec.  Sec'y 
Mrs.  M.  F.  Morrill,  St.  Cnarles;  Treaa.,  Wm 
H.  MorrlU,  St.  Charlea. 

Missouri.- Prea.,  B.  F.  Miller,  Ka«levlU«' 
Treaa.,  William  Beauchamp,  Avalon ;  Cor.  Btc, 
A.  D.  Thomas,  Avalon. 

Nbbhaska.— Prea.,  S.  Auatln,  FalrmoaBt^ 
Cor.  Sec,  W.  Spooner,  Kearney;  Treaa.^ 
J.  C.  Fye. 

Mains— Pres.,  Isaac  Jackson,  Harriaon* 
Sec,  I.  D.  Uaiues,  Dcxttr;  Treae.,  H.  W. 
Goddard,  West  Sidney. 

Nbw  tl  AMP8HI1UI.— Free.,  C.  L.  Baker,  Man 
Chester;  Sec,  S.  C.  KimbaU,  New  Market 
Trea*.,  Jauiea  /.  French,  Canterbury. 

Niw  YOHK.— Prea.,  F.  W.  Capwell,  Dale; 
Sec'y,  John  Wallace,  Syracuae;  Treaa.,  M. 
Merrick,  Syracuse. 

Ohio.— rres.,  F.  .M.  Spencer,  New  Concord; 
Rec  Sec,  8.  A.  George,  Manstield;  Cor.  Sec 
and  Treas.,  C.  W.  blatt,  Columbus;  A^nt 
W.  B.  Stoddard,  Columbns. 

PiNNSTLVANLA.— Cor.  Sec,  N.  Callender 
ThompisB ;  Treaa.,  W.  B.Bertela,  Wllkeabarre. 

Vbbmost.— Prea.,  W.  R.  Laird,  St.  Johne. 
buFy;  Sec,  C.  W  Potter. 

WiaooHara.- Free..  J.  W  Wood,  Baraboo; 
Sec,  W.  W.  Amea,  Menomonle;  Treaa.,  M.  B 
Brlttoa,  Vienna. 


8 


rHE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSUBE. 


AtiousT  9, 1888 


The  Christian  Cynosure. 

XDItOBS. 
1.  BLANCHARD.  HINRY  L.  KKLLOQQ. 


OHICACK),   THUBSDAT,   AUGUST  9,   1888. 


EDITORIAL  GORREaPONDENGB. 


THK  VERMONT  MISSION. 


Saxton's  Riveb,  Vt.,  July  28,  1888. 

Dear  Cjnosure  : — I  had  a  brief  set-back  at  Sara- 
toga by  indiscreet  excessive  use  of  Hathorn  water. 
But  we  are  here,  and  well,  and  I  want  to  give  our 
readers  the  fscts  and  thoughts  which  thrill  my  own 
soul.  So  far  our  Vermont  mission  seems  visibly 
guided  by  God.  But  whenever  a  movement  was 
started  in  the  New  Testament  for  Christ  against  the 
world's  religions,  as  soon  as  the  people  began  to 
embrace  it,  "the  rulers  of  the  darkness  of  this 
world"  were  always  astir,  and  showed  in  unlooked- 
for  ways  their  terrible  power.  So  it  may  be  here  in 
Vermont.  But  if  there  is  a  people  on  earth  pre- 
pared to  receive  the  Gospel  of  salvation  from  the 
lodge  rule  which  has  silenced  pulpit  and  press 
throughout  the  United  States,  and  is  now  seizing 
the  railroads  by  the  throat,  that  people  is  here  amid 
these  hills.  The  people  of  Vermont  are  cool-headed 
as  the  mountains,  and  clear-minded  as  their  springs. 
Our  meetings  open  to-morrow. 

July  30,  1888. — I  yesterday  (Sabbath)  preached 
morning  and  night  in  the  Congregational  and  Bap- 
tist churches  of  this  beautiful  village,  assisted  by 
the  pastors.  Rev.  Mr.  Leach,  who  has  with  rare 
energy  a'nd  address  made  the  arrangements  here, 
and  ot^iers  to  follow,  will  oflScially  report  our  prog- 
ress and  work. 

THE  GRAND  DIVISION  OP  EASTERN  NEW  YORK  OF  THE 
SONS  OF  TSMPBRANCB. 

This  small  body  with  a  great  name  met  last  week 
at  Saratoga.  The  delegates,  "about"  sixty  in  all, 
thronged  our  tables  at  Elmwood  Hall.  I  met  two 
bright,  ministerial  looking  young  delegates  in  the 
corridor,  who  saluted  and  said  they  had  seen  and 
heard  me.  They  spoke  of  a  "very  nice  meeting" 
from  which  they  had  just  come. 

"What  is  your  meeting?"  said  I.  "Can  I  attend 
it?" 

They  looked  demure  and  apologetic,  and  replied 
there  would  be  an  open  meeting  at  such  a  time  and 
place.  They  had  met  here  to  promote  temperance, 
as  "The  Grand  Division  for  Eastern  New  York;" 
and  had  been  meeting  in  secret!  I  then  asked,  "Will 
you  go  for  Fisk  and  Brooks?"  This  embarrassed 
these  secret  apostles  of  Prohibition  and  temper- 
ance still  worse.  They  stammered,  and  finally  got 
out,  "N-nnot  fully!"  What  that  meant  I  do  not 
efiactly  know.  Ihe  Daily  Saratogian  next  morning 
noticed  the  meetings  at  large.  They  met  for  secret 
business  all  day  in  the  Odd-fellows'  Hall,  and  held 
an  open  meeting  in  the  town  hall  at  night.  J.  N. 
Steams  (Royal  Arch  Mason),  and  Eugene  Clapp,  of 
Boston,  made  speeches,  and  "were  applauded."  But 
what  they  said,  the  Saratogian  does  not  tell  us;  or 
whether  they  were  for  Harrison,  Cleveland  or  Fisk. 

If  the  Cynosure  has  any  readers  left  who  have  any 
drawing  to  the  secret  temperance  lodges,  we  re- 
spectfully submit  to  them — and  we  especially  sub- 
mit to  Miss  Frances  E.  Willard — that  for  sixty  per- 
sons, calling  themselves  "Sons  of  Temperance,"  to 
meet  in  Odd  fellows'  Hall,  Saratoga,  with  a  sprink- 
ling of  women  among  them,  hold  secret  meotiugs, 
led  by  such  men  as  Stearns,  of  New  York,  who  are 
sworn  to  conceal  all  crimes,  "murder  and  treason  not 
excepted,"  and  then  disperse,  taking  no  ground  for 
the  Prohibition  candidates,  is,  in  itself,  and  under 
every  possible  view  of  it,  an  immoral  and  most  con- 
temptible transaction.  And  their  sly,  strange,  un- 
derhand movement  should  be  reprobated,  and  their 
persons  shunned. 


GHIEF  JUSTIGE  JOHN  MAR8EALL. 

The  story  of  Judge  Marshall's  reply  to  a  com- 
pany of  young  skeptics,  into  whose  company  he  was 
thrown  on  one  of  his  solitary  journeys,  has  embalmed 
bis  name  in  the  memory  of  thousands  of  American 
youth.  Equally  will  they  remember  the  celebrated 
English  Judge  Mansfield,  the  hero  of  the  familiar 
reading  lesson,  who  exhibited  his  love  of  justice  in 
protecting  the  cause  of  the  poor  in  the  disguise  of 
a  miller.  The  name  of  John  Marshall  will  ever  be 
placed  among  the  very  few  great  expounders  of  civil 
and  constitutional  law.  In  America  he  is  rightly 
called  "the  great  Chief  Justice."  He  was  born  in 
Fanjuier  county,  Virginia,  in  1755.  His  father  was 
a  iX)or  planter,  but  a  man  of  great  intelligence,  who 


for  his  boys  supplemented  the  lack  of  instruction  in 
the  schools  by  such  wise  and  careful  discipline  that 
his  children  manifested  toward  him  to  the  close  of  j 
his  life  the  greatest  admiration  and  respect. 
Young  Marshall  had  been  studying  law  two  years, 
when  about  the  age  of  twenty  he  joined  a  volunteer 
company  and  began  to  drill  for  the  impending 
struggle  for  independence.  In  the  war  which  fol- 
lowed he  served  with  distinction  as  an  officer  in  the 
battles  of  Germantown,  Brandywine,  Monmouth 
and  Stony  Point.  He  left  the  army  with  the  rank 
of  captain,  but  in  the  writings  of  his  contempora- 
ries of  the  early  part  of  the  century  he  is  spoken  of 
as  "General  Marshall,"  and  as  such  received  his  ap- 
pointment as  Chief  Justice  by  President  John 
Adams. 

In  the  legal  profession  he  rose  rapidly,  and  de- 
spite his  awkward,  tall,  ill-dressed  figure  among  the 
fine  gentlemen  of  the  Virginia  towns,  his  conspicu- 
ous talents  and  force  of  intellect  gained  him  a  place 
in  the  very  front  rank.  In  1782  he  was  sent  to  the 
Virginia  legislature  by  voters  who  esteemed  him 
personally  above  any  political  difl!erences.  He  was 
a  strong  Federalist,  a  party  always  unpopular  in 
Virginia,  yet  he  was  several  times  elected  to  office 
by  the  great  majority,  who  opposed  his  political 
principles.  He  was  a  warm  friend  of  Alexander 
Hamilton,  and  in  Virginia  labored  for  the  adoption 
of  the  new  I'ederal  Constitution  as  Hamilton  did  in 
New  York.  In  this  eflfort  he  was  opposed  by  the 
eloquent  Patrick  Henry,  by  Madison,  Jefferson  and 
other  distinguished  Virginians.  The  discussion  was 
prolonged  to  nearly  a  month,  but  Virginia  endorsed 
the  new  Constitution  at  last.  In  1795  he  was  offered 
the  place  of  Attorney  General  in  Washington's  cab- 
inet, but  declined.  Two  years  later  he  accepted  an 
appointment  by  President  John  Adams  as  Envoy  to 
France  with  Gerry  and  Pinckney.  Their  insolent 
reception  by  Talleyrand  and  the  Directory  of  the 
bloody  republic,  and  the  reply  of  Marshall,  are  a 
matter  of  history  which  greatly  honored  the  Ameri- 
can name.  That  Marshall  fully  enjoyed  the  confi- 
dence of  Washington  is  proved  by  the  offar  of  a 
Cabinet  position  and  also  of  an  important  foreign  mis- 
sion. No  less  was  he  held  in  esteem  by  John 
Adams,  whose  offer  of  a  seat  in  the  Supreme  Court 
he  declined  in  1798.  Soon  after  he  yielded  to  the 
earnest  personal  solicitation  of  Washington  to  again 
enter  public  life  as  a  candidate  for  Congress.  Again 
the  votes  of  political  opponents,  yet  personal 
friends,  secured  his  election;  and  it  is  affecting  to 
note  that  his  first  duty  as  representative  was  to  an- 
nounce in  the  House  the  death  of  "the  hero,  the  pat- 
riot,andthe  sage  of  America."  His  eulogy  on  Wash- 
ington attracted  universal  attention.  He  was  one  of 
the  foremost  of  the  Federalist  party,  and  on  all 
questions  involving  international  and  constitutional 
law  he  soon  became  a  leading  authority. 

Again  President  Adams  showed  his  high  appre- 
ciation of  Marshall's  integrity  and  conspicuous  abil- 
ities by  appointing  him  Secretary  of  State;  and  of 
him  and  Samuel  Dexter,  the  great  Boston  lawyer  and 
Anti-mason,  who  was  first  Secretary  of  War  and 
then  of  the  Treasury,  Adams  wrote,  "I  consider 
General  Marshall  and  Mr.  Dexter  as  more  than  sec- 
retaries— as  state  conservators,  the  value  of  whose 
services  ought  to  be  estimated  not  only  by  the  good 
they  do,  but  by  the  mischief  they  have  prevented." 
But  President  Adams  believed  that  Marshall's  tal- 
ents were  fitted  for  a  higher  station.  He  realized  the 
strain  which  might  come  upon  the  new  government 
if  the  State  rights  party  came  into  power.  The 
time  was  at  hand,  for  in  a  few  weeks  Jefferson  took 
the  oath  as  President.  If  an  all-wise  and  over- 
ruling Providence  provided  a  Luther  to  lead  the 
Protestant  Reformation;  a  Washington  to  lead  the 
feeble  American  colonies  into  the  establishment  of 
the  first  of  the  nations;  a  Lincoln  to  preserve  that 
nation  when  assailed  by  internal  foes — surely 
Marshall  was  also  appointed  by  God  for  his  great 
work.  His  appointment  marks  an  epoch  in  Ameri- 
can history.  Says  a  writer  in  the  North  American 
Review  in  1836,  just  after  the  death  of  the  great 
Chief  Justice,  of  this  critical  period: 

"Duties  of  the  most  delicate  and  embarrasslne:  nature  de 
volved  upon  the  Supreme  Court  under  the  Constitution.  It  was 
to  decide  not  disputes  about  land  or  money,  but  to  establish 
great  principles  of  government,  and  to  do  tnls  under  such  cir- 
cumstances as  made  its  decisions  the  most  momentous  and  im- 
portant that  ever  came  before  a  human  tribunal.  It  was  neces- 
sary to  check  the  rashness  of  inferior  courts,  to  cross  the  decis- 
ion of  legislatures,  and  to  maintain  an  even-handed  justice  be- 
tween States.  The  mere  force  of  authority  could  not  have  es- 
tablished its  decrees  if  they  had  not  been  confirmed  by  the 
irresistible  championship  of  truth,  and  sustained  by  arguments 
that  gained  the  asBeut  of  even  prejudiced  minds." 

The  result  justified  the  expectations  of  all  who 
knew  John  Marshall.  Years  afterward  old  John 
Adams  is  quoted  as  saying  "that  his  gift  of  John 
Marshall  to  the  people  of  the  United  States  was  the 
proudest  act  of  his  life."  William  Pinkney,  of 
Maryland,  diplomatist,  Attorney  General  and  Sena- 


tor, said,  "He  was  born  to  be  the  chief  justice  of  any 
country  in  which  he  lived."  "There  is  no  man  in 
the  court  that  strikes  me  like  Marshall,"  wrote  Dan- 
iel Webster.  "I  have  never  seen  a  man  of  whose 
intellect  I  had  a  higher  opinion."  William  Wirt,  the 
greatest  of  the  Attorney  Generals,  and  first  candidate 
for  President  against  the  lodge,  said  he  had  an  al- 
most supernatural  faculty  of  developing  a  subject 
by  a  single  glance  of  his  mind,  and  detecting  the 
very  point  upon  which  every  controversy  de- 
pends. 

The  associate  judges,  especially  Judge  Story,  al- 
ways mention  the  name  of  Marshall  with  the  highest 
regard;  and  Harriet  Martineau  has  left  a  graphic 
picture  of  the  Supreme  Court  while  it  was  held  in 
the  basement  of  the  present  Capitol  in  the  low- vault- 
ed room  used  as  Law  Library,  when  she  saw  Web- 
ster and  Clay  listening  with  absorbed  interest  to  the 
judgment  of  the  aged  Marshall. 

The  best  known  and  most  important  of  Marshall's 
decisions,  sustaining  the  power  of  the  Federal  gov- 
ernment under  the  Constitution  over  both  State 
courts  and  legislatures,  are  the  celebrated  Dartmouth 
College  case,  which  called  out  from  Webster  one  of 
his  greatest  speeches;  the  case  of  Marbury  vs.  Mad- 
ison, which  established  the  principle  that  the  Su- 
preme Court  had  jurisdiction  over  the  executive 
branch  of  the  Government  to  compel  it  to  perform 
ministerial  functions  according  to  law.  In  the  case 
of  McCulloch  against  Maryland  the  old  United 
States  Bank  was  involved.  The  State  attacked  the 
constitutionality  of  the  Bank  Charter  Act,  and  at- 
tempted to  levy  tax  on  the  Bank.  Marshall  held 
that  it  might  as  well  tax  the  mails,  the  mint,  patent 
rights,  etc.  The  American  people  he  declared  did 
not  design  to  make  their  government  depend  on 
the  States.  In  other  judgments  he  decided  that  the 
decision  of  the  Supreme  Court  must  hold  against 
State  courts  or  the  sovereign  States  themselves. 
Such  decisions  raised  his  reputation  to  a  degree  of 
public  respect  and  professional  reputation  never  yet 
surpassed.  Justice  Story,  in  publishing  "The 
Writings  of  John  Marshall  on  the  Federal  Constitu- 
tion," said,  "His  judgments,  for  power  of  thought, 
beauty  of  illustration,  variety  of  learning  and  ele- 
gant demonstration,  are  justly  numbered  among  the 
highest  reaches  of  the  human  mind."  Marshall  re- 
mained Chief  Justice  until  his  death,  July  6,  1835. 
Nearly  fifty  years  later.  May,  1884,  a  fine  monu- 
ment of  marble  and  bronze  was  erected  to  his  mem- 
ory in  Washington  city.  Aside  from  his  decisions 
on  the  bench,  his  "Life  of  Washington,"  which  ap- 
peared from  1804-7,  was  his  chief  literary  work. 

The  private  life  of  Judge  Marshall  was  character- 
ized by  great  simplicity,  unbending  integrity,  and 
manners  of  great  affability  and  gentleness  far  re- 
moved from  aristocratic  notions.  Says  Judge  Story 
in  an  address  before  the  Boston  Bar: 

"He  was  a  man  of  deep  sensibility  and  tenderness ;  nay,  he 
was  an  enthusiast  in  regar  d  to  the  domestic  virtues.  He  was 
endowed  by  nature  with  a  temper  of  gre^t  susceptibility,  easily 
excited,  and  warm  when  roused.  But  it  had  been  so  schooled 
by  discipline,  or  rather  moulded  and  chastened  by  his  affections, 
that  it  seemed  In  gentleness  like  the  distilling  dews  of  evening. 

After  all,  whatever  maybe  his  fame  in  the  eyes  of  the 

world,  that  which,  in  a  just  sense,  was  his  highest  glory  was  the 
purity,  aflectlonateness,  liberality  and  devotendess  of  his  do- 
mestic life.    Home,  home,  was  the  scene  of  his  real  triumphs  " 

Marshall  was  brought  up  in  the  Episcopal  church 
and  adhered  to  it  through  his  life,  like  his  great 
friend  Washington.  He  was  a  sincere  friend  of  re- 
ligion and  a  constant  attendant  upon  its  ministra- 
tions; without,  however,  believing  in  some  of  its 
fundamental  doctrines  until  late  in  life.  Like  his 
other  great  friend,  Adams,  he  inclined  to  Unitarian- 
ism,  but  during  his  last  year,  in  reading  "Keith  on 
Prophecy,"  he  became  convinced  of  our  Saviour's 
divinity  and  applied  for  admission  to  full  commun- 
ion in  the  church;  but  before  he  had  been  formally 
received,  being  deterred  by  ill-health,  he  died,  like 
Moses,  before  he  could  taste  the  sweets  of  Christian 
fellowship  upon  earth. 

Though  a  slave-holder  by  inheritance,  his  opposi- 
tion to  the  slave  system  was  well  known.  He  re- 
garded it  a  plague  spot  on  the  nation's  honor.  It 
was  his  conviction  that  unless  the  Negroes  could  be 
removed  by  colonization  the  evil  would  only  be 
cured  by  a  civil  convulsion.  He  was,  therefore,  a 
patron  of  the  Colonization  Society. 

But  this  sketch  is  intended  to  give  more  than  a 
brief  review  of  this  great  American's  life.  It  must 
vindicate  him  from  the  aspersions  of  the  secret 
lodge.  The  only  biography  of  John  Marshall  now 
before  the  American  people  is  by  Allan  B.  Magru- 
der,  and  forms  one  of  the  "American  Statesmen" 
series.  Whether  this  writer  is  related  to  the  rebel 
general  John  B.  Magruder,  who  preferred  Mexico 
to  the  United  States  after  the  war,  we  do  not  know. 
He  at  least  is  capable  of  slandering  the  great  man 
whose  virtues  and  whose  genius  he  labors  to  extol. 
Marshall,  it  is  well  known,  like  Washington,  joined 


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the  Masonic  lodge  in  his  younger  days,  probably 
while  in  the  Revolutionary  army.  Before  he  reached 
his  fortieth  year  he  had  practically  abandoned  Free- 
masonry. Of  this  we  have  the  evidence  of  himself 
in  a  letter  to  John  Bailey  of  Massachusetts,  who 
transmitted  to  the  aged  Chief  Justice  a  resolution 
adopted  by  the  State  Anti-maso'.ic  convention,  Sept. 
13,  1833.  In  his  reply,  dated  Oct.  18,  Marshall 
says: 

"The  circumstances  reprr sented  as  attending  the  case  of  Mor- 
gan were  heard  with  UDlversal  detestation,  but  produced  no 
other  excitement  In  this  part  of  the  United  States  than  Is  cre- 
ated by  crimes  of  uncommon  atrocity.  Their  operation  on  Ma- 
sonry, whatever  It  might  be,  was  silent,  rather  arresting  its 
progress  and  directing  attention  from  the  society,  than  induc- 
ing any  open,  direct  attack  upon  It.  The  agitations  which  con- 
vulse the  North,  did  not  pass  the  Potomac.  Consequently,  an 
Individual  so  much  withdrawn  from  the  world  as  myself,  enter- 
ing so  little  Into  the  party  conflicts  of  the  day,  could  feel  no  mo- 
tive, certainly  I  felt  uo  inclination,  to  volunteer  In  a  distant 
conflict,  in  which  the  wounds  that  might  be  received  would  not 
be  soothed  by  the  consollne  reflection  that  he  suffered  in  the 
performance  of  a  necessary  duty.  I  never  did  utter  the  words 
ascribed  to  me,  nor  any  otner  words  importing  the  sentiment 
they  convey.  I  never  did  8»y,  'Freemasonry  is  a  jewel  of  the  ut- 
most value,  that  the  pure  m  heart  a?id  life  can  ojily  appreciate  it 
fully,  and  that  in  a  free  gwernment  it  must,  it  will  he  lustained 
and  protected.''  The  fact  mentioned  in  the  resolution,  that  I 
have  been  In  a  lodge  hut  once,  so  far  as  I  can  recollect,  for 
ruarly  forty  years,  is  evidence  that  I  have  no  disposition  to  vol- 
unteer in  tbis  controversy,  as  the  zealous  partisan  which  this 
language  would  indicate. 

"The  resolution  also  Icqulres  'whether,  as  the  friend  and 
biographer  of  Washington,  1  have  in  my  possession  or  recollec- 
tion any  knowledge  of  any  acts  of  General  Washington,  or  any 
documents  written  by  him  to  Masonic  bodies,  approving  of  Ma- 
sonry.' 

"The  papers  of  General  Washington  were  returned  many 
years  past,  to  my  lamented  friend  his  nephew,  and  are  now,  I 
believe.  In  the  possession  of  Mr.  Sparks.  I  do  not  recollect  ever 
to  have  heard  him  utter  a  syllable  on  the  suhject." 

February  22,  1850,  Robert  G.  Scott,  Past  Grand 
Master,  delivered  an  address  at  the  laying  of  the 
corner-stone  of  a  Washington  monument  in  Rich- 
mond, Ya.,  in  which  he  dwelt  at  length  and  with 
great  satisfaction  on  Washington's  Masonic  career. 
Henry  Gassctt  of  Boston,  one  of  the  members  of  the 
old  "Suffolk  Committee,"  addressed  two  letters  to 
Mr.  Scott  in  which  he  quotes  from  a  letter  to  Hon. 
Edward  Everett  by  Judge  Marshall,  dated  July  22, 
1833.     Mr.  Gassett  says: 

"One  of  your  distinguished  Masons,  associates  of  Washing- 
ton, Judge  Marshall,  In  a  letter  to  Hon.  Edward  Everett,  July 
22, 1833,  wrote  that  he  was  convinced  'that  the  Institution  ought 
to  be  abandoned,  as  one  capable  of  producing  much  evil,  and  in- 
capable of  producing  any  good  which  might  not  be  eJffected  by 
safe  and  open  means. '  " 

These  emphatic  statements  of  the  great  Chief 
Justice  vindicate  him  entirely  from  any  complicity 
with  Freemasonry.  These  letters  are  on  file  in  nu- 
merous college  and  historical  society  libraries 
throughout  the  East  and  South,  and  should  have 
been  consulted  by  the  compiler  of  a  biography  which 
professes  accuracy.  But  with  this  evidence  at  hand, 
Mr.  Magruder,  with  an  amazing  deliberation,  writes: 
"He  was  a  member  of  the  Masonic  order."  We  can 
find  no  excuse  for  this  libel,  but  in  the  probability 
that  the  man  who  wrote  it  is  a  Freemason,  and  in- 
serted it  in  supposed  obedience  to  a  false  and  infa- 
mous oath.  Let  the  slander  perish  with  the  mem- 
ory of  its  author. 


— T.  C.  Richmond,  of  Wisconsin,  the  Good  Tern, 
plar  champion,  attended  the  Connecticut  Prohibition 
Convention,  and  it  is  therefore  no  surprise  to  learn 
that  there  was  a  warm  debate  on  the  woman  suffrage 
plank.  A  majority  report  was  first  adopted  advis- 
ing that  nothing  be  said  on  the  tiresome  and  per- 
plexing question,  but  finally  it  was  voted  to  re-affirm 
the  Indianapolis  resolution. 

— The  Advance  of  last  week  prints  the  following 
pleasant  note  of  Bro.  Arnold's  work:  "At  Lyons, 
last  Sunday  night,  Mr.  I.  R.  B.  Arnold,  in  his  tent, 
gave  a  Bible  reading,  with  stereopticon  illustrations, 
on  the  life  of  Christ,  as  written  by  the  Old  Testa- 
ment prophets,  the  most  of  the  Protestant  churches 
being  closed  to  unite  in  the  service.  Mr.  Arnold, 
taking  his  family  along  to  sing  and  play,  has  two 
big  tents,  one  for  the  home  and  one  for  the  Assem- 
*bly.  He  gives  a  series  of  lantern  lectures  on  Lon- 
don, Egypt,  Palestine  and  the  stories  of  the  gods, 
showing  the  relations  and  the  unity  of  past  and 
present  systems." 


OUR  CINCINNATI  LETT  BR. 

Cincinnati,  Aug.  2,  1888. 
EDiTOft  Chbistian  Cynosure  :— Last  Sabbath 
morning  I  preached  in  the  Third  Presbyterian 
church  on  the  Sabbath  question.  That  is  the  issue 
of  the  hour.  The  battle  is  raging  about  it.  Both 
sides  well  understand  that  with  it  the  battle  is 
gained  or  lost.  Dr.  Crafts  tells  of  an  ancient  city 
surrounded  by  walls  which  the  king  ordered  torn 
down.  When  the  workmen  came  to  the  tower  they 
saw  an  inscription  over  the  gate  which  read:  "With 
these  gates  the  city  stands  or  falls."  The  civil  and 
religious  Sabbaths  are  the  two-leaved  gates  of  the 


city  of  God.  With  these  gates  the  city  stands  or 
falls.  The  church  is  allowing  these  gates  to  be 
taken  down.  When  her  members  are  allowed  to 
buy  and  read  the  "Sunday  newspaper"  on  Sabbath, 
to  go  to  the  grocery  and  meat-shop  and  purchase 
their  provisions  on  that  day,  these  gates  are  being 
taken  down.  The  Reformed  Presbyterian  or  Cove- 
nanter church  is  a  witness  to  the  truth.  And  yet 
one  of  her  members  advertises  in  the  "Sunday 
paper,"  another  is  president  of  a  street  car  company 
whose  cars  run  on  Sabbath,  and  nothing  is  done  that 
touches  the  evil.  These  gates  are  being  taken  down. 
"Verily  my  Sabbaths  ye  shall  keep:  for  it  is  a  sign 
between  me  and  you  throughout  your  generations; 
that  ye  may  know  that  I  am  the  Lord  that  doth 
sanctify  you.  Ye  shall  kepp  the  Sabbath,  therefore; 
for  it  is  holy  unto  you:  Every  one  that  defileth  it 
shall  surely  be  put  to  death:  for  whosoever  doeth 
any  work  therein,  that  soul  shall  be  cut  off  from 
among  his  people." 

On  Sabbath  evening  I  preached  National  Reform 
in  St.  John  M.  E.  church,  Rav.  Heartly,  pastor. 
This  was  once  the  charge  of  Dr.  Meredith,  now  of 
Brooklyn,  M.  Y.,  before  he  united  with  the  Congre- 
gational church.  Here  Dr.  Leonard  preached,  who 
later  ran  for  Governor  of  Ohio  on  the  Prohibition 
ticket,  and  who  is  now  in  New  York  city.  They  are 
enthusiastic  on  National  Reform.     J.  M.  Fobtib. 


NEW  ENGLAND  LETTER. 

The  New  England  N.  O.  A. —  The  Public  School  Ques- 
tion—  The  JSducated  Working  Women  of  Sixty  Years 
Ago  — Our  Boys  and  Girls  v.s  the  Daily  Newspapers  — 
Ihe  Bundredth  Anniversary  of  Dr.  Judson's  Birth  — 
JUiss  Willard  and  the  Woman's  Council. 

The  business  of  organizing  afresh  the  work  of  the 
N.  C.  A.  in  New  England  has  called  Secretary  Stod- 
dard East,  and  given  the  writer  a  pleasure  she  has 
not  before  enjojed — a  personal  acquaintance  with 
ouj.  vjieneral  Agent,  whose  genial  presence  has  grown 
to  be  so  familiar  and  welcome  in  the  homes  of  anti- 
secretists.  If  unwearied  zeal  and  earnest  faith  can 
accomplish  the  work  of  resuscitating  the  New  Eng- 
land Association,  reform  friends  may  feel  assured 
of  his  success;  but  1  leave  Mr.  Stoddard  himself  to 
report  progress,  only  adding  that  it  has  been  already 
such  as  to  warrant  us  in  raising  an  Ebenezer  in  our 
hearts,  and  saying  with  the  Hebrew  prophet,  "Hith- 
erto hath  the  Lord  helped  us."  The  Presidential 
campaign  is  bringing  prohibition  to  the  front,  and 
making  it  for  the  time  being  apparently  the  supreme 
issue,  while  in  Boston  the  excitement  over  the  pub- 
lic school  question  still  continues;  but  while  the 
minds  of  the  people  are  alive  to  these  subjects,  what 
better  time  for  pointing  out  the  subtle  connection 
which  Freemasonry  bears  to  both  evils?  Do  not 
appearances  indicate  that  the  hand  of  divine  Provi- 
dence has  struck  the  hour? 

A  petition  to  the  Senate  and  House  of  Representa- 
tives at  Washington  is  now  being  circulated  "to 
speedily  frame  an  article  to  prevent  the  interference 
of  any  religious  sect  with  the  common  school  sys- 
tem, or  the  appropriating  of  any  of  the  public  funds 
for  sectarian  uses."  If  Congress  will  but  pass  this 
wise  measure,  much  future  trouble  may  be  pre- 
vented. The  public  should  be  kept  alive  to  a 
sense  of  the  great  and  growing  dangers  which  are 
threatening  the  integrity  of  our  American  institu- 
tions on  every  hand.  When  the  father  of  Melanc- 
thon  lay  dying,  he  called  his  son  to  his  bedside  and 
said,  "I  foresee  that  terrible  tempests  are  about  to 
shake  the  world.  I  have  witnessed  great  things, 
but  greater  still  are  preparing."  Such  an  impres- 
sion, it  seems  to  me,  is  prevailing  at  the  present 
time  among  the  most  devout  and  saintly  minds.  A 
German  professor  from  Heidleburg  has  just  been 
investigating  the  natural  gas  wells  in  the  town  of 
Findlay,  Ohio.  By  means  of  very  delicate  tele- 
phones connected  with  steel  rods  sunk  in  the  earth 
through  the  shaft  of  the  well  he  could  plainly  hear 
the  boiling  of  the  molten  billows  as  they  seethed 
and  surged  in  the  terrible  internal  fires  beneath, 
raging  at  3,500  degrees.  And  the  perceptions  and 
faculties  of  pure  and  devout  souls  often  become  so 
exquisitely  fine  that  they  are  like  spiritual  telephones 
connecting  with  the  future  and  bringing  hence  inti- 
mations of  social  earthquakes  that  are  yet  to  come. 
When  we  think  of  the  terrible  forces  to  destroy  life 
and  property  which  are  being  continually  discov- 
ered, the  mind  is  not  slow  in  picturing  scenes  of 
horror,  should  the  lawless  classes  ever  get  the  upper 
hand  in  our  great  cities,  at  which  the  French  Revo- 
lution pales  to  nothing. 

Sixty  years  ago,  before  strikes  and   secret   trade 

unions   were   known,  and   the  vast  tide  of  foreign 

emigration  had  not  yet  set  towards  our   shores,  we 

were  proud  of  our  educated  working  classes,  espec- 

I  ially  our  educated  working  women.     Lucy   Larcom 


was  one  of  a  society  of  mill  girls  who  published  a 
paper,  and  cultivated  their  literary  tastes  each  in  the 
quiet  of  her  own  little  sanctum  after  the  hours  of 
labor  were  over.  Some  became  missionaries  and 
ministers'  wives,  and  left  the  seal  of  their  self-deny- 
ing lives  indelibly  impressed  on  their  generation. 
My  mother  had  a  beloved  cousin,  one  of  the  first 
missionaries  to  Burmah,  whose  name  is  on  this  roll 
of  honor;  but  our  mills  and  factories  are  now  so 
largely  given  over  to  the  foreign  element  that  this 
state  of  things  has  entirely  passed  away;  only  in  our 
shoe-manufactories  there  still  remains  a  slight  re- 
minder of  the  old  regimi.  One  not  infrequently 
comes  across  "a  stitcher"  who  is  a  refined  and  cul- 
tured woman  and  does  more  and  better  work  for  the 
fact.  A  correspondent  of  the  New  York  Miil  tells 
of  one  of  these:  A  graduate  from  a  New  England 
Academy  who  bears  one  of  the  most  honored  of  our 
old  colonial  names,  who  is  annually  reelected  to  the 
presidency  of  the  Woman's  Club  in  the  village  where 
I  she  works,  and  has  even  contributed  to  the  Atlantic. 
\  Once  such  noble  wedding  of  hand  and  brain  would 
have  elicited  no  comment.  Now  the  very  fact  that 
it  is  extraordinary  ought  to  be  a  danger  signal  warn- 
ing us  that  there  are  "rocks  ahead."  An  illiterate 
laboring  class  is  the  soil  to  bring  forth  all  social 
evils;  to  be  at  once  dominated  by  priestcraft  and 
lodgecraft.     It  is  the  soil  for  revolutions. 

1  was  interested  the  other  day  in  a  theme  on 
which  Prof.  Wm.  T.  Harris  addressed  the  National 
Council  of  teachers  at  San  Francisco  last  week: 
"Ought  young  girls  to  read  the  daily  newspapers?" 
I  should  say  it  depended  entirely  on  the  quality  of 
said  newspapers;  and  that  as  there  is  no  sex  in 
crime,  it  was  quite  as  important  to  guard  our  boys 
as  our  girls  against  a  demoralizing  public  press.  A 
clean,  intelligent  newspaper,  daily  or  weekly,  is  one 
of  the  strongest  educational  forces  that  can  be 
brought  to  bear  on  a  young  mind.  I  well  remember 
what  a  potent  influence  on  my  own  childhood  were 
the  weekly  visits  of  the  lelegraph,  a  paper  edited 
by  Henry  Wilson,  and  the  Independent,  then  in  its 
"day  of  small  things,"  with  their  latest  news  of  the 
Kansas  struggle,  their  burning  utterances  for  truth 
and  freedom,  their  intelligent  and  broad-minded 
comment  on  all  that  was  interesting  the  world  at 
home  and  abroad,  they  were  in  themselves  an  edu- 
cation. But  a  paper  like  the  Bjston  Daily  Globe, 
which  panders  to  the  lowest  popular  taste,  which 
will  give  columns  to  a  prize  fight  and  hardly  a  para- 
graph to  the  proceedings  of  some  really  important 
meeting  held  in  the  interests  of  order  and  religion, 
is  bought  and  read  by  thousands  of  Christian  ps^- 
rents,  to  their  shame  be  it  said,  careless  of  the  moral 
contagion  which  its  records  of  crime  and  social  scan- 
dal is  liable  to  spread  in  their  families.  Mentally 
as  well  as  spiritually  a  young  soul  is  dwarfed  and 
poisoned  by  such  dirt. 

The  9Lh  of  this  month  will  witness  the  celebra- 
tion, by  the  first  Baptist  church  in  Maiden,  of  the 
hundredth  anniversary  of  the  birth  of  Adoniram 
Judson.  His  funeral  tablet  bears  this  epitaph, 
"Maiden  his  birthplace;  the  ocean  his  sepulchre; 
converted  Burmans  and  the  Burman  Bible  his  mon- 
ument. His.  record  is  on  high."  The  mind  natu- 
rally reverts  to  the  record  of  that  veteran  mission- 
ary of  Freemasonry,  Rob.  Morris,  who  has  rtcently 
died,  and  who  gave  up  preaching  the  Gospel  to  pro- 
mulgate the  lodge  salvation.  Very  few  would  hesi- 
tate as  to  which  was  the  most  enviable. 

Our  New  England  N.  C.  A.,  if  the  prayers  and 
wishes  of  the  writer  can  be  carried  out,  will  have  a 
share  of  its  work  among  the  women  of  the  W.  C. 
T.  U.  And  in  connection  with  this  hope,  an  extraci 
from  a  private  letter  written  by  Miss  Willard,  out- 
lining the  purposes  of  the  Woman's  Council,  may 
be  of  interest: 

'You  can  readily  see  what  a  great  advantage  would 
result  from  having  the  ladies  of  the  temperance  move- 
ment, the  leaders  of  the  missionary  movement,  the  edu- 
cational societies,  and  all  other  forms  of  organized  work 
in  this  country,  brought  into  council,  so  that  with  the 
force  of  all — I  mean  so  far  as  moral  icdaence  is  con- 
cerned— any  request  that  we  might  agree  upon  would 
come  before  the  public."  "We  could  unitedly  petition 
for  the  admission  of  women  to  all  boards  of  charity  ;for  the 
opening  of  all  colleges  to  women  that  are  now  closed, 
and  all  professional  schools;  for  the  placing  of  wocnen 
upon  all  educational  boards,  and  for  the  removing  of 
disabilities  in  law." 

I  fully  agree  with  her  "that  there  is  no  one  object 
that  could  now  be  secured  at  so  small  an  investment 
of  time  and  money  as  this  solidarity  of  the  nation's 
organized  womanhood  for  the  purposes  of  freedom 
and  beneficence."  And  when  all  the  brave  women 
in  the  anti-secret  cause  are  properly  organized,  what 
is  to  hinder  their  having  a  part  in  this  grand  feder- 
ation, and  making  their  consolidated  power  felt 
against  the  lodge,  as  well  as  all  the  other  evils  which 
it  shields  and  supports?  E.  E.  Flaqq. 


10 


THE  CHEISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


AxTGtisT  9, 1888 


THE  HOME. 


BUILDING  MONUMENTS. 


Through  life  we  build  our  monuments 

Of  honor  and,  perhaps,  of  fame ; 
The  little  and  the  great  events 

Are  blocks  of  glory  or  of  6hame. 

The  icodest,  humble,  and  obscure, 

Living  unnoticed  and  unknown, 
May  raise  a  shaft  that  will  endure 

Longer  than  pyramids  of  stone. 

The  carven  statue  turns  to  dust, 

And  marble  obelisks  decay, 
But;  deeds  of  pity,  faith  and  trust, 

Nb  storms  of  fate  can  sweep  away. 

Their  base  stands  on  the  rock  of  right, 

Their  apex  reaches  to  the  skies; 
They  glow  with  the  increasing  light 

Of  all  the  circling  centuries. 

Our  build  In  e;  muit  be  good  or  bad ; 

In  wcrds  we  speak.  In  deeds  we  do; 
On  sand  or  granite  must  be  laid 

The  shaft  that  shows  us  fa'se  or  true. 

How  do  we  build — what  can  we  show 
For  hours  and  days  and  years  of  toll? 

Is  the  foundation  firm  below  1 
Is  it  on  rock  or  sandy  soil? 

The  hand  that  lifts  the  fallen  up, 
That  heals  a  heart  or  binds  a  wound, 

That  gives  the  needed  crust  and  cup, 
Is  building  upon  solid  ground. 

Is  there  a  block  of  stainless  white 

Within  the  monumental  wall, 
On  which  the  sculptured  skill  can  write, 

"He  buildcd  well,  so  should  we  all?" 

—  Oeorije  W.  Bungay. 


boys  produced  the  monotonous  and  melancholy 
sounds  which  alone  re-echoed  in  the  vast  silence  of 
the  mosque;  and  in  the  immensity  of  the  place, 
dotted  as  they  were  here  and  there,  near  the  mihrab 
and  the  mastachet,  they  looked  like  big  black  fungi 
that  had  sprung  up  through  the  pale  straw-colored 
matting.  Huddled  up  into  a  sort  of  sphere,  with 
a  flat  base,  these  boys,  each  one  acting  independent- 
ly, would  rock  themselves  rapidly  backwards  and 
forwards,  while  they  read  aloud,  in  a  sharp  nasal 
voice,  a  verse  from  the  Koran.  Then  they  would 
stop,  look  round,  remain  silent  for  a  minute  or  two, 
and  then  begin  rocking  and  reading  again.  Some- 
times a  single  voice  would  be  heard,  to  which 
another  voice  would  seem  to  respond.  Another 
time,  two  or  three  voices  would  be  heard  together, 
and  the  immense  vaults  would  receive  and  rever- 
brate  the  sounds,  which  composed  a  kind  of  monot- 
onous and  shrill  music;  for  the  Koran  is  full  of 
rhythmic  prose,  similar  to  that  of  which  we  find 
specimens  in  the  Pentateuch  and  the  Psalms. — 
Theodore  Child  in  Atlantic  Monthly. 


A  MOSQUB  AT  STAMBOUL. 

You  enter  this  mosque  through  a  bronze  door, 
having,  of  course,  previously  shod  your  profane  feet 
with  protecting  Ijabouches;  and  then  you  are  free 
to  examine  Sind  to  admire.     The  first  feature  that 
strikes  you  is  four  enormous  pillars,  which  might 
be  compared  to   four  fluted  towers,  and  which  sup- 
port the  weight  of  the  principal  cupola.     The  capi- 
tals of  these  pillars  are  carved  into  the  form  of  a 
mass  of  stalactites,  a  style  of  ornament  which  may 
be  observed  in  many  fine  Persian  monuments;  and 
half  way  up  they  are  encircled  by  a  band  covered 
with    inscriptions     in    Turkish   characters.       The 
strength  and  simplicity  of  these  four  pillars,  which 
at  once  explain  to  the  eye  the  constructive  system 
of  the  building,  give  a  striking  impression  of  ro- 
bust majesty  and  imperishable  stability.     Sourates, 
or  verses  from  the  Koran,  form  bands  of  running 
ornament  around   the  great  cupola  and  the  miner 
domes   and  the  cornices.    From  the  roof  are  sus- 
pended, to  within  eight  or  ten  feet  of  the  ground, 
innumerable  lustres,  composed  of  glass  cups  full  of 
tallow,  set  in   a  circular  iron  frame,  and  decorated 
with  balls  of  crystal,  ostrich  eggs,  and  silk  tassels, 
as  in  Saint  Sophia  and  all  the  other  mosques.     The 
mihrab   which  designates  the  direction  of  Mecca — 
the  niche  where  rests  the  sacred  book,  the  Koran, 
the  "noble  book  taken   from  a  prototype  kept   in 
heaven" — is  inlaid  with  lapislazuli,  agate  and  jasper. 
Then  there  is  the  usual  menber,  surmounted  by  a 
conical   sound-board;   the  mastaches,  or   platforms 
supported   by  coloiietts,    where  the   mezzins    and 
other  clergy   sit.     As  in  all  the  mosques,  the  side 
aisles   are  encumbered   with  trunks   and  bales   of 
merchandise,  deposited  by  pious  Musselmans  under 
divine  safeguard;  and,  finally,  the  floor  is  covered 
with  fine  matting  in  summer  and  carpets  in  winter. 
While  1  was  lost  in  wonderment  at  the  splendor 
of  this   mosque,  several  Moslems  came  in  to  pray, 
with  the  usual  prostrations  and  beard-stroking  and 
yawning.     Two  or  three  women  also  came  to  pray, 
clad  in  feridjis  of  brilliantly  striped  silks— rose  and 
white,  azure  and  white,  yellow  and  red— and  they, 
too,  kneeled  on  the  matting,  and  bowed  and  touched 
the   ground  with  their  brows;  and  the  little  baby 
girls,  with  their  fine  eyes  and  white  veils  wrapped 
round  their  heads,  stood  patient  and  motionless  be- 
side them,  not  being  yet  old  enough  to  pray,  or  per- 
haps not  strong  enough  on  their  legs  to  prostrate 
themselves   without  irremediably  losing  their  bal- 
ance.    Some  of  these  little  baby  girls  seem  as  beau- 
ful   as  fresh  flowers,  and  remind  one  of  the  fair 
dreams  of  rosy  childhood  which  we  find  in  the  pic- 
tures of  the   French   painter  Diaz.     Then,  in  odd 
corners  of    the   moeciue,   were  boys  learning  the 
Koran  under  the  direction  of  old  turbaned  priests, 
nnd  others  learning  ail  alone,  squatting  cross-legged, 
with  the  sacred  ))0ok  open  before  them  on  a  reading 
stand  in   the  shape  of  an   X.    These  queer  little 


DIVIDING  UP  AFRICA. 

The  acquisition  of  Delegoa  Bay  by  the  British 
Government,  as  the  natural  outlet  to  the  sea   for 
north   South  Africa,  and  especially  for  the  Trans- 
vaal, seems  a  foregone  conclusion.     It  is  true  that 
the  Transvaal  as  an  independent  state  has  thus  far 
been  of   little  commercial  importance  to  England, 
but  the  discovery  of  gold  in  the  Boer  territory  has 
of  late  entirely  changed  the  whole   South  African 
problem.    Nominally  it  is  a  Dutch  Republic,  but  in 
reality  the  influx  of  English  miners  and  settlers  is 
transforming  it  into  a  British  colony,  with  actual  in- 
corporation into  British  South  Africa  only  a  ques- 
tion of  time.     Under  the  circumstances  the  acqui- 
sition of  Delegoa  Bay,  the  natural  seaport  of  the 
Transvaal  region,  is   absolutely  essential  to  the  de- 
velopment of  the  British  South  African  possessions, 
the  Gape  ports  being  too  far  distant  to  be  available. 
But  while  this  is  admitted,  there  is  a  growing  oppo- 
sition in  England  to  the  terms  upon  which  the  gov- 
ernment, in  its  negotiations  with  Portugal,  proposes 
to  accomplish  its  acquisition.    Delegoa  Bay  belongs 
to  Portugal,  and  although  England  would  willingly 
pay  a  handsome  price  for  it  in  cash,  the  Lisbon  gov- 
ernment would  refuse  to  sell  without  at  least  a  par- 
tial equivalent    territory.      Now    the    Portuguese 
claim  the  East  African  coast  from  the  mouths  of 
the   Zambesi  to   Cape    Delgado,   together  with   a 
large  tract  of  country  inland,  and  were  England  to 
assent  to  this  claim,  the  matter  could  doubtless  be 
adjusted.     This,   apparently,   is  what  the  govern- 
ment proposes  to  do,  on  the  theory,  doubtless,  that 
England  has  asserted  no  claim  to  the  district  in 
question,  and  so  would  only  be  giving  to  Portugal 
something  which  she  did  not  possess.     But  to  rec- 
ognize Portugal's  claim  to  the  country  inland  from 
her  coast  possessions  would  be  to  give  her  the 
whole  valley  of  the  Zambesi  and  of  its  tributary,  the 
Shire,  and  the  greater  part  of  the  Lake  Nyassa 
basin.     This  vast  region,  it  will   be  remembered, 
was  opened  by  Livingstone,  and  for  years  has  been 
occupied  by  missionaries  and  traders  invited  there 
by  the  British  Government,  and  its  waters  are  now 
dotted  by  their  steamers.     In  this  way  the  country 
has  become  endeared  to  the  English  people,  while 
by   the  same  means  the  government  has  acquired 
rights  and  responsibilities  which,  in  the  event  of  a 
trade,  would   be  handed  over  to  Portugal.     It  is 
urged,  of  course,  that  such  an  agreement  could  be 
made   with   Portugal  as  would  insure  the  safety  of 
the   missionaries  and  traders,  with  their  work,  but 
recent    developments  indicate  that  no  such  agree- 
ment could  be  made  effective.    Within  the  last  five 
years  serious  changes  have  occurred  in  East  Central 
Africa.     Arab   slave    hunters  have  again   become 
active,  and  only   recently  the  mission  and  trading 
stations  on  Lake  Nyassa  were  raided  and  destroyed. 
Should  existing  conditions  continue,  the  mission- 
aries and  traders,  by  organization  and  such  help  as 
England  must  extend,  may  be  able  to  stem  the  tide 
of  Arab  conquest,  but  with  Portugal  in  power  there 
can  be  no  such  prospect.     Rightly  or  wrongly,  the 
Arabs  believe  that  the  Portuguese  are  not  sincerely 
hostile  to  the  slavetrade,  and  at  least  stand  in  no  fear 
of  them,  while  of  English  influence  and  power  they 
have  a  well   defined  dread.     Besides,  to  recognize 
Portugal's  inland  claims  would  be  to  permit  the  ex- 
tension of  a  Portuguese  belt  right  across  Africa, 
and  BO  to  bar  the  access  of  the  British  South  Afri- 
'  can  colonies  into  the  interior  of  Africa.     In  view  of 
those  facts,  the  London  press,  while  regarding  the 
acquisition  of  Delegoa  Bay  as  absolutely  necessary, 
'  opposes  the  means  by  which  it  is  proposed  to  effect 
it,  an  opposition  certain  to  be  shared  in  by  friends 
cf  missions  the  world  over.    Happily,  England  has 


other  territory  in  Africa  with  which  to  compensate 
Portugal,  notably  on  the  west  coast,  and,  should 
that  or  direct  compensation  be  refused,  can  bring 
political  pressure  to  bear  to  force  her  assent. — lute- 


nor. 


MOTEBB'S   8T0RT. 


BY   MEADE   MIDDLETON. 


The  summer  holidays  had  come.  The  trunks 
were  packed.  The  coach  was  at  the  door.  Away 
went  the  mother,  Julia,  Dora,  Henry  and  Dick,  to 
spend  three  weeks  in  the  country. 

They  had  a  pleasant  drive  up  and  down  hills  and 
through  pretty  valleys.  They  passed  farm  houses 
where  there  were  cross  dogs  and  lazy  looking  cats, 
and  chickens  that  seemed  busy  all  day  scratching 
holes  in  the  ground  in  search  of  something  to  eat. 
At  sunset  they  stopped  at  a  house  where  the  family 
were  waiting  to  give  them  welcome. 

For  the  first  week  there  was  nothing  but  play 
from  morning  till  night.  After  that  they  began  to 
wish  that  they  had  brought  some  story-books. 

"I  have  been  all  over  the  house,  mother,  and  there 
is  not  a  story-book  in  it  but  what  I  have  read,"  said 
Henry. 

"And  I  do  feel  so  much  like  a  story  now,"  said 
Dora.  "Won't  you  tell  us  one  mother,  about  some- 
thing that  happened  long,  long  ago?  Only  not  out 
of  the  Bible,  for  I  can  tell  every  one  of  the  Bible 
stories  almost  before  you  begin  one." 

"So  can  I,  and  I,*'  said  all. 

"Are  you  very  sure?" 

"Oh,  yes  I  and  the  names  of  all  the  men  and 
women  in  the  story,"  said  Julia. 

"Well,  1  will  try  you,"  said  mother.  "In  days 
long  ago,  a  certain  king  went  out  to  fight  against  his 
enemies.  Among  these  enemies  was  the  son  of  a 
giant.     Quite  likely  he  himself  was  a  giant. 

"I  wonder  if  he  was  related  to  the  giant  Goliath," 
interrupted  Dick. 

"There  is  nothing  said  about  his  spear.  Goliath 
had  a  spear  like  a  Veaver's  beam,  you  know.  I 
should  think  that  his  sons,  or  brothers,  or  cousins, 
would  have  carried  that  into  battle.  There  was  a 
fierce  fight.  At  one  time  the  king  was  very  near  to 
this  son  of  the  giant.  'Ah I'  thought  the  man,  'here 
is  the  king;  I  can  easily  kill  him  with  my  new 
sword.'  The  giant  was  proud  of  his  sword.  He 
noticed,  too,  that  the  king  was  tired  and  faint.  Just 
as  his  arm  was  raised  to  strike,  a  brave  captain  ran 
forward,  struck  the  giant  dead,  and  carried  the  king 
away  to  a  place  of  safety.  Then  the  soldiers  begged 
the  king  to  stay  out  of  the  fight.  They  called  him 
the  light  of  his  people.  'If  thou  art  killed,  our 
light  will  be  gone  out,'  they  said." 

"I  begin  to  see  a  little  way  into  this  story,"  said 
Dora.  "When  mother  spoke  of  a  brave  captain,  it 
made  me  think  of  a  king  who  was  very  thirsty.  He 
was  in  a  cave,  hiding  from  his  enemies.  He 
wished  very  much  for  a  drink  from  the  well  that 
was  near  his  old  home.  The  well  was  at  the  gate  of 
the  town,  near  by.  But  it  would  be  very  dangerous 
for  any. one  to  try  to  get  water  from  it,  for  the  town 
was  filled  with  soldiers,  who  were  just  waiting  to 
fight  this  king.  Three  of  the  captains  heard  him 
wish  for  the  water,  though,  and  away  they  went  and 
broke  through  the  soldiers  and  got  it  for  him.  But 
he  would  not  drink  it;  he  poured  it  all  on  the 
ground  before  their  eyes." 

"How  unkind!"  cried  Henry. 

"Oh,  no!  It  seems  all  right  when  you  hear  why 
he  did  it.  He  declared  he  would  not  drink  what 
had  so  nearly  cost  the  men  their  lives!  He  would 
pour  it  all  out  as  an  offering  to  God.  I  think  that 
mother  is  telling  us  about  the  very  same  king. 
What  was  the  end  of  the  fight,  mother?" 

"Oh!  it  was  victory  to  the  king,  and  death  to  his 
enemies.  Those  who  were  left  alive  were  glad " 
enough  to  run  away  to  their  own  land.  The  king 
was  pleased  that  he  had  driven  them  away.  He 
knew,  though,  that  he  could  have  done  nothing 
without  God's  help.  These  enemies  were  God's 
enemies  also." 

"I  told  you  so,"  whispered  Dora.  "I'm  almost 
sure  that  we  have  guessed  the  name  of  the  king." 

"He  was  very  fond  of  music.  He  had  many  per- 
sons around  him  who  could  play  on  different  kinds 
of  instruments.  Often,  after  a  victory,  he  would 
write  words  to  be  sung." 

"Have  we  ever  seen  these  words,  mother?" 

"You  had  better  wait  till  the  end  of  the  story," 
said  J  alia. 

'  One  day  the  king  seemed  to  forget  all  about 

God's  kindness  to  him.     He  called  his  chief  captain 

and  said:  'Go  all  over  the  land  and  count  the  peo- 

I  pie,  then  come  and  tell  me  how   many  there  are.' 

The  captain  was  sorry  to  receive  this  command.   He 


r»^ 


A0OD8T  9, 1888 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


11 


was  sure  that  the  king  was  feeling  a  wrong  kind  of 
pride  about  his  land.  He  knew  that  God  hated 
pride;  and,  although  he  was  not  a  good  man,  be 
feared  to  do  anything  that  would  bring  Qod's  anger 
upon  the  land.  He  begged  the  king  not  to  do  this 
thing.  But  the  king  was  determined  that  the  peo- 
ple should  be  numbered.  It  took  nine  months  to 
do  the  great  work.  Then  they  cape  to  the  king 
and  told  him  how  many  hundred  thousand  men  he 
had  in  his  kingdom.  The  moment  they  told  him  he 
seemed  to  feel  that  he  had  done  very  wrong.  He 
fell  upon  his  knees  and  begged  God  to  forgive  him. 
This  was  in  the  afternoon,  perhaps;  i  do  not  believe 
that  he  slept  well  that  night.  The  next  day  a  man 
came  to  the  palace,  saying  he  must  speak  with  the 
king.  I  am  not  sure,  but  I  think  the  man  wore  a 
long  robe,  and  had  a  strange,  sad  look,  as  though 
he  were  used  to  seeing  and  hearing  things  that  were 
not  seen  and  heard  by  other  men. 

"It  was  not  the  first  time  he  had  been  to  the  pal- 
ace. The  king  knew  that  he  was  a  prophet,  and 
that  he  had  come  with  a  message  from  God.  The 
prophet  said:  'The  Lord  has  sent  me  to  say  that 
you  may  choose  one  of  three  things.'  Obi  how 
eagerly  the  king  listened.  'Either  seven  years  of 
famine,  or  three  to  flee  before  the  face  of  your  ene- 
mies, or  three  days  of  pestilence  all  over  the 
land.' 

"The  king  did  not  know  what  to  choose.  'God  is 
merciful,'  be  cried.  'I  would  rather  fall  into  the 
hands  of  God  than  into  the  hands  of  man.'  And 
80  he  chose  the  three  days  of  pestilence.  Suddenly, 
like  a  great  black  cloud,  it  came  over  the  land.  It 
began  at  one  end  of  the  kingdom,  and  went  over  its 
length  and  breadth,  into  quiet  homes,  everywhere, 
till  thirty  thousand  persons  had  died. 

"The  king  and  his  chief  men,  covered  with  sack- 
cloth, crying  unto  God,  looked  up  suddenly  and  saw 
a  fearful  sight — an  angel  in  the  air,  with  a  sword  in 
his  hand.  The  sword  was  held  over  the  city.  'Alas! 
alasl'  cried  the  king.  Falling  upon  his  face,  he 
begged  God  to  destroy  him  and  his  family,  but  to 
spare  the  remainder  of  bis  people.  Then  the  prophet 
came  again  to  speak  with  the  king.  This  time  it 
was  to  say  that  God  had  heard  his  prayer,  and  that 
be  must  build  an  altar  on  the  very  spot  where  he 
bad  seen  the  angel  stand.  The  king  hastened  to  the 
place.  It  was  just  outside  the  city.  A  man  and 
his  four  sons  had  been  threshing  wheat  there.  They 
had  been  at  work  all  day,  perhaps,  for  there  was  a 
large  pile  of  wheat  already  threshed.  The  oxen 
were  standing,  fastened  to  the  heavy  wooden  rollers. 
But  the  men  were  not  at  work  when  the  king  came 
to  them.  They  too  bad  seen  the  angel,  and,  being 
very  much  afraid,  they  had  run  away  to  hide. 

"When  the  father  saw  the  king  coming  be  ran  to 
meet  him  and  bowed  down  to  the  ground.  This  is 
a  day  of  wonders,  he  thought.  What  would  the 
king  say  to  him?  He  had  come  to  ask  for  the  piece 
of  ground  where  the  tbresbins;-floor  bad  been.  He 
wishes  to  build  there  an  altar  to  the  Lord.  He  of- 
fered the  farmer  a  large  sum  of  money  for  it. 
'Take  it,'  said  the  man.  'And  here  are  the  oxen, 
offer  them  as  a  sacrifice,  and  take  threshing  instru- 
ments, and  the  wheat  too,  and  offer  all  to  the  Lord.' 
If  there  had  been  anything  more,  no  doubt  be  would 
have  offered  that  also.  He  refused  to  take  any 
money.  But  the  king  said,  'No,  I  will  pay  the  full 
price.  I  will  not  take  that  which  is  thine  for  the 
Lord,  nor  offer  burnt  offering  without  cost.'  Then 
they  weighed  the  silver,  fifty  shekels,  and  gave  it  to 
the  man;  and  the  king  built  an  altar,  and  worshiped 
God.  Fire  came  down  from  heaven  and  fell  upon 
the  altar.  Then  the  angel  put  his  sword  into  the 
sheath.  This  was  a  sign  that  the  Lord  had  forgiven 
the  king,  and  that  no  more  should  die  of  the 
plague." 

"Mother,  you  have  been  telling  us  about  King 
David,  and  how  he  numbered  the  people,  and  about 
the  plague  that  God  sent.  I  knew  it  all,  almost  from 
the  beginning,"  said  Julia.  "1  guessed  when  some 
one  spoke  about  the  thirsty  king.  That  was  David, 
you  know;  and  he  wanted  water  from  the  well  that 
stood  by  the  gate  in  Bethlehem." 

"But  who  was  the  farmer?"  asked  Dick.  "His 
name  was  Araunah.  He  must  have  been  a  good 
man.  He  had  a  chance  to  make  money.  The  king 
would  have  given  him  anything  that  he  asked." 

"But  you  see  how  little  he  cared  for  money  com- 
pared with  the  privilege  of  giving  all  that  he  had 
for  God's  work.  I  suppose  that  we  ought  to  feel  as 
he  did.  But  how  can  we?  We  don't  build  altars 
nowadays." 

"But  they  build  churches  and  send  missionaries 
to  the  heathen,  and  give  to  the  poor,"  said  mother. 
"We  have  opportunities  of  doing  good  every  day  if 
we  choose  to  use  them." 

"I  guesB  we  don't  know  every  Bible  story,  after 
all,"  said  Julia. — S.  JS.  limet. 


Temperance. 


LODGE  AND  SALOON  IN  WORGBSTBR. 


The  number  of  saloons  on  the  principal  streets  in 
Worcester,  Mass.,  indicate  a  liberal  patronage  and 
lax  state  of  morals.  I  am  not  surprised  to  see  this 
giant  curse  flourish  where  Christ  and  his  bride  and 
the  watchmen  on  Z ion's  walls  are  dominated  by  Sa- 
tan's creed  and  worship. 

Said  one,  who  reads  the  papers  and  notes  the 
lodge  reports  with  care,  "The  lodge  men  hold 
nearly  every  office  in  the  city.  They  have  taken 
everything  into  their  hands.  They  control  the 
churches  and  the  ministers  are  their  willing  ser- 
vants." 

A  well  informed  gentlemen  assured  me  that  only 
two  or  three  churches  in  the  city  gave  any  warning 
against  secret  orders,  and  another  told  of  an  in- 
stance where  a  man  presented  himself  for  member- 
ship in  a  leading  Congregationalist  church  in  the 
city,  and  when  an  evening  was  named  by  the  pastor 
for  his  examination  the  candidate  objected  that  it 
was  his  lodge  evening.  His  objection  was  enter- 
tained and  another  evening  named  without  a  word 
of  reproof  for  thus  putting  the  bride  of  Christ 
under  the  heel  of  the  lodge!  Where  city  officials 
are  sworn  allies  of  saloon-keepers  and  dens  of  in- 
famy, and  where  the  church  and  the  ministry  lie 
tamely  down  and  invite  the  lodge  to  walk  over  their 
prostrate  forms,  it  is  no  marvel  that  hell  opens  her 
guilded  portals  in  high  places,  and  the  destroying 
demon  stands  ready  to  catch  the  passer-by  at  every 
corner.  While  the  lodge  rules  Worcester  rum  will 
"run  down  her  streets,"  and  the  same  is  true  of  any 
other  city.  J.  P.  Stoddard. 


MA70R  ROCHE'S  SUNDAY  SALOONS. 

Last  Sunday,  in  Chicago,  was  characterized  by 
wanton  attacks  upon  peaceable  citizens.  In  one 
case  a  couple  of  hoodlums  thought  it  would  be 
great  fun  to  terrorize  inoffensive  Jews  going  along 
the  streets  or  sitting  in  their  own  doorways.  For- 
tunately, not  much  harm  came  of  that  lark.  In 
another  a  house  was  entered  and  a  woman  thrown 
into  a  coal  box,  on  which  stones  and  timber  were 
piled  to  prevent  her  getting  out.  This,  too,  proved 
to  be  trivial  in  its  consequences.  In  a  third  case  a 
Polish  dance  was  interfered  with  and  broken  up  by 
rowdy  intruders,  resulting  in  the  fatal  shooting  of 
the  two  men  who  thought  to  have  a  little  fun  at  the 
expense  of  a  lot  of  "Polacks."  In  the  fourth  case  a 
drunken  man  attacked  an  old  neighbor  and  his  wife, 
and,  not  content  with  driving  them  into  the  house, 
attempted  to  get  in  himself.  A  heavy  charge  of 
buckshot  from  the  assailed  householder  cut  short 
the  career  of  the  assailant. 

It  is  apparent  to  all  thinking  men  that  the  open 
saloon  on  Sunday  is  responsible  for  this  rowdyism 
and  crime.  All  the  parties  who  were  the  aggressors 
in  the  disturbances  of  Sunday  were  intoxicated  or 
under  the  influence  of  liquor,  and  if  no  liquor  had 
been  obtainable  they  would  not  have  indulged  in 
such  brutality.  It  is  a  fact  that  many  men  who  do 
not  drink  to  excess  on  other  days  of  the  week  do 
yield  to  temptation  on  Sunday,  their  leisure  con- 
tributing to  their  undoing.  The  logic  of  all  such 
events  as  those  of  Sunday  points  to  the  closing  of 
saloons  on  the  day  of  rest. — Inter  Ocean,  July  SI. 


THE  SALOON  AND  THE  NEWSPAPER. 

"A  very  large  number  of  newspapers,"  said  Dr. 
Henson,  of  Chicago,  in  a  recent  sermon,  "are  printed 
that  are  unfit  to  read  in  a  decent  house.  Dana  says 
that  it  is  the  business  of  newspapers  to  publish  the 
news.  I  deny  it.  There  is  a  great  deal  that  happens 
that  has  no  business  in  print  anywhere.  It  is  not  de- 
cent. It  may  be  news,  but  it  is  news  that  ought  never 
to  see  the  light  of  day.  There  have  to  be  police 
courts,  and  so  there  have  to  bo  sewers;  but  in  God's 
name  let  the  sewers  run  underground.  It  is  the  busi- 
ness of  a  newspaper  to  publish  such  news  as  the 
public  oughi  to  know;  such  news  as  is  fit  for  the 
public's  moral  health.  It  is  customary  for  every- 
body to  charge  the  saloons  with  being  the  abomina- 
tion of  desolation.  The  saloon  is  responsible  for  a 
great  deal,  there  is  no  question  about  that — mur- 
ders, thefts,  burglaries  and  innumerable  crimes  of 
the  deepest  dye — but  it  is  not  responsible  for  every- 
thing. I  tell  you  debauched  literature  is  responsi- 
ble, perhaps  more  vitally,  deeply  and  directly  than 
the  saloon.  The  saloon  simply  debauches  the  boys 
and  the  men  as  a  rule,  but  here  is  a  subtle,  insidi- 
ous, perniLiOus,  infamous  influence  that  debauches 
the  whole  of  society,  including  the  young  mem- 
bers." 


SALOON  MEN  AGGRIEVED. 


Some  saloon-keepers  in  Brooklyn  are  very  angry 
over  an  original  poem  read  at  the  graduating  exer- 
cises in  a  public  school  the  other  day,  and  now  the 
Brooklyn  Liquor  Dealers'  Association  has  taken  the 
matter  up  and  threatens  to  make  it  hot  for  some- 
body. The  poem  describes  alleged  cases  of  misery 
and  murder  wrought  by  the  saloons.  The  poet 
adds: 

"You  were  liceneed  to  sell,  and  gave  not  a  sigh 

For  the  miserable  work  you  had  done, 
And  now,  not  content,  you  are  striving  your  best 

To  likewise  rutn  my  son. 
You  are  leading  him  on  in  the  downward  path, 

His  meager  earnings  you  crave ;     , 
For  that  you  are  willing  to  send  him'  down 

To  an  early  drunkard's  grave. 
When  jou  stand  in  the  presence  of  those  poor  souls 

You  have  helped  drag  down  to  hell, 
Of  little  avail  will  it  be  to  you  then 
To  say,  'I  am  licensed  to  sell.'  " 
Now  we  shall  hear  of  more  teachers  discharged, 
as  in  Boston,  for  the  saloon  is  as  powerful  in  poli- 
tics as  the  Boman  Catholic  church. 


THE  VERDICT  AFTER  FIVE  TEARS  OF  HIGH 
LICENSE. 


We  have  had  high  license  in  Illinois  for  five 
years,  and  while  it  is  a  success  as  a  revenue  meas- 
ure, it  is  an  undisguised  failure  as  a  temperance 
measure.  It  in  no  way  checks  the  consumption  of 
intoxicating  liquors  as  a  beverage,  nor  does  it  in  the 
least  degree  lessen  the  evils  or  crime  from  such 
use.  It  may  be  true  that  in  a  city  like  Chicago  the 
number  of  saloons  may  be  reduced  a  few  hundred, 
but  such  a  reduction  from  an  aggregate  of  several 
thousands  is  not  noticeable.  Drunkenness  and  the 
petty  as  well  as  the  grave  crimes  resulting  there- 
from receive  no  check  from  high  license,  and  to 
urge  it  as  a  temperance  measure  or  as  an  anti-saloon 
expedient  is  to  attempt  to  commit  a  fraud  on  a 
party.  Nor  does  high  license  give  more  decent  sa- 
loons, if  such  places  can  claim  any  degree  of  de- 
cency. The  dives  and  dens,  the  barrel-houses  and 
the  thieves'  resorts,  are  as  bad  and  as  freq^^ent  in 
this  city  to-day,  after  five  years  of  high  license,  as 
they  ever  were.  Call  high  license  what  it  is,  an  easy 
way  to  raise  a  revenue  from  vice,  but  let  there  be  an 
end  of  indorsing  it  as  a  temperance  or  a  reform 
measure. —  Chicago  Daily  News. 

*  »  ♦i 

The  observarce  of  the  Sabbath  is  so  closely 
allied  to  the  temperance  work  that  it  cannot  be 
separated  from  it,  and  no  reformation  can  prosper 
without  it.  The  drink  demon  seems  to  take  posses- 
sion of  its  subjects  on  that  day,  and  how  often  do 
we  read  of  the  wives,  becoming  despondent  from 
the  miserable  lives  they  are  compelled  to  lead  with 
drunken  husbands,  putting  an  end  to  their  earthly 
existence— their  lives  going  out  into  everlasting 
darkness— on  the  Sabbath;  the  day  that  commemo- 
rates the  "rising  of  the  Sun  of  righteousness  with 
healing  in  his  wings."  A  noted  writer  says  that 
"suicides  of  women  are  more  frequent  on  the  Sab- 
bath than  any  other  day,  and  the  suicides  of  men  on 
Monday.  The  woman  left  neglected  at  home  in 
despair  takes  her  life;  the  man  awakening  Monday 
from  a  drunken  Sabbath  loathes  himself  and  life 
and  casts  both  violently  away."  Can  any  Chris- 
tian home  afford  to  have  a  father,  brother  or  hus- 
band abetting  the  evil  of  licensing  liquor  and  the 
open  profanation  of  the  Sabbath  of  the  Lord?  — 
Christian  Nation. 

The  evening  of  July  10  John  Bunting,  a  pros- 
perous farmer  in  the  town  of  Franklin,  Mich.,  while 
crazed  by  drink,  tried  to  depopulate  the  entire 
neighborhood,  shooting  indiscriminately  with  his 
revolver,  and  slightly  wounding  Mrs.  Pawson,  his 
mother-in-law,  and  B.  G.  Wells,  a  farmer.  "That 
night  Wells'  barn  was  fired,  and  it  was  at  first  sup- 
posed  that  Bunting,  who  had  disappeared,  had  per- 
ished in  the  ruins,  but  nothing  was  found  to  justify 
the  surmise.  Sunday,  the  15th,  200  farmers  orga- 
nized and  searched  the  woods  on  the  theory  that 
the  man  had  committed  suicide,  but  discovered 
nothing.  On  the  25th  a  son  of  the  missing  man 
found  his  father's  putrid  body  in  a  swamp  not  far 
from  the  scenes  of  his  shooting.  Bunting  had  used 
his  weapon  on  himself. 

The  New  Railroad  Bill  which  has  just  passed  the 
Canadian  Parliament  has  the  following  remarkable 
clause:  "Every  person  who  sells,  gives  or  barters 
any  spirituous  or  intoxicating  liquors  to  or  with  any 
servant  or  employe  of  any  company  while  on  duty, 
is  liable  on  summary  conviction  to  a  penalty  not  ex- 
ceeding fifty  dollars,  or  to  imprisonment  with  or 
without  severe  labor,  for  a  period  not  exceeding  one 
month,  or  to  both. 


12 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CTTNOSUKB. 


August  9, 1888 


BIBLE  LESSON. 


BTUDIEB  IN  THE  OLD  TESTAMENT. 
LESSON  VIII.    Third  Quarter.— Aug  19. 
SUBJECT.— The  Feast  of  Tabernacles.- Lev.  23:  33-44. 
GOLDEN  TEXT.— The  voice  of  rf  jolclng  and  salvation  Is  In 
the  tabernacles  of  the  righteous.— Psa.  118:  15. 
I  Open  the  Bible  aiid  read  the  leaon.  \ 
COMMENTS  ON  THE  LESSON  BY  E.  E.  FLAGG. 

1.  The  Feast  of  Tabernacles,  vs.  33-36.  (1)  This 
was  to  be  a  week  of  Sabbaths  to  be  profaned  by  no  com- 
mon, daily  work.  (2)  It  was  a  feast  of  remembrance, 
bringing  back  the  memory  of  all  the  Lord's  great  good- 
ness in  leading  them  out  of  the  land  of  Egypt.  (3)  It  was 
a  foreshadowing  of  something  better,  that  time  of  mil- 
lennial peace  and  plenty  for  which  the  world  yet  waits. 
(4)  It  taught  the  devout  Jew  that  though  he  had  reached 
the  land  of  promise  he  had  still  no  spiritual  abiding  place, 
and  was,  like  his  forefathers,  a  stranger  and  a  pilgrim  on 
the  earth.  (5)  It  was  a  feast  of  thanksgiving;  they  were 
to  rejoice  before  the  Lord.  (6)  It  was  a  time  for  social 
reunions,  when  friends  and  neighbors  met  together. 
Viewed  in  all  these  different  side-lights  we  can  see  that 
this  was  an  annual  festival  every  way  calculated  to  keep 
alive  the  fires  of  religious  devotion,  of  family  affection 
and  pure  patriotism.  And  yet  the  utter  inability  of 
forms  to  do  this  is  proven  by  the  fact  that  its  observance 
fell  into  total  disuse  as  early  as  the  days  of  Joshua,  and 
was  not  again  revived  till  the  times  of  Ezra;  and  though 
observed  with  great  outward  show  when  our  Saviour 
was  on  earth,  its  spiritual  significance  seems  neither  to 
have  been  taught  nor  understood.  The  ancient  festivals 
were  a  spiritual  image  of  the  freedom  and  joy  of  the 
Christian  life,  which,  though  it  ought  to  be  the  very 
busiest  of  lives,  "there  must  no  servile  work  be  done 
therein ;"  none  of  that  drudgery  which  furrows  the  brow 
and  wears  out  soul  and  body  before  their  time.  The  soul 
should  be  kept  above  our  daily  drudgery,  and  by  bear- 
ing in  mind  these  two  things:  that  the  Lord  never  re- 
quires of  us  more  than  our  strength  is  equal  to,  nor  puts 
on  us  more  tasks  than  our  life  is  long  enough  for,  we 
can  be  calm,  unhurried  and  unworried,  even  in  the  most 
various  and  distracting  employments. 

2.  It  was  a  Time  for  Freewill  Offerings,  vs.  37-39. 
The  Christian  Sabbath  is  the  one  festival  which  will  al- 
ways stand  the  test  of  the  centuries.  It  cannot  pass 
away  because  it  stands  rooted  in  the  needs  of  man's  na- 
ture. Most  fitting  is  it  that  on  the  first  day  of  the  week 
each  should  lay  by  him  in  store  a  freewill  offering,  as 
God  hath  prospered  him.  Christianity  does  not  release 
us  from  any  of  our  obligations.  It  intensifies  them; 
sheds  upon  them  a  nevr  and  spiritual  light  in  which  they 
are  no  longer  "a  yoke  of  bondage,"  but  "the  perfect  law 
of  liberty."  Among  our  duties  that  of  honoring  God 
with  our  substance  should  take  a  first  rank  Nothing 
steals  away  a  nation's  substance  like  the  drink  traffic.  It 
follows  that  if  the  saloon  gets  hundreds  of  millions  of 
our  money  every  year,  there  is  so  much  the  less  to  give 
to  God;  so  much  the  less  to  give  to  foreign  missions;  so 
much  the  less  for  our  own  neglected  and  unfortunate 
classes.  Tobacco  takes  another  enormous  sum.  We 
should  be  richer  without  its  use;  richer  in  pocket,  in 
brains,  in  morals;  richer  in  our  future  men  and  women, 
who,  by  the  inexorable  law  of  heredity,  cannot  have  to  - 
bacco-ueing  ancestors  without  suffering  for  it.  The  mon- 
ey paid  into  the  secret  lodges  gives  back  no  just  equiva- 
lent, and  we  know  that  a  part  of  it  goes  for  tobacco  and 
drink,  because  there  is  more  or  less  used;  for  many  a 
man  will  smoke  and  drink  when  he  can  do  it  in  secret, 
and  at  the  same  time  have  the  pleasure  of  companion- 
ship, who  would  not  do  it  under  other  conditions.  Econ- 
omy is  always  on  the  side  of  virtue;  and  though  this  may 
be  the  lowest  side  from  wh'ch  we  can  view  reform,  it  is 
a  very  proper  and  legitimate  side.  When  all  these  na- 
tional iniquities  are  put  down  there  will  be  more  to  give 
to  God. 

3.  Jt  was  a  Time  of  Rtjoicing.  v.  44  The  duty  of 
Christian  rejoicing  is  very  strongly  empha3iz3d  in  God's 
Word.  His  children  ought  to  be  happy.  They  have  a 
Father  whose  faithfulness  and  tenderness  is  only  bound- 
ed by  eternity;  they  have  "the  promise  of  the  life  which 
now  is,  and  of  that  which  is  to  come."  If  they  are  not 
happy  it  looks  as  if  they  did  not  believe  these  promises, 
and  God  is  dishonored  thereby.  "That  your  generations 
may  know,"  etc.  Make  the  children  familiar  with  the 
story  of  God's  goodness  to  their  fathers  before  them,  and 
thus  they  will  learn  for  themselves  lessons  of  childlike 
love  and  trust. 


Seligiotjs  News. 


— The  king  of  Siam  proposes  to  place  the  Pres- 
byterian mission  schools  on  the  same  basis  as  to 
state  aid  as  the  governmeat  schools. 


— Eev.  C.  C.  Harrah  of  Galva  resigned  his  charge 
in  Galva,  111.,  several  weeks  since,  but  met  a  univer- 
sal protest.  He  insisted,  however,  that  he  be  re- 
leased. Four  different  papers  signed  by  old  and 
young,  at  different  times,  were  put  into  his  hands, 
and  the  feeling  of  the  church  was  intense.  Friends 
of  the  church  and  pastor  all  advised  that  the  resig- 
nation be  withdrawn;  and  at  a  meeting  of  the  church 
and  congregation,  July  21,  where  plans  were  laid  for 
future  work,  the  pastor  decided  to  remain. 

— The  Swedish  Mission  churches  of  the  Northwest 
are  seeking  to  open  an  English  Mission  among  the 
Chippewa  Indians  on  Lake  Mille  Lac.  The  Ameri- 
can Missionary  Association  is  endeavoring  to  get 
the  consent  of  the  Indian  Bureau,  and  if  successful, 
the  mission  will  be  opened  under  the  auspices  of  the 
Association,  but  will  be  conducted  and  supported  by 
the  Swedes.  There  are  900  Indians  there,  and  no 
school  nor  mission  work  among  them. 

— Mrs.  Cheney  and  Mrs.  Hildreth,  the  daughters 
of  Deacon  Philo  Carpenter,  as  trustees  of  his  estate, 
have  recently  paid  over  the  following  bequests:  To 
the  Illinois  Home  Missionary  Society,  $1,000;  to  the 
American  Missionary  Association,  $1,000;  to  the 
New  West  Commission,  $2,000;  to  the  American 
Board,  $1,000;  to  the  American  and  Foreign  Chris- 
tian Union,  $1,000;  also  $2,000  to  Rev.  J.  B.  Roy,  in 
trust,  for  the  promotion  of  the  anti-secret  society 
reform  among  the  Negroes  of  the  South.  He  had 
previously  given  a  house  and  lot  each,  now  renting 
for  $720  a  year,  to  the  American  Board,  the  A.  M. 
A.,  and  the  Home  Missionary  Society.  In  all  he 
had  given  $50,000  to  promote  the  Anti-masonic  re- 
form. His  direct  and  residuary  legacy  to  the  Chi- 
cago Theological  Seminary  will  be  a  handsome  sum. 
Mrs.  Cheney,  who  has  borne  the  bulk  of  the  burden, 
is  confirming  the  faith  of  her  father  in  her  business 
capacity. — Advance. 

— There  are  in  connection  with  the  Synod  of  the 
Reformed  Presbyterian  church  10,970  communi- 
cants, who  are  divided  into  121  congregations,  min- 
istered to  by  116  ministers.  The  net  increase  last 
year  in  the  home  churches  was  43  communicants, 
and  in  the  two  mission  fields  39,  The  total  contri- 
butions for  all  purposes  was  $205,511,  an  average 
of  $18.73  per  member.  The  Sabbath-school  schol- 
ars number  12,574. 

— The  census  gives  the  number  of  Protestant 
churches  in  the  United  States  at  92,653,  Protestant 
ministers  at  71,622,  and  members  at  9,003,030. 
Taking  the  Catholic  and  Mormon  population  from 
the  total  population,  it  leaves  43,864,381.  This 
gives  one  church  for  every  473  persons,  including 
infants  and  children,  one  minister  for  every  612  of 
the  people,  and  nearly  one  professing  Christian  for 
every  five  of  the  population  outside  of  the  two 
classes  named. 

— At  the  Minnesota  State  Conference  of  the 
Swedish  Baptist  church  just  held,  over  a  thousand 
people  being  present,  the  following  resolution  was 
adopted:  "Whereas,  no  effective  temperance  work 
can  take  place  as  long  as  the  liquor  business  is  le- 
galized, and  whereas  a  political  party  is  necessary  to 
enact  and  enforce  laws  prohibiting  the  manufacture 
and  sale  of  intoxicating  beverages,  be  it  Resolved — 
That  we  recommend  to  all  our  brethren  in  the 
churches  to  heartily  support  the  National  Prohibi- 
tion party." 

— The  present  prime  minister  of  the  Sandwich 
Islands  is  an  earnest  Christian.  When  he  visited 
Berlin,  in  connection  with  a  commercial  treaty,  it 
was  his  practice  to  attend  Bible  readings  on  Sunday 
nights,  and  he  found  it  easy  to  decline  diplomatic 
invitations  on  the  Lord's  day. 

— The  treasurer  of  the  Presbyterian  Woman's 
Foreign  Missionary  Society  reports  that  the  year's 
receipts  of  the  society  was  nearly  $150,000 — an  ad- 
vance of  more  than  $20,000  on  the  previous  year. 

— Eight  young  ladies  are  preparing  themselves  for 
missionary  work  in  Albert  Lea  College,  Minnesota, 
and  three  others  are  waiting  for  pecuniary  help  to 
enable  them  to  do  the  same. 

— Bro.  J.  Augustus  Cole  writes  from  Freetown, 
Sierra  Leone,  Africa,  to  the  We^leyan  Methodist^  that 
he  is  hard  at  work  and  in  special  need  of  funds,  es- 
pecially in  connection  with  the  school  interests  at 
Freetown.  He  is  serving  as  pastor  of  the  church  in 
Freetown.  In  seconding  his  appeal  for  funds  the 
Weileyan  says:  "It  looks  as  though  the  God  of  the 
nations  was  opening  Africa  to  us  as  a  people,  under 
auspices  which  ought  to  encourage  us  in  this  newly 
inaugurated  mission  work.  Such  has  been  the 
identification  of  the  Wesleyan  Methodist  connection 
with  the  freedom  and  elevation  of  the  colored  race 
as  should  tend  to  open  our  hearts  and  hands  toward 


a  people  for  whom,  in  this  country,  we  so  long 
prayed  in  the  interest  of  their  deliverance  from  op- 
pression." 

— Rev.  Byron  Gunner,  pastor  at  New  Iberia,  La., 
and  president  of  Howe  Institute,  is  North  again  to 
secure  further  aid  for  that  interesting  school.  He 
reached  Chicago  last  Thursday  and  will  visit 
churches  in  th§  northwest. 

— The  Christian  Nation  prints  the  portrait  of  a 
young  woman  lately  elected  deaconess  in  one  of  the 
Reformed  Presbyterian  churches,  a  measure  ap- 
proved by  the  late  Synod.  Miss  McConnell  may 
embody  all  the  virtues  in  the  calendar  of  the  saints, 
but  if  the  apostle  Peter  had  seen  such  bangs  he 
would  have,  added  another  line  or  two  to  his  first 
epistle  3:  3. 

— The  Queen  of  Madagascar  recently  attended 
the  opening  services  of  two  Christian  churches  at 
Ambokimanaga.  In  fourteen  years  seven  hundred 
Protestant  chapels  have  been  built  in  Madagascar, 
making  the  number  now  one  thousand  two  hundred. 
There  are  eight  thousand  Protestant  communicants, 
and  all  the  churches  are  self  supporting. 

— A  correspondent  of  the  Evangelist,  describing 
the  World's  Missionary  Conference  held  in  London, 
says  that  to  him  one  of  its  most  remarkable  feat- 
ures was  the  exclusive  use  of  English.  German 
missionaries  from  Africa,  French,  Swedish,  Swiss, 
Dutch  and  Danish  representatives,  every  one  of  them 
spoke  in  English,  and  "to  edification." 

— The  conversion  of  one  of  the  students  in  the 
Christian  colleges  of  Madras,  supported  by  the  Free 
church  of  Scotland,  has  been  the  occasion  of  a  re- 
bellion of  the  students.  They  met  and  demanded 
an  explanation.  The  president  being  absent  in 
Scotland,  the  man  in  charge  promised  that  this  stu- 
dent should  not  -be  baptized  uniil  he  had  had 
abundant  time  to  talk  with  hie  relatives  so  as  to  test 
his  decision.  This  did  not  satisfy  the  students,  and 
all  but  a  hundred  of  the  640  students  left.  After  a 
while  the  mutineers  yielded  to  advice  and  returned, 
but  the  injury  done  is  great.  The  non-Christian  native 
papers  are  not  a  unit  in  approving  their  tmeu'e. 
Some  of  them  say  that  students  who  put  themselves 
under  a  school  in  which  the  Bible  is  read  and 
taught,  ought  not  to  complain  if  one  of  the  number 
is  occasionally  converted. 

— General  Booth,  the  commander-in-chief  of  the 
Salvation  Army,  will  leave  England  for  this  country 
early  next  month.  He  intends  to  reorganize  the 
Army  in  the  United  States.  One  of  the  chief  offi- 
cers now  in  charge  of  the  American  Army  is  said  to 
be  accused  of  appropriating  material  valued  at  $80,- 
000  belonging  to  the  Army  to  his  own  use.  General 
Booth  may  appoint  a  court  martial  to  try  the  case. 

— Bible  study  and  evangelical  work  generally  is 
now  in  full  operation  at  Cbicago  Avenue  chuieh,the 
Chicago  Evangelization  Society  having  opened  its 
summer  school.  It  is  ably  managed  and  well  at- 
tended. 

— Hundreds  were  in  tears  at  the  Douglas,  Conn., 
camp  meeting  when  Bishop  William  Taylor  finished 
his  sermon  Thursday  upon  "God's  Dealings  with  the 
Heathen  in  the  Plan  of  Salvation."  Friday  he  re- 
lated his  experience  in  Africa  before  a  large  audi- 
ence, who  at  the  close  gladly  contributed  more  than 
$1,000  for  his  mission.  He  left  at  night  for  camp 
meetings  in  Pennsylvania. 

— Recent  advices  report  great  progress  in  mis- 
sionary work  in  some  parts  of  China.  Mr.  Stanley 
Smith,  of  the  China  inland  mission,  reports  210 
baptisms  in  central  China  at  one  time,  and  another 
missionary  reports  that  he  preaches  to  immense  au- 
diences, sometimes  numbering  4,000.  Some  influ- 
ential men  are  among  the  converts. 

— George  MuUer,  known  throughout  the  Chris- 
tian world  for  his  faith  and  work,  is  now  eighty-two 
years  old,  yet  he  is  hale  and  hearty  and  as  full  of 
zeal  and  activity  as  ever.  He  has  just  returned  to 
England  after  a  preaching  tour  of  37,000  miles, 
principally  in  Australia,  China  and  Japan.  Upon 
his  arrival  at  Bristol  he  was  greeted  most  warmly 
by  2,000  children.  Mr.  Wright,  his  son-in-law,  had 
chars;e  of  his  orphanage  during  his  absence,  and 
conducted  it  upon  the  same  plan  and  principles. 

— It  is  reported  that  in  the  village  Uaderoon,  hid- 
den away  in  the  Taurus,  there  was  an  Armenian 
merchant  who,  five  years  ago,  happened  to  see  a 
Bible  in  the  hands  of  a  neighbor.  Ho  began  to 
read  therein,  and  soon  learned  the  way  of  salvation. 
Every  Sunday  morning  he  holds  a  Bible  class, 
preaches  in  the  afternoon,  and  has  a  school  of  a 
dozen  children.  At  least  a  score  of  people  owe 
their  conversion  to  his  example  and  teaching.  This 
little  colony  of  Christians  is  not  indebted  to  any 
foreign  missionary  agency. 


August  9, 1888 


OHE  CHRISTiAlSr  CYNOSURlX. 


13 


FOR    TEE  80UTEERN  AGENCY. 

The  following  is  a  etatement  of  the 
money  and  pledges  given  for  the  estab- 
lishment of  a  district  headquarters  of 
the  N.  C  A.  at  New  Orleans,  La, : 

"We,  the  undersigned,  severally  prom- 
ise to  pay  the  amounts  set  opposite  to 
our  respective  names  for  the  purpose  of 
establishing  a  District  Headquarters 
and  depot  of  publications  for  the  N.  C. 

A.  at  New  Orleans,  La.  Subscriptions 
to  be  paid  to  the  Treasurer  of  the  N.  C. 
A.,  and  become  due  when  $1,000  are 
pledged." 

ILLINOIS. 

C.  W.  Sterry,  Pontiac $.50.00 

Jacob  Phillips,  Smithdale 15.00 

Peter  Howe,Wenona 50.00 

Jerome  Howe,  Wenona 25.00 

H.  D.  Whitcomb,   Bloomington . .  5 .  00 

T.  G.  Morrow,  Paxton 5 .  00 

W.  W.  Blanchard,  Paxton 5.00 

S.  P.  Busbnell,  Paxton 10.00 

B.  Ferris,  Paxton -. .  5.00 

A.  Honeywell, Ho opeston 10.00 

Ira  Green,  Roasville 10.00 

J.  S.  Hickman,  Hickman 5.00 

Ezra  A.  Cook  (books),  Chicago. .  50.00 

W.  W.  Wait,  Chicago 5.00 

H.  A.  Fischer,  Wheaton 5 .  00 

WISCONSIN, 

J.  W.  Suidter,  Sharon $  5.00 

Wm.  Kiteley,  Sharon 10.00 

J.  E  Evans,  Sharon 1.00 

E.  L  Harris,  Delevan 5.00 

W.  Chesbro,  Delevan 5.00 

D.  G.  Foster,  Delevan 5.00 

Ira  Mercnass,  Walworth 5 .  00 

C.  Church,  Walworth 5.00 

8.  H.  Van  Schaick,  Walworth 5 .  00 

Orson  Tichenor,    Waukesha 10.00 

I.  F.  Ike,                       "        5.00 

W.L.Wright,                "         5.00 

Mrs.  W.  L.  Wright,       "         5.00 

James  Mason,                "         2.00 

Robt.  Mann,                 "         1.00 

Robt.  Turner,                "        1.00 

D.A.Adams,                "         1.00 

8  H.  Turner,  "         50 

H.  W.  Wright,               "         2.00 

Wm.  McNeil,                 "         1.00 

Mary  Howe,                  "         3.00 

Thos.  Christison,           "         ....  3.00 

Warren  Whiting,  Waupun 5.00 

O.  C.  Blanchard,  Ironton 5.00 

J.  W.Wood,  Baraboo 5.00 

Total $355. .50 

The  following  sums  have  been  paid  for 
this  end: 

ILLINOIS. 

Rev  .J.  Stahl,  Augusta, $10.00 

WISCONSIN. 

Rev.  J.  B.  Galloway,  Vernon. . .  $  1.00 

"    M.  A.  Gault,  Waukesha 3.00 

"    Isaiah    Paris,  Vernon 3.00 

"    W  L.  Turner,  Waukesha 3.50 

"    J  D.McNaugh ten, Waukesha.  2.00 

"    Wm.  Lawry,  Waukesha 2.00 

Ellis  Whiting,  Waupun 5.00 

D.  8.  Dean,              "       5.00 

Geo.  Howland,        "       5.00 

Dudley  Andrews      "       1.00 

J.  W.  Wood,  Baraboo 1.00 

M.  A  Groat,  Ironton 1.00 

Alorzo  Waterbury,  Prairie  DuSao.  1.00 

Subpcribed,  not  paid $355.50 

Total $408.00 


Professor  Eiisha  Grey,  of  Highland 
Park,  near  Chicago,  is  reported  to  have 
patented  an  invention  which  is  destined 
to  displace  the  telephone  for  many  pur- 
poses .  The  new  instrument  is  called  the 
Telautograph,  and  by  its  use  a  man  of 
business  will  be  enabled  to  take  up  a 
pencil  or  pen,  write  a  message,  and  as  his 
pencil  moves,  so  will  a  pencil  move  sim- 
ultaneously in  the  office  of  his  corres- 
pondent, reproducing  a  fac  simile,  the 
same  letters  and  words.  The  mode  of 
using  the  telautograph  is  as  follows:  The 
person  wishing  to  communicate  with 
another  pushes  a  button  which  rings  an 
annunciator  in  the  office  he  desires  to 
communicate  with.  Then  the  first  party 
writes  his  message  on  a  roll  of  paper. 
As  he  writes,  so  writes  the  pen  at  the 
other  end  of  the  wire.  In  writing,  the 
pen  or  pencil  is  attached  to  two  small 
wires,  which  regulate  the  currents  that 
control  the  pencil  at  the  other  end.  But 
these  wires  give  no  trouble  and  the  mes- 
SHge  may  be  written  jvst  as  easily  as  if 
they  were  absent.  Tne  writer  may  use 
any  language,  short-hand,  or  a  code  or 
cypher  is  fully  reproduced.  The  artist  of 
an  illustrated  paper  may  thus  transmit  a 
sketch  with  as  much  facility  as  a  reporter 


telegraphs  his  description  in  words.  It 
is  said  there  is  no  reason  why  a  circuit 
of  five  hundred  miles  should  not  be  as 
easily  worked  as  ten.  It  will  be  noise- 
less, little  affected  by  induction,  and  no 
misunderstanding  can  arise  in  its  use. 


8VB80RIPT10N  LBTTBRB. 


The  following  have  made  remittances 
of  money  to  the  Cynosure  from  July  30 
to  Aug.  4  inclusive: 

J  Forbes,  Sr,  J  B  Wells,  R  Wilson,  D 
J  Ellsworth,  0  C  M  Bates,  E  8  Bunce, 
J  M  Tyrrel,  D  Molyneux,  J  Ramsay,  H  A 
Card,  J  F  Helin,  H  Woolf,  C  L  Long,Mrs 
8  G  Reed,  G  A  Robinson,  J  Grove,  B 
Price,  Prof.  G.  Fritschel,  J  Nichol,  B 
Fuller,  Rev  J  M  Hayes,  A  G  McKeown, 
J  Forbes. 


Wanted— Information  of  William 
Reynolds,  an  orphan  boy,  age  about  19. 
Adopted  from  the  Chicago  Home  of  the 
Friendless  in  1880.  Any  one  having 
knowledge  of  his  whereabouts  will  con- 
fer a  great  favor  on  his  sister,  Lizzie,  by 
addressing  Mrs.  8  G.  Cleveland,  City 
Missionary,  care  of  Y.  M.  C.  A.,  Chi- 
cago, 111. 

OUR.   CLUB   LIST, 


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We  still  send  an  extra  copy  of  the 
Christian  Cynosure  to  those  getting  up  a 
club  of  ten  at  $1.50. 

We  give  below  a  list  of  papers  which 
we  offer  with  the  Christian  Cynosure  at 
reduced  rates: 
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The  Christian $2  50 

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Western  Rural 3  00 

The  Missionary  Review 3  00 

Christian  Herald  N.  T 2  75 

The  Truth  (St.  Louis). 2  50 

Illustrated  Christian  Weekly 3  90 

New  York  Witness 2  50 

Union  Signal 3  00 

Christian  Statesman  (Phlla.) 3  50 

The  Interior 3  85 

The  Independent 4  00 

The  8.  8.  Times 3  50 

The  Nation 4  50 

New  York  Tribune,  Weekly 2  50 

Chicago  Tribune,  Weekly 2  50 

Gospel  In  allLands 3  50 

Chicago  Inter  Ocean,  Weekly 2  50 

Harper's  Magazine 4  75 

North  American  Review 5  75 

The  Century 5  25 

Scientific  American 4  25 

Buds  and  Blossoms 2  10 

Pansy 2  35 

VIck's  Magazine 2  50 

American  Agriculturist 2  60 

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Cheese 05  @     09V 

Beans 1  35  Q  8  85 

Begs 14 

Seeda— Timothy* 2  05        8  25 

Flax 95         1  10 

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THE  CHRISTIAN  CYKOSUHB. 


August  9, 1888 


Tartu  Notes. 


THE   ESSENTIALS    IN   FERTILIZEKS. 

Practice  and  experiment  in  the  growth 
of  crops  has  shown  that  nitrogen,  phos- 
phates, potash,  and  lime,  in  assimilable 
form,  are  the  substances  which  most 
strikingly  benefit  land ;  and  chemical  anal- 
ysis has  determined  in  a  measure  the  vary- 
ing proportions  in  which  different  crops 
draw  upon  these  and  upon  other  constit- 
uents of  the  soil. 

Acting  on  this  knowledge,  chemists 
have  given  specifications  for  the  prepara- 
tion of  manures  for  all  the  different  crops, 
these  schemes  being  professedly  based  on 
the  composition  of  the  crops  themselves. 
But  manuring  on  this  principle  would 
often  cost  more  than  the  consequent  in- 
crease of  the  crops  would  repay;  for  it 
makes  no  allowance  for  natural  fertility, 
and  it  makes  no  distinction  between  the 
composition  of  the  crops  grown  and  the 
composition  of  the  produce  sold  off  the 
farm.  We  know  that  soils  are  of  very 
unequal  fertility;  that  some  have  an  un- 
limited food-supply  compared  with  oth- 
ers, and  that  it  is  only  the  material  sold 
off  the  farm  that  the  maintenance  of  fer- 
tility requires  to  be  restored.  More  than 
this,  crops  differ  greatly  in  their  capabil- 
ity of  self- supply.  Take,  as  an  example 
of  the  latter  characteristic,  the  relations 
of  wheat  and  clover  to  nitrogen.  Chem- 
ical analysis  shows  that  clover  contains 
more  nitrogen  than  wheat;  and  yet  the 
wheat  finds  its  nitrogen  with  diiSsulty, 
while  the  clover  seems  to  have  a  power 
of  self-supply  in  this  particular.  Thus, 
in  defiance  of  the  chemical  composition 
of  the  two  crops,  the  farmer's  practice, 
when  he  manures  wheat  liberally  with 
nitrogen  and  gives  little  or  none  to  clo- 
ver, is  justified.  Economic  manuring 
must  supplement  the  plant's  weakness, 
while  it  makes  good  the  deficiencies  of  the 
soil. 

A  general  manure  contains  all  the  con- 
stituents of  the  crop,  or  at  least  all  those 
in  which  soils  are  most  deficient;  but  it 
by  no  means  follows  that  every  substance 
which  may  act  beneficially  as  a  manure 
ought  to  be  applied.  If  a  soil  is  defi- 
cient in  one  particular  element,  and  con- 
tains all  the  other  requisites  of  fertility, 
that  one  substance  may  act  as  beneficially 
when  applied  as  though  it  were  a  manure 
containing  all  the  constituents  of  the 
crop.  The  crop,  in  this  case,  is  thrown 
upon  the  natural  resources  of  the  soil 
for  all  its  other  elements.  After  a  heavy 
dressing  of  one  substance,  that  substance 
may  not  be  required  for  several  years, 
but  some  other  substance  may  be  needed; 
and  this  all  the  more  because  the  larg- 
er crops  now  grown  will  exhaust  such 
other  substances  more  rapidly  than  the 
smaller  crops  did  previously.  By  per- 
sisting in  the  exclusive  use  of  a  special 
manure  an  ultimate  exhaustion  of  the 
soil  is  inevitable.  Judiciously  used, 
special  manures  are  the  agents  which 
bring  into  useful  activity  the  dormant  re- 
sources of  the  soil.  They  restore  the 
proper  balance  between  its  different  con- 
stituents and  supply  the  excessive  de- 
mand for  some  particular  elements.  Still, 
the  application  useful  on  one  soil  may  be 
quite  useless  on  another,  and  the  appli- 
cation may  be  useful  on  a  soil  in  one  sea- 
son and  useless  in  another. 

A  general  manure  may  be  used  year 
after  year  in  a  perfectly  routine  manner; 
but  where  a  special  manure  is  employed, 
the  importance  of  watching  its  effects 
and  altering  it  as  circumstances  indicate 
cannot  be  over-estimated.  This  forces 
upon  U3  the  necessity  for  studying  the 
succession  of  manures  as  well  as  that  of 
crops.  In  many  cases  in  which  ammonia, 
when  first  used,  proved  beneficial,  it  now 
begins  to  lose  its  effect,  and  the  reason, 
no  doubt,  is  that  by  its  means  the  amount 
of  phosphate  existing  in  these  soils  has 
been  reduced,  while  the  ammonia  has  ac- 
cumulated, so  that  change  of  manuring 
ia  needed. — American  Agriculturist. 

WHY  CLOVER  IMPR0VB8  THE  SOIL. 

Prof essor  Tockler  thus  explains  the  ac- 
tion of  clover  increasing  the  fertility  of 
the  soil: 

"All  who  are  perfectly  acquainted  with 
the  subject  must  have  seen  that  the  best 
crops  of  wheat  are  produced  by  being 
preceded  by  crops  of  clover  grown  for 
seed.  I  have  come  to  the  conclusion  that 
the  very  best  preparation,  the  best  ma- 
nure, is  a  good  crop  of  clover.  A  vast 
amount  of  mineral  manure  is  brought 
within  reach  of  the  corn  crop  which,  oth- 
erwise,  would    remain    in  a  locked-up 


condition  in  all  the  soil.  The  clover- 
plants  take  nitrogen  from  the  atmos- 
phere and  manufacture  it  into  their  own 
substance,  which,  on  decomposition  of 
the  clover,  roots  and  leaves,  produces 
abundance  of  ammonia.  In  reality,  the 
growing  of  clover  is  equivalent,  to  a 
great  extent,  to  manuring  with  Peruvian 
guano." 

Take,  for  instance,  red  clover,  the  best 
of  all  green  manures.  The  great  Eng- 
lish chemist.  Professor  Way,  of  the  Royal 
Agricultural  College  at  Cirencester,  made 
a  perfect  analysis  of  dry  red  clover,  and 
found  every  one  hundred  parts  to  con- 
tain as  follows: 

Silica 0.50 

Lime 22.62 

Magnesia 4 .  08 

Oxide  of  iron 0.26 

Potash 36.45 

Soda  90.00 

Chloride    of    potassium 2.39 

Chloride  of  sodium 2.53 

Carbonic  acid 23 .  47 

Phosphoric  acid ....   6.71 

Sulphuric    acid 1 .  35 

Total 99.45 


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grass  for  some  unknown  herb  or  sub- 
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poison.  Man,  when  his  system  is  de- 
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vert a  large  crock  of  earthernware,  or  a 
flower  pot,  if  need  be  (varying  with  the 
size  of  the  vessel  containing  the  butter), 
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if  the  pot  be  wrapped  in  a  wet  cloth, 
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butter.  Not  the  porosily  of  the  earthen- 
ware, but  the  rapid  absorption  of  heat 
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damp  smell  and  cannot  be  thoroughly 
ventilated,  a  few  trays  of  charcoal  set 
around  on  the  floor,  shelves  and  ledges 
will  make  the  air  pure  and  sweet.  If  a 
large  basket  of  charcoal  be  placed  in  a 
damp  cellar  where  milk  is  kept  there  will 
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ounces  of  grease  with  two  quarts  of  tar 
for  nearly  twenty  minutes  in  an  iron  ves- 
sel, having  pounded  glass,  one  pound, 
and  slacked  lime,  two  pounds,  well  dried 
in  an  iron  pot  and  sifted  through  a  flour 
sieve.  Add  some  of  the  lime  to  the  tar 
and  glass  to  form  a  thin  paste,  only  suffi- 
cient to  cover  a  square  foot  at  a  time 
about  an  eighth  of  an  inch  thick. 

How  TO  Cool  a  Cellar. — A  great 
mistake,  says  Medical  Classics,  is  some- 
times made  in  ventilating  cellars  and 
milk  houses.  The  object  of  ventilation 
is  to  keep  the  cellars  cool  and  dry,  but 
this  object  often  faih  of  being  accom- 
plished by  a  common  mistake,  and  in- 
stead the  cellar  is  made  both  warm  and 
damp.  A  cool  place  should  never  be  ven- 
tilated, unless  the  air  admitted  is  cooler 
than  the  air  within,  or  is  at  least  as  cool 
as  that,  or  a  very  little  warmer.  The 
warmer  the  air,  the  more  moisture  it 
holds  in  suspension.  Necessarily,  the 
cooler  the  air,  the  more  this  moisture  is 
condensed  and  precipitated.  When  a 
cool  cellar  is  aired  on  a  warm  day,  the 
entering  air  being  in  motion  appears  cool, 
but  as  it  fills  the  cellar,  the  cooler  air  with 
which  it  becomes  mixed  chills  it,  tha 
moisture  is  condensed,  and  dew  is  depos 
ited  on  the  cold  walls,  and  may  often  be 
seen  running  down  them  in  streams. 
Then  the  cellar  is  damp  and  soon  becomes 
mouldy.  To  avoid  this,  the  windows 
should  only  be  opened  at  night,  and  late 
— the  last  thing  before  retiring.  There 
is  no  need  to  fear  that  the  night  air  is 
unhealthful;  it  is  as  pure  as  the  air  of 
midday,  and  is  really  drier.  The  cool 
air  enters  the  apartment  during  the  night 
and  circulates  through  it.  The  windows 
should  be  closed  before  sunrise  in  the 
morning,  and  kept  closed  and  shaded 
through  the  day.  If  the  air  of  the  cellar  is 
damp,  it  may  be  thoroughly  dried  by  plac 
ing  in  it  a  peck  of  fresh  lime  in  an  open  box. 
A  peck  of  lime  will  absorb  about  seven 
pounds,  or  more  than  three  quarts,  of 
water,  and  in  this  way  a  cellar  or  milk- 
room  may  soon  be  dried,  even  in  the  hot- 
teat  weather. — Bcientific  American. 


Ayer'sSarsaparilla  is  designed  for  those 
who  need  a  medicine  to  purify  their 
blood.  No  other  preparation  so  well 
meets  this  want.  It  increases  the  appetite 
and  rejuvenates  the  whole  system.  Its 
record,  for  forty  years,  is  one  of  constant 
triumph  over  disease. 


Rich  and  Poor, 

Prince  and  Peasant,  the  Millionaire  ami 
Day  Laborer,  by  their  common  use  of 
this  remedy,  attest  the  world-wide  rep- 
utation of  Ayer's  Pills.  Leading  phy- 
sicians recommend  these  pills  for 
6tornach  and  Liver  Troubles,  Costive- 
ncss.  Biliousness,  and  Sick  Headache  ; 
also,  for  Rheumatism,  Jaundice,  and 
Neuralgia.  They  are  sugar-coated  ;  con- 
tain no  calomel ;  are  prompt,  but  mild, 
in  operation  ;  and,  therefore,  the  very 
best  medicine  for  Family  Use,  as  well  as 
for  Travelers  and  Tourists. 

"  I  have  derived  great  relief  from 
Ayer's  Pills.  Five  years  ago  I  was 
taken  so  ill  with 

Rheumatism 

that  I  was  unable  to  do  any  work.  I 
took  three  boxes  of  Ayer's  Pills  and 
was  entirely  cured.  Since  that  time  I 
am  never  without  a  box  of  these  pills." 
Peter  Christeusen,  Sherwood,  Wis. 

"Ayer's  Pills  have  been  in  use  in  my 
family  upwards  of  twenty  years  and 
liave  completely  verified  all  that  is 
claimed  for  them.  In  attacks  of  piles, 
from  which  I  suilered  many  years,  they 
afford  greater  relief  than  any  other 
medicine  I  ever  tried."— T.  F.Adams, 
Holly  Springs,  Texas. 

"  I  have  used  Ayer's  Pills  for  a  num- 
ber of  years,  and  have  never  found  any- 
thing equal  to  them  for  giving  me  an 
appetite  and  imparting  energy  and 
strength  to  the  system.  I  always  keep 
them  in  the  house."— R.  D.  Jackson, 
Wilmington,  Del. 

"  Two  boxes  of  Ayer's  Pills  cured  me 
of  severe 

Headache, 

from  which  I  was  long  a  sufferer.  — 
Emma  Keyes,  Hubbardston,  Mass. 

"Whenever  I  am  troubled  with  con- 
stipation, or  sulTer  from  loss  of  appetite, 
Ayer's  Pills  set  me  right  again."— A.  J. 
Kiser,  Jr.,  Rock  House,  Va. 

"Ayer's  Pills  are  in  geiieral  demand 
among  our  customers.  Our  sales  of 
them  exceed  those  of  all  other  pills  com- 
bined. Wc  have  never  known  them 
fail  to  give  entire  satisfaction."  — 
Wright  &  Hannelly,  San  Diego,  Texas. 

Ayer's  Pills, 

*")  PREPARED  BY 

Dr.  J.  C.  Ayer  &  Co.,    Lowell,   Mass. 

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phlet le  a  native  of  Western  Africa,  and  Is  of 
pure  negro  blood.  He  has  given  much  time 
and  care  to  the  Investigation  of  the  secret  eo- 
cletles  and  heathen  customs  of  Western  Afri- 
ca. He  joined  several  of  the  secret  orders  for 
the  purpose  of  obtaining  full  and  correct  In- 
formation regarding  their  nature  and  opera- 
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AiT&vsT  d,  1888 


NFWS  OF  THE  WEEK 

WASHINGTON. 

Secretary  Vilas  has  decided  against  the 
Northern  Pacific  road  in  regard  to  lands 
claimed  for  indemnity.  The  effect  of 
this  decision  is  far-reaching,  and  will  af- 
fect about  800  cases  now  pending  in  the 
General  Land  Oflace,  and  probably  the 
claims  of  many  settlers  which  have  not 
been  received.  The  denial  of  the  right 
of  the  company  to  indemnity  for  lands 
within  the  Yakima  Indian  Reservation  is 
said  to  be  equally  applicable  to  other  In- 
dian reservations  along  the  line  of  the 
road,  and  will  have  the  effect  of  reduc- 
ing the  indemnity  claims  of  the  company 
very  largely,  probably  to  the  extent  of  a 
million  and  a  half  acres.  About  2,000 
cases  now  in  the  General  Land  OfB:e  will 
be  affected  by  this  decision. 

CHICAGO. 

One  hundred  and  thirty-seven  mem- 
bers of  the  Chicago  Blaine  clab  left  the 
city  Saturday  afternoon  for  New  York  to 
take  part  in  the  reception  to  the  Maine 
statesman  on  his  arrival  from  abroad. 

The  net  earnings  of  the  Burlington 
railroad  for  June  show  a  decrease  of 
$506,946,  and  for  the  first  six  months  of 
the  present  year  a  decrease  of  $4,701,549 
as  compared" with  corresponding  periods) 
last  year. 

Several  thousand  men,  women,  and 
children  went  to  Sheflaeld,  Ind.,  Sunday, 
to  attend  the  anarchists'  picnic,  given  for 
the  benefit  of  the  Spies  monument  fund. 
The  crowd  was  well  spotted  with  red,  in 
the  shape  of  rosettes,  ribbons,  etc.,  and 
a  scarlet  shawl  hung  from  a  tree  did  duty 
as  a  flig.  A  vast  amount  of  p^or  beer 
V  as  sold  on  the  grounds,  from  which  the 
monument  fund  received  a  part  of  the 
profits.  The  speeches  were  not  more 
rabid  than  usual,  and,  though  great  quan- 
tities of  liquor  were  absorbed,  the  day 
passed  off  very  quietly. 

COUNTKT. 

General  Philip  H.Sheridan  died  at  Non- 
quitt,  Mass.,  at  10:20  o'clock  Sunday 
evening  from  an  attack  of  his  old  heart 
failure  trouble. 

After  reaching  Nonquitt  the  General's 
condition  steadily  improved  until  last 
Monday,  when  there  was  a  halt.  He  was 
perfectly  able  to  sit  up  and  converse  with 
members  of  the  family  and  read  the 
proof-sheets  of  his  memoirs,  but  after 
that  date  no  further  progress  exhibited 
itself.  The  physicians  became  anxious, 
but  said  nothing  to  alarm  the  family  or 
public.  Friday  the  patient  began  to  sink, 
and  the  family  were  then  first  warned. 

At  a  meeting  of  the  Union  and  United 
Labor  parties  in  Cincinnati,  0.,  Sunday 
afttrnoon,  at  which  one  hundrei  of  the 
leading  spirits  of  both  parties  were  pres- 
ent, a  resolution  was  adoptei  and  signed 
by  all  present  whereby  the  United  Labor 
party  of  Ohio  is  consolidated  with  the 
National  Union  Labor  party  An  effort 
made  in  Chicago  to  secure  the  same  re- 
sult failed. 

Of  those  who  partook  of  the  alumni 
dinner  at  Marietta,  O.  June  27,  residents 
and  visitors,  more  than  twenty  have  been 
seriously  ill  with  tyhpoid  fever.  Three 
have  died  and  others  are  dangerously 
sick.  Outside  of  this  dinner  party  Mari- 
etta has  no  typhoid  fever. 

The  election  returns  in  Tennessee  in- 
dicate that  East  Tennessee  has  gone  Re- 
publican by  the  usual  majority.  Demo- 
cratic gains  being  noted  in  Middle  and 
West  Tennessee. 

Ten  companies  of  the  Second  Regi- 
ment of  Kansas  State  militia,  was  ordered 
by  Governor  Martin  to  proceed  to  Ste- 
vens county  and  disarm  the  citizens  of 
Woodsdale  and  Hugoton.  The  forces 
will  be  about  equally  divided  between 
Hugoton  and  Woodsdale.  They  are  in 
command  of  Brigaditr  General  Murray 
Myers,  who  is  accompanied  by  Adjutant 
General  Campbell.  They  will  at  once 
demand  that  the  people  of  the  county 
disarm  themselves  and  surrender  their 
arms  to  the  commander  of  the  militia, 
and  will  be  called  upon  to  obey  the  law 
and  preserve  peace. 

Circulars  have  been  issued  by  Alex  H. 
Smith,  Secretary  of  the  St.  Louis  Millers' 
Association,  calling  a  meeting  of  millers 
of  Missouri,  Illinois,  Eansa?,  Indiana, 
Tennessee,  and  all  winter  wheat  Statep, 
for  the  purpose  of  forming  a  Hour  trust. 
The  meeting  is  to  be  held  in  St.  Louis, 
August  31. 


The  news  has  reached  St.  Louis  that 
the  British  Government  has  requested  a 
further  respite  for  Hugh  Brooks,  better 
known  as  Maxwell,  on  the  ground  that 
both  the  murderer  and  his  victim  were 
British  subjects.  The  Masonic  murderer 
may  yet  escape. 

Excessive  heat  throughout  the  interior 
States  last  week  resulted  in  many  fatal 
cases  of  sunstroke.  The  hot  weather 
was  modified  by  severe  storms.  That  on 
Thursday  swept,  with  a  deluge  of  rain 
and  high  wind,  from  Minnesota  to  Indi- 
ana. In  the  north  floods  from  suddenly 
rising  streams  caused  great  loss,  and  in 
some  of  the  Chicago  suburbs  buildings 
were  blown  down.  A  number  of  fatal 
cases  of  lightning  stroke  are  reported. 

At  St.  Louis  Wednesday  there  were 
twenty  five  prostrations  by  heat,  five  of 
them  fatal.  Late  in  the  afternoon  a  heavy 
storm  passed  over,  and  much  damage  was 
done  by  lightning  and  wind. 

Seven  deaths  were  caused  by  excessive 
heat  at  Kansas  City,  Mo.,  Wednesday, 
though  the  highest  temperature  recorded 
was  only  97  degrees. 

George  Harris  of  Cincinnati,  aged  14, 
Tuesday  evening  accidentally  shot  and 
killed  his  sister,  aged  11,  who  was  play- 
fully trying  to  take  from  him  a  rifle  with 
which  he  was  shooting  at  a  mark. 

Losses  amounting  to  $35,000  were 
caused  at  Bement,  111.,  Wednesday,  by  the 
heat  of  the  sun  igniting  tinners'  materi- 
als left  on  the  roof  of  a  new  building. 

Five  hundred  and  fifty  head  of  fat  cat- 
tle were  sold  Tuesday  by  C.  Alexander, 
of  Paris,  Ky.,  for  shipment  to  England, 
the  largest  sale  ever  made  in  the  State  by 
one  man. 

The  first  session  of  the  Colored  Nation- 
al Editors'  Association  was  held  at  Nash- 
ville, Tenn  ,  Wednesday. 

Governor  Hill  of  New  York  has  ap- 
proved the  bill  passed  by  the  Legislature 
at  its  recent  special  session  abolishing 
hand  labor  and  State  manufacturing  in 
"all  penal  institutions  of  the  State."  The 
Attorney  General  decides  the  bill  applies 
to  all  penitentiaries  and  reformatories  as 
well  as  State  prisons. 

All  cases  against  the  Boston  and  Prov- 
idence Railroad  Company  arising  out  of 
the  Bussey  bridge  accident  have  been  set- 
tled without  trial  at  a  total  cost  of  about 
$1,000,000. 

A  destructive  fire  in  Suffolk,  Va., raged 
five  hours  Wednesday,  and  nearly  the 
entire  business  portion  of  the  town  is 
destroyed.  The  loss  is  roughly  estimated 
at  $350,000  to  $400,000,  with  the  insur- 
ance far  below  the  loss.  A  large  number 
of  dwellings  were  burned  and  many  f am 
ilies  rendered  homeless. 

Reports  from  Tuscon,  A.  T.,  of  the 
trouble  on  the  San  Carlos  Indian  Reser- 
vation, state  that  the  Indians  have  been 
stealing  cattle  for  dried  meat,  preparato- 
ry, it  is  supposed,  to  an  outbreak  of 
hostilities;  and  that  they  killed  three  Iq- 
dian  scouts  of  a  party  sent  to  arrest  them, 
suffering  some  loss  in  wounded  them- 
selves and  escaping  tu  the  mountains. 
Reports  to  the  War  Department  make 
light  of  the  trouble. 

The  hearing  at  Aurora,  111.,  of  the 
three  men  charged  with  being  implicated 
in  the  Chicago,  Burlington  and  Quincy 
conspiracy  resulted  in  the  binding  over 
of  Bauereisen  on  three  charges,  Goding 
on  two,  and  Koegel  on  one  charge,  to 
appear  before  the  Grand  Jury  in  October. 
At  Galesburg,  111 ,  Friday,  Clark,  Miley, 
and  Bauereisen  were  held  in  $3,000  bail 
each,  on  the  charge  of  conspiracy  in 
bringing  dynamite  into  the  county. 

FOBSION. 

The  President  of  the  French  Agricul- 
tural Society  has  made  a  report  regard- 
ing the  losses  caused  by  the  recent  rains. 
He  says  that  the  hay  has  been'destroyed 
and  that  the  peasants  have  been  com- 
pelled to  kill  their  animals,  being  unable 
to  feed  them.  He  also  says  that  corn  can- 
not ripen,  that  potatoes  are  rotting  and 
that  the  vintage  this  year  will  be  inferior. 
He  estimates  the  loss  to  agriculture  at 
half  a  million  of  francs,  and  says  if  the 
bad  weather  continues  a  month  Icncer 
the  crisis  will  extend  to  enormous  dimen- 
sions. 

A  Berlin  dispatch  on  Friday  says  that 
Silesia  is  being  devastated  by  terrible 
floods,  the  worst  known  in  the  city  for 
years.  Along  the  rivers  Bober  and  Zac- 
ken  the  damage  is  especially  great.  Sev- 
eral mills  at  Greifenberg  have  been  de- 
stroyed and  the  crops  have  been  ruined. 


Floods  are  doing  enormous  damage  to 
bridges  and  railways  throughout  Switzer- 
land.   Lake  Lucerne  is  overflowed. 

The  foreigners  resident  in  Peru  are 
greatly  excited  and  indignant  over  the 
recent  highhanded  proceedings  of  the 
Peruvian  Government  in  seizing  the  rail- 
roads of  that  country,  which  were  built 
by  foreigners  with  capital  raised  abroad, 
and  the  Americans  are  anxious  to  see  if 
the  United  States  will  not  take  some  de- 
cided step  to  vindicate  the  rights  of  her 
citizens  which  have  thus  been  violated. 

During  the  celebration  of  the  one- 
hundredth  anniversary  of  the  birth  of 
Ludwig  I.  at  Munich,  Aug.  1,  three  ele- 
phants became  frightened  and  trampled 
a  man,  woman  and  child  to  death,  and 
so  badly  frightened  a  lady  that  she  died. 
Much  damage  was  done  to  property. 

Professor  Jamieson,  the  naturalist, 
writes  from  Kasongo,  on  the  Congo 
river,  that  he  is  making  preparations  to 
leave  with  Major  BarteUot,Tippo  Tib  and 
900  men  to  search  for  Henry  M.  Stanley. 
He  says  all  the  Europeans  in  the  expedi- 
tion are  well. 

Advices  from  Japan  under  date  July 
15  state  that  the  volcano  of  Mount  Iwa- 
hassi  suddenly  burst  into  activity,  and  in 
a  short  time  fifty  six  houses  in  Iwaseaura 
were  destroyed.  A  telegram  received  on 
the  16th  says  the  eruption  still  continues, 
with  great  destruction  and  loss  of  life. 
About  four  hundred  persons  and  thirty 
houses  in  a  village  called  Bira  were  bur- 
ied under  sand  and  ashes  thrown  out  by 
the  volcano.  Among  those  bulled  were 
some  flfteen  visitors  at  the  hot  springs  in 
the  neighborhood. 


"  TAKEN     IN.' 


"I  used  often  to  read  the  newspaper 
aloud  to  my  wife,"  said  Bert  Robinson, 
"and  once  I  was  fairly  taken  in  by  a 
patent  medicine  advertisement.  The  se- 
ductive paragraph  began  with  a  modest 
account  of  the  sea  serpent,  but  ended 
with  setting  forth  the  virtues  of  a  certain 
Dr.  Pierce's  Golden  Medical  Discovery 
which,  it  was  alleged,  was  a  sure  cure 
for  all  throat  and  lung  troubles,  and 
would  even  cure  consumption,  it  taken 
in  time.  The  way  I  was  taken  in,  was 
this:  I  had  a  luug  trouble  and  I  bought 
a  bottle  of  the  remedy.  I  was  a  stranger 
to  it  and  it  took  me  in — and  cured  me." 

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Bditokial: 

Notes  and  Comments 1 

Editorial  Correspondence.     S 
How  Stand  Your  Candi- 
dates?     8 

COKTBIBUTIONS : 

A    Summer    Among  the 
Churches 1 

Sabbath    Profanation    by 
the  Sunday  Newspaper.    2 

Three  African  Letters 3 

The  Lodge  is   Defeating 

Prohibition 4 

Selected: 

Romanism  and  the  Repub- 
lic     2 

The  Pseudo-American 

Party 6 

The  Secret  Empire  : 

Royal    Knights  of    King 

David 4 

Iowa  Politics 9 


Rbpobm  News  : 

From  ths  General  Agent ; 

Central  Loulsana 5 

Corbbspgndbncb  : 

A    Patriarch's    Blessing; 
The  Southern  Colleges.    6 

Literature 7 

Lodge  Notes 7 

Lecture  List 7 

The  N.  C.  a...  7 

Washington  Letter 9 

New  England  letter 9 

ThbHomb 10 

Temperance 11 

Bible  Lesson 12 

Religious  Nawa 12 

In  Brief 13 

Farm  Notes 14 

Home  and  Health 15 

News  of  tbb  Wbbk 16 

Business 13 

Markets , 13 


CAMPAIGN  OFFER. 


The  Ctnosuhb  is  offered  during  the  Oampaiga  for 
only  ten  cents.  For  the  particulars  please  read  the  pub 
Usher's  notice  on  puge  13.  The  particular  value  of  this 
paper  during  the  next  ten  weeks  to  voters  will  be  tht 
response  of  candidates  on  the  question  of  the  lodge. 
Already  the  Presidential  nominees  of  the  Prohibition, 
Republican,  and  Eqaal  Rights  parties  have  responded  to 
the  desire  of  their  supporters,  also  two  candidates  for 
Vice  President  and  numerous  State  nominees.  These 
replies  are  of  greatest  importance  to  American  voters. 
We  propose  to  make  every  number  of  the  paper  worth, 
to  even  an  indifferent  person,  the  price  for  the  cam- 
paign, and  to  interested  parties  ten  times  that  sum. 


Some  months  ago  Rev.  R.  N.  Countee,  of  Memphis, 
wrote  in  these  columns  of  the  agitation  at  Marion, 
Arkansas,  over  an  attack  on  the  lodge  in  the  Bap- 
tist church.  The  preacher  was  a  colored  brother 
from  Memphis.  A  more  desperate  quarrel  has 
lately  taken  place  there,  resulting  in  the  expulsion 
of  the  colored  county  cflBicers  from  Crittenden 
county,  of  which  Marion  was  the  county  seat.  In 
the  last  New  York  Independent  Rev.  B.  A.  Imes,  of 
Memphis,  has  a  full  account  of  this  outrage.  Not 
only  were  these  men  driven  from  their  homes  by  the 
whites,  but  one  who  ventured  to  return  was  shot 
without  mercy.  The  murders  of  the  Masonic  Ku- 
Klux,  White  Leagues,  Rifle  Clubs,  etc.,  will  make  a 
heavy  account  for  our  nation  to  settle  at  the  bar  of 
God.  

A  singular  infatuation  has  taken  possession  of 
the  American  people.  They  have  gone  crazy  on  "re- 
unions." Every  accident  of  associated  peril  or 
pleasure  or  trial  or  success  has  to  be  thus  annually 
remembered.  The  tflect  will  be  to  make  us  a  con- 
ceited people,  living  on  past  fortunes  or  misfortunes, 
and  belittling  the  present  opportunity  and  duty. 
Enough  has  been  spent  in  army  reunions  since  the 
war  to  have  carried  through  the  efforts  of  the  peace 
societies,  and  made  an  end  of  war  in  Christendom: 
and  something  might  be  saved  for  missions  from 
the  supeitluity  of  church  assemblies  of  the  same 
sort  The  latest  example  of  this  distressing  char« 
acteristic  is  a  reunion  of  the  survivors  of  the  horri- 
ble railroad  disaster  at  Chatswortb,  Illinois,  last 
year.     This  lugubrious  meeting  was  actually  held  in 


Peoria  last  Wednesday.  No  wonder  we  are  losing 
the  spirit  of  Independence  day  with  such  insane 
freaks  warming  in  our  blood. 


We  have  this  week  some  notices  of  the  so-called 
"American"  party.  It  is  to  hold  a  national  conven- 
tion in  Washington,  beginning  on  Thursday  of  this 
week.  Originally  an  anti-Chinese  movement  orig- 
inating away  down  at  Fresno,  in  the  San  Joaquin 
valley  of  California,  it  was  taken  up  by  some  Phil- 
adelpbians  whose  uneasy  ambition  gave  them  no 
peace  unless  they  were  heading  some  "movement." 
So  with  the  aid  of  several  secret  orders  this  conven- 
tion is  to  meet,  and  delegates  have  been  appointed 
in  some  of  our  large  cities,  where  the  anti-foreign 
sentiment  has  some  reason  for  its  growth.  Some  of 
the  officials  of  the  "Patriotic  (?)  order  of  the  Sons 
of  America"  object  to  being  spoken  of  in  connec- 
tion with  this  political  movement,  but  no  denial  or 
argument  can  annihilate  the  fact  that  it  is  a  piece  of 
lodge  work.  They  want  Abram  Hewitt,  the  sturdy 
Mayor  of  New  York,  to  stand  for  their  figure  head. 
But  Mr.  Hewitt's  American  principles  are  of  the 
genuine  sort.  They  are  too  high  for  this  party  to 
see  even  their  color. 


Mr.  Blaine's  welcome  home  last  Friday  was  a 
grand  affair,  and  the  most  has  been  made  of  it  by 
the  political  press.  But  there  was  a  lack  of  spon- 
tanity  and  heartiness  which  comes  from  the  soul  of 
a  great  people.  There  was  too  manifest  an  elabo- 
rate preparation,  from  the  "Rah  I  rah  I  rahl"  of  the 
Chicago  Club,  and  the  200,000  thousand  and  more 
Chioese  silk  paper  handkerchiefs  distributed  in 
New  York  to  be  waved  simultaneously  at  the  politi- 
cal chief,  to  the  so-called  demonstration  of  working- 
men.  It  was  impossible  not  to  contrast  the  noisy 
demonstrations  with  the  quiet  of  Gen.  Harrison's 
Indianapolis  home.  The  latter,  in  every  estimate, 
was  the  better  exponent  of  that  American  charac- 
ter which  must  preserve  us  as  a  nation.  Though 
Mr.  Blaine  is  one  of  the  readiest  and  most  brilliant 
of  our  public  men,  and  has  had  the  good  sense — 
and  the  protection  of  God — in  escaping  from  the 
lodge;  yet  his  public  interests  are  so  involved  in 
those  of  the  political  shouters  and  hustlers  that  the 
good  he  has  done  is  likely  to  be  forgotten  from  the 
unfortunate  connection. 


,  The  Romish  Cardinal  Gibbons  preached  the  fune- 
ral sermon  over  the  body  of  the  late  General  Sheri- 
dan last  Saturday  in  Washington  from  a  text  taken 
from  the  Apocrypha.  He  pronounced  the  dead  war- 
rior "a  Christian,"  who  "died  fortified  by  the  conso- 
lations of  religion,  having  his  trust  in  the  saving 
mercies  of  the  Redeemer."  Deep,  indeed,  would  be 
the  satisfaction  of  the  American  people  if  they 
could  be  assured  that  these  words  were  to  be  ac- 
cepted in  any  other  than  a  strictly  Roman  Catholic 
meaning.  Many  to  whom  General  Sheridan  was 
personally  known  would  rejoice  to  know  that  the 
vices  that  marred  his  character  had  been  put  away 
in  the  name  of  Christ.  But  whatever  his  faith,  the 
dead  man  was  a  born  soldier,  and  in  a  warlike  esti- 
mate was  cast  in  an  heroic  mold.  His  battles  are 
the  general  theme,  but  his  report  to  President  Grant 
on  the  White  League  insurrection  in  New  Orleans 
January  5,  1875,  was  one  of  the  most  heroic  of  his 
official  acts.  He  recommended  the  arrest  and  trial 
of  the  members  of  that  lodge;  and  that  Congress  pass 
a  law  declaring  them  banditti.  If  they  should  be 
so  declared  ho  would  be  able  to  attend  to  them  as 
they  deserved.  This  report  was  barely  four  weeks 
after  the  Knight  Templars  from  all  over  the  Union 
had  been  drinking,  dancing  and  carousing  with  these 
very  White  League  murderers  and  bandits.  The 
lodge  raised  a  howl  of  rage  at  Sheridan,  but  Grant 
stood  by  him,  and  if  a  poltroon  Congress  could  have 
been  persuaded  into  a  spirit  of  patriotism  the  South- 
ern grievances  of  that  time  and  since  might  have 
been  greatly  mitigated. 


The  New  York  Witness  says:  "It  is  a  note- 
worthy faqt  that  the  Philadelphia  Ledger,  owned  by 
George  W.  Childs,  and  the  Chicago  Daily  iVeio«, 
owned  by  Victor  F.  Lawson,  neither  of  which  mag- 


nificent papers  publishes  a  Sunday  edition,  are,  not- 
withstanding this  fact,  the  two  most  successful  pa- 
pers financially  in  the  respective  cities  where  they 
are  published."  May  the  evidences  of  their  pros- 
perity increase  so  long  as  they  regard  the  law  of 
God.  The  Chicago  News  has  among  other  recom- 
mendations a  fearless  and  independent  spirit,  strikes 
hard  at  the  saloon  curse,  and  at  paltroons  and  bood- 
lers  in  office. 


A  aUMMBR  AMONG  THB  CHURCHSa. 


B7  PRSS.  0.  a.  BLANCHABD. 


It  may  please  the  Cynosure  readers  to  know 
something  of  my  summer's  work  among  the  people 
of  God.  Presuming  that  it  will  be  so,  I  send 
herewith  such  notes  as  now  occur  to  me. 

THE    PLAN 

was  to  have  with  a  number  of  churches  a  meeting 
lasting  from  Tuesday  evening  to  Sabbath  night. 
After  Tuesday  evening  there  were  to  be  three  meet- 
ings daily,  at  10  A.  m.,  3  p.  m.  and  8  p.  m.  The 
morning  meeting  was  to  be  for  prayer  and  confer- 
ence, the  afternoon  for  a  Bible  reading  adapted  to 
edify  Christians,  and  the  evening  for  an  appeal  to 
men  to  decide  for  God.  I  think  it  is  the  opinion  of 
Christian  people  among  whom  I  have  labored  that 
the  plan  is  a  good  one,  and  that  the  meetings  have 
been  helpful. 

HDNTLEY. 

At  this  town  I  spent  the  first  week.  It  is  the  cen- 
ter of  a  fine  dairy  region,  and  ships  to  Chicago  hun- 
dreds of  cans  of  milk  daily.  It  is  now  a  Prohibi- 
tion town,  so  far  as  liquor  is  concerned,  and  recently 
the  town  council  have  required  the  stores  which  for- 
merly sold  goods  on  the  Sabbath  to  remain  closed 
on  that  day.  The  Congregational  chuch,  with  which 
I  labored,  has  a  comfortable  building  and  a  good 
parsonage.  Some  repairs  are  needed,  which  it  is 
proposed  to  have  made  in  the  near  future.  Our 
morning  meetings  were  small,  the  afternoon  meet- 
ings were  larger,  and,  as  was  to  be  expected,  the 
evening  meetings  were  largest.  In  the  homes  of 
Mr.  Butler  and  Mr.  Sawyer  I  was  a  guest  during  my 
stay,  and  was  kindly  entertained.  In  the  homes  of 
other  friends  I  visited,  but  the  number  of  meetings 
prevented  extended  calls.  With  Deacon  Williams, 
Bro.  Huntley,  the  Misses  Blanchard  and  others  I 
pleasantly  renewed  former  acquaintance.  Some  of 
my  truest  friends  live  in  the  country,  and  it  was  not 
possible  to  visit  them  in  their  homes,  owing  to  the 
amount  of  daily  work  to  be  done. 

RICHMOND 

was  my  second  appointment.  Here  the  meetings 
began  amid  the  popping  of  fire-crackers  on  the  even- 
ing of  July  3.  The  town  is  beautifully  located 
among  rolling  hills,  near  the  Wisconsin  line.  Lake 
Geneva  is,  I  believe,  only  ten  miles  away.  A  stream 
called  the  Nevesink  passes  through  the  village  and 
turns  a  mill.  The  name  of  the  stream  I  spell  from 
pronunciation;  it  may  not  be  correctly  written.  The 
celebration  of  our  national  birthday,  of  course,  af- 
fected our  meetings  somewhat  Bro.  Harbaugh,  who 
was  to  have  read  the  Declaration  of  Independence, 
being  necessarily  absent,  I  was  asked  to  do  so  and 
to  speak  britfly,  which  I  did.  The  principal  address 
of  the  day  was  made  by  Rev.  Mr.  Cross,  pastor  of 
the  M.  E.  church  and  brother  of  my  old  friend,  Rev. 
J.  G.  Cross,  now  of  Chicago.  It  was  a  thoughtful 
and  helpful  production.  My  homo  hero  was  with 
Mr.  Pease,  a  member  of  the  Congregational  church, 
who  lived  in  New  York  at  the  time  William  Morgan 
was  murdered  by  the  Masons  for  revealing  the  se- 
crets of  Freemasonry.  He  and  his  Christian  wife 
made  me  very  comfortable  during  my  stay.  I  was 
also  entertained  in  the  home  of  Mr.  Cotting,  who 
was  an  old  Wheaton  student,  as  also  was  Mrs.  Cot- 
ting  (nee  Skeel),  daughter  of  our  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Skeel. 
To  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Haythorn,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Aldrich  I 
am  also  indebted  for  Christian  hospitality. 

A  GRAND  ARMT  FUNERAL. 

During  my  stay  here  an  old  soldier  was  buried, 
and  I  had  my  first  opportunity  of  witnessing  the 
burial    service  of  that   secret  society   which   calls 


fi 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSUKE. 


August  16, 1888 


itself  "The  Grand  Army  of  the  Republic."  1  never 
enjoyed  the  name,  for  it  shuts  out  from  this  desig- 
nation every  man  who  does  not  choose  to  unite  with 
a  secret  society.  There  is  a  real  Grand  Army  of 
the  Republic.  It  is  great  in  number,  more  than 
two  million  strong,  great  in  the  principles  for  which 
it  fought,  the  indivisibility  of  the  Republic,  the  su- 
premacy of  the  law,  and  the  liberties  of  the  race; 
great  in  the  hardships  endured,  the  victories  gained, 
the  result  accomplished.  It  was  an  army,  not  a  se- 
cret society.  Its  members  are  honored  citizens  of 
the  nation  which  they  aided  to  save.  No  patriotic 
heart  can  fail  to  be  grateful  to  them.  No  reasonable 
request  made  by  them  can  be  denied  with  safety  by 
any  party.  A  Democratic  House  votes  eighty  mill- 
ions for  one  year's  pension  list,  and  a  President 
elected  by  that  party  signs  the  bill. 

The  soldier  who  was  buried  was,  according  to  the 
testimony  of  his  friends  and  neighbors,  a  kindly  and 
worthy  man.  He  was  not,  so  far  as  my  informant 
knew,  a  professing  Christian.  In  the  sermon  no 
intimation  of  such  profession  was  made.  The  burial 
service  was  led  by  the  captain  of  the  Post,  a  mem- 
ber of  some  Christian  church,  as  I  was  told.  Among 
the  other  members  were,  I  believe,  but  few  profess- 
ing Christians.  One  of  those  who  stood  at  the 
grave  went  fishing  on  the  next  day,  Sabbath,  so  1 
was  informed.  The  service  was  such  as  is  common 
among  secret  societies.  Kindly  and  touching  re- 
marks were  made  concerning  the  dead  and  the  liv- 
ing. A  hymn  was  sung  which  clearly  taught  that 
the  deceased  had  entered  on  an  eternity  of  blessed- 
ness. A  prayer  was  offered  which  did  not  name  the 
Saviour.  Once  Jesus  was  named,  and  shortly  after 
the  service  was  concluded. 

WHAT  IS  THB  OBJECTION 

to  all  this?  Simply  that  Christian  ministers  preach 
and  churches  profess  to  believe  that  the  one  who 
dies  is  not  saved  because  he  is  a  kind,  honest,  or 
worthy  man,  but  because  he  believes  in  Jesus 
Christ,  This  is  true,  or  false.  If  it  is  true,  then 
Christian  people  have  no  right  to  join  in  burial  ser- 
vices which  teach  that  men  who  die  without  any 
known  faith  in  Jesus  Christ  are  taken  to  heaven.  If 
it  is  false,  then  it  should  be  given  up.  For  a  min- 
ister to  preach  all  the  year  that  faith  in  the  Saviour 
is  essential  to  salvation,  and  then  contradict  this 
preaching  in  the  presence  of  many  men  who  do  not 
believe  in  Christ  as  a  Saviour,  is  to  muddle  and  con- 
fuse men's  minds  on  that  subject,  where  of  all  others 
it  should  be  clear.  ' 

I  closed  the  Richmond  meeting  as  usual  on  Sab- 
bath night.  The  attendance  was  good,  though  not 
large.  Oa  this  evening,  as  several  times  through 
the  week,  rain  fell,  which  of  course  reduced  our 
numbers  somewhat. 

The  pastor  of  the  Huntly  church  is  Rev.  Walter 
Radford.  He  is  an  Englishman  by  birth,  is  accus- 
tomed to  street  meetings,  and  alive  to  do  good.  My 
stay  and  labor  with  him  was  pleasant.  At  Rich- 
mond Rev.  H.  W.  Harbaugh  is  preaching.  The 
church  at  Genoa  Junction,  Wis.,  is  also  under  his 
ministry.  His  field  is  very  pleasant  in  some  re- 
spects, but  difficult  in  others.  He  is  seeking  to 
build  up  the  churches  under  his  care,  and  has  a 
measure  of  success.  I  trust  that  it  may  continue 
and  increase. 


BABBATH  PROFANATION  BT  TEE    8UNDAT 
NBWaPAPBR. 


BT    BBY.  HINBY  T.  OHEBYJBR. 


The  Sabbath-breaking  enterprise  of  a  prominent 
New  England  daily  at  the  heart  of  the  old  Pilgrim 
commonwealth,  should  not  escape  the  censure  of 
the  vigilant  Cynotare. 

Wherefore  does  the  old  representative  Worcester 
Spy,  founded  in  1770  by  that  sturdy  patriot,  Isaiah 
Tnomas;  maintained  by  him  with  such  vigor  and 
eflect  through  the  Revolution,  and  all  the  after- 
struggles  for  a  constitutional  fabric  of  National 
Government;  the  firm  supporter  of  impartial  free- 
dom, public  morality  and  true  religion  under  the  up- 
right Quaker,  John  Milton  Earle;  then  so  long  the 
fearless  advocate  of  emancipation  in  the  anti-slavery 
and  free-soil  conflicts,  under  the  able  conduct  of 
Congressman  John  D.  Baldwin  and  scholarly  Delano 
Goddard— what  does  this  ancient  and  honorable 
veteran  of  dignified  journalism  do,  but  stoop  in  an 
evil  hour  to  compete  with  chattering  juvenile  aspir- 
ants to  popular  favor,  by  beginning  the  issue  on  the 
22d  of  July  of  a  Sunday  morning  newspaper. 

Thoughlful  and  reverend  seniors,  respected,  con- 
scientious fathers  of  the  city,  and  honorable  women, 
not  a  few,  are  astonished  and  shocked  by  the  pro- 
fane act,  and  either  hang  their  heads  for  sorrow 
and  shame,  or  lift  up  their  voices  in  sharp  reproof 


and  condemnation  of  this  conscienceless  violation 
of  the  holy  Lord's  day.  The  bid  for  vulgar  ap- 
proval and  patronage  by  the  sporting  rabble  rout 
("Oar  Sunday  Paper  Takes"),  and  the  utter  forget- 
fulness  of  God  and  humanity  in  the  greed  of  gain, 
are  painfully  indicative  of  the  low  standard  of  mor- 
als to  which  this  publishing  firm  seem  to  have  fallen. 
To  Christian  people  the  announcement  of  a  Sunday 
morning  Spy  was  like  a  clap  of  thunder  in  a  clear 
sky  and  serene  heavens.  It  was,  in  fact,  a  bolt 
from  "the  prince  of  the  power  of  the  air,  the  spirit 
that  now  worketh  in  the  children  of  disobedience;" 
and  Satan's  dire  hatred  of  the  Christian  Sabbath  is 
clear.  But  what  will  be  the  outcome  and  execution 
of  this  last  Satanic  stroke  of  enmity  remains  to  be 
seen. 

Naturally  enough,  the  topic  of  consideration  in 
most  of  the  church  prayer  meetings  the  ensuing 
week  was,  "The  Sabbath,  and  How  Shall  We  Main- 
tain its  Sanctity."  In  the  course  of  discussion  the 
new  departure  of  the  ancient  Spy  in  establishing 
a  Sunday  morning  paper  was  severely  and  justly 
handled.  At  one  of  the  weekly  prayer  meetings, 
that  of  the  Central  Congregational  church,  leave 
was  asked,  but  it  was  objected  to  by  one  of  the 
speakers,  for  introducing  this  expression  of  opinion: 

"It  Is  the  sense  of  this  weekly  prayer  meeting  of  the  Central 
Congregational  church  of  Worcester,  after  serious  and  prayer- 
ful consideration  of  the  eubject,  that  the  Issue  of  another  Sun- 
day morning  newspaper  In  Worcester  is  a  grief  and  Insult  to  the 
Christian  people  of  this  city  and  county .  Out  of  loyalty,  there- 
fore, to  our  Sovereign  Lord  and  Saviour,  who  said  with  such  au- 
thority,'The  Sabbath  was  made  for  man,'  we  pledge  ourselves 
neither  to  read,  nor  patronize,  nor  suffer  to  be  served  at  our 
dwellings,  a  sheet  that  so  profanes  the  Lord's  day.and  does  what 
It  can ,  by  Its  gratuitous  publication  and  distribution  Sunday 
morning,  to  break  down  the  sanctity  of  our  New  England  Sab- 
bath .  And  we  call  upon  the  churches  of  this  city,  and  not  less 
upon  the  friends  of  morality  at  large,  to  unite  In  effective  re- 
proof and  resUtance  to  this  new  assault  upon  the  most  Impor- 
tant bulwark  of  Christian  society.THE  Christian  Sabbath." 

In  support  of  this  proposal  the  writer  said:  It 
was  the  great  question  of  the  hour  with  the  church 
of  Christ  in  this  country,  how  to  keep  our  Sabbath 
from  the  secularizing  and  profane  usages  that  were 
every  day  becoming  more  and  more  general  and  ag- 
gressive. What  is  the  duty  of  the  church  and  of 
the  members  individually,  in  regard  to  one  of  the 
very  worst  forms  of  Sabbath  desecration,  the  de- 
moralizing Sunday  newspaper?  Especially,  what 
shall  be  our  protest  in  Worcester  against  the  Sab- 
bath-breaking enterprise  of  the  century-old  Spy, 
in  now  thrusting  upoa  its  patrons,  wholly  uncalled 
for,  an  edition  of  Sunday  morning?  For  myself,  I 
hold  that  my  duty  is  clear  as  a  Christian  citizen,  a 
householder,  a  minister  of  the  Gospel,  and  especially 
in  my  capacity  as  a  church  member, — my  duty  is 
clear  to  protest  against  this  iniquity,  and  to  make  it 
disreputable  and  unprofitable,  even  as  I  try  to  make 
the  liquor  traffic  illegal,  disreputable  and  unprofit- 
able. 

In  our  position  as  a  church  we  have  a  responsi- 
bility toward  public  immorality  which  we  cannot 
shirk.  We  are  God's  witnesses.  We  are  to  stand 
for  the  right  and  censure  what  is  wrong  in  the  name 
of  our  Master.  And  there  can  be  little  doubt,  such 
is  now  (thanks  to  our  Living  Head)  the  moral  power, 
it  not  the  numerical  strength,  of  the  church  in  this 
country,  that  if  its  condemnation  of  the  Sunday 
newspaper  should  be  unequivocal  and  united  it 
could  not  stand.  If,  in  particular,  the  churches  and 
ministers  of  Worcester  would  openly  taboo  the 
Sunday  Spy,  and  severely  let  it  alone,  it  would  fail 
in  its  unchristian  enterprise,  and  the  city  and  county 
of  Worcester  would  be  the  richer  for  its  failure,  the 
good  old  commonwealth  of  Massachusetts  the 
stronger  and  sounder,  and  the  country  at  large  the 
gainer. 

May  God  forbid  that  the  churches  and  ministers 
of  Massachusetts  shall,  through  a  deadening  apathy 
or  cowardice,  falter  in  duty  at  this  emergency.  Let 
them  seize  with  grip  and  enthusiasm  the  providen- 
tial opportunity  that  is  now  given  them  to  withstand 
and  protest  with  vigor  and  unanimity  against  the 
alarming  encroachments  at  this  moment  going  on 
upon  our  dear  New  England  Sabbath. 

I  cannot  better  express  the  present  situation  at 
Worcester  than  by  referring  to  the  old  Greek  of 
Posidippus  in  the  Dialogue  between  Traveler  and 
Phidias's  notable  statue  of  Opportunity.  The 
statue  significantly  says,  standing  in  impressive 
majesty  by  the  marketplace: 

"My  name,  I  hear,  throughout  the  world  has  flown;" 
As  Opportunity,  to  mortals,  I  am  known." 
"Traveler.— And  who  is  she  behind  so  sad  of  mien?" 
"Opportunity.— Repentance  is  her  name.  Still  is  she  seen 
To  follow  him,  the  wretch  who  weakly  fails 
To  seize  he,  when  the  timely  hour  avails 
Of  noble  action  I    Thus  the  seems  to  teach, 
Be  swift  to  seize  the  oood  within  thy 

REACH, 

Lbst  it  be  lost  forever  I    Ask  no  more ! 
E'en  while  I  speak,  away,  away  I  soar  I" 


The  timely  hour  of  noble  action  for  the  church  of 
Christ  in  Worcester  on  behalf  of  the  holy  Sabbath 
has  come.  And  as  in  the  Acts  of  the  Apostles  of 
old,  on  the  imprisonment  of  Peter,  so  let  prayer  be 
made  without  ceasing  everywhere  unto  God,  for  her 
that  she  may  be  true  to  her  opportunity  for  God's 
blessed  Sabbath,  that  she  may  bravely  hold  the  fort 
for  the  country  at  large. 

It  is  to  be  noted  among  the  items  of  interest  at 
Worcester,  that  Rev.  I.  P.  Lansing,  pastor  of  Salem 
Street  Congregational  church,  and  late  of  the  Meth- 
odist church  at  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.,  having  six  months 
ago  given  some  very  valuable  discourses  on  the  Sab- 
bath and  its  abuses,  is  now  delivering  a  series  of 
sermons  on  "Romanism  and  the  Republic,  or  Rea- 
sons for  Considering  in  the  Pulpit  the  Relations  of 
Romanism  to  the  Republic."  They  are  presented  at 
length,  with  negative  and  positive  reasons,  able,  for- 
cible, thorough  and  liberal.  In  the  first  discourse, 
the  third  of  eight  positive  reasons  for  considering 
the  relations  of  Romanism  to  the  Republic  was, 
that  Romanism  hates  and  fiercely  attacks  institu- 
tions especially  dear  to  patriots  in  this  country,  and 
which  institutions  have  been  closely  connected  with 
national  prosperity  from  the  beginning  of  our  his- 
tory. Notice  was  taken  of  the  late  expulsion  of 
certain  histories  from  our  public  schools  in  Boston, 
and  the  dismissal  of  a  teacher  who  dared  to  teach 
as  history  something  contrary  to  Rome's  claims  of 
supremacy,  as  well  as  the  fact  of  a  lady  teacher  in 
one  of  the  high  schools  of  Connecticut  having  to 
sign  a  paper  of  retraction,  drawn  up  by  a  Roman 
Catholic  priest,  for  having  said  in  a  historical  exer- 
cise that  the  Roman  Catholic  church  just  prior  to 
the  Reformation  sold  indulgencies  which  allowed 
the  people  to  commit  sin.  The  last  of  his  reasons 
for  the  public  discussion  in  the  pulpit  was  that  the 
wisest  statesmen  see  in  Romanism  and  its  claims  a 
great  national  peril.  The  series  is  to  be  continued 
with  "The  Jesuits  and  their  Purpose."  "Let  Jesuit- 
ism, which  has  fled  to  America  to  found  an  empire 
on  the  ruins  of  the  Republic,  having  been  swept  by 
edict  from  the  Old  World,  here  find  a  gravel" 

The  employment  of  Miss  E.  E.  Flagg,  as  regular 
correspondent  of  the  Cynomre  from  New  England, 
is  giving  great  satisfaction  to  friends  of  the  anti- 
secrecy  cause  here.  Her  way  of  putting  things  is 
so  original,  her  style  so  chaste  and  clear,  her  criti- 
cisms so  just  and  accurate,  her  views  so  broad,  her 
principles  and  judgment  so  firm  and  consistent,  that 
the  Cynosure  will  be  permanently  enriched  by  her 
contributions.  Friends  are  saying  of  her  what  Mil- 
ton addressed  to  "A  Virtuous  Young  Lady"  of  his 
day: 

"Lady,  that  In  the  prime  of  earliest  youth 
Wisely  hast  shunned  the  broad  way  and  the  green, 
And  with  those  few  art  eminently  seen. 
That  labor  up  the  hill  of  heavenly  truth. 
The  better  part,  with  Mary  and  with  Ruth, 
Chosen  thou  hast ;  and  they  that  overween, 
And  at  thy  growing  virtues  pet  their  spleen. 
No  anger  find  in  thee,  but  piety  and  truth. 
Thy  care  is  fixed,  and  zealously  attends 
To  fill  thy  odorous  lamp  with  deeds  of  light 
And  hope  that  reaps  not  shame  I" 
Worcester,  Jug.  6,  1888. 


ROMANISM  AND  THE  REPUBLIC. 

"Let  us  be  Catholics,"  said  Bossuet,  "but  let  us 
be  Galileans."  It  is  in  the  spirit  of  this  great 
French  preacher  that  I,  a  Frenchman  by  birth  and 
education,  would  presume  to  offer  a  brief  criticism 
upon  the  Roman  church  and  its  relations  to  the 
American  Republic.  Let  us  be  Catholics,  but  let  us 
be  Americans.  Is  it  possible  to  be,  at  the  same 
time,  loyal  Roman  Catholics  and  loyal  American 
citizens?  I  believe  that  it  is  not,  and  shall  endeav- 
or, in  the  following  pages,  to  give  the  reasons  un- 
derlying this  belief.  "If  the  liberties  of  the  Ameri- 
can people  are  ever  destroyed,  it  will  be  by  the 
hands  of  the  Roman  clergy."  When  Lafayette 
spoke  these  words  there  seemed  to  be  nothing  what- 
ever in  the  actual  state  of  things  to  give  them  war- 
rant. The  Roman  hierarchy  was  very  weak  and 
very  poor  in  these  United  States,  and  the  churches 
were,  for  the  most  part,  small  missionary  stations, 
widely  scattered  over  an  almost  boundless  territory. 
Power  and  influence  it  had  none;  but  it  had  a  sys- 
tem which  Lafayette  knew  well,  and  he  saw  in  that 
system  a  potency  which  made  him  fear  for  the  liber- 
ties of  the  nation  which  he  had  done  so  much  to  es- 
tablish with  his  treasure  and  his  sword. 

He  had  seen  it  in  his  well-beloved  France  as  a 
mighty  serpent,  coiling  itself  around  the  national 
life  and  choking  out  the  liberties  of  the  people. 
This  monster  serpent,  Uitramontanism,  had  crawled 
up  out  of  the  deep,  dark  Roman  sea  many  years  be- 
fore, and,  as  in  the  case  of  the  loyal  Trojan  priest, 


AuGirsT  16, 1888 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSUHE. 


Laocoon, 


had   wound  itself   around  the   Galilean  1 1  imagine,  for  me  to  enlarge  upon  this  point,  as  all 


priest  at  the  alt&r,  and  was  slowly  but  surely  stran- 
gling the  priest  and  his  faithful  children,  the  sons 
of  France.  No  native-born  American  could  have 
seen  danger  when  Lafayette  saw  it.  No  one  but  a 
Roman  Catholic,  born  and  brought  up  in  a  Roman 
Catholic  country,  could  possibly  have  seen  any  dan- 
ger to  the  American  Republic  in  the  few  missionary 
priests  whom  the  Roman  church  had  sent  over  to 
the  new  world  in  such  a  modest  guise. 

A  good-natured  contempt  for  such  danger  seems 
almost  universal  among  the  citizens  of  this  great 
Republic.  I  do  not  like  the  role  of  an  alarmist,  but 
I  believe  1  see  danger  ahead,  and  am  willing  to  ex- 
pose myself  to  some  ridicule  in  the  hope  of  arous- 
ing my  fellow  citizens  to  a  sense  of  danger  which, 
as  I  believe,  threatens  the  American  nation  from  the 
Roman  church. 

Look  about  you  and  see  what  the  few  poor  mis- 
sionary stations,  in  which  Lafayette  saw  cause  for 
alarm,  have  become.  Behold  the  innumerable 
churches,  cathedrals,  monasteries,  nunneries,  semin- 
aries, colleges  and  universities  which  cover  the 
American  continent  from  east  to  west,  and  from 
north  to  south.  See  the  army  of  priests,  bishops, 
archbishops  and  cardinals,  all  thoroughly  trained 
under  the  most  perfect  discipline,  and  swearing  im- 
plicit obedience— to  the  Constitution  of  the  Ameri- 
can Republic?  No.  Swearing  obedience,  in  all 
things  temporal  and  spiritual,  to  an  Italian  pontiff, 
who  lives  in  Rome  and  issues  his  orders  from  a  pal- 
ace called  the  Vatican.  Leo  XIIL  sits  in  the  Vati- 
can at  Rome  and  commands  his  army  of  priests  and 
prelates  in  America  and  Ireland  with  as  much  abso- 
lute authority  as  any  Caesar  ever  commanded  his 
loyal  legions  in  their  subjugation  of  the  nations  of 
the  earth.  Lafayette  saw  but  a  few  straggling  out- 
posts; we  see  the  mighty  army  in  solid  column  with 
banners  flying,  marching  with  firm  step  and  steady 
eye,  conquering  and  to  conquer.  But  some  one  may 
say  that  they  are  the  conservators  and  guardians,  of 
law  and  order,  rather  than  a  danger  to  the  peace 
and  safety  of  the  liberties  of  the  people.  But  is 
not  this  a  comparative  rather  than  a  positive  bless- 
ing? Is  it  not  fair  to  ask  why  it  is  that  the  great 
majority  of  the  dangerous  classes  are  subject  to  the 
control  of  the  Roman  church?  Is  it  not  because 
they  are  her  own  children,  the  products  of  her  sys- 
tem, if  not  of  her  teaching?  Examine  the  police 
record  of  this  or  any  other  great  American  city  and 
I  think  you  will  find  that  at  least  seventy-five  per 
cent  of  the  criminals  are  of  Roman  Catholic  parent- 
age. Is  it,  then,  unreasonable  to  expect  from  the 
Roman  church  some  restraining  influence  over  her 
own  followers?  If,  then,  the  non-Roman  churches 
exercise  little  control  over  the  dangerous  classes,  is 
it  not  because,  for  the  most  part,  these  classes  have 
been  born  and  brought  up  beyond  the  influence  of 
their  teaching? 

I  have  no  reason  to  doubt  that  the  great  majority 
of  Roman  Catholic  priests  in  America  mean  to  be, 
and  believe  themselves  to  be,  good  citizens  of  this 
Republic.  But  they  belong  to  a  system  in  which 
free  agency  is  impossible.  They  are  members  of  an 
army  in  which  the  strictest  discipline  is  enforced, 
and  the  most  prompt  and  perfect  obedience  is  re- 
quired. The  commander-in-chief  of  this  Roman 
army  is  naturally  and  most  fittingly  a  Roman,  not 
an  American.  What  does  the  Pope  of  Rome  care 
for  the  blessings  of  American  liberty  or  American 
citizenship?  The  ambition  of  the  pope,  whoever  he 
may  be,  is,  always  has  been,  and  ever  must  be,  uni- 
versal conquest  In  taking  command  of  the  Roman 
church  he  takes  this  oath.  The  Vatican  claims  ab- 
solute and  supreme  authority  in  all  things  temporal 
as  well  as  spiritual;  and  every  priest,  bishop,  arch- 
bishop and  cardinal  throughout  the  world  takes  an 
oath  of  perfect  submission  and  obedience  to  the 
Pope  as  the  supreme  lord  and  master  of  all  things. 
This  being  true — and  let  any  priest  or  bishop  affirm 
that  it  is  not — is  it  not  quite  certain  that  the  priest, 
whatever  his  private  or  personal  opinions  and  feel- 
ings may  be  as  an  American  citizen,  must  support 
the  church— the  Ultramontane  system — as  against 
the  state,  at  all  times  and  under  all  circumstances? 
Witness  the  case  of  the  distinguished  priest,  the 
late  pastor  of  St.  Stephen's  Roman  Catholic  church, 
New  York.  He  was  not  permitted  even  the  small 
privilege,  as  an  American  citizen,  of  being  present 
at  a  political  meeting  of  which  his  superiors  did  not 
approve.  Do  we  not  see,  then,  that  the  personal  in- 
tentions and  feelings  of  the  Roman  priest,  however 
good,  count  for  nothing  when  we  are  considering  the 
attitude  of  the  Roman  church  toward  the  state? 

The  American  Constitution  says  that  all  men 
shall  be  free  to  worship  God  according  to  the  dic- 
tates of  their  own  consciences.  The  Vatican  says 
that  liberty  of  conscience  is  "a  pest  of  all  others  to 
be  most  dreaded  in  a  state."    It  is  hardly  necessary, 


who  know  anything  about  the  Roman  church  know 

perfectly  well    that   "heresy,"   according    to  that 

church,  is  the  greatest  of  all  crimes,  greater  than 

murder  or  adultery.     Free  speech  and  a  free  press 

are  also  among  the  fundamental  principles  of  the 

American  Republic,  but  nothing  is  more  oflensive 

to  Rome.     Where  she  has  the  power  of  control  she 

has  never  tolerated,  and  she  never  will  tolerate, 

either  free  speech  or  a  free  press. 

The  late  cardinal  archbishop  of  New  York  said 

that: 

Catholics  In  this  Republic  are  as  strontrly  devoted  to  the  sus- 
tenance and  maintenance  of  the  temporal  power  of  the  Holy 
Father  as  Catholics  In  any  other  part  of  the  world ;  and  If  It 
should  be  necessary  to  prove  It  by  acts,  they  are  ready  to  do  so. 

This,  to  a  Frenchman,  is  pretty  plain  English. 
And  these  bishops  speak  as  men  having  authority. 
Is  one,  then,  to  be  laughed  at  as  an  alarmist  for 
sounding  out  a  note  of  warning,  when  bishops  and 
cardinals,  representing  a  vast  army  of  ten  millions 
of  communicants,  speak  out  against  the  Constitution 
of  the  Republic  in  such  threatening  words? 

The  Roman  Catholic  vote  has  already  become  so 
important  an  element  in  politics  as  to  decide  the 
fate  of  parties.  Every  Roman  Catholic  is  in  duty 
bound  to  enter  politics  as  a  Roman  Catholic,  not  as 
an  American  citizen.  The  press  of  this  country  un- 
derstands perfectly  well  that  if  it  would  have  the 
support  of  the  Roman  Catholics  it  must  say  nothing 
in  criticism,  but  everything  in  praise,  of  the  Roman 
church,  so  that  even  now  there  is  a  practical  re- 
straint, if  not  a  positive  check,  upon  the  freedom  of 
the  press. 

The  Roman  church  claims,  in  fact,  to  be  a  theoc- 
racy, and  true  to  this  idea  she  enforces,  when  she 
can,  obedience  to  her  authority  in  all  things,  social, 
political  and  economic,  as  well  as  in  things  relig- 
ious, so-called.  Has  she  not,  within  the  past  few 
weeks,  asserted  this  political  power  in  Ireland  in  the 
most  positive  and  high-handed  manner?  Can  there 
be  any  question  as  to  the  meaning  of  the  Vatican 
Rescript,  coming  as  it  does  in  the  midst  of  a  fierce 
struggle  of  an  oppressed  people  for  political  liberty  ? 

Two  of  the  greatest  statesmen  of  this  age  have 
spoken  out  in  plain,  grave  speech  upon  the  preten- 
sions of  the  Roman  church. 

Mr.  Gladstone  says: 

The  pope  demands  for  himself  the  right  to  determine  the 
province  of  his  own  rights,  and  has  so  defined  it  In  formal  docu- 
ments as  to  warrant  any  and  every  Invasion  of  the  cIvU  sphere. 
. . .  .Rome  requires  a  convert  who  joins  her  to  forfeit  his  mental 
and  moral  freedom,  and  to  place  his  loyalty  and  clyll  duty  at  the 
mercy  of  another. 

Prince  Bismarck,  in  a  speech  delivered  April  16, 

1875,  said: 

This  pope,  this  foreigner,  this  Italian,  is  more  powerful  In 
this  country  than  any  one  person,  not  excepting  even  the  king. 
And  now  please  to  consider  what  this  foreigner  has  announced 
as  the  program  by  which  he  rules  in  Prussia  as  elsewhere.  He 
begins  by  arrogating  to  himself  the  right  to  define  how  far  his 
authority  extends.  And  this  pope,  who  would  use  fire  and 
sword  against  us  if  he  had  the  power  to  do  so,  who  would  con- 
fiscate our  property  and  not  spare  our  lives,  expects  us  to  allow 
him  full,  uncontrolled  sway  among  us. 

— M,  Leon  Bouland,  in  the  Forum. 


THREE  AFRICAN  LETTERS. 


FBOM  THB  CONGO. 


There  is  one  custom  in  Hindustan  which  may 
bear  transplanting  to  America.  When  a  young 
Hindu  comes  to  a  knowledge  of  the  true  God,  aban- 
dons his  idolatry  and  is  taken  into  the  company  of 
Christian  believers,  he  is  at  once  rejected  and  ig- 
nored by  his  kindred  and  former  friends.  They 
even  go  so  far  as  to  perform  funeral  ceremonies,  as 
if  he  were  actually  dead.  What  is  the  result?  It 
is  good,  unmistakably  good,  if  he  is  a  man  of  con- 
viction and  not  a  coward.  He  is  faced  toward  Zion, 
and  the  bridges  that  once  spanned  the  gulf  between 
God-worship  and  idol-worship  are  all  burned  away. 
He  has  no  temptations  to  turn  back.  With  us,  how- 
ever, the  young  man  who  is  brought  into  the  fold, 
and  who  desires  to  be  regarded  as  dead  to  the  world 
and  worldly  things,  cannot  always  get  his  new  posi- 
tion duly  recognized.  His  worldly  acquaintances 
and  relatives  may  hold  him  back  with  familiar  at- 
tractions and  quietly  assume  that  he  can  continue 
in  unsanctified  habits  and  practices,  until  the  con- 
vert's soul  is  in  a  perfect  torment  of  uncertainty  as 
to  his  right  and  safe  course.  His  ideas  of  godly 
living  and  worldly  living  are  so  mixed  up,  owing  to 
his  being  beset  by  the  blandishments  of  friends, 
that  at  the  best  be  makes  slow  and  uncertain  pro- 
gress in  the  Christian  life.  In  such  cases  a  trial  of 
Hindu  persecution  would  be  a  blessing.  It  would 
move  him  to  cry  out,  from  the  depths  of  a  full 
heart,  "Thou,  O  Christ,  art  all  I  want." — Interior. 

Benefit  your  friends,  that  they  may  love  you  still 
more  dearly;  benefit  your  enemies,  that  they  may 
become  your  friends. 

Make  channels  (or  the  streams  of  love, 

^here  they  may  broadly  run ; 
And  love  has  overflowing  streams 

To  fill  them  every  one. 


Abthikgton,  Stanley  Pool,  Congo  River,  ) 
Africa,  May  26,  1888.      j 
Dkab  Cynosure  and  Readebs: — I  simply  rise  to 
speak  in  meeting,  so  you  may  know  where  I  am  and 
what  doing.     The  heading  of  my  letter  answers  the 
first  question  in  part,  but  I  propose  to  give  details. 

I  am  engaged  in  putting  the  new  boiler  together 
for  the  missionary  steamer  Peace,  which  Rev.  G. 
Grenfell  brought  from  England  last  September.  The 
difficulties  attending  transportation  from  the  coast 
inland  are  many  and  great.  We  have  only  what  you 
would  call  a  trail  for  over  250  miles,  and  in  many 
places  this  is  hardly  discernable,  and  progress  is 
impeded  by  the  grass  in  many  places,  and  timber  in 
a  few.  The  rivers  also  are  numerous,  and  some, 
such  as  the  Luno-Imelo  and  Nkixi,  very  deep  and 
dangerous. 

A  few  weeks  ago  a  caravan  of  Sierra  Leone  men 
proved  the  latter  to  be  an  unmanageable  torrent, 
sweeping  on  to  the  Congo  at  the  rate  of  seven  or 
more  miles  per  hour.  They  had  put  the  boiler  plate 
with  their  effects  into  the  large  canoe,  and  got  in 
themselves,  when  the  struggle  began.  The  paddlers 
lost  control  of  the  canoe,  and  it  was  swept  two  or 
three  hundred  yards  down  stream,  but  had  managed 
to  get  well  to  the  east  side,  when,  colliding  with  a 
tree,  they  were  overturned  and  in  danger  of  drown- 
ing. The  plate  was  lost,  and  I  am  compelled  to 
wait  with  the  boiler  two-thirds  done  until  we  can 
duplicate  the  plate. 

I  took  nine  Loangos  the  last  of  April  and  went  to 
the  place,  and  for  two  days  worked  hard,  but  could 
not  find  the  lost  plate.  Another  posse  returned  on 
the  24th  of  this  month,  after  a  long  but  unsuccess- 
ful attempt  to  recover  the  lost  property. 

Our  old  friends  may  be  interested  in  a  description 
of  modes  of  travel,  and  so  from  my  diary  I  copy 
the  following: 

Thursday,  April  26.— Got  my  Loangos  together 
and  at  8  A.  m.  started  for  the  Nkixi  to  search  for  the 
boiler  plate.  We  reached  Leopoldville  in  a  hundred 
and  thirty  minuies  (distances  here  are  computed  by 
minutes),  and  after  a  short  visit  with  Mrs.  Grenfell 
and  Mrs.  Billington  moved  on  west  for  one  hundred 
and  eighty  minutes  to  Ngomi's  town,  where  we  ob- 
tained a  native  house  to  store  our  goods  in  and 
sleep. 

A  native  house  is  about  6x10,  with  4-foot  walls, 
or  sides,  and  the  roof  is  one-third  or  one-half  pitch, 
all  of  grass  and  sticks  or  canes,  tied  together  with 
split  cane — no  nails  or  screws  are  used.  The  door 
is  simply  a  section  made  to  swing  or  run  like  a 
shutter,  back  and  forth.  There  are  no  windows  or 
chimneys,  and  the  fire  is  made  on  the  dirt  floor,  so 
the  smoke  rises  and  blackens  the  inside  until  it 
looks  as  though  it  had  received  a  coat  of  coal-tar  or 
pitch.  Some  of  these  houses  have  an  elevated  de- 
partment where  "My  Lord"  sleeps,  but  the  family 
squat  in  the  dirt,  or  lie  down  in  their  rags  and  take 
their  rest. 

Friday,  27. — We  got  an  early  start  after  chop 
(breakfast),  but  our  progress  was  impeded  by  the 
wet  grass  and  the  swollen  condition  of  the  rivers. 
In  looking  over  our  accounts  found  we  had  spent  12 
ntako  (brass  rods,  value  6  cents  each,  in  full  spent 
72  cents)  for  fish  and  kwanga  (native  bread  or  pud- 
ding made  of  the  cassava  root).  At  night  we 
lodged  in  a  village  20  minutes  west  of  Luluno  river, 
but  could  get  no  other  accommodations  than  a  house. 
I  fared  better  at  Mfumus  Mb's  town,  for  the  king 
gave  me  a  dish  of  palm  wine  fresh  from  the  tree, 
and  a  fowl,  or  nzuzu.  He  received  in  return  two 
spear-pointed  knives  and  three  fathoms  of  cloth. 
The  cloth  would  not  clothe  his  numerous  wives  (he 
having  ten,  and  for  each  a  house),  though  a  small 
amount  goes  a  long  way. 

On  our  return  trip  we  experienced  difficulty  at  the 
ford  of  the  Nkalama  river,  which  by  recent  rains  had 
become  so  swift  I  could  not  stand  up  against  the 
current.  Fortunately  I  had  taken  the  precaution  to 
go  up  stream  a  hundred  yards  or  more,  where  a 
climber  was  stretched  from  shore  to  shore,  answer- 
ing the  purpose  of  a  rope  by  which  one  may  sup- 
port himself  as  he  waded  through  the  boiling  waters. 
I  had  sent  my  monkey  over  by  one  of  my  men,  and 
reached  the  middle  of  the  river,  when  the  smooth 
rocks  and  the  swift  waters  prevailed  and  down  I 
went;  but,  clinging  to  the  climber,  I  soon  regained 
my  feet  and  made  for  the  shore.  I  mention  these 
incidents  of  travel  because  I  think  you  are  in- 
terested in  how  we  get  about.  The  dry  season 
has  begun,  and  the  burning  of  the  grasses  will  make 
travel  some  pleasanter. 

I  start  for  the  coast  the  latter  part  of  July,  if 
spared;  but  as  to  whether  I  shall  return  to  America 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSUKE. 


AtJGusT  16j  1888 


in  time  to  vote  in  the  Presidential  campaign  of  '88  I 
cannot  say.  I  have  missed  the  Cynoture's  newsy 
columns  quite  a  good  deal,  and  shall  be  glad  to  re- 
turn to  civilization  so  as  to  know  what  is  going  on 
in  the  world.  I  have  never  learned  whether  the 
Senate  confirmed  Lamar  as  a  Judge  of  the  Supreme 
Court  or  not.  We  are  beyond  the  limits  of  the 
postal  union  nearly  300  miles.  Well,  I  must  close. 
Hoping  for  your  prosperity  in  both  worlds,  I  am 
your  brother  in  labor,  Edward  Mathbws. 

Banana,  W.  C,  Africa. 


BRO.  OOLB  AND  BIB  WEST  AFRICAN  WORK. 

Freetown,  Sierra  Leone,  July  3,  1888. 
Editor  of  the  Cynosure, 

Dear  Brother: — Your  not  hearing  from  me  for 
a  length  of  time  is  not  so  much  owing  to  want  of 
something  to  say  as  want  of  time  to  say  it.  My 
home  here  is  literally  an  hospital.  We  attend  many 
times  fifteen  patients  a  day,  and  visit  on  the  average 
eight  sick  persons  every  morning.  Yet  all  this  is 
a  part  of  my  church  work,  for  I  also  preach  very 
often  twice  on  Sabbath,  attend  the  Sabbath-school, 
distribute  tracts,  and  conduct  other  weekly  services 
of  the  church.  I  am  not  as  strong  as  you  saw  me 
last,  but  I  am  resting  on  the  everlasting  arm  of  our 
Heavenly  Father  for  strength  and  support,  and  look- 
ing toward  the  "Rock  that  is  higher  than  L" 

Our  services  here  are  very  encouraging.  Last 
Friday  was  our  fast  day,  when  I  preached  in  the 
church  to  about  400  present,  from  Jonah  2:  7: 
"When  my  soul  fainted  within  me  1  remembered 
the  Lord:  and  my  prayer  came  in  unto  thee,  into 
thine  holy  temple."  After  the  sermon  we  had  a 
love  feast;  every  one  in  the  audience  was  eager  to 
say  something  in  praise  of  Jesus.  We  shouted  and 
prayed,  rejoicing  in  the  Lord;  and  I  can  assure  you 
that  every  one  went  home  with  a  resolution  to 
"trust  in  King  Jesus." 

I  have  been  able  to  pay  a  visit  to  the  Almamy,  or 
Mohammedan  Bishop  of  this  district,  in  Fowiah 
Bay.  It  was  a  very  pleasant  one,  and  I  was  happily 
disappointed  in  being  so  warmly  received  by  my 
people,  many  of  whom,  on  account  of  my  "apostasy 
from  Mohammedanism,"  regard  me  as  a"cast-away." 

I  took  with  me  several  copies  of  the  Bible  in 
Arabic,  and  Arabic  religious  tracts,  all  supplied  me 
by  the  British  and  Foreign  Bible  Society,  and  the 
Religious  Tract  Society,  of  England. 

The  Almamy  summoned  about  forty  of  his  fol- 
lowers to  his  spacious,  though  humble  hall,  and 
there  I  distributed  to  them,  by  his  permission,  the 
tracts  and  Bibles.  He  was  particularly  anxious  to 
know  something  about  America  and  England.  He 
wanted  to  know  whether  the  Christian  nations  of 
those  countries  are  as  avaricious  as  those  with 
whom  he  has  been  acquainted  on  the  western  coast 
of  Africa.  He  wanted  to  know  whether  I  had  been 
to  the  whisky  distilleries  in  England  and  America, 
and  how  many  gallons  are  distilled  per  day.  He 
wanted  to  know  whether  I  have  not  been  convinced 
that  there  is  only  one  God,  as  my  father  believes, 
and  not  three  Gods,  Father,  Son  and  Holy  Ghost,  as 
the  white  people  unfortunately  taught  me  to  be- 
lieve. 

We  spoke  at  length  for  two  hours,  and  this  inter- 
esting visit  ended  with  a  successful  arrangement  by 
the  Bishop  for  me  to  speak  to  the  Mohammedan 
populace  this  month  in  the  public  hall  in  Freetown. 

In  closing  I  send  my  Christian  regards  to  all  our 
friends  in  America,  and  would  remind  them  that  I 
am  still  in  want  of  means  to  carry  on  the  extensive 
field  opened  to  us.  Any  amount  forwarded  me 
through  the  Cynosure  will  be  thankfully  received. 
Your  brother  in  Christ,  J.  Augustus  Cole. 


TBB  DREAD  OF  THE  SECRET  FURROW 
LODGE. 

Shenoat,  West  Africa,  June  26,  '88. 
Dear  Sir:— The  bill  for  books  sent  has  been  re- 
ceived. We  could  not  use  German  tracts  here,  but 
those  on  temperance  and  secrecy  we  can  use  to  good 
advantage.  We  circulate  them  freely  among  our 
school  children  and  among  Sierra  Leone  traders. 
The  leaven  is  working.  Purrowism,  the  giant  of 
secret  societies  here,  has  received  a  fearful  blow  of 
late  by  the  cruel  war  that  recently  swept  over  the 
country.  The  three  principal  leaders  of  the  war 
were  hung  on  the  6th  by  the  British  authorities. 
Their  chief  man  was  a  leading  Purrow  man.  His 
brother  also,  who  had  no  hand  in  the  war,  is  a  Pur- 
row man  of  high  standing.  He  sympathized  with 
his  brother,  and  was  heard  by  a  number  of  persons 
to  say  that  where  William  (his  brother)  died  there 
he  would  die;  and  it  was  feared  by  all  the  country 
that  he  would  carry  out  his  threat    On  the  scaffold 


William  said,  "1  leave  all  with  God."  His  cousin, 
next  in  command  to  him,  said  to  the  crowd,  "You 
all  stand  and  witness  us  die  this  death,  especially 
me.  God  is  there."  The  drop  fell  and  the  three 
were  launched  into  eternity. 

There  have  been  many  rumors  afloat,  but  no  Pur- 
row men  have  appeared  as  yet  to  avenge  the  death  of 
their  brethren.Bven  to-day  reports  are  being  circulated 
that  they  will  surely  come  as  soon  as  the  moon  is  dark. 
We  cannot  tell  what  to  believe.  The  only  thing  we 
can  do  is  to  trust  God. 

A  few  months  ago  an  agent  for  one  of  the  English 
trading  companies  hired  a  number  of  laborers  in 
Freetown  to  go  down  the  coast  to  collect  India  rub- 
ber, as  he  claimed,  for  the  company.  They  ascend- 
ed the  Niger  many  miles,  then  started  for  the  inte- 
rior. The  laborers  numbered  over  120.  They  had 
traveled  several  days,  passed  many  India-rubber 
trees;  food  and  water  became  scarce,  and  the  men 
became  suspicious  that  all  was  not  right.  They 
began  to  question  their  employer,  who  pulled  a  re- 
volver and  shot  the  first  man.  Then  another  who 
interfered  was  shot.  The  white  clerks  of  the  party 
came  to  the  master's  assistance,  and  twenty-two  of 
the  natives,  I  have  been  told,  were  killed  and  a  num- 
ber wounded.  Sixty  odd  returned,  and  a  French- 
man, that  was  a  kind  of  a  head  man,  returned  with 
them  and  went  on  to  England.  Parties  have  been 
sent  out  from  England  to  investigate.  It  is  said 
that  the  agent  was  looking  for  a  site  to  trade. 

A  chemist  of  Brussels  engaged  in  Freetown  a  few 
weeks  ago  eleven  Zimminie  men,  nine  Mendis,  and 
ten  women  of  different  tribes,  all  fresh  from  the 
bush.  He  has  taken  .them  to  Europe  to  exhibit, 
dressed  and  painted  in  their  native  style,  and  to  sing 
and  dance  native  songs;  it  was  a  motley  group. 
And  this  is  the  way  poor  Africa  is  being  civilized 
by  the  Christians  of  Europe.  J.  Gomer. 


The  Secret  Empire. 


ROYAL  KNIGHTS  OF  KING  DAVID. 


THE  LODGE  18  DEFEATING   PROHIBITION. 


BY   REV.   M.  A.  QAULT. 


Walter  Thomas  Mills,  in  his  Chicago  publication 
called  2he  Statesman,  quotes  with  strong  approval 
these  words  from  the  Chicago  Tribune :  "It  also 
remains  that  the  strongest  prohibitory  law  that  can 
be  formulated,  with  the  most  perfect  machinery 
for  its  operation  that  can  be  devised,  cannot.be  exe- 
cuted or  enforced  in  a  community  where  the  judges 
who  are  to  execute  the  law,  the  sheriffs  who  are  to 
select  the  juries,  and  the  mayor  and  aldermen  who 
are  to  select  and  control  the  police,  are  elected  from 
the  ranks  of  those  who  are  opposed  to  Prohibition. 
To  claim  that  the  law  can  be  enforced  under  such 
circumstances  argues  either  supreme  ignorance  or 
insensate  folly." 

We  only  wish  to  remind  Mr.  Mills  that  we  placa 
the  same  emphasis  upon  the  equally  important  truth 
that  the  strongest  prohibitory  law  that  can  be  form- 
ulated cannot  be  executed  "in  a  community  where 
the  judges  who  are  to  execute  the  law,  the  sheriffs 
who  are  to  select  the  juries,  and  the  mayor  and  al- 
dermen who  are  to  select  and  control  the  police,  are 
elected  from  the  ranks  of  those  who  are"  members 
of  secret  societies,  sworn  or  pledged  to  obey  each 
other's  signs  and  grips.  To  claim  that  law  can  be 
enforced  when  judges,  sheriffs,  jurors,  defendants 
and  criminals  are  bound  by  secret  cabals  to  aid  one 
another  in  difficulty,  is,  we  believe,  either  supreme 
ignorance  or  insensate  folly.  We  are  satisfied  that 
the  greatest  reason  why  prohibitory  laws  cannot  be 
enforced  lies  right  here.  Careful  observation  in 
towns  where  prohibition  is  not  enforced,  and  the 
testimony  of  others  convinces  us  of  this  fact.  Min- 
isters, who  were  members  of  secret  orders,  have  in 
conversation  with  me  testified  to  this,  that  civic  so- 
cieties were  the  great  barrier  to  the  enforcement  of 
law. 

It  is  for  this  reason  that  in  our  Prohibition  work 
we  decline  to  be  led  by  those  who  are  defiled  by  the 
dark  lantern,  secret  cabal  tactics.  Men  or  women 
who  indulge  such  tactics,  combining  in  secret 
cliques  to  take  advantages  of  their  fellows  by  dark, 
underhanded  means,  exhibit  a  moral  obliquity  of 
character  inconsistent  with  the  followers  of  Him 
who  "in  secret  said  nothing." 

For  this  reason  a  growing  number  of  the  best 
Prohibitionists  are  organizing  with  the  determina- 
tion that  when  their  ballots  go  in  for  a  candidate,  he 
is  one  who  is  clear  from  hat  to  heel  from  this  secret 
society  infection.  We  will  place  the  names  of  all 
such  candidates  as  the  Cynosure  says,  "along  side 
the  match-box,  where  they  can  be  well  scratched." 
Why  jeopardize  the  cause  which  has  cost  so  much 
labor  and  sacrifice  by  committing  it  to  unfaithful 
leadership?  Let  the  friends  of  Prohibition  be  on 
their  guard  at  this  point 


BY  REV.  A.  J.  CHITTENDEN. 

"The  Royal  Knights  of  King  David"  is  the  title 
of  a  new  order  whose  ritual  lies  before  me.  Its 
prominent  features  are: 

1.  A  general  copy  of  Masonry,  evidently  by  a 
Masonic  hand.  Its  title  page  says,  "Compiled  by 
Morris,"  and  the  page  heading  throughout  is,  "Mor- 
ris's Ritual."  [There  is  nothing  to  indicate  whether 
or  no  this  Morris  is  the  late  Rob.  of  Kentucky. 
The  late  "poet  laureate,"  however,  generally  had  his 
printing  done  in  the  North;  this  document  comes 
from  Raleigh,  N.  C— Ed  ] 

2.  A  very  conspicuous  prominence  is  given  to  the 
name  of  Christ  in  its  prayers,  and  to  New  Testa- 
ment phrases  in  its  ritual  instructions.  Various 
Christian  hymns  are  badly  grafted  onto  Masonic 
doggerel. 

3.  The  symbols  are  mostly  derived  from  the  de- 
partment of  agriculture.  They  are  the  symbols 
used  by  granger  societies  and  various  orders  of  hus- 
bandry. 

4.  It  professes  to  train  men  in  the  various  cardi- 
nal virtues  and  to  fit  them  for  the  "great  Harve8t,"but 
with  only  an  oblique  recognition  of  the  atonement, 
and  with  the  usual  narrow  conception  of  the  mean- 
ing of  charity  and  neighbor  and  righteousness  com- 
mon to  all  lodges.  Their  golden  rule  is  hardly 
equal  to  first-class  barbarian  hospitality,  and  their 
"good  Samaritan"  is  remodeled  to  suit  the  other 
parts  and  principles  of  their  profession. 

5.  The  law  of  chastity  is  transferred  from  Mason- 
ry with  unblushing  simplicity  of  license,  as  will  ap- 
pear in  the  extracts  below. 

6.  A  sister  lodge  is  referred  to  and  provided  for 
in  the  burial  service,  but  their  ritual  is  not  given. 

7.  The  oaths  are  cast  in  the  Masonic  foundry  with 
some  new  patterns,  and  the  penalties  are  a  mild 
form  of  invocation  to  the  symbols  of  death. 

The  following  samples  from  the  ritual  will  illus- 
trate these  characteristics: 

"Come,  brethren,  let  us  all  unite 

And  stay  the  hurtful  tide ; 
Against  the  world  we'll  bravely  fight 

And  spread  our  order  wide. 

"Where'er  the  Sun  in  radiance  beams. 

And  man  endureth  woe, 
Our  order  shall  send  forth  its  streams 

TiU  o'er  the  world  they  flow." 

This  hymn  seems  designed  to  express  the  conceit 
and  expectation  of  the  clan,  and  evidently  regards 
all  other  religious  associations  as  not  at  all  indis- 
pensible  when  their  order  shall  get  to  flowing  all 
over  the  earth. 

The  prayers  are  not  very  objectionable,  if  they 
were  said  apart  from  the  lodge  performances  and 
teachings: 

Almighty  and  everlasting  God,  the  Creator  and  Pre- 
server of  all  mankind,  from  whom  cometh  every  good 
and  perfect  gift,  and  without  whom  nothing  can  prosper, 
we  thank  thee  for  permitting  us  to  assemble  again  within 
these  consecrated  walls,  dedicated  to  the  practice  of  love, 
purity  and  charity.  Pardon  our  manifold  sins  and  pre- 
serve our  souls  from  everlasting  punishment ....  Direct 
us  in  all  our  transactions  with  thy  most  gracious  power, 
and  let  the  words  of  our  mouths  and  the  meditation  of 
our  hearts,  while  we  wait  before  thee,  be  acceptable  in 

thy  sight We  ask  all  through  Jesus  Christ  our  Lord. 

Amen. 

The  manner  in  which  the  walls  are  "consecrated" 
and  how  they  "wait  before  the  ever-living  God"  will 
appear  from  the  following  extracts  in  the  third  de- 
gree: 

Candidate,  get  down  on  your  knees  and  make  your 
last  prayer,  and  when  you  have  ended  your  prayer,  cry 
out,  Amen.  Can  you  ride  the  goat?  Oat  on.  (Lay  the 
candidate  on  his  stomach.) 

Candidate,  you  are  taking  a  ride.  Have  you  ever 
heard  of  Jacob's  ladder? 

I  have. 

How  many  rounds  has  it? 

Three. 

Name  them.  (Worthy  conductor  says  to  the  candi- 
date, "Faith."  As  the  conductor  prououuces  the  word 
Senior  gives  one  blow  with  the  paddle.) 

What  is  the  second? 

Hope.     (Blow  with  the  paddle  ) 

What  is  the  third? 

Charity.     (Blow  with  the  paddle.) 

AH  say,  Good  I  good  member  of  charity. 

Then  the  performers  take  the  candidate  to  the 
center  of  the  hall  and  touch  him  in  the  breast  with 
the  point  of  a  sword,  saying,  "Stranger,  now  be  calm 
and  sober.  When  I  count  three  you  must  jump  for 
your  life.  Be  sure  to  jump  high  and  clear,  for  there 
is  an  abyss  just  before  you,  and  one  false  step  will 
cause  you  to  lose  your  life.     Brethren,  be  cautions; 


AuausT  16, 1888 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSUHE. 


5 


let  him  have  a  clear  jump.  Now,  stranger,  as  I 
count  'one,'  get  ready;  'two,'  be  sure  you  are  ready; 
♦three,'  Jump." 

W.  M. — Well  done  thou  good  and  faithful  servant; 
thou  hast  been  faithful  over  a  few  things,  I  will  make  thee 
ruler  over  many  things.     Enter  into  the  joy  of  thy  Lord. 

I  believe  this  acting  exceeds  any  scenic  blasphemy 
ever  before  invented.  To  appreciate  the  depravity 
of  this  sacrilegious  performance,  recall  the  prayer 
just  repeated. 

The  charity  schooling  of  the  order  begins  in  the 
first  degree  with  a  whack  over  the  shoulder,  sup- 
posed to  be  given  with  the  "golden  rule,"  a  common 
twenty-four  inch  measure.  Then  follows  the  pro- 
found exposition  of  the  mysteries:  "Stranger,  you 
are  received  here  upon  our  rule  which  is  given  us 
from  the  Holy  Scriptures,  and  is  known  as  the  'gold- 
en rule.'  The  rule  is  an  instrument  used  by  the 
workman  to  lay  off  his  work;  but  we,  as  Royal 
Knights  of  King  David,  are  to  make  use  of  it  in 
laying  out  our  rules  of  life.  This  rule  is  twenty- 
four  inches  long,  and  can  be  equally  divided  into 
three  distinct  parts.  [Why  not  also  by  two,  four, 
six,  eight  and  twelve?]  The  first  part  represents 
our  duty  to  God,  the  All-wise  Creator.  To  him  all 
honor  and  praise  belongs.  The  second  part  is  our 
duty  to  our  fellow  men.  'Do  unto  all  men  as  ye 
would  that  they  should  do  to  you.'  But  more  es- 
pecially should  this  apply  to  your  brothers  in  this 
order.  The  third  part  teaches  us  the  noble  qualities 
of  mercy  and  charity,  especially  towards  the  poor. 
Brother,  remember  the  poor,  and  so  may  you  keep 
it  forever." 

This  remarkable  tool  is  then  used  to  "cut  the  Bi- 
ble in  two."  After  this  edification  the  candidate 
swears  to  the  usual  Masonic  specifications,  with  a 
somewhat  original  requisition  for  "twenty  cents — 
not  less,"  in  aiding  a  distressed  brother.  The  pen- 
alty for  revealing  or  not  performing  the  promises  is, 
"May  the  ax  of  justice  hew  me  down,  and  I  be  for- 
ever forgotten  among  the  just." 

The  second  degree  obligation  includes  the  twenty 
cents,  and  promises  to  shield  and  warn  a  brother  at 
all  times,  and  never  to  defeat  him  in  any  of  his 
plans.     (Not  even  if  he  had  planned  a  burglary?) 

The  candidate  feeling  the  need  of  a  hymn  is  aided 
as  follows: 

"These  are  the  joys  ■which  satisfy, 

And  purify  the  mind ; 
Which  make  the  spirit  mountain  high, 

And  leave  the  world  behind." 

The  single  virtue  that  appears  at  this  point  seems 
to  be  that  they  are  very  easily  satisfied.  Just  what 
it  is  to  have  one's  spirit  "mountain  high"  is  not  so 
clear;  but  it  is  open  to  a  liberal  conjecture.  "Leav- 
ing the  world  behind"  is  certainly  expressive  to  out- 
siders, the  doors  being  properly  guarded. 

The  third  degree  contains  the  jumping  exploit, 
and  the  accompanying  profanity  already  mentioned. 
It  also  pledges  the  candidate  "never  knowingly  to 
have  any  connection  with  a  brother's  wife,  or  with 
his  mother,  sister  or  daughter,  except  in  marriage." 
It  is  difficult  to  understand  why  the  word  "know- 
ingly" should  be  introduced,  unless  the  fraternity 
are  presumed  to  indulge  in  a  rather  free  style,  so 
that  they  might  make  a  mistake  I 

At  the  conclusion  of  this  oath,  the  sickle  of  death 
is  invoked  to  cut  down  the  offender,  and  the  sug- 
gestion is  made  more  impressive  by  the  closing  Ode. 
"Hark,  hear  the  warning,  brother, 

Pause,  think  thy  purpose  o'er. 
Our  solemn  laws  and  covenants 
Are  binding  evermore." 

Some  of  the  verses  used  are  evidently  out  of  "job 
lots." 

"Come,  ye  joyful  brethren,  come. 
Raise  the  song  of  harvest  home;" 
is  amended  in  this  fashion: 

"All  the  world  is  God's  vineyard, 

Fruit  unto  his  praise  to  yield, 

The  wheat  and  tares  which  here  wc  sow 

Into  joy  or  sorrow  shall  grow." 

I  am  reluctant  to  horrify  the  Christian  so  much  as 
to  tell  that  they  have  the  first  two  verses  entire  of  the 
precious  hymn: 

"Come,  Saviour  Jesus,  from  above, 

Assist  me  with  thy  heavenly  grace, 
Empty  my  heart  of  earthly  love. 
And  for  thyself  prepare  a  place." 

The  chaplain  prays  that  the  Lord  will  make  the 
members  faithful  in  their  "work,"  so  that  when  the 
solemn  close  of  life  shall  come,  and  the  souls  of 
each  shall  separate  from  the  body,  "Thou  wilt  re- 
ceive us  unto  thyself,"  being  redeemed  through  Jesus 
Christ  our  Lord."  AH  in  "good  standing"  are  enti- 
tled to  the  burial  service.  And  the  ritual  tor  that 
occasion  is  in  many  parts  very  good. 

But  the  ritual  in  general  is  a  ceremonial  compost 
of  Christian  phraseology,  with  puerile  symbolism, 


audacious  blasphemies,  false  benevolence,  wretched 
parodies,  licentious  instruction,  by  inference,  and 
pretended  or  provisional  murder. 

The  free  introduction  of  the  name  of  Christ  and 
the  Redeemer  in  prayer,  to  give  sanction  to  the 
other  parts,  is  the  very  thing  that  carries  the  abom- 
ination to  the  climax.  I  have  long  had  the  opinion 
that  Masonry  without  any  Christ  was  so  much  the 
better  for  Christ  and  his  cause  than  if  his  holy 
name  were  dragged  into  the  lodge  to  decorate  dog's 
play.  And  now  that  such  a  mixture  has  actually 
been  made,  if  my  sensibilities  are  of  any  value  to 
me,  I  am  certain  that  this  new  order,  the  Royal 
Knights  of  King  David,  while  less  barbarous  in  its 
penal  phrases  than  old  Masonry,  has  undertaken 
something  that  will  surely  take  the  salvation  power 
all  out  of  the  name  of  the  Saviour,  by  destroying 
its  sacred  associations  in  the  minds  of  these  deluded 
ritualists.  The  certain  effect  of  thus  using  Christ's 
name  and  Word  and  the  precious  Christian  hymnol- 
ogy  will  be  to  de-crucify  Christ  out  of  their  sympa- 
thies, and,  with  this  master-piece  of  some  low  order  of 
devilism,  precipitate  these  foolish  souls  into  the  natu- 
ral abyss  of  the  unpardonable  sin. 

— Bro.  John  Dorcas  of  Iowa,  on  his  return  from 
the  Waterloo  Convention,  led  the  way  for  an  excel- 
lent United  Brethren  delegation  to  visit  the  Cyno- 
sure— brethren  Beaucamp,  Howell  and  Phillips  be- 
ing of  the  number. 


Befobm  News. 


FROM  THE  GENERAL  AGENT. 


NOTES   OF   THE   NEW   ENGLAND   JOURNEY, 

South  Framingham,  Mass. 

The  Boston  Herald  has  a  brief  sketch  of  a  "New 
Lodge  Instituted"  with  seventy-five  charter  mem- 
bers. It  ranks  No.  2  Chevaliers  of  Pythias,  and 
has  a  list  of  twenty-one  renowned  officers,  "Supreme 
Chancellor  Wilson"  heading  the  list.  Whether  de- 
signed for  converting  or  conquering  the  world  is 
left  to  conjecture,  but  from  the  number  and  titles  of 
its  officers  we  may  infer  that  its  purposes  are  judi- 
cial, military  and  fiQancial.  The  Boston  Directory 
for  1888  gives  571  lodges  to  223  churches,  and  this 
new  comer  adds  another  to  the  already  long  list  of 
Satan's  agencies  for  destroying  the  souls  of  men  by 
the  "deceivableness  of  unrighteousness."  Where 
such  a  condition  of  things  exists,  it  is  no  wonder 
that  bullies  and  prize  fighters  are  honored  and 
awarded  diamond  belts,  while  ministers  of  Christ 
are  fined  and  imprisoned  for  preaching  the  Gospel, 
and  the  very  existence  of  free  schools  and  free 
speech  threatened  with  annihilation.  It  is  just  as 
natural  as  it  is  for  the  heathen  in  other  lands  who 
know  not  God  to  worship  and  serve  the  devil.  Bos- 
ton, once  the  "cradle  of  liberty,"  is  in  imminent 
danger  of  becoming  the  stronghold  of  intolerance, 
and  who  among  her  watchmen  that  "see  the  wolf 
coming"  is  uttering  a  warning  cry?  Bro.  William 
Davis,  who  sought  to  clear  his  skirts  of  "blood 
guiltiness,"  and  spoke  boldly  against  the  lodge  sys- 
tem on  Chelsea  Square  and  Boston  Common,  is  now 
serving  out  the  eleventh  month.of  a  yearly  sentence 
in  jail.  Such  are  the  "tender  mercies"  of  the  city 
of  the  Hancocks,  the  Sumners  and  the  Adamses, 
under  Jesuitical  ring  rule. 

Providenob,  R.  I. — Bro.  A.  M.  Paull  is  well  and 
I  am  to  be  his  guest  at  Riverside,  by  invitation,  to- 
night. The  Central  Hotel  near  the  depot  is  strictly 
prohibition,  and  its  proprietor  has  cast  off  the  yoke 
of  bondage  and  is  no  longer  in  fellowship  with  un- 
believers. Friends  passing  this  way,  please  make  a 
note  of  this.  The  list  of  lodges  in  this  city  is  201, 
of  churches  eighty-four,  and  public  schools  sixty. 
A  prominent  temperance  man  and  fruit  dealer  here 
joined  the  Masons  not  long  since.  Subsequently 
the  craft  had  a  supper.  Liquor  flowed  freely  and 
some  were  overcome.  When  chided  for  their  con- 
duct they  replied,  "Why,  Mr.  H is  a  good  tem- 
perance man,  and  he  was  there  and  helped  pay  the 

bill."     Mr.  H stoutly  denies  it,  but  the  boys 

say  he  did,  all  the  same.  Christian  Prohibitionist, 
when  did  you  last  grace  a  lodge  "bout  with  your 
presence  and  pay  your  score  for  the  "cup  of  devils" 
under  the  seal  of  "secrecy  and  silence?''  When  will 
you  do  it  again  ? 

A  well-informed  gentleman,  who  once  wore  the  re- 
yilia,  whom  I  chanced  to  meet,  said,  "The  temper- 
ance cause  is  advancing  in  our  city  but  the  secret 
temperance  orders  are  on  the  wane.  A  few  years 
ago  they  could  marshal  a  parade  of  2,000  or  2,r)00 
on  short  notice,  but  now  they  could  not  drum  up  a 
hundred  wlio  would  be  seen  wearing  their  regalia 
on  the  streets.  Wc  mean  work  and  not  buncombe 
these  days." 


Bro.  Paull  has  vigorous  and  positive  convictions 
upon  any  question  to  which  he  applies  his  mind. 
He  heartily  endorses  the  New  England  agency  and 
will  do  his  full  share  to  sustain  it.  He  wants  Miss 
Flagg  to  attend  the  Rhode  Island  State  W.  C.  T. 
Union  in  September,  and  will  put  her  in  correspoad- 
enc9  with  the  president  of  the  Union. 

Wbatogde,  CoNN.,  Aug.  4 — Bro.  P.  Bacon  knows 
the  value  of  time  and  how  to  strike  a  nail  on  the 
head.  I  found  him  loading  a  wagon  for  Collins- 
ville  market,  but  ready  to  give  a  good  account  of 
Bro.  Kimball's  work  and  to  hear  what  I  had  to  say 
about  New  England  work.  He  expressed  his  hearty 
approval  and  said,  "I'll  stand  my  share;"  handed 
me  $5  to  use  at  my  discretion,  and  drove  off  to  sup- 
ply his  hungry  customers. 

Most  of  the  churches,  many  private  houses  and 
the  extensive  manufacturing  buildings  at  Tariflville 
are  "empty,  swept  and  garnished."  The  two  "indus- 
tries" reported  as  prosperous  are  the  saloon  and  the 
lodge.  Our  old  friend  Nicholson  is  still  making  war 
on  the  beast. 

WiLLiMANTic,  Aug,  6. — Nothing  could  add  to 
the  cordial  reception  and  hospitality  tendered  me 
by  Bro.  Conant,  in  which  Mrs,  Conant,  "Grandma" 
and,  in  fact,  the  whole  family  heartily  joined.  Their 
elder  son,  George,  recently  "took  unto  himself  a 
wife,"  who  is  a  "helpmeet,"  indeed,  and  a  benison 
to  the  whole  family  group.  Sabbath  was  excessive- 
ly hot,  with  occasional  showers,  and  the  attendance 
at  services  was  limited.  My  only  regret  in  review- 
ing this  brief  visit  is  that  I  could  not  do  more  to 
strengthen  the  hands  and  encourage  the  hearts  of 
the  faithful,  and  more  fully  reward  them  for  the 
inspiration  and  aid  so  cheerfully  rendered.  May  the 
Lord  reward  them  an  "hundred-fold." 

New  Haven,  Conn. — I  am  not  fortunate  in  fiud- 
ing  the  men  I  wished  to  see,  as  they  are  out  of  town, 
and  so  I  have  been  strolling  about  the  college 
grounds,  and  have  found  a  resting  place  under  the 
sheltering  arches  fronting  on  the  back  court,  or  lawn, 
surrounded  by  historic  buildings.  They  are  certainly 
grand,  and  worthy  their  wide  reputation.  Passing 
on  York  street  near  Elm  I  noticed  a  gloomy-looking, 
windowless  structure  of  red  brick,  and  calling  at  a 
store  near  by  made  inquiry  as  to  its  use.  All  the 
gentleman  could  tell  me  was  that  it  was  a  "Society" 
hall,  I  passed  along  the  side  and  to  the  rear,  tak- 
ing in  the  dimensions  as  nearly  as  I  could,  and 
should  judge  it  to  be  about  50  feet  by  25, 30  feet  high, 
with  a  single  opening  of  double  doors.  This  is  the 
department  where  pagan  mysteries  and  Christless 
worships  are  taught  to  aspiring  young  men,  a  tomb 
in  which  are  buried  the  manhood  and  Christian  in- 
tegrity of  those  who  go  beyond  its  portal.  It  is  a 
fountain  sending  its  polluted  streams  to  hamlet  and 
city,  to  pulpit  and  even  to  Congress,  poisoning 
whatever  it  touches.  How  can  the  management  of 
a  Christian  college  tolerate  such  a  "cage  of  unclean 
birds"  under  the  very  shadow  of  its  classic  halls? 
And  how  long  will  public  sentiment  endure  such  an 
insult  to  God,  and  snare  to  their  sons? 

J,  P,  Stoddard 


CENTRAL  LOUISIANA. 


the   TRUTH   HEARD    GLADLT. 


Alexandria,  La.,  Aug,  3,  1888. 

Dear  Cynosure:— I  came  here  from  Boyce  July 
27,  This  is  an  old  city  with  3,000  inhabitants,  a 
large  percentage  of  whom  are  colored.  The  lotlge 
is  very  strong  here,  Shiloh  Baptist  church.  Rev, 
Israel  Thomas,  pastor,  is  the  only  anti-secret  church 
here,  Bro.  Thomas  don't  allow  them  in  his  church; 
but  here,  as  in  other  places,  the  people  are  seeing 
the  evils  of  secretism,  and  especially  in  the  church- 
es. The  Cynosure  and  N,  C,  A,  literature  have  here- 
tofore been  unknown  in  this  place.  There  are  two 
railroads  coming  in  here;  and  river  navigation  makes 
the  city  begin  to  look  forw-ard  for  prominence. 
This  has  been  a  prohibition  town  for  several  years, 
but  this  year  the  lodge  rumites  have  carried  the  vote 
for  whisky  again.  "There  are  seven  churches,  four 
colored  and  three  white, 

I  met  Rsv.  Woods,  formerly  of  N^w  Orleans,  and 
he  is  entirely  in  sympathy  with  our  reform  work, 
1  have  distributed  very  many  N.  0,  A,  tracts,  and 
had  several  private  conversations  on  the  secrecy 
question.  The  lodge  opponents  here,  as  in  other 
cities,  are  afraid  to  be  too  out-spoken  lest  the  lodge 
be  offended, 

I  called  on  Rev,  I,  Thomas  Saturday,  and  spent 
an  hour  in  his  pleasant  company.  He  showetl  me 
'  his  beautiful  new  church  edifice.  He  anticipates 
!  building  a  school  in  the  rear  of  the  church.  The 
'  property  consista  of  a  whole  square  of  ground. 
'  Bro.  Thomas  has  experienced  some  hanlahips  since 
i  be  left  the  Masons  and  began  to  rid  his  (church  of 


6 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSUEE. 


Attqxjs'J  16, 1888 


Baalism.  But  God  has  led  him  out  victorious,  and 
now  he  is  held  in  high  esteem  in  this  community. 

I  next  called  on  Rev.  H.  Wallace,  the  oldest  M. 
E.  preacher  in  these  parts.  He  is  an  out-and-out 
Anti-mason,  having  never  joined  any  other  society 
saving  the  church  of  Christ,  which  he  thinks  is 
enough  for  a  Christian.  The  people  here  are  gen- 
erally very  kind,  saving  a  few  roughs  of  both  white 
and  black. 

I  preached  Sabbath  at  the  Union  Baptist  church. 
Rev.  Geo.  Washington,  pastor,  to  a  respectful  con. 
gregation.  1  attended  services  at  3  p.  m.  at  the  M. 
E.  church.  Rev.  A.  J.  Ford,  pastor.  He  kindly  re- 
ceived me  and  introduced  me  to  his  congregation, 
and  recommended  our  work  to  them.  This  was  more 
than  I  expected  of  a  Mason.  I  preached  at  8  p.  m. 
to  a  good  congregation  at  Shiloh  Baptist  church. 
My  sermon  was  enthusiastically  received.  Through 
the  kindness  of  Mr.  Jenks  Dickson  and  Mr.  Nero 
Brown  I  was  conveyed  out  to  McNutt's  Hill,  eighteen 
miles,  Monday  evening,  and  met  and  preached  to  a 
large  and  quiet  congregation  at  Mount  Triumph  Bap- 
tist church,  Rev.  Jos.  Randall,  pastor.  Lodgery  is 
not  very  strong  about  McNutt's  Hill.  I  came  back 
down  Bayou  Rapids  eight  miles  to  the  Evening  Star 
Baptist  church,  Rev.  H.  B.  N.  Brown,  pastor,  where 
I  had  expected  to  preach  Tuesday  night,  but  owing 
to  a  misunderstanding  the  appointment  was  not 
made.  I  returned  back  here  Wednesday  evening 
where  an  appointment  was  awaiting  me  at  the  M.  E. 
church  to  speak  on  Moral  Education.  There  is  a 
law  in  this  parish  to  arrest  a  man  for  galloping  past 
the  residences  on  Bayou  Rapids;  also  another  law 
if  any  man's  hogs  are  caught  on  the  public  roads 
they  are  to  be  shot,  and  the  owner  suffer  the  loss. 
The  colored  men  on  this  part  of  Bayou  Rapids  are 
very  ignorant,  and  although  Rapids  parish  is  offer- 
ing very  liberal  inducements  to  Northern  immi- 
grants, yet  in  some  parts  of  the  parish  a  colored 
man  with  the  least  intelligence  endangers  his  life  if 
he  attempts  to  enlighten  his  race.  Miscegenation 
seems  to  be  very  popular  in  some  parts,  or  at  least 
with  Negro  women  and  white  men.  I  have  been 
advised  not  to  speak  out  too  boldly  against  these 
sins  in  Alexandria. 

1  lectured  Wednesday  night  at  the  M.'  E.  church, 
Rev.  A.  J.  Ford,  pastor,  to  a  very  good  audience  on 
the  benefit  of  Moral  Education  to  the  Negro.  Bro. 
Ford  heartily  endorsed  my  lecture,  also  Rev.  J.  H. 
Ford,  the  A.  M.  E.  pastor  of  this  place,  and  com- 
mended it  to  the  congregation.  Rev.  A.  J.  Ford 
asked  that  all  who  appreciated  my  lecture  to  mani- 
fest it  by  a  vote  of  thanks.  Everyone  in  the  house 
arose  except  one  lady  and  one  brother  who  was  sleep- 
ing as  though  he  was  in  his  bed  at  home. 

Crops  in  this  parish  are  very  good  with  few  ex- 
ceptions, but  the  caterpillars  or  cotton-worms  have 
made  their  appearance  in  the  cotton-fields,  and  the 
poor  farmers  are  much  perplexed  because  of  these 
little  visitors.  Quite  a  number  ol  colored  people 
here  are  buying  and  becoming  owners  of  their  own 
little  homes.  Cotton  is  in  full  bloom  and  fast  open- 
ing. The  usual  average  is  twenty  to  twenty- 
five  boles  or  burrs  to  the  stalk. 

I  preached  last  night  at  Union  Baptist  church  to 
a  very  large  congregation  of  eager  listeners.  I  dis- 
tributed tracts  to  the  congregation  after  service.  I 
leave  here  this  morning  for  Chaneyville.  I  have 
received  a  letter  of  encouragement  from  Baton 
Rouge.  I  trust  the  N.C.  A.Board  will  decide  to  hold  the 
next  convention  in  that  city.  Pray  for  our  South- 
em  work.  Francis  J.  Davidson. 


COBBESPONDENGE. 


A  PATRIARGH'a  BLBBSING. 

Senecavillb,  Ohio, 
DxAB  Ctnosdbe: — You  have  always  been  a  wel- 
come to  me  ever  since  you  were  first  brought  to  my 
notice.  I  have  read  regularly  and  with  unusual  in- 
terest pondered  over  your  pages  for  many  years,  and 
have  desired  that  my  name,  though  obscure,  might 
be  placed  among  the  many  others  given  from  time 
to  time  as  witnesses  for  Jesus,  against  the  Masonic 
lodge  and  its  kindred  societies  of  mercenary  men. 
These,  of  course,  are  not  of  God,  but  look  more 
like  some  of  the  "devils"  of  which  the  apostle  says, 
«'We  are  not  ignorant  of  his  devices." 

Having,  during  the  last  sixty  years  and  more, 
carefully  and  prayerfully  considered,  in  the  light  of 
personal  observation  and  other  unquestionable  evi- 
dence, the  character,  claims  and  fruits  of  Freema- 
sonry, the  mother  and  mistress  of  nearly  all  the 
secret  orders  of  our  land,  I  have  long  since  been 
thoroughly  convinced  that  they  are  not  only  wholly 
unnecessary,  but  positively  injurious  to  the  cause  of 
freedom   and   fairness;    clannish   and  criminal 


principle  and  practice,  dangerous  to  our  civil  liberty 
and  sscred  institutions;  a  wilful  waste  of  time  and 
talents,  a  needless  breach  of  domestic  and  social 
unity,  and  a  deliberate  violation  of  the  great  and 
glorious  Christian  principle  of  love  and  kindness  to 
all  mankind.  This  I  offer  deliberately,  in  the  fear 
of  God  and  high  regard  for  human  rights  and  hu- 
man welfare,  as  my  humble  and  earnest  judgment, 
and  in  full  view  of  my  mortal  end,  which  must  soon 
come,  as  I  am  now  within  one  day  of  my  eighty- 
ninth  year,  and  am  waiting  peacefully  and  patiently 
for  my  dear  Master's  call  to  come  up  higher. 

The  "National  Christian  Association"  and  its  va- 
rious agencies  must  ultimately  succeed  to  spread 
"the  light  of  the  glorious  Gospel  of  Christ"  through- 
out all  the  dark  regions  of  the  land,  and  into  the 
many  "habitations  of  cruelty,"  which  still  unfor- 
tunately exist.  In  glad  anticipation  of  the  surely 
coming  triumph  of  truth  over  all  falsehood  and 
shams  and  shame  that  now  stare  devout  men  and 
women  in  the  face  in  our  corrupt  cities  and  larger 
towns,  I  pray  and  hope  and  wait,  and  do  say  and 
wish  I  could  sing  the  following  lines: 

The  consecrated  mercy  seat, 

Where  Jesus  and  his  friends  oft  meet, 

As  In  a  sanctified  retreat. 

Each  other  heartily  to  greet, 

In  thoughts  and  words  and  feelings  sweet. 

Which  make  their  fellowship  complete. 

Such  fellowship  we  highly  prize, 
It  helps  our  feeble  faith  to  rise 
Above  the  world — its  pride  despise — 
Yet  hear  and  heed  its  pauper  cries. 
And  aim  by  help  to  give  supplies, 
In  hope  to  meet  beyond  the  skies. 

(Rev.)  Wm.  G.  Kkil. 


THB   SOUTHS BN   GOLLBQBB. 


The  Cynosure  publisher  has  been  corresponding 
with  some  two  hundred  colleges  and  various  schools 
for  higher  education  to  learn  if  books  and  other 
literature  on  the  dangers  of  secretism  would  be  re- 
ceived and  suitably  used  in  connection  with  other 
educational  facilities.  The  following  are  a  few  of 
the  replies  received.  They  may  be  considered  with 
profit: 

ALLBN  UHIVEBSITT,  COLUMBIA,  S.  C. 

Out  of  a  membership  of  more  than  two  hundred  stu- 
dents, we  have  none  who  are  members  of  secret  orders. 
We  will  not  matriculate  a  student  who  belongs  to  any 
secret  organization. 

BBBBA  COLLEGE,  BBREA,  KY. 

We  shall  be  very  glad  to  receive  a  contribution  of 
books  and  papers  to  our  library.  We  have  two  reading 
rooms,  one  for  young  men  and  one  for  young  ladies. 
Books  opposed  to  secret  societies  will  be  thankfully  re- 
ceived. 

CENTRAL  TBNNESSBB  COLLEGE,  NASHVILLE,  TENN. 

Personally  I  have  never  had  much  to  do  with  secret 
societies,  and  have  never  been  connected  with  churches 
where  their  influence  has  been  felt,  but  I  think  oar  col- 
ored people  are  in  danger  of  putting  much  more  stress 
on  their  duties  and  dues  to  their  various  societies  (and 
their  name  is  legion)  than  to  their  churches.  A  library 
giving  the  dangers  of  these  societies  will  be  gladly  placed 
on  our  shelves. 

MARYVILLE  COLLEGE,  MARYVILLE,  TBNN. 

We  should  be  very  glad  to  receive  a  library  of  books 
opposed  to  secret  societies.  Our  faculty  is  unanimous 
against  such  organizations. 

CLAFLIN  UNIVERSITY,  ORANGEBURG,  S.  C. 

We  should  be  glad  to  receive  any  of  the  publications 
of  the  National  Christian  Association.  I  am  sure  that 
books  and  papers  on  the  line  suggested  would  be  highly 
appreciated  Secret  societies  are  not  very  common 
among  the  people  of  color,  and  I  think  that  it  is  now 
time  to  give  them  such  instruction  as  they  need. 

BISHOP  COLLEGE,  MARSHALL,  TEXAS. 

We  would  welcome  every  agency  which  will  discour- 
age the  evils  of  secret  societies. 

BIDDLE  UNIVERSITY,  CHARLOTTE,  N.  O. 

Would  be  very  glad  of  a  gift  of  a  dozen  books  or  so 
opposed  to  secret  societies.  This  country  is  overrun  with 
such  wasteful  organizations. 

TALLADEGA  COLLEGE,  ALABAMA. 

We  have  six  or  eight  volumes  opposed  to  secret  socie  ■ 
ties,  contributed  by  Rev.  Mr.  Hinman.  We  shall,  how- 
ever, be  glad  of  any  additions  to  this  style  of  literature 
you  may  contribute.    They  will  be  good  for  reference. 

HOWABD  UNIVERSITY,  WASHINGTON. 

About  books  on  secret  societies,  we  hold  to  free  dis- 
cussion on  all  subjects,  and  shaU  be  happy  to  receive 
books  of  the  character  referred  to. 

FISK  UNIVBBSITY,  NASHVILLE,  TBNN. 

Fisk  University  would  be  glad  to  receive  a  supply  of 


in '  books  on  tne  subject  of  secret  societies. 


STORER  COLLEGE,  HARPER  8  PERRY,  W.  VA, 

A  library  of  books  opposed  to  secret  societies  would 
be  acceptable  and,  I  hope,  useful.  It  is  a  subject  on 
which  the  colored  people  have  a  good  deal  to  learn. 

NORMAL   INSTITUTE,  HUNTdVILLB,  ALA. 

Books  opposed  to  secret  societies  would  be  very  ac- 
ceptable. Also,  we  shall  be  very  thankful  for  any  help 
in  this  line.  It  will  meet  a  long-felt  want,  and  will  be 
productive  of  great  good. 

RICHMOND  THBOLOGICAL  SEMINARY. 

A  library  of  books  opposed  to  secret  societies  would 
be  acceptable  to  our  institution. 

CLABK  UNIVERSITY,  ATLANTA,  GA. 

We  have  a  small  library  fcr  use  of  students,  contain- 
ing about  2,000  volumes.  We  also  have  a  reading  room 
which  the  students  support  in  part,  with  quite  a  good 
selection  of  papers.  Any  books  will  be  very  acceptable. 
The  Anti-Society  books  will  be  very  acceptable. 


TEB  P8BUD0-AMBRIGAN   PARTY. 


The  American  party  of  California,  though  unsus- 
pected by  its  honest,  worthy  and  patriotic  rank  and 
file,  has  been  heretofore  the  private  property  of  the 
great  railroad  corporation  of  San  Francisco.  It  was 
dead,  but  has  revived  and  had  a  State  convention 
recently  in  that  city. 

The  convention  commended  Mayor  Hewitt  for 
President  of  the  United  States  for  the  single  reason 
that  he  allowed  no  foreign  flags  on  public  edifices  in 
New  York;  resolved  to  prohibit  aliens  from  selling 
liquors;  to  favor  enfranchising  all  native  born 
women  of  21  years,  who  can  read  and  write  and  who 
pay  taxes;  declared  the  saloon  the  great  agency  of 
corruption  in  politics  and  bossism,  and  promise  for 
that  reason  to  restrict  it  to  the  narrowest  limits;  ob- 
jected to  immigrants  not  in  sympathy  with  our  gov- 
ernment; proposed  to  lower  taxes  on  farms  and 
raise  them  on  luxuries;  advocated  protective  tariff 
and  the  exclusion  of  cheap  labor;  supported  free 
schools,  and  favored  coast  fortifications  for  the  em- 
ployment of  American  labor. 

That  last  is  one  of  the  most  sublimely  asinine 
propositions  ever  made,  and  indicates  that  the  con- 
cern is  being  fooled  by  its  railroad  bosses.  If  the 
government  money  is  to  be  expended  in  millions  for 
the  purpose  of  employing  American  labor,  why  not 
use  it  in  some  useful  way — in  building  homes  for 
the  American  laborer,  or  in  building  public  halls, 
gymnasiums,  bath  houses,  colleges — in  starting  co- 
operative institutions,  or  best  of  all,  in  building 
government  railroads  and  telegraphs  to  be  the  prop- 
erty of  the  people. 

All  these  things  or  any  of  them  would  be  a  judi- 
cious and  profitable  use  of  the  national  finances* 
But  the  fortifications  would  be  an  utterly  useless, 
worthless,  crazy  waste.  Just  as  useless  as  building 
Chinese  joss  houses  and  pagodas,  or  a  Chinese  wall 
around  the  continent.  We  have  no  more  need  of 
new  coast  defences  than  we  have  to  wear  suits  of 
barbed  wire  armour,  or  to  load  ourselves  in  our 
daily  walks  with  an  arsenal  of  revolvers,  bowie 
knives  and  dynamite  explosives. 

The  nation  donkeying  with  coast  forts  would  be 
as  dudish  and  cowardly  as  the  poor  imbecile  booby 
who  has  to  go  armed  in  the  street.  This  country  is 
not  afraid  to  live  peaceably  and  go  unarmed,  and  it 
is  to-day  and  has  been  for  fifty  years  of  all  the 
countries  of  the  world,  the  safest  from  foreign  in- 
vasion or  assault,  because  with  the  exception  of  Mr. 
Blaine,  George  F.  Train  and  a  few  belligerent  for- 
eigners, we  are  a  peaceable  and  neighborly  people, 
and  have  no  enemies  abroad,  and  thus  we  have 
grown  so  strong  that  if  we  ever  do  have  enemies 
they  will  never  dare  attack  our  coast  or  call  us  out 
to  fight. 

The  great  railroad  company  does  not  originate  an 
American  party,  a  Prohibition  or  a  labor  party,  or 
other  separate  party,  but  as  it  generally  owns  the 
leaders  of  the  two  G.  O.  P.'s  it  makes  a  great  effort 
through  its  Political  Bureau  and  secret  agents  to 
control  and  own  all  the  other  parties. — Los  Angela 
Censer. 


Living  Churches. — The  wish  to  spread  the  knowl- 
edge of  the  love  of  Jesus  Christ  is  a  strong,  over- 
mastering impulse  in  every  man,  in  every  woman, 
who  really  knows  and  loves  him.  The  absence  of 
any  kind  of  anxiety  for  the  spread  of  the  truth  im- 
plies spiritual  paralysis,  if  it  does  not  imply  actual 
spiritual  death.  The  man  who  knows  the  happiness 
of  peace  with  God  through  our  Lord  Jesus  Christ 
cannot  but  desire  that  other  men  should  share  it; 
and  this  desire,  in  its  higher,  its  stronger,  its  more 
heroic  form,  is  one  of  the  greatest  gifts  of  God  to 
his  church.  Churches  are  generally  living  churches 
in  exact  ratio  of  their  missionary  activity. — Canon, 
Liddon. 


AuQTisr  16, 1883 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE- 


J. 


LITBRATUBE. 

Mr.  Henry  M.  Hugunin  ha8  written  a 
little  work  on  "Necromancy,"  which  is 
to  be  issued  by  C  H.  Jones,  of  this  city, 
at  an  early  day.  It  treats  of  the  origin, 
operations  and  consequences  of  spirit 
communication,  and  proves  its  evil  char- 
acter by  divine  revelation,  observation 
and  the  author's  personal  experiences. 
His  former  treatise  on  "Spirit  Posses- 
sion" has  er joyed  a  fine  circulation. 

Babyhood  for  August  is,  as  usual,  full 
of  seasonable  hints  and  practical  advice 
to  young  mothers.  In  the  department  of 
"Nursery  Problems"  alone  a  great  variety 
of  interesting  topics  may  be  found,  such 
as  "Sucking  the  Tongue,"  '  Qainine  as  a 
Cause  of  Deafness,"  "Slow  Gain  in 
Weight,"  "Throwing  up  Milk  After  Nurs- 
ing," "Coated  Tongue."  Rings  Under  the 
Byes,"  "Time  for  Weaning,"  "S'ow 
Teething,"  etc.  It  is  very  desirable  that 
Babyhood,  whose  many  useful  sugges- 
tions and  careful  medical  advice  make  it 
indispensable  to  every  young  mother, 
should  be  found  in  every  nursery. 

The  New  York  Daily  Oraphic  has 
started  a  new  feature,  "Our  Poet's  Cor- 
ner," a  department  "expressly  designed 
for  the  profit  and  celebration  of  our  po- 
etic contributors,"  in  which  it  is  intended 
to  publish  all  the  verses  sent  that  paper. 
This  is,  we  believe,  the  first  attempt  of 
any  metropolitan  daily  to  encourage  the 
development  of  American  poetical  genius. 

Science  (weekly)  has  recently  con- 
tained a  number  of  articles  on  the  move 
ment  in  this  country  and  England  for  the 
dissemination  by  lectures,  tracts,  debat- 
ing clubs,  etc.,  of  such  information  as 
will  tend  to  make  more  intelligent  citi- 
zens of  those  following  the  discussions. 
The  columns  of  the  paper  following  the 
government  scientific  work  are  invalua- 
ble to  every  thoughtful  man  or  woman, 
and  the  electrical  features  are  likely  to 
prove  of  greater  and  greater  interest  as 
they  develop. 

The  Stoisa  Cross  for  August  contains  an 
interesting  article,  well  illustrated,  on  the 
"Flight  of  Birds."  This  will  doubtless 
help  many  in  understanding  this  myste- 
rious power  of  our  feathered  friends. 
Besides  other  articles  of  interest  there  are 
given  the  usual  reports  from  the  Chap- 
ters of  the  Agassiz  Association. 

The  August  issue  of  the  American 
Garden  of  New  York,  is  largely  taken  up 
with  this  subject  of  the  culture  of  water 
plants,  including  various  beautiful  for- 
eign species.  The  articles  are  finely  illus- 
trated and  the  number  as  a  whole  should 
have  a  marked  influence  upon  the  devel- 
opment of  this  interesting  phase  of  gar- 
dening. 


Lodge  Notes. 

A  petition  thirty  feet  long  was  sent  to 
Governor  Oglesby  lately,  asking  for  the 
pardon  of  Dr.  C.  H.  Bean,  of  Cherry 
Valley,  who  was  sent  to  Joliet  for  one 
year  for  criminal  assault.  Bean  is  an 
Odd  fellow. 

Says  the  Baptist  Messenger  of  Jackson, 
Miss.,  "W.  H.  Stewart,  P.  G.  M.,  is  chair- 
man of  the  Committee  on  Foreign  Cor- 
respondence of  Grand  Lodge  of  F.  and 
A.  Masons,  of  Kentucky.  He  ie  also  ed- 
itor of  the  American  Baptist  " 

The  General  Committee  of  the  Broth- 
erhood of  Engineers  is  to  have  a  grand 
meeting  in  Kansas.  The  chief  object  of 
the  meeting  is  to  discuss  the  advisability 
of  transferring  the  headquarters  of  the 
General  Committee  from  Chicago. 

The  Roman  Catholic  rulers  of  Boston 
seem  to  be  applying  the  teaching  of  their 
church  in  the  administration  of  affairs. 
The  Public  Library  is  open  every  Sab- 
bath, but  was  closed  on  St.  Patrick's 
Day.  This  is  but  one  of  many  ways  in 
which  the  man  appointed  days  are  given 
higher  honor  than  the  day  which  the 
Lord  hath  made. 

It  is  announced  from  Panama  that  the 
Government  of  Columbia  has  entered 
into  a  convention  with  the  Papal  See  by 
which  the  universities,  colleges,  schools 
and  other  educational  establishments  and 
all  public  and  private  education  and  in- 
struction shall  be  organized  and  directed 
in  conformity  with  the  dogmas  and  prin- 
ciples of  the  Roman  Catholic  Church; 
that  religious  instruction  in  that  creed 
should  be  obligatory. 

George  F.  Farmer,  the  permanent  sec- 
retary of  Unity  lodge  of  Odd  fellows, 
Springfield,  Mass.,  is  $2,500  short  in  his 


accounts,  although  the  local  papers  have 
kept  still  about  the  matter.  Farmer  has 
been  permanent  secretary  of  the  lodge 
since  its  organization,  nine  years  ago, 
but  has  usually  presented  his  balance 
sheet  to  be  audited,  instead  of  bringing 
in  the  books  semi  annually,  as  the  rules 
of  the  order  require.  The  books  show 
that  they  have  been  tampered  with,  but 
what  has  become  of  the  money  is  a  mys- 
tery. 

Lieutenant  Governor  John  C.  Smith, 
who  hoped  to  succeed  to  the  higher  of- 
fice, is  not  only  Grand  Master  of  Masons, 
Past  Grand  Secretary  of  Odd-fellows  and 
Past  Grand  Commander  of  Knight  Tem- 
plars, but  Major  General  of  the  Patri- 
archs Militant  of  the  Odd-fellows,  and 
wa3  lately  the  chief  oflJcer  of  this  order 
in  what  is  now  termed  the  Division  of 
the  Lakes,  which  comprises  Michigan, 
Wisconsin,  Minnesota,  Illinois,  Dakota 
Territory,  Iowa,  Missouri,  and  further 
territory  as  far  west  as  the  Rocky  Moun- 
tains. He  was  a  few  years  since  giving 
his  time  to  the  establishment  of  lodges. 

Chinatown,  New  York,  celebrated  the 
first  anniversary  of  the  founding  of  New 
York  colony,  July  23.  Tom  Lee  and 
Gon  Hor,  the  grand  master  of  the  Chi- 
nese Freemasons,  had  charge  of  the 
tickets,  and  a  number  of  lawyers.  Sixth 
Ward  politicians  and  their  wives  bought 
them.  The  management  was  entirely 
under  the  anti-Christian  element  of  the 
Chinese,  and  no  converted  Chinamen  was 
allowed  to  attend,  as  there  is  jealousy 
between  the  two  branches.  When  the 
Sunday  school  Chinamen,  who  are  nearly 
all  laundrymen,  have  had  their  excur- 
sions they  have  invariably  excluded  the 
merchants  and  the  Joss  worshipers. 

The  Order  of  Druids  unveiled  a  monu- 
ment at  Waldheim  cemetery  near  Chica- 
go a  few  days  since.  It  is  intended  to 
mark  the  last  resting  place  of  the  mem- 
bers of  the  order  and  their  families.  A 
large  number  of  the  members  of  the  order 
were  present,  escorted  by  the  Apollo 
Arch  Chapter  uniform  rank  of  the  order. 
After  a  song  by  the  Orpheus  Club,  Mr. 
August  Trou  delivered  an  address  giving 
the  origin  of  the  order,  tracing  many  of 
its  symbols  from  the  mystic  rites  of  the 
old  Druids,  and  outlining  its  general  ob- 
jects and  methods.  The  party  held  a 
picnic  on  the  grounds  near  the  "Alten- 
heim,"  where  ex  Grand  Master  John  C. 
Meyer  delivered  an  address. 

The  work  of  the  boycott  and  the  secret 
Irish  societies  is  told  in  this  dispatch, 
July  29,  from  Dublin:  "John  Forhan,  a 
bojcotted  farmer,  while  returning  from 
Tralee  with  three  laborers  in  a  car  to- 
day, was  shot  dead  near  Listowell,  Kerry, 
by  two  disguised  men,  who  jumped  over 
a  fence,  fired,  and  escaped  through  a 
wood.  While  Farmer  McAulifife  was 
working  with  a  laborer  named  Ruare  in 
a  field  at  Gbunamukle,  Cork,  on  Satur- 
day, a  man  disguised  with  a  white  cloth 
entered  and  demanded  their  names. 
Ruare  gave  a  false  name.  He  was  or- 
dered by  the  stranger  to  fall  upon  his 
knees,  and  he  did  so,  whereupon  the 
stranger  shot  him  twice,  and  he  died  an 
hour  afterward.    The  stranger  escaped." 

The  Omaha  Daily  World  of  the  21st  of 
J  illy  says  that  the  instituting  of  a  body 
of  the  Scottish  rite  of  Masons  in  that  city 
by  parties  outside  of  their  jurisdiction, 
threatens  to  make  trouble,  and  the  lodge 
is  holding  excited  meetings.  One  of  the 
prominent  members  of  the  old  consistory 
said,  "By  the  starting  of  a  pretended  new 
body  of  the  ancient  and  accepted  Scot- 
tish rite  a  fire  has  been  kindled,  not  likely 
to  be  burned  out.  Nebraska  has  for 
thirty  years  belonged  to  the  southern  ju- 
risdiction and  working  under  General 
Albert  Pike,  as  grand  commander;  and 
what  is  termed  as  the  Corneau  rite,  was 
established  as  a  new  organization.  This 
is  claimed  by  all  bodies  of  Scottish  rite 
Masons  as  clandestine,  and  is  not  recog- 
nized by  the  body  at  large  in  this  coun- 
try or  in  Europe.  The  Masonic  diction- 
ary says  in  1813,  in  New  York  city,  he 
(Cerneau)  established  a  spurious  body. 
'This  Masonic  charlatan,  who  claimed  the 
right  to  organize  bodies  of  the  ancient 
and  accepted  Scottish  rite,  was  expelled 
and  bis  pretentions  denounced  by  Ihe 
legal  supreme  council,  and  he  and  his 
followers  have  for  years  given  much 
trouble  to  the  Scottish  rite  bodien.  The 
head  of  this  new  organization  belonged 
at  one  time  to  the  rite  of  Memphis,  which 
was  declared  by  the  graad  lodges  here 
and  elsewhere  as  a  spurious  and  clandes- 
tine organization.  If  this  new  body  is 
right,  why  did  they  not  ask  for  recogni- 


tion in  the  proper  way  ?  If  all  over  the 
country  the  costs  of  these  degrees  are 
$280  how  can  they  be  obtained  properly, 
as  they  were  here,  for  from  $5  to  $25? 
These  degrees  generally  require  up  to  the 
thirty- second  degree  over  two  yeara,  and 
the  thirty-third  degree  is  seldom  con- 
ferred except  aa  a  great  honor:  and  yet 
all  these  degrees  were  obtained  in  two 
days.  It  looks  certain  that  'there  is 
something  wrong  in  Denmark.'  In  ad- 
dition to  the  foregoing  facts,  the  Masonic 
grand  lodge  of  Ohio,  at  its  December  ses- 
sion, 1887,  declared  the  Cerneau  bodies 
to  be  spurious  and  clandestine;  and  fur- 
ther declared  the  northern  and  southern 
jurisdictions  of  the  A.  and  A.  Scottish 
rite,  as  represented  by  <3eneral  Albert 
Pike,  to  be  the  only  legally  organized 
body  of  the  kind  in  the  United  States." 


STYLE. 

The  most  fashionable  color,  at  present, 
is  the  hue  of  health,  and  it  will  never  go 
out  of  style.  Its  shades  and  tints  are  va- 
rious, but  all  of  them  are  exceedingly 
becoming.  It  is  perfectly  astonishing 
what  a  change  is  being  daily  wrought  by 
Dr.  Pierce's  Favorite  Prescription  in  the 
looks  of  sickly  women.  Sufferers  from 
any  sort  of  "female  weakness"  or  irregu- 
larity, backache  or  nervous  prostration, 
should  give  it  a  trial.    All  druggists. 


Young,  old,  and  middle  aged,  all  expe- 
rience the  wonderfully  beneficial  effects 
of  Ayer's  Sarsaparilla.  Young  children, 
suffering  from  sore  eyes,  sore  ears,  scald 
head,  or  with  any  scrofulous  taint,  be- 
come healthy  and  strong  by  the  use  of 
this  medicine.    Six  bottles,  $5. 


Clark — "Well,  I  will  declare!  Smithers, 
how  you  have  picked  up  lately."  Smith- 
ers— "Yes,  yes;  things  were  bad  enough 
with  me  a  little  while  back,  but  I  hap- 
pened to  run  across  the  advertisement  of 
B.  F.  Johnson  &  Co.,  of  Richmond,  Va., 
and  they  put  me  in  position  to  make 
money  right  along.  If  you  know  of  any- 
body else  needing  employment,  here  is 
their  name  and  address." 

ANTI-MAaomO  LaOTUBSRa. 
Gbnbbal  AesNT  akd  LscrxmHB,  J.  P. 
Stoddard,  331  W.  Madison  St.,  Chicago. 
H.  H.  Hinman,  Cynosure  office. 
Agent  for  Southern  States. 
Stats  AesNTS. 
Iowa,  C.  F.   Hawley,  Wheaton,    Du- 
Page  Co.,  Illinois. 
Missouri,  Eld.  Rufus  Smith,  Maryvllle. 
New  Hampshire,  Eld.  S.  0.  Kimball, 
New  Market. 
Ohio.  W.  B.  Stoddard,  Columbus. 
Kansas,  Robert  Loggan,  Clifton. 
Alabama,  Rev.  G.  M.  Elliott,  Selma. 

Dbobkb  Wobkbbs. — [Seceders.] 
J.  K.  Glassford,  Carthage,  Mo. 
Othbb  LBcrruBBBs, 

C.  A.  Blanchard,  Wheaton,  111. 
N.  Callender,  Brown  Hollow,  Pa. 
J.  H.  Timmons,  Tarentum,  Pa 

T.  B.  McConnick,  Princeton,  Ind. 

K.  Johnson,  Dayton,  Ind. 

H.  A.  Day,  Wllllamstown,  Mtch. 

J.  M.  Bishop,  Chambersburg,  Pa 

A.  Mayn,  Bloomlngton,  InoT 

J.  B.  Cresslnger,  Sullivan,  O. 

W.  M.  Love,  Osceola,  Mo.     ^ 

J.  L.  Barlow,  Grundy  Center,  Iowa. 

A.  D.Freeman,  Downers  Grove,  111 
Wm.  FentoD,  8t  Paul,  Minn. 
Warren  Taylor,  South  Salem,  O. 

J.  8.  Perry,  Thompson,  Conn. 

J.  T.  Michael, 15:i3  Capouse  Av.8cranton,Pa 

B.  G.  Barton,  Breckinridge,  Mo. 

E.  Barnet^son,  HasklnTllle,  Steul>en  Co,  N.  T 
Wm.  R.  Roach,  Pickering,  Ont. 

D.  A.  Richards,  Brighton,  Mich. 

BY 

Past   IVlaNU^r   of  Krj-stone  I<od|^, 

No.  OSO,  Cblcmco. 

tlln'tratea  »t»Tj  »'.<ca,  trrip  uid  oeramony  of  the 
T.odgp  .Jr'  ■^'m  X>r'»l  wi#l«ii»tiou  of  each.  Thir 
work  Hhoulo  i»o  -— '*  "»•*  "km  la>v«*  aU  over  tl^ 
:oiiutry.  It  ia  bo  chrap  lliKt  it  cjiu  uo  uoed  ib 
;rarlH,  and  mouey  thuii  rxpeuded  wlU  bri»«  %  Ixiuu- 
(Ifu)  harveat.  SI  pnnea.  Price,  poelpaK.  ^  o«Dta. 
rer  1(X<.  |3.a).    Addreaa, 

National  Christian   Atsoc<atiw4 

I  tMX  W«««  ill»<UMa  81..  C3UMS**  lU^ 


N.  C.  A.  BUILDIMG  AND  OmCX  Of 
THI  CHRISTIAN   CYNOSURE, 
Ul  WXST  MADISON  STRUT,  CmCAOC 


MAl'IONAL  OHRia  TlAJH  A880CIA  TIOM 

Pbbsidbkt.— H.  H.  George,  D.  D.,  Gen- 
eva College ,  Pa. 

VicB-PBBsiDBinf— ReT.  M.  A.  G«alt, 
Blanchard,  Iowa. 

CoB.  Sbo't  and  Gbnbbal  AesHT. — J 
P.  Stoddard,  381 W.  Madisonst.,  Chicago. 

Rbc.  Sbc'y.  akd  Tbbasubbb. — W.  I 
Phillips,  381  W.  Madison  St.,  Chicago 

Directors.— J.  L.  Barlow,  C.  A. 
Blanchard,  A.  J.  Chittenden,  H.  A.  Fisch- 
er, John  Gardner,  G. R.  Milton,  Wm.  Mor- 
row, L.  N.Stratton,  John  Sutcliffe,  Alex- 
ander Thomson,  E.  R.  Worrell. 

The  object  of  this  Association  Is: 
"To  expose,  withstand  and  remove  eeci^ 
aocleties,  Freemasonry  in  particular,  and  othai 
anti-Christian  movements,  in  order  to  save  ttM 
churches  of  Christ  from  being  uepraved,  to  !♦ 
deem  the  admlnistrttion  of  justice  from  pe^ 
version,  and  our  nep  ibllcan  govenmient  from 
corruption." 

To  carry  on  this  work  contributions  ar« 
solicited  from  every  friend  of  the  reform. 

Form  of  Bequest.— J  give  and  bequeath  to 
the  National  Christian  Association,  Incorpo- 
rated and  existing  under  the  laws  of  the  StAte 

of    lUinois,  the  sum  of dollar  s  for  the 

purposes  of  said  Association,  and  for  whtrh 
the  receipt  of  its  Treasurer  for  the  time  belnf 
Vtall  be  sufficient  discharse. 

THB  NATIONAL  COM  VBMTION. 

Fbbsidbnt.— Bey.  J.  8.  T.  Milligan, 
Denison,  Kans. 

Sbcbbtabt.— Rev.  R.N.Cou&tee,Mem- 
phis,  Tenn. 

BTATB  AXmLIABT  AflSOOIATIONB. 

Alabama.— Pros.,  Prof.  Pickens;  Sec.  6. 
M.  Elliott;  Treas.,  Rev.  C.  B.  Curtis,  all  of 
Selma. 

Cautobnia.— Prea^  L.  B.  Lathrop,  Hollli 
ter ;  Cor.  Sec.,  Mre.  U.  P.  Merrill,  Wbodland : 
Treaa.,  C.  Ruddock,  Woodland. 

CoNiracTicuT.— Pres.,  J.  A.  Conant,  Willi 
mantle;  Sec,  Geo.  Smith,  Wllllmantlc ;  Treaa. 
C.  T.  Colllna,  Wlndaor. 

iLLiHOis.— Pre*.,  J.  P.  Stoddard:  Sec,  M. 
N.  Butler;  Treaa.,  W.  I.  Phllllpi  all  at  Cy- 
nosure  office. 

Indiana.— Pree.,  William  H.  Flgg,  Reno 
Sec,  8.  L.  Cook,  Albion;  Treaa.,  BSij.  Ulah 
Silver  Lake. 

Iowa.— PreB.,Wm.  Johnston, College  Springs ', 
Cor  Sec.,  C.  D.  Trumbull,  Morning  gun. 
Treaa.,  James  Harvey,  Pleasant  Plain,  Jeffer. 
Bon  Co. ;  Lecturer,  C.  F.  Hawley,  Wheaton,  HI. 

Kansas.— Prea..  J.  8.  T.  Mllilgan,  Denison; 
Sec,  8.  Hart,  Lecompton;  Treaa.,  J.  A.  Tor 
rence,  Denison. 

MA8SA0HU8BTT8.— Prea.,  8.  A.  Pratt;  Sec. 
Mre.  K.  D.  Bailey ;  Treaa.,  David  Mannlng,Sr. 
Worcester. 

Michigan.— Prea..  D.  A.  Rlcharda,  Brighton 
Soc'y,  H.  A.  Day,  WlUlamston;  Treaa.' 
Geo.  Swanson,  Jr.,  Bedfoia. 

MiNNBBOTA.— Prea.,  K.  G.  Paine,  Waalo'a 
Cor.  Sec. ,  Wm.  Fenton,  St.  Paul ;  R«c  Soc'y 
Mrs.  M.  F.  Morrill,  St.  Charles;  Treaa.,  Wa 
H.  Morrill,  St.  Charlea. 

Missouri.- Prea.,  B.  F.  Miller,  BaglevWa 
Treaa.,  WlUlam  Beanchamp,  Avalon ;  Cor.  8*r, 
A.  D.  Thomas,  Avalon. 

Nbbraska.— Prea.,  S.  Austin,  Falrmoozt' 
Cor.  Sec,  W.  Spooner,  Kearney;  Treaa.1 
J.  C.  Tye. 

Mains— Prea.,  Isaac  Jackson,  Harrlaon- 
Sec,  I.  D.  Haines,  Dexter;  Treaa.,  H.  W. 
Goddard,  West  Sidney. 

NbwBampshikb.— Prea.,  C.  L.  Baker,  Man 
Chester:  Sec,  8.  C.  Kimball,  New  Market 
Treaa.,  James  •!'.  French,  Canterbury. 

Nbw  York.— Prea.,  F.  W.  Capwell,  Dale; 
Sec'y,  John  Wallace,  Syracuse;  Treaa.,  M. 
Merrick,  Syraeoae. 

Ohio.— rree.,  F.  M.  Spencer,  New  Concord ; 
Rec  Sec,  8.  A.  George,  Mansfield;  Cor.  Sec 
and  Treas.,  C.  W.  Hlatt,  Columbus;  Agent 
W.  B.  Stoddard,  Columbus. 

Phhhbtxvania.— Cor.  Sec,  N.  Callender 
Thonptei ;  Treaa.,  W.  B.Bertela,  Wllkeabarre. 

VaaMOBT.— Prea.,  W.  R.  Laird,  St.  Johns- 
bury;  Sec,  C.  W  Potter. 

WIBOOHWN.— Prea.,  J.  W  Wood,  Baraboo; 
Sec,  W.  W.  Amea,  Menomonie ;  Treaa..  M.  B 
BrmsB,  Yia&Ba. 


8 


IHE  CHRISTIAN  CYKOSURB. 


AuansT  16, 1888 


The  Christian  Cynosure. 

Xbrobs. 
J.  BLANCHARD.  HKNR7  L.  KILLOGQ. 


OHIOACK),   THUBBDA'?,   AUGUST  16,   1888. 


EDITORIAL  CORRBBPONDBNGB. 


Saxton's  Riveb,  Vt,  August  6,  1888. 

To  THE  Readbes  of  THE  CiNOSURE: — The  clear, 
bracing  air  of  my  native  hills,  their  sweet,  soft,  cold 
spring  water  gushing  from  the  summits,  and  run- 
ning down  in  brooks,  have,  with  God's  blessing,  re- 
stored me  to  health  and  action.  So  now  you  will 
hear  of  our  cause.  The  people  of  Vermont  are 
among  the  freest-minded  on  earth;  and  the  lodge 
system  has  most  to  fear  from  them. 

When  I  left  Vermont  in  1832  a  Freemason  could 
not  be  elected  "hog-reeve."  Rhode  Island,  Vermont 
and  Massachusetts  had  laws  prohibiting  and  pun- 
ishing the  imposition  of  Masonic  oaths.  That  year, 
1832,  Garrison  formed  "The  New  England  Anti- 
slavery  Society."  The  lodges  fell  in  the  North, 
even  to  the  extreme  West.  The  Grand  Lodge  of 
Michigan  went  down,  and  stayed  down  thirteen 
years.  The  lodge  went  South  and  became  a  South- 
ern institution.  All  the  Northern  statesmen,  Web- 
ster, J.  Q.  Adams,  etc.,  were  Anti  masons.  But  the 
solid,  slave-holding  South,  with  the  secret  Masons 
and  money  of  the  North,  defeated  Adams  and 
elected  Jackson,  who  with  his  Cabinet,  Livingston, 
Eaton,  Poinsett  and  Barry,  were  all  elected  honorary 
members  of  Federal  Lodge,  No.  1,  District  of  Co- 
lumbia. Every  lodge-room  of  the  South  then  be- 
came a  council-chamber  of  treason.  But  Jackson's 
patriotism  was  stronger  than  his  Masonry;  and  he 
swore  that  he  would  hang  the  nuUifiers  "higher  than 
Haman"  if  they  attempted  to  dissolve  the  Union  by 
secession.  That  postponed  it  until  1860,  when 
eleven  States  seceded.  While  our  "boys"  were 
fighting,  the  lodge-leaders,  who  hate  all  government 
but  their  own  (see  Seward's  address  to  the  people  of 
New  York),  lay  low  and  kept  on  initiating.  And  by 
promising  our  Union  soldiers  favors  from  rebel  Ma- 
sons if  they  would  join  their  lodges,  they  have 
brought  back  Masonry  and  her  whole  dark  brood 
into  power  without  answering  one  argument  or  dis- 
proving a  fact  of  Morgan  Anti-masonry.   • 

In  ignorance  and  in  an  evil  hour  the  Vermont 
churches,  except  the  Baptists,  took  no  organized 
action  against  Masonry.  They  relied  on  the  testi- 
mony of  the  old  Andover  Faculty,  etc.,  and  the 
Anti-masonic  party.  But  lodgery  is  a  plain  substi- 
tute for  Christianity,  and  political  action  cannot 
cure  a  religious  evil,  and  the  Vermont  churches  are 
now  undergoing  disintegration  by  the  secret  lodges, 
which  now  here  boldly  assure  their  dupes  that  they 
can  fit  for  and  send  men  to  heaven  without  Christ  I 
It  is  to  meet  and  change  this  state  of  things  that  we 
are  in  Vermont,  and  hundreds  of  God's  children  are 
praying  for  our  success. 

Rev.  Joseph  A.  Leach,  who  has  embarked  in  this 
cause,  is  of  an  excellent  parentage;  pastor  of  a  large 
Congregational  church  in  Keene  for  years;  chaplain 
in  the  Union  service  on  the  staff  of  Gen.  Thomas; 
fearless  and  popular  with  his  commander  and  the 
troops;  liberally  educated,  owning  a  splendid  li- 
brary; respected  and  strong  at  home,  Mr.  Leach 
seems  chosen  of  God  to  aid  in  bringing  the  churches 
of  Vermont  back  to  the  clear,  Scriptural,  sound 
state  they  were  in  in  1832,  when  the  State  set  her 
foot  on  and  crushed  the  serpent  of  the  lodge.  By 
his  procuring,  four  churches  have  already  been 
opened  to  the  anti-secret  discussion,  viz.,  two  at 
Saxton's  River,  in  Grafton  and  Cambridgeport. 

Yesterday  Mr.  Leach  preached  against  the  lodge 
in  the  Congregational  church  at  the  village  of  Cam- 
bridgeport. He  took  "Freemasonry  Illustrated" 
into  the  pulpit;  and  when  he  had  preached  to  the 
people  "Ye  must  be  born  again,"  he  read  the  Royal 
Arch  oath  in  which  Masons  swear  to  stand  by  each 
other,  be  they  "right  or  wrong;"  and  then  asked  the 
congregation  what  hope  there  was  of  their  being 
"born  again"  in  such  lodges  I  The  audience  had 
Masons  and  other  secretists  in  it^  but  the  power  of 
God  melted  men  to  tears,  and,  as  the  people  did 
with  Paul,  they  asked  "that  these  words  might  be 
preached  to  them  next  Sabbath  day."  (Acts  13:  42.) 

All  the  pastors,  thus  far,  have  been  with  us  in 
their  pulpits  and  assisted  uq.  In  short,  we  have 
every  encouragement  to  pray  and  look  to  God  for 
success  in  this  work;  and  we  specially  and  earnestly 
request  the  Cynosure  readers  to  "pray  without 
ceasing"  for  the  work  in  Vermont  I  am  hoping  to 
meet  the  ministers  of  Addison  County  Association 
in  Middlebury  Aug.  28. 

We  are  here  among  the  children  and  grand-chil- 
dren of  my  father's  friends  and  neighbors.    The 


hills  and  valleys,  all  green  and  beautiful  as  the 
dreams  of  my  childhood,  with  air  pure  as  Paradise, 
and  springs  like  those  which  murmur  in  Milton's 
picture  of  Paradise,  fill  us  with  joy  in  God;  and  if 
prayer  ascends  continually  for  us  we  hope  soon  to 
report  that  God  is  moving  mightily  on  this  interest- 
ing people.  J.  B. 


HOW  STAND  TOUR  OANDIDATBSf 


NOTES  OF  THE  ANTI-SEOREOT  LIAOUI  FOR  MIOHIGAN, 


The  Prohibitionists  of  Michigan  have  been,  on  the 
whole,  fortunate  in  selecting  excellent  men  for 
their  candidates,  so  far  as  these  have  been 
given  to  the  committee  of  the  League.  Three 
candidates  have  not  been  heard  from.  They  are  the 
candidate  for  governor,  A.  B.  Cheney,  of  Sparta;  for 
lieutenant  governor,  Stewart  B,  Williams,  of  Saga- 
naw;  for  auditor,  D.  A.  Waterman,  of  Detroit.  Will 
not  the  readers  of  the  Cynosure  in  Michigan  make 
personal  efforts  to  question  these  candidates  and  se 
cure  from  them  as  uniform  a  denial  of  the  claims  of 
secretism  as  the  letters  below: 

I  am  not  a  member  of  any  secret  society,  and  believe 
the  tendency  of  all  such  organizations  is  bad,  Respect 
fully  yours,  Samuel  Clutb. 

Mr.  Clute  is  candidate  for  Attorney  General.  He 
resides  in  Ionia.  Anti-masonic  voters  may  safely 
rely  on  a  man  of  such  convictions,  that  no  lodge 
grip  will  swerve  him  from  his  duty  to  the  people. 

Mr.  Wise  of  Lansing  is  candidate  for  Treasurer. 
He  is  now  treasurer  of  the  Prohibition  State  com- 
mittee. With  his  views  of  the  lodge  we  take  direct 
issue,  but  give  them  at  some  length,  since  they  re- 
veal to  us  a  Mason  who  is  infinitely  better  than  the 
system  to  which  he  is  obligated,  and  who  only  needs 
the  light  from  the  Word  of  God  upon  this  subject  to 
make  him  abhor  the  lodge.  Mr.  Wise  has  evidently 
made  no  critical  examination  of  the  Masonic  oaths 
and  ceremonies,  but  accepts  the  statements  of  Ma- 
sonic text-books  and  orators,  without  ascertaining 
that  they  are  a  stupendous  deception.  We  beg  of 
him  to  carefully  consider  this  matter  immediately, 
and  so  change  his  views  that  the  best  men  in  all 
parties  may  be  able  to  vote  for  him  in  November; 
as  they  surely  cannot  now. 

Replying  to  yours  of  the  19  th,  would  say,  I  have  taken 
the  three  degrees  of  Masonry  which  make  me  a  Master 
Mason.  I  have  obligated  myself  to  perform  certain  du- 
ties toward  a  worthy  brother  Mason  and  his  family,  but 
they  are  no  greater  or  more  binding  on  me  than  those 
which  civilization  demands  towards  every  worthy  human 
being  in  the  world.  The  only  fault  which  I  can  find 
with  them  is,  that  they  are  too  narrow  and  limited  in  their 
scope  and  application.  They  ougly;  in  fact  to  include 
the  whole  human  race,  or  in  other  words,  every  man  should 
be  a  Mason.  If  this  were  the  case  and  the  precepts  of 
Masonry  exemplified  in  the  daily  conduct  of  all  men,  this 
world  would  indeed  become  a  paradise.  As  it  is,  I  have 
known  of  no  evil  that  has  resulted  from  Masonry,  but 
believe  it  has  exerted  a  beneficent  influence  upon  society 
in  general,  although  I  can  readily  believe  that  it  may 
have  been  prostituted  to  base,  dishonorable  purposes. 
When  the  church  and  Christianity  itself  have  been  used 
to  cloak  the  vilest  crimes,  it  is  no  wonder  that  other  and 
inferior  institutions  have  afforded  the  means  for  the  ac- 
complishment of  evil  deeds.  I  was  informed  upon  en- 
tering the  order  that  I  should  find  nothing  in  the  obliga- 
tion that  would  interfere  with  the  duties  which  I  owed 
to  my  family,  my  neighbor,  my  country,  or  my  God,  and 
I  found  that  information  correct.  You  may  probably 
ask,  would  I,  knowing  what  I  do,  join  the  order,  if  not  a 
member  at  present.  My  answer  would  be,  I  would  not, 
for  the  reason  that  my  relations  to  humanity,  either  in- 
dividually or  collectively,  would  not  be  affected  thereby, 
and  as  far  as  social  advantages  go,  I  prefer  to  seek  them 
elsewhere.    Very  respectfully,  Alfred  Wise. 

Mr.  Hagle,  named  for  Secretary  of  State,  also 
writes  a  very  candid  letter  from  Columbiaville.  On 
his  position  the  same  criticism  can  be  made  as  above. 
His  principles  are  not  those  of  the  lodge,  but  of  the 
Cynosure,  of  the  testifying  churches,  and  of  the 
whole  Christian,  American  opposition  to  the  secret 
societies.  What  can  such  a  man  have  to  do  with 
grips,  winks,  secret  obligations,  religious  rites  per- 
formed by  unregenerate  men,  guarded  doors,  para- 
phernalia, etc.,  etc.,  that  characterize  the  secret 
lodge  system.  Good  Templars  and  Knights  of  Labor 
included?  We  believe  Mr.  Hagle  will  be  true  to  his 
convictions,  and  hope  to  hear  soon  that  he  renounces 
his  connection  with  these  orders.  His  letter  we 
quote  fully  below: 

I  am  free  to  say  that  I  am  not  atnombcr  of  any  secret 
society,  unless  the  I.  0.  G.  T.  or  the  K.  of  L.  may  be  so 
considered.  I  have  never  been  radically  anti  in  any- 
thing, perhaps,  unless  it  is  anti  saloon.  I  may  be  con- 
sidered anti-saloon  with  "a  vengeance."  I  have  never 
studied  to  know  anything  higher  or  better  (beyond  my 
own  home)  than  to  be  a  real  Christian  and  a  true  citizen. 
These  make  opportunities  for  the  exercise  of  the  highest 
and  freest  manhood.  No  secret  vows  can  add  to  these 
duties  anything  more  noble  or  unselflBh.    These  duties 


come  within  the  scope  of  the  text,  "Render  to  Csesar  the 
things  that  are  Csesar's  and  to  God  the  things  are  God's." 
"Collective  imbecility"  is  a  thing  which  I  have  not  yet 
learned  socially  or  politically,  or  as  a  society  man.  Indi  ■ 
vidimlism  is  the  need  of  the  times.  To  serve  God  and 
my  country  well,  to  discuss  religion  and  politics  openly, 
expresses  my  views.  No  cliques,  or  rings,  social  or  pub  - 
lie,  and  no  private  axe  to  grind,  are  my  sentiments. 
When  I  cannot  succeed  in  these,  I  am  willing  to  go 
down.    Yours  in  candor,  Peter  N.  Hagle. 

Professor  Montgomery,  nominated  for  Superin- 
tendent of  Public  Instruction,  may  be  safely  intrust- 
ed with  the  vastly  important  interests  of  that  office, 
if  his  intelligent  and  manly  letter  is  any  indication 
of  his  qualifications  for  it.  His  views  are  consist- 
ent with  those  of  the  ablest  and  best  of  the  Chris- 
tian patriots  of  our  nation: 

I  have  never  belonged  to  any  secret  society  or  other 
fraternity,  except  that  during  the  late  war  I  was  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Union  League  for  a  short  time.  I  question  the 
real  utility  of  any  and  all  of  them.  They  compromise  a 
man's  personal  liberty,  and  generally  place  him  under 
obligations  of  such  nature  that  circumstances  are  likely 
to  arise  which  compel  him  to  violate  the  obligations  or 
disregard  the  dictates  of  his  conscience.  Christianity 
recognizes  the  brotherhood  of  humanity.  No  society 
should  make  the  limits  narrower.  True  manhood  and 
dignified  Eclf-hood  cannot  be  fettered  by  lines  marked 
by  signs  and  passwords  and  pins.  Hoping  that  the  above 
will  sufficiently  answer  your  inquiries,  I  remain  yours 
truly,  J.  Montgomery. 

The  candidate  for  Commissioner  of  the  State  Land 
Office,  Mr.  Warren  of  Ridgeway,  is  also  a  candid 
American,  who  may  be  relied  upon.    He  writes: 

I  never  have  belonged  to  any  secret  society;  never  hav- 
ing a  desire  to.  However,  am  not  known  as  an  oppo- 
nent of  secret  orders,  having  never  been  impressed  of 
their  danger  and  iniquity  as  some  seem  to  be.  I  know 
that  those  who  substitute  Masonry  and  the  like  for  relig- 
ion will  in  the  great  day  of  accounts  find  it  of  no  avail. 
Any  documents  bearing  upon  this  question  I  would 
gladly  read  and  give  the  consideration  desired.  Yours 
in  confidence,  G  P.  Waring. 

It  is  due  to  Michigan  voters  that  the  standing  of 
their  other  candidates  be  understood  as  frankly  as 
those  above. 

We  wish  to  repeat  the  request  made  before  to  all 
our  readers,  that  the  candidates  of  all  parties  be 
questioned.  Write  yourselves.  The  oftener  a  can- 
didate is  called  upon  for  his  position  on  the  lodge 
the  better.  Send  also  the  names  and  addresses  of 
all  candidates  for  national  offices  to  W.  I.  Phillips, 
superintendent  of  the  Anti-Secrecy  League,  at  this 
office.  And  please  attend  to  this  matter  promptly. 
Better  than  all,  use  your  best  efforts  to  secure  the 
nomination  of  men  unsworn  to  the  lodge. 


— Rev.  Joel  Swarlz,  D.  D.,  our  Gettysburg,  Pa., 
contributor,  writes  a  very  entertaining  article  in  the 
Independent,  recalling  his  conversations  with  Gener- 
al Longstreet  of  the  rebel  army,  who  was  his  guest 
during  the  late  reunion  of  both  armies. 

— The  New  York  Independent  of  the  2nd  instant 
has  a  long  and  flattering  obituary  of  Courtlandt 
Palmer,  the  infidel  over  whose  body  the  notorious 
Ingersoll  pronounced  his  last  funeral  oration.  But 
the  Independent  would  be  offended  should  it  be 
charged  with  aiding  to  spread  infidelity. 

— Rev.  M.  A.  Gault,  who  has  given  our  readers 
most  valuable  information  respecting  the  relations 
of  lodgery  to  Prohibition,  is  to  make  Chicago  his 
headquarters  for  a  short  time,  and  will  carry  on 
National  Reform  work  in  the  surrounding  country. 
His  article  in  this  number  should  be  read  by  every 
Prohibitionist. 

— Secretary  Stoddard  reached  Washington  on 
Thursday  to  resume  his  efforts  in  that  city.  His 
letters  this  week  from  various  points  in  New  Eng- 
land prove  that  no  "grass  grew  under  his  feet" 
while  away  from  the  national  capii^al.  Meanwhile 
Mrs.  Stoddard  proved  a  very  efficient  lieutenant,  and 
held  the  fort  in  a  very  spirited  manner. 

— Bro.  Hinman  left  Chicago  for  Ohio  on  the  4th 
inst,  as  we  tried  to  tell  our  readers  last  week,  and 
the  note,  with  several  others,  found  no  room.  He 
went  direct  to  Oberlin  to  visit  his  family,  lately  re- 
moved from  Washington  Four  years  have  passed  since 
all  were  together.  They  are  nowloca'ied  in  a  pleasant 
home.  In  Oberlin  and  vicinity  two  or  throe  broth- 
ers and  sisters  of  Mrs.  Hinman  are  living. 

— Rev.C.  C.  Foote,  of  Detroit,  has  been  for  some  two 
months  with  bis  sick  soldier  son  in  Iowa,  An  army 
wound  is  yet  a  cause  of  great  suffering.  The  arm 
has  been  once  amputated,  and  it  was  expected  the 
painful  and  dangerous  operation  must  be  again  per-  • 
formed.  Father  Foote  returned  last  week  to  his  De- 
troit home  quite  broken  down  in  health  and  unable 
to  endure  any  exhaustive  effort.  May  his  disability 
be  soon  removed. 


August  16, 1888 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


— A  public  conference  on  the  Christian  principles 
of  Civil  Government  was  held  under  the  auspices  of 
the  National  Reform  Association,  at  Ocean  Grove, 
N.  J.,  on  the  11th  inst.  The  Sabbath  ques- 
tion, the  School  question,  and  the  Christian  Refor- 
mation of  our  Marriage  and  Divorce  Laws  were  dis- 
cussed by  the  conference.  Rev.  Herrick  Johnson, 
D.  D.,  of  Chicago,  Rev.  Prof.  A.  Rittenhouse,  of 
Dickinson  College,  and  other  eminent  speakers  de- 
livered addresses.  A  similar  conference  will  be  held 
at  Saratoga  Springs,  N.  Y.,  on  Thursday,  the  16th 
instant. 

—The  tenth  annual  temperance  assembly  at  Silver 
Lake,  Wyoming  county.  New  York,  is  now  in  ses- 
sion, from  the  10th  to  the  20th  of  August.  John  N. 
Stearns,  whom  our  readers  know  as  a  temperance 
man  with  Masonic  principles,  is  one  of  the  man- 
agers. Perhaps  through  his  influence  it  is  arranged 
that  the  14th  shall  be  Good  Templars'  day,  with  a 
principal  address  by  Dr.  Oronhyateka,  the  32-degree 
Indian  Freemason  from  Canada;  and  Friday  is  in- 
scribed to  the  Sons  of  Temperance,  with  Walter  T. 
Mills,  who  now  writes  "Hon."  before  his  name,  in  a 
prominent  plf  ce.  These,  we  hope,  are  but  specks  on 
the  fair  face  of  tlie  assembly,  as  General  Fisk,  Sam. 
Small,  Col.  Bain,  and  a  number  of  other  speakers 
whose  temperance  principles  are  uncontaminated 
with  a  greater  curse  that  the  saloon,  appear  on  other 
days.  


OVR   WASHINQTON  LETTER. 

Washington,  Aug.  10,  1888. 

Interminable  debate  on  dozens  of  subjects  and 
little  or  no  action,  is  the  order  of  each  daily  session 
in  Congress  at  present.  Among  topics  of  recent 
discussion  may  be  mentioned  public  building  bills, 
the  question  of  looking  up  old  property  of  the  late 
Confederate  States,  the  General  Deficiency  Appro- 
priation bill,  which  touches  a  variety  of  subjects; 
the  bill  for  the  relief  of  the  Union  Pacific  railway, 
involving  93,000,000,  more  or  less,  which  the  Govern- 
ment is  trying  to  collect;  the  fortifications  business, 
flags,  pensions,  vetoes,  money  to  enable  the  Geolog- 
ical Survey  to  ascertain  and  report  to  what  extent 
the  arid  regions  of  the  United  States  can  be  re- 
deemed by  irrigation;  the  Fisheries  question,  and 
even  the  threadbare  tariff  comes  up  occasionally  for 
a  share  of  debate. 

The  Senate  has  spent  several  days  this  week  in 
open  executive  sessions  over  the  Fisheries  Treaty, 
and  Senator  Edmunds  renders  himself  conspicuous 
by  absence  whenever  this  damp  subject  is  brought 
forward.  He  was  so  much  opposed  to  discussing 
the  treaty  with  open  doors,  that  he  registered  a  vow 
he  would  not  be  present  during  the  proceedings  he 
so  thoroughly  reprehended.  Up  to  the  present  he 
has  kept  his  vow.  As  soon  as  the  Fisheries  Treaty 
is  laid  aside,  Mr.  Edmunds  walks  into  the  Senate 
Chamber,  and  participates  in  all  the  other  business. 

In  army  circles  the  project  of  making  Arlington's 
1,200  acres  a  grand  national  park  is  being  favorably 
discussed.  It  is  proposed  that  the  Government 
Barracks  be  removed  from  the  low  grounds  of 
Washington  to  this  park.  It  is  further  proposed 
that  residences  be  constructed  by  the  Government 
upon  sightly  places  of  the  park,  for  the  summer 
homes  of  the  President  and  the  members  of  his 
Cabinet,  giving  them  an  opportunity  to  enjoy  the 
pure  air,  pure  water  and  grand  views  of  this  splendid 
suburb  of  the  National  Capitol,  through  which  will 
pass  the  grand  national  highway  to  Mount  Vernon 
and  the  tomb  of  Washington.  The  Government  has 
the  money,  but  Congress  may  be  very  slow  to  see 
fit  to  appropriate  it. 

Every  one  knows  that  at  the  beginning  of  the 
present  term  both  Houses  of  Congress  were  flooded 
with  petitions  and  memorials  from  all  over  the 
country,  praying  for  the  entire  abolition  of  the  liquor 
traffic  in  the  District  of  Columbia,  and  that  these 
were  referred  to  their  appropriate  committees.  It  is 
also  known  that  several  bills  were  introduced  to 
carry  this  request  into  practical  effect. 

Last  May  the  Senate  committee  on  District  affairs 
dt  cided  to  report  favorably  a  high  license  bill  for 
the  District,  and  to  Senator  Spooner  was  entrusted 
the  task  of  presenting  the  report  The  committee 
was  not  unanimous  for  the  bill,  however,  a  minority 
favoring  absolute  prohibition,  and  it  was  expected 
that  when  the  majority  report  was  offered,  the  mi- 
nority would  also  present  their  views,  and  urge  the 
passage  of  a  prohibitory  law. 

Nearly  three  months  have  elapsed  and  nothing  has 
been  heard  from  the  License  bill.  Why  Senator 
Spooner  has  delayed  in  presenting  it  is  unknown. 
It  is  true  he  has  been  away  from  the  Senate  on  busi- 
ness a  good  part  of  the  time  since  the  bill  was  en- 
trusted to  his  charge,  and  he  has  repeatedly  said 
that  be  has  been  prevented  from  so  doing  only  by 


continued  absence  and  a  want  of  time  in  which  to 
complete  the  report.  The  most  probable  reason  for 
delay  is  that  the  committee,  or  rather  the  majority 
of  its  members,  have  decided  to  reconsider  their 
action,  and  allow  the  situation  to  remain  exactly  as 
at  present.  But  even  if  the  bill  should  be  reported 
to  the  Senate,  with  the  tariff  bill  to  be  considered 
now,  there  is  almost  no  chance  of  its  being  acted 
upon  this  session,  and  matters  are  likely  to  remain 
as  they  are.  * 


NEW  ENGLAND  LETTER. 

The  Catholic  Abstinence  Union — A  conundrum — Masonic 
'  poet  laureates— Mrs.  Barnes  and  the  Boston  Board  of 
Police — New  England  N.  O,  A.  matters  —Boston's  im- 
prisoned preacher — Let  the  light  be  turned  on. 

The  Catholic  Total  Abstinence  Union,  now  hold- 
ing its  eighteenth  annual  convention  in  Boston,  is 
taking  up  considerable  space  in  the  newspapers;  I 
will  not  say  more  than  the  actual  good  it  has  done 
warrants,  for  on  this  point  I  have  no  correct  data, 
but  less  by  far  than  the  excitement  over  the  public 
school  question  takes  up  in  these  same  dailies,  though 
it  is  everywhere  being  discussed.  Rev.  J.  W.  Ham- 
ilton, Rev.  Dr.  Dorchester  and  Rev.  Dr.  Moxon  have 
all  given  stirring  sermons  to  large  congregations  on 
the  imminent  danger  that  our  free  schools,  the  most 
important  of  our  American  institutions,  will  pass 
under  sectarian  control.  It  is  quite  possible  that 
the  Jesuit  party  hope  to  made  a  diversion  in  their 
favor  by  this  display  of  temperance  sentiment. 
That  there  are  many  sincere  temperance  men  and 
women  who  are  Romanists  nobody  doubts,  least  of 
all  the  writer;  but  it  is  by  her  record  in  general  and 
not  in  particular  that  the  Catholic  church  must  stand 
or  fall.  A  part  of  Boston's  Irish  Catholic  Council 
were  opposed  to  entertaining  the  Union,  being  seized 
when  the  question  came  up  with  serious  qualms 
about  so  appropriating  the  city's  money!  This  sud- 
den conscientiousness  in  the  men  who  squandered 
$18,000  out  of  the  public  treasury  on  wine,  cigars, 
and  other  "extras,"  at  the  Kapiolani  banquet  last 
summer,  is  truly  edifying;  but  when  we  come  to  con- 
sider the  fact  that  nine-tenths  of  the  saloon-keepers 
in  Boston  belong  to  the  Catholic  communion,  the 
whole  question  takes  on  an  aspect  of  farce.  Why 
does  not  the  church  excommunicate  these  men?  Is 
it  because  their  money  helps  to  build  her  cathedrals, 
keep  up  the  gorgeousness  of  her  ritual,  and  sustain 
her  priesthood?  Is  she  afraid  of  the  rum  power, 
this  haughty  Babylon  the  Great?  or  through  the 
Jesuit  party,  which  uses  the  vices  and  virtues  of 
men  indiscriminately,  really  one  with  it?  Bishop 
Keane,  the  rector  of  the  Catholic  university  at  Wash- 
ington, "exhorted  the  Union  to  seek  temperance  re- 
form through  the  way  of  Catholic  faith.  Catholic 
piety  and  Catholic  organization;  and  if  any  man 
arose  among  them  to  point  out  a  way  other  than  this, 
let  the  brakes  be  put  down  upon  that  man,  and  if 
he  persisted,  let  him  be  cast  out  from  among 
them  as  an  enemy  of  the  truth."  This  sen- 
timent, which  was  applauded,  carries  one  back  to 
the  days  when  Galileo  found  out  the  secret  of  the 
earth's  motion,  and  was  tortured  and  imprisoned  for 
"pointing  out  another  way"  than  that  taught  by  the 
church! 

The  readers  of  the  Cynosure  may  derive  some 
mild  amusement  from  the  following  item  in  the  col- 
umns of  one  of  our  most  literary  Boston  papers: 
"Dr.  Robert  Morris,  who  recently  died  at  LaGrange, 
Ky.,  was  one  of  the  only  two  poet  laureates  the  Free- 
masons ever  had.     Robert  Burns  was  the  first." 

I  happen  to  have  a  complete  copy  of  Burns's  po- 
ems in  my  library,  and  though  some  of  his  baccha- 
nalian songs  may  well  have  been  inspired  by  scenes 
of  lodge  revelry,  I  fail  to  find  one  in  the  whole  pub- 
lished collection  which  glorifies  or  even  mentions 
Freemasonry.  Perhaps  they  showed  too  marked  a 
lowering  of  the  poetic  standard  to  permit  them  to 
be  incorporated  with  his  other  poems;  Tennyson,  we 
all  know,  expunges  his  birth-day  odes  and  rhymes 
to  royalty  in  general  from  the  regular  editions  of 
his  works  for  similar  reason;  but  they  must  be  of 
exceedingly  poor  order,  even  below  the  level  of  Rob- 
ert Morris,  when  the  lodge  takes  so  little  pains  to 
resurrect  them  that  even  those  most  familiar  with 
the  lays  of  the  poet  ploughman  hear  with  amaze- 
ment that  he  was  not  onlj  a  Freemason,  but  its  first 
poet  laureate. 

Mrs.  Barnes,  the  BUt)orinteudent  of  police  and 
prison  work  for  the  World's  National  W.  C.  T.  U., 
is  surprised  that  the  Tombs  should  be  made  the 
house  of  detention  by  the  Boston  Board  of  Police. 
The  api)ointment  of  ix)lice  matrons  to  have  charge 
of  their  own  sex  was  one  step  in  advance,  and  it  is 
a  pity  the  other  should  not  speedily  follow.  Noth- 
ing shows  the  progress  of  Christian  civilization 
more  than  the  way  in  which  the  State  treats  it6  un- 


fortunate and  criooinal  classes,  especially  those 
whose  age  or  sex  render  them  most  helpless  under 
wrong. 

Plans  for  N.  C.  A.  work  must  wait  until  the  fall 
before  they  can  develop  into  practical  action.  Mean- 
while there  is  time  for  council,  and  above  all,  time 
for  prayer.  The  anti  secret  reformer  has  this  ad- 
vantage, that  he  is  one  in  spirit  with  all  other  re- 
forms, and  is  familiar  with  every  part  of  the  battle- 
field. Among  the  W.  C.  T.  U.  I  can  think  of  no 
agency  that  would,  for  the  present,  be  of  more  prac- 
tical value  than  parlor  meetings.  In  this  way  our 
cultured  Christian  women,  whose  intelligent  interest 
in  the  work  it  is  so  important  to  gain,  can  be  more 
easily  reached  than  in  any  other.  As  a  rule,  those 
who  are  most  interested  in  temperance  and  free 
schools,  the  two  subjects  now  occupying  the  public 
mind,  will  be  the  most  ready  to  listen  to  a  candid 
and  fair  presentation  of  any  other  reform  question. 
When  Either  Pugh,  "our  Qaeen  Esther"  of  the  Na- 
tional W.  C.  T.  U.,  can  say  as  reported  in  the  last 
issue  of  Prof.  Kimball's  paper,  the  Christian  Wit- 
ness, "There  can  be  no  genuine  revival  in  a  church 
whose  pastor  or  leading  members  are  Masons,"  there 
is  every  reason  to  believe  a  diligent  canvassing  would 
show  that  some  of  its  brightest  minds  and  most 
zealous  workers  are  of  the  same  opinion. 

In  another  letter  I  hope  to  give  the  readers  of  the 
Cynosure  a  detailed  statement  of  the  facts  regarding 
the  arrest  and  imprisonment  of  Wra.  F.  Davis  for 
preaching  on  Boston  Common.  Liberty  cannot  be 
imperiled  in  Boston  without  imperiling  it  in  San 
Francisco;  nor  in  the  United  States  without  "a  dim- 
ming of  our  shining  star"  for  other  lands. 

"For  mankind  are  one  In  spirit,  and  an  instinct  bears  along 
Round  the  earth's  electric  circle  the  swift  flash  of  right  or 
wrong." 

In  a  letter  now  before  me  Mr.  Davis  writes,  "The 
question  at  issue  in  this  matter  is  as  clearly  a  direct 
issue  between  Jehovah  God  in  promulgating  the 
glad  tidings  concerning  Jesus  Christ,  and  the  city 
of  Boston  in  prohibiting  such  promulgation,  as  it  is 
possible  to  make  or  state  the  issue." 

Let  the  light  be  turned  on.  Let  all  the  facts  re- 
garding the  case  of  this  imprisoned  evangelist,  the 
John  Bunyan  of  our  day,  bo  as  widely  published  as 
possible.  The  priestcraft  of  Rome  is,  after  all,  less 
powerful  than  the  printing  press.      E.  E.  Flago. 


IOWA    EIGHTH 


CONGRESSIONAL 
ATTENTION. 


D18TR10T, 


All  Prohibitionists  in  the  Eighth  District  are  urged  to 
attend  the  Convention  called  to  meet  at  Beaconsfleld, 
Ringgold  county  (on  the  H.  &  8.  R.  R.)  August  29th. 
We  expect  to  put  in  nomination  a  full  District  ticket, 
and  we  want  all  these  who  have  affiliated  with  the 
American  party  to  come  and  help  us  place  on  the  ticket 
men  free  from  the  dictation  of  the  lodge.  Free  enter- 
tainment provided.  If  all  do  their  duty,  we  may  wake 
up  a  surprise  for  the  old  parties  hereabouts. 

For  the  committee.  8.  A.  Qillkt. 


NOMINATIONS  IN  IOWA. 

A  Prohibition  convention  is  to  be  held  at  Bga- 
consfield,  Aug.  29,  to  nominate  a  candidate  for  Con- 
gress from  this  (eighth)  district.  Many  wanted 
Rev.  M.  A.  Gault  to  be  the  candidate,  but  he  de- 
clined in  favor  of  Rev.  Wra.  Johnston,  D.D.,  of  Col- 
lege Springs. 

The  party  is  running  good  men  here  in  Iowa,  and 
it  is  a  loud  call  for  men  who  love  temperance  to  fall 
in  line  with  the  party  that  has  prohibition  for  its 
most  prominent  plank.  It  should  be  the  business 
of  all  honest,  right-minded  men  to  wage  an  unceas- 
ing war  against  "the  enemy  of  God  and  home  and 
native  land." 

We  wish  to  show  that  the  final  victory  cannot  be 
complete  without  opposing  the  lodge.  The  temper- 
ance law  is  violated  most  here  in  Iowa  in  towns 
where  the  lodges  are  most  prominent.  As  a  rule 
lodgemen  use  more  liquor  than  any  other  class  of 
men  of  any  and  all  other  organizations.  In 
towns  where  there  are  churches  and  no  lodges, 
you  will  not  find  an  establishment  that  violates  the 
prohibition  law.  We,  however,  give  no  personal 
tling  at  lodge  men.  Many  of  them  intend  to  be 
goc^  temperance  men  and  Christians,  and  if  they 
are,  they  are  so  in  spite  of  the  lodge. 

If  a  lodgeman  keeps  a  drug  store  it  would  l>e  right 
for  him  to  sell  whisky  for  medicine  in  a  lawful  way, 
but  if  a  brotber  wants  some  to  drink  he  can  procure 
it  in  violation  of  law  by  giving  a  sign,  unless  the 
druggist  is  better  than  his  Masonry.  It  is  purely 
Masonic  to  respect  its  law  above  that  of  the  church 
or  state.  A  Freemason  friend  of  mine,  to  prove  to 
me  that  Masonry  is  a  benefit,  stated  that  he  got 
whisky  for  medicine  in  a  Btrango  place  by  giving  a 
sign.  Ctbus  Smith. 


10 


THE  CHRISTIAN  OYNOSUKEJ. 


AnousT  16, 1888 


Th£  Home. 


MT  WALE    TO  CHURCH. 


Breathing  the  8ummer-s:ented  air 

AloDg  the  bowery  mountain  way, 
Each  Lord'6-day  morning  I  repair 

To  serve  my  church,  a  mile  away. 

Below,  the  glorious  river  lies— 
A  bright,  broad-breasted,  sylvan  sea— 

And  round  the  sumptuous  highlands  rise 
Fair  as  the  hlUs  of  GalUee. 

Young  flowers  are  In  my  path.    I  hear 

Music  of  unrecorded  tone. 
The  heart  cf  beauty  beats  so  near, 

Its  pulses  modulate  my  own. 

The  shadow  on  the  meadow's  breast 

Is  not  more  calm  than  my  repose. 
As,  step  by  step,  I  am  the  guest 

Of  every  living  thing  that  grows. 

Ah,  something  melts  along  the  sky, 
And  something  rises  from  the  ground, 

And  fills  the  inner  ear  and  eye 
Beyond  the  sense  of  sight  and  sound. 

It  Is  not  that  I  strive  to  see 

What  love  In  lovely  shapes  has  wrought— 
Its  gracious  messages  to  me 

Come,  like  the  gentle  dews,  unsought. 

I  merely  walk  with  open  heart 

Which  ftels  the  secret  In  the  sign; 
But,  oh,  how  large  and  rich  my  part 

In  aU  that  makes  the  feast  divine ! 

Sometimes  I  hear  the  happy  birds 

That  sang  to  Christ  beyond  the  sea, 
And  softly  his  consoling  words 

Blend  with  their  joyous  minstrelsy. 

Sometimes  in  royal  vesture  glow 

The  lilies  that  he  called  so  fair,' 
Which  never  toil  nor  spin,  yet  show 

Tiie  loving  Father's  tender  care. 

And  then  along  the  fragrant  hills 

A  radiant  presence  seems  to  move, 
And  earth  grows  fairer  as  It  fills 

The  very  air  I  breathe  with  love. 

And  now  I  see  one  perfect  face. 

And  lastening  to  my  church's  door, 
Find  him  within  the  holy  place 

Who,  all  my  way,  went  on  before. 

— Harper^ s  Magazine  for  August. 


HBATEBN18M  AND  CHILDHOOD. 

In  the  Kome  of  the  splendid  time  of  Augustus 
childhood  had  practically  no  other  rights  than  the 
carelessness  or  the  sentiment  of  the  father  might 
fitfully  concede.  To  the  father,  as  magistrate  of 
the  household,  belonged  an  utter  authority  over 
liberty,  over  personal  security,  and  even  over  life. 
The  law  of  the  Twelve  Tables  had  expressly  au- 
thorized him  to  either  abandon  or  kill  his  children, 
if  ho  preferred  not  to  rear  them;  as  the  Emperor 
Claudius,  suspecting  the  faithfulness  of  his  wife, 
Urgulanilla,  ordered  the  daughter  who  had  been 
born  of  her  to  be  stripped  and  exposed.  It  was  a 
rule,  correlative  to  this,  that  whoever  picked  up  a 
child  thus  deserted,  might  keep  it  for  a  slave. 
When  retained  in  the  house,  children  were  under 
the  tutelage  of  slaves,  with  whom  their  relations 
were  unrestrained;  and  they  learned  vice,  and  exer- 
cised cruelty,  with  a  freedom  sufficient  of  itself  to 
explain  the  decadence  of  that  haughty  state  which 
had  subjected  to  its  will  not  only  barbarous  tribes, 
but  cultivated  nations,  and  had  made  itself  rich 
from  their  resources. 

No  thought  whatever  of  the  sacredness  of  child- 
hood, of  the  debt  which  is  due  to  it  from  the  state, 
appears  in  the  Roman  philosophy  or  law.  In  all 
the  range  of  classical  poetry  there  is  scarcely  a  line 
upon  that  theme,  to  us  so  familiar,  of  the  beauty  of 
life's   morning. 

Cicero  spoke  of  it  as  the  natural  feeling  that  if  a 
child  died  young  it  was  no  cause  for  grief;  if  it 
died  in  the  cradle,  it  was  matter  of  entire  uncon 
cern.  Octavius,  father  of  Augustus,  either  seriously 
thought  of  killiog  in  his  infancy  the  boy  whose 
subsequent  beauty  gives  loveliness  to  the  marble, 
or  he  smartly  threatened  it,  because  the  Senator 
Nigidius  Figulus  had  predicted  for  the  babe  future 
lordship  in  Rome.  The  general  facts  have  nowhere 
been  set  forth  more  lucidly  or  correctly  than  by 
Gibbon,  in  his  forty  fourth  chapter.  "In  the  forum, 
the  Senate,  or  the  camp,"  he  says,  "the  adult  son  of 
a  Roman  citizen  enjoyed  the  public  and  private 
rights  of  a  person;  in  his  father's  house  he  was  a 
mere  thing;  confounded  by  the  laws  with  the  mov- 
ables, the  cattle,  and  the  slaves,  whom  the  capri- 
cious master  might  alienate  or  destroy,  without  be- 


ing responsible  to  any    earthly    tribunal The 

majesty  of  a  parent  was  armed  with  the  power  of 
life  and  death;  and  the  examples  of  such  bloody 
executions,  which  were  sometimes  praised  and 
never  punished,  may  be  traced  in  the  annals  of 
Rome  beyond  the  times  of  Pompey  and  Augustus." 
"The  exposition  of  children,"  he  further  says,  "was 
the  prevailing  and  stubborn  vi(?e  of  antiquity;  it 
was  sometimes  prescribed,  often  omitted,  almost 
always  practiced  with  impunity,  by  the  nations  who 
never  entertained  the  Roman  ideas  of  paternal 
pojyer;  and  the  dramatic  poets,  who  appeal  to  the 
human  heart,  represent  with  indifference  a  popular 
custom  which  was  palliated  by  the  motives  of  econ- 
omy and  compassion." 

Nor  is  it  to  be  imagined  that  this  attitude  toward 
children  was  peculiar  to  the  Roman,  a  fruit  of  that 
fierceness  and  hardness  of  will  which  had  made  him 
the  unchecked  conqueror  of  the  nations;  for  it  is  to 
be  observed  that  it  was  as  common  in  the  Hellenic 
states  as  ever  on  the  Tiber.  It  was  not  iu  Sparta, 
only,  that  children  might  be  whipped  at  the  altar 
of  Diana  till  their  life-blood  ran  on  the  steps  of  the 
altar.  It  was  not  alone  on  the  forest-sides  of  Mt. 
Taygetus,  or  in  the  rocky  caverns  at  its  base,  under 
the  methodical  ferocity  of  ths  Peninsula,  that  weak 
or  sickly  children  were  exposed,  to  be  torn  by  wild 
beasts,  to  die  of  hunger,  or  to  perish  in  the  blast. 
Plato  and  Aristotle,  consummate  masters  of  Attic 
thought,  whose  names  outshine  in  signal  respects 
those  of  all  their  successors,  expressly  approve  of 
such  abandonment  of  children,  in  case  the  parents 
are  unable  to  support  them,  or  if  they  fail  to  give 
physical  promise  of  service  to  the  State.  The  doc- 
trine of  Plato  is,  that  a  child  belongs  less  to  his 
parents  than  to  the  city,  the  latter  having  need  of 
him  for  its  advancement,  for  which  reason  even  his 
infantile  sports  are  proper  subjects  for  public  regu- 
lation; while  Roman  moralists,  on  whom  Greek  in- 
fluences has  descended,  including  even  Seneca  him- 
self, speak  as  of  course,  without  any  denunciation, 
of  the  exposure  of  children  if  sickly  or  deformed. 
It  is  on  such  exposure  of  a  son  on  Mount  Cittseron 
that  the  memorable  CE  lipus  tragedies  are  based. 
The  law  which  permitted  a  father  to  sell  or  expel 
his  son  at  pleasure  was  a  law  in  Greece  as  well  as 
in  Rome.  The  father  had  the  right,  in  the  one  as 
in  the  other,  to  accept  or  reject  the  child  at  its 
birth;  the  right  to  give  son  or  daughter  in  mar- 
riage, without  debate;  the  right  to  exclude  the  son 
from  the  household,  even  at  his  maturity,  and  adopt 
another  in  his  place.  Natural  afl^ection  was  not  the 
organizing  principle  of  the  family,  in  the  contem- 
plation of  ancient  law,  either  in  Europe  or  in  the 
East.  But  the  family  was  based  on  the  domestic 
religion — on  the  worship  that  is  offered  to  ances- 
tors; and  was  maintained  as  subservient  to  the 
State.  So  the  laws  of  Menu  described  the  oldest 
son  as  one  who  is  begotten  for  the  performance  of 
a  duty,  that  the  worship  due  to  the  dead  may  be 
offered,  because  of  which  he  has  the  control  of  the 
patrimony. 

Of  course,  in  societies  so  founded  and  organized, 
and  morally  ruled  by  such  conceptions  of  the  gods 
as  obtained  among  them,  there  could  be  no  effect- 
ive recognition  of  public  duty  toward  the  feebleness 
of  childhood,  or  of  immediate  rights  in  infants  to 
protection,  training,  succor,  and  nurture.  The  hu- 
man heart  was  not  wholly  transformed,  nor  its 
innate  sensibilities  destroyed.  Natural  affection 
was  an  instinct  and  a  power  in  the  most  savage 
tribes.  It  could  not  be  wholly  or  permanently  want- 
ing amid  Attic  culture,  or  at  the  centers  of  Roman 
power.  Many  a  mother,  no  doubt,  held  in  her  heart 
of  hearts  the  son  or  the  daughter,  who  was  only 
the  dearer  by  reason  of  sickness,  or  of  natural  in- 
firmity. Many  a  father,  of  nobler  nature  than  the 
religion  which  he  had  inherited,  must  have  felt  his 
children  as  dear  to  him  as  his  life,  and  have  shrunk, 
as  the  hand  shrinks  from  fire,  from  any  injustice  or 
cruelty  toward  them.  But  the  customs,  legislations 
and  spirit  of  society  were  not  even  a  defence  for 
life  itself  in  its  earlier  years;  and  the  characteristic 
tone  of  literature,  as  it  was  carried  at  that  very 
time  toward  almost  its  highest  historical  develop- 
ment, shows  how  haughtily  careless  society  was,  in 
what  we  call  the  classic  ages,  of  what  to  us  appears 
its  imperative  and  primary  duty.  Care  for  the  child, 
when  required  at  all,  was  so  only  because  of  the 
citizenship  which  was  about  to  be  his.  I  doubt  if 
any  parallel  can  be  found,  in  the  stately  treasure- 
bouses  of  ancient  sculpture,  to  that  carved  cradle  in 
Westminster  Abbey,  in  the  splendid  chapel  of 
Henry  Seventh,  not  far  from  the  famous  monument 
of  Elizabeth,  in  which  lies  sculptured  the  sleeping 
figure  of  the  little  Sophia,  the  baby-daughter  of 
James  First,  whose  life  had  gone  out  almost  at  the 
!  beginning. — R.  IS.  IStorrt, — Divine  Origin  of  Chritti- 
anj}y. 


TEB   HEART'S  GARDEN. 

The  heart  Is  a  garden  where  grow 

Sweet  flowers  and  poisonous  weeds, 
And  each  passing  moment  we  sow 

Of  one  or  the  other  the  seeds. 

If  thoughts  are  unselfish  and  kind. 

Good,  gentle,  and  tender,  and  true, 
We  shall  ne'er  in  our  heart's  garden  find 

The  nightshade  and  hemlock  and  rue. 

But  blossoms  than  Eden's  more  fair, 

Exhaling  a  sweeter  perfume, 
Their  breath  bearing  balm  for  all  care. 

In  richeet  profusion  shall  bloom. 

Since  you,  friend,  and  I,  every  hour 

Are  scattering  broadcast  this  seed. 
Know  from  every  good  thought  blooms  a  flower, 

From  the  bad,  springs  a  poisonous  weed. 

—  Selected. 


8UGH  A  COMFORT/ 


"All  the  Richter  girls  are  clever,  except  Kitty," 
said  Mrs.  Simpson,  as  she  stood  beside  Ella  Rae- 
burn,  pinching  here,  snipping  th^ere,  and,  with  her 
mouth  full  of  pins,  fitting  Ella's  wedding  gown.  It 
was  a  wonder  she  could  talk  under  the  circumstan- 
ces, but,  as  everybody  knew,  nothing  short  of  the 
lock-jaw  could  have  quite  stopped  the  flow  of  Mrs. 
Simpson's  conversation. 

"Yes,  my  dear,"  she  went  on,  "they  are  all  real 
smart,  except  Kitty.  Mame,  she's  a  master-hand  at 
pickles  and  preserves;  Louisy's  Just  splendid  at  the 
piano,  and  Clara  took  every  prize  there  was  when 
she  was  at  school.  But  that  little  brown-eyed  Kitty 
isn't  good  for  a  thing  in  the  world — except  to  help 
other  folks." 

Ella  gave  Mrs.  Simpson's  arm  a  sharp  nudge. 
Her  back  was  to  the  door,  and  she  did  not  see,  as 
startled  Ella  did,  a  little  figure  in  a  blue-checked 
gingham  dress,  with  a  white  apron  and  a  broad- 
brimmed  hat,  standing  on  the  lilac-shaded  porch,  a 
basket  of  roses  in  her  hands. 

Had  Kitty  heard  the  criticism  of  the  free-spoken 
dressmaker?  Perhaps,  and  perhaps  not.  If  her 
rosy  cheeks  were  a  trifle  redder  than  usual,  it  might 
have  been  the  walk  in  the  sun  that  made  them  so. 
If  her  eyes  were  bright  and  wide  open,  that  was 
nothing  new— Kitty  Richter  always  looked  you 
straight  in  the  face,  and  she  had  beautiful  eyes. 

Mrs.  Simpson  wished  she  had  not  spoken  so  loud- 
ly, and  Ella  felt  embarrassed,  but  Kitty  came  in 
with  a  very  cheerful,  "Good  morning." 

"We  have  so  many  roses  that  I  felt  as  if  we  ought 
to  share  them  with  our  friends,"  she  said  simply. 
"So  I  brought  some  over  for  grandma.  May  I  go 
up  to  her  room?" 

"Of  course,"  said  Ella.  "Grandma  is  rather  neg- 
lected in  these  days.    She'll  be  glad  of  a  visitor." 

In  the  stir  of  preparation  for  the  first  wedding  in 
the  family,  grandma  was  indeed  a  little  neglected. 
She  was  feeling  very  lonely  as  she  sat  by  herself  in 
her  chair  by  the  window,  her  knitting  on  a  stand, 
her  old,  worn  hands  folded  on  her  lap.  Nobody  had 
come  near  her  since  morning,  and  she  was  too  fee- 
ble to  go  about  the  house,  as  she  had  been  used  to 
doing  in  her  active  days.  It  is  very  hard  for  an 
aged  person  to  realize  that  others  can  do  without 
her — that  in  the  world  where  she  was  once  of  im- 
portance she  has  no  longer  any  particular  work 
to  do. 

"I  don't  feel  as  if  I  could  stand  it  much  longer," 
the  poor,  tired  old  lady  was  saying  to  herself,  when, 
after  a  light  little  tap  at  the  door,  Kitty  Richter 
came  in  with  her  roses.  She  brought  a  perfect 
sheaf  of  sunshine.  The  roses  flooded  the  room  with 
fragrance. 

"Let  me  have  them  in  my  hands,  child,"  ex- 
claimed the  flower-loving  woman,  touching  the  beau- 
tiful petals  tenderly. 

"Beck  Lee,  your  grandma,  Kitty,  that's  been  dead 
these  twenty  years,  planted  the  white  rose-bush  by 
your  sitting-room  window,  and  I  was  there  the  day 
she  did  it.  Myl  how  time  flies!  That's  right, 
dearie.  Put  them  in  the  old  china  bowl,  and  I'll 
have  them  where  I  can  see  them  and  smell  them  all 
day.  Roses  are  company  when  they  bring  old  times 
to  mind." 

Kitty  was  stepping  lightly  about,  dusting,  arrang- 
ing, removing  the  disorderly  look  which  had  worried 
grandma's  soul.  She  brought  the  old  lady  a  clean 
cap  and  'kerchief,  brushed  the  thick  gray  hair  and 
fastened  it  in  a  comfortable  knot,  and  finally  said, 
"Good-by,"  with  a  promise  of  looking  in  to-morrow, 
after  having  told  all  the  good  news  of  the  village. 

"That's  a  dear  child,"  said  Grandma  Raeburn,  as 
she  began  to  knit,  quite  cheered  by  this  whiff  from 
the  outside  world.  "May  God  bless  her!  She's  not 
too  busy  to  look  after  an  old  body  like  me." 


August  16, 1888 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSTTKE. 


11 


Kitty  Eichter  went  her  way  homeward  with  a  lit- 
tle ache  in  her  heart.  So  that  was  what  people 
thought  of  her.  She  wasn't  particularly  a  credit  to 
her  family.  Well,  what  of  it?  She  fought  with  the 
discontented,  hurt  feeling,  which  for  the  moment 
she  could  not  help,  and  chided  herself  for  having  it. 
Was  she  sorry  that  the  others  were  more  gifted  than 
herself? 

"Kitty  Richter,  you  ought  to  be  ashamed,"  she 
said.  "Are  you  envying  Clara  and  Lou,  your  own 
sisters?     That  cannot  please  the  Master." 

In  her  energy  she  had  spoken  the  last  words 
aloud,  and  they  were  overheard  by  Rupert  Bacon,  a 
boy  passing  her  on  his  way  to  the  postof&ce.  Some 
friends  of  his  had  been  urging  him  to  join  them  on 
an  excursion  the  next  day,  but  his  father  was  short 
of  hands  in  the  field,  and  needed  him.  Still,  being 
a  very  unselfish  father,  Mr.  Bacon  had  consented 
that  Rupert  should  go.  Rupert's  conscience  was 
not  quite  easy,  however,  and  Kitty's  little  sentence 
was  enough  to  decide  him  to  stay  at  home  and  do 
bis  duty. 

Unconscious  of  the  good  she  had  done,  the  little 
maiden  tripped  along  and  entered  her  own  home  to 
find  the  notably  Mary,  Mame,  as  Mrs.  Simpson 
called  her,  laid  up  with  one  of  her  worst  sick-head- 
aches. 

"Mary  can  never  take  things  moderately,"  com- 
plained Mrs.  Richter.  "She  crowds  two  days'  work 
into  one,  and  then  has  a  spell  of  illness.  Your 
Uncle  Lem's  at  the  barn  with  father,  Kitty,  and  I 
must  see  to  getting  tea.  Louisa  won't  sit  with 
Mary.  She's  provoked  because  she's  got  to  give  up 
practicing  on  account  of  this  headache.  Seems  as 
though  everything  was  contrary  some  days." 

"Never  mind,  mother.  It  will  all  be  right  by  and 
by,"  said  Kitty,  soothingly.  "I'll  take  care  of  Mary, 
and  you  can  have  an  easy  tea.  There's  half  of  that 
jelly  cake  in  the  pantry,  and  Aunt  Susy  sent  over 
fresh  cottage  cheese  this  morning.  I  put  it  in  the 
buttery,  and  never  thought  to  tell  you  until  this 
moment." 

"What  a  comfort  you  are,  my  darling  I"  said  the 
mother,  sitting  down  to  rest  for  a  moment. 

Mrs.  Richter  was  proud  of  her  three  elder  girls, 
proud  of  Mary's  housewifery,  of  Louisa's  music,  of 
Clara's  education,  but  her  little  Kitty  had  never 
aroused  in  her  that  special  feeling.  With  others, 
she  had  taken  Kitty's  quiet  lovingness  for  granted, 
and  been  a  little  sorry  that  she  could  boast  neither 
of  her  bread,  her  music,  nor  her  French.  As  though 
a  talent  for  ministry  were  not  one  of  the  very  best 
talents  after  all  I  Our  little  Kitty,  meanwhile,  fol- 
lowed the  rule  of  doing  what  would  please  the  Mas- 
ter. She  had  a  story-book  in  her  room,  one  of 
Pansy's  latest,  and  she  had  left  off  at  a  very  inter- 
esting place.  But  she  said  nothing  about  it  as  she 
darkened  Mary's  room,  kept  hot-water  bandages  on 
her  aching  head,  and  watched  beside  the  sufferer 
until  she  fell  asleep. 

"Sleep  is  the  best  medicine  for  poor  Mary,"  said 
Kitty,  stealing  quietly  away. 

She  was  on  her  way  to  her  room  when,  "Tea  is 
ready, daughter,"  said  father's  voice;  and  the  brown, 
sun-tanned  man,  with  the  grizzly  hair  and  beard, 
waited  to  pat  her  golden  head. 

"Lem,"  he  said  to  his  brother,  "this  is  our  baby. 
The  rest,  somehow,  have  grown  too  big  for  father's 
petting,  but  Kitty  stays  by  me  still." 

"Her  Aunt  Emily  was  saying  the  other  day  that 
Kitty  Richter  was  such  a  comfort  to  her  mother," 
said  grave  Uncle  Lem,  who  was  a  man  of  few 
words. 

Kitty  sat  in  her  little  room  that  night,  after  read- 
ing her  New  Testament  and  saying  her  prayers,  and 
looked  out  over  the  farmstead.  The  full  moon  sil- 
vered the  brook,  and  made  a  track  of  light  in  the 
lane.  The  lilac  fragrance  drifted  up  from  the  dewy 
plumes  beneath  her  window.  Now  and  then  a  bird, 
dreaming  of  day-dawn,  stirred  in  the  nest  that  was 
hidden  somewhere,  and  uttered  a  sleepy  note.  It 
came  very  sweetly  into  Kitty's  heart  that  God  was 
keeping  his  great  world  in  safety — flowers,  birds, 
people.  Herself,  small  as  she  was,  had  a  share  in 
the  loving  care  of  the  great  God.  There  wasn't  so 
very  much  for  her  to  do  that  she  knew  of;  but  she 
resolved  every  day  to  do  the  little  she  could  with  all 
her  might. 

Ella  Raeburn,  on  the  eve  of  her  marriage,  a  few 
days  after,  was  talking  with  her  old  grandmother. 

"I  tell  vou,  Ella,"  said  the  latter,  "if  it  hadn't  'a' 
been  for  Kitty  Richter,  these  days  latterly,  I  would 
have  felt  like  giving  up.  She's  been  $nch  a  comfort. 
— Mri.  M.  E,  tSangtter,  in  Congregationalitt. 


Temperance. 


THB    THIRD  PARTY'S  CANDIDATE. 


General  Clinton  B.  Fisk,  candidate  of  the  Prohi- 
bition party  for  President,  shows  in  his  letter  of 
acceptance,  which  was  made  public  yesterday,  that 
he  knows  exactly  why  he  has  been  nominated.  Like 
Mr.  Cleveland's  famous  tariff  message  this  letter  of 
Gen.  Fisk  gains  strength  from  concentration.  It  is 
aimed  at  the  life  of  the  liquor  traffic  and  the  aim  is 
true. 

Whisky  cannot  be  civilized.  It  is  a  bad  servant 
and  a  terrible  master.  It  cannot  win  back  the  con- 
fidence and  friendship  of  the  earnest  men  who  have 
made  war  against  it.  Therefore,  the  Prohibition 
party  is  not  ephemeral.  It  has  been  built  solidly  on 
pure  conviction  thus  far.  The  walls  will  stand. 
Only  the  future  can  tell  how  fast  or  how  high  those 
walls  will  yet  be  built. 

Prohibition  is  not  fanaticism,  because  it  is  the 
child  of  education  and  experience.  Fanaticism  is 
born  of  ignorance.  Education,  therefore,  will  not 
efface  prohibition.  Look  at  the  party  from  any 
standpoint  you  will,  it  still  remains  a  fixture  which 
cannot  be  removed.  The  rest  is  a  matter  of  mere 
vote-getting.  Perhaps  the  party  will  never  elect  a 
Congressman,  much  less  a  President.  But  it  is  not 
modest.  It  boldly  declares  that  it  will  be  voted  into 
full  power  before  many  years. 

Gen.  Fisk  is  just  the  best  possible  standard- 
bearer  for  such  a  party.  He  is  without  malice,  and 
is  guided  by  his  convictions.  He  is  satisfied  that 
prohibition  is  a  national  question,  and  that  it  must 
be  treated  as  such.  "No  party,"  he  declares,  "which 
is  made  public  administrator  by  the  enemies  of  tem- 
perance, or  which  owes  the  election  of  its  candi- 
dates to  saloon  influences,  can  ever  establish  pro- 
hibition as  a  binding  fact  in  government  anywhere." 

This  is  the  proposition  on  which  the  Prohibition- 
ists rest  their  faith. —  Chicago  Daily  News. 


BBLQIUM  AND  SB  BR. 


During  the  week  of  the  Republican  convention  in 
Chicago  the  Milwaukee  brewers  shipped  62,500  ex- 
tra barrels  of  beer  to  the  city,  and  pocketed  |500,- 
000  from  its  sale. 


Belgium  appears  to  be  the  head  center  of  drunk- 
enness and  drunken  poverty  and  misery.  All  drinks 
are  free  and  untaxed  there,  and  liquors  of  all  kinds 
and  tobacco  are  very  cheap.  It  is  a  little  country 
about  twice  the  size  of  Los  Angeles  county,  and  has 
5,500,000  people.  The  drink  there  is  beer,  wine 
and  gin.  In  the  year  1850  there  were  53,097  dram 
shops;  in  3870  there  were  100,753;  in  1875  there 
were  125,000,  and  now  there  are  140,000,  more  than 
half  as  many  as  in  the  whole  United  States.  Oae 
dram  shop  for  every  44  of  the  population,  old  and 
young  I  France  has  one  for  every  100;  England, 
one  for  every  145;  the  United  States,  one  for  every 
280;  California,  one  for  every  90,  and  San  Francisco, 
one  for  every  60. 

Dram  shops  increase  under  low  license,  high  li- 
cense, and  free  rum.  It  seems  to  make  little  differ- 
ence. Those  who  drink  this  year  will  drink  more 
next  year,  if  it  is  to  be  had,  and  the  children  of 
drinkers  drink  earlier  and  more  than  their  fathers, 
and  become  drunkards  earlier  if  they  drink  at  all. 
There  is  probably  no  instance  of  dram  shops  de- 
creasing much  in  number,  except  where  they  are 
prohibited,  or  where  they  have  so  thoroughly  ruined 
a  town  or  village  that  the  people  have  all  left  or 
died,  and  then  one  or  two  deadfalls  will  stay  to  rob 
travelers. 

Never  among  the  seaport  people  of  the  world  did 
we  ever  see  so  many  deformed,  crooked,  bloated, 
crippled,  goggle-eyed,  crosseyed,  idiotic-looking 
wrecks  of  men;  never  so  many  who  looked  as  if 
they  had  been  wrecked  in  a  railroad  disaster,  blown 
up '  in  a  mine  or  steam-engine,  or  escaped  from  a 
lunatic  asylum;  never  such  a  large  proportion  of 
drunken  men  among  the  workers.  We  were  kept 
twelve  days  waiting  with  a  splendid  fair  wind,  a 
long  March  easterly  gale,  taking  in  some  ballast 
which  in  any  American  seaport  could  have  heen  put 
on  board  in  twenty  four  hours.  And  all  because  when 
forty  or  fifty  tons  came  alongside  the  men  would  go 
ashore  and  spree  from  one  to  two  days  before  they 
would  discharge  it.  And  no  men  could  be  had  to  do 
otherwise. 

That  was  and  is  what  a  people,  once  among  the 
most  industrious,  thrifty,  honest,  and  capable  in  the 
world,  have  come  to.  And  we  have  already  a  large 
class  of  people  who  are  no  better  here.  And  unless 
we  have  prohibition  we  shall  get  where  Belgium  is. 
—  Wetkly  Ctnsor. 

The  only  countries  in  the  world  where  there  is  a 
decrease  of  the  drink  habit  are  England,  Sweden 
and  Russia  The  decline  in  England  has  been  one- 
eighth;  in  Sweden,  one-third,  and  in  Russia  one- 
half. 


WHAT  A  WOMAN  CAN  DO. 

Mrs.  Lewis  Maryth,  of  Wichita,  Kas.,  caused  a 
saloon  operated  by  Jake  Clement  to  be  "pulled" 
Friday  night,  claiming  that  her  husband  had  spent 
three  weeks  there,  Rquandering  his  earnings.  She 
was  at  the  saloon  door  by  sunrise  this  morning, 
hatchet  in  hand.  The  door  was  opened,  and  Jake 
was  getting  his  place  ready  for  the  day's  business 
when  the  woman  locked  the  door  and  gave  Jake  or- 
ders to  march  to  a  certain  corner  and  await  further 
orders.  She  is  a  very  large  woman  and  he  a  very 
small  man,  and  he  "marched."  The  woman  then 
began  business  in  earnest  The  first  blow  of  her 
hatchet  broke  in  pieces  a  large  mirror  behind  the 
bar,  and  the  second  demolished  another  fancy  arti- 
cle of  the  same  sort.  The  woman  next  proceeded 
to  the  more  laborious  work  of  breaking  up  every- 
thing breakable.  When  the  task  was  ended  she 
made  Jake  walk  up  the  street  for  a  block  in  front 
of  her.  She  then  gave  him  orders  to  never  sell  any 
more  liquor.  The  damage  done  is  estimated  at 
$1,000.— Pre**  ditpatch. 


The  great  curse  of  Great  Britain  is  the  liquor 
traffic,  and  the  consequent  drinking  habits  of  the 
people.  This  is  the  source  of  great  suffering  and  of 
crime  and  of  domestic  unhappiness.  But  for  this 
its  people  generally  would  be  happy  and  prosperous. 
Drinking  houses  abound  on  the  principal  streets  and 
back  streets  and  alleys  of  the  cities.  They  are  pat- 
ronized by  all  classes.  Many  church  members  drink. 
A  minister  does  not  lose  his  influence  by  moderate 
drinking.  In  Glasgow  we  saw  a  sign  which  reads, 
"A-B-Purveyor  of  whisky  to  H.  R.  H.,  The  Prince 
of  Wales."  "H.  R.  H."  means  "His  Royal  High- 
ness." If  this  was  considered  offensive  it  would  not 
be  allowed — where  the  police  exercise  such  strict 
supervision  as  in  the  cities  of  Great  Britain.  In 
London  women  are  seen  on  the  streets  with  black 
eyes  and  bruised  faces,  having  every  appearance  of 
being  hard  drinkers.  Great  Britain  needs  Prohibi- 
tion of  the  liquor  traffic  quite  as  much  as  does  the 
United  States. — B.  T.  Roberts,  in  Free  Methodist. 

The  Mayor  of  Leeds,  Alderman  Scarr,  says  the 
people  of  England  are  earning  by  their  labor  five 
hundred  million  pounds,  of  which  they  put  one 
hundred  and  fifty  millions  into  the  hands  of  the  pub- 
licans and  brewers,  while  they  waste,  of  their  work- 
ing hours,  through  the  drink,  about  one-fifth,  which 
may  be  valued  at  another  million  pounds.  If  we 
add  other  evils  attendant  upon  our  drinking  cus- 
toms, it  becomes  clear  that  the  drink  "helps  man  to 
work"  indeed — to  the  extent  of  just  about  doubling 
his  hours  (or  years !)  of  labor. 

A  computation  of  the  statistics  of  the  internal 
revenue  department  shows  that  the  people  of  this 
country  spend  annually  more  than  $800,000,000  for 
liquor.  If  Maine  spent  as  much  in  proportion  to 
her  population,  as  the  people  of  other  States,  her 
share  of  this  would  be  $15,000,000;  but  Neal  Dow 
says  that  one  million  more  than  meets  the  cost  of  all 
the  liquor  smuggled  into  the  State  and  sold  in  viola- 
tion of  law. — Selected. 

Topeka,  Kan.,  has  more  churches  than  any  other 
city  of  its  size  in  the  country,  and  has  not  a  single 
saloon  or  drinking  place.  There  were,  four  years 
ago,  144  saloons  in  the  city,  and  before  the  whisky 
element  could  be  convinced  that  "Prohibition  would 
prohibit,"  over  $25,000  in  fines  were  collected  from 
saloon-keepers  for  violations  of  the  law,  and  over 
thirty  of  them  served  terms  in  the  county  jail. 

There  is  a  whole  temperance  sermon  in  the  reply 
of  a  butcher  who  was  asked  for  a  dollar  toward 
paying  a  temperance  lecturer:  "There's  your  dol- 
lar," said  he.  "I've  sold  more  meat  in  one  day 
since  this  town  went  no  license  than  I  used  to  in  a 
week  when  we  had  saloons." 

After  the  most  exciting  local  option  fight  ever 
known  in  Missouri,  the  Prohibitionists  of  Inde- 
pendence, the  oldest  town  in  the  State,  won  a  great 
victory  June  28,  carrying  the  election  by  over  200 
majority, and  ending  the  sale  of  liquor  for  four  years. 
A  temperance  organization  has  been  started  in 
Bombay,  entitled  the  Indian  Temperance  Organiza- 
tion, which  it  is  intehded  to  extend  throughout  India 
by  the  formation  of  tlllliated  societies.  An  encour- 
aging beginning  has  been  made. 

American  statistics  show  a  population  of  800,000 
paupers,  75  per  cent  of  which  grows  out  of  drunk- 
enness. There  are  said  to  be  30,000  idiots  in  the 
country,  three-fourths  of  whom  are  the  children  of 
drunken  parents. 

In  the  ten  States  which  have  voted  on  the  ques- 
tion of  Prohibition  since  1880,  1,211,000  votes  have 
been  cast  for  Prohibition  and  1,160,000  against  it. 
The  contest  has  been  close,  but  we're  ahead  yet 


12 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


August  16, 1888 


BIBLE  LESSON. 


STUDIES  IN  THE  OLD  TESTAMENT. 

LESSON  IX.— Third  Quarter.— Aug.  26. 

SUBJECT.- The  PUlar  of  Cloud  and  Fire.— Num.  9 .  15-23. 

GOLDEN  TEXT.— Oh,  send  out  thy  light  and  thy  truth;  let 
them  lead  me.— Psa.  43:  3. 

\Ovmthe  Bible  and  read  the  les$on.^ 

COMMENTS  ON  THE  LESSON  BY  B.  E.  FLAGS. 

1.  God's  Guiding  Presence  with  His  People.  Vs.  15-17. 
The  most  beautiful  of  Scripture  symbols  is  the  pillar  of 
cloud  and  fire  that  guided  the  Israelites  on  their  journey- 
ings— a  cool,  refreshing  shade  by  day,  a  light  by  night; 
to  the  enemies  of  God  a  terror,  to  his  people  a  refuge. 
It  is  one  of  the  Bible's  most  precious  promises,  "Thou 
Shalt  hear  a  voice  behind  thee,  saying.  This  is  the  way ; 
walk  ye  in  it."  When  a  certain  course  of  conduct  looks 
to  UB  ever  so  little  doubtful,  we  hear  this  unseen  moni  - 
tor,  and  if  we  persist  in  doing  or  saying  or  thinking  that 
of  which  it  questions  the  propriety  or  consistency,  we 
grieve  it  away,  and  are  in  the  situation  of  an  ancient 
Israelite  who  persisted  in  going  another  way  from  what 
the  pillar  of  cloud  and  fire  indicated,  and  will  risk  spir- 
itually a  similar  fate — separation  from  God's  true  people, 
and  exposure  to  a  variety  of  dangers.  It  is  said  of  the 
King's  highway,  "no  lion  shall  be  there,"  but  he  who 
turns  aside  will  surely  meet  the  adversary,  who  like  a 
beast  of  prey  lays  in  wait  for  unguarded  souls.  The 
farther  he  strays  from  the  way  of  life  the  greater  the 
difficulty  of  retracing  his  steps,  of  "stumbling  on  the 
dark  mountains"  never  to  rise  again.  Custom  blinds  the 
eyes  to  God's  guiding  presence.  We  are  to  a  great  ex- 
tent creatures  of  custom,  and  as  everybody  around  us 
does  and  thinks,  we  are  apt  to  do  and  think  ourselves ; 
but  the  law  of  God,  not  custom,  should  be  the  rule  of 
our  conduct,  and  the  spiritual  deadness  which  afflicts  so 
many  churches  is  the  result  of  their  living  on  this  low 
plane  and  persisting  in  living  there.  When  the  church 
presents  one  solid  front  against  any  evil,  no  matter  how 
gigantic  or  popular  that  evil  may  be,  it  must  go  down. 
Slavery  would  not  have  domineered  over  the  nation  more 
than  thirty  years,  if  the  churches  everywhere  had 
frowned  upon  the  institution  instead  of  flattering  and 
truckling  to  it.  Decollette  toilets,  tight  lacing,  all  im- 
modest and  unhealthful  fashions  would  be  banished  to 
the  demi-monde,  the  class  from  which  they  have  gener- 
ally originated.  We  see  what  her  influence  has  been  in 
turning  the  scale  against  social  drinking,  and  what  it 
might  do  if  used  with  equal  force  against  tobacco  and 
the  lodge,  the  latter  being  as  yet  an  evil  to  which  she  has 
hardly  awakened,  though  it  is  weakening  and  debasing 
her  as  much  as  false  worships  did  the  ancient  Jewish 
church.  When  the  pillar  of  cloud  and  fire  ceases  to  go 
before  her  she  is  no  longer  formidable.  The  world  does 
not  hate  nor  fear  her. 

2.  The  Pillar  of  Cloud  and  Fire  often  Leads  us  in 
Ways  quite  Contrary  to  Human  Wisdom.  Vs.  18-23. 
When  the  cloud  was  taken  up  from  the  tabernacle,  the 
children  of  Israel  abode  in  their  tents,  no  matter  how 
long  the  period  might  be,  or  how  important  it  might 
seem  to  mere  human  wisdom  that  they  should  continue 
their  journey.  No  thoughtful  mind  can  fail  to  notice 
how  many  and  various  are  the  interruptions  of  his  use- 
fulness which  almost  every  consecrated  Christian  has  to 
meet.  Some  are  laid  aside  on  beds  of  pain,  disabled  by 
accident  or  disease;  others  have  the  time  and  strength, 
which  they  would  gladly  devote  to  higher  employments, 
frittered  away  in  a  round  of  seemingly  trivial  duties. 
But  disappointment  and  trial  is  the  pillar  of  cloud  and 
fire.  "He  that  believeth  shall  not  make  haste,"  however 
Blow  its  leadings.  It  may  seem  to  lead  away  from  Ca- 
naan, away  from  the  goal  of  his  most  cherished  hopes, 
his  most  earnest  prayers,  but  Providence  will  never  lead 
him  wrong.  To  vote  for  principle  irrespective  of  results 
may  seem  to  involve  a  set  back  to  the  very  principles 
voted  for,  but  the  real  point  at  stake  is,  Are  we  follow- 
ing the  leadings  of  God?  The  history  of  our  globe  is 
full  of  '  'set  backs"  when  it  seemed  as  if  the  forces  of 
death  and  chaos  would  triumph  over  life  and  order;  but 
life  is  always  stronger  than  death,  and  truth  than  a  lie. 
Set  backs  arc  a  necessary  part  of  true  reform,  as  wind 
and  rain  is  a  part  of  Nature's  economy  in  bringing  the 
harvest  to  perfection. 


RELIGIOUS  NEWS. 


HOPS   FOR  AFRICA. 


In  connection  with  the  three  letters  of  great  in- 
terest from  Africa  in  another  part  of  this  number, 
the  following  from  the  New  York  Independent  is 
most  timely.  It  refers  to  a  trip  of  five  months  on 
the  upper  Congo  from  Stanley  Pool,  made  by  the 
missionary  George  Grenfell,  of  the  London  Baptist 
Mission,  and  Dr.  Sims,  of  the  American  Baptist 
Mission,  with  a  small  party  in  a  mission  steamer. 
The  party,  says  the  account,  was  in  peril  many  times 
from  rocks  and  storms,  and  from  the  savages.  They 
were  attacked  a  score  of  times  with  sticks,  stones, 
spears  and  poisoned  arrows;  but  managed  to  escape 
unhurt.  In  the  course  of  the  expedition,  six  hun- 
dred miles  of  water  way,  previously  unvisited  by 
white  men,  was  explored.  The  most  important  dis- 
covery was  that  the  Mobangi  river,  which  entering 
the  Congo  from  the  north,  nearly  opposite  the  equa- 
torial station,  is  the  largest  tributary  of  the  great 
Congo  water-course.  He  spent  five  weeks  on  it,  and 
ascended  it  a  distance  of  four  hundred  to  four  hun- 
dred and  fifty  miles.  It  is  believed  that  the  upper 
part  of  it  is  identical  with  the  Welle  river,  which 
has  been  so  long  an  African  mystery.  The  banks 
of  the  Mobangi  are  very  populous.  He  also  ex- 
plored, for  some  distance,  the  Ikelemba  river,  and 
visited  Danda,  a  curious  town.  At  Bangala,  a  hun- 
dred or  a  hundred  and  fifty  miles  above  the  mouth 
of  the  Mobangi,  Mr.  Grenfell  came  face  to  face  with 
cannibalism.     He  says: 

"At  the  time  I  commenced  this  journey  I  could 
scarcely  bring  myself  to  believe  the  terrible  stories 
which  reached  me  from  time  to  time.  Since  coming 
first  to  the  Congo  the  farther  I  traveled  the  farther 
cannibalism  seemed  to  recede;  everybody  had  it  to 
say  that  their  neighbors  on  beyond  were  bad;  that 
they  'eat  men,'  till  I  began  to  grow  skeptical;  but 
here  at  Bangala  I  absolutely  caught  up  with  it,  and 
was  obliged  to  allow  what  I  had  hoped  to  be  able  to 
maintain  as  'not  proven.'  I  will  not  sicken  you  with 
the  details  of  the  preparation,  as  some  of  our  boys 
gave  them  when  they  came  to  tell  me,  in  the  hope 
that  I  should  be  able  to  interfere;  but,  before  they 
reached  the  steamer,  the  big  drum's  dum-dum  an- 
nounced the  final  act.  Neither  will  I  tell  you  of  the 
horrible  things  they  saw  when  they  afterwards  re- 
turned to  the  scene.  The  natives  could  not,  or  at 
least  appeared  not  to,  understand  why  the  white  man 
and  his  people  should  take  exception  to  their  pro- 
ceedings. 'Why,'  said  they  to  one  of  our  boys,  'do 
you  interfere  with  us?  We  don't  trouble  you  when 
you  kill  your  goats.  We  buy  our  nyama  (meat)  and 
kill  it;  it  is  not  your  affair.'  Lieutenant  Coquilhat 
has  tried  his  utmost,  and  placed  himself  in  no  small 
difficulty  by  his  attempts  to  put  a  stop  to  these  cus- 
toms; but  he  says,  and  I  quite  realize  it,  that  it  can- 
not be  done  without  fighting  for  it,  and  that  to  buy 
the  intended  victim  would  only  be  to  give  them  the 
price  which  would  purchase  three  others.  From 
this  point  on  the  evidence  of  cannibalism  was  con- 
tinually recurring,  though  the  reluctant  manner  in 
which  at  some  places  the  people  acknowledged  be- 
ing 'men  eaters,'  leads  us  to  hope  that  a  sentiment 
against  it  already  exists." 

This  is  the  state  of  things  in  lands  where  Chris- 
tianity and  the  Bible  are  unknown.  Did  infidelity 
or  atheism  ever  explore  such  a  region  or  civilize 
such  a  people?  Christians  have  done  it  again  and 
again,  and  infidels  find  fault  with  their  work.  Now 
let  them  go  to  Africa  and  try  their  hand  on  these 
savages  and  see  what  infidelity  will  do,  and  report 
the  results. 


The  American  party,  which  is  to  hold  a  national 
convention  in  Washington  next  week,  is  looking 
for  a  candidate  for  President.  Abraham  S.  Hewitt 
has  declined  the  position,  and  Frank  M.  Pixley  is  in 
doubt.  By  the  way,  why  not  nominate  that  grand 
■  old  American  and  hater  of  foreigners,  Sitting  Bull? 
—  Chicago  News. 


— Pres.  C.  A.  Blanchard  was  last  week  at  Piano, 
111.,  holding  special  meetings  with  much  encourage- 
ment. Hopeful  results  also  attended  the  meetings 
at  Streator  and  Downer's  Grove  just  before.  The 
reports  in  the  Advance  and  Elgin  Association  paper 
speak  of  more  results  in  the  conversion  of  the  im- 
penitent, than  does  he  himself  in  his  modest  ac- 
count in  our  present  number. 

— Rov.  J.  C.  Elliott,  of  Swanwick,  111,  lectured  on 
Prohibition  at  the  public  hall  in  Coulterville,  111., 
recently.  His  address  is  reported  as  able  and  inter- 
esting. 

—Rev.  J.  T,  McCrory,  of  the  Third  United  Presby- 
terian church,  Pittsburgh,  preached  a  sermon  to  his 
congregation  July  22d  from  the  text:  "Up,  get  you 
out  of  this  place,  for  the  Ijord  will  destroy  this 
city."  He  pictured  the  wickedness  of  the  city,  and 
predicted  dire  consequences  unless  it  rcpent«d  as 
Nineveh  did  in  the  days  of  Jonah. 

— The  present  population  of  the  Empire  of  Japan 
is  .38,000,000;  the  number  of  Japanese  Christians  is 
,  50,000,  which  is  a  number  large  enough,  considering 


the  fact  that  the  Gospel  was  first  preached  in  Japan 
only  thirty  years  ago.  These  50,000  are  a  powerful 
leaven,  and  its  working  is  felt  all  over  the  islands 
and  in  every  part  of  society. 

— At  Lucknow,  India,  where  so  many  were  mur- 
dered during  the  Sepoy  rebellion  thirty  years  ago, 
two  thousand  children,  nearly  all  of  Hindu  or  Mo- 
hammedan parentage,  recently  marched  in  a  Sunday- 
school  procession. 

— Twelve  British,  thirteen  Americans,  and  four 
German  missionary  societies  have,  in  India,  695 
male  missionaries,  491  female,  8,518  native  helpers, 
and  137,731  communicants.  This  is  an  increase  in 
communicants  of  twenty-three  per  cent,  in  four 
years. 

— Rev.  M.  L.  Holt,  by  whose  labors  and  sacrifices 
Gates  College  at  Neligh,  Nebraska,  has  gained  a 
standing  among  Western  institutions,  has,  since  his 
retirement  from  the  presidency  of  the  institution, 
been  preaching  in  Omaha.  He  and  his  family  have 
lately  been  called  to  pass  through  a  deep  affliction 
in  the  death  of  his  oldest  son  William,  a  young  man 
of  much  promise  and  of  devoted  Christian  character. 
He  was  a  student  at  Gates  College,  and  much  be- 
loved by  his  fellows.  » 

— Sad  particulars  of  the  general  religious  perse- 
cution which  is  going  on  in  Russia  are  furnished  by 
the  great  French  religious  paper,  La  Christianisme. 
A  systematized  effort  is  being  made  to  crush  out 
every  kind  of  nonconformity  to  the  established 
Greek  church.  The  brutal  measures  against  the 
Jews  continue,  and  repression  is  now  extended  to 
the  Polish  Catholics  and  to  the  Lutherans  of  the 
Baltic  provinces.  Religious  journals  conducted  in 
any  other  interest  than  that  of  the  established  faith 
are  suppressed,  and  Lutheran  pastors  are  forbidden 
to  allude  in  any  unfavorable  way  to  the  actions  or 
teachings  of  the  Greek  church. 

— A  whaling  vessel,  Queen  of  the  Dart,  has  left 
Dundee,  and  before  leaving  the  Arctic  regions  will 
land  two  of  her  crew  with  the  object  of  starting  a 
Christian  mission  among  the  British  Bsquimiaux  in 
connection  with  the  British  Christian  Polar  Mission. 

— In  thirty  years  the  late  Rev.  R.  G.  Wilder,  of 
the  Presbyterian  Board,  and  founder  of  the  Mis- 
tionary  Review,  preached  in  3,000  cities,  scat- 
tered over  3,000,000  pages  of  tracts,  gathered  into 
his  schools  3,300  pupils,  300  of  whom  were  girls. 
Besides  all  this  he  was  one  of  the  committee  on  the 
translation  of  the  Scriptures.  He  wrote  and  pub- 
lished Commentaries  on  three  Gospels,  and  edited 
and  translated  many  books. 

— Another  sad  story  comes  from  the  missionaries 
of  Lake  Nyassa.  The  Rev.  W.  Pereival  Johnston, 
of  the  Universities'  Mission,  and  Mr.  Buchanan, 
acting  British  Consul,  landed  at  Makanjilas,  a  town 
on  the  southwest  side  of  the  lake,  from  the  Univer- 
sities' steamer,  the  Charles  Janson.  As  soon  as 
they  landed  they  were  seized  and  their  property 
stolen.  The  boat  was  also  taken  possession  of. 
The  mob  stripped  Mr.  Buchanan  and  killed  one  of 
his  men;  Mr.  Johnson  was  also  deprived  of  his 
clothing.  The  Englishmen  finally  got  away  by  pay- 
ing blackmail  and  by  leaving  the  ship's  boat  behind 
them. 

— The  nine  hundredth  anniversary  of  the  intro- 
duction of  Christianity  into  Russia  was  celebrated 
at  Kief  on  July  26  with  great  pomp.  A  number  of 
bishops  and  deputations  from  Asiatic  and  European 
Russia  were  present.  The  leading  ecclesiastics  of 
the  Greek  church  were  also  in  attendance.  General 
Ignatieff,  as  President  of  the  Slav  Society,  took  a 
prominent  part  in  the  proceedings. 

— The  Western  Yearly  Meeting  of  Friends,  held 
at  Plainfield,  Indiana,  last  fall  adopted  the  follow- 
ing in  their  report  on  the  state  of  the  society,  which 
is  read  in  the  quarterly,  monthly  and  weekly  meet- 
ings of  the  Friends  comprising  the  Western  Yearly 
meeting: 

"Friends  are  warned  against  uniting  themselves  with, 
or  giving  countenance  to  secret,  oath  bound  societies,  as 
they  are  evil  and  dangerous  in  their  tendency,  and  are  to 
be  reckoned  as  amongst  the  'unfruitful  works  of  dark- 
ness '  Many,  we  solemnly  believe,  infatuated  by  prom- 
ise of  future  good  from  the  lodge,  go  from  degree  to  de- 
gree, to  find  in  sorrow  at  last  that  the  best  part  of  life, 
which  belonged  to  Christ,  has  been  spent  upon  vain  and 
empty  forms  contrived  in  the  imagination  of  worldly 
men,  and  in  secret  councils  which  are  largely  controlled 
by  corrupt  and  ungodly  persons  in  the  interest  of  evil 
purposes.  The  time  is  at  hand  when,  as  followers  of 
Jesus,  we  should  take  a  more  outspoken  and  aggressive 
stand  against  this  harmful  system." 

— The  first  Malagasy  who  ever  learned  the  alpha- 
bet died  in  January,  1883,  at  the  ago  of  seventy- 
two.  He  had  lived  to  see  50,000  of  his  countrymen 
taught  to  read,  and  over  70,000  profess  their  faith 
in  Christ, 


AvQVB'D  16, 1888 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


13 


In  Brief. 

Dr.  Ernest  Weissenberger,  a  professor 
of  Heidelberg  University,  who  has  been 
observicg  the  gas  wells  at  Findlay,  Ohio, 
says  the  earth's  crust  is  very  thin  there, 
that  a  temperature  of  3, 500  degrees  exists 
8,000  feet  below  the  surface,  and  that  the 
earth  will  ere  long  burst  out  with  vol- 
canic eruptions. 

A  traveling  man  for  a  certain  New 
York  house  was  put  on  the  witness  stand 
in  court,  "Do  you  solemnly  swear,"  said 
the  clerk,  "that  the  evidence  you  shall 
give  in  the  case,  now  on  hearing,  shall  be 
the  truth,  the  whole  truth,  and  nothing 
but  the  truth?"  The  witness  hesitated, 
and  then  said:  "I've  been  selling  goods 
for  Blanks  &  Co.  for  five  years — but  I'll 
do  my  best." — Merchant  Traveler. 

In  M&ssachusetts,  in  the  six  years  from 
1881  to  1886,  according  to  the  labor  re- 
port of  Hon.  Carroll  D.  Wright,  there 
were  995  strikes,  of  which  351  were  suc- 
cessful, 457  partially  so,  and  187  were 
failures.  The  loss  to  the  workmen  is 
estimated  at  $4,200,489,  and  to  the  em- 
ployers, $1,970  881.  The  largest  number 
of  strikes  occurred  in  the  building  trades, 
492;  boots  and  shoes  coming  next  with 
171. 

An  Albany  physician  says  Americans 
suffer  more  generally  from  B right's  dis- 
ease and  nervous  complaints  than  any 
other  people,  because  they  sit  down  so 
persistently  at  their  work.  While  Eng- 
lishmen, Germans  and  Frenchmen  walk 
and  exercise,  an  American  business  man 
will  go  to  his  office,  take  his  seat  in  his 
chair,  and  sit  there  all  day  without  giv 
ing  any  relief  to  the  tension  of  the  mus- 
cles of  the  back.  The  result  is  that  these 
muscles  surrounding  the  kidneys  become 
soft  and  flabby.  They  lose  their  vitality. 
The  kidneys  themselves  become  weak  and 
debilitated.  If  business  men  would  walk 
more  and  stand  instead  of  sitting  at  their 
desks  their  health  would  be  much  im- 
proved. 

J.  D.  Leary's  great  log  ship  is  complet- 
ed at  Finger  Board,  Nova  Scotia.  Leary 
is  certain  that  he  will  get  it  to  market 
without  loss,  as  was  the  case  with  his 
other  great  raft,  in  the  big  blizzard.  The 
log  ship  is  a  monstrous,  unwieldly  fabric, 
but  it  is  claimed  is  nearly  indistructible. 
It  is  constructed  of  30,000  logs,  varying 
in  size  from  a  pine  tree  200  feet  long  to 
a  short  spar  twenty-five  feet  in  length. 
The  logs  are  placed  together  in  the  shape 
of  a  ship's  hull,  and  are  firmly  bolted,  ba- 
sides  being  lashed  inlo  one  compact  mass 
with  thirty-five  tons  of  wire  rope.  The 
ship  is  700  feet  long— 200  feet  longer 
than  the  steamer  City  of  Rome.  She  is 
65  feet  broad,  and  35  feet  deep.  She 
draws  about  22  feet  of  water.  All  the 
inside  logs  are  in  the  rough,  but  built 
about  it  all  is  a  shell  of  thick,  smooth 
planks,  coming  to  a  sharp  point  at  the 
bottom,  with  a  heavy  cut  water.  The 
bows  are  very  full,  running  aft  to  the 
waist  of  the  ship,  where  she  widens  to 
sixty-five  feet.  From  there  aft  the  lines 
follow  those  of  a  clipper  ship.  Six  spars 
about  seventy  feet  high  are  built  into  the 
ship  to  serve  as  masts.  Five  of  these 
masts  will  be  fitted  up  with  heavy  yards, 
which  will  be  rigged  with  a  big  square- 
sail.  The  mizzen-mast  is  to  be  fitted  with 
a  spanker.  The  masts  will  carry  an  im- 
mense spread  of  canvas.  The  logs  are 
laid  in  tiers  lapping  over  one  another, the 
whole  resting  in  an  enormous  cradle  built 
of  spiles.  A  massive  chain  runs  through 
the  center  logs  for  the  entire  length.  It 
is  made  of  welded  iron,  the  links  being 
one  and  three  quarter  inches  thick.  Aft, 
at  a  distance  of  ten  feet,  are  the  cross- 
chains.  It  would  take  fifty  trains  of  fifty 
cars  each  to  transport  the  lumber  con- 
tained in  Leary's  log  ship.  The  ship  will 
•be  launched  during  the  early  part  of  this 
month,  when  the  tide  is  the  highest  in  the 
Bay  of  Fundy.  The  cost  of  the  log  ship, 
if  landed  successfully  in  New  York,  is  as 
follows:  Timber's  cost  in  Nova  Scotia, 
$13,000.  The  towage  will  cost  one  hun- 
dred dollars  per  day,  and  the  logs  will  be 
sold  in  New  York  for  fifty  thousand  dol- 
lars. 

The  i?aiiMoyidflrflreport8,eaj8  the  Voice, 
that  in  the  six  months  ending  June  30 
there  were  built  3  320  miles  of  new  rail- 
roads in  the  United  States  This  comes 
within  434  miles  of  (quailing  the  record 
for  the  same  period  last  year,  when  the 
largest  number  of  miles  (11,000)  on  rec- 
ord were  built,  with  the  single  excep- 
tion of  1882.    The  increase  in  railroads 


since  1880  is  most  amazing.  More  than 
one-half  as  many  miles  as  were  then  op- 
erated have  been  built  since  then,  until 
last  year  there  were  148,987  miles  in  op- 
eration, and  to-day  there  are  over  150,- 
000  miles.  It  becomes  interesting  to  es- 
timate the  number  of  locomotives  and  cars 
in  use  on  these  miles  of  road.  Estimat- 
ing 21  1  locomotives  to  each  100  miles  of 
track,  we  get  81,650  of  the  snorting  iron 
steeds,  enough  to  reach,  if  placed  end  to 
end  with  tenders  attached,  in  the  neigh- 
borhood of  400  miles.  Add  now  the 
1,012,500  freight  cars,  and  the  23,070  pas- 
senger cars,  and  the  7,580  baggage,  mail, 
and  express  cars,  and  we  would  have  a 
line  of  rolling  stock  that  would 
reach  halfway  round  the  world. 
The  State  which  leads  in  its  length 
of  road  is  Illinois,  which  is  far  in  the 
lead  with  over  15,000  miles  operated,  or 
within  4,000  miles  as  many  as  all  of  Great 
Britain  and  Ireland.  Ohio  is  a  bad  sec- 
ond, with  9,154  miles  operated;  Pennsyl 
vania  third.  New  York  fourth,  and  "Lit- 
tle Rhody"  last,  with  140  miles.  Of  the 
increase  during  the  current  year  the  South 
gets  a  large  share,  especially  Alabama, 
Tennessee,  Kentucky,  South  Carolina 
and  Texas.  There  is  no  nation  in  the 
world  that  has  more  than  one-fifth  as 
many  miles  of  railroad  as  the  United 
States,  and  all  the  rest  of  the  world  have 
but  about  one-fifth  more.  These  are  in- 
teresting figures,  and  worth  boasting  on: 
but,  as  well,  they  ought  to  awaken  serious 
thought.  Oar  railroad  power  is  becom- 
ing something  monstrous  One  stands 
almost  aghast  to  think  of  what  it  might 
do  or  undo  if  combined  and  wielded  by 
one  corporation.  If  the  railroad  costs  us 
our  Sabbath  it  is  a  bad  bargain. 


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THE  CHEISnAN  CYNOSUEE. 


AtTGusT  16, 1888 


Fakm  Notes. 


TREATMENT  OF  THE  GRAPE. 

Viticulture  may  be  carried  on  in  differ- 
ent ways.  Grapes  can  be  gathered  in  the 
primitive  forests,  and  thus  you  may  raise 
that  luBciouB  fruit  by  planting  a  vine  near 
to  a  box  elder  or  a  black  haw  tree  and 
letting  nature  have  her  own  way,  while 
you  confine  your  interference  to  the  least 
possible  amount.  O  r  you  have  concluded 
that  some  labor  and  care  ought  to  be  de  - 
voted  to  grape  growing;  you  plant  your 
vines  (probably  Concords)  in  the  ordin- 
ary way,  trim  them  according  to  a  certain 
rule,  perform  also  some  summer  pruning 
by  pinching  off  the  fruit  branch  above 
the  second  or  third  leaf  beyond  the  last 
"form"  (embryo  grape),  and  perhaps  ty 
ing  up  a  down  fallen  cane  occasionally; 
the  ground  you  roughly  plow  once  or 
twice,  not  caring  for  the  tearing  of  the 
roots  and  rootlets:  of  manuring  you  think 
not — may  the  vines  help  themselves  as 
best  they  can.  You  will  make  a  few  tol- 
erable good  crops,  then  your  vines  will 
decline  in  vigor  one  by  another,  and  after 
a  while  your  plantation  will  not  pay  even 
for  the  little  labor  devoted  to  it.  You 
give  up  in  despair.  You  are  an  unbe- 
liever in  "theories,"  but  perhaps  you 
might  be  persuaded  to  make  an  experi- 
ment on  a  small  scale,  in  order  to  be  con- 
vinced by  your  own  experience.  It  is 
this.  Select  one  row  of  your  vines,  or 
even  one  single  vine,  and  try  the  follow- 
ing treatment: 

Keep  the  ground  around  the  stalk  clean 
and  loose  by  several  hoeicgs  during  the 
season.  The  whole  ground  should  be 
thoroughly  worked  to  the  depth  of  5  or  6 
inches  once  in  two  years,  with  a  four- 
pronged  spading  fork,  care  being  taken 
not  to  injure  the  roots,  and  dig  in  as  much 
as  possible  of  decayed  matter,  also  ashes, 
smashed  bones,  and  some  completely  de 
composed  manure,  rotten  sawdust,  etc. 
One  superficial  hoeing  in  July  is  suflJc- 
ient;  the  object  is  the  killing  of  the  weeds 
before  the  maturing  of  the  seeds,  while 
to  the  ground  a  sort  of  mulch  is  given  to 
protect  it  during  the  hottest  part  of  the 
season.  The  trimming  should  be  done 
before  winter.  You  must  not  be  too 
avaricious,  not  demand  of  your  vine 
more  fiuit  bearing  than  is  in  just  propor- 
tion to  its  vigor.  Suppose  it  be  a  Nor- 
ton vine,  select  two  canes  grown  from 
spurs  (or  more  if  the  vine  should  be  very 
vigorous),  as  bearing  canes  for  the  com- 
ing season,  and  the  same  number  of 
canes,  designed  for  spurs,  cut  back  to 
two  or  three  ejes.  All  the  rest  of  last 
year's  growth  to  be  removed.  After  hav- 
ing tied  up  your  canes  in  an  obl'que  di- 
rection, you  wait  for  the  forthcoming  of 
the  new  shoots,  allowing  none  to  grow 
except  from  the  eyes  of  the  bearing  canes 
and  spurs.  Bat  not  all  the  shoots  from 
the  former  ( which  ought  to  have  been 
shortened  to  the  proper  length)  will  be 
fruitful ;  those  that  show  no  forms  must 
be  removed.  And  what  more  must  be 
done? 

My  mexim  is,  that  not  one  single  shoot 
or  even  leaf  should  be  allowed  to  grow 
unless  it  answers  a  certain  purpose. 
Therefore,  as  soon  as  the  forms  are 
clearly  discernible,  you  pinch  off  the 
fruit  branch  right  above  the  last  form  (do 
not  want  to  have  more  than  two  or  three 
forme)  Within  eight  or  ten  days  new 
shoots  (laterals)  from  the  eyes  opposite 
to  the  forms  will  come  forth;  these  also 
must  be  shortened,  but  one  leaf  left.  The 
same  process  must  be  repeated,  then  the 
eye  of  the  lateral  will  produce  a  new 
shoot.  Thus  you  will  have  an  excellent 
protection  for  the  growing  fruit  by  two 
or  three  highly  developed  leaves  near  to 
the  grapes,  and  no  particle  of  the  vine's 
vitality  is  squandered  by  the  growth  of 
leaves  remote  from  the  fruit.  The  idea 
is  not  to  rob  the  vine  of  its  necessary 
foliage,  but  to  have  the  leaves  where 
they  do  most  good.  What  you  save  of 
vitality  will  be  a  benefit  to  the  fruit  and 
the  canes  designed  for  service  in  the  next 
aeaaon. 

The  young  bearing  canes  you  let  grow 
iinchecked  (if  yours  be  JE  tivalis  or  Ri- 
paria  vines,  while  those  of  the  Labrusca 
family — the  Concord,  etc  — may  be  dif- 
ferently treated),  tic  them  up  and  watch 
the  forthcoming  of  the  laterals,  which 
must  be  treated  through  the  whole  sea- 
son exactly  1  ke  those  of  the  fruit 
branches.  This  is  a  matter  of  the  great- 
est importance,  as  the  bearing  canes  are 
considerably  weakened  by  the  laterals; 
strong  bearing  canes  of  the  Concord  you 
maj  sJiorten  and  permit  three  or  four 


laterals  to  grow,  expecting  to  get  from 
them  more  and  better  fruit  than  from  the 
main  vine.  As  a  matter  of  course,  you 
select  the  most  vigorous  shoots  for  bear-' 
ing  canes,  the  others  for  spurs,  and  these 
you  may  shorten  at  pleasure.  All  sprouts 
from  the  old  wood  and  the  roots  must  be 
removed,  unless  unfortunately  you  have 
not  a  sufficient  number  of  shoots  from 
spurs. 

After  having  treated  a  few  vines  in 
this  manner  for  several  years,  compare 
your  results  with  those  achieved  by  the 
common  procedure,  and  you  will  be  as- 
tonished .  It  is  for  you  to  decide  whether 
or  not  this  greater  amount  of  care  and 
labor  will  pay  better  than  the  ordinary 
slovenly  treatment.  A  great  deal  of  the 
pruning,  even  of  the  hoeing,  can  be  done 
by  the  children,  by  your  smart  boys  and 
adroit  girls;  they  will  learn  to  like  this 
interesting  occupation  in  the  fresh  air, 
and  you  will  be  cheered  by  the  aspect  of 
their  rosy  cheeks. 

Make  your  noble  grape  vines  an  object 
of  your  affection  (not  a  mere  money  mat- 
ter), try  and  learn,  never  ceasing  to  do 
so,  and  your  happiest  hours  will  be  those 
spent  in  tending  your  beloved  and  grate- 
ful vines  As  for  myself,  I  could  not 
well  do  without  this  one  indispensable 
relaxation,  enjoying  it  daily  even  in  my 
83d  year. — Fred  Muench,in  Rural  World. 

The  pink  pond  lily  has  been  claimed 
as  a  native  of  Cape  Cod  only,  but  the 
American  Garden  tells  us  that  Sweden  is 
a  claimant  for  the  honor  of  having  an 
original  one,  and  likewise  that  it  is  found 
growing  wild  in  various  parts  of  this 
country  and  Canada.  There  are  other 
native  water  lilies,  such  as  the  NymphcRa 
odorata  and  the  so-called  Lotus,  Jfielum 
Mum  speciosum,  which  grows  naturaliy 
in  stveral  places  as  far  north  as  central 
Michigan,  that  may  be  cultivated  in  many 
of  our  ponds,  lakes  and  streams. 


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rivaled in  all  derangements  of  the  liver, 
stomach  and  bowels. 


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15 


Home  Ain)  Health. 


TAKE  CARB  OF  TOUR  HEALTH. 

People  have  no  right  to  be  careleeii 
concerning  iheir  health.  FirBt,  they  have 
their  own  duties  to  do  and  they  cannot 
do  them  properly  without  health;  second, 
no  person  can  be  sick  without  interfering 
with  the  rights  and  privileges  and  com- 
forts of  others.  Probably  three -fourths 
of  the  sickness  and  disease  in  the  world 
could  be  prevented  by  a  little  care,  and 
what  a  shame  it  is  for  people  who  ought 
to  be,  and  might  be  well  and  useful  in  the 
world,  to  make  themselves  ill,  and  de- 
pendent, and  miserable,  and  so  hinder 
others  from  their  work,  and  weary  them 
and  make  them  ill,  when  a  little  care 
might  have  prevented  it  all.  It  is  every 
person's  duty  to  be  well  and  strong,  rath 
er  than  weak,  sickly,  miserable,  helpless, 
and  burdensome  to  others.  Hence  all 
persons  should  be  thoughtful  and  careful 
about  their  health. 

Christians  especially  should  care  for 
their  bodies,  which  are  the  temples  of  the 
Holy  Qhost,  and  their  health  which  is 
necessary  for  effective  service  for  the 
Master.  No  one  but  a  brute  would  wish 
to  work  a  horse  till  it  was  sick.  Yet 
many  who  claim  to  be  Christians  will 
work  themselves,  and  their  families,  in  a 
way  which  would  be  cruel  in  the  case  of 
a  horse  or  a  mule.  People  must  learn  to 
be  careful  of  the  Lord's  property,  and 
Christians  are  not  their  own,  they  are 
bought  with  a  price,  and  should,  there- 
fore, glorify  God  in  their  bodies— Com 
mon  People, 

HOUSEHOLD  HINTS. 

—  A  lump  of  soda  laid  upon  the  drain- 
pipe down  which  waste  water  passes  will 
prevent  grease,  especially  if  the  pipe  is 
flooded  every  week  with  boiling  water. 

— A  physician  says  that  the  application 
of  the  oil  of  cinnamon,  applied  with  a 
straw  or  small  brush,  is  the  very  best 
remedy  for  bee  stings.  It  will  slightly 
blister,  but  will  destroy  the  poison. 

— To  remove  paint  and  putty  from 
window  glass,  put  sufficient  saleratus  into 
hot  water  to  make  a  strong  solution,  and 
with  this  saturate  the  paint  or  putty 
which  adheres  to  the  glass .  Let  it  remain 
until  nearly  dry,  then  rub  off  with  a 
woolen  cloth. 

—Among  many  methods  of  removing 
particles  from  the  eye  the  following  is 
recommended  as  an  efficient  means: 
Make  a  loop  by  doubling  a  horse-hair. 
Raise  the  lid  of  the  eye  in  which  is  the 
foreign  particle;  slip  the  loop  over  it,  and 
placing  the  lid  in  contact  with  the  eye- 
ball, withdraw  the  loop,  and  the  particle 
will  be  drawn  out  with  it. 

—For  corns  put  a  small  quantity  of 
strong  vinegar  into  a  teacup  and  crumble 
some  bread  into  it;  let  it  stand  half  an 
hour,  then  put  a  little  on  a  strip  of  cloth 
and  bind  around  the  toe,  with  the  poul- 
tice over  the  corn;  it  can  be  taken  out  the 
next  morning,  but  if  the  corn  is  an  ob- 
stinate one  it  will  require  two  or  three 
applications  to  effect  a  cure. 

— To  clean  paint  that  is  not  varnished 
put  upon  a  plate  some  of  the  best  whit- 
ing; have  ready  some  clean  warm  water, 
and  a  piece  of  fl  innel,  which  dip  into  the 
water  and  squeeze  nearly  dry;  then  take 
as  much  whiting  as  will  adhere  to  it,  ap 
ply  it  to  the  paint,  when  a  little  rubbing 
will  remove  any  dirt  or  grease;  wash  well 
off  with  water,  and  rub  dry  with  a  soft 
cloth.  Paint  thus  cleaned  looks  equal  to 
new. 

— There  can  be  little  doubt,  says  the 
London  BospitaZ,  that  were  the  bath,  with 
friction  of  the  skin,  regularly  employed 
by  those  up  in  years— and  the  habit,  if 
acquired,  can  easily  be  carried  on — much 
suffering  and  disablement  from  bronchitis 
or  winter  coughs  might  be  avoided,  as 
well  as  many  of  those  troublesome  forms 
of  skin  disease  so  often  met.  As  a  means 
for  preventing  colds,  the  bath  is  only  of 
use  if  employed  frequently — daily,  if  that 
can  be;  if  sot,  then  as  often  as  possible, 
and  with  regularity. 

— A  gentleman  who  has  made  a  study 
of  the  eye  says,  for  the  benefit  of  the  peo- 
ple who  have  to  earn  a  livelihood  with 
the  pen:  "Never  write  on  white  paper 
if  you  can  get  yellow  paper.  A  sheet  or 
card  of  the  same  shade  placed  on  the 
wall  over  the  desk  will  assist  in  giving 
the  eyes  a  rest,  and  this  will  facilitate  the 
work."  He  has  made  this  suggestion  to 
many,  and  In  each  case  has  received  the 


thanks  of  those  who  have  been  benefited 
by  it.  It  is  simple,  and  does  not  require 
any  philosophy  to  prove  it. 

•  ■  ^ 

"A  WORD   TO  THE   WISE   IS   SUFFIC- 
IENT." 

Catarrh  is  not  simply  an  inconven- 
ience, unpleasant  to  the  sufferer  and  dis- 
gusting to  others — it  is  an  advanced  out- 
post of  approaching  disease  of  worse 
type.  Do  not  neglect  its  warning;  H 
brings  deadly  evils  in  its  train.  Before 
it  is  too  late,  use  Dr.  Sage's  Catarrh 
Remedy.  It  reaches  the  seat  of  the  ail- 
ment, and  is  the  only  thing  that  will. 
Tou  may  dose  yourself  with  quack  medi- 
cines 'till  it  is  too  late — 'till  the  streamlet 
becomes  a  resistless  torrent.  It  is  the 
matured  invention  of  a  scientific  physi- 
cian.    "A  word  to  the  wise  is  sufficient." 


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Friendless  in  1880.  Any  one  having 
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fer a  great  favor  on  his  sister,  Lizzie,  by 
addressing  Mrs.  8  G.  Cleveland,  City 
Missionary,  care  of  Y.  M.  C.  A.,  Chi- 
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tions, for  the  flagrant  way  in  which  they 
endeavor  to  override  law  and  equity,  and 
grasp  everything  within  their  reach. 

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ing Girls  Rest  and  Fresh  A.ir  movement. 
Girls  are  sent  out  by  companies  to  pleas- 
ant homes  in  the  suburbs  for  a  week's 
rest.  Ladies  outside  the  city  are  nobly 
aiding. 

All  the  limited  passenger  trains  between 
Chicago  and  Kansas  City  and  Omaha  will 
be  withdrawn  Aug.  26.  This  action  is 
taken  for  the  reason  that  the  trains  were 
unprofitable,  and  did  not  increase  busi- 
ness in  the  least. 

Several  saloonkeepers  at  Hyde  Park, 
our  southern  suburb,  who  violated  the 
State  law  Sunday,  were  convicted  and 
fined  $5  each  by  the  police  magistrate 
last  week.  They  all  took  appeals,  but 
closed  up  on  Sunday  last. 

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The  body  of  General  Sheridan  was  re- 
moved from  Nonquitt,  Maes.,  last  week 
to  Washington,  and  was  placed  in  St. 
Mary's  Roman  Catholic  church.  The 
final  services  and  burial  took  place  on 
Saturday.  The  public  were  permitted  to 
pass  through  the  building  and  look  upon 
the  casket,  but  at  Mrs.  Sheridan's  desire 
it  was  not  opened.  The  funeral  services 
were  simple.  The  final  resting  place  of 
the  great  general  will  be  in  Arlington 
National  Cemetery  across  the  Potomac 
from  Washington. 

James  G.  Blaine  arrived  in  New  York 
Friday  morning.  His  steamer,  the  City 
of  New  Tork,  was  met  at  quarantine  by 
a  thousand  friends  on  board  the  Starin, 
which  steamer  he  immediately  boarded. 
On  behalf  of  those  present  and  the  entire 
country,  so  many  different  and  widely 
separated  parts  of  which  they  repre- 
sented. President  Bartlett,  of  the  New 
York  City  Republican  Club,  delivered  an 
.address  of  welcome,  to  which  Mr.  Blaine 
responded,  and  other  welcoming  ad- 
dresses followed.  Mr.  Blaine — who  is 
described  as  a  picture  of  ruddy  health — 
was  driven  to  his  hotel,  where  other  ad- 
dresses awaited  him.  In  the  evening  he 
addressed  an  immense  mass  meeting  of 
working  men  gathered  to  give  him  greet- 
ing. 

The  Indiana  Republican  State  Conven- 
tion held  at  Indianapolis  on  Wednesday 
nominated  for  Governor,  General  Alvin 
P.  Eovey;  Lieutenant  Governor,  Ira  J. 
Chase;  Judges  of  the  Supreme  Court, 
Silas  T.  Coffey,  rf  Brazil,  John  (}  Berk 
shire,  of  North  Vernon,  and  Walter  Olds, 
of  Columbia  City. 

Attorney  General  Hogg  of  Texas  has 
decided  that  Sunday  base  ball  playing, 
where  an  admission  fee  is  charged,  is  in 
violation  of  the  revised  statutes.  It  is 
the  admission  fee  and  not  the  game,  then, 
that  desecrates  the  Texas  Sabbath. — 
Timet. 

A  fire  broke  out  Thursday  in  Chatta- 
nooga, Tenn.  Hundreds  of  citizens 
rushed  into  the  burning  buildings  and 
endeavored  to  save  the  threatened  goods. 
The  poorly  constructtd  buildings  col- 
lapsed. One  building  fell  in  when  fifty 
persons  were  inside.  The  loss  of  life  is 
estimated  at  ten,  and  four  badly  wounded. 


A  Pennsylvania  syndicate  has  closed  a 
deal  for  110,000  acres  of  coal  lands  in 
Las  Animas  and  Huerfano  counties,  Col., 
for  $1,500,000.  The  land  was  owned  by 
900  claimants.  Mr.  Sibbets  of  Pennsyl- 
vania, who  has  been  negotiating  the  deal 
for  eight  months,  will,  it  is  reported,  re- 
ceive $5,505  for  his  share. 

Citizens  of  Evansburg,  Pennsylvania, 
prosecuted  employers  of  the  Meadville 
and  Linesville  railroad  for  running  Sun- 
day trains,  and  the  road  is  now  prepar- 
ing to  move  its  depot  two  miles  out  of 
town. 

A  company  with  a  capital  of  $15,000,- 
000  has  been  chartered  at  Richmond, 
Va.,  to  engage  in  a  general  telegraph  and 
telephone  business,  with  the  telautograph 
recently  invented  by  Professor  Elisha 
Gray  of  Highland  Park,  Illinois. 

Hugh  M.  Brooks,  alias  Maxwell,  was 
hanged  at  St  Louis  Friday  morning  for 
the  murder  of  Charles  A.  Preller.  Henry 
Landgraf  was  hung  on  the  same  gallows 
for  killing  his  sweetheart.  Maxwell's 
Masonry  did  not  save  him. 

A  passenger  train  on  the  Indianapolis, 
St.  Louis  &  Chicago  railroad  was  thrown 
down  an  embankment  near  Morgantown, 
Indiana,  and  twenty  persons  were  in- 
jured, two  of  whom  may  die. 

An  epidemic  of  unknown  nature  is 
prevailing  in  the  home  and  neighborhood 
of  Philip  Seltner,  Bucyrus,  Ohio.  Five 
of  his  family  are  very  low,  and  three 
neighbors  who  went  in  to  nurse  them 
have  died  and  others  are  very  ill. 

David  Arnold  of  Afton,  Iowa,  while 
on  a  drunken  spree,  attacked  Abraham 
Bollinger,  a  locksmith,  because  of  the 
prominent  part  the  latter  has  taken  in 
enforcing  the  prohibitory  liquor  law. 
Bollinger  drew  a  revolver  and  shot  Ar- 
nold dead.  Bollinger  then  surrendered 
to  the  mayor,  and  is  now  in  jail.  Public 
sentiment  seems  to  be  with  Bollinger. 

Wednesday  evening  the  sloop  Flora 
B.,  of  Pennsville,  Del.,  capsized  in  a 
heavy  blow  near  New  Castle,  and  five 
women  from  Pennsville,  who  were  in  the 
cabin,  were  drowned.  Their  bodies  were 
recovered. 

Attorney  General  Baker,  of  Iowa,  has 
brought  twenty  five  suits  against  the 
Northwestern,  Rock  Island,  and  Burling- 
ton Roads  to  enforce  the  penalties  pre- 
scribed by  the  new  schedule  for  viola- 
tions of  its  provisions. 

At  the  dairy  farm  of  E.  Hill,  West 
Chester  county.  New  York,  about  fifty 
cattle  infected  with  pleuro  pneumonia 
were  being  killed  daily  last  week. 

The  Congressional  committee  which  is 
investigating  immigration  evils  heard  the 
testimony  of  a  factory  girl  who  says  Poles 
and  Russians  are  hired  for  $4  a  week  to 
take  the  places  of  girls. 

A  family  of  four — Gustav  Berg,  his 
wife,  mother-in-law,  and  daughter — liv- 
ing on  the  top  floor  of  a  four  story  tene- 
ment building  in  New  York  city,  per- 
ished in  a  fire  Wednesday  morning.  The 
week  before  twenty  perished  in  a  tene- 
ment fire  in  the  same  city, 

FOBBieN. 

The  House  of  Commons  passed  a  bill 
to  investigate  the  London  Times'  charges 
against  Parnell  and  other  members  of 
parliament  by  a  vote  of  180  to  64.  Par- 
nell has  entered  suit  against  the  Times 
in  the  Scotch  courts. 

Fifty  thousand  persons  gathered  in  the 
streets  of  Paris  at  the  funeral  of  General 
Endes,  the  ex  communist.  Cries  of  "Vive 
la  Commune"  and  "Vive  la  Revolution" 
were  raised  and  red  fligs  unfurled.  The 
police  charged  on  the  mob  with  drawn 
swords.  A  bomb  was  thrown  but  did 
not  explode. 

In  a  fatal  collision  at  Hampton  Wick 
depot,  two  passenger  carriages  were  tele  • 
scoped.  The  driver  and  stoker  of  the 
passenger  locomotive  and  four  passen- 
gers were  killed. 

A  meeting  of  2,000  Socialists  at  Ber- 
lin was  dissolved  by  the  police,  who  ar- 
rested several  perfons. 

An  eruption  of  the  volcano  Bundai- 
Zin,  in  Japan,  occurred  on  July  15  and 
was  one  of  the  greatest  calamities  of 
modern  times,  as  four  villages  were 
buried  by  the  ashes,  500  killed,  700 
wounded  and  1,900  rendered  homeless 
and  destitute.  The  explosion  is  said  to 
be  due  to  the  escape  of  pent  up  gas, 
which  carried  away  the  whole  side  of  the 
mountain.  The  chief  sufferers  were  hot 
springs  resorts  near  the  summit,  where 


out  of  250  visitors  from  all  parts  of  Japan 
only  four  escaped  with  their  lives.  This 
village,  with  four  others  in  the  vicinity, 
was  covered  deep  with  ashes,  and  nearly 
every  one  asphyxiated  by  sulphur  fumes 
or  killed  by  the  shower  of  stones  that  fell. 
While  General  Boulanger  was  riding  in 
an  open  carriage  through  the  streets  of 
St.  Jean  d'Angly,  in  the  department  of 
Charentelnferieure,  Sunday,  Prof.  Perrin, 
a  friend  of  Mayor  Lair,  the  candidate  of 
the  Opportunists,  drew  a  revolver  and 
fired  five  shots  at  him.  M.  Rataplan,  a 
friend  of  Boulanger,  rushed  upon  Perrin 
and  turned  the  direction  of  his  weapon, 
and  was  himself  wounded  for  his  pains, 
though  not  seriously.  Boulanger  was 
unharmed.  A  fierce  battle  was  raging 
between  the  rival  parties  at  the  time. 


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CONTENTS. 


Editobial: 

Notes  and  Comments 1 

Old  World  Lodgery 8 

Editorial  Correspondence.  8 
How  Stand  Your  Candi- 
dates?   9 

CONTHIBUTIONS : 

Prohibition  in  a  Rut 1 

The  West  End  ol  the  Tab- 
ernacle    2 

A    Summer    Among  the 

Churches.— II 2 

Selected : 
Secret    Societies    of    the 

Two  Sicilies 3 

Crime  and  Immorality...  3 
Sentiment     from    Rufus 

Choate v..  3 

Washington  Lbttbb 4 

An  Appeal  for  Kansas 4 

LlTEIlATUBB B 

Obituary 7 

lodgb  notbs 7 

LiKCTURE  List 7 


RB70RU  News  : 
Notes  of  the  Washington 
Work ;  Iowa  Summer 
Work ;  Central  Louis- 
iana ;  A  Week  in  Ober- 
lin ;  Notes  from  the  Big 
Arnold  Tent 4,5 

COBBBBPONDBNOa : 

Labor  and  Lodgery ; 
Among  Chicago  Reform- 
ers; Pith  and  Point....    6 

The  Southern  Colleges 6 

The  N.  C.  a 7 

New  ENGLiND  Letteb.  ...    9 

ThbHomb 10 

Tempebanob ,  11 

Bible  Lbssoh 12 

Religious  Nbws 13 

Home  and  Health 13 

Donations 13 

Fabm  Notes 14 

News  of  thb  Wbbk 16 

Business 13 

Mabkbts 13 


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response  of  candidates  on  the  question  of  the  lodge. 
Already  the  Presidential  nominees  of  the  Prohibition, 
Republican,  and  Equal  Rights  parties  have  responded  to 
the  desire  of  their  supporters,  also  two  candidates  for 
Vice  President  and  numerous  State  nominees.  These 
replies  are  of  greatest  importance  to  American  voters. 
We  propose  to  make  every  number  of  the  paper  worth, 
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The  Howe  Building  of  the  Memphis  Bible  and 
Industrial  School  is  already  completed  to  the  eaves 
and  begins  to  show  a  handsome  front.  Elder  R.  N. 
Countce,  who  has  been  visiting  parts  of  Ohio,  Mich- 
igan and  Illinois,  spent  last  Sabbath  at  Wenona  with 
Mr.  Hcwe  and  Prof.  Davis,  the  successor  of  the 
lamented  Woodsmall,  returning  to  Chicago,  from 
whence  he  started  on  Tuesday  for  Memphis.  He 
hopes  to  return  North  in  a  few  weeks  for  a  longer 
season  of  rest,  and  more  fully  recuperate  his  shat- 
tered health.  The  institution  in  accordance  with  a 
favorite  idea  of  Mr.  Howe's  will  have  an  industrial 
department  as  well  as  theological,  and  provide  tech- 
nical training-  for  the  elevation  of  the  colored  race 
in  body,  mind  and  heart 


It  is  the  argument  of  the  Socialists  that  govern- 
ment should  control  railroads,  telegraphs  and  the 
Pennsylvania  coal  mines,  since  it  already  manages 
the  post-oflice  successfully.  But  the  express  com- 
panies transport  small  sums  with  more  economy, 
safety  and  convenience  than  the  mails;  and  the  ex- 
perience of  Mr.  Judd  will  need  to  be  repeated  but  a 
few  times  to  entirely  change  the  demand  for  enlarge- 


ment of  government  service.  By  a  mere  accident, 
and  the  aid  of  private  parties,  the  post-office  author- 
ities of  Chicago  discovered  last  week  that  the  street 
mail  boxes  had  been  robbed  of  thousands  of  letters 
containing  valuable  contents  worth  over  $200,000, 
and  this  business  has  been  going  on  under  their 
noses  for  over  two  years!  So  long  as  the  post-office 
is  made  a  political  machine  it  will  never  be  an  effic- 
ient business  concern. 


We  wish  to  commend  to  other  communities  the 
example  of  the  Prohibition  club  in  Wheaton,  lUi- 
nois.  Instead  of  spending  a  campaign  fund  in  drums 
and  pyrotechnics,  and  semi-military  organizations 
which  have  nothing  to  offer  in  support  of  their  prin- 
ciples after  their  legs  are  weary  of  marching  and 
throats  with  yelling,  debates  have  been  opened  with 
great  success.  Two  college  students,  Eigar  Wylie 
of  the  Senior  Class  of  '89,  and  0,  E.  Moflfett,  repre- 
senting respectively  the  Prohibitionists  and  Repub- 
licans, had  a  fine  debate  before  a  large  audience 
lately,  and  are  repeating  it  in  various  parts  of  the 
county.  Mr.  Wylie  is  an  excellent  speaker,  and  the 
Prohibition  cause  is  gaining  converts  through  his 
efforts.  He  was  the  first  publisher  of  the  Christian 
Witness  of  New  Market,  New  Hampshire.  The  pop- 
ularity of  this  debate  has  induced  Prof.  H.  A.  Fisch- 
er, of  the  N.  C.  A.  Board,  to  arrange  a  discussion 
with  Mr.  N,  E.  Gary,  an  able  lawyer  of  Wheaton, 
and  a  temperance  man  after  the  Republican  sort. 


George  May  Powell,  president  of  the  Arbitration 
Council  of  Philadelphia,  and  secretary  of  the  Sab- 
bath Association,  lately  appeared  before  the  Senate 
Committee  on  Labor  and  Education  to  present  the 
subject  of  railroad  profit-sharing.  He  gave  a  de- 
tailed statement  of  the  successful  working  of  profit- 
sharing  on  the  railways  of  France  for  more  than  a 
generation,  showing  that  the  peace  and  profits  of 
stockholders  and  employes  and  the  safety  of  pas- 
sengers and  freight  in  transit  had  been  greatly  en- 
hanced through  the  system.  On  January  1,  1887, 
the  Toledo,  Ann  Arbor  &  North  Michigan  road 
adopted  a  modification  of  the  French  system,  and 
their  first  year  has  been  highly  satisfactory.  It  was 
the  most  prosperous  financial  year  since  the  road 
opened;  no  fatal  or  even  serious  accident  had  oc- 
cured  to  take  the  life  of  passenger  or  employe. 
There  are  some  immediate  and  obvious  advantages 
in  this  system,  which  in  other  lines  of  business  have 
proved  uniformly  successful.  It  would  give  the  rail- 
road service  a  more  intelligent  and  conscientious 
class  of  men;it  would  nearly  eliminate  the  strike  busi- 
ness from  the  calculations  of  managers  and  men,  and 
so  be  a  death  blow  to  the  secret  lodges  that  prey  upon 
railroad  men.  It  would  also  begin  the  reform  for 
the  restoration  of  the  Sabbath  on  the  roads,  since  the 
men  are  pretty  unanimous  against  the  present  seven 
days  of  labor  each  week. 


The  Cynosure  has  had  no  favor  for  the  anti-for- 
eigner movement,  mis-named  "the  American  party," 
begun  in  the  anti-Chinese  prejudice  of  California, 
and  fostered  by  small  traders  in  politics  in  the 
East.  The  fundamental  idea  of  the  party  was  not 
American  enough  to  entitle  it  to  the  name.  The 
national  convention,  for  which  the  public  has  been 
waiting,  met  in  Washington  last  Tuesday,  with  six- 
ty-seven delegates  (four  more  than  half)  from  New 
York,  fifteen  from  California,  and  the  remaining 
forty-four  from  fourteen  other  States  and  the  Dis- 
trict. New  York  held  the  reins  and  managed  to 
upset  the  wagon.  The  split  came  on  the  basis  of 
representation.  New  York  demanding  a  vote  for 
every  two  of  her  delegates.  The  rest  of  the  con 
vention  bolted  on  the  second  day,  but  the  New 
Yorkers  kept  up  their  meeting  and  nominated  James 
L.  CurliSj  of  their  State,  for  President.  It  has  been 
sharply  charged  that  the  Democrats  had  packed  the 
convention  from  New  York,  hoping  to  get  a  vote 
favoring  the  election  of  Harrison  and  Morton,  the 
reaction  of  which  would  help  their  cause,  as  did  Rev. 
Dr.  Burchard's  "Rum,  Romanism  and  Rebellion" 
four  yeacu  ago.  The  accusation  does  not  seem,  how- 
ever, to  hold  good,  and  neither  party  in  the  field  has 
much  to  fear  from  this  still-bom  movement 


The  Washington  Post  says:  'One  of  the  amusing 
phases  of  the  political  situation  is  the  difference  be- 
tween Northern  and  Southern  Democratic  views  of 
the  third  party.  So  long  as  the  Prohibition  army 
confines  its  campaigning  in  the  North  it  gets  only 
benignant  smiles  from  the  Democrats,  for  it  is  the 
avowed  enemy  of  the  Republican  party  and  is  de- 
termined to  defeat  Gen.  Harrison,  as  it  defeated  Mr. 
Blaine,  if  it  can  possibly  do  so.  *  *  *  But  no 
sooner  does  the  Prohibition  army  move  southward 
across  the  old  border  line  and  begin  campaigning 
than  the  Democratic  soul  takes  flight  Any  possible 
menace  to  Democratic  solidity  is  vehemently  de- 
nounced." 


At  the  late  National  Reform  meeting  at  Ocean 
Grove,  N,  J.,  a  communication  was  read  from  Hon. 
G.  P.  Lord  of  Elgin,  secretary  of  the  Slate  Sabbath 
Association  of  Illinois.  Since  the  organization  of 
the  Association  at  Elgin  last  fall,  circulars  and 
blank  forms  of  petition  have  been  sent  to  all  the 
ministers  of  the  State,  and  an  immense  number  of 
signatures  have  been  obtained. 


PROHIBITION  IN  A  RUT. 


BY  ESV.  M.  A.  OAULT. 


Two  of  the  characteristic  ideas  of  Masonry  are, 
that  it  unites  its  members  on  a  Christless  platform, 
and  excludes  women  from  its  communion,  swearing 
its  members  never  to  initiate  a  woman.  In  inter- 
viewing public  men  on  the  questions  of  woman  suf- 
frage and  the  recognition  ot  Christ  in  government, 
I  can  nearly  always  determine  if  a  man  is  trained  in 
the  school  of  Masonry  by  his  opposition  to  these 
principles.  A  Masonic  minister  will  usually  reply 
by  saying  that  he  would  recognize  Almighty  God, 
but  he  would  oppose  the  recognition  of  Christ,  be- 
cause it  would  shut  out  the  Jew. 

While  on  the  train  in  Wisconsin  the  other  day,  t 
sat  with  Hon.  T.  C.  Richmond,  who  argued  that  the 
Prohibition  platform  should  drop  every  plank  ex- 
cept prohibition,  especially  the  woman  suffrage  and 
Godin-government  planks.  Mr.  Richmond,  as  I  am 
reliably  informed,  is  a  regular  adhering  Mason.  He 
is  the  most  popular  leader  of  the  Wisconsin  Prohi- 
bitionists, almost  constantly  in  the  field  pressing  this 
policy  for  the  party.  His  argument  is,  the  Prohibi- 
tionists cannot  all  agree  in  regard  to  the  character 
and  authority  of  Almighty  God;  therefore  let  us 
drop  him  from  the  platform.  The  Seventh-Day  peo- 
ple are  numerous  and  earnest,  and  occasionally 
there  is  a  Jew  who  is  a  Prohibitionist  We  can't 
all  agree  on  the  Sabbath  plank;  therefore  let  us  drop 
that  Some  Prohibitionists  are  opposed  to  woman 
suffrage;  let  us  drop  that  Some  on  the  Pacific 
coast  want  protection  from  Chinese  immigration;  so 
let  us  drop  the  Chinese  plank.  Let  us  make  only 
one  line  of  political  division.  As  in  sorting  pota- 
toes, let  us  have  but  two  heaps,  then  our  work  will 
be  so  much  easier. 

But  this  politician  forgets  that  Prohibitionists 
have  consciences,  and  unlike  potatoes  they  will  not 
stay  just  where  you  may  want  to  put  them.  Mr. 
Richmond,  like  Walter  T.  Mills,  is  not  a  member  of 
any  churcn,  and  does  not  seem  to  count  much  on 
conscience  as  a  factor  in  politico.  They  forget  that 
the  educated  Christian  conscience  regards  God's 
law  as  a  unit  It  cannot  be  taken  up  and  carried  in 
segments,  by  picking  out  one  commandment,  and 
ignoring  the  others.  'He  that  oflendeth  in  one 
point  is  guilty  of  all."  The  conscience  that  will 
ignore  Divine  authority  at  one  point,  will  disregard 
it  at  any  other  point  if  the  occasion  offers,  therefore 
Prohibition  will  have  force  only  so  far  as  there  is 
behind  it  an  intelligent  recognition  of  God's  author- 
ity and  law.  Leaving  out  this  plank  would  be  like 
attempting  to  build  without  a  foundation. 

Again,  the  cry,  "Give  us  a  rest,"  that  is  going  up 
from  the  toiling  millions,  cannot  be  disregarded. 
Our  government's  disregard  of  the  Sabbath,  tram- 
ples upon  as  many  human  rights  and  liberties  as 
the  liquor  traffic.  It  is  the  lesson  of  history  that  a 
Sabbath-breaking  nation  will  as  certainly  be  doomed 
as  a  nation  of  drunkards.     Wc  canuot  ignore  that 


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AiTOirsT  23, 1888 


plank  for  the  reason  that  a  few  differ  with  us  in  re- 
gard to  which  day. 

And  no  more  can  we  ignore  the  woman  suffrage 
plank.  To  drop  that  would  be  to  ignore  the  might- 
iest agency  God  has  used  in  creating  the  Prohibition 
movement.  Without  the  Woman's  Crusade,  and  its 
crystallized  form  in  the  W.  C.  T.  U.,  where  would 
the  Prohibition  movement  have  been  to-day?  It 
would  not  have  been  at  all.  And  now  shall  the 
prohibition  sentiment,  created  by  these  devoted 
Christian  women  at  the  cost  of  so  much  labor  and 
sacrifice,  be  used  by  men  who  are  mere  policy  poli- 
ticians, for  the  purpose  of  lifting  themselves  into 
power,  and  shall  this  best  moral  and  intelligent  in- 
fluence of  women  continue  to  be  ignored  in  our  poli- 
tics? We  say,  No  I  God  forbid  it.  Every  principle 
of  right  and  justice  forbids  it. 

For  the  Prohibition  party  now  to  ignore  these 
great  moral  questions  it  would  cease  to  be  a  party 
of  moral  principles,  and  become  one  of  mere  policy. 
It  would  not  broaden,  but  greatly  narrow  the  plat- 
form. Fewer  moral  reformers  could  then  stand 
on  it.  Those  interested  in  other  moral  questions 
would  lose  interest  in  the  platform  in  proportion  as 
it  dropped  these  issues.  It  would  be  raising  no 
defense  against  other  evils  no  less  dangerous  than 
the  liquor  traflSc.  It  would  ignore  the  central  idea 
that  God's  law  is  the  only  true  standard  of  right, 
the  only  law  having  authority  enough  behind  it  to 
induce  men  to  respect  it;  the  only  law  that  can  bind 
the  conscience;  the  only  law  whose  enforcement  can 
secure  the  rights  and  liberties  of  all  classes  of  citi- 
zens. It  would  be  great  injustice  to  the  best  Chris- 
tian sentiment  in  the  churches  to  ignore  these  great 
questions.  It  would  be  uiijust  to  the  National  Re- 
form Association,  the  National  Christian  Associa- 
tion, and  the  Woman's  Christian  Temperance  Union, 
whose  workers  have  for  many  years  been  laboring 
and  sacrificing  in  sun  and  storm,  to  prepare  public 
sentiment  for  such  a  party.  And  more  than  all 
others  it  would  be  unjust  to  God  to  whom  we  are 
indebted  for  all  the  progress  made  by  this  party. 
It  would  virtually  be  saying  that  we  could  better 
succeed  as  a  party  without  God's  blessing  and  help, 
than  without  the  Scandinavian  vote,  or  the  vote  of 
the  Jew  or  the  infidel. 

Waukesha,  Wis, 

m  *  m 

THS  WEST  END  OF  THE  TABERNACLE. 


BY  RfcV.  W.  W.  AMIS. 


and  the  place  of  his  glory,  and  worshiped  the  sun 
toward  the  east  I  God  himself  declared  this  to  be 
the  greatest  of  a  lengthy  list  of  great  abominations 
that  were  being  practiced  by  Israel  in  the  house  of 
the  Lord.  "And  he  said  unto  me.  Hast  thou  seen 
this,  0  son  of  man?  Is  it  a  light  thing  to  the  house 
of  Judah  that  they  commit  the  abominations  which 
they  commit  here?  for  they  have  filled  the  land 
with  violence,  and  have  returned  to  provoke  me  to 
anger;  and  lot  they  put  the  branch  to  their  nose. 
Therefore  will  I  also  deal  in  fury;  mine  eyes  shall 
not  spare,  neither  will  I  have  pity;  and  though  they 
cry  in  mine  ears  with  a  loud  voice,  yet  will  I  not 
hear  them." 

It  is  clear  as  the  sun  that  Freemasonry  is  but  a 
continuation,  perhaps  in  a  modified  form,  of  the  an- 
cient Baal  or  sun  worship.  The  structure  and  obli- 
gations of  the  system  are  such  as  to  encourage  bad 
men  in  crime,  to  protect  them  from  the  just  penalty 
of  law,  and  in  this  way  to  "fill  the  land  with  vio- 
lence." Nothing  so  much  as  the  membership  of 
professed  ministers  of  Christ  and  prominent  laymen 
helps  to  bolster  up  and  perpetuate  the  abominable 
system.  What  will  they  do  when  God  shall  rise  up 
to  deal  with  them  in  fury  for  thus  insulting  the  Di- 
vine Majesty,  dishonoring  his  Son  with  their  Christ- 
less  prayers  in  the  lodge,  encouraging  the  wicked 
and  profane  to  hope  for  heaven  by  lodge  ceremonies 
while  rejecting  Christ,  to  say  nothing  of  the  strength 
they  put  into  the  hands  of  the  wicked  for  all  evil 
deeds?  There  surely  will  come  a  time  when  these 
triflers  in  Zlon  will  be  afraid,  and  trembling  will 
take  hold  of  them  with  a  grip  stronger  than  Masonic 
obligations. 

"Wherefore,  come  out  from  among  them  and  be 
ye  separate,  and  touch  not  the  unclean  thing." 
Brethren,  sound  the  trumpet  of  alarm,  and  pass  the 
fearful  warning  all  through  the  camp  of  the  Lord's 
people.  And  may  the  Lord  help  them  to  hear  and 
heed.  Possibly  some  are  conscientious  in  their  ad- 
herence to  Masonry,  thinking  because  they  have 
been  told  so  gravely,  that  it  is  the  "handmaid"  of 
religion.  But  a  thoughtful  and  prayerful  investi- 
gation must  convince  any  one  that  there  is  no  agree- 
ment between  it  and  Christ,  and  they  should  sepa- 
rate from  it  at  once  as  from  a  train  running  to  swift 
destruction. 


In  the  study  of  the  recent  Sabbath-school  lesson 
concerning  the  Tabernacle,  toward  which  the  people 
contributed  so  freely,  it  is  legitimate  to  inquire  why 
the  Tabernacle  was  located  at  the  western  extremity 
of  the  outer  court,  and  the  Holy  of  Holies  at  the 
extreme  west  end  of  the  Tabernacle.  The  account 
makes  no  direct  answer. 

A  friend  suggests,  and  I  think  plausibly,  that 
there  is  great  significance  in  the  fact;  and  thinks  it 
to  be  that  many  of  the  people  had  gone  into  idola- 
try, especially  sun  worship,  and  so  God  would  show 
them  their  error  by  causing  them  to  look  toward  the 
west  when  they  came  into  the  tabernacle,  instead  of 
saluting  the  rising  sun,  bowing  toward  it  with  their 
faces  toward  the  east. 

God,  whose  presence  fills  immensity,  saw  fit  to  in- 
struct Moses  to  make  him  a  local  habitation  where 
he  would  record  his  name  and  manifest  his  glorious 
presence.  And  as  it  was  so  natural  for  man  to  wor- 
ship created  objects,  and  the  sun  as  the  most  prom- 
inent and  powerful  object  in  nature,  paying  special 
homage  to  it  as  it  ascended  the  eastern  sky,  he 
would  rebuke  this  idolatry  or  sun  worship  by  fixing 
his  lodal  habitation  in  the  western  extremity  of  the 
Taljernacle,  so  that  in  approaching  it,  or  looking 
toward  it,  their  backs  should  be  to  the  rising  sun. 
And  although  no  such  reason  is  stated  in  the  Bible 
account  of  the  Tabernacle,  yet  Ezekiel's  vision, 
(chapter  8:  16)  seems  to  throw  a  strong  light  upon 
the  subject:  "And  he  brought  me  into  the  inner 
court  of  the  Lord's  house,  and,  behold,  at  the  door 
of  the  temple  of  the  Lord,  between  the  porch  and 
the  altar,  were  about  five  and  twenty  men,  with 
their  backs  toward  the  temple  of  the  Lord  and  their 
faces  toward  the  east;  and  they  worshiped  the  sun 
toward  the  east." 

So  we  see  that  the  arrangement  of  the  Tabernacle 
and  the  temple  of  the  Lord  was  a  divine  and  perpet- 
ual protest  against  Baal  or  eun  worship.  Those 
twenty-five  men  are  said  to  have  constituted  one  of 
the  twenty-four  courses  of  priests  appointed  to  at- 
tend upon  the  public  services  of  the  temple  of 
Jehovah. 

To  what  a  pitch  of  impiety  and  heaven-provoking 
sacrilege,  therefore,  must  those  priests  have  come, 
who,  while  officiating  as  priests  of  God,  turned  their 
backs  to  the  mercy  seat,  the  Ark  of  his  testament 


A  BUMMER  WITH  THE  0HVRCHE8. 


BY  PAES.   0.   A.     BLANCHARD. 


IL 

GENEVA. 

This  beautiful  little  city  is  located  on  both  sides 
of  the  Fox  river  at  the  crossing  of  the  C.  &  N.  W. 
railroad.  It  has  Congregational,  Methodist,  Epis- 
copal, Unitarian,  and  other  churches.  A  creamery, 
a  large  glucose  factory  and  a  heavy  flowering  mill 
are  the  principal  local  industries.  Many  citizens  re- 
side here  and  do  business  in  Chicago,  as  is  common 
in  all  these  suburban  villages.  The  rise  from  the 
river  is  gentle  on  the  western  bank,  more  abrupt  on 
the  eastern,  and  islands  dot  the  stream,  while  groves 
of  native  trees  are  scattered  here  and  there.  There 
is  much  intelligence  and  kindly  fellowship  among 
the  people.  The  county  oflSces  are  located  here  also, 
this  being  thecenterof  government  for  Kane  county. 

THE   CONGREGATIONAL    OHDROH, 

where  our  meetings  were  held,  is  a  model  building. 
It  is  of  stone,  with  stained  glass  windows,  the  win- 
dows being  arranged  so  as  to  ventilate  the  audito- 
rium quickly  and  thoroughly.  The  lecture  room  is 
a  double  parlor  and  is  pleasantly  fitted.  The  car- 
pets and  seats  are  very  nice;  in  short,  as  I  said 
above,  it  is  a  model  building  for  church  purposes. 

Spiritually  the  church  has  received  a  great  uplift 
under  the  constant  and  self  sacrificing  labors  of  Bro. 
Abbott,  their  pastor.  The  Lord  rewarded  the  toils 
of  years  with  a  harvest  last  winter,  in  which  many 
dear  souls  were  brought  into  the  kingdom.  In  this 
labor  and  blessing  the  Methodist  church,  Bro.  Har- 
din, pastor,  shared.  I  do  not  intend  to  slight  the 
latter,  but  as  my  work  was  in  the  former,  and  as 
Bro.  Abbott  was  longer  a  laborer  in  the  field,  I  thus 
speak.  The  special  meetings  of  last  winter  began 
under  the  leadership  of  brethren  Henry  and  Jones 
from  Chicago.  They  also  led  in  the  Batavia  meeting, 
where  was  great  blessing. 

We  had  here  the  meetings  planned,  except  on  Sat- 
urday, when  I  was  called  to  Chicago  to  attend  the 
funeral  of  Mrs.J.M.Hitchcock,oneof  my  dear  friends. 
She  was  a  quiet,  home-keeping,  Christian  woman. 
Even  in  her  life,  patient  in  her  suffering,  ready  for 
her  transfer  to  the  heavenly  kingdom.  Her  husband 
is  well  known  to  all  the  Chicago  Y.  M.  C.  A.  work- 
ers as  Superintendent  of  the  Free  Employment 
Bureau.     He  has  been  a  helper  of  many  and  of  me 


also.  He  who  smites  binds  up,  and  the  time  is 
short  until  our  gathering  together  in  Him.  May 
God.  bless  the  empty  home. 

In  our  meetings  the  Holy  Spirit  was  continually 
present.  Bro.  Abbott  had  thoroughly  prepared  the 
way,  and  many  of  our  Methodist  friends  were  also 
present.  The  study  of  the  Bible  seemed  greatly 
blessed  to  the  Lord's  people,  and  I  trust  that  seed 
sown  will  spring  up  and  bear  fruit  after  many  days. 
The  creamery  question  came  very  distinctly  before 
us  at  this  meeting.  The  Geneva  Creamery  is  a 
large  one,  receiving,  I  am  told,  some  18,000  pounds 
of  milk  daily.  It  is  very  much  prospered,  the  stock 
paying  large  dividends  steadily.  It  is,  as  so  many 
such  institutions  are,  a  Sabbath-breaker.  Hundreds 
of  men  from  the  region  round  about  pour  in  on  the 
Lord's  day  with  their  milk,  and  then  pour  out  again 
to  the  farms,  very  few  of  them,  of  course,  attend- 
ing church. 

The  church  must  assert  the  law  of  the  Sabbath 
and  afford  these  hundreds  of  young  men  an  oppor- 
tunity to  go  to  the  Lord's  house,  or  the  curse  of 
Sabbath-breaking  nations  will  come  upon  us.  The 
young  men  who  manage  the  creamery  say  that  it 
could  be  run  on  the  six-day  plan  just  as  well  as 
otherwise;  that  they  wish  it  were  so  run,  and  have 
questioned  whether  they  ought  not  to  leave  it  unless 
it  should  be  so  managed.  This  is  only  one  case  out 
of  thousands.  Men  say:  Well,  if  we  keep  the  Sab- 
bath how  can  we  do  this  and  that  and  the  other 
thing?  They  do  not  begin  by  saying:  We  will  obey 
God's  law. 

My  home  while  in  Geneva  was  with  Mr.  Benjamin 
Burton  and  Mr.  C.  H.  Beers,  both  old  and  valued 
friends.  May  God  return  to  them  in  abundant 
showers  of  blessing  all  their  kindness.  Bro.  Ab- 
bott and  I  called  on  Dea.  Evarts  while  the  meetings 
were  in  progress.  He  wept  as  he  spoke  of  the  former 
revivals  of  religion,  and  his  sorrow  that  he  could 
not  be  with  us.  He  is  to  be  buried  to-day, — labor 
ended,  temptations  passed,  crosses  all  laid  by, 
and  the  crown  of  righteousness  given  by  the  Lord, 
the  righteous  Judge.  May  I  die  the  death  of  the 
righteous  man,  and  may  my  last  end  be  like  his. 

CLARENCE,     IOWA. 

The  only  meeting  which  I  hold  outside  of  Illinois 
is  with  the  Wesleyan  church  at  this  place.  Bro.  C. 
R.  Hunt,  one  of  "our  boys"  is  pastor,  having  moved 
here  from  West  Union,  Iowa,  "one  year  ago.  He 
and  his  wife  welcomed  me  to  the  parsonage  Tues- 
day evening,  July  17.  After  tea  we  went  over  the 
hills  to  the  Valley  church.  It  is  indeed  a  beautiful 
valley,  covered  with  waving  grass  and  ripening  grain. 
Here  farm  work  was  pressing  and  the  afternoon 
meeting  was  given  up.  The  10  o  clock  and  the  8 
o'clock  meetings  were  held  each  day  but  Saturday, 
when  the  evening  meeting  was  given  up  because  of 
rain.  Bro.  Frink,  with  whom  I  remained  most  of 
the  time,  left  his  haying  every  day  for  the  morning 
meeting,  and  yet  had  almost  all  under  cover  Satur- 
day night  when  the  storm  came. 

I  was  also  guest  at  Bro.  Decker's,  Bro.  McLeod's 
and  Dr.  Anderson's.  The  brother  last  named  lives 
in  the  town  of  Clarence.  Here  I  lectured  many 
years  since.  God  gave  me  fruit  of  that  sowing. 
Dr.  Anderson  arranged  for  a  union  meeting  in  the 
Presbyterian  church.  Rev.  Pierce  is  pastor  of  this 
church,  and  welcomed  me  heartily.  The  pastor  of 
the  United  Presbyterian  church  was  present,  and 
Bro.  Hunt  came  up  with  me,  many  of  his  members 
also  being  with  us.  It  was,  I  think,  a  helpful  time. 
Remaining  over  night  with  Dr.  Anderson  I  came  on 
the  early  train  home. 

I  cannot  speak  with  certainty  of  results.  There 
were  several  who  affirmed  their  purpose  to  seek  God. 
One  man  of  years,  another  of  eighteen  or  twenty. 
The  whole  church  seemed  stirred  and  quickened. 
All  were  kind  to  me.     May  God  reward  them. 


A  writer  in  the  American  Magazine,  speaking  of 
Ecuador,  says:  "Although  Eouador  is  set  down  in 
the  geographies  as  a  republic,  it  is  simply  a  popish 
colony,  and  the  power  of  the  Vatican  is  nowhere  felt 
more  completely.  The  return  of  a  priest  from  a 
pilgrimage  to  Rome  is  as  great  an  event  as  the  De- 
claration of  Independence;  and  so  subDrdinate  is  the 
state  to  the  church  that  the  latter  selects  the  presi- 
dents, the  congress,  and  the  judges.  A  crucifix  sits 
in  the  audience  chamber  of  the  president,  and  one  on 
the  desk  of  the  presiding  officer  of  congress.  All 
the.  schools  are  controlled  by  the  bishops,  and  the 
children  know  more  about  the  lives  of  the  saints 
than  about  the  geography  of  their  own  country. 
There  is  not  even  a  good  map  of  Ecuador."  The 
picture  the  writer  draws  of  the  ignorance  and  super- 
stition of  the  people  is  indicative  of  the  results 
which  flow  from  the  Romish  system  of  education. — 
Jnttructor, 


August  23, 1888 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


8ECRBT  80CIBTIB8   IN  THE  TWO  BIOILIBB. 


|By  E.  Strachan  Morj^an,  In  the  Fortnightly  Review,  London.  I 

In  Italy  secret  societies  have,  from  the  earliest 
times,  found  a  congenial  soil.  The  Senate  of  Home, 
when  the  Senate  ruled  the  world,  was  baffled  feven 
under  the  shadow  of  the  Curia  by  the  stubborn  en- 
durance of  secretists,  whose  persistence  in  braving 
death  outwearied  even  the  relentless  severity  of  their 
judges.  Later  on  the  Emperors  were  fain  to  wink 
at  what  they  would  not  sanction  and  could  not  ex- 
tirpate; and  wherever  the  Roman  citizen  made  him- 
self a  home  he  established  clubs  and  associations 
which  circumvented,  if  they  did  not  violate  the  laws, 
de  ISodalidis  et  Collegiis.  The  guilds  and  companies 
of  the  middle  age  communes  were  based  on  the 
same  principle  of  founding  a  State  within  a  State, 
whose  regulations  should  override  the  laws  of  the 
commonwealth.  The  mysterious  Academy  of  Pom- 
ponius  Liti,  and  later  on  the  Society  of  the  Arcadi- 
ans and  the  Lincei  of  Rome,  brought  some  of  the 
same  spirit  of  conspiracy  into  literature  and  science, 
as  though  it  were  impossible  to  discuss  Dante  with- 
out giving  passwords,  or  puzzle  over  problems  of 
physics  save  under  the  sanction  of  signs  of  recog- 
nition. Early  in  the  present  century  the  Carbonari, 
the  Sanfedisti,  and  other  similar  societies,  led  back 
conspiracy  to  the  more  congenial  fields  of  political 
intrigue;  and  ever  since  the  establishment  of  con- 
stitutional Italy,  tette  have  been  the  bugbear  and  the 
preoccupation  of  the  executive. 

"There  is,"  said  Massimo  d'Azeglio,  as  wisely  as 
epigram  matically,  "some  instinct  of  civil  war  in  the 
heart  of  every  Italian;"  of  civil  war,  as  he  might 
no  less  truly  have  added,  based  on  intrigue  and  plot- 
ting. When  his  political  aspirations  are  not  forced 
to  find  expression  in  the  manoeuvers  of  oath-bound 
clubs,  with  secret  pass-words  and  midnight  meet- 
ings, the  Italian  is  no  less  ready  to  forward  his  so- 
cial, commercial,  or  criminal  purposes  by  similar 
illegal  associations,  which  often  b&ffle  every  effort 
of  the  executive  to  put  them  down.  The  JSquad- 
racce  of  Romagna,  the  Ragnalatori  of  Parma,  the 
Cocca  of  Turin,  the  Bagarini  of  Rome,  in  their  con- 
tests with  the  state,  are  well  able  to  hold  their  own; 
for  in  the  law  courts,  where  the  issue  is  decided, 
the  odds  are  all  in  their  favor.  "If,"  says  the  Opin- 
ione  (Oct.  26,  1879),  speaking  of  the  sette  of  the 
Marche,  "a  member  commits  a  crime  his  associates 
defend  him  by  manufactured  evidence,  intrigues, 
and  intimidation;  and  the  influence  which  they  can 
bring  to  bear  on  witnesses,  judge  and  jury  is  such 
that  a  conviction  is  seldom  obtained.  The  Italian 
of  to-day  is  hardly  more  shocked  at  the  mere  shed- 
ding of  blood  than  were  his  ancestors  when  thej 
gloated  over  the  massacre  of  gladiators  in  the  Colos- 
seux.  It  is  only  when  some  sudden  catastrophe  ap- 
peals to  the  imagination,  or  when  halting  Justice 
overtakes  the  criminal,  and  in  cold  blood  exacts  the 
penalty  of  life  for  life,  that  death  seems  really  ter- 
rible. "  Quannu  ch'e  la  mortu  hisognapiusaria  la  vivu," 
(When  a  man  is  dead  we  must  think  of  the  living; 
i.  e.,  a  live  murderer  is  of  more  account  than  his 
dead  victim),  says  a  Sicilian  proverb  which  formu- 
lates accurately  enough,  if  somewhat  cynically,  the 
general  conception  of  the  duties  of  the  law;  and 
where  a  sentimental  penal  code,  which  actually  fixes 
a  close  time  in  favor  of  crime  by  establishing  a  ten 
years'  prescription  against  prosecution  for  murder, 
does  not  secure  sufficient  chances  of  escape,  juries— 
puzzle-headed  or  sympathetic,  or  over-weighted  by 
the  complex  questions  left  to  them— do  the  rest. 
"Neapolitan  jurymen,"  says  Professor  Turiello, 
"would  think  it  almost  a  want  of  courtesy  to  return 
an  unfavorable  verdict  against  the  eloquent  appeal 
of  a  distinguished  lawyer." 

The  natural  result  of  all  this  is  the  ghastly  su- 
premacy in  the  death-roll  which  Italy  holds  among 
all  civilized  countries.  In  Naples,  with  its  500,000 
inhabitants — where,  by  the  way,  it  is  said  you  can 
even  now  get  a  man  assassinated  for  fifty-one  francs 
— there  were  in  1881,  196  assassinations,  923  homi 
cides,  twenty  robberies  with  murder,  and  parricides; 
and  taking  the  whole  country,  the  annual  average 
of  murder  is  sixteen  times  greater  than  is  that  of 
England.  It  is  true  that  the  foreign  visitor  to  Italy 
goes  away  with  the  impression  that  the  country  is 
orderly,  and  that  the  ri3k  to  life  is  not  greater  there 
than  elsewhere,  and  as  regards  himself  that  impres- 
sion is  correct.  The  vast  majority  of  murders,  save 
whep  the  outcome  of  a  drunken  brawl,  are  due  to 
one  of  two  causes,  neither  of  which  concern  the 
tourist.  They  are  the  result  either  of  jealousy  or 
"tn<ere«e"— trade  disputes,  shall  we  say?  Such,  for 
instance,  was  the  cause  of  the  terrible  murder  com- 
mitted in  Rome  last  July,  when  a  building  contractor 
was  shot  dead  at  mid  nay  by  a  business  rival  in 
front  of  the  general  postQfflce  amid  a  crowd  of  ter- 
rified onlookers;  or,  less  frequently,  they  are  the 


execution  of  sentences  pronounced  by  secret  socie- 
ties for  some  infraction  of  their  rules. 

In  Naples,  and  still  more  in  Sicily,  it  has  been  well 
said,  the  distinguishing'  features  of  the  Italian  na- 
tional character  exist  in  their  most  accentuated  form; 
and  it  is  in  the  provinces  of  the  old  kingdom  of  the 
Two  Sicilies  that  the  operations  of  secret  societies 
may  be  best  observed.  It  is  there  that  they  are  most 
openly,  and  it  must  be  added,  most  successfully,  in 
conflict  with  the  constituted  authorities.  The  Maffia 
of  Sicily,  and  the  Camotra  of  the  mainland,  though 
the  ultimate  end  of  the  two  is  identical — the  over- 
riding of  the  law  of  the  land  by  anti-social  conspir- 
acies, and  the  enrichment  of  their  members  by  plun- 
der— though  both  depend  on  murder  as  their  ulti- 
mate sanction,  and  are  in  close  alliance  with  brig- 
andage where  brigandage  exists,  differ  somewhat  in 
their  methods.  The  Camorra,  tihough  it  often  dab- 
bles in  Jobbery,  and  by  playing  into  the  hands  of  in- 
fluential men  finds  protection  in  high  places,  is,  in 
its  essence,  mere  vulgar  robbery  reduced  to  a  sys- 
tem. The  object  of  the  Maffia  is,  in  the  first  place, 
to  grasp  at  power,  and  by  intimidation  to  wrest  the 
machinery  of  local  government  to  its  own  purpose, 
and  is  the  more  dangerous  because  when  once  it  has 
imposed  itself  by  terror  it  often  acts  under  the 
forms  of  law.  Neither  of  the  societies,  however, 
in  spite  of  what  has  been  sometimes  pretended, 
though  they  sometimes  avail  themselves  of  politi- 
cal discontent  to  further  their  own  ends,  has,  or  ever 
had,  any  political  purpose.  The  Camorra,  it  is  said, 
was  imported  from  Spain,  and  it  is  certain  that 
when  Sancho  Panza  banished  from  Barattaria  the 
"Mirone,"  who  asserted  a  prescriptive  right  to  take 
toll  of  the  winnings  of  gamblers  in  the  island  "hell," 
he  had  to  deal  with  one  of  the  best  known  forms 
of  the  Neapolitan  Camorra.  So,  too,  the  "younger 
brethren"  of  Monopodio's  brotherhood,  so  humor- 
ously described  by  Cervantes,  divided  their  booty 
under  fixed  rules,  had  the  police  in  their  pay,  and 
undertook  to  inflict  beatings  and  death  for  fees  paid 
by  their  employers,  precisely  as  did  the  Gamorristi 
of  Naples  in  Bourbon  times.  It  is  by  an  extension 
of  the  term  that  Camorra  is  applied  to  a  sort  of 
trades  unionism,  or  organized  jobbery,  that  includes 
all  classes,  banding  them  together  against  any  out- 
sider. 

Since  1862  the  Camorra  has  been  divided  into  the 
Camorra  alta,  or,  as  it  is  sometimes  called,  "Camorra 
in  kid  gloves,"  and  the  Camorra  batsa.  The  latter 
is  recruited  mainly  from  the  prisons  and  bagnios  of 
the  State,  and  lives  by  thieving  and  vulgar  extor- 
tion. The  former  busies  itself  mainly  with  elec- 
tions and  jobbery,  using,  when  violence  is  needed, 
members  of  the  lower  Camorra  as  its  tools,  and 
melts  insensibly  into  the  Clientele,  groups  of  fac- 
tious, unscrupulous  electors,  who  look  upon  their 
votes  simply  as  a  source  of  income,  and  get  in  their 
candidate  on  the  understanding  that  he  shall  share 
with  them  the  plunder  of  the  State  or  the  munici- 
pality. Both  orders  of  the  society  are,  however,  in 
alliance,  and  they  cannot  always  be  distinguished 
from  each  other. 

But  it  is  not  so  easy  to  classify  the  associations  of 
farmers,  whose  operations  were  brought  to  light  near 
Naples  in  1880,  having  a  common  chest  to  support 
evicted  members,  and  acting  on  a  common  deter- 
mination to  allow  no  land  to  be  taken  at  higher 
rentals  than  what  were  agreed  upon  by  the  unionists. 
In  these  latter  cases  the  Camorra  has  allied  itself 
with  the  discontent  due  partly  to  the  agricultural 
crisis  and  the  fall  in  prices  of  produce,  partly  to 
other  causes.  In  many  of  the  smaller  communes  of 
the  Apennines  the  appropriation  of  communal  land 
at  nominal  rentals  by  the  ruling  families  has  led  to 
something  like  a  revival  of  feudalism.  The  angry 
discontent  thus  caused,  though  often  checked  by 
fear,  finds  expression  sometimes  in  the  burning  of 
woods  and  crops,  or  in  riots,  which  though  seldom 
spoken  of,  are  to  the  full  as  serious  as  those  in  Ire- 
land. Petty  tyrants,  resembling  Mr.  Fors'er's 
"village  rufflms"  in  this,  at  least,  that  they  serve  as 
figure-heads  in  the  social  war,  use  the  blind  rage  of 
the  peasants  to  serve  their  own  ends,  and  are  them- 
selves instruments  of  the  Cam/yrra  alta,  which  under 
this  aspect  can  hardly  be  distinguished  from  the 
Maffit  of  Sicily. 

If  the  Camorra  has  been  weakened  on  the  main- 
land, the  sister  society,  the  Maffm  of  Sicily,  is  still 
as  powerful  as  ever.  "Men  of  all  classes  and  ranks 
belong  to  it,"  says  the  Blue  Book  on  Sicily,  pub- 
lished in  1877,  "and  Qovernment  has  always  been 
beaten  when  it  fought  the  Maffia."  ^'Afajia"  we 
read  in  the  official  report  on  the  agricultural  condi- 
tion of  Sicily,  published  only  three  years  ago, 
"though  o(ten  apparently  extinct,  always  breaks  out 
again."  "Peijury  ordered  by  the  Maffia  is  common 
in  our  courts."  Professor  Turiello,  quoting  with  ap- 
proval a  letter  of  Prince  Qalati,  says,  "Though  mur- 


ders are  now  seldom  necessary  the  rule  of  the  if a^a 
is  not  less  absolute.  The  comparative  fewness  of 
murders  is  really  a  bad  sign.  It  proves  the  cotii- 
plete  subjection  of  the  population  to  secret  societies; 
even  if  the  aristocratic  Maffia  has  often  sacrificed  its 
instruments,  Maffia  in  high  places  has  never  been 
even  vigorously  attacked."  "There  is  a  wide-spread 
conviction,"  says  the  well-informed  Signor  Alongi, 
who,  as  member  of  the  Sicilian  police,  is  hardly 
likely  to  disparage  the  power  of  the  executive,  "that 
law  is  less  to  be  feared  than  the  Maffia.  Many  rich 
men  are  persuaded  that  either  to  belong  to  the  Maffia 
or  to  keep  on  good  terms  with  it  is  an  absolute  ne- 
cessity for  them."  This  evidence  as  to  the  power 
of  the  institution  is  so  overwhelming  that  nothing 
further  need  be  added  on  that  score. 
{To  be  Continued.) 


CRIMB  AND  IMMORALITY. 


A  correspondent  of  the  Englith  Churchman  fur- 
nishes the  following  statistics,  copied  from  a  papal 
source,  viz.:  Uamico  di  Casa  AlmanJco  Populare, 
published  at  Turin: 

BIRTHS. 

Legitimate       Illegitimate. 
245i       to  1 

2  1-19    "  1 

1%        "  1 

1  "  13«' 

1  "  11-6 

1  "  2^ 

Rome,  therefore,  as  regards  the  standard  of  ille- 
gitimacy, is  six  times  worse  than  Paris,  and  sixty- 
six  times  worse  than  London. 

In  relation  to  murders  the  statistics  are  equally 
unfavorable.  Here  they  are  taken  from  the  same 
source: 

MURDERS. 

Proportional  average . 
•  1 

115 


BIRTHS. 

Legitimate. 

Illegitimate. 

London     75  097 

3,207 

Paris          19,921 

9,707 

Brussells    3,448 

1,833 

Monaco      1,854 

1,760 

Vienna      8,831 

10,360 

Rome         1,215 

3,160 

England   has  1  in  178  000  people 
Holland  "        163,000     '• 


18-10 
21-7 
44>i 
64  4-5 
237K 

Comment  is  needless,  unless  it  be  to  say  that  two- 
thirds  of  the  murders  which  occur  in  Great  Britain 
are  committed  by  Papists. —  Jhe  Christian,  Boston, 


Prussia             " 

100,000 

Austria             " 

77,0t0 

Spain                " 

4,113 

Naples              " 

2,750 

Roman  States  " 

750 

A  NOBLE  SEN  TIME  NT  FROMRUFUS  CEO  A  TE. 

The  tendency  to  follow  the  baser  rather  than  the 
nobler  utterances  of  the  great  men  of  a  country  is  a 
curious  trait  of  perversity  in  shallow  minds.  We 
would  recommend  to  their  study  the  following 
noble  thought  and  language  of  the  great  Rufus 
Choate,  which  is  worthy  of  being  enshrined  in  the 
hearts  of  all  high-minded  Americans.  'National 
Hatred"  was  the  topic  of  one  of  his  orations.  In  it 
he  said: 

"No,  sir,  we  are  above  all  this.  Let  the  Highland 
clansman,  half  naked,  half-civilized,  half-blinded  by 
the  peat  smoke  of  his  cavern,  have  the  hereditary 
enemy  and  his  hereditary  enmity,  and  keep  the  keen, 
deep  and  precious  hatred,  set  on  fire  of  hell,  alive  if 
he  can;  let  the  North  American  Indian  have  his  and 
hand  it  down  from  father  to  son  by  heaven  knows 
what  symbols  of  alligators  and  rattlesnakes  and  war- 
clubs  smeared  with  vermilion  and  entwined  with 
scarlet;  let  such  a  country  as  Poland,  cloven  to  the 
earth,  the  armed  heel  on  the  radiant  forehead,  her 
body  dead,  her  soul  incapable  to  die — let  her  re- 
member the  wrongs  of  days  long  past;  let  the  lost 
and  wandering  tribes  of  Israel  remember  theirs— 
the  manliness  and  the  sympathy  of  the  world  may 
allow  or  pardon  this  to  them;  but  shall  Aqjerica, 
young,  free  and  prosperous,  just  setting  out  on  the 
highway  of  heaven,  decorating  and  cheering  "the 
elevated  sphere  she  just  begins  to  move  in,  glittering 
like  the  morning  star,  full  of  life  and  joy — shall  she 
be  supposed  to  be  polluting  and  corroding  her  noble 
and  happy  heart  by  moping  over  old  stories  of  stamp 
act,  and  tea  tax,  and  the  firing  of  the  Leopard  on  the 
Chesapeake  in  the  time  of  peace?" — Ihe  Critic,  Hali- 
fax, N.  a. 

Oar  readers  should  be  devoutly  thankful  for  what 
they  have  been  saved  from.  Read  the  names  of  the 
reception  committee  below,  and  then  imagine  what 
the  result  would  have  been  had  Mr.  Blaine  been 
nominated  for  the  Presidency.  The  Republican 
•  party  would  have  been  the  nest  of  every  Roman 
Irishman  in  the  country — if  not  this  year,  in  at  least 
four  years.  These  are  the  men  who  made  the  ar- 
rangements for  Mr.  Blaine's  reception  in  New  York: 
Patrick  Ford,  Patrick  Carrick,  Patrick  J.  Howe, 
Patrick  J.  O  CJrady,  Patrick  Cunniam,  Michael  Lo- 
gan, T.  F.  DriscoU,  John  Fitzgerald,  James  Mullane, 
'  John  McQarvey,  Peter  Brereton,  James  Carey,  Da- 
vid  Healey,  etc.,  etc — British  American,  Boston, 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


AxTGUST  23, 1888 


AN  APPEAL  FOR  KANSAS. 

ToPBKA.,  Kans.,  Aug.  15,  1888. 

It  seems  to  me  that  Kansas  is  a  field  much  neg- 
lected by  the  N.  C.  A.  workers.  At  present  I  know 
of  nothing  being  ddbe  against  the  lodge  in  this  im- 
portant State.  I  have  just  returned  home  after 
seven  weeks  of  preachirg  at  Jamestown  and  Beloit, 
in  northern  Kansas.  Oq  this  return  trip  I  spent 
two  days  with  old  neighbors  at  Abilene,  one  of  the 
most  beautiful  towns  I  have  seen.  At  these  and 
other  places  I  find  the  lodge  a  dominant  force. 
The  number  of  these  in  many  small  towns  in  sur- 
prising. In  Jamestown,  a  place  of  less  than  500 
people,  there  are  eight  or  nine  different  lodges.  One 
of  these  is  a  woman's  lodge.  There  is  hardly  a 
prominent  man  in  many  Kansas  towns  who  is  not 
contaminated  by  lodge  influence.  An  old  friend  in 
Abilene,  Rev.  C.  H.  Bagley,  a  native  of  the  isle  of 
St.  Helena,  and  known  to  many  Allegheny,  Penn., 
people,  told  me  that  he  knew  of  but  four  persons  of 
any  kind  of  prominence  or  intelligence  in  that  town 
of  5,000  inhabitants  who  were  not  members  of  some 
lodge.  Oue  man  there,  belonging  to  a  chief  congre- 
gation, is  also  a  member  in  nine  different  lodges. 
Mr.  Bagley  tries  now  and  then  to  lift  a  warning 
voice.  Once  lately  a  lodgite  told  him  he  was  crazy, 
and  added  that  the  lodge  had  grown  more  rapidly 
during  the  last  three  years,  in  both  the  number  of 
different  societies  and  of  members,  in  the  State  of 
Kansas  than  in  any  other  State  in  the  Union.  There 
is  no  reason  to  doubt  this  statement.  There  is  no 
trumpet  voice  sounding  a  warning,  and  young  men 
go  into  the  lodge  without  a  thought  of  its  evil  char- 
acter. The  cause  of  truth  has  friends  in  many 
places,  but  they  are  powerless  to  stem  the  tide. 

I  had  the  pleasure  of  meeting  President  Blanch- 
ard's  brother  at  Beloit,  and  others  whose  hearts  are 
with  Jehovah  against  Baal.  But  there  is  no  organ- 
ization, no  scattering  of  literature,  and  hardly  a 
minister  to  witness  by  public  voice  against  this  in- 
iquity that  is  sapping  the  spiritual  strength  of  our 
great  men. 

In  view  of  such  facts  as  these,  who  can  doubt  the 
need  of  this  mighty  field?  It  is  a  time  of  laying 
foundations,  and  the  magnificent  empire  that  must 
riee  on  these  vast  plains  cannot  stand  on  a  base 
planned  in  hell.  No  one  awake  to  the  questions  of 
the  present  can  doubt  the  transcendent  need  afid 
importance  of  the  West  as  a  field  for  Christian  labor. 
Whoever  reads  and  ponders  Dr.  Strong's  "Oar  Coun- 
try" must  be  cognizant  of  this.  The  South  may  cry 
mightily,  and  the  East  demand  instant  putting  forth 
of  every  energy  to  save  its  cities  from  becoming 
suburbs  of  heli,  but  the  lines  of  power  are  focusing 
here  in  the  West,  and  that  influence,  be  it  Jehovah's 
or  Satan's,  that  grasps  the  opportunity  will  wield 
the  destinies  of  America  and  of  the  world.  I  believe 
the  time  is  ripe  for  immediate  aggressive  anti-secret 
work.  After  personal  conferences,  and  distributing 
N.  C.  A.  literatuio  on  trains  and  elsewhere,  I  feel 
sure  that  many  are  ready  to  listen.  The  present  is 
a  good  time  from  the  fact  that  the  lodges  are  over- 
reaching themselves.  They  are  becoming  a  burden 
to  the  people;  they  have  in  cases  mixed  in  with 
strikers,  and  shown  other  anarchical  tendencies. 
Why  not  begin  systematic  work?  I  appeal  to  the 
N.  C.  A.  to  do  something  for  Kansas.  In  my  small 
way  I  would  be  glad  to  further  the  cause  in  my  own 
State.  But  I  expect  to  leave  soon  for  New  York, 
and  yet  I  cannot  go  without  saying  something  for 
ttis  needy  field.  May  not  some  one  be  secured  to 
canvass  the  State,  and  turn  "the  Lord's  great  light" 
on  the  dark  dens  that  breed  corruption  for  the  de- 
vouring of  this  central  commonwealth?  Yours  for 
Jehovah,  Thos.  M.  Chalmers. 


ators  George  and  Hoar  were  the  principal  figures. 
Senator  George  had  read  to  the  Senate  resolutions 
of  the  Glouster  Knights  of  Labor,  denunciatory  of 
capitalists  in  general,  and  of  the  Eastern  owners  of 
fishing  vessels  in  particular,  showing  the  condition 
of  the  laboring  classes  to  be  one  of  poverty  and  op- 
pression, and  commenting  as  he  read.  This  brought 
the  Senator  from  Massachusetts  to  his  feet  with  a 
bound.  He  replied  that  the  Senator  from  Missis- 
sippi did  not  know  what  be  was  talking  about,  and 
that  the  picture  he  had  drawn  of  the  fisheries  and 
the  fishery  interests,  and  of  the  laboring  men  and 
capitalists  of  Massachusetts,  was  a  slander  in  gen- 
eral, a  slander  in  detail,  a  slander  in  gross,  and  a 
slander  in  particular.  He  thought  it  exceeded  the 
limits  of  comedy  and  burlesque  for  Senator  George, 
whose  ideas  of  capital  and  labor  (until  within  the 
last  twenty-five  years)  were  that  capital  should  own 
labor,  and  have  a  right  to  whip  the  laborer  and  sep- 
arate him  from  his  wife  and  sell  his  children,  to  get 
up  in  the  Senate  and  undertake  to  taunt  the  people 
of  Massachusetts  about  shackles  and  unrequited 
toil. 

The  spot  chosen  for  General  Sheridan's  grave  is 
on  the  steep  hillside,  a  few  rods  distant  from  Ar- 
lington House,  the  old  Lee  Mansion,  now  the  office 
and  headquarters  of  the  National  Soldiers'  Cemete- 
ry. It  is  the  only  grave  in  front  of  the  Mansion, 
and  so,  fittingly,  Sherman  lies  in  front  of  that  army 
of  dead  heroes  which  finds  a  resting  place  at  Arling- 
ton. The  spot  is  in  plain  view  from  the  opposite 
side  of  the  river,  and  any  monument  which  may  be 
erected  there  will  be  visible  from  every  high  point 
in  Washington. 

In  the  District  of  Columbia  the  number  of  bar- 
room licenses  issued  since  November  1  is  about  150 
less  than  the  number  issued  during  the  same  period 
last  year.  This  does  not  mean,  however,  that  there 
are  150  less  saloons.  On  the  contrary,  over  100 
restaurants  are  nowdoing  business  without  a  license, 
and  in  defiance  of  law.  Their  proprietors  having 
asked  for  licenses,  and  been  refused,  have  simply 
continued  their  business  without  the  necessery  legal 
qualifications.  The  excuse  which  the  police  give 
lor  not  having  taken  measures  to  prevent  this  state 
of  affairs,  is  that  until  the  recent  decision  of  the 
District  Supreme  Court  there  was  no  certainty  as  to 
how  far  the  authority  of  the  Commissioners,  and 
their  power  to  refuse  licenses,  extended.  This  de- 
cision, however,  was  very  sweeping,  and  gave  to  the 
Commissioners  plenary  power  to  regulate  the  sale 
of  intoxicating  liquors  in  the  District,  and  to  limit 
the  number  of  saloons.  * 


OVB   WA8B1NGT0N  LETTER. 

Washington,  Aug.  17,  1888. 

This  has  already  been,  I  believe,  the  longest  Con- 
gressional session  since  the  war.  Many  of  the  old 
Senators  are  predicting  there  will  be  no  adjourn- 
ment of  Corgress  before  some  time  in  October.  The 
Senate  tariff  bill  is  in  the  way.  It  may  be  two 
weeks  before  the  measure  will  be  ready.  Then,  it  is 
said,  there  are  fifty-five  Senators  who  have  signified 
their  deeire  to  make  speeches  in  the  general  debate, 
and  although  this  will  occupy  nearly  a  month,  the 
Senate  cannot  ho  blamed,  in  these  stirring  campaign 
days,  for  seizing  the  opportunity,  so  long  monopo- 
lized by  the  House,  of  pouring  forth  its  pent-up 
tariff  elcciuence.  Then,  again,  after  the  close  of  the 
general  dubate,  the  bill  must  be  discussed  by  para- 
graphs, under  the  five-minute  rule,  before  a  vote  can 
be  taken. 

The  Fisheries  Treaty  has  continued  to  be  the  bone 
of  contention  in  the  Senate,  and  on  Tuesday  a  per- 
sonal debate  was  almost  precipitated,  in  which  Sen- 


for  three  months,  as  I  am  confident  he  is  a  man  of 
God,  and  only  needs  the  light  to  induce  him  to  break 
the  yoke  which  joins  him  with  unbelievers.  He  is 
a  man  of  Southern  birth  and  ancestral  pride,  but 
knows  no  distinction  among  God's  people.  His 
briet  remarks  to  Mrs.  Stoddard's  Industrial  School 
were  "apples  of  gold  in  pictures  of  silver,"  and  will 
long  remain  a  blessed  memory  with  pupils  and 
teacher.  He  is  devoting  a  portion  of  his  time  in 
his  own  city  to  similar  work.        J,  P.  Stoddard, 


— Elder  Joel  H.  Austin  writes  from  Lima,  Indi- 
ana, of  the  brief  visit  to  that  place  of  brethren  Shaw 
and  Johnston.  The  old-time  enthusiasm  against 
the  lodge  was  stirred  in  many  souls;  but  too  many 
heard  them  as  if  speaking  a  strange  language.  But 
the  people  discussed  the  secret  lodge  after  their  de- 
parture with  more  interest  than  for  years. 


GL1MP8E8  OF  IOWA  SDHMSR  WORK. 

Dear  Cynosure: — I  preached  for  Rev.  Mr.  Wylie, 
the  pastor  in  the  U.  P.  church  at  Red  Oak,  Mont- 
gomery county,  and  at  Pleasant  Lawn,  eight  miles 
in  the  country.  During  the  week  following  I  can- 
vassed the  community.  The  congregations  were 
small  and  the  brethren  were  scattered,  but  as  far  as 
I  could  see  them  I  found  a  commendable  willingness 
to  aid  our  reform  work  in  Iowa.  I  had  a  pleasant 
home  with  Rev.  Mr.  Wylie,  the  pastor,  while  at  Red 
Oak. 

From  Red  Oak  I  went  to  Riverton  in  Fremont 
county.  I  called  on  Rev.  Lytle,  the  pastor  of  Mount 
Carmel  W.  M.  church,  but  found  him  gone  to  an- 
other appointment.  I  preached,  however,  at  the 
Mount  Carmel  chapel  on  the  Sabbath  at  11  a.  m. 
and  at  5  p.  m.  The  first  part  of  the  following  week 
I  devoted  to  scattering  literature,  as  is  my  custom 
wherever  I  go,  and  to  canvassing  for  the  Iowa  Asso- 
ciation and  the  Cynosure.  The  W.  M.  brethren  are 
few  in  numbers  here,  but  they  all  showed  a  willing- 
ness to  aid  the  cause.  I  called  on  Rev.  Lytle  on  his 
return  home.  He  heartily  sympathized  with  the 
Iowa  work;  and  he  and  his  wife,  who  is  also  an 
earnest  Christian  reformer,  contributed  five  dollars 
to  it. 

From  Riverton  I  went  to  Shenandoah  and  called 
on  the  editor  of  the  Fire  Brand.  1  also  saw  Rev. 
Stannard,  pastor  of  tne  Free  Methodist  circuit,  and 
Rev.  Mr.  Allen,  the  district  chairman.  I  went  to 
Bingham,  five  miles  distant,  and  took  three  sub- 
scriptions to  the  Cynosure  among  the  Free  Method- 
ist brethren,  and  attended  their  prayer  meeting.  I 
then  went  to  Imogene,  a  small  town  a  few  miles 
from  Shenandoah,  and  secured  one  donation.  I  then 
returned  to  Shenandoah  and,  by  invitation,  stopped 
over  the  Sabbath  with  Bro.  Allen. 

It  was  Saturday.  A  district  camp  meeting  was 
in  progress,  having  been  begun  the  night  before. 
Being  cordially  invited  to  do  so,  I  preached  once, 
and  followed  other  ministers  with  remarks  a  couple 
of  times.  On  Monday,  after  an  early  prayer  meet- 
ing and  a  love  feast,  I  came  on  to  Stanton,  Mont- 
gomery county,  where  I  now  am.  I  sent  thirteen 
new  subscribers  to  the  Cynosure  last  week,  all  for  a 
year.  C.  F.  Hawley. 


Beform  News. 


NOTES  OF  THE  WASHINGTON  WORK. 

Washington,  D.  C,  Aug.  10,  1888. 
At  the  noon  prayer  meeting  to-day  I  met  a  dear 
brother  in  Christ  from  Norfolk,  Va.  His  remarks 
came  from  the  heart  and  reached  the  hearts  of  all 
who  heard  him.  I  learned  that  he  was  a  minister, 
and  engaged  not  simply  in  preaching  as  a  profes- 
sion, but  in  saving  souls.  I  handed  him  a  few  leaf- 
lets and  invited  him  to  call  at  No.  215,  4^  street. 
He  took  the  number  and  came  in  a  little  later.  I 
noticed  a  modest  emblem  of  the  third  degree  of 
Freemasonry  on  his  tie  and  felt  a  great  desire  to 
say  a  few  words  to  him  on  the  subject.  He  read  at 
once  on  entering  the  N.  C.  A.  office  the  character  of 
our  mission  in  the  placards  on  the  walls.  When  I 
spoke  of  objections  to  the  lodge  and  gave  as  my 
chief  reason  for  opposing  the  system  that  it  rejected 
Christ,  he  smiled  and  expressed  surprise  at  my 
ignorance.  He  said,  "I  am  not  always  recognized 
by  my  brethren  in  the  church  and  ministry,  but  my 
Masonic  brethren  are  always  and  everywhere  true, 
and  I  find  it  a  great  help  iif  reaching  many  I  could 
not  otherwise  approach,"  etc  1  admitted  the  seem- 
ing advantages,  because  it  is  true;  but  called  his  at- 
tention to  the  price  of  personal  liberty  and  private 
judgment  at  which  those  favors  were  purchased,  and 
urged  that  to  deny  Christ  before  men  for  any  con- 
sideration was  a  dangerous  experiment.  He  listened 
attentively,  but  made  no  reply.  He  was  evidently 
not  well  informed,  but  unlike  many  others,  was  wil- 
ling to  read.  I  gave  him  a  supply  of  our  tracts, 
and  received  a  cordial  invitation  to  visit  him  at  his 
home,  and  I  shall  ask  that  the  Cynosure  be  sent  him 


CENTRAL  LOUISIANA. 


FURTHER   NOTES   OP   TRAVEL   AND   LABOR. 

Cheneyvillb,  La.,  Aug.  4,  1888. 

Dear  Cynosure: — I  came  here  from  Alexandria 
on  the  3d,  and  was  kindly  received  and  entertained 
by  Rev.  C.  L.  Roberts.  There  are  about  300  inhab- 
itants in  this  place,  the  majority  of  whom  are  col- 
ored, a  few  of  them  doing  very  well.  Mr.  O'Neil,  a 
colored  gentleman,  has  one  of  the  largest  retail  bus- 
iness houses  in  the  place.  Cheneyville  sets  on 
Bayou  Boeuf,  formerly  a  navigable  stream.  The 
T.  &  P,  and  the  M.  L.  &  T.  railroads  pass  through 
here. 

There  are  one  Baptist,  one  Episcopal  and  one  Dis- 
ciple church  here  (white),  with  one  Baptist  and  one 
M.  E.,  colored.  The  secret  Tabernacles  existed  here 
once,  but  they  are  all  broken  to  pieces.  There  is 
but  one  secret  lodge  here  among  the  colored,  and 
that  is  the  Farmers'  Alliance.  It  is  trying  to  lay 
every  inducement  possible  before  the  people  to 
make  proselytes.  They  have  been  running  a  school 
three  months  in  the  St.  Paul  M.  E.  church,  under 
the  auspices  of  the  Alliance.  They  have  paid  their 
teacher  thus  far  regularly  $25  per  month.  I  visited 
the  school  yesterday  and  was  introduced  to  Miss 
Lotta  M.  Davis  of  Jackson,  La.,  the  faithful  teacher. 
Rev.  C.  L  Roberts,  pastor  of  Edgefield  Baptist 
church,  belongs  to  no  secret  lodge.  He  was  at  the 
N.  C.  A.  convention  in  New  Orleans,  and  heard  Bro. 
Countee's  ever-memorable  speech  and  the  wonderful 
lecture  of  Rev.  J.  F.  Browne.  He  thinks  secrecy  an 
injury  to  the  church.  The  white  and  colored  citi- 
zens seem  to  live  in  harmony  here.  Bro.  Roberts 
teaches  his  people  temperance  and  morality.  He 
has  a  handsome  little  farm  of  six  acres,  with  a  com- 
fortable dwelling  and  a  fine  crop. 

The  Alliance  school  bad  their  barbecue  and  exhi- 


August  23, 1888 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSUKE. 


bition  to-day.  There  were  several  addresses  deliv- 
ered, and  I  was  among  them.  My  subject,  by  re- 
quest of  Mr.  Luroy,  one  of  the  heads  of  the  Alli- 
ance, was  "The  Benefit  of  Education  to  the  Negro." 
I  showed  the  uselessness  of  lodgery  in  educating 
the  Negro.  After  I  had  finished  Mr,  Luroy  moved 
to  tender  the  N.  C.  A.  lecturer  a  vote  of  thanks  for 
the  excellent  lecture.  It  was  unanimouslv  carried. 
I  had  no  tracts  to  distribute,  and  I  left  at  3:30  p.  m. 
to  take  the  train,  with  a  promise  to  Elder  Roberts 
to  return  Wednesday  evening  next  and  meet  his 
church  and  distribute  tracts  to  his  congregation. 

Opelotisas,  La,,  Aug.  7. — I  left  Cheneyville  Sat- 
urday and  arrived  here  at  7:30  p.  m.  I  was  kindly 
received  by  Rev.  A.  M.  Newman,  president  elect  of 
the  Baptist  State  Convention.  I  attended  Sabbath- 
school  at  Zion  Baptist  church,  and  lectured  to  the 
school  by  invitation  of  Bro.  Newman.  This  school 
is  one  of  the  most  intelligent  in  our  State.  I  at- 
tended covenant  meeting  at  the  same  church.  The 
Spirit  of  the  Lord  was  present.  I  preached  at  8  p.m. 
by  invitation  of  Bro.  Newman  on  "The  Clandestine 
Marriage."  1  also  arraigned  the  lodge  and  distrib- 
uted about  200  tracts  and  copies  of  the  Cynosure. 

This  place  has  been  for  years  the  seat  of  the  Su- 
preme Court  of  the  State.  Opelousas  is  an  inland 
town,  on  the  Southern  Pacific  railway  and  at  the 
northwest  corner  of  the  great  Opelousas  prairie. 
There  are  about  4,500  inhabitants,  the  majority  of 
whom  are  colored:  and,  praise  the  Lord  I  there  is  not 
a  colored  secret  lodge  in  the  city — a  strange  thing, 
indeed.  There  were  two  lodges  here,  but  they  have 
both  broken  down — as  all  of  them  will  eventu- 
ally do. 

There  is  nothing  excellent  on  the  Southern  Pa- 
cific, saving  its  excellent  fare  of  four  cents  per  mile, 
if  you  purchase  tickets  before  entering  the  cars,  or 
whatever  the  conductor  pleases  to  charge  after  en- 
tering the  cars.  Bro.  Newman  is  a  go-ahead  anti- 
lodge  man.  It  will  be  well  for  friends  to  write  to 
him  here  and  send  him  tracts. 

It  is  strange  to  see  that  down  here  in  Louisiana 
six  miles  distance  makes  such  changes  in  the  peo- 
ple. Vernon  parish  from  Walnut  Hill  to  Cliftons 
is  perfect  unity  between  races;  also  from  Hemp- 
hill to  the  Rapides  Bayou.  Then  from  there 
very  near  to  Alexandria,  a  strict  color  line  is  drawn, 
and  the  Negro  best  not  attempt  to  cross  it. 

A  part  of  this  city  is  slightly  hilly  and  the  other 
part  is  almost  a  perfect  table-land.  Washington  is 
about  six  miles  northeast  from  here  on  the  Bayou 
Courtableau.  It  is  an  American  town,  secretism 
having  little  hold  there. 

Opelousas  is  an  old  Creole  city.  About  eight- 
tenths  of  the  natives  here  are  Roman  Catholics. 
This  may,  in  part,  account  for  the  scarcity  of  secret- 
ism. However,  the  secret  lodges  are  not  altogether 
forgotten  here  by  the  whites.  The  Farmers'  Alli- 
ance (white),  with  about  150  members  and  dele- 
gates, are  in  secret  session  here  since  Aug.  1st,  ac- 
cording to  the  St.  Landry  Democrat,  The  great 
fight  in  Zion  Baptist  church  with  the  Baptist  State 
Convention  here  last  year,  had  the  effect  to  draw 
every  Baptist  member  out  of  the  secret  lodges;  and 
as  soon  as  the  Christians  withdrew  from  them,  they 
went  to  pieces.  That  is  just  what  lodgery  all  over 
the  country  would  do  if  every  Christian  would  step 
down  and  out  of  them.  But  just  so  long  as  the 
Christians  and  ministers  will  fellowship  these  devil- 
tries, just  so  long  they  will  continue  to  swear  its 
candidates  "to  hail,  forever  conceal  and  never  re- 
veal." * 

I  attended  pra}er  meeting  at  Zion  Baptist  church 
last  night,  ard  spoke  by  invitation  of  the  pastor. 
The  people  seemed  to  be  deeply  interested  in  what 
I  said.  Bro.  Newman  very  heartily  endorsed  me 
and  recommended  our  work  as  a  grand  one  among 
the  colored  people.  The  district  conference  of  the 
M.  E.  church  of  this  district  meets  here  to-morrow 
(Wednesday),  but  as  I  did  not  know  it  in  time,  other 
engagements  will  prevent  me  from  remaining  over 
for  it.  However,  I  am  in  hope  to  be  able  to  meet 
the  Eighth  District  Baptist  association  on  the  16th, 
at  Bayou  Desglaize.  I  leave  here  to-day  for  Eola 
and  Cheneyville.  There  are  five  white  and  two  col- 
ored cBUrcbes  here  in  Opelousas.  The  colored  peo- 
ple are  very  poor;  wages  are  lower  here  than  in  any 
other  large  town  I  know  of. 

EoLA,  La.,  Aug.  8.— I  left  Opelousas  yesterday 
morning,  and  bad  a  plain  view  of  the  great  Opelou- 
sas prairie.  Wo  were  soon  in  the  town  of  Washing- 
tou,  where  I  Lad  a  fifleon  minutes'  peep  at  the  city 
where  the  remains  of  tlje  noble  De  Solo  were  laid. 
The  country  west  of  the  Courtableau  between  this 
place  and  Washington  is  an  almost  perfect  table- 
l^id. 

This  is  a  small  place  with  three  stores,  two  col- 
ored and  one  small  white  church.  I  was  kindly  re- 
ceived and  entertained  by  sister  and  Bro.  M.  A. 


Wade.  I  walked  two  miles  down  on  Bayou  Boeuf 
to  the  New  Pilgrim  Baptist  church,  where  I  met 
sister  Wade,  busy  in  her  large  school.  I  distributed 
many  tracts  here.  There  is  a  lodge  of  colored  K. 
of  P.  here  in  the  M.  E.  church.  They  are  trying  to 
make  other  converts  to  lodgery,  but  they  have  not, 
as  yet,  been  very  successful.  It  is  a  shame  to  see 
that  these  poor  people  work  for  from  50  to  70  cents 
per  day  and  board  themselves,  some  of  them  having 
four  and  five  small  children  to  support,  and  their 
lodges  to  keep  up.  Yea,  some  of  them  will  let  their 
families  suffer  rather  than  neglect  their  secret  lodges. 
I  have  not  seen  either  of  the  pastors,  as  they  are 
both  absent.  I  think  I  reached  Eola  just  in  time 
(D,  V.)  to  prevent  the  lodge  cancer  from  spreading. 
It  is  not  an  easy  matter  to  get  subscribers  here,  so 
we  must  have  a  few  Cynosures  sent  here  free  to  save 
these  poor,  poor  people. 

Cheneyville,  La.,  Aug.  9. — I  left  Eola  yesterday 
afternoon  and  reached  this  place  at  3  p.  m.  Bro. 
Roberts  was  quietly  waiting  for  me.  I  preached  at 
Edgefield  Baptist  church  last  night  and  distributed 
very  many  tracts.  After  services  several  of  the 
Alliance  brethren  came  up  to  me  and  tried  to  ex- 
plain the  object  of  their  lodge  as  being  different  from 
and  better  than  other  secret  lodges.  One  argued 
that  the  churches  don't  do  their  duty,  therefore  the 
members  resort  to  secret  lodges  for  help.  The  good 
work  has  begun  here.  It  will  be  well  for  friends 
to  write  to  Rev.  C.  L.  Roberts,  Cheneyville,  La.,  and 
send  reform  tracts.  He  is  an  out-and-out  temper- 
ance man,  and  says  if  he  votes  in  November,  it  will 
be  the  Prohibition  ticket.  Both  Revs.  Roberts  and 
Newman  are  Prohibitionists.  Bro.  Roberts  is  presi- 
dent of  the  Eighth,  and  Bro.  Newman  of  Opelousas 
is  president  of  the  Seventh  District  Baptist  associa- 
tion. So  you  can  see  those  two  faithful  servants  of 
God  have  great  influence  among  their  brethren. 

Fbancis  J.  Davidson. 


A  WBBK  IN  OBBRLIN. 

Oberlin,  Ohio,  Aug.  14,  1888. 

Dear  Ci^nosdre: — A  reunion  with  all  the  mem- 
bers of  my  family  has  been  such  an  enjoyment,  and 
the  many  things  to  do  in  getting  settled  in  a  new 
home  have  made  me  so  busy,  that  I  could  not  write 
till  now.  I  reached  here  on  the  evening  of  the  4th 
inst,  and  found  my  family  well;  attended  service 
in  the  Second  Congregational  church  on  Sabbath, 
and  listened  to  an  excellent  discourse  by  Rev.  Dr. 
Hutchins,  who  expects  soon  to  leave  for  Los  Ange- 
les, Cal.,  to  which  place  he  is  called.  Dr;  Brand  of 
the  First  Church  is  away,  and  yesterday  Rev.  John 
Nutting  (a  Wheaton  graduate)  supplied  his  pulpit. 
Bro.  Nutting  is  staying  here  for  the  time  being,  but 
has  a  call  to  Newport,  Ky.,  to  which  place  he  soon 
expects  to  go. 

On  last  Thursday  was  held  here  the  Prohibition 
County  Convention.  It  was  large  and  enthusiastic. 
A  procession  three-fourths  of  a  mile  long,  with  many 
banners  and  a  fine  band  of  music,  indicated  the  en- 
thusiasm, while  the  part  that  the  ladies  had  in  the 
whole  affair  was  quite  conspicuous.  The  principal 
orator  of  the  occasion,  Mr.  Logan  of  Delaware  coun- 
ty, is  an  able  speaker,  and  the  crowded  audience  in 
the  college  chapel  listened  with  attention  and  much 
applause  to  his  speech  of  more  than  an  hour.  This 
was  not  distinctively  an  Oberlin  movement.  The 
delegations  from  other  parts  of  the  county  were  prom- 
inent, while  the  college  people  proper  had  little  to 
do  with  the  convention.  A  full  county  ticket  was 
nominated,  and  a  large  vote  will  be  given. 

The  Ohio  Christian  Alliance  has  been  in  session 
for  several  days  at  Linnwood,  on  the  Lake  shore. 
This  is  an  association  for  the  promotion  of  "Sancti- 
fication,"  "Faith-healing,"  and  the  doctrine  of  the 
pre-millenial  advent  of  our  Lord.  They  hold  an- 
nual meetings  at  that  place,  and  are  about  to  secure 
permanent  grounds  for  their  use.  Our  most  excel- 
and  devoted  co-worker,  Daa.  0.  M.  Brown  of  this 
place,  is  a  leader  in  this  movement. 

Miss  Carrie  Judd  of  Buffalo,  N.  Y.,  who  was  a 
prominent  worker  in  the  convention,  afterwards  came 
here  and  gave  two  Bible  readings  in  the  chapel  of 
the  First  Church.  To  one  of  these  I  listened,  and 
was  greatly  impressed  with  the  simplicity,  earnest- 
ness and  marked  ability  of  this  Christian  young 
lady.  I  wish  to  say,however,with  all  duo  deference  to 
the  exalted  character  and  motives  of  those  conduct- 
ing such  meetings,  that  the  practice  of  going  away 
into  the  woods  once  a  year,  at  much  cost  and  con- 
siderable inconvenience,  to  discuss  iiuestions  that 
could  be  quite  as  well  considered  iu  the  quiet  of 
home,  or  in  one's  own  place  of  public  worship,  looks 
like  a  religious  dissipation  and  a  waste  of  resources. 
I  knowlhat  this  kind  of  religious  gatherings  is  very 
prevalent  and  popular,  but  it  seems  to  me  they  tend 
to  build  up  a  piety  that  is  effeminate  and  has  in  it 


a  large  element  of  self-indulgence.  Those  who  are 
waiting  for  the  coming  of  their  Lord  will  be  best 
prepared  by  a  careful  attention  to  the  work  he  has 
given  them. 

I  have  found  the  old  Anti-masonic  guard  here  all 
faithful.  They  have  abated  not  one  atom  ot  their 
abhorrence  of  the  lodge  system.  Nevertheless,  their 
time  and  means  seem  specially  demanded  for  the  pro- 
motion of  the  cause  of  National  and  State  Prohibition. 
"One  thing  at  a  time"seems  to  be  as  much  a  law  in  mor- 
al and  political  development,  as  in  the  functions  of 
man's  physical  system.  The  theory  that  "Similar 
cures  similar"  rests  on  this  law.  The  overthrow  of 
the  liquor  traffic,  when  once  it  has  been  decided  on 
by  the  popular  voice,  will  necessitate,  as  well  as 
make  way  for,  the  overthrow  of  the  lodge  system. 
There  are  multitudes,  including  such  men  as  the 
honored  president  of  Oberlin  College,  who  thorough- 
ly despise  the  lodge,  but  do  not  feel  constrained  to 
make  war  upon  it  There  is  a  great  host  of  con- 
servative anti-secrecy  people  here  and  elsewhere, 
who  will  ere  long  be  forced  to  meet  this  question 
and  settle  it,  as  slavery  was  settled;  and  as  every 
iniquitous  system  must  be  eventually  suppressed. 
After  a  brief  visit  to  Medina  county  I  hope  to  re- 
turn West.     Yours  in  the  Lord,     H.  H.  Hinman. 

NOTSa  FROM  THE  BIQ  ARNOLD  TENT. 


While  making  active  preparations  for  again  start- 
ing on  a  lengthy  lecturing  tour,  came  the  sad  news 
that  Mr.  A.  was  now  an  orphan.  He  was  fatherless 
before  our  marriage,  and  now  the  dear  mother  who 
had  for  many  years  watched  with  kind  solicitude 
over  both  the  temporal  and  the  eternal  interests  of 
her  boys,  had  breathed  her  last  prayer  for  them  and 
gone — "where  God  and  the  angels  live." 

With  the  double  duty  of  laying  away  in  the  silent 
tomb  the  form  of  Mother  Arnold  and  of  beginning 
work,  we  bade  adieu  to  Wheaton  and  took  the  train 
for  Sycamore,  where  the  excellent  Free  Methodist 
minister  gave  Gospel  consolation. 

There  is  wonderful  consecration  on  the  part  ot  the 
ministry  of  the  Free  Methodist  church,  henca  the 
presence  of  the  Holy  Spirit  in  a  wonderful  degree 
attends  their  efforts.  'The  Sycamore  pastor  called  at 
our  large  tent  one  day  and  was  introduced  to  an 
aged  man  who  chanced  to  be  in.  Now  what  do  you 
suppose  the  man  of  God  did?  Why  just  the  thing 
that  any  Christian  who  believes  heaven  else  hell 
awaits  every  man.  He  wisely  inquired  after  the 
health  of  the  man's  soul,  and  finding  him  lost,  did 
as  a  lawyer  would  do,  brought  to  bear  upon  the  case 
the  very  best  reasonings  and  persuasions  he  could 
command.  This  was  done  so  kindly  and  yet  so 
plainly  that  the  man,  though  old  in  sin,  almost  be- 
came as  a  little  child.  Reader,  will  you  be  faithful 
in  personal  work? 

Mr.  A.'s  first  course  of  lectures,  ending  with  the 
two  on  Baal  worship,  were  given  in  a  hall  in  Genoa. 
We  rented  vacant  rooms  in  a  house  occupied  in  part 
by  the  family  of  the  saloon-keeper.  The  men  were 
at  first  painfully  bold;  but  after  overhearing  the 
godly  conversation,  sacred  songs  and  prayer,  their 
manners  were  greatly  changed.  The  mother  and 
little  girl  went  with  us  to  the  M.  E.  church  Sabbath 
morning,  and  seemed  to  enjoy  the  class-meeting. 
The  partition  between  our  sitting-rooms  was  so  frail 
that  the  two  families  could  hear  what  was  going  on 
in  each  other's  apartment  Sabbath  afternoon  the 
little  girl  came  in  and  said  her  papa  wanted  us  to 
sing;  so  Mr.  A.  got  the  Gospel  Songs  and  gladly  we 
sang  with  the  Spirit  as  well  as  the  understanding. 

Two  lectures  were  held  in  the  M.  E.  church  next, 
when  we  met  the  excellent  family  of  Bro.  M.  Wor- 
cester, with  whom  we  used  to  enjoy  quart*  rly  meet- 
ings in  the  Wesleyan  church  at  Brush  Point 

Next  we  went  to  Sycamore,  where  we  met  the  two 
students  who  were  to  be  our  helpers.  Here  the  large 
tent  was  brought  Four  lectures  were  given  in  which 
God  gave  to  Mr.  Arnold  great  boldness  of  speech 
against  tobacco,  rum,  gambling,  Masonry  and  Odd- 
fellowship  and  other  evils.  Some  of  the  dear  friends 
of  Sycamore  expressed  their  opinion  that  the  life  of 
the  lecturer  was  in  jeopardy. 

While  here  the  Noss  family,  who  were  advertised 
for  a  pure,  sensible,  refined,  splendid  concert — one 
which  would  not  hurt  the  most  conscientious  —were 
listened  to  by  our  family  in  the  largo  hall  of  the  lit- 
tle city,  with  the  hope  of  self-improvement  in  the 
lino  of  music  But  as  that  which  causes  the  soul  of 
the  listener  intense  agony  is  not  easily  c  >pie  I,  wo 
probably  came  away  wilbcul  benefit  The  dau  h 
ters,  who  handle*!  their  musical  instruments  wit  i 
skill,  were  showily  dressed,  and  their  bold  air,  if 
copied  by  all  the  children  who  were  present,  would 
mar  the  bliss  of  many  a  home.  One  of  the  young 
women  came  upon  the  stage  dressed  as  a  man.  He  , 
piece,  as  also  nearly  if  not  quite  all  the  pieces,  were 


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THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSUKE. 


AuaxiST  23, 1888 


far  from  being  to  the  glory  of  God  or  the  elevation 
of  mankind.  A  Catholic  girl  has  since  informed  us 
that  for  girls  to  appear  on  the  stage  dressed  in  tights 
is  a  common  practice  at  theaters. 

Reader,  do  you  know  that  God's  Word  says,  "The 
woman  shall  not  wear  that  which  pertaineth  unto  a 
man,  neither  shall  a  man  put  on  a  woman's  garment: 
for  all  that  do  so  are  abomination  unto  the  Lord  thy 
God."  Added  to  this  is  a  law  of  our  land  similar 
to  the  one  quoted.  That  young  woman  ought  to 
have  been  arrested  right  on  the  spot  It  would  have 
been  a  wholesome  lesson  to  this  class  of  people  who 
are  turning  society  into  channels  of  sin.  Not  know- 
ing it  to  be  our  privilege  to  call  for  the  arrest  of  the 
girl,  we  simply  groaned  aloud  and  soon  found  our 
way  to  the  door.  Some  time  ago  we  learned  that 
some  of  the  good  women  of  Chicago  moved  the  au- 
thorities of  that  place  to  cause  the  removal  of  shame- 
ful  posters  which  had  been  put  up  in  the  interest  of 
some  sort  of  entertainment.  Who  ever  saw  a  poster 
advertising  a  circus  that  was  not  indecent?  Even 
P.  T.  Bamum,  who  is  said  to  be  a  Presbyterian,  has 
large  pictures  of  people  in  shameful  dress  and  posi- 
tion. And  although  there  may  be  a  show  of  good 
reasoning  in  the  idea  of  it  being  a  legitimate  matter 
to  allow  the  public  the  privilege  of  seeing  a  large 
collection  of  animals,  yet  when  we  take  into  consid- 
eration the  enormous  waste  of  money  on  gorgeous 
equipage,  the  vain  pomp  and  glory  which  each  of  up, 
who  have  been  baptized  or  joined  the  church,  have 
publicly  renounced — solemnly  promising  to  forsake 
the  lusts  of  the  flesh  so  that  we  will  not  desire  or  be 
led  by  them.  Added  to  this  the  ludicrous  clowns 
who  perform  among  the  animals,  and  the  needless 
excitement  occasioned  by  seeing  uncommon  feats, 
have  a  very  great  demoralizing  influence  on  the 
children  and  youth  of  our  country.  Bamum  and 
Bailey  claim  that  their  daily  expenses  are  six  thou- 
sand eight  hundred  dollars.  God  calls  for  at  least 
one-tenth  of  the  income  of  all  his  children,  and  of 
course  his  right  to  the  hearts  and  tithes  of  the  rebel- 
lious is  just  the  same.  How  many  of  the  half  dol- 
lars that  go  to  make  up  that  $6,800  belonged  directly 
to  the  cause  of  Christ  on  earth? 

Oh,  reader,  awake!  gird  on  your  armor,  grasp 
your  sword  and  slay  sin  on  your  right  and  on  your 
left  Our  Sabbaths  are  almost  gone.  Our  churches 
are  becoming  cold  and  lifeless.  Our  pulpits  are  be- 
ing filled  by  lecturers  rather  than  preachers,  and 
what  shall  I  say  more?  Oh,  that  the  Spirit  of  the 
Lord  would  raise  up  a  standard  against  these  evils! 
Oh,  for  a  sweeping  revival  of  pure  and  undefiled  re- 
ligion!   Lord,  are  there  few  that  be  saved? 

Mas.  I.  R.  B.  Arnold. 


COERESFONDENCE. 


LABOR  AND  LODOBRT. 


Editor  Cynosure: — The  Union  Labor  party,  like 
the  late  Greenback  Labor  party,  is  manned  and 
manacled  by  Freemasonry.  Gen.  Weaver  and  his 
co-workers  are  zealous  lodgeites,  sworn  to  Masonic 
despotism  and  favoritism.  Not  satisfied  with  head- 
ing their  ticket  with  a  sworn  lodge  minion,  they 
must  needs  inflict  others  upon  the  movement  Ahira 
Manring,  the  Union  Labor  candidate  for  governor 
of  Missouri,  is  a  Royal  Arch  Mason,  who  has,  per- 
haps, made  more  Masonic  slaves  on  Grand  river 
than  any  other  man.  He  has  grown  gray  in  the 
service  of  Most  Worshipful  Grand  Masters  and 
Grand  Kings. 

The  government  of  Masonry  is  "completely  des- 
potic," so  says  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Missouri;  then 
what  consummation  of  cheek  and  gall  to  ask  honest 
laboring  men  to  vote  for  Ahira  Manring  and  his  ilk. 
God  and  humanity  pity  working  men  who  rely  on 
men  sworn  to  the  very  life  to  mastery  and  despot- 
ism. Such  Masonic  agitators,  prating  about  oppres- 
sion and  privileged  classes,  are  a  living  lie  from  the 
crown  of  the  head  to  the  soles  of  the  feet.  The  man 
bound  by  the  most  horrible  oaths  and  barbarous, 
mutilating  death  penalties  to  one-man  power,  to 
kingcraft  and  priestcraft— the  quintessence  of  treas- 
on and  conspiracy — is  hardly  a  suitable  represesent- 
ative  of  working  men. 

What  must  be  the  intelligence  and  acumen  of  la- 
borers who  vote  for  such  eworn  enemies  of  popular 
government?  Those  deluded  voters  deserve  the 
hearty  commiseration  of  all  honest  patriots.  What 
a  stupendous  farce  to  cast  a  ballot  for  an  avowed 
Freemason  to  better  the  condition  of  American 
working  men.  A  sincere  Freemason  is  the  sworn 
enemy  of  American  principles,  doctrines  and  insti- 
tutions. Let  every  voter  send  to  W.  I.  Phillips, 
221  West  Madison  street,  Chicago,  and  get  a  sworn 
exposition  of  Royal  Arch  Masonry,  before  support- 
ing Streeler,  Manring,  or  their  Masonic  company. 

M.  N.  BUTLKR. 


AMONG  CHICAGO  RBF0RMER8. 

Bloom,  111.,  Aug.  13,  1888. 

Dear  Cynosure  : — After  several  weeks  spent  in 
Wisconsin,  running  against  Good  Templars  at  near- 
ly every  turn,  and  finding  whole  lodges  opposed  to 
third  party  prohibition,  I  came  down  to  Chicago 
Saturday  and  met  with  the  Cook  County  Prohibition 
Committee  at  their  headquarters.  No.  95  Dearborn 
street  About  fifty  of  the  Prohibition  leaders  of  the 
county  were  assembled  here  in  the  rooms  of  the  Pott, 
the  county"  Prohibition  paper.  I  never  saw  a  body 
of  men  in  such  dead  earnest  The  very  atmosphere 
seemed  loaded  with  prohibition  sentiment.  The 
time  was  occupied  in  discussing  campaign  work; 
how  to  push  the  tent  work  and  the  agitation  gener- 
ally. 

Chicago  may  be  the  headquarters  of  dynamiters 
and  anarchists,  but  it  is  also  the  headquarters  of 
moral  reform  for  the  nation.  Here  the  National 
Christian  Association,  the  W.  C.  T.  U.  and  the  Na- 
tional Prohibition  headquarters  are  located,  and 
from  here  reform  sentiment  radiates  to  all  parts  of 
the  land. 

The  difiSculty  in  Wisconsin  was  to  find  places 
where  meetings  might  be  held.  But  the  difficult 
question  here  is,  what  points  shall  I  select  from  the 
many  proposed?  Bro.  William  Morrow,  who  is  a 
member  of  the  County  Committee,  was  present  at 
the  meeting  Saturday  and  took  me  down  to  Bloom, 
where  he  is  pastor  of  a  fine  congregation  of  Presby- 
terians, who  turned  out  twice  on  Sabbath  to  hear  my 
presentations  of  National  Reform.  One  brother, 
when  asked  how  he  liked  the  sermon,  said  he  felt 
as  though  they  had  a  slice  of  the  day  of  judg- 
ment. 

In  the  afternoon  I  drove  with  Bro.  Morrow  over 
to  Glenwood,  to  hear  my  old  friend,  B.  F.  Worrell, 
who  ministers  here  to  a  Presbyterian  congregation. 
He  was  just  rising  to  begin  his  sermon  when  his  eye 
caught  me  in  the  audience.  He  almost  collared  me 
and  dragged  me  out  before  his  people,  and  made  me 
preach.  It  was  a  very  pleasant  Sabbath  I  spent 
with  these  brethren  at  Bloom  and  Glenwood. 

M.  A.  Gault. 


PITH  AND  POINT. 


A  FIELD  FOB  SWINDLERS. 


I  wish  you  would  send  me  the  facts  as  to  what  God 
says  about  secretism.  I  wish  to  give  my  people  the 
truth  on  the  subject.  I  have  them  now  so  that  I  can 
speak  on  the  subject  without  their  becoming  offended 
over  the  matter.  If  I  can  get  a  "thus  saith  The  Lord," 
it  will  do  more  good  than  anything  else.  I  see  where 
Bro.  F.  J.  Davidson  says  it  would  be  a  good  thing  to 
publish  the  ritual  of  the  S.  8  C  ,  and  other  minor  lodges. 
I  would  suggest  that  the  ritual  of  U.  B.  F.  be  published; 
this  is  the  lodge  that  is  taking  the  day  in  Texas.  The 
secret  orders  are  multiplying  every  day.  The  old  ones 
are  dying  out  and  new  ones  being  made — yes,  they  are 
made;  that  is  the  way  they  get  them.  When  a  man  wants 
to  make  some  money  without  working  for  it,  he  gets  up 
an  order  and  starts  out,  and  in  a  few  months  he  has  all 
the  money  he  wants.  I  wish  there  was  a  law  to  have 
every  person  arrested  who  attempts  to  make  a  living  off 
the  people  in  this  way  — J.  R  McLean,  Paris,  Texas. 

WILL  SOME  HOUSEWIFE  ANSWER? 

My  wife  wants  me  to  ask  you  to  tell  us  through  "Farm 
Notes,"  in  your  valuable  paper,  how  to  can  green  corn, 
as  she  has  tried  different  ways  but  it  won't  keep.  A  re- 
liable recipe  would  be  of  great  benefit.  Our  crops  are 
plentiful;  corn  never  looked  more  promising.  This  is  a 
very  quiet  corner.  We  don't  have  any  political  excite- 
ment. The  two  old  parties  only  are  represented  here.  I 
am  so  disgusted  with  both  that  I  have  not  voted  for  a 
long  time. — J.  D.  Guengbbick,  Jmish,  Iowa. 

ANOTHEB  VBTBBAN    SUBSCBIBEB. 

I  don't  want  to  be  without  the  paper,  since  I  have 
taken  it  from  its  beginning  It  is  becoming  a  power  for 
good,  and  I  feel  more  and  more  that  its  position  on  the 
secrecy  question  is  right — (Rev.)  C.  D.  Bbooks,  Can- 
dor, N.  y.      • 

PABBING  AWAY. 

Coming  to  my  old  home  in  Rochester,  I  find  many  of 
my  old  friends  and  fellow  workers  gone  !  and  I  realize 
the  more: 

"Time  flies  I  man  dies  I 
Eternity's  at  hand  1" 
But 

"What's  best,  my  rest 
Is  in  Emanuel's  hand." 

Qbo.  W..  Clabk. 

the  memphis  school  commended. 

I  am  glad  to  see  that  Bro.  Countee  is  recovering,  and 
is  on  the  right  track  for  the  moral  and  religious  training 
of  our  race.  It  is  the  only  way  to  make  a  people  self- 
sustaining,  with  intelligence  sufficient  to  accept  Christ, 
not  only  in  theory,  but  in  fact.  Three  years  ago  we 
began  the  same  work  but  failed  on  accout  of  local 
preachers.    We  will  in  a  few  days  start  again.    I  call 


Reformed  Episcopalians'  attention  to  this  important  field 
in  the  South.  We  must  have  a  church  and  industrial 
work  in  Mobile. — I.  M.  Williams,  Mobile,  Ala. 


THE  SOUTHERN  COLLEGES. 


To  the  interesting  notes  from  Southern  Colleges 
of  last  week  we  have  the  pleasure  of  making  a  large 
addition.  A  considerable  number  write  in  general 
terms  that  books  in  opposition  to  secret  societies 
will  be  received.  To  most  they  will  be  welcome  and 
will  be  gladly  put  to  good  use  among  the  students. 
Besides  those  quoted  below,  replies  from  scoros  of 
others  have  been  received,  and  indicate  the  wide 
field  of  usefulness  open  to  the  generous  friend  who 
may  be  able  to  help  the  N.  C.  A.  place  its  books  in 
the  hands  of  thousands  of  Southern  students.  The 
following  extracts  will  be  of  interest: 

THE  COLUMBIAN  UNIVEB8ITT,  WASHINGTON,  D.  0. 

Books  opposed  to  secret  societies  would  be  admitted  if 
deemed  valuable.    We  are  ourselves  opposed  to  them. 

JOHNS   HOPKINS  UNIVEBSITY,  BALTIMOBE. 

Works  on  social  or  economic  subjects,  such  as  secret 
societie,  sbeheficial  societies,  labor  organizitions,  strikes, 
etc.,  would  be  very  acceptable,  and  would  be  thankfully 
acknowledged. 

NEW  WINDSOB  COLLEGE,  NEW  WINDSOR,  MD. 

We  are  very  happy  to  place  in  our  library  any  books 
"of  good,  moral  character,"  and  we  would  not  object 
discussing  fairly  on  both  or  either  side  secret  societies. 

TULANE  UNIVERSITY,  OF  NEW  0BLEAN8,  LA. 

I  discourage,  but  do  not  forbid  secret  societies.  Here 
they  generally  meet  at  the  houses  of  parents.  It  is  not 
a  special  evil  with  us,  as  our  students  all  live  in  families. 
I  would  gladly  place  books  mentioned  in  the  free  read- 
ing room. 

ST.  JOHN'S  COLLEGE,  ANNAPOLIS,  MD. 

We  shall  be  much  obliged  for  any  contributions.  Our 
library  is  most  wanting  in  works  of  fiction.  There  are 
no  secret  societies  at  the  college. 

WAKE   FOBEST  COLLEGE,  N.  C. 

We  do  not  allow  secret  Greek-letter  societies  here.  I 
would  be  glad  to  have  any  literature  on  the  subject. 

GEORGETOWN   COLLEGE,     GEOBGETOWN,  KY. 

As  we  do  not  allow  secret  societies  in  the  college  here, 
we  would  be  glad  to  get  "a  library  of  books"  on  that 
subject. 

UNIVEBSITY  OF  THE   SOUTH,  8BWANEE,  TENN. 

There  is  no  prej  udice  against  secret  societies  here.  On 
the  contrary,  the  university  encourages  the  growth  of 
fraternities  among  the  students. 


LITERATTTRE. 


Rev.  H.  A.  Thompson,  D.  D.,  of  Westerville, 
Ohio,  late  president  of  Otterbein  University,  who 
has  been  appointed  Commissioner  of  the  Depart- 
ment of  Education  at  the  Ohio  Centennial  Exposi- 
tion, Columbus,  desires  to  make  a  collection  of 
books  written  by  Ohio  men  and  women,  whether  the 
authors  were  born  in  the  State  or  were  at  any  time 
residents.  It  is  designed  to  get  a  copy  of  every 
such  book,  and  the  collection  is  to  become  the  prop- 
erty of  the  ArcbiBological  and  Historical  Society, 
and  will  be  under  the  custody  of  the  State  Librarian. 

The  midsummer  issue  of  The  American  Magaeine 
abounds  with  interesting  and  timely  literature.  Dr.  W. 
F .  Hutchinson  presents  the  fourth  of  his  finely  illus- 
trated articles  In  the  series,  "Along  tne  Caribbean,"  in 
this  instance  dealing  with  Trinidad.  Another  entertain- 
ing paper  is  entitled  "Where  Burgoyne  Surrendered,"  by 
C.  H.  Crandall,  in  which  is  described  the  Saratoga 
Monument  that  is  soon  to  be  unveiled.  Frederick  (}. 
Schwatka,  the  noted  Arctic  explorer,  tells  about  "The 
American  Arctic  Savage"  in  an  entertaining  manner,  and 
Trebor  Ohl  has  an  illustrated  paper  on  "Six  Story  Tell- 
ers for  Children,"  in  which  she  speaks  of  the  lives  and 
work  of  Louise  Imogen  Guiney,  Margaret  Sidney,  Mrs. 
Abby  Morton  Diaz,  Nora  Perry,  Mrs.  Lizzie  W.  Champ- 
ney  and  Alice  Wellington  Rollins.  Joel  Benton  has  a 
poem  on  "Midsummer,"  and  Sara  F.  Goodrich  describes 
"The  Country  in  Midsummer."  An  article  on  the  "First 
Capital  of  Kansas  is  full  of  historical  interest,  though 
lacking  in  literary  merit.  Pawnee  was  the  name  of  the 
now  long  defunct  city. 

Through  the  kindness  of  President  S.  H.  Peabody  we 
have  a  copy  of  the  second  bulletin  issued  by  the  Agri- 
cultural Experiment  Station  connected  with  the  Uni- 
versity of  Illinois  at  Champaign.  It  is  on  the  subject  of 
Ensilage.  This  document  will  be  of  value  to  all  stock- 
raisers  of  the  State,  who  can  obtain  a  copy  at  the  uni- 
versity. 

The  Cosmopolitan  Magazine,  after  dropping  a  number, 
has  renewed  publication  with  a  brilliant  number.  A 
legitimate  use  is  at  last  found  for  the  colored  plates  in 
illustrating  a  bright  paper  full  of  rose-lore,  on  "The 
Romance  of  Roses,"  by  Mrs.  Sophia  B.  Herrick.  China- 
town of  New  York,  with  its  10,000  inhabitants,  is  de- 
scribed by  Wong  Chin  Foo,  the  Chinese  philosopher  and 
lecturer,  who  is  also  a  semi  heathen  infidel.     He  takes 


AuausT  23, 1888 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


occasion  to  slander  hia  countrymen  who 
have  given  up  their  dark  superstitions 
and  embraced  Chris'tianity.  He  de- 
scribes quaintly  many  of  the  Chinese  cus- 
toms in  America,  as  the  "fan  tan"  gam- 
bling games  which  are  so  carefully 
guarded  in  San  Francisco,  the  restau- 
rants where  dried  ducks  and  cuttle-flsh 
are  served  unsavory  to  the  eye,  the  barber 
shop,  joss  worship.  A  conspicuous  arti- 
cle is  by  Frank  G.  Carpenter,  the  Wash- 
ington correspondent  and  painter,  on  the 
"Ladies  of  the  American  Court."  Twenty 
portraits  are  given,  and  the  stories  of 
Washington  social  life  make  us  glad  to 
avoid  it,  and  shrink  from  the  vortex  of 
fashion,  pride,  ambition  and  hateful  old- 
world  aristocracy  which  is  thus  re- 
vealed. 

Sheridan's  Franco-Prussian  war  article 
in  the  November  Scribner  will  be  called 
"From  Qravelotte  to  Sedan."  Sheridan 
was  with  Bismarck  when  the  great  states- 
man sprung  from  his  carriage  with  a  pis- 
tol in  each  hand  and  cleared  the  streets 
of  the  village  of  Qarge.  He  was  also 
with  him  when  he  dismounted  abreast  of 
the  carriage  of  the  defeated  Napoleon. 
Sheriban's  description  is  very  interesting 
and  graphic.  He  says  Bismarck  saluted 
the  Emperor  "in  a  quick,  brusque  way, 
which  seemed  to  startle  him." 

The  Centwry  proposes  to  devote  a  sin- 
gle issue — the  forthcoming  September 
number — largely  to  educational  themes. 
The  contributions  will  include  "The  Uni- 
versity and  the  Bible,"  by  T.  T.  Hunger, 
a  plea  for  the  study  of  Christian  as  well 
as  heathen  classics;  "Women  who  go  to 
College,"  by  Arthur  Gilman,  and  "The 
Industrial  Idea  in  Education,"  by  Charles 
M.  Carter.  One  illustrated  paper  is  on 
"College  Fraternities,"  with  pictures  of 
twenty-eight  chapter-houses  and  society 
halls  at  Yale,  Harvard,  Princeton,  and 
other  colleges. 

The  New  York  Daily  Graphic  is  issu- 
ing a  timely  political  library.  Number 
One  contains  a  concise  and  comprehen- 
sive life  of  Qrover  Cleveland,  embracing 
all  his  notable  State  papers.  It  is  illus- 
trated by  pictures  of  the  President  and 
Mrs.  Cleveland,  the  wedding  at  the  White 
House,  Cleveland's  birthplace  and  other 
interesting  places  and  events.  Number 
Two  presents  the  great  Tariff  speech  of 
Roger  Q  Mills,  of  Texas,  summarizing 
the  MUls  bill. 

Words  and  Weapons  is  more  then  ever 
devoted  to  news  from  the  evangelists, 
who  are  generally  resting  this  summer. 
Mr.  Pentecost  is  in  England.  The  edi- 
torials are  on  church  work  and  organiza- 
tion. Dr.  Pierson  biography  begins  the 
life  of  Bunyan.  Bro.  Charles  Herald,  the 
singing  evangelist,  pleads  for  the  poor  in 
our  great  cities.  The  Christian  worker 
needs  such  a  live  and  earnest  journal  to 
help  him  to  deeper  zeal. 

Vick's  Magazine  has  a  fine  August 
number.  Eben  E.  Rexford,  the  well- 
known  authority  on  gardening,  writes  of 
"Border  Plants."  The  editorial  on  "Care 
and  Culture  of  Trees  and  Plants"  is  worth 
the  reader's  attention,  and  there  are  scores 
of  hints  and  scraps  of  experience  of  great- 
est value  to  the  florist  and  gardener. 


OBITTIAEY. 

Lbland  M.  Rhodes,  an  old  subscriber 
of  the  Cynosure,  fell  asleep  after  weeks 
of  great  suffering.  He  died  April  18, 
1888,  aged  nearly  72  years. 

He  was  born  in  Berlin,  N.  Y.,  in  1816; 
married  to  Caroline  Clark  and  came  to 
Geneva,  Wis.,  in  1849,  where  he  lived  for 
twenty  seven  years.  During  that  time  he 
became  involved  in  a  lawsuit  with  the 
Freemasons,  by  which  he  came  near 
losiDg  all  his  earthly  possessions  and  his 
good  name;  but  after  much  loss  of 
property  gained  his  suit  at  last.  He 
moved  to  Esmen,  Livingston  county.  111., 
in  the  spring  of  1876,  with  his  family, 
where  he  remained  until  his  death.  He 
became  a  Christian  when  he  was  very 
young,  and  made  the  Bible  his  daily 
study  from  his  youth  up.  He  was  very 
zealous  for  the  cause  of  Christ,  and  was 
instrumental  in  building  the  First  Bap- 
tist church  in  Esmen,  which  is  opposed 
to  all  secret  organizations.  He  was  a 
strong  advocate  against  all  secret  socie- 
ties, spoke  against  them  always  wherever 
he  had  an  opportunity,  and  has  been  a 
great  worker  for  the  cause.  He  leaves  a 
wife,  three  sons  and  three  daughters. 

The  funeral  services  were  conducted 
by  Rev.  J.  W.  Tanner,  of  Pontiac. 


Lodge  Notes. 

Charles  Wolford,  Past  Grand  Master  of 
the  Sovereign  Lodge  of  the  World,  I.  O. 
O.  F.,  died  at  his  home  in  Louisville,  Ky., 
lately,  aged  78.  He  had  been  an  Odd- 
fellow flfty-five  years. 

The  bill  introduced  by  Frank  Lawler 
to  amend  the  Interstate  Commerce  act 
was  constructed  by  that  Congressman 
himself,  out  of  a  petition  sent  by  the 
Chicago  Knights  of  Labor.  Lawler  is  an 
old  Chicago  saloon  keeper. 

Saturday,  the  11th  instant,  was  an  an- 
niversary for  the  order  of  Foresters.  In 
Chicago  they  celebrated  by  parading  the 
streets  with  bands  and  a  picnic.  This 
order  has  a  kind  of  Knight  Templar  de- 
gree for  its  aristocratic  members,  known 
as  Uniform  rank. 

The  High  Court  of  Foresters,  sitting  at 
Reading,  England,  has  carried,  by  a  vote 
of  403  to  93,  a  motion  revoking  the  pow- 
ers of  the  Subsidiary  High  Court  of 
America,  and  suspending  American 
courts  until  they  comply  with  the  rules 
regarding  the  admission  of  colored  per- 
sons. 

Last  Monday  afternoon  a  delegation  of 
150  colored  Masons,  members  of  Con- 
cordia Commandery  of  Knights  Templar, 
from  Chicago,  paid  General  Harrison  a 
visit  in  regalia,  at  his  home  in  Indiana- 
polis. They  were  en  route  to  Louisville 
to  attend  the  Knights  Templar  convoca- 
tion. The  General  and  Mrs.  Harrison 
met  them  at  the  door,  and  in  response  to 
a  brief  congratulatory  address.  General 
Harrison  cordially  thanked  them  for  their 
visit. 

Andrew  Carnegie's  profit-sharing 
scheme  with  his  3,500  employes  at  the 
steel  works  at  Braddock,  Pa.,  has  gone 
into  effect.  The  men  have  formally 
elected  an  accountant,  to  be  paid  by  Mr. 
Carnegie  for  examining  the  firm's  books, 
and  making  a  monthly  division  of  the 
assets.  One  hitch,  however,  has  been 
developed.  The  Knights  of  Labor  would 
not  countena;nce  the  scheme,  and,  as  a 
consequence,  the  three  assemblies  of  that 
order  in  Braddock  have  surrendered  their 
charters.  Mr.  Carnegie's  contract  treats 
with  every  man  individually. 

Chief  of  Police  Hubbard,  of  Chicago, 
in  commenting  upon  part  of  Herr  Most's 
testimony  before  the  Congressional  Com- 
mittee, where  the  arch  anarchist  says  that 
the  Chicago  anarchists  are  not  obliged  to 
hold  their  meetings  in  secret,  pronounces 
it  a  lie.  The  Chief  has,  he  says,  spies 
among  the  Chicago  anarchists,  and,  ex- 
cept when  they  meet  by  threes  or  fours, 
everything  they  do  is  reported  to  him . 
He  is  well  advised  as  to  their  methods, 
and  says  they  are  very  quiet  at  present. 
In  the  town  of  Jefferson,  Eighteenth 
street  and  Center  avenue  districts,  chil- 
dren are  taught  the  principles  of  anarchy 
in  the  Sunday  school.  Should  Herr  Most 
come  to  Chicago  he  would  be  treated  in 
a  way  savoring  of  anything  but  the  len- 
iency with  which  he  is  treated  by  the 
police  there. 

The  State  Federation  of  Trades  and 
Labor  Unions  of  Indiana  held  its  fourth 
annual  session  on  the  7th.  Resolutions 
were  adopted  declaring  that  these  lodges 
"cannot  support  the  candidates  of  the 
Republican  party  for  President  and  Vice 
President,  because  both  of  them  are 
wanting  in  sympathy  for  the  laboring 
classes."  The  sessions  of  the  federation 
were  held  with  closed  doors,  and  it  is 
charged  openly  that  some  thirty  to  forty 
accredited  delegates  known  to  be  Repub- 
licans were  refused  admittance  to  the 
hall.  From  all  that  can  be  learned  from 
reliable  sources  it  seems  that  both  the 
Democratic  and  Republican  State  organ- 
izations made  efforts  to  secure  the  con- 
trol of  the  federation  through  the  District 
assemblies,  and  that  the  Democrats  were 
most  successful. 

The  meeting  of  the  chairmen  of  the 
grievance  committees  of  the  Brotherhood 
of  Engineers  at  St.  Louis  August  9  and 
10  was  a  secret  one.  It  was  learned, 
however,  that  the  object  of  the  confer- 
ence was  two-fold — to  refer  respecting 
the  status  of  the  "Q"  strike,  and  consult 
regarding  the  proposed  amalgamation  of 
the  engineers,  firemen,  brakemen,  and 
switchmen.  It  is  given  on  the  authority 
of  a  prominent  engineer  that  a  strong 
alliance  has  been  formed  between  the 
orders  named.  Resolutions  were  adopted 
indorsing  Mr.  Arthur  and  Mr.  Sargeant, 
and  it  was  decided  to  continue  the  "Q" 
strike  and  to  increase  the  pay  of  the 
strikers  from  the  strikers'  fund  so  that 


they  may  make  provision  for  the  winter. 
The  engineers  will  hereafter  receive  $60 
per  month,  and  the  firemen  $40.  Plans 
are  in  progress  in  regard  to  the  strike, 
but  no  one  would  reveal  what  they  are. 


In  mirthful  measures,  warm  and  free, 
T  sing,  dear  maid,  and  sing  for  thee  I 
But  I  think  I  would  be  performing  a 
greater  service  to  you  and  your  sex  by 
singing,  not  in  measured  rythm  but  by 
setting  out  some  strong  truths  in  simple 
prose.  If  you  or  any  of  your  female 
friends  are  suffering  from  ulcerations,  dis- 
placements, bearing-down  sensations,  or 
unnatural  discharges,  use  Dr.  Pierce's 
Favorite  Perscription,  which  is  sure  to 
eradicate  these  complaints  in  a  short 
time.  It  is  the  only  medicine  for  wom- 
an's peculiar  ailments,  sold  by  druggists, 
under  a  positive  guarantee,  from  the 
manufacturers,  that  it  will  give  satisfac- 
tion in  every  case,  or  money  will  be  re- 
funded. This  guarantee  has  been  printed 
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Statb  AeBirra. 
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Page  Co.,  Illinois. 
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New  Hampshire,  Eld.  S.  0.  Kimball, 
New  Market. 
Ohio.  W.  B.  Stoddard,  Columbus. 
Kansas,  Robert  Loggan,  Clifton. 
Alabama,  Rev.  G.  M.  EUiott,  Selma. 

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J.  K.  Glassford,  Carthage,  Mo. 
Othbb  Lbctubbbb. 

C.  A.  Blanchard,  Wheaton,  111. 
N.  Callander,  Brown  Hollow,  Pa. 
J,  H.  Tlmmons,  Tarentum,  Pa 

T.  B.  McCormick,  Princeton,  Ind. 

K.  Johnson,  Dayton,  Ind. 

H.  A.  Day,  WiUIamstown,  Mich. 

J.  M.  Bishop,  Chambersburg,  Pa. 

A.  Mayn,  Bloomington,  Ind. 

J.  B.  Cressinger,  Sullivan,  O. 

W.  M.  Love,  Osceola,  Mo. 

J.  L.  Barlow,  Grundy  Center,  Iowa. 

A.  D.Freeman,  Downers  Grove,  111 

Wm.  FentoD,  St  Paul,  Minn. 

Warren  Taylor,  South  Salem,  O. 

J.  S.  Perry,  Thompson,  Conn. 

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8.  G.  Barton,  Breckinridge,  Mo. 

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MAriONALGERiaTlAS  ASaOOIATIOW 

Pbbbidbkt.— H.  H.  George,  D.  D.,  Gen- 
eva College,  Pa. 

ViCB-FBBBiDBin: — RoT.  M.  A.  Gaolt, 
Blanchard,  Iowa. 

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P.  Stoddard,  221 W.  Madisonst.,  Chicago. 

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Phillips,  221  W.  Madison  St.,   Chicago 

DiBECTOBS.— J.    L.     Barlow,    C.    A 
Blanchard,  A.  J.  Chittenden,  H.  A.  Fisch- 
er, John  Gardner,  G.R.  Milton,  Wm.  Mor- 
row, L.  N.Stratton,  John  Sutcliffe,  Alex- 
ander Thomson,  E.  R.  Worrell. 

.     The  object  of  this  Association  Is: 

"To  expose,  withstand  and  remove  secrel 
■ocietieg,  Freemasonry  in  particular,  and  othei 
anti-Christian  raovements,  in  order  to  save  ths 
churches  of  Christ  from  being  uepraved,  to  re- 
deem the  administration  of  justice  from  p«s>. 
yereion,  and  our  rep  ibUcan  government  from 
corruption." 

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solicited  from  every  friend  of  the  reform. 

Form  of  Bequest.— J  give  and  bequeath  to 
the  National  Christian  Association,  Incorpo- 
rated and  existing  under  the  laws  of  the  Stat« 

of  Illinois,  the  sum  of ■    dollars  for  the 

purposes  of  said  Association,  and  lor  whtrb 
tte  receipt  of  its  Treasurer  lor  the  time  being 
*liall  be  sufficient  dischacse. 

THS  NATIOHAL  OONTBNTION. 

Pbbsidbiit.— Key.  J.  S.  T.  Milligan, 

Denison,  Kans. 

Sbcbbtabt.— Rev.  R.N.Coun tee,  Mem- 
phis, Tenn. 

BTATB  AnznjABT  ABSOCIATIOHB. 

Alabama.— Pre*.,  Prof.  Pickens;  Set,  O. 
M.  Elliott;  Treas.,  Rev.  C.  B.  Curtis,  all  of 
Selma. 

Calitornia.— PreSy^  L.  B.  Lathrop,  Hollls 
tor;  Cor.  Sec,  Mrs.  U.  P.  Merrill,  Woodland; 
Treas.,  C.  Ruddock,  Woodland. 

CoNNBOTicuT.— Pres.,  J.  A.  Conant,  WIUl 
mantle;  Sec,  Geo.  Smith,  WlUImantlc;  Treaa. 
C.  T.  Collin*,  Windsor. 

iLLraois.— Pres.,  J.  P.  Stoddard;  Sec,  M. 
N.  Butler;  Treaa.,  W.  L  PhlUIpi  all  at  (7»- 
noTiirt  office. 

Indiana.— Pres.,  William  H.  Flgg,  Reno 
Sec,  S.  L.  Cook,  Albion;  Treat.,  Ben].  Ulsh 
Silver  Lake. 

Iowa.— Pres.,  Wm.  Johnston.CoUege  Springs ', 
Cor  Sec.,  C.  D.  Trumbull,  Morning  Sun* 
Treas.,  James  Harvey,  Pleasant  Plain,  Jeffer- 
son Co. ;  Lecturer,  C.  F.  Hawley,  Wheaton,  111. 

Kansas.— Pres.,  J.  8.  T.  Mllllgan,  Denison; 
Sec.,  8.  Hart,  Lecompton;  Treas.,  J.  A.  Tor 
rence,  Denison. 

Massaohusbtts.— Pree.,  8.  A.  Pratt;  Sec, 
Mrs.  E.  D.  Bailey;  Treas., David  Mannlng,Sr. 
Worcester. 

Michigan.- Pros.,  D.  A.  Richards,  Brighton 
Sec'y,  H.  A.  Day,  Willlamston;  Troaa.' 
Goo.  Swanson,  Jr.,  Bedloiu. 

MiNNBSOTA.— Pres.,  E.  Q.  Paine,  Wasloia 
Cor.  Sec.  Wm.  Fenton,  St.  Paul;  Rec  Sec'y 
Mrs.  M.  F.  Morrill,  St.  Charles;  Treat.,  Wa 
H.  Morrill,  St.  Charles. 

Missouri.— Pres.,  B.  F.  Miller,  Eaglevll]* 
Treas.,  William  Beauchamp,  Avalon ;  Cor.  Sit. 
A.  D.  Thomas,  Avalon. 

Nbbkabea.— Pres.,  S.  Austin,  Falrmoait' 
Cor.  Sec,  W.  Spoonor,  Kearney;  Treaa.? 
J.  C.  rye. 

Mainb.— Pres.,  Isaac  Jackson,  Harrison - 
Sec,  1.  D.  Haines,  Dexter;  Treas.,  H.  W. 
Goddard,  West  Sidney. 

Nbw  Hampshirb.— Pros.,  C.  L.  Baker,  Man 
Chester;  Sec,  8.  C.  Kimball,  New  Market 
Treas.,  James  /.  French,  Canterbury. 

Nbw  York.- Pres.,  F.  W.  Capwell,  Dale; 
Sec'y,  John  Wallace,  Syracuse;  Treat.,  M. 
Morrick,  Syracuse. 

Ohio.— Pres.,  F.  M.  Spencer,  New  Concord ; 
Rec  Sec,  S.  A.  George,  Mansdeld;  Cor.  Sec 
and  Treas..  C.  W.  HTatt,  Columbus ;  Agent 
W.  B.  Stoddard,  Columbus. 

Pbnnstlvania.— Cor.  Sec,  N.  Callender 
ThoimptSB ;  Treat.,  W.  B.Bertelt,  Wilkotbarre. 

Vbbmoht.— Pros.,  W.  R.  Laird,  St.  Johna> 
bory;  8«c,C.  W  Potter. 

WiaooHsni.— Pres.,  J.  W  Wood,  Baraboo; 
Sec,  W.  W.  Ame^  Menomonle ;  Treat.,  M.  B 
Britten,  Vienna. 


8 


THE  CHRISTLAJSr  CYNOSURE. 


August  23, 1888 


The  Christian  Cynosure. 


J.  BLAMCHARD. 


JlJDnoBB. 


HKNRT  L.  £»LLOGa. 


OHICAeO,   THXmSDAY,   AUGUST  23,  1888. 


OLD  WOULD  LODQBRT. 

The  article  which  is  begun  in  this  number  from 
the  English  Fortnightly  Review,  "Secret  Societies  in 
the  Two  Sicilies,"  will  repay  a  careful  perusal.  It 
is  a  life-picture  of  the  sunny  south  of  Europe,  near 
Rome,  where  Christianity,  or  a  system  by  that  name, 
became  mistress  of  the  world.  And  the  fact  that 
Corsica  gave  the  world  Napoleon  Bonaparte,  proves 
that  these  beautiful  islands  have  produced  intellect- 
ual giants.  But  whoever  reads  the  article  will  see 
Christianity  paganized,  and  a  population,  weak, 
timid,  ignorant  of  their  rights,  and  wholly  incapable 
of  keeping  up  a  state  of  society  much  above  the 
owest  level  of  heathenism  in  regard  to  security  of 
Iproperty,  life,  and  the  fundamental  relations  of  so- 
ciety. And  they  will  see  this  revolting  state  of 
things  produced  by  secret  societies,  the  natural  born 
descendants  of  priestism  and  the  doctrine  of  salva- 
tion by  ceremonies.  For  if  I  must  be  saved  or  lost 
as  I  practice  or  refuse  certain  rites  administered  by 
men,  my  priest  has  my  salvation  in  his  hands:  and 
by  refusing  me  the  ceremonies,  he  can  shut  me  out 
of  heaven.  And,  further,  as  all  such  systems  are 
Christless,  the  mind  of  the  worshiper  is  stunned, 
stupefied  and  sunk.  And  this  explains  the  utter 
degradation  of  the  people  in  the  Sicilies  to-day:  and 
their  picture  given  in  this  article  is  a  mirror  in 
which  the  United  States  can  see  its  face  fifty  years 
hence  unless  God  interposes  and  the  lodges  are  de- 
stroyed. 


EDITORIAL  GORREaPONDBNCB. 


Windham,  Vt,  Aug.  13, 1888. 

I  am  here  amid  the  green  crests  of  the  Green 
Mountains.  Rev.  Mr.  Leach  had  arranged  with  the 
pastor,  Rev.  Mr.  Beckwith,  for  me  to  preach  here 
yesterday,  while  he  went  three  miles  farther  to  preach 
at  South  Windham. 

It  were  useless  for  me  to  try  to  give  you  the  emo- 
tions which  thrill  me  as  I  write  here  in  Mr.  Beck- 
with's  study,  while  he  is  away  at  Saratoga.  This 
was  the  mountain  home  of  Rev.  U.  C.  Burnap,  who 
came  into  Chester  Academy  when  I  was  fourteen 
years  old.  I  was  in  the  room  of  George  S.  Park, 
founder  of  Parkville  and  its  college  in  Missouri, 
whose  press  the  rebel  mob  destroyed,  and  whose  life 
they  attempted  to  take.  Mr.  Park  was  then  a  Graf- 
ton boy,  a  little  younger  than  myself.  He  is  now 
the  wealthy  brother  of  the  wife  of  Mr.  Peter  Howe, 
well  known  to  the  readers  of  the  Cynosure,  and  to 
Masonic  lodges  also.  I  was  scuffling  with  an  older 
lad,  and  was  having  decidedly  the  best  of  it,  when 
Mr.  Burnap,  then  both  pastor  and  preceptor,  came 
up  to  the  room,  and  was  shaking  with  laughter  at 
the  scuflle.  I  saw  him,  as  he  pronounced  ray 
name,  and  I  need  not  say  I  was  abashed  enough 
when  I  heard  his  familiar  voice.  Instead  of  the 
reproof  which  I  expected,  I  received  an  invitation 
to  become  a  member  of  his  family,  where  I  studied 
and  took  care  of  his  cow  for  two  years.  I  loved 
him  as  a  father.  There  I  experienced  religion  and 
began  a  life  of  prayer.  In  after  years  I  procured 
him  a  call  to  the  Appleton  Street  church,  Lowell, 
Mass. ;  and  no  memory,  except  that  of  near  kindred, 
is  to  me  so  hallowed  as  his. 

This  town  of  Windham  was  the  home  of  the  Bur- 
naps,  all  upright  men  and  women,  and  all  children 
of  God.  Asa  Burnap  was  the  first  person  who  sug- 
gested to  me  that  I  was  entitled  to  hope  in  Christ. 
•  We  stood  in  the  bright  moonlight  by  the  roadside, 
in  front  of  Mr.  Bumap's  house  on  the  bank  of  Will- 
iams river  in  Chester,  a  mile   below  Chester  village. 

I  had  been  in  mental  distress  for  six  months; 
praying,  but  not  daring  to  hope  in  Christ,  because  I 
was  conscious  of  sins,  or  the  workings  of  depravity. 
Mr.  Burnap  said,  "How  do  you  know  that  you  are 
not  now  converted"  to  Christ? 

"I  know  I  am  not,"  I  replied;  "for  it  seems  such 
a  wonderful  thing  that  the  Son  of  the  infinite  God 
should  come  to  this  earth,  and  love,  labor  and  die 
for  such  insignificant,  sinful  creatures  as  I  am,  that 
I  cannot  believe  it" 

Mr.  Burnap  quickly  and  calmly  replied,  "Shouldn't 
it  always  be  a  wonder?  I  expect  to  wonder  to  all 
eternity  that  the  Son  of  God  loved  me  and  died  for 
me." 

My  emotions  at  that  reply  are  fresh  as  yesterday, 
though  more  than  fifty  years  have  rolled  away  since. 
And  the  joy  of  that  first  hour  of  hope  in  Christ  re- 
mains with  me  yet    And  now  I  am  here  in  sight  of 


the  tombstones  where  the  Burnaps  sleep.  And, 
though 

"I  feel  like  one 
Who  treads  alone 

Some  banquet  hall  deserted, 
Whose  lights  are  fled 
Whose  garlands  dead, 
And  all  but  he  departed:" 

I  am  filled  with  joy  by  the  memories  of  a  large  fam- 
ily of  saints  whose  lives  were  living  proofs  of  the 
religion  of  Christ,  and  to  whom  my  early  boyhood 
was  indebted  for  a  holy,  consistent,  religious  exam- 
ple; for  ideas  and  instructions,  too,  which  have 
largely  produced  what  little  good  I  have  done,  and 
may  yet  do. 

THE   SABBATH   SERVICES. 

This  Windham  church  has  a  nice  house,  and  per- 
haps a  hundred  members,  widely  scattered  through 
these  mountain  valleys.  They  have  an  excellent 
pastor,  whose  wife  was  daughter  of  a  Connecticut 
pastor,  Rev.  Mr.  Brigham.  They  take  up  six  mis- 
sionary collections  in  a  year.  Like  Dr.  Richard  S. 
Storrs  of  Brooklyn,  the  men  are  Republicans  "6y  the 
momentum  of  habit"  but  like  Dr.  Storrs,  too,  they 
lean  strongly  to  Fisk  and  Brooks  and  the  Prohibi- 
tion party.  I  cannot  learn  that  there  is  a  Freema- 
son in  the  church.  The  old  people  remember  Mor- 
gan, and  Dea.  Burnap  who  was  sent  by  the  Anti- 
masons  to  the  Legislature  at  Montpelier.  But  there 
is  a  Mason,  the  wealthiest  man  in  the  small  mount- 
ain village,  whose  voice  leads  the  choir,  though  he 
is  "old  and  full  of  days."  I  went  to  him,  on  my 
arrival,  about  the  hymns.  He  had  been  at  Chester 
Academy  under  Preceptor  Whipple,  who  followed 
Mr.  Burnap;  and  although  he  knew  the  Baptist 
pastor  was  an  immoral  man  and  Mason,  and  the 
Chester  lodge  had  many  such;  and  although  the 
Vermont  lodges  were  afterwards  turned  inside  out, 
and  every  candidate  is  swindled  out  of  his  money, 
who  pays  for  secrets  which  are  not  secrets,  this  un- 
happy man  is  the  only  one  I  have  met  who  condemns 
Vermont  for  crushing  the  lodges  in  1832;  and  is 
closing  a  long  life  without  God  or  hope,  except  that 
hope  which  is  as  the  spider's  web.  He  stayed  away 
from  church  and  kept  the  choir  away  and  all  oth-* 
ers  whom  be  could  influence.  I  earnestly  exhorted 
him  to  turn  to  God,  and  prayed  sincerely  for  his 
salvation.  Though  the  rain  fell  steadily  all  day, 
and  the  congregation  is  widely  dispersed,  the  dea- 
cons living  three  or  four  miles  away,  I  had  a  very 
attentive,  though  small  audience,  and  good,  I  trust, 
was  done. 

Rev.  Mr.  Leach  was  more  fortunate.  At  South 
Windham  the  Baptist  church  gave  him  a  fair  con- 
gregation for  a  rainy  day.  The  audience  gave  him 
a  vote  of  thanks  for  his  visit,  and  their  leaders  urged 
him  to  come  there  again.  There  is  no  Masonic 
lodge  in  Windham.  The  people  are  beginning  to 
read,  and  the  little  secret  orders,  got  up  by  Ma- 
sons, under  other  names,  to  drill  the  young  people 
to  secrecy,  are  weak  and  fading;  and  as  soon  as 
light  is  shed  upon  them  they  will  be  abandoned  by 
that  interesting  people.  Rev.  U.  C.  Burnap,  men- 
tioned above,  had  taken  the  Entered  Apprentice  de- 
gree, but  loathed  and  left  the  order.  He  assured  me 
that  Morgan's  book  was  true,  and  kept  me  from  the 
swindling  blasphemies  of  the  lodge. 

ELYMAS   THE     SORCERER — WHOSE     GOD    IS   MAMMON, 
AND    HIS    GODLINESS    GAIN. 

As  Paul  met  Elymas  the  sorcerer  at  Faphos 
(Acts  13:  8),  we  have  met  one  of  his  descendants 
here;  sent  by  Satan,  doubtless,  to  divert  and  dis 
tract  the  attention  of  Saxton's  River  people  from  the 
truth  we  have  taught  on  secret  societies.  His  hand- 
bills flooded  the  village,  promising  "a  most  crush- 
ing blow  aimed  against  the  performance  of  the  me- 
diums;" "which  is  regarded  by  fifteen  millions  of 
intelligent  people  as  their  religion." 

This  juggler's  name  is  Dayton.  His  bill  promises 
to  "perform  all  the  fundamental  phenomena  of  so- 
called  spiritual  mediums,"  and  this  by  jugglery  and 
sleight  of  hand,  and  so  prove  there  are  no  devils'  re 
spouses  in  modern  spiritualism,  and  so  overthrow  the 
false  religion  of  fifteen  million  worshipers  of  familiar 
spirits,  by  trick  and  legerdemain.  This  perform- 
ance was  advertised  to  take  place  in  "the  vestry  of 
the  Congregational  church  I"  The  pastors  had 
meetings  the  same  night,  and  I  determined  to  attend 
the  juggler's  meeting,  and  see  if  anything  could  be 
done  to  rescue  his  deluded  followers.  By  the  laws 
of  Vermont  he  should  have  been  taken  up  as  a  swin- 
dling vagrant  and  sorcerer.  But,  instead,  he  had 
warm  written  endorsements  by  Congregational  and 
Baptist  clergymen,  and  on  the  strength  of  them  was 
admitted  to  the  house  of  God. 

I  went  into  his  room  at  the  hotel  and  conversed 
an  hour  or  more  with  him.  I  report  our  talk  as  near 
as  I  can. 

"Are  you  a  spiritualist?" 


"I  was  as  good  a  medium  as  the  best  of  them; 
but  I  am  opposing^them." 

"Do  you  oppose  them  in  them  in  the  name  of 
Christ?" 

"No.  I  show  that  it  is  all  humbug,  by  doing  the 
things  they  profess  to  do  without  any  spirits.  I 
don't  believe  the  witch  of  Endor  had  any  familiar 
spirit;  I  believe  it  was  imposture,  like  the  mediums." 

"Do  you  believe  the  Bible?" 

"Yes,  and  no.  I  believe  what  commends  itself  to 
my  reason.  I  don't  believe  God  made  man  out  of 
the  earth." 

"Then  you  believe  the  story  of  Eden  and  man's 
creation  is  a  myth?" 

"Yes." 

"And  may  not  the  miracles  of  the  New  Testa- 
ment be  humbugs  like  those  of  the  mediums?" 

"Yes." 

"Then  Christ  would  be  a  magician?" 

"That  is  possible." 

"And  you  can  do  all  the  mediums  profess  to  do?" 

"Yes." 

"Your  bill  says  the  sheriff  may  put  his  own  hand- 
cuffs on  you,  and  you  can  take  them  off?" 

"Yes." 

"Can  this  gentleman  (a  Mr.  Spaulding)  do  the 
same?" 

"1  can  teach  you  so  you  can." 

I  answered:  "That  is  good  news  for  all  thieves, 
pickpockets  and  murderers.  They  should  hire  you 
to  teach  them  to  throw  off  handcuffs,  and  pay  you 
a  good  salary." 

"Oh!"  he  rejoined,  "I  am  opposed  to  criminals;  I 
have  been  a  detective;"  and  he  pulled  out  a  printed 
certificate  that  he  was  a  member  of  the  "Iowa  de- 
tective Association." 

"And  you  say  you  can  lay  your  hand  on  a  table 
and  it  will  rise  up  in  the  air?" 

"Yes." 

I  replied,  "My  dear  sir,  you  can  do  that  or  you 
cannot  If  you  cannot,  you  are  an  impostor  and 
cheat.  But  if  you  can  do  it,  the  devil  helps  you, 
for  by  natural  means  no  such  things  can  be  done. 
And  now,  as  you  have  spoken  candidly  to  me,  I 
will  fairly  say  to  you,  that  I  think  you  are  a  hyp- 
ocrite and  deceiver,  medium  and  spirit-monger  your- 
self. You  deny  the  Bible  as  they  do.  Of  course, 
as  they  do,  you  teach  f ree-love,for  Christ  is  the  only 
author  of  Christian  marriage;  and  the  only  differ- 
ence you  claim,  is  that  you  work  miracles  by  jug- 
glery and  legerdemain,  while  they,  more  honest,  say 
they  get  help  from  familiar  spirits,  called  in  the 
Bible  devils  or  demons."  I  said  further,  "I  think 
your  performance  should  be  excluded  from  the 
church  of  God;  but  since  you  are  admitted,  if  this 
gentleman  (Mr.  Spaulding)  will  rent  the  vestry  to 
me,  as  he  has  to  you,  I  will  endeavor  to  show  the 
men  and  women,  whom  you  are  deluding,  that  your 
work,  instead  of  opposing  spiritualism,  is  morally 
identical  with  theirs." 

I  went  that  night  to  the  church  to  witness  his 
performance.  A  gaping  crowd  attended, — more  than 
an  ordinary  Sabbath  congregation  at  the  same 
church.  But  his  jugglery  was  too  weak  and  con- 
temptible to  be  worthy  of  description,  and  after  half 
an  hour  or  so  I  went  away. 

If  I  lecture  here  again,  I  will  endeavor  to  show 
the  people: 

1.  That  any  attempt  to  do  marvels,  or  draw  knowl- 
edge or  power  from  the  unseen  world,  by  contra- 
band or  forbidden  methods,  is  worshiping  devils,  or 
evil  angels. 

2.  That  the  hoodwink  of  Masonry  and  Odd-fellow- 
ship, the  solemn  oaths  and  obligations  adminis- 
tered in  the  night  by  persons  unauthorized,  aod  the 
endlessly  diversified  mock-solemn  religious  balder- 
dash of  the  secret  worships  in  heathen  and  Chris- 
tian countries  are  one  and  the  same  system  men- 
tioned by  Paul.     1  Cor.  10:  20. 

3.  And,  finally,  that  when  Christ  sent  forth  the 
twelve,  the  seventy,  and  afterwards  the  whole  body 
of  his  disciples,  he  gave  them  their  first  charge 
against  evil  spirits;  and  their  chief  cause  of  rejoic- 
ing, when  they  returned  and  reported  to  him  their 
success,  was  that  devils  were  subject  to  them  through 
his  name.  J  b. 


— The  Wheaton  students,  who  have  been  for  some 
two  months  visiting  portions  of  Indiana  and  Illi- 
nois, are  returning  from  their  work.  Brief  reports 
have  appeared  from  time  to  time  of  their  success, 
and  we  shall  endeavor  to  sdcure  other  facts  from 
them. 

— Elder  J.  F.  Browne  returned  at  the  close  of  the 
school  year  at  Howe  Institute,  New  Iberia,  La.,  to 
Berea,  Ky.  We  learn  through  Mrs.  Browne  that  he 
has  been  dangerously  ill  from  blood  poisoning.  The 
latest  word  reports  him  recovering,  for  which  many 
will  retujr.n  thanl^s  to  God- 


August  23, 1888 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


HOW  8T AND  TOUR  OANDIDATBBT 


NOTES  OP  THE  ANTI  SEOBECY  LEAGUE. 

T.  R.  Carskadon  of  Keyser,  West  Virginia,  is  the 
candidate  of  the  Prohibitionists  for  Governor  of  that 
State.  He  is  a  man  of  convictions  and  courage  to 
express  them ;  and  if  elected,  as  we  hope  he  will  be, 
he  will  be  a  Josiah  among  the  saloons.     He  writes: 

Long  years  ago  I  formed  an  aversion  to  secret  socie- 
ties— even  good  meaning  organizations,  as  all  have  been 
abused,  anyhow.  The  chlldiBh  mummeries  are  sicken- 
ing to  me.  In  our  own  State,  in  the  last  few  years,  so- 
cieties like  these,  inaugurated,  perhaps,  for  good  pur- 
poses, and  containing,  I  know,  good  men,  have  degen- 
erated into  thieving  marauders,  ending  with  a  number  in 
the  penitentiary.  I  recognize  but  the  one  great  organi- 
zation, the  common  brotherhood  of  man. 

If  our  New  York  friends  made  a  grave  mistake  in 
nominating  a  lodgeman  for  Governor,  the  selection 
for  Lieutenant  Governor  was  more  suitable  for  a  re- 
form party.  Mr.  George  T.  Howell,  of  Ghent,  who 
has  this  honor,  responds  as  below  to  the  committee. 
He  will  have  the  endorsement  of  the  thousands  of 
Anti-masons  of  New  York: 

While  without  doubt  there  is  much  good  done  by  co- 
operative assistance  to  dependent  families  from  some 
secret  societies,  yet  I  have  never  felt  called  upon  to  work 
with  them.  I  believe  in  free  public  discussion  of  all 
public  questions,  and  that  every  public  servant  should 
be  entiiely  free  to  subserve  the  best  interests  of  all. 

Mr.  S.  A.  Hyer,  a  lawyer  of  McPherson,  Kansas, 
is  the  Prohibition  candidate  for  Attorney  General. 
While  in  college  he  was  a  member  of  a  students' 
fraternity,  but  his  present  convictions  are  frankly 
stated  below.  Mr.  Hyer  will  be  heartily  supported 
by  the  patriots  of  Kansas,  who  have  given  to  the 
country  a  St.  John: 

I  am  not  a  member  of  any  secret  society,  and  have 
never  been  in  any  way  connected  with  one.  My  knowl- 
edge is,  therefore,  rather  limited  concerning  them .  They 
are  all  living,  I  believe,  upon  an  alleged  charitable  basis, 
but  I  think  charity  confined  within  the  limits  of  any 
secret  society  is  too  narrow  for  the  good  of  this  or  any 
other  country.  In  short,  I  believe  they  accomplish  no 
good  which  would  not  be  as  efliciently  done  without 
them,  and  that  they  are  directly  responsible  for  much  of 
evil  in  the  government  of  our  cities.  States  and  nation, 
in  the  administration  of  justice  and  in  the  management 
of  society. 

L.  K,  Mclntyre,  of  Dodge  City,  is  candidate  for 
Secretary  of  State  on  the  same  ticket  as  Mr.  Hyer. 
His  letter  will  also  be  read  with  deep  interest,  al- 
though not  so  pronounced  in  its  judgment  on  the 
lodge.  If  Mr.  Mclntyre  would  acquaint  himself 
with  the  writings  of  Pease,  Stearns,  Colver,  Ber- 
nard, Barlow  and  other  of  his  Baptist  brethren,  he 
would  see  clearly  the  relations  of  the  lodge  system 
to  the  church  and  civil  society.    He  writes: 

I  am  a  member  of  one  organization,  but  have  not  been 
an  active  member  for  some  time.  My  convictions  are 
that  the  principles  of  the  order  are  excellent  if  lived  up 
to,  but  that  a  Christian  cannot  find  any  better  principles 
than  those  laid  down  in  the  Bible,  and  no  organization' 
can  be  of  much,  if  any  benefit  to  him,  unless  it  is  the 
denomination  of  which  he  is  a  member,  and  I  sometimes 
doubt  the  wisdom  of  denominations,  although  I  am  a 
Baptist.  To  sum  up,  I  think  pure  Christianity  requires 
but  few  if  any  organizations,  and  what  is  not  of  pure 
Christianity  is  more  or  less  of  evil. 

The  Prohibition  candidate  for  Treasurer  in  Min- 
nesota is  J.  H.  Allen,  president  of  the  Fergus 
Flour  Mills  company  at  Fergus  Falls.  As  he  be- 
longs to  the  Masonic  order,  we  prefer  he  should 
state  more  at  length  his  position,  which  in  justice  to 
Minnesota  voters  should  be  understood.  It  must  be 
regretted  that  Mr.  Allen  allowed  himself  to  become 
a  member  of  an  order  whose  principles  and  oaths  we 
do  not  believe  he  understands.  Otherwise  he  would, 
in  making  good  his  word  below,  abandon  it: 

I  am  a  Mason,  and  that  some  of  the  best  Christian 
clergy  I  know  of  are  Masons.  This  information  I  give 
you  freely,  believing  that  the  public  has  a  right  to  know, 
that  they  may  judge  of  the  fitness  of  any  who  are  candi- 
dates for  the  suffrage  of  the  people.  No  doubt,  in  view 
of  the  general  opinion  of  your  League,  it  would  be  use 
less  for  me  to  say  that  I  know  of  no  obligation  as  a  Ma 
son  that  would  prevent  me  from  performing  the  duties  of 
the  office  for  which  I  am  a  candidate,  should  I  be  elected 
fairly,  impaitially  and  honestly.  I  know  of  nothing  in 
my  obligations  that  would,  could  or  should  require  me, 
under  any  circumstances,  to  do  anything  other  than  what 
is  right,  correct  and  just;  did  I  believe  they  in  any  man- 
ner would  interfere  with  my  judgment  or  acts  as  between 
man  and  man,  or  right  and  wrong,  I  would  renounce 
them  and  my  connections  therewith.  I  never  do  and 
never  have  made  use  of  my  Masonic  connections  to  fur- 
ther my  ends,  or  advance  my  interests  in  any  particular; 
but  should  I  be  sick  or  in  want  among  strangers  I  would 
feel  more  at  liverty  to  call  upon  a  brother  Mason  for 
assistance  than  any  other  stranger. 


-'-President  0.  A.  Blanchard  was  last  week  with 
the  church  in  Cambridge,  the  county  seat  of  Henry 


county,  111.  This  is,  we  believe,  the  last  of  his  eight 
summer  appointments.  His  account  of  these  meet- 
ings may  be  read  with  profit  elsewhere. 

— Rev.  M.  A.  Gault,  district  secretary  of  the  Na- 
tional Reform  Association,  is  spending  a  month  in 
Chicago  and  vicinity.  He  spent  the  Sabbath  in 
Waukegan,  and  next  Lord  s  day  expects  to  be  in 
Wheaton,  where  he  will  also  address  a  Prohibition 
meeting  on  Monday  evening. 

— The  Du  Page  County  Prohibition  Convention 
met  at  Wheaton,  111.,  last  Wednesday  and  nominated 
a  full  county  ticket.  Resolutions  were  adopted  em- 
phasizing the  importance  of  the  portions  of  the  Na- 
tional platform  recognizing  the  authority  of  the  God 
of  the  Bible,  and  of  his  Word,  which  should  have  a 
place  in  the  public  school;  and  the  requirement  of 
his  Day  as  a  necessity  for  man.  They  also  declared 
for  open  work  only  in  the  good  cause  of  the  Ameri- 
can home  against  the  saloon. 

— The  Christian  Statesman  in  a  note  on  Rev.  Da- 
vid McFall,  pastor  of  the  Chambers  Street  Reformed 
Presbyterian  church,  Boston,  says  that  since  his  se- 
vere illness  in  June, which  prevented  him  from  sailing 
for  Europe,  he  has  been  spending  the  summer  in  Dela- 
ware county,  New  York.  A  severe  attack  of  sciatic 
rheumatism  which  followed  has  left  him  greatly 
weakened.  Though  convalescent,  he  is  unable  to  un- 
dertake any  work  whatever.  Those  who  have  listened 
to  his  eloquent  words  for  Christ  against  the  iniqui- 
tous lodge  and  other  national  evils  will  with  us  join 
the  Statesman  in  praying  for  his  speedy  and  com- 
plete recovery. 

— Rev.  Byron  Gunner,  president  of  Howe  Insti- 
tute, spoke  in  Prospect  Park  and  Wheaton  on  Sab- 
bath, the  12th.  His  discourse  to  the  College  church 
in  the  evening  was  one  of  the  most  entertainina:  and 
instructive  respecting  the  condition  of  the  colored 
churches  of  the  South  ever  given  there;  and  the 
Wheaton  people  have  had  in  times  past  the  very 
best  speaking  on  this  topic  from  both  white  and  col- 
ored men.  We  should  be  unjust  to  our  readers  not 
to  recommend  that  they  should  hear  him  if  possible 
during  his  present  sojourn  in  the  North.  A  new 
and  warm  sympathy  for  Christian  work  in  the  South 
must  surely  be  the  result. 

— Bro.  J.  A.  Conant  sends  us  word  of  the  Con- 
necticut State  Prohibition  meeting.  The  debate, 
which  we  reported  from  the  daily  press,  was  not,  he 
says,  on  the  question  of  woman  suffrage,  but  on  a 
a  divided  report  upon  this  question.  As  for  the 
standing  of  Connecticut  Prohibitionists,  Bro.  Conant 
says:  *'Oae  or  two  advocates  of  woman  suffrage 
defended  the  minority  report  with  the  hope  of  keep- 
ing peace  in  the  family,  but  were  wofuUy  defeated. 
I  doubt  there  being  a  dozen  of  the  over  400  dele- 
gates present  who  were  opposed  to  woman  suffrage." 
Mr.  Richmond  of  Wisconsin  attended  the  meeting 
and  spoke,  and  the  Cynosure  called  attention  to  the 
fact  as  having  probable  connection  with  the  divis- 
ion. He  did  not  mention  the  subject  of  suffrage  in 
his  address,  but  from  the  uniform  reports  that  reach 
this  office,  he  is  not  a  man  to  be  implicitly  trusted 
by  Christian  Prohibitionists. 


NBW  BNOLAJND  LBTTBR. 

Lodge  Matters — Kate  Field  and  Her  "New  Departure" — 
The  Public  Scliool  Question — Paganism  in  Our 
Churches — Mr.  Blaine  and  "the  Dear  People" — Mrs. 
Cleveland— Shall  we  have  another  Mrs.  Hayes  in  the 
White  Bousef 

The  semi-annual  session  of  the  Grand  Lodge  of 
Odd-fellows  just  held  in  Boston,  develops  the  usual 
statistics:  receipts  $200,782.40;  amount  paid  out  for 
relief,  $72,579  50.  That  is,  for  every  three  dollars 
received,  about  one  dollar  has  been  paid  in  relief. 
How  long  would  an  insuiance  company  stand,  cairied 
on  upon  such  an  unbusiness-like  basis?  And  yet, 
well-meaning  but  ill-informed  people  will  continue 
to  talk  of  "the  charity"  of  the  order! 

Oae  of  the  very  few  Boston  dailies  which  publish 
a  "temperance  column",  is  the  Traveler;  a  paper, 
which  though  its  Republicanism  makes  it  lliDg  many 
sneers  and  gibes  at  the  Prohibitionists,  utterly  in- 
different to  the  lack  of  truth  at  the  bottom  of  its 
would-be  sarcasms,  deservedly  stands  at  the  head 
for  cleanliness  and  good  literary  style.  But  unfor- 
tunately this  "temperance  column"  is  so  largely 
given  up  to  lodge  advertising  that  to  one  who  knows 
how  very  little  practical  good  is  accomplished  by 
organized  secrecy,  it  is  only  vanity  and  vexation  of 
spirit  to  read  it.  How  many  of  these  Sons  of  Tem- 
perance and  Goo<i  Templars  will  be  ready  to  vote 
Prohibition  next  fall  remains  to  be  seen.  Those 
who  might  be  efficient  workers  against  the  saloon, 
but  ara  kept  learning  a  puerile  system  of  degrees 
and  grips  and  passwords,  and  imagining  all  the  time 
that  they  are  doing  temperance  work,  should  be  un- 


deceived, and  then  they  will  no  longer  consent  to 
train  in  the  treadmill  of  a  secret  ring,  and  pray, 

"Thy  kingdom  come, 
Then  vote  for  rom," 

to  save  corrupt  political  parties  from  deserved  dis- 
solution. 

Kate  Field,  so  says  a  personal  in  the  Post^  is  com- 
ing East  to  deliver  lectures  on  the  virtues  of  Cali- 
fornia wines.  She  claims,  with  Dr.  Crosby  and  the 
late  Freeman  Clarke,  that  the  substitution  of  light 
and  cheap  wines  for  beer  and  whisky  will  solve  the 
vexed  temperance  question  in  a  most  easy  and  de- 
lightful fashion.  But  unfortunately  the  genius  of 
reform  exacts  self  denial.  A  people  cannot  have  the 
good  of  Prohibition  and  indulge  their  appetites  at 
the  same  time;  and  it  is  not  alone  in  Miss  Edg- 
worth's  stories  that  poor  little  Rosamond,  unwilling 
to  sacrifice  the  purple  jar  for  shoes,  is  at  last  left  to 
bewail  the  loss  of  both.  It  may  be  true  that  the 
sight  of  reeling  drunkards  is  less  common  in  the 
cities  of  Southern  Europe  than  here.  I  am  not  pre- 
pared to  dispute  the  point,  but  I  should  like  to 
know  how  many  of  the  tourists,  who  tell  us  so  confi- 
dently that  drunkenness  is  such  a  rare  vice  in  France 
and  Italy,  ever  examined  the  police  reports  of  a  sin- 
gle French  or  Italian  city,  or  had  a  half  hour's  talk 
with  one  of  their  policemen.  Probably  not  one  in 
ninety-nine  thousand;  but  till  they  are  willing  to  ac- 
cept this  drudgery,  instead  of  skimming  lightly  and 
jauntily  over  the  question  like  a  butterfly,  I  don't  see 
how  thinking  minds  can  consider  it  definitely  set- 
tled. I  am  sorry  that  Miss  Field,  after  her  grand 
battling  with  the  Mormon  iniquity,  is  willing  to  em- 
bark in  so  bad  and  weak  a  cause.  Personally  she  is 
the  most  attractive  woman  on  the  platform  to-day, 
and  as  original  and  strong-minded  as  Anna  Dickin- 
son, but  she  is  essentially  an  actress  with  an  act- 
ress' thirst  for  admiration.  She  lacks  entirely  that 
moral  earnestness  which  draws  the  heart  of  the  peo- 
ple so  powerfully  to  Miss  Willard. 

Whether  the  substitution  of  California  wines  for 
whisky  would  prevent  John  L.  Sullivan,  the  pugi- 
list, whom  Boston's  mayor  has  so  delighted  to 
honor,  from  getting  royally  drunk  last  Saturday 
night,  and  doing  so  much  mischief  while  in  that 
condition  as  to  cause  his  arrest;  whether  it  would 
diminish  the  wife  murders  and  stabbing  affrays 
which  fill  up  the  criminal  column,  is  an  experiment 
yet  to  be  tried;  but  if  it  should  ever  come  to  the 
trial,  God  help  America! 

The  public  ecbool  question,  like  Banquo's  ghost, 
will  not  down.  At  Cottage  City  the  Baptist  taber- 
nacle listens  to  ringing  sermons  on  this  subject — 
notably  one  from  Rev. Philip  S.  Moxon.who,  though  a 
comparatively  new-comer,  is  already  one  of  the  fore- 
most preachers  in  Boston,  on  Romish  priests  and 
our  free  schools.  The  life  of  every  false  system  de- 
pends upon  its  either  suppressing  or  controlling 
popular  education.  In  Spain  and  Italy  it  tries  the 
first  plan;  here  in  America,  where  it  finds  the  pub- 
lic school  in  posssession  of  the  field,  its  only  hope  is 
to  try  the  second. 

The  "heated  term"  which  has  lingered  until  Au- 
gust is  now  upon  us  in  torrid  fierceness.  Mean- 
while, the  world  of  politics  and  the  world  of  fashion 
know  no  "summer  rest."  James  G.  Blaine's  jour- 
ney home  has  been  like  a  triumphal  progress,  "The 
greatest  living  American,"  as  his  admirers  are  fond 
of  calling  him,  is  still  the  idol  of  the  crowd,  which 
may  be  partly  accounted  for  by  his  Irish  gift  at 
"blarney."  Ills  brief  speeches  at  the  various  sta- 
tions on  the  line,  neat,  apt,  and  full  of  adroit  flat- 
tery of  the  dear  people  who  thronged  by  thousands 
to  greet  him,  are  models  in  this  particular  line. 

The  little  fishing  town  of  Marion,  on  the  Cape, 
still  rejoices  in  the  presence  of  Mrs.  Cleveland,  who 
lives  in  the  broad  blaze  of  publicity  quite  as  much 
as  Mr.  Blaine,  and  seems  to  enjoy  it  equally  well. 
She  evidently  tries  as  hard  to  make  herself  popular 
in  her  woman's  way,  for  though  she  does  not  make 
speeches  she  can  smile  and  throw  kisses  at  the 
crowd,  which  answers  the  same  general  purix)se. 
Why  should  a  young  woman  who  has  absolutely 
nothing  to  recommend  her  beyond  what  she  shares 
in  common  with  ten  thousand  other  women,  winning 
manners  and  a  fair  share  of  good  looks,  bo  elevated 
into  a  goddess  simply  because  she  has  married  a 
President?  This  thoughtless  homage  is  well  illus- 
trated by  a  gushing  article  in  one  of  our  exchanges, 
in  which  she  is  alluded  to,  with  equal  disregard  of 
facts  and  all  proprieties  of  the  English  language,  as 
our  "fair  young  Presieientess."  Fulsome  adulation 
in  its  power  to  nauseate  can  no  farther  go. 

Democratic  pai)er8  sneeringly  attribute  General 
Harrison's  temperance  principles  entirely  to  the  in- 
fluence of  his  wife.  This  is  one  straw  of  comfort 
for  those  who,  like  the  writer,  would  rejoice  to  see 
another  Mrs,  Hayes  in  the  White  Housp. 

E.  E.  Flaqo. 


10 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSUKE. 


August  23, 1888 


The  Home. 


A  STRIKE. 


Once  upon  an  evening  dreary, 

As  I  pondered,  ead  and  weary. 
O'er  the  basket  with  the  mending  from  the  wash  the  day  before ; 

Ab  I  thought  of  countless  stitches 

To  be  placed  in  little  breeches, 
Rose  my  heart  rebellious  In  me,  as  It  oft  had  done  before, 
At  the  fate  that  did  condemn  me,  when  my  dally  task  was  o'er. 

To  that  basket  evermore. 

John,  with  not  a  6lfi:n  or  motion. 
Sat  and  read  the  Tajikee  Notion, 
With  no  thought  of  the  commotion 

Which  within  me  rankled  sore. 
"He,"  thought  I,  "when  day  Is  ended. 
Has  no  stockings  to  be  mended, 
Has  no  babies  to  be  tended. 

He  can  sit  and  read  and  snore ; 
He  can  sit  and  read  and  rest  him : 

Must  I  work  thus  evermore?" 
And  my  heart  rebellious  answered, 

"Nevermore;  no,  nevermore." 

For  though  1  am  but  a  woman, 
Every  nerve  within  Is  human. 
Aching,  throbbing,  overworked. 
Mind  and  body  sick  and  sore, 
I  wUl  strike.    When  day  Is  ended. 
Though  the  stockings  are  not  mended. 
Though  my  course  can't  be  defended. 
Safe  behind  the  closet  door 
Goes  the  basket  with  the  mending,  and  I'll  haunted  be  no  more. 
In  the  daylight  shall  be  crowded  all  the  work  that  I  will  do; 
When  the  evening  lamps  are  lighted,  I  wUl  read  the  papers,  too. 

— Selected. 

TEB  HUSBANDMAN. 

John  Smith  is  a  neighbor  of  mine,  but  no  rela- 
tion. He  is  a  good  farmer,  but — well,  I  will  let  him 
tell  his  own  story.  He  came  to  me  the  other  day 
and  said: 

"I  want  you  to  advise  me  what  to  do.  We  are 
are  having  awful  times  over  at  my  house.  The  boys 
are  falling  into  bad  habits.  The  girls  are  gadding 
about  all  the  time.  My  wife  is  as  cross  as  a  bear. 
She  says  it  is  all  my  fault  that  the  children  don't  do 
better,  and  that  I  have  nobody  but  myself  to  blame. 
But  you  know  that  I  have  always  been  a  sober,  hard- 
working man.  I  have  made  a  good  living  for  my 
family,  and  I  can't  see  how  things  turn  out  so. 
What  do  you  think  I  ought  to  do?" 

"Shall  1  tell  you  just  what  I  think?" 

"Yes." 

"Well,  John,  my  opinion  is  that  if  you  had  been 
as  good  a  husbandman  in  doors  as  you  are  out  of 
doors,  your  family  would  be  in  as  good  a  condition 
as  your  farm  is.  You  know  that  the  Bible  calls  the 
farmer  a  husbandman,  and  we  speak  of  farming  as 
husbandry.  And  1  take  it,  the  idea  is  that  a  man 
ought  to  care  for  and  cultivate  his  land  just  as  he 
does  his  home.  But  if  you  had  treated  your  farm 
as  you  treated  your  home,  it  would  all  be  overgrown 
with  weeds  and  thistles." 

"What  do  you  mean  by  cultivating  my  home?  I 
understand  about  cultivating  land.  But  that  is  a 
very  different  thing  from  cultivating  people." 

"I  am  not  so  sure  of  that.  Let  us  look  at  the 
matter.  Soon  after  you  bought  your  farm  you  mar- 
ried your  wife.  In  becoming  a  husband,  you  as- 
sumed in  regard  to  her  the  duties  of  a  husbandman. 
She  expected  you  to  study  her  capabilities  and  her 
wants,  as  you  studied  your  fields.  Your  idea  when 
you  looked  on  your  land  was.  How  can  I  make  it 
more  productive,  and  yet  keep  it  in  good  heart?  If 
you  saw  the  crops  beginning  to  grow  light,  you  sum- 
mer fallowed,  or  changed  the  seed.  But  did  you 
study  your  wife  in  that  way?  Did  you  ever  think 
that  she  needed  encouragement?  Did  you  ever  see 
how  she  was  drooping  from  the  monotony  of  her 
daily  toil  and  cares,  and  try  to  give  her  a  change? 
Did  you  ever  say,  'Come,  Sarah^  we  will  take  a  jour- 
ney to  the  mountains  or  to  the  sea-shore  and  rest  a 
while?'  I  tell  you,  John,  people  need  summer  fal- 
lowing as  well  as  land.  And  if  they  don't  get  it 
now  and  then,  their  spirits  grow  worn  and  weary, 
and  the  crop  of  comfort  for  them,  and  for  those  who 
are  dependent  on  them,  will  be  very  light.  Nay,  in 
spite  of  themselves,  they  will  get  to  be  irritable. 
You  say  that  your  wife  is  cross.  Don't  you  see 
why?  She  was  a  young,  light-hearted  girl.  She 
loved  you,  and  thought  you  loved  her.  But  after 
you  married  her,  how  did  you  treat  her?  Did  you 
cultivate  her,  or  did  you  neglect  her?  Didn't  you 
act  just  as  if  she  bad  nothing  to  expect  of  you  but 
to  keep  the  family  supplied  with  provisions  and  to 
eat  your  meals  when  she  bad  prepared  them?  And 
didn't  you  sometimes  grumble  even  when  she  wanted 
money  for  things  necessary  to  the  comfort  of  the 
family?    And  didn't  you  complain  of  her  cooking, 


when  she  was  doing  the  best  she  could  to  please 
you?  Now,  just  remember  how  much  more  careful 
you  were  of  your  land  than  you  were  of  your  wife! 
how  much  more  time  you  spent  in  trying  to  mellow 
it  and  smooth  it,  and  to  find  seeds  adapted  to  it, 
than  you  spent  in  trying  to  make  her  happy,  and 
you  will  see  why  you  have  such  a  harvest  of  this- 
tles, when  you  might  have  had  wheat,  and  fruit  and 
flowers! 

"And  then  about  the  children.  You  are  the  best 
man  I  know  of  to  handle  horses.  I  have  often  won- 
dered at  your  patience  with  your  colts.  You  seem 
never  to  get  tired  of  petting  and  training  them. 
You  are  so  kind  to  them,  and  yet  so  firm  with  them, 
that  by  the  time  they  are  old  enough  to  work,  they 
will  do  anything  you  want  them  to.  That  pair  of 
bay  geldings  that  you  drive  is  the  finest  team  in  the 
country,  and  it  is  because  you  have  taken  so  much 
pains  in  breaking  them.  Now,  if  you  had  done  as 
well  by  your  children  as  you  have  by  your  colts, 
they  would  be  just  as  nice  boys  and  girls.  But 
while  you  have  petted  your  colts,  you  have  repelled 
your  children.  I  have  seen  little  Johnny  come  to 
you  when  you  were  in  a  corral  trying  to  gentle  the 
horses,  and  you  would  order  him  away  harshly  and 
then  turn  and  speak  as  softly  and  caressingly  to  the 
beasts  as  a  mother  talks  to  her  babes.  You  know 
that  if  you  had  spoken  to  the  beasts  as  you  spoke 
to  Johnny  you  would  have  spoiled  them.  Is  it  any 
wonder,  then,  that  you  have  spoiled  him? 

"I  tell  you,  John,  your  wife  is  right.  You  have 
nobody  but  yourself  to  blame.  You  have  been  a 
good  land  farmer,  but  a  careless  and  shiftless  house 
farmer.  You  have  been  a  first-rate  husbandman, 
but  a  very  indifferent  husband  and  father.  And 
you  are  reaping  just  what  you  sowed.  Now,  my  ad- 
vice to  you  is  to  do  just  as  you  would  if  you  had  a 
field  that  had  been  neglected  until  it  was  covered 
with  underbrush  and  thistles.  Clear  the  land  and 
begin  to  cultivate  it.  Take  an  interest  in  your  wife 
and  children,  and  it  may  not  be  too  late  for  you  to 
secure  a  happy  home.  Be  kind  to  your  boys  and 
girls,  and  yet  firm  with  them,  as  you  are  with  your 
horses,  and  they  will  learn  to  love  you  and  to  obey 
you." 

I  write  out  the  substance  of  this  conversation  be- 
cause I  am  afraid  that  there  are  a  good  many  such 
John  Smiths  in  the  world.  Men  who  have  homes 
ought  to  know  how  to  husband  them.  Husband  as 
defined  by  Webster,  "to  use  in  the  manner  best 
suited  to  produce  the  greatest  effects."  Every  head 
of  a  family  has  a  grand  opportunity.  What  noble 
men  and  women  have  gone  forth  from  the  well-cul- 
tivated homes  of  Christendom  to  bless  their  country 
and  the  world  I  All  our  homes  should  be  the  nur- 
series of  plants  of  righteousness.  But  to  have  a 
good  nursery  one  must  devote  time  and  thought  and 
toil  to  it.  It  won't  grow  and  flourish  of  itself,  un- 
cared  for.  Neither  will  a  home. — Herald  and  Pret- 
hyter, 

^  ♦  » 

CLEVER  BIRDS. 


One  morning  when  my  little  sister  was  walking 
with  mamma,  she  found  a  young  lettuce  bird  in  the 
path.  It  had  evidently  fallen  from  the  nest,  but 
they  could  not  see  where  it  was,  and  fearing  the 
bird  would  be  killed  if  it  were  left  in  the  road, 
mamma  told  Bessie  she  might  bring  it  home,  and, 
as  it  was  a  seed-eating  bird,  they  hoped  to  be  able 
to  raise  it  in  the  cage  with  the  canary  bird. 

She  carried  the  little  thing  home  and  put  it  in 
the  canary's  cage  which  hung  in  the  shady  front 
porch. 

In  a  little  while  we  heard  a  commotion  among  the 
birds,  and  hurrying  into  the  porch  we  saw  a  pretty 
sight.  Two  full-grown  lettuce  birds,  evidently  the 
parents  of  the  one  in  the  cage,  were  fluttering  about 
with  food  for  their  baby.  He  was  standing  on  the 
perch,  and  seemed  afraid  to  fly  down;  so  the  canary 
flew  down,  took  ths  seeds  from  the  old  birds,  and 
carried  them  to  the  little  one.  They  did  this  several 
times. 

The  next  day  Bessie  met  a  small  boy  who  had 
another  yellow  bird,  about  the  size  of  the  one  she 
bad  found  the  day  before,  apparently  one  of  the 
same  brood.  She  bought  it  from  him  for  five  cents, 
and  carried  the  frightened  birdling  tenderly  home, 
and  put  it  with  the  caged  birds.  After  that  for 
two  days  the  parent  birds  came  at  daylight  and  flew 
in  and  out  until  dark,  feeding  the  two  young  ones. 

On  the  third  day  the  male  bird  came  alone,  and 
we  feared  the  little  mother  had  been  killed.  After 
about  a  week,  however,  she  came  again,  bringing 
with  her  a  third  bird  about  the  size  of  our  two  pets. 
It  seemed  clear,  that  after  trying  to  care  for  the  di- 
vided family  together,  the  intelligent  birds  had 
agreed  that  the  father  should  take  care  of  the  caged 
birds,  while  the  mother  tended  the  lonely  birdUng 


in  the  nest  until  it  was  able  to  fly,  when  she  brought 
it  to  visit  its  brother  and  sister.  They  were  all  by 
this  time  old  enough  to  fly,  so,  although  we  grieved 
to  part  with  our  little  friends,  we  determined  to  re- 
ward the  wise  and  loving  parents  by  giving  their 
children  the  freedom  all  birds  love  so  well.  We 
opened  the  cage  door,  and  after  a  few  timid  twitters 
and  flutters,  the  young  birds  flew  out,  and  the  re- 
united family  flew  away  in  the  sweet  summer  air. 
As  for  the  canary,  virtue  had  to  be  its  own  reward, 
but  it  seemed  to  satisfy  him,  for  he  followed  his  de- 
parting guests  with  a  beautiful  burst  of  song. — Ihe 
Svoist  Crosi. 


WHAT  I  LIVE  FOR. 

I  live  for  those  who  love  me, 

For  those  I  know  are  true, 
For  the  heaven  that  smiles  above  me. 

And  awaits  my  spirit,  too ; 
For  all  human  ties  that  bind  me, 
For  the  task  by  God  assigned  me. 
For  the  bright  hopes  left  behind  me, 

And  the  good  that  I  can  do. 

I  live  to  learn  their  story 

Who've  suffered  for  my  sake. 
To  emulate  their  glory. 

And  follow  in  their  wake ; 
Bards,  martyrs,  patriots,  sages. 
The  noble  of  all  ages, 
Whose  deeds  crowd  history's  pages, 

And  Time's  great  volume  make. 

I  live  to  hail  that  season, 

By  gifted  minds  foretold, 
When  men  shall  live  by  reason, 

And  not  alone  by  gold— 
When  man  to  man  united. 
And  every  wrong  thing  righted, 
The  whole  world  shall  be  lighted, 

As  Eden  was  of  old. 

I  live  to  hold  communion 

With  all  that  is  divine. 
To  feel  there  is  a  union 

'Twlxt  Nature's  heart  and  mine; 
To  profit  by  affliction. 
Reap  truths  from  fields  of  fiction. 
Grow  wiser  from  conviction 

And  fulfill  each  great  design. 

1  live  for  those  who  love  me. 

For  those  who  know  me  true. 
For  the  heaven  that  smiles  above  me. 

And  awaits  my  spirit,  too ; 
For  the  wrong  that  needs  resistance, 
For  the  cause  that  lacks  assistance. 
For  the  future  In  the  distance. 

And  the  good  that  I  can  do. 

— Q.  LintuBus  Banks. 


THE  PERFECTED  PHONOGRAPH. 


Take  a  sheet  of  letter  paper  and  roll  it  up  into  a 
tube  or  cylinder  about  an  inch  and  a  half  in  diame- 
ter. Hold  it  lightly  in  the  left  hand,  and  cover  the 
other  end  with  the  right  hand.  Then  bring  the  open 
end  close  to  the  mouth  and  just  in  front  of  the 
lower  lip.  Now  sing  the  scale,  do,  re,  me,  etc.,  loud- 
ly and  in  exact  piteh.  At  certain  notes  a  delicate 
tremor  will  be  felt  in  the  tube,  as  if  it  vibrated  or 
trembled  with  the  sound  of  your  voice. 

This  simple  experiment  plainly  shows  that  sound 
is  a  vibration.  Every  word  you  speak,  every  note 
you  sing  sets  the  air  in  motion,  and  when  the  air 
in  the  tube  is  affected  by  just  the  right  number  of 
vibrations,  it,  too,  vibrates  in  sympathy  with  our 
voice,  and  this  motion  of  the  air  in  the  tube  causes 
the  elastic  paper  to  spring  backward  and  forward, 
and  you  feel  the  tube  trembling  and  shaking. 

The  motion  we  call  sound  consists  of  a  number 
of  beats  or  waves  following  each  other  quickly  in 
succession.  When  you  speak  the  air  is  set  in  mo- 
tion, and  these  invisible  waves  fall  on  the  walls, 
the  furniture,  and  other  objects  in  the  room.  If 
they  are  elastic  they  quiver  under  the  beating  of 
the  waves  of  sound.  If  they  are  soft  and  unelas- 
tic,  like  a  curtain,  they  absorb  the  motion  and  it  is 
lost 

We  cannot  see  nor  feel  this  motion  unless  the 
object  is  very  thin  and  elastic,  like  your  paper  tube, 
and  even  then  we  can  only  feel  it  as  a  faint  quiver- 
ing or  tremor. 

These  facts  have  long  been  known  to  men  of  sci^ 
ence,  and  various  uses  have  been  made  of  them, 
particularly  in  the  construction  of  musical  instru- 
ments. Perhaps  the  most  interesting  use  that  was 
ever  made  of  the  facts  shown  by  the  experiment 
was  flrst  announced  by  Mr.  Edison.  In  making 
some  experiments  with  the  telephone,  he  invented 
that  curious  machine  he  called  the  phonograph. 

The  idea  of  the  phonograph  is  very  simple. 
Waves  of  sound  falling  on  a  thin  sheet  of  mdtal 
cause  it  to  spring  backward  and  forward.    By  fast- 


BB 


August  23, 1888 


THE  CHRISTIAIT  CYNOSURE. 


11 


ening  a  small  needle  point  to  the  back  of  such  a 
plate  or  diaphragm,  little  dents  can  be  made  in  a 
sheet  of  soft  tinfoil.  This  foil  was  wrapped  around 
a  cylinder,  and  by  turning  the  cylinder  the  foil  trav- 
eled in  a  spiral  under  the  point  at  the  back  of  the 
diaphragm. 

Words  spoken  before  the  diaphragm  caused  the 
point  to  make  minute  dents  in  the  foil.  After  the 
words  had  been  spoken,  the  cylinder  could  be  moved 
backward  and  then  the  point  would  travel  over  the 
series  of  dents  in  the  foil  and  thus  shake  or  jar  the 
diaphragm,  and  this  motion  was  almost  the  same  as 
the  motion  given  to  it  by  the  waves  of  sound.  Thus 
it  happened  that  the  diaphragm  seemed  to  repeat 
or  respeak  the  very  words  spoken  before  it. 

The  phonograph  attracted  the  greatest  attention, 
and  was  regarded  as  a  most  wonderful  invention, 
and  many  people  thought  it  would  prove  to  be  an 
exceedingly  valuable  machine,  both  in  recording 
speech  and  music,  and  in  enabling  us  to  hear  any- 
thing spoken  before  it  many  times  over,  and  perhaps 
years  after  the  speaker  had  died. 

In  one  respect  the  phonograph  was  a  failure.  It 
would,  indeed,  repeat  words,  but  in  a  high  squeek- 
ing  voice  and  only  a  few  times,  and  then  it  became 
dumb  and  useless.  The  phonograph  began  with 
wonderful  promise,  and  ended  in  being  only  a  curi- 
ous, scientific  toy  of  no  particular  value. 

Mr.  Edison  recognized  this,  but  being  very  busy 
with  other  inventions  he  left  the  phonograph  incom- 
plete and  unfinished.  Within  the  past  year  he  has 
again  taken  it  up  and  brought  it  to  perfection;  and 
now  it  seems  as  though  we  were  to  see  another  great 
step  in  the  progress  of  science. 

The  new  phonograph  is  a  curious  looking  machine. 
It  stands  on  top  of  the  box  containing  the  motor, 
and  consists  of  a  copper  cylinder  supported  hori- 
zontally and  a  steel  shaft  that  has  a  fine  spiral  groove 
cut  in  it.  This  shaft  is  connected  by  frictional 
gearing  with  the  motor,  and  turns  in  bearings  at  each 
end. 

On  one  side  of  this  shaft  is  a  second  shaft,  also 
having  a  spiral  groove  or  screw  cut  in  it,  and  by 
means  of  a  little  band  the  two  shaf  is  both  revolve 
at  the  same  speed.  On  the  other  side  is  a  long  bar 
in  which  slides  a  frame  that  supports  the  two  dia- 
phragms. One  of  these  diaphragms  is  for  receiving 
the  words  spoken  into  the  machine,  and  the  other  is 
to  give  back  the  sounds  or  words  impressed  by  the 
waves  of  sound.  Either  diaphragm  can  be  used, 
and  by  a  device  for  connecting  them  with  the  re- 
volving shaft  they  travel  either  backward  or  for- 
ward over  the  cylinder  as  it  revolves. 

The  receiving  diaphragm  has  a  point  at  the  back 
of  the  plate  for  making  the  dents,  and  the  diaphragm 
that  gives  out  the  sounds  has  a  very  fine  needle  that 
travels  over  these  dents  without  injuring  or  break- 
ing them,  and  thus  destroying  the  record.  In  the 
old  phonograph  you  shouted  out  the  words  into  a 
big  funnel.  Now  you  speak  easily  and  naturally 
into  the  mouth-piece  of  a  flexible  speaking  tube. 

The  young  man  who  showed  me  the  new  phono- 
graph at  Mr.  Edison's  laboratory  turned  a  switch 
and  the  machine  silently  began  to  move.  In  place 
of  the  old  foil  he  put  a  thin  cylinder,  made  of  some 
composition  resembling  beeswax,  on  the  copper 
cylinder,  and  then  he  spoke  a  few  Virords  into  the 
tube. 

Then  the  diaphragms  were  changed,  the  speaking 
tube  was  taken  off  and  I  held  another  tube,  resem- 
bling a  double  stethoscope,  to  my  ears.  Every  word 
came  back  clearly  and  plainly  in  a  soft,  whispering 
voice,  that  was  exactly  like  the  voice  of  the  young 
man  who  had  just  spoken.  It  was  very  odd  to  hear 
even  the  little  imperfections  of  the  voice  repeated 
in  a  strange  fairy-like  whisper,  as  if  the  young  gen- 
tleman had  somehow  crept  into  my  ear  and  was  qui- 
etly talking  there. 

Then,  by  changing  the  machine,  it  repeated  some 
of  the  words  many  times  over,  just  to  show  it  had 
not  forgotten  them.  And  the  funny  part  was,  it 
sometimes  began  again  in  the  middle  of  a  word,  as 
if  it  had  forgotten  all  but  the  last  syllables.  It  had 
not  forgotten,  for  the  next  time  it  went  further  and 
gave  the  whole  word.  The  cylinder  on  which  the 
sound-vibrations  (or  speech)  are  impressed  can  be 
taken  off  the  machine,  and,  if  taken  to  a  strong 
light,  shows  the  indentations  made  by  the  diaphragm 
on  the  smooth  wax. 

Of  course,  it  is  not  written,  nor  does  it  reprint 
words.  It  is  merely  a  delicate  spiral,  or  trace  on 
the  wax,  so  minute  that  it  cannot  bo  seen  except 
under  a  strong  glass,  and,  to  the  eye,  looks  merely 
like  a  glistening  band  wound  round  the  cylinder. 
On  slipping  the  cylinder  back  the  machine  again  re- 
peats the  words  spoken  to  it. 

^uppose  two  people  have  a  phonograph,  one  in 
Omcago,  and  one  in  Boston.  The  Boston  man 
wishes  to  speak  to  the  Chicago  man,  and  he  says  [ 


what  he  wishes  him  to  hear  before  the  machine. 
Then  he  slips  off  the  wax  cylinder,  packs  the  pho- 
nogram in  a  paper  box  and  mails  it  to  Chicago. 

When  it  arrives  the  receiver  slips  the  cylinder 
into  his  phonograph,  moves  the  switeh  to  set  the 
motor  going,  and,  holding  the  receiving  tube  to  his 
ear,  hears,  in  a  soft,  clear  voice,  that  exactly  re- 
sembles the  Boston  man's  voice,  every  word  spoken 
in  the  East.  If  he  is  not  sure  about  any  sentence, 
he  can  hear  it  over  again,  then,  or  at  any  time  there- 
after. 

This  is  a  wonderful  age.  New  and  strange  things 
appear  so  often  that  we  hardly  notice  them.  Let  us 
not  look  upon  them  in  stupid  wonder,  but  try  to  see 
and  understand  the  great  laws  upon  which  they  are 
founded,  and  thus  keep  ourselves  abreast  of  the 
grand  procession  that  marks  the  wonderful  times  in 
which  we  live. —  C.  Barnard,  in  Youth's  Companion. 


TEMPERANCE. 


A  008TLT  "BBBR." 


Two  hundred  thousand  dollars  may  seem  a  large 
sum  for  a  small  article,  but  it  was  virtually  paid  by 
a  man  of  great  resources  who  had  an  ingenious  ex- 
pedient for  saving  the  horseflesh  of  the  world. 
About  ten  years  ago  a  veterinary  surgeon,  who  was 
with  the  army  at  Bombay,  found  that  the  excessive 
heat  of  that  country  caused  the  tops  of  the  horses' 
necks  to  sweat  freely,  and  thereby  produce  sores 
under  the  leather  collar.  All  the  expedients  that  he 
could  suggest  were  of  no  avail  to  remedy  this  state 
of  things.  One-fourth  of  the  horses  used  for  draught 
purposes  were  laid  up  by  what  is  called  "sore  neck." 

This  "vet."  in  his  younger  days  had  studied  chem- 
istry, and  he  found  that  sulphate  of  zinc  was  the 
best  and  almost  only  cure  for  horses'  "sore  necks," 
but  the  difficulty  in  applying  this  preparation  lay  in 
the  fact  that  the  horses  had  to  rest  during  the  time 
of  its  application,  otherwise  the  collar  would  rub  it 
off,  and  there  was  no  chance  for  the  horse's  recovery. 
A  thought  struck  him  that  to  make  a  zinc  pad  and 
fit  it  under  the  collar  would,  at  any  rate,  prove  an 
ameliorative,  and  may  be  cure.  The  man,  though 
ingenious  in  his  way,  was  much  given  to  drink,  and 
was  looked  upon  by  the  officers  of  the  army  as  a 
"ne'er-do-weel"  with  bright  ideas.  While  this  was 
simmering  in  his  mind,  and  before  he  had  put  it  into 
an  actual  test,  he  happened  to  be  in  a  drinking  bar. 

His  finances  at  this  time  were  at  the  lowest  ebb, 
for  his  future  was  mortgaged  for  all  it  was  worth, 
and  the  publican  refused  to  trust  him  with  any  more 
drinks.  An  American  drummer  happened  to  be 
representing  a  large  leather  house,  and  knew  a  good 
deal  of  the  difficulty  with  which  the  American  farm- 
ers of  the  Southwest  had  to  contend.  The  two  men 
got  into  conversation,  and,  as  a  natural  result,  the 
veterinary  surgeon  spoke  of  the  idea  that  was  upper- 
most in  his  mind,  and  said  that  he  thought  he  knew 
of  a  remedy  for  that  most  troublesome  complaint  of 
which  all  horses  in  hot  countries  suffered.  The 
American  was  perfectly  convinced  that  he  was  talk- 
ing to  a  man  of  good  ideas,  though  bad  principles, 
and  asked  what  be  would  take  for  the  idea. 

"I  am  awfully  hard  up  and  can  get  no  more  drink 
on  trust,  so  I  will  give  you  the  idea  for  a  glass  of 
beer." 

"Done  I"  said  the  other. 

The  American  at  once  saw  there  was  probably 
millions  in  this,  and  he  conceived  the  notion  that 
the  matter  oozing  from  the  sores  on  horses'  necks 
would  corrode  the  pad  and  produce  sulphate  of  zinc 
— thus  the  disease  would  provide  its  own  remedy. 
He  also  saw  that  zinc,  being  a  non-conductor  of  heat, 
would  keep  the  parts  cool.  The  more  he  thought  of 
it  the  more  he  liked  it,  and  although  his  business 
should  have  kept  him  in  Bombay  some  months  long- 
er, he  in  a  few  days  took  the  first  steamship  to 
Liverpool  and  then  to  Boston.  Arriving  in  Boston, 
he  threw  up  his  appointment  with  the  house  and 
started  the  manufacturing  of  zinc  pads,  after  obtain- 
ing a  patent  for  the  idea,  and  he  is  now  worth  $200,- 
000.  These  zinc  pads  are  used  in  every  country  on 
earth,  and  are  the  greatest  blessing  the  farmer  en- 
joys.— London  TidBttt, 

m  I  m 

aucosas  in  kanbab. 


Among  the  many  proofs  of  the  success  of  prohi- 
bition in  Kansas  is  the  following  statement  in  refer- 
ence to  the  city  of  Topeka  by  Mr.  Curtis,  the  county 
attorney: 

"At  one  time  there  were  one  hundred  and  fifty 
saloons  open  in  Topeka;  their  average  sales  per  day 
were  not  J3ss  than  |30  each,  which  would  make 
14,200  spent  daily  for  liquor.  This  amount  came 
largely  from  the  working  people.  To  day  there  is 
not  one  dollar  of  that  amount  spent  for  whisky. 


Where  does  it  go  to?  It  goes  for  food  and  clothing 
for  children  and  wife.  I  know  of  scores  of  instances 
where  families  were  suffering  for  food  because  the 
father  gave  his  wages  to  the  saloon-keeper.  Now 
they  are  living  in  a  cosy  home  of  their  own;  they 
have  all  the  necessities  of  life,  and,  indeed,  a  few  of 
the  luxuries;  the  children  who  were  once  poverty 
stricken  and  living  in  rags,  are  now  attending  the 
public  school,  and  the  father  will  tell  you  he  is  the 
happiest  man  in  the  State,  and  that  Prohibition  res- 
cued him." 

m  I  > 

A  BAD  AOENOWLBDQMBNT. 


A  dispatch,  dated  the  15th,  from  Dubuque,  Iowa, 
published  in  the  Inter  Ocean  of  Thursday  last,  says: 
"Judge  Lenehan  to-day  ordered  permanent  injunc- 
tions to  issue  against  forty-seven  saloon-keepers  in 
this  city.  The  defendants  will  file  supersedeas 
bonds  and  appeal  to  the  State  Supreme  Court.  The 
bond  cannot,  however,  stay  the  service  of  the  in- 
junction. It  is  not  likely,  though,  that  the  injunc- 
tions will  be  served,  and  the  saloons  will  operate 
right  along.  Prohibition  is  a  dead  letter  in  Du- 
buque." Is  it  possible  that  Republican  Iowa  allows 
such  a  condition  of  affairs? 


A  widowed  mother  in  Michigan  is  suing  a  saloon- 
keeper for  the  ruin  of  her  three  sons,  aged  respect- 
ively 18,  17,  and  14  years. 

The  Philadelphia  brewers  say  their  business  has 
increased  20  per  cent  since  the  high  license  law 
went  into  effect  that  abolished  nearly  four-fifths  of 
the  saloons. 

June  26,  5,663  petitions  were  presented  to  the 
British  House  of  Commons  praying  for  the  aban- 
donment of  the  licensing  clauses  of  the  local  gov- 
ernment bill. 

.  The  National  Temperance  Demonstration  will  be 
held  at  the  International  Exhibition,  Glasgow,  Aug. 
20.  All  bars  will  be  closed,  and  an  immense  gath- 
ering is  anticipated. 

It  has  been  stated  before  the  select  committee  in 
the  House  of  Commons  on  Sunday  closing  that  the 
2,000  clerks  in  Dublin  liquor  shops  are  required  to 
work  101  hours  per  week. 

The  W.  C.  T.  U.,  of  Mississippi,  presented  a  most 
eloquent  plea  to  their  State  Democratic  Convention, 
asking  for  an  anti-saloon  plank.  No  notice  was 
taken  of  it  by  the  convention. 

The  W.  C.  T.  U.  of  Shiawassee  county,  Michigan, 
has  succeeded,  after  three  years  of  hard  work,  in 
having  all  games  of  chance,  wheels  of  fortune,  and 
even  sweet  cider  prohibited  on  the  fair  grounds,  and 
preaching  and  speaking  substituted  instead. 

Master — "No,  Pat;  there's  no  use  you're  asking 
me  for  more  money.  You're  your  own  worst  enemy, 
and  will  drink  till  your  death."  Patrick  Monahan — 
"Thrue  for  ye,  sir.  Oi'm  me  own  wor-rst  inimy,  but 
the  dhrink  puts  me  on  good  ter-rms  wid  mesilf." — 
lime. 

The  eminent  French  economist,  M.  Leon  Say,  and 
the  members  of  the  commission  of  alcohols  over 
which  he  presides,  have,  through  the  result  of  their 
own  inquiries,  become  converted  to  the  views  of  the 
extreme  abolitionists.  They  have  become  uncom- 
promising enemies  of  the  liquor  traffic. 

John  B.  Gough  expressed  his  mature  judgment  in 
the  statement  that  nothing  but  the  religion  of  Jesus 
can  really  reform  a  drunkard.  In  the  same  line  is 
the  declaration  of  Warden  Hatoh,  of  the  Michigan 
State  prison  at  Jackson,  made  at  the  prison  congress 
in  Boston,  that  "nothing  can  really  be  done  for  the 
improvement  of  the  prisoners  unless  the  Christian 
religion  is  taken  into  the  prison.  If  Christ  is  good 
for  anything  in  the  world,  he  is  good  in  prison.  He 
does  more  in  the  Michigan  prison  than  all  the  disci- 
pline." We  are  glad  this  met  with  approval  and 
applause.  It  is  certain  that  if  every  prison  had  a 
warden  with  such  views  the  right  men  would  be  in 
the  right  place,  and  prison  reform  make  rapid  ad- 
vances. 

The  New  Jersey  prohibitionist  was  despondent. 
"I  am  afraid,"  he  said,  sadly,  "that  the  vote  of  our 
party  will  be  light  in  this  State  next  fall."  "Why?" 
inquired  his  sympathizing  friend.  "Well,  you  see," 
explained  the  prohibitionist,  "the  mosquitoes  are 
very  bad  this  year.  The  two  old  parties  send 
speakers  into  this  State  who  are  capable  of  protect- 
ing their  audiences  with  their  breaths  from  the  at- 
tacks of  ravenous  insects.  What  chance  has  the 
Prohibition  party  to  compete  with  them?  While  we 
talk  prohibition  the  people  fight  mosquitoes  and  do 
not  get  the  benefit  of  our  arguments."  "There  is 
but  one  thing  for  you  to  do,"  said  his  friend.  "You 
must  hire  a  few  politicians  from  the  other  parties  to 
attend  your  meetings  and  pose  as  terrible  examples." 


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THE  chrishan  cynosure. 


August  23, 1888 


Bible  Lesson. 


STUDIES  IN  THE  OLD  TESTAMENT. 

LESSON  X.— Third  Quarter.— Sept.  2. 

SUBJECT.— The  Spies  Sent  into  Canaan.— Num.  13 .  17-33. 

GOLDEN  TEXT.— Let  us  go  up  at  once,  and  possess  it;  for 
we  are  well  able  to  overcome  it.— Num.  13 :  30. 

I  OiMn  the  Bibie  and  read  the  Utaon.  | 

COMMENTS  ON  THE  LESSON  BY  E.  E.  FLAGG. 

1.  The  Spies  Sent.  Vs.  17-20.  The  jsending  of  the 
spies  seems  to  have  been  prompted  (Deut.  1:  22)  more 
by  worldly  wisdom  than  faith  in  their  divine  Commander. 
Instead  of  trusting  to  His  infinite  knowledge  to  map  out 
the  way  and  t«ll  them  what  points  to  first  attack,  they 
chose  to  take  council  of  flesh;  and  by  this  want  of  trust 
they  prepared  the  way  for  the  discouragement  that  fol- 
lowed, which  ended  in  that  whole  generation,  with  two 
exceptions,  being  debarred  from  entering  the  promised 
land.  In  Hebrews  important  lessons  are  drawn  from 
this  episode  in  Jewish  history.  We  are  warned  against 
having,  like  them,  "an  evil  heart  of  unbelief  in  depart- 
ing from  God."  That  desire  to  pry  into  the  future  which 
leads  so  many  people  into  the  vagaries  of  spiritualism  is 
simply  unbelief.  Why  should  they  want  to  search  out 
the  land?  why  should  they  seek  to  know  its  trials,  or  its 
dangers;  its  sorrows  or  its  joys,  as  if  God's  promises 
were  not  enough?  Unbelief  thus  nourished  will  grow 
till  all  faith  is  choked  out,  and  the  soul  becomes  like  a 
once  fair  garden  overrun  with  the  weeds  of  skepticism. 
A  desire  to  pry  into  the  mysteries  of  the  other  world  is  a 
form  of  unbelief.  God  has  told  us  enough  of  the  heav- 
enly Canaan  to  make  us  desire  the  possession  of  such  a 
goodly  land.  What  advantage  would  it  be  for  us  to  know 
more?  Whatever  giants  meet  us  in  the  path  of  duty  it 
remains  the  path  of  duty  just  the  same,  and  to  desire  to 
search  out  the  land  and  know  beforehand  all  the  lions 
in  the  way,  springs  from  a  spirit  of  cowardice  as  well  as 
of  faithlessness.  It  is  evidence  of  a  secret  inclination  to 
turn  back  to  Egypt  when  the  obstacles  seem  too  great  to 
conquer. 

2.  TTieir  Evil  Report.    Vs.  21-33.     The  spies  found 
the  land  to  be  all  God  had  promised,  for  his  word  never 
fails,  but  they  found  the  sons  of  Anak  there.    God  had 
never  promised  that  they  should  enter  Canaan  without  a 
struggle,  but  this  was  what  the  great  mass  of  the  people 
evidently  expected.     Many  young  Christians  suppose 
that  the  initial  step  once  taken  in  the  divine  life,  all  its 
greatest  difficulties  are  over.     But  it  is  "through  much 
tribulation"  that  we  enter  into  eternal  life.    Neither  is 
there  any  part  of  the  divine  way  in  which  we  can  count 
on  being  safe  from  enemies.     The  Amalekites  dwelt  in 
"the  land  of  the  South,"  other  tribes  "in  the  mountains," 
and  the  Canaanites  "by  the  sea  and  the  coast  of  Jordan." 
All  we  have  to  do  is  to  "go  up  and  possess  the  land," 
not  taking  cowardly  counsel  of  our  fears.     "We  are  well 
able  to  overcome."  We  must  have  faith  in  our  ability  to 
conquer.     A  brave  heart  is  half  the  battle.     There  are 
many  things  people  say  they  can't  do,  simply  because 
they  think  they  can't,     This  is  one  reason  why  the  Bible 
lays  such  emphasis  on  the  necessity  for  faith.     If  we 
thoroughly  believe  that  a  divine  Laader  goes  with  us  who 
never  was  and  never  can  be  defeated,  we  cannot  help  but 
march  confidently  on  to  victory.     Our  nation  must  pass 
through  a  great  moral  warfare  before  it  can  become  the 
goodly  Canaan  of  freedom  for  all  the  world's  poor  and 
oppressed.     One  giant  "son  of  Anah"  whom  we  must  de- 
stroy is  the  saloon,  and  with  it  we  shall  destroy  much  of 
the  poverty  and  misery,  and  nine-tenths   of  the  crime 
which  curses  our  nation.  Another  giant  foe  is  the  lodge. 
Laboring  men  are  compelled  to  enter  a  secret  union  to 
get  work:  to  join  a  strike  which  may  be  against  their 
judgment  at  the  risk  of  ill-treatment  and  even  death ; 
and  otherwise  surrender  their  manhood  and  liberty  at 
the  bidding  of  leaders  who  have  their  own  selfish  ends 
to  serve.    There  is  the  giant  Monopoly  which  seeks  to 
cut  down  wages  to  the  starvation  point,  and  "make  cor- 
ners" in  the  necessities  of  life.     Socialism  will  never  de- 
stroy this  giant,  for  it  belongs  to  the  same  family.  Satan 
cannot  cast  out  Satan.     The  hand  of  law  must  kill  him; 
a  law  made  and  upheld  by  the  people  whom  he  seeks  to 
grind  under  his  iron  heel-    There  is  the  giant  of  Sabbath 
desecration   stalking  everywhere   through   the  land;  of 
licentiousness,  "scattering  firebrands,  arrows  and  death" 
by  means  of  a  corrupt  press;  of  caste  prejudice,  which 
would   array  class   against  class,  and  his  twin  "brother, 
ignorance,  who  stands  ready  to  lead  mobs  and  direct  in 
Burrections.     Let  every  Christian  man  vote  as  he  prays, 
and  we  shall  soon  drive  out  these  giants  and  make  of 
our  beloved  America  a  new  political  Canaan. 


RELIGIOUS  News. 

— Rev.  Dr.  G.  P.  Pentecost  is  now  in  London  ex- 
pecting to  engage  in  evangelical  work. 

— At  the  late  meeting  of  the  Moody  Bible  school 
in  Northfield,  Mass,  ninety  persons  pledged  them- 
selves to  foreign  missionary  work,  twenty  of  them 
having  formed  a  band  since  the  school  opened.  Sev- 
eral of  them  will  begin  work  abroad  this  year. 

— The  memorial  of  St.  Paul,  which  some  Amer- 
icans propose  to  set  up  in  his  native  city  of  Tarsus, 
will  take  the  practical  shape  of  a  training  school 
for  orphans,  of  whom  there  are  a  great  many  in 
Cilicia.  About  $2,500  a  year  has  been  pledged,  a 
sum  sufficient  to  support  about  fifty  children.  Dr. 
Howard  Crosby  is  the  president  of  the  board  of 
managers. 

— The  Missionary  Society  of  the  Methodist  Epis- 
copal church,  representing  2,000,000  communicants 
and  6,000,000  of  adherents,  has  appealed  to  the 
United  States  Government  for  the  exercise  of  its 
undoubted  legal  right  to  prohibit  the  exportation  of 
alcoholic  liquors  into  Africa. 

— Drs.  A.  T.  Pierson  of  Philadelphia  and  A.  J. 
Gordon  of  Boston  have  agreed  to  remain  for  some 
months  in  Scotland  to  co-operate  with  representatives 
of  various  organizations  in  spreading  the  missionary 
spirit  throughout  the  land. 

— Rabbi  Lichtenstein,  of  Tapio-Szele,  Hungary, 
perseveres  in  his  confession  of  Christ,  but  he  has 
not  yet  sought  baptism,  believing  this  step  would 
separate  him  from  his  people  and  put  a  stop  to  his 
testimony  for  Jesus  in  the  synagogues.  He  receives 
letters  from  influential  Jews,  and  even  rabbis  assure 
him  of  their  secret  sympathy.  But  there  are  also 
some  Jews  who  follow  him  about  as  spies. 

— Mr.  and  Mrs.  Spurgeon  are  both  ill.  Mr.  Spur- 
geon's  physician  says  that  he  is  suffering  from  nerv- 
ous debility,  and  must  do  no  work  that  he  can  possi- 
bly avoid  for  the  next  three  months.  Mrs.  Spur- 
geon is  said  to  be  "utterly  prostrated,"  but  her  ill- 
ness is  not  described  as  dangerous. 

— George  Muller,  known  throughout  the  Christian 
world  for  his  faith  and  work,  is  now  eighty-two 
years  old,  yet  he  is  hale  and  hearty,  and  as  full  of 
zeal  and  activity  as  ever.  He  has  just  returned  to 
England  after  a  preaching  tour  of  37,000  miles, 
principally  in  Australia,  China  and  Japan.  Upon 
his  arrival  at  Bristol  he  was  greeted  most  warmly  by 
2,000  children. 

— Looking  toward  the  final  separation  of  church 
and  state  in  France,  the  government  has  prepared  a 
bill  relating  to  associations.  It  provides  that  asso- 
ciations such  as  free  churches  may  hold  property 
provided  they  do  not  derive  any  profit  from  it,  and 
provided  also  that  members  of  such  associations  do 
not  use  it  for  their  personal  ends.  The  measure  is 
looked  upon  with  favor  by  many,  for  as  the  law  now 
stands  free  churches  and  evangelical  societies  sre 
unable  to  hold  property  in  trust. 

— A  convention  representing  the  four  Scandina- 
vian Lutheran  denominations  in  the  States  and  Ter- 
ritories between  Chicago  and  the  Pacific  slope,  met 
last  Wednesday  at  one  of  the  Scandinavian  churches 
of  Eau  Claire,  Wisconsin.  The  delegates  were  elected 
at  the  annual  meetings  last  summer  of  the  four  de- 
nominations namely:  The  Norske  Synod,  the  Norske 
Danske  Conference,  the  Augustana  Sjnod  and  the 
Houges  Synod.  The  convention  will  formulate  a 
plan  for  the  union  of  all  the  denominations  in  one 
body,  which  will  be  submitted  at  the  annual  meeting 
ot  each  body  next  spring. 

— One  afternoon  Dr.  Cullis,  at  the  late  Intervale 
Park  convention,  gave  a  rapid  account  of  the  growth 
of  the  "faith  work"  and  the  principle*  on  which  it 
was  based.  When  he  heard  that  there  was  no  place 
in  the  country  for  consumptives,  he  felt  that  that 
work  was  given  to  him  by  God,  and,  without  mak- 
ing any  appeal  for  funds,  he  opened  a  house  in 
Willard  street,  Boston.  The  one  house  grew  to 
seven  in  a  few  years,  and  then  they  moved  out  to 
the  present  Grove  Hall  building  in  Boston  High- 
lands, where  there  are  at  present  the  following  insti- 
tutions: The  Consumptives'  Home,  two  orphan- 
ages, the  Spinal  Home,  the  Deaconesses'  Home,  the 
Fdilh  Cure  House,  and  Grove  Hall  church,  with  its 
pastor,  the  Rev.  E  D.  Mallory.  In  Boston  itself, 
there  is  the  Beacon  Hil)  church  and  the  "Faith  Train- 
ing" College  and  the  L^iwis  Street  Mission  among 
sailors  and  drunkards.  In  Walpole,  Mass.,  there  is 
the  Cancer  Home.  In  connection  with  the  work 
there  are  two  missions  in  California  and  two  in  Vir- 
ginia and  one  in  India — all  of  which  are  supported 
by  money  sent  in  answer  to  prayer. 

— Thursday,  August  9Lh,  was  the  one  hundredth 
anniversary  of  the  birth  of  that  famous,  pioneer 
missionary,  Adouiram  Judson.     ^o  man,  we  think, 


can  look  over  the  mission  field  of  the  world  to-day 
and  see  the  thousands  of  missionaries  at  work  iu 
them,  behold  the  Christian  churches  dotting  those 
once  heathen  lands,  see  the  hundreds  of  thousands 
of  Christian  people  who  have  come  out  of  heathen 
darkness,  behold  what  vast  resources  are  employed 
in  carrying  forward  the  work  of  the  various  Chris- 
tian denominations  in  heathen  lands,  and  reflect 
that  it  is  only  one  hundred  years  since  one  of  the 
first  movers  in  this  grand  march  of  the  kingdom 
was  born,  without  exclaiming  inglad  surprise,  "What 
hath  God  wrought  1"  It  is  a  grand  thing  to  live  in 
such  a  century,  and  a  grander  thing  to  have  some 
part  in  such  a  \iOv)s..—Sahhath  Recorder. 

— The  China  Inland  Mission,  represented  by  the 
Rev.  J.  Hudson  Taylor,  is,  on  account  of  its  peculiar 
methods,  attracting  much  attention.  With  no  or- 
ganized society  to  collect  funds,  it  has  had  294  mis- 
sionaries at  work  under  the  supervision  of  the  sen- 
ior missionary,  Mr.  Taylor,  or,  in  his  absence,  the 
one  next  longest  in  the  field.  No  one  is  promised 
a  salary,  but  the  funds  are  distributed  according  as 
each  has  need.  There  is  a  home  agency  for  receiv- 
ing and  forwarding  funds  for  the  mission  at  2,  4,  6 
Mildmay,  London,  but  no  agency  for  collecting 
these  funds.  Dependence  is  placed  directly  on 
God  for  gathering  these  supplies.  Mr.  Taylor  was 
led  to  adopt  this  method  because  the  society  that 
sent  him  out  was  so  constantly  burdened  with  debt. 
"We  told  the  Lord  if  he  would  supply  us  the  funds 
we  would  on  our  part  try  to  do  the  work  he  gave 
to  our  hands,  but  we  could  not  do  both.  We  entered 
into  partnership  in  this  matter,  and  he  has  never 
failed  us.  Now,  one-third  of  all  the  missionary  work 
of  China  is  done  by  the  China  Inland  Missionaries. 
Last  year  special  prayer  was  offered  that  100  mis- 
sionaries might  be  added  to  their  number,  and  the 
money  given  for  their  expenses.  Both  money  and 
men  came. —  Christian  Inquirer. 

— The  eleventh  conference  of  the  Young  Men's 
Christian  Associations  of  the  world  convened  in 
Stockholm,  Sweden,  Aug.  15.  The  convention  was 
formally  opened  in  a  brief  address  by  Count  Berns- 
torff,  of  Berlin,  president  of  the  convention  held 
four  years  ago  at  Berlin.  An  address  of  welcome 
was  delivered  by  the  Bishop  of  Visby,  and  the  ad- 
dress of  inauguration  by  the  Baron  of  Ugglas.  Fol- 
lowing these  addresses  was  the  election  of  officers 
and  the  opening  devotional,  exercises,  conducted  by 
Professor  Rudin  of  Upsala.  Dr.  Von  Scheele  was 
elected  president,  and  Mr.  George  Williams  of  Lon- 
don, Count  Bernstorff  of  Berlin,  and  Mr.  Lucian 
Warner  of  New  York,  vice  presidents.  The  world's 
committee  report  was  presented.  It  shows  what  had 
been  done  in  the  four  years  since  the  Berlin  conven- 
tion. It  has  grown  largely  in  Germany,  Switzer- 
land, Holland,  Norway  and  Sweden,  and  under  the 
fostering  care  of  American  friends  the  work  in  Paris 
and  France  is  making  rapid  progress.  There  are 
now  3,804  associations — a  growth  of  nearly  one 
theusand  since  the  last  report.  The  American  re- 
port showed  that  the  value  of  association  property 
has  increased  since  1884  from  about  three  to  seven 
million  dollars,  and  the  number  of  secretaries  from 
less  than  400  to  nearly  800.  Four  hundred  dele- 
gates are  in  attendance,  of  whom  200  are  English 
speaking,  and  some  sixty  are  from  America. 

— We  hear  every  now  and  again  of  a  revival  in 
some  city  or  village,  and  there  are  many  revivals  of 
more  or  less  importance  which  are  never  heard  of 
beyond  the  circle  of  those  specially  interested  in 
them;  but  why  should  we  not  have  one  grand  revi- 
val over  the  whole  country?  Why  should  we  not 
have  such  an  outpouring  of  the  Holy  Spirit  that,  in 
all  the  churches  from  Maine  to  California,  there 
would  not  be  room  enough  to  receive  the  crowds 
gathering  for  the  worship  of  God?  There  is  only 
one  answer  to  this  question,  and  it  is  a  terrible  in- 
dictment of  the  church.  There  is  no  limit  to  the 
willingness  of  God,  and  only  one  limit  to  his  power 
to  reach  and  save  sinners.  That  limit  is  regulated 
by  the  measure  of  faith  shown  by  the  church.  God 
himself  can  go  no  farther  or  faster  in  the  work  of 
winning  souls  than  ho  can  carry  his  people  with  him, 
for  it  is  written  of  Jesus  that  he  could  not  do  many 
mighty  works  in  his  own  country  "because  of  their 
unbelief."  The  only  thing  that  can  hinder  the  pro- 
gress of  the  Redeemer's  kingdom  is  the  unreadiness 
and  lack  of  faith  of  bis  servants.  Awake,  O  pas- 
tors! Awake,  elders,  class- leaders,  and  deaconfe! 
Awake,  all  ye  servants  of  Christ,  and  cry  m'ghtily 
to  God  for  grace,  wisdom  and  power  to  woik  for 
him  I  Make  up  your  minds  that  by  the  grace  of 
God  you  shall  have  a  glorious  revival  of  bis  work 
in  your  town,  and  you  will  find  that  his  ear  is  not 
shortened  that  it  cannot  hear,  nor  his  arm  that  it 
cannot  save.  Ask,  and  ye  shall  receive. — New  ¥^k 
Witnr.it. 


August  23, 1888 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


13 


Home  and  Health. 


FOOD   FOR  THB  SICK. 

A  fish  pudding  is  a  nice  way  to  re- 
serve the  remains  of  any  cooked  fish.  To 
two  tablespoonfuls  of  fish,  cut  small,  add 
one  of  bread  crumbs;  the  latter  to  be 
soaked  a  little  in  warm  milk,  then  strained 
and  beaten  fine.  Add  a  beaten  egg  and 
a  little  salt,  pour  into  a  buttered  cup, 
cover  with  a  piece  of  white  paper  but- 
tered, and  steam  half  an  hour.  The 
water  should  only  reach  half  way  up  the 
cup,  and  should  not  boil  too  fast,  or  the 
egg  will  become  more  hardened  than  is 
desirable.  Salmon,  eels,  mackeral  and 
herring,  being  oily,  are  unsuitable  for 
invalids. 

A  few  words  on  beef  tea,  or  our  paper 
will  be  incomplete. 

It  used  to  be  looked  upon  as  a  sign  of 
goodness  if  beef  tea  "jellied"  when  cold. 
This  is  an  error.  No  good  beef-tea  can 
possibly  "jelley,"  for  this  reason — it  must 
not,  or  ratner  should  not,  be  made  from 
gelatinous  parts  of  the  beef.  Shin  of 
beef  is  suitable  to  make  stock  for  clear 
soup,  but  that  is  another  matter.  If  shin 
be  used  at  all,  it  ought  to  be  the  top, 
where  a  thick  piece  of  meat  can  be  cut; 
but  other  parts  are  better — the  round  or 
the  roll  of  the  bladebone.  Ask  the 
butcher  for  a  lean,  tender  steak;  cut  it  as 
if  it  were  to  be  cooked  as  a  steak,  and 
exercise  the  same  care  in  the  selection, 
and  the  patient  will  reap  the  benefit. 
Now,  as  to  the  mode  of  making  the  tea: 
it  is  a  mistake  to  cut  the  beef  in  large 
pieces,  or  to  let  it  boil  for  a  single  min- 
ute. Scrape  the  meat  finely,  and  put  it 
in  a  jar  of  cold  water,  with  a  pinch  of 
salt,  10  soak  for  an  hour,  or  more  if  con- 
venient; then  tie  it  down  with  paper  over 
the  mouth,  and  set  the  jar  in  a  saucepan 
of  cold  water;  bring  this  to  the  boil  and 
let  the  water  simmer  two  or  three  hours 
(in  the  saucepan  we  mean),  and  then 
strain  off  the  tea;  not  through  a  fine 
strainer — nothing  should  be  left  behind 
but  the  meat;  the  brown,  thick  looking 
particles  that  float  about  contain  nutri- 
ment. Now,  as  long  as  anything  is 
cooked  in  a  vessel  set  in  another,  the  con- 
tents of  the  inner  one  cannot  boil;  this, 
in  the  case  of  beef-tea,  is  as  it  should  be. 
The  quantity  of  water  must  be  regulated 
by  the  strength  required,  but  a  pint  to  a 
pound  is  about  tiie  average. — Gassell'a 
Family  Magazine. 

SLEEP   A   PREVENTATIVE  OF    HEADACHE. 

A  scientific  writer  says:  "Sleep,  if 
taken  at  the  right  moment,  will  prevent 
an  attack  of  nervous  headache.  If  the 
subjects  of  such  headaches  will  watch 
the  symptoms  of  its  coming,  th«y  can 
notice  that  it  begins  with  a  feeling  of 
weariness  or  heaviness.  This  is  the  time 
the  sleep  of  an  hour,  or  even  two,  as 
nature  guides,  will  effectually  prevent 
the  headache.  If  not  taken  just  then  it 
will  be  too  late,  for  after  the  attack  is 
fairly  under  way,  it  will  be  impossible  to 
get  sleep  till  far  into  the  night,  perhaps. 
It  is  so  common  in  these  days  for  doctors 
to  forbid  having  their  patients  waked  to 
lake  medicine,  if  they  are  asleep  when 
the  hour  comes  round,  that  the  people 
have  learned  the  lesson  pretty  well,  and 
they  generally  know  that  sleep  is  far  bet- 
ter for  the  sick  than  medicine.  But  it  is 
not  so  well  known  that  sleep  is  a  won- 
derful preventive  of  disease— better  than 
tonics,  regulators,  and  stimulents." — 
Belecled. 

TO  PRESERVE  CORN  WITH  SALT. 

I  often  keep  corn  in  this  way;  it  is 
quite  handy  and  good:  Cut  the  corn  raw 
from  the  cob,  pack  in  anything  conven- 
ient. I  sometimes  use  a  jar  and  some- 
times a  keg,  put  in  a  layer  of  corn  ^  an 
inch  in  thickness,  and  a  layer  of  salt  not 
so  thick,  and  so  on  till  the  vessel  is  full, 
covering  the  whole  with  salt.  When 
wanted  for  use,  soak  in  clear  water  12  or 
14  hours,  and  cook  as  in  summer. — Mrs. 
Gray,  in  Prairie  Farmer. 

TO  CAN  CORN. 

I  prefer  tin  cans  for  corn.  I  find  the 
best  way  is  to  {vlace  the  corn  in  the  cans, 
soldering  on  the  lids,  then  make  a  small 
air  hole  and  put  them  in  a  boiler  of 
water  and  boil  three  hours.  Then  seal 
up  the  airhole  and  boil  three  hours 
longer.  I  use  the  prepared  solder,  that 
comes  in  little  sticks  about  as  thick  as  a 
knitting  needle.  Cjrn  canned  in  this  way 
keeps  its  natural  flavor  and  the  peculiar 
sweetness  of  fresh  corn  better  than  by  any 
other  method. — Mrs.  Jo/mspn,  in  Prairie 
Farmer. 


DONATIONS. 


General  Fund: 

W.  C.  Gaddis $      1.25 

A.  E.  H.  Doyon 10.00 

Cynosure  Ministers'  Fund: 

Peter  Howe  24.75 

Bennett  Price 2.00 

D.Molyneux 1.00 

Mrs.  S.  G.  Reed 50 

A.  E.  H.  l>oyon 10.00 

Before  Reported 1172.65 

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THE  CHRISTIAN  OYNOSUKE. 


AuGUST^23, 1888 


Faem  Notes. 

TIMELY  HINTS. 

This  ia  a  good  time  to  shorten  in  the 
evergreens  to  make  them  grow  compact 
and  stocky.  Simply  nip  off  the  ends  of 
limbs  and  leaders  that  are  growing  too 
spindling. 

Vacancies  in  strawberry  rows  can  be 
filled  up  now  by  taking  young  plants 
with  the  runners  attached,  and  setting 
them  in  these  vacancies,  and  training  the 
runners  along  the  rows.  If  you  have  no 
strawberry  bed,  set  a  few  this  month,  and 
if  your  soil  is  too  heavy  and  stiff  draw 
on  a  few  loads  of  sand  and  mix  thor- 
oughly through  it.  If  sand  is  not  to  be 
had,  haul  leaf  mold  from  the  woods,  and 
also  put  on  coal  ashes  and  work  in  well. 
If  your  strawberry  rows  are  uneven,  hav- 
ing vacant  spaces,  take  up  plants  from 
well-filled  spaces  and  transplant.  Go 
through  the  strawberries  often,  and  train 
the  runners  along  in  rows. 

Watch  the  flower  seeds  and  gather  as 
fast  as  ripe,  as  they  waste  very  easy. 

Look  out  for  manure,  and  make  com- 
post heaps  as  fast  as  you  collect  suitable 
materials. 

Pears  are  ripening  up  this  month 
Most  varieties  are  better  to  gather  just 
before  they  are  ripe,  and  place  them  on 
shelves  or  the  fl  jor  in  a  dark,  close  room . 

Don't  allow  weeds  in  the  garden  to  go 
to  seed.  If  you  can't  do  better  to  pre- 
vent it,  cut  them  down  with  a  scythe  or 
sickle. 

Laykring  Qbapes. — If  there  are  new 
canes  growing  next  to  the  crown  of  your 
plants  lay  them  in  and  out  of  the  ground, 
so  that  canes  six  feet  in  length  will  pass 
under  the  eoil  at  least  three  times.  They 
can  be  held  in  bottom  trench  with  little 
forked  pegs  and  covered  over  with  earth. 
Many  shrubs  can  be  layered  and  increased 
this  month.  Currant  cuttings  should  now 
be  taken  off,  cut  up  into  cuttings  six  to 
eight  inches  long,  and  set  firmly  into  the 
soil  up  to  the  topmost  bud. 

Tips  of  the  black  raspberries  can  be 
layered  through  this  month.  Simply 
open  holes  with  a  trowel  and  place  the 
tips  of  new  growth  in  at  an  angle  of  45 
degrees  and  cover  with  earth. 

Have  all  the  old  wood  trimmed  out  of 
your  blackberry  and  raspberry  planta 
tations. 

This  is  a  good  time  to  scatter  a  little 
well  prepared  compost  along  the  straw- 
berry rows.  Also  put  a  small  shovelful 
around  each  raspberry  bush,  but  none 
around  blackberries,  for  the  latter  do  not 
need  any  stimulant  until  the  plant  shows 
exhaustion,  when  manure  may  be  thrown 
around  them  late  in  the  fall. 

WORKERS  AND  THE  SABBATH. 

The  distinguished  Dr.  John  W.  Draper 
has  also  left  on  record  the  following  in 
relation  to  the  physiology  of  the  Sabbath : 

"The  constitution  of  the  brain  is  such 
that  it  must  have  its  time  of  repose. 
Periodicity  is  stamped  upon  it.  Nor  is 
it  enough  that  it  is  awake  and  in  action 
by  day,  and  in  the  silence  of  the  night 
obtains  rest  and  repose;  that  same  peri- 
odicity which  belongs  to  it  as  a  whole 
belongs  to  all  its  constituent  parts.  One 
portion  of  it  cannot  be  called  into  inces- 
sant activity  without  the  risk  of  injury. 
Its  different  regions,  devoted  to  different 
functions,  must  have  their  separate  times 
to  rest.  The  excitement  of  one  part 
must  be  coincident  with  a  pause  in  the 
action  of  another.  The  Sabbath  is  a 
boon  to  all  classes  of  men;  for  in  what- 
ever position  of  life  we  may  be  placed, 
it  is  needful  for  us  to  have  an  oppor- 
tunity to  rest.  No  one  can,  for  any 
length  of  time,  pursue  one  avocation  or 
one  train  of  thought  without  mental, 
and,  therefore,  bodily  injury— nay,  with- 
out insttnity." 

CORN  CHANGED   BY  SELECTION. 

Professor  Morrow,  of  Illinois  Univer- 
sity, says:  It  is  well  known  that  the 
character  of  both  stalk  and  ear  may  be 
considerably  changed  in  a  few  years  by 
selection.  In  three  years  we  have  made 
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ears  in  a  variety  which,  when  received, 
produced  white  ears  only  in  very  rare 
cases.  This  gives  additional  encourage- 
ment in  attempts  to  increase  productive- 
ness by  increase  of  number  of  ears. 


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August  23, 1888 


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WASHINGTON. 

Admiral  Luce  has  received  orders  to 
proceed  to  Port  au  Prince,  Hayti,  to  pro- 
tect American  interests  in  the  Haytien 
waters,  on  account  of  the  state  of  martial 
law  which  exists. 

The  President  issued  an  order  Aug.  14 
placing  Major  General  Schofleld  in  com- 
mand of  the  army,  with  headquarters  at 
Washington. 

The  bills  to  admit  North  Dakota  and 
Montana  are  next  on  the  Republican 
caucus  program  in  the  Senate,  and  if 
these  are  disposed  of  before  ihe  end  of 
the  week  (which  is  not  likely)  the  Senate 
bill  to  repeal  the  pre  emption  and  the 
timber-culture  laws  and  amend  the  home- 
stead law  may  be  taken  up.  The  attend- 
ance of  members  in  the  House  has  fallen 
off  to  a  point  where  a  quorum  can  be  ob- 
tained only  with  difficulty,  and  a  single 
objection  is  usually  sufficient  to  defeat 
legislation. 

POLITICAL. 

It  is  reported  from  Washington  that 
the  Democratic  managers  intend  to  chal- 
lenge Mr.  Blaine  to  a  joint  discussion  of 
the  tariff  question  with  Speaker  Carlisle, 
in  twelve  principal  cities  of  the  Union, 
six  to  be  named  by  Speaker  Carlisle  and 
six  by  Mr.  Blaine. 

It  is  understood  here  that  both  General 
Hovey  and  Mr.  Matson,  the  rival  candi- 
dates for  governor  in  Indiana,  favor  the 
proposed  plan  of  taking  the  stump  to- 
gether in  joint  discussion.  They  are 
both  getting  restive. 

James  Q.  Blaine,  Senator  Ingalls  and 
Robert  Q.  Ingersoll  are  announced  to 
speak  at  a  Republican  rally  at  Farmer 
City,  111.,  the  first  week  in  September. 

Chairman  Dickie  announces  that  the 
Prohibition  headquarters  are  to  be  moved 
from  Chicago  to  New  York,  at  the  re- 
quest of  General  Fisk  "and  for  other 
weighty  reasons,"  cnief  among  which  is 
probably  the  supremacy  of  the  Voice,  as 
organ  of  the  party. 

It  is  reported  that  President  Cleveland 
is  displeased  with  the  management  of  the 
campaign  by  Mr.  Brice,  of  the  Demo- 
cratic committee,  and  that  Senator  GDr- 
man,  of  Maryland,  is  to  take  the  place 
and  do  the  work. 

At  a  regular  monthly  of  the  executive 
committee  of  the  American  Protective 
Tariff  League  in  New  York  Thursday,  it 
was  stated  that  during  the  month  796,- 
590  pamphlets  had  been  sent  out,  with 
about  17,000,000  pages. 

CHICAGO. 

Another  immense  double  swing  bridge, 
said  to  be  the  finest  in  the  city,  is  nearly 
ready  for  public  use  at  Jackson  street. 

The  suburb  of  South  Lawn  was  the 
scene  of  a  collision  between  an  Illinois 
Central  passenger  train  and  a  Grand 
Trunk  freight  at  the  crossing,  Thursday, 
in  which  several  coaches  were  smaHhed 
to  kindling  wood,  and  seven  persons  were 
injured.  The  escape  of  the  rest  i?  like  a 
miracle. 

The  Heavy  Hardware  Jobbers'  Na- 
tional Union,  whose  prime  purpose  is 
claimed  to  be  an  opposition  to  trusts, 
combinations  and  syndicates,  as  related 
to  their  business,  was  organized  at  the 
Grand  Pacific  Hotel  last  week,  after  a 
two  days'  conference  of  heavy  jobbers. 

COONTBY. 

Emma  Traxel,  aged  18,  living  near 
New  Philadelphia,  Ohio,  Saturday  last 
went  into  a  trance,  in  which  she  remained 
for  thirty-six  hours.  Preparations  had 
been  made  for  her  funeral  when  she 
awoke.  She  was  conscious  of  all  her 
Burroundings. 

"Regulators"  visited  the  home  of  a 
negro  at  Abbeville,  La.,  Wednesday,  for 
the  purpose  of  administering  a  switching, 
and  were  fired  upon  by  his  white  wife, 
one  of  their  number  being  wounded. 
They  departed  without  accomplishing 
their  purpose. 


The  new  Catholic  church  at  Coleman, 
Wis,  collapsed  Thursday,  killing  one 
man  and  crushing  seven  others  so  that 
several  may  die. 

Near  Cumberland  Falls,  Ky.,  Sunday, 
three  constables  who  had  Andy  Hamlin 
under  arrest,  were  overtaken  by  the 
friends  of  the  prisoner,  under  command 
of  his  brother,  Alexander  Hamlin,  who 
demanded  Andy's  release.  During  the 
fusillade  which  ensued  two  of  the  officers 
were  killed  and  the  third  mortally 
wounded. 

An  east-bound  Erie  freight  was 
wrecked  near  Shohola,  N.  Y.,  last  Mon- 
day morning  by  rocks  washed  down  on 
the  track,  and  a  west  bound  express  train 
dashed  into  the  wreck  before  it  could  be 
flagged,  and  the  engine,  baggage-car,  a 
car  loaded  with  horses,  the  smoker,  and 
a  day  car  were  thrown  down  an  embank- 
ment eighty  feet  from  the  track.  Three 
men  were  killed  or  mortally  hurt,  eight 
others  seriously  injured,  and  twelve  race- 
horses killed. 

It  is  reported  from  Freetown,  La.,  that 
more  than  twenty  negroes  were  killed  on 
Thursday  by  political  regulator  E.  Pay- 
son  Smith,  of  Chicago,  a  civil  engineer 
being  reported  among  the  killed. 

Masked  men  attempted  to  rob  a  Union 
Pacific  express  train  near  Dana  Station, 
Wyoming,  early  Friday  morning,  but 
were  beaten  off  by  the  train  hands. 
Many  shots  were  fired  and  a  brakeman 
was  wounded.  Several  companies  have 
been  organized,  and  are  pursuing  closely. 

FOBEIGN. 

The  Japanese  Government  have  de- 
cided to  spend  £10,000,000  in  five  years 
in  purchasing  men-of-war. 

The  coroner's  jury  ia  the  case  of  James 
Ridley,  medical  officer  in  the  Tullamore 
(Ireland)  jail,  who  recently  committed 
suicide,  returned  a  verdict  that  he  killed 
himself  owing  to  apprehensions  of  dis- 
closures with  reference  to  the  treatment 
of  John  Mandeville,  a  political  prisoner 
who  died  in  the  jail. 

Bush  fires  have  been  raging  fiercely  in 
the  vicinity  of  Kingston,  Canada,  and 
have  already  done  damage  to  the  extent 
of  nearly  $500,000.  The  whole  section 
has  been  devastated,  and  many  settlers 
have  lost  everything  they  possessed. 
Communication  is  cut  off,  as  the  bridges 
and  corduroy  roads  have  been  burned  or 
else  rendered  impassable  by  fallen  trees. 
The  Ontario  government  will  be  appealed 
to  for  aid. 

A  famine  prevails  in  Epirus,  and  seri- 
ous disorders  have  occurred.  The  Alban 
ian  garrison  in  Melzovo,  owing  to  the 
non-receipt  of  their  wages,  attempted  to 
sack  the  town.  The  soldiers  killed  many 
Christians  and  plundered  their  shops. 
Ten  houses  were  burned. 

The  business  district  of  Cayenne, 
French  Guiana,  has  been  burned,  entail- 
ing a  loss  of  $2,000,000. 

Florence  Morse,  aged  12,  made  the 
ascent  of  Mont  Blanc  on  Tuesday,  being 
the  youngest  tourist  that  ever  accom- 
plished that  feat. 

A  collision  took  place  off  Sable  Island, 
bttween  the  Geiser  and  the  Thingvalla, 
of  the  Hamburg-American  Line,  which 
occurred  at  4  o'clock  on  the  morning  of 
August  14  The  Geiser  sank  in  a  few 
minutes  after  the  collision,  and  117  were 
drowned.  The  Thingvalla  was  so  dis- 
abled that  she  had  to  be  put  into  Halifax 
after  transfering  all  her  passengers  to  the 
Wleland,  of  the  same  line.  The  Geiser 
had  eighty  six  passengers  aboard, 
seventy-two  of  whom  were  drowned  or 
killed  in  the  collision,  and  fourteen  were 
taken  first  on  the  Thingvalla  and  then  on 
the  Wieland.  The  collision  took  place 
in  a  heavy  fog. 

The  amount  of  damages  which  Mr. 
Parnell  asks  for  in  his  suit  against  the 
London  Times  is  £50,000.  He  bases  his 
action  on  letters  which  the  Times  pub 
lished  in  1887,  and  on  letters  and  state- 
ments introduced  by  the  defense  in  the 
trial  of  O'Donnell's  case  against  the 
Times.  The  trial  will  take  place  before 
Lord  Einnear,  of  the  Court  of  Sessions, 
in  Edinburgh. 

Gen.  Boulanger's  arrival  at  Amiens  last 
Wednesday  resulted  in  several  conflicts 
between  the  rival  political  parties.  Dur- 
ing the  fighting  several  persons  were 
wounded.  A  number  of  arrests  were 
made.  At  a  banquet  given  in  his  honor 
Gen.  Boulanger  made  a  violent  speech 
against  the  parliamentary  republic.  He 
left  the  town  amid  a  great  tumult. 


At  Calais,  France,  troops  dispersed 
riotous  unemployed  workmen  who  had 
invaded  the  ship  yards  for  the  purpose  of 
inducing  the  employes  to  go  on  a  strike. 

Thirty  convicts,  en  route  to  Siberia, 
made  a  desperate  attempt  to  escape  at 
Tashkend.  Eleven  were  killed,  ten 
wounded,  and  six  escaped. 

The  Turkish  government  has  ordered 
the  removal  from  railway  stations  in 
Turkish  territory  of  all  bunting  which 
was  put  up  by  the  railway  officials  to 
commemorate  the  opening  of  the  through 
line  from  Paris.  Turkey  opposes  the 
opening  of  tbe  road. 

General  Boulanger  was  unable  to  stay 
at  Moienet  Friday  night  on  account  of 
the  riotous  reception  accorded  him.  He 
was  compelled  to  return  to  Amiens.  At 
Corbi  a  supporter  of  General  Boulanger 
attempted  to  shoct  a  magistrate  with  a 
revolver  and  was  arrested. 

General  Boulanger  was  elected  to  the 
Chamber  of  Deputies  Sunday  to  repre- 
sent the  Department  of  Somme,  of  which 
Amiens  is  the  capital.  His  majority  was 
34,733.  The  announcement  of  the  fig- 
ures created  great  excitement  in  Paris  in 
view  of  the  reported  insurrection  there. 

The  return  of  Herr  Von  Poetticher  to 
office  is  the  natural  sequence  of  the  death 
of  Emperor  Frederick.  The  Emperor 
William,  besides  having  a  strong  personal 
regard  for  Herr  Von  Poetticher,  support- 
ed him  during  the  crisis  which  ended 
with  his  resignation,  and  has  t^ken  the 
first  opportunity  to  reinstate  him  in  office 
as  Vice  President  of  the  Prussian  min- 
istry. Sweeping  changes  in  the  com- 
mand of  the  army  are  impending,  and 
are  simultaneous  with  energetic  reforms 
regarding  the  clothing  and  drilling  of  the 
troops  and  a  reorganization  of  the  artil 
lery.  Feverish  activity  pervades  every 
department  of  the  army. 


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VITAt  WICKS. 


"There  are  three  wicks  to  the  lamp  of 
a  man's  life;  brain,  blood,  and  breath." 
Thus  writes  an  eminent  American  author. 
The  most  frequent  derangements  occur 
in  the  blood  and  in  the  liver,  by  which, 
when  in  healthy  condition,  the  blood  is 
purified.  Look  out  for  the  terrible  chain 
of  diseases  that  owe  their  inception  to 
torpid  liver  and  consequent  impure 
blood.  When  the  symptoms  cf  liver  and 
kidney  troubles,  consumption  (Lung- 
scrofula),  bronchitis,  and  dropsy,  make 
their  appearance,  the  system  is  in  imme- 
diate need  of  a  course  of  Dr.  Pierce's 
Golden  Medical  Discovery.  Its  marvel- 
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in  the  cure  of  tens  of  thousands  of  cases. 
It  purifies  and  enriches  the  blood,  re- 
stores lost  vitality,  and  effectually  eradi- 
cxtes  the  seeds  of  the  worst  maladies  that 
fcffllct  mankind. 


If  you  desire  to  possess  a  beautiful 
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"Seest  thou  a  man  wise  in  his  own 
conceit;  there  is  more  hope  of  a  fool  than 
of  him."  It  is  the  men  who  are  open  to 
conviction — who  are  teachable,  who  take 
hold  of  things  out  of  the  beaten  track, 
and  "Taking  time  by  the  forelock  and 
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CONTENTS. 


Editorial  : 

Notes  and  Comments 1 

Editorial  Correspondence.  8 

Louisiana  Barbarism 8 

The  Free  Press  and   the 

American 8 

How  Stand  Your  Candl- 

datesl 8 

Personal  Notes 9 

COKTBIBUTIOKS : 

Christian  Forgiveness 1 

Mormon  Freemasonry 2 

"What  Societies  are  Need- 
ful for  Social  and  Re- 
formatory Purposes 2 

How  LonK  Shall  we  Drink 

Sewage? 2 

Sblkcted : 
Secret    Societies    in    the 
TwoSlcilleB 3 

COBBBSFONDBNOB : 

Scotland  and  Massachu- 
setts ;  For  the  Abolition 
of  all  Iniquity ;  Pith  and 

Point 6 

LODOB  NOTBS 7 


Rbfobm  News: 
The  Big  Tent;  New  Move- 
ments in  Ohio;  The 
Colporteur  Work;  The 
Washington  Industrial 
Scbool;  The  Louisiana 

Field 5,6 

Nbw  England  Lbttbr 4 

Cincinnati  Letter 4 

Washington  Letter 4 

The  N.  C.  a 7 

The  Know-Nothlng  Fraud  In 

Washington 9 

The  New  Orleans  Headquar- 
ters      9 

ThbHomb.... ^ 10 

Temperance »^  11 

Bible  Lesson 12 

Religious  Nbws 12 

In  Brief 13 

Farm  Notes 14 

Secret    Socibtibs     Con- 
demned   15 

News  or  thb  Wbbk 16 

Business 13 

Markets 13 


The  queen  of  the  Tonga  Islands  has  petitioned  to 
have  her  country  taken  under  the  protection  of 
Great  Britain,  to  save  her  land  from  the  curse  of 
strong  drink,  which  the  traders  are  forcing  on  her 
people,  Great  Britain  led  the  way  in  the  abolition 
of  the  slave  trade.  Cannot  she  join  with  other  Chris- 
tian nations  in  the  abolition  of  this  international 
drink  traffic? 


One  of  our  Southern  exchanges,  representing 
the  colored  churches,  contains  a  brief  note  from 
Richmond  Theological  Seminary  (Baptist),  mention- 
ing with  approval  the  fact  that  one  of  the  professors 
is  Grand  Chief  Templar  of  the  Dual  Grand  Lodge, 
of  Virginia.  Would  there  were  another  Woodsmall 
to  undertake  such  a  work  in  the  Atlantic  States 
which  that  now  departed  saint  did  in  the  Missis- 
sippi valley  against  sccretism ! 


It  is  worth  noting  in  the  above,  that  the  work 
of  John  B.  Finch  in  uniting  the  discordant  parties 
among  the  Good  Templars  is  being  carried  out.  At 
the  Saratoga  meeting  in  May,  1887,  the  two  branches 
of  this  lodge,  long  separated  because  the  American 
lodges  would  not  admit  a  black  member,  were  united 
through  the  scheming  of  Finch  and  with  a  pretended 
abolition  of  the  color  line.  But  in  fact  that  obnox- 
ious division  was  continued  under  another  name,  as 
above.  The  Negro  Good  Templars  have  their  own 
lodges  which  have  their  separate  Grand  Lodge 
called  a  "Dual"  affair. 


At  the  late  National  Teachers'  Convention  in  San 
Francisco  a  gentleman  from  Texas  read  a  paper  on 
"The  Culture  most  Valuable  for  Educating  Law- 
respecting  and  Law-abiding  Citizens."  He  urged 
that  every  child  needs  to  be  baptized  into  the  spirit 
of  our  institutions;  to  be  familiar  with  our  history, 
our  plan  of  government,  and  the  elements  of  our 
political  economy,  and  especially  with  an  impartial 


history  of  our  political  parties.  But  following  this 
clear  statement  of  the  case  the  paper  made  a  singu- 
lar recommendation,  that  the  work  best  adapted 
to  give  this  instruction  was  the  life  of  Henry  Clay. 
It  is  true  that  this  volume  gives  us  a  record  of 
political  compromise  and  vacillation;  but  for  illus- 
trious examples  of  the  true  spirit  of  American 
principles  maintained  with  dignity  and  integrity 
through  trials  of  misfortune  and  success,  let  us 
thank  God  that  our  youth  are  rather  inclined  to  the 
lives  of  Washington,  Hamilton,  Wilson,  Sumner 
and  the  Adamses. 


The  imprisoned  evangelist,  William  F.  Davis,  has 
written  from  his  cell  in  Boston  j  ail  to  Mr.  Samuel 
A.  Pratt  of  Worcester  an  impressive  letter  which 
the  latter  has  published.  He  says  that  the  chair- 
man of  the  committee  which  assumed  control  of  the 
Boston  parks  and  forbade  the  preaching  of  the  Gos- 
pel in  them;  the  district  attorney  who  prosecuted 
Mr.  Davis;  the  Irish  Roman  Catholic  rumseller  and 
aldersian  who  was  most  interested  in  passing  the 
gag  ordinance;  Judge  Bacon  who  pronounced  the 
four  sentences  against  the  preacher  in  a  single  trial, 
giving  the  highest  possible  penalty  under  the  law — 
all  these  men  have  lately  fallen  by  death.  The  hand 
of  God  seems  to  be  displayed  in  judgment  upon  these 
public  officers.  Will  it  also  fall  upon  the  great  city 
which  allows  such  iniquity? 


A  war  has  begun  in  Cleveland  against  open  sa- 
loons on  the  Sabbath  under  the  State  law.  Twenty- 
four  keepers  were  arrested  last  week,  and  the  saloon- 
ists  have  resolved  unitedly  to  defy  the  authorities 
and  the  law,  andif  arrested  to  betaken  in  such  num- 
bers to  the  courts  as  to  block  their  business.  In 
Pittsburgh  an  Anti  Law  and  Order  Society  has  re- 
solved to  retaliate  upon  the  good  citizens  who  wish 
the  law  enforced  against  the  Sunday  saloon,  by  clos- 
ing cigar  stores,  soda  and  ice-cream  stands,  and  are 
moving  against  street  cars,  Sunday  papers,  telegraph 
companies,  etc.  This  is  a  fortunate  retaliation  for 
Pittsburgh.  'May  the  struggle  be  kepo  up  until  the 
city  shall  find  it  possible  to  live  without  these  acces- 
sories for  one  day,  and  shall  proclaim  that  the  Sab- 
bath shall  be  kept  free  from  them. 


The  Fisheries  treaty  was  rejected  by  a  party  vote 
in  the  Senate  on  Tuesday  last.  A  two-thirds  vote 
was  necessary  for  ratification;  the  vote  stood  27 
yeas  to  30  nays.  On  Thursday  President  Cleveland 
surprised  Congress  and  the  country  with  a  special 
message  reviewing  the  situation,  recalling  the  ill- 
treatment  of  our  fishermen,  and  recommending  "im- 
mediate legislative  action  conferring  upon  the  Exec- 
utive the  power  to  suspend  by  proclamation  the 
operation  of  all  laws  and  regulations  permitting  the 
transit  of  goods,  wares  and  merchandise  in  bond" 
across  our  territory  to  or  from  Canada;  also  that 
upon  Canadian  vessels  be  put  the  same  restrictions 
they  place  upon  ours.  This  recommendation  was 
immediately  followed  by  a  bill  to  carry  it  into  effect. 
When  everybody  recovered  from  their  surprise,  an 
estimate  was  taken  of  the  probable  damage  Canada 
would  suffer  should  Congress  grant  the  request. 
Opinions  vary  so  greatly  that  the  tariff  question 
seems  simple  compared  with  it.  Republicans  sneer 
that  it  is  a  bold  play  for  votes;  Democrats  approve 
it  as  deserved  by  the  contemptuous  Canadian;  and 
the  latter  smiles  and  shows  how  American  railways 
will  suffer  most  from  such  retaliation.  On  general 
principles  the  message  seems  to  be  unstatesmanlike 
and  ill-advised.  Certainly  some  solution  of  this 
fishery  question  can  be  found  more  consistent  with 
our  Christian  civilization. 


It  was  noted  in  these  columns  last  week  that 
George  May  Powell,  of  Philadelphia,  had  appeared 
before  the  Senate  committee  on  Labor  and  Educa- 
tion to  present  the  cause  of  profit-sharing.  From  a 
report  in  the  Ttviperance  Gazette  of  Camden,  N.  J., 
we  learn  that  Mr.  Powell  also  represented  to  the 
committee  that  the  two  chief  causes  of  trouble  be- 
tween la^or  and  capital  were:  first,  the  gigantic  ex- 
penditure of  the  masses  in  intoxicants,  an  expendi- 


ture which,  if  applied  to  legitimate  industry,  would 
give  plenty  of  employment  to  labor  and  capital; 
second,  a  self-deceived  style  of  Christian  life  and 
teaching  among  many  of  both  clergy  and  laity,  and 
some  so  called  religious  papers.  This  is  seen  in 
such  lines  as  laxness  in  Sabbath  observance  and 
other  conformities  to  the  world  which  result  in  slack- 
twisted  and  oblique-lined  consciences.  This  kind  of 
conscience  in  turn  is  just  what  is  the  trouble  with 
these  elements  of  both  labor  and  capital,  which  cre- 
ate most  of  this  turmoil.  He  said  the  main  reliance 
for  relief  was  in  a  popular  education  from  which 
ethics  was  not  eliminated  (by  such  means  as  throw- 
ing the  Bible  out  of  schools,  for  example).  .  Both 
wealth  and  education  are  elements  of  weakness  and 
of  absolute  danger,  where  not  well  mixed  with  high 
moral  principles.  Home  and  city  missions  pay  the 
greatest  of  dividends  to  the  business  world  in  help- 
ing along  right  lines  of  conscience.  Sd  they  are 
powerful  allies  of  labor  and  capital. 


GHRISTIAN  F0R9IVENBSS. 


Br  RKV.  J.  M.  FOSTER. 

It  is  wrong  to  retaliate.  In  the  nature  of  things 
it  is  productive  of  evil.  It  tends  to  increase  and 
foster  and  multiply  wrongs  absolutely  without  end. 
It  renders  neither  party  better,  but  both  worse.  The 
offender  is  aroused  to  revenge,  and  the  offended  who 
retaliates  is  so  much  the  worse,  as  he  has  done  a 
mean  action  when  he  might  have  done  a  noble  one. 

Janson  says:  "A  wise  man  will  make  haste  to 
forgive,  because  he  knows  the  true  value  of  time, 
and  will  not  suffer  it  to  pass  away  in  unnecsssary 
pain.  He  that  willingly  suffers  the  corrosions  of 
inveterate  hatred,  and  gives  up  his  days  and  nights 
to  the  gloom  of  malice  and  perturbations  of  strat- 
agem, cannot  be  said  to  consult  his  own  ease.  Re- 
sentment is  a  union  of  sorrow  with  maliguity,  a 
combination  of  a  passion  which  all  endeavor  to 
avoid  with  a  passion  which  all  concur  to  detest. 
The  man  who  retires  to  meditate  mischief,  and  to 
exasperate  his  own  rage;  whose  thoughts  are  em- 
ployed only  on  means  of  distress  and  contrivances  of 
ruin;  whose  mind  never  pauses  from  the  remem- 
brance of  his  own  sufferings,  but  to  indulge  some 
hope  of  enjoying  the  calamities  of  another,  may 
justly  be  numbered  among  the  most  miserable  of 
human  beings,  among  those  who  are  guilty  without 
reward,  who  have  neither  the  gladness  of  prosparity 
nor  the  calm  of  innocence." 

How  forcibly  these  words  appeal  to  every  human 
heart!  The  conscience  of  every  man  bears  witness, 
that  to  overcome  evil  with  good  is  an  act  of  the 
most  exalted  virtue;  while  retaliation  is  ever  an  in- 
dication of  meanness  of  spirit.  "Dearly  beloved, 
avenge  not  yourselves,  but  rather  give  place  unto 
wrath:  for  it  is  written,  vengeance  is  mine,  I  will 
repay,  saith  the  Lord.  Therefore,  if  thine  enemy 
hunger,  feed  him;  if  he  thirst,  give  him  drink;  for 
in  so  doing  thou  shalt  heap  coals  of  fire  on  his 
head.  Be  not  overcome  of  evil,  but  overcome  evil 
with  good."  Because  others  violate  this  rule  is  no 
reason  for  our  doing  so.  Their  ill  conduct  furnishes 
us  with  an  opportunity  for  the  exercise  of  a  special 
and  peculiar  grace.  It  is  made  our  duty  to  over- 
come the  wrong  disposition  of  the  evil  doer  by  mani- 
festing toward  him  particular  kindness  and  good 
will.  Tasso,  being  told  that  he  had  a  fair  oppor- 
tunity to  take  advantage  of  a  very  bitter  enemy,  re- 
plied, "I  wish  not  to  plunder  him;  but  there  are 
things  I  wish  to  take  from  him— not  his  honor,  his 
wealth,  or  his  life,  but  his  malice  and  ill-will."  This 
is  the  sentiment  cf  a  great  soul,  a  soul  that  towers 
above  the  fogs  of  human  selfishness,  and  basks  in 
the  pure  sunlight  of  Gobi's  truth.  It  is  a  little  soul 
that  cannot  pass  over  an  offense.  Bacon  says: 
"Generous  and  magnanimous  minds  are  readiest  to 
forgive;  and  it  is  a  weakness  and  impotency  of 
mind  to  be  unable  to  forgive." 

Philip,  King  of  Macedon,  discovered  great  mod- 
eration, even  when  he  w£is  spoken  to  in  shocking 
and  injurious  terms.  At  the  close  of  an  audience 
which  he  gave  to  some  Athenian  ambassadors,  who 
were  come  to  complain  of  some  act  of  hostility,  be 


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August  30, 1888 


asked  whether  he  could  do  them  any  service.  "The 
greatest  service  thou  couldst  do  us,"  said  Demo- 
chares,  "would  be  to  hang  thyself."  Philip,  though 
he  perceived  all  the  persons  present  were  highly  of- 
fended at  these  words,  answered  with  the  utmost 
calmness  of  temper,  "Go  tell  your  superiors  that 
those  who  dare  make  use  of  such  insolent  language 
are  more  haughty  and  less  peaceably  inclined  than 
those  who  can  forgive  them." 

This  is  the  Christian's  crowning  grace.  It  might 
ever  be  seen  gleaming  from  the  life  of  the  meek  and 
lowly  Jesus.  It  is  twice  blessed.  It  blesses  him 
that  gives  and  him  that  takes.  It  is  that  love  that 
beareth  all  things  and  endureth  all  things,  which 
suflereth  long  and  is  kind,  which  rejoiceth  not  in 
iniquity,  but  rejoiceth  in  the  truth.  We  submit  the 
following  considerations: 

I.  God  has  promised  to  forgive  us  on  condition 
that  we  forgive  others.  "Forgive  us  our  debts  as 
we  forgive  our  debtors."  Forgive  us  all  our  debts 
as  we  forgive  all  our  debtors.  Of  him  that  hopes  to 
be  forgiven  it  is  indispensably  required  that  he  for- 
give. It  is  absolute,  binding  always  and  every- 
where. On  this  great  duty  eternity  is  suspended; 
and  to  him  that  refuses  to  practice  it,  the  throne  of 
mercy  is  inaccessible,  and  the  Saviour  of  the  world 
has  died  in  vain.  He  bolts  the  gates  of  heaven 
against  himself.  He  chains  himself  to  the  chariot 
wheels  of  Satan. 

During  the  days  of  the  feudal  system  the  differ- 
ent houses  were  at  constant  warfare.  One  of  the 
lords  became  enraged  at  a  knight  of  another  castle, 
and  resolved  to  exterminate  his  house.  His  chap- 
lain tried  in  vain  to  persuade  him  out  of  it.  At 
length  he  said,  "My  lord,  since  I  cannot  persuade 
you  to  give  up  this  plan  of  yours,  will  you  at  least 
consent  to  come  with  me  to  the  chapel,  that  we  may 
pray  together  before  you  go?"  The  duke  consented, 
and  the  chaplain  and  he  knelt  together  in  prayer. 
Then  the  mercy-loving  Christian  said  to  the  revenge- 
ful warrior,  "Will  you  repeat  after  me,  sentence  by 
sentence,  the  prayer  which  our  Lord  Jesus  Christ 
himself  taught  to  his  disciples?"  "I  will  do  it,"  re- 
plied the  duke.  He  did  it  accordingly.  The  chap- 
lain said  a  sentence,  and  the  duke  repeated  it,  till  he 
came  to  the  petition,  "Forgive  us  our  trespasses  as 
we  forgive  them  that  trespass  against  us."  There 
the  duke  was  silent.  "My  lord  duke,  you  are  silent," 
said  the  chaplain.  "Will  you  be  so  good  as  to  con- 
tinue to  repeat  the  words  after  me,  if  you  dare  say 
so  ?  Forgive  us  our  trespasses  at  we  forgive  them 
that  trespass  against  us."  "I  cannot,"  replied  the 
duke.  "Well;  God  cannot  forgive  you,  for  he 
has  said  so.  He  himself  has  given  this  prayer. 
Therefore,  you  must  either  give  up  your  revenge,  or 
give  up  saying  this  prayer;  for  to  ask  God  to  par- 
don you  as  you  pardon  others  is  to  ask  him  to  take 
vengeance  on  you  for  all  your  sins.  Go  now,  my 
lord,  and  meet  your  victim.  God  will  meet  you  at 
the  great  day  of  judgment."  The  iron  will  of  the 
duke  was  broken.  "No,"  he  said;  "I  will  finish  my 
prayer.  'My  God,  my  Father,  pardon  me.  Forgive 
me,  as  I  desire  to  forgive  him  who  hath  offended  me. 
Lead  me  not  into  temptation,  but  deliver  me  from 
evil.'  "  "Amen I"  said  the  chaplain.  "Amenl"said 
the  duke,  who  now  understood  the  Lord's  prayer 
better  than  he  had  ever  d'  ne  before,  since  he  learned 
to  apply  it  to  himself. 

"Forgiving  one  another,  if  iny  man  have  a  quar- 
rel against  any;  even  as  Christ  forgave  you,  so  also 
do  ye."  "For  if  ye  forgive  men  their  trespasses, 
your  heavenly  Father  will  also  forgive  you.  But  if 
ye  forgive  not  men  their  trespasses,  neither  will 
your  Father  forgive  your  trespasses."  The  parable 
of  the  king  and  his  debtor  is  a  fearful  exemplifica- 
tion of  this  rule,  "with  what  measure  ye  mete,  it 
shall  be  measured  to  you  again."  The  king  forgave 
£60,000,000  of  gold.  The  debtor  refused  to  for- 
give £3.  Then  the  king  arrested  him  and  delivered 
him  to  the  tormentors  till  he  should  pay  all  that  was 
due.  So  likewise  shall  my  heavenly  Father  do  also 
unto  you,  if  ye  from  your  hearts  forgive  not  every 
one  his  brother  their  trespasses.     Matt.  18:  23-35. 

II.  Christian  forgiveness  nqaires  us  to  go  to  our 
offended  brother  and  make  every  possible  effort  to 
be  reconciled.  This  is  the  way  God  deals  with  us. 
We  have  offended  him  grievously,  and  times  out  of 
number.  Yet  he  comes  down  to  us,  makes  known 
his  willingness  to  pass  over  our  offences,  and  pleads 
with  us  to  be  reconciled.  And  this  be  requires  of 
us  with  reference  to  those  who  have  offended  us. 
Here,  then,  are  two  cases.  The  first  is  where  our 
brother  has  a  charge  against  us.  In  this  case  it  is 
plainly  our  duty  to  go  to  him  and  make  it  right. 
"If  thou  bring  thy  gift  to  the  altar,  and  there  re- 
memberest  that  thy  brother  hath  aught  against  thee, 
leave  there  thy  gift  before  the  altar  and  go  thy  way; 
first  be  reconciled  to  thy  brother,  and  then  come  and 
offer  thy  gift."     Here  wo  are  plainly  taught  that  we 


are  to  go  to  those  who  are  offended  at  us  and  be 
reconciled.  But  you  say  the  case  is  different  when 
another  has  offended  me.  Am  I  bound  to  go  to  the 
brother  who  has  wronged  me  and  be  reconciled?  It 
is  our  imperative  duty  to  go.  No  matter  how  great 
the  offense,  forgive  him  in  your  heart;  go  to  him  and 
kindly  make  overtures  of  reconciliation.  This  is 
the  way  to  win  your  brother. 

Near  the  end  of  the  seventeenth  century  a  Turk- 
ish grandee  in  Hungary  made  a  Christian  nobleman 
his  prisoner,  and  treated  him  with  the  utmost  bar- 
barity.. The  slave — for  such  he  was — was  yoked 
with  an  ox,  and  compelled  to  drag  the  plow.  But 
the  fortune  of  war  changed,  and  the  Turk  fell  into 
the  hands  of  the  Hungarians,  who  said  to  their  en- 
slaved fellow-countryman,  "Now  take  your  revenge 
upon  your  enemy."  This  was  in  accordance  with 
the  custom  of  the  age;  and  the  Turk  supposing,  as 
a  matter  of  course,  that  he  would  be  tortured  to 
death,  swallowed  poison.  At  this  juncture  the  Hun- 
garian nobleman  came  in  and  said  to  him,  "Go  in 
peace,  you  have  nothing  to  fear."  The  Moslem  was 
so  impressed  with  this  heavenly  spirit  that  he  pro- 
claimed with  his  dying  breath,  "I  will  not  die  a  Mos- 
lem, but  I  die  a  Christian;  for  there  is  no  religion 
but  that  of  Christ  which  teaches  forgiveness  of 
injuries." 

"Take  heed  to  yourselves.  If  thy  brother  tres- 
pass against  you,  rebuke  him;  and  if  he  repent,  for- 
give him."  "Take  heed."  When  your  brother  tres- 
passes against  you,  does  you  an  injury,  puts  any 
slight  or  affront  upon  you,  if  he  be  accessory  to  any 
damage  done  you  in  your  person  or  property,  take 
heed  to  yourselves  at  such  a  time  lest  you  be  angry 
and  speak  unadvisedly  and  rashly  vow  revenge. 
"Rebuke  him."  Do  not  bear  malice  toward  him  or 
meditate  revenge.  Go  to  him  and  tell  him  his  fault. 
Perhaps  he  intended  no  harm,  and  the  matter  is 
ended.  If  he  meditated  evil  in  it,  you  have  dis- 
charged the  Christian  duty  of  reproving  sin.  "If 
he  repent,  forgive  him."  Repentance  is  an  absolute 
condition  of  forgiveness.  If  a  child  deliberately 
lies,  and  you  forgive  the  child  before  he  has  exhib- 
ited any  sorrow  for  the  act,  you  make  the  child 
worse.  This  principle  is  always  true;  but  it  is  our 
duty  to  awaken  in  the  offender  the  spirit  of  peni- 
tence by  manifesting  towards  him  particular  kind- 
ness and  sincere  unalloyed  good  will.  And  these 
efforts  are  not  to  be  suspended  until  he  is  reclaimed, 
if  it  take  a  whole  lifetime.  "Forgive  him."  Forget 
the  injury. 

On  one  occasion,  sincerely  aiming  to  do  my  duty, 
I  offended  a  brother.  1  went  to  him,  made  the  prop- 
er acknowledgments,  and  asked  his  pardon.  "I  for- 
give, but  will  not  forget,"  he  said.  That  means  it 
stands  against  me  still.  What  if  Christ  forgives 
him  that  way !  He  casts  our  sins  behind  his  back. 
They  are  removed  as  far  from  us  as  east  is  distant 
from  the  west.  So  we  are  to  forget  the  injury; 
never  think  of  it  again;  by  no  means  upbraid  him 
with  it.  Cast  it  into  the  deep  sea  of  eternal  forget- 
fulness. 

III.  There  is  no  limit  to  the  number  of  times  we 
are  to  forgive  an  offending  brother.  "Then  Peter 
came  to  him  and  said,  Lord,  how  oft  shall  my  broth- 
er sin  against  me  and  I  forgive  him?  till  seven 
times?  Jesus  saith  unto  him,  I  say  not  unto  thee 
until  seven  times,  but  until  seventy  times  seven." 
Here  we  have  a  definite  for  an  indefinite  number. 
Our  forgiveness  is  not  to  be  measured  by  arithmeti- 
cal rules.    We  are  to  forgive  as  long  as  we  live. 

Cincinnati,  0. 


MORMON    FRBE MASONRY. 


BY  M.  N.  BUTIiBB. 

It  is  a  well-established  fact  that  Mormonism  is 
Freemasonry  gone  to  seed.  On  page  144  of  "Life 
and  Confession  of  John  D.  Lee,"  we  read:  "A 
Freemason's  lodge  and  the  privileges  of  Masonry 
were  extended  to  the  legion.  A  fine  lodge  was  built 
in  Nauvoo,  and  many  were  admitted  as  members. 
The  brothers,  Joseph  and  Hyrum  Smith,  held  high 
positions  in  the  brotherhood.  I  here  became  a  mem- 
ber of  the  order  and  received  three  degrees.  The 
institution  ffourished  during  our  stay  in  Nauvoo,  and 
was  frequently  visited  by  the  Grand  Worshipful 
Master  from  Springfield,  and  lectures  were  had,  and 
a  library  established.   I  was  librarian  of  the  order." 

Thus  John  D.  Lee,  the  hero  of  the  Mountain 
Meadow  massacre,  and  his  villainous  fellow-assas- 
sins learned  their  first  lessons  in  throat-cutting, 
breast-tearing  and  body-severing  in  the  Masonic 
lodge.  On  page  153  he  states  the  well  known  fact 
that  Joseph  Smith  died  giving  the  "Grand  Hailing 
Sign"  of  a  Master  Mason. 

The  blood  atonement  of  Mormonism  is  practical 
Freemasonry.     John  D.  Lee,  ]U8t  before  his  execu- 


tion, says,  "My  life  now  hangs  by  a  single  thread ! 
But  is  there  no  help  for  the  widow's  son?"  Brigham 
Young  was  a  high  Freemason,  and  at  one  time  he 
and  fifteen  hundred  of  his  Mormon  followers  were 
in  good  standing  in  the  Masonic  lodges  of  Illinois. 

It  is  well  to  keep  these  facts  before  the  American 
people.  They  cannot  be  too  often  referred  to. 
Much  might  be  adduced  in  this  line,  but  enough  for 
the  present. 

WHAT  B0C1ETIB8  ARE   NEEDFUL   FOR    SO- 
CIAL AND  REFORMATORY  PURPOSES* 


BT  REV.    H.    H.    HINMAN. 


A  good  brother  in  New  Jersey  writes,  that  while 
he  does  not  like  secret  societies,  there  are  some  feat- 
ures in  Good  Templarism  that  he  approves,  and  he 
suggests  that  there  be  a  new  social  and  temperance 
society  formed  on  a  similar  plan,  leaving  out  the 
elements  of  secrecy.  He  says  that  while  Christians 
do  not  need  such  a  society,  the  people  who  are  not 
Christians  do  need  it,  and  that  it  is  a  duty  to  labor 
for  their  welfare. 

Let  us  look  at  this  matter  in  t'^e  light  of  divine 
teachings. 

1.  The  first  and  highest  duty  of  every  per- 
son in  Christian  lands  is  to  become  a  Christian. 
Until  he  has  done  this,  all  other  acts,  however  inno- 
cent or  meritorious  in  themselves  considered,  are 
simply  acts  of  sin  and  rebellion  against  a  just  and 
holy  God. 

2.  It  follows  that  we  have  no  right  to  give  any 
countenance  to  such  willful  neglect  of  God  and  of 
the  promises  of  the  Gospel,  but  that  our  first  and 
highest  duty  to  our  fellow  man  is  to  persuade  him 
to  cease  to  be  a  rebel  and  become  a  true  disciple  of 
Christ. 

3.  The  Christian  church  is  the  divinely  appointed 
and  only  plan  for  bringing  men  to  Christ,  and  for 
their  complete  and  entire  reformation  in  all  respects. 

■  4.  It  follows  that  any  organization  or  society  that 
is  not  subordinate  to,  and  has  not  for  its  objects  the 
carrying  out  of  the  Gospel  plan  on  Gospel  principles,i8 
unauthorized  and  unwise;  for  God  is  surely  wiser  than 
man.  The  divine  plan  is  better  than  the  human,and 
every  organized  society,  except  the  state  and  such  as 
may  be  instituted  to  promote  civil  authority,  is  unwar- 
ranted and  wrong. 

5.  It  follows,  too,  that  even  if  men  are  reformed 
in  mere  external  morality,  bat  not  converted  to 
Christ,  they  only  exchange  one  form  of  sin  for  an- 
other. They  may  be  better  members  of  society,  but 
are  not  more  pleasing  to  God. 

6.  The  absolute  duty  of  Christians  is  that  of 
separation  from  the  world.  Christ  says,  "I  have 
chosen  you  out  of  the  world."  "Be  ye  separate." 
All  societies,  except  those  for  civil  government,  that 
thus  unite  believers  and  unbelievers,  are  an  "unequal 
yoking  with  unbelievers,"  which  is  expressly  forbid- 
den.   2  Cor.  6:  14. 

7.  Do  we  owe  no  other  duties  to  unbelievers  than 
simply  to  win  them  to  Christ?  Yes.  As  members 
of  our  families  they  are  to  be  supported,  protected 
and  educated.  The  family  is  of  Divine  appointment 
and  unlike  the  church  in  that  it  includes  alike  those 
who  are  the  children  of  God  and  those  who  are  not. 
The  state,  too,  is  of  Divine  appointment.  The 
Christian  citizen,  while  he  may  not  join  with  the 
man  of  the  world  in  a  moral  reform  society,  may 
unite  with  him  in  securing  a  government  that  shall 
establish  justice  and  secure  the  blessings  of  liberty. 

8.  The  N.  C.  A.,  the  W.  C.  T.  U.,  the  Sabbath- 
school  and  missionary  societies  are  religious  socie- 
ties and  a  part  of  the  church  work.  Public  schools, 
political  parties  and  insurance  societies  are  in  sub- 
ordination to  the  state.  If  organized  in  harmony 
with  Christian  principles.  Christian  men  may  join 
them  in  their  character  of  citizens.  They  are  not 
"unequally  yoked." 

9.  It  follows  that  there  is  no  room  for  secret  so- 
cieties,nor  any  other  societies  which  propose  to  reform 
men  on  merely  worldly  and  selfish  principles. 

Chicago,  111. 

"HOW  LONG  SHALL  Wtt  DRINK  BBWAOEf 
BT  ELDER  NATHAN  OALLENDER. 


So  inquires  the  Philadelphia  Inquirer  and  so  quotes 
the  National  Baptiit,  Is  the  sewage  which  empties 
into  the  Schuylkill  from  191  premises  one-thousandth 
part  as  mischievous  to  our  population  of  the  City  of 
"Brotherly  Love"  as  is  the  sewage  of  the  still  to 
60,000,000  of  people?  Reduce  the  number  of 
death-dealing  streams  from  this  source  to  191,  and 
the  people  who  receive  damage  from  them  to  three- 
fourths  of  a  million,  and  the  cause  for  the  prohibi- 
tion of  the  liquor  traffic  would  sink  into  insignifi- 


ip 


August  30, 1888 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE- 


cance,  compared  to  its  present  magnitude.  Then 
suppose  beside  tiiis  that  these  streams  from  the  ttill- 
iewage  hurt  only  the  body,  not  the  morals,  the  char- 
acter, the  peace  of  the  home,  the  eternal  destiny  of 
all  the  people,  the  very  nation,  the  cause  of  Prohibi- 
tion would  be  reduced  ten  thousand-fold  more. 

Yet  while  the  papers  above  quoted  see  grave 
reasons  for  purifying  the  great  reservoirs  of  Phila- 
delphia, they  have  not  yet  come  to  see  Prohibition 
in  its  true  light.  What  if  these  owners  of  the  191 
premises  along  the  Schuylkill  should  offer  $1,000  for 
the  privilege  of  sending  their  sewage  into  the  river 
from  which  the  water  is  taken  to  the  city?  This 
would  be  such  a  source  of  revenue  to  the  city  that 
the  water  might  go  down  smoothly,  in  case  some 
party  mint  should  flavor  it — the  G.  0.  P.  flavoring 
will  remove  poisons,  perad venture.  What  would  the 
people  of  the  Quaker  city  say  to  such  a  proposition? 

Buy  the  right  to  poison  us  I  We'll  see.  We  can 
conceive  of  nothing  more  diabolical.  Are  we  to  be 
poisoned  for  a  price  to  our  city  government? 

Let  the  principle  of  high  license  be  applied  every- 
where, if  it  be  sound  and  good.  Apply  it  to  all  sins 
against  the  people  in  all  communities.  Why  not? 
Suppose,  then,  some  malignant  spirit  comes  from 
parts  unknown  with  this  message  to  the  Prince  of 
Heaven:  "Sublime  and  omnipotent  Prince,  I  know 
that  this  celestial  place  was  designed  for  holiness, 
righteousness  and  peace,  the  home  of  the  brave  and 
of  the  faithful  forever;  that  thou  wilt  have  one 
place  to  be  free  from  wrong  doing;  that  to  accom- 
plish this  thou  hast  beset  earth  and  heaven  itself, 
and  summoned  the  legions  of  the  heavenly  host  to 
found  this  celestial  home;  that  to  bring  about  this 
sublime  scheme  thou  didst  dwell  with  apostate  men 
and  demons;  wast  crucified  between  thieves,  rose 
from  the  dead,  and  ascended  to  glory,  where  now  I 
find  thee;  but  thou  knowest  my  record,  that  I  served 
thee  from  my  infancy  up  to  the  conspiracy,  when 
and  where  I  'left  my  own  habitation,  fell  from  my 
first  estate'  of  loyalty  to  right,  in  short,  I  belong 
to  the  G.  0.  P.  of  the  'Ancient  of  days,'  and  am  en- 
titled to  the  consideration  of  the  celestial  realm. 
And  now,  most  royal  Prince,  allow  us — for  I  have 
legions  at  my  olbow — to  devote  one  comer  of  the 
most  obscure  place  in  this  celestial  realm  to  the  sale 
of  indulgences  to — to — well,  to  certain  things  not 
in  strict  harmony  with  thy  mind  and  nature,  but 
good  and  necessary.  We  cannot  be  entirely  re- 
sponsible for  the  result,  as  some  disorder  may  ac- 
crue— such  as  is  common  down  there  (pointing  to 
earth);  forbear,  most  sublime  Prince.  I  should 
blush  to  name  them  in  thy  presence.  Well,  I  mean 
business,  and  must  come  to  the  point.  It  is  this:  / 
want  license,  I  will  pay  thee  a  sum  which  earth  has 
no  means  of  knowing,  no  figures  to  compute,  for  the 
privilege  of  some  liberty  to  our  citizens.  I  fully 
endorse  the  idea  of  high  license,  and  can  well  afford 
to  pay." 

How  the  celestial  foundations  tremble  I  The  very 
pillars  of  the  palace  vibrate,  as  if  to  crumble  to 
dust.  Such  lightnings  and  thunders  our  earth  could 
not  Bust&iD !  Terror-stricken,  I  looked  at  our  Prince. 
Such  a  frown — it  was  the  frown  of  Omnipotence! 
Indignation  shaking  heaven.  Where  is  the  messen- 
ger? Only  the  odor  of  sulphur  indicated  his  late 
presence.  By  the  unanimous  suffrage  of  the  celes- 
tial city  he  went  out  and  down  "to  his  own  place." 

So  ought  license,  which  pours  upon  our  earth  the 
sewage  of  the  drink  traffic.  Hell's  sewage,  to  be 
devoted  to  its  own  place. 


BBCRET  80C1ETIBS   IN  TEE  TWO  8I0ILIEB. 


|By  E.  Strachan  Morgan,  In  the  Fortnightly  Review,  London.  | 

\^Goniinued.'\ 

If  now  it  is  asked  what  is  meant  by  Maffia,  it  will 

be  found  that  few,  even  among  Sicilians,  are  agreed 

as  to  the  exact  meaning  of  the  term.     Perhaps  the 

most  satisfactory  definition  is  that  given  in  the  Blue 

Book^  1877: 

"The  Maffia  Is  not  precisely  a  secret  society,  but  rather  the 
development  and  bloBsom  of  arbitrary  violence  directed  to  crim- 
inal ends  of  every  sort.  It  Is  the  Instinctive,  brutal,  sordid 
solidarity  that  unites  against  the  state,  the  laws,  and  the  consti- 
tuted authorities,  all  who  are  determined  to  live  and  thrive  not 
by  honest  work,  but  by  violence,  by  fraud  and  by  Intimidation." 

But  even  this  definition  does  not  say  all;  add  that 
it  is  accepted  as  the  inevitable  even  by  honest  men, 
that  it  imposes  its  code  on  the  weak,  and  resists  the 
Government  even  more  by  the  inertia  of  passive  re- 
sistance than  by  overt  acts  of  violence,  and,  Proteus- 
like,  evades  the  arm  of  the  magistrate  as  it  does  the 
definition  of  the  student.  It  would  take  a  volume 
to  specify  all  the  modes  in  which,  without  violating 
the  letter  of  the  law,  the  Maffia  can  make  things 
comfortable  for  its  subordinates.  One  instance 
taken  at  hazard  must  suiilce: 

"The  SIndaco  of  Palermo,  taklrg  the  presence  of  cholera  as  a 
pretext,  has  nominated  a  whole  batch  of  new  oUlclals,  and  that 


though  many  of  the  clerks  who  already  draw  salaries  have  quite 
given  up  going  to  their  oflices.  A  good  thing  too,  for  the  mu- 
nicipal buildings  would  be  quite  too  small  to  accommodate 
them  all." 

If  we  look  below  the  surface  we  shall  find  that  the 
Maffia  is  to  a  great  extent  a  survival  from  the  Mid- 
dle Ages,  the  outcome  of  the  relations  between 
feudal  superior  and  retainer,  relations  on  which  all 
social  and  political  life  continued  to  be  based  in 
Sicily  till  the  first  quarter  of  the  present  century;  in 
part  an  expression  of  that  exaggerated  individual- 
ism which,  if  common  throughout  the  kingdom,  is 
nowhere  so  strongly  marked  as  in  Sicily.  It  is  the 
Calabrian  who  on  the  mainland  most  closely  resem- 
bles the  Sicilian,  and  it  is  a  Calabrian  proverb  that 
says,  "Quanno  niscianu  m'avantu  ni'avantu  cu — When 
no  one  praises  me  I  praise  myself."  "A  French  mob 
in  revolution  days,"  said  Signor  T.  Mamiani,  "shouts, 
'Who  will  guide  us?'  but  in  Italy  the  cry  most  heard 
is,  'Follow  mel'  for  each  individual  is  thoroughly 
convinced  of  his  own  ability  to  lead."  "If,"  said  a 
typical  Southerner  to  me,  speaking  in  all  seriousness 
of  a  reform  he  thought  needful,  "if  the  Ministry  does 
not  yield  I  will  get  myself  elected  deputy,  summon 
the  costituen  ti,  and  reform  the  Constitution. ' '  And  he 
was  convinced  of  his  right  and  ability  to  do  so. 
One  result  of  this  trait  is  that  while  there  is  in 
Sicily  much  loyalty  to  the  king,  there  is  no  loyalty 
to  the  institutions.  The  ties  of  blood  and  partisan- 
ship are  so  strong  as  to  leave  no  room  for  mere  po- 
litical alliances.  The  admired  leader  is  not  the 
statesman  of  sagacity  or  even  of  persuasive  elo- 
quence, but  he  who  most  imposes  himself  by  astute- 
ness and  overbearing  temper,  or  even  by  the  vio- 
lence of  his  personal  following;  for  here,  as  else- 
where in  Italy,  it  is  the  solitary  or  even  the  anti- 
social rather  than  the  civic  that  are  most  esteemed, 
and  it  is  perhaps  not  without  significance  that  in 
popular  music,  melody  and  solos  predominate  over 
harmony  and  chorus. 

It  might  seem  a  paradox  to  attribute  the  preva 
lence  of  secret  societies  to  this  primitive  egotistic 
independence,  which  seems  even  to  give  the  lie  to 
Aristotle's  definition  of  man  as  being  by  nature  a 
"society  animal,"  and  makes  it  not  altogether  fanci- 
ful to  trace  the  parentage  of  the  modern  Sicilian  to 
Homer's  Cyclopes  who  shocked  Hellenic  opinion, 
ruling  each  man  his  wife  and  children,  caring  not 
for  his  neighbors.  But  it  must  be  noticed  that  so- 
cieties, legal  or  illegal,  for  political,  social,  or  com- 
mercial ends,  are  marked  in  Sicily  by  something  of 
the  clannish  type.  Even  in  the  names  "brothers," 
"sons,"  often  assumed  by  members,  one  seems  to 
recognize  the  fiction  of  a  common  father,  though  it 
is  perfectly  understood  that  the  associations  and  the 
respect  paid  to  their  heads  are  accepted  as  a  mere 
matter  of  convenience.  Such  associations,  too,  are 
very  rare,  except  those  in  which  the  members  look 
up  to  a  common  and  necessary  protector,  in  whom, 
however,  no  normal  or  intrinsic  superiority  is  recog- 
nized. Just  as  the  revolutionary  Frenchman  was 
pleased  to  harmonize  his  theory  of  the  intrinsic 
equality  of  all  with  the  actual  authority  of  a  few,  by 
the  fiction  of  voluntary  surrender  of  rights  under  an 
imaginary  contrat  social,  so  the  Sicilian's  pride  is 
contented  to  obey  a  self-elected  chief,  to  whom  he 
gives  an  allegiance  which,  as  he  flatters  himself,  is 
purely  voluntary,  and  whose  despotism  is  tempered 
by  assassination,  rather  than  the  impersonal  state 
which  imposes  itself  on  all.  It  must  be  remembered, 
too,  that  in  the  old  Bourbon  days  law  was  looked 
upon  by  the  bulk  of  the  population  as  a  mere  engine, 
enabling  the  court  and  its  favorites  to  prey,  with  at 
least  a  semblance  of  justice,  on  the  poverty  of  the 
people;  and  even  now  the  heavy  taxation,  the  con- 
scription, and  the  want  of  any  intelligent  sympathy 
with  the  population  of  officials,  who  look  on  a  trans- 
fer to  Sicily  as  little  better  than  a  penal  banishment, 
keeps  up  much  of  the  former  distrust  of  Govern- 
ment. The  upshot  of  all  these  causes  is  that  in 
Sicily  law  is  still  looked  on  by  the  majority  much 
as  the  English  rule  is  in  Ireland— as  a  common  ene- 
my, or  at  best  a  marplot  in  family  disputes,  whom 
every  honorable  man  is  bound  to  baffie  to  the  utmost 
of  his  power. 

From  these  premises  in  the  moral  syllogism  is 
deduced  the  great  principle  of  Omerta,  on  which 
Majffia  is  really  based  and  which  gives  it  its  living 
power.     What,  then,  is  Omerta? 

"In  the  course  of  years,"  says  Signor  Tommasi  Cosedell,  "the 
national  character  of  Sicilians  In  all  Its  manifestations  has  be- 
come Interpenetrated  with  the  principles  of  a  special  cotlc,  called 
that  of  Omerta,  which  lays  It  down  as  the  lirst  duty  of  a  man  to 
do  justice  for  himself  with  his  own  hands  for  any  injury  he  may 
have  suffered,  and  brands  with  infamy,  holding  up  to  the  con- 
tempt and  vengeance  of  the  public  any  one  who  appeals  to  the 
law  courts  or  assUts  the  police  In  their  Investigations.     A  man 

Serfectly  honorable  In  other  relations  of  life  Is  convinced  that 
e  is  doing  a  good  deed  in  harboring  an  assassin,  or  in  refusing 
I  to  give  evidence  against  him ;  for  the  code  of  Omerta  says :    *£vl- 

Idence  is  t^/Od  so  long  as  it  does  not  injure  your  neighbor.'  " 
Under  this  code  a  willing  witness  is  shunned  and 
scorned,  as  is  an  "informer"  in  Ireland.     With  his 


dying  breath  a  murdered  man  will  refuse  to  give 
any  information  to  the  police,  and  stoutly  deny  all 
knowledge  of  his  assailant,  preferring  to  chance  the 
escape  of  his  enemy,  and  leave  a  legacy  of  vengeance 
to  his  family  or  faction,  rather  than  suffer  his  name 
to  become  a  byword  of  reproach.  Brought  face  to 
face  with  this  solidarity  of  victim  and  criminal  in 
resenting  its  interference,  the  executive  is  almost 
powerless.  But  one  or  two  of  the' grim  and  expres- 
sive maxims  current  in  the  island  enable  one  to 
realize,  far  better  than  pages  of  description,  the  feel- 
ing dominant  in  Sicily  which  makes  possible  the 
continued  prevalent  of  Maffia  and  Omerta.  "Scu- 
pettae  mugghieri  nun  si  mprestano,  A  man  does  not 
lend  his  gun  or  wife."  "Hi  moru  mi  drivocu,  si 
campu  t'allampu,  If  I  die  they'll  bury  me,  if  I  escape 
I'll  strike  you  dead."  "La  furca  e  pri  la  poviru,  la 
giustizia  pri  la  fissu,  The  gallows  for  the  poor  man, 
the  law  courts  for  the  milksop."  The  unknown  au- 
thor of  these  apophthegms  has  sketched' out  with  a 
few  master-strokes  the  position  of  an  Ishmaelite 
consciously  and  defiantly  at  war  with  social  order. 

Next  in  importance  to  the  anthropological  as  a 
factor  in  the  prevalence  of  crime,  come  the  physical 
features  of  the  island.     "Latifundia,"  said  Pliny, 
"perdidere  Italiam,"  and  it  is  hardly  less  true  that 
large  estates  are  the  seed-beds  of  crime  in  Sicily,  and 
absentee  landlords  are  at  once  the  cause  and  the 
consequence  of  Maffia.     Practically  the  whole  of  the 
interior  plain  of  Sicily,  and  65  per  cent,  of  the  en- 
tire island,  is  devoted  to  the  culture  of  wheat  on  es- 
tates varying  in  size  from  3,000  to  15,000  acres. 
For  though  many  small  properties  were  created  by 
the  sale  of  Church  lands  after  1860,  these,  except 
on  the  north  and  east  coast,  are  rapidly  disappear- 
ing.    Small  properties  cannot  stand  up  under  the 
pressure  of  taxation.     One  fact  taken  from  the 
official  report  is  sufficient  to  prove  this.    From  1873 
to  1874  there  were  put  up  for  sale  by  auction  for 
non-payment  of  land  tax,  13,713  properties  with  a 
debt  on  them  of  7,488,357  francs.    Of  these  693, 
with  a  debt  of  660,559  francs,  were  sold,  and  13,056, 
with  a  debt  of  6,826,697,  were  adjudicated  to  the 
state,  no  one  having  made  a  bid  for  them,  as  the 
arrears  of  unpaid  taxes  amounted  to  more  than  the 
value  of  the  fee-simple.    These  large  wildernesses 
of  estates  are  almost  invariably  rented  to  a  gabelloto, 
or  head-tenant,  who  sublets  them  in  small  parcels  at 
rack-rental,  each  borghese,  or  under-tenant,  taking  up 
from  ten  to  twenty  acres  on  which  he  camps  during 
the  working  season  with  his  beasts,  whose  life  and 
toil  he  shares,  which  he  cultivates  as  he  cac,  and 
pays  for  as  he  must,  usually  by  a  share,  ranging 
from  two-thirds  to  three-quarters  of  the  crop.     Ten- 
ant-farmers with  capital,  and  farm-buildings  on  the 
holdings,  are  here  equally  unknown,  and  the  borghese 
is  almost  always  in  debt  to  the  gabelloto,  who  ad- 
vances him  food  and  seed-corn  at  extravagant  inter- 
est, and  to  whom  he  is  virtually  a  serf.     If  the  sea- 
son is  good  he  barely  pays  his  way;  if  it  is  bad  he 
sinks  hopelessly  into  debt.     Baron  Mendola,  a  Si- 
cilian landlord  and  a  shrewd  observer,  gives  it  as 
his  deliberate  opinion  that  the  average  Sicilian  peas- 
ant cannot  possibly  make  both  ends  meet     "Honest 
labor,"  he  says,  "seldom  suffices  for  the  maintenance 
of  the   family.     Theft  is  obligatory."     Except  at 
seed-time  and  harvest  these  estates  are  deserted. 
The  agricultural  population  is  all  collected  in  the 
villages,  and  the  wide  plain,  with  all  its  crops  which 
no  police  can  pretend  to  watch  over,  is  at  the  mercy 
of  evil-doers.     It  is  the  sense  of  insecurity  thus  en- 
gendered, the  knowledge  that  his  crops  may  at  any 
moment  be  burned  and  his  cattle  stolen,  that  drives 
the  gabelloto,  evan  were  he  well  disposed,  into  the 
arms  of  the  Maffia,  the  only  protector  that  can  se- 
cure him  from  daily  risk  of  ruin. 

{To  be  Continued.) 


If  the  secrecy  of  a  society  is  a  good  thing,  then 
it  must  be  as  wrong  to  reveal  the  secrets  of  one  as 
another.  The  Ku  Klux  and  the  White  C^ps  should 
be  as  inviolate  as  the  Freemasons  or  Kaighta  of 
Labor.  But  Dr.  Hoffman  of  the  Geological  Survey 
has  been  studying  Indians  out  West  He  joined 
the  Chippewa  Indians  in  Minnesota,  and,  we  know 
not  by  what  hook  or  crook  he  obtained  it,  whether 
he  joined  the  society  and  is  now  "perjuring"  him- 
self, or  whether  he  stole  the  information  as  a  miser- 
able "coward  and  eavesdropper,"  but  ho  comes  back 
enriched  by  all  the  secrets  of  the  Medicine  Scx)iety 
of  that  tribe.  He  knows  the  oaths,  the  passwords, 
ceremonies,  grips  and  all,  and  he  is  going  to  pub- 
lish it  to  the  world.  We  believe  in  consistency  and 
fair  play.  If  it  is  right  to  publish  the  Indians'  se- 
crets in  the  interest  of  science  and  the  development 
of  the  history  of  man,  it  is  right  to  print  the  white 
man's  secrets  for  the  same  purpose,  especially  as 
his  secret  societies  claim  to  bo  the  depository  of  all 
science  and  truth. — American,  Washington. 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSUEJE. 


AtrausT^SO,  1888 


NBW  ENGLAND  LBTTEB. 

The  Peace  Convention — An  important  omission — The 
public  school  question  vs.  rum-seUing — Uncle  Tom's 
Cabin  played  toith  a  Voudoo  Festival  annexed —  The 
same  saints'  day  for  Voudooism  as  for  Masonry— The 
Iron  Hall  in  Missouri  and  Massachusetts. 

A  convention  of  the  Universal  Peace  Union  has 
just  been  closed  at  Mystic,  Conn.  Social  purity  was 
the  topic  of  addresses  by  Mrs.  Amanda  Dis  and 
Mrs.  Belva  Lock  wood;  one  dwelling  upon  the  reve- 
lation of  immorality  in  army  life  in  India,  the  other 
speaking  upon  the  equally  terrible  immoralities  of 
the  Michigan  lumber  camps.  Resolutions  were 
adopted  condemning  capital  punishment  and  demand- 
ing fair  play  for  the  Indian.  As  there  are  many  Chris- 
tian people  who  still  believe  in  the  stem  old  code  of 
(Jenesis,  there  may  be  two  opinions  on  the  former 
subject,  but  in  reference  to  the  latter,  even  our  Amer- 
ican government  is  slowly  finding  out  that  it  is 
cheaper  to  civilize  the  Indian  than  to  send  an  army 
to  punish  him  for  deeds  which  are  only  such  as  a 
savage,  goaded  to  desperation  by  wrongs  for  which 
he  sees  no  other  redress  than  the  scalping  knife, 
might  be  expected  to  commit.  Mrs.  Parnell,  of 
Home-Rule  fame,  spoke  eloquently  of  equal  rights 
as  a  necessary  basis  of  universal  peace;  and  a  colored 
minister.  Rev.  Paul  us  Moore,  presented  a  resolution 
sending  greeting  to  the  peace  convention  of  Eog 
land,  and  asking  it  to  use  its  influence  in  preventing 
wars  of  conquest  in  Africa.  It  is  rather  surprising, 
however,  that  one  of  the  most  prolific  causes  of  war, 
intemperance,  should  have  received  no  notice.  Ac- 
cording to  Kinglake,  the  Crimea  would  never  have 
been  invaded  if  the  British  Cabinet  had  not  drank 
too  much  wine  with  their  dinner;  and  who  shall  say 
how  much  the  shipment  of  rum  to  the  Congo  by 
both  England  and  America  has  had  to  do  in  stir- 
ring up  those  internal  wars  which  are  the  life  of  the 
African  slave  trade  with  all  its  diabolical  horrors? 

Evil  is  one  mighty  interlacing  of  various  iniqui- 
ties, and  in  this  single  question  of  war,  we  find  in- 
volved almost  every  other  great  question  of  morals. 
How  much  Freemasonry  has  had  to  do  with  foreign 
wars  has  never  been  made  the  subject  of  historical 
inquiry;  but  the  part  which  its  hidden  hand  has 
played  in  intestine  tumults  and  revolutions  may  be 
gathered  from  such  works  as  La  Hodde's  "Cradle 
of  Rebellions,"  and  the  well-known  facts  regarding 
its  close  connection  with  our  late  Civil  War,  as  well 
as  during  that  reign  of  terror  among  the  colored 
people  and  white  Unionists,  when  it  masqueraded 
under  the  title  of  Ku  Kluz,  marking  its  pathway 
with  the  light  of  burning  Negro  schools  and  cabins, 
and  all  manner  of  nameless  atrocities.  And  now 
Brooklyn  is  being  agitated  over  the  same  public 
school  question  which  is  troubling  Boston,  only  in 
a  new  form.  The  New  York  correspondent  of  the 
Congregaiionalitt  writes  that  a  graduating  exercise 
by  one  of  the  primary  scholars,  which  was  only  an 
innocent  recitation  in  rhyme  by  a  little  girl,  setting 
forth  the  misery  brought  upon  the  drunkard's  wife 
by  the  rumseller,  has  stirred  up  the  Liquor  Associ- 
ation to  send  a  written  complaint  to  the  Board  of 
Education,  and  it  remains  to  be  seen  whether  they 
will  be  as  subservienttothe  rumseller,  as  the  Boston 
Board  is  to  the  Jesuits.  If  this  continues,  couEci- 
entious  men  and  women  will  be  slow  to  take  up  a 
profession  in  which  they  cannot  be  protected  in  the 
honest  discharge  of  their  duty;  and  the  natural  re- 
sult of  all  this  will  be  a  dangerous  lowering  of  the 
moral  and  intellectual  standard  in  our  public  edu- 
cators. The  parochial  schools  are  far  inferior  to 
the  public  schools,  a  fact  which  is  rec:)gnized  by  in- 
telligent Catholics.  They  do  not  give  anything  be- 
yond a  common  Grammar  School  education;  but  a 
correspondent  to  the  Christian  Union  states  that  the 
Jesuit  party  is  now  "making  extraordinary  efforts 
to  bring  them  up  to  the  public  school  standard."  It 
is  useless  to  say  that  50,000,000  Protestants  can 
never  be  ruled  by  10,000,000  Romanists.  I  doubt 
if  either  that  mere  handful  of  unscrupulous  slave- 
holders, who  once  controlled  our  whole  nation,  or 
the  rum  power,  which  is  controlling  it  now,  could 
begin  to  muster  to  their  side  the  fraud,  the  corrup- 
tion, the  secret  guile,  that  can  be  wielded  by  our 
100,000  Jesuits.  The  time  will  come  when  the 
United  States  will  find  it  a  political  necessity  to 
banish  them  from  her  borders,  as  have  Italy  and 
France. 

Uncle  Tom's  Cabin  is  being  played  at  .the  Hollis 
Street  Theater,  with  a  unique  feature  added, — a 
very  realistic  representation  of  a  Voudoo  festival. 
The  Southern  States  have  generally  passed  laws 
against  the  practice,  but  along  the  Gulf  Voudooism 
flourishes  in  vigorous  life.  The  initiate,  his  face 
and  lips  smeared  with  blood,  takes  an  oath  to  keep 
secret  all  the  proceedings,  invoking  the  death  pen- 
alty on  himself  if  be  violates  his  obligation.     It  is 


a  curious  coincidence,  to  say  the  least,  that  this  wild 
and  disgusting  medley  of  heathenism,  cruelty,  chant- 
ing, dancing  and  drunkenness  is  always  held  on  St. 
John's  eve  I  Can  it  be  that  "the  holy  Saints  John" 
are  the  patron  saints  of  Voudooism  as  well  as  Free- 
masonry? 

A  recent  issue  of  the  Standard,  a  weekly  paper 
published  in  Boston  and  devoted  to  insurance  inter- 
ests, contains  the  following  card,  written  by  Mr. 
Alfred  Carr,  superintendent  of  the  Missouri  Insur- 
ance Department,  to  the  St.  Louis  Post  Dispatch  in 
regard  to  that  much  vaunted  order  called  the  Iron 
Hall: 

"In  a  telegram  from  Indianapolis,  printed  in  the  Post 
Dispatch  of  Sunday,  July  29,  indorsing  the  operations  of 
the  Iron  Hall,  occurs  the  following:  'In  Missouri  the 
fight  against  the  order  was  carried  into  the  courts, 
where  the  supreme  officers  achieved  a  victory,  and  it  now 
has  a  number  of  branches  in  that  State.'  The  foregoing 
would  tend  to  mislead  the  public,  and  as  Superintendent 
of  the  Insurance  Department  I  desire  to  say  that  I  have 
always  regarded  the  Iron  Hall  as  one  of  the  most  injuri- 
ous of  the  many  so  called  benevolent  insurance  societies . 
No  proceedings  have  ever  been  instituted  in  the  State 
against  the  Iron  Hall.  Mr.  H.  A.  Cooper  was  arrested 
as  an  agent  of  this  company,  and  prosecuted  for  a  viola- 
tion of  the  insurance  laws  of  the  State.  His  case  was 
heard  before  the  Court  of  Criminal  Correction  in  the 
city  of  St.  Louis,  and,  by  processes  peculiar  to  the  j  udge 
of  that  court,  he  was  discharged.  However,  if  any  one 
will  bring  to  my  notice  the  facts  showing  that  this  com- 
pany is  doing  business  through  any  agent  in  any  place 
in  Missouri, outside  the  city  of  St  Louis,!  will  undertake  to 
prosecute  such  agent  to  the  full  extent  of  the  law,  and 
thus  demonstrate  the  fact  that  the  company  has  no  right 
to  do  business  in  Missouri,  alsol" 

The  Standard  thus  comments  on  the  matter: 
"Would  that  the  closing  clause  of  Mr.  Carr's  sturdy 
communication  applied  to  Massachusetts.  In  this 
case  'enlightened  Masschusetts,'  which  has  legalized 
this  Munchausen  nondescript,  may  well  learn  a  les- 
son from  the  'wild  Western  State'  which  refuses  to 
do  so."  E.  E.  Flaqg. 


NATIONAL   REFORM  AND    PROHIBITION  IN 
CINCINNATI 


take  the  world  for  Christ?  Failure  to  co-operate. 
The  salvation  of  the  world  depends  upon  God's  peo- 
ple co-operating  in  its  accorhplishment.  The 
Saviour's  prayer  was,  "That  they  may  be  one,  as 
Thou,  Father,  art  in  me  and  I  in  Thee;  that  the 
world  may  believe  that  Ihou  hast  sent  me" 

At  4  p.  M.  I  preached  to  young  men  in  the  Y.  M. 
C.  A.  hall.  Marco  N.  Popoff,  a  Bohemian,  a  junior 
in  Hamilton  College,  Clinton,  N.  Y.,  was  present. 
He  said:  "I  heard  you  lecture  on  National  Reform 
in  our  college  last  winter.  We  were  all  delighted, 
and  would  be  glad  to  see  you  back  again.  I  saw  in 
last  evening's  paper  that  you  were  to  preach  here, 
and  I  came  over  to  hear  you."  He  gave  a  lecture 
in  the  Central  Presbyterian  church  on  "Bohemia, 
Its  Customs  and  the  Mission  Work."  It  was  repeat- 
ed in  the  Walnut  Hills  Presbyterian  church. 

In  the  religious  department  of  the  Centennial 
Exposition  these  facts  are  on  exhibition:  The  Y. 
M.  C.  A.  was  founded  by  George  Williams,  London, 
England,  1844.  There  are  4,000  organizations  in 
the  world,  1,240  in  America,  273  in  colleges  and 
universities,  77  railroad  associations,  10  German,  27 
colored  and  15  Indian.  They  have  in  buildings  and 
real  estate,  $7,262,000;  endowment  fund,  $1,209,- 
865;  pledged,  $1,356,000;  general  secretaries  and 
paid  officers,  750;  weekly  attendance  at  devotional 
exercises,  2,500.  In  Ohio  there  are  51  associations, 
6,000  members;  annual  expenditure,  $53,000;  en- 
dowment fund,  $15,000;  building  fund  pledged, 
$158,000;  value  of  property,  $256,000.  The  Cin- 
cinnati association  proposes  to  erect  a  new  building 
on  the  northwest  corner  of  Eighth  and  Elm  streets, 
at  a  cost  of  $100,000. 

In  the  evening  1  preached  in  the  Pendleton  M.  E. 
church.  Rev.  J.  W.  Bushory,  pastor.  This  brother 
was  pastor  of  Trinity  a  few  years  ago.  Later  he 
preached  in  Springfield,  Ohio.  Of  this  he  says:  "I 
preached  to  the  largest  audiences  of  any  man  in  the 
State  of  Ohio.  It  was  not  uncommon  for  300  to  go 
away  unable  to  get  in."  We  had  a  good  audience, 
and  they  responded  heartily  to  National  Reform. 

J.  M.  FOSTIR. 


Cincinnati,  Ohio,  Aug.  25, 1888. 

Editor  Christian  Cynosure: — The  second  Sab- 
bath morning  of  August  I  preached  in  the  Third 
Presbyterian  church  on  the  liquor  traffic.  This  gave 
an  open  field  for  National  Raform  principles.  The 
echoes  of  the  sermon  were  heard  all  last  week.  Its 
delivery  was  announced  at  the  Cincinnati  Prohibi- 
bition  Club  as  a  score  tor  them. 

In  the  evening  I  gave  a  National  Reform  dis- 
course in  the  Wesley  M.  E,  chapel.  Rev.  Thomas 
Pearne,  D  D.,  pastor.  This  is  the  original  church  in 
Cincinnati.  Dr.  Pearne  is  just  entering  upon  the 
fourth  year  of  his  pastorate.  Since  he  went  there 
the  church  debt  has  been  lifted,  the  building  re- 
paired to  the  extent  of  $4,000,  and  the  membership 
largely  increased.  Dr.  Pdarne  is  a  champion  for 
Sabbath  reform.  He  regards  these  camp  meetings 
as  a  source  of  danger,  as  they  are  the  occasion  of 
so  much  Sabbath  desecration.  He  is  a  Phinehas  in 
his  zeal  against  the  drink  system.  His  paper  be- 
fore the  Cincinnati  minister  a  year  ago  last  May  was 
a  most  scathing  philippic  against  the  saloon. 

Monday  evening  I  attended  the  Prohibition  Club 
meeting.  It  is  not  surprising  that  good  men  organ- 
ize against  the  saloon.  It  is  striking  at  the  heart  of 
society.  It  dominates  Congress,  State  legislaiures, 
municipal  councils  and  political  parties.  It  touches 
the  business  of  a  prosperous  man  of  affairs,  and  it 
melts  like  a  soap  bubble.  It  enters  his  home,  and 
it  falls  in  ruins.  It  touches  the  fl  )ors,  they  are  car- 
petless.  It  looks  into  the  wardrobe,  it  is  vacant. 
It  looks  into  the  cupboard,  it  is  empty.  It  touches 
his  wife,  she  fills  a  premature  grave.  It  touches  his 
children,  they  are  street  ragamuffins.  It  touches  the 
man,  he  is  carried  to  the  potter's  field. 

"Rattle  his  bones  over  the  stones, 

It  Is  only  a  pauper,  whom  nobody  owns." 

The  saloon  was  the  cause  of  every  step  down  from  the 
height  of  prosperity  to  the  depths  of  degradation. 

Last  Sabbath  morning  I  preached  on  church  unity 
in  the  Third  Presbyterian  church.  The  enemy  is 
massing  his  forces  against  the  church,  and  she  must 
unite  her  forces  to  meet  him.  All  are  under  "the 
Captain  of  our  salvation."  What  is  wanting  now  is 
co-operation.  What  was  the  cause  of  the  defeat  of 
Bothwell  Bridge?  Division  and  dissension  in  the 
army.  Why  was  nothing  accomplished  during  the 
first  year  of  the  war  of  the  Rebellion?  Failure  on 
the  part  of  the  leaders  to  cooperate,  Halleck  would 
not  CO  operate  with  Buell  in  Missouri.  McClellan  in 
the  East  would  not  co-operate  with  Sherman  in  the 
center.  And  so  the  great  soul  of  Lincoln  was 
troubled  beyond  measure,  because  "nothing  could 
be  done."     Why  has  the  church  so  long  failed  to 


OUR   WASHINGTON  LETTER. 

Washington,  Aug.  24,  1888. 

Mrs.  Cleveland  began  her  work  as  treasurer  of 
the  fund  for  building  an  American  church  in  Berlin 
several  weeks  ago,  upon  accepting  the  position,  and 
already  she  has  received  quite  a  sum  of  money. 
George  W.  Childs  and  Mr.  Wanamaker  of  Philadel- 
phia were  among  the  first  subscribers.  Through 
the  influence  of  his  wife  the  President  is  said  to  be 
fast  losing  the  peculiarities  of  bachelorhood,  while 
his  social  characteristics  are  rapidly  developing. 
He  reads  the  newspapers  now,  and  even  holds  his 
own  very  creditably  in  a  conversation  of  small  talk. 

Since  I  last  wrote  you  Congress  has  been  slowly 
doing  nothing.  There  has  been  some  filibustering 
in  the  House  over  legislation  on  general  pension 
bills,  and  much  talk  on  subjects  of  local  interest. 
The  Senate  has  shown  solicitude  for  the  safety  of 
the  streets  of  the  District  of  Columbia  by  several 
debates  on  overhead  and  underground  electric  wires; 
there  have  been  some  of  the  u^ual  chapters  on  the 
Fisheries  treaty  and  on  appropriation  bills;  some 
extensive  collections  of  roll  calls  and  dilly-dallying 
motions,  but  altogether  the  week's  record  is  too  in- 
significant to  itemize. 

The  lower  branch  of  Congress  takes  up  more  time 
and  spends  more  money  in  doing  nothing  than  any 
other  legislative  body  in  the  world.  It  is  not  be- 
cause there  are  too  many  members.  The  British 
HdUse  of  Commons  has  more  than  twice  as  many; 
the  French  Chamber  of  Deputies  has  over  two  hun- 
dred more;  the  German  Reichstag  seventy  more; 
the  Austrian  House  is  a  trifle  larger,  and  the  Italian 
Chamber  of  Deputies  has  one  hundred  and  eighty 
more  members.  But  no  one  of  these  parliament- 
ary bodies  can  be  justly  charged  with  such  an  abso- 
lute waste  of  time  as  the  House  of  Representatives. 
When  complaint  is  made  to  members  of  Congress 
of  the  inertia  of  the  House,  they  reply  that  the  fault 
lies  entirely  with  the  system  of  rules  which  has  been 
handed  down  from  one  House  to  another,  with  such 
amendments  as  the  caprice  of  the  majority  engraft- 
ed upon  it.  This  is  really  the  prime  cause  of  the 
trouble.  It  is  a  self-shackled  body,  yet  no  one  set 
of  politicians  or  parliamentarians  can  justly  be  held 
responsible  for  so  marvelous  a  combination  of  regu- 
lations, which  are  liable  at  any  moment  to  throw 
the  House  into  a  condition  of  paralysis  and  keep  it 
there. 

A  few  days  since,  there  was  upon  the  desk  of 
Representative  Matson,  of  Indiana,  a  handsome  sil- 
ver set,  pitcher  and  goblets,  presented  by  employes 
of  the  Government  Printing  Office,  in  recognition  of 
their  appreciation  of  his  services  in  securing  the 


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August  30, 1888 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


passage  of  the  bill,  granting  them  thirty  days  annual 
leave,  with  pay.  Mr.  Matson  returned  the  present 
to  the  donors,  saying  in  a  letter,  that  the  acceptance 
of  a  valuable  present  for  doing  a  plain  duty,  would 
be,  in  his  opinion,  a  very  bad  precedent.  He  did 
not  object  to  taking  floral  tributes,  as  be  had  on  sev- 
eral occasions,  but  he  thought  he  ought  to  draw  the 
line  at  silver.  It  is  useless  to  state  that  his  course 
was  commended.  It  would  not  require  much  gift 
making  and  taking  to  involve  the  House  in  a  serious 
scandal,  as  has  been  done  in  times  past 

Senator  Blair  has  given  up  all  hopes  of  having 
his  educational  bill  reported  to  the  House  during 
the  present  session  of  Con&;reBs.  He  does  not 
criticize  the  House  Committee  harshly  for  having 
pigeon-holed  the  bill,  but  he  says  he  thinks  that  it 
has  acted  very  unwisely.  A  majority  of  the  mem- 
bers of  the  House  Committee,  as  is  well-known,  are 
opposed  to  the  bill  on  the  ground  that  it  is  uncon- 
stitutional, and  that  its  passage  would  mean  the  ex- 
tension of  Federal  jurisdiction  over  millions  which 
belong  properly  to  the  States.  Several  of  the  South- 
ern members,  among  them  Bepresentative  Phelan, 
of  Tennessee,  and  Simmons,  of  North  Carolina,  have 
introduced  bills  with  the  view  of  removing  the  ob- 
jectionable features  of  the  Blair  bill,  the  former 
proposing  to  submit  the  bill  to  the  States  as  an 
amendment  to  the  Constitution,  and  the  latter  to 
loan  money  on  security  to  the  various  State  govern- 
ments. None  of  these  amendments  have  been  acted 
upon,  however,  up  to  the  present;  and  it  is  quite 
certain  that  no  legislation  in  regard  to  the  measure 
will  occur  during  the  present  session.  Senator  Blair 
will  present  the  bill  in  the  Fifty-first  Congress,  how- 
ever, and  will  continue  to  urge  it  with  the  same  per- 
sistency as  long  as  he  remains  in  the  Senate.       ^ 

— Since  he  has  been  in  Chicago,  Bro.  Gunner  has 
learned  that  one  of  his  church  members  in  New  Ibe- 
ria has  renounced  his  connection  with  the  Knights 
of  Labor,  and  agrees  to  stand  by  his  pastor  for 
Christ  alone.  A  few  other  members  are  connected 
with  the  order,  but  Bro.  Gunner  is  confident  that  the 
truth  will  also  make  them  free. 


Beform  News. 


TBE    BIG   TENT. 


AND  BIGGER  CROWDS  TO  HEAR   THE  TRUTH  ON  FALSE 
RELIGIONS. 


Dear  Editor: — We  came  to  Clinton,  Iowa,  and 
found  a  lot  suitably  located  for  our  tent  work,  and 
as  it  was  owned  by  the  Odd-fellow  lodge  we  paid 
the  chairman  of  their  executive  committee  three 
dollars  for  the  use  of  the  ground,  and  pitched  our 
tents.  Our  audiences  soon  grew  to  be  so  large  that 
had  it  not  been  for  frequent  rains  we  could  not  have 
accommodated  the  crowds. 

When  the  interest  was  sufficiently  aroused  I  an- 
nounced an  art  exhibition  in  illustration  of  a  lecture 
on  Grecian  and  Roman  Mythology.  This  announce- 
ment brought  out  a  fine  audience.  At  the  close  of 
this  lecture  I  announced  that  on  the  next  evening 
the  symbolism  us&l  in  India,  Persia,  Egypt,  and  by 
the  Aztec  Indians  and  other  nations,  would  be  illus- 
trated; and  that  as  many  of  the  prototypes  of  Ma- 
sonic and  Odd  fellow  symbolism  would  be  shown, 
we  extended  a  respectful  invitation  to  members  of 
those  orders  to  attend.  The  result  was  a  very  large 
audience,  including  the  Odd-fellow  lodge,  which  ad- 
journed and  came  over  to  hear  the  lecture.  Oar  big 
tent  could  not  have  held  the  crowd  had  it  not  been 
for  the  storm  that  came  up  and  kept  many  away. 

We  did  the  best  we  could  to  let  the  clear  light 
shine  I  showing  that  all  idolatrous  systems  were  se- 
cret and  oath-bound;  that  in  all  sun-worshiping 
countries  the  candidate,  in  joining  these  secret  in- 
stitutions, imitated  the  death  and  resurrection  of  a 
mythical  sun  god;  that  the  initiation  into  the  Odd- 
fellow lodge,  bringing  the  candidate  face  to  face 
with  the  skeleton,  was  similar  to  that  in  the  sun- 
temple  of  the  Aztec  Indians,  where  the  candidate 
was  caused  to  step  over  the  body  of  a  human  sacri- 
fice, quivering  in  the  agonies  of  death;  with  this 
difference:  The  Aztecs  used  the  skeleton  as  a  sym- 
bol while  the  flesh  was  still  on  it,  while  the  Odd- 
fellows use  it  after  the  flesh  has  been  removed. 

As  a  heavy  rain  storm  cut  the  exercises  short,  I 
announced  another  lecture  next  evening,  which  was 
largely  attended  by  Masons  and  Odd  fellows,  who 
came,  as  several  told  me,  "to  hear  it  through." 
Many  purchased  the  ''Stories  of  the  Gods."  All 
went  away  in  a  very  thoughtful  mood,  and  we  hope 
God  will  bless  the  truth  to  their  good;  and  while  we 
are  carrying  the  war  into  the  field  of  the  enemy  we 
hope  friends  will  remember  us  in  their  prayers. 

I.  R.  B.  Arnold. 


"N 


NBW  MOVBMBNTB  IN  OHIO. 


47  Lincoln  St.,  Columbus,  0.,  Aug.  24, 1888. 

Editor  Cynosure: — I  write  to  let  the  friends 
know  I  am  still  aliva  and  at  work.  Home  duties 
have  largely  demanded  my  attention  for  a  time. 
When  I  say  we  have  been  moving  and  preparing  for 
housekeeping,  only  those  who  have  passed  this  way 
before  will  know  the  work  necessary.  It  seemed 
that  I  could  be  spared  from  the  field  better  at  this 
time  than  later  in  the  season. 

The  campaign  is  opening  and  there  is  a  demand 
for  earnest  workers  everywhere.  I  trust  there  will 
be  a  strong,  earnest,  united,  coming  up  to  the  help 
of  the  Lord,  on  the  part  of  his  followers,  and  that 
we  shall  see  greater  results  than  ever  before  attend- 
ing the  labor  of  this  fall  and  winter.  I  know  this 
will  be  the  case  if  all  are  consecrated  to  the  work  as 
they  should  be.  Ohio  is  in  a  better  condition  for 
united  work  than  it  has  been  for  years.  There  are 
more  copies  of  the  Cynoture  taken,  and  a  more  gen- 
eral interest  than  ever  before  since  my  knowledge  of 
the  State. 

oiTr  work. 

The  Lutheran  church  is  quite  strong  here,  this 
being  the  headquarters  of  the  Ohio  Synod.  The 
pastors  of  these  churches  have  stood  right  with  me 
from  the  beginning  of  my  work  in  this  State. 
Wlien  I  called  a  few  days  ago,  all  gave  their  renewals 
to  our  paper  and  expressed  approbatioa  of  the  work 
done  here.  Rsvs.  Meas  and  Rohe  hava  recently 
preached  to  their  people  on  the  subject.  Rev.  Rohe 
has  since  received  anonymous  letters  threatening 
him. 

THE  CENTENNIAL  AT  COLUMBUS. 

From  all  reports  wa  ara  about  to  be  flooded  with 
a  mass  of  people  coming,  not  only  from  this  State, 
but  from  all  parts  of  the  United  States.  Seventy- 
five  thousand  soldiers  are  reported  to  have  sent  in 
orders  for  quarters  during  the  soldiers'  reunion. 
Some  have  estimated  that  three  will  not  ba  less  than 
250,000  people  in  attendance  at  the  centennial. 
The  programme  will  speak  for  itself.  It  seems 
about  as  appropriately  arranged  as  a  dog-fight  and 
a  prayer  meeting.  If  the  dog-fight  is  popular  the 
prayer  meeting  is  not,  and  vice  versa: 

SPECIAL     DATS. 

The  Coloseum  on  the  Centennial  grounds  will  be  occu- 
pied as  foUowa: 
Sept.  4.— Opening  Ceremonies, 

"    5. — Welcome  to  the  East,  South  and  West,  and  re- 
sponses by  Governors. 

"    6. — Pioneers  of  Ohio. 

"    7.— Catholic  Knights. 

"  10.— G.  A   R. 

"  12. — Old  Army  Reunions. 

"  13. — Grand  Army  Campfire. 

"  14. — Grand  Army  Sports. 

"  17.— Patriotic  Order  Sons  of  America. 

"  18. — Congregational  Church. 

"  19. — State  Bar  Association. 

"  20 —Granges  and  Farmers'  Clubs. 

"  21.— Knights  of  Pjthias. 

"  22. — Emancipation  Jubilee. 

"  24. — Labor  Organizations. 

"  25.— Methodist  Episcopal  Church. 

"  26  —Ohio  Sunday-School  Union. 

"  27.— Public  Schools. 

"  28.— Teachers  of  Public  Schools  and  State  Insti- 
tutions, 

"  29. — Commercial  Travelers'  Association. 
Oct     2. — Presbyterian  Church. 

"    3. — Retail  Grocers'  Association. 

"    4  — Band  Tournament. 

"    5.— A.  O.U.  Workmen. 

"    8. — League  of  American  Wheelmen. 

"  10. — Improved  Order  of  Red  Men. 

"  12. — Woman's  Christian  Temperance  Union 

"  16.— Brotherhoods  of  Eogineers  and  Firemen. 

"  19, — Ohio  League  Republican  Clubs. 

The  God  that  causes  even  the  wrath  of  man  to 
praise  him  can  overrule  all  to  his  glory.  I  shall 
endeavor  to  represent  our  work  as  far  as  may  seem 
advisable.  W.  B.  Stoddard. 


THS  COLPORTEUR  WORK. 


FINAL  RSPOhTS 

The  following  is  a  statement  of  my  work:  Time 
from  June  21  to  Aug.  18.  Visited  forty  towns,  four 
in  Wisconsin,  three  in  Iowa,  and  thirty-three  in  Illi- 
nois. Canvassed  most  of  the  ministers,  sciiool- 
teachers,  and  such  citizens  as  should  be  interested 
in  the  work.  In  the  latter  part  of  the  time  we  could 
not  see  a  number  of  the  pastors  as  they  had  vaca- 
tions. With  Mr.  Park  I  distributed  ab.-)ut  60,000 
pages  of  tracts  sent  us  from  the  crtice,  giving  them 
away  oit  the  cars  and  streets,  also  placing  them  in 
houses,  wagons,  etc.  I  sold  a  number  of  I.  R.  B. 
Arnold's  "Stories  of  the  Gods."  In  the  two  months 
I  secured  ninety-one  orders  for  the  Chrittian  Cyno- 


ture and  received  about  ten  dollars  in  donations. 
Most  of  the  subscriptions  were  for  one  year.  Same 
twelve  have  promised  to  take  the  paper  commencing 
with  January,  1889.  My  expenses  for  the  first 
month  were  $20.75,  for  the  second  $18.50.  We 
found  the  German  and  Swedish  churches  very 
friendly  to  our  work.  A  number  of  the  pastors  will 
send  for  tracts  in  their  own  languages.  We  think 
a  goodly  number  who  did  not  know  of  the  National 
Christian  Association  before  will  be  valuable  sup- 
porters of  it  hereafter. 

Some  would  gladly  have  aided  if  it  were  not  the 
election  year.  In  the  towns  we  visited  "reform"  is 
on  the  march,  and  the  music  of  Prohibition  fills  the 
air.  J.  W.  FiFiELD. 

....  We  scattered  tracts  in  every  town  through 
which  we  passed,  and  left  samples  of  N.  C.  A.  liter- 
ature in  most  every  family.  I  believe  the  tracts 
will  do  untold  good.  Everybody  reads  them.  We 
distributed  them  in  the  cars,  and  put  them  in  bug- 
gies and  wagons,  in  public  libraries  and  reading 
rooms,  and  took  particular  pains  to  hand  some  of 
the  most  interesting  ones  to  those  who  had  charms 
dangling  from  their  wateh  chains  denoting  them  to 
be  high  Masons. 

To  me,  the  prospect  for  the  future  in  Illinois 
looks  very  encouraging.  Many  only  need  stirring 
up  to  the  work  to  make  them  take  hold  of  it  with 
heart,  voice  and  pocket-book. 

One  of  the  great  evils  of  the  present  day  is  the 
fact  that  so  many  minor  secret  organizations,  such 
as  the  "Modern  Woodman,"  the  "Ancient  Foresters," 
etc.,  are  springing  up  with  surprising  rapidity  in 
every  city  and  town.  So  many  of  the  Christian 
people  and  church  members  join  them,  even  the 
members  of  those  churches  that  have  raised  their 
voices  so  decidedly  against  secretism.  The  mem- 
bers of  these  lodges  are  made  up  mostly  of  working- 
men  who  are  induced  to  enter  on  account  of  cheap 
insurance.  Thus  it  is  that  many  who  are  conscien- 
tiously opposed  to  the  greater  and  more  terrible 
oath-bound  secret  orders,  will  not  speak  against 
them,  because  they  themselves  belong  to  a  secret 
order. 

I  am  glad  to  say  that  the  people  in  many  places 
were  so  interested  in  Prohibition  that  it  hindered  ub 
from  getting  a  few  subscribers  for  the  Ci/noture. 
Many  of  the  "Antis"  would  have  taken  the  paper 
had  they  not  done  all  they  could,  financially,  for 
Prohibition,  which  is,  indeed,  only  another  branch  of 
Christ's  work. 

The  saloon  and  lodge  are  very  intimately  con- 
nected, they  both  "love  darkness  rather  than  light, 
for  their  deeds  are  evil,"  and  they  both  have  cur- 
tained windows  to  hide  the  wickedness  practiced  in- 
side. L.  H.  Park. 


THE  WABHINQTON  INDUSTRIAL  8CH00L. 


Washington,  D.  C,  Aug.  16,  1888. 

Dear  Cinosore:— Since  last  I  reported  through 
your  columns,  I  have  had  many  things  to  encourage 
me  in  the  work  here,  and  of  these  I  wish  to  speak 
first. 

I  am  so  glad  the  children  are  taking  such  an  in- 
terest in  the  little  boys  and  girls  which  we  have  been 
enabled  to  gather  in  here  to  teach  and  help  to  a  bet- 
ter way  of  living  and  thinking.  One  package  of 
papers  came  recently  from  somewhere  in  Pennsyl- 
vania; another  package  came  from  the  children  in 
Attica,  Ind.;  still  another  from  Wakeman,  Ohio;  and 
while  in  Alexandria,  Ya.,  the  other  day  calling  on  a 
friend,  two  little  girls  of  the  household  came  into 
the  room  each  with  a  package  of  papers  they  had 
saved  for  our  school.  Again,  I  say,  God  bless  the 
children  for  their  loving  sympathy  and  their  works. 

A  letter  reached  me  a  few  days  ago  by  way  of 
Chicago  from  Mrs.  J.  A.  Bingham  of  Ohio  with  five 
dollars  for  our  school  work,  and  Mr.  and  Mrs.  S.  A. 
Pratt  remembered  me  by  a  donation  of  three  dollars, 
while  "a  friend"  called  at  the  ottice  this  week  leav- 
ing five  dollars  for  the  children's  work.  Thus  the 
Lord  through  his  servants  is  giving  encouragement 
and  I  thank  him  for  it;  also  these  kind  friends  who 
have  so  generously  given  financial  aid. 

One  little  girl,  on  inquiry,  I  found  had  no  dress 
or  hat  suitable  for  Sunday,  so  with  some  of  the 
money  sent  in,  material  was  bought,  and  by  the  help 
of  a  Christian  lady  a  dress  was  made,  a  hat  and  col- 
lar bought,  and  on  Sunday  she  was  in  Sabbath 
school  looking  as  bright  and  animated  as  well  could 
be.  One  of  the  boys  who  was  present  on  Monday, 
when  I  asked  him  why  I  didn't  see  him  on  the  Sab- 
bath before,  replied,  'My  pants  were  not  fit  to  wear 
to  Sabbath-schuol,"  and  if  all  he  had  were  those  he 
had  on  I  could  readily  believe  him,  poor  bjj  I  and 
yet  these  are  only  samples  of  the  many.  I  tell  you, 
dear  readers,  that  in  order  to  become  interested  in 


6 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


August  30, 1888 


this  work  you  would  only  need  to  be  among  these 
children  a  few  hours.  My  heart  goes  out  toward 
them,  and  while  I  am  reaching  a  few,  I  realize  that 
there  are  hundreds,  yea,  thousands,  in  this  city  alone, 
no  better  ofl  than  these,  and  whose  physical  as  well 
as  spiritual  welfare  is  sadly  neglected. 

Then,  my  dear  sisters,  as  you  remember  how  much 
patience  it  takes  to  teach  one  or  two  of  the  little 
ones  in  your  own  homes  to  take  the  first  stitch,  run 
the  first  seam  or  hem  the  first  hem,  then  let  your 
imagination  roam  to  the  N.  C.  A.  building  and 
glance  into  the  room  back  of  the  oflSce,  and  see  there 
anywhere  from  ten  to  twenty  children,  mostly  girls 
(for  the  boys  soon  tire  of  sewing  and  drop  out),  and 
only  one  pair  of  hands  to  set  the  needle  right,  to 
start  each  seam;  only  one  pair  of  eyes  to  see  that 
all  goes  well;  here  a  glance  to  quiet  one,  there  a 
glance  to  reprove  another;  only  one  pair  of  ears  to 
catch  the  many  words  which  come,  and  only  one 
tongue  to  correct,  instruct,  admonish,  teach  Script- 
ure texts,  lead  in  the  singing,  and  the  many  other 
things  which  come  up.  Well,  the  Lord  has  thus  far 
given  me  strength,  and  he  has  promised  to  be  with 
me  "alway,  even  unto  the  end  of  the  world,"  and  I 
feel  from  day  to  day  his  sustaining  power,  am  con- 
vinced more  and  more  that  just  such  work  as  is  be- 
ing done  here  needs  to  be  done  in  all  parts  of  the  city. 

May  the  Lord  reward  all  his  servants  who  are 
taking  an  interest  in  this  work,  and,  while  you  send 
in  your  gifts,  do  not  forget  to  remember  me  at  the 
throne  of  grace.    Yours  in  the  work, 

Anna  E.  Stoddard. 


Correspondence. 


SCOTLAND  AND  MABaACHUBBTTa. 


TEE  L0UI8IANA  FIELD. 


DoRsiTviLLE,  La.,  Aug.  16,  1888. 

Dear  Cynosure: — I  left  Cheney ville  last  Thurs- 
day, and  stopped  ofl  at  Grossetete  Station  and 
preached  at  the  Mt.  Olive  Baptist  church,  and  came 
on  to  Plaquemine  Friday  evening.  A  young  man 
accosted  me  Saturday  and  wanted  to  know  my  rea- 
son for  writing  such  an  article  about  the  Odd-fel- 
lows as  1  did  from  Dorseyville  in  June  last.  He 
said  they  had  done  all  they  could  for  their  widows. 
It  is  strange  to  see  what  a  grip  these  lodges  have  on 
a  man  when  once  he  is  in  their  secret  clutches. 
Poor  souls,  they  are  to  be  prayed  for  without  ceas- 
ing. The  Odd-fellows  had  their  annual  ball  in 
Plaquemine  on  the  4th  of  August,  which  I  am  in- 
formed lasted  until  Sunday  morning;  with  some 
Christians  in  the  hall,  partakers  of  those  men's  sins. 

1  preached  at  Pilgrim  Rest  Baptist  church,  Plaque- 
mine, Sabbath  at  11  a.  m.,  and  lectured  on  Moral 
Education  at  7:30  p.  m,  at  the  Macedonia  Baptist 
church.  Rev.  Hubbs,  the  pastor,  endorsed  all  I  said 
in  the  strongest  terms,  and  invited  me  to  return  and 
lecture  again.  Bro.  Wm.  H.  Ellis,  of  Pilgrim  Rest 
church,  of  whom  I  wrote  to  the  Cynoiwre  July  12, 
called  on  me  Sunday  and  we  had  a  pleasant  inter- 
view on  secretism.  Bro.  Ellis  says  the  church  is 
the  proper  place  for  the  Christians  to  resort,  but 
they  have  failed  so  long  to  watch  over  their  poor 
members  that  many  resort  to  these  orders.  I  am 
glad,  however,  that  he  acknowledged  the  uselessness 
of  secrecy. 

If  my  colored  brethren  will  abate  their  passions 
long  enough  to  reason  together  and  examine  Ma- 
sonic history  for  themselves,  and  see  where  Mackey 
and  Webb,  and  other  Masonic  authors  reject  our 
Lord  Jesus  Christ,  they  will  soon  see  the  evils  of 
lodgery,  every  one  of  them.  Rev.  John  Brown  of 
Bayou  Qoula,  pastor  of  St.  Matthew  Baptist  church, 
is  rebuilding  his  church.  Bro.  Brown  has  left  the 
lodge,  and  as  money  is  scarce  and  his  people  poor, 
the  lodge  is  trying  through  some  of  its  members  to 
induce  him  to  come  back  with  the  promise  of  assist- 
ance. I  say  to  friends,  one  or  two  hundred  dollars 
contributed  to  Bro.  John  Brown  of  Bayou  Goula, 
La.,  just  now  would  greatly  help  in  building  a  re- 
form church,  as  Rev.  Brown  is  a  seceded  lodgite. 
You  may  have  some  knowledge  of  his  opposition. 
May  Qod  help  along  this  good  work. 

I  am  much  encouraged  in  our  Southern  work,  al- 
though opposition  is  strong;  but  they  that  are  with 
QB  are  the  mightier.  Let  us  rally  around  the  reform 
flag.  The  secretists  have  made  many  of  the  poor 
country  people  believe  that  there  were  only  a  few 
perjured  fools  opposing  lodgery,  but  the  Christian 
Cynoture  is  changing  this  sentiment,  and  they  that 
get  it  see  a  great  army  opposing  lodgery. 

Bro.  Dorsey  of  St.  John's  church  has  given  his 
church  a  thorough  repairing.  This  is  an  anti-secret 
church,  out  and  out,  and  one  of  the  largest,  hand- 
somest and  best  governed  in  the  State.  The  church 
and  property  are  valued  at  $10,000.  So  you  can  see 
from  this  how  Qod  is  blessing  the  labors  of  Elder 
Dorsey  in  the  face  of  the  opposition  from  the  lodge 
elements.  I  expect  to  preach  at  Bayou  Goula  to- 
night Francis  J.  Davidson. 


The  difference  between  public  sentiment  in  Scot- 
land and  the  United  States  may  be  illustrated  by 
the  different  treatment  of  preachers  "on  the  slopes 
of  Casolehill,"  Dunyon  on  the  Clyde,  and  those  who 
preached  on  the  people's  "Common"  in  Boston. 
Both  are  evidently  places  for  public  resort. 

The  Dunvon  paper  before  us  don't  seem  to  like 
the  said  preachers  any  better  than  the  Boston  city 
fathers,  but  although  the  ralher  venomous  Scotch 
editor  sneers  at  "these  howling  gospelers"  and  their 
"crude  and  croaking  religious  utterances,"  the  worst 
punishment  that  he  dares  to  invoke  is  that  Inspec- 
tor Fraser  or  his  men  should  kindly  request  them  to 
move  on,  and  allow  other  passers-by  to  do  the  same, 
or  to  enjoy  the  music  in  peace! 

But  in  Boston,  "our  cradle  of  liberty,"  some  of 
our  best  preachers  have  been  fined  for  merely  read- 
ing the  Scriptures!  and  one  "gospeler,"  Wm.  F.  Da- 
vis, now  lies  in  jail,  and  has  done  so  for  months,  for 
the  crime  of  preaching  on  the  people's  common!  and 
the  people  seem  to  "care  for  none  of  these  things," 
although  their  noble  city  is  thus  ruled  and  disgraced 
by  saloonery,  lodgery  and  popery  in  its  municipal 
government,  ruinous  to  the  freedom  for  which  our 
fathers  bled. 

Scotland,  however,  is  behind  us  on  the  prohibition 
question.  The  same  paper  tells  us  that  ten  o'clock 
during  summer  is  too  soon  to  shut  up  the  grog  shops. 

Let  Boston  be  instructed  by  Dunvon  in  her  duty 
to  preachers  on  her  Common,  and  let  Scotland  learn 
from  America  a  lesson  on  prohibition.  t.  h. 


ask  you  to  send  Rev. 


a  copy  every  week.    He  is 


FOB  THE  ABOLITION  OF  ALL  INIQUITY. 

DeKalb,  Iowa. 

While  at  the  U.  B.  constitutional  convention  in 
Missouri  last  June,  Bro.  Henry  Siemiller  showed  me 
where  there  was  once  a  station  on  the  underground 
railroad.  He  lived  a  half  mile  or  more  north  of  it 
when  a  traveling  preacher  in  that  State.  It  was  in- 
teresting to  hear  him  tell  of  an  old  colored  lady  who 
was  the  leader  of  a  flock  from  bondage.  As  they 
neared  the  station  a  man  in  surprise  called  on  the 
name  of  the  Lord  (we  should  judge)  in  an  irreverent 
manner.  The  old  auntie  heard  it,  and  exclaimed, 
"Yes,  massa,  dat's  de  name  we  trabel  in."  She 
knew  they  were  at  the  station  and  pointed  out  where 
the  Abolition  preacher  lived,  though  she  had  never 
been  there  before.  Their  love  for  freedom  caused 
the  Lord,  by  an  agent,  to  map  out  the  road  on  their 
minds  that  they  need  not  make  mistakes. 

Bro.  Siemiller  helped  many  to  escape,  and  "does 
not  know"  when  he  was  not  an  Abolitionist.  We 
think  his  mother  must  have  brought  him  "up  in  the 
way  he  should  go,"  for  he  is  the  same  on  the  se- 
crecy question  and  works  to  set  men  free  from  lodge 
bondage.  The  same  spirit  that  caused  a  man  to  be 
an  Abolitionist,  if  led  by  it,  will  cause  him  to  have 
the  grace  to  be  an  anti-secrecy  man  and  Prohibition- 
ist. We  understand  the  Freemasons  have  said  of 
Bro.  Siemiller:  "He  is  like  an  old  sheep  that  butted 
himself  all  away  but  the  tail,  and  that  even  still 
butts."  "Who  is  able  to  make  war  with  the  beast?" 
But  lodge  men  respect  him  for  being  what  he  pro- 
fesses to  be,  and  have  more  confidence  in  his  pray- 
ers than  those  of  the  lodge.  The  editor  of  his  home 
paper,  after  reading  Burdette  on  cranks,  applied  it 
to  him,  eulogizing  Bro.  Siemiller  for  being  a  man 
that  will  stand  firm  to  convictions  of  right,  and  not 
change  as  have  "liberals."  Such  men  will  stand  be- 
fore God  after  Masonry  has  fallen.         C.  Smith. 


PITH  AND  POINT. 


A   BLBS8INO    BESOUGHT. 

I  thank  the  Lord  for  raising  up  men,  in  his  spirit, 
wisdom,  love  and  power,  to  reflect  the  light  of  life 
amongst  the  people  through  the  Cynosure,  which  I  prize 
very  highly,  indeed,  and  for  lecturers,  faithful,  earnest 
and,  I  trust,  wise  to  win  souls  to  the  truth  as  it  is  in  the 
Lord.  The  blessing  of  the  Lord  rest  upon  you  abun- 
dantly.— D,  Hopkins,  Oiselic,  N.  T. 

TRACT    distribution. 

I  was  at  the  Hutchinson  Prohibition  convention,  and 
was  better  pleased  than  I  expected  to  be,  as  there  was 
less  show  of  secret  society  badges  than  I  feared .  I  dis- 
tributed tracts,  such  as  "Dead  Horses,"  Moody,  Finney 
and  others.  They  were  received  kindly,  but  I  learned 
some  time  later  that  there  were  some  who  were  offended. 
—James  P.  Thomas. 

WHAT  THE    SOUTH    NEEDS. 

I  have  derived  valuable  information  from  the  Chris'- 
iian  Cynosure.  It  is  doing  more  good  in  breaking  down 
secret  orders  and  advancing  the  cause  of  Christ  than  any 
other  paper  read  in  the  South.  If  your  benevolence 
continues  to  the  colored  preachers  of  the  South,  I  would 


a  prominent  minister  of  the  Gospel  here,  and  such  pa- 
per will  give  him  strength  and  better  prepare  him  to  dis- 
charge the  functions  of  his  high  calling. — Qeorgb 
Priest,  Sich,  Miss. 

AN  AMERICAN  PBOHIBITIONIST. 

The  Presbyterian  minister  here  is  not  a  member  of  any 
secret  society,  but  takes  no  stand,  as  I  see,  against  them. 
The  Methodist  minister  says  he  sees  nothing  wrong  in 
the  major  secret  societies.  The  Baptist  (also  the  Meth- 
odist) minister  is  a  member  of  the  G.  A.  R.  I  am  not 
really  or  fully  satisfied  with  Fisk's  position  toward  se- 
cret societies  as  published  in  the  Cynosure,  but  may  vote 
for  him  that  I  may  help  the  Prohibition  list.  Certainly 
I  shall  not  vote  any  other  ticket  now  in  the  field.  If 
the  Prohibition  party  has  the  same  God  as  the  American 
party,  I  think  there  are  many  members  of  the  former  who 
are  liable  to  favor  unchristian  organizations  to  the  neg- 
lect and  injury  of  Prohibition. 

A  miller  at  Hillsdale  is,  I  think,  successfully  holding 
out  against  the  measures  of  the  "union"  for  his  discharg- 
ing of  their  members.— R.  D.  Nichols,  Jonesville,  Mich. 


LITERATURE. 

A  Fortnight  op  Folly.    By  Maurice  Thompson.    Pp.  140. 
Price,  50  cents,  postage,  8  cents.  John  B.  Alden,  New  York. 

This  is  a  satire.  It  is  also  a  novel;  but  of  the 
class  of  Don  Quixote  and  Gulliver,  which  men  will 
read  so  long  as  they  appreciate  God-given  genius 
which  can  effectively  use  the  weapons  of  ridicule  to 
overthrow  great  abuses.  Such  a  work  will  be  some 
time  directed  against  the  lodge,  and  it  will  find  a  le- 
gitimate field,  and  may  have  the  success  of  the  great 
work  of  Cervantes.  But  Mr.  Thompson  is  neither 
Swift  nor  Cervantes,  and  he  seems  not  to  be  alto- 
gether at  home  in  this  style  of  literature,  as  bis  plot 
is  rather  heavy  and  his  characters  do  not  always 
move  easily.  But  the  story  is  quite  subordinate. 
The  caricature  of  reporters,  publishers,  historians, 
poets,  novelists,  whom  he  shuts  away  from  the 
world  for  a  time  together,  like  an  untamed  Bar- 
num's  happy  family,  is  excellent,  and  will  be  hugely 
enjoyed  by  the  reading  public  as  well  as  the  people 
whose  eccentricities  are  made  the  sport  of  an  hour. 
In  his  descriptions  of  nature  Mr.  Thompson  is  more 
himself,  and  the  volume  contains  some  fine  passages 
which  will  be  reread  with  increasing  pleasure. 

Alden's  Manifold  Cyclopedia  of  Knowledge 
and  Language  has  reached  the  seventh  volume, 
which  includes  titles  from  "John  Calvin,"  the  theo- 
logian, to  "Cervennes,"  the  principal  mountain  chain 
in  the  south  of  France.  Between  these  there  are 
over  600  pages,  including  considerably  over  100 
illustrations,  devoted  to  topics  in  every  department 
of  human  knowledge.  It  is  an  ordinary  Cyclopedia 
of  Universal  Knowledge,  and  an  Unabridged  Dic- 
tionary of  Language  in  one,  the  editorial  work  be- 
ing in  skillful  hands,  the  mechanical  work,  paper, 
printing  and  binding,  all  that  one  can  reasonably 
wish,  the  form  convenient  beyond  all  precedent  in 
works  of  reference,  and  the  cost  so  trivial  as  to  as- 
tonish ordinary  purchasers  of  such  works. 

Pagan  Counterfeits  in  the  Christian  Church.    By  C.  A. 
8,  Temple,  Reading,  Mass.    Pp.  53. 

A  number  of  articles  on  this  general  topic  have 
appeared  in  the  Cynoture  during  the  past  few  years 
from  Mr.  Temple's  pen.  They  are  collated  and  re- 
printed here  in  convenient  form,  and  we  join  in  the 
recommendation  of  Miss  Flagg  below: 

I  have  been  interested  in  looking  at  "Pagan  Coun- 
terfeits in  the  Christian  Church,"  by  C.  A.  S.  Temple, 
of  Reading,  a  name  familiar  to  all  Cynoture  readers. 
No  one  can  peruse  this  little  pamphlet  intelligently 
and  thoughtfully,  and  not  see  that  our  churches  are 
on  that  down  grade  which  begins  so  almost  imper- 
ceptibly, but  ends  in  a  gulf  of  empty  formalism  and 
vain  observances,  which,  if  not  Rome  itself,  is  as 
good  a  training  school  for  it  as  even  a  Jesuit  could 
desire.  Our  pastors  who  ought  to  be  the  first  to 
sound  the  note  of  warning  are  "dumb  dogs,"  who 
follow  rather  than  lead  their  people.  Perhaps  few 
church  members  know  the  heathen  origin  of  Easter, 
Lent,  etc.,  just  as  few  Masons  know  that  Masonry 
is  only  Baal  worship  modernized;  but  this  does  not 
alter  the  natural  law  that  what  has  its  source  in 
Paganism  will  inevitably  tend  toward  Paganism — a 
civilized  kind,  perhaps,  but  still.  Paganism.  I  am 
glad  our  city  pulpits  are  awake  to  the  imminent  dan- 
ger which  threatens  our  public  schools,  but  they  are 
strangely  deaf  and  blind  to  the  danger  no  less  immi- 
nent, if  less  palpable,  that  threatens  our  Protestant 
churches.  Rome  makes  many  converts  in  England, 
few  in  Scotland.  In  the  latter  country  Presbyter- 
ianism,  with  its  ritual  simple  to  bareness,  stands 
like  a  breakwater  against  her  encroachments;  while 
in  the  former  Episcopalianism,  with  its  vestments 
and  saints'  days,  are  a  continual  temptation  to  many 
a  devout  but  weak  soul  to  go  a  little  farther,  until 
it  ends  by  drinking  the  Romish  harlot's  cup  of  en- 
chantment to  the  dregs. 


August  30, 1888 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


Literature,  Alden's  weekly  illustrated 
magazine.  New  York,  has  given  its  read- 
ers of  late  a  chaiming  acquaintance  with 
such  popular  authors  as  Augusta  J  Evans, 
Celia  Thaxter,  Lillie  B.  Chase  Wyman, 
and  even  old  Homer  wrote  not  so  long 
ago  as  to  be  forgotten. 

The  Anti-Tobacco  Crusader  is  pub- 
lished monthly  by  H.  L.  Hastings,  47 
Cornhill,  Boston,  at  25  cents  per  year. 
The  courageous  reformer,  George  Trask, 
whose  fame  as  an  anti-tobacconist  was 
world-wide,  dying,  left  his  work  to  Bro. 
Hastings.  Tracts  and  publications  should 
everywhere  be  circulated  widely  against 
this  national  evil. 

The  September  number  of  the  Mission 
ary  Review  is  earliest  before  its  readers, 
and  there  are  few  magazines  that  the 
world  could  so  ill  afford  to  spare.  Dr. 
Pierson,  who  is  remaining  in  Great  Brit- 
ain to  labor  for  the  cause  nearest  his 
heart,  writes  a  second  editorial  letter  on 
the  late  great  Centenary  Conference  of 
Missions  in  London.  The  great  lesson 
impressed  by  that  meeting  was,  "The 
whole  world  must  now  be  taken  posses- 
sion of  and  occupied  for  Christ."  One 
of  the  papers  at  that  conference,  on  "The 
Training  of  Women,"  was  by  Henry 
Grattan  Guinness.  It  reappears  in  full. 
"The  Work  among  the  Fiji  Islands," 
another  important  paper,  follows;  as 
does  Dr.  Pierson's  paper  on  "Home  Work 
for  Foreign  Missions."  Dr.  Cust's  re- 
markable account  of  the  Moravian  Mis- 
sions is  continued  in  this  number.  At 
the  London  Conference  a  popular  meet- 
ing of  extraordinary  character  was  held 
for  the  purpose  of  giving  public  ex- 
pression to  the  indignant  feeling  of  the 
conference  against  three  great  evils  con- 
trolled by  the  British  government:  the 
opium  trade, the  drink  traffic,and  licensed 
prostitution  in  India.  The  correspond- 
ence and  reports  from  missions  and  mis- 
sionary societies  is  also  full  and  valuable. 


Lodge  Notes. 

Chicago  has  45,000  children  in  her 
Romish  parochial  schools,  and  has  207 
Romish  churches — the  largest  number  of 
any  city  in  the  country — nineteen  more 
than  New  York. 

The  Brotherhood  of  Locomotive  Engi- 
neers met  at  Detroit  Friday  to  celebrate 
the  twenty  fifth  anniversary  of  their  or- 
ganization. Over  2,000  members  were 
present,  including  Grand  Chief  Arthur 
and  W.  R.Robinson,  of  Vincennes,  Ind  , 
the  first  chief  of  the  order  and  originator 
of  the  brotherhood  idea. 

The  seventh  annual  encampment  of 
the  Sons  of  Veterans  has  just  been  held 
in  Wheeling,  W.Va.  The  report  of  Adjt.- 
Gen.  Post  showed  66,612  members  now 
in  good  standing,  an  increase  of  12.000 
during  the  last  year.  The  Ladies'  Aid 
Society  also  held  a  national  convention, 
and  about  fifty  delegates  were  in  attend- 
ance. 

The  New  York  Witness  says  of  Mr. 
Crooks  of  New  Jersey,  who  has  gone 
back  to  the  G.  O.  P.,  that  it  had  never 
heard  of  him  before,  although  he  is  a 
prominent  Good  Templar;  but  when  he 
says  he  is  satisfied  with  the  raise  of  license 
in  his  State  from  $50  to  $250,  it  wonders 
how  he  ever  called  himself  a  Prohibi- 
tionist. 

The  Jesuits  seem  to  have  fallen  into 
difficulties  in  Canada.  Bishop  Lafleche, 
Three  Rivers,  Quebec,  has  signed,  it  is  re- 
ported, an  order  suspending  the  Jesuits 
under  nis  jurisdiction  from  religious  min- 
istrations. This  step  was  taken  after  an 
investigation,  which  went  to  show  that 
many  Catholics  were  being  influenced  on 
their  death  beds  to  change  their  wills  in 
favor  of  the  Jesuits,  whose  families  were 
becoming  disaffected  toward  the  church 
from  this  cause,  and  hence  the  bishop's 
interference. 

The  strike  of  the  brick-layers  in  the 
twenty-one  yards  located  on  the  north 
side  of  Chicago  is  over.  Several  weeks 
ago  1,400  union  men,  owing  to  dissatis- 
faction with  the  wages  paid  and  the  em- 
ployment by  some  of  the  yards  of  non- 
union workmen,  went  out  on  a  strike. 
The  union  had  about  $16,000  in  the  treas- 
ury at  that  time,  all  but  $7,000  of  which 
has  been  expended  in  support  of  the 
strikers.  Union  men  were  required  to 
pay  twenty-five  cents  a  day  of  their 
wages  into  the  treasury.  They  tired  of 
this  and  refused  longer  to  support  their 
brothers  in  idleness.  As  a  result  all  but 
500  of  the  strikers  have  returned  to  work 


at  whatever  wages  they  could  get,  and 
the  others  are  willing  to  accept  the  same 
terms,  but  at  present  there  are  no  places 
for  them. 

The  report  comes  from  Crawford  coun-- 
ty,  Indiana,  that  the  "White  Caps"  have 
held  a  meeting  near  Marietta,  and  decid- 
ed to  disband.  The  trip  of  Attorney- 
General  Michener  to  that  section  last 
week  was  the  cause  of  this,  as  they  fear 
arrest  and  prosecution.  Crawford  coun- 
ty is  the  home  of  the  "White  Caps,"  and 
has  been  the  headquarters  for  their  oper- 
ations. 

The  interference  of  the  State  authori- 
ties in  Crawford  county  has  caused  the 
"White  Caps"  to  remain  very  quiet.  At- 
torney-General Michener's  investigation 
disclosed  a  fearful  state  of  lawlessness 
and  cruelty  on  the  part  of  the  regulators . 
Gov.  Gray  has  been  asked  to  use  the 
power  of  the  State  in  crushing  out  this 
organization,  and  will  probably  soon  take 
active  measures. 

A  dispatch  from  English,  Ind.,  says: 
The  "White  Caps"  now  propose  to  pu- 
rify the  ballot  box,  and  are  turning  their 
attention  in  that  direction.  They  have 
already  issued  their  pronunciamento  for 
the  coming  fall  election,  and  decided  just 
what  they  propose  to  do.  At  a  very  un- 
seasonable hour,  not  long  since,  they 
called  in  a  body  on  the  editor  of  the 
English  News,  a  weekly  paper  they  re- 
gard as  their  organ.  By  threats  the  edi- 
tor is  kept  in  line,  and  publishes  what 
they  ask  of  him.  They  obliged  him  to 
publish  a  long  notice  in  which  they  de- 
clare that  there  shall  be  no  bribery  or 
corruption  at  elections,  and  threaten  a 
hundred  lashes  to  any  one  found  going 
counter  to  their  wishes. 


"Woman!  be  fair,  we  must  adore  thee; 
Smile,  and  a  world  is  weak  before  thee  1" 
But  how  can  a  woman  smile  when  she 
is  suffering  untold  misery  from  com- 
plaints from  which  we  men  are  exempt? 
The  answer  is  easy.  Dr.  Pierce's  Favor- 
ite Prescription  is  an  infallible  remedy  in 
all  cases  of  "female  weakness,"  morning 
sickness,  disorders  of  the  stomach,  ner- 
vous prostration,  and  similar  maladies. 
As  a  powerful  invigorating  tonic  it  im- 
parts strength  to  the  whole  system,  and 
to  the  womb  and  its  appendages  in  par- 
ticular. As  a  soothing  and  strengthen- 
ing nervine  it  subdues  nervous  excitabil- 
ity, irritability,  exhaustion,  prostration, 
hysteria,  spasms,  and  other  distressing, 
nervous  symptoms  commonly  attendant 
upon  functional  and  organic  disease  of 
the  womb.  It  induces  refreshing  sleep 
and  relieves  mental  anxiety  and  despond- 
ency. Sold  by  druggists,  under  a  posi- 
tive guarantee,  from  the  manufacturers, 
to  give  satisfaction. 


Scrofula,  in  the  blood,  corrupts  and 
contaminates  every  tissue  and  fiber  in  the 
whole  body;  but  whether  appearing  in 
the  form  of  swellings,  erysipelas,  or  run- 
ning sores,  the  malignant  poisons  of  this 
disease  are  completely  eradicated  by  the 
use  of  Ayer's  Sarsaparilla. 


"The  gods  give  no  great  good  without 
labor,"  is  an  old  proverb,  and  a  true  one; 
the  hardest  labor  is  not  always  that  which 
is  best  paid,  however.  To  those  in  search 
of  light,  pleasant  and  profitable  employ- 
ment, we  say  write  to  B.  F.  Johnson  & 
Co.,  Richmond,  Va. 


The  whitest,  worst-looking  hair  re- 
sumes its  youthful  beauty  and  softness 
by  using  Hall's  Vegetable  Sicilian  Hair 
Renewer.    Try  it. 


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purposes  of  said  Association,  and  for  whirh 
fce  receipt  of  Its  Treasurer  for  the  time  bein^ 
^all  be  sufficient  dischame. 

THB  NATIONAL  OONYBNTION. 

Pbbbidbnt.— Rev.  J.  8.  T.  Milligan, 
Denison,  Kans. 

Sbcbbtabt.— Rev.  R.N.  Coun  tee,  Mem- 
phis, Tenn. 

btatb  auxiliabt  associations. 

AlABUCA.— Pret.,  Prof.  Pickens;  Sec,  6. 
M.  SlUoU;  Treaa.,  Rev.  C.  B.  Curtis,  aU  of 
Selma. 

CALiTORinA.— Pres^  L.  B.  Lathrop,  Hollls 
ter;  Cor.  Sec,  Mrs.  U.  P.  Merrill,  Woodland; 
Treaa.,  C.  Ruddock,  Woodland. 

CoNKBOTicuT.— Pres.,  J.  A.  Conant,  Willi 
mantle;  Sec,  Geo.  Smith,  WlUIman tic ;  Trea*. 
G.  T.  CoUinfl,  Windsor. 

IxjiiNOis.— Pres.,  J.  P.  Stoddard;  See,  M. 
N.  Butler;  Trea».,  W.  I.  Phillips  all  at  Cy- 
noture  office. 

IiiDiANA.— Prea.,  William  H.  Flgg,  Reno 
Sec,  8.  L.  Cook,  Albion;  Treai.,  Benj.  Ulah 
Silver  Lake. 

Iowa.— Pre«.,Wm.JohnBton,  College  Springsi 
Cor  Sec,  C.  D.  TmmbuU,  Morning  Sun* 
Treas.,  James  Harvey,  Pleasant  Plain,  Jeffer- 
son Co. ;  Lecturer,  C.  F.  Hawley,  Wheaton,  111. 

Kansas.— Pros.,  J.  S.  T.  Milligan,  Denison; 
Sec,  S.  Hart,  Lecompton;  Treas.,  J.  A.  Tor 
rence,  Denison. 

Massachusetts.- Pre*.,  8.  A.  Pratt;  Sec, 
Mrs.  K.  D.  Bailey;  Treaa., David  Mannlng.Sr. 
Worcester.  ^ 

MiOHiQAH.— Pres.,  D.  A.  Richards,  Brighton 
Sec'y,  H.  A.  Day,  WUlIamston;  Treaa.'' 
Geo.  Swanson,  Jr.,  BedfoiJ. 

MiNNBSOTA.— Pree,,  B.  G.  Paine,  Wasloja 
Cor.  Sec,  Wm.  Fenton,  St.  Paul;  Kec  Sec'y 
Mrs.  M.  F.  MorrlU,  St.  Cnarlea;  Treaa.,  Wm 
H.  Morrill,  St.  Charles. 

MiBSOUBi.— Pree.,  B.  F.  Miller,  KaglevlUa 
Treas.,  William Beauchamp,  Avalon ;  Cor.  Sec. 
A.  D.  Thomaa,  Avalon. 

Nbb&aska. — Pres.,  8.  Austin,  Fainnooit' 
Cor.  Sec,  W.  Spooner,  Seamey;  T^eaa.^ 
J.  C.  Fye. 

Maink.— Pres.,  Isaac  Jackson,  Harrison- 
Sec,  I.  D.  Haines,  Dexter;  Treas.,  H.  W. 
Goddard,  West  Sidney. 

N«w  HA11P8H1RB.— Pres.,  C.  L.  Baker,  Man 
Chester;  Sec,  S.  C.  Kimball,  New  Market 
Treaft.,  Jauies  »■'.  French,  Canterbury. 

Naw  YoKK.— Pres.,  F.  W.  Cap  well.  Dale; 
Sec'y,  John  Wallace,  Syracuse;  Treaa.,  M. 
Merrick,  Syracuse. 

Ohio.— Free.,  F.  M.  Spencer,  New  Concord', 
Rec  Sec,  S.  A.  George,  Mansfield;  Cor.  Sec 
andTreus.,  C.  W.  liUit,  Columbus;  Agent 
W.  B.  Stoddard,  Columbus. 

Fbkhstlvania.— Cor.  Sec,  N.  Callender 
Thompaaa ;  Treaa.,  W.  B.  Bertels,  Wilkeabarre. 

Ybbmoht.— Prea.,  W.  R.  Laird,  St.  Johna- 
bury;  Sec,  G.  W  Potter. 

WiBOOHBiH.— Free.,  J.  W.  Wood,  Baraboo; 
Sec,  W.  W.  Ames,  Menomonle;  Treaa.,  M.  B 
Brittam,  Vlonn*. 


8 


IHE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSXIRE^ 


August  30, 1888 


The  Christian  Cynosure. 


/.  BLANCHABD. 


Xdxtobi. 


HXNRT  L.  KMJJjOGtQ. 


OHIOAeO,   THUBBDAT,   AUGUST  30,   1888. 


CAMPAIGN  OFFER. 

The  Cyhosubb  is  offered  during  the  Campaiga  for 
only  ten  cents.  For  the  particulars  please  read  the  pub 
lisher's  notice  on  page  13.  The  particular  value  of  this 
paper  during  the  next  ten  weeks  to  voters  will  be  the 
response  of  candidates  on  the  question  of  the  lodge. 
Already  the  Presidential  nominees  of  the  Prohibition, 
Republican,  and  Equal  Rights  parties  have  responded  to 
the  desire  of  their  supporters,  also  two  candidates  for 
Vice  President  and  numerous  State  nominees.  These 
replies  are  of  greatest  importance  to  American  voters. 
We  propose  to  make  every  number  of  the  paper  worth, 
to  even  an  indifferent  person,  the  price  f  jr  the  cam- 
paign, and  to  interested  parties  ten  times  that  sum. 


EDITORIAL  C0RRB8P0NDBNCB. 


Saxton's  River,  Aug.  21,  1888. 

DsAR  Ctnosurk  Readers: — We  are  back  from 
Guilford  Center  and  the  beautiful  town  of  Brattle- 
boro.  I  spoke  all  day  (Sabbath)  in  the  town  hall, 
and  Bro.  Leach  spoke  twice  in  the  Congregational 
church  in  West  Brattleboro,  and  opened  my  meeting 
with  an  impromptu  speech  at  night.  They  informed 
us  that  there  are  thirty  secret  societies  in  Brattle- 
boro for  3,000  people!  Good  Deacon  Jacob  Estey 
(Baptist),  has  the  principal  industry  of  Brattleboro. 
He  is  the  Obadiah  of  this  idolatrous  city  and  State. 
Without  early  advantages  he  is  the  ablest  business 
man  in  the  place.  His  son-in-law  is  Lieutenant- 
Governor,  with  a  prospect  of  further  rise  in  politics, 
and  his  son  has  a  militia  title.  When  last  May,  the 
fiftieth  anniversary  of  his  marriage  came,  two  thou- 
sand people,  old  and  young,  rich  and  poor,  gathered 
to  testify  their  respects  to  his  house.  Would  you 
think  this  good  man,  whose  benevolence  has  rained 
on  a  good  part  of  the  United  States,  is  a  Freemason? 
I  was  warned  that  it  would  do  no  good  to  see  him, 
but  I  went,  all  the  same.     I  said: 

"Deacon  Estey,  have  you,  or  will  you  take  time 
to  read  tracts  against  the  lodge?" 

"I  have  not  been  nigh  them  for  forty  years,"  he 
replied,  somewhat  gruffly. 

"All  right,"  said  I.  "Here  is  a  speech  I  delivered 
in  Washington,  D.  C,  which  Joseph  Cook  pronounced 
the  ablest  he  had  ever  seen  on  the  subject;  will  you 
read  it?" 

"Yes,"  in  a  somewhat  altered  tone. 

"And,"  I  continued,  "will  you  give  this  tract  con- 
taining the  opinions  of  Northern  statesmen  on  the 
lodge,  with  my  respects,  to  your  son.  Col.  Estey?" 

"Yes,"  he  answered;  and  so,  after  a  brief  business 
talk,  I  left  Deacon  Jacob  Estey,  to  meet  him  in 
heaven,  where  there  are  no  secret  societies,  for 
Christ  "in  secret  said  nothing." 

This  Deacon  Estey  has  fed  the  Lord's  prophets  by 
fifties  (See  1  Kings  18:  13),  and  yet,  years  ago,  sub- 
mitted to  the  degradation  of  the  hood- wink  and  hal- 
ter. When  his  son  was  drawn  by  Satan's  emissaries 
who  make  Masonry  their  trade,  he  tried  his  level 
best  to  keep  that  son  from  joining  the  lodge  I  Oh, 
if  he  had  had  any  but  a  "dumb-dog"  for  a  pastor, 
he  would  ere  this  have  given  his  great  influence  to 
save  Brattleboro  from  organized  deism,  and  modern 
idolatry. 

We  are  through  the  clouds  and  now  come  into 
sun-light 

Mr.  C.  P.  Potter  of  Guilford  Center  and  Mr.  Wood 
of  Brattleboro  are  farmers,  upright,  clear-minded 
men  who  have  stood  here  like  Whitefield, 

"And  bore  the  pelting  scorn  of  half  an  age." 

Mr.  Potter  lives  on  hills  which  seem  to  look  down 
on  the  awful  Monadnock.  I  have  seen  fair  pictures 
amid  these 

"flllls  of  unfading  green,  whose  summits  proud 
Whisper  the  things  of  earth  unto  the  sky," 
but  never  on  this  round  globe  have  I  seen  such 
views  as  are  had  from  the  front  door  of  his  dwell- 
ing. Both  he  and  Mr.  Woods  have  holy  women  in- 
side, who  keep  their  houses  in  exquisite  taste;  and 
our  stay  there  has  been  like  that  of  Buoyan's  Pil- 
grims in  "The  Delectable  Mountains." 

Mr.  Potter  and  his  son  Charles  got  up  these  Brat- 
tleboro meetings,  Mr.  Woods  standing  firmly  by 
them.  They  hired  and  lighted  the  wide  and  long 
town  hall,  and  paid  and  collected  twenty  dollars 
toward  our  expenses,  Mrs.  General  Phelps  being  a 
contributor.  Mr.  Potter  was  a  Methodist,  and  Mr. 
Woods  a  Baptist,  but  both  have  shrunk  from  com- 


muning with  those  who  worship  devils  in  the  lodges. 
Both,  with  their  persons  and  means,  stand  firm  by 
"the  church  of  the  living  God,  the  pillar  and  ground 
of  the  truth,"  (1  Tim.  3:  15),  and  God  stands  by 
them. 

Our  meetings  there  were  all  that  could  be  ex- 
pected in  a  town  ruled  by  thirty  dens  of  anti-Christ. 
The  Congregational  church,  as  did  t'e  respectable 
people  in  Jerusalem  when  Christ  was  on  trial  "in 
the  hour  and  power  of  darkness" — stayed  away. 
The  lodges  had  ample  time  and  notice  to  plan  and 
execute  their  coward's  policy  of  "Stay  away  and 
keep  away,"  and  though  they  succeeded  in  dwarfing 
our  audiences,  there  was  neither  brag  nor  bravado; 
and  the  people  of  the  town  looked  thoughtful  and 
respectful.  When  the  ministry  are  shamed  out  of 
their  non-committalism  in  morals,  Brattleboro  will 
be  openly  for  Christ  against  his  contemners.  Rev. 
Mr.  Leach,  his  father,  and  grandfather  are  known 
throughout  this  county;  and  he  is  urged  to  visit  West 
Brattleboro  again. 

In  the  morning  I  said  in  opening:  "When  I  left 
this,  my  native  State,  Vermont,  Rhode  Island  and 
Massachusetts,  each  had  laws  prohibiting  and  pun- 
ishing the  imposition  of  Masonic  oaths,  and  that 
afttir  full,  free,  open  discussion.  The  lodge  has 
come  back  on  the  refluent  wrongs  of  our  slavery 
war,  which  was  hatched  in  Southern  lodge-rooms. 
Our  Vermont  soldiers  were  drawn  into  these  man- 
traps of  Satan  by  offer  of  getting  favors  from  Ma- 
sonic rebels.  But  they  have  neither  answered  an 
argument,  nor  disputed  one  fact  on  which  New  Eng- 
land legislatures  made  Masonry  a  crime.  Vermont 
was  right  then,  and  by  God's  help  she  will  be  right 
again." 

This  plain  truth,  of  course,  was  stunning  to  those 
who  have  gained  civil  office  by  the  sneaking  secret 
help  of  the  lodges.  But  there  are  thousands  of 
good  men  who  have  been  wheedled  into  the  lodges 
here,  who  will  come  out  as  soon  as  their  coverings 
are  torn  off,  and  their  utter  hostility  to  every  Amer- 
ican principle  is  shown.    God  is  speeding  the  day. 


LOUISIANA  BARBARISM. 


There  is  much  to  humble  the  pride  of  our  nation, 
and  perhaps  no  section  can  greatly  boast  over  an- 
other. The  crimes  of  the  White  Caps  in  Indiana, 
the  Bald  Knobbers  of  Missouri,  and  bloody  border 
feuds  of  Kentucky  were  surely  bad  enough.  But 
it  is  quite  evident  in  each  of  these  cases  they  were 
condemned  by  public  sentiment,  and  that  both  the 
State  and  municipal  authorities  are  earnest  in  their 
efforts  at  suppression.  We  could  wish  this  were 
true  of  the  late  outbreak  in  Southern  Louisiana, 
where  ten  Negroes  and  one  white  man  have  been 
killed  and  many  wounded. 

From  the  various  reports  we  gather  that  this  ap- 
peal to  mob  violence  was  occasioned  by  the  fear  of 
miscegenation.  One  white  woman  was  found  living 
with  a  colored  man.  An  effort  was  made  to  lynch 
him,  and  he  with  other  Negroes  armed  themselves 
for  protection.  One  or  two  hundred  white  men 
armed  themselves  and  demanded  that  the  Negroes 
lay  down  their  arms  and  submit.  The  result  was  a 
conflict  with  the  results  as  stated. 

The  remarkable  and  shameful  fact  about  the 
whole  matter  is,  that  miscegenation  has  been  going 
on  in  Louisiana  for  more  than  a  century  without 
resistance,  and  almost  without  rebuke.  White  men 
of  wealth  and  high  social  standing  have  and  do 
make  it  a  practice  to  live  with  colored  women, 
either  with  or  without  marriage,  and  their  children 
constitute  a  large  per  centage  of  the  people  of  that 
entire  region.  In  the  colored  schools  of  New  Or- 
leans it  is  common  to  find  those  in  whom  not  a  trace 
of  Negro  blood  is  visible,  and  who  are  classed  as 
Negroes  simply  because  their  remote  maternal  an- 
cestors were  of  African  descent.  This  abominable 
practice,  if  not  approved  is  at  least  winked  at,  and 
no  legal  or  illegal  violence  is  ever  executed  or 
threatened  unless  a  Negro,  or  one  of  African  de- 
scent, proposes  to  marry  a  white  woman.  It  is  not 
concubinage  nor  miscegenation  that  is  dreaded.  It 
is  a  recognition  of  the  EQUAL  RIGHTS  OF  the  Negro. 
The  battle  will  have  to  be  fought  out  on  this  issue, 
not,  we  trust,  with  implements  of  death,  but  before 
the  bar  of  an  enlightened  public  opinion.  Louisiana 
must  stand  condemned  as  disloyal  to  the  moral 
sense  of  mankind  as  well  as  the  Constitution  and 
laws  of  the  United  States,  until  her  people  reform 
their  morals  and  manners,  and  her  authorities  exe- 
cute the  laws  with  an  impartial  hand. 


—Prof.  H.  A.  Fischer,  of  the  N.  0.  A.  Board, 
proved  himself  a  champion  of  national  prohibition 
of  no  mean  capacity  last  Friday  evening  in  debate 
with  Mr.  N.  E.  Gary,  of  the  law  firm  of  Gary  Bros., 
of  this  city.    Mr.  Gary  spoke  for  the  Republicans, 


in  the  discussion  of  two  hours  and  a  half  in  the 
College  Chapel,  Wheaton,  before  a  large  audience. 
His  argument  was  in  the  main  courteous  and  ably 
written,  but  when  conclusions  were  summed  up  the 
better  side  was  most  ably  maintained.  Wheaton 
people  vote  this  an  attractive  campaign. 


THE  FREE  PRESS  AND  TEE  AMERICAN. 


It  is  with  unalloyed  pleasure  that  the  Cynosure 
greets  the  Birmingham  Free  JPrett  under  its  new 
management.  The  removal  of  Rev.  Geo.  Warring- 
ton left  the  paper  in  a  strait,  for  an  editor  of  convic- 
tions against  the  lodge,  and  ability  to  maintain 
them,  is  not  found  every  day.  But  a  good  Provi- 
dence provided  a  man  in  Mr.  William  L.  Enlow,  a 
Wheaton  graduate  of  1888,  who  becomes  editor  and 
business  manager,  and  makes  his  bow  with  manly 
good  sense  in  the  number  for  August  22.  Bro. 
Enlow  is  a  young  man  of  sterling  qualities,  thorough 
devotion,  agreeable  manners,  and  imperturable  good 
nature,  but  with  no  back  down  in  his  constitution 
when  principles  are  at  stake.  May  God  bless  him 
and  make  him  a  blessing  to  Iowa.  But  this  satis- 
factory arrangement  in  Iowa  seems  overbalanced  by 
'the  withdrawal  of  Rev.  E.  D.  Bailey,  of  the  Ameri- 
can, in  Washington,  which  he  announces  in  the  last 
issue.  Multiplied  and  arduous  labors  in  Govern- 
ment employ,  mission  and  temperance  work,  sup- 
plying city  pulpits  and  editorial  duties,  constrain  him 
to  drop  a  part  of  them,  and  the  American  Publish- 
ing Company  is  notified  of  his  resignation.  It  must 
be  regretted  that  the  first  meeting  for  years  is  called 
to  consider  so  perplexing  a  question.  Since  Bro. 
Johnston,  the  assistant  editor,  also  withdraws,  the 
loss  becomes  a  disaster  to  the  American,  as  no  pre- 
vious notice  has  been  given  to  the  directors  of  the 
Company,  and  the  paper  must  stop  for  the  time  be- 
ing. We  hope  Senator  Pomeroy,  who  is,  we  believe, 
chairman  of  the  directors,  will  be  able  to  act 
promptly  and  wisely;  and  Secretary  and  Mrs.  Stod- 
dard who  are  related  as  stockholders  or  otherwise 
will  give  their  best  advice  and  assistance. 


HOW  8 TAND  TO UR  CANDIDA TE8 f 


NOTES  OF  THE  ANTI  SECRECY  LEAGUE. 

The  Democratic  candidate  for  Governor  of  Illi- 
nois, Gen.  John  M.  Palmer,  writes  a  letter  that  will 
be  widely  read,  and  deserves  a  more  extended  com- 
ment than  is  contemplated  in  the  printing  of  these 
letters.     He  says: 

I  recognize  the  right  of  every  citizen  to  inquire  into 
the  relations  and  opinions  of  candidates  for  public  office, 
upon  all  subjects  that  can  be  deemed  by  any  person  of 
public  interest.  I  conceive  your  League  to  have  such 
claims  upon  me,  and  I  feel  it  to  be  my  duty  to  respond 
frankly  to  the  questions  propounded  to  me.  I  am  a  mem 
ber  of  a  lodge  of  Freemasons,  and  have  been  for  thirty 
years.  I  have  retained  my  membership  in  that  organi- 
zation under  a  belief,  which  I  think  is  justified  by  expe- 
rience, that  my  obligations  do  not  interfere  with  any  of 
my  duties  as  a  civil  officer,  nor  that  they  bind  me,  or 
even  incline  me,  to  be  partial  to  any  person  or  class  of 
persons  whatever. 

I  have  filled  many  offices,  civil  and  military,  since  my 
connection  with  Masonry  commenced,  and  have  been 
brought  in  official  contact  with  all  classes  of  my  fellow 
citizens  of  this  and  other  States,  and  I  have  never  been 
conscious  at  any  time  that  I  was,  in  the  slighest  degree, 
influenced  in  my  official  relations  or  conduct  by  any  con- 
siderations growing  out  of  my  relation  to  the  society  to 
which  I  have  referred.  I  have  regarded  Freemasonry  in 
the  light  of  a  purely  benevolent  organization,  necessary 
in  earlier  periods,  before  the  charities  of  the  Christian 
world  were  so  completely  organized  and  made  effective, 
for  the  relief  of  the  unfortunate  as  they  now  are.  My 
present  belief  is,  that  with  the  progress  of  organized 
Christian  civilization,  all  such  associations  will  become 
unnecessary,  and  probably  cease  to  exist. 

I  think  my  respect  for  the  claims  of  truth  and  justice 
and  humanity  are  paramount  to  all  other  obligations. 
Very  respectfully,  John  M.  Palmbr. 

If  the  argument  on  the  lodge  were  only  a  matter 
of  opinion  ex-Gov.  Palmer's  letter  might  be  ofljet 
by  those  below;  and  if  any  yet  inclined  to  his  view, 
the  opinions  of  a  number  of  eminent  Americans 
given  on  page  15  of  this  issue  would  certainly  be 
overwhelming.  But  why  do  the  greatest  Americans 
object  to  the  lodge?  Their  reasons  should  be  mani- 
fest to  every  man  of  Gen.  Palmer's  experience  in 
public  life,  even  had  he  not  been  within  the  tyled 
door.  Aside  from  any  consideration  of  religion, 
it  must  be  true  that  the  association  of  men  of 
whatever  class,  under  pledges  of  secrecy,  is  in  itself 
an  act  contrary  to  the  spirit  of  American  institu- 
tions; that  such  oaths  as  are  administered  in  a  Ma- 
sonic lodge  are  as  much  more  demoralizing  than 
ordinary  street  swearing,  as  the  formality  and  mock 
solemnity  of  their  administration  is  greater;  that 
they  of  necessity  place  every  one  who  is  bound  by 


AuavsT  30, 1888 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


them  under  sach  obligations  to  vicious  men  as  he 
would  never  think  of  assuming  voluntarily;  and 
that  many  public  men  submit  to  the  degrading 
initiation  for  the  sole  purpose  of  political  success. 
It  is  a  great  satisfaction  to  note  that  even  with  his 
favorable  view  of  the  order  General  Palmer  believes 
the  system  of  lodgery  to  be  in  a  state  of  decay,  and 
soon  to  be  superseded.  If  the  profession  of  be- 
nevolence were  its  only  end,  we  would  share  his  view 
with  pleasure. 

Let  us  turn  to  the  letter  of  Hon.  Hiram  Camp,  of 
the  New  Haven  Clock  Company,  president  of  the 
Board  of  Mr.  Moody's  Mt.  Hermon  School  for  Boys 
at  Northfield,  Mass.,  and  Prohibition  candidate  for 
Governor  of  Connecticut: 

In  answer  to  your  question  I  have  to  say  that  I  have 
n  otbing  to  do  with  secret  societies.  I  do  not  believe  in 
them.  The  Gospel  of  our  Lord  Jesus  Christ  an  d  the 
church  of  our  Ood  is  suffisient  for  all  the  wants  of  men, 
— a  free  salvation;  life  here  and  life  hereafter;  and  a 
plenty  of  work  for  us  all  to  try  and  persuade  men  to  ac- 
cept it  now,  at  once.  I  send  some  pamphlets  that  I  pre- 
pared for  Mr.  Moody's  Mt.  Hermon  Boys'  School  at 
Northfield,  of  which  I  am  president.        Hiram  Camp. 

Let  Connecticut  reformers  thank  God  for  such  a 
leader,  and  redouble  their  efforts  for  his  election. 

Last  week  the  manly,  American  and  Christian  let- 
ter of  the  West  Virginia  Prohibition  candidate  for 
Governor,  Mr.  Carskadon,  was  printed.  Worthy  of 
a  place  by  him  on  the  same  ticket  we  judge  the 
nominee  for  Attorney  General,  Mr.  Myers,  of 
Mason,  West  Va,,  to  be,  as  he  writes: 

I  never  belonged  to  any  secret  organization  in  my  life. 
I  have  always  been  of  the  belief  that  the  tendency  of 
secret  societies  was  to  cultivate  a  narrow  charity  among 
those  who  belonged  to  them.  I  am  also  satisfied  that 
bad  and  designing  men  often  connect  themselves  with 
secret  societies  with  a  view  to  carry  out  some  selfish 
scheme.  I  have  long  been  convinced  that  through  the 
agency  of  secret  societies  bad  and  incompetent  men  have 
not  only  been  nominated,  but  also  elected  to  responsi- 
ble offices.  I  regard  them  as  affording  very  great  facili- 
ties in  defeating  the  ends  of  justice,  both  in  the  selec- 
tion of  the  best  and  most  competent  men  to  fill  the  vari- 
ous offices,  and  in  the  proper  execution  of  our  laws.  I 
know  of  two  cases  of  felony  where  strong  efforts  are 
being  made,  by  those  known  to  be  members  of  the  same 
secret  order  with  the  parties  charged  (and  are  properly 
so  charged)  with  the  felonies,  to  clear  them  from  the 
penalties  of  the  law. 

From  my  own  observation  and  experience  in  the  prac- 
tice of  law  for  over  thirty  years,  I  am  convinced  that 
the  due  administration  of  justice  has  often  been  defeated 
through  the  infiaence  of  men  who  have  used  their  secret 
societies  for  that  purpose.  I  don't  believe  in  encourag- 
ing any  secret  orders,  or  combination  of  men  which  is 
capable  of  abuse  in  the  hands  of  unprincipled  men.  For 
bad  men  will  always  work  their  way  into  such  combina- 
tions and  soon  control  them.  It  will  not  be  disputed  by 
any  candid,  intelligent  person  that  many  criminals  have 
been  shielded,  and  their  crimes  concealed  through  the 
agency  of  secret  societies,  because  of  the  fact  that  the 
criminals  belonged  to  the  secret  combination. 

These  are  a  few  of  my  obj  actions,  among  many  others, 
to  secret  societies.  I  am  opposed  to  saloons,  the  devil, 
and  secret  societies  John  U.  Mybrs. 

If  the  Prohibitionists  had  not,  in  a  few  instances, 
nominated  men  of  different  principles  from  these, 
their  universal  success  would  make  heaven  rejoice. 
May  God  grant  that  these  exceptions  may  in  the 
future  be  examples  to  deter  and  not  to  follow. 


— Elder  J.  L.  Barlow  was  in  Chicago  last  week 
for  a  day  or  two  to  put  in  circulation  the  first  edi- 
tion of  his  new  book,  "Endless  Being."  The  publi- 
cation has  been  somewhat  delayed  on  account  of 
the  severe  illness  of  Mr.  Revell,  the  Farwell  Hall 
publisher.  The  mechanical  part  of  the  work  is  well 
done,  the  price  (75c)  is  reasonable,  and  the  subject 
discussed  is  of  great  importance  to  the  church.  We 
promise  some  review  of  the  argument  by  which 
Elder  Barlow  overthrows  the  theory  of  the  annihila- 
tion of  the  wicked  dead  at  an  early  day.  The  Bap- 
tist ministers  of  this  city  regard  it  conclusive.  The 
book  can  be  had  at  this  office;  or  of  F.  H.  Revell, 
150  Madison  St.;  or  of  Elder  J.  L.  Barlow,  Bloom- 
ington,  Wisconsin. 

— Dr.  J.  E.  Roy,  to  whom  as  trustee  Mr.  Carpen- 
ter left  $2,000  to  use  against  the  lodge  among  the 
colored  p°ople,  has  prepared  for  circulation  among 
them  a  sketch  of  their  benefactor's  life  and  labors, 
and  will  supplement  it  with  a  tract  containing  his 
written  testimony  against  the  orders.  Dr.  Roy  has 
also  engaged  Bro.  I.  R  B.  Arnold  to  go  South  with 
his  illustrated  lectures.  A  boat  has  been  purchased 
and  the  "Arnold  expedition"  is  now  anchored  off 
Molioe,  to  give  the  people  of  that  place.  Rock  Island 
and  Davenport  the  full  benefit  of  the  sun-worship 
lectures.  May  it  be  to  the  lodges  of  the  three  cities 
and  all  along  the  route,  all  that  the  "Invincible  Ar- 
mada" threatened  to  England.  The  expense  of  this 
expedition  is  borne  in  part  by  the  Carpenter  be- 
quest.   It  will  occupy  six  or  seven  months. 


PERSONAL  NOTSa. 

—Rev.  A.  J.  Chittenden,  of  the  N.  C.  A.  Board, 
has  been  nominated  for  the  State  Senate  by  the  rep- 
resentatives of  one  of  the  labor  parties  in  Kane  and 
DuPage  counties.  III,  and  he  is  recommended  also 
to  the  Prohibition  convention  soon  to  meet  at  Elgin. 

— Bro.  H.  H.  Hinman  returned  from  Oberlin  and 
was  in  Chicago  last  week.  An  attack  of  sickness, 
sudden  and  severe,  took  him  from  his  work  a  day 
or  two.  It  was  renewed  at  Wheaton,  where  he 
spent  the  Sabbath,  and  yet  remains  as  we  go  to 
press  in  the  good  care  of  friends. 

— Rev.  Byron  Gunner,  of  the  New  Iberia  Insti- 
tute, left  Chicago  for  Cleveland  last  week,  from 
whence  he  will  return  South.  He  was  cheered 
lately  by  letters  from  his  church,  which  indicate  a 
deep  revival  spirit  among  the  people.  The  Presby- 
terian church  of  Wenona,  111.,  has  placed  Howe  In- 
stitute upon  its  list  for  an  annual  contribution,  and 
an  excellent  and  devoted  young  lady,  one  of  the 
most  beloved  of  the  congregation,  has  voluntarily 
offered  herself  as  a  teacher  in  the  institute. 

— Pres.  C.  A.  Blanchard  returned  last  week  Mon- 
day from  Cambridge,  111.,  where  the  last  of  his  eight 
summer  meetings  was  held  the  evening  before.  Of 
a  portion  of  these  meetings  he  has  written  for  our 
readers.  Each  was  continued  six  days,  three  meet- 
ings each  day,  and  often  a  fourth  on  the  street, 
making  in  all  over  150.  His  health  was  never  bet- 
ter, and  his  weariness  is  but  little  compared  to  the 
amount  of  work  done  in  the  heat  of  summer.  He  is 
now  preparing  for  the  opening  of  the  fall  term  of 
the  College  next  Tuesday. 

— Bro.  M.  A.  Gault  writes  that  in  company  with 
Bro.  Wm.  Morrow  and  B.  F.  Worrell,  he  spoke  on 
Prohibition  at  Glenwood  and  Bloom  last  week.  He 
also  lectured  at  Crete.  The  meetings  were  all  of 
unusual  interest.  At  Glenwood  they  had  to  speak 
from  the  platform  of  a  store,  the  audience  standing 
in  the  moonlight  under  the  eye  of  God  and  the  pity- 
ing angels,  because  the  school  building,  the  only 
available  audience  room  in  the  place,  was  locked 
against  them  by  Republican  directors.  Bro.  Gault 
says  the  Republican  intolerance  of  this  campaign  is 
worse  than  any  since  the  anti-slavery  days. 

— We  learn  with  great  regret  that  Rev.  C.  W.  Hiatt 
of  Columbus,  Ohio,  Treasurer  of  the  State  Christian 
Association,  has  been  severely  injured  near  San 
Diego,  California,  where  Mrs.  Hiatt  has  been  spend- 
ing a  few  months  with  her  parents.  While  return- 
ing from  a  camping  excursion  a  powder-flask  was 
somehow  exploded,  throwing  his  companion,  Mr. 
Johnson,  out  of  the  wagon  and  stampeding  the 
team.  Bro.  Hiatt's  limbs  were  filled  with  shot,  and 
his  hands  badly  burned  and  severely  lacerated  in 
stopping  the  runaway  team.  Mr.  Johnson  was  also 
severely  burned.  We  hope  more  complete  intelli- 
gence will  show  that  the  injuries  of  both  will  prove 
less  serious  than  at  first  feared. 


THE  KNOWNOTHINO  FRAUD  IN   WASH- 
INGTON. 


Washington,  Aug.  22,  1888. 

A  party  calling  itself  "American,"  met  here  last 
week,  and  after  considerable  discussion  nominated 
James  Langdon  Curtis  of  New  York  for  President, 
and  James  R.  Greer  of  Tennessee  for  Vice  Presi- 
dent. 

There  were  126  delegates  enrolled,  sixty-seven 
being  from  New  York,  sixteen  from  California,  and 
the  remainder  scattering.  New  York  and  New  Jer- 
sey "pulled  together,"  and  thereby  had  a  majority 
vote  and  were  bound  to  have  things  all  their  own 
way  in  the  convention.  This  gave  umbrage  to  the 
others,  particularly  to  the  California  delegates,  who 
insisted  that  they  had  come  three  thousand  miles  to 
attend  a  national  convention,  and  not  a  convention 
of  New  York  State  or  city.  The  feeling  ran  high, 
and  often  the  language  used  was  more  forcible  than 
elegant.  California  wanted  Hewitt  of  New  York 
for  President,  but  New  York  and  New  Jersey  felt 
that  they  were  in  the  saddle  and  refused  to  yield  a 
point.  Recess  after  recess  was  taken  for  confer- 
ence, but  all  to  no  avail,  and  the  farce  ended  in  a 
split,  and  what  seemed  to  be  a  bitter  feeling  all 
around. 

The  appearance  of  this  convention  was  anything 
but  attractive  to  a  sober-minded  citizan,  not  to  say 
a  Christian.  The  foreign  element  very  largely  pre- 
dominated, and  the  free  and  easy  smoke  and  swag- 
ger of  the  bar-room  found  little  restraint  under  the 
rules  oC  this  deliberative  body.  In  a  "crisis"  some- 
body cried,  "I  move  we  adjourn  until  7:30  o'clock 
this  evening."  The  motion  carried  and  the  crowd 
rushed  down  the  stairs.     I  followed  on  in  time  to 


count  eleven  persons,  wearing  delegate  badges,  go- 
ing into  the  nearest  saloon.  I  thought,  no  wonder 
you  cannot  agree;  but  remembered  that  reports  from 
the  conventions  of  the  two  great  parties  was  of  a 
condition  little,  if  any,  better. 

The  name  "American"  is  a  libel  on  the  fact,  and 
the  conduct  of  the  delegates  more  befitting  an  infi- 
del club  of  foreigners  than  a  deliberative  body  to 
nominate  a  man  for  the  highest  position  in  our  Re- 
public. J.  P.   Stoddabd. 

THE  NEW  ORLEANS  DISTRICT  HEAD- 
QUARTERS. 


The  sums  received  since  last  report  for  reform 
work  in  New  Orleans  are  as  follows: 

CaBh: 

Rev.  Geo.  Clark $  5.00 

Mrs.  Dr.  Bingham 5 .  00 

Luther  Clapp  5 .  00 

Jos    Adams 1.00 

J  N.  Gardner 1.00 

Previously  reported 52 .  50 

Total  cash $69 .  50 

Pledges: 

L.C.White $    1.00 

T.  Hudson 10.00 

Previous  pledges 355.00 

Total $435.50 

It  is  a  matter  of  much  importance  that  the  amount, 
$1,000,  should  be  secured  by  October  1st.  The 
earnest  attention  of  the  friends  of  the  reform  is 
called  to  this  question.  A  great  and  effectual  door 
is  open  in  that  city  and  the  Southwest.  Let  us  oc- 
cupy the  ground  while  we  may.  Money  or  pledges 
may  be  sent  to  W.  I.  Phillips,  Treasurer  of  the  N. 
C,  A.,  at  the  Cynoiure  office.  H.  H.  Hinman. 


Among  the  books  excluded  from  the  American 
common  schools  is  the  English  Bible,  and  it  may  be 
interesting  for  Americans  to  read  the  opinion  of 
Signor  Sonzogno,  of  Milan,  who  announces  that  he 
is  about  to  issue  a  popular  edition  of  the  Bible  in 
half-penny  numbers.  Signor  Sonzogno  has  not  un- 
dertaken this  work  in  the  interests  of  religion,  nor 
simply  out  of  hostility  to  the  church,  but  as  a  com- 
mercial speculation.  In  announcing  his  enterprise, 
he  says:  "There  is  one  book  which  gathers  up  the 
poetry  and  the  science  of  humanity,  and  that  book 
is  the  Bible,  and  with  this  book  no  other  book  in 
any  literature  can  be  compared.  It  is  a  book  that 
Newton  read  continually,  that  Cromwell  carried  at 
his  saddle,  and  that  Voltaire  kept  always  on  his 
study  table.  It  is  a  book  that  believers  and  unbe- 
lievers should  alike  study,  and  that  ought  to  be 
found  in  every  house.  The  text  will  be  that  of  Mar- 
tini, translated  from  the  Vulgate,  and  care  will  be 
taken  to  insure  accuracy."  And  this  is  the  book 
which,  in  an  incomparable  translation,  was  brought 
to  America  by  its  early  settlers,  which  was  read  and 
studied  by  the  founders  of  the  Republic  for  wisdom 
in  regard  to  the  conduct  of  all  affairs,  public  and 
private;  which  inspired  the  patriotism  of  our  fath- 
ers, and  enriched  the  eloquence  of  our  statesmen, 
orators  and  teachers,  and  which  is  banished  from 
our  public  schools. — America  {Chicago). 

Masons  are  very  fond  of  referring  to  Washington 
as  having  been  a  great  Mason,  and  on  August  6th  a 
large  number  made  a  pilgrimage  to  his  tomb  at 
Mout  Vernon  to  celebrate  the  one  hundred  and 
thirty-fifth  anniversary  of  his  receiving  the  degree 
of  Mastor  Mason.  We  are  opposed  to  Masonry  be- 
cause we  believe  it  to  be  contrary  to  the  spirit  of 
Christianity,  pernicious  in  its  influence  on  the  public 
conscience,  despotic,  and  often  unrighteously  affect- 
ing the  course  of  justice.  And  it  is  strange  that 
Masons,  if  they  desire  to  be  honest,  continue  to  pa- 
rade the  name  of  Washington  to  bolster  up  their 
order  when  they  must  know  that  he  practically 
abandoned  Masonry  while  he  was  still  in  the  prime 
of  life.  We  say  that  Masons  know  this;  the  thing 
is  so  toell  known  on  all  hands  in  fact  that  the  Ma- 
sons would  fain  make  a  virtue  of  necessity,  and  so, 
while  owning  it,  pass  it  over  lightly  as  possible.  On 
the  very  occasion  of  which  we  write,  the  anniversary 
at  Mount  Vernon,  the  orator  used  these  words: 

"During  the  liitteir  years  of  his  life,  lils  atterdai-cn  on  the 
lcd(re  was  not  frr queut,  and  In  179S  he  wro»e  to  Rev.  G.  W. 
Snyder,  <  f  Frederick,  Md.,  and  desired  to  correct  ',<«n  error 
which  you  have  run  Intoof  my  nn-sldlngover  the  English  lodjji s 
In  *.hls  country.  The  fact  If  I  preside  o-er  none,  uor  have  I 
been  In  one  wore  than  once  or  iwlce  within  the  last  thirty 
years.'" 

In  Washington's  day,  the  evils  of  the  lodge  sys- 
tem were  not  so  notorious  as  now,  and  yet,  even 
then,  with  his  clear  mind,  Washington  realized  that 
the  lodge,  while  not  demanding  his  open  opposition, 
was  at  least  not  worthy  of  bis  time  or  supports — 
Ckri$tian  Nation. 


10 


THE  CHEISTIAN  CYNOSUEE. 


AuonsT  30, 1888 


The  Home. 


OrSR  TEB  BILLS  18  HOME. 


I  sit  by  my  quiet  window, 

As  the  Sabbath  day  sun  goes  down, 
And  my  eyes  look  past  the  city 

To  a  line  of  hilltops  brown, 

Far  in  the  distance,  rlmmlne: 
The  border  of  earth  and  skies; 

And  I  love  to  whisper  to  fancy : 
"Ueyond  them  the  old  home  lies ; 

"There,  just  a  trifle  hidden. 
The  meadows  and  sun-slopes  sleep ; 

In  and  out,  through  the  locusts 
And  fruit-trees,  the  warm  winds  creep ; 

"Buds  are  swelling,  and  robins 
Hunt  for  the  last  year's  nest; 

Bees  fly  home  from  the  wood-banks. 
And  crocuses  spring,  new-dressed; 

"A  fire  on  the  hearth  glows,  dreamy, 
And  father  and  mother  wait— 

They  listen  for  my  returning ; 
They  wonder  that  I  am  late." 

Tenderest  dream  I  cherish, 

Whlthersoe'er  I  roam, 
Just  out  of  sight  are  my  dear  ones— 

0«'  the  hills  is  home! 


— Selected. 


WHAT  WAS  LOST  WAS  FOUND." 


A   TBUE   STORT. 


Oq  the  very  verge  of  a  bank  overlooking  a  little 
stream  in  Ohio  is  perched  a  diminutive  frame  house. 
Seen  in  front,  it  is  an  ordinary  cottage;  looked  at 
from  the  rear,  its  height  is  more  than  doubled  by 
the  appearance  of  a  lower  story  which,  apparently, 
is  hewn  from  the  solid  rock  of  the  hill.  Nature 
gave  the  foundation  of  the  dwelling,  and  a  rather 
primitive  art  has  supplied  the  rest.  Even  the  acre 
of  ground  attached  has  been  wrested  by  hard  toil 
from  the  wilderness.  The  stones  that  covered  it  of 
old  now  form  terraces  and  walls;  while  ragweed  and 
purslane  have  given  way  long  since  to  vegetables  or 
flowers,  fruit  trees  and  vines.  Order  and  simplicity, 
in  fine,  characterize  the  little  place. 

Here  dwells  an  old  couple  whose  lives  have  known 
as  great  vicissitude  as  the  spot  of  ground  that  sup- 
ports their  home.  In  common,  they  have  a  "his- 
tory," while  Uncle  Denning  possesses  the  additional 
distinction  of  an  "ancestry" — fact  always  note- 
worthy, whether  that  ancestry  be  villainous  or  grand. 
And  many  of  us  are  proud  of  our  pedigree,  with  less 
reason  to  justify  our  pride  than  Uncle  Denning 
could  claim.  His  father  had  been  a  native  African 
chief,  kidnapped  to  this  country,  and  sold  as  a  slave. 
Certain  kingly  characteristics  remained  with  him, 
however,  in  his  fallen  estate,  and  procured  him  bet- 
ter treatment  than  other  slaves  experienced.  He 
was  intractable,  fierce,  and  possessed  of  immense 
strength.  His  first  master  struck  him  once;  but 
none  ever  repeated  the  blow,  with  such  savage  and 
instant  violence  was  it  resented.  His  features  were 
Indian  rather  than  Negro,  a  characteristic  transmit- 
ted to  his  son.  After  a  long  captivity  this  caged 
panther  breathed  his  last  in  the  service  he  detested. 
An  ancestor  certainly  to  be  proud  of  I 

As  for  Aunt  Ellen,  who  must  have  been  quite 
pretty  in  her  earlier  days,  she  had  no  ancestry  to 
speak  of,  and  was  born,  as  she  likes  to  relate,  "in 
ole  F'ginny,  an'  lived  dar,  mos'ly,  till  ole  Marster  ran 
away.  He  truly  did,  chile— 'twasn't  we  run  off! 
The  Union  men  came  nigh  an'  nigher,  an'  at  last  ole 
Marster  was  took  wid  a  scare,  an'  went  away  quick 
to  the  other  side  of  the  river,  to  the  rebels.  Think 
of  dat.     No,  no,  chile;  it  wasn't  we  run  off!" 

Uncle  Denning  and  Aunt  Ellen,  who  were  ser- 
vants on  adjoining  plantations,  very  naturally  fell 
in  love,  soon  married,  and  in  the  course  of  a  long 
and  fairly  happy  life  became  the  parents  of  eighteen 
children.  Some  of  these  children  died  young;  oth- 
ers were  lost  more  cruelly,  six  being  sold  at  one 
time,  without  an  hour's  warning.  This  happened 
about  five  years  before  our  civil  war  broke  out.  The 
father  was  away;  the  poor  mother  ran  frantically  up 
and  down  the  long  piazza,  imploring  help  from  first 
one,  then  another,  and  finally,  in  a  burst  of  wild  sup- 
plication, appealing  to  the  master  himself.  She 
trembles  now  as  she  speaks  of  the  long-past  trage- 
dy, recalling  how,  at  her  appeal,  "ole  Marster 
seemed  to  clean  let  go  of  hisself — he  was  dat  mad. 
He  shook  his  fist  at  me,  an'  he  say,  'Hang  you,  no  I 
You  can't  go  a  piece  wid  'em,  an'  you  can't  keep  one 
of  de  six.  You  jist  shut  up  dis  minute.  Ef  I  hear 
'nother  word,  or  see  you  bawlin',  I'll  give  you  a  hun- 
dred lashes.  Hang  yool  I  will.'  Den  Missus — 
she  was  allays  kind — she  put  her  arms  about  me 


an'  she  say,  'Hush,  Ellen!  hush,  my  pore  soul! 
Come  away  wid  me.'  She  took  me  off  to  her  room, 
out  of  sight,  an'  dar  I  cried  my  cry  in  her  arms." 

Of  Uncle  Denning's  escape  with  his  family  to  the 
Union  lines — an  escape  facilitated  by  this  same 
kind  mistress  and  her  son — of  the  recovery,  one  by 
one,  of  several  children  that  had  been  sold,  nothing 
can  be  told  here.  We  will  pass  instead  to  the 
crowning  incident  of  these  checkered  lives — the  cli- 
max in  their  long  drama  of  lost  and  found. 

Of  the  six  "lost"  children,  Richard  was  eleven  at 
the  time  of  his  sale.  From  the  day  be  was  led 
down  the  road  into  another  slavery,  until  two  years 
ago,  his  parents  heard  of  him  but  once.  This  was 
early  in  the  war,  when,  after  a  battle,  his  name  ap- 
peared as  one  of  the  missing.  Uncle  Denning  made 
such  inquiry  as  he  could,  but  to  no  purpose,  and 
Richard,  in  his  mind,  was  as  one  of  the  dead. 

In  reality,  however,  he  was  following  his  master's 
fortunes  until  he  could  effect  his  escape  to  the  Union 
camp.  He  then  became  body  servant  to  an  ofi^cer, 
and  accompanied  him  after  the  war  to  his  Eastern 
home;  and  being  a  bright  lad  was  much  made  of. 
In  time  he  went  to  England  with  him,  then  to 
France,  then  to  Italy,  where  some  effort  was  made 
to  educate  him  for  the  Roman  Catholic  priesthood, 
that  he  might  become  a  missionary  among  his  own 
people.  Inborn  Methodism  was  too  strong,  how- 
ever, to  be  conquered  by  any  accident  of  training, 
and  he  returned  to  America  to  preach  the  Grospel 
after  good  old  Methodist  fashion.  He  married;  but 
his  wife  and  children  died.  Being  now  alone  in  the 
world,  as  he  supposed — all  inquiries  for  his  parents 
having  failed  of  result — he  changed  his  name.  An 
aged  colore'd  woman,  also  alone  in  the  world,  had  a 
tiny  property,  but  no  one  to  care  for  her  old  age. 
She  therefore  adopted  the  young  minister,  and  soon 
dying,  left  him  her  small  savings.  The  Rev.  Rich- 
ard Denning  was  now  the  Rev.  Richard  Pond — a 
change  of  identity  which  had  an  amusing  result. 

In  the  fall  of  1884  Uncle  Denning  was  one  day 
called  by  business  to  a  large  town  some  ten  miles 
from  home.  As  he  sat  waiting  in  the  railroad  sta- 
tion he  noticed  a  colored  man,  near  by,  who  was 
closely  examining  him.  By  mutual  impulse  they 
approached  each  other,  got  into  conversation,  and 
finally  exchanged  names.  The  stranger  knew  at 
once  that  Uncle  Denning  must  be  his  father;  but  the 
name  of  Richard  Pond  bore  no  particular  meaning 
to  Uncle  Denning;  and  the  child  of  eleven,  even  if 
he  had  not  been  supposed  dead,  was  lost  in  the  full- 
grown  man.  So  they  chatted  until  the  stranger's 
train  was  in  and  he  must  leave  for  his  appointment. 
But  before  parting  Uncle  Denning  invited  his  new- 
ly-made acquaintance  to  visit  him,  and  the  invita- 
tion was  accepted,  the  stranger  saying  that  he 
thought  he  could  tell  him  something  about  the  chil- 
dren yet  unfound. 

About  a  week  after  this  curious  meeting,  the  son, 
who  seemed  to  control  his  emotions  admirably,  ap- 
peared, according  to  promise.  It  was  almost  even- 
ing when  he  reached  the  house,  and  Aunt  Ellen  had 
just  got  back  from  a  day's  work  with  a  family  near 
by.  Up  to  this  point,  when  visitors  inquire.  Uncle 
Denning  tells  the  story.  Aunt  Ellen,  meanwhile,  sit- 
ting mute  beside  him;  but  no  sooner  does  he  say, 
"  'Bout  evening,  one  night,  I  see  that  stranger  at  the 
gate" — no  sooner  does  he  say  this  than  Aunt  Ellen 
lays  a  warning  finger  on  bis  knee,  and  says:  "Stop 
right  dar  now.  Denning.  Dat's  nuff.  Now's  my 
turn." 

And  now  you  imagine  for  a  little  while  that  you 
are  in  the  low  and  dusky  kitchen,  with  the  firelight 
now  and  then  throwing  a  red  gleam  on  the  rough 
stone  walls.  Uncle  Denning,  drawn  back  into  the 
shadow,  sits  mute  now  in  bis  turn;  and  Aunt  Ellen 
is  speaking  in  her  curiously  hushed  yet  eager 
voice. 

"When  I  went  up  to  de  front  do'  to  see  what  dat 
noise  was,  dar  was  Denning  and  a  stranger  man  sit- 
ting in  de  po'ch.  I  was  tired  out  with  my  work,and 
my  patience  mos'  gone,  too.  Dar  now,  I  say  to  my- 
self, dar's  anoder  person  come  round  fer  his  lodgin' 
a  imposin'  on  us  'cause  we's  too  good-natur'd.  I 
was  pretty  short  with  'im;  but  law!  he  didn't  seem 
to  mind  dat  nohow — he  had  so  much  'surance  an' 
he  acted  right's  if  he  b'longed  here.  Pretty  soon 
he  say,  'Let's  go  into  de  house  whar'  we  can  talk  to 
our  ease,  mo';  an'  I'm  tol'able  hungry,  p'r'aps  you'll 
give  me  sumffin'  to  eat.' 

"My  land !  I  say  to  myself,  yo'  tink  a  heap  of  yo'- 
self,  yo'  do!  Well,  I  say,  I've  been  done  gone  away 
all  day,  an'  Denning  he's  been  keeping  bach's  hall, 
an'  I  dunno  if  dar's  anything  in  de  cup-board  or  not. 
'Den  I  wish  you'd  see,'  he  say.  My  land!  I 
thinks  to  myself  again,  and  was  morn'n  in  two  minds 
'bout  doing  it  Howsoeber,  I  tuk  my  ole  bones  down 
the  stair,  at  las',  an'  got  up  a  tol'able  supper. 

"  'Yo'r  supper's  ready,'  I  shouts  up  de  stair.     Den 


de  men-folks  come  down,  an'  dis  stranger,  he  jes' 
put  into  de  victuals.  Gobble,  gobble,  he  went;  an' 
ask'd  fer  dis  thing  an'  toder  thing  as  ef  de  whole 
was  his'n.  I  was  pretty  well  riled,  I  tell  you,  to  see 
him  so  ramagious,  an'  at  las'  I  says:  You'd  better 
get  done  eatin',  sometime,  an'  tell  us  about  chillun 
matters,  ef  you  know  anything  'bout  'em;  but  I  don't 
b'lieve  yo'  do.'  'Well,  1  do,'  say  he.  'I  can  tell  yo' 
every  thing  'bout  yo'  chillun.' 

"  'Go  'long,  now,'  I  say.  'Dar's  a  many  said  dey 
knew  'bout  de  chillun,  an' ;  ftah  all  dey  didn't.  I 
don't  b'lieve  you  know  any    p'  than  de  res'.' 

"  'Oh,  yes,  I  do,'  he  say.  'An'  den  he  began,  an' 
tole  us  dere  ages  an'  dere  names;  whar'  dey  was 
borned,  what  dey  looked  'ike,  an'  all  'bout  'em.  Den 
he  tole  us  'bout  de  Chesters,  an'  ole  Master,  an'  de 
Lloyds — till  it  'peared  like  he  knew  mos'  everfing 
we'd  ever  done  or  fought  of,  way  back.  Yo'  better 
b'lieve  I  was  scairt  I  looked  'cross  de  table  to 
Denning,  an' say:  "W%o  is  it?  Who  is  dis  yere 
man?'  But  he  jes'  shuk  his  head.  'I  dunno,no  mo' 
'n  de  dead,'  he  say. 

"  'Come,  now,'  says  de  stranger  man,  'come  up 
sta'rs,  an'  I  tell  you  mo'  'bout  de  chillun  matters.' 
So  we  sat  down  in  the  room,  an'  he  tole  things,  an' 
tole  'em,  till  I  say:  'I  do  b'lieve  yo's  de  debbil.' 
At  dis,  he  laughed  right  out.  'Well,  well,  well, 
well/'  he  say. 

"I  was  mad  'nuff  at  dis,  an'  to  stop  his  'surance  I 
say:  'Oh,  come,  now,  yo've  dug  dat  well  deep  'nuff 
to  fall  in,  an'  bury  up  yo'self.'  Den  he  kind  of  shuk 
hisself  togeder,  and  tole  mo'  things;  and  at  las'  he 
spoke  of  Richard.  'Yo'  can't  tell  'bout  dat  boy,'  I 
say,  '  'cause  he's  dead.'  'Oh,  no,'  say  he,  'he  isn't 
dead.' 

"  'Tell  yo'  he  is,'  I  say.    'Guess  1  know.' 

"  'Oh,  no,  he  isn't,'  he  say.  'An'  he'll  eat  many  a 
chicken  fer  yo'  yet.' 

"  'How  yo'  know  I  hab  chicken?'  I  say,  'mighty 
'spicious  like,  all 't  once.  'Tell  yo'  Richard  Den- 
ning's dead/' 

"He  laughed  kind  a  low  a  while,  an'  den  he  got 
up  an'  stood  right  'fo'  us.  'Father,'  he  say,  'I  am 
yo'  son,  Richard  Denning!'  Den  he  turn  to  me,  an' 
he  say:  'Mother,  1  am  yo'  son,  Richard,  what's  all 
alive.' 

"I  looked  at  him.  My  heart  (holding  out  both 
hands  a  foot  in  front  of  her)  swelled  out  dat  big.  I 
felt  as  if  I  mus'  choke.  I  went  up  to  him,  an 
looked  him  in  de  face.  'Are  yo'  my  son  Richar'?'  I 
say.  'Yes,  mother,'  say  he,  'I  am.'  An'  I  asked 
him  again,  an'  he  still  say  'Yes.'  An'  den — I  lifted 
him  'way  up  in  my  arms  [N.  B. — The  son  weighs 
160  pounds,  and  Uncle  Denning  says  that  she  not 
only  lifted,  but  carried  him  around  the  room],  an'  I 
say:  'I  do  b'lieve  I'll  brake  ev'ry  bone  in  yo'  body, 
'cause  yo'  keep  me  on  the  tenterhook  so  long!' 

"Den  I  hugged  him,  an'  kissed  him,  till  he  say: 
'0,  moder,  don't  kill  me!'  Den  I  ran  down  de  stair, 
an'  cried.  An'  den  I  rared,  an'  jumped,  an'  I  hol- 
lered. Tell  yo',  chile,  de  heart  in  me  was  so  big  dat 
ef  I  hadn't  hollered  I'd  a  burst.  '0,  Lord!'  I  say, 
'dat  I  live  to  see  dis  day!  O,  my  blessed  Redeemer! 
0,  my  JesusI' "  And  with  the  tears  streaming 
down  her  face,  not  without  tears  from  those  who 
listen.  Aunt  Ellen  ends  her  tale. 

This  is  but  the  outline  of  her  story,  and  does  it 
scant  justice.  No  idea  can  be  given  in  words,  of 
the  dramatic  force,  the  fire  of  her  narration.  She 
looks  at  times  like  the  dusky  prophetess  of  her  race; 
and  her  tones,  now  the  lowest  audible,  now  rising  to 
a  piercing  cry,  hold  the  listener  motionless,  spell- 
bound. Put  a  scene,  an  actor,  like  this  on  the  stage 
— both  would  be  famous.  It  is  only  a  drama  in 
private  life,  yet  we  all  can  rejoice  in  that  the  lost 
was  found  and  that  long  sorrow  was  turned  to  joy. 
— Independent. 

TEB  PRA71N0  BUOINBBB. 


One  winter,  several  years  ago,  there  was  a  good 
deal  of  religious  interest  in  a  certain  Western  town, 
and  among  those  who  joined  the  church  was  Allie 
Forsyth,  a  little  fellow  twelve  years  of  age.  His 
mother  was  a  widow,  and  had  removed  four  years 
before  from  their  home  in  Vermont,  to  this  town  in 
Wisconsin. 

On  the  Sabbath  evening  of  the  day  when  he  joined 
the  church,  Allie  was  sitting  in  the  twilight  with  his 
mother,  when  she  said  to  him:  "Allie,  tell  me  what 
led  you  to  be  a  Christian.  Was  it  your  home  teach- 
ing, your  lessons  in  Sabbath  school,  the  preaching  of 
your  pastor,  or  has  it  all  come  in  some  other  way?" 

Looking  up  into  his  mother's  face  he  replied: 
"Mamma,  it  was  neither  of  these.  But  do  you  re- 
member when  we  were  coming  from  St.  Albans 
to  live  here  that  I  wanted  to  ride  on  the  engine  with 
the  engineer?  You  were  afraid  to  let  me  until  the 
conductor,  whom  you  knew  well,  told  you  that  the 


Y^' 


'«»m'Pi ' 


li'Y. 


August  30, 1888 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


11 


engineer  was  a  remarkable  man,  and  that  I  was  just 
as  safe  with  him  as  in  the  parlor  car  with  you." 
Then  continued  AUie:  "When  we  were  ready  to 
start  from  the  station  where  I  first  got  on  the  en- 
gine, the  engineer  knelt  down  just  a  little  bit,  and 
then  got  up  and  started  his  locomotive.  I  asked 
him  many  questions  about  its  different  parts,  and 
the  places  and  things  we  passed,  and  he  was  very 
patient  in  answering.  Soon  we  stopped  at  another 
station,  and  he  knelt  down  again  before  we  started. 
He  did  this  before  leaving  every  station,  and  I 
asked  him  after  awhile  what  he  was  doing.  He 
looked  at  me  very  earnestly  and  said:  'My  little 
lad,  do  you  ever  pray?' 

"1  replied  'Oh,  yes,  sir  I  I  pray  every  morning 
and  evening.' 

"  'Well,  my  dear  boy,'  said  he,  'when  I  kneel 
down  I  pray.  There  are,  perhaps,  two  hundred  lives 
now  on  this  train  intrusted  to  my  care.  A  little 
mistake  on  my  part  might  send  all,  or  many  of  these 
souls,  to  eternity.  So  at  every  station  I  ask  my 
Heavenly  Father  to  help  me.  He  has  helped  me, 
and  in  all  the  years  I  have  been  on  this  engine 
not  a  single  human  being  of  the  thousands  that 
have  ridden  on  my  train  have  been  harmed.  I  never 
have  had  an  accident.'  " 

For  four  years  the  life  and  words  of  that  praying 
engineer  had  been  constantly  present  with  this  boy 
and  became  at  length  the  means  of  leading  him  into 
a  Christian  lite.-:-^elected. 


Tempebanck 


BBING  A   BOY. 


One  of  the  best  things  in  the  world  is  to  be  a 
boy;  it  requires  no  experience,  though  it  needs  some 
practice  to  be  a  good  one.  The  disadvantage  of  the 
position  is  that  it  does  not  last  long  enough.  It  is 
soon  over.  Just  as  you  get  used  to  being  a  boy, 
you  have  to  be  something  else,  with  a  good  deal  of 
work  to  do  and  not  half  so  much  fun.  And  yet 
every  boy  is  anxious  to  be  a  man,  and  is  very  un- 
easy with  the  restriction  put  upon  him  as  a  boy. 

There  are  so  many  bright  spots  in  the  life  of  a 
boy,  that  I  sometimes  think  I  should  like  to  live  my 
life  over  again.  There  is  a  great  comfort  to  a  boy 
in  the  amount  of  work  he  can  get  rid  of  doing.  It 
is  sometimes  astonishing  how  slow  he  can  go  on  an 
errand.  Perhaps  he  could  not  explain  why,  when 
he  is  sent  to  a  neighbor's  after  yeast,  he  stops  to 
stone  the  frogs.  It  is  a  curious  fact  about  boys, 
that  two  will  be  a  great  deal  slower  than  one.  Boys 
have  a  great  power  of  helping  each  other  to  do 
wrong. 

But  say  what  you  will  about  the  general  useful- 
ness of  boys,  a  farm  without  a  boy  would  very  soon 
come  to  grief.  He  is  always  in  demand.  In  the 
first  place,  he  is  to  do  all  the  errands,  go  to  the 
store,  the  postoffice,  and  carry  all  sorts  of  messages. 
He  would  like  to  have  as  many  legs  as  a  wheel  has 
spokes,  and  rotate  in  the  same  way.  Leap-frog  is 
one  of  his  methods  of  getting  over  the  ground 
quickly.  He  has  a  natural  genius  for  combining 
pleasure  with  business. —  Charles  Dudley  Warner. 


\ 


LET  THE    QIBL8  ROMP. 

Most  mothers  have  a  dread  of  romps;  so  they 
lecture  the  girls  daily  on  the  proprieties,  and  exhort 
them  to  be  little  ladies.  They  like  to  see  them  very 
quiet  and  gentle  and  as  prim  as  possible.  The  lot 
of  such  children  is  rather  pitable,  for  they  are  de- 
prived of  the  fun  and  frolic  which  they  are  entitled 
to.  Children — boys  and  girls — must  have  exercise 
to  keep  them  healthy.  Deprive  them  of  it,  and 
they  fade  away  like  flowers  without  sunshine.  Run- 
ning, racing,  skipping,  climbing — these  are  the 
things  that  strengthen  the  muscles,  expand  the  chest 
and  build  up  the  nerves.  The  mild  dose  of  exercise 
taken  in  the  nursery  with  calisthenics  or  gymnastics 
will  not  invigorate  the  system  like  a  good  romp  in 
the  open  air.  Mothers,  therefore,  who  council  their 
little  girls  to  play  very  quietly  make  a  mistake. 
Better  the  laughing,  rosy-cheeked,  romping  girl,  than 
the  pale,  lily-faced  one,  who  is  called  every  inch  a 
lady.  The  latter  rarely  breaks  things,  or  tears  her 
dresses,  or  tires  her  mother's  patience,  as  the  former 
does;  but,  after  all,  what  does  the  tearing  and 
breaking  amount  to?  It  is  not  wise  policy  to  put 
an  old  head  on  young  shoulders.  Childhood  is  the 
time  for  childish  pranks  and  plays.  The  girls  will 
grow  into  womanhood  soon  enough.  Let  them  be 
children  as  long  as  they  can.  Give  them  plenty  of 
fresh  air  and  sunlight,  and  let  them  run  and  romp 
as  much  as  they  please.  By  all  means  give  us 
hearty,  healthy,  romping  girls,  rather  than  pale-faced 
little  ladies,  condemned  from  their  very  cradles  to 
nervousness,  headache,  and  similar  ailments. — 
Selected. 


THE  POSITION  OF   TEE    ROMAN  CATHOLIO 

OEVRCH  IN  BOSTON  ON  THE  LIQUOR 

QUESTION. 


In  all  the  large  cities  of  the  United  States  the 
liquor  traffic  is  found  to  be  most  profitable  and  most 
degrading  in  Catholic  communities.  In  Boston  the 
political  saloons  abound  in  the  midst  of  the  popula- 
tions that  worship  at  the  Cathedral,  the  Immaculate 
Conception,  and  St.  James'  churches.  It  was,  in 
fact,  in  the  midst  of  the  district  from  which  these 
churches  draw  their  congregations  that  Mr.  M.  M. 
Cunnifl,  the  head  and  front  of  Kumocratic  politics 
in  the  city  of  Boston,  had  his  liquor  business.  Mr. 
Cunniff  made  his  money  in  the  liquor  traffic.  Mr. 
Canniff  is  practically  the  ruler  of  the  city  of  Boston 
today.  Through  Mr.  Cunniff  and  his  henchmen  the 
Catholic  church  seeks  to  control  the  public  schools, 
and  public  affairs  generally.  Is  anybody  foolish 
enough  to  suppose  that  the  church  will  declare  Mr. 
Cunniff  a  "dangerous"  man,  or  that  she  will  excom- 
municate him  for  being  so  admirable  a  servant  of 
the  papacy?  And  is  any  rational  person  likely  to 
have  any  great  regard  for  what  is  called  "Catholic 
Total  Abstinence"  when  the  church  declares  the 
saloon-keeper  to  be  the  vilest  enemy  of  society,  and, 
at  the  same  time,  administers  the  sacrament  to  him 
every  week? — Boston  Home  Journal. 


ANOTHER  DECISION  AGAINST  THE  SALOON. 


voters'  list  in  favor  of  the  act,  before  it  could  become 
a  law.  This  absurd  motion  was  defeated,  and  in  1881 
a  wine  and  beer  amendment,  exempting  the  same 
from  the  provisions  of  the  act,  likewise  failed.  How- 
ever, as  this  amendment  failed  but  by  eight  majority, 
it  was  repeated  the  next  session,  and  defeated  by 
eighty-nine  majority,  which  settled  forever,  no  doubt, 
such  attempts  to  defeat  the  will  of  the  people.  The 
next  session  a  vote  to  repeal  the  act  failed  by  a  ma- 
jority of  one  hundred  and  seven.  In  1884  a  resolu- 
tion for  national  prohibition  failed  by  a  majority  of 
forty-two,  a  gain  of  ten  votes  in  three  years.  A 
change  of  twenty-two  votes  will  now  pass  the  meas- 
ure, so  that  if  we  judge  of  the  future  by  the  past,  as 
the  great  American  orator  has  done,  national  prohi- 
bition will  ere  seven  years  have  rolled  around  be  a 
part  of  the  constitution  of  the  Dominion  of  Canada." 


Another  decision  has  been  given  by  the  Supreme 
Court  of  the  United  States  which  considerably  af- 
fects the  liquor  interest.  It  was  a  question  of  the 
right  to  disregard  the  laws  of  a  State  in  regard  to 
the  sale  of  liquor  on  the  public  waters  under  the 
jurisdiction  of  the  United  States,  the  waters  being 
within  or  on  the  borders  of  a  State  whose  laws 
regulate  the  sale  of  liquor.  The  decision  of  the 
Supreme  Court  of  the  United  States  concurring  with 
a  decision  of  the  Supreme  Court  of  Pennsylvania  is 
that  while  a  State  could  not  prevent  steamboats 
from  navigating  the  public  waters  of  the  United 
States  within  its  limits,  it  could  prohibit  the  retail- 
ing of  spirituous  liquors  on  such  boats  while  within 
that  State,  except  as  authorized  by  its  laws;  that 
Congress,  under  the  power  to  regulate  commerce  be- 
tween the  States,  could  not  override  or  annul  local 
laws  designed  to  protect  the  health  and  morals  of 
the  people  of  a  State.  The  decisions  of  the  Supreme 
Court  of  the  United  States  thus  far  have  been  in 
favor  of  sustaining  the  laws  of  the  States  prohibit- 
ing or  restricting  the  sale  of  spirituous  liquors. 
Previous  to  the  downfall  of  slavery  the  Supreme 
Court  of  the  United  States  was  used  as  a  machinery 
to  uphold  and — as  far  as  possible — legalize  the  in- 
stitution. The  decisions  of  that  court  on  the  liquor 
question  thus  far,  indicate  a  disposition  to  sustain 
the  view  taken  by  those  States  that  prohibit,  or  re- 
strict the  traffic,  that  it  is  entirely  proper  and  legal 
to  restrain  or  annul  it  on  the  ground  that  it  is  con- 
trary to  public  health  and  morals.  It  is  further 
made  clear  that,  as  a  question  affecting  public  health 
and  morals,  it  is  a  national  question,  and  the  obli- 
gation to  prohibit  the  traffic  in  the  United  States  is 
the  same  as  that  which  would  prohibit  it  in  a  State. 
Is  not  the  providence  of  God  clearly  indicating  that 
it  is  the  duty  of  temperance  people  everywhere  to 
make  it  a  national  question?  What  excuse  can  we 
have  for  not  pushing  it  to  the  front  as  the  great 
moral  question  of  the  hour  that  demands  recogni- 
tion in  our  suffrages?  We  do  not  see  how  the  pub- 
lic conscience,  so  far  as  Christian  people  are  con- 
cerned, can  evade  such  a  recognition.—  Christian 
Instructor. 

Prohibition  in  Canada. — In  a  recent  number  of 
the  Northvxstern  Presbyterian  the  Rev.  James  B. 
Freeman  makes  the  following  statements  in  regard 
to  the  progress  of  prohibition  in  the  Dominion:  "In 
Ontario,  New  Brunswick,  Nova  Scotia,  Prince  Ed- 
ward Island  and  Manitoba  there  are  seventy-eight 
counties,  and  fifty-three  of  these  have  passed  the 
Scott  Act,  a  prohibitory  measure.  So  far  there  have 
been  ninety-three  contests,  and  the  act  has  been  suc- 
cessful in  seventy-two.  All  of  Prince  Edward  Is- 
land, two-fifths  of  Manitoba,  two-thirds  of  New 
Brunswick,  five-eighths  of  Ontario,  five-sevenths  of 
Nova  Scotia,  and  two  fifths  of  the  whole  Dominion 
is  under  prohibition  to-day.  When  the  act  was  first 
passed  in  Parliament,  the  Supreme  Court  of  New 
Brunswick  declared  it  ultra  vires.  In  1880  the  Su- 
preme Court  of  Canada  reversed  this  decision,  and 
in  1882  the  Privy  Council  of  England  sustained  this 
decision,  and  settled  forever  the  constitutionality  of 
the  measure.  Then  an  amendment  was  proposed  in 
Parliament  requiring  a  majority  of  all  names  on  the 


WOREINQMEN  AND  BEER. 


The  remark  was  made  in  our  presence  a  short 
time  since  that  a  large  proportion  of  the  laboring 
men  in  this  city  spend  from  20  to  40  cents  each  day 
for  beer.  At  the  rate  of  25  oents  a  day  the  sum  thus 
spent  in  a  year  would  be  $78.25,  making  no  account 
of  any  used  on  Sundays. 

This  is  something  that  cannot  be  proved  to  do  a 
particle  of  good  to  those  who  use  it,  and  many  med- 
ical men  claim  to  know  that  it  is  highly  injurious. 
But  granting  that  it  does  neither  special  good  nor 
harm,  why  should  any  one  tax  himself  to  that  amount 
and  take  from  his  family  the  extra  comforts  it 
would  buy? 

It  seems  like  selfishness  for  a  man  to  indulge  even 
his  innocent  tastes  at  the  expense  of  his  family,  and 
worse  than  selfish  to  spend  money  for  that  which 
will  be  almost  sure  to  injure  his  health  permanently. 

And  how  can  a  man  for  a  single  moment  believe 
that  beer  as  a  frequent  drink  does  him  any  good? 
If  beer  drinkers  will  take  the  pains  to  find  out  for 
themselves  the  different  substances  contained  in 
their  favorite  drink,  we  think  they  will  be  less  likely 
to  relish  it  as  they  now  do.  Its  tendency  to  make 
those  who  drink  it  have  a  stout  or  bloated  appear- 
ance is  well  known,  but  instead  of  being  a  sign  of 
health,  this  is  exactly  the  opposite.  The  best  ad- 
vice for  any  one  about  to  drink  a  glass  of  beer  is 
simply  "don't  do  it." — St.  Paul  Pioneer  Press: 


A  special  from  Paris,  Ky.,  says:  Henry  M.  Vi- 
nont  of  Millersburg,  Ky.,  was  sent  to  the  Lexington 
insane  asylum.  Those  who  were  acquainted  with 
his  habits  say  that  his  loss  of  reason  was  caused  by 
his  inveterate  cigarette  smoking,  he  having  been 
known  to  smoke  over  one  hundred  per  day.  At  the 
time  that  his  mind  commenced  to  give  away  he  was 
holding  a  lucrative  position  in  Leadville,  Col.,  a 
couple  of  years  ago,  and  was  a  model  young  man. 


A  CALL  FOR  GERMAN  PROHIBITIONISTS. 


It  is  claimed  by  liquor  dealers  that  Germans  are,  al- 
most without  exception,  friendly  to  their  business,  and 
opposed  to  any  interference  with  it.  This  is  a  mistake. 
Multitudes  of  Oermans  never  patronize  a  saloon,  and 
have  no  special  affection  for  the  saloon-keeper;  and  I 
have  no  doubt  many  German  votes  will  be  cast  for  Fisk 
and  Brocks  next  November. 

It  has  seemed  to  me  that  German  Prohibitionists 
would  be  cheered  and  strengthened  if  each  knew  of  the 
existence  and  sentiments  of  the  others.  When  Elijah 
fancied  that  he  only  was  left,  a  prophet  of  the  true  God, 
his  heart  sunk  within  him,  and  he  requested  for  himself 
that  he  might  die;  but  when  he  learned  that  seven  thou- 
sand others  had  not  bowed  their  knees  to  Baal,  he  took 
up  his  burdens  again  and  carried  them  without  complaint, 
until  the  chariot  and  horses  of  fire  bore  him  home  in 
triumph. 

Very  likely,  too,  many  hesitating  ones  will  be  brought 
into  the  Prohibition  ranks,  if  they  learn  that  "Lands- 
leutc"  are  there  now,  and  that  they  will  not  be  as  lone- 
some as  they  feared. 

For  these  reasons  I  announce  myself  for  Fisk  and 
Brooks.  Although  Illinois  is  my  native  State,  I  inher- 
ited enough  German  blood  from  both  my  parents  to  call 
mystlf  a  German. 

I  also  wish  to  make  lists  of  German  Prohibitionists  in 
the  different  States,  and,  therefore,  rt quest  that  their 
names  and  postoffice  addresses  be  sent  to  me  by  letter  or 
postal  card.  Please  include  only  voters  who  are  Ger- 
mans by  birth  or  immediate  descent 

If  there  are  encouraging  responses  to  this  request,  I 
shall  be  glad  to  report  progress  from  time  to  time  in 
such  Prohibition  papers  as  desire  to  publish  the  facts. 
As  far  as  other  engagements  will  permit,  an  effort  will 
be  made  to  open  correspondence  with  German  Prohibi- 
tion workers,  and  to  solicit  and  distribute  Prohibition 
literature.  Wherever  practicable,  German  Prohibition 
clut)8  might  also  be  organized,  and  other  steps  taken  that 
will  lend  to  a  unity  of  effort  against  King  Qambrinus. 

Will  not  German  and  English  papers,  favorable  to  this 
movement,  kindly  publish  this  call?       H.  A.  Fischkr. 

WTuaton  College,  Wheaton.  lU. 


18 


THE  CHBISTIAN  CYNOSITEE. 


AnovsT  30, 1888 


BIBLE  LESSON. 


STUDIES  IN  THE  OLD  TESTAMENT. 
LESSON  XI.— Third  Quarter.— Sept.  9. 
SUBJECT.— The  Unbelief  of  the  People.— Num.  14: 1-10. 
GOLDEN  TEXT.— So  we  see  that  they  could  not  enter  In  be- 
cauBe  of  unbelief.— Heb.  3 :  19. 

\Ovenihe  Bible  and  read  the  Ustan.] 

COMMENTS  ON  THE  LESSON  BY  E.  E.  FLAGO. 

1.  The  Folly  of  Unbelief,  vs.  1-4.  Nothing  could 
show  more  fully  the  slavish  spirit  of  the  people  than 
their  proposition  to  return  back  into  Egypt;  back  to  the 
life  which  had  been  made  so  "bitter  with  hard  bondage;" 
to  the  whip  of  the  task-master;  to  making  brick  with- 
out straw;  to  be  daily  driven,  like  cattle,  to  their  hope- 
less, unrequited  toil,  with  nothing  but  death  to  look  for 
at  lastl  But  this  is  exactly  the  folly  which  the  Christian 
commits  when  he  looks  back  in  his  heart  to  Egypt;  when 
it  seems  better  to  him  to  drift  with  the  tide  and  do  as  the 
world  does,  than  to  struggle  manfully  against  the  obsta- 
cles to  holy  living  which  he  must  meet.  Unbelief  is  al 
ways  unreasonable,  always  ready  to  accuse  God  falsely, 
and  add  outward  rebellion  to  inward  murmurs.  Our 
only  safety  is  to  crush  the  serpent  while  in  embryo.  It 
is  the  wrong  thought  harbored  which  becomes  sin.  When 
the  heart  inclines  towards  Egypt  it  wants  to  cast  off  its 
allegiance,  to  "choose  other  gods  to  go  before  it."  The 
human  heart  is  so  constituted  that  it  must  worship  some- 
thing, must  believe  in  something.  "Let  us  make  us  a  cap- 
tain." False  gods  and  false  religions  are  all  man  made,  and 
they  all  lead  back  in  to  Egypt.  Liberty  has  always  had  to  be 
fought  for.  Spiritual  freedom  must  be  attained  in  the  same 
way.It  is  notby"sitting  atease  inZion"and  receiving  relig- 
ious instruction  from  the  pulpit,  as  a  bog  or  a  sponge 
receives  water,  that  we  conquer  the  foes  that  would 
bring  ui  into  bondage,  or  make  spiritual  conquests.  Nor 
is  it  by  joining  a  lodge  of  Masons  or  Oddfellows  and 
professing  the  universal  religion  in  which  all  men  agree. 
The  very  terms  of  the  proposition  show  that  in  such  a  re- 
ligion there  can  be  no  battle  fields,  for  never  yet  have  all 
men  agreed  to  conquer  their  evil  inclinations  and  appe- 
tites, the  foes  to  which  our  race  has  been  in  bondage 
since  the  fall.  When  a  Christian  joins  the  lodge  he  has 
made  himself  a  captain  who  will  lead  him  back  to  Egypt 
by  the  shortest  possible  route.  Whatever  sin  we  allow 
to  have  dominion  over  us,  that  sin  we  make  our  captain, 
and  though  it  be  but  a  trifliog  self-indulgence  it  may 
lead  us  back  into  Egypt  before  we  are  aware. 

2.  The  four  faithful  Witnesses,  vs.  5-10.     Caleb  and 
Joshua,  by  reiterating  their  former  testimony,  sought  to 
quell  the  tumult.      "The  land  is  a  good  land,  flowing 
with  milk  and  honey,  only  rebsl  not  against  the  Lord, 
and  fear  not  the  people  of  the  land."      It  was  this  fear 
which  led  them  to  rebel;  and  we  shall  find  in  the  Chris- 
tian life  that  we  generally  approach  nearest  rebellion 
when  we  are  most  fearful,  or,  to  use  a  synonymous  word, 
most  distrustful.  "Their  defence  is  departed  from  them;" 
the  margin  reads,  "shadow."     They  are  left  exposed,  as 
it  were,  to  the  vertical  heat  of  the  desert  sun,  while  we 
are  under  the  sheltering  wing  of  the  Almighty.      WJ»en 
we  are  fighting  evil  and  it  looks  too  strong  for  us,  let  us 
remember  this  passage.     Evil  may  try  to  hide  under  some 
great  name,  under  the  verdict  of  popular  opinion,  or  in 
the  darkness  of  "secret  chambers,"  but  sooner  or  later  it 
will  shrivel  to  ashes  when  His  glance  finds  it  out  Who 
"is  as  a  consuming  fire."  There  is  every  possible  encour 
agement  for  the  Lord's  people,  even  when  they  seem  to 
lead  a  forlorn  hope  to  apparently  certain  defeat.      The 
appeal  of  these  devoted  men  only  served  to  raise  a  riot, 
and  the  whole  multitude  cried  out  to  stone  them,  as  cen- 
turies later   their  posterity  cried  out,   "Crucify  Him." 
The  man  or  the  woman  who  stands  boldly  up  for  truth 
must  not  expect   always  to  be  appreciated  by  their  day 
and  generation.     The  experience  of  ages  has  taught  us 
quite  the  contrary.      But  it  is  given  to  them  who  suffer 
for  the  truth  to  see  "the  glory  of  the  Lord."    They  may 
aee  no  visible  "heavens  opened,"  as  did   Stephen,  but 
they  will  feel  in  their  own  souls  the  kingdom  for  which 
they  are  battling  begun— the  kingdom  of  peace  and  joy 
in  the  Holy  Ghost. 

— The  Synod  of  the  United  Pfcsbyterian  Churcli 
of  Scotland  has  ineliucted  itB  Board  of  Foreign  Mis- 
sioDB  to  transfer  its  mieBion  in  Japan  to  tbe  care  of 
the  Presbyterian  Church  in  tbe  United  States  of 
America.  The  reason  given  for  this  is  lack  of 
fands  We  are  sorry  that  such  a  reason  must  be 
given,  but  suppose  that  the  chango  will  tend  to  the 
unification  of  Presbyterianism  in  the  Empire  of 
Japan,  in  which  we  greatly  rejoice. —  7 he  Frethyte- 
rian. 


BELioioxrs  News, 


THB   SABBATH  QUSaTION. 


On  the  21st  of  May  Senator  Blair  introduced  a 
bill  into  the  Senate  dispensing  with  all  postal  service 
and  all  military  and  naval  parades  on  Sunday,  in 
time  of  peace;  and  tbe  day  following  the  General 
Assembly  of  the  Presbyterian  church,  then  in  ses- 
sion in  Philadelphia,  adopted  a  resolution  requesting 
Congress  to  enact  the  Blair  bill  and  make  it  the  law 
of  the  land. 

In  support  of  that  bill,  the  Sabbath  Association  of 
Illinois  has  sent  to  Senator  Blair  the  petitions  of  the 
churches  (to  tbe  Senate)  in  favor  of  Sabbath  ob- 
servance. 

Coming,  as  the  petitions  have,  from  churches  in 
forty  different  States  and  Territories,  they  show  how 
widespread  the  interest  in  the  Sabbath  question  is; 
and  they  may  be  taken  as  a  fair  expression  of  the 
Christian  sentiment  of  the  country  on  this  important 
subject. 

These  petitions  are  the  first  fruits  of  the  Sabbath 
Association  of  Illinois  in  favor  of  Sabbath  reform. 
There  are  many  interesting  things  connected  with 
with  this  "feast  of  the  first  fruits." 

What  a  grand  thing  it  would  be  for  every  church 
in  the  United  States,  by  a  unanimous  vote  of  all  its 
members,  to  place  itself  on  record  as  being  in  favor 
of  Sabbath  observance. 

To  every  thoughtful  mind  this  Sabbath  question 
is  of  greater  importance  than  that  of  the  tariff  or 
finance  that  now  engrosses  tbe  attention  of  the 
people. 

"Show  me  the  history  of  any  nation  that  has  lost 
its  Sabbaths  and  is  worthy  to  be  called  a  nation;" 
''Lose  the  Sabbath  and  you  lose  the  national  life  and 
its  blessings;"  were  the  warning  words  that  were 
spoken  from  the  gallery  in  Music  Hall,  Chicago,  at 
a  meeting  in  favor  of  Sabbath  observance,  by  a 
white-haired  old  gentleman  who  stated:  "I  am  what 
you  call  a  Roman  Catholic,  and  my  sentiments  and 
the  sentiments  of  my  church  and  people  are  with 
you  in  this  work." 

Will  those  pastors  and  churches  that  have  not 
taken  any  action  on  the  petitions  do  so  at  an  early 
day,  so  that  the  petitions  may  be  arranged  and  for- 
warded to  Congress  at  the  beginning  of  its  next 
session? 

Those  pastors  who  have  not  received  the  petitions, 
or  who  have  mislaid  them,  can  be  supplied  by  ap- 
plying to  G.  P.  Lord,  secretary,  Elgin,  111. 

PETITION. 

To  the  Honorable  Senate  and  House  of  Representatives 

in  Congress  Assembled: 

Your  petitioners  would  respectfully  represent  that 
tbe  Sabbath  is  the  dividing  line  between  Christianity 
and  heathenism:  that  it  is  the  bulwark  that  shields 
our  Christian  civilization  against  anarchy,  with  its 
train  of  lawlessness  and  barbarism;  that  all  labor 
done  on  that  day,  other  than  works  of  necessity  and 
mercy,  is  in  violation  of  our  State  law;  that  the  tele- 
graph has  so  utilized  the  forces  of  electricity  for  tbe 
transmission  of  intelligence  as  to  annihilate  dis- 
tance and  bring  the  people  of  the  whole  world  into 
close  proximity  with  each  other;  that  the  telegraph 
is  now  used  to  transmit  all  important  news,  and  the 
transaction  of  business  between  large  commercial 
centers  where  despatch  is  an  important  factor,  and 
therefore  there  is  no  absolute  necessity  for  running 
the  mails  on  the  Sabbath.  Consequently,  the  run- 
ning of  mails  on  that  day  is  in  violation  of  State 
laws;  that  our  government  should  not  ignore  those 
laws  in  making  its  postal  arrangements,  but  it 
should  be  in  harmony  with,  and  foremost  in  every 
endeavor  to  maintain  tbe  integrity  of  tbe  Sabbath; 
that  there  is  an  increasing  demand  for  more  leisure 
and  rest  from  labor  and  business;  that  the  govern- 
ment has  heretofore  recognized  the  reasonableness 
of  this  demand  by  reducing  tbe  number  of  hours 
required  for  a  day's  work,  that  it  should  now  recog' 
nize  tbe  reasonableness  of  requiring  but  six  days  for 
a  week's  work,  so  that  its  employes  may  have  a 
weekly  rest  day;  that  it  is  unjust  to  require  its  em- 
ployes in  the  postal  department  to  work  on  Sunday 
while  its  employes  in  every  other  department  rest 
on  that  day. 

We  therefore  pray  that  you  will  enact  such  laws 
and  make  such  regulations  as  may  be  required  in 
order  to  discontinue  the  running  of  the  mails,  and 
all  military  and  naval  parades,  and  close  the  post- 
offices  on  the  Sabbath,  and  thus  we  will  ever  pray. 


— August  9th  was  the  date  appointed  for  the  lay- 
jing  of  tbe  corner-stone  of  tbe  Judson  Memorial 
.  Church  in  Burmah.  An  aged  Christian  Burmese 
!  woman  whom  Dr.  Judson  baptized  has  given  3,000 
I  rupees,  about  $1,500. 


— The  ChicagoEvangelization  Society  has  arranged 
for  a  convention  of  Christian  workers  to  be  held  in 
Farwell  Hall  this  week  Wednesday,  Thursday  and 
Friday.  At  the  request  of  Mr.  Moody,  Hudson 
Taylor,  director  of  the  China  Inland  Mission,  and 
Reginald  Radcliff  of  London  will  be  present.  Dr. 
Taylor  will  be  accompanied  by  his  son,  Dr. 
Stanard  Taylor,  H.  W.  Frost  of  the  China  Inland 
Mission,  and  George  B.  Studd,  of  London.  Hudson 
Taylor  is  the  veteran  missionary  who  thirty-five 
years  ago  founded  the  China  Inland  Mission,  which 
has  now  nearly  300  missionaries  at  work  in  all  parts 
of  China.  He  solicits  no  money  for  the  support  of 
his  missions,  and  guarantees  his  missionaries  no 
field  salary.  His  work  and  friends  are  never  want- 
ing. Dr.  Taylor  and  his  co-laborers  will  speak 
especially  on  the  needs  and  claims  of  foreign  mis- 
sions and  personal  consecration.  Reginald  Radcliff 
will  deal  chiefly  with  Christian  work  as  carried  on 
in  London,  Paris,  and  other  great  European  cities. 
He  is  one  of  the  acknowledged  leaders  as  an  organ- 
izer of  city  evangelization  work,  in  which  he  has 
been  engaged  for  over  forty  years.  The  object  of 
the  convention  is  the  deepening  of  the  spiritual  life 
of  Christian  workers,  and  the  promotion  of  the  work 
of  evangelization  in  tbe  home  and  foreign  fields. 

—Rev.  James  H.  Brookes,  editor  of  the  2  ruth,  St. 
Louis,  and  Rev.  George  C.  Needham,  were  assisting 
Major  Whittle  in  his  meeting  at  Chicago  Avenue 
church  in  this  city  last  week. 

—Daring  the  last  ten  years  the  native  Christians 
of  Madagascar  have  given  more  than  $4,000,000  for 
the  spread  of  the  Gospel. 

— The  principal  foreign  missionary  societies  of 
the  United  States  send,  in  the  aggregate,  $3,508,295 
annually  for  the  spread  of  the  Gospel  in  heathen 
lands.  Great  Britain,  through  her  various  societies, 
expends  in  missions  $4,619,921. 

—  China's  Millions  for  July  says  of  last  year's 
labors:  Looking  on  the  work  of  the  whole  year,  we 
have  to  praise  God  for  the  addition  of  between  five 
and  six  hundred  members  to  the  churches  —a  larger 
accession  than  we  have  ever  yet  had  to  report. 

— At  the  late  meeting  of  the  Moody  Bible  School 
in  Northfield,  Mass.,  ninety  persons  pledged  them- 
selves to  foreign  mission  work,  twenty  of  them  hav- 
ing formed  a  band  for  missionary  work  since  the 
school  opened.  Several  expect  to  begin  work  in  the 
foreign  field  this  year. 

— A  Scripture  Reading  Union  has  been  organized 
in  Japan.  The  completion  of  the  translation  of  tbe 
Bible  into  the  Japanese  language  was  celebrated  by 
a  large  meeting  held  in  Tokio  last  February.  The 
orders  for  the  complete  Bible  have  been  very  large. 
The  translation  of  the  New  Testament  was  published 
in  1880. 

— It  is  a  matter  of  regret,  says  an  exchange,  that 
the  Pan  Presbyterian  Council,  lately  in  session  at 
London,  was  compelled  to  refuse  the  offer  of  $140,- 
000  to  found  a  college  at  Canton,  China,  The  Coun- 
cil cannot  legally  hold  property,  and  was  not  com- 
petent to  accept  the  gift. 

—Rev.  Horace  Waller,  at  the  important  Confer- 
ence on  Foreign  Missions  held  in  London  recently, 
said  that  the  degradation  of  the  wretched  tribes  of 
West  Africa  has  reached  a  depth  that  is  appalling, 
and  testifies  to  having  seen  hundreds  of  native  girls 
lying  in  a  state  of  intoxication  round  the  wagons  of 
spirit-sellers. 

—  The  forty-second  annual  meeting  of  the  Ameri- 
can Missionary  Association  will  be  held  in  the  Union 
Congregational  church.  Providence,  R.  I.,  Oct.  23-25. 
The  annual  sermon  will  be  preached  by  tbe  Rev.  Ar- 
thur Little,  D.D.,  of  Chicago. 

— According  to  the  statistical  report  for  1888  of 
the  Evangelical  Association,  just  published,  that 
body  of  German  Methodists  has  141,853  members, 
1,159  itinerant  preachers,  and  1,916  churches,  indi- 
cating a  gain  of  4,156  members,  38  preachers,  and 
85  churches. 

— The  first  Sabbath  of  September  has  been  chosen 
by  the  Reformed  Presbyterian  Synod  as  the  day  for 
the  collection  for  the  Chinese  Mission.  This  mis- 
sion, which  has  for  years  been  under  the  control  of 
Rev.  N.  R.  Johnston,  has  been  found  by  him  to  be 
too  great  a  burden,  and  his  resignation  was  tendered 
to  the  Board  in  April.  He  is  carrying  on  the  work 
only  until  his  successor  shall  be  ready  to  take  it  up, 
when  he  is  anxious  to  yield  it  and  all  the  mission 
properties  into  his  hands  and  be  entirely  relieved  of 
all  connection  with  the  mission.  The  Board  at  its 
July  meeting  appointed  Mr.  Jas.  Patton,  licentiate, 
as  Chinese  missionary  at  Oakland,  Cal.  After  care- 
ful consideration  he  has  accepted,  and  just  as  soon 
as  necessary  arrangements  can  be  made  expects  to 
go  to  Oakland  and  take  up  the  work. 


1^^ 


AuouBT  30, 1888 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


13 


I"*, 


In  Brief. 

At  a  celebration  of  high  mass  by  Bish- 
op O'Hara  at  Wilkesbarre,  July  11,  Mal- 
lincroot  Convent,  twenty-seven  young 
women  took  the  veil.  The  ceremonies 
were  impressive,  being  participated  in  by 
twenty  priests  from  various  portions  of 
this  diocese. 

Two  heavy  brewing  firms  of  Cincin- 
nati are  at  war  over  exclusive  privileges 
which  each  claims  to  have  received  to 
sell  beer  at  the  centennial  exposition  in 
that  city.  One  firm  paid  $21,000  for  the 
privilege,  and  the  other  secured  the  res- 
taurant right  to  sell  for  $15,000. 

"James,"  said  the  father  of  the  family, 
sternly,  "your  school  reports  have  been 
anything  but  favorable  this  term.  I  sup- 
pose you  failed  in  your  examinations,  as 
usual?"  "No,  sir,"  pretested  the  boy. 
"I  passed,  but  it  was  a  tight  squeeze." 
"Laura,"  continued  the  father,  turning  to 
his  oldest  daughter,  "I  think  I  heard 
voices  in  the  hall  late  last  evening.  I 
have  told  you  repeatedly  not  to  let  that 
young  man  stay  later  than  11  o'clock." 
"It  was  just  11  when  he  left,  father." 
"That's  so,"  testified  James,  coming  to 
the  relief  of  his  sister.  "I  was  at  the 
top  of  the  stairway  and  saw  him  go. 
He  got  away  at  11  o'clock,  but  it  was  a 
tight  squ" — "James!"  shrieked  Laura. — 
Chicago  Tribune. 

During  a  recent  thunderstorm  a  maple 
tree  in  front  of  Miner  Cresco's  residence, 
at  Crescoville,  Pa.,  was  struck  by  light- 
ning. The  only  damage  done  to  the  tree 
was  the  chipping  of  a  piece  out  of  the 
trunk,  as  if  it  had  been  done  with  an  ax, 
about  midway  between  the  ground  and 
the  lower  branches.  After  the  storm  Mr. 
Cresco  went  out  to  look  at  the  tree.  On 
the  ground  at  the  foot  of  the  tree  lay  an 
immense  black  snake  dead,  and  holding 
in  its  mouth  a  young  robin.  There  was 
a  robin's  nest  in  the  tree,  and  it  was 
known  to  have  had  three  young  ones  in 
it  the  day  before.  As  the  tree  had  been 
struck  by  lightning  it  was  supposed  that 
they  had  been  killed.  A  boy  climbed  the 
tree  and  found  two  young  robins  in  the 
nest  alive  and  lively.  It  is  supposed  that 
the  black  snake  had  climbed  the  tree  and 
robbed  the  nest  of  one  of  the  newly- 
hatched  birds,  and  was  descending  the 
trunk  as  it  was  struck  by  lightning,  and 
was  killed  with  its  prey  in  its  mouth. 

Two  hundred  years  ago  in  China  there 
was  j  list  such  a  craze  about  natural  gas  as 
we  have  in  this  country  to  day.  Gas  wells 
were  sunk  with  as  much  vim  and  vigor  as 
the  celestials  were  capable  of,  but  owing 
to  a  gas  explosion  that  had  killed  several 
millions  of  people  and  tore  up  and  de- 
stroyed a  large  district  of  country,  leav- 
ing a  large  inland  sea,  known  on  the 
maps  as  Lake  Foo  Chang,  the  boring  of 
any  more  gas  wells  was  then  and  there 
prohibited  by  law.  It  seems,  according 
to  Chinese  history,  that  many  large  and 
heavy  pressure  gas  wells  were  struck,  and 
in  some  districts  wells  were  sunk  quite 
near  to  each  other.  Gas  was  lighted  as 
soon  as  struck,  as  in  this  country.  It  is 
stated  that  one  well,  with  its  unusual 
pressure,  by  induction  or  back  draught, 
pulled  down  into  the  earth  the  burning 
gas  of  a  smaller  well,  resulting  in  the 
dreadful  explosion  of  a  large  district, 
destroying  the  inhabitants  thereof.  Lake 
Poo  Chang  rests  on  this  district.  The 
same  catastrophe  is  imminent  in  this 
country  unless  the  laws  restict  further 
developments  in  boring  so  many  wells. 
Should  a  similar  explosion  occur  there 
will  be  such  an  upheaval  as  will  dwarf 
the  most  terrible  earthquakes  ever  known. 
The  country  along  the  gas  belt,  from  To 
ledo,  through  Ohio,  Indiana  and  Ken- 
tucky, will  be  ripped  up  to  the  depth  of 
1,200  to  1,500  feet  and  flopped  over  like 
a  pancake,  leaving  a  chasm  through 
which  the  waters  of  Lake  Erie  will  come 
howling  down,  filling  the  Ohio  and  Mis- 
sissippi valleys  and  blotting  them  out 
forever. — Fireman's  Herald. 

Some  one  has  recently  made  public  the 
remark  that  if  the  whole  human  race 
were  divided  into  families  of  five  per- 
sons each,  the  State  of  Texas  is  large 
enough  to  supply  half  an  acre  of  land  to 
each  family.  The  statement  surprised 
some  people,  and  not  a  few  of  them  de- 
clared hastily,  without  performing  the 
necessary  calculations,  that  it  could  not 
be  true.  There  are  supposed  to  be  about 
1,400,000,000  persons  living  on  the  globe. 
A  half  acre  to  each  family  of  five  would 
require  one  acre  for  ten  persons,  or  140, 
000,000  acres  in  all.  The  area  of  Texas 
is  more  than  202,000    square  miles,  or 


nearly  168,000,000  acres,  consequently 
there  would  be  a  surplus  of  almost  28,- 
000,000  acres  left  over  after  every  family 
was  provided  for,  which  would  be  suffi- 
cient for  four  or  five  times  the  present 
population  of  the  United  States.  Noi 
many  people  realize  how  little  space 
would  be  needed  to  accommodate  the 
whole  human  race  assembled  in  one  place. 
Suppose  we  were  to  fancy  every  human 
being  forming  one  of  a  vast  congrega- 
tion seated  in  1,400,000,000  easy-chairs, 
each  occupying  a  square  yard  of  ground 
space.  As  there  are  nearly  3,600,000 
square  yards  in  a  square  mile,  that  num- 
ber represents  the  size  of  the  congrega- 
tion that  could  be  seated  upon  it  under 
the  conditions  named;  and  the  whole  hu- 
man family  could  be  gathered  on  a  tract 
of  452  square  miles— or  2\\  miles  each 
way.  Less  than  two  fifths  of  the  area  of 
the  little  State  of  Rhode  Island  would 
suffice  to  give  comfortable  seating  room 
to  the  whole  human  race.  One  twelfth 
of  the  area  of  Rhode  Island  would  be 
enough  to  afford  standing  room — as  peo- 
ple stand  in  a  crowd,  without  crushing — 
to  every  man,  woman,  and  child  on  the 
face  of  the  globe. —  Youth's  Companion. 


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Fli  ANDERS," 

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iousness, headache,  constipation,  indi- 
gestion, and  their  resultant  irritability, 
intellectual  sluggishness,  ennui,  etc.  The 
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MARKET  RBPORTS. 

CHICAGO. 

Wheat— No.  a *  gow 

No.  3 83    @     85 

Winter  No  S ^^     90    @     92 

Com— No.  a »...     44%'a      45V 

Oats— No.a .^^.^^..M^     24%@      29 

Rye— No.  a ^. ......  50 

Bran  per  ton... ^ «.^^..  10  25 

Hay— Timothy 9  00    (313  60 

Butter,  medium  to  best 12    %     19W 

Cheese 05    @     09 

Beans 1  25    @  2  40 

Beeda-^Tlmothy* .','.".'.*.'  1  25        1  85 

Flax 1  20         1  81 

Broomcom 01>^@     r4V 

Potatoee,  per  bus 35    <a      48 

Hides— Green  to  dry  flint 0S>^^      i.s 

Lumber— Common 11  00    ®18  00 

Wool 13    @      32 

Cattle— Choice  to  extra 5  75    @  6  60 

Commontogood 1  85        5  65 

Hogs 5  80    a  6  60 

Bueep 3  00    ^  4  45 

NEW  YORK. 

near 3  an  ®  5  25 

Wheat— Winter 88  O  l  0« 

Spring 94 

Corn 585^®     54 

Oata ^».     26  ^     45 

«ggt - ^^►..  17% 

Butter ^.      12  Q     20W 

Wool ...        09  .«»4 

KANSAS  CITY. 

Cattle  ^,.^.,^...^^.. 1  85  a  5  50 

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THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSUBE. 


August  30, 1888 


Farm  Notes. 

CliBAN  UP  THB  FABU. 

What  an  argument  for  "farming  the 
corners"  is  the  advice  given  by  Prof.  S. 
A.  Povbes,  Illinois  State  Entomologist: 
"Pick  up  boards,  rails  and  sticks  along 
roadsides  and  around  headlands  this  fall, 
and  thoroughly  burn  over  the  borders  of 
the  fields  and  similar  places,  thickets, 
woodlands,  etc.,  late  this  fall."  All  this 
to  destroy  chinch  bugs.  Ill  health  is 
generally  found  where  there  is  filth — dis 
ease  comes  from  foulness.  Cleanliness 
■and  neatness  in  person  and  house  with  its 
surroundings  keeps  oS  much  sickness. 
Death  and  destruction  to  crops  follow 
dirty  farming.  He  who  keeps  his  road- 
sides, farmyards  and  fence  corners  clean 
for  their  tidy  look,  and  farms  the  corners 
for  the  profit  in  it,  does  wiser  than  he 
thinks.  He  does  much  to  keep  off  the 
foul  brood  of  bugs.  He  not  only  gets 
money  from  the  comers  themselves,  but 
also  gets  more  from  the  fields,  of  which 
they  form  a  part,  by  preventing  the  de- 
struction of  crops  by  insect  pests.  Clean 
up,  clean  up  now,  and  next  spring  farm 
every  corner  of  your  farm  if  you  have  to 
summer  fallow  some  of  the  "fields"  to 
get  time  to  do  it.  How  much  of  the  $15, 
000,000  lost  in  the  crops  of  Illinois  in 
1887  by  the  ravages  of  the  chinch  bug 
alone  was  due  to  the  neglected  corners, 
fence  rows,  clumps  of  thickets  and  piles 
of  rubbish  in  the  fields  and  barnyards  of 
our  farms,  which  gave  homes  to  these  de- 
structive pests? 

Farmers  of  Illinois,  clean  up  your 
farms!  Go  at  it  unitedly,  systematically, 
and  do  it  thoroughly — do  it  now.  Burn 
every  old  dry  thing  on  the  place,  either 
by  running  fires,  bon-fires,  or  as  fire 
wood. 

The  improvement  in  the  looks  of  some 
farms  would  add  dollars  to  their  selling 
value.  It  may  add  hundreds  of  dollars 
to  their  producing  value.  Farmers  can 
all  be  Protectionists  and  Prohibitionists 
in  this  matter,  and  they  ought  to  be  Free- 
traders in  means  of  helpfulness  to  rid 
their  farms  of  everything  that  makes  har- 
bors for  insect  pests,  especially  chinch 
bugs.  Perhaps  the  destructive  chinch 
bug  may  prove  a  blessing  in  disguise. 

MAKING  MANURE. 

Upon  well  regulated  "farms,  where  the 
work  is  done  systematically  (and  the  two 
generally  go  together),  it  is  usually  the 
custom  to  draw  out  what  manure  there  is 
in  and  about  the  yards  as  soon  as  the 
small  grains  are  harvested.  After  the 
yards  are  all  thoroughly  cleaned  it  is  a 
good  plan  to  draw  into  them  any  old  stack 
bottoms  or  straw  piles  that  may  be  in  the 
stack  yard  or  the  field.  In  this  way  a 
triple  good  is  accomplished.  The  yard 
and  field  is  rid  of  an  unsightly  vermin 
harbor,  the  foundation  laid  for  a  good 
supply  of  manure  for  next  season,  and 
the  yard  is  made  cleanly  for  the  stock. 
After  the  yard  is  ready,  look  about  and 
see  if  there  are  any  ways  in  which  you 
can  make  a  larger  amount  of  manure  the 
coming  season  than  you  have  usually. 
It  is  generally  admitted  that  no  one  com- 
mercial fertilizer  is  equal  to  good  barn- 
yard manure  for  all  purposes  If  this  is 
true,  every,  farmer  ought  to  aim  to  make 
sa  much  as  possible;  for  when  the  ma- 
nure cart  stops  the  crop  stops.  If  you 
have  no  shed  in  which  to  store  and  com- 
post your  manure  till  ready  to  draw  upon 
the  land,  it  is  a  good  plan  to  put  together 
in  a  pile  all  the  small  lots  of  manure 
from  the  horse  and  cow  stables,  the  calf 
and  pig  pens,  the  sheep  yards  and  poul- 
try houses.  Do  this  each  day  as  they  are 
cleaned  out.  Throw  upon  this  all  the 
house  slops  that  are  not  suitable  for  the 
pigs  to  drink,  ashes  and  refuse  of  house, 
wood  yard  and  garden.  In  this  way  you 
will  keep  your  sheds,  yards  and  garden 
clean  and  neat,  and  at  the  same  time  be 
making  a  good  lot  of  the  best  manure. 

The  horse  may  be  trusted  to  gauge  his 
thirst,  except  on  occasions  of  extreme  ex- 
ertion. That  horses  are  the  better  for 
being  watered  before  they  are  fed  is  an 
admitted  fact  with  all  veterinary  surgeons. 
Colic  and  gripes  are  thus  avoided.  The 
explanation  given  is  this:  When  the  stom- 
ach is  ful1,water,  passing  rapidly  through 
the  stomach,  on  the  way  is  very  apt  to 
carry  with  it  into  the  sm&U  intestines  un- 
digested corn, and  this  produces  local  irri- 
tation. There  is  less  danger  in  watering 
a  horse  actively  warm  than  when  the  sys- 
tem is  somewhat  lowered.  Soft  water  is 
better  for  all  stock,  and  on  no  account 
let  horsep  drink  dirty  water;  it  is  very  ob- 
jectionable. 


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"My  wife  liad  a. distressing  cough, 
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"  I  have  been  afHicted  with  asthma 
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incessant  cough  wliich  deprived  me  of 
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Pectoral.  I  have  found  it,  also,  invalu- 
able in  cases  of  Whooping  Cough."  — 
Ann  Lovejoy,  1257  Washington  street, 
Boston,  Mass. 

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BT  OBBAT  HBN  IN  THB     8TATB. 

Qeorge  Washington,  in  a  letter  written 
\  year  before  hia  death:  "I  preside  over 
no  lodge,  nor  have  I  been  in  one  more 
than  once  or  twice  during  the  last  thirty 
years." 

President  Millard  Fillmore,  J.  C.  8pen- 
eer  and  ot/iers:  "The  Mf,aonic  fraternity 
tramples  upon  our  rights,  defeats  the  ad- 
ministration of  justice,  and  bids  defiance 
to  every  government  which  it  cannot  con- 
trol." 

Chief  Justice  John  Marshall:  "The  in- 
stitution of  Masonry  ought  to  be  aban- 
doned as  one  capable  of  much  evil  and 
incapable  of  produciug  any  good  which 
might  not  be  effected  by  safe  and  open 
means." 

John  QuiKcy  Ada'ns:  "1  am  prepared 
to  complete  the  d  ^jmonstration  before 
God  and  man,  that  the  Masonic  oaths, 
obligations  and  penalties  cannot  by  ary 
possibility  be  reconciled  to  the  laws  of 
morality,  of  Christianity,  or  of  the  land." 

General  A.  W.  Rileyx — I  hold  that  the 
difference  between  the  Christian  and  a 
heathen  religion  is,  that  one  has  morality 
and  the  >  >ther  has  not.  And  when  our 
churches  .'efupe  to  speak  of  such  subjects 
as  slavery,  linior-selling  and  secret  socie- 
ties, they  a',  e  becoming  heathen  religions; 
that  is,  religions  without  morals . 

Oha/rles  Francis  Adams:  "Every  man 
who  takes  a  Masonic  oath  forbids  himself 
from  divulging  any  criminal  act,  unless 
it  might  be  murder  or  treason,  that  may 
be  communicated  to  him  under  the  seal 
of  fraternal  bond,  even  though  such  con- 
cealment were  to  prove  a  burden  upon  his 
conscience  and  a  violation  of  hi8|bounden 
duty  to  society  and  to  his  Qod." 

Oha/rles  Sumner:  "I  find  two  powers 
here  in  Washington  in  harmony,  and  both 
are  antagonistical  to  our  free  institutions, 
and  tend  to  centralization  and  anarchy — 
Freemasonry  and  Slavery;  and  they 
must  both  be  destroyed  if  our  country  is 
to  be  the  home  of  the  free,  as  our  ances- 
tors designed  it." 

Disraeli,  Lord  Beaconsfleld;la  conduct- 
ing the  goverr  ments  of  the  world  there 
are  not  only  so  rereigns  and  ministers,  but 
secret  orders  to  be  considered,  which  have 
agents  everywhere — reckless  agents,  who 
countenance  a8s<»ssination,  and,  if  neces- 
sa^,  can  produce  a  massacre . " 

General  J.  W.  Pheips: — All  secrt !;  or- 
ganizations are  links  of  one  andthe.iame 
chain  which  binds  men  to  evil  and  not  *o 
good.  The  Masonic  lodge  is  the  pitrent 
source  from  which  all  similar  modern  or- 
ganizations have  emanated  and  this  lodge 
is  now  in  active  operation  in  every  city 
and  considerable  village  of  the  country 
swaying  our  parties  and  churches;  filling 
our  offices,  secular  and  divine,  with  its 
partisans;  shaping  our  political  destinies; 
and  teaching  a  spurious  and  corrupt- 
ing morality  subversive  both  of  the  Chris- 
tian religion  and  of  free  institutions. 

Thurlow  Weed:  "I  now  look  back 
through  an  interval  of  fifty-six  years  with 
a  conscious  sense  of  having  been  gov- 
erned through  the  Anti-masonic  excite- 
ment by  a  sincere  desire,  first  to  vindicate 
the  violated  laws  of  my  country,  and  next 
to  arrest  the  great  power  and  dangerous 
influences  of  secret  societies." 

A.  M.Sullivan,  Irish  Leader:  I  had  not 
studied  in  vain  the  history  of  secret,oath- 
bound  associations.  I  regarded  them  with 
horror.  I  knew  all  that  could  be  said  as 
to  their  advantages  in  revolutionizing  a 
country,  but  even  in  the  firmest  and  best 
of  hands  they  had  a  direct  tendency  to 
demoralization  and  are  often  on  the 
whole  more  perilous  to  society  than  open 
tyranny." 

Hon.  Bdwa/rd  Blake.Uader  in  Canadian 
Parliament,  March,  I884:  "I  am  not  in 
favor  of  State  recognition  of  any  secret 
societies.  I  have  never  joined  one,though 
many  of  my  best  friends  are  members  of 
secret  societies.  But  I  believe  the  ten- 
dency of  secrecy  iteelf  to  be  injurious.  I 
believe  that  it  brings  with  it  the  possibili- 
ty of  evil;  I  believe  that  it  involves  a  cer- 
tain amount  of  sacrifice  of  individuality 
and  independence,  and  gives  very  great 
facilities  for  the  misleading  of  members 
by  designing  leaders-very  great  and  mis- 
chievous facilities  for  that  purpose."  "1 
believe  that  a  great  deal  of  the  trouble, 
social  and  political,  that  has  occurred  in 
those  countries  [Europe  and  America]  U 
due  to  Beoret  societies . " 


George  >ra»Ainy<on(toQov.TrumbulI).- 
"Masonry  is  a  benevolent  institution, 
which  may  be  employed  for  the  best  or 
worst  purposes . " 

Sdteard  Everett:  "A.  secret  society  so 
widely  diffused  and  connected  as  this 
puts  a  vast  power,  capable  of  the  most 
dangerous  abuse,  into  hands  irrei  iponsi- 
ble  to  the  public." 

Ricfiard  Bush:  Hooker,  perd  unify- 
ing law,  eloquently  exclaims,  '  "her  ^eat 
is  the  bosom  of  God,  her  voice  the  har- 
mony of  the  world;  everything  on  earth 
does  her  homage,  the  highest  is  not  be- 
yond her  control,  the  least  as  claiming 
her  protection."  Masonry  has  overset 
this  primordial  system.  She  has  dethron- 
ed this  image  of  God  upon  earth.  To 
reinstate  it  over  so  insolent  a  victor,  we 
must  have  a  political  organization.  There 
is  no  other  way  of  assaulting,  there  is  no 
other  hope  of  vanquishing,  there  need  be 
no  other  dream  of  humbling  such  a  foe . 
It  fights  with  desperation. 

Wendell  Philips:  "History  shows  them 
perverting  justice,  stopping  at  no  crime 
to  protect  and  conceal  their  mummeries; 
controlling  politics  for  selfish  and  person- 
al ends,  and  interfering  with  great  dan- 
ger in  national  emergencies.  Every  good 
citizen  should  make  war  on  all  secret  so- 
cieties, and  give  himself  no  rest  until  they 
are  forbidden  by  law  and  rooted  out  of 
existence." 

John  Hancock:  "I  am  opposed  to  all 
secret  associations." 

James  Madison:  "Prom  the  number 
and  character  of  those  who  now  support 
the  charges  against  Masonry,  I  cannot 
doubt  that  it  is  at  least  susceptible  of 
abuse,  outweighing  any  advantages 
promised  by  its  patrons." 

General  U.  8.  Grant: — All  secret,  oath- 
bound  political  parties  are  dangerous  to 
any  nation,  no  matter  how  pure  or  how 
patriotic  the  motives  and  principles  which 
first  bring  them  together. 

Myron  HoUey  of  New  York:  — "Such  a 
rebeUion  Freemasonry  has  raised.  It  has 
violated  the  dearest  rights  of  nature,  and 
the  most  sacred  enactments  of  our  laws, 
and  this  in  a  spirit  manifestly  treasonable, 
for  it  has  done  this  in  pursuance  of  sol- 
emn, deliberate  and  voluntary  obligations 
to  a  foreign  government, — I  mean  its  own 
— a  government  far  more  alien  to  that 
which  claims  our  allegiance  than  any 
which  has  ever  afflicted  maikind  " 

Oerrit  Smith,  in  an  addi  vss,  1870: — 
Masonry  murdered  Morgan.  If  it  could 
not  conceal  his  murderen,  it  never- 
theless protected  them .  It  overrode  the 
1&W£  of  the  land  and  ruled  t>;'«,  courts  and 
the  ballot-boxes.  Moreover,  it  is  capable 
of  repeating  the  crimes.  Why  then 
should  we  not  dread  secret  &  jcieties,  and 
'}o  what  we  can  to  bring  them  to  an 
end? 

William  Wirt:  "If  this  be  Masonry,  as 
according  to  uncontradicted  evidence  it 
seems  to  be,  I  have  no  hesitation  in  say- 
ing that  I  consider  it  at  war  with 
the  fundamental  principles  of  the 
social  compact,  and  a  wicked  conspiracy 
against  the  laws  of  God  and  man,  that 
ought  to  be  put  down. 

Joseph  Ritner,  governor  of  Pennsylva- 
nia, 1837: — "If  it  be  true  as  the  lament- 
ed Colder/  (himself  one  of  the  initiated) 
declared  tbit  many  a  Mason  became  a 
groat  Zian  but  no  great  man  ever  became 
a  Mason,  how  nearly  does  it  concern  the 
youth  of  our  country  to  pause  and  re- 
fiect  before  they  commit  their  present 
standing  and  future  reputation  to  the 
keeping  of  a  society,  which  for  its  cold- 
hearted  and  selfish  purposes  could  im- 
molate even  the  fame  of  Washington  at 
the  shrine  of  its  abominations . " 

Levns  Tappan,  private  journal,  18 H: — 
"Dr.  Dixwellgave  me  lectures  on  Mason- 
ry at  his  house."  "In  September  left 
the  lodge."  Letter,  Jan.  SI,  1829:—  "I 
am  free  to  say  tbst  I  henceforth  renounce 
Freemasonry,  coi  «:dering  it  a  useless  and 
profane  iu^titvitiCi  tt." 

George  Washington,  to  friends  in  179Jf, 
quoted  by  Myron  Hollty: — "The  real  peo- 
ple occasionally  assembled  in  order  to  ex- 
press their  sentiments  on  political  senti- 
ments, ought  never  to  be  confounded 
with  permanent,  self-appointed  societies, 
usurping  the  right  to  control  constituted 
authorities,  and  to  dictate  to  public  opin- 
ion. WhUe  the  former  was  entitled  to 
respect,  the  latter  was  Incompatible  with 
all  g  wernment,  and  must  either  sink  into 
general  dis-esteem,  or  finally  overturn  the 
established  order  of  things." 


Charles  Francis  Adams:  "A  more  per- 
fect agent  for  the  devising  and  execution 
of  conspiracies  against  church  and  state 
could  scarcely  have  been  conceived." 

ThMddeus  Stevens:  "By  Freemasonry, 
trial  by  jury  is  transformed  into  an  en 
gine  of  despotism  and  Masonic  fraud." 

Judge  Pliny  Merrick  (a  seceded  Mason) . 
— If  ever  a  Chapter  or  a  lodge  shall  es- 
tablish laws  in  conflict  with  those  of  the 
state  the  Masonic  requisition  is  obedience 
to  the  lodge  and  conflict  with  the  state: 
and  if  a  member  hesitates  at  this  humili- 
ating obedience,  his  heart  must  be  "torn 
from  his  bosom,"  his  "vitals  plucked 
from  his  body,"  and  Masonic  vengeance, 
not  satisfied  with  this  bloody  immolation, 
denies  a  resting  place  to  the  motionless 
remains,  but  they  are  to  be  "burnt  to 
ashes  and  scattered  to  the  winds." 

Samv4l  C.  Pomeroy,  in  an  address, 
1883:-"Th.eie  may  be  a  broad  distinction 
between  the  good  and  the  bad  in  secret 
societies,  but  as  they  all  alike  have  oath 
bound  obligations  to  complete  oblivion  o? 
all  they  do  or  say,  I  have  no  means  of 
judging  the  good  from  the  bad.  So  I  turn 
away  from  them  all  to  the  great  Teach- 
er who  said,  "In  secret  have  I  said  noth- 
ing." 

Judge  Daniel  H.  Whitney,  (renoVicing 
Mason):  While  professed  ministers  of 
the  Gospel  and  members  of  churches  are 
permitted  to  associate  themselvea  with 
these  organizations,  the  task  to  epply  a 
remedy  will  be  a  hopeless  one;  and  just 
so  long  will  the  declaration  made  to  me 
not  long  since  by  a  high  Mason  and  a 
worthy  man  prove  true,  that  "a  Masonic 
lodge  is  the  strangest  medley  r'l  priests 
and  murderers — deacons  and  whoremas- 
ters— church  members  and  gamblers — de- 
cent men  and  loafers — drunkards  and 
rowdies,  that  the  All  Seeing-Eye  ever 
looked  down  upon." 

Hon.  Samuel  Dexter,  in  an  ften  letter  to 
the  Grand  Master  of  Mass.,  1798:  "If 
there  be  no  very  important  reason  for 
upholding  Masonry  at  a  moment  like  the 
present,  there  is  a  reason  against  it.  The 
system  of  the  destroyers  of  human  vi  rtue 
and  happiness  is  to  undermine  in  the 
dark  the  castle  that  cannot  be  carriec  by 
storm.  Secret  agency  has  overthrv^wn 
all  the  republics  of  Europe,  and  an  js. 
tended,  secret,  leveling,  self-creattd  so- 
ciety, without  any  valuable  object  of 
pursuit,  and  embracing  bad  characters  as 
well  as  good,  cannot  be  the  subject  of  ap- 
probation of  an  anxious  patriot." 

WiUiam  H.  Seward:  "Before  I  would 
place  my  hand  between  the  hands  of  otY  - 
er  men  in  a  secret  lodge,  order,  class,  (  r 
council,  and,  bending  on  my  knee  befa  e 
them,  enter  into  conbination  with  theia 
for  any  object,  perse  nal  or  political,  good 
or  bad,  I  would  pray  to  God  that  that 
hand  and  that  knee  might  be  paralyzed, 
and  that  I  might  bocome  an  object  of 
pity  and  even  the  mockery  of  my  fellow - 
men." 

Wendell  Phillips:  "I  wish  you  success 
most  heartily  in  your  efforts  to  arouse  the 
community  to  the  danger  of  secret  soci- 
eties. They  are  a  great  evil;  entirely 
out  of  place  in  a  republic,  and  no  patriot 
should  join  or  uphold  them.  Consider- 
ing the  great  forces  which  threaten  the 
welfare  of  the  nation  in  the  next  thirty 
years,  and  how  readily  and  efficiently  they 
can  use  any  secret  organizations,  such 
should  not  be  allowed  to  exist." 

George  Washington's  Farewell  Address: 
"The  very  idea  of  the  power  and  the  right 
of  the  people  to  establish  government  pre 
supposes  the  duty  of  every  individual  to 
obey  the  established  government.  All 
obstructions  to  the  execution  of  the  laws, 
all  combinations  and  associations,  under 
whatever  plausible  character,  with  the 
real  design  to  direct,  control,  counteract, 
or  awe  the  regular  deliberation  and  action 
of  the  constituted  authorities,  are  de- 
structive of  this  fundamental  principle, 
and  of  fatal  tendency." 

Daniel  Webster:  "All  secret  associa 
lious,  the  members  of  which  take  upon 
themselves  extraordinary  obligations  to 
one  another,  and  arc  bound  together  by 
secret  oaths,  are  naturally  sources  uf 
jealousy  and  just  alarm  to  others;  are  es- 
pecially unfavorably  to  harmony  and  mu- 
tual confidence  among  men  living  togeth 
er  under  popular  institutions,  and  are 
dangerous  to  the  general  cause  of  civil 
liberty  and  just  government.  Under  the 
influence  of  this  conviction  I  heartily  ap 
proved  the  law,  lately  enacted  in  the  State 
of  which  I  am  a  citizen,  for  abolishing  all 
•uch  oaths  and  obligations." 


James  G  .Birne,  1,  candidate  of  the  Liber- 
ty party  for  Pres.  dent,  was  a  Freemason, 
"but  never  entere  i  a  lodge  after  he  joined 
the  church,  and,  as  >^is  sons  grew  up,  he 
cautioned  them  against  joining  any  se- 
cret order." —  Gen.  Wm.  Birney. 

Ch  irles  P.  Sumner,  j  ither  of  tTie  Sen- 
ator, \nd  a  renouncing  JL'i'on: — Masonic 
engag 'iments,  whether  they  are  called 
oathE,  -obligations,  or  promises,  ought 
never  to  be  made .  They  are  not  sanc- 
tione(?  by  law  and  ire  not  obligatory. 
They  make  it  a  Masonic  crime  to  divulge 
that  which  the  good  c  f  the  community 
regtives  should  not  be  ;oncealed. 

Bon.  Ezra  Butl-^'.eOi  Governor  of  Ver- 
mont:— One  Masonic  o^'j^ation  requires 
that  a  Mason  shall  voVe  for  a  brother  in 
preference  to  any  other  person  of  equal 
qualificationt/.  Is  not  this  political  Ma- 
lonry?  The  Masons  in  Vermont  are 
about  one-twent  eth  part  of  the  freemen, 
and  they  hold  1  bout  'hree  fourths  of  all 
the  important  Oi  iices  in  the  State.  Is  this 
owing  to  their  superior  fitness,  or  to  po- 
litical Masonry? 

Philo  Carpenter: — This  saint  of  God 
(Moses  Stuart)  like  the  old  prophets,  was 
satisfied  with  the  institutions  and  ordi- 
nances of  God's  house,  and  consequently 
did  not  giv<>  his  influence  or  aid  in  sup- 
plementing the  same  with  human  ordi- 
nances and  worldly  alliances;  in  other 
words,  ho  was  opposed  to  secret,  oath- 
bound  societies,  into  which  many  good 
men,  and  even  clergymen,  have  been, 
and  are  being  "ensnared" 

Eon.  CadwaUader  C.  Colden,  Mayor  of 
New  Yyrk  and  M.  C. : — It  is  true  that  I 
have  been  a  Mason  a  great  number  of 
years,  and  that  I  have  held  very  high 
Masonic  offices  and  honors.  It  is  equally 
true  that  I  have  for  a  long  time  ceased  to 
have  any  connection  with  the  institution 
because  I  have  believed,  and  do  now  be- 
lieve, it  is  productive  of  much  more  evil 
than  good.  I  have  long  entertained  my 
present  opinion,  tl  f  .t  a  man  who  would 
eschew  all  evil  sTiot '  i  not  be  a  Freemason. 

Horace  Greeley:— 'tA&VLj  persons  were 
brought  to  trial  oc,  *r"X)unt  of  the  mur- 
der of  Morgan,  but  ao  one  was  judicially 
found  guilty  c  f  murder.  It  was  estab- 
lished by  secei  lin  ,  Masons  that  the  oaths 
— at  least  in  so  mo  of  the  highest  degrees 
— that  were  administered,  and  taken  by 
those  admitted  to  Masonic  lodges,  dis- 
qualified them  from  serving  as  jurors  in 
any  case  where  a  brother  Mason  of  like 
degree  was  e  party,  and  his  antagonist 
was  not. 

Hon.  Seth  M.  Gates,  ex- Mat m: — Pro- 
foundly convinced  by  Ion  ;  experi- 
ence and  observation  that  Freema- 
sonry is  an  evil  and  pei  oicious  institu 
tion.  I  wish  once  more  .  n  my  o>ivanced 
age  tc  lift  my  warning  voice  publicly 
agains  ,  't  and  all  kindred  organizations, 
and  to  beseech  Christian  men  to  have  no 
connection  or  fellowship  with  them. 
Jesus  io  not,  and  cannot  properly  be  rec- 
ognized in  Freemasonry.  He  must  be 
ignored  in  the  lodge-room,  in  its  lectures, 
instructions,  and  in  its  prayers. 

Hon.  Heman  Lincoln,  ex- Governor, 
Mass  .-—Freemasonry,  as  a  distinct,  inde- 
pendent government  within  our  own  gov- 
ernment, and  beyond  the  control 
of  the  laws  of  the  land,  by  means 
of  its  secrecy  and  the  oaths  and  regula- 
tions which  its  subjects  are  bound  to  obey 
under  penalties  of  death,  has  occupied 
much  of  the  attention  of  the  committee. 
.  .  .  We  believe,  in  the  language  of  the 
Edinburgh  i?0i»'«u,  that  all  secret  societies 
are  justly  deemed  odious,  wherever  the 
government  is  tolerably  free,  and  can 
only  be  excused  where  the  existence  of 
arbitrary  power,  foreign  or  domestic, 
leaves  no  other  means  of  escaping  from 
hopeless  slavery. 

Gen.  Henry  SewaU,  a  companion  of 
Washington:— I  was  initiated  an  Entered 
Apprentice  to  the  Masonic  rites  in  Octo- 
ber, 1777,  at  Albany,  soon  after  the 
capture  of  Burgoyne,  being  then  an  offi- 
cer in  the  American  army.  ...  I 
wr;  led  by  the  influence  of  this  "perfect 
rule  of  faith  and  practice,"  during  the 
year  1784,  to  view  speculative  Masonry 
in  a  shape  still  more  deformed.  It£  char- 
ity appeared  to  be  selfishness,  because  re- 
stricted to  its  own  members;  its  religion 
deism  because  entirely  devoid  of  the 
Gospel.  Its  history  appeared  fabulous; 
its  claims  to  antiquity  unsustainable;  its 
titles  fulsome;  its  rites  barbarout  and 
absurd;  its  oaths  extra-judicial,  unlaw- 
fully Imposed  and  blindly  taken,  and  the 
penal  sanctions  annexed,  horrid  and  im- 
pious. 


16 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


August  30, 1888 


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Nfws  of  The  week 


WASHINGTON. 

The  House  Monday  passed  the  Chinese 
bills,  with  an  amendment  that  upon  the 
ratification  of  the  pending  treaty  only, 
shall  the  repealing  clause  go  into  effect. 

Monday  Mr.  Anderson  of  Iowa  pre- 
sented a  bill  to  define  trusts  and  to  pro- 
vide for  the  punishment  of  persons  con- 
nected with  them.  Also  a  resolution  pro- 
viding for  the  printing  of  10,000  extra 
copies  of  the  report  of  the  Pacific  Rail- 
road Commission,  which  he  declares  dis- 
closes scandalous  law-breaking  on  the 
part  of  the  management. 

POLITICAIi. 

Mr.  Thurman,  lemocratic  candidate 
for  Vice  President,  made  his  first  cam- 
paign trip  last  week  to  Toledo,  Detroit, 
Fort  Huron,  and  Chicago.  He  was 
greeted  by  large  crowds,  and  was  well 
satisfied  with  his  ability  to  address  large 
crowds.  His  arguments  were  mainly  on 
the  tariff. 

Col.  Geo.  0.  Jones  of  the  Riggs  House, 
Washington,  chairman  of  the  National 
Committee  of  the  Greenback  party, 
has  issued  a  call  for  a  National  Conven- 
tion of  that  party,  to  be  held  in  Cincin- 
nati, September  12th  next.,  to  nominate 
candidates  for  President  aad  Vice  Presi- 
dent. 

The  Chairman  of  the  Democratic  Cen- 
tral Committee  of  North  Carolina  has 
addressed  a  large  number  of  circulars  to 
the  employes  of  the  Pension  and  other 
departments  at  Washington,  soliciting 
contributions  to  a  campaign  fund.  This 
is  a  direct  violation  of  the  civil -service 
law,  and  is  being  winked  at  by  the  officers 
in  charge. 

COUNTRY. 

A  cyclone  swept  over  Eastern  Mary- 
land Tuesday  afternoon,  demolishing 
houses  and  orchards  and  wrecking  the 
canning  establishment  at  Still  Pond,  in 
which  were  100  men,  women  and  children, 
mostly  Bohemians  and  Germans  from 
Baltimore,  and  killed  nine;  three  were 
dangerously  hurt,  and  a  number  were 
slightly  injured. 

Through  trains  were  run  Friday  on  the 
main  lines  east  of  Pittsburg  of  the  Penn- 
sylvania and  the  Baltimore  and  Ohio 
roads  for  the  first  time  since  Tuesday's 
flood. 

During  a  heavy  fog  in  the  bay  of  San 
Francisco  Wednesday  morning  the  steam- 
er Oceanica  ran  into  the  City  of  Chester, 
damaging  her  so  badly  that  she  went 
down  in  five  minutes.  Over  thirty  per- 
sons were  drowned. 

At  Bradford,  Pennsylvania,  Wednesday 
night,  while  Edward  Duell  was  com- 
pounding colored  fire  in  a  gas  pipe,  at  a 
Q.  A.  R  celebration,  it  exploded,  killing 
him  and  two  others,  and  wounding  still 
others. 

An  explosion  of  20,000  pounds  of 
black  powder  occurred  in  the  drying 
house  of  the  Giant  Powder  Company 
near  West  Berkeley,  Friday.  Two  white 
men  and  three  Chinamen  were  killed. 

Sunday  afternoon  the  engineers  and 
firemen  of  the  Evansville  and  Terre 
Haute  railroad,  Evansville  and  Indianap- 
olis, and  the  Peoria,  Decatur  and  Evans 
ville  railroad,  known  as  the  Mackey  sys- 
tem, were  ordered  out  on  a  strike  by  or- 
der of  Chief  Arthur  and  Caief  Sargent. 
Two  hundred  men  left  their  engines. 
The  trouble  is  about  the  employment  of 
Master  Mechanic  Smith  at  Mattoon,  III. 
The  men  claim  that  he  has  discharged 
men  without  cause  and  is  working  against 
their  interests. 

Two  agents  left  Trinidad,  Col.,  to  arbi- 
trate the  rights  of  the  Maxwell  grantees 
and  the  settlers,  if  possible  The  sheriff's 
posse,  which  was  besieged  in  a  house  at 
Stonewall,  made  its  escape.  One  of  the 
settlers  was  killed  and  nine  wounded  in 
the  fight. 

A  team  of  horses  was  stung  to  death 
by  bees  at  Findlay,  O.,  Aug.  20.  A  boy 
drove  the  horses  past  a  bee-hive,  when 


the  insects  came  out  in  a  body  and  at- 
tacked the  animals.  In  less  than  thirty 
minutes  after  the  attack  was  over  both 
the  horses  were  dead. 

The  yellow-fever  scourge  is  visiting 
Jacksonville,  Florida,  with  some  severity. 
Vigorous  efforts  have  been  made  to  check 
the  disease,  but  Aug.  26  nine  new  cases 
were  reported,  and  there  were  two  deaths. 
Two  cases  were  discharged  cured.  There 
have  been  an  even  100  cases  all  told, 
many  light,  with  marked  yellow-fever 
symptoms,  and  believed  to  be  remittent 
or  bilious  fever.  The  infected  district  is 
gradually  enlarging.  It  looks  now  as  if 
the  ending  of  this  epidemic  is  a  matter  of 
intelligent  and  energetic  work,  but  one 
of  no  small  magnitude. 

Violent  windstorms  swept  over  Louis- 
iana, Southern  Maryland,  Delaware  and 
New  Jersey  Tuesday,  leveling  houses, 
fences,  and  growing  crops.  Along  the 
Lower  Mississippi  a  large  number  of  coal 
boats  were  damaged  or  destroyed,  the 
loss  in  this  particular  being  estimated  at 
$500,000.  At  Wilmington,  Del.,  a  cy- 
clone wrecked  the  iron  works  of  the 
Mablow  Bros.,  and  carried  away  100  feet 
of  Pusey  &  Jones's  iron  works,  and  cross- 
ing to  the  river,  upset  a  number  of  boats, 
causing  the  loss  of  two  lives.  At  Bos- 
ton the  Journal  press-room  is  under  wa- 
ter. 

A  flash  of  lightning  recently  killed 
eighteen  head  of  blooded  horses  valued 
at  $20,000,  and  owned  by  George  Rains- 
ford  of  Wyoming  Territory. 

A  cyclone  struck  Marquette,  Mich., 
Monday  afternoon,  and  many  buildings 
were  partly  demolished,  but  no  lives  were 
lost. 

The  Whitney  Paper  Mill  at  Menasha, 
Wis., caught  fire  in  the  engine  room  about 
midnight  Wednesday,  and  an  hour  later, 
when  several  hundred  persons  were 
watching  the  flames,  a  superheated  bleach 
rotary  boiler,  suddenly  cooled  by  streams 
of  water  thrown  by  the  firemen,  exploded, 
and  the  entire  mass,  weighing  about  ten 
tons,  was  blown  through  the  throng  a 
distance  of  about  300  feet,  killing  four- 
teen men  outright  and  injuring  about  as 
many  more.  The  dead  were  all  poor 
workmen.  Fourteen  persons  were  killed, 
three  or  four  fatally  injured,  twelve  or 
thirteen  suffering  from  broken  limbs  or 
serious  bruises,  and  a  good  many  others 
seriously  bruised  or  burned. 

FOBBIGN. 

The  steamer  Oceanic,  from  China  and 
Japan,  brings  advices  that  a  short  time 
since  at  Antique,  China,  a  Spanish  priest 
and  one  other  Spaniard  were  attacked 
by  a  horde  of  native  inhabitants  with  the 
intention  of  putting  the  priest  to  death, 
and  that  his  companion  fired  at  the  mob 
until  fifty  of  them  were  killed. 

The  latest  semi  -official  returns  from 
the  Bandaisan,  Japan,  earthquake  give 
the  number  of  persons  killed  at  476  and 
the  inj  ured  at  forty-one. 

Eight  hundred  workmen  at  Teng  Leon, 
China,  were  drowned  recently  by  an  in- 
undation. 

O  »ing  to  the  treatment  to  which  Mr. 
John  Dillon  is  subjected  in  Dundalk  jail, 
he  has  already  lost  seven  pounds,  and  his 
health  is  seriously  injured. 

Consul  Manton,  who  for  eighteen  years 
has  been  consul  at  CoUonia,  Uruguay, 
says  that  the  recent  emancipation  of 
slaves  by  Brazil  was  simply  a  sop  to  the 
large  number  of  the  southern  provinces 
of  the  empire.  The  inhabitants  of  these 
provinces,  he  said,  are  ripe  for  a  revolu- 
tion, and  it  is  likely  that  as  soon  as  Dom 
Pedro  dies  a  concerted  effort  will  be 
made  to  overthrow  the  throne  and  declare 
a  republic  in  Brazil. 

The  Berlin  newspapers  are  silent  on 
the  subject  of  the  arrests  which  are  made 
daily.  The  prisons  are  crowded  with 
men  and  women  charged  with  propaga- 
tion of  socialist  doctrines  and  the  utter- 
ance of  seditious  crits.  The  socialists 
continue  to  circulate  what  appears  to  be 
a  popular  fly-sheet. 

The  Emperor  William,  it  is  now  re- 
ported, will  not  visit  the  Vatican  unless 
the  Vatican  authorities  arrange  that  there 
shall  be  no  semblance  in  the  ceremony  of 
superiority.  The  Vatican  in  the  moan- 
time  declines  to  make  an  exception  of 
the  new  German  Emperor.  Cologne  pa- 
pers say  the  attitude  of  the  Pope  repre- 
sents an  absolute  abandonment  of  the 
papacy.  No  European  power  now  cares 
to  support  its  pretensions  to  be  the  spir- 
itual guide  of  the   people.      Emperor 


William  personally  desires  to  see  thePope. 
The  arrangements  at  the  Vatican  are  to 
receive  him  with  the  usual  ceremonies, 
and  the  Pope  refuses  to  allow  any  back- 
stairs conference.  The  ceremonial  has 
been  acceded  to  by  Emperor  William  as 
the  head  of  the  German  people.  Within 
court  circles  it  is  known  that  Prince  Bis- 
marck has  had  trouble  in  persuading  the 
Emperor  to  submit  to  the  Papal  ceremo- 
nial. 


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True  happiness  will  oft  be  found. 
Where  ruby  lips  and  glowing  cheek 
The  gift  of  rugged  health  bespeak, 
The  artist,  Nature's  nobleman. 
Will  risk  the  treasure  of  his  art. 
Depicting,  deftly  as  he  can. 
The  lines  engraven  on  his  heart. 
Fair  maiden,  may  life's  richest  joy 
Spread  her  bright  mantle  over  thee; 
May  years  but  gently  with  you  toy. 
And  pleasures  sweet,  without  alloy. 
With  fairest  blossoms  cover  thee; 
But  should,  perchance, thy  beauty  fade, 
Thou  cans't  call  quickly  to  thy  aid 
Oar  Golden  Medical  Discovery. 
Remember  that  Pierce's  Golden  Medi- 
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eruptions  and  diseases  of  the  blood. 


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Notes  and  Comments 

Editorial  Correspondence. 
The  Sabbath  in  Chicago.. 
How  Stand  Tour  Candl- 

datesi 

Personal  Notes 

CONTBIBUTIONS : 

Bishop  Vail  and  the  Na- 
tional Reform  Associa- 
tion   

Secret  Societies  not  of  the 

One  Way 

A   Summer    with    the 

Churches 

Selected : 
Secret    Societies    In    the 

Two  Sicilies 

New  Englakd  Letter 

Washington  Letter 

COEBESPONDBNCa : 

A  Testimony  in  Florida ; 
The  Position  of  Dr. 
Brooks;  Pith  and  Point. 


Rbfobu  News  : 
Washington  Headquarter 
Notes;  He  Would  Not 
Defend  the  Lodge ;  Hos- 
pitality and  Sympathy; 
The  Colporteur  Work; 
Bro.  Davidson  Threat- 
ened Again 4, 5 

Cincinnati  Letter 9 

Literature 6 

Lodge  Notes 7 

The  N.  C.  a  7 

Will  the  ProhlbitionParty 
Refuse  the  Birthright? ....  9 

ThbHomb.... 10 

Temperance 11 

Bible  Lbsson 12 

Religious  News 12 

Home  AND  Health 13 

Donations 13 

Farm  Notes 14 

News  of  thb  Wbbk 16 

Business 13 

Markets 13 


We  join  the  protest  of  the  Iree  Methodist 
against  the  late  desecration  of  the  Lord's  day  at  a 
Prohibition  camp  meeting  in  Spencerport,  New  York. 
Rev.  J.  A.  Brooks  was  the  central  figure  of  the  oc- 
casion. It  is  not  clear  that  his  remarks  were  inap- 
propriate for  the  day,  but  his  presence  at  a  political 
meeting,  where  a  traflQc  in  refreshments  was  going 
on,  should  have  the  condemnation  of  every  man 
who  hopes  for  the  triumph  of  Prohibition.  Of  course, 
the  old  parties  condemn  the  act,  though  their  lead- 
ers have  much  less  concern  for  the  day  than  they 
have  for  gaining  a  vote. 


The  Washington  correspondent  of  the  News  of 
this  city,  writes  that  among  the  best  paid  campaign 
speakers  for  the  Republicans  in  1884  was  Alexander 
Sullivan,  of  this  city,  the  murderer  (unconvicted)  of 
the  teacher  Hanford.  This  year  he,  with  John  Fin- 
erty,  the  big  fighting  Irishman  and  ex- Congressman, 
and  R.  G  Ingersoll,  are  rated  at  $500  a  speech. 
For  the  Democrats  Henry  George  receives  a  like 
amount,  as  his  influence  is  supposed  to  be  still  great 
with  laboring  men.  Such  names  and  figures  indi- 
cate how  desperate  is  the  game  the  old  parties  are 
playing.  

The  Mormon  church  organ,  Deteret  News,  has  a 
correspondent  in  Chicago  who  is  capable  of  writing 
the  most  inveracious  jumbles  of  fact  and  fancy. 
He  closes  a  late  letter  to  the  Salt  Lake  organ,  after 
describing  the  iniquities  of  the  Gentiles  and  foretell- 
ing the  woes  impending,  with  these  words  of  peace 
for  the  Brighamites:  "Is  it  any  wonder  we  have 
dynamite  in  our  midst?  Is  it  any  wonder  that 
Pinkerton  is  chief  of  the  Brotherhood  of  Engineers? 
Is  it  any  wonder  we  have  a  Christian  PJndeavor  Con- 
vention? In  fact,  Christianity  at  present  is  but  an 
endeavor  to  keep  on  its  last  legs;  an  endeavor  to 
keep  above  water.  Is  it  any  wonder  we  have  seven 
political  parties  now  formed,  with  seven  more  in 
process  of  formation?,  All  will  come  right  for 
Utah  in  the  end." 


It  is  reported  that  the  young  Emperor  of  Ger- 
many is  inclined  to  be  hostile  toward  Freemasonry. 
His  immediate  predecessors,  father  and  grandfather, 
patronized  the  lodge.  Prof.  C.  M.  Mead,  writing  to 
the  Advance  from  Interlaken,  Switzerland,  says  that 
the  accession  of  William  II.  will  promote  evangel- 
ical religion  in  Germany.  The  reasons  for  this 
judgment  will  surprise  and  grieve  many  American 
readers.  He  claims  that  the  Empress  Victoria,  wife 
of  the  late  Frederick,  is  a  Free  Thinker  and  would 
have  exerted  her  influence  with  her  husband,  had  he 
lived,  to  organize  a  rationalistic  court.  The  new 
Emperor  is  a  religious  man  of  orthodox  views,  and 
his  wife,  says  Prof.  Mead,  is  "a  most  earnestly  re- 
ligious woman,  whose  influence  will  be  as  much  in 
the  right  direction  as  her  mother-in-law's  would  have 
been  in  the  wrong  one."  This  is  an  excellent  mes- 
sage concerning  the  young  ruler,  and  we  hope  there 
may  be  added  to  it  a  repudiation  of  some  of  his  war- 
like declarations,  which  come  not  well  from  a  Chris- 
tian man  opposed  to  secret  societies. 


A  meeting  of  colored  men  was  held  two  weeks 
ago  in  Geddes  Hall,  New  Orleans,  to  consider  the 
recent  slaughter  of  innocent  Negroes  in  the  country 
parishes  of  Louisiana.  Among  the  names  of  New 
Orleans  pastors  at  this  meeting  we  recognize  those 
of  Revs.  A.  S.  Jackson,  E.  Lyon  and  C.  B.  Mason, 
who  attended  the  N.  C.  A.  convention  last  February. 
The  address  adopted  by  the  convention  recounts 
several  bloody  massacres,  and  adds  the  painful 
truth,  "The  civil  authorities  are  in  sympathy  with 
the  crimes."  It  advises  the  Negroes  to  be  calm  and 
be  law-abiding;  to  expect  no  mercy  if  attacked,  and 
defend  their  homes  as  well  as  they  may  be  able; 
and  to  get  away  from  every  community  where  they 
cannot  live  quietly.  The  Negroes  are  too  much  in 
terror,  and  to  emigrate  they  have  no  means.  Their 
condition  is  sad,  perplexing,  and  to  the  nation  to  the 
last  degree  disgraceful.  The  discussion  of  these  in- 
famous crimes  has  again  begun  in  the  Senate.  Mr. 
Chandler  is  pushing  his  resolution  for  an  investiga- 
tion of  Louisiana  elections,  and  a  grand  war  of 
words  will  follow,  but  all  such  investigations  have 
of  late  proved  only  a  mockery.  The  colored  man 
gets  no  benefit  from  them.  They  furnish  an  argu- 
ment for  politicians,  and  that  is  the  end  of  it.  The 
Republicans  suggest  no  cure  for  the  evil  but  war, 
but  this  is  only  in  their  speeches.  Their  platform 
has  no  such  sentiment,  nor  would  General  Harrison, 
if  elected,  undertake  to  punish  the  assassins.  When 
Mr.  McKinley,  of  Ohio,  lately  went  to  Georgia  to 
speak,  he  said  no  word  about  the  outrages  to  warn 
or  advise  his  Southern  brethren,  but  only  argued  for 
tariff.  Either  the  South  must  be  persuaded  to  stop 
these  henious  murders,  or  there  must  be  a  political 
division  on  some  new  issue,  in  which  the  Negro  vote 
may  be  in  demand  on  both  sides. 


There  are  according  to  report  one  hundred  and 
fifty-six  pension  bills  pending  in  Congress,  and 
scores  are  put  through  in  a  lump  on  convenient 
days.  As  these  bills  are  generally  for  the  relief  of 
individual  cases  which  in  some  way  are  not  satis- 
factorily reached  by  the  general  pension  laws,  they 
indicate  to  what  an  extent  the  pension  business  is 
growing;  and  with  every  year  put  between  us  and 
the  war  this  business  increases.  The  annual  report 
of  the  commissioner  of  pensions  shows  that  during 
the  fiscal  year  ending  June  30,  1888,  there  were 
added  to  the  pension  rolls  62,280  names,  the  largest 
annual  increase  in  the  history  of  the  bureau,  mak- 
ing a  total  of  452,557  pensioners  on  the  rolls  at  the 
close  of  the  year,  as  follows:  326,835  invalids,  92,- 
928  widows,  minor  children  and  dependent  relatives, 
37  revolutionary  widows,  806  survivors  of  the  war 
of  1812,  10,787  widows  of  those  who  served  in  that 
war,  16,060  survivors  of  the  war  with  Mexico,  and 
5,104  widows  of  those  who  served  in  that  war. 
During  the  same  period  15,730  were  dropped  from 
the  rolls  on  account  of  death  and  various  other 
causes,  leaving  a  net  increase  to  the  rolls  of  46,- 
550  napes.  The  amount  paid  for  pensions  since 
1861  has  been  $963,086,444.  The  amount  of  pen- 
sions paid  during  the  year  was  $78,775,802,  an  in- 
crease over  the  previous  year  of  $5,308,280.    The 


total  amount  disbursed  by  pension  agents  for  all 
purposes  was  $79,646,146.  The  cost  attending  such 
disbursements  was  in  the  aggregate  $3,202,524. 
The  total  amount  expended  for  all  purposes  was 
$82,038,386,  being  21}  per  cent  of  the  total  esti- 
mated gross  income  of  the  United  States  Govern- 
ment for  the  period.  The  total  expenditures  of  the 
government  for  the  fiscal  year  1888  were  $267,924,- 
801,  so  that  the  amount  expended  for  and  on  ac- 
count of  pensions  was  nearly  31  por  cent  of  the 
entire  outlay  of  the  government. 

BISHOP  VAIL  AND  THB  NATIONAL  REFORM 
A8S0CIA  TION. 

BT   KEV.   M.  A.  OAULT. 


If  we  were  to  ask  the  average  Kansan  who  was 
the  most  popular  man  in  the  State,  he  would  most 
likely  say.  Bishop  Thomas  H.  Vail  of  Topska,  who 
is  at  the  head  of  Bethany  College.  For  a  quarter  of 
a  century  he  has  been  prominently  identified  with 
educational  and  church  work  in  the  State,  as  the 
leading  man  in  the  Episcopal  church. 

About  the  year  1872,  when  Dr.  D.  McAllister  was 
giving  bis  time  to  the  lecture  work  of  the  National 
Reform  Association,  he  held  a  convention  at  Leav- 
enworth, at  which  Bishop  Vail  took  a  prominent 
part,  acting  as  chairman,  and  making  an  address. 
He  was  interrupted  by  an  infidel  in  the  audience, 
who  asked  him  a  question  which  threw  the  Bishop 
on  his  metal,  and  aroused  him  thoroughly.  He  was 
put  on  the  list  of  vice-presidents  of  the  Association- 
but  years  afterward,  when  I  was  holding  conven- 
tions in  the  State,  I  called  on  him  a  number  of  times 
but  failed  to  interest  him  enough  to  attend  any  of 
our  conventions,  or  even  to  read  the  organ  of  the 
movement.  He  told  me  once,  that  as  long  as  the 
Association  confined  itself  to  the  single  idea  of 
recognizing  God  in  the  Constitution,  he  was  in  sym- 
pathy with  it;  but  when  it  began  to  incorporate  such 
questions  as  the  Sabbath,  and  Prohibition,  he  begged 
leave  to  object.  In  other  words,  he  was  willing  that 
the  nation  should  confess  God  as  the  Supreme  Ruler, 
provided  it  was  only  a  confession;  but  when  it  was' 
proposed  to  carry  out  that  profession,  by  applying 
God's  law  in  the  solution  of  great  political  ques- 
tions, like  the  Sabbath  and  Prohibition,  then  he 
must  enter  his  dissent.  And  this  is  about  where  a 
great  many  of  the  so-called  prominent  men  stand, 
whose  names  we  are  tempted  to  put  on  the  list  of 
our  vice-presidents. 

Bishop  Vail  confessed  to  me  that  he  was  a  Mason 
in  regular  standing,  and  that  he  had  never  found 
anything  in  the  oaths  and  obligations  of  Masonry 
inconsistent  with  his  Christianity.  When  the  editor 
of  the  Topeka  Capital  requested  the  ministers  of  the 
city  to  write  for  publication  their  answer  to  the  ques- 
tion, "Are  the  principles  of  Christianity  gaining 
ground,  or  are  they  declining?"  Bishop  Vail 
answered  by  saying,  that  the  influence  of  Christian- 
ity was  not  confined  to  the  church.  His  language 
was:  "Even  all  through  our  modern  society"  in  a 
large  number  of  associations  which  professedly 
have  no  connection  with  religion,  and  many  of  whose 
members  theoretically  reject  a  Divine  revelation,  this 
influence  of  the  precepts  of  Jesus  is  clearly  realized. 
The  principle  of  benevolence,  the  care  of  the  sick] 
and  of  the  widow,  and  of  the  orphan,  which  so 
largely  permeates  all  such  associations  as  the  Ma- 
sonic, the  Odd-fellow,  the  unions  of  every  class  and 
order,  comes  from  Christianity." 

Thus  the  Bishop  claims  these  Christless  orders  of 
darkness  as  the  offspring  of  Christianity.  We  are 
not  surprised,  then,  to  know  that  he  wrote  some  time 
ago  to  Dr.  Stevenson  of  Philadelphia,  to  take  his 
name  from  the  list  of  vice-presidents  of  the  National 
Reform  Association,  and  it  was  done. 

It  seems  to  me  that  what  our  Association  most 
needs  to  do  now,  is  to  push  our  lines  of  work  out 
so  practically  that  the  names  of  all  mere  nominal, 
theoretical  reformers  will  be  droppeti  from  our  list, 
for  they  are  a  doa*^l  weight  to  our  cause.  As  Gide- 
on's army  was  sifted  of  all  time-serving,  compro- 
mising men  before  the  Lord  would  use  them  in  gain- 
ing the  victory,  so  with  the  moral  forces  in  the  world 

WHEATON  COLLEGE  UBRARY 

\A4k*airkn    lllinMi 


8 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE- 


September  6.  18S8 


today.  Our  National  Reform  work  has  heretofore 
been  too  theoretical.  Both  the  National  Reform  lec- 
turers and  anti- secret  lecturers,  we  believe,  should 
now  devote  their  main  strength  to  the  Prohibition 
agitation,  aiming  to  bring  the  party  into  line  with 
their  respective  reforms. 

Dr.  Stevenson,  some  time  ago  in  the  Christian 
Statetman,  published  a  list  of  living  issues  that  had 
been  raised  by  the  attempt  to  apply  the  moral  laws 
of  Jesus  Christ  to  our  national  life,  or  by  the  as- 
saults of  irreligion  and  immorality  upon  established 
Christian  features  of  our  government.  Among 
these  living  issues,  which,  he  says,  "are  of  necessity 
under  continual  discussion  in  our  columns,"  are  "The 
Secret  Orders,  their  relation  to  Republican  govern- 
ment and  the  Christian  religion." 

Along  side  of  the  question  of  Prohibition  and 
the  Sabbath,  this  question  of  secret  societies  is  a 
great,  living  issue  of  our  times.  Why,  then,  should 
the  Statesman  not  keep  it  under  constant  discussion? 
We  make  a  serious  mistake  if  we  count  as  allies  men 
who  are  in  sworn  alliance  with  an  institution  like 
Freemasonry,  which  in  reality  displaces  Christ  by 
substituting  another  supreme,  and  actually  strikes 
his  blessed  name  from  the  texts  of  Scripture  quoted 
in  its  rituals.  Dr.  Stevenson  told  me,  what  i  have 
demonstrated  in  my  experience  for  six  years  in  the 
National  Reform  lecture  field,  that  he  had  never  yet 
found  a  regular  adhering  Mason  who  was  of  value 
as  an  ally  of  our  cause.  This  has  led  him  to  the 
determination  to  put  upon  the  program  of  our  next 
annual  convention  a  strong  address  on  the  question 
of  secret  societies. 


8ECBBT  SOCIETIBS  NOT  OF  TEE   ONE  WAT. 


BY  H.  n.  HINMAN. 


Secret  societies  seek  the  promotion  of  their  ob- 
jects by  impracticable  and  often  by  evil  methods.  It 
Is  not  sufficient  that  we  seek  to  accomplish  right  ob- 
jects. Oar  methods,  as  well  as  our  purposes,  must 
be  in  harmony  with  Christian  principles. 

"Who  noble  ends  by  noble  means  obtains, 
Or  failing,  dies  in  exile  or  in  chains, 
Like  good  Aurelius,  let  him  reign  or  bleed, 
Like  Soerates,  that  man  is  great,  indeed." 

Secret  societies  all  prof  est  laudable  purposes.  No- 
where can  be  found  more  earnest  protestations  of 
benevolent  objects  than  in  their  public  declarations. 
In  the  profusion  and  loudness  of  professions  they 
greatly  exceed  all  religious  and  openly  benevolent 
institutions. 

Nor  do  we  need  to  conclude  that  they  are  insin- 
cere. We  may  safely  admit  that  in  many  cases,  at 
least,  their  objects  are  praiseworthy.  The  fault  is 
in  their  methods.  They  have  undertaken  "to  do 
evil  that  good  may  come,  and  have  forgotten  that 
God  says  of  such  that  "their  condemnation  is  just." 

One  of  the  landmarks  of  Masonry  is  that  it 
teaches  (by  symbolism)  "piety,  morality  and 
science."  It  proposes  also  to  teach  Faith,  Hope 
and  Charity.  But  there  can  be  no  real  piety  that  is 
not  the  outgrowth  of  a  regenerate  heart,  and  does 
not  come  from  love  for  and  fellowship  with  our 
Lord  Jesus  Christ.  Before  there  can  be  piety  the 
soul  must  be  born  again  by  the  power  of  the  Holy 
Spirit.  None  of  the  secret  societies  require  or  ex- 
pect this.  Their  efforts  and  teachings  are  all  in 
another  direction.  The  piety  (if  so  it  may  be  called) 
which  they  teach  is  that  of  the  heathen.  It  is  a  re- 
ligion that  does  not  imply  reconciliation  to  God  or 
faith  in  his  Word.  It  is  not  such  piety  as  writes  the 
law  of  God  on  the  heart.  Freemasonry,  nor  any 
other  secret  order,  does  or  can  teach  morality;  for  to 
be  truly  moral  is  to  have  Christ  for  our  pattern,  and 
to  set  him  always  before  our  face  as  the  supreme 
object  of  our  affection  and  imitation.  None  of 
these  societies  have  any  such  standard  of  morality. 
Their  morality  has  selOsbness  as  its  basis — is  par- 
tial and  perverted. 

There  is  but  one  method  of  teaching  piety,  mor- 
ality, faith,  hope,  or  charity,  and  that  is  by  pro- 
claiming the  Gospel  of  Christ.  He  only  is  the 
Saviour  from  sin.  Kverything  that  is  not  simply 
Christian  must  inevitably  fail.  No  other  method 
reaches  the  seat  of  the  disease  which  is  the  selfish- 
ness of  the  human  heart.  Christ  said,  "Without 
me  ye  can  do  nothing."  This  applies  to  all  plans 
for  moral  improvement.  Freemasonry  does  not 
teach  science.  It  cannot  teach  it.  No  institution 
can  teach  science  without  learned  teachers  and  text 
books.  Freemasonry  as  such  has  none  of  these. 
Its  pretense  of  teaching  science  is  the  grossest  of 
falsehoods.  If  it  taught  anything  of  scientific 
value^it  would  be  open  to  the  world  of  science. 
The  great  majority  of  the  scientific  world  knows 
little  and  care  less  for  its  pretended  mysteries. 

Odd-fellowship    prof'ssses  to  teach    Friendship, 


Love  and  Truth,  but  it  neither  does  nor  can  teach 
them.  "Love  is  of  God.  and  he  that  loveth  is  bom 
of  God  and  knoweth  God.  He  that  loveth  not, 
knoweth  not  God,  for  God  is  love!"  1  John  4:  7,  8. 
It  does  not  require  that  its  members  shall  be  "born 
of  God,"  and  without  this  they  cannot  have  true 
love.  Nor  can  they  have  the  "truth,"  for  Christ  is 
the  truth,  and  until  men  come  to  know  him,  thej 
cannot  know  the  truth.  Odd-fellowship  does,  in- 
deed, teach  friendship,  but  it  is  the  "friendship  of 
the  world,"  which  "is  enmity  to  God."  "For  who- 
soever therefore  will  be  a  friend  of  the  world  is  an 
enemy  of  God."    James  4:  4. 

Nor  can  secret  societies  teach  true  temperance. 
Abstinence  from  intoxicating  drinks  is  but  a  small 
part  of  temperance.  Real  reformation  is  not  simply 
the  putting  off  one  evil  habit.  To  be  truly  reformed 
is  to  become  "a  new  creature"  in  whom  the  "old 
things  have  passed  away  and  all  things  have  become 
new."  2  Cor.  5:  17.  Secret  temperance  societies 
do  not  undertake  to  make  men  Christians,  and 
Christianity  is  not  essential  to  their  membership. 
For  this  reason,  if  for  no  other,  they  must  fail  of 
their  professed  object.  All  their  vain  attempts  to 
reform  society  are  like  the  prescriptions  of  the 
physicians  of  whom  Luke  tells  us.  The  poor 
woman  had  been  sick  twelve  years.  She  had  spent 
all  that  she  bad  on  their  worthless  remedies,  and 
was  "nothing  better,  but  rather  worse."  It  was  not 
until  she  came  to  Jesus  and  touched  the  hem  of  his 
garment  that  she  was  made  whole.  See  Luke  8: 
43,  44.  So  it  is  to-day.  A  touch  but  of  the  gar- 
ment of  Christ  is  worth  more  than  all  lodges  and 
orders  combined. 


A  SUMMER  WITH  TEE  OEURCEEB.—Jll. 


BY  PBES.   0.   A.     BLANOHARD. 


STREATOB. 

This  growing  little  city  was  my  fifth  place  of  la- 
bor. It  is,  like  so  many  of  our  Illinois  towns,  a 
marvel  of  growth.  In  1866  I  came  to  the  place 
where  now  live  fifteen  thousand  inhabitants.  I  was 
teaching  at  Farm  Ridge  in  the  Seminary.  Mr. 
Chandler,  a  young  gentleman  whose  sister  was  a 
pupil  in  the  Seminary,  was  quite  a  botanist  and 
geologist.  Mr.  Williams,  for  many  years  County 
Superintendent  of  Schools  in  LaSalle  county,  lived 
near  Mr.  Chandler's,  and  was  an  inspiring  and  help- 
ful teacher.  He  is  now  principal  of  the  Streator 
High  School.  He,  I  think,  started  Mr.  Chandler  on 
his  road  as  an  independent  student. 

The  last  named  gentleman  asked  me  if  I  did  not 
wish  to  visit  the  coal  mines  at  "Hard  Scrabble."  I 
replied  that  I  should  be  glad  to  do  so,  and  on  Satur- 
day we  made  the  trip.  The  Vermillion  flowed 
quietly  along  the  bluff;  a  few  miners'  cottages  sent 
their  smoke  through  the  winter  air;  now  and  again  a 
farm  team  pulled  its  load  from  the  pit's  mouth  up 
the  steep  hill,  making  it  a  "hard  scrabble,"  indeed. 
Perhaps  as  many  as  twenty-five  or  thirty  people 
lived  here  at  that  time. 

In  1877,  when  I  came  here  to  preach  for  what  is 
now  the  Congregational  church,  there  were  about  six 
thousand  inhabitants.  Now  glass  works,  additional 
shafts  for  coal  mining,  machine  shops,  foundries, 
car  works,  stores  and  other  industrial  enterprises 
flourished  on  every  side,  and  a  population  variously 
estimated,  but  I  think  fully  reaching  the  number 
first  named,  here  have  a  home.  It  is  a  human  hive, 
with  men  and  women  from  almost  every  clime, 
eagerly  pushing  and  striving  for  the  meat  that  per- 
ishes, the  comforts  and  luxuries  of  mere  earthly 
existence. 

Our  meetings  were  held  with  the  Congregational 
church,  which  after  a  long  season  of  trial  is  now 
doing  good  work  and  prospering  under  the  lead  of 
Rev.  F.  G.  Alger,  its  pastor.  This  brother  is  en- 
tirely devoted  to  his  chosen  work,  and  did  all  in  his 
power  both  before  and  during  the  series  of  meetings 
to  make  them  helpful  to  the  souls  for  whom  Jesus 
Christ  died  on  the  cross. 

The  morning  and  afternoon  meetings  were  small. 
The  evening  audiences  were  better  and  increased 
somewhat  from  day  to  day.  Here,  as  in  all  the  towns 
I  visited,  there  were  a  tew  who  were  always  on  band. 
Others  were  present  at  times.  My  home  was  with 
Bro.  J.  T.  Buckley,  who  was  my  host  when  I  first 
went  to  Streator  to  lecture  against  secret  societies  in 
1874.  He  gave  $100  toward  the  Carpenter  building 
fund,  has  been  and  is  an  earnest  Prohibitionist,  a 
friend  of  every  good  cause. 

"And  spring  came  forth  her  works  of  gladness  to  fulfill. 

With  all  her  jorous  birds  upon  the  wing ; 
I  turned  from  all  she  brought, 

To  those  she  could  not  bring." 

I  never  go  to  this  city  without  feeling  how  our 


truest  and  best  friends  are  being  gathered  with 
apostles,  prophets,  martyrs  and  saints  to  the  Para- 
dise of  God.  Here  lived  that  clear-minded,  large- 
hearted,  tender,  courageous  soul,  who,  while  he 
walked  the  earth,  was  called  Samuel  Plumb.  What 
high  service  is  now  appointed  him  I  know  not;  but 
do  not  at  all  doubt  that,  freed  from  the  body  which 
was  worn  by  labor  and  racked  with  pain,  with  in- 
tellectual and  spiritual  powers  clarified,  quickened 
and  energized,  he  still  keeps  step  to  the  music  of 
Gods  advancing  host,  and  looks  forward  with  per- 
fect faith  and  love  to  the  grand  victory  which  shall 
end  the  reign  of  sin  on  earth.  He  and  his  were  not 
with  us.  We  missed  them  greatly.  Other  true 
friends  of  olden  times  were  with  us;  some  weak- 
ened by  advancing  yearsj  but  all  with  loving  hearts, 
and  faces  toward  the  sunrise.  In  the  homes  of  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Laughlin,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Atkinson,  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Jackson,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Jennings,  I  was  also  a 
guest.  With  these  and  others  my  stay  was  pleasaut, 
and  to  leave  Streator  was  like  going  from  home. 

downer's  grove 
was  my  next  tenting  place.  The  Congregational 
church  here  is  not  strong  in  numbers,  and  has  been 
sustained  for  years  by  the  self-sacrifice  and  determi- 
nation of  a  few  friends,  chief  among  whom  is  our 
friend  and  brother,  J.  P.  Naramore,  E:q.  The  pastor 
of  the  church.  Rev.  W.  D.  Eddy,  is  by  birthright  a 
Friend,  but  at  this  time  is  completing  his  studies  in 
theology  at  the  Seminary  in  Chicago.  He  is  a  sin- 
gle-hearted and  devoted  man.  The  pastor  of  the 
Methodist  church  here  was  in  at  a  number  of  our 
meetings,  and  kindly  gave  up  his  Sabbath  evening 
service  that  we  might  all  worsip  together.  The 
pastor  of  the  Evangelical  church  was  also  in  on 
one  occasion,  and  several  soldiers  of  the  Salvation 
Army  were  present.  I  met  a  number  of  persons 
who  had  been  converted  in  their  meetings. 

At  Streator,  also,  there  was  in  progress  a  camp 
meeting,  under  the  leadership  of  my  friend  and 
neis;hbor,  Bro.  Dake.  His  company  of  workers  are 
called  the  "Pentecost  Bands."  Their  meetings  were 
largely  attended  and  good  was  done.  It  seems  to 
me  that  the  rise  and  progress  of  these  Salvation  Ar- 
mies, Pentecost  Bands,  etc.,  are  a  sign  of  the  times. 
Oar  ordinary  church  services  are  entirely  failing  to 
reach  a  certain  class  of  our  populaiion.  Let  the 
reason  be  what  it  may,  the  fault  lie  with  whom  it 
will,  the  fact  remains.  It  is  particularl7  sad  for  one 
reason  more  than  others:  the  ones  whom  the  church 
is  losing  are  the  mechanic  class,  and  here  are,  on 
the  whole,  perhaps,  the  brightest,  soundest  set  of 
men  in  the  country.  A  vigorous,  intelligent,  moral 
class  of  men,  but  largely  irreligious  and  becoming 
more  so.  Why  are  they  outside  the  church?  For 
various  reasons. Their  wives  and  children  cannotdress 
richly;  they  themselves  cannot;  paws  are  sold,  and 
they  don't  wish  to  buy;  the  sermons  are  not  scriptu- 
ral in  character,  in  many  instances  eloquence  and 
learning  instead  of  Gospel;  the  men  do  not  feel  that 
the  ministers  care  for  them;  Sabbath  work  keeps 
the  very  cream  of  this  population  out  of  church 
whether  they  wish  to  go  or  not.  These  and  other 
things  are  acting,  and  the  lodges  are  bidding  for 
them  on  every  side,  so  that  the  church  is  robbed  of 
her  children.  These  organizations,  the  Salvation 
Army,  Pentecost  Band,  etc.,  go  after  men,  appeal 
to  them,  and,  in  many  instances,  win  them  to  Christ. 
Our  churches  ought  to  be  doing  this  same  work, 
saving  men  with  fear,  pulling  them  out  of  the 
fire. 

Our  street  meetings  were  well  attended  in  Downer's 
Grove.  More  Christian  women  came  out  to  help  in 
the  singing  here  than  at  any  other  point  visited. 
The  town  was  boiling  and  bubbling  with  excitement, 
and  marching  clubs,  bands  and  political  rallies  were 
the  order  of  the  day.  It  seems  strange  that  men 
will  become  so  excited  over  a  matter  which  in  six 
months  will  have  almost  faded  from  their  minds. 
Civil  duties  should  be  performed  conscientiously, 
thoughtfully,  decidedly.  But  to  see  a  mere  ques- 
tion of  office-holding  so  rouse  and  excite  a  people, 
when  no  principle  is  at  stake,  is  strange.  The  offi- 
cers and  members  of  these  political  organizations 
were  very  courteous.  They  did  not  in  any  way  in- 
terfere with  our  street  work.  I  am  grateful  to  them 
for  this,  and  only  wish  that  they  would  be  as  wide- 
awake soldiers  of  the  cross  as  they  are  members  of 
various  political  organizitians.  The  Prohibition 
party  was  to  have  a  meeting  the  next  week  after  our 
meetings  closed.  I  was  told  that  twenty-eight 
voters  now  belong  to  that  party  in  this  place,  where 
four  years  since  one  vote  was  cast  for  SL  John.  It 
is  no  doubt  so  in  thousands  of  towns. 

The  attendance  at  our  meetings  was,  nevertheless, 
quite  good,  and  the  Christian  people  seemed  to  hear 
the  word  with  gladness.  One  who  had  wandered 
away  from  Christ  returned,  and  I  trust  other  con- 
Bciences  were  touched. 


fW^ 


» 


September  6,  1888 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSUKE3. 


BSCRET  aOOlBTIBS   IN  THE  TWO  8ICILIB8. 


|By  E.  Strachan  Morgan,  In  the  Fortnightly  Review,  London.  | 
\_Concluded.'\ 

And  now  look  for  a  moment  at  one  of  the  villages 
of  this  great  Sicilian  plain  where  Maffia  is  most  at 
home.  For  mile  after  mile,  hour  after  hour,  the 
traveler  has  been  jolted  on  a  rough,  ill-kept  road, 
through  a  vast  treeless  plain.  Here  and  there  he  has 
passed  a  rough,  shaggy  horghete,  painfully  urging  his 
team  of  ox  and  ass,  and  scraping  the  soil  of  his 
allotment  with  rude  wooden  plough;  here  and  there 
a  herd  of  cattle  browsing  among  the  withered  weeds 
and  stubble  of  last  year's  fallow,  or  a  string  of 
mules  laden  with  sacks  of  produce  for  the  distant 
market,  but  save  these  up  to  the  foot  of  the  distant 
hills  no  sign  of  human  life.  The  pitiless  sun  has 
burnt  everything  to  an  even  brown.  On  the  top  of 
a  small  hill  stands  the  village.  Half-a-dozen  large 
stone  houses— half  prison,  half  palace — built  on  the 
model  of  the  great  mansions  of  an  Italian  town, 
occupied  by  the  gahelloti  of  the  surrounding  estates 
and  the  few  families  that  form  the  ruling  caste, 
domineer  over  the  hundred  or  two  miserable  hovels 
where  the  rest  of  the  population  find  shelter.  Few 
of  these  huts  have  more  than  one  room,  hardly  any 
more  than  a  single  story.  In  one  corner  of  the  un- 
paved  earthen  floor,  reeking  with  ammoniacal  odors, 
lies  a  heap  of  straw  or  a  few  sheepskins  on  which 
the  human  occupants  sleep — father  and  mother,  sons 
and  daughters,  pell-mell  beside  the  brutes  that  share 
the  house.  A  single  opening  serves  for  a  door, 
window,  chimney,  and  for  discharging  dirt  into  the 
common  dust  bin,  the  street,  where  the  population 
squats  or  lounges  among  the  piles  of  vegetable  and 
animal  refuse.  Hardly  a  man  is  to  be  seen,  for  most 
of  the  able-bodied  work  in  the  fields,  five,  or  six,  or 
eight  miles  off,  and  return  home  scarcely  one  night 
in  the  week.  Notice  the  ill-fed  bodies  and  the 
brutish  faces  of  the  women  and  children,  the  heri- 
tage of  generations  of  immorality,  from  which 
traces  of  beauty  dimly  peer,  deformed  by  squalor 
and  vice;  "the  idiot  head  {doUcocephalia  occipiiale) 
predominates.  Adultery,  incest,  uxorcide,  usually 
by  poison,  prostitution,  are  terribly  frequent,  and 
wrought  shamelessly  in  the  light  of  day  as  though 
by  cretins." 

It  would  take  the  pen  of  a  Swift  to  describe  the 
lives  of  these  Yahoos,  and  even  the  imagination  of 
a  Swift  would  halt  behind  the  bare  directness  of 
official  reports.  One  is  not  surprised  to  hear  that  a 
common  threat  among  these  people  is:  "7iaiu  a 
mavgiari  lu  coti  di  tia  mi  uniaiu  a  hiviii  lu  tangu — 
I'll  eat  your  heart  and  drink  your  blood;"  that  a 
mother  will  often  punish  her  child  by  biting  it  till 
the  blood  flows.  Suddenly  they  all  scuttle  from  the 
street  into  their  dwellings  as,  with  a  clatter  of  hoofs 
and  loud  shouting,  a  gabelloto  spurs  up  to  his  house 
followed  by  a  score  of  attendants,  each  with  a  mus- 
ket at  saddle  bow. 

The  gabelloto  lives  in  the  house,  and  rents  the  es- 
tate that  belonged  once  to  a  feudal  noble.  Like  his 
predecessor  he  holds  himself  above  the  law.  "He 
is  convinced  that  professional  men  and  officials  ex- 
ist simply  to  serve  as  instruments  for  satisfying  his 
daily  wants  and  grudges,  and  looks  on  them  as  mere 
freedmen.  His  field-hands  he  hardly  recognizes  as 
human-beings.  He  detests  the  present  Government, 
though  be  condescends  to  act  as  grand-elector  in 
order  to  keep  up  his  political  importance  and  his  au- 
thority in  his  village;  but  he  cannot  understand 
why  the  police  should  trouble  themselves  to  protect 
the  lower  orders  from  the  violence  of  one  of  his 
caste."  The  chief  men  of  his  retinue  are  influential 
members  of  the  Maffia,  who  have  won  the  respect  of 
their  neighbors  by  the  reputation  at  any  rate  of  a 
couple  of  homicides.  Their  ostensible  duty  is  to 
preserve  his  herds  from  the  cattle-thieves,  his  corn- 
fields and  barns  from  accidental  or  incendiary  fires; 
they  have  usually  been  recommended  or  forced  on 
him  by  the  Maffia  (unless,  indeed,  as  is  often  the 
case,  he  is  himself  a  recognized  member  of  it), 
which  thus  provides  easily-earned  wages  and  plenti- 
ful opportunities  of  peculation  for  its  members,  and 
the  mere  prestige  of  their  name  and  position  will 
guard  the  property  under  their  care  more  effectually 
than  the  untiring  watchfulness  of  an  honest  man; 
while  the  proprietors  rest  satisfied  that  the  Society 
will  punish  far  more  promptly  and  surely  than  the 
police  any  attempt  by  outsiders  to  plunder  the  prop- 
erty it  protects.  But  another  not  less  important 
part  of  their  duties  is  to  support  their  patron  in  all 
quarrels  with  his  neighbors  of  his  own  class.  These 
quarrels,  originating  often  in  old  standing  family 
feuds,  fought  out  openly  in  former  times  with  sword 
and  pistol,  have  now  developed  into  no  less  bitter 
political  rivalry.  Two  parties  can  no  more  live 
peaceably  side  by  side  than  could  Guelphs  and 
Ghibeilines  in  the  Florentine  republic.    One  must 


crush  the  other  utterly,  so  as  to  be  able  to  monopo- 
lize all  the  spoils  of  local  office,  and  by  the  influence 
of  the  deputy  which  it  elects  deter  the  Prefetto  from 
looking  too  curiously  into  any  irregularities  that 
may  be  committed  under  his  jurisdiction.  The 
struggle  for  the  municipal  purse  is  more  ignoble  and 
more  injurious  to  public  morals  than  even  the  fam- 
ily disputes  of  former  days,  and  of  them  the  Maffla, 
with  its  terrible  power,  is  practically  the  arbiter. 
Willingly  or  unwillingly,  the  wealthy  gabelloto  must 
need  support  it  with  bis  influence,  providing  its 
members  with  employment  and  wages  or  pushing 
them  into  municipal  office  according  to  their  wishes 
and  qualifications,  and  winking  at  the  harboring  of 
stolen  cattle  among  his  herds.  The  penalty  of  re- 
sistence  is  theft,  arson,  and  finally  murder. 

Before  the  gabelloto  can  market  his  crops,  which 
have  thus  been  watched  from  seed-time  to  harvest 
by  the  Mafia,  he,  like  the  smaller  farmer  of  the 
coast  line,  must  pass  through  another  form  of  Majffla, 
not  less  powerful,  that  honeycombs  the  large  coast 
towns,  for  nowhere  is  Maffia  more  developed  than 
where  misery  is  less  pressing,  and  it  reigns  supreme 
in  the  concha  d'oro  of  Palermo,  where  the  lemon- 
groves  yield  a  net  profit  of  over  £50  per  acre,  and 
every  peasant  proprietor  might  live  in  comfort  or 
luxury.  Here  it  organizes  powerful  "rings"  in  the 
produce  markets,  dictating  prices,  "boycotting" 
dealers  to  whom  it  objects,  and  exacting  commis- 
sions on  all  sales  concluded.  The  penalty  of  diso- 
bedience to  its  orders  is  death,  and  in  the  rare  cases 
in  which  it  is  needful  so  to  uphold  its  authority,  an 
alibi  is  arranged  beforehand  so  effectually  that  con- 
viction or  even  suspicion  is  seldom  possible.  An 
example  will  sufficiently  explain  how  things  are 
done.  Soon  after  harvest  a  man,  ostensibly  a  pro- 
duce-broker, will  introduce  himself  to  a  farmer  and 
say  with  all  show  of  respect,  "Sir,  a  customer  has 
instructed  me  to  buy  such  and  such  goods.  I 
thought  of  you,  and  have  come  to  propose  the  sale. 
In  fact,  to  prevent  you  from  losing  the  market,  I 
have  ventured  to  close  and  take  the  earnest  money." 
"At  what  price  do  I  sell?"  the  owner  asks  mildly, 
"At  such  a  price,  sir."  "But,  my  good  man.  that's 
below  the  current  rates,"  as  indeed  it  is.  "Oh,  no, 
you  are  mistaken;  and  anyway,  you  would  not  have 
me  break  ipy  word  to  my  client  for  a  few  pounds. 
However,  if  you  refuse — "  But  the  seller  knows  far 
too  well  what  the  consequences  would  be,  and  in 
nine  cases  out  of  ten  submits  to  be  fleeced  rather 
than  incur  the  resentment  of  the  honest  broker  and 
his  friends. 

Though,  as  has  been  said,  the  Maffia  is  not  itself 
an  organized  secret  society,  yet  not  the  less  the 
M'lffiosi  in  a  given  locality  do  occasionally  join  them- 
selves to  a  closer  union,  with  oaths  of  secrecy,  code 
of  laws,  hierarchy  of  offices,  common  purse,  and 
fixed  right  of  admission. 

Far  more  interesting  is  the  account  given  of  the 
Mano  Fraterna  or  Fratellanza  (Brotherhood),  which 
had  its  headquarters  in  Favara  and  spread  over  the 
whole  province  of  Girgenti.  Here  we  have  a  con- 
crete example  in  which,  as  in  a  microcosm,  the  gen- 
eral principles  on  which  the  Mojffia  is  based,  and 
which  so  often  elude  even  shrewd  observers  by  their 
Protean  mutability,  may  be  seen  at  work  reduced  to 
definite  system. 

If  the  origin  of  the  society,  the  first  germ  of 
which  was  apparently  planted  in  1879  by  a  group  of 
coatti  (transported  convicts),  released  from  one  of 
the  small  islands  of  the  Sicilian  Archipelago,  re- 
mains somewhat  obscure,  its  aims  and  methods  were 
brought  to  the  light  of  day  both  by  oral  testimony 
and  by  a  copy  of  the  "statutes"  that  were  seized  on 
one  of  the  "brothers,"  and  put  in  evidence  during 
the  trial.  In  the  communes  where  the  brotherhood 
most  flourished  "family  hatreds"  transmitted  from 
father  to  son,  and  as  in  the  Middle  Ages,  ranging 
the  whole  community  on  one  side  or  the  other,  de- 
velop into  feuds  that  find  a  battle-field  in  local  poli- 
tics, and  private  grudges  embitter  the  opposition  of 
public  life.  The  more  ambitious  and  unscrupulous 
of  the  party  leaders,  seeing  a  useful  weapon  in  the 
passionate  tempers  of  the  mob,  and  the  criminal 
classes,  hoping  for  impunity  behind  the  shield  of 
otUcial  protection,  came  to  an  understanding  with 
each  other,  and  in  this  congenial  soil  the  Mano  Fra- 
terna struck  deep  roots.  Even  honest  men  and  good 
citizens  were  driven,  lest  a  worse  thing  should  come 
upon  them,  to  seek  protection  for  their  property  and 
their  lives,  of  free  will  or  under  compulsion,  by 
membership  in  the  Fratellanza.  The  aims  of  the 
brotherhood  were  neither  political  reform  nor  social- 
ism, nor  yet  mere  robbery,  but  the  gratification  of 
the  lust  of  power  and  of  idle  affluence  in  its  mem- 
bers by  appropriating  municipal  offices  and  munici- 
pal purse,  and  by  providing  for  its  members  easy 
work  and  good  wages  in  public  or  private  employ- 
ment.    The  means  employed  were  terrorism  based 


on  the  death  of  all  who  resisted  its  orders.  The 
events  that  led  to  the  discovery  of  the  society  were 
very  characteristic.  In  1884  Camilleri,  "a  brother," 
having  fallen  under  suspicion  of  betraying  the  se- 
crets of  the  "brotherhood,"  his  own  uncle,  Martello, 
was  charged  with  the  punishment  of  the  traitor,  and 
with  the  aid  of  four  brothers  strangled  him.  Stung 
by  remorse,  he  confessed  all,  and  then  fearing  the 
vengeance  of  the  "brotherhood,"  and  doubting  the 
power  of  the  Government  to  protect  him,  he  hanged 
himself  in  prison. 

In  1885  the  police  drew  in  their  nets,  and  it  was 
found  that  there  were  grounds  for  proceeding 
against  more  than  twelve  hundred.  Of  these,  about 
a  thousand  were  allowed  to  slip  through  the  meshes, 
"lest  the  very  extent  of  the  contagion  should  make 
punishment  impossible."  Thirty -two  ringleaders, 
accused  of  "more  than  ten  murders,"  reserved  for 
future  trial,  have  not  yet  been  disposed  of,  and  a 
hundred  and  sixty-nine,  including  one  schoolmaster, 
one  priest,  a  few  tradesmen,  and  a  large  majority  of 
miners  and  agricultural  laborers,  charged  with  the 
minor  offenses  of  "illegal  association,"  were  tried 
at  Girgenti,  in  the  church  of  St.  Anna,  transformed 
for  the  occasion  into  a  law  court.  The  trial  lasted 
from  March  2  to  March  30,  1885;  ten  only  of  the 
accused  were  acquitted  and  the  rest  were  condemned 
to  various  terms  of  imprisonment.  The  only  inter- 
esting figure  among  the  accused,  and  the  only  one 
who  had  joined  the  association  from  public  motives, 
and  whose  hands  were  comparatively  clean,  was  the 
priest.  Padre  Don  Angelo,  a  man  of  education,  a 
Greek  and  Latin  scholar,  and  an  eloquent  preacher. 
He  spoke  well  in  his  own  defense,  trying  to  make 
out  that  he  was  the  victim  of  the  jealousy  of  mu- 
nicipal parties.  He  had  some  years  before  beeu 
prosecuted  on  a  charge  of  instigating  to  assassina- 
tion, but  the  prosecution  had  failed  for  want  of  evi- 
dence, and  he  complained  of  being  now  put  on  his 
trial  as  a  mere  gregario  (subordinate).  Like  a  true 
Sicilian,  he  would  gladly  have  gratified  his  vanity 
by  sharing  with  the  ten  ringleaders  the  more  serious 
charge.  He  had  long  before  taken  part  in  local 
politics  as  protector  of  his  ignorant  and  unenfran- 
chised parishioners,  and  having  thus  made  powerful 
enemies,  joined  the  "brotherhood,"  intending  to  use 
it,  as  it  would  seem,  for  political  ends;  but  once  in 
he  was  unable  to  keep  himself  clean  from  its  law- 
less and  selfish  operations,  and  he  was  accordingly 
condemned  to  two  years'  imprisonment. 

The  statutes  of  the  "brotherhood"  regulated:  (1.) 
The  relations  of  members  to  officers;  (2  )  The  duties 
of  members  to  each  other;  (3 )  The  admission  of 
new  members.  The  officers  included  two  head  cen- 
ters, one  cashier,  who  collected  the  admission  fees 
and  monthly  dues,  and  as  many  captains  of  ten  and 
captains  of  five  as  might  be  required.  To  these  ab- 
solute obedience  was  due,  though  important  ques- 
tions were  decided  at  general  meetings.  Members 
were  bound  to  stand  by  each  other  on  all  occasions, 
whether  by  force  or  by  providing  evidence  in  law 
courts,  and  an  elaborate  code  of  signals  was  ar- 
ranged enabling  members  to  recognize  each  other 
under  all  circumstances.  The  forms  of  initiation, 
which  usually  took  place  in  an  old  limekiln,  an 
abandoned  quarry,  or  some  similar  hiding-place, 
were  singular.  The  presence  of  three  old  members 
besides  the  neophyte  was  necessary.  The  three 
"brothers"  took  off  their  hats,  then  the  senior  of 
them  tied  a  thread  tightly  round  the  right  forefinger 
of  the  "son,"  pricked  it  with  his  knife  and  let  a  few 
drops  of  blood  fall  on  the  print  of  a  saint  The 
print  was  then  set  on  fire  and  placed  in  the  left  hand 
of  the  "son,"  who  blew  away  the  ashes,  repeating 
the  formula,  "I  swear  on  my  honor  to  be  true  to  the 
brotherhood  as  the  brotherhood  is  true  to  me.  As 
the  saint  and  these  few  drops  of  my  blood  are 
burned,  so  an  I  ready  to  give  all  my  blood  for  the 
brotherhood;  as  the  ashes  and  blood  cannot  return 
again  as  they  were,  so  I  cannot  abandon  the  broth- 
erhood." Sometimes  the  ceremony  ended  in  the 
"son"  firing  a  pistol  at  a  crucifix  to  symbolize  bis 
readiness  for  any  crime,  to  take  any  life,  at  the  com- 
mand of  the  king.  The  neophyte  was  after  this 
recognized  as  a  full  brother,  and  the  whole  party 
adjourned  to  a  tavern  to  drink  the  toast  of  the 
brotherhood:  "Educi  hi  vinu  ma  attai  echiu  duct  e 
lu  $angu  di  li  Christiani — Sweet  is  wine,  but  far 
sweeter  is  the  blood  of  Christians."  By  way  of 
comment,  it  is  perhaps  enough  to  add  two  lines  of 
statistics  from  the  same  official  publication.  The 
murders  in  England,  in  1884,  numbered  one  hun- 
dred and  seventy.  In  the  single  province  of  Pal- 
ermo, for  the  same  period,  they  were  four  hundred 
and  thirty-four. 

A  bomb  was  thrown  into  the  Prohibition  tent  atMan- 
heim,  Pa.,  amid  an  audiance  of  500  persons,  and 
was  barely  extinguished  without  explosion. 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSUPJ^. 


September  6, 1888 


NBW  BNQLAND  LETTER. 

Are  tee  growing  frivolous? — A  proposition— Oeo.  Ames 
and  his  gifts  to  Romanism — The  anti-Romanist  candi- 
date—  Will  Massachusetts  anti  secreiists  support  a  Mason 
for  governor  f— A  singular  and  startling  fact  in  regard 
to  Mr  Davis's  prosecutors — Free  preaching  and  the 
Franklin  Park  Commissioners — The  Italian  element. 

Said  an  intelligent  lady  to  me  the  other  day, 
"I  am  so  sick  of  seeing  our  young  people  go  by  in 
piebald  suits  and  with  racquets  in  their  hands,  as  if 
their  sole  business  in  life  was  to  play  lawn  tennis." 

Her  remark  set  me  to  wondering  if  Americans, 
as  a  people,  are  not  growing  frivolous.  This  child- 
ish mania  for  games  nearly  forces  an  affirmative 
answer.  The  serious  earnestness  of  the  generation 
that  produced  our  Emersons  and  Alcotts  and  Low- 
ells has  small  affinity  with  one  that  treats  a  yacht 
race  or  a  baseball  contest  as  if  it  was  an  affair  of 
the  greatest  national  importance.  That  "iron  band 
of  poverty,  of  necessity,  of  austerity,"  that  made 
Emerson,  when  a  boy  of  ten,  "rise  before  six  and 
help  make  the  fires,"  then  after  school  was  over 
and  the  chores  done,  "have  some  time  to  play  and 
eat  my  supper,"  aft^r  which  he  and  his  brothers  "say 
their  hymns  and  chapters,  and  then  take  turns  in 
reading  Rollins," — that  simple,  unvaried,  daily  rou- 
tine of  work  and  study  recorded  in  his  Memoirs, 
helped  to  evolve  the  future  Sage  of  Concord. 

Forty  Chinamen,  members  of  the  Clarendon  Street 
Baptist  Sunday-school,  which  has  between  eighty 
and  one  hundred  Chinese  pupils,  held  a  picnic  at 
Franklin  Park  last  Monday,  in  which  they  enjoyed 
to  the  full  their  national  amusement  of  kite-flying. 
It  was  said  to  be  a  very  pretty  sight  as  the  bright- 
colored  paper  kites  floated  in  the  air.  When  base 
ball  is  "done  to  death,"  should  that  happy  period 
ever  arrive,  and  we  cast  about  for  a  game  to  take  its 
place,  the  writer  would  move  that  we  follow  the  ex- 
ample of  the  Celestials  and  try  kiteflying,  which  is 
a  great  deal  more  picturesque,  and  involves  no  dan- 
ger of  broken  heads  in  either  participants  or  spec- 
tators. 

Governor  Ames  was  lately  called  upon  to  aid  the 
Ebenezer  Baptist  church,  whose  members,  hard- 
working colored  people,  have  already  paid  $5,000, 
and  hoped  with  a  little  outside  assistance  to  extin- 
guish the  debt  still  remaining  on  their  church  edi- 
fice. The  governor  refused;  he  had  no  money.  But 
directly  after  this  applicant  had  left  appeared  an- 
other, an  Irishman,  who  asked  for  a  donation  for  a 
Roman  Catholic  charity.  He  instantly  wrote  his 
check  for  $100.  The  above  facts  are  taken  from 
the  Iree  Press,  which  also  contains  the  following 
clipping  from  the  Globe  of  Aug.  15: 

North  Eastok,  Aug.  14.— Governor  Ames  has  presented  his 
check  for  ^5C0  to  Rev.  Father  McCombe,  pastor  of  the  Church 
of  the  Immaculate  Conception,  and  his  check  for  $100  to  Rev.L. 
B.  Codding,  pastor  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal  church. 

It  will  thus  be  seen,  as  the  Free  Press  pertinently 
observes,  that  in  the  governor's  place  of  residence 
Rome  gets  five  times  as  much  from  him  as  Protest- 
antism. Like  Cleveland,  the  whole  secret  of  the 
matter  is  he  wants  another  term  of  office,  and  the 
anti-Romanist  party  are  already  naming  Gen.  Wm. 
F.  Draper,  born  in  Lowell,  a  millboy  in  his  youth, 
like  Gen.  Banks,  and  with  a  most  honorable  military 
record,  as  their  candidate  for  the  governorship  next 
fall.  Gov.  Ames's  Masonry  ought  to  make  him  dis- 
tasteful to  all  anti-secret  voters.  Gen.  Draper's  at- 
titude on  that  question  is  yet  to  learn.  It  is  cer- 
tain that  there  is  to  be  a  great  battle  fought  with 
Romanism ;  and  it  would  not  at  all  surprise  me,  in- 
deed, I  believe  it  is  what  the  prophecies  of  Scripture 
teach  us  to  expect,  if  Masonry  and  Jesuitism  should 
gloss  over  their  family  quarrel,  and  join  in  unholy 
alliance  once  more,  as  they  have  so  often  joined  in 
the  past.  It  may  not  be  generally  known  that,  while 
while  ordinary  Roman  Catholics  are  forbidden  by 
their  church  to  join  a  secret  society,  Jesuits  are  free 
to  become  Masons,  or  anything  else,  if  by  so  doing 
they  can  advance  the  papal  cause.  This  is  only  an 
application  of  that  infamous  principle  which  is  the 
Alpha  and  Omega  of  Jesuitism:  that  the  end  sanc- 
tifies the  means. 

Our  Masonic  governor, who  had  the  power  to  release 
Mr.  Davis,  but  refused  to  exercise  it,  may  well  ponder 
the  singular  and  startling  fact,  that  the  four  most  di- 
rectly concerned  in  his  arrest  and  imprisonment 
have  all  been  called  before  the  Judgment  bar  of  Him 
who  has  said,  "Touch  not  mine  anointed,  and  do  my 
prophets  no  harm."  Alderman  Hall,  chairman  of 
the  committee  which  denied  permits  to  preach  on 
the  Common;  Timothy  J.  Dacy,  assistant  district 
attorney  for  Suffolk  county,  who  prosecuted  Mr.  Da- 
vis and  movid  for  sentence  against  him;  Wm.  P. 
Carroll,  a  leading  Democratic  ward  politician  and  an 
Irish  Roman  Catholic  rum-seller,  who  in  spiie  of  his 
criminal  career  was  one  of  Boston's  most  piominent 
legislators;  Judge  John  W.  Bacon  of  the  Supreme 


Court,  who  gave  sentence  against  Mr.  Davis, — all 
four  have  been  called  to  render  up  their  eternal  ac- 
count in  the  short  space  of  a  few  months.  Who  can 
say  that  this  is  not,  indeed,  "the  finger  of  God?" 

That  the  attitude  of  the  city  government  towards 
preaching  has  not  altered,  may  be  seen  from  some 
correspondence  which  has  lately  passed  between  the 
Harvard  Congregational  church  of  Dorchester,  and 
the  Honorable  Commissioners  of  Franklin  Park, 
Boston.  The  committee  in  behalf  of  the  church 
respectfully  asked  these  gentlemen  "for  a  permit, 
as  their  field  of  special  labor  is  in  the  neighborhood 
of  Franklin  Park,  to  hold  a  series  of  religious  meet- 
ings in  some  proper  place  in  the  park  for  an  hour, 
or  thereabouts,  on  each  Sunday  afternoon  in  July 
and  August  of  the  current  year."  They  go  on  to 
state  that  "many  resort  to  the  park  on  Sundays  who 
have  no  place  of  stated  religious  worship,  and  who 
do  not  feel  able  to  pay  the  pew  rental  in  our  church- 
es, but  would  gladly  attend  some  free  religious  serv- 
ices in  the  park."  Also  that  "many  might  attend 
and  be  benefited,  who  have  been  tempted  into  crim- 
inal and  irreligious  courses  of  life." 

This  eminently  reasonable,  and  certainly  very 
humble,  appeal  received  the  following  reply: 

In  reply  to  your  request  of  July  23,  for  permission  to  hold  re- 
ligious services  at  FraLklln  Park,  I  beg  to  state  that  at  a  meet- 
ing of  the  board  to-day,  It  was  voted  that  it  is  inexpedient  to 
grant  permits  for  such  purposes.    Yours  respectfully, 

Geo.  F.  Clakk,  Sec'y. 

Surely  nothing  could  be  plainer  or  more  explicit. 
A  public  demonstration  is  talked  of  on  the  occasion 
of  Mr.  Davis's  release  from  jail.  I  hope  it  will  be 
big  enough  and  enthusiastic  enough  to  show  that 
though  Boston's  Puritan  blood,  to  parody  some  lines 
of  Whittier's, 

"Moves  slow  and  calm  and  cool, 

She  cannot  stoop  her  chainless  neck. 
The  Jesuit's  slave  aud  tool." 

The  Congressional  Committee,  appointed  to  inves- 
tigate violations  of  the  contract  law,  are  expected 
to  come  to  Boston  soon.  The  Italian  element  is  fast 
making  an  Italian  quarter  of  the  North  End.  It  is 
said  that  there  are  no  paupers  among  them,  or  any 
applications  for  aid.  They  are  extremely  ignorant; 
they  are  Romanists;  they  are  hot-tempered,  vindic- 
tive, and  as  ready  to  use  the  knife  in  a  quarrel  as  a 
Malay,  but  they  have  their  redeeming  traits.  They 
are  not  habitats  of  our  police  courts,  they  are  gen- 
erally temperate.  These  Italian  peasants,  who  labor 
on  our  railroads  and  water-works,  are  the  country- 
men of  Dante  and  Mazzini,  and  in  their  veins  runs 
that  strong  love  of  popular  government  which  made 
possible  the  revolution  of  '48,  and  twenty  years 
later  stripped  the  pope  of  his  temporal  possessions 
to  make  a  united  Italy.  It  is  possible  that  they  may 
yet  become  an  integral  part  of  our  population,  and 
looking  towards  this  contingency,  it  is  well  not  to 
take  counsel  of  prejudice,  but  try,  as  far  as  it  lies 
in  educating  and  Christianizing  agencies,  to  make 
them  good  citizens.  E.  B.  Flagq. 


OUR   WASHING  TON  LETTER. 

Washington,  Aug.  31,  1888. 

It  was  believed  that  the  present  week  would  be  a 
blank  in  the  record  of  the  House  of  Representa- 
tives, from  a  legislative  standpoint,  because  of  the 
difficulty  attending  all  efforts  to  secure  not  only  the 
presence  but  the  continuous  attendance  of  a  quorum. 
On  Saturday  last  127  telegrams  were  sent  to  ab- 
sentees demanding  their  attendance.  About  fifteen 
of  these  failed  of  delivery.  More  than  a  dozen 
telegraphed  to  have  their  leaves  extended  on  account 
of  sickness.  Fifty  or  sixty  sent  word  they  would 
start  for  Washington  at  once,  and  the  rest  appeared 
in  the  House  that  morning.  The  telegrams  sent  out 
were  paid  for  by  the  Government,  but  the  replied  of 
the  members  were  at  their  own  expense. 

The  President's  message  to  Congress  on  the  Fish- 
eries question,  requesting  further  power  to  retaliate 
upon  Canada,  was  the  sensation  of  the  week  at  the 
Capitol.  Almost  without  exception  the  Democrats 
endorse  the  President's  position,  while  the  Repub- 
licans criticise  it  severely.  Speaking  of  the  charge 
generally  made  against  President  Cleveland,  that  he 
has  suddenly  taken  a  new  position  on  the  Canadian 
question,  Mr.  Crain,  of  Texas,  who  was  a  member 
of  the  House  Committee  on  Foreign  Affairs  in  the 
last  Congress,  said:  "It  is  exactly  the  position  he 
took  two  years  ago,  when  the  subject  of  a  retalia- 
tion act  was  engaging  the  attention  of  both  Houses 
of  Congress.  Everyone  remembers  that  there  were 
two  retaliation  bills — a  House  bill  and  a  Senate  bill. 
The  House  bill  was  a  thoroughly  comprehensive, 
non- intercourse  measure.  The  Senate  bill  was  the 
weak  milk  and  water  measure  that  became  a  law, 
and  is  the  retaliation  act  of  March  3,  1887,  th&t  is 
being  so  much  talked  about.    I  remember  very  dis- 


tinctly that  the  President  then  expressed  to  me  and 
other  Democratic  members  of  the  Committee  on 
Foreign  Affairs  exactly  the  same  opinion  which  in 
his  message  he  now  expresses  in  regard  to  the  re- 
taliation act. 

During  the  last  week  the  District  of  Columbia  au- 
thorities have  swooped  down  on  110  bar-keepers, 
whose  licenses  had  been  refused,  and  closed  their 
places  of  business. 

The  statement  that  President  Cleveland  had  sent 
his  check  for  $10,000  to  the  Democratic  Campaign 
Committee  was  very  generally  discussed  here,  and 
though  the  amount  is  much  larger  than  any  previous 
candidate  for  the  Presidency  has  ever  contributed 
toward  the  expense  of  his  election,  it  was  generally 
believed  that  the  statement  was  on  good  authority. 
The  amount  is  not  only  larger  than  any  single  can- 
didate ever  gave  to  a  campaign  fund  before,  but  it 
is  larger  than  all  the  Republican  Presidents  con- 
tributed in  twenty-five  years.  * 


— It  is  reported  that  the  Iowa  Masonic  Grand 
Lodge  lately  met  at  Cedar  Rapids,  Iowa,  and  adopt- 
ed a  rule  that  "the  sale  of  intoxicating  liquors  is  an 
intentional  violation  of  the  laws  of  Iowa,  and  the 
penalty  of  convictions  therefor  shall  be  expulsion." 
After  six  years  the  Masonic  lodge  has  succumbed  to 
the  inevitable,  and  makes  its  laws  agree  with  the 
law  of  the  State.  But  a  Mason  expelled  in  Iowa 
for  this  offense  can  go  across  to  Nebraska,  Wiscon- 
sin, or  Illinois  and  find  no  law  to  interfere  with  his 
Masonic  right  to  sell  liquor,  and  can  be  restored  to 
the  lodge. 


Reform  news. 


WASHINGTON  HEADQUARTER   NOTES. 


Washington,  D.  C,  August  31, 1888. 

Three  men  have  just  left  the  office.  One,  an  M. 
E.  minister  who  spent  an  hour  with  our  books, 
principally  with  the  "Broken  Seal."  He  remarked, 
"It  reads  as  smoothly  as  a  novel."  The  second  was 
a  brisk,  well-to-do  appearing  man,  who  stepped  in 
with  the  inquiry,  "Have  you  the  minutes  of  the 
Syracuse  convention?"  Stepping  to  the  shelf  I 
produced  the  document.  Glancing  at  the  book-case 
he  said,  "What  have  you  here?"  I  replied,  "Thirty- 
three  degrees  of  Scotch  Masonry,"  laying  the  books 
on  the  desk.  Meantime  his  eye  caught  "Masonic 
Outrages."  "How  much  for  these  four  books?"  he 
inquired.  Naming  the  price,  he  dropped  the  money 
on  the  desk,  and  was  out  and  off  almost  before  I 
could  supply  him  with  a  catalogue,  tract  and  a  copy 
of  the  Cynosure,  The  third  was  a  fine-appearing 
young  man,  who  had  but  recently  taken  his  first  de- 
gree in  Masonry.  He  was  seeking  "more  light," 
and  remained  for  a  few  minutes  in  conversation. 
He  listened  attentively  and  with  apparent  candor; 
bought  a  three-degree  expose,  and  promised  to  ex- 
amine it  and  then  report  to  me  further  on. 

I  am  satisfied  that  the  craft  are  on  the  alert,  and 
using  their  best  endeavors  to  prevent  the  renting  of 
rooms  and  otherwise  to  hedge  up  our  way,  but  every 
day  brings  with  it  tokens  of  God's  favor,  and  we 
feel  an  assurance  of  success  in  spite  of  all  hin- 
drances. The  laws  are  very  stringent  against  dis- 
tribution of  circulars,  bills,  etc.,  which  the  police 
construe  as  including  tracts  of  all  kinds.  I  have, 
however,  quietly  distributed  tracts  occasionally 
without  interruption,  and  find  such  work  invariably 
followed  by  an  increased  number  of  callers  at  the 
office.  I  trust  Mrs.  Stoddard's  work  among  the 
children  and  poor  people  in  this  neighborhood,  and 
the  efforts  to  reach  all  classes  here  will  not  be  for- 
gotten in  the  prayers  of  our  Christian  helpers. 

J.  P.  Stoddard. 


HE  WOULD  NOT  DEFEND  HIS  LODGE. 

Hopewell,  O.,  Aug.  29,  1888. 

Dear  Cynos ore:— This  finds  me  in  Perry  county, 
a  number  of  miles  from  any  town,  the  nearest  is 
named  above.  After  a  month  of  city  life,  one  can 
fully  appreciate  a  visit  to  the  "green-clad  hills."  Con- 
templating the  beautiful  and  grand  in  nature  almost 
involuntarily  brings  the  Christian  nearer  nature's 
God. 

Yesterday  I  rode  for  the  first  time  on  the  new 
railroad,  the  Columbus  and  Eastern.  For  first  class 
accommodations  and  charges  I  can  recommend  it. 
An  hour's  ride  brought  us  to  the  station  of  Thorn- 
port,  from  whence  I  was  conveyed  to  the  residence  of 
Rev.  M.  R.  Walter,  pastor  of  the  Lutheran  church, 
Thornville,  where  a  cordial  reception  awaited  me. 
Both  Rev.  Walter  and  his  excellent  wife  assured  me 
of  their  sympathy.  The  day  was  spent  in  finding 
those  interested,  securing  their  subscriptions  to  the 
paper  and  ascertaining  their  wish  as  to  lectures.    In 


September  6,  1888 


THE  OHKISTIAN  CYNOSUBE- 


the  subscriptions  received  the  Lutheran,  United 
Presbyterian,  Methodist,  and  Reformed  churches 
were  represented.  It  seemed  to  be  the  unanimous 
opinion  of  those  consulted  that  lectures  should  be 
given  in  the  near  future,  and  steps  were  taken  to 
secure  a  hall. 

The  Methodist  minister  (Rev.  Marks)  seemed  to 
take  the  least  interest  in  my  work  of  any  visited. 
He  declared  himself  to  be  a  Mason  and  in  sympathy 
with  the  order.  Said  he  had  given  the  subject  con- 
siderable thought.  When  I  suggested  that  he  as- 
semble the  people  and  give  them  his  reasons  for 
being  a  Mason,  as  he  would  his  reasons  for  being  a 
Christian  or  Prohibitionist  (I  agreeing  to  give  my 
objections  to  the  order),  he  replied  that  he  thought 
the  lodge  a  neutral  society  that  did  not  make  one 
any  worse  or  any  better  to  join,  and  he  did  not 
think  the  matter  of  enough  importance  to  present 
his  reasons  to  the  people  for  belonging.  In  plain 
English,  he  was  sensible  enough  to  know  that  dis- 
cussion, candid  and  fair,  meant  death  to  the  lodge, 
and  as  he  did  not  wish  to  sacrifice  his  reputation  as 
a  preacher  of  the  Gospel,  he  would  let  it  alone. 
Reader,  what  will  God  say  of  such  watchmen  on  the 
walls  of  Zion? 

Leaving  Thornville  with  thanks  to  God  in  my 
heart  for  the  friends  I  found  true  to  principle,  I 
soon  arrived  at  Mt.  Perry  and  made  my  way  to  Bro. 
James  McCuUough's,  where  I  knew  from  past  ex- 
perience I  would  be  made  welcome.  Bro.  Martin, 
present  pastor  of  the  United  Presbyterian  church 
here,  met  me  on  the  road  and  renewed  an  acquaint- 
ance made  at  his  former  home.  New  Salem.  The 
reason  1  say  he  renewed  the  acquaintance  is  that,  in 
the  multitude  of  those  whom  I  have  met  since  at  his 
home,  his  smiling  countenance  had  almost  been  for- 
gotten, though  his  kind  hospitality  could  never  be. 
A  number  who  had  formerly  subscribed  with  me 
for  the  Cynosure^  renewed,  expressing  approbation 
of  the  work  we  were  doing. 

After  my  lecture  in  Mt.  Perry  over  a  year  ago, 
Rev.  Patton,  then  pastor  of  the  United  Presbyterian 
church  in  which  I  spoke,  was  attacked  by  a  Masonic 
doctor,  and  after  a  number  of  railing  accusations, 
was  threatened  with  personal  combat.  Being  as- 
sured that  he  could  have  perfect  liberty  for  such 
combat  if  it  was  desired,  the  Dr.  concluded  "discre- 
tion the  better  part  of  valor"  and  subsided.  I  think 
his  decision  wise. 

Time  forbids  a  detailed  account  of  my  visits  to- 
day. Suffice  it  to  say  I  have  met  no  serious  obsta- 
cles, and  find  to-night  that  I  have  taken  seven  sub- 
scriptions to  the  paper.  Were  it  not  for  the  Zanes- 
ville  fair  and  the  absence  of  Rtv.  Cannon  of  the 
Covenanter  church,  I  should  have  lectures  at  this 
time,  but  it  seems  best  to  wait.  I  am  at  present  the 
guest  of  Samuel  Johnston,  an  old  lino  Covenanter. 
I  go,  D.  v.,  to-morrow  to  White  Cottage,  thence  to 
Zanesville,  and  as  the  way  may  open,  returning  to 
Columbus  to  work  some  at  the  Centennial. 

W.  B.  Stoddard. 


H08PITALITT  AND  aTMPATET. 


THE    SWBriSH    BRETHREN    GIVE    THE  IOWA  AGENT  A 
WELCOME   HEARING. 


Dear  Cynosure: — After  my  call  on  pastor 
Ostlin  on  Monday,  Aug.  20,  I  went  to  Corning  and 
called  upon  a  U.  P.  minister  there.  I  also  went  out 
into  the  country  and  visited  one  of  the  elders  of  the 
church.  I  then  went  to  Lenox,  making  a  few  calls 
upon  members  of  the  TJ.  P.  congregation  at  Adams 
by  the  way. 

After  visiting  and  conferring  with  Rev.  Cox,  the 
pastor  of  the  U.  P.  church  of  Lenox,  I  went  several 
miles  into  the  country  to  see  Bro.  John  Plummer, 
who  is  earnestly  opposed  to  secret  societies,  and  a 
member  of  the  M.  E.  church.  Bro.  Plummer  ex- 
pressed his  anxiety  that  I  should  speak  on  the  re- 
lation of  the  secret  society  system  to  Christianity, 
on  the  Sabbath.  I  told  him  that  if  he  would  get 
the  M.  E.  church  of  Lenox  for  me  to  speak  in,  I 
would  do  so,  believing  I  could  harmonize  an  ar- 
rangement made  with  Rbv.  Cox. 

The  pastor  of  the  M.  PJ.  church  was  away  at  con- 
ference, and  there  was  no  arrangement  for  filling  the 
pulpit  that  Sabbath.  So  the  coast  seemed  clear,  and 
Bro.  Plummer  felt  confident.  The  first  trustee 
spoken  to  readily  gave  his  consent.  He  thought  he 
should  like  to  hear  such  a  discourse.  But  the  sec- 
ond, a  Mason  and  a  man  of  wealth,  refused;  and  so 
hot  was  he  in  his  opposition  that  the  first  withdrew 
his  consent.  So  Bro.  Plummer  was  obliged  to  re- 
linquish his  purpose. 

However,  an  there  was  a  desire  that  the  fact 
should  be  brought  out  that  the  secret  lodge  system 
is  a  Satanic  c(  tapir acy  to  supplant  Christ  by  edu- 
cating our  youcg  men  in  a  deistical  ritual  of  wor* 


ship,  I  took  up  the  matter  in  my  Sabbath  evening 
sermon  at  the  U.  P.  church,  and  showed  how  the 
Masonic  plan  of  salvation  conflicts  with  the  Gospel 
plan  of  salvation  by  Christ.  If  I  did  not  put  leaven 
enough  into  the  meal  to  work  until  all  is  leavened, 
a  little  more  can  be  added  on  a  future  occasion. 
Bro.  Cox  assured  me  of  a  welcome  if  I  would  re- 
turn again  next  month,  when  the  U.  P.  Synod  of 
Iowa  meets  with  the  church  of  Lenox. 

I  had  an  engagement  to  return  on  the  Monday 
following  this  Sabbath's  work  to  Stanton,  in  Mont- 
gomery county,  to  accompany  pastor  Ostlin  to  the 
district  meeting  of  the  Swedish  Lutheran  churches 
of  southwest  Iowa,  to  be  held  with  the  Fremont 
church  in  Page  county.  So,  after  securing  two  sub- 
scribers to  the  (jynoiure  Monday  morning,  I  left 
Lenox  and  returned  to  Stanton.  From  Stanton  I 
was  conveyed  across  the  country  to  Fremont,  call- 
ing by  the  way  to  visit  the  Orphans'  Home,  of  the 
Iowa  conference  of  the  Evangelical  Swedish  Luth- 
eran church.  I  took  note  of  the  fact  that  the  Iowa 
Swedes  did  not  have  to  become  Odd-fellows  in  order 
that  their  orphan  children  be  cared  for. 

On  Wednesday,  the  second  day  of  the  meeting, 
the  church,  which  will  seat  about  six  hundred  per- 
sons, was  filled.  I  was  invited  to  occupy  the  pulpit 
on  Wednesday  evening,  as  they  wished  a  discourse 
against  secret  societies,  and  a  deep  interest  was 
manifest. 

Rev.  Widen,  pastor  of  the  church  at  Essex,  Page 
county,  invited  me  to  address  his  young  people,  to 
fortify  them  against  the  wiles  of  secret  societies. 
The  young  people's  meeting  was  on  Friday  night. 
The  meeting  was  opened  by  the  principal  of  the 
public  school  of  Essex,  who  is  a  Presbyterian,  with 
Scripture  reading  and  prayer.  One  essay  was  read, 
and  the  remainder  of  the  evening  was  given  to  me. 

On  Saturday  I  returned  by  rail  to  Stanton.  Pas- 
tor Ostlin's  desire  that  his  whole  congregation 
should  hear  my  discourse  against  secret  societies  led 
him  to  give  me  the  Sabbath  morning  hour. 

The  communicants  of  pastor  Ostlin's  church 
number  between  five  and  six  hundred,  and  his 
church  will  seat  about  twelve  hundred ;  and  in  pleas- 
ant weather,  on  Sabbath  morning,  it  is  filled.  It 
threatened  rain  the  Sabbath  I  preached  against  the 
secret  orders,  but  a  large  congregation  was  present. 
At  the  request  of  the  principal  of  the  public  schools 
I  preached  in  the  evening  to  the  American  people. 
The  school  building  was  to  be  the  place  of  meeting, 
but  pastor  Ostlin  said,  "Have  it  in  the  church," 
which  invitation  was  thankfully  accepted. 

I  began  a  canvass  for  the  Cynosure  among  the 
people  on  Monday,  and  secured  fourteen  new  sub- 
scribers. Pastor  Ostlin  has  been  taking  the  paper  for 
some  time.  Pastor  Widen,  of  Essex,  subscribed 
while  I  was  there.  Bro.  Hagg  took  me  around  in 
his  carriage  to  see  the  people. 

As  the  hands  of  Moses  were  held  up  by  Aaron 
and  Hurr,  so  have  my  hands  been  held  up  by  these 
Swedish  brethren,  and  my  heart  greatly  encouraged 
and  strengthened  for  the  work.  The  truth,  as  it  is 
in  Jesus,  will  prevail  over  the  error  and  falsehood 
of  the  lodge  system.  Let  us  have  your  earnest 
prayers  and  hearty  co-operation,  brethren  of  Iowa, 
that  the  coming  triumph  may  be  hastened. 

C.  F.  Hawley. 


We  just  about  made  our  expenses.  The  Cynosure 
was  almost  money  to  us.  It  settled  our  board  bills, 
paid  for  our  beds,  re-soled  our  shoes,  got  our  pho- 
tographs taken,  and  did  whatever  it  could  for  our 
comfort.  In  money  our  expenses  would  be  about 
$73  and  our  receipts  about  $63.  We  lessened  our 
expenses  by  traveling  over  two  hundred  miles  on 
foot.  E.  W.  Shaw. 

F.  L.  Johnston. 


THE  OOLPORTBVR  WORK. 


FINAL   reports. 


The  agents  of  the  N.  C.  A.,  whose  field  was  Indi- 
ana, present  the  following  report: 

We  left  Chicago  on  the  2d  of  July  by  the  Pan- 
handle road,  and  returned  by  the  lake  on  the  23d 
of  August.  Our  route  is  sufficiently  indicated  by 
the  names  of  the  county  seats  we  visited :  Crown 
Point,  Logansport,  Marion,  Blufltton,  Fort  Wayne, 
Auburn,  Albion,  Goshen  and  Berrien  Springs.  In 
our  work  we  distributed  tracts,  took  subscriptions 
to  the  Cynosure,  and  held  meetings. 

We  gave  out  about  forty  thousand  pages  of  tracts, 
making  in  many  places  house-to-house  distribution. 
We  put  them  in  wagons  and  carriages  from  the 
country,  sowed  them  on  one  excursion  train,  and 
scattered  them  in  one  convention  from  which  they 
were  carried  into  a  dozen  States. 

We  took  sixty- five  subscriptions  to  the  Gynoture. 
In  canvassing,  we  met  in  conversation  on  the  subject 
secretism,  ministers,  teachers  and  business  men. 
We  carried  with  us,  to  prove  our  words,  Mackey's 
Ritualist  and  Sickles's  Monitor.  We  met  no  Masons 
who  knew,  before  we  showed  them,  that  the  Bible 
was  mutilated  in  the  charge  to  the  Royal  Arch  Mason. 

We  hold  meetings  in  three  different  places:  once 
in  a  U.  B.  church,  and  twice  in  Wesleyan  churches. 
At  the  U.  B.  church  our  audience  was  quite  large, 
and  there  was  some  "talk  back."    This  helped  us. 


BRO.  DAVIDBON  THREATENED  AGAIN. 


THE  DELUGE  AT  NEW  ORLEANS. 


New  Orleans,  La.,  Aug.  21, 1888. 

Dear  Cynosure: — I  returned  from  Plaquemine 
Monday  evening.  The  severest  rainstorm  visited 
southern  Louisiana  Sunday  night  that  we  have  ex- 
perienced since  the  dark  days  of  slavery. 

I  spent  last  week  at  the  pleasant  home  of  Rtv.  B. 
Dorsey,  of  Dorseyville,  and  preached  at  his  church, 
the  St.  John  Baptist,  Friday  night.  I  visited  Bayou 
Goula  Thursday,  and  expected  to  preach  at  the  Pil- 
grim church.  Rev.  Geo.  W.  Davis,  pastor,  but  wet 
weather  and  mud  prevented  the  services.  I  returned 
to  Plaquemine  Saturday,  and  received  a  message 
from  one  of  the  leading  colored  gentlemen  of  the 
place,  to  the  effect  that  a  committee  of  white  and 
black  Odd-fellows  had  consulted  together  over  my 
anti-s£cret  course  in  that  town,  and  they  (the  com- 
mittee) denounced  such  course,  and  if  I  did  not  de- 
sist in  opposing  lodgery  as  I  had  heretofore,  they 
would  get  behind  me  and  run  me  out  of  the  town. 
I  obeyed  the  lodge  orders  by  preaching  an  anti- 
lodge  sermon  at  St.  Matthew  Baptist  church  Sab- 
bath at  11  A,  M.,  and  had  an  appointment  to  preach 
a  second  in  the  evening  at  Pilgrim  Rest  Baptist 
church,  but  the  rain  and  storm  prevented.  Al- 
though I  am  informed  that  this  very  gentleman  and 
other  Odd-fellows  have  heretofore  given  out  that  all 
I  said  against  the  lodge  was  false,  they  have  now  in 
plain  words  acknowledged  all  I  have  said  to  be  true 
by  sending  me  these  two  warnings  (one  in  June  and 
this  one)  not  to  preach  nor  distribute  tracts  against 
their  lodges. 

The  storm  Sunday  night  did  great  damage  in 
and  about  Plaquemine,  Bayou  Goula  and  Dorsey- 
ville. Great  trees  were  uprooted,  and  several  houses 
partly  blown  down,  including  several  sugar  mills.  I 
was  told  that  one  man  was  killed  and  several  head 
of  mules  and  horses.  The  steamer  Keokuk,  plying 
between  this  city  and  Bayou  Sara,  was  sunk  between 
Plsquemine  and  Baton  Rouge,  but  fortunately  the 
crew  and  passengers  escaped.  The  telegraph  wires 
were  blown  down*  and  Plaquemine  was  for  awhile 
cut  off  from  communication  with  the  outside  world. 
The  sugar-cane  and  rice  crops  along  the  coast  will 
suffer  greatly  from  the  storm. 

This  city  is  inundated.  From  Claiborne  street  to 
the  lake,  all  looks  like  one  great  lake  of  water.  The 
old  rum-lodge  Democratic  party  have  managed 
things  so  nicely  for  the  past  ten  years  until  there  is 
not  a  drainage  machine  in  running  order  up  to  this 
hour,  5  p.  M.  Tuesday,  and  the  suffericg  of  the  poor 
people  in  the  rear  of  the  city  is  almost  unendurable. 
Many  of  them  have  been  forced  to  leave  their  houses 
in  skiffs,  and  escape  for  their  lives.  The  church  in 
Port  Barrow,  on  the  T.  &  P.  R.  R.,  was  blown  com- 
pletely down. 

The  Odd- fellows  gave  an  excursion  from  here  to 
Mobile,  Ala ,  a  few  weeks  ago,  and  I  am  informed 
they  had  a  fight  on  the  train.  This  is  not  surpris- 
ing, when  the  Grand  Lodge  that  met  in  Plsiiuemine 
not  long  since  gave  a  lodge  ball  on  Saturday  night, 
and  it  lasted  until  Sunday  morning.  But  what  is 
worse  is  to  see  so  many  of  our  anti-lodge  ministers 
taking  such  active  parts  in  these  abominable  affairs. 
When  will  our  brethren  come  to  the  light  and  see 
how  these  railroad  excursions  are  draining  their 
poor  race,  and  indirectly  helping  to  lower  wages? 
May  God's  ministers  cry  aloud  against  this  monster 
of  iniquity. 

Thursday,  Auo.  23.— The  water  is  gradually  fall- 
ing. The  draining  machines  have  been  slowly  run- 
ning since  Tuesday  night.  The  weather  is  yet  very 
heavy  and  threatening.  Some  of  the  poor  water- 
stricken  people  are  being  frigbteneil  by  some  of  the 
inhuman  hoodlums  telling  them  that  the  astronomer 
predicts  another  storm  in  a  short  time.  Provisions 
have  taken  a  rise  since  this  terrible  disaster.  The 
probabilities  are  if  the  yellow  fever  has  not  yet 
reached  New  Orleans  it  may  break  out  since  the 
water  has  gone  down.  The  city  press  gives  terrible 
accounts  of  the  suffering  poor  in  the  rear  of  the 
city;  but  notwithstanding  these  calamities,  the  secrete 
ists  are  doing  all  they  can  to  make  other  proselytes; 
yet  they  are  doing  nothing  to  relieve  these  suffer- 
ing poor.  In  the  Garden  District  of  the  city  the 
water  has  been  as  far  as  South  Rampart  St.    I  have 


6 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSUKE. 


SsPTEMBEa  6  1888 


been  walking  about  the  city  for  these  three  days, 
trying  to  learn  what  the  lodges  are  doing  in  the  way 
of  relief,  and  get  as  exact  account  as  possible  of  the 
suffering  poor.  I  have  not  been  able  to  go  further 
back  than  St,  Jane  St,  as  yet,  in  this  part  of  the 
city,  and  Magnolia  St.  in  the  upper  part,  and  not 
farther  back  than  Dryades  St.  in  Jefferson  city. 
KevB.  A.  S.  Jackson,  H.  C.  Green,  T.  J.  Johnson, 
and  other  prominent  ministers  are  under  water. 
May  God  bless  these  poor  people  and  save  them 
from  the  secret  lodge  and  excursion  serpents.  Amen. 

Francis  J.  Davidson. 


CORBESFONSENCE. 


A  TESTIMONY  IN  FLORIDA. 


Milton,  Fla.,  Aug.  20,  1888. 
Dear  Editor: — For  some  months  I  have  been  cir- 
culating your  tracts  and  loaning  your  books,  with 
not  very  marked  results,  but  some  good  seed  has 
been  sown  which  I  hope  will  bring  forth  fruit.  The 
more  I  learn  of  Masonry,  the  more  I  am  ashamed 
of  Freemason  preachers,  who  preach  Christ  in  the 
pulpit,  and  the  more  I  am  ashamed  of  myself,  that 
I  have  not  done  more  to  spread  the  light  and  ex- 
pose this  iniquity.  Nearly  all  the  preachers  here 
are  bound  by  Masonic  oaths.  The  rest  nearly  all 
give  silent  consent.  This  is  a  place  of  a  thousand 
or  so  white  inhabitants,  and  four  churches. 

The  Baptists  lately  held  a  protracted  meeting, 
called  here  a  glorious  revival;  about  eighty  acces- 
sions, a  part  by  letter;  some  of  them  having  held 
their  letters  ten  to  fifteen  years.  To  the  best  of  my 
knowledge  and  belief  it  was  a  superficial  work,  like 
all  other  Southern  revivals  I  ever  attended.  If  one 
of  the  new  converts  gives  evidence  of  a  saving 
change  of  heart  I  would  be  glad  to  know  it  and  re- 
joice with  him.  I  attended  a  majority  of  the  meet- 
ings. The  new  baptistry  added  eclat  to  the  occa- 
sion, and  drew  crowded  audiences.  The  presiding 
evangelist,  Rev.  Mr.  Bass  of  Evergreen,  Ala.,  en- 
joyed the  distinction  of  being  a  Freemason,  and 
referred  to  it  more  than  once  in  the  pulpit.  I  hope 
and  pray  that  but  few  more  years  will  pass  till  pub- 
lic opinion  will  place  Freemason  preachers  below 
par. 

If  such  a  being  as  a  Freemason  Christian  exists, 
he  must  know  that  holiness  and  the  principles  of 
Masonry  are  antagonistic;  that  they  cannot  possibly 
co-exist  in  the  same  heart,  unless  a  man  can  at  the 
same  time  serve  God  and  mammon. 

I  have  put  out  a  few  questions  which  neither  Ma- 
sonic preachers  nor  their  apologists  dare  answer. 
Thus:  Is  any  man  entitled  to  our  confidence  and 
respect  as  a  true  Christian,  whose  life  and  character 
are  controlled  by  Masonic  oaths  and  public  opinion? 

Is  not  the  man  a  hypocrite  who  preaches  Christ 
and  him  crucified  in  the  pulpit,  he  being  a  member 
of  the  Masonic  fraternity,  who  reject  Christ  in  their 
ritual  and  prayers? 

For  those  who  will  not  examine  the  subject:  Is 
not  the  man  who  will  not  know  the  truth  equally 
as  guilty  in  the  sight  of  God  as  the  man  who  knew 
his  duty,  and  did  it  not? 

Let  us  pray  the  Lord  to  break  the  spell  that  binds 
the  churches  to  the  Mason  lodge,  and  not  only  pray, 
but  work  for  it.  Up  with  the  right,  down  with  the 
wrong.     Truly  yours,  J.  Marsh. 


F.   W.  Captoell,  Etq., 

My  Dkar  Sir  and  Brother: — Have  just  read 
the  Cynosure  of  the  26th  inst.  [July],  your  letter 
with  the  rest.  We  are  in  a  pickle  on  Dr.  Brooks,  a 
demitted  Freemason.  I  have  a  copy  of  the  consti- 
tution of  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Missouri,  and  it  tells 
me  that  a  demit  is  a  recommendation  that  the  holder 
is  a  good  and  true  Freemason,  worthy  the  fellow- 
ship and  the  confidence  of  the  fraternity  the  globe 
around.  Unless  Dr.  Brooks  has  been  suspended  or 
expelled  since  the  issuance  of  that  demit  (and  he  has 
not),  then  the  cold  fact  is  he  is  a  Mason  in  good  and 
regular  standing.  He  is  now  a  member,  so  to  speak, 
of  every  Masonic  lodge  in  the  United  States,  and  in 
the  world;  is  under  the  jurisdiction  of  the  order, 
and  any  lodge  where  he  may  chance  to  be  has  cer- 
tain jurisdiction  over  him,  until  he  gives  up  that 
demit,  or  voucher  of  good  standing,  and  surrenders 
his  Masonic  standing  to  a  particular  individual 
lodge. 

But  Mr.  Brooks  is  frank  enough.  Though  not 
now  an  aflSliated  member,  with  its  burdens  and  re- 
sponsibilities, but  a  demitted  Mason,  with  all  its 
benefits  and  reciprocal  aid,  yet,  for  fear  some  thick- 
headed Anti-mason  should  charge  him  with  being  a 
seceder,  or  some  mystic  brother  challenge  his  good 
standing  in  the  order,  he  adds:  "I  have  no  prejudice 
to  secret  societies."  Thus  he  candidly  avows,  like  a 
man,  that  his  heart  is  in  harmony  with  that  demit. 
He  can  visit  any  Masonic  lodge  at  pleasure. 

I  have  not  yet  signed  the  "Anti  Secrecy  League," 
and  if  its  pledge  will  allow  men  to  vote  for  an  ad- 
hering Mason,  who  has  no  prejudice  to  secret  socie- 
ties," then  I  will  not  be  in  haste  to  sign.  Remem- 
ber, I  do  not  dispute  Mr.  Brooks's  non-afi&Iiation. 
Thousands  of  adhering  Freemasons  are  non-affili- 
ates, and  every  well-informed  Anti-mason  knows  as 
much.  We  look  to  the  esteemed  chairman  of  the 
American  party  for  light.  We  don't  want  to  be 
hasty,  neither  over-scrupulous  politically.  If  our 
brethren  want  to  sign  a  "league"  not  to  vote  for 
secrecy  men,  and  then  vote  for  Dr.  Brooks,  we  pre- 
fer not  to  sign,  then  we  will  violate  no  pledge,  at 
least,  should  we  vote  for  him.  The  writer  has  made 
it  a  rule  not  to  knowingly  vote  for  members  of  se- 
cret orders.  We  did  this  without  any  individual 
pledging,  except  as  every  individual  is  responsible 
for  the  actions  and  resolutions  of  a  caucus  or  a 
convention.  In  behalf  of  myself,  and  others,  we 
would  all  be  pleased  to  have  a  concise  opinion  on 
this  specific  case  from  our  honored  chairman  through 
either  the  Cynosure  or  the  American,  or  both.  It 
will  be  time  for  individual  opinions  from  the  rank 
and  file  later  along,  after  our  leaders  have  spoken. 
Wishing  you  abundant  success,  I  am,  as  ever, 
yours  for  right  and  good  government, 

M.  N.  Butler. 


the  world  might  be  manifested  by  this  double  citizen- 
ship of  men  willing  to  risk  their  lives  for  the  honor  and 
glory  of  both  of  these  great  peoples  who  speak  and  write 
the  same  language  and  are  taught  the  same  Christianity. 
— T.  H. 

THK  father's   spirit  LIVING  YBT. 

My  father,  Krastus  Day,  who  has  been  a  subscriber  for 
the  Cynosure  for  many  years,  was  called  to  the  better 
land  last  winter.  Though  I  do  not  think  it  best  to  renew 
for  myself,  I  had  hoped  at  this  time  to  send  you  the 
price  of  the  paper  that  it  may  go  into  some  other  home. 
I  still  hope  that  in  the  near  future  I  shall  be  able  to  send 
you  a  small  donation  to  help  on  the  cause  that  was  dear 
to  my  father's  heart. — Mary  Day,  OolcAeater,  Conn. 


LITERATURE. 


THB  POSITION   OF  DR.  BROOKS. 


PITH  AND  POINT. 


THE   LODGE   FIEND. 


Dale,  N.  Y.,  Aug.  27,  1888. 
Editor  Cynosure, 

Dear  Brother: — I  send  you  the  open  letter  of 
Bro.  M.  N.  Butler  of  Avalon,  Mo.,  for  publication. 
He  raises  the  question  whether  those  who  are  con- 
scientiously opposed  to  voting  for  lodge  men  for 
office  can  consistently  support  Dr.  Brooks  for  Vice 
President,  he  being  a  demitted  Freemason. 

Bro.  Butler  quotes  Dr.  Brooks's  language  in  re- 
gard to  the  lodge  as  follows:  "I  have  no  prejudice 
to  secret  societies."  One  of  Webster's  definitions 
of  "prejudice"  is,  "A  previous  bent  or  bias  of  mind 
for  or  against  any  person  or  thing."  Now,  charity 
would  believe  the  Dr.  intended  to  say  he  had  no 
bias  of  mind  /or  secret  societies.  On  the  other 
hand,  Bro.  Butler  says:  "Thus  he  candidly  avows, 
like  a  man,  that  his  heart  is  in  harmony  with  that 
demit,"  and  "that  he  has  no  prejudice  against  secret 
societies." 

Can  anti-secretists  vote  the  Prohibition  electoral 
ticket?  I  think  we  can,  under  protest.  We  can 
most  heartily  vote  for  that  grand  man,  free  from  the 
lodge,  Clinton  B.  Fisk,  and  protest  against  being 
compelled  at  the  same  time,  by  present  laws,  to  vote 
for  John  A.  Brooks,  a  Mason.  Yours  for  Christ  and 
reform,  F.  W.  Capwell. 


I  have  taken  three  degrees  in  a  lodge,  but  quit  it  for 
good.  I  was  notified  to  meet  with  them,  but  did  not. 
Bad  luck  has  been  my  lot  ever  since.  First  my  dwelling 
burned  one  night;  myself  and  family  just  got  out  in  time 
to  save  our  lives.  Another  night  my  stables,  horses, 
harness,  farming  tools,  including  a  threshing  machine, 
wheat  and  oat  stacks  were  one  smoking  mass.  Beside 
these  two  accidents  I  am  game  for  boycotting,  for  I  can 
hardly  sell  an  article  or  buy  a  thing  without  this  dirty 
business  being  tried  against  me.  Wishing  you  success 
in  your  fight  against  secret  societies,  I  remain  yours, — J. 
J.  Kyos,  Ridgeway,  Iowa. 

brethren  must  all  watch  with  the  cynosure. 

I  used  to  think  the  Cynosvre  so  nice  and  good  that  it 
couldn't  be  improved.  But  improved  it  is,  and  it  keeps 
on  improving.  I  don't  know  of  a  paper  which  excels 
the  beloved  Cynosure.  Of  course  my  iDeing  in  love  with 
it  makes  a  difference.  Well,  I  have  been  wanting  to 
prepare  a  series  of  articles  on  "Romanism  in  History  and 
in  Practice,"  but  just  now  I  am  making  hasty  prepara- 
tions to  remove  to  Florida,  and  so  haven't  time.  I  am 
very  glad  you  can  support  Fisk  and  Brooks.  But  I  am 
very  sorry  the  young  party  is  already  in  danger  of  being 
swallowed  up  by  the  "Great  Beast."  Your  timely  watch- 
fulness will  no  doubt  do  much  toward  keeping  the  party 
pure.  If  my  health  will  permit  me  to  labor  in  the  cause 
of  righteousness  I  shall  endeavor  to  do  what  I  can,  and 
in  my  travels  I  shall  always  be  ready  to  speak  a  word  for 
you  and  try  to  get  readers.  I  hope,  too,  to  be  able  to 
help  the  cause  materially.     But  now  I  cannot. 

the  flag  on  curricanti  needle. 

It  is  quite  a  pleasing  incident  to  notice  that  our  na- 
tional flag  has  been  placed  upon  the  isolated  peak  of  one 
of  our  mountains  2,(X)0  feet  high  in  Colorado,  a  danger- 
ous performance,  done  at  the  risk  of  his  life,  and  after 
one  fall  from  the  precipitous  side  into  the  river,  by  an 
English  sailor.  The  courageous  Englishman  has  illus- 
trated the  truest  spirit  of  mutual  national  brotherhood, 
and  deserves  to  be  made  an  American  citizen  without,  if 
he  has  not  already  done  so,  renouncing  his  native  coun- 
try.   What  a  glorious  unity  of  heart  for  the  welfare  of 


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ascendent  in  Masonry,  rests  upon  false  statements, 
and  indulges  in  puerile,  blasphemous  and  injurious 
practices.  The  text  is  sustained  by  hundreds  of 
quotations  from  Masonic  authorities.  If  the  work 
is  true,  this  form  of  Masonry  is  an  abomination  to 
be  shunned,  condemned  and  resisted  by  every  lover 
of  truth  and  decency,  every  Christian  and  every 
patriot.  If  it  is  not  true,  it  becomes  the  advocates 
of  the  Scottish  Rite  to  prove  that  it  is  not." 

In  Stribner's  Magazine  for  September,  "Riilway  Pas- 
senger Travel,"  by  Qen.  Horace  Porter,  is  the  fourth 
article  in  the  successful  series  on  Railways,  begun  in  the 
June  number.  Qen.  Porter  describes  the  development  of 
the  convenience  and  luxury  of  modern  travel,  especially 
with  reference  to  sleeping,  parlor,  and  dining-cars,  and 
vestibuled  trains.  There  are  also  brief  discussions  of 
couplers,  steam-heating,  switches,  checks,  immigrant 
transportation,  ratio  of  accidents  and  relative  fares  in 
Europe  and  America.  Qen.  Porter  has  used  his  unusual 
faculty  for  narrative  to  bring  out  the  most  interesting 
and  striking  features  of  the  subject,    W.  H.  Mallock,  the 


Skptehber  6, 1888 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSUKE. 


well-known  English  writer,  has  written 
a  brief  paper  of  recollections  of  a  recent 
delightful  visit  to  the  island  of  Cyprus, 
embodying  in  poetic  prose  some  of  its 
romance  and  beauty.  It  is  fully  illus- 
trated from  photographs  taken  by  the 
author.  "Presidential  Campaign  Med- 
als," by  Qustav  Kobbe,  describes  the  cir- 
cumstances from  which  sprang  the  unique 
devices  used  in  our  national  campaigns. 
"The  Modern  Greek"  is  an  article  of  great 
interest.  It  presents  us  the  personal  and 
social  traits  of  that  interesting  people, 
whose  devotion  to  their  glorious  ances- 
tral history  at  once  inspires  their  ambi- 
tion and  tempts  them  to  worship  their 
forefathers.  Hugh  McCulloch,  one  of 
the  conspicuous  figures  in  our  recent 
financial  history,  contributes  a  paper  en- 
titled "Memories  of  Some  Contempora- 
ries." After  a  public  life  of  half  a  cen- 
tury he  has  recalled,  vividly  and  with 
fine  feeling  and  geaerous  appreciation  of 
all  political  parties,  his  impressions  of 
eminent  men  whom  he  has  known. 

The  John  Shilloto  Company  have  sent 
out  to  their  friends  and  patrons  a  unique 
eight  page  sheet,  finely  illustrated  and 
well  written,  giving  briefly  the  past  his 
tory,  the  present  success  and  future  ex- 
pectations of  Cincinnati.  The  copies 
of-old  engravings,  maps  and  documents 
make  it  a  document  well  worth  preserv- 
ing. 

Science,  for  Aug.  24,  contains  a  valua- 
ble review  of  the  report  of  the  Commis- 
sioner of  Education  for  1886-7  now  being 
printed.  The  article  on  "Prevention  of 
Floods  in  the  Lower  Mississippi"  and  the 
address  on  "Phases  in  the  Progress  of 
Chemistry"  must  command  a  wide  read- 
ing among  intelligent  people. 


Lodge  Notes. 

In  consequence  of  the  vast  amount  of 
sickness  throughout  the  country  and  in 
the  ranks  of  the  Seven  Stars  of  Consol- 
idation, the  Supreme  Qrand  Convention 
of  that  colored  lodge  in  the  United  States 
will  be  postponed  to  meet  in  Greenville, 
Miss  ,  December  11,  1888. 

New  York  is  said  to  be  one  of  the 
strongest  Romish  cities  in  the  world.  It 
has  seventy  two  parish  churches,  forty 
chapels,  300  priests.  Fall  $30,000,000 
are  invested  in  Romish  churches  and  in- 
stitutions, and  there  are  800.000  follow- 
ers of  the  Pope  within  the  city  limits. 

The  surrender  of  the  government  of 
Quebec  to  the  Jesuits  appears  worse  and 
worse  the  more  closely  it  is  looked  into. 
Four  hundred  thousand  dollars  of  the 
public  money  is  to  be  handed  over  to  the 
Jesuit  Society.  In  order  to  appease  Prot- 
estants a  sum  of  $60  000  is  to  be  devotel 
to  their  educational  institutions. 

J.  G.  Roberts,  an  engineer  on  the  Bur- 
lington road,  was  arrested  at  Lincoln, 
Neb  ,  charged  with  manslaughter.  He 
claims  that  the  charge  is  only  a  method 
of  persecution  employed  by  the  brother- 
hood, as  the  arrest  is  ostensibly  for  an 
accident  on  the  N.  Y.,  Lake  Shore  and 
Western  road  for  which  he  was  not  re- 
spomible. 

At  the  convention  of  the  Ancient  Or- 
der of  Hibernians  held  recently  in  this 
State,  representing  both  wings  of  the  or- 
der, the  delegates  in  attendance  at  the 
national  conventions  held  in  New  York 
and  Louisville,  respectively,  reported  that 
resolutions  had  been  adopted  in  the  na 
tional  bodies  seeking  to  effect  a  union  of 
the  orgainization  in  America. 

The  forty  fourth  annual  session  of  the 
Sons  of  Temperance  for  the  United  States 
and  Canada  met  in  Toronto  in  July. 
Jewell  of  Boston  and  Stearns  of  New 
York,  members  with  big  titles,  were  pres 
ent.  They  report  1,604  lodges  with  79,- 
158  members,  and  the  net  gain  is  only 
245  There  were  35,573  members  with- 
drawn, sucpended  or  expelled,  most  of 
them  sick  of  such  folly  as  trying  to  pro- 
mote temperance  by  secret  lodge  methods. 

According  to  C.  F.  Qrifflu,  Secretary  of 
State  for  Indiana,  a  prominent  member 
of  the  Sons  of  Veteran  lodge,  the  late 
meeting  of  that  order  in  Wheeling,  W. 
Va.,  was  to  attend  to  the  annual  election 
of  ofiicers,  a  commander  in  chief  and  his 
subordinates,  a  staff  similar  to  that  of 
the  Grand  Army.  Some  changes  were 
agreed  upon  in  the  uniform,  which  is  like 
that  of  the  regular  army  [of  the  U.  S  I] 
except  that  the  letters  8.  V.  on  the  bui- 
tons  are  substituted  for  U.  8.  A."  When 
questioned  as  to  the  particular  work  of 
the    orpani^.ation,    be    replied:     "It    is 


chiefly  caring  for  old  and  disabled  sol- 
diers, and  looking  after  the  widows  and 
orphans  of  veterans.  The  representation 
was  by  delegates,  each  State  constituting 
a  division." 

At  a  socialistic  meeting  in  Chicago, 
Sunday,  Aug.  26,  the  only  matter  dis- 
cussed was  the  expulsion  of  Joseph  R. 
Buchanan,  editor  of  the  Labor  Enquirer, 
because  of  his  hostility  to  Tommy  Mor- 
gan as  well  as  for  his  support  of  Cleve- 
land and  Thurman  and  tariff  reform. 
John  Z.  White,  Joe  Gruenhut  and  J.  R. 
Buchanan  were  denounced  as  traitors 
and  professional  politicians.  A  motion 
was  put  and  carried  unanimously  to  per- 
emptorily expel  Buchanan  from  the  So- 
cialistic Labor  party. 

The  New  Orleans  Times  Democrat, 
shortly  after  the  N.  C.  A.  convention  in 
that  city  last  spring,  published  the  fol- 
lowing at  the  head  of  its  Masonic  column: 
"The  quiet  in  Masonic  circles  the  past 
week  might  almost  cause  the  thought  that 
the  sword-bearer  at  the  temple  portals 
was  more  than  ordinarily  vigilant,  and 
the  eyes  of  the  profane  pencil  pusher  less 
keen,  were  it  not  for  the  fact  that  a  faint 
whisper  of  'barely  a  quorum  present' falls 
now  and  then  upon  the  listening  ear, 
when  the  mystic  brethren  are  in  conver- 
sation. This  dereliction  in  attendance  is 
a  subject  of  much  concern  among  those 
who  have  at  heart  the  continued  pros- 
perity of  their  beloved  order.  Various 
causes  are  assigned  and  numerous  reme- 
dies are  suggested.  More  work  might 
excite  the  attention,  but  neophytes  are 
scarce,  and  some  other  means  of  attrac- 
tion will  have  to  be  provided :  and  upon 
that  problem  some  of  the  brightest  Ma- 
sonic intellects  are  now  engaged,  and  no 
doubt  will  find  a  satisfactory  solution." 

On  Pythian  day  at  the  State  military 
encampment  at  Evansville,  Ind .,  the  city 
was  thronged  and  the  streets  decorated 
along  which  the  grand  parade  of  the 
Knights  of  Pythias  passed.  The  King 
Komus  parade  by  far  exceeded  the  ex- 
pectations of  even  the  most  sanguine  in 
point  of  numbers  and  grandeur.  At  7:30 
the  steamer  Isabella,  bearing  the  honored 
personage,  was  sighted  around  the  point 
and  landed  the  wharf  boat  amid  a  grand 
display  of  fireworks.  The  entire  levee 
was  lighted  up.  At  the  foot  of  Main 
Street  the  great  chariot  of  the  king  was 
standing  and  after  being  seated  among 
his  court.  Mayor  liannatell  came  with 
his  body  guard  and  with  a  short  speech 
delivered  to  him  the  great  golden  key  of 
the  city.  Then  the  king  announced  that 
the  city  for  this  one  night  was  his,  and  as 
it  was  his  he  gave  it  to  his  royal  subjects 
and  bid  them  go  and  do  as  they  pleased 
until  daylight.  The  carnival  then  opened. 
The  disguises  combined  all  that  was  gro 
tesque,  ludicrous,  solemn,  and  fantastic. 
Gov.  Gray  and  staff,  after  reviewing  the 
parade,  were  escorted  to  the  Crescent 
club  rooms,  whose  guests  they  are,  and 
were  royally  entertained. 


)LOVE    IN    A    COTTAGE. 

"Chally,"  said  Amarantha  Jane,  "I  no- 
tice that  your  spirits  recently  seem  to  be 
bubbling  over  with  happiness.  I  am  glad 
to  see  it,  but  do  tell  me  dear,  what  has 
caused  it?"  "I  will,"  said  Charley,  as  he 
encircled  her  waist  and  imprinted  a  kiss 
on  her  inviting  lips.  "You  know  for  a 
while  I  was  melancholly,  blue  as  indigo, 
— had  no  appetite,  was  bilious  and  dys- 
peptic, but  the  use  of  two  bottles  of  Dr. 
Pierce's  Golden  Medical  Discovery  has 
brought  me  out  and  I  am  'bright  as  a 
button.'  I  feel  like  a  new  man  now. 
Jane,  name  the  day  soon;  there  is  more 
of  this  medicine  at  the  drug  store." 


The  success  of  some  of  the  agents  em- 
ployed by  B.  F.  Johnson  «fe  Co.,  Rich- 
mond, Va.,  is  truly  marvelous.  It  is  not 
an  unusual  thing  for  their  agents  to  make 
as  high  as  $20  and  $30  a  day,  and  some- 
times their  profits  run  up  as  high  as  $40 
and  $50 — even  more.  But  we  hesitate  to 
tell  you  the  whole  truth,  or  you  will 
scarcely  believe  we  are  in  earnest.  Write 
them  and  see  for  yourself  what  they  will 
do  for  you. 


ANTI-MABOmO  LSVTURBRB. 

OBKBBAL  AeBKT  AND  LSCTUBSB,  J.  P. 

Stoddard,  221  W.  Madison  St.,  Chicago. 
H.  H.  Hinman,  Cynosure  office. 
Agent  for  Southern  States. 
Statu  AeBNTS. 
Iowa,  C.  F.   Hawley,  Wheaton,    Du- 
Page  Co.,  Illinois. 
Missouri,  Eld.  Rufus  Smith,  Maryville. 
New  Hampshire,   Kid.  S.  C.  Kimball, 
New  Market. 
Ohio,  W.  B.  Stoddard,  Columbua. 
Kansas,  Robert  Loggan,  Clifton. 
Alabama,  Rev.  G.  M.  Elliott,  Selma. 

Dbobbb  Wobkbbb. — [Seceders.l 
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Othbb  Lbctttbbbs. 

C.  A.  Blanchard,  Wheaton,  lU. 
N.  Callender,  Brown  Hollow,  Pa. 
J ,  H.  Tlmmons,  Tarentum,  Pa 

T.  B.  McCormlck,  Princeton,  Ind. 

K.  Johnson,  Dayton,  Ind. 

H.  A.  Day,  WlUlamstown,  Mich. 

J.  M.  Bishop,  Chambersburg,  Pa. 

A.  Mayn,  Bloomlngton,  Ind. 

J.  B.  CreBBlnger,  Sullivan,  O. 

W.  M.  Love,  Osceola,  Mo. 

J.  L.  Barlow,  Grundy  Center,  Iowa. 

A.  D.Freeman,  Downers  Grove,  111 

Wm.  FentoD ,  8t  Paul,  Minn. 

Warren  Taylor,  South  Salem,  O. 

J.  S.  Perry,  Thompson,  Conn. 

J.  T.  Mlchael,1533  Capouse  Av.Scranton.Pa. 

8.  G.  Barton,  Breckinridge,  Mo. 

E.  Bametson,  HasklnvlUe,  Steuben  Co,  N.  Y 

Wm.  R.  Roach,  Pickering,  Ont. 

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MA'TJONALCERISTiAN  A880CIATI0M 

PBBsrDBirr.— H.  H.  George,  D.  D.,  G«n; 
eva  College,  Pa, 

VicB-PBBsrDBNT — Rev.  M.  A.  Gaalt, 
Blanchard,  Iowa. 

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row, L.  N.Stratton,  John  Sutcliffe,  Alex- 
ander Thomson,  E.  R.  Worrell. 

The  object  of  this  Association  Is: 
"To  expose,  withstand  and  remove  secrel 
■ocieties.  Freemasonry  in  particular,  and  otbef 
anti-Christian  movements,  in  order  to  save  tba 
churches  of  Christ  from  being  depraved,  to  !•• 
deem  the  administration  of  justice  from  per- 
version, and  our  r^p  iblican  govermnect  from 
corruption." 

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of   Illinois,  the  sum  of ■    dollars  for  the 

purposes  of  said  Association,  and  for  whfrh 
the  receipt  of  Its  Treasurer  for  the  time  behif 
S(kji  be  sufficient  diacharsce. 

THB  RATIONAL  OONTBNTION.    . 

Pbbsidbwt.— Rev.  J.  8.  T.  Milligan, 
Denison,  Kans. 

Sbcbbtabt.— Rev.  R.N.Coun tee,  Mem- 
phis, Tenn. 

BTATB  AITXILIABT  ASSOCIATIONS. 

Ar.twiMA..— Prea.,  Prof.  Pickens;  Sec.,  8. 
M.  Elliott;  Trea«.,  Rev.  C.  B.  Curtis,  all  of 
Selma. 

Cautornia.— Pres^  L.  B.  Lathrop,  Hollls 
ter;  Cor.  Sec,  Mrs.  U.  P.  Merrill,  Woodhmd; 
Treae.,  C.  Ruddock,  Woodland. 

CONNBCTICUT.— Pres..  J.  A.  Conant,  WiUl- 
mantle;  Sec,  Geo.  Smith,  Wllllmantlc ; Treat. 
C.  T.  CoUing,  Windsor. 

iLUKOis.— Pre*.,  J.  P.  Stoddard;  Sec,  M. 
N.  Butler;  Treas.,  W.  I.  Phillips  all  at  0»- 
iwsurt  office. 

IiroiANA.— Pre*.,  William  H.  Flgg,  Reno 
Sec,  S.  L.  Cook,  Albion;  Treat.,  BenJ.  Ulah 
Silver  Lake. 

Iowa.— Pres.,  Wm.Johnston,College  Springs  \ 
Cor  Sec.,  C.  D.  Trumbull,  Morning  Sun* 
Treas.,  James  Harvey,  Pleasant  Plain,  Jeffer. 
son  Co. ;  Lecturer,  C.  F.  Hawley,  Wheaton,  lU. 

Kansas.— Pre*..  J.  8.  T.  MUllgan,  Denison; 
Sec.,  8.  Hart,  Lecompton;  Treat.,  J.  A.  Tor 
rence,  Denison. 

Massachusetts.— Pret.,S.  A.  Pratt;  Sec. 
Mrs.  B.  D.  Bailey;  Treat.,  David  Mannlng,Sr. 
Worcester. 

MiOHiSAH.— Pret.,  D.  A.  Rlchardt,  Brighton 
Sec'y,  H.  A.  Day,  WiUiameton;  Trett.' 
Geo.  Bwanson,  Jr.,  Bedfoiu. 

Minnesota. —Pre*.,  E.  G.  Paine,  Watlo'a 
Cor.  Sec,  Wm.  Fenton,  St.  Paul ;  Kec.  Sec'y 
Mrs.  M.  F.  Morrill,  St.  Cnarles;  Treat.,  WiB 
H.  Morrill,  St.  Charles. 

Missouri.— Pre*.,  B.  F.  Miller,  EtglevlU* 
Treat.,  William  Beauchamp,  Avalon ;  (^r.  Str. 
A.  D.  Thomae,  Avalon. 

Nbbrabea.— Pree.,  S.  Austin,  Palnnooit^ 
Cor.  Sec,  W.  Spooner,  Kearney;  TreM.1 
J.C.Fye. 

Maink— Pres.,  Isaac  Jackson,  Harrison  * 
Sec,  I.  D.  Haines,  Dexter;  Treas.,  H.  W. 
Qodiiard,  West  Sidney. 

Naw  HAMP8H1RB.— Pres.,  C.  L.  Baker,  Man 
Chester;  Sec,  8.  C.  Kimball,  New  Market 
Treas.,  James  /.  French,  Canterbury. 

Niw  York.- Pree.,  F.  W.  Capwell,  Dale: 
Sec'y,  John  Wallace,  Syracuse;  Treat.,  M. 
Merrick,  Syracuse. 

Ohio.— Pres.,  F.  M.  Spencer,  New  Concord; 
Rec  Soc,  S.  A.  George,  Mansfield;  Cor.  Sec 
and  Treas. J  C.  W.  hlait,  Columbus;  Agent 
W.  B.  Stoddard,  Columbus. 

PiNHSTLVANiA.- Cor.  Sec,  N.  Callender 
ThonpatD ;  Treat.,  W.  B-Bertelt,  Wllkeebarre. 

VERMONT.— Pret.,  W.  R.  Laird,  St.  Johnt. 
bury;  Sec,  C.  W  Potter. 

WWOOHsni.- Pres.,  J.  W  Wood,  Baraboo; 
Sec,  W.  W.  Ame^  Meaomonle ;  Treat.,  M.  B 
BrlttoB,  Vienna. 


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THE  CHKISTIAN  CTNOSUKE- 


September  6, 1888 


The  Christian  Cynosure. 

Xdrobs. 
i.  BLANCHARD.  HKNRT  L.  KELLOQQ. 


OHIOAeO,   THUB8DAY,    8EFTEHBER  6,    1888 


EDITORIAL  CORRBSPONDBNGE. 

NoRTHFiELD,  Mass.,  Aug.  27,  1888. 

To  Our  Readers: — Mrs.  General  Phelps  wrote, 
earnestly  urging  Mrs.  Blanchard  to  come  to  North- 
field,  one  and  one-half  miles  across  the  Vermont 
line  into  Massachusetts.  I  replied,  "To  see  the  Con- 
gregational committee,  and  if  I  can  occupy  their 
church  on  the  Sabbath  we  will  come  down  on  Satur- 
day. But  say  to  the  committee,  distinctly,  that  if 
I  come  1  shall  speak  against  secret  societies  in  their 
pulpit.     Do  not  (rouble  Bra.  Moody  about  my  coming." 

Mrs.  Phelps  was  born  here  in  Northfield.  She  is 
an  agreeable  young  woman:  reared  by  Unitarian  pa- 
rents, who  deserve  well  of  the  country  for  raising 
such  children.  Mrs.  Phelps,  when  little  past  mere 
girlhood,  went  into  a  store  in  Brattleboro,  in  New 
England  fashion.  And  although  those  who  desig- 
nated themselves,  "the  ladies  of  Brattleboro,"  were 
proud  of  the  courtesies  of  General  Phelps,  this 
young  lady,  who  was  already  a  widow  with  one  son, 
charmed  Gen.  Phelps  into  matrimony,  which  through 
a  long  military,  but  strictly  virtuous  life,  he  had 
shunned  and  almost  forsworn.  She  made  his  last 
days  happy,  and  bore  him  a  son  in  his  own  likeness, 
a  bright  and  beautiful  boy. 

Our  readers  know  General  Phelps.  His  Sunday- 
school  was  West  Point,  his  Bible-class  a  camp;  and 
after  some  travel  abroad,  his  life  was  passed  amid 
the  ruflSanism  of  Western  and  Southern  frontier  life, 
where  good  morals  were  the  very  rare  exception. 
He  owed  his  pure  morals  amid  contagion  to  a  pure 
and  determined  mother.  He  was  a  gentleman, 
scholar,  patriot  and  Christian  soldier:  and  if  the 
providence  of  God  had  given  him  the  command  of 
our  armies,  instead  of  Halleck,  at  the  opening  of 
the  war,  the  slaves  would  have  been  enlisted  from 
the  first,  the  war  shortened,  and  half  the  blood  saved. 
But  the  country  hated  the  Negroes,  and  General 
Phelps  had  neither  the  wisdom  nor  patience  of  Lin- 
coln; £0  the  whole  land  was  punished,  according  to 
the  Word  of  God,  that  national  sins  must  be  pun- 
ished in  this  life,  because  there  are  no  nations  in 
the  life  to  come. 

But  I  wander.  Mrs.  Phelps  wrote  to  Mr.  Moody, 
and  also  to  the  committee,  who  do  nothing  when  he 
is  here  without  his  advice.  He  said  to  the  com- 
mittee (who  had  read  my  letter  and  knew  I  would 
speak  against  the  lodge  or  not  come),  "Yes,  I  know 
Mr.  Blanchard.     Let  him  come." 

So  I  came.  I  preached  yesterday  to  a  very  full 
house,  with  a  long  row  in  the  gallery.  I  said :  The 
difference  between  the  lodges  and  Christianity  is 
threefold: 

1.  They  are  secret,  and  Christianity  is  open. 

2.  They  are  human  inventions,  and  Christianity 
is  of  divine  appointment. 

3.  They  have  no  Messiah  or  Mediator,  and  so 
have  no  access  to  God,  but  must  eternally  wander 
in  darkness. 

It  was  a  characteristic  New  England  congregation, 
having  many  large,  white  heads  who  could  remem- 
ber when  Massachusetts  had  a  law  prohibiting  and 
punishing  Masonic  oaths.  I  never  preached  to  a 
more  intelligent  or  attentive  congregation.  There 
were  many  Masons  and  other  secretists,  but  they 
were  such  Masons  as  attend  church  and  keep  the 
Sabbath. 

I  saw,  last  night,  a  small  crowd  here  in  the  hotel 
of  wholly  another  sort,  and  conversed  with  them 
for  an  hour,  and  learned  the  following  facts: 

1.  That  Mr.  Moody  says  little  or  nothing  against 
the  lodge  here. 

2.  That  the  old  Northfield  lodge  was  kept  from 
entire  dissolution  by  a  Mr.  Belcher,  and  two  or  three 
others,  who  hid  the  charter  and  met  in  entire  se- 
crecy. 

3.  My  informant,  the  son  of  the  Masonic  Mr. 
Belcher,  never  heard  his  father  say  a  word  about 
Masonry. 

4.  Many  years  ago  there  was  a  flourishing  Odd- 
fellow lodge  here,  before  Mr.  Moody  came,  but  it 
bad  gone  down. 

5.  The  old  Northfield  lodge  is  decaying. 
"How  do  you  know?"  I  asked  Mr.  Belcher. 

"I  do  not  see  them  around,  as  I  used  to,  and  many 
Masons  are  buried  without  any  lodge  rites,"  was  his 
reply. 

This,  of  course,  was  encouraging;  but  in  the  crowd 
where  we  conversed  were  some  younger  men.  One 
Methodist  Mason  from  Greenfield  said  the  lodge  was 
flourishing  there.    Another  decent  young  man,  with 


an  honest  face,  lied  without  hesitation  to  keep  his 
oath,  to  "ever  conceal." 

But  I  learned  in  the  crowd,  that  2,000  campers 
still  come  annually  to  Lake  Pleasant,  ten  miles  be- 
low here,  to  hear  the  babbling  sorcerers  and  necro- 
mancers, but  the  ten  thousand  who  used  to  throng 
the  camp-ground  (now  wholly  owned  by  worshipers 
of  familiar  spirits)  are  falling  off. 

Mr.  Moody  preached  yesterday  three  times,  and 
attended  a  fourth  meeting  at  night!  I  heard  his 
third  sermon.  A  jumble  of  notices  dwarfed  my 
afternoon  meeting  to  a  handful;  but  I  read  a  "lec- 
ture on  Odd  fellowship,"  prepared  for  Saxton's  Riv- 
er, which  I  gave  there  last  Friday  night.  Several 
men  and  many  godly  women  came  round  Mrs.  Blanch- 
ard for  tracts,  and  to  give  us  their  God  speed. 

I  wish  I  could  report  Mr.  Moody's  discourse  from 
John  8th  chapter,  particularly  the  verse,  "Jesus 
said,  if  any  man  keep  my  sayings  he  shall  not  see 
death."  It  was  simple,  solid  Scripture,  and  the 
crowd  devoured  it  here,  where  he  has  been  speaking 
all  summer,  as  if  they  heard  him  for  the  first  time. 
I  have  sometimes  censured  him  for  not  "taking  forth 
the  precious  from  among  the  vile,"  as  God  com- 
manded Ezekiel  to  do;  but  I  understand  him  better 
than  ever  I  have.  The  golden  shower  of  tongues 
at  Pentecost  each  contained  one  separate,  special 
gift,  and  Mr.  Moody's  was  that  of  a  teacher.  He 
does  not  see  that  the  secret  lodge  worships  of  this 
land  and  world  are  the  children  of  those  which 
Moses  and  the  reformer  kings  denounced  and  exe 
cuted;  and  which  Peter  chased  from  the  infant 
church  in  the  person  of  Simon,  and  Paul  in  the  per- 
son of  Elymas  the  sorcerer.  Hence  the  devil  wor- 
ships which  confronted  Moses  and  the  prophets,  and 
Christ  and  the  apostles,  lie  underneath,  and  listen  to 
Mr.  Moody  and  the  preaching  evangelists,  Pentecost, 
Whittle,  and  the  rest,  and  lie  still  till  the  storm  of 
revival  is  past,  and  then,  wolf-like,  seize  their  sheep. 
But  God  be  praised  for  Moody  and  Pentecost  and 
Whittle.  But  John  Rogers  said,  "Few  rare  and 
worthy  men  continue  such  to  the  end.  Therefore, 
let  no  man  trust  in  men." 

I  wish,  fervently,  I  could  look  over  the  stupen- 
pous  work  of  Mr.  Moody,  and  the  buildings  which 
have  sprung  up  like  gourds  in  the  night;  but  I 
must  leave  in  an  hour  for  my  native  State,  which, 
as  1  suppose,  is  my  mission  from  God.  I  have  ed- 
ited the  Cynosure  in  part  for  over  twenty  years,  and 
have  asked  few  favors  of  its  readers.  I  now  hum- 
bly and  fervently  beg  their  pfayers  to  Christ,  who 
alone  is  mightier  than  Satan,  "stronger  than  the 
strong  man  armed."  He  will  yet  "bind  the  strong 
man  and  spoil  his  goods."  j.  b. 


TEE  SABBATH  IN  GEIOAGO. 

A  great  meeting  of  German  and  Scandinavian 
citizens  was  held  in  this  city  Sabbath  afternoon  to 
protest  against  the  desecration  of  the  Lord's  day, 
and  the  criminal  complicity  of  the  city  authorities 
in  the  violation  of  Sunday  laws.  Speeches  were 
made  in  four  languages:  Drs.  Little  and  Barrows 
and  lawyer  Bonney  and  others  in  English,  Bishop 
Bscher  in  German,  Rev.  0.  Juul  in  Norwegian  and 
Rev.  M.  C.  Ranseen  in  Swedish.  It  was  a  great  and 
powerful  meeting,  and  the  speakers,  evidently  under 
less  restraint  than  if  the  audience  had  been  all 
American,  dealt  with  official  incapacity  and  neglect 
of  duty  with  earnest  remonstrance.  Mayor  Roche, 
whose  administration  began  with  such  flattering  ap- 
pearances of  improvement  on  the  long  reign  of  Har- 
rison, is  disappointing  everybody  but  the  politicians. 
He  should  have  heard  Pastor  Bruhn,  of  the  Norwe- 
gian Lutheran  church,  charge  the  American  civil 
officers  with  the  demoralization  of  the  foreign  im- 
migrants by  their  lax  administration  of  law.  He 
should  have  heard  Rev.  J.  Berger,  of  the  Centennial 
German  Methodist  church,  say  that  in  the  old  coun- 
try his  people  were  law-abiding  citizens,  but  here 
they  were  deceived  by  the  reckless  disobedience  of 
law  by  men  in  authority,  until  they,  too,  trampled 
the  law  under  foot.  Dr.  Barrows,  especially,  had 
something  to  say  to  Mayor  Roche,  and  he  did  it  fear- 
lessly. As  the  executive  of  this  great  city  he  could 
not  be  a  good  citizen  so  long  as  he  left  the  breed- 
ing-places of  crime  open  on  Sunday.  "We  are  here 
to  tell  the  Mayor,"  he  said,  "that  his  opinions  don't 
suit,  and  if  they  are  not  changed  we  will  elect  for 
his  successor  a  man  who  will  not  try  to  ride  two 
horses  going  in  opposite  directions."  For  the  time 
being  this  severe  reproof  will  have  little  effect,  but 
there  will  come  a  day  when  the  same  sentiments  can 
bo  spoken  by  ballots.  Then  they  will  be  heard  and 
heeded. 

Yesterday  was  another  "dry"  and,  consequently, 
quiet  Sunday  in  Hyde  Park,  our  Chicago  suburb, 
say  the  morning  papers  of  the  27th  ult.  No  attempt 
was  made  by  any  of  the  saloon-keepers  to  open  up, 


and  there  was,  therefore,  no  need  of  any  arrests. 
The  saloon-keepers  have  apparently  accepted  Sun- 
day closing  as  a  settled  feature  of  their  business, 
but  have  adopted  a  very  quiet,  but  SHvere,  retaliato- 
ry measure  against  the  police.  They  won't  sell  a 
drink  to  a  policeman  at  any  price,  Sunday  or  any 
other  day.  Good  for  the  saloons  I  Better  for  the 
police!    Best  for  the  people! 


SOW  a  TAND  TO  UR  CANDIDA  TBS  f 


notes  op  the  AMERICAN  ANTI  SECRECY  LEAGUE. 

The  18,500  Prohibitionists,  who  voted  last  year 
in  Pennsylvania,  have  to-day  a  large  increase  in 
their  number.  None  are  indifferent  respecting  the 
character  of  their  candidate  for  Supreme  Judge. 
James  Black  of  Lancaster  is  nominated  for  that 
high  office,  and  as  he  has  long  been  identified  with 
that  party,  received  5,600  votes  in  1872  as  first  Pro- 
hibition candidate  for  President,  and  was  chairman 
of  the  Platform  committee  in  the  late  Indianapolis 
convention; — because  of  this  prominence  in  the 
party,  it  is  the  greater  pity  that  Judge  Black  should 
hold  such  relations  to  the  lodge  as  indicated  in  his 
letter  to  the  League.     He  writes : 

"I  reply:  Ist.  That  I  am  now  and  have  been  for  twenty 
years  and  more  a  member  of  the  'Independent  Order  of 
Gocd  Templars,'  an  organization  for  the  promotion  of 
personal  abstinence  from  the  use  of  intoxicating  bever- 
ages, and  the  prohibition  of  their  manufacture  and  sale 
by  the  State;  and  also  a  member  of  the  Independent  Or- 
der of  Oddfellows,  an  organization  for  providing  pecun- 
iary relief  in  time  of  sickness  and  death  of  its  members. 
2d.  I  have  always  regarded  these  purposes  as  Christian 
and  patriotic,  and  have  seen  nothing  in  their  constitu- 
tions, by  laws,  teaching  or  action  contrary  to  or  in  ten- 
dency subvereive  of  these.    Respectfully  yours, 

"Jamks  Black." 

Judge  Black  may  regard  the  purposes  of  these 
orders  as  "Christian  and  patriotic,"  but  he  does  not 
need  to  become  a  Mohammedan  to  promote  temper- 
ance, for  those  false  religionists  make  that  reform  a 
success.  Bandits  also  provide  pecuniary  relief  for 
their  own  members,  and  distribute  the  surplus  money 
among  the  rich. Odd-fellows  cannot  bejustified  for  such 
a  reason.  The  preaching  of  virtue  is  good,  but  how 
is  it  taught?  The  Good  Templars  were  established 
in  1851,  not  primarily  to  promote  temperance  so 
much  as  to  "unite  all  temperance  lodges  in  one  grand 
organization."  Read  S.  B.  Chase,  P.  R,  W.  G.  T., 
the  historian  of  the  order,  in  his  pamphlet  on  Good 
Templarism.  Such  has  continued  the  history  of 
this  order.  Let  Judge  Black  study  the  bad  record 
in  California,  Wisconsin  and  elsewhere.  Even  if 
it  is  purely  and  solely  for  the  promotion  of  temper- 
ance, a  gentleman  who  is  worthy  the  votes  of  Penn- 
sylvania Prohibitionists  should  be  of  sufficient  dis- 
cernment to  see  that  the  reform  under  the  open  work 
of  the  W.  C.  T.  U.  and  of  the  political  movement 
has  been  carried  far  beyond  the  expectations  of  the 
Good  Templars  or  of  any  other  secret  order.  It  is, 
in  fact,  out  of  their  sight,  and  they  are  simply  a  dead 
weight  upon  the.  temperance  movement.  Dr. 
Charles  Jewett,  the  champion  of  the  cause,  went 
into  these  orders  along  with  Judge  Black,  but  con- 
demns them  as  retarding  the  final  triumph  of  the 
cause,  which  the  open  societies  were  almost  ready  to 
seize  upon.  In  the  Odd-fellow  order  there  can  be 
no  excuse  for  the  vindication  of  the  humiliating  per- 
formance through  which  Judge  Black  was  taken 
under  the  old  ritual;  nor  in  either  order  for  the  ob- 
ligations of  life- long  secrecy,  which  are  contrary  to 
the  doctrine  of  Jesus  Christ;  nor  for  partaking  in 
religious  ceremony  prepared  for  ungodly  and  unre- 
pentant men,  as  well  as  for  believers. 

But  it  is  not  the  object  of  the  League  to  discuss 
opinions  in  reporting  the  standing  of  candidates. 
We  sincerely  hope  Mr,  Black  will  reconsider  hia 
position.  A  man  fit  for  the  office  of  Supreme  Judge 
should  be  too  intelligent  and  discerning  to  be  de- 
ceived by  the  lodge. 

The  letter  of  Mr.  W.  T.  May  of  Sharon,  Pa,, 
Prohibition  candidate  for  Congress,  is  more  satisfac- 
tory reading,  and  we  doubt  not  it  will  prove,  also, 
more  popular  with  Pennsylvania  voters: 

"I  have  never  given  much  thought  to  secret  societies 
or  their  influence  for  either  good  or  evil,  saving  only 
what  thoughts  have  been  suggested  by  the  public  display 
of  some  societies,  their  well  furnished  lodge  rooms,  stroot 
and  funeral  parades,  etc.  My  idea  is  that  the  whole  con- 
cern of  secret  societies,  their  vows,  obligations,  organ- 
izations and  all  is  a  pack  of  nonsense  and  unworthy  the 
attention  of  serious  men,  fitly  characterized  by  Wendell 
Phillips  as  'mummeries.'  As  a  matter  of  course  I  do  not 
belong  to  any  secret  society,  nor,  indeed,  to  any  society 
excepting  the  M,  E.  church,  and  if  you  are  pleased  to 
call  a  political  party  a  society,  the  Prohibition  party,  but 
I  am  willing  always  to  array  myself  with  good  men 
against  the  evils  of  oar  day  and  to  contend  earnestly  for 
good  laws  and  thsir  enforcement.    Yours  very  truly, 

"W.  T.  May." 


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September  6, 1888 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


This  week's  record  has  a  grievous  beginning,  but 
ends  well.  The  Prohibition  candidate  for  State 
Treasurer  of  Kansas  sends  a  letter  that  rings  like  a 
silver  bell: 

"I  always  deem  it  a  privilege  to  add  my  testimony, 
whenever  an  opportunity  is  offered,  against  all  oath- 
bound  secret  societies.  First,  I  am  of  the  opinion  that 
in  both  civil  and  criminal  suits  preferment  is  shown  to 
members  of  the  orders,  and  violators  of  the  law  escape 
just  punishment  on  account  of  their  connection  with 
them.  I  also  maintain  that  all  such  societies  are  a  great 
hindrance  to  our  Master's  cause  and  the  Christian  relig- 
ion .  Their  claims  are  delusive,  and  are  on  a  false  foun- 
dation of  assumed  religion,  'not  Christianity;'  which  is 
calculated'to  deceive  uninvestigating  minds  into  the  be- 
lief that  if  their  lives  are  in  accord  with  the  teachings  of 
the  order,  they  will  be  saved  without  the  exercise  of  faith 
in  Christ  as  their  Redeemer.     Very  respectfully, 

"R.  M.  Slonaker." 

Thank  God  for  men  of  conviction,  and  faith  and 
courage;  their  fellow  citizens  may  safely  entrust  the 
duties  of  public  office  to  them. 


one  case  of  self  destruction  caused  by  liquor,  but 
many  hundreds  of  others  occur  annually  in  the 
United  States.  How  long  will  we  endure  this  the 
greatest  of  all  evils? 


— The  Annual  Bible  School  Assembly  of  Western 
Yearly  Meeting  of  Friends,  held  at  Kokomo,  Ind., 
Aug.  "3d  to  8th,  1888,  adopted  the  following: 

"Resolved,  That  the  church  has  in  secret,  oath-bouud 
societies  one  of  her  greatest  enemies,  and  we  earnestly 
regret  the  hold  which  these  have  gained  both  within  and 
without  the  church;  and  that  we  reaffirm  our  opposition 
to  all  such  orders,  and  pledge  ourselves  to  increased 
effort  against  them." 

— The  Free  Mtthodist  remarks  upon  an  incident 
reported  lately  in  the  TFesZey  aw  il/c<Aorfi8<."  Joining  the 
Masons  is  always  dangerous  to  the  soul,and  sometimes 
to  the  body.  Last  spring  Rev.  W.  T.  Jackson  of 
the  Wesleyan  Methodist  Champlain  Conference  left 
it  and  united  with  the  M.  E.  church.  At  Pittsburg 
he  joined  the  Masons.  Recently,  after  having  been 
initiated  into  the  third  degree,  he  was  brought  home 
from  the  lodge  sick  about  oae  o'clock  at  night,  and 
ran  right  down  and  died  one  week  after  being  car- 
ried from  the  lodge.  At  Geneva,  N.  Y.,  a  few  years 
ago,  a  prominent  member  of  the  M.  E.  church  was 
accidentally  killed  in  the  lodge  while  being  raised 
to  a  higher  degree.  In  some  lodges  the  treatment  is 
rougher  than  in  others;  but  in  all  the  strain  upon 
the  conscience  of  a  Christian  must  be  enough  to  kill 
a  man  of  less  than  ordinary  physical  vigor.  Is  this  one 
reason  why  none  but  able-bodied  men  are  eligible  for 
admission  to  the  lodge?" 

— The  Standard  of  this  city  speaks  thus  highly 
of  the  late  Prof.  Woodsmall,  and  of  Miss  Moore  of 
Leland  University,  New  Orleans:  '"We  must  train 
Christian  leaders,  men  and  women,  for  the  colored 
people  faster  than  at  present.'  This  sentence  is 
taken  from  the  last  open  letter  written  by  Dr.  H. 
Woodsmall,  dated  in  its  publication  in  the  National 
Baptitt  March  15,  1888.  It  was  the  testimony  of  a 
man  who  had  the  reputation  of  knowing  the  colored 
people,  from  actual  contact,  better  than  any  other 
living  man.  The  question  is,  whether  our  Southern 
schools,  however  earnest  and  efficient  their  labors, 
are  doing  a  tithe  of  what  is  needed  at  once  to  arrest 
the  downward  movement  of  the  great  mass  of  the 
African  race  in  America.  Instruction  must  be  car- 
ried to  the  people  who  will  not  come  to  receive  it, 
and  the  system  of  missionary  itineracy,  so  well  ex- 
emplified in  the  work  of  Joanna  P.  Moore,  should 
be  largely  recruited.  Whilst  we  care  for  the  gener- 
ations to  come  in  laying  right  foundations,  let  us 
not  forget  the  generation  of  to-day." 


"The  necessary  tendency  of  Masonry  is  toward 
naturalism,  the  ignoring  of  revelation,  and  therefore 
the  opposing  of  the  church  that  upholds  the  super- 
natural order.  Its  spirit  is  to  make  the  state  athe- 
istical to  incline  men  to  worship  a  god  which  is  not 
the  God  of  the  Christians  to  set  up  a  so-called  sys- 
tem of  morality  founded  on  a  mere  animal  utility, 
but  not  on  Christian  doctrine."  These  observations 
observations  are  strikingly  and  startlingly  true,  as 
we  believe  and  give  the  most  substantial  reasons 
why  we  as  Christians  and  citizens  should  oppose  and 
seek  to  overthow  the  whole  secret  empire. — Auodate 
Reformed  Preihyterian, 

A  sad  case  of  suicide,  for  which  whisky  is  re- 
sponsible, occurred  recently  near  Carthage,  111.  A 
six  months'  bride  was  found  hanging  in  the  smoke- 
house by  her  husband,  upon  his  return  after  several 
days'  absence  from  home.  Upon  discovering  the 
body  the  horrified  husband  fainted  and  lay  in  a  stu- 
por several  hours.  The  body  was  cut  down  by  the 
neighbors.  A  letter  written  by  her  was  found  in 
which  she  bade  her  husband  good-bye,  and  said  she 
would  hang  herself  because  she  would  be  happier 
dead  than  living  with  a  drunkard.  The  husband 
had  on  several  occasions  come  home  intoxicated, 
the  disgrace  of  which  had  so  worked  on  the  poor 
wife's  mind  as  to  drive  her  to  suicide.    This  is  only 


PERSONAL  MENTION. 


— Rev.  Byron  Gunner  spoke  in  Cleveland,  Ohio, 
on  Sabbath  last  in  three  churches.  He  expected  to 
return  to  New  Iberia  immediately,  starting  Monday. 

— The  Vermont  CArowicZe,Republican  paper  of  Brat- 
tleboro,  of  the  24th  ult.  contains  a  brief,  but  hand- 
some notice  of  the  meetings  addressed  by  the  edit- 
or of  the  Cynosure  in  that  place. 

— Bro.  M.  N.  Butler  and  family  have  been  spend- 
ing the  summer  with  his  parents,  on  the  old  farm 
near  Avalon,  Mo.  We  hear  rumors  that  he  intends 
moving  to  Tennessee. 

— Rev.  J.  A.  Brooks,  candidate  for  Vice  Presi- 
dent, addressed  a  large  crowd  at  the  county  fair  at 
Rockford,  111.,  last  Friday.  The  Inter  Ocean  reports 
his  speech  as  administering  a  stinging  rebuke  to 
papers  that  have  been  basely  hounding  him  as  a 
rebel,  and  emphatically  denied  the  charge,  first 
made  in  the  Chicago  Irihune,  that  he  said  he  was 
glad  he  was  never  a  Republican. 

— Last  week  Bro.  M.  A.  Gault  gave  two  lectures 
in  Dr.  Kennedy's  church  near  Sandwich,  Illinois. 
He  reports  him  as  among  the  stalwarts  in  moral  re- 
form, and  enjoying  the  cordial  sympathy  of  his 
large  congregation,  who  are  among  the  liberal  Na- 
tional Reform  contributors  in  the  State.  Dr.  Ken- 
nedy arranged  for  a  number  of  reform  lectures  in 
adjoining  towns.  Bro.  Gault  spoke  at  these  last 
week,  and  is  now  filling  a  number  of  engagements 
in  Mercer  county,  Illinois. 


WILL    THE    PROHIBITION    PARTY   REFUSE 
THE  BIRTHRIGHT? 


Chicago,  Sept.  1,  1888. 

A  private  letter  just  received  from  a  leading 
National  Reformer  expresses  so  clearly  the  duty  of 
the  hour  in  reference  to  the  Prohibition  party  that 
I  desire  to  give  it  to  the  Cynosure  readers.  He 
says: 

"I  have  been  much  interested  in  your  account  of 
Lake  Bluff,  of  W.  T.  Mills's  course,  of  Dr.  Bascom's 
utterances,  and  in  your  extracts  from  Mr.  Sharp's 
letter.  It  is  plain  that  the  Prohibition  party  has  not 
yet  intelligently  and  deliberately  made  its  choice 
between  the  Christian  and  the  secular  ideas  of  gov- 
ernment. Of  the  party  it  may  be  said,  'Two  manner 
of  people  are  within  thee.'  Which  will  supplant  the 
other,  gain  the  birthright,  and  hold  pre-eminence, 
the  future  will  show.  This  country  is  unquestion- 
ably to  be  the  theater  of  a  great  conflict  between 
national  Christianity  and  political  atheism.  We  are 
bound  by  every  dictate  of  prudence  and  duty  to  win 
every  ally  possible  for  the  right  side.  If  we  can  win 
the  coming  party  I  think  it  will  hasten  the  final 
issue.  Therefore,  I  think  our  efforts  to  that  end 
ought  still  to  be  continued.  We  have  no  right  to 
charge  the  party  with  the  intentional  and  deliberate 
rejection  of  Christ.  We  have  not  made  the  demand 
widely,  clearly,  emphatically  enough.  When  this 
campaign  is  past,  then  let  us  set  ourselves  to  capture 
the  county  conventions  one  by  one,  where,  as  Miss 
Willard  writes,  'The  matter  can  be  talked  over  and 
prayed  over.'  Then  in  1892  we  can  make  it  a  square 
issue  as  was  done  this  year  with  woman  suffrage. 
And  if  we  should  fail  in  that  effort,  the  previous 
work  would  not  be  lost.  We  would  have  spread  the 
idea  widely,  have  converted  multitudes  to  National 
Reform  principles,  and  gained  a  vantage  ground  for 
future  agitation.  Then  will  be  time  enough  to  de- 
nounce the  Prohibition  party,  or  to  criticise  it  in 
any  unfriendly  spirit.  For  the  present  I  think  we 
ought  to  hold  up  the.  acknowledgments  it  has  al- 
ready made,  which  are  so  numerous  and  so  remark- 
able; point  out  their  defects,  and  accept  them  as  the 
earnest  and  pledge  of  complete  and  consistent 
declarations  in  the  next  campaign.  I  believe  they 
will  then  either  go  on  to  the  acknowledgment  of 
Christ,  or  will  go  back  on  the  acknowledgment  of 
God,  of  the  Sabbath,  and  whatever  implies  religious 
principle.  And  in  this  way  we  shall  conciliate,  not 
antagonize,  the  best  elements  in  the  party,  and  dis- 
pose them  favorably  to  our  cause." 

We  only  add,  why  wait  till  this  campaign  is  over? 
The  best  time  to  press  the  idea  of  Christ  and  Divine 
law  in  government,  is  in  the  very  heat  of  a  political 
campaign,  especially  when  prohibition,  with  its  at- 
tendant moral  questions,  are  at  the  front.  Men's 
mind»  are  now  prepared  to  consider  the  relation  of  I 
Divine  law  to  government  as  never  before,  and  as 
they  will  not  be  even  after  the  excitement  of  the ! 
campaign.  M.  A.  Gault.     . 


OUR  CINCINNATI  LETTER. 

Cincinnati,  O.,  Aug.  29,  1888. 

Editor  CeaisTiAN  Ctnosdee:— A  friend  of  mine 
said  to  me  a  few  days  ago:  "I  do  not  think  the  tem- 
perance, or  any  other  great  reform,  will  triumph 
until  secretism  is  put  down.  The  liquor  dealers 
and  the  Prohibitionists  are  in  the  same  lodge  together, 
and  they  are  sworn  to  protect  each  other,  and  we 
need  not  expect  them  to  be  earnest  in  pushing  each 
other  to  the  wall.  Masonry  is  the  curse  of  our 
country.  Two  weeks  ago  the  corner-stone  of  our 
city  building  was  laid  by  the  Masons.  Their  orator 
said  that  'heaven  was  the  grand  lodge  above.'  As 
women  are  not  allowed  in  the  lodge  below,  I 
suppose  they  will  be  excluded  from  the  lodge  above. 
They  exclude  Christ  from  the  lodge  below;  I  sup- 
pose he  will  also  be  kept  out  of  the  lodge  above. 
What  kind  of  a  heaven  will  they  have,  1  wonder?" 

There  is  no  doubt  that  Masonry  is  a  great  evil. 
It  manipulates  politics,  and  it  dominates  many  of 
our  churches.  If  the  money  spent  by  church  mem- 
bers on  their  lodges  were  given  to  missions,  the 
Bible  could  be  placed  in  the  handa  of  every  human 
being  in  his  own  language,  and  the  Gospel  preached 
to  him  many  times  within  the  next  decade.  How 
will  they  give  an  account  of  the  wrong  use  they 
make  of  the  Lord's  money? 

Last  Sabbath  morning  I  preached  on  the  Sabbath 
Question  in  the  York  Street  M.  E.  church.  Rev. 
Lease,  pastor.  This  brother  said  he  would  arrange 
for  me  to  preach  on  the  same  subject  in  Madison- 
ville,  as  there  are  many  railroad  men  there.  What- 
ever we  may  say  about  the  propriety  of  running  the 
street  cars  certain  hours  on  the  Sabbath,  to  carry 
the  people  to  and  from  church,  keeping  them  tied 
up  the  rest  of  the  day,  to  run  them  all  the  Lord's 
day  for  unnecessary  purposes  is  a  sin  against  God 
and  his  people.  These  companies  are  chargeable 
with  furnishing  the  masses  who  spend  the  day  in 
pleasure- seeking  the  facilities  for  desecrating  the 
Sabbath.  They  are  chargeable  with  using  God's 
time  for  business  that  brings  them  in  a  larger  rev- 
enue on  that  day  than  any  other  day  of  the  week. 
They  are  chargeable  with  compelling  their  employes 
to  work  on  that  day  on  pain  of  losing  their  posi- 
tion. As  Dr.  Crafts  says,  this  is  the  car  of  Jugger- 
naut, crushing  out  the  liberties  of  cur  working  peo- 
ple. 

Who  is  responsible  for  it?  The  stockholders,  tbe 
officers  and  members  of  the  corporation.  If,  as  is 
alleged,  a  man  may  be  a  member  of  a  corporation 
that  does  wrong,  so  long  as  he  does  nothing  person- 
ally that  is  wrong,  and  be  innocent,  then  he  may 
hold  stock  in  a  brewery,  a  distillery,  a  saloon,  a 
Sunday  newspaper,  or  a  lottery,  and  not  be  guilty. 
Every  member  of  a  corporate  body  is  responsible 
for  the  character  and  conduct  of  that  body.  If  an 
agent  of  the  body  should  do  wrocg,  a  Christian 
member  might  enter  his  protest  and  still  retain  his 
membership.  But  when  the  body  itself  resolves  to 
break  God's  law  and  sin  against  his  people  in  order 
to  increase  their  gains,  the  only  alternative  for  the 
Christian  is  absolute  separation.  "Come  out  from 
among  them  and  be  ye  separate,  and  touch  not  the 
unclean  thing,  and  I  will  receive  you."  I  know  this 
is  unpopular  doctrine.  I  know  it  is  all  a  man's  po- 
sition IS  worth  to  say  it  in  certain  quarters.  But 
when  I  keep  back  the  truth  for  fear  or  favor  may 
my  tongue  cleave  to  the  roof  of  my  mouth. 

In  the  evening  I  preached  National  Reform  in 
Asbury  Chapel,  M.  E.,  Rev.  Dr.  Van  Cleve,  pastor. 
This  brother  has  been  in  the  ministry  forty  years. 
His  eye  is  not  dim,  nor  his  natural  force  abated. 
My  attention  has  been  called  to  an  argument  for  the 
immortality  of  the  soul  in  Job.  When  his  prosper- 
ity returned  God  gave  him  "twice  as  much  as  he 
had  before;"  14,000  sheep  instead  of  7,000  at  first; 
6,000  camels,  in  place  of  3,000  before;  1,000  yoke 
of  oxen  and  1,000  she  asses,  instead  of  500  each. 
But  he  only  gave  him  seven  sons  and  three  daugh- 
ters, the  same  number  he  had  before  his  family  was 
swept  away  by  a  cyclone.  Why  did  he  not  have 
double  the  number  of  children?  Because  that  was 
not  necessary  to  make  the  statement  of  "twice  as 
much"  good.  The  first  family  was  not  lost,  as  his 
cattle  and  sheep  had  been.  His  sons  and  daughters 
were  still  living;  so  that  he  had  fourteen  sous  and 
six  daughters.  The  author  of  "Ecce  Homo"  tells  us 
how  we  are  to  treat  an  offending  brother  as  com- 
pared with  an  injurious  worldling.  The  latter  is  an 
enemy.  He  knows  not  what  he  does.  He  sins  ig- 
norantly.  There  must  be  patient  forbearance  shown. 
"If  a  man  smite  thee  on  the  one  cheek,  turn  to  him 
the  other  also."  The  former  is  a  brother  in  Christ. 
He  knew  better.  It  is  our  duty  to  bring  him  to  re- 
pentance by  reproof.  "If  thy  brother  trespass 
against  thee,  rebuke  him,  and  if  he  repent,  forgive 
him."    Yours,  J.  M.  Fostib. 


10 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


September  6, 1888 


The  Home. 


OHRIBT  ALL  AND  IN  ALL. 

{Cologgions  3:  11.) 


BT    BLBBR    J.  L.  BAKIOW. 


Christ  Is  all  In  all  to  me, 
Giving  life  and  liberty. 
Now  are  prudence,  wisdom  rulne, 
Graces  which  In  Jesus  shine— 
Righteousness  is  silne,  as  well, 
Sanctified,  In  Him  I  dwell. 
Mine,  redemption,  too,  shall  be. 
When  my  Lord  returns  for  me. 

He-e,  and  In  eternity, 
Christ  our  all  In  all  will  be. 
Shout  His  praises,  then,  ye  saints- 
Stilled  forever,  your  complaints. 
E'er  In  Him  all  fullness  dwells; 
While  each  saint  the  story  tells, 
That  he  finds  a  full  supply. 
When  to  Christ  he  draweth  nigh. 

Would'st  thou,  then,  from  sin  be  freedl 
Christ  is  all  thy  soul  can  need- 
Will  and  power  He  lacketh  not. 
Cleansing  souls  fron.  foulest  blot. 
Captive  ones  He  will  relieve- 
All,  who  win  on  Him  believe. 
Hear  ye,  then.  His  gentle  voice. 
And  in  Him  foie'er  rejoice. 


MB.  M00D7  ON  SPIRITUAL  POWBB. 


Christ,  and  not  be  talking  about  himself."  He  said: 
"A  gentleman  came  to  me  to  labor  with  me  and  get 
me  into  the  'higher  life.'  For  an  hour  that  man  was 
with  me,  and  he  referred  to  himself  more  than  a 
hundred  times.  It  was  »I — I — I.'  "  And  so  he  said : 
"I  can  always  tell  whether  a  man  has  got  the  Spirit 
of  God  or  has  got  some  other  spirit  by  the  way  he 
talks  about  himself."  The  nearer  I  get  to  God  the 
less  I  will  think  about  myself.  "He  must  increase, 
but  I  must  decrease."  Let  us  get  this  capital  I  abol- 
ished— get  it  out  of  the  way.  Then  we  will  not  only 
be  filled  with  the  Spirit  but  be  guided  by  the  Spirit. 
The  fifth  step  is,  Led  by  the  Spirit.  Just  follow  the 
Spirit  as  the  children  of  Israel  followed  the  cloud  in 
the  wilderness.  When  the  cloud  moved,  they  moved; 
and  when  the  cloud  rested,  they  rested.  They  kept 
their  eye  on  the  cloud.  What  you  and  I  want  is  to 
let  the  Spirit  of  God  lead  us.  How  he  will  open 
doors  of  usefulness!  How  he  will  lead  us  into  green 
pastures!  Let  us  learn  this  lesson:  not  to  be  led  by 
the  flesh,  which  will  lead  you  into  bondage  and  dark- 
ness; but  be  led  by  the  Spirit  of  God,  who  will  lead 
you  out  into  liberty — lead  you  into  fields  of  useful- 
ness and  your  life  will  be  anything  but  a  failure. 
The  sixth  step  is,  The  Spirit  of  God  will  strengthen 
you.  There  are,  then,  those  six  steps:  Born  of  the 
Spirit.  Qaickened  by  the  Spirit.  Sanctified  by  the 
Spirit.  Guided  by  the  Spirit.  Led  by  the  Spirit. 
Strengthened  by  the  Spirit. 


RBLIQION  WITHOUT  TUB  HOLT  SPIRIT. 


CHRIST    AND    THE    HOLT    SPIRIT. 

I  From  an  Address  by  D.  L.  Moody.  1 
I  want  to  call  your  attention  to  the  way  in  which 
the  Holy  Spirit  took  part  in  six  different  steps  of 
our  blessed  Lord's  life,  or  the  six  great  events  of  his 
life,  when  the  Holy  Spirit  was  there. 

His  conception  was  by  the  Spirit.     His  baptism 
WHS  into  the  Spirit,  as  well  as  in  the  water.    He  was 
tempted,  and  the  Spirit  was  there  in  his  temptation. 
In  his  preaching  the  Spirit  of  God  was  upon  him. 
Then  his  miracles:  we  find  that  it  was  by  the  Spirit 
of  God  he  performed  those  miracles.     And  his  res- 
urrection: that  dead  body  of  Jesus  Christ  was  raised 
by  the  Holy  Ghost — by  the  same  power.    Six  things, 
remember:     Born  of  the  Spirit,  that  is  the  first  thing. 
There  is  no  spiritual  life  until  we  are  born  of  God. 
Let  every  one  take  this  question  home  to  himself, 
and  be  sure  that  he  is  born  of  the  Spirit  of  God. 
"God  is  a  Spirit,  and  they  that  worship  him  must 
worship  him  in  spirit  and  in  truth."     But,  then,  we 
must  not  be  satisfied  merely  with  being  born  of  the 
Spirit     We  must  have  power.    The  next  thing,  then, 
is,  Quickened  by  the  Spirit.     That  is  what   Christ 
was.     In   his  baptism  he  was  quickened.     We  need 
the  same  quickening.     The  third  step  is,  Sanctified 
by  the  Spirit.     There  is  nothing  that  will   separate 
us   from  the  world  like  the  Spirit  of  God.     We  are 
sanctified  by  the  Spirit     "Sanctify  them  through 
thy   Word:   thy  Word  is  truth."    And  the  Word  is 
the  Sword  of  the  Spirit     I  used  to  be  terribly  con- 
fused about  sanctification.     I  suppose  I  had   hun- 
dreds of   people  laboring  with  me,  and  asking  me, 
"Are  you  wholly  sanctified?"     Then  I  would  go  to 
work  and  try  to  get  what  they  call  sanctification. 
But  I  tell  you,  if  God  will   fill  me  with  the   Holy 
Spirit,  that  is  the  short  cut  to  holiness.     If  the  Lord 
will  keep  me  full  of  the  Holy  Ghost,  I  will  let  sanc- 
tification take  care  of  itself.    It  is  a  command  that 
we  be  filled  with  the  Spirit  of  God.     Every  one  of 
us  may  be  filled  if   we   will.    The   fourth   step   is, 
Guided  by   the   Spirit     The  mistake  many  of  us 
make  is  in  following  our  own  will,  when   our  own 
will   may   be  really   in  opposition   to  God's  will. 
What  we  want  to  do  is  to  put  our  will  right  along 
side  of  God's  will,  so  that  the  two  will   move  in  the 
same  direction.     "My  yoke  is  easy."     Vou  will  find 
the  yoke  of  Christ  very  easy  when  the  heart  is  filled 
with  the  Spirit  of  God.     Then  you  will  understand 
that   passage,  "Come  unto  me,  all  ye  that  labor  and 
are  heavy  laden,  and  I  will  give  you  rest     Take  my 
yoke  upon  you,  and  learn  of  me;  for  I  am  meek  and 
lowly   in  heart;   and  ye  shall   find  rest  unto  your 
souls.     For  my  yoke  is  easy,   and   my   burden   is 
light"     Now,  if  a  young  man  finds  the  yoke  of  Christ 
galling,  what  is  the  trouble?     He  hasn't  got  enough 
of  the  Spirit    That  is   the  trouble.     If  the  yoke 
chafes   he  can't  be  wholly  sanctified.     You  remem- 
ber what  John  the  Baptist  said:     "He  must  increase, 
but  I  must  decrease."     1  want  to  tell  you   what   I 
heard  Dr.  Bonar  say.     He  says,  "If  you  hear  a  man 
all  the  time  talking  about  himself,  you  may  know 
that  he  is  not  filled  with  ihe  Spirit  of   God.     He  is 
filled  with  his  own  spirit;  because  when  a  man  is  filled 
with  the  Spirit  of  Qod  be  will  be  talking  about  Jesus 


A  religion  without  the  Holy  Spirit  may  sometimes 
be  worse  than  no  religion.  It  puffs  up  the  soul  with 
pride  and  vain  glory;  it  wastes  time  and  money  in 
forms  and  emptiness;  it  stands  in  the  way  of  God 
and  the  power  of  the  Spirit,  and  it  finally  brings 
men  to  perdition  who  have  supposed  that  they  were 
bound  for  the  kingdom  of  God. 

It  has  long  been  feared  that  many  church  mem- 
bers, and  ministers,  and  even  some  of  the  educated 
and  refined,  think  and  know  very  little  of  the  power 
of  the  Holy  Spirit  A  curious  statement  from  Dr. 
Daniel  Steele  confirms  this  opinion.  He  says  in  a 
recently  published  sermon: 

"Six  years  ago  I  announced  to  the  public  that  the 
Holy  Ghost  was  not  receiving  his  due  honor  in  the 
preaching  and  theological  thinking  of  New  England 
scholars.  As  a  proof  I  cited  the  Bihliotheca  Sacra 
and  Theological  Review,  published  at  Andover,  thirty- 
six  volumes,  1844 — 1879,  containing  1,250  articles 
by  300  contributors,  as  not  containing  one  article  on 
the  personality  and  offices  of  the  Holy  Spirit  in  the 
salvation  of  men.  This  indicates  a  corresponding 
silence  in  the  pulpit  during  the  same  period.  As  a 
result  of  this  long  neglect  of  the  Spirit,  a  plentiful 
crop  of  speculative  errors  in  respect  to  fundamental 
truth  will  soon  spring  up.  The  same  causes  are  at 
work  in  other  evangelical  denominations.  The  the- 
ological thought  of  Methodism  as  reflected  in  her 
Quarterly  for  the  last  forty  years  has  not  one  article 
on  the  Holy  Ghost,  save  one  on  the  sin  against  the 
Holy  Ghost" 

These  publications  named  represent  the  highest 
culture  and  the  ripest  thought  of  two  great  leading 
American  denominations.  And  if  in  forty  years 
writing  by  and  expressly  for  ministers  and  Bible 
students  there  is  not  an  article  to  be  found  on  the 
Holy  Spirit,  then  the  subject  cannot  have  been 
among  those  uppermost  in  the  minds  of  ordinary 
theologians. 

Of  course  there  are  the  creeds — which  it  requires 
a  liberal  education  and  a  Latin  Lexicon  to  under- 
stand— there  is  the  jargon  of  scholastic  terms — 
which  misleads  the  common  mind,  and  requires  a 
learned  man  to  explain  it; — but  the  plain  simple 
teaching  of  Scripture  concerning  the  Ifoly  Spirit, 
stripped  of  empty  verbiage  and  obsolete  and  tech- 
nical phrases,  is  too  little  heard  or  known  in  the 
present  time. 

The  Holy  Spirit  convinces  the  world  of  tin;  and 
where  the  Holy  Spirit  is  not  present  in  power,  sin 
is  rarely  reproved.  The  sins  of  Pharaoh  and  Nebu- 
chadnezzar may  be  alluded  to,  but  the  sins  of  the 
rich  man  who  sits  in  the  third  pew  from  the  front, 
right  hand  side  of  the  broad  aisle,  are  not  meddled 
with  unless  some  one  present  preaches  the  Gospel 
with  the  Holy  Ghost  sent  down  from  heaven. 

The  Holy  Spirit  convinces  the  world  of  righteout- 
Tieti,  but  when  the  Holy  Spirit  is  ignored,  the  great 
facts  of  truth  and  righteousness  are  set  aside,  and 
sinners  think  they  are  as  good  as  anybody.  Piety 
is  counted  as  old-fashioned,  zeal  as  fanaticism,  and 
backslidden  professors  and  unconverted  worldlings, 
full  of  craft,  trickery,  politics,  and  secret  intrigue, 
do  things  in  the  name  of  religion  and  for  the  interest 
of  the  church,  which  an  honest  sinner  would  not 
touch  with  the  tongs.    Thus  a  church  left  destitute 


of  the  Holy  Spirit,  becomes  a  center  of  worldliness, 
a  cage  of  unclean  and  hateful  things. 

The  Holy  Spirit  convinces  the  world  of  judgment 
to  come!  But  men  who  preach  without  tbe  Holy 
Spirit  can  easily  find  subjects  more  palatable  than 
that  Hence  in  these  very  denominations  whose 
"Quarterlies"  show  such  a  lack  of  testimony  con- 
cerning the  Holy  Spirit,  there  is  a  similar  lack  of 
preaching  "righteouinesi  and  judgment  to  come." 

The  subject  is  largely  ignored  in  the  pulpit  The 
Bible  is  full  of  it;  but  the  sermons  are  empty. 
The  great  white  throne,  the  rising  dead,  the  awful 
separation,  the  lake  of  fire,  the  second  death,  are 
not  the  themes  that  occupy  the  twenty  or  thirty 
minutes  during  which  the  cultured  congregation 
consent  to  listen  to  the  reading  of  a  polished  essay 
from  their  "beloved  pastor." 

The  Psalmist  said,  "I  will  sing  of  mercy  and  of 
judgment,  unto  thee,  0  Lord!  will  I  sing."  And 
those  who  sing  with  the  Spirit  and  the  understand- 
ing choose  such  themes  as  these.  But  how  little  of 
such  singing  is  heard.  A  rosewater  Gospel  is  ac- 
companied by  dishwater  songs.  The  grand  old  mel- 
odies that  stir  the  hearts  of  men  to  their  center,  are 
forgotten,  and  namby-pamby  rhymes  joined  to  oper- 
atic melodies  and  consecrated  jigs  take  the  place  of 
those  solemn  strains  of  prayer  and  praise  and  sup- 
plication which  have  subdued  and  uplifted  the  hearts 
of  men  for  ages  past. 

Here  is  the  evil;  is  there  a  remedy?  There  is. 
It  is  found  in  asking,  seeking  and  receiving  into  our 
own  hearts  the  Holy  Spirit;  in  being  filled  by  the 
Spirit,  and  in  being  led  by  the  Spirit  of  God  in  all 
things.  It  is  found  in  taking  the  Sword  of  the  Spirit 
which  is  the  Word  of  God,  and  cutting  with  it  on 
the  right,  and  the  left 

It  is  found  in  reverencing  every  word  of  God  as 
the  written  and  recorded  utterance  of  the  Holy 
Spirit  and  in  yielding  an  absolute  submission  to  the 
authority  of  the  Most  High  God,  who  has  spoken  to 
us  by  the  prophets,  and  by  his  Son  whose  words  are 
Spirit  and  life,  and  who  dwells  in  every  humble  and 
contrite  heart;  and  that  church  which  is  "builded  to- 
gether for  an  habitation  of  God  through  the  Spirit" 
— The  Christian. 


THB  CHILVRBN  AND  THB  PANTHBR. 


Down  on  the  Blackwater,  in  southeastern  Saline, 
about  the  year  1830,  a  settler,  named  Samuel  Miller, 
had  built  his  cabin  and  was  opening  a  small  farm. 
He  had  two  little  daughters,  Jennie  and  Susie,  aged 
seven  and  six.  One  morning  the  mother  of  the  lit- 
tle girls  sent  them  on  an  errand  to  a  neighbor's, 
nearly  two  miles  distant  The  road  was  a  mere  path- 
way through  the  thick  woods,  but  the  children  knew 
it  very  well.  Hand  in  hand,  they  toddled  along, 
unheeding  peril,  because  unconscious  of  it  But 
half  a  mile  from  home,  on  the  upper  arc  of  a  large, 
leaning  tree,  which  bent  directly  over  their  path, 
they  saw  a  large  panther  stretched  out  at  full  length, 
basking  in  the  morning  sun.  They  did  not  know 
rightly  what  it  was. 

"Oh,  Susie,"  said  Jennie,  "there's  a  wolf  I" 

"Yes,"  said  Susie;  "and  I  s'pect  it's  the  bad  old 
fellow  that  catched  my  lamb  and  kills  papa's  pigs. 
Let  us  go  right  back  home  and  tell  papa,  and  he  will 
come  and  shoot  it  wiv  his  gun." 

"But  what  if  it  runs  away  while  we  are  gone?" 
returned  Jennie.  "Tell  you  what  we'll  do,  Susie: 
you  stay  here  and  watch  it,  and  I'll  run  and  tell 
papal     I  can  run  fastest,  you  know." 

Little  Susie  readily  assented  to  the  arrangement, 
assuring  her  sister  that  if  the  "bad  old  wolf"  should 
come  down  the  tree,  she  would  "take  a  stick  and 
punch  his  eyes  out."  Then,  gathering  some  acorn 
cups  and  a  quantity  of  velvety  moss,  she  set  about 
constructing  a  "play-house"  at  the  foot  of  the  very 
tree  on  which  crouched  the  panther,  watching  her 
curiously.  Presently  he  arose,  and  walked  back 
and  forth,  back  and  forth,  along  the  level  extent  of 
the  tree,  as  if  impatient  and  meaning  to  descend. 
But  Susie  shook  her  little  fist  at  him  menacingly; 
and  soon  he  lay  down  again,  with  his  head  between 
his  paws,  lazily  blinking  his  great,  yellow  eyes,  "as 
if,"  Susie  said,  "he  was  awful  sleepy." 

Away  ran  Jennie,  fieet  as  a  little  fawn;  and  in 
due  time  she  reached  her  father's  cabin,  and  hurried- 
ly told  her  mother  that  there  was  a  "big  wolf  on  the 
tree,  and  that  Susie  had  stayed  to  mind  it"  Mrs. 
Miller  at  once  comprehended  the  harrowing  truth, 
and  called  frantically  to  her  husband,  who  was  at 
work  in  his  clearing  near  by.  Mr.  Miller  came  at 
once,  accompanied  by  a  young  man  in  his  employ, 
named  George  Plunkett  Realizing  the  imminent 
peril  of  his  child,  and  dreading  that  perhaps  already 
a  horrible  fate  had  befallen  it,  the  pioneer  did  not 
speak  a  word;  but  in  a  few  seconds  he  and  young 


Seftimbir  6, 1888 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


11 


Plnnkett,  rifle  in  hand,  were  running  swiftly  to  the 
scene.     Nearing  the  locality,  Miller  said: 

"If  we  are  not  too  late.  George,  let  me  fire  first." 

Possibly  the  emotions  of  the  father  at  this  time 
may  be  imagined;  certainly,  I  cannot  describe  them. 
Faint  hopes  and  sickening  fear  alternated  in  his 
breast  as  he  sped  fleetly  on.  It  was  hardly  possible 
that  the  child  was  yet  alive;  but  as  the  panther  had 
not  sprung  at  first,  there  was  a  bare  chance.  Mean- 
while, in  the  little  cabin  home,  the  agonized  mother 
had  caught  her  remaining  little  one  to  her  breast, 
and  was  praying  silently,  but  fervently. 

But, — oh,  the  joy  of  it  I — on  coming  within  sight 
cf  the  fatal  tree.  Miller  saw  his  child  safe  and  un- 
harmed. The  little  innocent  was  busy  at  her  play, 
crooning  sweetly  the  while.  Doubtless,  He  who 
stopped  the  mouths  of  the  lions  had  preserved  her. 
High  above,  the  panther  was  on  his  perch.  In  two 
seconds  Miller's  rifle  rang  out;  the  panther  came 
crashing  to  the  ground,  a  bullet  fairly  in  his  brain; 
and  little  Susie  sprang  up  and  exclaimed,  "O  papa, 
how  you  scared  me  I" 

This  panther  measured  five  feet,  ten  inches. 
Miller  tanned  its  skin;  and,  when  his  daughters  had 
grown  to  womanhood,  each  of  them  had  a  cape 
made  from  it. —  Vermont  Chronicle. 


THE  "  Q00DB8T"  MOTHER. 


Evening  was  falling,  cold  and  dark, 

And  people  hurried  along  the  way, 
As  If  they  were  longing  soon  to  mark 

Their  own  home  candle'  8  cheering  ray. 

Before  me  tolled,  In  the  whirling  wind, 
A  woman  with  bundles,  great  and  small, 

And  after  her  tugged,  a  step  behind, 
The  bundle  she  loved  the  best  of  all— 

A  dear  little  roly-poly  boy, 

With  rosy  cheeks  and  a  jacket  blue. 
Laughing  and  chattering,  full  of  joyi 

And  here's  what  he  said— I  tell  you  true : 

"You're  the  goodest  mother  that  ever  was," 

A  voice  as  clear  as  the  forest  birds ; 
And  I'm  sure  the  glad  young  heart  had  cause 

To  utter  the  sweet  of  the  lovely  words. 

PerhaT)s  the  woman  had  worked  all  day. 
Washing  or  scrubbing ;  perhaps  she  sewed ; 

I  know  by  her  weary  footfall's  way, 
That  life  for  her  was  an  up-hill  road. 

But  here  was  a  comfort,  children  dear; 

Think  what  a  comfort  you  might  give 
To  the  very  best  friend  you  can  have  here— 

The  mother,  dear,  in  whose  house  you  live. 

If  once  in  a  while  you  stop  and  say. 

In  task  or  play,  for  moment's  pause. 
And  tell  her.  In  sweet  and  winning  way, 

"You're  the  goodept  mother  that  ever  was." 

—Margaret  E.  Hangster. 


TEMPERANCE. 


A  PBiaOS  INCIDENT. 


Mrs.  Emma  Molloy  relates  the  following  indident 
in  one  of  her  speeches,  referring  to  the  relation  of 
temperance  to  crime: 

In  a  recent  visit  to  the  Leavenworth,  Kan,  prison 
during  my  address  on  Sabbath  morning,  I  observed 
a  boy,  not  more  than  seventeen  or  eighteen  years  of 
age,  on  the  front  seat  intently  eyeing  me.  The  look 
he  gave  me  was  so  full  of  earnest  longing  it  spoke 
in  volumes  to  me.  At  the  close  of  the  service  I 
asked  the  warden  for  an  interview  with  him,  which 
was  readily  granted.  As  he  approached  me  his  face 
grew  deathly  pale,  and,  as  he  grasped  my  hand,  he 
could  not  restrain  the  fast  falling  tears.  Choking 
witn  emotion  he  said: 

"I  have  been  in  this  prison  two  years,  and  you 
are  the  first  person  that  has  called  for  me — the  first 
woman  who  has  spoken  to  me." 

"How  is  this,  my  child?"  I  asked.  "Have  you  no 
friends  that  love  you?     Where  is  your  mother?" 

The  great  brown  eyes,  swimming  with  tears,  were 
slowly  uplifted  to  mine,  as  he  replied: 

"My  friends  are  all  in  Texas.  My  mother  is  an 
invalid,  and  fearing  that  the  knowledge  of  the  terri- 
ble fall  would  kill  her,  I  have  kept  my  whereabouts 
a  profound  secret.  For  two  years  I  have  borne  my 
awful  homesickness  in  silence  for  her  sake." 

As  he  buried  his  face  in  his  hands  and  heartsick 
sobs  burst  from  his  trembling  frame,  it  seemed  to 
me  I  could  see  a  panorama  of  the  days  and  nights, 
the  long  weeks  of  homesick  longing,  that  had 
dragged  their  weary  length  out  over  two  years. 

So  I  ventured  to  ask,  "How  much  longer  have 
you  to  stay?" 

••Three  years,"  was  the  reply,  as  the  fair  young 


head  dropped  lower,  and  the  frail  little  hand  trem- 
bled with  suppressed  emotion. 

"Five  years  at  your  age  I"  I  exclaimed.  "How 
did  it  happen?" 

"Well,"  he  replied,  "it's  a  long  story,  but  I'll 
make  it  short.  I  started  out  from  home  to  try  to  do 
something  for  myself.  Coming  to  Leavenworth,  I 
found  a  cheap  boarding-house,  and  one  night  ac- 
cepted an  invitation  from  one  of  the  young  men  to 
go  into  a  drinking  saloon.  For  the  first  time  in  my 
life  I  drank  a  glass  of  liquor.  It  fired  my  brain. 
There  is  a  confused  remembrance  of  the  quarrel. 
Somebody  was  stabbed.  The  bloody  knife  was  found 
in  my  hand.  I  was  indicted  for  assault  with  intent 
to  kill.  Five  years  for  the  thoughtless  acceptance 
of  a  glass  of  liquor  is  surely  illustrating  the  Scrip- 
ture truth  that  the  'way  of  the  transgressor  is 
hard!'" 

I  was  holding  the  cold,  trembling  hand  that  had 
crept  into  mine.  He  earnestly  tightened  his  grasp 
as  imploringly  he  said,  "Oh,  Mrs.  Molloy,  I  want  to 
ask  a  favor  of  you." 

At  once  I  expected  he  was  going  to  ask  me  to 
help  obtain  a  pardon,  and  in  an  instant  I  measured 
the  weight  of  public  reproach  that  rests  upon  the 
victims  of  this  legalized  drink  traffic.  It  is  all  right 
to  legalize  a  man  to  craze  the  brains  of  our  boys, 
but  not  by  any  means  to  ask  that  the  State  pardon 
its  victims.  Interpreting  my  thought  he  said,  "I 
am  not  going  to  ask  you  to  get  me  a  pardon,  but  I 
want  you  to  write  to  my  mother  and  get  a  letter 
from  her  and  send  it  to  me.  Don't  for  the  world 
tell  her  where  I  am.  Better  not  tell  her  anything 
about  me.  Just  get  a  line  from  her  so  I  can  look 
upon  it.     Oh  I  I  am  so  homesick  for  my  mother." 

The  head  of  the  boy  dropped  down  into  my  lap 
with  a  wailing  sob;  I  laid  my  hand  upon  his  head. 
I  thought  of  my  own  boy,  and  for  a  few  moments 
was  silent,  and  let  the  outbursts  of  sorrow  have 
vent. 

Presently  I  said,  "Murray,  if  I  were  your  mother, 
and  the  odor  of  a  thousand  prisons  were  upon  you, 
still  you  would  be  my  boy,  I  should  like  to  know 
where  you  were.  Is  it  right  to  keep  that  mother  in 
suspense?  Do  you  suppose  that  there  ever  has  been 
a  day  or  a  night  that  she  has  not  prayed  for  her 
wandering  boy  I  No,  Murray,  I  will  only  consent  to 
write  to  your  mother  on  consideration  that  you  will 
permit  me  to  write  the  whole  truth,  just  as  one 
mother  can  write  to  another." 

After  some  argument  his  consent  was  finally  ob- 
tained, and  a  letter  was  hastily  penned  and  sent  on 
its  way.  A  week  or  so  elapsed,  when  the  following 
letter  was  received  from  Texas: 

"Dear  Sister  in  Christ: — Your  letter  was  this 
day  received,  and  I  hasten  to  thank  you  for  your 
words  of  tender  sympathy  and  for  tidings  of  my 
boy — the  first  word  we  have  had  in  two  years. 
When  Murray  left  home  we  had  thought  it  would 
not  be  for  long.  As  the  months  have  rolled  on,  the 
family  had  given  him  up  for  dead,  but  I  felt  sure 
God  would  give  me  back  my  boy.     As  I  write  from 

the  couch  of  an  invalid,  my  husband  is  in  W 

nursing  another  son,  who  is  lying  at  the  gates  of 
death,  with  typhoid  fever.  I  could  not  wait  his  re- 
turn to  write  to  Murray.  I  wrote  and  told  him  if  I 
could,  how  quickly  I  would  go  and  pillow  his  dear 
head  upon  my  breast,  just  as  I  did  when  he  was  a 
little  child.  My  poor,  dear  boy — so  generous,  so 
kind  and  loving.  What  could  he  have  done  to  de- 
serve this  punishment?  You  do  not  mention  his 
crime,  but  you  say  it  was  committed  while  under 
the  influence  of  drink. 

"I  did  not  know  he  ever  tasted  liquor.  We  have 
raised  six  boys,  and  I  have  never  known  one  of 
them  to  be  under  the  influence  of  drink.  Oh  I  is 
there  any  place  in  this  nation  that  is  safe  when  our 
boys  have  left  the  home  fold?  Oh  God!  my  sorrow  is 
greater  than  lean  bear.  I  cannot  go  to  him,  but  sis- 
ter, I  pray  you  to  talk  to  him,  and  comfort  him  as 
you  would  have  some  mother  talk  to  your  boy,  were 
he  in  his  place.  Tell  him  that  when  he  is  released, 
his  place  in  the  old  home  nest  and  his  mother's 
heart  is  waiting  for  him." 

Then  followed  the  loving  mother's  words  for  Mur- 
ray, in  addition  to  those  written.  As  I  wept  bitter 
tears  over  the  words  so  full  of  heart  break,  I  asked 
myself  the  question,  "How  long  will  the  nation 
continue  this  covenant  with  death  and  league  with 
hell  to  rob  us  of  our  boys?" 


THE  NATIONAL    OOVBRNMBNT  AND  STATE 
LIQUOR   LAWB. 


The  Norwegian  Parliament  has  voted  an  appro- 
priation equal  to  about  $1,000  toward  the  expenses 
of  the  third  International  Temperance  Conference, 
to  be  held  in  Christiana,  Norway,  in  the  autumn  of 
1889:  This  friendly  act  on  the  part  of  the  Norwe- 
gian Government  for  the  promotion  of  the  cause  of 
temperance  is  a  timely  precedent,  and  an  object  les- 
son  for  our  own  Government, — Nat.  lemp.  Adv. 


An  important  and  interesting  question  of  consti- 
tutional law  has  just  been  decided  by  Mr.  Justice 
Harlan  of  the  Supreme  Court  of  the  United  States, 
on  an  application  for  a  writ  of  habeas  corpus  to 
procure  the  discharge  from  imprisonment  of  a  steam- 
boat captain,  who  was  convicted  of  violating  the 
excise  laws  of  Pennsylvania  in  selling  liquor  on  his 
vessel.  The  steamer  which  he  commanded  was 
licensed  under  the  laws  of  the  United  States,  and 
engaged  in  inter-state  commerce  on  the  Ohio  and 
MonoDgahela  rivers.  The  Constitution  confers  upon 
Congress  power  to  regulat«  commerce  among  the 
several  States.  It  was  argued  in  behalf  of  the  pris- 
oner that  a  vessel  engaged  in  such  commerce  upon 
public  navigable  waters  was  not  subject  to  the  excise 
laws  of  any  of  the  several  States  into  which  it  went; 
and  hence  that  the  Pennsylvania  statute,  requiring 
a  license  as  a  condition  precedent  to  the  lawful  sale 
of  liquor,  was  not  operative  upon  such  a  vessel,  even 
though  she  lay  within  the  territorial  limits  of  the 
commonwealth.  Mr.  Justice  Harlan  refused  to  give 
any  such  effect  to  the  constitutional  provision  re- 
lating to  the  regulation  of  commerce.  He  declared 
that  even  if  Congress  under  that  provision  had  the 
power  to  annul  or  disregard  local  laws  for  the  pro- 
tection of  health  and  morals,  it  had  not  sought  to 
use  this  power  by  any  legislation  on  this  subject; 
and  that  a  mere  license  to  run  a  steamboat  did  not 
justify  an  infraction  of  the  police  laws  of  a  State, 
when  those  laws  offered  no  obstruction  to  the  right 
of  public  navigation.  That  this  is  a  sound  view  of 
the  law  can  hardly  be  doubted.  To  require  a  license 
for  the  sale  of  liquor  on  a  steamboat,  or  to  prohibit 
the  sale  of  liquor  altogether  on  such  a  vessel,  does 
not  tend  in  the  least  to  obstruct  the  freedom  of  com- 
merce between  the  several  States.  Liquor  selling  is 
in  no  respect  an  incident  to  the  right  of  public  nav- 
igation, and,  therefore,  a  license  to  run  a  steamboat 
does  not  import  authority  to  sell  liquor.  It  was 
long  ago  held  by  the  Supreme  Court  of  the  United 
States  that  a  license  from  the  Federal  Government 
under  the  internal  revenue  acts  was  no  defence  to  a 
posecution  under  a  State  law  prohibiting  the  sale  of 
intoxicating  liquors.  The  tendency  of  judicial  de- 
cisions has  been  to  leave  to  the  several  States  the 
utmost  liberty  of  action  in  respect  to  regulation  of 
the  liquor  traffic,  and  if  this  Pennsylvania  case  goes 
to  the  Supreme  Court  at  Washington  the  opinion  of 
Judge  Harlan  will  probably  be  sustained.  To  re- 
verse his  decision  would  be  to  hold  in  effect  that 
liquor  might  be  sold  without  let  or  hindrance  on  a 
ferryboat  plying  between  New  York  and  Jersey  City, 
in  defiance  of  the  excise  laws  of  this  State  and  of 
New  Jersey — that  is  to  say,  without  any  license 
whatever. — N.  T.  iSun. 


American  Sailors — The  deck  of  the  United 
States  receiving  ship,  Vermont,  was  the  scene  of  a 
very  interesting  meeting  of  the  Naval  Temperance 
Union  a-  few  days  ago.  A  large  number  of  men 
from  various  vessels  attended  the  meeting,  over 
which  Chaplain  Crane,  the  president  of  the  union, 
presided.  The  union  has  25,000  members.  The 
influence  of  such  organizations  and  of  the  numer- 
ous Seamen's  Missions  and  Bethels  have  changed 
the  character  of  the  sailor  very  much  of  late  years. 
Jack,  as  a  rule,  is  no  longer  the  drunken  rascal  he  used 
to  be,  and  a  monster  like  the  man  Kelly, who  murdered 
two  of  his  shipmates  recently,  is  the  exception. — 
Ihe  Presbyterian. 

At  the  annual  conference  of  the  British  Temper- 
ance League  held  at  Leeds,  the  conviction  was  ex- 
pressed in  a  resolution  that  the  conversion  of  so 
many  brewery  firms  into  limited  liability  companies 
was  a  strong  indication  of  the  success  of  the  tem- 
perance movement  At  the  same  time  shame  and 
regret  was  expressed  that  clergymen  and  ministers 
of  religion  were  investing  their  money  in  a  trade 
which,  more  than  any  other,  was  counteracting  all 
Christian  work  and  influence. 

A  Philadelphia  correspondent  of  the  New  York 
Herald  says:  "The  brewers  are  'tickled  to  death' 
over  the  unforeseen  results  brought  about  by  the 
new  high  license  law.  In  this  city  there  are  120 
breweries,  and  of  these  twenty-five  are  big  concerns. 
A  canvass  of  a  dozen  or  so  of  them  brought  out  the 
fact,  upon  comparison  of  statements,  that  the  lager- 
beer  brewing  business  has  increased  20  per  cent 
since  the  high  license  law  went  into  operation." 

Hoodlums  and  young  roughs,  instigated  by  poli- 
ticians, lately  assailed  a  Prohibition  tent  meeting 
with  eggs  and  other  missiles,  pulled  down  the  tent, 
and  were  apparently  about  to  give  personal  injury 
to  the  speakers.  The  shameful  business  was  ap- 
proved by  some  of  the  town  authorities. 


IS 


THE  CHEISTIAN  OYNOSUEE. 


September  6, 1888 


Bible  Lesson. 


STUDIES  IN  THI  OLD  TESTAMENT. 
LESSON  XII.-Thlrd  Quarter — Sept.  16. 
SUBJECT.— The  Smitten  Rock.— Num.  20: 1-13. 
GOLDEN  TEXT.— They  drank  of  that  spiritual  Rock  that 
followed  them ;  and  that  Rock  was  Christ.- 1  Cor.  10 :  4. 
I  Ov«n  the  Bible  and  read  the  le»8on,^ 
COMMENTS  ON  THE  LESSON  BY  E.  E.  FLAGKJ. 

1 .  The  Folly  and  Quilt  of  Murmuring.  Vs.  1-5.  Our 
lesson  opens  with  the  death  of  Miriam  in  Eadesh, — from 
our  first  glimpse  of  her  when  she  kept  her  secret  vigils 
by  the  cradle  of  bulrushes  on  the  Nile, — one  of  the  most 
remarkable  women  of  Scripture.  But  it  was  not  simply 
her  connection  with  the  great  Lawgiver  which  gave  her 
this  pre  eminence.  The  career  of  Deborah  in  a  succeed- 
ing age  shows  that  even  in  that  remote  period  an  excep- 
tional degree  of  talents  and  devotion  was  honored  and 
used  by  God  without  any  distinction  of  sex.  In  the 
Christian  church  we  read  that  Phillip  had  seven  daugh- 
ters who  were  prophetesses,  and  on  the  day  of  Pentecost 
the  Holy  Ghost  descended  equally  on  male  and  female. 
In  our  own  day  the  consecrated  womanhood  of  America 
are  carrying  forward  one  of  the  greatest  moral  move- 
ments the  world  ever  saw.  Christ  said  that  the  least  in 
bis  kingdom  was  greater  than  John  the  Baptist,  though 
his  eloquence  drew  all  Palestine  in  wondering  crowds  to 
hear  him;  so  the  very  least  in  this  noble  sisterhood  who 
are  seeking  to  reclaim  the  fallen  and  bring  in  the  reign 
of  righteousness  in  our  land  is  greater  than  Miriam  by 
the  Red  Sea  singing  her  inspired  song  of  triumph  over 
fallen  Pharaoh.  The  senseless  murmuring  of  the  Israel- 
ites because  of  a  temporary  failure  of  water,  when  for 
nearly  forty  years  they  had  been  miraculously  supplied 
with  manna,  is  often  reproduced  in  the  lives  of  many 
who  call  themselves  Christians.  We  have  a  cross,  a  dis- 
appointment, a  trial,  and  we  let  it  eclipse  all  our  daily 
blessings,  all  the  years  in  which  God  has  loaded  us  with 
benefits.  Probably  few  among  these  murmuring  Israel- 
ites" would  have  been  willing  that  God  should  take  them 
at  their  word  and  destroy  them  by  the  same  fiery  judg- 
ment that  befell  the  others  whose  fate  they  now  im- 
piously envied.  Our  moments  of  depression  are  not  our 
truest  moments.  We  are  apt  to  use  false  and  exagger- 
ated expressions  that  we  should  not  care  to  stand  by 
upon  sober  reflection.  The  people  very  unreasonably 
blamed  Moses  and  Aaron,  who  were  only  God's  instru- 
ments; so  we  are  very  apt  in  misfortune  to  blame  our 
circumstances,  which  is  only  another  name  for  the  Prov- 
idence that  permitted  these  circumstances. 

2.  Mosea'  Sin.    "Vs.  6-13.     Moses  and  Aaron  left  the 
riotous  assembly  and  fled  to  their  divine  Refuge.     And 
again  came  the  protecting  glory,  enwrapping  them  like 
an  aegis;  again  God  commanded  Moses  to  take  his  won- 
der-working rod  and  this  time  to  speak  to  the  rock.     It 
is  difficult  to  understand  his  conduct  on  this  occasion, 
for  he  had  received  like  ungrateful  treatment  from  the 
people  before,  and  when  God  was  about  to  cast  them  off 
for  their  disobedience,  had  pleaded  for  them  in  most 
touching  terms.     It  is  possible  that  he  feared  another 
forty  years  of  wandering  as  a  punishment  for  this  fresh 
rebellion,  and  as  he  was  now  an  old  man  he  would  him- 
self be  shut  out  from  ever  entering  Canaan.     Conjectures 
are  useless,  but  the  fiery  temperament  of  his  youth  is 
shown  in  his  smiting  the  rock  twice,  and  his  petulant, 
almost  blasphemous  exclamation.     His  whole  nature  was 
stirred  up  to  passionate  resentment.     When  he  broke  the 
tables  of  stone  it  was  a  godlike  anger.     He  was  angry 
at  the  sin  the  people  had  committed.     Now  he  is  angry 
with  the  people  themselves.     Before  he  was  jealous  for 
God's  honor;  now  he  is  only  jealous  for  himself.    This 
is  a  sin  into  which  reformers,  men  of  deep  convictions 
and  strong  natures,  are  apt  to  fall.     They  are  commanded 
to  speak  to  the  people,  to  oppose  reason  against  their 
unreason,  love  against  hatred,  the  truth  of  God  against 
the  lies  of  the  devil.     They  are  not  to  go  in  the  pride 
and  vain  glory  of  worldly  wiedom,  but  carrying  in  their 
hand  the  simple  rod  of  Scripture  which  they  are  to  use 
in  another  way  than  to  smite  with.     Men  cannot  be 
scolded  nor  driven  into  receiving  the  truth.     The  re- 
former, even  when  presenting  the  most  unpopular  truths, 
is  safe  in  following  the  example  of  Jehovah,  who  uses  as 
his  most  forcible  appeal  to  the  sinners,   "Come,  let  us 
reaion  together." 


Eeligiotjs  News. 


TEB  WHOLE  WORLD  18  NOW  OPEN. 


The  Bible  is  printed  in  250  languages  and  dia- 
lects. There  are  150,000,000  copies  in  circulation. 

Twenty- five  Women's  Boards  in  England  and 
America  are  actively  engaged  in  foreign  missionary 
work. 

The  Young  Men's  Christian  Associations  are  now 
formally  inaugurating  foreign  missionary  branches. 

The  number  of  missionary  societies  is  ten-fold 
what  it  was  eighty  years  ago.  The  number  of  con- 
verts is  nearly  fifty-fold. 

The  increased  facilities  for  intercommunication. 

The  diffusion  of  the  English  language. 

Wonderful  revivals,  with  pentecostal  power,  are 
frequent  in  heathen  lands. 

The  increase  in  membership  in  heathen  lands  is 
thirty  times  greater  than  at  home  in  proportion  to 
the  number  of  ministers  employed,  although  the 
test  of  discipleship  are  of  the  most  trying  nature. 

But  above  all  other  encouragements  are  the  pre- 
cious promises  of  Glod: 

"As  truly  as  I  live,  all  the  earth  shall  be  filled 
with  the  glory  of  the  Lord."    Numbers  14:  21. 

"He  shall  have  dominion  also  from  sea  to  sea,  and 
from  the  river  unto  the  ends  of  the  earth."  Psalms 
72:8. 

"Yea,  all  kings  shall  fall  down  before  Him;  all 
nations  shall  serve  Him."     Psalms  14:  11. 

"The  kingdoms  of  this  world  are  become  the 
kingdoms  of  our  Lord,  and  of  His  Christ,  and  He 
shall  reign  forever  and  ever."    Rev.  11:  15. 


— The  Arkansas  Baptist  State  Convention  (col- 
ored) was  held  in  Little  Rock,  August  22-25.  Rev. 
E.  C.  Morris  of  Helena,  a  seceded  Mason,  was  chair- 
man; and  the  Arkamat  Baptist  issued  a  daily  edi- 
tion. During  the  Convention  the  cornerstone  of 
the  new  Baptist  College  was  laid. 


— Thirty-two  years  ago  Sunday  was  the  anniver- 
sary of  the  founding  of  Moody's  Sunday-school  in 
Chicago,  and  in  honor  of  the  event  Mr.  J.  M.  Hitch- 
cock presented  the  1,100  scholars  at  present  attend- 
ing with  a  picture  of  Mr.  D.  L.  Moody  at  22  years 
of  age,  at  the  time  he  first  founded  it. 

— By  the  will  of  Isaac  N.  Phelps,  the  millionaire 
banker  of  New  York  city,  the  American  Bible  Soci- 
ety will  get  $5,000;  the  American  Home  Mission 
Society  $10,000;  the  American  Tract  Society  $5,000; 
the  American  Board  of  Commissioners  for  Foreign 
Missions  $10,000,  and  other  benevolences  smaller 
ones. 

— The  "union"  formed  among  the  "evangelical" 
population  of  Holland  for  the  establishment  of  what 
are  known  as  Bible  Schools  has  now  441  such 
schools,  with  71,000  scholars,  representing  a  capital 
of  $2,000,000. 

— Rev.  Tan  Khe,  Moderator  of  the  Amoy  Presbyte- 
ry, China,  first  heard  of  the  Grospel  in  the  shop  of  a 
village  barber  who  was  a  Christian.  The  good  man 
first  reads  his  sermons  to  his  wife;  if  they  satisfy 
her  then  he  carries  them  to  the  pulpit. 

— The  Sixteenth  Annual  State  Convention  of  the 
Young  Men's  Christian  Associations  of  Illinois  will 
convene  at  Rock  Island,  September  19-23.  Rev.  F. 
W.  Gunsaulus,  D.  D.,  of  Chicago;  Rev.  J.  H.  Brooks, 
D.  D.,  of  St.  Louis,  and  L.  D.  Wishard,  College  Sec- 
retary of  the  World's  Central  Committee,  have 
promised  to  be  present  and  assist.  A  male  chorus 
from  Galesburg  will  lead  the  singing.  They  hope 
to  have  400  delegates  in  attendance.  Reduced  rates 
on  the  railroads  and  entertainment  provided.  All 
Christian  young  men  expecting  to  attend  should 
write  at  once  for  program  and  full  particulars  to  W. 
F.  Levings,  Office  Secretary,  148  Madison  St.  Chi- 
cago, 111. 

— A  letter  to  the  secretary  of  the  Free  Methodist 
Missionary  Society  bears  the  sad  news  of  death 
among  the  company  which  lately  joined  Bro.  Harry 
Agnew  at  Inhambane  on  the  East  African  coast. 
Mrs.  Lincoln  gave  birth  to  a  fine,  healthy  child, 
which  died,  it  is  feared,  for  lack  of  proper  care. 
The  mother  was  doing  well,  but  a  sudden  and  dis- 
tressing inflammation  carried  her  off  quickly.  Oth- 
ers of  the  company  have  the  fever,  and  their  pros- 
pect, lumanly  speakirg,  is  discouraging.  But  the 
Lord  is  able  to  sustain  them,  and  make  them  a  bless- 
ing to  the  natives. 

— It  is  reported  the  largest  Sunday-school  in  Chi- 
cago is  conducted  as  one  class.  There  are  thirty- 
five  hundred  scholars  in  the  class;  it  is  divided  into 
sections  of  fifty  to  one  hundred  members;  each  sec- 
tion is  under  the  charge  of  an  adult,  who  simply 
keeps  order  and  does  no  teaching.  The  sections  are 
indicated  by  blue  banners  having  on  them  white 
numbers.  The  session  is  just  one  hour.  Thirty 
minutes  are  devoted  to  teaching  by  the  superin- 
tendent, Mr.  C.  B.  Holmes,  president  of  the  South 
Side  city  railway,  and  the  other  thirty  minutes  are 
spent  in  sirging  from  a  song-roll,  and  in  learning 
fmd    reciting  choice  passages  of   Scripture.    The 


record  is  kept  by  giving  each  child  a  number,  and 
opposite  the  number  in  the  record-book  the  child's 
name  is  placed.  A  brass  badge  is  then  given  to  the 
child,  and  this  is  shown  at  the  door  at  every  session. 
The  school  has  been  ten  years  in  successful  opera- 
tion. 

— The  seventy-ninth  annual  meeting  of  the 
American  Board  will  be  held  in  Cleveland,  Ohio, 
beginning  October  2,  1888.  Henry  Hopkins,  D.D., 
Kansas  City,  will  preach  the  annual  sermon. 

—The  Plainfield,  N.  J.,  Friends  (Liberal)  have  just 
celebrated  the  hundredth  anniversary  of  their  meet- 
ing-house on  Peace  street.  The  sides  of  the  build- 
ing are  shingled.  It  is  in  a  good  state  of  preser- 
vation. 

—The  Congregational  Year  Book  gives  the  fol- 
lowing statistics:  Number  of  churches  in  the 
United  States,  4,404;  of  members,  457,584;  gain, 
21,205;  benevolent  contributions  of  churches,  $2,- 
095,485;  home  expenditures,  $5,078,980.  The 
churches  have,  on  an  average,  100  members,  give 
$475  in  benevolent  contributions  and  expend  $1,- 
150  on  home  expenses. 

— Fifty  years  ago  seven  shoemakers  in  a  shop  in  the 
city  of  Hamburg  said,  "By  the  grace  of  God  we 
will  help  to  send  the  Gospel  to  our  destitute  fellow- 
men."  In  twenty-five  years  they  had  established 
fifty  self-supporting  churches,  had  gathered  out  10,- 
000  converts,  had  distributed  400,000  Bibles  and  8,- 
000,000  tracts,  and  had  carried  the  Gospel  to  50,- 
000,000  of  the  race.  It  would  only  take  150  of 
such  men  to  carry  the  Gospel  to  the  whole  world  in 
twenty-five  years. 

— Bolivia,  which  has  a  population  of  2,000,000, 
is  without  a  single  Protestant  missionary. 

— The  rapid  growth  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal 
church  in  the  South  is  shown  by  the  fact  that  more 
than  4,000  new  churches  have  been  built  in  sixteen 
States  since  the  war. 

— In  connection  with  the  Fifth  Avenue  Presbyte- 
rian church,  New  York  city.  Dr.  John  Hall,  pastor, 
there  are  three  ladies'  missionary  societies.  During 
the  last  church  year  they  raised  $15,070  for  missions. 

— Mrs.  Robertson  of  Muscogee,  Indian  Territory, 
is  a  Mt.  Holyoke  graduate,  and  the  wife  of  a  min- 
ister who  has  worked  for  forty -five  years  among  the 
Creek  Indians.  She  has  translated  the  whole  of  the 
New  Testament  into  the  Creek  language,  besides 
many  hymns. 

— In  South  Africa  there  are  two  hundred  and 
twenty-three  Presbyterian  congregations,  numbering 
54,320  communicants,  and  controlling  five  colleges 
— one  each  at  Cape  Town,  Wellington,  Burghersdorf, 
in  Cape  Colony,  and  two  at  Blomfontein,  in  the  Or- 
ange Free  State. 

— The  next  meeting  of  the  Council  of  the  Pres- 
byterian Alliance  is  to  meet  in  Toronto,  Canada. 
An  exchange  thinks  that  it  will  be  a  good  place  to 
meet,  for  the  report  comes  that  with  a  population  of 
one  hundred  and  fifty  thousand  it  has  no  street  cars, 
no  Sunday  papers,  and  no  open  saloons  on  the  Lord's 
day. 

— The  Christian  Advocate  says  that  "when  a  camp- 
meeting  association,  by  vote,  deliberately  holds  over 
two  Sabbaths  for  the  sake  of  the  Sunday  revenue, 
derived  from  gate  fees  and  a  percentage  on  railway 
fares,  it  performs  an  act  which  allies  it  with  Sabbath- 
desecrating  elements  now  destroying  the  American 
Sunday." 

— A  Greek  church  is  about  to  be  established  in 
Chicago  for  the  Servians,  Bulgarians,  Greeks  and 
Russian  residents  in  this  city. 

— At  the  opening  centennial  exercises  of  the  Ne- 
gro Baptists  of  Georgia,  300  ministers  were  present. 
There  was  an  attendance  of  over  10,000  people. 

— The  Independent  states  that  the  Baptist  denom- 
ination gained  last  year  4,587  churches.  That  would 
be  an  average  gain  of  more  than  twelve  churches  per 
diem. 

— In  a  single  Protestant  Episcopal  church  in  New 
York  city  there  were  twenty-five  communicants  re- 
ceived at  the  last  confirmation,  who  had  been  bap- 
tized in  the  Roman  Catholic  communion. 

— A  curious  coincidence  has  grown  out  of  the  re- 
cent destruction  of  St.  Paul's  Episcopal  cathedral 
at  Buffalo.  The  trustees  of  the  Jewish  Temple  Beth 
Zion  invited  the  congregation  of  St.  Paul  to  wor- 
ship in  that  synagogue  until  a  house  of  worship  had 
been  again  secured.  The  offer  was  accepted,  and  a 
Christian  congregation  worships  in  a  Jewish  syna- 
gogue. The  most  curious  phase  of  the  incident, 
however,  was  the  fact  that  the  Gospel  of  the  day  on 
which  the  first  service  was  held  contains  the  words 
of  John,  16:  2,  "They  shall  put  you  out  of  the  syn- 
agogues." 


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SEPrBHBiB  6, 1888 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSUEE. 


13 


Home  and  Health. 

WHAT   BECOMES   OF   ALL  THE  BUGAR  AND 
HONEY. 

In  the  United  States  the  consumption 
of  sugar  per  head-  of  the  population  was 
twenty  nine  pounds  in  1869;  thirty  nine 
in  1879;  forty  eight  in  1883,  and  fifty- 
four  in  1887.  In  England  the  consump- 
tion of  sugar  was  thirty  two  pounds  per 
head  in  1858;  forty-one  and  a  half  in 
1867;  sixty-two  in  1876.  For  several 
countries  the  consumption  is  placed  as 
follows : 

United  Kingdom 63  pounds. 

France S5 

Germany 18       " 

Denmark 33        " 

Holland 25 

Au6tro-Hungary 15       " 

Italy 6       " 

Spain 7       " 

lilted  States 54       " 

Canada 51       " 

Australia  is  put  at  eighty-six  pounds  per 
capita  and  Venezuela  at  one  hundred  and 
eighty — a  figure  that  seems  incredible. 
In  all  countries  the  average  consumption 
annually  increases.  Sugar  is  becoming 
as  much  a  necessity  of  life  as  bread. 
What  wise  cultivation  has  done  for  beet 
sugar  it  may  do  for  the  sugar  cane  and 
sorghum.  Mr.  Darwin  puts  on  record 
the  statement  that  the  beet  in  France  has 
yielded  almost  exactly  double  the  quan- 
tity of  suc;ar  that  it  formerly  supplied, 
and  this  has  been  effected  by  the  most 
careful  and  systematic  selection.  The 
specific  gravity  of  the  roots  being  regu- 
larly tested  and  the  best  roots  saved  for 
seed. 

The  annual  honey  product  is  about  28,- 
000,000  pounds,  or  half  a  pound  apiece 
to  the  population.  In  1880,  Tennessee 
made  2,131.000  pounds;  New  York 
2,089,000;  Ohio  1,627,000;  North  Caro- 
lina 1,591,000;  Kentucky  1,500,565,  and 
seven  other  States — Arkansas,  Georgia, 
Illinois,  Iowa,  Michigan,  Pennsylvania, 
and  Virginia— produced  more  than  one 
million  pounds  each ;  altogether,  in  the 
States  named,  more  than  half  the  entire 
product  of  the  country. — American  Ag- 
riculturist. 

MAKE  LIMB  WATBB  AT  HOMB. 

There  is  no  need  whatever  of  running 
to  the  druggist  and  buying  lime  water 
every  time  it  is  needed.  And,  by  the  way, 
it  is  very  useful  to  have  in  the  house  in 
case  of  sour  stomach,  etc.  A  teaspoon- 
ful  of  it  with  half  a  pint  of  milk  will 
often  make  the  milk  quite  digestible, 
when  without  the  lime  water  it  might 
sour  and  produce  colic,  or  distress  in  the 
stomach.  To  make  lime  water,  get  a 
lump  of  good  unslaked  lime,  the  size  of 
a  hen's  egg,  or  larger ;  put  it  into  an  old 
pitcher,  and  pour  on  a  pint  or  so  of  water. 
As  soon  as  it  is  slaked  and  cool  enough, 
stir  it  with  a  spoon  or  stick  and  pour  off 
the  principal  part  of  the  milky  fluid  into 
a  pint  or  quart  bottle,  leaving  the  dregs 
in  the  pitcher  to  be  thrown  away.  Cork 
the  bottle  well,  and  let  it  stand  quiet.  In 
a  few  hours  the  lime  will  settle  to  the 
botton,  except  what  is  dissolved  in  the 
clear  water  above  it,  and  this  water  will 
nearly  always  be  of  uniform  stength. 
When  used  down  so  it  cannot  be  poured 
off  without  stirring  the  bottom,  add 
more  water,  shake  the  bottle,  cork  it 
well,  and  let  it  again  settle  for  use. 
Once  a  year  or  so,  make  up  a  new  lot  as 
at  first.  Lime  the  size  of  an  egg  will  be 
enough  for  a  good  many  quarts  of  lime 
water,  which  will  practically  cost  noth- 
ing. At  the  ordinary  temperature  of  60 
degrees,  a  pint  of  clear  lime  water  con- 
tains only  9:i  grains  of  lime.  (A  pound 
is  7,000  grains  )  Lime  water  is  an  anti- 
cid,  and  is  a  little  tonic  also. — Prairie 
Farmer. 

Willie  Metzger,  the  two-year-old  son 
of  Mr.  William  Metzger,  of  Toledo, 
Ohio,  met  with  a  singular  accident.  The 
little  fellow  went  into  the  pantry  to  get 
some  bread,  which  was  in  a  large  jar, 
standing  under  a  shelf,  leaving  a  small 
space  between.  Willie  stepped  on  a  stool 
and  pushed  his  head  in  between  the  jar 
and  the  shelf.  Somehow,  in  reaching  for 
the  bread,  he  pushed  the  stool  out  from 
under  him  and  was  suspended  by  the 
neck,  his  head  being  held  by  the  jar  and 
the  shelf.  Two  minutes  later  he  was 
found  by  Mrs.  Metzger,  just  as  the  last 
spark  of  life  was  about  to  leave  him. 
She  rescued  him  and  sent  for  Dr.  Gifford, 
who  did  all  he  could  for  the  little  fel- 
low, but  to  no  purpose,  and  he  died  next 
morning.  His  parents  are  almost  pros- 
trated over  the  sad  event. 


A  person  who  had  for  many  years  suf- 
fered terribly  from  ivy  poisoning,  claims 
to  have  found  an  antidote,  as  follows : 
Remembering  that  all  poisons  are  acids, 
and  that  alkalies  neutralize  acids,  I 
bathed  the  poisoned  member  in  a  strong 
lye  made  from  wood  ashes,  and  obtained 
instant  relief.  Subsequently  I  found  that 
the  dry  ashes  alone,  rubbed  over  the  poi- 
soned member,  were  equally  effective. 
Since  this  discovery  I  have  had  no  fur- 
ther trouble,  and  having  tried  this  simple 
remedy  repeatedly  on  myself  and  on 
many  others,  with  like  good  results,  I  am 
now  thoroughly  convinced  that  wood 
ashes  will  in  every  case  prove  a  sure  and 
sovereign  specific  for  all  cases  of  ivy 
poison. 

A  physician  writes  in  a  medical  journal 
that  he  learned  to  get  cinders  or  other 
substances  out  of  the  eye  from  an  engi- 
neer on  whose  locomotive  he  was  riding. 
The  doctor  got  a  cinder  in  his  eye  and 
began  to  lub  it.  "Let  that  eye  alone  and 
rub  the  other,"  said  the  engineer.  The 
doctor  paid  no  attention.  "Do  as  I  tell 
you,"  said  the  engineer,  "and  you'll  have 
it  out  in  two  minutes."  The  doctor 
obeyed,  rubbed  the  well  eye,  and  in  a 
moment  the  cinder  was  lying  on  his 
cheek .  He  says  that  the  treatment  never 
fails,  where  the  substance  has  not  cut 
into  the  eyeball. 

Now  that  the  fly  season  is  upon  us,  a 
recipe  for  getting  rid  of  pests  from  bouses 
will  be  useful.  Suspend  in  the  place 
pieces  of  tow,  sponge,  cotton-waste,  or 
any  other  absorbent  material;  saturate 
with  carbolic  acid,  and  keep  it  moist. 
The  scent,  which  is  very  wholesome,  will 
drive  flies  away.  Common  carbolic  acid, 
which  is  very  cheap  by  the  gallon,  will 
do  for  the  purpose. 

While  the  wife  of  Levi  Jeffries,  a  far- 
mer five  miles  north  of  Columbia  City, 
Ind.,  was  filling  a  lighted  lamp,  the  oil 
ignited,  and  in  attempting  to  throw  it 
out  of  doors  the  burning  oil  was  spilled 
over  her  husband  and  six  year-old  boy. 
The  boy  died  soon  after  from  his  burn?, 
and  Jeffries  lies  in  a  critical  condition. 


DONATIONS. 


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THE  CHEISTIAN  OYNOSUKE. 


Sefi^ember  6, 1888 


FARM  NOTES. 

Mayor  Hewitt  of  New  York  owns  a 
model  farm  at  Ringwood,  New  Jersey, 
where  he  raises  fine  Jersey  cows,  and  Mrs. 
Hewitt  makes  butter.  This  butter  can 
be  bought  of  a  fashionable  fruiterer  on 
Broadway  for  $1  a  pound.  Sometimes  it 
is  worth  that  price,  and  at  other  times  it 
is  not.  It  all  depends  upon  Mrs.  Hew- 
itt's dairy-woman.  An  attractive  feature 
of  Ringwood  farm  is  a  log  cabin  built  a 
short  distance  from  the  house,  and  fur- 
nished in  a  manner  that  is  supposed  to 
be  indigenous  to  log  cabins,  but  which  is 
utterly  unknown  to  them.  There  is  a 
large  fire-place  at  one  end,  with  a  crane 
for  boiling  the  afternoon  teakettle,  and 
there  are  high-backed  chairs  and  claw- 
foot  tables,  and  other  rare  and  costly  an  - 
tique  bits.  It  is  a  very  jolly  place,  how- 
ever, and  is  the  special  property  of  the 
Misses  Hewitt,  who  do  a  great  deal  of 
entertaining  there. 

When  spokes  and  felloes  shrink,  and 
the  wagon  tires  become  loose  in  conse- 
quence, it  is  the  custom  to  have  the  tires 
re-set  at  the  usual  expense  of  fifty  cents 
each.  It  is  far  cheaper  and  better  for 
the  wheels  to  saturate  the  entire  wood- 
work with  hot  Jinseed  oil.  This  may  be 
easily  and  thoroughly  done  by  having  a 
dish  or  trough  to  contain  the  oil.  through 
which  the  wheel  may  be  run  by  passing 
a  stick  through  the  hub  in  place  of  the 
axle,  and  resting  the  ends  of  the  stick 
upon  a  frame  which  is  just  high  enough 
to  allow  the  wheel  to  clear  the  bottom  of 
the  pan  or  trough,  This  fills  the  pores 
and  causes  the  timber  to  swell  and  fill 
the  tire  as  when  new.  With  a  soaking 
of  hot  oil  once  in  a  year  or  two  there  will 
be  no  loose  tires,  and  the  wheels  will  last 
very  much  longer. 

Draw  a  strong  cord  or  wire  tightly 
across  the  horse  stall  so  that  it  will  be 
about  three  feet  above  the  horse,  and  im- 
mediately over  his  tail  when  he  stands 
with  his  head  close  up  to  the  manger. 
To  the  cord  attach  a  piece  of  muslin,  old 
coSee  sacking,  an  old  blanket  or  some- 
thing of  that  sort,  so  that  it  will  reach 
well  across  the  stall  and  about  one  foot 
below  the  horse's  back.  Leave  the  hitch- 
ing strap  long  enough  to  enable  the  horse 
to  back  up  till  his  neck,  comes  directly 
under  the  cloth.  There  is  now  a  sweep 
provided  which  the  horse  will  soon  learn 
to  utilize  by  stepping  back  and  forth  un- 
der it  and  brushing  the  files  from  his  back 
and  shoulders.  It  is  astonishing  how 
quickly  a  horse  will  learn  to  do  this. 
There  is  no  patent  on  this  device. 

Among  the  lules  of  a  livery  stable  in 
New  York,  where  the  animals  of  many 
wealthy  men  are  kept,  are  the  following: 
"No  man  will  be  employed  who  drinks 
intoxicating  liquors.  No  man  shall 
speak  loud  to  any  of  the  horses,  or  in 
the  stable  where  they  are.  Horses  of 
good  blood  are  nervous,  and  loud,  excited 
conversation  is  felt  by  every  horse  who 
hears  it,  and  keeps  them  all  nervous  and 
uneasy.  No  man  shall  use  profane  lan- 
guage in  the  hearing  of  horses."  It 
would  not  be  a  bad  idea  if  every  livery 
stable  adopted  these  rules.  How  is  it  in 
your  barn,  brother  farmer? 

During  the  hot  weather  of  August  and 
September  look  out  for  the  cows  that  are 
soon  to  calve.  They  should  have  shade, 
and  plenty  of  strengthening  food,  but 
not  too  much  of  that  that  heats  or  fat- 
tens. Ground  oats  and  bran  are  good. 
Avoid  feeding  much  corn  meal .  Treat 
Them  kindly.  It  is  easier  to  prevent  milk 
fever  than  to  cure  it. 

One  of  the  uses  of  giving  cows  salt, 
especially  in  hot  weather,  is  that  it  acts 
as  a  preservative  in  the  system.  Every 
one  accustomed  to  test  milk  can  tell  by 
its  flavor  whether  the  cows  have  been 
gettinK  their  salt.  There  is  no  doubt, 
whatever,  that  the  neglect  of  "salting  the 
cowb"  spoils  the  butter  and  injures  the 
milk  for  the  cheese  factory. 

Professor  H.  Muller,  an  eminent  bota- 
nist, says  that  the  best  time  to  prune 
vines  is  while  the  grapes  are  ripening, 
and  that  the  young  shoots  should  be  se- 
lected for  this  purpose,  as  they  require 
for  Iheir  development  a  large  quantity  of 
sugar,  to  the  detriment  of  the  ripening 
fruit. 

A  farmer  at  Vesta,  Neb.,  has  discov- 
ered a  remedy  for  apple  trees  afllicted 
with  blight.  As  soon  as  the  top  of  a  tree 
shows  that  blight  has  struck  it  he  bores 
a  small  hole  in  the  body  of  the  tree  and 
fills  it  with  sulphur,  after  which  the  hole 
is  securely  sealed  or  plugged  up. 


Constipation 

Demands  prompt  treatment.  The  re- 
sults of  neglect  may  be  serious.  Avoid 
all  harsh  and  drastic  purgatives,  the 
tendency  of  which  is  to  weaken  the 
bowels.  The  best  remedy  is  Ayer's 
Pills.  Being  purely  vegetable,  their 
action  is  prompt  and  their  effect  always 
beneficial.  They  are  an  admirable 
Liver  and  After-dinner  pill,  and  every- 
where endorsed  by  the  profession. 

"  Ayer's  Pills  are  highly  and  univer- 
sally spoken  of  by  the  people  about 
here.  I  make  daily  use  of  them  in  my 
practice."  —  Dr.  I.  E.  Fowler,  Bridge- 
port, Conn. 

"  I  can  recommend  Ayer's  Pills  above 
all  others,  having  long  proved  their 
value  as  a  cathartic  for  myself  and 
family."  —  J.  T.  Hess,  Leithsville,  Pa. 

"  For  several  years  Ayer's  Pills  have 
been  used  in  my  family.  We  find  them 
an 

Effective  Remedy 

for  constipation  and  indigestion,  and 
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THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSUEE. 


September  6, 1888 


NFWS  OF  THE  WEEK 

WASHINGTON. 

The  President,  Comtnissicner  Miller, 
and  Colonel  Lament  returned  from  Clin- 
ton Forge,  Va.,  where  they  spent  several 
days  fishing. 

B.  J.  Hall,  commissioner  of  patents,  in 
his  annual  report  says  that  the  total 
number  of  applications  received  during 
the  year  was  40,177,  a  decrease  of  847. 

Senator  Blair  has  introduced  a  resolu- 
tion instructing  the  Senate  committee  on 
Inter-state  Commerce  to  investigate  the 
Craig  system  of  mechanical  telegraph. 
In  explaining  the  resolution  Mr.  Blair 
said  that  the  owner  of  the  patent  claimed 
that  2,000  words  could  be  sent  over  the 
wires  at  the  cost  of  a  single  letter  post- 
age. He  suggested  that  if  this  was  true 
here  was  an  opportunity  for  the  govern- 
ment to  introduce  at  slight  expense  a 
system  which  would  supplant  the  West- 
ern Union  monopoly. 

POLITICAL. 

Gen.  B.  F.  Butler  was  invited  by  citi  - 
zens  of  Boston,  irrespective  of  party,  to 
give  his  views  on  leading  political  ques- 
tions, and  spoke  Friday  evening  in  Tre- 
mont  Temple.  He  attacked  President 
Cleveland's  messages  on  tariff  and  the 
fisheries  and  condemned  the  Mills  bill  for 
tariff  reduction  as  unworthy  of  public 
approbation. 

President  Fitzgerald  of  the  Irish  Na- 
tional League,  learning  that  the  St.  Louis 
branch  was  preparing  a  Sunday  demon- 
stration at  which  politics  would  be  dis- 
cussed by  Republican  and  Democratic 
speakers,  condemned  the  arrangement  as 
such  a  departure  from  the  non-political 
course  of  the  Irish  National  League,  if 
carried  out,  would  compel  the  executive 
to  cancel  the  charter  of  the  central  branch. 

The  Iowa  Democratic  Convention 
adopted  the  following  in  its  platform  last 
week:  "The  Democratic  party  now,  as 
heretofore,  declares  itself  opposed  to  pro- 
hibition, and  strongly  condemns  the  same 
as  injurious  alike  to  our  business  inter- 
ests and  the  cause  of  temperance." 

A  New  York  dispatch  says  that  Patrick 
Ford,  of  the  Irish  World,  has  made  a  de- 
mand on  the  Republican  National  Com- 
mittee for  $100,000.  With  this  suni  he 
promises  to  control  the  Irish  organiza- 
tions of  the  country,  and  turn  their  votes 
over  to  Harrison  and  Morton. 

Much  indignation  has  been  stirred  up 
against  Postmaster  Judd  of  this  city,  for 
placing  a  list  of  his  employes  in  the 
hands  of  his  law  partner  Esher  to  be 
bled  for  campaign  funds.  They  were  all 
called  upon  individually. 

At  a  Cleveland  ratification  meeting  in 
New  York  Monday  night  speeches  were 
made  by  Henry  George  and  William 
Lloyd  Garrison,  son  of  the  old  Abolition- 
ist, who  boldly  declared  that  they  had  no 
desire  to  conceal  that  their  "attitude  was 
one  of  absolute  free  trade." 

CHICAGO. 

Articles  of  incorporation  were  recorded 
Wednesday  in  the  oflSce  of  the  Secretary 
of  Stale  of  the  Chicago  West  Division 
Elevated  Railroad  Company  with  a  capi- 
tal of  ten  million  dollars.  It  is  intended 
to  construct  a  railroad  from  a  point  on 
the  South  Side  west  across  the  river  with 
branches. 

uuring  the  month  of  August  more  than 
$60,000  worth  of  valuables  have  been  se- 
cured by  the  gang  of  burglars  and  house- 
breakers who  have  been  practicing  their 
peculiar  profession  in  the  various  sec- 
tions of  the  city,  and  as  yet  no  arrests 
have  been  made.  A  dozen  houses  are 
Bomelimee  raided  in  a  single  night.  Un- 
der Mayor  Roche  the  police  force  is  be- 
coming a  mere  political  machine.  Many 
of  the  new  policemen  are  boys  and  very 
inefficient  in  appearance. 

The  coal  barons  of  Chicago  decided 
last  week  to  raise  the  price  of  hard  coal 
.^0  cents  a  ton,  commencing  Sept.  1,  in 
■pite  of  the  protest  of  the  retail  dealers. 

The  agitation  for  a  change  in  the  man- 
agement of  the  poBtoflSce  in  this  city  has 
at  last  reached  Washington,  and  it  is  re- 
ported that  Pres  Cleveland  will  accept 
Mr.  Judd'B  resignation  soon.  The  dis- 
covery of  the  robberies  going  on  for  two 
years  has  settled  the  ()uc8tion  of  his  abil- 
ity to  manage  the  business. 

COUNTIIY. 

The  Western  lines  engaged  in  the  live 
stock  war  are  said  to  have  lost  |1,(KK),- 
000,  and  the  managers  of  the  different 


roads  will  meet  at  Chicago,  Monday, 
Sept.  3,  for  the  purpose  of  endeavoring 
to  patch  up  peace. 

John  Fillhart,  aged  93,  hanged  himself 
in  his  son's  barn  at  Depanville,  N.  Y., 
Thursday  night  for  some  cause  unknown. 

Frost,  Thursday  night,  in  the  northern 
part  of  Minnesota,  and  in  the  Red  River 
Valley,  is  reported  to  have  injured  crops. 

The  last  day  of  August  finds  the  yellow 
fever  epidemic  in  full  sway  in  Jackson- 
ville, Florida,  with  every  part  of  the  city 
infected.  The  whole  number  of  cases 
reported  to  Friday  is  211;  deaths,  30. 
Friday's  report:  23  new  cases  for  the 
twenty-four  hours  ending  at  6  o'clock 
p.  M.,  4  deaths. 

A  wind  and  rain  storm  of  unusual  vio- 
lence prevailed  Thursday  night  in  the 
Hot  Springs  (Ark.)  district.  A  raging 
flood  swept  through  the  latter  city,  de- 
stroying many  structures  and  partly  sub- 
merging others.  It  is  said  that  thirteen 
persons  were  drowned.  The  financial 
loss  is  placed  at  $100,000.  Hotels  were 
flooded  and  houses  all  along  the  main 
street  undermined. 

The  new  Chicago,  Burlington  &  Quin- 
cy  steel  railroad  bridge  at  Nebraska 
City,  Neb.,  built  at  a  cost  of  $1,500,000, 
was  formally  opened  Thursday  by  impos- 
ing and  interesting  ceremonies.  Sixty 
thousand  strangers  were  in  the  city,  and 
many  prominent  railroad  oflacials. 

The  will  ot  the  late  Charles  Crocker, 
Second  Vice  President  of  the  Southern 
Pacific  Company,  was  probated  Wednes- 
day. The  widow  is  made  executrix,  and 
left  half  the  estate  of  $25,250,000. 

The  steamer  St.  Paul,  owned  by  the 
Alaska  Commercial  Company,  arrived  at 
San  Francistfo  Monday  with  a  cargo  of 
sealskins  and  other  furs  valued  at  $2,000,- 
000. 

Forty-five  business  firms  of  Davenport, 
Iowa,  commenced  proceedings  before  the 
State  Railroad  Commissioners  Thursday 
against  the  Rock  Island,  B.,  C.  R.  and  N., 
C,  M.  and  St.  Paul,  and  Minneapolis  and 
St.  Louis  Railroads  for  discriminating  in 
freight  rates. 

The  Mississippi  State  Board  of  Health 
Thursday  issued  an  order  forbidding  en- 
trance to  the  State  without  a  health  offi- 
cer's certificate,  the  Governor  approving. 

The  malady  which  has  been  affecting 
the  people  of  Caldwell,  Ohio,  for  a 
month,  is  now  believed  to  be  caused  by 
disease  germs  in  the  drinking  water,  the 
town  having  no  system  of  drainage.  The 
population  is  only  1,800,  but  there  have 
been  twenty-five  deaths,  and  nearly 
every  family  is  affected. 

An  old  bridge  over  Dry  Fork,  near 
Taylorsville,  Ala,,  went  down  Thursday 
while  a  party  of  young  folks  were  on 
their  way  to  a  picnic  over  it.  Four  were 
killed  and  several  wounded. 

Samuel  Stambroak,  a  leading  merchant 
at  Kincaid,  Ean.,  while  umpiring  an 
amateur  baseball  game  Wednesday,  was 
struck  on  the  neck  by  a  swiftly  pitched 
ball,  tipped  by  the  batsman,  and  instantly 
klled. 

A  report  reached  Kansas  City  that  a 
battle  was  fought  in  "No  Man's  Land" 
last  week  between  eighteen  horse  thieves 
and  a  force  of  fifty  Colorado  settlers,  and 
that  all  the  outlaws  were  killed,  together 
with  three  of  the  vigilantes. 

Fire  broke  out  in  a  toy  warehouse  at 
Baltimore,  about  four  o'clock  Sunday 
morning,  and  before  the  firemen  could 
get  to  work,  an  explosion  of  fireworks 
wrecked  the  building  and  caused  the 
fiames  to  spread  with  alarming  rapidity 
to  a  drug  house  on  the  north  and  a  hat 
house  on  the  south.  Scarcely  had  the 
firemen  entered  the  building  occupied  by 
the  drug  firm  when  the  inside  of  the 
building  seemed  to  suddenly  drop  in,  a 
terrific  explosion  followed,  and  the  im- 
mense building  collapsed.  All  the  men 
were  buried  ia  the  wreck  and  seven  were 
killed.  The  fire  spread  through  the 
block  and  destroyed  $1,000,000  worth. 

A  special  Sept.  2  from  Booneville,  Mo., 
says:  Six  section  men  were  killed  at  a 
small  station  near  this  city  yesterday  by 
a  freight  train  jumping  the  track.  A 
.  caboose  attached  to  the  freight  was  filled 
'  with  passengers,  all  of  whom  escaped  se- 
rious injury. 

The  boiler  of  Uhler's  saw  mill,  located 
ten  miles  north  of  Springfield,  111.,  ex- 
ploded Thursday,  killing  N.  M.  Richard, 
a  well-known  resident,  and  two  others 
aged  22.  Low  water  in  the  boiler  was 
the  cause  of  the  explosion. 


FOBBieN. 

Dispatches  from  St.  Paul  de  Loanda  on 
Wednesday  state  that  Bartellot's  expedi- 
tion in  search  of  Stanley  is  composed  of 
640  carriers  and  100  soldiers,  recruited 
by  Tippo  Tib.  Three  whites.  Rose, 
Troupet  and  Samesson,  accompany  Bar- 
tellot,  Samesson  heading  the  advance. 
Bartellot  proposes  to  trace  Stanley  step 
by  step .  The  force  is  heavily  equipped 
with  supplies,  and  advances  slowly.  At 
the  end  of  June  news  reached  Camp 
Yambunga  that  the  first  stages  of  Bar- 
tellot's march  were  well  over,  but  no  in- 
formation from  Stanley  was  received. 

A  party  of  dervishes  numbering  500 
recently  attacked  an  Egyptian  fort  near 
Wady  Haifa,  capturing  a  portion  of  the 
works.  Re-enforcements  arrived  from 
Wady  Haifa  and  the  Egyptians  repulsed 
the  dervishes,  killing  100  of  them.  The 
Egyptian  loss  was  sixteen  killed  and 
twenty  seven  wounded. 

The  will  of  the  late  Emperor  Frederick 
of  Germany  will  soon  be  published.  It 
is  reported  that  one  passage  declares  that 
an  extension  of  popular  rights  would  be 
the  strongest  bond  of  union  between  the 
nation  and  the  monarchy. 

The  Catholic  Bishops  of  Germany  as- 
sembled at  Fulda  have  signed  an  address 
to  the  Pope  in  which  they  severely  at- 
tack the  clauses  in  the  Italian  penal  code 
regarding  abuses  by  the  clergy.  The 
Archbishops  of  Cologne  and  Posen  are 
among  the  signers. 

Canadian  government  officials  while 
admitting  that  the  plan  outlined  by  Pres- 
ident Cleveland's  Retaliation  message 
would  entail  great  losses  to  Canadian  in- 
terests, particularly  to  the  transportation 
companies,  protest  that  no  recent  action 
on  the  part  of  the  Dominion  Government 
justifies  the  severe  measures  proposed  by 
the  President. 


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001 

■ditorijll  : 

Notes  and  Comments 

Editorial  Correepondence. 
Dr.  Brooks  and  his  Demit 

Personal  Notes 

Educational  Notes 

CONTBTBUTIONS : 

Modern  Indulgences 

Under  the  Apple  Boughs. 

irr. 

1 

8 
8 
9 
9 

1 
2 
3 

8 
3 

4 
4 
9 

6 
6 

Rbfobm  News: 
Washington  Reform 
Notes;    A   Disgrace  to 
Ohio;  The  Canvass  for 
the  Southern  Headquar- 
ters;    From    Nortnern 
Louisiana ;     From    the 
Loulplana  Agent 

Lodge  Notes 

45 

'7 

Is  There  a  Personal  Devil? 

Lecture  List 

7 

Selected : 

Inexpressibly  Sad 

The  Work  of  the  Spirit. . . 

Thb  N.  C.  a... 

The  Hobib....^...,^^..,.. 
Temperance ^ 

7 
10 
11 

New  England  Letter 

liiBLE  Lesson 

1^ 

Cincinnati  Letter 

Washington  Letter...... 

cokbbspondbncb : 

Religious  Nbws 

Home  and  Health 

Business 

12 
13 
13 

A    Prison  Parable;    Pith 

Markets 

13 

and  Point 

Farm  Notes 

14 

Litbbatubb  

Nbvts  of  thb  Wbbk 

16 

The  failure  of  one  of  the  largest  cf  the  fine  furni- 
ture establishments  of  this  city  was  heard  with  sur- 
prise last  week,  and  seldom  has  such  &  calamity  re- 
sulted from  so  tragic  a  cause.  Just  after  the  mur- 
der of  the  millionaire  A.  J.  Snell  on  the  West  Side 
last  winter,  the  youngest  son  of  the  furniture  dealer 
appointed  himself  night-watchman  for  the  house 
and  armed  himself  with  a  revolver.  Not  long  after, 
pointing  the  weapon  in  sport  at  his  elder  brother,  as 
if  at  a  burglar,  an  accidental  touch  upon  the  trigger 
sent  a  fatal  bullet  on  its  errand.  This  older  son 
was  the  chief  business  associate  in  the  firm,  and  the 
father  never  recovered  from  the  shock  of  the  trage- 
dy. He  lost  interest  in  his  business,  which  declined, 
and  the  creditors  had  to  close  it  up.  A  similar  case, 
but  more  shocking,  is  just  reported  from  Columbus, 
Ohio.  A  young  man  of  one  of  the  wealthiest  fami- 
lies was  explaining  the  working  of  his  revolver  to 
a  friend,  when  it  was  discharged  and  the  bullet 
killed  his  mother,  sitting  across  the  room.  The  re- 
volver was  made  to  kill  men;  w^  should  it  not  be 
prohibited,  except  in  the  hands  at  those  public  offi- 
cers of  whom  sometimes  it  is  demanded  that  they 
shall  take  life? 


The  Ohio  Centennial  Exposition  at  Columbus  is 
intended  to  show  the  growth  and  development  of 
the  "Buckeye"  State  in  the  first  hundred  years  of 
its  history.  This  strange  jumble  of  heathenism  and 
Christianity  in  its  program  opened  last  week.  The 
letter  of  the  Ohio  agent  shows  how  much  regard  is 
paid  to  a  testimony  for  Christ  in  this  Vanity-fair 
hodge  podge  of  popery,  lodgery,  political  Punch-and- 
Judy  shows,  church  creeds,  etc.,  etc.  But  the  "great 
moral  circus"  will  this  week  be  entirely  eclipsed  by 
the  sham  Grand  Army,  which  holds  its  twenty-sec- 
ond annual  meeting  in  Columbus.  The  scared  press 
reporters  began  Monday  morning  to  announce  that 
250,000  visitors  would  be  in  the  city,  which  will  be 
a  nice  little  crowd  for  a  city  of  52,000  to  entertain. 
There  must  be  something  criminal  in  attempting,  by 
the  attraction  of  cheap  rates  and  a  great  show,  to 
crowd  a  small  city  so  dangerously.  And  more  than 
this,  all  over  the  country  the  Sabbath  quiet  was 
broken  by  the  clamor  of  crowds  on  streets  and  on 
trains  moving  toward, this  lodge  meeting.  The  Se- 
cret Empire  knows  no  Sabbath,  and  will  destroy  it 
in  ^...^1  ^%  if  unchecked. 


Major  R.  W.  McClaughry,  whose  able  manage- 
ment of  the  Illinois  Penitentiary  at  Joliet  has  given 
him  a  national  reputation,  spoke  in  the  Centenary 
M.  E.  church  in  this  city  last  Sabbath  evening  on 
the  reformation  of  our  criminals.  At  the  close  of 
his  interesting  remarks  he  spoke  of  the  home  influ- 
ence as  a  preventive  of  crime,  and  eloquently  con- 
trasted the  happy  Christian  home  with  the  tempta- 
tions of  the  street,  the  club,  the  theater,  the  ledge, 
the  saloon  and  the  dance  house.  The  Major  did  not 
mention  these  agencies,  but  the  general  terms  of  his 
language  covered  them  all.  He  said:  "All  over 
your  city  there  are  beautiful  palaces  costing  thous- 
ands of  dollars.  How  many  homes  do  they  contain? 
In  how  many  is  there  that  sturdy,  old-fashioned 
home  influence?  Those  old-fashioned  homes  gave 
few  recruits  to  the  criminal  classes,  but  from  the 
others  thousands  have  gone  forth.  There  is  not 
that  peculiar  friendship  between  parents  and  chil- 
dren. We  should  look  to  it  to  see  where  our  boys 
and  girls  spend  their  evenings.  Most  of  the  evil 
learned  by  boys  is  learned  in  darkness." 


President  Cleveland's  letter  of  acceptance  was 
published  Monday,  and  deserves  to  be  read  by  voters 
of  all  parties.  It  lacks  the  sententious  vigor  of  Gen- 
eral Fisk's  acceptance,  and  has  not,  like  that,  the 
tone  of  high  moral  conviction;  but  on  the  lower 
plane  of  public  economy,  it  is  an  argument  that  de- 
serves a  fair  consideration  from  every  citizen,  and 
especially  from  the  wage-worker.  General  Harrison 
has  reserved  his  fire,  but  his  letter  may  be  now  daily 
expected.  Mr.  Cleveland's  turgid  and  verbose  style 
obscures  his  ideas,  but  he  evidently  has  convictions 
on  the  injustice  of  piling  up  $130,000,000  surplus  in 
the  U.  S.  treasury — money  which  has  been  taken, 
not  generally  from  the  rich,  but  from  the  poorer 
classes  of  workingmen,  which  should  in  some  just 
and  lawful  way  be  used  for  their  benefit  and  the 
accumulation  stopped.  He  argues  that  the  reduc- 
tion of  this  income  should  be  on  duties  on  raw  ma- 
terial needed  in  our  factories,  and  his  reasoning 
will  justly  have  great  weight  with  unprejudiced 
men.  On  some  other  points  the  letter  is  not  so 
clear.  Civil  service  reform  is  dismissed  with  a 
word.  Of  a  second  Presidential  term,  which  four 
years  ago  he  repudiated,  he  says  nothing.  He  does 
not  deal  in  righteousness  with  the  Southern  race 
conflict.  And  the  great  national  crime  of  intemper- 
ance he  dodges,  as  well  as  a  large  man  can,  by  giv- 
ing the  Republican  free-whisky  plank  a  splitting 
blow. 


positive  manner  with  the  movements  of  Bismarck's 
young  Emperor.  The  contemplated  visit  of  the  lat- 
ter to  Italy  is  soon  to  be  made,  and  the  Pope  has 
ordered  his  retainers  and  guards  to  be  ready  to  at- 
tend upon  his  coming  with  the  greatest  pomp  and 
dignity.  No  pains  will  be  spared  to  impress  upon 
young  William  that  King  Humbert  is  not  to  be 
compared  with  Pope  Leo,  and  it  would  be  a  hand- 
some acknowledgment  of  the  fact  to  aid  in  the 
very  plot  broached  by  Windthorst. 


MODERN    INDULGBUCBB. 


The  Philadelphia  lelegraph  reports  that  a  medal 
is  about  to  be  struck  at  Rome  commemorating  the 
jubilee  of  Leo  XIII.  On  one  side  it  is  to  bear  the 
portrait  of  the  Pope;  on  the  reverse  are  to  be  repre- 
sented the  five  continents  prostrated  before  him. 
The  legend  in  Latin  will  express:  "The  homage  and 
congratulations  of  the  whole  world."  These  med- 
als will  probably  be  carefully  distributed  among  the 
Protestant  rulers,  who  humbled  themselves  and 
abased  their  religious  professions  by  sending  pres- 
ents to  Rome  last  spring.  Only  we  insist  that  Gro- 
ver  Cleveland  wear  his  about  his  neck  for  a  Voodoo 
charm  to  keep  oti  the  Republican  free  whisky  mange 
and  carry  it  away  among  his  relics  of  office  when  he 
leaves  the  White  House.  And  may  God  forbid  that 
another  American  President  should  ever  congratu- 
late a  Pope,  except  on  his  becoming  an  humble  Chris- 
tian. 


Dr.  Windthorst,  the  late  antagonist  of  Bismarck 
in  the  German  parliament,  addressed  the  Catholic 
Diet  just  closed  at  Freiburg,  and  argued  that  the 
restoration  of  the  temporal  power  of  the  Pope 
would  be  for  Bismarck  one  of  the  most  glorious 
achievements  toward  maintaining  the  peace  of  na- 
tions. The  scheme  would  appear  to  be  a  joke  upon 
the  old  chancellor,  who  a  few  years  ago  carried  the 
Falk  laws,  expelled  the  Jesuits,  and  vowed  never 
to  go  \Ij  Canossa,  did  we  not  know  that  the  occasion 
when  it  was  presented  was  a  serious  one,  and  that 
Bismarck  has  been  out-maneuvered  by  Rome,  until 
the  wily  Jesuit  has  not  only  nullified  or  revoked  all 
the  decrees  against  him,  but  interferes  in  a  very 


BY   RBV.    H.    M.   BISSELL,   MISSIONARY    IN   MEXICO. 

The  attention  of  American  citizens  has  been  re- 
cently directed  to  the  doctrine  of  "indulgences,"  and 
to  the  practices  connected  therewith  previous  to  the 
Reformation.  Some  facts  touching  the  present  offer 
of  indulgence,  as  laid  down  in  popular  Roman  Cath- 
olic works  in  present  use,  and  likewise  concerning 
a  related  doctrine,  which  now  overshadows  this,  may 
be  of  interest 

The  "Catholic  Dictionary,"  by  Addis  and  Arnold, 
a  standard  work  bearing  the  imprimatua  of  two 
cardinals  and  the  Censor  Di-putatus,  states  (p.  444) 
that  "Pius  IX  (April  14,  1854)  bestowed  on  those 
who  wear  the  blue  ecapular  of  the  Immaculate  Con- 
ception and  say  six  Paters,  Aves  and  four  Marias 
in  honor  of  the  Trinity  and  the  Immaculate  Viro'in, 
and  for  the  exaltation  of  the  church,  extirpation  of 
heresy,  etc.,  all  the  indulgences  which  could  be  ob- 
tained by  visiting  the  seven  Roman  Basilicas,  the 
holy  places  of  Jerusalem,  the  church  of  Portiuncula 
at  Assisi,  and  that  of  Compostella,  Even  confession 
and  communion  are  not  required  for  these  indul- 
gences. Large  and  often  plenary  indulgences  are 
attached  to  the  recitation  of  short  prayers  (though 
usually  confession  and  communion  are  required  if 
the  indulgence  is  plenary),  and  to  the  use  of  blessed 
crosses,  medals,  etc." 

Let  us  see  what  are  some  of  these  prayers,  and 
how  devoid  of  any  aspiration  or  desire  for  deliver- 
ance from  sin.  I  have  before  me  the  following 
'  Jaculatorio"  in  two  distinct  works;  one  the  famous 
Glorias  de  Maria,  by  S.  Ligoris,  the  other,  a  little 
book  of  devotions,  costing  a  few  cents.  A  literal 
translation  runs  thus: 

"an  ejaculation  to  our  lady. 
"Blessed  be  thy  purity, 

Eternally  so  let  it  be, 
For  very  God  Himsslf  delights 

In  thy  gracious  beauty. 

"To  thee,  celestial  princess. 

Holy  Virgin  Mary, 
To  thee,  I  ofEer  from  this  day 

Soul,  life  and  heart: 
Look  upon  me  with  compassion, 

Do  not  leave  me,  mother  mine." 

The  following  note  is  appended  as  an  incentive 
to  the  use  of  this  prayer:  "His  Holiness,  Pius  ^'II., 
has  granted  two  hundred  days  of  indulgence  for 
each  letter  which  this  ejaculation  contains;  making 
[for  each  single  repetition]  37,200  [days];"  that  is 
a  trifle  more  .than  a  rounc^  century.  On  page  510 
of  the  same  "Glories  of  Mary"  we  learn  that  "Pius 
VI granted  perpetual!)^  all  Christians  a  hun- 
dred days  "of  indulgence  f(JrdHach  devout  and  con- 
trite repetition  of  the  followirijg  ejaculation:  'Blessed 
be  the  holy  and  immaculate  conception  of  the 
Blessed  Virgin  Mary.' "  A  foot  note  here  calls  at- 
tention to  the  jaculatorio  quoted  above,  which  at  200 
days  per  letter  is  certainly  far  more  productive. 

On  the  same  page  we  are  told  that,  "In  order  to 
stimulate  the  faithful  to  come  frequently  to  Most 
Holy  Mary  with  the  devotion  of  the  holy  Rosary, 
Benedict  XIII.  granted  to  all,  who,  with  contrite 
hearts,  repeat  the  entire  Rosary,  composed  of  fifteen 
^decenas"  [the  "rf<c«na"  consists  of  ten  Ave  Marias 
and  one  Pater  Noster],  or  even  the  third  part  of 
the  same,  that  is,  five  'decenas,'  a  hundred  days  of 
indulgence  for  each  Pater  Noster  and  Ave  Maria, 
and  plenary  indulgence  is  granted  to  those  who  re- 
peat, at  least,  the  third  part  daily  during  an  entire 
year,  confessing  and  communing  once  during  that 


THE  CHRISTIAJSr  CYNOSUEE^ 


September  13, 1888 


I 


time.  These  indulgences  are  perpetual,  and  may 
also  be  applied  to  the  dead."  In  order  to  gain  them 
it  is  necessary  that  the  Rosary  shall  have  been  duly 
blessed.  A  note  here  directs  us  to  page  405,  where 
Ligoris,  a  canonized  saint  (no  error,  therefore,  could 
be  found  in  his  writings),  makes  the  unqualified  as- 
sertion that,  "To  him  who  repeats  the  third  part  of 
the  Rosary,  seventy  thousand  years  of  indulgence 
are  granted." 

The  foregoing  illustrations  might  be  indefinitely 
extended.  Under  the  present  Romish  theory  these 
indulgences  are  applied  to  shorten,  or  to  remove  en- 
tirely, the  purgatorial  pains  of  souls  saved  but  not 
glorified.  A  strange  alternative  is  presented:  either, 
as  Faber  tells  us, 

"In  pains  beyond  all  earthly  pains, 

Favorites  of  Jesus  I  there  they  He, 
Letting  the  fire  purge  out  their  stains," 
or  else,  some  attention  having  been  given,  by  them- 
selves or  others,  to  such  prayers  as  those  quoted 
above,  this  fearful  purging  can  be  dispensed  with. 
lAther  a  century  of  suffering  is  declared  necessary 
to  cleanse  a  small  portion  of  the  stains  of  sin,  or, 
ten  short  lines  of  sentiment  addressed  to  the  Virgin. 
The  numerous  prayers  similar  to  the  above,  the 
expressed  desire  of  Benedict  Xlll.  "that  the  faith- 
ful come  frequently  to  Most  Holy  Mary  in  the  de- 
votion of  the  holy  Rosary,"  and  the  distribution  of 
the  Rosary  itself  (one  hundred  and  fifty  prayers  to 
Mary  and  ten  Pater  Nosters),  all  plainly  suggest  the 
practice  which  to-day  holds  supreme  place  in  Romish 
worship.  Her  apologists  may  hide  as  they  will  be- 
hind a  saving  theory.  In  fact,  the  mass  of  her  com- 
municants are  left  to  believe,  if  not  taught  to  be- 
lieve, that  Mary  is  practically  divine,  and  fully  suf- 
ficient for  all  their  needs.  The  idea  is  firmly  rooted 
in  the  popular  mind  that  an  appeal  to  Mary  is  far 
surer  of  its  object  than  a  direct  appeal  to  Christ. 
Within  a  few  months  men  have  solemnly  assured 
the  writer:  "I  believe  Mary  is  superior  to  the  Crea- 
tor, her  Son."  Another  defended  the  proposition 
that  Mary,  like  God,  "exists  in  heaven,  on  earth  and 
in  every  place."  These  men  are  above,  rather  than 
below,  the  intelligence  of  the  majority,  in  a  land 
which  Rome  has  instructed  for  three  and  a  half  cen- 
turies. 

Bui  why  should  one  suggest  that  such  views  are 
the  result  of  ignorance?  Open  again  Las  Glorias 
de  Maria,  an  Italian  work  sufficiently  important  to 
have  been  rendered  into  Latin, and  to  have  reached  the 
sixth  edition  in  Spanish  in  1883.  Coming  from  the  pen 
of  a  doctor  and  saint,  Canon  Littledale  calls  it  a  the- 
ological work.  Its  518  pages  well  represent  the 
leading  feature  of  the  Romanism  of  today.  They 
are  devoted  to  a  glorification  of  Mary  by  argument, 
prayers,  citations  from  ancient  authorities  (some  of 
them  trustworthy  and  some  of  them  falsified),  and 
by  very  numerous  examples  of  her  alleged  mercy 
and  power.     A  few  literal  translations  will  suffice. 

1.  Mail/  was  a  First-begotten  of  God.  "She  was 
His  first-begotten  daughter,  as  she  herself  testifies: 
'I  came  from  the  mouth  of  the  Most  High,  begotten 
before  all  creatures.' "  (See  Ecclesiasticus  24:  5.) 
Again:  "Predestinated  together  with  the  Son  in  the 
divine  decrees  before  every  creature"  (po,  204,  205). 

2.  Mary  is  more  compassionate  than  Christ.  "We 
shall  be  more  quickly  heard  and  saved,  coming  to 
Mary  and  invoking  her  holy  name,  than  that  of 
Jesus  our  Saviour.  More  quickly  shall  we  find  safety 
flying  to  the  Mother  than  the  Son."  "Many  things 
are  asked  from  God  and  are  not  obtained:  they  are 
asked  from  Mary  [note  the  "from;"  phraseology 
identical  in  Spanish  and  English]  and  they  are  grant- 
ed" (p.  82). 

3.  Mary  it  omnipotent.    "O  Mary,  my  sovereign 

Queen To  Thee  I  fly.    Thou  canst  help  me.  Sue 

cor  me,  O  my  Mother;  do  not  tell  me  thou  canst  not, 
for  I  know  thou  art  omnipotent"  (p.  36).  "As  the 
Mother,  then,  should  have  the  same  power  that  the 
Son  hath,  Jesus,  who  is  omnipotent,  has,  with  rea- 
son, made  Mary  omuipotent"  (p.  116).  "At  the 
command  of  the  Virgin  all  things  obey,  even  God" 
(p.  115).  In  the  Lathi  version  this  reads:  Imperio 
Virginis  omnia  /amulantiir  etiam,  Deus.  "God,  also, 
submitted  himself  to  her"  (p.  114).  "Enough  that 
Mary  speak,  and  her  Son  executes  all"  (p.  118). 

4.  Salvation  is  in  Mary's  hands.  "The  salvation 
of  all  depends  on  their  being  favored  and  protected 
by  Mary.  He  whom  she  protects  is  saved,  and  he 
whom  she  protects  not  will  be  lost"  (p.  107).  Ad- 
dressing Mary:  "No  one  is  saved  exctpt  by  Thee" 
(p.  107,  italicB  quoted).  "In  Thee  I  place  all  my 
hope8,allmyBalvation"(p.l98).  "None  can  enter  that 
happy  mansion  except  through  Mary,  who  is  its 
door"  (p.  99).  "Christ  said  none  could  come  to  him 
except  the  Father  draw  him  by  grace  divine;  and 
likewise  he  says  of  his  Mother:  'No  man  cometh 


5.  Ihis  salvation,  and  only  this,  is  sure.  "It  is  im-  ripeness  and  glory  of  the  Indian  Summer,  it  is  the 
possible  that  a  devotee  of  Mary  should  be  lost"  same  old  serpent  of  alcohol  that  at  the  last  stiugs 
(p.  147).  "He  that  serves  not  the  Virgin  shall  die  ^  like  an  adder.  And  just  as  it  comes  out  of  the 
in  his  sins."  "He  that  flies  not  to  Thee,  Lady,  shall  i  fairest  things  in  nature,  so  it  takes  the  fairest  things 
not  reach  heaven"  (p.  148).  "Mary  says:  'He  that  J  to  prey  upon.  Can  you  afford  to  harbor  the  serpent 
cometh  unto  me,  and  heareth  what  I  say  to  him,  of  the  still?  If  in  a  magic  glass  could  be  shown 
shall  not  be  lost' "  (p.  149).      This  is,  in  short,  the  you,  farmers  of  New  England,  the  career  of  one 


burden  of  the  work;  its  precepts,  and  its  more  than 
a  hundred  examples,  all  go  to  show  that  persistent 
devotion  to  Mary,  even  in  the  midst  of  an  aban- 
doned life,  will  save  the  vilest.  Sinners  of  every 
hue  live  godless,  shameless  lives,  and  are  brought  at 
last  to  "a  good  death;"  and  on  being  asked  how  it 
comes  about,  tell  us,  as  does  the  highwayman  who 
confessed  himself  after  being  decapitated,  "I  have 
done  nothing  more  than  to  fast  regularly  one  day  in 
the  week  in  honor  of  the  Virgin"  (p.  430). 

This  is  indulgence  in  a  subtler  form  than  that 
antiquated  sort  which  cost  Rome  so  dear,  and  which 
she  so  earnestly  desires  us  to  forget,  and  by  this 
modern  indulgence  she  holds  sway  over  the  natural 
man.  This  touches  society  and  citizenship  at  the 
root.  If  the  present  stir  brings  the  evangelical 
church  to  feel  more  directly  its  responsibility  toward 
those  who  are  held  in  this  bondage,  and  if  for  every 
copy  of  a  text-book  thrown  out  of  our  public  schools 
on  this  account,  scores  of  copies  of  some  auch  com- 
pact and  telling  little  work  as  Littledale's  "Plain 
Reasons,"*  packed  with  unanswerable  historic  fact, 
can  be  put  into  Christian  homes  and  libraries,  as  a 
supplement  to  Dr.  Strong's  tremendous  fifth  chap- 
ter in  "Our  Country,"  the  agitation  will  not  have 
been  in  vain. 

La  Barca,  Mexico. 


UNDER  THB  APPLE  BOUGHS. 


BY  MISS  E.  B.  FLAQQ. 


There  is  a  beautiful  legend  that  the  rose  was  once 
native  to  Paradise,  the  only  flower  that  at  the  prayer 
of  Eve  was  allowed  to  send  its  roots  outside  the 
sword-guarded  gates  of  Eden  to  spring  up  amid  the 
thorns  and  thistles  of  a  sin-cursed  earth.  She  has 
a  near  relation  in  the  apple-blossom,  I  may  say  a 
poor  relation,  beside  the  royal  Bourbon,  Marechal 
Niel,  and  Jacknemot;  but  it  is  the  peasant  beauty, 
and  not  the  gem-bedecked  belle  of  the  ball-room, 
that  the  poet  and  the  artist  choose;  and  though  I 
am  neither  artist  nor  poet,  I  love  the  apple-blossom 
so  well  that  I  love  the  whole  tree  which  bears  it, 
root  and  branch,  from  the  gnarled  trunk  to  the 
tiniest  twig  that  lifts  its  coronet  of  green  against 
this  mid-summer  sky.  And,  by  the  way,  it  is  to 
me  one  of  the  profoundest  mysteries  how  the  Divine 
Artist  manages  these  two  seemingly  irreconcilable 
colors,  blue  and  green.  Worth  would  not  dare  put 
blue  trimmings  on  a  green  dress,  and  I  think  Morris 
or  Tadema  would  hesitate  before  they  painted  the 
walls  of  a  room  green  and  the  ceiling  blue;  but  He 
puts  emerald  green  into  the  landscape  and  ultra- 
marine blue  into  the  sky  and  sea,  and  then  so  cun- 
ningly blends  them  that  they  melt  together  into  har- 
mony, perfect  as  the  songs  of  angels;  and  the  blue- 
bell springs  up  under  His  divine  finger,  not  a  whit 
the  less  fairy-like  for  its  green  setting.  Here,  in  the 
most  common  things  of  every-day  life,  nature  is 
repeating  and  confirming  to  our  faithless  hearts  the 
truth  of  revelation's  word,  "With  God  all  things  are 
possible." 

But  I  digress;  let  me  go  back  to  my  apple-tree. 
It  has  none  of  the  soaring  altitude  of  the  palm, 
none  of  the  sacred  associations  of  the  olive,  but  all 
manner  of  sweet,  earthly  sympathies  cling  about  it. 
The  neighborly  robin  chooses  her  out  a  crotch  of 
its  boughs  in  which  to  build;  its  leaves  and  bark 
support  a  population  as  various  and  busy  in  ephem- 
eral variety  and  ephemeral  busy-ness  as  if  it  were  a 
planet,  and  through  the  rents  in  its  green  curtain  of 
verdure  you  can  look  up  and  see  all  heaven  if  you  want 
to.  But  no  thoughtful  eye  can  look  on  a  heap  of  apples 
lying  under  it,  ready  for  the  cider-mill,  without  a  very 
contrary  vision. 

We  may  treat  the  story  of  Eden  as  an  allegory, 
and  Eve  and  the  apple  as  a  myth,  but  the  serpent  in 
the  cider-barrel  is  neither  a  myth  nor  an  allegory. 
Too  many  souls  have  been  bitten  by  its  sharp,  re- 
morseless fangs;  for  whether  evolved  from  the  grain 
that  has  absorbed  the  richness  of  Western  acres, 
fatter  than  the  regions  of  the  Nile;  grapes  that  have 
ripened  in  the  suns  of  Southern  California  under 
the  same  latitude  with  Palestine;  or  a  New  England 
apple-orchard,  that  has  gathered  into  itself  all  the 


single  soul  whose  appetite,  fostered  when  a  boy  at 
the  bunghole  of  the  cider-cask,  has  become  a  raging 
demon,  driving  him  down  to  that  fearful  abyss  of 
destruction  plummet  has  never  sounded,  and  over 
which  is  written  in  letters  of  fire,  "No  drunkard 
shall  inherit  the  kingdom  of  God,"  would  ypu  not 
shudder  and  turn  pale,  and  vow  with  all  the  might 
of  your  newly-aroused  being  not  to  give  the  thing 
place;  that  heavenly  eyes  shall  not  see,  as  delineated 
in  old  Bible  pictures,  the  serpent  twining  round 
your  apple-trees,  to  bite  any  unguarded  child  of 
Eve? 

But  what  shall  we  do  with  our  surplus?  Nature 
has  partly  answered  this  question  by  making  the 
apple  one  of  the  most  healthful  and  appetizing  arti- 
cles of  diet  for  horses  and  cows,  children  and  pigs. 
But  even  children  and  pigs  cannot  exhaust  the  sup- 
ply in  our  fruit-bearing  years.  Shall  we  let  them 
rot  on  the  ground?  Better  on  the  ground  than  in 
the  human  stomach.  But  here  Love  steps  in  with 
"a  more  excellent  way."  There  is  a  beautiful  old 
Mosaic  law,  that  the  gleanings  of  the  harvest  and 
vintage  should  be  left  for  the  stranger,  the  widow 
and  the  fatherless.  Perhaps  you  live  in  one  of  those 
villages  where  everybody  is  well-to-do,  is  at  least 
above  actual  want;  and  if  yours  be  a  no  license  town, 
good,  thrifty,  farmer  of  Massachusetts  or  Connecti- 
cut, the  probabilities  are  greatly  in  favor  of  this 
supposition;  but  in  these  days  of  steam-travel,  the 
city  with  its  thousands  of  poor  children  cannot  be 
more  than  a  few  hours  remove.  I  have  often  won- 
dered why  there  could  not  be  some  concerted  move- 
ment, aided  in  the  matter  of  free  transportation  by 
the  railroads;  a  fruit  mission  as  well  as  a  flower  mis- 
sion, by  which  this  superabundance  might  be  util- 
ized for  charity.  In  every  barrel  of  apples  thus 
sent  to  our  city  poor,  whether  to  hospitals,  asylums, 
and  free-lunch  rooms,  or  into  their  own  wretched 
homes,  dwells  an  imprisoned  angel;  the  angel  of 
sweet,  by- gone  memories  of  old  home  associations; 
perhaps  to  many  an  angel  of  health  and  hope. 
Mammon  may  tell  you  of  a  small  advantage  in  dol- 
lars and  cents  if  you  let  your  apples  go  to  make 
cider,  but  like  a  wily  lawyer,  while  seeming  to  be 
for  your  interests,  he  is  really  talking  on  the  side  of 
his  client,  the  devil.  Beloved,  let  him  not  deceive 
you.  God  has  called  you  to  be  the  stewards  of  his 
bounty.  Those  russet  and  golden  and  carmine 
globes  are  all  his.  He  made  them  to  be  not  only 
"good  for  food,"  but  "pleasant  to  the  eyes."  Will 
you  rob  him  of  that  which  is  his  own,  and  give 
over  to  the  devil  this  wealth  of  spicy  sweetness  that 
loads  your  orchard?  When  your  soul  stands  at  the 
bar  of  judgment,  which  do  you  desire  on  your  side, 
the  fiend  or  the  angel? 

Answer  these  questions  as  heaven  would  have 
you  answer  them,  and,  like  Adam,  you  may  walk 
among  the  trees  of  your  garden  in  the  cool  of  the 
day;  but  unlike  him,  hear  the  voice  of  God  call  to 
you  in  every  rustling  leaf  and  not  be  afraid. 


*  "Plain  Reasons  against  Joining  the  Church  of  Rome."  By 
F.  R.  Littledale,  L.L.  D.,  D.C.  L.  16  mo.  pp.  252.  New  York, 
E.  and  J.  B.   Young.      Written  from_the_Church-of-England 


unto  me  unless  my  Mother  draw  him  by  her  suppli-  h'*ndPO«nt,  but  invaluable  anywhere.    Dr.  Croskery  of  London- 
uiiM^  xijo  yxui^aa^j       v  J  rf      I  derry  calls  It  "the  Very  best  autl-poplsh  manual  of  controvcrsy 

r>ntir>n'"   (x\.    1  On  I.  I  nnhlloVin^l  nrttViln  tho  laaf.  fhlrtv  voara  " 


cation*"  (p.  105), 


published  within  the  last  thirty  years.' 


It  is  very  evident  that  the  love  of  secret  combina- 
tions and  hatred  to  distinctive  holiness  entertains 
no  love  for  or  good  will  towards  us  as  a  people.  The 
enemies  of  a  church  are  sometimes  its  best  com- 
mendation. The*prince  of  darkness,  as  the  head 
center  of  all  organized  secretism,  most  viciously  and 
maliciously  hates  our  disciplinary  testimony  against 
all  secret  societies.  The  more  sin  hates  the  more 
saints  should  love  the  open  truth  in  its  fearless  tes- 
timony against  the  darkness  of  associate  secretism. 
God  has  given  us  as  a  people  a  high  and  holy  com- 
mission to  spread  the  light  of  Scripture  holiness  and 
fight  the  darkness  of  lodge  demonism.  As  we  prove 
true  to  our  divinely  given  call  will  God  be  with,  de- 
fend and  prosper  us.  No  "wiles"  of  sin  or  Satan 
shall  lure  or  drive  us  from  the  work  committed  to 
our  hearts  and  hands. —  Wetleyan  Methodist. 

A  special  from  New  Lisbon,  Ohio,  tells  of  the  sad 
suicide  of  a  woman  named  Thompson.  She  had 
recently  given  birth  to  a  child,  and  her  husband  cel- 
ebrated the  event  by  getting  intoxicated.  This  so 
preyed  upon  Mrs.  Thompson's  mind  that  she  arose 
from  her  bed  with  the  child,  and  going  to  a  small 
brook  near  the  house  lay  down  in  the  water.  Mother 
and  child  were  drowned. 

A  bushel  of  corn  makes  four  gallons  of  whisky^ 
It  sells  for  $16  at  retail.  The  government  gets  $3.60, 
the  farmer  gets  40  cents,  the  railroad  $1,  the  manu- 
facturer $4,  the  vender  $7,  and  the  drinker  all  that 
is  left — delirium  tremens. 


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SZPTEMBER  13,  1888 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSUKEJ. 


7,8  THBBB  A  P3B80NAL  DBVILt 


I 


AN  EXIGBSIS  BY  REV.  GEO.  P.  BTINGTON,  SHOREHAM, 
VT.,  READ  BEFORE   THE  ADDISON  ASSO- 
CIATION, At  a.  28,  1888. 


"The  Lord  said  unto  Satan,  Whence  comest  thou?  Then  Sa- 
tan answered  the  Lord,  and  said,  F''om  going  to  and  fro  In  the 
earth,  and  from  walking  up  and  down  in  It."— Job  2:  2. 

The  revisers  made  no  change  in  rendering  the 
original  of  this  verse,  and  left  no  trace  in  the  mar- 
gin of  difference  of  opinion  concerning  it,  and  I  will 
not  revise  their  work.  The  passage  occurs  in  the 
prose  introduction  with  which  the  author  prepares 
the  reader  to  understand  his  poem  of  forty  chapters 
which  follows.  And  yet,  underlying  the  simple 
style  of  narrative,  in  the  verse  before  us  is  a  poetic 
figure  which  makes  the  explanation  more  difficult. 
The  figure  is  that  of  God  as  a  monarch  on  a  throne, 
surrounded  by  servants  whom  he  sends  forth  to  do 
bis  will,  and  who  return  from  time  to  time  for  fresh 
commands.  These  are  holy  angels  of  God,  and 
among  them  comes  one  called  Satan. 

1.  The  question  is  raised  as  to  the  real  existence  of 
this  Satan,  and  this  question  belongs  with  another: 
Is  the  whole  narrative  an  allegory,  with  the  names  of 
only  fictitious  beings  occurring  in  it;  or  is  it  partly 
real  and  partly  fact?  It  may  be  answered  that  the 
whole  has  the  appearance  of  being  real  history;  and 
it  requires  more  than  a  theory  to  turn  it  into  an  alle- 
gory. Its  representation  of  God's  holy  angels  going 
forth  and  returning,  as  ministers  of  his  will,  agrees 
with  the  general  teaching  of  the  Scriptures.  The 
existence  of  the  sons  of  God  (in  such  associatioE)  is 
not  doubtful;  and  our  narrative  treats  Satan  as  hav- 
ing the  same  reality  of  being  as  the  sons  of  God, 
whom  he  follows  to  the  throne. 

The  same  representation  also  implies  the  real  ex- 
istence of  a  man  called  Job,  who  is  known  as  a  his- 
torical person,  for  Ezekiel  speaks  of  Job  just  as  he 
does  of  Noah  and  Daniel,  who  are  undoubted  histor- 
ical characters;  and  James  holds  up  Job  as  an  ex- 
ample of  patience.  The  verisimilitude  of  the  scene 
also  makes  Satan  here  as  real  as  God.  They  talk 
together,  and  we  may  as  well  say  that  the  one  does 
not  exist  as  the  other;  and  so  it  is  not  probable  that 
God  and  sons  of  God  and  Job  in  this  narrative  are 
all  true  beings,  while  Satan,  who  appears  to  be  just 
as  real,  is  fictitious  I 

2.  If  then  our  passage  implies  the  reality  of  Sa- 
tan's existence,  it  also  implies  his  personality.  He 
who  is  styled  Satan,  cannot  be  a  mere  evil  principle; 
for  such  a  principle  must  belong  to  some  personal 
being:  and  if  God  is  the  only  personal  being  present, 
then  we  shall  have  him  (by  a  figure),  talking  with 
an  evil  principle  within  himself.  But  he  has  no 
such  evil  in  heaven.  Hence,  even  poetic  license  will 
not  permit  us  uo  interpret  this  Satan  who  talks  with 
God  as  other  than  a  personal  being.  He  shows, 
too,  the  intelligence,  self-consciousness  and  free 
moral  agency,  which  make  him  a  person.  He  recol- 
lects the  past;  he  relates  its  history;  he  shows  a 
sense  of  responsibility;  the  pronoun  "himself"  is 
applied  to  him;  he  is  as  real  a  person  as  the  angel 
Gabriel;  and  if  we  are  at  liberty  to  read  out,  even  of 
this  poetic  story  (in  God's  Word),  Satan's  real,  per- 
sonal, existence,  I  know  not  what  (in  the  Bible)  we 
may  not  read  out  (or  in)  at  pleasure. 

3.  Our  passage  implies  that  Satan  is  a  creature, 
finite  and  limited  in  power  and  work.  Here  he  is 
acknowledging  his  accountability  to  God,  like  one 
of  us.  God  demands,  "Whence  comest  thou?" 
Only  a  being  made  by  God  is  answerable  to  him. 
If  there  were  a  second  self-created,  self-existent,  in- 
finite being,  God  could  not  ask  him  to  give  account 
of  himself. 

The  rest  of  the  narrative  brings  out,  in  detail, 
bow  Satan  is  limited  by  God's  will,  in  what  be  can 
do  to  Job.  And  other  Scriptures,  which  represent 
Satan  as  bound  by  God's  chain,  agree  with  this. 
Our  passage  will  not  let  us  give  to  Satan  the  Divine 
attribute  of  omnipresence  (as  some  of  the  talk  wo 
bear  in  religious  meetings  practically  does),  for  Sa- 
tan represents  himself  as  "going  up  and  down  in 
the  earth  and  walking  to  and  fro  in  it.  That  is,  he 
is  never  in  two  places  at  once,  like  a  Divine  being, 
but  he  must  travel  by  some  process,  and  take  time 
in  order  to  reach  a  given  point.  If  be  is  personally 
tempting  some  one  in  Boston,  at  this  moment,  he  is 
not  in  Middlebury,  or  Paris.  No  matter  how  swiftly 
he  may  journey,  he  must  consume  time  (like  the 
limited,  created  being  that  be  is).  Our  passage 
agrees  with  the  rest  of  the  Bible  in  making  it  im- 
proper to  speak  (or  think)  of  him  as  in  many  places 
at  once. 

4.  Our  passage  implies,  also,  that  Satan  is  an  evil 
being;  because  God  is  here  calling  him  to  give  ac- 
count of  himself.  The  sons  of  God,  whom  he  fol- 
lows to  the  throne,  are  not  called  to  account — but 
he  alone  I    With  a  bbing  who  is  perfectly  holy,  God 


does  not  enter  into  judgment.  There  is  no  need  of 
it.  He  may  make  him  bis  attendant,  and  bis  minis- 
ter of  judgment,  and  a  spectator  of  the  judgment  of 
others.  God  may  say,  "Where  art  thou,  Adam?" 
when  Adam  has  been  sinning;  or,  "What  doest  thou 
here,  Elijah?"  when  Elijah  is  distrustful;  or,  "What 
is  this  that  I  hear  of  thee?"  when  the  steward  has 
not  been  faithful;  or,  "Whence  comest  thou?"  when 
Satan  is  coming  from  a  journey  for  evil  purposes. 
I  know  of  no  Scripture  or  reason  why  God  should 
ever  call  the  good  to  give  account.  Judgment  im- 
plies sin.  Also,  the  very  name  Satan  here  means 
"Adversary;"  and  when  we  read  the  whole  narrative, 
we  find  it  means  "Adversary  of  God  and  good  men." 

5.  Our  passage  implies  that  Satan  is  the  overseer 
of  evil  in  this  world.  His  journeys  to  and  fro  and 
up  and  down  in  the  earth  are  as  superintendent  of 
wickedness,  to  organize,  discipline,  direct  his  army, 
so  that  the  most  concerted  and  effective  hindrance 
to  the  will  and  work  of  God  may  be  maintained. 
Satan  is  the  restless  and  mercurial  leader,  planning 
his  campaign,  and  passing  rapidly  from  one  part  of 
the  world-wide  field  to  another,  to  diffuse  bis  spirit, 
to  communicate  bis  plots.  Most  of  bis  personal  in- 
terviews are  with  demoniac  or  human  leaders — like 
Judas,  or  Nero,  or  Tiberius,  or  Richard  III.,  or  Al- 
exander VI.,  or  Robert  Ingersoll.  Many  of  his  in- 
terviews are  with  persons  who  are  born  leaders, 
whom  be  wants  to  secure  as  generals  of  bis  host, 
(like  Adam,  Job,  Jesus,  Paul  and  Luther).  Mr. 
Moody  says,  "It  is  better  to  get  ten  men  to  do  the 
work  of  ten  men,  than  it  is  for  one  to  do  the  work 
of  ten  men."  And  here  is  where  Mr.  M.  agrees 
with  Satan.  He  does  not  do  all  the  work  of  tempt- 
ing the  world.  He  does  not  need  to.  He  works 
mostly  through  agents,  and  there  are  plenty  of 
agents.  The  strongest  evidence  today  (outside  of 
the  Bible)  for  the  existence  and  agency  of  a  per- 
sonal devil  is  the  union  of  plan  and  effort  on  the 
part  of  those  who  are  doing  evil  work, — the  same- 
ness of  method  of  those  who  oppose  revivals,  or 
manage  the  liquor  traffic,  or  scatter  the  issues  of  the 
Satanic  press. 

6.  Our  passage  implies,  also,  that  Satan's  usurped 
authority  over  this  world  will  come  to  an  end.  For 
he  is  the  adversary  of  God,  and  the  time  must  come 
when  the  almighty  power  and  wisdom  of  God  will 
end  all  his  craft  and  power. 


,  lNEXPBE8aiBLT  SAD. 

We  have  one  of  the  most  painful  facts  to  record 
which  has  often  fallen  to  our  lot  to  mention.  A  few 
years  since,  under  the  efficient  pastorate  of  Rev.  N. 
E.  Jenkins,  a  youngerly  man  by  the  name  of  Thomas 
W.  Jackson  was  licensed  to  preach  by  the  Syracuse 
Wesleyan  Methodist  church.  Brother  Jackson  pos- 
sessed pleasing  gifts,  and  was  soon  ordained,  and 
for  several  years  served  as  pastor  of  the  Wesleyan 
Methodist  church  of  Lisbon,  N.  Y.  One  year  ago 
last  spring,  under  influences  which  we  do  not  care 
here  to  mention,  he  joined  the  Methodist  Episcopal 
church  just  before  the  meeting  of  the  Wesleyan 
Methodist  Champlain  conference,  and  received  an 
appointment  by  the  Methodist  Episcopals.  Going 
to  his  new  appointment  but  one  Sabbath,  he  left  and 
went  to  West  Plattsburg  and  engaged  to  serve  that 
Wesleyan  Methodist  charge.  The  Champlain  con- 
ference passed  it  all  by  without  a  word,  as  be  bad 
returned  bis  letter  of  standing  to  Rev.  R.  E.  John- 
son, president  of  the  conference,  just  before  the  ses- 
sion. Last  spring  brother  Jackson  left  the  Wes- 
leyan Methodist  and  joined  the  Methodist  P^pisco- 
pal  church  again,  and  went  to  serve  a  comparatively 
weak  appointment  in  Clinton  county.  Now  comes 
the  painful  intelligence  just  received.  "Rev.  T.  W, 
Jackson,  who  left  the  Wesleyan  Methodists  last 
spring  and  joined  the  Methodist  Episcopal  church,  is 
dead.  He  was  drawn  into  the  Masonic  snare  at 
Plattsburg.  After  being  initiated  into  the  third  de- 
gree he  was  brought  home  from  the  lodge  sick, 
about  one  o'clock  at  night,  and  run  right  down  and 
died  one  week  after  being  carried  from  the  lodge." 
These  are  terrible  facts.  Whether  the  roughness  of 
the  treatment,  the  smitings  of  conscience,  or  some 
mysterious  drinking  in  of  deadly,  Masonic  charity 
led  to  the  fatal  issue,  wo  opine  not.  In  the  Masonic 
lodge  in  Plattsburg,  where  Jackson  was  initiated,  a 
candidate  was  bandied  so  roughly  some  years  since, 
Jubelum  doing  his  setting-maul  work  so  effectively, 
that  when  they  went  to  raise  the  "dead"  candidate 
they  found  him  in  a  fainting  fit  and  were  seriously 
alarmed  for  fear  that  he  was  dead,  indeed.  He 
finally  rallied,  never  to  enter  the  lodge  again. 

Ob,  that  God  would  give  us  a  people  to  under- 
stand more  perfectly  the  true  character  of  the  entire 
lodge  system.  Let  none  of  our  people  dare  utter 
one  word  of  apology  for  organized  secrecy,  which  as 
a  system  is  one  and  inseparable.      Out  forever  on 


the  whole  system  of  darkness  and  of  death  I  All 
secret  societies  are  offspring  of  one  common  parent- 
age. He  who  adopts  the  evil-doer's  methods,  as  char- 
acterized by  Christ,  has  no  right  to  claim  that  be 
is  covering  and  concealing  some  wonderful  good, 
under  the  method  condemned  by  Christ  as  only  ap- 
propriate to  evil.  "For  every  one  that  doeth  evil 
hateth  the  light,  neither  cometh  to  the  light,  lest  his 
deeds  should  be  reproved.  But  be  that  doeth  truth 
cometh  to  the  light,  that  bis  deeds  may  be  made 
manifest,  that  they  are  wrought  in  God."  O  ye 
apologists  for  secretism,  go  to  the  new-made  grave 
of  Rev.  Thomas  W.  Jackson,  and  cover  your  faces 
with  shame  and  weep. —  We»leyan  Methodist. 


THE  WOBR  OF  THE  BPIBIT. 


IFron.  the  Christian  Wltnes%  Boston.  | 

I  was  a  Master  Mason  twenty  years,  a  Royal  Arch 
Mason  fifteen  years,  and  an  Odd-fellow  eight  years, 
during  which  lime  I  was  a  minister  of  the  Gospel, 
and,  as  I  believe,  "a  Christian."  I  believed  in  and 
defended  those  organizations. 

Soon  after  I  experienced  entire  sanctification,  the 
Holy  Spirit  enabled  me  to  see  the  whole  subject  of 
secret  societies  in  a  new  light. 

Except  a  short  conversation  with  an  old  friend,  I 
neither  read  nor  heard  anything  from  others  re- 
specting the  matter  while  re-investigating  it.  After 
much  reflection  and  prayer,  it  appeared  to  me  that 
I  must  withdraw  from,  and  renounce  all  secret  soci- 
eties, or  come  into  condemnation.  That  was  the 
first  time  the  matter  was  presented  to  me  in  that 
light.  My  heart  was  consciously  free  from  inbred 
sin,  and  the  light  of  the  Holy  Spirit  filled  my  soul. 
Other  things  also  which  I  bad  previously  considered 
harmless,  then  appeared  wrong..  My  spiritual  per- 
ception was  greatly  clarified. 

Under  a  deep  sense  of  humiliation,  bordering  at 
times  on  agony,  after  delaying  action  until  my 
opinions  ripened  into  convictions,  I  took  steps 
whereby  I  obtained  certificates  of  honorable  with- 
drawal from  all  secret  societies. 

With  them  there  came  to  my  heart  a  sweet  sense 
of  God's  approval,  which  grows  sweeter  and  stronger 
as  time  advancss. 

I  shall  now  mention  but  one  of  the  several  rea- 
sons which  prompted  my  action,  namely:  Accord- 
ing to  my  understanding.  Freemasonry  and  its  off- 
spring. Odd-fellowship,  in  their  religious  teachings, 
antagonize  orthodoxy  and  foster  unscriptural  views 
of  the  requisite  preparation  for  heaven. 

This  is  done  throughout  their  ritualistic  work 
generally,  and  especially  in  their  burial  services,  by 
assuming  and  implying  that  all  who  perform  their 
covenant  obligations  as  members  of  those  orders  go 
to  heaven,  in  consequence  thereof,  with  no  other 
conditions  required  at  death. 

While  studiously  avoiding  all  allusion  to  Jesus 
Christ  and  the  Holy  Spirit,  and  their  redemptive 
work,  under  guise  of  neutrality  as  to  religious  creed, 
and  while  inculcating  correct  moral  precepts,  the 
theological  atmosphere  which  is  breathed  in  the 
work  of  the  lodges  of  those  organizations  is  that  of 
salvation  by  works,  and  not  by  faith. 

To  the  average  mind,  unevangelical  doctrine  is 
thereby  inculcated,  carnal  security  is  fostered,  and 
the  seeds  of  spiritual  ruin  are  sown. 

My  range  of  facts  convinces  me  that,  in  not  a  few 
instances,  the  influence  of  the  lodge  operates  as  a 
dry  rot  on  the  spirituality  of  professors  of  religion, 
and  as  an  opiate  on  the  religious  creed  and  con- 
sciences of  unprofessors.  I  profoundly  believe  that 
much  of  the  subtle  and  fatal  skepticism  of  the  times, 
relative  to  the  essential  points  of  orthodoxy,  is  due 
to  secret  societies  more  than  to  anything  else. — Jo- 
seph H.  Brown,  cf  Marlboro,  N.  U. 


Each  member  of  the  United  States  Senate  has 
taken  a  solemn  oath  to  vote  on  all  questions  ac- 
cording to  the  interests  of  the  nation.  It  is  a  se- 
rious thing  to  say  that  this  oath  is  deliberately 
broken,  but  there  are  certain  facts  which  challenge 
attention.  On  the  22d  a  vote  was  take  on  the  Fish- 
eries Treaty  with  Great  Britain.  The  Democrats, 
twenty-seven  in  number,  voted  solidly  to  confirm  the 
treaty,  while  the  Republicans,  thirty  in  number, 
voted  solidly  to  reject  it.  Now  if  the  treaty  was 
plainly  unjust,  and  to  the  disadvantage  of  the  na- 
tion,  the  Democrats  must  have  supported  it  merely 
for  partisan  reasons.  If,  on  the  other  band,  the 
treaty  was  plainly  just  and  to  the  advantage  of  the 
nation,  the  Republicans  must  have  opposed  it  from 
merely  partisan  reasons.  In  other  words,  either  the 
twenty-seven  Democrats  or  the  thirty  Republicans 
broke  their  solemn  oath  and  voted  according  to  the 
interests,  not  of  the  nation,  but  of  the  f^arty. —  Chri$- 
tian  In(iuirer, 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


SSPI^SMBER  13, 1838 


NBW  SN GLAND  LBTTBB. 


California  Wirus  and  Foreign  Tourists— Labor  Bay— 
Ihe  Opinion  of  a  Missionary  and  Late  U.  8.  Consul 
on  the  Catholic  Question — Italian  Votes — A  2few  Use 
of  the  Ten  Commandments. 

California  wine-makers,  it  may  be  supposed,  are 
taking  "heart  of  grace"  from  Kate  Field's  projected 
Eastern  tour,  in  which  she  purposes  to  show  that 
the  free  use  of  pure  California  wine  will  solve  the 
temperance  problem  for  the  country.  It  is  not  often 
they  can  get  so  distinguished  an  apostle,  especially 
one  of  the  gentler  sex,  to  advocate  their  financially 
losing  cause.  They  say  that  the  vast  quantities  of 
beer  and  whisky  consumed  throughout  the  country 
is  the  reason  that  they  have  now  two  hundred  thou- 
sand gallons  of  new  wine  in  their  cellars,  besides 
the  stock  left  over  from  the  vintage  of  previous 
years.  They  point  us  to  France  where  30  gallons  a 
year  per  capita  is  set  down  as  the  average  consump- 
tion; but  the  United  States  is  not  quite  prepared  to 
be  made  a  New  France.  Speaking  of  our  tourists 
who  give  such  rose-colored  reports  of  the  temperate 
habits  of  wine-growing  countries,  is  it  not  a  rather 
strange  fact  as  well  as  a  severe  commentary  on  their 
superficial  observation  that  they  nevei  seem  to  see 
the  immorality  which  prevails  in  these  same  coun- 
tries? In  the  Papal  States,  for  instance,  carefully 
prepared  statistics  show  that  murders  reach  the 
frightful  average  of  1  to  every  750  of  the  popula- 
tion. Yet  it  is  needless  to  say  that  in  the  notebook 
of  the  Italian  tourist,  assassinations,  awfully  com- 
mon as  they  are,  seldom  figure;  and  why  should 
cases  of  drunkenness? 

Our  astute  legislators  passed  a  law  last  April 
which  allows  the  saloons  to  keep  open  on  Labor 
Day — which  by  the  way  is  a  most  decided  misnomer, 
as  it  means  the  exact  opposite  of  its  name — and 
thus  when  other  places  of  business  have  to  be  closed, 
the  saloons  are  left  free  to  reap  their  golden  har- 
vests, and  make  of  the  day  a  nuisance  even  to  the 
class  it  was  originally  designed  to  benefit.  A  body 
of  men  elected  by  party  interests  will  be  likely  to 
serve  the  party  which  elects  them,  untroubled  by 
questions  either  of  morals  or  consistency.  Mr. 
Henry  H.  Faxon  has  probably  done  as  much  as 
any  one  by  the  strong  weight  of  his  personal  infla- 
ence  to  keep  Prohibitionists  in  the  Republican 
ranks,  but  it  is  understood  that  be  is  far  from 
pleased  at  the  platform  they  adopted  at  Chicago, 
and  may  bolt  if,  at  their  forthcoming  State  Conven- 
tion at  Worcester,  they  fail  to  pass  strong  temper- 
ance resolutions.  Hatred  of  the  Democrats  more 
than  love  for  the  Republicans  has  hitherto  kept  Mr, 
Faxon  on  the  wrong  side  of  the  political  fence. 
Anything  more  scathing  can  hardly  be  imagined 
than  the  arraignment  which  ho  has  given  that  party 
in  some  of  his  campaign  documents. 

The  fact  that  a  gift  of  $250  from  the  Prince  of 
Wales  to  a  Roman  Catholic  charity,  only  half  of  the 
sum  which  Gov.  Ames,  as  stated  in  my  last  letter, 
lately  gave  to  the  Roman  Catholic  church  at  Easton, 
is  wakening  serious  comment  in  the  London  news- 
papers, gives  emphasis  to, the- remarks  made  on  a 
recent  Sabbath  by  the  Rev,  William  Clark,  late  U,  S, 
Consul  to  Italy:  "A  project,  like  the  establishing 
of  the  Roman  Catholic  University  at  Washington, 
would  be  a  principal  topic  of  discussion  in  Europe, 
but  here  in  America  no  one  seems  to  give  it  a  mo- 
ment's thought.  This  Waphington  university  will 
be  the  grand  climax  to  Jesuitism  in  America," 
This  gentleman  has  been  a  missionary  to  Constanti- 
nople, has  been  in  Europe  for  more  than  thirty 
years,  and  in  his  work,  which  has  been  largely  edu- 
cational, has  constantly  come  in  collision  with  the 
Jesuits,  and  can  therefore  speak  with  authority,  both 
as  to  the  danger  from  their  machinations,  and  the 
comparative  indifference  with  which  they  are  re- 
garded by  Americans,  Italy  will  not  allow  one  of 
them  on  her  board  of  educators,  because  she  recog- 
nizes the  fact  that  they  will  teach  doctrines  contrary 
to  her  laws.  Shall  Massachusetts  be  more  careless 
of  her  glorious  heritage  than  papal  Italy? 

The  Congressional  Committee  on  Contract  Labor 
have  ended  their  investigations  at  the  Tremont 
House  with  a  rather  bad  showing  for  New  England. 
The  testimony  of  Mr.  John  Orvis,  who  was  once  a 
member  of  the  Brook  Farm  Community,  which  the 
names  of  Thoreau,  Emerson  and  Alcott  have  ren- 
dered more  famous  in  its  failure  than  most  other 
similar  undertakings  in  their  success,  was  the  one 
last  taken.  He  testified  that  today  !)5  per  cent  of 
the  employes  in  New  P^ogland  mills  were  aliens, 
and  a  third  of  these  French  Canadians,  In  regard 
to  Italian  immigration,  the  report  that  they  are 
brought  over  for  political  purposes  as  well  as  for 
labor,  and  are  now  being  prepared,  wholly  ignorant 
as  they  are,  to  vote  next  November,  is  one  that  calls 
for  immediate  restriction  of  our  suffrage  laws.     This 


is  quite  as  important  as  the  iron-clad  anti-Chinese 
bill,  which  endorsed  by  Cleveland  is  now  before 
Congress,  and  which  a  Democratic  paper  asserts,  "is 
all  that  could  possibly  be  desired  by  the  most  ardent 
hater  of  the  Chinese."  A  friend  recently  suggested 
to  me  that  in  her  opinion  much  good  might  be  done 
by  printing  the  Ten  Commandments  in  large  letters 
and  posting  them  up  in  all  places  of  public  resort, 
I  agree  with  her  and  only  offer  the  further  sugges- 
tion that  to  post  them  up  on  the  walls  of  our  Na- 
tional Capitol  would  be  a  most  appropaiate  begin- 
ning of  this  good  work.  B.  E.  Flaog. 


OUB  CINCINNATI  LBTTBB. 

Cincinnati,  O.,  Sept.  5,  1888. 

Editor  Christian  Cynosurk:— Last  Sabbath 
morning  I  preached  in  the  Mt.  Auburn  Presbyterian 
church.  Rev.  Dr.  Spinning,  pastor.  We  were  warmly 
greeted  by  the  friends  who  remembered  us  from  our 
visit  a  year  ago.  In  the  evening  I  preached  in  the 
Central  Presbyterian  church,  Rev.  Dr.  Francis,  pas- 
tor. Some  friends  from  the  Third  church  came  up 
to  hear  the  Sabbath  question  discussed. 

A  great  many  things  are  done  on  Sabbath  unnec- 
essarily under  the  plea  of  "necessity".  They  say  it 
is  necessary  to  run  the  water  works.  During  the 
flood  the  water  works  engines  did  not  run  for  eight 
days,  and  there  was  no  water  famine.  It  would  do 
no  harm  to  stop  them  one  day  in  seven.  The  same 
is  true  of  the  gas  works.  You  say  street  cars  are  a 
necessity.  In  Toronto,  Canada,  they  have  no  street 
cars  on  Sabbath,  and  the  people  get  to  church, 
"Thou  Shalt  do  no  work,"  That  will  close  every 
meat  shop,  grocery,  tobacco  store  and  bakery  in  the 
city,  and  tie  up  the  ice  wagons  and  milk  carts,  as 
well  as  close  the  postoffice.  Why  not  do  it?  Has 
Grod's  law  become  of  none  effect? 

Yesterday  the  Columbus  Centennial  of  Ohio  was 
inaugurated.  Gov,  Foraker  in  his  address,  said  of 
the  great  State  of  Ohio: 

"During  this  century  the  whole  of  the  26,000,000 
acres  of  our  area  has  been  subjected  to  the  uses  of 
man;  more  than  17,000,000  of  these  acres  have  been 
put  under  actual  cultivation,  with  the  result  of  an 
annual  yield  of  more  than  100,000,000  bushels  of 
corn  and  more  than  40,000,000  bushels  of  wheat, 
with  all  other  agricultural  products  which  our  cli- 
mate admits  in  due  proportion.  We  have  600  coal 
mines,  that  give  us  an  output  of  more  than  8,000,- 
000  tons  of  coal  annually.  We  have  more  than  7,000 
manufacturing  establishments,  almost  as  varied  in 
character  as  are  the  wants  and  purposes  of  man,  in 
which  are  invested  a  capital  of  more  than  $200,000,- 
000,  In  these  establishments  250,000  men,  women 
and  children  find  remunerative  employment,  and 
from  them  we  have  products,  fabrics  and  wares 
amounting  annually  to  more  than  $400,000,000, 
which  go  out  into  all  channels  of  trade  and  com- 
merce, to  literally  gather  from  the  ends  of  the  earth 
rich  rewards  for  the  labor,  skill  and  ingenuity  of 
our  mechanics  and  artisans,  and  add  to  the  fame 
and  name  of  a  progressive  and  enterprising  people, 

"With  generous  and  patriotic  magnanimity,  Vir- 
ginia parted  for  the  common  good  with  her  title  to  our 
soil,  and  with  far-sighted  statesmanship  Union-lov- 
ing and  God-fearing  Massachusetts  and  Connecticut 
gave  us  our  institutions  as  well  as  our  first  settlers. 
To  them  we  are  indebted  for  the  fact  that  before  the 
Constitution  of  the  United  States  was  adopted  we 
had  in  force  here,  through  the  agency  of  the  ordin- 
ance of  1787,  those  great  energizing  ideas  that  're- 
ligion, morality  and  knowledge  are  essential  to  good 
government,'  and  had  vouchsafed  to  all  citizens  the 
right  to  worship  God  according  to  the  dictates  of 
their  own  conscience." 

Yesterday  Gen.  Harrison  made  a  triumphal 
march  from  Toledo  to  Indianapolis,  He  talked 
much  about  the  tariff,  but  bad  nothing  to  say  about 
the  liquor  traific.  He  magnifies  that  pigmy,  but 
cannot  see  the  pyramid,  Whitefield  was  accused  of 
leading  audiences  into  excitement.  "I  have  heard," 
he  said  in  reply,  "of  a  traveler  who  saw,  at  the  side 
of  the  way,  a  woman  weeping  and  beating  her 
breast  He  ran  to  her  and  asked,  'What  can  I  do 
for  you?  What  is  the  cause  of  your  anguish?' 
'My  child  is  in  the  well  I'  With  swift  dispatch  as- 
sistance was  given,  and  the  child  rescued.  Farther 
on,  this  same  traveler  met  another  woman,  wailing 
also  and  beating  her  breast.  He  came  swiftly  to 
her,  and  with  great  earnestness  asked,  'What  is 
your  trouble?'  'My  pitcher  is  in  the  well!  My 
pitcher  is  in  the  well  I'  Oar  social  and  political  ex- 
citements are  all  about  pitchers  in  the  wells,  and 
our  religious  excitements  are  about  children  in  the 
wells."  Harrison  cries,  "My  pitcher  is  in  the  well  I 
My  pitcher  is  in  the  well!"  Fisk  shouts,  "My  child 
is  in  the  well!  My  child  is  in  the  well!"  Which 
should  be  heeded?  J.  M.  Fostkr. 


Reform  News. 


The  Twelfth  Annual  Meeting  of  the  New  Hamp- 
shire Christian  Association  will  be  held  in  the  Ad- 
vent Christian  church,  corner  of  Atkinson  and  St. 
Thomas  Streets,  Dover,  N.  H.,  October  23-26,  com- 
mencing Tuesday  evening  and  closing  Friday  even- 
ing. The  following  laborers  have  engaged  to  be 
present  and  assist  in  the  work  of  the  Lord:  Wm. 
F.  Davis,  now  in  Charles  Street  jail  for  preaching 
the  Gospel  to  the  poor,  Henry  J.  Pierson  and  wife, 
evangelists  of  Boston,  Revs.  Isaac  Hyatt,  A.  A. 
Hoyt,  E  W.  Oakes  and  Miss  B.  B.  Flagg.  Rev. 
Edward  Robie,  D.D,,  Mrs.  Dr.  Odell,  Mrs.  C.  W. 
Bixby,  and  Miss  I.  D.  Ilaines  have  also  been  invited 
and  are  expected.  F.  A.  Blackmer  and  wife  have 
been  invited  to  lead  the  service  of  song. 


WASHINQTON  BEFOBM  NO  TBS. 


THE     PROFITS   OF   SABBATH-KEEPING. 


Washington,  D.  C,  Sept,  3,  1888. 

Dbar  Cynosure: — Bro.  W.  H,  Ramsay  kindly 
gives  the  use  of  his  organ,  and  Miss  Jennie  Foster 
has  volunteered  to  play  it  and  otherwise  assist  Mrs. 
Stoddard  in  her  school  on  Sabbath.  The  attendance 
yesterday  was  encouraging,  and  at  three  o'clock  Bro. 
Johnston  was  greeted  by  an  intelligent  company, 
who  gave  earnest  heed  to  the  things  spoken  by  him. 
An  hour's  conference  followed,  in  which  seventeen 
gave  their  testimony,  all  but  three  speaking  of  their 
strong  convictions  against  the  lodge.  One  brother 
gave  it  as  his  experience,  that  when  he  came  into 
the  "True  Light"  he  was  out  of  the  darkness  of  the 
lodge,  and  could  never  return  to  that  darkness  with- 
out giving  up  his  hope  of  heaven. 

The  pastors  who  have  been  absent  are  beginning 
to  return,  and  will,  no  doubt,  resume  the  ministers' 
meetings  on  Mondays.  I  met  several  of  our  colored 
brethren  in  the  Metropolitan  A.  M.  E.  church  to-day. 
They  were  very  cordial  and  showed  me  every  cour- 
tesy. I  gave  a  brief  account  of  Mrs.  Stoddard's 
school,  of  our  prayer  and  preaching  services,  and 
of  some  cases  of  special  interest  in  families  in  this 
neighborhood,  which  met  their  hearty  approval.  I 
then  said,  "Our  special  line  of  work  is  in  connection 
with  the  secret  lodges.  Although  I  have  never  been 
a  member,  my  observation  has  led  me  seriously  to 
question  their  utility,  and  greatly  to  fear  that  con- 
nection with  these  orders  is  one  cause  of  the  want 
of  spirituality  in  the  churches,  and  one  hindrance 
to  the  maintenance  of  prayer  meetings,  of  which 
your  brethren  have  spoken."  I  gave  reasons  why 
I  entertained  such  fears,  A  very  kind  and  candid 
consideration  of  the  subject  followed,  in  which  the 
brethren  stated  their  views  and  relations  to  the  se- 
cret orders,  and  their  reasons  for  uniting  or  stand- 
ing aloof  from  them. 

After  listening  for  an  hour  or  so,  I  asked  to  be 
heard  in  a  few  words,  which  was  readily  granted; 
and  I  said  if  the  brethren  could  show  me  that  Christ's 
church  was  so  defective  in  its  provisions  as  to  re- 
quire a  supplement  of  human  inventions  to  assure 
the  care  of  the  sick  and  the  burial  of  the  dead,  or  if 
they  could  show  that  Masonry  was  a  divine  institu- 
tion, then,  for  Christ's  sake,  and  at  his  bidding,  I 
would  submit  to  be  blindfolded,  cable-towed  and 
sworn;  but  never  for  the  loaves  and  fishes,  or  to  se- 
cure a  decent  burial,  would  I  surrender  my  right  of 
private  judgment,  or  consent  to  join  hands  with  the 
wicked  in  a  form  of  godliness  from  which  the  name 
of  my  Saviour  was  excluded.  The  chairman,  who 
said,  "I  am  a  Mason  and  an  Oddfellow,"  listened 
attentively,  and  another  brother,  who  is  a  Mason, 
proposed  to  devote  another  meeting  to  the  consid- 
eration of  the  subject,  which  met  the  seeming  ap- 
proval of  all  present, 

I  spoke  of  my  purpose  to  start  a  Friday-night 
prayer  meeting,  to  be  led  by  colored  brethren,  and 
several  said  they  would  like  their  turn  in  leading 
such  a  meeting,  Bro.  Moore,  of  Lincoln  Congrega- 
tional Mission  church,  will  also  heartily  co-operate, 
and,  I  presume,  others  whom  I  have  not  seen.  All 
received  tracts  and  promised  to  call  at  No.  215,  4^ 
street  for  further  light. 

The  following  letter,  recently  received  from  Bro. 
A.  M.  Paull  of  Providence,  R.  L,  will  interest  your 
readers,  and,  I  trust,  subserve  the  cause  of  right- 
eousness. Replying  to  a  letter  of  inquiry  in  refer- 
ence to  desecration  or  observance  of  the  Sabbath, 
Bro.  Paull  says: 

"In  inquiring  at  the  ticket  office  of  theline.I  learned 
the  following  facts:  The  Massachusetts  was  wreckt 
about  1876,  the  Rhode  Island  about  1879.  Between 
these  dates  the  Narragansett  and  Stonington  collided, 
and  one  boat  was  consumed  by  fire.  No  lives  were 
lost  on  the  Massachutettt,  although  the  passengers 
were  obliged  to  remain  on  the  boat  through  the 


September  13, 1888 


THE  CHEISTIAN  CYNOSURE- 


It 


night,  until  daylight  opened  a  way  of  escape.  The 
light  work  of  the  boat  was  badly  broken,  and  six 
large  holes  were  made  in  the  hull  by  the  constant 
thumping  on  the  rocks.  At  great  expense  the  boat 
was  floated  and  towed  to  New  York  and  repaired. 

'•No  lives  were  lost  on  the  Rhode  Island.  The 
boat,  however,  was  a  complete  loss  except  the  en- 
gine, which  was  raised  and  put  into  a  newly-built 
boat,  occupying  about  a  year's  time  in  building, 
during  which  time  the  income  from  running  the  boat 
ceased,  of  course,  as  there  was  no  boat  to  run. 

"The  other  disaster  was  fearful  in  loss  of  life, 
though  some  were  saved.  Just  previous  to  these 
disasters  an  advertisement  appeared  in  the  papers, 
stating  the  number  of  years  the  line  of  boats  had 
run  without  missing  a  trip.  My  impression  is  twenty 
or  twenty-five  years.  About  the  time  I  saw  that 
advertisement,  happening  into  a  wholesale  house 
on  business,  I  overheard  two  men,  apparently  stock- 
holders on  the  line,  saying,  *We  may  as  well  run  the 
boats  on  Sundays,  and  have  something  coming  in, 
as  to  have  them  lie  idle  all  day.'  Soon  after  the 
Massachusetts  and  Rhode  Island  began  to  run  Sun- 
day excursions,  almost  immediately  followed  by  the 
disasters  spoken  of  above. 

"After  the  last  one.  Rev.  E.  K.  Fuller,  one  of  the 
stockholders,  addressed  a  letter  to  the  president  of 
the  line,  asking  him  if  they  had  not  lost  about 
enough  money  on  account  of  desecrating  the  Sab- 
bath. The  letter  had  the  eSect  of  putting  a  stop  to 
it;  and  I  was  informed  by  the  agent  to-day  there 
had  been  no  accident  of  any  kind  since,  although 
the  boats  have  run  continuously  for  the  nine  years  to 
date.  The  line  is  generally  known  as  the  'Provi- 
dence and  Stonington  Steamship  Company,'  the 
points  of  connection  being  Boston  and  New  York 
by  train  to  Providence  or  Stonington,  and  boat  from 
those  places  to  New  York  and  return." 

The  course  pursued  by  the  management  of  this 
steamboat  line  in  desisting  from  the  desecration  of 
God's  holy  day  is  deserving  the  careful  attention  of 
those  who  are  responsible  for  the  movement  of 
trains  on  the  railroads  in  violation  of  the  command, 
"Remember  the  Sabbath  day  to  keep  it  holy."  x>Iay 
it  not  appear  that  these  men  are  responsible,  not  for 
the  destruction  of  property  only,  but  for  the  blood 
of  those  who  perish  in  the  terrible  judgments  that 
come  unheralded  to  whole  train-loads  of  people? 

J.  P.  Stoddard. 


A  DiaGBACS  TO  OHIO. 


THE   LODGE-RIDDEN  CENTENNIAL  AT  COLUMBUS - 
MANAGERS  VIOLATE  THEIR  CONTRACT  WITH 
THE   OHIO  AQENT. 


ITS 


Ik 


Columbus,  O.,  Sept.  7,'  1888. 

Dear  Cynosure: — Subsequent  to  my  last  report 
it  was  requested,  at  a  Covenanter  prayer  meeting  at 
Hopewell,  that  I  remain  over  Sabbath,  preaching  in 
Dr.  Cannon's  pulpit,  he  being  called  away  to  hold 
communion  with  the  church  at  Londonderry.  The 
request  seeming  to  be  from  the  Lord,  I  remained 
and  enjoyed  a  pleasant  Sabbath.  A  collection 
amounting  to  seven  dollars  was  taken  for  our  cause. 
I  am  especially  indebted  to  Wm.  Johnston  of  this 
congregation  for  his  kind  assistance.  The  kindness 
of  others  would  be  mentioned  did  space  permit. 

Again  at  home,  I  found  Dr.  H.  A.  Thompson,  who 
was  given  charge  of  the  Educational  department  at 
the  Centennial,  had  kindly  reserved  a  very  desirable 
space  for  the  exhibit  and  advertisement  of  our  work 
near  the  main  door,  in  the  building  given  to  his  su- 
pervision. I  went  to  work  at  once  to  fit  it  up  to  ex- 
hibit our  work  to  advantage.  An  artist  was  found 
and  the  following  was  placed  on  a  canvas  4x6  feet 
on  the  wall,  in  a  semi-circle  in  large  letters:  "Light 
ON  the  Lodge;"  beneath  were  the  square  and  com- 
pass and  three  links,  to  attract  attention.  Under 
ihis:  "Churches  in  the  United  States  with  over  one 
million  communicant  members  exclude  persons  be- 
longing to  secret  societies  from  membership."  Un- 
der this:  "I  do  abhor  the  selfish,  clannish  spirit  of 
secret  societies."— t/o»fpA  Cook. 

A  counter  was  made,  on  which  was  placed  a 
goodly  number  of  our  publications  together  with 
tracts  and  advertisements  of  our  work  for  free  dis- 
tribution. The  sign,  as  expected,  attracted  the  at- 
tention of  nearly  all.  I  was  kept  very  busy  the  first 
day  giving  tracts  and  answering  questions.  A  dele 
gation  of  Knights  Templars  from  Connecticut,  with 
feathers  in  their  caps,  gaudy  dress,  and  any  quaatity 
of  badges,  medals  and  gewgaws,  stopped,  and  seeing 
a  tract  on  which  the  ^candidate  is  represented  kneel- 
ing at  a  Masonic  altar,  one  turned  to  the  other  and 
said,  "Give  me  the  word  of  a  Master  Mason  or  Mas- 
ter's secret  or  I'll  take  your  life."  Another  seeing 
the  square  and  compass,  took  me  for  a  brother  Ma- 
son, ma^§  tlie  sign,  told  me  of  his  lodge,  of  the  re- 


cent burial  of  a  brother,  etc.  Some  of  the  oflScials 
wearing  keystones  and  other  Masonic  trinkets,  called 
and  demanded  by  what  right  I  was  there.  I  referred 
them  to  Dr.  Thompson,  whom  I  supposed  had  entire 
control  of  the  building.  Tracts  and  circulars  were 
given  to  all  who  wanted  them,  and  it  was  evident 
that  I  had  an  interesting  part  of  the  program. 

The  next  morning  about  9  o'clock.  Secretary  L. 
M.  Bonham,  accompanied  by  his  assistant,  called 
and  asked  if  I  represented  the  National  Christian 
Association.  I  assured  him  that  I  had  the  honor  of 
representing  that  body.  He  then  handed  me  the 
following  resolution,  adding  that  he  was  authorized 
by  the  committee  to  b-ate  that  hereafter  I  would  not 
be  allowed  to  exhibit  our  literature,  or  distribute 
circulars  and  tracts  on  the  grounds;  that  the  differ- 
ent secret  societies  had  been  invited  to  come  there, 
and  they  proposed  to  protect  them,  etc.  The  reso- 
lution reads: 

Whereas,  The  National  Chriatian  Aasociation.having 
a  stand  or  location  in  the  Educational  department,  is 
distributing  circulars,  tracts  and  so  on,  contrary  to  the 
rule  oi  the  Board  forbidding  distributing  of  advertising 
matter  on  the  grounds  and  in  the  buildings;  and  as  some 
of  these  circulars  are  direct  attacks  on  other  organiza- 
tions which  have  been  recognized  by  this  Board  in  the 
order  of  special  days;  therefore, 

Resolved,  That  said  National  Christian  Association  and 
others  be  forbidden  to  distribute  or  expose  for  sale  any 
circular  or  literature  antagonistic  to  societies  or  organi- 
zations represented  on  our  list  of  special  days.  Unani- 
mously ADOPTED. 

After  reading  the  resolution,  I  told  the  Secretary 
that  I  wa«:  a  law-abiding  citizen,  and  since  the  com- 
mittee deemed  it  necessary  to  protect  the  lodges,  I 
would  remove,  expecting  of  course  that  they  return 
to  me  the  expense  to  which  I  had  been,  as  I  came 
in  lawfully  under  the  invitation  of  their  appointed 
agent.  This  he  was  not  inclined  to  do.  I  think  it 
can  be  collected  by  law,  but  perhaps  it  will  cost 
more  than  it  will  come  to. 

Let  us  consider  the  resolution: 

1.  It  puts  me  in  the  light  of  a  law-breaker,  "dis- 
tributing," etc.,  "contrary  to  the  rule."  No  rules 
were  given  me,  nor  was  I  told  of  any  pertaining  to 
this  matter.  The  woman  suffragists  have  been  giv- 
ing away  tracts  and  circulars  right  along  advertis- 
ing their  work.  Smythe  &  Co.,  book-dealers,  are 
giving  circulars  advertising  their  work.  The  monu- 
mental men  are  advertising  in  this  way.  In  some 
places  the  floor  is  literally  covered  with  advertise- 
ments of  various  kinds.  Yet  the  committee  fail  to 
see  these. 

2.  The  last  clause  of  the  preamble  should  have 
been  placed  first,  for  it  contains  the  entire  reason 
for  their  prohibition. 

3.  If  this  resolution  was  enforced,  half  the  litera- 
ture in  the  Educational  department  would  be  ex- 
cluded from  the  grounds.  This  is  the  special  day 
for  the  Catholics.  This  resolution  would  exclude 
all  Protestant  literature  "antagonistic"  to  thdm. 
Democratic  and  Republican  papers  are  sold.  They 
antagonize,  of  course,  with  the  special  days  of  these 
parties,  and  with  the  Prohibitionist  special  day, 
Oct.  11.  The  metallic  and  stone  monument  antag- 
onize, and  so  might  we  go  on. 

The  reader  can  see  at  once  the  underhanded,  un- 
fair, sneaking  work  of  the  lodge.  The  board  hav- 
ing in  charge  the  Educational  department,  declared 
their  sympathy  with  me,  and  but  for  the  disturb- 
ance, would  have  contested  the  matter  with  the 
higher  authorities.  W.  B.  Stoddard. 


dially  entertained  by  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Hodgman,  whose 
labors  and  contributions  for  all  Christian  and  re- 
form work  are  worthy  of  all  commendation.  Prince- 
ton is  a  beautiful  town,  but  it  does  not  speak  well 
for  a  place  that  glories  in  having  been  the  home  of 
Owen  Love  joy  and  the  early  center  of  Christian  and 
reform  principles,  that  now  it  should  have  a  large 
number  of  saloons  and  lodges,  and  that  its  old  and 
respectable  churches  should  exert  so  little  influence 
for  good.  I  called  on  Rev.  Dr.  Bascom,  who  was  a 
pioneer  in  Christian  work  in  northern  Illinois.  I 
fo  '  Mm  very  feeble,  but  strong  in  faith.  He  ex- 
pressed his  hearty  sympathy  with  our  work,  and 
was  glad  to  hear  of  the  progress  made  in  the  South. 
Ten  years  ago  he  introduced  a  resolution  against 
secret  societies  at  a  Congregational  Association  at 
Montgomery,  Ala.,  and  was  glad  to  know  that  it  was 
adopted. 

I  attended  the  Wednesday  afternoon  prayer  meet- 
ing at  the  Congregational  church,  and  by  invitation 
spoke  briefly  of  my  work  among  the  schools  and 
churches  of  the  South.  What  I  said  was  listened  to 
with  respectful  attention.  By  the  kindness  of  Rev. 
Wm.  Pinkney,  I  visited  the  Wesleyan  people  of 
Bureau,  making  numerous  calls,  and  staying  over 
night  with  Bros.  Fay  and  Bradley,  who  are  stal- 
warts in  the  cause  of  reform.  Bro.  Pinkney  has 
preached  for  this  people  for  nine  years,  and  is 
likely  to  continue  in  a  work  both  pbasant  and 
profitable.  The  brethren  here  have  all  aided  in  our 
work.  They  are  all  doing  much  for  the  Prohibition 
cause,  but  still  have  a  large  reserve  of  sympathy 
for  the  anti-secrecy  reform.  Nor  should  I  fail  to 
mention  the  Congregational  pastor  of  this  place, 
Rev.  Mr.  Gibson,  who  gives  a  faithful  testimony 
against  both  the  saloon  and  the  lodge  iniquity. 

On  the  whole,  our  anti-secrecy  reform  is  broaden- 
ing and  deepening,  though  at  present  somewhat  ob- 
scured by  other  movements.  I  expect  to  go  West 
About  $500  still  remains  to  be  raised  for  our  New 
Orleans  work.  I  trust  the  friends  of  the  reform 
will  not  be  unmindful  of  the  importance  of  the  un- 
dertaking.   Yours  in  the  Lord,      H.  H.  Hinman. 


THE  CANVAB8  FOB    THE  SOUTHERN  HEAD- 
QUARTERS. 

Wtanbt,  111.,  Sept  7,  1888. 

Dear  Cynosd re:— Leaving  Chicago  on  the  after- 
noon of  the  3rd,  I  reached  Aurora  at  7  p.  m.,  and  was 
most  hospitably  entertained  and  aided  in  my  work 
by  Bro.  John  Gardner,  whose  fidelity  and  faith  has 
not  abated.  I  was  glad  to  become  acquainted  with 
the  pastor  of  the  First  Baptist  church  of  that  city. 
Rev.  N.  C.  Mallory,  whom  I  found  to  be  an  out- 
spoken reformer,  and  in  cordial  sympathy  with  our 
reform  work.  Other  friends  that  we  called  on  had 
lost  none  of  their  zeal  or  relaxed  in  their  efforts  to 
reprove  "the  unfruitful  works  of  darkness." 

Instead,  as  I  had  thought,  of  finding  Aurora  at  a 
standstill,  I  found  it  growing  quite  rapidly.  A  con- 
siderable addition  is  being  made  on  the  southwest 
side  of  the  city,  a  large  new  public  school  building 
is  nearly  completed,  and  a  new  Baptist  church  is 
just  undertaken.  New  avenues,  full  of  stumps  and 
trees,  are  being  laid  out  and  graded.  The  Advent- 
ists  are  holding  a  camp  meeting  in  the  border  of  the 
city,  and  in  spite  of  the  political  excitement  the 
people  hate  not  forgotten  their  higher  obligations 
to  the  Divine  government 

From  Aurora  1  went  to  Princeton,  and  was  cor- 


FROM  NORTHERN  LOUISIANA. 


Trenton,  La.,  Sept  7,  1888. 

Dear  Cynosure: — While  information  from  other 
portions  of  Louisiana  is  coming  to  you,  a  few  lines 
from  this  portion  of  the  State  may  be  of  interest. 

This  place  is  situated  on  the  Ouachita  river,  two 
miles  above  Monroe,  a  city  of  about  five  or  six 
thousand  inhabitants,  ninety-six  miles  from  Shreve- 
port  on  Red  river,  and  seventy-five  from  Vicksburg 
on  the  Mississippi  river,  sixty-five  miles  south  of 
the  State  of  Arkansas.  The  soil  is  fertile  and  yields 
abundantly. 

I  have  only  belonged  to  one  secret  society,  viz., 
the  Knights  of  Pythias,  and  as  soon  as  I  found  that 
it  was  no  secret,  and  that  it  was  lead  by  the  devil,  I 
had  religion  enough  in  me  to  say,  "Get  behind  me, 
Satan."  I  brought  manj'  more  out  with  me,  and  am 
still  earnestly  at  work  discouraging  every  act  lead- 
ing to  secretism.  The  societies  are  not  doing  much 
among  the  colored  here  now.  Until  Rev.  Wood- 
small  came  through,  they  were  many;  since  then 
they  have  gradually  gone  down.  Prohibition  is 
gaining  some  ground  in  this  portion  of  the  State. 

W.  G.  Head. 


FROM  THE  LOUISIANA  AGENT. 


THI    FLOOD — THE    LODOIS— THE    MASSACRE    OF    Nl- 
QROES. 


New  Orleans,  Sept  1,  1888. 
Dear  Cynosure: — Thank  God,  the  water  has 
gone  down  now,  and  we  can  get  about  the  city  again 
without  skiffs  and  flats.  But  despite  the  $5,000  ap- 
propriated by  the  city  council  and  the  free  rations 
distributed  among  the  destitute,  the  suffering  is  yet 
intense.  The  weather  has  been  very  warm  and 
threatening,  with  occasional  showers.  Up  to  this 
writing  I  have  not  been  informed  whether  the  secret 
lodges  directly  or  indirectly  relieve  these  poor  suf- 
ferers. Yet  some  of  them  are  boasting  of  their  be- 
nevolence. Mr.  Jones,  a  prominent  secretist  and  a 
P.  C.  C,  met  me  Wednesday  evening  and  wanted  to 
know  why  the  Cynosure  makes  war  on  the  old  loilge 
rum  Republican  party,  and  does  not  expose  the 
Democrats.  I  explained  to  the  gentleman  that  our 
object  was  not  only  to  expose  Republican  fraud,  but 
to  oppose,  withstand  and  expose  corruption  in  lK>th 
religious  and  political  circles  irrespective  of  creeds. 
He  went  on  to  denounce  my  course  in  preaching 
against  lodgery  in  the  city  and  country.  He  said 
that  I  was  making  more  disturbance  in  the  country 
and  doing  more  ev^  to  the  Qdd-fellows  and  masonics 


6 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


September  13, 1888 


than  any  other  man  in  this  State,  and  he  thought  I 
had  best  to  stop. 

I  preached  Sabbath  at  3  P.M.  at  Orleans  Street  Bap- 
tist church,  to  a  moderate  congregation,  and  was  in- 
vited by  Rev.  Wm.  W.  Davis  to  preach  at  St.  Mark's 
Fourth  Baptist  church  at  7:30  P.  M.  But  Mr.  Davis 
has  a  $540  debt  on  his  church  to  be  paid  by  March 
10,  1889,  and  as  it  might  be  an  offense  to  some  of 
his  secret  members  and  the  lodges  that  frequent  his 
church,  he  declined  to  let  me  preach  after  I  arrived 
at  the  church. 

Miss  Lucy  Parker  Folsom,  the  faithful  young 
teacher  of  St.  Mark's  church  mission  school  for  the 
last  two  years,  passed  a  most  rigid  and  triumphant 
examination  before  the  Parish  School  Board  at 
Southern  University  lately.  She  resigned  the  mis- 
sion school  to  take  charge  of  the  public  school  at 
New  Texas,  September  15,  Miss  Folsom  is  a  young 
lady  who  has  carried  herself  above  reproach  and 
clear  of  secret  societies  and  all  other  immoral  devil- 
tries that  New  Orleans  is  so  sore  afflicted  with. 
Friends  would  do  well  to  write  to  Miss  Folsom  after 
September  20,  at  New  Texas,  Pointe  Coupee  Co., 
La.,  and  send  her  temperance  and  other  reform 
tracts  for  distribution.  I  am  sure  she  will  do  much 
good  by  her  untiring  efforts  in  New  Texas. 

It  seems  as  though  tbe  Southern  Negro  is  used  as 
a  target,  especially  in  years  of  national  conteste. 
The  wholesale  manner  in  which  the  poor  defenceless 
Negroes  in  Freetown  and  Abbeville,  in  Iberia  Par- 
ish, have  been  murdered  for  the  last  three  weeks  is 
worse  than  in  the  far  heathen  lands.  It  seems  that 
the  Southern  Democrats,  or  at  least  a  majority  of 
them  here  in  Louisiana,  will  resort  to  any  kind  of 
violence  and  slaughtering  of  Negroes  to  keep  the 
State  in  Democratic  hands.  They  seem  to  despise 
any  other  party  principles  saving  their  own.  When 
Rev.  Mr.  Thomas  was  speaking  in  Rapids  Parish, 
several  years  ago,  in  defense  of  the  Prohibition 
party,  the  Democrats  of  Robeline  attempted  to  mur- 
der him ;  and  last  year  the  Knights  of  Labor  were 
the  cause,  in  part,  of  many  poor  Negroes  being 
killed  and  churches  closed  in  Lafourche  and  Terre 
Bonne  parishes.  But  now  there  is  no  Negro  lodge 
at  the  head  of  this  wholesale  slaughter  in  Iberia 
Parish.  Surely  God  will  visit  the  iniquity  of  these 
heartless  men  upon  their  children  for  shedding  so 
much  innocent  blood.  These  heartless  creatures 
are  not  satisfied  with  murdering  the  poor  Negro 
men,  but  they  even  whip  and  kill  the  poor  women. 

We  write  these  facts  in  order  that  the  praying 
readers  of  the  North  will  understand  how  these  mur- 
derous bulldozers  are  shielded  from  punishment  by 
their  pernicious  oaths  and  obligations  of  "Hail,  for 
ever  conceal  and  never  reveal;"  inasmuch  as  Free- 
masonry was  a  covert  for  slavery,  even  so  secretism 
is  a  dark  cloak,  white-washed  over,  for  these  crimes. 
And  notwithstanding  all  these  undeniable  facts, 
which  should  cause  every  Christian  to  forsake  these 
dark  lodges,  we  see  speculative  secretists  multiply- 
ing new  lodges  very  near  every  month.  O  God, 
deliver  us  from  this  terrible  snare  of  the  devil. 
And  may  every  Christian  go  in  earnest  prayer,  and 
not  cease  until  we  see  these  altars  of  these  midnight 
lodges  crumbling  down. 

The  Knights  of  Labor  have  been  distributing  ra- 
tions yesterday  and  to-day  (Saturday),  so  I  am  told. 
Of  course,  the  lodge  must  do  something,  as  a  kind 
of  seductive  bait.  I  attended  covenant  meeting  at 
the  old  Baptist  church  last  night.  The  Spirit  of  the 
Lord  was  there,  and  many  were  made  to  rejoice. 
Rev.  J.  L.  Burt,  the  pastor,  treated  me  very  kindly, 
and  invited  me  to  lecture  for  his  people  when  I  re- 
turn from  Vicksburg.  I  am  expecting  to  leave 
about  the  6th  for  Greenwood,  Johnsonville,  Lex- 
ington, Yazoo  City,  Greenville,  Marysville,  Lake 
Providence  (La.),  Vicksburg,  Natchez,  and  other 
points.  Friends  can  write  to  me,  and  send  tracts, 
Cynotures,  etc.,  to  Natchez,  Miss.,  until  September  20. 

F.  J.  Davidson. 


Correspondence. 


A  PRISON  PARABLE. 


NATIONAL    W.  G.  T.   V. 


The  fifteenth  annual  meeting  of  the  National  Wo- 
man's Christian  Temperance  Union,  Miss  Frances 
K.  Willaid,  president,  will  be  held  in  the  Metropoli- 
tan Opera  House,  New  York,  Oct.  19  to  23.  Tbe 
convention  will  number  400  delegates,  from  every 
State  and  Territory  of  the  United  States,  represent- 
ing  10,000  local  auxiliaries  and  more  than  200,000 
members.  Forty  departments  of  work  will  be  reviewed 
under  the  beads  of  preventive,  educational,  evangelis- 
tic, legal,  and  the  department  of  organization.  A  large 
representation  of  Southern  ladies  will  be  in  attend- 
ance. Mrs.  Mary  T.  Burt,  president  of  the  New 
York  Woman's  Christian  Temperance  Union,  is  at 
tbe  beafl  of  the  committee  on  arrangements,  and  will 
be  well  supported  by  tbe  great  organization  which 
Bbe  leads. 


Cell  20,  Suffolk  Co.  Jail,  ) 
Boston,  Mass,  Aug.  23,  1888.      j 

One  morning,  after  having  been  in  jail  six  months, 
I  had  a  curious  dream.  I  seemed  to  be  on  top  of 
one  of  the  green  hills  of  Chelsea,  Massachusetts, 
where  we  can  look  up  into  the  blue-domed  sky, 
around  upon  verdant  fields  and  orchards,  and  off 
over  the  tumultuous  city  and  far-tossing  sea. 
Among  myriads  of  objects  present  to  view,  vast 
flocks  of  clamorous  crows  caught  and  held  my  at- 
tention. 

Their  indescribable  numbers,  their  unresting  in- 
dustry, their  loud  cawing,  and  their  eager  rivalry  in 
labors  which  I  had  never  before  known  to  engage 
these  creatures'  attention,  combined  to  assure  me 
that  this  was  High  Crow-Day. 

But  what  were  they  trying  to  do? 

Multitudes  seemed  to  be  flying,  with  labored  flap- 
ping of  their  black  wings,  from  the  surface  of  the 
sea  several  hundred  feet  up  into  the  sky.  Other 
ten  thousands  were  diving  sea-ward  from  their  airy 
heights,  and  dipping  into  the  waves.  These  forth- 
with joined  the  vast  procession  which  was  toiling 
slowly  up  the  viewless  stairways  of  the  skies,  only 
to  plunge  down  again  after  reaching  a  certain  level, 
with  much  noise,  to  repeat  their  strange  endeavors. 

Looking  intently,  I  now  saw  that  each  crow 
brought  up  from  the  sea  a  fish  in  its  beak,  which  it 
carried  carefully  to  a  height  of  about  six  hundred 
feet,  deposited  beside  the  fishes  brought  up  by  other 
crows,  and  then  flew  back  for  fresh  booty. 

As  for  the  fishes,  though  shaped  like  a  herring, 
they  were  as  transparent  as  a  jelly-fish.  There  they 
lay,  wriggling  and  flapping,  as  if  supported  by  the 
surface  of  an  invisible  table  far  above  the  ocean, 
an  innumerable  multitude,  extended  like  a  vast 
cloud,  only  more  transparent  than  a  cloud  of  watery 
vapor,  only  less  transparent  than  the  air  itself. 

While  I  wondered  at  these  new  conditions  of 
crows,  clouds,  and  fishes,  a  furious  tempest  came 
whirling  in  from  the  sea.  With  a  loud  roar  the 
wind  struck  the  cloud.  The  fishes  fell  into  the  sea. 
The  crows,  uttering  the  most  discordant  cries  of 
anger,  disappointment,  and  despair,  dashed  head- 
long into  the  water  after  their  fishes,  and  were  in- 
stantly buried  beneath  the  waves. 

From  this  real  vision  of  an  imaginary  occurrence, 
for  crows  are  never  so  foolish  as  men,  I  awoke,  and 
understood  that,  as  a  dream  when  one  awaketh,  so 
will  all  this  world's  unholy  ambitions,  pride,  riches, 
pleasure,  and  false  religions  descend  into  the  bot- 
tomless abyss  at  the  coming  of  the  Son  of  man  in 
the  glory  of  the  Father,  with  his  saints  and  holy 
angels.  In  that  day  whoever  has  relied  upon  his 
bank,  his  stocks,  his  culture,  his  strength,  his  social 
eminence,  his  name,  his  family,  his  denomination, 
his  politics,  his  anything  but  Jesus  Chrut  and  him 
crucified,  will  find  his  reliance  like  the  crows'  treas 
ure  in  heaven.  Wm.  F.  Davis. 


PITH  AND  POINT. 


FROM    WESTERN    KANSAS. 

In  the  last  Cynosure  I  see  a  communication  from 
northern  Kansas  with  reference  to  the  whole  country  be- 
ing given  over  to  the  control  of  secret  societies.  Had 
the  writer  come  a  little  further  west  he  would  have  found 
it  still  worse.  I  never  was  in  a  place  where  there  was  so 
much  need  of  a  reformation.  The  people  are  not  only 
unmercifully  oppreseed  by  secret  societies,  but  money 
extortioners,  the  most  bold  and  desperate  I  ever  heard  of. 
On  last  Sabbath  I  saw  the  two  worst  extortioners  in  the 
country,  after  robbing  and  oppressing  the  poor  through 
the  week  at  three  per  cent,  these  two  men,  the  leaders  in 
the  so-called  house  of  Qod,  pass  around  to  gather  the 
few  remaining  pennies.  I  have  found  a  few  good,  solid 
Prohibition  and  anti-secret  society  men  and  women 
here. — A  lover  of  justice,  mbbcy  and  truth,  Oberlin, 
Eana. 

NO  MASONRY  IN   HI6   PROHIBITION. 

1  have  been  an  Anti  mason  ever  since  the  night  Mor- 
gan was  taken  through  the  town  of  Victor.  I  saw  them 
change  horses  there  at  12  o'clock  at  night.  I  am  also  a 
strong  Prohibitionist,  but  am  also  strong  enough  not  to 
vote  for  a  Mason  or  any  other  secret  society  man.  Please 
to  accept  my  thanks  for  your  paper.  I  have  distributed 
it  widely. — Morgan  Bement,  Canandaigua,  N.  T. 
can't  vote  for  a  mason. 

I  am  now  past  eighty,  have  taken  the  Cynosure  from 
the  very  first,  and  I  have  enjoyed  its  contents  very  much. 
After  reading  it  have  sent  the  paper  far  and  near,  and 
not  three  have  been  lost;  have  got  some  subscribers  years 
ago,  and  have  been  as  much  interested  as  any  one  needs 
to  be.  I  wish  I  could  see  the  downfall  of  Masonry,  but 
it  will  be  denied  me.  My  weak  judgment  tells  me  it  is  a 
mistake  to  vote  for  a  demitted  Mason.  He  is  no  better 
than  any  other  Mason .  The  same  as  a  letter  from  a 
church,  can  hand  it  in  when  and  where  he  has  a  mind 
to.— AlijAn  Wuiout,  WiUan  Center,  WiU  Co.,  M 


the  VERMONT  CANVASS. 

I  am  speaking  somewhere  every  Sabbath.  Our  people 
are  in  that  state  of  ignorance  regarding  the  subject  that 
they  do  not  apprehend  any  danger  to  church  or  state, 
and  imagine  those  who  do  so  to  be  cranks  and  half  crazy. 
President  Blanchard's  coming  was  a  great  blessing  to  us 
all,  and  I  can  but  feel  that  God  has  been  wonderfully 
with  us.  This  has  been  gained,  more  churches  are  open 
than  I  can  possibly  flU,  and  I  must  try  and  get  audiences 
through  the  week.— J.  A.  Leach. 


LlTERATITRE. 


The  Impbneteablb  Mtstert  or  Zora  Burns.  Pp.  108.  Price, 
cloth,  50  cents :  paper,  25  cents.  PubUshed  by  the  author,  118 
N.Clark  St.,  Chicago. 

Five  years  ago  this  fall  the  horrible  murder  of 
the  young  girl,  Zora  Burns,  at  Lincoln,  111.,  horrified 
the  whole  community,  and  the  subsequent  investi- 
gations, which  pointed  to  a  Freemason  named  Car- 
penter as  her  betrayer  and  murderer,  aroused  such  a 
storm  of  popular  indignation  that  Carpenter  had  to  flee 
from  the  vicinity,  although  by  the  aid  of  the  lodge 
he  was  unconvicted  by  the  courts.  A  young  man 
who  followed  up  some  of  the  proofs  of  Carpenter's 
guilt,  which  seemed  to  make  it  certain,  found  this 
lodge  inflaence  impossible  to  overcome,  and  his  evi- 
dence was  not  heard  in  the  legal  investigations. 
The  father  of  the  murdered  girl  attempted  to  shoot 
Carpenter,  and  the  temper  of  the  people,  it  would 
seem,  would  have  vindicated  him  had  the  effort  been 
successful.  All  these  facts,  and  more,  were  widely 
published  in  the  papers  at  the  time.  This  volume 
is  the  work  of  the  young  man  above  mentioned.  It 
is  the  history  of  the  case,  and  account  of  the  evi- 
dence which  might  have  brought  the  murderer  to 
justice.  The  book  will  have  many  readers,  but  its 
statements  will  by  some,  no  doubt,  be  discredited, 
because  of  the  singular,  disconnected,  and,  some- 
times, extravagant  style,  and  lack  of  clear  method 
in  the  arrangement.  The  author  was  his  own  com- 
positor and  proof-reader.  The  book  is  for  sale  at 
the  N.  C.  A.  office,  and  by  E.  A.  Cook,  13  Wabash 
Ave.,  Chicago. 

The  following  is  a  letter  from  John  B.  Alden,  the 
popular  publisher,  to  Miss  F.  E.  Willard:  "Years 
ago,  when  I  was  clerking  in  Chicago  in  a  stationary 
store  for  a  Presbyterian  deacon,  I  was  an  opponent 
not  only  of  strong  drinks  of  every  sort,  including 
tea  and  coffee,  but  an  equally  strong  opponent  of 
what  I  still  think  almost  an  equal  abomination  with 
liquor,  the  use  of  tobacco;  so  when  our  deacon  con- 
cluded to  increase  his  business  by  adding  the  sale 
of  cigar-cases,  I  refused  to  sell  them,  and  got  my 
discharge  in  consequence.  Your  neighbor.  Dr.  Hat- 
field, can  tell  you  how  I  went  to  him  to  advise  about 
the  matter,  and  he  thought  it  might  be  well  for  me 
to  yield  on  the  point  of  the  cigar-cases,  but  in  spite 
of  his  advice  I  stood  out." 

The  frontispiece  of  the  September  Century  is  a  por- 
trait of  Edward  Thring.  Since  Dr.  Thomas  Arnold  of 
Rugby,  Mr.  Thring  has  been  regarded  the  most  highly 
esteemed  educator  of  England.  He  was  late  head  mas- 
ter of  the  Uppingham  Grammar  School.  England.  The 
article  on  this  English  institution  describes  "an  ancient 
school  worked  on  modern  ideas."  Other  articles  related 
to  this  subject  are  "The  Industrial  Idea  in  Education," 
by  Charles'  M.  Carter;  "The  University  and  the  Bible," 
by  T.  T.  Munger;  "Women  who  go  to  College,"  by  Ar- 
thur Gilman;  and  a  paper  on  "College  Fraternities."  In 
addition  there  is  an  "Open  Letter,"  by  President  Sselye, 
of  Amherst,  on  the  subject  of  "College  Fraternities;" 
also  an  "Open  Letter"  on  "Art  Education,"  by  W.  J. 
Stillman,  and  two  editorials  having  to  do  with  teaching. 
The  college  fraternity  articles  are  weak  apologies  for 
these  demoralizing  societies,  and  the  Century  will  not  do 
justice  to  this  topic  unless  they  procure  a  reply.  Dr.  E. 
E.  White,  late  president  of  Purdue  University,  should 
have  an  opportunity  to  give  his  experience.  At  leaot  the 
misrepresentation  in  his  case  should  be  corrected.  Other 
articles  in  this  number  are  a  continuation  of  the  Life  of 
Lincoln:  George  Kennan  on  "Exile  by  Administrative 
Process;"  A.  C.  Gordon  on  "Hard  Times  in  the  Confed- 
eracy;" Professor  Holden's  concluding  article  on  "Sidereal 
Astronomy;"  an  illustrated  article  by  Mrs.  E.  S.  Starr  on 
"Doves,"  and  "  Bird  Music,"  by  S.  P.  Cheney,  father 
of  the  poet.  Mr.  Kennan,  in  the  department  of  "Open 
Letters,"  answers  the  question,  "Is  the  Siberian  Exile  Sys- 
tem to  be  at  once  Abolished?"  His  articles  on  the  agita- 
tion for  constitutional  government,  and  the  attempts  of 
the  Czar  to  suppress  it,  are  an  astounding  revelation  to 
many  American  readers. 

The  Bnglish  Illustrated  Magazine iox  September  brings 
the  close  of  Prof.  Minto'e  story  of  the  peasant  uprising 
in  the  time  of  Wickliffe  and  Richard  II ,  generally  known 
as  "Wat  Tyler's  Rebellion."  We  have  followed  the  his- 
tory of  this  movement  as  recorded  by  Prof.  Minto  with 
great  interest,  because  of  the  light  thrown  upon  labor 
dilBculties  of  the  present  day.  The  oppressive  taxes 
levied  for  the  expenses  of  an  extravagant  court  and  un- 
successful wars,  and  the  oppression  of  the  feudal  lords 
who  held  the  peasants  in  a  3tate  of  slavery,  were  the 
chief  reasons  for  the  rising.  The  sympathy  of  the 
young  king,  Richard  II.,  with  his  poor  people,  and 
readiness  to  grant  their  prayer,  the  opposition  of  the 
lords  and  members  of  bis  Qouncil,  and  tbe  interveution 


.^:*-"  --.»:  -»  -  .  - 


^.,^*sse 


September  13,  1888 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSUKE. 


of  the  young  Lollard,  who  was  imbued 
with  the  generous  sentiments  of  Wick- 
liffe,  form  a  narrative  of  deep  interest. 
The  story  ends  with  so  unhappy  a 
tragedy  that  the  reader  could  wish  it  had 
not  so  closely  followed  the  record,  and 
the  author  had  been  more  free  with  his 
fancy.  The  illustrative  papers  in  this 
number  are  descriptive  of  the  Carpathian 
mountains  of  Poland,  London  street 
scenes  and  Hampton  Court. 

With  the  peaceful  autumn  days  Vick's 
Magazine  reflects  the  quiet  beauty  of  na- 
ture. The  leading  articles  are  devoted 
to  the  apple  orchard,  to  the  preparation 
of  the  flowering  shrubs  for  winter,  and 
the  care  of  fall  plants.  The  anemone 
colored  plate  is  a  beauty. 

"Does  Literature  Pay?"  is  a  question 
asked  and  answered  by  Eugene  L .  Didier 
in  the  September  number  of  TTie  Writer 
(Boston).  There  are  other  bright  and 
interesting  articles  in  tbe  same  number 
of  the  magazine.  The  Writer  admirably 
fulfills  its  purpose  of  being  helpful  and 
interesting  to  all  literary  workers,  and 
each  number  is  filled  with  practical  hints 
and  suggestions  about  the  details  of  lit- 
erary work  that  are  well  worth  many 
times  the  price  of  the  magazine  to  all 
who  write. 

The  profits  of  gardening,  whether  it  be 
fruit  culture,  floriculture  or  vegetable 
gardening,  not  only  in  direct  money  re- 
turns, but  also  in  health,  happiness  and 
beautiful  surroundings  are,  taken  alto- 
gether, greater  than  those  of  plain  farm- 
ing and  greater  than  those  of  most  other 
pursuits.  The  taste  for  and  the  practice 
of  gardening  has  been  far  lees  in  this 
country  than  in  Europe.  Indeed,  most 
of  our  commercial  gardeners  are  of  Eu- 
ropean birth  and  training.  But  now 
gardening  is  rapidly  increasing  in  Amer- 
ica, as  shown,  for  example,  by  the  marked 
puccess  of  The  American  Garden  of  New 
York,  now  acknowledged  to  be  the  fore- 
most monthly  horticultural  periodical  in 
the  world. 

The  question:  "What  Makes  Baby  Cry 
so?"  is  discussed  by  Dr.  Patton  in  the 
September  number  of  Babyhood,  and  if 
it  is  not  finally  solved,  at  least  several 
valuable  suggestions  are  ofEered  to  per- 
plexed mothers.  "The  Right  and  Wrong 
Use  of  Drugs,"  by  Dr.  Crandall,  is  an 
equally  interesting  article.  It  discrimi- 
nates clearly  between  drugs  that  may  be 
safely  used  in  the  home  treatment  of  the 
minor  ailments  of  children  and  those 
which  are  only  safe  in  the  physician's 
hands.  An  editorial  paragraph  enters  a 
vigorous  protest  against  the  dissemina- 
tion of  a  certain  class  of  pseudo  medical 
literature  professing  to  teach  "painless 
child  birth"  through  the  avoidance  of 
"bone-forming  foods."  The  dangerous 
consequences  of  following  this  pernicious 
advice  are  pointed  out. 

8t.  Nicholas  for  September  has  a  dainty 
summery  frontispiece,  the  original  of 
which  may  be  found  in  almost  every 
country  place.  The  late  Mr.  E.  P.  Roe 
collected  "Some  Stories  about  'the  Cali- 
fornia Lion,'"  during  his  recent  sojourn 
in  Southern  California,  and  these  stories 
are  related  in  this  number.  Estelle  Thom- 
son relates  a  charming  story  about  "Knot- 
Holes,"  and  "What  Dora  L»id"  is  a  true 
story  of  a  Dakota  blizzard.  There  are 
several  articles  about  birds:  Ernest  £. 
Thompson  describes  the  "Pintail;"  Henry 
Tyrrell  writes  a  charming  poem,  "The 
Water- Ousels'  Address;"  and  Charles 
Frederick  Holder  reports  "How  Some 
Birds  are  Cared  For."  Thomas  Stevens 
describe!  the  haunts  and  habits  of  the 
"Wild  Pea-Fowls  in  British  India," 
"Dick's  Farm  Hand,"  by  Anna  8.  Reed, 
touches  upon  the  labor  question,  and 
shows  how  a  small  boy  found  one  solu- 
tion of  the  problem.  A  very  practical 
article,  valuable  to  all  ingenious  boys,  is 
"What  to  do  with  Old  Corks,"  by  Charles 
G.  Leland. 


LODQE  XOTES. 

The  sixth  national  convention  of  the 
Woman's  Relief  Corps  convenes  in  Co- 
lumbus, Obio,  this  week,  along  with  the 
Q.  A.  R.  Headquarters  of  the  Depart- 
ment of  Illinois  will  be  in  the  chapel  of 
the  First  Presbyterian  church. 

The  funeral  of  Emil  Schandein,  the 
brewer  and  Knight  Templar  Mason,  was 
the  greatest  event  of  the  kind  ever  seen 
in  Milwaukee.  Over  ten  thousand  peo- 
ple gathered  around  the  residence.  The 
procession  was  over  two  liules  in  length, 


and  was  headed  by  900  employes  of  the 
brewery,  followed  by  the  hearse,  escorted 
by  Wisconsin's  Commandery  of  Knights 
Templar.  There  were  no  religious  serv- 
ices (very  appropriately)  but  an  address 
was  delivered  at  the  grave  by  Herman 
Siegel,  editor  of  the  Freie  Presse. 

Charles  H.  Litchman,  General  Secre- 
tary of  the  Knights  of  Labor,  has  mailed 
his  letter  of  resignation  to  Master  Work- 
man Powderly:  He  says:  "I  desire  to  be 
free  to  act  as  a  citizen  in  this  campaign. 
I  could  not  retain  my  official  position  in 
the  Knights  while  interested  politically, 
because  it  is  against  the  principles  of  the 
order  for  any  of  its  members  to  engage 
in  politics  on  the  strength  of  their  con- 
nection. 

Great  preparations  are  going  on  for  the 
entertainment  of  the  Iowa  Grand  Lodge 
Knights  of  Pythias  which  meets  in  Du- 
buque in  October.  D.  B.  Henderson, 
Congressman  from  the  Third  District, 
will  deliver  the  address  of  welcome. 
William  Ward,  Mayor  of  Newark,  N.  J., 
the  Supreme  Chancellor  of  the  world, 
will  speak;  also  George  B.  Shaw,  Mayor 
of  Eau  Claire,  Wis,  the  Supreme  Vice 
Chancellor  of  the  world. 

Ada,  Ohio,  was  excited  last  Wednes- 
day by  the  report  that  a  band  of  White 
Caps  had  been  in  town.  After  a  close 
investigation  it  was  found  that  they  had 
appeared  at  the  residence  of  a  woman 
named  Strunn,  who  was  taken  out  by 
them  and  tarred  and  feathered.  She  was 
accused  of  running  a  house  of  ill-fame. 
This  is  the  first  exploit  of  the  White  Caps 
in  this  part  of  the  State.  Mrs.  Strunn 
was  given  twenty-four  hours  to  leave. 

Prominent  Knights  of  Labor  in  Pitts- 
burg, Pa.,  are  considering  the  advisability 
of  introducing  a  resolution  at  the  next 
general  assembly  prohibiting  any  but 
American  citizens  from  becoming  mem- 
bers of  the  organization.  Those  advo- 
cating the  change  say  that  it  would  re- 
duce membership  about  three  fifths,  but 
that  the  order  would  be  better  ofE  with 
100,000  good  American  citizens  than  with 
500,000  of  the  class  which  are  now  com- 
ing in. 

The  Chapter  General  of  America, 
Knights  of  St.  John  and  Malta,  concluded 
its  annual  session  at  Wilmington,  Del., 
last  Wednesday.  The  following  officers 
were  elected:  Most  Eminent  Grand 
Commander,  Richard  A.  Beatty,  Brad- 
ford, Pa.;  Very  Eminent  Lieutenant 
Commander,  Christian  Ambruster,  New 
York;  Very  Eminent  Grand  Almoner, 
James  M.  Goodenough,  New  York ;  Very 
Eminent  Grand  Chancellor,  Jonas  L.  Mc- 
Elroy,  New  York;  Very  Eminent  (3rand 
Assistant  Chancellor,  Cornelius  Merritt, 
New  York;  Very  Eminent  Captain  of  the 
Guard,  W.  H.  Alexander,  Wilmington; 
Very  Eminent  Grand  Prelate,  William  A. 
Carter,  Brooklyn, 

A  prominent  barber  at  Xenia,  Ohio, 
named  William  Barr,  who  was  being  in- 
itiated into  a  colored  Knights  of  Pythias 
lodge,  jumped  from  a  third  story  window 
onto  the  roof  of  a  store  adjoining,  hav- 
ing become  frightened  during  the  initia- 
tion. A  man  in  the  store  below  became 
convinced  that  a  burglar  was  on  the  roof 
and  gave  the  alarm.  Three  policemen 
chased  the  fellow  around  over  the  roofs 
for  half  an  hour,  one  policeman  sliding 
down  a  water  spout  in  a  hurry  to  get  a 
"move  on  himself."  The  frightened  fel- 
low thought  all  the  time  the  police  were 
K.  of  P's  after  him,  hence  he  flew  over 
the  housetops.  He  was  finally  captured, 
his  hands  all  cut  and  matters  explained, 
but  the  initiation  did  not  go  on . — Bm. 

Wisconsin  Grand  Lodge  of  Good  Tem- 
plars elected  as  Chief  Templar  E.  W. 
Cbafln,  of  Waukesha;  Counselor,  L.  F. 
Colo,  of  Lacrosse;  Vice  Templar,  Emma 
Brown,  of  Fort  Atkinson;  Superintend- 
ent of  Juvenile  Temples,  Altie  A.  Reed, 
of  Prescott;  Secretary,  B.  F.  Parker,  of 
Mauston;  Chaplain,  Rev.  John  Schneider, 
of  Edgarton.  Grand  Lodge  headquarters 
were  established  in  Milwaukee-  Officer's 
reports  showed  that  the  membership  in 
the  insurance  department  of  the  or- 
der was  1,057  a  year  ago,  and  only  940 
at  present;  receipts  including  balance 
were  then  $7,560,  and  there  is  now  a  bal- 
ance of  only  $64.  The  whole  order  is 
hopelessly  permeated,  says  a  dispatch, 
with  third  partyism,  which  indicates  that 
it  is  dying  off  before  the  advancing 
reform. 


ANTIMABOmO  LB0TVRSR8. 
Gbnkbal  AeBirr  and  Lsctxtbeb,  J.  P. 
Stoddard,  221  W.  Madison  St.,  Chicago. 
H.  H.  Hinman,  Cynosure  office. 
Agent  for  Southern  States. 
Statb  AeBNTfl. 
Iowa,  0.  F,   Hawley,  Wheaton,    Du- 
Page  Co.,  Illinois. 
Missouri,  Eld.  Rufus  Smith,  Maryville. 
New  Hampshire,   Bid.  S.  C.  Kimball, 
New  Market. 
Ohio,  W.  B.  Stoddard,  Columbus, 
Kansas,  Robert  Loggan,  Clifton. 
Alabama,  Rev.  G.  M.  Elliott,  Selma. 

Dbobbb  WoBKBBa. — LSeceders.l 
J.  E.  Glassford,  Carthage,  Mo. 
Othbb  Lbctttbbbs. 

C.  A.  Blanchard,  Wheaton,  111. 

N.  Callender,  Brown  Hollow,  Pa. 

J ,  H.  Tlmmons,  Tarentum,  Pa 

T.  B.  McCormlck,  Princeton,  Ind. 

X.  Johnson,  Dayton,  Ind. 

H.  A.  Day,  Wllllamatown,  Mich. 

J.  M.  Bishop,  Chambersburg,  Pa. 

A.  Mayn,  Bloomlngton,  Ind. 

J.  B.  CreBsinger,  Sullivan,  O. 

W.  M.  Love,  Osceola,  Mo. 

J.  L.  Barlow,  Grundy  Center,  Iowa. 

A.  D.Freeman,  Downers  Grove,  111 
Wm.  FentOD ,  8t  Paul,  Minn. 
Warren  Taylor,  South  Salem,  O. 

J.  8.  Perry,  Thompson,  Conn. 

J.  T.  Michael,1533  Capouse  Av.Scranton.Pa. 

B.  G.  Barton,  Breckinridge,  Mo. 

S.  Bametson,  HasklnviUe,  Steuben  Co,  N.  Y 
Wm.  R.  Roach,  Pickering,  Ont. 
■    D.  A.  Richards,  Brighton,  Mich. 

OUItt   CLUB   JL.1ST. 


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W.  I.  Phillips,  Pvblisher, 

221  W.  Madison  street,  Chicago 


A    WOMAN'S    VICTORY  J 

OB 

THE  QUERY  OF  THE  LODGEVILLB 
CHURCH, 


No  lengthy  advertisement  is  necessary 
^o  bolster  up  Dr.  gage's  Catarrh  Remedy. 


BT  JBNNIB  L.  HABDIX. 

This  simple  and  touching  story  which 
waa  lately  published  in  the  Oyno- 
sure  is  now  ready  for  orders  in  a  beautiful 
pamphlet.  It  is  worth  reading  by  every 
Anti-mason  —and  etpeeiaily  bt  his  witb. 
3et  it  and  take  it  home  to  cheer  the  heart 
of  your  companion  who  may  desire  to  do 
something  for  Christ  against  great  evils, 
but  is  discouraged  from  making  any  pub- 
lic effort.  Pbiob,  nrruH  obnta.  Ten 
for  a  dcOar. 

IHationai.  Christian  Assooiation, 
m  W.  MadiMB  Stroet,  Chlci«o, 


Iff.  C.  A.  BUILDING  AND  OTFICX  01 
THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE, 
»ai  WEST  MADISON  STREET,  CHICAOC 

jrATioyjLL  cHms  tias  assooia  tjom 

Pbbbidbnt.— H.  H.  G«orge,  D.  D.,  Gen- 
eva College,  Pa. 

Vicb-pbesidbnt — ReT.  M.  A.  Gaolt, 
Blanchard,  Iowa. 

Cob.  Sbc't  and  Gbnbbal  Aessr.— J ; 
P.  Stoddard,  221 W.  Madison  st.,  Chicago. 

Rbc.  Sbc't.  and  Tbeabubbb.— W.  I 
Phillips,  221  W.  Madison  St.,   Chicago 

Directobs.— J.     L.    Barlow,    C.    A 
Blanchard,  A.  J.  Chittenden,  H.  A.  Fisch- 
er, John  Gardner,  G.  R.  Milton,  Wm.  Mor- 
row, L.  N.Stratton,  John  Sutcliffe,  Alex- 
ander Thomson,  E.  R.  Worrell. 

The  object  of  this  Association  is: 
"To  expose,  withstand  and  remove  went 
societies.  Freemasonry  In  particular,  and  othei 
anti-Christian  movements,  in  order  to  save  tba 
churches  of  Christ  from  being  uepraved,  toi*< 
deem  the  admlnlstrition  of  justice  Irompe^ 
Tereion,  and  our  r^p  ibUcan  government  from 
corruption." 

To  carry  on  this  work  contributions  are 
solicited  from  every  friend  of  the  reform. 

Form  of  Bequbst. — 7  give  and  bequeath  to 
the  National  Christian  Association,  Incorpo- 
rated and  existing  under  the  laws  of  the  State 

of   Illinois,  the  sum  of ■    dollars  for  the 

purposes  of  said  Association,  and  for  whlrh 
vae  receipt  of  its  Treasurer  for  the  time  behif 
Vltll  be  eufficient  dlsclianz';. 

THK  RATIONAL  OONYBNTIOH. 

Pbbbidbnt.— Rev.  J,  S.  T.  Milligan, 
Denison,  Eans. 

Sbcbbtaby.— Rev.  R.N.Countee,Mem- 
phis,  Tenn. 

BTATB  AUXILIABT  ASSOCIATIOKS. 

Alabama.— Pres.,  Prof.  Pickens;  Sec..  S. 
M.  Elliott;  Treas.,  Rev.  C.  B.  Curtis,  aU  of 
Selma. 

CALrroBHiA.— Pres^  L.  B.  Lathrop,  HoUls 
ter;  Cor.  Sec,  Mrs.  U.  P.  Merrill,  Woodland- 
Treas.,  C.  Ruddock,  Woodland.  ' 

CoNHBCTicuT.— Preg.,  J.  A.  Conant,  WOIi 
mantle;  Sec,  Geo.  Smith,  WilUmantlc ;  Trea*. 
C.  T.  Collins,  Windsor. 

iLUNOis.— Pres.,  J.  P.  Stoddard;  Sec.,  M 
N.  Butler;  Treat.,  W.  I.  PhllUps  all  at  Cv- 
tutsure  office. 

INDI1.NA.— Pres.,  William  H.  Flgg,  Reno 
Sec,  8.  L.  Cook,  Albion;  Treas.,  Beiil.  Ulah 
Silver  Lake. 

Iowa.— PreB.,Wm.  Johnston.ColIeee  Sprlnes ' 
Cor  Sec.,  C.  D.  Trumbull,  Morning  Sun- 
Treas.,  James  Harvey,  Pleasant  Plain,  Jeffer. 
Bon  Co. ;  Lecturer,  C.  F.  Hawlev,  WTieaton   111 

Kansas.— Pree.,  J.  S.  T.  Mllflgan,  Denlaon' 
Sec.,  S.  Hart,  Lecompton;  Treas.,  J.  A.  Tor 
rence,  Denison. 

MA8S4.0HU3BTTB.— Pree.,  8.  A.  Pratt;  Sec 
Mrs.  E.  D.  Bailey;  Treas., David  Mannlng.Sr.' 
Worcester. 

MiOHiOAN.— Pres.,  D.  A.  Richards,  Brlirhton 
Sec'y,  H.  A.  Dav,  WUllamBton;  ¥«».' 
Geo.  Bwanson,  Jr.,  BedfoiJ. 

MrNHBSOTi..— Pres.,  E.  G.  Paine,  Waslo'a 
Cor.  Sec,  Wm.  Fenton,  St.  Paul:  Rec.  Sec'v 
Mrs.  M.  F.  Morrill,  St.  Cnarles;  Treas..  Wm 
H.  Morrill,  St  Charles. 

Missousi.— Pres.,  B.  F.  Miller,  EaglevlUii ' 
Treas.,  WUllam  Beanchamp,  Avalon ;  Cor.  Sfr 
A.  D.  'Thomas,  Avalon. 

NBBaASKA.— Pres.,  8.  Anstin,  Falrmooit' 
Cor.  Sec,  W.  Bpooner,  Kearney;  TreM.1 
j.C.Fye. 

MxiNB  — Pres.,  Isaac  Jackson,  Harrlaon- 
Sec,  I.  D.  Haines,  Dexter;  Treas,,  H.  W 
Goddard,  West  Sidney. 

Nbw  Hampshjiib.- Pree.,  C.  L.  Baker,  Man 
cheater:  Sec,  8.  C.  Kimball,  New  Market 
Treas.,  James  .;.  French,  Canterbury. 

Nbw  York.- Pres.,  F.  W.  Capwell,  Dale: 
Sec'y,  John  Wallace,  Syracuse;  Trema.,  M 
Merrick,  Syracose. 

Ohio.— Pres.,  F.  M.  Sjiencer,  New  Concord; 
Rec  Sec,  8.  A.  Georee,  Manstleld;  Cor.  Sec 
and  Treas..  C.  W.  hiatt,  Columbus;  Agent 
W.  B.  Stoddard,  Columbus. 

Pbhhstlvania.- Cor.  Sec,  N.  Callender 
ThompMs;  Treat.,  W.  B.Berteli,  WUkeebarre. 

VBBMOirr.— Pre*.,  W.  R.  Laird,  St.  Johns- 
bury;  Sec,  C  W  Potter. 

WiBOOHBiH.— Pres.,  J.  W.  Wood,    Baraboo; 
Sec,  W.  W.  Ames,  Menoaonle;  Treas.,  U.  S 
Brin«i,  Vitus*. 


8 


THE  CHRISTIAK  CYNOSURE. 


Sbptembeb  13, 1888 


The  Christian  Cynosure. 

J.  BLANCHAKD.  HINRT  L.  KILLOGG. 


CHICAeO,   THTJB8DAT,    SEPTEMBEK  13,  1888. 


AN  URGENT   MATTER. 


Oar  publisher  has  just  sent  to  some  200  delin- 
quent subscribers,  who  are  owing  the  Cynosure  over 
FiFTEBN  iiuNDBED  DOLLARS,  a  personal,  written  re- 
quest that  they  do  the  just  thing,  remember  the 
Scripture  command,  to  "Owe  no  man  anything," 
and  pay  the  small  bill  which  they  have  allowed  to 
accumulate  against  them  immediately.  The  pub- 
lisher has  written  these  friends  kindly.  We  hope 
his  letter  will  be  sufficient.  But  as  some  may  be 
indifferent  until  the  case  is  presented  from  another 
point  of  view,  the  editors  wish  to  say  to  them: — 

That  objections  to  the  account  may  be  admitted, 
but  you  will  rarely  be  able  to  make  them  good.  Be- 
cause we  have  sent  you  every  week: 

1.  A  statement  of  your  account  upon  the  address 
label,  which  shows  the  date  to  which  the  subscription 
is  paid. 

2.  A  statement  of  the  terms  under  which  the  pa- 
per is  continued.  This  is  on  the  fint  page,  and  in 
the  first  column,  where  every  eye  can  see  it. 

Now,  your  publisher  had  a  right  to  believe,  if  you 
sent  no  order  to  stop  the  paper  when  the  subscrip- 
tion expired,  that  you  wished  it  continued  and  would 
pay  the  full  rate.  This  was  his  proposition  to  you, 
REPEATED  "WEEK  BY  WEEK,  If  you  did  not  wish  to 
accept  it,  you  did  not  send  him  a  postal  card  (one 
cent)  and  tell  him  so;  and  if  you  object  to  his  bill, 
you  simply  enter  complaint  against  what? — your 
own  neglect. 

Now,  that  you  have  required  the  paper  to  be  sent 
a  year  or  two  without  prepayment,  is  it  not  reason- 
able that  the  N.  C.  A.  should  be  no  longer  compelled 
to  carry  this  burden?  If  you  were  a  poor,  colored 
pastor,  we  would  raise  money  and  send  the  paper 
freely.  But  you  ^are  not,  and  if  you  assume  that 
you  deserve  to  receive  the  paper  gratuitously,  you 
ought  to  prove  it.  As  the  case  stands  you  are,  so 
long  as  you  withhold  payment  of  a  just  bill  (and 
one  which  the  U.  S.  laws  maintain),  compelling  the 
N.  C.  A.  to  publish  the  paper  at  a  loss,  and,  thereby, 
using  up  funds  which  should  go  to  pay  lecturers  and 
circulate  tracts.  The  amount  named  above  would 
employ  three  men  like  Bro.  Davidson  of  Louisiana. 
Dear  friends,  look  at  this  matter  as  you  would  if  on 
the  N.  C.  A.  Board,  and  remember  that  these  numer- 
ous small  amounts  make  a  large  sum  put  together. 
It  is  little  for  you,  but  it  is  a  serious  matter  for  the 
National  Association. 


THB  VERMONT  CANVASS. 


Tqk  Southern  Ministers'  Fond  has  not  been 
made  conspicuous  in  our  columns  for  several  months. 
It  is  not  because  the  excellence  of  this  means  of 
promoting  the  reform  is  any  the  less,  but  we  were 
confident  that  the  $1,500  asked  for  last  year  would 
come  in.  The  suDscriptions  from  the  Carpenter 
fund  in  the  hands  of  Dr.  Roy  have  more  than  made 
up  the  balance,  lacking  in  the  last  report  of  dona- 
tions, or  about  $270.  It  is  the  desire  of  the  mem- 
bers of  the  N.  C.  A.  Board  that  this  fund  be  con- 
tinued, and  as  our  next  number  opens  the  new  vol- 
ume, the  proposition  for  a  new  year  will  be  put  be- 
fore our  generous  readers. 


Campaign  Clubs  of  ten  subscribers  for  11,  all  at 
one  office,  may  be  sent  in  at  any  time.  The  sub- 
scription of  all  these  clubs  expires  Nov.  1.  This 
remarkable  offer  has  brought  in  hundreds  of  names; 
it  should  bring  thousands.  The  reports  of  the 
lodge  standing  of  candidates  will  be  resumed  next 
week. 


MiDDLEBtJRT,  Vt.,  Aug.  29,  1888. 

Dear  Readers  of  the  CYNOstrRE: — We  reached 
here  day  before  yesterday,  Aug.  27,  and  found  one 
of  the  finest  crowds  I  ever  saw  assembled,  for  a  Re- 
publican rally.  I  judge  three  thousand  persons 
were  present.  The  city  was  blooming  with  flags, 
and  beaming  with  stars.  Mr.  Grriffin,  (Anti-saloon 
Republican)  of  Kansas,  was  speaking.  He  told  the 
crowd,  "There  was  no  hope  for  Prohibition  but  to 
turn  the  guns  of  the  grand  Republican  party  on  the 
liquor  traffic."  Every  bitter  condemnation  of  the 
saloon  was  applauded  loudly  by  the  people. 

The  last  speaker,  Mr.  Dewey,  of  Michigan,  with 
an  immense  memory  of  its  history,  argued  earnestly 
that  the  prosperity  and  happiness  of  the  United 
States  rose  and  sunk  with  the  tariff!  He  lauded 
Gen.  Jackson  for  his  threat  to  hang  secession 
"higher  than  Haman,"  in  the  person  of  John  C. 
Calhoun;  but  especially  for  his  tariff  protection,  and 
the  prosperity  of  the  people  under  him.  (Some  of 
us  remember  the  wail  of  business  under  his  throttle 
of  the  National  Bank,  and  that  he  was  a  Democrat, 
bitterly  cursed  by  what  is  now  the  "Republican 
party.")    He  spoke  sneeringly  of 

THE   prohibitionists, 

who  meekly  waited  till  the  Republican  rally  was 
over,  and  yesterday  got  two  magnificently  tali  spruce 
poles  and  were  raising  them  to  hang  out  their  Fisk 
and  Brook's  flag.  The  chief  of  police  came  on 
them  and  ordered  .them  to  stop.  The  young  men 
kept  on.  "If  you  put  your  shovel  in  the  ground 
again,"  said  the  policeman,  "I  will  arrest  you." 
The  young  men  worked  on  all  the  same,  and  the 
policeman  subsided. 

Yesterday,  all  day,  I  attended  the  Addison  Coun- 
ty Congregational  Ministers'  Association.  Being 
vacation,  President  Brainerd  was  absent  and  some 
others.  Nine  ministers,  however,  were  present.  I 
was  made  an  honorary  member  and  participated  in 
the  execution  of  an  excellent  program.  I  was 
likewise  permitted  to  address  the  Association,  which 
I  did  in  words  nearly  as  follows: 

Respected  Bbethben: — Mrs.  Blanchard  and  I  were 
babtized  in  the  white  church  on  the  hill  yonder,  years 
before  you  brethren  had  come  to  live  with  us.  When  I 
left  my  native  State,  Vermont  was  a  unit  in  condemna- 
tion of  the  Masonic  lodge,  as  owning  another  sworn 
allegiance  than  that  to  the  United  States,  and  practicing 
other  worship  than  that  appointed  by  Christ.  The  ven- 
erable Father  Merrill,  the  sainted  Bushnell,  of  Cornwall, 
the  theologian  Hopkins,  of  New  Haven,  Daniel  O.  Mor- 
ton, of  Shorehani,  Lamb,  of  Bridgeport,  and  others  of 
whom  the  world  was  not  worthy,  all  then  abhorred  the 
lodge  as  I  did  then,  have  since  done,  and  do  now.  As 
to  the  little  lodges,  got  up  and  run  by  Masons,  they  are 
related  to  that  mother  lodge,  as  Sunday-schools  to  the 
church.  And  they  cover  the  land,  as  Baal's  altars  in  the 
time  of  Elijah. 

John  D.  Caldwell,  a  leading,  perhaps  the  leading  Ma- 
son of  Ohio,  in  their  Masonic  Temple  m  Cincinnati, 
where  I  went  to  purchase  "Rebold's  General  History  of 
Masonry  in  Europe,"  said  to  me,  'We  respect  such  gen- 
tlemen as  you  are,  for  we  know  you  are  sincere,  and  be- 
cause you  must  be  atoare  that  wk  are  disintegrating 
YOUR  churches!  "  In  Boston  there  are  571  secret  lodges 
to  323  churches.  We  need  only  to  look  at  these  two 
forces  to  see  that  the  lodges,  swallowing  young  men  by 
thousands,  money  by  millions,  and  their  time  by  life- 
times, are  "disintegrating  those  churches."  And  now, 
brethren,  I  have  come  back  to  these  hills,  dear  as  famil- 
iar friends,  as  Elijah  came  to  Israel,  to  see  if  God  will 
turn  the  heart  of  this  people  back  from  the  altars  of 
Baal  to  the  altar  of  Jehovah-Christ.  I  wish  to 
preach  in  the  churches  of  this  Association  as  I  have 
preached  in  five  of  the  Congregational  churches  in  the 
south  of  the  State. 

One  pastor  wishes  me  to  preach  to  his  people 
here.     And  others  yet  may. 

Rev.  Mr.  Byington,  of  Shoreham,  gave  the  best 
and  soundest  exegesis  on  Satan  I  ever  listened  to. 
Rev.  Mr.  Stebbins,  endorsed  by  Professor  Yager,  of 
the  College,  and  also  by  the  moderator,  Rev.  Mr. 
Hague,  suggested  that  it  was  hazardous  to  say  that 
Satan,  a  spirit,  requires  time  for  locomotion,  since 
spirits  live  in  eternity,  not  in  time.  The  Association 
voted  that  the  manuscript  be  given  me  to  be  pub- 
lished in  the  Cynosure.     AH  will  be  pleased  with  it. 

The  Cynosure  has  said  that  Yermonters  are  the 
freest-minded  people  on  earth,  and  we  believe  it; 
though  with  specific  differences,  the  other  New  Eng- 
land States  belong  to  the  same  genus.  True,  Jo- 
seph Smith  and  Brigham  Young  were  Vermonters. 
But,  ^'corrvptio  optimi  pessima"  (the  best  thing  cor- 
rupted becomes  the  worst).  And  Mormonism  and 
Masonry  are  among  the  worst  things.  When  Ver- 
mont set  her  heel  on  the  lodge-serpent  in  1832,  a 
little  brassy,  fifth-rate  lawyer  of  Vergennes  was  the 
only  one  of  any  notoriety  who  had  the  audacity  to 
brave  the  righteous,  public  sentiment  of  an  enlight- 
ened people,  by  stapding  for  Freemasonry  without 


giving  a  solitary  reason  for  so  doing.  As  the 
lodges  of  Vermont  went  under  the  auctioneer's  ham- 
mer, perhaps  Phillip  C.  Tucker's  reason  for  adher- 
ing to  Masonry  was  in  the  property  left  in  the  lodges 
when  good  men  forsook  them. 

In  my  Freshman  year  in  Middlebury  College  this 
Phillip  C.  Tucker  came  from  Vergennes  and  took  up 
on  the  wrong  side  of  some  case  in  the  court  house, 
and  slung  insults  at  the  people  generally,  "from  the 
sublime  and  reverend  Dr.  Bates,"  the  college  presi- 
dent, who  had  nothing  to  do  with,  or  interest  in  the 
suit,  to  every  other  decent  citizen  who  shared  public 
confidence  at  the  time. 

I  well  remember  the  scathing  retort  of  Hon.  Mr. 
Phelps,  afterwards  Senator,  father  of  our  present 
minister  to  England.     He  spoke  thus: 

"Your  Honor,  this  plain  case  needs  no  argument; 
and  as  to  the  opposing  attorney,  he  has  absolutely 
uttered  nothing  fit  to  be  replied  to.  He  has  made 
no  argument.  He  has  attempted  none.  He  has  pre- 
sented neither  precedents  nor  principles  to  assist 
this  court  and  jury  to  discern  or  apply  the  law  to 
the  facts  involved  in  this  case.  He  has  come  here  and 
reared  himself  up  like  a  bear  on  his  haunches,  and 
hissed  at  citizens  of  the  place  who  are  no  way  con- 
cerned in  the  case,  without  even  mentioning  the 
points  Involved  in  it." 

This  withering  rebuke  fell  harmless  on  the  chunky 
little  man,  who  had  no  sensibilities  to  be  wounded, 
but  seemed  rather  pleased  with  having  attracted  so 
much  notice  of  an  eminent  jurist.  And  yet  the 
Chicago  Voice  of  Masonry,  in  giving  the  history  of 
the  fall  and  revival  of  the  Vermont  Grand  Lodge, 
has  made  a  hero  of  Mr.  Phillip  C.  Tucker  for  his  defi- 
ance of  the  laws  of  the  State,  which  prohibited,  and 
should  have  puni8hed,hi8  share  in  the  perpetuation  of 
the  mockeries  of  the  lodge  which  had  murdered  a  citi- 
zen of  New  York.  • 

Gen.  Fisk,  we  learn,  had  a  strong  gathering  at 
St.  Johnsbury  last  night.  Burlington  only  gave  ten 
Prohibition  votes  four  years  ago.  The  increase  is 
steady  everywhere. 

I  learn  the  prospects  of  the  opening  college  year 
in  Middlebury  are  very  encouraging.  Dr.  Brainerd 
is  away;  but  his  bright  and  charming  family  of  chil- 
dren entertain  Mrs.  Blanchard,  by  the  mother's  di- 
rection, delightfully.  Professor  Yager,  a  clear- 
thinking,  solid  man,  treated  me  in  the  Association 
with  much  urbanity,  and  our  stay  is  made  happy. 
We  leave  to-morrow  for  Burlington,  to  attend  the 
Prohibition  rally,  and  hold  up  the  hands  of  their 
Moses,  Gen.  Fisk.  A  meeting  is  appointed  for  me 
at  Hardwick,  and  others  may  follow,  of  which  our 
readers  shall  hear  in  due  time. 

Hardwick,  Vt,,  Sept.  3. — The  Stars  and  Stripes 
are  floating  in  the  breeze  here  again  this  morning. 
They  were  hauled  down  yesterday  (the  Sabbath). 

On  Saturday  Gen.  Fisk  had  an  excellent  meeting 
in  Burlington.  The  large  Opera  Hall  was  not 
crowded,  but  fullj  and,  judging  by  the  applause,  al- 
most the  entire  mass  were  Prohibitionists;  and  if 
any  were  not,  they  were  in  a  hopeful  way.  The 
General's  speech  was  short,  pleasant  and  popular. 
In  that  he  showed  his  good  sense,  not  to  commit 
suicide  by  speaking  himself  to  death,  while  he  has 
plenty  of  very  able  speakers  with  him  to  carry  the 
masses  by  fact  and  argument.  To-morrow  (Tues- 
day) will  decide  whether  Republicans  have  gained 
or  lost  in  Vermont  in  the  last  four  years. 

We  came  out  here  to  Hardwick  Saturday  evening. 
Yesterday  I  preached  to  a  full  congregation  in  the 
M.  E.  church.  I  remembered  our  reform  distinctly 
in  the  prayer,  and  next  Sabbath  I  am  to  preach  in 
the  same  church  directly  against  the  lodge.  The 
pastor  and  stewards  cheerfully  acquiesce.  After 
discussing  the  religious  nature  and  bearings  of  the 
lodge,  I  am  to  discuss  its  relations  to  civil  govern- 
ment, particularly  to  the  laws  of  Vermont.  I  hope 
to-morrow  or  next  day  to  go  to  the  State  capital, 
Montpelier,  to  read  the  records  of  the  legislature, 
that  I  may  give  Vermonters  the  exact  state  of  their 
laws  on  the  subject  of  Freemasonry. 


LB.  BROOKS  AND  HIS    DBMIT. 

The  readers  of  this  number  will  notice  the  case 
of  Joseph  H.  Brown,  of  Marlboro,  N.  H.,  repub- 
lished from  the  Christian  Witness  of  Boston,  organ 
of  the  National  Holiness  Association.  In  order  to 
leave  the  lodge  he  took  a  demit,  as  a  method  of 
withdrawal  from  direct  contact  with  those  associa- 
tions, which  first  became  distasteful,  and  then  were 
seen  to  be  an  evil  not  be  fellowshiped  by  a  Chris- 
tian man.  Other  similar  cases  could  be  named  by 
the  score.  One  brother  who  became  an  eminent  de- 
gree-worker left  the  lodge  in  this  way.  We  believe, 
that  were  the  truth  known,  there  are  hundreds  of 
thousands  of  men  living  who  have  thus  quietly 
separated  themselves  from  the  lodges  not  seeing 


n«^ 


•.  *». 


SXPTKHBER  13,  1888 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYITOSUKE. 


their  iniquity  very  clearly,  but  enough  to  be  assured 
that  they  have  no  fellowship  a  Christian  can  safely 
cultivate. 

But  such  a  case  as  that  of  Nathaniel  Colver  was 
different.  His  conscience  was  suddenly  and  power- 
fully aroused,  and  his  strong,  independent,  com- 
bative nature  could  not  for  a  moment  submit  to  the 
dictation  of  the  lodge.  In  God's  providence  a  dis- 
agreement that  might  have  been  smoothed  over  (and 
is  in  moBtcases),arose  di  ectly  into  a  combat  in  which 
neither  side  would  yield,  and  Colver's  moral  courage 
overpowered  the  Satanic  influence  which  had  nearly 
gotten  the  mastery  over  him.  He  marched  out  of 
the  lodge  face  to  the  foe;  most  men  hack  out.  But 
even  the  bold,  unconquerable  Colver  was  shackled 
for  years  by  his  lodge  oaih,  as  he  tells  us,  and  did 
not  at  once  fully  renounce  and  rid  bis  conscience  of 
the  whole  iniquitous  business. 

Now,  in  respect  to  Dr.  Brooks,  whom  the  tyno- 
sure  has  recommended  to  our  American  anti-lodge 
voters  along  with  Gen.  Fisk,  we  must  give  these 
facts  a  fair  hearing.  But  the  argument  of  Bro. 
Butler,  of  last  week  (which  he  gives  even  more 
forcibly  in  the  Birmingham  Free  Press),  is  not  to  be 
forgotten.  He  states  the  principle  which  we  hold  to 
be  fundamental,  that  the  law  of  Christ  demands  en- 
tire separation  from  the  secret  lodge  in  any  and 
every  form.  And  this  rule  of  Christian  duty  is  as 
inflexible  against  the  lodge  as  against  any  other  in- 
iquity. But  civil  duties  devolve  upon  the  good  and 
evil  alike,  and  we  vote  for  men  who  cannot 
repeat  the  Apostles'  Creed  and  the  Shorter  Catechism. 
But  in  order  to  do  our  whole  duty  as  citizens,  we 
have  resolved  not  to  assist  a  man  to  office  who 
works  with  the  lodge.  Here  comes  in  the  question 
•  of  Dr.  Brooks  and  his  Masonic  demit.  He  took  it 
years  ago,  and  says  he  is  not  now  a  member  of  any 
secret  society.  The  presumption  is,  therefore,  that 
it  is  not  his  purpose  to  ever  make  use  of  that  de- 
mit for  a  Masonic  purpose.  He  does  not  tell  us 
whether  he  will  ever  do  so  or  not;  and  taking  all  the 
circumstances  into  account,  such  a  question  would 
seem  uncalled  for  and  unkind.  Under  the  idiotic 
Masonic  rule,  "once  a  Mason  always  a  Mason,"  that 
demit  can  be  used  to  reinstate  Dr.  Brooks  as  a  Free- 
mason. We  do  not  believe  he  will  ever  so  use  it,  and 
with  this  confidence  can  vote  for  him. 


— The  Chicago  auxiliary  to  the  N.  C.  A.  work 
holds  a  meeting  on  Saturday  September  15,  in  this 
office  at  3:45  p.  m.,  for  the  election  of  officers,  and 
to  transact  any  other  business  proper  to  come  before 
the  body,  • 

— Dr.  J.  E.  Roy,  as  trustee  of  the  fund  left  by 
Mr.  Carpenter,  has  ordered  1,000  copies  of  "Stories 
of  the  Gods"  sent  to  Bro.  I.  R.  B.  Arnold  to  be  dis- 
tributed by  the  "Mississippi  Expedition."  He  vis- 
ited Bro.  Arnold  lately,  and  is  much  pleased  with 
his  work  against  the  unholy  orders.  From  the  same 
fund  have  been  issued  two  handsome  tracts,  one  a 
sketch  of  Mr.  Carpenter's  life,  the  other  containing 
some  of  his  published  writings  against  the  lodge. 

— Rev.  Joseph  A.  Leach,  who  has  been  aiding  the 
editor  of  the  Cynosure  in  the  campaign  in  Vermont, 
we  are  glad  to  notice  will  continue  in  that  work  dur- 
ing September.  Though  long  opposed  to  secret  so- 
cieties, he  has  learned  much  respecting  their  true 
character  of  which  he  had  been  unaware.  He  wi:ites: 
"I  see  and  feel  every  day  moie  and  more  the  im- 
portance of  this  cause  of  which  so  little  is  known  in 
this  region.  The  work  here  must  be  pressed  mainly 
by  personal  work  with  those  not  yet  entangled  by 
the  lodge.  If  our  people  can  only  be  made  to  see 
the  terrible  curse  as  it  has  been  revealed  to  me,  they 
will  act  strongly." 

— We  had  supposed  the  Chicago  Sabbath  Associ- 
ation was  a  distinctively  Christian  body.  It  seems, 
however,  not  to  be,  since  it  joins  hands  with  lodges 
and  clubs  of  all  sorts  to  secure  the  closing  of  sa- 
loons, etc,  on  the  Lord's  day,  and  is  preparing  for 
a  great  Sabbath  meeting  for  this  end.  The  objec- 
tion to  this  method  of  promoting  Sabbath  observ- 
ance is,  that  it  does  not  promote  it,  never  can,  and 
never  will.  And  why?  Because  the  labor  lodges 
and  clubs  and  unions  and  assemblies  want  business 
to  cease,  not  that  they  may  have  the  day  for  the 
worship  of  God,  but  for  their  own  pleasure,  for  odd 
jobs  about  their  homes.  So  far  as  any  good  and 
useful  purpose  is  concerned,  as  a  rule,  it  is  all  the 
same  before  God  whether  a  man  works  or  plays  on 
his  day.  Let  the  lodges  have  their  way  to  secure 
the  enforcement  of  laws  against  Sabbath  labor. 
These  should  be  enforced  and  business  should  cease; 
but  let  the  Christian  churches  labor  unitedly  in  a 
■  Christian  way  to  gain  the  day  for  God.  They  may 
be  assured  that  Satan  docs  not  intend  to  aid  them 
in  this  matter,  and  they  cannot  safely  joip  hands 
with  him. 


PBRBONAL  NOTSa. 

— Elder  A.  D.  Freeman,  of  Downer's  Grove,  111., 
has  been  spending  the  summer  in  the  vicinity  of 
Adams,  New  York.  He  lately  returned  in  apparent 
rugged  health. 

— Elder  J.  F.  Browne  has  so  far  recovered  as  to 
return  this  week  to  New  Iberia,  to  begin  the  second 
year  of  Howe  Institute.  Mrs.  Browne  accompanies 
him,  and  they  ask  that  the  prayers  of  our  readers 
attend  them. 

— Bro.  H.H.Hinman,  having  recovered  sufficiently 
to  permit  him  to  safely  travel,left  this  office  last  week 
Monday  for  Aurora,  Princeton,  Galesburg  and  other 
points  on  the  Burlington  road,  to  secure  further  sub- 
scriptions for  the  proposed  district  office  in  New 
Orleans. 

— Rev.  J.  M.  Foster  of  Cincinnati,  our  valued 
correspondent  and  district  secretary  of  the  National 
Reform  Association,  expects  to  spend  some  time 
during  the  winter  in  Washington  and  vicinity,  and 
will  be  welcomed  at  the  N.  C.  A.  office,  No.  215,  Four- 
and-a-half  street. 

— Mr.  G.  A.  Conrad  of  Grinnell,  Iowa,  who  grad- 
uated at  Wheaton  last  June,  enters  the  Union  Park 
Theological  Seminary  in  this  city  this  week.  Bro. 
Conrad  spent  his  summer  vacation  a  year  ago  in  the 
colporteur  work  under  engagement  to  the  Illinois 
State  Association. 

— Bro.  Jonathan  W.  Moss  of  Cameron,  West  Vir- 
ginia,  and  his  wife,  have  lately  been  led  through 
the  waters  of  affliction.  A  little  son  in  his  second 
year  has  been  taken  from  them  in  God's  providence. 
May  their  trust  in  this  hour  be  stayed  upon  him 
who  says,  "Suffer  the  little  ones,  and  forbid  them 
not,  to  come  unto  me." 

— Rev.  L.  G.  Jordan  of  Texas,  the  eloquent  col- 
ored Prohibition  orator,  is  removing  his  family  to 
Illinois,  After  the  Indianapolis  Convention  he  spent 
some  time  in  Chicago  and  vicinity,  and  expected  at 
one  time  to  speak  in  Virginia  under  engagement  to 
the  Prohibition  campaign  committee.  He  spoke  at 
the  Prohibition  camp  meeting  at  Decatur,  111.,  and 
vicinity,  and  now  is  locating  in  that  city. 

— Dispatches  from  Sag  Harbor,  Long  Island,  on 
Friday  night,  reported  to  the  world  of  readers  who 
have  been  charmed  with  her  books,  that  Mrs.  Harriet 
Beecher  Stowe  was  dying.  Some  months  ago  she 
came  to  live  at  the  home  of  Rev.  Charles  Edward 
Stowe  at  North  Haven,  near  Sag  Harbor.  About 
the  last  of  August  congestion  of  the  brain  set  in. 
Mrs.  Stowe  lay  in  a  partially  unconscious  condition. 
There  is  no  hope  of  her  recovery.  The  members  of 
the  family  were  called  to  her  bedside  last  Thursday. 
Mrs.  Stowe  is  now  77  years  old. 


BDUGATIONAL  NOTES. 


— Bro.  I.  R.  B,  Arnold  writes  a  strong  appeal  in 
the  Free  Methodist  for  the  institution  at  Orleans, 
Nebraska.  It  is  embarrassed,  but  the  debt  is  not 
large,  and  can  be  canceled  with  proper  effort,  and  a 
valuable  property  and  promising  young  institution 
saved. 

— Earlham  College  entered  upon  another  year's 
work  last  week.  The  institution  is  to  be  congratu- 
lated, says  the  Christian  Worker,  upon  its  favorable 
auspices  and  outlook.  It  begins  with  new  buildings 
in  addition  to  the  old  ones,  better  adapted  to  its 
needs,  than  anything  it  has  ever  had.  We  under- 
stand the  prospect  of  attendance  is  good,  and  every 
indication  promises  a  successful  year. 

— The  fall  term  at  Wheaton  opened  last  Tuesday 
very  favorably  with  a  considerable  increase  in  at- 
tendance over  last  year.  The  Faculty  of  last  year 
are  in  their  places  as  then,  except  the  Lady  Princi- 
pal. Miss  Hulbert  resigned  last  year  and  is  now 
teaching  in  Mr.  Moody's  school  for  girls  at  North- 
field,  Mass.  Her  place  is  taken  by  Miss  Guitner, 
an  experienced  teacher  who  some  years  since  occu- 
pied the  same  position  at  Westfield  College. 

— Geneva  College,  Beaver  Falls,  Pa.,  began  its 
academical  year  for  1888-9  last  week  Wednesday. 
Rev.  T,  P,  Stevenson,  of  the  Christian  /Statesman,  is 
president  of  the  Board  of  Corporators,  and  Rev.  C. 
D,  Trumbull  of  Morning  Sun,  Iowa,  vice-president. 
Rev,  W.  J.  Coleman  takes  the  chair  of  Political 
Philosophy  and  History  vacated  by  Dr.  D,  McAllis- 
ter, when  he  assumed  the  pastorate  of  the  Pitts- 
burgh Reformed  Presbyterian  church.  Prof.  Cole- 
man was  engaged  in  the  work  of  ttie  National  Re- 
form Association  in  Ohio,  and  addressed  the  last 
anti-secrecy  convention  in  that  State.  President 
George,  who  is  also  the  presiding  officer  of  the  N. 
C.  A,,  continu3s  to  be  the  efficient  head  of  this  fine 
institution. 


OUB   WABHINGTON  LETTER. 

Washington,  Sept.  7,  1888. 

June,  July,  August,  September — and  Congress  is 
still  here.  The  present  week  has  been  an  interest- 
ing one  in  both  branches.  Everybody  had  become 
weary  of  the  tariff,  and  a  change  of  subject  that 
promised  to  bring  out  the  fire  of  the  big  artillery  on 
both  sides  in  the  House  of  Representatives  was  to 
be  welcomed.  It  was  on  Tuesday  that  the  Retalia- 
tion bill  came  up  for  consideration,  and  interest  was 
manifest  all  over  the  hall  when  Representative  Mc- 
Creary  arose  to  defend  President  Cleveland's  retali- 
atory message.  The  gentleman  from  Kentucky  com- 
menced his  speech  by  complimenting  the  President 
on  the  dignity  and  courage  displayed  by  him,  and 
said  that  this  Fisheries  message  and  the  Tariff  mes- 
sage of  Mr.  Cleveland  should  be  recorded  together 
in  history.  One  sought  to  reduce  taxes  and  lighten 
the  burden  of  the  people;  the  other  looked  to  the 
maintenance  of  the  dignity  and  rights  of  American 
people. 

The  opposition  was  led  by  Representative  Hitt  of 
Illinois.  He  characterized  the  fisheries'  story  as 
one  of  wrong  and  outrage;  wrong  unredressed  and 
insult  unavenged;  and  assailed  the  President  for  his 
hook.  He  charged  that  the  Treaty  was  a  bargain 
between  the  administration  and  Canada,  and  said 
that  Mr.  Mills,  by  his  bill,  had  endeavored  to  make 
good  Mr.  Bayard's  promises;  he  trusted  that  when 
men  ceased  to  regard  Presidents'  messages  as  cam- 
paign documents  and  electioneering  devices,  the 
question  would  be  solved  permanently  for  the  mani- 
fest good  of  both  parties,  and  the  permanent  peace 
of  both  nations.  Applause  and  congratulations  fol- 
lowed the  close  of  Mr.  Hitt's  speech,  and  prefaced 
the  remarks  of  Mr.  Chipman  of  Michigan,  who  fa- 
vored the  bill,  but  wanted  peace.  He  said  that,  ex- 
cept Pennsylvania,  all  the  nine  States  on  the  lakes 
wanted  free-trade  and  commercial  union  with  Can- 
ada. Speaking  of  the  suggestion  that  two  years' 
notice  should  be  given  to  England  of  the  proposed 
action  as  a  matter  of  diplomatic  courtesy,  he  gave 
utterance  to  the  following  epigram:  "The  nearer  a 
man  approaches  a  diplomat  in  form,  the  nearer  he  is 
to  a  fool;  the  nearer  he  approaches  one  in  substance, 
the  nearer  he  is  to  a  knave."  He  characterized  En- 
gland as  the  monster  money  changer  in  God's  tem- 
ple of  the  earth,  and  said  he  favored  giving  her  just 
what  was  hers  and  no  more.  It  was  on  Tuesday, 
too,  that  proceedings  became  unusually  lively  in  the 
Senate,  Mr,  Reagan  was  led  into  a  speech  on  the 
greenback  question,  in  which  he  remarked  that  the 
mind  could  not  realize  the  extent  of  a  million  dol- 
lars; that  a  million  contained  more  units  than  there 
had  passed  seconds  since  the  birth  of  Christ,  Mr 
Blair  replied  that  he  had  made  a  calculation  that 
59,000,0000,000  seconds  had  passed  during  the 
Christian  era;  so  that  Mr,  Reagan's  statement  con- 
tained only  one-sixtieth  part  of  the  truth,  which  was 
about  the  average  of  truth  in  his  general  utterances. 
He  expressed  sympathy  with  the  Senator  from 
Texas  as  being  almost  as  much  of  a  crank  as  him- 
self— even  to  ihe  extent  of  being  a  Prohibitionist, 

Mr,  Reagan  said  that  the  suggestion  that  he  was 
a  crank  was  about  the  hardest  thing  ever  said  about 
him.  He  did  not  care  to  be  in  the  same  category 
with  the  Senator  from  New  Hampshire.  He  (Rea- 
gan) had  voted  for  Prohibition  in  his  own  State,  but 
had  not  asked  anyone  else  to  do  so,  and  in  voting 
he  had  acted  on  his  own  judgment  and  conscience. 
"Why,"  said  Mr.  Blair,  "to  reply  to  one's  own  judg- 
ment is  the  most  absolute  characteristic  of  a  crank." 

A  distinguished  party  of  Chinese  noblemen  trav- 
eling in  this  country  have  been  sight-seeing  in  Wash- 
ington this  week.  They  visited  the  Treasury  Depart- 
ment, and  were  conducted  through  the  vaults,  which 
are  now  being  filled  with  millions  of  standard  silver 
dollars.  They  said  that  since  they  left  China  noth- 
ing had  done  them  so  much  good  as  the  sight  of 
that  great  mass  of  money. 

And  in  this  connection,  some  figures  showing  how 
the  money  is  being  hoarded  may  be  interesting.  On 
Saturday  last  the  amount  of  gold  and  silver  coins 
and  certificates.  United  States  notes,  and  national 
bank  notes  in  circulation  was  $1,360,863,157.  The 
amount  locked  up  in  the  Treasury  was  $598,494,019, 
nearly  one-half  of  the  amount  in  circuldtion.  Al- 
most two-thirds  of  the  amount  in  circulation  is  pa- 
per. About  five-sixths  of  the  stock  in  the  Treasury 
is  gold  and  silver  coin,  almost  equally  divided.  The 
paper  in  circulation  represents  about  twice  the  sum 
of  the  gold  and  silver  coin  in  the  Treasury,  The 
silver  dollars  at  present  locked  up  in  the  Treasury 
would  fill  the  new  hundred  million  dollar  vault  un- 
der the  Treasury  court  yard  almost  three  times  over; 
and  still  they  come.  'There  are  five  times  as  many 
silver  dollars  lying  idle  in  the  Tre'-sury  as  there  are 
in  circulation,  "C 


10 


THE  CHEISTIAN  CTTKOSITRE. 


Sbpt£mb£b  13, 1888 


The  Home. 


BB70ND. 


Thougb  mortal  eyes  know  well  the  nearer  side 

Which,  as  we  turn,  the  turning  moon  displays, 

Ih.  this  unchanging  through  the  changeful  days, 

The  farther  one  no  man  hath  yet  espied: 

What  that  would  show  some  reasoned  rule  doth  hide. 

Mayhap  the  sun's  light  there  more  lustrous  plays, 

Outshining  far  the  earth  observing  rays ; 

80,  mueing,  guess  we,  knowledge  is  denied. 

Of  life  the  lower  half  alone  we  know. 

The  higher,  brighter  part  hath  e/er  been— 

And  still,  to  UB  in  flesh,  remains— unseen ; 

Faith  waits,  content  that  wisdom  wills  it  so, 

The  lesser  glory,  love  to  us  reveals, 

The  greater  glory,  love  awhile  conceals. 

—Flavel  Cook,  D.  D. 


OR0B8-BXAMININO  A  SKEPTIC. 


"I  don't  believe  in  a  personal  God,"  remarked  a 
skeptic  to  F.  R  Jones,  a  Welsh  Presbyterian  minis- 
ter, on  a  railroad  train  between  Toledo  and  Cleve- 
land. 

"Why  not?"  asked  the  minister. 
"Because  I  can't  see  him.     His  existence  is  not 
demonstrable,  capable  of  proof,  like  facts  of  sci- 
ence." 

The  minister  asked,  "Don't  you  believe  that  you 
are  alive,  and  that  I  am  alive?" 
"Yes,"  he  answered. 
"Why  do  you  believe  it?" 
"Because  I  can  see  you  move." 
"Well,"  said  the  minister,  "the  locomotive  that  is 
drawing  this  train  also  moves — is  it  alive?" 
"No,  but  the  engineer  who  runs  it  is  alive." 
"Please  tell  me,  whether  the  engineer  is  a  part  of 
the  machinery  or  a  living  person?" 

"He  is  a  living  person,"  replied  the  skeptic. 
"Now,  sir,"  retorted  the  minister,  "consistency  is 
a  jewel — please  tell  me  why  you  attribute  the  move- 
ment of  the  locomotive  to  a  living  person,  but  deny 
that  God,  who  sets  the  universe  in  motion,  is  a  liv- 
ing person?" 

He  could  not  answer.  Silenced  on  this  argument, 
he  branched  off  into  another  objection  against  Chris- 
tianity. 

"What  I  hate,"  said  he,  "in  orthodoxy,  is  this 
endless  talk  about  creed,  creed,  creed,  thrust  upon 
us  everywhere  and  at  all  times." 

"What  do  you  mean  by  a  man's  creed?"  asked  his 
opponent. 

"I  understand  by  a  creed  that  which  a  man  be- 
lieves." 

"Well,  sir,"  rejoined  the  minister,  "you  have  just 
as  much  creed  as  I  have.  I  believe  there  is  a  per- 
sonal God;  you  believe  the  opposite  doctrine.  I 
believe  in  the  incarnation  of  the  Son  of  God  for  our 
redemption;  you  believe  the  opposite.  I  believe  in 
the  ruined  estate  of  man;  you  believe  the  opposite. 
What  difference  is  there  in  the  bulk  of  our  creed, 
only  that  I  believe  one  side  of  the  question  and  you 
believe  the  other?  Now,  sir,  when  we  come  to  that 
point,  you  have  just  as  much  creed  on  your  side  as 
I  have  on  mine;  but  you  want  the  right  to  advocate 
your  sentiments,  but  wish  to  deny  me  the  right' on 
my  side." 

He  was  silenced  again. 

"But,"  said  the  skeptic,  resuming  the  attack  by 
another  argument,  "Christianity  is  not  capable  of 
scientific  demonstration.  When  we  take  the  sciences, 
all  truths  are  capable  of  demonstration  by  experi- 
ments which  prove  them.  You  can  put  them  to  the 
test.  I  take  peculiar  pleasure  in  the  study  of  chem- 
istry. Its  propositions  are  plain  and  capable  of 
proof  by  facts  and  experiments  which  appeal  to  the 
senses." 

"You  have  studied  chemistry,  have  you?"  inquired 
the  minister. 

"Yes,  sir,"  he  answered. 

"Well,"  resumed  the  minister,  "if  you  are  a  stu- 
dent of  chemistry  you  are  acquainted  with  the  fact 
that  charcoal,  coal,  and  diamond  are  the  same  in 
their  molecules — namely,  carbon.  Now  can  you 
take  a  molecule  out  of  the  charcoal  and  put  it  into 
the  diamond  and  get  a  perfect  thing  of  it?" 
He  acknowledged  he  could  not. 
"Where,  then,"  said  the  minister,  "is  your  demon- 
stration in  chemistry?  But  so  far  as  Christianity  is 
concerned  your  objection  is  not  valid,  for  it  is  capa- 
ble of  spiritual  demonstration.  You  can  try  it  and 
find  it  all  that  God  has  represented  it  to  be.  God 
says  to  all,  'Oh,  taste  and  see.'  Try  it,  and  experi- 
ence will  attest  its  truth.  Millions  have  put  it  to 
the  test  of  their  experience,  and  have  found  it  'the 
power  of  God  unto  salvation  to  every  one  that  be- 
lieveth.' " 
The  skeptic  then,  in  a  aomewhat  ooQciliatoj-^ 


spirit,  acknowledged  that  his  father  and  mother  were 
orthodox,  Christian  people. 

The  minister  inquired,  "Were  they  good  peo- 
ple?" 

"Yes,  excellent;  my  father  was  an  excellent  good 
man." 

"Well,"  inquired  the  minister,  "what  practical 
benefit  do  you  get  by  changing  the  religion  of  your 
parents  for  skepticism?  Does  it  make  you  a  better 
man?  Are  you  a  better  husband  to  your  wife;  a 
better  father  to  your  children;  a  better  citizen  in  the 
community  in  which  you  live?" 

He  frankly  acknowledged  he  was  not. 

"Have  you  a  watch?"  Inquired  the  minister. 

"Yes,  an  excellent  timepiece,"  he  said,  taking  it 
out  and  displaying  a  fine  gold  watch. 

"It  keeps  good  time,  does  it?" 

"Yes." 

"Well,  how  would  jou  trade  it  off?  Would  it  not 
be  for  a  better  timepiece,  one  more  valuable,  rather 
than  an  inferior  one?" 

"Yes;  certainly." 

"Here  again,"  retorted  the  minister,  "you  are  not 
acting  consistently  with  reason;  for  you  have 
changed  the  creed  of  your  parents  for  one  that,  by 
your  own  confession,  does  not  benefit  you  at  all ! 

"Now,  my  brother,"  concluded  the  minister,  "why 
do  you  embrace  infidelity  in  preference  to  the  faith 
of  your  parents?  Is  it  not  only  because  you  love 
sin,  and  the  first  principle  of  Christianity  is  holiness 
— opposition  to  sin?    Is  it  not  so?" 

He  was  speechless. 

The  train  stopped  and  they  separated.  The  skep- 
tic, seeming  loth  to  part  on  unfriendly  terms,  in- 
sisted upon  the  minister's  repairing  to  a  neighboring 
dining-saloon  and  enjoying  a  good  supper  at  his  ex- 
pense.— Pontiac  Weekly  Gazette. 


VARWINI8M  AND  PBATBR. 


At  the  close  of  the  noonday  service  in  the  City 
Temple  recently,  referring  to  his  invitation  to  his 
congregation  to  send  questions  and  diflSculties  to 
him  on  religious  subjects,  Dr.  Joseph  Parker 
said: 

"I  have  been  asked  to  say  whether  the  Darwinian 
theory  is  reconcilable  with  the  biblical  account  of 
creation.  A  little  simple  question  that  could  be  put 
on  the  back  of  a  postcard.  I  reply  that  Darwin  has 
no  theories;  he  was  too  wise  a  man  to  have  anything 
to  do  with  such  brittle  toys.  Darwin  was  not  a  the- 
orist; he  was  an  examiner,  a  student,  an  observer,  a 
man  who  set  down  patiently  what  he  had  seen,  and 
who  had  left  other  people  to  form  theories.  Mr. 
Darwin  not  only  left  the  church,  but  he  owns  in  a 
melancholy  passage,  full  of  the  voice  of  despair,  that 
he  had  lost  all  interest  in  pictures,  in  color,  in  music. 
He  does  not  rejoice  over  the  loss;  he  acknowledges 
it.  It  must  ever  be  so,  I  think.  He  who  lays  hold 
upon  the  living  God  will  take  most  interest  in  pic- 
tures, in  music,  in  flowers,  in  little  children,  in  every 
young  thing  that  gambols  on  the  mead  or  dances  in 
the  sunbeam.  When  we  lose  our  consciousness  of 
God,  we  lose  more  than  that;  a  tremendous  collapse 
takes  place  within  the  whole  range  of  our  nature. 
Do  not  trouble  yourselves,  dear  friends,  about  the 
theory  of  creation.  Only  a  man  here  and  there 
ought  to  ask  himself  anything  about  that.  Think 
of  a  man  climbing  on  the  top  of  an  omnibus  and 
asking  a  brother  man  what  he  thinks  of  the  theory 
of  creation?  A  few  men  must  deal  with  these  ques- 
tions. For  myself,  I  do  not  know  whether  I  am 
common-minded  or  not  in  this  particular,  but  I  find 
it  of  the  highest  advantage  to  assume  the  existence 
of  creation.  I  really  cannot  go  behind  it.  If  you 
will  guarantee  me  300  years,  and  300  more  of  life,  I 
may  do  a  little  more;  but  I  am  obliged  to  accept  the 
universe.  There  are  preachers  who  take  the  universe 
to  pieces  every  Sunday  morning  in  order  that  they 
may  preach  in  it  every  Sunday  evening.  I  think  it 
better  to  accept  creation,  and  leave  great  minds  to 
tussle  and  wrestle  with  things  which  I  really  cannot 
pretend  to  understand.  Another  correspondent  asks 
me  if  prayer  is  answered.  Certainly.  The  question 
ought  never  to  have  been  put.  A  man  cannot  pray 
until  he  has  first  got  the  answer.  That  is  the  mys- 
tery of  the  Divine  method.  He  may  utter  words, 
but  to  pray  is  to  express  an  answer.  Whatsoever 
thing  ye  ask,  if  ye  believe  ye  have  them,  ye  have 
them.  We  have  endeavored  to  define  prayer  here 
again  and  again.  It  is  not  mere  asking;  it  is  not  a 
selfish  interpretation  of  the  details  of  life;  it  is  an 
intelligent,  filial,  loving  submission  of  the  will  to 
God:  'Not  my  will  but  thine  be  done.'  He  prays 
who  says,  'Lord,  I  want  this  dear  little  child  to  live; 
it  will  cut  our  poor  hearts  into  inches,  and  the  house 
will  be  a  great  black  sepnlcher  if  the  child  is  not 

here;  nevertheless '     'That  js  prayer,  {ind  it  is 

always  answered." 


THE  INFIDEL'S  WAQER. 

A  young  man  named  Thorpe,  who  afterwards  be- 
came an  effective  minister  of  that  Gospel  which  at 
first  he  ridiculed,  was  one  of  Mr.  Whitefield's  most 
insulting  opposers;  and,  possessing  an  unusual  tal- 
ent for  mimicry,  he  not  only  interrupted  his  sermons 
in  public,  but  ridiculed  them  in  private  in  convivial 
theatrical  circles. 

On  one  occasion,  at  such  a  gathering  for  revelry 
and  wit,  he  and  three  of  his  companions  laid  a  wager 
for  the  most  effective  imitation  and  ridicule  of  White- 
field's  preaching.  Each  was  to  open  the  Bible  at 
random,  and  deliver  an  extempore  harangue  from 
the  first  verse  that  presented  itself,  and  the  audience, 
after  the  profane  exhibition,  were  to  adjudge  the 
prize. 

Thorpe's  three  competitors  each  went  through  the 
game  with  impious  buffoonery,  and  then  it  came  to 
his  turn.  They  had  the  table  for  their  rostrum;  and 
as  he  was  about  to  step  upon  it,  confident  of  his  su- 
perior ability,  Thorpe  exclaimed,  "1  shall  beat  you 
all."  They  handed  him  the  Bible,  and  when  he 
opened  it  the  invisible  providence  of  God  directed 
his  eye  at  the  first  glance  to  the  verse  in  the  thir- 
teenth chapter  of  Luke's  Gospel — 

"Except  ye  repent,  ye  shall  all  likewise  perish." 

He  read  the  words,  but  the  moment  he  had  ut- 
tered them  he  began  to  see  and  to  feel  their  full  im- 
port. The  sword  of  the  Spirit  in  that  passage  went 
through  his  soul  as  a  flash  of  lightning.  An  instan- 
taneous conviction  of  his  own  guilt  as  a  sinner  be- 
fore God  seized  hold  upon  him;  and  his  conscience 
was  fearfully  aroused.  The  retribution  in  that  pas- 
sage he  felt  was  for  himself,  its  terrors  glared  upon 
him;  and  out  of  that  rapid  and  overwhelming  con- 
viction he  preached. 

His  fervor  and  fire  increased  as  he  went  on,  the 
sympathetic  gloom  of  his  audience  deepened  the 
convictions  in  his  own  soul,  and  the  sentences  fell 
from  his  lips  with  such  intense  and  burning  imagery, 
and  with  such  point  and  power  of  language,  that,  as 
he  afterwards  stated,  it  seemed  to  him  as  if  his  own 
hair  would  stand  erect  with  terror  at  their  awf  ulness. 
Yet  no  man  interrupted  him,  for  all  felt  and  saw, 
from  the  solemnity  of  his  manner,  what  an  over- 
whelming impression  there  was  upon  him;  and 
though  their  astonishment  gradually  deepened  into 
anger,  yet  they  sat  spell-bound,  listening  and  gazing 
at  him.  And  when  he  had  finished  a  profound 
silence  reigned  in  the  whole  circle,  and  not  bne  word 
concerning  the  wager  was  uttered. 

Thorpe  instantly  withdrew  ^rom  the  company, 
without  speaking  a  word,  and  never  returned  to  that 
society;  but,  after  a  season  of  the  deepest  distress 
and  conflict,  passed  into  the  full  light  of  the  Gospel, 
and  at  length  became  a  most  successful  preacher  of 
its  grace. — Dr.  Cheeoer. 


VIEWS  OF   MEN  OF  SCIENCE. 


1.  Sir  William  Thomson,  from  a  study  of  solar 
phenomena,  utterly  denies  the  possibility  of  that  in- 
finite series  of  geological  ages  which  is  the  first  de- 
mand of  the  evolutionist. 

2.  Prof.  Max  Muller,  of  world-wide  reputation, 
points  out  that  the  crowning  faculty  of  articulate 
speech  constitutes  an  impassable  barrier  between 
man  and  beast. 

3.  Dr.  Carruthers,  of  the  British  museum,  states 
that  the  whole  testimony  of  the  vegetable  kingdom 
entirely  contradicts  the  hvpothesis  of  evolution. 

4.  Prof.  Owen  says:  "No  instance  of  change  of 
one  species  into  another  has  ever  been  recorded  by 
man."  And  again:  "Man  is  the  only  species  of  his 
genus." 

5.  The  eminent  Prof.  Virchow  of  Berlin  declares 
that  "man  has  not  descended  from  the  ape,  or  from 
any  other  animal  whatever." 


THE  FREED  SLAVE. 


Something  like  twenty-five  years  ago  a  little  boy 
was  walking  through  the  bush  in  Africa,  and  was 
overtaken  by  a  few  men  on  horseback.  He  was  car- 
rying on  his  head  a  pot  of  fire.  These  men  called 
the  little  boy,  and  one  said,  "Bring  me  a  light  for 
my  pipe." 

The  boy  went  towards  them;  they  seized  him, 
threw  him  across  a  horse,  galloped  away  with  him, 
and  sold  him  in  the  slave  market  not  f.ir  away.  He 
was  re-sold,  and  was  ultimately  brought  to  Lagos. 
It  so  happened  that  the  cook  who  was  in  the  em- 
ployment of  a  missionary  at  Lagos  bought  the 
lad. 

By-and-by  the  man  died,  and  the  lad  took  his 
master's  place,  and,  being  in  an  English  colony,  he 
claimed  his  freedom.  He  proved  an  exceedingly 
Bharp  boy,    tje  was  put  ioto  echool,  trained,  became 


Skptbmbzb  13, 1888 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


11 


afterwards  a  teacher,  then  a  catechist,  and  eventu- 
ally a  minister. 

God  had  been  training  this  lad  and  keeping  him 
for  the  purpose  of  extending  Christian  missions 
towards  Lake  Chad.  The  lad  today  occupies  the 
most  advanced  post  of  one  of  our  missions  in  West- 
ern Africa — and  his  eyes  are  to-day  fixed  upon  Lake 
Chad,  for  he  is  hoping,  as  he  has  the  mastery  of  the 
language  of  that  particular  district,  to  reach  his 
home  by-and  by,  and  carry  to  his  own  people  the 
.  Gospel  which  has  saved  him. — Rev.  J.  Milum. 


HOW  OLD  MUST  I  BBf 


We  commend  the  following  story  to  those  who  do 
not  believe  in  children  being  brought  to  a  saving 
knowledge  of  Christ  when  young. 

"Mother,"  said  a  little  child,  "how  old  must  I  be 
before  I  can  be  a  Christian?" 

And  the  wise  mother  answered,  "How  old  will  you 
have  to  be,  darling,  before  you  can  love  me?" 

"Why,  mother,  I  always  loved  you;  I  do  now, 
and  I  always  shall;"  and  she  kissed  her  mother. 
"But  you  have  not  told  me  yet  how  old  I  shall  have 
to  be." 

The  mother  made  answer  with  another  question : 
"How  old  must  you  be  before  you  can  trust  yourself 
wholly  to  me  and  my  care?" 

"I  always  did,"  she  answered,  and  kissed  her 
mother  again.  "But  tell  me  what  I  want  to  know;" 
and  she  climbed  into  her  mother's  lap,  and  put  her 
arms  about  her  neck. 

The  mother  asked  again,  "How  old  will  you  be 
before  you  can  do  what  I  want  you  to?" 

Then  the  child  whispered,  half  guessing  what  her 
dear  mother  meant,  "I  can  now,  without  growing 
any  older." 

Then  the  mother  said,  "You  can  be  a  Christian 
now,  my  darling,  without  waiting  to  be  older.  All 
you  have  to  do  is  to  love  and  trust,  and  try  to  please 
the  One  who  says,  'Let  the  little  ones  come  unto  me.' 
Don't  you  want  to  begin  now?" 

The  child  whispered,  "Yes." 

Then  they  both  knelt  down,  and  the  mother  prayed, 
and  in  her  prayer  she  gave  to  Christ  her  little  one 
who  wanted  to  be  his. — Friendly  Greetings. 


his  seat  yet."  And  while  they  were  yet  speaking, 
Mr.  Adams  came  in,  he  being  punctual,  while  the 
clock  was  three  minutes  fast. 


Temfekance. 


TBMPERANCB  AND  TBMPBBANGB. 


TOUGH  IT  NOT. 

Children,  do  you  see  the  wine 
In  the  crystal  goblet  shine? 
Be  not  tempted  by  Its  ciiarm; 
It  will  aurely  lead  to  harm. 

Children,  hate  it  I 

Touch  it  never  1 

Fight  it  ever  I 

Do  you  know  what  causeth  woe 
Bitter  as  the  heart  can  know? 
'Tis  thfi  self-same  ruby  wine 
Which  would  tempt  that  soul  of  thine. 

Children,  hute  it  1 

Touch  It  never  1 

Fight  It  ever  1 

Never  let  it  touch  your  lips; 
Never  even  let  the  tips 
Of  your  fingers  touch  the  bowl ; 
Hate  it  from  your  inmost  soul. 

Truly  hate  it  I 

Touch  it  never  1 

Fight  it  ever  1 

Fight  It  1    With  God's  help  stand  fast 
Long  as  life  or  breath  shall  last. 
Htart  meet  heart  and  hand  join  hand; 
Hurl  the  demon  from  our  land. 

Ob,  then,  hate  It  I 

Touch  It  never  1 

Fight  It  ever  1 


We  mean  by  temperance,  total  abstinence  from 
everything  that  can  intoxicate,  whether  rum,  be'ir, 
cider,  tobacco,  chloral  or  opium.  It  is  evident  that 
Democrats,  Republicans,  Catholics  and  many  Prot- 
estants, followers  of  Dr.  Howard  Crosb3',  all  of 
whom  profess  to  favor  temperance,  do  not  so  under- 
stand the  word.  With  them,  not  to  get  drunk  is  tem- 
perance. A  man  who  can  drink  a  pint  of  rum  and 
then  be  able  to  walk  is  temperate;  a  man  who  drinks 
the  same  and  then  cannot  walk  is  intemperate.  A 
man's  temperance  depends  on  how  much  rum  he  can 
carry  off.  At  the  recent  Catholic  National  Temper- 
ance Convention  held  at  Tremont  Temple,  the  lines 
of  prophecy  crossed.  Some  thought  rum-selling  a 
sin,  but  Rev.  Father  Hogan  of  Trenton  said:  "The 
sale  of  liquor  is  not  condemned  by  the  church;  it  is 
not  our  duty  to  denounce  the  saloon-keeper,  to  whom 
we  give  the  sacrament  every  week;  it  is  those  who 
oppose  the  sale  of  liquor  who  must  be  denounced 
and  avoided,  who  are  committing  sin  and  who  are 
not  worthy  of  liberty.  The  sale  is  carried  on  accord- 
ding  to  Catholic  teaching." 

"O,  tha*;  some  power,  the  gift  would  gl'  us, 
To  see  oursel's  as  others  see  us." 


—  Selected. 


PUNCTUALITY. 


"BUM  AND  BBLIOION." 

The  liquor  business  in  America,  as  in  Ireland,  is 
mostly  in  the  hands  of  Roman  Catholic  rum-sellers. 
A  Roman  Catholic  bishop  describes  a  western  city 
as  containing  "1400  saloons  kept  hy  Irishmen  for 
Irishmen." 

The  great  Catholic  council  at  Baltimore  undertook 
two  things:  They  advised  their  people  to  get  out  of 
the  liquor  business,  and  they  ordered  the  priests  to 
get  the  children  out  of  the  public  schools  into  the 
parochial  school.  They  are  making  great  progress 
in  getting  the  children  started  out  of  the  schools, — 
how  is  it  about  starting  the  tum-sellers  out  of  the 
rum  traflBc? 

Said  the  Philadelphia  Oaiholic  lotal  Abstinence 
News: 

"The  license  court  in  Philadelphia  is  now  a  sick- 
ening sight.  Notwithstanding  the  advice  of  the 
church  to  liquor-dealers  to  get  out  of  the  dangerous 
business  and  make  their  living  in  a  more  becoming 
way,  the  court  is  full  of  Catholics  asking  for  liquor 
licenses,  Catholics  who  are  saloon-keepers.  Catholics 
who  are  bondsmen.  Catholics  who  are  lawyers.  Cath- 
olics who  are  politicians — the  very  air  of  the  court 
is  saturated  with  rum  and  religion." 


PBGULIARLT  RIBKT. 


When  eight  Quaker  ladies  had  an  appointment 
and  seven  were  punctual,  and  the  eighth,  being  a 
quarter  of  an  hour  too  late,  began  apologizing  for 
keeping  the  others  waiting,  the  reply  from  one  of 
them  was:  "I  am  sorry,  friend,  that  thee  should 
have  wasted  thine  own  quarter  of  an  hour,  but  thee 
had  no  right  to  waste  one  hour  and  three- quarters 
more  of  our  time,  which  was  not  thine  own."  And 
of  Washington  it  is  said  that  when  his  secretary, 
on  some  important  occasion  was  late,  and  excused 
himself  by  saying  his  watch  was  too  slow,  the  reply 
was,  "You  will  have  to  get  another  watch  or  I  an- 
other secretary."  Napoleon  used  to  say  to  his  mar- 
shals, "You  may  ask  anything  of  me  but  time." 
And  of  John  Quincy  Adams  it  is  said,  that  in  his 
long  service  in  Congress  he  was  never  known  to  be 
late,  and  one  day  when  the  clock  struck  and  a  mem- 
ber said  to  the  Speaker,  "It  is  time  to  call  the  House 
to  prder,"  the  reply  was,  "^o,  Mr,  Adame  is  pot  io 


In  the  good  old  times  it  was  the  law  that  licenses 
to  sell  strong  drink  were  only  to  be  granted  to  "dis- 
creet men  of  good  moral  character."  Things  have 
changed  somewhat  in  practice,  and  many  men  feel, 
as  the  license-seeking  Irishman  said,  when  asked  to 
bring  evidence  concerning  his  moral  character: 

"Precious  little  moral  character  does  a  man  need 
to  sell  whisky." 

One  branch  of  the  insurance  business  concerns 
itself  with  guaranteeing  the  fidelity  of  clerks,  agents, 
etc. ;  but  men  without  much  moral  character  are  not 
safe  men  to  depend  on. 

A  recent  article  in  the  Alliance  News  of  Manches- 
ter, England,  says:  "According  to  the  Inturance 
year  hook  for  1888,  guarantee  societies  are  advised 
by  their  actuaries  to  have,  if  possible,  nothing  to  do 
with  undertaking  to  answer  for  the  honesty  of  trav- 
elers in  the  wine,  spirit,  and  beer  trades.  These  are 
regarded  as  peculiarly  risky.  And  no  wonder." — 
Safeguard,  Boston. 

^  •  •i 

HOW  H0MB8  ABB  WBBGKBD. 


dreds  of  homes  have  been  desolated  through  this 
medical  crime,  which  is  not  limited  to  prescribing 
whisky,  but  all  forms  of  stimulants  and  intoxicants 
—either  chloral,  hasheesh,  morphine,  bromidia,  etc. 

The  dipsomaniac  is  bad  enough,  but  the  slave  of 
the  opium  habit  or  chloral  is  infinitely  worse.  There 
is  nothing  too  degrading,  no  trick  or  art  which  hu- 
man ingenuity  can  invent,  no  crime,  even,  too  mon- 
strous, to  which  the  devotees  of  these  infernal  drugs 
will  not  resort  to  obtain  the  stimulant,  narcotic,  or 
intoxicant.  And  in  immensely  the  greater  propor- 
tion they  have  been  led  to  their  terrible  fate  by  the 
prescription  of  the  family  doctor. 

A  writer  in  the  September  number  of  the  Popular 
Science  Monthly,  describing  how  the  opium  habit  is 
acquired,  suggests  certain  means  of  preventing  the 
spread  of  that  form  of  this  social  evil.  We  would 
extend  his  suggestion  so  as  to  include  alcoholic 
liquor,  as  well  as  opium,  and  require  that  no  pre- 
scription calling  for  any  of  this  class  of  agents  should 
be  filled  more  than  once  by  a  druggist  without  hav- 
ing the  physician  specifically  renew  the  prescription. 
This  would  undoubtedly  do  much  to  check  the  spread 
of  these  enslaving  and  insidious  habits. —  Chicago 
Daily  News. 

HIGH  LIGBNBB  IN  MINNE80  TA. 

High  license  in  Minnesota  has  entered  upon  its 
second  year  in  almost  every  county  in  the  State. 
This  law  imposes  a  minimum  liquor  license  of  $1,000 
in  all  cities  of  over  10,000  inhabitants,  and  of  $500 
in  all  other  places,  and  makes  it  optional  with  the 
local  authorities  to  make  it  larger.  The  Pioneer 
Press  has  sent  circulars  to  the  county  seats  in  the 
State,  asking  for  the  number  of  licenses  before  the 
law  of  1887  went  into  effect,  and  the  number  now. 
Replies  have  been  received  from  more  than  seventy 
of  the  eighty  counties,  giving  the  date  asked.  The 
counties  from  which  no  replies  have  been  received 
are  largely  those  in  the  northern  wilderness  of  the 
State,  where  there  are  no  means  of  enforcing  the 
law  or  knowing  of  its  violation.  These  replies  show 
the  law  has  effected  a  decrease  of  about  twelve  hun- 
dred in  the  number  of  saloons  in  the  State,  or  nearly 
one-half  of  the  whole  number  under  low  license, 
the  exact  figures  being  a  reduction  from  2.806  to 
1,597. 

^  ■  ^  

DBINK  AND  8UICIDB. 


A.  Throckmorton,  nephew  of  ex-Governor  Throck- 
morton of  Texas,  committed  suicide  in  Denver,  Col. 
Aug.  29.  Young  Throckmorton  entered  a  cheap 
lodging  house  on  HoUaday  street  and  paid  10  cents 
for  a  bed.  He  never  awakened,  and  was  found  dead 
in  the  morning  with  an  empty  bottle  of  morphine 
by  his  side.  Throckmorton  is  a  descendant  of  one 
of  the  most  aristocratic  families  in  Texas,  and  was 
an  orphan,  his  father  having  been  killed  while  hold- 
ing an  important  position  in  the  Confederate  army. 
He  early  acquired  a  taste  for  an  artist's  life  and  gave 
promise  of  brilliancy  in  that  direction,  but  liquor 
and  a  fondness  for  a  dissipated  life  wrecked  him 
before  he  had  attained  his  majority.  At  the  time  of 
his  death  he  was  en  route  to  California,  accompanied 
by  a  bride  of  two  months,  a  frail  creature,  both  of 
whom  had  spent  the  last  cent  which  had  been  fur- 
nished by  the  charity  of  ex-Governor  Throckmorton 
to  his  dissolute  nephew,  who  refuses  to  have  the  re- 
mains interred  in  Texas,  so  thorough  was  his  dis- 
like for  his  nephew. 


A  brief  dispatch  in  yesterday's  Daily  News  throws 
another  high  light  on  a  social  evil  which,  while  it 
works  untold  misery,  is  almost  entirely  disregarded 
or  ignored.  A  prominent  citizen  of  Kansas  City 
applies  for  a  divorce  from  his  wife  and  the  mother 
of  his  children — on  the  ground  of  confirmed  and  in- 
curable drunkenness.  The  unfortunate  woman  ad- 
mits the  justice  of  the  action,  and  only  plef  ds  in 
extenuation,  that  she  "contracted  the  love  for  Jic^uor 
by  taking  it  at  first  as  a  medicine." 

Thu  physician  who  so  prescribed  it  has  a  heavy 
account  to  render  at  some  bar,  either  here  or  here- 


It  seems  that  the  British  public  has  just  had  a 
"beer  boom."  The  Christian  Commonwealth  com- 
ments on  it  with  great  severity.  It  charges  that 
the  AUsopps,  the  famous  brewers,  were  guilty  of  a 
fraud  in  issuing  their  prospectus  recently,  offering  a 
large  amount  of  very  profitable  stock  in  their  im- 
mense business.  Purchasers  were  numerous  and 
greedy.     The  stock  was  regarded  as  a  good  thing. 

"With  astounding  al.«crlfy,  as  uncontradicted  report*  de- 
clared, even  mary  of  the  clergy  rusheil  In  among  the  crowd  of 
applicants,  and  much  of  the  drunka'd-maklng  stock  was  bought 
up  by  the  representatives  of  the  churches  1" 

For  the  first  six  months  8  per  cent  was  paid;  for 
the  second  six  months  only  6  per  cent,  and  now  the 
reserve  is  said  to  be  only  £6,000;  and  the  stock- 
holders complain  that  they  have  been  deceived,  and 
that  beer  is  a  bad  thing  after  all. — Independtnt. 

The  following  work  is  carried  on  by  the  Chicago 
Central  Woman's  Christian  Temperance  Union: 
Two  day  nurseries  (where  over  l-t,000  children  were 
cared  for  last  year),  two  kindergartens,  two  indus- 
trial schools,  two  medical  dispensaries,  a  waifs'  Sun- 
day-school, a  nightly  Gospel  temperance  meeting,  a 
free  lodging-house  for  girls  (where  over  4,f^00  were 
cared  for  last  year),  a  lodging-house  for  men,  where 
60,000  were  lodged  during  the  year  at  10  and  15 


after.      And   there  are  numbers  of  others  equally 

culpable  in  QY^ry  cominunity.  Here  in  Chioagu  hup-]  cents  a,  night,  jogludipg  a  bat)}  Md  clean  night  linen. 


18 


THE  CHRISTIAN  OYNOSUBE. 


September  13, 188B 


Bible  Lesson. 


8TDDIB8  IN  THI  OLD  TESTAMENT. 
LESSON  XIII.— Third  Quarter.— Sept.  23. 
SUBJECT.— Death  and  Burial  of  Moses.- Deut.  34: 1-12. 
GOLDEN  TEXT.— The  path  of  the  just  Is  as  the  shining; 
light,  that  shlneth  more  and  more  unto  the  perfect  day.— Prov. 
4:18. 

I  Own  the  Bible  and  read  the  le$son.} 

COMMENTS  ON  THE  LESSON  BY  E.  E.  FLAGG. 

1.  Moses  on  Mount  Nebo.  Vs.  1-4.  Dying  with  the 
Christian  is  a  going  up,  not  a  going  down.  Often  death 
brings  with  it,  by  isolating  the  soul  from  earth  and 
earthly  things,  a  Mount  Nebo  experience,  a  vision  of  the 
heavenly  Canaan,  but  with  no  such  hard  condition  an- 
nexed, "Thou  Shalt  not  go  over  thither."  Like  that 
greater  Prophet  of  whom  Moses  was  a  type,  his  hands 
were  uplifted  in  blessing  as  he  parted  from  the  people. 
A  devoted  Christian  life,  like  some  grand  river,  grows 
broader  and  deeper,  and  bears  a  richer  argosy  of  blessing 
on  its  bosom  as  it  empties  into  eternity. 

2.  The  Death  of  Moses.  Vs.  5-8.  Moses  died  in  the 
full  vigor  of  his  natural  powers,  though  120  years  old. 
Whether  he  would  have  reached  this  remarkable  age,  or 
reached  it  with  all  his  faculties  unimpaired  had  he  con- 
tinued to  live  surrounded  by  the  luxury  of  a  court,  is  a 
doubtful  question.  Had  he  done  so  it  would  have  been 
because,  though  a  prince,  he  had  learned,  like  Daniel, 

the  virtue  of  abstemiousness.  Through  all  those  weary 
desert  wanderings  his  fare  had  been  the  same  as  the 
meanest  of  the  people;  manna  from  heaven,  water  from 
the  rock.  His  life  is  a  temperance  lesson.  He  had  a 
sound  mind  in  a  sound  body.  No  poison  of  alcohol  or 
tobacco  had  impaired  his  sight  or  unstrung  his  nerves. 
"His  eye  was  not  dim  nor  his  natural  force  abated." 
Hebrew  Rabbis  have  a  beautiful  tradition  that  Moses 
died  by  the  kisses  of  God's  mouth.  Can  we  imagine  a 
beer-drinker,  taking  daily  into  his  stomach  the  germs  of 
corruption  and  decay,  meeting  with  this  blessed  fate? 
They  talk  of  the  expense  of  intemperance.  No  ledger 
but  that  of  the  Judgment  day  is  large  enough  to  record 
the  full  account  of  what  it  costs  a  soul  in  bitter  remorse 
and  regret  at  the  last  hour.  The  children  of  Israel  wept 
and  mourned  for  their  great  leader,  as  was  natural 
they  should.  It  is  also  natural  to  every  one  to  want  to 
be  regretted  when  they  die,  but  it  is  only  through  living 
unselfish  lives;  it  is  only  by  increasing  the  sum  total  of 
human  happiness  so  that  our  death  really  leaves  a  void, 
that  we  can  be  perceptibly  missed.  It  is  right  that  there 
should  be  mourning  when  the  righteous  die,  when  the 
voice  is  silent  that  rebuked  sin  and  spoke  so  eloquently 
for  God  and  truth ;  but  let  us  remember  that  the  void  is 
always  filled  up.  "God  buries  the  worker,  but  carries 
on  the  work." 

3.  The  Appointing  of  Joshua.  Vs.  9-12.  In  one  sense 
Moses  had  no  successor.  The  majestic  figure  of  Israel's 
great  law-giver  stands  alone  and  unapproachable  in  Old 
Testament  history.  When  great  and  good  men  pass 
away  there  is  a  sense  ia  which  their  place  can  never  be 
filled  even  by  their  successors.  Joshua  could  not  have 
done  Moses's  work  in  leading  Israel  out  of  Egypt. 
Joshua's  mission  of  conquest  could  not  have  been  given 
to  Moses.  So  every  individual  soul  has  an  individual 
work.  No  ether  can  do  it.  At  the  same  time  there  was 
only  one  man  in  Israel  who  could  succeed  Moses.  Noth- 
ing is  recorded  about  Joshua's  boyhood  and  youth,  but 
we  are  sure  they  held  the  promise  of  his  maturer  years. 
The  great  leaders  of  humanity  have  never  given  their 
youth  to  vice.  Our  country  may  need  another  Abraham 
Lincoln,  but  we  shall  not  find  him  smoking  cigarettes  or 
reading  dime  novels.  As  a  man,  Joshua  was  full  of 
faith  and  backbone.  He  dared  to  stand  by  his  convic- 
tions even  when  the  mob  was  threatening  to  stone  him. 
Such  arc  the  men  whom  God  appoints  to  succeed  the 
fallen  heroes  in  our  great  moral  conflicts.  Where  are 
the  Joshuas  to  take  Moses's  place?  to  fight  back  the 
rising  tide  of  intemperance,  licentiousness,  Sabbath  dese- 
cration; and  say  like  him  when  secret  false  worships  are 
leading  away  the  people,  "Choose  ye  this  day  whom  ye 
will  serve;  but  as  for  me  and  my  house,  we  will  serve 
the  Lord." 


RELIGIOUS  News. 


8VFF0LE  JAIL  OPBNS. 


WILLIAM  F.  DAVIS,  THE  BOSTON  COMMON  HERO, 
RELEASED. 

A  Boston  dispatch  of  Friday  says  that  Rev.  W.F. 
Davis,  who  has  been  in  the  Charles  Street  Jail  for 
the  past  ten  months  because  he  would  preach  on  the 
Common  in  defiance  of  the  city  ordinances,  was  re- 
leased that  day.  He  went  behind  the  bars  as  a 
martyr.  He  was  received  by  his  friends  as  a  con- 
quering hero.  When  he  reached  the  sidewalk  on 
Charles  street  he  found  quite  a  crowd  awaiting  him. 
Handshaking  and  congratulations  were  general.  A 
handsome  carriage,  drawn  by  a  sleek  pair  of  bay 
horses,  was  in  waiting.  Several  conveyances  were 
ready  to  escort  him  to  his  home  on  Garland  street. 
Mount  Washington,  Chelsea,  so  that  he  drove  off  at 
the  head  of  quite  an  Imposing  cortege.  The  little 
covered  wagon,  covered  with  legeuds  such  as: 
"Americans,  down  with  Bum,  Bomanism  and  Be- 
bellion,"  and  "Bev.  W.  F.  Davis,  a  Prisoner  in 
Charles  Street  Jail  for  Preaching  the  Gospel,"  which 
had  been  parading  the  streets  for  several  weeks, 
drove  up,  and  its  attendant  began  to  distribute  cir- 
culars advertising  Mr.  Davis's  speech  in  Music  Hall 
on  the  next  Sabbath  evening.  It  was  the  intention 
of  the  managers  of  the  Music  Hall  service  to  charge 
admission  and  thus  secure  a  purse  for  Mr.  Davis, 
but  he  flatly  refused  to  be  a  party  to  any  such 
scheme,  insisting  that  the  Gospel  should  be  preached 
freely  to  all  men.  He  would  not  promise  to  appear 
at  the  hall  until  the  money-making  feature  was  abol- 
ished. When  asked  as  to  his  plans  for  the  future 
so  far  as  preaching  on  the  Common  was  concerned, 
he  said:  "I  feel  that  the  Common  is  the  property  of 
the  public  and  that  I  have  as  good  a  right  to  share 
in  its  privileges  as  any  other  man.  I  may  preach 
there  again  if  I  think  it  necessary,  or  if  I  have  a 
call  to  do  so." 


THE  aWEDISH  BAPTISTS. 


The  meeting  of  the  General  Conference  of  the 
Swedish  Baptist  church  of  the  United  States  in  this 
city  last  week  was  productive  of  very  important  re- 
sults. Friday's  entire  session  was  devoted  to  the 
discussion  of  the  school  question,  and  several  very 
interesting  addresses  were  heard;  among  the  more 
important  was  that  of  Bev.  E.  Wingren,  editor  of  the 
Swedish  journal,  the  Weekly  Post,  on  "Educational 
Interests  of  the  Church."  Bev.  Christopher  Silene, 
pastor  of  the  First  Swedish  Baptist  church  of  Kan- 
sas City,  Mo.,  also  spoke  on  the  subject  at  length, 
and  brief  remarks  were  made  by  fifteen  or  twenty 
other  delegates.  Bev.  Dr.  Gates  of  Minneapolis, 
representing  the  Baptist  National  Educational  Soci- 
ety, addressed  the  conference  regarding  a  proposi- 
tion from  the  seminary  board  of  Morgan  Park  Bap- 
tist Theological  Seminary,  to  unite  the  present  Bap- 
tist Seminary  at  Stromberg,  Neb.,  with  the  Morgan 
Park  institution.  The  Swedish  institution,  it  was 
proposed,  should  come  into  organic  connection  with 
the  Morgan  Park  Seminary,  and  become  a  branch  of 
the  same. 

After  a  careful  consideration  by  the  conference, 
it  was  unanimously  voted  to  accept  the  propositions 
of  the  Seminary  Board,  providing  certain  details  are 
agreed  upon  and  conditions  accepted,  which  will  un- 
doubtedly be  done.  This  does  not  mean  the  entire 
disorganization  of  the  Nebraska  institution,  which 
will  be  continued  by  the  denomination  as  a  prepar- 
atory school.  There  was  a  good  attendance  of  del- 
agates,  comprising  the  leading  men  of  the  church 
from  all  parts  of  the  United  States. 


— The  Presbyterian  missionaries  to  India  have 
been  successful  in  converting  some  of  the  Indian 
fakirs  to  Christianity  and  have  made  preachers  of 
tbem.  They  speak  highly  of  them  as  making  the 
most  useful  and  successful  native  preachers.  In 
their  ignorance  in  heathendom  they  had  a  deep  sense 
of  sinfulness,  and  were  striving  by  painful  austeri- 
ties to  work  out  a  righteousness  of  their  own.  Now 
they  depend  on  Christ  for  righteousness  and  redemp- 
tion. 


— The  Evangelical  Lutheran  Synod  of  Ohio  and 
adjoining  States  met  in  Allegheny  City,  with  180 
delegates  from  the  States  of  Pennsylvania,  Ohio, 
Kansas,  Wisconsin,  Nebraska,  Illinois,  Washington, 
D.  C,  Michigan,  Indiana,  Minnesota,  West  Virginia, 
Maryland  and  North  Carolina.  Bev.  Professor  Loy 
of  Columbus,  Ohio,  was  chosen  moderator,  and  Bev. 
H.  P.  Dannecker  of  Washington,  chaplain.  Pro- 
fessor Loy,  president  of  the  Capitol  University  of 
Columbus,  read  his  report,  showing  the  institution  to 
be  in  a  sound  financial  condition.  He  also  called 
the  attention  of  the  synod  to  the  importance  of  tak- 
ing into  consideration  the  finances  of  the  Orphans' 
Home,  at  Richmond,  Ind.;  the  Practical  Seminary, 
at  Afton,  Minn.;  the  Teachers'  Institute,  at  Wood- 
ville,  Ohio,  and  the  Hickory  College,  at  Hickory, 
North  Carolina. 

— The  New  York  iSun  says  that  the  bishops  of  the 
Methodist  Episcopal  church  have  decided  that  the 
radical  modification  of  the  itinerant  system,  resolved 
upon  by  the  National  Conference  of  last  May,  shall 


not  be  delayed.  The  action  taken  by  the  Confer- 
ence was  to  permit  a  minister  to  remain  in  one  pas- 
torate five  years,  instead  of  only  three.  The  bish- 
ops have  now  ruled  that  the  amendmeat  of  the  dis- 
cipline took  effect  upon  its  passage,  and,  therefore, 
Methodist  pastors  throughout  the  country  will  not 
have  their  usual  disturbance  next  spring. 

— Twenty-eight  thousand  of  the  37,000  new  mem- 
bers added  to  the  New  York  Baptist  churches  in  the 
past  eight  years  came  from  the  Sunday-schools. 

— Mr.  Moody  will  go  to  California  to  work  through 
the  winter  on  an  evangelistic  tour,  while  Mr.  San- 
key  will  go  to  England  to  assist  Spurgeon  and  oth- 
ers. 

— The  forty-second  annual  meeting  of  the  Amer- 
ican Missionary  Association  will  be  held  at  Provi- 
dence, B.  I.,  Oct.  23-25.  The  Rev.  Arthur  Little, 
D.  D.,  of  Chicago,  will  preach  the  sermon.  The 
meeting  will  be  held  in  the  Union  Congregational 
church,  of  which  Bev.  J.  Hall  Mcllvaine,  D.  D.,  is 
pastor.  The  friends  in  Providence  have  already  be- 
gun preparations  for  the  reception  of  the  Associa- 
tion. 

— Two  of  the  speakers  at  the  World's  Conference, 
recently  in  session  in  Exeter  Hall,  London,  advo- 
uated  foreign  missions  on  the  ground  that  they  pre- 
pared the  way  for  peaceful  and  cheap  annexation 
of  the  lands  of  barbarous  peoples.  The  Japanese 
welcome  Christianity  because  it  is  the  religion  of 
the  most  highly  civilized  nations;  because  it  would 
"improve  the  Japanese  music;"  "because  it  would 
be  good  for  the  uneducated."  Worldly-minded  men 
often  subscribe  to  a  new  church  enterprise,  because 
it  would  add  value  to  the  real  estate  in  the  vicinity. 
Very  properly  does  the  New  York  Observer  say: 
"The  less  of  such  motives  we  have  in  Christian 
work  at  home  or  abroad,  the  better." 

— Bev.  A.  B.  Lilga,  Swedish  missionary  at  the 
Castle  Garden,  Yew  York,  calculates  that  60,000 
Swedes  and  Norwegians  entered  the  country  via  Cas- 
tle Garden  during  the  year  ending  June  11  last.  He 
says  "there  are  600  Swedish  Lutheran  congregations 
in  America,  comprising  fully  125,000  members." 

— A  modern  Savonarola  is  said  to  have  appeared 
in  northern  Italy.  His  name  is  Father  Augustin,  of 
the  Franciscan  Order  of  Montofeltro.  He  is  said  to 
mingle  marvelous  eloquence  with  great  Lumility. 
He  is  greeted  with  cheers  and  huzzas  by  the  people 
wherever  he  is  heard,  and  enthusiasts  are  with  diffi- 
culty restrained  from  carrying  him  in  triumph 
through  the  streets.  Even  the  railway  directors 
have  to  organize  special  trains  in  order  to  meet  the 
demand  to  go  and  hear  him.  This  latter-day  Savon- 
arola does  not  make  a  crusade  against  certain  form- 
alities and  abuses  in  the  church,  but  against  the  foi- 
bles and  unrealities  of  societies. — Public  Opinion. 

— The  Friends  have  lost  by  fire  one  of  their  oldest 
meeting  houses  in  Pennsylvania — that  at  Bird-in- 
Hand.  The  house  was  of  brick,  and  was  built  in 
1790,  in  the  place  of  a  log  house  erected  in  1749. 

— The  Presbyterian  General  Assembly  is  on  rec- 
ord against  the  running  of  Sunday  trains.  Last 
year  it  enjoined  the  presbyteries  to  "take  such  steps 
as  to  them  appear  wisest,  to  discourage  and  put  a 
stop  to  such  riding  on  Sunday  trains  and  steamboats 
by  church  members,  and  by  ministers  of  the  Gospel 
in  going  and  returning  from  appointments,  as  can- 
not be  justified  on  the  grounds  of  necessity  or 
mercy." 

— A  special  meeting  of  the  American  Baptist 
Home  Mission  Society  will  be  held  in  Nashville, 
Tenn.,  September  25  and  26.  The  work  of  the  soci- 
ety among  the  colored  people  will  be  fully  discussed. 
September  19-25  meetings  of  three  general  organi- 
zations of  the  colored  Baptists  of  the  United  States 
will  be  held  in  the  same  city.  Heretofore  these  or- 
ganizations have  met  at  different  tiimes  and  places. 
This  combination  of  meetings  promises  to  bring  to- 
gether a  large  body  of  colored  Baptists. 


The  catalogue  of  railroad  disasters  has  been  en- 
larged during  the  past  week  by  several  distressing 
and  costly  accidents.  Does  it  never  occur  to  the 
railroad  managers  that  possibly  God  has  a  contro- 
versy against  them?  And  why  so?  they  might  ask. 
The  answer  is  just  this:  God  has  very  explicitly  and 
emphatically  demanded  of  men  an  act  of  homage, 
in  treating  with  respect  the  Sabbath.  The  railroads, 
for  the  most  part,  treat  that  day  with  contempt. 
They  do  so  out  of  avaricious  greed.  Now  God,  in 
dealing  with  individuals,  blasts  their  avaricious 
schemes  when  they  make  money  their  idol.  And  is 
not  this  the  very  thing  he  is  doing  in  dealing  with 
these  railroad  corporations?  Have  the  Sabbath- 
breaking  roads  the  courage  to  give  to  the  public  the 
statistics  of  their  losses  for  the  past  five  years?  We 
think  not, — Southern  Pretbyterian, 


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Septbmbkr  13, 1888 


THE  CHRISTIAN  CYNOSURE. 


13 


I, 


Home  and  Health. 


PURE     WATER. 

Probably  there  is  no  more  fruitful  a 
aource  of  disease  than  the  use  of  impure 
water;  hence,  it  is  a  matter  of  the  great- 
est importance  that  we  use,  at  least  for 
drinking  and  cooking  purposes,  only 
pure  water.  In  many  sections  of  the 
country  the  sources  of  water  contamina- 
tion are  so  many  that  it  is  a  difficult  mat- 
ter to  obtain  an  abundant  supply  of  per- 
fectly wholesome  water;  but  all  might, 
if  they  would,  secure,  at  least  for  drink- 
ing purposes,  enough  water  sufQciently 
pure  for  practical  purposes. 

In  the  first  place  water  should  never 
be  used  from  either  a  spring,  well  or  cis- 
tern where  any  probable,  or  even  possi- 
ble, source  of  contamination  is  known  to 
exist,  until  It  has  been  carefully  tested 
and  found  to  be  pure.  But  even  then  it 
is  scarcely  safe  to  use  the  water  from 
suspected  sources,  for  a  few  weeks,  or 
even  days,  may  entirely  change  the  con- 
ditions and  render  it  totally  unfit  for  do- 
mestic purposes. 

Almost  any  water  that  people  would 
ordinarily  think  of  using  may  be  rendered 
at  least  harmless  by  boiling,  and  filtering 
through  a  good  filter.  A  reasonably 
good  filler  may  be  relied  upon  to  remove 
organic  matter  suspended  in  the  water, 
or  it  may  even  take  away  the  unpleasant 
flavor  of  rain  water,  but  no  filter  can  re- 
move the  siepage  from  barnyards,  cess- 
pools, drain  pipes  and  water  closets. 
Where  there  is  even  the  slightest  possi- 
bility of  contamination  from  any  one  of 
these  sources,  the  water,  if  it  must  be 
used,  should  be  boiled  before  being  fil- 
tered. The  following  suggestions  from 
the  June  Oood  Eealth,  relative  to  the  ex- 
amination of  water,  are  valuable,  and 
should  be  preserved  for  future  reference: 

"How  to  Examine  Water, — Only  a  skill- 
ful chemist  can  make  perfectly  accurate 
and  reliable  examination  of  water,  but 
the  following  suggestions  will  enable  any 
intelligent  person  to  make  such  an  ex- 
amination of  drinking-water  as  will 
greatly  diminish  the  chances  of  injury 
from  this  potent  source  of  disease: 

"1.  Notice  the  color  of  the  water. 
Pure  water  has  no  color,  is  free  from 
sediment,  and  does  not  contain  suspend- 
ed or  floating  specks  or  particles. 

"2  Observe  the  odor.  Pure  water  is 
absolutely  free  from  odor.  Water  which 
has  a  distinct  color  is  to  be  suspected. 

"3-  Notice  also  the  taste.  Pure  water 
is  free  from  flavor. 

"Remember:  Good  water  is  colorless, 
odorless,  tasteless. 

"If  you  wish  to  test  the  water  further 
— and  it  is  necessary  to  do  so  to  be  even 
reasonably  sure  that  it  is  pure,  as  some 
waters  which  are  free  from  color,  taste, 
or  odor,  are  still  very  impure— take  a  few 
ounces  of  water,  place  it  in  a  cle»n  bat- 
tle, add  a  small  lump  of  white  sugar,  and 
put  it  in  a  warm  place  for  a  few  days.  If 
the  slightest  turbidity  appears  within  a 
week  or  two,  the  water  is  unsafe  to  use. 

"Here  is  another  test:  Get  at  a  drug 
store  a  solution  consisting  of  three  grains 
of  permanganate  of  potash,  twelve 
grains  of  caustic  potash,  and  an  ounce 
of  distilled  water.  This  is  a  test  solution 
by  means  of  which  organic  purities  may 
be  detected.  Put  some  of  the  water  to  be 
tested  in  a  clean  glass.  Add  a  drop  of 
the  purple  test  solution  to  the  glassful  of 
water.  It  will  produce  a  faint  pinkish 
tinge.  If  the  water  is  pure,  the  pink 
color  will  remain;  if  the  water  is  impure, 
the  color  will  disappear.  If  the  color 
disappears  within  half  an  h.  ur,  the  water 
is  unfit  to  drink.  The  more  impure  the 
water  is,  the  sooner  thp  color  will  disap- 
pear."— Pacific  Bealth  Journal. 

A  London  doctor,  who  despaired  of 
being  able  to  cure  a  woman  suffering 
from  an  affection  of  the  face  and  jaw, 
finally  wrote  her  that  he  was  at  the  end 
of  his  resources,  and  added  that  tempus 
edax  rerum  (time  which  finishes  up  all 
matters)  was  the  sole  remedy.  His  pa- 
tient, who  was  seemingly  ignorant  of 
Latin,  got  an  obliging  apothecary  to  fur- 
nish her  with  this  specific,  at  the  mod- 
erate price  of  7d.  6d.  After  drinking 
several  bottles  of  it  she  met  he  physician 
in  London,  and  astonished  him  by  her 
gratitude  for  the  invaluable  medicine  he 
had  recommended  to  her.  The  Gongre- 
gaiionalist  relates  thiis  story,  and  sug- 
gests that  perhaps  it  was  '  'a  strange  case 
of  faith  cure." 

/    Fever   and  restlessness  in  children  is 
frequently  caused  by  indigestion.    If  you 


fiod  the  skin  of  the  little  one  hot  and 
dry,  remember,  if  you  can,  what  she  ate 
for  supper.  Give  the  child  a  warm  bath, 
then  give  it  a  cup  half  full  of  warm 
water  to  drink.  In  a  few  minutes  the 
undigested  food  will  be  thrown  off  the 
stomach,  and  the  child  will  soon  be 
sleeping  soundly.  Should  fever  and 
nausea  continue  during  the  day  follow- 
ing the  attack,  send  for  a  physician,  who 
will  undoubtedly  approve  of  what  you 
have  done,  and  should  the  symptoms  de- 
velop into  scarlet  fever,  measles,  chicken- 
pox,  or  any  of  the  diseases  to  which 
children  are  liable,  the  attack  will  prob- 
ably be  of  a  mild  nature. — 8el. 

To  Check  Bleeding. — Mr.  Kemyer, 
of  Ohio,  says  in  the  American  Agricul- 
turist, that  bleeding  from  a  wound  on 
man  or  beast  may  be  stopped  by  a  mix  - 
ture  of  wheat  flour  and  common  salt,  in 
equal  parts,  bound  on  with  a  cloth.  If 
the  bleeding  be  profuse,  use  a  large 
quantity,  from  one  to  three  pints.  It 
may  be  left  for  hours,  or  even  days,  if 
necessary.  In  this  manner  he  saved  the 
life  of  a  horse  which  was  bleeding  from 
a  wounded  artery.  The  flow  ceased  in 
five  minutes  after  the  application.  It 
was  left  on  three  days,  when  it  worked 
loose,  was  easily  removed,  and  the  wound 
soon  healed. 


aUBSCRIPTlON  LBTTBRa. 


The  following  have  made  remittances 
of  money  to  the  Cynosure  from  Sept.  3 
to  Sept.  8  inclusive: 

Mrs  E  B  Dow,  J  T  Cullor,  A  J  Lou- 
denbeck,  J  Kirkpatrick,  J  M  Tyrrel,  D 
G  Rasor,  C  H  Watson,  A  Wright,  J  S 
Higbee,  R  Wait,  Mrs  S  A  Smith,  W  A 
Bartlett,  G  S  Robinson.  L  B  Smith  D  H 
King,  L  E  Lincoln,  D  Horning,  Rev  J 
Thompson,  R  Porter,  W  Wing,  W  C  Bis- 
sell,  A  C  Lemm,  L  H  Bohrer,  Rev  J  E 
R  iy,  A  Lewis,  S  S  Wilson,  D  Marshall, 
D  D  Tower,  B  Blatchly.  G  Backer,  A  F 
Smith,  Elder  Freeman,  ,T  K  Weber,  A  W 
Brim,  Mrs  M  L  Curtis,  A  Andre,  D  Mc- 
Kee,  O  Hoffer,  J  T  Stevenson,  M  M 
Shaw,  G  W  Freese,  G  P  Loomis,  C  O 
Russell,  W  Frazier,  N  Connet,  S  Pinker- 
ton,  M  Phillips,  G  Swanson,  Sr,  Rev  J  T 
Michael,  Rev  L  Wing. 

INTERSTATE  INDUSTRIAL  EX- 
POSITION OF  OaiGAGO. 

For  the  sixteenth  consecutive  year  Chi- 
cago opens  up  its  great  Inter  State  In- 
dustrial Exposition,  replete  with  the  best 
products  of  Science,  Industry  and  Art,  on 
Wednesday,  September  5,  and  closing 
Saturday,  October  20. 

The  immense  structure  is  now  laden  to 
its  fullest  capacity  with  the  finest  and 
most  magnificent  exhibits  ever  displayed; 
from  almost  every  quarter  of  the  civil- 
ized world,  illustratmg  as  it  does  every 
avenue  of  human  industry  in  its  most 
complete  form,  it  is  almost  a  necessity 
that  they  who  would  keep  abreast  of  our 
most  advanced  ideas  in  both  industry, 
science  and  art,  should  not  fail  to  visit 
this  great  Exposition. 

Every  railroad  and  transportation  line 
running  into  the  city  have  made  reduced 
rates,  and  there  is  every  indication  that  a 
much  larger  attendance  will  follow  than 
any  year  that  has  preceded. 


"I  know  'tis  a  sin  to 
But  I'm  bent  on  the  notion, 
I'll  throw  myself  into 
The  deep,  briny  ocean," 
is  the  mental    exclamation  of  many  a 
sufferer  from  headache,  indigestion,  con- 
stipation,   torpid  liver,  etc.     The  use  of 
Df.  Pierce's  Pleasant  Pellets,    however, 
would  transform  these  unfortunates,  and 
cause  them  to  sing — 

But  my  spirit  shall  wander 
Through  gay  coral  bowers. 
And  frisk  w.ith  the  mermaids. 
It  shall,  by  the  powers  I 


We  know  of  no  mode  of  treatment 
which  offers,  to  sufferers  from  chronic 
diseases,  a  more  certain  hope  of  cure  than 
that  which  is  comprehended  in  the  use 
of  Ayer's  Sarsaparilla.  For  purifying 
and  invigorating  the  blood,  this  prepara- 
tion is  unequaled. 

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THB  CHRISTIAN  CTNOSUEE. 


September  13, 1888 


Faem  Notes. 


SBLKCTION    AND    THOROUGH    CURING    OF 
SEED-CORN, 

From  a  long  and  careful  experience  in 
planting  corn  and  in  saving  and  thor- 
oughly curing  the  seed  I  am  convinced 
(1)  that  there  is  no  certainty  that  seed 
will  grow  if  taken  from  the  crib;  (2)  that 
corn  gathered  in  the  fall  and  thoroughly 
cured  by  fire  heat,  will  not  only  grow 
when  that  taken  from  the  crib  will  rot, 
but  also  give  a  stronger  and  more  vigor- 
ous stalk  when  planted  under  favorable 
conditions,  so  that  both  kinds  come  up 
equally  well;  (a)  that  careful  and  per- 
sistent selection  of  seed-corn  can  be 
made  to  add  from  ten  to  twenty  five  per 
cent  to  the  yield  of  the  crop,  and  there  is 
no  other  way  in  which  we  can  increase 
the  yield  of  our  corn  at  so  little  expense. 
I  believe  in  "pedigreed"  seed-corn,  and 
know  from  experience  that  persistent  se- 
lection will  enable  one  to  fix  any  charac- 
teristic found  in  an  individual  ear,  but  it 
will  take  just  about  six  years  to  do  this. 
Some  years  ago  in  gathering  some  early 
sweet  corn,  I  found  a  dark  red  ear,  the 
first  red  ear  of  sweet  corn  I  had  ever 
seen,  and  I  laid  it  aside  to  plant.  The 
next  year  more  than  half  the  product  of 
this  ear  was  white,  and  the  remainder  ran 
through  all  the  shades  of  red  from  a  mere 
tinge  to  very  dark.  I  selected  the  dark- 
est colored  and  best  shaped  ears  for  six 
years,  by  which  time  I  had  completely 
bred  out  the  white  and  also  established  a 
finely-formed  ear  with  good  flavor  and 
quite  early.  I  have  visited  and  inspected 
many  fields  of  corn  which  confirm  this 
theory  that  any  type  may  be  established. 
A  neighbor  has  had  in  view  for  for  some 
years  reducing  the  size  of  the  cob,  and  it 
is  curious  to  notice  how  he  has  succeeded 
and  what  a  depth  of  grain  he  has  estab- 
lished. My  miller  tells  me  he  finds  a 
difference  of  eight  pounds  in  the  quan- 
tity of  shelled  corn  from  seventy  pounds 
of  ears  in  the  corn  brought  to  his  mill  to 
be  shelled.  In  proof  that  careful  selec- 
tion of  seed  will  add  largely  to  the  yield 
of  corn,  I  am  now  husking  a  field  bought 
of  a  neighbor,  one  part  of  which  is 
planted  with  a  mongrel  yellow  corn,  and 
the  remainder  with  an  established  variety 
of  white  corn,  and  the  difference  in  yield 
is  more  than  25  per  cent.  There  have 
been  seasons  when  the  fall  was  damp, 
and  coH  weather  set  in  early  in  the  win- 
ter— mercury  dropping  to  several  de- 
grees below  zero — that  two-thirds  of  the 
corn  planted  the  next  spring  over  large 
areas  of  country  failed,  and  had  to  be 
replanted  the  Ist  of  June,  and  the  yield 
reduced  one  half— all  of  which  extra 
work  and  loss  might  have  been  avoided 
by  an  outlay  of  about  ten  minutes'  work 
for  each  acre  planted.  In  selecting  seed- 
corn  try  to  get  as  nearly  as  possible  per- 
fect ears.  The  grain  should  be  of  good 
depth,  the  cob  of  moderate  size,  and  the 
ends  of  the  ear  well  filled  out  and  the 
rows  straight. 

I  set  the  standard  so  high  that  I  con- 
sider myself  fortunate  if  J   get  from  a 
forty-bushel  load  twenty    to  fifty  ears 
which  come  up  to  it.     After  selecting  the 
corn  put  it  to  drying  at  once.    If  you 
have  a  room  where  a  fire  is  kept  and  a 
rack  can  be  arranged  around  the  stove- 
pipe, you  need  no  better  place.     I  have 
a  room  not  plastered  overhead,  and  have 
nailed  lath  to  the  under  side  of  the  upper 
joist  on  all  sides  of  the  pipe,  and  I  can 
put  four  or  five  bushels  of  corn  here  so 
that  not  an  ear  of  it  will  be  more  than  a 
yard  from  the  stovepipe  and  the  nearest 
ears  about  fifteen  inches.     There  is  a  fire 
in  this  room  all  winter,  as  it  is  used  for 
papering  seeds.     The  first  year   I  kept 
com  here  my  wife  noticed  in  March  how 
near  some  of  the  ears  came  to  the  stove- 
pipe and  got  up  on  a  chair  and  felt  of 
them,  and  found  them  hot  enough  to  be 
uncomfortable  to   hold,  and  she  said  to 
me,  "That  corn  will  never  grow,  the  life 
is  all  cooked  out  of  it! "    I  shelled  a  few 
grains  from  two  or  three  ears  nearest  the 
stovepipe  and  planted  them  in  a  box,  and 
they  grew  at  once  vigorously.     I  have 
been  told  by  old  farmers  who  have  tried 
it  that  seed  corn  that  has  been  thoroughly 
cured  by  fire  heat  will  not  rot  if  planted 
in  March  as  soon  as  the  land  is  in  good 
condition,   although  cold,    wet  weather 
may  follow  which  would  be  fatal  to  corn 
less  vigorous.     A  few  bvshels  of  seed- 
corn    may   be   cured   in   a  smokehouse. 
Make  racks  of  lath  six  inches  apart,  one 
above  another,  and  lay  the  corn  on  them 
two  ears  deep;   then   set  an  old    stove 
in  with  a  short  piece  of  pipe,  and  let  the 


smoke  fill  the  house.  Fire  up  twice  a 
day  so  as  to  make  it  uncomfortably  hot 
to  stay  in. 

A  neighbor  claims  that  the  smoke  is  of 
great  advantage,  vitalizing  the  corn,  and 
I  am  disposed  to  believe  it,  for  I  never 
had  corn  grow  stronger  than  when  I  have 
smoked  it  as  brown  as  bacon .  After  the 
corn  is  thoroughly  cured,  take  it  from 
the  smokhouse  and  store  it  in  a  dry  place 
till  needed. 

There  are  large  farmers  who  require 
from  fifty  to  one  hundred  bushels  of  seed- 
corn  a  year.  I  advise  such  to  build  a 
house  on  purpose  for  curing  seed  corn. 
A  room  ten  feet  square  will  hold  over  one 
hundred  bushels.  Make  racks  of  lath 
just  far  enough  above  each  other  to  take 
two  rows  of  ears.  Each  rack  across  the 
room  will  hold  about  a  bushel,  and,  be- 
ginning two  feet  from  the  floor,  the 
racks  can  be  six  inches  apart,  and  there 
can  be  three  or  four  rows  on  three  sides 
of  the  house  and  leave  a  little  room  for 
circulation  between  them,  and  room  for 
the  stove  in  the  center,  and  space  to  pass 
around  it.  A  room  of  this  kind  would 
not  be  expensive  and  would  be  a  conven- 
ient storeroom  when  not  in  use  for  seed- 
corn.  Let  every  farmer  who  reads  this 
secure  an  abundant  supply  of  seed  corn 
early  in  November,  if  not  done  sooner. — 
WcUdo  F.  Brown,  In  N.  T.  Tribune. 

Man  prayed  to  God  to  destroy  the  in- 
sects which  devoured  his  vines,  trees  and 
fruits.  And  God  answered:  "I  made 
birds  sufficient  to  feed  upon  the  insects; 
what  have  you  done  with  the  birds?" 
And  man  replied:  "I  have  killed  them." 
And  God  said,  "Then  kill  the  insects." — 
Farm  and  Borne. 

Statistics  show  that  the  proportion  of 
women  engaged  in  agriculture  to  those 
earning  money  otherwise,  is  one  to  thirty ; 
and  of  those  engaged  in  agriculture  about 
one-fourth  are  in  Iowa.  Great  numbers 
of  women  take  up  Government  lands, 
more  often  unmarried  women  than  un- 
married men. 

Farming  is  hard  work,  but  then  it  is  a 
beautiful  work  It  tires,  but  it  brings  a 
good  appetite  and  sound  slumber,  a  clear 
conscience,  and  a  place  that  ought  to  be 
a  second  Paradise. 

The  way  to  build  ud  the  sheep  indus- 
try is  to  weed  out  the  flocks,  go  for  great- 
er capacity  for  mutton,  and  increase  in 
the  individual,  and  put  a  small  flock  on 
every  farm  where  they  will  pay  their 
way. 

France  expends  about  half  a  million  of 
dollars  per  year  in  the  encouragement  of 
horse  breeding,  besides  keeping  up  breed- 
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"The  Old  Oaken  Bucket, 
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•         POLITICAL. 

Mr.  Thurman,  while  suffering  severe 
pain,  attempted  to  address  a  meeting  at 
Newark,  N.  J.,  but  was  unable  to  finish. 
He  was  some  days  previously  suddenly 
prostrated  while  attending  a  political 
meeting  in  New  York.  It  is  evident  that 
too  much  is  being  exacted  of  the  aged 
candidate. 

A  Democratic  mass  meeting  at  New 
York  City  Friday  night  adopted  an  ad- 
dress to  the  Democratic  State  Convention 
denouncing  Governor  Hill  and  opposing 
his  renomination  in  unmeasured  terms. 

The  mail  carriers  in  the  postofflce  at 
Davenport,  Iowa,  received  formal  notifi 
cation  Thursday  from  the  Iowa  member 
of  the  Democratic  National  Committee 
that  their  share  of  the  campaign  expenses 
would  be  $15  each,  and  immediate  pay- 
ment was  requested. 

The  reports  of  the  State  election  in 
Vermont  last  week  are  yet  meager.  The 
Republican  maj  irity  for  Dillingham, 
governor  and  a  strong  temperance  man, 
is  believed  to  be  about  25  000  The  Pro- 
hibition vote  is  less  than  2,000.  The  vote 
in  Maine  Monday  is  also  a  Kapublican 
victory,  claimed  to  be  20,000  majority, 
with  a  Prohibition  vote  of  about  2,000. 

CHICAGO. 

The  Interstate  Industrial  Exposition 
opened  Wednesday,  and  as  on  previous 
occasions  a  large  crowd  was  present  to 
witness  the  fine  display. 

The  Jewish  New  Year  commenced  at 
sunset  Wednesday  evening,  and  the  cere- 
monies atiendant  on  the  occasion  were 
very  generally  observed  by  the  Hebrews 
of  Chicago. 

A  brief  recapitulation  of  the  good 
work  accomplished  during  the  summer 
by  ministering  to  the  comfort  of  working 
girls  and  children,  shows  that  125  work- 
ing girls  and  500  mothers  and  children 
have  been  pent  out  to  the  country,  and 
more  than  300  to  the  Lake  Geneva  sani- 
tarium. 

RACK  TR0UBLB8  IN  THE  SOUTH, 

At  Milbrook,  Ark.,  at  2  o'clock  in  the 
morning,  after  election,  Tuesday,  a  body 
of  mounted  and  armed,  men  began  firing 
from  a  thicket  on  the  persons  who  were 
guarding  the  ballot-boxes,  killing  one 
man  and  wounding  six  others.  The  in- 
tention of  the  assassins  was  to  steal  the 
ballot-boxes. 

The  State  Rangers  and  two  local  mili- 
tary companies  have  been  called  into 
service  in  Fort  Benlon  county,  Texas, 
where  a  body  of  500  Negroes  and  the 
whites  are  likely  to  come  in  conflict.  The 
colored  people  are  charged  with  an  at- 
tempted assassination,  and  refuse  to  quit 
the  county  at  the  behest  of  the  white 
residents.  It  is  said  that  forty  men, 
armed  with  Winchesters,  are  marching 
on  the  Negroes. 

At  Little  Rock,  Ark.,  Wednesday 
night,  the  vault  in  the  County  Clerk's 
office  was  broken  into  and  the  poll- 
books,  showing  the  returns  of  Monday's 
election  in  nine  townships,  seven  giving 
Republican  majorities  and  two  Demo- 
cratic majorities,  and  an  aggregate  ma- 
jority against  license,  were  stolen.  There 
18  no  clew  to  the  criminals,  though  the 
Republicans  charge  the  Democrats,  the 
Democrats  the  Republicans,  and  both  the 
whisky  men  with  the  deed. 

There  is  trouble  between  the  Negroes 
and  whites  in  Fort  Bend  county,  Arkan- 
sas, growing  out  of  the  election.  Blood- 
shed is  feared,  and  two  companies  of 
militia  have  been  ordered  there  to  pre- 
serve order. 

A  strike  of  'longshoremen  at  Fernan- 
dina,  Fla  ,  has  resulted  in  rioting,  and 
the  placing  of  the  city  under  martial  law. 
The  local  iiifies  are  under  arms,  and  the 
State  troops  from  Z  inesville  and  Ocala 
have  beed  ordered  to  Fernandina.  Fifty 
arrests  have  been  made. 

Three  colored  men  were  taken  from 
the  jail  at  Oxford,  N.  C ,  on  the  2d,  and 
hanged  by  a  crowd  of  from  seventy  five 
to  one  hundred  masked  men,  white  and 
black.  Three  were  charged  with  the 
murder  of  a  Negro  and  one  with  burg- 
lary and  arson,  the  latter  a  capital  crime 
in  that  State.  Only  one  man  was  guard 
ing  the  jail,  and  he  was  overpowered. 

•  COUNTRY. 

Killing  frosts  prevailed  Thursday  night 
in  parta  of  New  Hampshire,   Vermont, 


Rode  Island  and  New  York,    The  dam- 
age to  crops  is  reported  as  heavy. 

Heavy  frost  at  Howard  City,  Mich., 
Thursday  night,  damaged  vegetables  and 
corn  and  reduced  potatoes  to  half  a  crop ; 
at  Cadillac  killed  corn  and  buckwheat, 
and  damaged  potatoes,  and  at  Manton 
killed  what  was  left  of  crops. 

Judge  Lenehan,  at  Waterloo,  Iowa,  de- 
nied Friday  the  application  of  the  Chi- 
nese laundryman,  Frong  Wing,  to  be 
made  a  citizen,  on  the  ground  that  the 
Chinese  are  not  eligible  to  citizenship 
under  the  laws  and  constitution  of  the 
United  States. 

Yellow  fever  is  reported  raging  at  Mc- 
Clenny,  Fla  ,  thirty  miles  west  of  Jack- 
sonville. There  have  been  twenty  five 
cases  and  four  deaths,  it  is  claimed,  of 
dengue  fever.  At  Jacksonville  seventy- 
seven  new  cases  were  reported  for  Fri- 
day, with  nine  deaths. 

At  a  labor  picnic  in  Cleveland,  Mon- 
day, a  band  of  anarchists  displayed  a  red 
flag,  and  refused  to  acknowledge  the 
Stars  and  Stripes.  The  anarchists  were 
at  once  attacked;  their  flag  was  torn  to 
tatters  and  trampled  in  the  earth,  and 
the  men  themselves  badly  wounded  in 
the  fight,  which  continued  for  ten  min- 
utes Five  of  the  anarchists  were  locked 
up  on  a  charge  of  riot. 

The  postoflice  at  Cutler,  Ind  ,  was  de- 
stroyed by  an  explosion  of  dynamite  at 
midnight,  Thursday,  For  some  time  the 
town  has  been  subject  to  the  raids  of  a 
gang  of  desperadoes,  which  has  destroyed 
much  property,  and  has  greatly  terrified 
the  citizens.  The  postofflce  has  been 
blown  up  with  dynamite  five  times  within 
the  last  eight  months.  Two  or  three  days 
ago  a  plot  to  explode  ten  pounds  of  dy- 
namite under  a  hotel  was  discovered  in 
time  to  prevent  the  mischief.  In  the  de- 
struction of  the  postofflce  no  one  was  in- 
jured. 

By  the  explosion  of  a  boiler  in  the 
Perry  Stove  Works  at  South  Pittsburg, 
Tenn.,  Monday  morning,  five  men  were 
killed.    The   structure  was  badly  dam- 


Near  Crystal  Falls,  Mich.,  early  Friday 
morning,  a  lamp  exploded  in  Louis 
Brown's  bedroom,  and  Mrs.  Brown  was 
caught  in  the  flames  and  fatally  burned. 
Mr.  Brown  and  six  children  escaped,  but 
Browh  went  back  for  his  money  and  was 
burned  to  ashes. 

At  Ellendale,  D.  T  ,  Wednesday  even- 
ing, the  boiler  of  Goulette  &  Letson's 
thrashing  outfit  exploded,  and  of  the 
crew  of  eipht  or  ten  men,  an  old  man 
named  McLean  was  killed,  four  fatally 
in j  ured,  and  others  badly  hurt, 

A  heavy  thunderstorm  in  the  vicinity 
of  Jacksonville,  Florida,  had  a  decidedly 
bad  effect  on  the  yellow  fever  patients. 
Voluntary  contributions  for  the  relief  of 
the  sufferers  are  being  received  from  a 
number  of  prominent  citizens  of  the 
Union.  The  plague  is  inereasing  stead- 
ily. The  official  bulletin  for  the  twenty- 
four  hours  ending  at  6  o'clock  Sunday 
night  shows  this  condition  of  affairs: 
New  cases,  51;  previously  reported,  555; 
total  to  date,  606;  deaths  oreviously  re- 
ported, 66 ;  total  to  date,  73. 

FORBIGN. 

The  French  government  has  ordered 
an  investigation  to  be  made  of  the  report 
that  dhows  carrying  the  French  flag  are 
engaged  in  the  slave  trade  between 
Pemba  and  Madagascar.  Should  the  re 
port  be  found  true  steps  will  be  immedi- 
ately taken  to  stop  this  degradation  of 
the  national  colors.  The  Pope  has  in- 
structed the  Papal  Nuncio  at  Brussels  to 
aid  Cardinal  Lavigirie  to  convoke  an  in- 
ternational conference  on  the  suppression 
of  slave  trading.  His  Holiness  promises 
to  send  legates  to  the  conference. 

An  express  train  from  Dijon,  France, 
left  the  rails  Tuesday  while  on  its  way  to 
Paris,  blocking  the  road.  The  Italian 
night  mail  train  ran  into  the  disabled 
train  and  was  wrecked.  According  to  the 
latest  report  nine  persons  were  killed, 
thirteen  severely  injured,  and  many  more 
slightly  injured. 

The  Chronicle's  Rome  correspondent 
says  that  King  Leopold,  through  Cardi- 
nal Schiifllno,  has  offered  the  Pope  a 
residence  in  Belgium  in  the  event  of  ne 
ceesity  arising  for  him  to  leave  Rome. 
The  Pope  has  had  several  audiences  with 
the  Russian  Envoy,  and  is  completing  a 
concordat  with  the  Czar  giving  a  large 
share  of  religious  liberty  to  Polish  and 
Russian  Catholics, 


The  destruction  of  life  and  property  on 
the  Island  of  Cuba  by  the  cyclone  of 
Tuesday  was  very  great.  Fifty  persons 
are  reported  to  have  been  killed  at  Sagua, 
where  enormous  damage  was  done  to 
dwellings  and  warehouses,  wharves  and 
shipping.  The  gunboat  Lealtad  was 
foundered  off  Batabano,  and  the  com- 
mander and  eight  of  the  crew  drowned. 
The  village  of  Pueblo  Nuevo  was  liter- 
ally wiped  out.  Destruction  of  telegraph 
wires  prevents  the  ascertaining  of  farther 
damage  and  loss  of  life. 

The  discussion  of  the  immigration 
treaty  with  America  caused  great  excite- 
ment. There  have  been  several  riotous 
demonstrations,  A  mob,  incensed  at  the 
American  Minister's  action,  attacked  the 
American  official  residence  at  Canton. 

The  floods  in  Bohemia  reached  alarm- 
ing proportions  last  week.  At  Budweis 
15,000  persons  are  homeless.  The  in- 
habitants have  taken  refuge  in  the  hills. 
The  Danube  is  rising  steadily.  Six  vil- 
lages in  the  valley  of  the  Poprad  are  sub- 
m>erged.  The  villagers  have  fled  to  the 
mountains.  Crops  and  granaries  have 
been  swept  away. 

Dispatches  from  Melbourne,  Australia, 
announce  that  in  a  test  action  in  the  Su- 
preme Court  a  Chinese  emigrant  sued  the 
government  for  damages  for  prohibiting 
him  from  landing.  A  majority  of  the 
judges  decided  in  favor  pf  the  plaintiff. 
The  chief- justice  dissented. 

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SxLa.re  and.  Bass  Drums,  ITifes,  Bico 
s^los.  Clarinets,  Cymbals  and  all  In 
stmments  pertaining  to  Brass 
Bands  and  IDrum  Corps. 


Send  for  Illustrated  Catalogue. 
Jolin  F.  Stratton, 

No.  49  Maiden  Lane,  New  York 

How  is  your  Baby? 

Fat  and  happy,  or  lean  and  fretful,  through  Insuffi- 
cient nourishment? 

EIDGE'S  FOOD 

produces  bone  and  muscle  as  no  other  food  does. 

WHEATON  COLLEGE, 

"WHEA-TON,  ILXi. 

FALL  TERM  OPENS  lUESDAT,  SEP.  4tli. 

Two  College  Courses,  Preparatory  School, 
Business  Courses,  including  Stenography  and 
Type-writing.    Modern  languages  by  the  Nat- 
ural Method,  ^ 
Send  stamp  for  Catologae. 

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^/^JiUU  »U  9£.J\t,\JU  made  working  for  us. 
Agents  preferred  who  can  furnish  a  horse  and  give 
their  wliole  time  to  the  business.  Spare  moments 
may  be  protirabl».<^mployed  also.  A  few  vacancies  in 
towns  aud  cltle?r  B,  F.  JOHNSON  &  CO.,  1009  Main 
St.,  Klchmond,  Va. 


wen's  BodyBatteryt 

AN*,''°WOMAN.  Contains  lOdegrees  ol 
Btrength,  Current  can  be  In- 
creased, decreo.ed,  re« 
versed  <>r  det jiclied  at  will, 
and  applied  to  any  part  of  the 
body  or  limbs  by  whole  family. 
Cures  Oeiierni,  l^'ervous 
mid  Chronic  Ulseaaes,  It 
la  light,  simple  and  superior  to 
all  others.  Guaranteed  for 
one  year.  Ourl.nrire  Illus- 
trated I».\MI'MLKT  giv- 
ing prices,  testimonials,  mech- 
anism, and  simple  application 
for  the  cure  of  disease  will  ba 
sent  FJSEE  to  any  address. 

DR.  OWEN  BELT  CO.,  191  State  St.,  Chicago. 


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tended to  for  MOnF.RA  rt:  fees.  Our  olfice  is 
opposite  the  U.  S.  I'nleiit  Office,  and  we  can  ob 
lain  Talenls  in  less  time  than  those  remote  from 

WASinsarOS.  send  MODEL.  DUA  WIl^O  or 
PHOTO  of  iiivptitioii.  We  advise  as  to  i)ntent_ 
ability  free  of  clinrge  and  we  malic  t\0  CllAkGE 

UM.iCSS  I'ATE^r  IS  SECURED. 

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actual  clients  in  your  own  .'■Jtnle.  (bounty,  (;ily  or 
'lowu,  write  to 


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THE  BROKEN  SEAL; 

Ot  l^e^'sonal  Reminiscencea  of  the  Alidactioa 
and  Murder  of  Capt.  Wm.  Morgan. 
By  Samnol  D.  Greene. 

()iic  of  the  most  interesting  hooks  ever  published.  Ib. 
iloth,  TT)  cents :  per  dozen,  17.00.  Paper  covers,  40  cents; 
per  dozen,  ^^i.IM). 

Tlils  dpi'ply  IntcrestlnR  naratlve  shows  what  Mason- 
ry has  dr)no  and  is  cap«lile  of  dolnj?  In  the  Courts,  and 
^ow  had  men  control  the  good  men  In  the  lodge  and 
orotect  their  own  members  when  guilty  of  great 
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